Unpaid And Underrated - 044 : The Crü Moggs The Arnold

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

This week Joey and Keith recap the Arnold Sports Festival together with a gaggle of silly geese. Together they relive all the great tales of the Arnold Sports Festival. They dive right into great topics like "Were the bathrooms really that bad?", "Did Eddie build the entire Columbus convention center?", Joey and his controversial shirts, The Animal Cage, Boston Pizza, Sam Hunt, being recognized in person, and of course our least favorite apparel company Tango Charlie. Links Mentioned On The Show Support Big Jake's Battle with Cancer (https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jakes-battle-with-cancer?utm_campaign=p_cp+fundraiser-sidebar&utm_content=icons_with_impact_var_d&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) Our Guest Big Nate On Instagram @natee561 (https://www.instagram.com/natee561/) Big Mini Action Jesus On Instagram @miniactionjesus (https://www.instagram.com/miniactionjesus/) Big Eddie On Instagram@cornfedhighlander (https://www.instagram.com/cornfedhighlander/) Big Kevin On Instagram @kevinrsg18 (https://www.instagram.com/kevin_rsg_18/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guests: Big Eddie, Big Kevin, Big Mini Action Jesus, and Big Nate.

hey everybody welcome to episode 46 of the unpaid and underrated podcast the podcast where keith makes a big deal about people not clapping and then he doesn't clap i was distracted if you're wondering what that big, long nose breath was right before I started talking, that was me watching Keith not do the thing. I'm joined by a whole gaggle of goose, a whole gander of goose, a whole flock of geese here.

I'm just going to give everybody a second. Introduce yourselves. Big Keith here, as always. The Yeti. And since they're not talking, we got Big Kevin, we got Big Minnie, and Big Nate this week, all joining us silently, but they will chime in when they're ready. I was patiently waiting my turn.

Sorry. Twas the night after Arnold and Columbus they strode, a gaggle of silly geese in muscle-bound mode, dressed in crew fashion, their spirits hell-hide, post-festival feasting neath the city sky. That's a true story. I was actually half expecting everybody to just say their name is Keith

after us having fun outside of the restaurant. Did I ruin the bit? That would have been good. That would have been really... Tanner, tell me what's happening. Hi, I'm Big Keith. That would have been good. That would have been really good. Tanner, tell me what's happening. Hi, I'm Big Keith. I'm like, all right. What's your name?

I'm Brad. Now you're also Keith. You ruined the bit. Next. Yeah, he powered through and made it. So I laughed my ass off at that. That was really good. What do you guys got drinking tonight?

I'll go first. Yep. So I'm drinking diatonic water in my lift hard live easy black uh silly pint because uh if you have a respiratory illness like a cold then quinine is great for you that's a good that's a good point it is well i might need to get on that because that sounds like what i have right now. So I'm currently drinking some Gatorade, some orange Gatorade. And also be sipping on some NyQuil later. Shoot it.

Kevin's got that lean on him. Got the scissor and lean. He's got the scissor. Yo, Kevin be tripping. Mini. scissor. Yo, Kevin be trippin'. Minnie. I have this entirely normal-sized can of ghost orange cream from the Arnold.

So because I was at the Arnold, I know how big that can is, but I think any one of us would say that that looks like a normal-sized can in your hand. Yeah, it just makes him look a little... I love this so much. I was at the Arnold. I do know what he's

talking about, but that isn't a normal-sized can. His hands are just that big. Isn't that a 16-ounce or a pounder? Yeah, a full pounder.

That's a pounder. That's a lot of caffeine for 840 p.m. Hey, it's 740 here in the civilized part of the United States. Oh, there you go. There you go.

It's 100 milligrams of caffeine in that can. That was crazy that they were just handing that out. That's too bad. What, 100 milligrams? Yeah. They were handing out samples of that pre-workout that had 650 milligrams of stems in it. Jeez. I was going to say 100 milligrams, nothing for what they had floating around there.

I've got another can of the poppy this week. I've got the ginger lime. It's pretty damn good. And I've got a couple of mickultures to wash that down with in honor of the Arnold week that I missed. Oh, shoot. My can's getting lost in the fire. I've got a cherry bubbly in a drink spotter light

in a massonomics koozie the lager koozie I'm going to crack it for you you won't hear it because of zoom's compression but oh well I heard it um fun story I feel like it was becoming a

long running bit where every time I was on this show I never had anything to drink because I feel like it was becoming a long-running bit where every time I was on this show, I never had anything to drink because I never had time to get it. So I made sure to get something, and I ruined the bit. Cheers, boys. I'm glad you got somebody.

Wasn't even Saturday. I do think it's really funny that you think we have bits as if we planned anything. Wasn't a Saturday. Amen. Only the real ones know that joke. What's everybody wearing? Speaking of Saturday.

Got the bench heavy shirt. One of my favorites. I think I'm wearing that. Yeah. Big Eddie's right there. I even got the bench heavy banner in the the background i see that love it i gotta let my co-workers know on my other zoom meetings what's up i've got the weight is a number heavy as a feeling og shirt didn't get the new one at the arnold because i don't need that many more shirts

what was it was on a different color right, right? It's actually a different shirt. I actually got it underneath here. It's more of a going out shirt. Oh, nice. Oh, the hoodie turned into a shirt. I also got the hoodie going on too. I dig it.

Do you think they just had a lot of stock and they cut the sleeves and hood off of the hoodie. I think it's a different blank. I can see Tanner hiring Jake to like shave down the fabric so it's thinner. There was a lot of blank talk out there. Yeah.

Yeah, there was a lot of blank talk, that's for sure. There was. A fucking spider attacking my ammonia container. Ugh, the nerve. Manny, what are you wearing? I am wearing my good old classic Masonomics sumo pole shirt that was cut off by Karen for me last year.

And let me just say, I have tried cutting off shirts in the past and I just had Karen do it. And this is the only shirt that makes it look like I have any visible muscles. Yeah, we'll get into that. Because it's in my notes to talk about the Karen cut. into it and this is the only shirt that makes it look like I have any visible muscles. Yeah, we'll get into that because it's in my notes to talk about the Karen cut.

Yeah, it's a good one. Okay, so what Nate? I didn't get to say what I was wearing. Who fucking cares? Go. Oh, jeez. So tonight, boys, I am wearing... Can we swear on this? Yeah, can we swear on this thing? Well, I can. If not, boys, I am wearing – Hey, can we swear on this? Yeah.

Can we swear on this thing? Well, I can. If not, you need to get a lot of editing. Yeah. I ain't going to do it. We got a champion long-sleeve shirt is what I was wearing today at work, and I didn't want to take it off because I was nice and cozy down here in the basement. So as any good massonomics person, I just threw a Lyft sticker on top of my champion shirt or Lyft shirt on top of my champion shirt, and I made it a massonomics long sleeve.

Is that from Tango Charlie? No, this is an original. It's from Huck Finn Barbell, right? Yeah, this is the Huck Finn Barbell printed Ly lift shirt um i'm also wearing um the lift hard live easy hat the red one the contra the most controversial hat in massonomics lore slash strength co lore uh that grant more or less snookered me into buying shout out grant uh convinced me that this was the last hat at the booth and i needed to have it last one one in existence. I took it from the Strength Co. booth, went to the Mastinomics booth, and there were 10 sitting on their table.

It might have been the last one at the Strength Co. booth. It was the last one at the Strength Co. booth. The question is, how much did he charge you for it at the Strength Co. booth? I don't want to answer that question. It wasn't more than at the Mastinomics booth. I should have asked. I should have asked. I should have negotiated.

No, at Midwest... They don't let you buy hats there. Yeah, that's why there were so many hats over at the Masonomics booth. You can't buy them. But that's what I'm wearing. No wife shirt tonight. Okay, let's go to... Well, we gotta get the staples out of the way, right?

We got to get the every week thing. The Q&A episode, the one that they pretended happened after the Arnold. Yeah, that was funny. All right. I can't remember anything from it. There was a couple things where I was just shouting at the radio, and I was just like, no, I want to answer that myself. And I don't remember any of it uh so five massonomics jim ipod touches for some of the

stuff i don't remember uh it was a good episode uh i enjoyed whoever asked about the tug of war and then they're kind of uh talking about if they were actually bigger than us or not i probably we're probably pretty close i'm heavier than i want to be, and Joey's not a little guy. So, you know, I don't know. I think they definitely whoop us, and I'm sure as hell not going to play tug-of-war right before powerlifting meets. But it would be kind of funny. But for all that, just the fact that they talked about us and the two-sister podcast going up against each other, I got a kick out of that driving to work Monday.

So, yeah, five iPod, Masonomics general iPod touches. Well, there's a, there's a third sister. There's another sister podcast. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We, me and Eddie was swung by while they were doing their on, on set recording. Um, but I,

I ran away to go. What did I, what did I go and run away to do something? Oh yeah. We went, you know, in a weird scenario that you have to do? Something. Where did you go? Oh, yeah. Where did you go? You know, in a weird scenario that you have to be at the Arnold to understand this sentence, we went and saw some guys taking a bath.

True story. That's a true story. I was with Joey when that happened. It'll happen. It'll happen. It's never been so confused. The Arnold is lawless. That is going to be my thing for this entire episode.

The Arnold is a lawless area inside Columbus, Ohio, where it just, it doesn't matter. It's going to be my thing for this entire episode. The Arnold is a lawless area inside Columbus, Ohio, where it just doesn't matter. It's going to happen. Yeah. So who hasn't gone yet? Tell us what your rating of the episode was. Well, I'll go ahead and rate it. I had enjoyed a couple of the questions.

I didn't get to get one in this time, but I did get a shout out from Tanner. One of the questions was what kind of questions do you want to answer? And they said what's that one that Kevin asked the one time? What's the best gauge of strength? Because that led to a lot of content. I'm basically

one of the top three content producers at Mass Anomaly right now. For that reason, five out of five Mass Anomaly's gym ipod touches nice eddie what's up so i haven't listened to you yet um i got home at like 2 a.m monday morning from the drive and we've been non-stop with work and then me getting sick and being in bed so i haven't listened to you yet but but I asked a couple questions. Looking forward to seeing if they asked any of them. I would say, based on the previous experience of their episodes,

I'd give them a five. Five. I don't know. I got pretty far. Thank you. That's it. Yeah. And he's just spiraling. He's so tired, my poor man. Eddie, you can tap out at any time you need to go to bed.

We're not going to keep you here. Go to bed whenever, man. I kind of want to watch Eddie just fall asleep on stream. Well, my goal is to finish this one liter of diatonic water before I go to bed. And before you sleep? Oh, yeah. Now, wait. Before we go on, I heard three words that I don't know how they go together.

I know tonic water. But how do you make diet water? Like, isn't tonic water just like bubbly water, but that's no flavor? You restrict its carbs. No, usually tonic water has a sweetener added to it. Yeah. So this is actually how i got off mountain dew my buddy introduces to me diatonic water and i don't have it up here but

like the roses sweet lime syrup so you fill your cup all the way up with ice you fill it up to the top with the diatonic water you put a splash of the lime syrup in it. It's delicious. And it's like no calories. And, uh, I can drink this all night and be completely happy compared to when I used to pound two liters of Mountain Dew.

Yeah. Tonic water does keep these on stock. Tonic water does traditionally have a sugar sweetener and it's soda water. That does not. Yes. Yeah. But here here i just thought it was the other way around no i wanted to i wanted to crack a joke about how we're just going to wait until eddie is sock shoe sock shoe and into the microphone yeah do we do we really want to do any of these like generic things or should we just like jump in and reminisce about the arnold for a bit yeah i mean some a lot of them are basically arnold topics

they're just in general topics so yeah kevin you want to hit us with a uh a massonomic sponsor everybody yeah sure uh before he does that i would like to state for the record that everyone did give it five massonomics ipod touches yes i wouldn't want that to be questioned yeah except for nate because he didn't let him talk sorry buddy i'll cut you off i don't think many said anything either did he yeah i don't think i i had i had a tonic water question in the middle for that uh this has gone great it's like herding cats here yeah so so in in traditional arnold fashion though for me it has been for the last three years get in a car throw a podcast on and try to explain to my fiance what the heck

massonomics is and i was super excited because we left early saw the podcast came out and i was like oh shit click play it wasn't about halfway through i didn't realize that it was not a tna podcast and i was a little disappointed i was expecting to be like the finally the announcement of the mass economics only fans but she did not get that podcast yeah i i saw something and a and i was like tna podcast hell yeah but then i got halfway through and i was like oh yes these questions are pretty good i mean you had some a uh youtube video of uh when when when they uh panned out on tommy on the reverse hyper and zoomed on his ass for like 30 seconds like you have to get your a there at least there was a bit of that yeah i mean that

was yeah that was fine and i guess the tea came later on in their in their uh their instagram posts from a return of a friend to the booth. Did it ever. I got a few comments on that one. While I was disappointed, I do have to give it five. Because it was good. The questions were good. I do want to see the Tug of War. I really want to see the Tug of War. And we may have to decide which side gets to cheat more.

But it'll be fun. So yeah, definitely five. Five iPod Dutchess. to cheat more but uh it'll be fun so yeah definitely five five ipod touches um i asked a question about the unpaid and underrated podcast uh and i don't remember what the question was or what their answer was i just remember i did ask a question um so because they answered that question i will also give it five massonomics ipod gym iPod Jim iPod Touches I asked one Yeah, they answered that I don't remember here

I'm going to answer one for you Kevin, did you give a rating? We all gave it a 5 Did Kevin give his rating? Probably not Kevin's coughing Kevin's coughing for me Alright, alright, alrightvin's tripping off

the scissor if he doesn't even know uh one generic thing going in here um keith asked what is mog yeah i don't fucking know what that is anybody want to explain what mogging is to Keith. I don't Google shit like that. I mean, at some point, you have been mogged. And you may not have even known it. You might be being mogged right now. Is Eddie Googling what mog is?

Yeah. I'm not the only old man. Isn't that basically just like out-angling someone? Or just like... I don't agree with that. I do not think this is accurate. Along the lines, yeah, it's not... not the only old man isn't that basically just like out angling someone or just like okay let's just say that i do not think this is that along along the lines yeah it's not definitely just out angling but it's more it can be as simple as like someone like me who looks like um like a stay puff marshmallow man with the hoodie on pulls her next year takes the shirt off and all

of a sudden you're like boom i look like uh fat arnold you know be a big and swole a sudden you're like, boom, I look like Fat Arnold, you know, being big and swole next to you, you get mogged by my size. That's what Grizzly does. He mogs people with just his sheer girth. So the dictionary.com says to mog is a verb. It's to move on, depart, or to keep. So that probably helps you about as much as it helped me. But if you do, what does mog mean in slang?

Urban dictionary. It is to be significantly more attractive than someone or something, to dominate and appear. Okay, so in lifting, mogging is when you have so much more muscle and are just overall larger than the person next to you or the group of people you're around. Yeah, so like the basic definition is to assert dominance over somebody usually by just being bigger. Yeah. So there you go.

There's mogged for you, buddy. Yeah, it's not a word I'll ever fucking use and I hope no one ever uses it in my gym. I'm going to come to your gym and I'm going to deadlift exactly two pounds more than you and then I'm going to come to your gym. I'm going to deadlift exactly two pounds more than you. And then I'm going to yell, you got mogged. We'll have a full mog on the front of the lift.

We'll allow it for content. All right. Okay, Kevin, I understand you have a very fun ad read for us. Yes, I have ad read here. So I just want to say thank you to our sponsor, Massonomics. While I was at the Arnold and after the Arnold, I had to explain to many people what exactly Massonomics is. Of course, at the Arnold, people can see that they are an apparel company, and it's quick and easy to explain. They also have a long-running podcast and an Instagram page.

company, and it's quick and easy to explain. They also have a long-running podcast and an Instagram page. On the podcast, they interview people in the strength sports and fitness industry, but they focus on topics outside of lifting and having a silly goose time. You can almost feel the moment the guest realizes, oh, they're not just going to ask me to recap my last meet and explain my training and diet. But the biggest thing Mastanomics has become is a community, and that's us, the Unpaid Engine Crew. It started off as a simple way to support massonomics but has grown into an active online community big tron said it best it's like an old group of friends you didn't know you had so if you want to be part of this community follow the instagram podcast and check out massonomics.com join to become a supporting member today all right all right all right very nice um So I don't know how we're really going to

moderate this. I don't know how we're going to moderate all this going on. We should have like discussed Ahmad first. Like, I think because we will fucking do it live. Yeah, Keith wasn't at the Arnold. So I do kind of expect maybe he's

got more like control us and our giddiness going for this i can i can help segue into things but i think it's just gonna the best just let it flow like wherever it takes you yeah before we get into that um i just wanted to say uh north on high street the friend's guide they took with muscles still flexed from the arnold book bars and restaurants a half mile array awaited the crew in columbus to play high street the friend's guide they took with muscles still flexed from the arnold book bars and restaurants a half mile array awaited the crew in columbus to play the crewsters were nestled all snug in their gear with visions of protein shakes and hearty good cheer and wearing their hoodies

with crew on display they ambled and bantered in a boisterous way thank you. Yeah, it's going to keep going, isn't it? So day one, I wasn't there. Yeah, you were. Mad regrets on that one. Just for some context, I wasn't. Last year, I brought the family. We brought Steve and Sandy. And I did all three days.

And it was too much. It was too much money. It was all three days and it was too much it was too much money it was too much time it was too much coordination so this year i said f that we're gonna get up stupid early we're gonna go for one day then we're gonna leave the next day well that wasn't enough so next year we're gonna do the middle ground where i'm just coming alone there you go like i'm just gonna come and get my own room and just be alone and be on my own schedule schedule and just like do it live so that way i can have like three days of maybe i don't want to go on sunday maybe i leave early on saturday like just i'm in control of myself at the arnold i think that that's

going to be very lonely but it's going to be very lonely, but it's going to be, I think, what I gotta do to get the best scenario out of the Arnold in 2025. So, you're saying you're coming alone on a Saturday? No, I'm gonna go for all three days. I don't... No, no, no.

No, Saturdays are not for coming alone. Oh, okay. Saturdays are in the schedule book for mutual arrival so the people that were there on Friday tell me what I missed

Thursday I think half the guys were there Thursday night yeah what about like the dudes that roll in on like Monday like Eddie I think built the Columbus Center yeah fucking Eddie was in with the full workshop yeah on like Monday. Like Eddie, I think built the Columbus Center. Yeah, fucking Eddie was in with the full workshop.

Yeah. Thursday, we just set stuff up, you know. The boys, they worked on their booth, helped them unload

and then I just let them kind of do their own thing. I didn't want to get in the way because they had their own methods and I went and helped set up stuff for the Strength Co.

Get the banner up and put together. Eventually, we went to Home Depot and started building the Deadlift platform. Learned a few lessons about that, but we made it. And it lasted. So what was the deal with the Deadlift platform at the Strength Co. booth? For those

audio listeners, the people that aren't watching on YouTube, or we'd show a picture, why was it a foot off the ground? Was that required by the Arnold this year? What was the deal with that? Was it to give them a stage so people could see? Grants wanted something that would separate the individual who's deadlifting from the crowd. So those who were there last year might remember when they had their big deadlift party, how crowded the platform was and how unsafe it was. When these, when especially they're deadlifting very heavy amounts of weight, the eights, the nine hundos.

And so he really wanted something that would elevate the platform so that, that helps kind of create a safety separation. So we worked on a couple of different concepts and we didn't really decide until the day of what size we were going with, um, end up doing just one four by eight platform. And, and, uh, I would say overall it worked out really well i think anything bigger would have been too big so i don't know what do you guys think you guys saw it i was also terrified watching td smash and and that that big farm dude almost almost missed the

platform once or twice like yeah that was gonna hurt somebody if that went over the edge there um right but i'm terrified from a wanton lift perspective because whenever you're like i'm scared of heights and i'm already tall so i got up on there and i'm looking down and i'm like this seems way taller than it should be and i remember all the time that i got a little woozy pulling something that wasn't shouldn't have been that range on a platform that's an inch and a half off the floor and i'm like oh jesus christ i'm not gonna go any higher than 405 today i didn't get to lift at the strength co this this year and that's that's my bad i showed up a bit embarrassing so we showed up around, I think, 130.

And Steve pulled over to the side. I jumped out, grabbed my cooler, ran in. The security guards were like, you can't come in here. And I was like, okay, but I can't get a hold of anybody to bring me my pass. So they eventually let me in. And by the time I got in there, I was literally shaking. Because I went from sitting in the car for six hours to the Arnold. So like i'm trying to take a selfie i think with jess um and i'm doing one of these like just just like like michael j fox style just everywhere and um that was kind of but i got over to the

to the strength co and ron is there and he starts talking to me and i'll go by the way i'm joey and i hold up my thing and he goes i know who you are and that was so embarrassing because i was like there's no way this guy remembers me he's met me like twice in his life of the millions of people he meets who's the older dude right yeah and he's just like no i know who you are yeah he's like you came from ontario right i was like oh my god like it's like you are just a genuine person who i felt like such a break for a second there but uh yeah he actually said he was like i was actually looking forward to you showing up in deadlifting on the platform and like now it's set for 800 because we're about to have a party and yeah that was kind of sad well you didn't pull 800 this weekend what the fuck me no yeah i actually didn't deadlift at

all that was a really weird thing i didn't do any lifting at the arnold except for lifting the sails of the massonomics booth i was talking with td on sunday and he told me i asked him how much he pulled because i didn't get to see the, um, the deadlift parties. They pulled 700 and I was like, shit, man,

I'm like 20 pounds away from that at my best. I'm going to peak for the Arnold next year, just so I can go to be like, can I beat TD today? Well, last year they had like a go rock, had a cool display thing with like sandbags and stuff. And Eddie and Kevin did it last year. and i was super jealous because i just my blood sugar was like super low and i was

like if i do this i will pass out and there's just no business doing that so i i didn't that's actually what happened to me like i definitely did not eat enough and then tried doing that and i almost did pass out yeah and i was like i kind of kind of want to do that so i was like trying to stay make sure i was on top of stuff like if i found a cool event thing and there just like really wasn't anything cool to do um that i noticed so i was like well guess uh guess we're not doing anything dumb today um except you could wait in line at the bells of well you could uh wait in line at thes of Steel booth for like three hours to bench to win like $250,000 or something. I saw Eddie's deadlift versus Jessica Bittner at the Rascal booth.

Yeah, buddy. That was pretty good. Oh, I didn't see that. I set the Jefferson deadlift record. Hell yeah, you did yeah i walk up there and there's some guy that's 62 deadlifts in a minute and they're like trying to do set jesus they're trying to get people to come do it i'm like yeah i don't think many people are gonna be able to pull that off and i was like well i'll do it i'm like i'll do a jefferson deadlift and they're all like what's up to jess if that's allowed and jess is like of course it's allowed i was like well i'll do it i'm like i'll do a jefferson deadlift and they're all like

what's up to jess if that's allowed and jess is like of course it's allowed i'm like look at what i'm wearing of course i'm gonna do jefferson deadlift i'm gonna lift on a deadlift for shorts the the day after you did that they had uh i don't know if you guys know bald omni man he's if you've seen a post somewhere from some fitness influencer, chances are he has commented on it. He's like one of those prolific commenters. And then he's also, he's like one of the rascal guys too. And he, they had him do a two 25 pound row max in 30 seconds and everyone could go up

and try it. He had 23. I'm looking at this going, if I had touched a weight in the last six months i would rock that i gave it a shot i got to 18 and i just i i'd been eating so much random food over at north market that i was like i'm going to shit myself if i keep trying to pull this oh man it's just too bad you didn't keep going we always need a good shit story here well there's plenty there's plenty from the arnold oh yeah then arnold's bathroom segue i think the uh uh yeah stickers the i survived the arnold bathroom sticker was a huge hit uh we started basically giving that away to uh anyone who like you know, gave the booth time of day and, you know, some of them actually like looked at the sticker and goes, okay,

now I got to buy something. And we made a lot of people laugh with that sticker. Yeah. Yeah. I would say the bathrooms were pretty, were pretty nice on Thursday when there's very few people there. My favorite bathroom store on Thursday was I went in to blow my nose because the wind was really howling outside. And I go in there Thursday was I went in to blow my nose because the wind was really howling outside.

And I go in there and get some toilet paper to blow my nose. And in the stall next to me, I hear someone's phone go, let's get ready to rumble. And I just laughed. I said, well, it just ain't the Arnold. Nothing is. And then the guy like doesn't say anything. I'm like, oh, well, let's see Arnold.

I left. Yeah, the one woman that was posting the reels of come take a shit with me at the Arnold, that was hysterical. I wasn't overly familiar with her, but god damn, those are funny. Big Amber. Those were hysterical. Excellent content.

By Sunday, there was one, back by the string kill booth, one of the bathrooms I went in, and I was going to go in the stall. Walked in the stall, shut the door, turned around, and my left shoulder is touching the wall, and my right shoulder is touching the wall. And below me, before you get to the toilet, was the toilet paper dispenser. And I went, yeah, this is not working. So I waited for the for the handicap stall went in that one and you know those industrial rolls of toilet paper that

they have in all those places of like the half fly it was there was one of them sitting behind the seat in front of the piping so it was like a backrest of toilet paper and then the water was about a half an inch deep all the way out to the end of the bowl so i'm like trying to hold my shorts up and i'm wearing my i'm wearing my uh barefoot so i might put my feet as far out in front of me as possible just trying to keep myself from getting wet oh it's horrible so you actually look like the meme that the masonomics posted yeah pretty much i mean it was it was tough it was tough and you said by thursday it was okay friday was not bad but then friday an hour and a half in i went to

one of the bathrooms and i came back out and i said why is everything wet why is everything physically moist and there's a guy in there okay whose job it is to clean. They have one for every bathroom. And all this guy is doing is wiping water off the counter. He's not restocking toilet paper. He's not restocking soap. He's doing nothing. He's just walking back and forth with a cloth, making sure there's no water on the taps. Which is literally the least important thing.

Somebody's got to do that, though. I mean. No, that's the one thing we don't need him to do um but luckily with the massonomics booth right outside when you go out into the exit there's a bathroom right to the right that one was taken care of when it was finally time yeah that was when it was finally time when the the three energy drinks and protein powders i had hit i was like oh like where something's happening here and it ain't gonna be pretty i went in there and i was like

oh it's actually surprisingly cleaned in here yeah i don't know i've been to the arnold two times uh i feel like i typically use the same bathroom which if you like leave from where the mass dynamics booth is and you go like straight to the door that leads you outside if you like hook or right there's a men's bathroom and you go all the way to the other side there's a women's bathroom and i've typically i just go there and it's never really been that bad now mind you like shout out to the hartville marketplace uh i worked in a like a flea market there was a butcher inside of a flea market for college. You know, Kevin knows what I'm talking about, Hartville Flea Market.

And I would oftentimes walk to the bathroom during my work hours, and there would just be poop on the wall. Like, there was just like, I don't know, I just didn't see. There was a bathroom I walked by the xpc me and i was like that one's probably the bad one but i just didn't even venture in but like compared to what i've seen in the mark at the marketplace these bathrooms were pristine other than like it did

feel like i was walking through a mild swamp because the floors were just soaking wet which i assume is just bad mopping from the dude that's supposed to be cleaning stuff. But yeah, I don't think they're that bad, but I survived them. So did you guys run into any famous people in the bathrooms?

Other than Huck Finn coming in and smacking me on the back when I'm trying to piss in the urinal. Not this year. That was last year. I wish I was prepared for it. in the back when I'm trying to piss in the urinal. Not this year. That was last year. I wish I was prepared for it. Yeah. When you say you're prepared to run into someone in the bathroom,

what does that mean? Let's unpack that. It means that when you go into the bathroom in an event like this and you recognize someone, you take the stall next to them, and you say, hey, I heard this is where all the dicks hang out i thought you were gonna be like you had a you were prepped like billy kjorgan at the end of salt burn or something no no one will get that reference i don't think joey didn't finish it i've

not glazed that one yet the last day i was walking into the bathroom and the smallest man there came flying out and crashed into me lee priest comes flying out the bathroom door and runs right into my chest and he goes jesus fucking christ i was like what a big fella that is my name how'd you know can you imagine running to dr. Mike in the bathroom? That would be a fun time. Who? I was trying to remember this. Who did Dr. Mike try and fight?

Huck Finn. He didn't try to fight anyone. It was Huck? He was just on edge while he was there. Dr. Mike didn't try to fight anyone. He's one of those guys that he does not try to fight someone. He either fights them or he...

Very good point. Do or do not. There is no try. He was prepared, but he... Fortunately... Very good point. But there was definitely, like, at some point, somebody had told me, like, Oh, Dr. Mike was here yesterday, and he was gonna kill somebody.

I was like, fucking what? But I can see... He took his, he took up a fighter's. He was, he was ready. I did not see this. Yeah. Well, I mean, when Huck's been drunk and yelling loser at him. But also like. He's got people there trying to take photos with him.

Yeah. It's jujitsu. So like he was going to have to to lay on the floor and be like, alright, get on top of me and then we'll start wrestling. It's not real. He couldn't actually fight him. They just lay around and just cuddle each other aggressively. It wouldn't have been that

bad. He will pull guards so hard, he won't even know what hit you. Kapowaya! Kapowaya! Alright. Definitely someone who hasn't done jiu-jitsu yeah definitely i've never done it and won't i've never no patience for that um okay so is that day one out of the did you was there any meetups day one at night or because i know you guys had some meetups later and then like saturday but was there any after-hour stuff for Friday? I guess not.

Yep. I get distracted by the person asking. I am bad about going out and doing things with people. Yeah. Where were you Saturday? Yeah.

Well, Saturday night, whenever I originally planned on coming out there, I got a bunch of my Twitch streaming friends to come to the Arnold. And they all came out, and they were like, okay, we're going to find some night we can go eat at the Brazilian Steakhouse. And I let somebody else. I said, you guys just schedule it.

I don't want to deal with trying to schedule a place at the Arnold three months before the arnold so someone else took care of it and they got it on saturday we could have went to a brazilian steakhouse yeah like 60 bucks hey it was only 48 bucks ahead honestly i did i do appreciate that minnie's like well i didn't hang out with you guys i went out with my friends that was cool after we finished eating they went out drinking and and rachel and i were like yeah i'm just gonna go back to the hotel and

sit in the pool that's the spirit yeah we actually saw you guys walking through a strong and we saw you did oh we did too yeah how How do I miss Eddie walking down a sidewalk somewhere? Well, obviously, I wasn't fogging you. No, we talked about it, and Tommy was like, no, they seem to be enjoying themselves. Let's not ruin it. I'm like, all right, sounds good. Let's not ruin it by showing up.

If it ever happens again, I mean, we're just a bunch of people who streamed to 15 people we're not you know we're not you know big podcasters we're not right right there yeah i mean we're i i try to get them um i gave them all stickers i found them all and i was like hey you survived the arnold bathroom you should come over and buy a shirt. Yeah. Yeah. What were you talking about? I was going to say, I guess we're moving on to day two. Yeah, we're going to probably segue with Saturday morning.

Everyone, well, because so I know when Joey got there, what time did you get there, Nate? I got there at approximately 3 p.m. Oh, wow. So you were there for like three hours? Listen, I was in Columbus for as long as I needed to be. Nice. Anyway.

I got in the late morning and got a little extra surprise. So I brought in some Ohio Pico pizza. Oh, nice. Yeah, I saw that. They opened the restaurant. Kevin opened the restaurant. I basically did. Opened it early for Big Kevin.

So I was talking to Big Nick at Live Large, Ohio Pie Company. I told him, like, hey, I know the Mastodonics guys and the rest of the crew. We've always... A few of us have had the pleasure of having the pizza, but I know the rest of them would really love it. I'm like, how can we make this work?

Do I get it Friday night in refrigerated? Do I get it Saturday morning? I know that it's early for you guys to open. He goes, let me see what I can do. He goes, how about 8.30 Saturday morning? We can get you your pizza. It'll be ready. I'm like, perfect.

We'll do it. That's awesome, man. I only asked for a few pizzas. He goes, well, if you're going to be driving, you might as well bring of pizzas i'll say i'll take as many as i can carry so that's awesome he gave me eight pizzas and uh i called big eddie it got me into the arnold and walked in and uh you know nick happened to be right there too brought over to the booth i think uh huck finn got a slice and and brought over the Masonomics table, and they got to try it right away, so that was a lot of fun.

There was a bunch of other, like, some cool people came around and shared the pizza, too. I think Strength Hope came over and had a slice or two. And then big Julius Maddox came over, and he was stacking the slices like a sandwich. Different flavors. I'm like, oh, so that's what it takes to bench almost 800 pounds. Yeah. So everything is a sandwich, right? Yes. The best thing was, too, that Julius was

coming by to get a slice and he's shaking Tanner Tommy's hand. I think he shook maybe Eddie's hand and then mine and he goes, hey, I'm Julius. We know. Cool, cool. Hi, I'm Joey.

Yeah, I know who you are. Jesus. Yeah. Joey was like, I have no clue who this guy is. Thanks for introducing yourself. I know who Julius is. Couldn't you guys not remember his name on one of these episodes? Or was that Tanner and Tommy?

Yeah, I think it was. Yeah, it was us. Well, no, it was who was the and it was either TD or Julius. I just couldn't remember which one it was. Sure. We'll go with that. Oh, hey, Kevin, did you get any brunch pies from there? I was always want to try one.

So I was thinking about that, too. But I'm guessing that it was about an hour, 45 minute drive from their Brunswick wanted to try one. So I was thinking about that too, but I'm guessing that, so it was about an hour, 45-minute drive from their Brunswick location to the Arnold. Yeah. And the pizzas that were in the middle of the stack, those actually stayed pretty warm because they had, you know, four pizzas on either side of them, keeping it warm. But you just stuck with some traditional cheese, pepperoni, but it also had some of his more wild flavors like the hot beef.

Hot beef is awesome. Chicken, like a barbecue one, pickles and chips. That one was really, really interesting. But no brunch. I don't think that a two-hour egg was good.

Yeah, I don't think eggs travel well. It's the one thing I want to try from them that I still have yet to. I mean, that is the perfect recipe for the Arnold Matthews. Two-hour eggs. Two-hour egg shits, yeah. That's good stuff.

Yeah, but the funny thing too was that people were still eating the pizza. I picked it up at 8.30, brought it there at 11, and people were still eating it pizza like i picked it up at 8 30 brought it there at 11 and people were still eating it at 4 p.m yeah i think i had i had my last slice at like five yeah i ate some at like seven o'clock it's still good i was like i well i walked over to like the arnold was ending and i was like are you guys just leaving these pizza boxes like do you want me to take these anywhere and tanner was like oh they still have pizza do you want any and i was like

oh wait what and then he was like they're from ohio pie company i was like wait what and then i got the whole story and then tommy proceeded to read me like tommy for some reason walked over with me and then just read me the names on all of the pizza boxes he was like this one's one by one too yeah this one's piggy bird and then he like opened it and then like closed it and then and he got to the end he's like i probably didn't need to read those to you you can read and i was like yeah i've had their pizza before too like but i really i really appreciate it and like the rest of the time that we were waiting in the arnold tommy just continued to read it to everyone that would walk

up and i was like i don't know if he's doing a bit at this point or if he just thinks no one can read it's the best bit he'd be like uh because the way they cook their pizzas like you can obviously like the pickle pizzas literally just pickles and chips on top of like whatever's on it like whatever it's bread cheese yeah it's bread. You just open it and you can visually see with your eyes, but he would open each one and explain it. I thought that was hilarious. That would have been a good reel.

I recorded a lot of them, but I couldn't. His hair was getting in the way from some of the back shots. Back shots. Sometimes stuff is just funny without being on the internet. The one thing I

think I missed out on, I haven't seen it yet, did anyone actually get a good group photo at all? No. I don't think we had a good group photo. It was just a bunch of dudes living in the moment. We did at dinner. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Oh, yeah. I guess there was a group photo at dinner. I think it was Tanner and Tommy that had it on their phone or something. Oh, okay. Well, their vlog's coming out tomorrow, so I'm sure there'll be a lot of stuff in that. Yeah, but it wasn't like an official

picture with everyone. It was a dinner picture, not an Arnold picture with everyone like i feel like there was a dinner picture not an arnold picture yeah the one we got last year had like way more people like this we only had like 15 people at dinner and there were way more than that at the arnold speaking of which uh so speaking of saturday there were like a lot of crew that i saw were like i was at the booth but then just never saw again. And I was kind of bummed. I don't know,

Mad Cow seemed like he was around. Was he there on... I know there were a lot of people that seemed like they were competing and I was like, I can't find anybody. Whatever. I'll just stand around here and if I get to meet some new people, I'll get to meet them. He was competing in the arm lifting.

And then big Brad he was they went and watched the strongman competition the pros yeah we had dinner with Brad there's a lot of people who like they were watching the different competitions like Tyler he was in the competition

he was in the competition he was in the amateur competition stuff like that yeah that's why most of them weren't just around the booth the one dude was on the xpc meet too i think right yeah big big daniel yeah daniel did i met him last year yeah he did that on friday i loved his he had he posted the trio of his pictures and tanner was wearing the same shirt and two of them. Who said Tanner only owns two shirts? I said that Tanner only has two shirts. Play the hits, man.

One of them was the squat shirts that he was wearing in back-to-back years. You can tell that last year that shirt looked fresh and this year it definitely looked a lot more worn. He definitely likes that one. You see that in his Instagram reels a lot. Great shirt.

It looks really good with jeans. I just never wore jeans. Yeah, that's a good point. That's probably why I like wearing it so much. So I showed up, like I mentioned, at 1.30. Flow out of the car with the cooler, come running in, like going through all that shit. And I'm on my way to the booth. And I've got a pack of keiths and a six pack of sparkling water okay i go past

huck finn because you have to right you got huck pin on one side huck pin huck finn on one side and you got um and you got um the weird nutterter people on the left side, and then Massonomics is in the middle of the thing, okay? I don't even get past Huck Finn. He stops me. And he mogs me. Him and this other guy. What do you got in the cooler? And because I know it's Huck, I was like, none of your fucking business.

I was just immediately matching his energy within seconds, which I would have never done first year. But second year, doesn't matter. I'm like, I'm going full tilt with Huck this year. And he's like, well, let me see. And he opens it and he steals my energy drink, first of all. And then he starts like, he goes, what's this crap? And he's like, I'm like, it's Canadian beer.

He's like, it's shit. I was like, because you can't handle it or what? And he's like, I'm like, it's Canadian beer. He's like, it's shit. I was like, because you can't handle it or what? And he's like, where are you going? I was like, the Mastinomics booth. Right. And then so the person that he's with goes to hand me back my energy drink. Right. And Huck's like, no, I'm taking that.

That's my favorite flavor. And I was like, it's my only one, you prick. Give me back my energy drink. What kind was it? Pink lemonade from Ghost. pretty much all i drink right and he goes we got any more so i got five in the car but like this is mine right he goes all right all right he throws it back in the cooler we go back and that's like my first like 30 seconds into the expo it's just me just like matching energy so then i end up go back get relaxed take off my sweater take off my hoodie and i go back and then karen's like

karen remembered me again amazing right um your business sense like she just knew who i was within seconds and then i turned to huck and i'm like you were on my podcast last night he goes oh oh yeah yeah you're the pearton fuck so i ended up giving him that energy drink anyway because I got another one from somebody else right I was like hey man like said it's your favorite this is yours man so me and Huck got too drunk like I wasn't like out of sorts or anything but like we were matching energy and that was really fun i ended up finally buying a huck finn barbell shirt um you know and just it just says huck finn barbell because their stuff is a little too political yeah it's very it's very little too political uh i would have most

likely gotten motivation is for pussies but they didn't bring it oh yeah yeah um but again like it's just nope too just too much politics, too much people going to talk to me. If I wear anything that says pussy on it, I don't want a fucking conversation. And I told Karen that. She went... Says the guy that wore the shirt in the diner.

Yeah, but that doesn't lean one way or the other. Neither does I eat testicle. Real primals don't eat testicles. They eat pussy or whatever. Okay, so there's that one. And I also would have bought Wrestling is Real, Your Wife's Orgasms are Fake. That one's really funny to me.

So what did you wear to a diner? It says lift heavy and eat ass. And it attributes the quote to Gandhi. And I wore it in a diner in fucking South Dakota, Aberdeen. That's great. Thinking, oh, we're just going to get some breakfast and go to the quote to gandhi and i wore it in a diner in fucking south dakota aberdeen that's great thinking oh we're just gonna get some breakfast and go to the gym but no we sat down in a classy place that does tapas and i'm wearing a lift heavy eat ass shirt that was my bad i don't want to wear controversial shirts i'm joey i didn't want to wear that shirt there either like that's what you don't but anyway

um so yeah i ended up finally i i got in and um and seems like hey i'm going to the car do you want me to take anything so i get him to take my huck finn shirt then i find out karen's cutting shirts i was so fucking mad that i didn't get a Karen cut shirt. Buy another one. Yeah. I was going to say, yeah, I'm going to buy another one. Like when the,

when it goes back up on the website, I'm going to get the motivation is for pussy shirt. And I'm going to put in the notes, like Karen cut for me, please. Um, all right. So that's the first 30 seconds of the Arnold. I immediately undress,

say hi to everybody, get my lanyard. And I run to the Strength Co. Yeah, I already told the story about Ron at the Strength Co. Tanner was there, so Grant was like, do we let him in? And Tanner was like, yeah, sure. And so they let me backstage so I could say hi to everybody. Then I went and met Big Jess Bettner, which four years in the making, I think.

Like, we've been chatting and talking on instagram and everything like that uh so finally got to meet big jess uh just kind of did like a circle around to see the people that i knew and ended up just like not really running into a ton of people uh did get to meet uh big mike van wick who i've been trying to get on the podcast uh so okay so Mike Van Wick owns a gym up here called Pure Muscle. He does a lot of content. He's really kind of just like a down-to-earth

anti-influencer type. So I really follow his... Is the guy that knows scans? No. Everyone knows scans. Oh, there's like a specific guy? Yeah, that comes in and he was like, do you guys have the right to use his likeness? Yeah, yeah. Oh, God, that was hysterical

when they talked. He came by again this year. We got a photo with him. Nice. He's more okay with the likeness. He's coming around to it. My buddy, what the fuck? That was a great story. Yeah, got to meet Mike and actually told him that, like, I ordered one of the sweaters, but it's not released yet. I'm waiting

on the pre-order. And this fucking guy goes, stay stay here for a second he goes to the back and he brings me a hoodie he brings me the one that i like mike van wick oh right and i'm just pretty cool yeah and nobody else has it because it hasn't been mailed out yet so here i am i'm the first person to wear one of these and it's a 3x and he goes i don't know what you're gonna do with it and i went get bigger i guess yeah it's a cool fit right oh i swim in it i swim in it but it's mine this is my emotional support hoodie this is mine now you just you go to the dark side and you modify it all right just like a bench shirt that's too big, you trim it down. You know?

You stitch it up. No, we all opted to all fit inside of it as we walked to dinner on Saturday. Nice. Dinner's also a wild story. Yeah. Dinner. Before we get to dinner, Saturday.

Any thoughts on Saturday? Anybody see anybody in the cage that was worth mentioning? Yeah, did anyone get to watch the cage? It was a shit show of like a million people. You couldn't get close to the cage. So unless you watch the live stream, it's pointless to actually even be... I woke up when Dan Green was deadlifting.

And I was probably like two or three people deep, but they had the big screen up that they were showing it. So I was able to just watch it on the map. But it was cool watching him lift. I walked in. My buddy Tom and I will unpack that in a second. But we were walking around, and I was like, oh, shoot, there's that cage.

And we walked up, and there just wasn't much going on towards the end of the day. So I saw it, and I was like, this is all right. I was like, I don't know if this is a famous person. I don't know if this is just famous person. I don't know if this is a regular person. I'm really confused. But whoever it was, like, missed their lift. And I was like, well, this is unexciting.

I'll just wander off. I was like, I feel bad. And yeah, there wasn't a lot of people around. But they had a lot of real estate. I feel like they might have had the most real estate of any booth at the Arnold. I think they had a good deal with rogue too. Cause like all their shit was rogue. Whereas in the past it was just whatever they brought in from like,

whatever they sourced from Columbus gyms, rogue, definitely like there's a backstory to that. Okay. Yeah. No rep one fitness over there. Um, Grant, Grant reached out to them and he was trying to get strength.

Go place in there only. Cause he's like, if I can get the animal cage to just have strength kill plates then I don't need to worry about having a deadlift platform that might boost. And Animal was cool with it. But then Rogue found out and they shut it down and said, no, this is

the Arnold put on by Rogue. So we're going to do Rogue plates. That explains a couple of the jokes. What you're saying is we need the Arnold put on by Strength Co. next year. Start crowdfunding now. Strength, go to the moon, baby.

It's just funny because I've heard Grant say a dozen times, did you see those plates? They're all dirty and scuffed up and rusted. They could have had brand new plates. During the Deadlift Party party I think at one point Grant walked up to Gino, whispered something and then Gino was like

do you see how thin these plates are? you can fit 8 plates on that bar can't do that with rogue plates or something like that and I look at Grant and he's just like yeah I did it they were for the audio listeners as well who weren't there in person.

I would also just show you a video, but you know, audio only the rogue, rogue booth was probably in earshot of the, of the strength booth. Like it was very close. Yeah. It was like 22 feet away.

Yeah. But earshot in Arnold parliaments are like, you have to literally be inside someone's anus to be able to hear what they're saying so i mean my favorite go ahead oh as i said roger was right next to spd and i was up on the spd stage meeting some people and gino was on the mic and i could not hear the people standing directly next to me talking into my ear and that's like the next booth over from rogue so they heard every they probably had bill hennig on a phone like are you hearing this shit right here

yeah he was like i'm gonna go back to smoking meats my favorite animal cage moment was when i was walking by and they were playing down with the signal. Nice. All classic. Here we go. And you're like, that's going to be me this week. Yeah, buddy. Speaking of Gino, weird kind of moment at the Strength Co. booth. I posted about it in the Discord. So I come back for the deadlift party because Ron was like, come back at 3 o'clock for the deadlift party.

And I'm standing off to the side at this point. Right. I'm by myself. I'm not even in the booth. I'm away from the booth and he's doing his announcing. And then at some point he turns to me, he makes eye contact and he goes, what's up ginger. And I'm like,

hi. And he goes, is that a beer? And I was like, yeah. Hell yeah. And he goes, attaboy. i yelled like see

you in july but at that point he wasn't listening anymore but it was like a surreal moment that gino picked me out of the crowd right that's pretty like he like he recognized me but there's no way he's never met me in his life but that was definitely like a surreal moment of like why what what did i do but it's again the, the beard, the beer, the, the fat, I guess. You'll just tell I was crew. Yeah. He could sense it. Or the crowds like overall. I know I, I, I've heard, I've already listened to a couple of different Arnold recaps from like other

people that were there. And like, I've gotten mixed answers on, it was a hundred percent. It was 90%. It was 70%. Like facing it off of like 2019 or versus last year. Like, what do you guys think that were there for a few of them? Easily 69%. Easily.

I would say pod touches. There was less people this year than last year. Really? When I was there for sure. Friday was. Yeah. Yeah. I would say Friday was just as busy busy if not busier than saturday

that's crazy that's like that wasn't like that last year yeah i feel like 2019 saturday was not as big but bigger than the last few years like they reorganized everything so there's no there's fewer choke points like there used to be you had the stage you had the main stage you had the highland games over on the side you had the crossfit games on the other side and the strongman in the back so it just made these dead spots where you could not move for about three rows and this time everything was out to the edge the strongman was paid only in the back the only spot you really got jammed up at was in front of like the main bodybuilding stage area okay yeah i was not at the booth very much on saturday so my views probably

yeah i didn't think i didn't think it was that bad walking i mean it was there were certain times like when tom and i like first got there we'll mean, there were certain times, like when Tom and I first got there. We'll talk about Tom in a minute. But when Tom and I first got there, you know, we... I don't know. There were pockets, like you were saying, Minnie, where it was like, all right, I'm a little jammed up. I'm a little bit too close to people.

But it would open up pretty quickly. Or like if it was packed, I could just go down another aisle and slide through pretty quick so you know even when it did get backed up it was easy to get around yeah i thought i mean last year i heard like the sam sulik line that like tanner was telling me like to meet some of those like lines and stuff to meet people were just like absurdly long yeah and nobody got no time for that and nobody got time for that i mean apparently a lot of people did joey so yeah well i was really your facts you just need that exhibitor pass that's how i got to meet mike and jess without zero zero lineups because i was just like and actually when i was when i was talking to mike if you look at the

picture of me and mike it's really funny because i was just like oh can we get a picture and i like lean in and this dude is like the size of mini and he just leans over and pulls me in so i look like i'm like like sideways like getting a hug from this guy he did mug me um but as i was doing sam so look was right there. So all the lineup goes around the back of the kiosk. But here I am talking to Mike right next to Sam. I could have said something to Sam, but I actually don't really know who he is. So I'm not going to waste my time on him. Did you guys hear about how much

you have to spend to see Sam? No. So the Grizzly, you had to buy a $40 shirt to be able to see him and Sam I was told you had to spend $250 at the booth oh my gosh

what booth hostile supplements I say hostile he says hostile I'm pretty sure a hostile is a place that you can sleep at. Well, that's a hostile.

I think Eddie said it right. The word you just said, Joey, doesn't exist, I don't think. But. What was the fucking word again from last time? Bozo. Bozo.

No, the one that the one that joey is entirely wrong about oh what the fuck is it deco deco deco not decal that one has hysterical bringing it all back um so other things that happened on apparently not Saturday, I think this might have been Friday, so I'll need help getting filled in, but this is a story retold to me by Tanner, also via Instagram I think, they made the video. But Tanner and Tommy found a dude

wearing a Tango Charlie shirt and then had Huck Finn rip it off of him. I hope someone bought him or just gave him a different shirt. Oh no, that was the deal. If we give you a replacement shirt, can we rip that off of you. I hope someone bought him or just gave him a different shirt. Oh no, that was the deal. If we give you a replacement shirt, can we rip that off of you for content?

So it goes much deeper. Oh, much deeper. Go ahead, Mini. So he comes up with the Tango Charlie shirt and they ask him if he can rip it off. Huck comes over, grabs it and goes Fuck Tango Charlie! Rips the shirt off, throws it on the floor

spits on it, they put it on a Masonomics shirt and then like less than two minutes later he takes him down to the Huck Finn booth and goes fuck Masonomics, rips the Masonomics shirt off him, puts a Huck Finn shirt on him

then proceeds to take the guy around the corner to Live Large and goes fuck Huck Finn and rips his shirt off and gives him a Live Large shirt. So they left with only a Live Large shirt or were they able to go back and get like a free shirt at every booth for all that drama?

He actually went home butt naked. Yeah. That man went home to shame ding ding shame ding ding. that's funny i didn't know what i was all i said was you didn't rip a tango charlie shirt off a guy and they're like you're fucking right what you did well yeah i surprisingly saw some other tango charlie shirts in the wild and i was very i was very shocked there at at the end of the day there was a incredibly jacked man wearing a tango charlie shirt and i was like i i'm way too small to ask him any questions um and also my buddy um my buddy tom who would

we'll talk about in a minute um we we uh we i mean we're like nearly the same size he's out of jiu-jitsu and he would just lay on the ground so that would obviously be a just a moot point at that point and then i would i'm i'm too wimpy to do anything so i just watched him walk by many times and was like that dude is insanely huge we need to rip a shirt off him maybe huckuck Finn. And then I just, you know, I couldn't find the crew to take him down, but. We did have another Tango Charlie guy come by and Karen got him and brought him over. And he like, he's like, it works for them. Yeah, it was like a shirt distributor.

Yeah. And so we like, she filled him in on everything that was going on. And he's kind of like, yeah, I don't have anything to do with this stuff. Speaking of that, they had their own Tango Charlie shirt. That was really funny.

I knew that was coming because they talked about it a few times and then when I saw it, it was great. And one of us eventually got it. Not one of us, but one of us. They're all one of us. Big of us yeah no they're all one of us uh big brad biggest brad oh yeah and he she walked up and he had the karen cut and i was just like you got that and he's like

yeah i just asked for it i should have done that the first day when they were packing in they were unloading everything and karen she came up to me the day before she put that out and she goes whenever i was opening boxes put up on the shelf did you see what i had in this one box and i go no i'm not paying attention to what you're fucking unpacking you're doing your shit she goes good and she goes i gotta show you this because i thought this whole time you saw it you were gonna tell them and she pulls the shirt out from under the like the bottom shelf under the table and I go oh my god

it's beautiful yeah we need a whole run of them yeah that was pretty fucking hilarious um so what else happened on Saturday uh I don't want to ruin my unpaid and underrated because some of the questions I'm gonna ask are revolving around of course

what I was there for is that when you met uh grizzly was on saturday joy or eddie now i i saw the clip was it was it more of a presentation of the drink spotter or was it a proposal i'm sorry we don't look the same how did you confuse us? I'm not used to having six people on the screen. Go ahead, Eddie. It was my way of placating the grizzly and sparing the North American continent from his wrath. So, no, I met him on Saturday. Tanner and Tommy got to meet him on Thursday. When we were setting stuff up they saw him and

the translator actually like called over to them and he was a huge fan of the different things that they've done so he was like no so they were there all talking while I was building the deck and so then I went and met him on Saturday and you know

I was like sweet I was like yeah I'll give him the drink spotter and get a couple autographs so he was cool I got him to smile I was happy with that yeah that was like that was like the highlight of my people

I got to meet and it was somebody who couldn't even converse with me he's Greek right zero English yeah and I walked up and um and his translator he he he says something to me he sees the badge and he goes i love you guys i'm like oh don't worry we all love you too and uh i started i was gonna get a picture grizzly sitting right and everyone's been taking pictures sitting with him the whole time.

And, and, and the translator goes, no, no, just wait. He says he wants to stand up with big man. And I was like, oh shit. So he stood up for a picture. I was like, wow. I got called a big man by Grizzly. Real recognize real. Yeah.

And then to make it even better. I posted the picture on Instagram and Monday when I was at school I was in the middle of band rehearsal I got a ping in my pocket Looked in my pocket said Tapakula has liked your post And I was like motherfucker You're in now

You'll be twitch streaming together Pretty soon you'll be able to go to Brazilian Steakhouse or whatever I would be like Brazilian steakhouse with Grizzly. That'd be like a catastrophe for them. That would be amazing. So we did. So we met like a bunch of, I met dozens of people.

And one thing that I want to be very, very proud to say, I got names coming. I got people in the spreadsheet for the podcast people that you don't expect maybe what should happen yeah maybe some names that i haven't even put in the spreadsheet that i might be reaching out to uh you know some some big names that i think that you know massonomics is uh is not quite getting is not quite getting, but we, maybe we do. Maybe we will. Maybe we get some, some fun people. Uh, if I could shout out anybody for making my time, they're amazing. It is Tanner and Tommy.

I definitely messaged Tanner today and was like, now that my come down, I dried out for a couple of days that I've come down from all of this. Like, thanks. Like, honestly honestly tanner i go to the arnold and people know me and i know people and i'm welcome at the fucking arnold i said it's because of you man it's because of massonomics essentially letting the the inmates run the asylum there were several times where i would come back to after to the booth after just wandering around being a fucking nightmare like i was and then i'd be like oh i got some shirts to sell and i would just jump behind the counter and we'll talk about my salesmanship because there's some funny stories there um where i was just like sure

like i'm just here to help sell shit i just don't want to touch money or merchandise because i don't want to be responsible for shit right and that's where kevin helped me out a couple times so that was it i just want to shout out them i do want to shout out barefoot too i i don't i don't see them a lot but every time i've ever seen them they make every visit worth it whether it was south dakota or the arnold both years those guys really make stuff fun and interesting and they are very welcoming and so are the strength co like they they might be contributors and they might be uh what do you call it um somebody help me here not supporting members sponsors thank you uh but they definitely are part of the community i don't think there's anybody that doesn't just

get it. And that made me feel really good. As much as we had fun and we joked and we laughed and saw heavyweights and met famous people, I think that the biggest part of what I got out of the Arnold was just being accepted. And I'm not even

that good of a lifter. So, like, that was it. And you guys, of of course did that too kevin eddie minnie nate uh you guys all did that for me as well too um but complete opposite of all of that shit there's one thing that maybe people that listen to this podcast don't understand and i don't think maybe the other four people on this podcast understand. Nate is really professional in our text message threads. Nate is really kind of like professional on the Discord,

but Nate is a force of fucking chaos in real life. Like, I must have forgot from last year. But, like, just hanging out with him for the evening and for me to look at somebody and be like, you're a lot. Wild card. Yeah.

That's Nate. Nate is everywhere all at once. And does it almost say that his personality bogged you yeah yeah like even i was just like wow dude like like if you were a drug addict you'd be fucking insane but you are this way sober like you're this way stone sober so i respect it so much more bro if you smoked math you'd be insane. Yeah, most people, it's... Well, you weren't even drinking that much. I didn't have anything.

Exactly. I didn't even have caffeine that day. Yeah, and that's insane to me, and I appreciate that so much. Only the cocaine. Cocaine light. Yeah, he's on cocaine light. Remember, we're athletes. For legal purposes, none of that is true, whoever's listening

to this there are no drugs involved no not at all it was only on the original jack 3d yeah yeah that's that is true yeah but yeah i just if you guys ever get to hang out with nate outside of podcasting or or the discord just be ready that he's like that picture you posted eddie where you were like oh we need a picture of flexing and everybody's doing the double arm. And he decides to look like the ultimate warrior taking a shit. And like, it's so funny. Like I,

the worst part about, I saw that picture and I was like, terrible angle. I look minuscule. You got mogged by everybody. We were supposed to out angle scans. For some reason, I turned completely inward like an an idiot i don't know what i was doing yeah such a silly photo yeah i can't beat scantz i the whole purpose was let's take this to out angle and i'm still

out angle i just can't win um no i appreciate that joey i think i don't know how to how to respond to that. Other than, when out on the street there arose such a clatter, the crew rushed ahead to see what was the matter. Away to North High, they flew like a flash in pursuit of a venue where they all could crash. The neon lights twinkled on high streets so bright, illuminating crew's crew a peculiar sight. With laughter ingesting, they roamed the terrain.

A merry band of geese, Arnold's post-gain. So yeah, Saturday, just want to hit a couple things that you mentioned, Joey. So me and my buddy Tom, who we'll get to in a second, when we showed up, we show up to the Arnold, and I was like, is there anything you want to see? He's like, I don't know. And so we just kind of start wandering. He said he wanted to go to the Jocko booth. He's a big Jocko guy, so we – I'll explain more about that later.

But so we go to the Jocko booth, wait in line, get like a bunch of free stuff. I don't know what to do with any of it. And I was like, the one thing I need to do at the Arnold is go to the Barefoot booth because I want to give away from them. I have a gift card and I've just been indecisive for like the past six months on like what color way, high top, low top, what size. And I was like, I just want to see if they'll take my gift card and I can walk away with shoes. So we walked for like 30 minutes. I looked online like three days before the Arnold and I was like, there's the Barefoot booth. And that's I refuse to like as a typical dad, we got there. We're walking around. I was like, I refuse to look at the map again. I will find the barefoot booth. Also, I will not ask for help. At one point, I ran into Joey. I was like, where's the barefoot booth? He's like this direction. And we like stood around and talked for a second. I was like, all right, Tom, tom we're going this way and he was like that joey guy said it was the opposite direction i was like oh okay so eventually we found our way to the the barefoot booth um and uh we walk up and i was

like this is it um and i'm telling my buddy tom about you know toe splays and all of these things. And, uh, I think Shelby hands us one of the foot manuals and Tom's like, what is this? And I was like, I said something and I was like, I wrote it. And then Blake, big Blake was like, no, I wrote it. And I was like, Oh shoot. Um, I'm in presence of greatness right now. Um, so we start, you know, talking, I was like, Hey, can I buy shoes? Yada, yada. So we start talking. I was like, hey, can I buy shoes, yada, yada. And I don't remember how we got to Massanomics because I wasn't necessarily going to be like, oh, Mass I listened to the massonomics podcast and I was like, do you, what podcast are you, are you talking about unpaid and underrated?

She's like, yeah, I've listened to that. And I was like, I don't know who you are. I'm big Nate. She's like, Oh,

you're big Nate. And I was like, this is a very strange experience for me. Who the heck recognizes me? But it was really cool. They helped me out. I got some shoes. Love them.

Shout out to the whole Barefoot gang. But yeah, it was just like to Joey's point. It was like I was recognized by someone I had never met before. And it was such a strange feeling of being like, you're you're you're nate and i was like you listen to our podcast no one listens to i mean i know people listen no one listens to our podcast yeah no i'm with nate on that one because there was a part of the story i wanted to tell about joey salesmanship there was a point where i stopped selling merchandise and started selling memberships and the one guy was just like oh i listen to the podcast all the time i just haven't joined the

crew yet and i was like oh well then you should know unpaid and underrated and he looks at me he goes which one are you and i was like well i'm joey and he's like been listening man know who you are that's and i was just like what the fuck like why aren't you crew though like that would have been like well that well i want to talk about some of that later, but I don't know if I told you, Shelby did that to me last year. I walked over to barefoot and I was like, Oh,

Hey guys, if I would just wanted to try your shoes on and blah, blah, blah. And she saw my tattoo and she goes, Oh, you're big Joey. And then I was just like,

just fucking melts. Right. Because like somebody at the Arnoldnold recognized me but then again spending the evening with barefoot right they're they're they're just keen and they're awesome people right they're on it real ones real ones for sure um yeah i think that that's basically all i did at the arnold uh was i went and got some barefoot shoes and then just wandered around. So I pretty much have no other good stories. And maybe when we get a chance, I'll explain who Thomas.

We'll get to that in a second. Yeah. We'll get to that. He did have to babysit a pair of shoes all night. He did have to babysit a pair. I had to babysit a 3X sweater. I'm sorry. He had a hoodie.

Tanner's so disappointed in both of you right now. So, so the first, the first Arnold that I went to, I took like a big 20 liter uh you know shout out uh got it right here oh it's lost in the fire um yeah this is going great this is the air day pack 20 liters it's a great backpack i love it it's the um our three guys start bored as shit watching you trying to explain your background right now. But, well, I was holding my backpack.

It's right here, but it's lost because Zoom whatever. You're just caressing the fire. Yeah. But so I brought like a huge 20 liter backpack. And I was like, people say you get so much stuff at the Arnold. And I packed like 20 water bottles. And I was like, went home with like nothing in my backpack. And I was like, this is dumb. It just got hot on my back the whole time I was there. And I just brought like a nine liter, like sling kind of thing. Um, and I was like,

I don't need to carry anything. Uh, and then I show up and I bought shoes. I got a shirt from the barefoot booth. I got like three hats and i was just i had like the bag that barefoot gave me just jammed full of all of the stuff that i just had to hold in my hand and i was so disappointed i didn't bring a backpack um but i've instantly been like fuck i should use that gift card online just well shipping yeah but i was there and then i didn't have to worry about them on yeah i. I guess they was trying all along, but then like, all right,

cool. I know what I'm going to get. I'll put an order in tomorrow. Well, I ordered a pair of like a month before the lift, hardly easy. And then went to the lift, hardly easy.

It was like, Hey, I ordered eight and a half. Can I try those on to make sure they're going to fit? And that way, when I get them, I don't have to like put them on to try them on. I can just return them.

So I get, I get that. Yeah. But is there anything else you guys want to cover? Eddie, Kevin, we've been boring you a bit by over-talking you. Tell me what's going on. Anything you want to talk about from Saturday? Dude, I feel like Kevin was working hard on Saturday.

Yeah, every time I saw his story, he was manning the booth by himself. Damn near, it looked like. He had to earn that badge. There were a few times where it was just me and Big Emmett just us running the booth

ourselves. A couple months ago I was telling Tanner and Tom, I think you guys trust most of us now. We can run the booth for an hour or two and you guys can go off and do your interviews and that's exactly what they did. I think you guys trust most of us now. We can run the booth for an hour or two, and you guys can go off and do your interviews, and that's exactly what they did.

I think they got some good stuff out of that. I only stole a few dozen shirts, so I think it's all good. I only embezzled $1 million, but it's fine. No wonder there was only one chicken bake shirt left. Yeah. I'm sorry about that knock knockoff website that's mine yeah

putting them all up on ebay on the amateur strongman oh yeah i that was one interesting story uh i took my buddy tom who we'll talk about in a minute um over there and i was like i think he was like let's go watch like some lifting i sure, sure, and we wander over, and I just, like, we're watching the Amateur Strongman, and out of the corner of my eye, I just see, like, Eddie off in the corner, and I was like, listen, Tom, as soon as he comes out, like, we have to scream and just, like, clap for Eddie, and so every time he'd come out to, like, reload a, uh, Amateur Strongman event, I was like, yeah, go, Eddie, Eddiedie you got it and i was hoping he would hear us just didn't hear us so eventually we walked over and just said hi

to eddie but eddie is a professional and just ignored you well that's what i was like eddie's eddie's too much too big time to be like taking on any sort of cheering he's like i gotta get this done got work to do here it was pretty funny because like i i had messaged them again be like hey i volunteered last year you know i had a lot of fun and they got back to me they're like yeah here's my number give me a call blah blah so i stopped and talked to them a couple of times and then they're like all right we'll just come over you know i said hey i'm eating grizzly and i'll come over after that i'm like just remember you have to have one of our shirts on. You can't wear anything else. And so I go over there and I'm like,

all right, when do I get a shirt? But we have to go over to the booth where they sell the shirts. I'm like, all right. So I go over there and the guy's like, well, I can't give you a shirt.

I'm like, what do you mean? You can't give me a shirt. He's like, well, he's like, you can't come back here and get a shirt. I'm like,

well, I'm here to volunteer. I have to have a shirt. He's like, well, these bins up front, you can pick one of those out. So I'm looking through them. The biggest they have is an XL.

Modified. And he's like, well, yeah, there's an XL. You can wear that. I'm like, an XL? I'm like, dude, I'm wearing a 2X T-top right now. And he's like, well, we got a 2X hoodie. And I'm like, dude, I'm not wearing a hoodie to reset amateur strongman. You're crazy.

So we go back and forth and I eventually go back over there and like, I had this run and it's like, where's your shirt at? He's like, the guy won't give it to me. He says that, I don't know. He's like, he's just beating around the bush. He won't give me a fricking shirt. And he's like, you go over there and you tell him blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I go over and he's like, I'm like, Hey, he said, give me a shirt. He's like, go over there and you tell him blah blah blah i'm like i go over and he's like i'm like hey he said give me a shirt he's like okay here you go that's just like this is so stupid but i got the shirt and i went over and i helped out and uh there was some fun events i enjoyed the sandback for i think that one was pretty easy to reset and uh the uh the squat

machines was uh very interesting. I saw some of that. That was fucking insane. I don't necessarily like that one. Yeah, that was weird. Like you will go under, you crawl under and you squat. Yeah. Yeah, that's weird. And they set the height of the squat of that based off of your height, not based off of your hip height.

So there were some people that were like four inches above parallel and there were people that were like two inches below parallel um and there were people who like got stuck underneath and were having like claustrophobic attacks because they couldn't move and stuff like that like people were passing out. So that was kind of interesting. Good event. Okay. We're weird side question on that. Why do I feel like I'd prefer to start below parallel? Would anybody else prefer that? Or am I just insane? I don't think I come out.

So it all depends on what you're going for. It all depends on what you're going for. But if you're going for max reps and amount of time you'd probably be better off with above parallel yeah but if i was thinking like i just want to fuck it i'm just going as heavy as i can i feel like i'd start below well let us know i'm thinking about what i was looking at with the machines because the machines you braced like they were they weren't like a barbell they were like over the shoulder it was transformer bar pieces yeah it was a modified transformer because i feel like you've got a little more bracing a little more you can lean back into the squat a bit i feel like below

parallel might have really above parallel would just feel like lazy to me well the problem with that being that like you can go heavy on a squat from above parallel because you're using the weight to like load into the push. Yeah. But if you're starting from the bottom, you have no load. So you're just like losing all of that stretch reaction. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. That's the majority of the people who hit in high numbers, they had their feet out in front of them and it was much more like a leg press. They were leaning backwards into the implement um yeah when it comes for the high reps like that um and that's typical of strongman as well that they'll do the that's the reason why they'll do you know wagon wheels and stuff like that because if you never train um at those

different heights then you're not going to be very strong at it. And so they'll do that to mess with you. Love it. But it was good. I enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun, made a few more friends. And I knew several of the competitors, so it was cool to see them and cheer them on and then get to talk to them later,

you know, the next day. And it was just kind of cool because, like, I'm sitting there and they've got the open man and it dawned on me that these are the guys that are battling out to be the next pro and so that was pretty cool because uh this was some very big strong guys there i walked by on sunday and saw all the stuff they were packing up from that. And the one thing I took away from that was, Jesus Christ, were the sandbags for the pro men,

or the heavyweight men, just the biggest things ever. Like, I tried to move a 300-pound sandbag at a local comp, and I could not roll the thing over. And these sandbags were, like, 30% bigger. Yeah, they had some big bags. Bags? Some of them people didn't like because they were loose. They weren't very tight bags.

Should have used pea gravel. Should have used pea gravel. That's what they were loaded with. Yeah. Eddie, did you get any word in on how they should use pea gravel next year? No, I did. Why did you even volunteer, Eddie?die now hold on just one darn second so after the squad event we're pulling up all the stall mats and putting them on pallets

and i made it a point to tell several of the guys there that hey you know massonomics talks about that this should actually be an event having a whole stall man and then uh we get done with the stall mats and we gotta put down some tape for the distance events that we have an accurate distance. And the guy's like fumbling to get the tape started. And I was like, ooh, how's this for a strongman event? Double York in script for time, followed by starting a clear plastic tape. You know, of course, I'm laughing and they're just like rolling their eyes at me imagine but imagine like super sweaty fingers just trying to get oh my gosh

yeah i was like have them do that then have them tie a bow tie yeah are you talking like a thick tape or are you talking like the i needed packing tape so i went to walmart and got wrapping paper exactly the clear tape. The second half-pipe. You can't even tell where it's cut at. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I literally have to get a utility knife and start a new cut and throw a bunch away

just to get to a section. Yeah. All right. So we want to dive into dinner? Yeah, we can talk about dinner because it's a bit embarrassing for me. Yeah, I remember more rapid than eagles they scooped out of place considering burgers and steaks, the carnivores, grace.

Now Arbar, now Bodega, now Elevator Brewery. On Gaskworks, on Standard, on Mikey's Late Night Jury. To the top of the high, to the end of the street they marched as a crew a hungry heartbeat so onward they ventured with laughter and cheer a troop of geese in a positive festival atmosphere okay so everybody starts talking about where we're gonna go to dinner and Eddie is adamant Eddie's like f all of you I'm going to Waffle House okay yeah and he goes I don't care if you give me anything better I'm going to Waffle House. Okay? And he goes, I don't care if you give me anything better. I'm going to Waffle House.

And we were all like... No, that's not what I said. I said, I'm going to Waffle House. Unless you can give me a better option, that's where I'm going. Alright, so either way, I was just like, okay, but let's all go somewhere cool. And...

Waffle House. But then, we all decided on this mexican place so backstory on that was i think we were talking earlier in the day and i was like where are we going to get food and steve big steve mentioned to me he's like we went to this mexican place last year and i was like mexican super easy like quick in and out um and i was like that's perfect i i put that in my back pocket and i brought it up repeatedly to everyone subliminally to try to trick them and all being like man i really want mexican um so go on joey lead us to what happened at mexican place so this entire thing just ends up being i played myself hard so we're walking for 15 minutes it's about 15 minutes away through a sam hunt concert through a sam hunt concert so at this point we realize

screaming people there's a country concert going on around the corner from the aryld uh it's the same thing i said thanks brother so i said like why i couldn't understand i was like when i was thinking about waffle house i was like isn't there Waffle House is where Eddie is from? And I said, why would you like I couldn't understand traveling so far to go somewhere that's close to your home. I said that sentence at all. Why would you go somewhere? Yeah, I didn't tell you this because I played myself hard. I was like, why would you travel across the country to go somewhere you could go at home?

So we go to this nada place and I open the door, I walk in and the waiting room is real. Not to mention from the outside this looks like one of the nicer restaurants in Columbus, potentially.

I'm like, that's that is not a Mexican restaurant. That is a place that may serve tacos. Like, that is not a Mexican restaurant. Those are two different things in my brain. So I ask the first couple I see, hey, guys, do you have reservations? And they're like, oh, yeah, do you? I was like, no.

And they were like, good luck. And I just turned to the group of 10 and went, we're not getting in here. Nope, not a chance. So we all leave. And across the street, okay, is a place called Boston's Pizza. And I didn't clue in. I honestly did not clue in until we walked in. Pizza all day.

No, I, until I realized I walked in, looked around and went, I turned to Steve and went, this is fucking Boston pizza. And if you got our listener to this podcast, you know,

that Boston pizza is a thing I talk about all the time. Cause I get to go and cheap pasta, giant beers, and it's relatively inexpensive, but it's a chain in Canada that I did not realize that you guys didn't have everywhere. But it was named in such a weird way. And in down in Ohio, it's a very different experience because up here it's like I don't want to say dirty, but it's like a dirty chain. Right. Like it's like a.

I don't want to say dirty, but it's like a dirty chain, right? Like it's like a, um, like it's a, like it's one of those places where, you know, where you go and you're going to get the same thing at every place. If I go to a Boston pizza in Hamilton, the Boston pizza in Toronto, the Boston pizza in Niagara Falls, they're all the same. So we sat down digging yourself deeper and deeper. I know. I just, I went to, I was like, are you fucking kidding me? I just said, why would you travel across the country to go somewhere you could just go at home?

And then I accidentally find myself in the place I go to once a week. Yeah. So you don't know that part, Eddie? That's really funny. I got myself good. That's really funny because you guys were ragging on me about how trashy waffle house is and how it's like this down and dirty place well it's like no no nobody said dirty we just said like we don't want to go there uh to be fair and to be fair you haven't even been there nate you've never eaten well listen there's a waffle house in

between tom and i who we'll get to eventually, but in between Tom and I's house, I drove past it. There's a specific reason we haven't been there, Eddie. It is not... That's the whole thing, isn't it? Yeah, the Waffle House ready. Tanner and Tommy haven't been to Waffle

House. We tried to go last year. It didn't happen. So I was like, let's get to Waffle House. Let's get them at nighttime so that they can the waffle house experience and then i like and that was the whole thought the whole like let's go to this cool mexican place that has delicious burritos and all that shit and then i end up at boston pizza and i was yeah and i was actually kind of like we all walked in and we're like pizza like we ate pizza all day and someone in the group I don't remember who said yeah and it's not gonna be better than Ohio pie

no absolutely not so none of us got pizza but I mean we ate you know it's like 8 or 9 o'clock at this point everyone's probably hungry yeah we're just grumpy and hungry but it was just a matter of like we all had these grandiose plans

and ended up, again, at fucking Boston Pizza. Well, we walked out of the lobby of Nada, turned around, and it was the only restaurant in, like, visible distance. And, like, even when we walked back through, like, when everyone at the end of the night walked over to Brothers, like, there was nothing else open. Like there just wasn't really anywhere else to go. So it was like,

I don't know where we would have went if we didn't go to Boston, like within walking distance and whatnot. So, yeah, I just thought it was really funny. I was like, I just definitely was not a walk. No.

And I do understand why you guys did not want to drive to another. Yeah. Well, yeah, walking is the preferred mode of transport in the city. I will say, if you have not been to a Waffle House, then you should go to a Waffle House. Well, I did end up having my first chicken piece. Sit at the bar. Sit at the bar there at the tabletop, high top,

whatever you want to call it. Get yourself a meal and let me know how bad it is definitely not going to say it was bad but I definitely thought it was really funny that I was like you go to Waffle House all the time why wouldn't you go somewhere cool

and then I fucking went to Boston Pizza I go to Waffle House like twice a year in our reels where I was just like so guys guys, like from Fargo, how was your first Austin pizza experience? And Barefoot goes, there's one in Fargo. So there's two in America. One in Fargo and one in Columbus.

That's confirmed or you're just... No, it was according to, somebody Googled it on the spot, I think. Yeah, I thought that was really stupid. The server said there were two in Ohio. Oh, did she? Yeah. Big Kevin, can you spreadsheet that? Anything else you guys want to talk about while I'm still on?

I gotta get to bed. You head out. I appreciate you being here. Big Eddie where where can they find you buddy uh corn fed highlander on instagram is where i'm at and uh appreciate everything thank you for having me on it was a lot of fun even though i'm sick and my energy is kind of low but uh i do appreciate the invite getting to join you guys all right man good night take care buddy you being here means a lot man love you have a good night appreciate it but yeah uh definitely definitely got played going to boston pizza like the food wasn't terrible and i think there was one funny part with shelby

where because they were like what would you order and i was like i usually order the jambalaya pasta which is just pasta whatever you fucking weirdos call it and and it's i said but like i usually sub out the shrimp and she goes that was okay but like it wasn't jambalaya pasta and i was like well it was spicy enough and she goes you called that spicy and i was like shelby i eat ghost at minimum. Ghost pepper sauce is my minimum spicy. When I say it's spicy enough, I'm not saying it was spicy. I'm saying it's spicy enough for white American Canadian food. You can't make stuff that spicy like we would like it and sell it

all the time. So anyway, that was our Boston pizza dinner. I guess I'll take that off of the... Oh, by the way... There are 15 states that have one Boston. Really? All the way from Arizona all

the way up to Ohio, Maryland, Michigan. Yeah. Both Dakotas. So when I brought it up with one time on the podcast, you guys made me feel stupid. You were like, we've never heard of that. Is that a normal thing?

And then I was like, they're not in America. Unless they're in Morgantown, West Virginia or Western New York, I wouldn't know. Those are the only two places I've ever lived, buddy. I don't have a lot of experience there's one in Columbus so I've only been to Columbus a handful of times uh important things uh I wanted to bring up about Boston pizza um one just Steve brought up something while we were sitting at dinner um that I want to like dinner um that i want to like i mean we talked about it that night but i just want to like rehash and even for the listeners if you can weigh in uh on instagram uh i'll pull it what i'll put a pull up yeah yeah this will be a good one um Huck, towards the end of the night, was just like wandering around

yelling at all the people at the Masonomics booth handing out flyers and just trashing flyers. So, don't support these blank, blank, blank, swear words, swear words. Here's a 10% code to my website. These guys are blank, blank, blank, swear words, swear words. Here's a 10% code to my website.

These guys are blank, blank, blank, swear words. And Joey, what did he say? What act did he say that they would perform for them? Oh, is this part of your bit here? So he would call, he called them sea suckers. These guys are sea suckers. Don't, don't support them and joey and joey how would you respond to a statement like that i said some of my best friends have

sucked my sea so like some of my favorite people have done that i don't see that as a derogatory term um and so we brought that back up at dinner that night. Oh, good. I wasn't there for that. Yeah, you were. You were sitting across from me. And Steve said we were discussing the act of sucking in a short spurt, I think. Oh, spurt. And Steve said it was Saturday. Steve said, ah, yes, the ABCs, to which we all looked at him very curious as to what the ABCs meant, and he informed us that that meant anniversaries, birthdays, and Christmas.

Ah, yes. And Saturdays. And I just, I want to put a question out to the listeners. I want to put a question out to the world. Who the heck is getting Christmas blowjobs, and why was i never informed that that was a thing and that's i just putting that out there we don't have to discuss it any further we don't want to but apparently that's the thing and i've been missing out on that one

um so i just uh i just wanted to you know clear the air get that out there get some answers from the listener that's funny but all about that the abc's just completely lost on that c1 there a and b sure c what the heck is that like uh all uh you know it's in the box like what's the scenario like snl like what are we talking there my dick in a box yeah are we doing one of those things like what's what's the deal there so yeah sound off in the sound off in the youtube comments uh yes for c's no for c's that that is pretty funny because i do remember i i said like after he came by and he was saying like these people suck dick don't support them and i i said something like it was just very briefly like no like i really want people to do that for me more often so i'm not gonna shame them

for doing it it's my favorite thing and like everybody kind of stopped and was like what i was like well did you ever like did you ever not just like think about that and like how that phrase like leads into like no like that's my favorite thing people should do that for me more often i'm not gonna make them feel bad about it. All right. Anything on Sunday? I wasn't there. Oh, oh.

Tanner getting his haircut. We'll go into unpaid and underrated in, like, a few seconds, but I do want to cover some Sunday stuff. Quickly, on Saturday, before we go to Sunday, we walked back. We were walking from brothers to uh from boston to brothers um and tom and i who we'll get to in a second he was walking with me and for some reason half of the people were like sprinting to brothers like they were moving at an unnatural pace like i i can walk at like 17-minute mile with a weight vest on,

and I was like, I don't know what pace these dudes are keeping, but I cannot keep up. And so we were kind of lagging behind, and it was me, Tom, Joey, and Tanner kind of in the back. And Tom and I were behind Joey and Tanner, and I could see brothers in the distance, and our car was off to the corner. And I started to slow down, and Tom slowed down with me, and I look over to Tom, and I was like see brothers in the distance and our car was like off to the corner and I was like

I like started to slow down and Tom slowed down with me and I look over to Tom and I was like listen once we get to that opening over there in that parking lot we're just we're irishing goodbye we're not going to say anything and we're just going to sneak away he's like you're not going to say goodbye to all these people um and I was like no like this is the bit and we have to commit to the bit and so we like sneak off no no no one notices anything and i get like halfway through that parking lot but it's a giant open parking lot so you can still see us and i just hear tanner and joey yelling hey where are you guys going and i was like dang god we like almost got we were so close but yeah that was my probably my

largest disappointment because then i was just like well, I'm too far to go back and actually say goodbye. And now I can't really Irish goodbye. So I was like, whatever. And we just wandered off. And it was not as... You got caught. Yeah, we got caught by the expert. But yeah, so Sunday.

Yeah, I was there Sunday. Yeah, definitely not as crowded as Saturday. But it was... Like, there was just a good crowd there still. And Sunday's kind of cool, too, because people are just trying to get rid of their stuff. Bells of Steel came over and they're like, hey, Tanner, Tommy, you guys want a shirt? We're like, they're like, yeah, yeah, sure. It's like me and Eddie were standing there, too.

It's like, how about you guys? You want one? Yeah, sure. So Sunday was cool um i wish i could have stayed later to uh you know help tear down everything but i actually went and uh got a late launch at hubert's hubert's polish kitchen and that was really good i'm glad i didn't miss out on that again. On the glaze scale, what would you give that on a scale? 1 to 10 on the glaze scale? It's a solid... Does the glaze scale have a half point? No! The glasers only hold... Come on!

I'll give it a 9. A legit 9. Nice. It was a little more expensive than I thought it was going to be. Because it's one of those things where it's only this much for this and only that much for that. But they ended up ordering like 10 things. Yeah. It adds up quickly.

It's all a la carte probably. So it's like, yeah, it's $40 to feed yourself. Yeah. Yeah, it was like $20 for a meal. But it was good. The pierogies, painted pancakes, the maloney. Yeah, it was good the produce painted pancakes uh the maloney yeah it was good nice mini um i spent sunday going around trying to get pictures of people i didn't get a chance to get pictures with uh one of the people i always get a picture with every year is jen thompson and

i just didn't get a chance to catch her um so i like she's a quick one well yeah you gotta run doing doing three competitions in three days so it's kind of hard to like figure out exactly when she's gonna be done with stuff well yeah me and me and my buddy tom who we'll get to in a second he we're like just walking through the arnold and i see like the strict curl going on and i was was like, have you ever seen strict curl? And we're just like standing there watching it. He's like, no,

I never seen it. I was like, Oh yeah. Like CT Fletcher, yada, yada, strict curl. And then they're like,

next up, Jen Thompson. I was like, that's crazy. That's the same name as that other, like that's Jen Thompson. And then lo and behold, Jen Thompson just walks out and does strict curling.

And I was like, is this woman just do everything? Like, yeah, she was literally everywhere yeah she like i talked to her about it before because like 2020 she invited me out to her house and she told me all the stuff she competes in she was like how in the hell do you survive a whole weekend of arnold plus doing the master's bench competition that she won the strict girl competition and then the uh bench off thing they do and she's like oh it's simple I just don't ever do like maxes I just do pretty close to a max and I don't get blasted I want to be that

smart smart yeah it'd be cool if my I didn't have to hit my max to do anything that people still weren't impressed with that'd be great yeah i would say um based on last year and not this year sunday is the day you kind of want to be at the arnold i think that if like i i kind of explained it to like steve and sandy this way I'm not here to meet famous people. I'm here to meet my friends. And I'm here to see like the people I want to hang out with and support. And that is the, the other lifters.

That's the company owners. This isn't the, the bodybuilders and the famous people and all that shit. But if you're here between five and seven 30 p.m on the saturday and almost the entire sunday those people are out there walking half thor showed up at the strength co booth right like you want to meet half thor you want to be there on the sunday around four or five o'clock like before they start kicking everybody out and i kind of missed out on doing that like i ended up getting strength co plays for like a dollar amount because

Grant was like, I don't want to bring these home. Can you, and I'll give you them for this price. If you buy this many, I was like, you're fucking right. I would like,

that's ridiculous not to do that. And that's the kind of like, I mean, like that's why I'm saying like next year I'm going for the three days. We're going to go hard. I'm going to match Huck Finn for two days and then on the sunday dry out take a thousand electrolytes and go all right um grant's always been something though like like grant whenever we're getting ready to leave i'm like all right we're headed out he's over at massonomics booth and we were there on

thursday whenever eddie was setting up the deadlift platform and he goes hey did i give you something before you left and i go no he goes do you need anything i go no i got like 1100 pounds of competition steels and like 13 barbells he's like all right well come by my booth i want you to take a pair of 45s too i was like all right you just want to take them home right like it's awesome yeah but you want here's a funny thing but before i pass over to kevin here this is uh i pulled around back to the loading dock so i pulled my prius up and they bought that they won't they don't they're not letting anybody in i'm like i'm gonna run in grab those plates we'll head out so i go in and grab those plates well first off jessica bittner's in there and in and grab those plates. Well, first off, Jessica Bittner's in there. And in one of those moments that kind of, you know, one of those few moments in life as a man that you get where someone says something to you and it kind of, you're like, that's not what I would have expected.

walks up to me as I walked in the door and says, oh, good to see you're here again this year. And I'm like, who in the fuck am I? Exactly! Who's behind me? Yeah, and not like four steps later, a couple of teenage kids come up, right by that

where all the exercise equipment was. I came in that back door there in the loading dock. A couple teenage kids come up, and one of them goes, hey, weren't you in that Tyler One there in the loading dock a couple teenage kids come up and one of them goes hey weren't you in that tyler one power lifting meet and i'm like yeah like can i get a picture with you and i'm like i'm just a fat guy lifting in a one-part garage and it took me like four or five minutes to get to grant's booth and i was like jesus christ that's the weirdest shit just to find people who saw me sweating my ass off in a 90 degree garage with no air conditioning just because it'd be funny

to lift to try to pull 666 on a stream and a hamburger singlet that's pretty cool that both those things happened right at the end too like that's the sundays man that's the sundays the people that the people that want to go and meet like the friends like not the millions and millions of followers or the billionaires right that's they're there on the sunday because they know that and then yeah i'm definitely gonna hang around next sunday for that one kevin oh go ahead kevin i wasn't gonna say anything else for sunday I wasn't going to say anything else for Sunday. It was good.

God, I'm tired. No, I was just going to say, I've always considered just going on Sunday rather than Saturday, but most of the crew and whatnot are only around on Friday, so it's just like, well, I guess that doesn't make much sense. I can't believe I still haven't met you yet, Nate. That's hysterical.

I just remember, we haven't met yet that's great i feel so bad like last year we stayed until huck got smacked in the dick with a uh long range uh beer after the mass dynamics booth torn down but uh this year we were like okay we got there at 10 30 in the morning 11 in the morning and they had already got there and set up the booth and they were already over at hubert's eden and i'm like god damn it so this year i'm staying closer i'm leaving i'm getting there at 8 39 in the morning something like that we roll in at nine o'clock walk in the convention center and tanner and tommy have half the booth set up already and i go what the shit i stayed

two hours closer just so i could get up late or earlier and drive here in time and then i had to leave early on sunday so i didn't get to help him tear down i got at least got to help him a little bit set up but i was like god damn it it's that midwest thing you know i want to come out and help and of course they're even more they're're, they're, they're like ultra Midwest. So they're like trying to, uh, they're Midwest Canadian. So they've got that polite Midwest and they're like trying to get it done before anyone could show up to help. Yep.

No, thanks for showing up, bud. Thanks for showing up. We got it though. And then we went to Hubert's and that was the fun. I heard the joke at Hubert's was uh they never he never remembers them yeah yeah and so they're all online and they're talking about being there and he said it again he's like oh you guys come here and then i walked up in line with eddie and he's like oh my friend i haven't seen you in what a whole year

i had to one-up him now Now that's good. He mogged him. Yeah. Yeah. He got mogged by Hubert. Polish kid. All right. That's good stuff. I got to wrap this up soon. We're going on two hours here.

One hour, 55 minutes. Important Saturday note for the listeners. Tanner got, or Tommy got it. Nope, nope, nope. Tanner got his haircut by D at the Strength Co. booth. Did I say Saturday? Yeah, you did. We've got to wrap this thing up. But yeah, shout out to

Big Dee, number 69, running the Strength Co. hair company. Crew number 69. Yeah. You can't just yell Big Dee number 69. Context. What do you want to do? Phrasing over here? You made me hiccup.

I wish people said phrasing more. No, that's the worst joke on the planet. Phrasing. No, that's up there with that's what she said. It's such a lazy fucking way of saying dick. It's just that it's a lazy way of dick jokes.

Phrasing. No, just literally make a joke. Don't just say the word phrasing. Archer already did it. Anyway. Alright, I might have to do anything. We always come up with the only original ideas here on this podcast. So anyways, we're going to jump into Unpaid Underrated.

Yeah, there we go. Thank you, Kevin. So I have a list of like 11 things and i think i'm gonna shoot them out there and i think some of these i'm gonna put it to just specific people it's a shame eddie's not here i had one or two for him um keith do you have any you want to start with do you want to go with any of them you don't i'll take your lead man i'm good i wasn't there so you gotta you got personal stuff with all these I don't well I mean we're going to find out some of these again we've learned that my

unpaid and underrated sometimes fall short um unpaid and underrated Kevin drunkles drunkles as in a drunk uncle as in a drunk uncle uh underrated I've had some i am one

well there was the the dude from the huck finn thing on saturday he was fucking hammered oh and we're like huck who is he he's like that's my uncle and that was the only answer he would give us i never i never bought some he was just buying people shirts at the end of the night. He was. He was just handing out shirts. No, he like paid for... I heard about that on the fucking Tom's podcast this week. That like he bought, like drunkenly bought like dozens of shirts or something. Yeah, like kids came up to the booth and he was just like, I'll buy you shirts. And he spent like $300 on shirts. Yeah, for just like random people. And Tom wouldn't tell us who he was just like i'll buy you shirts and he spent like 300 on uh on shirts yeah for

just like random people and tom wouldn't tell us who he was it's my uncle it's just my uncle yeah he came up to me he's like hey i i i know you like do you he goes yeah i saw you at the arnold like well i was here last year he's like no no this was like a 10 years ago you were like in high school 10 years ago and they don't let high schoolers in keith for real i guess they do man fucking it was more of a fuck off ong ong ong uh nate nate yeah uh unpaid or underrated massonomics booth tablecloth oh underrated for sure I really wanted to take one of those home I asked

if you could purchase one no one gave me the option someone did say that if I was able to perform one of the cool you pull it really quick and everything stays on the table that I could take the cloth home so i almost attempted it um but with the rare earth magnets that were on the table i didn't want to

risk damaging them not that you could damage uh aircraft great aluminum but you know like just you want to you want to take care of everything um but they're really great like the print on them i mean if you look at the other tables at the Arnold, I mean, we're just talking like black tablecloths. There's really no pizzazz to them. The Mastonomics. There was no Riz. There was no Riz. And I felt totally Riz'd up by the Mastonomics tablecloths.

For real, for real. For real, for real. Fucking logging off for this goddamn thing. No cap. They're incredible. Like they're just, it's so subtly printed. Yeah, it's severely underrated um honestly if they just did a run of those i would be getting those for all of the tables in my house i'd honestly just if we could okay shout out tanner and tommy merchandise idea

for the nerds of us out here that use uh desk mats you, you put your keyboard mouse on that kind of covers the whole desk. Printed Massonomics desk mat would be a cool little merch idea. So if we can't have the Arnold Booth tablecloth, I'll take a desk mat. Underrated for sure. Right. Kevin, this one's for you, buddy.

Actually, no. Minnie, this one's for you. Unpaid or underrated beach balls as body parts beach balls as body parts this is confusing depends on which body parts you're talking about well you're the arnold's four and somebody looks like the same person you're the arnold everybody looks like a fucking balloon animal at some point but in particular actually no there were

two of them there at one point two ladies there the boobies I gotcha now if they were beach balls I would say that is underrated but from what I heard from Tanner after being viciously brushed against that it

it felt it felt more like a medicine ball than a beach ball viciously brushed against oh yeah well what i heard from uh from puck finn it was uh like a 26 pound medicine ball he tried lifting them yeah he did no yeah he actually called him the boob press because he like shoulder pressed him or something yeah and then he did make fun of tanner because he kept saying that tanner would like like act like elbow him time to get a feel for him i i did did i did the math though because i went on her instagram and it says 10,020 cc's and growing you did the math so 10,020 cc's is 22.6 pounds a piece or total i i believe that's a piece because those if you make six pounds each yeah those were bigger than 10 pounds yeah yeah if you've not seen them in person i saw them it is one of those things where like you go to the arnold and

everybody is for me everybody is smaller than you expect at the arnold yeah and uh but that you see that in person and she and you're like all right that's uh i did not realize that was possible i figured there would be like explosions at some point yeah and then then she had a friend distinctly remember anyway the twins the twins okay um kevin this one's for you unpaid or underrated joey's sales skills oh that's a tough one um is it i i want to say i want to ride the line or say tbd and see how many of these people actually get uh turned over and enjoy the the join the line or say TBD and see how many of these people actually get turned over and join the discord and say, hey, Joey signed me up. I can't wait. I want to watch that too.

I think we got to say unpaid until proven otherwise. Nice. Yeah. It was fun watching you like step into him like, hey, what's catching your eye? Anything looking good for you? Oh, I did that so Like, hey, what's catching your eye? Anything looking good for you? Oh, I did that so much. Hey, what's catching your eye? What do you mean?

As a man who used to work in the sales field, enterprise sales, really high-level stuff, Joey has mentioned that he works in sales and does all this stuff. I started watching Joey do all this, and I was like, oh, shoot, no, Joey works in sales. He does all this stuff um i started watching joey do all this and i was like oh shoot no joey joey works in sales he's got it this homeboy is selling like he was and he was out here i was not sharky at any point that's the thing right like um what did i say to the one kid he was he was just he was waffling over uh jorts right and i'm sitting there and kevin's just like talking to the kid and i think uh mini you said to me you're like hey he's got to close that go help him so i come over and i just go what's got your eye man that and that's what you're saying he's

like i don't know if i want these jorts and i said how many days a week do you do legs and the kid goes two and i went i said you're telling me you go through that every week and you're not wearing form-fitting jorts to show that off and the kid was like well i wear shorts i was like yeah but do you wear these shorts and then like we both like everybody that was wearing the shorts, like, like we all took a step back. Unison took a step back to show off our quads and our hamstrings. I was like, I'm a deadlift specialist and you can see how these work on my hands and you can see his quads. And the kid was like, give me a pair.

Like he just bought a pair on the spot. Yeah. But then at some point I stopped selling merchandise and started selling supporting memberships. at some point I stopped selling merchandise and started selling supporting memberships. And I wasn't even like at that point, anybody that was already buying something, I was like, Oh, do you listen to the podcast? And then I would start like giving them the pitch like, Oh yeah, I imagine 400 lifters between the age of 30 and 50, just making each other laugh every day. How would you not want to be a part of that for $3 a month? And then I would hand them one of the stickers for the mass nomics podcast.

I'd be like, just check it out, man, mass nomics.com slash join. And then we'll see, like if there is any, I think there's been a few people that have joined since, I don't know if they're conversions from me,

but I thought that was really funny. And Tanner, Tanner goes, I see you're playing chess. Everybody else is playing checkers right now. You're playing the long game. And I was like, well,

I want them on my podcast yeah it's beneficial for us i refuse to believe that anyone that has joined uh the discord from here on out is not because of joey yeah um but that was pretty funny thank you on a related note to that uh the Marines table was directly across the aisle from us, and they had the pull-up station and everything. And I was talking to Tommy about it, and we were like, how many people do you think go to the Arnold and be like, I guess I'll join the Marines? Like, because they had a water bottle? Yeah. Actually, there was one guy that came over right and i'm just standing there i think i was talking to you kevin and tanner comes over he goes hey this guy's

like on the fence about joining like come talk to him and it was grant's friend so i went over i started talking to him and then as like you know that conversation kind of ended i got pulled somewhere else he comes over to me and he goes i feel like i can't walk away until i join like how do i do that and that's when i think it was my wife was like well why don't you have something there to do that like why don't you have the massonomics.com slash join page there i think we're talking about no fuck off and it's like next time you're but no no so but he's it does leeway into that it's like i time you're someone. But no, no. So he's it does leeway into that. It's like I could literally just stand there with an iPad and be like, yeah, put your first name, last name and credit card number here and join for three months and you'll get a discount code.

And then like maybe work with Tanner and Tommy and be like, can they use that code right now? Right. Like they'll be supporting members like something like that that like we could sort of give them a prize for signing up right there like we could really push this if we wanted to be fucking dumb about it which i do i always do i don't want people joining to get the discount yeah i feel like it'd be an influx of like 50 people that cancel the next month like i don't know if we'd need that yeah yeah i know You know what other things that Massanomics could offer? I heard they're very fond of doing for people.

They could offer for people that sign up for that day. Huck may have alluded to. The ABCs, yeah. The ABCs. The ABCs, so it'd be ABC and then like... Yeah, how many was that? One, two, three, four, five. A for Arnold.

So unpaid or underrated uh many you can do this one cow print jorts they've got to be underrated anything cow print is underrated i think i would rock those i i am not picky with what i wear even though i live five minutes from where i work and i have kids who come to me and they're like i saw you at walmart and you were wearing pizza shorts and i go yes i was because i own two pairs of shorts and one are pizzas and one are gummy bears and so it's like i can't wear these i got jorts i can't wear those now because i was explaining to eddie that no one told me that not only do the jorts really show

off your legs they also fully enhance your dong bulge and i can't be seen in public like this but uh if i had some cow print ones you know something to like a or some camo one something to like disguise the outline i could probably get by with that this guy's the outline uh yeah so mad cow was desperately trying to get them to like he not desperately that's a joke but he was like what if we did so i think i would wear cow print shorts i think i would oh the nyquil's going oh now we're starting. Oh, yeah. Now we can really dive right in. Down for what? I think I'm going to go two more, if you guys are okay with that. Big Nate.

Yeah. Unpaid or underrated Canadian cell phone reception in Columbus, Ohio. Apparently it's good. It was specifically within the Arnold area. Um, cause I, I was, I was trying to find, so I was standing next to my friend, Tom, who we'll get to probably after this segment. And, um, we were, Joey was waiting for Grizzly to show up. And so I was also standing there and Tom had never seen him. Like he didn't know who he was, which is insane to me.

Um, but I was like, here, I'll show you a video and just like would not load which became a problem for me in many attempts it was also why i was planning on like taking a bunch of videos for the social and i was like i don't even have internet service i'm not even dealing with this um but i'm like yeah i don't have any service and joey's like i've had great service and i was just like you're not even from this country how do you even have like what yeah, I don't have any service. And Joey's like, I've had great service. And I was just like, you're not even from this country. How do you even have, like, what is going on? It didn't make any sense. But it was like parts of the, I don't know, whatever.

It's dumb. So apparently it's underrated. I'm trying to get into the Arnold at this point, right? And I'm standing there with the security. And I'm like, hey, man, like, I need to get my pass. And they're right there. Like, the doors would open and I could fucking there with the security and I'm like hey man like I need to get my pass and they're right there like the doors would open and I could fucking see Huck Finn I was like they're right there man

so I pick up my phone and I phone Tanner right to voicemail phone Eddie right to voicemail and then I'm like the guy goes there's no service here and I went no I have full service here there's no service for you like what i think it's mostly in that like building whatever the roof's made out of uh interesting to note that

i also called joey and kevin when i arrived because i just didn't want to also pull up the map again to find remember where the arnold was um and i left voicemails i think for both of them to which jo, I called Joey and Joey just texted me back and says, I'm not reading this or I'm not listening to this. And I was just like, well, I guess Joey's not going to tell me where he is. I told you exactly where I was.

Then I noticed he's dropped a pin. I'm not listening to this. I'm at the Strength Co-Boost. Yeah, which didn't help me because I was just trying to get to the convention and I was like, I was on Do Not Disturb. You don't don't fucking phone me yeah i'm not listening to this i gotta say this so generally pretty regularly in our thread yeah you put you posted uh hold on let me go to the exact post and i quote we're about an hour out and when you posted that about an hour later i posted a discord a picture of your badge and you never tried to message me i had my i had full service oh i was phoning like i was legit

like it's urgent i'm phoning so that tells me that i just need your contact i was like i had your badge sitting right there like a foot away from me i know but it was like one of those the security guards are like you're not going anywhere like it was an urgent call um okay one for all the marbles okay unpaid or underrated um actually i wish emmet was here for this one to be honest with you um mini being victim weight to huck finn I wish Emmett was here for this one, to be honest with you. Minnie, being victim weight to Huck Finn. Gosh. I don't want to anger Huck

because I don't want someone coming after my shins at the next start. But I mean, come on, guys. Being victim weight to a guy who's like a ripped 220. He got room to grow. Kevin? Being victim weight to hug finn for victim weight just being smaller than him so under 200 i don't understand it really was just a story i kind of wanted to tell a little bit but i was hoping you guys remembered when it

happened um i'm not when we go offline i'll tell this part of the story but there was some point where like you kevin had said hey man go see if huck wants to do this and i turned to you and was like huck is hammered it is five o'clock at the arnold i am victim weight to huck finn right now i'm not going over there for nothing and then we turned around and like tom was like overhead pressing some kid like for reps and then he tried to overhead press some like 300 pound dude and they both fell on the floor with a disgusting slap and that's just it was just funny that i was like i'm not going over there i'm victim weight and then within minutes he was victimizing people yeah i was curious if that's what you meant but i wasn't i didn't know that is what i meant by that yeah yeah that was an insane experience to turn around

and and huck's just overhead pressing a literal human at his booth at like seven o'clock at night i'm like what is going on i heard he um he said he overhead pressed someone that was like like 6 10 or 7 2 or something like yeah there's a pretty tall dude but he was a skinny he was a skinny little fellow but yeah there was also a big dude that he looked like he tried to give him an rko and just like yeah it didn't work out there is one more i wanted to ask because i think i said that we would talk about this and then we can start wrapping this, wrapping this recap up because people look tired. Michael scissor, um,

having a bath at the Arnold unpaid or underrated. Yeah. I need to hear that story. Uh, I'd say, um, I'd say like probably underrated for sure. When,

so Joey and I, we went over okay podcast was going to record and i was like if i wander over here there's a chance that i'll get called on to this so i'm going to wander over here to see what i can finagle up and like jen thompson was like on stage with them and i was like well i'm out um they ain't calling me and so i joey was like i'm gonna go look for mitch hooper or something and so we like wander off and he goes over to the barefoot booth and starts talking to them but on the way over to the barefoot booth there's just a man getting out of a bathtub in the middle of the arnold with just a towel on and apparently you can just take baths at the arnold now in public i think it was one of those like jacuzzi style tubs right cold tubs right listen listen all i saw was a man just standing

with only a towel on his waist in the middle of the arnold and i was just like honestly though like i made the joke there but for real like if I would have known I could take a bath at the Arnold, I would have just slept in my car. Like, why even get a hotel room at that point? Like, you can walk in, take a bath real quick, and then, you know, get on with your day. So, honestly, baths at the Arnold, underrated 100%. Like, think about the convenience. Like, you could save so much on Ruin Board if you just show up, bathe real quick. Think about

you just competed. You're hot and sweaty. Just jump in, take a quick bath. Honestly, whoever is there, genius idea. I'm sure they cycle the water, Keith. Literally 200,000 people in the same nasty ass water. It sounds fun.

Sounds like Saturday night to me. Um, staff infection ready to happen. Sounds like any six flags water park. Yeah. Have you never been to Kalahari, sir? Um,

all right. So I think you guys passed unpaid and underrated while I was in the washroom. Sick. Good work. Good work. But, um,

yeah, before you do that, uh that uh um i just wanted to say and then in a twinkling they found their abode a place with enough room for a muscle-bound road with a clinking of glasses and a hearty toast the crew gather around a feast they'd boast a night after arnold in columbus town a gaggle of silly geese with stomachs full and renowned they feasted and reveled in their crude delight mary gains to all and to all a good bite well i wish i could have finished with that that would have made way more sense but either way nothing i do make sense joey we've already been over this i know god you're so fun to hang out with um so just like the the last thing to honestly point out and i think i mentioned it like during the intro there the the arnold is such a fucking lawless

land it is wild the stuff you can do and get away with and like like the first year i went i was so weird like do i do I bring booze? Like, how do I even get it in there? Nobody's checking. Nobody's checking. I was concerned about bringing water bottles into my first Arnold. I was like, can we bring water bottles? And, like, Joey's rolling in with a cooler of beer.

Yeah. We asked police about that this year, why they don't search. 2019, every fucking person walking in or out had to have your whole bag searched and they and i talked to the cops there and they said well we have stuff everywhere now by the time you make it to this door you've already been sniffed by like five different dogs and machines and okay i get that but like somebody's got to be like you can't have a bath at the fucking Arnold like you can't like somebody's gotta interject

with some of this wild and the one time I went to try on these pants and I was like oh where's the thing and they were like oh somebody's in there I was like I'll wait and they were like you're at a bodybuilding competition why are you afraid to be in your underwear and I was like, fucking chaos.

That's chaos. We're eating pizza and drinking beer and selling jorts. It's a lawless, chaotic land. I don't think I'd have it any other way. I had my badge on, but the boxes of pizza were covering the badge.

They didn't care. I was like oh he's walking with pizza like he's here for a reason that's what the guy said to me like at some point i was like okay i guess i have to go get my other ticket so that i can get in and he goes man you're not i can see you're not trying to rip us off like you're calling people you're trying to get in like you're not fucking around i was like do you think i would have a cooler of like beer and ice trying to like scam my way into the arnold but again like it's it's just a lawless world where you just walk around and you meet you meet your heroes you meet celebrities you meet the people that make the

equipment you love but i don't think i'll miss it again as long as i'm lifting i don't think i'll miss it again um so with that said i want to shout out one thing in particular plate snacks they really hooked us up this week uh keith you did a big order with them on our behalf and they they went out of their way to like give us a little extra leeway on a sale they were having. So remember, Code Unpaid is going to hook you up if you're doing that. But that was dope of them. I was reading, going through that, the most riveting conversation I've ever read. I was waiting for it.

I'm not reading all of that. I'm not reading all of that. Fuck that. Siri read it, too. Yeah, but shout out to PlateSnacks. You can just go to the website now and get like the decals printed because previously keith has said like you kind of had to like email back channel so now there's like official spots on the website if you want to go get just like straight up custom vinyl stickers uh you can do that there so shout out to plate snacks use code

unpaid uh and make our text back and forth worth money we need to buy a speedboat it was i saw that the notification of 10 messages and i hit it and siri as i was driving read you guys being like which what about this one no it's this one oh okay how about this siri doll right siri doll reads more to me than you would probably imagine. Jesus, my phone is now mad at me. Okay, is there anything else you guys want to get to? Kevin, Minnie? In opposition to your saying that the Arnold is a lawless state,

I do want to bring up the fact that I literally, I might have watched someone get physically assaulted at the arnold um but to to enforce to uh enforce law because the arnold was over and they were kicking people out and i watched a man a woman in like a two ankle skirt like chasing down these people that did not edges and i was like i like kind of saw it out of the corner of my eye like happening and i was like oh no i don't have a vendor badge and i knew this would happen but we're trying to figure out where to go to dinner and i don't want to get kicked out yet so i'm like me and i'm we'll talk about him in a second but my buddy tom um i was like just

trying to shepherd him into like the crowd of like people with actual vendor passes. And I'm like slowly watching this exchange. But this woman is like destroying these people that are not leaving. And just like I have never seen someone look so upset in their lives. And she finishes like kicking these people out and like turns to look at our crowd and like has the worst eye possible. And I make eye contact with her and i was just like i don't have a badge and just like move my sling in front of my body hide my yellow armband and i was like this is it and i was like i don't even know like if this woman sees that i'm

not a vendor i might get shot like i don't know what's going to happen like i'm afraid for my life yeah she was terrifying and she's just wearing a skirt like she's wearing a to the floor skirt and i was like i've never been so terrified of someone in a to the floor skirt in my life yeah she was terrifying and she's just wearing a skirt like she's wearing a to the floor skirt and i was like i've never been so terrified of someone in a to the floor skirt in my life um but apparently like they're like well why are they standing there and she's like those people are all vendors someone heard they said heard her say and i was like and she like walked away i've never felt like more terrified but like you say there's no law buddy the law is you leave at seven o'clock because they were trying to go into the arnold and we were standing at the front trying to leave that's the difference well still i was like i remember that was pretty funny we found the law

of the arnold and that was whatever that woman's name was shout out to her she is the law you almost found out if you were victim weight yeah dude she might overhead press me right out the door i've never used that phrase until that exact second where it's like i'm not going over there i'm victim weight to him right now he's gonna throw me and then he was throwing a dude like i'm not gonna be that dude someone at work today just casually said mouthfeel and i just busted out laughing and like i'm just like there's it's like it's too long of a story because like i've never heard that phrase and now i hear it and it's like oh it's good stuff all right i definitely wrap this up

i'll be there next year yeah yeah uh affiliate links if we already talked about plate snacks obsidian ammonia barbara rescue and home gym con please go ahead and use code unpaid on all those. Help us buy that boat. Big Kevin, where can they find you this week? Buy a speed boat. We're going to buy a speed boat, not any boat. Go ahead, Kevin. At Kevin underscore RSG underscore 18 on Instagram.

Nice. What about you, Big Manny? Where do they want you to find you on Twitch and all that? You find me at miniactionjesus on Instagram or twitch.tv slash miniatureactionjesus. I'm finally going to become unlazy. I have spring break next week, and I can get back into trying to lift again.

No more hell divers. I'm going to, oh, well, still more hell divers, but we're going to lift too. Is hell divers worth it? Oh okay yeah big night where you at buddy heard chef uh currently i'm in my basement um you know what i mean um boston's pizza yeah i'm at b Boston's Pizza in Columbus. Now you can find me at GlazeSearch.com, Restaurant Retriever, TateSounds.com. Tom, I'm really sorry, dude. You're a great guy. We did not have time to cover who you are, why you were with us, with me specifically. Maybe next Arnold Recap we'll cover that.

Hopefully you come along. Me specifically, maybe next Arnold recap. We'll cover that. Hopefully you come along. But yeah, find me on Instagram, NateE561, whatever. It'll be in the show notes. Look at the freaking show notes. It's all there.

I put all the freaking information in the show notes. Daggone it. Still, Joey underscore Malesko and Malesko. He's at KO. You can find me there and only there don't forget our go fund me for our friend from the uh minnesota lifter safety club uh that still should be in the show notes this week nate nudge nudge wink wink and there's he's like more work um that's about it for me man that's about it for me, man. That's about it for me. All right.

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