Men At Work Podcast - Bonus: Lats Guy Living in an Abs World (Patreon Preview)

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

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I'll see somebody like a lip from shameless in a jean jacket I go I could do that and then as soon as you put it on you go what if I And you know if you walk in anywhere else somebody needs to get a comment on it Of course Well, if you ever wore it out you would go to like Starbucks and you're like they all know I've never worn a fucking jean jacket They think I look like an idiot patreon Good spanking I have a new one. Patreon. Good.

Spanking. I get that a lot, as somebody who dresses kinda openly gay. I also grew up in a family where it's like, if you don't take fashion chances in my family, if you show up to a family party in a jean jacket, you better believe you're getting multiple comments about it, dude.

Yeah, that's, you can't wear cool clothes around your family Cuz that's a death wish you work you work cool clothes when you're like I'm gonna go to get coffee and go home immediately and I'll try it out I'll give it like a 25 minute trial run and what's worse is they won't even like fully just come right out and just like blast You itch comments about it. Yeah, where it's like, huh? Just fucking say it's gay dude,. They won't. Yeah, that's true. If you could just open it like that's gay. Take that off. It looks stupid. You don't. They'll laugh at each other and the look and they'll go new jacket. Yeah. Oh yeah. It's whatever. Where'd you get that from? JC pennies. JC penny. You shopped there a lot. I remember my old recruiting job. One time. I don't know what I was thinking dude. I walked in With a aqua blue shirt like a dress shirt on like I think my mom had got it for me

And I'm like this looks good I walk into like our morning meeting and all the stuff like it hits me because all the eyes go Like I never I didn't I didn't realize until all of a sudden it was the first time in public I'm seeing people react to the shirt and then this hilarious black dude that we work with walks in and goes oh BD that aqua fresh everybody starts dying laughing I am beet red and I threw the fucking shirt out there. It was one of the most embarrassed I've ever been. This is all making sense from our interaction

a couple weeks ago where I saw Brandon wearing a pea coat and I smiled, I smiled. That is not what happened. You are painting yourself in this beautiful light let me reenact what happened dude I'm standing there in a conversation with somebody like this and we're just chipping up Matt walks up to the side profile of me and he starts making commotion to the point where I'm like what's going on and he looks at me and goes like he made a point to stand next to me, get my attention,

and then laugh in my face. And I go, and then he comes in on the Pico. I go, so this was a concerted effort. And then that's when I said, you've gained weight. Matter of factly too, in front of other folks who had to like take a look at me and go I can see a couple pounds All I did was smile You did not just smile though admit that you came up and you did a full laugh a performance laugh There was a performance. It was a performative laugh. What's your performance laugh sound like? Listen to that most podcasts that I'm on with other people Check out foster people

The yeah, I laughed at the jacket by the way He did look like fucking Buffy the vampire slayer no matter what he had a tied taut around his waist It was a black peek around my waist printed. It was buttoned tight, dude Oh, but yeah, I thought you said I had it tied around my way. Jack was on my shoulders. You know tweed I have a huge I'm Alaska.ats guy living in an abs world, dude. What do you want me to do? I got a wide fucking back because I do lat pull downs. We are a big, we're a big lat pod right now.

No, Brendan looked like a fucking piece of paper with a rubber band in the middle. It was unbelievable. And that's what he said. He said, you've gained weight and over the past, you know, month and a half, down seven pounds. Got jacked. Has nothing to do with that. Yeah. And I'm going to, you know what I and over the past month and a half, down seven pounds. Got jacked. Has nothing to do with that.

You know what I'm going to do, dude? I'm going to get jacked and wear a fucking bat jacket. I got in your head like a fucking tapeworm, dude. It's unfortunate. Yeah, literally a tapeworm. I've lost weight. I'd like to see you get jacked mad again. That picture you showed me was, my breath was taking a lot.

It's going to get in the process. These are going to get me here. I would love to see you get jacked again. I would love to see you get healthy again. I would love to see you start... Breath was taken once again again The funny thing is at your Jack this you were never healthy because you were just crushing seven sugar drinks a day you still are You can play your caffeine. Is that what happened to your kidneys? Probably so I was doing too much pre-workout. It was probably so yeah It was bad I was taking a lot of I would drink I would do like pre-workout after having like

two monsters earlier in the day and then drink Friday, Saturday. Did you lose your hair from the cancer? Probably so. I think we know the... True, true. The chemo did get me. Were you lifting irresponsibly back then too? Like just fucking benching? I can see you go no belt on the deadlift. No, I was never like, let me do a ton of weight guy. Cause that that's people don't want to because that's not how you get. Your body wouldn't allow you to do it. My kidneys would. 315 that's kind of for gay guys. I was never into that sort of like amount of weight. I like to swim in like 250, 250. It was like less a mental thing like my body physically like revolted from doing it it was like oh gross. What was your peak bench?

I that's one thing I was never that strong. I just, because I've learned from other dudes who looked nuts that they were like, lifting heavy will not get you jacked. And bench is also like horrible. It's everything is awful for you. They rip your shoulders out. I had a dude tell me that was like never flat bench only inclined bench and to this day I've stood by it. Yeah, no, I think it's good advice. Yeah. What were you dumbbell lifting? What were you dumbbell? But the weight that I did then I can still do now It's just not look at work out. Yeah, like not that you know, whether it's bench press or people's workout squads

It was nuts. I got into like I was I think the lowest I got I was like six percent body fat It was fucking not fucking to yeah. I was like I would eat 1700 calories a day primarily It was like 210 grams protein protein. What's the average? It's crazy to be that jacked and not being in athletics. I just did it to have a girlfriend. I wasn't even single. That was like the goal in college though. You're like, I'm just shredded for no reason.

That's literally all it was. It's good that you're like, you're gonna hate this. It's good that you are what you are now. I was already halfway out, I didn't want to say it. Evens you out. Unbelievable. You're 28, you're fine. And I let this happen.

Imagine being 32 and you're having, it's the Adam Sandler Big Daddy. 32. You have one fucking milkshake, your ass jiggles for a week. It's insane. That's exactly the perfect, that line in Big Daddy when he goes,

dude I had a chocolate shake, my ass jiggles for a week. That is so fucking true. Dude, it's insane. You can feel it. You have one bad weekend of like drinking alcohol. You walk upstairs, you can literally feel your fucking side shaming. You have pizza, you know, like a pizza on a Friday or something. You're like, dude, I'm fucked up for three days.

It's crazy how much, I miss my metabolism.