Unpaid And Underrated - 048 : Demonic Flatulence

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Chris. They dive right into great topics like windscreens, street dances, farting, training with Keith, rugby, dinnie stones, and having two first names. Links Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) Our Guest On Instagram @chris.lifts.things (https://www.instagram.com/chris.lifts.things/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Chris.

Hello everybody, happy Thursday and welcome back to episode 31 of the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. A podcast by crew, for crew, about crew, mocked by crew, listened to by like at least four of you, so that's pretty awesome. I'm Big Joey. at least four of you so uh that's pretty awesome uh i'm big joey i might sound pretty amazing today because i got this nice this nice little wind jammer thing windscreen wind jammer what's a wind jammer is a wind jammer a real thing it's a wind jammer uh man my buddy's name is fig jammer but i don't know about wind jammer it's all gotta be like i definitely wasn't referring to that guy no i'm just i'm just thinking of like parasailing like there's different i don't know i think it is i think it is like parasailing or something um oh by the way that's

big keith you guys heard there joined as always by him and uh big chris mark is here with us today good evening good evening hello hello hello yeah, definitely listening to last week's episode. Listen to that intro I did there. The shout out to Big Hat. Yeah, the cheerjerker. Yeah, yeah. I got myself. That was the funny part is I could hear myself choking up saying it.

So I was listening to it while driving and then I could hear me choking up doing it. And that made me choke up. But specifically, I also could hear my nose whistle at one point. And I hope the rest of you listening to it, go back and listen to, and you can hear the,

in my nose. Oh God. Yeah. And that's when I was like, Oh fuck, we got to get a windscreen. I need to go. I need to fix that microphone. So, yeah, now I have a red microphone

for all the people that can't see this. I see, and the top of your headphone has actually got like a red hat on it as well, so you are very color-coordinated with the Masonomics. And the red nightlight. I'm all unpaid and underrated out hopefully my uh hopefully my wi-fi works good i got this little usb thing that keeps on

chiming on and off so i think i gotta go buy a new one of those because uh it got dongled a little too hard i guess and it's not keeping a connection so that's awesome i hope i can get at least one of the keith breezes experience joey and i have a separate conversation you know we just have like a whole few minutes to just rep on them and then i come back and i'm just like i what what and then i don't really get it until i actually listen uh if i listen that's kind of i'm still struggling with that like i i'll listen to some of the episodes or part of them or I'll power through them, but I don't know. After the first

30 episodes, I think I kind of stepped away from I have to listen to it every single minute, every single week. I'm so happy you brought that up because I was listening to Big Hannah's episode last week and I almost never listen to episodes, but I just ran out of shit to listen to. And there was a point

where you said you sent a picture of dicks on a microphone and I'm in my car driving and I yell, you're a dick on a microphone. And then I immediately regretted not saying that on the podcast when you originally said it. So I don't think I can actually listen to episodes because all I'm going to do is find parts where I was like, Oh, i could have

said something real funny there but i'm just too stupid so yeah i definitely uh i don't know how much i'm listening to our own podcast it's a bit like you know touching yourself anyway so i'm not too really like i understand you got to do it for like health right it didn't it didn't like mental and physical health i believe you don't go blind or no if you you do it too much you go blind that's right yeah maybe you gotta do it to like so you can like hear how you sound and and make sure everything's going well but i think we have um a crew enough that they would let us know if things were faltering let us know everything they don't fucking like about us sons of bitches, that's only the Davids. What are you drinking over there?

What are you drinking, Big Chris? What you got, buddy? I've got a nice polar orange vanilla seltzer. It was actually recommended in the Discord by somebody. I don't remember who. I saw a picture and I was like, that looks good.

I picked up a nice little case I'm working through right now. It's pretty decent. Nice. Now, were you a seltzer drinker before Mastanomics World introduced you to them or kind of a new thing for you the last year? So I wasn't as a kid. I thought it was like a disgusting version of soda. Like, man, this is flavorless and just a

pale imitation compared to the greatness that is you know pepsi and cola uh and then i graduated college and became an adult and i was like wow this stuff is the holy grail of drinks and i drink it all the time now so nice well i'm rocking out my last liquid death the uh severed lime it is okay it'll do i'm sorry yeah that'll do that'll do that'll do one of them i always get it mixed up but one one of those i gotta hop the border soon i think maybe next week or the week after so i can go and do a liquid death run ghost run broken skull run uh i have nothing fancy i have a ghost um creatine drink because i did not take my creatine today because let's just get bigger let's let's just do it let's just get bigger what's what's the worst that could happen just

get bigger right yeah what do you uh what are you wearing? I'm rocking out My meat t-shirt from a couple weeks ago Figured I'd wear it for the occasion We're going to talk about Big Chris's meat a little bit Maybe touch on mine a little later possibly I will not be talking about Chris's meat Or touching yours

I'll just head on out then Beat you to it Yeah you did Beating all kinds of meat over there. Dick jokes, get it? Yep, for the Davids. What about you, Chris? What you got on, buddy?

I am rocking the weight is a number, heavy is a feeling hoodie. And underneath, I'm actually rocking the same tee, which was gifted to me recently by a good friend. You may know him. He owns a really nice orange gym based out of Rochester. Rochester, Minnesota? Correct. Yeah, actually. Not Rochester, New York.

People get that confused all the time. Waterton. One of our good buddies, Chad, is in Rochester, in rochester minnesota he texted me making a joke about he was in the wrong rochester so that's why i kind of made that quip there and for the the listeners at home uh big chris is uh basically sitting in my basement right now it looks like uh you know he he if i if i had to guess he is sitting basically uh you know right in front of my dumbbells uh with his little uh screensaver so that's uh screwing me

up every time i look at it so that's pretty funny facing each other yeah you guys are recording just next to each other yeah we are we are we're basically back to back. Oh Jesus. That's so weird. I don't have, I'm just wearing a wrestling shirt. Um, they released Bray Wyatt and then the, yeah. So that, that documentary came out this week and in the documentary, I guess they, uh, showed one of the masks that he made that never got released. Um, which my wife described as you somehow took the scary thing and made it more terrifying um so they put that mask on a shirt so i ordered that shirt today because you're fucking right i did so bray had his own episode of uh was it solely on him or

was it just kind of shoehorned in on it or something? No, no. They did a full-on documentary on Peacock. And I can't access it up here legally. So for the first time in a while, I'm going to bootleg something. But it's a full documentary about his life and his plans and everything he did. So I was like, yeah, fuck it. I'm wearing a Bray Wyatt shirt. There you go. It's fitting.

You know, since it's the right blanket, it is fitting. Mm-hmm. you go it's fitting you know since it's since it's the right blanket it is fitting actually i ordered mediums this time around because the larges are a little large so let's let's get something new let's get a good pump and head out in a very white shirt well speaking about getting good pumps in and a place to get a good pump would probably be massanomics gym so anybody have a chance to watch the youtube video that they put out today with the uh their third or fourth gym tour in the last probably you know eight years whatever 24 minutes yeah no i did not watch that i napped so fucking hard today when i got home from work i didn't have time to do anything all right i always love when... Go ahead, Chris.

I did give it a watch. All full 24 minutes. There was a part where Tanner was going through his dumbbell York collection and one of the dumbbells was facing the other way. Oh yeah, that gave me direct... That's a Keith moment right there.

So I went to... i was like yeah that's funny but keith i got a question you did watch it right absolutely so after seeing their full view of the gym and you having your own gym as well do you think they're missing anything it's is tanner uh i think they should add something that's not something? I've been telling him for a while, he probably needs a Kabuki deadlift bar just for the variety. Or extra, honestly, selfishly, I would say a couple extra Texas deadlift bars if he hasn't picked any up yet,

just because Big Dave only has so many of those, I believe, that he brings for the warm-up room at the XPC meet in July for the Lifter to Live Easy. And, the XPC meet in July, uh, for the lifter to live easy. And I mean, it really doesn't matter, but it would be nice to actually, uh, deadlift in the warmup room on a Texas deadlift bar, not a rogue Ohio deadlift bar, not an Okie bar, not a power bar, like the same bar I'm going to go out and pull my third deadlift on.

It'd be nice to use that in the warmup room. So either a couple more Texas deadlift bars specifically to help out at lifter to live easy or for the variety of Kabuki deadlift bar. I don't know how many guys they have there that actually compete. Uh, and every federation uses different bars. So like for me, it makes sense to have a Kabuki deadlift bar because one of the federations, like 90 minutes from my house uses a Kabuki deadlift bar. So that's why I bought it. But you know, for the variety aspect alone to be like, yeah, let's just have three or four different deadlift bars. I would add that before I would add another power bar, but that's just me. Definitely, from all the feedback I've got from people that lift here, everyone tells me they feel a vast difference between the Texas deadlift bar and the Kabuki deadlift bar.

Now, is that for better or worse? Is it extra cheating? But it doesn't matter. I mean, if it's a bar you're going to have to use in competition, you want to train on it. So that's my big gripe with that. Did you guys ever watch The Longest Yard? No. I should see if you've glazed that.

I've glazed both of them. The 70s and the 2005-ish, probably, Sandler one. So one of the things, of course, is that they don't practice on the same field that they play on and the argument is that made them better yeah so just saying i get that aspect i'm just teasing i'm just teasing you no no i i get that but as someone you know it's the whole you know you have a gym fill it up with but i mean if his lifters if no one's asking for one then i mean i don't know how many people are competitive power lifters there kabuki bars like i've i've pulled on those at two of my meets and they are yeah they're great but they ain't cheap like at this point at this point we're gonna tag christophan and be like yo

hook us up like send me one first honestly they have come down a little bit this it actually kind of sucks like my bars are worth less today than they were i mean the uh i could buy my bar for like 50 cheaper than i could a year ago just because they cut prices and then fucking now it's free shipping so they are like 15 cheaper than they historically ever have been i mean they're still fucking 40 more than anything that texas power bars makes but you know there's you know less than what i paid for a few years ago did you end up getting anything from gopher and that that got put out there in the oh the x that axle the 40 axle bar i don't so like everyone a lot of people keep telling me like i yes i'm'm going to buy a new axle, but I want, if I'm going to drop money on an axle, it's going to be a custom one where I can get the collars welded on like three inches wider on either side solely.

So it accommodates my joist, my floor joist cavity so I can overhead press and not hit my floor joist. So yes, I can do it with my homemade axle right now using spacers. That's fine. It works. But I've got a fucking $40,000 gym, and I've got a $10 axle right now. So my next purchase will be like a $300 or $400 custom axle just because. I was looking at it. I had it, and I actually phoned Steve, and I was like, dude, this is a $40 7-foot axle.

Right? And shipping's $8 to Canada. Then pull the trigger on it. Axles are fucking amazing. I love axles right now. Well, and he goes, yeah, but Bells of Steel is like $80 shipping in, Canadian, and you won't have to pay customs. We'll just go there and pick it up in Mississauga. So I think that was like, yeah, because then I get to pull on it before I can see it.

Like I can go there and test it and everything like that. So if I'm going to axle. And for any of our listeners that want to come try some axles or any other barbells or any other gym equipment. So French League Indiana here in a couple weeks. Home Gym Con. Use code unpaid to save 10% on your tickets and come meet. I think I had a spreadsheet going today.

There's at least 11 or 12 crew, including the sister host and some other personalities that might not be super active in the Discord but are a crew that will be there. So come hang out with us. And let's see. Let's rate last week's episode, boys. You want to get into that? Yeah, yeah, let's see let's rate next last week's episode boys you want to get into that

yeah yeah let's jump in so i actually was uh with steve when he was doing the deadlift party at uh at strength co i was there for that oh okay okay yeah um also the first time i ever heard steve you told me i was so confused for for half a second because you just mentioned Steve. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, Steve Bink. I'm just like, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I got you now. Took me a second.

Yeah, yeah. I was there and I told the story about Gino like shouting me out randomly. That was at there where Steve was deadlifting at the Strength Co. booth. I don't know if you guys know who steve is i will just do this week not before yeah uh me either i didn't know him until the arnold uh that is a very wide man that is the best way to describe steve bake that dude is that dude is maybe what did he say he was like six foot two tall? 6'2 through 50, I think. Yeah, so if he's 6'2 tall, he's 4 feet wide. That dude is

just a wide man. I remember being blown away by his pole and again, beltless 850 was ridiculous. That is crazy. Yeah. Hearing hearing

some of the other the other goings on welcome to the Hall of Fame some of the new people I get a little bit like like a twinge of what do you call it like pride when they announce new Hall of Famers I'm just like yeah welcome to the club part of it's like I also

beat you fucker it's like welcome so so you can I can still be just a sea hare of a gatekeeper, but I'll also be very, like, come on in, like, you know, after everybody else. I would say I'm not going to place a ton of value in people that get the Hall of Fame based on when they get their card. But I think if, like, the people that aren't there until after the lift

hard live easy yeah we beat you but like if you're waiting to like check off some of those things because you haven't done them already versus i just haven't got my card yet i i think that's i'm not that one i'm not gonna to be, but again, like, yeah. Like, if you're suddenly in the Hall of Fame after you were on one of our shows, great. Glad we'd help you out. But I was there first. I'm excited for that. I think we'll be able to put some people on the map.

Like, that's, you know, obviously one of our questions going forward will be Hall of Fame status, I think. So that'll be cool to actually, like, hear it firsthand where people are at. The list of names coming up that we have booked for this show is fucking wild. I said, 2024, big things are coming. And yeah, sure enough, big things are coming. So with that, I'm going to have to give this

five cheap tricks. This is going to be five cheap tricks worth of an episode rating. What about you, Chris? I know you've listened to some of it. What you got? Yeah, I've gotten through about half of the episode so far. Kind of jaw dropped when

Steve said he had 75 reps at 225 on bench. So with that, I'm going to have to just give it, so far, five massonomics iPod touches. Good, fair rating. We'll get big Kevin on that. Uh, so yeah, uh, it's, it's, it's all, it's getting hard for me to fucking remember these

episodes because I've already listened to the entire full Colin episode. I've, you know, like there's so much other stuff. I listened to like at least five or six other podcasts a week so there's just so much media coming into my ears every day that it's hard to keep track but the main thing I remember taking away from that episode was what the fuck is a street dance

and I don't know what the fuck a street dance is even when he explained it on like I'm not sure if they explained it well in that episode or if it was the call-in episode that they rehashed the street dance thing and what it is it just sounds like a festival like it basically is but it's just like the way the term is i've never i've never heard what they're talking about called that and then like the way they described it like just legitimately strutting shutting down like main street for like that's like something you see on like a tv show but i guess it is a

that definitely must be a small town midwest. Cause I definitely never had that growing up. We do that here. Um, there's different names for it based on where it is, when it is. Uh, we used to do one in the party district, they would call it the Mardi Gras party and they would just shut down two ends of the street and they'd have a stage in the middle and they give us just a row of bars. Right. and they'd have a stage in the middle and they give just a row of bars right uh but then we also do one that we call open streets which is literally just no cars allowed go and roam and um the james street we call it here that's completely shut down and what's really fun about that is when you watch that happen you'll see people still married to the sidewalks

you watch that happen you'll see people still married to the sidewalks and like you're like just just go on the road like but it's so uncomfortable for people despite no cars are allowed there's like there's nothing but they're not even bikes allowed it's just how uncomfortable people are so that's a really fun thing to watch too but yeah definitely have never heard of a street dance in my life i've heard of block parties parties, cookouts, open street, Mardi Gras, all of that. And there'll be more follow-up because I think in the most recent episode, they even – like, a lot of people – everything you just recommended or everything you just mentioned are things that they said, no, that's not a fucking street dance. So that even, like, added more layers of confusion of what the fuck a street dance is. confusion of what the fuck street dance is but i think it was just like it's a a town or city organized thing where they just get a band in and the band is just on one side and it's just like a little concert but i don't know if there's like other activities i i don't know so from for my

sheer confusion still after two episodes talking about street dances i mean i gotta fucking i gotta use my druthers and maybe knock them down a couple points. So instead of a 6.9, I guess I'll go ahead and give it a 5 out of 5. And that's my rating. Respectable. Big call out. Big call out from our producer. Yes. So this is for anybody listening, paying attention.

We need somebody that can help us out with some video editing. Try and get some Instagram stuff up maybe a couple youtube shorts uh just something that we can create some videos um based on of course the zoom what we're doing here but then it might even be a chance that we're going to do some skits we'll do some you know some personal stuff that we might upload because ultimately this is a comedy podcast. Might talk about other stuff every once in a while, but ultimately I would classify this as comedy. So there's going to be chances that we're going to do silly online stuff, but we just need some help because I am shit at video editing. Keith is busy. I am and nate is busy so if we could have like an unpaid intern that really wants to like join the production crew i guess we could call it like we have a

like a production crew yeah we definitely don't be part of the inner circle right now it's obviously it's me joey and nate and then uh big jeff does our stickers for us and he's really the only one that's like consistently been there to help us out i've had a you know a handful of people offer but then like they put the caveat of i have no skill set so it's like okay cool thank you but it's like i see someone just the i mean i can i can basically go in and find the file and edit it down and then like add a logo to it and shit but like that's that's 10 15 20 minutes sometimes and like i don't i'm i'm fucking like 10 hours minimum a week dealing podcast stuff already i don't have time i'm so overwhelmed with every aspect of my life if we can get any help from any of you fellow fuckers out there i don't even care if it's a david you know i mean anybody uh but no i mean it would be your you know just just if you ever wanted to be on an extra level deep in massonomics,

like this is your opportunity. So hit us up, let us know if you have some skills and want to, you know, be part of the team. Yeah. Send me a DM, send the podcast, a DM, send Nate a DM, just anybody that you're thinking, Hey, I've got some video editing skills. I can make these guys look funny because they ain't doing it on their own let me send something so that's it just wanted to put

that out there uh and next one just be very careful before you reach out to us though that make sure that someone's had their coffee first uh i don't know about you guys that was that is our next segment the whole uh you know do you need coffee before someone can talk to you i'm not a coffee guy. I don't drink coffee in the morning. I'll drink some tea in the morning. I'll have a white monster in the middle of the day sometimes. But what about you?

Do you have to have your coffee before people can talk to you? No, I enjoy a nice boost of caffeine. I enjoy, you know, a nice coffee in the morning or a monster midday or even a teat on the night but no i do enjoy uh you know having a conversation pre-coffee although i do get a little more irritable when people tend to ask dumb questions um but i don't know if that has to do with lack of caffeine it's irritable is that why it's so hard to get you on the podcast i was gonna say welcome to unpaid and underrated I'll make an exception I've had my coffee

So I actually have water first I always have a glass of water Before I have my coffee And for a while I was off coffee For about a year actually So no I don't think I am a Don't talk to me But I do want to say

My Hannah meme was really funny oh yeah the uh with her passed out at the zoo i still think she looked like a fucking zombie more than anything else in that picture i don't know why no i just really wanted i really wanted to take advantage of the don't talk to me till i've had my coffee memes yeah because i thought that was a good one for her um and it's you know what's really interesting and really funny i'm so happy tanner kind of brought this up these these very basic coffee memes because even family guy did like a but first coffee and peter just rips it apart he's like so if our kids are dying like one of our kids are having a stroke you're to tell me no first coffee because it is such a stupid

meme and it's such a but it kind of relates to my hatred of minions because a lot of these stupid coffee memes are either garfield or minions um so i actually despise the minions because of facebook coffee and wine memes a hundred percent now i understand that that's going to make you guys all send me dumb minion shit. But I just hate. They are. They're all just like. But first coffee. And it's like a minion all zimmed out.

And you know. Boomers on Facebook are like. That's golden comedy. That's my favorite. And they're sharing it. So yeah. I appreciate that Tanner brought that up. Because I think that's.

And the idea that he just says it. Randomly throughout the day is wonderful. Well, I think that rounds out general topics. So, Big Chris, do you have an ad read for us that you want to come in everyone's ears

with? I think I do. I put a little something here together. Alright. If you are looking for easily one of the top five podcasts to come out of western northeast south dakota that look no further massonomics covers various topics of nothing spicy water ratings and occasional guest speakers that tend to lift heavier than your average adult, like really heavier. Most importantly, if you're looking for a group of like-minded individuals who are set on a path of strength and all-around silliness, then look no further.

Head over to massanomics.com to become a part of the crew. There you'll find memes about the most niche topics, overused jokes that are somehow still funny, and most importantly, a community. So Massonomics is more than just a gym or a podcast. It's a family. Nice. Well done. I know you were nervous about putting that together, but that was

definitely in the top 48 that we've had. I'll take that. Thank you. I'll get it up there. Absolutely. And it's, you know, like I said every week, or at least I think it every week that like, it's one of my favorite parts is listening to the crew, their interpretation of how they want to do the ad read. It's like,

you know, I don't care what I always explain it. It's just one topic about massonomics. It could literally be the podcast. It could be the gym. It could be the crew. What is your interpretation of maxonomics? What does massonomics mean to you,

et cetera. And, you know, just riff for, you know, 90 seconds. And I love every week that someone does that. So keep it up guys, all the upcoming guests, you know, don't, don't, don't, don't feel embarrassed to go ahead and start a notepad of like things you want to talk about and things you want to highlight on,

because, you know, I think it's just great when people, uh, you know, really dig deep on that one. Well, I think that if we were better at podcasting, that would help us easily segue into what brought you to Massanomics. So let's get our guest on the horn and ask him that very question. Let's do it. Big Chris, is that you, buddy? Oh, I stole his line. Can you guys hear me all right?

This is Big Chris. Yes, sir. We got you. All right. How's it going, gentlemen? Wonderful, wonderful. Welcome to Unpaid and Underrated. So, as Joey said, what brought you to Mathnomics? I want to hear it. Yeah, my story isn't that, I guess, unique. It was probably, I'd say, a year, year and a half ago now.

Yeah, definitely over a year ago. I love going for walks and I love listening to podcasts or music on walks. I was just scrolling through trying to find something new to listen because I play chess and I love listening to chess podcasts as well. And I was like, man, I'm kind of falling asleep on these walks. I was like, I got to change it up here. So I was scrolling through, trying to like just look for general strength training and strength sports. And lo and behold, I came across Massanomics. I scrolled through some of the episodes, saw some,

honestly, some really, you know, high level names, names I didn't know of. So sort of picking and choosing some episodes. And I was like, like man these guys take a different approach to you know interviewing high-level athletes um you know they've got a nice little community built up as well and you know after that i i got you know pretty sucked into the podcast and i went to the arnold last year and uh visited the booth and was talking to everybody. And I was talking to, who was I talking to, Keith? Eddie, I believe. Yeah, it was Big Eddie. That's who it was.

Right. And, you know, he asked me, you know, where are you from? And I go, I'm from Rochester. And he goes, he's like, oh, we know someone else from Rochester. And I was like, no, no, no, I'm from Rochester, New York, not Minnesota. And he's like, yeah, no, that's what I mean. And I was like, oh, all right. Like, who is he? He's like, oh, it's this, this guy that glazes everywhere. It's big Keith. And I was like, is he here? He's like, no, not yet. And I was like, he's like, just wait, we'll call him over

here. And, you know, after like another 10 minutes or so of chatting, Keith, you popped up. Um, and we were just, you know, we kind of kind of hit it off you're telling me about your gym and you know everything else and invited me over uh which was mistake number one uh no then we kind of just kicked it off after that and i became part of the crew shortly thereafter and and now we're going to make our way to uh the lift hard live easy number two that's a great story eddie eddie is so good at that right like even if somebody came up to me today and was like i'm from rochester new york i'd be like cool story bro like i would never put together that so is keith and chris like i would never do that and eddie's so

good at that did did i meet you last year at the arnold no we did not we might have passed yeah yeah we may be in passing, but I don't recall, um, at least having a conversation. So my guess is no. Yeah. I definitely spent most of my time at strength co or the strong man booth.

So I, I feel like, yeah, I definitely did not see it. We might've right. I, I, this year's Arnold,

I must've met. If I didn't get their name in the upcoming guests group I probably don't remember meeting them and then even then just like selling the crew to people right like that yeah if you're listening to this and I totally sold you on the crew or talk to you and I go I don't remember that I'm very sorry that was a fucking hell of a day so so i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna pat myself on the back a little bit this week i think i have was contributing factor at least two or three well two that i remember that joined in the last week or so uh one gave me a shout out specifically because i i think i was like i basically gave him shit

and i was like i wasn't gonna follow him back for my personal if he wasn't crew and i was just like and i think i'm not saying that was like straw that worked the camel back but like when i just didn't obviously follow him back and i was just like i suggested like i think i gave him like a paragraph of why crew's fucking awesome etc and then like the next day he was joined crew and uh and another one was a big big effort and i think i finally busted his balls enough that he joined crew too so uh welcome to uh all our new crew all our new crew listeners and friends yeah that's go ahead i was gonna say that that's how i sell it i honestly sell it it's 400 people into lifting just trying to make each other laugh every day yeah i can't imagine why that would why you would

go that's boring like i can't imagine why that wouldn't be something to sell you on unless you're a bozo. It did take me. I think Chris was at least, I'm curious of when your actual join date was, but you lifted with me for probably at least two months or so before you joined, if I had to guess. And I finally got you to dive in there. Yeah, I think I just wanted you to stop saying join crew, Chris. No, I was. $44 to shut me up. me up no i was definitely i was on the board no i'll join at some point um but then you kind of just said like no like it's a really good community an extension of the people you already enjoy being with and here we are nice oh uh joey's favorite question i know you really haven't dived much in the backlog but

have you gone and like cherry picked any from the backlog or you just pretty much from the day you started and just listened to currently um so definitely the day i started and listening currently but i have gone and cherry picked episodes mainly of um i'm already struggling to keep up with both podcasts but it's mainly just you know names i recognize that they're interviewing and have guests on and i'll just pop in there so only a small percentage of the backlog uh but someday yeah i definitely will make it through the backlog for sure uh the discord's just ragging on keith right now hard um fuck him i don't think he posted a photo of all of his drinks getting ready and uh big mofo asked if the one bottle was piss oh yeah it's fucking it's orange

gatorade powered powder you fucking assholes sure it is every sunday oh yeah chris sees it in the gym all the time Yeah I just like Hannah With the megaphone emoji saying Keith's drinking piss like that was Such a good Oh boy Hannah's very witty I enjoyed last week's episode

I enjoyed that she's come out of her shell on discord She hasn't been a lurker this week She's been very I want to continue to see that. Hopefully she, you know, she follows, she stays consistent with her, you know, her ribbing on Discord. It's been very enjoyable. Yeah. Anyway, Keith's drinking piss. I'll be back in like 30 seconds.

I forgot a koozie again like you would think i would be prepared at any point for this podcast that we do at the same time the same day every week that i would be at all prepared and no no i'm not uh but also because of massonomics i can't drink uh a can without a koozie well you go grab that and we'll ask chris where people can find him where they can find you chris instagram etc going to find you, Chris? Instagram, et cetera? Instagram is probably the easiest. I think it's chris.list.things for some occasional posts. But you'll also see me frequent the Noel Wine Cellar, so the orange gym that Keith has. So, you know, go follow him there and he'll definitely catch me on a few stories or posts probably

bashing my head on something or getting my fourth concussion of the week. Oh god, you've hit your head so many times in that basement. What about Discord? Discord, you got kind of a weird name, don't you? Yeah, that's a great question. If I type

in BigCruise, it comes up, but it's some fucking complete like nonsense gibberish name that I don't even recognize half the time so that's not helpful this is the worst podcast content at Bruce

T-A-K-U-M-I 8894 what the fuck is that word yeah that is yeah okay Takumi88 is that word yeah that is yeah okay takumi8894 that's what it is no let's say a character from one of my favorite

anime shows racing anime it's one of the main characters I know you're a big anime fan Keith you really started diving into that you got me to watch part of the trailer for your favorite anime, and that's about as far as I made it. I was actually intending to try to get back and watch an episode.

I wanted to surprise you and watch a full episode and shoot the shit about it, but yeah, as we talked about earlier, I ain't got time for that shit. At least not this week. Maybe before Lift Hard, Live Easy, we've got to fucking travel together for basically 18 hours over

the course of four days so maybe i'll be able to listen to a couple uh watched a couple episodes prior to and then tell you how much they suck on the on the on the flights there wait what's gonna make great travel uh which which which was which one's the one you want me to watch that one was joey it was attack on titan which is an anime. Okay. Nope, didn't watch that one. No, my laugh informed me that I have watched Death Note. Yes, I forgot I had watched that, but I definitely did watch that. And she was very shocked I didn't talk more about One Punch Man. I'm all caught up in the manga there as well.

It's one of my favorites. Which one? Death Note or One Punch Man yeah that show is genuinely funny I can't think of a drier more interesting humor than One Punch Man the reverse like hero

trope you know where the normal one is getting stronger to defeat the strong villain and another stronger villain you gotta get stronger for so on so forth but just starting out as the strongest and know where to go from there is and the and the little tail like every episode is he's just too late to the fight right like something holds him back like his groceries or he's playing video games and then he gets to the fight and just utterly demolishes the bad guy in one hit and then he's just sad because he wanted more of a fight like that's so funny or he'll just be walking through town and there's some massive monster destroying the area and he's just walking

by and it hits him but he punches it once and destroys it, not even realizing it was causing such havoc. Yeah, it's good stuff. I know it's on Keith's watch list, maybe the 400th or 500th item there. So we'll see that glace. I think there's like 1200 things on my watch list. It's probably not in the top 500. Speaking of a watch list, you've kind of knocked out some stuff on your watch list it's probably not in the top 500 uh speaking of a watch list you've uh you kind of knocked out some stuff on your watch list uh you've i've been giving him a hard time because

chris has kind of fallen back on being consistent with unpaid and underrated uh so in the last month i think he's been starting to catch up so he's like texting me references from 30 episodes well maybe not 30 but from at least 20 episodes ago and i'm like man i don't fucking remember that was just like i that was literally like last october i i don't know that like give me a second let me think about it but now you've uh essentially at least listened to like 20 some episodes in the last couple weeks so i think you said something to the extent of you were tired of listening to joey and i talk yeah i had, I think it was like four days of work travel and had a lot of windshield time between that. So I was cranking through some of the backlog.

I was going to like 1.3 to 1.5 speed. But then at the end of the week, there came a point I was like, I just, I can't listen to Keith or Joey anymore. I've just had nonstop both of them in my ear. Yeah, i absolutely understand that yeah but i i thoroughly enjoy both of your uh you know both your time and and words but there comes a point after you know four days straight it's like this is almost torture yeah no there's no way like i can't even do this once a week i can't imagine doing it for an entire four days straight but we powered through that was good

like i've mentioned many times before i talked to keith probably daily about just everything like we just it's it's a podcast text thread but we just talk to each other me him and nate about everything and he still won't talk to me at the lift hard live easy and i'm not gonna apologize if i do it the same way i've been getting so much shit the past couple weeks everyone's judging how i acted to meet my fucking attempts how i trained none of you fuckers know anything about my life do you know any of my injury history you don't know that i'm in chronic pain that i don't blow my wad and try to miss lifts for a reason like fuck everyone that's been giving me a hard time the past couple weeks it's it's because i pointed out how much of a um how serious you take meets and then everybody was

just like wait he does right so i guess everybody just wanted to jump on the bandwagon i know i teasing you a bit like i'm i heard you did the usa pl meet right and and you know i heard those are boring as shit so that's probably right up your alley so this one like it's i was i think i even mentioned to jordan like these are oh yeah i see what you did there that was pretty funny but no this like chris you would you we can yeah i broke i broke chris i want to point out there. I made him laugh. I corpse them. You got me good there. Our local meat director here,

they literally had a fucking DJ. There was a DJ playing music for like eight hours that day. Was it just white noise? No. While you're lifting? I was lifting a strawberry wine. That's all I heard. Now, there were some good songs on. And then as Keith kind of mentioned,

you could choose your third deadlift song, right? And Keith had Strawberry Wine, which definitely caught the crowd by surprise considering it was, you know, metal music playing or like some hip hop. And then Strawberry Wine comes. You had to pay for your third deadlift song? Yeah, but he would like, someone had to pay the DJ.

The DJ wasn't there. Yes, but $10, I don't think, is a drop in the bucket to get your own song played. So the guy's playing music the whole time, and then he has to fucking study the chart of when you're coming up and get the song queued up and ready to have it to go and already know who the next lifter is and have it ready to go and have all this music ready but who the fuck can do that for free we can't get someone to fucking edit music and you are i'm videos but i think i'm just gonna become i'm just gonna become a powerlifting meet director because it just sounds like this is fucking easy money some days like oh my god the dj got all that money the fucking meat director didn't get that and also i think i got i got a free third squad attempt just because the guy follows me on instagram and he was like i'm gonna play creed when joey comes up and thought it was funny like i but one one thing that we get

uh that are so our meat director he must we have a really cool local photographer that comes to all the meats uh that they put on in strongman shows and even like basically he does like all the rochester athletic stuff uh and i don't know if i'm honestly not sure how it works out if our meat director just pays him like 500 bucks up out of pocket or whatever but this dude in like in the next couple weeks there'll be like a thousand picture album with everyone's pictures on it uh for free so that's like a hundred dollar value per person right there if you were to get a photographer that's pretty awesome that's why i didn't give a fuck about paying ten dollars for a deadlift song but but do you think the dj do you think the dj

was paid either way or if he was only paid per song yeah but if the d i would say the dj was paid like 200 flat rate to be there all day but then he has to do extra work to queue up these songs for specific individuals instead of just letting the song play like that's a lot of work like that's there's 30 people in a meet or in that session so every like two seconds he's fucking happened to have a song he literally has a piece of paper with your name and a song yeah but he also has to be listening through a very i don't know this was a very loud like i hardly knew when the fuck i was uplifting because they were not great about who's in the hole who's on deck this is lifter like the fact that the dj was able to keep up like i don't know.

To me, I may, I don't know. Again, maybe I'm just a little jaded. I've never had to pay for a third. I've never even done a third. I love songs. So I've never had the opportunity and I'd gladly pay. I would have paid $30 to listen to that song. No.

And that's awesome. I've just like the meets I've been to. I've just never had to pay for that. And it's just something scant said once about meets in Ontario. That that's just a, it a dumb money maker for some people yeah i would have i was happy to pay it only because i mean if there wasn't a requirement he was doing a great job up there and i know he was dealing with some shit from other people coming up to him complaining you know for whatever reason so i probably would have left the 10 bucks as like a tip anyway i can see that and like people are complaining like that's the opposite direction like fuck

figure it out like you gotta stop whining uh what what what what was your third uh deadlift attempt song buddy uh so some might know this some might not. My third deadlift attempt song was the Pokemon theme song from Indigo League. Honestly, I almost forgot I had it queued up. But then all of a sudden you hear the riff and, I want to be the very best. And I was like, oh yeah, I'm not missing this deadlift attempt. We got it on video and uh yeah there were some comments about it but i think keith was it followed by was my deadlift

followed by yours or do we have people in between no you followed you were after me but there might have been one or two people i i got to watch your video or i i watched your deadlift so let's say there was maybe two people because i basically like walked off stage just essentially went back and threw my belt at my chair and i think i even had enough time to go throw my shorts on um so i would say you i don't know because i was like 446 and you were 470 something so there was probably at least two people between us yeah i didn't know but i did i did get to see your last lift and like watch you fucking drive the bar to the platform and almost get a red light for being an asshole. Hey,

but hands were on it. So I don't know. You followed it down, but a different judge could have been like, eh, he didn't really control that. That was kind of a dick move. Yeah.

It would have sucked to get three red lights or one or two for, uh, for that, for my last power lifting meet ever. That would have been that. Probably his. Yeah. This fucker like talked to me and did on the power lifting meet. He wanted to do a powerlifting meet ever. That would have been the last. It probably is. Yeah. This fucker talked me into doing the powerlifting meet.

He wanted to do a powerlifting meet. He signed up for a powerlifting meet. He never even started training for a powerlifting meet before he found Strongman and fell in love with Strongman and then felt obligated to do the powerlifting meet because I had signed up for it. I was like, you son of a bitch.

I almost had to pull out too. Yeah, no. you did that whole meet injured, essentially. She's pulling out? Yeah, as soon as I said it, I was like, that's backwards. Yeah. We don't judge here. This is a judgment-free zone. But yeah, I did

edge Chris out, but he was injured and on a good day, he would have probably beat me by like 50 pounds if he actually put all his best lifts together. I still think it would have been close. I don't know if that was, but we got a good battle coming up. All you got to do is just go train

in a better gym, that's all. No, not... There's not enough Kabuki deadlift bars in the gym that you train in. The cool thing is I'm always... Oh, sorry. Yep. That's why the gym that you train in. I'm always... That's why you're missing all your lifts. I'm always in a good spot because everyone says, basically, train with people that are stronger than you.

It's pretty regular that people that come over here and train are stronger than me. It's good stuff. I always have that thing to keep me hungry. Chris, you obviously live in rochester near me now is that where you go that's where you're originally from or where you've pretty much lived most of the time or where all have you been yeah rochester is uh yeah where i'm born and raised um i went to school up in northern new york potsdam new york which big joe is close to the border of Canada. You might be familiar with just probably 90 minutes from Montreal. And after that, I spent two years in Boston for work. And then I returned home to Rochester for another job opportunity.

I've been here ever since. Nice. I think I do. So obviously, I know Chris pretty well. But some of these, I am going to be hearing answers for the first time. Because we train together for two hours every Sunday. But it's like you only talk so much about like not lifting shit. So there's some like background stuff like, oh, I didn't know that.

So good to know what. So just for the listeners, what you go to school for, what do you do for a living? Anything you want to talk about on that briefly? Yeah, no, I went to school for computer engineering um it was a fun four years filled with a lot of lab work and nerding out um but still got to spend there's a good amount of gym time in there there's some very strong uh engineers very strong nerds if i do say so myself and i consider myself one. Um, but yeah, so I do something adjacent to that for work. I work in the semiconductor industry now,

which requires me to do a lot of travel. Um, especially around the Northeast here. So some weeks I'm gone, Keith, you realize, you know, that I don't get,

get much training in those weeks, unfortunately, but you know, when you're living at a hotel, you try and, you know, do what you can, you know,

either with bands or like whatever hotel gym they have just to, you know, get the're living at a hotel, you try and, you know, do what you can, you know, either with bands or like whatever hotel gym they have just to get the blood flowing or something else. That makes sense. As far as your lifting history, you know, I only know of it basically from the last year or so. Take the listeners through, you know, Chris's athletic adventures. Yeah, it's. So it's a little spotty. I mean, I started, I think, as most young American boys in school. I started football

when I was in sixth or seventh grade and that's kind of where I started my first experience in the gym. We had a good strength coach so it taught me the basics really well fortunately. So I didn't start off doing anything too crazy like the bar directly on my neck when squatting rounding the back too bad

things like that but it was kind of on and off you know throughout the years you know for various reasons um but I never really took it you know too serious in the sense of, you know, starting like powerlifting in general or strongman until probably I would say almost a year ago when I first started with Juggernaut AI to give me like a good base with powerlifting. And then from there, you know, if you were introduced and, you know, we were talking about powerlifting and you were like, you've lifted this long and never done a powerlifting show or comp or anything like that. I was like, yeah, is that weird? Well, kind of. Yeah, meet. Thank you. Meet or Strongman comp. There you go.

Isn't it a Strongman show though? Or is it a Strongman comp? Or is that interchangeable? I guess since we don't really care that much, or at least I don't. Strongman don't give a fuck about anything. They're like, Oh, a rock that it's fucking going to stab,

stab me in the heart. Like it's fucking, uh, I strong man is gives me anxiety. That's, that's why I, I always say that I'm, I'm power lifter by trade,

strong man by heart. I can agree with that. Um, but yeah, I mean, we've got three new stones i say natural stones at the gym but they're doing construction next door um and our coach just picked up like three broken rocks and then brought them into the gym so we now train with those we're actually doing medleys with them saturday sometimes i drive it and i just go hey look rocks and morgan to be like you want to

you want to pull over and pick one of those up and i'm like yeah i could fucking kind of do but like we got somewhere to be all right um yeah natural stones is the best it's so it's so interesting and so fun because it's like like a barbell there's one way to pick it up right okay you could argue there's sumo and there's conventional and blah, but like a natural stone, like you got to figure out the angle that's not going to tear your bicep apart, right? The stone I have out in the driveway, it's 150. It's got to be 150 to 200 pounds.

And the last time I carried that up and down the driveway, I was bruised all up and down my forearm. Right? Because natural stone lifting is just so different. The weight is not even. It's not, you know, lightly placed out for you to lift up and somebody tells you when to put it down and you get your lights. It's like, well, no, it's just a big giant rock. How much is the weight?

I don't know. Go pick it up. up figure it out and that's fun to me same with logs all right oh are strongman like with are you guys like that with logs like when you see like a downed tree do you think bet i could move that i i think that so the answer in short is yes okay good because i do that a lot what you described is like the embodiment of strongman right i think power lifting is very detailed when it comes to the three lifts only because there's so much you can do with those right so you have to get very detailed and that's why the rules are so strict strongman i feel like that's not wrong by the way that's i still think that's good is what strongman is just like can you lift this like can you get it off the ground and pick it up or can you put it over your head um and i think

that's what's really that's what kind of drove me to strongman it's like with those stones like you mentioned it's like i just want to pick that up or at least see if i can or can someone else pick it up if i can like that's even more impressive i think that's what really drove and i know it throws keith through uh yeah you lose your mind over there keith yeah it's cheap for everything no i'm glad you found it uh i actually uh kind of pushed you to go uh you know i knew you had a strongman bug and there is a local strongman powerlifting crossfitting, a little bit of everything gym. And you think you wanted to basically – you were looking to get more involved in powerlifting in general because you had already signed up for the meet. And I said, well, reach out to my buddy, the meet director who owns the gym, see if you can volunteer or whatever or even just go watch the meet. And the next thing you know, you're a member of the gym and you're doing strongman saturdays and you

have a coach and you're there fucking four days a week and you quit your commercial gym membership like within like a month from that like one statement i said i believe so uh you want to talk about that at all and uh you know the family that you've actually found at that gym and you know your your coach tim and all that stuff yeah no mean, it was, you were kind of right. We were talking and, you know, Chris, you've never done your own powerlifting meet. And I was like, no. And I was like, all right, well,

maybe I should sign up for one. And you kind of convinced me to do that. But then I was like, well, I kind of want to get an understanding of, you know, the ins and outs of it before, you know, actually doing it. So you had recommended, well, you can volunteer for it.

I was like, I didn't realize that was an option. So I'd reached out to our local gym here in East Ave, Barbell. They were very kind. They said, yeah, absolutely. If you want to come and volunteer, we'll absolutely take your help. And then that kind of led me into meeting a lot of, one, just the gym crew there at the local gym, meeting a lot of the powerlifters and a lot of the strongmen because they also just enjoy volunteering at shows like this and, you know, giving back to the community. And they invited me for a strongman Saturday. And I was like, I don't know, that seems kind of intimidating. But at the same time, I was like, a really good chance to, you know, dive into it. So I joined them on a saturday and then i signed up

for the gym the next day um got a coach my coach tim who is also just part owner of the gym as well um and i'm very fortunate to have done that you thank you for pushing you to the edge there's positive peer pressure for once um because one it's just a great gym i see them as an extension of the crew all like-minded individuals very supportive um very strong as well that's always the uh the gym is very you know power lifting and strongman focus and there's a crossfit section but we don't really talk about that uh but the i mean tim he does like a side gig too where he creates atlas stones like he makes atlas stones as one of the gym members um they'll sell them right they do you know a side gig like that and they're getting very like accurate with

um we're at like a very small margin so we're very fortunate to have like a lot of stones i think up to now i think it goes up to 450 pounds and all the way down to like 40 pounds to start off. I have not gotten to 450. So 430 or 450, one of the two. Either way, I'll never get to. Does it have a name too? Didn't they name it something witty or something? Yeah.

So I think there's one that's, Tim's probably going to listen and upset that I got it wrong, but one of the 400 pounders is named Barney. Because this is one of their messed up stones. It's not perfectly circular. It's more oval. So it's more difficult to grasp because of that oval shape. But it's a real like feat for people to do it because one, it's harder than a normal Atlas stone. And two, it's over 400 pounds so it's uh we'd like to cheer on people who lift barney now i i know that uh you know that jim's

been very accepting of you um but you know what what was your membership status after you broke the door with your flatulence there's a story there i know the listeners want to hear it from the beginning all right well first of all i guess it's a good chance for me to clear up some rumors, maybe some, you know, false stories. Chris farted a goddamn door off the fucking hinges. That's what happened. That is not what happened. That's not, that's not possible. I agree. Thank you. There's like 50 people that will... No, fine.

There's so many memes. So, to start from the top, it was like any other Saturday morning where we all come together and do Strongman events as a group. And we had just finished events, and we decided to crack open some cold ones after

nice hard days. I felt a little gassy so i was like maybe instead of you know crop dusting everybody here uh maybe i'll just go by the door um you know and open it up a little bit and you know do my business um but i didn't want to go all the way outside because it was, you know, rainy, windy and very cold at the time. So I walk over the door. So you're half polite. Yeah. OK. Well, enough to air it out and leave the group. I don't want to fight all those people, but I don't want to inconvenience myself.

Continue your story. So I walk over to the door and it's like one of those ones you push in. It's got like the hydraulics on the top and everything. It's a commercial grade door. I open it, not even a few millimeters. And a gust of wind comes by with the force of God behind it. And rips the door from his ass

the gust of wind comes from who knows where and it takes the door from my hands and like nearly rips it off the hinge plates on the top this isn't like this isn't like some bedroom door.

This is a commercial grade bolted in door. And the issue was I wasn't facing the door. My back was facing the door because I wanted to excuse myself. You opened it with your ass.

Shocker. Shocker. wanted to you know excuse myself with your ass then shocking shocker shocker so yeah and um it ripped off the top hinges not it was still attached but we try to close it and it was an inch off so like you're just bashing metal on metal at that point um so my group was quiet i was mortified i was like oh no um so you know we kind of call up tim who's again my coach and part owner of the gym we go you know i explained what happened it's like hey the wind took the door like off the hinge you kind of explained what happened well i didn't yeah i didn't i just told him the wind took because that's what happened um you know and tim wasn't that happy as you can imagine but he's like hey just try and fix it give

me 30 minutes on popo so put a long story short you know we're trying all different things to fix it the one thing that gave it a temporary fix at least closed the door because you know it's a gym here right um tim just takes a sledgehammer we after we take the door off the hinges it just beats the frame like back into place enough to where you can close it um so we're all talking and this is after a few hours now we're all chatting afterwards um and someone in the group goes yeah chris you should just fart inside from now on and tim looks at me in like a face of rage and goes, that's why you opened the door?

You failed to tell me that part. And the one guy is like, oh yeah, I can see why you might not want to tell me. Now the whole gym thinks I farted and my demonic flatulence

ripped the door off that's the story that's a good story I'm like kind of friends with a lot of the guys I'm friendly with all these guys I'm not super tight with them I get second hand from them sometimes

but oh man I love stories that are basically bust your balls. It's good stuff. Let's see. I mean, I could make fun of you all day, but I don't want to. We'll have to circle back to that. Let's get into some other stuff for a minute, I guess,

and we can circle back to a couple other funny gym stories I got hanging on to. So got a lot of stuff from your college buddies, a lot of food related stuff. So this is one thing I didn't know about you. In 2019, you were a hot dog eating champion. And what contest, who awarded you this achievement? So this was, yeah, so this was 2019. So it had been senior year of college. This was a little party hosted by the Clarkson University Outing Club.

We have a lot of friends in. And they were doing the cookout there and a few other items. And then for just some show stuff, they were doing food eating. I didn't know about this at the time, but it definitely piqued my interest. And the first one they did was um a milk chugging contest so half gallon of milk and see who can chug it the fastest and my buddy actually i didn't join that one but my buddy actually won it um so that was pretty cool but the one i had my eyes set on was uh every year they host a hot dog eating contest um and i was

like i really um but my buddies were like who are hosting a challenge you're like hey listen like you can do it it's fine but you're not going to win because we know who's an absolute beast and i was like first of all disrespectful that you guys don't believe in me um so that just kind of fueled the fire. And I had just eaten like lunch, cracked open a few brewskis. And I'm like, definitely not in prime condition to chug some hot dogs right now. But I was like, let's do it anyways. So college kids being college kids, they didn't really plan this out well. So they kind of ran out of hot dogs and buns to do unlimited.

So what they did was they gave us eight hot dogs and i think nine buns and they're like whoever finishes this first win um so the contest started it was just it was just me and the previous contest winner just going at it so i'm just i'm just ripping glizzies down my mouth i'm just just breaking them in half, sucking them down, not even chewing the buns. I'm just breaking apart in some water. And finally, we're like head to head still. I think he had just a few hot dogs left. I'm on my last bun.

And I just, you know, does all that down and I get up and show my mouth's empty. And then after that, I got lockjaw from my mouth, like to the point where I literally couldn't even speak because my mouth was just overused and I think I did that in like under five minutes so afterward I was like okay yeah that kind of makes sense but we won

I think I won like a hundred bucks so we went to the bars afterward and I brought everyone around or two yeah that's a title I hold dearly. Now, have you ever tried to defend that or was that, that was just a one and done? Unfortunately,

it was one and done. Um, I did not come back after senior year of college to defend the title. So I had to, uh, hand it off to somebody else. And I hope they're, they earned that title.

Well, well, that's another thing we can add to the Lift Hard, Live Easy round three. Yeah. There's a hot dog eating contest. You and Steve Waffle Iron can battle it out. Yeah, let's see how many honey buns

you can eat afterwards. I could spice it up with some honey buns. I think that would be good. What do you got? You got anything for him, Joey? I feel like I've monopolized a chunk of this. No, I definitely have been obviously

okay with that. Because you guys have you guys live together. I don't... I'm just some dummy up here in Canada. I'm here along for the ride. No, no, no, I know you go ahead.

Oh yeah. What's your hall of fame status? How many, how many points you got? Um, well after tonight, I'll have one more. I know that.

No, I think I'm sitting relatively low. Um, I think I'm at five right now. It's still awesome. I'm a card in front of me, but I am trying to, no,

I think, no, Keith, we were talking about this. These are four or five. Yeah. my card in front of me, but I am trying to... No, Keith, we were talking about this. These are four or five. Yeah, keep talking. But we were already in plans, obviously, up there. So those are what I would consider rookie numbers.

There is a line of sight to get more. So you've been around with us for, let's say, a year or so, right? Yeah. One question we ask everybody is, what's a piece of merch that you didn't buy or didn't get a chance to buy that you see everybody else wearing? I wish I had that. One that comes to mind,

Big Luke, he's a part of the crew, and he goes to the same gym And comes to the Fine Cellar a few times He has I hope I'm not remembering this wrong But he has a Christmas I think vest Or some type of Ugly sweater isn't it

Yeah like a Christmas ugly sweater Mathenomics ugly sweater I think I was around right when I joined And I was like I don't know that I needics ugly sweater i was around right when i joined then i was like i don't know that i need an ugly sweater but i kind of regret it now because it'd have been nice to have like a once a year ugly sweater party kind of thing and that's exactly why i would want that it's not really something you wear every day but for that reason sweater um so if they ever do a rerun of that or something similar i think it would be in high demand obviously depending on the blank part of the reason i think that we ask that question

is because i know at least one of them listens to this every week and sometimes if you know maybe there's an answer that gets sent out there enough times, they might listen. They might put something back out there. So I'm going to ask that question every week and still wait for my yeah, buddy. Lightweight shirt. My second would be, yeah, buddy. Right. Everybody.

That's everybody's. I mean, like maybe like Tanner, like if you're listening, you know, like a crew only link for that shirt wouldn't tell us the lawyers can't know you could always be a pre-order though i think because like i get why he doesn't i get why they can get away with doing the uh you know the the miller light ones because fuck miller light and all that and like you know they can have it at the arnold who's gonna say anything? But like fucking Ronnie's at the Arnold and his people are the ones that ask him to stop

doing it. So that's why they could not definitely do it in person. And then it's like if they do it crew only, sneaky link, it's like, what are you going to do? You're going to sit on a shit ton of extra sizes that don't sell and stuff. I see why they might not, but that's a tricky thing he's like

you have to order in bulk to get them at a cheap enough of price to make it worth fucking your profit margin and all that so that's fair someday maybe uh what about your uh rugby career i didn't know that do you have a rugby career yeah so i that was during my college years. I had joined rugby. It was a rugby club at the time. When I joined, it was more of a drinking club than anything with the rugby problem. Like really, it was, it was mainly just the freshmen and the sophomores, freshmen at the time that, you know, kind of showed up to practice and, you know, did stuff, but we still need enough people. So we had to pull like the seniors and the juniors, you know, from their beds hung over to make enough people. One of the things I'm proud of is that I only have one concussion that I know of for rugby.

So that kind of stopped me a little bit. I only have one concussion I remember, I think would be a really funny way to deliver that line. Yeah, that's also... I think that's two less than you've received in the last year on Sundays down here. I don't remember most of my...

Oh, I was going to get to that. But I kind of had to dial it back a little after that. I think it was junior year. I took myself out and was like, I'm still going to be part of rugby, like theory practices and everything, but I'm just kind of going to be on the sidelines for coaching role. And if I really need to jump in, I'll happily do so, which I did for a few, so about. And then by senior year, I kind of transitioned to more of, you know, coaching status.

And we left the rugby team in really good shape, the Clarkson. And then by senior year, I kind of transitioned to more of, you know, coaching status. And we left the rugby team in really good shape, the Clarks. And it became more of an actual rugby team where they were going to actual traveling instead of just. I'm a little proud of that. Well, I mean, it makes sense that you pulled back and started to hang up your cleats because you had to prepare for the 2019 hot dog eating championship your senior year. I mean, like you had to fucking, you know, yeah, you had to, you know, get, get your gut all expanded and ready to go for that. Yeah. The real training began. Some might say. Interesting. You were talking about the, the,

the drinking club with a rugby problem. My wife just brought me a pickle back. I saw that. drinking club with a rugby problem. My wife just brought me a pickle back. I saw that. I bought these new pickles and I thought they'd be good for picklebacks and they're not. They're so sweet. Do you prefer, do you like dill pickles or do you like sweet pickles?

I like them briny. I like them good and briny. No, I like these. These are delicious pickles because I bought these little baby ones because they're good for little kid hands. But the brine is a little sweet for me. I prefer my dill.

I'm with you on that. I'll eat a nice sweet pickle, not again, or even put on a sandwich, but it's dill for me. Yeah, if I'm going to eat a pickle, it's got to hurt my cheeks a little. But i'm gonna eat a pickle it's gotta hurt my cheeks a little but if i'm gonna put it on a sandwich yeah i definitely want that bread and butter or sweet pickle for sure so joey do you have pickle chips like pickle lays chips yeah yeah yeah we

got the dill pickle and uh every once in a while we get some pickles and cream ones that are fucking awkward i don't know that one. That sounds... That's creamy dill, I think they call it, up here. So it'll be like a ranch and dill mix or something. It's god awful. Is it similar to

our sour cream and onion? Yeah, actually, but replace the onion with dill. We have sour cream cumin onion as well. Ketchup chips is a big thing. Ketchup chips. Yeah, you guys have those there, right? You're close enough to the border that you get those?

I'm sure maybe somewhere, but not everywhere. Do you get all dress chips? Not that I've ever seen, but I don't really, I don't, I don't deep dive the chip aisle too much. No, all just all just chips is where it's at.

Ruffles, all dress chips, like story of my life. And we brought, um, ketchup chips to the lift tribe, the busy last year and got Connor from the strength. Oh yeah.

He was absolutely hooked. He was like on Amazon in a minute ordering a case. He's like, these are the best chips ever because they're okay. I actually don't like ketchup chips. I don't like ketchup in general. We'll have to do a follow-up with Big Connor. I think he's a guest here in a couple months. I got him scheduled

in June. Yep. Yep, big Canadian junk food fan. We actually got Spicy Dill up here recently oh yeah do you guys have missed like you have miss Vicky spicy it's spicy dill I think that's a brand of yeah miss Vicky's they I think that's a standard okay, so they did a spicy dill that was only available at Costco for us. That was incredible. You'd get the big Costco-sized bag and be gone

in minutes because everybody just wanted those. Do you also like vinegar and salt and vinegar chips? Nope. They're here. They're big in general, but I'm not a huge fan of salt and vinegar chips. Oh, okay.

I figured with the dill in there. No, vinegar's just not my jam. It's not my bag, baby. Yeah, it's not my bag, baby. It's my bag. It's not my bag. My pillow. I beg to differ. Bag to differ. Oh, yeah, it would be bag to

differ. Dave, that was funny. I beg to differ or bag to differ. No, yeah, it would be bagged to the opposite. Dave, that was funny. Yeah, it was. Chris, who's Vlad? Ooh. Yeah, this is going to come up. Is that a Bizarro thing?

I don't know. Well, all right. So freshman year of college, actually like the start of college, you know, introduction. I thought it'd be funny to introduce myself with a different name to everybody. So when people would, when I introduce myself, I just give a different name jane john brad anything and no one really knew anyone at the time right because you're all new to college and everyone would be talking about oh you know james and you're like i don't know james but i

just met brad and he's pretty cool and you're like oh I want to meet him too when in reality it'd all be the same person so by a certain point everyone kind of realized oh my god this kid is just introduced himself as like 30 different names but nobody at the time knew what my real name was except like some of my close friends and they were in on a gig too um so at that point we're all I think in like one of the dining halls or something um and everyone was like all right we're just going to give you a name you're not going to tell um so everyone's like man what does he kind of look like or like what is he acting like and someone just said he looks like vlad and then that stuck so they all called me vlad uh for a good chunk of freshman year until they realized what my real name oh so it's so it's not Vlad. Okay.

Yeah. Well, you can call me Vlad. Oh, I know. It gets confusing at times. Vlad the Voyeur? Is that who it is? The Voyeur is another nickname from East Ave Barbell that I'm not sure if they still call him that or not, but

it's not pervy. So tell them the story before they think you're a fucking creeper. I mean, I get the story here is just it is creepy. No, I'm kidding. When I first started Strongman, I was kind of

I wouldn't say not necessarily shy. It was more of just the fact of like a lot going on at once, you know, tons of new exercises, implements, things like that and i was like i just kind of want to watch this one you know watch this event like watch how things do and i would kind of sit on the sidelines same thing i was doing with the coach i just want to see how this goes um so they were like you know he hasn't like officially joined the crew yet and he hasn't really done strongman so we're just gonna call him the voyeur and that's how it kind of came to be i'm just gonna lad the boy here i'm just gonna sit in this chair in the hotel room

that uh just faces the bed uh you know it's a completely legitimate chair i don't know why else it's here well that chair's there yeah i mean there's we trust me joey we went through all the chairs all the someone was actually in a hotel and they sent a picture of that chair and they added me oh that's fucking great oh yeah i'm so happy that i'm not original but like also that other people got to that conclusion so he chris is in a very large group chat but it was like 20 year strongman buddies i guess uh and i i'm not in that but i get screenshots of it periodically between some of my friends in it or Chris specifically. There's a lot of meme makers in there, and sometimes they are at Chris's expense.

And, oh, do I enjoy seeing those on Sunday mornings. Or when I actually get to make them myself, and then I don't see him until Sunday. And then he's like, oh, oh yeah thanks for sending that to tim yeah we'll wake up in the group chat and uh tim goes so i got these from keith and i'll put them in the group chat oh that's fun i also just made a meme about you and i hope keith sends that to them i'm sure it's gonna make its way don't you worry one way or another yeah when you were telling the story of farting the door open i was like oh this is a I'm sure it's going to make its way. Don't you worry one way or another. Yeah. When you were telling the story of farting the door open, I was like, oh, this is a fucking great meme.

I hope that makes its way in. Yeah, I'll get it over there. I think I made two or three of those myself. So after the powerlifting meet that we did there a couple weeks ago, we ended we ended up throwing well some of your college buddies through a surprise birthday party uh so i'd never i've never experienced that like after a power up and meet you know an all-day fucking thing i then had to go out and like be social for like i remember i remember hearing about this yeah it was beyond overwhelming and when i left chris was extremely inebriated and on like hour two of playing flip cup in like a 40 square foot kitchen with like 20 people. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go home now because I'm 15 years older than like the next oldest person here.

And like I drank my two beers. I shot the shit with everyone. And then I had like three bottles of water. Yeah, I'm going to go home now. But that was a fun night. But that was your birthday. I think it was just. Oh, now. But that was a fun night. But that was your birthday. I think it was just a week ago. So happy birthday for everybody.

Happy birthday, Big Hannah. And how old were you, buddy? I am now 27. Nice. Just a baby. All birthdays are Big Hannah. I don't give a fuck. Going forward in the crew,

it'll be happy birthday, Big Hannah. big hannah bracket whose birthday it actually is that's really funny keith that's good i'm in for that sorry chris to take that away from you there but that was really funny he dropped that joke and of course we have to explain the jokes because if we don't the davids will be his birthday etc's Hannah's birthday, etc. Yeah. That one might almost not need explained at this point, but it still will every now and then. We'll break it out just for the newbies. But I think I was going into that too because it harkens to there was a group chat

that you weren't in where there was already memes at your expense like planning the birthday party and jokes and whatnot. So then I think when they finally added you you had you had caught up on some of them i think even like two days later you were actually reading through like a week of shit and you like busted my ball saying did you really say this to the group i was like yeah yeah they um no my friends had actually surprised me uh by coming

into town for my birthday and obviously the power lifted me to, um, kind of doubled up on that. So I was surprised. And, um, it was funny too, because it was surprising that Friday night went to go see Dune too. Um, and also get a dinner that I couldn't join because I had to make weight.

But yeah. So when they surprised me Friday night, I was like letting everybody know, I even let you know, I was like, Hey, my friends are in town. Like they're going to be at their meet meanwhile they had all known

previous because my friends had reached out to people like keith and my gym you know to plan this so everybody knew ahead of time like weeks in advance um hence why that group chat was made and i got added in after the fact um and it was like 40 planning and then 60 shitting on me and making me which was they were kind of some of the memes were quality uh but no that was i was very uh i have a really great group of friends very happy to have them in there and yeah and we celebrated as keith mentioned doing uh throwing it back to some you know college games reliving some of the fun old days uh but yeah that was that was a good time the cheesecake was delicious did anyone yeah i have it on video did any well the video cuts out

like right as it's falling and like your friend is literally like doing like a split squat to try to grab it um but i'm pretty sure it just landed right in a fucking pile of hair um did anyone actually consume any of that floor cheesecake not the floor cheesecake that was okay because then and then it was only like half cleaned up so then people were like walking over cheesecake the rest of the night and then like i think you immediately walked right through it like like within minutes later and i was like oh he's already kind of happy because i had got there i don't know like the meet was over at like 6 30 i think i got there around 8 45 or 9 or something i'm not sure i think when everyone else got there probably closer to like 7 30 or 8 but i was like i gotta go home and eat take a shower at least do one quick instagram post and

then just kind of ignore my phone for the next like two days uh but yeah that definitely that was i'll try to throw it up on instagram that there was a uh yeah they were on a happy birthday to you with the cheesecake and then she just you know just right out of her hands right on the floor like to her effort she tried to get it it was the fastest i've ever seen someone like move to try to catch a cake but it would uh did not survive so do you know how it dropped why it dropped or did you fucking accidentally hit her or something you dipshit you did so they were carrying it out with the candles on it and they wanted me to blow it out um and i did and i go to she's like carrying it

in her palms in front of me and i go to stand up but i accidentally hit her arm which throws the cheesecake forward and god bless her soul she managed to catch at least half of it before all of it hit the ground nice okay and everyone saw that obviously you have it on video and yeah i have the back i have the back side of that so i can't i couldn't really see that i must not have been able to catch the front of that visible uh but yeah that's great i felt terrible i didn't i didn't know that you actually did that i thought she just was klutzy that's makes it so much better. I wish I knew that two weeks ago,

because I would have been making memes about her. You're a cheesecake annihilator as well. You door farting, cheesecake annihilating, head bashing, fucking... Yeah, there's just so much... GHR falling off of... Oh, yeah. So you want to tell that story,

because that is actually my favorite. Or should we just save and do a series of videos of him hitting his head in your gym, oh yeah so you want to tell that story because that's that's that is actually my favorite or should we just save and do like a series of videos of him hitting his head in your gym falling off the gh like welcome this this week's guest and it's just him fucking eating shit for like 30 seconds i think there's another one did we get the video when you basically just stood up into my uh swiss bar when you're giving me a bench handoff i don't remember if that was actually on we got we got the part where i reflexively grabbed my back of my head and cry silently that was like you made me i felt bad about that i had to like find a new home

for that bar after that because it was uh on oh we just lost joey hopefully we that still says recording okay there he is. We're good. I'm still here. You're good. That one really hurt. I didn't say anything. I was just trying to eat the pain. This might be the end of me.

That one definitely seemed like it hurt more than the most recent pull-up bar. At least the pull-up bar, you kind of hit a foam pad, I would hope some extent because that's what i i kind of have it protected uh but the but the but the ghr story you want to you know we'll pull that but i think it's worth it's it's worth a 90 second rehash of what you did the so ghr ghd whichever you prefer to do it by. I was doing some ab workouts with my coach and another member on the team. It was a somewhat empty gym, and it was at the end of the workout, so I'm pretty gassed by this. And I'm on the GHR.

Like going to the door to open it up gassed? Like tired gassed. Okay. I just want to clarify, because you are the voyeur that farts, the fuck your name was so we gotta we have to verify which uh gas you were i'll i'll clarify i was very tired luckily i wasn't gassy all the doors were safe that day but we were doing just more of an app stall mats they were in danger yeah my head was in danger too uh so we're doing an ab workout leaning back and doing like some rows with the bar um very strenuous and i was on like hopefully i think one of the last sets and again i was very tired um so i go to like come up and my coach is like you got five more seconds, dude. And I'm like, fine, I'll do it. But what I didn't realize is I had taken my feet out already.

So as I'm leaning back to continue the ab movements, nothing's holding me in place. So I immediately just fall back on the ground. My head smacks on the ground, bounces. And I think I cough at the end because everything was just in so much pain. is and i i think i cough at the end because everything was just in so much pain um and my coach and my friend were just like oh my god they laugh and then after about 10 seconds of laughing with me breathing in pain they come over and see if i'm okay um and the worst part is because like my leg was trying to get back on the ght like get in the foothold, that cramped up midway from me trying to get it. So like

not only am I concussed for the 50th time, my leg is also cramping so I could like barely get up. And then once they see me like moving around fine, they just like burst out laughing. And the reason the video exists is because my coach

took the security camera footage and sent it to everybody. So that's why we are fortunate to have footage. There is a lot of security camera footage that shows up like on Instagram and like group chats and stuff just because that's so great that you guys that have that. It's kind of cool because I've seen some people, they'll like post their lips from that because they didn't get a video and it just happens to be in camera. people they'll like post their lips from that because they didn't get a video and it just happens to be in camera uh but then shit like what you just described is uh that makes me so happy that they i'd rather yeah i'd rather are technically savvy we should get them to help us edit our videos put the bad signal out but yeah i know some people do actually do that yeah though um i've done it a few times where we forget to record and like you hit a pr on something

and uh you know the gym owners are so down to earth. Just be like, yeah, let's grab the footage and we'll hand it to you. You're definitely not one that likes to record too much. I can count on my hand how many times you've actually tried to use the tripod here. I think most of your videos that are on my page are videos I've taken from you or ones that you've just privately sent me. Then I'm like, Oh, he hasn't posted those yet,

but I guess I will. Yeah. I think some of that has to do with, again, kind of like reminiscing on previous years. I never really, you know, recorded before.

Never really had a reason not to for anything, either training purposes or anything else or good group to keep up to date. But seeing everyone else kind of do it for various reasons, again, either form correction or recording, you know, important moments or keeping friends up to date in the gym community, right, of lifts. That really changed my, you know, outlook on.

That's why I now have, you know, like the Instagram, for instance, and share lifts. Like, yeah, I still am kind of kind of you know trying to focus more recorded but i know at some point you're always in the background recording things i'm like i can always hear a lot yep yep um so you're going to be competing to lift hard live easy you're doing the strong man uh you're in the novice one of the one of the one of the big guy classes novices whatever the fuck it is uh what do you think the carry implement that Tanner and Big Jake have cooking up for us? So I was actually on a big loop about this one.

Since do they call it, what do they call it exactly now? It's just the, is it a shield carry? Yeah, I think if they didn't call it a shield, someone called it a shield. And I think maybe they didn't correct them. I couldn't recall. I think, for some reason, I think they just called it an implement. But maybe they't call it a shield, someone called it a shield. And I think they maybe didn't correct them. I couldn't recall. I think, I think for some reason, I think they just called it an implement,

but maybe they did call it a shield. I, I, I don't know. Yeah. I think it, yeah, it's mystery shield carry.

That's what it is. Okay. Um, cause we thought it was going to be the who's to fill carry. And I think a big Jake, I was talking about earlier. Um, but then they changed the name to mystery shield carry,

which is obviously very different. Right. Um, but no big Luke and I were talking about it. We kind of think we're going to bounce off each other's heads there. And we think it's going to be the Mastodonomics logo somehow. I don't know how exactly, but I think it will be the logo. So like maybe a big M, you know, in a circle, right, with the M popping out to give a nice

handhold. How they're going to do it exactly, I don't know, but I know it's going to be something pretty exciting to lift at one point. I think it is in hand at the gym, or at least I'm pretty sure Tanner has it. I think in either his personal story

or the gym's or the Masonomics story, he had posted a box uh and i think i kind of i even like deep dove it and it was like like a metal fabrication like gym equipment kind of place so i was like you know you could tell i was like oh that's probably what that's got to be you would imagine so i think i'm curious if they're gonna be able to keep it under wraps all the way up until july i mean everyone will likely see it for i well we get it in thursday way into friday but people will be in and out of the gym all day Friday

doing tours and shit probably I'm curious if they're going to keep it under You'd think they'd probably keep it under wraps at that point If they've made it all the way until July they're just going to keep it under a tarp in Tanner's truck or something where no one can see it until that day probably Part of the

portion of the competitor in me obviously wants to know what it is, but I still think it's way cooler if absolutely no one has any idea what it is, and we all just find out an hour before competition. It's going to be a giant chicken bake. Oh, that'd be a good one.

Yeah. It's just molded fucking stall mats. It's just like molded fucking stall mats it's just like a shield of stall mats it would be unpleasant as well a lot of college stuff hey let's do Mount Rushmore while you look for other stuff I'm going to do the Mount Rushmore

we got two of them but one of them said specifically Mount Rushmore buffet food We got two of them, but one of them said specifically, Mount Rushmore buffet food. Buffet food. That's a tough one. Because, I mean, there's so many different kinds of buffets, right? Probably the reason that came up was because we hit a lot of buffets,

even after some of the strongmen event. I'm going to go... Can I just use any kind of buffet? Like American food, Chinese food, whatever? Yeah, you got four of them. Just your favorite food that when you go to a buffet, you're guaranteed to get. I'm going to go to a lot.

I'm going to go sesame chicken. That's a top one. I'm going to go to a lot. I'm going to go sesame chicken. That's a top one. I'm going to go some type of noodle, like lo mein, cha mein, something like that. Just because I absolutely love it. I'm going to go another protein. I love the sweet and sour chicken. It's almost like chicken nuggets.

And then probably my final one is going to be a dessert. It's definitely going to be some type of pudding or pudding where I can just load up a whole plate and get diabetes for a day. So I think that's going to be my Mount Rushmore.

It's obviously very Chinese food dependent. I dig it. Good stuff. I definitely like me some sesame chicken. Also do. So ice cream.

Question. Speaking of Canadian American differences. Do you guys have Tiger Tail ice cream? Have we talked about this before? I think you talked about it and it wasn't what I thought, but maybe it was.

I don't remember. It has been a segment on something, but it's been a year. I don't remember. Okay. I don't know what that is. No. Okay. It's orange and black licorice.

Okay. Yeah. I remember that now because I think I asked if it was like sherbet and you were like, no. Yeah. I would remember eating. I would have remembered seeing or eating licorice ice cream and that is not a thing that i've ever consumed it's delicious as shit okay so second mountain rushmore because that one went kind of quick while keith looks

for other things to talk about um we were also asked to ask your rushmore of anime series oh so big anime nerd um man if it was a top 10 list that'd be a lot easier nope stop four yeah um so i'll go with my first one which is going to be attack on titan that's kind of more of a newer one i would would say. Not the newest, but it's been around for probably 10 years or so now. The anime itself, modern and longer. But that definitely is going to take the first Mount Rushmore spot by George Washington. It's a great story. So many details. A lot of twists and turns.

You have no idea what's going to come next. So that's definitely the first one. I think my second one will be, I'm probably going to go with Bleach, which is one of the big three that kind of, in terms of popularity, made its way to the U.S. after Dragon Ball Z. Probably a little bit of nostalgia playing with that one, but it's just magical sword fights, which the nerd in me absolutely just loves.

Some really good action sequences, really good soundtrack as well. Very iconic. So that's been... It's on Disney+, never heard of it. That's fun. It's been it's on disney plus never heard of it that's fine it's been around for very they're actually finishing they're animating the final arc as we speak okay um so probably a few more seasons that and it'll be but they kind of they actually teased a few i guess you could say prequels potential for some prequels. So that would be pretty fun.

But yeah, it's one of the big three, like Naruto. So that's two. Probably one that's not too popular I'm going to go with. Well, I'm on the fence because One Punch Man is fantastic, but I don't know if it's going to make my mouth rush more. I'm going to go with Darker Than Black. Probably not many people have heard of that one. It's like a cool little, I wouldn't say too niche, but not that well known. It's a very short one.

It's only two seasons. Someone described it as a Chinese electric Batman. And I was like, yeah, that's a very on point description. Because the main character is Chinese and he holds, you know, Batman-like equipment. And one of his powers is electricity. So that's three. I guess for the fourth, I'm going to bring it in. I'm going to choose Berserk.

That's a popular one. It's been ongoing since the late 90s. It's definitely more, it's not like a shounen type for young adults. It's definitely meant for more adults, a seinen type. Basically, if you don't know this one, it's this warrior, if you will, just going through so much trauma and life and pain. And he wields a massive sword that shows up a lot in different forms of entertainment. And it's just, you see his struggles and what he has to go through in life.

And he tries to save them. He's also getting chased by demons throughout life. Aggression can go on. I won't say anything more than that. But I think that's just a phenomenal story. Not really a happy one necessarily, but a really good story. It's going to be my top four.

So he carries Soul Calibur, does he? Did you ever play Soul Calibur? No, I didn't. That's fine. That's a big giant sword that... I've heard of that game. It binds with its hosts. Oh my gosh. It's similar.

It definitely is one you have to wield with two hands. Yep. When you said that, everything you described there... Okay. No, she didn't. By the way, guys, I know I posted this on Instagram but I just wanted to point out

I was chatting with Travis from Obsidian this week the ampules by the way he sent me a private message so I'm going to put it out there they're actually being discontinued forever oh buddy

if you like those cracking ampules and because I message so i'm going to put it out there they're actually being discontinued forever nobody so if you if you like those cracking ampoules and because i in my opinion those are the best of all of the stuff i've ever had they last the longest um they're the perfect amount of hit without like making your eyes fall out of your head uh you got to get them now because he's not they're not going to be restocked they're just not making them anymore after this so you will have to get actual bottles of swalts after this so uh unfortunately our code doesn't do anything it just makes us look good interestingly so you can put the code in you don't get a discount but we get the referral yeah no i

thought that's oh boy we appreciate you guys doing that um code on but yeah everything's code code unpaid code i have a another code but like it just it just i get a referral but it's zero percent which is really great because it still bumps me up to the top of the referrals right um but yeah if you like those ampules affiliate things it's crazy yeah yeah if you like those ampules... Everyone's got different affiliate things. It's crazy. Yeah, if you like those ampules, get them now because they're done after he sold out of these.

Nice. We'll just go ahead and hit our affiliates real quick. So that's obviously Obsidian, Code Unpaid, Barbell Rescue. Kim's doing great things with that. You know, if you want to keep those shafts clean, use Code Unpaid there. Plate Snacks. I think we even had another crew this week. Tag us on something. He made a gym sticker for a there. Plate snacks. I think we even had another crew this week tag us on something. He made a gym sticker for a buddy who was, like, I think too much on the fence to make his own sticker.

So he just kind of did it for him, I believe, is what I gathered from that. So that's awesome to still see people using code unpaid at plate snacks as well. And then, like we said, home gym con. You guys are running out of time to get tickets for that. I mean, it was like two weeks out or something like that. So i think i have one yeah i have to work a full week next week and then uh i'm off i'm only working monday tuesday wednesday the week after that so whatever that is it's like 10 days from now uh we'll be heading out and if i if i can just for a second again barbell rescue i fought getting one forever just because of the shipping and the cost. And then once we had our own code,

the shipping was 50% off genuinely a really easy to use and good product. Right. Like it's, it's, it is exactly what it says. It is gets all your dead skin out, gets your chalk out. If you dip a little bit of three in one on it,

it helps you spread the three in one a little easier. Like, yeah, like in one a little easier. Like, yeah, like that's a good product. And I think people really should jump on that one real quick. Nice. Well, but Chris,

I think we're going to just do a couple more things before we get into unpaid and underrated. I want us into an FMK and we're going to do a brief serious goose, if that's all right with you. So FMK grip training, power lifting, strongman, FMK grip training power lifting strongman fmk grip power lifting strongman three things i know you've dabbled in yeah that's um probably the top three in terms of physical training i enjoy so i know you threw cardio on there that'd be an easy yeah that'd

be that's that's i'm not gonna say... This isn't the fucking layup show. We're not Big Tanner going up there for a noon ball layup and blowing his can't-go-out. This is fucking unpaid and underrated where we ask difficult FMKs. I took one of those natural stones to my ankle last week. So that one really... I feel Tanner

on that one. It didn't blow out, thank God. Grip training, powerlifting, and strongman. Oh, man, this is tough. Druthers, buddy, come on. Yeah, all right. Strongman training, definitely love my life there. I love everything about it. Although it does cause a ton of pain in terms of just the implement.

It does cause a ton of pain in terms of just the implement, you know, Atlas stones, natural stone, block press, you name it. But even with that, I think it's the one I could definitely go to Mary Strong. Power lifting, there is just something to love about the simplicity of that um plus you get a good chance to use some ammonia salts there and the you caught that big joey regularly takes shots of liquor and shots of ammonia during her podcast it's so fucking stupid i'm sorry yeah you're talking but oh it's my last ampule and uh yeah keep going chris uh it gives really good visual effect definitely gotta watch youtube for this but the the so i guess where they've also got power lifting um just because

power lifted is one of the ogs just so good I'm not going to F it, just because it'll probably be what I'm going to do in life. You know, it'll be there when I need it to be and want it to be, but I guess I'm just going to have to kill grip training, because I absolutely hate grip training, but I love it at the same time

because of the challenges it gives you. And those grippers, like the captains at Crush and the other ones, man, they really know how to humble you. Well, especially when you buy the size that's like four higher than the one you intended to buy. Hey, mistakes happen.

If anything, it's just a new challenge. We do appreciate the gifts to the no-wine sellers, though, buddy. I really do appreciate that. Maybe someday they'll be able to close them. We'll do what Tanner does. If you can close the previous one, then i'll get the new one yeah that's what we'll do all right so that's a that was i was figured to be a good fmk for you because i know you uh you were pretty fond of all three of those so um i just wanted to touch base on it let you talk tell your story if you wanted to briefly uh for anyone not listening, Big Chris is a childhood cancer survivor.

You know, we're grateful that you're here, my friend. Would have been, you know, very happy to have you in my life. So, you know, anything, it's your story to tell or not tell. You know, we can, you know, do whatever you want with it. But I think it might be worth hearing. Yeah, no, I mean, cancer in some way or another definitely affects, you know, everybody, directly or indirectly. No, when I was, when I was 16 years old, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, which is a version of leukemia that affects

typically the older population, but I wasn't fortunate enough to be diagnosed with it. So yeah, that was junior high school and that took me out. The treatments took me out for the entire year of school. So I started treatments, I believe in November, when I was diagnosed. And I went through three cycles of chemo and then a bone marrow transplant. All in all, it took about eight to nine months, just hospital. Got to leave the hospital in between the cycles of chemo, so I was able to go home, see family.

For those who may not know, chemo is poison for the body. It just absolutely destroys everything the cancer cells but your entire being so I didn't have an immune system at the time so recover start the next cycle

so yeah it was definitely you know a riveting experience in all the bad ways it's not only you know was i ripped from my life 16 year old friends family school um all that was just taken away from me a heartbeat and there was obviously a lot of physical pain you know going through it a lot of issues that comes with cancer but some of the hardest parts and a lot of people listening probably understand too is you know the emotional toll it can have not only on yourself but your family the friends

people taking care of you in the hospital. It was tough. There were times too where since I was 16 at the time, I was still on the pediatric unit, but I was one of the older kids, actually the oldest at the time. And there were a lot of young, very young children, babies too. So when I was healthy enough and able to move and, you know, interact, I would, you know, play with some of the younger kids because they were going through the same thing I was. Just give them some sense of normal. You know, I would try and do that if I could. Game. Probably one of the tough parts was, again, it was a pediatric.

Little babies there. There were some babies where their parents just decided not to show up anymore to either take care of them, visit them for whatever reason. So when I was able, I would just hang out with them, you know, play with them with their toys. Cause the only other people they had to play with and meet were,

you know, the nurses and the doctor, you know, the nurses and the doctor. You know, for a kid that young, it's not really an issue. Growth. So, yeah, it was a very rough, you know, eight to nine months of my life. But, you know, I look back on it and I've got to meet, you know, so many great people, so many just friends and family that showed up for me, a lot of the nurses and doctors, some of which I still keep in touch with. It was an experience I hope no one ever has to go through.

I'm fortunate that people still do. but the recovery process, I'll say, is a tough one, but having a great support in terms of friends meant the world to me. Even though people will think of it as a solo fight, it's really not. I mean, the motivation you get from others caring about you, it's just a word or a card or something. It really does mean a lot. I had friends that when they were able, they visited me in the hospital.

Obviously, I was bedridden for most of it. It truly was a life-changing experience. So, it always seems like there was no light at the end of the tunnel, especially with it seemed like there is hope. It will get better.

And thankfully, I survive going on almost 10 years in remission, thankfully. Which I have actually my checkup tomorrow morning with my doctor, my yearly checkup. So the timing actually works out pretty funny. But yeah, I know things have been great. I'm just very blessed to have such a great. You know, my friends, family, the crew. So we're glad you're able to share that. I know we were kind of hesitant if we're going to really talk about it or not, but, you know, I was your platform. So I'm glad you were able to share that i know we were kind of hesitant if we're gonna have to really talk about it or not but i'm you know i was your platform so i'm glad you were able to share those

words with everyone i don't think anyone here doesn't know someone affected with cancer like i don't think that's possible that you can be even like a kid and not know someone with cancer let alone like a bunch of submasters that we are so you know i think that was uh you know i think we're all glad you're still here buddy so with that we do have this game we like to play uh so we're gonna play a little you set that up on purpose i did well because i was like it didn't fit into the podcast really at all and he was just flowing and i was like oh i don't want to like you know like sabotage the middle of the podcast so if I go if I just play it up as a bit almost as in, you know what I mean? I want to interrupt your bit for a second there.

Yeah, yeah. We all like to joke about how angry Keith is all the time, right? Because he just gets on here and he he rants and he vents sometimes. And I appreciate that about Keith is that he's so open and forward with us. But when you said that there were kids there whose parents don't even show up, I don't know if you noticed, I've never been so fucking irate in my life. and up with rage that your child is going through that and you're like, well, we got fucking work to do or whatever else you're doing. I'm probably going to mute myself for a second. I don't think I have ever been so mad as to when you said that sentence.

mad as to when you said that sentence so um uh so thank you for you know helping those kids out because i can't believe nobody else did man so go ahead do your unpaid underrated for a second um but i'm fucking livid right now just just your rage all right chris sorry let's let's let's pull this back from uh deep and feely to a little comedy here to round it out. I know you got to get to bed. Definitely, I didn't realize you had that appointment.

I would have tried to reschedule if I knew you had that big 10-year anniversary coming up tomorrow, you son of a bitch. All right, unpaid or underrated? Do you want to explain for the guests

what the rules are and how we play it? Anyone, any of the first-time listeners, you should have some of your friends listening to this episode. So what is unpaid and underrated and uh how is it different from

overrated and underrated yeah so very two very different games in fact some might say the other podcast may have stolen this one um unpaid overrated basically a set of topics that are hand-picked for the guest um which in that case would be me. And the guest has to choose whether that topic is unpaid, aka slightly overrated, either for the general population, that person, or whatever it may be, or if the topic is underrated. And you can't actually ride the line. You have to pick one or the other, even if it's 51% or 49 49 one way or the other um you also have your druthers explain on it so if explain why you're feeling one way you can but ultimately you have to choose paid perfect well said i don't think i've ever said it that well before every time i do i think

i stutter and fuck it up let's just record that and put that on i think i might every time i think it's just gonna be that's for sure if i remember i can if i had a videographer i'd have them pull that story clip right there uh but uh all right unpaid or underrated big chris number one for me i gotta go with oh this has been a little hot topic with some i think you even asked me this drunkenly at your party uh cheese on a Whopper. What? Yeah, I actually did. That was the next day I asked you. Yes, that's what it was.

So, maybe a little backstory on this. This came from one drunken night with my buddies. We were just arguing why wasn't cheese automatically just on a Whopper? It needed to be, did it not be? Is it not? Not in the U.S. It needed to be, did it not be. Is it not? Not in the US.

You have to ask for it. And it's like an extra 89 cents or $1.50 probably, whatever the fuck it is. I think it's like 50 cents or something. I bet it's closer. You know, inflation. It doesn't matter. So,

we were just discussing that and first of all, this is going to probably cause some strife in the world, but I'm more of a Whopper fan than a Big Mac fan. That's what also kind of sparked the topic. Ultimately, I want to say, you know, cheese on a Whopper unpaid. No, sorry, underrated. There you go. But I am goingopper unpaid no sorry underrated there you go but i am gonna go unpaid okay i am cheese on a whopper is definitely unpaid simply because i think you get a great experience does cheese add to it more or less but i think everybody can eat a whopper without cheese and not everyone can eat with cheese shout out to my lactose tolerant homie okay so isn't the cheese like american cheese which is probably what they use that's actually lactose free isn't it it might be i mean it's just a piece of plastic yeah so there's lactose there's lactose right

which is in most real cheeses then there's lactase which is in mostly cheddar cheeses and and over the counter like over the not over the counter the fucking american cheese like a plastic cheese um yeah you're right hot take big macs are the superior sandwich but the superior experience is probably the whopper real onions real like real meat real tomatoes not diced shit not frozen he he might be right on that now of course oh god good no you go ahead all i'll just say is I think the Whopper gives you more true burger experience. Mm-hmm. Right? But I do agree that the Big Mac is a good sandwich, especially the idea of it.

Like, if I made a homemade Big Mac, I'm sure it would beat a regular burger I could make any day of the week. Yep. Now, the Burger King chicken sandwich I will maintain every day the original chicken sandwich from Burger King is the best fast food sandwich you can get that's good you're talking like the long oval looking

it's just chicken, mayonnaise chicken, mayonnaise and lettuce that's traditional Italian style you could add marinara and make it a little better but like I enjoy those I'm a big chicken sandwich fan like i am still searching for a great place here at rochester keith there's

one in boston i just frequent him like every week for a chicken sandwich have you had chicken out at all i've had chicken out you know what i've tried keith not to go deviate too much but the magnet chicken not sponsored by them They're kind of in the run right now. They're in Fairport. But I don't like, for whatever reason, I don't like the original chicken sandwich from Burger King. I don't know why. I disagree.

I can imagine it's because you taste it all day. You eat one and everything for 24 hours just tastes like that fucking chicken sandwich. And then they're two for $9 or one for six. So what am I going to

do for my money? I'm going to order two and I'm going to eat two because I'm a fat guy and everything's just going to taste like that chicken sandwich for 24 hours. I think that that would be my biggest issue with it and that's what i have to consider when i buy it because there's a burger king right across from my uh work so if i leave

work knowing i have to go work out and i need sustenance because i've been eating all day well it's two for nine dollars let's just go get a burger king sandwich and then every deadlift every squat every bench every every water every creat, everything for the rest of the day just tastes like that chicken sandwich. So I can see. Every burp, too. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I can absolutely see that. Next.

All right. Number two, Chris, specifically for you, unpaid or underrated, shaking hands with fellow powerlifters at a competition specifically me oh just you or overall that's not fair because Keith doesn't like talking to anybody or shaking hands with anybody

or looking at anybody or having drinks with anybody I guess shaking hands with anyone then and then you have to tell the story of what happened of why i'm asking this so the reason you're asking this is uh this is again the power of lifting me through the trophy handouts and calling you know the the placements um so actually keith congratulations got second place in the meet um i got third place but don't be fooled there were only three people in our weight class um so as we were going up to get our uh trophies and medals and whatnot um towards the end i was shaking hands with you know all

the competitors shook the hands with the person in first place. And then as I go to shake the hands of my dear friend, Keith Honeycutt, I take it back and do the behind the head, shake it away from him. Nice. Thank you. And then he proceeds to get upset and immediately nut taps me, to which I hunch over in pain. But what we were not aware of at the time is that they were still live streaming the events, including the metal handouts. So now on YouTube, there is forever a portion in that live stream that has Keith nut tapping for the rest.

I love that story. I'm actually kind of mad about that because the idea that keith would be mad at anybody it was it was definitely how dare chris shun me it was not mad it was just a buddy instantaneous reaction like i don't think it was anyone else it would have just been like ah you got me but it was just like oh you fucker but it was so the amount and the amount of nut taps you just opened yourself up to at the lift hard live easy when you decide to neglect all of your friends oh here you're they're coming they're coming everybody nut tap keith when he shuns you at the lift hard live easy including at the zoo i just just it was uh you know it was just

one of your best friends it was an instantaneous little like I think before he even got his hand by his head I was already like oh no I'm fucking with you it's funny that was actually genuinely funny and that should go in our list that should go in our list of videos of Chris getting owned him bumping

his head of the GHR me bumping his head. GHR. Me bumping his head. Yeah, you tapping him. You nailed it too, Keith. Atta boy. So yeah, I'm going to go with... Shaking hands, unpaid or underrated. I'm just going to go underrated.

I think it stands the test of time and can lead in some nut taps. So I'm going to under that actually reminds me i forgot to shake the hands of all the fucking judges and shit at the meet after because i think historically historically after your third lift like i mean some people don't because their defense is well it's a rotation of judges so who's to say that it's the same judge that was there the rest of the meet because like i don't care it's just historically i always like to shake the hands of after my last deadlift but I completely just fucking blacked out

and did not so sorry guys I usually just yell thank you judges and like bow because like you can't get all of them there's six or seven of them per meet it's true I also I meant to do that when I was going to meet I was like yeah I'll make sure

to thank the judges and I completely forgot and I felt that respect the judges respect the platform that's my rules I got so many left and I want to make sure I save Joey with some what do I want one good one okay here's one that's relevant

unpaid or underrated moving back to boston that's up there keith uh do i explain the backstory on this yeah if you want like under a minute yeah basically um there's some really good job opportunities for me in boston um but i have to pick up my life and move everything from rochester new york back to boston um and i get a really good community here that I don't necessarily want to leave, even if it is for, you know, jobs or careers. So that's, I guess, where the... I guess I'll take it as, can I take it as just moving anywhere, maybe for a new job?

Yeah, yeah. Moving out of Rochester, I guess or yeah i mean that would be anywhere so um i guess i'm gonna go honestly for the situation i'm in obviously everyone's unique just take this as a grain of salt i'm just gonna go i'll go unpaid for this one um just given a situation um that being said you know Keith, don't be upset at me. No, you're good. But I'll stick with undead. Follow up to that real quick before Joey gets back. Unpaid or underrated?

Very short answer. Rochester, New York. Oh, I'm going with a hard underrated. I think Rochester, New York is very underrated. I've been fortunate now to see a lot of the U.S. from large cities to very small towns that have a population like three to various cities in California, Austin, Texas, you name it. And there is just something about Rochester that hits a sweet spot.

I'll leave it at that. I'm going to go severely underrated for its location, the people here. We have a number of sims. That killed just enough time to let segue into Joey's turn. So the floor is yours, Joey. Okay.

What do we got there? Alright, so unpaid or underrated? Having two first names. I was in seventh grade. It was chemistry class. I'll never forget. This is my first experience of this.

It was the first day of class. We were doing roll call. And the teacher goes to my name. He goes, Chris Mark. And before I could even say anything, he goes, huh, never trust a man with two first names didn't even say if i was here or not he just moved on um so that was my first experience to that absolutely slap that teacher in the mouth like what the hell teacher

yeah and that was yeah that was an interesting experience um but i get it all the time where people will be like my name's obviously chris mark uh but people go hey mark or what's really weird is that my friends will call me instead of just chris they'll call me chris mark because it just better i guess yeah yeah um so i guess two first names um we're to go underrated for sure. Have fun with them. And if you move back to Boston, you get to be Chris Mack. With my khaki, Chris Mack.

You get to be Chris Mack and find your khakis in your khakis. Alright. I might do four just based on how these go. This one's actually personal to me because I was going to bring this up earlier unpaid or underrated dinny stone training oh okay so i'm gonna go well first on this one it was actually this tuesday um i went to for my

lunch break to go work out my My coach was there and we had, we actually lifted together a very simple lift. Um, but he was doing some Dennystone. He brought the Dennystone handles, do these. And I was like, hell yeah, I've never done them. Hell yeah. So we worked up to the working weight. He went up to the full Dinnystone weight, right, to lift him up. Not carry, just lift him. And I worked up to 300 kilos or 660 pounds. I believe the qualifying weight to actually attempt the Dinnystones in Scotland. So as long as you send the video to whatever, you know, person is doing that or group, attempt it. So that was a very big surprise that I could do that um there's video proof of it keith you're welcome no that that's yep yep that that's kind of why it

was relevant because the uh your your dismount of it and how much bodily harm you kind of caused where i was going with the adding it to it yeah this isn't another Chris Hurts Himself video, is it? A little bit. The issue is I'm still kind of figuring out my stance. As you probably know, Joey, it's more of like a Jefferson Deadlift stance. Pick up the denny stones and the handles. The plates,

they were kilo plates, and they were scraping against my shins and my calves and down my ankle as it was coming down and i was like this absolutely is terrible i never want to do this thing um like it hurt to like put my feet down in bed and have the blanket like roll on it that's how tender they are damn it um but all in all because it was still a lot of fun i think the denny stones are absolutely phenomenal and anyone who attempts them and is able to lift and or walk with them is great.

I'm going to go for that. I'm going to go, I'm going to go under just because of what it leads, even if the training is painful, which most there's going to be. And, and it's probably sooner rather than later. Me and Steve are going to be going to

the no wine cellar right and it'll be it'll be a thing we book in advance of course um with the summer coming it'll be a little easier because i think you're only three three and a half hours away from us right yeah it's under it's under four so i have i have the dinini replicas. The handles. So maybe we get Chris. Maybe we just... Instead of having a day where we go in and do our programming, maybe we just have a day of creating dumb fucking content. And yeah. I'll bring the Dini handles.

I get to throw a log around. We'll see what we can do. But we'll make sure you're invited on that one because you're around the corner. That'd be a lot of fun. I'm still trying to get Keith to do the video of him guessing the bars. Yeah, we need to do that. He touched the shaft and see

what he can figure out. But one of them needs to be a penis because I don't think you can have a Keith. When are you coming down, buddy? One of them needs to be a penis because I don't think you can have a Keith Leo. When are you coming down, buddy? Wow, I didn't know this bar was so large. I didn't see that coming.

Yeah, I didn't see that coming. Alright, that's good. Because I was just thinking like a fake one, but no, that's actually way funnier. Oh, God. That would be so awkward. This nearly feels so odd. I don't understand this guy the rest of my life oh god oh i can't believe i like this so much uh okay i want to do that i do want to do that video but i also like i kind of want to do it i think it might be it

might be do a new gym tour i think it's been like two years since i've done a full gym tour i've had a lot of shit to the gym so just make sure it's 24 minutes yeah to to make you back off theirs i might uh you know 26 minutes just to i think in their defense it was 23 and change because i vividly remember seeing 23 but if you found up it probably was 24 yeah it's 23 and 46 or something i was just like no i'm not doing that today all right uh unpaid and underrated unpaid or or underrated the no wine cellar oh all right so in a basement you have all the york dumbbells you could ever need which is zero which yeah debatable uh so many york York pound plates that are vintage ones. You have power bars, deadlift bars, bars I'm forgetting, but somehow exist in that basement. Swiss bars. I think what three power racks or something and a bench platform,

a ton of orange. And the fact that I hit my head on every damn thing. I'm looking at the thing you hit your head on last time, right above your head in this video. You absolutely are. Yeah. The red piece of pool noodle that he walked right into. I'm even hitting it on the podcast here.

I mean, that just shows you pretty close. The, even with all that, I think having that, you know, just in the years of, you know the memories built down there, the pictures on the

wall, the people that I visited I'm going to go underrated but if I hit my head one more damn time, it's going to be unpaid for sure well I really should just get you a helmet for coming down here, I guess hell yeah

orange helmet just a wrestling helmet where it just yeah, that would work for coming down here, I guess. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Just a wrestling helmet where it just has... Okay. He's lucky he hit it in the spot. There's not padding. Alright, last one. For all the marbles. Unpaid or underrated. Keith.

Keith Honeycutt with two Ts? Yep. The glaze himself. The orange glaze. Wow, where do I begin? I mean, he's a strong guy. You know, he's handsome. Sure, does he record everything

that I somehow do a clumsy act of? Yeah, I don't know how that happened. He's in the Hall of Fame of all things as well. You know, just a good guy to be around. This is a tough one, but I am going to have to go, even if he has terrible movie rating skills. Terrible movie rating skills.

I know opinions can't be, you know, very wrong and factual, but most of them are wrong baseball got a four yeah i actually had i had people listening last week message me directly and go i was all on keith until baseball got a four so i think keith needs i think or next week i'll re-watch base or next week. I'll re-watch basketball. Or next week, you're going to watch basketball. I'm out of town. I might have a chance to watch.

I can throw it on. I can watch it quick in the hotel, maybe. I'll see what I can do. No promises. In 2024, I will re-watch basketball, but it might not be in the next seven days. All right, so your rating was underrated. I'm going to go underrated. All right. I think he's still

he's like an iceberg you only see a little bit at the top but then when you get to the home even if some of those opinions are just terrible yeah I won't disagree I won't disagree he's a good sport he puts himself out there

and we rag on him a little bit for it. And he just takes it because he just knows that we do it because we care. Every now and then I boil it over, but for the most part, I can take a good ribbing. Yeah, but again, what's important is you only let us know when you boil over. You don't let everybody else and it's important that's like you hold that in to the people that uh that need to know not the rest of us me i'm just like i crumble like a fucking baby when anybody anything i'm just like no i'm sorry yeah so like yeah agreed i'm definitely

this was definitely that i didn't realize it was gonna be the keith episode but i appreciate all I'm just like, no, I'm sorry. So, like, yeah. Agreed. I'm definitely. This was definitely that I didn't realize it was going to be the Keith episode, but I appreciate all the praise, buddy. This is supposed to be your episode, but anything. Shut up. OK, moving on. So I guess I was the reason he was all he he he got all the marbles. That's good stuff. It's enough nice things about Keith.

Yeah, we're going to bring it back down to reality keith so yeah we'll hopefully have some questions that'll uh humble me and make me look like an asshole so yeah what do you have anything for us i do so i've got a few things um so one one question i'll start off with before getting the game is if you could experience any piece of entertainment for the first time again, what would it be? It could be a movie, a book, a play, TV show, game, any type of entertainment, no matter the... If you could experience it again for the first time? Maybe playing NCAA football. 99, I think it was the first time I played it.

Mainly because that game hasn't existed in 15 years. I'm sure if I thought about it, I'll throw something deeper up on Instagram this week because that is a really, really good question, but it's like I overanalyze everything so much that I can't like you know i have to almost just go with what the first thing was and i would say that

playing that game was like one of my most memorable things as one of my most favorite things as a child was playing that game uh ncaa football uh college football on playstation so yeah i wish i could do that again every day uh yeah i'll i'll go with two things there is the video game aspect of the first time i played wcw versus nwo revenge um i have it on n64 now and that game was just the superior game it was the Also, probably X-Men 2, the movie. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. X-Men 1 was great because I get introduced. Was it at the dam? Or was that like, was it three or four?

There's so many. Yeah. Was it at the dam? Well, there was a dam in part 2 because he was traveling but X-Men 2 when the guys broke into the house

and Wolverine finally killed somebody on screen oh yeah they stabbed that guy against the fridge the entire crowd The entire crowd. The entire theater cheered and screamed. That was the first time I'd been to a movie where people cared about what was happening. And I was one of them.

I also was very excited to see Wolverine be mad and kill somebody. Because in the first movie, he did not get to do that. Nobody got to do that. And then finally, yeah, he stabbed that dude against the fridge and screamed in his face. And because he was protecting children. And that was like incredible. Like it was just like, that's the Wolverine we all wanted to see. Yeah, if I could relive that brief moment that would be that

what about you chris i know you know what do you have an answer for us on that one or your own question uh no i mean for those some good answers keith i'm curious to see how you dive into it later on for that yeah remind me about that if i forget because i will try to think about that when i have some time yeah Yeah, Joey, that's a good first experience for sure, seeing that too, especially with people, being able to share that with people. You're in a theater and

he stands up and he screams and he stabs the dude and everybody goes, yeah! And you're like, me too! That was pretty incredible. I guess I would say for mine, it's probably gonna harken back because i had this question asked how back to um one of my favorite show in a while it's it's been a while um my one of my favorite shows is uh is attack on tanya and i just love

the story you never know where it's going to, and there's so much deep meaning in it, and I absolutely would just love to experience that again just for the first time. A magical experience. That's going to be me. So I do have, I picked some topics for both of you, an unpaid and underrated, a game you might be familiar with.

So I have topics for both. Maybe I'll just alternate each, and then we'll go through that. Sure. Joey, let's start with you. So yours has a little bit of a theme to it. So the first one is unpaid or underrated, bagged milk. Milk in a bag.

As opposed to a carton. You you know i genuinely couldn't care less um so in ontario not all of canada just ontario our our milks and bags um don't love the don't love the unreusable plastic aspect of it. But I just recently also discovered that at Walmart, Fairlife is about the same price, and it's in a plastic jug. So I might also just buy that, because again, lactose versus lactase, high protein,

might just only do Fairlife for a little while but like i it's probably unpaid like i don't i don't really care it's just what's available to us you're six dollars for three bags of milk or you can go to the carton which is four dollars for like one liter like it did it it doesn't make sense financially to do the the plastic cartons or the glass jugs um yeah that that would be the best answer it did i literally don't care it's just the thing that's available that's fair i don't know if we don't really have bagged milk here ke bagged milk here i haven't i had bagged milk in elementary school but like that was like single servings but i've never had like bulk bagged milk i think it's only like even ontario and one other province most of the rest of canada doesn't do it either because it is again just wasteful plastic

you gotta wash it dry it and hope that your city is set to recycle that type of plastic so most of the rest of canada is like no that's terrible we're not going to keep doing that shit so yeah fair life i've got a thing of fair life now five dollars for the one liter i'll just do that that's i'll just keep doing that. No, solid answer. I just didn't know if it was economical or something else, but it sounds like it's not. It really isn't. Yeah.

Alright, Keith, we're going to go for one for you. So Keith, unpaid or underrated, changing your pillow every two years or so, as per the AAFA's recommendation.

Unpaid or underrated. It's extremely unpaid. Once you find a pillow, you marry that pillow and you stay with that pillow for 30 plus years. I actually did recently just get some Costco pillows that I can kind of sleep, like, every now and then I'll notice that I actually slept the whole night with it, because it because like my pillow that I have

it's my whatever the fuck Jen wants me to say it hello Jen hello like because I'll basically start off the night like when I'm just like playing on my phone or watching TV or something with like not my quote unquote good pillow

just because I don't want to like flatten it out before it's actually time to sleep and get it all warm and shit so uh but like now i've found some decent enough ones that like i'll basically wake up in the middle of the night be like oh i never actually got my good pillow so um but in general yeah no it's under that is unpaid get your get your get your pillow you're like and then worst case they have those like you know antibacterial like dust mite like pillow case things i could put over it i've thought about it fuck that i don't care if i haven't hasn't killed me yet but yeah i know i i fully understand it's disgusting that i have a 30 year old pillow but i don't care because i have severe neck pain and chronic neck pain and

that pillow is the only one that's kept me from like not having pain you have a you have a security pillow like that's you just haven't explored other a you have a security pillow like that's you just haven't explored other options you have a security pillow this is mine it's i've bought a lot of other different i bought a lot i bought like every different like cervical fucking like i've spent hundreds of dollars on pillows in the last decade probably uh just trying to experiment with ones and a lot of them just end up being like you you know, feet, pillows. So, Keith, do you struggle with a lot of neck pain and everything? Oh, so here, yeah.

Do you think it could be because you're using a 20-year-old pillow? No. No, that can't be the answer. My head and neck perfectly. Except for all the times I have pain. No, my pain is like

lifting and drop related, I believe, more than anything. Alright, fair answer. You got your druthers on it. I actually can't believe you put that forward, Chris. That was fantastic. Well done. So Joey,

unpaid or underrated, here's your answer on this. Niagara Falls. You know, so joey yep so unpaid or underrated here's your answer in this niagara falls you know ah god underrated absolutely underrated and and it's one of those things that we talk about in my job specifically right because when you get comfortable in your job you get comfortable in your life you get comfortable with your family you get comfortable you forget how important the things around you are right and this is a very good example i live near one of the greatest wonders of the world it's 45 minutes from me and it's niagara falls it's the biggest waterfall biggest natural flowing waterfall in the world so the great lakes actually the great lakes are

actually inland seas and are also wonders of the world there's no lakes that have waves right like they like our lakes have waves the great lakes other lakes don't they it's not how they work these are inland seas with entire ecosystems on the inside and they all congregate around niagara falls so it's fucking wild that you could live this far and have never seen them. There's literally people I talk to every day that live in my city or in cities between us and Niagara Falls that have never actually gone and looked at the falls. It is, but again, it just comes down to the fact that sometimes you just don't know how great what you have is

because you've always had it. It's always been there. It's just that you take it for granted. The falls are just the falls. Of course they live near the falls. I've never seen them, but who fucking cares? They're always going to be there. But one day they won't.

And that's how you get to... It's a very good metaphor for how you should recognize the things in your life are. So I would say absolutely underrated. And I keep telling my wife all the time, we should just go look at the falls. Like we should genuinely just drive there and stare at them. And she's like, why? It's a long drive. The kids are going to fuss.

And I was like, because it's a big waterfall. It's loud and it's cool. That's just my thing for the niagara falls and it is better from the canadian side don't care what anybody says the american side has a really cool bridge that goes over but it goes over on the shitty side so like you have a cooler bridge but you don't have the cooler side of the falls. I agree in terms of the falls. Yeah, for sure. Like Canadian.

Yeah. Some of the attractions in the American side are fine, like the bridges, but the falls in the sense of just. Yeah. But no, I agree, Joey.

That's the great answer. I fully agree with what you just said. Oh yeah. You asked about the falls. I went off on like life shit. Sorry. It's towards the asked about the falls. I went off on, like, life shit. Sorry. It's towards the end of the podcast. I always do this towards the end of the podcast.

So, next question, I guess. It harkened back perfect, actually, the discussion Keith had with Rochester was... All right, Keith. Back to you. Unpaid or underrated, Take Me Home, Country Rose by John Denver. Hmm. unpaid or underrated take me home country rose by john denver i mean i it's like a big mountaineer song like they play it at our i guess i gotta go so like

the college the town i grew up in is a big college town um i never went to that college my wife did she's an alumni there like most a lot of my family did. Like I literally grew up in my backyard. So like I still consider it my college essentially. It was like one of the only big Division I sports teams in the entire state. At least like there was another one at the bottom of the state, but they were never really that good. So it was like West Virginia University was like the entire state's college and sport team. We didn't have a professional team. So like everyone rooted for West Virginia University if you lived in the state of west virginia for the most part so at the end of every

uh victory game uh they like the whole team and the whole fucking stadium sings that song um is it is for that aspect alone i'll go ahead and say that it's underrated and leave it at that but the song in general just, just listening to it, it is what it is. Like, I don't really, you know, that John Denver is full of shit. Right. But, you know, it's, you know, the nostalgia aspect of, you know, fucking 60,000 people singing the same song with like the players fucking like swinging arm and arm back together is pretty hard to get over. So unpaid, underrated. hard to get over. So underrated. At one of the last work meetings where we all had to go and stay in a hotel, we all climbed out of the car. And as we're walking,

one of the other guys goes, this fucking guy's from Virginia. And started singing that song in the underground parking lot. So there's me and him walking and he starts so i start joining him and then we realize some of the other managers that are there are on the other side of the underground parking well they start joining in and belting into the song as well and we all congregate screaming that song because of some dummies parking like this poor guy didn't know but like he's just because of his license plate so was he actually from

virginia or west virginia because two different states and only west virginia it might i i didn't actually see i just heard at the end the guy went yeah that all started because of some guy's parking or license plate so that was pretty funny that song can interestingly bring people together despite being a very middle of the road song

a middle of the country road one might say so Joey would you give it unpaid or underrated just out of curiosity oh unpaid for sure that song sound genuinely sucks like it's not a good song it's like yeah john denver bon jovi there's a there's a bunch of bands that i just i will make enemies if you ask me too many questions about they're just all middle of the road trash that is uh they don't take any risks they don't it's pop it's pop but it's hidden behind nostalgic or hard

rock foo fighters is another one of them i'm gonna make some enemies on that one too just it's all pop all right fair play so the next one on the list joy you know back to you uh kuba kuba cigars unpaid or underrated never heard of them really stand by how do you spell it k-u-b-a kuba kuba kuba yep they're um i think they're actually i want to say it so it's a Drew Estate it looks like yes one of their popular ones is the Acid Cuba Cuba I've had my fair share

of Drew Estate but I don't think Cuba Cuba is actually available in Canada so I can't say that I've had it I don't know what equivalent enough to get it. Okay. It's flavored, which is an interesting thing.

It's banned in Canada, so you actually, unless you're purchasing them from places that I wouldn't say shirk the rules, but there are areas that do. You can't have flavored cigars in canada so fun fun fact when i see you at lift hard live easy it sounds like you have a gift for me

i think a gift that uh yeah we can partake in in our individual way we're not going to tell anyone so don't let it out of this podcast. It's going to be put to the public. Well, in that case, let me give you one more. Joey. Alright. Unpaid or underrated? Here's here since he's

from your neck of the woods. Mitchell Hooper. Unpaid or underrated? The strong man. I think six months ago, I would call him underrated because I think a lot of people were betting against him.

And I did not once. I think on this podcast, I was like, nope, this dude's taken over strength sports. He's figured this out um i'll still say underrated i think he's i think he's got another year ahead of him another maybe one more um but he's uh he's definitely taking over strength sports he knows what he's doing he's not even doing it the strongest he's doing it the smartest right he's he's he did not even doing it the strongest. He's doing it the smartest, right?

He did not place first in anything at the Arnold. Two years ago, he didn't. This year, I think he won multiple events this year. No, he didn't. He placed second or third in all of them, but placed first in overall. Someone can fact check that, but I'd put a dollar bill on it that he won at least two or three events but you're right

the first year his two years ago he came in second or third across the board this past year like a month ago I am 100% positive he won multiple events no he didn't and he still plays first and having met the guy having chatted with him on

Instagram he definitely is like he's gonna do amazing for a little bit but it's not he can't do it long term like nobody can do that well that long in that realm it helps him that he's not huge though like if he was 400 pounds like no one can it's harder to maintain four pounds but the fact that he's not huge, though. If he was 400 pounds, it's harder to maintain 400 pounds. But the fact that he's 310 or something, he's not morbidly obese like a lot of those other guys were. And having to force feed billions of calories. And you can tell he's still bigger than he should be as a human.

But he's on a fucking... He has an athletic build still without being gar gargantuan they call him moose and it's like well it's because he's a big guy it's no because he's fucking shaped like a moose head like he's triangular like his just his shoulders to his legs are just giant um so yeah a huge fan got to meet his team at the arnold didn't get to meet him at the Arnold, but I met him before that. Yeah, definitely a big fan of Mitchell Hooper. I have a ton of his shirts. And we'll probably meet him again soon, next time he's down here in this area.

Nice. Good. Good answer. I kind of agree with that, too. Yeah, we'll get the fact-check results on the Arnold. But, all alright, Keith, one for you. This is probably one that hits home for you. Unpaid or underrated. Dick joke.

Dick jokes. Dick jokes are amazing. Dick jokes are never not funny. Anything sexually, like, well, obviously you gotta be in the right crowd too. But, in general, dick jokes go over sexually... You've got to be in the right crowd, too. But in general,

dick jokes go over well, so I'm going to go very underrated. I seldom don't laugh at dick humor. Yeah, I can agree with that. Alright, we've done... I think we've done... I've got one last one for each.

So, Joey, this one could be five seconds or 60 seconds. I'm just curious to hear it from you. Unpaid or underrated, Cheese Whiz. Oh. Can't say I've had it in years. Yeah, the unpaid. It has a weird bitter taste to it.

Yeah, definitely not a huge fan. What is the public perception of Cheez Whiz, though? I don't know anyone that does anything. I only think of Cheez Whiz from 80s movies where fucking Paul, or early 90s, where Pauly Shore was fucking doing Cheez Whiz and Encino Man. I don't know. No, he was whizzing the juice.

Oh, yeah. There was something where he fucking did... I don't remember that. It was like the slushies at the fucking... He's whizzing the juice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which reminds me every time how mad you get about the Riz and stuff like that. Remember that we had whizzing the juice.

Oh, by the way. So, because it bothered me that I was not sure, I have the results here. It would seem that in the bag over bag, Half Thor took first. In the power medley, Lucas Hatton took first. And Mitchell Hooper took first place in Farmers Carry. And... This is the Arnold 24 in Ohio?

Yeah. And then the Austrian Oak took... Mitch Hooper took first in the... Is this the UK one, though? In the Austrian Oak. Yeah, the UK one. One of those guys' names, I don't think, was at the Arnold Columbus. The Ohio one, I have the events here if you want.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Prove me wrong. Deadlift for Max. Half Thor did 456 for 1,000. He got first. I watched that. Inberg carry, which Mateusz held the record. Mitch Hooper got first with 7 seconds.

And then the Denny Stone carry mitch knocked it out of the park he did like he fucking did 41 feet yeah which is insane for a diddy stone replica carry um so he got first there and then apollon's wheel um he got first as well mitch hooper got second or i'm sorry mitch hooper got first mate got second, and then he won the Stone Medley as well. No, sorry, he got second in the Stone Medley, Mateusz got... Yeah, Mateusz won that, and then... So he won two events, total. Was it only two? Okay.

No, and that's, again, that's what Mitch does, like, he doesn't place first in everything, but he places high in all of them. I mean, the way to win it is to, you don't necessarily have to get first in everything but he places high in all of them I mean the way to win it is to you don't necessarily have to get first in any exactly Stoltman won worlds two years

ago not placing first just getting top two or three yeah well Thor's Thor zeroing out on the last one what took him from second to fourth because he fucking couldn't lift a 300 pound stone overs and that's what like I know that like strongman is so much overhead pressing, but to go from the fucking, the axle right into a press medley,

I was like, are you sure you want to do that? As Joey might say. Is she into that? Because then it's like, goddamn, like he could like, and it was just, it seemed like, they seemed like the first press, like the stone was almost too heavy. Like, like fucking like three people, I think, pressed that out of like the ten.

Maybe only two out of the ten did it. Alright. You got one more for us so we can bring this bitch in for a landing? I got one more. This is going to be on Joey. We'll finish it off with you, Keith. This is going to be a local one. Well, not too local. Maybe east coast.

Unpaid or underrated, Wegmans, the grocery store for me i love wigmans wigmans is awesome wigmans is a very very popular very very nice very expensive but still value oriented like you can i mean you can buy wigmans brand shit but like you know they have everything uh it's a very good like pre-pandemic like buffets out the ass i don't think the buffets ever really came back from like from like pre-made food you could like go there and eat you could literally just go there and eat dinner like pay by the pound it was freaking outrageously expensive but you could like cherry pick a

couple things you'd like uh i think everything now it's pre-packaged but in general out of my other options is we have a very the other options are far inferior. I'll put it that way. Like if I think if there was a better competition, Wegmans might not be so much put on a pedestal. But like the other groceries are suck. Like I'm not going to Walmart for fucking groceries because I don't have a Walmart. I feel safe in. I don't have like tops is OK, but tops is way expensive.

Do you not have do you not have kroger not it i've i've had i have kroger when i was from west virginia there's no kroger up here we don't like so many groceries that's what's weird too like always talk about how like weird it is that food is regional like the grocery store is a regional too like i fucking love kroger every time i go to the states i look for kroger yeah Yeah, there's no... I don't definitely know Kroger this far north that I know of. At least not like northeast. So Wegmans, 100% underrated. But they are... Fuck, they are so highly rated though.

But even being like the most highly rated grocery store in the East Coast, I think I can't give them unpaid. Like I don't... They haven't disappointed me in every now and then I go to like one of the old original Wegmans that's like not been updated and like their staff doesn't give a shit and it's like a lesser experience but I try to avoid the two or three stores like that um and just go to the nicer ones but yeah even that the shitty ones yeah all overall underrated It definitely the best grocery store in that I've ever been to consistently.

It might not be a comparison, but I'll throw a wrench in. How do you compare it to Costco? It's not a direct apples and oranges. I don't even know if I can. I mean, Costco is just a, it's just a knickknack store that sells chicken bake.

So I don't really know why I even bring that up. Only because the chicken bakes are so near and dear to our heart. I did go. The lady and I went to Costco this weekend, or this week. I think Monday. I basically texted her. I was like, tonight's the only night. It's one of the only nights I don't have something going on.

If you want to go to Costco, I got out of work early enough. I don't remember what the situation was. I think she was home sick because she twisted her wrist really bad, but she was kind of feeling up to go out so uh nonetheless i went and got we went and got some groceries and shit from costco and i got like two chicken bakes for some some meal prep that week uh and i actually had i think i had a i ate a warm chicken bake that night and i had a cold chicken bake the next morning for breakfast and the cold one was superior hands down cold chicken bake for me

i don't know i just you love cold chicken we know that we get it well not even the chicken like the cold like bread like it just was better like i don't know i just it was less i don't know how to get vulgar but like when you're eating a chicken bake it's almost like glazing in your mouth because it's like it's just like hot molten like jizzy kind of fucking stuff i don't know how to get vulgar, but when you're eating a chicken bake, it's almost like glazing in your mouth. It's just like hot, molten, jizzy kind of fucking stuff. I don't want to eat. Exactly how I would describe it. The cold one is less juicy in your mouth. Exactly how I would describe that if I wanted to send that to all of our friends in Rochester, New York to make fun of you.

Well, that wraps up the game, and I i crunched the numbers put a little pencil paper here guys and uh congratulations you've won fucking a right we did oh yeah this was this was a great i think i think the listeners won this is definitely the top 48 episode my friend um we can uh bring it in for a landing here. Sorry, episode 31. It's episode 31. Yeah, 13, 74, I don't know. Do you want to hit them with the outro? I think I've been stealing it lately, but I'll jump in wherever. You're so good at outros.

You're so good at leaving without acknowledging us. Yeah. I'm so tired at this point that I just just like i just start saying shit just to like wrap it up but yeah oh i'm still just excited i'm still just excited you're just you're fucking you're you're drunk and ammonia up and i'm fucking over oh yeah that ammonia was great i i i'm glad you called me on that because i was listening but then i was like i wonder if i could just and oh it hit me so fucking hard and just like there was tears dripping down my face after that so thank you chris for calling me on that um now that is normally something that big matt would call me on who uh mostly

squat videos matt like here we are on episode 31 he's still not here we invite him on everyone and it's one of those things that like man just like whenever you're ready just log in because if there's anybody like him and nate have open invitations to just join any episode and this fucking guy won't he just won't join us so we'll get to him eventually i I guess. But, you know, at this point, it's starting to feel malicious. Like he just doesn't want to be a part of our episodes. So you can find me at mostly squat videos. I run this really cool meme page where what I do is I take. What's that TV show

that everybody really likes it's Always Sunny in Philadelphia so I take an Always Sunny in Philadelphia clip and then I put a caption about lifting and then I put that TV show to it it's fucking genius

like it's really funny I'm so good at it. So you can follow me there. Now, where can we find you, Keith? I am Keith Henneken, 73.

Go follow my orange gym, the no wine seller, Chris. Where are you at buddy? Follow me at Chris dot lift things on Instagram and also at the orange gym, the no wine seller. I'll probably be on there as well. I love it.

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