Unpaid And Underrated - 067 : Productive Fidgeting

Episode Date: August 20, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Ashley. They dive right into great topics like couting macros, being irritated by things, tattoos, muppets, and yarn. 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 On Instagram @mcsmashley (https://www.instagram.com/mcsmashley/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Ashley.

and welcome back to episode 5150 of the unpaid and underrated podcast i'm one of your hosts big keith joined as always by my good buddy big joey hello and this week we have special guest crew big ashley some might know her as smashley howdy i'm still fucking with this light it's been two weeks you're good right as i had said that my uh i remember to turn the bluetooth on on my headphones and i like just cut everything out for like 10 seconds i was like oh i guess i'm still on the intro here though so yeah welcome back to another week of unpaid and underrated everyone uh you know constantly mocked by crew etc so just go ahead and dive right in uh this week what are we drinking over there ashley uh still water so i notoriously hate bubbly drinks so i just drink

regular water or regular coffee or regular anything no bubbles in my house or at least in my body how many have you tried though because like i get some of them are nasty but some of them are pretty damn good no so i used to drink bubbly drinks all the time like i used to be drink tons of coke zero and i was like i drink way too many of these so like i stopped and now i just think they're all gross and they're and then like they got really. So I just don't drink bubbles anymore. I can feel the expensive. That is for sure.

I'm rocking out the Wegmans Lime this week because Wegmans is the most affordable. It actually comes in a 12-pack and it's like $4.99 versus the bubbly that's like $6 for $8. So can't beat the price on those. What do you got, Joey? Bubbles do be overpriced, right? Yeah, for real. Back to the non-alcoholic Guinness for now. And I got some water and a couple of Keats.

Dig it. I see Joey's wearing our little unpaid and underrated T-shirt. I was actually talking to Tanner a little bit about that today. It looks like there's three left in stock. So go ahead and rush while you can get there. I think there's one of each size at least for the common sizes so you know if you haven't got yours yet go ahead and head over to massonomics and i'll pick you up the unpaid underrated shirt because i mean everyone looks pretty fly at them if you ask me i'm uh rocking out the jefferson deadlift shirt this week and uh what you got on over there

ashley i have on the strinko i think it's called the Calhoun tea. It's got the cat on it. Oh, dope. I am still unpacking, so I couldn't find a Masonomics shirt. But I bought this one recently, so I'm like, we'll just do that one. It's definitely Masonomics adjacent. Yep, yep. And it's definitely okay.

So we're good with that this week. Let's see. What are you drinking? What are you know, we're good with that this week. Let's see. What are you drinking? What are you wearing? Just three of us this week. I feel like we had a bigger, no, it's because last week we had five of us. So it was just everything was going a lot quicker this week. So I guess we can dive right into the, right in last week's episode.

It was the, the macro factor episode, I believe, where Tommy kind of talked up his experience with the new macro tracking app that they downloaded. So did you get a chance to listen to that one, Ashley? I did. So I really enjoyed the fact that they talked about possibly issuing a second round of membership cards because I think I joined right after the first round went out. I think I joined the supporting membership, and so I don't have one. And then right at the very end, Tanner threw in a little one-liner

that tickled me to death about eating elephants, because it's one of my favorite phrases in the world, to throw in at work. And so I'm going to have to give the episode a five out of five massonomic supporting membership cards i think i missed the elephant thing what's the what's the what's the running joke there i don't i don't think i've ever heard that so there's an old joke or an old line that says how do you eat an elephant and the answer is one bite at a time. And so I use it all the time at work. Gotcha. Gotcha. It makes sense. I enjoyed it.

You know, it's always kind of nice to have the sprinkle in the non-guest episodes, the topic episodes, because that's more often than not, we get more insider trading, you know, things from Masonomics on those because they actually can talk Masonomics for an hour if they want and two hours and just kind of hit the hit the title topic for a half hour 45 minutes so you know in general those episodes are nice to get you know i would say every two or three months at least you know if not a little more often so for all that i'll go ahead and give it uh five out of five macros uh definitely finished it today uh you know i do like the idea that people are cluing in that you need carbs to live you can't just eat protein all the time as much as i want to even told morgan today that if she wanted me to care about her salad it should be meat uh you know just a running joke but i did i did catch the elephant thing because i was reading the show notes and then i caught that and i was just like that's in the show notes so that was

pretty funny uh that we could have that reference going here today not much else really i don't track my i've lost like six pounds in three weeks because i haven't been lifting i've been off creatine i've been chewing more nicotine than eating food. So I've lost like six pounds. It's kind of wild. I'm almost under 160, which is victim weight. So I'm going to go ahead and give that a five out of five elephants. Nice, nice.

I will kind of, one of my next topics I want to talk about, I kind of wanted to get the rating out of the way before I kind of, you know, put a little personal spin on the macro aspect of it. It was actually really good motivation for me. So anyone that kind of knows me well, like knows that I've, I used to track macros, was very diligent, had some, had some other, you know, concerns and kind of went off tracking there for the last few years and kind of gained a fair amount of weight. But I think I'm, I was physically in a good enough mental place to be like, right let's let's let's let's do this again you know if it's good enough for tommy you know i might have to give it a shot again and it kind of was just that spark

and it was kind of funny because it's like i think that weekend i tried to put on a pair of pants to go to like a you know an actual kind of fancy thing and my pants weren't fitting very well and i was like fuck i don't have a 42 and then when 40s were tight i was like fuck i've uh i'm bigger than i need to be i'm bigger than i've ever been so that and then when 40s were tight i was like fuck i've uh i'm bigger than i need to be i'm bigger than i've ever been so that and then just kind of so i was already i think that happened saturday so sunday i was already like kind of contemplating it and then the the sister podcast coming out sunday night listening to that i was like fuck yeah let's uh so basically i think i redownloaded my app that night that i haven't used since like 2021 you know logged back

in started kind of planning my next day looking since like 2021, you know, log back in, started kind of planning my next day, looking through the fridge and, you know, did a, did a, did a grocery store delivery and shit and kind of got shit for that week. And, you know, I'm four or five days deep down, like two pounds. And I mean, let's, I'm going to try to run this thing into the ground and I'm going to do it a little different. I'm not trying to be super aggressive with the cut. Like my coach worked up my macros and was like, all right, your, your maintenance is like, you know, somewhere between three and 3,500, 3,000, 3,500. So like, I'm trying to do more of like a 25, 27 right now. So then if I, you know, we actually get down to more of a goal weight eventually,

then I can actually maintain it like 2000 calories, but I'm not going to jump right to 2000 calories. Now I'll be fucking, I'll, you know, I'll stay on it for a month and then get pissed off and then start eating like a shit again so slowly do it if anything i'm actually almost almost yeah i feel like i'm eating more because like my he really upped my carb intake to actually like hit that higher macro goal so it's kind of been fucking sweet to be like okay i guess i'll eat a banana and a cup of rice and some potato you know it's like i'm eating like significant amount of carbs every day now which which has been kind of dope. I did the opposite. As soon as I realized I was losing so much weight, I turned to Morgan and was like,

we're going to have to now start scheduling my meals to make sure I eat, which is really hard because it is the busiest time of the year for me at work. Taking breaks and going and sitting down and eating a full meal is almost impossible. I might be anywhere from six to ten hour shifts based on how busy it is so this is this is a hard time i'm not going to download macro factor because i just don't need any more expenses in my life at the moment um but i definitely need to make sure i start eating because yeah getting addicted to these zins has caused my appetite to drop i can see that yeah yeah and i kind of learned that like again 161 pounds is the lightest i've been pretty much since i started lifting so it's like okay we need to

start paying more attention making sure i schedule my food because i won't eat on a whim right so do you guys do you have um so like we have the fair life uh protein shakes at our costco and they're fucking great. They're like the best, they're the best macro ones because the ones you get at the gas station a lot of times would only be like 22 grams of protein or something. The ones at Wegmans or the ones at Costco, I think are consistently like 30 grams. Yeah, I probably should just pick some of those up. That's a good cheat. Like it's obviously not a meal replacement, but if you already know you're not going to eat like at least down that you got 30 grams of

protein right there and a couple carbs i think so it's better than nothing for sure so yeah i may or not may or may not keep the podcast and the the crew updated on my uh weight loss journey but you know we'll see how that goes but yeah really appreciate the podcast for kind of helping kick start i saw uh same thing happened with coach carp he said he started tracking again this week so you know anyone else out So, you know, anyone else out there tracking, you know, feel free to share your journey and discord because you know, you're not, you're not alone. We all might not be happy with where we're at. So,

you know, that doesn't mean you have to track, but if tracking's where you're at in your journey, you know, we'll support you. I had a little quick mark, Mark. I felt that I got a marketplace deal of the week this week. I got some trash pads for my for the garage gym for like 40 bucks and they're like 120 on amazon right now so i was pretty stoked about that and i want to hear a little bit about big joey's uh you know meeting with mitch hooper how this meet went he was supposed to spot and load but i think he got on the mic a little bit and you just want to give us a little rundown on your weekend oh yeah i

almost forgot about that, which is kind of wild. I did too. And so I just put it in the show notes a second. I was like, fuck, something big happened last week. Yeah.

So big Steve, his, his daughter was actually competing in her first powerlifting competition. And she's only allowed one handler, which obviously is going to be him, not me. So I just happened to, you know,

message with the, with the owner of the gym, because it's the same one I've done most of my lifting at in this area. And then I was like, Hey, you know what, I'm going to be there anyway, can I help? And he was like, Yeah, well, we'll get you in the list of volunteers. But then they kind of later announced that Mitch Hooper was going to be there to help spotting and loading. So I was like, so amped, I get to spot load with mitchell hooper the world's strongest man uh and then i get there and they got these four gigantic guys spotting and loading and he's going to be the back spotter like the main spotter for bench and squat yeah they were like hey we kind

of don't need you to do that like can you can you do it? Like, you know, would you mind jumping on the mic and being an emcee for a bit? And I was like, well, I've never done that before. Do you mind if the guy that normally does it does the first round just so I can kind of see how he is and then I'll jump on and do that. So I ended up doing the women's deadlifts. Sweet.

Yeah. Yeah. It turns out I'm very good at it. I mean, you've got experience talking on a microphone for two or three hours for the last year and a half. So I'm not surprised. Yeah, yeah. I kind of have an announcer voice, too. It's really fun.

I would try to do a little bit of like, if somebody got red lights, I would explain why I was trying to explain. Like, you know, you're just standing there going that's a good lift that's a bad lift helping the crowd's pretty cool because i think most people that like are in it deep enough they don't realize maybe they just take for granted that like yeah 60 people 60 of the people in the audience are family and friends that don't know what the fuck's going on yeah so i was trying to explain you know what the lights meant what the rules were why we're cleaning the bar in between sets uh explaining the different stances and different hand grips like i'm not new to deadlifting so it was kind of really fun to be like you know up there and doing that kind of thing um and then

i ended up getting a tattoo because they had a tattoo there i saw that yeah that was kind of wild uh but in an interesting turn of events it spiked my heart rate um over 130 and it didn't go down for two hours so i actually ended up having to leave and go to the hospital jesus yeah so i didn't get to announce the men's deadlifts which is what my intention was but i got to the hospital they checked my vitals and they were like the tattoo probably spiked you and then just because of the environment you couldn't get back down again. How much caffeine, how much caffeine do you have in your system?

Are you, were you down on monsters and ghosts all day? No, no, actually it was about the same amount as I normally have. I had a ghost in the morning and then another ghost about five hours later, which is about what I normally do anyway. But I think the tattoo spiked my adrenaline.

Yeah. And then because it was a hundred million degrees. You were at the OD? I didn't know you went to south dakota last week yeah and then you know just being in the deadlift and then the anxiety starts going because your watch is constantly going like hey your heart rate's high it doesn't help it go down again right so yeah i ended up running the hospital they they took my vitals and they essentially said look if we have to take blood work you're here for six hours and then i was like so i'm gonna go home is that uh are those apple watches actually like legit accurate like

when you got there was your blood was your blood pressure kind of right on par with what your watch was telling you yes but it had actually gone down and my watch didn't tell me so when he took my pulse it was down to 86 and then i was like it was 105 seconds ago and he's like well it's 86 and i looked at my watch and it was 86 and i guess just the air conditioning and having somebody in the room that knew what they were doing kind of eased my anxiety or whatever was happening there so yeah that was fun but i didn't get to announce the men's deadlifts did get to meet mitch um you know reminded him we've met before told him that i've gotten like i'm one of his affiliates he was pretty amped about that got a picture and everything yeah was that your first picture with him yeah of the other time i met him we didn't get a picture at

the arnold we like passed each other like twice and never actually got to stop and talk to each other so i was like this time we're getting a picture that's awesome yeah he was pretty excited about it and he is exactly what you think he's like so i guess without any prompt he went just walking right towards anastasia which is steve's daughter and knew what was going on that it was her first meet and all that and was like giving her pointers and just like being an absolute sweetheart to her and steve was shocked and so thrilled because we're all big mitchell hooper fans right like all me him anastasia and his wife were all big fans of his so that was yeah that was a it's a big weekend man well that's awesome yeah i didn't know any of that so that was uh you played your uh hand close to your vest there over the weekend i didn't hear that would never no no that did not surface in the group chat that you were in the hospital so i just got a i got a

vague picture of a tattoo that had my face on it and i was like okay i guess it ended up being so it was like uh the your tattoo uh it was it was a character of the the monkey with the e like like is that like a yeah it's very common okay yeah it was a flash and yeah we were just standing there and the tattooer walked up and looked me up and down and went so when you getting yours and i was like i'm not getting a fucking tattoo today like if i come home with a tattoo my wife will kill me so i texted morgan and i was like look they're doing flash should i get one she's like no but yeah damn it like You were supposed to talk me out of this. At least get it for a pretty

good deal. I don't know how, I'm assuming the fact that it's going to be significantly cheaper since they're doing all day, so it's not like they got to... It's just a flash. It's a pre-print. It's not custom or anything. Oh, I got you. So you just pick one of like a hundred designs that

they have in their bag ready to go. In their bag. All right. That's about it. Is there anything that you saw in the lifting community there, Ashley, this week? The mass economics world that we should talk about under general topics? Because I don't think either of us had too much time to add too much this week. I'm not really sure.

Did we miss anything in the crew world? No. to add too much this week i'm not really sure what what did i did we did we miss anything in the in the crew world no um random question that joey may know the answer to is mitch doing the strongest man on earth or whatever this weekend i think so i think steve was saying it's really weird that he's going to show up and spot and load the week before a big event yeah but he ended up just doing like i said backs And it was like the women. So if he had to lift the whole person and the weight, he probably could have. So I don't think he was going to hurt himself. Did you actually watch him get some good saves?

He didn't really need to. Yeah, nobody really bombed out on anything other than bench and some deadlifts. But I don't think he was really there for that. He hopped on the live stream during deadlifts. So he didn't even get to hear me mc oh that's i didn't uh yeah i don't have too much else i had a uh you know it was just a very busy week for everyone this week i uh very fun week uh the crew you know it's it's oh a fantasy football i did sign up for a fantasy football

that's uh we're uh i i initially the the name of my team was going to be just the no wine seller just generic and then like the initials uh the abbreviations um nwc or whatever and then damager gave me hell for that saying oh real fucking original so i was like all right and then so so in my head i was kind of going back and forth to some, some kind of play on orange glaze. So then I, I did get, I did rename the team, the orange glazers. And then you and you and you for the, the abbreviation, it wouldn't let me do like the, the, the, you know, the abbreviation for and or anything or the umlauts. So it's pretty,

it's a pretty generic capital U lowercase and capital U, but people don't know who it is. And then fucking Jake. Happy birthday, big Jake Heidrich. He fucking named his team Team Honeycutt or something. I'm like, you fucker. That's great. I'm actually going to a real football game on Saturday.

I won tickets today. That was pretty fun. Oh, nice. Yeah, I'm going to take the boy. And speaking of Damager, big shout out, Jen and Chris. Sorry for for your loss i know it was a tough one for you guys this week so um yeah i just want to send my love to both of those guys for for what they're going through now what uh what football game did you win tickets for uh cfl okay okay yeah so there are two teams you've never heard of there's there's definitely an agronaut or an argonaut or something there is an argonaut yeah

no i'm going to the tiger cats versus the edmonton elks yep didn't i i know what one of those four words is that's about it all right um well big ashley do you have a do you have a sponsor read from asinomics you want to hit us with before we, you know? Sure. We'll kind of play it off the cuff, but sure. Let's go for it. So let's see if you happen to be listening to this. I'm going to assume that you've listened to the Masonomics podcast before and that it probably tickled your fancy in some way, shape or form. And it made you laugh a little on the inside maybe a time or two. And if you haven't taken the plunge

to hand over a couple of your hard-earned dollars to Tanner and Tommy every month, you probably should and become a crew member. Not only do you get access to drops a little earlier and all that fancy, mancy stuff that they say on the sister podcast every week you get access to the discord where you can get in

on all the silly goosery and so on so go to massonomics.com slash join today and do it already and from what I understand if you join now you can get in before the next line in the sand for the next upcoming crew uh exclusive

mailing that's coming this fall yeah yeah we'll see i like i love they're always like oh it's coming soon and then like three months later is it is it is it here yet yeah i will i will give them props though i almost feel bad because they um so I've been desperately trying to get a two XL strong man, eight bit shirt for like literally the last like nine months. And I don't know if like me asking for that a couple of times and just quarter commenting on it actually motivated Tanner to restock it. But anyway, like, you know, obviously whenever they order shit is probably at least a couple of months

turnaround till they get it. So, you know, they ordered it a while ago. And in the meantime, coach Carr hooked me up with one so now i feel bad because i almost feel like was i a small reason why they ordered like restocked that size and then i fucking didn't buy one because i got one through the crew so i kind of feel bad about that but but in a perfect world i that's one thing to harken back to the you know to get back to my you know my weight loss thing is like i my goal was to just look better in my two X's and then eventually get back into all the shirts that I own that are XL because I have an entire fucking wardrobe of different massonomic

shirts that I haven't worn in two years as my weight has skyrocketed. I'm actually kind of excited to actually go through my closet and be like, what can I actually fit into? Sorry to go on a tantrum there, but I think it is time to kick all these looky-loo offs. I know we had Big Mofo in there a little bit ago. Mad Cow. fit into but sorry to kind of go on a tantric there but i think it is time to uh you know kick all these looky loo offs i know we had big mofo in there a little bit ago mad cow mad cow

yep yep oh mad cow was boyer in us but uh yeah let's uh you ready to get the guess on the horn joey yeah yeah yeah i've already kicked everybody out perfect so all right is. Big Ashley, is that you? It is me. I'm here in her. Awesome. I'm glad you are her. And welcome to the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. Thanks for having me. We'll hit you with the hardest one that we have so far. What brought you to Mathonomics? Let's hear the whole backstory. Podcast, apparel, Instagram, crew, etc. Instagram crew etc this may actually be the hardest one because I've been thinking about this like all week and I

do not know what brought me to Massonomics I cannot remember where I found it first it could have been I saw the curl shirt somewhere because that was the first shirt that like really caught my eye from Massonomics it could have been the fact that they sent a drink spotter to Dave Tate,

and I was watching the Dave Tate podcast when he opened it. It could have been a meme. It could have been, I don't know. I literally have no clue what brought me to Masonomics. I think it was just a series of like, I keep seeing this name over and over again. I'll eventually check out the podcast and then I'll eventually like, look at their stuff closer and then I'll eventually follow them on Instagram,

even though I follow almost nobody on Instagram and things like that. So, so yeah. And then eventually I just joined crew. So it was just a matter of like i guess uh taking me down by a thousand cuts or whatever the saying is yeah i mean that's that's how you eat elephant right yeah yes um one one quick tidbit i want to ask you so you said you were watching the day of tate so the elite FTS podcast whatever it is you actually watch that on YouTube or you just meant like listening to it

no uh so it depends so I listen to podcast when I'm driving or if I'm sitting at my computer working I have like four monitors around me that you all can't see, but I will have podcasts if they have videos up while I'm working. So that would have probably been watching specifically. I remember watching that one, him like open the box and be like, this is kind of cool. So I kind of have a specific to Dave Tate. And so watching versus listening,

is it better or worse when you see him and hear him snort at the same time like does it take it does it make it less less skin curdling when you can see it because when i'm just listening my fucking god it curls my it literally gets under my skin but i didn't know if like if watching it at the same time it's kind of like it takes it softens the blow some because you know it's happening like i don't know it's very random question but very no i mean it's a good question for him mostly i need to be in the car so i can't like have headphones on or noise cancellation or like anything like that like i can't really hear like have really good audio i need like speakers or i need like so like i don't get all of like the really high def stuff you like lose some of that um but a lot of sense but back then like when they sent the drink spotter and stuff his

audio wasn't as good it didn't pick up all of that stuff so uh it was easier it was actually a little easier to listen to because the audio was shittier but yeah no i i do remember back in the day that because i think he's almost has like he like rebranded his whole podcast years ago and kind of like called it something different and like started a whole new platform for it i believe but uh no it was good i i thought that i hopefully the crew had a kick out of that one because i was like i was i was i didn't want to interrupt your your your whole speech spiel about what brought you my news but as soon as you mentioned listening to Dave Tate, I was like, Oh, I'm going to ask her about this. And I, let me,

let me wait for a pause because this is going to be good. So where are they going to find you on Instagram? Do you want to get any new followers out of this? I mean, it, I don't care if I do or not. I'm sure you all noticed that I do not post anything. I think I have non post or something. You can find me on Discord, Instagram,

everywhere, I think with the same name of Mick Smashley. MC and then Smashley. Yeah, that's my username. If you want to follow me, you can. I don't post anything. I occasionally share

stories of memes that I find that are funny. And that's it. That's all I do. Works. I mean, it's the whole point of this for us is always just to help bring crew together. So if you do make it out to the Arnold or the you know, anything in Aberdeen, you know, the bigger following this, the easier it is to kind of interact with people that I have found. bigger following this, the easier it is to kind of interact with people that I have found. So yeah. Speaking of finding people, you,

where are you from? Where do you live? Anything you want to share on that? Just because it's always nice for people to resonate if they're in the same area. Yeah, for sure. I am now from central Kentucky. What is actually central Kentucky.

I literally last month moved from what everybody in Kentucky calls central Kentucky, what is actually central Kentucky. I literally last month moved from what everybody in Kentucky calls central Kentucky, which is not central Kentucky is Eastern Kentucky, uh, to central Kentucky, which is actually in the middle of Kentucky, um, right around Fort Knox, which is what everybody knows. That's not from Kentucky. Kentucky. So that's where I'm from. I'm born and bred in Kentucky. I'm actually, my hometown is the town that makes all the Zens, Joey.

So when you were talking about being from a, or being addicted to Zens, I'm like, yep. I know several people who have probably had a hand in making those for you. But yeah, so that's where I'm from.

Born and breaded is what I say. Breaded. I see what you did there. That's funny because it's Kentucky. Good stuff. It was a chicken joke, Dave. It was a chicken joke, Dave. That might be the first time we've explained a guest joke.

Usually we explain our own jokes. That might be the first time we've explained a guest joke usually explain our own jokes that's uh that might be a first i like that um all right one piece of mass that you uh don't have access to anymore you wish you did oh goodness so probably the raw power bison shirt um i love bison i don't't know. I like oversized animals. So probably that one. So is my life. Yeah. That was really funny. But I don't wear a lot of T-shirts, really, in real life.

So maybe also a flex flask or any of the band banners that you can't get anymore. But I don't have a place to put them so this is really my conundrum in life is that i don't like i can't consume a lot of massonomics stuff i like it all what do you normally wear so i wear tank tops or long sleeve shirts so like i really love the massonomics long sleeve, like pocket tee that they came out with. I want them to come out with like, I don't know, a thousand different colors of those because I wore it like every day last year. So T-shirts would be riding the line for you. Like that's two in between.

Yes. So they just, like, I don't know, T-shirts just irritate me in some way. Like they either need to be tank tops or they need to have sleeves all the way. Emotionally or physically irritate you? Physically irritate me. I was just double checking. I got you. Maybe a little mentally. It's probably all mental that it physically irritates me. As someone that's irritated by most things, it's

nice to hear other people's take on irritation especially when they have such a firm stance like you do on that yeah yeah that's as soon as the sun summer hits i lose my sleeves immediately like the less sleeves i have to wear the better and then as soon as it gets a little chilly i just crave my hoodies so i'm the same way but t-shirts for me they're just a good in between because i have a million of them all right i was i was gonna do a poor segue of saying speaking of a million how many uh hall of fame uh check marks do you have is it a million and that was a poor segue so what is your hall of fame status so let's see i have five i think counting tonight

all right so um at two years i believe i have a drink spawner that is literally sitting next to me but i have nothing metal so it just sits on my desk um and then i have banned merch, and I'm here. So I think that's five. I'm really hoping I can get to 12 at some point in time, but it may be doubtful. But I'm going to try. I didn't realize. Arnold is really on my list. I'm hoping to get to the Arnold because it's kind of close.

Yeah, it is. And maybe I'll see you there yeah i didn't realize this was like a long-term game because i said like i think tanner messaged me when he's like how close to 15 are you and i was like well even if i did the entire backlog which i don't do i was like i can't i'm never gonna make it to crew falls it's just not unless like somebody sponsors me i'm not paying for that that's kind of out of my so i can get to 15 if i listen to the back catalog and get to four years which i think is next year yeah i think i can pull it off i just didn't realize like there was no time limit like you just you just get to keep going and forever. So like in two years,

I'm suddenly going to get my jacket. Yeah. That's wild. Assuming mass nomics still a thing. Cause that was one thing that, uh, when, when Tommy had mentioned kind of like,

if we didn't have like the supporting membership and if we didn't have like the, the podcast sponsors and everything, like we, if we were just a t-shirt company, like we might not be here. Actually, nevermind.

That was, that was last night's. Was that, Oh no, that was, that was that was that was this week's live so that was kind of jumping ahead uh so you guys we haven't really heard about that yet so spoilers yeah well by the time this comes out it would have already been talked about but just just talking about how yes like we all want this to last as long as possible. And I'm in the same boat. Yeah, I need to I'm going to win. I need to win something, which it probably won't happen.

And my four years isn't so fucking December 2025. So I'm I'm going to be a minute till I hit four years. I think I was a slightly late adapter adopter to the supporting membership. Yeah. I think why did I even join Supporting Crew? I genuinely don't remember. I think I was just like, somebody

said how much fun they were having on the Discord, and I was like fucking Amanda. I was number 66. You and I are real close. So close. I don't remember where I am. I think I'm somewhere in the 70s or 80s. I think I was in the 70s. I don't fucking remember, but I know I'm I don't remember what I am I think I'm somewhere in the 70s or 80s or I think I was in the seven I don't fucking remember but I know I'm a lot lower now but uh yeah I because I kept

having to like dm mostly squat mats or big eddie for like uh you know when when drops were happening and shit because I was like I was like friends with like 40 crew on instagram but I was just like stubbornly not gonna spend three dollars a month to talk in a fucking message board i didn't understand and looking back now i would have fucking signed up day one and kind of annoyed that i didn't because i would have put me that much closer to four years because i saw matthias somehow already hit four years i'm like when the fuck did you sign up like the discord wasn't that goddamn old was you motherfuckers were joining supporting membership before the discord was even a fucking thing like very strange like how am i that far behind but you know you know it's a uh what is it it's a it's it's a it's a marathon not a sprint so we will all get there at some point yeah i mean i

was listening i don't think i listened to the podcast very long before i joined and i was like all right i enjoy this like i spend money on things that I enjoy much less. So let's just give them some money. And now I'm here talking to you guys. Glad to have you. You're familiar with the game Least Fun, Most Fun

relative to the new segment. Awesome. I don't have to really get into that. So I'm going to hit you with Least Fun, Most Fun. You can either take it as having or getting, however you want to interpret it, but tattoos. Least fun, most fun tattoos. Least fun is the fact that they hurt. They are uncomfortable. No, I actually am going to change this. It's not the pain. I'm going to change this. It's not the pain. The least fun thing is after you get it,

it's the old people or the old men in particular, in my case that say, did that hurt? It's like, well, it wasn't comfortable. Like, yes,

it hurt. That's very annoying to me. And it happens a lot. So that's the least fun thing about having or getting tattoos. Most fun. Most fun thing. Oh, goodness. It's not getting them because they hurt.

It's not really picking out the design because that stresses me out like crazy I think did we just make you realize you hate tattoos? maybe a little bit wait a minute why do I do this? the most fun is getting them removed no I think the the like satisfaction after it's done, that it is done, and then I'm happy with it, and that it'll be there forever. And this is a very personal thing, because I have two.

They're huge, but I have two. And I'm like, yay, I get to look at this every day for the rest of my life. And I really like both of them. So, yeah, that's what's most fun about them or about having them is that they are mine and nobody can take them from me. Awesome. Did you want to share specifically what they were? Sure. I have an anchor, which is kind of like really basic white girl of me, that I have an anchor on my back. But I got it when I was 18, and I got it in memory of my uncle who was in the Navy, who had passed away right around that time. And then on my thigh, I have a old-timey kind of scrimshaw-like tall ship and whale. It's got the rope border around it, so it kind of really does look like a piece of scrimshaw.

It would be out of maybe an old illustration of Moby Dick, and that's on my thigh. I got that when I hit my first real big lifting goal which was an 800 pound total which is right about a year after i started lifting so um that's what that one was for is uh i just really like whales as well as bison again large mammals uh and so i just wanted a tattoo of a whale and I really like tall ships. So I just got them together. Yeah. Wait.

Yeah. I think I'm kind of the same thing. Like, so tattoos don't hurt me except for the one on my chest. That thing fucking hurt. Like they don't feel good, but also like, it's obviously not a pain I'm looking to avoid except for the one on my chest. We're not even going to like, we're not even pain i'm looking to avoid except for the one on my chest we're not

even gonna like we're not even gonna get it touched up it hurts so much that a couple of the letters are a little like not dark and i was like no that's fine um but the ones on my hands it's funny you brought up like that the uh old men in particular commenting because you know they love talking about other people's bodies i specifically get old women who love my hand tattoos and i remember when i first spoke about getting them my boss was like you know you're already kind of a gruff looking dude you've got your beard you've got your arm tattoos like you're you scowl a lot if you're not talking to people he's like you're you're in sales man you got to be careful a couple years later he was like obviously it doesn't matter like people like you just do

whatever you're going to do and it's so funny just the amount of old ladies that like so what hurt you that you had to get hurt on your hand and then i'll hold up the other hand and they're like oh tell me that story so i tell them the whole story and like they love it so it's funny the the differing um uh not end results is what i'm looking for experiences you and i would have but obviously we would because different reasons different people different comments right so yeah that's really fun also my uh leg tattoo i just took off the second skin today i'm so damn itchy and i can't remember the last time a tattoo was this itchy like have you been watching me like where i'm just randomly slapping my leg while we're standing here that's just because

it's so fucking itchy and it's like lines there's no shading or anything so that's i yeah if you ask me what the least fun is it's itch oh anyway sorry to hijack your thing there no i mean the itch is pretty bad i might have said that as one of the worst things had i remembered about it but it's been a couple years since i i got the last one and uh i have an addictive personality i know this about myself so i have to like give myself reasons why i can't get more so like or next like benchmarks before i can get more so i've still got a little a little ways to go before i can get another one let's get more you just got to be you just got to be in a room with somebody that's giving tattoos and have an hour to kill

and you're like i really i really wish i could be like you um but but i can't. What's really fun is that my parents, so growing up, my dad absolutely hates tattoos. So, like, when I got my anchor on my back, he was pissed. I mean, I was 18. I still live with him. And, I mean, he's a preacher. He just, I don't know, for whatever reason, he hates tattoos. They've, like, softened on this since a little bit. But, like, it's just been a thing so like all both of these

can be hidden if need be um but like just so they don't have to see them but yeah so it's still it's also still that thing i'm like i can't have too many so that dad doesn't have to look at them but yeah i was i was watching the bridge city centers, some of their music videos, and they all have like face and neck tattoos in my head. I was like, that could be me. I like I could do the neck tattoo up the front and the chest and all that. But then also, no, it's way too painful. Way too painful. Sorry, Keith, you were going to say something.

I cut you off as usual. Oh, it was mainly like, isn't it crazy the fact what we do for our parents even in our 30s and 40s but we still like jump through hoops sometimes to not piss them off and i mean not everyone does that but it's just like i i don't necessarily do that but on my wife's side there's a lot of like uh it's easier just to do this than to deal with the drama and it's just it's just does it ever end no i mean in my house or my family, it's not even drama. Like, it's just like my parents were good parents. So like, let's just try to respect them.

So my mom could totally call me today and be like, I've killed somebody and I need you to help me bury them and be like, I guess we're doing this tonight. So I'm very lucky to have that. But yeah, so I just try to do whatever I can for them in that way, in the little ways like that. Well, it sounds like you're a little bit of a fixture in that concept. And then I hear that's a little bit of what you do when you're nine to five. We had a lot of, you had even mentioned, so, you know, in the questionnaire, you had told us what you do for a living. And then you even put the caveat of like, I bet no one actually gets this response. And then, so our responses from your friends and family would have been the

fixer, health insurance, social worker, data person, something to do with data at a health insurance company. So is that, is any of those kind of right on the money or a little off? I mean, they're all correct. I do data analytics, business analytics, whatever you want to call it, for a health insurance company. What that really means is that I do a little bit of everything to make this health insurance company money. It could be PowerPoint presentations. It could be data analytics stuff, whether it's writing code or doing machine learning type crap. So yeah, I do a little bit of everything. No day is the same. And I usually get called in when somebody doesn't know what's going on and they need somebody to figure it out.

Or if two people can't talk to each other in the way that like it's a nurse trying to talk to a technical person and like they're just not speaking the same language. And I can kind of understand both sides of the coin. So I come in and translate for each other so yeah it's a very uh interesting job to get into yeah is that something like you went is i'm assuming you were already like working for the company and kind of like worked transitioned into that or was that like uh literally is there like i don't think there's a degree for what you explained no uh so uh no i've completely created every single uh job position i've ever had i've kind of fallen into them uh i started my career i've got four degrees i used to collect them um but i started as a social worker i got got a social work bachelor's degree in social work. And that's where I got into health insurance.

That was my first big girl job, doing social work for a health insurance company. I like the health insurance aspect. Didn't love the social work aspect. But kind of kept with insurance stuff, realized I like some of the data stuff whatever went got a master's degree in what they call health informatics it's a fancy word for like health data crap um and so did that and then just kind of really said hey do you know what you need you need me let me create these jobs let me do these things and so like i that for, I don't know, four or five different places or whatever. And, yeah, so that's where I'm at right now.

Pretty cool. It sounds like you might have actually tied Big Tron for years in college. You just might have walked out a couple more degrees. No. Well, let's see. How many was I in there? So I graduated in 2011 or high school in 505 and graduated with my bachelor's in 11 so I was for bachelor's in six years uh took a couple extra years because I had a baby

in there and then I was in master's for two so eight I think I could have yeah I did might have nudged him out then it's just a nice little work in there. So you had touched base on your 800-pound total that you had, you know, wanted for. So I guess, did you lift in high school? Is this something you found in your later years? It sounded like you mentioned not doing it until, like, 2020-ish. So you were, like, were you in your 30s when you started lifting or on and off? Yeah, I was 33.

I had just had my second and last kid um and let's see i hadn't i've never worked out before really um i had done like pe class in school and hated it every second i'm like six foot tall that's one of the weird things about me i guess um so mix smash makes a little more sense then because i'm like you know for me from your three posts i have no concept of how like tall you are so yeah six six is pretty big uh yeah six six foot um and so and i was like six ten in like seventh grade and so middle school high school they wanted me to play basketball hated it um refused to play team sports in school just hated it and so but like

had p class and but so yeah anyway long way of saying never really worked out never did any of that stuff while i was in school um and then i had a baby in 2020 and my second kid in 2020 and i don't know if anybody remembers that year but that's the year you couldn't leave your house uh and after about having a kid and not being able to leave the house for three months or whatever i was like i really want to start leaving the house and my husband was like hey baby why don't you like just start going to the gym that's one of the one places that are open right now and i was like all right we'll see so i went and had like an intro session with the owner of the gym there it was just like i call it a baby training session one of those free like join the gym things he gave me like a baby workout uh did that for several months um really like the weight lifting portion of it or whatever he had me do

some free weight stuff eat really easy stuff so right around christmas my husband asked me what i wanted to wanted for christmas and i said hey get the owner of the gym to write me out like a better workout plan that is more lifting focused. Cause I really liked this. And that really kind of started it. The owner of the gym was a power lifter. So he just, and he's like, well, you have to come up with some goals. And I'm like, I don't even know. And so he kind of walked me through it. I was like, so the original goals were, I wanted to squat my body weight I wanted to deadlift my body weight and I wanted to be able to do a push-up because I had never done a push-up before and uh and so I was able to do those like within a couple months or whatever and um but yeah so that's how it got started uh it was very late in life I just

really fell into it and I really liked it. But yeah, so did that and never turned back, essentially. That's awesome. So I saw you did a mock meet. Have you done some sanctioned meets too in there? Yeah, her second meet was sanctioned. Oh, yeah. She did the 815.

Yeah, I got you. You have a hard comeback. Yep, yep, yep, yep. So what's... If you don't mind. Yeah, I've talked about this. so what's uh well i have a i if you don't mind so um same like almost the exact same story started powerlifting right before covid and then started taking it seriously when you know i had a small gym and a small place to go um did my mock meet, did my first sanction meet, did my section and continued on.

So question. So you got your 850 pounds total on your on your meet, right? That was your first meet. And then you did 875 in a second. And also like me, I was planning to hit a thousand before I turned 40. It doesn't look like that's going to happen because i'm going to be 40 in like three months and i actually don't plan on doing any more meets ever so my question is what tattoo are you getting on your thousand pound total is it going to be an anthropomorphic animal probably not but it could be because so what uh what i've always said it's going to be but it's

not set in stone um is a strong woman essentially so like you know the old timey strong men like illustrations or whatever with like the globe like barbell things or whatever so i want like a chick like lifting a thousand pound like a one of those globe barbell things with a thousand pounds in the barbell over her head um and like on the little circus platform that's what i want but i could turn the chick i could make it like a chick animal and turn it into an animal wearing clothes and make it anthropomorphic because i do love animals wearing clothes uh for sure tell me about that because that is hilarious to me is that what anthropomorphic what is yes so she's so she likes animals doing human things yes specifically i like portraits i like animals sitting for portraits like i like pictures of

animals wearing clothes exactly um so i don't know i found these pictures online at some point and it was like a bison like dressed in military uniforms or like a pig with a top hat um and they were just like old-timey portraits like of people like how they would sit for old-timey portraits and i want to say it was on etsy and the brand was called berkeley illustrations i'll shout them out if anybody wants to look at them and i was like i love these things so i bought like six of them and then they came out with a calendar so I've bought like a calendar every single year since then but in my old house we had a basement bathroom that I only used because my my office because I work from home was downstairs and so I put those pictures in that

bathroom kind of like a museum like this is uh so they just stood there and they like just watched you pee and stuff um so they were just in there and i always got a kick out of them anytime i went in there and they're like my some of my favorite things and i haven't got them hung up yet in the new house but i need to um there was a time when our the toilet toilet in our main bathroom at the old house went down and we had some company over. And one of them was my nephew, a 10-year-old boy. And he's like, but the animals on the wall freak me out. And I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't even think about it.

Like, yeah, that it could freak people out because I just find them hilarious and fun. But, yeah, I've given them backstories and stuff. Of course. So, and names and things. And I really want to get, because this is me and you all are going to think I'm weird, but I want to get like the little engraved plaques and stuff and like actually kind of turn it into a museum of like, here is like professor whoever, whatever. And like, here's his backstory um for these portraits

okay two questions then what's your favorite one it has to be the bison in the military outfit yeah okay that tracks uh would you consider the taxidermied one uh so i have seen like the metal casted ones. There's a moose that has a monocle or glasses with a chain. And it's like $1,400 or whatever. And it's huge. And I want it so badly to put over my bathtub. So yes, I would totally watch it.

I know. When I went to that Audities Expo a little while ago, they had people would do taxidermied mice and they would put them in like real life. Like they put little vests and stuff on them and put them in real life scenarios. So that's kind of what led to that question. So my four year old, if I had like little ones, like mice and stuff that like my four year old may play with them. So that could be an issue. and stuff that my four-year-old may play with them, so that could be an issue.

If they could be hung up on a wall or things like that, then yes, for sure. Alright, Keith, you go ahead. I just want to hear about the, you know, this is

it seems to be the most intriguing thing about you. You are a commissioned colonel in Kentucky. I want to hear that entire story and don't leave out a second. Okay, so it's not a long story at all, and it's not even that interesting. I disagree. I did have a vice president for a company I used to work for tell me that was the most interesting thing about me. Is that I am a commissioned Kentucky colonel.

Anybody who's not from Kentucky, it is literally an honorary title that comes from the governor, the current governor, whoever it may be. They sign a piece of paper that says, hey, you can now go by Colonel. It's just an honorary title that says you have done good for Kentuckians in some way, shape or form. I got my commission. So you have to be nominated by an existing Kentucky colonel. I will say that I was nominated and got my commission in. It's actually sitting right next to me in 2012, in May of 2012. Because for work that I had done resettling refugees and somebody had not felt the need to nominate me, so it randomly came in the mail one day. And so, yeah, I can go by Colonel if I want.

I sometimes do, but not often. The only time I ever go by Colonel is when... When the kids are acting up. No, it's when my husband's acting up. when the kids are acting up no it's when my husband's acting up and because my husband is a firefighter and he likes to argue that he's done more for kentucky than i have i know you're a first responder and i'm like yeah and who is a colonel and who isn't and so yes so um that that's the only time i ever go by it. Why do we say Colonel? Like, why don't we say it the way it's spelled?

Colony? Yeah. Like, it's Colony. Like, why don't we say that? That's wild. I have no clue. That's a good one. So would it be, is it Colonel Ashley? Colonel Smashley? Like, what is, have you, so that's one question. And then another one would be, do you actually have it on your job resume anywhere resume anywhere that like under like addition nice good I would have legitimately is like a warranty like the fact that you you know what

you said you were all uh nominated for that's that's like legitimately amazing and helpful for the you know the world so that is that's that's not nothing as joy would say. Yep. No, I mean, at the very least, it is a conversation topic. So, yes, I do list it on my resume. Actually, it just came in my email the other day. I got approval from the state of Kentucky to go get a Kentucky Colonel plate with the massonomics like code or whatever. I just have to take it to the clerk's office. So it's like, I don't know, four more steps, but it just came through. So I've got to just get it done.

So I just have to go pay a little bit more money and get it done. But it did come through. That's awesome. Now what's Kentucky? Is that a one-time thing, or is it an annual? What's your cost investment on that? It is an annual $25 thing. That's nothing, okay. I always thought it was a lot more.

Actually, you should look into it in New York. Consider that your supporting membership add-on. Yeah. I want to hear about what Keith rant you think twice a week. Oh, God, it lives, lives in her head rent free.

I think. Oh my goodness. Yes. I actually went back because I did not see a massonomics video posted today. And so I didn't have to watch that. I went back and found the episode that it is this episode 21 and it is keith's rant on people who do not use turn signals and i agree with you keith i mean people should use turn signals when changing lanes so i'll start there but you go on this rant and you say that people who don't use turn signals should just go drive

off a cliff and that you hope they crash and die and this that's the part that has lived with me forever it's not like i have never felt so strongly about anything and you're like in the name of safety i hope you go die. I honestly said something similar to a biker that fucking split lanes and almost hit me this morning, too. So that's good stuff. And it does. It just comes back to me. And I'm like, I don't know if I'm jealous that you feel so deeply about this thing.

That's like there's this dichotomy of like, I really hope you die in the of safety or if i'm like you're a little crazy sir 50 50 somewhere in there is the truth i love when they when they don't signal or they're driving stupid and then you just for some reason or whatever get close to them and you see their car smashed up and you're just like yeah that fucking tracks like hey you didn't signal and you cut me off and you've been hit by other people yeah no no kidding idiot yeah i'm sorry i've been running into so many just awful drivers lately it's been i kind of want to record myself driving sometimes just like you so you can hear me yell the word the c word over and over and over and then roll down my window and yell it at the card. Like, you've been... Anyway.

Anyway. I try not to get mad. Yeah. That's me. I try not to get mad. That's true. I embrace the madness. Oh, we know. Oh. Do you want to get into a game?

Do you want to? Yeah. Do you want to get a little FMK or Mount Rushmore? There's a couple good. I got a good FMK unless you got one. And I got a good Mount Rushmore. So, yeah, that tracks. You're going to do yours.

I got to somehow. Yeah, OK. You know, just. I was going through this stuff. There's just some stuff that I'm excited to talk about. So, Mount Rushmore, Muppets. Oh, goodness. Mount Rushmore, Muppets. Okay, so Kermit has to be up there just because it's Kermit.

I don't even really like Kermit the Frog, but it's Kermit the Frog, so he's got to be there. All right. The next one would have to be Animal. Love Animal. So I have never had a nickname that sticks, but people have tried many times for whatever reason to get Animal to stick. And based on Animal, it has never stuck. But I just love Animal. And so Animal's up there.

He's a really good Muppet. The next one is actually a duo that I love. And it's Statler and Waldorf. They have to be up there. Because they are like my spirit animal. I just love the dad jokes and the like curmudgeon-ness that they are. They make me happy. Then the fourth one.

Let's see. There's so many good Muppets. And this is really hard. The first three were easy. Because you got Fozzie Bear. That's where I would go. I would go with Fozzie. But it looks like you have some ambivalence.

Who else? And I just completely forgot his name. Is it Schmuckums? Who's the other monster one sweetums sweetums that you have him too i love him yeah um but you also have the so my my youngest kids first music or song or music video or whatever his very first thing that he loved from the beginning was the monomena song me too so like you have that guy you have doctor is it dr teeth who is the little monomena guy or whoever that no it isn't dr teeth i don't know that guy's name but he could be up there too just for for the sheer joy that I've gotten out of my kid.

The sheer joy that he's gotten out of the Menomina. But I think I'm going to go Fozzie Bear because I love Fozzie Bear. Well, I don't think we've ever had a lot of Muppet talk on this podcast. And I think a little known fact about me is I love the Muppets. Absolutely. I bought the box set. known fact about me is i love the muppets absolutely i bought the box set i watch it whenever the kids aren't around because the original series was a little more adult oriented um but the music videos the first song that my kid ever oran really got into was um the popcorn song

featuring the swedish chef uh do you ever watch those shorts yes did you ever watch those like they had the uh bohemian rhapsody yes they had beaker doing um what song was that um have an issue yeah shortly after monomena we got into all of that um yeah yeah yeah i'm a huge fan of the utter silliness of the muppets and some of the wild lsd trips of the original muppets i remember i was when i still lived in an apartment and you could rent dvds i'm sure some of us will remember that i used to don't just rent a season and that's what i would watch all the time. And there was this one thing.

It was like some dancers. And they had clay faces. And throughout the dance, they would change their face to do the emotion of the dance. And I was like, that's really cool. But I'm never going to watch that again. Because it's like, I don't even like that. And I'm 20-something. But yeah. No, no, in fact. known fact love the muppets loved your answers probably would have gone with fozzie or beaker of course

oh yeah beaker is a good one i mean there's so many good ones like really it would have to be like four mount rushmore's yes like the mount rushmore mount rushmore's Like the Mount Rushmore Mount Rushmores. Foreheads per head. Yes. I dig it. I have a couple of things. I wanted to harken back once real quick though.

How long did it take you to find that rant? I think there's transcribed stuff on Spotify now maybe. But how long did it take you to be like, when did he say this? So I knew it was an early episode. So I used some of my research skills because this is what I'm good at. I went to Discord and I was like, what dates did people start talking about turn signals? Because I knew what the rant was about. And so I started looking at some dates. So I started looking at some dates and then,

and then I went to Apple podcast because Apple podcast has transcripts and started looking around those dates. And I knew you said for sure. I didn't know about like, I hope you crash and die. I couldn't remember that for sure, but I knew you said, I hope you drive off a cliff. So I typed in cliff into the transcript to find it.

So, and so it was just flipping through the transcripts until I found the word cliff. So it took me like 10 minutes, maybe. Oh, that makes me so happy. Oh, I'm dying over here. That's impressive. I think we need Ashley on doing some more show notes. Yeah.

Go dig up some stuff on people. I always use some supporting member, unpaid uh intern help one stuff i mean this is this is one of the things i don't let questions like i don't let questions live in my head like i need to know the answers i've just gotta like go research it like that's yeah you and i are all left on the same page on some things just not maybe people dying for you know not these return signals but a lot of other things and like our, our, our ticks sound like they line up. Um, uh,

before I hit you with a little FMK, I want to hear. So it's probably something your husband submitted possibly. Um, okay. So it was basically just says that your husband has a mustache because you didn't take his last name when you got married. That is true.

Okay. Um, so I didn't take his last name when we got married. I like my last name. His last name is pretty generic. And we were talking before we got married. I was like, yeah, I would prefer you don't have facial hair for the pictures or whatever. And he's like, well, I would prefer you have my last name. And I'm like,

well, that's not going to happen. And I mean, he doesn't actually care that much, but, and he's like, so I think I'm just going to keep my mustache until you decide to take my last name. And I'm like, well, I guess you're keeping the mustache then. So he still has a mustache to this day. I mean, he's never shaved it off just so he could tell that story. He loves to tell the story more than I like to tell the story. Apparently I have stuff in common with your husband as well. That's good stuff. Alright, so I'll go with the FMK

here. We're going to go with biscuit toppings. FMK. So three that you have to decide what FMK you want to do with. So apple butter, grape jelly, or gravy for biscuit toppings. FMK you want to do with. So, apple butter, grape jelly, or gravy for biscuit toppings, FMK.

What kind of biscuits are we talking? Are we talking sweet? A nice, fresh buttermilk biscuit? Yeah, just a southern buttermilk biscuit, I would assume. That's what I'm going with. Or those. Yeah, that's what I would go with.

Apple butter, grape jelly, gravy. Oh, goodness. This is really hard. You got to kind of just rank them and then, you know. Yeah, I mean, I guess if I have to, I'm going to kill the grape jelly because I can live without the grape jelly if I have to sometimes a grape like a good jelly biscuits

like amazing though but if I have to get rid of it I'll get rid of it uh really love apple butter I don't I guess I'm gonna have to say that I'm gonna fuck apple butter i don't know i guess i'm gonna have to say that i'm gonna fuck apple butter because i don't know that like i could live with it like it's a treat so i'm gonna go with that and then i'll marry gravy because i do love biscuits and gravy nice best place for biscuits

and gravy that you found is it just like mom and pop places or do you have like a chain that's like, oh, this is legit or homemade? I mean, I really like my own biscuits and gravy. But one of the best places that we got really lucky where we lived before that like the Dairy Queen actually that we had in our old town. In Central Kentucky? In the not central. In the fake central Kentucky? In the fake central Kentucky.

It had breakfast for like 40 years because it was a factory. And it was so, it was always homemade breakfast. So it had breakfast before Dairy Queen ever had actual breakfast. And so it was kind of like the hack was like that's where you go get really good biscuits and gravy and stuff because you could it was almost homemade stuff so yeah very nice um i actually wanted to ask um you to tell you this tell us the story of the time you broke your arm or somebody broke your arm i guess is the best best way to explain that. I did not break my arm. I break my toes. I do not break, I did not break my arm. We will get to that.

Yeah. So let's see. I was five. I think I was not very big. And I was minding my own business, playing on the floor with my toys. And out of nowhere comes my little brother from the top of the couch doing the macho man randy savage what is it the big elbow or what was the flying elbow off the top the flying elbow off the top rope and he took me out and i uh hit my arm on I think it was a plastic like oven it like toy oven thing and uh yeah I ended up breaking it and my and I mean I have an older brother me and then a younger brother and um we're all like within a year and a half of each other so like we're all essentially the same age and my mom was like i'm not taking three kids to the er and so she made us or she made me walk around with a broken arm for like five hours until dad got home from work uh so that she'd have to take

three kids to the er uh because my little brother decided that yeah he was going to practice his wrestling moves on me on his his older sister yeah that'll do it my little girl just broke her arm so i wanted to hear that story yeah well yeah we we made her sit with it for two hours because we were just like you're fine yeah like you just fell in our sad and then like two hours later she was still whining and crying and we were like oh no yeah well i mean if it makes you feel any better when my youngest was two he ran straight off the end of our porch our our deck out back and we thought like all whatever. Our deck was like maybe a foot off the ground. And we picked him up and I mean, he whined about it or whatever.

And we didn't think anything about it. But the next morning he wasn't really walking around anymore. And that life goes right grabbing around. And I'm like, oh, why do you flinch on that? And then we took him in and he had a broken leg. So it was like almost 24 hours. So he she's I've seen her take a face first dive off that trampoline and just be upset and she fell a foot and just landed in such a way that she broke her elbow and it's like are you serious yep yep so ashley i hear here that you're

uh you're a big fan of our uh you know, someone put it are retired. What grinds my knurling segment? So I've been sitting here for the last 10 minutes trying to in between topics here, trying to think of something that really has irritated me. Because I've been like for as bit, you know, for as much as I'm known to be the anger guy, it's been pretty good a couple of weeks for me. I haven't had too many things really get off on me. But the one thing that's kind of been pissing me off is so my my my city provided trash can that i pay a significant amount of money for like getting my taxes to get you know uh trash the lid on it's been broke for a while now and i've called so like with the lid being broke my sealed trash smells fucking horrendously when i walk by it because it's not actually a full seal anymore raccoons are getting into it regularly so I'm kind of gonna fucking having to clean shit up every now and then so been very

annoying the last you know month or so since it like since they broke it with the truck like they they broke the lid when they you know because it's got one of the the claws to come out and pick it up and dump it in the thing so like the city broke it with their truck so then I had to call and ask for policemen and they were like oh yeah just leave it up the curb on your trash day until like four o'clock at night and then the next some sometime in the next four weeks someone will come fix it and it's been like it's been about five or six weeks so we're to put a little email out next you know next next time i get a chance but uh yeah that's been the only thing as of late that really grinds me nearly and really not i don't have a big rant for it's just you know i i had

you went out of your way to make a point that you've enjoyed that past segment and I'm sorry that I haven't been, maybe I'm growing up stuff bothers me slightly less I'm sure when I get off this I'll remember seven things that really pissed me off I guess I would say

I've been too busy to be angry What it is it's my voice in the back of your head saying everything's fine yeah yeah everything's fine everything's fine since i saw that in text what is okay um people who go to experts for uh advice or information and then argue with them i get that a lot in my job right like and you know i i work in cell phones and somebody will walk up and they'll go why is my phone doing this and i'll go oh here's why and i'll go into the phone settings and go

into the diagnostic and show them and they'll go well that's just not true and it's like you know what man at this rate like i i i don't know what else to tell you i've shown you the evidence i've shown you how to find the evidence next time i i i genuinely can only show you the outcome of what you've done i can't show you why right or no that's water damage well it's never been wet uh it's clearly water damage. Sorry, man. Like I can tell that your phone has water damage based on the litmus paper inside your phone showing me water damage, but it's never been wet. That's just, sorry, man. It's just not true. I just don't know what to tell you beyond that rate. I just go, oh, well, there's your

answer, fish bulb. I don't have a follow-up for you. So I think, I guess that one has been on my nerves lately because it's been coming up a lot, a lot, a lot. Why are you here? Why are you talking to me then if you already think you know the answer or you don't want to know the answer? Like, why did you make your way all the way here and take time out of my day just to tell me, I don't know what I'm talking about when i've been doing this for 10 years and you've never done this like at that rate there you go that grinds my knurling all right i don't have anything so i'm just happy i came back yeah nice i dig it yeah i mean it's it's nice to not be angry like i yeah I don't know. I mean, personal growth is good. So this is, I mean, I'm okay to let it die. I just, I didn't enjoy it for the few weeks that it was a lot. The things that I have vented about in the past probably still make me angry,

but I've already talked about them. It's like, I can't be like, I don't want to repeat myself too often. I'm sure we already do if you ask the Davids. Everything's fine. Actually, it's funny. When you were talking about Statler and Waldorf, my first thought was the Davids. If I'm being honest with you.

Just sitting in the back, chirping us. When you get on stage. I keep going back to your husband's mustache and the fact that it's... How long have you guys been married? Seven years. 17. So seven years i think that is a that is a nice uh that's like it's probably a nice mustache by now then huh he like trims it up and all kinds of stuff so like yeah it's uh it goes through phases so he'll like make it really long and bushy like i think like civil

war general like and then like it'll get short and like think like ted lasso and then like it'll be anywhere in between he's wanting to like curl start curling it out not like twisty but like i don't know how to describe it just like this almost point or whatever yeah like this uh yeah but like just short like i don't if you had to draw a mustache like without a face how you would draw a mustache almost like gotcha and you had mentioned a a civil war general are you sure it wasn't a civil war colonel did they have colonels in the civil war i don't know it was a i don't fucking know who was talking about being a colonel. Fuck off.

That grinds my nerves. You know what fucking grinds my nerves? When I say something that I know is fucking funny and you motherfuckers are like, I know it's funny and nobody else thinks it's funny. You guys are wrong. You're the problem, not me. Fuck you. Am I out of touch? No, it's the children. It's the children who are out of touch no it's the children it's the children

i love all you guys all right i uh i mean there's a lot more stuff we get into but i know we're all uh i think i think a little maybe just do a little extra unpaid or underrated and be good unless there's anything else you want cherry pick out of the what's left um i don't know you're a worst worst liar ever is that is there a story there like you did you try to lie and got caught or you just is it like something coming from like your childhood maybe someone had said you're just a worst liar ever no i literally just physically can't do it like so i just don't um yeah uh so like even if people are like do you like my shirt i have to like come up with creative ways to necessarily say no but without being like

like i just can't like it's like i will like start blushing or like yeah i have so many tails okay so i just don't do it so when someone shows you their ugly kid and they're like isn't he the just the most precious thing you've ever seen or isn't he such a sweetheart and he's actually a little asshole like you can oh that makes me so happy if you actually get to share that information with the parents well i mean i don't tell people that their kids are assholes but i like to find something like like oh my goodness he has such long toes or something like because you could like compliment the randomest things on babies yeah uh yeah so yeah it's really hard because sometimes you gotta turn to i turn to my wife

and go that's an ugly baby and she's like stop like you can't say that i was like it's an ugly baby i don't tell you i'm sure it'll grow up to be a great human but it's an ugly baby i don't tell you i'm sure it'll grow up to be a great human but that's an ugly baby i don't know that makes me happy all right we're gonna skip the wrestling talk this week for all you whiners but i do see some wrestling notes in there and i'm gonna not do it all Alright. So the last one maybe is kind of really random. Weird old music. What does weird old music mean?

Like the Funny Farm song? Like they're coming to take me away? Like is that type of stuff? So I'm going to guess what weird old music means because I don't think the music I listen to is weird old music. But I don't listen to new music at all. Like, I would say 95% of the music I listen to is older than I am.

Think like Neil Diamond, Jim Koshy, Frank Sedatra. All those names are here. I try to pick big ones that people will know, but you can go Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings. I'm not really genre-specific. Just give me old music and I'll probably like it. I will be talking to people Not really genre specific. Just give me old music. And I probably like it. But yeah. So like I will be talking to people.

At like work or friends or whatever. And I'll say things like Jim Croce. And they're like who in the hell are you talking about? And I'm like what do you mean? Who am I talking about? So I'm constantly explaining. Like old music to people um yeah oldies and stuff so yeah i assume that's what that means all right i was hoping you'd listen like that

wheat like some arbitrary random dr demento or something that just was that weird but no that's literally just old music no i do actually have like favorite nonsense songs though like where the lyrics i think are nonsense so things like two out of three or three bad meatloaf like i mean some of those lyrics are nonsense i love that song. Yeah. I mean, it's an amazing song. Like one of the, like to post on my Instagram has meatloaf as the like, um, yeah, but,

is that song, but, or MacArthur's park where it's like somebody left the cake out in the rain and I don't think I could take it because it took so long to bake it. Like, it's just nonsense. Cause like the second line of that song is like, is like something about a striped pair of pants. And I'm like, whatever. So like I do love nonsense songs too.

But and I do have a playlist of those. But yes. So maybe that as well. Is there a funny story about you getting dressed up for your Algebra 2 teacher? Is there a funny story about you getting dressed up for your Algebra 2 teacher? For my Algebra 2 teacher? It just says, under things they hate, getting dressed up for her Algebra 2 teacher. And I thought that might be a funny story. I'm going to guess those are two separate things.

I hate getting dressed up. Okay, sorry. And I really hated my Algebra 2 teacher. Yeah, I don't know if it's Nate's app or what, but someone... Oh, blame it, Nate. I'm thinking someone just didn't use punctuation and commas because a lot of these things run in together and I'm like struggling to pee. Okay, so that makes

sense. Okay, so getting dressed up slash her algebra 2 teacher. So you didn't like her algebra 2 teacher. I didn't. I got in so much trouble in her class because I would argue with her about using calculators. I would like refuse to use them for basic math when she would really want me to. And she then randomly

argued with me about which Caesar was alive when Jesus was crucified. Again, my dad's a preacher, so like I kind of have some like basis theology and homilons of this stuff. So I'm like, it's not Julius Caesar. She's like, it's totally Julius Caesar. And I'm like, it's not Julius Caesar. It was not Julius Caesar. It was not Julius Caesar. And so I went home and I'm like, hey, dad, do you have literature that proves that it wasn't Julius Caesar

like in the timeline of all of this stuff? And he's like, yes, here take this book. And so like the next day, because I am this person or I was this person in high school and I took the book to school and was like look, teacher it wasn't Julius Caesar

and she's like, whatever like obviously you should have just let this die like we just did not get along with each other but that's okay but julia caesar's the only one i know therefore he was alive forever and ever as long as caesar has existed exactly i mean exactly that was essentially the argument it felt like. I love proving people wrong. It makes me happy. That definitely does not grind my knurling. Getting dressed up is unpaid for sure.

Yeah, fuck that. Shorts and a tank top, me all summer. I work from home. Getting dressed up for day nights and stuff when me and my husband go out like it's like jeans now i'm like do i have to really put on real pants like even at work they're like you

need to be in dress shirt and dress pants all week and then i was like i'll give you a good pair of jeans and a golf shirt and that's about what you're getting out of me going forward for the rest of my career if i if i rip through one more dress shirt at this job just because like getting bigger i was like i'm not the golf shirts it is at least they make them kind of stretchy now right so what what's up with the uh daughters of the american revolution was there something is that something you're trying to get into i am i am working on joining it is a this is a i don't want to say a secret society it's not secret um it's a society that it's like a club and it's kind of an ancestry thing like think rotary club type stuff for people who can prove direct descendants

from soldiers or anybody who helped directly helped within the american revolution i've got some direct descendants who fought in the american revolution i've got several and i'm kind of a nerd on like ancestry stuff and just if anybody has not figured it out so far just in general um and it's an old lady thing to do and I mean I'm kind of an inner old lady uh in a semi what am I a submaster's body um so I'm just kind of embracing the oldness of my soul early and joining now and so i can go do fun stuff like they like restore old graves for soldiers and things like that so yeah yeah they're a charity group and they just go around doing rotary club was a good comparison from what i gathered in my research my very very brief research

yep the reason I even did research was we're gonna talk about this or am I gonna as soon as I saw the name I was like oh I'm gonna look that up before we get involved in that yeah there are some that are like daughters of that you do not want to touch. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll never be a part of anything called the Brotherhood. Thank you. So, yeah. Do you want to move on to the paid and underrated?

Yeah. So do you want to explain the rules to our first-time listeners, actually, of the unpaid or underrated game that we play? Yeah. Unpaid and underrated is essentially unpaid is well, you don't want to be unpaid. So that means that thing's not giving you no money and underrated is like more people should pay attention to this kind of thing, but it is going to be based on

your feelings, right? So you can also you can do whatever you want compared to the what am I wrong? I asked Ashley to explain. Oh, fuck me. You said, can you? I spoke and you said, can you? Did I say Ashley or did I just say it?

No. You did say Ashley, but I'm okay with Joe having Ashley. Yeah, I'm Ashley for five seconds. We could all be women this podcast. It's good. Yes, I'll be Ashleyley for five seconds i'm sorry i didn't know i didn't hear you say ashley i tried to let i mean i didn't really want to explain it either so this all works out well look at that i got you i got you i was fucking up when

i explained it so i felt the discomfort and was like you know what i'm actually now look at me all right well we got uh we got several here we're trying to try to and if there's anything else we didn't go through general topics we we can kind of cherry pick in here. So unpaid or underrated. I'm going to go with so many good ones. Let's go unpaid or underrated using the word howdy. Oh, that's completely underrated or underrated. I use it all the time um like it is so fun to use first of all people get a kick out of it and it completely disarms anybody so if people are coming at you

and they're like in somewhat of an angry mood or whatever and you say howdy um it's almost hard for them to stay mad at you um either way it just starts things it starts inner actions off on a on a fun foot so i use it all the time uh and it's my favorite like salutation is it salutation yeah so no yeah so i would say greetings yeah because the phrase is greetings and salutations which why would you because people say that but it's like why would you say i guess it's just more stating that this is greetings and salutations that's weird okay so the word howdy underrated i would tend to agree so i think i say it a lot on the podcast do i pretty much anytime joey introduces me i feel like i always say howdy howdy is that am i getting that right would you notice that as a I think I say it a lot on the podcast. Do I pretty much anytime Joey introduces me,

I feel like I always say howdy howdy. Is that, am I getting that right? Would you notice that as a, as a loyal listener? I don't notice it, but I also say it all the time. So I don't happen to notice. Doesn't stick out. Okay. I feel that I do.

I feel like I kind of, I kind of feel like I say howdy fair amount. Cause it's just, I don't know. It's a fun, it's kind of what it's just, I don't know, it's a fun... It's kind of what... As Tommy would say, it's my niche. I thought you were doing it to mock me because after Tanner and Tommy went to Michigan to interview Dr. Mike and visited Elite FTS, Tanner started the podcast with howdy. And I specifically said, I don't know why but that

irked me because he's never said it before did i subconsciously do what the fuck that's him so now we have to have ashley go back and see if i ever said howdy before that episode yeah because i i remember saying like i don't know why but you've he's never said it before and i think i said the phrase i said traveling changed you because now you said howdy on the podcast i think he's been doing it ever since and yeah i thought i thought you were doing it because you know that that one time it no that makes me that that's hysterical that you think that but like maybe so maybe i really don't think i have i think it's just no there's no way i get i get into a rhythm and i just like consistently say the same i'm just being

narcissistic everything's i do really enjoy that i'm like it really disarms people it makes them less mad and you're like it really pissed me off it grinds and knurling so it was only because like don't think in all the episodes grinding, all of the episodes I've ever listened to, Tanner's never said it. And then that one, when they got back, he said it. And I was just like,

uh, that doesn't sit right with me. And I don't know why, but again, it's just because it's out of the norm, right? Okay. So unpaid or underrated.

Ooh, so many, um, Chris Christopherson. Unpaid. Cannot stand his voice. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yes, for sure. Oh, my goodness.

He can write a song. I will give him all due credit there. He can write a good song. He cannot sing for anything. Cannot stand his voice. So, I'm going to give him an unpaid. All day, every day.

Now, is that just as a vote? Well, because, OK, so that's well, OK, well, the next one is a vocalist. Yes. Yeah, because I'll segue into the next one because that actually. All right. Christopher Copperson unpaid. So another one here. I'm going to go with watching movies unpaid or underrated.

Also. Unpaid. I heard that. I don't watch movies like i don't really have anything against watching movies i just have better stuff to do with my time uh so i just don't do it like i got yeah so i specifically followed up with that one because to me chris i know chris christopherson i mean he's almost like a hybrid. Like he did so much. He did so many movies in the 70s and 80s. Like, like there's a handful of movies like the like, I always get the two football movies from the late 70s or the 80s mixed up.

But he was either in Semi-Tough or I think he was in North Dallas 40, which most people listen to this one. What the fuck I'm talking about? Because these are like pre I was even born. Like these are like I Googled like football movies and it's like they're just on a list of like 50 football movies that i went and found so nonetheless but like uh convoy it was a very like not great movie but it's where one of the songs came from and stuff but like i don't know i was out of like highway man like that's probably the which was like a collaboration um i don't know a ton of chris christopherson that i would hang my hat on and be like, oh, he's awesome. So I guess I would say

I would agree with being unpaid because he is very popular. I think he wrote like me and Bobby McGee and like Sunday Morning Coming Down and stuff and like I like those songs. Cannot stand him singing them. And like, yeah, I've never seen any of his movies. Yeah.

I just don't watch movies. So yeah. I feel that. that okay you know what same thing with bob dylan can't stand the guy's fucking voice oh yeah he's overrated i mean he is overrated he or he is unpaid uh but i i don't mind bob dylan uh so me and my kid me and my oldest kid went and we would go see broadway shows we had a season tickets to the cincinnati broadway uh and they had the girl from north country which was a whole show based on bob dylan's like bob dylan's songs worst show ever don't go see it just this is a like psa for people just don't go buy tickets it's the worst show. It's awful. Don't go see it.

So, there we go. We can move on from there, too. Wow. Also, unpaid. You got more there, Keith? Well, I had one that I was going to ask, but I must have misinterpreted earlier, because someone, I swear I saw Twister, and I assumed it was the movie, but you don't watch movies.

No, so I love that movie. Oh, okay, so that's the one movie you have watched. So have you seen the sequel, Twisters? I have not seen the sequel, Twisters. Probably won't because I don't watch movies, but I do love Bill Paxton. And so that one would definitely be underrated. Okay, that rounds out my four. So I went a little over, but I think you always got a handful of good ones left.

Yeah, I do. All right, unpaid or underrated, broken toes. I mean... I hear you're an expert. I am an expert. I have broken every single toe, so all ten at least once. every single toe so all 10 at least once uh and it's a fun conversation topic because i can say hey i've broken on every single toe at least once but they've really it really sucks so i mean i have to go unpaid because it really sucks to do um but yeah it is fun to kind of talk about the

fact that i've broken every single toe. Did you break every single toe one time or how many have you broken at the same time? So, I mean, I've broken the most I've broken at one time, I think is two at once, but I've broken every single one like on separate occasions, least once i've broken several several times i have some really jacked up looking feet um i'm not getting on like any of the foot websites anytime soon uh because nobody wants to see that sorry mofo uh but yeah because i don't even like tape up the toes or stuff anymore there's nothing you can do like whatever yeah i'm just like whatever i'm just gonna deal with this now um yeah okay how does that happen like i'm so confused do you have like i got is it do you have extra long toes to just get caught on stuff calcium deficiency

i don't fuck how does that happen i mean i i think i mean I don't think I have like abnormally long toes, but I do think I have longer toes. So they do get caught on things. I'm also like, grace is not my middle name. Like I am not the most graceful person in the world. I trip and fall a lot. No, it is not. And so like, I mean, I just trip and fall or I kick things or whatever. And so, like, I mean, I just trip and fall or I kick things or whatever. Like, I mean, the one time I broke two toes was because I forgot there was a 25 pound plate on something and it just fell and I broke toes.

Like, yeah, so. So that sounds painful. First, I want to point out the amount of times that this episode has had the phrase long toes is more than three. Also, somebody gave her a Macho Man Randy Savage elbow off the top rope to her toes every single time is what happened.

Keith. There you go. Yes. Yes. Who said long toes? Who said long toes before me she did that's what she said about complimenting the baby

the baby has nice long toes and then you're like do it long toes and then she said long toes I never broke a toe I have little short curly toes I don't know no those are hairs unpaid and

underrated rick flair oh so he oh goodness this is a hard one because i mean he's i feel like he's pretty highly rated yeah i mean he's the he's before sean michaels the goat right like yeah nobody's ever done it better he's pretty highly rated but i do probably have an an abnormal like love for him as like a sociological like figure um i'm sure that makes no sense whatsoever like I loved his 30 for 30 like he made me sad like his 30 for 30 made me sad but like for him but like at the same time

like he's Ric Flair and like I totally follow no context Ric Flair memes on Instagram because they make me giggle all the time but I can't say that he's unpaid like because he's Ric Flair because they make me giggle all the time. But I can't say that he's unpaid because he's Ric Flair

so I guess I'm going to have to go. But I can't say he's underrated either. Oh goodness. But has he lost some good morale? Or good... With all the shit...

The airplane ride thing. Then there are a bunch of accusations of him good morale with or good uh you know like with all this shit that was it was a the airplane ride thing well then there are like a bunch of accusations of him like groping and like you know he okay so like maybe he pulled it out so so okay so then i'm gonna go unpaid yeah like so i mean i don't like keep up with him that much. So, all right. But still did a lot of amazing stuff for wrestling, right? You can't argue that. Saw him deadlifting the other day on Instagram, I think. Like an 80-year-old.

Well, he's not in bad shape, except for the alcohol. Unpaid or underrated knitting? except for the alcohol uh unpaid or underrated knitting so uh underrated um i knit um it's again one of the old lady things that i do uh it's something to do with my hands like i'm a fidgeter and so i was like let's totally make fidgeting uh productive and so like essentially knitting is productive fidgeting um and I can't tell you how many times I've actually got like dirty looks or literally in trouble at work for like pulling out knitting like during the middle of meetings or training or whatever what I've had when I would have to be in person um because I'm like I'm just sitting here let me be productive and I would start knitting um so yeah knitting completely um underrated it is it can totally turn into an

expensive hobby because there are things like yarn snobs and like you could totally turn into that and i sort of am i totally have a stash of yarn versus bad yarn yes i have preferences don't come at me with like acrylic yarn or anything that's not like merino wool at least yeah i was gonna i was gonna bring up merino wool and if i mean and me i don't have time to hand wash things so it better be super wash uh merino wool so that i can throw it into like a washing machine uh because i will hand wash a knitted garment once and then i will not do anything else um one fun fact about my knitting is when I was giving it away to people and I do I give it away to my nieces and nephews and anybody like because I knit hats and little animals and

scarves and stuff um I came up with my own little brand um one of the there are only two stitches in knitting a knit stitch and a purl stitch so I called it mini like the size m uh n e and then pearl with like the stitch and it was like the mini pearl brand uh and it was hats because you know mini pearl like the country singer always had like a little tag that came down from her hat so anyway i had my own little knitting hat brand for a while until i ran out of tags and i never reordered them my wife is a knitter so i yeah as soon as you were like the wool snobs is like seek out the shit yes i currently have a pair yes she actually is on rivalry.com okay uh let's go with the last one unpaid or underrated paying your mortgage to the right place completely underrated oh my goodness i'm sure my husband told

you about this because i know i did not put it and he's the only one who else knows about this so yeah completely underrated you should totally pay your mortgage to the correct people yeah so we just moved I hope Jeff is listening this is great financial advice and so

I was setting up the automatic bill pay and everything through my bank. And somehow there got to be an extra six in the account number as I was setting all of this up. And so my mortgage went to the wrong account, it seemed like. And I didn't notice until after the payment had posted and everything. like, the wrong account, it seemed like. And I didn't notice until after, like, the payment had posted and everything. And because I was using, like, their bill pay stuff, like, the bank was like, well, you used ACH, so we can't, like, dispute the charge.

So call these people. And they were like, well, and, like, hemmed and hawed and stuff. And I'm like, are you serious? Like, did I just lose my mortgage payment? Because, like, I'm an idiotwed and stuff. And I'm like, are you serious? Like, did I just lose my mortgage payment? Because, like, I'm an idiot and can't type in numbers correctly. And, like, why did you not have to, like, make me confirm this number? Like, because I literally, like, typed it in on my phone, like, once. And then they were like, oh, it all sorted itself out or whatever.

And, like, I don't know. It took, like, seven calls. And it's all good now but for a couple days there it very much was like i literally just have to eat an mortgage payment because i randomly sent it to somebody i don't know who and they don't have any reason to send it back to me like of course yeah it's a little bonus for them i guess but it all worked out that's good but it did it all worked out um yeah it ended up being okay so but yes pay your mortgage to the correct people okay uh bonus round unpaid or underrated screaming uh screaming is completely unpaid.

You can live your life without ever having to scream. I physically cannot do it. I have tried I don't know how many times. I cannot scream. And so, yeah, you just it's a skill people don't need. It's like a cartwheel. I can't do a cartwheel either. You don't have to be able to do that.

So if that's a skill people don't need, why is whistling through your ear one that people need? People don't need that either. I don't know who told you that one. I don't think I told a permanent tube in my ear because I had ear problems growing up. And I realized at some point in my childhood that if I held my nose and closed my mouth really hard and tried to blow out, that it would actually come out my ear and it would make a whistling sound. And I could whistle out of my ear. But it would give me the my ear and it would like make a whistling sound. And like, I could whistle out of my ear, but it would give me the most massive headache ever. So I feel like it should. Oh, I haven't done it in forever.

I don't know if I still can or not, but like, don't try. Yeah. I don't want to like, I'm not going to, but like, yeah, that was the thing I could do for a while.

That's a pretty good story i like it all right i think you passed unpaid and underrated indeed especially the explanation part that was really good work of you yes all right uh do you have anything for us did you have uh you know as a long-time listener you you know what segment we're on now? Anything you want to hit us with? Sure. I mean, we're getting a little into it. So I'll give you some like kind of rapid fire stuff. I don't think this question has been asked yet. So I'll ask it of you guys. How many of the mass and nomic sponsors past or present have you all actually bought things from so i'll tell you there are 10 total that there have been at least that i know of

uh and i can run through them yeah you can go through them for that'd be ideal yeah i'll do the fingers yeah we'll do the hands down fingers down when all right so build fast barefoot string co win. Alright. So, Buildfast, Barefoot, Stringco, Juggernaut, Texas Powerbar, Stringco, or not Stringco,

Swissco. Swiss Lake. I have it written down wrong. Yes. Spud Ink. Too many Inks and Co's and Links. Hybrid Performance. Lifting Large. And Fusion Sports Performance. What's Lifting Large?

It was... Grab Lock Deadlift Slipper. Got it. Okay. Yeah, Keith and I are both at... We're not going to say who. We're not going to say which ones. most of you could figure this out if you knew us but i think we're both at half half how in the hell do i beat you all but i think i think you said there were 10 but i think you only said seven no okay whatever 50 so keith and i are both at 50%. I have six. Alright. Cool. Alright. That was a cool one.

Alright. Next one. Next rapid fire. How much sawdust can you put in a Rice Krispie Treats until people start to notice? Fuck. Like percentage. Per square

or for the entire sheet? Like, percentage. Percentage, um, fuck. 30. No, like, 8. You think 8, really? I mean, I think it's somewhere

in between 8 and 30. Like, I think 30 is a lot. Yeah, like, they're pretty anyway right like like so i mean the good okay so i put it this way if you buy an off-brand one and it's the first time you had it like so when crew falls chris big chris mark couldn't find like the name brand uh kellogg's rice crispy treat so he bought some bullshit walmart one with sprinkles and they tasted like dog shit those could have been 50dust and I wouldn't have known because it just tasted like shit. But a repetitive Kellogg's Rice Krispie treats that I know exactly the texture, the taste, the smell, the flavor, like how chewy it is, how much pulls apart, like all that.

Because I've eaten fucking a thousand of them. That I could for sure, if it was less than, if it even got close to 10% of a variance, I would taste it. But the question wasn't how much salt could Kellogg's put in your regular treat. Well, I don't eat fucking homebrews. It would be like if you were... Now, that's my Rice Krispie treat, though,

so that's how I'm interpreting it. If you were bringing Rice Krispies... Brothers, fucker. If somebody brought Rice Krispies to a party, and every party you increasingly added sawdust, at what percentage would people notice? I say 30, because I think that they're generally gritty

and terrible to begin with. 30% is a lot, though. At that point, at 30%, you're completely changing the texture of them, I'd feel. Are you? Because they have a terrible texture to begin with. It would literally be... 30% is such a high percentage that you would literally be...

It's not sand. Because as someone that's been in carpentry a lot, if you're cutting something with a circular saw and fucking sawdust goes in your mouth, you fucking taste wood. I'm gonna taste fucking wood. Oh, goddammit, someone's gonnary a lot. If you're cutting something with a circular saw and fucking sawdust goes in your mouth, you fucking taste wood. I'm going to taste fucking wood. Oh, goddammit. Someone's going to make a joke. Yeah, I was going to say you're going to taste this wood. Ugh, you fuckers. I hate

you guys. Yeah. Nate, episode title, Tasting Wood. Yeah, I don't know. I have digested sawdust. I know. I don't know. Do you have an answer for that or did you just want us to argue over it? I just wanted you sawdust. I know. I don't know. Do you have an answer for that or did you just want us to argue over it?

I just wanted you all to argue. I have no clue. It's literally one of those questions that I just ask people to throw them off the card. Yeah, it's a great question. There's no answer. Nobody has studied this because we're not psychopaths. No, I don't go making

sawdust Rice Krispie treats just to like as a social experiment. I should, but I don't. If there's any sawdust and Mary's Scotch Rouges out there and Tanner's just fucking with us. All right. And then we'll end on a fun

note and we'll make this the last one for me. That was fun. Yeah, I enjoyed that. But I want to know everybody's favorite dad joke. So, like, just the ultimate dad joke. I will go last. You go, Keith. I don't.

I literally can't think. I don't help. I mean, everything I say would be considered shitty dad jokes. I don't know. I don't help. I mean, everything I say is like would be considered shitty dad jokes. I don't know. But I'm I I don't know. I I haven't literally nothing. So I have a physical like gag and then like an actual like joke, like a spoken one. And I'll start and then maybe you can like think of something.

So I'll start with a physical gag. This was one that my grandfather did all the time. And he always carried a pen with him like in his pocket and he i don't know how many people he always caught with it but he would always say hey i got this new pen and it writes purple do you want to see and he would and they would be like inevitably say yes and so he would pull out a piece of paper and he would pull the pen out and he would write the word purple on the paper. And whatever color ink the pen was, that was not purple. He never had purple ink. So that that was just a classic for me.

And then like the spoken word one, because it cracks up the small children in my life, nieces, nephews, and otherwise so much. It is the Pete and repeat joke. So you'd be like, Pete and repeat are sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who's left? And they'll be like, repeat. And then you say, Pete and repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off.

Who's left? Repeat. And they just like, you just keep going until they like crack up or go crazy. If they're an adult and really want to kill you. So, yeah. Uh, so that actually is a very good segue into our friend, Matt,

who sends his regards that he could not be here today, but he did send me a joke. Um, he sent me a couple. I'm not going to go with the one that he wanted me to go with because... Fuck him. No, it's about dogs, and I really don't want to do that. So, we're going to go with this one.

What brand of shoes do chickens wear? Reebok? That is a good one. All right. And then I will give you my favorite. You know when you look up and you see geese flying overhead in the V, and one side's always longer than the other? Do you know why they do that?

Because there's no geese on that side. Yeah, I think you've said that one. Yeah, love that joke it just is such it's a non-joke and i love non-jokes non-jokes are really good yes yeah so there you go that's my answer to those ones and shout out to big matt for sending me some jokes this week appreciate you buddy i i don't have it i i couldn't tell you a single day i don't know any dad show i don't that did not resonate anything with i don't think it was like um if i happen to pass wind in front of my father-in-law he'll always sit and make a comment about barking spiders is that a dad i don't know no no i don't know your your area of expertise is what I would normally call grow humor or dick jokes.

Yeah. I don't... I'm not in a very much company that has to be PC very often. No, but your segues are usually... would be described as dad jokes every once in a while. When you get a really good one, those are kind of dad jokes. One out of four are pretty bangers

and the rest kind of fall short, I feel. Yep. It's a numbers game. Alright. That was fun. I enjoyed all that. Yeah, that was a good time. And my little girl actually slept through the whole thing. So either I wasn't that loud

or she is really asleep um i think a couple weeks ago somebody asked me about the sheepskin blanket that i had hanging up there she actually demanded to sleep under that tonight so she is my little feral child sleeping under a sheepskin blanket right now all right keith where do we find you buddy uh keith honeycutt 73 go follow my orange jam then a wine cellar please hit us up on the affiliate links obsidian barbell rescue plate snacks and home gym con i'm joey underscore molesco uh just use our affiliate codes i do have one with lift hard be kind they have a pair of great shorts they're not cheap but they are really high quality and you get 10 off using my code which is joey10 um and then you have our

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