Unpaid And Underrated - 070 : Quick Pickle

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Emet. They dive right into great topics like the December to Remember event, Ohio, lozenges, conjugate, hot pot, powerlifting drama, and monolifts. 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 @emetruizreyes (https://www.instagram.com/emetruizreyes/) 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 Emet.

I just had a peppermint lozenger thing and was sucking on so I had to get rid of that and welcome back to episode 7 of the unpaid and underrated podcast I'm one of your hosts Hong Kong! I am drinking a Clear American. This is their red, white, and blue pop. So it tastes like a bomb pop. It's pretty good. They're 78 cents at Walmart. Unfamiliar. Is that just like a spark? I mean, it's not a sparkling.

It's bottled. But what is that? Sparkling water can be bottled. It is a sparkling water. Okay. When they're in a bottle this size, they're not as bubbly as like a can. So it's like half flat already, but it's 79 cents for a large amount. That's pretty fair.

Exactly. The price is pretty good. Hard to beat. Flavor's really good. Good. I like that. I like that. I got the old Wegmans Lime again this week because, yeah, the grocery stores are hard to get to. Not really.

No, it is. By that, I guess i mean grocery stores that have a variety i get the same like i get the same six and i rotate them like you know we're not uh we're not big uh you know midwest guys over there that have the variety of all these stores i don't know where they i feel like they say something different every week and i'm like i don't know if they're sitting there like if they're shopping all over the fucking country or like where they're getting that much variety or maybe maybe they are saying the same ones every four weeks and i'm just not picking up on it but i feel like it's like they have a lot more variety but they also probably like the variety whereas i like like four sparkling waters and i'm gonna drink the same four sparkling waters until i die so it's just mary it's mary's shopping ingenuity she just knows where to get things

i have the same thing i have been having for a while the non-alcoholic guinness i love it definitely a little uh a little easier when not everyone's shit cannons it's a little it's a little easier to host a podcast that way sometimes uh as you and uh as we talked about it on our pre-show a little bit we're we're all wearing red tonight so joey and i are both rocking the unpaid and underrated shirt there are last day tanner just texted me this morning and said there's only three three spots left uh you know so you guys better get on that and help us buy that speedboat and uh big item which uh which red shirt are you walking rocking tonight buddy i'm rocking the raw power mass

nice that's that's a good one it's got my favorite animal on it sorry to go wrong with it red shirt are you walking rocking tonight buddy i'm rocking the raw power masonomic shirt nice that's that's a good one it's got my favorite animal on it it's hard to go wrong with it i think it's always funny too because i lift equipped so raw power is just uh i mean you might you do you at least stretch raw maybe like i mean there's there's something in your in your in your whole ability that you do raw, probably. It's not Saturday. Let's not get into that. Jason Coker puts it in Westside versus the raw.

Lifting raw is easy. You can do it all the time. Yeah, that's true. Did you get a chance to watch the Strength Co. video that they put out last week? I think it came out on Friday of last week. Nope. All right, it was pretty good. they just talked about the plates uh it was tanner and tommy tommy must have been in town for something and uh you know they kind of went through

and it was funny i i feel like uh there was one time where they were like oh there's a there's actually i think i might be mixing up one that grant did but between the two because grant did something similar on one of his videos where they were like we're showing off the strength code plates that have kind of like been been in like open weather for a couple years and they're like oh there's some rust on it and you just like scratched it off basically because it's just surface for us so it's pretty cool to see that they uh both had some similar content come out uh so knowing now that tanner and tommy have been in the same room together those guys better get to some of the drinks we brought to them at the lift card. Live easy. That's true.

Right? Like I thought the idea was that Tanner Tommy forgot to bring them home so he couldn't be reviewing them. And now that they have them, they're still not reviewing them. Well, let's see. I'm trying to, I mean,

they had to have been together at least once problem. I don't know. I don't know if they've been together. Cause a lot of the YouTube videos are recorded earlier than, you know, it's not, you know, they have a handful bags,

but yeah. Cause at the last, at the last episode, they have a handful banked. No, because at the last episode, they mentioned they were together pretty recently. Gotcha. Well, keep your eyes peeled, I guess. It'll stay tuned, if you will. Did you see the little powerlifting? We have another federation now. That's 100% what we

needed. Are you talking about mine? Oh, well, yeah. Did you start the fucking dilf dilf power lifting or something the power lifting extremely expensive power operations operative or something yeah yeah you know what's funny is as i posted that i was dying i was laughing so hard at making a pee poo joke and i was like how do i turn this into a pee pee poo poo joke and i told morgan about it and she goes you know what i like it so much i'm gonna join twice and i was like there it is that's the elite level that's the pp poopoo level two two two simultaneous memberships yeah you just pay the membership twice and you get to pp poopoo anyway no I don't give a fuck about the KGB.

I don't care about any of that stuff. Higher lifting drama is so bozo bullshit. I used to lift at WRPF. Yeah, it might affect them. I'm curious if it'll affect you. That's the only thing I get because it sounds like anyone that was running WRP meets them in america's pretty much switched gears um i am curious though if they got anyone because you have your your canadian contingent of the wrpf up there i'm curious if they're going to stick with the wrpf or if they're going to get kind of brought

in under the umbrella so that's something uh that actually actually that'd be the not that i even care that much i was just i'm sounds like wrpfF is gone in America now at this point. So when I hear something, you'll hear something. Sounds good. That sounds good. But everybody go join pee pee poo poo. Yeah. Yeah.

It's the, it's the best new. Cause now like Dave's not even in XPC. Like I guess that's, uh, I think he's still old. I didn't, I didn't,

did I miss that? I kind of saw the sentence. We got kicked out of the XPC. Oh, I didn't see that. So Did I miss that? I kind of saw the sentence. We got kicked out of the XPC. Oh, I didn't see that. So maybe that's worth a direct message. But I know that they were they were set to host the Arnold and they sent out invitations. And then somebody else was like, well, here's all the invitations for the Arnold. And Dave was like, I thought we were doing that.

And apparently they were like, oh, no, we changed our mind. I didn't tell you what the fuck. Yeah. So they're they're going to do their ownnold with hookers and blackjack or something and and forget the arnold so get uh it's almost worth getting katie and dave on in a couple weeks and if we have an open spot just to hear that one because that's uh yeah i want to hear someone talk some shit that sounds that sounds pretty entertaining to me uh the whole xpc thing with dave's always been really funny to me yeah because the

xpc is like it's literally run out of one gym in columbus ohio and it's a geared lifting gym and a geared lifting federation and solely geared lifters with monoliths so dave only really joined when he said well i'm gonna run it like uspa because i'm not buying all this other equipment and they're like okay i need someone to host meets for me and get my you know make go make me some money and i'll let the all can change all these rules for you guys. Because that was literally two months before the meet or something, maybe not even, of the 2023 meet. And he proceeded to put on the most legit XPC meet ever,

the biggest XPC meet ever. I know a lot of people have literally just kind of treated it as a joke and if you've ever been to the xpc at the arnold it's probably the worst power lifting me ever like they start lifting at like 8 or 9 a.m and they're not done until after five yeah i was there you and i were there together on Saturday and I actually don't think I watched a single person lift the setup last year at the Arnold was really weird yeah because they had it set up to where you were facing like an aisle so if you're squatting you're literally just facing everyone who's deciding just to walk right by it so like that's exactly what you want to see when you're holding hundreds of pounds on your back it's just people just walking right in front of you not caring at all about what you're doing

yep actually yeah that's a good point i do remember thinking that was that was a weird decision oh well like i said we don't need any more power lifting feds we just need pp poopoo well speaking of decisions i got a i got an announcement i want to break for you guys some breaking news. This is big keys, big announcement. I got to let everyone know. I'm stuttering here during my fucking big announcement. Are you going to cry?

No, but I am leaving. I'm leaving Western New York this December to go to Crew Falls, baby. Running it back. Going back to Crew Falls December to remember. Booked my tickets last night. So I'm excited for that. I'm just excited for the selfies that'll come out of that one. The drunken

stories of, what was your favorite part of the week? This is Big Keith. The mass of the 2023, where it's like a 40 second intro and then like the person talking for 20 seconds and we're all drunk yeah that'd be good stuff but no the wife talked me into that i was very much on the fence i was definitely 50 50 if not more like 40 60 to not go and then she was just like just do it like if she was like what's holding you back i'm like just the money and she's like it's just the money it's like whatever just to

fucking do it so you know here we go so hopefully it doesn't snow too much, but I'm excited. So if anyone's going, you know, start to coordinate that on Instagram and DMS and shit, we'll get all that figured out. So we'll stay at the hotel. And my only thing I want to happen this year that didn't happen last year, if Tanner and Tommy's listening or anyone that, uh, you know, lives in crew falls, just do something Friday night too. Like I know a lot of people might not be coming until Saturday, but anyone that is there Fridayiday like let's try to coordinate better than last year because last year's friday night was a shit show so you know i'm trying to love to get some friday stuff everybody just show up at little sweeties just crash bryce's don't even tell him you're coming

good live with his sister and his mom. His sister is significantly stronger than him. We all know that. The odds of me being at the Crewe Falls is really slim. Mine were very slim until yesterday. Yeah, unless somebody's going to help me pay for it. Because, yeah, it's been an expensive couple of years. So, yeah, the odds of me being there are slim. It will be my 40th birthday. Oh, nice. In the first two weeks of december as well

so we had talked about maybe that being my birthday gift but i don't think that's that's like yeah me paying for my own birthday 10 years of birthday like like what's it what's a you know like what do you have 100 200 dollars that's kind of like what you spend on your spouse for your birthdays give or take so that's like that's like five to 10 birthdays pretty much. So I feel that for sure. Yup. Yup. Yup. Anyway, uh, I saw one cool thing on, I saw a pretty cool thing on Instagram today.

One of my buddies who's a, who's a, uh, like a, a boutique powerlifting gym owner, basically, uh, he has these accountability white, uh, chalkboards. So it's like, do you, do you know, like the, uh, you know, the, how many days since the last work incident kind of, you know, like boards I'm talking about. So something similar to that. But it's like, how many how many times has this person been in the gym this year? And it's like two guys racing to see who had gone to the gym more times. One was the guy had put a how many months since this person last vaped.

And another one was how many days without uh consuming uh energy drinks so i just thought that was really cool and i'm trying to think how i could correlate something like that here like what would be what would be cool enough of something to track of like either doing it consistently or actually eliminating something from your life uh that's actually tracking like have on the like basically like on a billboard for people so i don't know i'm just not think about that but it's just like it was something cool i'd never seen that uh he shared it in the stories like that's that's really like team building kind of thing because it's all positive shit yeah i haven't lifted in over a week

uh if you guys want a quick update uh the the day after we recorded last week i was pretty much dead uh it got to the point where i couldn't stand walk or talk so to the doctor i went and it turned out i had something called a rhino rhinotic rhino something sinusitis which is an inflammation and infection of my sinus cavity so for those of you wondering what that feels like, imagine a balloon inside your brain that is slowly expanding every time you do any. I couldn't get out of bed without, I was in tears after our podcast. I was in tears and I told Morgangan i'm very scared i don't feel good um yeah so we we got on some pills for that and then today the pills were supposed to be i think this was their their 10 day cycle today would be their sixth day and it feels like it's coming back so we're gonna see how

tomorrow goes but yeah um you know just quick update on on anybody that was possibly worried about voice last week or my appearance matt pointed out a couple times i look like i was a zombie that's what it was and i don't wish that on my worst enemy that was uh some of the worst pain i've been in so i can't lift because obviously any exertion yeah right now on my sinuses is going to be the worst of times so i i can't raise my voice can't yell you can't yell can't even raise my voice to the kids i can't do anything that's even remotely exertion on my body or or anything so so that antibiotics or is that just like yeah i was on antibiotics uh pills and a steroid spray one would take the inflammation down and the other one would kill the infection. But we'll see how I feel in the morning and make sure I don't have to go back.

So breaking news, Joey is no longer Natty. Yeah, yeah. I'm on the nasal trend. But either way, I thought I would give everybody a, because some people did reach out and ask, because I did post a story the next day being like, well, figured out what this was. So I figured I'd give everybody a bit of an input there. But yeah, I don't want anybody to ever get that. It's because I have allergies.

And what I was doing was in order to breathe, I was doing a nasal spray. That was like one of the rinsers that goes and like rinses out your nostrils and kicks it out the other side. Oh, yeah. I think that infected me i think that was what what did me in yeah that's unpleasant and yet he said said rhino sometimes why this makes sense because i think isn't i think rhinoplasty is something to do with like a nose with your nose yeah so rhino whatever and then the sinusitis was the yeah right worst of friends. Please don't get that. Yeah, that sounds like as bad as getting your Instagram account that has 400,000 followers deleted like fucking Paul had there recently. And then just stop calling people names.

Well, I mean, he tries to like a lot of it is like you're a cunt. And then it just cuts to black. But it's after he called him a cunt seven times. So it's always like so I'm assuming enough butthurt people just report him and he you know just gets pulled down so oh now we know the limit is six yeah apparently six c words before you get banned i think we broke that in our first episode probably um i have a very uh brief story so our buddy over at bremmy strength dm me today uh and he was like uh on on instagram he was like did you order something today and i was just like no i didn't

get it no i haven't yet and uh he was just like because i guess there was someone that came in with the name honeycutt and he was like he just you know thought it was kind of funny because it's even spelled the same way which a lot of i see honeycutt out there a lot but it's usually not spelled the same way and then uh he was like i think when i was gone while i was gone he said something the extent of like oh it was a david and he's like not one of the davids just just just a david honeycutt and ironically obviously anyone listening for too long should know my name's first name's actually david and i was like well my name's david honeycutt and then my dad's name's david honeycutt too but he didn't buy anything either and then uh he was like oh

this this is a you know somebody, somebody from a, you know, I don't want to dox anyone and say where, but like, you know, this guy's from this state. And I was like, well, ironically, that's where my parents were on vacation right now. So it was just like, it was just like, there was like seven levels of just like, you know, wow, that's very strange. So, wow. You know, in a, in a weird turn of events, the same thing happened to me. While I was dying last Friday, I got a message from somebody just close to me here, right? In 45 to an hour minute drive going, hey, I'm also a Molesko.

I've never met another Molesko, but I just saw one of your reels. Like, are we possibly related? And so, yeah, that's fun because the answer is yeah the answer is that the answer is no we were not related we don't know each other's grandparents or anything like that but like yeah that was that's interesting that that kind of happened to both of us there because is that so i guess i is that i so you're saying that that's not a con like i i'm assuming canada you know like it's it's like smith and johnson like the most popular names up there too.

Or the Canadians have their own, like most popular last names or most common last names, if you will. It's definitely not Malesko. Okay. Sounds fair. No, that is a small world though. Which leads us into a big Emmett. Do you want to rate last week's episode with that? They had Mitch Hooper on.

Who? Yeah, I don't know. One of Joey's buddies. Yeah, we got to meet Mitch the Friday night of the Arnold. That's when he came by the booth. We got to say what's up to him then when he was talking to

Tanner and Tommy before his infamous meeting with Huck Finn. I forgot about that. But it was a good episode. I love how Mitch Hooper just kind of keeps it real in everything that he does. Like, he's not afraid to tell people his thoughts and feelings. And a fellow strength coach.

So, big fan of him. So, we'll give it a five out of five atlas stones nice what about you joey what'd you think of it uh obviously was kind of excited to listen um did appreciate the shout out from tanner for you know um the only polite way of saying it is harassing mitch until he did it. The first time, the first time was at the deadlift party at pure muscle. I wasn't even,

I was wearing the get a grip shirt. And then I was like, man, we got to get you on the massonomics podcast. And he was like, yeah, I've heard of them. I'll check it out. And then I think at the Arnold,

I was talking to Tanner about it. And Tanner's like, yeah, we just couldn't make the schedule work. then he kind of went radio silent and then at the other meet where i'm volunteering and steve's daughter's there and i finally get up i'm like you remember me and he's like not really and i was like oh we met here and here and here and he's like oh yeah yeah okay i was like let's get you on the massonomics podcast and i had actually messaged tanner uh the about two days before and said like oh what should I say

to get him on and Tanner said well he was really worried about scheduling and he's like but you just tell him we will change and record at any time to get him on and Mitch went I don't want to be that guy and I was like

all thousands and thousands of the Mathsonomics listeners want you to be that guy like get was like all thousands and thousands of the massonomics listeners want you to be that guy like get on there we want you on it's a silly time you already know what it's about so it is really cool that tanner that tanner shouted me out for that because like it's kind of embarrassing when you're meeting the world's strongest man at a powerlifting meet and you're like hey get on my friends podcast not even on mine It's like, so I have a podcast and my podcast is about my buddy's podcast. You should be on their podcast. Yeah, like that's such a weird dynamic.

But it was really cool. You know, not knowing too much about Mitch's personal life. I did meet his wife and baby at that meet. And they came up a couple of times. Lovely, lovely people. And yeah, it was really cool. So I'm going to give that one a five selfies with Mitch Hooper. Nice.

Yeah. I enjoyed it. Uh, it was really cool to hear, uh, you know, Tanner talk, you know, throw out Joey's name. And I think I had even DM'd, uh, Tanner prior to that, once I knew they were going to get Mitch on and he had mentioned that, uh know you know your influence wasn't nothing as you would say so it was uh so that was pretty cool um my favorite i have a couple favorite parts but one of them would have been um when when greg or sorry when when mitch mentioned some of the people he's worked with or wants to work with or hasn't worked yet and he had mentioned uh greg douchey

at and uh i think i'd have to go back and watch the clip but i'm pretty sure tanner fucking started to bust a gut when he uh mentioned greg douchey and like they didn't really say anything other than just like oh yeah we know greg but they didn't uh you know obviously spill the beans or anything about the you know the the enormous bit they've been going on with but i just really found that amusing like i i like i just feel like like dan or i were like and you know we had the same mindset like oh he just mentioned that douchebag uh i did the same thing i said i'm sure hopefully most of us did yeah and then uh when he was talking about fucking huck finn and i was just like yeah yeah that's uh huck finn's been i don't know he was such a jackass that that

weekend and uh it was kind of uh you weren't even there I've met him multiple times and I've seen him you know every time I've met Huck he's been about the same guy so it was just funny like how he really was just like you know he was worried about how he was talking to his wife and stuff like yeah yeah

I just got a kick out of that whole thing that's a hilarious like I remember I don't usually watch it on YouTube so you want to give your rating I'm gonna Yeah, yeah. I just got a kick out of that whole thing. That's hilarious. Like, I remember, because I don't usually watch it on YouTube. Sorry, you want to give your rating? I'm going to give it a second. Yeah, we'll go ahead and give it five out of five Mathonomics enormous iPods. Enormous.

I think it's one of the few times that I've watched it on YouTube, right? The kids were in bed. It was just the perfect storm that I was like, on YouTube, right? The kids were in bed. It was just the perfect storm that I was like, wait a minute. I have an hour and a half. I can sit down. I'm going to watch this. And the story he told of Tom being like, Karen, get me a beer.

And Karen's like, F you, you've had enough. And he's like, just do it. Shut up. And she's like, no, you've had enough. And he goes, all right, don't worry about it. And pulls one out of his pocket. That's me i would do that right but only because i know the joke would be i have one in my pocket the whole time but i guess blackout drunk already yeah he was like this is like he's already blackout drunk like

uh on the friday oh yeah yeah absolutely tommy told me he was like i'm not touching anything other than beer today you're ridiculous um yeah so i thought that was i thought that was really funny i called morgan in and i told her the story she's like you would do that i'm like yeah that's hilarious i don't know i i i enjoy tom and in in short bursts because i think uh i can match his energy i do have a dude bro side of me um that you know i don't go into some of the other aspects that we won't say the words but i don't go into some of those aspects but like just the being a loud jackass i do have that in me it is a character i can play so when me and tom get together it's it can be quite hilarious so i can see both sides of that story but i can also see saturday he might have been worse you think

he was worse saturday because that's when him and i were like having the most fun and that story but i can also see saturday he might have been worse you think he was worse saturday because that's when him and i were like having the most fun and that's why i avoided him when i was with you actually how was it were you at the booth when he was there with dr mike no i was a little after that and that's when dr mike was like i'm gonna hit that guy like that was yeah i thought dr mike was gonna fight him yeah Yeah, I think last year, Chris Duffin and him had a few choice words. That's what led to the chase match. To the tag match there. No, I didn't see any of that, but...

No, I think I told... I walked in and I had my cooler and just Huck gets in my way. What do you got there? And he just reaches in my cooler and starts pulling out my beers and my energy drinks. And then I just immediately go off, right. This is my only energy drink. And then he's like,

yeah, I won't steal it. Then ended up giving it to him later anyway, but it was just like, I see you once a year. You're way bigger than me, but I can talk to you like this, but it's just cause like,

we just are so close. And Karen was like, that's Joey. Be nice to him. Like it was awesome. Uh, quick little side thing here. So obviously if anyone follows huck

you've seen him he's been trying to like you know piggyback some stuff off of uh joey swole and like call you know you know he's doing a whole bit where he's basically you know saying this is okay it's not actually bad so then so not that's not really relevant to my story my so speaking of joey swole here my little segue is like do you ever think like do you think he's legitimate or do you think he actually is like taking money from these girls he's put on blast just so they can get their only fans in front of fucking like 400 000 eyes that people are going to go like find their account and shit you think i mean i don't think necessarily that's probably what's happening but like it's not not, like he's, that could be a pretty decent revenue source. Um, I don't know.

It seems unlikely. Cause it's, he, he definitely like, unless he needed more. Cause he, the reason, the reason he's not on massonomics right now, I'm pretty sure is because he just wants money. He won't make appearances without being paid. All right. And I think that like, he has enough revenue and enough followers that I don't think he'd need to do that.

But at the same time, I don't care. I like Joey Swole. I like the gym positivity movement. I do think you should stop being gross in the fucking gym. As much as I want to support, you know, women making their choices and doing that kind of thing. You know, we've had friends, mutual friends on this podcast that do that type of stuff. No, I'm not here to judge them. We've had mutual friends on this podcast that do that type of stuff.

I'm not here to judge them, but at the same time, if this is a public gym, don't... This is going to be gross. Don't snail trail my barbell. That's fucking gross. Don't do that because it's just gross. It's bad behavior, and people that would do that type of thing professionally would know better. So that's just my professionally would know better. Yeah. Right. So that's just my opinion on that one.

Although it is funny when Tom goes, Nope, shut up. She's hot. That's also funny to me. I don't know. Tom throws me the wrong way with a lot of that stuff. It's just like,

come on, man. Like I know he's, but he's also just doing it. Like everyone is character. Everyone's been fake for likes and shit. So I don't know. He's, he's going through some shit too.

I think he's having some kind of surgery today. If you follow his stories and like his, you can tell he's not really making any new, like everything he's posted the past week has just been like old shit or like him. So I don't know. I was really sure. He can take a break.

He can chill. Hopefully he's all right. Yep. Hopefully. Um, well, I think that'll wrap up general topics. So big Emmett,

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at mastanomics.com, listen to the podcast wherever your podcasts are available. Perfect, perfect. Well done. I think that's time we got to kick all these looky-loots out of the Discord and go ahead and get the guests on the horn what do you think joy yeah while we're doing that just a reminder um massnomics.com join and come join the crew be on this podcast you can have as much fun as emmett just did with me and keith talking for 20 minutes sorry emmett let's get let's get our guest on the horn so he can have a chance to talk

Big Emmett is that you buddy this is me I'm here alright now the first thing I want to get out of the way is we've been calling you Emmett this whole time okay because that's what you know you are in the discord and everything like that but what should we be calling you right now

Big Emmett is perfectly acceptable perfect perfect okay so on discord you are should we be calling you right now? Big Emmett is perfectly acceptable. Perfect. Perfect. Okay. So on Discord you are? Big Emmett. All right. And where can we find you on Instagram? That's a great question. I actually don't know what my Instagram handle is.

I know I follow you. I think it is Emmett Rees-Reyes. Yes, it is Emmett Rees-Reyes. So that is my full name, essentially. Keith, did you just eat another pepperette in one swift move? Oh, God, I'm glad you caught that because that I was supposed to put that in the notes earlier. It was going to be what was Keith eating segment real quick.

So right before the podcast, I was like a little low on protein. I was like, all right, we're going to eat real quick. And I had this. It wasn't by old. I mean, like it's been in the house for a while but it didn't expire till next year but my wife had bought a remember that uh that that brand epic i think it is that they make like the really good bison meat sticks um yep so they have this they have this like little jerky pieces of uh like wild salmon and my wife bought that a while ago and i took a crack at that right before the podcast. And I about fucking puked.

Like I literally was, I took about four, I've just put four pieces in all at once, started chewing. I was chewing for about 90 seconds, I feel. And I don't think I actually really consumed too much of it. And then the smell started to get to me.

I literally had to go to the bathroom or run to the fucking kitchen and spit it all out. And like, I was dry even it was, it was, it was bad. Like it started out. Okay. Cause it was like, it was like a maple leaf flavor. So it was a little, I mean, it all out and like i was dry even it was it was it was bad like it started out okay because it was like it was like a maple leaf flavored so it was a little i mean it was

kind of like just think of like a good moist kind of jerky or a a fish pepperette if you will but god damn my wife was like really concerned because i was literally like just a sea hare away from like actually regurgitating like other food i definitely spit all that out and had to go wash my mouth out and that's why when we uh hit the uh cold open i had a i had a fucking uh a cough or not a cough drop but a uh a fucking jolly rancher thing or something a peppermint patty whatever the fuck you i'm i'm gonna go ahead mint a mint in my mouth i'm gonna cut you off for a second i'm gonna see what everybody that's listening to this is thinking yeah no keith you ate the cat treats that would have been bad you should really check the bottom of the bag before you do that no they were definitely no that's the 100% was human food but i funny enough while i was i was eating them

in the kitchen just standing there and my one of my cats came in and kind of plopped down and was looking at me and as soon as i opened the bag she like she she didn't get up and like start going crazy but i had never seen her just lay there statically and just like sniff and look like she gave me like three or four real big sniffs and like stood. You should just give them to her. I wouldn't fucking wish that upon my worst enemy. I can't. My loving cat. I can't for the life of me.

Imagine eating dried salmon jerky. That sounds bad. Awful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it. It is all in the trash now and it will never be bought but that's a good like that is a good brand like they make really i've had multiple of their uh pepperettes and uh they've all been great but yeah you ever had that the shitty jerky chew or it's just jerky powder i got that as a way to like help get over rubbing. What the hell is

the point of that? For me, I literally use it as like a as a stepping stone to not chew tobacco. But it's also a gateway for kids probably to chew

tobacco. So not a great thing. All right. Well, anyway, back to our guests. Yep.

Big Emmett. Big question. We ask everybody what brought you to Massonomics how'd you get here how'd you end up on this silly podcast i actually don't know how i found massonomics like i don't remember how i found them um i just remember one day just kind of being a part of it. I remember meeting Tanner and Tommy

at the Arnold pre-pandemic listening to the podcast and then just following along. Then really got involved with the crew and stuff through Big Eddie. We became friends headed off and like

that's just kind of like where a lot of my involvement came with and then being able to like help them at the arnold uh like this year since i was living i live so close to columbus like that was pretty easy to to go help with i yeah yeah you're from ohio like i know i know you're pretty close um so um you know part of the big notes that we got was that uh you love ohio and that it is your it's your favorite state um you know so truly glad you were there to represent ohio and columbus that was awesome yeah i hate ohio it is uh it's not my least favorite state that would be west virginia hey fuck you this podcast is over bye big teeth logan out um and having a drug i just drove through west virginia this past weekend hated it like every other time i've driven through with virginia beautiful so oh my goodness no well yeah what is it what is it about like yeah so i i you know just for a

reference i constantly trust north dakota but it was just because driving through it like the highways are just garbage they're just it's there's no good scenery it's just dead shit everywhere and then a series driving through north dakota when you're going from south dakota into canada is nothing but like i want to say oil buildings and just like propane buildings it's just not pleasant is that what your west virginia because i know west virginia is very pretty those interstates are just rock walls. You're just looking at rock walls. You're going up and down the mountains,

and you've got a million turns with a million trucks on it. You just don't like driving through West Virginia. Yeah, I don't like driving through West Virginia. I've not spent much time in other parts of West Virginia. I got you. Okay. I'll forgive that then. I was waiting to see if there was like a, you know,

oh, it's because they're Embraer. It's just that it is a hard place to drive through, especially when I go home now, like the speed limit's 70 and it should be 65 because it's really fucking dangerous to go 70, 75, 80 on some of these fucking windy roads. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to go 65

even though it's 70. Fuck you. I probably grew up driving fucking 80 when I was 16, yeah, I'm going to go 65, even though it's 70. Fuck you. I probably grew up driving. I'm fucking 80 when I was 16, but not anymore. It can get dangerous real fast. All the rock walls, all the like all the barriers on the sides of the highways with all the snow and stuff in the winter. It's crazy. the few nights that I've spent in West Virginia one of them was because our car broke down because some rocks fell off of

one of the rock walls and took out our tires so that helps with the hatred I can see it but yeah Ohio's not far behind like it's just like I don't know it's just not a whole lot in Ohio for me

if you like dead deer ohio's fucking top tier bud dude my parents fucking uh my parents clipped a deer and totaled their car fucking yesterday i've been like my mom's but then my parents have been on like a 12 week huge vacation just driving across the country and they're in michigan and they fucking hit a deer like 10 o'clock last night and in like a dead zone too um so they had to wait like hours to be able to flag someone down to get them to like take them somewhere to even call a fucking service truck and yeah I can like my I get my temper from my dad and I know my dad did not have a good day um you know just they can imagine being like on like the back end of a fucking several day you know like a week and a half vacation and your brand brand new to him truck that he's saved up

for the last several years to actually purchase and just fucking clips of deer and now and and they're fucking you know 15 hour drive from home so even if the truck isn't totaled and does get fixed they're gonna take a rental home and he he's going to fly back out and then drive the truck home and take all this time off. And yeah, sorry, but I just I felt so bad for my parents dealing with that right now. My mom's like texting me every couple hours, like updates like that. Yeah, that sucks. I was in Michigan are awful, too. Yeah, they just have no money to take care of their roads.

So there's just a million potholes everywhere you go. So specifically then, are you from Ohio? So basically... No, I'm from South Carolina. Okay, so where are you from? Where do you live? So you're from South Carolina. Where are you at now? Yeah, I grew up in South Carolina, in the Midlands of South Carolina. I know there was quite a bit of South Carolina talk a couple weeks ago with Big Grant.

Former South Carolina boy. So I moved to Ohio grant and former South her, you know, former South Carolina boy So I moved to Ohio for college and then just kind of never left So I was living in Toledo, Ohio Met my wife while she was living in Detroit And then when we got engaged we moved to Toledo And we've just been kind of living there ever since. But right now, I actually live in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Okay. So happy about that change to get out of Ohio, it sounds like.

Yeah, I moved from a city into a really small town. And that's more my style. Nice, nice. You mentioned Midland, south carolina is that where like the midland college powerlifting team is or is that completely different i don't know i don't know that's fine i just i didn't know if you i didn't know no you said midlands i didn't know if that was like a uh if that's like upstate yeah it's in between upstate and it's in between that's what what I feel. So South Carolina is split between an upper and lower state is how they separate it for like high school athletics.

Okay. My high school, whenever they redraw the lines, every six years or so, whenever they do that, switches between the upper and lower state. Interesting. So when I first started high school, we were in the upper state. And by the time I finished, I was in the lower state so did you regular so like is big grant right like people do regularly say upstate like you're saying upper state and lower state but he he just you know off the off you know like a like a gunslinger just says upstate like is that is that yeah that is the region that he lives in he lives in the upstate of south carolina uh there's a few like there's the midlands the pd region um and then i think just like the coast is just what people

call the coast i figured exactly if that has but i grew up in the pd region of south carolina and moved to the midlands so so what got you uh was it your job then it got you to the small town that you're in now in kentucky yeah yeah so i I work for the U S army as a strength and conditioning coach. So I work at Fort Campbell here on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee. Nice. That's awesome. That's awesome. No, it was at a, was that a, was that, it's always like, I always find it intriguing when like, when, when couples like move for one person's job, like how's that work for the other person is, you know, that's in your, then your wife has to find a job or does she commute or she work from home like you just in general always find that to be pretty interesting of like as someone who's in the same place for 15 years and has no intention of moving

i'm like oh my god it would take an act of god to get me out of here yeah so right now we uh we live separate so she still lives in toledo for her job so um when i moved here we were i was told that it was going to be at the start it was going to be, at the start, it was going to be three, four months because the Army was redoing their contract with strength coaches. And like the U.S. Army does, they've pushed that deadline back a few months. Then they finally chose one, and now the deadline's being pushed back again. Now the deadline is being pushed back again. So it's going to be like a few more months until like, I know for sure whether I'll be still here at this base or if I'm moving another base or anything like that.

So we didn't think it made much sense to, to move both of us. No, that makes sense. Fair. How, how far are you guys apart right now? Then like what,

what's your, what's your commute look like on the weekends or something, or however often you guys get together. So it's a, it's a technically a seven hour drive, but the time difference makes it eight. what's your commute look like on the weekends or however often you guys get together? It's technically a seven hour drive, but the time difference makes it eight. Because whenever I go back to Ohio, it's going back into the eastern time zone. It's like a seven hour drive and then you immediately lose that hour. That's got to be brutal, man. That's definitely going to be a test of your

hopefully, I mean, long distance that hour that's gotta be brutal man that's uh that's definitely a test of your you know hopefully hopefully uh oh man i long distance it how how i'm sorry how old are you guys uh i am 32 and she is 33 and oh that's it's you're still you got a little more you got a lot more energy at that age than i would now so i can say but no good luck yeah we see each other uh about once a month every other like maybe every other week just kind of depending on like what's going on um thankfully like the u.s army loves a day off so we get quite a few fridays off to where i'm able to just drive up for the weekend that makes it a lot easier yeah that would be helpful, that extra day. Yeah. All right.

Well, it sounds like you got a lot of time on your hands, so I'm assuming most of that is spent contemplating what Mastanomics merchandise you had not bought yet. So what's that one piece you basically slipped through your fingers and it's not available anymore that you wish you got? Oh, the Pocket T is the one that I've missed every single time. Being one of the few people on the crew who wears a 4X, you've got to be quick on the trigger to get those. I never thought about that, yeah.

Yeah, those go very fast. But yeah, the Pocket Ts. I love a good Pocket T. I love to keep my phone in my pocket. Those run so small. I felt like that run ran... i'm trying yeah i feel like that ran just a hair small but i don't know so a 4x might have been uh it's like a 3x i don't know but uh i'm still like i'm still because i have an xl right now that i'm gonna have to lose like 25

pounds to probably get back into comfortably if i want to so uh but no that's those are good shirts um i did i do really like it when i was, you know, basically before I had gained a good bit of weight last year, I was, those were my, like, uh, my, my casual Friday shirts. Cause I could, I could, you know, if I had an office day or something and I wasn't in the field, I could wear it, you know, still get a little massonomics and bling in there, but still be like, you know, it looks like a Carhartt first at a glance. So those were very nice to have for like a casual work days. Yeah.

Bring back the curl hard. So go ahead. Do you get that? Are you up to date on your Hall of Fame status? Do you know what that is? This gets me into the Hall of Fame. Oh, shit. This is.

Yeah, this is the thing that does it. I'm pretty sure. Oh, fact check. Yeah. Well, i don't know where like my card is it's somewhere in my apartment i didn't bring it with me when i moved but uh i got the spread i got a spreadsheet if well well i'm pretty sure this is the thing that gets me this is number 12 yeah that's awesome yeah if i can uh i can send you the like a picture or a list of everything and then you can uh if you don't have your card or can't find it, just mark off the ones that you did and send it to Tanner so you can get your mug.

Just remind me to do that after the episode if you get a chance. But no, that's awesome. Congratulations, maybe. All right. Do you want to hit him with the least fun, most fun? Yeah, yeah. So you and I have this in common we we use uh some something we both have been you know doing a little bit lately so our well first off you're

familiar with least fun most fun just new new game we like to play so if anyone listened for the first time this is a game i'm going to give uh we give big emmett here a topic or well yeah basically a topic and he's gonna tell me the least fun thing about it and the most fun thing about it and uh we're gonna hit him off with college football 2025, the video game. Oh, the least fun is the ultimate team. I just don't care about that at all. I think it's just like a useless feature in all the video games that they've ever made. That's the least fun.

The most fun is playing as michigan and just running over whoever you want usually ohio teams and in your case you're just like you fucking ohio teams fucking yeah and it's it's really funny because like uh one of my friends is a giant ohio state fan it's been playing like his dynasties with ohio state and i'll literally just randomly get a text it's like michigan's impossible to beat i was like yeah i mean they did win the national title they have a lot of talent the video games just showing reverence to the team they should be yeah i was uh super stoked when that game came back i think it was gone for what like oh nine years or something 11 years 11 okay yeah, that was so yeah, you would have been 21 when it went away. Twenty two.

Yeah, I was I was at least almost 30. So I heard, well, late, late 20s. So that was a big deal. Like a lot of people are like like my peers are just like, you're excited about a video game. You're fucking almost 40. And I'm like, yeah, like I played this game from like 12 years old till like my mid to late 20s. Like every year. This was back when you went and like bought the video game at the mall at the GameStop at fucking 1150 the night before or whatever.

Where, you know, they did the midnight release on Thursdays. And like I've never waited on a game. Like I would never do that for Madden. It was only college football. So that shit coming back. Like do you think overall it's been like kind of a letdown like just overall the game itself or do you think it's lived up to i think it's lived up like to the hype to everything like the the memes of how like

some of the glitches online are funny um i've not come across any of those and maybe it's because i'm not playing head to head like i just play dynasty um and that's kind of how i've pretty much have always played the games we used to we used to like create we used to play tournaments for money and stuff when i was in high school um but other than that like i've always just played dynasty for however long i can run one i my my i have a couple nitpicks on it. Recruiting is too time consuming. Like I like all if I'd also do I do I do offline franchise or offline dynasty. And like it takes me like four hours to do a season, even if I'm like only playing like two games. And then I just want to like because I really only want to play the game. I just I enjoy like the just the overall like just get to the next season and getting your classes and

everything like i enjoyed that more than playing fucking like 16 goddamn games and just back-to-back games like i want to i want to see progression in my team so i i really enjoy that but fuck the recruiting it's so time consuming and then it's like and then you sometimes you'll get like number one class and then other times you get like 30 class and you put the same amount of effort into and like mother this is just a pain in the ass but uh other than that and then like a couple glitches hit offline harder because they don't put the effort in to fix them and because they don't care about offline as much as they do online so i got fucked with like i couldn't edit athletes when they came in in the recruiting class for like basically like three weeks and i'm like well

this i best might as well just not play for a while so i don't know but i think we put joey to sleep so i will let him hit you with a couple questions no i was actually going through the the stuff i i i went through earlier and i was just like okay what can i take out of some of this stuff um yeah i like there's a lot here what do you have against sarman i mean you just gotta fight the forces of evil like that's kind of what like men are supposed to do all right so yeah apparently they can you explain who that is for the people that might not know would you be wild if they don't listen to that i don't know you'd be surprised there's probably a lot of people that don't know who that is um my wife probably even though she's seen the movies definitely does not remember who that is it was like eight villains that have a name that sounds similar so i'm like which is that

is that like the original bad guy or like the newer bad guy i don't fucking i'm watching and i'm watching like the new rings of whatever like that's hard but y'all see the meme going around about saruman it was like all right saran is our bad guy now we have a man that works for saran so saruman is going to be his name yeah super super uh what's the word creative definitely creative yeah but it's creative some of the new pokemon is uh it's uh it's a it's a sandhill and it's got a shovel sticking out of it we're gonna call it uh sandy sky yeah that's a sandy sky nailed it one of the best ones is the pile of trash yes yeah yeah it's literally just a garbage bag and then when you it evolves into a pile of garbage like or just the uh the vanilla ice cream scoop yeah oh god i forgot the name it looks

yeah i just started playing again i think um in the past couple of months so i've just been learning about all these new really wild and crazy Pokemon that don't... I mean, they make perfect sense, but at the same time, no, I was used to the Pikachus and the Squirtles, and now I'm catching a Spookaboo, which is

like a fucking half-octopus cat pumpkin. What? Are you on a seizure, or is that a thing like that sounds like something yeah it does sound like a fever dream doesn't it do you play pokemon go i don't play go that often just because i always forget to take my phone out of my pocket um i started playing the video game again like last year in the card game again last year oh card game yeah the card game was a you can play for free on your phone so that was how i started playing the card game again and then started playing an actual like cardboard

cards but it's a very good way for me to get my brain from thinking about lifting weights or like programming lifting weights, because that's normally what my brain is doing. It is constantly running through different ways to manipulate loads and manipulate accommodating resistance, just pretty much everything that you can think of to get stronger. That's annoying. Like even playing video games, like my brain is constantly thinking about lifting weights. But if you play a card game that a little six year old is going to talk trash to you while you're playing, you want to win.

And so you think about what you're actually doing. And I have lost to like a child who was talking trash to me the whole time. And it is one of the most frustrating things in the world because you can't be mean to a little kid while you're playing a card game. Yeah. No, absolutely not. What is your favorite video game right now besides college football? Elder Scrolls Online is one that me and Paige, my wife, what is your favorite video game right now besides college football uh elder scrolls online

is one that uh me and me and page my wife uh play um quite a bit it's uh if you ever played any of the elder scrolls games uh morrow and oblivion and skyrim being like their biggest ones i know skyrim the other one so uh this came out a few years after skyrim but it's a massive multiplayer multiplayer online role-playing game mm-hmm mmorpg yeah i only know of that because of and you know what the one thing i think we don't talk about enough world of warcraft yeah so it's similar similar to world of warcraft i mean that was like since i don't think it was the original but it's always been the biggest and it's still pretty large never played that one this is the first and only one i've ever played um but it takes place in the world of the elder scrolls

like lore and all that stuff uh but it's a pretty fun game where you just get to run around like fighting evil spirits and i don't know whatever else trying to destroy the world at the time always something always there's always something that needs to destroy the world well and that's why we need our you know our army strong so is that what you're doing over there like uh so are you doing i guess we kind of touched obviously you know you're doing some subcontract work for in you know strength and conditioning for the army so do you want to explain what that actually means what your day-to-day is what you're like you know what is your physical job every day and how did that happen that's kind of what i was wondering how

did how were you like i'm going to be a strength coach and then for the army? So the strength coach thing happened. So I started college doing athletic training. So more of the rehab and injury, the like control part of athletics. So I started college doing that. It's not really for me because that essentially is, hey, we're going guys some pills we're gonna tape his ankle we're gonna send him to the doctor not really a big fan of all that so i ended up like leaving that uh then when i went back to school it was for strength conditioning because like something i've always done i started lifting

when i was like 11 or 12 um my dad was the strength coach at my high school. So I've always been around it. So I started lifting young. What did your dad bench when he was in high school? Probably 405. That's the right answer. Sorry, I just had to get that in there. And yeah, so went back to the school for that and did like the,, like, the internship stuff you're supposed to do at colleges and all that.

But college strength and conditioning is also, like, ridiculous. You're going to work 12 to 14-hour days, and you're going to get paid very little money to do that. paid very little money to do that. And so there was just a job posting on LinkedIn for the H2F program for the U.S. Army to where you can just go be a strength coach for them. So I applied, got that job, moved here, and then what we do is we are so right now there are seven coaches that I work with. We're stationed with a brigade

and on base and we run all their pt so like we are we literally everyone knows every morning the army does pt like you see it in every single movie that's ever been made about the army they're going to wear their shorts and their shirt that say army on them they're going to do they're going to run and do push-ups and pull-ups and do sit-ups right like that's been pt forever in the army and there are still plenty of people in the army that wish that was all they did um but a few uh i don't know how many years ago now but the pt test changed and it's called the Army Combat Fitness Test now. They start off with a three-rep deadlift. Yeah, with a trap bar, right?

Yeah. It's a trap bar, three-rep max deadlift, followed by a sprint drag carry, which is just a brutal event where they're literally sprinting. They're going to carry kettlebells and drag a sled and do a couple more sprints with that. And you're trying to do that in the fastest time possible. And then it's push-ups, planks, two-mile run are also all part of that. And a med ball throw.

So that's the new tests that we help them get ready for. so that's the new test that we help them get ready for and then also get ready for any other testing they have to do here at Fort Campbell we have to do a 12 mile ruck once a year so 12 miles with I think it's 55 pounds in under four hours and then in the army you got to be able to run four miles in 36 minutes so so you're giving them programming or like you're getting. Programming. We coach them. Like we do run.

So like the brigade has a few thousand soldiers in it. And so we have. Each company has like their own little gym in a box. I was going to ask that. It has a couple racks where they can do that there, or we have an actual gym. And now we have like the company's called Beaver Fit. They make these gym and essentially containers.

So we have a few of those. So we have, I think, 24 racks where we're able to run soldiers through. So every morning we do PT with them, whether it's lifting or running or rucking or just circuits or whatever else, you know, they might want to do to help them do soldier stuff. So we run them through PT and then. Sorry, this isn't like bootcamp, right? This is more like established,

like people that are already like in their jobs doing their day-to-day military gig just happened to be at the base. And they just, like, they have to do this test annually to still be active basically. Okay. What is, um, what's some of the heaviest three rep max deadlift you guys have seen or heard of? Like, and it's, uh, it's, it's, it's just a single low handle trap bar. I'm assuming it's not, it's not a high handle, like rack pull kind of height, right? Yeah, it's a low handle. For men, it maxes at 340. Although you won't let them do it more than that, just for safety. They don't need to.

They don't want to. You can get up to 100 points per event. For men, it maxes out at 340. There are some guys who are literally going to do three reps that day, and they're going to do 340 for their three reps. I think they're not going to warm up. They're just going to go do their three reps. Big,

big, big Sam's in the army. Shit. Okay. Okay. Well, that's, I feel better now about our country's safe safety.

No, that's, that's really cool. I like that. Yeah. There's a couple, um, couple soldiers that we've had who like do participate in powerlifting and strongman.

So they're obviously quite a bit stronger in the static lifts than the rest of the soldiers. And they're a lot easier to coach and everything, too, because they're used to the movements. A lot of times you're going to get someone who has really like they have no idea what you know they're supposed to be doing what things are supposed to look like so it's quite a bit of teaching which i can imagine yeah no that's really cool and that sounds like you're happy with it and it sounds like something you can kind of stick with that well you said you're you're basically your contract was supposed to be up but they just keep pushing it back so you're just kind of like uh don't know how much longer you have there or like you're you do you do you

work for another company that they are are you a private contractor i guess is my is my main question yeah so we're civilian contractors like we're not you you individually you don't work for another company that got you the job you you just you know you file your own taxes whatever on your social and like that's no so we do work for a company okay yes there is a contracting company that has this contract with the army that hired all of us um and so yeah so we just kind of so even if fort campbell runs out that you might you'll get potentially go somewhere else then yeah and the main issue is uh it's just like the number of coaches um why like i might have to leave this base to go somewhere else they're opening up a couple new um like the h2f program the health and human performance or fitness or whatever it is i don't know um is like expand

it's not at every base so it's expanding still okay so they're opening up new bases a couple this fall um and then more next year and so like they're just constantly having to try and figure out where to put coaches okay but there's not it's not necessarily there's not there's not more coaches in their spots really then so it's not like you have job security just a matter of where you're going to be working. Yeah. That's awesome. That's good. That's cool. Hopefully in the future you and your wife can kind of figure that out and be closer together and get stationed somewhere.

Either you can go somewhere where you're pretty much guaranteed you're going to be here for a few years and then it's worth her moving, or you can just get something close enough. Is there any bases even close at all to where she's currently at? No, there aren't any army bases up there. Like the air force has a similar program. But theirs is like more in their infancy than the army. So I guess those jobs open up, like those are always possibilities,

but I'm actually trying to get back to South Carolina. Okay. So there's a couple of bases down there'm actually trying to get back to south carolina okay so there's a couple bases down there so trying to trying to see like how everything plays out to eventually get back down nice so that can lead me to a little fmk then i guess if joey's all right with that i'll do the fmk since you mentioned south carolina so here we go you You familiar with FMK? Yep. Okay. So we got South Carolina, Michigan, Bowling Green. Take it however you want.

You can, you know, take, take it as sport. I would assume colleges or sports teams, if you will. So, or playing them on the video game,

you know, whatever, whatever it means to you. Um, FMK, South Carolina, Michigan, Bowling Green.

We're going to marry South Carolina. it's a pretty easy one there uh we will oh all right let's uh let's kill bowling green isn't that your alma isn't that your alma mater yeah but it's like i went there for a year. Oh, okay, okay. I got it from the notes. You were hard to do research on. I think I saw Bowling Green on your public TV show. Yeah, I did the reverse Dave Tate.

So Dave Tate started college at Bowling Green and finished college at Toledo. I started college at Toledo and finished at Bowling Green. So like, yeah, I went there for a year. I did an associates there in Toledo too, like Owens Community College. And so, yeah, Bowling Green, like, doesn't really have too much. I wish I had caught that on, like, doesn't really have too much. I wish I had caught that. I think your Facebook wasn't public, so I only saw Bowling Green, but I should have had some Toledo in there if you want.

I did quite a bit of coaching at Bowling Green. It's kind of like where I did a lot of my teeth cutting and coaching. Interned there for a year. Um, the head coach at the time, Kenny Goodrich gave me a lot of like freedom to, to actually coach for someone, you know,

hadn't graduated and been certified yet. Like he put a lot of trust in me then to actually coach athletes. So, uh, I do love it, but we are going to kill it. Then we're going to F Michigan because Michigan is a pretty cool place. I do like the state of Michigan.

It's where me and Paige met. We spent a lot of time there because we lived apart when we first started dating. Every week we used to go on dates in Michigan. Cool place. As someone from Ohio, what is your go-to college sports rooted team? South Carolina probably, but is there an Ohio team you root for? I root for Michigan. Michigan's been

my team my whole life. It's fair. We grew up, my grandpa was able to get us tickets to Michigan-Ohio State games when I was a kid. Always in Ann Arbor. Toledo is where my dad and

his family are from. That's 45 minutes from Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is. Gotcha. I hate Ohio state. It's like one of my least, I just, I hate the school. I hate, I don't know the coaches associated with it. The player, like I said, now, and was that a topic that you talked about a lot on your, uh, on the, on the podcast that you hosted in college about college football? Yeah definitely always came up like was uh you can't like pick against ohio state because

they're always good but when they do mess up you can always make fun of well i want to hear more about the podcast well that was just a segue that was a bad segue yeah so like yeah so when i was doing my associates i uh i co-hosted like a sports talk radio show okay um where we essentially we covered every sport but we did spend the majority of it like essentially like picking and talking about the different college football games because that was like our the biggest interest that me and my co-host shared. So was that a podcast, or was that on a college radio FM thing? Both. So it was on a college radio show, but it was pre-recorded. Okay, neat.

So it was released on a different day than we recorded it, but it was played as a radio show. It's tonight. The first time you've cut your teeth on being on a podcast since then, then. Yeah. Other than like the call into. Yeah.

Yeah. To the massonomics. Yeah. This is my first podcast I've actually been on. Nice. Well, we're glad to have you, buddy.

All right. My turn. Yep. My turn. What is the musical artist right now that you can't stop listening to that you wish more people knew about?

Ciara Farrell. Never heard of her. She's a country artist. They talked about her on the OK Podcast the other day, I think. Yes, they did. Trey brought her up. She's amazing. An absolutely amazing voice um and she's starting to like finally like i guess get bigger shine um uh zach bryan had her open for him on his latest tour she's on the new post malone country album um but yeah she's pretty awesome

like her her newest album has some just really really good like more traditional country style songs which i'm a big bigger fan of yeah that's that's the kind of like i don't like country i don't like chrome Country, I call it. Yeah, you're... Anyway, I won't get too into that. But I think when I say that phrase, I think all of you know what I mean by that. So where do you stand on the Kendrick and Drake? Who?

So I am a... I'm a big Kendrick fan. I don't have many regrets in my life. When I was a freshman at University of Toledo, Kendrick Lamar played a free show in our student union, and I didn't go to it.

This is when he only had one album out, so he hadn't blown up yet. Very few people knew who he was. It would have been a show with maybe 50 people there. And I didn't go. And I think about it way too often. That's definitely going to come up a lot.

But also, I don't like Drake. I think his music sucks. It's boring. His voice annoys me so like jimmy yeah that was pretty easy for me to like side with kendrick even if kendrick's songs ended up being worse they weren't no they were not yeah no so not like us was an incredible song yeah so it just makes it even easier to

choose kendrick and that little beef they had going that i don't know drake keeps like teasing that he wants to restart on instagram or something i wouldn't yeah i wouldn't either like it's he just uh i guess he wants to lose again like i don't i'm not sure once i get out of this grave and get these cement shoes off my feet you're done for like no sir uh yeah but anyway i just thought that would be a funny question because you know tara keeps asking jack that question um it's it's a you know i won't get too political but let's just say that uh i'm from the area that drake is from and it everything that kendrick said has always been a hushed, well-known secret.

You just don't, you just don't bring it up though. Right. And then when Kendrick finally said it, I was like, you're not supposed to bring that up, dude. But he did. Also, uh, Drake parks, his private jet at the airport by my house. Um, but he lands in Toronto and then flies it over here and then just parks it over here because it's cheaper.

And that just pisses me off that I have to pay damn taxes on my gas and wash my garbage while this guy's flying his private jet back and forth between cities just because the parking is cheaper. So it just pissed me off. So I was just like, get him. Get him, Kendrick. Anyway. Too him, Kendrick. Anyway. Too political, eh?

I don't know enough about either of them to have much of a... The only thing I know about Drake is that he played Jimmy in a wheelchair in Degrassi 10 years ago. 20 years ago, probably. In Degrassi? Degrassi? Was that a big show? It's a Canadian TV show. It was made in Canada, yeah. I know. Is it not pronounced Degrassi? Isn't it Degrassi? Was that a big show? It's a Canadian TV show. It was made in Canada.

Is it not pronounced Degrassi? Isn't it Degrassi? I have no idea. I feel like it's Degrassi because of hey, here's my next thing. Not Rushmore. Letterkenny characters. Shorzy?

Racked? Mainly because maybe this is a hot take shorezy's the better show 100 accurate he has to be on there um and then wayne uh is obviously going to be on there um we'll just see i'll just put put the main characters So Squirrely Dan Derry Actually I'm trying to decide if I want to put Derry on there Yeah

I think I'll put Derry on there I mean without them the show is not the show They are just like the core of it You need the core part Yeah Okay so is not the show like they are just like the core of it you need the core yeah um okay so yes but bonnie mcmurray mr mcmurray he makes me laugh every time but the bartender when she finally like leaned into this i know i right i'm trying to remember her name oh it's not claire oh fuck and when she finally leaned into the character and she would just

stand there and just like wiggle as she talked and just say really inappropriate things she was that eventually that got to me and it was every time she'd be on the screen, I would die as she did that. Yeah. Gail. Gail. Can we just build another mountain and just put the entire main cast on it? I, yeah. Shorzy is a better TV show,

but I don't think it's a better comedy. I think that it's definitely a better written storyline, a better written TV show I cried the first time I saw the season 1 finale of Shorzy it's a very good show but I don't think it's funnier than Letterkenny

no but it is a perfect sports show yes and there's not enough good sports shows not enough sports drama and I think they do such a good job of like There's not enough good sports shows. There's not enough sports drama. I think they do such a good job of keeping

the story and the drama of everything just built into the sport where I feel like if there's other sport drama shows, they end up essentially just leaving the sport. It's like 1% the game and then 99% their personal

lives their affairs their affairs and drug addictions this is like 70 the sport and then like 30 like their personal lives did you guys ever see the goon yes yes uh with uh fucking american pie guy getting his yeah yeah yeah yeah and and and live shriver that was actually filmed here uh both of those movies the second one at least was filmed here i think both of them were filmed in my city i think i did watch both i'm pretty sure they were both straight to dvd or whatever straight to streaming no goon was goon was definitely put out in theaters for sure goon two i don't think so but goon one for sure and that's that was a pretty good starting point same with again if you haven't watched good cop on cop another sports movie that

shouldn't be a sports movie but is what a good cop what good cop bon cop is that a canadian movie it is it's canadian it's a canadian and french canadian and it is um an officer from ontario has to work with an officer from quebec on hunting down a serial killer who is killing people associated with a hockey team that is being sold to an American company. So it actually structures around when the Nordiques were sold to Arizona. Right. And some guy goes crazy and starts killing all of the people associated with it. It is a very funny movie. You might have to be a little Canadian to get some of it

because it's actually a bilingual movie, so there is going to be subtitles. I don't read and watch movies. I couldn't find it because I still couldn't hear the third word you said. Bon, B-O-N. Good cop, bon cop. It's French for good. You say it weird.

Every time you say it, it sounds different in my fucking ears. B-O-N. Good cop, bon cop. It's French for good. You say it weird. Every time you say it, it sounds different in my fucking ear. B-O-N. Good cop, bon cop. Very niche. All right. It's not coming up on IMDb, so I'll look for it later. Doesn't exist.

I don't know. Not on Glaze Search. It's never existed. Yeah, Nate, when are you going to figure out how to fix Glaze Search, come on, man. Nate's not here. People need it. Well, he's listening. Someday.

Anyway, so that's our Canadian TV show movie sports show talk. Underrated sports adjacent movie. Hunting, I think, is you can consider it a sport. Also, Canada adjacent. It takes place in the UP of Michigan, is Escanaba in the Moonlight. If you've never seen it, it's a comedy about a family that goes hunting in the UP of Michigan. It involves aliens and a bunch of drunk guys out in the woods.

And it's like one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Aliens and a bunch of drunk guys out in the woods. And it's like one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. But for some reason, I just die laughing at it. Yeah, it's hard to find. Pretty sure Jeff Daniels is in it. Good actor. Yeah, fun story. If you put me in the woods in Michigan, I would be a drunk alien as well.

Well, that was my Mount Rushmore. That was my game. But it just kind of led me into from the saying Degrassi, Degrassi, because in Letterkenny, they call it instead of degrees Celsius, they call it Degrassi. Yeah, the Neil Degrassi. What was that clip that I shared today of Grant? What the hell did he say? Questioneers? Yeah, he said questionnaire. Like mountaineers.

I'm not just hearing it. Everyone else heard it, right? And he questioned the same thing. As a South Carolina fan, is that a dialect thing or did he just pronounce it wrong? Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say it's a dialect thing. It's not my particular dialect, but there's quite a few of them around South Carolina. I no longer have my Southern accent.

I've lost that by living in ohio for a decade um but i mean i used to sound like a hick whenever i see like old family videos like i can barely understand myself so do you um yes i i don't know what your social life is but but do you ever tie one on and your accent comes out a little bit? Because that's when mine will show up if I'm a few years deep. I'm definitely a lot more southern twangy. I think it does a little bit. It'll also pop back out. All I have to do is go spend a week in South Carolina.

Yeah, same. And it'll start to slip out. There's some words where that will still come out. Apparently, pie is one of them. The way I say pie. He's the one that just got his Instagram deleted. Yeah. You beat me.

Well done. That's exactly what I heard. I guess there are some words that'll do it. I don't drink too often anymore, so I'd have to. Yeah, that's what I didn't want to assume. I'm not trying to. I don't. I mean, we did go down to Nashville a couple weekends ago to celebrate one of our guys getting a new job.

So we tied one on that night. Nice. Is there an Ohio accent? Yes. on that night nice is there an ohio accent yes um but it's like it's a very like mild accent i think but i do think people in ohio have a little bit of one and people in southern ohio do tend to have a little bit of a southern accent um some people from ohio from southern oh Ohio will argue with you that they are Southern. Laugh in their faces. Pretty fucking North. Yeah, laugh in their faces.

Don't listen to them. That's a ridiculous statement. It is more egregious than the whole Ohio being in the Midwest. I was just going to ask you if Ohio is in the Midwest. I don't truly care if Ohio is in the Midwest, but I do like to say it's in the Midwest because it's going to make people upset, especially my friend from Iowa. She gets really upset about it.

So, like, Ohio is going to be in the Midwest forever. Where does she think she is? She thinks she's in the Midwest. She calls Ohio the East Coast. to be in the midwest forever but obviously she thinks she is she thinks she's in the midwest she doesn't think she calls ohio the east coast okay so she's not from ohio no and that's when i always joke like yeah i mean obviously people talk about the coastal elites of cleveland ohio yeah yeah definitely that's up there yeah so i don't really know what ohio is i just kind of call it like essentially the rust belt because that's the part of ohio that i live in so that's kind of where i fall on that i also don't probably the midwest i do think my argument for ohio being the the Midwest is that the majority of the Toledo area outside of the city looks just like Aberdeen. And if Aberdeen's the Midwest.

Barron? Yeah, there's cornfields. Just farms for everyone. Yeah, farms, cornfields, menards. It's about as Midwest as it gets. Yeah. I love Aberdeen. Menards. It's about as Midwest as it gets. Yeah. To keep carrying. I almost got stuck there and was like

I just live here now. This is fine. To keep building on our geography topics, I got one here for you that I want to know about. So is it true you're an international model? Yes, it is. I want to hear that story. I'm an internationally known former male model.

And this actually feeds in pretty even more now than, you know, at the Arnold this year, my name tag did say that I was the big and tall model for Masonomics. Hell yeah. But in high school, Southern Living Magazine was doing an article about the mayor of our city. Because he was in his 20s, so he was pretty young. Especially in as old of a city as we lived in. Camden, South Carolina is the oldest inland city in South Carolina. A lot of history there. Revolutionary War battles were fought there. A lot of the homes from

or not a lot, but a few homes from that time period are still there and everything. So big history town. And we had a guy in his 20s that was our mayor. But he was a part of my church there. And so we knew him. And Southern Living wanted some high school football players to wear their jerseys and lean up against a 50 Chevy in the background of the picture. I got the call. Me and my friends, Roland

and Shabar, leaned up and wearing our football jerseys and jeans up against this old 50 Chevy. So that was the start of my male modeling career. Great. Nice. And then internationally known is because like I have, you know, friends outside of the U S. Okay.

I was like, I was curious. So it's making sure it didn't, uh, it wasn't. Yeah. When I was in college, I used to party with the Toledo golf team, and over half the team was from Ireland. So you send one of those home with the magazine, and now you're international. I got you.

That makes sense. So big old conjugate method fan, I hear. So have you had a chance to meet some of those guys in person through seminars and whatnot like did you get a chance to meet louis when he was still kicking around and you know pick pick dave's brain and everyone i like oh there's so many subsects of conjugate are you a purist and only louis way is right or does everyone kind of know what they're talking about and just do it their own way it's a little bit of both.

I think if someone was to take the book of methods and literally just run like the basic style of conjugate that is in the book of methods, you're going to get stronger for a very, very long time. But I do also think how a lot of people have taken the conjugate method and, you know, changed it to fit their needs work really well. But yeah, I got to meet Louie a couple of times going to West side, you know, it's kind of a perk of living in Ohio.

It's only a couple hours away. And despite the, the reputation that they kind of had, Louis was always welcoming and open to sharing knowledge. So I got to go there a few times and listen to him rant and rave about whatever he wanted to rant and rave about. And then I got to meet quite a few of the people that are like, you know, big and famous in the conjugate world. I think the person who is the best right now at it is Laura Phelps. I think she has like the best grasp on conjugate style training on the planet. She's as close to Louie as we have anymore now that he's dead.

I've gotten to shake her hand once. I haven't been able to pick her brain or anything. She's pretty awesome. She also has a ton of content out to be able to learn from and everything. Is she still lifting or is she retired? she's pretty awesome. She also has a ton of content out to be able to learn from and everything. And then, um, she's still lifting or she retired. She's retired from competing, but yeah,

she, well, yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah. I can be, yeah, she's still,

yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. She, you know, she still has like, I mean, she runs the biggest female powerlifting meet,

um, in the country that the women's proAm every year down over in Cincinnati. That's always a giant meet that she runs there. It's pretty awesome. Brings out a lot of people for that. Things that she does for the sport of powerlifting are pretty awesome too. I think she's probably the best when it comes to conjugate that's there. But there are a lot of good coaches.

Connor, you know, conjugate X strong I think is really good. Obviously, Dave Tate has, you know, any kind of information you might need on conjugate. I think I'm pretty good at it. I do really like just the base book of methods, but I've made my own changes around it too. I think it's the most flexible style of training that exists, and that's why I'm such a big fan of it.

Nice. What has it led you to do? So what is your, we know what you do for your living. We know the method you like. What's your actual lifting career, like competition-wise? Have you done some powerlifting, strongman, anything like that? When I was in high school, I did whatever South Carolina called their power meets or whatever. It was squat, bench, and clean. clean okay like a power clean yeah gotcha

i don't remember what my numbers were then um just a thousand pounds probably you know each each lift squat was just slightly under five i think 465 was probably the biggest squat I hit in one of those competitions. Bench would have been right around 300. And then my clean would have been two something. Nice. Because those were my numbers in high school. And then my senior year is the first time I squatted and pulled 500, deadlifted 500.

And I benched 325 for the first time then um so i did those when i was 17 then you know it took a long while off lifting um and then i got back into it and then yeah so technically the only official power lifting meet i've done was lift hard live easy last year that's what i thought i remember you telling me or i heard the main goal was to squat 500 in competition which i did on my second attempt squatted 540 on my third and i think it technically should have been a good lift the front judge gave me a red light on depth and that's not the front judge's job but it got two red lights it is what it is um can't you know you got the 500 monkey up your back so that's there's there you got that yeah i just want to be able to do it and like i've squatted you know there's 15 years now

between my first and most recent 500 pounds squat. Nice. That's incredible. We'll see you back in another 15 then? Well, 14 now. Yeah, that'd be pretty awesome. 46 or something? The most recent one is a clip. I kind of treated my body like trash between playing sports and then uh you know just you know already and can help do that too but uh that's why i do like the equip stuff so

next is we're gonna get a 405 bench and competition here i think pretty soon nice nice nice i'd love to see that so yeah so i think i did i think it was like 287 at Lift Hard Live Easy last year I don't really remember what I hit and then I deadlifted like 319 or something because at that point I was just ready to be done I pulled all of four deadlifts

last year deadlifts are rated I've been dealing with I have like a pinched nerve in my right leg ouch and i can squat fine it only hurts when i deadlift that's weird does it your hamstring or quad then it's in my quad okay like it's it's really weird on how it works yeah that's weird yeah so you must be very hamstring dominant squatter then you must not like be very uh oh yeah well yeah you're fucking sumo squat so yeah yeah yeah so so you you you probably

couldn't squat fucking 135 on an ssb with your feet close together then but you could fucking you know sumo squat your your 500 i like it okay yeah there's a there's an instagram post from a few months ago like right before i moved so it would have been in like february it was really bad to where i literally couldn't do like a single leg extension with like 20 pounds on my right leg but i could still do all of my dynamic effort squats perfectly fine body's uh the body's a crazy thing well what what What it'll let you do in some planes of motion and what it won't in others. It's good to still be moving.

One more. I could right now easily squat 300 pounds for one rep, but if you asked me to do 135 pounds for five, I'd kill you. My knee is just so... Just to bring it back to your point my knee is so upset with squats that it's like one single one and a ton of weight fine that's fine just go do it and leave me alone after but you start doing volume and my knee is like no this sucks never do

this again so i hear you on that one well i think i got one more thing i want to pull out and then if there's anything else you wanted to hit before we get into some more games but uh i i always want to hear i don't really have a good way to shoehorn that into unpaid or underrated so i had a few different people submit a similar thing that you you really like or you really don't like but basically uh i'm told that you you love always being right you love winning and you hate losing so i guess is that uh is that just something that came from sports um and and like i guess rank them too like do you i don't really know how to put this in a game or anything but like because like people always say what do you do do you do you love winning more or do you hate losing more so i guess that's that i guess that's

my question and in general you have to hate losing yeah like i do think that that is kind of like a key thing like yeah i hate i always hated losing never wanted to lose in everything like yeah like winning is cool but not losing is even better yeah uh. So you have to hate losing. And, and it's not that I necessarily love always like love being right. It's just that more often than not, I am right. I don't talk.

I can't tell my wife that even. Yeah. I'm going to pick, you got to pick. I mean, I, you just got to learn to pick your battles, I guess sometimes for sure

Alright yeah I was just I had multiple people I think you I'm not sure if you said it about yourself but there were There was at least three occasions where that popped up And I just didn't have a way to shoehorn it into the other games So that's really I think we're about an hour and a half in So we don't know if we want anything else Joey

So Who would win in a fight? Sauron or Darth Vader? I mean, Darth Vader. Yeah. Sauron. Sauron, like, he loses a lot. He just kind of just went through.

I mean, he just lost, like, every time. So did Darth Vader. I mean. Yeah. He didn't lose a lot. Vader I mean he only ever beat like he lost to Lava the only thing he really beat was a bunch of young ones Obi-Wan fucking cut his yeah that's true Obi-Wan cut his legs off

but like I guess I mean I guess in both instances like at one point that they're a part of ruling the world. Do you think Darth Vader likes winning more or hates losing more? I think he hates losing more for sure. I think he hates losing a lot. Yeah, absolutely.

It was a good it was a good it was a good comparison i will say i mean i guess we'll see how like rings of power handles soar on i mean i i've seen the first two episodes of the show and i kind of stopped i didn't yeah i didn't even watch the first season i couldn't we went and saw the first two episodes in theaters because they were doing that and we thought it'd be pretty cool and it was pretty cool to watch that in theaters but then like we it didn't get us to keep watching the show

I like it you guys are both more into the have you guys read like the actual like I mean I've read like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit but I haven't read like the prequel prequel like all the other not since I was a kid I can't stand Tolkienlkien style of writing to me it's too dying i mean it's literally dated because it is fucking dated because it's 100 years

old so like i love i love all the books that like people were motivated to write because of him but i don't really like his books at all same with uh william golding wrote lord of the flies i distinctly remember really loving the storyline, but hating reading the book. I'd read Edgar Allan Poe five times before I'd read Golding. Anyway.

I did a book report on that in 7th grade and then we had to watch both movies too. Like the 60s and the 90s. Very weird. I don't think I've seen any of the 50s 60s and the 90s very weird oh yeah i don't think i've seen any of the movies but i do remember having to read that for school just not really caring do you want to do some unpaid and underrated yeah they're coming up on like an hour and a half yeah yeah so we have this game we like to play yeah we created it um i'm sure anyone listening

uh is familiar with it but we got any emett's friends and family listening for the first time. So similar to a common game that some amateurs play that's called unpaid or underrated or that's overrated or underrated. Wow. What do you know? I know. What do you every guest we've ever had? God damn it. Nate, just use some AI and fix that in post or something.

So we are not overrated or underrated we are unpaid or underrated so if there's a topic that you you know you think is pretty good you go ahead and call it underrated you think it's a little shitty then we'll call it unpaid so big emmett let's let's hit you off here unpaid or underrated breakfast from wendy's here unpaid or underrated breakfast from Wendy's. Underrated. Burritos are delicious, but they're hash brown

replacement, which are just seasoned potato wedges. Awesome. Definitely underrated. More people should go get breakfast from Wendy's. Good. We'll have to add that to the list sometime. I'm not counting macros, at least.

We don't have Wendy's breakfast up here, I don't think. It's pretty new down here, too. The last couple years. Okay. Alright, Big Emmett. Unpaid or underrated, the NFL? Unpaid.

I hate the nfl i much rather i don't know i just much rather watch college i think it's like growing up in south carolina you know we don't really i mean now the panthers exist but you know they come in like whenever they you were you would have 97 you would have been young and you would have been a kid when they came and that should have been like that should have been the team that you were like oh my god we have a team now like yeah i think it was just already i was already sold on college football at that point like i was all about college just never really cared about the nfl i mean now like i just kind of like keep up with players who i've

coached who are in the nfl like it's cool to keep up like with their careers um but yeah as a whole it's definitely unpaid gotcha okay i'm gonna go two more and then i'll leave four for joey so unpaid or underrated the bow tie from mr donnie actually no no the bow tie from spud inc not donnie thompson i got that one wrong i think so the bow tie is donnie thom. The bow tie from Spud Inc. Not Donnie Thompson. I got that one wrong. I was going to say that's from Donnie. The bow tie is Donnie Thompson's bow tie. Oh, but it's made by Spud Inc. That makes more sense.

One of the best pieces of equipment anyone can buy. I don't think they make the yellow one for $25 anymore, but that used to also be the best deal that you could get in like a piece of equipment. Um, but like for,

especially for people that have, uh, like bicep tendonitis a lot. I mean, that is just a great tool to help fight that off. Keep your shoulders feeling good. Uh, yeah.

I mean, how does the, how does the bow tie help your bicep so it's all because of so where your bicep runs into that yeah i guess i'm thinking i have like i have like forearm and elbow stuff and not really bicep yeah so okay it'll help with that too because a lot of that's coming from you know pinch nerves and just based on like where the brachial plexus runs and originates from and runs through your shoulder into your arm. Any of that compression around there is just going to help calm everything down and get

you right. I can tell Keith isn't on Juggernaut because Juggernaut says how your biceps and the glowing thing shows you where your biceps are it's funny that's actually not how i knew that but as soon as you asked that question uh for those of you obviously who can't see this emin and i both just started showing exactly where it goes up your shoulder because it's like if you're releasing tension off of this right like it's a weird thing too i had a massage therapist friend that said this muscle here actually would tell you how much

back pain you have. So they would be able to squeeze this and it would tell you how much tension you have in your upper back. And it's just, again, your muscles are all related. If you have a really tight pec, that just means everything in your back's just stretched out so you're just not feeling super great yeah it makes um all right my last one here i don't

know i hope it's not a typo maybe i'm just dumb but uh unpaid or underrated hot pot do you not know what hot pot is i have no it have no idea. It's underrated and you need to go find one. Yeah, you got to go. You of all people. Is this like Pho or something? I don't know. Is this Korean hot pot? Yeah, it's Korean hot pot.

Okay. We have one in Toledo that we go to. It's Korean barbecue and hot pot put together. Yeah, it's like one of the best deals you can find in food um but yeah it's i love that you led with like its value not like the the quality oh no the quality is why it's so valuable but yeah like that yes part of i mean part of eating out there's got to be value in it nowadays um but like you're looking at something yeah with everything going on you got the value is important but but the quality, we're not letting

that one die, but the quality of food that you're going to get for a great price and you're going to have a great time and you're going to leave extremely full. I find it. I'm sorry, Emmett, to cut you off here. Um, I find this actually difficult to believe. Keith, you've never been to a hot pot have you been to korean barbecue thank get your passport come up here i mean steve will take you we got a bunch of people here now that we're talking about it i swear like we've even had this conversation before i think i think we've had this like i think it's

been talked about that it was someone's favorite food i don't remember maybe big brad or something but i know there's there's korean and there's mongolian um hot pot in particular well korean barbecue is the only one i'm really familiar with and it's literally just there's a hot plate in the middle of your table and you just order what you want and then they deliver your food your meats your proteins your plants gotcha and some sauces and you just cook them and it's the best it's the best yeah it seems like work but like it seems like a lot of work value over cost versus flavor i can go outside and just throw some steak on the grill and not have to leave my house i have my my biggest hurdle going out is just literally oh it stakes it's getting fucking old like i just

i like not leaving my house a lot. You like dried salmon cat treats. Oh my god. Next time I actually throw something out too, all that smell is going to be wafting out of the fucking trash. Oh, that's the worst. I gotta not open that.

I'm passing it off to you, buddy. You got the baton. I really wanted to make fun of the cat treats thing a little more. You did. That's like the third time. Alright. Memes about it, if someone would actually make some memes for us. Unpaid or underrated vegetables?

They're underrated, unfortunately. I wish I could say they're unpaid, but vegetables are important. People should eat them. This is something that Paige tells me often. I do have to

relay this information to people that I coach and stuff too, but there's a lot of value in a vegetable. There's the value again. What's your favorite vegetable? Sweet potatoes. there's the value again what's your what's your favorite vegetable and how do you sweet sweet potatoes yeah uh sweet potatoes are the best that there have been times where i literally just like my dinner's just protein and sweet potatoes that's the spirit can we call a potato like

yes potato is a vegetable but it's a root it's a root vegetable it's not a vegetable in the terms of like if you're counting macros a fucking potato is a carb like in the sense of that i guess i don't know like not a sweet potato isn't it a sweet potato's got a little bit more value like there's more in a sweet potato than a regular potato okay but like to get like the true nutritional value doesn't have to be like basically a green vegetable or like a over a green brussels sprouts are pretty good i was just i'm not i'm not I love fucking potatoes. I'm just, I don't love.

Yeah. You like, yeah. You fuck a lot of potatoes. I love potatoes as well, but like, I don't look at a potato as like a vegetable per se, in the sense of like,

I think it's one of the only things that are actually vegetables. I'm not saying, I guess I'm not. Yeah. Do we want to get into this again kale is a fruit I was trying to I was trying that's what's hard sometimes when you see the message on discord

and you don't really like you catch the beginning of it and then like you think you got a good zinger and like seven people already fucking said it and you're just like well shit I can't make a soup salad fucking sandwich joke it's already been alluded to yeah well we can't put it in a smoothie. Like, spinach isn't a fruit, no matter

what Jeff said. You can't violently make it a fruit. And I was like, kale is a fruit. Everybody was like, how dare you? Alright, is avocado a fruit or vegetable? I think they're technically a fruit. Probably. Because they have a seed.

I think it's a berry, technically. So yeah, berries are fruits. Yeah. But we treat it like a vegetable. Do we? We put it on toast. I put jelly on toast. Jelly's to make fruits.

I put it on burgers. Put a little jam on a burger. Jam your burger um I put avocado like is guacamole then like a jelly not a word that's a great question

yeah like I don't know if it's a preserve in particular but I think it's they don't fucking last very long like is is guacamole is guacamole a sauce? Guacamole? Guacamole?

Is it a sauce? Or is it... All right. All right. They're going to make fun of us on this one. Play that in the arcade. Guacamole. Guacamole.

Most of the time you do add acid, so it could be a quick pickle. Yes, because you are adding the lime juice quick is quick people a term like is that a thing quick pickled yeah it's when you pickle something quickly so is that like just putting like pouring vinegar on a fucking cucumber is that a quick pickle yeah essentially yeah i saw i saw a lady like like on a youtube reel or something where she like cut up a vegetable added some like balsamic vinaigrette or something, and she cut up a vegetable, added some balsamic vinaigrette or something, and shook it up and made a salad instantly out of that. I'm like, I guess.

Yeah. It had that little tarty taste to it. Yeah. If you partake in cooking competition shows, you'll see them do a lot of quick pickles where they're just going to slice an onion real quick and then just throw it in some vinegar. I think you have to heat it. Or quick pickling. Interesting. Yeah. I think you have to heat it.

Yeah. You have to do something to it, like heat it or pressurize it very quickly to, to actually pickle it. Otherwise. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.

All right. Now I'm sure again, they're going to mock us for that one. Unpaid or underrated walking out your squats. Unpaid. It's dumb. It's the fucking. We have. And i do it we have the technology in the year of our lord 2024 to use monoliths we should just use monoliths

yeah i just throw one right in the basement yeah i i can see like i get raw lifters or we it's america we walk out our squats but i i get raw lifters should also use the monolith yeah walking out squads is the thing that i hate the most about squads to be honest i do so have you got a monolith attachments at your army base or do you guys have any say in the equipment at all oh my boss like our the higher ups do like i i don't really oh we can make suggestions um i don't have any monolift attachments and i do have to walk out all of my squats using a straight bar right now yeah i was gonna ask are you just training are you training on base or you're not like you're not leaving to go find some

dirty hole in the wall powerlifting? Go to my own gym with hookers and blackjack. It's a pretty sweet job. We work from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and we get to train on the clock. That's the best fucking skit. That's my favorite shift. 6 to 2, no lunch and just go home.

Yeah, that does sound great. So, yeah, I'm not a member of a gym. I think if I was like getting closer to competing, I would have, I would have done it just like, I mean, I'm not even,

there is a power bar that we have. I couldn't tell you who makes it. Like there's not a single marking on this bar. The only reason why I know it's a power bar is because the collar is a little bit thicker than an Ollie bar and there's a center knurling. Yeah. Now this bar bends with four Oh five on it. So it is the sketchiest power bar.

When I did, it so it is the sketchiest power bar uh when i did i squatted 505 last month or a month and a half ago or something i was like my top set that day and it was the sketchiest 500 pound squat i've ever done and i thought it was going to break the bar um If I was getting closer to competing and I was hitting those squats every single week, I'd probably go join a gym that had some real Texas squat bars. How cool would it have felt if you broke that bar, though?

It would have been pretty awesome. It's like breaking the backboard. Yeah, that was awesome, but now shit, I broke the backboard. Yeah. I was actually nervous squatting. I've never really been nervous squatting 500. Most of the time, I've done it by myself.

No spotters or anything. I know how to get out of the way of a bar if I ever have to. But that was, I was nervous. And I had three spotters. Yeah, geez. Squatting 500 by yourself. Unpaid or underrated making your own knives? Underrated.

If you ever get a chance, you should do it. How do you do that? Do you smithy them or do you just assemble them? Smith, I have a friend who makes knives. I was down in South Carolina last summer. I hit him up to hang out and we got to make a chef knife. That's awesome. It's over 100 degrees outside, 100 degree community you know typical south carolina

summer day and uh we spent it by standing it right next to a forge all day i have i have a smithy knife here i didn't make it but i got it um at one of the the highland games so that was right off of the forge so they made that attached it to the ram's horn and that's one of my favorite knives but it does stay hidden because it's it's sharp and the children should not know about it yeah so if you ever get a chance to make a caro knife it's just it's a lot of fun it's a lot of work would you make an axe or a hatchet yeah i think it would be a little bit easier to make too yeah uh i guess i guess depending on the size but a lot less like you

know surface area like you don't have to shape it as much i feel like i mean that was like the hardest thing that's kind of where i messed up the most was actually shaping the blade so thankfully my friend was able to, to fix my mistakes. Amazing. Do you still use that knife? I did not bring it with me when I moved, but I did use it quite a bit. After I,

I mean, I just, I didn't want to, I didn't bring a whole lot with me when I moved out. Cause I actually like I moved the weekend of the Arnold. So I literally packed up everything that I was bringing with me in my truck. I put it in me and Big Eddie's hotel room that weekend. And literally Sunday morning when I left Columbus, I loaded up my truck and drove here to Kentucky.

So you moved during the arnold at least now you know you didn't have to work out that day unpaid or underrated this is my last one uh deleting social media uh underrated i do it quite often um especially like. Now. During like political campaigns. I just don't care. Like I don't. I don't care about people's opinions.

So I don't want to see them. And the easiest way to do it. Is just to remove myself from that. So I. Will just delete Facebook. twitter pretty pretty often i'll just delete them for weeks at a time and uh you know pop back onto them whenever i feel like i i need to instagram is literally the only one that like i won't delete and that's because my Instagram feed is curated of the weirdest memes you could find yeah I

rejoined Facebook and I regretted it but it's for the kids right so yeah I don't I agree with you 100% and there's no there's no political conversation to be made in memes on social media.

And people just love posting them. They love putting them out there. And it's, it's just like, you know what? I don't give a fuck. Pardon my language. Yep.

Don't care. A big, a big shift that I've made in the past, like year is just, it sounds bad, but it's not caring about things friend of mine puts it in like a much better way that you only have so many fucks to give make sure they're going to the right things and that is if it affects me or Paige or people that I actually like, love and care about, I'll care about it. Everything else, I don't care.

used to be you know the things i said and did matter to the world around me but now the things i say and do matter to this little person in front of me right so you know you start suddenly working inward working on yourself then you start realizing all of you people care too much about weird shit and that's that's where i got like you just you think and say and care about a lot of stuff that doesn't affect you and it's weird to me so that's that's essentially where i disengaged a long time ago and i used to be very very engaged and it's just i still like i mean i have my own opinions on all of course me too i don't care to share them with people who don't want to hear them or like and i just i don't know i feel like a lot of people twitter was a bad invention social media i guess just in general is uh everybody got a voice

and not everybody needs one like there's the old um what dan carlin is that the comedian's name George yeah George yeah George Carlin Dan Carlin's hardcore history George Carlin has the bit where he talks about how dumb the average American is you know he's like think about how dumb

the average American is and now realize that half of the country is dumber than that. When you actually think about it, you're just like, all right, yeah, not everybody needs a voice. I see a lot of people. It's just a lot easier to just not care about like what those people have to say like what's trending on twitter some person had a dumb comment and now like everybody's making fun of that person just giving this idiot more and more like clout and what we can do is just hit the block button. Yeah.

Blocking people on Twitter was my favorite thing in the world. Yeah. I'm a big fan. I have a very quick block finger just because like, I don't care. Like I, I use Twitter to laugh at jokes about college football, a discord and Twitter, or there's a discord that I'm a part of that was related to a

college football podcast that's not really about college football. That and Twitter are my two favorite places to keep up with college football, and it's all just jokes. That's what I use that for. I will block

things so fast. facebook i only ever used to keep up with my gym in toledo because that's where like our owner posted like any kind of update or anything so i was basically all i use facebook for like most people that i'm friends with on facebook i don't follow on facebook so when i when I rejoined, I just see there. I unfriended so many people. It was like a 45 person list. I was just like, no, no,

no, no, no. And it was anytime they would post something. I'd be like, Oh no, I don't see that enough. Like I was just unfriended so many.

All right. There's your social media and political talk folks. We did it. We did it. I think you passed on page underrated. You did. And I just, I got one more question for you to hand the reins over to you. So you had mentioned you're pretty much done by 2, 2.30 every day.

Monday through Friday, or do you work like seven days a week? Yeah, Monday through Friday. Okay. So what the heck do you do for seven, eight hours every day before you go to bed? Since you're alone, you're just playing video games. You pretty much play video games and take naps nice okay that's good to me it kind of sounds like you're like you you you consider that you moved i if i were you i would i kind of consider like yeah you're just you're just

working out of town for six months you know i basically am i live in an airbnb currently okay uh because i'm surprised i don't have a base in like some like like like they don't have like uh I basically am. I live in an Airbnb currently. I'm surprised they don't have you in a base and they don't have civilian housing or anything. I wish that would make it so much easier. Do you have to pay for your lodging or is that part of the deal? That stinks. I think that setup would be included. That stinks.

You'd think that setup would be included. No, there's a few bases where I've been told that they do allow the civilian contractors to live on. But it's an interesting thing because we are in charge of Army PT. We are very clearly not in the Army. We are just civilians. So the power dynamics with all of this are wild. Cause they do not have to listen to us at all. Um,

because we are not in the army. Um, so it is, uh, it's all just very interesting on how all of it works. I mean, it took me, uh, it took five months for me to actually get my ID to get on base. I was living off of 30 day passes. Yeah.

So other than a coach, you're just a strong suggestion machine. Yeah. So we're great resources. We're like the best thing we do is like almost educational resources for them because like what we do outside of pt is just like personal training essentially if soldiers like want to get stronger they need to get better at different parts of the acft or you know they're uh they're training up to go to any of like the schools to get their little badges, uh, you know, Fort Campbell hosts air assault school. So like if people are getting ready for that or like the, um, you know, if they want to go be an army ranger,

they want to get ready for that. Like we have programs and we offer coaching for all of that stuff. So if someone's trying to go special forces or if they're just trying to like get stronger or just even just like general health like hey i'm not going to be in the army forever i just want to be healthier um so we're there for so like uh we do pt we tend to eat breakfast almost like together as like a coaching staff and then we train and then we hop right into coaching for the rest of the day and then like we have to do meetings and now you know that kind of stuff too but um yeah it's pretty sounds pretty sweet yeah it's uh it's a pretty awesome job like uh did you did did you did you let him know that you're not available next july uh somewhere towards the end of the month for uh you know a few days you're gonna available next July? Uh, so somewhere towards the end of the month for, uh, you know,

a few days, you're going to, are you going to run it back out, out to, uh, you know, you, you,

you made it to LHLE one, but you, uh, you know, you sat out this year. You're going to get it and make it back for number three. That's the goal. That will be my next powerlifting meet essentially get back out.

The main reason why I sat out like this year is, um, a pinch nerf i didn't help yeah i decided i need probably just like get that taken care of um and probably not just like keep trying to just squat heavy and not deadlift so uh so you decided you need to have so you have actually are you getting like care on it essentially yeah i don't think there's much care i can really do other than like figure out exactly where it's pinched and yeah i said i don't know if there's like a specialist that actually like i could probably like use our physical therapists we have on staff to get some help but um that seems hard yeah that seems like hard work well it's not even that like

i i know it's a pinched nerve i know how to i mean i know how to fix that i mean it's just literally there's a weakness somewhere that needs to be fixed i know it's my right glute it's about where it is like causing the weakness like in my right glute. It's about where it is, like causing the weakness, like in my right glute and hamstring are causing the front side of my leg to just be overactive and pinch down on it. So it's been just fixing that. And it's getting much better to where like, like I couldn't like run because like literally like my quad would stop working there. So it's getting getting it's getting much better so just doing a unilateral leg curls for days yeah that and just like i don't know actually like dead lifting and working on like mobility and flexibility and all that so i have another

pinched nerve on the right side of my bicep too i have to fix so like the whole right side of my body is just like a mess you're a mess he's 32 you're falling apart man you gotta wait till you hit 37 38 to fall apart it's really funny to see on like my bench um there's we'll always reach a certain point where it's not a strength deficit but literally like my right tricep will turn off and so the left side of the bench is going to be completely locked out while the right side is on my chest yeah i gotta that mine's not that bad but i get yeah i'll lock out my right and my left is you know when it's when we're like 95 percent or above my left's a good quarter behind so that's a thing and it and it's weird because

it's the same it correlates over to overhead press now too which so it's it's it's it's on bench and overhead it's very strange yeah and that's part of why like i i'm like in the equipment too uh literally any kind of compression around um my shoulder or my elbows completely fixes like the issue so uh like the uh my raw bench is sitting right around like 230 235 right now and i'm going to bench 405 and equipment here pretty soon which is a massive difference that you don't normally see but the it's it's not a strength issue on the raw it's literally my right tricep turns off because like my left side just shatters it it's just yeah you can like my friend and he literally talks about it he'll be spotting me he goes yeah you can literally see your right tricep just

not activate like just the window shut down. Yeah. It's pretty awesome to deal with that. Well, this has been a blast. Do you have anything else for him, Joey, before we switch it around? Again, you're familiar with this next segment.

It's where we kind of hand the reins to you, buddy. If you have anything for us, any questions, any games, any bits, anything you want to throw at us, it's yours. I don't really have much. That's fine. Yeah, I think basically everyone should go buy the Book of Methods,

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