Unpaid And Underrated - 074 : The Ideal Soil Composition For Cool Beans

Episode Date: October 8, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Nick. They dive right into great topics like Popeyes, country music, spicy food, tuxedos, adoption, and corn. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaid-underrated-tee) Search Ünpaid and Ünderrated, Massenomics and The Okay Podcast on podscripts (https://podscripts.co) Wrong Again Keith Video (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DArmeH_y5o9) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest On Instagram @nicholas_rohlf (https://www.instagram.com/nicholas_rohlf/) 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 Nick.

Alright everybody and welcome back to Unpaid and Underrated, the podcast about Crew 4 Crew and mocking Keith a lot lately. We are on episode 4440 of the unpaid and underrated podcast. And we are joined of course by Big Keith. Howdy, howdy. And Big Nick. What's up everybody? How's it going?

I'm doing well. I'm living the dream over here. All right, what are you guys drinking? I'm gonna start, I've got electrolytes and, how do you say that Keith creating? Am I taking my weekly create electric loads? I don't know We'll get to that later you fucker So I actually got a new in this way

I know I've had it before but it's new in the last couple months. We've got the bubbly orange cream. Very good It's every now and it was nice to actually get something different for a change that's right up here alley what about you Nick what you got I'm gonna start off with a Shiner Bach with my new Texas connection for the last month here so you know start with a Shiner Bach that's the spirit I do have some some Michelob Ultras over here nice I didn't go to koozie I'm fucked I speak in a kzie, I will add that I did switch. Um, I think Tanner posted something or I saw an ad or something that had the, uh, you know, the silly goose koozie in it, which I've been using for,

like probably last year straight because it is a more, a much more comfortable koozie. I like holding it, but I was kind of, you know, I just want to switch it back up. So I went with the Mastodon mix, uh, camo one, but I gotta say, like, I think I'll take the really, really hard to get out of the can koozie because this is just, this isn't comfortable to hold. Like the camo one, the literally thin, the super thin one that you can stick in your back pocket.

I don't know. It just feels weird because it's got that seam that's like right on my finger. Not loving it. So I'm going to switch back over to this, the strong and silly and just, you know, have to get stronger to get it out. Complete sensory overload for Keith's koozies. I can't do it. The change is it's, I literally just switched up.

Yep. Got to go back to the 80s koozie and that actually that feels right. So we're good. All right. I've got my, uh, uh, Mastnomix lifting department T, um, of course, the favorite boxy cut pump cover T not that I have anything to cover at the moment. Keith has very obviously showing off his home gym con shirt. Yeah, that's where I met big Nick at.

So I figured it was fitting and saw it right in the closet. And I was like, oh, let's go with that. I like that. I like the way that the the barbell on the plates to create the two is that's that's actually pretty clever. Nick, what do you got? I got a got my deadlifter hat on today. Don't buy the hats, though. I got my natural for life tee, and I got lift shorts,

and oh, I got the slides on, too. I don't even remember that hat. How old is that hat? Standby. It's pretty old. Yeah, I don't think that's been around. We'll get into a little bit later about how long you've been around with Mastanomics, but I

think that might predate me. Or I just now maybe not you Joey's got one we're about the same era he's got a mint looking one too but did I just miss the deadlifter hat it's just too small so I don't wear very often because it leaves headlines gotcha I'm just not a hat I don't wear hats in general so I maybe that's just you know blue under my radar yeah you, like farts on your head. I suppose not. Suppose not. Um.

Do we get any Popeyes text there, Joey? So you and Tanner both said that to me. Yeah, I panicked because I thought I put my phone number in my stories and I was like, oh, no, both these guys have my number. Yeah, that was pretty good Do you text you from his regular line to or is it an unknown caller? No, it was right. It was from Tanner and I just said first question. How dare you second question? Who do you think you are? Yeah, he teetasks me to text you too

And then I was like I was going to and I was like, ooh, I'm gonna do it from my work phone Yeah, Joey doesn't have so he's gonna really be like what the fuck But then I immediately goog, I was going to and I was like, oh, I'm gonna do it from my work phone. Yeah, Joey doesn't have. So he's going to really be like, what the fuck? But then I immediately Googled the area. Yeah, it's like five. I was like, this is either Nick or Keith. Like, who's in Western New York? Yep. Yep. That's me. That was funny.

It was good. It was actually pretty funny. And honestly, like, it's because they every time you buy something, they re-sign you up. Right. So I said stop and then I went and bought some supplements and then they I get another text and I was like, what the hell? Like I can clearly on the same page see where I told you to not send to me anymore. Tax. That's why I was like, why do I have to opt out of texts that I never opted into only to get another text telling me I've opted out again, like stop doing that. That's terrible marketing.

Everybody hates it. Everybody. That's terrible marketing. Everybody hates it. Everybody hates that style of marketing. Yeah, I don't want anybody texting me. That's just annoying. And then it's like the emails that I do want are just, they automatically go to my spam and like I miss shit all the time

and I have to like, I forget to go to my spam folder more often than I'm like, oh, I missed something that I actually wanted to see, damn it. Well, speaking of, you you know speaking of missing stuff if you if you think you missed something on the podcast and you want to double check something big Nate and all his technical guide things I'm not sure how much he contributed to it or if he just signed both podcasts up but there's a website now that you know unpaid and underrated and massonomics have their backlog associated with go to the discord or Nate can you know unpaid and underrated and Mastanomics have their backlog associated with go to the

discord or Nate can you know if Nate's listen to this he'll post the link in the show notes tonight and you can basically search our transcripts from you know all four thousand four hundred and forty episodes and you know watch us be wrong you know we'd and mock each other and all that stuff and you know I don't know if it picks up everything because like it was funny because I searched fuck and it got like 69, like 69 out of 73 episodes had fuck.

I'm like, that definitely tracks. But then I searched Cunt and it only had like seven. And I was like, there's got to be more than that seven episodes or whatever. So I was like, I'm not sure how accurate it is, but, you know, it was still made me chuckle. So we probably use that word a bit more than we should. Yeah, but I blame power wire for that one. So maybe chuckle. So we probably use that word a bit more than we should. I blame power wire for that one.

Completely like lost how much money he lost by losing like a couple hundred thousand follower Instagram. And now he has like a 10,000 filter. I don't even know. He made me up to 20 or 30,000, but like, it can't be the same like now. But any kind of ad revenue he was making is now like his entire thing is bullying bullies Yeah, and Instagram just fucking hates that right like they don't want I'm surprised. I haven't been called out because every once in a while I'll do that or I'll just go to some idiots page, and I'll just like troll him like they'll say

He'll say something on some persons like well. That's a shitty left, but blah blah blah So I'll go to one of his posts and go hey That's like I'll just copy and paste what he says and put it on one of his posts. And I'm surprised I haven't got reported and blocked yet, but oh no, I'd leave Instagram. Oh no, less social media for Joey. Yeah, every now and then it's nice

to just not be on it very often. And it's like, I always feel like a complete piece of shit when I, you know, cause I have like, what, like the one hour or the two hour things that I have on my phone. And then it always like wants to shut down and I'm like add 15 minutes I need this fucking addiction to like scroll this feed for five more minutes today And then I've on the weekends. I'm just a big piece of shit. Just turn it off I'll just be on fucking Instagram all day today apparently so I need to be better about Calling myself accountable and actually shutting it off when it tells me that I've like reached my limit. So

You'll have that Nick did you get a chance to listen to this week's episode? Yes, I did. All right. What's your rating? Um, well, I think, uh, you know, overall there's a lot of, a lot of good things. Um, I found out, uh, about the same way as a Tanner through letter Kenny, um, about halfway through and kind of just, I don't know. I don't know. But as far as Tommy, I was pretty learned that, you know, didn't know he had quite as much farm work experience. And definitely the cold beer at the end of a long day is the best tasting beer. So with that, I think I got to give it a five out of five York two face plates.

Ooh, yeah, the hundo's double sided hundo's like that. It's a good one. Yeah, it was the it was the q&a episode. They do these once every couple years or so maybe even once a year. I always like it because you know, you get to hear them answer questions that our friends posted. And if you're lucky, you know, you get to hear them answer questions that our friends posted and if you're lucky You know you you get yours right on air, too I think I had a couple I think I had one mine the one about asking Tommy if he thought he could sort of started his Home gym earlier, and he kind of was like no I kind of started the perfect time I was like I don't know man like it would have been awesome to like

Just cuz you live in a townhouse you're renting doesn't mean you can't buy a squat or like you could have done with the same gym that you have in your house and you know your town, your rented townhouse. I guess the only thing was maybe if you only had like a one or two stall garage and didn't want to, you know, park on the street. I can see that being the reason of why he couldn't have started the home gym. But I don't know the best time to start the home gym was yesterday in my book. And then my, I did hit him with a least fun, most fun, basically podcasting together. And I think my favorite answer was Tanner saying, the least fun is definitely not having

or the most fun would be not having to go outside when it's fucking negative 18 to drive 10 minutes back home every fucking week for like years on end. So and always enjoy, you you know hearing them do these episodes so for that I'll go ahead and give it a five out of five mass numbers gym iPod touches. Yeah definitely enjoy the Q&A I was on most of it live but then I just had to bail for for obvious reasons that are not so obvious so I enjoyed the what company are you merging with? Uh, because as I was driving, I yelled pillar four over and over and over and

over again, and it took, it took Tanner longer than I wanted to, to crack that joke. Yeah. Um, Mike, one question was if the lifting department T would be the, the permanent blank, um, but I guess the other Joey asked about Florida. So in the discord, everybody was ragging on me for asking about the move to Florida. But I don't think that was me that actually submitted that. So that was pretty funny.

Cause then like later I was thinking back on, I don't remember submitting that. And I don't remember why I did. Um, but I guess they were talking about it the week before where they were joking about packing up and moving to Florida. Yeah, if they got bought out or something. Yeah, so, you know, good episode. Always love that. I'm gonna have to give that five out of five puppers. Nice. He did have a puppers. And what was the drink?

Do you familiar with the drink that they had that that was that they didn't like? Was that what the fuck it was? They like they're there. There was in the can for that episode. That was the part. Yeah, they didn't love it. And you know what? Like, I don't. Was it the week before then? It was something that isn't like one of the episodes.

I swear they like. Fuck. Oh, no, sorry. It was from it was from the live recording this. No, no, no. So the Puppers, I don't know. It was from last night's recording. Sorry. Yeah. Tanner gave a three.

Tommy gave a three and a half. And I would say the same. Puppers is a very it's a standard logger, but it has a weird licorice taste to it that I find is a bit overwhelming. So if I'm drinking beer, I'll have like one puppers. Right. And then I'll move on to what I normally like. Right. Because the puppers is just the the letter Kenny short Z connection. Hey, I just realized I made the mistake and I was I was getting that I listened to the

first like 45 minutes last night. And last night they did a what's in the can or like a you know, I think it was actually funny because it was something that someone had just left at like on the kitchen counter at Massimilary's gym and Tanner was just, it was like almost a full sixer or something. So he just like took it home and like put it in the fridge and gave the Tommy one.

And they both gave it like a one or a one and a half out of five. So I can't remember what the fuck it was. That sounds like a next week topic. Yeah, I know. It was fucking coconut water or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we'll talk about that next week but it always throws me off when I listen to this when I listen to the next one before we even talked about the previous one but wrong again Keith literally like

Someone like do the ratio though like I'm wrong like I mean, someone like do the ratio, though, like I'm wrong, like. 11% of the time and Joey's wrong, like 17% of the time. Well, it's close enough. If you think I'm if you think I'm done with that, if you think me and Nate are done with that entire concept, you are wrong again, Keith. I can't always be right. Can't I got a lot on my mind.

There's a lot going on up here. I mean, it's just that you went so hard. Did the did with the Huck Finn gif. You know, and like even when I'm kidding, I know, even when it wasn't me, you're just so quick to post it. And I was just like, I'm going to fucking get them. It's stuff. So I'm going to fucking get him. So I waited until 8 p.m. today to post that in real because I was like, oh, I hope he I hope he

barely sees it right before we were. I did know because I saw the text. I thought because you sent like the sunglasses emoji, the cool guy sunglasses. And I saw that at like eight and I was I was vacuuming. So I was just like, oh, I thought you were responding to something we were talking about earlier in the thread. And then I didn't, I didn't, I didn't get on Instagram and see that cause I don't have alerts on Instagram.

I didn't see that till like eight 20, like right before I sat down and I was like, Oh you fucker. And then I had to like, I didn't like, I did the whole thing where like I fat thumbed it and it like went away halfway through. So then I had to go start it over again and watch it. And then it got, I was like, Oh, they really did get me like three times you bastards.

It was really funny. But let's see what else happened this week. I had to go start it over again and watch it and then it got I was like, oh they really did get me Like three times you bastard But let's see what else happened this week big Chris mark went over to Scotland and lifted the Denny stones got the complete lift there What I remember what it's like 700 pounds or something total something crazy like that. So that was dope So enjoy the rest your week out there big Chris More travel through the sisters literally fucking, they went to the Carolinas during a fucking, like a mass murder hurricane. Like they got so lucky that wherever they,

whatever portions they happened to be and they didn't get completely fucking annihilated. Because like, I don't like, like, you know, Chris and Randy from Belt Fed are posting on their stories every day. And it's just fucking destroyed down there. Yeah. I mean, it's just fucking destroyed down there. Yeah. I mean, it's just it's a it's something out of a fucking movie like some of these roads

and bridges that are just completely washed away. I've never seen anything like that. Like that's a very sad to see. So glad the sisters are all right. Nothing happened to them. They're going to get a shit ton of content. Watched you. Geez.

Home, home, home gym video tour of Jim home. I mean, I'm sure I'm sure Joey got through it all. Jujie's home, home, home gym video tour of gym home. I mean, I'm sure I'm sure Joey got through it all. So we'll let him talk. Tell us all about it. I fucking slept. I slept from like six thirty to seven thirty. Like I didn't see shit. I got home from work and went right to bed. Yes, sir. I do know.

Big, big Nick consumed at least most of it because he was out there on the on the on the on the back 40, you know, with it on the cell phone there. So what, what'd you think of, uh, the Tanner and Tommy heading down to Juzi's gym and get, get, get a little tour going. It was quite the gym, uh, quite the, quite the video. Um, a lot of gold around there. So pretty, pretty nice, pretty nice, uh, YouTube video. Um, really liked the, uh the the part where Gigi was

showing a Tanner about quad development for no no quad Tanner yeah oh no I enjoyed the video it was I'd be surprised I'm curious how many other crew actually you know consumed the whole thing in the first couple hours it was out because I was I think Tanner even messaged me was like, hope you have a free hour and a half before the podcast or something that extent I was like, yeah, so I think I watched like the first 20 minutes while I was finishing up my accessory day and then I you know, went upstairs and

watched the last of it on the big TV and then like I got up to like get dinner because it was like, you know, 536 o'clock wherever. So I paused it and I got up and I felt like I had been watching it for an expert for a very, very, very long time. And I paused it and it was like 40 minutes left, 40, I was 40 minutes into it and it still had like 25 minutes to go or 27 minutes to go. I was like, I was like, God damn.

But it didn't like, I didn't feel like there was like dead spots or like just filler or anything. I mean, it was just them just, you know, and you know, Jujie can talk. So it was, I wish Tommy had got in a little bit more. I mean, it was basically Tanner doing, you know and you know Jujie can talk so it was uh I wish Tommy had got in a little bit more I mean it was basically Tanner doing you know the gym tour with Jujie and Jujie kind of talking 80% of it but uh you know it's always nice when Tanner's about or when Tommy's behind the camera and like you

know puts his two cents in every now and then and you know I enjoy that but I think the next couple videos or I think they think they were gonna record they recorded you know maybe like at least like a dozen videos or a half a dozen videos are gonna get out of that weekend that they you know Spend a lot of money that didn't you know to procure for us, so I'm excited I know I know they're doing some like was in their stories. They had fucking chalk everywhere They were cleaning up the gym and stuff So there's some kind of grip contests are gonna get into so You know and they they visited with like five

or six other people, and I'm sure they get a little bit of content from most of that, and you know, just all in all, it's really cool to see them doing that, and you know, be anxious and curious to see where else their travels take them in the upcoming years, if they get out and, you know, go visit some, if there's clusters of crew in one area that they go visit or something like that, that'd

be kind of cool. But yeah, that leads us into Big Nick. You got a little ad read for us, buddy. Yes, I do. Are you wearing pants right now or are you winning the pooing it? If you aren't winning the poo, I have an apparel company to tell you about. Masanomics is the premier lighthearted strength and fitness brand in the Greater Western, Northeast South Dakota area. Do you need formal shorts? Lift shorts are the go-to.

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all go no show. Nice, nice. Classic t-shirt, you know, the wrong side of history. If you don't have one of those. I, uh, I was, I was, I was a late adopter of that shirt. But you know, once once we had like seven guys were on our podcast simultaneously, I just figured, you know, just just for that reason alone, I got to pick one up. But it's definitely still

in the rotation. I got the last one, the last one. I am once again asking for a restock of the Silky's. You know, put a different logo on it or something, but I need a second pair, maybe a different color. It's my favorite lifting shirt or shorts. Yeah, I feel bad. I feel like those must have, I think they had just ordered those when they got the cease and desist for the lift. And then like they literally never made the website, I don't think.

And then yeah, it was a crew only. Yeah. So if you're listening and you want Silkeys, email get big at my sonomics.com You know going through going through the back catalogue as one does no up to Koo Falls They've been talking about these since like episode 2. We'll get our own short shorts and eventually we'll sell them ourselves and Yes, let's harken back on the general topics there. Where are you at on the back low buddy? We got to do your weekly checkup. I just got to Highland games, which I think is episode 25 or 26. Okay. Yeah I'm busting out about two to three episodes a day right now

Because there's still only 45 minutes and if you skip the intro in the outro you save about 20 of those minutes Oh, you don't want to hear the robot lady. Oh god No, or just the same fine as as some asnomix by our sweet merch. I can't even remember like is it because I never really watched them on youtube is that is that um Tyler reading off a script or does he just like put that in and post because I'm not watching the youtube but I can literally it's the same intro and then the same outro and it take it does take up a lot of time so I was like hey I can save so many minutes by just skipping the intro and outro well unless they're hold on the crew thinks I'm skipping out and it's not a

legitimate listen or whatever it is that they're doing to me right now well I would I would say that if you're listening it like cuz it like you have thrown out different numbers at one point You said you listened to like 1.8 or something and 7 5 is where I'm at Which I was like, I don't think I could consume it at that speed like I don't think I could consume it at any other Speed because I tried at 1.25 because I listened to the weekly episodes at 1.25 Right, and then I tried listening to the back like those episodes at 1.25. Right? And then I tried listening to the back, like those episodes at 1.25 and I was like, this is fucking painful. Like I can't.

Like too slow, you're saying? Yeah, it's way too slow. And you know, so that's like, all right, 1.75 is pretty reasonable. Sure. I might be missing a few little like one-liners or something because I'm driving while I'm listening, but I'm getting it. Yeah, you are buddy. Um, all right. Well, I think carbs had enough of us tonight and you know, you see here See if we can get that that that big Nick guy on the phone All right Big Nick is that you?

Yes, it is first time a caller a long time listener. Welcome to unpaid and underrated. We know like I always say we're not gonna we're not gonna do any pre record we're gonna jump right in so we don't miss it on any of the golden podcast moment. Which apparently are just me hiccuping into this microphone for the night I was like I was like am I gonna fill in and how long is he gonna be gone. microphone for the next time. I know, I was like, am I gonna fill in? How long is it gonna be gone? Like every time I turn it off or I lean back, I'm either coughing or hiccuping and I just cracked a beer, so.

Hiccups are the worst. There's this thing on Amazon that I've almost bought like 10 times that I remember seeing on Shark Tank. It's like a straw thing that you blow in or you suck in and it's supposed to like cure you with hiccups, or supposedly. And then I'm always like, this is stupid, I'm never gonna buy it. And then I delete it from my wish list and then I get hiccups or supposedly. And then I'm always like, this is stupid. I'm never gonna buy it. And then I delete it from my wishlist and then I get hiccups like the next day.

I'm like, motherfucker. Without fail. That's the voodoo. It's the Amazon voodoo making you buy shit. Useless shit I don't need. So Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, you've been here a long time. You've been part of Mastinomics as far as I can recall. So I have to ask the two questions.

What is your card number? And what's your Hall of Fame number? My card number is 37. Somewhere in there. 225-2021 was when I joined. Very good. Hall of Fame status. I'm kind of lacking there. I this this would make number nine.

Alright, so. Gotta start doing some traveling because the last easy one will be in February. That'll be the four years so. Arnold shouldn't be hard, but then it's kind of pretty much, uh, gonna have to make it to Aberdeen at some point in time or store crew falls. Yeah.

Yeah. So that this will be my second trip this year to South Dakota, which is wild. Cause if you'd asked me, if you'd asked me like five years ago, like what state do you think you'll spend the most time in? I probably would have said California, like maybe Colorado, like some of those like scenic areas and now it's like 2024. And I was like, I've been to South Dakota more than literally anywhere else. I'm going to, I'm going to have been in SD four times and 24 months.

Like that's like, this will be my third time in a year or yeah. In a year and a half. Yep. Oh no. Yeah. So same. All right. So how did you find Mastinomics? Like, how did you get to number 37? Like, what brought you in? Is our question. So basically, it was the end of the Mark Bell's power cast.

Yeah, it was started. Got into podcasts because of that podcast and, uh, pretty much, uh, listened to every episode started over, got through the backlog. They started doing two episodes a week and I thought this great. All the content I can consume. And then all of a sudden, uh, episodes stopped, uh, coming out and I was like, well, what's going on? And then doing some Google searches, I guess I I mean, I had some Instagram at the time and

I think I'd come across Mastanomics a time or two. But I guess episode 95 would be kind of where I think I joined into the podcast. That's the end of Mark Bell's Powercast. Listen to it to try to figure out what was going on. They had a little inside scoop that was in January 29th of 2018. Pretty much where they said that that podcast was ending and I thought, well, you know, this podcast got some potential. So I jumped around and started listening and I guess I've been a listener ever since. And then I don't know, I guess I don't know how soon they started the supporting membership. But I think I listened to episode 255 or the weekend because that was the closest to when I joined. That was Jen Thompson. I don't, there's nothing in there. I don't even, they

barely even had an ad read for, for joining the, the, the supporting membership at that time. So I don't know other than that's right before my birthday. So evidently I gave myself a birthday gift that I've every month pay Mastinomics to be a part of this. This whatever this is. So just so I understand it. So obviously, you know, in the power cast ended, you said you were Googling to like what happened to the power cast and you found Mastinomics that way.

Is that what you think happened? Because that's something like that. I have no idea. Well, that's like we'll just say that you found massonomics that way? Is that what you think happened? Cause that's something like that. I have no idea. Well, that's like, we'll just say that you found massonomics via Google and then let's kind of think about that one. Like how many other people you think found massonomics by Google? Probably not too many.

Like, I don't know how good they're S O S search and S O E. SEO. SEO. Yeah. Like, I don't know how good that is. So like that's, we're just going to say that Big Nick was the, you know, you know, Joey was the first one to create a paywall and big Nick was the first one to find Masonics on a mass on a Google search.

That's pretty cool. First one to discover a discord behind a paywall. Yep. So you've got your natural life shirt that you've that you've given what looks like the Karen cut to is there one that you missed out on that you wish you had? Yeah, the blue lift shorts, the basically the ones that you don't get the certificate of authenticity for, because I think I have everything else, but yeah, I missed out on the blue lift shorts.

I didn't quite realize what was happening at the time and how exclusive that, were those, uh, were those a hundred? Yes. Okay. Yeah. Well, I guess some of these were 50, I know that was the 300th podcast. Yeah. Everything else was a hundred. So, the curls and the breaking parallel and the bench heavy blue. I'm curious if they, like, if they just felt that that like wasn't cause they haven't done a a hundred only and the breaking parallel and the bench heavy blue. I'm curious if they like, if they just felt that that like wasn't,

cause they haven't done a a hundred only or 50 under explosive in years, have they? Like at least like, what was the last one? Breaking parallel or the, no, the curls probably. The gold curls. Which that was, that was like super early into my Masonomics tenure. So like that's, we're talking like three years ago,

I think is when the curls shorts were a thing, at two and a half I'd say so I'm curious if you know to my knowledge it was a supply trains supply chain constraints that made the blue shorts and I can only get like a hundred of them I guess with with everything going on yeah everything going on smart marketing actually you're you might be one of the first to kind of trigger me to do this and so I'm going through all of my Assonomics order numbers and if you ever wonder if I am at ten orders or not you fucking tell me I got a compile on mine. They're like I should spread out in like seven different drawers which certificate of authenticities I have

So I have the supporting membership one. So that might be interesting to bring up at some point because I only have three. All right, I've got the curls, the breaking parallel, and the collected 300th episode collector kit. I got all those. But then I also have this, which is the Born Primitive Lift Jorts one. Don't have that. Oh, that's really neat. Yeah, yeah.

I never thought to look at that because I think I have a couple of weird things in there. I have a couple from Obsidian. I have one from Skantz. Skantz actually ripped the cover off of one of the Mastonomics one to write me a personal note when he sent me something. So that was really neat there. That's really fun. I might look at that. I might look into that. Did you see what Jeff sent? My name is Jeff our guest a couple weeks ago

when Did you see that? When Jeff like I saw the post but I don't yeah So so so our you know, one of our founding fathers here Jeff helped us helps us out and does a lot of our, uh, you know, mails out the stickers and every now and then he does something really witty. So he sent the Nicholas cage, uh, monogram thing with, with like Quinn's like, thank you car.

Oh, I miss the cage. Oh yeah. No, it's yeah, it's in our story somewhere. I can, I can probably go into the archives and reshare it or something, but I, well, I actually, maybe Quinn made a post about it. Actually. Yeah. No, I didn Quinn tagged us to make a post. But yeah, if you have to really look at it, it's the Nicholas Cage crazy face

like on the background of the card. So well done, Jeff, we appreciate you, buddy. Very clever, Jeff. Do you wanna hit Nick with the least fun, most fun? Yeah, I had a hard time thinking of a good one I went through everything we had so This is what you know this fall short. We'll we'll blame you Nick. So Anyone not familiar with this game, so you know, it's a relatively new game

We play around here called least fun most fun So I'm gonna give the guests one topic and they just have to tell me least fun thing about it and the most fun thing About it. So big Nick, let's go with mowing the lawn. The least fun and most fun, buddy. The least fun is that it takes about three hours to do. I guess that could also be the most fun thing, but I just get to get to be with myself and either catch up on podcasts or I do listen to quite a few of them. And then, you know, I guess I do get to, if I do get caught up, then, uh,

you know, just, uh, listen to the country music while I'm, while I'm on the lawn. So nice, nice. Yeah. Uh, and that's not, so you have w w w w what kind of Murray is not there. Cause I know you're, you know, I had a whole bunch of stuff about how you, you love striping lawns and all that. And if we were just kind of get all the lawn talk out of the way here. Now you seem to like a man that's got, from what I've read, you had strong opinions about striping your lawn and mowing grass in general.

Yes, there's a certain rotation to mow so you get the right, you know, growth regrowth coming back. So I got a pattern, I guess, of different ways, you different patterns that you mow into the lawn. But I got a bad boy Maverick lawnmower 60 inch deck and uh yeah so the zero turn it's a zero turn yes nice yeah so you gotta those things get they're pretty dirty but they're fun I did uh I was like my favorite part of my old job was like I got to cut the grass once a week and it took about six hours so I just

you know that was like free like having good headphones is out there with like shitty air, air, air, air, you know, regular headphones with like big construction earmuffs over top of them and stuff. So, uh, and then what you just, that that's just like your physical yard is nothing to do with the farmer. Anything that's just like your yard. And then my other lawn mowers, a 1969 international harvester, one 40 with a 72 inch belly mower that I mow the, uh, the road sides with and the, uh, the lane, um, on the two farms that are

closest to my house. We, uh, so, uh, yeah, the, I live, I live nine miles like west of, of where, uh, where the, uh, our main farm is. And then, uh, so I kind of take care of the grounds, make things look nice over here. Yeah, on this side. And I saw that you- Is that what CCA means?

Yes, CCA, well, I mean, CCA stands for Certified Crop Advisor. That's one of my professional, I don't know, titles I hold, I guess. I've passed an international test professional, I don't know, titles I hold, I guess. I've passed an international test and a state test to become a CCA. They told us it's really important to have

and I have really never used it in my life. You know. So I guess I would, I more or less don't know. So you're part of a big family farm But then you also have a job in Big but yes Well, you're it is a big part of your family life is that you own or are part of a family that owns Multiple farms that are backed up to each other or something

But that is unrelated to your day job other than the fact that it's like the same like yes other than yeah the same. Like, yes, other than, yeah, the same industry. So I work at a co-op, which is basically a bunch of farmers got together and said, well, you know, we need to pool our purchases of fertilizer and chemicals together to better, better get our, basically get our costs down so that, you know, we don't get screwed on, you know, buying small amounts. So then they created a co-op. So they, the farmers are the

owners of where I work. And then, so that's how, then they basically, I don't, I guess they appoint board of directors and then they basically run our. Run our basically make the decisions on who runs our business interesting interesting and on top of that you put in five fifty hours a week at that or so and then more and then you come home and work on the farm. farm? Well, I don't really get to work on the farm too much. Okay. So I don't, it definitely be between 50 and 60 hours a week, I guess. So I'm not entirely sure. I don't, I'm a salaried employee, so I don't really get to punch in and punch out. So I don't, I don't really know how many hours I put in salary. I'm on salary and it's just like today I had, I went in and the guy that was supposed to work today was like I'm not feeling good I need to take the day off and then I was like well that means tomorrow

I expect that I'm also going in on my day off and That stress alone. I was just like it just did me in for the day because I was like I'm doing seven days this week now Because of this shit Yeah, yeah, I don't don't record. Don't take salary. That's that is my I'd have to make like 30% more than what I'm making if they want to put me in a salary position. But I'm actually half kidding. I enjoy it because our days where I was like, you know what? Screw you. Like I'm at 40 hours this week and I still have two shifts left. I'm doing half shifts by like it's luckily my company gives me that freedom as long as

the business is running. In a rare kind of something that hasn't happened in a while we have a lot of crew questions. Well everyone gave me shit for fucking not asking their stupid questions so this week I have to put everybody's in there and actually this week. I've been good ones and I even have one right like yeah, they're not there's not bad ones this week So there's not bad ones, but I will I will I will admit that like I did You know not include any submissions for last week's guest, but I went back and looked there were like two So it's like you guys didn't give me a lot to work with and I just forgot to go back and look

scant of these old Thanks guys and I just forgot to go back and look. Ask Skantz if he's old. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanks, guys. We did get a lot of, I did get a lot of, you know, that gave me a lot of runway, though, of what year people were born. And actually, you know, on the Instagram poll I did, there was more 90s than 80s by like, not a big margin, but like by 10 or 15 crew, give or take.

And there was more seventies than I thought. There was almost a dozen seventies. I think Skance even said that he knows that he's not the oldest crew. I believe that's what he alluded to in one of his comments. But then I had like eight different people respond to the initial story with like, oh, you didn't have the sixties or the fifties

or the forties or the thirties. And, you know, it's you didn't have the 60s or the 50s or the 40s or the 30s and you know, I just screen-shotted every single one of them just like, you know, it's good for engagement. They all got some responses so I think everyone, you know, knows we're just busting his chops but it was, it made me laugh all week. Sorry. No, no, it's okay. Why don't you hit, why don't you hit them with like two of those and then I'll do some of that. Yeah, uh, let's see what do we got? So so Big Ryan, I don't really know what he's talking about. So I guess it's, you know, planting related. So beans on the right corn on the left or vice versa? Is that a, is that a, is that a question that makes sense to you? Well, I'll see. Uh, there's a, there's a crop rotation. So I guess one year the beans would be on the left and

the corn would be on the right. But then the next year the corn would be on the left and the beans would be on the right. So interesting. What time and then what type of beans are we talking about? Just so I soybeans. Okay. Soybeans. Yes. So we grow a plenish beans on our farm. We get a little bit of a premium for that. So they are just round up ready. So weed control is a little bit more difficult. But they have a better, I guess a better, less fat when they make the oil for the processing. So, Interesting. So Big Jeff wants to know,'s got a another microwave question because everyone's been talking about microwave chicken.

So I'm going to consider it another microwave question. This actually is from something. Yeah. So microwaving corn in the husk is that legit or is it cheater mode? I've never really had great results with it. But I there's a bunch of people that swear by that's the only way that you, um, never tried that sweet corn. No, I want to try it.

As opposed to boiling it. Like I don't want to. Yeah. They, they tell you to leave it in the husk and then like the, uh, the silks just fall off when you, uh, microwave it in the, in the microwave. So I mixed results that I've had, but lots of people swear by it. Interest. Yeah, that was in the discord. Somebody posted a picture and they were like, my coworker always brings the weirdest shit for lunch and I don't know what this is. And it was just three full husks of corn in the fridge.

And somebody said, like, oh, you just microwave in the husk. It's easy. and everybody was like Like funny what like I've done popcorn in a paper bag Right like a fresh popcorn on the cob you just oil it and throw it in a paper bag So I can see there's some relevancy there, but they never tried that I'm gonna have to oh Are you gonna are you gonna hit up home gym con in Louisville in 2025? I know it's an Indian. So it's got to be a little bit farther, but still to be like

within reason to drive. Yeah, it's the location is pretty nice. I mean, last year, I went to Louisville for the National Farm Machinery Show in February. The only problem I have with home gym con is the the later date. I believe it's. Yeah. Yeah. It's the last weekend or the third or fourth weekend in June. And that kills me for, you know, not wanting to do two vacations four weeks apart that both cost a couple of, you know, a significant amount of money and

then waste all my PTO and this a two month period and then just be annoyed the rest of the year that I can't take vacations. But yeah, I think with that date change, I'm pretty confident that the, you know, the sister podcast won't be showing up this year. So I think if crew came specifically last year to see the, you know, Mastodonmics crew, like, you know, there'll be some of us there still maybe, but I don't think that the sisters will be putting an appearance in unless, you know, something changes with the date, which I don't see happening. But it was cool to meet you there last year. Uh, we had a nice, we had a good turnout.

There was, there was, was that the first time you met crew in person or did you get done any with the Indiana crew meetups or anything? Nope. Never had a, well, no, I guess, uh, Dr. Big J or big Dr. Jake from state farm. I met him at a powerlifting meet that we did. We both did together.

So that was the, that was the first crew meetup up. I never didn't think to take a picture or anything like that. But that was that was in that was right. Yeah, that was right when COVID started. We didn't need I pretty sure that meet. We didn't even know if it was going to happen. Because it was right. It was like the weekend after the Arnold and they canceled the Arnold that year. And I was like, what's going to happen? So I had him I hit I had to meet around the similar time it was like March 18 or 23 or something like that. And yeah, got got furloughed. That was a Saturday and got furloughed from work on Monday, like we went into the office Monday, all our projects had canceled that like indefinitely they were scheduled. And then we got an email that night that we were all on furlough I was like cool No, that's cool. All right, at least fun most fun. I think this one is from Big Jen She sends at least fun most fun to you Nick

Being a new dad And I would love it if you would explain the whole story You're frozen for a bit. So give yourself a second to come back there There you are. Yeah. Yeah. I would love it if you explained the whole story. Cause it is a really cool story. I mean, where do you want me to start? Well, I would, I wasn't going to ask that one just yet. I mean, I would, I, I know you have an older daughter too. So I would go with the whole,

cause you got two adopted daughters, right? Or is your other daughter? Okay. So the first one was some intervention where, where, uh, we had a donor, basically, my wife was able to, to have her, but then, um, she also struggled with infertility. So, uh, I guess, I don't know, I guess we'll start from the beginning. Uh, basically I was, I was born with, uh, with no balls in the sack per se. Um, they, they, they develop in your stomach and then they're supposed to work their way down. So mine never worked their way down.

Um, and then it was, you know, basically by the time you're one year old, you're supposed to have a surgery to bring them down and, uh, somebody dropped the ball, uh, literally, I guess. No, they didn't. It's like they did. Um, so nobody, nobody caught that. So it became, uh, I got to like sixth or seventh grade and I had like a two hernias, like right where my, uh, where, where, where my waistband and my, my pants and, uh, like I was playing sports and playing basketball is where it

really happened. I get really hot. So I think, I don't know, you know, when you balls are post stuff, you know, get further away from your body to try to dissipate heat. I had like two hernias there. So then they were getting caught like there. And I had like this massive pain in my like right below my stomach. I'm like, man, I don't, you know, something's wrong.

So we started, went to my my doctor went to a urologist you know, and we Found a specialist in Indianapolis And he's like, yeah, you know, it's kind of rare to have a 13 year old that I do the surgery on but uh, so We I basically had surgery to bring my testicles into my ball sack. And, uh, I guess after that, it was kind of, everything was normal again. Uh, I guess I didn't really ever catch on that like, Oh yeah, there's something kind of different about me.

It's a, didn't really, didn't really catch onto that. But anyways, uh, so one of the side effects is that, you know, they were too hot, basically most of their life. So I do not produce sperm. So kind of flash forward multiple years, get married, you know, time to start having a family, you know, not getting pregnant. So we go to a fertility clinic in Fort Wayne, and they're like, okay, well, you know, it's time to, uh, you know, give us a sample here in this, uh, um, in this room over here.

So I don't, you know, big Quinn, uh, had a little bit different story. Um, I had a nice leather couch. Um, I was a little confused. I didn't quite know like, you know, what's the cleaning procedure, how many bare asses was sat on this leather cowl? Was it white? No, it was black. Right. That's a very niche joke, by the way. Sorry.

Go ahead. Keep going. So, yeah, then I had a TV and a DVD with all sorts of different genres, I guess you say. And, you know, so, you know, do the thing. And then the doctor gives us the results. He's like, yeah, well, you know, you have no sperm. So, you know, this will be easy though. But, you know, this is the easiest part. We just get a donor, you know, do the thing,

and your wife will get pregnant. Well, you know, evidently she and your wife will get pregnant. Well, you know, evidently she had more struggles than we thought too. So we took a while. We ended up, she was able to get pregnant. I've got a seven-year-old. So that was, that was that time. And then, you know, when she got to about a year old, we decided to try it again. And this just, you know, just was not happening this way. So COVID happened, we decided to move. We put that all on pause. And then, you know, we decided to go the adoption route a couple of years ago, I guess, three years ago, we decided to. And, you know, some struggles up and down doing that but at

the end of the day we finally got matched and now we have a second daughter so I have a she's one month and one day old so I got a seven-year-old and one month old so I love it congratulations man yeah we still think we all saw that on your feed and you posted in the discord. And you are because I don't know if I saw the follow up because you were basically like waiting for the thumbs up that you were good to go home. So you basically had to just like drop everything,

go down to Texas. And you and your wife just like lived in a hotel room for a couple of weeks or? Well, we had a VRBO. So yeah, we went we went down there. You know, they told us it was absolutely going to be 10 to 14 business days is what it was going to take. And so Mila was born on Labor Day. So we didn't get a... And then she was. Um, we didn't get released from the hospital until Thursday night.

Um, so then, and we didn't sign pay, I guess, I guess the big thing was we signed papers Thursday morning. So then that got turned over into the judge after, and then they had to talk that the state of Texas had to talk to the state of Indiana and say, Hey, you know, there's an adoption going on and. You know? Yeah. I can see that being otherwise. Supposedly if you cross state lines, they call that kidnapping.

I was going to say that's actually what I was thinking. I can see crossing the state lines with a baby that isn't yours. How hard that could be. I'm not sure how they know, but, yeah, you know, if you got caught, it definitely wouldn't be worth it for what adoption costs that you want to risk it on on doing something like that. So I can see that we were down there and then all of a sudden they called me and they said, OK, you're free to go. And it was like I think it was like the seventh business. Yeah, it was nice. That was the seventh because it was Thursday and then we ended up going home on Friday.

So we had a VRBO that we paid we paid for, for two weeks that, uh, I don't know what that that's the second time you said that an acronym. I have no clue what you're saying. It's like an Airbnb. Okay. What the f I guess, I don't know. You don't know either. Okay.

I'm glad. Well, I mean, I would assume it's like an Airbnb. I don't, it's just another, I don't know. You see, I get so confident VRB VB. I'm like, what the fuck did he say? Anyway, this is the podcast. You see I get so confident VRB VB. I'm like what the fuck did he say? anyway Virtual room and board something I want it like that's if I had to make something up. That's what I would make up Sounds good to me Did you move to protein or is that another is that a Coors original?

Is the Coors? Yeah, yeah, you guys you lucky to get banquet in the States. We do. Yeah, we get the branding. We just don't get the the word. Well, that's awesome. And so congratulations, girl. That all the way. Love it. Yeah, yeah. Outnumbered. But I say we I'd say we got the backstory of that. So let's let's dive into the meat and potatoes of the least fun, most fun

as far as basically having a newborn. Um, so having a newborn, um, I guess, uh, the, the waking up at my, my shift is the 2 AM shift. Uh, fortunately, I guess she is, uh, much, much more, uh, content than our first daughter was. Um, so she, she's pretty good about sleeping for about three hours. So we try to feed her at 10 and then I get up at one to two somewhere in there and feed her and then, uh, and change her diaper. And then, uh, my wife gets her at that, uh, I guess it would be a four to five timeframe.

And then, you know, we're up by then. So I'm up for work and then, you know, either depending on how it works out, she's taken my my older daughter to school and then I take care of her until I got to go to work and then something like that. So it's not terrible. I can't complain too much, but that's probably the least fun part about it. Especially as harvest is coming up. Today was the first big day of harvest at work. So working longer hours and then also getting up in the middle night to feed is not going to be the most fun coming up.

The most fun part about it, I guess finally being done with that and having our family complete would be the most fun. Um, you know, she's just, uh, I mean, everybody says it. I mean, I said it about Haley when she was born, but she's the most cute baby you'd ever seen and all that sort of thing. So. Yeah, they got to make babies cute or else we'd eat them. If I say, if I that, you would instantly say, that's a really weird thing to say, Keith, because you don't have kids.

So it would have been extra weird. So you're a Purdue alum. Yes, I am. So so is Mike Allstott the best Purdue football player of all time, then? Little bit for your time. Pretty, pretty good. Yeah, a little bit before time on before I was. Well, I guess it'd be with Drew Brees, maybe.

Yeah, Drew Brees, Brees, probably better quarterbacks. You know, I guess I would I would identify better with a fullback. So, you know, yeah, it's fair. I agree, since you're taking up most of the camera right now. I think that was definitely a little bit of a shock because I've only ever seen pictures on Instagram. You were much bigger. I was a big dude.

You're much bigger on Zoom. Maybe I got the camera too close to me. You have one of those cameras that's tracking you. That's kind of neat, too. I think it was like zoomed in a minute ago when he was like telling his story. I was like, oh, well, that's cool. Yeah, I wasn't quite I didn't quite like it because sometimes the the unpaid and underrated banner kind of gets cut out a little bit. So right now it looks pretty good. Yeah, we need that's cool. Yeah, I wasn't quite. I don't quite like it because sometimes the the unpaid and underrated banner

kind of gets cut out a little bit. So right now it looks pretty good. Yeah, we need that in there. Yeah. OK. OK. OK. My kids say that now it's the best. I was sitting on the couch and then they're both eating. I'm not even in the room and I just get my little girl go, OK, start dying. Anyway.

What do you got now? Uh, you know, my my my favorite topic is do you got a good poop story from sixth grade? You want to tell us? Yeah, sure. So I guess sixth grade me took school very seriously. We were taking a standardized and they called it they called it I-STEP testing. I don't know if that was Indiana standardized testing something, something. We're not good with that here.

We've already went over that earlier. Yep. So it was very important testing. I was basically going to, you know, decide whether I was a success or failure for the rest of my life, if I didn't pass this. So yeah, it was very serious. Got through like the second to last testing

before lunchtime and I was like, man, my stomach was just rumbling. I did not feel good. I was like, man, okay, I can just make it. I can make it to lunch and I'll be fine. Make it to lunch. So started the next testing session and you know, you got the, the, this was the pencil paper, bubble sheet type of test or sort of thing. It was, it was math, I

remember. And, uh, big math. So we, uh, was going through it and I mean, I just had to go, it was just not good, but I was like, all right I mean I just had to go it was just not good but I was like alright I'm gonna go through as fast as I can get this done and you know I was kind of letting out just a little bit of gas here and there thinking oh everything's alright and get done and ask the teacher I gotta go to the bathroom real bad so go to the bathroom and yeah it was it was not good It was not quite not quite gas. You sharted. That's good stuff. Yes.

So is that better or worse than when you had to take a, you know something at your tiny little office or before big sales meeting with a customer? Yeah, so I was this is when I was at Purdue. I took a sales class and I was supposed to be an intern. Yeah, I was supposed to be an intern. Yeah, it was a backstory. So I found a Seed saleswoman that was, you know, she really knew her stuff. And she was my mentor, I guess, for this project. And she says, well, okay, we're going to meet. It was on spring break during, at Purdue, and it was 2012.

during at Purdue and it was 2012. Not really relevant, but anyways, I met at this place and we were going over like pre-sales call meetings. So we were going over in this tiny office with the, she was actually like a sales rep. So she was there with the actual sales person from the co-op location. And a lot of these co-ops in our area have like an old office, and then they built like a new office later on. So this guy was still in the old office, and it's just basically bare bones, tiny. Now offices are more, I don't know, creature friendly

and a little bit nicer, bigger, more open. So anyways, he was in this tiny office and it was in the morning, right away in the morning. I didn't get my morning poop out of the way. Go to the meeting. Yeah, I gotta go to the bathroom. I was there plenty early, that was fine. Go to the bathroom.

I mean, it was just, it just smelled awful. His tiny office comes in. We start going over the sales meeting and then this other guy comes in and and you know, he wasn't shy. He comes up to me, he looks and he says, what the hell crawled up your ass? That's the worst when you got to go and a small like I did. I deal with that every down there at work where it's like the only place to go is right in their property management office and it's like they don't even have a vent fan. So like, I like turn the sink on

a little bit to kind of, you know, make a little bit of this noise cancellation and it's just like, Oh God, it's the worst, but that's good stuff. I did that affect your sales results? Um, you know, I really don't know. Um, we had a good sales meeting, but I guess I didn't, I don't know what ended up happening. The meeting went well. Um, I guess in, in agriculture, um, you kind of wait, you're, uh, you're, you're, you always want to be like the second guy in line for, guys are, are pretty loyal to their, uh, to who they buy from. But then you kind of wait for those guys to screw up and then you gotta be there in the waiting. So I don't know if that

was the case with this seed sale per se, but I, I, I have a friend that actually left the company I'm with to go and sell farm and construction equipment. And I keep waiting because as soon as they kick the benefits in, I'm just like, yo, I'll send you my resume. Because I've done sales now. The exact opposite of sales is I understand that you have great buying power. So how many bottles of shampoo do you have? Well, probably. See, see, I live three miles from work, and it's not towards town, it's away from town. So when I go to town, you stock up on stuff. So right now, I have the shampoo and conditioner combo, but I also, in Texas, I bought the

three-way combo, so I guess you got to count that. So that's there's another bottle. It's the, uh, but I, I use it as the body wash at the moment. And then, uh, yeah, I think there's probably, I don't know, two or three, probably still sitting in the, in the closet waiting for, um, you know, I don't know another day as a, you know, I guess by two get one free or something like that, I don't know. And then when they go on sale, I understand you're going to buy some more.

Probably. I mean, I, you know, I, you know, I'm not, I'm not bald, but I do have very short hair, so it probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but in my mind, you know, let's deal. Well, it's not just shampoo, right? We're talking a deodorant lotion chapstick protein powder, which, which a when I read this I just smiled because I'm like as a man after my own heart man like buy find something you like buy it in bulk and fucking you only got to buy it like twice a year I rather remember they spend like a

hundred dollars to buy six months worth of fucking deodorant or whatever not deodorant but like any fucking body well is something I don't want to have to buy the same fucking thing every Yeah, I get raped my deodorant I'm just like oh no, this is only gonna last another five days gotta go and get another one I don't I just don't like having shit or that I love having backups. I love backups But ironically, I'm fucking out of deodorant and I ran out of deodorant and toothpaste and I went to go get my backups And they're all fucking going like that's what it is. How did like I'm so annoyed. I was like, where the fuck is my extra? Yeah, the only thing I stuck up on is like toilet paper and stuff like that, where it's like you can't get to your last roll.

Like, that's just not an option. There is no last roll. There is the last roll in this package. But now when it comes to like toothpaste and shit like that, like I'm the opposite of you guys. Speaking of packages, did did you almost show your package when you ripped your tuxedo pants at the wedding? That's a good segue.

Not quite sure which wedding, but I will. Wait, have you ripped more than one tuxedo? I'm sure I have. These these thighs are dangerous. So the specific story was you were taking pictures, you jumped over a handrail and split your pants, and then all the bridesmaids. So it must be your sister's wedding.

It was my sister's wedding, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was that one. Yes, that was a pretty egregious one there. Yes, it was probably showing off just a little bit too much. I don't think at that point in time it was too much to drink, but, uh, that that has been a problem at a time or two. So, you mean every wedding ever?

I, he, you buy beer and bulk also. Uh, I mean, if you had a beer fridge. Uh, well, I don't have electricity in my bar and otherwise I probably would but at the moment my garage fridge in my basement Fridge are kind of one in the same. So I go everything's in the basement right now. So I guess I guess I do Because that's pretty much our our alcohol fridge So so I will have to as what we touch make this for a little bit here There's not too many people that Predate me on having a home gym and I went by scrolled all the way back to your Instagram and your first home gym post

For us from like mid or early 2014. So you you chipped me by about a year So how is that journey been? it looked like you were in a different house when it first started and is just just virgin 2 now and in general Virgin 3, okay, just just in general it sounds like I Used to you sound like someone that doesn't like going to town very often So I guess having your home gym has to be a nice addition to your life Yes, so

Fort Wayne's kind of I don't know I guess lacking And like I guess more of a powerlifting type gym There's there's you know, I guess your YMCA and your, they got a lot of any time fitnesses and whatnot, but there's not, I don't know, there's just, I don't know, it's nice to be at my house, but also there's just wasn't very many options that were close by. I live on the southeast side of town. There's not a whole lot out here. There is some, there is actually a pretty nice powerlifting oriented gym on the northwest

side of town now that opened a year ago. They just had their one year anniversary. But so yeah, I just, I don't know, always kind of thought, I guess, getting into lifting, it was a lot of lead FTS articles. So I don't know, not really necessarily in the home gym space, but equipment based. So I was kind of looking at looking at their equipment offerings and whatnot. And it's kind of always, I don't know, something I always wanted to have. So got my first, I guess I started out in the garage of our first house.

And then I quickly moved that to the, to the basement just because of, uh, um, there was, you know, no insulation in there and I could deal with the humidity, I guess, in the basement, um, yeah. So, yep, we started there. We lived there for about a year. And then we decided that, uh, I was, I I've lived basically, I live where my brother-in-law lives now, uh, my wife's brother, um, on their farm.

And then, uh, that was a 45 minute drive to work every day. So we decided to drive, we decided to move to the west side of Fort Wayne. So I'd be closer to where I was working at. And then I had a, we built a three car garage. So I basically knew that the one stall was gonna be my gym at that gym, at that house. And then we decided I was transferred to basically where my home co-op was was my location where, you know, I grew up with my dad going to get our fertilizer and,

and chemicals and whatnot. So, um, then it was back to driving 45 minutes in the opposite direction. Um, and then, so we decided to build this house where we I guess hopefully we're gonna live forever. So And then tonight so now you're living near where you're working right? Cuz I got lost there on a couple of those Okay So so you're still on you born frame family land most of the time just on your family land is so big that you could Live on one complete opposite side of it and be 45 minutes in the other direction

No, no, no, this this was we lived in just a housing addition. Just, Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. No. Okay. We did that farm over there. Gotcha. Okay. I must have misunderstood then I got you. So well, that's cool. Sounds like everything's a, you know, turning, you know, coming up for big Nick lately, then you got your, you know, you got the job, you want, you got the house, you want, you get the family you want. And it sounds awesome, man. all we all love that hear that My turn yep

How many drink spotters is too many drink spotters I? Don't think there's a number Yes, I did not Well see I I'm a little Perplexed right now because I did not get an answer. I didn't follow close enough attention while I was running my sprayer during the Jujutsu video. So I don't know how many he has, but I know he's got a gold one now.

Yeah, I think he was like six or something. Kind of nice to have a Mastinomics red one. But I don't think there's an answer to too many. So Um, you know, I've got two Original one inch hole drink spotters. I've got two five eighths inch Originals I have four drink spotter lights and I have two XL's so I suppose I should

And I have two XL so I suppose I should That's uh Yeah, you stumped my number, but I'm that's so many. I thought I had a lot. Jesus Christ now I gotta watch that video. How did you get a gold one? That was a Tanner gift. I think I had to have been the one cuz didn't didn't The wrestler kid fucking win one or something in Austin Yeah So didn't his wife win one for her video or something like that like wasn't that a thing a few years ago? And I'm assuming they had another one because like it didn't look like I

Anyway, yeah Tanner Okay, next Joey question. What's the best soil composition for cool beans? Um, so I mean, definitely a loamy soil would probably be best for cool beans. That way you have a perfect mixture of the three components of soil, which would be sand, silt and clay. You get too much clay, you have a lot of water holding capacity, a lot of nutrient holding capacity, but the soil gets tight,

the roots can't dig down deep. You get on the ground too wet, cause compaction, not good. So sand, you don't have a whole lot of compaction to worry about, nutrient holding capacity is not very good. So sand, you don't have a whole lot of compaction to worry about. Nutrient holding capacity is not very good. Water holding capacity is not very good. Although maybe I should amend my answer because the world record for the largest soybean yield per acre came a belief in Georgia. Um, on some sandier ground that's irrigated.

So maybe, maybe I should go with some sand where they can spoon, spoon feed nutrients and everything it needs. So, but I would say in general, a low me soil composition would be the best for. Cool beans. We know Tanner likes to draw lines in the sands. That probably would be, you know, more the more sand the better. He's he's drawing line in the loam now. Yeah, yeah.

I don't know what the line in the loam has been drawn. We've got to pass that deadline, right? Like, I feel like that was a couple of episodes. It means we get in the gift. Is this way to get any day? It was it was passed in one. Yeah, we should be getting a gift any any week now. I'd hope to be cool.

Do you want to do an FMK like we're getting about one to tell us our intent? So I I just I want I want one more story and then we can go. I want I want I want to hear about the painful elimination and how your wife gave you wrong advice, I guess Unless that was an it would be an edit to unpaid. Did you where is that? No. Nope. Okay. Oh No, so there's a dude, you know, we're talking about Nick that you you ordered a burger called the painful elimination. Oh All right, keep going Tell us the painful elimination story. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, spicy foods, wings, et cetera, I guess. And, uh, you know, I,

I, I'm not real great with spicy foods. Um, sometimes I think I'm a little bit tougher than I am maybe. Yeah. So I thought, Oh, you know, this can't be too bad. And, uh, yeah, it was pretty bad. It was, uh, um, my wife told me to just stop and I, there's no stop. Said I cannot do that. I ordered this. Um, I was always taught, um, you know, don't, don't leave food on your plate.

Um, so tried to, tried to keep going with it. And, uh, it was, it was just not good. Um, very spicy, could not, could not handle it very well. Um, and then, yeah, the, uh, the elimination part was, uh, yeah, there's no, there's no stopping. Once you get that spicy and you're just like, well, it can't get hotter. Yeah, it's just not going to go away. I'm overwhelmed. Yeah, I think the ghost pepper wings, the first time I had those, I think it was my wife, no, I had Reaper pepper wings. And I was like laying on the floor, a complete

just mess. Hammered, by the way. And my wife had to take them away because I was like no like you can't stop you know spoil myself with some Chick-fil-a I do go with the the spicy chicken sandwich with pepper jack cheese it's like it's really not spicy at all but it's just like it's it's not not spicy enough it's it's just like you know but it's like it gives a little more kick but I anything more than that I'd be like nope that's that's that's all I want but but yeah I think that that covered the majority of general. We can hop right in. You want me to FMK? I got a So like you say you're not great while you're while you're establishing your FMK. You say you're not great with like spicy food. Like what is the Because you obviously like it right like you wouldn't have ordered that if you were afraid of it. So like what is your basic spice level like

If you can name the pepper that'd be awesome. Or if you can name the pepper, that'd be awesome. Or if you can name the food, like Keith just said, his Chick-fil-A pepper jack is the uh, the flamethrower at a Dairy Queen was It was just a good amount of flame. I guess how that I actually remember I had that one when I first came out I was like, I'm going to Dairy Queen to get that. Yeah, it's probably not very spicy for you But you know, I noticed and that's that's spicy enough Right if I if I go if I'm eating it I go who? That's good. Then that's usually where even my wife would go. Well, then I know not to try it because you're broken so now that's a good call that's a good call and as I think was jalapeno and

Scotch bonnet level I think Maybe spicy. I know it had jalapenos on it. Pickled jalapenos hit different, by the way. Like raw jalapenos are terrible, but pickled jalapenos, they just, they decrease the heat enough and increase the flavor enough that they hit different, they're awesome.

All right, yeah, go ahead with your FMK. All right, big Nick, we had some good submitted submitted ones so I didn't actually have to pull these out of my ass like I do some weeks so I'm just going to pick one of the stock ones we got here that I like it so I would go off of their movies personally but you have your druthers so you can answer it however you want so FMK I'm going to go with three dudes here so we got Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, FMK, Eastwood Stallone, Arnold. I'm not going to be well liked for this one. So I guess I'm going to have to kill Arnold.

I don't know, I just never, never watched very many of his movies growing up. So I do really like Terminator. I did watch that one. That was kind of the exception. Anything else? Terminator 2? I guess both of them. Because most people, when they say Terminator,

I feel like most people are talking about T2, at least in our- Yeah, they probably are. You're probably right. But that's probably the first one I watched. And then came back to the first. And then I guess Jingle All the Way would be the other one that I watched. And then everything else has been kind of more as an adult. So between Clint Eastwood and Stallone,

I don't know, I guess there's enough, like not quite real good. Well, let's see what would be FMK. I don't know, I guess I'd marry Stallone. I like the trashy eighties You know action movie sort of thing. So then I guess that leaves F Clint Eastwood, there you go. That's a good one. All right Yeah, yeah, that's a good list. I think still old is definitely the better of the action movies of those three Yeah, I like a lot of still in movies. They're like there's a lot of bad ones, but like Arnold another

Sloan's back. It's hard to say like it's still a Sloan I don't know. They're both bad actors with Sloan is a better actor than Arnold in general And I I put I would put Rambo first blood up against any Arnie movie Absolutely, it tells a better story. It's got a lot of really heavy tones. It touches on a lot of subjects where you're like, this is a shitty action movie. But then like, it's talking about the treatment of veterans after the war. It's talking about masculinity. It's talking about like all of these fucking things in an action movie. So I would put that movie up against any other movie except for maybe Gran Torino

Because I think Gran Torino touched on a lot of that stuff like really other other tones as well, too But not an action movie right like I don't he may be so like two punches in the whole movie right yeah But then the Rambo last blood was shit They kept going back to the well with Rambo and Rambo. He's like, got tunnels, tunnels under his host. Yeah. He's a survivor, get fucked. I didn't watch it.

I almost walked out, actually. Tulsa King. What? I was just saying, because I was trying to say, watching him do shit as a 65-year-old is horrible, but Tulsa King, he's literally 75, 80 years old and it's like one of the more popular TV shows. I actually love that show. Yeah.

No, I do too. I watch it. It's just like, it's, it's crazy. Cause it's like, he doesn't look that much different from when he did when he was like 45, you know, or whatever. Like in his, like, you know, he looks almost more normal now than he did when he was super juicy. All right.

You gotta get them a Mount Rushmore. I do actually. I might even have two depends on how this one goes. Do it. Um, so Mount Rushmore and I have been told that there is a correct answer. So I have to compare your answer to this answer. The Mount Rushmore of John Deere tractor models. Ooh, boy. What would be the correct answer of John Deere tractor models? I won't tell you who gave it to me because that might give it away.

Huh. Well, I don't know. I guess we'll go with the ones that we own, I guess. So Mount Rushmore, the John Deere MT. I'm a part owner in that with my brother-in-law. That was his grandpa's, my wife's, and his grandpa's tractor. They bought brand new, part owner in that. that John Deere 40 which would be basically the newer model of an empty that tractor was what the tractor that my dad learned to drive on I just I just picked that one up about that one on an auction just this recently so kind of a childhood I guess classic car thing he he bought that. So then, I don't know, it gets a little bit tricky, but I'm going to go with in age and

horsepower I'm going to go with the John Deere 730 diesel wide front. That's a tractor that I do some tractor pulling with. Still still has the hand clutch. Actually, that's the first one of the tractors I mentioned that does have a hand clutch, which is kind of a John Deere, I guess they're kind of known for in that two cylinder engine. This was a 730 and quite big cylinders though,

for two of them. And then I'm going to go with the John Deere 40 20, um, side council only, um, version. So it'll be my, my four. All right. I think two of those were on the list of the correct answer. Uh, so Tanner would say the correct answer is the 40 20, the 44 40, which is why I said that the this was the, the episode title. We do not own a 44 40. We own a 44 30 on our farm, but so that'd be the smaller model.

Little said, he said the a and the 50. We have an a and the 50. We do not own a 50. We own a 60. Okay. Okay. So another one that we talk about, actually, I feel like we've talked about it a lot and the Davids are going to start ragging on us for it. But Mount Rushmore of male country singers. Ooh, male country singers.

Okay. Don't say Garth Brooks today. Why? male country singers. OK. Don't say Garth Brooks today. Why? Oh, you didn't see the fucking the sexual assault accusations that came out, like the lawsuit and shit today. Oh, something big happened. I had it in general topics and I was like, oh, we probably shouldn't talk about it. But then it was like, oh, we're going to talk about male country.

I didn't deep dive it. But my wife, my wife came home and said, like, you'll never guess this. Who who was, you know, but also, you know, anyway, give us your answer. Just give us your answer. Okay. Well, I, he, you know, I guess I was influenced because a lot of other people did like Garth Brooks. Um, but I will not, he probably was not on my list. So are we going, we're definitely going singles acts.

No, let's hear it. We're going with your brothers. Oh, Brooks and Don Alabama throw it out. It was Montgomery, January. I want to hear them all. Okay. Well, uh, Toby Keith, uh, defining, defining, uh, artist in my, my adult life. Um, we'll go, uh, Oh boy.

Who else? Uh, we're going to go with, uh, Colin Ray, a lot of, a lot of good Colin Ray, um, growing up, um, I guess that's always kind of what I, I don't know. I'll go back to when I was in that, I don't know, 16, first driving a car sort of thing. What was, what did I have in the CD player? A lot. So that's kind of where I'm basing a lot of this, this, this discussion on, um, then we will go with, uh, we will go with Montgomery Gentry. Um, probably my favorite duet, um, or as at the time, um, a lot of people give

me shit that I don't have Brooks and done on there, but I don't know. I guess I was more of a Montgomery dentistry guy at the time. And then, uh, a band, I guess I would go with a black Hawk. Um, kind of probably a little bit more under the radar, but, uh, a couple, a couple really, uh, defining songs of me growing up there. It's good. Let's kind of blanking on it. There's definitely like three or four artists. I probably never, well, at least black Hawk and Montgomery, there's like multiple

people probably have never been mentioned on this podcast before. So I like that as a, you and I, I think we definitely same era of country music that we enjoyed growing up for sure. Yeah. I was always a little bit behind the curve. So that probably, probably fits from, uh, you know, the eighties versuss versus the the early 90s birthdate. How old are you Nick? I'm 33. I was born in 91 Okay, and tracks you're a little younger than us, but thereabouts bring chicken

spring chicken, um Do you guys was there a band called Florida Georgia line? Yep Yeah, that was like way after when I actually listened to new music that was there. Probably 10 years ago. They blew up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Right. Like they're bad. If I recall correctly, like I think they're like fucking boy, boy pop music. Yeah. I think this is a thing. Nick, uh, bedazzled fucking jeans and shit. Yeah. Is, um, yeah. I think they were the one of the defining I hate new country moments was when

that, when they got big, I was like, this is the worst shit I've ever heard. And I heard that like, you kind of hate when people say they hate new country. Well, I mean, a little bit. There's definitely there's definitely songs of Florida Georgia line and Luke Bryan would be the other one that were major. Um, uh, I guess contributors to this, uh, the new country sucks. Um, some newer, newer Jason Aldean probably falls into that. Um, old Aldean definitely a little bit different, but, um, yeah.

So, um, I don't know, there's, there's, I don't know, I guess still some catchy, catchy Florida Georgia line that, you know, I would listen to that. I don't just skip, um, if it pops up, but yeah. Um, I guess in general, there's a, um, I don't, I don't, I don't totally disagree, but I can see where they're coming from when they say the, you know, the new country sucks, but, um, you know, I don't know. I, there's some stuff I enjoy. It's like, like Taylor Swift. Yeah.

I mean, and made a country song. I know that it was a joke. Uh, have I, I did, I did really kind of like her as much. She was a country artist. I haven't really followed her as much as a pop artist, but, uh, same, you know, did you see some, go ahead. Uh, someone I saw on Instagram or something like someone spent like three thousand dollars

some some large amount of money to buy a signed Taylor Swift get guitars to smash it for Instagram or something. I was like, what the fuck? I was like that hate is fucking stupid. It's like I get a lot of money like like unless you can recoup some of that revenue and clicks and likes and shit like you just threw away $3,000 for Like maybe to get mentioned on the news. Oh shit. Yeah, exactly Whistle and diesel made a made a career out of that. So I mean I guess

Annoying human being have I mentioned lightning Luke yet. That's a new one. Number me. All right. Put it on your list. He's a, he's very old timey, but he's like a newer guy, but his voice, every time he comes on, I annoy Morgan. Cause I'll just like, I'll just go, I love this guy's voice. And she's like, I know. And you say it every time he comes on. Um, he actually plays fiddle for the bridge city centers. So you never hear him sing. And then his solo stuff came up and there's a song if I could give you a song,

it would be my walking stick. And it's literally just about his cane and how he enjoys walking with his stick. But it's very old timey and it's yeah, it's been in my regular rotation lately. Very old timey like Oh brother, we're at that old timey. Yeah. We's been in my regular rotation lately. Very old timey, like, oh, brother, we're out that old timey. Yeah. We's mass communicating. I went to save it on Spotify and just started playing that. I didn't like catch it through the headphones until a second ago. Yeah.

Like how long has that been waking up my wife? Okay. Uh, I think that's about all I've got for. Yeah. I mean, I like, Oh, we I like we get I mean, I feel bad. We are your sister and your mom and you even gave us a lot more stuff. But you know, you got time. Um, really, I mean, so the the family farm mature, it's your wife's family, right? And you guys are on it.

I was just that's that was a big one. I know they wanted us to hit on but I think you kind of talked about that. Well, no, I mean, my my wife does her family does farm and then my dad, but sure. So it's your it's your parents side then. Yeah, I guess that's the farm that I'm going to be involved with, I guess. You know, something, something different happens. But yes. I mean, yeah, I could we go through here forever. I'm just trying to we got we got enough of it sprinkled in an unpaid You know, maybe like episode 600 will have me back on again or something like that We're gonna need repeated people before that Yeah, one thing I was thinking about I mean, this is sorry. This is not nearly a Nick thing, but like we could get some old guests on it. Just do like, you know, we have this novel idea to do, you know, topic episodes.

You know, we'd be the first first ones to do it and just get like three old guests. Just have a roundtable on like a just and shoot the shit for an hour. But would that be two sets in Repsy? Like, I don't know, like like as a listener, if you're listening this far, you're obviously a listener that enjoys the podcast. So let us know in the discord if that's something you'd like to see every now and then like once every week. We'll do this like thing where we all come in with like information on like where the

Hannon game started. And you know, like we'll have an episode every couple of weeks where we just all have really well researched information on, you know, just the historical lifting stuff. Yeah, but I would that's a callback That's actually a callback episode like 23 or 22 But I would challenge the the crew and the listeners to actually like approach Joey and Nate and I With a topic that you want to be a guest on and talk about it But like I don't want to do all the work

Like this is your chance to contribute more to unpaid and underrated and have your own little like you can almost be the featured host or something. And then ask, you know, I don't know, I just I like the idea of, I want this to go on indefinitely. And granted, I have 100 more people we can get on as guests, but like, we can stretch that out even farther. If every like three or four months, we do a wouldn't call it filler episode, but a non new guest episode, it's to have to evolve. I think you're right. I think in this format, while it has been effective for us, it's going to have to evolve because we're going to run out of we're going faster than crew is growing.

Basically, I mean, crew just exponentially grew. But like, you know, how many of those people even listen to us, how many of them want to be on here, how many want to be in the spotlight? Right. Yeah, that's the thing. Like there's 400 crew, but How many of them want to be on here? How many want to be in the spotlight, right? Yeah, that's the thing. Like there's 400 crew, but do more than 150 want to be on a podcast? Like, so we got another year, two years, and then what are we going to do kind of thing?

So. Yeah. But all right, that'll lead us into, you know, we have this game we like to play, Big Nick. So Unpaid or Underrated is a game that, you know, we like to play here. So we're going to give you a couple, we're going to give you six to nine topics. And you tell us if they are underrated,

which means you think they are awesome. And if they're unpaid, they suck. So Big Nick, unpaid or underrated turn signals. I'm going to go with mostly unpaid. A lot goes into where I live. I don't really need to tell the corn and the soybean fields where I'm turning. So why, why put your turn signal on? So that's that's kind of my theory. So yeah, and then in my my travels from we

drove from from Dallas back to Fort Wayne when we were, I guess, going down and back to pick up Mila when we adopted her. And yeah, a lot of people just like, I get annoyed and frustrated when you're in a line of people passing a semi and then all of a sudden he turns his turn signal in and he just cuts you off because he's going to pass the guy and he's going, you know, half mile an hour faster than the semi in front of him. And I, you know, I mean, I guess he used the turn signal. So he's telling me he's coming over, but I don't think that's quite right.

Well, I get, he didn't signal intention. He just did it because it was the thing to do, right? You know, I was supposed to back off and just let him pass and you know drive five miles behind him Well, you know everybody else gets behind me. Well, I I agree with your second point But I don't feel that that has turned signals in general but like okay, so You're driving literally in just cornfield. Sure. Don't use your turn signal. There's no one around But if you're like in traffic, are you an asshole that don't use your turn signal. There's no one around, but if you're like in traffic, are you an asshole that doesn't use your turn signal? I mean, when I'm in traffic, I do try to use it as much as possible, but there's times

where it makes no difference where, you know, if I have my turn signal on or not. So what do I need to put it on for? I don't think we can be friends anymore,. I think I'm gonna unfollow you. Okay. Alright so unpaid or underrated solar forms? Um I'm gonna go with the the unpaid. I guess I just recently read you know Elon Musk supposedly said some weird theory of, I don't understand it. He said, if you understand this, the whole world could be powered by a small area of Arizona and Texas, and I'd be fine with that. If we could do that, put it in places where,

you know, productive farm ground is not, you know, being taken up. I guess there's some recreational concerns, I guess, at that point in time, but I guess the big thing is right now there's a fairly big solar farm being talked about, being put in, and it comes back to landowner rights, I guess as long as everybody that owns the land is okay with it, but the problem is you get two or three landowners that sign off on it, and then you're kind of the guy that doesn't really want it, and then you're kind of forced to just go along

with the flow, and that's where I don't really, really like the follow the herd mentality of, we're just gonna force this through because everybody else isn't in favor of it. I feel like rooftops in cities are highly underused, right? Yeah. You've got these flat, they're just building, they're just collecting water

because they're drained to just shit. And they're just a tar paper roof. Put a fucking solar panel on. Get off the ground. So the big problem with that is gonna be the, the power companies, the electric companies. It is the power. How do they, how do they, you know, that's not their, you know, the like, so like, you know,

I guess that would be more like a homeowner putting up a, their own solar panel. I guess I'm all for that. Yeah. You know, if you wanna, you wanna do that on your own property, that's great. But, so that's, you property, that's great. But so that's, you know, that's the big contention here in Ontario

is if I could, my dad has already said this, we just line the roof with solar panels, if I had if I could stop giving them money. But they won't let me do that. If I put up solar panels, I'm actually feeding their grid for them to give me the power back. And I have to pay them for that luxury. And it's like a reduced pay, but it takes like five years or something to actually make your money back from the solar panels.

It's like, no, no, no. Just let me cut you off. Like you get fucked out of my house, I give my own power, that would be ideal. But again, it all comes down to, well, how do we mitigate the costs and make sure that we are still in control? It's the sun, that's why you can't, it's the sun. So like around here, you can't,

like if power goes off, all of a sudden, you know, you get a big storm rolls through and then it's sunny the next day, but you still don't have power. You're not allowed to use those solar panels to run the electricity in your house because you could be feeding the grid. Well, I mean, I get it that, you know, there's, there's dangers, I guess, for the workers that are trying to restore the power. But, um, I feel like there's some safeguards that like, okay, well, at this point we're feeding these batteries. It's not going back to the grid, but surely there'd be a safeguard for that. But no, I get it. I'm I'm I love solar farms again for the same reason, like as long as it's agreed by everybody, cause I do kind of think the less power we give those monopolies

the better better but now we're getting political I just popped this in so my brain is going a little more political than I thought solar farm I didn't realize we're gonna it was such a contested answer so we got in trouble for not being political enough The Davids are ragging on Joey won't talk about strippers literally literally I do love how we all Know like 99% of the crew like understand it's just like unwritten like no fucking politics in discord So yeah, it was there was a politic meme posted or something and we're just like, we don't do that here. Fuck off. Like, yeah, no, thank you. I wouldn't say fuck off.

I think it was like, well, fuck off with the meme, not not that the person in general. But yes, you just I was it was just nice to see. So Big Nick unpaid or underrated vegetables. I guess depending on which one, but overall as a whole, and definitely unpaid, I could do without them. Isn't that your whole source of revenue? A lot of taste in my life. You don't see the irony there.

Well, you know, you know, you grow some of them, but, you know, I guess, you know, corn would be fine, but, you know, like broccoli and stuff like that. Is that the kind of corn you grow? Or do you grow like, no, so I mean, we most well, I mean, we do grow sweet corn. My sister grows, I don't know, a couple acres a year, I get to kind of, kind of pick the seed variety she's she's growing and whatnot. So, um, but yeah, that's a, that's a sweeter variety that you would eat. But then most of the

corn that is grown in the fields around here would be either for animal feed or the majority probably goes to ethanol production. Yeah. I think we call that cow corn out here, the animal feed. Do you have a farm stand? Yeah, she does have a wagon. Now it's in front of her house. We did put it out by the highway, but I don't know, just people, you know, she's got a little lock box and people would just break that off and steal the cash. It's like, that's fine. What the hell, you know, it's, you know, well, it was like 50, but like not. Yeah. Yeah. We used to be a proper country. Such that pisses me off. That really upsets me. All right, I'm gonna do fourth one

because I got another one here and you have to leave you three or four. Pet, just to harken back to last week a little bit, pedal poles. Yeah, definitely underrated. I was, did some pedal poles in my time. It was definitely fun times. I did win one, definitely not a state one or a, you know, national championship or anything, but it was a, you know, county fair. It

was kind of my, in my peak of where I was, you know, a heavyweight, but I was still pretty young for the, for the age groups. And, you know, I just kept getting a little bit too big and the pedal tractors did not keep getting bigger with me so it became kind of a my gut and my my thighs were kind of in the way of Doing some good pedaling. I Think the strength was there just just could not translate to the correct the ratio Well, we'll get you out to you know Once you finally get your shit together and come out to Aberdeen at some point in the next couple of years, what have you and Ben out

there on pedal pull cars? Just, you know, trying to see who can pull the best, I guess. Yeah. A quick side question. Are you drinking Sprite? Me? Yeah, Keith. Oh, no, I've got water in the bubbly. OK, I thought that was a Sprite bottle. I saw recently that Sprite is green in some countries. The look isn't just clear. It's clear here in North America. Yeah. I mean, it just the the the their their color is green. Like they're yeah. I was on TikTok

and somebody was pouring a sprite and it was dyed green. So that's like the whole like how you guys have pink fucking cream soda or something. Yeah, because other clear pops in Canada, a clear pop is not caffeinated. Right. But in order to separate creams, which is also not caffeinated up here, they they made it pink for whatever reason. So then your sprite shouldn't be clear because it is in Canada. So they sprite caffeine free in America? Like am I, I just, I haven't, I haven't had sprite in fucking 20 years probably, but I was- It probably is.

I was assuming- Probably, I think it's caffeine free. Um, Junior Ale, caffeine free, sprite, caffeine free, fruit soda. Root beer was caffeine free up here. I don't think I had a drink- For the longest time, but I think barks introduced caffeine caffeinated Root beer if I want if I'm drinking soda, it's gonna have caffeine in it And if I'm drinking a sparkling water, that's how I think I'm okay with caffeine free like

Sometimes I want the sugar, but I don't want the caffeine So it's why I'll take a ginger ale like my guy ever my guy ever drinks ginger ale a lot I like me some old-school my guy Anyway, oh yeah, back to the podcast. Nick, unpaid or underrated pumpkin spights? Definitely be a unpaid there. In all forms, do you eat pumpkin pie? I mean, I have, but it's not my favorite. So yeah. OK, unpaid or underrated IPA? Another unpaid.

Yeah, I don't know. Just not a fan. So. Have you ever had one you liked? No, no, not that I know of. Yeah, most of the regularly consumed are loggers, right? Loggers and pilsners? Yeah.

Unpaid or underrated jorts? Definitely underrated there. I don't know where you could wear jorts to. How many do you have? Well, I only have the two. I've got the original and then the camo for Mastinomics. I do have a pair that I'm not quite sure. I don't, I guess I don't know.

I ordered a size, maybe there was, maybe they were out at the time. I thought maybe there's a possibility that I could fit into them. Never done anything with those. So I guess hit me up up if I think they'd be like a size large so if you want a pair of camo lift shorts I've got a pair. All right and last but not least unpaid or underrated a good late dinner. dinner. A late dinner. Well, see, I guess where I come from, that would be called a supper. Dinner would be like at noon time. So if you're insinuating that dinner would be at like the

six to 7pm. That's that's unpaid. I don't I don't agree. And what would you call that? The supper. So yeah, what do you what would you call that? The supper. So, yeah, what do you do? The rest of the world calls lunch. Yeah. Do you like to do it at 10 o'clock meal you call so you don't lunches isn't a new vocabulary is that what we're there is lunch and dinner.

Yeah, lunch and dinner would be interchangeable for me. OK. But supper has no replacement. It's just supper is the after five me. Okay. But supper has no replacement. It's just supper is the after 5 p.m. meal. There's, there's an argument in my family about that. Yes. We heard I was, I was waiting for that one. I'm glad it made its way down here.

All right. Well, it looks like you passed unpaid underrated. Indeed. You even put up with some sprite talk. All right. I guess that is now in your court. What would you like to ask us? All right. Well, I've got a little game I'd like to bring back from the Mastodonics podcast and have a little agronomy twist towards it.

I'd like to play a little game of what weighs more. Ooh, it's a new agronomy version. more. So I guess I've got everybody here plus the sister podcast hosts and we are going to say whether they weigh more than a bushel of different crops, agronomic crops. So to let you know, a bushel is a volumetric measurement that would equal 1.24446 cubic feet or 8 US dry gallons. So it's kind of a, you know, not a huge basket but kind of a decent sized basket. So I guess we're gonna start with Big Joey. Then everybody's weights. I just looked up open powerlifting. So whatever you weighed at your most recent competition would be your weight. So Big Joey, you weigh more or less than two and a half bushels of shelled corn.

less than two and a half bushels of shelled corn. Two and a half bushels. I guess this is open answer. More. Anybody can answer more. 2.5. So shelled corn, I think would be very light. Cause it's, is it dried? Yeah. So the standard, oh boy.

I'm going to get, get a bunch of shit for this one. I believe it'd be a standard would be like 15 and a half percent moisture. Yeah, standard, standard bushel number two corn. OK, so I'm going to say I would weigh more. All right. So a bushel is basically eight gallons. So two point five is 20 gallons. So 20 gallons of. Sheld corn. Yeah. Oh, that's gonna be close.

I'm gonna say the joy weighs more than that. OK, you'd be both correct. A bushel of shelled corn weighs 56 pounds per bushel. So two and a half bushel would equal 140 pounds. and I had big Joey at 162.4 pounds. I wish I still weighed that. I'm down to like 159 or something. Still above 140. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're good.

Hey, points on the bid now. Okay. Are you putting that in your sandbags? No, that does get kind of bad and rattle. That would make you some sand because you could I would I'm so that would like you could make like you could get a 400 pound bag and fill it up and it only be like 100 pounds probably right like like yeah and then you have to obviously dump it and then off of what the fuck would 400 pounds of that cost you?

How much money would that cost? Not very much right now. OK, there will be. But I just I could see how that would make for like a funny video. Like you just filled up a sandbag with like the lightest object in the world that filled it up and made it look like sand and thrown it around. Just to bother Tanner, because he keeps going on about gravel and sand. Yes. All right. I want first point on about P gravel and sand. Yes. First point. Yeah, that was awesome.

That was fun. I dig that. Number two, we'll go with a big Keith. Now we're going to go with a four bushel of ear corn. So not shelled corn, but ear corn. So now it's like a, like your sweet corn, but you know, it'd still be the, for the, for like cow feed or something like that.

So four bushel of ear corn on the car. No, it is on the car. Yes. Uh, the corn was more. Keith. Um, no, no, no, no, no, no. Google. I'm calculating them.

Trying. Uh, I weigh more than everybody cause I'm fat. So yeah, I'm, I'm fat. I weigh more. So, uh I'm, I'm, I'm fat. I weigh more. So, uh, Joey's with win again. So number two, two points for him. Uh, a four bus, uh, a bushel of ear corn weighs 70 pounds per bushel. So that would be 280 pounds.

Um, would be four bushel. So yeah, less than that. So, um, now we're going to go with me. Um, so do I weigh more than eight bushel of oats? Let's see. Oh, it would be dried oats, I assume. It'll be lighter, right? Because then we just do it.

Yeah, no, definitely you. Well, we just was the one we just said we did. Was it four bushels that I was? Yeah, but that's like full corn on the cob. I'm Oatsway. Oatsway fucking nothing. But eight's a lot. I'm going to say that the eight's more than Nick.

Just to be opposite. So I mean, that made me going to tire. I'm going to go fucking down. I'm too and I'm too. No, no, I said I'm going to tie you or I'm going to go down. And you'd be going down still. Eight bushel of oats, one bushel of oat weighs down still eight bushel of oats. One bushel of oat weighs 32 pounds per bushel.

And so eight eight bushel of oats would weigh 256 pounds. And I just under 274. Just just under 275. The day was a lot that I'm going down. So so question four would be a big, a big Tanner from the sister podcast. Uh, it is this big Tanner, which granted this was, uh, yeah. What was the way in? Cause he didn't weigh in for you almost as he was under two.

You would just have to go. This might throw you off if you want to fall apart living because his last competition was the strong man show and he was under two 50. So hopefully you just put it in at like, that wouldn't be an OPL. I know. That's what I'm saying. You got that. I, if we go off his open power, it was probably like fucking 270

Yeah, you'd be pretty close As long as we know what we're going on that is what we're going off Tanner today was not Tanner's last no no We're going to her at 270. Yeah, okay five bushel of wheat Yeah, okay. Five bushel of wheat. What the fuck is we there is a little connection to wheat. Why why Tanner gets wheat mergers and acquisitions and whatnot. So very deep cut.

If you how many bushels of wheat five five eight gallons of. Pretty 40 gallons of wheat? Five five eight gallons of. 40 40 gallons of wheat. Basically. I'm going to let Keith go first. I'm going to go with whatever the opposite of what he says. We weighs more. So Tanner weighs more. Oh, yeah, because it's simple.

If I lose, Tanner is not fat. You're losing anyway. I'm three. I'm not a big math over here. So Keith is getting closer now. He pulls one behind. So five bushel of wheat weighs more. A bushel of wheat weighs 60 pounds per bushel. So that would be 300 pounds.

Yeah, so not yet. When do you have the do you remember what his last powerlifting meet was? Was it like 2018 or something or 2019? Yes, probably somewhere in that range. It was 272 is what he waited at that on open power lifting. So the final question would be a big Tommy. So I guess you know, this one's for for all the marbles. This big Tommy way more or less than three bushels of soybeans. Is big Tommy way more or less than three bushels of soybeans? Less. I assume we're talking like freshly harvested or are we talking dry?

Uh, the, uh, 14% soybeans dry matter. So, right. The beans. I'll go opposite of Joey. So Tommy, I don't have a tie breaker question, so I guess I guess it's a tie. No, it's not. Right.

Because that's that's five and I'm at three. So yeah, that's true. Yeah, no, we both got the first one right. You got yeah, Joey got sent. So it was three then because we read a one person, right? Oh yeah, that's right. No, because he I got one first one. Right. Oh yeah. That's right. No. Cause he, I got the first one right. Cause Keith said the opposite of that.

I, we, we had the, we answered the first one together. Okay. So then you got the next two, right. And then Keith got the next two after that. Right. So we win. We both win. Everybody wins. We did. Everybody wins a car. Yeah. So yeah, uh, that was fun to show fun visual soybeans weigh 60 pounds as well so that was 180 pounds oh yeah had Tommy at 212 nice yeah that's good stuff that was cool as first that was definitely the first I was wondering if we'd ever get into something like this on this podcast I enjoyed I like

when we when we you know pull from their back catalog of games they don't play anymore hardly. I think they just did a what what ways the more for the first time and you like what feels like years recently. So that was that was nice. Well, I'm still down with you got a couple questions for us. Anything you I know you had said you had questions and a game but I know I'm I'm I'm got a good 10 minutes to kill if we if we want we can I'm content with whatever you want to do Nick he's got notes by the way listeners he's got notes yes I have a couple

pages of notes here I love the preparation next thing we have months to be on this podcast I was patiently waiting I was I was excited when I heard this was going to start, but I guess I was pretty nervous. Definitely very nervous at the start of this podcast. So your zoom in camera is killing me, man. Stop it. It's fine. No, no, no, no, no. He says he's nervous and the first thing you do is go, yeah, well, this sucks.

Like, no, it's not. It's killing me as in like, I can't stop focusing because it's focusing right in on you. All right. What questions you got? I guess. Do you want questions or do you want a agronomic Indiana rankings in the in the states? I would say go with the questions because that kind of sounds specific and the Keith's head in the drink spot or right above your head is hilarious.

There's two of them. I see it. There's one kind of kind of behind there and then there's no, yeah, there's one above there. So right. So they show me your bush flag. Yes, yes, yes. So I guess to both of you, what would be the strangest thing in your refrigerator right now? Oh, well, I don't know.

That's a fucking look. I don't even. I don't know. They did it. My, my wife and dad did a grocery shop today. And that's a good question though. That can always be strange. Shit.

Does freezer count too? I'm guessing. Sure. Sure. I'm trying to think of anything in my freezer. That's weird. I, yeah, that's a hard question. It's like I don't know.

I like I purge a lot of like shit we don't eat. Like I get rid of there's a there's a random tray of bok choy. That we bought on sale, we pulled a neck and we bought a bulk of it despite only needing a little bit of it. So I would say probably the rotting bok choy. it despite only needing a little bit of it. So I would say probably the rotting bok choy because bok choy is a very underrepresented sad vegetable. Right. Everybody jokes about bananas or avocados where they're only ripe for like an hour. Bok choy is it's awesome and then it isn't. And if you don't cook it properly, it very isn't.

So I would say it's the bok choy. I'm gonna go with, I guess, it probably doesn't count because I threw it away like a month or two ago because it was like, I'm pretty sure it was way expired, but I finally got, I had finally, my Midwest barbecue sauce was basically empty for the longest time, but there was just a little bit left. And I swear, I think I looked at the expiration

and it was like six months out of date or something. I was like, this can go away now. But I might be on that but i know i know i basically have the midwest midwest barbecue sauce in the fridge up until not that long ago. Expiration dates are just a man telling me to buy it i am i'm too o cd like i won't eat like if the meat hasn't been cooked like. cooked like from that like I have to cook meat the day before like it's sell by date or I'd like I'm like no I'm not touching that like I'm very particular it's it's my way it's my one of my wife's biggest pet peeves about me it's cuz she's like it's fine it's fine it's fine it's like I can literally smell like the rot like I did in my mind I can there is there was once that we did we did cook something I did that once sausages I pulled out some it was either ground pork or sausages,

and we cooked it and it was still gray. And we were like, Yeah. Might've missed the mark on this one. I think it was bacon or, I can't remember what the fuck it was. Bacon's cured. It can't go bad.

No, it wasn't bacon. It wasn't bacon, it was something else. What the fuck? Oh. I take that back. Bacon can go bad. Like before everybody jumps on me. it can, but it's cured. Like it lasts longer than most meats.

Yeah. Yeah. I wish I had a better answer, Nick. I'm sorry. That was a good, that's a good question. That's when I almost like would want to prepare for and go like visually look and be like, it's gotta be some weird shit in there or in my cupboards. Put you on the spot on that one.

That's what the podcasts are all about. We don't get on, we're not on this side as often. So it is, it kind of helps me understand like when we throw curveballs at people and they don't have answers, they're like, oh, there's probably a reason because they're fucking hard. Yeah. All right. Was that it? Should we should we bring it on downtown? Up to you guys. I got to keep going.

I got to keep going. We got a few more minutes. They're just not potent. So, yeah, pretty much. So, infertile joke there, David's. So what was the worst and lowest paying job you ever had? And were they the same? Yes, I was a telemarketer. same. Yes.

I was a telemarketer. Oh, yeah, that would be hung up on all the time. And that and that was the old like back in the day when people still had house phones before cell phones and you would get your list of the phone book and you would literally just phone people out of the phone book and ask them if they're interested in your product. And I was very young. Like I want to say I wasn't even 18 yet. And yeah, it was the worst. And you know, I didn't really understand the job, but it was the time before I hadn't diagnosed

it yet, but I had acid reflux disease. So I kept getting throat infections. And when your job is to talk on a phone all the time, I would call in a lot because I just, I can't talk. And the manager was just awful about it. And I ended up just quitting over the phone. I was like, Hey, I don't think I can make it into the like, I, I can't talk for this much. And she was like, if you call in again, you're fired.

And I was like, well, I'll save you the trouble to fuck out of here. Yeah, definitely. That was the worst pain because it was it was hourly plus commission, but you don't make any commission on telemarketing because you've got to book the appointment, the appointment has to be set up, the guy has to go out. And once he closes the deal, then you get your commission. It almost never happened. Right. So, yeah, definitely the worst.

My lowest paying, like, well, I guess, like, if it comes to anyone's surprise, I literally have a spreadsheet of every job I've ever had and like my starting dates and my salaries, et cetera. And it's just- That's fucking wild, dude. Yeah, well, it's a thing. Well, I think I built it over to COVID

when I was actually applying for jobs and trying to like figure out like my pay structure and where I've been, etc. But minimum wage in West Virginia in 2002 was $5.15. So that was the least least amount of money I've ever made. Actually, I technically might have made less than that. When I was when I was younger, my dad hired like I was so when I was like 12 or something, and rejoin our entire house my dad hired one of the family friends like teenage son to help us as i can't just like do general labor and he paid him like. Eight bucks an hour cash or something and i was like can i get paid half of what he makes and he was like yeah sure so that was actually so i technically made less than but as far as real. Sure. So that was actually so I technically made less than but as far as real like W2 money Yeah, 515 which was crazy to think about as far as the worst job. I've had some I've had some shitty jobs, but

anything that's like I when I first moved up here one of my jobs was I don't know fuck that Uh, I work at a concrete plant like building big road construction barriers and shit basically. So like just building the forms every day, pouring the concrete and breaking a deck down and doing it again. Um, that, that was through a temp agency and it was five, 10 hour days, which was already

putting you at 50 and then like every, then they wanted you to work Saturdays Saturdays and I'm like eat a fucking big bag of dicks buddy I'm not giving you 60 hours a week for what was like maybe like 10 bucks an hour or something and I'm just fucked that so that was and then I ended up I remember I fell and work busted my ankle pretty bad and I was like I was just gonna be out for like a week as it you know being naive and like only like 20 something I didn't want to go through insurance I thought that would like fuck the company and my dumbass ended up getting fired like a week a couple you know, being naive and like only like 20 something I didn't want to go through insurance because I thought that would like fuck the company and my dumb ass ended up getting fired like a week a couple days later when I you know, call it off sick because I had a busted ankle so that was my own fault for not fucking going through workers comp

and shit but you know, you live you learn and that was definitely the probably the worst job I had was anything to attempt agency specifically that one. All right. One more. Do you guys want one more? right. One more. All right. You guys want one more? Yes, I was. All right. If you could pick one musical artist to sing a duet with, who would it be and what song would you choose?

That I have to sing with. Yep. I don't sing. I do. You do. I don't actually had a video I was going to post, but the sound quality was pretty bad. I did a song and you feel free to look this up. It's called Bread and Butter by the New Beats. And if you hear that song and you hear the lead vocals and you think of me doing it, just know that I am amazing at that song

So if you go listen to it afterwards go ahead and send me a message and be like there's no way there is a way I'm so good at that fucking song I Yeah, I unfortunately it's Garth Brooks I don't know the Garth Brooks is guilty. I just happen to see him. He's actually I do it when you brought it up. He's saying it's outright lie. It's not true. It's a money grab. Like he's normally when an artist, something like this comes out,

they either shut up or they admit to it. And he was just like, nope, that's a lie. But again, we'll wait to hear more, obviously. But it would probably be Garth Brooks and going down till the sun comes up. You're going to be talking fast on that one And forever like he gets a rap song almost I Never get enough breath to finish. Yeah I would since I don't it's it's hard to think of like newer stuff

So they could have to go with like complete nostalgia and one of the first So like I think the first tape to go with like complete nostalgia. And one of the first, I think the first tape I ever had was a Tim McGraw tape. So something off of that, like early nineties. I'm probably gonna go, don't take the girl. Like, cause that was like, I remember sitting and watching that, like I had it on tape so I could listen to it as like a seven year old or something.

And it was on CMT fucking for like five years straight. It felt like, and it was just just I don't think I really I kind of only partially digested what the song was even about but it was just like catchy and I don't know. I think I could actually like you know what's a song it'd have to be a slow song because I can't fucking sing fast and it'd have to be something that I could like memorize the lyrics to so for that analytical answer of being able to fuck it up to the least, it'd probably be Timber Girl, Don't Take the Girl.

Nice. That's a good one. If you have a list of more, I mean, fire them off my way. I'll start asking them every week and we can call them next question. Cause like those are pretty good, like hard think about questions. So if you have that list, you want to send that to me.

I'll start doing week, cause I'm at a Matt jokes. Who? Yeah, cause we killed that a couple episodes ago. So yeah, I'll do a weekly Nick joke. If you have a couple of those that you want to send out. Okay. But you want to bring it in down home there, Keith? Yeah, let me bring up the,

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