Unpaid And Underrated - 073 : Snow Bidet

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Ben. They dive right into great topics like cryptic zoology, pizza, meal prep, rocks, dragons, and being a logistics expert. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and ��nderrated 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 @benbeyl (https://www.instagram.com/benbeyl/) 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 Ben.

And welcome back to Episode 73 of the unpaid and underrated podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Big Keith, joined as always by my co-host here, Big Joey. Yeah. In case you guys are wondering why Keith did the intro two weeks in a row, it's because today is the episode of my football jersey number. They have football in Canada. Are you sure? Is that some weird like it isn't you know, Canadian football?

Like the field is literally like 150 or it's it's like, yeah, we have bigger balls in bigger fields. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Anyway, no, it's episode 73, which is Keith's football jersey number. I was just being a silly. For that you threw out there. That was good. Well done. So we got we we got big Keith, big Joey, and we're joined as our special guest this week.

We've got big it's been a bio. That's been bio. Is it bio? I was I was. I was bio. Oh, OK. It's bio. All right. Is it bile? I was saying bile. Oh, okay. I was saying bile. Now I know. For all the times I'm going to say your last name today. Welcome, Ben. Welcome.

You drinking anything over there this week, Ben? I've got a monster behind me. And I've got a few beers. A monster? At 7.30 at night, you've got a few beers. A monster? A monster? Yeah. It's 730 at night. You got a monster out there? Oof. That's too late for me.

Yeah. Well, when you're driving at night, it kind of comes habit. Oh, yeah. That makes more sense. So I got a little something different this week. I didn't have any Wegmans left. So we are... What is this?

This is a... It's one of those raspberry... Razz cranberry... What the fuck brand is it again? The no, the Croy. Yeah. Yeah. Raspberry over there. He's got all the reason there. It's not bad. Yeah. Yeah. I gotta I gotta grow out the top curls and put the fucking you know, the the necklace in my mouth and shit. And so about it. Real, real, real and God. I have a couple different things.

And I think one of them is going to lead into one of the topics that I wanted to add this week. I am starting today with a Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Oreo. Okay. I saw someone else talk. I think I mentioned that or I saw that. Yeah. Yeah. What's it? What do you think? They're delicious. This is actually really I had one and then I bought the six pack as soon as I was shopping and saw them. It's a little like a little like vanilla Coke, which, you know, I'll break the big secret here. Vanilla Coke is like my weakness drink. I love vanilla Coke to the point that I don't buy it because I don't like drinking pop that much.

But if I drink, if I buy a case of vanilla coke, I will drink that case and send myself into diabetic shock. So we have this because it's got a little bit of that like wafer taste to it as well. So it's, it's, it's actually really good. And in the, in the little can helps. Um, but then I've also got this magical thing over here. You got some, oh yeah, I saw that on Instagram. That's funny. Yeah. So if you guys want to head over to hype dust dot com and use code unpaid, you will get one of these.

This is the most intense, I think, packaging for ammonia I have ever seen in my life. So it is a Starbucks cup. I thought that was real Starbucks and that's what you know. I'm so confused. No, he print. So he printed his logo on the sleeve. Okay. He printed a Starbucks label where he spelled everybody's name wrong on purpose. Your name was great. I loved it. J ho e is my name on here. And it says GR pumpkin spice lobotomy add hype extra regret directions lift heavy don't die drive through and then he's got the ingredients and then got the lid in here and everything. He's got the latte lid and then you open it and the there's the bottle. Oh nice. So this I believe is actually the same as the I want to say dim mac but it might also

be the same consistency as nose bleach but then it smells a little like pumpkin spice so we are not going to crack that tonight because that sounds like a fucking nightmare. Save that for when the you know, when all the leaves are down or starting to fall. Yeah. Or when my deadlifts are starting to fall. And then I got a couple of light beers. I actually did go and get the cracked canoe we talked about last week. So, yeah, nice three percent beer to get me through the night. There you go. There you go. Yeah, I had the two last week and I was pleasantly surprised.

I woke up and was like, like not hung over, there you go. Yeah, I had the two last week and I was pleasantly surprised I woke up I was like like not hungover like no nothing because it's it's always a crap shoot man like two beers sometimes It's like fuck. I feel like dog shit and other times like four. I'm like, I'm good So so you never know what you're gonna get. I wish I could drink two beers The beers I've got with me are like 11% of APV so yeah, right But that's American. So that's like a six percent Canadian beer. Right. No, no, no.

Maybe the same. Yeah. So when you when you drink those, Ben, what you going to be wearing, buddy? Oh, I've got my lift shirt, lift shit. It's my favorite massonomic shirt I've got. So I don shit it's my favorite Mastinomic shirt I've got so I don't like I have that one and I've one that fits anymore but I definitely hopefully to grow back to shrink into it again and if you will I'm rocking out the Mastinomics gym Aberdeen South Dakota shirt in black this one I

think they have what they have three offering I think Jen shared all the all the black the green and the blue so I shared all the black, the green, and the blue. So I just got the black one for now. And I have my Crew World Order shirt going on there. I dig it. Designed by my life and printed by me. Nice. You want to rate last week's episode?

Jump right in on that. Because Amber was a great, great guest It was I loved I love the episode I enjoyed it. I really liked the cardboard cutout talk of the potential at the booth next year and I was even like I can already imagine it like the way I think Tanner was like almost like mad of himself that he talked about it he was like man I don't want to spill the beans because I think we're going to do this idea and it's going to be great. But I think they, you know, the thought of having a cardboard cut out that you can stick your head in and you're just like on the shitter at the Arnold and it's just a flooded trashed bathroom. Like that would be hysterical. So I really enjoyed that aspect. And then I can't, it was, it was when she was still on, they were still having a home improvement talk. I don't remember what or just back and she just watches it. Or I don't remember remember the I don't know how they segue into home improvement, but home improvements are one of my favorite shows as a kid. And I don't know if anybody watched it in adult

does it still hold up? Like I haven't I haven't watched it in 20 years. I don't know what's up anymore. Not I haven't watched it since I was six. So yeah, I don't I don't watch sitcoms in general. So I don't think as an adult I would fall for that. But fun story, my my buddy actually two days before Amber's episode came out, we're having a comic con here in my city and my buddy got his picture with Heidi and him. Well, dope. Not Tim Wilson. Yeah, the fuck. Fuck, what is his name? Yeah. The other girl. Oh, the fuck? Fuck, what is his name? Yeah. The other guy. Oh, yeah.

I'll be out of Portland. You guys picture with Al Borland and Heidi, and he ended up getting one of Heidi's hats. So that's pretty funny the whole time. I'm like, that's the odds of that. That is a small world. No. So for all those reasons I gave earlier, I will go and give it five out of five. Howdy, neighbors. But then what do you got?

I'll give it, Oh, all the corn talk, all the improvements. I'll give it, hmm, this is going to hard one. Five South Dakota corn palaces. I don't know. Five South Dakota corn palaces. Yeah. Had to take some time from my mission to actually listen to the new episode. And yes, I did listen to it while I was lifting. So that definitely happened. I am now one of those guys because I have to be. Amber was great. I can't believe she's not curve. I think that definitely happened. I am now one of those guys because I have to be. Amber was a great I can't believe she's not her. I think she gets it.

I think she she's very fun only knowing about her through her bathroom videos at the Arnold. I probably even talked to her at the Arnold and I never clued in. But she got no no definitely not. I have my own bathroom story. Actually, maybe Morgan has her own bathroom story. Actually, maybe Morgan has her own bathroom story. The first year we went to the Arnold, she took my son in because I was of course being at the Arnold. So she was like, okay, I'll take him to the potty. And I guess somebody said, Oh, you know, he's pretty well behaved. And as soon as that person said that my son ran across the bathroom and licked the walls at the Arnold's.

The same son has been sick on the past two years. There might be some coincidence there. He caught the fucking Columbus plague. She likes to tell that story a lot because she's just like fucking Arnold bathrooms. That is really good. That's a lot. I can't wait to get the other perspective from that in a few weeks. Yeah, the, um, we can add that to the notes.

So with all that talk, the impressions, I thought those were really funny. Anytime somebody does the, what do I say, the corn is gonna be funny to me. So I'm gonna have to give that, um, five. I don't have something clever. Like the caffeine hasn't hit me. So we're going to go five out of five. Oh, I froze for a second there. Better be good with this build up.

Yeah. Want more. Yeah. Five out of five Arnold bathroom stickers. Yeah. Those are those are good stickers for sure. Yeah. Oh, let's see. So how is your journey? You mentioned your mission earlier. So I'm gonna I think I kind of posed everyone. I kind of laid

down the gauntlet. Joey did mention that he's gonna start, you know, trying to knock out the backlog. Well, I think he actually mentioned that he was more or less done with it just because he started it. So we're gonna have to keep him honest every week. So what episode when just start what episode you on now? I guess give me a little update on your backlog journey. I started You know what? I actually I'm gonna start from the beginning and I'm sorry This is gonna take up a little bit of our kind of generic topics time So Morgan for my 40th birthday this year

she really wanted to send me on a trip. And her big thing was she actually wanted to send me to see the Northern Lights because I really want to see the Northern Lights before I die. But I thought, well, my birthday is in December. I said, why don't we, I said, if you're going to send me anywhere, let's talk about sending me to the crew falls. Right. Yeah. I wouldn't spend the money myself. So maybe if it's going to be a gift, I'll go. And she said, well, I'm a stay at home mom. I only have this much. I was like, that would cover the flight that wouldn't cover anything else.

So she said, well, I don't know how else to get the money. And I did you guys hear that burp? I'm so sorry. Yeah, it was pretty loud. All right, great. Yeah, it's the Coca-Cola. So she actually asked, like, what do I do? And I said, well, it's my 40th birthday.

I'm sure there's a lot of people who would love to help instead of buying me a bottle of Jagger contribute that money to the trip. So she started to go fund me. And she said, I'm very nervous. I kind of feel weird asking people for money. But I was like, well, you know, whatever, like, in my head, I'll be honest, and she's gonna hear this and hate me. I was going to make up the difference either way. Right. With what she was going to contribute. I wasn't going to not go. But she she put it out there and within 24 hours had enough money to pay for the flights and the hotels. So that's a big

thank you to all the crew that contributed. I forget who the first was but somebody contributed $69 and then that was what everybody did for like three hours. Like every crew member did $69 even. It was really funny. But then yeah, so I am coming to Crew Falls this year. So as soon as she got there, I think it was the Saturday, I was like, I was looking at my Hall of Fame card and I said, well, Crew Falls is 14. I said the only other two missing are four years in the backlog. I said, well, I gotta try. And as much as, you know, everybody in the discord kind of, I will say I genuinely felt either being told not to do it, can't do it, or it's not fair that I'm going to do it. I felt attacked for a minute there, but I was like, I gotta try to get my jacket at Crew Falls, because even if I don't get it at Crew

Falls, still going to do the backlog. So even if I'm short at the event, and I will be honest, if I am short, at least the jacket will be ready, because I'll have it by January or February anyway. So I'd rather like. Hour through, I'm doing it at one point seven five right now, which is kind of a reasonable rate because I normally listen at one point to five or one point five anyway. So Tanner and Tommy just sound a bit normal to me. Some of the guests talk about way too fast, but I'm on episode, I think, 13 right now.

Well, I've also been off for three days and listening during I'm while I'm lifting is half an hour to 45 minutes, right? Because my I skip warm up now. So I just so yeah, that's where we're at. Got to try and get to I think I have to get to 240 to be 100% caught up with where I joined. So we're going to work on it. The only thing I'll say being only 13 episodes in is I'm trying to look at the titles even anything jumps out at me to pick your brain on.

But the only thing or so you do even eat bro times three. There is I will just say it kind of seems like there's a reason I didn't want to do the bad. Yeah, this is not more. This is not the podcast. I love it. It's not even the vault. It's just it's the sets and reps and the talk and lifting.

And it's just like I don't lift. I don't listen to lifting podcasts. So if it honestly because I'd still be at four, actually August 1st would be my four years next year. I would get to 15 in August of next year either way. But you have to do that like four or five months. I'm going to give it a push. I'm going to give it a go. But then I just happened to be at 16 out of 16 in August.

And I think only like two other people are going to be there. So yeah, I'll be doing my challenge coin dinner. Now, I think it's all the jacket. There's no more coin. It's just the I know I'm fucking around. Yeah. OK. OK. So anyway, there's my update. There's my explanation. There's my reason why you guys can all come after me later for it. But I'm going to I'm going to try and power through. And whether I make it or not. We'll see.

Well, thank you for giving me a chance to talk about that, because that was a huge, huge week with Morgan doing that, all of my friends contributing my 40th birthday. Like it was just a big it was a big deal. So I had a good week. It's good. It's good. Well, hopefully, I mean, I'm trying good week. It's good, it's good. Hopefully, I mean, I'm trying to remember,

it's been a while since I've gone through the back, it's been a while since I've gone through the backlog, but like, I don't know, from zero to 240, at some point I think it kind of morphs into the, because I'm trying to think at 240-ish, were they doing guest by then, or was it still just, because it was a while there, it was just Tommy and the Tanner shooting the shit

every week for like a year. Around 220. Yeah, I think, because I was a while there was just Tommy and the Tanner shooting around 220 a year. 220. Yeah, I think because I was like one 150 or 170. Maybe I went through looking and trying to remember if I listened to that episode with the guests. And I want to say that Jen Thompson was one of my first guests. But then I looked back and I think Jessica Bettner was on before Jen. And I know I listened to Jessica's first episode. Then I was like, wait a second, when was Grant's first episode? And I know I listened to that. And I think he was round 220 or 225. So we'll we'll once I start going, I remember this, then I can say I did it. I'm at 14 or 15.

When I listen to all of them again. Yeah, I've got to go through one through 400 to get my jacket. Yeah, right. I think at some point, I think I said, I think I've explained it to people. It's like, it's hard to remember now, but like, there's definitely like there's like three or four different generations of the podcast. So you should once once Tyler kind of dips out, it definitely changes. And then there's a good lol. There's a good while there before it becomes like what it is now. Nothing really wrong with any of them. They're just different. But that's cool. I'm curious.

I'd like three things to note. Episode one through six, Tanner's ankle hurts and Tommy's not getting enough carbs because he's not eating enough rice. And that was also like two weeks ago. It's the same thing. Ever the full circle, right? My challenge to you basically is just like think of a couple things to talk about from whatever chunk that you listen to. And so if you're on episode 13 now, we're going to get an update in seven days and see where you're at and, you know, two or three things that stuck. I haven't even one or two things that stuck out to you out of those new episodes.

So that's that's a challenge for you, buddy. Oh, yeah. One big one. Actually, like I could do this all that we could have our own separate podcast about me going through this when Professor Shans comes on and they just introduce him. Because you've met him and stuff. Well, I know. Yeah, but they just introduce him like we know who he is. And they're like they're literally just like, oh, we have this guy on and they don't tell us who he is or why he's there or anything.

And the whole time I'm going, the only reason I know is because I've met him. And I was like, otherwise, this has no bearing on this podcast at all. Anyway, yeah, moving on. I had a little crew meet up this week out in Albany, which was pretty cool. So I met Big Adam, newer to the crew. Think he's been here. He kind of said he siphoned or he filtered over from the Table Talk episode. So that was probably about a year ago or so, I'd say, if I had to guess. So he's been a crew ever since then.

I knew he was out in Albany and I've been waiting to try to, luckily I haven't had to guess so he's been a crew ever since then I knew he's I knew he was out in Albany And I've been waiting to try to I haven't luckily I haven't had to work out there in about a year or at least Not that I can remember so we were able to go out and grab a grab a bite and get a couple beers and shoot The shit for a good couple hours It was cool to get the perspective from someone because like I've talked to fucking Jesus at least a hundred crew in person or more by now But I've never very seldom do I meet one that's so new to the crew, and also doesn't have social media. So he doesn't get to

consume massonomics on the full scale that we do. So I guess he would only get their YouTube and podcasts, not Instagram, or any other social media. So he's not on there watching their tic tocs and shit, which I haven't seen in months. But just in general, like, like, just take mass take Instagram out of your massonomic sphere. That's like 60% of massonomics or something. So it's crazy that he's still like, gets it and wants to be a part of the community and like enjoys discord enough to like, you know, be a supporting member without the social media aspect. So I thought that was just kind of neat. So it was a fun meet

up with him. So I enjoyed that this week, but so he doesn't even get to troll Dave Wilson with us or whatever. That guy's name was. I don't even know. Like I guess I followed that guy. Some USAPL lifter that fucking squats with his legs touching the fucking side of the squat rack. Weird ass wide squat. That's the biggest thing that stuck out to me. What the fuck is that? He squats three times that I squat.

It was just goofy looking. I don't know. That's like the one thing when I scroll through his page. I was like, that's a sum that? He squats three times that I squat. It was just goofy looking. I don't know. That was like the one thing when I was scrolling through his page. I was like, that's a sumo stance. That's very interesting. He knows who we are now. I love that Tanner went into his DMs. And sent him a flag.

Did you see that part? Yeah. So just if you aren't caught up. Yeah, if you aren't caught up and you're listening, this guy said, I want to take this federation flag down. What flag should I put up? And then his next story was stop saying, massonomics. I don't know who that is. And I think it was like big, big Lior or big, big Adam or somebody posted it and they were just like, who's this clown? And somebody was like, he's about to get a bunch of DMS to see who this clown is. So I sent one and Tanner sent one.

And then out of nowhere, Tanner goes, oh, I got his address. I'm sending him a flag tomorrow, which I I was talking to Morgan. Which one? Yeah, I'm sure we'll find out. We can't do the lift anymore. So we're going to have hopefully the crispy power. Nice big one. Yeah, the big banner. Yeah. Yeah. So I was explaining to Morgan and I was just like, we are the menace of the lifting world. Like I there's going to be a point at some point where people are going to be

afraid of the Mastanomics crew. Like we're going to go to the Arnold and people are going to roll their eyes and go, fuck, here they come. Right. Here comes the crew. Bunch of jerks. OK, I got to get out of all that. That was really. So some strongman update, I did sign up for my next show.

It's the static monsters here October 26th. So I mean, we're not familiar with static monsters. It's like a worldwide, I think, like on is it's essentially like all the everyone's numbers are, you know, goes up against everyone else's numbers. So anyone can kind of host a meet and do it. And then your numbers there with calibrated plates and stuff go up against like a like a national, you know, ranking essentially. So I'm not worried about that aspect. I just like the idea of all 60 bucks and I only have to do a fucking max log and a max axle deadlift.

I don't have to worry about doing all this like seven other events like that sounds amazing and it's five minutes from my house. Fuck yeah and my some of my friends are going to be there. Hell yeah. It is there is an optional stone like you know gauntlet basically like start at like 175 and like go up until you can't do the stone and like I don't know that I'm going to do that because that doesn't sound I don't know. I don't have the mental capacity to add that to my program right now I guess I could just do sandbags and shit but I'm gonna try to have fun and I just want to hit a really just want to show her yeah stop being a catalog I know I've done I just want to hit a log I just want to chip a log PR we were

happy with that and then like then chip a stone PR. We were happy with that. And then like if I can chip a stone PR, stop being a listen on it. If I can pull up the damn stone. Yeah, yeah, you just got to pick it up. So that's in a few weeks. So that'll be fine. There might be another crew there because there's a crew. I'm not sure how new I think he's a newer crew out in Syracuse, New York, which is it's funny because he actually he trains with one of my other buddies. And he's he's another

one of these guys that's not on social media. So it's two crew and Western upslash upstate New York that aren't on social media that are in crew that are all within like a couple hours of me. So I just I get it I get it I get a kick out of that concept. But yeah, and one more follow up on strong man. So big shout out to Travis and Stu down at and in Preston County, West Virginia down there. What does it lift? I'm so bad. Lift, lift hard strength club, right? Yeah. Lift hard strength club. Uh, they hosted their first, uh, strong man show and it looked like it was a blast.

So, uh, everyone saw the pictures and everything that they were posting on social media. So, uh, good job guys. That looked like he had a great performance. And just so everybody is aware aware zero penises got crushed Everybody's penis was marked safe plates at the strongman event I Had to pause that episode when I heard that It's not rush more of funny fucking stories. I've heard funny moments on this podcast for me It is

because it in it but if the funny thing was if like I really like Travis and Stu but if Travis stole that story about himself it probably wouldn't been as funny. The fact that Stu is so animated and he is a storyteller and he is a you know he's just great at communication like he made that story so much more funny uh and it was like so self-incriminating, which was the best part too. I love that. It was such a good fucking. I love those guys. I love to see him at crew falls. I think Travis hinted that they might be able to make it out, but we'll see. I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to put the heart car cart before the horse. Yeah, but we'll see.

Don't put the heart before the chorus. Cause then no, no, no. And one last thing that doesn't make sense to me is there's another David honey cut out there that keeps buying gym equipment. She has your dad like there's been it's I think there's been three in the last couple of my I basically touched based on this a couple like a month or so ago, but there's been three different company owners couple of my I basically touched base on this a couple like a month or so ago. But there's been three different company owners of some kind of gym equipment that have reached out to me to essentially either

ask if this was me or just like, is this someone that I know? And it's the funniest fucking thing is that David honeycutt out in Michigan and I can't find him on Facebook or Instagram or anything. And he keeps just buying gym equipment stuff. And I just and it's from people that I know that own the companies and they reach out to me and I just think it's the funniest thing in the world so very very fucking weird and strange because it's not a common name so that's what just throws me off so that's all I got for for general uh it's it's just it's rude keith coming out when you're not paying attention it's like it's like me myself and and Irene. There's a there's a rude, rude David Honeycutt that lives in Michigan

that buy shit and ships it out to nowhere. Oh, and anyone that was on discord that like believed Mathias is really good fucking picture there. I did not send him a bunch of dick pictures. I cannot be labeled as a guy that's fucking emailing people dick pictures. That's not something that I can have on my fucking resume. Let's not go there I got I got a video

Talking about that. I was just doom-scrolling for a few minutes and I got Some guy microwaving a cucumber and apparently you microwave a cucumber it keeps its cons. It keeps its like shape But then it becomes floppy. So I just sent that video to Matthias. He's like But then it becomes floppy, so I just sent that video to Matthias. He's like, I'm counting that. That's actually really funny. But I think he had to have like to get all the icons from me like he went into all the chats that I've had with him before and he must have sent something and deleted it to have it be like because like every one of my fucking Profiles had a had it like he was at the top of the thread, but there was no new message

And I'm like I haven't talked to you for a couple days. What the fuck? What is this? Like you little sneaky bastard. I'll say Keith is I'll say the same thing to you that my staff loves and I say to them, I believe you. I was going to fuck him. He does that.

He doesn't believe me. And I believe you and then and then Jeff came in thinking that I ran the fucking the no wine garage page, too. So he made the meme of like me giving myself the award, which was hysterical. But I was like, well, that's not the case. I did screenshot. I did. I did save that meme template because I was like, oh, something's something's going to come up where I like compliment myself.

And this is going to be relevant. So I will save that and, you's gonna something's gonna come up where I like compliment myself and this is gonna be relevant So I will save that and you know, keep that in the back pocket Ben is there anything in the social media world or Instagram or lifting or massnomics or discord that we didn't touch a touch on That you you saw this week that's relevant we're talking about Not that I I don't catch a lot of it but I did I was wondering what the dick things was about earlier, but I did see that. You don't want to ask me what my dick was about. What was your dick about?

I don't know. He sounds interesting. Nope. You gotta ask Mathias. He knows all about it. I guess apparently. All right. Well, that wraps up this portion.

So, uh, big Ben, you have a little masonomic sponsor. Do you want to give us? Yeah. Uh, so would you like to join a community that may or may not be a cult drink piping hot, LaCroix's may or may not want to do some lifting together drinking. And that's kind of all we know. Oh, what the hell? Just join.

Just join. You won't regret it. You won't regret it. Pop is in and let's go. And that's, that's the, that's the's this mass nominacy want to join, right? Yeah, that's not true. They're they're good guys. Oh, yeah. We'll we'll keep letting them support us.

Oh, well, I think I think we better get all these carp and fucking what's his face still here. What's this? Let's kick all those guys out and see if we can get our guests on the horn. We got to put this behind a paywall. I tell you, I mean, would we? I don't know if we'd be the first, but damn, we'd, you know, it'd be cool if we were.

Yeah, we'd be the first to pay. All right. Big Ben, is that you? Yes, it is. You are live and unpaid and underrated. We'll bring you on in, get you chatting, have a little fun, have a little least fun, most fun. So welcome. Welcome to the podcast. I want to start and just say, hey, what brought you to Mastinomics?

How'd you find the cult? So February, 2022, I started getting a little bit more serious in the lifting weights. And I do strongman and I was listening to Brian Shaw and there's only six episodes out. I'm like, I still have about six hours of work to do. I gotta find something. And in the suggestions, I'm like, what's this? Mastanomics. Click on it. Scroll through, find a couple of episodes download them I'm like, oh, this is fun. I like these guys not really lifting related or like I Was looking more for like the serious lift sets and reps stuff

But I found the silly goosiness of it and then it's like Aberdeen, South Dakota. I'm like Are these guys really from Aberdeen? I looked them looked on the I'm like, are these guys really from Aberdeen? I looked them, looked on the page. I'm like, holy crap, because I actually grew up from Russell, South Dakota, which is the very Northeast corner of South Dakota. So like Aberdeen is like, what is it? An hour and a half from where I grew up. And I'm like, how have I never heard of these guys?

So I started listening and I think I got, Oh, Oh, let's see here. I listened down to round episode one 75 before I quit from there. And then I've listened to every episode. Going through the back again? Yeah, going backwards. When I find a new podcast, I tend to listen to the whole back catalog if I can. But I got down to like, I was like, I started at two, it was just before 300. So I want maybe the 260s is where I started.

I listened to 100 episodes or so and then quit. And then I was listening to every episode afterwards. And, uh, it's here. When did I join the crew? Oh, it was May, uh, May 31st is when I signed up for, uh, be a crew member. So that's been two years, not 2022, 2022. Yep. Um, and actually how I found my first strongman show is because of massonomics.

Oh, cool. They, they, they, yeah, they named dropped, uh, the winter classic in Fargo and I Googled it, found iron podium, stuff like that. Yeah. So literally happenstance. that. Yeah. So literally happenstance. I always, I always like hearing about when guys that like live, you know, Aberdeen adjacent and they're like, how the fuck have I not known these guys or something? Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, I grew up in the literally four miles from North Dakota, eight from Minnesota.

As like Aberdeen is literally a place we'd go for school events and stuff like that all the time. So, Gotcha. So did you, did you, did you ever think in any of your lifting journey, um, that you guys, you were, we were at the same place. You're going to get over at the same strong man show or powerlifting. No, no. Like that.

I didn't actually start competing until uh my first competition I've ever done was your focus I got you yeah my first competition was June 2022 um there is a really good chance Tommy and I have been in the same building at the same time but yeah it's kind of hard to put that because I'd go to where he grew up quite a bit too, because we'd go to what is that? There's an event place with pools, racquetball courts, basketball courts, stuff like that. I can't remember what it's called, but Joey's hotel is a pool.

Most hotels have pools. Yeah, they do. A lot of them are attended by somebody at some point. So Ben, for anyone listening, where are they going to find you on Instagram? Just so they know who we're talking to? My Instagram is just my first and last name, Ben Bile, all under under case. Pretty simple. Yeah, that's good. I've never thought of that one it came to me when I was working out and I was like oh what this is this is actually this might be something like every now and I get a brain fart or you

know a thought in my head and I'm like this might be good well let me bounce it off the other guys and see if I get any feedback. It went, uh, pretty good. So you've been out there and, uh, the Dakota is your whole life then, bud. Yep. I grew up in, like I said, well, town of 400 people. Oh, actually outside of town, but, uh, Russell, South Dakota moved to Bismarck for a while.

Now I'm in pure South Dakota, the state Bismarck for a while. Now I'm in Pierre, South Dakota, the state capital. Well, north of the state capital, still have a Pierre address, but totally without. How do you, is it Pierre or is Pierre, right? People. Am I saying it right? People from South Dakota. People from South Dakota pronounce it Pierre,

but I'm sure it is supposed to be here. But so how big is Pierre versus a crew falls peers 13,000. I think if I remember right on the wall, there's capital. Yeah. I, if I remember right, second smallest capital. Okay. Yeah. And the United States second smallest if I remember correctly so I think they actually talked about that on the sister podcast that I think and I swear they were talking about Sioux Falls versus that maybe but uh so you say it's equivalent to ish then from to to Sioux Falls now Sioux Falls has like a lot of people yeah Sioux Falls is almost a hundred

thousand if I remember it yeah how the fuck is the capital a lot of people. Yeah. Sioux falls is almost a hundred thousand. If I remember it. Yeah. How the fuck is the capital a tenth of that? I think it's actually means bigger. Yes. Aberdeen is larger than here. We got to dig in. Like, is it just that like, that's so weird because you don't pick your capital based on how many people live there. You pick your capital based on where you want to structure the economy and stuff from. And it was probably picked before half of these cities grew to the size they did. Yeah. Yeah. North Dakota is one of the older cities.

Yeah. But is it one of those things, too, where like the city limits is like this part and then there's like a million parts that it's like basically considered like greater pierre, but it's all like like suburbs that you know, inflate the number. It's not suburbs. There's no, it's just good right out of cornfield. Okay. Pretty much. There's a little sections like I live up in a couple recreational areas and we all have

pure addresses. And we're 15 miles north. But yeah, it's just like little almost like town, like communities that come up the highway that have pure addresses. Well, speaking of coming up the highway, where you about what is it? You're like five hours from Sioux Falls because you're you're right. What's your Sioux Falls, you know, distance without stopping about four and a half hours. What's you? Yeah, crew falls.

Why? Place we're all going. So so so two part question, where the fuck were you last year? And you better fucking be there this year. That's only one of those words. Yeah, no, well, we have more than one had an exclamation point, which is still, you know, close. We get mandatory

Saturdays, November and December. Yeah, that's actually suck. I'm sorry. No, actually this year you won't. Okay. I'll actually be at Crew Falls this year. Dope. Because I'm I am getting my route got sold and moved to Bismarck and I asked my boss, hey, can I get this one Saturday off? He's like, yeah, that's not going to be a problem now. So I am going to be at crew falls this year. Hell yeah.

You gonna come up Friday? Yeah, I'll probably come up Friday after work. So yeah, I think there's gonna be enough of us there Friday to make it worth well Well fuck after work. You might not see you till you'd be rolling in late late late or depends But strongman show I did in August it was 1030 when I got to two falls from remember you basically will be there all day Saturday But maybe not necessarily yeah, I don't know how late will be out Friday night

But I just wanted something to be on the agenda. Last year, there was like, Tommy met us, met me and like four or five guys for lunch. And then I didn't see anyone until a brief meetup at night that was super unorganized. So I'm really hoping that they get the ball rolling and getting something a lot more, you know, ironed out for Friday because we're all spending a lot of money to get out there for like, you know, if we can get Saturday, if we can get Friday to be at least, you know, something, it'd be a hell of a lot better for everybody. I think so. That's awesome. I'm excited. That'll be good to see you again. Oh, yeah. It'll be good to see you guys too.

Well, we saw you at Livetard Livesey, didn't we? Yes, I've been there both years. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember seeing you at the first one Livesey, didn't we? Yes, I've been there both years. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I remember seeing you at the first one. I don't remember talking to you much at the second one. I know I said hi, I think at Pounders, but I don't think we crossed paths, which is my bad, but also I wasn't at Pounders.

So, no. So when did I see you? I know I said hi to you at Hotel lobby. Got it. Yep. Yep. I know I saw you, but I don't know that we cross paths, which just makes

I also had a beard down here. So I got rid of mine too, right? I got rid of half a month. So I got rid of more than half of mine. Nobody recognizes me now. Everything's starting to come to me again. Yeah, I'm not mean, Joey at at left. Had the busy. That's Keith. That does that.

Fuck off. I'm not a talk. I'm going to talk to everybody in December. I said that too. I was like, I really am. I was like, if anything, he's just going to ignore me like he always does when we meet in person. You're like, fuck you. I talk to you like every day. We do. We actually talk almost.

Yeah. Yeah. It is like. I'd like to I want to have, but like every day. We do. We actually talk almost. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to. I want to have like I don't know. That's why I like doing this podcast because it makes it easier to talk to the new people, the other people. So like and half of my like crew falls and lift hard is like recruiting people for the podcast. So like fucking get waste time talking to you. We'll fucking see each other. Fucking every Thursday.

I know. I'll talk. Obviously you make that you embellish how big every Thursday. I know talk obviously you make that's not how big of a prick I am yeah, but that's not funny. That's the thing It's gotta be funny see the Davids the joke is he's not that mean to me though. I tell it like he is Did you see I don't remember which channel we were but Jen was talking about how she likes Bob's burgers and yeah, I was like shocked she was really shocked that I liked Bob burgers and like I Basically have downloaded on my computer like years ago And I essentially I'll watch like a couple episodes a month when I'm on the road or something I just need like that that like fall asleep comedy that you're only partially invested in and uh, I think I and I

It kind of dawned on me and I was like when I was thinking about it when she was giving me shit for even like Liking it basically I was like I think I kind of relate to Bob because like He'd really just he fucking gets a lot of shit from everybody and he kind of just like wears his emotions on his sleeve And like he gets pissed off the whole time. I'm like, yeah, that's kind of like me So yeah, you just got to deal with with me who's probably Louise No, I would be Terrorism with the rabbit ears, right? That would be for sure. Yeah, that's you. Yeah. No, Louise is Louise.

Tina is the one. And yeah, so I would be Louise and I could see how that would get on your nerves. But yeah, it's a little orange since since since Nate refuses to, you know, spend a million dollars and fix orange glaze dot com and Glacier dot com. You know, I have to just, you know, randomly tell you about my movie and, you know, TV consumption as of what's because it's not a parody. Right. So I did.

I did go back and watch. I was looking at what was it? Deadpool, because I just watched the sequel a couple months ago or something. And somehow it popped up on my I.M.B.D. that I hadn't watched the Essentially was the remake of the second one I think where it was like the Christmas special that was only PG and it was like a whole bunch of back and forth with him

And the fucking kid from Wonder Years Fred Savage who was I guess the kid in that stupid fucking movie you all like And I don't know it was I ended up watching most of it and I was like It was just a different perspective of watching the sequel or the the other second one and I don't know, it was, I ended up watching most of it. And I was like, it was just a different perspective of watching the sequel or the other second one. And I don't know, it wasn't great, but at least, you know, I have that thing about like, I have to like, it's like a race to get to like a million fucking movie reviews basically.

So it's like, I'll watch as much shit as I can get those ratings and like, you know, get my number up. Can we get back to little Ben over here? Little Ben, little Ben, little Ben Benji. Yeah. Yeah. I've got a list of nicknames. There was a couple and I tried to like sort them. But I'm not going to list them. I'm just going to randomly call you different things from this list throughout the entire. That's fine. That's totally fine. So you're our second FedEx driver. Yep. So now I think we have to find out who the strongest FedEx driver is in the crew. I don't know.

Oh, I think there's three of us though. I think there's three of us though. Well, David had that thing with the UPS driver that was all jacked, right? Where he kept like stitching his videos. So maybe you have to do that with a couple of the FedEx drivers in the crew. Do you want to hit him with least fun, most fun Keith? It's your game. Yeah.

Yeah. I'll say you've played with the game big big Ben's an avid listener of the you know, the the main podcast the us that is so when I get you with least fun most fun being on the road to 300 pound logpress. Or did you actually achieve it? I'm not I I I didn't like I, I, I, I'm still on that. I'm still on that.

So I want to hear, I want to hear about that. Least fun, most fun. Least fun is all the failures that comes with it. Cause you all, I, I did hit a PR for at the lift our love easy. But my log is a lot different than the one we were using. And actually, I really liked the one we were using. Like my confidence was not the bar to slog. Yeah, the bar to my confidence going in there was not great. And then I was playing with that bar to a

slog. I'm like, Oh, I don't know how everybody else felt, but it just, it felt like butter for it. I was like, I'm hitting a PR this weekend. And I did, but, but no, it was kind of a, like, I've got the same log you have and that one can actually be frustrating. Yeah. I want, I, I've been in talks with someone to try to get like the full-size one but it's like it's in like three towns over and he only can meet at like fucking two o'clock on a Saturday I'm like I'm not gonna do that dude like Saturday's date night you can't go there is like dude I'm literally in this town

Monday through Friday for work like very, very often, like figure out how to be here during the fucking work week. And I will buy it from you, but I'm not coming out on a weekend. Fuck you. Right. So most fun. Yep. Most fun the journey because what because once you hit it, you're gonna want more. But so what what was your PR then? What did you hit it lift hard? 240. 240. Gotcha. I almost had 260 but it was... I messed up. My right arm didn't quite... It wasn't locking out. I was sitting there trying push, push, push and then I tilted it out and I didn't keep it in. Otherwise I might have gotten it. But that's what she said.

I didn't keep it in. Otherwise, I might have gotten it. But that's what she said. You didn't struggle with the like I felt that that I don't know, man, like I was dead going into that. It was such a long fucking hot sweaty day. And I think everyone underperformed but in here you are hitting a PR. That's great. I think you and you and Tyler both hit PR on the I don't think there was a ton of PRs on log press that day honestly. Oh, I knew going in it was going to be humid because I live in South Dakota. So I was like, I doubled my electrolyte intake that day. Me too. So Keith had pills like came in clutch. Those are really good. Those are. At that point I only drink so much.

I remember you told me that. Yeah, I did pre-workout and like two bottles of water. And I was like, no, I need electrolytes because like I'm dying right now. And he's like, I've got these pills. And I was like, they make these in pills. My life was so different for a minute. They got just a sodium replacement. I like to like, I think it is.

It's great. How long ago was this? Over a decade ago, I was working road construction and my boss like, here, take these, they're, they're electrolyte pills. Yeah. So hopefully, hopefully, I guess if they were something else, Ben might not be here today. So I guess I woke up in a hotel room confused with a scar on my side.

Um, what is your hall of Fame status there, Ben? This makes 12 for me tonight. Nice. Congrats. Making dreams come true here at Unpaid and Underrated. So your cup is on its way. Yeah, it's 12 to get in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's 12 to get in.

Nope, bear with me. I'm just going to have to have. It'll be 13 in December with crew. It's false. So that's falls. Nope. So that's an easy one. Are you, um... As someone that lives out there and knows how brutal it can be in the summer,

are you excited that we are gonna be abandoning the Odie at least for a year and trying out the... Yes. ...new air-conditioned hotel? Yes, I am. I'll be honest. So yes, I am. I'll be honest. Today actually was 100, almost 100 degrees up in my service area today. So that's crazy. It's fucking almost over.

I get to go over a couple days. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to jump to conclusions. I'm not a conspiracy theorist of any sort. And I have the utmost faith in Tanner and Tommy, but I will say it took them lifting and then finally pay attention to us. I would say last year wasn't as bad as this year. I'd say it was worse this year because

it was more humid. Yeah. And then that rain hit. We were like, oh, the rain will help. It did not help. It just somehow. As it was raining when the garage door was open, that felt amazing. And then they shut the garage door. Yeah. So anyway, I just saying, I'm not saying, but I'm just saying

they finally lifted and they were like wow it really is uncomfortable That might be the most astute observation I've ever heard you state Joey and it makes me smile because that was really Really really really give him the screws there. I like it. Tanner's gonna text me and be like you prick That's great, that's great So Ben what's what's one piece of Mastinomics merch that you had missed out on? You've been here since 2022. Anything you've seen before that or anything you didn't pull the trigger on?

Others? Oh, I would have liked to get one of the raw power shirts. Um, popular answer. But actually a lot of the OG stuff. Looking back at that stuff, I wish I could have got some of that. It's like I said, it's like, oh, that was so cool. Some of that stuff. So the raw power shirt or is it one thing in specific because you have your

druthers, but you can only ride one horse. I think you got that right. Yeah, you did. I'd say an original lift shirt would be cool to get, but you've could have got those fuck in the last two years at the. The literally at the at the lift hard, right? They've been just a regular weekend. Are you talking the weekend warrior? Yeah, the light blur. You know, maybe I'm thinking for one.

Maybe I'm thinking a different one. I'll just say the raw power. Yeah, we got that. Just raw power. There we go. We'll pull you off the spot on that one and call it raw power. That's a popular answer, but I would be wondering how many they actually sold.

Because I actually have a cousin who raises Buffalo, so. Is it Bison or Bison? Just going to. So is it by center bison? I said, however, I say it because I know I sound just like Tanner Tommy, but I say bison. So hell yeah, me too. There we go. Is Ontario Midwest? Oh, speaking of Midwest Canada, I could just Google this, but it's too much work. And I, you know, cohost with the Canadian. Where's Nova Scotia?

I'm watching a TV show that's based in Nova Scotia and it's by the beach. I'm like, yeah, it's the Maritimes. It's the Maritimes. So it's the East Coast. OK, so you mean it doesn't fucking help the Maritimes. I don't know what the fuck that means. It means Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland. I do actually think Rhode Island and Maine are on maritime as well. New York, Northeast.

Well, yeah, but it's like the East Coast along the ocean, right? Yeah, because like the main character, like she bounced back from Boston to Nova Scotia. Like, like, like it's not that big of a deal. So I'm like, it's got to be somewhere. Yeah. Hey, fun piece of Canadian history, Ben, if you don't care, if you don't mind, when the Nova Scotia explosion happened, so the Halifax explosion was when a boat full of dynamite collided with another boat, and it caused such an explosion that killed

thousands of people completely erased an indigenous tribe off the map was so hot and so loud it burned people's eyeballs. Like it was it was actually the biggest manmade explosion before Hiroshima. Boston sent up aid with the through the help of like boats and food and and and troops and stuff like that. So every year, Halifax gives Boston their Christmas tree. So when you say that she's jumping back and forth between those two, well, that's that's actually really cool to hear. What show is that? It's called Sullivan's Crossing.

It's like a really corny, cheesy fucking like doctor went back to her hometown, like finds a fucking room. I mean, it's a bad it's not a really corny cheesy fucking like doctor went back to her hometown like Finds a fucking room. I mean, it's a bad. It's not a great show The two-season Hallmark movie kind of but I don't know I watch stupid shit like that sometimes it's like, you know Yeah, so is anatomy. So Boston and Halifax would be how faxes in Nova Scotia would be like, yeah They're like buddy buddy sister cut sister city So it was a very sad story that had a good ending I guess but I was gonna make a joke when you said a boat of Dynamite and I was like, oh we're talking about the TNT big big Tyler Thompson I'm like and then when she once you said what happened I was like, I'm not gonna make that joke cuz that's

So Scantz is north of that a little bit. He's in a place called New Brunswick. Up and over. It's crazy. Sorry to interrupt you there, Ben. I just, I was like, hey, Boston, Nova Scotia, I have a thing about that. That's actually really cool. I find that stuff fascinating. So yes, we are actually, that's a really good segue speaking of segues. Let's move into one You just do a lot of reading and learning I Not necessarily reading I listen to a lot podcasts. All right. Yeah So like what is this? Consuming and learning. Yeah. Yeah

it's kind of topical that I bring up this weird thing and learning. Yeah. Yeah. Um, you know, that's, it's kind of topical that I bring up this weird thing. And today, Morgan, we had my kid assessed for ADHD and the doctor asked if I had problems in school, and I said, no. And my wife looked at me and said, you used to go to the library and read the encyclopedia because your classes were boring. I think you had problems in school. So I was just like, when I'm reading, going over the notes and I was just like, you just know, like you love learning new stuff. Like, what does that about? Where does that come from? Well, going over some of the newer symptoms of like ADHD and stuff, I might actually have it. I'm not, I have never taken the assessment too, but I'll hyper focus on subjects such as folklore or like when I was a little kid,

animals, like I'd watch documentaries, but boring, boring as documentaries of whatever is on TV. Oh, but a lot of the stuff was like animal stuff, like animal planet discovery channel. Like that was like what I enjoyed watching when I was like four five six seven onward and that's kind of led into like podcasts where I'm listening to folklore well actually a mainstay I would say is cryptozoology but we'll get into that anybody yeah but anybody that doesn't know what that is that's like Bigfoot Loch Ness Monster those are like I feel like we've talked about that once before on here. I'm pretty sure that that term has been on this podcast once before. Possibly, but not positive.

But yeah, it's just one of those things. I find a subject. I'll listen to it for a hundred hours or so and then I'll keep keep on listening to it continuously or go back to it and jump around so even on that for most of your adult life then you're saying yeah yeah especially since finding like podcast and stuff but does that help with conversation so like I find that like the more I know what like the more random facts that I know, I can just like

pull shit out of my ass and like conversations. And it's just, it's a fun thing to do. And it's, it's just nice to have like a wide, you know, knowledge base of just random shit. Because like, you might, you know, when you do meet those other people that kind of have the same thing. So do you feel that like, out of all that consuming of information, do you retaining a good bit of it to you're actually able to like harken back on it and like, pull it out in conversations and be like, have people just kind

of like, how the fuck do you know that? Yeah, sometimes. And most of the time, it's like a little nugget, somebody will say something like, ding. And it's like, then I'm sit nice regurgitating something I might have learned. Who knows 10 to 510 years ago. So yeah. The probably wouldn't a whole lot of podcasts back on how to be a, a, a, a pedal pole national championship, a national champion though. Was there, or is that something you just came to naturally?

That's something that came to naturally before we get into that. I would love it if somebody told me what that is. Yeah, same. Okay. So Tanner and Tommy somebody told me what that is. Yeah, same. OK. So. Tanner and Tommy might know what this stuff is, because at like. State fairs. Different like town events. Oh, so have you guys ever seen like a pedal tractor?

Maybe when you guys have been here. Yeah. There's actually guys who will modify them for like little kids all the way up to adult sizes. There's actually adult class too now. But so you take a pedal tractor pole, which for anybody not listening or not sure what that is, it's a scaled down model of a tractor with like pedals on it,

like from bicycle and gearing and stuff like that. And you hook as actual sled. So like if you've ever seen like truck pull or tractor, like engine powered ones, sled pull stuff, the same thing, but with pedal tractors that are, okay. Yeah. Could be, there's some basic ones for small kids and then they, like I said, they mod. I've actually pulled on some four wheel drive ones before where it's just all

four tires are putting power to the wheels and you're just pedaling. And yeah, I, I came very natural to that. And that's something you did as a kid to kid. I was like, like, like, give me a time. Yeah, as a kid, like, like five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, like, where were you? Six to well, 13 ish. I'm a right. So that was. So was that before football or after football?

That was before football. Oh, before football into like my first time, first. Oh, I had some of into like my first time, first. Oh, I had some of my last pedal pole stuff was my first time ever playing football, going into junior high. So. Okay. So was that before or after loading creamed corn into a fire extinguisher? It wasn't cream corn.

It was crack corn that I load into a fire extinguisher. It wasn't cream corn. It was crack corn that I load into a fire extinguisher and I've launched across the yard. Yeah, your dad, your mom and dad gave me some good stuff. There's a lot. Oh yeah. I love messing with stuff like that. And honestly, if I had a farm, I'd build a trebuchet and have my son and nephew out and we'd be launching shit trust the farm. But you're going to say you would launch your son and nephew.

No, I'd be launching stuff with them. My son probably would want to get launched out of it because he probably did fun. It probably would be very fun. Well, speak to the Washington people. If at the seventh grade, you're over 300 pounds, but you had launched some kids on the field, huh? Yeah. We're even allowed to play before junior high or middle school then, because of like most most younger, uh, sanctioned like football teams.

You have to be like under weight limits and shit to play until you're actually in middle school, I believe. Well, like I said, Russell was a town of 400 people. So we didn't have football until we were in seventh grade. We did have basketball, baseball, stuff like that. But we didn't have football until I was a seventh grader. That was 300 pounds by then. So that's a did you? We've been like, have you been like the same height pretty much

since then? Or were you like a foot? No 300 pounds. I how is really like you're only like 510 or 511, right? Yeah, I'm 510. I'm 510 and I grew I grew into it. Um, you're like five 300 pounds. That's that's a that's a thick boy.

Maybe. Yeah, I have always I've always been a big kid like, so yeah. Was there a was there a time it was one of your dad's Harkins that you you picked someone up you picked up the running back and a bunch of opposing players and ran the other way with them. Is that a little embellished or you like, that's a little embellished. I picked up the running back and then, uh, he, he was being tackled and literally taking my work coaches words.

This was when I was an eighth grader. I picked up, picked him up and I started carrying him down the road and then are down the field and then we got tackled. But even legal like isn't no, it's not legal, but no, cause it's junior high football. Yeah. Like the reps are just like, you know, I guess I could, they were high schoolers and they thought that was the coolest shit ever. So the rest were, like I said, the refs were high school football players and they thought that was the coolest shit ever. So the rest were like I said, the rest were high school football players and they thought that was fucking cool. So they did care.

So it's a bit like the airbud rule, right? Yeah. There's nothing saying you can't. There probably is. I'm just making that out. I just wanted to say airbud rule. Yeah. Keith, would you like to ask about your favorite thing that I have highlighted here? Where the f... I don't know where you're at.

Is it actually highlighted? Okay. So I hear you have a good poop story for us. Actually, I got a couple if you want. Oh, yeah. I want to hear the snow poop story because that's so I got so this was a couple years ago I was just got to my last stop it is late. Well, it's also like December. A few years ago we had a bunch of snow up here. I was like, I can't quite remember

up here. I was like, I can't quite remember. Yeah, the Dakotas got that snow. It is more than years prior, especially at that time. Yeah, and well, so there was like, what was it? I think it's seven ice storms I drove through that year and like four blizzards. it I think it's seven ice storms I drove through that year and like four blizzards and there was like a there's two was it there's one week where we couldn't work for three days because of a blizzard another where we couldn't work for five and anyways I got the bubble guts and I'm like I am 20 miles from the closest toilet and they close in 10 minutes. There's no way I'm going to get there. So it's like, oh,

I know a spot. And anyways, it's kind of a deep part of the ditch and the snow is just built up. I'm like, so I tamp some snow down., snow along the side of the road was just four inches below my knees, and I made some holes, I grab on the tire, lean back, and my grip slipped on the tire just bare butt. Just right in the snow. Bare everything. It was like, oh, this is cold. Mid shit. That's the best. No, it was before I even started.

Okay. So then you had to finish it and all cold and wet. That's good stuff. Yeah. No, that was that was not fun. Why don't you like, okay, so you're a FedEx driver. So you're in a truck for eight to 10 hours a day in a rock and royal usually like nine to 14 hours a day. All right. So why don't you have the five gallon bucket with a toilet seat and the fucking garbage bags in it and for the emergency or like the collapsible like damn like damn

Bell style like shitting in the back of his fucking work truck just in a bucket like there's got to be hacks that don't involve there's a merge the emergencies don't happen often enough to justify the space I guess but damn cuz I'm usually pretty good like oh I need to go stop here getting a snow bidet once would be nobody. I was going to say snow animal, but maybe you didn't fall. No, I didn't fall out.

All right. I do a story in a minute. OK, I'm going to do Mount Rushmore. But I am going to do something I've never done. I have a prop from Mount Rushmore. Oh, yeah. What is this prop? So this is this is something I've never shared before. So this is my cryptid sweater. So your Mount Rushmore is going to be based on the cryptids that are on my sweater. What? Let me see your sweatshirt. I barely see it. Okay, so I have here the fur bearing trout.

Oh, nice. Okay. Uh, on this one is extraterrestrials. Okay. Okay. I still can't see it, but I'll do, I'll, I'll, as I, when I'm done talking, I'll kind of move them in. Okay. And then on this one, we have Mothman. Okay. And the Jackalope. There you will see the jackalope there's the mothman yeah cool hold on there's one on the oh yep there's the other one there the chupacabras on here as well okay so your mount rushmore is going to be cryptids cryptids and if you could include some of the ones i mentioned, that'd be awesome.

But if, if you got it, you're a better ideas are cause obviously like I don't have Nessie on there and I don't have the Sasquatch. Like I don't have some of the big names, some of the big names, some of the celebrities. Yeah. So the celebrities, um, actually I'll do, I'll name a Canadian one. Um, Oga Pogo, which is like Nessie, but is a Lake monster and Lake Oga Poga, which is on the Western side of Canada.

I can't quite remember. It's been a while. Um, I can't quite remember it's been a while. Um, I definitely see Super cover is definitely one of my favorites New Jersey Devil is always been one of my favorites as well and then I'd have to say thylacine would be the other one Okay Tasmanacine would be the other one. Okay. Tasmanian tiger would be.

But that one's real. It was real. It was extinct. And now they're saying it's out again. Yeah. And people are looking for it. And actually a great example of a cryptid from what year was gorillas, technically speaking, the gorilla was a cryptid from, I can't, what year was Gorilla's?

Technically speaking, the gorilla was a cryptid animal at one point because Western scientists didn't believe it existed. So there's- All right, so we got Oglethorpe. There really is a- The New Jersey Devil. Chupacabra and Xylazine.

Okay. So just for the sake of people who might not know, can you give me like a two-sentence explanation of who those are? I'm pretty familiar with all of them, except I couldn't tell you much about the New Jersey Devil. So Oga Pogo is a, um, a lake monster in Lake Oga Pogo in the Western side of Canada. Yeah. It's either Alberta or BC. It's one of those two, but they're like, they're side by side. So, yeah. Um, there's been many sightings similar, similar to Loch Ness monster, but the

description varies a little bit more, more like a serpent-like creature. The New Jersey Devil has an interesting backstory. It lives in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Try and recall some of the lore. So one of the things with the lore with the New Jersey Devil is the leads family was having their 13th child. The mother said this child would be the devil is born a normal child and became this grotesque monster with horse legs, a fork tail, horse head, bat wings wing bat wings Just this monster that is flying around the Basically, New Jersey for Early 1800s. I remember right. Okay. Oh man

But this it's a grotesque supernatural creature that was possibly born Normal human was cursed and has been flying around for 200, 250 years. Um, the Chupacabra is, could be multiple things, but the main legend of it is a creature that was going around killing livestock, mainly sucking drain, like a vampire, like thing, draining the blood out of animals. El Chupacarra actually translates to the goat sucker. Go figure.

Weird translation. Very literal translation. I mean, yes, they should, they should, they should leave Ed Cohen away. Leave him alone, that is. Some say it might be an alien. A lot of people think it's just coyotes with mange or wild dogs with mange. There's a couple different things with it. Uh, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Texas, or like the main areas that you hear sightings. Uh, that's three thylacine.

And like I said, thylacine or Tasmanian tiger is a marsupial dog looking creature. And originally from like Papua New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand. Yeah, New Zealand. Pretty much went extinct in Papua New Guinea and Australia due to dingoes. And the turn of the century to the 1900 turn of the century when people started to uh call thank you colonize New Zealand they started shooting uh Tasmanian tigers due to supposed pressure on sheep because uh in New, in New Zealand, they do a lot of

sheep farming. And, um, anyways, their last one died in 19. Oh, I just heard this a couple of weeks ago. What was it? 1938 in the zoo. If I remember right. Or the zoo in, um, zelo. I can't remember. Try to remember things. But it is, like I said, a dog. It looks like a dog, but it's actually marsupial. marsupials are animals like kangaroos, with a pouch that hold their babies. As one of the few predatory marsupials that's ever existed, and people still see it till this day.

And that's one of the ones. I can't think of his name now. Forrest Galante is one of his favorites too. So. All right. That was like that was fun and educational. Keith being from West Virginia is, of course, a huge fan of the Mothman. All right. That was a good movie. Uh, yeah, sure.

There's like a whole Mothman festival in in West Virginia where they. Yeah, it's like all in the southern part. I didn't even really know about it until I was like, I think, like, oh, they didn't grow up with it, knowing that it was even like a thing that my state was famous for because it was like such a regional, not anything to do with the northern part of the state that I could remember. Oh, Ben, I'm gonna hit you a little FMK. You ready, buddy?

Yeah, I'm ready. All right. Let me just freaking had it. Sorry. Give me one second. So Ben, I want you, we're gonna go pizza toppings here or types of pizza, if you will. So FMK three types of pizza and you got to fuck one, marry one and kill one. So we're going to go with Buffalo chicken, meat lovers and chicken Alfredo pizza.

So buff, Buffalo meat lovers, chicken, Alfredo pizza. You got to FM and K what you're doingo, pizza, you got to F, M and K them. What you doing? With with with druthers. With my druthers. Buffalo chicken and meat lovers are two of my, well actually those are my top three favorite types of pizza. No matter what. Yeah, so I eat a lot of Buffalo chicken so I could

You know what I can eat Buffalo because it's just piece of toppings I can eat it somewhere else so I will Kill Buffalo chicken, you know, that's okay Get the gas station stop at it. Every once in a while they have it and I can smell Buffalo chicken. I'm like, what is that? And they are walking around. I'm like, oh, that's so tempting.

Sometimes I do grab it. So I'll kill Buffalo chicken, even cause I eat it all the time almost. Oh, with like noodles and vegetables, but it's not pizza. Fuck chicken alfredo and marry meat lovers. There you go. What is on a meat lovers pizza in your eyes? Meat. Just meat. Actually, my favorite one is things you can put on

meat like there's got to be like 30 million different variations of a meat lovers. Y'all fucking tiger tiger meat on your fucking, you know, on your, on your meat lovers. Well, it's going to cook. It's going to be cooked. So it's no longer tiger meat. It's just season. You might, you might make it a little garnish and sprinkle it on top and fucking say, this is how we do it in the Midwest. I'm helpful. Wouldn't be much different than sardines. It wouldn't be much different than sardines. Yeah.

All right. I won't eat those. Yeah. But no, my favorite meat lovers is actually the Walmart brand market side one. And they have pepperoni. What is all on that? Pepperoni, ham, bacon, ground beef. That's not fair.

Like a six, like a 16 inch pizza pizza I'll have two slices not full the thing the pizza the six the large one is like over a pound oh my oh feed a family yeah yeah it'll feed a family and there's just it's and it actually tastes really good so I can't remember what's all like I said, was it pepperoni, ham, bacon, ground beef, sausage, the crumbly sausage to right? Yep. Yeah, the crumbly sausage. Yeah. So as someone like me that you work out of a you know, you're you're in a work truck all day. And I get a lot of shit for not microwaving my chicken or getting one of those thermoses or the plug-in microwave what do you do for lunch do you do pack a lunch do you always take a gas station I hope you're not getting gas station food fucking five five days a week what's your uh no not all how do how do you manage working out of a truck basically what do you do well it's changed here and there, different things. I tried doing like I eat everything cold. I say it sucks.

But yeah, I eat everything cold. I eat everything. That means it was funny because it's like Eskimos are cold and it's similar. We do the same thing. We're not we're not fucking the same thing, but we could be fucking the same chicken, I guess. Yeah, but it's similar enough that people knew what I was saying that

Gross it was a parody of what it was supposed to mean you fucks Like if you check out my Instagram, that's kind of what I like to do now is some noodles Buffalo chicken actually I got garlic Parmesan this week, which is nice reprieve Uh, Buffalo chick, actually I got a garlic Parmesan this week, which is nice. Um, so I'll, I'll make a bunch of chicken up in the crock pot, shred it, put Buffalo sauce on it, put the garlic Parmesan, which I did this week. Uh, I'll do like burger, like burger, just plain bird or not plain burger patties. I usually put Cajun seasoning salt on it. Um, and then fruit, uh, like I've done. Like this week it was the garlic Parmesan chicken with noodles and a vegetable and then Buffalo chicken noodles and a vegetable and then ground

old taco meat with vegetable and a potato that I didn't cook the potatoes all the way through, so I've been eating raw potatoes. So. Oh, that's the worst. So I had one the other day that was like, it was a, because I freeze a lot of mine, and then I had one, I got one out and the chicken was completely thawed,

but the potato, like it was still thawed, but like when you bit into it, it was like, ag, it was like, it was full of like ice cold water. So it was like, it was still thawed, but it wasn't really thawed and it kind of like exploded. It was like I was I was full of like ice cold water. So it was still thought but it wasn't really thought and it kind of like exploded. It was really fucking. But then I had one like the one that was thought out an extra day was perfectly fine. So it's like, okay, like I can still freeze potatoes and thaw

them and they're good. It's just that one was a little too still not unfrozen, I guess. But now I appreciate that someone in a similar position as me is working out of a truck and being in confined space. And I'm not trying to bring a fucking microwave or a thermos or anything. It's fine to eat cold fucking chicken. You got damn. I got to say it like to give me shit. No because I think I have backed you on this before. Microwave chicken breast is fucking terrible. It turns into rubber. It is impossible to eat. So if you have like a fresh chicken, one of my coworkers has a chicken farm and she was like,

here, I gift to you a half chicken. So Morgan roasted the half chicken and the rest of it's just sitting in the fridge. I'm not microwaving that chicken breast. I'm eating it cold. Yeah, it's absolutely fireworks. Good though. I don't have one of those yet. I'm gonna for my wife. I don't have counter space for another thing. That's what I mean Yeah, I'm gonna have to redo the kitchen and get bigger counters if I want an air fryer My supplements take up like a quarter of the kitchen right now. So now What kind of supplements do you have on the counter?

protein creatine Like I have like three times three kinds of creating I have the lecture the electrolytes I Have the beta is a beta Alan E or beta Alan nine. What are you guys? So now it's fucking oh, I mean like you always fucking say it you just recently no no no and you're never gonna find proof of me Saying I'm gonna like I'm gonna get really bored once and actually just I don't know I gotta figure out that like there's a way to transcribe all the episodes and just find where like creatine and it's fucking said And they just go like look

I'll feel like an asshole, but no I I just and if I was doing it I was doing it on purpose for sure I sometimes say creatine too. I sometimes say it that way to mess people up, but I sometimes say creatine too. I sometimes say it that way to mess people up. But yeah. All right. Um, there's one more, it's kind of a morbid story. It should look like, but it was kind of funny. It looked like, so do you remember drawing a picture when your grandma passed away possibly? And there's a story there. Okay. So the picture I remember

drawing was a little bit different. I this is it. But oh, so the pic that particular one, I don't remember drawing. Because my aunts were there. When my mom obviously too, I was six years old. One I remember old. The one I remember drawing is, uh, uh, the one I remember drawing is a little bit different and, uh, dealt more with like the lake and stuff. Uh, the one that my mom was talking about is my aunts and whatnot are, so one would be my sister would have one would be my mom's sister-in-law. They had came up and to our house and we're sitting at the, so the way the house I grew

up in, so there's the kitchen and then there's an addition. Oh, so there's an aisle, ouch, what the hell did I hit? There was like an island with the sink and stuff and then a wall that separated the front door to the kitchen which had the stove, the microwave, the refrigerator, some cabinets, I'm hitting shit. But anyways there's this addition where there's a covered Um, but anyways, there's this addition where there's a port, a covered, or yeah, it was a covered porch and you can look out of the porch or look out into the front yard and then it went to the south and then on the backside of the island, there was an open area.

So we're in this little cubby type. Actually at that point in time, there would have been a divider from the island. Is there a funny part to the story? I was just looking for like a 30 second. There was a, there was a, oh, sorry. So I, I, I just want people to get it. So I drew my grandma. So my grandma had just passed away.

I drew my grandma in her coffin and the worms are coming up to eat the coffin. And that's what with him and my mom's like is this and is it like one of those things that like your family brings up every few years to kind of bust your chops with or no like okay my mom brings it up every once in a while we'll sit left yeah yeah yeah that's good that's good stuff well i think before we move into some games um stuff. Well, I think before we move into some games, we're our 25 and tons of time and there is one thing on here that I really I was like, okay, I don't know how to bring this up other than exactly how it's written. Okay. Okay. Oh, he knows some different bands, I don't know the names of. So when we were asking for your Mount Rushmores of potential topics, we got the bands I don't know the names of.

So I know a group who likes their music talk. So what? Oh, boy. Can you at least tell me who put that? So I get an idea. That's your mom or your dad. Oh boy. He at least tell me who put that. So I got an idea. That's your mom or your dad. Oh, boy.

And probably was my mom then. So. I listen to like all sorts of music. I I listen to a lot of rock, heavy metal. I listen to EDM. I listen to some. Actually, more recently started listening to like, Oh, the gals names, Haley Reinhart. And she sings like more like the Frank Sinatra style and sings

a lot of newer songs. And I listened to a lot of different stuff. Some of my favorite bands are like Ice Nine Kills, Five Finger Death Punch, Pawns of Kings, which is a gothic country. Joy, you might actually like the gothic country stuff. It's dark, gritty, more old school with the modern sounds. Like Pawns of kings, exactly how it sounds. Yeah, pawn or is it pawns or kings? Ponds or counts. Got it. Yep. Uh, uh.

Falling in reverse is one of my favorite bands. I've been to like Slipknot Disturbed. I've been to like Slipknot, Disturbed, Korn, Korn Robzobby was actually my first concert I've ever been to. Slipknot, yeah, I listen to a lot of rock stuff. I also, yeah. So it's kind of hard to say which one it was. I just thought it was something like, we always bring up music of some sort so it's like okay through the uh through the submission and i just saw that your wife submitted

something she must have submitted it after like eight o'clock this morning because she wasn't on yeah we don't have anything that your wife submitted so we don't have we're sorry if we didn't get to any of those things as we round out the half yeah the three-quarter mark of the podcast that i might try to throw you know read through that real quick see if she, she was she asked me like hey, what's this? I'm like, oh for like FMP example for you would be like Harry Potter Twilight and Dragon Age and I'm like, oh yeah, then it clicked so Oh, you're gonna. So I am gonna, I am gonna check out Ponzer Keynes because like, you know, I like that

the black grass or whatever we call it the honky goth. I think they made fun of me for calling. Yeah. Yeah. Um, like, uh, he did a conversion of. Cotton I Joe and it was more like... Got it, the murder ballad. Yep, exactly.

That's the exact one. But that's the most popular I can think of. Have you? Yeah, I listen to anything. Have you listened to the Bridge City Centers, the band I have not stopped ranting about for the past year? No, but I did start listening to Jaluka. The techno metal.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I really like that. I actually did have different in the last year dove down. Actually, when you said Jaluka, I was actually in the middle of diving down into the Japanese rock stuff. And yeah, yeah, it comes up. That's, that's awesome. And then what's their, what's their name? Babymetal just did a song with electric cowboy. Yes, They did a song together. I don't remember the name of the song. Yeah, it wasn't like their last song, but it's Babymetal's a very interesting...

Yes, they are. Yeah, when that male vocalist is in there, he's killing it. I actually, I enjoy Babymetal to an extent. Yeah, I actually like that one with the Electric Callboy. That's a fun song. And actually, I one with electric cold boy that is a fun song. And I actually, I've used some baby metal stuff in my reels on Instagram. So, All right. Keith, Keith, I think is a bit here.

So I'm glad I, I'm glad you're, I was able to find your wife's, you know, late submission, but, uh, two, two, two funny stories, I have to say, are worth mentioning. so i want to hear your interpretation well i guess okay so your wife says that you have some uh bouts of talking in your sleep and yes is there any and she has to tell you basically what they are is is there one that stands out that's funny or you know which one i'm talking about uh yes i know what you're talking about yes and i'm surprised my mom and dad didn't put anything because I've talked in my sleep since I was a little kid. So yeah, it's nothing.

I'll never share a room with anyone. Damn, that sucks. My roommates in college said I wasn't, but who knows, they might have been sleeping harder than they thought they did. But on multiple occasions, I have woken my wife up to make sure the rhino that's in the backyard is still in his pen. And sometimes there's an elephant. Okay. Literal. Yeah. Little rhinoceros. Yeah. Bigger fucking house. And then you get subconsciously like you're, you have a dog that you keep out.

Like, is there any subconsciously? No, we don't have any pets. We don't have any pets right now. That's fucking funny. You listen. You know, I tell you what, I get some of the stranger streams. I'm not surprised. I say strange shit while I'm sleeping. Sounds like I'll be I'll be being chased by Bigfoot aliens and I'll wake up and like, Oh, that was strange. Like most people will be freaking out. And I'm like, Oh, I wake up and like, Oh, that was strange. It doesn't freak me out.

And I'm not surprised. And that'll lead me to the second story here as, as, uh, was there a time you thought you saw Sasquatch and ended up not being Sasquatch? Okay. and I ended up not being Sasquatch. Okay, so we were heading to more middle part, Northern Minnesota for a family trip. And my wife and I had only been dating six and a half ish months at that point.

And we were going to be getting to the cabins about 3 a.m. And I was driving it that time. And anyways, I'm like, I am bored. I'm gonna start saying random shit. So I said, oh, there's Sasquatch. I'm like, what? And then I said, the other funny things, the other funny thing I said, I'm like,

oh, there's a rabbit, giant rabbit jumping tree, tree branch, a tree branch. Yeah, my wife and her sister thought I was losing my shit. rabbit giant rabbit jumping tree tree branch a tree branch. Yeah. My wife and her sister thought I was losing my shit. Yeah. They, they, they, they, they really, I was just making shit up. So that's not how they, I mean, they interpreted it as a, you thought you saw scast Sasquatch jumping from tree to tree, running through the woods. Yeah.

She remembers correctly. It was just a, a, a metal cutout in someone's front yard. So that story was funny. I'm going to go with that. Yeah, actually funny story. There is a person on highway 1804. They actually have a metal cutout of Sasquatch in the yard that I drive fast every day. Good stuff. Has your wife ever recorded your sleep talking like do you guys ever know

other other apps that like are supposed to track your sleeping do they actually record when there's like audible shit or anything like that because that would be interesting like gosh you should look into that because that could be like funny or interesting or fucking you know she's never recorded it that might be worth leaving leaving your phone recording for eight hours. See what you get. Yeah, that would be entertaining. Because like I said, the stuff I'm not surprised. I'm like, some weird dreams I've had, I'm not surprised. So I'm glad we were to sneak those last two in. I think we're ready to move into a little unpaid or underrated, you think, Joey? Yeah, yeah, let's do it. it. Awesome Big Ben you're familiar with this game but if

anyone's not if you get any Ben's family and friends listening for the first time similar to a game unpaid or overrated or underrated you know we improve that and we go unpaid or underrated so anything Ben likes more or less we'll call underrated anything that's a little shitty we're gonna go unpaid with so Big Ben are you ready? Yeah and actually I will say unpaid underrated is writing in the line less or no yeah unpaid underrated is writing in the line less than overrated or underrated. Hell yeah. I'll take it. It is it and I mean it's an improvement in every aspect of my eyes. You know, so. Oh, geez. We gotta get our sponsorship pulled. Because if something's overrated,

you still can like it, but in my eyes, unpaid, it's like you don't even like it at all. Yeah, I like to make it to where, I mean, ours is a little bit like, theirs they interpret it as like, you know, is the interpretation of overrated, meaning is it, you know, I like it a little more black and white.

It's just either good or bad. Whereas the other one, it's kind of, you leave it up for interpretation. So let's go unpaid underrated homemade wine. Oh, and why am I asking that? I'll tell the story. My mom was making homemade wine and she decided to make raisin wine.

She also made dandelion wine. Well, the raisin wine. Well, okay. So the raisin wine, I was siphoning it for. I took a big hit off the... Hose. Lack of a better term, bong, to siphon it. And I'm not gonna spit it, yeah, a mouthful of this raisin wine, I'm not gonna spit it into the clean stuff.

And so I get the hose dumped into the next jar or whatever she's using. I drink the raisin wine. That shit burned until the next fucking morning. Yeah. Like I drink straight whiskey and I've never had it burned up next morning. And then another time, hey, try this. It was Dan the Lion wine. I take a smell of it. It smelled like paint thinner. I'm like, there's no fucking way I'm drinking that. But yeah, my mom used to

make wine and a lot of it did taste good, but those are the two. And I would definitely say it's still underrated because homemade wine is an interesting aspect of a hobby. And you can get more of a finer taste that you want out of it. Do you think you started talking more in your sleep after that first big hit? I wouldn't be surprised if I did. Alright Big Ben, unpaid or underrated dragons? Definitely underrated. I love dragons. I have for ever since I was a little kid. And then my son and I, we will watch how to train your dragon.

We'll watch one through three. We've watched the Netflix show race the edge multiple times together. So yeah, dragons are definitely underrated. What's your favorite dragon media, either book or show? Not necessarily like something you and your kid joy, but like something you it would be a poem that is Oh, fuck, what is it called again? Is a poem about a man who kills a dragon and

The dragon has a very long neck he ate ends up it's a swordsmith. He kills a dragon saves the day whatnot There's actually a move about movie about it, and I cannot remember the name of it Is a weird name You know, I'm not gonna go with that. I'll go with the Norse legend of Oh Jabberwocky, it was the Jabberwocky the poem I was talking about so it's called the Jabberwocky and it's a type of dragon with a very extremely long neck and Sword Smith finds a special piece of ore makes makes a special sword, kills the dragon, saves the day. There's actually like a movie. I saw the movie like 20 years ago on sci fi.

The curse or the ring or something like the black ring or the dark curse or something. Oh, it would have been called the Jabberwocky. And it is literally a B rated horror movie based off of. OK. So interesting. Well, yeah, if you find that, send me the link to it. And I'm curious if it's the same thing I'm thinking of. I just get movie based off. Okay. Oh Interesting. Well, yeah, if you see if you find that send me the link to it, I'm curious if it's the same thing I'm thinking of I just get different name. Okay Yeah, I can definitely Unpaid or underrated

Home gyms your big home gym guy. What do you think of them? Hmm They're expensive especially when you get special equipment. I'd still say they're on underrated because they're nice and convenient, especially when you get extra time or say like what strong man you get. All the, the different specialty equipment equipment granted most of my stuff's Titan but it's still nice having that special equipment to train on it's like I've got axle well I know I've technically got two logs I got a pair of really nice farmers handles from a company called Granite Fitness

they're American made and at the, they were actually cheaper than the Titan ones with free shipping. When I got them. That's a good deal. Titans are not bad at all. No, when I, when I, when I got those Titan ones, everyone was asking how the knurling on the handles were. And I was like, why is everyone asking? They're fucking perfect. They're like aggressive as shit. I used a different pair at a commercial gym this week. And it was like, it was this smooth of like a baby's ass. Like it was no knurling on it whatsoever. I was just like, I had to put so much

chalk to even like grip them. But sorry, sorry to interrupt there. But a little little follow up on mine. But yeah, yeah, definitely underrated. Because like I said, this, the commercialish slash power lifting gym that I train at to they do have strongman stuff but not everything so they have like really shitty crash pads that like are all blown out and they don't have crash pads. Yeah, that's sketch. I had to I had to act I had to log press on like the thinnest I mean, they were still rogues or they were like on like the thinnest, I mean they were still rogues where they were like bloody blown out and I've never done the log not on like double pads before or like real crash cushions just on like a regular crash pad.

I was like, oh, if I miss, and they had the same shitty Titan log, so like if I come down and I miss the fucking, like the barrel of the log, I'm gonna destroy my feet. So I was like, oh, very anxious about that. Like if I'm using their log, I'll put it on the big 215 pound tire and then just clean it off the tire

and then just mash it on the tire. But kind of like when you smashed off the tire taking a shit that one time. Yeah. About like that. It's the revenge for tires. Yeah. I'm going to hand over the reigns to Big Joey. All right. Unpaid or underrated celebrity gossip. Walking on paid, I can't stand that shit like.

Yeah. Like if someone starts bringing it up, I'm like, please don't fucking tell me. It's just like, no, I don't't I don't want anything to deal with it. So yeah, this thing with Dave Grohl came out recently and everybody was like they had their hot takes. And I was just like somebody was like, he was supposed to be one of the good celebrities. And I was like, first of all, why are you upset about a story about a guy who image you made up in your head that you've never met?

Like, do you understand how many levels you are from being removed from this guy's life? That now you're sitting here judging whatever decisions he made and you feel personally affected by that. I'm like, you need to sort your fucking life out if that's your concern right now. Thank you for having nothing else to worry about. Your life is great. I look at it, does it affect me in any way? No. Then I don't care. And like, let's be fair, I'm kind of that way with all this weight lifter, power lifter, gossip, bullshit, where, you know, it's, it's bozo shit as far as I'm concerned. And, you know,

unless it directly affects me or my friends or the person turns out to be an absolute piece of shit, right? Like if I've given the money in the past, I'm like, Oh, well I'm just not giving that person money anymore. Like that's, that's pretty straightforward. Like if I've given the money in the past, I'm like, oh, well, I'm just not giving that person money anymore. Like that's that's pretty straightforward. Like that. That is where this relationship ends. But I didn't like have investment into this person being a good person. I think I think it's weird. Yeah. I do too. That's why I don't give a shit about the Steffi Cohen memes. Don't care. Oh. Okay. Unpaid or underrated, blowing up microwaves. Blowing up microwaves. You know, you fucking destroyed your parents' microwave, or even when it was old. There was a

whole story about that. God, I don't remember. What the hell did I do? Oh, we don't remember. What the hell did I do? Oh, I do. Okay. I remember now. So my dad was big at going to auctions and stuff. And he got these plates at this auction and they had a gold rim strength on the outside. No porcelain style plate. I understand. What are you a fucking bot and discord shut up? But they were smooth and easy to grip yeah, there you go But but they had this gold rim on the outside every now and then and

Anyways, it's like okay. Whatever a grab plate throw the microwave was I don't remember what the hell was on it throw it in the microwave was, I don't remember what the hell was on it. Throw it in the microwave. Fucking thunderstorm inside the microwave. Yeah. Because of that plate. Yep. Is some kind of actual metal that was on the outside of those plates. And I destroyed that. It's probably gold. It was probably golden aluminum of some sort.

Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know until I did that. The reason I said, what do you bought? Because if you say plates and discord and immediately brings up an ad for strength, so you go, Keith, you finally did it. You became a real life bot to piss me off. You did it. You're welcome.

The David's will be so proud of you. Oh, did we speaking of, well, pissing people off. Did you, uh, and metal like, so obviously we're fans of the drink spotters around here You saw the the tanner going back and forth with that other fucking stupid fake Spotter thing where you put keys on mag mug or whatever. Yeah, the dumbest fucking thing ever did uh, I there was some back and forth I hope they uh, I think oh no, it was he said if he gets 6.9 likes he'll buy one just to fucking destroy it or something I really hope he follows through and does something even if it's just a private like

Content for the crew or something and doesn't I mean be great to if he starts to beef with him online I'm gonna fuck but like, you know, I don't know how good that is for their brand But I think it'd be funny to just have him to completely destroy one and post it in discord. It'd be great So sorry had to hijack that it was one thing we should have talked about in general topics that we didn't so carry on unpaid or underrated yeah anyway unpaid or underrated X-Files X-Files huh I never really watched X-Files my dad did a little bit I really wasn't ever a fan of it so So I'll say I'm paid I would What was the more stranger show I like what?

There was stranger things unsolved mysteries Unsolved mysteries was Unsolved mysteries was mine. Yeah the one I really liked so with Robert Stack Fucking love Robert Stack. He was the host of the Deep Voice. I also. Oh, what was it? Truth or scare was another one that I really liked. I don't know. I was a kid.

Up here, up here, we had one called Are You Afraid of the Dark? And it was kids sitting around. Oh, you had that one, too? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we did. I vaguely remember that. That Nick and Nick and Nick at night or something. Wasn't that a thing? Yeah, we had we did. I vaguely remember that. That Nick Nick Nick at night or something. That's not a thing. Yeah, we had it on our version, which was why TV used television. Which I've brought up before.

The first time I ever saw a cradle of filth music video was on youth television on their in their music video hour on a Thursday night. Well, you passed unpaid and underrated. We can air it. Yeah, we can air this episode. I think that leads into any games or questions you have for us. So, Keith, when are you getting a yoke

and when are you gonna start collecting scrap metal for random strongman stuff? A yoke, I don't know that'll ever happen. Like, everyone that knows me knows me. I get that big fucking lump on my neck and it'd be right where a high bar would sit and if I put a strenuous pressure on it that's not on a pad, it like inflames the shit out of it and irritates it and makes it to where I have just like a throbbing upper back for like a week So I don't have our squat anymore And if a yoke is essentially a high bar squat that you pick up and run with I don't think I'll ever yoke

I'll not do competitions that have yokes or I'll take a zero in that and do the other four events Unless I can figure out a way to do it low bar Which still seems like I'm playing with fire because if it seems stupid still seems like I'm playing with fire because if it Yeah, it seems stupid. It slips. Because I can start low. I've seen people do it. I've seen people do it. But the thing though, like I'm not, I'm going to be so in the zone and I'm saying,

oh yeah, I'm going to fucking get really tight and I'm going to have it low in my back. And then as I'm walking, it's, well, I guess it would, it would slip down, not up. But nonetheless, I don't see I'll ever get a yoke. As far as random scrap, nah. What I might start adding is random rocks and some stones or something. I don't know. The big maybe like I was thinking like, where the fuck? I don't want to. I got to go for a hike. And like, like, is that like if you steal a fucking rock out of the woods,

that weighs 150 pounds, like, are you an asshole? Like, you know, if you literally take it out of like a state park, like that's not legal, you'd have to take it out of just like, like, I don't know. You don't own the beach. This is going to a farmer's field and ask, hey, yeah, go. Hey, can I go grab some rocks or your rock pile? They'll look at you. Are you fucking crazy? Yeah, go ahead. Go do it.

Yeah. Around here. I actually it's so funny you said that because we were driving in an area we don't normally drive in today, just around here. And they were just big rocks because that's what they used to block their entryways to their fields. And I turned to Morgan and I said, farmers have the best rocks. And she's like, they do. And it's so if it was any other person saying that sentence to her, she'd be like, Are you stupid? Like, what's wrong with you? But because it's me, I love rocks. Yeah, man.

Farmers fields, construction sites, because they what they have to do is they sell it to get it broken down into gravel. So if you are just like, can I have one of those? They're going to go, okay, weirdo, like, enjoy your rock. But like, you're using it for lifting the farmers fields and construction sites. But yes, I would argue stealing one from a state park might get you in some hot water. Yeah. Mostly also carrying 150 pound stone out of a state park probably isn't stealing at that point. Somebody is going to see you

because it's not like it's in your pocket. Like you are walking like this. Yeah, exactly. You know, but like not big Joey, you over here with fucking pocket rock pocket rocks. Yeah. City parks probably aren't the worst. Like if you're just going out hiking and stuff and you just see a big rock you're like that's mine now. But yeah, yeah, that's where I think most rocks come

from is farmers fields and construction sites. Yeah, yeah. In general, adding to the strongman gym is kind of where it is right now. It's just a matter of what like my wife's always like add your wish list add shit to your wish list. It's like it's you know, it's Christmas is literally like she's going to start buying Christmas present the next like two months or less.. It's like, it's, you know, it's Christmas is literally like she's going to start buying Christmas presents the next like two months or less. So it's like a big rock. I fucked everything I want some $3,000 or like,

I already have it. So I'm like just trying to like find a couple hundred dollar things here and there or a hundred dollar items. And I want a big rock getting, been getting $50 items off for a decade. My gym is full of like anything that anything that's germ related that's on amazon it's already been bought like i don't have much else she gives him clubs and maces

i do have shitty mobility but yeah yeah my mobility is not so bad i did speaking of mobility i uh so and joey e our buddy like i saw him post a video the other day of doing his low cable rows, but from like a seated position. So it's like a 40 almost like 45 degree angle doing your rows up into your chest or to your to your stomach. So I fucked around with that a little bit today on like a regular flat bench, which is about a 17 inches high. And I was like, that was just too high. It just felt really awkward. And it was almost like too much bicep engagement kind

of. So then I put the bench back and got my my lead FTS box squat and lowered it all the way to about 12 inches and did them and it was still was different and weird. I don't know that I don't know. It was a weird movement because I mean, when I do like there's there's rows in the commercial gyms where you're kind of like hunched over and you are rowing like kind of sort of that angle, but you're like usually chest supported. So doing it like free motion. I don't know, I don't know if I love it or not but I give it a shot which is a lot for me because I don't try new shit very often that's true so sorry that was that was my seven minute answer to your question but honestly I I did put

that as a joke in the discord and then a month and a half, two months later you've got Strongman stuff in your garage. Yeah, sure. It took a while. You had to do Power Living for a decade and get really, really burnt out and then have all your friends only do Strongman that are local to you for a while. It's like, yeah, let, assimilate at least once. So with the rock talk, have you found any new rocks that you want to get?

Joey? No, no, I haven't really been looking. Um, we're, we're installing a shed in the backyard. So my, my, my rock lifting area is being leveled out in preparation for the shed. So, yeah, the rock will likely end up in the in the gym with my crash pads at some point. But no, I keep seeing rocks and going think I could lift that. Right. Like under the like, it's psychotic behavior. And I gotta say like something's wrong with me. Like we'll be driving through an underpass. And a rock will catch my eye out of all of those rocks in the underpass

because they use rocks to stop people from building tents and shit under the underpass. So the whole thing is just like small boulders. And I'll just see one and I'll just be like, that looks like it has good handles. And like that's that's where I am now in my 40th year of age. I'm not looking at women anymore. I'm not looking at like, I'm just like, rock looks like I could probably carry that. That's probably 150. She's got nice curves. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Handles on that. So no, no, I haven't really, I haven't really stopped and thrown one in the trunk or anything that construction site down the road. I think they finally shipped theirs off for gravel, but

thrown one in the trunk or anything that construction site down the road. I think they finally shipped theirs off for gravel, but this area is all under development about about eight minutes that I'm pointing like you guys care, but about eight minutes East is all under development. So they're farmers fields, houses and there's just rocks everywhere. So I think, I can say there's probably going to be a time where I stroll awkwardly into a construction zone and just go how much for me to go and take one of your rocks?

And I just I know it's coming because I thought about it the other day. So yeah, apparently. Oh, was it Andrew? Claude Clautron. Yeah. Yeah, he posted he's like the rock outside of his window And I was just like you take that rock you take that wrong. That is your rock They don't even know what they're sitting on they think it's pretty they don't even know how much use you could put that to No, I honestly thought about it the other day too, so We had him out in Albany, he after after having dinner with me, he went out and fucking lifted the rock. And I was like, I don't even do rock lifting.

But he said it inspired him to all my strongman talk to go fucking find a rock and pick it up in his yard. That that a nukshuk bag I have the one that's shaped like an inukshuk. That's like pretty much like I love that thing. It's filled with pea gravel. Yeah. Well, in a nukshuk is, it's the Inuit used to build them on the pathways home. So if you would see a nukshuk built on a beach or on a path, it was facing home. And that's how they navigated through the winters and everything way up north in like Alaska and the northern. So that's what it's named after and what it is the

shape of a person. So I've got it I've got it filled to about 106 pounds and I don't think it's heavy enough. So I'm definitely gonna I'm gonna add some more pea gravel to try and get that up to 125 maybe 150. And I love carrying that thing. So I just powerlifting is is burning me out as I hate benching and I'm starting to hate squatting. Deadlifting is still always going to be my passion, but I'm just getting to that point where I just don't want to do the cues.

No, I have a power. Find it like a hundred dollar Titan when I'm added to your Christmas wishlist or something and they just experiment with that just to add variety. Now I for persons are fun too. I like I want to start overhead pressing again, I was getting very good at it. And then I stopped because juggernaut

doesn't have it. Like you have they have push press but they don't have overhead. Yeah. Yeah. What about fortress? floor press I don't do often enough, but mostly when I say I hate bench press, I hate bench press rack. I hate the cues I hate. There's just so many opportunities to fail a bench and powerlifting. Right. And that's one of the things I really dislike about any rules is you need to remove the opportunities to fail. That's

actually when I talked to my boss and his boss and our director, I was like, you need to remove the opportunities for us to fail. Because the more barriers you put for us to fail, the less success you are going to have, therefore the less retaining you're going to have. So if you're constantly looking for ways for us to do wrong, we are not gonna wanna work for you. And I do think that

powerlifting is kind of that to an extent where the harsher the judging is the harsher the cues are the more rules are put in place, the less people are going to want to be a part of your Federation or a part of your sport. Because there's just, yeah, it's you're not looking for people doing something right, you're looking for somebody doing something wrong. And that is not a way to retain membership in anything, whether it's your job, whether it's your sport, whether it's anything.

So I just dislike benching for that reason. I'm also not great at benching. It is my weakest lift. I imagine if I was like some top tier deadlift or bencher that my mind would be different. But because I don't like doing it, I don't work on it. Anyway, you see me. You see me about that in the fucking this weekend. Yeah, I actually didn't want to make any that.

Yeah, I didn't. They reminded me earlier this year. It looked worse than it was. Like I had at no point was the bench actor, the bar actually touching my neck. I should have had the spotters up another click, but just did I didn't even test it was fucking I was just on a Yolo fuck it wasn't that heavy but it was close grip on the Cadillac bar like 245 and I was just like fucking just nothing maybe next time I'm maybe next time I'm at the no wine cellar I'll try your Cambridge bar there and see if it does any good for me but I, I also like I would start overhead pressing.

I don't go fuck like do it. It's so much even if you literally substitute your bench for overhead press for a month or something who cares. I definitely enjoy overhead pressing. I had feeling. Yeah, overhead press. It's something about overhead pressing is just like magical because it's like people are looking at you like, Oh,

great example. My cousin's like, how is his body not breaking? And that was like, blush. I'm strong. Yeah. Exactly. It was like a 230 pound log pressing. My cousin's like, how is his body not breaking? And it's like, it's not that big of a deal because I squat more than double that. So yeah, every time somebody because that worked, they'll ask me like, Oh, where are you going on vacation? I was going to a lifting meet and sure enough, they ask, Oh, what do you lift? And I'll just be like, you know, my deadlift is like a comfortable deadlift is 400 pounds or whatever. And they're

like, how doesn't that hurt? And I'll look at these people dead in the face and go, I'm not weak. And it's just like, and a lot of hurt? And I'll look at these people dead in the face and go, I'm not weak. And it's just like, and a lot of them are like seniors or whatever. And even if they're like younger people, I'm just not weak. And like, it's it's it's easy to lift when you're strong. Like, how do you stand all day at work? Well, I'm not weak. That's all. A couple of weeks ago, my boss was trying to like talk up how I can I know

It seems like don't you deadlift or squat like four or five hundred pounds? Yeah, kind of and my cover like oh I can I can like press it 800. Okay somebody did Yeah, I was a 700 pound leg press That's nice. Yeah, you don't get to talk with your leg press. Yeah. Anyway, leg press. I'm a fun. Leg press has its moments. If you're a bodybuilder or you're just generic fitness, like press is awesome.

But more accessories. It was just yeah. We're talking about squatting and deadlift and you're talking about like, yeah, I'm not like I would if I had a fucking if I had a five thousand square foot gym, I'd for sure have a leg press, a a fucking squat and a fucking yeah, yeah and a hex squat Fucking belt squat. I'd have I'd have all that because yeah, there is a place for all of those things But if yeah, if you're talking Barbell on my back squat and he tells me about his leg press. I'm just like

But that's just people the one time I was talking about like my first competition and this guy, he's half drunk at the bar and he's like, I can clean and press 300 pounds. And I was like, no, you can't. He's like, I don't look strong, but I can do it. I was like, no, you can't. I said, you'd be in the Olympics. But you can't fucking do that.

I'm telling you right now, you can. I was like, yeah, like you haven't been to a gym in since you were in high school. You can not do that. I'm telling you right now, you can. I was like, yeah, like you haven't been to a gym in since you were in high school. You can not do that. And he was like, OK, if you don't believe me, I was like, I don't. And the conversation is done right now. It is such a not novice wait for a clean and press that's round up and press. That's like saying that's like saying you bench 500 pounds probably I would say like I don't know

I'm thinking 500 pound bench and a 300 pound cleanup press would be more accurate than like a Or something like that. It'd be more 405 bench isn't anywhere close to impressive as a 300 pound cleanup for us So I'd almost have to go to a 500 pound bench to get those numbers But that's just that's just right like they hear you and they're not gonna they're not gonna stand on the by as a 300 pound cleanum for us. So I'd almost have to go to a 500 pound bench to get those numbers. But that's just people, right? Like they hear you and they're not gonna stand out. They're gonna tell you how strong they think they are.

Oops. Well, yeah. The whole fucking episode is telling us about his big old PRs and how much better he is at log pressing than we are. Well, you. Good man. Yeah, cause I still fucking press you pussy.

Oh, don't worry. At work, it's like, hey, Ben, can you put this in the van for me? It's like, sure. And then like, oh, fuck you. Pick that up by yourself and make it look easy. It's like. Like Joey said, I'm fucking strong tonight. No, I don't ever get that. I don't think I've ever got that either. Honestly, I think it's like, it's people say that it's almost more of a stick.

Like I don't think I've ever had anyone say that. Like I'll carry big heavy shit all day at work and no one's ever said. Now, I mean, before I let people know that I was a weightlifter at work, they had a skid parked in front of my kiosk. And was a chep skid, probably. It had product on it. So it was maybe around 200 something pounds. And I was like, I need this moved

and nobody would move it. So I fucking moved it. I picked up half of it and I slid it forward and I was like, get this out of my way. And they were all just like dumbfounded. And I was like, don't worry about it. Like you couldn't do that, that's heavy. And I went, no, it's not. And like, that was the end of the conversation.

Anyway, that's my rock answer. Yeah, it is funny because like, so we have a 150 pound weight limit at work and my boss is like, Hey Ben, you know, wait, can you see that boss. No, for like package weight. I know, I know, I know. My left leg probably weighs more than 150 pounds. Uh, but anyways, he's like, Hey, you know, wait, can you pick this up? And I, and he's my boss. Oh, I thought I could lift 150 pounds. It was like 140 some pounds. And I pick it up, but I'm sitting there playing with it. And then it's like, my coworker, Hey, help me stabilize this thing. Get it overhead. I'm sitting there like, yeah, I say it's between 140, 150 pounds.

And my boss is sitting there looking at me like, what the fuck? You just sit there and go like this with it. He's like, I can barely move the damn thing. Yeah. But also don't do that at work. Like, like he has to protect you, right? If you get hurt, he's potentially liable. So I can see, I can see why when I moved that skid, they were like, that's don't do that. Anyway. Like he was asking me like, Hey, what do you think? How much does this weigh? Because if it weighs over 150 pounds, it gets shipped back, sent back to the shipper. Yeah. And he's like, he just couldn't believe it. Because like he could barely move it. I'm sitting there messing with it. Like, it's not that heavy. That is one thing. As a person has been lifting weights for years now, like, I feel like we should have a you have a you have a good idea

of what a two and a half pound plate feels in your hand, a five pound to 10 pounds to 25. Like you can like, so my one buddy, like he had a I remember what it was, he had a huge jug of water, but I think it was over a gallon. And he was just like, he was trying to tell me it weighed like 15 pounds. And like, I think a lot of people probably know how much a gallon of water weighs, but it's not a fact that I actually knew.

So I like, I blindly- 8.2 some pounds. Yeah, so I didn't know that. So when he was like, man, this has gotta weigh like 12 pounds and I like, like I took it and I was like, it probably weighs like, like eight pounds. And I Googled it cause he didn't believe me. And I was like, yeah, like you said, it was like 8.6 or something. And I was like, it probably was like like eight pounds and I googled it because he didn't believe me and I was like, yeah, like you said, it was like 8.6 or something and I was like, haha, I'm fucking smart. I know what weights feel like.

All right. Is there any other questions for us or was that were those the two? Those are the two I can think of off top my head. All right. Well, we hit we hit our two hours. Glad you prepared for us, buddy. Yeah. No, that was good. We had your others. We had your others.

Both those. I think we started your question 20 minutes ago. So I think we did great with that. That was a good way to break us in on. So I'm gonna hit everybody with the affiliates. So if you wanna support the podcast and support our friends, go ahead and use Obsidian code unpay.

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