Unpaid And Underrated - 113 : Tertiary | A Home Gym Con Recap

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

This week Keith brings on a gaggle of silly geese to recap this years Home Gym Con. 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 Big Brandon on Instagram @odoylebasementlifts (https://www.instagram.com/odoyle_basement_lifts/) Big Carp on Instagram @coachcarp76 (https://www.instagram.com/coachcarp76/) or @carpsgym (https://www.instagram.com/carpsgym/) Big Mini Action Jesus on Instagram @miniactionjesus (https://www.instagram.com/miniactionjesus/) Big Hogan on Instagram @worldsstrongestpsychologist (https://www.instagram.com/worlds_strongest_psychologist/) Big Joey on Instagram @joey.echeverria (https://www.instagram.com/joey.echeverria/) Big Nate on Instagram @natee561 (https://www.instagram.com/natee561/) 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 Guests: Big Brandon, Big Carp, Big Hogan, Big Joey, Big Mini Action Jesus, and Big Nate.

Command command C or command. What's what's that command comma? Setting in zoom it'd be like a global setting well deal with that later fuck it I did so it asked me like I like deferred everything when it was logging in because I can eat this fucking computer to be up And running well, that's good all right Well, I tried just bypassed all the important things that he should can I did half of them it was just like Oh, yeah, I did half of them. It was just like... Oh yeah, well yeah, you did half of them. Well, I tried to do... It was like, do a fingerprint, and I'm like sitting there tapping my finger on the...

I don't know, it didn't... I assumed it was the touchpad, but... Did you at least log in with your iCloud account? I did, but what's really annoying is like, it wants you to have a separate password for your Mac versus your iCloud, and then it asks you independently for different passwords at different times. I'm like, which fucking one do you want? Because it's like not super clear, and I get my brain, like my brain doesn't read like, like the way it's worded

is like, are you talking about the fucking, the Mac password, or are you talking about my Apple password because I don't know, so I'm just typing everything in twice. Well that's why you just add the fingerprint authentication and then you only ever have to use your fingerprint and you don't even have to think about your password. I'm using the touchpad for the fingerprint authentication. Yeah, no, I don't know where I'm sure there is a spot for your finger.

You were touching the touchpad. Yeah, because I was so rushed to get on it because like this thing has been open three days for this thing to deliver like supposed to come Monday when I was off work and I think I hit enter and then it like I think it showed me where I was supposed to touch you and like I was in such a hurry to get to the next screen and I just kept touching it and it definitely didn't do anything the cursor the cursor just kept moving a little bit because it's not it's not yeah I'm sure it's not I'm sure it's I think it's somewhere on the actual yeah, it's up on the top right or the top left I don't know where they put it in the top, right?

Next time try the middle of your screen Wait on the password field on the screen. Yeah got it. Oh my just put it up to the webcam Did you not just put it up to the webcam? Yeah, it needs to take a picture of your thumbprint All right, that's so funny Keith, thank you for sharing but So Your guys's episode Thursday will release you'll record another episode next week And then this one really tonight. No, no home no, home gym comms coming out Monday, Tuesday. Like there's no point of keeping this one in the bank

for a month, that's stupid. Oh. This will come out immediately. This will be the first episode. Joe's episode will come out. Everything's gonna be pushed back a week. Yeah, I've already fucked with the Google spreadsheet. No one checks that key.

No, no, no, it took me fucking forever to figure out the dates, because I was like, wait, I'm doing this one today I'm doing this one tomorrow, but everything's shifting But I can't just copy and paste because it's weird how it's shifting so it took me a while to figure out the dates You are the one that knows the spreadsheets. So I do we're good now. I just don't know Apple yet No Apple for too long. All right, we're wasting too much time boys Well, no, we got we got great gold content for the pre-show.

Yeah, and you're gonna only use like a tenth of it because you like to be this big person that picks and chooses all the good content. I told you about the whole post show in last week's episode. There were 20, there were like 20 to 30 minutes of us just rambling. It was gold, it was gold.

It was not gold. It's literally the funniest part of the episode. No, I talked for five minutes straight about having diarrhea. I know, it was gold. It was not gold. Literally the funniest part of the episode. No, I talked for five minutes straight about having diarrhea. I know it was. And while Tanner and Tommy were in town and no one had any reaction on the zoom call and I was like, this isn't I'm not putting this in the potion. He's like, it was great. I was like, I don't think anyone thought it was funny. I was laughing.

Well, I'll release a secret tape for already in the discord of just my diarrhea story then That was that was the joy that was like the one highlight of my travel was uh, all right, Nate go away We got a podcast do I'm having fun. I'm having fun then stick around but I want to get the go on Do you want to get it going? So I'll leave you guys to it. Have so much fun guys. Hopefully doesn't mess this up Where you gonna come back? Do you want me to just text you when it's over? I don't want to switch over host privileges because last time we did that.

No, just text me. I'll be around, hopefully. Unless you go to midnight, then I won't be. No, if this goes past 10, I'm hanging up. Well, 10.30. We can go look. He says this every week, guys. Don't believe him.

I know, and then we go to fucking midnight. But we're not doing it. That's why we started early, god damn it. Yeah. All right I'm gonna start the intro here. So And welcome back to episode Home GymCon 3 of the Unpaid and Underrated Podcast, a podcast by crew for crew. I am your, one of your hosts, your only host, your main host this week, joined by a whole

gaggle of silly geese here. This is Big Keith, and I'm going to go around the room and introduce you everybody. We got Mr. Big Hogan. Howdy howdy. We got Big Mini, Big Justin. Eww. We got Big American Joey E. Ahoy hoy. And we got first appearance on the Unpaid Ninerator podcast I believe, Big Brandon. Hey everyone. How you doing buddy? I'm good. Well, welcome everybody. Thank you for taking time out of your busy week. I know we all just had a hell of a crazy weekend and had to dive right back into that work week and I appreciate you guys carving a little time out to come do a

little crew talk with us. Do a little crew home gym chatting. We can breeze right through this if no one's got anything special. Does anybody drink anything they want to talk about? I just have a peach pear LaCroix and the drinks spotter chill. The drinks spotter chill. I did get my hands on that this weekend. It was, uh, it was, it was neat. It was neat. It may or may not pick one up this summer, but it was kind of cool. I think, uh, there was someone had it at the booth. I don't remember who it was, but it was pretty cool. They did see it in person and got a feel for it. So, uh, I just got a,

I think it's the last Wegmans, uh, uh, flavored water, uh, the Mandarin orange one. I set it aside cause I knew I had to record to, actually it means that I don't have one for tomorrow. Son of a bitch. I want to pick up something for tomorrow, but we got it tonight. I also have a drinks, butter chill with a crispy IPA from Missouri in it and it is called You ever heard of that? That's a new one. No, Boosh. Yeah

Latte I haven't had one of those in a minute If those were like if they like just sold those for like like $2 drafts or something I drink a hell of a lot of those potentially but I don't see them in bars a whole lot But I guess they are I don't really do bars very much so that's that's that's what are you drinking this week I'm gonna kick off what are you wearing because I'm pretty happy with my new shirt picked up a ton of shirts this weekend but the one that was you know rose to the top for me was a big barbell rescue big Kim over there the the shaft cleaner shirt on the

back so it just says barbell rescue on the front, nice clean cut logo. And the back has got a, you know, vulgar adjacent logo. That's just a, you know, a hand on a hand on a shaft and a shaft cleaner, I believe. So I think we talked, I think we all chatted about that a little bit at dinner there on Saturday night was kind of amusing, but I'm a big fan of the shirt. So we'll rep code unpaid there, Barbar Rescue. Yeah, I've got the Masanomics seven year anniversary tee in red with red logo.

Pretty sweet, classic. You know what's wild is like, I remember like, I feel like that shirt came out yesterday and it's been like over three years now, or coming up on three years. I don't know if they hit it with their 10 year year and I've yet but like that's not a new shirt And I just feel like we just got it, but it's water pretty wild Brian. What what what you're rocking buddy? I got the new ish Lifting department

Yeah, I couldn't cream. Yeah, there you go classic. It looks good big many all I can see your traps What what do you have one underneath your traps in your beard bud? Well, it's uh, it's summertime So in the summertime, I pretty much don't wear sleeves if I'm at home So I just got it. That's bd tank top and some uh pizza shorts from kind of fit kind of fat nice Big big dr. Hogan which remedy I got a gifted shirt from the dogzilla Custom sure with my name on the back in honor of my deadlift.

I love it. I love it. Well deserved. That is a good one. We can get into all your lifting here in a little bit because you're one of the, I think you're the only person on the podcast. Yeah. Yeah.

Depend on, regardless of whoever joins, you're the only person we have lined up tonight that did participate this weekend So I do want to pick your brain about that a little bit later Once we actually get the guests on the horn But for now, I think we can usually with this is where we were to rate last week's Mastanomics episode But things are gonna be a little different because this is recording I'm recording two episodes this week one with the crew tonight and then I'll do a regular episode next week So everything's gonna be kind of shifted a week. So eventually we'll get on track.

But for tonight, we're going to do something a little different and we're going to rate a segment of their, Tami and Tanner's, nope, that's not their names, Tami and Tanner's most recent YouTube video, which was like video one of hopefully three or four at the home gym con. And there was a special guest appearance, you know a little in-depth rogue mastermind here gave and gave a gave a significant amount of information a little backstory and that is uh, you know when I got there Tanner was like hey

Do you want to be in the rogue video with me and just kind of shoot the shit and you know Show me some stuff and I was like sure it sounds fucking awesome We go over there and I'm like, I'm gonna tell him about all the barbells. Ibells I'm gonna name every single barbell I'm gonna do them blind it's gonna be great I'm gonna know everything you know any any type of like little shit I'll know about I go over there and they have like they like six massive cable machines that are all a little bit different and like oh no fuck all about any of these and I was like big big big big Joey's your expert so we got big big Joey mic'd up and then I was just the asshole in the background just trying to basically photo bomb him as

much as I could. That was so funny. And actually I forgot that I did the reverse hyper because my back really did hurt but I didn't like it was the scout reverse hyper and I really didn't want to like put my feet in the straps with no weight so I was like I'm just gonna lay on the table and just do like air reverse air hype air reverse hypers and I was just doing that for like 10 seconds in the background and I just kept seeing my my body just pendulum up And forth I enjoyed that immensely, but uh we'll kick it off with Brandon

I want you to you know tell me anything you thought about that video and we need a zero out of five You know rating of some sort for from you Well, the first thing I did notice I was gonna bring up what you just did was you in the background Just like nonchalant walking around almost like photobombing the video the whole time so I got a pretty good chuckle out of that I actually forgot that Robo and I were both in the video too because I did you know you're just weren't paying attention to what they were recording but either way the video is really good I'm gonna give it five out of five keep bombing the massive. Can you hear me?

Oh, yep. Yep. Sorry, I just that's switched over my headphones. But big many, what do you think, buddy? Well, I knew what was going to be happening. I didn't know the extent of what was going to be happening. And the amount of times I was laughing whenever I would look at my screen and I'd be like, there he is just randomly in the background, just popping up out of places. And I was just giggling, trying to, you know, trying to make sure I wasn't going to shake everything around too much. But yeah, it was kind of funny because I haven't gone to the rogue warehouse before I Have to say I got more information from Joey than I got from the people at the rogue warehouse at the Arnold

So it's not not a you know, it's a look for rogue It's definitely a look for rogue And you know because that knowledge I mean he knew prices he knew Back he knew how much you had to order to buy a reflex leg extension so definitely definitely got to give that up five five creepy keats in the background out of five love it they yeah I have not watched it yet but as someone who is at the Rogue HQ once a week, I am well familiar with everything they have there. And also get as much help at the Rogue HQ as you could get at the booth. But nonetheless, I think I can speak highly of, it must have been a great video,

Joey American E was in charge. So that will get five knurled colored handle options out of five. I did like the aluminum stuff, how light that was. But like when you're putting the aluminum on the massively heavy basis, it gets still a very heavy attachment. Because like that was uh that's what I didn't notice about all those attachments. Well let's see I think I'm the most unbiased of the of the group

I thought the gentleman they had representing Rogue did a fantastic job uh seriously while we were filming it I could see Keith out of the corner of my eye, but I was so focused on like what Tanner was asking me and like what we were going to go see next. I wasn't paying attention. So when I watched it on the actual video, I was just cracking up the whole time. It was the funniest thing I'd ever seen. So for those reasons, I'm going to give it 5 out of 5 Bill Hennigers. Ah, you damn it. I was gonna rate. I was gonna do the do. I was gonna do the the the Henniger's Henniger scale. Yeah, I already kind of shared my thoughts about it, but I forgot to give it a rating.

So we will go ahead and I go off the cuff here and go five out of five big ass cable machines that I don't know what the fuck the names are. And that that is pretty much that. Anything in general topics on home GymCon related that is time-pressing that we should chat about, I didn't see too much and I might cover it on next week's episode I guess so we can just kind of hop right on. So if Big Brandon is ready, if not just tell me we can wait. You ready buddy? You got the Mastinomics? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Use code unpaid. So 69% Do not fact-check our math over there we are not big math, but that sounds good to me I Should like all of our codes like it's nice. I mean whatever they're all between like 3 and 10% or whatever But like if we were just like across the board just go a 6.9% just for the parity of and save 6.9% or whatever that is or I get 6.9% that'd be nice, too But yeah, well done. So I'll give my you know, guest from Horn yep we got a big mini, big Joey, big Brandon, big Hogan. We might have a couple other crew guests join in a little later

if their nights kind of free up. If not there's a solid crew we can definitely burn through some home gym con talk. Do we want to talk about travel first? Just see. I didn't have fun travel, but let's hear about someone who had good travel first. So Hogan, what'd you have like a three, two and a half hour drive or something? Yeah, man.

It was rough. Like there was at least a backup that was like 45 minutes. We are delayed. Oh, it's terrible. No, it's like three and a half hours for, um, it's super easy. Nicole drove it. I just chilled in and gave me John's sandwich and hung out. We, we got there.

She dropped me off. I got to sneak my way into the convention hall late at night and, and weigh in and go on Thursday night. Then, right. Okay. Yeah. Thursday night we snuck in and got a sneak peek. So, um, it was all easy on my end.

Love it. That's perfect, perfect. Vic Joey, do you have any issues getting there buddy? This will be the last time you have an easy trip there. So did you enjoy your sub massive thousand dollar trip to get there that's gonna take you all day? Yeah, it was just a short two hour drive for me. Not bad.

Real easy straight shot. The only downside is for that drive. I was in Indiana for most of the way, but next year that won't be a problem. Nice big many. How far you're coming from? Where are you coming from? Illinois. So I pretty much came, Joey's house.

Yeah. And, uh, yeah, it's pretty straight shot for me. He has get on one interstate and stay on it till you get to all the way to, to Louisville, the only downside was, um, I completely forgot about the time zone change, so I was going to come out and get Tanner at the airport and he says, yeah, we're going to land at like quarter to one. Like, oh, perfect. And then he goes, oh, never mind. We're landing at noon. Oh, okay. Three and a half hour drive. We'll leave at 830. I went, oh, wait, there's an extra hour in there. So I have to leave at like seven to make sure I

got there in time. But we got there so early. sat there like a you know Like an asshole sitting in the uber parking Waiting for him to land Wait, so Yeah, no we were so you your partner and Tanner were all in your little And let have you have you up have you got a larger car since last time you were on the podcast I think you like made up didn't you make a point that you have like a small, a very small car? I got a Prius. Yeah. So let me say

Tanner sat in the back seat and I do not believe he was terribly uncomfortable. Oh, wow. That's impressive. Then they have a lot. They have a lot of space. They just don't have any get up and go. Gotcha. Well, that's it. Saves you on gas. I was still in a Prius. The back seat has quite a bit of space they just don't have any get up and go. Gotcha well that's yeah saves you on gas.

I just don't a Prius the back seat has quite a bit of leg room. The only problem is like the side to side space. Yeah it's definitely a two person backseat. I mean it's gotta be fit a little bit mean since he doesn't have quads can't be that much leg room like needed right. And then Big Brandon we all know you just live in a suburb so we want to hear about your 15 minute commute there. You prick.

Yeah. I walked into like, yeah, it was pretty rough. Nice. So yeah, I think Brandon's are only local. I think I'm the only person even from, can, I mean, crew wise, probably one of the few Kentucky crew I think we have. Uh, so yeah, that's, uh, my travel. Um, I think I've shared it mostly in Discord, but a quick little recap if no one's been

listening. I'm planning on coming out Friday morning. Every home gym kind of the past, I've always come the day before. I traveled on the day before just as I was ready to hit the ground running. But just trying to save a little bit of money this year, save an extra day of vacation, save an extra $200 in the hotel room, just, you know, overall financially conscious decision, um, at 10 o'clock at night, when I was getting ready to fall asleep for a 4 a.m. wake up or 4 30 wake up, whatever, to basically be at the airport at five, uh, got a, or alert that my

first flight was going to be two hours delayed. I was going to miss my connection. They rebooked my second flight for getting into Louisville, like three 30 Like well fuck you that's literally eats my entire day on Friday so scramble real quick find another option at a different airline that's still gonna get me in a Louisville at 1030. Awesome. Okay looked at the prices upped my tickets from like four hundred and four hundred ish dollars to nine hundred ish dollars. I said fuck it it's gonna going to be worth it. Cause it's going to give me five extra hours at home gym con that I wouldn't

otherwise have. And we're basically buying that time back, you know, a hundred dollars an hour to hang out with you fuckers. So I was willing to do that. Cool. Do that. Get to the airport. First flight, no issue.

Land in Washington immediately fucking get off and see, actually, I think even on the plane, I was able to message with my wife and she was telling me big Stephanie that is that My flight looked like it was gonna be like four hours like hours delayed You know that it was like a five-hour flight when it was really like an hour and a half two-hour flight Because they didn't update the departure. They're just kept pushing back the Arrival of in Louisville like this doesn't make any sense So like walk into the gate, you know sitting there for a couple minutes the lady at the desk didn't have any clue you could tell I was like the 400th person to ask her

Denver sitting there and basically they finally updated it with like a fucking five-hour delay a four and a half hour delay Whatever the fuck it was it was supposed to take off at 1030. We took off at like one No, maybe we bored it around one. We still didn't take off to after two Maybe it was close to two, so yeah. One saving grace of that is big James Robo actually was texting, like we were both, I didn't even know, I mean, he texted me when he saw on the Discord that I had basically

was explaining my travel woes without even knowing what airport I was at, and he was like, there can't be another asshole that has this five hour delay and has it to where it came in, the arrival not moving, but the departure did or whatever so he was like are you are you here and I was like yeah so we you know we ended up meeting up like a few minutes later and ended up hanging out and grabbing grabbing some food together and just shooting the shit for hours probably had a could have had a good podcast because like it was just so much just shooting the shit but then like two hours two hours into like a four hour labor I don't think we talked anymore because I was like, all right, I am all talked out We think we've we've gone through each other's life stories. We're good Um, but yeah, it was just a shitty trip Uh finally landed in louisville. I did feel bad because james had a bunch of carry-ons or a bunch of checked bags

And he was like these might take like 20 minutes to just go because we're gonna we're gonna uber over together But I was already losing daylight Like it was literally like had two hours left to get to the expo and like enjoy anything of Friday at all So kind of felt bad because I left him there That is what I just had him drop me straight off at the expo and I fucking just ran him with my suitcase and just You know dropped it off at a barefoot spoo as soon as I saw them They were they were gracious enough to just you know, sit it there and but yeah, that was my travel Not the most fun it was even worse on the way back, but that's maybe wrap up with that depression story because

that'll just keep us in chronological order. So, so Hogan got there Thursday. Joey, did you get there Thursday or Friday? Thursday. Nice. Did you guys end up? Was there, you know, did you guys end up doing a dinner Thursday night? Would you guys, you know, did you meet up with some crew?

Did meet up with some crew. Big Dr. Hogan organized the whole thing. So of course he couldn't make it. Oh, he missed it. But yeah, we met up. So Big Carp was there. Not Big Jeff was there. His wife, Perp was there. Not Big Jeff was there. His wife, Perrin, was there.

I'm sure I'm forgetting other people. There was a couple other people with us. And yeah, we just had the old spaghetti factory, which was right outside the convention center. Pretty decent. Yeah, good dinner. Pretty decent. Good deal. Good dinner. All right.

Well, I know Justin came in Friday. Brandon probably got there. Did you help out occurred it all Thursday night, Brandon, or did you just come over Friday? No, just Friday. Yeah, that makes sense. Just a lot. We only take so much time off for stuff like this.

So that takes us to Friday. Big Hogan, you did a two-day strongman event that's not your first two-man day a two-day event was it? Nope that was my first time doing it lit so that was a new experience. Did you find it to be awesome or shitty because I could see the pros and the cons of either for sure? For the purposes of home gym con and I talked with Kurt about this, that was preferred because I did it last year and it was one day and it was the second day on Saturday. So Friday you had the con, you could go do freely and then Saturday just was all meat.

And so really it was, you had Friday where you're a little anxious about the meat and you try not to be on your feet a lot, but yet you want to do the con all day, knowing you had no time for the con the next day. So splitting it was, for a convention goer, much better. The events themselves were not very taxing this year, like the level drained didn't seem that big. So it would have been nice, I think, if you were not interested in the convention whatsoever, just to like get it done.

Like it'd been pretty hard to justify the trip for two days if you had no interest in the convention. Makes sense, makes sense. To see Brick Brandon, how are you more sore after helping set up for Strongman and spot and load all day than you would have been if you just trained? It's funny that I don't have a lot of like experience with sandbags.

You know, I've messed around with a sandbag here and there. But those guys like, especially when it got to like the big boys, like 300 pounds, you know, when they were doing those, like I got, you know, I think the first couple, like when it was in like the 175 to the 225, I was like, hey, let me see if I can get these and like carrying back over. And that happened like three times tops. And then I was like, all right, I'm just going to get on all fours and just shovel this across the floor, you know, and it just otherwise, you know, my lower back would have been toast, just not having a lot of strongman experience and, you know,

being new at that. So, but it was just loading and unloading and stuff like that. It was a good experience. And like you said, a workout at that. So, but it was just loading and unloading and stuff like that was a good experience. And like you said, it worked out in itself. So yeah. Yeah, I did. One of my things I took back from, Kurt did a like a preview loading up a trailer on a YouTube video.

I think maybe it was Thursday. It was like basically like literally like in real time and he posted almost immediately from what I recall. Maybe it wasn't up on Tuesday or Wednesday, regardless. But one thing that stuck out were these like shitty Amazon dollies he was talking about and I was like, and those look like shit, but he said he got a good deal on them and he was all happy because they were like eight, 700 pound rating. They had the big, a big, uh, platform on them.

So the first thing I did when I asked him, uh, when I saw him Friday was how are those dollies holding up? Cause I kind of saw them both bent to shit in the corner and he was like, they're fucked, man. I got to send them back and I said I got a kick out of that so that made me chuckle but yeah that was my my first experience when I walked in I think Kurt was one of the first persons I saw big Joey your Friday or just walking into the expo this year versus last year in

general as someone that's been to see well yeah Hogan as well could answer but like so year one, year two, we were in, you know, French lick was awesome. You could see the whole convention in one spot. So like coming down the escalators was like to the surreal feeling. So this year we were kind of going up the escalators, but then it was kind of anticlimactic

cause then it's like another fifth, you know, a hundred yard walk to get to like the greeting tables and then go into the convention. But then it's just like, and you can when you first walk in, you well, you can go explain like when you first look and you can't really get the whole experience because it's kind of that L shape. But yeah, I mean, definitely very different from from French Lick was was missing some of that small town kind of encapsulated

vibe that we had going on there. But I I had snuck into the convention Thursday night, so I had a bit of a preview of the floor. But yeah, when you're coming in the kind of main entrance, you're in kind of the small part of the L and you can see the Strongman show right there. Dean from Black Widow had his custom implements out and they just looked impressive. It was just a sight to see. Then you start walking around the corner and then once you turn that first corner, you just realize how much bigger it is.

I've been hearing from Big Jake all year long, it's like, this many more vendors, this many more square feet, all these statistics. And none of us are big math over here, so we don't know what these mean. But when you see it in person, it was a sight to behold. And not to give too much away, but I

think just about every booth brought their A game. They had some pretty impressive displays. There was a lot of equipment there. A lot of stuff that you could just try out. So yeah, it was really cool. It definitely felt at least twice as big as French Lick, if not three times as big. That's a fair assessment. I think I said it was like 40% bigger, but it probably is, was closer to double.

I think like just before it even goes to the L, it was probably like the size of French Lick almost, but just having Strongman actually having a bigger space. I can imagine Hogan enjoyed not having to walk through one billion people to like get to your next event or just have that much heat just right on top of you with having like hundreds of dozens of people just trying to enjoy the expo and like go to the the bells of steel booth and just like being right up your ass. I did feel bad Kirk Kurt had to make do with such a small space last year but I think definitely guys enjoyed the open space this year at least it looked like it. open space this year. At least it looked like it. So Big Mini, you get there Friday afternoon with Tanner and you guys kind of come in. How was that whole first experience? Or did you guys, were you guys able to spitball plans to the whole drive in? Because that was pretty nice to have that time to brainstorm. Well, you know, like from the airport, it's not very far to the center.

Oh yeah, that's true. You picked him up live at the Louisville Airport, then he does where yeah, yeah Yeah, you're right downtown you had you had 18 minutes to brainstorm Yeah, well like What was that like the week before? They call Tanner and Tommy called sent me a They had a list of all the places that we're interested in going to, places that had some interest place that we didn't have any interest in going to. And so we

kind of knew what we're going to do, like where we needed to go. And the rough idea was that we would try to get as much as much film on the first day as possible, which worked out pretty well, because we pretty much hit everything for the video that came out this week and the next video. And then on Saturday was pretty much just the last videos worth and then we were done by 11. There was there was some stuff I know on the list. I feel bad because I don't I'm not you know I'm not Tommy despite the devilish good looks

Your hair yeah My hair this does not match up the one you're you know Yeah, it does But you know I felt I felt bad because like I'm like But you know, I felt I felt bad because like I'm like stressing about am I doing this the way they want? Am I doing this the way that is good? Because it is realistically this is gonna be really weird coming from a person who is sitting in this little tiny one-car garage with what I what I figured out over the weekend is About thirteen thousand dollars in camera equipment Damn, this is the first time I've ever filmed anything legitimate for somebody.

The rest of it's just for live streaming. Like it's just for throwing up at powerlifting meter, throwing up at a event. So, you know, going and doing something the way you're supposed to do it, not this weird twitch crap is new. But, you know, by the time we got to the second day, it was pretty, I feel like the bigger booths were a little harder, just because their stuff is so big. When you're going with some of the one day to you specifically, I mean,

yeah, so like, whenever you're going to like, we kind of started with the biggest boots, we started with rogue and rap and Titan. And we kind of worked our way through. So when you're going with something like, you know, dialed motion, their stuff is very small, compact, very easy to fit in the frame, very easy to film. But whenever you're in the Rogue booth and you're standing next to a, you know,

108 inch rack trying to figure out how to get 108 inch rack in the screen, like, well shit, this thing's gigantic. That makes sense. I mean, it was fun though. I do have some ideas that if I ever have to do it again, to make it a lot easier for me and to make it a lot easier for everything else, I got very annoyed on the last day I dropped my DJI mic and it disconnected from the receiver and

refused to connect for the whole rest of the day. So I brought an extra set of mics that I bought for that reason. And as soon as we got back to the hotel, after we were done, I set the camera down and I opened up the mic box. It had reconnected. Despite me trying to reconnect it for 15 minutes while we're good. Well, while Tanner is waiting to start at a turn it on and off, right?

Yeah. Yeah. We caught them at a barbell rescue to get ready to start at a turn it on and off. Right. Yeah. Yeah. We caught them at a at barbell rescue to get ready to start talking to them. And he's like, I gotta go to the bathroom. He goes, you have time for a quick video? Yeah, sure. 15 minutes later, I'm sitting there still fucking with the mic trying to get to work. I'm like, screw it. We're going to the other mics. Well, if if we're you know, everyone familiar with Kim, he is no stranger to kind of shit in his pants. So that'll be just fine. I'm sure he could have made do. Um,

I will share some of this advice, but like if and when they do come back out as a payer, I still think they should hire you specifically because not that it's, I mean, I love just having Tanner on screen, but like they don't get the opportunity to both be on the screen. You know what I mean? Like it's hard to interview people as a payer, but even if it's just them standing there kind of alternate, pitching it back and forth,

or alternating just booth to booth, but I don't know. I think it would give them more freedom. Or if one of them's already just doing the small talk at the next booth, getting it set up, you know, to where they don't necessarily have to be there at the same time, and they can just like immediately go A to B to C, it's an option. Or like at the road booth, they could have a van of white,

you know, like where they don't have somebody walking them around. You know, Tommy could be like trying the equipment out. Tanner's explaining. Yeah, that's fair too. That'd be cool. Yeah, and like something like that, I decided like, you know, I was going through everything

and Tanner and Tommy were talking about how he sets up Tommy's camera. And I'm like, yeah, it's super small, easy to carry. And I'm looking at it going, okay, I want to have a bigger battery. So I'm like, I'll put the big V-mount battery on it. Well, I've got to put a big mount on it. Okay, well, I've got a big mount, I need a top handle. Okay, so I need a handle so I can hold it better.

And I put the, well, I've got the handle on here. Now I can't see the frigging monitor of the screen. So I have to put my monitor on there. It's like, OK, I'm going to do all that. I got to put the big the big thing on there. I'm like, well, now my camera is three times as big and 12 pounds. And like whenever I have to have Rachel hold it, she's over there like holding it for about 30 seconds.

Going, this is so heavy. Like, all right, I got it. I got it. So next time, make it lighter. We'll make it easier I'll even make it where she can hold it for me if I need to Well, I mean, that's it's nothing better than that Yeah, make someone else do the work. Yeah. Yeah that works, too It was a bad dick joke. I guess but I tried So Friday.

So I think everyone thought I was joking when I said I like coop literally flagged me down when I walked in. Like I wasn't bullshitting like that happened. Like as funny as that was, like as funny as it would have been to just make up that story or to like, you know, you know, fuel this fake beef that like hasn't existed for like a year and a half. It probably never existed to him.

Obviously it was just something that I, you know, held held. But yeah, when I'm getting there Friday, I think earlier I mentioned Kurt was one of the first person I talked to, but the literal first person I talked to once I walked into the expo outside of meeting Adam and Jake's sister to get all my VIP stuff walking in was, walking in you're just getting overwhelmed by everything. And then there's literally like a group of people right in front of Strongman and there's Coop and he kind of looks over and he sees me. He literally waves at me and says, Hey, Keith, hey, Keith, like says my name multiple times and like flags me over. So I walk over

to the show with him for like, I don't know, three minutes. I assumed he was gonna be there the next day. So I didn't like ask for a picture nor did I want to necessarily like fanboy in hindsight, I did wish I would do wish I got a picture because it would have been kind of a cool documentation. Didn't know he was just kind of there for one day and you know got all this content and got out but was really cool. I think we literally talked about the convention more than anything and I kind of was playing up the community that we built here. I think I even specifically said like we built this community because we literally did. Like Jake put the home gym con together but we are the community

that like come and do it so like it you, it's our convention in the sense that like, if we didn't go to it and it was just like the random locals and whatever town it was, like it wouldn't survive. There's the fact that there's so many of us willing to drive, you know, three hour minimum, you know, everyone here drove two or three hours except, you know, Brandon. Um, so, cause he's, you know, he's just not as committed as we are, obviously. You know, he, he, he should have driven in the other direction for a couple hours and then turned around just

to show his true commitment to home gym con or but yeah so that was just a cool story or a cool you know event and then when I posted in discord the people were like laughing at it like they didn't believe it and I'm like that's a dumb emote that's a stupid emoji to put to that comment so I kind of fucking annoyed me because I don't understand why you're laughing. This really did happen. So, oh, that was not going to say it's a highlight because it wasn't really a highlight, but it was just cool and kind of funny that I did have this, you know, annoyance with him for several years of not being transparent and be, you know,

but he has been as transparent as he could be the last year and a half or so. So, I don't know. That was pretty cool cool and you know, glad he actually finally came out to home gym con. I think we've been trying to get him, we at the community have been trying to get him out for a couple of years because it would help Jake and get the exposure that home gym con deserves because if home gym con didn't continue to grow, there

would not be a home gym con like four or five, six, like Jake can't just take it on the chin and lose money every year. So I think this year looked like it did good. Um, I listened to his other podcast, um, with nice like Mike and actually this would be a, did, has anyone else listen to the, uh, their podcast from yesterday or Monday?

Okay. So no one's listening to that. Okay. So you're, you can't answer this, but anybody else that hasn't listened, how many people do you think came through the door door including athletes like ballpark? Like quick answer off top your head brain and how many how many people were at home gym con collectively both days for house? Okay? Hogan

Let's say 800 Justin I Was gonna guess about what brand said like four or five thousand like it seems like it's good traffic both days. So we're not, I'm assuming the number that Jake said was none of those but I'm I interpreted as just ticket holders and athletes so not counting vendors which there was several hundred like literally probably five hundred I don't know there had to be at least five hundred people working for booths and shit.

So not counting those people. I think he said it was 1300. So which, which literally, I think year one, there was like a hundred of us. Maybe, maybe two or 300, like your one was under your one. Yeah. They look like 75 people sometimes. Yeah. Your one was call it under 200 year two was like, I don't know, 500, 800 I think maybe.

I don't remember if we had numbers last year, but it was literally double, but it was still like, not a full blown, big in your face. But it was definitely an improvement for sure. How about, so I was happy with the 1300 number when they mentioned that, because like, yeah, that's, I mean, that's a lot of people every day. Like, that's, I think, I think, I think it was 1300 total and like 500 were, I think 400 of those or 500 of those

were both date holders, I believe, if I refer call rate, Joey, it was something like that. I think it's like 650 each day. Okay. So does that or does that not include competitors? Are they not included? No, they didn't specifically say competitors, because if you or does that not include competitors? Are they not included in the same holders? No, he didn't specifically say competitors

because if you signed up for any of the events that there was like five events you could do that counts as a pack, that's your two day trip, I think. I'm not sure if you only there one day if it counted as your one day event. You know, since Hogan did it both days, it would be both days for him, but if someone just did powerlifting or weightlifting,

I don't know if that was just a one-day ticket or not but either way that's pretty cool either way though yeah yeah I feel like it was yeah perspective the first year from gym con about half the convention floor was like Jake's home gym Adam home gym it was I's in you know Kyle from cousin DIY home like you know that that's what they were kind of working Adam's home gym, Kyle from Kaizen DIY's home. That's what they were kind of working with. So the fact that in just two years, they're in a much bigger venue, got up to 1,300 attendees.

And then I don't know if people saw any of the videos that have been posted, but I think Coop's first video, last time I checked, had like 69,000 views on it. Nice. There's the Mastanomics video had like six or 7,000 views on it. There's a joy video out there. But what is that? Just the joy video day one.

Just the day one video. Yeah, Joey, you're going to be a big influencer like Keith here soon. He's got a nice gem and he's stronger than me, so he deserves it. Put the relative size comparison for those who've been to the other ones They're among the first year the swing sesh booth took up a Liant it was out of the space like it the swing sesh booth looked huge and this year I could I Barely remember seeing it like it was such a small component They were there the first year yeah, yeah Yeah. They've been there every year.

They're there. They're a solid supporter. Um, that's cool. Big carb. If you're there, buddy, just, just unmute yourself and join in whenever you want. Uh, but yeah, swing session was, I do like seeing the booths that are three year returners, like there's, I'm not sure. I mean, there's gotta be at least 20 of them, maybe, maybe less.

Um, but it's probably right. It is probably less actually. I remember I talked about that with like a Nate executive fit and everybody's like the people that are three year veterans of it, just the kind of what you know each other. Like you can spot someone who was there year one. And I love when I see someone from year two for people that are new for year three,

they're joining on the fun, like the community that it builds. I think it's just next level. Absolutely. So Brandon, being your first, you were the first first timer this year, then, right? As far as this was. So you did go to the Arnold. So you had the Arnold experience. Was it your first time going to any, was the Arnold your first Arnold then this year?

Yes, it was. Okay, so you got to experience the Arnold, but it was basically the crew trip for you. So I think you were at the booth with us like 90% of the day. So you had that experience. So you're a good one to pick the brain of just, how many crew did you hang out with?

I mean, granted you were spotting and loading all morning both days, but you still had very active afternoons and evenings hanging out with crew. What did you have? I mean, you don't necessarily have to compare it to the days, but you still had very active afternoons and evenings hanging out with crew. What did you have? I mean, you don't necessarily have to compare it to the Arnold, but since you do have that baseline, just tell me about your experience just mingling with crew and how many crew you kind of interacted with and people you might not have knew were crew and then kind

of like, you know, came out as crew, if you will. Well, it's kind of like at the Strongman booth even even like Big Antonio, like I didn't know he was crew at first. And then I think I don't know if he had Masonomic stuff on or if we just got to talk under something like that. And he was like, Oh yeah, I'm crew. And so like, that was kind of cool. And I was, you know, of course carry around stickers and stuff like that to pass off from

my home gym. And then like Big Debo and Big Jakey and those guys would like stop by and I'd like catch him out of the corner of my eye and I'd be like, hey, I'm going to go talk to them for a second. So most of the time, and you know, and Hogan probably knows too, like most of the time we're like doing one or two things like resetting an event or something like that. But you have a second to kind of walk away and talk to somebody, which is kind of cool. So even though you're like, you need to be there and attentive, like you can, you still have a second like walk away. So even during the strongman show, I was able to kind of hang out with people. And then afterwards, it was cool because I was like, all right, I'm gonna go

find big Dibo in a minute, I'm gonna talk to him and you know, catch up and stuff like that. So I was, it was pretty cool in that way. It also kind of broke up the day and stuff for me too, because I was able to like, basically until two o'clock or whatever I was helping with the Strongman show and then I could walk around and do the booth stuff. Cause I will say at the Arnold, that's the one thing that was kind of like overwhelming for me for like first event, we all know how big the Arnold is. And it's like most of those booths, I just don't give a shit about, you know what I mean? Like unfortunately, this is like right up my alley.

Cause I mean, I have a home gym, I use it every day and like, so it's something I can at least kind of enjoy like seeing new equipment come out and stuff like that. And something that we can all kind of as, you know, crew members just relate to. So it's good. It was a nice little experience then. Yeah, I think, I think most of the crew were wearing, I mean, I personally didn't, I wear the mass number shorts all weekend, but I was trying to rep a little more no wine cellar this weekend. Like I am crew to the heart.

Obviously no one's more crew than I am at the end of the day, but I don't go to him, if we're gonna go to home gym con, I want those handful of people to be like, hey, I know that fucking guy. I don't know what he looks like, but I know that shirt. I probably follow his gym. And I actually got that more this year.

That's how I knew it was a bigger expo because, you know, year one, the only people that knew me were influencer, like my peers that I already knew. Basically, like I didn't, there was maybe like one or two people that said they followed me that I didn't know. So like one or two. Year two, you know, maybe three or four people. This year, like, I don't know if it was like a, you know,

it was more than 10 people that I chatted with that I have never talked to in my life, and they were like happy to meet me. Like that was wildly interesting. I don't put out content, I'm not an influencer, I don't do reviews, I shouldn't have a following. Like I literally just post to my gym and, you know, make memes and fuck with people. So I don't know.

So that means they're following me cause they like my gym and they like the community that I built here and they like seeing shit like that. Maybe. I don't know. So I just thought that was cool and an experience I've never had like someone genuinely like intrigued to meet me. I was like, whoa, really? Here's a sticker. Have fun. If I have exposure, I think too, from Glucks. Yeah. Oh yeah. Help me out a lot. A couple of years ago, lot a couple years ago. That was huge for me. But yeah, that was...

I don't know about anyone else, but I had the same thing. I had people say, oh yeah, I recognize you from your Instagram gym and everything. And I was like, me? I film my workouts every once in a while know post on a couple of discords and Facebook groups I'm not anybody but uh As you're always says influencing the influencers. You're a very active commenter though I know like you you comment on YouTube a lot you comment I think like there's like a core group of like I don't know a couple hundred people or less that

comment on like 75 percent of people's content on Instagram and YouTube and et cetera. You were definitely in that group. That doesn't hurt to be known in this community that we're all a fan of. Let's see. That was mostly Friday in general. There was so much shit, just the booths. Like I feel so obligated to go talk to my friends, like that I haven't seen in a year, like, you know,

that I want to do that as a priority. And like the equipment is like not even secondary. The equipment's like, like third. Well, how do you, how do you say third in, in, in? Tertiary. Yeah. It's, is that actually it? Yeah. Terst.

What is it again? Tertiary. Okay. I've heard that word for several years. I've never known what that word meant, but okay. I did not, that's not what I thought it meant. So tertiary. I don't think I'm saying it right.

What did you think? Oh, that was good. I don't, I honestly, like, uh, I don't know. I think it's just one of those words you just try to use context in the moment and maybe I put it together but definitely not like third. I guess I would have meant like I guess I would have assumed just like later on, which I mean it is to an extent but it but it's like it specifically does mean three not not okay. And I don't want to blow in it with is there one for fourth? Is there a fourth place where? Quaternary. Are you just being funny? Here's that early thing to know. It's like quattro is for. Oh yeah, I get why it makes technical sense. But this is interesting. This is this is this now is this big math or is this big English? Give us a combination like that's the that's

the real question. I think it might be big Latin. I'm not big be big Latin. Not big on that either. Didn't we? Didn't we have some Latin? Big Latin or big Latin? Oh, Latin was the most recent Latin talk was pounds, right? Because like LBS is Latin or something. Libre's. Yeah, I think that was the most recent Latin we had. Um, but

yeah, I just felt so obligated. So yeah, I was getting at like, the equipment for me is tertiary if you will just like Seeing your I guess I don't say how do I rank one and two then it would basically be like Just the community as a whole and then seeing my friends that own booths and stuff and supporting Supporting my friends is kind of you know over just looking at the other equipment at other people's booths So and I always I've said that literally even year one, well, here one, I probably did see everything. Here two, I probably skipped a lot of stuff just because

I was so overwhelmed with seeing your friends this year, I definitely skipped a lot of shit. Like I think I glazed through every booth, if you will, but like, individually trying every piece of equipment, like, I don't know, let's see. There had to be a thousand pieces of equipment there. Probably, well, if you count bars and stuff, you were going like 3000 pieces of equipment through 4000 pieces of equipment. Yeah. I don't think it was possible over the two days to actually do everything.

Like you maybe visit every booth, but there's no way you could try everything. Yeah. Which I think to your point, I've heard you say online Keith, like also it's what realistically am I going to add to my gym? And I also knew, cause there was such a bigger presence of like people doing reviews. I literally walked around and was like, I want to talk with the people and they'd be

like trying to review the thing or talking about the thing. I'm like, no, I just kind of want to talk to the person. And I was like, I'll watch the video later. Like if it's worth me even in my radar, someone will make a video about it. And if I'm going to buy it anyway, I'll watch a video just to get more details. Which is funny because then like there's the Gluck review of the dialed notion versus the rep, like extension leg curl. And I'm

like, I don't remember seeing I saw the dialed notion, but I didn't spend any time with it. And there's like so many things at the booth, I knew nothing about because I was just like, oh, I walked through it. I talked to the people. That's what I wanted to do. I want to go talk to somebody else. That's fair.

Well, I want to give the floor to Mr. Big Carp if he can get unmuted here, let him get, I don't know how much time we're going to have with him. Well, while he figures out his phone, Brandon, any any anything stick out to you at the booths that you're excited to see? Yeah, so the ATX booth, I thought was pretty cool. We, Robo and I, James and I walked around and the first thing I tried was that standing chest press that I think Mastinomics

ended up picking up. And I also tried the pendulum squat. Yeah, the pendulum is the one that Tanner took home. I don't think who I'm not sure. Oh, did he not get the chest press either? I thought he said something. I think he said he's going to buy it potentially. Oh, yeah.

But he but he ended up taking the pendulum is, you know, I'm pretty sure a big Hogan sitting on it right now currently in his in his basement. Oh no Did you actually is it actually like is it I know I know you have it but is it tarped in your truckers in your Basement it's in my basement. Oh, that's we we may or may not if I feel rowdy enough put it together To use it VA am I sleeping in the home gym video? Yeah, I saw him. Definitely.

I saw him unloading the reloaded crate. Like they put it back in a crate for him and then he's like, oh, that's not going to fit in my truck. He had to unload the crate back in the back of his truck. I saw a witness that. We're getting ahead on days, but since we're on it, I got to share this. That lever arm was so heavy. It had the counter thing on the site says that the whole thing weighs

300 and something pounds, which I don't think is right. That counterweight probably weighed a hundred of them. And it's like on a six foot pole and we're loading in and, and Jake, uh, home gym, Conrunner Jake comes over and helps us. Oh, dope. I get it home and I realized, oh, it's got like inch bolt to where you can take that part off. But we didn't have, so we got it off.

So that's going to make it easier to get on the marathon over to Western Northeast South Dakota. But oh my gosh, that was a pain in the butt. I don't think there'll ever be a year that someone doesn't hand deliver something to Western Northeast South Dakota, but oh my gosh, that was a pain in the butt. I don't think, I don't think, I don't think there'll ever be a year that someone doesn't hand deliver something to Tanner out in Aberdeen. Like someone's is bringing something. I can't remember. So it was the dumbbells last year.

I don't remember. I honestly don't remember. I know there was something in the first year, so I don't know what it was. I know. I don't know. It had, maybe the dumbbells were the first year because Eddie brought him the dumbbells. So then who did it?

I did a, me and George brought him.. What did what did George bring him last year? There was dumbbells each year then okay, there was round held in in 23 and in 24 I'm sure there was other shit too, but uh there in No, so I'm sorry. I'm I about the journey to Live Hard, Live Easy. So like someone... Oh, man, you're jumping like two weeks ahead. No, but it's still relevant because this will be the third year in the row that he

mooches off on this good crew karma that he has with us and gets something hand delivered out to Aberdeen, which would cost him the equivalent of the product in most cases for the delivery. The crew express. Yeah, it's pretty cool. We have this, now are you going to Sharpie your name all over it like you did with the, wasn't that some dumbbells that were signed last year?

I've gotten permission to do whatever I want to it. That's awesome. So I will be doing whatever I want to it. That's good stuff. You know, whatever the 100 pound lever arm allows you to do to it. That's awesome. That's gonna hurt your gas mileage. Your hair probably going out there.

I don't know. Just cause it's- I mean- Does it stick above the actual cab though? Or is it all gonna be in the bed? The, I think with the counterweight off, it might actually all fit flat. Okay, yeah.

On the way back, there was like just a bit of, like, catty-cornered, that had to stick out. Not enough to really be too big of a giraffe either way, though. I'm already, yeah, whatever. Cool beans. Oh, I was just... Yeah. And in a tiny way, I'm trading him for something. We did a range of trade, so...

Oh, nothing you can disclose there, Mr. Secrety, Secrety Pants? I think it's more fun to have some secrets when it comes to this I saw much more stuff that Tanner took from Efren's gym Is it giving you Joey correspondent Joey? To be a good addition to as he's sleeping into the gym tonight and just have that like color and additional color commentator Now you got me down now I'm all distracted thinking like what you're getting is it something that's okay wait I'm not gonna tell me but is it something that we know is in his gym already or is it something yes It's it's an exchange of gym items. Oh, I hope it's not

I hope it's not that 700 pound belt squat that no one wants to buy off of him What'd you say, Brandon? Can it fit under the bed? Oh, you know what? I bet it could. I bet it could. Is that a tiny tonal? What was that?

A tiny tonal? That was funny. All right, we won't pick your brain too much, but that does have me intrigued though. That's actually, I do hate surprises immensely, but since that's not completely directed to me, I will be anxious, optimistically, oh, that's not the right word. I'm anticipating to see what you get.

Tertiary. Tertiary. That's the right word. I think tertiary needs to be the episode title. Someone send that in the Discord before I forget. All right, trying to think. Let's see. Carp, since I don't know how long I'm going to have you, if you're not going to stick around the whole night, just want to give me like a five minute or less break, you know, you have the floor, buddy. I know you got a lot of stuff going on. So this is your opportunity to tell us about your home GymCon experience and tell

us how you're feeling after that massive fall you took I was wondering if you're gonna mention that Make sure you drop a timestamp. I was like, oh man, everybody's gonna know about this thing But yeah this year I didn't compete so I just really wanted to hang out with the crew I thought if I made some content then you know good good if I didn't it's fine, too I knew I'd make some small things here there, but I really wanted to hang out with the crew. I thought if I made some content, then good. Good if I didn't, it's fine too. I knew I'd make some small things here or there, but I really wanted to try out all the lat pull downs or cable machines, whatever.

Some are just a single stack and some of them are functional trainer, but I wanted to try all the new functional trainers type lat pull down machine. So I got to do all that. Me and Joey went around together and did some of that and also wanted to try all the leg curl, leg extension machines, play loaded or like the dial motion is a big one and the rep ones. I got to try all those. So that was my two things going

into it that I wanted to try. One thing that really surprised me though was that quantum trainer. The guy from from the UK and set multi-use machine I think it does like he said like 200 different exercises. The thing that looked like jammer arms but not. Yeah it's a big piece but I can see it being in a in the warehouse gym or somewhere that trains athletes something like that because there's lots you can do with it you could set up stations stuff like that I don't have anywhere that I would use it or do it, but it did surprise me how beefy and stuff it was. I kind of seen it before and I was like, God, that's not for me. Or I kind of looked down on it. But after actually trying it and using it,

I was like, that's something that's pretty cool that I wasn't expecting to like. And then just really wanted to hang out with crew. I tried to have dinner a couple nights with everybody, tried to have lunches and things like that really so much fun talking to guys And seeing people that didn't come that aren't even crew that aren't even crew like Joe gray and some of the guys from the community That you guys may know heard of But I've been following him for a long time Met Brandon there. I think I met all you guys there at least once And it was just cool getting to hang out with everybody

So I wasn't really too much worried about any kind of content or anything I made. I could try to get involved since I didn't compete this year in Strongman. I tried to get involved in the deadlift party and the log lifts off. I wanted to do some things. I brought my gear with me. The joke of the day was on the log lift. I failed the first 225 attempt. I bounced it off the top of my head and Big Mark Rosenberg said, way to use your head next time. Don't use your head, you know, and everybody's laughing. And then, so I was like, okay, like I kind of laugh that off and I was like,

okay, I'm going to try it one more time. Andrew heinous is the MC. So he's like, I think it's there. So I give it another shot. I think I got it. And then I lose my balance a little bit. I stepped backwards and my heel goes off of the platform Onto a different level and that just buckled my knee. So I don't think it was a strength issue

I think it just lost my balance and I had a tumble backwards so drop the log on the crash pad it hits one crash pad and the other side hits the floor to kind of rolls and I do a I don't know a California roll out the back there and then California row out the back there and then uh, well you like, you like back, you've essentially backpedaled like solid like six feet and then just completely eat shit on your side like hard. Yeah, it was, it looked really, really bad. I still got a skinned elbow and a skinned knee even though I had elbow sleeves and knee pads on but, I mean straight on concrete. I'm glad you're okay but I'm not like, I wasn't injured or whatever, just a little skinned knee, skinned elbow.

But man, I really thought I had it. I even think I thought I got it in my head and I was like, okay, why am I on the ground? But no, that's what it is. I mean, if you want to call it a gym PR, you'd have to go back and watch it in slow motion. No, no, I didn't lock it out. Yeah, you were like, you were all, I think if you had kept your breath and didn't start screaming in celebration when you were 95% there, you would have got 100% and have been fine.

But I think- I don't even know that I did that, honestly, guys. Oh, and you watch it back, you're like, you're screaming. Yeah, when I watch it, I thought one of y'all added that in. No, no, no, that's you, brother. I thought that was like, no, I didn't know that was me.

I thought it was like, because I was like, that was PR. No, that's you 100% I didn't know that was me I thought it was like cuz I was like that's you 100% Screaming like fuck. Yeah or something to the extent and yeah, I thought I did a big Keith, you know I'm assuming you lost your bruh. I don't know there's a lot of people yell out like mid-press and stuff But I I try to wait till I'm no, I didn't even know I thought one of y'all went back and put a little No, I guess that we didn't have to edit that one I was kind of hoping dogs would make it to where like when you fell it like fell through the universe or something But no, I thought somebody was no one ran with that yet throw a brad the pad behind me. Yeah

So yeah, but uh, yeah, I had a good time, you know Speaking of the past too like uh, shout out to abmat because like those were the big crash log the big log crash questions I think if we were just using some shitty crash pads The big log crash questions. I think if we were just using some shitty crash pads, like you could have fucking done some damage to yourself if that had like come down on you or you fell a different way, or if they weren't long enough to,

I could have, you know, we might have bounced one a little bit different way. So I'm glad you're okay, bud. Cause that looked scary. That's like the holy grail home gym log too. So I was like, I hit the ground. I was looking at Kurt, I was like, dude, if I broke your log, I'm sorry. the the the

the the the the the the the the the we survived but it was fun yeah all in all I don't know if there's anything you guys had mentioned before I hopped on about questions or travel like I mean

this we're not here to do tell me your favorite piece I mean we can do the tell me your favorite piece as long as it like keeps it brief but like we do not this isn't the podcast where we do the blow by blow and every review there's go watch everyone's video content for that this was this is this is the crew I want this to be more of the the after-hour stuff shooting the shit like I didn't Until we actually had the Saturday night. I didn't even know I wanted to do this podcast because I didn't know we were gonna have enough content But I think there was enough stuff between the dinners and everything. So I Mean if everyone I

Want to hear oh, I got one more. more yeah I did hear the t-tanner kick somebody out of the gym story finally he said he told it live just remember you can't this is not that is good you are in the elite group see now you have to come to know another reason to come to lift hard live easy Joey if you weren't moving you know if you just postpone your move you had to get get that done but yeah no that was a I've known that story for a while. It's kind of nice to be like in that. I mean, the circle is growing of people that know that but most people forget to ask him. He wouldn't spill any beans about the because he's been talking up the grease for the Brian Allsru story. And he wouldn't he wouldn't spill the beans on that one at all. He was like, Nope, can't tell you that one. So And he wouldn't spill the beans on that one at all. He was like, nope, can't tell you that one. So Big Joey, did you talk about any of your crew interactions?

Just mainly at the expo, we'll get him the dinners and stuff and anything like that. But it's like mainly like floor interactions or just overall crew experience because I'll set it up a little bit for you. So like you haven't gone to the Arnold and you haven't gone to Live Hard, Live Easy. And last year's home gym con, there was like, I don't know, 10 crew, if you will, 15, 20, whatever. There was literally, I think Tanner did the big math over there. And it was like over 50, which I only met like 25, 30. I probably met 30 ish of them, but there was a bunch that like just checking discord, they were in and out, gone, didn't, didn't make any effort to look for people which kind of sucked but like

You know, we had a lot of interactions in I had a lot of interactions So I talked about any of your interactions that you know stick out to you, I guess Yeah, I mean Like just the sheer number of crew was was definitely overwhelming it was also a situation where there was a lot of people wearing massonomic shirts and did not recognize most or all of them. And so it's a little bit of like, are they crew? They might be crew or they might just have a massonomic shirt because the shirts are really good. But yeah, I mean, just just overall, like doing sticker exchange and stuff like that. I don't have a home gym sticker per se, but my wife designs stickers and they had one

of a burger head bodybuilder man named Adonis Q. Fantastaburger. So I was handing those out and that got a good chuckle out of people. I definitely got to hand out way more of those than I thought I was going to. And yeah, it was it was it was just a good time. And I'm excited to talk about the dinners. I think that's where the real after home gym con grease happens. Well, and I personally know that Joey didn't use code unpaid to play snacks. But if you were listening to this and you need stickers, go ahead over to code to our friends over plate snacks, get you a whole bunch ordered up and use code unpaid, save you a couple of bucks there. So that'll work out for everybody. Um, yeah.

Well, uh, Justin, anything else with the crew before we kind of get into the nightlife? Yeah. Going off what, what joining us into with the, uh, at, Justin, anything else with the crew before we kind of get into the nightlife? Yeah, going off what Jordan said too, with the at some point, I think about one out of every three people had a Masonomic shirt on. And the good thing about being with Tanner going around is there are people like, for example, when I started college, I moved, I came down to my new college, I had never met any of the teachers, I walked in to fill some papers out the front office. And one of the teachers walks down the hallway and says, Oh, hey, and calls me by name,

never met me never saw me before. But he, he took pictures of all the kids who were going to be in the band and studied them. So he'd know their names a month before school started. I'm the kind of person I have kids. I've been teaching for two years and I don't know their name. So having Tanner there, he's like, oh, that's this one. That's this guy. That's this guy.

That's this guy. That's this, that's this woman. That's this guy. This guy's friends with this guy. This guy was was I'm like Okay, it's like a family reunion where you're like, this is your 14th cousin once removed. You're like got it he has a plethora of crew knowledge like I Have to ask him every night like granted

He he does he did ask me a couple times over the weekend who this person was or who that person was either in person or via text, but like 99% of the time he knows who the fucking crew is where I'm like, like, damn, that is impressive. His, uh, his ability to know have, have names, uh, with faces and usernames and all that shit is, is actually very impressive. Yeah, that's a, that's a skill. That's a skill that I don't think I, think I have enough time left on this world to learn. Alright, so that pretty much is, I mean, we can, if we circle back to some equipment later

possibly if we want, but for now let's get into some of the nightlight stuff. So Friday, well, we kind of touched on Thursday there, Joey. It wasn't anything funny or anything stick out Thursday night that was not other than that, you know, Hogan couldn't make it even though you put it on the other. That I mean, Thursday was pretty low key after dinner. We snuck back into the convention center and just kind of walked around with it all shut down and there was like almost no one else in there. The lights on or is it like dark as shit?

No, it was dark. It was also, it was ridiculous and hot. Yeah, it was the winter. On Thursday, they didn't have the AC on at all. I felt so bad about it. Which is shitty. Set up. Maybe you have to pay extra for that, but like you would think that like,

you wouldn't want to fuck the setup crew for that. Like, I don't know, but if we're talking like it's extra thousand, cause it probably does cost hundreds. And like like it's not going to be like $50 to run the AC in there for an extra day. It's got to be like, that's a big fucking electric bill. Do you want to know how much it would have cost to carpet it through the rumor that I heard? Oh God, let's see. So we're like the amount of like, what do we, do we think it's like two football fields, give or take like three football fields I mean, if French like a football field, that's three football fields, if you will. So the fields with like just rugs.

It's like a full city block like the buildings. Yeah, pretty much because because the road goes underneath and splits it in the middle right when you walk out of the center. Yeah. Twelve thousand dollars to carpet it in the middle, right? When you walk out of the center. Yeah. Uh, $12,000 to carpet it for the weekend. The emails, when I guess from me, just give the, the, I thought I heard it somewhere. So I don't want to guess. I thought I heard Jake say it somewhere. I'm going to guess 50,000.

Okay. Well, correct me if I'm wrong. Um, I heard it would be $25,000. Me carpet the place. Yeah. I think you were saying it was like three to five thousand per hour. Like if you said afraid, if you did the carpet each hour, it'd be something like someone close to that. Yeah. Well, next year we'll just have to carpet the we'll just have to carpet the place where Carp's about to fall and we should be good. And I don't know if you guys who have been to the Arnold's, there's been a few times where I've went on Thursday to help set up and none of that is carpeted.

So all the aisles are carpeted for the Arnold for the whole thing. None of that's carpeted until about 7pm the night before. And so if you're talking 25,000 for a center the size of Louisville, now imagine what's got to cost the Arnold to just do that. It's wild. No, he was saying just the aisle, the walkway between the boost. Yeah, not the whole place. Yeah, each owl.

Yeah, yeah. Like, no, thank you. No, that works. So because they got to be like, is that a company that comes in and does it or is it do they just have it like in the back and they just bring it out? But like, that's weird because you wouldn't you know, for I know we're getting off base, but for the for the strong man. They had the ring, the like most jank bleacher seating. Oh, yeah, it's all been to shit. It was like what you would see if you

went to your little kids like five year old soccer game. And the teenagers came and beat the crap out of them. And I'm glad they were seating. That was an improvement over last year, yeah. It was an improvement, but it looks so odd because the space was so grand, the equipment so nice, and you have these tiny bleachers seatings. And of all the things I forget, I forget a chair. And so Nicole, being a sweet person, sneaks out and goes find the chair and the first day

No issue second day. She went to go get one And there's a worker there and he's like, well, you can't take those They have to pay for those and I forget how much he said that Chairs for that seating section would have been but it was around like a couple hundred bucks And so he was like well, you can take one for a couple hundred bucks. And she goes, okay. And just grabs one and leaves. They will bring me.

Oh, so I will Danny strong man listening or power lifters. Like I think I shared it in discord before and Instagram, but like I've got that little accordion chair, it's like a little like stool, but it will support my fat ass weight with no issue. I think it's got like a 300 plus pound rating and it literally accordions down to like a dinner like a like a three inch thick dinner plate, but it'll open up and like a pyramid up into a like like a leveled chair if you will. So you can have it be like a six inch chair or like a like a 20 inch chair and it's like

so there's no back or anything to it but like just to sit on just to sit and not be on your dirty floor like or you know laying sprawled out like that's the best investment ever and it fits in a gym bag like easily it'll fit in a gym bag and weighs like three pounds so highly recommend if anyone's interested in that you know just go to Amazon and search it or ask me I'll send you the link so use code glaze yeah and the one I do have is orange one a million percent They had an orange one. That's clearly what had to be bought. All right, um As a person who has broken 500 pound capacity office chairs, but yeah, it's not for you

Up your ass if you try to use a big my friend I wouldn't very a very very good proctologist I wouldn't. Yeah, I would have to have a very, a very, very good proctologist on call. I mean, we have a, we have, we at least have one doctor here, but not that kind. We want to get me. Yeah. All right. Uh, nightlife or do you want to talk?

Well, if we can skip, we don't really talk about the food and the venue. It was, it was blah, but, uh, so Friday night, Friday night was the open bar, uh, happy hour. I don't know if anyone went to that and it was for the VIP only, I believe. And then there was this, uh, crew, half the most, almost all the crew, or at least the majority of the crew that were there that knew about it went and did a 7pm smash burger. But the VIP thing was at 6 30 to 8 30. So we kind of had like dueling, um, you know, opportunities there. So a bunch of us that had the VIP thing went and got a free beer and was just like, all right, there is 300 people in here in a hundred square foot room.

I'm going to go get some food. At that point, I personally was starving and hadn't eaten since like 11 in the morning and it was like eight o'clock at night or seven, you know, seven ish at night. So we started heading over to smash burger and the funny part was, I think Tanner had even mentioned it on their podcast. So a lot of this might be repeat from what he was saying, but like, we literally did grow.

Like it was me, Tanner, Kurt, his Kurt, George, one of, one of their other guys. I don't know, only he was crew. And then, uh, we started our jaunt, our trek over to Smash Burger and we met up with like we grabbed Big Eddie on the way out, we grabbed Big Eddie's apprentice or intern if you will. It was like several other groups of people like and we were trying to show you know keep in touch in Discord and then just that we were kind of like exiting the VIP thing and going over there. I think by the time we got there there was there was at

least 20 of us in Smashburger like legitimately 20. When we when I got there with Tanner and a bunch of people Hogan and Nicole were already sitting down maybe a couple other people were sitting down. Me, Eddie and Tanner get through order in and get sitting down have our little you know waiting for our stuff. And there was just like, there was a gridlock behind us. Like, I don't know what happened. I think Brandon, you were, you might, were you the next person in the line

behind us or right in that group where you're already sitting down? Yeah. So I don't know what happened by the time we put our order in and sat down. You assholes stood there for at least 30 minutes, I think, before they even took your order. So I don't know what was going on, but later that night we did see one of the cooks get taken out on a stretcher. So that probably had something to do with it But I'm talking too much. So someone pick up

Just for anybody who I mean everybody here I think went to smash for or where would we normally keep receipt paper in a restaurant? Yes, sir, whenever you're at a restaurant, start lifting up the booth seat. You might find some goodies. Yeah, so someone tell that whole story from the beginning. Because they didn't mention this on their podcast.

So the so Hogan did did you did you observe this whole thing? Yeah, I saw it. Brandon. I think you had a you had a great view of that. You want to tell it well, I was sitting at the table with Hogan

and Nicole and James, and all we saw was everyone get up from the table to my left. So it's been Hogan's right. And it would have been like Tanner, Keith, all those guys stand up. I think many were with that table, too. I was the next one down. Me, me, me, me, Joey. I was there.

Oh, gotcha. Yeah. OK. Joey was there. So every all you guys stood up and all we just kind of read between the lines of like, I was there. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. Okay. Joey was there. So everybody, all you guys stood up and all we just kind of read between the lines of like, okay, they asked them to move to get something and then realized it was for the receipt paper, which it kind of makes sense in this like small downtown restaurant space that they would have to keep things in like weird areas just because they don't have the square footage probably for storage, but it just, it was kind of funny at the time. So they lift up the seat and stuff in it. I'm like,

what else do you keep in here? You start opening random things and see what, yeah, you never know what's going to be in some and start pulling on things. Who knows what you'll find. That's what I tell it all the time. Nah, I was waiting for somebody to hit that low hang in for it. But, uh, so you finally got your order in after. Were she just not taking the order?

Like were you just standing there and they wouldn't take the order? Because I was very confused. They looked up multiple times and the same seven people hadn't moved an inch. I mean, from what I could tell, they were just backed up. And I was the same person taking orders as was doing making the shakes and everything and so you know I think Keith you and you

and Tanner ordered some shakes and oh it's my fault yeah yeah so so it was really all that time making your shake shake that slowed everything. I needed a meat, so many calories. And I'm glad I got the shake too, because I had that shake demolished and food was like 10 minutes later. So it was literally like eight o'clock by the time we ate. So I was very malnourished and very happy to get something in.

I get them mixed up, Shake Shack and Smash Burger. Same. I always get them mixed up. But I remember, because where that came about was at the Arnold, um, me and Paul were planning out kind of where to go in for, for meetups. And I find that I love you all, but planning something for a reservation is awful. We got to pick places that are just show up and you sit down. It's every time it's, the Eagle was an exception because we could have a party

room, but it was perfect. We had that whole booth aisle Um, it was just like what we did it Shake Shack or Smash Burger whichever one it was for the Arnold. It was Smash Burger. No, fuck. No It was Shake Shack for the Arnold. How did we eat out? I'm soaking. Yeah, they're both green. Yeah Shake Shack So the the the the thing that edged out the Arnold was it you could kiosk order So here I am like an asshole at home gym con telling everyone that the place we're about to go to it'll be super easy You just walk up. They have four kiosks. You put your food in you don't talk to anybody. It's fucking great We get there and there's a fucking line with ten people in it already

And I'm like god I also thought it was gonna have a key. Yeah, okay So it was not golden, but it was very nice To do that because it's quality food. So it was it was actually very good. I got a I got a burger and a chicken sandwich and the shake and sweet potato waffle fries. It was it was the it was the I won't get it. Yeah, for me, it was the only good food that I I breakfast the next morning was really good. But everything else I ate was not good at all. So that was like the highlight of my meal consuming that night for sure. I enjoyed immensely. Did you all go somewhere after it? I know that... We went, I don't know who all... I went back with some group of people and we did, we basically

checked back in on the bar. Thankfully like the hotel bar, oh, because you didn't say the Gold House. So the Gold House was awesome as far as like having that like big bar. So the Gold House, like the main hotel that we all stayed out there, it's two massive 20 plus story hotels connected with a breeze way. And I don't know, that's not the right word. But there's like, almost like an aviary. Yeah, like there's a three story thing that connects the two of them and on one of them like a whole floor is like just this bar lounge um so it did work out that all both nights I was there I ended up you know being at that bar lounge until

midnight essentially uh let's see so okay I got you. Well, before Joey leaves, I wish you really could have came out Thursday night because we went to Old Spaghetti Factory and my wife got the chicken parm. And Keith wasn't there to experience it, but it was a good chicken parm. All right. All right, so we got big Joey here.

He's gonna leave shortly. He's got some stuff to go take care of. So hit us with your Saturday. Well, we kind of covered most of Friday. We'll circle back to that if we need to. But Saturday night, you and I did a lot of hanging out. So I guess we've got to get into all that then. So, yeah, give me your blow by blow on Saturday evening, if you will, or anything

you want to enclose with and then we'll circle back once you're gone to pick any threads, I guess, just so we can get your air time. Saturday was a ton of fun. Once again, Dr. Hogan hooked us up with a dinner spot. So we all met up at, I don't even remember the formal name of it, but Guy Fieri's Barbecue Flavor Town is what I'm going to call it. Smokehouse.

And it was one of those places where you just kind of go in and order at the counter and they hand you your food and then you go sit down. So, you know, perfect for for a big group and not needing like a pre-reservation or anything like that. The only downside was they started running out of meat pretty much as soon as we walked in. And fucking Brandon got the last chicken, the motherfucker. I did that on purpose, too Yeah You just got in line for fucking 30 minutes tonight, so I guess karma Yeah, I mean Keith was talking like the whole time we were in line. I want to get one of those chickens

I gotta get one of those chickens and you know, Brandon's just like I got this Snagged it right before he got up there But this and snagged it right before he got up there. Um, but, uh, yeah, I mean, I thought the, the, the food was, was fine. It wasn't great. It was about what I expected, but you know, the, the company was, was phenomenal. Um, they did have a water station, which I always appreciate. So we could keep ourselves filled with water and, and not dehydrate like we did during the day at the convention.

filled with water and, and not dehydrate like we did during the day at the convention. Oh God. The, the, yeah, the level of dehydration. I drank so much water Friday night at the smash burger slash the other one, whichever the fuck we were at. It was, uh, I, the whole time we were there, I drank like five cups of water and I didn't

piss until I got to my hotel room at like midnight, like I didn't, I didn't have to pee. That means my body was just like, I've never been so parched that my body couldn't like process the liquid out like it normally would in the urine. I was just like, what the fuck? I was like, to the point that I was like,

how long can I keep pushing this? Like, I don't even have to pee and I'm still thirsty. This is, this is not healthy. This isn't not good. I don't think I'd had any water from like the flight until basically Smash burger at 8 o'clock Sorry, interrupt you there. No, that's fine. That was definitely a big problem, but

Yeah, and then we were hanging out at the barbecue place and till like We didn't close it down. So we closed one smash for two hours yeah, but yeah about about nine twenty, something like that. And I don't know who originally proposed it, but the first I heard about it in a rowboat was Big James just going, hey, I'm going to go ride the mechanical bull upstairs. And I didn't even know there was a mechanical bull upstairs. I don't know how he found out there is a mechanical bull upstairs.

But sure enough, we all started piling out of the restaurant and going up the escalator and heading to the the bar where you have to get your hands stamped and pay a cover charge. So you watch people. I have a story about that, too. Same. Yeah, we'll we'll let Joey finish and we'll circle back with the cover charge later, because, yeah, I got a fucking bone to pick with them. But yeah, we also also didn't realize before we got in there that it was like a

Coyote ugly type situation and all the waitresses wearing chaps and doing line dances and stuff in the the middle of the bar. But got to see in the middle of the bar. But got to see Big James ride the mechanical bull and fall on his ass. And then after two days of strongman, Big Dr. Hogan says, you know what I need for my recovery? I need to also ride the mechanical bull. That was awesome. As seen in the unpaid or underrated stories and the highlights from home gym con.

If you haven't seen it yet Just go circle through all those highlights. Actually. No, it's on the note. It's somewhere fucking on Instagram. I don't DM me I'm just gonna horse cock that bull Yeah Yeah, and uh You know, I gotta I gotta run but just wanted to say, you know how to had a great time I got to run, but just wanted to say, had a great time. Similar to Keith, it's catching up with everyone that I've

seen the last two years before and now three years, and all the new people. It's a little cliche, but it really is the friends we made along the way. So definitely looking forward to next year, and definitely looking forward to making my way out to South Dakota. One of these times I won't make it to the left hard live easy, but maybe I can swing crew falls. You heard it here

first. We'll see big Joey at crew falls. Write it down. Put it in pen. We don't know pencil for that. Alright, buddy. I appreciate you hopping on tonight and we'll see when we see you brother and hopefully no later the next year. See you buddy. See you Joey. Alright so, Big, do we want to circle back to, I mean, yeah let's just go to the cover charge I guess because then we can circle back to anything else but that was, you said you had a story on that one Brandon and I know that smile you might have. Well, so like the next day, so apparently Emily, my wife, was there also. My wife.

My wife. So a little story behind that was kind of had like an inside joke, like these guys don't actually exist, do they? Like you're just messing around, like fake listening and talking to people on the internet. Oh, her experience to crew. Exactly.

So she thinks you don't have online friends that are your real friends. Right. You literally went to the Arnold. Didn't she see you pose and like fucking? Yeah, she did. It's 20. OK, so it's more. More listed. OK, OK. So but she came with me, you know, she wanted to hang out with you guys, too. So we go upstairs, you know, the whole group of us do. And we're all in line.

And there was like there was like at least 10 of us, I think. But not probably. So it was the paid the cover charge because she has her wallet out and the the hostess or whoever just is like casually like right before she pays like just throws a tip on like the highest tip amount on every single one or whatever. So instead of the $10 she paid for James also because he just bought a drink for us. Instead of the $ dollars, it was like forty three dollars or something like that for this cover charge to go in there.

So she was really mad, but she didn't tell me because she knew I would have blown a gasket. Oh, wait, she didn't really. She just said, fuck it and paid it or she didn't really. Yeah, she just paid it. She's like, oh, so she didn't. She actually didn't even tell me that night. She told me the next day. Yeah, I would have. Yeah, so. She told me the next day. Yeah, I would have Yeah, so She's enabling bad activities

Yeah, so we got into like the talks of ethics and uh, you know You know, of course got mad let it bother me for like 12 hours That might actually be my fault because so I would know you were you were first though. No, you were Yeah, we were ahead of us. Okay., so no, it's not my fault. I was thinking if you were the one right behind me, maybe they were so pissed at me that they fucked the next guy. So, so I get up there in $10.

Okay, that's fucking stupid. I've never I haven't paid a cover card. And I mean, maybe I paid one in Sioux Falls. I don't think I ever did. But like, I don't really last time I paid a cover charge. So like 20 years and $10, whatever, here's my card. And she's like, just, just, just hit enter or hit the blue button or ever but it all on mine it

Automatically went to a to a $2 tip and I'm like a tip and and I had already hit like the okay button And I was like no no back this out like I'm not I'm not like I actively and audibly said I'm not fucking tipping you I don't think I said fucking but I was like I'm not I'm not I'm not tipping you for a Cover charge like I'm absolutely in no fucking world am I tipping you you're, I'm sorry that you work at a place that you, your tips, you're the way they have it set up that you need to be tipped for a cover charge. Like I get tip sharing. I've worked in service injury, but like, I'm not tipping a fucking cover charge. Like that's asinine.

That is, that's no, you should be an hourly employee. Not a fucking person's working on tips. If you're working the goddamn door at a bar. So this doesn't make sense to me. I don't know. It's a little bit. Oh, it's not a service, right? Like, so you tip somebody for doing a service.

Exactly. Like they do a service for you, they do a good job. That's her telling me to hit enter and give her a tip is not a fucking service. That is self-serving. So no, so I might've been, well, okay, so back it all up. So I had horrible fucking travel getting there, obviously obviously and I kept my composure the entire time I wasn't rude to anyone I felt but I think I mentioned to Robo a couple times

I was like man I feel bad for the purse first person over the next couple days It gives me any shit or a bad service because I'm so fucking pissed off with my travel woes And I kept my composure so far, but my tolerance for bullshit is like non-existent right now. And she was the first person to give me any shit just because like, who the fuck's going to like try to con someone into a tip? So that just, that just irked me. And my God, if she had fucking conned me into a $40, you're saying it was $40 for

all three of you. Oh yeah. All three of us. Okay. That's not as bad tips. No, I mean, it was still the 10, 20, 30. So yeah. She, so she was dealing with four or five bucks a person.

Yeah, exactly, yeah. So whatever. Okay. You know how it's like 15%, 20%. Yeah, I think it was 10, 15, 20 or 15, 20, 25. Whatever it was, it ended up being $40 something. That's, well that's, okay, for a second there I thought it was like 120 for all three of you. Oh, no, no, no.

I was like, that would have fucking lost my mind. I would have gone back. Yeah. Yeah. So. How did the youngest two people there pull out a $20 bill and just skirt by all this nonsense? I didn't have. So obviously, I'm a busy guy.

I've been buying a lot of different gym equipment with cash. Like, I always have hundreds of dollars cash, like, available and around. But I exhausted every penny of dollars cash like available and around but I think I exhausted I exhausted every penny of my cash on a deal buying something recently I don't know what it was like it was either the log or I don't know whatever it was all my cash is gone and I meant and I didn't realize that until like after the bank

was closed I was like I'm not going to a fucking ATM like I'm just I'll just wing it with no cash this weekend and yeah I bit me in the ass I guess and had to have this whole altercation with a fucking I just saw that so the new Keith face to me which The angry annoyed Keith face I just look over in here I just imagine that face And I just imagine that face on. I hate, I don't like being rude to people in service, but in my head, I, at least it was okay because I already told someone I was going to do it. Like I already wore it. And it's like, shoot, we didn't have a, I didn't have a server the entire

week, which was kind of like, you know, cause obviously every place we went. Like, and that just didn't count. I was like, I'm not, no, like I will give the person at Shake Shack that like, just gave me food more of a tip than I would give you. Like that's, that's ridiculous. And I did tip at the expo. Cause I think I got like, I got the barbecue and I think I did tip. I think I'm pretty sure there was an option to tip there. And I think I, you know, did whatever the digital low number of, you know,

like 10% or something. There's always an option to tip there. And I think I, you know, did whatever the digital low number of, you know, like 10% or something. There's always an option to tip. They built. Yeah, they'll take it. Yeah. You're a spotter on your bench. You got to tip them too. Oh, and the way Emily said that ours was done was like very shady.

Like sliding her card or like about to, and she hits the max, whatever the max button was, I'm not paying attention, you know what I mean? I'm watching, looking at birds or something. But she goes to slide and then that, you know what I mean? Like it's too late at that point. So she was like, I'm not gonna bring it up.

So I wish you would have seen it and then you would have blown the place up or something. No, so we walk in there and like, I think Joey hit it earlier. I think it was a joy organ that said it was like, kind of a kite Cody ugly. And like, yeah, I was like, it was, it was very provocative, just like wearing nothing, basically wearing underwear and and, you know, chaps. And like, I'll be just a brawl top. I was like, oh, or a

bikini top. I was like, okay. It's like a rodeo hooter. Yeah, I wasn't looking at that. My wife was there. So, yeah, I got it. I got the Keith had selfie with all the whole. When she heard we're going to PBR, she's been trying to get me to go to the PBR here and she was so excited. She was more hyped than any other name of it.

Like PBR, like it's a play on like the palette flap perhaps I have absolutely no idea what the name is a play on professional bull riding. Yeah, oh Yeah, she was stoked Next Arnold we can go to your pd Yeah, we she would love gosh should be excited. Okay, we got to get to the bull ride cuz yeah Have you all seen from Robo his aftermath. Oh God, his hamstring was that what it was. It looked like as well as his adductor,

adductor, whichever one it is like a 10 inch bruise on his leg. Yeah, he's afraid. Hopefully his coach doesn't listen to unpaid notary. Everyone was. Yeah, but he said he's afraid. Hopefully not Mark mark though. So the whole reason we go there, I think some I think he said, like, we hear someone say, oh, Robo is going to ride the bull if we go. So we're going to go and then we make sure it goes up. We make our way in.

They do a line dance. We walked that then we go to the ball. We figure that out. He gets in line and does it and he gets off and he just has this look of horror of what did I just do to myself? We're both wearing the masonomic shorts and that offers no protection on this bowl. I have so much more respect for the women who were doing it before us in dresses or like also tiny shorts who didn't complain at all and did infinitely better than both of us. I feel like the uh it behooves them to have a little a little less aggressive ride I think and kind of I don't know like you guys got bucks pretty hard. Yeah I I do think they have the button for okay, you've had your fun get off now and then they just hit the yeet button and you get do you have any did you have any battle scars or you extra

sore or anything? It's kind of hard as he did. I must have you know, half asked it because I'm fine. It didn't feel good. And it felt like I got some some rash going on. But man, it was not anything like that. I'm fine. It didn't feel good and it felt like I got some some rash going on but man it was not That he talked to your doctor about the rash down there, but Not ideal like at one point They were like I think I don't know if it's just James James was like trying to spearhead to get me to do it

And he was like how much will it take and I think I said a hundred bucks and then I immediately Regretted that it's like oh they could pull together a hundred bucks really fucking quick just to watch me. Yeah. Well, it's, it's Brandon's cover, not, not ours. You know, I don't pay no fucking tips. Yeah, they single-handedly could have covered that. Cover.

Um, but yeah, I thought about that for a few minutes and before James even went, I was just like, nah, Brandon, tell him I'm not doing it. Like, I don't know if he's paying for me. Like it ain't the fucking happening. Cause like I'm standing here in pain. Like, like my, my back hurts just standing here. Like my neck hurts like constantly. Like I'm not riding this fucking bull.

You did ask if you should wear pants or shorts. The answer was pants. Everyone roasted me for that. And Nate fucking really harped on me this week on the podcast But like we literally it was a thing in Columbus where like there were bars you couldn't go to without jeans So that's why I brought it up because I didn't want to miss any nightlife or make a group have to pivot on what they Do because some asshole didn't have pants But no one had fucking pants because it was 90 fucking degrees and a hundred percent humidity in fucking Louisville this

weekend. It was very uncomfortable. Here's the, here's the solution. You know how they have the, uh, the, the jean belts at the, yes. So have them save like the knee down legs and put elastic on them and you just carry a pocket full of legs and someone's like, you don't have pants on, just pull out the legs and slide them up under your shorts. That would work. They could work. So then we, I think we, a lot of us ended up, well, no, I think, well, me and Carp, I think ended up back at the, the lounge bar both nights, probably. But that's where Carp and Mark had some run-ins that's where, um, carp and, and

Mark had some run ins that I think, uh, I'd really don't want to get into that too much because it's more a little pre-show grease. Um, you'll have to just tune in for that. Cause my luck, someone will listen and it'll be like, that's pretty, pretty greasy. But I did, I did get, that's where I heard the story was at the bar. The guy kicked out of the gym story and I got to witness the irish goodbye of tanner somebody bought a beer he gives me get the one of these and that's a down and then you'll see tanner again so so tanner did something to me is a little shitty this weekend is really really funny. to me that was a little shitty this weekend. It was really, really funny, but it's, it's great. So you'll have to ask me or Tanner in person or have listened to the, uh, to the, to the, to the pre-show of their podcast, uh, on Monday. Um, so I'm not really going

to deep dive that too much, but needless to say, I had a very small bone to pick with Tanner, but all in good fun. Literally it was, it was funny what he did and what I did wasn't even that big of a deal. It was just kind of funny in my head, but, uh, Saturday he had told me he's like yeah I'm probably gonna get out of here before too long like just kind of uh trying to keep it to himself because he likes to always Irish goodbye and then um you know he's getting ready we're in a big group I think it's me, Carp, Brandon, a few other people I don't remember who it was and I was like uh it's like all right Tanner I'll see you in a couple weeks after he even I knew when I knew he was

trying to fucking sneak out and that's when the other guys were like oh wait wait wait you're leaving you're leaving we gotta say goodbye Well, you gotta say goodbye. I'm like yeah, yeah fuck you Tanner Granted what you did to me was a significantly worse, but I got you slightly back you fuck So I enjoyed that um Feel like we're missing some stuff. What did we do? We did the dinners there on Saturday. I don't know. I definitely... Friday, Saturday night, I'm pretty proud of myself. Everyone always gives me shit for going to bed at 10 o'clock at night or whatever. I didn't get to my room until after midnight on Saturday. And I think I had... Collectively for the the weekend I think I had the seven or eight beers total so for me that's a lot I didn't

ever really get more than a very very mild buzz oh my god I will shit on one person because I don't know who he is me and man who parks in gym had a conversation with the drunkest motherfucker I've ever talked to in my fucking life. I have never, to the point that like, I almost like, or their medications or other drugs involved, because I don't know the booze gets you that fucking stupid. This guy couldn't, I mean he had the wobble, he was swaying, the left to right sway, like just the, it was just, it was hysterical. Um, but it was also very annoying because it was just like non, he just kind of cornered us like

the other guy does and just yippity yippity yippity. And he was talking about, uh, we're talking about man who parks in gyms podcast, Jason's podcast. And he was like, uh, trying to, he's trying to give him advice when he knew it was like lifting adjacent kind of, and the home gym related. And he was like, you should do a whole episode on gear and SARMs.

You want to proceed to tell us about his experience of steroids. And I'm not in good shape. I don't look like I lift this. This kid did not look like that either. And I'm like, I don't want to talk about steroids with some, like, I don't need that conversation. So it's just that was kind of a running joke.

Jason and I have just gears and SARMs just because this kid was hands down the drunkest person I have seen since probably like high school like when someone's like blackout drunk so that was uh that was interesting but yeah I just enjoyed the Gold House and being able to have that hotel downstairs the worst part about it let's see who else did you say the Gold House carp yeah we did we were in the West Tower which is where all the Barbie people were. Yeah. Is that the one across that? That was the the less than I'm not on the main road going? Yeah, I was in that one too. So the shitty part about the one shitty part was because the huge convention is like

a mile apart and there was or a hat, you know, two blocks away. And so like it wasn't just us there. There was there was thousands, you know, two blocks away. And so like, it wasn't just us there. I mean, there was thousands, literally thousands and thousands of people at that hotel. So, and it's 20 plus stories per elevator or per per wing, uh, sorry, per tower. And there's four elevators per floor or poor four elevators per tower. We couldn't get to our fucking room. Like there was a gridlock at like 11 o'clock on Friday night to try to get upstairs. Like it was literally impossible. Um, so it was me, Jason and big robo.

And we're just standing there and we're trying to troubleshoot it. Cause we're on the third floor and we're like, cause the, the elevator just kept coming and it was like full of people on the, from the, from like the lobby and there were no one was getting off. So like there was no possible way you were ever going to catch an elevator there. At best you might catch it on the way down, have to ride it down and then come back up. But like we were there for five minutes and like two people got on because no one would get off. So we went down to the second floor hoping to catch it before it got to that gridlock.

We were there for several minutes, no luck. I thought about going down to the lobby. The lobby had hundreds of people in it in line like like like 30 people deep per elevator. Like fuck that. So we were about to start just walking. Like I think we were all like on like 17, 19, and 21. So like it would have been impossible but I figured maybe we could get up like five floors and have better luck catching an elevator. There was a dude working and James was like you know hey man you want hook us up with that, uh, you know,

freight elevator. And he was like, no, no, no, I can't do that. And he kind of sweet talked him into it. And the motherfucker took us into the back room, literally got us on the service elevator and then took us up, um, to our floors. But he kind of got a little annoyed when he realized we were all on three different floors and he had to get off the elevator, walk us out, key us out of like the kitchen area each time. And the whole time he was talking about how he's going to get in trouble for doing this and out, key us out of like the kitchen area each time.

And the whole time he was talking about how he's going to get in trouble for doing this. And I was like, dude, like don't do it then like 100% like just, just let us go away. Like we do not want to get you in trouble. This is stupid. If you're going to get in trouble and it's not, it's fine. But I know I'm going to get a phone call from the security guy who's just watching me right now, motherfucking me. And I'm like, okay.

But yeah, that was great. Like James, when you're, if you're listening to this buddy, that was clutch that you got us, like you saved us literally 15, 20 minutes that night to get up into the room. Um, had no issue getting the, uh, to elevator Saturdays. Maybe all the Barbie crew had dipped out by then cause or it was just a lot later. Cause I swear I think I was out to 11 on Friday and after midnight on Saturdays. I don't know. But, uh, that did, that day was Thursday night, but that did remind me of a story. think Joey was there he's already gone but

I think he saw some of it we went to dinner with Jeff and Perrin also there and Glucks discord too so I was wearing the the Mastinomics dark side of the plate or pink foils shirt or whatever you call it so the Barbie folks love that we had our little that's right up there Ali our little credentials on and they're like oh you guys are first timers you guys going to the Barbie show whatever and we're like Not wearing anything Barbie. I just had that one shirt with a rainbow on it and they're like they cannot understand I'm like most of y'all older you should understand Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon whatever like it's a you know To play on the plate or whatever and there's so many people that had no clue that they'd like it's a it's a it's a spoof of an album cover man the famous album cover like the they thought we were part of the Barbie convention because of my shirt so that was a running joke for a couple for a couple days. That is great.

Would you guys think about Louisville is just a town in general like would you like to do the home gym con there again? Anything that stuck out to you when you were walking to and from the convention? I will say, like, there's crackheads everywhere, but there was a lot of crackheads there. That's what we're known for. But Brandon did warn me in Columbus that, like, it's very, you know, basically just like, I mean, I'm sure most cities are like that. Just be careful what street walk down but there was a. A fair amount of people walking on the street scratch their faces talking themselves for laying on the ground just brought out on the concrete. Very i don't know the love boutique we call them urban outdoors.

We call them urban outdoorsmen. There you go. Yeah. But other than that, I mean, and you're going to have that anywhere. So that's not a knock on Jake Pick and Louisville Benny mains. It's just a, it was something worth commenting because, because, uh, Brandon and I talked about it going into it, just kind of warned me to like essentially just watch your back and kind of be careful. But I don't mean everyone seemed harmless.

It can't be that. I think in the, that area, like, cause there's already something in Nashville, like a fitness event in Nashville is already a fitness event in Nashville, there's already a fitness event in Columbus. Like if you're going to be in that relative area, the only other thing I think would be Indianapolis, but I don't think that has the same size that he's needing. We might as well pick French Lick at that point. So I can't imagine it being anywhere else. I think it'd be pretty tough to find a better spot for what he's needing to do too. Cause he can't have it. I mean, it's a lot harder for Jake if it's multiple States away. Yeah. I think Louisville is a good spot too. Cause you kind of pull people.

Of course you do. You're fucking 20 minutes away, dickhead. Yeah. I don't think you're having a valid opinion here. Actually I'm not the, I wasn't the closest crew member though, to home gym con. That would have been big Jakey as heard. Oh yeah. Well he just moved there though He was cuz he was coming he was crossing the border to get there But that is that is what's cool like I've flown into Louisville three times Well, yeah three times now and like didn't have to immediately get on a rental car and drive like 90 minutes Across the bridge and everything so being able to like sit in the hotel and like look out and like see the bridge and the water

I'm assuming that's I'm assuming when I'm leaving Louisville bridge and everything. So, being able to like sit in the hotel and like look out and like see the bridge and the water. I'm assuming that's I'm assuming when I'm leaving Louisville, it's that big ass bridge that I see from the Gold House, isn't it? Or is that just alright? Alright, Keith. Alright, Brandon, we

need to do a lesson here. I've heard this bastardization of the name enough. I like every video. Everyone's getting it wrong. It's Louisville. Yeah, it's Louisville. Yeah, they even have theville. Yeah, it's Louisville. Yeah, they even had a sign in the Cavite Center. Yeah, that's on the far side.

They have a pronunciation sign. There is. Yeah, actually, we had a conversation about this, I think at some point over the week. Yeah, we did it. I think it was in Flavortown. This is going to be a real because it's like the correct pronunciation is more than likely probably Louisville because it's King Louis. However, you know, like the people that live there, it's Louisville.

Because also in Kentucky, you got for sales, which is a play on for Psy. Right. It's Louisville. Yeah, we have. You got to say it like you have a mouthful of zens. Yeah, you need marbles in your mouth. You you you skip some steps. Louisville.

Louisville. I try Louisville. And the deeper you get that all that that you got right. Low. Yeah, it's like it's hard to say it that way, because we also have a town a couple hours away called Lancaster, but everyone there calls it Lancaster or a perval. You got Perryville. Yeah, exactly.

Or will. Yeah. Uh, one of my favorite things, I think this weekend was big. Jakey had come up to me and we were shooting the shit and he had, uh, just this, the whole like, well to my own horn here and unpaid and rated torn like not mine Like what Joey and I have done and built here the last few years Jackie was like I've had multiple people come up to his episode had just hit like that Tuesday and this was open Friday and he was like multiple people have came up to me as like an icebreaker and like talked about my podcast That's that's that's really awesome. Like that's

Proof is in the pudding, that's why we do this. So. I literally finished that podcast when I was pulling into the parking garage for Home Gym Con. So it was kind of like perfect. And like that morning is when I saw Jakey,

so that was probably one of the few views talking about. That's pretty cool. Big Man, you've been quiet, buddy. What did your nightlife look like? Did you guys pack it up and start heading? Oh, you were there because you were talking about eating food the next morning. So I don't know where you disappeared to Saturday. Oh, Saturday was the day I had the really fun time.

I had ordered a shitload of stuff that was supposed to come into mail like this week. And on Friday, we are halfway across Indiana. I get a notification that, hey, by the way, your pioneer buckle for your new belt that was supposed to be here on Wednesday is being delivered to your house while you're gone, as well as a brand new camera, as well as some other stuff and some Rachel stuff. I'm like, we told them to hold packages. And so I check it and it's like, oh, it's been delivered, picked up at the post office by individual. So that whole process, try to figure that out on a day

when they're not open. Luckily, when we got home, they did hold it all. Whoever rings up stuff doesn't know how to mark stuff on there because we have new postal carriers in our town. Yeah. And so they're ringing it up wrong and making me freak the hell out. I got like thousands of dollars worth of shit sitting on a dark front porch in a college town. Not about that life, but, you know, I don't I don't go out anyway. I don't drink.

I worked as a bouncer, so, you know, I'm not a big fan of being in clubs and some getting paid for it. And so we ended up just going back to the hotel. We stayed at a hotel in the opposite end from where you guys were. There wasn't anything fancy. It was just like that's Western kind of thing. Talked about the crack heads.

We were across street from a gas station. So we went over there. Wasn't crackheads, but there was a bunch of like white dudes dressed like Malibu's most wanted, trying to sell some kind of alcohol to somebody that either looked like minors or really tiny college girls out of the trunk of a car inside side of the Shell station. That's the best stuff you can get.

You also get that for sure. Well, the thing was, what it sounded like he was selling was just cover charge at least for he had like a duffel bag of buzz balls. Oh, and he's like, I got this, I got this, I got this. I'm like, oh, you can just go inside and not have to worry about what this dude's been rubbing his fucking laced with. Yeah, that's scary. But it was weird because at the same time we went inside and there's like five

families because the first night, I don't know if you guys realize this, the reason why it was so packed the first night, there was a Savannah bananas game in town. So like as people outside are selling a list of alcohol out of trunks of cars, and then you go inside the gas station and there's like Five 10 year old kids with savannah banana stuff buying gatorades For all the crew and big keith what the fuck's a savannah banana You don't know the bananas and not a clue you're talking about at all, dude, you would love the bananas

It's what if what if baseball sucked less to watch? It's what if what if baseball sucked less to watch? They have a bunch of rules to make baseball fast and more about entertainment. And it's like its own little League walk. Look them up on YouTube. Watch a banana game. The biggest thing that I think is the greatest choice with them is two hour time limit at the end of two hours. Whoever has whoever has won the most innings by outscoring the other team and that in in wins the game

Whether the game makes it nine innings or four innings. I Really like if a fan catches a foul ball. It's an out That is that's cool. Very fun. Yeah, you can't leave the batter's box. There's no pitchers mound visits So it's a hole is it like the Harlem Grub Trotters or is it like a whole day? Is it like the Harlem Grub Trotters or is it like a whole league? They explicitly are trying to not- well, okay, they do tricks too, but they are very much trying to create an actual league out of it. Like there is a guy who walks out on stilts, he is like 15 feet in the air, and his batter box is ridiculous.

Yeah, I'll have to look that up because I have- We have to sidebar, but I love that. Yeah. But pretty much I just went back to the the hotel turn the air conditioner as low as it could get sat next to it That was I that wasn't ideal when I got to when I got to the room Friday they headed at like 73 so just hadn't been on all day. I'm like you fuckers So I cranked that down and at least when I came back a few hours later was a little chiller. Um Anything jumping out anyone wants to hit on? We can probably wrap this up shortly.

I know Hogan's gotta get off, so we'll at least let him close us out and close out what he has, and then we'll see what the three of us can bring it in after that. If there's anything glaring that we missed. The only thing I would add is the Strongman Show. I thought it was really cool as a volunteer

to watch the crew members who competed. So Hogan, I think it was the new Gabe competed. Rory competed. Did I miss anybody, Hogan? I think we have another map, right? Oh, yeah. But not that map. Or am I getting it wrong?

The other other map? Yeah, it's Big Matthew. No, not that one. Okay, gotcha. Okay. Well, I thought that was really cool though. Cause it was like every time like Hogan would come up or, um, if Rory came over like pulling my phone out recording.

It was like, you know, I have more investment in this and it was really cool to watch those guys compete. So just brings more just to that crew atmosphere and just like, just be more a part of it, which was pretty neat. So just wanted to add that. And to kind of, I, I wanted to tell everybody who was there to watch, thank you for that, like we all talk about the powerlifting side of the strongman side. Like we go out there and you put all that effort in and we all know how many hours

you put into this and it's just, it's really validating when people are cheering and having a good time, um, especially strong man, it's just it's really validating when people are cheering and having a good time especially strong man it's a show like I go out there to do something for other people to see and that's why I kept saying the whole time what can we do to make it more entertaining and I think Kurt does a tremendous job at trying to do that and nothing and I I gotta give a shout out to Scott Dodds sweetest man I got my deadlift my $4.95 which I've been prepping for six months to pull that and I grind the hell out of that and in very uncharacteristic fashion of me I pull a big Keith with my screaming and hollering.

I saw you do your sandbags the other day and I felt like that's the kind of reaction I had. That's awesome. That's awesome. I got a FaceTime from Scott later that evening or the yeah that evening. Yeah it was it was in Smashburger because I made a joke about it was he shitting at work again when he was on the phone. And he was just he wanted to tell me congratulations and I think that really a bit of like that's the

whole thing here like I say that every time I join this for crew. The Mastinomics is great but I join it for crew and I think Home Gym Con is a great place for us to all to get together and spend time. Probably the next closest thing is going to be lift hard to what the amount of connection you're going to have. Yeah, it's more intimate than the Arnold after this. This year I felt, well, the Arnold there was more downtime, but there was just less people at the booth because a lot of people that came to the Arnold came to go watch Strongman. So you only saw them, or compete.

I think I saw Katie and Tyler like minutes over the week, whereas I spent hours with some of you guys. So yeah, I think it belongs in the Mount Rushmore of crew events. If it's not gonna be the third spot, it's gonna, you know, a mighty eclipse, I don't know. Yeah, you got Lift Hard, Live Easy, you got Crew Falls, you got the Arnold, and now Home Gym Con.

And you can't take anything away from Home Gym Con. I think it's more, if not better, than know any of those or at least it's up there So I just hope Jay keeps having it Ideally, it's not two weeks before lift hardly busy next time. I don't know when it's gonna be next year, but Hopefully he at least doesn't have the same weekend I mean, I think I would make every effort to come as long as at least a two-week gap I think that's the minimum like we had it at a three-week gap I think it was a two-week gap would be a lot harder to pull the trigger. But uh, yeah, I

Appreciate you hear rumors of fall. I did hear that and I mentioned it in a chat and no one really reminded me if that was like I was like didn't I hear Jake say this and no one I just heard rumors of it and that's fine with me. Yeah, fall like big car fall, but no, like the season. All right. Well, I got. Yeah. Good night, buddy. Appreciate you getting on. We'll see you in a couple of weeks. Yep. Sounds good, guys. All right. We can. So it's got a three of us. So anything everyone can kind of give their if you want to whatever you want, you get carte blanche if you want to, you anything that stuck out anything funny thing stupid anything you just

and you bring anything home buddy just my belt that's it oh yeah I was gonna get some stuff but then I'm looking around my gym going this gym is the size of my my Prius I pretty much maxed out on space. That's the thing about going to those events like that is. Like going to the Arnold, you get a shitload of energy drinks and at least energy drinks I can use. But I'm in here going, man, I have all these machines I want. I'm going to have to buy a whole nother house just to store them. But it is cool.

It's like, you know, when you get to go to a car dealership and they have like luxury cars you're never going to buy, like, oh, so that's what it feels like to sit in this thing. Nothing, nothing like the feeling of sitting on a bull though, probably. Yeah, like it was awesome that you were able to that, you know, that you were willing to help them out. It sounded like you had a little more experience doing it too. So now if you, I mean, I hope it was lucrative for you

or that it can be in the future or something you want to do for other people. Cause I mean, even if Tanner, like you could probably sell your services next year to like, if they don't need you next year, I'm sure you could, if there's something you're interested in, like if you wanted to decide a gig to actually be lucrative or not but uh you know all

your video turned out great and you know I don't didn't you couldn't tell that it wasn't their their camera or their setup or you know Tommy behind the camera so I know this year right after they asked me at the Arnold about the next day I got a message from Kurt asking about streaming the competitions. So I told him this year, this next time, if it's at the same time, the reason like the last couple of years I've been on a go, because it's always been during the school year. And it's always like last year, it fell on my solo and ensemble contest day. So I have my kids going to state contest. But if it stays off that kind of thing, like hell out in three hour drive. I'll come out and

stream shit just Let me know cool beans Any Any you regret not spending more time at or anything like that or anything you wish you'd come back to and forgot or anything like that I kind of feel like that's always in the back of my head. I was like, oh man I should have done this or should have done that. I do feel like I spent just most of my

my time in that front half, like from the strongman stuff over to bells of steel. There's a bunch of stuff down the back. The back aisle on the right hand side up against the wall that I walked by. I saw I'm going to come back and check that out. That is fucking forgot. Oh, I will say this, though. The bathrooms.

Way nicer than the. Yeah, for sure. There was there was some guy having an exorcism in there, but the whole bathroom was just spotless minus the the random humorous graffiti on the walls. I just figured it was at Arnold Bathroom stickers. Is that what it was? No, no, it was just someone someone wrote on Sharpie. Who the fuck brings a Sharpie in the bathroom and then someone a different color?

I do motherfucker. And then on a wall, a giant penis in orange. I figured that was you being that it was in orange. I thought you just traced yours. He's a little high on the wall. That's great. Like, 30 second sidebar. I was walking a college dorm today

doing one of our installs. And the site map on the elevator of the building layout, it was a complete, it was a cock. Like the entire building was a shaft with a fucking ball sack and even like a little tip on the map. And I'm like, this is the most phallic fucking like diagram of a building I've ever seen in my life.

It is a literal like cock and balls. I was just hysterical. So, but no, I did not orange Sharpie a dick at the Arnold, but yeah, or at a home gym con, but yeah, the bathrooms were spotless. There was literally like, like an army of people keeping them clean the whole time we were there. Probably like it's like half a jigs bucket of mushroom in the keep in the bathrooms clean because there was there was multiple staff it looked like so that was pretty cool. Um, I had a great time. I didn't pick up a ton. I didn't. The highlights for me, I guess would be Marcus from 922 designs, I believe it is or 922 customs. He got those rack badges that he reached out to me a couple like a month or so ago about making had a ton of back and forth. So he put a lot of

effort into him, which was pretty dope that he like, you know, worked with me on my logo because like I sent him all of my files and then like what I wanted versus what my logo was wasn't really a thing. So then he had to crop and edit and shrink and expand and lengthen, et cetera, et cetera, to get it to be what actually was something that I wanted and would pay money for. So he put a ton of time in that. It was really cool to meet him, shoot the shit, check him out if that's something you're interested in.

If you're not familiar with what we're talking about, Brandon got some too. If you want to explain to him what specifically it is Yeah, so I got a bunch of little stuff at home gem con, but that was probably one of my favorite things was First of all Marcus. I never met him before but followed his channel little shot at shout out to think it's twisted barbell Maybe on YouTube and that was metal twisted something. Okay. I don't need it twisted something. Yes dad or twisted metal twisted something. Okay. I don't need it twisted something. Yes. Not to do designs. Um, he does awesome work. I actually saw walking by, I saw Keith's badge, the known, no wine seller, uh, his badges that he actually ended up receiving.

And I was just talking to Marcus and picking his brain a little bit about like what we could do with my gym logo, just because it is my gym logos. Not as, not as just, you know, there's a lot of extra stuff in it so i wanted to make sure we could just get kind of the heart of the gym logo but spread out to where it could be for my face savers on my combo rack and uh i mean he sat down with me for like 10 minutes and you can tell he's like done this before. Oh, yeah, very professional Pricing was really really good. So definitely check Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, when I first saw him on

On Friday, he was he like started to pack up my badges and give them to me I was like no no, this is like you need these because you don't have a ton of shit on display in my head That's what I said I mean like that's free advertising for me like like I want people to walk by and see like multiple things that say they're in a wine cellar and be like, that's fucking cool. He said he had a few people that wanted to buy my badge just because they thought like that, just that name was cool and like had no familiar,

from familiar familiarity. That's not a word. There's someone else, something like that without. Thirsty Airy. Yeah, yeah, Thirsty Airy. I was fucking Thirsty thirsty area lots of times But yeah The other thing I bought I bought some shirts from Kim a barbell rescue like I already mentioned

I got the you know, the shaft cleaner. I think you did too actually and then the about the leather lifting straps from Delphid strength from Chris and like if anyone anyone's from there at the home gym con, like Chris makes you make your own straps, like, because obviously it's straps, you got a left and a right and you got a pair. So he'll do one and then he immediately looks at you and makes you do like the other one. So it was kind of cool. Like literally I felt like I was working with like my dad or something.

Um, I mean, basically he's, I think Chris is my age, but, uh, like, you know, just like the way you do, just like this, like father this like father figures like teacher and importing this and you know Instilling this wisdom of how to make them. Well, that's not that was really cool and it was like was like a fifth ten to fifteen minute like a thing that he like takes his time away to like do it and Like tries to teach you a little bit about his tools and stuff and it was kind of cool like seeing like some of the shit I was like, ah, I fucked it up and he's like, it's copper It'll pound out so like getting a little rivets to like perfectly like not be mushroomed and stuff just like bang bang bang bang bang and it's

Like completely smooth and then making the rivets nice and perfect So I was a very happy with those and I think I pulled a all the deadlift party I had jumped in on that because I had missed the log lift like I think I got there and the log lift was like starting within minutes and I was like I'm not fucking doing the log lifts because I don't have any of my gear and I'm exhausted. And the most I could do raw would be like, you know, like 180 or something, maybe 175. I was like, I don't even, I don't wanna go out there

and just do that light, lighter weight. So I didn't do the log lift, but then the deadlift party I jumped in on the next day, which I didn't think I would, but I was like, just, ah, fuck it. I actually wore Big Joey's soft belt from Belt Fed Strength. So kudos to myself.

I must have, I think I'm the same body weight as I was last year, but I must have a slightly smaller stomach. So strong man making my fat belly turn into a little bit of back muscle, which is cool because the exact same belt that Joey had was, I'm going to tell myself it's the exact same belt because Chris gave him or sold him one last year and it was purple too. To me, it had to be the exact same belt. I couldn't even get that fucker around my girthy stomach last year, whereas this year it was like an inch too big.

So, was very happy with that experience. So I wore Joey's belt for deadlifts. And then I actually borrowed his straps too, because I was like, I have no reason to hook, rip, and rip my fucking thumbs open or anything like that. So, and I'm strong man now, so strong strong man's word strong man only use deadlift straps so uh I worked up to just under my max on a regular deadlift with straps so and like completely like un like did like like I did like four lifts and just like worked up like like boom boom boom boom boom so I was pretty stoked about

that but Chris is lifting traps for dope I had already put mine back in the hotel so I didn't use mine on that lift, but I'd pick Joey Let me borrow his straps which were literally the identical ones. They're just a couple years old. So excited for that I Think that's about it. I know this wasn't as funny as an episode as we usually get guys I mean usually we're we're thrice as funny as we were tonight, but I've tried Did my best here to hold it all together with these chatty Kathy's over here Anything in closing you guys want to hit before we start doing that the thing

No, you're gonna come back to home gym con next year. Okay, here's here's one after the experience you had How far would you drive to go do this same event again if it was basically identical? My give or take like you wouldn't if you for driving, you wouldn't have to spot and load or anything and you could just come and have a boys weekend essentially. I think I would drive a fair amount. I drove about four and a half hours to the Arnold. Would you drive five hours to home gym con? Absolutely.

Absolutely. Okay. Would you drive, I'm not going to go any farther than that. That's just so, that basically puts it to where he would put it on par, if not better than the Arnold for the crew experience, which is pretty awesome. And then just the home gym aspect is just, to me, it's, it's everything in one. Like the first year was mostly the home gym stuff, but even it was then for me, it was like the community that I had built would like being on the garage gym radio

podcast with Jake and carp and a bunch of other guys and like becoming like like good in-person friends with them but like before the first year I'd never met any of them so that was uh but I don't know it's just just you know Jake you doing a great job we really we appreciate you allowing us to have an opportunity to come together as friends the equipment's cool and all and like you obviously need the equipment to have the expo but like I don't really give a fuck about the equipment I come I come to hang out with my homies. Um, like that is my world.

Uh, you know, the home gym scene, it's fun to come hang out with and, you know, it's all essential. But to me, it's, you know, it's mainly about the homies. Uh, big Justin in closing, bud. Yeah, I agree. I agree with the driving out to go to this because like we talked about earlier with the never been to crew falls. It's always falls at a bad time for me. But the the front of the VZ Arnold's a good spot to meet crew people, but it is too packed and too crazy to really get anything sufficient. So you really have to rely on the after hours stuff and maybe in a not

after hours person, it's a lot harder. But this one, it was enough, enough stuff and enough space that we could have accommodated many more people in there and still not been overwhelming, except for people who are the most, you know, socially sensitive in being in big public spaces. It was busy, but it was also really funny too, because as I'm watching, walking around watching people, it's like every booth is somebody who is an Instagram fitness influencer talking to somebody. And I was going like, I recognize that person and that person and, and

they're all people that we know. But like, you know, and the booths too, like all the people we talk to for the most time are all the friends of the crew anyway. So I, you know, I've talked to them at their foot quite a bit. And this is my first time talking with Barbell Rescue and Belt Fed. Yeah, they're both great dudes. Yeah, but there's nobody there. The same with the Arnold too.

I've never met somebody who's a legitimate jerk. Yeah, I was going to see if there was like the same with the Arnold too. I've never met somebody who's a legitimate jerk Yeah, I was gonna I was gonna see if there was any grease there did a Outside of just Tanner talking to the guy Titan. They didn't know what the fuck he was talking about Did was there anything that stuck out like that that was like inner circle knowledge Well, you probably you shouldn't share it if you're in trouble, but no, I mean Realistically like everyone we talked to was super excited. And like I said, in the discord, I felt really, you know, the guys at dialed, I'm really excited for them because they seemed like if, if you guys I mentioned in

there, if you know, um, um, the game, no man's sky, the guy who made that game, the guy who made the game got stuck being the PR guy and he is not a people person. And so he is like just awkward positions on live TV, like with tonight show and all this stuff. That's how those guys felt. They were really good, knowledgeable people making really cool stuff who just really excited to tell you about it. And they might not be your PR people from like the guy, the guy from Temple Games, Yanni. He was so awesome to talk to. It is he's a talker.

And those guys are doers. They make the stuff, they design the stuff, they put it together and they make it work and they know everything about it. But they see they got that, like, adorable bashfulness to to know what they're talking about it. Yeah, sometimes when you got something up here, like to get it out of your mouth, like when you're trying to explain it, they're trying to, I mean, it's like, there's that disconnect.

So, and a lot of those guys didn't expect to be on camera all day. Definitely. And most of them were, you know what I mean? Because like, Mastinomics has videos on Titan, and so will Gluck and so will Coop. And, you know, all of them are going to have like that same similar content, you know, over and over. Yeah. So they're probably talking. I do feel that like the content creators need to do something a little like if you do the same fucking if everyone does the same interview and ask the same questions, like, I don't give a like, like, I don't give a fuck about your, like, it needs to be funny. You need to interview the people.

It needs to be more about the actual, like, I mean, like there are, we're different because that's, we're like the sub niche of a sub niche of a sub niche that actually care about the community more than we do. I want to watch this video to see if I want to spend a thousand dollars in this piece of equipment or not, like, and it's easy for the content creators to come and do 30 pieces of equipment at once without having to buy it. So I get it. I get how it is.

That is the game. But I only care about the content coming out that has all of us in the background and shows nightlight stuff and stuff. I don't want to watch someone compare the three pieces of equipment that are similar. I don't give a fuck. I really don't.

Not even a little bit. I'll still watch it, but I don't give a fuck. I'm not't like not even a little bit like I'll still watch it but like I don't give a fuck. I'm not gonna buy any of that equipment ever more than likely like these big ass machine about the stretch position. I heard that term like 38 times. No, this one's better in the stretch position. I don't care. This could be new barbell? You got a Oh, yeah. So both James and I robo picked up the ATX. It says it's competition powerlifting. I need to actually do some research. Because I'm not exactly sure it's got the wider color. So it's definitely not like, I know they have a lot of IPF logoing and stuff on their website. But this is not an IPF bar. The colors are so it's not. But it's the what's the guy's name who runs the Barbell, I mean that damn so it's good. I also have a Owner or not ownership that I have I'm holding on to Robo's bar till I see him next. Oh, yeah So I can ship it out to him. Well, I mean if that you know if that that's trained, you know

He might you know, he might not recover from that fucking bull ride man I just give up powerlifting. I know he might just be like this ain't for me man Just just give me 70 bucks. You can have well well I mean technically it's your bar like I mean I'll just throw it in line. He's gonna come out and beat you up you know he ain't gonna do shit. It's your bar. Alright I think Nate's gonna come kick us off we don't wrap this up here up and speak of the devil. What do you want from me? Oh just your friendship and your you know your hugs. I wish I get a hug you someday. It's been like it's two years in the making I don't know when

I'm ever gonna get a hug you someday. I don't know maybe you'll make it out somewhere some point in the future but someone would just invite me. I mean Big Stephanie's taken up the other bed in our room so you can't have that. There's always a floor and anyone that travels your wife is coming. Yes. That's cool. There's like a I've used to be a 69% chance. There's like an 89 Chance chance she's coming just because she has some work related stuff that mayor may impede But most I didn't realize she was coming again this year. Yeah. Yeah, she was she was she's always been on the agenda Like we got tickets to, it's just like immediately, she's like, right after we booked it,

she had like three subpoenas that all fall within like a week of the trip that, like everything so far is, she still has one trial, but it's like a local one, so worst case, she has to testify on Wednesday and we fly out Thursday, which would suck, but it's better than her getting to have to go to like Arizona on Monday and have to fly out

of Lyft Hard, Live Easy Sunday night to go to another state because she's like yeah fuck that I'll cancel the thirdly live easy before I do that I understand one can simply not cancel if chart live easy yeah but what I hate to see that yep um but yeah I think we I have rambled on enough I'm gonna hit you with our affiliates everybody so obsidian ammonia oh you guys are still in the episode 30 seconds I I have rambled on enough. I'm gonna hit you with our affiliates, everybody. So, Obsidian Ammonia. Oh, you guys are still in the episode? Jeez, Sal! Yep, it was 30 seconds, Nate.

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Home Gym Con was great. I loved it. It was my favorite thing. Make sure to follow me on... Why didn't you? You could have came. Like you were talking about... I couldn't. I told you. I explained why I couldn't come. I previously committed to working a wedding wedding which was the world's hottest just I sweat so much It was I didn't have to work out the next day. It was sauna Yeah, find me online wherever find me at Coop's budget gym YouTube channel

Sidebar have you got your ceiling fixed yet? What in my garage? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, there's just a hole. Did you at least tear some of it down? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was just a hole. There's just where that sheet of drywall was hanging, there's now just a hole. It's all good, you don't need that. Yeah, it's like over in the corner, no, it's over the mower, so it's fine. Yeah, I mean, I just don't know why Brian, or why Ryan did that to your gym, but I mean, it's kind of shitty of him. That jerk. Son of a gun. Alright, I mean, I don't know why Brian or why Ryan did that to your gym, but I mean, it's kind of shitty of him But that jerk son of a gun. All right I'm Keith honey got 73 on Instagram and more importantly go follow all the other stuff that I just forgot to mention. So

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Nate trying to help me out with my laptop for fucking 20 minutes for me to realize that it wasn't happening tonight Hey, listen, I've tried for 20 minutes and realized it wasn't happening tonight. So we've all been there. Why won't you stay up? No, I figured out why I couldn't get my other computer to stand up to do your remote session, because I went to switch my mic over and unplug the HDMI cable from that computer by accident. So I kept trying to switch it on the monitor, and it wouldn't switch over. And I walked upstairs and I just saw it hanging off the back of the monitor. I was like, oh, that's the problem. That's why I can't remote in.

How does one fully close Discord? Because I hit the red X, it just goes back down to the bottom. But then I'm still getting obnoxious fucking beeps, beeps, beeps, beeps. We need to have a whole lesson. But so to truly quit something in Mac OS, there's a few ways to do it here. Let's deal with it later. Well, I'm just going to show you because you're going to need to do this in the next few days. So let me just show you how that works real quick.

Ah, fuck, the briefing is getting louder. So if you're in, you're on here. Let's pull Discord over. So this red X in Mac OS, can you see this, Keith? Yeah, yeah. As I've clicked it like 20 times, it just fucking sends it back down to the start menu. So you can click the X, which is fine. You're closing Windows. The application's still running, which I think is the way computers should be run. So does Steve Jobs, but he's dead. You can right-click on an icon

down here, and you can click Quit. That'll quit the application. You can go over in the top right, in your menu bar, and click on the application name, and you can say Quit Discord. And then also up there, there is your keyboard shortcuts in your menu bar. And my favorite is just command Q is how I quit everything. And it only does the most, the one you have like the top. Whatever, so Mac OS is kind of is different than windows

because you have this menu bar. So you can kind of see what your active window is based on what's up there in the top left. So yeah, if you hit command Q right now, Discord's active, it would kill Discord. But like if you were in Zoom, it would kill Zoom. But you can also just like right click on the app down here and quit it that way as well. But yeah, it's a... You have to click the stuff to like, it's not don't want to do right.

Yeah, if you right click or on a trackpad, like double click with two fingers or however you set But yeah, it's a... You have to click those. You don't have to like... It's not... When I do right-click... Yeah, if you right-click or on a trackpad, like double-click with two fingers or however you set it up. I'll have to learn that because it's not doing shit. It's just... Sometimes the... Oh, there we go. That was difficult.

Oh, okay. Quit. Fuck you, Discord. But then also, I guess I should show you the other thing you can do is all of the focus modes that you have set up on your phone can share over to your Mac as well. So if you put on like a do not disturb, it should sync to your Mac. I don't know what you skipped. No, I have like my phone goes to fuck off at like 830. Yeah, so your computer should follow the same thing. But if you like need to turn off notifications and stuff up here in that top right in your control center, should be able to just hit and turn on you know whatever notification to do

all right so there's a few things that'll be helpful for your next oh yeah well I at least learned I mean I won't not ready to record at the moment or but I think I can figure it out in the future you could it would it would take us probably all of five minutes of ice, I know you want the separate audio tracks and that clearly didn't seem to be a thing here. Yeah, I think it is. I think you just... Do you know how to scroll on a Mac on a web page?

Have you figured that out yet? That's it. You just didn't know how to scroll. So on your trackpad, if you put two fingers down... In the thumbprint finder? No, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you just put two fingers on... So like open up Safari and go to like, what's a page of the New York Times homepage? That'll scroll. Or somewhere where you'd have to scroll and you put two fingers down on the trackpad and push up and down.

Okay, yeah, that might have been it then. Yeah, I think you just didn't scroll the settings page. That could be, if I'll... You just didn't know how to scroll. Poor Keith thinks the trackpad is, what he uses for touch ID, and then also doesn't know how to scroll on the computer, which is crazy.

I also like that you keep... I don't know, I'm there again now, and it's still just, I don't know, it is what it is. Maybe it does say upgrade, no, upgrade would be, I don't wanna upgrade that would be... like it is. Maybe it does say upgrade. I don't know, upgrade would be, I don't want to upgrade that. Yeah, that would be upgrading your Zoom account. Yeah, fuck that. Tanner, don't pay us enough for that.

So Brandon, you got the feel for the podcast now. You're gonna be on in a couple of weeks, I think, or a month or whatever, so. Yeah. You should know how to get your mic was non-existent and stuff, so you were definitely. Oh, that's what, so I had a headset at first and then I ripped it off because I was cutting in and out. I felt like, so I'll get a better headset.

Just wired headphones work the best, but I don't know what you had. Yeah, those were ass. All right. You figure it out. Listen, and hopefully by then Keith knows how to use his computer. Well, somebody might. I probably won't know how, but I'll definitely pick, Stephanie will figure it out for me. Right.

I don't know where you are out there, but we drove through Bart's town for a while. Some pretty nice neighborhoods out there. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Bart's Crackets. It's about a half hour away from me. So it's okay. That's a little town. cool. Yeah. It's about a half hour away from me. So it's okay. That's a little town. Yeah.

Yeah, we went that's where we went to go get a we wanted Korean barbecue. So we went to that top one Korean out there. Yeah, I've never been there. I need to make a special trip and go out there. If you're been if you've ever been to the K pot that's kind of north of there. If you ever been to like a K pot, it's the exact same thing just in a local place, looks like. Well, I mean, I'm glad that my experience at a K-pot, you know, six months ago, was able to, you know, open up all of the crew's minds.

Cause none of the crew have ever had Korean barbecue until I had it, you know, and explained to you guys what it was. This, just this past year. I wish we could have one of those. Did you go to like a K-pot kind of thing Keith at the Korean? I did. I did.

Well so I've got two. I did a K-pot with Big Chris in Syracuse like you know six months ago and then I did the quote unquote mom and pop Korean place that wasn't wasn't a barbecue place but still served like you know all Korean food. A hot pot I believe is the term. I don't know. But I but I know like the one place you could literally grilled your own shit which was that was confusing the other place was you know a menu. All right it's confusing you apply heat to food. Yeah well the worst the worst is

when we didn't find like the seasoning until like after we ate for an hour and I was like oh some salt would have been nice and oh there it is. Fuck I mean, there's more than if there's so much more options than salt. Keith, no. When you're eating a bunch of red meat, a little salt. Well, anything, literally anything. Don't they have like sauces and stuff, too? Did you not have any of that? No, man.

You went to Cape or a hot pot and just raw dogged all the meat with no seasoning and no sauces. I feel like you should ask for your money back. Well, big Chris Mark should have explained it better. Man. Like, whatever we went there, every time we've gone to one, they're like, all right, have you ever been here before? Yes, we've been here before.

All right, well, up there is where the sauce bar is, up there is where the cold stuff is. Yeah, we know, okay. Keith, I love the things that we get to unpack. Touch bar, the path, your touch ID is on your track pad. Fucking, I'll figure it all out. You will, it's great. Once you, it'll be a big learning learning curve switching from Windows to Mac OS. I mean, that we never really so breaking, I guess we get into we almost have

to put it in this podcast because talking about it on the next episode will be pointless to an extent. So we can always clip this in somewhere else. But like breaking news, fuck all you guys, I spent fucking an obnoxious amount of money to buy a new goddamn laptop. So you're welcome. Hopefully, this comes in your ears a little bit easier week to week because it definitely came out of my pocket pretty hard But yeah, so I got a MacBook Air Basically maxed out Refurbished one so I was out out of pocket like 2200 delivered and then the motherfucker was supposed to deliver Monday when I was off

Work like it had like set it up like a week ago to deliver on my day off. I was like perfect. At like five o'clock that day I was like, oh we'll not deliver today. I'm like you motherfuckers. And then yesterday they tried to deliver it at like 2 50 or something. And one, I think Stephanie got home at like 3 30. So we like missed it by a half hour. And then today I was like, well hopefully it comes. Stephanie was off work today. So she would have been here all day to pick it like to get it and then I could have immediately came home and played with it all night before podcasting and learned how to Apple and it showed up at 635 giving me less than an hour to like get it open and figure it out and the shitty part was I don't even remember

clicking okay to do a an update and then it did a half- half hour update. So my hour that I didn't have to learn got cut literally in half. So I had like 20 minutes to try to download some apps and then learning that the app store sucks and doesn't have any of the apps that I actually need. So then I'm having to figure out Safari because I've never used fucking, I don't use Safari. You can use Chrome.

There's tons of options. Well, either way, how the fuck do I download? I guess I could have downloaded Chrome, but I got to figure it all out. So in due time, but I made a large investment into this podcast thing and hopefully it pans out. So this will allow... A large investment into your personal computing experience. It's that as well, but it'll give us a lot of freedom. So there's weeks if Joey's not available, I don't have to bug Nate to come record at 10 o'clock, you know o'clock at night yeah and then I won't

accidentally interrupt podcasts anymore I mean you were weren't you there the whole time like I thought you were there the whole time you're just I was trying to fix our new show manager app because it was preventing certain photos from being uploaded that's fixed now that's awesome so did you did you fix the the Joe's seven different fucking inputs? I think it was just two. Okay, cool. I gotta do that tonight. Because I haven't even copied over his show notes yet. And I gotta do this whole podcast thing again tomorrow.

So if I'm tired on next week's episode, it's because I recorded two episodes back to back. But I think we'll be good. This one started a little bit earlier. So I'll actually get some sleep tonight. And yeah, excited for that. Oh, I actually can see my text on my laptop now. Yeah. That's interesting. Listen Keith, it starts there and there's so much more fun. You can literally view your phone on your computer. I know I was able to do that but then I didn't see the text. The phone mirroring thing came with Sequoia and it is a ridiculous feature that they added. That saved me on the copy and paste. I was trying to do a password for fucking Zoom and it's got like 49 fucking letters.

And the passkey wasn't set up, you fuck. At least not online. It should be. You just have to set up the syncing so that all your passwords... You probably have to stick your thumb somewhere that's not on the trackpad. That's true. But yeah, all your passwords should sync over and you should just be able to type like go to the passwords app and it worked on like when I went to go into law to Google it automatically took some it took some dawn but discord I don't think I had because discord sucks too because I had to like fucking copy and paste this core. So there's an app, so Keith, another Mac tip, command space is basically the same thing as swiping down on your phone, it's called Spotlight. And so if you do command space and type in passwords, it should launch, and then click enter, you can launch a passwords app,

which should have all of those passwords you're looking for on your computer. Also, you shouldn't even need to do screen mirroring because there's a universal copy paste board between your computer and your phone, which is nuts. Yeah, I need to find out where that is. It's kind of magic. And is there a way to, and is there not a finger, is there not a touch pad paste? Do I got to do the fucking control fucking? No, you can. I mean, I think it's faster to do command V command C, but you can just the two finger click is the same as a right

click. I don't know. How are you right clicking on your laptop? Did you have a laptop with the two split buttons at the bottom? Yeah. Yeah. Two finger click is right click. I'm to figure out. There's a setting in Mac OS, I believe, where you can say if I click on the left side of the track pad, it's a left click, and if I click on the right side of the track pad, it's a right click, so that's a thing. There's gotta be some YouTube videos of like,

I've literally been a PC guy for 30, literally 30 years, like I'm 40, and I've definitely had a family computer since we were like 10, so I've only been a PC operator for 30 years, so this is, change've definitely had a family computer since we were like 10. So I've only been a PC operator here for 30 years. So this is change change no change. Like this is big change. Are many are you coming?

You're coming out to your streaming lift hard, right? Yeah. Yeah, we're awesome. We're driving up to Sioux Falls Wednesday and then the last bit on Thursday. We'll be a little early this week, but maybe we'll see in two weeks. You can be sitting for a while next week. next week. I get to be as old as you No, congratulations. Happy birthday Happy birthday

30 old 40 year old people no fucking bunch of 40 year olds Yeah, you old farts the well the one funny thing about the the bull riding I think i've shared it on like instagram was like the only people that Did it were like 27 and 28 or something. So, like that tracks. Is Hogan younger than me? I asked Nicole and she said he was under 30, so I don't know. Maybe he's 29. I don't. What a weird world.

I know he is under 30. Hogan, I think it's just because he has a PhD that I feel like Hogan should be substantially older than me. Well, according to you, I mean, you have three kids, you're very old. That's true. That's true. Yeah, I did listen to last week's episode. Well, I listened to last week's unedited. I'm not sure actually sure what I made the podcast. All right, boys.

We're going to be a PhD though. As I tell Rachel, I have a PhD too. Pretty hard dick. That's got to make the podcast. Bleep. Hong Kong. Good night. I'm never gonna get logged out of this. I might just unplug it and hope it dies I have no fucking no clue how to exit this shit. This is so annoying Later Brandon. I'll see you good deal. I just want to sit and wait to see how long it takes key up Oh, you still can't figure it out mother fucker Just command Q Oh, you still can't figure it out. Motherfucker. Okay, I do this single click. Just command Q.

What's that? Oh, that quits everything. That's right. You told me that. Oh, quit the app. Oh, leave meeting. Cool. Good night, buddy. Bye. Hey, it's Big Nate. I'm here alone. We'll see you next week. Goodbye.