Unpaid And Underrated - 062 : See You Next Thursday

Episode Date: July 16, 2024

This week Joey and Keith are joined by a gaggle of silly geese to get to know Big Tyler. They dive right into great topics like Pokémon Go, wrestling, crossfit, the color green, do you need a coach, West Virginia, whisky, and of course strongman. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaid-underrated-tee) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest Follow Big Tyler on Instagram @tylerthompson1991 (https://www.instagram.com/tylerthompson1991/) Follow Big Scants on Instagram @Scants1 (https://www.instagram.com/Scants1/) Follow Big Murph on Instagram @observemyexpansion (https://www.instagram.com/observemyexpansion) Follow Big Jen on Instagram @jendamminger (https://www.instagram.com/jendamminger) and @dammjenxo (https://www.instagram.com/damm_jen_xo) 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 Jen, Big Murph, Big Scants, and Big Tyler.

and welcome back to episode part two of the unpaid and underrated podcast we are a podcast by crew for crew i'm one of your hosts big keith joined as always by my buddy here big joey hey my beer was empty i i i threw the koozie away and then somehow put the can where the koozie goes. It was a really stupid mistake. Hi, everybody. And we're joined by a few other guest crew this week. We're waiting for the guests to get on a little bit later. So we got

Big Scants. And Big Christina Murphy. Hello. Oh, she has a first name. I keep forgetting. Oh, yeah, sorry. Sorry.

AKA Big Murph. I also have somebody that, if you guys have been listening to us since we started, there is one name that I brought up several times in the weeks following last year's Lift Hard, Live Easy. And it was somebody that I said i promise i'm gonna get them on the podcast and i feel like a week out from the lift hard live easy next week is a good time to have them on uh they are of course the first non-crew but as soon as you guys know that this is big gen damager who if you guys remember from last year, was a big superstar, one of our biggest cheerleaders, took care of us, screamed for us, cheered for us, made sure we all had a fun time.

And I thought to myself, when I needed a quick surprise, a quick superstar guest, these are the three. Welcome, Big quick superstar guest. These are the three. Welcome Big Jen Dammy. Hey! Hi, guys. I miss you all. I can't wait to see you guys. It's been about 11 and a half months, right? 11 and a half months, yeah. 11 months, three weeks,

right? Some days, maybe, yeah. I'm counting. I'm counting down the days, baby. I can't wait to get yelled at by you again. Big daddy, you got it coming this year, baby. Okay. Big daddy's got it coming. That's it. I only respond to being yelled at. You guys know I'm always here. I'm the biggest cheerleader here, guys. Come on. Absolutely. I can't wait. I'm going to beleader here, guys. Come on. Absolutely. I can't wait.

I'm going to be stuck in a car with you for as much as possible, which I have no complaints about. Yeah. Um, we'll gloss over some of the general stuff just because again, there's a lot of voices going on. Uh, obviously me and scans are both drinking Keith's Keats. And I got a little,

our big 10 in here too. I'm having a little, a little whiskey too. So. Oh, that's the spirit. Nice. Badass. Murph, what was in your koozie there?

This is a Cherry Dr. Pepper Zero. Not as exciting. Still pretty exciting. Dr. Pepper stopped here. But I'm out and about, and I don't want to be stopped by the local law enforcement for walking a boot with a roadie. Yeah, you don't have to cheese it when the fuzz shows up. And I'm an out-of-towner, so they're immediately like, excuse me, ma'am, who the fuck are you? Oh, yeah, I was just sorry you were getting one of your last lifts in, and I'm glad you found a nice commercial gym.

Yeah, it was an awesome little powerlifting club. It was amazing. That was not a... Hold on, hold on. I think Keith is being silly. That was not a commercial gym. It was not her home gym. Anything that's not your home gym is a commercial gym.

A public gym, if you will. No, that was a powerlifting specific gym. I don't think I have a Dan Bell flag to do. Everything's a public gym, if you will. No, that was a powerlifting specific gym. I don't think I have a Dan Bell flag to do. Everything's a public gym that's not your basement or your garage. Oh, hard disagree. Almost everything. I don't know.

I paid to use it. There you go. I don't charge access to my gym. Well, but if she comes to your gym and other people she doesn't know are lifting there, that makes your gym a public gym. No. Jen, you're drinking water over there? Water? Yeah, I'm water.

It's almost 9 o'clock here on the East Coast. I'm ready for bed. You guys caught me. I was in bed, guys. Come on. I had to get up. I had to put my Mastodonics shirt on. I think me and Joey are actually... Twinsies.

Mine showed up today. I'm wearing the big boxy property Mastodonics shirts. Big Tyler's here. Hey, buddy. I love him. We'll get to the guests a little later when we can figure out the mute issue. We're good now. We'll just take care of some issues while we got a nice big round table before we get the guests on the horn uh anybody get a chance to watch last week's episode or listen to last week's episode that is yep everybody uh the we can go through it and do

i don't know if anyone listened to the live episode last night because they actually left it going for about two hours so it was a long one um but they did lift hard live easy preview so definitely got some sneak peek at some stuff that you guys will be able to hear this sunday or monday whenever you catch it so that was really cool to hear uh and then the uh the do you want do you need a powerlifting coach etc you know i don't know i coming from guys that never had powerlifting coaches it was kind of funny to hear them talk about it for an hour i was like i mean you kind of like obviously you're in the world but like you've never had a coach so it's hard to take basically take everything someone says when they have no experience with it with a grain of salt so you know for all that i guess i'll still go ahead and give it five out of five

massonomics ipod touches anybody else murph did you listen to last week's episode what do you think about do you need a powerlifting coach i did listen to it it was funny because they haven't um they didn't have direct experience with coaches but i thought they were pretty spot on like about uh where you might be on your journey that you would want one or need one um i obviously only really know my experience and what caused me to get one. But yeah, I think that, that they were pretty, I'd give them five out of five touches. Five out of five touches, not even massonomics iPod touches.

That's a nice touch there. May or may not still be heavily medicated from surgery. As somebody who has never had a coach and probably should have at some point, I think my favorite thing about the entire episode was that it was just them riding the line from start to finish. And they came to actually no concrete solution, which as much as we say isn't, it is our way. It is the true massonomics way. So I'm going to go ahead and give that, um, five Gregory Duchette powerlifting coaches.

Um, because that episode was, it was enormous. Enormous. Uh, scant. What do you, what are you giving that one, buddy? In your lift hard, live evil shirt. It was a good one. It was a, yeah, it was a good one it was uh yeah it was a solid episode it was you know i i i still think there's semantics between a coach and programming you know to

me a coach is somebody that's there in the scene with you but you know i pay for programming my the guy who does my programming now and then it'll be like hey man shoot me a video let me check this thing try to move your hand like that so give me some coaching stuff. But to me, I call it program. Otherwise, I'm just doing a, if I don't have something programmed, I'm just doing a rich piano, eight hour arm workout. So, but no, solid episode.

I'd definitely give it, I give it a five out of five nice seafood dinners with Dorothy Mantooth. Any day. So would you guys say that like, okay, because they never touched on that. And that's a very good thing you bring up there, Scantz, is a coach somebody who's there from start to finish? They're doing the tap, like tuck in your hips, like a ballet coach where they're like, you know, critiquing your form and critiquing your diet and programming?

Or are they just like programming percentages? Is it not the same thing normally you'd get if you're going to hire a coach they would normally do the programming and coaching side of it is my version of it but it's um it would be yeah they're they're correcting okay that you know like tuck your elbow do this kind of thing there whereas again programming i pay for programming i can i can do my own but i'll just i'll do dumb shit all day long so my coach knows what or my my i call my coach instead of your coach well it's just a common term that i'm in the same boat with scans i feel like i yeah i with the exception of my coach will come help handle me at meets and we'll

do like an in-person like once a once every you know twice a year basically we'll do it like an in-person shoot shit for a couple hours kind of about programming but it's not really like hey watch me squat and tell me how to squat different i've been squatting for fucking you know a decade it's like i'm not gonna change how i do shit now uh would yeah so as somebody who of course uh like i'm a manager of us of a of a kiosk who's owned by a larger business but we we tend to focus more on leadership. Do you expect life coaching out of those coaches as well? Helping you get out of the hard shit, fixing your mindset, or is that not their job?

I think it depends on that person's personality, whoever's doing your program. Interesting. My coach is not my therapist, but he does help me keep perspective when I'm upset about something. Recently, he helped me not lose my shit when I was recovering from surgery and helped me keep some things in perspective. Actually, while you guys were talking, I got the app notifications of the video reviews from my coach for this past couple days. So I'm excited to view those after this. But, yeah, I think that a lot of that stuff is separate. I actually, my coach does my nutrition as well.

But so that adds another layer of, like, I guess some life advice. but so that adds another layer of like i guess some life advice but i think outside of like just keep you know just keep your focus do what you can like i think some of that general stuff is they can help with but you get too far into like your anxiety i don't think they're supposed to no god no i don't i don't have my staff tell me about their life problems or anything. But at the same time, I am the guy that has to be like, well, like, no, like you're here to do sales. So fucking sell, like, let's figure out your barrier to sales and fix that. But I'm not here to be your therapist. That's a good one. My coach isn't my therapist.

Jen, I know that you're not quite in the lifting world. This might be a bit boring to you, but I promise I have some really good questions for you in a minute. Tyler, what do you think of last week's episode? It was good. Backing off what you all were talking about, there is a difference between a coach and programming, and they were kind of running the line. I do agree that as a beginner,

it's probably best just to jump in and go. Instead of paying for a coach and starting off, you need to learn yourself what mistakes to make and stuff. But yeah, I would give it a 5 out of 5 iPod Touches. Nice. Good reading. Outstanding. And Jen, did you listen to last week's episode? No, I didn't. You guys know I'm not in your world as much, but I'm certainly familiar with it. And I personally, from a personal standpoint, I'm a wife to a power lifter who takes this sport extremely seriously. And just, it's an emotional thing as well as a physical thing. If you're emotionally not there, if your head isn't in the game, you know, in that moment, we need to fix that in that moment. I think it's, I think those things go hand in hand, don't fix childhood trauma. But if you're in the moment, and you've got something kind of going on, I think it being a coach being just an emotional support to someone

can can have such positive ramifications, for sure, especially in this sport and what I've learned in the past, you know, however many years. And sometimes being, um, not so much emotional support, um, there is some, um, some value to being an emotional barrier, right? Where I every once in a while have to remind them, I'm like, yeah, shit's going down at home, but you're not at home. You're in the gym, you're at work, let that shit go, do what you're supposed to do while you're here. And then as I build you better here, you'll be able to build yourself better at home. Right? That's how I've always

viewed it is if I can build you a better person, I can build you a better salesman. I can build you a better lifter. I can build you. I'm not a coach or anything but i mean i think the same stuff applies right so all right uh that's that one so just while we have everybody here especially while i have jen and and murph and scantz for the short period that we have them tyler you are still the guest um i just for reference everybody tyler uh wasn't sure he was going to make it so we had to kind of pull an audible and bring in some backup just in case which he did make it

which is a true testament to that power I want to hear just very quickly from everybody on here your favorite memory from last year and what you are looking to make your favorite memory this year. And do you mind if I start with Jen?

Oh my, you got to put me on the spot like that. Cause I have so many amazing memories from last year. Just go. No, I just, I feel like meeting all of you guys for the first time, finally in person, these people I've been hearing about for how long I finally got to meet you guys.

And it was almost better than any, I guess, anything that we probably could have expected. Like I'm in my head, I'm like, we're really about to like go out to South Dakota, right. Spend money that I could maybe use on a trip someplace else. But no, I'm going to the Midwest. And I actually end up having the best time of my fucking life. I'm actually a little afraid that this year isn't – last year was so good. I'm scared this year isn't going to live up to last year because it was that good. to last year you know because it was that good but even just like going and getting like pizza with you guys and having dinner with everyone around the table um after the meet and just like

then going to the zoo it was just like so many good memories so many good ones i i'm i've been excited ever since i can't believe it's a week away i i still tell the story of Chris getting ready for his third attempt. And Jen is sitting next to me and I'm sitting next to the grumpy guy. And, and he, that was something from Everdeen, not big Keith for clarity this time. And Chris is just stressed.

He's just like, I can see him looking at Jen going like, I don't know if I can lift this. And Jen's like, just focus just focus relax do what you can and then i do it i just yell don't listen to her fucking grip it and rip it chris like i'm just overpowering this guy's that did have an i can confirm and i'm just screaming grab it and wrap it. Ignore your wife.

I don't know what helped him more. I'm pretty sure it was you just screaming out. I'm pretty sure that Damien's response to everything. Just scream at him. It's the balance. Like you got the devil on each shoulder. For sure. For sure.

Is there anything in particular you're looking forward to this year? This year I'm looking forward to, so actually work for build fast formula now i'm actually um i run all their socials for them and i have all of them on my on my on my shelf back there i was like i have i have to make abby and nate proud um but yeah i i'll be at the booth this year and we're setting everything up and I'll be getting all their content and everything. And we have a special guest coming with us, which I'm sure you guys know. They announced it in discord. No, they didn't.

That Trey Mitchell strongman. Oh, they did. Okay. I thought it was Chris. No, they did. I was like, yeah, guys, we tried. I tried with Christopher and it's been a rough time it's been a rough rough road right um no but we we did try for christ but try will be there with us too and

try is such an amazing guy so um we're super excited to have him with us the whole team will be there and honestly just going and like working with them and being a part of your guys world a little bit and being there also on a personal note as well with my husband and just knowing all of you guys and supporting you guys and cheering you on like I always do. Honestly, I'm so looking forward to it. It's going to be awesome. And, of course, driving around with the three gingers is probably going to be awesome.

Oh, the three gingers. I can never tell you, Damis, or Ryan apart. Whenever I'm with you guys i'm like oh hi i think i'm pretty sure i went up to ryan last year i was like babe and i was like oh god that's not my husband i'm so sorry because they're all like six like four inches and 50 pounds apart from each other it's like it's like medium big and bigger like Yeah, small, medium, and large. I know. It's insane with the gingers. So, oh my God. Last year, wasn't somebody doing the Pokemon evolution of the gingers?

Oh, yeah. That's coming. Yeah. Yeah, that's coming. We've planned a few things. Scantz. Yeah, the gingers were definitely amazing. I love it.

Scantz, tell me your favorite memory from last year and what you're hoping to make your favorite memory this year. And, it's not going to brunch with me on Sunday. That's a frigging really hard one. Cause it's the, the entire goddamn weekend was just fantastic. Like rolled in.

I rolled in, I rolled into the airport and about two seconds after i rolled in the truckload full of matt sesney and jess and and uh big eddie waffle iron they all come blasting in carrying my cardboard cutouts and we're freaking sitting having a big chat in the middle of the airport at 11 30 at night and i'm like this is just freaking crazy and i get up in the morning i walk into my hotel room and there's freaking Matt mostly squats in the next room beside me. I was like, dude, this is freaking, this is ridiculous, man. But like, yeah, I probably the best was just the whole meet was great.

Low key, low stress for anybody that's never done a meat before that uh there's never going to be a meat they're never going to do meat that's better than that just everybody having fun and rocking and and cracking crispy boys i got president north dakota wrapping my knees i you know it's just everything about it was freaking awesome awesome. Uh, what is going to be the thing I'm looking forward to the most this year? Probably just seeing everybody, probably a Tanner's seeing everybody, you know, again,

low key, but, uh, it's just walking into that arena and for getting into the way of the, uh, the warmup room. And, and that's frigging awesome.

Just going to see everybody from the crew there and then you just you get that normal buzz of apparel to me it's like it's gonna be awesome dudes i feel like it's not gonna be low-key because there's like 120 of us and we all know each other thanks to again the unpaid and underrated podcast we all have some familiarity with each other at this rate that i don't know if it's going to be as low key i think it's going to be generally a bit bigger than it was and i i think that's a natural trajectory low stress low stress low stress is a good word like it's very fun because it's not like you're going to uh yeah it's not like you're going to a function where you don't know anybody

and you got to kind of dance around a little bit you can just walk in and just holy shit dude there's mofo and there's toby and there's all the dudes that i haven't met and you know and uh seeing all the dudes and and chips that from last year and you know i can't wait to not shake ryan's hand so i avoid injury like you know it's gonna be good will he get the most injured award this year though will he i don't i don't think like i'm pretty sure it was built for him his name's probably already engraved in the back see i still think it's gonna be how many he injures i think it's gonna go on how many people he injures i think my favorite scantz memory from last year was up next is timothy scantleberry and collectively at least five of us went who the fuck is timothy scantleberry i don't even answer to that name and then you walked out and we were

like what like i swear all of us everybody that was in my row up because i was up in the rafters of the time was like the what the fuck is that? I've been scant since I've been like 12 years old. Yep. And it's funny when I, when I changed trades there, but 33, 34,

I went from being an NCO to an officer and the officers, they call each other by the first name. And like, cause like Tim and I was like, me. Yeah. You, and I'm like,

don't fucking call me that. It's just call me scant dudes. That's that's don't, I me that it's just call me scans dudes that's that's don't i don't answer to that name man that's i hear that name now if if my if mrs scans is my name i'm like are we getting divorced what's going on why are you calling me by my first name what did i do so you need to call me babe or scans. Take your pick. I just feel. Now, Tyler,

I see you were in the weekend warrior shirt. Hello? Yeah. Yeah. Well, um, so tell us about your favorite memory of last year and what you're looking forward to this year.

I didn't go last year. I figured everybody, I know. And then I was just like, this is going to make me look stupid for a second. In that case, tell me what you think you missed out on last year, and are you coming this year? Yeah. Okay, so let me reframe the question.

What made you want to come this year? Last year, when sign-ups and stuff just happened, I just joined a crew and wasn't really involved that much. And, uh, like, just thinking, like, why would I go to South Dakota for a weightlifting meet? Yep. When you're new to the team, it's nice to meet you. And then that whole weekend, just, like, seeing everyone in the Discord and all the fun and everything came out of it, I'm like, I have to go next year now.

So yeah. Yeah, I'm just excited to meet a bunch of people. I met you at the Arnold. I met a handful of people at the Arnold. But this is a much larger meeting of basically everyone I talk to in the Discord or

see. Yeah, that's mainly what I'm looking forward to, just hanging out and talking to everyone, putting faces and names and stuff like that. And putting in the old vice. Yeah. All right. Last but obviously not least,

Murph, getting your steps in, are you literally just walking a track right now? I'm just walking not in the gravel and not in the mushy fields around me. I'm just trying to stay away from the highway for sounds and away from the birds, of course. I think Scantz is reading something on his phone right now. And I think the other thing I remember from last year

is Scantz having three pairs of glasses. Yeah. He had one on the tip. Two, is it? Two. He had one on the tip of his nose and one on the top of his head. Yeah, one on the top. He was doing a bad look at down on his phone.

It's called style, baby. Read a goddamn book, would you? Get some culture, sweaty. Get that man some bifocal. Oh, I got one thing before Murph comes on. Hi. Hi. One more Mastodonics wife.

Everybody's saying hi to you. She's delivering me a shot. What's going on? We've got one more meat prep. She's bringing me a pickleback because she hates me sometimes. Pickleback. Oh, my goodness. Couples that pickle back together stay together.

Hell yeah, buddy. I still don't even get that. So this is Jen. And I think you've met Jen. You guys should connect. Hi, honey. I know of the rest. Yeah, I think you know Murph and Scantz.

It's so nice to meet you. All right. Yeah, I think you know Murph and Scantz. It's so nice to meet you. All right, so Murph, what was your favorite memory of last year, and what memories are you looking to build this year? I'm glad I got to go last because I feel like everyone else had so many things, and I've now narrowed down my favorite thing to one. now narrowed down my favorite thing to one. So I believe it was the second round of squats of the first flight of the ladies. And there was this woman who I had just met during warmup. And, um, I believe she's going this year too, but, uh, she did her first squat success. And then the second squat, they call her name and she's like oh shit where's

my belt she had set it down somewhere could not find it so all of the women you know like backstage are like trying to help her find her belt and we're like girl you just got to go up there here take my belt here take my belt everyone was like take my limbs take my belt. Everyone was like, take my limbs, take my belt, take everything I own. Girl, you've got to go. And so she's like, oh my God. And she just goes up, no belt. So we're all losing our minds. Like, holy shit. Like go, go up, up. And she gets it. And like that collective, like on second squats of everyone losing their mind because she went up and did it anyway we were like hell yeah and it really like set the tone for this group is awesome like everyone was trying to help everyone was invested i had never even met her before like an hour before that

and like my life was on the line when she gets on you that far it was really like it helped set up the whole weekend of just everyone was in it together and we just everyone wanted everyone to do well so i thought that was awesome who was that was that welder corn now is as janine i think janine because i remember that. Yeah. I think she had set her belt down over by her chair or something. So after her second was successful, we're like, girl, do not lose your belt. Hold it. Hold it.

So you're not going to go anywhere this year to hide her belt after her first attempt, just so you can relive that experience for everyone. Oh my god. It was heart-wrenching. We were all losing our minds. And then

this year so I think that well, I'd like to go nine for nine as I did last year. That was dope. But outside of lifting I think this year I actually want to live slightly less easy.

If you know, you know. Thank you, Scantz. Hold on, I think I still have scars on my hands. Oh my god. I don't know what you guys are talking about, man. Everybody just had a good time. What happens at the meet,

you know, the weekend. What happens at the zoo stays at the zoo, I hope. Including my DNA. I think everyone's just like having a good time. Actually, this year, I'm most looking forward to watching the Strongman event after instead of just like going straight to eat or whatever. I think hanging out with everyone after lifting and just watching the Strongman is going to be awesome. The Strongman is going to be frigging ridiculous. Yeah.

Yeah. At that point, you're going to see all the Uber eats coming in and all the food deliveries coming in because all the power lifters haven't eaten all day. Oh, the place is going to smell so bad. Yeah. We're all like a little drunk already because Lou's already got the fireball

out and we're all just like, okay, we need food and we need to get ready for Strongman. I don't think Lou's going to be there, boss. I was going to say, is Lou even going to be there this year? I mean, what's all said and done, if fireball comes out, you know it's Lou's fault.

I was going to say, it's Lou's fault, right? Someone just bring the fireball. No fireball for me this year. No fireball, no froggers. That's the rules. No buckets of beer to you and you only. Yeah,

there are going to be, uh, for anyone that didn't listen to the, basically I was able to listen to the last night's preview. So there's, I think Jake knows whoever, uh, I was like one of the,

someone that runs the zoo and they're gonna have two two signature cocktails specifically for crew uh don't recall what they were um but yeah that's the thing so keith yes sir so keith your favorite memory and what you're looking forward to this year uh i still think Pounders was my favorite because when I first met everyone, I think I'd met Tanner and Tommy at the Arnold prior to, but other than that, I met seven or eight crews as soon as I sat down.

That's when I met the Damagers and Ryan and Big Dave and Katie and a bunch of other people. So Pounders will be never replaceable just because it was my first experience with a dozen crew in the same spot. And I like just a chill setting. So that'll always, I think for the next decade, I still think that first Pounders trip might be my best memory.

As far as this year, I think, yeah, just doing the Strongman competition in general is going to be intriguing and enjoyable. Also, I'm looking forward to meeting a ton of new crew. So I think there's going to be about 115 or so of us with some drops in the powerlifting. And we're looking at, I think, 72 currently out of that 110 are going to be active Discord members and supporting crew. So, you know, that's pretty sweet. Pretty excited to meet about another, you know, at least 20 or 30 of them that I haven't met yet. So that'll be fun. Keith, with that list, do you have like, do you know the full roster?

So the I got that list from Tanner today. Like, so before I just had like a running list, like I literally like screenshot the roster of the powerlifting meet and the strong man and then like copy the text out of it. But even that wasn't up to date, even from like a couple of weeks ago. So then one of the, one of the, in my, in my journey of trying to get people to submit these, I got a little bit of pushback. And so someone made the comment of like, well, there's like 80 you didn't get. So what's not getting mine going to matter.

And then I was like, well, I'm pretty sure I actually have like 75% of the actual crew. And then come to find out it was about roughly around 60%. So pretty happy with that. And I've got, I've literally got like eight new videos today after being able to actually track down another dozen people, you know, still waiting for Tim's video. You'll get it. You'll get, you know, one of the worst part, man, it's been pissing rain here, right? I need, I need sunshine.

I'm not doing a garage video man whether it's the sun brother come on it's all good but i hope everyone's been enjoying those it has been a fair amount of work just coordinating it all um and trying to i'm the whole point of it too is i'm not just doing it so people can share it to their own wall the whole point was to put it all in one place so then people can go follow that person like if everyone follows our podcast and then they can go follow these other people that they don't follow. Then I put it in Discord and then I literally fucking tag everyone's Instagram. If you're not going out of your way to follow

all these people, then please do because it's the whole point of the whole process. I think they're great, man. Everybody's own little take on it. Alf did the actual... The Ruth roof the real road technical road and like but everybody's i'm freaking enjoying the hell of them man they're

awesome but my wrestling promo was stupid like i just was like well why don't i go and try and it it ended up working out um so uh jen it sounds like you're getting ready to hop off um good night we can't wait to see you in a week and um in one week guys it'll be here before you know it yeah i i do i'll be there cheering everyone on i do want to get you back on at some point maybe if we do a review podcast or something again uh you're such a big character you're so much always here yeah yeah i most of my memories as much as i hung out with all of these people most of the memories of my lift hard live easy were with you because you were well joe we were in the front row and we became best friends like let's just say and we had to fight the guy next to you the grumpy man next to you so

i hope there's no way he even listens. And if he does, he's not showing up again, like go sit in the back fucking weirdo. But either way, thank you for joining. I was hoping for sure, guys. Thank you so much for having me.

Thanks so much. Listen, I'm going to see you guys on a week and it's going to be crazy. So everyone get ready. Yeah. You're ready. Where do you want them to go? Follow you.

Want to go over a bit, build fast formula or your personal where? Yeah. If you guys them to go follow you want to go over build fast formula or your personal where yeah if you guys want to go over follow build fast formula or just Jen Davenger for my Instagram and yeah I'm always I'm always up to support you guys that's why I got into build fast and I love

Nate and Abby and they're they're amazing and we're all going to be there we can't wait to see you guys we have lots of good stuff for you guys awesome well we'll see you next Thursday Jen sounds good I'll see you guys. We have lots of good stuff for you guys. Awesome. Well, we'll see you next Thursday, Jen. Sounds good. I'll see you guys next Thursday. Thanks, Jen. Bye.

Bye. Well, I think that kind of rounds out the general topics. Now, guys, do you guys want to stick around? Stick around for a little Strongman talk, if that's all right, boys. Absolutely, because you know more than I do. Yeah, I'll go Strongman strongman I'm gonna go eat alright Murph we're gonna kick big Murph off

make big Murph where should they find you at on the old Instagram observe my expansion alright well thank you for hopping on and we'll see you Thursday thanks so much Murph honestly thank you again for joining us at such a short notice. We really do appreciate that. Thank you.

Yeah. All right. Big Tyler, is that you? Oh, yeah. All right. You are live on Unpaid and Underrated, the podcast about crew for crew by crew relentlessly mocked by the davids um i mean we've got a few things to talk about here uh so let's kind of dive right into the what you said you were kind of new to crew about the time of the last lift hard live easy how'd you get here uh i i think i joined last january i can look on the discord and see for real but uh i first found my synomics probably i think the 2022 uh arnold like i saw their booth

like this is some cool shirts and stuff and i've seen their uh their Instagram pop up on my feed every now and then. I think from that, I started listening to the podcast and then following my Instagram and stuff. About a year into listening, I joined the crew and been here ever since. I dig it.

Where are you at on the podcast? Are you a backlog man? Are you just a 2022 to current kind of guy? I wasn't a backlog guy Until they started this Hall of Fame stuff And I'm about Yeah, I'm on I think I'm like around episode 90

Nice But I think I'm But I listen to like around 300 and up And then from like 1 to 90 nice but i think i'm but i listened to like around 300 and up and then from like 1 to 90 so there's about 200 missing i still gotta go uh you'll get there the funny thing about that uh the quick little sidebar is like do you think they noticed an influx of like i'm not really sure i mean we literally run a podcast i'm not really sure how the numbers and the algorithm and shit works but like there's got be at least, I don't know, 50 to a hundred people that have been listening to the backlog to some extent,

you know, in the last couple of months since the, you know, since the hall of fame status came out, I'm curious if they've actually seen any kind of boost in their numbers or if it's, if it's so small that it's not like trackable, but that would be intriguing to find out. Yeah. I don't know how that works or in the podcast i don't know if it will like show up more or not um but i know like just the other day someone was talking about their own episode like 88 so i know there's a couple of us are about on the

same path going right now nice uh and just for clarity uh what's your name what's your name? What's your Instagram? What's your Discord? All that. Big Tyler T. Tyler Thompson. Instagram is Tyler Thompson 1991. And in Discord I'm Big Tyler T. Nice. You touched base on the Hall of Fame status.

Do you know offhand where you're at on that? How close you are? I'm at I think six right now i think after next weekend i'll be at 11 which kind of sucks but yeah thanks you couldn't uh in word you're including us in that already too yeah okay yeah so how then you got to figure out if you can weasel one more out of that because you can i think if you get the 12 you get some kind of you know you get to join in on a little ceremony that weekend.

So you'd be close. Just start listening to podcasts on two X speed when I sleep or something. I mean, nine X speed. Actually jump on some speed and then listen to it on speed. Just blast right through. I wonder if you were coked up, could you like,

and then you did listen to shit on 5X, could you perceive shit faster? It doesn't work like that, right? No, I don't do cocaine, so I wouldn't know, man. No, in general. What is the show? Skitch and Retired. Tell us all about it.

Hey, man. Cocaine's a hell of a drug court rick james uh that's pretty funny um okay so by 11 like what would be the one you're missing because some of like some of them are layups right like 10 yeah it's the two year I'll be missing is like the big layup one and the part basically the lesson is kind of the one a lot of people have

for me the two that were impossible to get me to 14 were the attend crew falls and be a supporting member for a certain amount of time and I was like well yeah i can't fight time like i genuinely can't do that i joined in this time of year i have no choice but to wait i could attend crew falls but that would only give me one more and not get me to the next level so i was just wondering what that was get enough whiskey and you can fight anybody yeah i don't yeah yeah i don't really do

that i'm a powerlifter it's the whiskey doing it i'm a powerlifter i can't fight i keep hearing that on the internet um all right so genuine question i mean you you joined massonomics just over a year ago okay so you come in and you got your you've got the weekend warrior shirt which i assume you got at the arnold no i got it this was like the first massanova expression purchase i did so i think i was listening to it to the podcast at this point but i hadn't joined crew yet when i bought this okay so is there something that you wished you owned yeah it's well it was a crispy boy banner but then they brought that back recently i snagged that and it's the uh the huge life t that one comes up a lot and that one has been kind of readily available so

yeah if you're listening yeah buddy and huge. And huge life. That's the big ones. They dropped it for like two years ago for black Friday, but we literally bought this house, like that moss. And we're like, it's hard to tell. Yeah. It's like, I need,

I need $45 to buy a shirt. Honey. I'm sorry. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, go ahead, Keith.. I'm sorry. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, go ahead, Keith, because I think the next question is you. Yeah.

So we'll get into a little bit because you and I live in the same place a little bit. We can probably get into that a little bit later. But I'll go with a little least fun, most fun. Least fun, most fun. I'm familiar with this game where I'm just going to give you a topic and you tell me the least fun thing about it and the most fun thing about it uh so just strongman competing in strongman uh lifting strongman etc sure man most fun is i would say there's two things are the most fun would be the uh just the people kind of like powerlifting like you're new so you'll kind of see it like there's been times

where i showed up to a contest and never touched an implement and like the people i'm going up against are like here like this is how you do it this is what you do stuff like that and just a variety of events like no two strongmen show are the same there's dozens of different events you can do. Least fun? Probably just... Sometimes you just get in that grind, which I'm sure that's anything, but going to the gym four days a week and just that grind can get on you hard. That would be the least fun part.

Doing the same thing every week for months. Can't you just offset that by having different implements and shit like i i could see that being the the least fun thing about power lifting because it kind of has become that yeah but like this past year when i qualified for the arnold so i qualified in october so from november to March was nothing but Arnold prep. So nothing but those implements for three or four months. I see. Is there an, I,

sorry, scans, Tim, look at me, look at me addressing you. I'm just saying you like, I know you, uh,

is there like a version of strong man where literally you just like train to be strong and pull off any implement or does it is it well specific yeah well like tyler just said there i did a i did a comp last last winter i three of the five implements i never touched until literally they said athlete ready so it's about you know and tyler probably tell you too because stuff sometimes you show up at a show and they had to change an event. And so you're ready for it, but, you know, boom, and now you're not doing stones, you're doing frigging pick an event, right? So you kind of got to be prepared for anything.

But like Tyler was saying too, you train up for comp coming up, but it's shit can change the day of. So you got to be just generally strong. for comp coming up, but shit can change the day of. You've got to be just generally strong. There's a big movement of people that are like just be strong and the events will come. In Strongman, there's two things

of doing a lot of event-specific training and just getting strong and getting to know the events basically. There's a give or take there. I, I would love an event where it's, I think mostly squats,

Matt had one. It was, um, it was, um, five events that they didn't get the events till the day, but they knew it was going to be kegs. Yeah.

That's all it was. And they, and I'm like, that's frigging awesome, dude. Like just being straight up strong and, and you know, Hey,

we're doing weight over bar nope uh actually we're gonna be doing pick an event man that's kind of og world's strongest man stuff right yeah yeah the arnold did uh like there was a mystery event that wasn't told to us till two days like two weeks before the contest. And my coach from West Virginia, he used to put on contests. Like one of the events was always a mystery event that you would hear about the day of the show. That's dope.

That's dope. How's your cardio training for a strong man? Uh, I mean, you had now, now you have to be a cardio heavy, uh, strong man kind of pendulums between super strong and cardio more,

and we're definitely on the cardio side. So, I mean, I'm not going to be running, like, miles, but, like, I'm carrying sandbags for max distance or stuff like that. That's my biggest fear of getting into Strongman is I just don't have the cardio conditioning. And I said, no, i mean i it's of genuine fear like everybody's like joey like you do want to get in a strongman you can tell from everything i say and do but god i don't want to do cardio at all but i kind of understand i

have to the worst the worst thing is you just gotta think of it this way, is most Strongman events, you're just going all out for a minute max, maybe 90 seconds max. And that's it. That's how much cardio you kind of need. Oh, good. I'll let my wife know because that sounds about perfect. I did pick up that Inukshuk bag. I can't wait to fill that. Should I do that with a pea gravel or sand there, Scant?

Jesus, Murphy. My ears just bled. What was that? Do you think it'll handle my pee? Well, because I've got the 150 one from that other brand here in Canada. The Grain Strength. And I could just move that into the other one or should I just fill the

inuksuk with sand? Sand, baby, sand. It moves different. It handles different. That's fair. And competition probably uses sand, not pea gravel, right? But again, just, you know, it comes down to the event. If it's loaded up with pea gravelGrabble shit, dude, you just got to pick it up.

Just be strong. You just got to pick it up. Just get strong, stay strong, and use your strength, right? Yeah. Okay, so. Not called weak man, right? So, yeah, it's not called smart man. So, least fun, most fun, Pokemon Go.

Oh. I was just starting to by the least fun now. I was like, it's been basically the same game for, I think, eight years. They just had their eight-year anniversary. And honestly, I'm probably just playing it now just because I've played it for eight years and don't really want that to go to waste.

When it first came out and stuff, it was the most fun was just walking around like, oh, this Pokemon popped up here, this Pokemon popped up there. I remember the first month it came out,

we were at the high school because a Gyarados popped up and the cops came like, what are y'all doing? They're playing Pokemon Go. up and like the cops came like what are y'all doing we're like oh they're playing pokemon go like i i when i first started playing because i'm when it first came out i was playing as well um and i distinctly remember being told by like random strangers like just don't play that like that is china tracking you they're trying to lay and it would like it became like that was the

least fun aspect was just hearing people tell you the stupid things not to play it for so i actually gave it up for like five years and picked it back up about a month ago um it's guitar i think this week's a big event yeah so for me it's a new game altogether right because I haven't seen any of the changes that you've kind of seen rolled forth so yeah I just picked it back up and I'm suddenly having all these new evolutions and all these new fun things sorry boys what was

the new thing this week Pokemon Go no we said there's something new news on it this week did I hear that right? it's their birthday oh okay okay

and Scantz is like shit I gotta get out and go catch some Pokemon no no my young fellas have been getting into that with Mrs. Scantz there a little bit so I just hear of it I'm Pokemon adjacent the reason I gave it up was because i moved to the country and i don't walk anymore i drive to everywhere i go but now that the kids are old

enough i can drive somewhere and walk with them and show them hey i'm gonna let's have some fun let's go to this and then and then so i restarted doing it again oran's amped about it and that is one of the reasons right is just like well if the kids are excited i'm excited again so yeah it's their big birthday event all the pokemon have stupid hats um and there's a lot of weird raids going on in some gyms if you can find them yeah it's like i i don't know when i quit playing i probably quit playing the games around black and there's like so many pokemon now i'm like where what like what is this well i played the game before this one right because there was ingress yeah i played very briefly right i was playing it and a lot of the stops are the same and a lot of the gyms are

the same that kind of thing i think when it first came out it was like a copy of it and grace well it was the same company they just overlaid the ingress thing and added pokemon yeah and uh yeah i played that for a little bit because that was kind of cool but then like you know it was it was the first ar game it was the first kind of gps tracked game so i was like cool i'll get into pokemon because also like i'm kind of into pokemon not really but the first wave at least so i thought i wanted to ask about it because it came up a couple times in your notes keith yeah buddy so i did want to touch base on uh where you're so where i i know you lived in west virginia for a period of time are you from west virginia yeah yeah i'm from uh southern west virginia uh boone county okay ever seen the wild one for whites that's my hometown

yeah yeah yeah good old jessica it's just is jessica still alive yeah i think it's got to be fucking old because that was that was like mid early it was like mid 2000s when i think yeah like semi internet famous by just being fucking hillbillies and shit so yeah i think that movie came out when i was still in high school gotcha so uh we you and i have a little bit of um i guess uh i don't know what the word for being we basically went to the same school briefly um probably about a decade apart i'd imagine but i i did one year at fairmont state right out of high school in 2004. Nick, you were there about a decade later?

Yeah, I went from 2010 to 2015. Nice. You played college football there for the Falcons? Oh, yeah. Nice. Good stuff. Then you ended up in Morgantown for a while after that, too? Yeah. You lived in Morgantown when you went to Fairmont? No, I lived in Fairmont just for football.

You had to be at the facilities at like 5 a.m., so there's no living anywhere far away. That makes sense. Yeah, after college, I moved home for about a year and a half and then got a job at Milan there in Morgantown. Worked there for about four and a half years. Now, did you leave because that's when Milan kind of shut down? Yeah.

Milan, for anyone unfamiliar, was a big pharmaceutical company. Are they actually still around or not? Or did they just close in Morgantown? So they actually combined with another pharmaceutical company to create Beatrice. And like when they did that,

that's, they shut us down. So around, there's like other plants. So they absorb Milan and then shut down Milan and Morgantown. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Cause Milan, Milan employed hundreds of people at extremely thousands. Yeah. But I mean, if you wanted to get way i wouldn't say overpaid but there was a lot of people working just on a factory floor making 30 40 bucks an hour like working on a conveyor belt kind of thing so yeah that was crazy money uh and i know i had multiple people that i knew that i went to school with that had like careers there you know just as like industry level positions and then when that job went to school with that had like careers there, you know, just as like industry level positions.

And then when that job went away, they're like, how do I pay for my $400,000 house with like not a transferable skill? So that was, uh, I'm glad you were able to assume you rebounded and landed somewhere else. So you're not in West Virginia anymore, right? Where are you currently at now? I'm up in Michiganigan i uh work in i live a little north like about 45 minutes from north of ann arbor but like i work in ann arbor that's kind of a haul to drive or do you get to work from home a lot uh no i drive it every day

yeah that's uh why and it just you just want that that's where you guys wanted to be and you were just committed to being okay with the 45 minute drive, or it was just kind of the house came first and then the job came. It was kind of basically like, this was the house we wanted. So I can deal with the drive. How far are you from a Dodds? Dodds is over in grand Rapids. so an hour and a half-ish.

You're only an hour and a half from Dodds? Have you guys met up at all? No, we've texted. I've seen him around at different comps. We've texted a couple of times. We just never got together. There's a chance I'm'm gonna end up there soon so that might have to be a that might have to be a uh 49th parallel crew meetup go lift his rocker

actually he sent me a message and he's like hey there's a name missing from this rock and i was like well yeah but like I don't get vacation very often. We go to Columbus and then to Aberdeen. You said if I come, I have to press it. I can't just lift it. How much does it weigh? I don't know. How heavy a natural stone do you think you can... So if you had to shoulder and press a natural stone,

or is it a natural stone or Or are you talking about an Atlas? It is a natural. So what do you think? I've never tried. Well, what's your axle or log overhead press? Like 300 or something? The most axle I've did is 365. Jesus.

Okay. Barbell is 385. Oh, damn. Have you ever pressed an Atlas Stone? I know that's a thing sometimes. Yeah, but lighter. I've got one here at the house that's like 190,

I think, I pressed. I feel like it shouldn't be a thing. Pressing an Atlas Stone just feels weird. Speaking of Strongman, there's an old clip. I think it was a world strongest man back in the day but one of the events was atlas and press and the guy would just like press it and basically drop it and bounce it and catch it like right here again oh that was um how the hell's this oh my god it wasn't novakoff it was um

no was it eastern european guys yeah he was bouncing it off the floor and catching dude that was that was freaking dope that was awesome that is intriguing yeah strongman is big like if it doesn't specifically say in the rules you can't do it you can do it so there's a lot of times like you'll see people do these like cheats or whatever like stuff like that like bouncing the stone back down and catching it it's the airbag rule and we didn't say we can't you couldn't do it yeah and then the next contest will be in the rules that's the airbag rule there's nothing that says dogs can't play oh yeah i thought i misheard you for a second uh yeah we just got jake just updated the the strongman maybe two days ago with like kind of a bit more breakdown of like the official rules because we were training our deadlifts like with uh well chris and i thought it was going to be a up and a down command on deadlifts because

it just has a train them here um and do their comps here um so knowing now that i can just touch and go my fucking deadlifts it's just going to be like well that's i mean i have to wait for the down command but then i'm gonna bounce that fucker as hard as i can it's a fucking rep contest like i mean yeah like you have to like if you're you're fucking yourself if you i mean unless somehow bouncing it like kind of fucks up my rhythm i'm gonna figure that out and warm up i'm doing my max i'm doing my my last deadlift tomorrow so i'm gonna practice fucking you know more of an aggressive kind of just down and up down and up uh we'll see but yeah it's when you when you know, you train it one way and then you find the rules kind of right at the end, you're like, oh, okay, I guess I got to switch this up a little

bit, but it's all about adapting. And I'm, I don't know, I'm still, I'm still getting there. Always train harder and then the contest will be easier. Yeah. I need to at least have one session of like specific though. So what brought you for, I mean, we got a little bit of your lifting program and it turns out you were in CrossFit for a bit.

About three years. Yeah. Probably over three years. So you left the cult and came to the strong man to join another cult, which is the crew. Like what was, what was appealing about that? CrossFit. Crossfit is skinny strong man

yeah it's but um basically i was actually prepping for my first powerlifting meet i was going to do a powerlifting meet. I was doing Thor's program that they sell shit you buy. And then COVID happened. And I did nothing for like six to eight months. My girlfriend, she'd been at CrossFit forever.

And eventually it was just like, I can't just stand on the couch anymore. I had to do something. So I started going to CrossFit with her. And it was just like, kind of reminded me of being back at like football, just like you go to class, you have like your friends there,

everyone's cheering each other on. Like there's that camaraderie part of it that I really liked. And you show up and like, they basically tell you what to do. There's no, like, I guess like now I have a coach that does the same thing, but like, there's no,

like just lifting on your own, doing whatever you want to do. Like you show up, here's, here's the wall. Here's the strength part. Here's the wall. Go.

And that, I just wasn't cutting it for you. Uh, no. Well, I started doing strong man. so i won while doing crossfit i won two strongman contests and got second to another and people were like hey you could actually be good like if you actually do this full-time because at that time i was doing the CrossFit four days a week and like training

strongman on Saturdays it was basically what I was doing and then yeah eventually I was just like okay like I'll just dive headfirst into strongman which talking about conditioning I think CrossFit like doing CrossFit all that time like I'm 400 plus pounds and like my last comp people are like surprised at my conditioning and stuff and i think crossfit like did a lot for that it's against you still do it scans did you ever do crossfit uh no look i to me it's like what we do at work it's it's just exercise it's random exercise i've been doing this since i've been 17 so and somebody threw a label on us 15 years ago but it's you know we do the same stuff we come in on a normal morning stuff and the boss is okay we're gonna be doing sprints and this and lifting logs and doing all okay man whatever but so no i don't do to me crossfit is the

competitions the rest of it is is you're just exercising and that's there's nothing wrong with that that's fine but you know but it's yeah it definitely builds up a good conditioning base that's what kind of gets a lot of the power lifters if they don't do you know if they don't do any conditioning work at all so but yeah i think it fits in well like tyler was saying with strongman because you uh you know events are 60 to 90 or 75 seconds long at the max so you know it's like running i don't have to run 10 10 kilometers i just got to run 100 meters and you know i can chase you down 100 meters if you can make it to 101 meters you'll live to see another day but uh you know that's the old prey runs and predator sprints type of thing so you just got to beat me to 101 meters

but if it's funny you'll see a lot of the skinny guys get quite surprised i work with a lot of high high level runners and they're like holy shit you're fast and i'm like just for 100 meters dude yeah but all right um tyler do you have uh have you so how long since you've done crossfit then like since you you know since that was your regular training uh last june is when i started with my strongman code oh jesus damn that's so this is new new okay yeah so you were like and so you were about a four so you were legit doing crossfit at 400 pounds or you've like bulked up kind of uh i was when i was doing crossfit i was 360 370 damn and have you have you really done a wad in the last like do you still like observe like the you know the murph and stuff and all that like the uh no i i didn't do no i don't do my rf or anything

since then my coach uh coach for conditioning he's giving me a couple things where i've texted like this is a crossfit workout just like barbell complexes or like 100 meter like 100 meter like run into like a sandbag stuff like that gotcha oh yeah that's that's impressive that's that how how tall are you for perspective also uh six three okay so six six three 400 pound fucking that's that is uh that's that that's a that's a tank bug boy that's that's good. You're going to dwarf some people in pictures. You're probably going to be the biggest. I think you might be the biggest guy there this year. Bryce might be taller, but you have him on weight.

Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm sure a couple people are. I know a couple people are taller. I don't know who's showing up. I'm definitely the biggest, bigger guy. Yeah, I don't yeah i don't no strongman's gonna be fun it's gonna be sorry are you shooting to uh now with with lift was it it's iron podium can have you like scoped out anything can you can

you like click on someone's iron podium and like see their history like you can't open powerlifting or one of the premium features things it's one of the premium so yes but it's one of the premium feature things? It's one of the premium. So, yes, but it's one of the premium features they just, like, released the last, like, couple months. I don't pay for the premium, so I don't know. Bill, then, basically, have you scoped out your competition at all? And, like, where do you think you stack up on that? Do you think it's going to be a cakewalk, or you got some guys who can give you some run for your money? I think I'll win the log but then like i was messaging jake the other day and the log is fine but then the other three events are basically conditioning so it's i might be stronger than some of the other people but can they are they more conditioned than me so i think that's what it will come down to

what did they up your deadlift for reps for two was it like six something now or i think it's 635 okay and then how how heavy is the stone for the big boys uh 330 now for for reference what have you done like for the 300 and 330 pound stone for reps before if you don't have to give it well this will come out before the pod oh i i mean i don't know i haven't did it i've uh i've did like a 300 sandbag for like eight or so reps before that's a lot fucking harder than a stone it honestly the only time i've touched i've only touched stones for one content like for uh nationals last year. Like this will be the first time I've ever used tacky. Oh,

okay. Have you trained? So you're going to go into it without training for it. Or did you get a couple of sessions and training with it? No. Damn. Okay. I've only used it twice and it greatly varies brand to brand.

From what I've noticed, I use some different, I think I use spider tacky more recently it was not sticky and like it did not work as good as the other stuff i don't know the name of the other stuff players got in trouble for yeah so i think uh yeah that's that'll be intriguing to see how you uh how you handle the tacky but honestly yeah we were allowed to use spray tack, which is just the spray adhesive that like doesn't really last. Like it lasts like for two or three touches of the stone and then it's gone by then. So, yeah, I'm interested to see how the tacky goes.

Scans, you got any tacky advice for him? No, I'm actually I'm the same, dude. I got I got two comps coming up with stone runs and it's my first, um, my first comps I've had with stone runs. I've had a couple with stone to shoulder, but they've all been no tacky. I've just used a tacky cloth. So I know that, uh, I do got to do a bit of digging because of like with Cerberus has like four grades of tacky that they're very weather dependent and some are for colder, some are for hotter and stuff like that.

So I just, again, got to do a little research and, you know, see what's what. Tanner bought a bunch of tacky. Yeah, he did. He did say that. So yeah, Tanner has stuff there. He'll definitely have sufficient or proper, proper tacky for the environment. So it's, it's, it seemed like such a small thing. have sufficient or proper tacky for the environment. It seemed like such a small thing, but

I remember listening to Mitch Hooper talking about how one of his world's strongest mansions, he fucked his stones because he had the wrong tacky on. That's every year. Every year someone loses out on the stones because of their tacky. Bobby Thompson did a couple years ago.

Yeah, that's right, yeah. I forgot who it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so... I have a few different, like, let's get away from some of the sets and raps talk here. I want to hear about your relationship with this guy, Mike.

With what? With Mike. guy, Mike. With what? With Mike. Oh, Mike? Yeah. Is Mike bizarro-tronned to you? You got him thrown out of a bar. Oh, shit. Like, there's a few...

It genuinely comes up a few times. I forgot about that. Like, this Mike guy comes up a couple times. I forgot about that. Like, this Mike guy comes up a couple times. What, like, what happened? Did he do one? He was supposed to do one. I don't know if he did. He might have submitted some stuff.

The bar. We were out at Mutt's, if you know where that is, Keith. Oh, yeah. We were out at Mutt's. If you know where that is, Keith. Oh, yeah. We were at a Mutt's just hanging out. And for whatever reason, it was winter. Tommy was wearing a jacket.

Huge mistake. Yeah. I rushed over and grabbed the bar mat and threw it at him. I said, put this in your jacket. And he was holding it. And the bartender turned around and saw him holding it and kicked him out. That's funny.

Yeah, that was tough. Was Mikey able to keep the bar mat, though? I don't think so. I think they made him do it better. Damn, Mike. Come on, Mike. Jesus. Come on. bar mat though or I don't think so I think they made him do it bad damn Mike come on Mike come on there was another time where

he was like I think he cuddled my toaster one night cuddled your toaster yeah just asleep on the floor with my toaster for some reason is that a euphemism euphemism euphemism? Oh, that's not it. I can't say that word.

There you go. That's a word. No, it was... I woke up and he was in the kitchen laying down with my toaster for some reason. That's great. Technically, that's just a low grade electric blanket, is it not? Yeah, you just toss that under your blanket,

hit go, just don't take it in the bath. So maybe up me in Scant's alley, I also hear you enjoy Letterkenny. I do. What do you like about Letterkenny being from so far down south? North? West Virginia is not south. FYI, West Virginia is not south. Of me?

Where I grew up was. Well, yeah, that's true. Yeah, I guess. Letter King is just hilarious. It's Trailer Park Boys mixed with Parks and Rec, basically. Just like the dumb one-liners. I advise anyone that watches it, watch it with subtitles, because you'll miss so much that you don't make it.

That's a good idea, actually. Welcome to the master's life. Do you have hockey players or something in your history that like, it just made sense to you? Who makes the most sense to you in letter? Kenny? Most sense to me. I mean,

they all, you can, all of them. You, you know, people that you can like relate to them or you are them, basically. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, growing up in a small town, that's basically any small town you grew up in.

You have the little cliques and stuff like that. How about Shorzy? Have you gotten into that at all? Stuff like that. How about Shorzy? Have you gotten into that at all? Yeah. I haven't watched the newest season. I think it just got released here in the States.

Yeah, it did. It's a must watch. Yeah. I'm up to date besides that one. That season. Yeah, I think we found Letterkenny right when they first put it on Hulu I think there was only two seasons and we must have rewatched those two seasons like 10-20 times

oh wow damn absolutely I've seen every season multiple times I think there was a couple more seasons out that we were like getting on these random websites that had them because Hulu didn't have them yet. I'm honestly more fascinated

about you liking Trailer Park Boys. I find that just such a niche thing. Oh, no, I don't like Trailer Park Boys, weirdly. I tried. I gave it a try and that wasn't my cup of tea. It's totally niche. It's so East Coast.

I grew up with people like Ricky and well, uh, the actor who plays Julian has a pizza shop, like a K kilometer and a half from where I grew up. Like they're from my area. Okay. So it's, uh,

you know, everybody in there is, that's why I thought you were saying you enjoyed it. I'm always fascinated when somebody's not East coast. Well, I tell people to watch a letter, Kenny. That that's why i said it's trailer park boys mixed with it's always sunny basically did you guys get corner gas down there at all i don't know what that means oh that's a me and scans question for sure isn't it that's yeah it's pretty niche well no corner gas did go down to the states and had some success

corner gas takes place in i want to say alberta or saskatchewan and it's a small town gas station and it's just the most sarcastic and weird people and it's it's funny that letter kenny blew up and that one kind of only blew up um so maybe that's your next step there is check out some corner gas not sure it's it's on the same silliness as letter kenny but it is definitely up there i'm also not a huge fan of china park boys um i just don't understand it's that weird like it is a documentary but isn't a documentary i don't i actually don't like anything about any of those mockumentary shows i don't like parks and recs i i kind of don't like the office because it never really explains why are you recording these people and i for some reason hate it like spinal

tap made sense because spinal tap was a documentary about this fake band but like these shows they weren't so I just don't get it I just genuinely don't get it unless it's the episode about Conky which the Conky episode is literal insanity for half an hour and fucking Conky

the fucking Patrick Swayze that's the funniest shit. I just don't get it. But that's just me. I'm not funny. All right. So that's my letter candy question, I guess.

So I hear you make small chairs from matchsticks. Tell me about that. Is that a thing you actually do do we do do we get bad notes again by the look of your face i think you got bad notes or it's just something i'm not thinking of you've maybe it's like you just drunkenly at a bar make a fucking chair with matchsticks or something like i don't know someone said it i don't okay we're we're also working with it with a new note format so maybe, it was definitely from this week so I don't know, that's strange I understand you don't like anything green

what the fuck I'm allergic to chlorophyll really though? no but yeah no, I don't eat anything green it's disgusting

not even pickles? Especially not pickles. What the fuck? Pickles are nasty. What? Yeah. It's green jello. It's pure electrolytes. It's just straight out electrolytes in your face, actually.

What plants crave. Yeah, it is what plants crave. I've been eating so many pickles. I think I went through a jar this week just because I just need the electrolytes leading into the meat. So if you get a sandwich, you legit make them not put

lettuce and stuff on it? Or do you just take it off? If I get a sandwich, it's just meat and cheese. Maybe bacon or an egg or something like that. Word. Not even spinach? No.

Okay, what's your least favorite green thing? I mean, they're all your least favorite. Pickles is your least, but that doesn't count. That's like a condiment. What about a sweet pickle? I can actually smell, like if you open a jar of pickles

I can start coughing. They're so bad. I just bought a thing of the sweet pickles that have the cauliflower and the onions and shit from Bix. And I bought it knowing full well I'm the only one in the house that will eat it.

I like sweet pickles. Yeah, that's mine those are mine the kids won't ask me for them if they see me open it they won't go near it but kosher dill pickles they're fucking all over them now do all chemists not like green things or is it just you i think it's just me okay i'm just a weirdo um is there anything you want to know about your your job or anything it's up to you to talk about it as little as you want. Yeah, no. At Mylan, I was a quality control chemist there, just testing.

When I worked there, Mylan was the largest world-dose tablet manufacturer in the United States. So basically, I would test the product to basically that it was what it said it was. You go and buy 200 milligram ibuprofen. I tested to make sure there's

200 milligrams in there, stuff like that. On insurance type of stuff? Yeah. Where I work now, we're doing more extractables and leachables. insurance type of stuff? Yeah. Now, where I work now, we're doing more extractables and leachables, which is say you have an IV bag.

We test to make sure that the drug product isn't mixing with the plastic of the IV bag and nothing is coming in or out of it. Stuff like that. that's cool does your uh does the name tag on your white coat does it say big dog or tnt uh it just says tyler okay okay neither of those were uh are either those nicknames you actually like hear on a regular basis or is that just just something randomly from somebody? TNT, so

I was born in 91. My parents named me the very unique name Tyler at that time. There was four other Tylers in my class, so just growing up, I was always like Thompson or TNT, because

my initials are TNT. Gotcha. It's dynamite yeah so obviously and then my girlfriend always makes fun of me because she's like no matter where we go like people just walk like what a big dog or stuff like that that's that is you are the beam yeah like yeah like we're at nationals last year she like this like she loves to say that like we're at nationals and like the guy was like letting everyone in the door and i go come on like welcome he's like oh come on big dog like she's like you're the only one he said that to like just stuff like that funny what is crushing it is that i i it

came up under things you hate and things you love and i don't know what the crushing it is that i i it came up under things you hate and things you love and i don't know what the fuck it is all right this is another mike thing so i don't know when 2017 18 i don't know i don't know when it was we uh went to my friend joe's house to go to medieval times because my other friend's house to go to medieval times because my other friend chance wanted to go to medieval times for some reason. So that weekend Mike just started saying crushing it. So like the whole weekend, we're just crushing it.

Like you sign my beer, crushing it, anything you did, crushing it. And it just became a verb gotcha so is that something that uh when you see him it still kind of is a thing or is it just yeah basically every time we get together it's like we're crushing it good to know um what's your i he i have you uh have you been able to break past the 800 pound deadlift someone said you're working at or was that is that yeah last meet i hit 825 jesus damn

that's that that's raw that's like not in a suit for anyone listening like that yeah that's a big not suited just uh like, belt, and strap. So can we do the breaking news to let everyone know that you're going to be also competing in the deadlift only at Live Hard, Live Easy, and you're going to go pull 850? Is that a thing? I don't know if I could do that without straps right now. Oh, okay, okay, okay. So that's good stuff, though. But you did that in a powerlifting meet. You did 825-ish.

No, that was Strongman oh okay okay yeah most powerlifting i did i think was 705 what's your um i only asked this because i saw one of my buddies the other day pull like 600 i think on an axle and it was crazy to see the fucking bar i mean it's an actual bar so there's there's there's less than zero flex so yeah have you uh have you had much experience like doing heavy deadlifts on an axle again and compare like a whippy deadlift bar i hit 795 on an axle that's impressive i think the world record didn't only like 950 or 925 or something i don't know if you go actually it's from um the regionals i did like two like the south carolina regionals if you watch i have it like to my thighs and i take two steps back and then like plan again and like finish it out

nice um yeah how like a lot of people talk about whip and i'm just a kind of grip and rip kind of deadlifter. So like it's helpful. And like, I guess it just feels heavier on a straight bar compared to like a deadlift bar. But like, I don't think there's that it's like that crazy of a difference. Nice scans. What's your axle deadlift look like versus your power,

your, your, your deadlift bar deadlift, give or take. Oh God. axle deadlift look like versus your power your your deadlift bar deadlift give or take oh god but it's the funniest thing because again it's uh all my axles been off uh block so gotcha it's like there's it's when somebody says how much is deadlift it's like what way it doesn't but but it's it's kind of uh it's the funny one where you don't you don't hang your hat on a number because it's like again you know the guys you know like you guys say oh yeah and an axle is no whip but it's like well it's no whip but it's also pitching you forward a little bit

a couple inches uh forward more than a regular pole yeah because it's you know like 50 inches or 50 millimeters 32 yeah so it's uh 27. That is. It's like, I had my max, what my max pull in a comp with a, with a powerlifting bar is 501 or 502. But then I did a, I did a trap bar deadlift with a fucked up hamstring about four months ago. And I hit four 95 for 17 and 60 seconds.

Nice. But it was, but it was a trap bar. So I could kind of scooch forward a little bit and make more like a little bit of squat than a pole. So, cause my hamstring was fucked, still fucked,

but it's, uh, you know, so it's not, it's not a very direct correlation with stuff. So it's kind of, it's kind of fun that way. That's the best part.

That's a little bit strong, man. It's all, all you know what's your one rep max like well which way you know yeah people ask like what your max or something is like i haven't i haven't had that in a contest in a year so i don't really know last time i did it was this i do want to say like do you want my best or what i could do today yeah like people ask my deadlift i'm like you want axle trap bar regular bar stiff bar like yeah totally i i don't do that but my max i like would your deadlift well my max is 470 a year ago what could i do today comfortably like that i could tell you right now if you hand it to me i could do um yeah completely different question uh i want to do an fmk can i can i hit him with an fmk i actually have two i in a rare occasion yeah in a rare occasion i have run with it so uh fmk

charmander squirtle or bulbasaur oh this. This is a kid's show, isn't it? With all those words. Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasaur? And I want to say a point. I'm going to get right out here. I actually just finally evolved all of those

to their maximum within the past two weeks. I still have my original Charmander on Pokemon Go untouched. I have my original Bulbasaur. CP10.

Let's see. Mary Charmander is the best no matter what. Ever since I bought the game in 96, 97? Like, I had, on the original blue version, I had a Charizard before I even got to the first gym because I didn't know how to play the game.

If you remember, in the original, like, blue and red, you had to, like, go get the Pokédex, take it back to Professor Oak. Oh, I didn't know that. So I just stood there and fought level 5 people forever and got a Charizard before I figured out how to

play. So marry a Charizard, fuck Bulbasaur, and kill Squirtle. I always liked... If I played, I normally played Charmander. Every now and then, I would do Bulbasaur and just Squirtle. I don't know.

I feel like Squirtle was always everyone's favorite. The water Pokemon, I feel like always get a lot of love. So I just shot away from them. Yeah. Okay. So second, FMK is going to bore the shit out of david's hulk hogan macho man and roddy piper so okay you're a little before like obviously i know Obviously, I know all of them, but I don't know none of them. But if I had to say, well, marry Macho Man,

fuck Roddy Piper, and kill Hogan, just because of everything that came out, and supposedly how big of an asshole he really was. It wasn't just him, but he basically destroyed WCW. I know it wasn't just him.

Yeah. Like, Rusev and a lot of things happened. Kevin Nash had a huge hand in killing WCW. Yeah, you had the Faker Pokedome and all that stuff but Monty R my generation and I concur with your with your assessments straight up

I would actually turn that and I would marry Roddy Piper I think Roddy Piper I read his book watched his movies I saw everything about him that dude was that dude was legit like he was just legitimately hard and he actually his first wrestling match was here in i think mississauga actually right around the corner from us um he was homeless here in

hamilton and toronto and his first match was in mississauga i want to say so he's like a hometown boy right like he was born and his family was born in over in scotland came here all that kind of stuff um so you know there's a bit of that local connection but at the same time like you just watch the stuff that he did like when he punched he threatened to punch out bill maher because bill maher was like oh wrestling's fake and he was like yeah sure let me show you and he pulled down his pants and was like yeah this bruised hamstring that I've been sitting on for three weeks

yeah that's real fake isn't it buddy right like Roddy Piper never held back and I think if more people knew the real Roddy Piper I think he would be higher on the list for a lot of people Hogan yeah he for a lot of people hogan um yeah he had he has a lot of issues but again he was famous for a long time

yeah yeah out of those three piper is definitely the one i know the least of but like i i do know i've seen some of his matches and stuff i know of him yeah but like he's definitely who i know the least of out of those three genuine tough guy genuine like strong tough feared in the locker room kind of guy Scant you got something you want to say? no I don't

it's a hard one between Hogan and Savage and Roddy it's a hard call either way Hogan yeah fucking kill Hogan yeah I agree actually it was funny today my kid had a play date It's a hard call either way. Hogan, yeah, fucking kill Hogan. Yeah, I agree. Actually, it was funny today.

My kid had a play date, and they want a fist bump, right? The five-year-olds now, they want a fist bump, but they want to punch you in the fist. So I said, hold on, stop. I taught them the too sweet, right? So I'm teaching five-year-olds to too sweet it's a gentle touch and you go too sweet and every kid in the room was like that's the best we're gonna do that forever and i was like yeah you carry that on forever no more punching people no more high fives where you hit people

you too sweet very gently right and i hope it goes on and they go into kindergarten next year and they all too sweet each other. And they go, where'd you get that from? And the big dumb lifter, Noren's dad. I've got, I've got an affinity.

I think I've, I've shown it to a bunch of the guys. I've got a poster in the garage gym. I got to see Randy wrestling in 78. Yes. When I was eight was eight yeah in a local arena him and his brother lanny poffo and yeah so he's uh i've got an affinity to the macho man so same same love macho man love them both same actually actually read the macho man book bought the biographical dvds and everything all that kind of stuff, but I think if you

look into the people, you would see that Roddy Piper was probably the most stand-up. He had, obviously, back in the day, it was like the 80s, so shit was weird, right, with his half-black face and all that shit that he did to try and be

a nightmare, but I think if you were looking into it, I would marry Roddy F. Randy and kill Hogan any day of the week. Do a little Mount Rushmore?

Yeah, do it. Yeah, you got it. So I'll give you a topic and you're going to tick your top four things of these. So I'm going to throw you a topic, and you're going to tick your top four things of these. So I'm going to throw you a little curveball from what I submitted. So I want to hear your top four or your Mount Rushmore of regional foods from West Virginia that you can't find in Michigan. Oh, definitely.

I mean, you've got pepperoneros on there. Absolutely. definitely I mean, they've got pepperoni rolls on there they have things similar to them up here but they're just not the same yeah, a pepperoni stromboli is not a pepperoni roll yeah, exactly let's see I'll put Tudor's up there

I don't know if a specific biscuit I Tudor's. I guess you can have it up here, but I never see anyone. My grandpa loves squirrel gravy. You don't see that up here. Even though... Everyone has their own little area, but like you have to have a,

like a West Virginia dog. They have hot dogs up here that they love up here. Like Coney, I think they call them Coney Islands, but they're not West Virginia dogs. And what do you consider a West Virginia dog for the listeners? Uh, so your,

the most popular options. Yeah, I'm not, I don't take the screen things on it so i'm not a fool oh yeah you wouldn't like the coleslaw would you no i wouldn't like the coleslaw worst yeah coleslaw makes west virginia but west virginia dog is what um dog mustard sauce and coleslaw yeah well we're the only ones that do chili right, too. If you've noticed that. Everybody else is fucking meat sauce or hot

sauce or chili with beans. I'm like, that's not fucking hot dog chili. So West Virginia is the only place to get a good hot dog, in my opinion. From living in Fairmont, I was right in the middle of those hot dog wars. So that's middle of those hot dog wars. So that's great.

I'm three of those answers. Basically. I was definitely, I was essentially fishing for, for some very pepperoni roll, a hot dog and biscuits and gravy or biscuits of some sort. So the fact that you hit three out of the four on that, I'm pretty stoked.

So that's good stuff. Scancer, anything in those notes you want to touch on before we move on to some unpaid on him? Any questions you wanted to ask him? No, I think we're good. You guys are taking it all, man. I'm just...

Give you a chance to ask him anything if you wanted to. We'll be a little short on our whiskey talk. Are you rye whiskey or bourbon or... Bourbon. A lot of ryes have that dill note that I'm not a big fan of, but

when I make cocktails... Yeah, like dill. Like wet hay dill note. Especially young ryes will have it. I use ryes mainly for old-fashioned cocktails. Yeah, mixed drinks.

If I'm having just whiskey neat, it's normally bourbon. Dip my toes in scotch, Irish, single malt. Yeah, buddy. Now, did I hear you mention wet hay? So is your hay in the barn? Do you still have a couple more sessions left? I was supposed to have a couple more sessions left, but I don't know if those are going to happen now.

So it might be in the barn. You can tell us to just move on, but did you want to tell me? Do you know what's going on with your leg? I just have a – yesterday I woke up with, like, woke up with a headache and some body aches and a fever. Last night, the fever broke, and I felt pretty good today. I got home from work and switched into shorts and looked down. I just had this rash on my leg that I'm not sure how it got there or what caused it. I just went and got some antibiotics.

I actually texted my coach. He's like, any updates? I'm like, just got some antibiotics. Coach, you're a programmer. Coach. I think it's 90% of my lifts. Nice. Well, we hope everything gets...

I just want to go back to the whiskey thing here so you don't like like the grass flavors or the earth flavors so like like island scotch whiskeys are not for you

I don't mind like earthy flavors but like it's just like like pickle dill like it it tastes like you're drinking like a pickle dill

and like I don't think I have ever experienced that in a whiskey what's the brand that you would say would have that the one that like was strongest to me was one of the uh high west uh i think they're rendezvous where i like had a like i gave that bottle like i gave that bottle away because it was just so bad to me. One of my friends came over and was like, Oh, this is good.

I'm like, yeah, here, it's yours. Okay, yeah, okay. I was just concerned. Laphroaig is one of my favorites, actually. I think you were saying something scant about Laphroaig. It's made from the peat moss yeah no scotland and i was like that's the best fucking scotch i've ever had and i was wondering if that was the same thing yeah not i think you're talking kind of that wet hayish kind of uh yeah it's smell yeah given the

amount of grain that's in it yeah yeah i'm tracking what you're saying versus the earthiness of the peak yeah like i'm not a rye dude i don't like rye. I find it kind of harsh. No. I have a couple. I'll drink Arkbeg. I have most of the Nick Offerman

Laglavugan. What's your go-to bourbon? My go-to? Elijah Craig, probably. Elijah Craig Toasted. two bourbon my good uh elijah craig probably elijah craig toasted one of those two like if i'm just having a pour it's probably gonna be one of those two or like wild turkey one at one just something nice and easy like i have bigger better ones but like if i'm just having like a pour it's probably gonna be just one of those how do you feel about buffalo trace it's good but fucking severely overrated right now i like in my living room i have a decanter and it's just full of buffalo trace when i i think when i first discovered buffalo trace because we don't have a lot of bourbons obviously i'm not

in fucking kentucky so like um when i first started having like bourbon Manhattans, I do prefer my Manhattans with bourbon. Yeah, definitely. Buffalo Trace was the one up here at least. Yeah, when I started getting into whiskey, it was like. 2017, 2018, somewhere in there. And like it was like right

at the beginning of the boom, COVID destroyed the whiskey market. It destroyed it. At that time, you could basically walk into any store and Buffalo Chicks would be there. Eagle Rare would be there. Blanton's was a little harder.

Amortili was harder. Those are now none of them you can find unless you know someone or it's Teely was harder, but those are now none of them you can find. Unless you know someone or it's... I don't know. I still have bottles, but I don't

go hunting or look for anything really anymore. Alright, that's fair. Unpaid non-rated time? Yeah, let's slide into that. So, Big Tyler, we have this game we came up with all by ourself. It's extremely original.

It's called Unpaid or Underrated. Some people get it familiar with, or some people get it confused with overrated and underrated, but it's not that because, you know, here it's unpaid or underrated. So, anything you don't really like, go ahead and say unpaid. Anything you're a fan of, underrated. That's how we like to play it here. So I'm going to kick it off with three that I picked out. Let's go with...

It's funny, Joey, just type the same one that I had. Don't do it! No, that's fine. I'll save it for you. Hit me with... What do you think about Yeti products? Unpaid or overrated? Oh. Underrated, sorry.

Honestly, they're very very expensive but I would still say I don't want to ride the line that's hard I would say underrated like yeah like there's all the whatever like my like $9 Walmart one does the same thing but like people

make fun of like I have both of the Yeti chairs I got like I'm going to like i have both of the yeti chairs i got i'm like i'll i'm gonna bring him this next week to the comp but like i made a match text are they no i bought them i think i think it was three hundred dollars for like the foldable chair or for one no one which everyone's like oh that's crazy and then like my girlfriend's dad literally bought about like two for his family last year because he's like every year i spend 40 buying these chairs that don't even last this summer like the chair i've had i think i've had for six seven years now and like he's holding up going strong like yeah they're expensive but it's like one of

the things like you get what you pay for basically yeah like do they have a good warrant uh did yeti are they like known for a good warranty at least i think they're like 10 year okay they have a warranty i don't know how good it like what it is but like do i need a cooler that holds ice for a week. Probably not, but like sometimes it's nice to have. So even though there might, they might be overpriced, you're still going to go with underrated. That's good. Good to know.

I've never really, I don't, I think I've ever used a Yedik product and really don't even use the knockoff stuff. So I have two chairs, four coolers. Damn. And then.

Do you have about $3,000 worth of Yeti stuff? I've got a coffee mug, and I'll tell you right now, it has been my go-to coffee mug for two years. Oh, yeah, countless mugs. Like, I don't... We have so many mugs, because that's the go-to thing for work and places now, to give you a branded coffee mug now.

I would love that. I would love if anybody gave me a coffee well like going back to like getting like the cups like i've had ice in my coffee or my like cup i left in my car all day in the summer it came back there's still ice in it like i have to i have to fill my coffee mug when i wake up i have to fill it with coffee and then go do all of my morning stuff and then it's actually enough to drink it to get to work because it just it is it's if i put that lid on immediately i can't drink it for half an hour to an hour because it does it just maintains it so well so i bought my grandpa one for christmas one. And he's like, I can't use it because I'll just burn my mouth.

It doesn't cool down. Yeah. They are top quality. I don't expect to do everything. All right. Number two for unpaid or underrated. I'm going to hit you with so many good ones. Let's go.

You lived in Morgantown for a while. So I'm hoping you frequented this establishment. What do you think about Gene's Beer Garden? Gene's is definitely underrated. My girlfriend, we talked about it, we didn't frequent it enough, but we went

every now and then. She actually lived a block away from it. I just want to tell people what Gene's is real quick. Sorry, what? Do you just want to tell people what jeans is real quick? Jeans is like... So Morgantown is a big college town, sort of where WVU is.

And jeans is in South Park, which is the neighborhood where the locals live. And it's just a small local bar. They serve hot dogs. They do i have a cold beer hot dogs there yeah i've been i've been i used to go there for we would skip school because it's right next to morgantown high school so we'd skip school and go eat lunch there yeah uh and it was great because you could i mean i wouldn't well i might have had some beer i i did drink a lot of beer underage there but not necessarily in high school but uh yeah it was just it was my favorite dive

bar it was like the first my first experience of like being like you know like 21 working construction and like going to the bar at like five o'clock in the afternoon and drinking three or four beers and then like just going you know eating dinner there because they had hot dog pepperoni rolls and shit and then just going home going to bed at like nine o'clock and getting up 5 a.m go to work again like that was like my first like i'm just one of these old old i was an old man at a very young age going to the fucking the dive bar uh but yeah so jeans underrated glad glad i'm glad you caught that and that you actually knew what that was so that makes me happy um i'm gonna round this out with another more uh you got tons you can do no no i know what I have. No, no. I'm just prefacing it.

It's another regional unpaid or underrated topic for Big Tyler here, West Virginia native. So let's go with Sheetz, the gas station Sheetz. Sheetz is the most underrated. I would kill for Sheetz up here.

When I worked at Mariah Lynn, I worked third shift and I lived off Sheetz because it was the only place open for lunch. Lunch was like 2 or 3 a.m. without going downtown. It was right across the street. For anyone that's not familiar with that, Sheetz is like, it's your Buc-ee's,

it's your... What are all these other big gas stations? It is just a massive gas station that has like full service food kiosk inside and to me that like growing up like they always had a key like it was always you go up and you fucking did like the touchpad kiosk since like the early 2000s and i was like my first experience with that and i was like this is amazing like i can order food i'm gonna talk to people and i can like customize the shit out of it and i can do it while i'm drunk at 2 a.m like this is is fucking great. So I always got like a steak,

cake and cheese bagel with like, you know, lettuce for Tyler and like, you know, onions and mushrooms and shit at like two or three in the morning on the way back from the bar. It was fucking delicious. But they also just had like, you know,

the full, you know, you got all your drinks and your chips and all that shit. But it was just a reasonable priced gas station that had 30 fucking pumps. You never had to wait on a pump. I think there's like five or six of them in Morgantown now, probably. At least there's three.

Sorry, I'm going to jump in. What do you mean a kiosk? It's not a restaurant? Sorry, I know I misspoke. It's got a touchpad thing at a food counter. There's like five touch pad thing at a food counter. Like there's like five touch pads and then, you know, with the food counter behind it. And it's just like,

you don't, when you order, you don't talk to anyone. You just like, yeah, hit the touch pad, but it's like a sit down restaurant. No,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, it's a gas station with just to go food. Sorry. So you get sandwiches and fucking fries and,

but they had like a pretty in depthdepth menu for being a gas station. I mean, there's more people making your food than there are checking people out. We got a thing down here called Big Stops, and it's a big gas station chain. It's large pumps and all this kind of stuff but they've got the big the big stop restaurant and it's you know like your blts and your fries and all that kind of stuff but it's it's um a normal restauranty thing but kind of that gas station chain so i've never i've i've never seen that concept of a kiosk type of things well our costcos are like that now skits yeah yeah so it is like that and then you know your your your number comes up and you know it's it's fucking it's great but yeah if anyone's traveling and happens to see a sheets give it a listen or

you know give give it a give it a chance because it's going to be a hell lot better than 90 of the gas stations out there. All right. I'm going to hand it off to my co-host here. Let him round it out. Okay. I got a few. I might do four. I might do five. Let's see how this goes. Scantz has one you can jump into, bud. Sorry.

Unpaid or underrated. Actually, yeah. Can you send a screenshot to Scantz? Yeah, let's see. Yeah, yeah. and then he can... I would love it if he joined in on this. Unpaid or underrated? Bush Light. Bush? I would say Bush is overrated.

Really? Bush used to be like the... Like four or five years ago, I would say it's underrated, but now it's too popular, I guess. So, yeah, I would say it's underrated, but now it's too popular, I guess. I would say Bush is overrated right now. It's fine. You'd say unpaid, then? Oh, yeah, unpaid.

Yeah, it's fine. I'll drink it, but I'm not going out my way to drink it. I think it's just the hipstery thing to drink now almost. Like everyone is drinking Bush now, I feel like. At least around where I'm at.

So you prefer Miller Lite? 100% Miller Lite. I heard you can crush a ton for no reason. Or as a good reason. Back in my prime all right um unpaid or underrated the grizzly peak brewers company uh grizzly as we heard i would say underrated. They own a couple different breweries around Ann Arbor and Michigan as a whole, but one of

them is the Grizzly Peak owns Blue Tractor, and they have fantastic barbecue for a brewery. I think it's like three to six is happy hour, and it's half off all drinks and appetizers.

Oh, nice. Just can't beat that. All right, then. Let me knock that one off. Unpaid or underrated Lunchables? Severely underrated. I grew up on Lunchables. When I say I grew up on lunchables when i say i grew up on lunchables i ate a lunch bowl every day until like high school and even in high school i probably ate most of the days

into college how many lunchables do you have to eat in a sitting to like like intake like a full pack i honestly haven't had a Lunchable in a while. I used to just eat one back when they were... They used to be a dollar. Five for a dollar. You couldn't beat that for the pizza Lunchable.

Crush them. I've got one more, then I'm going to pass them on to Big Daddy. Unpaid and underrated tequila. That's severely unpaid. That's right up there with pickles.

Have you ever had an Anejo tequila? Where it just tastes like sauce? No. I've had it in drinks before, but not straight up. I'm not kidding. There's been two times where

I took a tequila shot. It was my first drink of the night and I threw up. Yep. That tracks. And there's been times like I would open a bottle or smell it, start gagging. But, like, I can drink, like, I can down margaritas. But, like, just straight tequila for whatever reason.

Was that a bad experience? No, that's the weird thing. Like, I never really had a bad experience with it, which doesn't make sense. I would put out the challenge then if you get a chance to try an Anejo tequila. God, if I can remember the name of the brand, they make this really good one. But it's like you have your white, gold, and then you have your brown, or as most like to do it, like the silver, gold, and Anejo. Or as most like to do it, like the silver, gold, and añejo. The añejo tequilas, they generally just taste like scotch.

Except there's no sugar, right? Because it's made with the tequila plant. So you have like six of them. And you're like, oh, I feel pretty good. But you don't realize because there's no sugar in them. So that might be a challenge there. When I see you in a couple days, we'll do one of those.

Alright, if you want me to throw up at the zoo. I do want you to throw up at the zoo. It's you and Matt now. I have the challenge now. Last year, Matt, who, again, will mostly squad videos. He wanted to be here. Again, he's invited to every single

episode and just bails on every single one of them. Wait, he wasn't on? No, no. I thought he was on. No, he said he was going to be on and then he bailed the last minute. When I had this last second, like, we don't know if the guest is coming. Can you join? He was like,

fuck you guys. I never want to be on your podcast. So no, he was like fuck you guys i never want to be on your podcast so um no he was not here um he said to me last actually he actually tagged me in discord and was like you're not fucking out drinking me again this year and well we're gonna see because i don't think i out drank him last year at the zoo i then went back to the hotel and drank way more than he probably did. I think he out-drank everyone Thursday and Friday, for sure. We were hammering some shit

before we went out to eat and then before the zoo, too. We were loaded up. We were loaded up. We were full. I'm going to give the last two to Big Daddy over there. Big Daddy Scants. You got the last two unpaid and underrated, buddy. Here's one I got.

It's always funny for me just with the different age groups to hear somebody's overrated and underrated. Blink 182. Let me think how to say this. Right now, I would say unpaid. I love Blink-182. I listen to them still, but

they're... Everyone loves Blink-182. Everyone listens to them now. That type of thing. I would say right now, they're definitely unpaid. You mean like their old stuff now or the new releases they had in the last

little... I haven't really even got... Their old stuff is definitely overplayed. I haven't got really into much of their newer stuff. I think the last album I bought was the one with

Tom came back, California. No, I'm always curious with that one. I like Blink-182, but I like the old stuff. I'm not much into the new stuff. I came into it when I was older, when they were coming through and all this kind of stuff

so it was when people oh these guys are the punk guys I'm like I grew up on Sex Pistols and Clash and all this kind of stuff so to me they're a little more poppy than punky type of thing there so but I'll throw one more

sorry? They were one of the better concerts I've been to. It was All Time Low, A Day to Remember, and Bleak 182. I was in the pit for that, and that was fun. So to keep capitalizing on the music one, I'm going to throw the last one. Taylor Swift. Underrated. My first concert was Taylor Swift Underrated My first concert Was Taylor Swift

Nice This was what 09 10 So it's country Taylor Swift That was country right Yeah that was country Taylor Swift That was

I don't know what album. I can't think of what the album was. It was like... I think it was called Country Taylor Swift, wasn't it? It wasn't the Red album. I think it was before that. Maybe Speak Now. I don't know. Yeah, that sounds right.

My mom bought tickets because she loved Kelly Pickler, who was one of the openers and then got better tickets and it was just like here you can go so yeah my first like big concert that wasn't like at a country fair or whatever it was taylor swift still play myself like still listen to her um again, mainly her old stuff, especially Country Taylor. Until 1989 is about when I stopped really listening to her new stuff.

But yeah, my girlfriend would laugh because her and another guy at the gym would know that I had the radio when Taylor Swift, Blink-182, Disney songs were coming. There's this guy, Peyton Parrish, the radio when Taylor Swift, Blink-182, Disney songs are playing.

There's this guy, Peyton Parrish, who does Disney songs but Viking style. I was just blasting that at the gym. No, that's it. That's all I got, boys. I'm carry- on, lads. Uh, quick follow-up. We were talking about country music concerts. So, do you like your country music concerts where you can actually listen to the music and enjoy it?

You just want to listen to a bunch of assholes scream and hoot and holler and ruin everyone's experience? I want to hear hooting and hollering. I want to hear it from the band. I want to hear it from the crowd. I want to see line dancing. Yeah, a little A, a little B. Okay line dancing. A little A, a little B. Okay.

Yeah, a little A, a little B. Countries are definitely wild. I think the crowd is obviously not as wild as punk or any of that stuff, but it can get crazy sometimes. For sure. All right. Well, you did pass. That's's good so we can air the episode as they say and that's where we three of us

we got through three of us so hey can't complain so this is where we kind of you know balls in your court if you got anything for us great if not you know wherever we go yeah we're talking about morgantown you were there i would say like the peak of morgantown you have any 97 to 2008

oh man i don't know a lot or downtown because you're there like when slayton all them were there yeah like watching the uh i only went to a couple i i went to two gay i so i blacked out going to one game i never made it to the game like we pre-gamed at my brother's house for against syracuse i think in like 2005 maybe um i completely blacked out uh it was like one of my first like yeah don't because i was uh hanging out with some like my brother was like six years older so i was partying with like his like mid 20 year old friends and they actually have good weed so being drunk and good weed for the first time you just i woke up four out like i literally i remember this was like pre pre like being able to get online and shit so i remember waking up at like

11 o'clock and like having to text so much people i'm like did we win the game like what happened it was so but it was random like i woke up like what i felt like was completely sober i probably wasn't but like i was good enough to, just get up and go finish my day. Um, and another time, I don't know, but, uh, just being and being living in Morgantown was fun, but it was, uh, you know, so I was going to college parties from the time I was like 15, 16 years old, which probably isn't the best thing, but like, you know, just living in a college town was crazy. And it's weird just watching it like completely deplete, you know, just living in a college town was crazy. And it's weird just watching it, like, completely deplete, you know,

for the three months of the summer and actually being able to get across town in 10 minutes and not a half hour. Yeah, we always hope things were gone. But, yeah, watching us be, like, literally, like, a couple plays away from playing in the national championship, that was just hard. That was so heartbreaking. I always joke, um,

my, my favorite, my, well, my favorite part of living in Morgantown. So I lived on a route 73 or, you know, so the Goshen road exit basically. Okay.

Yeah. So, and I was, you know, this would have been this, you know, at that timeframe, there was two strip clubs on that road.

So I always used to say I lived on route 73 between the two titty bars. Cause I really did. Cause there was one about a mile in one direction and one in a mile in the other direction. So living between two strip clubs was just like, it's how I described where I lived growing up. So, so that it was,

uh, but yeah, I really did. Uh, you know, I, I'm always forever grateful to Morgan. Dang it.

That's where my, my, you know, my, my wife is, it was, I was a man and she was a student. So yeah, if it wasn't for West Virginia University,

I would have never met Stephanie and I wouldn't be here. Yeah, we would – I lived there four-plus years and we never really went to games. I maybe went to two or three games the whole time, but we would tailgate almost every game. There was a bar about half our way. Like, 10 minutes before kickoff, we would just go to the bar and, like, watch the game there. Nice.

Yeah. What I do miss, like, if people don't live in an atmosphere where, like, the whole state, more or less, outside of, like, the real southern people that are, like, right in Huntington for Marshall. Yeah. Like, 90% of an entire state cheers for this one sporting team. So they have that many, like hundreds of thousands or two of people to all be an alliance on this one team. Like,

cause we didn't have a pro team, you know, like it was, it was, I didn't, I didn't know that didn't exist until I moved away. Like, I remember I saw it.

The thing about like Joe and Sk I guess I don't know, the blue lot is the main parking lot where everyone tailgates. It's right outside the stadium. It's actually the hospital parking lot that they shut down for games so people can tailgate. All they gotta do

is just close down visiting hours. That's right. They don't need visitors. They need access to the football game, right? Exactly. I know if I'm not feeling good, the first thing I want is a football game. Or it's his medicine. There's another hospital on the other side of town.

Yeah, go and send them to RGH. Yeah. Fair much. Yeah. Good stuff. What else you got? So, Joe, you did your Live Hard, Live Easy thing was

a promo. What's your favorite promos of all time? How many do you want? Let's go to Matt Rushmore. Let's go to Matt Rushmore. Do you want a Matt Rushmore? Yeah, let's go to Matt Rushmore. Matt Rushmore wrestling promos? Oh.

I mean, cream of the crop. Yeah. Like, absolute insanity. What the hell were you doing, man? He was pulling out creamers out of his fanny pack. He was putting him on but then he had the best line and i swear the best line in wrestling ever on what did he say he said on balance off balance it doesn't matter i'm better than you

and that's like what the fuck are you talking about? But it was so perfect. Yeah. Oh yeah. Definitely cream of the crop is on that Mount Rushmore. Um, like, do I go things that made sense to me or things that were like the biggest in the industry?

Um, it's classics. Yeah. Uh,per smashing um uh smashing god damn it what's his name with the coconut yeah i know i'm i can picture the guy i mean we can't fuck him he's he had killed he killed somebody so'm not going to say his name. But he smashed him with a coconut. And then it was just like, when you change the questions, I change

the answers. That's a top one for sure. Was that promo, because that was the Piper's Pit. The one that's in my head right now, and has been forever was bray wyatt and i'm always gonna say bray wyatt it's such it's such an easy for me um i am the color red in the sea and black white yeah absolutely gonna be up there Right? And then number four would probably be Austin316 says, I just whooped your ass.

Like, that's, it's never going to be better than that one. Never going to be better than that. That turned everything around for WWE. Mm-hmm. That one promo. Yeah. Yeah, I know you're a big Wyatt guy. I, I

like, missed him somehow. I kind of watched when he first came on the scene and then quit watching. I don't know if he was on SmackDown, because I didn't really watch SmackDown. Mainly Raw, just here and there. But I watched that documentary

a couple weeks ago, and damn. That documentary put you right in the feels. I have feelings about it because like yeah obviously I actually didn't watch wrestling for almost 10 years and then I heard about him

and it was about the time that he had the John Cena time and I gave up on wrestling for so long and then somebody About the time that he had the John Cena time. And I gave up on wrestling for so long. And then somebody was like, no, you need to see this guy. You love horror movies. You love wrestling.

You would like him. And I went, fine, fuck. I'll figure it out. I'll go watch again. And didn't, like, yeah, he drew me right in. And I was dedicated to wrestling for every episode that that guy was on. Yeah.

That documentary, though, leaves out the fact that they screwed him at every single chance. If you, like, yeah, I got, they alluded to it without saying it i got that like the way they're like oh he's on top of the world he's a champion oh we cut him three months later like what what happened like yep uh we're gonna give the fiend the championship the fiend does not

need a championship the fiend never needed a championship but then we're going to give it to him and then have him lose it to Goldberg like what the fuck why would you bother he didn't need it and then he didn't need to lose it so I think that yeah it was Vince because Vince just had

no faith in Bray Wyatt or Wyndham Rotunda and yeah huge Bray Wyatt guy huge Wyndham Rotunda. And yeah, huge Bray Wyatt guy, huge Wyndham Rotunda guy. I don't see a lot happening with the wide six. If I'm going to be up front with you. I think that their writing is going to be a little stale for a bit, but I'm interested to see where it goes.

But yeah, so far it's just been videos, I guess. They showed it that one time and then it's been Sister Abigail dropping a VHS tape to the announcers. If they don't,

they need to rely on her. Nikki Cross is a great talent. Nikki Cross is amazing at what she does. If they give her a chance to run with the Sister Abigail scary concepts, they will do well. But if they continue to rely on the other people,

no, they won't. They finally showed this last week Gable was yelling at Pierce about them because they keep showing up during his matches and then Pierce said something and he turned around and opened the door to his office

and Bo Dallas was just sitting in his office so hopefully soon he actually wrestles I actually I remember Bo Dallas when Bo Dallas was Bo Leave and I was a huge fan of the Bo Leave movement.

I loved that guy. So the guy knows what he's doing. They could have fun, but I can't. I'm not. I'm not too amped about it. But yeah, that documentary, they really buried the fact that they had somebody who had the best long-term storytelling in wrestling imagine that this dude had seven years of his stuff lined out he again i've said it before he told us about the fiend seven years ago and then introduced the fiend after seven years of building up he did things where he would like

have a promo and he would like he would tell a story and then he would have one sentence that didn't matter he would like be telling you about his opponent and then he would say something that is irrelevant but if you looked at all of the irrelevant things he said they told a story and a poem about the fiend coming over six years seven years this dude was the best storyteller in wrestling and they were like yeah yeah but what if you lost a goldberg yeah no it was like the documentary was literally he's the hottest thing right now. He's doing all this, and then he loses a big match. And then, same thing. Loses a big match.

And it's like, oh, he cut him. Obviously, WWE is not going to put anything out that just shows WWE. Yeah. But you kind of got... I get what you're saying. I could draw out kind of what you're

saying from watching it yeah no no they really they they had the they had a money maker in their hands and they were just like yeah but what if goldberg for you what if what if like the lights went red and like and then like you know then Seth Rollins beat you? It was so fucking stupid. I don't appreciate how they really tried to pretend that they were the heroes in the story when they really screwed this guy at every chance they got.

He carried... Remember his match with The Undertaker at that Wrestlemania when the new face of fear that was his thing I am the new face of fear he built that match without the Undertaker showing up once

he solo promo'd for a month just him talking to build that match and that match. And that match was so huge. And then they squashed him in a minute. Yeah.

But didn't Undertaker basically put his stamp of approval on him? Right. Whatever that did. Yeah, at the end, during the LA Knight thing, when he came back, but it didn't really

accomplish anything because again you've already buried this guy for six years seven years eight years you buried him and then the undertaker whispers in your ear and you're like oh yeah now he's the guy like now he's the guy because the Undertaker whispered in his ear. Like, come on. Well, that's about all I have. Works for us. Good episode, boys. It was a great time. Scant, do you have anything closing before we start bringing this in for a landing boss?

No, I'm good, boys. Could be called in on an audible. Tyler, you don't have anything you want to pick the old man's brain about? Not that I can think of. I probably will next week. I'll see you. I'll see you at Tanner's. We'll shoot

a shoot at Tanner's. We'll talk chains on long press at Tanner's. Yeah, buddy. Those chains. All right, Keith. Wind us out, buddy. I'm getting... I had to scroll back. I had to scroll up to get the episode number. I had to scroll back down. So, Keith, wind us out, buddy. I'm getting out of the scroll back. I had to scroll up to get the episode number and I had to scroll back down.

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