Unpaid And Underrated - 088 : You're Gonna Need a Thesaurus Bud

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Garrett. They dive right into great topics like collars, engagements, Diet Dew, Facebook groups, piano, and home gyms. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaid-underrated-tee) Get Your Own Keith Head (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/articles/keith-head) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest On Instagram @garrett.cscs77 (https://www.instagram.com/garrett.cscs77/) or @gcstrengthsystems (https://www.instagram.com/gc_strength_systems/) 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 Garrett.

Okay, welcome to episode 6626 of the unpaid and underrated podcast, a podcast by the crew for the crew and not nearly as mocked as much as a Facebook group today. I am one of the hosts, Big Joey. I am joined by Big Keith. Howdy, howdy. And big, am I saying this right? Garrett? Yeah, well. Okay, just want to make sure because sometimes I don't say things properly and I have to

make sure. Well, I know that it's Garrett and I would have got that right, but the last part. Yeah, how do you say my last name I want to hear Flynn Glenn ending clending clending clending yeah use your preschool phonics and you'll get it pretty easily wait who got it right I think I said it wrong you both pretty much got it right Joey got it more right though hell yeah a name is correct is either pronounced correct or incorrect. There's not close enough. There's the one thing I can do. I failed that.

Say names. With my stupid last name, I learned at a very young age to try and pronounce other people's last names and first names. And it's an interesting thing I do at work because it doesn't matter what nationality they are. They're always shocked when I can say their name properly. And I was like, because I went and phonetically learned

like 30 languages. I don't know what I'm saying, but if I see it and it looks Russian, Polish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, whatever, I can say it. And it's always shocking to people. It's just one of those stupid things I picked up because I got tired of the, I'm looking for a Mr. And I was like, just shut up, it's me.

It's me. Oh yeah, I can see why that's beneficial for you. Yeah. It's me. Oh, yeah, I can see why that's beneficial In your scenario for sure Anyway I'm seeing a nice shirt over there. What are you wearing? I? Have the Unpaid underrated shirt on of course I felt obliged to wear it. We appreciate that Yeah, I think we got a little update from Tanner. I think we're 50% sold out, give or take.

I mean, there's definitely only three spots left, but actually I'd have to look at the text. A fair amount have sold, so we're pretty happy about that. There was a couple sizes completely sold out, which is awesome to see. So if you're a 2X, I think there's only, literally I think there was two spots left in a 2X, and then there was like 10 XLs or something

and not a ton of other stuff. So that was very cool to see. So it's nice to see Garrett wearing that. I'm rocking. Since we're big home gym guys, you know, home gym nerds, if you will. Home gym nerds, home gym that. So I've got a Garage Gym radio,

the podcast platform put out by Garage Dem Experiment. So if you haven't checked that out, go listen to that. There's actually multiple crew that have podcasts or are guest on the podcast that Jake puts out. So that's good stuff to listen to if you want to deep dive a little home gym a little more. I've got the squats tee on because I found it today and we're just like, damn, I forgot how much I like that shirt. So I put that one on. the the work silly goose koozie because it is 730 at night otherwise I would have a diet

mountain dew and I want to sleep tonight yeah that's way too much caffeine after like 2 p.m. no thanks sorry I got a was the cherry limeade waterloo pretty pretty good I actually had to go get it like two seconds ago so I was like up time to record I better go get my record. I better go get my beverage. I've got me a nice good ice water, which Morgan first poured into one of my drinking horns. Do you have that in like a 40 ounce Stein? It's like the biggest mug I've ever seen. Yeah, it says Doom Crew. It's a Black Label Society Doom Crew. But like I said, at first she poured it into my drinking horn and I went, I wouldn't do

that if I were you. Right. Oh, she broke it. It popped the glue on the bottom of the drinking horn So that horn is now Gone forever and I've got some Keith's and I got some zero Guinness. I'm prepared for the next two hours three hours however long we go So we had a lot to talk about so we'll dive into a few different random things and we'll write last week's episode so So we had a lot of talk about so we'll dive into a few different random things and we'll write last week's episode so The this did you guys see the the real they put out today? That was actually like a premeditated skit that they probably spent like an hour to record and it was you know

Got it down to like a 90 second or whatever, you know under under two minute real there with the just the tip Skit as I call it. I Didn't enjoy that very much yet. It was hilarious. That might be one of their first things. I think it's one of the first scripted things I think they've done that was more normal. Their drinks bugger ad they did last year. Besides that one I guess.

But I guess I'm not going to put an ad in the same category as like, this was, this was a bit for the sheer content aspect of it. Like, there's no monetary value other than just getting new followers from it. There's not like, hey, this is something we can put on the website and something we put on YouTube to like get people to buy the drinks, bought it. This was just like, hey, this will be funny. Let's do it. And it was pretty funny. I don't, I think it was funnier to us because we know the whole Tommy hates fucking tipping for, you know, non-service things basically,

which I think we most, most of us do, but he has voiced his opinion on that multiple times on the podcast. So that made it even more funny to where she said, if a random watches it, they might not get it as much, but I'm sure they'll still think it's funny. But I really enjoyed it. And then they had the callers YouTube that was a new today I

had to kind of watch that abbreviated because I got a new guy I'm working with and I was watching it while I was riding shotgun and I clearly had air pods and I was like alright I gotta watch this real quick for research, and he just didn't stop talking So like I'm like only half consuming the audio of the thing because he just didn't stop talking. So like I'm like only half consuming the audio of the thing because he just didn't stop talking And I'm just like I wasn't gonna be rude and tell him like for a third time. Hey, I'm occupied for like 10 minutes Sorry, but uh, yeah, so I don't know if anybody else caught that but I saw him kind of you know Go through and give the rundown on everything and I might actually have to rewatch it But uh, you know from what I wish I had because when I went and bought my new barbell

I asked them for the axle Collars and they charged me like 15 bucks for them, but whatever but there's just a 3d printed pieces of plastic That don't actually fit on the collar and then I get a home and I'm doing my research and it turns out This thing's actually two inches. She told me they're not My regular collars fit and they don't spin. Yeah, I was pretty pissed about it. There's a lot of discrepancy with the with with imported axles. That's so Titan has one for sale right now. There's there's there's you know, there's seven foot one to sell for like seventy five bucks in America delivered. And I really considered

it. But I've had a lot of people telling me like, yeah, you can use your regular collars, which to me it's like, it kind of rubs me the wrong way that it says, like, you know, it's a 1.9 axle and you'll need 1.9 axle collars, I'm like, okay, cool, I have those, that's all, that's all I wanna heap in the garage. And then like, it comes in and I think I had a couple of different measure, a couple of different buddies measure it, it was like 195 or something, so not a true two inch,

but close enough to where axle collars literally won't fit. And we've had multiple people in the discord talk about it this week, and it's just more like, I get for most people be more beneficial because you can use your regular collars, but it's just like, I don't know. If you tell me it's an axle and then it comes in two inches, it's like, I don't know. I'm getting into the weeds of my annoyance of things,

but it's also like, I don't know. Yeah, but now I can experience that too, because I'm also annoyed that I bought those collars on their advice. And then I get it home and the strength go ones just snap on fine and don't spin and I was just like why did I buy these because I can't even they're these weird pinchy ones and they don't fit I think the strength

they'll probably fit tighter than a lot of other callers to those so that they are either way if you're closer to inches the best callers I actually I think I mentioned it like my wife who previously lifted before children, she came into the gym one day and she was using my regular Clippy collars. And then I showed her the strength ones. And she said, if you guys ever do a product, you need to do these because these are the best collars I have ever seen. Like they're so convenient and they're so easy. You don't take up any room and you can like load plates on them and then remove them to

like finish loading the plate. She's like, these are the best. And I was like, yeah, I agree. These are, these are definitely the best colors I've ever had in my gym. I bet we could sell 40 pairs of those branded with unpaid underrated I think we'd have to buy a hundred to get them fucking at cost or something I bet 40 homies would buy a pair of those They should just say Keith and Joey not even unpaid underrated

What else would we have Tyler's video of, so Tyler's safe. I asked, those were my first concern. I was like, are you okay, buddy? Because that's 400 pounds sitting in the concrete at speed. He said he was fine. Once I knew he was fine, the floodgates opened with like, how can I make this a meme?

So first I had to steal big, big, big Motos meme, apparently, like without realizing it. You did too, you stole that right out of him. Oh, I did. Well, in my defense, like his was a slow buildup with like a 10 seconds of, oh, here's Tyler. And then like right at the end, there's Brad the Pad.

So like, I probably liked it without even seeing it. Like, I know I liked it, I faked it. You even, he reacted, he said. He got so buttered and like screamed. So like I probably liked it without even seeing it like I know I liked it. I faked after the He's like I got the proof you fucker and I was just like I felt bad but like eh Not that bad but like there were so many memes about Tyler and I think I've been carrying it all and into like the second and third day just Because it's like how can I make this more? how can I make this better and then like crop the photo itself and just putting that into other stuff and

It was good. It was good quality. Like you guys really did really well with that meme. I was laughing I even showed it to Morgan and I was just like this is How far we take stupid shit? Cuz it's good stuff Yeah, the second I saw the video I was just waiting for someone to post Brad the pad catching him and yeah I'm finally dead. It was the most logical recourse for that. Well done Moffo. Let's see so just the home

gym in general the community so Tanner ironically enough Tanner joined the wrong one like a week ago and thought well so like in his defense it actually has more members but I think a lot of them have to be bots because oh yeah because because that one has like you the one that's just called home gym you can't post without getting admin approved so like I don't know that one almost never shows up in my feed I get I see something on that like once a week maybe whereas I see like ten posts from garage the one by garage gyms a day probably Um, so I think I i'm sure maul

I think tanner had already found it but I think I ended up sharing him the link I was like, you know, it's this one and like I invited him like via the app and uh, So he got in there and it's been was just been shit posting and trolling all day. I don't know what that was like Yeah, and joe joe joe got on there and started shit posting and trolling all day. I don't know what that's like. Yeah. And Joey got on there and started shitposting and trolling. And then, you know, that's just. I have never made myself laugh so hard as much as I did today trolling that site. It's like these people take themselves so seriously.

I mean, it is a good resource. So I get where people if people get hurt, It's a good resource to spend $20,000 by taking advice from those people. So when we have people just completely being clowns, it could get old. It's a good resource. So is the gym at my elementary or the library at my elementary school.

It's like some of the stuff people are asking and talking about. Are you like somebody today? I didn't respond and I really wanted to. The question was, what's a good alternative to a stair stepper? And I was like, fucking stairs. Just go find some stairs and walk up them. They were probably more like, what

is a cost effective thing to put in my garage? Stairs. Something similar. I understand a little bit of it but at the same time I was just like yeah and then some of the reactions to my one post about the pokey, the pokey holes on my deadlift bar which was I think actually from Gary? Yeah somebody said you should do this and I was like I mean. And you like took it word for word. I was like I'm fucking in and no but I added the fingerless gloves. Cause you basically pulled a big Keith's deal

and Big Motos thing and then you know passing it off for yourself cause. No I took the idea of knurling being too harsh and I added the gloves which I knew trigger people. Oh my god I'm being called every name in the books right now by these guys that think things themselves so seriously. And I feel like that should have been a joke giveaway because if you have a deadlift bar,

I guarantee you're not lifting with gloves on the regular. Right? Like why would I buy a $600 Texas deadlift bar to use gloves? But these guys are just like, look at this fruit, look at this nerd, get your tampon in, like these guys are going so hard on me and I'm just like, ah, ah, ah, anyway. Anyway, this is why I don't like Facebook. It brings out a side of me. Let's see, so I got a quick little story. I have a mystery box.

I already, so it's, I don't think it's podcast related. I'm so very confused. Um, we have a guest coming up that sent us all, like sent Joe and I both a decent amount of stuff that I know we're saving that. But, uh, I had a box from rogue show up the other day and it ended up being something that I was researching and looking at online like a week before. And I'm like, did I accidentally order this? Like there's no way. So I went back into my app. I had, I have no orders. I have no emails. I have no correspondence. I went through like both my emails. I went anything that's ever been attached to rogue scoured my credit card, scoured PayPal, scoured Venmo, anything that would like be an auto like that could be like a quick double tap and pay. And I'm like, it's nowhere. It's like a 50 it's a $30 thing. it's basically $50 delivers it's a it's an add-on for one of my benches so I can stand it up vertically safely without it like tipping over and I think I had posted on Facebook so like I still don't know if if someone gifted it to me or if somehow I'm gonna have a credit card bill that shows up in a month

because like I can't imagine even if I signed in as a guest I would have had to input my credit card because I could like imagine, even if I signed in as a guest, I would have had to input my credit card. Cause like, and there's no way I like sat there long enough to like auto do that. I just, I don't understand. I'm so confused. You gotta lay off the math, man. You gotta lay off the math.

And it's given me so much anxiety. So whoever did it, you have caused me so much turmoil and confusion, but thank you. Or I bought it myself and I'll figure that out in a month when it shows up on my credit card invoice Which should already be there, but it's not Both are hilarious. Yeah, I'm so confused. I'm so confused. I'm it literally like it like interrupted my workout to the point of like

Alright, did I spend fifty dollars and not realize it cuz like that said that that shouldn't be a thing and it's like it's not Here but like it's not on because like rogue has I have a I have a list of everything I've ever bought from rogue like on my checkout thing like on my app and it's like it's not here on the spreadsheet no it's not my spreadsheet it's fucking rogue's user history so anyway that was that was the last thing I had for that we can basically rate two episodes if anyone had a chance. So, Mastomix obviously had their episode. It was, what was it? The guide to building a home gym for Power Lover specifically. But then they also were on Let's Get Stupid last night,

which pretty much aired live and has already been out all day today. So I don't know if either you had a chance to can, you know, catch that great episode. Really enjoyed both of them. I'll go through them real quick. So my favorite part of the Masonomics episode was probably where, I mean, all the home gym talks always nice. I, you know, agree and disagree a little bit here and there,

but not to get in the weeds, you know, it's always cool to just hear them talk about it. Tanner going on a rant about safety in the workplace for like six minutes, I felt like, it might not have been that long, but it just felt like it was a, like I remember listening to it on Sunday and just being like, he's still talking about safety?

Like I had to like kind of like zone back in. And I was like, he's still talking about workplace safety? I'm so confused. So that, I really enjoyed that. And then last night's episode of Let's Get Stupid, just Tanner kind of just taking control of every podcast he ever gets on and essentially interviewing the actual host always cracks me up. He does it on every podcast

he ever sees ever been on that I've ever listened to. You know, so I actually got actually pulled a lot of stuff out of Tom, Tom Callis that like, because fucking Finn never asked Callis anything hardly. And when he does, he'll just like burp and halfway through it and like ruin the whole fucking segment. And then so actually here on Callis, like be asked questions and be interviewed was kind of, you know, a different change of pace. So I enjoyed that. So for all of those reasons, I'll go ahead and give that a five

out of five death whistles. I didn't listen to it, so I have no ratings. I did end up catching the Huck Finn Marble Show podcast today while I was working out. And yeah, like Keith said, Tanner just took it over like he does with every podcast he's a guest on. Yeah, it was really just Tanner and Tommy with Huck Finn and Tom Callis as the guest. I enjoyed that. So what are you going to rate that Garrett?

Either of them or both, whatever you want to do? Honestly, they were both good. They're both five out of five barbell collars. There you go. There you go. All the home gym talk. I did get through the massonomics one. Not the less.

Yeah, I was going to circle back to you on that one. Yeah. Yeah, there are things I agree and disagree with. Obviously, the idea that power lifting has a low barrier to entry is kind of true. Right? I think you can see that by looking at the results of any meat.

And there's like 50 people and they're all just lifting minimal weights. Like I don't think powerlifting is that hard to get into, but I think if you're very serious about it, there are barriers to entry, right? Like it's like, you know, you might just be a mediocre lifter like me and you can walk in and do a meet and still get first because you're the only person in your every class like age, weight, lunar symbol, whatever. But I do think there are some barriers. I did enjoy and actually what got me to join this stupid Facebook group was Tanner saying 300,000 members. That's just Facebook.

They were talking. yeah, that was I think I was even gonna write that I think I can't comment it on discord I should have put it in that was that was that's just Facebook. That's so many people That that's not a group anymore That's just all of Facebook and then when I saw him today doing his trolling for the stall mats I was just like oh, I want in on this bad So I'm going to give that one a five out of five fingerless lifting gloves. Nice. Yeah. When Tanner said that, I think that, I mean, I, I laugh a few times each episode, probably out loud, but like,

that was the hardest I think I've audibly laughed out loud and like, couldn't stop laughing was when he was comparing that to Facebook. I loved it. Actually, I, I want to say, I think there was one from about one or two weeks ago when Tanner said was reading, you know, Tommy was reading the comments and Tanner was saying he likes to hit people with like chief or big dog. My guy. And Tommy said in passing, Oh, yeah that deserved a my guy. I laughed so hard at that

It's like that's so funny. Yeah, just hitting people with my guy is a really good one Anyway, well Garrett was there anything we missed from this week's Weekly roundup as we should have come up The general topic you start we should get some fancy name you know be original and be like this is this segment and this is the this is the general topic updates of Mastodonimics world anything we missed out on you want to touch base on and remind us of honestly I don't remember the podcast that came out this week because like no no no like the world of Mastodonimics all the world like the anything in discord you've seen in the last seven days that we didn't touch base on.

I feel like this week we've gotten a lot more new members yeah than the past few months. So I just noticed that quite a bit. Yeah yeah I figured uh definitely it seems like there's been a heavy influx for sure. So it's good Oh, yeah, because it's um two or three. We finally got Kyle from Kai's in training Ashton all Yeah, he did. I've got proof that he did he just didn't join up in discord, but he is a Officially like I saw that in back channels and on Instagram Rory from Mormon strength, he makes some cool adapters for lever arms handles.

And who's the other one that joined up? Oh, Ashton from Freedom Fitness Equipment, one of our sponsors. One of the guys that we can get a code unpaid at Freedom Fitness Equipment. Save you a couple percent. Is that true? No, it is.

That's just... yes. How do we not know that? That's not... you don't announce that one every week. I know because no one's used it in a year and a half. We've had it. So it kind of... Okay. Doesn't... I didn't want to elaborate. All right, Garrett, you got a... How? You got a Mathsonomic Sponsor Reef for us a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

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Well done, well done Garrett. Thank you, appreciate that. And they will never let you down. All right, should we get our guest on the horn? Yeah, and I know cause I'll Carp's big head in there a second ago. We've got to kick him out. He can't be here for this. He's already out booted.

All right. Yeah, I guess see if you can get Garrett on the line. All right, Garrett, is that you? That is me. I'm here. You are live on unpaid and underrated. This whole new experience for you that you've never had for the last half an hour. So let's dive right into the first question there.

What brought you to Masonomics? That's the only thing that wasn't in your notes. How much you love it? I was looking at your stuff online, your whole gym, your whole outfits. You are dialed into Masonomicsomics but nobody could tell us why or how so please elaborate. Yeah so I've been like Mastinomics adjacent way before I joined the crew. My friend Dr. Ryan Hanks down in Florida he put on a

charity powerlifting meet in 2022 and that was my first power lifting meet I ever did. And there was this, he had Mastinomics like t-shirts and stickers as prizes, and I'm like, what the heck are these guys? Like, this is kind of weird, a lifting company on the South Dakota. I bet they're kind of lame. Anyway, so then I put on the USD Lift-a-thon a few months later and I reached out to Mastodomics because I'm like, well, they're from South Dakota, maybe they'll donate some t-shirts and stuff. And Tanner emailed me back within a day or two and yeah, he was awesome about it, gave us free t-shirts, actually gave us a band lift banner for a prize. And I have one now because no one took it.

So, um, but yeah, ever since like that Tanner sent me stuff, I listened here and there and then probably the summer of 2023, I started listening every single week and then I started hearing about this crew stuff and I'm like, well, this is kind of dumb Like that's just me like everything I hear is just like what's the point of this? and then I actually learned about it and then I think I responded to like a story of Keith's one time or I liked it and then he Reached out to me. He's like like are you crew? I'm like no I'm thinking about joining. I say this to so many people. I interact so much more if I know your crew.

Yes and so like I think it was a few days or a few weeks later I joined the crew and I've been here ever since. Hell yeah. Chalk that one up for another big Keith win. It's been a wild ride. What. It's been a wild ride. What? It's been a wild ride. It's been a wild ride. It's been a wild ride. I'll give you that one. Yep.

No, I love hearing that story. Like, well done. I'm glad to have you, Garrett. I love the idea that Keith won't talk to you unless you're crew. Was that on my personal or through you and you? It was your personal. OK, well, it's because something like it's I don't it's always weird.

It's just like, I know. Do I know you? Do I not know you or do I know you just because I home gym stuff? Do I know you because of powerlifting? Do I know you because of Mastinomics? Like if it is Mastinomics, how deep are you into Mastinomics? Because it's honestly like I will, I invest less into people that I'm not either personal friends with or they aren't crew.

Like I just, you only get like a reaction back. Whereas if you're crew, you might get a sentence back. Or a dialogue. That's my favorite thing is he doesn't ask, how do I know you? He goes, are you crew? And then he goes from there. Like your level of importance is based from that answer.

So... Are you in my cult or not? I just sent a picture of the whistle to Morgan and she's like, you guys are fucking rude. Anyway. So where do we find you? Instagram and Discord is probably Big big Garrett I can assume yeah I think I'm the only Garrett in the crew probably overall at least the only one mostly active on discord but Instagram I am Garrett dot CSCS 77 and then my training account is GC underscore strength underscore systems and if you find me on Facebook, you can add me to I really don't care. I've had Keith add to me today and Jake the snake added me yesterday.

So big underscore guy over here. Big underscore guy. Um, so where are you from? Are you in, are you in the South Dakotas? I am in the South Coz I am from Ethan, South Dakota. In relation to Crew Falls, it's about 60 miles straight west. And in relation to Aberdeen, it's about 2 and 1 1 by ourselves. Town of about 300 people.

And yeah, I'm in my parents' basement right now. Is that even a town? Are those even considered towns? What's smaller than a town? And yeah, I'm in my parents. I don't know. Like are those even considered towns like what's smaller than a town? Because it can a town or people. A square of 300 people. This way it gets better. My dad grew up while he didn't grow up in the town, but like a mile away from this town. It has one building and it's considered a town. Wow. Unique.

Yeah. The mail. Yeah. It's all gravel roads and somehow there's like a legitimate town there. It's called Esmond, South Dakota. If anyone's interested in actually looking for that, we'll add it to the to-do list next time we're in South Dakota Yeah, we'll all hit if we said that three years ago, it'd be ironic now It's well

I still won't go there but like the fact that we were all gonna go to South Dakota more times before we die is wild It is wild I was actually joking about that with Morgan the other day cuz about the idea that Joey do you just live here now and I was like, you know, I would really fit in if I lived in South in in South Dakota She's like yeah, that sucks. Like that's weird Did I miss was that pretty much where you've always lived I know you went to school oh, yeah, but that's Ethan since I was birthed and I went to Vermillion at USD for

college went for pre-med pretty much and I'm just trying to get into med school now okay um but yeah I moved back home because it's a lot cheaper living in your parents basement than renting an apartment. How do you kind of do pre-med? You didn't seem committed that you did pre-med. Is it just the way the program is that you can do a bunch of different things and still be considered pre-med? different things and still be considered pre-med. Yeah like some schools have a designated pre-med like program slash major and but USD doesn't really have a specific pre-med like you can major in anything and get into medical school as long as you have the right prerequisites. So I technically majored in medical biology and neuroscience. Okay that's cool. Let me then regardless what happens that that's two other fields you can help fall back into you know

You know, you're you're you are how old are you? You're just you just had a call. I am 24. Yeah Okay. Yeah, you're a baby. Jesus Christ. You were young. Um, yeah When I first got into the crew, I'm like gosh I feel like I'm one of the youngest people here and then he went to lift hard live easy last year and I lifted And my dad made the same comment. He's like, yeah, all these guys are like in their 30s and 40s. What the heck are you? That's good stuff Well that that makes a little more sense why your Instagram and Facebook only goes back to 2022 cuz you're we're like, yeah You didn't start it probably till you were in your early 20s. It seems like, so that's cool. So as far as med school, is that like,

you're applying to places you have to get accepted, or it's more like a financial decision of like, when you can apply, what's what's what's what's what's what's the deal with that? Curious? Yeah, no, I just a long waiting process right now. Like, ideally, I want to get into USC medical school and right now I'm just waiting on a yes or no from them. This morning I just had an interview with University of Kansas and it'll be a few weeks before I

hear anything from them. So basically applying to medical school is just a lot of waiting as Dr. Jake will probably tell you as well. Yeah. And yeah, like the financials, it's like you're gonna have to take a loan out regardless because it's even USD is the cheapest school, it's $34,000 a semester. Like you have to take a loan out of that. Damn. Yeah. That's a lot of money my friend. Well, hopefully that's something you have put a lot of thought into. It sounds like you put a lot of thought into it if you're willing to, you know, if that's what you're shining yourself up for. Yeah, I mean, I've dedicated the last six, ten years of my life for it. But you're working, right now you're working as a personal trainer and you have a couple other gigs, like part-time or side gigs you're doing.

What are you keeping busy with these days while you're waiting to get into doctor school? My main job I would consider, I am full-time as a nurse aide in a hospital about 10 miles south of me. And then yeah, like the training, coaching is like a side business. I'm trying to like start and keep going. So I at least have some income in medical school versus just living off of loans. So yeah, that's pretty much that story. Cool. Keep us posted on how that goes. We'll hopefully we can get you on some,

you know, to hopefully Tanner get you on supporting your supporting members that you got accepted to medical school before too long. They'll be cool to hear Well as far as all that goes Hall of Fame status you got one of those I sure Yeah, I am that actually this will put me at 10 then February 26 will be 11 for me because I'll have a year then and then I either need to somehow win a contest or attend the Arnold but I'm not gonna do

that because I don't like traveling that much. Anything over two hours for me is just torture. Like I do not like moving at all Otherwise I'm trying to get through the first 400 episodes before the lift hard live easy So I can get my silly pint there. Where you where you were you in that journey? And how is that treating you? I'm at episode 130 right now And yeah, I need to get to about 365. Because that's when I started with regular listening, about 365. And I'm trying to get through at least like 1 and 1 1 by day

is what I need to get to. And I'm going through about two. So. Hey, nice. You're on track. So keep that up and you'll get that silly point for too long as far as the the recent certification I know it looks like your little bedroom slash basement slash parents house is a technically a certified gym currently is that right? That is correct yeah so it's like late

October early November I'm like gosh what the November. I'm like cash What the heck do I get my parents for Christmas and? Okay side tangent to this my dad actually started power lifting Last January he comes up to me. He's like, oh I want to do that lift the fine your proton in three months Meanwhile, he hasn't lifted since he was in his early 20s in college and he's 56 right now even for and like, he's, he's, he's, he's reverse, reverse me and I don't know if he's joking or not. I'm just like, okay, cool. Well, that's awesome. I love when elders, I love when like, it's awesome when anybody gets into strength sports. What's even cooler, I think when like someone in their 50s, because

like, you got so much working against you, your joints hurt, you're fucking old, you're just like, you're ready, just phone it in and work for another 10 years, and then just fucking be retired and just be done. And then you're like, no, let's, I'm gonna fucking, I wanna live longer. I wanna not hurt, wanna get off the toilet. So that's awesome. I love hearing stories like that.

Yeah, it was awesome. And I saw he somehow got through it. Did this first meet, didn't get hurt. That was the main goal. I told them the whole time. I'm like, if we can get you out of this, get you like some good and hard attempts and not get hurt. That's going to be our main goal here.

And yeah, so he started powerlifting. And then like I said, like late October, early November, like what the heck do I get them for Christmas? And that I was looking at Titan quite a bit because they always had like the cheap but decent quality stuff that's fair and I'm like gosh, you know, what if I just got from a home gym? What are the odds of that so I started throwing stuff in the cart and I'm like I Didn't make this work. I got I already have a deadlift bar on a barbell I just need a rack and like something a lap tower low row thing and I have a deadlift bar and a barbell. I just need a rack and like some kind of lap tower,

low row thing, and I have a basic gym. Yep. And I got plates from my future father-in-law actually, because he used to play football for a arena league team, and he used to work out at home. So I saved a lot of money on plates. Plates are ungodly expensive. I feel like Yeah, like

There's like you can't find a good use deal If you can't get him for like 50 cents to a dollar a pound used you're like fuck. I gotta get plates delivered That's like, you know, you can get cheap shit on Amazon That's garbage for like two bucks a pound maybe or sometimes the bumpers go on sale But then you're what you're gonna max the bar out but uh yeah that's awesome if you were able to get a hook up for some some plates from the future in-law there yeah so I got the plates I got the rack I got I had the barbells already because I bought them for myself and I just took them to where I was training I had a the He told me I'm like so you got to be like basically done with the Hall of Fame, right? It's like no, I kind of just joined and started I'm like but even going to Mastinomics for years

So yeah, I got pretty much everything I could want I mean obviously I'm still looking at stuff and I want more stuff like any good gym. Oh I got a good follow-up here So you were saying like so do you ever do you still go to any Commercial gyms and take your bars with you and as your dad ever come downstairs and said where the fuck's the deadlift bar? I was dead lifting today and you have it in your car 30 miles the other direction No, we have not a problem yet. That'd be like the people I train they're not yeah a deadlift bar Three years. So okay. So how did that how did that lead to the certification?

Well, I Hogan's the one that brought that up, right? Oh, no, you were we asked you about it And then you said because you built the home gym, so you just decided you just decided to get the home gym certified Because you had the home gym is that the end of the story on that one? Oh yeah. Like I told myself basically anything new, Mastinomics drops. I'm going to buy the one I really wanted. Tanner just got a hard on listening to that. I know he's going to get so much money for me over the next 50 years. Like, well shoot on black Friday, he got like 600 bucks on it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now I remember when you picked up your package it was crazy. Now if only Matt Sungling just told Tanner to bring his package there he would have been, you know, he would have had it already. I know he could have just had it delivered to Crew Falls. Yep. All right, so we already hit, let's see,

you were at the Lift Hard, Live Easy, you were at Crew Falls with us. Speaking of Matt, here's a question. So what value does a CSCS have in general training realm in the world if everyone's a coach? And what does CSCS mean? Yeah. CSCS stands for Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. In the general strength world, I would say it just gives you a little more insight into the difference between general fitness training and athletes. Like, when I was reading the textbook, 90% of it was about athletes and how you should go about programming and training for them

specifically to their sports and before that I was a certified personal trainer at the USD Wellness Center, so I got a little more of the general fitness vibe in there and I let it expire because it was through ACE and ACE is kind of a company now So I'm like well, I kind of want to keep doing this, but I don't want to just get another personal training cert. So I'm like, what can I do? And the CSCS has always been like adjacent to it. So I'm like, let's get this. And I just did that. And basically, now I'm more qualified to train athletes. And I could get a job at like a college or eventually one day i could work at like an nfl team which would be like. Dream goal of mine if that were to somehow happen.

What would you like that slightly above or below getting an internship with tanner mass comics gym. Who is a good question. I would say it's got to be a little bit under. You guys saw that he posted that. He said in the last 10 years, he's got like 20 of these or something. But the most recent one was someone asking to basically be an intern at Massanomics Gym. And it was just amusing.

And I think big Jake pointed out that like this this needs to start in like two weeks so wait a wait till the last minute to try to find your internship kid okay those getting with Joey I don't want to I feel like I'm in I don't want to you steal all the thunder Hmm. Damn it. There was one. Oh, any stories where you were going through the backlog and realized the joke after the fact because rumor has it that you like to make jokes that are also connected to the

backlog and you might not realize it. You get a twofer there. Good deal. Yes, I do that a lot. As I'm going through the backlog journey, I'm like, oh, so that's where this joke comes from. And yeah, if I realize something's a joke, I'll just use it without context, just because everyone else will laugh at it,

even if I'm like, what? Why is this funny? I'll just play along. Yeah, exactly. Nice. That's good stuff. How many Instagram pages do you really have from Big Kim? Do you have as many as Keith?

I do not. I only have two. Sure, even like, yeah, I just started this training account a few weeks ago. And like, man, just doing two was like not It is hard like Work than people think that's for sure Yeah, like apparently when you're logged into one you don't get notifications from the message on the other one

Which I did not experience until a few days ago on the other one, which I did not experience until a few days ago. So yeah, that's the hardest thing I would say, is just like, you gotta switch back and forth. You have new, you keep notifications, like visible notifications on your app. Fuck that noise. Instagram doesn't talk to me unless I open it.

No way. I can't, no apps talk to me unless I open them. Like I can't have that. I'm too, what is this? What is this? What is this? I just, I can't have it. Text him. I mean, I is this? What is this? I just I can't have it Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm only getting like 15 likes on the thing so it's not that bad and

Plus my fiance sends me Instagram reels and I have to respond to him or she'll tell me look at these It So I can respond to them. In fucking perpetuity, that is the only thing I hate about Instagram. Stop sending me reels. Instagram keeps asking me to turn, like, I don't know if it's just a thing. Meta's been pushing the last couple of weeks, but every other time I'm on Instagram, it asks me if I want to turn on push notifications.

No, literally never. But obviously, but like, it's becoming a nuisance to just having to keep X out of the, do you want to do this? I'm like, no, motherfucker, stop asking me. See, I don't get that. I'm a business account. So I don't, I don't get that. But yeah, I suppose I could help you a little more on unpaid and underrated, but that's not so funny. It's all good. I do my best. I hope people like the content. It's literally a third of my...

I am literally splitting my time in a third. It's like, what can I put up here that is gonna get a couple likes? I wish we had more time to do more reels. I like when we can sit there and pull people's ad reads and throw them up and naked do some graphics, but it's just like, I'm sorry. Not enough time in the week apologize for that So the last crew question before we kind of start deep diving into you here is a big big big big Midwest Jake from State Farm wants to know Let's see, how will you use your strength coach knowledge in the future if or when you become a doctor? Let's just go. I mean Let's just go with a win.

Let's go with a win. Yeah, that's a great way to think about it. Ideally, my kind of goal is to be just a family med doc, work on clinic, and then on the side, I'd like to train some athletes here and there, so I hopefully can keep my cert while I'm going through med school and not let it drop But I also do want a home gym in the future and I'm kind of thinking well if I make it commercial ish

like I Can train some people out of there and get some athletes going and like if I have patients? I mean, there's probably a conflict of interest there I probably can't have a patient and then have them as a training client. So that'd be a different story. But yeah, ideally, I'd like to train some people in the future as well. And just like the effect exercise has on the body is crazy and how it's almost heals every like ail you can come about. But yet doctors still say, oh, don't exercise.

It's bad for you or don't deadlift. It's bad for your back. Like, yeah, if you're going to be like a 13 year old, throw 500 on the bar and break your back, then it's bad for you. Yeah. My wife has been slowly dabbling to getting back into a little bit of training and

I did see that I wanted to send her a message Yeah, go Steph. She's still she doesn't want me to post in too much about it. But like she'll never hear that I say this so she Because it's irrelevant here where you were talking about how you know working on makes you feel better Obviously, she literally felt like ass yesterday. She was complaining. She just didn't you know back her She's wasn't feeling great 20 minutes into her workouts. She's like I feel amazing like this is what's this like I'm so glad I came down here and did this like I thought I was gonna hurt more like everything just feels loose

I feel good. I'm just like yeah like yes, like cuz I mean she she trained very brutally hard for several years and then obviously her surgery set her back for the last several years. But she was like, I think I forgot like how good it felt to train when you kind of felt like shit. And I was like, yeah, it's awesome. When I was over the holidays doing 10 to 12 hour shifts on a hard floor, people would go, do your like, does your back hurt?

And I would just simply say, no, I'm not weak. I don't have a Yeah, exactly. Same thing. Like, does that do not hurt your back? No, I don't have a weak back at all. So no, it doesn't hurt. Maybe you should look into that, sir. Yeah, like when I'm on the floor at the home or the I work in a

nursing home, hospital and assisted living. So they just kind of throw me wherever they want to And when people are always like how did you lift that person by yourself? I'm like I just did like It was easy Yeah All right Should we get into some of this other stuff into the hobbies or do you got one more? There was one one there was one more from Doyle here

It was basically just referencing that you have your gym is literally in the bedroom. So, you know, he said is, let's see, I'm not gonna say what he said, but it's just like basically your gym is in your in a bedroom, correct? Or like a spare bedroom? Correct. It is my bedroom and is the basement and there's a storage room and it is the gym now. My bedroom and is the basement and there's a storage room and it is the gym now So yeah, yes, because your parents thought you're out of the nest there So they probably you're here better. Your your childhood bedroom is no more and they're like son You can come home, but you have to like, you know move some boxes out of the basement

No, it's still like Thirty percent my room like I have all my Star Wars stuff in here yet. Yeah They ever touch that I will not be happy The ultimate basement gym because it's also just his room and it's just it's one of those funny things. That's like In now that I'm 40. I would love to sleep in my gym That would be wonderful every once in a while because it's quiet and it's cold and it's away from everything. So like you're living the dream that some of us kind of wish we had.

Yeah, like I got a home gym hub, home gym hub contacting me and he's like, oh, you want to get your gym on? I'm like, heck yes, I do. So I filmed it and like's like oh you want to get your gym on him like heck yes I do so I filmed it and like yeah, you'll see whenever he posted. It's My bed is right next to the horse doll mats nice. Oh, yeah, we have horse doll mats. What are those like? What's your favorite color is the most favorite color. Like that made me chuckle just because I was like, what the fuck does that even mean? Like it's like, I think it was so funny and like out of left field and it's like, oh, it's good. But, all right, Big Garrett, we do gotta move this along.

We've got a little game we came up with originally all to ourselves, you know, no one else has ever played this completely original. It's also relatively new. So least fun, most fun. So any of Garrett's friends and family listening for the first time i'm gonna give garret a single topic and he just kind of has to use his druthers and go through and tell me the least fun thing about it or the most fun and the most fun thing about it and elaborators little words as much as he wants so garret specifically for you least fun most fun playing the piano oh it's the most fun thing ever

uh yeah i started playing when I was about 8 years old. And I hated it when I started, I'm not gonna lie. But I'm very glad my parents forced me to do it and made me do it. And yeah, now I can play pretty much anything I want to. I'm a big 70s, 80s guy, so I play a lot of Journey. I play... Journey has mostly piano songs. I can't think of any others i play a queen queen i play a little bit. I'm what you i just love playing piano and so fun. And then except when you play for like two or three hours at a time in your hands hurt oh my god is it's a different feeling.

Oh my god, it's it's a different feeling. I'll tell you that much So least fun is playing for three hours If you had to like pinpoint just for the name of the game like like in a sentence the most fun thing about playing piano the most fun thing is playing songs you like and Playing for others and they're like, oh my god, that's so amazing that track. That's cool. Good. I dig it. I dig it Alright In what scenario while you're looking for a new question there in what scenario you're playing for three hours? Yeah Are you like like a lounge? Like yeah, so I

Play for our church and we have weddings and funerals there So some funerals last a long time and I'm playing probably 75% of the time. And yeah, like on the weddings especially, I play for like 45 minutes, half an hour straight of just me playing. And like after that, oh man, my hands are, they're tired. What's the coolest wedding song you've been asked to play?

Because some people like their weird wedding songs. Like I know you got your bridal march and you've got your all that kind of stuff. Like what's the one has anybody ever asked you like, hey man, I want this weird song, like a wrestling entrance or rock song or just something that was so different while they walked down the aisle. Yeah, so another story. I'm also Catholic, so we can't really have crazy wedding songs. Oh. But yeah, the few non-Catholic weddings I have played for, like there's been like modern country songs I've played or like some 80s ballads I've played and those are really fun to play. All right well that extends my piano questions.

Yeah. I found an instrument I know nothing about. So I know you touched based on it earlier about the Lyft-a-thon do you want to elaborate on that what that is what that's a charity for, what your involvement is, etc. and all that. I sure do and I'm gonna fully plug this thing. So let's get on. Charity Powerlifting Meet we do every year for the Special Olympics of South Dakota. We've raised around $25,000 around 25,000 so far in the last three years we've done it and it's just something I kind of took under my wing because my friend Ryan Hank, Dr. Ryan Hank started it and he kept it going and the very first year I helped them out and that's kind of what got me in powerlifting training. Like, man, this was so fun. And like, I want to kind of do this in the future. And so I kind of took it over because he went to Florida, because he doesn't like the cold in the winter. So took it over for him ran it kind of very horribly because it was the first like

major lifting meet I've ever done and I've only went to two power lifting meets before that so yeah ran it kept it going and then last year the PT school kind of took it over but I still help out as like the quasi meat director because I like I kind of know a lot about powerlifting through me doing it and just through Mastinomics and I just help them out and try to make it so it's a good meat and not just like a charity thing where it's kind of lame and they just do it to raise money. That's awesome, man. Yeah. And actually, um, a couple of days ago, I just got build fast formula to hop on

to sponsor me. So I was really cool. Oh, that is great. That's the, it's a good, good family out there. We're, we're, we're close friends with, uh, you know, everyone out there. Yeah. I think, uh, let's see, I got Pioneer. So the big thing about Army, Pioneer, I somehow got Matt to give me a free custom belt to the overall male and female winner. And that

is like the coolest thing ever to me. And I'm trying to get Barefoot on yet. They're not responding to me. Yeah, that's that that's gonna be a hard one. I got barefoot last year, but man, they're just not following up. No disrespect. I love their foot and I know they're busy, but I just wish they would respond faster. And then I got obviously, NASAic scanners me to send me some stuff here when I asked him to. I'm. I got Cerberus to send me $650 gift cards for best while that's really cool yeah.

I don't know how I'm talking these companies in sending me free stuff but I guess I got some magic words or something. and send me free stuff but I guess I got some magic words or something. Have you reached out to Kim at Barbar Rescue? He's always down for a good cause. I did forget that one. Kim is sponsoring me with the official bar brush. He was right up until you forgot him. I mean he might have something to say about that now. You might have to go get the Amazon 3, you know, the 180 brush or something and sponsor yourself.

Well, I already have the brushes, so. Kim is a really good guy, that's awesome. Oh, yeah. I'm glad you're getting some crew to help out with all that. That's good stuff. So yeah, we got the Lift-A-Thon covered, so that's good. As far as your lifting history, did you touch base on as your lifting history,

did you touch base on your personal lifting history at all? Other than just the coaching aspect? Yeah, you wanna give us a two-minute version of that, I guess, to catch us up? Yeah, so you do the tipper hole, I played high school sports, I did some weight training in the summer. I never really liked it,

because the coaches we had were eh. But then again, my friend, Dr. Ryan Hanks, he coached, he was like my personal trainer in high school. And during the summers, like that's when I fell in love with lifting and I just kept doing it. And so from there, like after high school, I kind of went into bodybuilding training or just like kind of general fitness stuff and Then I helped him out with his power lifting meet got really into strength training loved that in my first power lifting meet But then after my meet I'm like, yeah, I feel like crap. I don't want to do this again So I'm like, yeah, maybe I won't. But then I ended up doing lift on and from there I was hooked and now I'm just fully into power lifting.

And now actually I did enter the Los Campiones Strongman meet. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember seeing that. I remember seeing that second. That'll be fun. So I am very much looking forward to that. The Strongman is a blast. You're gonna have fun.

Even if you, like it is just, it's fun. Strongman is so fun. And actually I think there should be a few other crew even if they're not competing Like you'll be able to talk a handful of guys into coming out even if they're not competing that are yeah Told me he's gonna help volunteer probably and I'm wondering if mr. Paul floss is all talking that one, too Well, he had mentioned about needing to find a place to train circus dumbbell So I'd assume it yeah, and there's a circus dumbbell in that meat. So he might not be signed up, but I know he's contemplated it if you're not.

So that's cool. So your Star Wars, I'm sure Joey has a I'm sure Joey can nerd out on some Star Wars if there's any, unless you're saving it for any of the games later. Nope. So, yeah, what was your you know? It got mentioned several times. Yes. About how much you love Star Wars. Yeah, just to show how much I love Star Wars, I probably have over 100 action figures of Star Wars. So there's not dolls as your your notes specified parentheses yes not dolls like I'm giving crap or a lot But yeah, my dad introduced me with the original trilogy of course and when I was like six seven eight and Conveniently around that time Star Wars was coming out with the Clone Wars TV show so I started watching that I got really into Star Wars

like learned everything I possibly could about it. And yeah, I probably have watched the main six movies every single year since I was five or six years old. Really nothing on the final three. The final three exist. They're there. I try not to be super hateful, but like, they're not the top notch quality movies. I just don't like watching them. No. No, I'm a Kylo Ren fan, but I can also say like I've tried to sit and watch those movies. And I've said it before on this podcast, like Kylo Ren is probably one of the most powerful Jedi's they've ever put on TV Yes, and somehow still made him boring like I know Like I know it's amazing

You watch that the first time he shows up and you're just like who is this guy? And then by the end of the movie you're like, who is this guy like? Like it. Yeah, I can see what you're saying Who is this guy? Like, like it. Yeah. I can see what you're saying. Like, he comes out with the cross guard lightsaber like, oh my God, this is so badass. Like hold.

He stops a blaster while still controlling everybody. Like, even Darth Vader never got shown as that powerful until the Kenobi show. And then you're just like, oh, by the end of it. He's just so he's another Luke Skywalker He's just a whiny bitch who just doesn't doesn't want to fulfill his destiny. I Luke Skywalker's a whiny bitch Five I will agree but in six he definitely matured a little bit and grew up We had to see and then he and then in the final movies back to be no anyway Yeah, yeah

They were already Luke Skywalker and like that probably bothered me the most besides On solo is like my favorite character and then they just killed him off for like spoiler. Oh reason Did you listen to the episodes where we talked about that where I Hello carp Did you listen on the episodes where we talked about that where I hello carp Did you Damn it where I talked about the kind of conspiracy theory that Han Solo killed himself No, yeah, you you you did not Elaborate that oh so so that scene yeah that scene with Kylo

Where he he kind of the blaster goes through him, not the blaster, the lightsaber. There is a fan theory that he did it himself to force Kylo Ren to recognize his true nature or whatever that conversation would look like. But there is that conversation that he did it. He he registered the the lightsaber to do that. Because he knew that if he didn't, he would continue down the dark path. But if he died, he knew he might be able to save Kylo Ren. That is an amazing theory. I think about that one. It actually changed my perspective of that. Because at first I was just like, what? That's so dad, I was all mad. And then somebody said that I was like because at first I was just like what that's so dad

I was all mad and then somebody said that I was like, okay, hold on like that's a different perspective Yeah, that's like way cooler Right and just Harrison Ford wanted to paycheck but then didn't want to sign on her two more movies of Star Wars No, I don't read dirt sheets Anything about that? What about the shows or are you big in any of the Disney shows oh, yeah, I've only watched from once cuz like I Mean you've seen once and yeah, you'll see it watch them again in a few years, but the Mandalorian is pretty cool The Obi-Wan show had its moments where it was good.

Basically only the last episode. The Soka show was awesome. I thought that was... I didn't even finish the Soka. I loved Rebels and the Soka was basically Institutional Rebels. I didn't watch the animated one so I didn't... What about the new Sinu and Skeleton crew? I got a couple episodes into that and I didn't watch the animated one. So I didn't What about the new new and skeleton crew? I got a couple episodes into that and I'm just like I can't like they're all like they're like eight-year-olds or ten-year-old

Characters like it's hard for me to like really care Yeah, that's kind of keeping me from watching it too. Like Yeah, I want to watch it cuz it's Star Wars, but it's also like eight, 10 year olds and I'm like, eh, how exciting can it really be? But I've also heard it's like amazing. So maybe if I'm bored someday after I'm done listening to the backlog, I'll watch it. Priorities. I mean, yeah.

Once you get in the middle school school, I hear you're going to have a ton of time. So you're going to have a ton of media and like shows and stuff. So you probably get to it then. Yeah, probably. Do you have a good engagement story? I sure do. So Oh, got my ring got her ring last April, May. And then I kept telling her, Oh, it's gonna be Christmas because like Christmas is her favorite holiday. For those of you don't know, it's big said she is a crew member. She's

in the discord. So yeah, Christmas is her favorite holiday. So like, okay, I'll propose to you on Christmas. And so I'm like, okay, well, it's gonna be too obvious what we're doing then. So I need to think of something else. So I'm like, I was at the hospital one night and all the nurses were like, what are you gonna do to get engaged? And I'm like, I have no idea. I am not creative at all. So they brought up what is she like? And I'm like, well, she likes escape rooms. And I'm like, oh, she likes escape rooms. So I started thinking, well, it could work. I just have to work it out with the manager. So I contacted an escape room.

And she's like, oh, yeah, we've done this before. We're not going to be a problem at all. So got that all worked out. I somehow hid it from her. And her mom is terrible at hiding secrets. So I'm amazed that didn't get blurted out. But yeah, I kept the ring away. I didn't let her see it, even though the whole way to Sioux Falls,

it was sitting right next to her. I'm like, oh, man, she like reaches to hold my hand or reaches in my pocket for something like it's totally gonna give it away But yeah, so at the end of the escape room There's a little box there and like she had the key to open it and I'm like, okay, here we go And you know it happened asked her and she said yes, thankfully. So there you go. That's always a victory. Yeah Big wedding pier coming up We met through the Mastronomics dating app

Let's see, so when you guys get married will that be the Full third or fourth because of Hogan and his wife Cody and scar there's the almost or the musicians from lift hardly easy one Leah is that the right name they were like school teachers I can't remember their names let's top my head they they weren't there no this was like so this was two years ago I wasn't last year okay It's in my they're in my backlog of people to reach out to but I Haven't seen either of them active on anything in forever It's actually got to reach out tanner, but I was just more like it's cool that like there's literally gonna be like Minimum you're gonna be the third or fourth like married couple that are both supporting members if not more than that

I mean that's just that's pretty cool. I. Yeah, I kind of forced her into a membership. But in like September before they had the free giveaway stuff, I'm like, you need to join so you can get some stuff. And I like peer pressured her into it. And yeah, it's well worth it. And I'm like, well, if you ever want to lift at their meet someday, you're probably going to have to be a supporting member. Otherwise you won't get in.

And she lives? She does. She like casually worked out before I met her and then I started training her and she did the first lift-a-thon with me and yeah she's powerlifter now. Yeah awesome. Good work. What is it you don't like about headlights? Besides the obvious. Headlights? My guess was... The note says it's auto headlights. Oh yeah. So, like everyone I know has their headlights on auto. And yeah, I hate it.

It's on and off because auto means your rear lights are never on so if you're an asshole that's driving with auto and you think your lights are on in the front they are but no one can see you from behind. Yeah. Like so it's like turn your lights on. I never have them on auto. Maybe that's well yeah sorry. Like when I'm driving anyone else's car I always have to turn it or it just bothers the heck out of me. And like my car, when I am in it's on auto, and I like get out, close the door lock it, it takes like 20 seconds for the headlights to turn off.

And I'm just thinking, God, did I forget to turn my headlights off? Is my battery gonna die? Because I've forgotten to turn my headlights off in the past and my back cars been dead And I've been like stuck at school or something But if they were on auto you wouldn't have to worry about that Yeah Poke poke poke that's exactly what me All right, do you want to do an FMK there bud sure so big Garrett I

Want to go FMK topic for you here, so we're gonna go die at Mountain Dew white monster Core power protein. Oh god. Oh, yeah. Oh Well, I probably have some Mary diet do just off the bat I can't live without her I literally drink like four to six a day. Jesus dude cans or Bob like like hands a lot either way But why me why Why diet I? Don't like the whole sugar version. I feel it feels better mostly on like the oh, I'm not drinking 56 grams of sugar Yeah, you couldn't you would I figure that was the answer If you had if you had to Mountain Dews a day

You'd literally gained like five pounds a week probably until you hit like yeah Like that's so much sugar and diet yeah it's fucking amazing it does I love it that's why I drink four to six every single day almost drink like three a month but yes all right so FMK that I'm out and do you're gonna marry yeah monster and the protein drink I probably have to kill the white monster and marry the core power because the core power is the one like high protein drink I can drink. I absolutely despise whey protein. I don't know what it is about it. I cannot swallow it without gagging. Yeah so I hate it and like core powers the one thing I can drink 42 grams protein I can drink it so like I love that stuff and it takes like amazing too somehow. And but you you don't drink six or seven of those a day. I kind of wish I did

I wish i did not know if i drink five or six a day. Other than i mean like i think you should from costco still like three dollars three dollars a bottle like you have like forty eight bucks for twelve pack i think. But the convenience of not having to take a shaker bottle and make protein on the fly it. It's yeah, I'm like I like protein in the bag again. It's always just the the ready-to-drink ones Yeah, and I gotta kill white monster cuz like as much as I love a white monster I love diet do more and like if I could only drink white monster I'd probably drink two or three a day and that's way more caffeine and energy drink and other stimulants inside of it and probably not quite as healthy for you. What do you do for pre-workout then?

Do you do pre-workout or do you use the Monster and Diet Mountain Dew as your pre? No, I just take caffeine pills. Like I used to be- So you're doing caffeine on top of the, you just, wow, so you drink you like you drink three? Three Mountain Dews between like two and four four p.m. And you go to work out of five and you're not caffeinated enough, dude No, I usually drink out in the month. So like my work schedule I work three to eleven p.m

So I work out right when I wake up the white spotlight It is but I did that like so when I was your age, I was probably working that shift, honestly. So yeah, that's unpleasant. Yeah. But I wake up, I work out in the morning. So I pop a couple hundred milligram caffeine pills. So I only have 200 to work out. And then, you know, for diet dues is only like 216 milligrams of caffeine.

So it's slightly over the RDA of 400 milligrams. And like, I am a hypo responder to caffeine, I can take 200 or 300 milligrams at once and I will feel nothing. But and I'll have to take at least 400 milligrams or I'll have to chug a white monster to feel anything from caffeine. That sounds like even when like, I used to never drink any kind of pop or caffeine when I first started drinking in a few years ago, like just never have felt anything from it. No, I get that. I'm the same way.

I can do a 200 milligram ghost and have a nap. Yep. Pretty much. That's I don't take, I don't even take caffeinated pre-workout anymore for that reason because I would be literally like in the middle of a workout yawning because it's like regulating me in a different way. So I get that. Yeah. And like I'm slightly addicted to diet due too. If I go a day without it, I'm just craving it when I go to sleep at night. Wild. Wild.

So I'm going to hit you with Mount Rushmore, because we are coming up on the hour and a half mark here. Mount Rushmore, 80s hair bands. Hair metal, I hear, is your go-to. Yes, I love the hair metal, the glam rock and the crazy bands. Number one is Motley Crue, easily. They were the first harder metal band I listened to, and that was The Gateway, to now I'm into Slayer, Megadeth, etc.

So definitely Motley Crue is George Washington. Number two would probably be Poison because a lot of their songs are awesome and I've seen them in person and they're even awesomer in person. even awesomer in person. Number three... I'd say number three is probably Kiss, just because they have a lot of songs and they're all like really good to me. Like you get, Kiss gets a lot of crap about having basic songs and like the only reason they're popular is because of their outfits, but it's like The rock and roll all night is like one of the most popular songs of all time. Like it can't be that bad Yeah, Kisses 3 Number 4. I don't know if Van Halen really counts as it, but I'm going to shoe it in

because Van Halen was like the first 70s, 80s band my dad introduced me to. And it's like his favorite band of all time. And my favorite song Jump, which I can play on piano and synthesizer, which is really fun to play. Side note, I don't mean to like make this super long podcast, but in high school, we had a synthesizer and you could like get the same sound as jump from the actual song. And every time I played that, it was like the best feeling in the world. I absolutely love playing that.

Is that the, uh, like overshoulder thing that it in nerds like the guitar? That's a keytar there right then what the fuck's your synthesizer? It's just like a It's like an electric keyboard, but you can play different sounds on it besides just the playing piano Gotcha. Okay, cool Yeah, so top four hair metal bands, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Kiss and Poison. All right. I dig it. And I would I would actually give you Van Halen as a as a hair metal band,

because like Jump is a hair metal song. Oh, yeah. And Panama. Yeah. Mm hmm. If you can head bang with long hair to it, it's a hair metal song Well before we move into unpaid Did you the one last thing that was kind of sticking out to me was? If you wanted to touch base on your medical history and your surgeries if you don't 100% move on if you do I think you know people might be able to you know, get some insight from that yeah, so I was born with left lip and palate and if anyone doesn't know

It's basically I was born with my lip incomplete So there was just a gash there of like it was basically like this But there was a gash layer just like nothing and same thing with the top of my mouth So through that whole process I've had 17 surgeries Six of those were like minor ear tube surgeries, so they don't really count but 17 sounds cooler than 11 Something in my ear that was it's all a tube. I'd call that a surgery yeah, um and It was it's all a tube. I'd call that a surgery Yeah

And apparently I almost died on my second one I had like a hundred and two or three fever and that was when they redid my palate and sewed it together Really like a baby. Yeah When you were like ethically allowed to like give someone surgery Like at any point I guess my first surgery was at 11 weeks old and that was when they stitched my lip back together. And is that basically because you have the best chance getting it as like being a newborn

it gives you your body the most time to adapt kind of and like. Yeah and so like I can learn to eat properly with my lips and that stuff. And then yeah the one I almost died on was my palate reconstruction and apparently I had like a hundred and two or three fever and my heart rate was in the 40s or 30s. It was super low so yeah I was pretty close to death. I think yeah I've had like nine other surgeries besides that. The worst one by far was the jaw surgery where they cut the top of my jaw and moved it forward

because I had like a massive underbite throughout my entire life. And now it's like at least flat. So did you have like your the the I listened to somebody talk about having to have a surgery that there's a surgery you can get for sleep apnea where they essentially like shorten your lower jaw or some shit and, but the recovery, like you're in a wire, like your mouth is wired shut for months or at least several weeks. So you had experienced that? Yeah.

So I did not experience that. Thank God. My surgeon was awesome. And I just like, I still had to drink. the Because what I would do to sustain myself I would blend it up and drink it and Yeah, I just can't do that anymore without getting flashbacks and just being sick. So But at least you can still have your Mountain Dew I did not like diet do it So no, I didn't drink it

That's sad Going back now, going back now. You definitely would have had your diet, too. Oh, yeah, that was. Awesome. I'm glad that that, you know, medical advancements are in a place that you can, you know, live a life without having, you know, prolonged issues and it's awesome. It's the only crazy world.

Yeah, I have three fake teeth in from dental implants, because I was born without three or four of them. And apparently I was born with a tooth or some kind of bone formation in my nose and it just fell out one day. Holy shit. I mean, as long as the adult nose tooth didn't come in,

you were in good shape, right? Yeah, exactly Alright, so I think we're good to move into unpaid underrated paid or underrated if anybody's got else if no one else has anything else So big Garrett if anyone listen for the first time relatively new segment we have here considered It's called unpaid or underrated similar to you know Amateur podcasts that just go overrated or underrated, you know, we're the improved version of unpaid or underrated So big gear I'm hit you with we're gonna hit you with three topics each give or take and you know You're gonna use your druthers and tell us what you think. So number one here unpaid or underrated

Photobombing me in every fucking picture I took in crew falls this year Highly highly underrated. I absolutely love photo bombing people and the fact that I can photobomb you. He like made it so much better. It kept we kept finding him like the more I kept posting him stories like as the week went on just to like, you know, you know log log log the trip

Like there'd be another one where you're just like center mass just smiling at me Yeah, every time I saw you with your camera. I'm like, oh I got to like just make some weird face or something You turd that's good stuff. All right, uh unpaid or underrated Sam Darnold Sam Darnold unpaid underrated. Ah Night Night he was unpaid. Yeah, so backstory He's a big Vikings fan and Sam Darnold is a was a close to just be a bridge gap quarterback that you know to Basically be the backup until JJ McCarthy took over and then JJ McCarthy blew out his knee or his ankle

Whatever it was he's out for the whole year and Sam Darnold put up a Pro Bowl season But he's on a one-year contract and now they don't know what to do And he's leading them to the second or third best record on this NFL and you know, potentially a deep playoff run So what do you think? Yeah Well besides Sunday night when he absolutely sucked against the Lions and he was unpaid I'd say overall he was underrated like he came from the use of the second or third overrated or second or third quarterback, I believe Yeah, so he went from like that and now he's like

Somehow amazingly good but it helps when you have the best wide receiver in the league on your team and Justin Jeffers That has to help a little bit, right? All right. I was curious what you're gonna go with that some people I as a Vikings fan I'd be like I was very curious. Um Okay My last one here unpaid or underrated sparkling waters of any variety, in all varieties. Unpaid, very unpaid. I just do not like the aftertaste of them.

What have you had though? Because if you haven't, have you had a Waterloo? No, I haven't had like a La Croix or Waterloo, so I probably can't properly judge. La Croix sucks, so like, get like a L'Croix or Waterloo, so I probably can't properly judge. L'Croix sucks, so like, get you a case of Waterloo. Waterloo's are so much better than L'Croix, and Bubbly's are pretty good. The only sparkling water I've actually had is like the generic stuff from Hy-Vee and

Walmart, and you know, that's probably why I don't like it. But I did try Element. They have their like can and it's sparkling water. Oh my God, that is hard to swallow. Like it's salty and it has the very bad aftertaste of sparkling water. You're literally drinking the worst sparkling. So someone in South Dakota fucking drive a real sparkling water to this kid's quote-unquote town and make him

Also you said you went you lived in a town of 300 So when you went to high school Did you have to like bus like four hours to like a real like area that had schools or do you have like a 12? Person school. Oh, no, I graduated with 18, so yeah. I think our whole school maybe had 200 people in it. Did the school's athletic center have a Smith machine? No it did not. I hear those are really popular in the small towns out there. Our school's athletic center barely had a gym. I played on a Smith Machine I think for the first time in my whole life when I went to Bells of Steel this week oh yeah how'd you uh and I loved

your skit that you did there too sure was it like more where you just like can I record something they were like sure no that's exactly what it was and they were like do I have to be in it and I'm like no I just I just need to be in the lobby for it but no yeah Smith, Smith machines, um, I Can see the value honestly, I I was just doing some hack squats in them and I was like, yeah actually, I could get this like if I was really trying to murder my quads and and Really focus on particular muscles instead of doing compound lifts. Yeah, I was actually kind of Yeah, I could see a Smith machine would I buy one? But like saw it I saw the value for a minute.

I think the thing I used it the most for when I did go to a commercial, commercial, a bozo gym, if you will, was standing on one of the aerobic platforms and doing standing caverases, weighted standing caverases, because it was easy to load up because they didn't have like a mission that particular machine, but outside of that, I don't remember really doing anything in it. Maybe, maybe. Everyone knows the proper way to use a Smith machine is to do seated shoulder

press and put the safeties. So you only have to lock out and then you can put like six plates on the side. I'll be sure to do that. When one when I'm in Aberdeen next year I'll be sure to make sure we load up that much weight and just leave the Smith machine fully Everybody in Aberdeen only playing on the Smith machine like that would be Like everybody avoids every other implement and they all just run to that look it holds plates It's got storage Do you want another one or am i moving

uh i'm good that was three all right uh unpaid and underrated haircuts hmm it used to be highly unpaid for me because when i was little i would like scream bloody murder and like hide whenever i had to get a haircut apparently and it was so bad that when I was done the hairdresser had to go outside and smoke a few cigarettes let off some steam but yeah now they are underrated because I absolutely hate my hair being long like right now it's about mid forehead and it's bothering me. Just got to get the shaver man get that electric shaver like the one I got. Just bald it off you'll feel much better. Not that I would know what it's like to have hair down to my forehead anymore. Unpaid or underrated social media influencers.

Overall they are unpaid but the ones I hate the most are the fitfluencers who spread absolute crap information. The one that's been going around lately is the hammer strength chest press machine sucks because it doesn't have an ideal strength curve. It's a hammer strength machine. It's the best feeling machine you will ever use in your life. It does not matter if it doesn't load at the stretch as much. Like, oh my God, people. Yeah, I find myself if I'm on social media too much, doom scrolling through reels or

TikTok just getting fucking mad. Pardon my language there. Just getting mad at these. Like who, who makes these videos? And it'll be somebody like, and they'll be like deadlifting two plates talking about their struggle in their journey. And, and I'm just like, yeah, exactly. Like, what are you doing? Like who told you who recorded this and hit send who was like, you know, you know, I'm really gonna inspire people with my One plate squat. Yes they're really gonna believe in my struggle and and listen to my motivational speech and It's not that like a great good go deadlift go squat but like

especially when they put like a negative tint on it and they're just like, if you're not doing what I'm doing, you suck. And I'm just like, buddy, I can deadlift your total. Like fucking calm down with your telling other people what to do. Yeah, I have a very, very strong distaste for social media influencers who do that kind of thing.

You know, rage baiting is one thing. Clearly I can do that very well, as we acknowledged in the home gym Facebook today. But like, I think that there's just this opposite where it's like, you got a camera and can kind of lift a little bit, go out there and put other people down. And I hate that, it makes me so mad

yep. Father's the heck out of me. Yeah same um I might do two. How about it? Unpaid or underrated toe socks. Oh my god I'm I'm highly embarrassed by this phase of my life. I'm not gonna lie. I love my top socks, relax. Phase of your life. You've had like one phase of your life. 24. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 24. What's the phase of your life? Like, and you're in like phase one, son.

Okay, but like relative to my life, it was a phase. I feel ya. Yeah, they're unpaid. I do not like them anymore. So how I got into them, I was listening to like Mark Bell's Power Podcast after he reinvented it. And they had some barefoot specialist on and like totally sold me on the barefoot shoe game, which I am glad about. However, then they also talked about toe socks and how normal socks are ruining your feet and

I like totally bought into that I bought all these pairs of toe socks And I'm like gosh these look weird to wear and I'm like, I'm never thinking Yeah, they do feel weird like I Can't see how a toe sock would work unless it was like tailored. No, and I have insanely long toes too. So like they were always cramping my, it wasn't in the show notes. That would have been a good, that would have been a good embarrassing fact.

Aaron too. No, I love my, I love my barefoot shoes, toe socks because of the grippy bottoms because I prefer to not wear shoes when I lift but having like Socks that are my feet that have the rubber bottoms They actually kind of really helped me out on squats So like I can see kind of what you're saying because I wouldn't wear just like regular everyday toe socks. I'm not a weirdo, but those ones in particular, they really actually, those ones really helped me stabilize during raw lifting a little bit. So you know, big shout out to barefoot shoes. Not a sponsor of the Unpaid Ninerator podcast.

No, as not heard by you. Facts. Last one. And this one came up a few times, but I'm going to give you a twist on it. Unpaid or underrated, the Cavroline. Underrated. I Have awesome Strong man crush on him for some reason. I don't understand why

But yeah, Henry Cavill highly underrated and then yeah, we were watching Deadpool Wolverine. I'm like Yeah, and he turns around I'm like, Oh my God, it is Henry Cavill. Yeah, he was supposed to be the. He was supposed to be Wolverine at some point, it was rumored, and they wanted to lock that in at least for one scene. And yeah, great, great scene. I think he would have made a great Wolverine, except that he's four feet too tall. Yeah, that's true. It was hilarious in that movie when they showed the CGI Hugh Jackman.

Yeah, the little tiny one. Yeah, 3-foot-11. That's the Canadian Wolverine, right? That's actually a proper one. That's a pretty standard. So that would be the Alpha Flight Wolverine when he was that short. I could go off on Wolverine lore for fucking hours if somebody prompted me and we won't. But yeah, seeing Henry Cavill show up as Wolverine, I was just like, yes. Did I have the Witcher there and you erased it for that?

Yeah. Okay, no, that's fine. I just was like, no, no, no, the 100% fine. I just like, I always kept looking. I was like, didn't I have the Witcher? But yeah, that's funnier. I get it. I do gotta say his physique in the Witcher is

Unmatched from any other movie. He's done. All right, even more so than superman. Oh, yeah. Have you seen the Witcher? Yes Have you not seen that scene in Superman where he lifts that burning thing? I have egg but I think it's cuz he's like more shaved in the Witcher. You can see his Torso a little bit better yeah yeah hairy dudes are making a comeback I hear I hope I hope for my wife's sake all right I think you passed unpaid underrated good work yeah well done you got a you flip the script us. You got anything for us big dog? That's twice.

You got to stop that. It's just that's because I think I read it like three times today or remember from what you were talking about. It's just no, no, I got a big dog a lot. So I respond to it. So sorry, but but yeah, I got one. I got a few for each of you. So he Alright, I got a few for each of you. So Keith, you're like Mount Rushmore gym equipment companies that are not rogue rep bells of steel or Titan Some Mount Rushmore, so let's go black widow training gear Dean makes a lot of custom stuff good, dude Gym equipment is kind of broad so and then you're kind of taken. So let's see. French sport.

Like if I had to build a gym and I couldn't use those companies, yeah, I'd probably have to go to French sport, black widow. Um, I'm trying to think who all have met at home gym con that like, I would want to support. Um, I mean, I obviously like, uh like barbell rescue and you know, belt, fit strength, but like there, I wouldn't like that's not a quick, it's equipment adjacent, you know what I mean? So like, I had to build a gym, like what's a barbell? Who

would I? The strength go? Yeah, I guess. Fuck, I'm trying to think. I'm trying to think of like, how would I build a gym? That's a tough one. Because I need barbells, man. I don't want to go Texas power bar. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, Texas power bars, but at least outfit me with bars. She could call Fringe or give me my rack Do you mean Dean Dean? Yeah, I would take a book if they weren't dead. Basically Kabuki is essentially dead. So I

get yeah, so we'll go strength Co and Yeah, so basically Kabuki's essentially dead so I get yeah so we'll go strength Co and yeah so black widow strength co fringe and what the fuck was the fourth one I just said I already said it I can't remember now but it's in there somewhere Texas Texas yeah cuz I need bars so yeah that's if I had to build a gym without those four off the cuff, I'm sure if you asked me this tomorrow and I could spend a half hour to research it, I'd have a better answer, but off the cuff, that's what I would go with. Do you see I let him sit with that for a second?

Like we just said it and then he forgot it. And I was just like, no, I'm going to let that silence go for just one second. Well, that's like, that's so that's basically build a home gym. Basically you asked me to build a home gym. Basically you asked me to build a home gym. Yeah, that was essentially what I was getting at. Take away 75% of what I would recommend to people. Well then, that's hard. Yeah. Good question.

And I got one for you, Joey. With your recent introduction into Strongman, if you had to make your own show with four events, but you cannot use a barbell, axle, or regular, you cannot use a circus dumbbell, you cannot use a log, and you cannot use a yoke, what four events would you choose? Car deadlift, truck pull, honestly, natural stone lifting. I would just throw it a bunch of natural stones and go like this one weighs this much,

this one weighs this much, go fucking lift that as high as you can. Over the head more points, but even to the, you know, stand up with it. So that was three. Can't use a log. Can't use a yolk. Fuck, I wish I could put caber toss in there.

Caber toss would go great in a strongman competition. I don't watch enough strongman. That's my problem. Like I just want to do different lifts. So can't use an axle bar can't use a barbell of any sort. Can I use a mammoth bar? That's a barbell. No that counts. Damn it! What was the, what was the actual question? Oh no what's that what's that one deadlift that you that actually yeah that's what I would do. What's that one deadlift that you that actually yeah that's what I would do. What's that one deadlift

where you just grab it by the handles and you lift straight fucking weight. Car deadlift? No no no no no there's a I could find the name if I had a second. I would I would love the ditty stones but I think that that's kind of like us that has a cap that I think that is a lot harder than people think it is no no no I are they Romanian deadlifts, so literally you stand on two And I'm gonna get shit for this in the crew for sure you stand on two platforms. You literally are lifting a t-bar attached to a Want to say a

Carp you're here. Help me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like the duck walk loading pin thing Yeah, yeah that thing and you just like you just got to stand up with that Because actually there's a competition here in August that I might go and play around with some of that it is. Yeah Yeah, it's a some sort of deadlift I know like it's what you used to do loading from the duck walks or when you do like the power stairs Yeah, it's the duck walk power stairs. But this one you just load it as much as you can and you just got to stand up with it. That's it. That's not bad.

Good list. Somebody correct me on that. I wish I could remember the name. I was like, I was like, I'll just. A lot of companies are going to call it something different too. So it's. I was legit about to sign up for a competition for it So I should probably learn the name

I was looking at those on rogue the other day. I think before I you know, maybe or maybe didn't order myself something I guess I could have included farmers Walker frame carry like I I definitely could have put those in there But I keep wanting to do the farmers walk but like in my basement, which is 20, 25 feet long and no turnaround room, it's not easy to train. I'd have to train it outside and then I got to drop them and then do the, the, the one 80 and go back. I'm still debating on bringing mine downstairs. They're just, it's just a matter of like waiting for it not to be icy. So I don't die trying to get it from the garage to the basement. Yeah. Having, having seen the frame carry at the Arnold a few

times and watching how hard that is. I would probably put that in but like this is uphill to that's yeah. Yeah, I did. I did a like legit so like not just a trap bar but like a legit frame carry at the East at barbell the commercial the strong engine I go to with Chris. I think I only did like 430 and it was heavy like the next jump was going to be another 90 pounds. Uh, and I was just like, I'm good. I'm just going to do three sets of this.

Cause this was like at the end of the session and it was like full turf, like full, full turf, turf sprints. And like my ankle cramped up like the first run and I'm like, I'm not going up and wait, like I could do more if I had to, but I don't have frame carry for any event in any of like the two or three strongman shows I'm dabbling. I'm I'm eyeing in 2025. So it's like I don't need to push this. I Kind of got a question for both of you as well. Okay. Yeah So with Joey's new podcast equipment, are you gonna start posting the video footage on YouTube soon?

We've talked about it. It's just too hard to isolate. It's honestly just, would we like to? Absolutely. Would we be putting a lot more work onto the supposed Nate who may or may not exist? I forget what that exist. Um, yeah, I think it's just a lot of work putting it on the technical guy to not only do

the podcast, but then balance between the audio and the video. Um, no, I just happened to like need a new light because I was just using my bedroom light and then you can see my disgustingly messy bedroom in all of the podcasts. So no, this setup was honestly just to preserve the sanctity of my bedroom. A lot of our friends that podcast use StreamYard. And it does all that. It'll push it to YouTube as the video.

And I think you can even, I believe, if I'm not, I'm pretty sure Jake from GarageMexperience even told us that like once you edit it It'll edit it in both locations for you like if you need to like take like 30 seconds out it'll just do both simultaneously, but like I Don't know what you're paying for stream yards. It's got to be a lot more than we're paying for you know premium on zoom And it's just something we haven't really I don't know like who's Our seven people gonna watch the YouTube video. Yeah, I think we have like 65 subs or something stupid like that

But I mean would we increase it with that and but again, they all This is business acumen. I guess you have to look at like we have a cap Right. We have roughly 200 listeners a week How many of those would move to YouTube? Would we gain more? Unlikely, because we have a cap of crew. Like we don't get there's very few people outside of crew that are interested in this at all, which is by design, of course, like this is the crew podcast.

This isn't. Would it be cool if somebody else joined in and thought we were funny? Great. Is it likely to happen? No. So like, I think that the limit of how much we're willing to invest in getting the outside people only to realize that they're not interested in what we do, that's kind of a balance we have to play. Yeah. And we're in a rhythm now. Like we can this. Everyone is just on autopilot and we can do exactly what we need to do and produce a very high quality episode every seven days, in my opinion, without hiccups. I don't want to throw a wrench in that. Tanner and Tommy pivoted because they can make potentially, eventually thousands of

dollars on YouTube with ad revenue, 100, whatever. That is their goal, is to get more followers, make more money from ad revenue, et cetera. That's not us, so we don't need to pivot. Yes. But it would be, and also like, I don't wanna like, essentially have to like doll up for a fucking video every day.

And by that, I mean more, the places that I know that would be easier to do the video, or like Streamyard and a couple other ones. They don't allow you, to my knowledge, to do backgrounds. Whereas like, I'm in a spare bedroom and I don't need like my fucking coat rack to be like in my video the whole time and I'm not going to like create a studio to be recorded in. Whereas just right now if you look at it, it looks like I'm in my gym, but I'm not in my gym. Not anymore. I did record the first like 30 episodes

in my basement, but my wife said it was too loud downstairs and my voice carried to the whole house and the spare bedroom has like- It's because you weren't using your microphone. Yeah, I had to talk a lot louder I guess. I can't speak up. Oh well. Yell into the abyss louder.

Good question though. We have, but like the same like two people have asked, I feel. And I'm kind of the other way. Like I loathe when podcasts are only on YouTube because that's not a podcast. You're just producing video content and you want me to consume it, but it's not a podcast. So stop calling it that. People need to be able to listen to it while they're driving and walking without having to like pay for YouTube premium So I'm surprised more people don't ask those insider questions. That's one of those reasons. I think that I really

Look forward to that segment is I think at some point somebody's gonna start asking. Well, what do you know about? right and putting stuff out there that like we might have to answer some hard questions about some stuff that we've been sitting on a little bit and nobody really has. So that was a really good kind of insider learn about unpaid underrated question. Well, put it this way, we put it on YouTube because people were asking for it because they wanted to stream it in their gyms.

Like, are they upset because it's only a thumbnail? Because we're only getting like 10 views a week on YouTube. So like, if those were getting 30, 50, 60 views, and people were actually consuming it on YouTube, you say, I know, well, I do it to fuck with everybody now too. Like, no one ever said it, you know, take in like, I don't know, like, the numbers, yeah, the numbers don't make sense for us to put any effort into YouTube other than like, hey, you want to watch it on YouTube. If you want to listen to it on YouTube and support us there, you have a choice to but I don't, I don't need two hours of me and Joey's face out there to make meme opportunities for people to fuck with us either.

I have some ideas for some long form and maybe short form content for YouTube especially with the Arnold coming maybe for us to do a couple videos that are YouTube only. It would be fun. Yeah and that's kind of an idea I have but I mean like I don't have a storyboard or anything going I just had this idea of well at the Arnold why don't we do meh? Right? Like last year me and Nate did an under the table um quick little interview between me, him, and I think one other person. But I think it would be really funny if we just lived like a bunch of those and just put it on YouTube. That's an idea that I had in my head where like the crew would watch that. The crew would watch

to see themselves, to see their friends, to see their... Maybe we get a couple famous people like joining us or something silly like that. And I would do that on YouTube before I would do what we're doing right now on YouTube. Oh, fair enough. Maybe once we get like a million crew members, then it'll be worth putting on YouTube. Oh, fair enough. Maybe once we get like a million crew members, then it'll be worth putting on YouTube. So it's realistic that if like, if nothing hampers like everything that this all kind of rides on is those two, those two sisters, um, it'll be a thousand crew in like three years. Like if the numbers like strategically keep going up like you know if the pyramid scheme keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger you know.

Tanner's pies and get a whole lot bigger is nice gonna feel really good then I mean I really like I was always worried. I know I'm always accused of gatekeeping cuz like I don't want the crew to get that big and it's just good we're gonna get lost in the shuffle but like. I still recognize everyone's I mean I don't know the crew to get that big. Then it's just, we're all going to get lost in the shuffle. But like, I still recognize everyone's, I mean, I don't know. You're either, so many people don't post. So it's almost like moot that we're getting bigger if they don't ever post. So it's like, it's still the same, like a hundred people that post one to 30 times a day.

All right. Is that all you had for us? I got a one, I got a couple more. That's all right. Is that all you had for us? I got the one I got a couple more. That's all right. Yeah, we got a few minutes. Let's go one. Let's go one or two more. Yeah, let's go. Ten minutes or less. Keith, I need to hear the chicken farm story. Unless you be elaborated it so many times.

I have a thousand. I need you to know the origin of it Chicken parm in general chicken parm in Aberdeen like why does everyone give you crap? Okay, chicken parm really don't listen any podcast. Do you're such a baby? Um, so I'm working on the back I've been I've been powerlifting for seven eight years now Whatever it is since like 2016 or 17 I did my first meet and I just remember being like in high school before football games, like, like a pasta meal was like provided essentially.

So like got a car bloated, you know, there was this in, in my head and I was like, what is a, what's, what's a pasta dish that I like? And I was like, well, I like, I like chicken and cheese and bread and you know, so I just started getting chicken parms before any powerlifting meat and I'm a, you know, anyone that knows me long well enough.

It's like, I'm now I have, I might not be OCD, but I have OCD tendencies. Um, so. Creature of habit, repetition, not changing things is all my happy place. So, you know, historically for the last, you know, coming up on a decade, anytime I'm doing a lifting competition, some form of chicken parm is devoured prior to lifting, not consumed, devoured. Switching it up to the curveball. So then that's just the thing I've always done in Rochester where I'm from. So cut to 2023 Aberdeen. My wife and my Stephanie came out with me and, you know, so it was, we were a little bit more,

had freedom to like go on our, go out on our own and kind of get some meals together and then kind of go do the crew stuff. It wasn't like true crew 24 seven. So we went to the Italian place there and had a great meal. It was awesome. She had a pizza, I got the chicken parm and everything tasted amazing.

I think it was partially because I was starving, partially because I ate like, you know, two or three slices of pizza with the chicken parm and everything tasted amazing. I think it was partially because I was starving, partially because I ate like two or three slices of pizza with the chicken parm and I just like, nothing felt off, nothing tasted off. And then I, so then I raved about it for 12 fucking months like an asshole. Well, at the time I didn't think I was an asshole. I raved for it for 12 months because I was like,

it really was, like it was a nice fancy restaurant. It was like the bottom of like a bougie hotel for, well, a bougie for Aberdeen. So I'm out there with- Right next to the target. I'm out there bougie hotel for a bougie for Aberdeen. So I'm out there with the target. I'm out there with. Yeah, no, this is this is the downtown part. So there was just so it was me, Chris, Jeff and Big Spicy Pizza. They we all went to this restaurant and hadn't been there in a year.

I was, you know, well, actually throughout the whole year, Jen was the ringleader of giving me shit for saying that I liked Aberdeen chicken parm, just because, ooh, Aberdeen, Aberdeen doesn't have good chicken parm. And, and I was like, I'm going to fucking get one up on all you motherfuckers because I'm going to go there again. I'm going to have it again. And it's going to be amazing. You know, cut, cut to the end, had it again, is very mediocre that experience. So this this year's experience was horrible Like everyone else's food was like a five out of ten Maybe a six out of ten like I think Jeff was like said it'll do essentially or something to that extent

Like it wasn't the wasn't the worst he ever had now. They all had their own Italian Meals, and no one else had chicken parm But I was just uh, and I just and this was this was leading into this like this was the the Saturday no this was this was Friday afternoon before we went to Tanner's and I was just like I was I was embarrassed that like their quality of food had dramatically decreased in one year and also now I'm gonna get made fun of and ripped on because I talked this fucking place up to my friends for a year and four of them experienced it and we're all like Eh, and I was like, yeah, you're right

It fucking sucks this year, but it was really good last year and Stephanie can attest like she fucking the pizza was great She had some of the chicken bar. I'm sure it was great So I don't know what happened in 12 months But that place went from like good authentic tasting tasting food to something the guy pulled out of a fucking microwave. It felt like so and tasting food to something the guy pulled out of a fucking microwave it felt like so and then when we were in crew falls everyone was like the one of the last bar where Fucking you know very yeah the peeping Tom there Everyone was um Keith. You see there's a there's a chicken parm sandwich on the menu I feel like I people told me that at least 12 people told me that

Yes, I did get it and it was not good either. So I've learned it. I have to switch it up. So I guess the breaking news, I more than likely will not eat a chicken parm before Lift Hard, Live Easy 3 because I don't know that there's going to be a edible one. So I have to get us some steak or something. My chicken wings are fine by the way. You guys fucking ate a BW 3 19 times. So gross.

It was. I had the best. It was the worst and the service was so bad. I had the best meal ever today. It was so good. My wife and I went to like a issue went to a pretty fancy Italian place to us because it was like we were definitely like the least dressed up people because we just came from work just wearing like my my work fucking clothes and

What did I got the special it was a it was a New York strip steak, but it was in some kind of sauce I posted it in the discord. I can't what the fuck kind of sauce it Give me a second. It was the uh a demi Glaze, but it was not like the dlaze But and it's just simply like a like a thin kind of gravy-ish sort of I don't know how else to describe it Like it's not an a1 sauce or anything But I didn't know it actually came with that like this guy just said like, you know

14 ounce new york strip with this this and this and I was like sold and then it came out like Literally saturated in this glaze and I was like, what the, 14 ounce New York strip with this, this and this. And I was like, sold. And then it came out like literally saturated in this glaze. And I was like, what the fuck is this? Taste, taste it. Like it was, it was very mild. So it wasn't like, it didn't add or take away too much. It was one of the best steaks I ever had, which it should have been. It was fucking, it was like a $75 steak. And usually I don't like, I don't buy steaks more than like $40 like ever,

but like the whole meal was like 75 bucks, but it came with, came with fries and a good full, like it came with a full Caesar salad. Oh my God. No, it was, it was obnoxious. It was super obnoxious. But I was, I was not going to get that. And Stephanie was like, you know, I had, we, her and I both had just got, you know, you know, our annual reviews. So we all both, both got a small pay bump. I'm about to go out of town, you know, we were both sick at Christmas Christmas so this was kind of just like a treat yourself date night. Fucking best steak I've ever had in my life. It was cooked perfect take the sauce or leave the sauce I could care less but the steak

itself was great it was amazing and then we got like we ended up getting two pizzas because she wanted a margarita and they had like a four cheese garlic pizza. I was like, well, I really want that like, like, if I'm gonna get like two meals, like, I want a slice of that. And then so she was just like, well, fuck it, we'll do an extra like $14 just order two pizzas, and we'll take them both like three quarters to go. So that's what we did. Great meal, great times. And yeah, I just don't really know what it did. I didn't make laces. But it's better than Aberdeen Chicken Bar. So does that answer?

That was a seven minute answer to that. He said 10 minutes and then went for seven. Yeah. Sorry about that, boss. That answers my questions now, finally. Is anything funnier or no, is stuff funnier or less funny now? I don't know. It's still going to be funny and give you crap about

chicken bar. Yeah, fuck everybody. I think the other day we were talking about case ideas. I posted a chicken parm. Somebody did. Yeah, it must have been you. Okay, that's correct. Good work. Good work. trolling Keith is easy and fun. You go learn all about that. That is true.

I try not to get as worked up because I get worked up about everything else. So when it's just friends busting balls, for the most part, I try to absorb it without being a dick. He tries to consume it. I'm going to try to go my way to like not to like it. You're going to need a thesaurus bud All right, was that it then Yeah, that's all I got for you. All right, just bring us in for a landing. So yeah Obviously we got some friends that have affiliate links that benefit you

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I can't make this meme better. And then yes, that was me that prompted Nate. I'll shout out to to A.I. Nate and think he added. I think it's just on our website now somewhere that there's like a link to the Keith head that takes you to the shortcut, I believe, or maybe it takes you to a drop box of like a very high quality version, like a high res version of it actually. Well there's also the Keith head shortcut for Apple. And now we're working on a mobile phone background.

Yeah, I saw that. Like, what are you doing, Nate AI? Mobile phone background. Yeah, I saw that Like what are you doing need AI like yeah, it's like There's like we're like a running list of hey Nate Can you do this this in this forest for the podcast and then he does that in the other? He's like yeah, I'm like, can you make this graphic? He's like, yeah, I could probably swing that Half an hour later. I have a Keith head mobile phone background like dude the funny part was though like He picked like a pumpkin II red kind of orange and was like I just need to keep this on up on this orange

And I like finally got back to it because I don't care my personal phone for a good chunk of the day And I finally got back to it I was like I don't like that orange because like no wine cellar is like safety orange Basically like if I have to like look up a paint color I usually go with safety so he found a an OSHA safety orange. It's like that orange because like no wine cellar is like safety orange basically like if I have to like look up a paint Color, I usually go with safety. So he found a an OSHA safety orange. It's like that'll work But it's made me chuckle all together. So good stuff big Jerry. Where they gonna find yet? Instagram Joey underscore Malesco MLE CZ K. Oh That's about it

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