Unpaid And Underrated - 087 : Curl in the Squat Rack

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Katie. They dive right into great topics like, the progression of time, hops, mascots, James Bond, and if Nate is real or not. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaid-underrated-tee) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest Follow Katie on Instagram @moorhead_k (https://www.instagram.com/moorhead_k/) Follow her Massenomics Certified Traning Facility @npz_strongman (https://www.instagram.com/npz_strongman) 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 Katie.

And welcome back to episode 135 of the unpaid and underrated podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Big Keith joined as always here by Big Joey. Welcome to the Glazecast. And special guest this week, Big Katie. Hello. Hello. Well, uh, let's just dive right into it. What are you drinking over there this week, Katie? Like Big Jen, I have my emotional sport water bottle,

close at hand, and then I have a spruce from Black Husky Brewing local brewery here. Spruce? Is that made with spruce tips? It is. This is actually the Christmas edition, so it has a boss from the City of Milwaukee Christmas tree in it. That's amazing. I don't know if you guys know, but spruce tips, they're a little like hops. They taste very lemony, very citrusy, are dumb high in vitamin C, and are actually really good for you. So if you see some spurses and you

can break off those little green tips, not too many because we want to let the tree survive, you can just eat those like straight up just eat them. They're like jelly. So it's really cool that that's made with that because that's better than hops because hops taste like grapefruit farts. Well, I'm not an arborist so I'm not sure about that but I do have a LaCroix lemon brand this year, tonight that is, this year. Oh yeah I mean it is it is this this is this is the new year so close enough. What about you Joey? Water and some mcultras and some ammonia because it is still boxing week at my workplace so I am still working a lot a lot a lot a lot and my phone's not even plugged in

oh that's gonna hurt so uh well our second segment we always dive right into is what do we wear I'll kick that off I got the uh weekend warrior lift shirt tonight uh what about you Katie what would you rock on I see a hoodie yeah I have my lift hoodie and then my purple Mastronomics jam boxy tee underneath. Oh nice. I've yet to get any of the boxy tees So now boxy tees are where it's at. That's everything's going that direction. I see that. Yeah, I was skeptical at first They're great, especially when you can get one in purple, which I apparently didn't own any purple t-shirts So I just had to buy it. I guess I'm always afraid. Is it, is it, is it still like,

like a soft, I'm always afraid of like a boxy shirts going to be like rough, like construction paper kind of feel. I don't know. I don't know why that's like mental image in my head of like, it just not being comfortable. So the massonomics ones are very soft. The one I got the anti-influencer one, um, actually Morgan says she likes that one because when she folds it and she goes to snap it, it makes a very loud snapping noise because it is very strong cotton. It still feels soft but it's hardest, hardest heck.

I'm wearing a Live Large shirt because RIP. RIP, our friends Nick at Live Large. And my understanding, one of the big companies to do it first, to do fitness and lifting apparel. I thought you were going to do a self-burn. No, no. Very heralded as one of the first to do what they did. And I was lucky enough to have their shirt that

says never strong enough. And after seeing that their big going away party was either last week or the week before, I thought, hey, I'd rock one on the podcast to give them a send off. There you go. Well, and another send off this week we had is the end of the Masonomics Fantasyomics Fantasy football, you know league There was 12 of us that played that including Big Tanner myself Chris bunch of guys

the championship round came down to me and Chris and It would have put me in the Hall of Fame jacket Because I still needed I needed an award and Tanner was gonna count that there No, yeah, there's a contest win and I came up a little short guys. Sorry to say I you know Unless something happens in the next 12 months I will not be getting my Hall of Fame jacket until next December. So very very disappointed and upset for that But congratulations a big Chris you you know you you get you got one over on me big guy. So People really want to hear about yeah, it's other people's fantasy footballs. That's right

That is right. Well, it was fitting people's fantasy footballs. That's right. That is right. Well, it was fitting. So it was kind of amusing. Anyone following I'm sorry. Hopefully Tanner might touch base on it. But I don't know, because the most recent episode, the game wasn't over until they were already. The game was still going on when they were recording, so he couldn't.

They wasn't a final decision yet. But Tanner ended up coming in fourth place. He he lost his last two games of the year, I believe. So, uh, it was kind of amusing considering he like did, you know, was in the lead the entire year and was like a shoe in to win the, you know, everything. And just kind of fell a little short. Also speaking of discord, I got tagged into that and God, I wish I could get out of that thread. Yeah.

I don't know why fucking damager did that. You'd not have been able to leave. It would know it was really funny when he did it, but she's like, damn it, I don't want those updates anymore. Yeah. Less is more sometimes, for sure. But, all in all, it was good stuff. What else did we have?

We're a couple weeks behind, so the last episode you guys heard was Old Ham, but we recorded that a while ago so we're you Joey and I had all Christmas off so we're just getting back on this just swing of things so I'm trying to think of any YouTube videos we missed there's probably the crew falls and the gym tour and the most recent one would have been the the Minnesota Department of Lifter Safety it was a good video it actually, I missed that whole thing other than apparently being in the background of it.

And then one of the, I think it was Garrett or somebody called it out of like, say, and sort of making memes of me like putting Tanner's crash pads away without him knowing it. So that was pretty amusing. But that was a really actually good video. And I actually watched and paid attention to the side spotting.

And then I had to side spot someone that week and I still sucked at it but I feel like I was a little bit better and actually talked to Nauz and I like I sent him the video I was like rate my side spotting and he gave me like a 7.2 or something like it wasn't it wasn't very good and I was like all right I'll I'll do better Nauz I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm not as good as you big guy but uh good video go watch that and uh yeah happy new years everybody how the fuck is it? Twenty twenty five that blows my mind like it's where we're a quarter into the century. Well, starting to the first year of a quarter in the century.

That is baffling. Like, I remember I feel like I remember 2000, just like it was the other day. Like, you're still stuck there. All of your music tastes are still stuck there. Yes. Facts. That's the most accurate thing you've said on the podcast. It's just the natural progression of time, Keith. Like we're all... It's just weird. Not really, but I see what you're saying. Like, yeah, I hit 40 in the time from our last recording

to this recording. Like, yeah, yeah, definitely it it is time does move Yeah, it is a flat circle marches on as a Some someone once said All right. Uh, well, let's do that little rating of last week's episode I like how you tried to go like a little emotional there and then I was just like no shut down I'm gonna be addicted to you one of these days. Yeah, normally normally. That's me, and then you do it. I'm just like no jokes Alright, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what's your next?

last week's episode the call-in I Was actually I initially had a question And then I was just like man this shit isn't good. He's not gonna call me till like 11 o'clock I can't in my flick I don't want to be talking and waking up the wife so I like I DMed him I was like please don't call me like like give it to somebody else like just just let someone else answer the phone but all my favorite part was obviously when you know Big Matt decided to put his phone on do not disturb and or well to not take it off do not disturb so then he actually did didn't didn't get a call and I just

thought that was so fitting that you know Big Matt just was wasn't available to you know take the call so are we talking mostly squat videos Matt yeah yeah that's why it's funny because he you know they didn't get to him essentially mmm and same with Nate well there were several but it was more funny when it was Big Matt. Because it harkened on our bit. Yeah, it's not as funny when I have to explain it. You fuck. Now I know. And now I know how the Davids feel.

It really isn't as funny when you have to explain it. Well, aren't you one of the Davids anyway? Yeah, you are one of the Davids. There's so many Davids. I'm the best David there is. But oh no. I am. And for all those reasons, I will go ahead and give last week's episode five out of five Davids.

Go ahead, Katie. How do you feel about last week's episode? I always enjoyed the good call-in episodes, like hearing from different crew members. And I thought we got a good combination of both serious goose and silly goose questions, not Hawks geese. So I'm going to give it five out of five generic voicemail greetings. So that's a new thing. So Apple has now made so that Siri is your voicemail.

Like default or not. Yeah. I haven't, I had made a, I recorded a voicemail 15 years ago, and it's probably still there, but maybe not. So you have your, hi, Morgan. Hi. Hi. Hi.

So you have your carrier voicemail, which is the one that you record. But Apple actually has a preset Siri one. So whatever Siri voice you have is what answers. And that's what we got out of all of them. And what's really funny is I have a female Siri, my wife has a British David Siri I guess and yes every time I phone her I hear the British David like, your has been sent to voicemail and I'm like anyway so that's what we got out of

that and that's a new thing so you can tell who's calling iPhones. I did message Kurt and tell him that I think the best way to get your wife involved and excited is to show her the recap videos about how much fun we're having. Because he was saying, how do I get my wife excited to come? There's a lot of family in the background of those. And just like get out of the crowd.

Just show that. Because even Morgan has said, I would love to come with you, but I don't want to come as a parent. I want to come as your wife. And if we bring the kids, she knows she's just watching kids while I be me. But she's like, otherwise, like that looks like incredible fun. So I think that I did message him and say like that's the best way to convince her to come like show her us Having the time of our lives and he did say that like she just wants to come meet everybody because she's heard nothing

But great things about all of the crew that he met in crew Falls I do enjoy calling episodes. I think that they can go either one way or another and I think this one went the right way I do regret not submitting a question but at the same time I've already checked that off my Hall of Fame and I think it's time to give other people a chance to do that so for that I'm gonna give that five out of five silly points thanks what about you Katie did she yeah she did well I was talking about something else. Obviously, I wasn't talking about last week's episode.

I was talking about how did she feel about the top 10 episodes that they shared, and specifically episode 9 out of 10, and how it featured me, and how awesome that was. Self-plug. No, that was pretty cool though. When I saw that, uh, and I was obviously like, you can tell they're leaning, they're obviously leaning into the home gyms, you know, content because like, they're just trying to pick up more people and listeners and fans. And like that is such a fucking easy thing to obviously anyone Google's home

gyms. And if massonomic comes up on anything home gym related, you're, you know, you're bound to get some more followers you'd think. So, uh, I think almost every one of the top 10 episodes they had was somewhat home gym or home gym adjacent. So that was kind of cool to see. Just trying to sell more certified training facility. Yeah. There are none.

That one was a heart. So like, and that was, obviously I was going to buy one, but like, what was it? 60 bucks, I think. Like not realizing the whole map thing and like the actual, the certification, like I really had a hard time swallowing. I don't pay 60 bucks for fucking banner. Like really don't look basically different. But now it's like, okay, cool. That was, it's worth 60 bucks. Like getting your shit on the website and all that. It was worth 60 bucks. Like don't take this the wrong way anybody, but that's kind of how stupid we are.

We didn't even know what we were buying. They launched it, we bought it within 90 minutes, sold it out, and then we're like, wait a minute, we got our name on it. Like we didn't even know what we were buying. I think I mentioned it last week or whatever week, jeez it's been like a hundred weeks. And then I was just like, Morgan, I need to buy this.

And she was like, no, we are budgeting right now. And I was like, but they're going to sell out. I didn't even know that there was a map. I didn't know any of that stuff. So I'm also missing my phone charger, which is why you guys see me kind of scrambling here. So bear with me for a minute. That's all right. We'll let, we can segue that

and I'll let Katie do her ad read. Okay. Are your friends and family sick of hearing about how much you lifted this week? Does your significant other roll their eyes when you ask them if you can, if you think you can pick up this rock? Visit massonomics.com slash join,

and you can choose a level of payment in order to make new internet friends in the massonomics discord who will enjoy hearing about your lifting and will encourage you that yes, you should try to pick up that product. Join for the memes, stay for the discussion of which regional foods are the best and whether or not Ohio is part of the Midwest. Nice. Well done. Always like a little Ohio talk. of the Midwest. Nice. Well done.

Always like a little Ohio talk. That was good. I love picking up rocks. I've been like, like, rocks just keep popping up in my marketplace feed now and like stones and stuff. I'm just like, where's some of the good ones anywhere? Like it's like everything like nothing that I would buy is anywhere. We're fucking close. It's like, stop showing me shit. That's eight hours away.

You fuck fucking marketplace. I'm talking about showing me shit That's eight hours away you fuck Fucking marketplace. I'm talking a marketplace do so mad. You're so mad. This was not well. It's like She's still awake so I can be a little madder now Yeah, I can't be this mad at 11. I gotta get it out sub 9 Well, you know what I'm saying. New segment. Keith rages before his wife falls asleep. How mad can we get Keith before Steph falls asleep? I will do a little fucking rant. Yeah, you guys are pulling it out of me.

So New Year's Eve, we went to a nice fancy restaurant. We had a reservation, but then we kind of got the shaft and got like the one of the seats in the bar area, which kind of sucks. Cause I was like, yeah, fuck. Like we made a reservation like a fucking couple of weeks ago. You know, we're all dressed up and here we are of the seats in the bar area which kind of sucks Cuz I was like, yeah fuck like we made a reservation that fucking couple weeks ago You know, we're all dressed up and here we are fucking sitting in the bar Yeah, it wasn't that big of a deal and then this like party of four comes in sits at the bar I thought they could just like get a table like tried to like take tables in the bar even though they were all reserved

Proceeded to just be super loud and obnoxious right next to us And then the one dude had the audacity to take his phone out and just turn fucking Spotify on full blast. Just listen to like fucking like 90s rock music, like on New Year's Eve. And then it was super fucking annoying. But the best part was it fucking cuts to a commercial. And I look at Stephanie and I'm like, this motherfucker didn't even have Spotify premium. And I said it loud enough that he fucking, they had to have fucking heard me. Cause I'm just like, you're this much of an, you're gene this much of an asshole.

You can't even have the, you have, you don't even have the fucking, you have the audacity to be this big of a douche. But like, I guess it makes sense. You wouldn't have Spotify premium cause you're that big of a piece of shit. So I had to fucking, and borderline, we were like 50% done when they kind of sat down.

So we just kind of had to power through just like the actual like tail end of the meal, but it was just like, you ruined my fucking night. Like you literally ruined like the last half of my dinner, you fucking piece of shit. So that was that. I got that off my chest. Thank you for being my therapy blanket there, unpaid and underrated. Hey, Katie. So let's start with your Mastinomics journey. What brought you to Mastinomics?

I'm on Instagram like everyone is, right? So I'd seen their posts on Instagram on and off. I generally wasn't a big listening to podcast person for a long time. But then I changed jobs in 2021 and I started working from home more. And after being in like the busy bustling environment with lots of people all the time to go to the dead silence of my basement, with like an occasional holler down from my husband working upstairs, it was like I can't sit here in silence. So I started listening to more music and then I was like kind of sick of the music. So I started listening to podcasts and obviously it was into strength stuff.

So I listened to a few here and there. I started kind of hunting and pecking mass dynamics episodes based on guests that I was interested in. And at first, you know, I was one of those like, what's this first 20 minutes of stuff? And then it was like, but wait, I kind of like the first 20 minutes of random stuff

and mid random Midwest discussions of two dudes from South Dakota just shooting the shit. Um, so I started listening more regularly and then in, I think in June of 23, uh, was when I was like, well, you've been listening to this pretty regularly for a while. Now the least you could do is like throw him some lacry money once a month. So that's when I joined the crew. And then, yeah, kept listening. Nice. I feel like you've been around longer than that. That's crazy. You only been here for 18 months or so.

That's some reason I feel like you've been you've had a bigger presence or, you know, a longer standing than that. But that's pretty cool, though. I always like a good origin story. Would you remember a couple of the first couple episodes you were like, ooh, this is someone I love, I wanna listen to this episode. I probably like one of the episodes

with the hybrid performance method folks, Steffi and Hayden was probably those because I used to kind of follow their training program. Anything with a strong man probably popped up on my radar. I heard she had a new training program now where it's all about sweeping the leg of the police officer, right? Yeah. Oh, if only you could have seen the reactions to that world

listening to this. Where do we find you on Instagram and discord if you want us to find you at all? In Discord, I'm big Katie, you know, because I'm such a large person in actual stature. Instagram, I am my last name, Morhead-R-no-E, head underscore K. I also started an Instagram for my home gym recently that kind of pulled my lifting stuff away from maybe people who care about it less. So that is NPZ underscore Strongman,

which is no parking zone Strongman, a certified Mastronomics training facility located in the half of the garage that I choose not to park in. I don't follow that but I'm about to and that's going to be a new thing is the certified training facilities. Got it. Yep nailed it first. Oh fuck god damn it. Skants was first guys. Skants is always first. I was looking at some elbow sleeves today

because it turns out that now that I'm starting Strongman, I'm mildly more interested in elbow sleeves. But I gave mine away. I had some for like three years that I never used. So I gave them away. And then I started Strongman thinking, crap, now I need those again. And who's the first person I text?

Keith. Gants. Oh, Keith. And then the second one was Keith. He, you said it in the group chat. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have old knee sleeves that are too small? Because where are those for the time being?

No, we're just going to lift raw for a while. It's going to be great. It's going to be easy. What'd you end up? Do you know what? Sorry, Katie. Did you end up? What'd you end up using your Amazon gift card for?

Myself? Yeah, which strongman piece that you were debating on an axle? Or I would definitely. Nothing. I used it on the kids. Yeah, which strongman piece that you were because you're debating on an axle or I would definitely nothing I use it on the kids What I want is an axle bar and I want maybe some sleeves and None of those are no good quality ones are on Amazon in Canada. So God, oh, yeah. You're it. Your Amazon's completely different. Yeah. I'll just go to bells of steel and Mississauga and get the axle bar.

I haven't told my wife, I'm going to do that yet, but I'm going to do that. Well, speaking of locations, where are you, where are you from Katie? Uh, what central southeastern Wisconsin, the greater Milwaukee area. Milwaukee. No, don't pronounce the L. That's how I know you're not from here, Milwaukee. Is that pretty much home your whole life or just where you're currently at? Where have you been? No, it was.

I was born here, went to high school here, graduated, left for college, one year of work, got reassigned back to this office, been bouncing around different suburbs, so we're finally settled a bit west of the city now. Thanks. That's exciting. What's your Hall of Fame status? Do you mind if we get that out of the way? So like we said, I've only been in the crew for just one year, almost two. So I only have four. But if everything stays on plan with what we've got going on this year, I should punch

out a whole lot of other ones. Really close to getting the back catalog done. Three episodes left. Ooh, good stuff. And then we'll hit two years, the Arnold tonight. I do still have to get on a call an episode. I missed my chance a couple ago. I was my phone was on do not disturb antenna trying to call me and I missed it. Good stuff. Where she goes boys. What was I gonna head up? Oh, let's let me hear. I

want to hear your back catalog journey. When did you start that? How many are you burning through a day? Is this like something you've been working on the last two, like a year and a half or just something more recently with the Hall of Fame card? I started sometime last year cause I had hunt and pecked through some of the episodes. I only had to get up into the like the low threes, I think. So there was a lot of 1.5 speed

occasionally I have to drive several hours at a time for work so I'm in the car by myself throw a couple of those bad boys on and in a three-hour drive I could cruise through a couple nice a lot of us can relate to that for sure um so then more more short-lived is always more unique on what the answers are. So, what's the one piece of Masonomic merch that you've seen that you haven't had a chance to get? I don't think I've had a chance to get the curl shirt. I would not mind having that one. It's possibly, I mean, I think I've seen that one at the Arnold and like Lyft Hard, like they'll obviously bring the

band stuff out when there's no one around essentially. Uh, they even do the lift, the, the weekend warrior at lift hard, live easy, but they won't bring that to the Arnold obviously. Uh, but I don't know what they're going to do in the future. That's just more of the historic. Um, so you are going to be at the Arnold. I am going to be at the Arnold. Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah. She's, I, I, we're going to be at the Arnold. I am going to be at the Arnold, yes. All right. Yeah, she's coming.

We're going to be there. Yeah, you are competing. Are you competing on site or off site? Because there's so much stuff that's off site nowadays, too. My understanding is it's on site on the Expo floor, so it's part of general admission. So I qualified for what's now the Strongman Corp. They just changed it so it's a Pro-Am instead of the

Arnold amateur championships. Yeah, so there's nothing like, is it just like lower level pros are competing in it or something? Or like what's the, I guess it's weird to go from like being an amateur to a literal pro and amateur show, right? Like that's not super common. Yeah, I think Big Tyler has it a little worse than me being in the super heavyweight men. Although, so I'm in the under 64 K kilogram ladies. There are some pretty badass ladies who could in theory show up to be there. So it should be anybody who has a strongman court pro card now that's like a perk of having

the pro card is they can go to the Arnold every year. Okay, okay. Yeah. And would you, would you earn that card by being there? Yeah. I think you have to place in the top three. Uh, that's what it is at nationals. Um, I got there by doing a regional qualifier as an amateur. So I will see if I get there.

We just hope we don't zero anything. I think you'll be fine. You'll have the mass nomix effect and a bunch of crew to cheering you on What I'm gonna be there we got what there you can get a lot of that stuff happens earlier in the week or later in the week to So it's Saturday morning. Okay, I'm going in the morning because the layman women usually go first But there'll be four events on Saturday And then I think it's if you're in the top six of your weight class, you make it to two events on Sunday.

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Now, you just did, was it OSG? Did you do that? Oh, no. That was in Wisconsin. I was curling that weekend. Art of the amateur is about the highest level of competition I'm interested in.

OSG is probably a bit too heavy for me, especially on the deadlifts. Will this be your first two day show then? No, I did. I qualified and did strongman corp nationals in 2022. Actually, you're kind of in your neck of the woods. That one was in Erie, Pennsylvania. Oh yeah, been there hundreds of times.

Awesome. Well, good luck to you. That'll be fun. I think everyone in the entire crew will be there except big Nate, cause he decided to go to a wedding that day. You know, he just, he's gonna abandon us. You know, it's been fucking like, it's been, you know,

10 it's since the inception of massonomics a decade ago, you know, big Nate and I have been destined to meet in person and then he just has to always sabotage it. So, I think, I think the lore is Nate doesn't exist. They don't believe we're here! We've gotta make some noise! I- Who? Right, he's kinda like birds, they're not real.

We are here! We are here! We are here! Yeah, birds, Nate's not real. And like, in all fairness, I'm the only one that can attest to his... And how much do you trust me? You were telling me to eat trees earlier Yeah, I stand by that. They're delicious. I shit you throw them in some water. But anyway eat trees more than you believe in me One thing I believe in is being a supporting member and come with you being a supporting member you you know you get a number so Katie what is your supporting membership number 250 okay so okay so you got you

got him before a bunch then because like even only be an 18 months that means we've added fucking 250 in 18 months essentially so probably moving more than that with you know accounting for drop-offs. So Well done. Well done. Good number Um, all right. Well got a little game We like to play relatively new least fun most fun I'll give you a single topic and you kind of ramble on as little or as much as you want Uh, but essentially, uh, we gotta we gotta get to the root of it and tell me the least fun and most fun thing about it I think we kind of missed the mark with that with jonathan last week

But uh least fun most fun very thing about it. I think we kind of missed the mark with that with Jonathan last week. But least fun, most fun, very specific, you know, detailed answers. So I'm going to give you your topic for this week is Big Katie, least fun, most fun, being a mascot. At least fun. So give us a little backstory first of what that entails and at what level. So give us a little backstory first of what you know what it entails and at what level. Right so I went to a smaller college division three. Among the other things I did in college for about two years on and off I was the mascot of Rosie the elephant. So I had there was an elephant suit I'd wear.

The least fun parts about being a mascot are the suit is really fucking hot. Especially if homecoming weekend for the football team is like 80 degrees outside. That's not the most enjoyable. Another thing that is not fun is when the costume is kind of old the head's kind of janky. So you can only see out of one eye. So occasionally you'll run into people. The most fun, so my senior year, the school I went to was in Indiana. The final four was in Indianapolis that year.

They invited the mascots from every NCAA institution in the state, so D3, D2, D1. All got to kind of be the halftime show at the Rises senior game or whatever it was, kind of between Final Four practices. So I got to go to Indianapolis, wear my elephant suit that had my school's name on it, and be mistaken for the elephant from Alabama for like two hours in Lucas Oil Stadium.

Well-tied. You actually got that right. Good job, Joey. Really? Damn it. I wouldn't have done that if that was true. It is the Alabama Crimson Tide. Yeah, so that was cool. I guess I don't remember how I said the head was kind of janky. Yeah, so we were coming on like moist, I can just imagine it's a little bit moist and stinky too. That's just, ugh. Yeah.

Did you have to share it? Like when you were the mascot, were you the mascot for like six months at a time? Or were you like back and forth with another person and like not getting it cleaned in between? Cause I could see that just being not something I'd want to do. They were good about cleaning it,

but I occasionally like would have it in my dorm room in a giant rubber tote, which yeah, give college kids a mascot suit in a dorm room and I'm sure they'll never drink any alcohol and wear the elephant hat around. We need pictures for that one. I'll have to see if I can dig one up. It's been a while, but you can't tell it's me other than it like is a shorter person in an elephant suit. But when I was doing the final four thing, which was cool, got to go around the stadium,

see the court and that year Butler, which is based in Indianapolis was in the final four. So there was a lot of like local support and stuff going on, but we were coming out to dance on the court or whatever we were doing before the senior game and Duke had just finished up their practice. And like, I could only see out of one eye and they were trying to funnel us and then I like literally ran into Duke's basketball team. That's awesome.

Very good. That is good. I like that. We do have a question from one of the crew, I think, from Big Jen. Yeah. Uh, is that our Jen? Yes. Alright, so Jen wants to know what's the best beer you've ever had, and was it the best beer or was it just the best circumstance that you had drinking that beer? Oh, best beer I've ever had.

Spoiler alert, I've had a lot of beer. Yep. Um, oh this is a hard one, Big Gen. Would you like me to share a story while you think about it? Yeah, I got a couple options I'm gonna. Okay, so I think I've mentioned this before is one time I was in Quebec and I had been driven out there for work and it was like we were trying to get a contract. So we go out there, we work 12 hours, and then our boss takes us out for a beer and dinner. And because they have this budget to spend to get the contract, they're like, okay, we'll pay for your beer and dinner.

And I drank a Le Bat Bleu. And I'll tell you, I don't normally like Le Bat Bleu, but that was the best beer I have ever had. And it was because there was an eight hour drive, a 12 hour shift. And it was just the most refreshing thing I've ever had. And I think that's one of those times where the circumstances made that beer so much better than the beer actually was. I know In Quebec Labatt is a little more freshly brewed, but that definitely would it be a circumstance was better than the beer itself.

Okay, I'm looking at my phone because I have untapped the beer rating. Of course. I'm looking at like. I'm shocked I don't have that. I'm genuinely shocked I don't have that. I tried it and I didn't like it. Is that Glaze Search for beer? It essentially is yeah

Yeah, it's uh, it's that it's that book app that y'all have it's good We should be here nice or Jeff's music app that he likes to rate, you know albums on good stuff I think it's awesome If you're into a hobby like to have a fucking app that you can rank shit cuz that's pretty cool. I dig it So I continually I always loved Bell's Hops Lab. Every year it's great. I used to buy cases of it, which is kind of dumb when it's a 10% beer. We don't buy cases of it anymore. We straight ourselves. But Bell's Hops Lab has always been one of my favorites and I've gotten it like on Hops Lab day from the brewery once when I was driving back from I was working in Detroit at the time so I was driving back to Wisconsin so I got it like freshest of the fresh. I really

appreciate that now it comes out at like Thanksgiving time so I can have it through the holidays. Another one I got really high that's more of a story is I was out in Red Lodge, Montana. I was in Montana for work and went over there because it was the closest area to go snowboarding. So I'm sitting at the bar. I'd gone had a burger or something in town and tried their double IPA bent nail, broken nail. Broken nails, the double IPA.

Really liked it. Went and sat at the brewery on the edge of the town and was just shooting the shit with a bartender and noticed on their fridge behind the bar, they had a sticker that says, think Yokel Drink Local. I think it is, it's a Newt Glarish brewery sticker. So I brought it up, hey, you know, I'm from Wisconsin,

I like the sticker, we got talking about beer, I was like, hey, I really like this. And then they didn't have it on tap. So he like goes into the brewery and gets a really fresh one and comes out and splits it after closing time on the house. So that's always a good one too. And then I've since like sent friends there when they were going through the

area when my husband, uh, years later, when we went out West, we stopped there for a beer, so that's also pretty high up there. Very good. Like he went to the keg? No, I think they just had some fresh bottles in the brewery. Oh, okay. That would have been dope. He was just like tapping the giant like silver thing.

That is a word for this and I can't remember the word. It's not vat. It might be vat. We'll call it vat. All right. So that's probably the right word. Yeah. That's gotta be the right word.

It was a pun. Oh, that's the right word. Yeah. That was funny to me. Fuck you. I've I'm really rusty tonight, man. Like we haven't, I'm like, so don't, don't, don't, don't podcast for 14 days. And like you're Kayden, like, like our, like, I'm just, I feel off.

It's weird. Also, like I didn't work for a week, so I didn't fucking talk to anyone. Like my wife was, my wife, my wife did work pretty much the whole week while I was off. Uh, so just had like no inner human interaction for like days at a time. So just rusty talking to people. I've done nothing but talk to people 60 hours for the last four weeks. So we're doing great.

I'm trying. Okay. I guess we can, Jen had a, Jen did submit a bunch, but I kind of just narrowed down to the two so the second one here favorite brought worse flavors. Oh Top two or three we won't make it a rush more because we got that for later, but like okay, so top top two There's a there's a local butcher by us that does a beer and onion flavor. That's always a favorite. I also just like a good traditional bratwurst or a Hungarian, which generally has a little

heat to it. How much heat? Jalapeno heat or higher? No jalapeno. Even there's a, there's a triple X Hungarian that they have and even that's not that hot. No, I had some hot ones today. They were just, just jalapeno.

All right. Uh, well, I was going to say, I love just watching Keith read the notes. Just like zone down for a second. Me too. Hey, yeah, how do you how do you hate spotted cow? That's like the thing. That's the I, you remember my story where I asked if there was milk in it. I felt so stupid. Obviously there's, yeah, that would be silly, right? I felt so stupid. Obviously there's, oh yeah, that would be silly, right?

Yeah. I mean, with all them, there are milk stouts and then milkshake IPAs. So there's like lactose in beer. Sponic Cow, Nucleus Brewing Company, famously doesn't distribute outside of the state of Wisconsin. I think several of their other beers are much better. I also don't like farm house sales or says on, it gets too sweet for me. I am an IPA drinker, pale ales, uh, like a good lager and up by IP is

I mean actual IPA is not Tanner and Tommy IPA is. Um, so I think they're moving in as much. What's a tanner and Tommy IPA. I've I'm a, I'm a, I'm not a beer in as much better. What's a Tanner and Tommy IPA? I don't know what I'm saying. Scheinerbach. Yeah. I don't know what any of that means. I'm not a beer connoisseur. Or Keats. Even Keats isn't a real IPA.

And that's what means Gansdrink. And it's not a real IPA. It hasn't been since it was incepted. Since it was incepted. Since its inception. Incepted. I don't think it's incepted. I don't believe incepted is a word. It intercepted. Yeah, you know wrong again, Keith.

So now you said you didn't want to talk about work too much, but you want to give us a very generic what you do for a living. It's as little as as much as you want in case you know it. Sure. I'm an engineer by degree, mechanical engineer. I started in traditional power generations, steam gas turbines, traveled around a bunch fixing big machines when they were broken. I decided I didn't want to do that anymore, so I hired into a local utility company, bounced around a couple plants again, supervision engineering back again, until I finally landed in renewables, which is where I wanted to be after college anyway. So at the moment I just became a regional manager. So right now I have responsibility for all of our wind and solar sites under the utility umbrella. So it's like five wind farms and under the utility umbrella. So it's like five wind farms and

four solar farms, plus a couple of other things here and there. It's awesome. That's pretty dope. And then like you wanted to like fix things and gain power. Cool. So you've been lifting since like high school?

Yeah, probably a little before. So my dad had a couple different jobs growing up. Eventually, he became a personal trainer with one of his friends. As part of that, he put a bunch of weight equipment in our basement when I was like in middle school. So I was always kind of around it. I did all sorts of sports growing up. I played soccer, played softball. I dabbled in basketball before I didn't grow anymore in eighth grade. How tall are you, Kaylee?

I'm 5'4". And I've been 5'4". That's not that short. You've made multiple comments about being short. That's not that short. I mean, that's not tall, but it's not that short. That's my height. I know.

I thought you were like, the way you were, I mean, that's that's not tall, but I mean, I that's my height. I know. I thought you were like the way you were. I mean, yeah. No. OK. When they keep setting things at 48 inch crossbars for strongman, it feels like I'm short. Yeah, I love some 48. Thanks. Fucking, you know, big, big hindricks over there with fucking 54 sandbag. This summer is going to suck. And then OK, so then you did that.

You got into at at some point, track. Yeah, I picked up track probably some time in middle school, gravitated towards shot put. So I threw shot and disc through high school. I also hurdled and not the short ones that are the long distance around the track, but the taller ones, which are the short distance. We had a rare phenomenon at our high school where all of our shot putters were also our hurdlers. I'm told that's not common. I wouldn't imagine because wouldn't like on most shot putters like usually like larger stature humans. So coincidentally we were also generally the smallest. Did had the fucking boulder shoulders or something. And it's always been speed and technique and power for for me personally.

I might not be the strongest, but I can figure out how to make my body go through the right motions. Tracks, the one that stuck for me. Um, I gave up soccer in high school, dabbled in rugby really quickly, but it always came back to track. And that's actually I did that all through college too, division three. So I did, I did retire from hurdles mid freshman year. And then I did, I picked up the hammer and the javelin in college when those became events.

Oh, that's awesome. And I heard you, you held a record. You said it was recently broken or still stands for your for your for your hammer. So. The one thing about a small engineering school is there haven't always been women. There were women starting in like 95, so it's not like a huge pool,

but I ended up breaking the hammer school record junior year and then again senior year. And then my Hammer School record stood for 12 years before it was finally broken. And then two years later, that one was broken. So I'm third on the list now. Nice. That's cool. That they still keep all those like historical records too. A lot of places.

Somewhere there's a picture of me. It was on a board in the field house at one point. Do they update you? Do they email you and be like, hey, your record's been broken? I probably should check the leaderboard like three times and just start the podcast. I actually, I didn't know that it was better in the last season because I hadn't looked. Um, I stayed in touch with my college coach for a while and I kind of followed, kind of followed the team on and off. So I knew, I knew when it had finally been broken.

Cause I was like, come on, somebody's got to break this. It's not that impressive of a record, right? And then moved into curling, which I, as a Canadian, pretty excited about, even though I don't really watch curling, but it is like one of our national sports. I hate biceps work and so boring. Technically, the curling predated track because my parents curled and my grandparents and my great grandparents but my parents curled when I was a kid so I did a few years of juniors curling when I was like probably seven or eight years old.

And then didn't curl for a while, came back to it when I stopped traveling for work which was oh god it's been almost nine years now. for a while, came back to it when I stopped traveling for work, which was... Oh god, it's been almost nine years now. So then yeah, those are my winter rocks. Yeah, and did you ever watch Men with Brooms? I own Men with Brooms on DVD. Of course, of course. Keith, have you glazed men with brooms? I'm did only I don't think I've ever glazed curling I don't really know what the fuck curling is like I can't imagine It's the thing where like you throw something and then you sit there with a fucking like a squeegee in front of it Or so. Oh my god. I do you what do we the poorly explained curling? Nobody's ever yelled. Hurry hard at this boy

Do you want to join again? Do you want to give him a breakdown of like give you a one minute? Sorry to insult your in your, your passion and hobby, Katie. I just, I don't, I haven't. I've been explaining curling cause it's like been that weird thing. My family does my whole life. And this was like pre when it was in the Olympics and definitely pre the us winning the gold medal in it.

So I've explained it my entire life. So sheet of ice, roughly 100 and some feet long. There's two kind of targets set into the ice. They're called houses. They're 12 feet in diameter. There's a series of two foot rings, ideas to get a stone, which is a round piece of granite weighs approximately 42 pounds closest to the center. which is a round piece of granite, weighs approximately 42 pounds, closest to the center. You throw or deliver them. It's not actually throwing. You slide out of something called the hack

and using your legs, you kind of push the stone and then it goes down the ice. There's people who are sweeping. The sweeping helps the stone go a little farther and keeps it straighter. Bottom of the stone has got a thin running band on it. So not the whole bottom of it doesn't touch the ice. So between that thin running surface and the pebble,

so like little bumps on the ice, and then putting a turn on the handle of the rock, that's what actually allows it to curl. So that's why it's called curling. So it's actually spinning the whole. Is it does it? I guess I kind of. Does it spin?

Does it turn at the very end? Or is it like the whole time the thing is spinning? It's it's gradual most times. Sometimes the ice is weird and it goes straight. But hey, you never know. Enter. Imagine shuffleboard, but way bigger and with more screaming. A lot more.

Yeah, lots of yelling. And you're yelling at the sweepers, hurry, hurry hard. And as the sweepers are, their job is to smooth the ice in front of the rock. And, you know, if they back off, the rock can slow down a bit so that it gets to its house, I think you said? Yeah. Yep. And as it slows down, it gets it better into the house. Or if they continue sweeping the ice, which is smoothing the ice, it allows it to travel a little further. I understand the dynamics of curling, but I have never and probably won't ever.

I understand the dynamics of curling, but I have never and probably won't ever. That's just as a Canadian, like you have to know, like it is one of those like corner gas did it. Men with brooms did it. Like you have to know these rules, even if you're never going to do it. It is fun to try once we actually took a, I had a group from workout for a Christmas event, like it would have been 23. And that was like my boss, for Marti's like, I had no idea what to expect going into this, but everybody was having fun. Everybody was doing teamwork.

We did like a little learn to curl thing. Uh, any clubs near people generally do some sort of learning or teaching thing. All right. I heard that. I heard a kid. Yeah, she's hungry. It's seven minutes past dinner time and we share her shitter is in my office So I got a feeder. Yeah

Well, I'll try to convince Joey in it on the strongman show in April or I know actually I already I so there's one coming up in In August here out in northern Canada. And it's hello, Kitty. Aw, big orange fluffers. Hi, Kitty. This is Pepper. She's hungry. Pepper looks hungry.

And they're going to be doing mostly Bavarian and floor press. And I was like, you know what? Sure, I'll put that on my list. But the one you sent me, sure. Like if I can set my own weights. On some of them, I think it was one of the... That's the biggest hurdle for me in Strongman.

It's like if at least not one of the events is rising bar, it's kind of like, well, fuck it. It's like all these static weights that I can't do. So I need to have some kind of options of like, you know, pick your own weight. But with that, the caveat of that is you're, it's not like powerlifting. You get three attempts. It's if you're the weakest person there, you're going to follow yourself three times. So open really, really light and maybe only even plan on hitting two lifts because you

might have to follow yourself three times. I only get like 30 seconds to 90 seconds in between your lifts. I mean, and it's, it's at, you know, it's in your city. So like worst case, I get a hotel or just go in and come home. It's not a bad idea. And, uh, you know, Katie, we just, uh, we're talking, I just started strong man training this week. I've been doing power lifting now for three years and it's run its course.

If I ever have to hear bench press rack again, I will lose my fucking mind. I'm just done. I'm done with benching in general, to be honest with you, and powerlifting in general. So I think it's time for me to start lifting some rocks. I think there's some Highland Games definitely in my future in the next year or two as well, because I've been going to those, I've been watching those and you know I'm definitely interested in that. So we talked about that while you were feeding the cat. Well so I heard that you were like maybe worried about zeroing an event like there's five,

generally five events right? Zero one, have fun with the four others, just have a good time. Yeah I don't have stones. So I think one of my goals is to fill my sandbag as full as possible, even if I have to pack it with rubber or foam to like mock a stone, but even that's only gonna be 100, 150 pounds. Deadlifting, I think even Karp commented,

he's like, you're not gonna have a problem with deadlifting at all. I think if it, when it comes to strongman deadlifting, that's going to be my, my bread and butter. Um, and even overhead, I'm not that weak at for my size. Um, but there are people definitely bigger than me and stronger than me. They're going to be, uh, lifting me over their heads and making me look bad. That'll be Tyler at the Arnold when he lifts versus me

64 Tyler, what is he fucking be benched like 380 or something for like I said a 10 today I don't think you time. Yes, stop Jesus and he's like and it was funny too cuz he looks so He makes his his his adjustable bench looks so small that at first I thought it was like, because Rep makes a, let's, I might be, I'm guessing, but I'm pretty sure it's one of Rep's bigger adjustable benches like the 5200 or something, but like him on it, it looks like their smallest

like economy bench, so it was just regular, rather amazing. But as far as Strongman goes, Katie, I don't know if we really got into your origin of, well okay, so we were finishing up your, you know,... You did college track through this, that, and the other. When did you get into Strongman? And did you have any powerlifting or just bro commercial gym times in between that? But I want to hear your Strongman journey. Ah, so coming out of college, I tore the labrum in my right shoulder in two places during Javelin senior year. I got that fixed the fall after I graduated. Then I started traveling for work and drinking

probably too much beer and eating out a lot, working long hours, and then I weighed like 200 pounds. Oh, dang. Yeah. So then I eventually, I got more consistent with exercise, actually working a lot of night shift help with that because then you didn't go out and drink the beer and do stuff. I kind of lifted in consistently for a long time, lifting when I was home or hotel gyms or whatever. And then I got off the road in 16. Started lifting a little more consistently, but still like, yeah, I know enough. I'll program myself. I got more consistent with it the longer I was home. And then in 21, I've kind of been following a program for a while,

kind of training super total, just the power lifts, pour the shit out of me. I do love, I do like bench press. I am good at it, but like, I also had a background in Olympic lifts from track and training cleans and, and snatches and stuff for throwing and being explosive. So I kind of like training all five of the big lifts. And then we were sitting at a brewery, Blackhawks, he where my beer's from tonight. And the owner comes up sitting next to me and my husband and was like, it was summer. I had to sleep the shirt on.

Do you guys look like you love weights? Do you love weights? Yes. I love weights. Well, we're going to do a strong man show here. I have these Atlas stones. Do you want to come with rocks on Saturday? Absolutely.

I want to come with rocks one Saturday? Absolutely. I want to come with Saturday. So I came back to the brewery and lifted rocks one Saturday and signed up for my first strongman show. So that would have been. Battle of the brewery. I think it was, that one was later. I think it was like September of 21. Cause it was kind of around the time he was releasing his Oktoberfest. So the women were we might have all been locked

together but we were all like under 160 at the time. So did the first one won that one one free beer. So that was pretty cool. And then I mean, from the first time I lifted a stone, I was hooked. It's moving and lifting things that are heavy. That's what I'm better at rather than just like straight up deadlifting or squatting or bench pressing. So then I did that one. I started doing some other local shows, dropped down to under 140 in 22. That's when I qualified for Strongman Corp Nationals,

went out and did that. Got tripped up by pretty slippery floor and screwed up one event pretty bad. So ended up finishing like 10th, I think, missed out on the Arnold. And then bounced around some local shows since then. Technically held the title of Wisconsin's strongest middleweight one year then last year did Wisconsin's not Wisconsin Minnesota's strongest that was the strongman

corp regional so i'm minnesota's strongest lightweight right now and that's what got me to the Arnold this year. Right and then just having a beer and somebody's like you want to lift rocks they're like, yeah, I do. And now you're competing at the Arnold. What a journey. Awesome. Yeah. I can feel like that would be the same for me.

I'd be remiss not to shout out the owner of the brewery, Tim and his wife, Tony. They've done a lot for the local community and strongman posting their event every year. Tim hosts training days. So it was also like a community of lifters I found, which I never really had, you know, which he does for the first X amount of weeks before the show, you can come train the rocks, you know, lift the stones.

Now I've accumulated a number of pieces of Strongman equipment. So I bring some of my stuff out if we were using it for events and kind of a small group. It's like, hey, if you want to, it's a good starter show. Like that's his goal is like, hey, come up for a few weeks, try the events and then compete in the show. Everyone's here to have fun. Most people are also here to drink beer and it's a good time.

It's, you know, they get a lot of community support and they've just been great people. They actually came out to Erie with me when I qualified for nationals. So that was really cool. So do they have a gym inside of the brewery or he just like bought some stones and they're just like in the back and you guys just do out like do it in the parking lot. I guess I'm trying to envision what what what you there. Okay, so the brewery is on the first floor. So there's like a patio stone area,

like, and by stones, I mean like little gravel ones. So he's got his Atlas stones kind of in there. And then he's got spirits barrels around. So we generally lift stones to barrels. I've written the yoke over, we lift stone over bar. There's a few pieces of equipment floating around like in the little brewery itself. And then upstairs, he used to have a gym. he had like a squat rack, a couple of machines.

They've since redid the upstairs. So the gym's a lot smaller and not really, you can't really fit a lot of people up there anymore. So usually, yeah, we're just in the sidewalk, sometimes in the street, if we can block the cars, but we just kind of do stuff in the sidewalk with our, whether it's farmers, he's got a couple of tires we can block the cars but we just kind of do stuff in the sidewalk with our whether it's farmers he's got a couple tires we can flip we've done sandbag throws so yeah we're kind of out there on Saturday morning greeting all the locals who are walking their dogs and stuff. That's so cool. Have you ever had a I'm going to call it a big Toby moment where you're a little bit too inebriated and you try to lift something and you just kind of don't make it happen. Something that you should be able to lift, obviously, like Big Toby's wife.

Like your wife. But you just can't do it because you underestimated how much you had drank. I mean, probably, but nothing specific, recalls to mind. But yeah, me drinking and then trying to lift something, that's probably happened. Nice. Yeah, I can't do that. I don't know. I've never felt that urge to be like,

I'm going to drink seven beers and then go to my gym. It's like, I don't want to do that. I just ask like, that just feels like a bicep tear waiting to happen. Yeah, I've never done that. I do try to like not drink until after the last event when it's kind of become traditional to shotgun a hams see on official sixth event.

What the hell is that? Hey, is that a, is that an IPA? No, well, yes. In the massonomic sense, that's an IPA. It's a fine domestic beverage from the land of the cold blue waters. Good stuff. OK, so do you get a lot of shit for not liking cheese? I'm a terrible Wisconsinite, right?

I don't like the Green Bay Packers. I don't like Spotted Cow. And most types of cheese do not agree with me. It's a lifelong thing. I can eat like mozzarella, maybe some milder cheeses, but like, even if there's like a little bit of cheddar cheese in something, I can sniff it out. I don't want to eat it. It's just, I don't know if it's the way it's aged or what it is. It just not agree with me. Does that include cheese curds? Uh huh.

Dang. I can't imagine not liking cheese curds. Nope. Nope, Keith is thinking again. I've asked the last like 17 questions, Europe. I went pee. QRS to you. Alright, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do a Mount Rushmore. Let's jump into a Mount Rushmore here.

Have it. Uh... Okay, let's go, um, Beer Styles. Oh. Your Mount Rushmore of Beer Styles. I know IPA's gonna be on there. Yeah, so... We're gonna go with West Coast IPA. Oh, really?

I've been liking those. For all... I've always liked those and that's kind of where I've been trending Coast IPA. Oh, really? I've been liking those for all. I've always liked those. And that's kind of where I've been trending back towards recently. I like a good hazy IPA. I actually a really well done logger is always one of my favorites. Mm-hmm. And just a good plain lower ABV pale ale. So for the average listener, what's the difference between a West Coast and a standard IPA? A West Coast generally will be a little bit darker in color, a little more amber,

but it has a, a piney taste to it generally versus just the kind of lighter, bitter. And yeah, it's usually like a, I would describe it as like a piney taste to it. And the hazy IPAs, they're usually unfiltered. So they, they kind of look kind of messy. Kind of taste like citrus fruits. Yep. I'm actually really interested in that spruce IPA. I think I've had a spruce IPA up here.

And there's a few breweries that do them. Well, yeah, it's easy to get. It's like I said, you can literally pick the tips off trees and throw them in. Have you ever had a wet hops IPA? That has been the best thing I've ever had and they're so hard to find for some weird reason because they have to be brewed like they have to be farmed and brewed in a specific amount of time right because most yeah they used to be pretty fresh if I'm remembering right? Yeah, most breweries buy their hops in bulk

Right, so you need to get those ones that make their own hops Then to get those guys and they brew them in a specific amount of time But what hops IPA's have always been the best beer I've ever had Also, I could just eat hops in general. They just taste like They just said that said like at least 17 times. Oh, they just taste like pine. So all but once a month, you've said that give or take. Same as the first steps. They actually taste the same as first steps. To be honest with you. I think the episode title has to be something to do with you eating a fucking tree or something. All right. I had three. I had three.

Where the fuck? OK, so. Can you read it? Underrated goes full Canadian curling and eating trees. Yeah. With only one Canadian on it. She can eat trees, one talk maple syrup. She might be as north as I do love maple syrup. Oh, but one talk maple syrup. She might be as north as you. I do love maple syrup. Oh, but I love maple syrup. I made breakfast on New Year's Day and literally I was just like bacon, egg, sausage, and then

just maple syrup because I knew I was going to lift her later that day. Absolutely doused it all in maple syrup. I got it. Not that shitty corn syrup, glue maple syrup. No, no, not that one in the thin bottle bottle the big bottle that comes to rate from the farms All right, Katie, you know a little FM K little fuck Mary kill game for you here. Um, I got a few options I think I'm gonna try to make it hard for you here So I don't want to give you the layup want to give you one where you really got to think about it. So FM K

Specifically for you big, strong man beer, curling. Geez. Oh, you're mean. I recognize that as mean. All right. I only beer. FMK, I I'd kill beer. Yep. I can I can I can live kill beer. Yep. I can live without beer. I'd probably ask Strongman.

It's fun to play around with, but I'm going to marry the curling. Man, people can curl till they're in their 90s. We had an almost near 100-year-old lady out there curling. You can stop sliding and you can push the stone with a hack and you can still go in the, you can still go in the basement and hang out afterwards at the club. So I think I'd have to stick with curling in the long term. That's a good answer. Um, that will actually second way there.

So you would obviously you mentioned earlier, your dad was a personal trainer, had the home gym in the basement. Uh, is that still, is that gym still a thing? Oh no, we moved out of is that gym still a thing? Oh no, we moved out of that house. Gotcha. A long time ago. He is him having a home gym in general. Was that still a thing?

I guess. Yeah, we have a home gym now. Uh, me and my husband, we, we were training at a local Y or between a couple of local wise, uh, when COVID hit. So like everybody else in 2020 scrape together what we could. at a local Y or between a couple local Y's when COVID hit. So like everybody else in 2020, scrape together what we could. And I think we made it till August using some old adjustable dumbbells he had in the basement

before we finally got our hands on a squat rack and then continued building that out. Somehow I ended up the one who doesn't get to park in the garage anymore and he still does. I have used the time who use the gym more though. Did you in the beginning it was is pretty even i skewed towards me a little more recently as i've done more strongman stuff and he's a bit more of a runner. He's run a couple of marathons now so he still does the strength training but focuses a little bit more on his running. He actually bought the log first but the whole squat rack, a bar and a couple of plates has

spiraled into. Few bars, some strongman equipment, more plates. We got a lap hole for the rack. So nice There's a leg extension leg curl in the basement. So we're like slowly bleeding into the Just cuz there's no room or just the opposite of what you're doing there Keith is Into the basement a little bit instead of creeping out It's it's not the worst thing to have two separate gyms on the same. You just turn in that whole area into a compound gym, you know, so it's just multiple little micro gyms everywhere.

No, that was just, I always like a little home gym talk. We were just discussing wants to buy a treadmill. Fine, they were to put it and I don't like even stop parking in the garage at all. Apparently that wasn't a suitable option, so it'll go somewhere in the house.

Yeah, those windows hit hard. Uhm, heaters. Right? Yeah, but I mean, I when you gotta go out to your car and it's covered in fucking everything like today, we had a small snowstorm last night that I didn't even realize it happened while I was asleep and just woke up to inches and inches of snow. And then if I had a garage, that would have been helpful. Um, now the Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, everything has been mentioned a couple times. Are you a fan of them? Yep.

Yeah, so I'm from Milwaukee, but my mom's side of the family is originally from Chicago. Dad was from Indianapolis, so they were not Packer fans growing up. Somehow despite growing up in Wisconsin in the 90s, I did not get on the bandwagon, so I am a Bears fan. Although most people will tell you I am generally pretty apathetic about the 90s. I did not get on the bandwagon so I am a Bears fan, although most people will tell you I am generally pretty apathetic about the whole situation. Grew up a Cubs fan. Brewers and Cubs were not. They were in two different leagues. I am old enough that they were AL and NL when I started. Now they're obviously in the same division. same division. Uh, yeah, Blackhawks fan went to a Stanley Cup game in 2013.

Must have been. I'm a walkie box fan, though. I got that one going for me. Not a Vikings fan. No different. That's entirely different state. Well, I know, but everything's Midwest here. Right. So. But I want to hear's Midwest here. Right so

One would I want to hear you got one no you would I want to hear about The the multiple occasions where you've gone into work with black eyes or broken this or broken. Yeah, that's This isn't domestic, you know, you know Like I just lift heavy things and sometimes they don't go where I want them to go. She, uh, you know, you, you, you pull a big Trond every now and then and just, you know, drop shit on yourself. Neither black eyes related to lifting. Okay. Uh, one was, no, first one was I was playing with my dog.

He is what I like to call a generic black dog, meaning he is a black lab mix of some form. I was playing with him and he has some sort of ridge on his head. And in some process of playing with them, the ridge in his head hit my eye, like bright in my eyebrow. So my eyes swelled up. So then I had to go into work and explain that my dog gave me a black eye, went over like a farm church. The second one was actually recently I was riding my bike home. I might have won a sign holding competition earlier in that evening.

I hit some railroad tracks and despite wearing a helmet, because I do always wear a helmet, um, I busted my face pretty bad. Uh, it was actually bleeding. We did manage to bike home the rest of the like eight miles. Ooh, but then I had to go into work with a cut above my right eye and another black guy, but so that one was just this past summer. I went in, it went in for a physical at one point and there was like a med student. And she's like, this this might be really inappropriate, but I got to ask.

She's like, why were you lifting 240 pounds? I'd strained my back deadlifting a while ago. I can actually deadlift more than that now. But you had gone into the emergency room for that. And she goes, also, what were you doing with a 200 pound rock that it got dropped on your foot? I was lifting a 200 pound atlas stone one day and it rolled and it fell on my foot. And I want to make sure to break my foot. So I went and got an x-ray. But yeah, that was, those are fun,

fun questions to answer. What's the sign holding competition? Stein holding. So it's for the Germans. It's a one liter Stein of beer and you have to extend your arm out and you generally have to keep your thumb at about eye level. So it's a front pole. It's just with a full liter of beer. It's like that's a calisthenic shit. Like I don't Jesus. Well, that's a that's actually a strongman event too. Like I've never seen it in a show. But have you come across that in a show? Yeah, Katie.

We did a front hold at the Battle of the Brewery. He had a custom, it was two hands, he had a custom metal cup made and then you could drop like five or ten pound plates in it. So we actually did it the first year, it's the boringest event ever. Yeah, it doesn't sound like it would be fun to watch. I heard sign holding and I was like, what sign were you holding? Yeah, no. Stein holding. Were you like spinning a sign? Like when she was a mascot? Yeah. Like holding up signs? Go team.

Go team. And then just hit in the face with a sign. All right. Should we go into unpaid and underrated? Yeah. Was there anything else? I think that was the story I wanted to get out. Let me just.

Da da da da da. Yeah. I think we're good yes let's see there we go okay so relatively new game we came up with it all by ourselves 100% original it's called unpaid or underrated we're gonna give Katie a handful of select topics just for her and she'll have to decide you know for us in the audience at home, if the individual topic is unpaid, meaning, oh, no, overrated, not so great, or underrated, it's pretty awesome. So big Katie, unpaid or underrated, getting married at a brewery.

Oh, that's underrated. That shit costs $50. Still the best $50 I've ever spent. Is there a story there? Like, how does that? does that like, was that on a whim thing or? Yes and no. So my help we obviously we had talked about it, you know, getting married, we'd been together for five years at that point. And I saw that one of the local breweries here, Lakefront Brewery used to be able to run out their hall for weddings and stuff. They stopped doing that a few years ago.

So on Valentine's day, you can get married at the brewery. So I'm like, it was a Tuesday. I know this because I had to go to curling and I like mentioned it to my husband in passing and he's played a video game or something. And it's like, so it turns out we can get married at Lake for brewery for $50 and like getting married at the courthouse was a hundred dollars. So like I mentioned it to him and then put pen to paper. It just makes sense. Yeah.

Can't afford not to. Can't afford not to. Yep. There you go. So we, I mentioned it to him, kind of like got a non-committal response and then a few days later he's like, so are we going to do the get married at a brewery thing? I was like, well, you didn't really give me a committal response.

Then he always signed up and we got married at the brewery on Valentine's Day. Then we stayed because it was a Friday and there was fish fry. It went from long-term boyfriend, girlfriend, five years together, never engaged to a conversation and getting married at a brewery with zero engagement and not actually getting engaged. Well, so at that point, we owned a house.

Yeah. But yes, we went from like, yeah, we're going to get married someday to get a month married at the brewery on Valentine's Day. And then a month later, the world shut down because it was COVID. Oh, well, yeah. And then stuck around for the fish fry, which I think is my favorite part of that story, to be honest with you. Yeah, that was good. It was a Friday. It's Wisconsin. Well, yeah, that's what you do on Friday, is you fish fry. When you're eating your fish now, a weird thing I've developed is now I just hand bomb.

Like when I eat deep fried fish, I no longer use a knife and fork. I full on just like eat it like a chocolate bar is that a thing you're at now? Sometimes they're way too wide for that. What kind of fish are you eating that you need to cut it with a knife? Exactly, right? And if you have to,

then it's the wrong place for you to be at. Yeah, full on just in the face. No, I use a fork. I just, you don't need a knife. I just you don't need a knife. No, I don't use a fork. Yep. Just handbomb and just fried fish into my face now. It looks like you see what he looks like on the video, right? He did. Yeah.

Oh, Keith has already made jokes 15 times in his head. Good stuff. Katie unpaid or underrated mashed potatoes. Oh, unpaid. I can't eat them. Why? It is just mashed potatoes. It's not potato potatoes or it's like starchy stuff. It's just mashed potatoes. No, like so baked potatoes are generally bad.

Not really crispy fries. Bananas. It's a texture thing. Okay. So bananas kind of fall into the same category. Anything that's really mushy like that, my stomach is just like, nope, hard pass, get this out of me. So I just stopped trying. Yeah. The point of getting ill or just like a mental thing? I don't know. I just, I'm 36 years old. I don't need to vomit. But I don't have to. So I'm not gonna try anymore.

That tracks. All right, good to know. Oh, let's see. I guess, okay. Unpaid or underrated James Bond? I'm gonna go underrated. I really enjoy James Bond. I own a number of the movies.

We just went to the James Bond exhibit, the Museum of Science and Industry. That was something I wanted to do for Christmas. So I went to geek out on Bond stuff for a while. Some of on an individual basis, might some of the movies be unpublished. Sure. But as a whole, I have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of it. I enjoy it. So who's who's your favorite James Bond? Ah, he beat my follow up. Yes. I have a second follow up with that. It would be

It would be. I want. I really like the early Connery movies, Dr. No, Goldfinger from Russia with Love, the older ones, not so much. And then I like. The shame, I like the Daniel Craig era. Skyfall is probably my favorite, so I'm going to go with Daniel Craig. Same. Second follow up, second James Bond follow up. If you could, it's two parter. So who do you want to be the next James Bond realistically? And then who like all time, like actors that have been alive

your entire life or before, do you think should have been a James Bond? But it's probably too old now. Should have been a James Bond, but as too old as Clive Owen. Yep. Good call. And then I'm not sure on the next Bond. Is there a front runner or anything? Like I don't even, when is that?

Henry Cavill can do it. I think Richard Madden would also be good If they're looking for a bit of a because James Bond was cut You know the actor is kind of a little unknown so they can kind of go into the role of bond. So Those are the two big names and I'm hoping they choose someone that's not on my radar because I don't pay enough attention to really have a Good to know. All right. Well, those were mine.

So I was watching a movie the other day and you guys have seen, Keith, you wouldn't have seen this. What's that movie? Eurovision with Will Ferrell and what's her face? No? Okay. There's a guy in there I need to get it for you distract me for a second I'll just ask her one more if you need a minute. So big Katie unpaid or underrated Caleb Williams Chicago Bears rookie quarterback number one draft pick Caleb Williams

That's a hard one quarterback number one draft pick, Caleb Williams. That's a hard one. Voice the drug. I hope he's underrated. Yeah. There's potential there. There's some other things that need to be fixed with the organization, but he's definitely shown flashes. So I'm going to go with a hopeful underrated, but be the realistic bears fan that I am. It's probably going to turn out that he's unpaid in like two years and we'll

start this whole process over again. Yeah. Set the tracks with the bears fan. I'm right in the same boat there. So the guy I'm thinking about his name is Dan Stevens. Um, he did the line of love song. He's been in several things. He was in the movie I watched last night and, uh, he actually, like the more I watch him, I'm more interested in him. And I think Dan Stevens might be a good James Bond. And I think that I, if I put that out there.

Hey, maybe it won't happen, but that's got to watch. That's got to watch. He's an unknown name. He's not that famous. He might be a good James Bond. Unpaid or underrated cookie cutters. We hear you have a collection. I do. Yes. Traditional Christmas cookie cutters have their place, but they can be a bit unpaid. Your non traditional cookie cutters are underrated. You never know when you need to bake a bunch of penis cookies so you might as well have three other sized penis cookie cutters.

I was literally going to ask if you had any dick cookie cutters so I'm so glad you went there first but I didn't have to awkwardly ask. That's awesome. I also have ninjas, a slice of bacon, beer cans, a beer bottle. I have a curling stone which comes in handy during Bonche feel season when we're baking goods for people to eat at the tournaments and stuff. So yeah, there were some of those gifts or those all self purchases. I have a few that were like family ones because we bake the big ones growing up you know and then I've bought a few I don't know that I've ever gotten one as a gift I bought I 100% bought the penis

ones we've gone through a number of bachelorette parties and inappropriate cookies and those of course would be dick and balls Uh-huh. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, and if you were wondering if you can make flesh-colored icing you most certainly can Those would obviously be cheese flavor Unpaid or underrated I think I only have one more. Let's go country music. Ah! It's underrated. I have to say it's underrated.

I love country music. I listen to it. Old 90s to Stapleton to even some of your popular country. I've been to a number of Luke Bryan concerts. I've been to all kinds of better concerts than that. Did you have to be quiet at that one? I know, I was in like my mid-20s and having a lot of beer, having a good time.

So yeah, I gotta go with unpaid. How old are you Katie? 36. Okay, we're all about the same age. Yeah, I'm not a master yet, unlike YouTube Jokers. Hey, I'm not masters for a couple more months. Oh, that's right. You're not quite yet.

I actually had to DM one of the local Strongman show directors. So there's a show like three weeks before I turn 40. Can I sign up for Masters? Because if not, I got to go novice again. And I know everyone keeps getting buttered that I do novice shows, but like I'm not doing the open like I can't. Like it's a fucking like it's 350 pound sandbag. Like, no, I can't even lift a 220 pound sandbag with 350 pound sandbags.

So fuck off. I'm not going open. And he was like, no, you can't do it until you're 40 and I was like fuck so I guess I like have to do uh you know novice again for one and they check id I probably I probably could have honestly just got away with it and done it but like I want to do shows with these guys for the next like 20 years you know as long as they keep hosting them locally because I obviously want to do the show that's five minutes from my house not an hour and a half away. Well I think you passed unpaid and underrated. Well done. Yeah put that on the check mark system. Did you have that on your bingo card for for 2025 that you were gonna you know pass unpaid and underrated? I don't know that I really started a bingo card for 2025

yet. No, we should. We should do it. Like, at some point we should do an unpaid and underrated Hall of Fame bingo card. It's so much work, but it has to be like all just digital. Like for sure. Oh yeah, I'm not mailing out fucking cards. I'm not mailing stuff out.

Ain't nobody got time for that. We're not going to add that to Big Jeff's plate. Hey Jeff, this is your job now. And honestly though, it probably wouldn't like, as long as we didn't have to mail, like I bet it would be easy enough to like find a place to make them and then just like have a mailer, like just email the mailer or list and be like, you mail these out, but like, no, I'm still not going to do that. Unless someone wants to donate like $300 to pay for all that.

So I guess that means, do you have anything for us? Do. Nice. My favorite part. I have a I have a FMK for Keith. Now that your several shows into your Strongman journey. Strongman presses FMK Axle Log and Circus Dumbo. Oh okay. So I gotta kill Cir circus just because it's so new to it. And it is. It's been fun because it's new. But like, it's hard. And I think like my ratio, like, I am weaker in that one

than the rest. So it's just like, it sucks. Like, I feel that I the 115 was pretty awesome. But like when I other people that are hitting like, you know, like 150, it's like that stings more than when someone, I guess with someone being 20 or 30 pounds stronger on the circus dumbbell, stings more than when they're only 20, when they're 20 or 30 pounds more on the other lifts. So I guess I'll kill circus.

I do like circus, but I'll kill it. I will marry, oh, that's hard, damn. Axel or log, fuck owner if I if my answer kind of changes throughout the year um I think I'm gonna marry axle and fuck log yeah cuz I can do I can do actual year-round but I can only do log in the summer basically or when I go to a commercial gym so I guess that tracks I really do like log though but after hitting that like huge and I think if you asked me this two days ago I might have said that I was married log but I hit a huge for me a triple PR on Axle

last night and it was just so invigoratingly awesome and satisfying that that's probably still fresh on the brain. But yeah, I'm going to marry, marry axle for sure. And yeah, good, good question. God, I love log press. Every time I've ever got to do it. I'm so fucking in love. Don't love circus at all, but God, I love log press. It's fun, but the axle is... I can, you can, I feel like I can dominate an axle more than I can a log if that makes, like, I don't know,

like I can feel like, I feel more powerful with an axle. Like a log, I feel like is controlling me sometimes, whereas the axle, like I'm controlling the axle. And that's fair, but I'm also like a foot shorter than you, so when I get that log up, I feel so much bigger than I do a log or an axle because like I can do overhead press with a barbell, right?

So when I finally get my hands on a log, I'm so excited to get my hands on that log. I need to see Joey, you need to start getting some like doing clean and presses versus like just unwrapping it from the bar That's gonna change your it's gonna change your world. That's coming Definitely got to get an axle. Do if you have enough height to do that in the basement, too That'll even be cool. I do. Yeah, I do and I'll be going for that and I log no because I think the logs

Yeah, yeah, that's the benefit of the axle too because you can almost do it anywhere Good question good question. What else you got? Right. For joy, I have a Mount Rushmore of the illnesses you've had in the last six months. Big Tommy over here. Oh my God. I don't even know what half of them are. Oh my god. I don't even know what half of them are. Definitely.

We're going to go opposite. We're going to go which ones would I tear down from Mount Rushmore because they suck so bad. That sinus infection I had at Matt's episode Episode 69. You were dead that one. I honestly like I ended up in the hospital now and that one was bad that one was really really bad I felt like my brain was trying to escape out of my nose and then just I don't even know what they

were like I can't even name what they just generic like stomach bug, generic sinus infection, generic throat infection, I actually wish I had some sort of thing for all of them. The only one I know of for sure that I had was that sinus infection, and that one sucked the most. That one put me down for quite a few days. Um... The hangovers count? Can I put that one on the list?

Yeah, I actually because I don't have a name for those illnesses I don't really have a full answer for that one. But that one that I had during Matt's episode and that I just refused to skip Matt's episode, that's my least favorite thing I've ever had. And that was like, that was four days of, I got this, I'll get through this, I'll get through this, I'll get through this. And then finally I woke up the next morning and I'd know I did not get through that. That one, that one had to drive myself to the ER for.

Let's not do that again. I wish I had a better answer. I just don't know what they are. I just, generically sick. And actually I've been okay for most of November, December, to be honest. Lucky you. Yeah. I about died last month.

Well yeah, you had that awful thing. Dude, yeah. I don't want to steal your story. But if you're done, no, I'll give you my... Dude, I fucking... So two weeks ago, we recorded our last episode. Thursday, I didn't feel great, but powered through the episode, didn't have any thing feeling too bad.

I was just run down, thought it was just essentially jet lag because I had driven back a six-hour drive that day. Woke up fucking Friday with a horrible chest cold. I don't know what... I have to call it a chest cold because I don't back like a six hour drive that day. Woke up fucking Friday, the horrible chest cold, I don't know what, I have to call it a chest cold because I don't know what it is. I've never, when I get colds, I get head colds and they last like a week.

Like then it's just a really bad cold. But I've never got a chest cold where I'm like, I can't breathe and I'm wheezing. I'm just sitting on the couch and I can hear my fucking lungs just gurgle. I'm like, this is not, this should not be happening. So I had to go to the fucking urgent care Saturday Like so the Saturday before Christmas on the day we were doing my Christmas with her family with Stephanie's family

I had to put me on a nebulizer gave me a fucking steroid But an inhaler all kinds of stuff, but the worst thing was the since I was on the steroid I couldn't take ibuprofen and dake will And that's how I self medicate to power through colds So i'm like just miserable with only having the steroid which I guess is doing something but it's not fucking helping me Mitigate any of my symptoms whatsoever and I can't take anything else except Tylenol which doesn't do a goddamn thing Um, so it was miserable I had three family christmases and like three three three and a half, like three or four days, all while being like probably the second sickest

I've ever been as an adult, with the first being when I got COVID like four years ago and felt like I was gonna fucking die and like had fever, like actually had fever symptoms on and off for a week, which I've never had before. But yeah, second sickest I've ever been hands down. It was fucking miserable. And I'm just now kind of sort of getting over it

two weeks later. Like what was it yesterday I think was two days ago that I hit that big axle but I was literally I got to like sit down and like I was hawk hacking up like like just the most disgusting fluid and that was like still like 10 12 days after being like getting sick so whatever the fuck was in my lungs it did not like me so that's what Joey's Mount Rushmore of sickness was my lungs that went made it on his. Yeah, I just don't have names for them. I'm just generically sick. I just have a child who is in school with other children and he comes home and goes, Daddy, I love you here is something to ruin your next few days. And that's just life as a parent.

Yeah, I'd get so much sicker. I think if I'd. So then one more for both of you combined between the two of you, Mount Rushmore of jokes that have been beat to death in the discord that, you know, never repeats itself. Okay, so we both get two of those, maybe. Yeah, let's do to go ahead. Fuck. I think everything Brian related is the dumbest fucking thing in the world, and I hate it, and it was never funny to begin with.

So like that has to go up there for me personally, because I just don't. I just I don't know. I just never I never got it. I it I disagree to me that one is dead we escalate it so bad like when today I even mentioned like at the pub in crew Falls we sent Brian a selfie with all of us being like hey Brian just kind of miss you here and Tanner sent it to him from the Mastinomics account that shit's funny man the the mark and i have that's almost funny though i get that that was that was that that that for what regardless it's it's we both get to the degree i'm gonna tell that's that's if katie signs up on those rules that's on a plate a second one or in which world didn't want to you do one nothing my other um actually I hate every bot like

I can every fucking bot that we have I hate the 69 bot I hate the plate bot I hate and it's just like all you have to do is say a word and it's a word you use in general you'd be like oh I put on four plates and like all you have to do is say a word and it's a word you use in general. You'd be like, oh, I put on four plates and then suddenly you have like two bots. And then I have to scroll past bots to see the next message. I just hate these bots. I don't think they're funny. They don't contribute to the discord. All of them are unfunny and overplayed and they don't contribute to the discord as anything. The other one that I think I don't think we've beat to death yet because I still use it consistently is the friends we made along the way. I think that that is definitely going to run its course, but it's

also the funniest thing every time somebody brings it up. And I use it in real life. I use it at work. I use it in my home life. It definitely is going to run a course, but it has not yet. The Friends We Made along the way is genuinely hilarious to me. Yeah, that's a good one. Um, I don't know. Like the selfish answer is I'd love to not hear a fucking other joke about how big New York state is you fuckers. But the the massive that's that's more, you know, self-serving if that just went away.

I forgot about that. That's great. I guess I'll stick with that one. Yeah, you definitely earned that one. Yeah. But one thing Tanner, so it should be on the episode that comes out next week, because I listened to a good bit of the live Monday. He had mentioned how they don't think they use Friend of the Podcast very often anymore. And I'm like, maybe it's because do we, maybe I'm misremembering, but I feel like we say that a lot on this podcast, don't we? Like,

when we reference someone, like, mainly you, like you say Friend of the Podcast, I don't know if I do a lot, but like, I feel like my ears are hearing Friend of the Podcast, maybe not them saying it, but I feel like we must still say it in some reference But I could be completely mistaken So I don't know not in the way that they first used it right like going back to the yeah Going back to the backlog Yes, we're using the way that they said it in a reference that is literal when they used it as a fucking You know more of a joke yeah

that one's up there no no the as big as New York thing is fucking hilarious I'm gonna be honest with you that's you earned that one yeah I think that would be it that would be our Mount Rushmore what about you Kate if you had to pick one that you think is the most overplayed one? Oh. Because Joey and I kind of, uh, Joey and I can answer it differently. He answered it more of like, what are his favorite most used ones? Where I was like, what are the ones I want to go away forever? We used to be a proper country is the funniest fucking thing. But I don't get that. Where did that one come from?

Like I don't get the reference. There is no reference. It's got to be an origin of something. Tanner said it in regards to something silly. And the only time I ever use it is when it has nothing to do with politics or culture. And it's just like, I don't know. I must have been from the election or something.

Like you stub your toe and you just get mad at the table And you're like fuck you table. We used to be a profit country. That is the funniest thing Yeah, that's oh at a co. I had a friend the other day. I Don't know if he would like me telling this story, but he was booking an Airbnb and one of the rules of the Airbnb was no orgies or gang sex and Airbnb was no orgies or gang sex. And I responded with, we used to bring a proper country. Cause that's the funniest response to that. He was like, who would put this in their rules?

And then I was like, we used to be a proper country. Cause that's the funniest response to that kind of thing. It like has nothing to do with anything. As a sidetrack, we had an Airbnb recently where they had a rule that's explicitly stated no glitter parties. So I really want to know why that's a specific. I will. We used to be a proper country.

I'm really struggling with this one. That's all good. I will. You think a little bit more and I'll tell one more story. So another thing that's like that's do you ever catch yourself like I Am I'm always uh, you know, it's you know, I always say, you know my wife or you know It's been a while like my wife and she's like she doesn't get it and then I have to try to explain it to her

And she still doesn't get it. So like that goes on the Mount Rushmore of things that are overplayed it's like when I look like an, I'm not an asshole, but like, when I feel like I have to like go out of my way to like explain stuff to people, cause I just, I want to like have that person, you know, I want to say these things, you know, you instinctively say them in front of people

that don't know what the fuck you're talking about. And then you kind of get looked at funny. So that would be of one of the, maybe one thing I wish could go away is just, I guess everyone just has to sign up to be a supporting member in the world. And then, you know, when I say fucking, you know, it's, it's been a while in front of like, you know, on a conference call, as Joey loves, you know, I won't be looked at oddly. I think the my wife thing is kind of universal.

Well, the, well, yeah, that was a bad example. But like screaming, it's been a while. I don't think is. Yeah, I don't do that one in IRL in real life. But my lav, like, I'll just, somebody will be like, oh, tell me, and like, I'm talking to a member or customer or whatever, and they're telling me their life story. And I'll go, oh, yeah, me and my lav. And like, the husband look at the wife,

and like, they'll kind of check with each other to see like did he just borat us like at like while he's dealing with our issues and i'll be like yes yes i did i did my wife it is it is disappointing that it's it's harder to say my husband it doesn't really work for the kids it doesn't i know oh yeah we didn't really work for the chips. It doesn't, I know. Oh yeah, we didn't really talk about that. Have you kind of found, like there's a lot of chips now, like there's probably 20 plus, 30, more than 20. So are you like kind of got like a, are you DM a lot of them fairly regular or anything like that?

Have you like, you know, are you of a, I don't know, is there like a sisterhood? Is there like a sister, a, a, a, a group chat that us, us, us, cookies aren't involved in? Just the chips? Oh, occasionally there've been some discussions on the side. Maybe there'll be some chocolate chip merchandise one day. Oh, that'd be dope. It's been, it's been, I haven't, I haven't made it out to anything in person because it hasn't ever worked out. Um, so I haven't like been able to person, but I have, I've talked with big Jen obviously, and then big Hannah who is really good at strongman. Um, so hopefully we can all come together for the lift hard lift three Z this year. Oh, that's right. You are actually, you're, you're a hundred, you're a hundred percent up for that,

right? So you know, at one point you were like, Hammon and Holland about doing one of the other strongman nationals or something. Right. So that was last year. So I was signed up and then did Minnesota strongest. The biggest problem for me with that weekend is it is my niece shout out to big Z. Uh, it's her birthday weekend. So we usually do a party for that.

But my brother-in-law is a little crew adjacent, so he'd probably understand. Actually, she loves coming and watching when we do Strongman. My brother-in-law has done the one in Milwaukee, so I'm signed up. That's the plan. We'll see how everything shakes out because that's still quite a ways away. Fingers crossed. All right. Well, is there anything we didn't touch base on that you wanted the crew to know about Katie?

Not that, not that I can think of. Do you want them to come up and say hi to you at the Arnold and they see you? Sure. Why not? Uh, we'll be around Friday. We're going to go see pro strong man. Just hang out at the kios they see you? Sure. Why not? Uh, we'll be around Friday. We're going to go see pro strong man. Just hang out at the kiosk with us. We'll be at the massonomics kiosk.

Yeah. Oh, you guys might not have. So Tanner didn't actually touch base on this yet. Um, cause it was more on the, the episode that comes out next week. But when I talk about it now, it'll be more relevant cause it'll be, uh, you know, the same week they actually talked about it. So they're going to have a smaller booth this year. They're going to go from a double to a single and bring a lot less

merch, I guess, uh, so that'll be interesting. So there definitely won't necessarily be room for a half dozen crew behind the curtain over there. So that'll make things a little different, but I don't know, not necessarily good or bad for us, just different, but you know, you're going to save them like six grand or something. They said, we're just fucking was wild. Yeah, just different. But you know, you can save them like six grand or something. They said it was just fucking was wild. Yeah.

It's like, you know, Arnold ain't cheap. I do intend on being there. I've had talks with Tanner. We have the crew house. I don't know what, I don't know how Hogan's gonna put up with some of that. That fucking meme that someone made.

And then Nate had to ruin it by not coming, but well, okay, that's not what I meant to say. You know, Nate ruins it by not coming but well You know what I'm talking about that's a super relevant line oh That's great sorry Hogan I didn't make the meme But yeah, like that's gonna be wild so it looks like I'm gonna be there I wasn't like it was kind of 50-50 for me, but with Hogan putting up his basement You can have the guest bedroom. I will take the cold I will take the cold ass basement with the Pittsburgh toilet any day of the week. Leave me alone I snore when I sleep and I drink too much of the Arnold. So

Maybe not this Arnold, but we'll see and Yeah, definitely, uh, it'll just be us hanging out. So come hang out sign autographs do your thing? I Don't know who's signing. I don't know who's signing autographs, but I'll be the one fucking competing at the Arnold Beyond that yeah, where do we find you? Well, you find all our affiliate links at obsidian, Barbar Rescue, Plate Snacks, Home Gym Con, Belt Fed Strength, and Strength Co. at the Peril,

Strength Fuck, Peril at the Strength Co. I butchered that one. Yeah, you did. Yes, now Katie, where are they gonna find you at? Instagram, I am morehead underscore K. Nice, and we were asked to make jokes about that and ask if you've been picked on it, but we're not touching that with a 10 foot pole.

So no, thank you. Did I not tell you what my middle name is? No. Oh, does it even make it better? Excuse once a neat. I've had this last name my entire life. I chose not to take my husband's last name, which is doobie. So it wasn't any better, right? So how'd you wait for the end to drop that bomb? That's awesome. I'm going to mute myself for a second.

That's good stuff. So You can find Katie there. You can go follow our Instagram, Unpaid and Underrated Podcasts, website unpaidinternpodcast.com. We've got a YouTube, I'm Big Keith. You can follow me on Instagram, KeithHoneyCut73. You can follow me on Orchim, the wine seller. We've got Big Joey over there at... Joey underscore Malesco, M-L-E-C-Z-K-O.

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