Unpaid And Underrated - 043 : Bozos

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Matt (Dutch). They talk about the lead up to "The Arnold", "Does anyone know the starbursts flavors?", cigars, new rating scales, traffic, and Fahrenheit versus Celsius. LinksFahrenheit versus Celsius Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) Our Guest On Instagram @mattu25 (https://www.instagram.com/mattu25/) 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 Matt.

and welcome back to episode 34 of the unpaid and underrated podcast we are a podcast by crew for crew i'm one of your hosts big keith joined as always by my co-host big joey can you guys hear that faintly you're. Can you hear that? That's the clan clicking because it's Arnold week. And I'm going to hang out with Huck and the boys. All the alphas and the omegas and all of the things

that Huck likes to say. Absolutely. I'm so glad you were covered and could utter the word can because at first it was clan and I was like, oh shit, what kind of fucking podcast is this going to be? But not what I want to be a part of. Yeah, absolutely. We don't do politics here.

Unless it's Wu Tang. Yeah, there you go. There you go. If it's Wu Tang, then that's the clan I'm in for. So Big Keith, Big Joey and joined as this week with a big Matt Urbanek. Urbanek? Urbaneki? Something like that.

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It was OK. The strawberry I'm trying for the first time tonight. And I like how you assume anybody knows what Starburst flavors are, and we don't just go by the color of the wrapper. So that's pink Starburst, right? That's pink. Yeah, it is because the cherry is red, orange is orange, strawberry is pink, and cherry is red.

I believe that's the three colors they had available, so I got two of each because Carp's been asking me to try them for a while. I think so because there's at least two other people that have mentioned them, and when I posted them, I had like five people ask me how they were. And I was like, well, tune into the podcast. Strawberry was good. The orange I had last time, I think this is almost, maybe not better, but it's, I don't know.

I like it a lot. So we'll give it a 4.5 out of 5, which I usually don't use that scale. So now I'm all thrown off, because the SO is that 4.5. So I guess I would go 9 out of 10, then, actually, on the uh out of five which i usually don't use that scale you know so now i'm all thrown off because yes so what's that four point five so i guess i would go nine out of ten then actually on the glaze scale i'm just like of course you already tried the orange and i'm just having visions of you were like i'm gonna save these for the podcast and then just like every time you walk by you just hear the music and you're like you're like trying to avoid it and you're just eyeballing it you're like no that's orange i gotta try that orange i gotta try the orange right now i did i'm pretty sure i had the orange

like the night that i got it like as soon as it got cold like four hours later i was like i gotta try this one because i had three so i think you know so i can still try the cherry next week yeah that tracks absolutely tracks what about what about you matt are you do you have a big uh pot of coffee over there since it's it is for anyone big ton. For anyone listening, it is 2.30am in the Netherlands right now where Big Matt is, I believe. Time to call the dentist. Here I've got some black coffee in my left heart of the Vizimog

and some Spa Touch Peach Sparkling Water. I don't think you guys can get this in North America, but it's one of my favorites. Nice. That's really good. As you know, the Spa Francochamps racing truck is's from around there in belgium so it's totally familiar with it absolutely know where that is really yeah it's it's it's it's more like in the middle of belgium it's like western northeast south belgium

i was just i was just there the other day i didn't know i was just thinking i'm just gonna talk about this in the podcast yep i was like i'm not gonna get none of that normal sparkling water i'm gonna get the belgian brand what about you joy you got some cough syrup or anything over there or any kind of medicine it hasn't hit me yet and i better not it better not i'm drinking keats i have been drinking water and electrolyte supplements and just everything I can today. My kid is like crazy sick. And then, so he's been off school all week. I've been on vacation all week.

So it's kind of worked out that I can stay home to take care of him. But I'm going to the Arnold on Saturday. So we ended up taking him to the doctor today. And it turns out it's viral. Arnold on Saturday. So we ended up taking him to the doctor today and it, it turns out it's viral. So there's like, there's a, there's a pretty good chance I'm going to get it.

We're just hoping I don't get it until Monday. Cause I'm not, I hope that too. Be sure. First thing he said, he's like, no, you'll get it just in time to give it to us while you're here.

So I'm just hoping I don't get it. because I don't want to miss the Arnold at all. Like I've been watching. We'll just jump right into this section. I've been watching all of the updates. Everybody that's there. I think Big Jess is finally going to show up this year. Like I and I have been like vibrating with anticipation. I'm so excited to go to the Arnoldnold this year even though i'm going to

be there on a saturday which means i'm pretty much just going to hang out at the massonomics booth for an entire day and talk about our podcast because you can't move around on a saturday at the arnold it's just not a thing unless you get like unless you do what i did and get jonathan oldham as like to move people away like he's like a train catcher when you're walking i don't think he's gonna be there this year though i mean yeah i text him i definitely have some phone oh i'm not gonna make it um but then i was listening to because i was just like even the other day i was like man i could i i could leave right after work friday get down there or whatever i was like then i got actually my boss we gotta fucking work a long day tomorrow

i was like that's not gonna happen but uh everything I've heard, it is going to be so much busier than last year. And I was overwhelmed Saturday. Like I was there for like two hours Saturday morning. I was like, I can't handle this. Like my, like my ability to be in a group of people could not handle Saturday last year. And Friday was awesome. I would like, if I go back again in the future, like I'm going to air on getting there Thursday night, being there Friday and either dipping out after Friday,

or you just knowing that Saturday, I'm just going to be overwhelmed, but I don't think I could go down and just for Saturday, it would almost ruin it for me just because I am. So like, I need some space. I can't deal with the lines. I can't deal with the crowds.

Like that's just not for me. And Friday was perfect. Saturday morning sucked. So you just, you just got to get cool enough to not need lineups. Like where we're going, we don't need sleeves and lineups. Like that's, we're going to drunken muscle dummy heaven.

So actually I'm going to see Anthony Jezelnik tomorrow night. So I've laid out my small vacation time the stupidest way possible. So Friday night, I'm going to see Anthony Jezelnik in my city. Then I got to come home, immediately go to bed becauseve's picking me up as late as 6 a.m and then i'm just hopefully gonna sleep on the car because then i have to go and perform right because like obviously like i'm gonna be on unpaid and underrated massonomics mode like i'm gonna be smiling i'm not gonna be like normal me if you see me in public i'm not approachable i'm not friendly like leave me the fuck alone. But like at the Arnold,

I'm like, yeah, it's time. I'm going to be on that boat. That's going to be exhausting as shit. And that's got to go for like 12 hours for sleeping for like five. That's a, I don't,

I don't know who the concert is. You're going to, I don't know if I would play. Anthony, Anthony is a comedian. He is probably one of the top tier dark comedy guys that does what he does really well I actually didn't

plan that on purpose, I bought the Arnold tickets and then out for my birthday with my buddy Jay, I was like let's go see Anthony Jeselnik, he's playing on the first not cluing in that I bought tickets for the Arnold and the second and then I was like well I have all these tickets fuck it, we'll just be tired.

We'll do it live. Yeah. I'm glad that's you. Not me. Cause like, even when I, even when I know I'm like, I've got multiple things this year where I'm, you know,

catching an airplane at fucking like 5. AM on Friday. And I'm like, yeah, we're not podcasting Thursday night. Like I can't, like I can't podcast till a midnight and then get up and catch a plane. So I'm,

I'm glad that i'm not in your position tomorrow where you're going to be up half the night to the comedy club and then having to do the same thing saturday so we are going to be heavily caffeinated yeah all right so uh big matt what are you wearing this week buddy here i've got the uh hood classic the yeah buddy lightweight shirt you know oh nice and it's and i don't have to squint to see that one perfectly so yeah that is the non-censored og one of the og shirts so i can tell you've been around for a while uh i've been around i'm rocking tanner's favorite all all go no show all i'll show no go one of those it's a nice one too one of those lingos and joey's over there wearing i can't he's he's he's got a hoodie he's got a beard i've got a

hoodie on uh but i am wearing the arnold sweater from last year ah there you go there you go because the house was a bit cold when we got home it'll come off at some point and then i think underneath what am i wearing underneath hold on fuck it we'll do it live um oh i got a wrestling shirt on nice nice um let's see let's do a little uh i'm gonna do a little game here briefly well not a game a segment that is so what is it to see uh supporting the members that we've supported something like that i always get the the my what i call it wrong but uh big tanner for friend of the podcast big tanner i was a guest on you know uh tom finn and tom callous's podcast let's get stupid that hit i think uh monday or tuesday this

week i think it hit on youtube monday and then the podcast came out wednesday like normal and then i believe it was on grant's podcast the okay podcast but i don't think that's hit yet i think that was just uh i think they just called him when he was driving from aberdeen to crew falls the other day so we should call him we should call him now just see if he can hit the three bangers oh god um but yeah uh go ahead and look keep an eye out for both those episodes with a friend of the podcast, Big Tanner. And speaking of the podcast, I guess we can go ahead and rate last week's episode. If anyone was able to watch that. I watched the whole thing.

Well, what did you think about it? Give me the rundown and give it a little rating at the end, buddy. Yeah, it was great. I always love hearing those guys talk. It was a shame that their guest didn't make it. Well, what'd you think about it? Give me the rundown and give it a little rating at the end, buddy. Yeah, it was great. Always love hearing those guys talk. It was a shame that their guest didn't make it, but scheduling conflicts happen. It's interesting hearing them talk about when influencers run businesses

and sometimes it does not always work out, but I also wonder who they're referring to. That was a good episode i give it five are we going by ipod touches nice yep five last night we came ipod touches i have jim ipod touches yeah i think there was there was there was some chatter in the discord uh i think a few of us had made suggestions like tommy was like yeah we definitely weren't really talking about those and then they mentioned somebody later on we weren't really like gonna drag anybody's name

through the mud it wasn't necessarily in they didn't say anything malicious towards people it was just more of a you know but yeah i that was the episode i think they recorded that on like a monday or something it was gonna be the night they recorded two episodes back to back and uh i think td was supposed to be on that one but couldn't make it so then they ended up just doing about 90 minutes just them shooting the shit and it was funny because they kept on like halfway through when they were like uh well basically about an hour in when they're like yeah i really don't think the guest is going to show up so we just really gotta but but they didn't because so the episode that'll hit next week is going to be the q a that

i believe they recorded the same night so they probably could they couldn't really like that's gonna be hard like i would be i couldn't imagine like recording two episodes back to back but like not blowing your wad in the first one basically like like holding stuff back for the second episode there's no holding things back yeah well i mean we are you know it's almost july already two days from the arnold and 17 weeks out from july yeah something like that time is a flat circle i don't know it'll be more than 17 i don't know it's something like that uh but yeah all in all I still enjoyed the episode. It was always like hearing the boys talk.

And I think I ended up listening to about three quarters of it live on Discord the other day. So, you know, go ahead and rate it. Go ahead and give it the five. As long as Jim iPod touches this week. But only because it's Arnold Week and I'm feeling generous. I did. I did that. Again, it did that thing where I listened to about halfway on the way to

work and then got into the car after work and it was done so i had to like scrub and find where i was and i've complained about that multiple times i'm sure it's my fault like i'm doing something wrong here which app are you using the the apple one yeah i haven't used that one in years i'm not sure so because i had to listen to it like technically twice i don't remember much other than influencers running business and a couple jokes from tanner and tommy uh so i'm just gonna have to like pull an audible and give it a five five ipod massonomics ipod massonomics ipod massonomics ipod touches yeah we might have to switch that one up at some point just to make it a little less of a tongue twister for us. Everyone start submitting what they want us to,

what scale of five this will be for next week. And you know what? I'm going to get in the way right now. No, we're not doing chicken bakes. Oh, God. I guarantee somebody heard you say that sentence. Do chicken bakes. Yeah, only if Jen approves, and I'm sure she won't. I guarantee somebody heard you say that sentence and they're going to be like, do chicken bakes. Yeah.

Only if Jen approves. And I'm sure she won't, so it's all good. From now on, all changes must be run through Jen. There you go. That works. So it was kind of nice. I'm assuming they did it just because they were at the Arnold. I'm not really sure. Maybe they just weren't paying attention, but the

YouTube video actually hit at midnight, I think, or one in the morning. Whatever it was, I don't know sure maybe they just weren't paying attention but the uh the YouTube video actually hit like at midnight I think or like one in the morning whatever it was I don't know but I just I know when I looked at my phone like that lunchtime the YouTube video was up and it had been up for like nine hours or something I was like oh fuck yeah but that made my life so much easier to actually sit there and watch like the massonomics YouTube video Thursday at lunchtime rather than Thursday at four o'clock when I'm like just getting home and trying to like spend a couple hours with my wife before we podcast all night. So that made my life so much better. If they could do that every week, I would literally do a backflip. But this week's episode

was Tanner and Tom and me talking about going through their whole arsenal of the Texas power bars. And they have got basically all five generations. I know Tanner spent the last couple of years building that collection. So that was pretty cool to watch him go through it and, you know, go over everything. I think the only error, the only slip of the tongue he mentioned was he called all of them 28 millimeter when they were 28.5. And I know he knows they're 28.5. I think he just had a slip of the tongue. So, you know, we'll let him get away with that this time.

Did either of you guys get a chance to watch that since it was up all day? Every.5 millimeter counts. Yes, sir. away with that this time. Did either of you guys get a chance to watch that since it was up all day? Every .5mm counts. Yes, sir. I must be honest, I've forgotten to watch all the Mastodonics videos this week. It's been my week off, so I've just

been doing nothing really. Just been going to the gym. I haven't really had time to watch YouTube. At first when you said that, I was like, I forgot to watch all the Massanomics videos. And I was just like, what are you doing here? In perpetuity, forgot to watch the Massanomics. Yeah, no, I forgot to watch their non-podcast videos this week.

What's Bozo's, Joey? Oh, oh i was gonna actually segue into the siri talk just based on last week and the texas power bar stuff because her entire gym is texas power bar um and like it was really fun to mess with everybody and and you know i know this is um this matt this is your episode but i do want to reflect a little bit on just absolutely messing with the entire crew. I didn't have pretending. I didn't have a gas pretending. Like we were just like, no, I was just like smart. And then dropping somebody as famous and widely known as Siri doll. I don't think it's performed as well as I wanted it to,

but I think amongst the people that did listen to it, I think it was a really good episode. I think it will open up the doors a little bit for other kind of crew-adjacent people that we can get on and just absolutely have a grand old time with. One thing I didn't expect was some random comments from some of her weird stalker fans. Oh, weird.

That was like on your personal page, too. Yeah. So they went to my personal page, went to a selfie and was like, stay away from Siri. She's my wife. And I was like, well, then you listen to my episode with her. And it's like I didn't expect that. that um but um you know i hope everybody enjoyed kind of that out of the blue kind of wild unexpected not fully crew but like kind of true because there's probably more of that coming i would imagine one thing yeah one thing as my influence grows on social media

uh is pulling kind of those kinds of names in yeah um so that's going to be a little more going forward and you know i i would love it if everybody would went to the youtube video of hers uh and dropped your comments and all the reviews because honestly some of you guys said amazingly nice things in the discord you didn't say it on instagram to show her how much we appreciate you didn't say it on the youtube you said it directly to me and keith which is again appreciated but like let her know because she's not like in our world at the moment so like let her know how much you guys really liked that episode um so yeah that one and if you hated it also send me like fucking tell me but i don't think that's possible that was i think i think we i think we towed the line good where we

kind of like appeased a lot of people with that episode i feel i mean if anything other price some perverts out there like ask her about butt stuff we're not gonna do that like i'm not i'm i'm married and i want my you know he's like the joy like i i told multiple people that too i was like yeah we we're gonna do teary doll and they're like oh holy shit like the the porn star chick i was like yeah and i was like but it's not gonna be the episode you think it is because i enjoy my marriage like i'm not gonna sit there and like that's not what this is about like this is still about just like a chick that power lifts and like is into fitness and like is mass economics adjacent and that's why she was on so yeah i had like three different people that

were like holy fuck and then actually listen to the episode like they would never listen to any other episode we've done. So yeah. And I guys mentioned earlier, one of my coworkers messaged me and he's like, Hey, can you turn the game down on your microphone? And I was like, don't fucking listen to my podcast.

Like what is happening? He's like, I really wanted to listen to this episode, but you guys talked about lifting too much. And I was like, good. Unsubscribe. Because like, that's what we're here for i'm not joanna angel i'm not talking to

you about foreign like i'm here to talk to you about um you know lifting and being fun and and all that shit so with that said i put in bozo okay um i just to like put a petition out there to bring that back. Calling people a bozo. We were hiking with my kid and my in-laws and Oren, my son. We went to like a reservation, preservation. Okay. And he goes, Daddy, look, litter. And I said, buddy, you know who litters? He says, who? And I said, bozos. He yells bozos at the top of his lungs in like the most question, stands up and books it. And it was the funniest thing in the world to me. So I was just talking to Morgan about how funny that word is, because I think when you call somebody a bozo. What you're essentially doing is just telling them that you don't take them seriously like you're just looking at somebody saying you're an unserious person and i don't think i have any investment in you

your life or your opinion but it's also not like a mean word you know you're not calling him a douchebag or a fucking you're not saying cunt you're not saying idiot like you're not like you're not like putting them down you're just like yeah you're a bozo bud like i'm not putting up with your bozo shit so yeah i just want a petition to put that word back out there for like when people are you know so like i watched bozo the click that's like a vivid memory of both like but the the tv show bozo the clown like like that i have the memories of watching that when i was like like four and five it's a question possibly one of my earliest like tv memories is bozo the clown the show um was it actually he gave his own show

or was he just like a character well yeah i just didn't know if he was like i just don't know if he had like his own yeah he had his own thing and now in he is the like everything derives from him you think or was bozo around like the word bozo around before him that i don't know i didn't do an etymological deep dive on this one i might have said we might have the deep dive that yeah well no who's our etymological expert that we had on big big big laura laura i'll get her name right we'll get her to look up bozo but no i don't know i i think i heard it on Well, no, who's our etymological expert that we had on? Big, big, big Laura. Laura. I'll get her name right. We'll get her to look up Bozo. But no, I don't know.

I think I heard it on Family Guy. I don't know if you guys know this, but I sleep listening to Family Guy because I've watched every episode so many times that it's actually white noise for me. And they called some guy an international Bozo. He was some Olympic guy that was a known known idiot known douchebag but they call him a bozo in passing it wasn't even like a thing they were just like and then peter spent the night with international bozo whatever his name was and then i like for some reason i was just like i guess when i said it to orin later i was remembering because i'd slept to that episode but then i just like i had a like i had like a talk with morgan i was like it's so mean i think it's the meanest thing you can say to

somebody because you're literally just dismissing them you're just missing them you don't have any of my respect whatsoever yeah i don't have to like but it's not so controversial that like there's gonna be an altercation it's not aggressive you're just a bozo so yeah anyway that's my petition to bring that word back um so if you want to go to tango charlie and then and call them some bozos on some of their posts that'll be fun they are bozos i think they blocked me i think they blocked everybody yeah they must have blocked everybody they must have went to massonomics and blocked all of their followers it's possible or at least unpaid and underrated because somebody used our page to harass somebody i just did the same thing everybody else did kiss my ass don't get our business page blocked just mocked or whatever you bozo yeah i do have one quick harken back

there to something you said you had mentioned the white noise so i did look up pink noise the other day after you and tron didn't recognize it holy fuck that's peaceful as shit like it's so much better like i wish i could like just put that into my noisemaker because like all i have is just on like spotify it's like just a 10 hour you know there's a bunch of on spotify and i've been like googling like how to find like a pink noise machine or a different noise machine that has the different spectrums or whatever but yeah god damn there was so much more than like just like my nature sound one that i sleep to every night so like what is the level of pink noise and whatever comes up on spotify first and is in my favorites i i don't know i would have to deep dive that i guess i'll google it uh so i sleep to whatever noise i think

i actually sleep to brown noise oh i did go through like four or five of them and like they were definitely all because pink whatever the pink was was the one was my jam though because i think that's the one tron specifically recommended if i don't if i recall um because my noise is like um it's almost like a truck engine constantly revving and that's that's about my realm um so that i think is brown noise because it's like a deeper level um so i don't know what pink noise would be comparatively i just googled it and got fucking nothing out of it to me it was just like it was just above like the white noise that I sleep to but like just more

uh oh oh my gosh right now you son of a bitch you hey Karen hey guys when's that Karen calendar coming out

oh they can't hear us at all i'll see you on saturday we've uh so fucks on saturday for audible listeners big tanner just uh zoomed in we got tanner tommy hello uh huck finn karen finn white george foreman Tommy, Huck Finn, Karen Finn, White George Foreman. We got a whole big crowd. We got a whole crowd. Oh, I love this podcast. I just had a barefoot shoes cruise here. Oh, wow.

This is Spanky. Hey! Hey! The FOM promo was so hard right now I wish I was there too that shirt is fucking that's a bad shirt

you guys got to keep that shirt alright boys thanks Tanner that was awesome I had sent him a message when i joked about oh nice on three podcasts in one week like hey what are you up to and he was like you're going right now and then so we got everybody i'm gonna pull that i'm gonna have to pull that video clip too yeah no i mean it's just i that'll be easy enough to find so we're good um all right i think that will cover all of our general topics so we're going to hand the microphone over to

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which we're all joined as members which gives us access to the Discord. We're all supporting members of the Mass Anonymous podcast and they're just fucking awesome so yeah that's my that's my impromptu well i'll give that by a seal of fucking approval because we're saying that word tonight buddy fuck absolutely just for i've it's been a minute since we've got a big big big gentleman case for custom so i guess maybe

maybe tonight's the night i don't know yeah cnc and hook fins got me all fired up i know i'm gonna see him on i'm gonna see him in person i didn't expect that either yeah who is it that named me was it karen that knew my name because that was fucking wild i'm not sure huck was like who was the guy and i heard somebody say that's joey and i think that was karen which is why she remembers me if it was her possibly might have been Tommy he's got the same hair as Karen probably sometimes so I think it's time well now

we really do have to kick all the looky loos out we did have a full house on our screen there was literally like 12 people on our screen granted it was coming from one feed but as he panned around the room that was pretty cool so we're gonna go ahead and give them all the boot i suppose and i think big joey's gonna get her guests on the horn yeah big urbi is that you hey how's it going hey hey welcome welcome hey you're outnumbered by canadians there bud i see that again now does it count if you're like

x amount of years removed are you still canadian or He's an expat. I've still got the passport. Okay, then I guess it's two to one tonight. Damn it. You're pretty much Canadian adjacent. You live... I could piss on your house from the CN Tower. You're pretty close. Only at Rochester.

It's crazy though, just driving down the three-way in western new york i woke up this morning completely clear get halfway to syracuse it's a fucking whiteout for like the last 40 minutes of my drive to syracuse yeah it was miserable we got railed last night yeah yeah it was pretty brutal yeah it was 65 i don't know i'm sure the most the east coast got i'm not really sure but it was it was two or three days this week. It was 60, 65 degrees and then back to winter

and hard. It can't be as bad as where are you again? Deutschland. He's in Deutschland. That's Germany. He's definitely not in Germany. Today I had to Google where Dutch people were from just so I could say Netherlands confidently because I didn't have a fucking clue.

I'm in the Netherlands. I moved here in 2016 in October of that year. Yeah, I've lived here since 2016. I live close to Utrecht, which is right in the middle. So I'm like South Central Netherlands. It's pretty good. I used to live way out east in a town called Enschede, which is about 150,000 people. It's a big student town as well. So there's lots of... There's two universities. The city is from 1310. that's how old the ancient is it's just

ancient i know yeah there was a sewer system good question it still seems to be standing that's one thing i would like if if my city was from that old i'd be like what are you doing with rp? Yeah, where's the good? Because back in 1310, you just dumped it out the front window and hoped shit went well. The shitter's full. Shitter's full, boys. So you're from Canada, of the Canadian region.

Where in Canada? I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. But we moved out to Vancouver? I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but we moved out to Vancouver when I was two. So you're from the hippie side. The hippie side, yeah. Yeah, it's changed so much since last time

I was there. Yeah, I haven't been back to Canada for two years now, so I don't really... I'm not in a rush to go back. It's just changed so much, it seems like, since I left. Yeah. Now that happens.

Yeah. No, my family's doing well. So I think my mom's coming here in September. Hopefully, I can see my family again. Like, those two years during COVID when nothing was open, I mean, I got to get my squat rack. I had to just leave my gym and deadlift with some room sticks.

Do what you gotta do in harsh times. Yeah, but now everything's open and back up. And yeah, it's nice just to have a bit of peace in my life and it's not as stressful you know well just in case no one had clued in yet uh who you are you want to go and introduce yourself and give us your uh socials and where they can find you and if you have a weird discord name or a weird ig name or anything like that so everyone's on the same page yeah so on it on discord my name is big matt2 electric big oliv even though i was the first big matt in the discord um on instagram i'm matt u 25 and that's about all i use i don't really use

facebook anymore so just instagram and discord muscle you're not on facebook so i guess i if you're not on facebook i'm probably not gonna know when your birthday is you're not gonna get a happy birthday out from the Unpaid Underrated Podcast page. So, you know, if anyone's ever upset that they didn't get a shout out, it's because I either didn't know it was your birthday because you didn't post about it. Because usually if someone posts about their birthday, I'll be like, yeah, I'll throw it up there. Or if I see it on Facebook, I'll throw it up there. Other than that, like, I don't have a calendar with everybody's birthdays in it. So hopefully nobody's offended if they were missed.

Well, Big Matt, what brought you to Mastodonomics, buddy? How did you find this? birthdays in it so hopefully nobody's offended if they were missed well big Matt what brought you to Mastodonomics buddy how'd you find this why are you still here all that even when I was living in Canada I was really into weightlifting I joined a gym with my buddy Sean to us an athletic club

and yeah that was just like the local gym just got the same iron plates as of the Big Youth back there. That was the place with the squat and deadlift. Then, yeah, that place closed down in like 2017, so after I had moved. But, yeah, I was just in the gym after work, before work, just getting it done. work, just getting it done. When I moved here,

the second thing I did was I joined a gym in Entreday. It was called ClubFit. It was actually a really good gym. They had a full rig, a full CrossFit rig. It was not a CrossFit gym. They just had six places to squat and bench and deadlift. I'm like, you know what? It's a good gym.

It was a good spot for me um in 2019 i i guess i was looking for some new gym shirts and then i found my yeah body lightweight shirt and yeah and my jackson deadlift shirt like those are fucking sick i gotta order those i was on vacation in cologne, Germany when I ordered these two shirts. And they showed up right around my birthday. So I was very happy. Yeah, since I became a supporting member of Mastodonics, it's like everyone's just really easygoing.

It's just a fun place to shoot the shit. Would you say that we're lifting hard and living easy? Oh, indeed, yes. that's one place to shoot the shit would you say that we're uh lifting hard and living easy oh indeed yes sometimes there's more lifting living easy than lifting hard it seems like but that's okay you know gotta have balance so you were lifting weights you needed some shirts yeah you know so i'm assuming you found the instagram or do you think you found the instagram or then you found the instagram yeah found the instagram okay algorithms that work again and and how'd that segue into the podcast when did you when do you think you found the podcast like do you have a memory of your first yes i do it's your it's your old favorite you know killer four the first episode i listened to was uh the pooper mitchell one yeah yeah no the first one was uh poop that was the first one was Goof. That was the first one I listened to.

I think it was 177. You know, that was the first one, 177. When they did the tour of the gym with that guy. Nice. Do you think you kind of stuck with it from there, or were you kind of dabbling? Yeah, I was dabbling.

I was in the shirts that they were having. I was like, hey, these are pretty sick. I started dabbling. I ordered the shirts today. I was like, hey, these are pretty sick. I started dabbling in the podcast. Eventually, I started listening to it weekly. The episodes came out on Monday mornings for me. Absolutely. Sunday nights for me. Yeah, I was going to say, you're like 11 hours ahead of us for something crazy, aren't you?

I think it's like six. Okay, that's all it is. So this is tomorrow? This is the future, guys. It is March 1st for him, and it's still February for us. Time zones are insane. We should actually cover that. What time did you go to bed in your time zone and what time is it right now for for you

i started going to bed at around eight o'clock um last night got a bit asleep oh that's better than nothing right my alternate idea was just stay up late and smoke a cigar in the backyard and just drink a pot of coffee but i feel like i'm more awake this way oh fuck i'd have a cigar and so if anyone missed that it's matt got up around two o'clock or so a.m and started recording 2 30 a.m his time uh worth being 8 30 you know eastern standard for joey and i it was just the only time we could do it he reached out i think you'd reach out to me several months ago as a you know early adopter of the unpaid and Underrated podcast. Yeah.

The number one podcast in your phone and just the go-to podcast that has to be listened to first every week. And it just, you know, unless we basically recorded on the weekend, it's like I didn't, it really wasn't going to work. And at the current time, we don't really, I don't foresee us doing too many weekend podcasts with family lives and everything. So it worked out good that you were taking some time off of work and you reached out to me. Did any of these days work? I was like, absolutely. Let's do it, buddy. Appreciate the dedication.

Here we are. Hopefully, you can... Is your plan to just stay up the rest of the day at this point, too? I don't know. It's three in the morning. I got a pot of coffee. That's perfect deadlift time oh yeah indeed yeah just crank the hard style scream as loud as yeah buddy there's this uh there's this guy called little texas who does american hard style

and he had a spongebob song that i posted in the discord it's fucking hilarious i did listen to it i actually did listen to that yeah hardstyle is funny in general because it was you that corrected me too right when you were like is that what you were thinking of yeah yeah so in holland uh hardstyle is really popular um in dutch they call it haber like gabber but with an hgh sound yeah because gabber gabber piatt is how i discovered hardstyle yeah gabber piatt does their muscle man right it's very popular here um yeah every weekend even during the week there's different clubs put on hardstyle concerts and shows i've never been to one that's hilarious one day I want to go and just get a headache

because I feel like all that would happen exactly yeah I think the biggest festival is called I think it's Inferno or something

it's way out in Limburg that's in the south of New Orleans and it's yeah it's like a huge festival that takes off it's in a massive outdoor field. Basically, it's a four-day festival.

The speakers are as big as my fucking squat rack. They're stacked on top of each other. Oh my god, I just can't imagine living around there. Give me a fucking headache. Speaking of living around there, we know you've been in the Neverland since 2016 or 17?

Have you lived in the same general area? Or have you kind of hopped around? Like, was it a big, big, big Joey E a couple weeks ago? He had moved a thousand times in a matter of a few years. So since you've been there, like, how many little areas do you think? He said already that he lived on the one other end, on the east end. Yeah. And now he's central.

Well, I must have been Joey and Elton spaced out. that he lived on the one other end on the east end yeah and now he's central well i must not have i must have been joey and elton spaced out i never i would never you're so full of shit that's a bozo thing to say who are you again now now now one of theids, it was funny when I said Bozo because we talked about Bozo earlier. That's why it was funny. Oh, yeah, it was a callback. That's how we explain our jokes here.

Fucker. Sorry. I didn't really move at all. I'm just going to say it eventually. My in-laws live in Amsterdam, so I would always go there for the weekend and stuff. But yeah, Amsterdam is a different animal compared to Amsterdam. It's a lot busier.

It's more crowded. There's tourists everywhere. You're trying to ride your bike to Central Station and there's just fucking people all around you. It's like going to the arnold but you're in the city that's that's what i think amsterdam's like it's very busy how how how uh roughly how old are you matt are you submasters like the rest of us i'm i'm submasters i'm 32 so so then you so you moved there when you're early 25 so yeah okay wow yeah yeah so that was canada so canada till 25 so what

uh i'm assuming you moved for work but if you want to tell us why you moved or what you do for work or what brought you there for my fiancee okay at the time okay i currently um but for my girlfriend at the time uh big liz how did you uh yeah we met online um nice dig it we met online. Nice. Dig it. We met online. There was a lot of back and forth between Canada and the islands. Actually, the first time I was in Amsterdam was February 2016. I met her parents during that time, a lot of the people. Saw the city.

So she was studying her bachelor's at the time. She was doing civil engineering um yeah time flies holy shit um she was doing her bachelor's um for civil engineering um i came for two weeks um yeah just cruised around in today cruised around in um it was a lot of fun. So she came back for that summer. And we just, yeah, we stayed in Vancouver. Hung out with the family, went on the boat. A lot of kind of fun stuff. And then she went back.

I got really depressed. I'm like, fuck this. I'm going to get my passport. And I'm getting the fuck out of Dodge. And yeah, here I am. Nice. Well, follow your heart, buddy. I can appreciate that.

So yeah, it's the only thing we got to, you know, you know, bust your chops on is that sounds like it was a decade ago and he still ain't married. What's going on with everybody? Oh, yeah. Your fiance. It's so much easier to say my wife. What's the holdup? It's even easier to say my wife. My wife.

Good. That was a good one. So, yeah, I proposed in November. So the plan is to wait about a year because her brother and his girlfriend, they're in New Zealand, cruising around in a, they bought a van down there. Or a NAR. Yeah. Or a NAR. Or a NAR.

So they're in New Zealand for a year. And they obviously want to be at the wedding, too. So you just got to wait for them to come back this way. You're going to do two. Are you going to do two weddings, one there and one in Canada? So this is a logistical nightmare. I can imagine. I can imagine.

That's why I brought it up. Like I said it before, I had a secret wedding in my backyard with just me and my parents that's right like because i was like i was not dealing with any of this shit so i can't imagine the shit you've got to deal with oh yeah so we're looking at places around utrecht around amsterdam trying to get all my friends and family to come on this way but yeah flights ain't cheap so i have to do two yeah i can't imagine that's gotta be a few grand to get out there but oh yeah yeah you know some from vancouver to amsterdam it's like a thousand euros if you're in the if you're in the and that's that's about

2500 cd yeah that's right which is probably 353,500 USD. I think it's around $1,200 American. Yeah? Get over here. Yeah, our dollar is worth more than yours now, isn't it? Yeah, absolutely. But euros are worth more than all of us. I think the euro and the dollar,

American dollar, are pretty comparable, honestly. Okay. Yeah. Is that still something that you... Do you have to get your converter out and shit to be like, how much do I owe you? Or do you have it down? Not really. No, no. I just think in euros now. It's pretty simple. Whenever I come back to Canada,

it's like shopping for discount. How many euros is a Masonomic shirt? Ooh, good question. I guess my last one I bought was the Passion 315 shirt. That was 20, wasn't it 25 bucks for a shirt? I think so, right? So yeah, it's around.

They're 39. 30. Yeah, 39 USD comes to about 47 Canadian. I think it's around 25 euros for a shirt. And you've got the shipping, international shipping. Oh yeah, how's that? Now does that go through Carol Stream also? Oh, of course it goes through Carol Stream. Fucking Carol Stream.

Fucking Carol Stream. Honestly, I was like, I should have mentioned it before he left. Just Tanner, just bring my crew to Columbus. I'm going to look him in the face. I'm going to it before he left. Just Tanner, just bring my crew to Columbus. I'm going to look him in the face. I'm going to have fun with them. And then I'm still going to have to wait three weeks for this fucking thing.

Yeah. So when they ship me my supporting member card, this one here, I'm number 61. That came in the mail. Nice. I think you beat me by four. I'm either. Maybe. I wish I got number beat me by four. I'm either. Maybe. Yeah.

I wish I got number 69. No, that was D. I think I was 67. Yeah. So this came in the mail. And I'm like, oh, fuck yeah. It's going in the wallet. I keep it with me all the time.

Oh, wow. Get that. Kudos to you. I don't carry anything in my wallet. I don't have to. If it's not essential to me to not get arrested, not pay a bill, it's not in my wallet. Mine stays

home at the altar behind me where it's got all my Masonomics stickers and shit. I started making a binder with all my stickers. The $2 bill and the crew patch and the letter. That's smart.

The old days where you had the photo where you that's a good idea did those still exist can you still get those i think so anything on amazon thank you hi morgan everybody said hi hello um i mean people collect pokemon cards and on, like, watches. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good point. So what got you obsessed with the bicycle thing there? Is that just because it's so hard to travel over there?

It's so easy to travel over there. It's so easy to travel. I just imagine, like, they just have these little cars, and, like, the roads are just really windy. Can I share my screen for one second? Our country, Keith, yeah, while you're doing that, our

countries, Keith, they have built everything around cars. Everything is four lanes, five lanes, six lanes to get from one end of the city to the other. Whereas the rest of the world has clued in that cities make more sense if you can just walk or bike.

Right? Because I'm not going to get in my car to go to some local business downtown with no parking and everything's hard and blah, blah, blah. Because it doesn't make logistic sense. Today I was downtown when I took my kid to the doctor. And I almost hit two people. Oh, geez. Because it's just fucking logistic nightmare trying to turn and there's buses and there's blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But like if I could have just like, hey, man, just get on the bus and take the kids without me.

Exactly. It would have been easier. So, no, actually traveling in other countries is way easier than ours. I'm actually jealous of Irby's ability to bike everywhere. It's very fun. I throw my shirt on the bike and I go. I don't know how to drive.

I don't have my license. Maybe you guys should make a poll. Wait, you've never had a license? No, I had one in Canada, but I gave it up. You were going to share your screen. Do I have to give you permission? No, I tried to, but it says the host has turned off screen sharing.

I'll give you two seconds. Yeah, because if it was my game, I have to share my screen as well. Okay. Wait, let's try again. You guys chat for a second while I figure out how to do this. I'm assuming you either work from home or you have a job that you can walk to. you guys chat for a second while i figure out how to do this yeah um but i'm just i'm so i'm assuming you either work from home or you have a job that you can walk to no actually i work in that chain okay so you're able to commute by yeah hop on the train yeah it's two trains it's a little it's a little commuter train um to utrecht central station

how long is that i can't imagine like a train. One train ride, I'm just like, two train rides, fuck. It's not that bad. It's like a 10-minute train ride to the first station. Then I hop on the bigger train to Amsterdam. Then I can either walk or take the little subway. Door to door.

One hour? You walk. Fuck that, though. Yeah. Are you one of the countries that are like super lax on like you get like a three months vacation or something i know there's a lot of like yeah countries that just get a shit yeah that's right so america where they just work us to death i think we get around we don't get politically well yeah i know i won't get political but yeah we get We get four weeks vacation

in this country. Just work until you die. I think you have screen sharing. Cool. I just wanted to show you this little car that you guys can, that elderly people drive in the bike lane because they're unable

to transport themselves otherwise. I'm just picturing stuff from like uh was it the first vacation movie not christmas vacation not vegas vacation but vacation where they're just driving around oh wow that's a little guy it's a little conta it's called um i actually would have got one of those yeah the i wanted a mini but i ended up buying a kona which was the closest thing to a mini i could get within my budget so yeah the kona that's about four times the size of this thing, right? Jesus! It's run by a little 50cc moped engine. They're also electric. They're electric as well now.

And it fits groceries. Yeah. Groceries and two people? Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah. In the back, I don't know, like in the back quarter window, you sometimes see a third person squished in there now for the people that can't see uh we're looking at a little car obviously it's four wheels but it's about the size of i like i don't it's smaller than a mini cooper

oh yeah yeah absolutely yeah oh god even smaller like smaller than a kicker but also um no porn tabs open so he did not google siri while we were watching yeah his computer definitely just took over my whole screen i'm like how do i get back to my show notes but now so i'd be like what's what's what else are you looking at but that's fun it's called called the Canta. C-A-N-T-A. Yeah. So yeah, you see these driven by a lot of elderly people with a disability who can't otherwise transfer themselves. Is that a Scantmobile? Could be.

Scants will throw you. Yeah, it's funny. You see people, yeah, families on bikes going to school. You see businesses hauling their stuff on bikes. Like DHL, that's a big, a big Carol Stream supporter there. You lost an hour, at an hour commute to work. It's two hours a day. That means I'm working at least a 10 hour.

No. Yeah, but buddy, on an alternative day day i'm driving 40 minutes yeah on a 25 minute commute just because there's so many single occupant cars and nobody knows how to drive every every accident and every slowdown every every time i've run into volume i've been wanting to go off on traffic a little bit lately because like, Oh my God, does it ever? And like today was one of those times where,

so I'm, I'm waiting, I'm at an intersection and I want to turn right. Okay. And the, my light is red. Okay. But in Ontario,

you can turn right on a red, but there's people waiting here there's people crossing and there's a bus and i was like well i'm definitely not fucking with any of that no but the guy behind me and what's funny is the guy pulled up behind me and i'm not gonna again too political but let's just say if you're in ontario or canada right now and one of these guys pulls up behind you you know exactly who i'm talking about and i started laughing i laughed out loud and pointed at the guy and was like you are a loser you're a bozo and he starts railing on the horn because i'm not going so when the light turned green i inched forward a little bit i almost inched into some people

and like they like that's the worst i've ever driven and that's been on my brain ever since if you're driving on a highway in ontario and you're you're suddenly like you're just at like this area where you're doing anywhere from five to ten kilometers an hour on a freeway where the limit is 90 to 100 the only reason you're doing that is because nobody is giving space to the people merging that's all it is is nobody wants to let anybody merge in front of them just learn how to fucking drive and we could all get to where we need to go so when you're like oh an hour commute like buddy i live 25 minutes from my work but there are some mornings it takes 45 minutes to an hour and it's literally just because

people don't want to let other people merge if i could cycle to work in half an hour to an hour I would be so excited if I could get on the bus out my front door and go to work and not have to deal with any of that just put my headphones in and read a book or something on the way in I'd be so amped for that

but I can't, I chose to live in the country where there's no bus, there's no den there's none of that, which is fine but like all of the people that live near me should fucking learn how to drive the other infrastructure the other day i was waiting to turn left into my my driveway because traffic was on coming and and snow was on coming. And the car behind me laid on their horn. Because I didn't turn fast enough for them into my own driveway. That's the dummy that I have to make sure doesn't kill me.

As they try and pass me with my turning signal on into my own driveway. So as my wife learns to drive, I have specifically told her, drivers on the road hate two things. They hate when you break the rules, but they really hate when you follow the rules. Yeah. If you follow the rules of driving, you will be one of the most hated people on the road, but you will be one of the safest. But anyway. Yeah. Driving has been a trigger of mine lately the past couple of days because i

get so much of it i've been off on vacation so i've just been driving everywhere and oh my fucking god i'm with you on i wish i could just cycle to work a bus to work yeah i mean yeah is it that like are the roads that bad they're like is it just just two lanes, nothing separated or anything? Where I live, I live on they like to call them arterial roads because it takes the blame off of them for building shitty infrastructure. But ultimately, I live on

a road with almost no stop signs in between highways. So rather than build a highway between the two, they want to put them on my road, but they don't want to build walls or rumble strips or end sidewalks or any of that because you're an arterial road. And no,

it's like, like it's a 60 limit, but like it's like, like it's a 60 limit, but like it's, it's kind of messed up that I have to be careful turning left into my driveway. Like I need to be legitimately because people have died on my road from people not wanting to wait for the car two cars ahead to turn into their own driveway. Yeah. It's unfortunate. Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, see. yeah it's fortunate yeah it's like anyway anyway see um so how is um what's the language like did they just they speak dutch is it like is dutch so dutch is the only language or is english like 50 is like a 50 50 thing or is it oh yeah so

basically pretty much all dutch people under the age of 50 they understand speak english okay okay so so yeah if you guys come to visit like you can just ask question english roger now how do they know is it like what makes it to where they like dutch is their first language but then they know english just because like just based on yeah media like a lot of TV shows here gotcha are just English audio with Dutch subtitles um in Germany for example they dubbed the audio so like I was watching South Park in German that's fucking hilarious um but yeah like a lot of movies and TV shows are interesting in English with Dutch subtitles so do you just uh muddle along after being there for almost a decade still speaking

english or do you put any effort into speaking dutch no i've learned some dutch it's my i consider it my second language like my my in-laws they all they're all dutch right so yeah i was gonna ask so your so your wife to be is fully dutch then so she speaks Dutch on a daily basis and then has to... Deal with my dumb ass after. Well, yeah, so I guess I would say, like, was she more fluent in English than maybe, like, the general person out there when you met? I think so.

Or has she become pretty fluent, obviously, now? I think so, yeah. So she has to speak English to you every night, obviously. When she gets home from work, she's like, I've got to go use my second language tonight. Yeah. She has to speak English to you every night, obviously. When she gets home from work, she's like, I've got to go use my second language tonight. Yeah. I think at this point it's becoming like Dutch is our second language for a Dutch person because we speak English so much at home.

But yeah, I've studied Dutch for the past eight years. And whenever I can say the Nike story or something, trying to buy some shoes, I say, can I get these in my size in Dutch? Then they switch back to English right away because my Dutch sounds so awful. It's funny. Yeah, it's fun.

I taught English for a couple years too. Oh, over there? Okay. Learning the language is always fun. It's challenging. It's definitely difficult. You think in a certain language and you have to switch based on you have to switch around your language based on the people around you. It's fun. I want to learn a third language. I want to learn German third language. Okay.

Yeah. I want to learn German. Because my family is German. Gotcha. Yeah. Do you have any, what's your favorite Dutch podcast? I do more of a gag.

I don't know that you, so like, can you actually coherently listen on like a fast paced conversation and like automatically translate in your head? in your head, it's that good already. So you could listen to a radio show or a podcast in Dutch and then just completely get it. I mostly listen to

the Dutch radio. There are no other podcasts. I only listen to the national spot. I just do guys and Tanner and Tommy. But yeah, when I watched the Dutch news, it's like, yeah, I follow along 80%. It's good. That's enough to get by, right?

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that we're the only podcast. Unpaid and Underrated is the only podcast. And the other one, the sister podcast, they're just Unpaid and Underrated adjacent. Exactly. So we talk about beer a lot. And obviously, you guys have a ton of old breweries oh yeah you did a grulsh grulsh yeah yeah so i we've talked about the grulsh brewery

tour and how i i just don't like grulsh at all but you have some fun stories about the grulsh yeah so tell me what's happening so when i used to work there um basically in dutch and german and belgian supermarkets all the beer comes in these plastic crates of beer so it's 24 bottles of beer like it's like a 12 ounce beer um they come in 24 crates 24 plastic bottles no in glass bottles, but it's in a crate. Let me find... Okay, like a milk crate. Exactly, yeah. Let me find a picture of the crate very quickly.

No worries. So, it's different than the way the beer comes in North America, of course. Well, that's even different from one place to the next, you know? Was ity was talking about flats a few years ago i'm like what the fuck is a flat of beer okay that's like a rack

that might be more of just terminology than actually being different exactly yeah it's just the easiest way to transport large quantities of beer in this country um this is how the beer comes like that that's the creative beer. Okay. Yeah. So they're really just like an old school milk container. Except look at the handle in the middle. Oh, yeah.

There you go. Like only Steam Whistle has done anything that interesting. Yeah. Steam Whistle has the briefcase they invented. Oh, cool. Where the cardboard locks and then it has a handle that slides in and out but that looks dope that looks way easier to carry yeah so you see students like yeah eventually you would see students going to the grocery store with um a shopping cart full of

these growth crates um because the the dutch students drink way too much i think it's a problem and i assume those are those are deposit refundable oh yeah of course i think it's a problem. And I assume those are deposit refundable. Oh yeah, of course. I think it's like a 15 cent deposit on each bottle. And the case? I think they just there's no deposit, but they want it back just to wash it for a reason. You see these on

bikes all the time too, eh? A lot of people just strap a grow-off crate on the front of the bike. When I used to work there, we would have to move these crates A lot of people just strap a growth crate on the front of the bike. Yeah. When I used to work there, we would have to move these crates from the assembly line onto a pallet. You'd have to stack around 70 of these crates onto the pallet. And then the forklift guy takes it off to the warehouse. I'm assuming you worked there after your initial tour that you did with your buddy Sean and your fiance

where you actually did not speak Dutch at the time no, no, our Dutch was very terrible we had to rely on Liz for the Dutch tour of the Grootschk Brewery so they showed us the entire brewing process of the beer and we got to see them

pour the hops into the big pot thing you know I don't know the terminology but they would basically show us how they make the beer and yeah it was pretty awesome it smells awesome it smells really hoppy in the brewery as well

I really like the smell of hops I'm drinking a hop water right now as I looped on to the Starburst why did somebody tell me that you are the Canadian version of Xandar Clegane I have no idea who that is Kate

Xandar Clegane from The Hound no The Hound from Games of Thrones the mountain's brother from Game of Thrones here's the problem I've never watched Game of Thrones in my life. So, I don't know the rest of it. Well, it's just because you're a tall fucker and you probably had...

Did you have long hair at some point in your life? I got a haircut yesterday. Yeah, my bangs were way too long. So, it looked like I had some broccoli hair going on. I had to get rid of it. Oh, I can't have that. I'm going to have to... Where's the end call button?

Yeah. I think you got your deep broccoli before you came on. Yeah, no, I had to get rid of it where's the end call button i guess yeah i think you got you deep broccoli before you came on and i had to get my haircut um i i never really had long hair but just i had too much hair just had to get rid of it so it's funny i told the barber about the sister podcast host getting their hair stuck in the creeper he's like yeah this is like no it's it's a crawler damn it the creepy crawler yeah he renamed it a creepy i'd never heard of either of those oh god that had me rolling and i was yeah i was listening live and i was able to make a meme quick enough to get it was annoying because i had a goddamn typo in it but it still made enough sense but i was like son of a bitch in my fucking typos. I was glad I was able to get the meme. That's when I was like, what the fuck is he talking about?

He's talking about this. I didn't know either of those words before this exact sentence. Okay. I'm going to start throwing shit at a dartboard and hope it goes well. Shoes. Why do you have so many shoes?

Why do you love so many shoes why do you love shoes i don't know i just i got i love shoes so you gotta you gotta wear them what are your favorite shoes i wear a lot of vans um just comfy easy to put on um i biked across the netherlands in van slip-ons um we biked from entredade to Amsterdam. Yeah, just in van shoes. That was pretty fun. I just like wearing shoes. You don't see the irony in not liking vehicles but your favorite shoe is a van?

You don't see the irony there? I find that amusing. They're just the worst. What? It's fun. Van. I want to get one of the David Dono explain it to Joey. they're just the word what? it's van someone someone someone

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No, that was actually fucking funny. That was pretty good. Oh, actually, hey, hey, hey, I see what you're drinking out of me, too. So that's what Morgan delivered. I asked for some water at some point. Nice. Because I'm dying. They're both holding up the... I might have to drink some water here.

That's fucking sick. because I'm dying. They're both holding up the tie-dye. Yeah, this is the third year podcast? Fifth year podcast or whatever the year they're on? Yeah, I got the poster up in the corner here. That's the one I had to take down to put up another one. Down, but it's

somewhere. So Big Matt, you obviously have a home gym, but I think you've mentioned going to a commercial gym still. Are you still doing a little bit of both? Yeah. I joined a powerlifting gym in Utrecht called Iron House. We have

another supporting member there, Big Silva. He goes to Iron House as well. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's a great gym. They have all sorts of combo racks and big rigs and a bunch of other platforms. So yeah, my plan when I had this home gym was eventually to return to a commercial gym. But yeah, I do try to mix my time between here and the gym. How long is it to that gym? It's about a half hour bike ride for me

well you at least get your cardi you get your warm-up and your cool down pretty much with your bike that's your warm-up you just gotta flail your arms as you bike ride to make sure that your lats and shoulders are warmed up yeah what's the uh what's what's the weather like so is it do you have like a just kind of dreary 20 like year-round or like it's year-round? It's similar to Vancouver. Lots of rain. It's been monsooning all week. So biking to the gym, I'm wearing my rain pants, my rain jacket,

my Vans boots. I'm dry, but yeah, it's just fucking miserable. For myself and all the other listeners that don't know Vancouver's 365 weather, does that mean you don't have winter? Wet. Wet.

Wet. Sometimes it's cold wet. Sometimes it's warm wet. Exactly. It's wet. Do you have a four-month period where it's not above freezing? Yes, we do. Right now, it's above freezing.

Let's see the temperature right now it's three in the morning currently it is nine a.m that's three in the morning um so yeah it's so yeah we don't use the imperial system here so it's it's uh nine degrees celsius right now i don't know what that is in fahrenheit they took my kid okay we took my kid to the doctor today and we use Imperial in the house just because like I fucking use plates so everything's Imperial in the house. And the doctor was like, oh your kid's

like 36 degrees. Me and my wife were kind of like we both had to pull out our phone to see what the temperature, because we use Imperial in the house. That's fucking wild. I should go back to Celsius.

It does make more sense. It does. Yeah. In the summer, holy shit, last summer it was 30 degrees. 30 degrees Celsius? Yeah, it was really warm. It was hot. And yeah, it was... We also get forest fires here too, right?

Like around BC and Alberta, there's also get forest fires here too right yeah like and then around bc and alberta there's all the fires there so yeah all of canada is on fire right now that's terrible yeah the fucking smoke destroying new york state all summer it was pretty bad like it was it like vancouver was on fire and i was in toronto at a hotel looking out and the sky was orange. It was pretty bad. But yeah, 30 degrees Celsius is insane. I don't think we've had that here. That's too much.

Yeah, that's way too much. That would be like I'm going inside and taking a cold shower weather for me. Yeah, I remember we were driving from Vancouver to Manitoba to Winnipeg. That's 2,000 kilometers. We were going through, I guess, yeah, eastern BC-Alberta border.

And it was, yeah, you could see the smoke. And I guess they closed a little highway after we passed, like, yeah, in between BC and Alberta, that sort of place. Yeah, it was, it was just was just just keeps getting worse unfortunately so i definitely sad like my country is burning down too so yeah but we have this game we like to play uh okay all right all right all right all right i got a funny one I think, unless you got something I also have a funny one Yeah, I'm about done like having Serious shit

So we Like to do this thing that we invented Which is the Mount Rushmores And then I have another one later But Mount Rushmore Simpson quotes That are applied to everyday life.

Ah, yes, yes. So, I can think of one right away. Put it in H. Whenever me and Big Liz are biking, it's always, hey, Liz, put it in H. Because then she's always biking so slow. So I didn't like to go fast.

That's probably, that's one of them for sure it's one of the four oh yeah oh yeah so in Homer Homer is meeting the teacher kerbuffle I've been calling her crandle

I mean like whenever I say someone's name wrong that's what i think of that's a good one yeah yeah what else is there there's two more oh my god yeah i was watching the simpsons earlier for a sec trying to blink here. If you guys got one, we can do a combined Mount Rushmore. Well, I do think that you've been listening,

so you have heard many Simpsons references come out of my mouth, but they're always on the fly. I think one of mine is the noodle at the end of the hoose.

I say that one a lot. The hoose? The noodle at the end of the hoose. I say that one a lot. The hoose? The noodle at the end of the hoose. Yeah. Keith, do you have any? I haven't watched an episode of The Simpsons in 20 years. I can't remember. Nobody has.

We're all just bringing it up from our child. I'm struggling to... My funniest thing about The Simpsons is just the meme I'm struggling to I just my funny thing about the Simpsons just like the meme where he's got like all his back skin like tied together and like me kind of looking all jacked up front and then it's just like all the skin in the back

that's like my lasting memory of like all I can think of about Simpsons right now what was the meme I did when Tango and Charlie blocked me and then it was like I don't even know who you are but i'm sure you're a jerk and it was just them pointing at me yeah i was like i what did i do i didn't even fucking interact with you guys yeah when flanders's house closed down yes yes actually

one of the best episodes do you listen to oakley dokely no No, I don't. It's a fun event. I've heard of them. Yeah, they're the Flanders Metal Band. The Nettle Bland. The Nettle Band. Awesome. Actually, one of the best live shows I've ever been to, actually. Yep. Absolutely.

I'm going to see Tyler Childers this weekend. Who? I've heard about that. I'm excited. I missed him three years ago in Nijmegen. That's more east from here. Yeah, I was bummed out that I couldn't go.

So I had to get tickets for this one. Is that country music? Yeah, it's country. Tyler Childs, you said? Childers. Okay, yeah. I know the name. Kentucky. He's a good singer. I'm excited for that. It's on Sunday. I mean, you have The Devil just had a new album kentucky it's a good song i'm excited for that that's on sunday i'm you the devil just had a new album out and it's kind of revamping my love of country there's

a song on there called i'm going to heaven give it a try because it's like outlaw country old style but about drug overdose no fun mostly still this game we like to play but uh no okay so uh a funny one i want to get to real quick uh your your fiancee um had mentioned that you had always joked about wearing ramaleos on your wedding and now that your wedding's getting closer she's kind of worried about it but apparently you squat and barefoot shoes now so that's right what's your what's your uh what are your feet going to be wearing on your wedding day, buddy? That's a good question. Might have to be some barefoot shoes, some red pink ones. Is that the salmon ones

that Joy was talking about? Yeah, we have the same shoes, me and Joy. The Ursus, yeah. Actually, that's probably what I'm going to wear to the Arnold. Nice. So they're good shoes. Now, how are you... Sorry, go ahead. How's that transition from squatting

and heels to flat squats I can't do it I don't have the ankle mobility I actually get knee pain if I do it for long periods so I have a squat and heel choose for years I had Romulo 2's and Legacy lifters and Out of Powers

and Romulo 4's but then I tried squatting in my notorious lift, deadlift slippers. I was at home one day. I'm like, hey, this ain't so bad. Yeah, I had to work on my ankles. I was a little ankle warm-up for a squat. That does help.

I squatted 180 kilos for a set of five on Sunday in my flats. Well, great. Did that impress Moose, the cat yeah moose moose loved the gym she um i think i shared then the discord my cat was just chilling here in the dump car that was yeah yeah we saw i i did not place her up there i i wouldn't do that good pictures like the cats in the gym i had to I had to take the pictures. And what's funny is because she's so light, the bar did not move.

It just stayed set. She was on the sleeve and didn't even move. Yeah. I think the cat's big on the gym. It's like you guys. It's our first cat. We used to pet sit Elizabeth's mom's cat.

It was a calico named pinky so shout out to pinky um yeah i love cats um i love all animals you know not just cats right my family used to have a bernie's mountain dog in the black lab yeah but i've just always been a cat person nice um well let's see if i can get into one of my games here a little fmk i've got two fmks okay um i'm not gonna be able to pronounce the majority of the words out of either of them so i'm gonna go with the one that's i think it's i think it's about dutch delicacies oh yes um so do you want me to do it yeah if you can pronounce them have at it all right so these are keith's games but i'm familiar with some of these.

Are you talking the second one down? Yeah, the first one was Mike's stuff, but I think with the food one, it might be more funny. Yeah, so FMK, Stroopwafel, Pickled Herring, and Stemput. Oh, okay, okay. So Stroopwafels, they're the best. They're these little caramel cookies. They're the fucking best.

They're the best. They're the fucking best. And you can still get them you can get them in america really go to yeah you get a costco i get them here all the time yeah so you gotta marry the stroopwafels they're just the best with coffee good for a sugar kick as well well so we've talked about it in the discord we've talked about it in the discord the Stroopwafel they're little graham crackers that are waffles with syrup in and what you do is you put them on your coffee as

the coffee's hot because the steam warms them up perfect so you gotta marry the Stroopwafels the Herring you know you gotta kill that the closer you are to the water the stroke bottles. The herring, you know, you've got to kill that.

The closer you are to the water, the better the herring is from the cart. It's like a brooch of herring. That's a piece of fish with some pickled onions and some kind of a toaster bread. It's fine, but it makes you wonder how fresh is it?

I mean, it's pickled fish, so you gotta kill the herring. And stem pot, it's kind of like, yeah, it's mashed potatoes and smoked sausage. Okay, that'd be good. Some people say that now it's the country flavor forgot.

So you have to kill the stamp out it's just it's great on a cold winter day but I thought you

were killing the herring I missed I missed I missed I missed I missed her

oh you're fucking the herring okay yeah yeah um it's yeah

it's good when it's fresh but otherwise you gotta be careful so you're gonna take

pickled herring over fish or you're gonna take pickled herring over mashed potatoes and sausage. That's that's it. Oh, wow.

OK. Yeah. Yeah. That's the way she goes. All right. Well, that is it is your game and you can answer however you please. Regardless of how we judge you, you know, you do have your druthers. Yeah.

One thing just so have you been able to utilize obviously you met your you know your your fiance online so you've obviously like used to communicating on the internet um has the discord kind of helped you feel like you're more like like obviously you you know you can't go hang out with your buddies down at the bar, like from Canada or whatever. So has being in the discord the last few years kind of given you more like, uh, okay, I don't feel as homesick or anything like that. Um,

I mean, obviously like we're here, we all, I think we get a community out of this, but I imagine you get a little bit more of the community aspect out of it considering like you, you know, haven't lived in your home country in a while.

Yeah, no, the discord isn't great for me. There's moments when I'm just too busy to use it with work and the gym and stuff, but it's fun to scroll through it and see all the shit posted. It makes me happy.

Yeah, it's definitely a great spot to be in. It's definitely worth the couple bucks a month to be there, too. Wait, who's shitposting? Everything I post is meaningful and on purpose. I think one of the mats is a big shit poster. Yeah. Too many. There's so many mats.

There's too many. I saw your list, Keith. All the mats we want. How many mats are on there? I think it would be funnier to remove them or make it hidden and just have a series of the word mat. Yeah. It would have been fun to get all the mats onto this episode too except for one just every map but one on one episode that's

hilarious that'd be awesome we actually do have plans um okay to get mad on every week and every week we're like hey man like you like you could be one of the hosts this and this is what like people don't get like the the running joke is matt's student but like we've made it very clear that this podcast is supposed to have three hosts me keith and one other right and then we have another person than the guest which this week is you yeah but when nate's on it's fucking great right because like that's three people that's kind of shit like everybody's got a different perspective yeah and we've told matt like you're that third whenever you want to show up. And this fucking guy just won't make it work.

He just won't make it work. I get having 20,000 followers makes you a big deal, even though Instagram won't monetize you and everything he's doing. But that invitation has been open forever. So when we talk about how he has an open invitation and he's not showing

up it's on him it's legitimately on him i'll get him one day though like i said my my influence is growing my influence i pulled in siri some other people i'm working on and you got me too yeah got you like my my influence is growing one day i'm not no wine cellar big i'm not that big yet but i was uh when you're here absolutely yeah similar to what you were saying like i kind of was going through my my okay who actually follows me back that i would get on the podcast would actually be a good podcast that's like like doesn't i mean obviously we still want to keep them at obviously we're not going to uh stray too far away from asonomics but at some point i we you know if only have 300 crew i want this podcast to last 10 years you know i gotta get some other

people in there so you know there will be a you know a orderly or so non-crew possibly going forward so but it was kind of like funny like oh that would actually be a good episode like i actually know some people so i don't know and so that's kind of cool so but if you have anybody in mind yeah if any of our listeners have anyone in mind that they would really like to get on that's crew adjacent that they think they could pull in for us let us know someday i'm like mass novice is like well we can't make our schedule work with that person you're gonna and i'm just like i can do what i want like maybe i'll get that person yeah and then disappoint them as we did with all of siri's followers and all of

most of our followers that think this is gonna be anything other than a silly ass time yeah we got as long as we get the download numbers you know so we can get that speedboat we're good oh yeah gotta get that bag i still don't get the speed bag get the bag we get the download numbers, you know, so we can get that speedboat, we're good. Oh, yeah. Gotta get that bag. I still don't get the speedboat. Bag, bag. Get the bag. Gotta get the bag.

Buy the flags to get the bag. I love it when everyone just says that. Oh, big, uh, who was, uh, who the hell bought the banner this week? I can't even. Ryan? Oh, big Ryan. Yeah, big Ryan. Appreciate you, big Ryan. Uh, big Ryan used code un at Plates Next to get a little unpaid and underrated

podcast banner for his gym. I think it's definitely the highlight of the gym now between the extra fridge and the 17 cars and all the Christmas decorations. And the engines and all the shit around. The

turtle aquarium tank parts floating around probably. I love those turtles. Oh, the uh the the turtle aquarium tank parts floating around probably all kinds of good turtles well let's see i don't know we've got a lot of bike talks is there any anything specific that you want the world to know about bikes of uh this is your this is your uh were you were were you the one um were you in Aberdeen a few years ago With the guys on the party bus And did you steal the bike I mean is that where the whole thing came from

Because we know you have the bike fetish I can't recall My lawyer told me not to Shit I mean the cops did tell Tanner that he just needed the bikes back And the first person we thought about was you Yeah I mean the bikes i have probably

won't fit on a bus um now are you you're more of a are you a you have motorized bike uh electric electric bike yeah it doesn't have a gas engine um my so my my mother-in-law actually just bought one for my father-in-law he uh he had some his medical issues basically like can't drive anymore but he still likes to get out and about and basically he's like walking 10 miles a day right now but it's like you know at some point like you know he's got to have a alternative you know something a little bit different uh so they spent like three grand and got him a big ass tricycle uh like e-bike thing so actually uh yeah that was uh that kind of is ironic that i think that literally she ordered at this week so And then we got

you on here. So do you end up pedaling like half your time? So you have to pedal in this country, at least in Europe. The rules say that it cannot be throttle only. At any point, like during the ride? Like up to six

kilometers an hour, you can use throttle. You have to literally pedal the bike. Otherwise, it's considered a moped. Kil you can use throttle i thought you have to literally pedal the bike otherwise it's considered a moped kilometers oh and then you have to then you gotta actually like get it registered and all that are there people that might still just go through all the room roll to get it legal just they don't have to pedal or at that point where they would just buy a moped some people kind of do convert their bike into a scooter um there's lots of kits available for it but they're not not really legal, so I don't endorse it. But yeah, it's possible to convert your bike into a scooter.

I mean, at that point, it's not a bike, so what's the point? But yeah, you see a lot of elderly people riding their e-bikes around. It's great to get them out and stay active up into your senior years. So I plan on biking my whole life. There's no need to drive a car, at least around here. I thought if I move back to Canada, I have to get my license. But I think the plan is to stick around here. Now, is that, yeah, do you think, like, so she has no intention of, you know, going to Canada?

It's pretty much you're going to be in somewhere in that region the rest of your, you know? I think so, yeah. We were looking at, no, back before I moved here, we were looking at, as an international student, how much does it cost to go to the University of British Columbia to study civil engineering as an international student. It's 20,000 Canadian dollars per year. Basically, she was paying a couple thousand

euros for her bachelor's. Much cheaper to stay there then. It's a lot cheaper here. Your first couple years there there's got to be a funny story where you just weren't speaking the right language and there's some some miscommunication just there had to be tell me some funny story or or you you read the

damn bathroom sign wrong and you're in there taking a shit and you realize you're in the women's room or something there's got to be something like i couldn't imagine being that much of a fish out of a water like oh yeah you got to hit us with something funny buddy it's not something i remember i was i think i was working some odd job just in a factory and i was getting instructors in dutch and i'm like dude i don't know what's gonna say so i'm just trying my best i think i had to click some plastic into each other i just wasn't doing it right and uh he got pretty mad at me the store manager and just told me to get the fuck out of there and go home so it wasn't really funny it's like more depressing because it's like fuck i need

to work and i gotta gotta go home that was not the funny story we're looking for it's not a dark side so let's go with your five great lakes you're welcome to go four, three, two or whatever but we're not going to be doing Mount Rushmore anymore I know we did one earlier but like

that's clearly been evolved up to the bigger podcasts so we're going to do the great lakes sure Like that's clearly been evolved up to the bigger podcasts. So we're going to get the great lakes. Sure. Uh, tobacco blends or cigar brands. So like,

what are your, your at least, at least five or most five. Okay. So, um, I was at the cigar shop after my haircut. I thought it was a Nicaragua inch cigar.

I don't know what brand it was, but it's a Nicaraguan cigar. It's in the closet. Can I just go grab it? I'll show you. Yeah, you got time. One sec. So, while he's gone, I'm going to go ahead and bring up, uh, that we have a few, um, promo codes with obsidian barbell.

Now with obsidian barbell, I know that they have a 50% off code, so don't really use our code, but if you happen to want to use our code, it's unpaid. Don't forget barbell rescue plate snacks and home gym con. I think unpaid is the code on all of those, um, barbell rescue. I have the code on all of those um barbell

rescue i have been using and i love my barbell rescue i i didn't think i would love it as much as i do but even including putting oil on your bars is a good time to use that and from what i can understand our code at least saves you shipping so like use that um some of you have been using plate snacks we were kind of concerned you wouldn't but that um some of you have been using plate snacks we were kind of concerned you wouldn't but like a lot of you have been using it again get your stickers six sales i think yeah get your stickers get your flags get your banners if they did shirts that would be dope too but like obviously that's oh uh the the the dude at plates next has expanded his uh lineup for banners now, too.

You can go all the way up to 8x8, I think. So in every increment in between, from 2x2 to up to 8x8. So there's a variety of shit you could get. And if you're thinking of going to Home Gym Con, we also have a code unpaid. Indeed. All right, so you have cigars to show me. I do. So, we have a Vegafina 1998.

Now, who is that from? Vegafina. That's a Nicaraguan. Okay, yeah. I don't have those here. You should look it up if you can't find them. I really like it. Okay.

This one here. This cigar was made in Amsterdam. So, PC, wait, sorry. PG pgc hyenas shop it's a cigar shop in amsterdam president's choice hyenas got it they make their own cigars so um let's say this one was rolled in the shop where i bought it okay so i've there's a place in toronto that actually rolls their own cigars it's called uh franco frank caliente or something like that isn't that a comedian yeah it is actually i know you're talking about um but they roll them um and the difference between

them is most places roll their cigars and then ferment them. This place rolls them after they're fermented. So is that what's happening there? Like, can you walk in and just buy it off of the person rolling it? No. So I think this one was made, it's been aged for a few months. This one was made in July last year. It's a bit smaller. It's a bit smaller compared to the Vagafine.

It's a lot smaller. Yep to the Vagafine, it's a lot smaller. Yep. It was a handmade Dutch cigar. It was for the Grand Corral. It's a material that supports it. Yeah, they make their own cigars. They have this one in the shop

that takes eight hours to smoke. It's about the size of my car. No, fuck that. Nope, absolutely fuck that. I accidentally bought Toros when I normally smoke Robustos. Yeah. And I didn't finish half of them. I was like, I just wasted $20 per cigar by doing this because I don't want to smoke this long. So, yeah, that's ridiculous.

by doing this because i don't want to smoke this long so yeah that's ridiculous the the truncado um that where you could smoke the band they released it here in canada that was the best because i would walk back in the old days from one end of the city to the others and i would smoke that cigar on the walk because it was a six hour cigar well. Well. And I was like, well, I got time. Let's go. Is that it? But yeah, no, I have no interest in doing that anymore. I also got a Castillo. It's a size 64.

It's from Nicaragua. I've never had it before. So I guess you like your Nicaraguan blends. I do. I had a had it before. So I guess you like your Nicaraguan blends. I do. I like, uh, I had a Cuban as well, but yeah,

Nicaraguan. I don't love Cubans. Don't love Cubans. Like the, like the Nicaraguans, the Dominicans. Well, I just don't like their cigars because they actually don't grow tobacco anymore.

So when you get a Cuban cigar, it's all imported. Yeah. Tobacco. And it's rolled and then has a cuban cigar it's all imported tobacco and it's rolled and then has a label slapped on it as cuban yeah as an american you just don't have access to those because of the embargo system um and i think i've told the story before when i went to america and the guy was trying to sell me a 500 romeo yeah yeah and i was like that's 30 where i come from and you want 500 for it here like are you insane like what's that in euros

no uh you guys uh ready for a little unpaid or underrated we are we at that point that's matt you're familiar with the game unpaid or underrated but if we have any new listeners i imagine we brought in a handful of new listeners from big siri probably and uh maybe maybe big joey brought us some fans and we have some some loyal new customers to the podcast so unpaid or underrated uh it is not overrated or underrated it is unpaid and underrated underrated being awesome and unpaid sucking because no one wants to be unpaid so my first one here i'm going to ask big matt is overrated oh fuck here i fucked it up unpaid or underrated being six foot seven inches tall i think it's uh unpaid um it's hard to find clothes that fit sometimes when i bench i have the wingspan of a 747 jet. I'm going to an equipped powerlifting seminar in March.

I want to try my hand at a single fly bench. I can hopefully achieve it. I can see a board press or a bench block being beneficial to you if you do have such a range of motion that's almost got to like play hell on your joints just that full range of motion you would think so it might be something to look at uh i was literally thinking on the drive home today i was specifically going to add this to the question because i was like i'm like five eight on a good day and like i can barely like like my i have a tiny car but even that like even my like my work truck if i was six foot tall my work my work van would suck to sit in and i'm like i i know that i believe

we talked like you and bryce pretty much tied for the tallest crew six seven six you know six six six seven so that's uh unpaid i could definitely are you laughing at me this is the biggest car i could afford i was watching that one 22 episodes of it 22 shorts about springfield that was yeah it was a simpsons joke steven hanks let's see how you like people laughing at you all right number number two here unpaid or underrated gran turismo the movie now we're talking we're talking the the clint eastwood movie right that's so sony and they made a movie about gran turismo the racing series um i haven't seen it it seems

how have you not seen it it's like i don't i don't know from what i've heard you're obsessed with gran turismo that's your thing i got a playstation 5 so i play gran turismo and grand theft auto and fall of duty all right well i have have not seen it. It's on the watch list. It's on the Orange Glaze list for sure. I've got to watch that. I have glazed it, yeah. I glazed all over it. Oh, I was thinking Gran Torino. Gran Torino.

That movie is amazing. That's a good one. Well, because most people, there hasn't been that many movies based off video games that were great like there has probably been none that are great and there's been

none that have been good okay so i just wanted to see you know if he liked the game so much that he gave the movie a pass but he hasn't seen the movie so i haven't seen it

i know so but just so then you gotta throw something out unpaid or underrated i think i think i think it's unpaid um okay there you go all right you know we grew up

watching the fast and the furious about street racing professional racing that's like it's on page. Okay, there you go. We grew up watching the Fast and the Furious for street racing. Professional racing. It's like the misfit story from the Fast and the Furious. Fast and the Curious. I'm a big fan of Fast and the Furious

one at least. I've seen them all. Oh yeah, I've seen them all too. I think I re-watched the first one maybe in the last couple years. Okay, so I've legitimately only watched tobs and shaw i i sat at my brother's house one day um like i go to my brother's and we just smoke cigars and then like we just go about our day and we went into the living room and he put on the first fast and furious and i couldn't stop laughing i actually could not stop laughing at how bad that movie was to the point he had to turn it off and I went home. That movie sucks.

I can't. Like a 15 year old in 2001. Yeah, but I'm not a 15 in 2001. I am a 40 year old in 2024. I could see it for the first time. It was like I was just is this real? Like, is this real? are you seriously just watching this catchphrase of a movie? there's no lines

there's no punchlines, there's no nothing it's just like him saying kind of important things and people reacting to them with their open mouth everybody's open mouth in that whole movie nobody closes their mouth once in that whole movie so yeah all the Fast and Fur furious movies are fucking terrible

i have no clue how anybody watches any of them yeah yeah that's my controversial take for this episode like i don't love a lot of the new ones but goddamn i take fast and furious over like 99 percent of the horror movies you talk about yeah yeah and you're wrong yeah debatable I swear, I didn't know a single movie you guys talked about last week. I even looked at them all up, and I'm like, I have no interest in... Yeah, I'm good. I'm going to pass. So the third one here on

unpaid or underrated for big Dutch mat is going to be Tomatoes. Tomatoes. I like them when they're sun-dried. On a pasta. But I think tomatoes in general are unpaid I definitely hate the texture

I just there's other vegetables that I like broccoli tomatoes are a fruit and also really sun dried is where you that's where you prefer them yeah i hate sun-dried tomatoes i like them on a pizza they get so leathery and weird i would take raw tomatoes

especially heirloom tomatoes oh my god rye heirloom tomatoes just like the texture can't that make sense because i'm that way with mushrooms the flavor is great of mushrooms thank you and i love them but like the texture fucking terrible i saw uh one of the one of the things on shark tank the other day was a mushroom bacon and i was like how good can that be like like maybe it might be worth trying but like i'm not gonna pay like 50 bucks to get it delivered or something if i had if i saw it at like whole foods i might pick it up because i like bacon and i like not having heart disease i'd try this but like it just i can't imagine how it would be great i'd be okay i might try that as long as it doesn't have the the mushroom texture because the texture of mushroom is skin. Mushrooms are fungus, terrible,

awful skin flavored. They all have great flavors, but anyway. Yep, I'm going to hand it over to you, buddy. What you got for him? A ton here. So this one hopefully leads into something. Unpaid or

underrated? Country music. Country music is underrated, obviously. Why? Why ispaid or underrated country music country music is underrated obviously why is it obviously underrated convince me because I'll tell you right now maybe well depends on what kind of country

it is big fan of the outlaw country of course I mean I know Luke Combs is not Outlaw Country, but just more commercial. I saw him live in Denmark. It was great. He put on a great show that was sold out

at the Everett Arena in Copenhagen. It was a fantastic show. I would go see him again for sure. But yeah, I'm a big fan. All the countries have a story to tell that's what I like the most so who's top tier? for me I'm a big fan of Hank Williams Jr.

of course also all the Hanks I was going to say I like Hank 1 and Hank 3 not 2 into Hank Jr. Hank Jr. is pretty good put on some family tradition I go bench. I definitely do

that periodically. Yeah. Um, Cody James is pretty good too. I just like steel guitar. Like the pedal steel. Always been a big fan

of that kind of guitar. Like, yeah, when I, I'm also in death metal as well. Just like different types

of stringed instruments. It's a lot of fun to listen to. I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm also seeing Asleep at the Wheel, a Western swing band. I've seen them live once already in Amsterdam.

Not familiar with Western swing. I think the president of North Dakota is into Western Swing. But yeah, it's just fun to listen to. All right. Unpaid or underrated, the Rogue Ohio Deadlift.

Oh, this bad boy right here. It's the only deadlift bar I've used. So I know the Texas bar sounds pretty good. I'd have to say that Ohio deadlift bar is unpaid. I paid a lot of money for it. You bought that new and had it imported? No, I bought it from Rogue Europe. Okay, I forgot that's a thing.

Basically, Rogue has distribution centers in Belgium. There's one in Australia. I think they also send it to military bases as well. Basically, I paid 500 euros

for a deadlift bar. It's a lot of money paid 500 euros for a deadlift bar. And, yeah, it's a lot of money to put down for a bar. It is the least whippy deadlift bar of all of deadlift bars.

So, yeah, I would say that it's $500 or at least spent. Probably. Yeah, no, it's a,

glad I have it. Whenever I go to the commercial gym, they have a deadlift bar too. So, that place was the reason I bought it I know it's a... Glad I have it. Whenever I go to the commercial gym, they have a deadlift bar, too. So that place was the reason I bought it, because it's like, this bar is really nice. I do prefer thinner bars. So the only one I know of in the UK

is Smash and Pass, right? Which is the Scottish, from Aberdeen, Scotland. Are there powerlifting companies that do like equipment and bars and equipment? Like, is there anything over there? Yeah, there is. ATX. So my bottom blue bar, that's an ATX bar. Is that a deadlift bar or just a...

It looks too small to be a deadlift bar. Yeah, it's a power bar. Yeah, basically that bar. So basically I bought that bar and this ATX squat rack. It's the drink spot. I bought this rack and the blue bar

during COVID from a company called Fitness Cellar. And they are... It's a Dutch ATX dealer. So like ATX, they distribute around Europe with dealers. Compared to Rogue or say

Elite FTS, you can just buy it off the website. With ATX, you have to buy it from a distributor. So it was okay. The Cerakote coding is coming up. Cerakote? So the coding is coming up, right?

I'm kind of, I've only had it for two or three years. It's just falling apart. That's why I won't buy a Cerakote bar. They just look like they all fall apart immediately. All right. All right. Last one.

Unpaid or underrated. Sawasin Athletic Club. Sawasin Athletic. Ooh, good times, good times. First time I deadlifted over 200 kilos was in that gym. Great people. Great, great, great

members. I remember the first time I joined. That was 2012. Yeah. The first time I joined, I was just like, what am I doing here? It's like an actual gym.

Then it's like, yeah. When I joined it, then I started going regularly. I'd have to say it's underrated. Now, if you had to take your most recent experience with them, where you had some financial issues going on.

Oh, yes. I think we were fishing for that funny story. Okay. Okay. So in that scenario. So fish of this. You come off the long flint to get back on the return of the displacement. Then you go to your old childhood gym.

So you're there dead at 7 a.m. After a long flight. And then the next day, the gym, you get a call from your buddy and he says hey the tax closed, your gym's closed they went bankrupt so basically Christmas 2019

I was basically I was at my sister's gym she went to a huge LA fitness kind of gym commercial nothing we wanted to go to basically. I was at my sister's gym. She went to a huge LA Fitness kind of gym, just commercial. Nothing we wanted to go to. It's terrible. It's people that like strong men.

Basically, it was just a crowded zoo of gyms. I'd have to say that Christmas at the Tech was highly unpaid. But yeah, no, just in general. I mean, okay, I think I'm right.

The Tech is unpaid. Yeah. Well, that rounds out your underrated. I believe you passed. I mean, it's still debatable. We'll tune in next week for the final results, but until then, did you have anything you wanted to hit us with? I think you passed. I mean, it's still debatable. We'll tune in next week for the final results.

But until then, did you have anything you wanted to hit us with? I think you had a good game. Let's knock that out. So I'm glad we can share screens. That's awesome. Because I've got a fun little game I like to play here called Really Difficult to Pronounce Dutch Words. Uh-oh. I can barely do-do that with American words.

Do-do? He said do said do do I did say do do I can barely do do okay so here we go this one there we go hard to pronounce Dutch words is this a powerpoint what the fuck

it's a powerpoint this is fantastic he's got a a powerpoint it's a powerpoint it's a google sheets it's a google sheets he's got a google powerpoint so basically yeah you guys can try the word try your best to pronounce it

I want Keith to go first ok whatever's on my screen went away do you guys have my zoom tab open i can see i can see everything but it just looks like blanks yeah no yeah it's it's as you can tell graphic design isn't my fast definitely a lot of hours on the screen and on the sandbox so let's start with the first word. Are you guys ready?

Yep. I was born ready. Keith. Ansparkology Heidi Sigurd Vidsurringking Is that a fucking real word? Dude, there's like

25 letters. Okay. Ansparkle here There's like 25 letters. Okay. Okay. An sprakle hir An sprakle hids verzekering. False.

So if you do it based on syllable. An sprakle hids verzekering. Verzekering. Okay-hides Verzekering. Verzekering. Okay, yeah. Verzekering, yeah. So, verzekering, that's insurance, right?

So what's that word mean? Basically, it means liability insurance. That's something Big Jeff can get into about liability insurance, as a business owner for example um liability insurance do you guys want to hear the word yeah yeah yeah let's do that so i'll go on to it this is also the first person to ever like share their screen and like show us stuff this is really cool yeah great has anybody ever has anybody anybody except Chris Duffin done this

to the main podcast? I remember that. He just took it over. I don't even remember but it was just like... It was penis stuff. I don't know. Chris Duffin, it's all penis stuff. Let's see if I can...

Sorry. I thought you were just going to pronounce it. Yeah, what the fuck? I'm Spraguelekaarderziker. Yeah, I thought I could... Engels, Netherlands. Yeah, so, I'm Spraguelekaarderziker. How do you spell it?

It was like 30 letters, but no, I don't think... Yeah, you could have just copy and pasted. I think if you just say the word, that gets the gist across. Such a long word. Yeah, I was actually wrong. When I guesstimated 25, I think I went back and recounted. It was like 29 or something. Let's see if we can hit the ready.

It did not go through the head. Oh, no, sorry. It was so faint. So, yeah, we'll just, I would say, skip that step, and you just pronounce the word to the best of your ability for the rest of the game. That's fine. We'll do it that head. It was so faint. I would say skip that step and you just pronounce the best of your ability for the rest of the game. We'll do it that way. Sure. Big kiss.

Oh crap, I lost my screen. So my only question would be, would that be a hard or a soft G? It's a soft G. You got this one, buddy. You got this one. Oh. G-R-E-D

SHAP-SKIT. He just said soft G. I don't know what the fuck that means. Just a soft G goes a hard G. It would be J-R-E-D-S-K-O-P-S-K-I-T. Sorry. J-R-E-D-S-K-O-P-S-K-I-T. So the S-C-H SH- Jereed Shkopskit Sorry Jereed Shkopskits

So the S-C-H Sh It's a Haraj Shopskist Sorry Haraj Shopskist Not J Not G

That's not soft or hard So the way I pronounce Dutch is kind of weird, honestly. In the south of the country, they use a soft G. It's called in Dutch. So I think I kind of speak Dutch

kind of weird. Well, no, when I say soft G, I mean, none of that. That's my bad. So her head shops, kissed. Any idea what that means?

It means greedy cat. No. The toolbox. Same thing. Yeah. The cat could still go in there. All right. Let's try the last one. Shvengen.

Shvengen. Shvengen. Shvengen. Shvengen. I don't know about all that. Get to the chopper. I do want... Can you say just a couple sentences completely fluid

in Dutch for us? Say... Do the CAS. Use your, you know, do the CAS. Do the CAS as a, you know, use your strength and all that. Or any, I don't know what to say. So, let's see here. Abroch

U Sterkta Blifesterk Wait, sorry, how to get strong. Yeah, get strong, stay strong, Blife, Stirk, wait, sorry, how to get strong. Yeah, get, get strong,

stay strong, use your strength, anything like that. It's hard. It's a bit, it's a bit difficult on the fly, but, um, um,

I'm Stirkert to Bakoman, um, Abraku, Stirkta, and, uh, and, and,

and, and, um, I'm Stirkta Blythe. Nice. Good deal. Well, we'll send that over to Kaz and let him know he went international. Yeah. So Schaveningen, this is a city. It's close to The Hague, which is in the south. So it's in the west of the country.

So I'm more in the middle, so it's about an hour away from me. It's a big beach town lots of tourists come here you can go windsurfing I've been here too it has a nice it's got a nice a big

what's it called one of those things you go around it's got a big like the London Eye I forgot the word now did you forget in english or dutch yeah i forgot the english word i like i started forgetting english words when i'm oh shit i was actually just making a jab but that actually i could see that being a thing like you speak if you're yeah yeah you actually lose some of your og words that's so like

interesting i i forgot the word for conveyor belt for a long time. It's called loop in the band in Dutch. That actually sounds like a word that would mean... You just said loop in the band, essentially. Loop in the band, yeah. I know, that's why. In my head, I can phonetically be like, well, a loop, and then it's in a band.

Yeah, it does make sense. That's a conveyor belt. Yeah. Sorry, it's in a band. Yeah, it does make sense. It's a conveyor belt. Sorry, it's like an observation wheel in English that they have been shaping. It's like a big pier that you can walk down what they have in Los Angeles. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

I've never seen a glass encompassed or encapsulated pier like that. That's interesting. Oh, that's right. Do you have anything else before we start hitting the outro? Was there one more segment or anything you all set? Nothing? Any burning questions

for Joey or I? No, I was just trying to get you guys to practice your Dutch. Yeah, I don't know that I'm going to be able to sharpen my skills quick enough by the time I'm coming over to dutchland anytime soon well i i love trying to like especially german and stuff like that like those and you probably would have noticed i was trying to pronounce some of that shit

yeah with a german accent exactly because i just listened to much Ramstein. So I just. Well, any, any plans to get back to, you know, North America to see the boys or anything? You're going to, you're going to make it the home gym con or the Arnold or the lift hard at any point.

Is that something you've been us say, say, or are we going to get a chance to meet you, buddy? Now there isn't Arnold UK. There is there. Are you guys coming there? I'm not, but you could represent us there.

I definitely have a t-shirt I've been working on that some people have and some people don't that I could send you if you were going to the Arnold UK that maybe you show up and represent us. Ah, I see. I have to think about that. you were going to the Arnold UK that maybe you show up and represent us. I have to think about that. What's the best way to get you a sticker? Is it going to cost us $12 to mail you a

stamp? Let me do it. Just let me pay for that one. So basically, if you do post it, you can send us an international letter. Shouldn't be more than a couple bucks for a stamp. I send Christmas cards all the time. Okay, so it's not like an international letter. Shouldn't be more than a couple bucks for a stamp. I mean, yeah, I send Christmas cards all the time to Ken.

It's an international stamp. I'm just going to send it to his parents and they can deliver it when they want to. Actually, that may make sense. Yeah, if they're going to send you a care package. Yeah, that'll work. But yeah, I've sent cards to Ken for a couple bucks

and stamps. Also you did you send uh tanner a uh a postcard recently i've thought about it um i wasn't sure i wasn't sure what to send i wanted to send them a card from my old city entry but yeah no i didn't uh get a chance yeah i gotta think of something funny to do i've i've been it's been like on my mind it's like oh well what actually be like just all the idea of sending essentially like a paper meme it's so great it's like it just shows how like how old like it's just like we're so far removed from like you know like just mailing people shit or just doing stuff in like physical media exactly that'd be so funny uh but yeah i think we're gonna bring us in for a landing unless uh anyone's gonna stop me so nobody can stop me okay so uh obviously please please use

your affiliates go check out our instagram unpaid or underratedpockets.com we got the new youtube and uh please go subscribe to youtube that's actually what i'm gonna harken on or harp on a little bit it's like i think we got like 30 subscribers guys i mean there's literally 350 discord members or whatever or now 400 plus now right so get that many discord members and i know at least 100 of you are listening pretty much regularly so why aren't you subscribing to our youtube please go hit that subscribe. You know that if we can't get a hundred, at least when I hit 69. So that's, that's the first goal.

And then stop. Yeah. Yeah. Then we'll just block like accepting followers. That'd be great. That would be great. Uh, on the,

on the, the screenshot or the, I did a screenshot of the, the, the drink spotter. So I could post the meme was, or the, the video was here today.

And I actually like added 69 drink spotters to the cart, just so there was 69 in the cart. And I was like, Oh, I was pretty happy about that. And then that was the thumbnail of the video. So, uh,

where can they find you? Big Matt. Find me on Instagram. Matt, Matt, you 25. It's just Matt. And the letter U.

20. What about you, Joey? Uh, you can find me at, uh, Joey underscore Malesko M-L-E-C-Z-K-O but like don't

there's nothing going on there my Jennifer Coolidge impression has been making me fucking die for the last like 24 hours I posted that video and I think that deserves a little more attention as as i'm

benching i'm doing that oh yeah yeah yeah god that was thanks for using me as the preview for that good fuck so i was like i was like scrolling through like what do you want to use for the preview and i was like what do i have in my in my gallery and i saw that picture i don't know if that you know that's gonna be your most popular picture ever it's been so it was big alex i think first that used it and just added you to a random picture yeah and then i did it again for another one at the arnold and i think that's just gonna be used forever because like just taking a picture up your nose was the best thing I'm going to do it now like anytime I do a group photo like it is

to prepare like right up your nose like that absolutely it's going to be my thing so and if you want to see more of that 73 on Instagram go follow my orange gym then a wine cellar big Matt maybe next week buddy and until then we'll see everybody next Tuesday