Unpaid And Underrated - 089 : Animal Balloon Pen…

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Megan. They dive right into great topics like lifting at massenomics gym, reading, rap and hip/hop, tattoos, barbells, and a whole lot of blackberry. 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 @megantheequarterhorse (https://www.instagram.com/megantheequarterhorse/) 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 Megan.

And welcome back to episode 237 of the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast. We're a podcast by crew for crew. I'm one of your hosts, Big Keith, joined as always by here, Big Joey. Hello there. And we got special guest, Big Megan, joining us this week. How are you doing Megan? Good Good to meet you. Welcome to the unpaid under a park class. We were glad to have you What are you drinking over there Megan?

I have the Mason perrier in Forever blackberry Sounds good. So a little sparkling water action. That seems like so much Blackberry. Forever Blackberry? Forever and ever. Forever Blackberry. It's the classiest water I've had so far.

I don't know why they come up with these branding, Forever Blackberry. What do you got there, Keith? Twist of Fate, I got the Blackberry Lemonade by Waterloo and it was a twist of fate because it took me about 30 seconds to pull it out of my strong and silly pint there to actually remember what the label. I was like I can see what the color is but it's like what the fuck and what's the name of the flavor? I gotta get it right.

I have this nice glass of still water and then I've got a mango bubbly waiting for me and two two Keith's in case I feel like getting into the Keith's It's a good one So I'm not sick yet just a heads up, but the entire house is So so far I've gone all of the two episodes. We've recorded this year without being sick Tomorrow I get the feeling I'm gonna get hit hard sick. Tomorrow I get the feeling I'm going to get hit hard. I'm well, it's just we'll talk a little nuts and bolts about Mastronomics Gym and whatnot. So to segue into what are you

wearing? Because I'm wearing the Black Widow shirt and that'll give me a couple of topics to talk about real quick while I wait for Megan to hop back on with us. So first off, Tanner has got his in my opinion, already at his second bar of 2025 barbell additions, he would he would beg to differ that a axle was not a barbell and I agree and actual is not a barbell with spinning collar sleeves and collars, etc. But still put plates on it

still move it, it counts as a bar that was added to the gym for 2025. So 1516 days into the month and Tanner is already at two if you count the Blaze one that Kahler sent him to review. So yeah, I just thought that was a little funny and I can't wait to get their review on that because that actually is a bar that I'm actually very excited to possibly get someday.

Jake had mentioned that they might, he might pick one up himself and it might be the bar we use, the Lift Hard Live Easy 3, as some of you guys like to call it, the Lift Hard Live 3Z or whatever the hell you call it. And it might be the bar we use at lift hard live easy 3 as some of you guys like to call the lift hard live 3z or whatever the hell you call it. That's amazing and you know it. I know it's okay, I guess But anyway, so big Jake

Let us know if you're gonna buy that bar because I'm getting some FOMO and I really want to buy it But I'm not gonna buy it until someone else pulls the trigger But I think Hogan already pulled the trigger so I'll reach I'm excited to get his review on it as well So but now that we got Megan back, hopefully, maybe she's going to unmute herself possibly. And what about you, Jerry? What are you wearing? I have been lazing around the house feeling bloated and fat today. So all of the masonomic shirts I put on, cause my boxy one is not clean. So I'm wearing the big coffin crew,

because it was comfortable fitting. And I still laugh at that idea. Ew, what is in my glass? What is in my glass? Hey, I got a new barbell. Yeah, you did. Let's hear about that. Or you can talk about our post today, too.

Yeah. Yeah, I went and got an axle bar and drove out to Bells of Steel, kind of walked in, made a silly video. That video actually did really well. I'm going to see if I can ask to unmute. Yeah, so I've only used it like twice. Really excited to have. That's really my second piece of Strongman equipment. Can't wait to clean and press that Magoo. And yeah yeah yeah

yeah that was really fun and then I ended up going in and I read on the website them saying that we don't need axle callers so I asked when I was there and they said yes our axles are smaller than Olympic barbells so you will need these. The axle collars don't fit at all. So I emailed Bells of Steel and I was just like, hey guys, like these don't work. And the guy emailed me back with the website and he quoted the website at me. He was like, no, no, no, see, I read that but then got told I needed them. So they just, they actually just gave me 15 bucks and told me to keep the collars.

That's the, yeah, because I remember you basically, you kind of told us a story essentially up until like, Hey, they didn't work. And I was, I think in discord, I was like, well, see if they'll get up again. So I'm like, they basically gave you a refund form. So that's not bad at all. Yeah. I know it worked out. Um, Megan, you are muted again.

There you go. I think I am back. I, my video, it kicked me off the call. My bandwidth was bad, so I'm hoping that it. It's all that bandwidth. Keeps up. Worst case if it dies again, and you know your phone has better data, you can always just,

you know, it might not be as good audio quality, but it's better than like missing out on it, you know what I mean? So. Very good audio quality. Probably one of the best for the guests, yeah. So yeah, let's jump into what you're wearing over there, Megan.

I am wearing the Weekend Warrior tee. And according to the Wei Wei Back Machine, I paid like $22 for this in 2017. Hell yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. I was playing on that thing, too. That's where I made the the yeah, buddy meme

We used to be a proper country and I took a screenshot of the way back machine in the yeah, buddy shirt Yeah, yeah So do you want to rate last week's episode? Yeah, the way back machine. I will give it Yeah, I thought it was really funny and fun. I will give it five out of five horse dog helmets. She gets it. Yeah, so last week's episode was where they taught me was

basically like teasing Tanner, you know, going through and being like, you know, guess this from 10 years ago price and he was, you know, using the way back machine as Joey already referenced. And, you know, it was, it was enjoyable altogether. I definitely think Rogue might've been not the best one to like really hone in on because I feel like Rogue's prices have been fairly consistent where I'm confident that everyone like several other places prices has inflated dramatically worse including horse stall mats I know for a fact I used to pay like $35 for horse stall mats and I can't get a horse stall mat for like less than 50 bucks now so

like those bastards have skyrocketed but all in all it was very cool I did not go to the way back machine yet but it is on my to-do list next time I actually have some downtime and I've you know it'd be kind of cool to like actually see some old websites from, I don't know, was it go back like however long it actually goes back? Uh, it's I think he was pulling data from like 2008 or something from rogue. So it's gotta go back, you know, that far. So that's kind of neat. Uh, but for all that, I will go ahead and give it, uh, five out of five, no ways. I have no five, no ways. No way. No no but no way um yeah I will say when they were talking

about me and Tanner trolling that Facebook group it's always funny to hear somebody explain it from an outside perspective I was dying I like yeah I was even the one that posted it but I was absolutely in tears laughing and that's always really funny I ended up leaving that group that group sucks, man It's an acquired say it used to be awesome And so everyone joined in 2020 when it was like when it was 2019 there was like 50,000 of us It was great and then it fucking exploded and every douchebag that needed to like

Yeah, they got kicked out of their gym and during kovat was just like I'm gonna join this group and like make shitty shit And they might like go make homemade cement weights and stuff and then just post the dumbest shit ever for the past six years Like like no one no one in that group left Even though like half of them don't even have a home gym anymore probably and it's just the most ass-nying comments all day long And it's just like yeah, it was a I think somebody posted a really stupid meme and then I was like, you know what? I'm out that it's not even worth being in here to troll you know, it's and like the insane amount of

Like I clear yeah if you read my post and you had any level of sense of humor You had to know I was messing around right, but then like the at risk of getting political the homophobia that was thrown my way in that thread the stupid insults like And I got clearly I just deflected and trolled right back But it was just like who is allowed in this group that is this stupid, but apparently there's 300,000 of them So yeah, anyway, the way back way back back, I think it was pretty fun. I enjoyed

hearing that kind of thing. Um, especially because just like tanner utterly flabbergasted. Um, I would like to see, yeah, maybe some different stuff. Like let's see how much a Texas bar costs back then. All right. Versus now. So I'm going to give that a five out of five Axles are barbells. Nice, nice, nice. Uh, speaking of like just internet trolls in general real quick, I will try to see if we get Mass, get MassonomicsArmory to come to Carp's aid here. On one of his recent videos, I want to say it was the Synergy dumbbell rack, storage rack. Some assholes in there basically just, you know, essentially poking fun of him at his weight

and just being a prick about it. And then like going back and forth like like five or Six times and Carps being very professional and just trying to need like not being a dick or anything and the guys just fucking egging Him on like just being a complete son of a bitch So yeah, go find that video and just do all you can to troll that motherfucker and try to cyber bully him For my friends because like especially if someone in the exact same position like that's why I don do. I mean, that's, you gotta stick up for my friends because like, especially if someone in the exact same position, like that's why I don't make a whole lot of content

with my body on it. Cause like, I don't need some asshole being like, yeah, look at this fat fuck. Why, why does this fat fuck have a $50,000 gym? I'm like, yeah, I don't need to hear that. So, sorry that that guy was being such a son of a bitch carp. That actually is a really funny story the one day where somebody said something

on one of the Mastinomics posts. And I kind of messaged Tanner and I was like, funny story the one day where somebody said something on one of the Mastinomics posts. And I kind of messaged Tanner and I was like, I can't tell if this kid is kidding or not. And then the kid responded to me and then I immediately texted back Tanner and I was like, well, time to cyber bully a dummy. Because like, I don't condone cyber bullying. But I do think sometimes you gotta, especially for people that think they can get away with mean comments, right? That's why I like Powered Wire as my idol, because he just lays into these, these cunts, as he likes to call them, and they deserve it. So,

speaking of cyberbullying, how'd you like my choice of song for our Road to the Arnold post? Refresh memory? I used the Lick It Up by Kiss because that song sucks and so does Kiss. But I thought it was like I was just sitting there and I was going like what is because when I post my deadlift videos and stuff like that I try and choose like silly songs or just some or something I want to introduce people to like I used Pink Pony Club on my last one because I thought I was like I'm deadlifting pretty heavy weights for my size I'm gonna use a video that does not

reflect a song that doesn't reflect that so I was just going through and then I was gonna use kickstart my heart because it's just that intro is so dope but then I remembered how stupid the song look it up is by kiss and just how utterly irrelevant it would be to that post So I used it Yeah, it was uh, I It took me a second to figure out your comments about like the figure skater chick I was like, I was like, I know I recognize that name kind of from like 20 years ago And I was like, I'm pretty sure this figure skater don't really

Well, it was either it's on like Donkey Kong. It's on like Michelle Kwan And I was like, I'm pretty sure this figure skater, I don't really get where he's going with it. Well, it was either it's on like Donkey Kong, it's on like Michelle Kwan. There's other variations you could use. But I thought the on like Michelle Kwan was a lot funnier to me. Speaking of Instagram, Garrett, sorry, your post hasn't gotten made yet today. I'll try to get it out tomorrow. But I have not got our weekly roundup episode podcast out yet Oh, yeah, all I'm saying is don't leave me in charge of anything

because I'm so tremendous and So we had Nate putting together the graphic. I don't I don't know Megan. I know we're talking over you a little bit here I don't know if you were able to get to that post and Essentially we were going through where to put the lettering. Oh, god. It was like a fucking half hour thread. Like every time I looked at my phone, I had like nine more.

Like, sorry if you don't know, like I have that chat muted because I can't have my phone ding 75 times. I look at my phone often enough that it's like I'm going to catch everything. But like I can't. Like when I didn't have it muted, my wife was like, why the fuck is your phone going off every 30 seconds for 20 minutes straight?

I'm like, yeah, it does that like every two or three days. So podcast reasons so like essentially essentially like Nate originally had that so like it said like unpaid and underrated are and Then it said at the bottom going to the Arnold and I was like, that's awful. Like that's so split up You're not gonna and I like his eyes are gonna So then he's like well, I don't like the negative space when I have it all in one space. And I said, well, put the Edmund Fitzgerald up in the lake. That was good. And I turned to Morgan and I was like,

I started laughing out loud to myself. And she's like, what's so funny? And I explained it to her and she looked at me and she was like, that's actually genius. That's really funny. And of course, it's already been out for a week by the time anybody's hearing this, but that's actually not even Lake Superior. And nobody has called us out on that yet. Yeah, I'm curious if we'll hear about it before, before next Tuesday. Oh yeah, as soon as Tanner was just like, respect for including in the SS Fitzgerald. And I was just like, I was like, I'm a menace sometimes, and that was really, really funny and creative.

So good work, Nate, for developing that for us. Yeah, my favorite part was, because Nate sent me, sent us a preview of it a few days ago, and I had to zoom in because I could see the detour to Cleveland, and I saw Kevin there, and I was like, is that my log? Is Kevin straddling my log like a fucking rocket to outer space, which is like double ironic? And then, but it was like really blurry. So like, I was just laughing my ass off at it to begin with.

And then when I got the more crisp picture today and could zoom in, I could actually see his goddamn name on it. And so he like, he's like chalked his name on my luck. So Megan, one of our friends, Kevin, he, I virtually purchased something and Kevin went and picked it up for me basically. And he's holding it for me in Cleveland,

which is like three hours away. And I'm gonna pick it up on my way to the Arnold or on the way back. I actually have to meet up with Kevin and figure that exactly out, like how I'm gonna get it. But nonetheless, that was hysterical. Cause everybody, anybody that knows me knows how like, OCDM about like anything gym related.

So just it's obviously all in funding fun and games and it might even be Photoshopped I'm not sure I'm pretty sure it's real but I think I messaged Kevin about it late last night and he's like, yeah you sidewalk chalk and I think I'm gonna In a name all over it for years So that was great I loved it I laughed so hard of that we got we got we had we added big Hogan on there too Underneath the Arnold we had the way to make Arnold bigger because Hogan was so, you know, imposing. Yep, yep.

So that was a fun little two day trip of trying to figure that out. But yeah, the Edmund Fitzgerald was definitely, it's not often I make myself laugh at the idea of something, but I got myself going pretty good. I'll give you kudos for that. That was your one, that was your, you know, it was definitely a very good idea.

Yeah, my one good idea. Yeah. I was trying to be like, how can I say it funny, but not be a prick? It's like, ah. It was like, his was this one really good contribution. I don't do anything else around here. No, so sell me on, also teach me how to say the word and then sell me on it of the last thing I have there.

So the idea of me teaching anybody to say anything is pretty hilarious. I know, but you also I want to say it's Chimichurri. Chimichurri or Chimma? Chimma. Chimma. Megan, do you know how to say it? Chimichurri, right? Okay. Yeah, that might be it. Chimichurri. Yeah. Chimay. Megan, do you know how to say it? Chimichurri, right?

Okay, yeah, that might be it. Chimichurri, yeah. Chimay. Is it chimichurri? Yeah, it's got to be. Like the sauce you put on steak? Yeah, apparently. So I've never had it, and it's like a big running joke that like Jen likes to pick on

me because I'm like a 40-year-old man almost, and like there's just random things I haven't experienced in my life, and it's just funny to people, I guess I get I get picked on often for that all in good fun, but uh No, I've experienced a few new, you know sauces as of late and then like every time I like which I'm like Hey, I'm patting myself on the back and then it's like the next thing I know I was like Well, you haven't done this this and this you fucking suck. So I don't know I guess I'll try chimichurri someday, but I don't know I mean you can try a lot of things and still fucking suck. Like both things. No. Yeah. Interestingly, it is not my favorite steak sauce. It is very good.

Like cilantro. We like, I don't know. Is it like, I honestly, it looks like it's vinegar based and I hate fucking vinegar. So if I, I think it's like diced up cilantro, like like dice stuff herbs and then like lime juice and I Can't remember. I think it's good already. I I don't I don't make this stuff. I just eat what people make for me. Yeah It's definitely my cooking very basic It's we'll get to that. It's definitely very good But I think if I had my choice between that and the place that I sometimes go, they have a black peppercorn ranch.

I would prefer the black peppercorn ranch over the Tim and Cherry, but maybe that's just me. The only other thing we didn't really talk about was their new YouTube video this week. I'm sure no one else watched it but me. Speak up if you did. The Blaze Fitness Barbell. Are you sure it's not blazed?

It's gotta be blazed. Well, the funny thing is I don't think, I thought it was like, cause I'd never heard of it, and I was like, well maybe this is like a Kayla Willem startup, and he seems like someone that blazes it a lot. So are they just really leaning into that?

But then I looked at it and their thing says, proudly operating for 15 15 years and they have like fucking 200 followers. I was like, okay Well, you've been probably operating for 15 years You didn't know social media fucking existed apparently or you were just a fucking white labeling company Like I don't know what you've actually been doing for 15 years because nobody fucking never heard of you So, I don't know. It's always cool that there's you know learning about new companies, I guess the bar itself, the blue, it has like a different technology on the sleeves where Tanner kind of explained it. I don't know, something, the metal changes colors by like light or something, I think. I don't really remember. But they're like a blue hue to them. They got like a very blue and so it's like a white and red It's a white and red split 50% shaft

And oh my god fucking Tanner still can't say Sarah coat. It's fucking he he he's always cooking a steak He's he's he's Sierra coating his steak. I Believe it's Sarah Cotty. Yeah Sarah. Yeah, sir. I could see Every time I hear someone else say different, I'm like, fuck, am I stupid? Am I saying it wrong? I'm like, no, god damn it. Like it's like 99% of the time I hear it from like people in the industry. It's it's it's you know, the way I say it. So ceramic coating like that's Sarah coat makes the most sense.

But also, when do I want to make sense around here? But not today. But yeah, a decent YouTube video. I do love that they keep churning stuff out every week. So keep that up, ladies and gentlemen. And Megan, is there anything that we missed in general topics that you want to touch base on? Anything in the lifting, fitness community, anything at Mastodonmics Gym that we don't know about that happened this week?

Anything cool before we move on? Oh, not that I know of. Same old crew. That works. I know I always kind of throw that at people and I think I'd always put some on their toes and it's like, I don't know. But it's like, you know, we, 90% of the stuff I put in the general topics, it's kind of something I think of in the last half hour because it's just when we have time to actually process stuff. But with all that, I think we'll close out general topics. And if you have a sponsor read you want to hit for the Mastinomics crew, we're all ears. All right. Do you yearn for a time when this was a proper country? Do you want to keep up on the

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So we got a guest on the horn then yeah I'm sure carps in there Let's kick him out and mute him this week and I still think carps the one that bought me that damn bench prop But he's not taking credit for it. So Still have not got any clarity on that like a week later has them and so much in like Not real anxiety, but like faking, like it's just like, it's frustrating not knowing where it came from,

but like it doesn't, it literally was like a $40 items, it matters not one which way or the other, but it's just like, oh, where did this thing come from? So I'm sorry. I know how to really help your anxiety. And I'll tell you that I know who sent it, but I'm not telling you. I hate you so much.

I hate you so much worse but I'm not telling you. I'm going to fart on your pillow. It Columbus. This there's only two people that know and I'm one of them. Good stuff. All right. Well, we're going to kick you out of the podcast and I'll get you. Megan, is that you?

Yes, it's me. Welcome. You are live and unpaid and underrated. We'll dive right in so we don't miss any of that gold, any of that gold banter that people tune in for. So I've got a little background of you. I've met you at the Live Hard, Live Easy. As I mentioned before, I was probably too busy yelling at Tyler as my supposed nemesis at the Lift Hard Live Easy.

Yeah. But it's so hard to be a nemesis with Tyler. She's just so nice. It's like, make me meet you. Yeah, she's like the nicest person ever. I know. I know. So what brought you to Mastinomics?

Because I understand that you're an OG. Yeah, I have quite a few connections. The reason I joined, joined and started powerlifting was because I got diagnosed with a genetic eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa. And so basically it's been taking my peripheral vision for the last 34 years that I've been alive. And so I see like out of pinholes basically. So like I don't have like any peripheral vision. And it's crazy because they usually catch it way later on. But my central vision is really good. So like the doctors would just always like write me off until it got so bad that I'm technically legally blind.

Interesting. So I got that diagnosis February 14th of 2024 and my like Response to that was like Tyler had posted like I want to coach people and for free like message me if you're interested and like my exact like result to getting that news was like Well, I guess I'm just gonna start powerlifting Because you were you were doing CrossFit before right Yeah, I was doing I joined a CrossFit gym in like 2017. I started working out only in like 2016 after I had my

son I Was like oh I gotta like be healthy and shit so that I like to see him grow up. So I started going to the gym and then there was a CrossFit gym across from where I worked. And I was like, I was seeing people running outside and I was like, Oh, that looks terrible. I should try that. And that's where I met Tyler and Megan Stone there. And Tyler was doing Mastodonics and stuff. And so I was kind of like, I was kind of like looking at, you know, kind of kind of a follower for the last few years.

I actually I was friends with Mary Baird in college as well. So like I knew her, started tattooing her couple of years ago and all that good stuff. And so I just kind of feel like I've got a lot of connections to the gym in weird ways, but yeah, it was the, it was the diagnosis that was like, OK, yeah, let's just go for it. And go for it you did.

You were lifted at the Lift Hard Liv Easy. Is that your first meet or your only meet? Yeah, that was my first and only meet thus far. I am signed up for the Lift hard Liv easy three Thanks, so Excited to So you also lift in Masonomics gym, right? That's the kind of yep biggest connection We have there and your crew like you're kind of fully immersed here now Yeah, I was like if I'm gonna go all in I've got to go

That's the spirit. I'll follow up on being a gym member. Tanner always makes it clear that he basically, he makes it difficult for people to join the gym. Obviously, you have connections that you knew other people there. Were you able to just DM Mastinomics and just say, hey, I want to join? Or did you just text Mary? Or how did you actually get into the gym? say, hey, I want to join or do you like just text Mary or how did you actually like get into the gym? Yeah, Tyler, actually, she had been like, you should shoot Tanner a message and ask him if you can join and then we can

maybe live together there sometimes and stuff. And I was like, Okay, well, I think he'll let me I think he'll be all right. Because yeah, it's hysterical. I think I think he's even said once before, like he'll even me. I think he'll be all right with it. So. Because yeah, it's hysterical. I think he's even said once before, he'll even ignore the first email sometimes and wait for a second email. And if he doesn't get that, he'll just be like,

they didn't really want to be here. And I always get a crack out of that. Or a voicemail about the full body vibrating machine. Oh, god. Isn't it still funny? Yeah, I feel like the in with Mary really helped me out there. Oh yeah, that's awesome. I didn't even realize that you had sent Mary the questionnaire.

I knew that she knew Mary, so then I sent the link directly to Tanner and said if you or Mary have anything, feel free. And then Mary actually took the initiative like filled out the majority of it. Yep. Yeah, I get a text from Mary and it's just like, oh, I filled out that thing. And I was just going, huh? What?

Like, I guess I'm learning a lot today. Yeah, that was pretty funny. This is good stuff. So obviously you're from Aberdeen. If you're, if you're- Yeah, this guy's not, I mean, she's in Aberdeen. Is that where you drive for hours to go to Mastinomics gym? I'm originally from Wall, South Dakota. Hmm. So that is like by Rapid City area It's like a tourist trap town.

And Aberdeen isn't? Usually you start to see the walls. I was going to say like Aberdeen is definitely a port. All my friends go to Aberdeen once a year. If it's truly your own world, it speaks for itself. Then wall drug, you'll see the signs. It's like just literally a giant drug store. It's, I don't know. It's kind of weird, but I've lived in Aberdeen since 2008. So, oh, okay. Gotcha.

Yeah. So you're, I would say you're full on Abern Aber. Forget the walls. Um, yeah. So just in case people don't know, cause you're not a very active discord member. Uh, let's get your not, not, not in discord currently. currently i'm i'm trying to get her in discord we're trying to get her on yes uh i every time i would connect it it would kick me off the video so i was like um i just moved this last week so i was like fuck it i'm not gonna try anymore no that's fair um just i was gonna say like where do we find you um on the Instagrams or the interwebs or any of those areas? Tick tock, I hear is great down there. Oh, yes.

That's the whole thing. You can follow my Instagram at Megan the quarter horse. And is that is that a stallion reference? That is. Oh, now I get it. I get that now. I was like in bed one night and I was like, I should start, if I'm going to do this, I need to start lifting a lifting gram.

And I like texted one of my friends and I was like, is this funny? And she's like, sure. And I was like, whatever. It's hilarious. Isn't that annoying when you know it's funny and then everybody else is like, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the story of my life. I'm like, that's hilarious. I don't know. Oh, you guys, this is funny. I'm funny. God damn it. Good stuff.

What's your hall of fame status? How long have you been a supporting member? Oh, I, I am number 409. So I was like a member of the gym and listening to the podcast and everything. And I think like I March or something. I was like, Oh, I should probably like at least give them the LaCroix status. I better at least do that. And as far as like the check marks for the Hall of Fame, I don't know exactly where I'm at, but definitely not close to listening to the back catalog. Yeah, that's a hard one. I know that back in 2017, I was listening. So I'm'm like do I have to re-listen to those episodes? Because I listened to like 30 of the beginning ones.

I'm definitely not going to re-listen to all 400. I'm gonna listen to about where I started listening. I don't know if I'm gonna get there by the Arnold which means I actually don't know ever when I'm gonna get my jacket So cuz it's I will be at 15 no matter what in August Mm-hmm August 1st is my Four-year supporting I will probably have the back catalog done by then as well But like then I just don't know when I'm gonna see anybody I gotta wait till next year the Arnold like I don't know Like at some point Tanner off to start shipping them out But like I think like the first like I think he's. At some point, Tanner will have to start shipping them out. But I think the first, I think he's

gonna try to hold onto his, to make it in person as often as possible. Because between the three big events that everyone goes to, at least periodically, I mean, worst case, you get the Arnold 2026. But at that point, he'd just mail it to you, like, in the fall. Anyway, that's not about me. Yeah, exactly.

Did you buy that shirt like originally back in 2017? I think she did. That's what the way back story was about. That's why it threw me off. I was like, oh, she has been an ode. She's like legit has been buying shit from him since, you know, before you haven't heard of him. Do you buy a lot?

Like was there one that you think that you missed? What is the one that you wished you had got? I followed them on Instagram right away and I saw the shirt and I was like, that's so funny and cool. So I got it. And then I probably didn't make another purchase until like last year. But they were talking about a crew neck on the last episode, a black embroidered crew neck. And I'm like, that sounds sick. Like, I could always use another crew neck like in a black, a nice black embroidered one. I think

that should maybe make its rounds. I'm sure it will. I missed out on the lifting department sweater and everybody at the crew falls was wearing it. I was so jealous. But then I, my wife reminded me that you don't wear crewnecks. Does the all the sweatshirts a little hard for me because I'm like a shorter guy. So like I've been like a two x this the sleeves come down so far me. I didn't get I don't think I got a chance to meet you and lived hard this summer. But based off

all your videos, you seem extremely tall. How tall are you Megan? Or is it just a five eight? Okay, so that's relatively tall So that makes sense because I'm like like I just have really long limbs. Okay. Yeah It's like every time I see a dead left in at the gym. I'm like, is she like six foot? I can't So we got a question I got a handful of questions submitted, but the one that kind of, you know, basically fits the vibe this week. We got

Big Mofo submitted a good one. Basically, since you did Mary's tattoo, are you aware that you actually did the first Mastinomics tattoo? Yeah, yeah. Because we have, I think, what is it, five or six people now that have them?

So five? So yeah, you did the first of five with some Mastonomics twist to it. Yeah, that was a fun one. It was a good time. I don't think she asked me to sneak the Mastinomics low in the air But I just was like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna put that on the kettlebell, you know, so for Without it being tenor

For anyone not familiar obviously, I just want to explain what the tattoo is and what the Mastinomics twist on it is Yeah, so it's like a pinup style, but it's a guy lifting a circus dumbbell and holding a kettlebell. And then the kettlebell has like the little Mastonomics logo on it. The guy looks suspiciously like Tanner. I snuck in like, he's got tattoos so I think I like stuck Mary's name in with a heart and stuff and but it was did the red the red singlet so. That's awesome.

And now there are five. Yeah. There might be six. Did somebody get one after Dan? Daniel? I don't know man. So the two Dan's, Dan's me Mary the guy that's not in discord I Wonder if there's another one out there somebody can correct me I could have swear one of the one of the younger brothers got it like the two brothers that are in discord together like the Love ladies or whatever like mm-hmm. I swear I think one of them got it, but maybe I'm mistaken I think I think we've had the exact conversation like six months ago, and we still haven't got clarity on it

I think we've had the exact conversation like six months ago and we still haven't got clarity on it. All right. Well, we have a game here we like to play. It's called Least Fun, Most Fun. It's a very original game we came up with all by ourselves. So I'm going to give you a topic and you can elaborate as little or as much as you want on each one. But I just want to hear the least fun thing about it and your words and the most fun thing about it. So your specific topic this week, to kind of harken back to the backlog of Mastodomics, I want to hear about CrossFit and your journey with that and the least fun, most fun thing about it. So your specific topic this week, to kind of harken back to the backlog of Mastodomics, I want to hear about CrossFit and your journey with that and the least fun most fun thing about it. I think the most fun thing was it helped me realize that like I could build a community through fitness. So and I gained a lot of friends in that gym and that was cool. And just, you know, new ways to challenge yourself. Um, the least fun part about it is everything.

Like I, I am not like a cardio person. Like I don't, I was like, why was I not powerlifting sooner? I love doing five reps. Like that is my dream training. Max reps. Yeah. Yeah. Instead of like 5 billion burpees and then like run around this building and then puke like burpees.

So did you ever do any competitions through CrossFit or was it just like you just trained and did wads and stuff? Did you ever do anything competitions through CrossFit or was it just like you just trained and did wads and stuff? Did you ever do anything like it's? Excuse me. I did do a competition with one of my friends. We came in dead last. And it but it was fun.

It was a good experience. Definitely was like a shock. I don't know what I was expecting, but like when I walked in, I'm like, oh shit, I have to work out in front of all these people right now. And I'm like, barbells like, or barbells or kettlebells or dumbbells. There's like, there will be something in your hand pretty much at all times. Yeah. So I was like, not super, I don't know.

Um, it was definitely like a one and done thing. Like I did it and I was like, well, I'm never doing that again. The competition specifically, but did you train CrossFit from 17 to 25 or was that just like your first venture into fitness and then you kind of backed off and then got back into it in 20 or 2024 that is when you started training with Tyler for powerlifting? I was doing CrossFit in 2020 the gym dropped the affiliate and they became more like I would say less CrossFit based and more like strong fit based a lot of functional fitness, a lot of sleds, a lot of sandbags, things like that.

And so that was pretty cool. Um, I just, I was kind of feeling, I don't know if I like stagnant in my like progression, like I was kind of, there was lots of things happening in life. And yeah, as always, as always things come up in life. And so I think I, by the fall of 2023, I was still going to the gym, but I didn't really have like any goals or. Gotcha. Well, that's always good. Tyler can, you know, is definitely the one to get you going on that one.

Where's, uh, so when you did get into that gym initially was that would that was that Megan and Tyler stones Jim or was there multiple? Crossfit gyms and the small Aberdeen town Okay, so there there was two there was rails and then erosion was the Megan Tyler's gym, and that's the one I joined gotcha cool beans Megan Tyler's gym and that's the one I joined. Gotcha. Cool beans. Okay, so you're, I see you worked as a tattoo artist. Any other, but that basically, basically with your recent diagnosis, that's something you had to essentially retire from and kind of closed shopped with. Yeah, I made the tough decision this fall to close the business and stop

tattooing. Um, there is no cure for RP. So it'll just keep taking my vision until it takes it all. So it's just one of those things where I was like, well, do I want to work so hard in this form and like run a business by myself, which is so stressful, like, or do I want to like stop and take a break and see what, like what I want to do with my life? So that was kind of the, the crossroads. It was mostly just like the pressure of owning a business and then like knowing it, I would

eventually have to close it. I mean, it was, you know, it's always getting harder to see, but I definitely noticed significant change within the last year. And now you're working in a painting studio. Why? What does that mean? Oh, I work at like a, like a color. It's called colorful creations.

It's like a little pottery paint studio, like a walk-in. You can pick some pottery, paint it. They fire it for you or like, um, there's, uh, like you can do canvas projects, stuff like that. So it's just kind of like a little place where people can come in, do projects, and then they get to take their projects home. It's like a cool date night. Yeah, yeah, it is super cool for that.

It's actually I hadn't I had been there once before I started working there and I had a fun time. It was actually with Mary for book club and then ended up, I when I asked the girl if she had any openings. When I started working there, I was like, oh, this is really busy all the time. I did not know this many people came here all the time. Yeah, that's it. I think Morgan did something like that out in the Halifax.

So it is pretty fun. Like it's if you've never done it, go do it. And if you're in Aberdeen, go do it with Meg. Yeah. Tell her your friends at Unpaid and Underrated podcast sent you there. Yes. Or absolutely no discount. Tell her your friends at unpaid and underrated podcast sent you there. Yes, absolutely no discount Paid just for the friendships, you know, just just for friends you made along the way but no no no monetary

Will add it to the the list of things to see at the lift hard live 3z imagine your shock on Thursday when just like 20 burly dudes walk in and do potty. I mean, Stephanie, my wife's coming out with me this year. It could be something to keep us busy if she doesn't want to go to wherever we go Thursday night. Good stuff. Have you heard any self tattoos? I know that's a big thing with certain artists. They will or will not self tattoo Yeah, the first tattoo I did was on myself

And then every I practiced a couple times on myself and then I was like, well, I don't want like a thousand bad tattoos on me Like I can have like a couple but like I't, I don't want to just practice only on myself. I'm going to like use skins and then like practice skins. And then also like, I mean, apprentice work is, it is what it is and everyone has to learn. And when you're, when you're charging cost of supplies for tattoos I mean you definitely get what you pay for when you get a twenty dollar tattoo from somebody so. Yeah. Yeah so but then I did I would do like every six months then do a new one on myself so I could compare to the old ones and be like, yeah, you are getting better. Don't worry, this isn't you're just being mean to yourself.

No, that's not ever considered that. That's a good idea. Do you know how many tattoos you currently have? Oh my gosh, I have no idea. Over under 25. No idea. Over under 25. I would say probably at around.

Okay. That's a fair amount. Somewhere around there. Is that something you think you'll continue to get artwork done on you the rest of your life? Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. Cool.

Yeah, it's it's an addiction. Yeah, no, I just it's one of those things I haven't like, pop the tab on because it's like I have this such addictive personality. Like if I got if I got if I got a tattoo when I was 20, I'd have 50 tattoos right now kind of thing. Like that's, you know, I can't have one of anything, everything has to be into excess and until it's completed and until I'm done, and there's never no end. So it's like, yeah, I try to restrict myself on things. When you start getting them, nobody tells you that like the spaces that aren't tattooed,

like then they just, it's like, wow, why don't you have anything on that part of your arm? So I've got one on my right arm and now my left arm, my body map is all messed up and I need to go get one on the left arm. And yeah, yes. Yeah, I'm pretty much done. is all messed up now I need to go get one on the left arm and yeah yeah yeah I'm pretty much done I think that there's really no tattoos I'm interested in getting at the moment my hand tattoos I think were my last ones but we always say that right this this 400 pound deadlift then I'll be strong enough, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh, where does the name MiGOR come from?

Oh my gosh. Uh, that would be my little sister. Um, I don't know. They... I don't know why my sisters always call me weird shit. Yeah, it's what siblings do. My little sister, for a while, like, when we were kids, she had to be like four years old or something. She would just call us all weird, weird names.

And me gore was what she called me. And I don't know. It's just, just funny and stupid, I guess. It has never gone away? Not from them, not from my siblings. I don't tell my friends all these crazy names. Oh, we just did. Are you kidding me? They never.

They always do the, meegin your jacket. The key and peel skit. Yeah. No, no, I Remember it me again That was actually pretty funny She did it. Yeah Crocheting is another one you like to do

Yeah, I Started crocheting last year. I don't know. I don't know. I was like I need a grandma hobby I need something I need something that also will have to use my eyes I heard it's cold and windy in Aberdeen. So that's uh, that's probably not a bad thing to have this the skill to make some You know skull caps and whatnot Yeah, yeah And and you only play saxophone once a year Yeah, once a year for my family's Christmas band that we get back together and then we break up every single year on Christmas.

That's great. I also have you labeled here as a foodie. So tell me about how good the chicken parm in Aberdeen is. That was the question I had later if she's ever eaten at Roma's. The Italian place at the bottom of the hotel. Some some chicky parm. I don't. Is there a place that has chicken parm here?

Yes. No, the the you have that that that big old white hotel like in the take the downtown by the train track areas like it's called Roma's or Rama's Roma's Roma's Italian Bistro or something. Yeah, yes. Yeah, yeah. So I had chicken parm there a couple years ago. It was awesome. And then I had chicken parm there last year and it was not and it's been a running joke

for for 48 months now that I'm an asshole that likes chicken parm and abradin. But that's good stuff. So are you still, so with your diagnosis, are you still able to like, you mentioned being a book club, so have you had to transition to audiobooks or is that something in your future you think? I know you said you had like right in front of you site, but I wasn't sure like how, you know,

basically, you know basically you know yeah I'm so far I can still read if I have like adequate lighting I I love reading out of physical books so it's they're gonna it's gonna have to like really go before I stop that but I don't mind audiobooks either. Perfect. I did learn that you can do audio description captions on TV. Ooh. And that changed the game for me because I like stopped watching movies and stuff because if the screen is too big and they're like zoomed in, I'm seeing like one eye of a person and if there's like a fight scene or something, I don't know what's going on.

So. Oh, this is like a like like a random voice. It'll just like describe like person walking down street scene or something. I don't know what's going on. So like like a random voice that will just like describe like person walking down street alone or something. Yeah, it'll be like, Keith walks into the podcast room and sits down and just shared longingly. That was such a like, like that was like something out of a movie. Yeah, that was a great That was such a like like that was like something out of a movie. Yeah, that was a great

That caught me off guard there That's good stuff. Um Let's see So what is your arm? It sounds like if you had to rate Jeff Goldblum on a scale one to ten where would that sounds like be kind of high, huh? Yeah, yeah, I was trying to do a, I was trying, I was going to make it an FMK topic and like pick which character from like this series or whatever, but I couldn't get past like Jurassic Park and the flies. Like I don't know what else I could have like, what other whatever Jeff Goldblum character I could have put out there. Cause like when I went and looked at

it at the IMBD, I'm like, it's just been like nine Jurassic Park movies. It's like, I don't know. Yeah. I think he was in like Guardians of the Galaxy or something like that. Yeah, the more recent one. But I was like, he played like a like a like a shitty overlord guy. I mean, he's like six. Yeah. Come on. He's been in the fly. He was in the league.

He was in Jurassic Park, obviously. He was in The Good Place. He was like, come on. Glaze things better there, Keith. And I've heard of two of those things. But still, I was trying to make it like, notable roles where it would be like a hard for her to pick between like this handsome Jeff Goldblum,

just this handsome Jeff Goldblum and this handsome Jeff Goldblum, and I couldn't get past the fly in Jurassic Park. So I guess between the fly and Jurassic Park, which one was your cup of tea? Or the Good Place. Did you see him in that one? I mean, it's gonna be, it's gonna be Jurassic Park.

I literally have a t-shirt with his character from Jurassic Park. It's just his face on it. Just. Gotcha. That's awesome. Well, which, okay, so then let's lean on Jurassic Park. So which one of your, which one of his appearances out of like the, because he made a few appearances in the more recent ones too. So like, out of all the movies, would you go one? Because like he ended up getting the lead in the second one, didn't he? With his daughter. Wasn't that like the whole premise of the second one? He was like the actual lead. Yes, I, I hate the second Jurassic Park. and the third one is just funny to me The bus over the cliff scene was pretty badass I think that was like and with like the Jeep trying to like winch it and keep it from going off

I feel like that that was like the whole movie everything else was kind of I don't know It's like a 12 year old that watched it. I was like, oh that seems actually really cool But the rest of it I was like, I don't know. There's like a t-rex in like San Francisco or something. I was like, I don't know Yeah, yeah, that's I don't know, there's like a T-Rex in like San Francisco or something. I was like, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. That's, I've seen Jurassic Park 2 like twice maybe once when I was little and then once in adulthood and I'm like, I still don't like it. But I've seen the original like a thousand times and I'll like do the, you know, the Jeff Goldblum laugh when he's like, you dig up dinosaurs, eh?

And he's, er, er, er, er. Like that's just busting out in that laugh sometimes is just classic. Well, if you didn't, if you didn't catch it, it had to be on the most recent podcast. It was Tanner had, so I'm not sure if he actually caught that part of the podcast. So Tanner was talking about him and Mary texting.

Yeah, so I was just, that was literally like, that is like unscripted. We literally hearkened to Jurassic Park on the two main, you know, the sister podcast and our podcast in the same, you know, week. So that is really funny to me. I think my favorite scene is just when he's like, cause it's like the most memorable thing is where he's just,

he walks up to the, to write the big pile of rhinoceros shit and just said like, that's a big pile of shit. And like, that's just like the perfect meme template. Good stuff. Yes. Now we know you're the you know, you're you're you're no longer a closeted Jeff Goldblum fan. It is known to the masses. That's all right. I think I'm okay with that one getting out. And catcher in the rye. I wasn't, it seems like it's one of your favorites. I don't know if it's just when I read it, but it didn't do it for me. He just, I don't know. It couldn't get past. Oh man.

I also think I was like 18 or 19 when I read it. So I don't know. Yeah. I was really depressed in high school. So like I read that book. And I was like, I think in the first chapter, he like pulls down some ice skates and he like looks at the ice skates and like thinks about how like he was given these ice skates. And then he is just a piece of shit because he never learned to ice skate. And he's just like a fraud of a human being. And I was like, wow, I really connect with this.

I might have to give that a go. I'm like, wow. Has there ever been a movie based on that? I can't remember. I don't think there has. Or at least if there was, it wasn't like a big blockbuster. Yeah, I don't think so. Not to my knowledge, anyways.

Yeah, you think that because that's like one one of it's always on like the top 100 books or whatever I feel like and I think people either love it or hate it only gives people that are like neutral towards it Really? It's a lot of love and hate. Yeah And then uh Was it? What is it about the opening scene to Willy Wonka that just tickles your fancy so much? Is it in which with is that the one where they're in bed like and then the grandpa gets up? Is that the scene we're talking about? Or am I missing? Is it? Are we talking about the when he goes through the tunnel at the beginning of the tour?

No. Okay. That's usually somebody's. That's usually somebody's favorite. That is it's one of my favorite movies and one snow day I like Grabbed my son and I was like, okay, we're watching this movie today and he made it his whole personality Like so he was a kindergartener and they were like, what do you want to do when you grow up and he's like I'm gonna be a chocolatier you grow up and he's like, I'm going to be a chocolatier. And he'll like draw, he would like make drawings of like himself in like the Willy Wonka hat and stuff. It's I've saved so much of his stuff from kindergarten because it was just unhinged and so silly. But yeah, I don't know what scene I'm assuming one of my sisters wrote that.

It just says opening credits. So I opening opening credit scene, but I don't know what scene I'm assuming one of my sisters wrote that it just says opening credits. So I opening opening scene, but I don't know. The opening credit scene is just like a bunch of chocolate being poured. Okay, like when they're rolling the titles and when I was a kid, I was like. I was like, yeah, that's this is the dream. This is the best movie ever. That looks so delicious. Like, you've piqued my interest. There's chocolate. Come on, let's go. Okay, so when you're singing for your local band, are we doing Alanis or are we doing Britney? Which local band is this? It says here that you sing- It might've been the family that you would talk, I'm assuming that's the one you already referenced.

You sing for a local cover band like it's no big deal. Oh, where that is. I do not. with my boyfriend and friends have a band and I for a birthday party, my friend's birthday party they put on a show and I sang, You ought to know by Alanis Morissette. There it is. It's Alanis. That was like a one-time fun thing. That's not, I'm not a professional singer nor do I have the ambition to be.

Actually, that's Morgan. She likes to sing Atlanta songs. There's a new one called The Reasons I Drink and that song is incredible. Yeah. It's so good. I am Atlanta Stan here. Hey, preaching the choir Canadian. I would say we did her wrong. Let's see. That takes the singing one out. Occasionally sings with a local cover band. Yeah, there it is. Which tattoo did you get of your son's drawing? What does that look like? Oh, I, he, I asked him one summer, I go, okay, you're seven now. So do you want to tattoo me? And he was like, yeah. And I was like, okay, you have to draw it then. And so he drew up our cat snowy. And then I was like, okay, I'm going to make a stencil of this. And then you're

going to tattoo it on my leg. But I'll help you because it's a dangerous machine and I don't want you to hurt yourself and I'll turn it on and off. And like, you know, you can't touch anything. I gave him lots of parameters and I helped him stretch the skin and stuff. But he tattooed our cat on me and it's really funny. That's awesome. That actually is really nice you also have a eggplant emoji tattoo

Yeah, well Is it a ding-dong? That's a euphemism for sure. Yeah nice Yes, it's a balloon animal But it's a balloon animal, but it's also a phallus. You can say penis. Yeah, you're allowed to say penis. We are a F rated podcast, 1 million percent. Yeah, we're the number one urban podcast. Yeah, it was a, I was I'm trying to think this was like

12 years ago, maybe like I was hanging out with one of my friends and I was like He had these vaginas parachuting tattooed and I thought it was like the funniest thing ever and I was like I should in the wind over a balloon animal, but what if it was like a Penis instead of of like a regular animal? I mean, what was it a couple weeks ago we had penis cookie cutters and now we got penis banana tattoos. Banana tattoos. I was going to say balloon and I said fucking banana. So English is hard sometimes. What's your least favorite tattoo?

My least favorite tattoo? I have a tattoo on the front of my shin that I will never get finished. That the person I originally was apprenticing under did and there's just kind of like some questionable copyright behavior was going on there. So I chose to not get it finished. I hate it not because it's a bad tattoo, but just because it's artwork that doesn't

belong to the people. It should, if that makes sense. No, it makes it makes perfect. I have one too that I had originally asked them to design. And then I went and got it. And then on the next time I went there, I saw a drawing of my tattoo on their wall by somebody else and then I was like the fuck is that and they they tried to like dance around it make some excuses and I was like no no no like this was supposed to be an original designed by you and there it is right there by somebody in California and I was fucking mad and I and they did 80% of my tattoos and I haven't done one since because I was so mad about that that like I paid you to make me a

custom tattoo and you gave me somebody else's artwork yeah oh no I hear you on that one that's if you're listening that's a no no. But like if you were Miss Cleo, how did you not see that coming? Nice way to fit that in. Oh, man. The cards never rely. Right? I can't I forgot. I think I have blocked that out of my memory that That video exists somewhere Where do I get it?

We need we need unpaid underrated podcast content for the Instagram Unless you wore makeup if you were makeup. We're not putting that up, but oh, yeah You just did the voice. That's fine blackface just the voice. So we were blackface free. I was also probably like 10. So, but I don't know if my dad was just like, this is a really good idea for a skit, let's do this.

And of course, like I was the one to do it and I remember it just being, I just remember one being like, I say something and then I pull out a Jose Kinseiko baseball card or I can see here that you're a loser and then it pans the table and the cards spell out loser and it was just playing cards. I don't know. I don't know if my dad wrote the script or what. It's kind of wild how Miss Cleo is just like in our collective psyche. Right. I'm from so far away from you and even I know who Miss Cleo was. Yeah, it was it was call me now for it. Like that's how many times did you just fall asleep

to that on the couch? And then I can actually remember being very ongoing. Do people buy into this shit? Like I can remember being like 10 years old, being like, really? Is anybody really think they're getting a psychic reading over the phone from some stranger? That's pretty funny. You infamously risked your dental health for an Oreo. What does that mean?

I didn't understand how that was. Yeah, I saw that a couple times. When I was like, three or four years old, we were out visiting my dad's family in Tennessee and my sister was like, older sister was like, go to the kitchen and get us some Oreos. And so like, I went, got the Oreos and then I was like running back because it was dark and I was probably scared and I tripped and fell and still Oreos in hand, like the concrete like pushed my teeth up into my gums. And I had like, you know, like blood coming out and I just remember being like in the back of a car on the way to the ER.

That actually happened to my son at the first Arnold that I went to. He jumped off a hotel bed ended up just like face first impacted his teeth. But the worst thing that happened to him that weekend was when he licked the fucking bathroom. And he didn't get sick. He's just been sick every day since. I got. So I want to this is my favorite one submitted was I Think I think it's from Mary and I actually had some some some conversation with Tanner back and forth about it, too So are you aware?

That an in Masonomics gym that people kind of Essentially say well the blind girl can make it to the gym every day. Where the fuck are you? Each other's balls people don't show up. Like that is like verbatim essentially what was said and then kind of confirmed to me via Tanner. So is that something you're aware of or do you hear, did anyone ever say that in your presence or are you aware that this is getting said?

No, but I'm glad it is because then that'll keep me accountable too. I think I did not, I just started using a cane in the last like three months or so. I actually tripped over a bench at the gym. And I was like, fuck. It keeps moving shit, doesn't it? I was like, I gotta, I guess I have to like

start using the cane that I've been resisting this whole time and start my O&M training and like my mobility training and stuff because otherwise I can't come back here because if I injure myself not on a lift, that's the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. Like. Yeah, yeah.

Hurt yourself on the way to a lift, yeah. Yeah, I'm like, I can't do that. And so then I of course like just didn't go for a month until I was and then I like texted Tyler and I was like Yeah, so this is what happened. I'm like struggling mentally with this idea of like Taking a cane into the gym and like fully being the blind girl But now you're like the symbol yeah, yeah he shows up what are you doing here? Uses It's definitely like one extra percent of motivation. I think it sounds like it's a good thing

Yeah, it's definitely something that like I have fully started to embrace and actually the gym was the first place I did my cane training because I was like let's get it over with here like let's do it here and then I'll then I'll show up here and this will be a place that I always use my cane because it's safe for me and it lets other lifters know that like I might not be able to see you so sometimes I leave my barbell out. Speaking of barbells as a Masonics gym member and there are like 40 barbells in there, do you care whatsoever about any barbells other than like if you're deadlifting, does it have to be a deadlift bar? Do you have a favorite deadlift bar? Do you have any gym ticks like that in Massonomics Gym?

Yes. I like the red deadlift bar. I think it looks cool. Something about it just makes me feel good. I always am sad when I have to use the orange one. Even though orange is probably my favorite color, but for some reason it just fits the gym aesthetic. The orange bar sticks out like a sore thumb there, whereas the red one, it looks like he'd bought it on purpose, which I'm pretty sure the red one, I think he traded. He might have bought a couple of them new. I could have sworn he traded with Jake or something, just because Jake had a red one.

Yeah, I think he had one new one and then he traded one, but I'm not sure on that. Other than that, it's basically like what bar bars the easiest for me to get to yeah because They're all in different spots every time too I bet too because there's like my gym like in my home gym like, you know I have like a dozen bars But they all have a home and like I literally put the bar back exactly where it came from whereas mass comics gym I'm sure the bars literally it's around Robin every day Yeah, and I mean, I don't know if Tanner tries to keep it a specific way, but I'm no

help with that because if I, if I, if I think I can get away with leaving a bar bell out, I do because I'm like, I, I also will pick if I have to take a barbell down, I'm like, I'm taking the shittiest looking one because I'm going to knock it on something like I'm going to hurt somebody or myself because I can't see so I'm like this is I'm not gonna break something like I'm not gonna break a nice one so I'm going for something that looks like it might be a little I could imagine that like I mean I'm sure you're not you don't want to ask for help, but I'm sure anyone there would lay like, yeah,

I can grab that for you. Do you want to load it up for you? I mean, they're not going to sit there and load every single plate for you the whole session, but I'm sure you get someone's attention to be like, can you help me for 30 seconds? Yeah, yeah, I really could. I'm just really bad at advocating for myself,

and I would rather just like just break tanner's bars We've got them up instead geez I'm teasing up It's an independence thing too, I don't want to I completely get it Megan absolutely I Would rather just like leave the barbell out and slump away and be the girl who never cleans up after herself And I put the weights and everything. That's all fine. That's really all that matters. Yeah Yeah, the barbells people leave plates out the bars not as bad like now with all that extra space on the Smith machine for bar for

Plate storage. There's no excuses. Have you been able to utilize this? I think someone did ask if you had done Seated overhead press on the Smith machine yet as I have not have you used it at all because not once yet, so I Tried using one. I don't like it. I Was looking at it the other day. I saw Tyler posted a story of her doing something and I was like Okay, maybe I'll try it. So I guess just in general, as coming from the CrossFit gym that you were at for a few years and now being at Massanomics, how does it compare to your CrossFit gym or any other

gym you've gone to? In your own words? It's cool as fuck. It definitely makes you want to go there more like it's aesthetically pleasing. It has no sign. It seems like it's a seedy place, you know, like it's got it's got all the like it calls to your soul a little bit. So it's definitely like really chill. And also everybody is there is really nice. So I mean, even if you don't know all the people you're like. When we were there last time, I was standing outside talking to Trey

and I was watching a dog chase a rabbit across the street. And in my head, I was just thinking like, you wouldn't know there's a gym here. So like, let's just say you're new to the area. You buy the business across the street and you're just looking at your window and you're just seeing all these giant dudes come in and out of the hair salon. Like you would think, like you would think something is up, right? Like you'd be like, what are they doing down there? Like, are they, is it like, I just think it would be really funny if you were just that person just watching just like Larry and Tanner and all these big

guys come in and out and you're just like, what the hell is happening over there? I thought that that was a really funny visual for me. Yeah, yeah. Also, there's no sidewalk that leads up to it. So like, I don't, I can't, I can't drive anymore. So I have to walk. And so usually my brother will give me a ride to the gym and then I'll like, walk downtown and stuff. But it's always like, I'm walking this weird path that there's no sidewalks that I am always like, I wonder what cars think I'm doing in this weird back alley-ish looking street. So obviously you were at Lift Hard Livy this year and you joined the crew.

So what kind of experience was that for you to just realize, because I'm not sure if you were kind of experiencing the first year, but like 70 plus people either drove several hours or flew in literally to hang out with like Tanner and Tommy and our friends at Massanomics and each other. Like how does that feel to like a local kind of, I'm not saying an outsider, but like someone very new to crew and experience these people coming to your hometown? It was surreal, I guess it really, really cool. And I mean, I knew I had been watching since the first lift hard, live easy, I had a couple of friends in town that, you know, competed in that. And so I like knew it was big and knew it was cool and that all these

people come. But I was just like, it's one of those things that you don't, you don't know until you're like, I was like, okay, I'll be a part of this. But I was super nervous because with the vision, I miss like 90% of all social cues. So social situations are super awkward for me. So I showed up to the barbecue and I think I talked to like five people. Luckily Jess was just like already on me, at me before on Instagram and stuff. So like that was so cool that she was so cool and friendly.

And I felt like I had, I'm like, that was so cool that she was so cool and friendly. And I felt like I had I'm like, okay. There's one person here that isn't gonna think I'm a total weirdo. No, and this is I know we're like seven months out six months out right now. But like this podcast, I might that is literally what you just described of like how that like, you know, outside of Jess, maybe like you had very minimal interaction at tanners and whatnot. Whereas that like, you know, outside of Jess, maybe like you had very minimal interaction at Tanner's and whatnot. Whereas now, like, you know, there's gonna, I would guesstimate, say, at least 30-ish people hopefully listen to this podcast will be there. Like maybe high,

maybe low. Like, I mean, so that's, you know, there's a good opportunity that people are gonna be like, oh, I listen to your podcast. I know who you are. I will talk to you. Like, that's just, that is, I preach it all the time. Like, is literally why I do this podcast. Why I we do this podcast every week It's my goal was to just have not have off someone that has extreme social anxiety This podcast is a way to eliminate that for everyone And that is awesome. And I hope that everyone talks to you this year and there's you know I hope you walk away with like hundreds of new friends. Yeah. Yeah.

Me too. Me too. Awesome sauce. Are you excited about the venue change? Um, yeah, it's not going to be at Odie. It's going to be at the Rampoda. Yeah. So like the, the, the, the big thing is essentially it's going to be in a

temperature controlled room, like it's going to be a much smaller room, but temperature controlled is going to be, I don't know, for, for me, it's going to be a much smaller room, but temperature controlled is going to be, I don't know, for me it's going to be amazing. So. Yep. Yep. Then enough of that heat. Yes. Indeed. Yeah.

I'm sure the spectators will also appreciate that as well. All right. We should probably get into an FMK and a Rushmore and get rolling. I didn't realize we were going so long. It's awesome. Just chatting away. So I'm just gonna go with the FMK that was submitted

because I, are you familiar with those? Because I can only- Absolutely, and I really wanna hear you say these names. Oh, fuck off. All right, so everyone's familiar with the game FMK. We have, I listened to my friend friends podcast today and he did he did Mfk and they were trying to be played a correct so they wouldn't even say fuck and I was just like It's like just a fuck Mary Kills like like it's also it's not Mary fuck kill like stop doing it out of order

I like literally irked the shit out of me So alright fuck Mary killed These topics are just for you. So he's got to rank them for us. We're going to go Megan, the stallion, glow Rilla, go Chai, doji her to FM. Kid humans. Um, I mean, it would pain me to kill any of those three.

And that's like my gym rotation ladies as well. So I would say kill Glowrilla because although she's good, she's just not quite as good as Magna Stallion and Dolce. I would have to say, fuck Magla Stallion, marry Dolce. And Dolce is the one I'm least familiar with. That's interesting. Yeah, she, I've been listening to her for a couple years now, she released an EP this summer, and it just really started gaining traction.

I'll take a look at it. Is Megan Thee Stallion the one that did, she had a role on She-Hawk on Disney? I think that's who, I think that's definitely, my wife told me that's who that was. I don't think I've ever listened to any of these ladies' music, but I think that's it. I think it's definitely my wife told me that's who that was. I didn't think I've ever listened to any of those any of these ladies music, but I think that's my only personal experience with her. Yes, I do think that was Megan Lee Stone. She was like one of the one of the office staff or something. Okay, I could be wrong about that. I'm not and I'm so weird for you to say she hawk and I was just like what? No, no, I know. I remember watching it. It was still better than it was better than some of the other shows out there. Sorry.

Because Glorilla just did a song, which was a re, re, not a remix, but a remake of Wipe Me Down. And yeah, so Wipe Me Down is an incredible trap song. And then she did one with Sexy Red on her latest album, it's literally that song but from a woman's perspective. And I think Nicki Minaj did something like that a long time ago with the White Beatles. I always like hearing that kind of stuff. That's the big, the big, the gorilla one that I was just like, oh, okay, maybe I like her. And it's been really fun. My wife does not listen to any type of rap music.

So we'll be listening to that song and I'll the one day she was like, what did she just say? And I had to explain to her what one of the words meant. But then I just started like explaining every like when she says her, she means hair. And Morgan was just like, you need to stop because like you're making me feel bad now like her face ass titties it's just a reference it gets hair yeah so Morgan gets pretty I think it's really funny to bug her about it and then Gulerilla was also on Rhythm and Flow the last season they did a new season of that I guess I'm gonna Mount Rushmore and there's a couple of them. But I just want to go Mount Rushmore music genres.

And then just as a staple. No, you don't want to do that one. Says that you have a very diverse taste. Yeah, yeah. There's I mean, there's nothing I wouldn't listen to. So let's go with your top four and then maybe the top four artists in that. Okay. So I guess I mean, I listened to quite a bit of rap, hip hop, some oldies, 70s, stuff like that. Listen to specifically 90s country music,

and 90s country music only. That is the only era of country music. There are some niche, decent people nowadays. I Listen to like one out of one million new country artists. Basically, I agree with you Yeah, I or I'll listen to like there's Like the Tyler Childers or stuff like that. That's That I will lift to that in the gym and people look at me like, what the fuck are you doing?

I'm like, this makes me happy. Yeah. Leave me alone. And then pop music, I just love pop music, always have. OK, maybe then let's try your Mount Rushmore. So your top four, candy. Oh my gosh. That got her excited. I got excited.

Well, that would be the candy. If I could eat only candy, I probably would play. I have like the biggest sweet. You could, but we. I could, but I feel like shit all the time. Um, twin banks. What is that? Um, it's gotta be a Midwest thing.

Explain it. It is. It was made in the Twin Cities. It's a really old candy, I think. And it's basically like a weird pink cherry like filling. It's kind of nougat-y, but it's like pink and it's flavored like cherries, but it's definitely no real cherries in it. And then it's like covered in a mixture of chocolate and like chopped peanuts. And there's two of them. So it's like these two little shit mounds that have like these pink centers that are just like, to me, that is like top tier, best texture chocolatey sweet thing.

You'll have to have some for us at Lift Harden. We can rate them or something. What's in the candy wrapper? And then I would say probably Sour Patch Kids. I love Sour Candy. Sour Patch Kids. Pichos, but specifically the ones that come in the Gertie. I think it's called Gerties.

It's like some weird sure-frying or sure-fresh or like weird gas station brand, but they're the best ones. So I don't know if they sell them other places, but they sell them at like two of the gas stations in Aberdeen. That is a go-to for sure. That's just like the artificial fruit kind of like looking thing. And it's just like just like a chewy can, like a, like a chewy scented, I don't even know,

like taffy almost. Yeah. Well, it's like a peach ring. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I just, yeah. Like a, like a gummy peach ring, but for some reason, the Gerties ones or whatever the fuck they're called are like top tier best artificial peach flavor kind of sour not too sweet and then probably like a nerds rope yeah those are big here in the house I love a good nerds rope the clusters are good but something about like the mess that

the rope makes absolutely I haven't I, I have not consumed a nerd in like 20 years. I know, right? I had to fit it in. It's not, I don't think. Was that three or four? I think that's four. Okay. That's four I think.

I was gonna say, I do sometimes like as a reward for if I accomplish something, I don't drink. So like I will order candy online from like different countries to try different countries can and that's like my it's my imports. Yeah, no, that's that then I'll make sure if I can next time I'm down there, I'll bring you some Canadian stuff. Oh, hell yeah.

I'm currently making frozen gummy bears. So I'm soaking gummy bears in sprite for 24 hours, and then I'm gonna freeze them and apparently that is a delicacy. I don't actually, I don't like candy, but I keep a bag of gummy bears for my glucose like right after a lift or something if my glucose is low. I'll just gummy bear it up. So that's that's my input to candy, but I'm gonna see I'll give you a review if I can remember on these frozen gummy bears tomorrow Yeah, it sounds interesting All right. Well, I think you passed Mount Rushmore. I made you do two and I'm sorry, but

What I had to talk about stuff I like Well, you're doing great you know Should we move on to unpaid underrated? Yeah. Megan, we have this game we like to play. We 100% came up with it by ourselves. We were not inspired by anyone with this. And we even, you know, kind of put our own twist on it.

So instead of overrated. They don't even play it anymore. That's because they don't have guests anymore. Yeah, it's been like weeks. It's been a while. No, that is fucking annoying now that I think about it Like they need to fit in a least a one topic or a two topic unpaid or underrated and ask each other shit every episode So that is a big Keith request coming from the unpaid and underrated podcast to the Masonomic Sister podcast We like unpaid or underrated. I like unpaid and underrated. I feel that the crew likes unpaid or under no

No, or or is it just ours now? We like unpaid or underrated. I like unpaid and rated. I feel that the crew likes unpaid or under no, no, or is it just ours now? Yeah, no, I, I, I did like back in the day when like before they really started doing guests, they would shoot the unpaid or they would the overrated it's literally ours. So I can't even say overrated or underrated, but uh, like I like when they play it with themselves and it's just like a couple of topics. It has to be six, but then it's just like a couple topics have to be six

But then like just like pick something relevant to you that week to each other and just play it. I don't know I that's that now you mentioned that I didn't I didn't I didn't you know, what is it? You you you don't know it's the good times until they're gone Like I didn't know we was missing that you pointed it out And now it's gonna irk the shit out of me every time I listen to the two-hour episode and they don't fucking play some variation of the game that we came up with so specific to our podcast we pay on we we play unpaid or underrated so if it's

something that you consider overrated go ahead and call it unpaid and if it's underrated obviously it's I think I described that wrong so overrated is unpaid and underrated is underrated so get some handful of selected for you topics here. Let's go with the Brown County Fair, unpaid or underrated. What do you think about the Brown County Fair?

That is unpaid. It's the worst week of my life. The traffic, what's the too many people? Is the music so obnoxious you can hear it like fucking miles away I can imagine? Yeah. It's so flat. That has to carry forever. So there's literally not a hill in sight.

Yeah, you can hear it through the whole town. It's dirty. I don't know. I've never really been a fair person. I go get my corn dog. My son loves rides and stuff, and I get that. But I would rather go to a theme park for that kind of stuff. I don't want to go to the Brown County Fair

where it always rains only that week. It's muddy and gross. And then if it's not raining, it's 106 degrees. So, and the music's never that good. I'd like to go see Sawyer Brown, a great 90s country music band that Tanner says has played there like every other year for the past 20 years. Well, I'll throw another one on there. What is the, is it, okay, I couldn't think of the name of it,

but it just hit me. So, unpaid or underrated storybook land? Oh, that, you know, it's hard because it's, it's underrated in the fact that like that's, it's a really cool thing for, I'm going to go with underrated. It's really cool. It's like the only thing to take the kids to in the summer. That's like you can go there and spend hours and you could do that every day, and your kid would be happy. It's free except if you want snack, you can make it free.

Okay. Good answer. Um, for my last one, there's so many, we've got a decent amount here. Um, I've been adding, yeah, no, uh, unpaid or underrated clay Aiken. I hear you're, you have a strong opinion about clicking. Oh man. Yeah. You know, that's, that's really, when you asked me if there's anything that we

can't talk about on podcasts, it's that I, my sisters and I were obsessed with American idol growing up and we actually went to a clay Aiken concert. My very first concert was a clay Aiken concert in Sioux Falls with my mom and sisters and I was probably, I don't know, like 11, 12, I don't know when that show Clay Aiken concert in Sioux Falls with my mom and sisters. And I was probably, I don't know, like 11, 12, I don't know when that show was on. I think I was a kid when Clay Aiken, like, cause he ended up, wasn't, didn't he, wasn't he the runner up, but he ended up being like the most famous one out of that. Like whoever won wasn't like, didn't have really have a promising career compared to

him, if I believe. Yeah. Yeah. I think so. And I did so. And I don't know. I never followed him afterwards or anything. It was a short love affair with Clay Hagan then. Yes, other than the fact that that's my sister's favorite Christmas album. So we listen to that every year.

I will give it to the man. He's got a great voice like So maybe maybe he's a bit underrated then, you know All right. I guess that's it. That's up to me then. Yeah, how about it? No, I got a scroll. I got a scroll Isn't the worst when like you if you're not on the right spot shit Well, I accidentally touched the top of my phone and that just resets the whole life unpaid or underrated pickles? Oh unpaid. They're the worst. How dare you? The worst thing ever invented. What about olives? They're the grossest. I would probably eat, for some reason I would probably eat an olive oil over a pickle. It's smaller

Yeah, okay, we get over with faster. Would you put ketchup or all pickles as the worst? That's really hard probably pickles still Although Sorry, have you ever had a sweet pickle like Like I can see us like every one of your candies was like a taffy kind of thing, like or like something like chewy. A sweet pickle would almost like fit that like a, or a bread and butter pickle.

Like to me that's not really a pickle, but I think you could eat that. Yeah, I don't know if it's just that it's because I also hate cucumbers. That like the, because I, it doesn't it's because I also hate cucumbers. That like the box because I it doesn't make sense because I love stuff like I like kombucha and like super vinegary things and then I like super sweet things so it would not you would naturally think I just a pickle would be right up my alley but I I just can't there is something about

it that like do you do you guys have them down there? We have them up here, it's like the sweet pickle medley and there'll be like cauliflower and like little tiny sweet onions in it. Yes, I actually think my friend was just like eating stuff out of a jar the other day. I can't remember. Does it have like a special name? I genuinely... It's called like a gardenia mix or day. I can't remember. Does it have like a special name? It's like a gardenia mix or something? I don't know. I genuinely don't know. But it's interesting because I also hate cauliflower. But it's the only thing I'll eat out of that jar is

the pickled sweet cauliflower. I could fuck with that. Like I like a pickled jalapeno. So I don't think it's like the pickling process that I think it literally has to do something with the cucumber that really. Yeah. Well, we know it's not the shape because of your tattoo. I was gonna say that earlier. I was like, oh, I was still gonna. Good. Well done. I'm glad I didn't have to do it. Unpaid or underrated? The sixth sense. The sixth sense. Probably. I've never seen it because, is that, if I, correct me if I'm wrong, is that a Bruce Willis movie?

It's on there for a reason. Yeah, so you can go for a Bruce Willis rant, I'd imagine. Yeah, I absolutely hate Bruce Willis. Poor guy in his fucking dimension, so mean. No, he kind of sucks he He ruined my childhood because my sister my older sister and I we saw like previews to this movie he was going to be in called the kid and In the trailer of the movie like it looked like the funniest movie that was ever going to be and

My dad took us to rapid and he took my little sister to like Chicken Run or something. And it was like, so it was the first movie that we were going to be in the theater, just us, we were going to meet him outside after it was the first movie that we had like really picked together. And we're like, so excited. It was built so up and it was the worst movie ever. And my sister and I came out of there angry, like angry 10 year olds. Like we were so mad. And I was like, man, that's, I just, I hate everyone in that movie now. And like anytime a Bruce Willis movie would come up and like, I can't watch it. I can't do it. I love, I do love Pulp Fiction. That's the only movie he gets a pass in.

But I didn't even think of that. I was gonna say I think the only time I've really said like That was the right choice would have been Sin City. I Don't know if I've seen Sin City. Okay, I think that's the only time where I was like Bruce Willis was the right Care where the right person to play that character Otherwise Bruce Willis, and you know, sure I'll catch some flack on this one, he's pretty interchangeable with most of the roles he's been in.

Since then, he's like Willy Wonka with tattoos. That's like your movie. What is that one? He's in that space movie, right? The multi-pass? Oh, yeah, yeah, the fifth element. Yes, which I mean, I'll give that one a pass because I do like that movie, but also I wish he wasn't in it. Yeah, but that's kind of my point is he couldn't have been played by anybody else and it would have been the same movie. Yeah.

Right? Or better, honestly. He's not Daniel Day Lewis where like you made the movie good yeah he's not Jeff Goldblum that's for sure that's the episode title Nate yeah he's no Jeff Goldblum life finds a way was that three no that was two for me all right so unpaid or underrated Jack Black that'll round us out. Um, underrated. I mean, he's, he's a classic tenacious D, um, school of rock, anything he touches just is funny. And I really, I just like his humor, I think with the like vocal stims or whatever he does, just it's, it's like always the same, but it's never not funny.

No, I agree. I love Jack Black. I love Tenacious D as well. I was actually thinking the other day about that one movie, Tropic Thunder. How I want to watch that again. Never go full. Yeah. That movie, it just touches so many nerves in the right way. It's such a good movie. Well, I think you passed unpaid and underrated. All right. Well done. No, now, now, now we can air it, as they say.

Now we can air it. Now comes the time to see if you have any questions or games for us. Oh, man. It's fine if you don't. I I don't except for I mean, what are you guys? What is like, what are you most excited for going to the Arnold? Oh, good question. So it's my first year, but I'm a second time going, but I didn't go.

So I went in 2023, didn't go last year. I'm going to be going to 2025. Oh, having the freedom, uh, to just know I can be there for two full days and get some of the evening stuff when I went in 2023, there wasn't really any evening plan stuff cause crew was still newer at that point. I think that was the first, I've been the second Arnold back. So like, I don't know, like I didn't get it like experience going out to brothers or doing anything after hours.

It was just like, essentially closed the booth down with Tanner and Tommie and everyone kind of just like went their separate ways. I mean, there was like a bunch of us there after hours and stuff like, cause like the last hour when they were, you're supposed to get kicked out. And so it's just experiencing that again, maybe. Just seeing everybody, there's gonna be so many people like I'm going to, you know, all my

Mastonomics friends, but then I should be able to, you know, ideally, you know, run into a handful of other people from like my home gym, like crew world, that's a kind of separate from Mastonomics. I've just like, like, I've got like little niche little pockets of friends that are in like these very, very deep niches that are all kind of like almost segregated because like, no one can like, you know, like dabble in more than one niche it seems like a run niche if I was Tommy. But yeah, I think just obviously just seeing the friends. I'm not looking forward to the

drive down. I think it's a six hour drive with no stops. Yeah, same. Hall. Yeah, be a hall. There's a ferry, apparently, that goes from Paley Island. That'll take me to pretty much near there. And we're going to take a look at that to see if that cost is worth the mileage on my car. Like, if it's like $100 and it takes me across Lake Erie and I don't have to drive all the way. That's three or four hours.

I'm literally on the opposite end of Lake Erie. So I am just like, if I could just somehow get right there, it would cut miles and miles off my car. Otherwise, yeah, I've got to drive all the way around Lake Erie. So then you have to figure, do I cut through Detroit or do I cut through New York? I genuinely prefer New York because I kind of hate Detroit. There's more roadkill for you to look at and comment on. Yeah. Well, as soon as I get to Ohio, it just starts piling up.

Um, personally, I'm just looking forward to seeing everybody again. Seeing all like hanging out with the crew barefoot, you know, uh, seeing some of the people, Mitch Hooper would probably be there, um, Dan, partying with Huck Finn, just like seeing all of the people that I only get to see once a year and be absolutely silly with. That's kind of what I'm looking forward to. Maybe signing up some more crew, like I mentioned earlier, you know, actually having something to sign them up on the spot. Like, oh, I've been listening to the podcast for years. Why are you crew? Well, here, put in your credit card information in this website and join us. Right? Yeah. Kind of representing unpaid and underrated. That's going to be very different is being

there not, not at this is going to sound weird and probably arrogant, not being a nobody. Because the first year I went, I kind of was. The second year I went, I kind of wasn't. And this year I think it's going to be a little different where more people are going to know who me and Keith are. Yeah, you have your little platform. So it's, it is, it doesn't sound serious. It sounds good. It's not little. It's not little.

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I'd still share that to Facebook, because it's something that- it's not that bad. It'd be okay. I know no one cares about that with me but it was it was great having you on. If that was the last question you had for us. You came highly recommended and I'm glad we had you on and now next time I see you I'll know you a little better. I will recommend please like I do what you can to get on discord I know it's obvious. I mean it's it's because it's it's it's really like if no one's it's literally the it's a message board I mean it might be over consuming and Obviously very hard to catch up on but even if you don't get on discord, I guess just You know, you should hopefully get a handful of followers from this. So a lot of crew, you know

There's a obviously most people try to go follow each other once they like get access to their Instagram, just because it's like the growing community. So hopefully that happens for you. And yeah, I'm excited to actually talk to you this summer. Yeah. You know, this is, sometimes I wish I could like,

like go back in time and like meet people. Like, I wish I could always podcast someone first before I meet them because it's just so much easier. It's so much, like, I feel like I've had like, there's so many people that like, I didn't give the cold shoulder to, but I didn't know them well. And like, you're a small picture on an Instagram profile

that I kind of recognize, but I don't, like I haven't had any interaction. Like that's, I had that thing when like, with like 20 people I saw this summer, whereas like 10 of them I think I've interviewed since then. And it's like, oh, we could have fucking talked to you for like ever now because I'm actually like, that ice is broken. So, you know, hopefully a 10 of them, I think I've interviewed since then. And it's like, Oh, we could have fucking talked to you for like ever now because I've actually like that ice is broken.

So, you know, hopefully a lot of people feel the same way and you can, you know, gain some basically add to your community, you know, you know, your online community that is essentially still a in-person community because, you know, I don't see this lift hearted, live easy, not happening, you know, anytime soon. So. Well, and I'll, I'll, I'll have my cane this year. So I'll be easy, easy to spot. I wasn't going to go there, but yeah, it'll, uh, I was going to say, you know,

you could be like the, the blind girl. She's she joined crew. Yeah. I, yeah, the blind girl shows up. The blind girl, she joined crew. Why, why haven't you yet? That's it. That is also another good episode title there. That is, well done.

All right, well, is there anything else you want the listeners to know about you or anything you don't think we covered or anything that you wanted to get off your chest before we kind of round this out? I mean, here's my deathbed secret, I'm just kidding. Oh, okay, so I will stream this podcast along a couple more minutes so I have to go away uh no it's it's I always this podcast is like

therapy and it's like a nice yeah it's good so I had a you know a family friend passed away like an older woman so it wasn't you know it was uh nonetheless so I gotta go to my wife and I were talking about going to the funeral and we have to go and where we were going to go. And I was just, we started just talking about obituaries. And I was like, I want to sort of document and kind of like just have a couple of paragraphs because like, so if God forbid I died or Stephanie died

like early, like in the next X amount of time, like I don't want to be grieving and trying to write an obituary So it was like as morbid as it was to sound like I would be completely fine with her and I like just sitting down Someday in the near future and like helping each other write like a couple paragraphs Like what do you want your obituary to say kind of thing and I was like thinking back like a lot of people Probably gonna hear this and like be like that's some wiccan weird shit But also like I don't want to put her in the position to have to try to like, say shit about me.

Like I want to almost have some control over if like someone's going to read this little like, you know, 10 second thing on, when they see on Facebook that I died and they click on it to read the obituary, like I'd like to have some control over that. So I don't know. It's just, it's a very morbid thing to think about,

but it just kind of happened. We were just, you know, I had gotten back last night really late after driving all day and uh, you know, we were talking about the the obituary in the funeral for tomorrow we're going to and it was just uh, kind of like thinking back and I was trying to like say it out loud like what I would want like She essentially quizzed me on like what her job title is and like what I would like have to say about her kind of thing I was like, I don't think I would do it justice. Myself, just sitting here, fresh of brain, I couldn't imagine trying to come up with

four paragraphs, like two paragraphs about you while grieving and having a day to basically get it out. So it's like, I don't know. So that was kind of my rant, sorry to- I don't wanna turn this into a bro podcast, but this is something I think and talk about all the time. Where I continuously tell people you're writing your obituary every day.

And having lost a lot of people in the past couple of years, I generally tend to say that I've been to multiple types of funerals. Big ones, my friend Morgan passed away this past October, I know, past December, and we filled a football stadium. Two hundred people showed up for her. When my father died, nobody showed up. And I said like, you should be planning your funeral every day. And when you do go, it should already be done. You are going to have the funeral where people fondly show

up and discuss you and mourn you. But that's based on how you live. So you can prepare with your paragraphs and everything and all that kind of stuff. But if honestly, if you suck, nobody's shown up anyway. So like that's just how I view things is, you know, if my job is in my obituary, then I fucked up as a man, father and husband. That's the way I see it. Yeah. I just thought specifically like her. Her career has been like a defining thing of her life. Well, I know That's me personally, I think that

If I die if I died on the way to work tomorrow Their first question would be how do we get coverage? Yeah for sure. No, no, and that's That's just not how I want to be defined Okay I get where you're coming from but you're very much like you, you're not an in the weeds detail guy with, you know, like I have where it's like, I just, I don't know, I just like to prepare and I just, I don't want to burden her with having to like,

come up with something. I don't know, it was all honestly STEM because like, sadly the bitch where I read for this woman was the briefest, most non-personalized, non-detailed a bitch where I've ever had in my life. And I was sad that, because I could, like, I know like her daughter is a family friend and it was just like, she was so grieving.

I'm just trying to put it, it's like, she is in such grief that they can't even come up with anything other than like, like something you could get off Google. Yep, no, I understand that too. I just like to believe that, I just like to believe that, you believe that their love for me would outweigh their grief. Yeah. Anyway, that's not serious. Sorry Megan, you had to hear that.

It's okay. I was just thinking, I was like, you know, I just I hope my friends just like write stupid stuff and That at least people laugh, you know, like I hope there's a bit in there somewhere Yeah, I would hope that too. Right like I Didn't live a silly life to be cried over Right. Yeah Balloon animal penis. Yeah. I didn't get this penis tattooed on myself to be serious. I kind of want to see that balloon animal.

I really do. That should be our like that should be the thumbnail is just that picture. Yeah, it's just the tattoo and me and you standing on either side of the thumbs up with a big dick in between. You can see it like in my lifting videos. It's giant and blue because I want to know about my blue balls. There we go. And I definitely motivate you keep keep up posting the lifting videos throw some stories out there every now and then. I don't think you're a big story person so crew eat all that up and you and that'll get you a lot more crew engagement. So I guess that's a challenge to you is,

keep chugging away at that and grow proud of you. We're very proud that you're still getting in there with the hurdles that you've been facing in front of you. So with all that, we're gonna go and hit you with some affiliate links and we're gonna try to wrap this up. So Obsidian Pneumonia, Barbo Rescue, Plate Snacks, Home Gym Con, Belt Fed Strength, Freedom Fitness Equipment, and Apparel from the Strength Co. Use kind of code unpaid at all those locations and help you save a little bit of money. And

beg Megan for one more time. Where are they going to find you on Instagram? MeganTheQuarterHorse. Awesome. Big Joey, Where you at buddy Joey underscore MLE CZ KO No longer on the gym community He jumped over to the other one that Tanner joined it for initially that lay no one ever post in Instagram unpaid and underrated podcast website unpaid intern podcast.com we got a YouTube and we will see you next Tuesday but I'm also Keith honey get 73 and go follow me on my channel then a wine seller and I will see

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