Unpaid And Underrated - 045 : Broke Dick Mountain

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Travis and Big Stew. They dive right into some great topics like horse stall mats, The Lift Hard Stength Club, hot sauce, pinch points, the twins, nail guns, and ear holes. Links Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) Our Guest Follow Travis on Instagram @travistrner (https://www.instagram.com/travistrner/) The Lift Hard Stregnth Club on Instagram @lifthardstrengthclub (https://www.instagram.com/lifthardstrengthclub/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guests: Big Stew and Big Travis.

and welcome back to episode 68 of the unpaid and underrated podcast we're a podcast by crew for crew i'm one of your hosts big keith joined as always with my buddy here good joke big joey hey and we got uh britney reed with us this week. Nope, that's Big Travis and Big Stuart here this week. Hi, guys. How we doing, gentlemen? Fine as frog hair. Nice.

What are you guys drinking over there this week? Gorge Light, baby. As always. Can't beat it. I would make two. There you go. I've got a mango hop water this week I think it's the last of the hop waters I got from a shopping

trip a couple months ago so I'm gonna have to go go find some new stuff for the upcoming episodes I've got actually the weirdest concoction you guys can probably tell this is not my normal voice this is me I promise it's Bigey i'm not gonna blink

twice i'm not being kidnapped um i have a tea with honey to make sure i can get through this episode that's what's in this weird ceramic mug here um i've got a creatine and electrolyte drink behind me with a couple beers uh but here's the weird thing i really wanted to try and i definitely should not have tonight but i'm going to so i discovered let me get the bottle that skittles actually makes a soft drink now shut up i love skittles they're so dark that's like that's the darkest liquid i've ever seen in a bottle in my life yeah but i would like i bought it on a whim and was like you know oh my god and you guys hear that in the background going on is my mic good enough that you don't hear that because it's pissing me off

outstanding so i had a sip of it right i gave the kids like a fingernail each and i was like try this and they loved it. I was like, okay, I'll try it. And then I tried it and my wife went, that would be good with vodka. And I was like, damn it. So tonight I'm having a Skittles and vodka on ice. Why don't you take your moisture back there? Uh, yeah, you see that too, right?

No, we don't keep Jager in the house because it doesn't last. I don't keep Jager in the house because it doesn't last. Yep. I think she has her own home, right? Nah, that fell flat. God damn it.

Yeah, yeah, that was... Fuck you guys. Fuck you. That was fucking funny. It wasn't, but I get it. It was so funny. So yeah, anyway, that's my concoction tonight to make sure I can get through whatever we're about to do.

Including those bad jokes. That was a good joke. I don't know. So I see some good shirts this weekend or this week on my screen. Travis, which one you got on, buddy? That hot off the press lifted shirt from the Arlo. Oh, nice, nice. What about you, Stu? What you got on, buddy? That hot off the press lifted shirt from the Arnold. Oh, nice, nice. What about you, Stu?

What you got? The curls bicep shirt that I got from the Arnold this past weekend. Nice, nice. Yep, I just put an order in for that one this afternoon. I'm rocking out the Jefferson Deadlift shirt. Right on. At the Arnold, I looked at that girl's shirt and went, I should buy that while I'm here.

And then naturally, I didn't. And then they put it up and I was like, well, I'm not paying for shipping. I was looking at that fucking shirt face-to-face. So I'm just never going to have that shirt. That's fine. I'm wearing the

Norse Fitness never going to have that shirt that's fine i am wearing i'm wearing the um the the norse fitness uh lightweight uh hoodie this thing is i look forward to wearing this it's so good such high quality form fitting shows off the traps and shoulders like no other shirt i own yeah so i wasn't taking it speaking of lightweight did anyone watch the the the omar youtube video this week with mesonomics i did not catch it either i know it was a it was a quick one it was like a four or five minute interview with uh tanner and omar and the amusing thing was they literally you know he put it in the vice and uh tanner didn't let go they basically shook hands for 90 of the video and then i think at some point they did stop,

but then they ended still shaking for another two minutes. It was pretty fucking funny. So I enjoyed that. Give it a watch. And I think tomorrow, by the time you're listening to this, it already came out. But I think Friday this week, they have the big one coming out. It looks like the full vlog.

So that'll be a good one to watch. We might be in that one. Yeah, you guys will be. i'm sure i will not be but i what what i am in is the massonomics hall of fame i don't know if anybody else is i know i know i think joey got in today uh i don't think uh travis or stew's been with us long enough to accrue enough points but definitely getting there with. I haven't even got it. Have you got yours in the mail? No, but I got mine today.

Joe, you got yours today? Yep. Wow. And that was all news to me. You put it up there, like Astronomics Hall of Fame, and that was not even familiar. I did not hear that term at all. Yeah, I think Tanner put them in the mail Monday, I'm guessing,

but there were people getting them like maybe he made it mail some of them on Sunday night. I'm not sure, but there were, there were people posting about it as early as Tuesday. I think Damager shared the whole thing. And then I was like, I did my best not to look at it. Yeah. But then, you know, I just,

once the context clues from the discord kind of, okay, it's some kind of checklist of have you done this? Have you done that? And you need to get X, Y and Z to get to it. But I was just like, OK, cool. I'll just I'll just wait. And then, like, you know, I can't wait. So I finally went and looked at his and I was like, all right, I I have successfully done enough to get my name on a website. So how can I do this without the card? successfully done enough to get my name on a website. So how can I do this without the card? So then I,

I basically copy and pasted everything from the picture into a spreadsheet and then did a check, a checklist on the left side all the way down. And then, uh, you know, sent that to Tanner and he said it was good enough. And,

you know, um, I got 14 out of 16. I think there's at least one or two of the thirteens and then I think one or two twelves, I think total. So I think I'm, I think I'm currently, I am in the lead lead but it won't be long before someone edges me out

no you're under the twelves i know on the website you're under the 12th technically no yeah because that i think they did that because they they knew there was gonna be a lot of people they got 12 13 14 but to get 15 it's like gonna take a, basically, until a lot of us hit the four-year mark. It's going to be hard for people to get to the 15 mark, I think. So they strategically just did it to lump everyone in under 12. But I know that I got 14. The December to November caught you up with the 14. Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, that one helped. And competing at LiftHard. the December to remember caught you up with the 14th. For sure. Yeah. That would, that wouldn't help. And, and, and competing at lift hard. Well, yeah,

but there's, there's a whole list. I wonder if competing and attending should be the same thing, right? Like, yeah, you might've showed up. Like I showed up as a hype man.

I went all the way to Aberdeen to not compete. I think that should be a separate point. And you were a hype man i went all the way to aberdeen to not compete i think that should be a separate point and if you were a hype man that's pretty much competing yeah oh you mean i got you i said you should you want yeah attending and competing i think should be separate things yeah but also like there's only been one like you can't like make rules around one event that happened i'm i'm curious if once the dust settles they actually like i want to see like their list of like the ones that didn't make the cut like you know like the alternatives or what is it the the runner-ups that didn't make it but but uh since travis and stew haven't seen it yet we'll just uh you know maybe we'll talk

about a little more this is so fucking good and it's it's 32 grams of sugar. So naturally I'm not drinking the whole bottle. Cause that's more sugar than my body needs. And I got to wake up early, but like, this is so fucking good. My voice is cracking. Sorry.

What's that? You were talking about tea and lemon juice. Oh, no, that was tiger tea and honey okay right on i'm talking this skittles and vodka thing like this is this is for loco dangers like this is so good the origins before loco yeah change it what's that worse at the beginning and then they changed it for some reason i should say worse for you maybe better i think i only ever had it once to be honest with

you i shouldn't have made the reference and dmx said you don't live that you shouldn't say that that should get you shot down are sprees still a thing like that like uh sugary candy does anyone remember those i don't know if they're still a thing or not and what it's called like a like spree i believe like spree it was kind of like yeah yeah think of like a skittle but like flattened out and bigger more like the size of a quarter kind of so i remember like 4-h camp when i was a kid people would like buy a whole thing of that put it in a bottle of water just let it ferment for a day basically and then drink it i'm thinking it's kind of kind of similar to what you're that's got yeah that's absolutely what i'm drinking here straight up sugar water so yeah but it's

i'll actually get more of these and hide them in the basement these are fucking amazing they have sour skittles they have the red skittles like original i got the wild berry because yeah buddy and then i think they had the blue uh or tropical but either way like i'm gonna get all of them and i'm going to get diabetes no it would any of those pair good with a chicken bake and uh you know do you want to tell us about your first chicken bake experience yeah yeah the canadian contingent coming back from the Arnold we made a point of going to the Cleveland um uh Costco to make sure we had a chicken bake um here's the fun thing about being as familiar with Costco as I am

there's almost no difference Costco is universally the same. You walk in the door and you can't tell what country you're in until you get to the booze. And then you're like, oh yeah, I'm in the States. You guys sell booze here. And then we go into the food court. The food court's inherently larger or like larger menu, smaller area for some reason. So I ordered the last two chicken bakes because I wanted to make sure I brought one home. And then Steve had to wait like 15 minutes. So they were not prepared to sell out of chicken bakes. I felt so bad. And then like, I'm sitting there and I filmed that quick little like, all right, guys, we're going to have our first bite.

Let's go. And we all have our first bite. And we all kind of went, eh. Like, eh. That's how most people feel. Yeah. It's a $4 chicken crusty bread thing. And then I went, God, I wish I had hot sauce.

And then I remembered i did have hot sauce because i carry hot sauce on me at all times so in my massnomics fanny pack i had three packets of louisiana louisiana hot sauce so he pulled those out and you know what made everything way better and steve bought that cookie that cookie was stupid he's like oh i got one and we can all try it and i was like i have i don't want anything to do with that cookie that cookie was stupid he's like oh i got one and we can all try it and i was like i have i don't want anything to do with that cookie yeah bring me the churro back damn it yeah i can get a chocolate chip cookie anywhere but that churro was pretty decent uh yeah ironically enough uh my buddy chris and i went sunday to the costco a mile away and the same thing happened i

got the chicken bake and a slice of pizza and then like his chicken bake took him the guy was like oh sorry it'll be like 10 minutes so he literally had to wait 10 minutes and it came out he like he couldn't eat it for another five minutes because it was piping hot it's molten lava yeah he got a kick i gotta kick out of that yeah so the moral of the story is when you're traveling across the continent whether you're in this country or another country make sure there's hot sauce in your bag at all times is that your go-to? Louisiana hot sauce is your go-to? no it was just what I happen to have on me

never my go-to actually it's really funny you brought that up because I was thinking about it today when we went to Boston's Pizza at the Arnold with Barefoot everybody ordered the louisiana um what did they call what did we call that the um jambalaya pasta and i had said in passing

it's spicy enough to be good enough for a chain like this. And Shelby, who I know you're listening, she said, you called this spicy? And I went, no. I said, this is spicy enough. My base level of spiciness is ghost pepper. So most of the hot sauces I carry in the house that I use on an everyday basis are ghost pepper hot. So when I want hot, that's where I go.

If I want peppery, I'll go Louisiana or Sriracha. That's peppery to me. And if I want to die, I'll go to Reaper. Like if I'm like, no, this needs to hurt tonight, I'll go to Reaper. But it was pretty funny. She goes, sorry, your base level is ghost pepper? I'm like, yes. And I could go and show you all of the ones I have.

All of their main ingredient is ghost pepper. But they don't make, like, repackaged vinaigrette little ghost pepper ones. They make like Louisiana Toms or Sriracha from Starbucks or something. Those are the easiest to carry or the fire from Taco Bell. Yeah. Right? Those are the easiest just to carry around at all times. Chula is my favorite. Just to go.

Yeah. Yep. But peppery, right? For me. Sure sure and i am not a peppery guy i'm not a hot sauce guy like jalapeno i'm a mild like banana pepper jalapenos on the hot side we've got a buddy that he grows hot peppers to make me suffer and like eat them and and it's it's a miserable time every time but i still do it because for the funny oh that's horrible i'm not my brother he messaged me one day he's like yo i just ate a raw ghost pepper and i went like are you stupid like i don't even think i would do that and i'm stupid right like me and steve did the

one chip challenge we talked about it on his episode i'm pretty stupid but i don't think i'd ever put a raw ghost pepper in my mouth like i like the sauce where you've added the vinegar and you've you know you've made the heat tolerable like a raw ghost pepper would murder a human. And ironically, raw jalapenos murder me. I absolutely do not enjoy raw jalapenos. They are so hot, they make me uncomfortable. But ghost pepper sauce?

Yeah, I'm down. Interesting. Yeah, that seems odd. Isn't it a raw jalapeno they stick in with a... What is it? Parmesan pizza that puts a pepper in iteno they stick in with their, what is it, pizza that puts a pepper in it? Or am I completely off based on what pepper that is? Pepperoncini. Okay, okay.

Because that's the hottest fucking thing I ever want to eat. I'm a stew. Give me, fuck off with anything that's hot. I'm like... Pepperoncini, that's about all I want. Absolutely. That's like white onion hot. Same guy that grows the peppers, he usually finds some disgusting dish we should eat or partake of. What have they been?

Stromming? Stromming? Oh, God, no. That's an Icelandelandic shark right no uh sir strumming is it's um oh i find i think it's some carrot it's okay i carry that is like a pressurized fermented fermented hair yeah i know i know of it because there's that one then there's the one from Iceland that's like the shark that's buried but they're both like the smelliest and most disgusting

food in the world the shark was worse it just tasted like like those of us who have kids know what an old wet diaper smells like take the old wet diaper

and then chew on it oh yes yes go ahead and gag that's yeah yeah i i have no patience for smells anymore so this is drumming thing i was just like no i'm not gonna want nothing to do with that mr stromming it took some time to get like you had to eat it in the proper way yeah um like towards the end of the night i was kind of tuned up and there was a 20-pound bet that i wouldn't eat a whole fish out of the can i did i did and immediately threw it up and then the joke was everybody was like oh you threw it up and so drunk stew oh back in my mouth was it at least a little more mild that time bizarro tron just showed up

bizarro i could see that that you're supposed to do with the Icelandic shark. And it was worse. Like that's, do you remember what it was? It was some kind of schnapps, but I don't remember what kind it was. The drink was worse than the shark for me. Anyway, it was bad.

It was all bad. Yeah. No, thanks. Yeah. No, thanks. Add ghost pepper.

You'll be fine. I can close the food section of this week. Yeah, I... Oh, no, that did remind me. The shark thing and smells. I think it was second, third, fourth grade. I don't know, whatever. But my elementary school, every year, one of the classes

dissected sharks. They took us over to the cafeteria for a whole morning and it was dissect fucking fucking little like you know forearm side of sharks and i just remember that smell just wafting through the whole fucking school for days it was just uh took me back 30 years for real um the other one that we did was lutefisk. It was the cured, it was the salted cod that was then cured in a lye solution. And it can only be made in Minnesota. It's the only state that is licensed to do it because it's a traditional dish. And it has enough lye that you can only eat

so much of it a year before it becomes super toxic. It's lye. It's lye. It tastes like fish jello. It has a very gelatinous texture. It's very strange. It doesn't taste bad. The texture is very weird.

Bad. More of the weird fish hobbies or weird food hobbies. Minnesota's fucking wild. Yes. Well, I think I'm pretty sure the boys were driving through Minnesota when they were doing part of the podcast that came out this week. Did everyone have a chance to catch the Arnold podcast where they were driving back in Tanner's truck and just shot the shit for an hour and a half. Yep.

Yep. That was a good one. What if you had to give it a, on a scale of one to five mass economics, Jim iPod touches, what would you guys give it? If you had to, you know,

give it a little rating. We were featured on that discussion. So we're very heavily. I'm going to give it a five, five iPod touches. Are these wet touches or are they like dry touches? I mean, I guess it depends on what you're touching. No, those iPods didn't work if there was any moisture on your hands.

Understood. Yeah, those click wheels, they did not function. What about you, Trav? What do you think, buddy? I have to agree with you five. Yeah, five iPod touches. Just because of the whole atmosphere of the truck ride. And, of course, mentioning us.

Yeah. So I think I listened to it on YouTube while I was just sitting at the house playing video games. And then for some reason, my podcast app was still downloaded because it doesn't know that it's still on YouTube. And I think it auto played it the other day. And I was like, holy fuck, this audio was horrible. I didn't I didn't like in comparison to like I didn't notice it on the YouTube video. But I think like listening back to it, I think it was still very like it was a cool thing that they did.

I think they could definitely do that every year. I just it almost sounded like my first 30 episodes with with that audio and the mic not hooked up but i agree what about you joey uh i was also featured pretty heavily on that yes um because me showing up to the arnold is apparently a fun deal um regret not seeing you guys but i think you guys were there on the friday and i was there on the Saturday right so yeah that would track and apparently I met a bunch of other people who I'll never remember because

you know they would walk away and somebody would go that person was and I'm like are you fucking kidding me but I was a little annoyed that when Tanner was talking about all of his guest appearances he didn't talk about being on our podcast. I know, right? I caught that. So because of that, I'm only going to give it five.

I think he did hit on it, but maybe not. I don't know. No, he didn't. Not at all, because I was waiting for it. hit on it maybe not i don't know no he didn't not at all because i was waiting for it huck finn definitely didn't hit on it in any of his 17 hours of recapping between his three different podcasts because i was like is he gonna mention that because it was kind of cool but no and at one point i think he was like he said he that he was like there's my buddy joey and then he went on to tell a story about meeting joey uh satsmeyer not not not joey melisco and i was like okay that tracks no he has no fucking clue. Karen knows who I am more than he does. Well, I think we're at that time, boys.

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That was awesome. I enjoyed that immensely, gentlemen. I think it is time to kick out these looky-loos and get our guests on the horn, Joey. What do you think? As long as it's the guests and not the twins. It's good stuff. We're going to have the ID check here. Checking the ID at the door.

Need Eddie. Eddie, our bouncer. Yeah, so let's have it, boys. Is this actually Travis and Stu, or is this the guys I was texting and emailing for all the dirty secrets about you? We'll never know. We did think about having Stuart's twin pop up behind this bench.

We didn't want him sitting back there for like an hour. We laughed a lot about that. Yeah, we got a good time. I enjoyed that story on the podcast for sure. That's really funny. I hope that's on camera. It was like we never

Travis and his brother are fraternal twins. My brother and I are obviously identical twins. And we never get to do that anymore. And to be able to mess with friends is a lot of fun. Yeah, that was a really good story. And like I said, I hope that's on camera somewhere. I wanted to see the look on Tanner and Tommy's face. The reaction is not. But Tommy got a picture of me and Spencer standing side by side.

Oh, nice. And then, of course, we were going, the twins! wins now did uh when you said it's because it was it was your brother and travis he's your brother pretending to be you and then you you you strolled up a minute later was it obvious to them that it was you or were they thinking that you were your brother uh when so tell the other part of the story okay so spencer walked up to the booth and we just started in you know Spencer's like going with the flow and I kind of got the impression that Tommy might have thought something was off just how Spencer was talking different Stuart but uh then right at that point we're still in conversation Stuart's holding the barbell, giving them, which he carried through Columbus and into the Arnold.

And he caught sight of him. And it was just like a look of like, no idea what was going on. Yeah, I walked up to the booth and just held the barbell like a staff and just stood there and looked at Tommy for a minute. And Tommy looked at me and he's like, oh, you brought the barbell. And then he paused. And he looked at Spencer. And he looked at me. And he was like, what just happened?

And then I shook Tommy's hand and said hi to him. And then he grabbed Tanner. He's like, hey, Tanner, look. And then Tanner looked at me. And he's like, whoa. And then he looked at Spencer and he looked at me and then we all laughed and it was, it was a really good time. That is. And it's so much,

it's so more timely with the whole twins thing has been blowing up the last, well, a minute now. Like if it wasn't, I wonder if, uh, cause we had talked to, cause it was almost, well, I'm trying to think was there any crew talk or were there any twins talk before Cruz fall? Cause I feel like, uh, like you, like I definitely either was part of or overheard conversations of like, you know, you, Travis, Tanner, Tommy, like just the twin talk. So I'm curious if, I can't remember if they started talking about twins before or after that. Oh man. After?

Yeah. I mean, I'm curious if you guys made a little bit of that groundwork for the twins or or if it was just some random offhanded comment someone made in the discord i really don't remember how long can the crew can the twin talk go on you think oh well you know twice as long as it should probably if i know anything about us yeah i've been going longer than it should never gets old in fact today i was driving home from dinner and that fucking twins song came on my like random playlist on my iphone music and it's that remix or whatever that uh who was it that posted that that was was it dodds or aaron and i just turned to morgan and i was like like what world are we in

what is happening that like every day massonomics two random guys from south dakota that we've only recently met like affect our everyday life right now do you think there would ever been a time if i didn't know those guys that I've listened to this stupid fucking song and dying laughing? Never. No, no way. I would have heard that and be like, this is the dumbest thing in the world. Never listen to this again. But anyway.

Well, we know it's the twins that keeps us here. But what is it that brought you guys here? If the story coincides, you know, feel free to tell it together. If one of you came first i you know how did the first of you find massonomics and all that i just want to hear it all yeah i just found it first yeah i think i was just kind of on spotify and like googling fitness podcast or gym podcast something like that and they came up i think i started i look back uh 2020 with alan thrall was my first and then finally joined the discord i think maybe 2022 i'm not sure when they first started uh

mid 2021 i think i i joined december 2021 and i was like three or four months behind the discord because like all my buddies were in it but i was too fucking cheap to sign up and then i finally was like i gotta i gotta get in yeah i listened for a while i just kind of hung back for some reason and i think i introduced stewart it was on a kayak trip and it was uh john anderson's is that right god that was such a such a is it john anderson yeah yeah john anderson yeah i think t Tanner might've got one question and John just, yeah. Awesome. Yeah. Travis introduced me to him and then we went to the Arnold last year and, and then he went to the booth and got a couple things and was talking to them like they

were old buddies and um i was like who are those guys how do you know them and then he told me the story he was like on the discord and i was like oh that sounds pretty cool and i'm not gonna lie when i first started listening to them i was not i was not into that style of podcast yet. And then I was like, no, it's not for me. And so I went back to my other stuff and then started listening more to them. And then just got hooked. I was like, oh, these guys are pretty cool. Nice.

It's just crazy. They'll be talking about something and the week their podcast comes out that same week me and stewart had been talking about the same thing stewart got gout one time it was the same week tanner had gout i had gout that's no joke that's awesome it was like that is insane why why is that connection there? Tanner has gout, never has before. I've never had gout before. And then I had gout in whatever foot it was. And yeah, they talked about it on the podcast that the same week. It was like, this is insane. That is awesome. That is, I find shit like that all the time. Like maybe not necessarily,

I'm not getting Tanner's gout, but just like something on the podcast that I'd never heard before. And then like, I experienced that like six times that next week of like, Oh, that's, that's a, that's a thing I just never saw before. Now it's all I can see in the world. So what about the, what do you guys stand in the back catalog? Is that something you've dived into? Or are you just like basically from like John Anderson on and now in throw on.

For me, I think I started to go, but then my time listening to podcasts is usually the hour drive and the way in and then during work. So I haven't got clear through the back catalog yet. Well, that is one of the hall of fame requirements of the 16. So you, if that is a little motivation,

you know, if you want your name on the website as a hall of fame member uh that would be a pretty easy one to get yeah right on yep and the same for me i haven't had a chance to go through a lot of the back catalog i started very beginning and then the the highlight ones that tanner and tomm and Tommy mentioned in their recap, their 400 recap. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I went back and listened to a bunch of those. Nice. But yeah, the highlight ones I have.

I love it. So if anyone wants to find either of you guys on Instagram, Discord, as well as your gym, go ahead and hit us now. So if anyone was listening, they can pause and go start following you. as well as your gym. Go ahead and hit us now. So if anyone was listening, they can pause and go start following you. I think I'm Trav Turner on Instagram.

And then the gym is just Lift Hard Strength Club. And it's Instagram and Facebook. The gym one is. And I am not on any social media. I have never had a Facebook page, an Instagram page. I've never had any social media. I have never had a Facebook page, an Instagram page. I've never had any of it. Wow. So that joint at Discord was pretty big for you then.

Yeah. Discord was social media adjacent. I mean, it's pretty much there. Yes. That is the only social media adjacent thing that I am a part of. That is it. I describe Discord as like the old MSN chat rooms. Yeah. Like you could just go in and just like find like dogs or cats or

obviously I'm being facetious here. The shit was crazy back then, but like you would go in and just find a room and just go in and chat with people. And that's when like people my age are like, I don't want to learn discord. I was like hope trust me you already know you are already aware uh so about the gym i mean that's that's

the only reason we you know that's the only reason you guys are on not really no i think uh i think we had scheduled this episode in crew falls in december and i don't even know if i think you guys had just maybe signed a lease maybe at that point or we're just it was still a a thought in December so if you want to do the listeners want to hear about the gym so you know tell us your experience so uh started a home gym during COVID like the week before everything shut down I was like they're going to shut down gyms I could just see it happening. So I started buying equipment and set up a little gym in a 12 by 20 shed, pretty much, garage. That lasted until, yeah, that had to be in 2020. So that lasted until January. And I had kind of thrown around the thought of a gym, if I

could find a building at the right price, right location. So then there was one actually over in Kingwood, like down the street that I had talked about, and it just had wood floors, which was a big drawback,

right? So I was asking, we were in the hot tub one day at Stewart's house. And I was like, man, I wonder. After training recovery. Just a couple of dudes in a hot tub. Ask him about the building, like two doors down from his house. And I'm like, do you ever talk to that guy? He's like, yeah, he's my neighbor. He's got apartments next door. And then he got that building.

And so Stuart took it from there pretty much. Yeah. I met up with him and we walked through the building and I was like, there were no lights on, the power was shut off. And I'm like, this place would be awesome. Because I'm tall. And so with Travis's, in Travis's garage, I couldn't do any overheads until, like, I was in between rafters. And then I could actually do some overhead work. And so I walked through the ceilings. They're 15 feet high until you get to the back and that's where we have all the uh like deadlift platform back there the stone over bars back there

um and i was like this would be perfect it would be awesome um and then uh so I walked through this with the landlord and then we went to Crew Falls and we got to talk about it on the airplane we thought about it and then once we got back from Crew Falls then the ball started rolling

Travis came and toured the gym we both were like let's think about this after we had walked through it's like we could put this here the squat racks here we could do um like a cardio room and dumbbells up here we could um we kind of got a rough idea of what we could do. And then we just thought about it. And then it was like a week later, message Ray again, like,

let's go through with this. And then we started moving stuff over after we did some painting. And, you know, and it all came together pretty fast, really fast. Like, yeah,

no, for sure. We were looking back through pictures and it all came together pretty fast really fast like yeah i know for sure we were looking back through pictures and it was um like the middle of january we bought our first uh big load of stall mats and started moving stall mats through a man door that is we laughed the entire time thinking about the Strongman event for this year's Lifthard Livisi Strongman

just what if there is a horse stall moving event we've got this and it was also like the week it was below zero here. So that was extra fun. We got to move in snow coverage stall mats that were frozen. It didn't have much run to them.

Yeah. We cleaned out three tractor supplies in the area of all of their stall mats. Now we're able to find matching textured ones? That's the hardest part I find. If you go to different tractor supplies or you go a year later, I've seen four different fucking designs of stall mats over the past 10 years and it's a pain in the ass.

These are all pretty well matched except for we got some from a buddy. He had them at a farm. We picked those up for free and they're a little bit different, but they're kind of toward the back, so you really don't notice the difference. Yeah. And then we kind of doubled up the deadlift platform area and the overhead area.

So we kind of put the ugly ones underneath to hide them. It came together fast. I think, what, a month? We were in from start to finish yeah i do i do think it's very important that when you deadlift you did that on something pretty fast yes yeah yeah absolutely like i know like when i'm absolutely hauling weight the first thing i think of is i hope the ground underneath me looks good. You're exactly right. They match the lift hard strength club sentiments as well.

I might've missed this cause I had to dip out for a second. Are you on a basement level or a ground level? Ground level. Yep. Okay. So like what, what is your flooring? Like, are you, is there somebody underneath you? No, concrete.

Concrete on, it's slab on grain. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah. All right. So it's not that big of a deal. Like you don't need six levels of yeah padding or anything okay good no the the stall mats essentially were for the look uh yeah we need we wanted stall mats

really for a runway we based the whole layout of the gym um we wanted to send a runway to do moving events for uh yeah moving events for strongman and so the gym is 64 feet long so we have a 64 foot runway um with um uh trim that lays out the runway stall mats in the center and then from there the rest of the stall mats were just for uniformity to have a finished floor in the gym. That makes sense. Yeah, I know because in my basement, I don't have stall mats. I just have rubber padding. But I also, it's a basement, and sometimes I worry that I'm shaking the whole damn house.

So I was just wondering how uniform did it have to be? I was just wondering how uniform did it have to be? But also, I don't know shit about home gyms or building gyms. I'd love to wait and put it back down again, big dumb Canadian. So, Big Tanner

wanted to know a couple things about the gym experience since I hear he has a gym of his own. He wants to know the funnest part and the hardest part. So you guys can pick who answers which one of those funnest and hardest. I think the funnest for me is like we have cameras in here, but just seeing the gym getting used by the members. And it's, I mean, that's the funnest part to me,

just seeing people use equipment and getting in here, working out. I think the worst part is usually I come before work and just do a run through, like, see what needs addressed. Like, is there shit in the toilet? Is there dirt tracked through the whole entire gym? But it's been good. Like, our members are great so far, uh, a little bit of mud here and there,

but nobody really tracks it through the gym. It's mainly on the mats when you walk in. So, so far it's been pretty smooth sailing. For me, the funnest part was buying the equipment. Nice. It was personally, it was emailing Grant, getting the order for what we needed and getting that order of plates in.

That first order, Travis took care of ordering all of the racks and all of the other equipment to make everything match. the other equipment to make everything match. And my job was to order plates. And that for me was the funnest part of buying all of the equipment. That was a good time. We got 1,300 pounds of plates first, got those here. Travis got the racks. He came with, my God, a giant gym's worth of strongman equipment in his own small gym. He had 1,300 pounds.

He bought another 1,300 pounds initially. And, yeah, that was the funnest part. What is the worst part? Or hardest. I can think of one, but that's probably later that's for later we'll talk about that later yeah what is the worst part of the gym stall mat stuff yeah i mean yeah i could see that uh i guess the only saving grace about that is you guys have to take them down a goddamn flight of stairs like I do in mine. Yeah, for sure. Getting those fuckers down a rickety old stairwell and up a little tiny

side stoop and in another door. Oh God. It's that's a, yeah, I can, I can definitely relate. So I, I,

I thought Stuart was going to say that his least favorite part of the gym would, it would happen to do would, it would have had something to do with a hundred pounds drink coat plate, but you know, I guess not, but is there, is there a good storypound strength coat plate, but I guess not. But is there a good story there that I heard there was? Oh, there's a hell of a good story. I'll make the groundwork here.

Yeah, yeah. Stuart ordered the plates. He took everything, all the communication with Grant was Stuart. So part of the shipping was, instead of shipping to my house or Stuart's house, he would ship to where he works, where they have a forklift, could load it right in his truck, drive it here, unload it with my help, of course. But I was stuck at work that day. So Stuart got to unload the 1,300, 1,400 pounds of plates by himself, which isn't a big deal um i was looking forward to it it was

a good time um so i messaged travis and i was like do you want me to wait he's like no go for it i'm stuck i'm gonna be hours and i'm like okay not a big deal so i'm here by myself um i have my work truck there's a whole pallet full of plates it's awesome the plates on top are the hundreds and so I'm getting everything stacked up ready to go and so I jump down onto the ground I slide the first hundred off

onto the tailgate and the tailgate hits you about mid pelvis level and so everything is just kind of smashed against the edge of the tailgate hits you about like mid-pelvis level, and so everything is just kind of smashed against the edge of the tailgate, and I roll the 100 just against my stomach, just kind of lazy, picking it up, slide it down onto the tailgate, and I'm going to pick it up. When it hits the tailgate, there is some very sensitive skin that is attached to a very sensitive member

that gets smashed against the edge of the 100-pound plate and the tailgate. So now the skin on the side of my dick has been smashed like a like a pair of vice grips has just grabbed a hold of it and squeezed and my eyes go big and i'm stuck so up goes the plate and into the gym we go and i set it down and i'm like what the hell has just happened i set it down and I'm like, what the hell has just happened? I set it down and then immediately go check things out. It hurt like hell. There is a scar. There is a story. There are pictures.

You talk about like a very big surprise moving in place. So I set a hundred down and before I do anything else, I messaged Travis and I'm like, you are never going to believe what I just did. So I messaged him. He calls me immediately and he is laughing so hard. He can barely talk. He is crying after all of this.

And I'm like, yeah, that just happened. It was just ridiculous. And then I said, pictures, or it didn't happen, and he sent a picture. Yes. Why would you say that? Yeah. We have grown up with each other from yeah childhood there's not a whole lot of secrets between us um so i've been sitting here snuffing ammonia this entire time that you were telling that story so i have i just um when we were talking about how sick I was earlier he says do you want to bail

and I said no I want to talk to old bruised dick over here I didn't get that until I was like Garrett what the fuck did he say yeah I want to talk to old bruised dick over here so if there's any ad for strength go and being

the go to plates I think we just red shoe diaries the Strength Co. plates here. For sure. I'm pretty sure we could sue them. There is a smiley face shaped scar. Like a legit smiley face shaped scar. To say it's pictured didn't happen. Yep.

Two-inch Olympic hole? Not on my watch. That'll be one picture we don't share on Discord, I think. For sure. It shall not be shared. But I've been waiting to hear that. I've had it in my show notes for three weeks. It's like, oh, this is going to be a funny story.

And I know how charismatic you are. And the fact that you just told that story like, oh god, that was great and that was a very well done story. It was an ad read for your dick injury. That was perfect. It was an ad read for the strength go-go-to. There was like a dowsing rod.

We had dowsing rods in the go-to plates. Is that what they're called? You're looking at me like I'm fucking crazy. Dowsing rods in a cup two plates is that what they're called you're looking at me like I'm fucking crazy dowsing rod what's that rod that you use to find water yes I know what you're saying it is the yeah dowsing rod

alright I'm not insane I just tell jokes from the fucking 1920s I'm going to go back to being on mutant sick for a second you're good um water witching as it's called on these parts i guess one more follow-up on the strength of plate incident would it have been worse to have been the first plate or the last plate you unloaded because it was the first plate right it was the very first plate and i think i would have just like taken my shit and went home and said, I don't know, Travis can unload it at midnight when he gets off work. Fuck yeah,

my dick hurts. How long of an intermission did you take before you were hauling the rest of the plates out of the truck? Enough to just to message Travis and take a picture. Less than 10 minutes and you were back at it. Oh, wow.

Make sure it was still attached. There was no uh vital damage everything was fine and uh was your old lady like you guys have only had this goddamn gym for one month and you're already hurting yourself so uh it gets better so every the the every new person that comes into the gym um travis says hey stewart tell him the story yeah because we like to talk about plates and um so this includes my brother which is fine he was in on the group text when i sent it out um travis's wife uh our buddy aj aj's wife Our buddy AJ AJ's wife And also including

My parents My parents whenever we got this Together We're giving them the tour And Travis is like hey Stuart Tell them about the 100 pound plate My mother Laughed so hard

She was crying Dad was crying laughing it was it was hilarious it was a good time so and now all 45 listeners of this podcast it might be 200 downloads 45 listeners is probably accurate yeah that's right um so two things those hundreds are heavy as shit and i don't think i've actually i don't get them out very often i joke that they're like an rpe8 like fucking like they're ridiculous to set up and i love when when juggernauts like use your hundreds for squats i'm like no fuck you that not going to happen. Second of all, whatever tree that those are on should be called

Broke-Ticked Mountain. Perfect. They don't have to be broke-ticked by themselves. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it doesn't. I don't know. I don't think anything can top that. I think we're good. We're done. We're going home.

It's been a it's been a difficult like so many. I got a lot of stuff for both of you, but it's like I know we don't want to be here three hours going into the backstory of both of you. But I know Travis is a big now. Have you, Travis, you you you busted my chops about not getting enough backstory about our about our to the point that Joey was giving me shit. He's like, I don't want to ask him about work every week. And was like well fucking travis said he wanted to know more about him i gotta know more is it the workplace podcast so it has has you know have you been enjoying it have we been getting enough information out there for you to get through because you guys are coming out to you guys are coming out to the lift hard so do you feel like i think i did the math the other day i think currently there's approximately 30 or so people that have been on the podcast that'll be there and there'll be another they'll be essentially 40 ish by the time that you know july rolls around so do you feel like there's

enough people that you've listened to that you're like you won't you'll just be like oh i i recognize that person from their picture online i listen to an hour two hour podcast to them i'm gonna go talk to them yeah for sure and i mean even with like uh having the gym and then you guys putting it out there and mass and almost putting it out there so many people you know have followed it crew members have followed it it's just kind of neat to see everybody like uh the page and communicate with them that way too. That's awesome. And then we can do to help. I always like, uh, you know, I know the struggle of, uh, having a, a, a gym, well, me and I have a home gym page, but having two Instagrams and trying to shuffle back and forth and,

you know, grow, grow, grow your community on that. That's not the easiest thing. Uh, yeah. So how does your member as your, as a membership kind of where you expected it to be or trying to, you know, or you like, oh, shit, we got to, you know, start, you know, cutting our prices or you kind of where you be to have a rent and just have fun? Yeah. So when we started, we paid for a year rent up front because we didn't want to be in a rush to get members. And we knew if we didn't do that, we'd be panicking to get members in. So that just had taken a lot off the worry,

but, uh, now they're taking off Stu's dick, right? I think we're up to 14 right now. Okay. And we really haven't advertised much. We're kind of in a spot that's right next to a hiking trail and biking trail.

So we're in a good spot. And like I said, we have a little sign on the door here. But other than that, if you're not looking for it, you're not going to know where it is. I think once probably around April, we'll put a sign out front and kind of advertise a little bit more but we'll probably i think we've talked about happening at like 30 okay just because of space and everybody seems to be in between three and seven or nine so that night i'm assuming no one's coming in at 3 a.m no well i know i mean you get a lot of the gyms where you do have that 4 or 5 a.m crowd so yeah sure here not so far yet which is kind of

surprising it's been it's been mainly just like stewart's parents are the earliest ones to come in they're 9 30 10 every day they started training and kind of doing a three by five workout, like a starting strength style workout. So it's it's been good so far. My parents are in their 70s. Dad turned 72 today. In fact, we Travis and we helped get them lined out with an easy program. Like you said, starting strength, just simple, get stronger, use the equipment. And they come in three days a week, about, what, 10 or 11?

Did I say that already? Yeah, 9, 30, 10, somewhere in there. Something like that. And they love it. And we aren't trying to be a meathead gym entirely. It's like if there are older folks that want to get stronger, awesome. We will show you how to do that. If there's anybody who wants to get stronger, that's what we are about.

And don't be a douchebag when you're in the gym. There's only two requirements. Get strong, don't be a douche. Yep. Love it. Love it. I have similar uh you know agendas here so definitely related to that uh so you guys are from uh preston county west virginia

kingwood specifically uh ironically enough no one knows i'm from morgantown west virginia a half hour ish away from where these boys are sitting right now i think you guys are both just a couple years older than me right so i'm i was class of 04 you guys were like 02 or 01 or something right i was 2000 okay yeah so we literally were in the same like sphere yeah or for a good several years so that's kind of ironic and then you know i moved away in 08 and then you know we found each other in fucking you know crew falls south dakota like you know 20 years later so i really enjoyed that whole philosophy so or that you know that whole story in general and then you know just meeting you guys uh in uh at career falls and just hearing

that uh that that southern twang dialect that i only hear when i'm around family it was just cool like i haven't met i don't think i've very i know i think outside of like when i go home to see family like once or twice a year like once every two years honestly as of late but uh just hearing some some familiar you know accents was just very uh very cool to experience this uh winter yeah fun fact uh my sister-in-law is from janestown new York. I know it's not close to Rochester, but she's from Jamestown. And my mother is from Miller, South Dakota. I remember we were talking about that in

Jack and Nate's truck. I think we were hearing that story about how she had the South Dakota ties. Yeah. I do believe that. And you're both coming out to Lift Hard, Live Easy. You're both doing Strongman, right? Yeah. Nice yeah nice nice so that'll be fun uh do you want i was gonna say we both uh we uh uh for u.s. Strongman. Neither of us

chose to go to nationals because the Lift Hard, Live Easy was going to be more fun. It was like one or the other. Lift Hard, Live Easy was going to be the fun factor rather than go to nationals and compete.

It's going to be a lot of rather than go to Nationals and compete. Good choice. Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. Looking forward to it. Can confirm. Anything jumping out that you want to talk about, Joey? I know you're sick, but I've been monopolizing most of this. If you talk for a minute, it'll give me a chance to actually read some of these and see what we can talk about.

Talking is hard. Like, I got on a conference call this morning, and, like, one of my friends was like, you sound like you drink razor blades in your coffee. And I was like, yeah, yeah, that's definitely true. Stuart, you love the band Ghost. So do I. Right on. So I have my jug here and it is like ghost. Absolutely amazing.

Yeah. I have that upside down G there. I have that on my coat, on my smoking jacket. Right on. That is Papa Emeritus II. That is his ghost. Yes. What's your favorite Papa?

Oh, I'm going to go with three yeah yep the meli laura days that was my favorite really got into them well i didn't really even get into them until kiss the go-goat no right on i just never understood it like i never got it like all my metalhead friends were like you gotta listen to this band and i was like no they're not metal and then when that song came out like just something clicked and then i was like oh i get it now and now i'm just such a huge fan of them oh yeah i wish i knew them from the beginning i mean i've obviously went through all the back catalog and that is like on my spotify this year i was like the zero the 0.07 percentile worldwide of ghost listeners the number one of number one yeah like i've seen them twice in concert i will see them again the next time they come around um the impera album is just awesome. I have listened to that a hundred times.

It just doesn't get old. Yeah. My brother makes, is like, I even said like, they're like a heavy ABBA. And that was the worst ammo to give him ever. He makes fun of me a lot.

He's not a music guy. But yeah, big Ghost fan a music guy. Um, but yeah, big ghost fan. Love ghost. Yeah. That's actually a good description. Heavy ABBA. For sure.

So Travis, I see here. You like a, a good ice bath after your workout. And I know you already mentioned your hot tubs. Do you have, do you have a cold plunge as well? So mine is pretty much a stock tank with a little circulation pump.

And we buy ice when we're ready to do the cold tub, but usually mainly it's the hot tub and the cold tub there to the side. Nice. And then one of the things they say, well, you know, I always send questionnaires out, but it's just, you know, your friends and family gave me a lot of information. I'm just trying to kind of like go through it all and just, you know, pick out some things that I think will just be, you know, funny. You dislike mud extremely immensely. Now, I know you had mentioned, you know, mud on the stall mats, but I think this goes much deeper than some people tracking mud into the foyer. So what is your aversion to mud?

Well, I hate mud of all sorts. Any type of mud, I hate. I hate it on vehicles. But where my real hate came from was when we were moving some free stall mats into this gym that came from a farm that was covered in mud. So we already had our nice runway down, clean stall mats. And we had to drag these muddy mats clear to the back of the gym over the nice clean mats. When did you go to the damn car wash first? Well, it was like zero degrees.

Oh, okay. Yeah. So they had to get inside regardless and deal with it later. Okay. So we're trying to cut muddy mats, put muddy mats throughout the gym and then mop them later. It was bad. Travis is covered in mud. His jeans are muddy.

His hands are muddy. The sweatshirt he has on is muddy. And every time he moves, he just holds his hands are muddy the sweatshirt he has on his mother and every time he moves makes it just holds his hands up and he's like i hate my cutting something and his knife breaks off and just it's it's muddy yeah and everything is muddy it's it's not that much either. It's like it's a little bit of wet dirt. Now is it a... He is losing his mind. And I am laughing my ass off at Travis. Don't get me wrong.

I hate mud too. But not to this guy's level. It is hilarious to see him go, God, I hate mud. Every 30 seconds? Yeah, 40 seconds for like two hours while we're moving mats. I actually got tired of hearing myself say that. That's bad when you get tired of hearing yourself say something. But in your defense, I will say as someone, you know, as a native West Virginian and North Central West Virginia to be specific, I have a lot of experience with the dirt around there. And, you know, I don't from my memory, we had bought a house that had my parents bought a house where the foundation was collapsed, basically. So we got like a, you know, very good deal on it. And, you know, we dug out the whole perimeter of the house and put a whole new foundation and everything.

But I just remember as like I was like 10, 11, 12, helping my dad just fucking like as we i think we initially brought in an excavator to do it and then we didn't get it all done before like you know the winter hit so then we was waiting until like the next spring to do it and in the meantime like half of the fucking excavated dirt kind of collapsed back into it so then we're in there with a wheelbarrow on a shovel and this isn't like dirt this is fucking red clay so i remember specifically i'm like it was like a three-person thing like my mom my dad and i and like we would both my dad like my dad and i were both shoveling it and then like we would rotate a new shovel my mom would have to sit there with like like a piece of like like a stick and like try to get as much

of it off and then wd-40 it so because like you couldn't like it wouldn't like a literal red clay does not just come off so i'm curious if the know, was it just regular, you know, mud? Or was it the really bad clay that I'm so familiar with? Oh, it was the top layer mud. It was bad mud. And it wasn't just mud in some cases. Oh, there was horseshit. Yeah, shit.

Okay. Well, yeah. No one likes shit. I get that. Well, I think the biggest thing here is Keith is talking about digging giant holes. Mm-hmm. And I understand that somebody in the room is afraid of those. Oh, yes.

What? You know what the word is? I didn't actually know what that word was. I was going to ask. Go ahead and try and say it. It's way up the top now. Oh, God. How did you bring that up i got him

i don't remember what it's called what i what i wanted to say was tell us about your biggest fear and how um travis would take advantage of it but this was a perfect segue into it yeah totally so i can't remember what the phobia is called trip tripophobia yeah yep there it is i don't i didn't know what the fuck that was yeah and so like the test for it is a lotus flower seed pod and it's it's a visceral reaction to random shape patterns, like organic random shape patterns. So like skin disorders, that C-pod thing, it is, it's horrifying. And it is, it's making me tighten up and cringe even talking about it. It's horrible. So my best friend

Travis, he prints a shirt with a big seed pod on it. He's like, does he like my shirt? And it's like, get that effing thing off right now. It's really bad. Yep. That's good stuff.

Yeah, it's terrible.. Yep. That's good stuff. Yeah. It's terrible. Ah, thank you so much. You know, welcome to Unpaid and Underrated where we take care of each other here. So you, but you said, you know, you, you both are pretty much in a big, a big in hiking and kayaking. It looked like, is that a, you know, is that something you guys something you guys do, like weekend trips and stuff together or anything like that? Very much. Nice.

We really started in 2020 was our first big trip. We've hiked and camped and fished and everything our whole lives. But the biggest trip that we took was um in july 2020 me and my brother and travis and his brother we went on a big colorado mountain adventure we um what was that first year 60 miles 60 so it was only 60 miles it was like a week um. We got a 14er in Colorado. We did Mount Windham in Colorado in the Chicago Basin.

We got to see all of that in the height of the pandemic so there was nobody there. That'd be awesome. That was banal. That was really, really cool. Then we did two other colorado trips um the previous or the following years and then uh i did we he and i tried to do a big hike um

in uh 22 yeah yeah and then uh we bailed on that one. I flew back out, finished a big section of the Colorado Trail. That was like 250 miles. The Colorado Trail. That was a good time. And then, yeah, we do a lot of hiking and

boating around here, too. I mean, yeah, you are in wild and wonderful West Virginia, so you can take advantage of the entire state. I think I saw a stat today or somewhere the other day. It's the most, take the least popular per one of the least populated per square mile, or at least there's several parts of it. I've tried to remember what the thing was,

but it was just like, oh yeah, it's been a while since I've been there, but yeah, it was anytime I see it with social media, it's cool. Cause I can just, you can still keep tabs on everything i think i'm i think i'm even in a facebook group uh whatever the fuck i think it's like a mon you know it's a morgantown and preston county kind of like rumor mill or some shit like that or something so

kind of i half the time like i'll see shit on facebook and then i'll talk to my mom like a week later and she'll be like oh you will never believe what happened so you know like oh yeah i saw that on facebook a week ago so that's cool to be able to still keep tabs on all that down there um that would that um section of our podcast is called keith kind of explains stuff he might know there's a lot of non-committal language about like i think it's a thing i heard in the one day it might be called this. It's better than being confident when you're fucking wrong like you are sometimes. No, it isn't.

How's that make you feel, Canadian? It doesn't make me feel much at all. So I just want to know what it's like to shoot somebody with a nail gun. I wonder where that story came from probably the guy that got shot I have been in construction for my entire life

and I have done roofing for years my brother was re-roofing his house, so I volunteered my time and expertise. And we re-roofed his house when he put an addition onto his house as well. So it was me, Travis was there, of course, and a few other friends. and um a fun stupid silly goose thing to do when you're in a roofing crew is to shoot each other with a roofing gun a thousand times i have shot nails at my friends my co-workers i have been shot by my friends and coworkers with roofing guns hundreds of times. It's like, it's just fun. It tumbles, it hits your t-shirt, and it falls off.

My brother is standing there. He's running his mouth, making fun of me. It's all good fun. I don't think that happened, actually. Go ahead. Wow. Oh, yeah. There may have not been any antagonism.

So my brother is standing there. And so I point the roofing gun at him. And I pull the safety back. And he's like, no, don't do it. And I pull the trigger, thinking, ha-ha, it's going to hit him in the chest and fall off. It doesn't. fall off it doesn't it it could not have been more of a laser sight into his forearm it hits his forearm and sticks and varies like you drove it in with a hammer it stopped when it hit the wire on the metal and his bone and he looks at me he looks at his. And he looks at me,

he looks at his arm and he looks at me and everybody goes, goes from laughing to, Oh my God, that just happened. And like, he pulls the nail out and just starts bleeding profusely. He walks past me and he goes, what the F is wrong with you?

And goes off the roof. And I'm like, I didn't know. It was an accident. That's never happened before ever. Somebody turned the PSI up on that compressor, huh? Uh-huh. Actually, he did just turn it up before that.

Totally did. My 71-year-old father is on the ground, and he looks up at me like I am 15 years old. And he goes, please do not do that again. Like I'm a little kid. And and I'm like it's never happened before isn't that funny how your parents can make you feel like that no matter how old you are oh yeah totally I was 41 at the time thanks dad

yeah you'll always be your parents kids and like just we don't always talk about our show notes and and the quality or quantitative of them. But like, Stu, I think someone in your life hates you.

Because a lot of these stories... So tell us about the time you ran over a bunch of ducks. I wasn't going to... I'm going to go to the bathroom. I don't want to hear it. No, you don't have to go into that because I was reading it. I was like, and just like, it just lays into the, it leads into the, like what I just said

that like, not a lot of these things. Oh my God. That's hilarious. I was, I was 19. I was 19. I had just bought a 77 Chevy square body that was jacked up, big tires, loud pipes, the classic early 2000s teenager pickup truck. I'm going to work. I'm working a commercial construction job. I am running late.

And traffic on this four-lane road just comes to a stop. And so I'm in this lane of traffic, and there's a big, long line. And everybody stopped out of respect or something. So I'm like, I got to get to work. So I whip over in the passing lane and mash the gas. And, you know, pipes are loud and everything and as i'm going a mama duck is walking her baby ducks across the road and everybody is stopped for this so as this big long line of traffic is stopped i mow through this whole family of ducks and i look behind and there is

nothing but the feathers all along the road and i'm like i'm the biggest douchebag on driving a noxious trump style truck down the road he's just ridiculous couldn't wait for traffic so now keith hates you because you're passing on the left didn't really need the whole story but it was just funny that like as i'm reading all of these because like i took about half an hour earlier today to be like i want to know as much as i can going into this i was just like whoever we talked to wants us to paint Stuart in a bad light. I don't know. That had to have come from my brother.

Yeah. Shot me with a nail gun. Broke his hand twice. We won't even get into how you broke your hand twice. Cause it's also doesn't seem like it's a good story. Mow over some ducks. I was just like, I turned to Morgan and I was like,

I do. Do I want to talk to him based on this story? Doesn't have social media. Most likely a serial killer. How is your eardrum, Stuart? Is it still in good shape? Did it have a little booger

attack at some point? Oh, no. That wasn't me. Oh, it's the other way around. Okay. That was Travis's wife. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. So speaking of that, does this lead into the

proudest moment as a husband story? There it is. It was pretty great. We were on the couch and you know, of course you're picking your We were on the couch. And, you know, of course, you're picking your nose naturally on the couch. I picked a booger out and just, I see Amy

over there. She kind of lands like this. But I tossed it across the room and it lands in her ear. Down her ear hole. Down her ear hole is the episode title. Write that down. I mean, how can you not be proud of that?

That shot from across the room. It was like 20 feet away. Yeah. That is pretty funny though. Yeah. Like funny because it wasn't me. Yeah.

I would not bode well in my house i would not yeah i would not hear the end of that one jeez that's a really good story though um we covered most of the a lot of this um are you guys gonna host any uh strongman uh stuff at your gym at any point you think is it big enough to actually do a show? I think so. Um, so we're doing, um, one,

we're doing a strong man show. Me and Stuart are both doing one in Ohio in June, but the lift hard and live easy. And then we're doing another one in October. So it might be next year before we can do one here, but we're definitely big enough and we've got a big parking lot outside. So, you know, even if we can just do some events outside and some in, I think we're both kind of looking forward to that.

Do some truck pulling? Yeah. Yeah, it's flat, surprisingly, being in West Virginia. A nice flat parking of the mountain here. So I think we're good to go. That's what it was. The stat I was talking about earlier that Joey made fun of me for not knowing accurately. I think it's the, like, per square mile, it's the least amount of level ground or something.

That's probably true. It was basically, it's the most mountainous, like, overall, like, per square mile, it's the most mountainous like overall like per square mile it's the most mountainous state in the country that's that's what the stat was okay i knew i knew there was something there i just couldn't remember until you had mentioned the flat ground but yeah i don't think if people if people haven't lived there like i don't think they understand like the winters are horrendous just sheerly for the fact that everything's a fucking turn in a hill and black ice everywhere. You could get a few inches of snow.

It doesn't matter. You ain't stopping when you're going downhill. A four-wheel drive doesn't help you stop. Yeah. In Preston's town, it's a nutshell. For sure. In Preston, it's twice as worse. It's fucking the town I grew up in. My town was fucking damn bad. So,

Travis, you've got a bit of schadenfreude in your life. Uh, and so do I, uh, where you, uh, find pleasure in the pain of others. Yes, for sure. Yeah. And I, you know, it's one of the reasons I used to love, um, America's funniest home videos. It's still the reason I love Fail Army. And just watching I call it, what did you think would happen? So tell me about the

time you laughed the hardest at one of your friends eating shit. Well, of recent memory, it would be Spencerencer stewart's swim uh we backpacked i think it was about eight miles and we were trout fishing and at dark of course we after several drinks that we found in a stream on the way and actually we found a whole what 12, 12 beers? Yeah. Somebody just left in the stream, so we called it trail magic.

There you go. Put them back to camp for a take of the trail magic. About dark, we get into hammocks. So we've got a nice setup where they've got to undercoat the warm, and Spencer gets into his, and we just hear this thud. Well, it's dark, so shine a light on him. And Spencer just sitting on the ground. His hammock has ripped clear in half.

Straight down to the ground and just sitting. Doesn't know what to do. So that would be a recent memory of the funniest. Other than Stewart, you know, smashing his wiener. Travis was laughing so hard at Spencer on the ground. He was crying. He couldn't talk. Spencer, when that hammock tore apart, like we were in our separate hammocks on different trees.

That hammock tore apart. Like, we were in our separate hammocks on different trees. And it's totally dark. And all of a sudden, we hear Spencer go, oh, shit. His hammock had tore in half across the middle. No fixing that. Hits the ground. And we turn our headlights on and shine the light on him

I have never heard Travis laugh that hard ever and it just kept going it was like breath after breath after breath of just uncontrollable laughter and Spencer just sitting in his hammock underquilt

on the ground like why does this stupid shit always happen to me it was so Spencer just sitting in his hammock underquilt on the ground like, why does this stupid shit always happen to me? It was so damn funny. We laughed a lot. I have a pretty strong history of scaring the Reed boys, as we call them, Stuart and Spencer. Yep.

They were at my house. I was like 16. They were 18. They just had this new oh not new 1988 mercury topaz 89 mercury topaz that was our first car so i would sneak in the back seat while i snuck in the back seat and just kind of waited for them to come in hunched in the back seat and stewart of course jumps in the driver's seat he's alone and i wait for him to start the car. And I just get up behind him and breathe into his ear. He completely freaks out. Oh, yeah.

There's no yelling. He doesn't yell. It's just like a low voice in my ear. And I'm like, I'm dead. I'm dead. Mosh is going to kill me. I would lose it. I'm so sorry.

I'm dead Mosh was gonna kill me I would lose it I'm so joking and and again he is in the back seat like on the floor cowering

just waiting for the the flurry of fists that's gonna beat the shit out of him yeah and I'm like I don't even give a

just get out that's that's fantastic and also so on the way back from the arm Stewart's driving, taking a drink, should I say, and I'm in the passenger seat. So his arm is up like this.

So I reach across and give him a cow bite. Well, he can't move his arm down because I'm there. He can't let go of the wheel. So he's pretty much at the mercy. And I have a mouthful of the drink that I just had. It was a Celsius that I got from the Arnold.

I had taken a drink of the Celsius and I have a hold of the wheel and I'm stuck and he has a hole to the inside of my thigh. Trying to scream because he is causing me an immense amount of pain and uh spencer compared spencer's in the back seat of course he was with us and he was like it sounded like a scuba diver getting attacked by jaws

it was the same kind of noise i don't care if we both die. This is going to be hilarious. 100%. A quick, quick follow-up. So where did Drunk Spencer end up sleeping? Just right on the ground that night when the hammock was gone? So for some stupid reason, I had packed two hammocks that trip. I don't know why. I think somebody cut somebody's hammock and then i had a double which a double is just way more comfortable to sleep in you can stretch out

so i was like i'm going to use the double but i'll throw the single in there because the double had been outside like last summer and i was like if it breaks at least i'll have another well my hammock held up but spencer ended up i was like i have another hammock so he was able to use the one i had that helps because that would be not i definitely would have been suspect absolutely even like no you cut my hammock and that's why you have a second one and that is totally something he would do yeah Speaking of, one more shitty thing that Travis does to his good buddies. I'm sure

there's more on there, but this one involves Stuart getting a new car and some flatulence. Hell yeah, I want to hear about this. This is the one time I almost murdered Travis. I'd say it was pretty close. It was pretty close.

This is the time when I really cared about vehicles and I wanted my stuff nice. This was after the big jacked up truck. I was probably I think I was 20. I know we were 21. So we were on our way back.

We went to Morgantown bw3s we were bw3s he does wait on our way back after eating chicken wings and beer and fries he has the worst gas on the planet and another boy we grew up with also has the worst gas on the planet. So was Bradley there too? Yeah. So his brother was with us. My brother was not there at the time. So we're on our way back, going up the Kingwood Pike on our way back home.

And they are just taking turns farting in my car. It is the worst rotten chicken gas that you can imagine and and this was early 2000s i have cowboy boots on a cowboy hat a cow no i didn't have a hat at the time but i rip off the road and i'm like get out of my car and so travis takes off serious i was ready to murder him it was coming to fists and the only thing that saved him is he's faster than me and i am in slick cowboy boots and this is wintertime so i am running after him wanting to murder him and this is a fact this is a fact. This is a fact. I was ready to kill him. I fall down on the ice and the snow. I fall all the way down. I eat shit.

And Travis is standing there laughing his ass off. He could not be more happy that I have just fallen down in the snow and the ice. Furious. I am so mad. So I storm back to the car after I lose the chase. Storm back to the car. I try to drive off. Everybody is holding their doors open so I don't leave Travis.

So Travis gets back in the car. We drive home. Silence. Silence. I'm not happy. Except for farts. Except for farts. They continue to fart and I'm just going to

all the way back to the house. They're dying laughing. I am furious the whole way back. We get home. They get in their vehicles. I walk into my house. I get in my car the next morning. This is the next

morning. I turn the car on. This is the very next morning and it is just fresh fart that comes out of all of that. It's just full of rage again. I'm just so mad at them. Yes.

I hate my friends. Yes, sir. That makes me happy to hear. Outstanding. I feel like I'm so happy we don't interview any of my high school friends because this is exactly what

it would be like. Yeah. I'm 42. He's 40. It hasn't changed. We are still like 16. Yeah, absolutely. We're just idiots. Remember that time you drank out of a broken bottle?

And it's like, shut up. We don't want to talk about that on this podcast. Love it. You guys want to move into a little Mount Rushmore and then maybe a little unpaid or underrated? I'm having a great time, but I know you guys wanted to move into a little Mount Rushmore and then maybe a little Unpaid or underrated I'm having a great time but I know you guys wanted to You know be able to wrap this up before midnight And we've been at it for a good bit already

So Alright we'll do a little Mount Rushmore So Mount Rushmore Basically if you were to make your own Strongman show What are the what's your for Mount Rush make your own Strongman show, what's your four Mount Rushmore at a Strongman show?

Top four events, essentially. I'm going yoke, circus dumbbell, sandbag medley, with pea gravel. Sand. Yes. Pea gravel can suck it. You don't want to put mud in it, Travis? With pea gravel. Sand.

Yes. Pea gravel can suck it. You don't want to put mud in it, Travis? A mud bag? Yeah, mud and farts. Probably stones, I guess, to end it. Sorry, what was that one more time? I was laughing over it.

Stones to end it. Fourth one, stones. What about you, Stu? Mine would be probably the same. Yoke, sandbag, log over circus dumbbell and stones. I love stones. Natural stones

or atlas stones? Either. Actually, I have never messed around with natural stones. I'm an atlas stones either actually i have never messed around with natural stones i'm an atlas stone guy no i'm i'm slowly getting into natural stoning there's a place close to us that um there's a big pile of monster like smooth river stones that we're gonna to go steal pretty soon isn't it isn't it weird like the level of strength athlete or whatever you want to call us and you're driving and morgan mocks me all the time and i think i did it on the way down to the left hard to be easy like you're driving and you just go okay those rocks but yeah i bet i could lift one of those.

Nobody's watching. Let's go get one. That's the one I have in my backyard now. It's just, it just came from my front garden. My dad was like, Oh yeah. Somebody was getting rid of all the stones from the garden.

I had to have two friends help me load that. And I went, well, I'm going to lift that fucker. And that's just my outside natural lifting stone now so did you ever get to weigh it no um i might have mentioned before that there's uh this this natural stone lifting group here in ontario yeah and they have like a thing where they strap it up with like their luggage baggage thing and I was like just come over to my house and they were like we actually might be able

to do that they're having a big event in August I might go to and just see if I can lift some stones do some dinny lifts and shit like that I'm not going to do powerlifting forever it's so boring it's so

fucking boring yeah i don't know i love power lifting it's my baby it's why i'm here but eventually i want to i want to lift things and throw things and move things yeah i didn't get into the strength game until i was probably 39 i was i always worked construction i was an iron worker in the rod patch you know what that means just always work rebar that is just work and i enjoy i like carrying heavy things fast and um and then as life progressed, got into other avenues of work and, um, um, Travis was big into strongman and lifting. And, um, he was, he started to accumulate a lot of strongman equipment and he's the one that got me addicted to it for sure. I'm here because of Travis for sure. For sure. I'm here because of Travis, for sure. We're glad to have you.

It's, you know, Barbell and, you know, Barbell adjacent implements are, you know, something I think everyone should have in their hands the rest of their lives, for sure. I'll never not deadlift. It's interesting that deadlifting wasn't on your Mount Rushmore. I'll never not deadlift. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. One of the, you know, usual suspect questions we forgot to ask. One piece of Massonomics merch that is in the vault that you don't have, that you'd regret not getting your hands on.

Mine is the Metalonomics shirt. Yep, the heavy metal shirt. I did not get it. I don't know why I saw it. liked it did not order it the last year they had a rubber cup the silly pint is it the silly pint from the anniversary yes that i i wanted that and the other the other things that i wanted was this shirt and the lift shirt. And I got that. Nice.

Both of those are the band contraband. And that's actually, that's another one. So that's, that's another thing you can knock off your hollow. If I am as a having a piece of contraband, basically. How many drinks,

how many drink spotters in the lift? Our gym. I. Five. Ooh. One, two, four four maybe four one hrack and long stone over bar yeah because there's an original there and then three drink spotter lights amazing

it's so stupid i had a i had a friend over this week who mostly lives in commercial gyms, right? Like Crunch or LA Fitness or whatever he lives in. And he comes into my dank, dark, gross gym basement. And he's looking at the drinks butter and he's like, that's fucking amazing. He's like, I should just buy one of those to bring to my commercial gym. And you don't realize exactly how, like when they first released it, everybody was like, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. And then within a matter of like 15 days, everybody was like,

this is the most important thing we've ever seen in the gym. And then the light one is even better because you can take it to your commercial gyms and everything. Yeah. Like it, it was one of those weird like seeing somebody who's never seen it before acknowledge it and go no that would be incredible to take to my commercial gym yes what's your favorite the original or the light i prefer the original um i like my light, but my problem is it's not as sturdy.

Because I'm a little hard on my rack, so my squats, when I rack my squats, I rack kind of hard. Whatever, I'm lifting heavy. Shut up. And it shakes my whole rack. The drink in my light one will fall out. The drink in my original won't. Oh, I can see that. It is funny

too because we have a reverse hyper here and that used to be where everything would collapse, like at my home gym. Yeah. Look at all that shit on it. Yep. There's probably still shit on it in that picture

behind you, Keith. No, that's what I was just saying. There is. Oh yeah, there is. For audio only listeners, I grabbed a still photo of their gym and threw it up as my background for this episode. There is a reverse hyper on my right shoulder and there is a

Gatorade bottle and there's at least four objects sitting on it. There's got to be a Coors Light can on there too. I'd be surprised if there wasn't. Speaking of that, I'm going to crack a beer. What are you drinking?

I'm going to assume a Keats. But maybe not. No. Skittles Keats, but maybe not. No. Skittles, Keats? Skittle, Skittle Brow. It doesn't exist. So I'll take some of that beer and some of those Skittles. No, this is the Red Fox. You might've heard me talk about it before from Kingston, Ontario.

It is a, it is a red ale that is actually filtered through beets. So it has an earthy, sugary taste. It is the best beer I have ever drank, but it is very hard to get where I am. And right outside my work, there's a liquor store that just started stocking it. Little do they know, I'm going to clear them out. Favorite customer. Yeah. What's your view on Labatt Blue?

Labatt Blue was my dad's beer. Okay. So when I first started drinking beer, I drank Labatt's Blue. And I did not start drinking beer until I turned 19, which is legal age in Ontario. So the first maybe a year of drinking I drank Labatt's Blue

the best Labatt's Blue I ever had was in Sherbrooke, Quebec because it's actually brewed right near Sherbrooke, Quebec so I went on this job site traveled with these guys for these eight hours to Sherbrooke, did another eight hours

of work, and when I finally got to have that beer, that was the best beer I think I've ever had. And then about a year after that, I found Keith's, and Keith's has just been where it's at. But this stuff, the McKinnon Red Fox, you guys will never get it.

I might be able to get one to Keith or something or bring some. I don't think I can bring any to the Leptard Livesey because I'm flying. But yeah, it's just this. If you like beets at all. If you like the earthy taste of beets at all, even the sugary, it's so effing good. But you can't have that many because it just fucks your stomach up. Right. Cause it's craft beer. Yeah.

There's no preservatives. There's nothing in it. So the next day you're just. Labatt's was a big, my sister married a guy from Jamestown and that's all they talked about. And then we went to Toronto when we were like

I was 18, maybe 17. No, you weren't. No, because I was married. I was 22. Legal drinking age in Ontario is 19, so we're going to pretend you were older than that for the sake of this

story. Yeah. You were at the bars with us. Yeah. Good times. And that's what you drank while you're up here is LaBabble. Yeah. That's like what everyone's like.

So that's what we drank. And it's the worst hangover I've ever had. Oh yeah. Up here in Canada, you've got your basic, it's just all lagers, right? Cause lagers are the easiest and cheapest to make your coors light your coors banquet your labab blues all of those the wildcat that's funny i'm gonna say wildcat scans you're probably not listening but if you are listening remember wildcat but uh and they're all just basic lagers

because they're cheap easy and you can fuck with the level right you can have your light you can have your basic and you can have your strong by just adding a certain amount of fermentation or taking away a certain amount of fermentation and that's how canadian beer has always been so craft beer comes in with their you know shitty ipas with their like i said earlier grapefruit farts and then you know this kind of stuff is like really fun i love these guys i don't love all of their beer they do a wild mint stout where they make a stout and they use like mint from the fields in their back it's the best stout you've ever had right but nope i'm with you on that one i haven't drank the the first time i ever got drunk and was my 19th birthday because that was legal drinking

age it was the bat blue and fucking mcgilliguddy's cherry whiskey because i came home half buzzed and my mom was like, nah, I want you to regret tomorrow. She pulled out the cherry whiskey and she was like, get drunk, dummy. So you know what this is like. Yep. I was 21. Again, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and we did Jack Daniel shots on my 21st birthday. Did you use your hand? I used to do Jack and Coke by the two liter.

That was a different time. No, we both broke our hands. I broke both hands. Oh, Jesus. I used to do Jack and Coke by the two liters back when I was 21. You'd pour out some of the Coke and then you'd just fill it with Jack as much

as you could. And you'd drink, and then you'd keep doing that, because by the end of the night, you'd be... There's not much to do in Canada. Go ahead, Keith. Speaking of excessive pouring, Stuart, do you have a... Okay, so I hear you have a nice man cave with a little... You know, you have

a nice fireplace down there. You do a little excessive red solo gasoline pouring. Red solo cup. I'll blow this up. RIP Toby. We were drinking beer and I was like,

let's go downstairs. Let's light the wood stove and the man cave and we were mostly drunk at the time and i took it the fire wouldn't light it was wet i wasn't doing it right i know how to go to fire this was not the thinking time for me so the the brain was shut off and i picked up a red gallon gas can with a smoldering fire that had a little bit of flame to it and so what do what does my dumb ass do is i pour gasoline into the wood stove. That's even worse than the story that I had. Oh yeah, for sure. It ignites in the wood stove

and the spout of the gas can is inside the wood stove. So that thing explodes. I've ripped the gas can back. The gas can explodes in my hand and throws flaming gasoline on the sidewall of my basement, which is wood. It's like a covered porch. And so now my whole house is on fire. There's fire above my head. There's fire on the wall in front of us. Everything is on fire and gasoline. And like the gas can still has fire coming out of it.

So I snuffed the gas can out, set that down. And I look at Spencer and go, well, that just happened. And then I go get a garden hose that fortunately is just right there and hose down my house and i'm like jesus christ so let's go outside now that's uh that's scary that could have gone a lot worse a lot quicker it gets better lot worse a lot quicker it gets better we were like i was like 38 we were kids it was just a couple years ago that's crazy he also burned down his house when he was like 15 no i was and and that was not my fault My fault. We didn't touch that one, did we? No, I mean, if you want to have that, I don't.

If you want to tell me your childhood trauma story about how you accidentally burned your house down and ruined your life, sure. But you don't have to. I'm okay with it. He just started making fun of me for this over the last couple years, and it was in front of his wife, and that's what started it. Yeah. Because she laughed out of such horror.

Like, oh my God, I can't believe you said that. I was 10 years old. It was my turn to fix the fire in the house. So I fixed the fire. This is a Sunday morning. I load the wood stove, close it up, did my thing. We left. House burns down like to the ground, to the ground, like 40 minutes later.

It wasn't my fault. It was, it was just, it was a chimney fire. It was old piping. It happened. But since I was the last one who touched the fire, see? My pain. He laughs at it. That's a good friend.

He was telling me. So the funny part is, we were somewhere driving around and to find out, I was asking him where his dad grew up and he's like oh he grew up here and i was like oh yeah is the house still there he's like no it burnt down and my comeback was oh did you fix the fire then too and that just made the uh the whole joke oh yeah it's been a running joke ever since yeah that's good

stuff good stuff so yeah had a house fire when i was a kid it's fine it's rebuilt no big deal everything is fine everything so i'm assuming it's the fact that you've had to you know have wood wood wood stove your whole life kind of uh parlayed into why you have a extensive axe collection i do have an extensive axe collection? I do have an extensive axe collection. Yep. That was a bushcraft phase in my life. Yeah. I've collected a bunch of axes.

Nice. I have several historical axes. A lot of really nice pieces. Original handles from like the 30s and 40s. All different makes and styles. Yep. yep have a pretty good axe collection now here in my notes it says that uh see if you tell me if you agree with this that you get bored with uh certain hobbies and have to start something new every couple years is that something okay so you've been lifting now for three years are you gonna puss out and stop lifting and you know because you're bored of it let's hope not

i really like it i'll just keep you around you'll just start lifting things differently that's true i mean that's that yeah that is a good thing about the strength sport is getting a power lift and getting a strong man go do some fucking highland games get into arm lifting get into arm wrestling the fucking Olympic lifting CrossFit 2 is coming yeah fuck I mean I don't think a 44 yard once a year would do kipping push pull ups but have at it no but that's

we definitely want to you know keep you keep you in career keep you lifting you know keep having fun you know you got Travis there as your wingman to keep you honest and I'm part owner of a gym now so So that's kind of. Oh, yeah. The gym name.

Obviously, it's a play on, you know, a little Masonomics lore, I'm assuming. Or did you did you talk and get permission or not necessarily permission, but like, I don't know, I guess the way we're did. Did they green light it before you went ahead or just like episode we're going to call it? Yes. Yep. did they green light it before you went ahead or just like episode we're gonna call it yes yep we said we shot Tanner a message and we're like we're thinking about opening a uh Mastodon tribute gym on the east coast like thinking about lift hard street club is that is that cool he's like oh yeah totally so nice the name kind of closed so we we stuck with it no I dig it that's good. Travis came up with a logo. The name was his idea, and he just asked if it was okay.

He's like, yeah, sounds awesome. Go for it. And you got the dude that you just posted to your most recent post, the big jack dude from Preston County out there lifting. That can't hurt your clout of having like one of, you know, a national recognized strong man in your gym. For sure. Yeah.

He, uh, he's just as close as I am a little bit closer. Actually, he's been, uh, you know, traveling to Morgantown pretty much. Um, yeah, it probably goes down to, uh, Viking strength or something, I think. Doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah. So if he can, if he can train in your backyard, that's going to make his life save an hour a day. Awesome. He's brought...

My gosh, what has he brought here? He's brought a Texas squat bar. He's brought the big dog log. Oh, circus dumbbell. Circus dumbbell. Weights. He brought some 25-pound plates. Yep.

He's been awesome. Whatever he wants to bring, we've said, giving him the green light on pretty much. Well, yeah, I can't imagine. I mean, I kind of think what kind of out-of-the-box thinking you'd have to say as a gym member saying, hey, can I bring this free piece of gym equipment into your gym? It's like, you know, I'm not sure what you would say no to at this stage of the game. So that's pretty cool. You got members already kind of offering that.

Yeah, there's another one. Chris, he's a strong man. He started coming. I think he was one of the first ones we signed up. Yep. And he brought in an Elite FTS camera bar just out of the blue. So he's been good. All our members are good so far.

So you guys are getting access to all these new toys too, just by having a gym, you know? No. Are you scouring marketplace even harder now than you maybe would have been to when it was just a home gym? Just cause you're like, Oh,

I prefer like used equipment and everything. Like, are you? Yeah. Um, so we weren't going to put any money into dumbbells just because we never really used them. We had a set of 0 to 50 adjustable. The more we thought about it, we're like, we're going to need dumbbells.

We did some searching on Facebook Marketplace and found a set of 15 to 110 pro-style dumbbells, Troy pro-styles. And we drove about four hours one way to get them. And while we were there, we were looking around because they had old bars just sitting everywhere. And that's where we found the Champion Barber. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I messagedannah a picture on discord he's like i've never even seen a champion barbara i was like what do you want to ask what what he

wants for it he said yeah you should ask him so then stewart had to run 10 miles up the road for an atm because i just brought that for the dumbbells yeah but we got it back to him uh during the arnold love it uh well you got anything else for him jerry you want to do a little unpaid and underrated yeah before i go into another coughing fit let's jump into unpaid and underrated i uh you guys i'm sorry like i keep muting and just bailing to cough into my sleeve here. I've been adding some. I don't know if you noticed that. I added about four while we're going.

We don't have to stop at six. There's definitely a hand. I want to hit at least three or four of mine that I put in, but some of them I don't care about. Go ahead. If you guys are familiar with the game, we don't need to get into it, but if we have any new listeners, we do not play overrated or underrated.

We play unpaid or underrated uh underrated being underrated which you know would be you think it's cool and unpaid sucks because no one wants to be unpaid so travis and stewart unpaid or underrated coleslaw on your hot dogs i'm gonna say underrated for me. Absolutely. You can't go wrong with coleslaw on there. I mean, it's either coleslaw or nothing else, but I think just coleslaw on it, the way to go. Nice. I'm with you. I'm going to say it's underrated.

That's good. And to steal this a little bit, obviously I grew up where you guys did and moved away when I was like 22 I had no concept that food was regional I tried to get a fucking just like a TNL style hot dog with chili onions coleslaw maybe some mustard

it doesn't exist you get these fucking swaggles and white hots and they call they call their their chili's meat sauce and it's not chili it's just like like it's just ground up beef with like sauce and it's not chili. It's just like ground up beef with hot sauce. It's not fucking chili. So both of you are going to give coleslaw on hot dogs underrated

so that'll segue me into my next one. Another food topic. Pepperoni rolls. Nope, Joey's got one thing. Let's circle back. No, I just want to like coleslaw? Like shredded cabbage with mayonnaise. KFC coleslaw essentially. No, like, coleslaw? Yeah. Like shredded cabbage with mayonnaise. KFC coleslaw, essentially. No, KFC coleslaw is a different fucking monster.

That's that radioactive green bullshit. I'm talking about, like, real, like, coleslaw. Typically, it's really minced up. But, like, in my memory, it would either you go and get it from KFC and just buy it because you're trying to feed 30 fucking people, and KFC, you can buy it by, like, the tub. Or if you make it, it's got to be fairly minced up. I'm not talking, like, super huge chunks that are,

like, over, like, nothing in it should be more than, like, a half inch long, I would say. Yeah, but, like, Walmart coleslaw would be fine. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Because, like, coleslaw can go two ways. Coleslaw would be fine. Yeah. Walmart coleslaw. Okay.

Because coleslaw can go two ways. Coleslaw can go mayonnaise and cabbage and carrots and shit. Or it can go like cabbage, vinegar, and shit. Or it can go like in the middle, which is that yogurt that KFC passes off as... And you put that on your hot dogs? Fucking wild, man. What about sauerkraut? Is it comparable to sauerkraut?

Because here, we put sauerkraut on hot dogs. Sauerkraut is a thing, but coleslaw is more so. Is the thing? Okay, cool. Just wanted to check in to see how those... Go ahead with your next one. Pepperoni something.

Pepperoni rolls. Do you want to explain to the listeners what a pepperoni roll is and why it is unpaid or underrated? Underrated? My god, yes. Pepperoni rolls. We grew up on those. Yep. What is a pepperoni roll? It's not a pizza log.

I try to explain to people what it is and they're like, oh, it's just a pizza log I can get those So what is a pepperoni roll to you guys? There's no sauce It is pepperoni Wrapped in dough That is a pepperoni roll Boom

And I like the sliced pepperoni Over the sticks Sticks of pepperoni over the sticks. Correct. Sticks of pepperoni are not good. But sliced, a bunch of sliced pepperoni in there, rolled up in dough, baked. You cannot beat it. That's it.

Butter on the outside of the bread. Yes. Boom. Is it at least garlic butter? It can be, yes. Traditionally, no. It is just dough and pepperoni baked that's it some i mean there's a lot of people that had cheese to them too but that's kind of you don't have to do the cheese yep traditionally it's just pepperoni it's coal miner food and it's

like it is it is uber regional like i don't even think you can't really find them like like you you kind of get into maybe like once you're north of waynesburg i don't even know if you can get pepperoni on waynesburg like i'm trying to like it's like basically so like like an hour north of where they're at like you're into the next state like the food is already different it's crazy parksburg Clarksburg, West Virginia, Morgantown, West Virginia, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Fairmont, Morgantown, that corridor. That's where it came from. And that's where I grew up.

So another thing, like I, you know, moving to New York as a 22-year-old, I didn't know I couldn't go to a fucking gas station and get a pepperoni roll. I had no clue that that wasn't a thing. It's like my bubbles burst. I'm like, where the fuck is like my staple like gas station snack? This is horseshit. Sure. And I always make my staple gas station snack? This is horse shit. Sure. A gas station snack is a pepperoni roll.

For sure. 100%. It's not a stromboli. Strombolis are okay, but that's a completely different thing. Stromboli is more of a meal. Pepperoni roll is a nice little snack. Totally.

Should I stick with the food topic? Yeah, let's go one more food. Buckwheat cakes. Yeah. Underrated. Unpaid. Nice. And why are buckwheat cakes kind of relevant

to you guys? We in Kingwood have the Buckwheat Festival. Of course, buckwheat cakes kind of relevant to you guys? We in Kingwood have the Buckwheat Festival. Of course, buckwheat is a legume that is treated as a grain. And it's such an easy crop to grow in the um in the soils of preston county it has just been a festival over the years and uh it's it's a traditional breakfast food breakfast lunch dinner it's a sourdough it's it's a lagoon ground into a flour and then it's a sourdough made out of that. And you put syrup and all kinds of other things on it.

It's just an easy bread. But yeah, underrated for sure. And why do you dislike it so much, Travis? Is it just too bitter for you? I just never did like the taste. Acquired taste. Never a fan of it. Okay.

Bonus, the Buckwheat Festival in general. Fun page. I think I went once in the fucking 20 years I lived in Morgantown, and it was just like, okay, I don't know, it's just another festival. But I mean, it's definitely what your county and town specifically is like known for regionally so it's at least cool to have something to be on the map a lot of places like you know a similar size would go more under the radar because they just don't have their own thing like that so fun fact the buckwheat festival fair

grounds is across the street from the gym oh cool that cool. That could actually... You should do some kind of Strongman Expo, do something in the parking lot. That's something about it. Join the festival. Literally just have a deadlift bar

in your parking lot on some stall mats with or without mud, depending on Travis's opinion that day. That works for two minutes. Get the yoke. Get the yoke. Get the yoke out. And be like, if you can do this many at this

weight, you win a prize. Well, that's good. That seems like a thing I would do. But obviously make sure that you're in tune with the festival and that they're advertising you and shit like that. That's what I would do. I would do a yoke or a farmer's carry.

I wouldn't do a deadlift bar. Farmer's carry would be a good one because it's a farmer's festival. You have to make it very light. It's a cultural festival. You have to make it light enough to where Joe Schmoke would up and just completely be fine and then you could even do like uh if you uh post this on instagram or facebook you you get a free day pass or something yeah that'd be cool that's a good idea that's a really good idea write write that down somebody

somebody put it down yep i'm gonna relinquish the last to joey see what he's got for you all right i've got four and i'm sure two of them are gonna fall fucking flat unpaid or underrated and this is for both of you because you guys like i had them originally for like one or the other but i think because i've noticed you two are so close. Unpaid or underrated? Watermelon candy. Yeah, I'm going with Stuart. Unpaid on this one. Unpaid.

I hate the fake watermelon flavor. I love watermelon, but anything fake watermelon flavored, I cannot do it. Agreed. I don't know why. Joey, you're mad. I don't understand.

I love fake watermelon. It's so unheard of and made up. It's just disgustingly unnatural. I'm so in. I hate it. I don't take a bite of a watermelon

Jolly Rancher and be like, mmm, watermelon. I go, this is going to be disgusting, and I'm in. If my children hand me a piece of watermelon bubble gum, and I happen to toss it in my mouth, before I realize what it is, it is being spit out immediately. I hate fake watermelon. It's so crazy. Have you tried the elementy watermelon flavor element no no it's it's i i had it the other day my mistake if you like watermelon

fake watermelon you would like it yes yeah okay and of course in theory like i don't love candy or sugars and stuff like that like that skittles that skittles drink that i'm drinking i'll drink that today and probably never touch it again as much as i joked about it earlier i don't really like candy and stuff like that so but no i had a fake watermelon one of those ones i would like it was in the list of things i wanted to hear about um unpaid or underrated cheese danishes unpaid for me oh underrated love a cheese danish how do you hate a cheese danish i don't understand i don't know either i just remember having them so much when i was growing up and i think it was forced on me and I hate

a cheese David. Are we solely talking about shrink-wrapped gas station ones? Or Hardee's. Maybe it was Hardee's. Hardee's had cheese David. No way. I miss Hardee's. You guys are so lucky.

Oh, fuck. Never mind. I had a perfect... Sorry, I'm'm gonna steal one real quick i just uh it's completely regional and so it's food related sorry i gotta biscuits and gravy don't exist out like they're it don't exist at like fast food places like you you could go to in in morgantown i could get biscuits and gravy at mcdonald's hardy's fucking burger king i can't you can't get that up here like you can get you can get biscuits and gravy at McDonald's Hardee's fucking Burger King I can't you can't get that up here

Like you can get you can get biscuits and gravy At like 50% of the diners that's about it But like it's so weird Like being able to like go to a fast food place And get biscuits and gravy on the fly with some hash browns Like it doesn't exist so sorry to steal that Joey I just Kindred spirits in West Virginia they would be like

Holy fuck you can't get biscuits and gravy at McDonald's That's a staple Yes sir Like Buckley Cakes kindred spirits in West Virginia, they would be like, holy fuck, you can't get biscuits and gravy at McDonald's? That's a staple. Yes, sir. Like Buckwheat Cakes. So I can get Buckwheat up here, though. I can get Buckwheat Cakes up here. I do. How do they make them up there?

Are they a sourdough? I don't know, but I can get them. I've never gotten them, but I can. I go to the grocery store and I go, oh, buckwheat, that's dope, and I just don't buy it. But I can. You should now and report back to us.

I'll tell you how to make them. Message me. Okay. Gosh, these last two are not going to land. Unpaid or My voice is going. Unpaid or... My voice is going. Unpaid or underrated, Robert Stack.

He is underrated. Don't know. Yes. The voice. Oh, yeah, he is. Yes. Got to be the best voice for that show ever has to be absolutely absolutely i know they tried to redo the show and they did pretty good but they like they focused more on like solving

the mysteries rather than like having fucking robert stack who that dude was amazing. Yeah. No, I didn't know his name. I agree. His voice is amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know his name. Uh, he was also in basketball, uh,

and had a brief, uh, comedic role in there, uh, which was, I'm sorry, what did you glaze that at? I think it was a four.

If I had to redo it, it'd probably be a five or wrong. I don't like stupid shit. No, I don't know. One of the the funniest movies even they didn't like making it because it was so funny and they hate comedy alright and the last one probably nobody's going to get until after they hear the whole episode

unpaid or underrated Alan Ald Al and Alda. Al and Alda. Oh, MASH. Oh. Indifferent, I'm going to say. Can't ride the line. Can't ride the line. Not allowed to do that.

Oh, I know. Unpaid. What happened to him? he's a douche you realize no no still you do not realize how much you sound like all in all that do you wow before you get into whatever you're about to say, I'm going to interrupt right now. This entire podcast, I was like, he sounds like Alan Alda. There's no way he doesn't know that. Like you have a very, it's very similar.

Really? Yeah, absolutely. I'm trying to picture it. I know who it is. Oh God. I'm hoping that this does like, that's going to, we're not going to picture it. I know who it is. Oh God, I'm hoping that this doesn't... We're not going to get it right now, but I'm hoping that the people listening

are going to hear this entire thing thinking, his voice is so familiar. I don't understand who that is. And as soon as I say it, I hope they all fucking clue in. Yeah, you sound very Alan Alda-ish. Are you pulling it up right now so he can hear it? Thank you. I've never got that ever. Are you pulling it up right now so he can hear it? Thank you. I've never got that ever. Are you

pulling it up right now, Travis, so he can hear it? I know who it is now. I did not know the face or the name to the face until I looked it up. Oh, yeah, I know. Definitely the whole time I was sitting here listening, going, he definitely sounds like Alan Alda a bit. I don't know if it's a douche in real life.

I don't pay attention to that shit. That's none of my business. More douchey gets to. Screw. I turned into an asshole. See, as you say, you sound like him. I have got more Hasselhoff Hasselhoff look than anything looks absolutely

yeah there's definitely some Hasselhoff there but yeah voice wise I think that's it I think they passed unpaid and underrated we'll give them the thumbs up this week just by the skin of their teeth I hope when this comes out that at it's only one of two ways everybody's gonna go joey you're so fucking stupid he doesn't

sound anything like alan alda and you're dumb and sick and drunk and like nobody cares about you or they're all gonna go but no they'll never tell me that someone will have to put a reel together with the two of them side to side no the discord will just gaslight me the entire time and be like no he doesn't sound anything like that just to argue with you

totally they do as they like well do you boys have anything you wanted to hit us with it kind of already covered mine but it was one of you uh one or both you getting in a strong man i've uh i did a dabble there uh was it the tail end of 2023 there was a i did a charity thing for a you know a local home gym guy that passed had passed away to raise money for his preferred charity. I had a good time.

I'm not opposed to doing more Strongman stuff in the future. It's just my numbers are so bad. And it's not like powerlifting where I can just go out and do my numbers. If you can't hit the opening weights, I'm not going to take a fucking scratch on everything. That's stupid. There's a Strongman show at Home Gym con that i would would be down to do but like the opening weights on overhead are like 40 pounds more than i can press right now i'm like i can't press 220 pounds at the moment i can press like 180 pounds like i don't think that i want to like spend my extremely extremely expensive weekend with the boys like hurting myself because

i can't press this weight and just feeling like shit the rest of the weekend because i couldn't press the weight but uh i've dad i i every time there's i'm gonna look anytime there's there's a local gym that'll that's gonna do like three strongman shows a year basically so whichever one kind of like isn't around home uh the, the lift hard, live easier, whatever other, uh, power lifting meet I do. Um, I'll see if the, the, the novice kind of,

you know, cause it sucks. Cause the one this summer would have been perfect because all the weights are basically like a rising bar. So just jump in whatever you want on like all the events essentially. So, so I could pick exactly what I wanted to do would jump in and just like, I saw my comment dead last,

but I wouldn't take any fucking zeros and I would just feel good about it whereas ones that are just a static you have to lift 250 pounds overhead and I'm like well I guess I'm not the one that one so I see I will do before I die I'll probably do three more strongman shows at minimum I'd have bet because I can see myself just having fun with them but they gotta be like they gotta be fun easy

novice like catered to fucking people that aren't good at strongman or they at least have the option to like pick my own weight but i had fun so yeah the same like kind of the same but a little less like i would just do it right i would go into the open class and like but the last one i was looking at signing up for they were like oh open deadlift is 500 pounds for reps. And I was like, I'm 166 pounds. I'm lucky to do 450 for one.

Like, that's not an entry level for me. Yeah. However, doing the movements and just having fun in my home or going to a gym that does it, that's more likely to happen than me doing a competition. Yeah. Unless that competition is more open to smaller guys like me. And also having Mitch Hooper live within a few hours of me and having Mike Van Wick an hour from me, like having those guys that like have that kind of thing going on in their

gym is more likely to make it happen. Yeah. But eventually, like I said, lifting natural stones is more likely coming. Yeah. How can I travel Ontario? They have a whole farm out in Port Hope,

Ontario, where they just have natural stones and they just have all of these like weighted classified stones that are like in the stone lifting thing of Ontario that I can just go and pick up. I'm down. I'm going to go do that at some point. Yeah.

You guys got a list for us? What do you got? I'll answer anything you got for us. I've neglected this part of the podcast. I'll answer anything you got for us. I neglected this part of the podcast. As charismatic as you are, you can't think of one thing off the top of your head to ask if you want to know, you son of a bitch.

Are you any good at tug-of-war? No. I don't think I've played tug-of-war since Jesus since Jesus no yeah

elementary school I think we I just remember growing up the shit we did in elementary school was so fucking like aggressive and like not accepted today that I remember doing I'm pretty sure we did like tug of war in like third grade and like people fucking like lost

skin off their hands and shit. For the record, Tanner and Tommy would murder us. I don't know what the hell you're thinking. They are seven-foot giants from the Midwest. They would demolish us. I like that you, like, tried to say

they wouldn't. I don't think all four of us could... I don't think the four of us could beatter yeah i don't think the four of us could beat tanner and today we could have you seen fucking tanner's got one foot i think we would whip his ass today okay yeah but in july no oh you didn't okay so you okay so listen when you listen to next week's episode fucking like get ready to puke because it's so disgusting like how it happened uh he essentially was playing basketball was going i think he's going up to rebound or whatever and he's tweeting he rolled it but he didn't like break it it literally dislocated so he said he looked down and his foot was going one way and

his leg was going the other essentially uh and was able to get to the emergency room and it wasn't broke so he's he they they wanted to give him an air cast he wouldn't even take it so i think he just wears a like a heavy wrap during the day. But yeah, he said he literally dislocated it, which has never happened. He said he sprained it like 10 plus times playing ball over the years and stuff, but never dislocated it. So like when he was telling the story, like I someone I've broken my ankle twice and sprained another 10 to 20 times over the last 20 years. And I can like I know how much that hurts. And I couldn't imagine to the point that it's facing the other fucking direction.

So it made my skin crawl when he told the story. But yeah, so that was on the live that I listened to a couple nights ago. So that'll hit next week. But yeah, hopefully, like last time when he got the gout that you also caught, hopefully you don't dislocate your ankle tomorrow. Yes, thank you. Appreciate that. Well, I did almost break my knee last Saturday

in a strongman event. That was really close. Now, worse than breaking your dick or not? It was scarier. I can see, yeah. It was going to be much more life-changing. Absolutely. Yeah, because you can still

go to work with a broke dick, but working with a broke may be a lot harder. For sure. To be clear, the dick still works just fine. It's only caused by I was going to say, depends what kind of work you do, doesn't it? Quite true. Yeah. We have a wide variety of guests.

We don't know what they do for a living. I heard he was sending pics. Yeah. Some of those pictures just cost more than others to see. Yeah, that's true. Want to round this out then? Yeah. Travis, where can we find you, buddy?

You can find it at LiftHardStrength strength club on Instagram or traffic on Instagram. And Stuart, what's your social security number, your home address and your cell phone number, right? You can find me right here in the gym.

Anytime bitches. Awesome. Well, Stuart is on discord, so you'll see him in his, uh, funny profile picture pop up maybe once every six months. So he is on discord.

So don't be, don't be afraid to chat with him on there. Yeah, yeah. That was a good post you guys did last summer. Big Joey, where are they going to find you at? At the usual Joey underscore Malesko or at MostlySquatVideos. That's my new one I just took up. It's doing really well.

Yeah, I just need to somehow monetize it. It's killing it. It's a really good page. I took it over from my friend Matt. He will be here eventually someday, but we'll get him on. Yeah, we've been chatting. It may or may not happen, but I don't know. I mean, it's supposed to happen every week, but I had to have an intervention with him the other day and just kind of figure out why he's bailing on us. Ironically, he bailed on the intervention, the fucker.

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