Unpaid And Underrated - 092 : South Dacotta

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Kurt. They dive right into great topics like Facebook Marketplace finds, the royal rumble, teaching, coaching, the blue book, hot peppers, and what the real backlog is. 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 @kdubs_82 (https://www.instagram.com/kdubs_82/) 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 Kurt.

Hey everybody, welcome to unpaid and underrated. This is episode 445 of the unpaid and underrated podcast podcast for crew by crew and not so recently mocked by anybody other than recent inomics and one of the Davids. I am one of the hosts, I guess. I'm Big Joey. And I'm joined by the guy who just who I paused and then interrupted. Oh, yeah. I was like, does he does he not know that we do it opposite of the sisters and the host the the intro the intro host introduces both host Yeah, that's just how I He had a brain fart for four seconds, yeah, howdy howdy and then right across from me as always is big Kurt Sorry, I'm going through the back catalog. We're doing this. Bring the heat.

Oh, the good stuff. Bringing it, bringing it. All right. So, um, not a ton to talk about. Discord has been quiet. I mean, there was a lot of, there's a lot of music stuff. We can get that and get into that when we do right last week's episode. A lot of that.

I'll kick it off. I've got a I guess sack segment if you will it's gonna kind of be a four-week running what's in the can for Keith so newer crew member to my knowledge and pressure newer big Lauren from wild iron fitness you know I was mentioning that I couldn't find any Ramblers and you know several people were pricks and so no just get, just get them off Amazon you lazy fuck. And you know, good, good awesome crew that Lauren is said, uh, you know, I'll, I'll find some and I'll ship them out to you big Keith's and sure enough he did.

And I got a, uh, four Ramblers, uh, from Austin, Texas. Uh, so very excited to try these tonight's is a lemon lime. So I'm going to crack into this one and it will be a, uh, you know, what's in the can. Cause you haven't had this yet right no brand new and I've never had a lemon lime either I don't think it's always just lime lime or lime something so the lemon lime I've heard the sisters talk about it a few times and this brand in general so first reaction will be that's good that's Ferris that's very so to eat so to eat Like as in like it's got more of a lot more flavor. Like it's yeah. Damn, that's good. It's like even more flavor than Waterloo. So and I think Waterloo is the most like good flavored one. So this is this is top tier. It's a so it's good. Sody. Yeah, that's not bad at all for being lemon lime. The lemon limes throw me off because I think I almost always have like, I don't know's like sprite adjacent but more lemony than limey, but pretty good. Very good. I'm I think he see I think I got a blackberry of

Plain and I don't remember what the force one was So yeah, this will be a coming to into your ears the next month of me eating drinking ramblers zooming. Yep Can yeah, there we go. Stephanie got me good today. I said something about, I don't remember what the context was, but it was basically, it was something I would be drinking, and I mentioned how I was gonna chew it, because I just misspoke, and then she made a, she really dug into me on that,

and I had something pretty funny to say. Oh, man. I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was good. There you go, Matt. There's an always sunny meme for you there. Yeah. Yeah, when's the last time you ate a beer? When's the last time you drank paint?

Yeah, it's pretty good. Thank you big Lauren Kurt you got anything cool you drink energy care Close to that. I got a lime seltzer. So at least I'm on brand nice nice nice nice I got a I got a water I get water with red shit in it the red red 45 water Speaks speaking of red shit. I'm wearing the Mastinomic seven-year podcast t-shirt Yeah, not shit. Just read Jesus Red shit adjacent I guess Then you

Were off to a good start yes And I'm not sure I want it in there anymore. You moved it from one side of your mouth to the other side of the mouth. Yeah, I'm all dried out. I've never done that. Kurt, what you wearing over there, buddy? I got a Lifting Crew Sweatshirt on. I got a Blue Lifting Crew Sweatshirt on.

I got a couple of new T-shirts recently, but I'm going with this tonight. Nice. One of the good ones. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Keith, what am I wearing? A microphone. Oh, wait, is a number heavy as a feeling. I can almost never say that phrase, right. Unless I read it. So heavy as a number, weight as a feeling to just to describe that. Wait as a number, heavy as a feeling. Yeah. So essentially saying it's kind of like we don't gatekeeper out here you can pull 135 or 445 you're pretty cool either way yep all right all right yeah it's not what do you always say to me big Steve it's it doesn't matter how much you

lift as long as you lift how much you can I like it yeah that was Keith probably explains t-shirts. That will be an ongoing segment, and I will be pulling out. I actually went through my T-shirts recently, and I have a whole stack of new ones to put on my wall. Oh, no, I got a whole basket of smalls that I just haven't worn in months. You can honestly just hold them up,

and that can be the segment. Yeah, actually, I should. I should just have a pile here. But you probably have to explain this one. You probably have something you've never worn on the podcast, like ever. Yeah. If you. Yeah, because, you know, getting big and shit.

All right. So that skips through those two. So we had the lot of YouTube videos this week. I guess we can go with let's go with the Huck Finn kind of thing. So. Friend of the podcast, Huck Finn, he made it out to Masonomics Gym. He it was kind of funny cause he kept referencing how he spent, I spent 48 hours in Masonics gym. And then

another time I spent 36 hours in Masonics gym, 24 hours in Masonics gym. It was really like 17 hours or something. It was like, it was less than a day. Uh, but it was still funny. It was good stuff. Uh, he met up with Lou Nutter, uh, out in Iowa, right. And then, And then they proceeded. Oh yeah. Nebraska. Yep. You're right.

So from Nebraska, then they went and they went to little Sweeties and then they were like, you coming with us? And then little Sweetie jumped in, you know, after they spent the night at little Sweeties, they, uh, so, uh, let's see, it would have been Finn boss, man, Lou and big Bryce went all to Aberdeen, I guess on the Saturday night, and then, uh, they went out and got all shitty and they ended up sleeping at the fucking, the gym, if anyone hasn't seen that, Tom.

So by the time this comes out, hopefully Finn has the extra YouTube video because right now he has a Tanner home gym slash Masonomics basement gym tour up that came out a couple of days ago. But then hopefully he was working on, he said he had a lot of content from the night they actually stayed in the gym.

So that would actually be great because, you know, just Lou and Bryce on camera getting all drunk and shit and You know, let it just be fun to see and like them I want to say that Lou and Bryce slept on a couple pairs of crash pads So that's like, let's see. So Lou is probably 230 or 240 Bryce is fucking 350 So like that's a lot of meat on a couple pairs of crash pads. So Brad the pad definitely got his workout supporting one of those gentlemen's asses over the weekend.

And they did tell the big Megan on the podcast, let's get stupid podcast. He said that he basically told the big Megan story cause he actually met Megan like as she came in. He said like, you know, they got woke up. So yeah, imagine this. So like, they were all I think Tom said they were drinking till like two or three and passed out and then like five, six, six or seven o'clock like the morning crew showed up on Sunday,

started lifting, turning the lights on waking them up and stuff. And then the morning crew kind of phased out and then a little bit later when No Nose was there, Megan came in. So this is like, just two or three guys land on this fucking air mattress and Megan comes in with her cane and they're just like, what the fuck? They were so caught off guard. And then they had a good conversation with her and everything. And it's just funny to, you know, the story that she told us and just having that, I don't

know, like, I feel like we, you know, that's what I love about the podcast is we get people on and then we, when I see them in other media sources and other content, if you will, it's just kind of cool to be like, hey, I know them very well. So that should be all coming out. That was the Huck Finn stuff. And he obviously did the big tour with Tanner. And then the other YouTube video would have been

Mastonomics Tours, Chad Wesley Smith's gym. I think that was the first one in a, they probably got six gym tours out in Cali, fornia I guess. So Chad's was pretty good. I've seen a lot of Chad's content so I kind of knew his gym pretty well so there wasn't any big surprises there for me. So did you guys either you have a chance to watch the Chad's gym tour? I just saw that for the first time like a couple hours ago, so I haven't checked out the video I was mainly just looking at the stuff on social media and like all of the different tours that they did out in California Some of the crew members gyms and things like that

No, yeah, I did get to watch it. But then halfway through Morgan decided to hijack my TV with her iPad So I only got through about yeah about half of it and then I was like, I'm not restarting this So yeah, I did get to see it very nice home gym a lot of a lot of BJJ talk lot of iron neck talk Yeah Yeah, he has two iron necks because someone wore out his first one and I'm like and I'm thinking to myself like Well, does the first one still work if it like if you does why I'd replace it and if it doesn't why do you so? Have it. Yeah, can throw it away get rid of it like, if it does, why'd replace it? And if it doesn't, why do you still have it? Like, throw it away. Get rid of it.

It's a nostalgia. Yeah, I guess. Uh, so let's probably, let's, I do have a story I want to end with some general topics, but let's, well, I think the, uh, the rate, the podcast will segue into a lot of, uh, music talk or at least. So, uh, Kurt, did you get a chance to listen to last week's episode? You know, and if, if so, it was your favorite parts and what would you rate it? Yeah, I did get a chance to listen to this week's episode. I think I listened to this one in record time, actually, and it was one of my favorites.

I was laughing out loud for a good amount of it, like really from from the first couple of minutes into all the discussion about the music, there was just a couple moments that had me belly laughing out loud. And it was kind of the reason why I become so involved with massonomics was the kind of content that they were doing on this episode. Nice. Yeah. Go ahead.

No, just say if you had to rate it, what would you, uh, I'm going to go five out of five iron crosses on that. You go. Uh, yeah, definitely. I'm going to go five out of five iron crosses on that. There you go. Yeah, definitely. Because I've been on vacation, I'm not driving, right? So I finally got a chance to get through it, I think, yesterday or the day before.

And obviously, I've got a lot of agreements, disagreements. I do appreciate the name drop for Darude Sandstorm, despite that not being in my playlist at all. I thought that was really funny, where Tanner was like, well, what about Joey Sandstorm? And I was like, oh, he must have got it mixed up with something. I don't know. No, no.

He's definitely right. It is an ongoing joke about how that song is always in the playlist. It's never in the playlist. And then Tommy's like, no, no, that doesn't fit the vibe. And then went into 50 Cent. And I'm like, come on, man. like so many other songs I was just like I don't ever heard that song in a in my gym in my entire you know 10 year lifting you know adventure

of listening to Spotify and shit well I think I think we got to that point where I realized you've never heard anything yeah, there was a solid 48 hours of Reagan on Keith in the disco. I still it's like, oh, so well, okay, my rating, sorry, my rating is a five out of five Ramstein live shows on movies you have definitely watched. Triple X, triple X movies, but not the kind you're thinking of get your head out of the gutter. Yeah, I enjoyed it as always.

The music tier list, I don't know, agree, disagree. I guess my favorite part honestly would be the amount of literal discord that it caused in the discord and just there was a thousand comments I feel like. There was so much back and forth because everyone, know like a Tanner summed it up a couple different times it's like you know everyone will have their opinion about something and I'll think everyone else's opinions completely we're gonna make somebody mad yeah but uh I don't know I think the hardest part for me was when

like songs that I still listen like if it was a I don't know was it body what was the two they really shit on bodies and Browning Pool for sure yeah I'm like giant pool can like I'm like I will still listen to bodies and like not like that's not funny to me like I think like three different times Tommy was like if you play this song I think you'll I I would think you were joking and like if I play that song I'm probably gonna go fucking hit an RP 9.7 squat like and I'm gonna be enjoy the shit out of listening to that song Just because it's I've been listening to it for 30 years and it hasn't gotten any worse

Yeah, definitely Yeah, your music tastes really got put on blast a bit there saying you've never heard Ramm is. Yeah, I don't. I still don't. But no, the thing is, I can verify that you can. You have heard regardless. OK, but you've literally watched a movie with a performance of the minute. They have I have consumed them in the background. I will attest to that. But then how can we trust your movie rating?

Like, how can I trust that you watched the movie to give it to me? No, tell me every band is in the background of any movie you've ever watched. They weren't in the background They were the forefront the entire music video was that song? From that movie they did the entire song firefly and they had like flames shooting out of their face and guitars Like there's no way that you just. Pretty sure I worked at the movie theater when that was at the theater too. Maybe I might have been a bit over that. So either I can't trust what you're saying

about Rammstein or I can't trust your movie ratings anymore. Well no one trusts my movie ratings. That's like saying you watched Ace Ventura and don't know who Cannibal Corpse is. I don't have a fucking clue what that means. I don't know what Cannibal Corpse is. When someone said that in Discord, I said I don't know who that is. I don't follow music that religiously at all. But their name is in it. It says Cannibal Corpse.

I haven't watched that movie since I was fucking 12 years old. So anyway, this is part of the hassle of being Keith is... Well, I feel like Toby should have got more fucking heat for not knowing one of the most overplay emitem songs of the world No, that wasn't even it. No, no lose yourself. It was the other terrible sad till I collapse, right? I I don't even think I could name that song right now. I think it was the one that the one when the lights go out Is that the one? Yeah, okay. I was just funny cuz like Toby got a little snippet of what I felt dealt with,

and then when I said I didn't know who Ramstein was, he immediately got on the bandwagon as a whole. Well, fuck Keith, let's fuck him again. I was just like, yes. I was like, you know, kind of... Shift it. Yeah, I don't know. It was all in all.

I think everyone definitely had different opinions. And then there was some quiet, I don't think. It was all in all. I think everyone definitely had different opinions. And there's some quiet. I don't think a handful of people didn't really say too much either. Some of the people that you would expect to comment in Discord regularly didn't really have much follow up. I found that a little interesting as well.

It was reassuring, though, to hear them talk about the time frame of music that still gets listened to, that still gets played, that's still in heavy rotation. I'm like, yeah, I fall into that category too. And we're talking about music from like 98 to, I don't know, 2010. And then there's a pretty sharp drop off after that. I was like, yeah, I can totally agree with that. But does it or is it just because we don't necessarily associate with people that like

weren't around in 2010 listening to the same music? Like is it just that like, like 20 year olds aren't listening to the shit that like they talked about I can't imagine I mean Tommy name dropped Kendrick Lamar and saying like you know he used to listen to that when he lifted and obviously like that's big now with the Super Bowl halftime show as well I know there are modern artists but I just don't know of any others that are just universally recognizable and that like everyone's listening. Yeah, but. I see. I'm on the opposite end of that is like I put my playlist in the discord and

there's a lot of new artists in there. So like a lot of them, of course, international artists because, you know, for the most part, Canadian American music is kind of boring at the moment. But at the same time, like, I disagree. I think there's a lot of really good modern music. But I think that our generation is specifically focused not on how good the music was, but on how we felt when we heard it. And so when I hear somebody say all new music sucks, all I can think is, you don't listen to new you don't listen to music.

You don't actually enjoy music. I don't. You just like the feelings it gave you the first time you heard it. That's fair. Yeah. How many hours a week do you consume music? Personally, myself?

Yes. Almost everyone. Almost all of it. Music is always on. Yeah. I listen to music like three hours a week and okay. So for every minute I'm in the gym, the music's on. And outside of that, outside of the gym,

I listen to music for an hour a month, maybe. Like, I don't, I don't like driving the music cause I get too fucking intensive with it. I either like fucking get emotional, like with a sad song or I fucking get angry with a fucking angry song. So like I do not consume music. I listen to a fucking 30 hours of podcasts and booktapes a fucking week probably. So like I do not consume music I listen to fucking 30 hours of podcast and book tapes a fucking week probably but I do not I can't I can't do that because I can't focus on voices that long

Yeah, I don't so that's also why I don't care about music enough to like have a following like I just don't I don't like people In general so the idea of constantly having people talk to me would it just drives me mad Like today is a perfect example. I listened to the Scissor Sisters, Chapel Rowan and Alice in Chains. And then I put on the Eurovision movie. And like, so music is definitely a huge part of my life. But I think you guys would have understood that by now,

listening to this many episodes of this podcast is that like my music taste is everywhere. So what was your rating? Let's go with five out of five Ramstein's, whatever the fuck that is. And then I got a marketplace deal the week story I want to give a little quick rundown on. So I picked up a couple new bars this week. It was a really sketchy, you know, posting where you know, not not not the

best pictures and everything was listed as Titan. And as I was scouring through the pictures, I was like, that's not Titan. That's not Titan. That's not Titan. And I was like, let me let me look that up. That's either it was a neural axle. Titan doesn't sell a neural axle. There's only two people that make neural axles that are black or powder coat. And then I was like, I know both of them personally. So I was like, I know both of them personally. So I was like, kind of, I was going back and forth with Dean of Blackwood, I was like,

do you think this is yours? And he's like, it might be one of my older ones, but it's, and I was like, well, I don't know. It's probably a day of a gorilla's strengths if it's not yours. And then once I got out there to look at it, it was, I could tell whose it was and basically pick that up.

And then there was a brand, there was some other stuff there too. They had like a Mars bar that I almost got, but it's one of the newer ones where the sleeves have like, you have to like tighten them up with an Allen key. And they were loose when I got there and the guy didn't have an Allen key to kind of prove to me that they would tighten up

and he wasn't letting it go for cheap enough to take the risk. But to come find out, well, basically there was another bar there too, an unopened rogue barbell sleeve. So I was like, can we open we open this up and see what's in it and well like once I I could See on the label what it was. It was a stainless steel Ohio bar, but I still wanted to see what it actually looked like see what the sleeves were verify it wasn't like a One of the grab bag bars or their bone yard bars, but yeah, I opened it up

You know the normal end caps as it should be the bar looked mint literally brand new mint condition It's like a $450 bar and I was like I'll give you $200 for both of them And he was like sure sold and he actually and I got a pair of five ten and fifteen pound York roundheads in a corner That I was like, how about these? How do you want for these? It's like if you're giving me 200 bucks for both these bars Just take those and I was like cool. So and I would have like spent more time going through cause he had like piles of shit. But, uh, this was, um, it was Friday. My wife was, I had to pick up my wife up at the airport and I knew like I had a

very short window to get there. Cause like, I just saw the ad, like an ad two hours where I had to go pick her up. And it was like a 40 minute drive from here. So, and unbeknownst to me, when I left, it was starting to get a little kind of shitty out. And by the time I had left that guy's house, it was a full blown, like white out blizzard, driving, yeah, driving 30 miles an hour with my hazards on fucking, it was horrible. So I basically got home and she texted me,

she had just landed. So I like basically had to unload the bars real quick so I could like put the seat back up in the car and then run to the airport. But then to find out too to the whole, the cool thing of the story, I guess, almost, almost sad was, uh, the guy that I bought all the equipment off of, he had just bought the house.

So the previous owner had passed away and they just kind of the family or whatever the situation was, like the gym just kind of came with it. Uh, and they found out the dude was like 83 years old, so to know that he was like, and some of this stuff was like, I've, uh, like the Mars bar has only been out for a few years. So it's not like this is like a 20 year old gym. The guy hasn't ever touched in 20

years. Like, so that means this like 80 plus year old dude was lifting up until he died essentially. And the poor son of a bitch didn't even have a chance to open up his brand new rogue bar. So I kinda, it was, I don't know, that was kind of like, I kind of felt a little bit of that at me. I was like, I want to be this 80 year old dude, like lifting still in my

home gym. But, uh, obviously the dying part was sad. But yeah, that was my deal of the week. And actually shared it with the original Dave at Gorilla Strength, who also makes the, you know, the neural axel bar. And I like typed him like a whole couple paragraphs explaining the situation. He was like, Oh, that's really cool, dude. I'm going to share on my social media at some point just of like the whole you know The older gentleman had it now. It's mine kind of thing. So very happy to have a NeuroDaxel I kind of feel bad now because I'm probably not gonna buy Dean's at Black Widows Which I want to support my buddy because you know

He's like, you know, but he's so far behind if I ordered that bar now I wouldn't get it for fucking like four months. So not a not a loss I guess but uh yeah there's two lessons here there's two lessons here I think buddy one you have a haunted rogue Ohio bar because they don't like the Ohio and be healthy people die yeah yeah even lifters die. Yeah. All right. It's stuff. So that was my, that was my, uh, week, Kurt, anything, uh, anything in the, you know, pop culture, massonomics, Instagram, anything we missed that you wanted to remind us of, uh, pop culture wise, super bowls coming up this, this is, you know, and I, and my team's in it.

So that's been preoccupying a lot of my attention. And I've been really careful with that on the Discord because I know there's a lot of Vikings fans. There's probably a lot of other like Midwestern team fans too. And I just don't want to be an obnoxious prick about it, but I've been trying to balance that out as much as possible. I actually, a couple of weeks ago, reached out to Big Brad, Brad the pad, when there was a chance that the Eagles and the Lions might be playing in the NFC Championship game. And it would have been cool for us to kind of like have some banter back and forth on that.

But lost out on that opportunity. So just hoping for the best this Sunday. That's good stuff. I honestly think this might be like the least cared about Super Bowl and my, and like, like I don't need, like I don't think my wife, my wife watches football as much or more than I do. And I don't think she cares to even watch it. I'm sure it'll be on, but I don't think I'm going to be a nail biting,

like, oh my God, I have to watch this. I don't talk to me during the Super Bowl. It's just going to be like, eh, it's just, it's just a game that I might watch. That was me during the Royal Bowl. It's just gonna be like, yeah, it's just it's just a game that I might watch That was me during the Royal Rumble shut down everything just chatted with some of the discord and like Definitely the Royal Rumble had more attention on it than the Super Bowl at the moment If anyone listening is a wrestling fan and you want to get in on that discord

You know the first step is you got to be a guest on our podcast first because we have our own little private discord where Joey and Nate made a little channel for wrestling for rassling talk. And I don't every now and then I look at it and it's got like 30 new comments and I'm like, God damn, these boys are going back and forth. So I think it's been really good for Joey to have that outlet. But, you know, if anyone else wants to get on that, you got to get on our podcast first. I have another discord I joined. It was a buddy of mine and he just does like extensively everything. I think this discord server has 200 channels and I joined for the pro wrestling one,

but it's all what we call smarks, smart marks. And like, I would love to talk about wrestling to wrestling fans who just are here to enjoy it. Because I get it. I know all the dirt sheets. I know all the stuff. I know I like, I know all of it. I just don't want to, if I say I really enjoyed this match, I don't want to hear the politics behind the match. I don't want to hear about the botches. I don't want to hear like, we get it, dude, you're cool. You're smart. So that's what I like about our discord chat is everybody's just kind of there

to enjoy wrestling a bit. Right? So if you are getting on in there. What I hear was a pretty good one, Joe. Uh, the Royal rumble or the, uh, yeah. Okay. We can give my, my brief, uh, Joey talks about the Royal rumble. Um, spoilers Charlotte one, the women's world rumble.

That is not a spoiler to anybody that's been watching wrestling for any amount of time. She's been gone for a year and a half, showed up one. It's like the third time she's done it. We all saw it coming as soon as she was announced. And, you know, I kind of said earlier, like, I don't want to hear the smart business. I don't want to hear all that kind of stuff. But at the same time, I just don't, didn't want her to win again. I, I think I don't have any value.

Charlotte is one of the greatest women's wrestlers in that federation. Absolutely. Does she deserve to walk off the back from a year and a half to win the Royal Rumble when you had so many other people? Alexa Bliss made her return, Stephanie Vacura, I'm suddenly obsessed with her, she was awesome. There's so many people that should have won that and for her to just be like, no, no, I'm sure that I win things. That kind of got annoying, especially because I just don't need to see her do another title run like we get it you

The winner of the men's was J. Uso who you know what? Yeah, I can see that push coming Am I a fan of his nah, not really I'm not gonna be wearing a Yeet shirt any day of the week. You hate that phrase. Didn't really love him eliminating John Cena. There was a couple other BS ones. I definitely called Drew McIntyre to win. I really wanted Drew McIntyre to win, but I think we all know I have a crush on Drew McIntyre, because that dude is hilarious. Like, his social media is funny, he's a great wrestler, he's got everything.

Hilarious like his social media is funny. He's a great wrestler. He's got everything But yeah, that would be my quick breakdown of that I just uh, I Look forward to see where they're going No members of the Wyatt six showed up Alexa bliss was the only even close to supernatural character that showed up and Stephanie Vicar, but Yeah On Netflix or was that still on the paper? Everything's on Netflix now, which is actually amazing. So even the paper?

Yes, everything. So I think they shut down the WWE Network and moved it all to Netflix. And then they raised Netflix's price by $1, and everybody freaked out. Oh, yeah, see, I don't care, because the network was $22 a month Yeah, so I pay an extra one dollar to have access to everything ever

Are they ever gonna do I remember someone saying like they're gonna do like an additional like you still essentially have pay-per-view inside of Netflix Is that a thing that's gonna happen? Be free but right now it's all just included in your Netflix subscription Yeah, that's that's wild because like they're, you can't make enough. I don't know, Netflix just wanted their business so bad that they basically just like are paying WWE so much money to then like just disregard all the millions of pay-per-view dollars. But I don't know, people like- But there wasn't pay-per-view dollars.

There was- That's what I was going to say. There was network dollars. People were paying $22 a month for the network Okay, okay, okay, whereas instead of them running everything they can hand half the control to Netflix I guess pay-per-view doesn't really exist anymore Exactly, but you could buy a one-shot for 30 35 dollars And a lot more we were kids. I swear I thought they were like 80 bucks or something

I actually still think that's what it was when I was a kid. I don't know how much it is now. Yeah. And I think that's what it was. I think it's like the boxing fights and things like that. Oh yeah. So crazy. But anyway, yeah, there's, there's wrestling talk until we get into more wrestling. All right, big Kurt, you want to hit us with a, uh, massonomic sponsor read for us, bud.

Absolutely. Cool beans. Did you ever notice the easy curl bar in your basement and think, where the hell did that come from? Ever look at a map in North America and get a strange feeling of nostalgia when you get down to Mexico? When listening to people talk, do you often wish that they would speak up loud enough for all the people in the back?

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Nice that was that was the perfect ad read. I enjoyed that immensely. Well done Yeah, we definitely have not spoken about missing Mexico enough. I refused to let that go. I enjoyed that immensely. Well done. Yeah. We definitely have not spoken about missing Mexico enough. I refuse to let that go. That was completely by surprise. So when you guys were talking about stuff in the discord, as soon as I put my license plate out there, that kind of sparked a miss in Mexico conversation and I had missed that previous kind of that one took me completely by surprise and I had to catch up on it.

I don't even know who that guy is, which is like a surprise to nobody that I don't know who somebody is, but I guess they posted these license plates and some big lifter guy that other people know was just like, if you miss Mexico so much, get on a plane, Trump's got one. And everybody was just like, what? It means massonomics. And I refused to let it go. I'm just, I will always call it miss in Mexico every chance I get now. I think Brad sent me a picture of miss New Mexico. He's like, what is your thing with

this chick? Now I wondered what the fuck that I didn't't understand that and now they have more context. I didn't, I didn't, I missed all of that. Oh, that's a good evolution of the stupidity. Yeah, that's funny. I was like, what the fuck, why are they posting like a some fucking Miss Whatever? Yeah, he likes Miss New Mexico. Yup. Oh, that's good, Miss...

It just goes to show you, man, like people just... Social media is full of the stupidest people and they just have It mmm. We don't have to be angry like it's not you don't have to be angry It's like it it takes so many years off your life, but then like I'm never gonna see 83 no no one's gonna buy my fucking My gym at 63 I'm coming down there. I'm buying your life shit, but it's just like 83 no no one's gonna buy my fucking Shit but it's just now It's one of those things I keep saying is so the guy lifts a lot of weights. He's maybe a successful weightlifter

Why does a guy like that who just completely misses the mark is so obviously angry? Why do you even have a platform and that's what I don't understand about social media influencers. Why do we give people a platform when they're like that? We could literally just say, you know what, man? Yeah, you're, you're go sit in your rocking chair and stare at the wall. Like we're done with you, but we don't, we prop them up, we get them verified. And then, you know, anyway, anyway, turn off your comments. Let's turn off all these looky-loos and get rid of them and see if we can get, anyway, turn off your comments. Let's turn off all these looky-loos and get rid of them and see if we can get a big Kurt on the horn. Say you Kurt, you there buddy? Yeah buddy.

Hey, welcome to the Unpaid and Underrated podcast. Glad to get you on. Yeah. Kick it off, man. What brought you to Mastinomics? It's our favorite, I want to hear your origin story. A fairly new crew, a very new crew. Let's hear the whole story.

Yeah, I'm a little bit of a baby, I guess. I fell into Mastinomics completely by luck. So I was traveling down to visit my in-laws in Florida. And whenever I'm traveling, I always bring my shoes with me, I bring my belt with me, and I try to find a gym, which is, it's fun. like you get to meet new people. I mean, you know, maybe you get see new equipment Whatever, but the gym that I went to turns out had a bunch of the banners there It had the curls banner it had the bench heavy a couple of different ones that are available on the store

And I had never heard of massive This would have been about a year and a half ago now at this point, this would have been like the summer of 23. So naturally I started poking around the internet and trying to find these guys. And I came across some of the YouTube videos, came across some of the stuff on Instagram, and it was all hilarious.

And it was all like the stuff that I'm into. It's about lifting and it's making fun of beer commercials. And I think one of the first ones I remember seeing it was talking about the the northern lights over South Dakota being especially beautiful. And it was like a picture of Ed Cohn up in the sky. And I'm like, this shit is hilarious. These guys are so funny. And then like, once I started seeing a couple clips of them, I'm like, they seem really down to earth. They seem really cool. This is awesome. Then I found out that they were from South Dakota. And I had recently

traveled to, to Montana with my wife for vacation. So I've kind of grown fond of that part of the country as well. So there was kind of like that connection the country as well. So there was kind of like that connection and interest as well. So I ended up following it for about a year on and off. And then finally, I think I went over to the store and I saw the jean shorts available. I was like, oh, hell yeah.

And then I saw it's like become a supporting member for $3 a month. And I was like, you know, it's $3 a month. And you know, to use know, I, it's $3 a month. And, you know, to, to use one of our jokes, you can't afford not to do that. Why wouldn't I do that? So, uh, that would have been about August last year, uh, was when I became a member of the crew. And so I haven't looked back since then and, you know, it's been, it's been an awesome experience,

plenty of inside jokes and plenty of great moments so far. What about the podcast as far as listening to that, where you at on that journey? So I went back and I started from episode one and I probably got about five episodes in really quickly because back then, I mean, what, the episodes were like 30 minutes, if not sometimes even shorter than that.

So I started burning through a couple of them, but honestly, it's been cool catching up on your backlog. It's been kind of listening to real backlog, the official backlog, the crew, the crew's backlog, because it's literally the crew. It's I actually talked to someone else about that recently. I was like, it is definitely necessary, I think, to catch up on all the backlog of Mastinomics. But when you listen to some of the back episodes of Unpaid and Underrated, like especially the guys who I've met, so for instance, like Mathias

or Toby or Spicy Pizza or Garrett, like it's cool to hear their whole backstory and get to learn more about these guys who I've hung out with now. Or even people you might meet in the future as well. So kind of getting caught up on the unpaid and underrated backlog has postponed me going more into the old Mastinomics episodes. I'm just trying to keep up week to week with the new episodes

and staying current while working back on unpaid and underrated. Well, there's our ad read. Yeah, sounds like a good plan to me. Like that's to tutor to tutor on Horn a little bit like that is why we do this. Yeah, listen, my goal is to be understood the assignment. My goal is to become a friend of the unpaid and underrated pod. There you go.

Well, you're making your second official, you know, visit on it and only been crew for fucking like seven months. So that's, that might be a PR right there. And it was wild to see you to, I think you were fairly, I'm not sure. I know you say you joined. I don't know. Did you get in discord right away or, cause I don't remember you commenting at all really, maybe until you said you were coming to crew to December to remember crew falls that might have been one of my

first comments. Okay. Okay. First comment. I'm like who's this new guy that's like spinning two grand to come out there. Just spending $1,000 to come out to crew falls. Some guys sending me DMs and of course, because it's crew, I just instinctually trust it. He's like, Oh, where are you? What are you landing? And I was like, oh, I'm right here. Meanwhile, this is like, you know, a federal agent coming after me or something. I don't know, I didn't investigate anything.

That's good stuff. It crew falls. I think the general talk was, who is this guy? Does anyone know him? Let's hope that he's not a serial killer. Let's hope that this turns out well. Hey, it did. Turned out great. Yeah, man. Well, if everyone else wants to get to know you, where are they going to find you on Instagram?

What's your Discord username and all that? So I'm BigKurt on the Discord and on Instagram, you can find me. It's kdubs underscore 82. Nice. Cool bean. Kdubs underscore 82 nice cool bean I'm fucking dying here, man This is the last day of my vacation and I am so like I'm not ready to go back to work But I'm ready to do something I just hit my 40 so I'm putting in a three-day weekend starting tomorrow. Yeah, very happy so big Kurt Jodi mentioned you're an Eagles fan, so we know

you live in Pennsylvania. Is that where you've always been from or have bounced around any? Yeah, I've been in the Philadelphia area for most of my life. Really the only exception to that would have been college. I went to Penn State, so I was up in state college for a couple years, but it's been Pennsylvania for my whole life. That's not too far. You're in our area. What's bigger, Pennsylvania or New York? Oh, yeah, that that is a good question. Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania is taller, but New York is like twice as wide. Literally.

There's no way to know. Well, big, big, big, Kevin. Oh, big Kevin will show us the picture of it next week. Oh god the fucking the the I Did you see where Kevin on the discord like put New York State in South Dakota to kind of like give it a perspective And it was relatively like it was basically three-quarters of South Dakota and it was almost the full left to right and like basically all of the Basically like just like you took like a 45 degree angle and took out like the top like left corner. So it was damn near three quarters of the state. But like

its entire width and height at one point. But fucking Long Island had its dick up. I was the funniest fucking thing ever. What are you doing to Iowa? And then he and then I think they put it in the thing they might have put out. They put it in California too. And then Toby said, now you're getting me out in Arizona. So all right. So Kevin, do Ontario next. I want to see how big New York compares to Ontario. Anyway, there's enough hijacking our guests here.

Yeah. So back to the guest. So extremely new crew. What's one piece of merch that you've seen? You know, I have you seen Kevin's all those spreadsheets that are all those pictures and Venn diagrams the big Kevin post So maybe between that and just what you've seen of people wear in person and you know, obviously on you know Discord and everything just what's that one piece of merch that you're like damn man I whatever gonna bring that out of the backlog If I have to that is if you give me one pick like you get one piece of apparel and that's it I want the yeah buddy sure yeah and I know that that one's

never coming back right yeah no but the the band one the blurry one is actually one of the ones I had to retire because it just doesn't fit anymore and I I, I hear that. Yeah. It's just on the blurry. Anyway, well, I, yeah. But like, I, I would really enjoy that because I say that all the time. I mean, I'll, I'll say that before my lips. Sometimes I say that to like encourage other people sometimes. So that would probably be the one I would pick. Uh, but the breaking parallel stuff was really cool. So the t-shirt and the shorts as well. If what I hear the design got retired on that one. So that one's definitely not coming back either.

Yeah, that was a cease and desist from Big Meth. They know. Come on. I was like, wait, I get it. That one had levels. I retire. I'm giving up. Nathan, you take over. What about the let's hear the Hall of Fame status and a supporting membership number? So the supporting membership number is 445, which I know gets chuckles from a couple of people. That one is the the Hall of Fame status is funny because when we were in Crew Falls and we were at the sushi restaurant, I literally asked you what is the Hall of Fame. And I'm really fortunate that you guys didn't treat me like a total new or like, you know, like a total poser. I end up sending you a picture of it. I can't remember. I hope I did. I was able to end up sending you a picture of it. I can't remember. I hope I did. I don't think so. I think I came across one. I don't know. Maybe somewhere on the discord or wherever I had a picture.

I finally did ask for one in one of my recent orders. Uh, but if I'm, if I'm looking down the list, I think at that day, I think I was at one and now I think I'm at six. Nice. I think, uh, you know, since I've went to crew falls, I own a drink spotter. I think I own a piece of band merchandise because I have the crew only lip shorts that counts. Yeah. So I think that obviously being on unpaid and underrated, my voice got on the

massonomics podcast and I've posted a picture with another supporting member on IG. I posted a picture of that Christmas horn. Was that the one where we all posed in front of the big wreath? Yeah. That's a stupid picture. So yeah, I think I'm halfway home.

Oh yeah. How far are you from Columbus? Is that something you had ever considered on the Arnold trip? It's got to be like eight hours or something. Well, didn't it? Cause you're all the way like you couldn't be any farther to the to the to the east. I think I was like, this summer, I should be able to beef the numbers up as well and get like all the way up to 10. And I'll definitely get to 10 online orders really soon.

So if if everything lines up, if I go to the Arnold next year, that will be for my Hall of Fame. Silly. Oh, dope. Why next year? What's the way? Well, well, well, well, well, well, it's like 30 days away. You got tons of time to plan. I wouldn't get the silly cup this year. So I'm just saying, oh, you are., whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I've never even been to a meat. I've never been to a meat. I've never done a meat. So, you know, I always wanted my first time to be special. So I'm hoping that the lift hard to live. I don't I don't. Oh, geez.

I don't know if I'd recommend that. That's that's oh wow. But if you just if that's the only meat you do and you just either retire or come out every couple years. Yeah, like don't don't do that and then go to a local like USPL meeting. Expect to find in the world's best roller coaster and then go into some county fairs. Like, I don't know if you want to do that, man. I don't know. Scantz told me he's jealous.

Scantz is like, I wish that I could relive it again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just jealous of what you're about to go. I would just do one first so that you could say like, OK, I did this one and it again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just jealous of what you're about to go. I would just do one first, so that you could say like, Okay, I did this one and it was all right. And then you go to this one and you're like, it can be like this. The only advice I give just just understand like, and just understand the rules, understand commands, don't open too heavy

because like you can bomb out and then don't get a total and then you fucking spend all that money to then not have a total and then that's not fun. They won't necessarily kick you out of the meat, but all your lifts don't count and it's just meaningless in the grand scheme of it being a total. It's still having the experience, but you don't wanna go home with that.

So just literally open to something you can triple and go from there. That's my advice. Yeah, that's one thing I picked up already, kind of how to start gauging what your three lifts are going to be and really that that first one, you know, making sure that that's one you're not going to screw up. And then taking like a decent jump on the second one,

maybe even like having that be like the goal that you wanted to hit. And then that's usually what I do except for the lift hard, live easy is like, like my second lift is my PR and then my third is fuck it. We'll try it. That's how I've always done it except for a third live easy where I Sandbagged my deadlift because I knew I was gonna finish first anyway There will be other opportunities. I hear that about you. I just. Ha ha ha ha.

Yeah, the last and also just a quick throwback. The last thing you want to do is bomb out your opener and then chirp me. We won't name any names, but somebody did that. It didn't. They they said something about me being short. I was like, didn't you bomb your opener? And they were like, that crap. Yeah, I did. And I was like, ah, anyway, see you.

I was like, didn't you bomb your opener? And they were like, that crap. Yeah, I did. And I was like, ah, anyway, see ya. There's an opportunity for me to do a meet coming up in a couple of weeks, like midway through March. I just have to stop being a cheap ass maybe and just do it. Which I mean, they're fun. I think, check out the Federation.

I think it might be a USPL one actually at the gym that I go to. USA. Do it. Just get it out of the Federation. I think it might be a USPL one actually at the gym that I go to. USA. Do it. Just get it out of the way. Even if you fail it, then you'll know at least why. So then when you go to the Lift Hard, Live Easy, you'll know the commands, you'll know the timing

and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I would say don't let the first, don't let Lift Hard, Live Easy be, Lift Hard hard live easy be the third of three Z be your first It will ruin them. I'm retired now because I did lift hard live easy and was like I don't want to do anything other than this like this was the best meat ever So when I came out to crew Falls, I was not necessarily planning to come out not necessarily planning to come out to the lift hard, but easy. Okay.

Yeah, I heard this. It sounds like you made a decision. I heard this, yeah. But I got my arm twisted really easily into it, so. Yeah, that was a good rubber arm twist. I did have other plans for next summer in terms of things that I was gonna pursue, but I was like, no, I'm going back to hang with these guys.

Yeah, it was a good time. And it's like, and I almost will say like, no, I'm going back to hang with these guys. Yeah, that's a good time. And it's like, I almost will say like, Crew Falls is maybe even more fun though, just because it's like more chill. Like it's all like, like, Lift Hard to Be Easy almost, it's almost overwhelming cause it's like, you know, there's, you're trying to coordinate with 70 people,

not 30 people. And it's just more, it's more challenging to like, and we're going to be here at this time and then we're going to be at weigh-ins and they're going to be here at this time. And then like, I can see that. Both are great, but crew falls, like, I don't know, crew falls is awesome. I would, if something happened and I could only do one, like I would be hard pressed to not do crew falls, but obviously it looks hard. Probably still edge it out. But, uh, as crazy as it seems that I just up and came to crew falls without having

met anyone or really kind of like established a rapport with anyone. That's kind of the feeling that I had. I was like, this will be cool. Like everybody's just hanging out for a weekend and I'll get to meet a bunch of crew members, um, in no kind of pressure situation. Yeah. A powerlifting meet coming up. Yeah. We welcomed you with arms wide open.

With arms wide open. Actually, there was a fun thing I should have brought up during the general topics. I visited Big Steve Certified Gym, the Moving Mountains, recently. Yeah, so he got some new equipment. Yeah. And he's, like I said, certified again.

So decided to head on down there. And we were talking about the move from the ODI to the to the Ram Coda and what it's Ram Coda, Coda, Coda, Coda. It's in South Dakota, not like the Coda. It's got to be. I used to see it. In Dakota, like Roma. Yeah, it's got to be Ram Coda, see it any other way. Is it like Ramada in Dakota? Like Ramma? Yeah, it's gotta be Ramcotta, like, cause we're in South Dakota. Anyway, and we're all happy, cause we've done two years in the hottest ice arena in the world. And you know what Steve said to me?

When are people like us ever gonna have a chance to perform in an arena again? Oh wow. That's true. And I'm like, damn it, Steve. Like, that is an incredible perspective that I never considered. And I thought that that was really important to bring up and let everybody else hear is that he had that very important perspective is, yeah, it was hot. Yeah, the beer was cheap. Like everything was, you know, we had our ups and downs there, but he's right. And wanted to put that out there.

Remco is going to be incredible, but I wanted to recognize Steve for saying something that completely changed my perspective. Yeah. Well, if they had it in like fucking April or November or October. Well, I guess you can't because it's literally hockey season. So yes, to kind of say, yeah,

like even when it rains, rain was hot like fuck that like All right, let's we'll move this along a little bit so big kurt I have this game that i've apparently poorly explained a couple times So it's called least fun most fun So I need you to tell me the least fun thing about this topic as well as the most fun thing about this topic not either or so Your topic this week my friend coaching baseball least fun most fun. Least fun is the fact that we are a quote unquote spring sport when you're coaching high school baseball not counting any of the off season stuff and stuff, games and practices and outdoor activities and all start in March. And you know, you guys are in the quote unquote Northeast, you know, Joe, you're up in Ontario

and Keith and Rochester. So you guys know what the weather's like at that time of year. So just kind of being outside, you know, like in the middle of a field with nothing really blocking the wind. And sometimes there might be a little bit of rain or whatever, plus the cold. And just kind of standing around for a couple hours, watching kids play baseball, that experience can kind of suck. Most fun is when things start to get pretty competitive and things start heating up and you see some of your players getting better over the course of the season by the time you get to like late April and May and the games really mean something

and they're super competitive that's a whole hell of a lot of fun and it adds a completely new element to my job that I don't know if we're getting into that yet yeah yeah roll it right right we can roll right into it if you want. We'll do it live. So yeah, I am a high school teacher and so like this is just like another way that I can kind of like help the community that I work for and so when the school year kind of drags on and everybody's kind of ready for summer vacation, I mean here I I am in like April and May, like I said, and there's like a whole hell of a lot of fun to be had as the season's really starting to literally and figuratively heat up.

So I would say that that's the most fun is when you know, things really get rolling. Nice. What, what is your, what's your like an assistant coach? What's your, what, what position do you hold on on the varsity JV? What are you coaching? So I'm the head JV coach which makes me an assistant coach really, you know I got you we work pretty well together all the varsity coaches and I'm technically the only JV coach So when it comes time for games, it's me by myself But when we practice it's everybody all together. Okay, so just like that's how football was, you know, so that's my main experience with that.

So yeah, there was one guy that was the JV coach and had to basically go do it all by himself, but he was still like the tight ends coach or something and like the defensive ends coach. So like he still had a role on the varsity team and it was just, you know, you took everyone that wasn't the starter and basically went and played like you know eight jv games a year or something. Yeah come practice time I generally work with the outfielders and then like when we have to split up for batting practice or something like that I'll take my guys and work with them and then the varsity coaches just kind of do their thing so it can be it can be a lot to juggle. You got like 18, 19 guys on the team. Um, and it's just you there, but, uh, it, I'm, I'm glad that I'm not just

being tortured there and that's kind of the format that it is for a lot of coaches. How many years you've been in that role? This is going to be 13. Oh, wow. Yeah. Uh, I started this school 13 years ago. And like literally the month I started, they had a posting for an

assistant coach and I just said, screw it. Absolutely. I should look for something to get involved with besides just being a boring English teacher. And so I inquired about it and they took me on and were able to kind of teach me everything gradually to where now I can run a team myself come game day. That's awesome. All right, Skrt.

So do you also do the strength training portion for them? Because like I want to hear a little bit about your lifting because we know that you know, you were a big cardio guy which you might have to explain to some of us because a lot of us don't understand that. Cardio? Yeah and then like do you also do coaching in that sense for the kids or do they have their own kind of athletic training so can you double answer that question give us your lifting history and talk about how you how it helps you coach kids.

All right. So if I'm talking for too long, then please like stop me here. But never podcast. We're good. Yeah. We were going to 11 o'clock. Uh, so yeah, for, for years, I was doing pretty much cardiovascular exercise as like the form of training that I did. So I was doing a lot of long distance running, uh, a couple of the other guys that I work. So I was doing a lot of long distance running, a couple of the other guys that I work with, we're all playing basketball before school a couple of days a week. And lifting weights wasn't really part of my routine,

which I kind of shutter when I think about a time in my life when I didn't have that. But then about, let's say like 2016 or so, my knee was really starting to bother me. My knees were getting like shot to shit. So I went to physical therapy for it. And I didn't know how to squat like period. Like it was never something that I did. Like when I was younger, my buddies and I, you know, you do you bench press and you curl and you just, you know, do all the mirror muscles and stuff like that. Nobody ever focused on leg day. So I kind of learned the importance of doing the posterior chain movements and really incorporating that into your training then. I started picking up more stuff, started getting into dumbbell stuff, started making sure that I was putting in some strength training along with everything that I was doing running-wise for the next couple years after that.

And then come, I don't know, I want to say 2019 was probably the moment when everything changed. I ran my first and only half marathon. I did the, but at the end of it, it was like, where do you go from here? You, are you going to keep doing this? Are you going to work towards running a whole marathon? I mean, the thought of doing what I had done twice in one race was way too much for me to take. I'm like, I'll be running for damn near four hours. That's torture. So I didn't really want to go that way. That was kind of when I decided that I was going to get'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. And I was like, I'm going to do this. And I was like, I'm going to do this. And I was like, I'm going to do this.

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And I just started really eating up all that information and started really getting into that. I'm like, this is awesome. All I have to do is squat and bench and press and deadlift. This is great. Um, so I started getting into that and then the world got turned on its head in 2020. And so it was tough to get to the gym at that point. I'm still not going on unfortunately. So yeah, back then that would have really been advantageous. Uh, so I, again, I started really doing my research into it. So by the time the gyms like were opening back up again, I kind of started devoting myself solely to

that. And running and really all the long-distance, steady-state cardio stuff really kind of fell off the map for me. And now, you know, I just focus on, on getting bigger and getting stronger. At the, it was right around that same time, so let's say like 21, 22, the coaching staff all kind of got together and said, like, How can we start delegating responsibilities off? Like, how can like certain people just handle certain elements? I was getting really into strength training. So coaching staff was like, Dude, do you just want to like, take that? Do you just want to like make that kind of like the thing that you oversee? And I said,, hell yes, I would love to. The problem is, is that when I say like, listen, what you need to do is make sure you eat enough and you squat and you press and you deadlift all in the same workout. Not everybody's really receptive to that. You know, there's a lot of

quote unquote conventional thought that says that maybe that's not the best way to go about it. Or conventional thought that says that maybe that's not the best way to go about it. Or, you know, the thought of putting on body weight along with muscle is, is scary to some people. So, um, I kind of make my peace with that and, and players are given a little bit of autonomy in terms of what they're going to do for their training. I'm there to make sure that they don't kill themselves and inevitably when they do have questions and ask me about things, I can kind of pepper in the right information for them. So for the past couple of years,

I've kind of been overseeing that for the team and kind of grown that reputation with the guys. And that's been really cool. Again, like just like another like thing for me to kind of connect with them. But so, okay. So you definitely got into the blue Book. Do you find the Blue Book has helped you train kids? Like, you know, I got into the Blue Book. It actually started lifting on my own. Steve showed me a couple things and then I self taught. Then I got into the Blue Book. It helped me squat without injury and without pain.

It did not fix my bench. My bench is still trash. And I don't think that's a technique thing anymore. I think it's just I hate bench. But are you using that at all with these guys? I advocate for it. So when we start every off season, I teach those lifts. And I explain mechanically how to do those lips. Inevitably, like I said, they are kind of given their own choice in terms of what their training is going to be, checking in with us and stuff.

And I gotta say that they don't do the program. And again, I think I saw a video one time where I think it was Robert Santana, one of those SSC guys. program. And again, I think I saw a video one time where I think it was Robert Santana, you know, one of those SSC guys, he said, like, you have to accept the fact that you're training in a way that only a very small percentage of the population is willing to do. So to expect a lot of other people to do that is you're going to drive yourself crazy instead. So

to answer your first question about the blue book, I think one of the most valuable parts of it is being able to mechanically explain the lifts and explain the way that your body works. So while the programming does work, being able to tell people the way the lifts work, I think, is the real goal there. And that was more important for me than the programming itself.

Yeah. Was, you know, barbell straight up and down, your knees here and that kind of thing. And that's ultimately what I was thinking. But it's kind of weird that kids would be like, I don't want to gain weight. And you know, at the same time, I tell the story all the time.

I didn't know you could just get bigger. I didn't know that was an option. I started lifting and tried to maintain size and body weight until somebody in the discord, big Alex was like, you know, you could just get bigger. And then I was like, you can do that. Like you can just choose to get bigger. And obviously I'm not a big guy. Like you've met me in person, but like I'm still twice Probably like I look like I ate myself

It's what are you willing to do Are you willing to have that period where like, you know Maybe you don't look the way that you ideally want to look, because you're in a caloric surplus at that point. But it's, it's for a greater good. And, you know, not to get preachy here, I'm sorry, but like, you know, like, we live in a world of like immediate gratification, you know, like, you want it now, you want the result now, you don't want to have to go through this process that's going to have periods in it that are less than ideal instead So like you just you got it do the program

You got to eat enough and then you just got to train to get to where you want to be I'm never gonna fail a lift then you're not lifting heavy enough. No, right? Like that's that's kind of the way I view it Yeah, my buddies recently. I'm like, why is's kind of the way I view it. My buddies recently, I'm like, why is it still that every time I'm coming in here to squat, I'm scared? Yeah, because you should be. He's like that. That means that you're doing it right. Yeah, that's the key. Yeah. A little on like three to any amount. Like, I think, yeah, squatting is fucking dangerous as shit.

You don't have. I would say, I think I, maybe I read that a bit differently. And sometimes with juggernaut, I'll look at my next day, right? Cause you know, I lift every other day and it'll be like, you're doing this much weight for this many reps. In my head, I'm going like, no, I can't.

Like that's, I've never done that. That's way too much. And that's what I think you were responding to there is like, I'm like, no, I'm going to hurt myself. I'll get my wife down to spot me. I'll have the spotter arms up and it'll fly like paper. And then, yeah, that's what I mean. Like, yeah, I'm sometimes you're scared of that lift.

And, and you know, if you're, like I said, if you've never failed the lift, I don't think you've ever tried. Hell no. Are you guys both like every other day guys as far as your training? Four days a week is ideal. Three days is usually when it ends up happening. I end up having to cut an accessory day, but like I'd minimum three.

So if I'm obviously I'm going to do load this week for my strongman show tomorrow, Saturday. So like I didn't really do shit because I'm also trying to nurse a fucking back injury. But yeah, I've been four to three. In the last decade, I probably spent 70% doing four days and the other, you know, percent doing three days a week, but I've never not done three days a week at minimum. Yeah, with my work schedule, I'm probably at four days every seven days. Right. So I would say that juggernaut thinks I'm doing Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'm probably more likely doing Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, I'm probably more likely doing Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,

Saturday. And even then, sometimes it'll be like, Thursday, and then I won't do it again until Monday, but I'll do that fourth day on Monday and reset the week. And sometimes you just skip them. I was on vacation this week, and I was like, I'm hungover. I'm not fucking benching today. I just skipped that day. I understand that some people take it more

serious than I do but so if I'm if I'm feeling under the weather I think maybe the one I can convince myself to go in and do the work on is benching yeah same actually that's that's the one where I'm gonna do it no matter what I'll bench sick yeah deadlifts are the one where where I think I went in earlier this week and I had a pressure headache because it was Friday, the day that that storm hit us. And I was hungover, I was tired, and I was fairly certain I was getting sick. And I went in and I did the overhead press and then I was like, all right, it's time to deadlift. And I did like the first set and like I felt my the back of my neck feel like it was going to pop.

And I was like, you know what? We're just done. We're just done this today. God, I miss. Um, let's see, you got a whole list of nicknames. I don't even. I mean, I dropped one already. Yeah. Skirt. Yeet. Yeah, yeah. list of nicknames I don't even I dropped one already yeah skirt yeah yeah yeah drop that I'm guessing you did you lose your house key a few times is there a

reason why where's my house key is that a oh dear yeah My, my last name, it gives me a lot of opportunities for, for nicknames. And that's one that I got when I was really young. And even after like I moved to a completely different town, even after I moved out, out of Philadelphia, like somehow that name came with me. I don't even know, but like how it got passed around. This was back in the 90s, way before the age of the internet. So yeah, my last name provides all kinds of opportunities in that regard. I see, I see, I see. That makes sense. Because now that I go back and read them, I'm like, oh yeah. Mike Wazowski is another one that came up a couple of times. thing. I love hitting with you speak any Polish at all

No, okay, so There's a way to say cheers or to good health which is that's that's not drop. Yeah. Yeah, so I have a couple Polish friends So whenever we're drinking together, I say nice driveway before I cheers them Nice driveway and they're just like fucking hate every time you do that I'm like yeah you do. Yeah that might be the limit of it for me. That and I used to call my grandmother and my grandfather Babsci and Jocci. See I don't even know that one. My last name is crazy Polish and I don't even know that one. Except there's nothing I, people get really surprised at that. I did think that there was a chance your last name was Polish.

I didn't want to assume. I figured it was some kind of Eastern European, but no, it's insanely Polish. There's a. It's actually the first Prince of Poland had my last name, but with an I. So he would have been me a ski And I'm me a school and there's actually a candy out of Poland. That is terrible. It's a chocolate covered marshmallow Because my last name is like

I'm giving fodder to the discord crew here My last name is what you would give the nickname to a child's milk Right. So like when you have like your Baba or your that it's you, that's what you would call me. I just go so me. I just go. Dazzy is bird's milk, technically. So I was going to start going to titty milk, but I guess that.

Dude, that's OK. It's PG 30. Number one urban podcast. That still cracks me up still. Mike Wazowski gets good laughs every year too. The first time I bring that up, that always wows the crowds too. Have you ever dressed as Mike Wazowski? Oh no.

That's a really good idea though. Just show up to a party dressed as Mike Wazowski. Halloween's a big deal in my family. My brother was born on Halloween so we always do it after that. I don't know who that is. I'm sure as soon as you say it, it might register but at the top of my head. Green guy with the one eye. I've never seen it in my life. I'm not as soon as you said it might register, but at the top of monsters in green guy with the one eye I've never seen it in my life

I'm not a child. I don't have children and I wasn't a child when that came out It's tough. I know I'm fucking almost 40 and I've never had kids. So why would I watch movie? I I've Came that movie came out 20 years ago and my kids are five That's like at least I recognize good. I was still 25. Yeah, I wouldn't have watched a cartoon as a 20 year old Animated I was gonna say I can guarantee you've watched cartoons in the last five years I have but the amount the amount of so out of the hundred animated movies that have come out in the last 20 years I've seen like five of them and that is not one of them

movies that have come out in the last 20 years I've seen like five of them and that is not one of them. It just so happened that that was coming out like as I was starting teaching so it was Perfect Storm and it just hit. Perfect Storm good movie. Yeah. No it wasn't. It was. No it wasn't. Was that George Coney? Yeah it also is part of the nostalgia factor you were mentioning with music because I vividly remember watching that movie with my mom in like 1998 or something. So like I have like a theater memory experience with my mother watching that movie as a like ten year to 12 year old or something. That's actually a thing I learned in communications and stuff like that is people don't actually remember facts we only remember how we feel about when we heard

them or how we feel about the experience. That's like a common thing. Our brain does to some, to, to store memories. You don't miss a place. You miss a time. Exactly. It makes sense. All right. Time for a poop story.

What happened at power build? Oh, um, and, and, and there's another one, supposedly. So I heard you have multiple poop stories. So, yeah, I thought that that was necessary on this show. I mean, I like them. I think they're funny. I just thought it was a good segue because I have to pee.

There you go. I'll fill you in later. Ew. I think Joey's favorite lift is dead lifting and that's my favorite lift as well. Just primarily because of the way that I'm built. It's the most advantageous lift for me. So I've got these long ass arms. So it's always it's been the one that I've been able to get decent numbers on the quickest. So I enjoy it. But there's a lot of dangers with deadlifting, including if you brace hard enough and you're pulling enough

weight, I think you know what's probably going to happen. Your nose bleeds. So, uh, Strain, strain your back. I share my back all the time. I don't have a weak back. So I've never done that. If you're,

Oh, you guys couldn't see Keith's face. We talking about, I don't, I've, I don guys couldn't see Keith's face. We're talking about I don't I don't wear my emotions on my face. If he if he could have slapped me right there through the screen, he was going to do it. I've been having back problems for fucking 20 years. I know. I'm sorry, Kurt, to interrupt you. That was really funny. Like if there was ever a face that said fuck you, dude Sorry continue your story sir

Well, if you do follow the programming in the blue book, at least you end on deadlifting So that was my work set of deadlifting and I got the hell out of there as quick as I possibly could Afterwards and hit the showers as soon as I got home. So you had to waffle stomp, did you? Yep. So did you consider, you know, changing the name of the book to the to the Brown book there for a minute? They're pretty dogmatic down there.

So I don't know how receptive they are to the outside input. But I mean, certainly it's applicable there. That's good stuff. Was there another one that tops that or I, I think you had referenced there being two, someone else had mentioned that one. There's one like, you know, so had I got put on the spot and said like, you know, you gotta, you gotta give your poop story. This was probably going to be the one that I went with. So whenever I'm traveling, and I guess this happens for a lot of people too,

you get kind of out of sorts and you get out of your routine. And so like one of the things that can go with that is your regular movements and all. So we were traveling in Montana a couple years ago and the way my wife and I have done it, like we try to like segment our vacation. So like we'll do one part maybe in like a more remote area, whether it's like in the mountains or at the beach or whatever.

And then another time, you know, we'll try to check out one place that's a little bit more urban and Montana doesn't have a ton of urban areas. But we were in Missoula and Missoula is a college town. It's where the University of Montana is. And certainly compared to the rest of the area around there, it's a little bit more socially progressive, let's say. So the one morning, my wife and I went out to get coffee at this one coffee shop, which all the people working there and all the decor on the wall said that it was a very,

like I said, socially progressive type of shop. So the two of us walk in there and with me being who I am, like it's almost like I'm there, but it's like, I better watch my step. Like, you know, I'm there, but I better not cause any trouble kind of thing. So we're there and we're having breakfast and we're having coffee. And like naturally, like, that's the time when my body decides like, yep,

it's time to go take a horrendous shit. So I go into the bathroom in this place and I'm in there probably for about like seven minutes and just like completely crushed this place. And when I come out, I can literally feel every eye on that in me, like right on me. And I got back to the table. I said to my wife, I'm like, everybody in here knows what just happened. She's like, Uh-huh. For sure. I'm like, we got to get the hell out of here.

Don't we? She's like, yes, we do now. However much money you have for a tip, leave it and let's get the hell out of here, don't we? She's like, yes, we do now. That's great. However much money you have for a tip, leave it and let's get the hell out of here. So sometimes it just happens at like literally the most disadvantageous time. Yeah, I gotta be in like an hour and a half from here at like eight o'clock on Saturday morning and potentially carpool with a couple of the guys. So I'm not really looking forward to that I might literally just drive alone so I

don't have to be like all right this is my morning stop now it's like cuz I don't know when I can't plan it it just kind of happens so I'm not looking forward to that good stuff I always love a good poop story so you didn't break any I still we've had some bangers like a Turkish I want to like eventually like one day would be like a Mount Rushmore over the poop stories we've had some bangers like a turkey I want to like eventually like one day would be like a Mount Rushmore over the poop stories We've had on here because there's some good ones think Just it's their universe. They're universally funny. I don't care what anyone's I see a story dear to my heart

Now I'm pretty stupid like I'll give everybody that right I can be Pretty ignorant stupid sometimes, and I eat a lot of hot stuff. I love ghost peppers. Like, ghost pepper, hot sauce is kind of like my, like where I settle. If I'm like, how hot is that? They're like, ghost pepper.

I'm like, yeah, give me that. Anything above that, I'm usually kind of iffy. Why would you do anything sillier? Stupid ignorance? that's why. I think I know the story that you're referring to. Yeah, yeah, I wanna hear this. Just even thinking about it, like I feel like I'm going back

to a really, really scary place. So I thought that I was well-versed when it came to hot peppers and hot sauce and that whole culture, but apparently not because this very sweet old woman who I work with has a pretty good garden and she grows all kinds of stuff including insanely hot peppers. So like, you know, past ghost peppers,

she grows scorpion peppers and Reaper peppers as well. So she found out that I like hot stuff. So out of the kindness of her heart, she gave me a couple of each. She gave me a couple of scorpion peppers and a couple Reaper peppers. I had no idea what I had my hands on. I didn't know that what I had was hotter than hell.

So there was one afternoon, God, when was this? This probably would have been like, it's probably been like four years ago or so, my wife and I were going to go out for an afternoon walk. But before I did it, I decided I said, Hey, I'm going to try one of these peppers that Miss Deb gave me. And so I pick a Carolina Reaper pepper out of the bag. And I just eat the whole thing. Oh my God, dude. Okay.

And like the fire started probably, I don't know, after seven seconds or so. And I knew I'm like, okay, this is insanely hot. And then it just got worse and worse and worse. And for the next three and a half to four hours, I was just pretty much in the fetal position. And I felt that thing go through my entire digestive system. I felt it going down my esophagus.

It was like a brick, a hot brick. Just like a fireball. Just like literally making its way through my system. That was one of the most painful experiences of my life. I, sorry, nothing worse happened to me afterwards. Like, I can't, like, that can't be good for your, like, your digestive system. Like that has to cause some, like, it'll... It'll scar you up. It'll leave scar tissue. Well, I mean, also, how are your movements after that

for the days following? That can't be, does it just run right? I imagine you just have liquid shits for a week. That's gotta be, I don't know, for this to all stay in your face, and like esophagus and all that. I don't know how that would work. It actually goes through your.

I was talking with a couple of my colleagues the next morning and not about that, just about something random. Like it became like a parent, like just in the middle of the conversation. I'm like, I have to go right now. I have to end this conversation right now. And I went and it wasn't painful or anything, but it emptied everything inside of me. Yeah.

There you go. That's actually not a bad thing, I guess. Yeah. But I was lucky in that regard. You wanna hear a little, you ready for a little FMK there, Kurt? Is this one I gotta explain as well? I can real quick.

So three topics, you gotta rank them essentially, one, two, and three to some extent. Which one you want to F, which one you want to marry, which one you want to kill. So, but- Yeah, I got it. FMK, specifically for you this week. If one doesn't land, I'll go with the second one, but I think this will work. So I hear you like some mobster movies. So I picked three of my, well, I wouldn't say three of my favorite, at least my favorite is in here out of the genre. And then I took probably the two most popular. So we'll see how it goes., well, I wouldn't say three of my favorite. At least, at least my favorite is in here out of the genre.

And I took probably the two most popular. So we'll see how it goes. FMK, a Bronx tail, Godfather, Goodfellas, FMK. Are you familiar with all three of those? Oh, hell yeah. Okay, good. Oh, hell yeah. A Bronx tail is a little, maybe we'll know about that one, but I think it's.

There was, when I was younger, I would have answered this question a little bit differently and I probably would have tossed Bronx tail out. But as I've gotten older, I think I've grown to appreciate Bronx tail a little bit more, like getting to know like a little bit more about the actors who were in there. Like I forget the kid's name, who's the. Yeah, Collagen, all the, the act, the human the human actor. He ended up doing all kinds of stupid shit and being

in trouble. And then he was on... He was on Sopranos for a minute, but I don't know what he's done or if he's back in trouble again. But I know he had addiction issues, I believe. Yeah. I think he did something really stupid. I like, shot at a cop or something like that. But like, like, I don't know. But like, if you take like that human interest aspect to it, and Chas Palma Terry's the man, and it was like a really good story, I think, I think I'm gonna F that one. I think I'm gonna F that one. And this is gonna be, this is gonna be a really, really hot take. I think I'm marrying good fellas and and I think I'm killing the godfather off which just seems like sacrilegious but that's that's what I would probably end up doing just because I've seen good fellas so many times I've enjoyed good fellas

so much there's all kind of like so I'm I'm married one and I think I'm getting rid of the god that's fair I don't know I know it's like one I'm getting rid of the godfather. That's fair. I don't know I know it's you know, it's like one of the best one of the highly rated movies or ever but ah It was okay. I Enjoyed the the the the 10-episode movie series where it was basically about making the godfather better than I watched the godfather that was on if you haven't I can't I can't remember exactly what the hell that was called top of my head but uh oh shit I mean obviously it's a really good movie it is super long I don't think that that's necessarily a bad thing I don't mind my movies I just it's I don't know I haven't related to that one as

much as the other two. Nice. And I do love that you didn't kill. I was afraid you were gonna kill Bronx Tale, but I'm glad you didn't because like to like literally the the trick, I think I've mentioned it before like the you know, where you unlock the passenger seat, let the girl in and then like if you didn't, if she doesn't unlock the other side, you know, she's not worth it. And like I've never had a car.'t own a my daily driver has never had automatic locks. So that still resonates with me because I unlock my car manually every day. So I will always remember that. And I did that so much in high school when I was like was on first dates and stuff. Like that movie is just great. I love that movie. Awesome. Good stuff.

Well, that one landed so I wasn't the only there was a bunch of other ones submitted. No, I was going to hit you with basically like But we pray do it real quick. So FMK Celtics Braves Cowboys You don't really have to explain this in too much But I know you should hate all these teams but you have to hate one slightly less. All right, well. I knew this was gonna get a good reaction. That's fine. You've already technically done your FMK. So if you don't have,

basically if you don't see any positives in any of the teams to answer, then I guess you don't even have to. I'm not gonna dodge it. I'm gonna say this. All right. I am gonna marry the Braves Because there's stuff that I can respect about them

I'm gonna F the Celtics and forget that night ever happened because Hated or love it. They're pretty damn good at what they do and I'm gonna unmercifully kill the cowboy nice I'm glad I put you on thecifully kill the cowboy. Nice. Good. I'm glad I could, I'm glad I put you on the hot seat with that one. That was hard. Yeah. Good stuff.

I can't make it always like pick your favorite out of three things you really like it's like pick your favorite out of three things you fucking hate. Like that, that's going to be my new curve ball. Good deal. You got a Mount Rushmore for him, Joey? Yeah, yeah. I just have a question. If we're going to do Mount Rushmore of Comedian, do you want to do actors or stand up? Can they have done both? Obviously, most of them do. All right. It's probably going to be more about their standup than it is. Okay.

So Mount Rushmore standup comedian, uh, danger fields, my favorite. I still find myself YouTube and his stuff all the time. And I can like uncontrollably laugh at his stuff. Self-depreciation I think is, is like the top form of comedy. Like you know that you can get away with a lot there, shows that you don't take yourself too seriously. So Dangerfield's the king, in my opinion. I've watched enough Seinfeld for enough people to last a lifetime, so I definitely have to throw Jerry in there. I've also,'ve also read one of Seinfeld's books when I was a kid and actually was laughing out loud at the book that he read just because I could like hear the tone of his voice and I actually got in trouble at school because we were supposed to

be reading silently and I was reading his book and I was laughing too hard out loud so I'm putting Seinfeld in there too. Um, I'm gonna have to probably put Eddie Murphy in there because his, like all the early stuff that he did, like with raw and, and, uh, got the other ones good on the tip of my tongue, but I can't think of it right now. Delirious. Um, that one That one was timeless. And I gotta pick one more.

I'm gonna end up screwing this up and I'm probably gonna, I'm gonna forget somebody. Does Chris Farley count? Can I throw him in there? I mean, if you're sticking to stand up, I don't think I could name a stand up that he did. No, me neither. That's why I'm saying, like I kind of bridge it all together?

I'm just trying to think of people whose stuff that I've laughed at the hardest. Let's put Adam Sandler in there too, probably. Yeah, that'll work. Yeah. Yeah, because the amount of times my buddies and I have quoted his movies, he probably belongs on there too.

Yeah, right. Well, that's your Mount Rushmore. I had wrestlers and 90s rappers as well. I mean, we get enough wrestling talk on here. Do you want to do wrestlers? Do you care enough about it that you want to throw it my way? I think that's too easy. And I'm saving that one.

Okay. Heard, chef. Heard, chef. All right. Well, then that's too easy. And I'm saving that one. OK. Heard, Chef. Heard, Chef. All right. Well, then that's your Mount Rushmore. I got one more. I got one story, and we can go to unpaid. So there's one thing that stuck out to me that made me chuckle. And I want to hear if it resonates with you at all,

if you have any stories that can go along with it. So one of the things that was submitted was just a simple sentence. Kurt is a horrible secret keeper. So you've obviously done someone wrong and ran your mouth or something over the years maybe or what's what is is this something you're aware of that you're a horrible secret keeper or and also don't ask me who submitted it because we had like you you actually legitimately I think hit a PR on people that submitted the questionnaire because I had like I have to go back it was it was over eight and usually I get like four and ideally like four is the minimum to get enough

to get enough quality information to pull from so that's outstanding because I reached out to a couple work friends and a couple like personal friends and family members as well and you had said like get ready there's gonna be people that don't yeah but that's that's awesome because the one thing that's funny is I I'm not sure if you explained it to him wrong or they they interpret it wrong because I think at least two or three people thought they were you were gonna be on the Mastronomics podcast based off of some of the some of the submitted information it's like they because they referenced us talking about Mitsubishi eclipses. I'm pretty

sure that was the sister podcast and also referencing like how they're coming out to South Dakota to see us, which I mean, yes, but they meant more for the podcast. So anyway, as far as the horrible secret keeping, is there anything funny there? It's it's like one of my defining personality traits. I just, I say all the time that I would be the worst poker player. So like I don't gamble as much sports as I watch. I don't gamble on sports because I never win. And so to add that extra element of stress in, I'm just not going to do it. And I don't really play cards because again, like I would have the worst tells in the world. Like I wear my emotions on my sleeve. And it's, it's a joke that like people say, like, it's never really hard to tell how I'm feeling just

because it's like a parent there. So it, it's been, it's been kind of passed around that like if there's anything that you're going to tell me, like don't count on me just like solely keeping that to myself. I think I know who did say that and if it's the person who I think she told me that she was pregnant and that I couldn't tell anyone about it. I had to keep that a secret from everyone who we work with. And I did. And for months, I actually was able to kind of control myself, which is like a new development for me.

Something that personal, like something that... Yeah, that'd be a bad one. Really upset. I actually did keep that. So I said to her, when it finally did come out, because she was showing so much, I was like, you realize how much I love you, right? Like, you have like not told people about this was absolutely killing me, especially like when a couple of people started asking me about. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I still was like, oh, you'd have to talk to her about it. I'm not really sure. So it it's something that I'm working on. Now, I guess I want to hijack this for a little side rant. Well, not even a rant just more of a poll. So like I think that like telling your wife doesn't count. All right, like I gotta go fuck. I got my I'm gonna tell my wife everything like I can't think of a thing.

I wouldn't tell my wife like in this world. So if someone tells me a secret unless it I guess pertains to her to some of that wouldn't you know what I mean? Like like like what you were just saying like I'm sure you told your wife like that day your friend was pregnant like and that doesn't count as long as but then the negative of that is like then it's you have to know that that person is trustworthy not to then spill the beans so I kind of I guess I would select it but I wouldn't say selectively tell her stuff but like anything I would tell her that could get us in trouble if it was, you know, we ran our mouth essentially.

You just have to be like, put that caveat off like, don't. But I guess essentially just the whole like, I don't think it's really, I think every couple that's been together long enough, like if your buddy tells you something that says, hey, don't tell anybody, like you're going to tell your wife that same day just because you're going to, you're bored and you want to have something to talk about. I can't imagine being who I am I'm like you know I'm gonna tell Andrea this right like you know like that no like yes yeah I get that like that tends to be the reply that I get that makes like

oh absolutely you're gonna take a wife but nobody yeah there I have a rule that there assume everybody you tell is going to tell two people. Yeah. That's that's just the rule. I use it at work. I use it in my home life. Assume everybody you tell is going to tell two people. Right. So even if you tell somebody, don't tell anybody, they're still going to tell

their cat or their wife, like they're going to tell fucking somebody. Right. So, all right. Do a little unpaid and underrated. Yeah. You got a whole list here. I'll cherry pick three and see what's left. I spent an hour building this list. Good.

Well, you didn't tell me anything was off limits, so I'll pick my three that resonate with me the most. So Big Curt, unpaid or underrated is a relatively new game we play here, similar to some other games that some other podcasts may or may not play ours Is specifically called unpaid or underrated? So you're gonna get one topic and you have to decide with druthers if it's unpaid which means not so great or if it's Underrated which means it's pretty awesome. So your first topic of up to six to eight will be trap bars trap bar deadlifts Why is that?

They do suck. Nice variety. So you guys were asking me earlier about, uh, you know, whether or not like the kids who I coach follow the programming, I teach them how to conventional deadlift. And then 99% of them within weeks or if not a month end up just exclusively trap bar deadlifting and every time it breaks. It's, I understand that there are some valid uses for a trap bar. Like I get that it was created for a reason that's, that's valid, but to totally take dead lifting out of your program in favor of that

drives me insane. Gotcha. Yeah. It's a, it's definitely not what people think it is because I tell people all the time, like, what are you doing that for? Well, it's going to build my dead lift. No, it's not. It's going to build your squat. What are you doing to build your deadlift? Right? So I, I personally love my trap bar, but I use it as a squat accessory. If I can't squat that day, I'm going to trap bar. Right?

Like if my back is bugging me or something like that, then I'll pick up the trap bar, but I never put that in place of a deadlift. It doesn't make sense to me. I'm bringing my personal stuff into there. Obviously we had a kid a couple of years ago, pull 700 on a trap bar and that was flipping awesome. Yeah, that is pretty incredible. That happened. Like, you know, I'm not going to discredit that

one bit, but like I said, most of them won't conventional deadlift because they say it's going to hurt their back and the trap bar won't. Can you just tell them what I told Keith? It'll hurt their back and the trap bar won't. And they just tell them what I told Keith. It'll hurt my back. Not if you have a strong back at home. All right. Unpaid or underrated. Phil Collins.

Underrated, underrated, and I had to wear in the night recently. Guy I work with who is a musician who fancies himself to be like a music expert, talked about him as being a joke and talked about Genesis as being the worst band of all time. I have three ringtones on my phone. I have Billy, Don't You Lose My Number, because my brother's Billy. I have You'll Be In my heart for my mom and easy lover for my wife andrea. Phil Collins is my guy i'm sorry this dude said Genesis is the worst band of all time. Yeah man i said does he know the eagles exist off. I'm going.

Eagles ain't bad. They're awful. Unless they're playing football. Ooh, burn. I mean, they're so, and that was just me trying to be provocative, but of all the bands in the world, you think Genesis is the worst? I don't even think about Genesis on a daily basis because it doesn't get played that often. If it comes on, I'm like, oh, dope, it's Genesis.

But if the Eagles come on, I turn it off. I'll change the channel. It's the worst. I don't trust that he's a musician. Nope. Don't trust that guy. All I ever think of when I think of the Eagles, when I hear the Eagles get mentioned is Lebowski. When he's in the back of that guy's car, he's like, I just don't want to listen to the f'n Eagles right now, man. I've got to rub that. Yeah. Amigo the Devil has a line where he talks about being depressed and he says, I have a solution for that. I can turn on the radio and just cock it back, but I don't want to blow my brains out to Hotel California and it makes me laugh every time cuz I I'm just like I felt that so good anyway the Eagles Genesis sucks less yes they

do no have you ever heard the Eagles of Death Metal? Is that some cover or something? okay, so it's the singer from Queens of the Stone Age he plays drums and The singer for this band his name is Jesse Hughes And they do essentially like it's like the dance. Thank you Nate. They're like the their dance rock They're actually incredible. I love them them I've seen them a couple times and The way they got their name was they if you like you almost have to have heard them to get the joke But they did their demo and they played it to a death metal. No, they played it to I

and they played it to a death metal no they played it to I forgot I'm not even say his name I don't remember who it was and his response was this is what it would sound like if the Eagles played death metal so that's how they got their name the Eagles of death metal but I'm telling you dude it's disco it's like disco dance rock and it's really funny just cuz the Eagles are kind of widely hated by most people That's not I'm sure it's I bet it's more like one of those 51% hate them and 49% love them scenarios

It's not like 80% of people are just like kind of yeah, they suck or how many Eagles t-shirts do you own? any band Yeah, like I have a linear skinner shirt hanging up in the closet somewhere still. I own dozens of band shirts. Ain't nobody buying Eagles t-shirts. Ain't nobody got Eagles tattoos. They suck. I just like, I like like two other songs.

All right. Next one. Unpaid or underrated. I think there's a whole story here. So Penn State called. I'm going unpaid on this. So I understand how Penn State comes across to certain people. I caught a lot of shit and crew falls for Penn State. Just for the clarity like is so there's not a it's just it was written as Penn State called in the notes, but it's just like how like- We don't know what that means. The cult fan bases, there's not like, I understand what Penn State is

and how they have a huge fan base. Is that what you're talking about? Like I guess I'm- And the reputation comes to be that like people bleed blue and white, that like everyone who went to Penn State is just absolutely in love with the culture there and it just kind of becomes like central to their identity almost. I went to Penn State because at the time it was the most financially responsible thing for me to choose to do. When I went there and I started I think it was like eight grand a year or something like that to where now it's like

in the forties, I think, or something. Everything's crazy expensive now, but it was just like the most affordable college for me to go to. And I loved my time there. It was a great education and everything like that. But like, I don't go to war when Penn State's playing. I'm not like, I'm not like, uh, over the top with it where there are a lot of people who really firmly believe in that

culture. So I'm just, I'm not years were you there in relation to Paterno scandal and since Sandusky and all that shit. That is the, that's right. So we were we were going up. So I graduated in 2004. It was when I graduated. I think that shit happened in 2011, right?

You graduated college in 2004? Yeah. Yeah, I thought you were younger than us. That's why. Did you go to? Did you start college and you were like fucking 12 or you actually 45 because you look like you're 35 I'm trying i'm I know i'm not big math over here

But that makes you four years older than me at least three years older than me and that's crazy I'm 42, man. Okay. Okay master's lifter um So yeah, we we were actually going up there A couple of my buddies and I were going up there just to kind of hang out for the weekend in 2011. And when we were on the way up, we had the radio going and it said, yeah, there's a story coming out of state college about allegations against the former defensive coordinator up there. And we just kind of went, huh, that's not

good. And literally that weekend, as we were up up there you just like started hearing it going around more and more and then eventually that monday was when it was it was bad. I'll do a follow up there then i'm underrated joe joe paterno. Jesus christ dude. Where is game we like to play. What is it? Saw? Yeah, right. Like, it's like there's no answer. Roll time. Room room.

You don't have to answer that. I got it like if everything's true true if if like, you know The whole story that came out is is unequivocably true. You gotta go unpaid. Yeah On it fairs it there. I've never watched like I've seen some documentaries and shit on it I know the most of story, but I know there was a Listen there an out didn't Al Pacino play him in a movie Did you ever did you watch that and was it actually like about the scandal shit or was it only about like football? Yeah, there was definitely an Al Pacino movie. I swear to God there

was I remember I vividly remember the fuck did it. Are you gaslighting me? I swear to God there had to be a you know, I love to talk about anything else. No, I'm just a movie in general. Yeah, I know, but like, I'd literally love to talk about anything other than pedophiles. So, unpaid, underrated sardines. Underrated. Underrated. That's actually what I'm thinking. That's what I'm taking for lunch tomorrow. The fuck? How are you eating that whole that starting? So I do my best to protein. It's a decent hit of protein and I do my best to meal prep lunches every week. I'll cook a couple pounds of chicken that my wife and I, you know, we'll take a couple portions of that throughout the week.

And we actually try to like stretch it a little bit as much so we don't take chicken every day. So I have to have like something else as, as kind of the main protein in my lunch. And I think tuna fish, unless you're going to like make it drown in mayonnaise kind of sucks. So like I'm looking for any other alternatives that we can. We we went to Spain a couple years ago. And we had a different story.

We had a couple dishes over there where sardines were like the the primary dish and it was delicious. So like, we just kind of like kept that alive. And I understand that the stuff that you get at the supermarket isn't the same thing. But I kind of like that we, we used to have a guy that would eat them in the lunchroom. And we would just like, we'd hate that dude so much. I, I have no like my sense of smell is so on point lately that everything makes me gag and throw up. So I can actually can't eat fish at all anymore.

But no, no, no sardines are black. Did I get yelled at to get out of the. Oh, yeah, you should. I actually should. Yeah. I eat in a separate room before I go like join other people to eat lunch with them. And even then they can tell. Unpaid or underrated Rick Flair. It's a ball time man underrated. Underrated I got to meet him. I got to meet him one time. He was he was at this convention center up by me and this would have been probably about 13 years ago, something like that. So I don't know how old Ric Flair is now 400. Like, you know, he's gonna be 75 plus, right? Yeah, he's oldest dirt.

So there was, there was like a decision that I had to make, like, was I going to go or was I not going to go? And my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, we had just started dating. She didn't know who he was. She didn't care about it. She's like, you know, what's going to happen? Like you're, you're going to go there and you're going to see this guy who's like a total shell of the dude who you used to idolize and you're going to be depressed and disappointed. I don't know about that. That was the complete opposite. Yeah. I would say like that she's probably right in percent. But when it comes to some of these guys, no, no, definitely not that one. He scared the shit out of Ray Rice, the guy who was the running back for the Baltimore Ravens. At one point, Flair went to use the bathroom and Ray Rice was going to be the next guy coming to sign autographs after him. So he just had walked up and didn't see anyone there. So he started like mingling with people.

And when Ric Flair came back and saw him was basically like, who's this guy like stealing my time? And I got to see him like wind up and like his chest like go out and like get ready to start to do the woo. And it was like time froze for me. I'm like, I know what's about to happen. This is going to be amazing like time froze for me I'm like, I know what's about to happen This is gonna be amazing and he literally made ray Rice like jump up and like scared the shit out of him I'm like, this is a great rice There's anybody that would have been funny to get his ass kicked by Rick Flair over that piece of shit. I Know

How he'd like knock I know the name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in the elevator, right? Well, he was like the first one to really get caught on camera. Like fucking half of them, half of the fucking NFL guys at the moment, half, but there's been many people that beat the shit out of their old ladies and shit. And then he just happened to get caught on camera and he got essentially ostracized, which was pretty good. But then like 10 other people have done it in the last couple years and they're all still playing So it's kind of fucking weird that I almost I almost if he wasn't a piece of shit I'd almost feel bad for him because he basically like had two or three years left

He probably still could have been a starter in the league and he just never got signed again. Yeah. Yeah. Well so Okay, geez I have a couple I really want to talk about but I'll do one more because we are running time here Unpaid or underrated? Flav of Flav? He's the man but Scheme of things I'm gonna go unpaid like what I know I gonna go unpaid like what I know I I definitely appreciated some public enemy stuff and then I got all the respect in the world for for Chuck D as as as a songmaker as a lyricist and everything I get the shtick and everything, but for me personally, I would go unpaid on that one.

Interesting. I'm sensing you firmly disagree. I respect his spot in that culture. I'm also a huge Public Enemy fan. Like I love Public Enemy. And I don't think there would have been a Public Enemy without him. That's the story. Well, Chuck D literally wouldn't have done it without him. They said no, and he was like, then you can't have me. And then they were like, okay, then we'll bring him along too.

I don't think his contributions are as intellectual as Chuck D. No. But I think if you listen to 911 as a joke, he definitely shows his talent and adds to Public Enemy. Yeah, I think if I was in your position, I would have had a harder answer. Yeah, I think if I was in your position, I would have had a harder answer. It's it's tough to see him have kind of become like a commercial caricature now. Yeah. And I think that's that's where I'm coming from. I see. Yeah. OK, I can see that. Because even even now, I'm just like, yeah, OK, he's the guy from that terrible dating TV show. That's right. Right. Right.

But also with Virginia Alston from fucking. But I remember. Right? Right. But also- Virginia Elson from fucking- But I remember him from fucking 9-1-1 is the Joke or you know, all the songs he did, the feature he did on, cause he wasn't just a hype man, he did his own songs on a lot of public enemy albums. He did a really good feature on sex lies and violence

or something like that. Like he's, but at the same time, yeah, he's the guy with the clock around his neck that yells a lot. Yeah. All right. Uh, should we do one more or go into the next segment? I'd say let's, uh, is yours going to be more than a couple of minutes, Kurt? Not saying that I can't understand it. No, no, let's go to the next one. You passed on paid and underrated. Let's move on into what you have for us, because it is 1030. But both of us are off tomorrow. Essentially, I have to like I came prepared.

I have my yearly review tomorrow at 2 p.m. So that's my job. I got to get up and go lift in like six hours. Now, I went pretty hard today. Tomorrow's an off day. I'm going to get here on Saturday. I've got to my quad is on fire. My right quad has been bothering me a lot lately. I'm a little nervous about squatting with it to be honest with you. Fuck it. Take it out or just let's go break it. What's the worst that could happen? I'm gonna start with Keith. Unpaid or underrated, Tudor's Biscuit World.

What the fuck is that? So I've had it, but only once, I think. It is huge in Morgantown, Animas, Virginia. But I moved out in like, oh, wait. And it didn't exist, at least not in Morgantown, when I was there. But I did get it at least once. And it was probably fucking 12 years ago now.

But it was probably fucking 12 years ago now but it was really good so I had a you know my I judge every breakfast sandwich off of their you know how Tanner well the was the the pizza guy always says you know get the get a cheese or a pepperoni and judge that off how good their pizza is to me like Nick yeah yeah so like to me I judge a breakfast establishment like a fast foodie ish fast food or fast food adjacent off of their bacon egg and cheese biscuit not that I don't like bacon egg or sausage egg and cheese on my biscuit but bacon egg and cheese biscuit for me like the staple of a breakfast sandwich so that was pretty

damn good it was like a nine out of 10 there. So Tutor's Biscuits World will go underrated. Awesome. The FMK I have for you is on lifting. I'm gonna go push press, axle deadlift, sandbag. Sandbag or pea gravel bag? I had sandbag down, but if, if the gravel makes it harder, I'll go with that. You know what?

It, it just a, not to hijack Keith Singh here. I didn't realize there was a difference and there is, they are very different things to lift. The weight is so off center on pea gravel. I didn't realize I was, I'm essentially lifting in hard mode because I use pea gravel. I Never understood that and somebody was just like well, yeah, that makes sense. The distribution is different. I was like it is Anyway, go ahead buddy. I figured Keith was going with the sandbag and that's why I had that one. Yeah Okay, so sorry. So this is I wasn't sure if it was mine or his so it's yours my FMK push press Axle deadlift or sandbags

I'm gonna kill axle deadlift because I suck at that And I fucking pretty much pretty sure I hurt my back doing it last week That's what shut up Joe if you fucking tell me get a stronger Brutal and they're unpleasant so I have to is the bar like you think you like a deadlift bar like. Is this actual deadlifts are so weird because there's just no whip at all you literally just picking up a straight shaft it's crazy you want to make a good one. I gotta marry an F, so I'm gonna marry push press, because any type of, yeah, because the fact that you left it as just push press and not ax or yoke, or sorry, ax or log, so yeah, I will marry that,

because that gives me so much variety. Sounds amazing, and then, yeah, F, sandbags. They are fun, but not as much fun as a push press or any type of overhead press. I would stake any over press over. Any dead left the sandbag or anything anything over press would win the mary category pretty much for me going for. I think it's super impressive how you're able to manage the pressing in the wine cellar and just get it between the rafters that I'm always like, that is awesome. And that is great work. I'm getting antsy not being able to use my log. Um,

I mean I could like strict press it like Kevin is, but like, but strict pressing the log, it's not fun. And it's just like, I just want to sit there and fucking push pressure and like push jerk it. And it's just not, not be. So I have not been able to dive into a real log press and like three or four months. So definitely getting antsy for that, but it'll be, it'll be spring in a couple of months. So I have not been able to dive in on a real log press in like three or four months So definitely getting antsy for that, but it'll be it'll be spring in a couple Oh, yeah, do it up and

The Mount Rushmore I picked out for you. I said Cleveland Browns players. Okay. Oh Mount Rushmore Cleveland Browns pairs, uh Joe Thomas 100% number one Oh, Mount Rushmore Cleveland Browns pairs. Joe Thomas, 100% number one. Tough, Jim Brown, obviously gotta go up on there. Jim Brown played for the Cleveland Browns? Yes. That's convenient. Yeah.

Man, that's tough. Spent some good... That's bad, because we haven't had great players that last, like, through's tough. It's been some good This bag we haven't had like great players the last like through my lifetime. It's Joel Joel, Batonio He should almost he should end up in the Hall of Fame also I wish I had like I could Google like who our Hall of Fame players are go with just that but there's not enough Studs I would I would have put miles Garrett up there until he asked for a fucking trade yesterday. So fuck him Christian so bad. I came in I'm trying to think of the deep. Let me throw a defensive player in there. I got one of mine, but I don't wanna

Someone who is that Nathan? Just Nathan just threw one in the chat. No, I didn't Yeah, Baker me for now I Who was that? Nathan just, Nathan just threw one in the chat. No, I didn't. GF Baker, maybe. No. Uh. I was thinking secondary. Oh, well, yeah. I mean, Joe Hayden, but he can't get his shit together and not get hurt. I always get him mixed up.

Man, you're killing me. I can't think. I hate being on the spot. Uh. At least he's not out here hitting his wife on camera. Yeah, I will not go Kellan Winslow. That fucking piece of shit is like in jail for doing some really fucked up shit. Bernie Kozor.

I was hoping you were going to go quarterback from one of them. I mean, I didn't. I honestly never like Bernie is just because he's famous I've never seen him play it down in my life, you know Well, maybe if I've watched some of the 80s stuff on YouTube and stuff like that, but uh, yeah That's just that's kind of sad that we haven't had as many I'm probably gonna go to research after this me like oh I forgot these eight guys that I'm like that are amazing players and yeah, that'll be my four I guess Yep forgot about Ray Finkel.

I just really respect it when I heard you grew up in Morgantown and you weren't a Steelers fan and you were a Browns fan instead. I was like, this guy's okay. Yeah, so... That was the key, eh? My grandparents lived in Ohio, Cleveland specific. I have a lot of family on both my dad's and my mom's side in Cleveland.

And like, you know, orange has been my favorite color since I was a kid through my older brother's sports teams that I was supposed to go to before I moved. So then I was kind of resonated with orange. And then I think I was just bored before seventh grade in 1998 or something like that, when the Browns came back, maybe eighth grade. And I remember watching the draft when they drafted couch and I was like, oh, this will be my team now. And I just like just started watching like, you know, I just like, I mean, I had some teams that I kind of like,

I didn't hate as a kid kid that I remember watching and supporting but like from like 1999 until like today is like I am a Browns fan. Badass. Joey, unpaid or underrated? Collective Arts Brewing. Oh. I hope they're not listening. I have friends at work there. Unpaid. Wow. They're getting some really good reviews on

Beer Advocate and the stuff that I'm seeing about them. It looked like it was a pretty good scene. So no, so it literally is. And here's a little story that used to be a lab at. And before it was a lab at brewery, it was an independent one called Laker or Lakeport. And they were based out of my city, independent and all that. They were actually the original dollar a beer. Okay. You would, every bottle was a dollar or two for was $24. Um, so the bat bottom out and then just kicked them out.

They bought the recipe, they bought the brand, and then they shut down the factory. And here's just a word to those Fox. They filled all the sewers and all the drains with cement so that nobody else could build a brewery there. So collective arts went in and redid it all and they brought back beer to Hamilton and back then, hell yeah, you would catch me there all the time, because it's right by the lake. You go down, you have a beer on the patio, like it was a grand old time. I used to go there a lot.

But they are very heavily focused right now on just these weird microbews that I'm just not into. Like, they don't have a beer I want to drink all the time. And I can buy a collective arts in Columbus, Ohio. Right? So there are they have now gone past being our little local to being international and being readily accessible. So I think that I genuinely haven't drank a collective arts in two or three years. Would you say that that is the biggest one in the city? Absolutely, because like, again,

I can go to Nova Scotia and get a collective art. I can travel the country and get collective arts, but there are so many, I was a member of one of them. There's so many little smaller breweries doing different, better things, but collective arts is doing it bigger. We went to Vancouver this past summer and the beer scene there was amazing. I thought I remember seeing a collective arts there, but I couldn't quite picture it. Um, maybe there, there's other ones with like, with similar names there. So I don't know. You can get collective arts, probably all over Canada. Yeah.

And that's not a bad thing. It's just, they're not my local craft brewery. Any. Gotcha. Right. Uh, for, for FMK, I looked around, uh, the gym that you had there and I picked out, uh, Denny stones, deadlifts, which seemed to be your jam. And, uh, honestly, dude, like I, I saw the videos of you push pressing and was like super impressed. I'd like the one video I came across, you hit like a 165 triple. And I was just like, damn, that's really impressive. So I was going to say, uh, Denny stones, dead lips, push press for you. Currently probably going to kill the Denny. I love the Denny's, but they don't really serve a purpose outside of being fun. Yeah. You fucking for her.

And so I was watching your dinners and this kind of is leading towards my answer is unless you're loading them for time or you're doing one rep max, they don't serve a purpose. So like for training, you would train for dinnies. You wouldn't train dinnie. Gotcha. If that makes sense to me like to me. I obviously there's gonna be people out there that know more about training than I do. But I could do a Jefferson deadlift and work the same muscles. Oh cool. Yeah. Obviously we're going to marry deadlifts.

I love deadlifts. Like I wouldn't be here without them. So I guess that means I'm going to F with push press or overhead press. Uh, it's been a long time. I don't know what video you saw. Um, it's been a long time since I did anything that big, but it definitely is one of, again, I build my back. So I'm going to push press.

I can probably push press more than I think I can, at least my body weight for, for reps. Um, so yeah, that's what I figured. I figured it was an old video and I figured I'm like, if that's not his body weight, that's like, it would have been just over. Yeah No, the only reason the only reason honestly that the only reason I hate bench is because of power I actually like benching as a movement. I hate benching as a command

Like if that makes any sense That's what I'm most worried about come competition time just because I've always done touch and go Command. Like if that makes any sense. That's what I'm most worried about come competition time, just because I've always done touch and go. And so I'm getting used to that movement is going to world for me. Drop 20 pounds and start pausing. Yep. And for your Mount Rushmore, I went I went real specific. Um, I said WWF intercontinental champion.

Never won the big belt. Dude, how am I supposed to know that? Um, you can just go. I see champs if you want. Yeah. Cause like, obviously the first has to be Roddy Piper. Interesting. Okay.

Um, I mean, you've met me. Roddy Piper is like one of my favorite people of all time. Makes sense on a couple levels. Yeah, I read his book, I watched his movie, and I got to meet him. I love that dude and everything he did for wrestling. I still say there's no WrestleMania without Roddy Piper. And his goal was never to win the belt. He actually never wanted a belt because he said his character made more sense never

winning a belt. So I think he was an IC champ. Actually, if anybody's can Google that and make me wrong, I'm pretty sure he was. Yeah. And then like, because I think that was the one where he said, I don't want this. And they were like, you're going to take it. And or he was the world champ briefly. And got then dumped it. Uh, Macho Man, obviously. Yeah, yeah, it's got to he's got to be on that list. Mm hmm. You know what? It's got to be, he's got to be on that list. Um, Hmm.

You know what? I want to say Seamus, but I had to think that's the only belt he's never won. Yeah. He's, he's after my time. So I can't comment. I, I, I love that guy. I love watching him wrestle. I genuinely think I don't think he's ever won that belt.

Uh, Goldust could go on there. I believe he was an IC champ at some point. Oh my, yeah, this is super specific. Um, I don't know who I'd put on last. You got me, you stumped me. Oh, no. I was gonna go John Cena, but he was a better US champ than he was an ice he. My wife just coughs so loud and interrupted my thoughts. Still better than fucking Tappy Tappy Tappy over there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You'll have to give me a second.

Let me. Let me Google it. Yeah, I'm only I'm only at three because I actually don't think Seamus ever did win it. Now I'm wondering if, um, if, um, I love it that you picked all the guys that just like straight draw heat. Yeah. Yeah. That tracks for me. Doesn't it? Yeah. Yeah, that tracks for me, doesn't it? I barely remember like the levels of belts, because then I, and I always get like WCW because they had like the TV, they basically, like every, every both federations have like the heavyweight championship. And then like a tier below that, and then one way below that. And then,

yeah, like a lightweight, which some of them even didn't have the, and then it was the tag team, right? Exactly. It's pretty much. And I brought this question up because there were a couple of guys who I really liked when I was younger, who like definitely never were able to be the champ mainly because whole Kogan didn't let them. Um, and that was kind of the inspiration for the, for the question. So a quick Lugal Chris or,icho, nine time ISE champ. You gotta put Razor Ramon up there.

Exactly. Right, like probably the top. So okay, so we're gonna go back and do this again, confirming whether or not Roddy Piper was on there so it's gonna be Roddy Piper now that I'm seeing some more names and thinking like I don't give a shit about Cody Rhodes not even a little bit so Roddy Piper macho man China and razor Ramon oh we owe we owe China everything I saw the funniest meme with China in it today.

So it was like a dating app back and forth thing. So it was like a picture of China. It was the animated picture of China from like fucking from one of the games 1997 or something. And then they were like, isn't this China from this video game? And he's like, no, I'm texting from an Android. And I was like, oh my god, I left. So I think I said, I actually sent it to Big Mac because he's a big Android guy my God, I left. So I think I said, actually send it to Big Mac

because he's a big Android guy. Yeah, no, I did see that. Yeah, that would be my for sure. As long as Roddy Piper is confirmed. Yeah, we, we, China, everything she did so much and was an amazing worker. She was the first female Intercontinental champion. I think the only actual female Intercontinental champion. She was the first female, like she did everything and then they were like fired and then she died like she just went away forever. I just saw it. It was all because of personal shit.

I just saw a thing where Chris Jericho said she was like horrible to wrestle with and got a push that she didn't deserve. I guess there's always like wrestling. It was like horrible to wrestle with and got a push that she didn't deserve I guess there's always like rest it was like a big state it was like a 15-minute thing and I was like I only watched a couple minutes of it but there was definitely one snippet of it was I do I love Chris Jericho but I don't take his opinion for gospel yeah he definitely has a lot of yeah seems like he's a good dude overall unless I'm totally misreading that I Will chat off air, okay?

Nice definitely better than Chris Ben there we go. Nathan's backing me up. He did win the air continental championship In the World Wrestling Federation on January 19th 1992. This was his first and only time. Yeah, so thank you Nate So they go. Yep. Roddy Piper Watchman China Razor among that is stacked. That's solid I know like edge was edge should be on there too. Like I yeah I can go on for hours Eventually, I'm just gonna start a wrestling podcast

Do not need to be the co-host for that one. I don't think I could have you. A litany of guys. Just our own separate unpaid and underrated like, oh god, like colon wrestling talk. We'd only have like 30 listeners rather than our 200. I think we have like 30 listeners now. We just have a bunch of subscribers and maybe only 30 consumers, but we'll take it. Is that it, Kurt?

You want to bring us in for it? We ready to bring us in for our landing? Nothing else? Which is not saying that it was awesome. I enjoyed thoroughly all of that. Very well prepared. Oh, yeah. Shut it down.

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