Unpaid And Underrated - 100 : The Silent Partycast

Episode Date: April 7, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know The Technical Guy Big Nate. They dive right into great topics like being a dad, Relient K, pooping, and poetry competitions. 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 @natee561 (https://www.instagram.com/natee561/) His wife's floral account @floraldesignsbykay (https://instagram.com/floraldesignsbykay) or online at floraldesignsbykay.com (https://floraldesignsbykay.com) 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 Nate.

Can't you you need a different background but actually that's better than the flaming dog that everything's fine so leave that. I rather see your washer and yeah I think you should somehow render the flaming dog with my face. I hate the flame it's just me it's in there are you just pumping up your chair there Nate. No I was pumping my desk down pump up the jam pump inside wouldn't that be like releasing not pumping. Oh, yeah, it's a It's not I draw I mean I'll pump you down mate, but I don't know if your table will Well, I'm glad we have that My back is fucking killing me so if I start making weird faces just know that it's my It's my back spasming

cranking your hog in the middle cranking my hog that's why I wore this hat I never wear a hat to the podcast and I was like I want to look like a guy that cranks his hog on a podcast that's I mean I've always said that I'll never stop saying that it's uh it's it's hard to crank your hulk against tall grass. Yeah I'm doing the intro Nate. Can you do the intro? That would actually well. I mean he's the care. I think I do every time I'm on the show I do the intro and it's right. No, that's fair. That's fair. Okay, we'll do it for you know 50 times Yeah, well, I'm I stress out because I'm not prepared to do it because I get on and I was like, oh, you're doing the intro and I'm like, I...

It's just, I literally don't do... You've done it for 50 episodes. You've done it for 50 episodes. I literally just read the same sentence. You're prepared, you know what you're doing. I am literally not a professional. Where is this? Dabgonachy.

I changed my Siri voice to an Australian lady. And it's so funny just how nonchalant and uncaring Siri is when when she's Australian. And it was it's just so like I was like don't send this. And Siri just goes OK. I was like God that's so it just doesn't care and Morgan's like is it doing it for you? Welcome to episode 100. That's right. The big 100 of the unpaid and underrated podcast, the extravagant podcast for crew by crew mocked by crew and occasionally attended by a couple members of crew, one of which is Big Keith. Howdy, howdy. And this stranger to the podcast, Big Nate.

What's up guys? Okay, so Big Nate this week is apparently... Macho Man? No, no, I was gonna go with Escape from LA. Whatever that guy's name was. Oh, the Snake Blitzkin? blitzkin. Yeah. Yeah. Just what, what, what'd you say there? Yeah. Or you're in an episode of Yellowstone because everybody just talks like,

you know, his person. I think I might do this the whole episode. Yeah. Please don't. We'd, uh, let's get somebody else on the podcast. Ohio is the Midwest and the South. This is our land. In Ohio we call this unpaid and underrated. Keith is going to hate this episode.

Alright. Alright. Let's kick this off again. We can kind of skip, what are you drinking, unless anybody's got anything real cool they want to show off? Nope. Joey, I got something great right here. I got a...

I'm going to close this laptop if you keep this up for more than like 90 seconds. I got this. I can't stop. I cannot do it. I'm stuck. I'm stuck in whatever this is. My mom said if I did this voice too much, I thought I would stay like this. Yeah, my brother, I did the voice. My brother hit me on the side of the head and I've been stuck like this forever. No, I got a sparkling water that's unimportant that I think I was drinking last time. I'm very excited, but I was hoping I could open it in front of you guys. And maybe if I talk while I'm doing it. Oh, yeah, that definitely picked it up. Right. Yep.

I got it. That's how you do it. That's a professional move right there. It's like a masonics lifting department. Cusey that you can't really see unless I hold it right in front of my face. I'm excited. Well, I'm excited for you. I will drink some water and a Keith's as usual.

Anybody wearing anything cool? I'm not. Uh, we were matching earlier when I logged in, but you took your hat. I guess it makes sense you took your hat off because you can't really wear a hat with headphones. But also that hat is like half a size too small. So I don't know if you saw, I was like rubbing the lines off of my head. I am wearing something so cool

for the silence there. That was me standing up to show Joey and Keith, this is in honor of Big Dan a few weeks ago and my questions being improperly communicated. I like Dan and response. I thought it was about that, but there was no way Keith would ask me about that. Yeah, that was very funny. That's weird that that's why he didn't answer.

That's funny though. But yeah, out of context without being like, these questions are about Wolf Pack, it would be very hard to be like, who, what? But to answer the question, I am wearing a Wolf Pack t-shirt. I picked this up when I saw them play in Brooklyn. They're doing their little four day stint there,

five day, three day, I don't remember. It was like a lot of shows in Brooklyn, in a warehouse district, in a warehouse thing where a lot of people apparently had been recently murdered and we didn't know that before we went to the show so is that where you had your house code on and we're ranting about things yeah that's where that's the show that I wore my my robe around New York City yeah yeah well I take all the deal with I yeah I genuinely thought when you stood up it said vulva and I was

Yeah, I know that now It's in their custom. They have a custom font you can buy wolf space. I think this is their mono Yeah, I got through half of that word and was like no way and then not gonna lie you had me in the first half Yeah, you just got a ride., you guys just don't know Wolfbeck. That's what I'm waiting to do. I couldn't have seen it if I wanted to, because you're about an inch and a half by an inch and a half on my computer screen. Make his thing smaller.

Easy. You just hover over about half a centimeter to the thing. Centimeters. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Yeah, like you just drag the line and make it smaller. I've got you guys big and Nate's thing as small as it can be. I don't know. That's what she said, I guess.

I don't have a button for that. I don't either. I guess I got myself a call-out. I don't have an Apple device, so I don't think it's a PC-friendly. It's a Zoom thing. Bruh! Bruh! I got that. Hmm.

All right. Should we rate last week's episode or should we get into like small talk? Either or. I don't have a... Last week's episode was the rogue rep controversy. They talked about that a good bit. There was definitely some factual things. I was like, I don't know if that's how it went down or like the differences

are this because they were like, I remember specifically Tommy was like, well, it's just a they've already had a thing and they just put a hole in it. I'm like, well, no, because the thing they had weighed like 15 pounds and the thing that they came out with weighed like five pounds. And that was clever as whole thing was having aluminum lightweight, like the lightest weight attachments on the market. Like that was the big thing. And then so rogue kind of literally copying that verbatim more or less was, you know, the kind of got the uproar, not just the overall design, but like the fact that it was lightweight, I still get that that's not like

necessarily patentable. But that was where more of the issue I feel came from. I think you can patent lightweight or else we'd still have our favorite shirts. Well, then. There it is. I think the thing I like the most is they had the whole intensity in the gym conversation

and how you don't know what you're missing until you get it again of just getting that amped up intensity and being able to throttle it up and down as needed. So I kind of enjoyed that because I definitely like, you know, utilize intensity as needed kind of on how heavy of a lift I need to do or how shitty of a day I had. And there's definitely times you feel like you're pumping yourself up even harder on days you don't really need to, just because the day was so shitty. So glad to not be alone in that. So I would go ahead and give it five out of five patents.

Nate, what do you got? Also, that episode contained the, we used to be a proper country segment. Correct. I have things to say about that. And that was, I'll let Joey talk on it then. But so yeah, it was pretty good. They talked about some other stuff on the episode.

Was it other stuff and things, Nate? There were things, there was stuff. So all around, every time they talk about those stuff and things, I get very excited. I enjoy it so much. It becomes one of my favorite episodes. Everyone knows it's the best episode. I've listened, I did listen.

I did listen. It's been a long week, okay? It's been a very long week. I've listened, I did listen. I did listen. It's been a long week, okay? It's been a very long week. That was Monday. I've already listened to like 90% of their other podcasts last night, so it's like, I don't remember shit from last week. That was Monday, today is Thursday.

So much has happened. Oh yeah, I have stories. So we're on the other side of it and I loved it. It was the best podcast I've ever had. I'd give it five out of five. We used to be a proper countries. How do you have a podcast? I mean, we have a podcast,

but did you have their podcast? What? You said it was the best podcast you ever had. Yeah, like I consumed. Nah, like you know how you have chicken parm? I had chicken parm, you might say that. I had a podcast. I had had you have chicken parm. I had chicken parm you might say that I had a podcast I had a podcast for breakfast that morning

I don't is that I don't think that's a I mean we'll to take that to the Instagram see if people say that Uh, I just said it. What do you mean? Do people say that? Am I not a person Keith? Don't tell me I'm not a person. I mean I already said I couldn't see you on the screen. We all know why. Yeah. Yeah, that we used to be a proper country thing. I was just dying because I like when Tanner said maybe we used to be a proper country is how things are better now, because they would go off about how good those things were and then be like, like, I love paying with cash.

It's so easy. It's so simple, but I'm never going to do it. Right. And they went off about how like tactile photos were so better and we could do, but I'm literally never going to do that. I just like my phone. Like it's so funny that they, it was just such a good like elevation and then dropped to be like, but I'm never going to do that.

That's ridiculous. So I really enjoyed that aspect. There was one other thing that had me going. Oh, Tommy explaining what Libras were. The pounds, yeah. And it's so funny because I'm driving, and Tommy goes, do you know what LB stands for? And I'm like, it's Libras.

I'm talking to Tommy as I'm listening to the podcast in my car. But it's because sometimes I will order a Libra of wings because I found out what that means. I looked it up because I was just curious. What's an LBS? So I would order a Libra of wings. Or when I was MCing the event, I would

say they're lifting 400 Libras or whatever. And people do look at you right confused. But you can say anything. You say pounds. If you say kilos, and the Canadians are like, oh, yeah, OK, maybe. You say pounds. And like, oh, yeah, OK, maybe. can say anything you say pounds if you say kilos and the Canadians are like, oh, yeah Okay, maybe you say pounds and like oh, yeah. Okay. Maybe you say anything else and they're just like we talking about Yeah, really so Correct. I was saying they lifted 300 chicken wings

Fucking dobbies we used to be a proper country where we did matter and you could just say anything you wanted as a unit of measurement. No, that's your country. We... things will make sense by tens, right? No, twelve and a halfs. So I'm going to give last week's episode five out of five Libras. Keith, how did you do at your powerlifting meet? I had literally the shortest prep ever. Literally didn't even know if I was gonna do the meet until like the week of, just cause I was like,

I don't know if I'm not feeling good, I'm not gonna do it. And I didn't buy my USAPL membership until Thursday, I think, cause I had a really good last week of training. Meet went great. USAPL meets kinda stink stink because there's an afternoon session, so like I didn't, I had to be there at one to, you know, do the two hour weigh in and lift at three. So it's just like the whole morning.

I'm just like, I want to go to the meat. I want to be done. Like I want this. I want to be home already. So I kind of like, you know, I wake up at like six, seven o'clock every, you know, on the weekends, no matter what. So it was just like, I had fucking an entire day before I could even go to the meat. Um, meet went great though. Um, had some buddies there, had my coach there,

uh, hit a squat PR just came under my bench and then, uh, matched my deadlift bar PR on a stiff bar and probably had 10 or 20 pounds actually probably watching by the video back. Like I probably had 30 more pounds on the in. But it was still like this, the second most that was the most I've ever pulled and I pulled it on the stiff bar. So I can't be upset with that. But the squat I think was the highlight of my day. So barian or 24 or whatever, never in a, you know, attempted anything within five pounds of that or four and a half pounds or whatever. So that was great. Total PR by like, you know, whatever, like this, basically, I mean, I think it ended up being like, there couldn't have been a smaller

jump on the total PR, but it went from like a 10 57 to a 10 64 or something. So maybe actually, actually there might've been, it might've been like an eight pound PR, so maybe that was too good. So yeah, all in all great day, great meet. I enjoyed this week of just chillaxing. I don't know, haven't seen my new program yet for my coach. So, but we should be starting a lift hard, live easy, strongman prep. Basically, I think we're what 15, 16 weeks out. So, I just did dick around doing some off-season stuff and then, you know,

full tilt for powerlifting this summer or strongman that is. All right. very good. Nine lights. Yeah, always. I've yeah if I'm if I miss a lift, it's so I think in my entire powerlifting career there was only one time I got a two to one lift and that's because the side judge was a prick and like he was

like in a tort like everyone that knows him knows he's a prick and I still didn't agree with whatever the fuck he called it on. But outside of that one time I've either completely missed a lift because I got buried or stapled by the bar or it was white lights three white lights so yeah white white white white lights all day long on that money it was funny it was funny Tommy on last night's recording Tommy was like you know he almost like during supporting your member so yeah supporting your

member he interrupted Tanner and was like they circ know, he almost like during supporting your member supporting your member. He interrupted Tanner and was like, they circled back to me basically. I was like, so what what what federation was Keith competing in? You know, because he's been doing strongman for a year. And then all of a sudden he hits all these PRS and powerlifting and say he was eluding to me being on steroids. So I got a joke and I enjoyed that. And then big Jake Heinrich.

Well, something someone said I was on juice. I think I said I was on juice or I think I said I was on juice like jokingly in the discord and then Jake was like, yeah, orange juice. Hey, bring it on home. Yeah, so that was good. That was that was my weekend. We got a couple of mass and all mix things to talk about. Then I got a couple grinds my knurling off my Texas Power Bar things to talk about. You want to do those first? Do you want to do Masonomic stuff? Uh, let's do one of each.

So it's not repetitive. Let's, let's alternate. I think so, uh, do one and then we'll do the drop and then we'll do another one. And then we'll do the bar. I think that's fair. All right. So hard to follow. So we got, um, a ton of, of weather up here. It's the only way to describe it. By 12 noon,

we were covered in inches of snow. And then it turned into freezing rain. And then it turned into warm regular rain. And this was all within eight hours. So naturally there's flooding everywhere, but my basement actually started to flood. Not like flood to the extent of full damages, but my gym is pretty wet. So yeah, we're likely, we're going to have to clean stall mats, or get rid of them and get new ones. Cause they're all, there's just water under them. We protected all the equipment. Just a little track of how that day went.

Started the day at the doctor. Morgan got nauseous and threw up all over my car. Nice. Yep. Got home. I threw my back out shoveling snow. and for me to do that, you gotta know I was just horse cocking snow around like an idiot. Like I was not protecting myself at all. I'm still feeling that today. And then that happened. So I couldn't even like

help in the gym because every time I went to move something, I would just fall over in pain. So guess who who and she wanted me to say this horse cocked my weights up the stairs good for her oh yeah yeah I was like I was doing bedtime and I hear some and I'm like what the hell is that and it's her carrying my nook shuck 110 pound sandbag up the stairs one by one one, she's like, I don't want it to get water damaged. I was like, oh honey, but I couldn't do it. Like I felt so useless. So she was like, go do bedtime

and put the kids down and everything. Dude, I'd honestly rather like throw around a sandbag than do bedtime if my back hurts because I feel like I can get myself in a position to be like not in pain Just moving a sandbag because there's no resistance When I put kids to bed, it's like I have to pick them up and I get no choice as to how I'm picking them up Yeah, there's no safe space for my back. That's a wiggly sandbag I can't yeah, I was throwing my back out doing things with the kids

I find some so substantially more difficult than like I'd pick a sandbag up I can do that without I know exactly what kind of motion I can move yeah And then our shop vac went in the middle of shop backing the water out of the thing Because of course and it's 9 p.m. At night, so I can't just go and get another one You didn't go to the shop back store and the shop back district now They have a shop vac shop Nate you missed it you missed the opportunity, but So I do want to I don't want to circle back briefly just to give Morgan her flowers a little more so she literally vomited that morning and then shoveled the entire driveway and then moved all your way the deck

while being sick she was feeling better by then okay, yeah What did it was obviously. Kidding. Yeah. She blamed the barometric pressure, and then having blood removed and stuff like that, because we both got blood work done yesterday. And then, so as I'm going out today,

we go out in the morning. I was like, right off the bat, we need a shop vac. We need some sealant for the walls. We come home, and I go to go to the morning, I was like right off the bat, we need a shop vac, we need some sealant for the walls. We come home and I go to go to the bathroom and my son had ripped the fucking toilet seat off. So now I'm back to Home Depot to buy a new toilet seat and install that before he gets home from school. Who are you, Big Matt?

Oh, it was, yeah, two trips in one day. Yeah, so it's been a great couple of days. I do have a toilet seat question now. So as someone with kids, so I put a slow clothes lid in five years ago, and it's been the best thing ever. I hope you replace the seat. When we were buying a new one, she's like, that one's cheap. And I was like, it's not a slow clothes.

I don't care. No, you want the slow clothes. Yeah, I got it. Slow clothes. You really do. I went into the washroom after one of my morning calls and When I went to lift the seat it fell off and what he had done I

Remembered later is when he lifted the seat He did it with such force he broke the hinge He horse cocked it up your scot the yeah, we won't tell him that no one even going to school saying that phrase Yeah, then I'm like or in like we're driving was like or did you do that? And then he's like well, I had to be strong and I was like you don't need to be strong on the toilet Yeah, yeah, I did yeah I told him next time he does this it's coming out of his new iPad fund. I'm not I'm not doing this again. Oh What a nightmare. It's been a couple days. So yeah My training is on hold until my gym is put back together essentially. I might have to go to world gym across the street from my work for

a month or so. Hopefully I get sorted out and nothing got too bad and hopefully the ground dries out. The equipment is fine the mats are probably the big problem and I can't without them. Yeah. So I've had like, do you have, do you have the actual stall mats or do you have the clip together? What do you have? I have clipped together two third inches. It'll be easy though, because you can literally just take those outside then and just hose them off and bleach them. And yeah, well, so you don't even need to because like I've had I've had instances where I've had like my entire fucking sewer back up And I've got like shit water, you know Brown water black water

We're gonna call it like in like a six foot radius, you know underneath the mats And then I got like take those out and bleach them and shit. So you shouldn't have it that bad Yeah, that's the goal. You just gotta get them. You just gotta get them outside airing out and then because you might you might be getting water in the basement for a while, because the walls are wet right now. I can't imagine just throwing. It's not going to take. We put hydraulic cement on them.

Oh, so you actually had holes that needed filled. OK. Yeah. My dad has been like, oh yeah, we'll get that done. And he's been saying that for two years. Every time I go and clean the walls to get ready for, now we're going to put the sealant on right he's like Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, and then like six months later. He's like walls gotta be cleaned

And I'm like I just fucking did that for two days straight So now it just got to the point where we just went and put Just this cement that automatically adheres to the witness and it just I've used hydraulic swimming. It's yeah pretty nifty So then it dropped came and went. Well, on the back of that story though, I had a similar problem this week in my gym. I had a catastrophe as well. Oh, you did.

I don't know if I'm allowed to get into this, but Big Ryan was coming through Ohio. I'm convinced he lives here now. He hasn't Told anybody yet. Yeah on an incredibly frequent basis He literally never left from the Arnold right yeah, I don't think he had a night and then never left Yeah, and then he drove up to Canton, and then he said he flew back home after that But I and then he was back in Canton. Yeah, sure you did Ryan, but Ryan texted me like Sunday or something and was like hey hey I'm gonna be in town this week.

I think I'll have like a few minutes on Tuesday night if I could swing by and see the gym. And I was like, oh yeah, come through. And he went back and forth and back and forth and his flights got moved and we weren't gonna make it. And then he finally made it. And I, you know, like, all right, come on out, come check out the compound. So we walked to the back, I open up the garage door, like the man door, and just an entire drywall panel had fallen out of the ceiling. Ryan. And all I can say is it's his fault because it wasn't like that this morning.

He showed up at my house and next thing I know there's a hole in my ceiling. So I guess pictures to come of that somewhere. But yeah, thanks Ryan for ruining my house. But other than that, it was a pleasant visit. Really enjoyed the time together and I saw him off to other parts of Ohio. So yeah, it was a pleasant visit. Really enjoyed the time together. And I saw him off to other parts of Ohio. So yeah, thanks a lot, Ryan. It was great seeing you. So speaking of the other drop this week. Yes, we can have that and Matt's Yeah, we really did that. We can buy all of those.

Good. So yeah, that happened was that two days ago 930 est I think became a Because I was I was driving I got in my car 30 yeah, you're right. You're right. You're right Yeah, so the two two inch by two inch or no four inch by four inch porcelain mats That they had laser cut into perfect little squares and then got a logo embossed on them with the Mastinomics logo and like horse there's a whole like you know funny bit with it

so those went out and I don't think anyone I don't I don't think any of us got them because they were sold out before I even saw it I think they are gonna do a round two so well you know stay tuned on that but they seem to be a popular item. I think I can't think if someone did the math or not because it sounded like it was just one mat so one mat you know however many I don't know if it ended up being 50 units or 25 units or I couldn't imagine it's like because it's it was two in a pack so I'm not big math there with you know, this was the square footage of a four by six mat divided in four by four perfect squares. I don't know, but, uh, it's cool. They sold out at Tanner said it was a whole lot of work for him.

So I'm surprised that are so eager to get in. If they're eager to actually get another one, it sounds like he had to like. Hand wash every single one after the fact before they could drop it off to get the logo put on, but, uh, I mean, crew ate it up. So, you know, everyone's really enjoying the horse stall Matt content. It was I I was in a meeting the other time and I was like, while it was happening, I knew it was happening that day. And I got out of my meeting at like noon, my time, lunch time. I walk upstairs to go make lunch and I check my phone and I just see that Joey and Keith

had sent a bunch of text messages back and forth about the drop. And I was like, isn't that at four o'clock tonight? Oh, and I was like, dad gone it. That was at 1030. I've officially missed all of the merchandise. I was so upset. But there's always next time. There's always next time. I completely missed that one. Wasn't that ready? Unprepared Nathan.

I was driving because my thing said 1030. So in my head, there are 1030s, my 1130. I'll get to work, excuse myself for 15 minutes. Zoom does it right. Or, uh, yeah, it tells you your discord adjust. Yeah. So I, I biffed it, but that's okay. Math is hard. I don't, I don't read. So obviously 4pm. Yeah. No, well, I just saw drop and I was like, there is it. Something can't drop except for the, at same time. They drop everything all of the time. It doesn't make any sense So I mean would you say it does not compute I would say change no can't have change We could probably get through the next one pretty quick the YouTube video for tsunami bar I

Didn't watch it Obviously like you guys heard what I've been through the past two days. I'm not watching anything Do I can't keep track of at this point? What is a massonomics video and what is a Jujube video and which one is? Shot and produced and which one is hosted where I don't know who's making videos at this point there is a content farm that I cannot consume enough of it. I think this was the first Mastodonomics one was today, everything else, but what was weird is like,

I think Tanner said this is Jujie's last one and then he put out like three more. And then like each event had their own video that Jujie was putting out. And then he did like an hour and a half long one. And then he still put out more after that. So I'm, I mean, I get it. He spent a lot of money.

He's got to get as much content as he is. Gets out of it. And I've watched it all and it's been enjoyable. But like some of it is kind of like. The one that was like an hour plus long had like half of the stuff they had already released, like, you know, compiled in it also. So I wasn't sure. But I mean, if you could go through that really long clip one

and pull out everything that's in the other videos, just so it's only the stuff that isn't in the other videos. And it's probably not a half hour. Yeah. Yeah. And just send that over. Share that in the group chat.

That'd be great. Yeah. We'd appreciate your work. Yeah, I'll get right on that. But yeah, I'm very curious, though, if he bought this tsunami bar yet. Because it was kind of funny. Because like what I do what my biggest takeaway from the tsunami bar video was I Could tell like he Tanner must have had like had just looked at the facts of the bar because he was like he seemed

Competent talking about it in the video and then when he talked about it on the podcast So for us the podcast came first, but you know reality, he did the video before he did the podcast. He couldn't remember which bar was which and which the weight range for it. So I found that funny, but I get it, it's a busy, busy guy. So yeah. He probably read the spec sheet two seconds before he did the video.

I know, but then when they were talking about it on a podcast, like three days later, he was like, wait, that doesn't. But yeah, I also don't remember what I said yesterday. I can't remember what was on the podcast I listened to on Monday. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Yeah. But that was that.

But I'm curious if he bought it. That was the gist. You know, he's going to like we all know he's going to tell us he didn't. Then one's going to show up and he's going to go this whole thing. And that's where it's gonna end like it's gonna be a part of the The strongman competition in some way nearest I'll give one little last thing before we jump into the guest. We are pushing some time here

That's that's not that bad. That's that sounds now. This is the way you said it was I was trying to make it any window It was funny funny Oh, okay wrong again Keith This is just a this is the grinds my knurling off my Texas Power Bar The day that Morgan wasn't feeling good. I had already promised Saga, my three year old, that we would go for lunch. So as we were driving Morgan home, she wasn't feeling good, and I was like, Okay, Saga, we will still go out together, because I promised you we would. So we went to this place in town because the snow had started, so we didn't want to go very far.

I love this place, great pizza. Um, you know, they always treat- Austin Pizza? No, no, this place- actually this place is called pizza. You know, they always treat... Austin Pizza? No, no. Actually, this place is called Binbrook Pizza, so it's close enough. Except they have like better handmade pizzas. And we go and we sit down and Saga, where's orange juice please and I have a Coke. And the lady goes, are you expecting anybody else? And I said, no, mummy's not feeling good. She's at home. And the lady goes, oh, anybody else and I said no mummies not feeling good? She's at home and the lady goes oh, so it's daddy's turn to cook so you went out a yeah

I was just like who the fuck are you like I promised my little girl. I would take her out for lunch And you're just like putting it down that daddy's are lazy or whatever so just don't do that Don't don't do that to to father just don't do that. Don't do that to fathers. Don't do that to dudes like that. That's, it made me so mad. I stewed on it all day. And then I told Morgan like right before bed. I was like, oh and by the way,

it's like, oh, is daddy's turn to babysit? No, I'm being a dad, you jackass. Like relax. Yeah, all that being a dad. You jackass like relax. Yeah, I that all that kind of stuff drives me nuts. But like in it, it makes my wife even more crazy, especially because I'll take like all three kids like to the grocery store and I'll come back and be like, I had 10 people today tell me I'm an incredible parent simply because I'm walking through the grocery store with children. And Caleon was like, I do that on the daily and no one cares.

And it is just as hard. Like there is no difference in me walking them through the grocery store or her walking. It is the same three children and they're both just as crazy as can be no matter which and it's like, yeah, oh, a dude is doing this. That's impossible. Like brother. Well, that's what we used to be.

I know it used to be a proper country where dad stayed home. Dads can't have children around, but we're not a brother. Yeah, no, I was just like, daddy's starting to cook and I was like, no, I promised her I would take her out for lunch. And just because mommy's not feeling good doesn't mean plans change like. But also, if I did have to cook, I would bring her here too. If I had to cook, she'd be getting the same thing at home. I don't know.

It just drove me insane. Yeah, that's infuriating. My knurling is also officially grinded. All right. Ground. Quick thing here before we go on. I definitely woke Stephanie up last week when I screamed surprises. And I'm pretty sure I probably just woke her up just now when I just

like impersonated Tanner going, we used to be a proper country, elevated voice. Yeah. I can't, I, I can't raise my voice like that when I record because it's literally like, you know, the wall between me and her is about as thin as Joey's basement wall. Oh geez. His wall's thick. There's just gaping holes in it. Yeah. That's a good episode title.

All right. Should we do an ad read? Yeah, let's do an ad read. I hope our guest this week has an ad read prepared for us. If not, we can, you know, we'll see. Maybe I didn't do a good enough job letting them know to have one ready. I'd read. Oh wait, hold on, I got something.

We can just unmute Moe Fo and let him do one. Hold on, hold on, hold on, I got something. He's ready. We might do that anyway, just as he's a loyal listener. All I'm saying though, for the listeners at home, you guys don't get to experience this. This is an audio podcast. And I just, I want to explain to you,

right now, we started this podcast. I was just staring at Joey, I'm staring at Keith. We're all just in our respective basement, dark dwelling areas, not really, but we're just in our dark areas, just gloomy looking bunch of group of dudes. And then none other than the mofo guy joins in just looking jacked as all get out, sunglasses on, mustache looking thick, driving through the streets of California with palm trees

in the background, looking just the coolest possible that he can. And it's really just a disservice to everyone listening that they can't also experience that. I think he waxes mustache just for this little clip. He might have. I think he's just here to distract. I've honestly not been able to focus on a thing except for his face.

I was gonna ask Joey to kill his video just to not be distracting. Please don't, I need something to keep me going tonight. It's the only hope I have. But anyways, yeah, I got a couple, I got an ad here queued up for us. So we'll just play this from a previous guest. That's what I love. What I've always loved about BWTAC is, you know, you can be something like me. I have a W3 job.

Hold on, that's the wrong one. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Uhhh... Okay! I think this one... In the early 1960s, men started attending horse shows. Not that kind of show. Oh, wait a second, that's... You notice the horse is barely having protection from the hurricane. Uh, uh, yup, I think this one is it.

That's the thing about the Unpaid and Underrated podcast. When you call them, you're always going to get a warm body, unless of course it's Nate, you know, he has a chat GPT, a bot service. Other than that, you might get two other warmish bodies. It's going to teach you how to get unpaid, how to stay unpaid, how to use your unpaid. That's what I like about them over at Unpaid and unpaid. That's what I like about them all, Brad, unpaid and underrated. That's honestly what I've always liked about them. There you have it. A word from our sponsors.

That's so much better, because if you listen to the OK podcast, you know that was a complete BW tax parody. Oh, OK, because I was going to say, I really enjoyed that it sounded like he recorded that in a birdhouse. Yeah There's so many birds and stuff going on in the background I'm sure it was he was praying because I think it was 70 a couple days ago before they got a foot of snow So now I'll tell you that I gave Tanner a small heads up that I wanted to do that

That was that was well, but I was like are the chances What are the chances you can get that to me before Thursday and I messaged him today at like four o that. And I was like, are the chances, what are the chances you can get that to me before Thursday? And I messaged him today at like four o'clock. I was like, hey, the chance is still good? Like what are we looking at? And he messaged me back 15 minutes before we started and was like, do I still have time? I was like, 15 minutes?

And that's what I was doing as we were starting to record was getting that loaded in the soundboard. So I'm glad that that all worked out. Gotcha you. Got you. I was wondering what you're waiting for. That was really good. Yeah. Thank you, Tanner. That's amazing. When I got him to do the wrong again, Keith, I asked him and then I waited a week and then I asked him again and he had it to me in like five minutes and I couldn't tell if he had recorded it and just didn't send it or if he just did it on the spot and sent it. So like, so we just had our sponsor do an ad read for our podcast in place of the ad read for his podcast on our podcast, which is a spin off of their podcasts.

Like I've never said that's meta before, but I think that's meta. We did it. We did it in the style of our cousin's podcast. Yes. And we did it we did it in the style of our cousin's podcast Yes, and you know we say about you want to know what we say about Tanner He's a good dude. He's a good dude. He is a good dude, dude Memes yeah, it's hard to do a good ad read even against tall grass. Yeah, that'll preach. I've always said that you know Yeah, as a as as a a father of a podcast. Oh, geez. Should we get our guest

on the horn? Yeah, let's kick these lucky lose out and get a see if we can get that artificial intelligence on the horn. Well, I was gonna leave the lucky lose in. Well, we can't we will we gotta say it. Oh, by the way, it's 200 horse stalls, coasters. He did big math at her though, or he's just being cute. He just changed his name to it I know I know genuinely hilarious. No, I noticed that like it happened like 10 minutes ago, but I was curious if he Math that or not Ryan if you don't change the name of you right now Oh, what did he? I could not show up on our podcast There needs to be a don't don't say it out loud Don't never been a more important time for Ryan to have a space. Oh look at him. He's figured it out

Well now we know where Now we know where you spending his time. We got some questions sir. Yeah, that's why he's bald I Now we know where you're spending his time. We got some questions, sir. That's why he's bald. Oh, Jesus. I don't get it. Why don't I get it? He can't change his name. I'll change it. Anyway, let's get our guest on the horn.

Keith, you want to introduce him? Yeah, everybody, this is Big Nate. Welcome to the podcast, Big Nate. Big Nate Eckberg, the third leg of the podcast, as I like to call him. Welcome, my friend. What do you, I've been here the whole time. What do you know?

Oh, you son of a bitch. Yeah, well, you know, there's always those telltale signs of someone who's never fricking listened to a goddamn episode. God darn episode. What do you guys, I've been on this, I've been talking this, What are you talking about? Way to ruin a bit there, Nate.

All right. Wrong again, Keith. Big Nate, I'm waking up the kids for sure. Laughing. You will definitely surprise you as our first question. But what brought you to Masonomics, buddy? How did you find us? Oh, hold on.

Let me get my script here. What Tanner told me to say. Okay. So, no, what brought me to massonomics? And we'll get into my lifting history, which I feel like is, well, I don't know. I don't know what we'll get into. I've never listened to an episode of this, but brought me to massonomics. I found, I think a lot of people have found massonomics this way, but I was brought in through the one and only Cooper Mitchell gym tour of the massonomics gym. And I watched that and then like the podcast

got recommended to me and I was just starting on my lifting career at that point. And I was like, man, I'd love some podcast about lifting. And I started listening and I was like, I love these guys. I think they're great. And I've basically been a loyal listener, I think, since whenever that was. So it's like 2019, I think, right? Well, yeah. I mean, it's been covered. Well, I don't know the time frame of like.

Garage Jim Reviews thing created to when I actually, you know what I mean? Like, oh, yeah, you might have watched the episode. I've been listening for ever seeming like not. I mean, not like in the Tyler years, but it's been a while. Like, you know not I mean not like in the Tyler years but It's been a while like you know what I mean like I started listening for context before Like yeah around 2019 because it was right before we did the the lift hard They're not the lift hardly easy the stimulus check competition

Before I remember that one exactly so I'm Better than me. Yeah, I'm better than me. Yeah, I'm better than all of you. Whoa. That. Well, actually, we'll we'll jump ahead a little bit. So you might actually you probably do have a lower supporting membership number than Joey and I. What's yours? I have no idea.

There I have. You're just since I should have sent you the. No one gave me anything to prepare, so I just show up here. I literally don't know. There's some secrets involving my supporting membership that I cannot divulge on this podcast for one thing, but my one card, Masonanomics supporting membership card, my first one is pinned to the wall in my office that I don't ever visit anymore at my work. And my other one, I think, is in my garage.

I need to get all of this up on the wall. It's all in. It's all in. Just don't put it on the ceiling because it'll fall down. Yeah, Brian will knock it off. But, yeah, I don't know where anything anything is which is just a state of my life Well, then I guess that means you have a higher number than us because you can't prove otherwise. I cannot I might as well have a

number of 1,000 Wait, I've been I've been around we'll just say that He's got he's got Schrodinger supporting member number Could be number two could be number last one you never know He's got he's got Schrodinger supporting member number. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one. Or you can find me at GlazeSearch.com as well. Active poster there. Nice. And I think we talked about it earlier, but a little Ohio living. You're an Ohio man now. Have you always been an Ohio guy? Are you bouncing around or? Oh, brother, I grew up right here. Akron, Ohio, born and raised.

Ironically, the house I own now with my family, I've got a wife and children. I realize I actually have to explain things because that's the point of this episode. So I should probably give back information on some of this stuff. I have a wife, I'm married, almost eight years, nine years. I can't even keep track anymore. It'll be close to 10 years here soon, which is absurd. We got three kids that we love. We live in a house together and that house is like 10 minutes from the house that I did most of my childhood in like on the other side of no, I don't want to ruin a OPS, like, but it's just, I live on the same road, but just 10, 15 minutes down the other way. And

like a different, um, what is that called? County? Yeah, different county technically. But that's how I know your AIs because the way you said, did my childhood in. I'm like, I've never heard anyone say they did their childhood in this home. What? He had a podcast, did a childhood. I am human. Yeah, I am real, I promise. Yeah, so I've grown up here in Northeast Ohio, Midwest. You know how it is. It's been great. I went to Coventry High School. I don't know how deep we want to go. I've never listened to this podcast. I graduated with honors. I was in the, what is it called? Honors Club? What's the stinking thing? I was vice president.

I remember my vice principal told me that. What was their name? People in the honors club, I cannot remember. But he said, I remember when I was interviewing people, if they were in the honors club, instantly to the top of the jobs. No one's ever asked me about being in honors club. That dude lied to me.

No, no. But I was vice president, I helped with the blood drives. So, and then after I graduated, now I'm just kidding. So, if there was a piece of Massesomics merch that you wish would come back, what is it? I've been thinking about this a lot. Not because I listen to the podcast, because I don't. But because I've longed for it so much.

And I feel like I may have told this story on this podcast. I don't listen, but I am active on it. You've been on an episode or two. Yeah, the I feel like I've said this, but maybe it's just I've said it to other crew or something. But I can like remember it happening in my wife's uncle's house. We're sitting on the couch, it's Black Friday, and I'm looking through the Black Friday drop and the raw power crew neck hoodie is for sale.

And I like showed it to my wife and I showed it to her cousin and they were like, that's an awesome crew neck, which I don't know if anyone else in the Mastinomics world has ever experienced this, but when you're like, look at this awesome drop, you don't always hear that from your significant other. When you're like, look at this cool, yeah buddy shirt. They're like, huh? And you're like, oh yeah, but they saw the raw power one though. That's awesome. And that should have been the sign at that moment for me to pull the trigger. And I was like, ah, I'll think about it.

And then I didn't get it. And now I'm crushed because I think it's one of the best crew necks that would have ever created. Like my wife's like, I'd wear that and I'm upset that you don't have it. So, yeah, I'd loved it for the raw power crew neck to come back. In the comfort colors, crew neck that doesn't exist yet, but they're all the same. I have some of their crew neck and hoodies they're not bad not bad they're okay would you say they're okay there no I wouldn't give them that much the comfort colors

though their hoodies the hood is very small so I feel like yeah they have a weird on the ones I've had from them their hood is like no I need tiny head like I need Assassin's Creed hoods like it. No, they don't cover my face. OK, yeah. So Tanner, if you're listening, be very weary of the comfort colors hoodie. In my honest opinion. Big question. What's your Hall of Fame status? So to no one's surprise, I also have no clue and I've been waiting since we got the Hall of Fame cards to go on a rant about this.

And I've like just held this inside. That thing showed up. I looked at it and was like, I have to figure this out myself. I got frustrated, put it back in the envelope and put it with like all my thank you cards. It was like, I refuse to do the work on this. We're so lazy.

It's so lame. It was just like, I was in the middle of so many things and I was, whenever I got that, I opened it and I was like, oh, this is awesome. And I was like, how does this work? And I was like, okay, I just cannot do that. It's a check, it's like a yes or no checklist. Yeah, but I was like, how many orders do you have?

And I was like, probably 10, but I don't. And I was like, I don want to go online and figure it out And I don't even know if I was logged out when I've ordered all these things that's exactly Quick I'd guess you're at ten Because I know you haven't gone to lift hard live easy. I know you didn't compete at lift hard live easy You haven't gone to crew falls. You're probably not at four years. Maybe you are that I don't know if you're four years. You're at 11 Assuming you own a drink. I know you own a drink spot or you probably have banned merchandise,

there's no way you haven't done 10 orders. You won a contest, right? Yes. Your voice has been on their podcast, you've been on this podcast, you've posted pictures with people, you haven't lifted at the gym and you, are you backlog up to date?

No. Okay, so yeah, I'm pretty sure you're at 10 so get to work on that, but I've listened to some of the bad Log, but not all of it. Well. I don't think there's a some of it. You know check mark I watched the podcast history recap thing and that was this is a government work. There's no maybe So 10 out of 15 isn't isn't too bad, but I'm good anything above one is great That's what I say every episode. You make a trip to South Dakota, you know, you could literally probably be at cup level pretty quick. Yeah. South Dakota.

Mmhmm. Ramcotta. That's good. What it? Is Ryan on a plane? Yeah, you haven't figured that out. He said he told us he was gonna be. This is ridiculous. Episode 100 is off the rails. Big travel guy. Nice.

That's a much better last one. Yeah. I just told Morgan as I went to the bathroom, I went and farted in the hallway so I didn't find into the microphone this time. Yeah. Again, the service is the chair. And so I told her, I was like, oh, Ryan came in and had this as his name and she's like, what's wrong with him? Can't trust these Ryans.

No, it's all. Big Nate, what's your, how do you feel about gym names? And you, did you call it the compound, right? Is that what you actually call it? No, I don't. Okay. Well, I'm leading up to the, are you a certified training center? I am a certified training facility.

And what, what, what names on that? Great question. I feel like that You also don't know well is that really down you got too anxious. No, I I wrote a name down I just I went back and forth on a ton of names and Just could not pick one I and I just finally wrote something down So the official name as it is stated on the map is the Ekberg family's, wait, the Ekberg family training club.

Like W-E-I-G-H-T? Huh? What? Never mind. It was a bad joke and then I misspelled it so it doesn't make sense. Oh wait, I see. Yeah, I was, it's because you paused and then I screwed up spelling the word. My grandma would always say say weight broke the wagon. But the Eckberg Family Training Club is the official gym name of the certified training facility.

I like the last name involved in the gym name. Well, I figured it's not, like, now my wife's out lifting with me, the kids are out there, Theo's always tossing weight around. So I was like, it's the, I mean, it literally is the family training facility at this point. Yeah.

That's the goal, man. That's the goal. What are your, you have three sons, right? What are their ages? Because they'll probably like be legitimately using the gym in the future, not just messing around with you. That's cool to actually have your name tied to it.

I feel. One's almost six, one is four, and one is like one and a half. There you go so another another five ten years you'll have a whole crew of you know athletes out there and if not that's fine too. Yeah no they're already athletes they're great. Cool beans. So this is one it's gonna be a little more different just cuz you know your role here but when you sent the questionnaire out to people,

how did you explain what it was for and what you and you is? And just explaining Mastodonomics hard enough for most people. So explaining, you know, us and what you're going to be doing here is going to be a whole level of weird. Do you have any funny stories or how that went? I just said, fill this out. Oh, OK, so no, I didn't preface anything. I don't think I'm trying to look back Oh, no. I didn't. Preface anything. I don't think I'm trying to look back through

the messages where I sent that. I feel like it's like I was. They even did they even know? Oh, yeah. Everybody knows. OK, I guess if they follow, it was funny. I sent it to some like I sent it to a friend that I don't get to talk to often. Just my own folks. I'm a bad friend.

Sorry, Nigel. But I sent it to him and yeah, we'll get to him later. And I was like, Hey, gonna be on a podcast. If you guys can fill this out, you don't have to write anything. But if you have any funny stories or anything you want to drop in here, go for it. And they were just like, what? And I was like, just fill it, just look at it. Answer questions. Easy peasy. And the one dude was like, the one day I literally don't, I'm such a terrible friend. He's like, you lift now. And I was just like, I'm a really bad friend. But yeah. So for the most part, I was just like, I'm going to be on a podcast. I also produced said podcast. If you didn't know, please fill this out. And yeah, it went well enough.

The best was I did send it to a group of friends who I talk about producing this podcast with frequently. And I replied to the message where I had sent the link and I was like, hey, last chance, if your guys are going to fill this out. And my one friend responded with, wait, who is this for? And I was like, I've, I give up, I can't. That's just.

Dude, and yeah, so as hard as that is, like the questionnaire that you created has literally made my life so much easier and people still can't figure it out at times, but like, I don't care because that's more the guest problem at this point. As long as I get four to six people submit, we can make a podcast out of that,

but it keeps me out of like a million fucking freaking strangers DMs, so that helps. All right, least fun, most fun time, I think. Nate, I know this is your first time here, so I guess I'll have to explain least fun, most fun. So, you know, I'm gonna give you a topic, and you just have to tell me if it's the least fun or the most fun thing. I don't think that's how

that works but okay well you I mean I thought not not you've listened to this podcast but I thought the premise was I explained the least fun part about that thing in the most fun part about not whether that thing was fun or not but I've never listened that's a better idea we should go with that I'm gonna switch it to that's the new game okay OK, so what Nate just said. So least fun, most fun. Doing all the technical guy stuff for you and you and crew as well.

Wait. What was the question? I don't know if you're doing a bit with me and if I've just misremembered how this game works. Or at least did I. Or if you legitimately explained it wrong, thought you did it right, and I corrected you and you didn't know that. I'm so lost right now. What was the question? I explained it wrong as a joke. You explained it right.

Did I just butcher it? For the Davids. For the Davids, by the way. That was a bit. Yeah, I just couldn't. I was like, I don't know. I don't know what's happening. Explain it to me like I'm one of the Davids. I explain it like I'm Nate, man. Tell me the tell me the least fun and most fun thing about doing all the technical guy stuff or being the technical guy for you and you.

Oh, my gosh. Producing the podcast specifically. Yeah, you had to open up this can of worms. We got a time limit here. This is just me yelling at you guys. This is the least fun part is dealing with these two numbskulls. Like what is I don't know. You guys, what's the least fun part is dealing with these two numbskulls? I don't know. The least fun part is just when stupid stuff happens, having to fix it. But I mean, that's just life. So, you know, like when somebody doesn't record a whole podcast and

you scramble on Zoom for two hours in the middle of your workday trying to fix it and yada yada i mean that one part wasn't fun but never happened it never happened there's not a missing episode there is no proof um there literally isn't there literally is not that is the problem um yeah that's like just excuse me when that happens that's like just. Excuse me when that happens, that's annoying, but other than that, everything's great. The most fun part. I don't know, it's always fun. To me when I can sneak something into

episodes while I'm editing. I like that and it's a fun little just I'm a third character in the podcast. That no one expects, because it literally is just all of it comes out of nowhere. And sometimes I ask for approval and sometimes I just do things. So I enjoy the curation I can have in that and choosing, you know, what to do there. There's been some, there've been some good times in that.

So, oh, the least, actually, you know, you wanna know what the least fun thing is? I mean, that was the whole premise of the question. Yeah, okay, shut up. The least fun thing is finding people's pictures that don't look like potatoes, not Is their blur blur blur blur blur all these photos I go out and try to find these people's photos and it's like them with six people

But they're only this big and i've got to crop them out and try to not Can we just all start sending photos with our eyes closed? Just every your eyes can be closed. That's fine. Just go with the My Name is Earl bit where they just every unpaid and underrated person, their new selfies are just their eyes closed. And that's what we use on every thumbnail. I'll close your eyes for you.

We'll do it manually. I'll do it myself. But like, it's the... It's so stupid. It's like when I try to blow it up into the thumbnail, and I'm just like this resolution is so bad also Keith You said bitrate? You mock talking about bitrate. It has nothing to do with bitrate. That's not a Know that's that's that's media. That's it's music. So yeah

I was whatever the equivalent for pictures is for that resolution Sure is what was the word you were looking for? I'm glad we got that resolved then. Yeah. Oh, wow. But is it dealing with two other Luddites? Yeah. Like, I pretty much understand technology, but I hate it. What did I say the other day? The the the pictures, the apps show me I don't have those up.

And it's talking about badges. Yeah. Yeah. Keith called badges on his app icons on his home screen pictures. He was like, I don't have the pictures enabled on my apps. And I was like, I don't know what that means, which is, you know, you want to know what the most difficult part of this job is. It's just trying to read what Keith tells me. I never know what Keith is saying. There's a you can ask my wife. The constant state of my life is saying Keith tells me. I never know what Keith is saying. There's a, you

can ask my wife. The constant state of my life is saying, Keith sent me something and I don't know what it means. Well, there's a typo at half the time. Yeah, I know. That's the problem, Keith. I don't know what it means. I know. I fix it. Well, the funny, my favorite part of our group chat is when you, we all do it to each other at this point now, or at least you and I do it to each other and to Joey, is we just send a question mark back to something because we don't know what the fuck it meant.

It's just question mark. Yeah, and then I'll be like, it's one of those things like I mumble in real life and I have to like, did I mumble through this text too? And like I'll have to go and be like, shit, there was no context. Like sometimes I'll just go in there with like a random sentence.

Oh yeah, Joey will, as if we were talking about something for 10 years, he'll be like, yeah, that thing is crazy. And it's like, what thing? What thing are we talking about, Joey? Yeah, yeah. You question Mark. Like I acknowledge, my typos can ruin a sentence and take all the context out of it. But Joey just starts random conversations.

We're already in the middle of one. And I'm like, wait, what? It's like, does this pertain to that? No, okay. No, no, no, no. Shout out to my dad. My dad, he's probably, he'll probably listen to this. He does, I've watched him do this in person.

And I've always, my dad will send me text messages and it's the same thing that I get from Keith. I look at it. I'm like, I just don't know what this means. Like, I just am completely lost reading this. And later on in my time with my dad, we're just out living life. And I watch him respond to a text via like talk to text. And I see him talking to his phone. He's watching the message transcribe. He looks at it and he goes, that's not right.

They'll figure it out and click send. And I was like, this is why I can understand nothing. Dad, stop doing that. Fix the typos. I just I just assume that's also what he's doing. I'll figure it out. Yeah, I just have a I just have that's also what Keith is doing. I'll figure it out. I just have a fat thumb and I'm probably in the middle of like 10 different other. My phone has a lot of freaking text on it. Yeah.

All right. I think we're going to, is anything jump out of the crew questions, Joey? Cause I think we can just move on. I don't think any of those are jump out at me. It's all it. I mean, I love crew. You basically got a bunch of Skants' old jokes. Yep, I'm sorry. I even copied and pasted them in this week, but.

Somebody sent some binary, somebody sent some, how long did it take to develop your Ultron body? Things like that. You as Ultron is a funny, that's not what they said. I inserted that into their question, but that's actually a really funny thing. Almost 30 years. I'm still working on it. Yeah. Aren't you like 25?

29. Oh, you are. You were 20. He's almost 30. You were what? Younger when we started this episode with this podcast though. This episode? Yeah, this episode. No, this podcast. No, this episode. No, you would.

I know. I remember when we first started, you were you 20. You had to been 26 or 27. Let's do math. It's almost two years. I'm 29 now, Keith. Come on. Keep up. I could swear you were 20 younger than that, though. No, that's not how time works. No, but it's depending on where your birthday fell. Well, we also did.

We also talk in the flat for four months. When did when did you turn 29? My birthday is November 10th, 1995. We probably started talking about that. If anyone would like to send me gifts, now is your opportunity. It's still coming up. There was probably some podcast talk

when you were still 26. No, it was not back that far, but. Close enough, nonetheless. Are you 29 and like three quarters? Yeah. My birthday is November 10th, 1995. I am not 30 yet. I'm almost 30. That's very true. You're saying that

like you're afraid of 30. Is everything okay? No, I'm not afraid of anything. Not even that while falling on you. That I am. I was very scared this morning when I was lifting. I just look at the ceiling like, uh, you're gonna, you stay in there, huh? But we'll survive. Actually, what I'll do is some of these crew questions I'll add into Unpaid and Underrated if we get to them. Yup.

Uh, so, we know you're a tech guy. Is there anything you want to elaborate on that or you, you know, you don't have to say anything you don't want to about your job, obviously? Oh, I want to say so much. How much time do I have? 90 seconds max. Oh, I got six minutes on this. So Nathan's backstory on his life here.

Crazy thing how I ended up in programming. So I'm a developer now by trade. People probably want to know, hey, how'd this guy become a developer? And I don't know if we'll get into it. Like land developing? No, no, but. Like land, land developing? No, no, no. This is our land.

People always get confused when I say I'm a developer and they don't know what that means. Yeah, no, I have no clue what that means. I literally don't know what that means. But software developer, I write code, I program. Primary currently is, I write C sharp, and this is is back end and then on the front end I do TypeScript JavaScript. So I use the felt kit as my framework of choice.

I love it so much. It's wonderful. You should use felt kit. But I started when I graduated high school, me and my buddy who didn't know I lifted, we're going to start a coffee shop, big coffee dude. And I went to business school and know I lifted, we're going to start a coffee shop, big coffee dude. And I went to business school and I was like, I'm going to start a coffee shop. And then like a semester in, I took like some random class and I was like, this is, it was like programming adjacent.

It was like a math class, but we were doing something called logic gates. And I was like, I really like, like this tickles my brain in a way I really enjoy. And I asked my buddy who was a CS major, computer science for those who don't know. And I was like, hey, is this what? He did not. No, yeah, I figured if you're in the, if you're in the biz, you know.

I only drew it because of CS script. That's the, nevermind, go ahead. But so I asked him, I was like, is this what you do? And he was like, yeah, kinda. And I was like, cool, and I just switched my major. And it was like that one class. And so went to school, became a developer, got a job working for Xerox for like five years

as a systems analyst, doing like a bunch of big jobby job business stuff. And wanted to I wanted to I wanted to make a move into small business. And so a cut three coming up on three years, I moved to a company called Ability Business. We're out of Jackson, Ohio. We're a real small company. But if you're if you're listening to this podcast and you're like, man, I am a small business who needs a point of sale system, who uses QuickBooks online, well, lucky for you, coming soon is going to be the greatest point of sale system that will ever exist for your

exact use case. Check out abilitybusiness.something.net.com. I don't remember, check it out. But I work there. I'm the lead developer right now, working on developing a point of sale system from the ground up. We've been working on it for two years, really excited to launch that.

So that is what I do for a living, is I literally just sit and write code all day. And I love to do it. It's so much better than my old job where when people would ask me what I do for a living, I would just tell them, I write emails. And it's, it is a very freeing to be creative. Love it. Wes, if you're listening, shout out to you.

Thanks for giving me a job and keeping me employed. Appreciate it. Thanks, Wes. Yeah. Shout out to Wes. Now speaking of development, I mean I obviously want to talk about one of the things that I pump your tires about probably a little too much. Is your Strongman app that you developed that was used at the Live Hard Live Easy last year. Oh yeah I did that.

Yeah and will likely be used at the next one. And you know we've even been telling people to use it in their Strongman apps. And like we understand why some of the smaller places can't. Yeah, and will likely be used at the next one. And we've even been telling people to use it in their Strongman apps. And we understand why some of the smaller places can't. But some of these bigger people, they could be using your thing. Now, how did that? I've never asked.

Maybe I haven't forgot, because that's what I do. How did that come about? I forgot I also needed to pitch this. So yeah, a little backstory on Strongman Scoreboard as its working title. Coming to an internet near you just worked out all the legal side of that. And so now that all the legal stuff is set up, I can. The app's ready. OK, it's out there.

It's on the Internet. But I horse stall coasters. He had a very long drive home. He's been here for joining us like a half hour. But so that apps that that's been like a half hour. Thank you for joining us. So that app's pretty much ready to go. It'll be here in the market here soon enough. And I was trying to get it finished in time to launch it officially on this episode, but

bureaucracy, you know, it just... We used to be a proper country. Yeah, we used to be a proper country where people would just start businesses and get money into their bank account and spend money and tax write-offs, yada yada. But we're not anymore. And now you got to go through all the stinking red tape. But yeah, so pretty, pretty soon we'll have that to the world. But the way it started was Jake just messaged me on something and was like, I think, I know you made Glaze Search, I think is what he referenced or Tate Sounds. I don't remember at that point in time.

And he's like, but do you like kind of like, do you actually do that stuff? And I was like, yeah. And he's like, OK, never mind. And I was like, what's what? He's like, oh, if you do that for a living, I don't want to like bother you about it. And I was like, what are you what are you trying to do? Like, what's the pitch here? OK, but I want to know, living, I don't want to bother you about it. And I was like, what are you trying to do? What's the pitch here?

Okay, but I want to know, I like to build stuff, I like to help people, what's the deal? And he was like, I want to make this scoreboard app for the Lyft hard to live easy. Do you think I can use Squarespace for that? And I was just like, no, you can't. Isn't Squarespace the payment thing? You're thinking of Stripe. It's like, no, you can't. Isn't SquarePace the payment thing?

You're thinking of Stripe. Okay, yeah. Squarespace is a like a WYSIWYG website app or like service. So you can go and like design your website. It's really easy. They have like, you can do a shop and stuff on it and whatnot. It's a great thing. Use code unpaid at Squarespace when you sign up for 15% off

a domain or something like that. We'll get that as a sponsorship. You can't build the strongman scoreboard on that. You're going to need big Nate for that. Or Ekberg Solutions LLC, which I am now the proud owner of that you're purchasing. So he asked me, he was like, can I build this on Squarespace? And I was like, zero chance. Um, but give me a weekend and I'll see what I can put together. And I put it together like a little proof of concept for him, sent it over. And he's like, I like this. Um, and, uh, we hard coded all the stuff to the show that we did.

And it, it, it was it. It was awesome. Um, for those that don't know that haven't been there, that weren't at the Lift Heart, the VZ Strongman scoreboard, the concept is things are happening and people are watching. And a lot of times the things that are happening and the people that are watching, there's nothing to communicate to both ways. Right? You're confused. I'm a spectator. I showed up to this local Strongman event because it's going on in my town. I don't know who any of these people are. I don't know what this event is. I don't know how the scoring works. I don't know anything that's

going on. And you're like, man, I really wish I could understand this announcer. Maybe there is no announcer. Who knows? I'd love to talk about what's going on. And so Strongman scoreboard exists to be a screen that displays things like the current athlete, the next athlete, the current athlete's weight class, what the implement weight is, if that's relevant to the event. Really, it's literally just to be a display board for here's what is happening right now at this moment. So you can put, hey, they're attempting a max deadlift. You can do if it's like a four reps event. So it's like deadlifts for reps or whatever for reps as strong man is horses for reps who knows?

Or you can? Yeah, yeah. If you want to do that, there was that one in Ohio. We'll get back to that. But the you know, you can increment it so you can, you know, the people can watch live the counter on the screen as the reps are happening so they don't have to count in their head, which is great because people can't count, but one person can count and they'll count well and they'll all see it and they'll all share that experience. But also what I heard from people, from users, user experience, live testimonials, people that competed like Keith himself, when they were doing head to head events, it was very helpful for them because they could also see the competitors, they could also see what was happening on the other side. And, you know, when you're lifting, like Keith was, you know, 600 pounds off the ground.

like Keith was, you know, 600 pounds off the ground. It's hard to also focus and figure out what the other person is doing. So if there's a quick little heads up display that you could look at and say, oh, that person is one rep ahead of me. I know what I need to do to beat them. It gives also an interesting competitive advantage. So yeah, it might not be for every strong man event ever,

but it's definitely a helpful tool. It'll be just a subscription price. Haven't nailed down the price exactly to where it'll land, but subscription price is really just, hey, make sure that I don't lose a ton of money on hosting with this and help me desire to continue to put new features into it. Because I got a lot of ideas for features and I will say get some users.

I will say that features in it. The Live Hard Live Easy was my first in person strongman event, which I know is is awful of me, but I just don't go places. I don't like crowds. And then they're not spectator friendly to the extent of like, if you don't know someone there, you're not just going to go show up. Yeah. But then I started watching the Strongman scoreboard.

Yeah. And then I started watching them on YouTube and started like consuming more Strongman. And was just like, they don't all do this? How do you keep track of anything? Because it was so like, like the head to head Atlas at the end and the head-to-head Atlas stone like you were literally watching and you're like you're watching these two people struggle and then you're seeing the score up there and It was I was like I can't believe other places don't do that

How do you as a spectator sit here and understand what's happening? Because you could sit here and try and count that person and that person and that person and that person But if there's something there right in your face telling you, it's more exciting. You're watching each rep, and you're watching the counter build. But you also did a thing where you snuck in a lot of Mastinomics and unpaid and underrated

stuff. I think the Keiths head appeared a couple times. The Mastinomics logo appeared a couple times. Is there something that users are going to do with this app? This is to me an ad read and I'm sorry. No, this is great. This is all I wanted. I want no one to know about me,

but I want them to know the apps and I need them to give me money because I have three children and a ceiling that is falling in. I got kids. Please subscribe. Use code unpay. Ryan should actually like been my youth. 50 bucks to take care of at least. Yeah, for real, Ryan.

Why did you break that? He's got a drywall and some screws and tape and mud and all that. Yeah. But yeah, as of now, it'll be pretty simple. The interface itself is pretty customizable in terms of like font sizes and sizes of things and things that display. But no, KeithHead will not be on every page, unfortunately. For professionalism, it will not pop up.

Maybe we'll add it somewhere, but not on the scoreboard for everyone all the time. Maybe it'll be an optional thing that you can enable. But yeah, the funny part about getting all of that together was just I was in Ohio, and he wasn't. And I was like, hey, let me know what happens. Because he had a projector that he had never tried it on in a room we'd never tried it on. And we had no concept of, other than looking at it on our computer screen,

what it needed to truly like behave like, to be visible and all of those things. So like Friday, I was out at Costco with my kids and I'm like waiting for Jake to go test it. And he finally tested and he's like, hey, I'm having like all of these problems. Can you do this? Can you do that? And I like get home, rush, put all the groceries away. And I was like, hey, I'm having like all of these problems. Can you do this? Can you do that? And I like get home, rush, put all the groceries away.

And I was like, I need to like just go downstairs for a few hours. And I just got to fixed everything. And so I was just like rushing to fix everything because he was like, I'll be back at Odie in like two hours to test it again. And so I had like two hours to like rewrite a ton of how the app worked for that show. And so it all made it in. But yeah, it was a very, very stressful two hours.

But I love it. It's great. So hopefully that'll launch soon. Yeah. And it'll be a lot, all the things that we kind of figured out and then it'll be completely customizable. So you go in, you add your events, you add your athletes. If you are doing a sanction meet,

it has all the pre-populated weight classes for the different strongman organizations. So you don't have to enter those in. So a lot of stuff. A lot of stuff. I think my favorite part about it is when you showed us a little sneak peek of it and you already had the Lift Hard Live Easy roster loaded.

So I got like a few weeks out, got the spoiler spoiled. That didn't happen. I don't know what Keith's talking about. That big tanner was on the roster. Keith was lying. That never happened. I think you even deleted the link that I could even get to it. That never happened.

I did bite my tongue for that that it was officially known by the glaze yeah no I do not so we'll just give you another topic and let you run with it so lifting history where you at yeah lifting history I started lifting I don't know six, maybe seven years ago, what's time? I'm only 26. So I grew up, everything starts with birth with me. This is where we're going back to that. So. But no, no, I like in high school, my dad had a gazelle in the basement, a treadmill and just some like dinky weights.

That guy's ponytail had to be fake, right? I don't know. That's like my biggest memory of that damn thing is him doing that when his, I feel like he was doing it in like a leopard singlet with his little ponytail freaking flubbing around. That's not Tim Echberg, that wasn't my dad. He moved much different.

No, no, the guy doing the infomercial. I know. My dad does not have a ponytail. OK, but I talked to text real good. Yeah, yeah. But we had a. We had just like some stuff, and I remember like around my senior year of high school, I was like, I'm going to start like curling these

like dinky little weights, and I was keep in mind in high school, I weighed maybe 100 pounds, maybe up to 130. I was a very small kid. I'm not a big dude. Mind what the people will tell you on the internet. Who's taller, you or Joey? I am. Okay.

Yeah, so I do have that. But not by a lot. Yeah. No, by a lot. By three quarters of an have not by a lot. Yeah, by a lot by quarters of an inch by by a ton so I did that and then I went on a trip to England with my church and I didn't lift that week and then I never went back to it No, I also haven't been back to England

But I have been back to lifting and so, that kind of all fell off for me. I played sports as like a really little kid, but when it got like ultra competitive in high school, I was like, these people are trying to art them out. And so I didn't do any high school sports, did marching band. And so graduated high school and I started dating my now wife. And I don't, I can't remember the timeline. I think I was running before I met her maybe a little bit. I started running outside, but my wife was a cross country runner and we just started

running together and we'd run like 20 plus miles a week. And we like, I remember I was a meat cutter at the time. Before I was a software developer, I was a meat cutter. Before that, I did asphalt. So that's how you know I'm a man's man. But- Ass and meat? Yeah, something like that.

And so I would like work all day cutting meat and then come home and my wife and I would, my girlfriend at the time, would run like 10 miles at night and then just like fall asleep at like nine o'clock and just be like my girlfriend at the time would run like 10 miles at night and then just like fall asleep at like nine o'clock and just be like I'm I'd wake up like I gotta go home and I would just like go home. So yeah I was a big runner. We got married kept running yada yada and then pregnant. Yeah. That's why I literally got the best part. No that's so yada yada yada keep best part. Yada yada is the best part. No. No.

So yada yada yada, keep running. Then my wife gets pregnant and she's like, I don't want to run anymore. See, you yada yada the best part. And she's like, I don't want to run anymore. So I tried to go out and kind of run on my own and I was like, this kind of sucks without running with my wife. Because we would just, every run, it would just be like me and my wife next to each other. We'd talk.

Would you both? Okay, I was in that. That was my follow-up. Was that, because like, were you, did you have headphones me and my wife next to each other. We'd talk. Would you both? OK, I was and that was my follow up was that because like, were you you have headphones in and running next to each other or you just shot the shot the breeze while like on a pace? Oh, no. Yeah, we would just talk and hang out. She always yelled at me, though, because for some reason, I could never just run at the same pace as her. I would always run slightly ahead.

And then she'd yell at me and I'd have to slow down. But. So she got pregnant, stopped running. And I distinctly remember my friend Mark, they had a kid before us. They're like the first in our friend group to have a kid. And he like got out of his car with his son. Um, and he like front levered the baby carrier to like look at his kid. And I saw him do that. And I was like, I can't do that. And I was like, I need to go get strong. And like from that point forward, I quit running and I started lifting and I haven't looked back.

That's awesome. So yeah. Have you shared that with Mark? Does Mark know that you were his inspiration? I don't know, I don't think so. That'd be kind of cool to let him know. Yeah, but yeah, so I started lifting. I started going to like the local YMCA.

Somehow I had a membership. I don't even know. How I think my family just had a membership, but no one really went. It's a really expensive membership to like, I don't even know that you're a part. Maybe I went with my wife. My wife's family had one and they were going and. I don't know how it all worked out. Well, we would have been married at that time.

I don't know what happened, but I got to the Y and I was working out at the Y. We bought a house and eventually, well, I looked at it. It has a second garage that's like detached. And I was like, man, someday I'd love to put a gym in that. And then like a few weeks later, I wouldn't stop looking at marketplace and I bought a bunch of stuff for my first home gym. And now it's a certified training facility. My wife's out there working now. It's all it's all great So I didn't realize that they it's a secondary garage on the property So that actually helps and see the guys didn't have to fight about like all right what we can't it's we're at winter Ohio it gets a ton of snow you didn't have to see don't she stole a two-sol at the house or just a one-sol

Yeah, so we have a two- at the house and then it's a two it's a Tight ish to stall but yeah detached behind the house. So that's perfect. That's pretty awesome Then that literally is like the dream of someone that wants to have a home gym. So yeah, and I just it fell in our lap The like the house is crazy the ceiling, right? No. Yeah The house is crazy. The ceiling ring. No, yeah. No, it fell on top of my tractor, which, yeah.

We'll get, I can't, I don't know how much I wanna divulge about the home gym because there's a potential of certain hosts coming to my state and maybe coming to my house. So I don't wanna burn all my material for when they come. I'm very jealous. I'm trying to get as many New York State crew as I can to like make sure they're all starting.

Well, yeah, just to like be more appealing. That is a ceiling. You don't want to kill the sister. That's one of my thoughts is I really need to do something. It doesn't fall on them when they're here. Just filming and it just happens. Yeah, yeah, it'd be very funny, though. But yeah, like we had a family friend because we were just like looking for a

house. We had had Theo. He was like three months old and we had a family friend that just like happened to be selling their house and I was like, we're like, well, we weren't really ready to buy a house, but this is kind of just perfect. And like we bought the house and I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do with this garage. And I was like, it would be cool to have a home gym. And then just like, couldn't stop looking at marketplace and trying to find deals and it was pre COVID. So there were actually deals that were good. And found some stuff

body home gym and now we're here. Nice. What kind of to your your, you know, to basically what do you follow juggernauties to your own your, you know, to basically, what do you follow juggernaut? Do you do your own thing or you do, you know, what's what you're doing? So back when I was at the Y, I was doing like, whatever I bodybuilding split I could find from bodybuilding.com. And when I switched to the home gym, I don't think I ever. Yeah, I think it was I switched to the home gym. I don't think I ever, yeah, I think it was, I switched to the home gym. I tried to do that at home and I like was trying to figure out the workouts.

And then I stumbled. I think I asked him like the OG before it got ran over by horse stall mats, the home gym discord, when it was actually, there were like helpful people in there. And it wasn't just the circle jerk of who knows what. And it was like, um, yeah. So like the Facebook group used to be awesome. No, none of you have experienced it, but like at one point it was really great. And I went in there and I was like, Hey, I'm looking for 19. It was the best. Yeah, exactly. And I was like, I'm looking for a program, someone recommended 531.

And I started running that. And I've been running almost entirely 531 variations of 531 for five-ish years, however long we've really been in this house. I did run like a true powerlifting program one time and I was like, this is a lot. I don't know if I'm committed enough for this. I don't know if I have enough time in my morning to do a whole SBD day. Yeah, because you're a morning crew guy. Yeah, I'm a morning lifter. And so, yeah, it was, that was tough. But yeah, 531 until I die, I even wrote a small app that I run,

I host locally that tracks all my numbers and everything for me. So it just, I run all my percentages and all of that get programmed out through that. So it's fairly easy for me. Little Nate hack to make that easier. Yeah, and potentially in the future you'll get to see all of that. So stay tuned. Maybe, who who knows I don't make those decisions

Stuff so I know I've tried to not pester you but um What's any likelihood you'll ever do a power living meet a sanctioned meat? Oh on an infinite time scale. I'm sure but Oh, on an infinite time scale, I'm sure. But... In a parallel universe, some Nate already has. Yeah, I got a buddy, shout out to Miles. He shot our unpaid and underrated promo video.

I had a friend of mine. He competed a few times back, he lived in Lynchburg. Shout out to Miles Cubito, if you need a video guy, literally anywhere, you can fly him anywhere, he'll do your work, he's great, use him. He- Code unpaid? Yeah, probably not.

I mean, you can pay the same, but you know. Like, he- Let him know we sent you. He was, he's got a big home gym that he doesn't use right now And it's in pieces like it's not like he has it in a place like he doesn't it doesn't have a true home And we've been talking about merging gyms And I think if he ended up back in with me and training he'd probably push me to do a competition

But someday there's a good chance that I'll end up in Aberdeen at some point And I'll do a competition or something like that. Who knows, you know, if something comes up. If something comes up. I support both of those possibilities wholeheartedly, my friend. But yeah, it's one of those where it's like, I love lifting.

I know it's a necessity for my life, for like health reasons, for just like everything reasoned. And so it's like, I don't want to stop lifting, but doing a power lifting meet is, I have to put my mind in a whole different place. And I have to, I would want to lock in and give it everything. And I'm just like, I don't know if I can.

Yeah, you're a, you're spread pretty if I can. Yeah, you're a word. I'm just like figuring out. You're spread pretty thin, so. Yeah, I gotta produce this podcast. You gotta change the mindset and you gotta just pick it up. Just move the weight, just horse-cuff the weights. Did you guys see the stand-up?

I think Dodd's even sent it to me. Yeah, I saw it on the place. But I think I've seen it a lot of places. The stand-up, that was really funny. So you picked it up and then what, and then and then what you oh you You set it down. Okay. Yeah Like what's it like dating a power lifter? I thought I really did find that amusing. Yeah, what's it like dating a strongman? So I found this rock

Hmm yeah, that is actually what it's like lately Should we get into some games like this is going on? Yeah, well let's do a game and then do some poop stories and do another game maybe. Yeah, I want to hear that one. I want to hear him tell me that one. Look at that look on him right now. He's just like, you kind of look like you're going to kill us. I'm ready to roll. Where are my FMKs at? I had a good FMK.

I just highlighted one. I love it. I kind of want you to do that one. I like mine. You can do that one. I want to do the one that I. So you can make this quick if you want, because we'll do another one.

Big Nate FMK. Anyone listening that isn't familiar with the game, there's one that you want to make friends with. There's one you want to have to, there's one that you wanna make friends with, there's one you wanna marry, and there's one you wanna knock out, so FMK. We've got unpaid intern podcast, glaze search.com, and floral designs by K, FMK. I'm writing them down so I can read them,

or my brain stinks. We got your wife's floral website, yeah, a search and then our podcast website. Well, okay, so this is easy. I'll kill our podcast website because it's not essential. The website itself doesn't need to exist for the RSS. Well, technically the web server still needs to exist,

but the website doesn't need to be publicly accessible for the RSS, well, technically, the web server still needs to exist, but the website doesn't need to be publicly accessible for the RSS feed to go out. So if anything, the safe answer is to kill the unpaid and underrated website. Then I would have to, oh, I would make love to the Glaze Search website all day, every day, I do, constantly. It is the greatest of lovers.

When you, when you started that, we were getting updates twice a day where you were just like, Hey, check out what I built. And me and Keith were just like, why? And you were like, don't worry about it. And then it was like, and then I changed this. And then like the next day you'd be like, oh I updated this. And you went ham on this thing for like five days straight. Oh yeah. To make it perfect. Like I think at some point we were like, are you okay?

Do you need a break? Like. I wasn't, I was not okay. But the problem is with the way my brain works is I can't, if I find, if something tickles it, it sticks and I can't get rid of it. Last night I was at some audio training with my buddy Adam. And for some reason, Dodds has got it up on his computer, glaze search.com.

But we were just talking and for some reason the concept of domains come up and like how many domains you like how many website names do you have like Glacier stack on domain more you have more domains and I have Instagram. That's true. And he was like how many do you own and I was like I don't know because I just buy them and they're so cheap and there's you can use them for anything. Like at one point we were doing a small group thing where we were trying to do like, not valedictorian, what's the thing like most likely to, what do they call those? Near book. Like those kind of things, like who's the most likely to sort of thing.

And we had like a Google Sheets poll thing for it. And I just bought a domain and redirected it and people's mind were just blown that I could like buy a domain and redirected it and people's mind were just blown that I could like buy a domain and just point it to another web. They were like, wow, how did that happen? And I was like, don't worry about it. So I loved to buy domains and I was like,

I have nine that I own, which isn't a ton right now, but someone was like, and he was like, how many of those are for like very serious projects? I was like one, and that was like, how many of those are for like very serious projects? I was like, one. And that's for my wife's website. There's one that if the world ended, that would still need to exist. But yeah, I would marry Floral Designs by K.com.

That's, shout out to Squarespace, I mentioned them earlier. It is designed on Squarespace. I helped her get that all set up but it's super easy. Wizzy Wig, she can go in and edit it but love that website. Love my wife. If you if you're literally anywhere in the US, shout out, this is really just a long ad read for everything that I do in my life. If you're in the US and you are getting married and you're getting married, my wife is an incredible artificial florist, not meaning she does fake flowers,

that she's not a real florist, but she works with artificial flowers, which means, or as we say in the business professionally, faux floral, which means that she has the ability to make something in our house, put it in a box, and ship it to you wherever you are. So she makes all kinds of awesome flowers that she asks me questions about and I can't

actively give her good answers about. But she does it. It's awesome. You should follow her floral designs by Kay on Instagram. It's hilarious that like somehow the way Instagram works, we were at like a wedding trade show thing and people would just come up and be like, oh yeah, I follow you on Instagram. And Keelin's like, I don't know who any of these people are.

Like her, she is awesome at making reels and they do really well. And yeah, she's great. If you're getting married, find her. She'll ship them to you. It's awesome, you need to buy them. You can't afford not to. And it's a, you need to buy them. You can't afford not to. And it's a, she's got rental options.

She doesn't really ship those. You gotta be local to Ohio, but it's great. You should buy them. She's awesome. That is really cool. I've, like, my mom was a floors for a few years and that's why I didn't realize, I knew your wife was a floor,

or worked with, you know, in that industry. I didn't realize it was the artificial side. That's actually really cool. I didn't even know that was actually its own sub-niche. That's very entertaining. My favorite part of that was when you said artificial and I was like, so you, collectively, you two are the artificial experts.

You are literally the artificial people. You are both dabbling in artificial adjacency. That makes sense. Yeah, and since Kayleen will listen to this, I love you. And what's really awesome is she was a florist. That was like her first job ever, was working in a flower shop. And she got another one. That one shut down. We almost bought that flower shop, which would have been a crazy thing.

Right. Another website. Yeah, and so she, yeah, just another domain. And then she went to work at another one, and then we had Theo, and she stopped working, and she, yeah, just another domain. And then she went to work at another one and then we had Theo and she stopped working and she was like, I just want to figure out some way that I can still like help support the family, but still be at home and still help with the kids. And so she figured out how to just basically run her whole business. Like my kitchen table is constantly full of just flowers because like there is a wall in my living room that is just and the constant state of like giant arrangements that she's

building and it's it's awesome. It's yeah, she's great would love her. I'd marry her. She's great. Do you want to know anything else about I do actually I know I really do. So like we with our cats we can't have floral stuff because like almost everything that's live at that a cat eats will kill it basically. So like does she only do wedding stuff or does she just do like random centerpieces that she could like sell as well?

And like I have like a little like picture. I have like a one little spot where like a little flower or a small arrangement would actually look cool. But like it needs to not be real. Keith, you talk to my people. Maybe we'll figure something out. flower or a small arrangement would actually look cool, but it needs to not be real. Keith? You talk to my people. Maybe we'll figure something out. Code unpaid. Code unpaid.

Oh yeah, there you go. Code artificial Ekbergs. Yeah, you just slide into those DMs. I'm sure we can work something out. I'm a little rusty on this. I can't, because I can't do any of that. It's been a while since you made that app. All right.

What do you got for me, Keith? All right, I got to mount Rushmore. I'm going to take the Mount Rushmore. Do it up. Okay, Mount Rushmore, and you have the option for the wild card for the alien face. Oh, okay. So you gotta do your four, and then you've got the wild card. Yeah. Okay. I am the wild card. Yes, I would agree. Mount Rushmore, community characters.

Okay, so I'm gonna make it a Mount Rushmore. I'm gonna make would agree Mount Rushmore community characters oh yeah yeah man I miss community it's awesome me too I think the movie is coming is what I've seen oh there's been better it's got to be better than the last season. Yeah, for real. It's been so long. So the thing about me and TV and movies is I feel like I watch something one time

and never go back. And so my mind. You don't rate it. That's what I know about you is you talk about that other app all the time but then you don't actually rate your own consumed media. Oh yeah, I don't. rate your own, you know, consumed media. Oh, yeah, I don't. I just I've tried. I ain't nobody got time for that.

I've logged in the letterbox so many times to start rating something. And I'm just like, I just I don't know what I want to rate this. And I just back out. Yeah. I watch I watch two horror movies a week. I would probably have a genuinely good following on my horror movie reviews, but I'm not putting time or energy into that shit. Like we made, I watched hereditary last weekend and incredible movie. Yeah. It's pretty fun. I like Hugh Grant in that character and you know, that's heretic. That's what did I say? Oh, I said I meant heretic. Okay. I haven't watched heretic yet. Yeah, you grants a blast in that. Um,

We're just watching Scott Dodds do his job. Yeah, great. He has us on a cart as he walks through the factory Working hard working hard or hardly working over there, you know, I'm all right But I Digress I've completely Remember the problem is I my brain is terrible. So my favorite community characters Troy Abed easily top characters. They were my favorite loved those dudes so Kayleen close your ears my third one is easily Annie just because I really like Alison Brie and so the sole reason is just big crush during when I was just like.

Yeah. And then, OK, Kaylen, you can open your ears again. And then number four, shoot. You'd want to say like Pierce, because I just thought his character was funny, but then you find out how terrible of a person he was and it just ruins everything for you. And so I feel like the right answer is Jeff, just because without Jeff, there almost is no show.

Like, I mean, without any of the characters, like everyone plays such a a like all of the main Characters play such a great heart But like notable mentions just like the pop pop dude like being able to say that all the time in high school was awesome I remember his name now No, you like Dino or something like his name is like dynamite or something silly like that, but I'll figure it out He's community is so or something like his name is like dynamite or something silly like that. But I'll figure it out. Community is so stinking good.

Just I rewatched part of it. I say I don't rewatch anything. I tried to get my wife to watch it. She had never seen it. And we watched the first season. I didn't realize how many of all of the good episodes were just in the first season. Like the first season is just everything. And I was like, what are in these other seasons?

Because this one is so good. Third season is about. Where things started to to kind of branch out. Yeah, 100 percent. But yeah, the community is great. And. I don't know. Let's go, Abed, Troy, Annie. And because he's just so freaking weird,

we'll ditch Jeff and we'll put Dean Craig Pelton on the round mushroom. Dean, Dean, Dean. He is just the funniest character. Anytime I see Jim Rash in like any other, anything, it just breaks my brain, because I'm like he's only one person. So yeah, we'll solidify that as top four.

Do you have an alien face? I feel like Chang has to be the alien face just because he is the alien face. So I would have gone with Leonard just because of all the dope Leonard insults. Shut up, Leonard. You smell like menthol eucalyptus. I say that to people all the time. Shut up. You smell like menthol eucalyptus. Yeah, they're stop me man, what a good show. All right, you wanna get into that poop story? I don't wanna get into it, but I can talk about it.

Tell it with your usual gusto. Yeah, so like. Let's talk about the one when you were running. That's the one I'm interested in. How many poop stories got mentioned? At least two. What was the other one? Well, you put one in and you just said I have pooped my pants more than you know. Okay. Okay. And then the other one.

Yeah, I can't even put a good one in. Okay. Yeah. It's all the same thing. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't forgetting one. That's the important one. Well, so I've had many occasions. So here's the thing. And if you know me, you know, I appreciate a few people on the internet. And one of those is Dan Katz. Shout out Dan Katz, big cat. And he lives by the motto that every man should have one free

get out of jail. I poop my pants card every year. And I fully. One a year, that's a lot. Okay, relax. That is kind of over the average. Okay, everyone stop. Stop attacking, stop attacking me. It's completely normal, and if it happens, it happens, all right? But.

So, back up, back into Nathan's running years, I am I'm like out running by myself one morning and I don't get very far. The problem with me with running was always I would start running and then just immediately the sensation of needing to go to the bathroom would come on just every time. But that morning it came on too quickly and I didn't get far from the house and I pooped just a small amount in my pants. And I returned home and I took those underpants off. And as newly married Nathan, who was a child who lived with his parents and immediately got married at a young age and didn't know how to be an adult, took said pooped in pants, set them on the bathroom counter, found a piece of paper, wrote a note and said, I pooped my pants, pointed an arrow to it and left it for my wife.

No, no. And so that happens. My wife scolds me, I realize I'm a big dumb idiot. Not a week goes by. This time, my wife and I are out running together. It's early in the morning. We're out for probably like a, maybe like a three mile run. And so we'd, I almost I'd hate treadmills.

So we'd always like run outside on the roads. We're just out wherever. Didn't do a lot of trail running because we would just like leave our house and just find neighborhoods and go through them. And we're about, I don't know, a mile into the run. And I'm just like, man, I've got to go to the bathroom so bad. And in part of the run, there was like this house I'm just like, man, I've got to go to the bathroom so bad. And in part of the run, there was like this house that had a bunch of trees on the front of it

and a somewhat not major road, but like kind of busy road. It's like six in the morning, but I'm just like, I've got to go. And my wife's like, there's trees right there. Like we're about to run past them. Just go in those trees. It's dark. No one will see you. And I am a rule follower to like the Max.

My dad's a retired police officer. I'm like constantly afraid that he will still find out if I've done anything wrong. And so I was like, if I try to poop in this set of trees and I get caught, I'll be put on a public indecency list. I'll be marked as a sex offender all because I pooped in the public. I was so scared. And so I was like, I can hold it.

I've done this before. We keep running. Another mile goes by and I'm like, I have no hope. I am too far gone. And now we're in like sort of more residential area. And I'm like telling Kaylee, like my stomach is just hurting. And I am just like trying to push through. And it's like, the only way through it is to run home, right? Like the quickest and best way is to just finish the run because it's a big circle. So it's like, there's no shortcuts. I just have to keep going

and I will get back home. And so I just got back home and so I just got to push through this just got to push through this and Finally like I'm like I think if I stop running It'll go away and then I'll be able to pick back up and so I I'm like Kayleen I'll meet you back at the house like I've got to work through this on my own like I gotta fight my demons and so I stop and start walking and just. Was it the old like clench leg head down walk? Yeah, just like cold, but like cold sweats start coming.

And I just stop walking and I'm standing and the sun is like slowly starting to rise at this point. And so, you know, people could probably see. Kayleen's like, you know, you could just like go in someone's yard. I was like, there's like sunshine now. Like there's no options. And I fill, I'm wearing like boxer briefs.

So it's titled around the bottom. I fill every inch of those boxer briefs. Like it is completely mushy around every part of my leg. And it is because they're boxer briefs. It is all just maintained inside of my pants. And it was and I'm a mind you. I'm in the middle of a neighborhood. I'm a mile away from my house.

I have no car. I have no way to get home other than I just have to continue on home with my pants full of poop and So I just start walking in shame just Like every step just feeling it slowly leak out of my boxer briefs It was Shorts I was wearing shorts. So there was literal visible poop running down your legs.

Probably, yeah, I don't wanna think about it. No, not probably, yeah, one million percent there had to have been. We walked by, my wife and I were, were we out for a walk? Wave to your neighbors? We were driving and, well, we were pretty far from, we were pretty far from my house. But so, yeah, we were pretty far from, we're pretty far from my house. But so, yeah, we like we're out there and I'm like walking and I was like, well, if I walk the rest of the way home, it's going to take me forever.

So I might as well run. So I just start trying to run as hard as I can to get home because it's like, oh, my stomach feels better. So my pants are just full of poop. I am just trying to run as hard as I can. And I like sprint past my wife and she was like, Where are you going? I was like, I poop my pants and I just run as fast as possible to get home and I beat her home at that point. Yeah. I'm just trying to like get like I'm like, I don't know how to get out of this situation because my ticket go get a towel, go to the garage, take it. I didn't have a garage. We were living in an apartment.

Oh, yeah, that's it was just like. There was no I was like, well, I was right into the garbage bag and then like paper towel yourself off and then take a shower. You don't want to put that on the dress. Yeah, sure. But in the moment, I was just so frustrated, so like heartbroken at the situation. I'm like trying to get these off. And my wife, my gracious wife comes home and I am just like,

when I'm in it, like I'm in it and I can't. My like sensitive sensitivity for people just sometimes just shuts down. And I'm like losing my mind at this point. And my wife's like, what happened? And I was like, I might have been crying. I don't know. But I was just like, this is the worst day of my life. I can't like I am just losing my mind on her and just.

And after all of this, I have to get in my car and drive an hour to work. Like, just like all of this is before I even go to work. That's a sick day That is and so I yeah, I clean myself up No, I get ready to go pants and I drive to Cleveland Yeah, so that was uh, I've been waiting ever since we were like great poop stories I was like I have to hold this until not that I could then

Until I finally get on the podcast and have my opportunity. And then the best part is I take my underwear off and I'm like, to my wife, I was like, do you think we can clean them? And she was like, please go put that in the trash right now. So I walked out to the dumpster. But yeah, yeah, that's how I poop my pants, running.

And then, you know, there's been other occasions, but you know, that's the big one. I think one of the main things that we've realized here is that running makes you poop your pants. And you should just stick to lifting at this point. 100%. But here's the problem. I've also pooped my pants while lifting.

Of course, who hasn't? But at least you're home or you're near a bathroom. Yeah, so. Keith, you've never pooped your pants? I'm trying to think. No, I mean, not as an adult. Not that I can, no. Wrong again your pants. I'm trying to think no, I mean not as an adult No, that I can wrong again Keith. I think I yeah, there's been at least one time We're during a squat like I get to the bottom and I go

Yeah, better get this up and and just head to the washroom. Yeah, I definitely Finish and you know little trouser chili finish and, you know, oh, a little trouser chili. Let's just get it. Oh, got to go. Got to go. Mine was always strangely in deadlifts when I feel like I was really struggling. I don't know if it was whatever I would eat before I would do my morning lift or what.

But like deadlifts for some reason, getting back. Oh, Scott, Scott agrees. But yeah, that would always like the down motion of putting the bar down always just would like it would just launch it out for me. It's squat warmups like not that I warm up that often, but it's like it's one of those I take my pre and then I go downstairs to the gym. And it's almost like my wife could set a timer. Because it would be like within the first 10 minutes. I'd be coming up going. Nope gotta go Nope move everybody out of the way. It's like my body knows no you're all you're in the gym. Well, it's time to poop

So Nate and in hindsight, I'm gonna read into a little bit more of how Kaylin posed the story was basically if you could if Kaylene Maybe yeah, you're at Kaylene She basically grandpa Dave always if Kaylene, maybe. Yeah, you're right, Kaylene. She basically. Grandpa Dave always said Kaylene like gasoline. There you go. Basically that it was pitch black when you first started to have to go

and you kind of refused to just go outside. Biggest fear is getting arrested. So going back now, if you could replay that morning and know you could just go into the woods, do your business, run back and be fine and not not have any ramifications would you have done it or no no too much rule father zero chance. I could I would I don't think I could have I just I could not bring myself to mind you i've peed outside a million times the most which is just as illegal. You can compete outside a million times. Which is just as illegal. Yes, but for some reason.

You have your penis in your hand exposed and other people could potentially see it as 100%. But it's so much easier to hide that than it is just dropping trout and squatting. As much, I'll drive by, we'll get a picture of the field that I had the opportunity of. I think I figured out, we were driving by there last night, I think I figured out the exact house I pooped in front of.

We could get a picture of that as well. God, it had to be in your socks a little bit too. There's no way. Yeah, oh no, it was ruined my life. I exclaimed, this is the worst day of my life. No, no, but like, so my biggest, I guess, why would you go to work that day? Why couldn't you have just taken a sick day and just-

I don't take sick days. I don't. I don't do that. I would have been so pissy at work that I would have like, I don't know, like I have to, I'm customer service based, so like if I have that kind of a traumatic event in the morning, I would just know that like,

I can't be around customers today because I'm gonna get fired for like losing my, and you know, my shit, shit if you will in front of someone yeah no there's one of my favorite songs is um all my friends by knocked loose and in that song you're still not yeah it's uh it talks about how all of his friends just take all of their problems and shove them deep inside and that's just just me. And how did I get to Cleveland? Well, I just took all the problems and I shoved them deep inside. Unlike my poop that was shoved outside. And I just went to work and moved along. Like, just, I don't know, man, I don't ever take sick

days, which is probably bad. But yeah, I just push on through. It's not good, but yeah, Glacier.com. So we have this game we like to play. You take a media right now and then homie. Yeah, man. Oh, let's let's hit him with some unpaid and underrated or do you have something else? No, Nate, do you want to explain to your friends and family that just listen to your poop story how what game we're about to play?

We're going to play a game called Unpaid and Underrated. The rules make no sense. We created this game. Keith and Joey created this game Just follow along and try to figure it out. It works for me. I've never listened to this podcast Big Nate unpaid or underrated military time. Oh Underrated for sure, uh, you know if it's the beginning of the day, you know if it's the end of the day and Otherwise you have no clue. Yeah, there'd literally be no way.

And also if you're a developer and you have to read 24 hour time, it makes it easy when all of your clock's that way. For those that don't know, you'll have to go back and find the episode. That's why I put this in here, my favorite story about you. Yeah, I I've messed up reading it before. I'm not a professional.

I'm not big grant. I don't do this. I don't do military time. Well, I technically do for a living because I work with those type of dates, but maybe once or twice I've just completely but if the time and left things before I was supposed to, but we don't need to rehash that. Well, that's actually so, so now I, I wouldn't say it like forgive is not the right word, but like now I'm glad and proud of you for embracing that

because you don't take sick times. You just mess up military time. So that's how you get a little vacation built into your, like that's, that's your body's way of saying like, all right, I need a break. I should actually use my vacation. Yeah, that's exactly it. All right, unpaid or underrated

doing laundry while recording a podcast 10 feet away? Underrated for sure. Shout out to Kayleen who once, when we were early in recording came downstairs and was like, can I start the laundry machine while you're recording this podcast? And not so graciously, I was like, absolutely not. And she was very mad at me because I did not handle that well. And I apologize again, Kayleen, because it was not a good husband moment. But I was under a lot of stress, man. I was trying to launch this very successful podcast.

But very successful, very successful. Many people, I've never listened to it, but I've heard it's successful. Unpaid or underrated. This one might get confusing because the way it's worded, but to unpaid or underrated, not meeting Keith in person. It's a bit of brain. Oh, it's too many double negatives.

I know, right? Not meeting. So the act of not meeting Keith in person. Um, I mean, I would say it's underrated, um, because actively Keith, that means I think it's. It just say meeting Keith in person like, oh my God, Keith in person overrated, not even paid. So he hasn't so he can't rate it. So he has to be able to.

He still haven't met. No, he's only allowed. Refuses. No, no, let's sit here. I was so tired. Dude, I was out. We were out until one o'clock in the heat. That was the night. That was the night out. We were out until 1 o'clock in the... Keith, Keith, Keith, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, So everyone's invited. Yeah, actually I think one of my friends was texting me. She got a plane ticket. She's coming out from Colorado So if one of my friends can fly from Colorado, I mean, I think you guys yeah

if one of my friends could drive through literally drive through the Ten minutes off the expressway. I'm sorry where I live but not stop. I Was very very tired. So was I? not stop. I was very, very tired. So was I. That's OK. I had a six hour drive on top of that after. You know what? You know what? I had other New Yorkers. It's such a big state. I went and found other New Yorkers.

I had them over and they were real New Yorkers. They were from the city. They're from the real city of New York. I had them over in the morning and I replaced you. I replaced you, Keith. They're not even part of my state. They had them over in the morning and I replaced you. I replaced you Keith. They're not even part of my state. They are part of their very much they're the most part of your state. Don't even acknowledge them. They don't exist. Wow. Was that three or two? Yep. I have a cell three. I don't care what all you do. Just make sure you do the bottom

one because that's going to be good for stories. Yeah, I know That's why I've done this before yeah times the way you spelled it blew my mind But that's yeah, cuz I spelled it with the Canadian spelling Unpaid or underrated reliant K. Oh, dude, I I I was just listening to those homies I was just listening to those homies, literally this afternoon with my son or this evening with my son after we were cleaning up dinner. Love those dudes. Matt Thiessen is a baller. Matt Hoops is awesome. Love 1984. Is that his pedal company? I don't even know. Yeah, those dudes, they're great. Also, for those that don't know what that is, it's not the car. It's not spelled like the car. They're a pop punk band, I guess, or it's 1981 Inventions is his company, Matt Hoops.

But yeah, one of like, shout out to Barb and Tim, was raised in a conservative Christian household. I was raised on only Chris Tomlin potentially for a very long time. And then I started to branch out and find other music. In real life case, back then was a Christian band for whatever that meant in the early 2000s, as were like every band pretty much.

But I found those guys and they were a long spiral into Nathan finding metal music. But Reliant K has a very warm place in my heart. Love that band. My dad, they're forgetting not slow down though, album, I was on the pre order for it. And I was like, on the level where I got a giant poster of like the album artwork, which was like some cool painting, I think Matt teeson's family did maybe I don't remember, but very like small almost that you can't see it are all the names of the people that backed that preorder for that album.

And on there is my name. On that poster and I had that for years and I could never find my name because there were so many names on it and I finally found my name and I put a piece of tape under it and I hung it in my bedroom. I and I think when I got married I left it hanging in that room. And I think when I got married, I left it hanging in that room. And I'm pretty sure I don't know if it is now because my dad's moved offices. But at one point, my dad just had that. My dad's other than through me has never listened to Reliant K, but he had hung that poster in his office and people would always be like, who's like, I don't know, my son's names on it.

That's cool. It's just just like giant, giant poster. Reliant K, forget not slow down on all my work. My son's name's on it. I don't know who like is, though. But yeah, so like, they're awesome. I've seen them a ton of times. Yeah, they're great. Love those dudes. Good music. Good fun music.

Unpaid or underrated. The Canadian Parliament building. Oh dude. Man, I feel like I might have talked about this on the podcast in the past, but I don't know. In high school, I was a part of this thing called the Funk Band. We went by Defunk to play rhythm guitar for them. It was our band directors hobby project. We had a symphonic band that's standard concert bands for the thing. We had a jazz band and then like, I don't know for shortly after he started,

he started this thing called Funk Band. It was an audition group and we'd play like old Motown pieces like funk music and stuff like that. Super fun. Opened my mind to like a whole different style of music that really, I mean, that's the reason I was in Brooklyn to see Wolf Beck. Like if it wasn't for

David Scalise doing Defunct, like, I wouldn't have an appreciation for so much music that I do now. So shout out to David, who will probably never hear this. But Bivital Man and my music life, also because we're doing shout out, shout out to Julie Strebler, who will also never listen to this. Shout out to Julie Strebler who will also never listen to this, but choir teacher. She's very instrumental in my musician life, but all that to say, we're doing this funk group and we're just we play around sometimes, like get random shows. We do stuff at the school. But and we're, you know, we're just playing covers. But and we're you know, we're just playing covers and we booked a show with this like rock orchestra up in Cleveland at one point called like the Lakewood Orchestra and it was like violin rock orchestra thing. And we do this like collab show and it goes off. All right.

There's a recording out there somewhere I think think, and that no one should find, because I. Man, nostalgia is great until you see yourself as a high school kid playing music with people. I was like, this is bad. All of this music is rushed that my right hand is terrible. But so we do that. And then somehow after that, our band director finds a school in Canada that is doing like the same funk band

group thing that we were doing. And somehow orchestrated that he would just take all of us to Canada to for like a week. It's cheap to to just hang out with this band and I think we played like one show with him and it was the craziest thing in the world just like Hey kids, we're gonna drive to Canada and We were supposed to play it like a tulip festival or something and it fell through so instead of that. Somehow we landed just setting up all of our gear and we just played in front of the canadian parliament building. Like we played like a whole hour show just on the stairs there's pictures of somewhere of me like just.

There's the parliament building and then there's Nathan Echberg and the rest of the funk group like just playing and we're like playing doing our thing like hey we're from America we've come to give you music and a hundred excuse me a hundred dollars sparkling water is making me burpee like a hundred yards the other direction is just some like Vietnamese or like some immigrant ask style protest is going on of a bunch of like minority people who are being something bad has happened to them and they're upset about it don't know what or who or what like just but like large group. Of people are just protesting with like socks and everything, just walking in circles like yelling. And then there's just little Ohio high school kids playing funk music

like on the stairs of the parliament building. And it's just like, I love this. This is great. I don't understand anything. So socioeconomic problems of Canada. I don't know. And then it's just, yeah, it was crazy. But yeah, shout out to David for taking us to Canada to play like Earth, Wind and Fire covers. It was awesome.

Yeah. So that's been to Canada a few times. That one's probably one of the highlights. Also, speaking of just like Canada concerts, almost gotten into a fight with a dude a few weeks ago over Canada. So I went and saw Counterparts, shout out to Hamilton. They're playing in Cleveland and Counterparts gets up on stage during part of their set. They're like, we're from Hamilton, Canada.

And some dude like not too far from me just tries to start a USA chant. And I like almost jumped over a crowd of people and just sucker punched the dude. I was like, this is a show where I can get away with just hitting people. And I've I'm not a violent person. I don't act out. But I was just like, I was filled with so much rage. I was like, Joey's not at the Arnold because of people like you. And I was like, literally like just rage is just boiling inside of me. And I was like, literally like just rages, just boiling inside of me. And I was like.

And then he immediately realized he was dumb and stopped because no one else did, and everyone just stared at him and was like, OK, cool. All right. I think I can stand down like, but I was dude, I was ready to just. Lose my mind on somebody. I was like, I can't do this. Counterparts is good. Stop being dumb. Why are you here if you're gonna do that? Yeah.

You're not at the Counterparts show and don't know who they are or where they're from. Yeah, they've been around for so long. But yeah, great show. Not as good as us in Canada. Obviously, yep. Way better, so much better. That's funny, I should actually message Connor

and see if he was there. Last one, I guess. I'm here, Connor and see if he was there. Last one, I guess. I'm here. I got nowhere to be. So, yeah, I'm trying to break David's record. So I switch my shifts. I don't have to open tomorrow. So I have until 1230 tomorrow. Oh, look at Scott. Get it over with. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You host a podcast.

All right. I'm here. Rated C in color. Dude, overrated or unpaid or underrated? Seeing colors. Dude, overrated or unpaid or whatever we do. I don't know how this game works. I've listened to 100 episodes. I don't know how any of this works. Nothing makes sense. So, oh, my gosh.

All right. Yep. Somebody big just joined. Somebody truly the biggest just joined. He's just pretending to pack that nobody ordered that. No one's no one's ordering from mass. He's Tanner's in here. Somebody ordered a hat. That's what happened there. The best part is, I don't know, Tanner knows we will have that recording forever.

And that makes me really happy. We can use that for so many things. Scott's running away. He's like, find them out of here. Yeah. So we this podcast is crazy. But yeah, that's why I that's why I decided to mute all incomeers. Like I was like, people are going to go crazy for the 100th episode. And yeah, we got a lot of a lot of a little looky loose. I thought we kicked them all out.

But yeah, color've got a lot of a lot of a little looky loose. I thought we kicked them all out. But yeah, color. I hate it. So do you as a developer, you just see color in code. So my bit is always my go to joke is always technically my eye doctor once told me I'm color deficient, but that's hard to spell. So I just tell people I can't see color and I don't know how to spell deficient, which might's hard to spell, so I just tell people I can't see color. And I don't know how to spell deficient, which might come up later, I don't know. But my guess, well, probably a lot of people wrote about this. My brother's also colorblind, so he might have wrote about it.

But I know my friend filled that out is because. In. Middle school, I guess. Mitchell, Danny and I shout out to Daniel John Mitchell dot com. We. Would go to the computer lab and my friends were those two are so fascinated in the fact that I could not see color that they would just anytime we're in front of computers in school would inundate me with colorblind tests and just like to the point where I was just like guys I just can't see anything in these tests like if you show me the one with the dots there's like one or two that I'm like I can

see a number but like nine times out of ten I just don't see anything in those tests. And so my friend later tells me like when we grew up, he's like, why would you always do it? He's like, I just couldn't believe that you didn't see anything. He's like, it didn't make any sense to me. I was just so amazed by it. And so, yeah, that's probably the key reason that's in there. But yeah, colorblind, I can see colors, some, I just get a mixed up. I just, they're not always right. And Mitchell also, I don't even know if he remembers this, but one time we were driving through Coventry, it was late at night and, uh, it's no cars on the road.

It's one of those situations. It's not like super late, but Coventry is not like a big, it's not Aberdeen, but it's kind of on the smaller side and We're driving at night. He's in the passenger seat no cars it's dark out and you know the key way that a colorblind person makes sure to differentiate colors on a Whatever you call the stoplight as you can see top, top bottom, top middle bottom. Tanner's really trying to break us. And we're all corpsing but you right now. And so Mitchell and I are driving and I see, hey, I've got a green light.

I keep driving. And I like look over at him or I just like look somewhere else and then look back up at the light and I see a red light. And I there's no car there's literally no nothing bad could have happened if I ran that red light. But I freaked out because I'm a rule follower and I don't want to run a red light. And I like slam on the brakes and there's like a parking lot at that intersection. So I just like pull as hard as possible into the parking lot and just like we get in there. I stop.

And my buddy's like, what the heck was that for, dude? And I was like, that light turned red. I just like I don't know where it came from. He's like, dude, that light was still yellow and it was just that's what happens. Like, I don't see I see color. I just get a mixed up and sometimes it involves me thinking I'm going to die at a red light and it's yellow and there's no cars on the road and I could have kept driving. But yeah, you know it is what it is. So underrated.

Sure, I don't know how this game works. I don't think now it makes here to talk. I'm just here to answer. I'm like now I'm second guessing anytime. I brought up a cup so like I think when you Were making something with like an orange background I was like that's not the right orange And then you had to send me like multi so like when someone tells you something's not the right color you just like You have to go off of like a serial number or something cuz you

something because you said he goes off code to somebody. It's man. I'm a I think I is somebody literally sent him a message and was like what's the orange code that you use. And he had it within seconds. I don't think I ever answer that text. We know if you still know. I don't know. I think Kim wanted to know what the you want to know

the website. Yeah, I never got back to him on that. And I'll see him at lift hard. So we'll figure it. Yeah, we'll work that out. But yeah, I don't think I knew you were. Has it did I. I'll see him at Lyft hard, so we'll figure it out. Yeah, we'll work that one out. But yeah, I don't think I knew you were, has that ever came up in our group chat? I don't think I knew that you were the one.

No, not once. Cause it threw me off when I read it this afternoon. I was like. No, the third story is my buddies, Mitchell and Danny for my wedding wanted to buy me like the Enchroma glasses. They're like, you could see that way like you could have your wedding in color and like you could see your wife for the first Time like you they're like you could really see her red hair finally. Oh, yeah, what does her hair look like to you red?

That's the thing like people It's I don't know it looks red, but maybe not the depth of red we would see yeah, and what's really color man? Like I don't know People always like what do you see it's like I see what I see I don't know man like I just I just get stuff mixed up Sometimes it would be hard for you to describe what you can't see like that doesn't make any sense Yeah, right like if yeah, that doesn't 100% In his video than I've ever put into anything in my life They're both they're both just going ham right now

Yeah, there's there's a podcast going on and then there's Scott and Tanner just hanging out also You know anything is I still it's only an inch big on my screen because no matter what I do I can't make it bigger It's only an inch big on my screen because no matter what I do, I can't make it bigger. Yeah, I had that problem before. Roman Sparks. Use Roman Sparks Goat Unpaid for a longer erection. What is it like something goat weed?

Use the Russian goat weed or whatever. Well, Veso Blitz is also another good option. Hims.com. Yeah, Hims. You can use Goat Unpaid for all the sponsorships. If you go to shims.com you can see a big pause. Well, I think you passed unpaid and underrated and I still don't know how it works. That's okay. Most of us don't anymore. Yeah, very few do and this is where you know, this is where you make or break if this is gonna be a PR episode of you got you.

Do you have anything for us, bud? Any games or questions you want to turn around and hit the host with? Did I just freeze no? I'm just dying thinking he's gonna say no and we're gonna end it It's gonna be that's fine. Great. That's the best ever. I don't care. So we have you know, we got some spots We got some affiliates here. We're gonna hit you with so I have a few things I feel like we're gonna get shit here. We don't have to go in half hour. Pardon my language. Yeah, I've definitely F bombed once or twice, sorry.

So I have a few things and I was really trying to work on like some. Some really complex games with a lot of good jokes, and I just I couldn't get anything good. Seems like and then I remembered, guys, you know what I do on a weekly basis? Is I prepare stuff for unpaid and underrated. And so, daggone it, I did it again. So I got some questions for you guys. If you could have, I do want to know this, I don't know, we've probably, at this point, every question that's been asked has already been asked, so whatever. We probably answer it differently at this point too.

If you guys could only have one guest for Masanomics on unpaid and underrated, who would it be? So one Masanomics guest, one person that's been on Masanomics, if we could interview them on our podcast, who would it be? I booked them, so I'm not gonna say anything.

To me, that's the, yeah, sorry. Oh no, I'm gonna have a ton of fun with that. That's going to be, I'm going to make sure I'm not working the next day. It's going to be just stupid and fun. And but I also feel like so far nobody has been inaccessible. Yeah, that's what I was going to get at. Like, I got Siri.

I got Jonathan. That's a hard question. I'm pushing for Meg squats But I think that they want them they want her first and She's not answering me. So I think once they get her then we might get her cuz she is supporting member Right, so I am I am trying to poke at that. Whoa. Whoa Whoa spoiler spoiler Right so I am I am trying to poke at that whoa whoa whoa spoiler New sticker new sticker. He's having so much fun Maybe we should start post

We should start posting a live in like a But yeah, I think the one that I haven't already got that I really want to get I'm gonna have on in like three weeks anyway, so but yeah Meg squats is is the other one I Have a hard time answering that Meg would be fun I want the podcast to be crew centric for the most part personally Meg is crew I'm talking about engine if I'm having to know, I'm not talking about your answer, but my answer, uh, like they've had a thousand, they've had literally hundreds and hundreds of guests on.

So like to, to play into Julian Pinal. Christ, no. Big Tyler on again. Um, I don't know. It gives a thumbs up. Yeah. Get Julian to what you said. I don't know. I don't know. To what you said basically like I could get. I don't know like the go the bunch of people that are crew that are just like crew just to like you know but aren't in discord like they wouldn't really. I don't know like I I know I could get Brandon or Glock on like next week if I wanted to but I don't think they want to be on our podcast. I don't, I don't want to bug them. So

it's not that I can't get them on. It's just, I don't think they'd have as much fun as we'd want them to have kind of thing. So I wouldn't want to just have a feel like I'm bugging them. Like, but like, I know I could get them on there, like I literally talk to them like on a weekly basis. Uh, and I have, I would have a hard time getting people on that aren't crew personally, but who, who, who I would want to interview like in a if you take this podcast out of it and just be someone that I'd want

To interview I don't know Ed Cohn to be cool to talk to Let's land them book them some some strong man. I don't know another No, that wasn't a sticker that was a pin. That was a pin They've never had uh have they ever had Magnus for Magnus and on and only they have have a day I can't recall they probably can't figure out the technology They don't have the internet over there. I'd like to talk to Magnus. That'd be cool. I Don't know a good question, but hard to answer because I'm so I'm too close to unpaid or underrated to like

Because it means something different to me than like just having a regular just a random conversation with someone famous. Yeah, imagine Going to Ed Cohen and be like hey Can you send this questionnaire to all your close friends? Well, I think the hardest one we I think Grant Well, I think the hardest one, I think Grant, because it did help though. That does, having the questionnaire will help when we do the bigger episodes, like with episodes with people that like aren't really in it kind of thing. Because I remember like on the OK podcast, they were talking about it, how like Grant's buddies were like, yeah, they, you know, they sent me all these.

Oh yeah, Jeff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he had like professional thing. And then, and then Grant proceeds to like, F up our podcast name every single time he references it. And I'm just like, God damn it Grant, come on. He's not a professional man, you can't blame him. Good question. Hey, he's a pastor's kid, he's a homeschool,

okay Grant, you're a homeschool pastor kid, you don't know what a Nephilim is, I forget it, you're not a professional. Giant. Kaz knows, Kaz, he's a strong man, he knows what a nephilim is I forget it you're not a professional giant Kaz knows cats he's a strong man he knows what a nephilim is yes 100 you and you oh they do look like smiley faces that's good stuff all right Joey question for you hit me would you rather only and this is one that I my memory is shoddy and I can't remember what Joey likes and dislikes sometimes. So would you rather only listen to the Eagles forever?

Oh fuck. Or only drink hop water forever? Hmm. Do I get to pick the Eagle songs? I guess. Eagles. OK. I guess if no, if the answer was no, I'd go hot water. If I get to shuffle it. Yeah, if I get to pick like the same three songs and then, yeah, then I give everyone some I'll shuffle the greatest hits or something. I would I would take that hot water was disgusting, but I was like, I think Joey ate the hop water,

but I've had conversations with people recently where they've really liked them. And it's tainted my memory of being like, did Joey like that? Did Joey not like that? I'm not doing the research to figure it out. No, the Eagles suck a lot. Yeah. I thank you, Dodds. Um, the Tanner hitters with an OK, bye, which is. Yeah, it is great.

I think. Yeah, we can go. The Eagles are playing the sphere in Las Vegas if you want to go. Nope. Thank you. Sphere, huh? The human sphere, the human sphere, the public sphere is the joke he was trying to. Oh, yeah. If we just would get our jokes right, it would be a lot funnier. The human sphere? The public sphere is the joke he was trying to make. Oh yeah. If we just would get our jokes right, it would be a lot funnier. Like my misspelled word earlier, trying to be funny. Yeah, it didn't land.

No, like the crazy sphere, yeah, the Eagles are playing there. Somebody mentioned that today and I was like, oh, I should get Tilly tickets. I didn't know they got back together. I thought that was like, I hope everybody there has fun. They I mean, the sphere is crazy. So there's a potential like I would blow my mind. All right, Keith, you ready for your question? I prepared for you. Oh, my gosh. Standard admission is three hundred and ninety six dollars and thirty three cents.

No. You're asking me a question? I'm not that hard to. Well, I was looking at how expensive evil sticks were if I can find them. He's Googling shit while he's asking you other questions. Yeah. Welcome to the life of a developer. Would you rather

Landman. Never see the color orange or never be able to use the color orange again? Oh. I'd never be able to use the color orange again. Oh, I'll never be able to see it. I guess because I am contrary to my fourth of April Fool's post. You know, I am the orange man. You know, it's like that is there's a handful of other home gym, you know, people that have the colors or theme. But like, I don't know.

I'm definitely on the Mount Rushmore of like, you know, people under a couple thousand followers that like the color orange. So, and are on Instagram and Lyft. So, yeah, as much as I love seeing it, I love being known for it, I guess. I love having an identity tied to something, I guess, bigger than me.

There you go. The orange. The orange glaze. I love having an identity tied to something, I guess, bigger than me. There you go. The orange. The orange is greater than he. And you can't even see it. Yeah, you can. Well, I don't know. Whatever. What is maybe you can. Red adjacent. All right. Yeah. Well, so you guys want another colorblind story while we're talking about color? No, OK. As long as.

Is it funny? Ah, it's short. I once failed an art class project because I painted the flower a wrong color. I believe at that point. And I like went to the teacher and I was like, I'm colorblind. And she was like, you have to redo this. And I was like, and I never took an art class again. Like it broke my soul.

I was like terrified to ever do art again. So yeah, shout out to Mrs. Whoever that was that ruined my life and my potential art career. Yeah. No, no. Yeah, no. Sheridan, maybe. I don't know. Yeah, I didn't like getting F's. I was very much. I have to have A's in my class and that

one broke my soul. That would piss me right off. Yeah. But alright, you got time for two more. Well, I don't have two more story. You want two more colorblind stories? Question. No. So I have one more thing. OK. And when we were, I always hated when this happened to me.

So we're all going to do it. Shout out to Mike Duma. When we were, when Kayleen and I were first married, we hung at, we collectively got together with a group of a lot of like very newly married couples at our church. And Mike Douma kind of led the charge. But many times at the end of our, like when we'd hang out, he'd be like, all right, we're going to go around and everyone has to say what they love about their spouse. And it was always just like the weird like that is weird.

It would just it would take everyone off guard and it would be like, oh, what are you thankful for Thanksgiving thing? Yeah. So I want. So I was like, what do we do you know Unpaid Nunder Aided is such a touchy-feely podcast. What are some games we can play? So I was just like let's just go around the horn and all of us can say what we love about each other because we like to cry. We like to be emotional. We like to get in our fields. We like to be fired up about people coming at us, taking our kids to restaurants.

We like all of the feelings. So I'll go first. You guys can think and I'm going to I'm just going to shower you guys with love. I don't know if it was in my thing, but one of my favorite things do I like encouraging people. I like telling people I like them and things I like about them. So we're going to do this. And really, this is so that I get to hear things that you like about me. But not really. So I had... The worst is I had things in my head that I was planning to say. I didn't write them down and now I'm drawing a blank on everything which is terrible. Daggone it. I was literally putting my

kid to bed last night. I was like, I've got everything. Um, here's everything I love about Keith. Here's everything I love about Joey. Um, freaking heck, Keith, go first while I think about this. I'm, I'm so upset right now. I've drawn a complete blank. Mother of a b***. Nate's, uh, motivate, not motivated. Your ability to throw yourself at something I can relate to so it's always nice to see yourself and some other you know that's you know to have things in common with your friends so your passion and maybe even ticks to have to complete something if you will as you've commented on I can see a lot of that in myself as well. So I like seeing that. You're both family men, so I can admire that even though I'm enjoying my dink life. I'm not opposed to people having their own kids and enjoying their life and doing their own things.

That's good. Appreciate that. And the fact that we all set aside two to six hours a week or whatever on average, give or take multiple hours a week to produce this and put this out and for literally our own consumption and for our friends, you know, a lot of people that can put the effort in that we do here. So I know those aren't personality traits, but you're throwing me a curveball at 1130 at night I don't have a whole this is one of those ones where you give me a week and I might come up with something But give me a five minutes. It's like No, it's more fun off the top of the head because it I haven't thought about you guys like that all that That's I haven't I mean Anything that you've I see it haven't deleted the group chat. Just muted it.

Yeah. I think I got some of my ideas back. Joey, how I love the, let me count the ways. I should have written poems, that would have been good. No, I was thinking about Joey, and I feel like, I was thinking about, what do I think about when I think about Joey, when I think about Keith?

And as much as Joey says, oh, I don't like people, customer service, oh, I don't wanna interact with people, Joey cares for people in a very passionate way. He cares about people, he cares about what happens to people. Even though he gets frustrated with people and might not like customer service,

there are just messages I get from Joey about things that are happening. And he's like, I don't like that this happened to a person. And so as much as Joey might not like people, he cares about people a heck ton amount. And don't let him lie to you and be like, oh No, I'm a strong man and I want to hide my basement. He likes people he loves them he cares for them and don't don't let him lie to you and Keith I don't love anything about I hate you know, I'm just kidding

But And I guess it's like we see this in each other. But no one commits to anything more than Keith does. No one is more sold out in out on anything they do than Keith is. He is a man that. Just locks in on things and as much as sometimes it drives me absolutely insane the way he does these things, and I love to mock him about him.

I love the way that when he's going to do something, he just does it and I and he does it 100 percent. And I think it's great. Keith, he needs a laptop for the podcast. Well, this might be the one thing he doesn't do and get a new laptop, but get a new laptop. The wife wants to go shopping this weekend and she was I was like, dude, I don't want to drop to grant because if I buy an if I buy an I'm if I buy the Apple one, I got to buy the one with like the biggest part.

You don't know. I personally I want that because I don't want to get $1500 a computer when I can spend 2000 and get an actual asset like a large like sidebar. Take this offline. If you're going to buy a Mac, Joey and I'll give you some recommendations. I think there's some good ways to do that. Yeah yeah I think she wants to go to the Apple Store Saturday well I would like my computer did survive the Costco that that that that that sound that video I sent last night like it somehow like I let it sit for an hour and turned it back on it was quiet and it's ran perfectly tonight thankfully so yay M3 MacBook Air refurbished off Apple's website. You'd be fine with 16 gigs of RAM.

Get the terabyte storage. Yeah, that's probably no more than 1500 bucks. If you get the refurbished M3 off, you don't need an M4 for you'd be fine. That's my recommendation. And an Apple refinished. We don't say refurbished. We say refinished.

Well, the site's refurbished. Everything is almost brand new except for the processor. Yeah. So they replace the battery and everything. Yeah. The housing is new. You don't have any room. I have to figure that out.

I'll figure it out for you. Yep. Whatever makes this easier for all of us. Just DM Stephanie what she needs to buy me. Like that honestly will be the, like literally, she's so impulsive and will just like spend money like no other. You just send her a link, she'll click it and drop two grand, no issue. Oh, so this is who we should have been talking to. We keep yelling at Keith, we should have just been here. I'm just going to start sending her stuff.

Will she buy things for me? There's a lot of things I need. She she spends a lot of money on random people that she knows. And I'm like, oh, good. That's great to hear. She's a very she is the most giving person I know in the world. So there you go. Like. I'm sorry I didn't have I wish I could come up with more.

You're both good dudes. I don't, I don't near have to say that we can tell. I'll take that. Joey, you don't have to say anything nice about us. You don't have to like us if you don't want to. You can keep up that facade that you hate. I just want to say, no, we like to hide in the basement. Yada yada.

I don't in my defense. Yeah, I don't like people, but it's a lot of the time it's because I see people do things that are counterproductive to their best interests and that frustrates me. If you're coming to me as an expert in customer service, you're walking up to me, you paid money to walk in the door to talk to me and you ask me questions and I go, oh yeah, here's your best thing. And you go, well, that's stupid. Well, like, then why did you come to me?

Like it's so frustrating. Like it's, I don't understand that. And you are right. Like I do, I want the best for people from over there. Like I want you to live happy and I want you to live healthy and safe and feel loved and comfortable fucking over there. Pardon my language.

Oh yeah, I dropped the first one. Sorry. Over there. I think I did it. Yeah. Just got some editing to do that. That's in my defense. Um, I was going to say this earlier in the chat, but I thought it would be weird and I don't think I can like select both of you. I love that. I talk to you guys every day, like genuinely at this point, you know, I said, I typed it out and then I deleted it. And it's funny that you bring this up.

I don't think we do this for business because none of us are making money here. I do. I'm making millions. I do this because we're friends. Millions of like, artificial money? Yeah. In your artificial world? I think we do this because we're friends and we care about the end result. And I don't think I could, I think like, you know, anybody could have done this. Even Tanner said that at some point, but he's glad that we did it. Right? Or something along those lines or like, you know, if anybody could have done this, it would have been us. And yeah, this is no longer a business transaction. Like we update each other on our lives. I talked to you guys as much as I

talked to my wife. And it's really good to know that like, even if you don't answer, I know you're there. Yeah. And I do appreciate that about both of you. Um, you know, Keith in particular, dude, I've been to your house. I surprised you with my kids. Like I just stormed into your gym with my children. You did. Right. You know, me and Nate hung out at the entire Arnold. Like we just followed each other around and had so much fun. And I just don right, you know me and Nate hung out at the entire Arnold Like we just followed each other around and had so much fun and I just don't you know, I don't see that happening With a lot of other people in my life, but you know, I'm glad that you guys All right, I'm gonna go cry Anyway, we have this game of legs to play. Keith is half asleep.

I'm sorry, no I wish I had a better answer for that. I feel like I'm neglecting people's feelings by not being able to articulate anything. No, it's okay. Don't try to make it special or anything. So tune in in four or five weeks for our... Keith will have some great answers prepared It'll actually be the whole episode is just gonna be Keith telling us what he likes about us To shower us with love. Yeah, that's what I need. I'm just gonna

You know throw it up on Instagram of tell people what they like about us and just you know Gurgle say that is my ideas to stroke our egos Yep, I think we're good to bring this in boys What do you think? Nathan's here. What the fuck? Just as Nathan's iPhone 15 did I miss Joey? It's probably Nate Green maybe yeah, did I miss Joey eating a hundred nuggets? Oh, we didn't even get to talk about that eating a hundred nuggets oh we didn't even get to talk about that it's Nate Green hey buddy I did 76 nuggets in one sitting that killed me

76 nuggets they got to be like what three ounces of peas I can tell I did it's two pounds of nuggets or three pounds of nuggets isn't it there's a there's an Instagram highlight if you want to if you want to go back and see a crazy version of me, follow me on Instagram. I don't post anything but tragedy memes anymore. But I forgot. Yeah, that is. Can I do like my least favorite thing about you is when you made like like

like 9-11 because you were too young to have 9-11 mean anything to you, I feel. It's not true. I remember it vividly. He was also too young to know how the Edmund Fitzgerald would feel, so. Yeah. Don't tell me how I can feel, Keith. Don't tell me how to have my feelings. It was 76 total nuggets. It was 3,496 calories, 182 grams of protein, 205 grams total carbs, and 220 grams of fat. How much is the sodium? That's such low protein.

I don't know, I just pulled the macros out of it. I've never felt so bad in my life. Oh, yeah, man. Oh my gosh. I mean, would you rather do that? But the story highlight, the story highlight, so we did a chicken nugget eating contest. The night before you shit your pants.

Um, no, after way after that happened, I had not that time. But so I did this chicken. We did like a chicken nugget eating contest. The next person stopped at 50, but I wanted to eat every nugget I bought just as like a of course I did it. And my son ate four of the 80 that we bought and so I just ate the rest of them where they make nuggets. Yes, I felt I've the worst Those are literally the worst no good. I could I got them for like 20 bucks or something I got him like super cheap. They're the worst flavor like um listen if I had my druthers. I would have went and bought uh

Chick-fil-a nuggets, but I don't have money for that. That would have been like 300 dollars. Yeah, exactly, so I got what I got. But the funny part is, real backstory on Nathan, so like a few days after that, I have a doctor's appointment to get like blood work and a physical done. And the physical, the blood work comes back, my

liver, some one of my liver thingy, my enzymes elevated. I don't think I don't know if it was necessary. It was. Yeah, something in my liver was wrong. And the doctor came back and was like, Hey, like your liver screwed up. And I like looked them dead in the face. And was just like, hey, like your liver's screwed up. And I like looked them dead in the face and was just like, so here's the thing. A few days before I did this blood test, I ate like 76 nuggets in one sitting.

Could that affect the results at all? Just putting that out there. And she was like, no. And I was like, all right, cause that didn't happen. But I was just like, hypothetically. Rhetorically, yeah. Hypothetically, if I was like all right cuz that didn't happen, but just like If I ate 76 nuggets yesterday would that have Skewed these numbers at all but yeah it turns out I have a rare genetic deficiency where my body doesn't know how to get Rid of iron, so yeah, that's neat. She won't you won't sell any old gym equipment then no yeah, that's exactly

You won't sell any old gym equipment then? No, yeah. That's exactly it. There it is. There's the joke. It's just your time with it. Yeah. Yeah. No, they have to bleed me out to get rid of my iron.

It's awesome. Oh, that's the old bloodletting. Yes. It's hilarious, but it's the only way to solve it. So they just bloodlite me. So if we milk this for another four minutes, we can hit a PR. So you want to... If God just hit the ad reads.

I've got, hey, I've got one story we didn't hit that we've gotta hit. Nar, nar. We're all tall. Is it under two minutes? If you have a two minute story, because I can milk the ad reads. All right, high school Nathan, big emo kid,

loved poetry, we did a poetry recitation. We did a poetry recitation competition in my high school. I made it to states. Recitation reciting? Is that weird? Yes. I know where this story is going. Recitation is not a word I've never heard. Let them go. Let them recitate this. So I drive down to Columbus and I go to compete in this statewide competition. I read this poem. You can look it up. I've read I've recited three poems. They're supposed to be

for memorization. You're judged on like how well you perform all of this stuff. Yada yada. People whatever. I didn't I didn't win. Spoiler. But one of the poems I read was Domestic Situation by Ernest Hilbert. And the opening is, maybe you've heard about this, maybe not. A man came home and chucked his girlfriend's cat in the wood chipper.

This really happened. Dinner wasn't ready on time. Craziest poem. No one else was reading poems like this at this competition. I was like, when I was looking through the list of approved poems, I was like, what's the just most insane thing I could find that so crazy poem read it. But all that happens. I'm like this thing, this whole competition is crazy. It was like

three hours of just listening to people recite the same poems over and over. No one wanted to touch my crazy. That's literally this episode. Yeah. And so all that happens. A year goes by senior year high school. I'm sitting in AP English and my teacher is like, Hey, we're doing the poetry reciting thing that you guys did last year. Um, I've got new flyers for it and Nathan's on it. He made like the

poster out of like all the I mean, there were tons of people that had made the poster or had been at the competition. And for some reason, the picture of me was on the poster. And so she hands out the poster to everyone in the class. And we're sitting there and my buddy Logan just goes, Yo, Nathan, why do you have a boner? Logan just goes, Yo, Nathan, why do you have a boner? And just the picture is of me on the stage, like standing at the mic and my pants are folded in a way that just looks as if I was the most excited

to read a poem. And mind you, he said that just in front of the teacher, the whole class erupts. These flyers go to everyone in the school, everyone, presumably every school in the presumably state of Ohio. And it's just Nathan and his pants. And so yeah, that was my traumatic childhood experience. But then so I still I think I have some literally next to my desk here. I've got a picture of it. I'll send it in the discord. You all can see it. But I took it to like the meat place that I worked in, the one of the butchers at the time went through and like cut me out of that and just like taped it to the one of the butchers at the time went through and like cut me out of that and

just like taped it to the one one of the things and like we're taping the other people's faces like around it was a whole a whole thing but yeah I was signing it and giving it out to people at one point it was like that's what I do with like pictures to make memes like that's hysterical that he did like a physical version oh that was before memes exist no I know I know I know I get it but it's funny to think that like memes have evolved from like more effort. Yeah it was like we were just cutting things we were cutting and pasting literal paper to make memes back in the day. Since you said copy and paste so my buddy... I thought you were gonna bring up a story of my past that was crazy.

No, no. Segway to like a 30 second thing. I was listening to a podcast yesterday and Nice Like Mike said he was referring to copy and paste, but he said copy and pasta. And I thought he had a stroke and I had to like DM him. But he said that's like normal like lingo and tech to say copy and paste. Yeah, copy and paste. I've never heard that. Yeah, this is a website. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. Don't understand it.

Is it just because it's like looks the same? Like I don't, is it a joke? I don't get it. It's over my head. I was joking. There's some of those things I didn't know was a thing. Yeah, it's a thing. Yeah.

Now you know. That's an internet thing, now you know. Copy chicken parm. Do you want the Wikipedia article? I'm good. No. I'm gonna hit you with some affiliates because we hit three hours as long as you roll it from our cold open.

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from the poster. Oh, hell yeah, Nate Boner is in my text messages. And a picture of me on the Canadian Parliament stairs. Oh my god, you definitely have a boner in this picture. You're leaning, it doesn't help that you're leaning back. Yeah, it looks it looks like you're sumo deadlifting and just like trying to make up Yeah shoulder room You are like Like when I when I when I talking to someone like that's new to deadlifting them

I really like you you like that f-forward like yeah, that's a cheater lockout for sure. Yeah, so there you go There's the picture like dead stare in your eyes. Oh my god Well, I'm gonna do some some copy. I'm gonna do some some good memin with that buddy. I have a maybe we'll We'll get it to um I've got I think I have some of the original flyers. Maybe we'll get those to Tanner and they can Do something that's a sticker seen the Nate Boner sticker. Yeah. So the paid paid plates next.

Yeah. All right. Um, what websites do they got to go look to find out? You can find, you can find me all over Eckberg solutions.com. That'll be a thing soon. Strongman scoreboard.com. That's probably going to be a thing or something like that. Glaze search.com. You can find me on Instagram. You can find me on LinkedIn. You can find me on github

You can find me on X I guess you can find me on just so or today was it a fake X-a-i bought X so it's literally just Moving money around, I think. So yeah, I don't think it's old. Yeah, you know where to find me. If you can't find me, go to unpaidinternpodcast.com slash 100, I think, is how things work. And you can find the episode show notes.

There'll be links to my socials in those show notes. You click on them. You can follow me. You can subscribe to Strongman scoreboard. Do you want my kids to starve if you don't subscribe? I mean, that's all I have to say. I think you want them to starve. You ate 87 nuggets only 76. Get it right.

And Theo had four of them and you didn't. Jude was too little to eat them at that time. I don't really know. You could have chewed them with your mouth and spit them, you know, you know You could that would not have that's not how eating competitions were Keith That's just not how that was trying to you could have earned that like you're such a good dad comment You got where can we find feet pics? Oh, that's on Ryan's feed. Oh Yeah He posted those free piggies

Is this where I go back to the voice from the beginning of the episode? I forget when my character was at the beginning. So I'm... It was three hours. It was literally yesterday. It is 11.36 at night or something. I go back to the original. Find me at joey underscore, let's go, M-L-E-C-Z-K-O. Probably not. Find me on any other things, not

get hub, not porn hub, not any of those hubs. Um, yeah, don't look me up anywhere else. Um, Keith honey cut 73 on Instagram. More importantly, go follow my orange gym and we'll see you next Tuesday. Did we just watch Scott work half a shift? Tanner flashing us all of the stuff that's not released knowing we won't talk about it. Yeah. But trying to get me trying to tell stories while all that's happening. I'm just like, I just have to make eye contact with myself in the computer.

Don't break. He's like, check out this product, check out this product. And it's like, wait, what was Ryan's? When I looked, Ryan's name just said Orion. Is that the joke? No, it's Arian. It's Arian. Oh, well, that's not how you spell that.

But yeah. It literally is how you spell that. I thought it was like A-R-I-E-N. A-R-Y-A-N. Arian, yeah. I didn't know that's how you spelled Arianation. But I like it. Yeah.

It was. Me and Nate were just like, no. I literally just saw that's how you spelled Aryan nation, but yeah. All right. That makes me just like new. I literally just saw it as a Ryan. So that makes sense to. Well, there's a football player named like Aryan Foster, so it's not the end of the world. No, but it was pretty. But it's very funny that he did it by accident and then he was like, oh, no.

Oh, no. We just bought the shit out of them for it. We just mocked the shit out of him for it. So there's two YouTube videos. One Mitchell put in the. Yeah, you sent us something funny of you running around. Oh, there's also we didn't even talk about the Lama video. Yeah, I couldn't even remember that. I'll put all these things in the chat.

Just make your own content. Just do your own content this week. You can control you have unpaid privileges. I'm not putting any of this out in the chat just make your own content just do your own content this week you can control you have unpaid I'm sending you embarrassing things that if you want to use it you are probably it'll probably be half-assed effort and just be stories but yeah just send them to me I have a YouTube playlist I'll drop you. Where I dressed up as a wolf for a kids thing and used a voice like this. Hi guys, I'm the wolf. And that's just infinite videos and they're terrible. But kids, that's like terrifying for it.

It was. Listen, it's like not a guy. I'm the animal to dress up as the guy in charge. It was like a it's a church VBS. And the guy in charge was like, you're going to be a as a guy in charge. It was like a it's a church VBS and then a guy in charge was like you're going to be a wolf in sheep's clothing and the costume he picked out is just the most terrifying thing like kids were literally crying when it came to like we actually started doing the event like they had to leave the room because they were so scared. Let's find where you can see me. So this is my buddy, is his idea.

He's a... It's quite a guy. You know, I'm really thrown for the loop lately. Back in the woods. He thought he had me. I knew right where he was the whole time. So yeah, that's... You guys have that now.

Thank you, honestly. you guys have that now. Thank you. Honestly, I laughed so much tonight. It was a great time. Always, always a pleasure. And look at look at these guys that just we just get the view from their penis. There was there was at one point Scott was holding his phone as if he was trying to pee out of it. Honk honk.