Unpaid And Underrated - 105 : Lift, Laugh, Hönk

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Zach. They dive right into great topics like Mt. Dew, Shrek, Is Nate alive, minimalist shoes, and euphoniums. 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 Zach doesn't have an Instagram, so go follow Keith orange gym. 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 Zach.

Did you hear Huck Finn ripping into them? Oh yeah. These guys don't even need to be on their podcast. They're fucking rock stars. Alright, I'm gonna go in here. Let me get the old game face on. I don't think I've done the intro for like a month. So this has been like, it's been a, you know, random episode of Drammin episode.

So let's go. Okay. Are you gonna start speaking? Just like that? It's been like it's been a you know random episode of drama episode. So let's go. Okay And welcome back to episode 62 of the unpaid and underrated podcast, a podcast by crew for crew. I'm one of your hosts, Big Keith, joined as always here by Big Joey. Hi, I'm over here to the right. Or left or actually you're above me on my screen. And we have big special guest this week is Zach Anderson all the way from Mesa Comics Gym. How are you doing buddy? I'm doing well. Good to have you. Good to have

you. Would you say you're living the dream? Are you living the dream? Oh always. Yep. Working hard. I wish I was working but I do got to work Friday so it's one of those weeks. Anybody drinking anything fancy this week or just move on that one? Yeah I had some fancy I wish I was hardly working but I do got to work Friday. So it's one of those weeks Anybody drinking anything fancy this week or just move on that one. Yeah, I had some fancy dasani water over here Oh, there you go. Just sorry whenever I go to a drive on a tap water Yeah, I don't want like I don't get pop when I go through the drive-through because I drink pop like once a week Mm-hmm. So I always get a bottle of water and I just end up with stupid amounts of bottles of water The fountain fountain diet coke from McDonald's or something. It's so much better than a can so I don't get it

I mean almost never don't pop like I just don't want to get yeah Especially at that time of the day like I'm not trying to drink caffeine unless I'm working out after like noon. Oh No, give me all the coffee Me and you big Joey are different then, because I've got it. And this is knowing the people that turned in some responses. I figure I'll just start with the punch line being a cheap. This cup, if you buy it from the gas station, you get free refills.

There you go. Forever, huh? Now, is that coffee or soda or anything? It's soda. So I mix a little bit of regular coke with diet coke just to try and get some of the real sugar okay I don't think I've had a real coke and maybe maybe I had to have one because like it was the only thing at a party or something my wife likes when I split one but it's like

after drinking diet coke for 15 years and then having a real coke it's like this tastes like shit so I actually even for my pop selection, I have sugar free ginger ale. Yeah, this is the, this is 40. I'm suddenly very aware of what I did. What's in my pop. I'm knocking on that door. Uh, anybody wearing anything good this week? What, what, what'd you get on this week?

Zach, what, what, what's your drip? What shirt you wearing, bud? Oh, got on. I'm sorry. I'm wearing the neon lift shirt. Oh that's a good one. That is a good one. They had that lift hard, live easy when I was there but not in my size and I was pretty bummed. I've got the brick comfort collar gym shirt pretty big fan of that one. I don't have anything special. I've got anti lifting social club because aren't we all sometimes just miserable the past couple of days. Yeah, it's been a week. It's been a rough one. Um, anybody get a chance to listen to last week's episode, uh, Masonics podcast. I did, because this is the one that they were getting prepped to go to Ohio, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I love the second call out in a row as far as weeks go that they're like, yep, we're going to get right into the title topic and fuck over your timestamps. The the one week they got into it in like five minutes this time, they were probably a half hour in, but it was still better than like the hour that it might take sometimes. Anything stick out to you or any kind of rating

you want to give it there, Zach? I would give it five out of five iPod touches, but I don't know if they're all still working at the gym anymore. So I will say five out of five horse mat coasters. Nice, nice. That's a good one. Yep, I would say that I watched it Sunday night, but fuck man, it didn't. I don't know what time it hit YouTube, but it sure as hell didn't hit YouTube when I was ready to watch it So I did miss mine my normal routine of watching the Mastromix podcast and then going right into last of us and hit

hitting the sack so But yeah, I was able to listen to it all on the drive to work Monday I think my favorite part was when Tommy and Tanner both had like interactions with people in South Dakota wearing Masonomics gear and they couldn't have been any different. But I really hope Tommy actually like not necessarily solicit him for crew but like the guy that he talked to sounded like a pretty good candidate to join crew and then it'd be so much easier for him to do the crew falls event and stuff. He's literally Tommy's neighbor and like he knows of Masonomics like that would have been a pretty easy

Hey, I mean, but that was so awkward to be like will you give my company three dollars a month? So then you can be in a discord with us So I get that awkwardness But then it's like he's not really seems like a guy that would want to hang out with us But you don't necessarily qualify to do the you know all the extra stuff if you're not crew So I don't know It's kind of a conundrum that you know We're not really in because we don't we wouldn't walk in there barefoot shoes. So But I will go ahead and give it a

Did you like how I snuck that in there? I'm gonna go ahead and give it a five out of five late YouTube drops Yeah, the online fitness community thing. I definitely listened to it. I had some ideas, but the problem is I wouldn't. I listen while I'm driving. So unless I can get Siri to take notes for me, it's like hard to, hard to grasp and, and feedback. But I do want to say one thing.

I think Mastinomics has the chance right now to do the funniest thing ever and start their own home gym community on Facebook where they do allow self-promotion so they can post their own videos and everybody can share their videos and be like no questions about horse stall mats. Like just do the opposite of what that awful community is and just run it themselves. I know that that's a big investment and I don't think they're going to do it. But the whole time I was just thinking like, that would be so funny is like create an actual home gym Facebook page for nerds who care and not just want to come in and post like their new bar or their new horse stall mats or ask silly questions I think that would I think you guys have a chance to do something very funny there and yeah either way I'm gonna give that

one five out of five filed down nearing Texas power bars nice I have two follow-ups on that one being so like pre discord, but like Mastinomics being in the, you know, there wasn't a crew. Uh, like I was like contemplating like we should start a Facebook group. Cause there's like 30 people I'm friends with and on Instagram that like, it'd be so much easier to coordinate shit in a Facebook group. And then, you know, by the time, you know, that just never, you know, came to fruition and then, you know, Discord became a thing and I finally got into that.

But that was kind of a funny thought of like a Mastonomics Facebook group of some sense, but not necessarily the one I was thinking of wouldn't have been Home Gym. But and then this was a topic I had for later, but it kind of correlates with last week's episode perfectly because so them basically talking about all the Home Gym groups and everything. And, you know, you know, they don't let them post the things, but if someone else posts it, it's kind of okay sometimes.

So like, I think three or four separate times this week, I posted, uh, so I posted David video, I posted claw trons video, and I posted Paul's video. The first two got deleted, uh, lost all those, lost all that, uh, threads. And then I'm assuming the one that I posted to Paul's today is going to get deleted by the time this comes out. So I got some done doing that because I don't really want to get banned or, you know, throttled down in that group, just because I do enjoy 40% of the group, maybe, maybe,

maybe 20%. So I do want to be part of it still. But yeah, definitely the mods are going in there and shit can in those posts. But but what's funny, kind of funny as they weren't, they were getting great engagement only from my friends that I'm like my massonomics friends. Like, like the, you know, the 50 people that I'm friends with massonomics, like whoever saw that I was getting like 10 or 15 likes and some comments, but it was only from 90% of the people were like, you know, Tanner Tommy and like the other like home gym guys that I'm, you know, in crew.

So I don't know that it was helping any, anyway, before it got deleted. But yeah, they're, Coop's not about that life. So which is again, wild, like they said, like, oh, is this content directed towards the people in this group? It absolutely is. You know, would they all really enjoy it? They absolutely would. So I can post it. No, no, you can't. And I think that that's again, that's just crazy to me. I am I'm not on Facebook anymore. I deleted Facebook about two weeks ago, completely. After being on Facebook for almost 20 years, I finally just got so annoyed. I just deactivated removed all of my history like you can't find me anywhere out there now. And so I don't I don't have a dog in the race anymore Because Facebook sucks. It's just full of awful awful scary. Everybody's so afraid of everything on Facebook I was like, I'm done. I'm done delete right so Yeah, either way would be funny start your own group run at the opposite and see which one has more success Anybody pick up the new drop today I run at the opposite and see which one has more success.

Anybody pick up the new drop today? I again, I saw it. Yeah, I was there. I was at three fifty nine our time. Constantly hitting refresh to see it. Zach, do you want to tell the listeners what the drop was? Did you get a chance to see it? I did. So there was a T-shirt with a different color of the Mastinomics lifting crew or the lifting department. And then

there was the black slides. And a shaker bottle. I was kind of surprised to see a shaker bottle. So I saw that shaker bottle. Well, like that was a I think I talked about on the podcast, but like, like someone at the Arnold like already had one pre-made form or maybe made it on the fly. It's like, oh, we could make these for you. They, you know, it was really high quality. And, you know, I think they had handed it to them.

They might have pulled the trigger on it. So I wasn't overly surprised on that one, but it was definitely the same one that I saw at the Arnold. Gotcha. Well, and then the last one was one that I forget isn't. The silly goose. Being a member of Masanomics. Yeah, that's the last one was one that I forget isn't being a member of mass. Yeah. That's been up in massonomics gym for probably three weeks now.

Yeah. I've seen it in the background of a few things. And I think it's, I think Jake already had it at his house, maybe, or maybe it was posted, maybe Jake posted a picture. I remember seeing it on Instagram and in YouTube somewhere for sure. But yeah, I, I personally didn't get a chance to pick anything up yet. Uh, I'll have to go back and kind of sit down and be like, yeah, I I personally didn't get a chance to pick anything up yet. I'll have to go back and kind of sit down.

I don't know. I just I like flags, but I'm not a silly goose. So I don't I don't know. I am a silly goose. I just have no room for flags anymore until the gym gets a little bigger. I can't even hang the certified gym flag yet. Like it's I just don't have the room for all of the flags.

I have flags. Leagues. I have I have the Lyft banner and then I have the beer. The original Crispy Boys, but I don't have a home gym. So mine are just hanging out in my garage. There you go. I was like, okay, well, it works. Worth it. Keith, you finally watched track.

You finally came in and watched like three of them. I think I watched three of them in like two days. It was, I was having a really, and what kind of motivated me, I was just, I was, I had some really bad work drama. I was kind of working through, you know, the last few weeks and just needed a comedy. Everyone's been talking about Shrek. I needed an easy, dumb comedy that my wife would also consume with me. So I was just like, if people have been talking about Shrek for me for like two years, I think I need to finally watch Shrek.

So I laughed a lot. It was funny. I think the biggest debate was what's better, the first one or the second one. Um, there was a lot of people actually thought the second one was better. I don't know. I would say they're almost like one a one B

definitely took a big nose dive on the third one. I felt, um, I'm curious what the fourth one is. And then the thing, there's a fifth one coming out next year. So, um, you know, I was a fan. I think I gave it a seven and a half or something, which for me is like very high praise. So there's, um, there's a scene in one of the Shrek's, it might be one or two when the horse is sitting at the bar and the bartender walks up and says, Hey, why the long faces? I in the theater laughed so hard, but it was a theater full of kids who obviously didn't get the joke. But I was in stitches. Just how silly that they included that.

Yeah, that's that movie is really funny. I might rewatch it at some point. I actually did like some YouTube. Like I think we were just looking to watch like bloopers or something. And I stumbled across like a, you know, random facts about Shrek. And I guess the guy that created it was like a guy that essentially got like pushed out from Disney. And that's why like everything is like a mock of Disney. It's because he kind of got like shit canned and pushed out and because he wanted like royalties and all these

things. He made like Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid and like you know like that like 15 year stretch or the 10 year of the Lion King like with that that huge stretch of like huge blockbusters and all he was getting was a salary when he wanted like a percentage so they you know forced Him out, then he started Dreamworks. I think the Pixar Dreamworks Dreamworks Dreamworks Yeah, so he started Dreamworks with like Bill Burke and some other dude and this is what the YouTube's video So that's why I like so much of the movie is just straight-up mocking Disney Which I don't know how he can get away with that cuz that's like it does was shit change just enough to not be Copyright or I guess if all those maybe since it's all

His copyright shit goes away after like 50 years or a hundred years or something and all those characters were created in like the fucking 20s, right? So. Well, cause the problem I imagine would be that Disney is just based on actual stories, right? A lot of them from the Brothers Grimm. And you can't copyright those. They can only copyright the likenesses. So you can have any seven dwarves in the world

that you want. Like you're allowed to do that They just can't look like the ones Disney made and that's probably how he got away with it fair But yeah, I enjoyed him I definitely watched the fourth one at some point in the coming weeks and then I would anticipate watching the the the the newest one The puss in boots got I got a kick out of that cuz I was like, you know I was a cat guy like and I think I have knew and I knew of puss in boots boot boots

to some extent but like not necessarily where it came from or but yeah the whole movie was just the whole it's I made a mistake not watching them earlier but yeah so I would say you know good on you guys for you know be little badgering me into watching them essentially and another thing I know be little badgering me into watching them essentially And another thing I kind of got badgered into doing was uh I know if everyone's I've mentioned the lump on my neck a few times on the podcast moon and I finally followed up after 18 months and you know made another appointment and I got us we have a CT Scan ordered so we'll see what's going on with that lump on my neck and hopefully Hopefully it's nothing so yeah, but back to squatting

Yeah, well, I've been I've been basically working around it. I just high by just I just can't high bar So basically we just spent the last 18 months to two years just not high bar squatting. So but yeah, we'll see but Let's see. You got what's going on with your pants, Joey But let's see, you got, what's going on with your pants, Joey? What do you mean with my pants? Do you have a story about your pants? Yeah, I've gone through two pairs in a week.

Just popping seams and yeah, Strongman must be doing it for me. I don't know what's going on. I'm down like actual body weight, but I've literally popped seams on two pairs of pants in the past two weeks. It's starting now. So it wasn't like based on the Andy Sandberg song?

No, I know. I know. No, no. The one that you're highlighting there, the being a lifter in the corporate world, I just had to assume that's what it was. No, I had one of these weird like I was in the gym and I was horse cocking weights. Right. You're wearing like your booty shorts and your bare feet and you're just like yelling and screaming like having a time And then you got to go and put on like dress shoes and dress pants and a collared shirt and go and send like

polite emails it's so funny just like And I know Tanner will back me on this cuz I'm sure he's in the same boot or in the same boat in the same Shabu Where you're just like that way too loud Stephanie's gonna kill two opposite versions of you And I just thought I thought that was really funny I just like I left the gym had a good pump was feeling jacked And I just put on like this outfit and I go and climb in my car

And I got to go and send like, I hope this email finds you well. Like it's just, it's just so funny. The dichotomy between those two versions of yourself. Um, I thought that was just an interesting, obviously everybody has already become aware of that. And that's a very basic meme, but to me, it just became a reality in that one day where it was just like, why am I dressed like this? Why do I have to put on dress shoes? Why am I leaving the house to be nice to people? Like what is happening? So that's what that one was. I do have another one. I have a theory and I'm going to run with this a little bit. Has anybody other than Ryan seen Nate in person since the Arnold of 2023? Negative. I've never seen him at all.

No, no. I've seen a lot of other people from Ohio, like several. Like I've met, you know, by the fuck I've slept at Hogan's house. I've corresponded with I think every other Ohioan, Ohioan crew. Oh, hi. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, he won. I have shook the hand of many a Ohio resident, Kurt Locker, Sam. Oh, God. There's like three or four other ones. I'm sure Tom. Yep. So many.

So speaking of Tom, he's a, he's part of my theory here. Okay at the Arnold Tom and Nate tried to Midwest. Goodbye No, not me. Yes. Goodbye. I remember that story Yeah, I wish goodbye. I remember that all walking to brothers Tanner. And then we turned around Yeah, and Tanner caught them trying to like just leave the crowd the best when Tanner catches you trying to give around. Yeah. And Tanner caught them trying to like, just leave the crowd. That's the best when Tanner catches you trying to Irish give his thing. Yeah. Which is ironic.

So the theory is Tom actually killed Nate that night. Oh damn. Yeah. Nate has not been an actual alive person since then. And Tom is the actual genius behind Nate AI. So think about that, right? They're together, they disappear together, and then Nate never shows up to an in-person meeting again. That's true. I mean, he's always talking a big game on Discord. Like, you know, he posted the meme about us all

going to the Arnold. Nate didn't go to the Arnold. He talked about seeing people at all the Ohio meetups and going to Kevin's house and then going to the pizza place and they didn't go to the pizza place. You know, I don't, I think Nate is gone. I think Nate is missing. And I think big Tom might be partially responsible or fully responsible for that. Allegedly. This is a podcast. So we can't like say that, but allegedly.

Yeah. I think that's worth looking at. I orange Glacier has not been updated a long time So I mean that's gotta be done manually now since I am BD, you know change their format. So man, I don't know And is it under group chat? He doesn't really respond a whole lot and when he does it's just reacting to comments We're or going wild card explanation point. Like I don't really know what that means. Yeah, horns in the chat boys, right? Yeah. Like, like me, well, for example, like that last episode that he was quote unquote on, it was just fucking a soundboard. And Tom was there. So yeah, I think that there's a, I think we should all be looking over at Big Tom and finding out what really happened to Nate. Now you got me kind of worried that I keep giving Tom shit for quote-unquote spoiling the results of the Arnold.

I don't want to get on Tom's bad side now. He's gonna fucking whack me off next. That was a good theory. I kind of wish this was a we can kind of consider this one of our 2025 predictions to, you know, maybe in 2026 we'll prove if Nate is or is not still alive. Yeah. Or he's just AI being controlled by, by Big Tom. Well, fingers crossed, because whenever we need our shit done for the podcast, I don't know if Tom can keep double dipping and doing it himself.

I don't know. I don't know if I could keep double dipping and doing it himself. And I don't know if I can trust AI enough to keep doing all the heavy lifting for us. Anyway, you've got one on there. I did not watch the YouTube today. I honestly kind of slept. It was funny. I didn't catch it at first because I looked for it at lunchtime

and I was like, I just scroll and I fucking subbed to too many people on YouTube, but there's just so much shit in my feed. And then I wish I could take fucking shorts out of it. Like I hate fucking having to go through shorts on YouTube. But yeah, so but it was funny because I literally thought they didn't post the video today because all I saw was a picture of Grant and I was like, oh, it's another,

it's something from the strength go. And then I think when I was home, just scrolling around like not that long ago Actually, I was like, oh fuck. This is the Mastomics Gym review so I watched that real quick. It was good I think the funniest part was I feel like they were in the shitter at the strength Oh gym for like a solid four minutes of like a 20 minute video So I'm like and then like Tanner eventually it was like we should probably finish this video back out on a

deadlift platform not in the shitter but I was just like man grants just showing us every like they literally lifted the toilet lid to like show us the shitter and I'm just like if Grant on if grants not on the spectrum I don't know who has I mean we all are a little bit but it was a good it was a good tour There's just it kind of makes me forget how much shit they did in California because like there's still a couple in the bank I think maybe maybe was that the last one? maybe that was the last one, but I feel like we've gotten a lot of California content and then We're gonna be in No, so this was in California. So this was there was part... Oh, okay. Grant was living in South Carolina, you know, semi-permanently

like last year and then when he's getting... when Grant's buddy got activated again to go back, you know, on a deployment, he, you know, moved his whole family back to California. So he like always had a brick-and-mortar strength code gym in California but then he always had a brick and mortar strength code gym in California, but then opened up a little satellite gym basically in South Carolina that I'm assuming he closed when he moved back to California permanently or for the time being.

But yeah, good video. I enjoyed it. Definitely watch it if you haven't got a chance yet. And I think that- Yeah, I thought that was the South Carolina one cuz he made the Gavin Newsom slight I Don't think I caught that. What was it was Gavin what? He said he had two

There were two strength go gyms and then one of them had to close due to kovat and he said thanks. Yeah Or thanks Newsom or something like that. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I see, I see. The other thing I have written on General Topics where we can move on is just my little chirp back to Joey when he said, which made me laugh, and it got a lot of reactions, was you had something to the extent of, hey, influencers, put your shirts on. And then I just happened to have taken a shirtless photo literally once a year at the most and it just happened to be at like the top of my camera roll and I was like Oh, this is gonna be funny. So yeah so

You know what Morgan did is she went back through all of my posts where I don't have a shirt on and sent them to me put a shirt on and It's like yeah, it was I was like, you know what? First of all, how dare you? Second of all, who do you think you are? Um, but ultimately it just came from like, just, you know, those guys in the grocery store and they're not wearing a show. Yeah.

That's obnoxious and stupid. I get it. They don't have a jawline and like, they're just like the, the worst young 20 year old and they're just like, the worst young 20 year old and they're just like like mustard is killing your tests like don't take this like I fucking hate those guys with every every part of my passion and that's when I was just like put on a shirt like don't don't go out and do that like what's wrong with humans like first of all I all, I'm not, I'm

not taking advice from some 20 year old kid with abs on how to get strong, stay strong and use my strength because like you don't have a job or a life calm down. Second of all, I'm not taking nutritional advice from a shirtless douche bag in a shopping center or in Costco. Like, like there's no reality outside of social media where that would make sense. Like if you were genuinely shopping at Costco and you were like, oh, I'm gonna get this cereal, my kids enjoy it.

And then some kid without a shirt was like, don't give this to your kids, it's full of phthalates and sugars. You'd freak out and like swing your purse at them or like report them like you wouldn't just like Their stuff and listen to them And it's just it's so stupid how? Stupid we've become on the internet anyway, I'm so glad my feet show me like 90% of that shit like I

Don't follow anyone. That's my feed shows me the people that rips them apart I don't follow anyone that's my feed shows me the people that rips them apart But in order for those guys to exist the first guy has to exist. Yeah, no, I tracks. I I've followed like 200 different strongman probably in the last two years or so So like my feed is like 60 percent strong man now I'm like 20 percent power lifting and then just like family and friends the rest of it. So it's been pretty nice. It's been a nice evolution. So, but I think that'll wrap up general topics unless Zach saw something on the internet this week that we didn't we need to touch on before we get onto that ad read.

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Nice. That was a good one. Live Laugh Honk is good. I don't know if I've heard that before, but Live Laugh Honk is funny. Good work. Mini a zinger there. All right.

Oh, let's see. We have a big old room. People, we got to kick out this week and get that guest on the horn. I think this is the least amount of people we've had in like three weeks. How nice it's been to like not be distracted on the screen, though, like it last week was amazingly fun, but yeah, that was overwhelming. 30 home gym nerds.

Well, can home gym nerds. Oh, yeah, that's yeah. That's. OK, all right, you're up, Keith, get him on the horn. Oh, let's see uh, okay. All right. You're up Keith. Get them on the horn. Oh, let's see. You got to kick Ryan and carp out. Yep. Yep. Yep. Everyone's gone.

Never get them all out. They get, they got all the grease. Now it's time to get onto the guests. So big Zach's at you buddy. This is big Zach. Big Zach. Welcome to the podcast. My friend, big Zach Anderson, the Instagram lists, big Zach Anderson.

I think I know you from my car ride to the airport. I was going to ask, how does it feel to be one of the three people in the crew to have ridden in the famous Freelance Freestyle? Wait, what? That was a Freestyle? That was my, yeah. Yeah.

That was the Freestyle. Incredible. I would have never included into that, because I I had that in the that was the freestyle. Oh, incredible. I would have never included that because I have no clue what I don't do cars. Exciting. I will say it feels good. It feels good. And also getting the right of the airport, not knowing Aberdeen and how close the airport was. Like you picked me up and it was a three minute drive.

And I literally could have walked this, but I just didn't know. a three minute drive. I literally could have walked this, but I just didn't know. I was already halfway there when I was at Qdoba. Like I didn't know how far it was. Well, and speaking of last year, I didn't mean to stir the pot so much with the Fairfield. Oh yeah. I just like, Oh yeah, that was you. Yeah. You got me in some shit. And it's, it is one of those things. Like I genuinely haven't even thought about it. Like at the time it made me so mad. But then I was just like, all right, that's gone. I haven't thought about it until you tagged me. And then just everybody came at me for it. And I'm not the only one. Like it's just one of those. I know

the dammies had problems there. Trond wasn't happy. I think he said something along those lines. Murph hated it there. Like, and it was, I was just like, yeah, it was just a customer service issue. Like there was no actual issues other than the fact that when there was issues, this girl didn't care. And everybody just, yeah, it definitely stirred up a lot of stuff. Then I felt bad. Just, I felt bad just. I felt bad because Keith, you pointed out I don't have Instagram because I just found that Facebook was so negative. I just got rid of everything.

Yep. And so to bring stir up some more negative stuff, I was like, oh, this is supposed to be a quick little jab at. What's it like to have that much free time? My God, like that, that would give me like, I mean, also I couldn't post a podcast or like have 80% of the social interactions that I have that all like kind of stem from different groups and clicks and discords and niches that I'm in that all

started online so but man you have to have a lot of like family time that can be consumed most of your day because I don't know I would have so much extra time on my hands and also yeah like it's fine you brought it up and I know it was funny that you brought it up because I even I was just like yeah and then everybody got mad at me again and then I was like what is happening like yeah it is what it is it wasn't a you didn't stir up negativity or anything all right big Xamarin the free time is being able to keep up with the discord. That's true.

Mass Nomic Discord is an active discord. Yeah, it's a very active community. Very much is. So I guess that I mean, that is still social media, but to or to an extent, you know, people you want to be around with. Are you on other discords or just that one? Well, that's what's really interesting is the when you talk about an active discord Like I see some that are so active. It's overbearing. Like I don't even check on them because it's they're not worth it

It's like the Facebook group of home gym Connor Jim Jim Facebook group. Yeah, but then looking at the barefoot Discord and usually Joey It's me and Mel And Mel works for them. But yeah. All right, Zach. So number one question. We always say people that you have a different perspective on this one than most. So what brought you to Mastinomics and interpret that however you want.

So I was listening to last week weeks and somebody talked about how they might be the first person to have joined the crew without listening to a podcast and I can tell them that they're not the first maybe in or they're not the only at least we may be in small company but I started lifting weights in 2020 because going down some mental health struggles and thought that'd be a good thing to start with. Get in better shape and try to get that way. And I was at a different gym that was more commercial. And then my friend, Big Jory, said, hey, you should come check out Massanomics. And then because there is no day pass policy,

there's no place to like drop in a day pass. You just messaged Tanner and he says, oh, yep, fill out the liability form and then we'll figure it out. And I joined the discord to kind of pay back that. And as soon as my two years was up at the other gym, I hopped over to massonomics Yeah, buddy

Sweet, so you Do you um, do you do youtube then so like do you consume their youtube media? Yeah, okay. So like you get so I mean really if you're in discord and you're on youtube I don't know how I mean you're missing a lot from instagram, but like Not everything so there's a ton of stuff on discord and there's a ton of stuff on YouTube So I think if you keep up on those you're probably you know getting an adequate amount of Mastronomics and I think the story was he wasn't doing any of that before joining the gym Yeah, right. Is that is that what I'm reading?

right, yep, cuz I listened to the podcast after big Jory told me he's like, yeah, these guys that own it have a pretty successful podcast. Like what? No, it's in Aberdeen. That's not right. They haven't even been in Aberdeen magazine. There's no way they're doing it. All right. So you I mean, you're not on Instagram, so you. I mean, you're not on Instagram, so we can't ask you your Instagram. I just got this. Yeah, what's your what's your discord there?

Just in case anybody wants to chat with you and slide in the old discord DMS. It's a big sack, but I think the actual handle is Viva La Goat Cheese. What? All righty. That is one of those one of those dumb things when you're in high school and you're like, OK, I got to meet something, create a unique gamer tag. And so I was like, yeah, I keep forgetting people like have had discord for like a decade.

If they're like gamers and shit, then like, yeah, I wasn't like so many of us that joined discord when they heard about Mastodonics having one. Well, that's what I think is really interesting about the Internet is that like when it first started, it was don't put your stuff out there. Your email address can't have anything that relates to you so nobody can tie you back and now all of four of my email addresses are my name at gmail.com. Yep. Some variation. Indeed. So are you a Aberdeen native or what, you know, where are you from, where you live, etc.?

So, I am originally from the Nebraska side of Sioux City, which is about an hour south of Crew Falls and then came to Western North. There's a Sioux City and a Sioux, that's what, so there's an actual town called Sioux City Yes, that's interesting. What what is going on? It's in Iowa. What's going on under your desk there? I'm gonna say scratching his leg or he's gonna walk cat Yes I left it open yesterday

So that's why I left this open so Joey Joe, you can see it hoping that he'd call it out. And then I kept seeing you reach under and I was like, oh, there's a pet under there for sure. That is really itchy. No, I didn't believe that for a second. That was that was definitely caring for something. Well, you just tell your cats, I said, so so you've been this was 2020 ish that you first kind of found Mastronomics then sounds like you might not have joined the gym till a little later but you released like they were in your on your radar.

So you've been around long enough to see a lot of merch come and go. So what's that one thing that you wish you had gotten? You know, I was thinking of that the other day because you guys have asked it for most podcast guests and I was trying to think of it and the luxury of being at the gym and I don't know who it is. I'm going to call it the merch fairy. Oh, yeah. Somebody outgrew their shirts. Yeah, you got all Tommy's old shit when he moved. Yeah.

He left like a hundred shirts when he left. Well, I was going to say, being one of the smaller, which is still a relative term for Mastinomics, I'm not competing with many of the guys for those shirts that Tommy's outgrown. So nothing, nothing sticks out, nothing, nothing that you just you see in your man. That'd be nice to have in my size. No, because the one that I would say was when I first listened to, I think it was big Grayson's podcast that you guys interviewed him and I

heard the question, it was the black on black. And then I don't know what happened. It showed up. So I actually have that shirt. Well, this is the first use. So he's so spoiled that he can't answer the questions. So I guess we've got to just, well, if the, well,'t answer the questions. Yeah, I just will. Well, that's I mean, I don't know if we can air this podcast with that answer.

But we'll you know, we'll run with it. Do you have a Hall of Fame status there? I don't have it yet. I'm working my way. Yeah, like in general, we're where we're as the staff. I guess the question how many checks do you have on your home? There you go. Yeah, that's what gotcha.

This makes nine Okay, whoo getting there. Well, you got to get to crew falls next this this winter That should be an easy one for you. You're at three and a half hours And you know hang out with some homies and get another check mark I've wanted to go to crew falls the last two years and my daughter's birthday is that weekend? Yeah, and it's probably going to be the same weekend every year Because it's kind of like it has to be a little bit past Thanksgiving and definitely before Christmas.

So my birthday is that weekend and I pulled it off. So I think you should just bring your daughter. I don't think the three year old or the one year old would be going with. Yeah. What are some other realistic ones then that you think you can get? Oh, well, because you're, uh, you're going to be competing this year. So that's one, right? Yep, I was trying to get through the loophole, and Tanner closed my loophole that I've been a part of the

list hardly easy. Yeah, that does not count. There's competing and then attending two different things for sure. Well, and that was actually wrote that note down, because the interesting thing with this is with Masanomics and Discord is that it reminds me of the old AOL chat rooms and just like I was talking about like in the old days don't don't talk to people on the internet don't go see them and

Not knowing who Joey was just seeing his name in the discord and then the one guy wearing a kilt for the left Heart of easy one. I was like no exactly who that is. That's funny Yeah, you definitely have a different perspective than most people like not having Like it's one thing that just not be friends with someone on Instagram because you haven't come across them yet It's another thing to just not have Instagram and like not see people just post shit for three years straight and then meet them in person so Yeah, I could definitely see being a little more timid when you're meeting people because it's like, I have no concept of who you are because you might not post in discord ever. And if you do, you're literally one of 500 people to post.

So we, so we know you don't have a 30 I'm assuming you don't have a certified training facility since you already mentioned in the pre show, you don't have a home gym. I do not. I have some dumbbells, but I wouldn't call it a, he's got. But he's got the training facility, so I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't be seeking out the certified if you're literally living at the Mecca. Are you sure we're do you know what your sporting membership number is? You want to flaunt that to people?

Could have sworn it was 62. I can't find my gold card right now. I mean, that's early. I think you eclipse Joe, at least me. I think Joey's right around there, aren't you? Or you were before that? I don't know. I don't remember. I think I'm in the 70s now.

As of gold card release, I'm 47. Okay. Maybe I'm in the 60s too. I still might have something on Joey though because I actually have the patch. I don't have a tattoo but I've got the patch. I have the patch and the tattoo. I just was too impatient for the patch and needles don't scare me. It was again I had the opportunity to do something hilarious. And I did. Nice.

Uh, so this has been one of my more, my more favorite questions as of late. Um, how'd you explain to anyone what, what podcast you were going on and how did that go over? Oh, so I, the, the one person that turned it in was big Jory. And so he knew exactly what was going on. I sent it to wife who was first of all, like, you want me to fill out what now? And then I don't know if she actually turned anything in or not. But she said she and then it cut out. And yeah,

yeah, we got a small amount of information from her. Yeah. Oh, and so she was talking to her. I said that it's it's a podcast from a couple of guys Not from the gym, but about the gym Okay, like essentially, okay. Yeah nerds That's what she was thinking Good I always like her and did different perspectives of how some people just don't even try to explain it and other people have to like You know give them the whole you know scheme Do you undo yours before I do mine? I've been talking a lot here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say it's something that I've been you know

Trying to ask everybody and it's just been such a crazy couple of weeks So I understand your first competition is coming up in July Yes, yes So I understand your first competition is coming up in July? Yes. Yes. If you could have any person from history, current time, dead, alive, don't know them personally, do know them personally, be the person to hype you up for your third lift. Whichever lift it is that you think is your favorite. Who would that person be? Oh, that is a good question. I've only been able to ask two people so far and I think I'm going to ask everybody this. Yeah, I'm going to add it to our blank show docs actually right now. Yeah.

Gosh, I don't know because I'm not a big back slapper. Me either, like don't know, because I'm not a big back slapper. Me either, like don't hit me. But like imagine there was like one person that was just like, whether they're yelling at you or just talking to you that you're like, for you, I'm going to go and I'm going to like kill this lift. It's probably going to be a Homer pick, but I'd probably say Big Rossmore. That'll do. From the gym. Yep probably say big Ross more. That'll do from, from the gym.

Yep. Big Mount Ross more. Cause big Jory and I find out that, uh, you'll keep, it actually happened yesterday or the other day that, uh, mid mid getting ready to get underneath the bar and then you make a joke. So it throws off your focus and I'm almost certain that's what would happen. Yeah, we, um, I had that exact same thing happen a couple times this weekend. And then in the last week, like, when I had Chad and Chris over, Chad said something funny right before I was ready to do the

grip thing, and I just couldn't fucking refocus. So then I kind of I had to pay him back. And I said something really stupid, like right when he was getting ready to go for a big lift. And then I think it happened over the weekend at the Strongman Saturday to like somebody said something just stupid and asked And I'm like right before someone was about to do a big lift and I was like, oh it really does fuck people up Especially if it's a big lift. Oh, buddy limit that I remember though the one time I had Morgan come down to spot me on a bench that I was a nervous about

And I was like literally your job is don't let me die That's all like if I suddenly can't push it up, you just need to like grab it and I'll do most of the lifting. You just need to make sure it doesn't fall on my face. And I get in there, I get position, I get all comfortable. And she literally goes boop on my forehead. And I was like, get out of my fucking gym. Like I was like, get out fucking gym Get out like how dare you? Pretty rough. Oh mad, but I get I work it alone most of the time. So I just like I'm no I don't have those distractions. So She was she felt pretty bad. I ended up making the left but either way. Yeah, I hear ya Quick follow up there on Mount Rossmore. Is he the one that helped get you a new car after you turned in the freestyle? He is.

I figured he's the... I hope he is the crew go-to car salesman in Aberdeen. I suppose then Joey, that makes you one of four, because I forgot Big Ross is in Discord. He finally joined last year maybe. Because it was a I took the freestyle over to the where he

works lost automotive and then he drove the freestyle to Tanner's house. So that Tanner and Jack could test drive it and make sure they wanted to have it. But so he's been in it too. Good deal. Good deal. All right, so Next question here. We got I can't believe I never made that connection that's no Leris I was funny you must yeah cuz I I actually added it to the show notes later cuz I had put you and I both had some Zach interactions at Lipsard Livesey and then I was like Joey road in his car

Freestyle question mark and I was waiting to get to that but they kind of worked out great that he brought it up So I good stuff I still don't think I've ever seen it like I need to like study what the I've seen it in like the pictures in discord but like I still don't think I've ever seen a freestyle in my life um it just wasn't a car that ever existed when I was young enough to care about cars and then I think when it did exist like I didn't give a fuck I just have you ever seen a Ford Flex That car That's a little gotta be little less only because it's a the freestyle was replaced by the Ford Flex But it's just like a to me. It looks like a long box on wheels. Gotcha. Yeah, man

I've driven the same car for almost 20 year. Well damn near Over 16 17 years, so I guess what what's older the laptop with the car? The laptop was technically louder the other day before Alright, let's get a big exact. I gotta get you back on focus here. So we got a game We like to play not sure if you're familiar with it. So it is called least fun most fun I'm gonna give you a topic and I need you to kind of basically say the best part about it and the worst part about it. Um, so least fun, most fun performing the national anthem at a powerlifting meet. The least, the least fun is that I have stage fright. Oh, and so like the first time I did

it when it was just the group of people for testing it and somebody commented like, Oh, that was a really good vibrato. And I was like, oh, that was a really good vibrato. And I was like, yeah, yeah, it definitely wasn't me just shaking. We'll just call it vibrato. I meant to do that. Also, can I hold on? Hold on to somebody actually said to you, hey, I really like your vibrato. Well, they're like, yeah, it sounded really good with it.

Well, it was Jory. Oh, OK. Because I was just like, that really like your vibrato. Well, they're like, yeah, it sounded really good with it. Well, it was Jory. Oh, okay. Because I was just saying like, that's something I would say, just to be like, sound like a nerd. So I'm glad it was somebody that was close to you. Like imagine. Sorry, go ahead. Go ahead with your most fun. The most fun is just, I'd never done it before. And I know I've showed this with Big Tanner because it was funny to me. He said when he asked about it, he said that Tommy texted him like a day or two later and he's like, can he actually sing? Tanner's like, I don't know, but he's from town. So he's either going to make an ass of himself or he can actually

do it. So and the price is right. But for me, the most fun is just doing it. It's something that I thought about hoping I could do in college because I'd seen classmates of mine do it and never had the opportunity. So so you're going to do the Canadian national anthem at the at the next one. I screen shot it scants response when I first did it and I don't remember what it is off top of my head, but it is something like just to say, oh, Canada, and just stick on those notes and call it a day. Yeah, you don't have to do the bilingual one. Good stuff. good stuff. All right. Well, we can kind of get in the meat and potatoes now if you want.

We always let people talk about their job for a minute or two if they want, but they don't have to, it's entirely up to you. It gives people some common ground if they, but it's up to you. Yeah. Well, it's always funny to be listening to Tanner because he works in the finance part but not for a bank. I work for a bank but not in the finance part. but not for a bank. And I work for a bank, but not in the finance part. So I work. That is kind of funny.

I work in an internal audit, but we do procedural audits. So when people typically hear it, they're like, oh, so you must know numbers and CPA. And I was like, nope, absolutely hated accounting. Yep. And so that's what I do on a good day. I try to dabble here and there like I've got I Tried to do some IT stuff trying to get into that world, but Also, I like my job enough that I'm not in a huge rush to find something else

And there are you know, what I recall there's about 70 banks in Aberdeen And they all look like two story massive buildings. I was just, I'd always stuck out to me. It's like, why is this, why is this bank like three stories tall? I've never seen that. Uh, I don't know if we just have different chain banks or maybe they're all mom and pop banks, just like, uh, mom and pop Korean foods, apparently. Can't believe that.

I can't believe that's what was someone picked up and ran with last week. I was like, what the fuck guys? Like, it's like, I didn't say it. Chris did. Whatever. But it was, was the fuck, guys? I didn't say it, Chris did. I'm like, whatever. But it was Matt. He's going to find the most random thing and just go after you for it.

Last week's episode was really fun. I really had a good time. There was so much good content that came from that. Well, Morgan was saying you guys thought it would be funny, but it just was everybody being sappy. There was a decent amount of that. Yeah, there was a decent amount of sap on that episode. And I'm not complaining. I was I mean, was a great episode, but I thought that was she was just like,

I was ready to laugh and instead like ready to cry. I'm like, Paul, Paul got me. Paul, Paul got me in the feels. Yeah, they all everybody had something to add and it was definitely an interesting episode. Why do they call you moon boots or do they call you moon boots? So when I was in high school I had. Isn't that a mooning story? No it's not a mooning story. We've had a fair amount of mooning stories lately. My son walked in and he's just looking and he's like, what's going on? You'll say hi.

Hi, everybody. No, that's right. Uh, I mean, when I was he can hang out, we just won't be able to hear him. I was going to say, you can't hear anything, so it's just me talking. That is going to be an awkward thing for the kids. Like, why is dad in the spare bedroom just talking for two hours? I don't understand. Oh, yeah. I do calls twice a week in this and then I do the podcast and the kids come in

and they're just like, like looking at the computer screen. I was like, no, buddy, they they can't hear you. You can't hear them. The moon boots, we had some high top cleats when I played football. And because they were on clearance, they were two sizes too big. So there was size 15 shoes. And I'm not a big stature person. So they just look like moon boots to me.

All right. Is that better than Shaboot? Shaboot? He might not. It was on Discord enough. He probably knows what that is. So you still are you a morning lifter it seems like. So what's the morning crowd look like at the gym and how does how is training at the morning like in training in the morning?

Like what time we talking like I'm talking like 5 a.m. Or 6 a.m. And what was that you that stormed in when everybody was sleeping? Oh yeah. And turn the lights on on Saturday morning at like six o'clock. I wasn't me that turned on the lights, but I was definitely there. That had to be an experience. Cause no, I don't think Tanner didn't like warn you anybody in a group chat or anything. Did he? Nope. Well, and it was one of the best parts about Mastinomics is that they there's no rules.

So my son was with me that morning. So it was six o'clock and we went in there and my son was like, oh, there's nobody that's going to be here so we can play the stereo. I go in there, turn on the light and go, oh, never mind. Turn that back off. He's so nice of you, but it's your it's your gym. You should have bothered them. Yeah, I'd be like, you're those guys.

I can just kind of do bodybuilding stuff up front. We need the power rack. Dammit. Get out of the way, boss man. Wake up. Well, that was that was kind of funny is it was in the back. They were sleeping in the back part. So we were in the front and I was doing hack squat. And so I did it. And my son's like, can I try that? Yeah. As Big Lou walks out to go take a piss.

And so he walks through and then comes back and my son got trapped at the bottom, but he wasn't moving so I wasn't like trying to catch it for him. And I was like, you got to do something, bud. And then I don't remember what Lou said, but Lou had some comment for him. It just made me laugh. That's really funny Lou all hung over coming out molly's probably still drunk at 6 a.m. yeah down he was hung over by then but yeah it's usually usually 5 a.m. and depending on the day it's usually me Jory Ross and then there's a guy who has no idea what Mastanomics podcast is that there.

He came to the gym because Larry, the why. Who? Larry, Larry knows a little bit. Yeah. At this ready better. So that's the morning crew, right? For the most part. And what's really funny is that you get used to your people. And so then when somebody else comes in, because recently there's been a group of three guys

that have been coming in and one of them is a high school kid that's practicing for football and somebody's training him. And if I had to guess it's his dad there and it's just like, okay, you guys are kind of in my way. I guess I'll find something else to do today That's good stuff now that is kind of I mean it's a decent sized gym But yeah, if there's like 15 people in there at the same time, that's definitely gonna not have Your hundred percent choice of where you can go and do stuff. So

But yeah, that's it's good stuff Definitely you probably could never go back to a commercial gym at this point. Could you like, or would it be very uncomfortable and not as satisfying? Uh, yeah, I have for a few road trips back to Sioux city and Omaha. And it's like, there's 13 people in the gym and this is crowded. I don't want to deal with this. I would never. So, so with doing your first meet, are you actually on the jug app or someone

coaching you or what are you doing? How are you, how are you prepping for your first strongman meet or sorry, your first power to be meet. So I was going to get on jug and then it seems like every time I go to think about getting on it, I get hurt, like not actually hurt. I just get sore and it's so I'm like, uh, I don't know. I don't want to do it. I don't want to spend the money on it and then not be able to do it. It's too.

Juggernaut will get you through that. I'll be honest with you. Oh yeah. So if you want any juggernaut advice, I can help. And it is one of those ones where like if you're honest with your feedback, it will get you through that soreness. It will adapt whatever you're doing and it'll like lower your weights or lower your reps or even eliminate some of them it definitely that should not have been the thing that stops you from joining jug the the money maybe based on what we hear about you might have been the one well that's that's probably the real answer is I just don't want to pay for it. No, I don't feel that.

So then what do you what do you do for training? Like I guess someone is like I've worked with a coach and like someone's dictated what I've done in the gym for the last like seven years. So it's like, I don't know. I don't know what it would be like just going and fuck off. Like I would hurt myself or I would do nothing like and like there's no in between so usually so I've done like before I came to mass now except before I was getting into trying to do a meet I was following different programs online like I bought Jeff nippers program who's a Canadian

but he's got some programs that I've bought of his. So I've used those and then building into this, I just knew you had to squat bench and deadlift. So I tried to do squat and bench one day and then deadlift the next with some other back exercises and switch it around and fit those in. We'll get you there. Well, that'll be fun. Looking forward to seeing you on the platform and definitely there's plenty of, I mean, you know, seeing you on the platform. And you know, the definitely there's plenty of I mean, you've, you've, you've got a wealth of resources there to ask advice and you just just just open

light and don't don't fuck you know, you're gonna miss some commands. So open light enough to where you know, you can overcome that and not bomb out because no one wants to bomb out their first mate. That's my only advice. Just don't bomb out. So whatever you got to do to open light enough to you know, get it get some white lights. When I was just kind of doing my own thing and dicking around just to start to get strong i did like a five three one variation right it was the only thing i even knew about um alistair black a wrestler he actually responded to one of my tweets and i was like oh

i'm just at the gym doing this in my alistair Black shirt. And then he was like, do five, three, one. It's the best way to get started. And I was like, well, if he says so, yeah, I'm going to start. And that was back when I still had Twitter. So how much cardio is involved maybe in this, in this programming that you're doing? Very little. I've started to try to uh ruck more just with weighted vest and walk around the neighborhood kind of thing but my wife and I take opposite mornings so that's why I do the morning crew is because she goes to works at Menards on the days that I don't go to the gym so trying to find time away from the kids and go for a walk is tough.

But that's really what it is right now. I mean, with all those mosquitoes, I can imagine there's a tough walk. I don't think I could walk in South Dakota for, you know, six months out of the year when the mosquitoes are out. Any chance of a rocket with the power pole? I think Eddie might be putting was out at some point. I should ask and i haven't seen it at the gym yet so it won't be there to lift hard think eddie's literally gonna drive it out of belief like it's in eddie's possession because it's okay he got it from. The fucking the skateboard kid I can't think of his name Mikey me Mikey maybe be yeah So then they're sitting in Pennsylvania at the moment. Well, I know an internet person. I said it that was quick That was a little too quick for me

Get off the internet So I think you're you're you know Probably the first crew that's had this hobby, you know jokingly woodworking. There's been a lot of woodworking crew members anything Anything you like is that just more of a hobby? Is it something you actually do some side hustle with or something? You just kind of enjoy, you know, just using a table saw and whatnot. Yep. Mostly goes to the cheapness. All of it just kind of ties back together that

after your own stalemate coasters. Not not quite that far, but I don't know if I I didn't even try to make one out of wood and to think of that But usually it's I don't want to pay for that or it's in the wrong shape or size. So Trying to get like our son we redecorated his bedroom for his birthday And my wife's like they come in a three shelf bookshelf or a five shelf, but I want a four shelf. We have all the stuff to just build one. Oh, but who's going to have time to do that? Time, it's always elusive.

That's right. Well, I know. I don't know if it was last week or two weeks ago. The question was, who would last longer in the other person's life between the two of you? Yeah. And I would agree that I don't know what it would be like without my kids and I miss my kids after so long but anybody that doesn't have kids I just say it's it's the loud the volume I couldn't do it it's constant I died I so this this week at work We're going into apartments doing like service work and whatnot and they're working with the property representative and so they're kind of double dipping on our entrance and like doing a smoke alarm check.

So the asshole goes through and hits like the smoke alarm and the carbon oxide apart all the alarms and it's getting to the point now we just we just stay outside till he's done because sometimes I'll go off for like three minutes We're like I I can't be in there for three weeks straight while you're doing the smoke alarms because it's just it's giving me a fucking Migraine, so yeah noise and noise and me not not copas static Daddy is that the right word? I'm I think it was close. It's copasetic Yeah, so beer league softballs or something you're still doing. It is just started last week, actually. Yeah. Anybody know any crew or gym members in that with you? The guy that goes in in the mornings with us is a beer league softball,

but he's a much more competitive person than I am. I have. Yep. Yeah, there's different levels and like mine is I'm out there to drink and there happens to be a game that's being played. Yep. Yep. Yep. And that's one. The fun part now is that you go to the gym and you're like, Oh, OK, it hurts from squats or it hurts from deadlift. And then you go, Oh, now it hurts somewhere else because I had to go run and that's not what I'm used to doing

How long is that is that gonna? share you I mean Grand you don't neck to just have to be close or careful But like if that's I definitely wouldn't want to be playing a softball game like two days before a powerlifting meet So have you seen like how far your schedule goes out for the baseball? Oh, yeah, it goes out It'll go all the way through August. Oh, so yeah, you might have to, you know, be a designated hitter one week or something

because like I definitely wouldn't recommend trying to steal a base like the two days before the meet or anything stupid like that, nor heavily drinking too much, but you know, teach their own. It's funny you say that because I'm actually the designated runner most of the time because a lot of the guys on our team, so I.

I'm on a team that it's a bunch of guys in their 50s or 60s. And their kids. So it's their boys that are playing with. So I'm the only one in their 30s. And so usually it's like, OK, well, I don't I'm here to drink. And if there happens to be some softball play, that's fine. So I have no problem riding the bench and just going and doing designated runner. So there's a lot of times that I'm just, that's what I'm there for.

So, so yes, to cardio is what you're saying. That's the only cardio though. It's once a year I do cardio. It's once, once a week and then kind of at 30 second bursts and that's about it. That's all I need. I'll call it hit. What is butt-foot laundry shoot Batman?

What is that? Oh, so this is one that I thought my friends would get a kick out of so when I was, I think it was first grade, we had a laundry shoot in our house. It was a three story house and this laundry shoot was on the top floor. And my brother and I were looking down and going, I wonder if we could slide down that. So we actually, these are two different stories.

So this is the laundry shoot one. We tested it with stuffed animals because, you know, that makes sense. Yeah. And so they made it fine. And so the story that I hear. Is that. I know that I climbed in it with my brother's help, but from my mom's perspective, she just heard screaming in the basement

and then footsteps flying down the stairs to see what happened. So that's why, and then while I was doing it, my brother and I were like, oh, he was pretending to be Batman. I had a blanket tied around my neck, had a pretend gun for the, uh, the grappling hook.

Yeah. Yeah. So that's that story. And the other story is, it was funny with Keith saying barefoot on my left foot. When I was a year old, I dropped an iron on my foot. Ooh. And so at that age, there's not a whole lot of places that you can get skin from to do a skin graph. And so it's on my foot. Ooh. And so at that age, there's not a whole lot of places that you can get skin from to do a skin graft.

And so it's on my butt. So there's a matching bandaid looking thing on my butt cheek that matches the one that's on my foot. Oh, butt foot, yep. Damn, that had to hurt. Like, what degree burn was that? That it was that a second or something I guess Like to be that bad of a thing that you had to get a skin graft. Damn. That's us. I was a year old so I couldn't So yeah at that point Jesus that would be fucking god

How did what? Hmm, that's horrible. That was the amount of shrieking. I can imagine a one year old doing with that much. Oh, she had in pain and that smell that your parents had, like the burning flesh of your child. That'd be horrible. Who do I guess? Oh, yeah.

I hadn't thought of it that way before. Keith, appreciate that. Yeah. Just traumatizing your parents, but he bring it. Oh, yeah. His poor parents. Yeah. The one year old, but he bring it. Oh, yeah, his poor parents. Yeah The one-year-old has no memory of it. So the parents of the one that were traumatized. It sounds like you just get hurt a lot. I Did yeah So you've got part of your shin on your heel

so that's from the this the Laundry shoe when I did it. I landed at the bottom and it was just a concrete floor. Of course, because it's a laundry shoot. Yeah. Yep. And so it shattered my heel. Geez. And so they took a piece of the front of that shin and put it into my ankle bone. OK. And so the heel, not the ankle, the heel. So there's a spot on my heel that you can see.

Where right where took it from my shin and put it in there. Okay, and your nose? This one's a dumb story. Oh, the other ones weren't? Well, this one's dumb-er. Okay. So at our high school, there was this like mound

that had a retaining wall on it. And being in middle school, you're like, oh cool, I'm gonna take my bike and jump off that. And so it was a pretty good probably five foot drop to jump your bike off of. I didn't pull up on my handlebars. So it was just the bike going like this and then my nose catching the handlebars.

So it's broken right here. And the funny part about that is my brother broke his nose from catching a baseball. Somebody from the outfield was throwing it into third base and it hit straight in the face. And somebody told my mom, yeah, your boys look exactly alike. They've got the same nose and everything. She's like, they do, but not biologically. Not on purpose. So why can't you feel the back of your head?

So the official term is a C2 ganglionectomy. Okay. So on the, when all through high school, I had migraines that just like, it was a constant subtle headache and then it periodically just peak and get really out of control. And what they found was that on this the C2 vertebrae, the two nerves on either side were inflamed.

And so I went in and they did a some type of an injection. And as awesome as it is to be an 18 year old balling in the doctor's office, because it hurts so bad. They're like, yeah, that's not, this is supposed to be relieving. So they just took it out. So then, like where the base of my skull starts to where my cowlick is, it's just all like when your hand falls asleep. It's like the back of my head stranger.

Oh, my hands fall asleep every day, so I can't imagine. Though the funny thing that my wife did, she wasn't my wife at the time, but we were going to like my niece's or my cousin's graduation, and I was sitting in the front seat and I can't feel it. So she's just sitting in the backseat, playing at the back of my hair, waiting for me to find out. I was like, this isn't fun for me.

Thank you for that, but this is not fun for me. Or I was crawling under my coffee table at my mom's house, and she had a puppy. So he had his paws on my shoulders, like just jumped puppy. So he had his paws on my shoulders. Like it just jumped on my back and had his paws on my shoulders and was yanking on my hair and I couldn't feel it, but my head just kept moving. And so I was like, this, this isn't fun for me. Get off.

Uh, I've got more, but if Keith, you want to interject with anything? No, I'm, um, I was just adding a couple things for later on but... What is this dance you did at your friend's wedding that you weren't supposed to be in? I forgot about that. So that's Big Jory's wedding. And as soon as we got to the reception, the alcohol was flowing. I was sober enough by the time it was over that I was able to drive,

but there was apparently, there was apparently supposed to be just a family wedding dance of the bride side. So the side that I don't know. And it was supposed to be just her family doing, I don't even remember what dance it was. We'll say I swear somebody said hey come up here. And so I joined in with this family dance of people that I had no idea who they are

That's so awkward That's funny the the part that goes along with it even further is That spouse's aunt is the director of my HR team. Hmm. I don't know. Yeah, I don't suppose that plays into anything, though. Right. Yeah, you get a write up. You get sat down at a chair and they're like, by the way, remember that time?

This has been a pattern for you, Zach. Do you remember the wedding? You jumped in on a team meeting that you weren't supposed to be on. You jumped in a dance you weren't supposed to be on. Speaking of patterns, so how often do you enjoy wear the same clothes in the morning? That was I was one of those. I walked in and I go, huh, you're wearing those shorts.

And I was wearing a sweatshirt at the time. I go, you're wearing the same shirt I'm wearing. I'm going to keep my sweatshirt on because Ross is going to give us so much shit. It turns out that we're wearing the same thing. That is. But then he's so he has the band lift sweatshirt as well. And there's been several times that he has worn it to my house and giggled to his wife

because he knew that I was going to be wearing it as well. That's one I wish I had got. So those are the ones that we intentionally wear them but the one that was that stuck out was, yeah, I think is a few weeks ago. He was wearing the blue shorts and the bench heavy shirt, no, the 315 shirt. And I was like, oh, I'm wearing the exact same thing. That's really funny. But Keith, he does not have the curl shorts. So oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We did a little trade and we did a little wheeling and dealing. So I've got a little firsthand experience with Zach. We had did a little discord trade. I think I had a Yeah, it was the yeah, it was the curls cuz they were I think they were mediums They were just too snug. Yeah, I believe so we traded I got up That's where I got my large deadlifter shorts from and then I also hooked me up. I you know He brought a screwdriver for me to use it lift hard, live easy one. I had a lever belt that I needed to adjust mid meat. And like, I was like, I am not traveling with

a fucking screwdriver. Like, I'm not gonna try to like put a screwdriver in my carry on and I'm not gonna like trying to buy a plastic screwdriver on Amazon and hope TSA doesn't steal it. So I was like, someone in Aberdeen has to have a screwdriver and then like, no one was like volunteering and Zach slid into the DMS. I was like, thank you that would be much appreciated so it still was very much appreciated. It sounds like Zach is a bit of the behind the scenes savior of the Lyft Hard Livisi in

some sorts right like getting me to the airport getting you that yeah that's a good role to have. Well I also I don't remember what it was, but last year, Jake, Big Jake had forgotten something and he's like, Jack, you had to go get the dead. Oh, that's what it was. That's what it was. Yeah. And he's like, I can't really explain where it's at to anybody who's not a Massanovics gym member. So if you could just run and get that quick. I remember I remember hearing that one. Do you want to do some games there, Keith? We are rolling into an hour and a half.

Yeah, let's do a little FMK. So I actually got a little insight from Tanner. I knew what I wanted the topic to be, but I figured it would be better to get specifics from him because he knows you better than I do as far as like your lifting prowess at Masonomics Gym. So it's going to be a topic of Masonomics Gym gym uh pieces of equipment so you gotta fmk them so you gotta f1 you gotta marry one you gotta kill one so we're gonna go three pieces of massonomics gym equipment that you should be familiar with so fmk cable crossover lap pull down the arsenal row machine fmk oh

the Arsenal row machine FMK. Oh crossover pull down row machine. So I would marry the Arsenal as since he's gotten that thing. I think I've tried it every time. It's that's super nice. I'd probably kill the lap pull down. Gotcha, because I think I've used the crossover

several times to just use that for single arm pull downs. So I think that's used the crossover several times to just use that for single-arm pull downs Mm-hmm. So I think that's how I would do it. Okay, I Did it I dig it. Yeah, I figured Getting in from Tanner be a little bit easier than me just being like, I don't know like I know what machines they have But like I don't know So he's he he came in clutch with that if Tanner could marry a new leg extension. I would appreciate that Oh, what do you guys have there now just like a shitty one or something it's I think it's

It's I think it's Jim original to when they were in the basement one the quad extension. Yeah Even if he could just replace the pad, I think it would be a lot better but okay Just that once he does listen so, you know Is there a suggestion box at all or is it literally just like and I'm just curious about how like a lot of that inner Workings go you've got it. You have to leave passive aggressive notes for two. Yeah. Yeah That's that that is funny stuff Yeah, like just right on the pad like please replace me and just like write that note and leave it there Are you guys? Yep. Sorry good

Well, I was gonna say what I've done. I have no problems talking to anybody. So like we got a tip a bar That you do that for the tibialis on the front of your chin. I really I really like that exercise and One of the guys that was at the gym, he's like, gosh, I really wish we had this thing. And so I just messaged Tanner. I was like, hey, is there a chance we could get something like this?

He's like, well, how much is it? I was like, I don't know. This one I found from the Tib guy is $100. And he's like, yeah, we'll probably get that soon then. But when talking to him. That's such a rare. You don't get that in like, I know of one other gym were like but it's a lot bigger like scale jam and but i like it. No other gym do i know where like they actually like immediately respond to stuff like that that's wild that's all really really a luxury.

What was so when the stereo went out that was a big conversation because tanner was talking about somebody coming in and. Redoing the whole thing and make it really really nice and he's like but they're gonna charge five grand and Do I want to spend? Two rhinos and that's where his mind was that he's like I just I can get this equipment for that price And so I think that's where a lot of his philosophy goes in is like Where can I get the best bang for my buck as well as where am I going to put X machine when it gets here? Unless it's something that's a super crazy deal like the hack squat for a hundred bucks. He's like, yeah, we'll figure out somewhere to put it.

So I can't believe they got that hex one for a hundred dollars. That's wild. Or the Smith machine. I couldn't tell you how much he paid for it, but he's just like, yep, we'll find something stupid. Yeah. It's like 300 bucks. Maybe it is getting filled with stickers. Yeah. Yeah. We'll kind of test to that. Oh, I got to send out so many stickers. I do have a story for you though.

Big Joey, somebody saw your Dilf dungeon for big Jory. I think it was at the library. What? Cause he works at, he's the, he's a librarian. Yeah. And he had, he had your sticker on his desk. I don't think somebody's asking him questions. That's pretty funny. It's a dad I'd like to follow.

Quiet please. Yeah. That's pretty funny. I want to know, I want to know how he explained it. That would be so funny to me. I'll say because my wife looked at it and she goes, What is this? I was like, it's a sticker from one of the guys from the meat this weekend. She was OK.

Yeah, all it is, we just build strong dads. That's all we're doing. We just, you know, we're building trophy husbands down here. All right. My Mount Rushmore is pretty straightforward. Like I said, Mount Rushmore is your top four, plus you have an alien face if you want to add the alien face. We're going to go with Mountain Dew flavor. Oh, oh.

For sure, live wire. That's my favorite. To the blue one. That's the orange one. Oh, come on, Keith. I've never seen an orange mountain do I have to try it. And I'm sure you'd have a case if you did it better. If it's not in diet, I'm not going to try it, though. So let's take the diet mountain do.

Like once a month. I'm trying to think because. You've got your voltage, your blast, your code reds. The original game fuel. Has got to be up on mine. Mountain Dew game fuel code red. You might know this, then big joy, is there a or Keith, is there a diet? Code red. My wife swears that there was a diet code read at some time.

It sounds like something I would have seen and dismissed. So like I wouldn't register it to my memory. Gotcha. But like when you bring it up, my brain wants to say, yes, you've seen this in real life. But I don't, I don't typically drink Mountain Dew. So again, I would look at it and go, Oh, it's in diet now and then just move on. Yeah, some it comes in a zero and not necessarily. So there's some older

pictures that says diet too. So okay, it might be kind of like how we had the was a diet sprite that the diet sprite doesn't exist anymore. But it definitely did when I was a kid. and now it's that diet zero. So but yeah, I'm seeing a lot of on Google images. There's a decent amount of diet code red and then they go code red. So yeah, at some point, I don't know if it's I don't know if it's currently but yeah, it has existed. So I'd say code red is probably three and then my fourth one would be Baja blast but

it's the Mountain Dews hard Mountain Dew. They just got that in the softball fields and that's, I had too many of those on Monday. There's an alcohol Mountain Dew now too? Oh yes. Yeah, I think Mountain Dew, like that was the natural progression of Mountain Dew. Was eventually to become alcoholic. I think it was last week's episode, maybe it was, I think it was last week? So was it last week's episode? Maybe it was. I think it was on Let's Get Stupid because I have everything's every literally every

podcast is blending together now because there's so much fucking care. There's so much crossover, especially now with Huck being on ours for a second. But I think Huck had mentioned on there, maybe it was our episode. I think it was where he mentioned Mountain Dew or no, because Nate and Mountain Nate Green and Huck talked about it briefly that Mountain Dew was literally created to be a Mixer I think or yeah, Nate just put it into the chat there that it was started as a moonshine mixer. You mean Tom? No, this is Nate Green. Oh How different no, no, it's not Tom AI. Oh, that's fine. I didn't see that. So yeah, that's good stuff. Perfect timing

Good deal. All right. Well, you let you pass that at least so now we got to see if we can pass some other stuff. Oh I didn't see this anything else. Yeah. No, I think we're good to move on to a Good a new game here relatively new game. We created all by ourselves No inspiration from anyone else and you know, nothing like that. So the game is unpaid or underrated So similar to this, you know other lesser game called overrated underrated we're going to be a bunch of topics and you essentially tell us if it's unpaid meaning not so great and then if it's underrated it's pretty awesome so I'll kick you off with a few here oh unpaid or underrated the concept of a closed road. Oh. The store, I'll think on it while I tell the story of that. Yep, yep. So. I bought a different car.

Is my car blown up and the car needed a new hood? And so I was driving a PT cruiser to go to this guy's house to get the car needed a new hood. And so I was driving a PT Cruiser to go to this guy's house to get the car and take the hood with me to Sioux Falls. On the way there, I was with a buddy and we got to a road that I was like, I'm almost certain this is the road you're supposed to take. Pull up, road closed.

I was like, all right. And I typically am one that's like pretty rule following following, so I started backing up and the guys like, I would go around it. That's all he said, at least on his definition, he's like, I didn't tell you to do it, I just said I would. So went around it, made it probably three quarters of a mile down the road and we both look at each other. I don't know why this road's even closed.

And of course, that's when when destiny calls. Yeah. A culvert was washed out. That's why the road was closed. Ouch. And so we drove nose first into a washed out culvert. Oh, you didn't you didn't actually see it in time. You just fucking know. Through it. Ouch. Damn.

And so the only reason that the car wasn't totaled is because it was a PT cruiser and the transmission of a PT cruiser is up underneath the body significantly. So it didn't hit anything. And when you called the tow truck, you were like, go past the road closed sign. Oh, it gets that's where we're at. There's some more to it. So you guys have been to South Dakota enough. Yes Which is wild to say but Canadian and that's like where do you go in the States and I'm like, honestly South Dakota for some fucking reason

Yeah to tell someone either day they have been there like four times and going on five Like yeah of all the places you can go you go to South Dakota. I'm like look Yeah, I had to tell someone the other day that I've been there like four times and going on five. It's like, yeah, of all the places you can go, you go to South Dakota. I'm like, look, it's not a cult. But it is a washed out culvert. Oh, so the farmer that owns the land around the road pulls up shortly after we went nose down, walks, just drives up, rolls down his window.

What? You can't read? So I was just like, ah, fuck. That's good passive-aggressiveness. I love that. So the full circle story to this is this happened when I was a sophomore in college. is this happened when I was a sophomore in college. And I go through college three years, four years later. I'm working at a job and I'm telling this story to a lady who is one of my direct reports. And she goes, were you the gangster or were you the dumb ass?

Because she knew someone. It was her husband. Her husband was the one that came out and said, what you can't read. That's good. Were you the dumbass? Because you don't seem like a gangster. Well, the other guy that was with me was 5' 6",

and had his shorts down to his ankles. OK, so you were the dumbass. Yeah. He's like, he's the dumbass. So I would say reading road signs is underrated. That's really funny. I'm glad I asked that unpaid or underrated Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones.

He's unpaid like you just. So the worst part is that I was born in 91. So like my first Cowboys football memory is them winning the Super Bowl in 96 and they've been nowhere close since. Now, and the biggest reason is just because he wanted the spotlight over Jimmy. So he fired Jimmy so that he could get more spotlight. So every year, he just like, oh, this is the this is it. Like, I feel like every year I've been those memes that everybody gets.

This is our year we're going to do it. And you get to the playoffs and go, oh, shit. Yeah, I live near Toronto. So the Toronto Maple Leafs, that's that's every Toronto fan. No, we're doing good this year. And I just go, huh? Wait. Just wait. Just wait. All right, my last one.

Unpaid or underrated showers at the Masonomic Gym. And you can interpret that as the shower or taking showers, just the shower in general. Do you use your druthers? I want to hear any funny stories about that shower. But I hear you use it more than anybody else. Yes. So I thought this was gonna come up

and it was ironic because watching today's YouTube video, Tanner asks him if he has a shower at the gym. Yeah, when I heard that or saw that, I think it was right after Tanner had DMed me and said, oh, ask him about the shower. Yeah. So when I was at the first gym that I started going to, I went there before work.

I still go there before work, but I go to mass now before work shower there because it's like three blocks away from work. So that way I don't have to drive all the way home, have the disruption of getting into kids trying to get ready for school. And so when I was going to join Mastinomics, I said, Tanner, does this work? And he's like, well, it depends. How warm do you like your showers?

Because you get about 14 seconds of hot water and that's it. And so when I first took a shower at Mastinomics, I'm pretty sure it hadn't been washed, cleaned in quite some time There the amount of dust on the base. Yeah Was pretty thick. I feel like the only person I've heard that took a shower there was a jacked and homeless RIP And that wouldn't surprise me if that was the only other person

So I use it the four days a week that I go So then I wash it once a month because I'm like, I don't I don't know who else is using this if anybody but I'm gonna make sure at least it's clean for me. Yeah That's really funny. Yeah, it's good stuff If wait, so it does it just have a tiny water heater That's only really made for the hand washing sink and they just kind of piggybacked on that. Like, like I'm trying to think like, why would it like, I mean, unless it's just a hundred years old, like you should get decent

amount of time with any kind of water heater as long as it's like at least, I don't know, let's say a mini water heater. It should have enough to, I have no idea. He could put a lower flow shower head on it and then it wouldn't run as much water out as quick. So that mean it's dumb as it sounds, but like this is what I do for a living is I like reduce consumption of like water and gas and everything. So look at the gallon per minute of the shower head and if it's above two or two and a half or whatever, you could buy a shower head like

you know, spend like 10 bucks and buy a lower flow shower head and that'll like if you take it from a 2.5 to a 1.25 you're literally double the amount of time you can take a shower. I think Nathan just read my mind. You guys, it's what you can probably just see me scratching my head just wait. If he could literally take his 30 second shower to a two minute shower and only cost Tanner could buy it or he could buy it himself. Like that's such a good idea. Fuck you guys

Enjoy your cold shower fucker it sounds like you have a job to do next time you're in South Dakota there my I Probably could just grab one from work and Travel with a shower head fuck you. It's just so funny that I was like as soon as he's done I'm gonna call him a nerd. And then Nate Green puts in the chat nerd. Just trying to help people. All I do is help people and all I do is get. Shit. It's great. It's great. It's great. It's just well, you're a nerd.

I don't see Tanner putting it in because I have to laugh. The like the first time I met Tanner and was talking about the gym and like the shower, I said, do you mind if I put in a shower hook or a towel hook? And he's like, I guess, yeah, I don't care. And then the next time I talked to him, I was like, yeah, I just, I put it up there and then I take the towel with me. He's oh, thank God. I don't know what people would do to a towel if you were just

leaving it there. Oh God. Yeah. Definitely get, it definitely be the toilet, the emergency toilet paper. I did we get an unpaid or underrated on that one? I think they're underrated because it is convenient as hell. Yep. Just cold as hell. But if you keep watching those shirtless influencers, Joey,

they all say that it's the best thing in the world. It's cold showers. I know. Yeah, I might as well spend spend five thousand dollars on a cold punch, too. I Please bro. Trust me And you know what Keith just to kind of Make you feel a little better today as I was doing the show notes I was having a pint and somebody asked their buddy about something on cell phones. And then they both like, because they're both just old men were like talking about it and arguing. And then I was like, no, an RCS chat is this and this and this

and this. And the one guy pulled up Google looked at me and was like, you're right. And I'm like, I know, but like, don't ask me any follow ups, please. Nerd. Yes. Yes. Nerd. Um, I went through the notes and I pulled out like probably 13 or 14 unpaid and underrated. So I'm gonna, I'm going to ask a few, do she got to do, uh, unpaid or underrated barefoot shoes. Underrated. I wear my barefoot shoes any chance that I can. And do you wear specifically this, the North Dakota barefoot, or do you have other ones as well?

So I wear the North Dakota barefoot as often as I can, but at work, they aren't quite dressy enough a lot of times. So I have a pair, I have two pairs of zero shoes that are just like they look like hey dudes without the Cushion yeah, and I hope I'm the same way. I have a dressy pair and then I have my And then I I have a pair of birchberry that are like dress shoes And they're like barefoot dress shoes They're they're minimalist and wide toe boxed. I wouldn't say that they're barefoot dress shoes. They're they're minimalist and wide toe boxed. I wouldn't say that they're barefoot.

They've got a little bit higher than most. But yes, jewelry usually makes fun of me when I'm wearing those. When I went out to Boston, I took my barefoot North Dakota barefoot shoes with me and the buddy that I was out there with, he's like showing all the people. He's like, look at look at these shoes. What is up with this? And I said, when I like it's funny talking to people is like, you know, to the things that I read online, they make a lot of sense as to why you should wear barefoot. I understand that there are people that can't wear barefoot. And if you're too late in life, it could take a lot of getting used to but what has been disturbing to me now

is listening to the barefoot guys talk about it and then looking at people's feet especially women in dress shoes yeah like oh god that cannot be good for your feet yeah no not at all so definitely underrated agreed uh unpaid or underrated. Agreed. Unpaid or underrated Christmas movies. Is it a specific Christmas movie? Sure. So the one that I think of is not Die Hard, but The Nightmare Before Christmas. We have a long-standing argument in my house, because

it is my son's favorite movie, that to me that is not a Halloween movie. There is no point in that movie that takes place on Halloween. It takes place the morning after Halloween, therefore it cannot be a Halloween movie. It is a Christmas movie. And we go back and forth. So to me, Christmas movies are underratedrated unless they're the Hallmark Christmas movies. Those are definitely unpaid. They're all terrible. All right. So unpaid or underrated Halloween movies.

I'm not a scary movie guy. No. I was talking to a friend of mine. The last one that I watched was The Conjuring. And like halfway through it had to open the windows I was like nope can't do it anymore. Really? I'm just not... The Conjuring? That one wasn't even that scary. That's usually the answer that I get. Yeah. I really loved it because I loved the 1991 version of it so I really liked the the remake of it but other than that Halloween movies to me are unpaid but I think they serve a purpose okay unpaid or underrated big gulps

I think they're underrated mm-hmm and I think for me it's because this is where the cheap in the cup probably comes from is that You get so much more volume for it. You get so much more soda than you would in like a $2 20 ounce bottle Mm-hmm, so for me there is guy then I am a no ice guy. That's Sometimes what it is but I'm a light ice guy sometimes, depending on what it is, but it's a good light ice on my if I'm paying like $4 for a tea, it's going to be light ice. So I can actually get enough caffeine out of it to be.

If you know anything about that kind of fountain pop thing, the markup is like 2000 percent. Yeah, it's unreal. So for 7-Eleven to like or whatever, you guys get your big gulps from down there Like that's a loss leader, but it makes it probably makes them more money Yeah, McDonald's will sell it for four dollars, but it costs them maybe 12 cents Right it costs. Yeah You know 7-eleven the point I think every drink of McDonald's is a dollar

I don't know if that's a regional thing or not, but like I don't I can go to McDonald's and pay a dollar for any It was just an example. Sorry. I don't know if that's a regional thing or not, but like I don't I can go to McDonald's and pay a dollar for any It was just an example. Sorry. I'll go Wendy's But and then for like Circle K or 7-eleven to be like now we're gonna do it for two dollars They're still gonna sell more volume So so that might be pop, right? so seeing the Circle K polar pop that's a The one in town that we have is it, it's a, used to be a holiday, but then holiday got bought out by Circle K.

Circle K bought everything. Yeah. Yep. And Holiday had a program that it was $10 a month for a drink a day. Any fountain drink that they had, you could get a drink a day for $10 a month. And if you figure it, what I always figured is like, okay, well, it's a dollar for a soda, $10. I only have to get 10 sodas for a month.

And I've made my money back. And if Jory is the one that posted this, there was one time we were at the gym and I rode my bike and it was raining. And he said, do you want to ride to work? And I paused for a minute and I said, yeah, but can you take me to the holiday first? Were you part of all this? Was it Ruby Tuesdays that had the, uh, 20 to $20 a month for all, all the limited lunch salad bars or something where you went on all that?

I was not. Okay. But I definitely like it'd be up your alley there. If it wasn't across town, it definitely would have been. OK, that tracks them. Yeah. I got like two more, maybe three unpaid or underrated trains. This is where it gets tough for me because they're really inconvenient

when you live in Aberdeen, when you live in Aberdeen This is where it gets tough for me because they're really inconvenient. When you live in Aberdeen. When you live in Aberdeen and you live on the other side of the tracks, everything. But I still think they're underrated. The amount of volume that trains, like when you think of logistically the amount of volume that trains actually push through the continent, they're underratedrated but still very inconvenient. I agree. Maybe I'll do one more for you. Unpaid or... no I do want to do both of these. Unpaid or underrated euphoniums? Underrated. 100%. So for anybody that... most

people I should say. Yeah. Most people that don't know what a euphonium is, it's like a mini tuba. It's also called a baritone. And that's what I played in high school and college, but didn't finish my degree in it. So to me, when you hear a euphonium, it sounds beautiful. Like it's a very full instrument, but you don't hear it very often because it's more niche and typically you hear trombone because that's what most bands have in small towns, South Dakota. So for me, they're underrated. And actually I was listening to,

that's my focus music is a euphonium cover of songs. I saw it in the list and I was like, is that supposed to be euphemisms? And then I Googled it and I was like, I have a new thing. Yeah, nerd. Look, you could even look up a fourth button. So if you look at a euphonium, they have three buttons here. And there's a fourth one that if you grab it like this, so that you don't have to do one and three together.

That's just just a Nate's nerd comment. I can go down that for a while. Oh, I think we're we're not going to go too far down that road. My last one is unpaid or underrated Guinness. Underrated. For me, Guinness, it was it was funny because I didn't drink much in high school, which talking to a bunch of people from South Dakota is surprising.

But the the beer that was at my house was Guinness. And so when I did drink, it was a Guinness. And I came up to college and I remember doing like drinking games with Coors Light or no Keith, Keith Stone with the keystone lights. And I was like, no, I can't even do this. This ain't it. Once you get once you go Guinness, it's hard to go.

It's hard to go back, but you also can't play drinking games or chug again, it's like you've got to enjoy that thing. Yes. Did you hear that they're trying to spin it, that it's not that many more calories because I don't know how many calories are to spin it, that it's not that many more calories? Because I don't know how many calories are actually in it. But it's not. And it's one of those like everybody I've ever talked to is like, it's like drinking a loaf of bread or it's so heavy. But I could literally pour a glass of water, and then pour a half a pint of Guinness on top of that water, and it'll sit on top of the water. Right? Because Guinness is technically lighter than water.

Like, so on that note, have you had a black and tan? Of course I have. There's another version of it. There's a black velvet. You ever had one of those? I have not. So a black velvet is so black and tan are Guinness on the top and usually a logger on the bottom. It used the official one was a harp. Yeah, I think they stopped making harp.

No harp is still available. It's still made by Guinness, but I think harp is still just a logger. OK, right. But if you do Guinness on the top and strongbow on the bottom, right, which is a hard cider. Oh, that is that is the top tier mixed Guinness drink. Because you get the top of the Guinness and then about halfway through, you start getting the sweetness of the cider mixed with it.

And yeah, it's just perfect, especially when it layers properly. I'll have to try that. That sounds really good. Yeah. More nerd shit. Sorry Well, I think you passed on paid and underrated Did I throw something I just for for you let us ask for you asking me ask ask us any questions. Oh You heard what I said Little seizure there probably So big Zach as a Aberdeen resident Sell Aberdeen to anyone coming into the Lift Hard Live Easy

this year, either the whole Lift Hard Live Easy experience or just what should someone's spouse go do instead of hanging out the hotel room for four days? Sell people some Aberdeen goodies that they might not have already heard about via Tanner, possibly? The best part for this year is that it's going to be all in one thing. Goods goodies that they might not have already heard about via Tanner possibly. The best part for this year is that it's going to be all in one thing. Cause it's all, it's all going to be one area.

There's a restaurant there. So you didn't want to leave that or if you just took an error, took a flight there and got a lift to the hotel, you wouldn't have to leave. Uh, but you're also within five minute drive of storybook land and at that time of year they're gonna have the rides open so there's a small kid roller coaster that you can ride doesn't really help the spouse as much because that roller coaster is not built for adults it's not fun for adults to ride but unlike the sand movers that apparently are only built for adults. So, oh, yes, I remember. I was like, gosh, what do you guess?

The same bit. Yeah. I remember the whatever. The hunter and Tommy were talking about it a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. And he's not wrong, because I remember my son sitting on it and you had to grab it and pull for him, because it's like, this is not working for anybody but an adult. Then you got to try the double dipped wings at Circus. I do want to I do need to do that.

I've been to fucking Aberdeen enough that I need to try that one night. And the circus is actually expanded even. So it's got some more space in it. So there was a crew meetup there. The loggers that this year instead of pounders. Oh, yeah, it's going to be that one's just more like open. Like you just order at the kiosk or something or how's that? Uh, how's that different? Because I hope I think the whole point was to like not basically piss off waitstaff for four hours

I think we have the last two years. I think no the problem with pounders and Maybe again this harkens back to the The Fairfield thing is I didn't really notice the problem. I think they just wanted to cut all their stuff. I think that was it. They were just like, it's nine o'clock. We want to cut everybody get out. And I think that's what the problem was. And that just kind of translated into get your bills and get out different.

The difference with loggers is that's what they're accustomed to. Like when we were there, I was just there on Monday night and it's just people Hanging out drinking a beer maybe getting some food here and there Whereas pounders is more restaurant. And so when the crew takes over pounders, they're like, oh we weren't ready for this We typically close at 9 loggers is like no we're gonna be here until 2 so we typically close at nine. Loggers is like, no, we're gonna be here until two, so. But when you go into Loggers also, there's a bar up front, and then if I imagine,

because it's gonna be a Thursday night, there's the room in back that they can block off. And so there's a whole other side of, that has another bar separate from the front. But it'll be interesting because you get at least last year you got buy one get one free with a softball jersey so Thursday nights are softball league nights so I don't know if we're gonna be competing with those guys I think you'll be having fun with those guys and don't forget if you

go to circus do the double dipped wings but get the parmesan dip on the side. Hmm. Yeah, I think that's that's the secret. I said it in the discord. I think I mentioned down here before, because they said that that guy that was doing the YouTube for the best wings in the country. Oh, yeah, they're talking about it. And chicken parm dip. That's funny. And when we went, we went on the, I want to say the Sunday after everybody, you know, there was just a small group of us there. And I said, oh, we're here from Astonomics, right? They always talk about you guys and all that. The guy goes, you've heard about us like all the way in Canada? I'm like, yeah. And he goes, all right, here's the secret. And he just kind of like brought me that perm dip. He's like, this is the real secret to the double dip wings. And I was like, OK, like.

Yeah, I got the secret influencer. Input years ago. All right. I will say that the the downside of the Thursday night. Or not the meat being where it's at, It's the exact opposite side of Tanner's house Yeah, so Tanner's house is on the complete opposite side of town Which is there's a nice tree well, yeah How's the road construction cuz like this is to Stephanie didn't come last year

But you went the first year and her only memory is the fucking road construction like she's commented on it multiple times when we talk about coming to lift hard to live easy again and she's just like cuz she like she was like it took a half hour to get from anywhere to anywhere I was like I mean maybe didn't take a half hour but definitely took 20 minutes it definitely wasn't the 10 minutes we were promised but it was also traffic and construction everywhere yeah that'll probably be just as bad you're constantly filling potholes that work for a year and then need work again. Fucking Larry, do it.

Yeah, I was going to say blame Larry for that. Yep. All right. I think. Do you have anything for us? I do. I had a couple of questions. What's one piece of merch you would own multiple of? Not different sizes or anything, but actual multiples. And I currently do the short lift shorts, like the new style shorts that are lift shorts.

I got two of those right off the bat. And I was happy with that decision because I could wear lift shorts fucking all the time. So I think if I think if I count it up I like to I have like two or three pairs of mediums two or three pairs of larges a cup two or three pairs of extra Larges and then I've got like the new style. So I have I have like six pairs of the fucking og champion ones and then now I have Two of the lift shorts of the new ones and another like two or three pairs of other designs

two of the lift shorts of the new ones and another like two or three pairs of other designs. So yeah, mainly shorts because I can, it's easy enough to like, I don't know, shorts are just, there's only so many options for shorts and I really don't, I like a black short, like I don't need like, I don't know, I'm not big on the blue and the green, I don't think necessarily, but I really do like the squat ones though, the maroon ones, but those are just I don't but yeah That's my answer to lift shorts for sure hundred percent Easy answer silky's. Oh The silky's yeah. Yep. I wear them and Then I lose them and then I find them later and I go I found these again

Then I wear them and then I lose them So like if I had multiples, it would be easier to find them all the time. But that's that's the easiest answers. I would just have one size of those times like three. I think would make my life a little easier. OK, because my mine is the two point. Oh, I love the two point. Oh, lift shorts.

I have three. I'm going to rip right through them. No, the two point or the two point knows I love the two point. Oh, lift shorts. I have three. I'm going to rip right through them. No, the two point or the three point. Oh, the two point or the sweatpants. OK, three point. Oh, was the dollar bill and the two dollar bill in the pockets. Those are super small. Like whatever size you think you are, get too bigger.

Yeah, I'm going to rip right through those next time I wear them. And so I have three of the, the two point O's because Tanner told, had it posted one time that get these before they're gone. This is the second I have the card that says you got the second to last pair and they found more. I was like, Oh, I kind of wanted to get the last one. He got you with the three spots left. Exactly.

So when you order, do you just DM him and say, Hey, I want this or do you actually order and then he refunds your shipping? Like, cause all the local guys, I know they, they have a local pickup option now. Oh, is that actually okay? I never saw that. Good deal. So that's, that's how I would order it.

But then also like when I've returned one, I just said, Hey, can I just give you the shirt back? Can you give me the silly goose shirt? So so that we don't get charged the visa fee. And that's how that worked. This is one I was thinking of the other day. What is one piece of equipment or assistance gear you think others find underrated? So what one piece of equipment or assistance gear you think others find underrated. So for me, the reason it came up with the Versa grips.

There for me, they're like I use them all the time and I think they're underrated. I think they're also something I like something supportive that we like that other people might not like. OK, yeah. OK. I like a soft, a soft belt for strong man. I see a lot of strong men like on the local, like, like, there's a lot of guys that I train with regularly that don't have a soft belt. They just only use their power lifting belt. And sometimes even a shitty power like, like one dude's got like that dark iron one on Amazon and like that is a strong man belt. And I'm like, dude, that's fucking trash. But like, I wasn't a believer in the soft strongman belt from

Cerberus until I got one I was like oh this is amazing having the under belt and then doing like my leather belt on top of that it's it's uh it took me like nine months to a year to actually adapt to that and now that I am it's like I got on my way to like you know wear the strongman kit more than I ever have thought I would before so yes strongman soft belt hundred percent Mouse guard hmm Yep, it's it's one of those things where I had one and I just bought like a cheap hockey one and

It didn't really do its like job one and it didn't really do its job. So I stopped wearing it and then my dentist was like, what's going on? Like you are clearly doing something to like damage the enamel on the top of your teeth. And I was like, well, I'm a lifter. And the dentist was like, you need to start doing something about that. So I ended up getting one of the airwaves. And I think for some of those like really heavy RP 10 days, whatever like that looks like, yeah, I'm definitely an advocate of the mouthguard. Mostly to protect your jaw, protect your teeth, protect your tongue. Sometimes it's very tempting to bite your tongue while you're doing some of this, too, right? So squat plug, I think Dodds wants me to say there.

Sorry, yeah, we're definitely not all going to wear those. And that's probably not a one size fits all for some of you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Nate says he's not a teeth clencher. I am. And I grind in my sleep. If I'm hungry, the joke is that I chew on my teeth.

Right. Because I'll just start like grinding my jaw. So the mouth guard during lifting is definitely a, that's for sure. Stephanie grinds her teeth at night and she has a she has a mouth guard specifically for sleeping. Yep. I probably should. I just. They really expensive because you have to get like a custom fit one. So I think it was a cost us a little bit of money that was not through insurance at all. It was a few hundred bucks. The last question I had was, have you ever been bullied into buying a massonomics thing? As in are either of you all go or no shows?

I mean, maybe they all go. I don't need I bought the all go no show when it was like $12 on clearance. So probably not. Um, I dunno, like I've, I've said it on, I almost said it too much on here that there's like, there's drops or I'm just like, that's not for me. So like, and I want to be the guy that supports them with everything cause they do so much for us, but I'm not gonna buy a shirt that I'm not gonna be comfortable wearing or like not necessarily comfortable wearing. Like if I, if if it doesn't it doesn't call to me like I'm just not like so I don't know the silly goose thing like there's stuff

that I can appreciate but I know that it's not me and I don't want to like misrepresent I guess myself so but I've literally owned like 70 pieces of their merch so I do not feel bad if I miss like I could go two years not buy anything and not feel bad because I own so much shit already that I don't need to buy a million new things, but I do feel guilty, I guess, sometimes that they don't participate in all their drops, but it's also like, I don't want to get to,

I never wanted to feel like it's a burden, and I don't think they want us to feel like it's a burden, so I will not buy something that I'm not in love with, I guess. I'm kind of in the same boat, but mostly in the, I just don't need more stuff. We have that. I just, I just, you know, I start to look at the future, obviously, like you have kids, you have a wife, you start to like look at how things are going to look in the future.

And I just don't want to accumulate more things. So I'm at the rate now where I just need to really love it and want to show it off. And then you start to look at how much does it cost? What is the value of it? How much am I going to wear it? You have to balance that plus shipping, unless it's silkies, yeah, I need 12 more of those.

So it's been a while since I ordered plus also, it's been a while. It's because it's like shipping is a nightmare right now. Right. I care all stream. It is Carol stream. I just don't, and you don't know, right? You don't know when I'm going to get hit with customs fees, tariffs fees or whatever. My barefoot shoes that I ordered, nothing. I didn't get hit with anything and they were shipped express. Whereas my certified flag, I got nailed with $30 Canadian in fees. And I'm like, so like, it just comes down to that. Like, okay,

how much do I love this versus so to answer the question? Yes, I think the certified gym facility thing. I had FOMO for that. Because I didn't know what it was. So I kind of sat there and I'm talking to Morgan and I was like, I want to order this. I don't really understand what it is. But like, they're really like, there's only two or three of them left. I think I'm going to go ahead and order this because everybody seems to be raving about it.

So I felt like I kind of got FOMO'd into that. And I'm so happy I did. Like, I'm a first rounder on that one as Nate and Dodger talking about it. But I don't think if it wasn't for the pressure, I would have ordered that. I am very happy I did though. So I asked that question because the, I have the leather patch hat that says massonomics on the front. And I had asked Tanner about that hat, like if they were going to come out

with something like that. And he said, yeah, I don't know, hats don't usually sell. And so it's kind of tough to keep an inventory. So I bought a different one, very similar to that. And then like three weeks later, they dropped that hat. And I was like, I don't really need two of the same hat with a different logo on the front. And then he brought it up in one of his podcasts.

He was like, yeah, we have all these people that tell us they wanna buy something. And hey, if you made it in this color, we'd buy it. And then we make it in that color. And then we end up with it sitting on our shelves forever. So I was like, oh, fuck. I guess. I'm the guy.

That's funny. I got a couple of followups, I guess guess to that. So I do always buy shit. I bought shit at the Arnold too. If I feel bad if I miss two or three drops then I spend $100 at the Arnold like it made up for basically. Also, I know this is more of a shout out or a call out to Tanner if you will. I think this year they're not getting a Lift Hard Live Easy shirt with your memberships because they've lost money doing that. So 100% no one cares. We expect you to do what you gotta do financially. That's the smart decision. Please just make it available before the meets. Don't only make it a meet exclusive. I mean that's my suggestion. I would love to buy

that shirt, have it washed and actually wear it. Because I don't, I don't, I just have a, I do not like wearing unwashed shirts. It's just gross to me. So like, I'd love to be able to buy that prior to, you know, it would suck paying the extra shipping, but like, I don't care. I think you'd make a killing selling those shirts, but like, I don't know. I know they want to, they probably need to make it a meat exclusive just so they don't end up running out, I guess. Maybe I don't know, but I would love to have that shirt in advance if possible.

Big Tanner. So she was gonna do their big guy And then Scott just asked if he can buy a no wine seller t-shirt. Yes, reach out to Hogan and They will make you one and send you one because I think I'm retired from I've actually moved offices So like the the woman's in business that I've used for the past like five years to make my shirts Granted, it's only like a mile away, but it's also just like it's not in the basement of my office anymore. So I'd have to like drive by that warehouse every day for a month until like the one time I actually see her car in the office to go talk to her. So I don't think I'm making t-shirts myself ever again.

But anyone that has a cricket or anybody that just wants the logo, I can text you the logo and you can just make it yourself too if you want But I lost money making shirts so it doesn't upset me if anyone wants to make a shirt with any of my logos on them and just buy it themselves off any Online distributor that would be so much more convenient for everyone and Scott I do you can talk for a second here. I know we're wrapping up here, but Seeing yourself Shit on a podcast and have people talk about it for the past How is that like you literally I mean we kind of put you on the spot because we on I think you were just trying

To consume the podcast just happened to be on the job You can get this fucker and then It's just the funniest thing Dude, I love it I was telling my lady Kelly and my stepson about that at dinner last night and they were just rolling laughing their ass off But I got on the podcast before poop stories were even really a thing Yeah, so now you know, I feel like I can finally fit in with the rest of the crew having my own poop story Story almost trumps them. I shit And I do yeah, I think it was someone I think was a topic for the episode I wasn't there

Like what what what we would do when we run out of guests? I'm like I could say at that point will be like three or four years deep We can repeat guest and just do a whole another interview and just kind of wherever it goes, it goes. Like the first like 20 people, like I don't remember those episodes hardly at all. And like we could definitely deep dive people again and just talk about what's new in the last few years. So those first few episodes were like an hour long. Yeah. Everybody else gets like two hours. I feel bad. I still Everybody else gets like two hours. I feel bad. I still feel bad because like I vividly remember in Damagers episode being like, I got nothing else for you, buddy.

Just tell tell tell the world what you want them to know. And I was just like, that was such a bad like podcast. Like me being a guy really got into your groove around 50. Like you really hit your stride around 50. Like it became a well oiled machine. I think we could, the guests knew what to expect. The host knew what to expect. And then, I mean, obviously that's the purpose, right?

And as much as we, um, can say like, we feel bad about those past episodes, a lot of the first, sorry, Zach, you're're gonna get a history lesson here a lot of the first people we had on Knew that they were our guinea pigs. Mm-hmm. You were gonna get on this episode Like I think the first episode is literally Nate interviewing me and Keith. Oh, yeah Yeah, and it was like this is just us learning how to do this and This is just us learning how to do this. And the lot, I think the first 10 to 15 episodes were just the people that were involved in making the podcast happen. It was, it wasn't mostly the founding fathers.

And like, I don't think anybody in those episodes really would expect anything else. Like we're, we're shit. We know we're shit, but if we don't start now, we'll never get better. And those folks were like, well then we will be the ones to help you launch. And you know. It's an honor, boys. I appreciate that. And you were there too.

And we'll get them on. And a lot of those people have been on again. Yeah, we've had a lot around, which is, that is a good point. We've round tabled a large amount of the people. And like, honestly, the round tables a lot of times too, are, hey, who's available? So they've had the opportunity to say hey, I'm available available every night Just whether you're on the toilet or not, yep. Yeah. All right, Zack if that's uh, Is that all you got for us? Do you have some more?

Well, I Keith actually reminded me I was gonna ask if there was non crew that you wanted to interview if and I mean that by like a realistic not I mean I could get a lot of different people on if I wanted to know like I don't know this is the crew cast to me like for now like in three years if we want to evolve into a fitness podcast which I don't know Joey doesn't want to like I don't like we would just be Masonomics adjacent podcasts and like get on random people that like I'm, you know, lucky to be friends with on Instagram. But like, I don't want to do those interviews because that's not what this is.

This is to get people prepped for the Arnold crew falls and lift hard, live easy, and then just be more familiar with people in the discord. I don't want to waste two hours talking to someone that won't respond to anyone on Instagram. Like that's pointless to me. I wouldn't want to waste two hours talking to someone that won't respond to anyone on Instagram like that's yeah pointless to me I wouldn't want to listen to that episode the couple that were adjacent to that are my least favorite episodes we've ever done. Whoa Not I enjoy series episode There was a couple other ones no, I know I know you're dying didn't enjoy Oh, she she got the whole deal though. She is included in minutes, right and like this

And I'm sure she responds to Paul floss's's DMs that he sliding into her all the time. I she talks to me, but now she has her own podcast. I did see that. Right. And it's just like I even commented and I was like, you're good at this. And I can tell you because you were on ours. I would say if you don't mind me also answering that question. Yeah.

I think Keith really wants Liver King on because Liver King is begging to be on some podcasts. We'll get his Netflix, you know, publicized. Anybody. So one of the except for, I would say, two or three people. A lot of the non crew that have been on are because of me thinking it would be really funny to get this on. Siri, Huck Finn. I did enjoy Huck Finn. Anybody shut up phone.

I'm not talking to you. You guys miss. I don't know if you did. You hear my phone ring like an hour ago. I like the group, Chattam in with Carp and a bunch of other home gym guys like carp accidentally butt dialed it and something I think it almost never rings through but it rang through like the most obnoxiously loud ring And yeah, it's because I said her name my phone was like, oh, do you want to? So like, you know getting her on was one that I thought would just be fucking hilarious because she was crew

getting her on was one that I thought would just be fucking hilarious because she was crew. And I think a lot of people forget about that. She was crew and eventually had to leave because she stopped lifting. And it was, I think she was there about a month before I joined and I just kind of heard all these rumblings like, do you remember the one, do you remember the one that had the site? And I was like, huh, who? And then they told me who it was and then I said one day like I'm gonna get her on this podcast And you know having huck on because huck is Adjacent right so to say that there's There are some non crew that I think I would get on if the joke was funny enough

Right like what I get Brian J 1008 on Absolutely, I think that would be one of the funniest things I could pull off. Um, yeah, I know. And like, but like, come on, that would be genuinely funny. But it would be a waste of crew time. A four person podcast with Brian, Randy and you two. podcast with Brian, Randy and you two. I would, the ones that I could see, I think I might have answers before. Like there was a handful of guys that are crew adjacent, like, like, like, like Ryan DeFay, like we'll probably get him on sometime, but I know he doesn't pay a supporting membership. If we had ever got Mary on, that would have been cool.

Like obviously Tanner and Tommy to me still don't pay supporting membership, so they're not crew, but they've been on the podcast. Um, just there's a, there's a handful of guys like that that like I know through Mastanomics Gym that don't pay supporting membership dues but they're like buddies and would have some insight and stuff. But I don't know, like I could take this down a home gym rabbit hole and interview a bunch of random people that like own companies and home gym that aren't crew. But that is no longer the crew podcast. Exactly. No, that's what I'm saying. That's the home gym nerd podcast. No, that's the home gym nerd the people that I have access to would be a whole set there would be it has to be another podcast that I started and I don't want

to run two podcasts because I don't know if Nate GPT has time to do two different things if he's alive still hey can I pitch can I pitch a podcast idea for you guys yep yeah riding in cars with shitting in the toilet. No. So weekend, we need to have a 24 hour crew podcast. We can have people sign up in advance for a time slot. You guys can stay on as long or as little as you want.

Take naps. Come back. Then you can release an episode a day for like 12 day, two hour chunks, 12 days in a row. Crew party, 24 hour podcast. Like you and me be the only people that listen to that, Scott. I think like three people would listen to that. I am curious. I work eight hours a night. I listen to podcasts all night long.

They said the crew, the crew lock in the crew overnighter. I will give you guys the credit, the. Last week was significantly better than the party cast because at least you could hear everybody. Oh, yeah. What's your name? What's he? Oh, yeah. Having that set up like that was clutch and having Joe like outside of the I mean, we did like a really outside of the frig for not doing it when someone had to when you went to go piss the ones.

Oh, yeah. What I was just like, I was like, Hey, Dan, go ahead. Then I got up and went to the bathroom. I was like, I guess I'll just I'll just I'll just I'll just talk to Matt for five minutes. I had to pee so bad. Oh, man, did I have to pee so bad anyway. All right. Back to Zach. Like, it's his episode. Yeah. Yeah. We got to round this out.

Oh, yeah, Zach. I can't wait to listen, but. Yeah. Well, thank you. I I can't wait to listen, bud. Yeah, well, thank you. One thing I wanted to say just I know and it's it's been one that stuck in my head's post that Murph made a long, long time ago about the crew being there for people that don't. Know what other people are going through just being there as a as a supportive group, it's something that

not trying to go on the sap train that you guys had last week, but just you guys building out the community even further. I've appreciated, I knew Big Anthony when we were volunteering together at the Lift Hard, Live Easy, but then to listen to you guys talk to him like, oh, I know a little bit more. Now I can actually talk to him in the gym about some things I heard. One of the first podcasts I listened to was Big Kaden, because he's the first gym member you guys had interviewed, getting to know him even though I don't see him very often at the gym. So building this community has been something that's been appreciated. And I think you two are a big part of the whole crew community as a whole

Thank you. Thank you. We try and so that is the goal, you know bring people together and I Know there's a lot of work, but I do see it pay off often So it's enjoyable if this didn't pay off and we didn't get those moments like that Like if last week's episode was really just like I don't know. I've listened a couple episodes you guys are funny I guess sometimes like if it was literally that, like I'm not saying that like I needed to get, you know, blown off for two hours or anything like that, but like it was really, I really much appreciated last week and just hearing what we do mean to some people and what this world that we've helped contribute to even farther, like we've taken this.

It's okay to want to feel validated. It was. Thanks, Scott. Cause I was about to say that. Yep. And I didn't need it because we get it all the time, but like listening back to it. Did you listen to the episode? I know you don't really listen. I listened to like most of it. I could tell at some point, I think about the time Huck Finn came on, I got annoyed at my own voice NateGBT had to do some heavy editing on that. Yeah, and then at some point I was like I'm going back to my horror podcast

But like no You're right. It is that episode You're right could have gone that way Instead we had 30 people waiting in line for two hours to tell us how much they like us Yeah, or at least like our podcast Instead, we had 30 people waiting in line for two hours to tell us how much they like us. Yeah, or at least like our podcast. Yeah. And like that means something. We got Tommy on like Tommy DeFe is here. Like like because I texted I reached out to Tommy and he never responded. And then I was like, oh, he's he's he's he's he's busy.

And then like three hours later, he's like logging into the. And it was like perfect timing, too, because it was like, you know, He's like logging into the it was like perfect timing too Cuz it was yeah, you know, I was like wow those those just cool Yeah, and then like Tommy specifically saying like cuz we were you were trying to downplay in a way You know We're here because of you and like him basically stopping us in your treacherous I say no dude like like you've done all the work like you guys set fucking three hours apart Every week to do this legitimately for

fucking 50,000 weeks in a row. Uh, it's pretty cool. So, all right. You want to round them out with some ads there? Yeah, big Zach. I'm going to hit you with some, some affiliate ad raising. So these are companies that, you know, without having an Instagram, you might not even who any, you might not know who all these are, so give them the old

Google and use a little code unpaid at some of these and you might save you a little money and possibly get a Us to a little speedboat so affiliate arteries we got obsidian ammonia barbell rescue plate snacks home gym con belt-fed strength freedom fitness equipment and apparel from the strength co code unpaid save you a little money all those places and you know Just can't go wrong supporting the good friends of ours. Do you get an affiliate code if the sponsor can't remember what the podcast is called? Okay.

Yeah. I actually don't. Or if they've never listened to an episode and they go, will you time it? I've been here the whole time. Yeah. With the Strength Co, let us know if anyone's actually used the discount code for strength code for apparel.

Because some of the ones that aren't set up for us to get a kickback, I don't know if anyone's used the affiliate for any of them. So I'm actually kind of curious on a couple of them. So let us know on Instagram any time you use our code, because we'll share the story, and it just helps promote everything. And if you are ordering from Obsidian and Ammonia,

and he has a sale going on, you can still put our code in. Oh, you can double stack? We don't know, we don't get commission, but I get a flag, and I get moved up on their, like the amount of people that have ordered from us. So you put in the discount code. It essentially does, but it also just like, it's hard to understand, but it's like

how many people have used the code versus how many people have clicked my links and all that. It does, it moves me up a list, it moves us up a list that just shows that people are actually using our code, even if they're using the 40% code. Right? Good deal. Good deal. Yeah. I've gotten, uh, I always see in the, the home gym stickers and the plate snacks has been, it's been popping off. I mean,

it's literally like equated to $50 in the last two years or whatever, but it's still pretty cool that like they're just, you know, reg reg regularly someone's using the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the plates next to, and using it to give us stickers for their home gym, a lot of times to buy our banner, right? That's awesome too. Whether we get a kickback or not, you're going to plate snacks because they support us. You're buying a sticker for your home

gym and then you're mailing us that sticker. Like we win twice, three times even. So I might add it to my show notes here going forward, but I do want to give more credit or more remind people to, you know, Tanner still has some of our shirts in stock. So, you know, we would love to sell those out. You know, there's no code unpaid or anything on that. But like seeing crew and Aberdeen wearing a lift hard, live easy or an unpaid or underrated t-shirt is pretty damn cool. So, you know, if you know, the more people that have those, the less I want to wear it. So like looking like everybody else. Well, I would like to just, you know, show support and selling, selling, sell them out. Yeah,

just sell them. Because there's definitely 30 or 40 people that have been on this podcast that never bought one and why not guys, it's pretty cool shirt. So they don't like us. Oh, no. All right, big Zach, what is your email address for you want people to email? Should we text you? So big Zach's on the discord there. You can find him there. Big Joey, where you at? Joey underscore Molesko. I'm L-E-C-Z-K-O. That's on Instagram. Essentially the only place you can find me now.

Alright. So we've got the website, unpaidinternpodcast.com. Lots of cool stuff on there. If you want to catch up on any of the songs we've got the Tron song and then The AI song there's all kinds of cool shit like that under the blogs Instagram we do a ton of work there unpaid and underrated podcast YouTube is always erased your first comment I am Keith honey cut you can follow me on Instagram at Keith honey get 73 more importantly Go follow my orange Jim the no wine seller and we'll see you next Tuesday. I Didn't mean to cut you off at the beginning. I was just I was going to ask you if you were going to do it because Tanner did when they had the.

No, I thought I thought I thought you were fucking with me and I knew it was going to be a funny episode from then on because I was literally like getting ready to say like, welcome and blah, blah, blah from you. And it took me like a solid 30 seconds to mentally recover to get back in my zone. So that was it. The cat showed up now.

Oh, little black. Oh, that's a whole episode to show up. That looks kind of looks like a baby. You let me down. Oh no. I'm literally trying to zoom in on it. I'm like, give me the kitty. He is not a baby. He let me down. Oh no. I'm literally trying to zoom in on it. I'm like, give me the kitty. I was like, he is not a baby.

He is a good old bat cat. Honk honk.