Unpaid And Underrated - 115 : HYB!

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

This week Joey and Keith get to know Justin H.Y.B. They dive right into great topics like metal, beards, The Massenomics Gym, video games, and catching Huck Finn sleeping in the gym. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaid-underrated-tee) Get Your Own Keith Head (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/articles/keith-head) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest On Instagram @hyb.training.program (https://www.instagram.com/hyb.training.program/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guest: Big Justin H.Y.B..

And then, uh, uh, sheets. And then I close everything else. Yeah, that's what I want. I just use zoom only on my computer and then I use the sheets on the, on the phone I do. I might need to try something else, but this will work for now, but be like big Nate and just get like a nice big three monitor setup, but you can close that and then, and then do nothing with it.

I bought this MacBook air only because of this podcast and then I think like three weeks ago I was like we really need to use that for more Like that was not a cheap thing and I use it once a week for two hours I've all like because I've always used just like my shitty tablet or something or my my old laptop but The the biggest thing I've been impressed with so far is the battery life. Like that's how, like I couldn't use my old laptop for more than an hour.

I honestly don't think I could use my laptop for an hour unplugged. Like it probably wouldn't last that long. So the freedom to just sit there on the couch with something that weighs half the weight of my old laptop is just very nice. Also, apparently my four years of supporting membership isn't till August 30th. I thought it was on first. You suck. December 28th. So you got me beat by. Call it September, October, November.

I would. It was like a race for four years versus the back catalog and At this point, I don't think you'll ever get the back catalog because there's no I can't it's so boring Well, that'd be the only thing to keep me from master completer you still missing something else that's it That's that would be the only thing As long as I can swear a little bit, we're OK. Yeah, yeah. No, we don't swear a lot. I will swear a bit and you're free to meet us in between.

All right. That sounds good. Before we get into the actual podcast, somebody said you worship the devil. I'm sure that was Caden. I guess. OK. Because I'm sure that was Caden. OK, because I'm born and raised Catholic, man. I do not. All right. I definitely had questions about that. That's kind of annoying. People do that because I kind of just they think they're being funny.

I know I've been a while since I had shitty show notes submitted, but it really just makes a bad experience for everyone because it wastes our time and it's just not funny. So if anyone's listening and you get a questionnaire in the mail at some point in the future just don't be a douche. Like it's not funny. It just literally ruins the fun time we're having. Your inside jokes do not make this fun. Yeah.

No. Go tell them, tell them you suck a lot of dick. No. Yeah. Like no I'm not going to do that. One of your favorite hobbies, I think, was anal on the submitted show notes. So like, what the fuck? Like, yeah.

And I go there. I told those guys to because I, you know, me and Keith kind of talked and I have a pretty small circle. So I was trying to get as much as I could out of these guys. And I told them at the gym was like like just be honest, but don't be dumb Yeah, I'm saying like we know enough about each other, but they miss that mark You guys talked to Kate enough, so you know this when amidst And welcome back to episode here. Remember what Nate got you last week. Yeah, that was great

That was like four out of the last 69 weeks somebody peckerhead and after he deleted mine Like we didn't tell him that I did it to you Welcome back to episode 266 of the unpaid and underrated podcast a podcast by crew for crew I'm one of your hosts big Keith joined as always here by big Joey Hello, and this week we got special guest crew big Justin. Hell. Yeah, brother You bet you want you doing? Yeah, man But I wasn't sure if it was lender or Lindoror's. I didn't want to butcher your last name.

And I said, you know, Linder, where is it? Oh, there's do I have that? Do I have a D in there somewhere? And it's not a D. There is a it's Andy and everyone misses the second and Linden. Linden. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. What the fuck was that noise? Now I'm that we are not big pronunciation here as generally

You drink anything you drinking anything over there Justin anything special noteworthy I just have a simple bottle of water tonight boys. Yeah, that works buddy. That's that's I got one of those and I got a water Lou In Brasbury, I believe I am over prepared. I have beer, fireball, water, ginger ale. Yeah, you're on vacation. And I can't live right. So like, you might as well just imbibe until I die. There you go. Oh, yeah. What are you wearing over there, Joe?

I see a little little much of a twist that just anti social lifting club. Nice. I needed something oversized today because I'm bloated from being on vacation and eating like shit and drinking beer. Yeah, I felt good that I was actually able to put my wedding ring on today. There was like a week there. I put my wedding ring on.

I was like, god damn it, this thing hurts so bad. Let's take this off for a week and see if my swelling in my hand goes down. So I always tell them I'm having a somewhat not bloated day when my ring fits. Yeah, I've got to wear my ring this week. I'm going to see Amigo the devil and I'm essentially going to be filled in a room full of goth people. And if Joey has one weakness, it's hot goth mommies.

And so I told Morgan, it was like, don't worry, I'll wear my ring and she's like why should I be worried? I wasn't worried till you said that I was like just guys Just don't worry about it Goody goth girls. Yeah Justin you wear anything special over there bud So I actually have my if you can see it as good that my og all black shirt I should have my you can see it is good that my og all blacked out shirt. That's a dope shirt I think this is the very first shirt ever bought from the Mastinomics guys. So I do like that

So that's like the weekend warrior, but it's like black on black. So that's that's that's a good shirt That would be one to come back to come out of the vault would be nice So anyone anyone listening this will be a little bit off We're recording this a week and a half before the lift hard live easy But it will come out the Tuesday after the start easy So if while you're listening we're referencing stuff that you think we should know we're recording this from the future or the past I'm not really sure but we almost always record in the past. That's yeah, that's the way time Yeah, but like this comes out. Oh this episode not going to come out till like, I don't know, the 20 something or other.

So 24th, I think. Yeah. So just, just, just let's just get this out of the way. Can you believe that happened? Which part? Well, just anything that happened at the lift on the V. Oh, yeah. If you're listening to this and you were there, I can't believe that happened. I was wild. That person that did that thing. Wow. Super impressive. All those awards, you know, that that was really cool that I won that award that,

you know, edged me out and get me the whole of my my my jacket. But that didn't happen, probably. So that's sad. Yeah, you better you better bench more than you can deadlift. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's how you should do it. That's the Randy award apparently it's the it's the bench to deadlift ratio well they don't have long hairs or can't be too mad at me and you got quads yeah yeah well slightly um let's see what do we got did you so the the cottage cheese challenge that'll be

something I mean we're gonna talk about it like it hasn't happened but because it hasn't but uh Four people got signed up for that Tanner's gonna make him eat a tub of cottage cheese in his backyard and just down it like so I guess Depending on which we're talking like the big one. That's like no four or five servings No, they'll probably get the half quart thing or whatever. They whatever you Americans rate your Probably get the half court thing or whatever they whatever you Americans rate your It's gonna be a lot so oh, yeah, no guaranteed vomit I can almost promise somebody's gonna vomit eating

Well, they probably won't vomit on the spot Like it'll be like they'll down it and then stand up quietly and do the the like the head down I have to go now and like run and do the head down, I have to go now and run. I have a question if you got a free second here. I missed the cottage cheese thing somewhere along the line. I see it on the social media, but is it just protein content? Yeah. Tanner just likes it. Anytime they do protein foods or Tanner's always talking about his diet and stuff, and

he basically eats cottage cheese every single day and you know Tommy's on the cottage cheese train they both just use it as a way to hit their 200 you know plus grams of protein every day without having to eat like you know 24 chickens. Yeah. So like I get it. I eat it sometimes but it's got to be ice cold and I'm working out of a lunch pail a lot that like you know by lunch I'll be lucky if my shits like still kind of cold so what's the protein content of cheese curds I'm gonna find super unhealthy and like isn't that like like

a deep-fried cheese curds or like a no no no like you can get straight up I was at that shit that Jen brought to December to remember yeah yeah and that's a big thing up here too right Quebec is big for that but we've got a farm out out here that does that. I just imagine it's got to be super fatty just because it's more of a, I don't know. I'd go to a lemon say it's fattier than other protein sources that are dairy. Five to seven grams of protein per ounce.

So it's 28 grams per serving. It's actually a lot. I'm just curious about the fat, but it is with that. So yeah, dairy is dairy is good for you. Sometimes if you can tolerate it and get it in different ways. I don't tolerate shit. But I don't remember. I don't remember like an epicenter of the cottage cheese. It's just I think they saw the chicken bake kind of Dwindling and they needed their next what are we gonna run with and what's our next inside joke kind of thing to be? You kind of morphed into that but I don't know like like like most of the the the food things

There's always people that are like gung-ho about it. There's people that are just like yeah kind of not not my cup of tea There's definitely a lot of cottage cheese Haters if you will out there, but I don't know. Like most people don't chime in, but there's a few that have. I'll eat it if it's around, but I'm not gonna go out of my way to eat a whole tub of it, I'll tell you that.

Yeah. I don't even eat it if it's around. Like, I don't. It is not on my list of things. I don't like the texture, the goopy texture. I think I said the one, yeah. It can, it's gotta be ice cold. Like once it gets a little bit warm it's just I can't do it if it's ice ice cold I can take down a small serving and then let's you know

that's about it um so I guess I don't know how it is in Canada or over East with you guys with those people around here in South Dakota that like dip potato chips in it no no, no. Like a dip. They're just like, Oh, this is great. I'm like, yeah. Now you get your ass kicked for something like that up here. Like, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

I know. I don't talk. Tommy always talks about making it like salty or savory. And I did try, I think big Janet mentioned doing the, uh, the everything bagel seasoning and I added that to it once. And I was like, it was disgusting for, in my opinion, opinion We did make the cottage cheese crisp where you like, you know Put a bunch of them put a put a bunch on like parchment paper and on a cookie sheet and like make little like fried Crisp out of them with that

Excuse me that with the everything bagel seasoning wasn't so bad. I just literally just burped Those one of those upchuck burps where I'm tasting the protein bar a ten minutes ago. Oh, I was fucking gross. Um, you know, this is a Prelude not prelude. What is the I love that you used up Chuck? I don't think I've ever heard that Or mass in all makes It's always puke or vomit or whatever. You chose up Chuck. Good work. Good. Good deep dive. That's right Remember what the fuck I was saying but I Have you know follow up have the new Apple I air Apple Macbook whatever

Kind of sort I know how to use it but still need to actually watch like the 17 videos Tutorial videos that Nate sent me sorry I haven't got to those yet Nate But now I have another new device that I have to learn big Stephanie and all her awesomeness bought me a new I New iPad for the travel so I'm literally rocking like a 12 year old Samsung tablet That like doesn't really work and holds about an hour and a half a charge for playback at best So she got me a brand new iPad so friggin awesome Getting used to that and getting all my apps and stuff updated on that So yeah, I'm super stoked about that and we'll break that in on the trip out west here in a week and a half The content Keith is showing up. So the Apple support YouTube has a lot of really good videos

That you can use to like learn how to do things but you can also take lessons at Apple It's called today at Apple And you can you can book in like a how to use this thing and they'll start everywhere from beginner to intermediate to advanced to making movies. You just go and you just sit there and there's just somebody with like a microphone and they just teach you like a classroom. It's interesting. And that's like a free part of Apple or

something. Absolutely. No, that's absolutely free. It's actually really cool. And if you have AppleCare on the device, you get front of the line access. And so that's I'm still on the fence. Get it on the iPad, don't screw around. If you're traveling with the iPad, put it in. The iPad is 300 bucks. So we got like the basic, I mean it's still 300 bucks, but I'm not going to pay 300 dollars for a 300 dollar device. I might pay 300 dollars for a 2000 dollar laptop. AppleCare on an iPad is 79 dollars Canadian. Oh, okay. I guess

Didn't realize it was I mean, I guess I did but I didn't I wasn't considering that it's scalable So $79 isn't horrible versus I think like the three four hundred dollars it is on the computer itself So it's a hundred and twenty nine dollars on the computer. What are you talking about? Oh, maybe in Canadian whenever I've tried to look at it down down here It was well over $300 or right at $299. You're crazy. I don't know that's if it was what if it was 120 I would have just pulled the trigger even it was 150. I would have bought it instantly, but I swear god It was $299. It might be $229. Yeah, I'm I'm I mess with you. I don't sell IMAX. I don't I don't know things I would get Costco. So everything is great priced What quick funny thing, so both of the, let me just hide Gary here and his non-video participants so I can see my zoom screen again. Alright.

Stephanie was overheard me playing Matt and Jess's Road to Lift Hard to Live Easy videos and they both talk about like, hey this is Matt says, this is Jess says. And Stephanie's like, what are they saying? Like thinking that they were saying like, Jess says something, Matt says something. So she's like, I'm so confused. And I was like, yes, that's awesome. Good podcast content.

And that'll take me to the Road to Lyft Hard to Live Easy. Thank you to everyone that submitted those so far. Big Joey sent out a bunch of DMs today on the Unpaid Underrated Podcast. DMs just trying to get those last 15 or so people, those stragglers in. All those messages were signed Big Joey here, so hopefully people will respond to him better than they did me. Soterios Johnson You know what's funny is I never use big. When I did the Keith here, by the the way I always said Keith here BTW

But then I might not have done big yeah when it's not me you guys do big Keithie. I think that's really funny It's a dead giveaway of that. It's not me I Did see that I saw the one from barefoot that was dope. Yeah. Yeah, Shelby's always you know team player She's that's and I yeah She had a whole thing about well It's not gonna matter now If you want a certain barefoot shoes reach out to him with your sizes and whatnot in the past and you might have had A good luck to get them, but now it's too late

Did you see the thing where Tanner is on vacation and one of Kevin's buddies was like hey I see a Masonomics dude with long hair with a bunch of kids wearing Mastanomics shirts. I didn't see it, no. Oh, no. It was a stereo. So was Tanner in Michigan or was he just like somewhere? I don't know. He was somewhere where there was like a big boat and there was a whole bunch of like,

you know, the- Yeah, he's at Lake Superior. Okay. So literally one of Kevin's buddies was there at the exact same time and Tanner was there with all his kids. So Tanner was wearing a Mastanomic shirt and all his kids were wearing Mastanomic shirts. So one of Kevin's buddies texted him and said,

hey, there's a dude here. And then they had a little back and forth. I think, you know, Kevin shared it in Discord. And then he sent him a picture. He's like, oh my God, that's literally Tanner. So just like the odds of that is so funny that like. Sorry, I missed that. Yeah, no, that made me chuckle immensely.

So that was a very funny story and no I had a weird so I sent out about six envelopes last week of Dilf dungeon and unpaid and underrated stickers just anybody that asked got them really excited for Big Will out east here in Canada to put his out, because next time I'm in Nova Scotia, I'm coming to Big Will's house. But I had this realization that it's like, I was talking to Morgan about it. This home gym sticker exchange between the crew is the nerdiest shit. And it's like, it's almost like collecting magic cards or pogs as a kid. Right? Where you're just like, you're mailing them across, like it's obviously now with technology and everything better, but you're like mailing your sticker.

You're like, I developed this, this is mine. I'm going to send it to all my friends. And then they're sending you theirs. Like it's so, it's so home gym nerd. And I thought that that was a really fun comparison. Like it, it did feel like I get excited when I know there's one in the mail. I get to go and open an envelope for somebody's logo. Um, which I don't know if it's the autism in me or not, but like, it was pretty exciting to be able to do that. And I feel like when you really consider it, like I just did a second round. So I, the original Dilf Dungeon one was designed by my wife and, um, she based it on the Dungeons and Dragons logo.

So the new one that I'm getting made is based on the banner that hangs in my gym, because I think what she did with the hands looking like a tool album and then she made them like all, Yeah, like your tattoo, your hand tattoos, right? tattoos right well no she made them all calloused and stuff and she was like I didn't even think of tool at the time but it just lined up so perfectly so I was like well I want that on a sticker so we're doing a second round of those but like I spent real-life money on these things just envelopes and stamps aren't free either exactly I put three goddamn stamps on your envelope because I didn't know what the fuck it was gonna like I don't need this shit coming back to me because I there was a dude him and a

Fellow crew that asked me like two weeks ago. Hey, did you get that sticker? I sent you and I think he sent a little care pack like he said he said that he sent a Cleveland Browns Pin in it as well and I'm like man I didn't get that at all and I feel like an asshole telling you this But like I never it never showed up and then like two weeks later He's like he just a minute DMA today, you know like it He didn't have enough you know stamps on it cuz I'm assuming it weighed too much with whatever pen or something He had in there so that was at least a problem solved cuz I was kind of like man did I did I give this an accidently throw it

away cuz that has happened like someone sent me something and I know I had it and it was like sitting on my counter for Like a week and then I go to like actually like process it like a week later when I have like mental bandwidth time and like it's gone. So yeah, opposite for me. It shows up and it's got my name on it. I get like giddy and I'm just like I don't know but this right now. Yeah I'm kind of like the same I am with like when I when I see DMs and I know I don't have like the time to give them the proper attention.

It's like all right I have to I have to pause this and I'll come back to it when I can give it my attention that it deserves kind of thing. I had something else sticker related. I can't remember what it was. Oh, the one annoying thing, I guess, is like, I was literally, it's more annoying because it was my fault, but like I ran out, I didn't have stickers on me half the time at home gym cons.

So then like people that I wanted to give stickers to, I couldn't because they were in the hotel room, like two separate occasions, because it I just when I when I changed clothes, they just didn't come out of the previous shorts pockets And then so I think in the last week I've sent like three different stickers out to people that I had to literally just saw at home Jim calling cuz like our crafts That's crossed Yeah Where we just didn't because like one of my buddies ran out of his stickers and then two other people just like we didn't see

See each other when I had him in stock. So it was just kind of funny. Are we getting your hell yeah brother stickers anytime soon? I'll tell you that I looked at them and I priced about here in Aberdeen and it was pretty outrageous. So if there's any websites you guys use, you should let me know. Yeah, plate snacks, plate snacks, calm code unpaid. Perfect. 10% Yeah, they basically end up being like, I mean, it's still a dollar, a sticker, give or take with shipping and everything. But like, I mean, 50 bucks for 50 stickers isn't horrible. And it should be a little less than that, honestly.

I don't honestly remember. I think it's 30 bucks for 25. And if you use the coupon code, it's less. I'm not 100%. We'll have to get on that, man. Something like that. Get some stickers set about that and the dude there I'll work with your logo too

Like if your logo is a little like blurry He'll like really crisp it up if you just have a couple of DMS back and forth with him I've had really good luck with him blur blur blur blur blur blur blur blur Yeah, I had a quick game. How involved in the discord are you? I try to check it as much as I can I had to take it off much as I can I had to take it off my phone because it was going crazy and I couldn't figure out how to turn those notifications off for sure. Notifications can just die. If my

phone's so I have no notifications set up except for text messages and calls and then I also put it in do not disturb the moment I walk in my door because it's one of those like when I want to look, I'll look. And a lot of the time I, I am on my phone. Like I'm, I'm pretty accessible to it. Um, well, I had this idea of the mass, like the crew insults that we use. Wanted to see if you guys wanted to rate them, but it turns out that like my view of them is a little different than other people.

Cause we're so deep into this. It's kind of, we've created our own lore just from this podcast. Kind of. Cause like I had Bozo in there. I had brick and mortar in there. And it's just one of those, like it's a thing that all of the crew uses specifically when we're talking about a specific thing, right? Like if somebody rips off a massonomics design, we'll ask,and-mortar and veteran founded? Yeah, that one's pretty good Yeah, that one's up there and then scans was like no only you use bozo and I was like

But people say to me all the time, but that's because I use it Yeah, so I I think that game is a bit of a flop but If it's something if we like we might have to well use this as the so if there's anything we just didn't mention If it's something if we like we might have to well use this as the so if there's anything we just didn't mention DM Joey and we'll do a round two of this in a couple weeks If we get a decent enough amount of submissions that we can talk about it I know the I can't wait to get back to fighting is up there as well Big Gabe. Yeah But it was funny because the other day

Somebody was asking about by the broccoli salads disgusting y'all are weird and I haven't had it in years and somebody was like why isn't the broccoli cooked and Jen goes do you cook lettuce before you make a salad and I was like yes and she goes that's bozo shit and that's why in my head I was just like bozo is a crew insult yeah but I guess only to like people only say it to me because I say it so often because we're insane to my guys at work all the time so bozo's a good word like it it it's like a pejorative without being an insult like PC to like you can take it as harsh as you want to take it like would you go to HR and be like he called me a bozo

cuz HR would be like yeah that's probably like he called me a bozo because HR would be like Yeah, that's probably fine. Were you being a bozo? But if they went to HR and was like he called me a cunt like that That one you'd be in trouble for But bozo like that's that's yeah that That's up there. Um, my other favorite insult is uh, your kind usually does I love saying that to people Right, so if they say something like oh, I do this all the time you just go Yeah, your kind usually does and then they have to fill in the insult And it's so

And then what was it? Yeah Sex is it about is it I didn't say any of that. Yeah Any of that HR can take it that you did. And I. Yeah, exactly. But I would not say that when I work. Not at work, but to your friends, that's. Oh, yeah, because then they have to fill in the insult.

So Bozo does the same thing to. I feel that that's good. Let's start using that one down to Jim and I see guys doing stuff. You're kind would do that. You would. You're kind of usually does. And then it's just watching them go. What does that mean? Just turn around and walk away

Awesome Justin you chance to listen to last week's Mastanomics episode the other their home gym con recap is that what it was right? I got through about an hour of it today. There you go. That's It's not take the honest try. Yeah anything There you go. That's not to honest try. Yeah. So anything to your. I walk. I kind of knew about this before Tanner said it on the podcast, but I knew we were getting that pendulum squat. Oh, I thought that was pretty cool.

I don't know where he's going to put it. Yeah. I think I can replace anything that. I don't know. I don't know what the plans are. I know there's some talk about Maybe replacing some stuff, but it's that things very big. There's not a lot of Fits in the back of a Tacoma. So like the head of a Tacoma under the stairs Good now it enough if you did listen, I think how far you actually I don't think it was only container mentioned it on his podcast But uh, Hogan a fellow crew member that's bringing it out to him like him and his part him and his well now fiancee

Congratulations Hogan Going getting engaged there. That's good stuff. Tanner did mention that Yes, oh that they were gonna trade something Okay, then it was something that's physically currently in Mastanomics gym So I don't know and he you know, I fee stuff equipment of some sort So I mean it could be a plate it could be a bar It could be a I you know, I joke that it is at that 700 pound belt squat that he can't sell But like who knows no city on the entrance

Yeah, that is funny. It was that's been there for, was it there? Has it been there ever since? Because it was there last year. I think it was there two years ago. Has it been there for all, every time I've gone to Mazenomics Gym, has it just been sitting out front? That's really funny. I think he's had that new Rogue one for two years, so I think it has just been sitting

out in the corner there collecting dust. I know one of the guys from North Dakota, I think he was supposed to buy it and then kind of backed out on it and then kind of Backed out on it and then it just been sitting there ever since I had some of those things You might just have to give away Because it's just so such a big Awkwardly large piece that finding the right buyer. It's like Someone's gonna commit to that much real estate. It's so overbuilt like the guys that put that thing together They built it so strong like you could put as much on either do whatever you wanted.

I liked it when we had it in the road once obviously nice but. You know it would be tough to move all that out of it. So if you did have to rate last week's episode from what you've heard you know from a five out of five scale what do you think you'd give it. What do you think you'd give it? I'd give it, you know, five out of five. I don't know what... So we do use, I don't know what the hell they say nowadays. That works. For the longest time, it was Mastinomys Gym iPod Touches.

I can actually take that out of the show notes, I think, because we don't say Mastinomys Gym iPod Touches anymore. It's more fun to see what the crew just say and come up with and pull out of their butts. Yeah, I think we started that after the last lift hard, live easy. Probably because we went in and we're playing with all those iPod touches and then now they're not there anymore. So well, they're still there.

No, are they added one? Tanner just goes back in time every once in a while and shows up with a new iPod touch. If you just want ancient music while you lift, you just plug one of those bad boys in and hit shuffle and you don't know what you're gonna get. You're gonna get disturbed a lot. Yep, a lot of five figure death punch we hear down there sometimes. What about you Joey, did you get a chance to listen to it at all? Yeah, I got about halfway through again on vacation so my windshield time is very limited. And that's when I listen to podcasts.

I try listen to it with the kids in the car, but the volume I have to have it on to overcome all the car sounds, it just, then they talk over it because they're kids. So they just start yelling at me. So I was like, nah, I can't listen to Mastanomys with you in the car. So I got about to the part where Joey was talking about, um,

well, you've got to Joey, you got through a good bit of it. Yeah. It's also worth noting every time they said Joey Saga would say, but that's not you. Um, and now they've taken to calling me big Joey, both of my kids, which I said is a bit of a problem. Uh, but it was very, when Saga was in the car, she just kept going, but daddy, that's not you.

And I'm like, no, that's daddy's friend, American Joey. And she's like, oh, and then they would say it again. And she'd be like, but dad, like, so we're going to turn this off. We're going to put on fucking chapel Rowan or whatever you want to listen to. Whatever keeps you quiet for 20 minutes. Um, but yeah, I got through some of it and then started listening to our podcast. And it's, I love it, but that's a lot of Joey, man. Like, I watched the videos and now he's on both podcasts.

I'm like, yeah, it's pretty much the same thing twice. So I'll go ahead and give it a five out of five. A woolen Tommy's hair. Nice. Yeah, so I listened to the pre show last week and then like the live recording. I think they did that. I think they recorded that Monday. So like literally, yeah, they did. So like we got back from home gym con Sunday and then Monday was the home gym con recap. And then me and a bunch of crew recorded the next one on Wednesday. So it was, it was a lot of home gym con recap and then me and a bunch of crew recorded the next one on Wednesday So it was there's a lot of home gym con action going on I think my favorite part of the episode was the pre show grease before they hit record because there's a little big Keith and Tanner

Story there that just you know, ask us in person or at least ask me it was pretty funny Loved hearing Joey get on because that was, that was the big build up after, you know, they kicked everyone off. Um, you know, and they knew the crew was getting on to talk about home gym con. Wouldn't sure if it was going to be like Kurt or Jake or Joey or like Kyle Kysen or, you know, there was, you know, I think some people thought it might've been me, but I was like, Oh, I'm glad it wasn't cause I did not want to record. I didn't want to be on three podcasts that week.

That would have been a pain in the. We've done three in seven days. Yeah. And that would have, uh, I've, I've probably, I mean, I think I've done three in a week too, or we, cause I've, you know, but I've done some other podcasts, uh, the, the home gym or the, you know, garage and radio and whatnot. So I just, I was podcast that out last weekend. We're already doing, this is Tuesday we're recording. So Thursday, yeah, between Wednesday. Yeah. And the last six days I've recorded three podcasts so yeah I'm glad I didn't have to do another one with Tanner and Tommy but all at all I it was cool that Joey

you know was able to get a little more airtime I'll take the opposite approach because I just you know I think Joey deserves to be a little more popular on Instagram than I think than he is you know he's very giving the community. I love the dude. Don't take me wrong there. It was just like, I was cycling between the two and his voice was on both. And it was just like, which one am I listening to right now? Because... I just, I hope the crew did enjoy our podcast.

It was fun. It was like a last minute decision. And honestly, I might not have done it if we didn't, we were like, you know, we needed a podcast for Lift Hard, Live Easy week. And this, and we just had the crew do one for us and I didn't wanna put that on the rest of the crew that close to Lift Hard, Live Easy again. So it was just easier for, oh, we can just do this and that's content

and you know, can knock it out. So that's what we did there. The episode itself, good stuff. I will go ahead and give it five out of five. Fuck, I, you know yeah big big Joey ease I think I might have given it that last time, but that's what we're gonna. Go this time. I did um I Think they introduced him as big big American Joey or big Joey Big American Joey a couple of times referred to him as American Joey, which is funny

Yeah, which yeah, we wouldn't get if it wasn't for you which is kind of funny so it is. But I'm not Canadian Joey. No it is. It's just if they say Joey they you know they mean me so they have to the caveat that it's which is wild because I'm from a whole different country. Do I? Be honest with you. I'm sorry Keith. No, you're good. When they were interviewing that Joey, I thought it was you. That Joey knows way too much about gym equipment. Oh yeah, I don't know shit about gym equipment. Well, I'm so far out of that world, you know, and they're talking about all these different booths they're at, all these different things. I'm like, God, this guy knows a lot about gym equipment. And then they said his last name and I'm like, oh.

Yeah, at least that's not him. It's just an example of that. So I posted a picture of all my Strongman bags. Excuse me. Because I had a Strongman day two weeks ago or something, right? And Kevin messages me from Kevin Rahill. And he goes, hey, how do you like the Bells of Steel sandbag?bag because the bells of steel sandbag has a lot of straps on it. I hate that fucking bag so much. Okay, see and my response was

Dude, it's a bag full of stuff. I lift up like I don't actually care I think it's dangerous that you get your arm cut on it going. Yeah caught in it going over a bar You're gonna break your fucking arm So I've never done that. Yep. I've never done that I've never had a problem with it, but I was like legitimately like I've used the Cerberus bags at other gyms I've used this bag this bag this bag and I was like but in all fairness a bag is a bag It's full of heavy Pea gravel or sand and I lifted up and put it down. I don't really care and he goes. Yeah, I thought you'd say that And I lifted up and put it down. I don't really care and he goes. Yeah, I thought you'd say that

So it's fun like as you say like the other Joey knows so much and has all these preferences and then here I am I'm just like I it's big and heavy and I pick it up That's a very good example of the difference between me and Joey I should Vera is that I don't I don't know. I I don't care I have the I have another bag I'm gonna fill up to 150 and I'm actually gonna put sand in that one to see if I notice a difference And I'm willing to bet I don't P gravel all the way He said I cover what Tanner said something along the lines of this guy knows more about road equipment than Then the guys that run out road does know, and I was like, God, right.

It's not, I like to lift, but I'm not that deep into that world to know all the bells and whistles and we can hook this up to blah, blah, blah. But I'm the same way. And it's like, I talked to Keith and Keith is like, I have a preference of this bar for this lift and it has to be this style and I'm just like, huh? As long as it has knurling and is kind of designed for what it's supposed to do, I don't care. And yeah, I think that there's obviously levels to this home gym nerd shit. And I've got a treadmill and that's about as home gym as I get, but I'm also fortunate to be able

to drive to mass and on Five blocks to mass and I'll make some workout. That's all it is That's that yeah, you damn near walk that if you wanted your cardio to let's not get the treadmill and walk to pass another Business bought the treadmill for the wife and I'm sure you guys know how often that thing gets used Yeah, I've stubbed my toe more on the elliptical machine. I bought her then she's used it Anything we missed on general topics that you wanted to hit on Justin that kind of like, you know anything Mastodon x related Anything like that before we get on the before we get that sponsor read. I

Think we're good man. You guys good content All right, let's let's let's see if you got a sponsor for us when we get the guests on the horn all right And I know it's here for you all right, so this might be a little different than I remember Jenny Lee It's hers was super filled with sauce, so you've got to bear with me all right whatever you got man. It's gonna be perfect You decide to darken staircase The sound of heavy metal and screaming fills your ears. As you reach for the door, the sound of weights hitting the floor gives you goosebumps. You take a deep breath and enter. Welcome to Massanovic's Gym, Western Northeast South Dakota's strongest

gym. This is where you come to get strong and learn how to use your strength. Did you know they also have a podcast? Tanner and Tommy talk about all sorts of things related to lifting. Did you also know that they have an online store with the best lifting apparel? No demand. All of them on all their shows, socials and lift with the best of us. We hope to see everyone here at Mastanomics Gym in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Oh, yeah. Love it. It's an insider perspective.

Yeah. So actually, let's get our guests on the horn because that's going to lead to Keith's question, I think here. Um, so big Justin, is that you? Yes, brothers. How you doing? Doing amazing. Welcome to unpaid and underrated you are live. We're gonna keep going So the fact that you just read that from an insider perspective, I think Keith here you had a question That would directly correlate to that. Yeah, this is so what what Brock's in economics, but no not that one. Oh My least fun most fun. No from where he's oh Oh my least fun most fun no from where he oh

I don't fucking so it says here. I'll read it to you because you typed it and apparently forgot Well, no, I see it. I just you're jumping like 30 lines down. So wasn't it on my computer, but it goes with his ad read Tanner was somewhat shocked that you listen to unpaid and underrated Because apparently a lot of the old timers in the gym give everybody shit for listening to massonomics and unpaid and underrated. So like how do you how do you mitigate that? Like is that actually a thing? Like Larry is like, I don't listen to that junk. And you're like, it's fun screw you. Like, how does that work?

Well, if I'm being honest with you, I don't know if Larry actually knows what a podcast is. So, you know, he's an example. He's still reading the newspaper and stuff. Um, you know, sometimes when I'm at work, I have a lot of, uh, office time doing spreadsheets, things like that. And, uh, I listened to, listened to Tanner and Tommy's stuff for a long time. And it was a lot of fun. And then, you know, kind of met you guys at the first LeTard and found out about your podcast and stuff and started listening to some episodes. And it was,

it was just like, I like I told Keith, like, it was more kind of fresh for me, because it was just you guys talking to people that I could like maybe more relate to if that makes sense to you guys, you know? Absolutely. And it was just, I like it when things are fun and not so serious. I tell people all the time, like I have to be serious for 12 hours a day. And I like to, if I'm going to, you know, you can listen to your Joe Rogan's and things like that, but it's always such deep, serious content where it's nice to turn

you guys on and listen to other crew and just have fun and enjoy what I'm listening to be able to laugh versus like, Oh, you know, doom and gloom and the world's going to end tomorrow and type stuff. Yeah. We try, we try and avoid that as much as possible. And if everyone you know, guys give me shit at the gym for so I'm gonna shut the fuck up. I did the house listening to it like don't worry about me. No, that's awesome, dude. I'd I'd love that we've inundated at least a handful of the gym members there because we're not you know, I just know historically there's not a ton of

the guys there that even listen to the Masonomics or at least I think Tanner did, I don't know if I should share this, but I think Tanner did even say that some of the guys there were like, pretend like they don't listen to Masonomics when they really do. And I'm not sure if you think there's any truth to that, you know. I mean, there might be, I think if I'm being honest, I think we, for me and maybe Larry and stuff, like we're able to lift there. We're able to see Tanner probably once a week, if he's down to the gym and shoot the shit and talk about new things. So it's hard to devote an hour and a half or two hours to kind of hear stuff that you already know. And like I said, I knew about the pendulum squat deal.

So when I heard that, I was like, Oh yeah, that's cool. But you know, when you're, it's like anything else, when you're able to be there and talk to people to listen to it again later, it just is kind of like, eh, well, let's fast forward a little bit. Yep. No, I can see that. It's actually like part of the reason I don't like recap episodes if I was there. And that's all it is. It's like literally just us telling you all the stuff you missed out on

And I was already there. So like I just don't for me. That's just no I Fully fair opinion But I look at it as if that motivates if my if our recap episodes motivate like one person to go to that event next Year like that was two hours of success because that just grew our circle one more person and made them more money and et cetera. I see that side of the coin. That's why if I was there, I'm in, but if I wasn't there, I'm not in. Oh yeah, no. It's easy content.

It's an easy give five other people the opportunity to carry some of the weight so I don't have to go there and do show notes and stuff. It's like you know type out like 10 bullet points and say hey we're gonna hit on all these and easy to go uh but yeah let's get back to the guest here so big Justin I guess uh when and where did you find massonomics how was your fitness journey through that I mean usually we say what brought you to massonomics but obviously for you it'll be the gym so just tell us your whole origin story with that gym specifically. Yeah, so I worked with Big Corey. I don't know if you guys know Big Corey, but he's been a member there for a long time.

And we actually at the time both lifted at the local SNAP Fitness here in Aberdeen. And I was talking to him one day and noticed that he hadn't been at SNAP for a while. He asked me, you know what's the deal? And he told me about Massan like, this group of guys. And I was kind of getting tired of the, I don't want to say public gym because mass and I'm like, isn't really private.

I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's about as private club gym as you're going to find. Right. You kind of got to know a guy. It definitely has the least amount of douchebags in it per capita than probably any other gym there in town. A hundred percent. And so that was what was driving me really away from that public gym stuff You know put your stuff down to go get a drink and there's someone taking your weight off the bar stuff like that. I

Went down there and checked it out. I met Tommy and that you know, Larry for the first time and saw You know that those guys were what I really into it what time because we all have a fairly good I'd understand it like their time frame So what time frame like what year ish Like so we kind of like visualize what gym it actually was So they've had like three different gym. Well three different eras of the gym So this wouldn't have been I this wouldn't be like I would call like the gen 1 gym Kind of really down in the dungeon, but this was before they added or the expansion back half. Yep

Yeah, we're on the so everything was just in that first room. That's so wild to even think about how small that area is now, like how hard it would be to fit racks and everything in there, and still get like 10 people working out at the same time. That's crazy. Yeah, it was one deadlift rack.

You had your two squat racks, and unfortunately one was right by the bathroom, so someone went, did some business. That was fun to squat in there, but that just went down there. Uh, Corey took me down there one day and I lifted with those guys. And the next day I went to snap and cancel my membership and did all my paperwork. That's kind of been down there since then. So were you able to do the in-person meetup with Tanner?

Do you still have to go slide into his Ds and hope that he responded and all that? Because that's always a funny story to us is when he kind of explains how hard it is to get a membership there Yeah, so I just I got his number from Cory. I just text him. I filled out all the paperwork He told me which locker was his I dropped it off and nice It's gonna be easier for him when he does have the the personal referral to and rather than just being like a friend of a friend Of a friend when it's like hey My buddy's gonna come to a day pass with me and then he's gonna join kind of so that's yeah makes it easier for him So just so people can find you on Instagram and discord

Where would they where would you want to send people to go look you up just so they know here who they're gonna listen to for the next hour So I've got I kind of run the hell yeah brother one which is an Instagram only HYB training that brother I think something like that or I'd have to look at that Yeah, because if I start typing out hell, yeah, it doesn't show up It's a HYB I believe and then it might be no yeah brother in the title But I think the findable one is HYB Yeah, where did that come from? It's h-y-b dot training dot program. Yeah.

So that, that the whole hell yeah, brother thing is it's a little funny. And I can, I remember listening to Kayden's podcast. You guys asked him about it. It kind of came from like me and Larry were so against the juggernaut app. Like we were like, this thing is stupid. It's not going to get you strong. You know, just do this kind of old school thing that Larry was into. And by the way, we all ended up jumping on it. I am still on it to this day and I love it.

So I take back. Yeah, I take back everything that I said about it. I did hear that tidbit over the weekend. I got a kick out of that when I was fishing for some big Justin info from Tanner. Yeah. So that that kind of started it and we were just kind of poking fun at everyone that was doing that. And then I just kind of have a, in Aberdeen, I should say, so we'll limit this to the 30,000 people in this town.

But like my distaste for personal trainers is it's like in this town, it's if you've ever been to a gym, it's like, Hey, call me. I'm a trainer now. And so we are kind of poking fun at that to start it. And then, you know, it's now it's just a group of guys. We just like to live together and all stuff. And like, if you look at the progression, you know, it used to be a lot of,

Hey, sign up for a crazy amount of money for a short period of time. We'll make you strong. And now it's more just kind of showing off the guys when they're hitting the yards and stuff like that. It's kind of where that came from. Nice. So you're obviously in Aberdeen now, is that where you're born and raised? Or you, you know, you transplanted to the the great area of mosquitoes? great area of mosquitoes. Uh, mosquitoes. They're there. Washes. I'll tell you right now, gentlemen, they are thick. Took the dog out right before I logged out and about could carry it away.

But, um, make sure you bring us, bring us some bug spray in Tanner's backyard in case someone forgets, I've got that good three M stuff. Yep. All the, all the locals should do the travelers a favor and bring in some, some spunk spray. I'll bring you some good shit from work. Nice. I was born here. I actually grew up in a small town that's about 12 miles north, Westport,

South Dakota. But I just drove came to school here. So I just always say I'm from Aberdeen. Yep. Close enough. Yeah. Let's see. So you got anything for him, Joe? I feel like I've gotten less three or four. I mean, it's all the it's the same questions we asked at the time. But you've been there forever. You've got that incredible OG black on black shirt. Is there one you didn't get that you wish you did? So I want to say it was it was at the same time like he did, they did the lift one and it had kind of Arnold silhouette face on it.

And then they had to like get a grip one with that kind of mummy hand on it. I didn't get that one. And I, that's one that I wish I would have got. Yeah. The, the lifted one that looks like the Misfits thing, but it's, yeah, yeah. It's on. Oh yeah. It's got the side profile of Terminator.

I got that somewhere, but that's one of those ones that the that the printing on it is so big that it shrinks the shirt. Yeah. So, you know, you order your standard size, then you, it doesn't fit. So yeah, I've got that one. I've also got, I've got to get a grip one. But again, it just doesn't fit because it's just too much printing on it. And I think that's the thing we don't talk about enough is the level of printing on a shirt shrinks the shirt. I think we've commented on it a few times, and I think it's, I learned it on our podcast, just by talking about it, I was like, oh, that makes sense.

That's why the Bench & 315 shirt's a little snug in the tits. Yep. Because the back is just a massive skull, which is, I wonder if that costs them more money to print, too, I bet it does. I bet if the ratio of print versus fabric, you'd think they would have to pay more for square inch or whatever the fuck.

I actually wonder if the print and the color cost them the most. Right? You know that they don't have tags? They have their custom print in there? I wonder if that costs. I think that would cost the most No, it's really a stamp because that that's super not I mean

It's like most of mine are worn out because when I go to like look to see is it is this a fucking excel that I Haven't taken out of the closet yet, or is it a 2x that fits and I'm like shit. I can't tell it's all fucking blurry But tag tagless t-shirt supremacy for sure. Oh, yeah But tagless t-shirt supremacy for sure. Oh yeah, no wonder. I rip a fucking tag out of every new shirt. Every shirt I get that has a tag, it doesn't. Yeah, it goes away. What's your hall of fame status?

Do you got one? I don't have, I couldn't find my card. I don't have a lot of things checked off on it to be honest with you guys. So it's not, well, here's one. Probably not that impressive. Yeah. Anything more than one is impressive I know it's somewhere where the my member card was so it's over and filed somewhere in there but it's how we got to do a lot and what

was your membership number for anyone listening 266 that's pretty which card do you have do you have the gold card or the the black and red card I have the golden so you're probably like at least 15 or 20. You're at least 10 less than that probably now. Cause I've had Tanner, been in the presence of Tanner when he's like just going through the spreadsheet, telling people their numbers and it's always their immediate response is like, oh damn,

that's like several less than it was on the card from a year ago. So that's pretty cool. So I'm assuming you are not, well, I mean, technically you train in a certified training center, but I'm assuming you don't have a certified training center above your wife's treadmill, so we can skip that. No, I do not.

I do not. I don't know, as soon as I saw it there, I was like, don't ask that one. Yeah, I was already like halfway out of my mouth, I was like, yeah, it's irrelevant. So, I know you sent this to a handful of guys. Did you? Well, he kind of covered it with just tell him be honest, but not stupid But did you have to explain unpaid and underrated to him?

I'm sure does Larry know who I know he doesn't know Mastanomics is you know unpaid and underrated yet? Yeah, so he knew I don't think he's ever listened to it. Obviously Caden knew because he was on this and Our other buddy Ethan that we lived with he's fairly new but he'd never listened to it. Obviously, Kaden knew because he was on this. And then our other buddy, Ethan, that we lived with, he's fairly new, but he'd never listened to it. And I'm like, well, you know, he's a he's a cop with Kaden. Oh, you know, you guys don't do anything, so you should check it out. I was given both so much shit about that, but I know bless them for what they do and stuff like that. Just give me see those speeding tickets, That's all and like, you know

Fines for gathering and you know too many people in one location. Yeah being too loud loitering all that good stuff looking mosquitoes All right, so I've got a game we like to play here It's called least fun most fun So I'm gonna give you a certain topic and you're gonna use your druthers and you're gonna explain to me The least fun thing about said topic and the most fun thing about said topic You know, you can be a 30 second answer or a five minute answer doesn't really matter to us As long as it's two separate answers not just one least fun most fun training at Mastnomics gym I would honestly say the most fun will start will start there is

Just being around guys with you guys with like mind. They want to be down there to get strong and just be cool with everybody and you can go down there and joke and you can go down there and be serious and stuff like that. The least fun is people that just sit on a bench when I want a bench and stare at their phone. There's not very many of them, but there's a few. I hate to say that about that gym, but every gym has one. Mm hmm. So that's that's the least. Or when the radio doesn't work, I mean, that's not very funny.

Has that been all squared away in the last year since he put all that money in by the new the receiver or someone already fucked up the new receiver? Yeah. Speakers. So we found out that if too many people connect to Bluetooth and then don't connect, it will eventually just stop letting everyone connect. And Larry has to come and do whatever he does to reset the whole stereo. But other than that, it's been great. Haven't had any problems since.

That's wild. Yeah. Because technically you should only be able to have one person connected at a time. Yeah, it might just be like the memory of holding like 20 phones. And I guess you have to pair them. Yes. When you pair them, it only has a certain memory. That makes sense. Yeah. We got through that. So everyone knows to un-pair when you leave now.

Good. There's no signs about it yet. There's no passive aggressive. Please, now good. There's no signs about it yet. There's no passive aggressive That could be one of the most fun things there too though, honestly all of Tanner's notes they're great They'll see a new one and you're like who why do we even have to post this here? You know, like why is this a thing? And they're awesome So my question as always Why do we even have to post this here? You know, like, why is this a thing? They're awesome. So my question, as always, you got one big lift, you're going up, it's a competition, not a competition, whatever, gym PR, who's the hype person

that's slapping your back and getting you going? You can go alive, dead, past, present, anything. Oh, it can be anyone. Absolutely. Genghis Khan could be the guy back there. You know if I had to say like a fictional person like I hopefully Ragnar Lothbrok would come and give me some some pointers on what to do because that guy seemed pretty awesome. Yeah. You know but if I'm being honest with you guys in my lifting career, it's, it's always been Larry. Like if that guy can't get you up to do something that you're not

sure you can do, then I'm not sure that you're even breathing at that point. That doodle, I don't know what old man magic he has, but he'll slap you around and say shit to you. And then next thing you know, you've just hit a PR that you didn't think you even had in you. So he truly is. He's a hell of a guy and a hell of a hype man. So especially at the meets, you know, that the lift hard, live easy he's not screaming at you. There's something wrong. What's, what's, what's funny. Um, they've been calling Larry an old man for like eight years Which would have put him younger because well, how old is he?

40 okay, so like he's basically when he when they met him or they like since you know, basically He's our he's my and Joey's age Now from when they first started calling him an old man, so that's just kind of like, fuck, I guess we are the old man. You'll hear that, you know, if you ever get a chance, if you're down there and he's lifting, that's he's going to go do something. Everyone's always like, let's go, man. I'm like, let's get this. He somehow pulls out.

He's just got, I don't know. He's got weird strength. If you could ever figure out a way to just get him on here and have him talk. He's such a doofus, but he's a bozo Joey is His clip on Ant Antony's submission on whatever the video whatever the last video contest was where he was what the fuck was the premise He's like I was talking about something and he's like this shit so fucking good I can't I I can't remember what the topic was though. Now that I'm drawing a blank. I hope someone can fill me in there Fuck what was the last video contest they ran? I can't

Anyway, it was it was freaking hysterical because Anthony made like a whole hysterical video as a submission, but God is I'm drawing a blank on it But yeah, Larry just and then like Anthony explained it to me how he had to like walking Anthony That's what I said. I said Anthony nine fucking times and Anthony and I did not there was no th It was a in fucking t and I fucking I have a slur so fuck off. That's that's offensive. Nope. Nope. Nope Fucking I think I think I know the video you're talking about your kind would say something like that Joey during spotter contest. Yeah Thank you to big Gary our on-page intern. Good man, Gary Gary. All right

This was be your third lift hard or you compete in you breathe everyone right? Nice. Yep, they're doing Any goals specifically you're trying to hit this year? I'd really like to deadlift 600. That'd be cool. I'd really go after that at the gym. My body's paying for it, but I think regardless, we're just going to send it for that third attempt. And you know, like the Ivan Draggle thing. Do you have a last heavy lift this week,

or are you pretty much already shutting it down for your deload? I've got one big bench and then one big squat left. Oh, sure. Okay. So. Now you're going to take a break. No, that's what third attempts are for.

Yeah. They're there to fail. Yeah. Well, so we'll see. You know, I think everything's going good training wise for it. So we'll hopefully pull some off. Nice. Now, how did your deadlift progress?

Because it says here that you decided not to train legs at all for several years. Yeah, actually that's very true. That's a snap fitness thing. You know, I'd go in there and be like, okay, we're going to squat today. And then I just see that bench all by itself and be like, well, you know, we should probably bench instead. But you know, that, that was one of the things about getting down to mass dynamics with those guys and seeing everybody do that and realizing like,

Hey, that's a huge deficiency I have. I should work on this. And even then, like if I wasn't fuzz down there after work by myself, it'd be like, eh, you know, I probably really don't need to squat today. But then when I started thinking about competing and stuff and just got into Being on the juggernaut things like that. It was a part of the deal. I know I had to squat deadlift and just kind of Went down that path and I've done it ever since and I don't dislike it as much as science I

Can't imagine it negatively affected your bench that much I mean, maybe if you low bar squat three times a week, it would fuck up your bench. But if you're smart and you use a variety of squat bars, you know, and you're not benching four times a week, like, you know, it's you can do a little bit of everything and be healthy and you got a nice variety of bars down there. I mean, I think Tanner has a couple bars. Have you got the new tsunami bars yet? I Have not they just saw. Just this week. Yeah. Yep.

I'm curious how much, how much different that'll be than the earthquake bars. Or did you utilize the earthquake ones at all, or whichever ones that he has the yeah, the bamboo style bars. I've used both of those, uh, to kind of just work on some shoulder rehab that I had, um, and those are nice. I'm kinda, you know, there's two bars in the gym that I like to use one to squat and one to bench with and the rest of them I, if someone else is using one that I want, sure I'll use the rest of them, but I kind of just seek

out the ones I like. And what are those? I like that Kabuki bar that we have for benching and then Oh yeah, that's a good one Those big 55 pound ones that we spot with that the meat. I've just yes. All right. Oh, yeah I just get a little wider. It doesn't hurt my shoulders as much so Makes sense all the kind of fancy stuff. I don't I don't use very much the Like the SSB stuff. I'll use the squad if I don't have to do anything much the like the SSB stuff I'll use the squad if I don't have to do anything cop squat wise but yeah yeah those are a nice variety you guys he has a Mars bar

too that's what's once when I it's when I haven't had a chance to use too much that I might you know be intrigued to fuck with someday I don't know if there's a bar that we don't have a hundred bars. Always something. I mean, just because like if you start factoring like different colors and finishes, you know, that opens up a whole new plethora of bars that he needs. I mean, well, I'm curious if we'll get Dave Tate just drop some new bars, like some new thinner Swiss bars, basically, like a, you know, a thinner football bar that I'm not really sure what the appeal of it was yet I haven't watched the video on it but I'm curious if we'll get that just because they're sponsored now by elite FTS which is pretty cool. It always makes me laugh and Tanner he'll bring a new one down you know he'll all send us a message I'm just making shit up it'll be like oh this is the first bar you know it's forged from like a meteorite that fell to earth or some shit like that.

Like, all right, let's give her a shot, man. That's really good. It's nice to have that. So feel free to talk about it as little or as much as you want. But what do you do for a living, bud? I work at 3M here in Aberdeen. I'm a manufacturing supervisor. So I make sure that my guys are in line and

we get product out the door. Nice. And you had mentioned being serious for 12-hour days. Is that because you're working 12-hour shifts? You're talking about you happen to be serious with your wife a couple hours at night too. The 12-hour shift sounds miserable. Yeah, so that one's really on me. I try not to work that many hours, but 10 to 12 is probably a normal day. I just. Oh, yeah. You salary is going to put in 60 hours a week and then fuck that noise. Yeah.

Yeah. Fuck that noise. It's my favorite part. So over it. It's not even funny. It's terrible. Well, is your day off and you still have to get up and check in every day? Great.

So I'll tell you this. That's funny. You say that because all last week has on vacation and I bet I worked every day from home. Oh yeah. I'm on vacation now. I still check. Yep.

Everyone's wild. We pull out the phone and I'm just like, where are they at? What are they doing? Yeah. I was actually at my work today and I walk in and I'm just like, there's not enough of you here and the person that's covering me is like, oh, well this person called in and I'm like Okay, okay Nothing I can do about it though But in my head, I'm just like oh

I'm gonna have to deal with that when I get back Yeah, so that stuff sucks, but it is what it is, you know is what it is so under nicknames we have a PB fury and more cherry are those video game things or any of those got a funny story Is that is that peanut butter fury or lead fury? Well, everyone will tell you peanut butter, but so that that one comes from my paintball days it was one of our That one comes from my paintball days. It was one of our Our team names that you came up with was paintball theories. I don't know if you guys have ever seen the movies of warriors

Mm-hmm. So we based it off the baseball theories come out Okay, went that direction on both accounts. I thought I was being clever with the lead fury Yeah, I thought it was like a belt-fed thing no, it's just like a subtle gun reference. Nope. Nope. All right. Yeah. The mortuary one, that's a paintball thing too. And I just kind of thought it was cool and use it as my gamer tags with everything I do.

So that's where those two came from. All paintball stuff. What games are you playing? I see you like RPGs easier. Yeah. I'll tell you, I just got done with the last Diablo 4 kind of expansion, that Vessel of Hatred, but if I'm just playing, I'm playing Diablo 2 Resurrected. I'm still playing that constantly. I'm still on Assassin's Creed. I've logged 180 hours on this game.

They run the new one or the new one. Oh, I've cleared all of them. But I've yeah, I opened up my PlayStation app the other day because somebody was like, oh, add me on PlayStation. I'm like, OK. And that was kind of embarrassing to see the amount of time I put into this game. I think the last one I played was the. What was the Viking one?

Ragnarok or Valhalla, it's all the. Valhalla. Yeah, yeah. I still have a whole lot. It's like five years old. I'm like, I haven't even got back to that yet. Every Viking video game is either Valhalla or Ragnarok. There is no in between. So, you know, you're right.

And I was God of War with it. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right. I'm just waiting for fucking GTA war with it. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's right. I'm just waiting for fucking GTA six someday. That would be nice. Yeah, we're all waiting for GTA six. But I don't even want to play it. I just need to see it come out so I can die happy.

I just get the same. Or what are the PS5 games now? Are they sixty nine dollars or they say no, no, no. They're eighty nine here in Canada. Fuck, man, because I got to buy Madden and then see a football in the next couple of months when they start coming. I don't have to, but like I probably will. But I'm like, fuck, there's like $200.

I'm not going to get back. And I'm going to keep buying it every year. You simply need to buy Madden and don't buy a physical copy and don't open it just because Saquon's on the cover. And you just hide that thing. Somebody will do a tons of money. I promise. Yeah. Big, big Eagles fan over here. We've heard. Hey, that's a good segue.

Yeah. How did someone out in the, you know, the, the West West become the Eagles fan? My dad was an Eagles fan. There you go. I just had a follow-up most footsteps. Is that where your headphones are teal? No, I just, I think I just bought a pair of razor headphones one day that were green and said hey whatever for me Green teal whatever. I I might have does teal green or blue and now I'm thinking that I said that we're color wrong That's definitely not teal and I appreciate you. What is what the hell color is teal? It's a little bit more of a blue or green than that. Okay, so it's not okay Just so you know, it does look like an Eagles green on mine. I know why I said teal it's a little bit more of a blue or green than that okay, so it's not okay

So just so you know it does look like an Eagles green on mine I know why I said teal, but yeah It definitely is closer to an Eagles green just so you know by the way today at Costco Oren saw a kid on an iPad that had the same case as his iPad I thought it was his and no he came to me and said He has the same iPad case as me, but mine's blue and his is teal. No. Wow.

Yeah. So Orin can recognize teal better than, and he's when he doesn't lick a bathroom wall for at least like you've never licked a bathroom and we can talk. I don't know. There was, uh, actually I knew that was just really funny that that happened today and that came up. That was... It is. The small world for sure. So yeah, it'd be nice to, you know, you guys have actually had some success here more recently,

so that's not too bad for you as opposed to, you know, they were kind of really good when McNabb was there and then they kind of, you know, hit or miss. Well, you had the one Super Bowl to where foals led you there Yeah, so yeah, it's not not a horrible team to be a fan of but yeah sake one definitely helped put you over the edge There last year. Oh, absolutely. I love it out here because it's either Vikings Packers or the Chiefs. Yeah, and I get dogged on so much for liking the Eagles. And I just, I love it. Like, Hey, where were the Vikings at this year guy? You know, my guy, they don't even show up. So how do you feel about the Dallas Cowboys? I hate them with a bitter passion. So individually or just as a team? I, I think you just as an organization, as a whole, if they just disappeared, I wouldn't even know.

Okay. Let's have another beer and forget they existed. What about the Patriots? Cause everybody hates the Patriots. Don't I dislike the Patriots? The same reason I disliked the chiefs is because they start to win and everyone's win and everyone's like old Tom Brady Patrick Mahomes are the greatest thing on earth. I'm like, are they though? You know Look look what kind of motorcycle you got. I have a Harley Road King

You know that as much as you'd well as much as you want because of the roads out there are so damn flat I feel like it'd be dangerous to have a bike because I just be like well Let's see if I can go 130 today. I think the bugs would be more Yeah, do you have a do you have the the winds the windshield or the windbreaker thing on it I do not So it's gonna be impossible to go Did they get your visorless mask then or a visorless home? I can't even imagine. Do you have to get a knit comb for your beard after every ride? So I would, if I'm going far, I wear a bandana kind of over my face smart.

Yeah. So that I don't eat half the bugs as well. Um, you know, riding in town, it's not that bad every year. I write out to Sturgis, uh, Sturgis rally. Every year I ride out to Sturgis for the big Sturgis rally. That's a six hour drive across the west west west side of the state. Gorgeous though, gorgeous. It's so much nicer over there than it is over here, especially when you get into the hills and stuff. But the bugs are definitely a factor. I don't like bees.

Somehow every year I get stung driving. That's not shocking. And I don't like that. Can I ask a question? So when we were in Wisconsin, driving to the Lyft Hard Live Easy the first year, well, it was very obvious to us that nobody was wearing helmets.

Do you guys have helmet laws? We know it's different. No, geez. It's like an all-state thing. OK, because up here, like you have to like it's the law. You have to wear a helmet when you ride. That's interesting. I think if you if you cross, I want to say if you cross it in Minnesota,

you have to put one on, you'll get pulled over. But here in South Dakota, they're just kind of like the wild West. Just go die. Like it's fine. They're like, you want to get a motorcycle? This is your problem now. Yep. 100%.

Why? I personally wear one cause I don't want to be scattered across the ground. Of course. But my buddy that I go to the rally with, he refuses. And I'm like, hey, whatever you want, man, that's on you. Yep. I see it the same way. All right.

Are you a, uh, you know, one thing that, you know, I feel like one out of every, uh, five crew have in common that have been on this podcast is they, uh, like to smoke some kind of meat or, you know, some kind of big barbecue guys know some kind of big barbecue guys that we see in the show notes here that's something you're also a fan of? Yep it's one of my favorite things to do on a Sunday is go out there fire up the smoker and you know do a do a pork butt do ribs you know get it all set up before I go to the gym on Sunday morning and just kind of let her buck all day. Get to drink beer while you do it. It's actually a prerequisite. I think it's a law here actually that you have to. I didn't think South Dakota had many laws. That's wild, but that's one of them.

I think that's one of them. No, it's actually in the terms and conditions of the smoker. Oh, there you go. Yeah. I think Matt said that once that like, no, who was it? They'd convince their kids that the smoker doesn't work unless a beer is open. That's funny. I do know that, uh, in the owner's manual for a Traeger, when you open it up, one of the tools to put it together is a six pack of beer.

That's good stuff. Now that it kind of helps, do you buy that smoker at Walmart? Uh, I let the Menards here in town, so I got Something I've been into though. I have not been into the Menards there That's right do a quick walk through just to buy a couple. Yeah, it's right across from the target right yeah, I believe It's right. It's literally straight from Brock the Rock. Yep Yeah, okay, I believe it's it's right. It's literally straight from Brock the Rack. Yep Yeah, okay I don't have much attention. I don't I don't think I've been to the Walmart, you know

I had to go so year one I was just being Stephanie So we went to Target because we'll always go to Target over Walmart near to us with Chris and Jeff and they wanted to save A couple bucks. They're like, oh, let's go to Walmart and I would have much it was a nice Walmart for being a Walmart Like I've got really bad Walmarts up here that are just like not. I know your Walmart suck. Yeah. But like the South Dakota was a better Walmart,

but I'd still go to Target every second that I have a choice. That's wild. As a Canadian, I've been to both your towns. Fair, that's true. I can't personally, I can't go to Walmart because if there was something that wanted to motivate me to be like a serial killer, it's that store No, I hate it. I hate it. But there's certain things there that are so much less expensive

So me and me and my wife actually got the Walmart delivery So she'll just order everything on her phone So very seldom do I have to go anymore. It's like, I should look into that. Yeah. I should look into that because every once in a while Morgan would be like, look, we need a couple of things. Like she knows how to deal with me.

We need a couple of things. They're very cheap at Walmart. We need to go to Walmart. And like you can visibly see me go, uh, and actually today we went to the Costco I work at, like I mentioned earlier, and both kids fell asleep. It was such a taxing and like emotionally draining experience to be at Costco for 45 minutes. Yeah. I'll take Costco. I'll take Costco for Walmart any day of the week, though, for sure. Say we'll drive down to crew falls.

I have a Costco membership. We'll go every few months, me and my wife and just to simply go to Costco. That's why you have Costco membership and it's three hours away. That's fucking wild. It's yeah, it's worth it. I, like I said, I, I work there, so I'm there all the time. It just blows my mind. Every time I go there, I've been there a dozen times now.

And every time I walk in, I'm just like, what is all this? This is the biggest different shit every time too. There's hundreds of people coming in with me and behind me in front of me. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, if you have a family, it's you're saving so much by buying this bulk jet that like, you know, there are certain things like even Morgan was like, I can get pork line somewhere else cheaper, but like chicken thighs and chicken breasts. And it's like, you're crazy not to you get a two kilogram bag of chicken fingers because it's all kids elite and it's the same price as you know the local grocery store for half of that right American pounds is that American two kilograms we don't do kilos here man catch up to the rest of the world but catch up. Oh, I gotcha.

Catch up to the rest of the world. How long have you been growing the beard? Oh, shit, man. Uh, probably been. I probably had this for 12 years now. I got tired of buying razors. I know you've heard me tell that story. Another story I've heard a time or two on this podcast. Thank you, Gary. Two kilograms is 4.4 pounds.

Yeah, I was going to say five, so thereabouts. But yeah, the one day I was shaving and the razor was rusty and I went, I'm never buying this shit again. And that was, I say nine years ago, but Morgan says it was more like 11. And it goes through various lengths And I think I just took like six inches off about a two month three months ago But yeah, they are and has your chin and I was like you don't know that See my chin in a decade. I So I have to keep it at four inches for work. Mm-hmm. So that gets a little frustrating

I, so I have to keep it at four inches for work. So that gets frustrating. No, it's, uh, just safety around all the machines, you know, but, um, I know my buddy that I said to him, I go to the rally with, he has a big beer too. And during COVID he had to go, uh, to another three M facility and he had to wear a face fitted mask, so he had to shave. No, no. He came to work. I a hundred percent. God's honest truth he had to shave. No, no. He came to work, I, 100%, God's honest truth,

I did not know who he was. I'd never seen him without a beard. One of the beard companies up here released the beard mask, so it was this long mask that you could fold under the beard, and it was triple or double-ply cotton. And a couple times people were like, you can't wear that, and I was like, you can't stop me.

Like this is a regulated mask, but that's, that's how I kept it throughout the years. Do you have a regimen? Uh, I will admit, I just bought tea tree oil shampoo for the dandruff in the heat. Uh, do you have oils? Do you do anything with it or do you just have it? Let it go. So I have, uh, I use the companyve Before Shave not sure if you've heard of them but I use their beer shampoo beer conditioner then their beard oil. I probably wouldn't but my

wife used to be a hairstylist so she makes sure that I have all the proper hair. I've noticed if i don't have oil it turns it it's like a hay stack on my face so i actually like i miss oil when i don't have it yeah and i don't wear clone or anything like that so having a scented beard oil kind of helps yeah well if you want some good stuff check out gray before shade man yeah i'll put i'll put it out there there's another one from calgary called feed your beard they do do all Viking themed stuff But his scents are top of the line. He's got one that smells like an old forest He's got one it smells like cucumbers and the Jagermeister. It's called the berserker blend It's what got me on I was in Calgary and I was like, I'm gonna look for local beard stuff and the hairdresser was like

I had one in mind just from Google and the hairdresser was like, I had one in mind just from Google and the hairdresser was like, try this one. And now this is the only thing I buy is the feature beard. Oh yeah, let's check them out. How old are you Justin? It's kind of hard for me to gauge. You got like the beard, a little bit gray there. I'm like, oh, is he 29?

Is he 39? 34. That's 37. Yes. Oh, hey. That's a few. Yes. Oh, I just kept you close. Yeah. And are you are you a fellow dink like me? Do income, no kids. I yes, I am so busy, so busy. I got two dogs, though, and they take up a lot of time.

So that's fun. Yeah, that's they're my kids. That works. How long you been married? Oh, oh, nine years. They're my kids. That works. How long you been married? Uh. Oh, nine years. There you go. Something like that. Good, that's good.

I forget my wife always tries to tell me I don't remember it. I'm like, oh no, I remember exactly. Yeah, one sits just do yourself a favor and set a calendar reminder every year and have an alert a week in advance. I know the date that we got. We got officially married, but we've been together for like nine years, but we've only been married for like three. And I just refused to acknowledge the actual marriage because I always said like, there's no scenario in which my relationship is going so well that I

want to get the government involved. That's what I've always said. But then going through some, I've going through some insurance stuff with my uncle. I was just like, for insurance, we got to get this done. Like it, it just needs it's it'll make things so much easier. Cause you don't have my name. You have no record that you're with me. There's no anything like get the certificate.

We'll go through the motions. But I'm the same way. I'm just like, I don't fucking, like I said, like my beard's nine years old. And she's like, we've been together for 11 years and you started growing your beard. Like when we started seeing each other and I'm just like, Oh, okay. I hope I didn't mess anything up in those couple of years that I have blurry visions of. I'm in that state of mind sometimes too, or I don't, anything up in those couple of years that I have blurry visions of. I'm in that state of mind sometimes too, where I don't remember two days ago what I did. How do you expect me to remember 10 years ago? Also, I've been with somebody for 10 years. 21-year-old me would have not thought that. Exactly. 21-year-old me didn't think I'd be alive by now to be honest with you.

All right. You want to go into an FMK there, Keith? Yeah. One more thing first. But yeah, so they have you, someone has you listed as a short king. And I swear you and I are about the same height and I don't consider myself short. Fuck you guys. What house hall are you?

Five, six on a good day. Okay, so maybe that, because I just had to reference the picture. So yeah, you are a short kink then I will say that. Makes sense, I don't know who said that, but I was like, I had to go back and look at the picture and I was like,

in the picture we looked about the same height, but I'm like, okay, maybe it's a bad perspective. Yeah, I'm not very tall, man. I have to have my wife get me stuff off the top shelf if we are in a store. She actually taller than you? Uh, she, I think she's a little bit taller than me, but she always wears kind of big shoes. Okay.

Yeah. Got those heels. Yeah. That works. Okay. So yeah, we can move on to an FMK. I'll have a couple alternatives basically if, uh, so we we're gonna go Aberdeen bar slash restaurants So if they're ones you're not familiar with I'll try to you know, throw a different one in there

So FMK familiar with the game anyone listening for the first time so he's got a you know You know uses druthers and he has to f one of these topics marry one of these topics and kill one of the topics So we're gonna go Aberdeen, you know nightlife if you will so the zoo The circus And schwanys or any of those need to be replaced with something. Nope. That was a good. Okay. Yeah, so fmk zoo schwanys the circus and We'll do we'll do schwanys for the the m

Okay We'll do Schwannis for the M. Okay. Just cause you, with Druthers, you gotta let the crew know why you're Marion Tanner's, you know, favorite, you know, under the radar place. Oh, yeah. That he posts about every two seconds. So it's just such a fun little bar to go to, and like, you know, they really give you what you pay for versus other bars in town.

You know, if you go there and you get a mixed drink, you know, you're going to get something good and they have good food, a good atmosphere. It's just kind of a music's not super loud. You can. That's what that sounds like. My kind of place. Yeah, just a nice little chill place. I'm going to do the government.

So the two are tough. Because you like them so much, you dislike them so much. No, I think I'm gonna have to go to Kill on the Zoo, man, cause I just, I'll go there once a year for the after party, but I don't touch that bar for the rest of the year, cause it's just. It did get, well, it's sort of, it's irrelevant information now, but it's relevant for, you know, me and you.

I think Jay could DM me and said something to the extent of the zoo is going to hold off the obnoxious music until 10 o'clock as opposed to like nine o'clock, where they just fucking completely turn up the bass and turn it into a club and not just like our hangout. So like that might mean my wife sticks around for an extra half hour because as soon as they play that music, she's just mean mugging me like we're fucking leaving. Like she gets a headache instantly. So it's like, we got to go.

And I think there's going to be shuttles to back and well, it's not going to, you know, you, you can get home now, or you get home, but the people that are staying at the, uh, you know, the, the, you know, our hotel, the, the venue hotel can actually, uh, get a shuttle and not have to worry about trying to drive drunk or get an Uber. Yeah, that's good. It's smart. Yeah. I that that place, I fits, you you know when they turn that on and then

there's a million kids that are you know 21 to 25 that's not what I was at age it was great loved it but now I'm just like I'm old I don't want to be here we're gonna go and kill that one and then guess the last is the circus which I don't frequent the circus they have have really good hot wings. So. Have you had the double dip ones that Tommy has raved about for years? I don't know if I've had those. I still need to attempt to get those this year

if the circus ends up happening. Yeah. Yeah, that's. Good deal. I don't go there very often either, so. Good answer. Better than the zoo. And we're doing, what's the, the are you gonna make out Thursday night? We're doing the new venue. So we're not doing pounders. It's loggers. I think Yeah, you're familiar with them. So is that like you just go put your food up you could you could

So there's no waitstaff, right? There's just like bartenders and then like some like I think it was sold to us isn't like we're not gonna like monopolize a Servers time or hanging out there the whole time Yeah, so excuse me. Um, there are servers that walk around, like you'll have someone come to your table that'll take your food order and stuff like that. Okay. Um, depending on what time, you know, there's tons of people in there just walking around asking if you need a drink or food or something like that. So it's, it's, you know, it's much larger than pounders. Gotcha. Yeah, I feel like we were at our welcome at's, and it's, you know, it's much larger than Pounder.

Gotcha. Yeah. I feel like the water welcome at Pounders and they just didn't, I don't know if you listened to the last episode or maybe I might've had something Tanner said and I don't remember where I heard it, but he was just like, you know, the manager of their work trained to the gym.

And he was like asking Tanner, if he wasn't planning on bringing everyone this year. And he was like, no. And he was like excited when he said, no, oh, we just told like, there's like 10,000, you know $5,000 with a revenue whatever you want to call it However many like 40 P for 40 people eating and drinking for two hours Like that's gotta be several thousand dollars at least a few thousand dollars that you're happy that doesn't exist now like just odd

Yeah, I don't know. I never made it out to pounders and you guys were there but You can make it to loggers this year then I'm gonna know. I never made it out to Pounders when you guys were there, but I'm gonna- You're gonna make it to Loggers this year then? I'm gonna try, I'm gonna try. I mean, it's, you get that, you know, maybe don't work 12 hours those couple days and come hang out with your buddies for a little bit and get the full crew experience. Yeah, I'm gonna try to get down there for sure.

Drag Larry's ass out there. Like that would be one thing. I wanna see more local, I wanna see more gym members and locals actually come out to Thursday night and even Friday, because it seems like there's a lot of people that don't even come out friday For some reason it's just like I don't know what the hesitation is No, I I can't remember why I didn't uh Last year I didn't make it to tanner's me and larry were planning on it and then I can't remember something came up and

I think larry went last year For a little bit, but I wasn't able to make it with him so hopefully I'll be able to get over there on Friday too. Letting us down Justin. Yeah. Loggers is good though you guys will have fun. They don't blur the music. That's a plus. Be good. Alrighty. You got to rush more for him? Yes. I think it's worth noting Ozzy did his last concert this week. Did you watch any of it? No, no, just what I saw on Instagram.

How old is he? Old enough. He's in his 70s? Close to his 80s at this point. He looked like he was 60. He looked like he was 70 when I was a teenager. So yeah, you know, Tom Morello was there. He helped put together the

whole show you know members of tool were there Metallica Guns N' Roses Aerosmith like it was a huge huge day so I think it's worth asking what's your Mount Rushmore of metal bands? Oh it's a tough one. Well that was the first one was right I'm a Slayer for sure I'm a huge slayer fan. Gary, Gary putting notes in there. Gary Mastodon was there. Yeah. So Gary's, Gary's the unpaid intern of the unpaid interns. He's the least paid unpaid intern.

Yes. So I got to pick four, huh? And five if you want the face. But for sure, Slayer, like I said, a huge Slayer fan. I think the band death, I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with them. Man, that's hard. You know, I am a big Black Sabbath fan, but I don't know, I haven't put them up there just because of what they did for metal. I think so we had slayer dad. And then one that's probably going to surprise people, maybe amazing. Maybe they're not familiar with them as much, but cannibal corpse. Oh, I think that's so

that'd be, if I had to listen to four, that'd be the four that I would put up there and just listen to. So you're in the thrash death. Yeah. That's spectrum that goes to the whole devil worship thing that whoever wrote that, you know, that makes sense actually. And oh yeah. Like if you're, if you were down at the gym and I got to have control of the radio, I mean, it's, it's pretty heavy and it goes pretty hard, but yeah. Cannibal corpse was in Ace Ventura.

Yep. So most of us, except for Keith, would recognize that. I do have a music relevant, or sorry, did you see all that with that? I didn't want to interrupt you, you done? Nope, you're done. All right, so I do have a fan submitted from Big Caleb, former gym member, is Caleb still training there

with you guys, guys or thought he moved Okay, he lives in Nebraska now, I think okay, so he asked a question that's gonna so which I'm gonna see so which grindcore song question mark Bubbling I can't fucking say this Jesus Christ Do you want me to do it? No They gotta be real names. I guess it's real They're not in here. So I no no no, they're no there. It's an IG thing that I just saw so Alright, which grindcore song question mark bubbling rectal comfort or gonorrhea gonorrhea nodule

Mastication Are those real songs? Or is this just if it's if it's coming from Caleb, I guarantee it's their real songs. I'm not familiar with either one. Those sound like Cannibal Corpse pre-new singer. Yes. Yeah. That's like if I had to venture a guess, some of that stuff that he listens to, even I'm like, what is this chainsaw that you have on

the radio right now? Because he's like super religious on his profile so then for him to see me that is really amusing to me. That's why I was like wait is this that kid I'm thinking about? That's funny. Yep. Caleb, yep. He's into that stuff.

So no deathcore for you. You're not leaning in that direction. The goblet metal as my wife calls it. I So I tell you that I get a little a little weird when it comes to like how you label metal because I You could say deathcore metal core, whatever like the grind core stuff like that. I don't go that deep But you know your your white chapels and stuff like that I like I would consider that kind of deathcore grindcore. I think White Chappel, at least on the new album, is almost the epitome of deathcore.

Yeah, I like that sound. So, you know, some of that pig noise kind of weird stuff. Yeah, yeah. I don't really get into. The bleh and the pig squeals. Yeah, that, I don't really get into the blit and the pig squeals. Yeah That's that's too much for me All right, Keith you want to hit up the next one? Yeah Once so before we get none paid or narrated there was one fan or one submitted thing. I think it's a joke

I don't know Maybe it is relevant but someone had referenced something about you working at Willy Wonka's factory Is that an inside joke is that like I don't just something stupid that doesn't make any sense someone wasted her time. Thanks assholes Fuck you, Kayden Assholes, all right. Yeah, so unpaid or underrated Completely new game that you know, big Gary came up with all by himself to help us out here it is you know a you know a very original game so we're gonna give you you know up to six topics here and you have to use your druthers and explain to us if you consider it unpaid which you know kind of sucks or

underrated kind of awesome so we're gonna go through a handful of these each and see what you think so I'm gonna hit you with the first three and we'll switch it over so unpaid or underrated baseball Underrated You know yeah, do you play that as a youth or as a guy play some beer league baseball or anything? No play baseball for ten years and as young nice. Oh you had a nickname Java was that a Play on job of the hut were you up? Were you a little chunker? Yeah, I was a pretty fat kid Apparently my coach thought of when I played catcher

So when I had all my gear on he kept telling me it looked like job of the hut squatting down back there. So That's fucked up Now we motivate people here in south dakota man and saw you to death Uh, that's good stuff unpaid or underrated Being a supervisor It's unpaid the bad one. Yep. That's what he said. Yeah unpaid. Yeah for sure. Yeah, can't be great like the money's nice I'm sure but like that extra

I don't know. It's just yeah a couple times I had to do it for my when my boss was on leave I was like, oh, this is not fun. And I just get yelled at by his boss Yeah, you kind of get yelled at by everyone below you and everyone Yeah, it's a good time indeed Unpaid or underrated uncrustables cool underrated

strawberry sure Strawberry. Oh, yeah for sure Strawberry. For sure. Strawberry. Oh yeah, for sure. Strawberries. I have to get that's I will be definitely buying some uncrustables that ideally the target and in the Aberdeen here in about 10 days. Well, if you need one at the meat, let me know. I'll have a whole cooler full.

Yeah, if I have something's wrong with I'm just excited. The damn venue is going to be at the hotel, man. So is the only has the only meet you've ever been at? Like, have you done meets outside of left hard? Like if you go on to some of the US or anything going up together guys, okay. Did they have to twist your arm? So like when year one came about, were you like, fuck yeah, man? Or was there like, do I really want to do this power of being thing with all their nerdy online friends? No, I was actually super excited for it.

You know, back to talking to Larry, those guys like it was, you should do a meet, you should do a meet. I never, I never wanted lifting to be like work. You know, it is to an extent, because I'm training hard for these meets. But I think, you know, Keith, you had said something on the Genie Lee one too, about, you know, if you're coming to this meet because you want to just decimate everybody and stuff like that, like, that's not the right mindset to have. Indeed. And I knew all the gym guys that were going to be

there and it was like, well, this just sounds fun. You know, like, I'm just going to go have a good time and see how I do. That's been the past few years, that's how it's been. Like we just had fun. It definitely ruined every other meat for me. Yeah. Right, I think that the last Lift Hard, Live Easy was my last meat. And at that point, I think I said like,

I'm done, I'm retired. Because it's not going to get any better than that. Right. Right, like I'm gonna put all this work in. I'm gonna hurt my body. It's not going to get any better than that. Right. Right. I'm going to put all this work in. I'm going to hurt my body. I'm going to give up my diet. I'm going to do all of these things to put my name on a website that nobody looks at.

Right. Right. And I mean, it'll never be as fun as the lift hard lift. And I agree 100%. And I think in the end for me, like, of course I want to do good, right? Like, I want to do well for myself and get some big lifts, but if I don't get a medal, I don't care, like I could care less, like I'm going there to lift cause I enjoy it and to hang out with people that I don't get to see every day.

You know? Yep. I'm not, I'm not here to beat that guy. Right. No, not right. Whereas in some competitions you are, you're there to make sure that you get ahead of the other guy in your weight class. Right.

And you're start doing the numbers based on his last lift. Am I going, where am I? What place if I hit this, do I win blah, blah, blah. And let's not live easy. You're just like, Oh, it's my turn. Well, I better put this beer down. And let's not live easy. You're just like, oh, it's my turn. Well, I better put this beer down And it seems like to me, you know the last two

Like regardless of who you are like everyone's cheering for you, right? Yeah, there's nobody in the back that's like Oh, you know fuck this guy or anything like that. Well, maybe he go out. Well, maybe that. But maybe he'll out. Well, maybe. Keith is out during. But you know, I'm saying, no, I get it. It's more chill like strong. Yeah. But you can get off the platform and go back there and you can miss your left and everyone's still excited for you. Yeah. Even the spotters and loaders are yelling your name. And I've never seen that where they're like, those are your hype guys.

It's the Minnesota Department of Lifting Safety, right? Yeah, I'm excited to see a few of those guys actually. Like, Nas is powerlifting, I think Jake's powerlifting, and then, shit. Diet Tanner. Yeah, Diet Tanner's doing strongman, so it'll be cool to see. Our friends that have spotted and supported us

the last few years actually get their chance. Big Dave is jumping in, he's throwing his hat in the ring to do bench only so he can actually get his check mark. So that'll be cool. So anyone that's in. He's throwing his hat in the ring to do a bench only so he can actually do it, get his checkmark. So that'll be cool. So anyone that's going to master's bench only good luck beating Dave. Big dude. All right, unpaid or underrated influencers. Unpaid.

Hell yeah. For sure. What about personal? What about personal training influencers? If there was something that was like lower than unpaid, we'd go with that. Something at bedrock. Yeah, it's just so like, I don't want to use the words that the kids use these days because I'm not in that generation, but like cringe. That's exactly how I see it. Because it's all over my TikTok, right? Because I have powerlifting stuff and you'll see that. And I'm like, what are you even talking about

right now? You know, you do nothing but go to the gym and record yourself. Like, just stop. Yeah, I'm 24 years old and I don't have kids and this is why your lips suck and I'm like yo Yeah, I'm 40 with two kids Shut up. We don't have the same 24 hours? I do like everyone. Everybody has the same 24 hours. Now all the now the anti and now like all like the 40 year old Moms are just like I don't have the same 20 like it's it's real It makes sense

But like if I have to see another video of someone telling like their followers they don't have the same 20 like it's it's real it makes sense but like if I have to see another video of someone telling like Their followers they don't have the same 24 hours. It's like it's like alright. That's almost more more of a epidemic now that I'm seeing Yeah, that's the D influencing now coming out where Yeah, follow me because I talk shit about the other influencers You know I mean hey, that's me I fucking hate online influencers with a passion the ones I didn't know I had when you shared like these are the ones that I follow and like the most I didn't under I didn't know of a single one of those guys are diet and lifting related. And they do the thing where they'll like, they'll look at somebody else's video and then go, so here's why that guy's a liar. And except for the one, the, I don't give a fuck food.

If you get a chance to watch any of his videos, watch one of his videos. So he's a former meth addict who, uh, is obviously in recovery, has been for years, and he essentially says, like, I don't give a fuck if they say that the sugar content in this is bad for your liver. I used to call around on the floor looking for remnants of crack to smoke out of a light bulb. Just eat the damn thing. Right? Like, I love that perspective. Obviously, it's not for everybody. But it's that like, that like, it's just live your life if something. Anyway, anyway, I'm not gonna get to. I tell you, Joey, like, I see it kind of the same way, right? Because not everybody's the same. Like what works for influencer A is not going to work for me. Right?

Yeah. And it's like, go tell Larry who just dug a hole for 16 hours that he still has time to come and left. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, I don't live on the internet. Like some of these people, I don't get that time. No. And, and, but like in reality, nobody does like you hit a certain age, you have responsibilities, some shirtless 24 year old in a supermarket telling me that I'm

beta because I don't have abs. And I'm just like, bro, like I'm 40 and enjoy life. You look miserable. Go away. I don't know what the, what the girl I see on, um, tick tock is they call her like baby head or something like that. Have you ever seen her walking through the grocery store, telling you all the things you shouldn't eat?

Oh, she dances. She dances before every. No, that's another one. But there's like this skinny gal in the comments that they always call her baby head, but it drives me nuts. Listen to this lady talk to me. Like you shouldn't drink bottled water because bottled water has plastic. I'm like, well, I'm going to drink it out of the stream down the road.

Like hell, you know? What was the one where this kid was just like, if you take creatine and miss a day, then there's no point in ever taking it because your body needs the cycle. And one of the guys I tagged in my story there was Liam and Liam was like Well, that's a lie. Like that's just a full-on like you just made that up because like but again these kids Just they they see their future in social media And it's not there buddy. It's not there Agree, you know

Congratulations that I can deadlift your total You have abs. Good work. Anyway, unpaid or underrated? Bush light. Underrated. That should be way higher on the total pool beers. Yep.

Good stuff. Alright, last one. Unpaid or underrated? Reverse hyper. Uh. So is there a way to pick both? I would tell you that's right in the line. I mean, I mean, that is very much a pendulum effect, which is the reverse hyper. So no, we can't do that.

It is ironic that is what you want to use. I'm going to say that. It's unpaid for me personally only because the handful of times I've used the one at the gym, I've somehow hurt myself and had to go to the chiropractor and get my hips fixed because I couldn't walk the next day. Oh wow. So I don't know what I do if I'm doing it wrong. How many plates did you have on it?

Jesus just one on each side. Oh damn that had to be a Fuck. I don't know. That's almost not a that's yeah, that's strange. I don't know There I got bad hips. So but I also could be using it wrong. That's Most people say everyone is using them wrong because everyone's got an opinion of like the deep west sides guys Most people say everyone is using them wrong because everyone's got an opinion of like the deep west side guys don't I mean the way Louis intended to use it isn't necessarily the way like common practice people are using it nowadays too and stuff so I've seen a million people tell a million people that don't reverse hypers wrong. I think it's a good if it's a good machine if I knew how to utilize it properly I just don't like it when my hips and lower back feel like someone has a torch held up I need to I need to sell mine. I really do. I need that space Well, I think you passed unpaid and underrated I believe he did I have one we'll make it a wild card You don't have to make it an unpaid or underrated

Especially if you don't have the relevance of it, but were you on the Sunday morning crew? when fucking Huck Finn and you on the Sunday morning crew when fucking Huck Finn and four or five other dudes slept in the goddamn gym. And I want to hear the story and your perspective. That would be Bryce and Lou, which you should have known already. And then fucking, you know, Tom and big boss man. And they just didn't. And they did what I want to hear this prayer, your perspective of the whole story. So at that time we were, we were lifting at about six 30 every on the weekends. Um, so we, I,

Tanner gave me a warning. He said, Hey, you know, Huck Finn's here, they're going to sleep in the gym. But he said that he warned them that people lift at kind of all hours, so just be prepared for that. So I get there and the door to the back rooms close, the lights off, and there was another member down there lifting and he's like, oh, there's people back there.

I'm like, what the hell are you talking about people back there? And I go and I just look in and I flip the light, you know, and he had Huck on a mattress and I just look in and I flip the light, you know, and he had a hockey on a mattress and I think Bryce and Big Lou are sleeping on the crash pads. But they weren't even using them all too. They were like, there were more crash pads. There was like a whole other set that they could have actually made a fucking like a

seven foot bed as opposed to a five foot fucking bed. And they were too inebriated to realize that from what I recall. And so to see to see big Bryce sleeping on two of these little crash pads is pretty funny. It's fucking hysterical. Okay, so here's so here's something nobody has asked. How did that gym smell? Oh God. Was it like stale beer and farts?

So they were drinking in the gym. Oh yeah, I went, we could see into the bathroom from where you can, you know, you enter in there and stuff. And you could see the mound of beer cans in the garbage can. So it was me and Ethan and then another guy showed up but we were pretty nice. And we just left the door closed, turned on some music on one of our phones and

just kind of did some work out in the, by the locker area. So we didn't wake them up. So we didn't really go onto the other side, but when they, when they got up and finally came filtering out, cause I think someone went over there and, um, I think it was the guy who was the manager at, uh, pounders went over there and was kind of like, fuck this, I'm going to lift and turn came filtering out. Cause I think someone went over there and I think it was a guy who was a manager at pounders went over there and was kind of like, fuck this, I'm going to lift and turn the music on. They all filtered out, but that's kind of what I would have had to have doing in five. It's like, man, I've

got like, I got a two hour window to get my lift in here. I don't really fucking care that you stayed up till five AM. And yeah, and that's what he said. He's like, we got back at four and I'm like, oh shit. But they got up at four and I'm like, oh shit. But they got up and I think, you know, Huck took a scoop of pre-workout and acted like nothing was wrong. So I'm like, all right.

That's funny. Yeah. That was interesting. One of the, that was probably the most interesting experience I've had out there so far. You know, usually see people sleeping down there when you come into left in the morning.

And they knew he wasn't there. Like that was the thing. They knew Tanner wasn't there. So they were just like, fuck it, we're crashing. That's very funny. Have you had too many interactions with the with Big Megan down in the gym? So she's so there's two now. Our our our our crew, Megan, Megan Johnson. So she's Says to our

Our crew Megan Megan Johnson. Yes. I'll see her there and say hi, whatever not Doesn't introduce yourself because she can't see ya. Yeah. Well, I was more efficient for that She was I know cuz on our the podcast she did here She kind of said she's like sometimes she's afraid to ask for help So this is me kind of saying hey if she's ever down there, I feel free to say, Hey, Megan, do you need anything? Because there's times that she says she like, she, you know, doesn't know. We, you know, I think she'll still get the bar and just bash the shit out of stuff. But like I, I, from what I remember, she said, like, it wasn't like she was fishing for help or anything, but like the way she said, it's like, she's just

going to make do. So like, I'm trying to make her lifting experience better. So if any, if you need guys down there, just see if she needs anything or, you know, if I don't know, that's, I take that with however you want to take it, but I think that might go along. Right. You know, that's one of the things too,

I should have said about, you know, lifting at the gym is that regardless, I know that I have like the gym bitch face. Like when I'm down there, I got to like, I'll show you if you talk to me In general, right But everyone's super nice out there man They really are if you go and ask for help will help you with whatever you want

And you know as far as interactions with Megan it the times that I have seen her like I've been leaving Mm-hmm, you know, she's getting there after me. It's not a lot of There at the same time because I because of work I left at such weird times Yeah in the week and then we left so early in the morning on the weekend Well now you can bond over being on you know, one of the handful of gym members that have been on unpaid or underrated Yeah, it's you Megan Caden Zack fuck have been on unpaid or underrated. It's you, Megan, Caden, Zach. Fuck. One of the stones. Yeah, I don't know. There's definitely more, but those are the ones that are coming to

me off the top of my head. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. Is there anything we missed, Joey, before we handed over to him? Not that I can think of of We're running two hours Perfect timing. All right, so big Justin if you had a chance to prepare anything for Joey and I great if not We'll wrap it up. It doesn't really matter to us either way. We can go for another 20 minutes or we can call it It's up to you brother Yeah, I guess I I don't really have anything else. I just want to say I appreciate you guys having me on it's been a pleasure

I Know you said you got to get up early tomorrow. So do I so nice? Yeah, I'd being able to Joey having the day off and bus So we were able to record at 730 our time 630 your time And so that helps me immensely actually being able to like crawl into bed by 10 o'clock as opposed to 11 o'clock That's fucking amazing difference and I'm very very happy. So alright I'm just gonna hit everybody with the affiliates real quick and then we'll close on out we are will do a quick post show so don't don't log off obsidian ammonia barbell rescue plate

snacks home gym con belt-fed strength freedom fitness equipment and apparel from the strength co-go ahead and use code unpaid at all our friends websites help save yourself a little bit of money big Justin where they gonna find you at one more time over there on the Instagram? HYB.training.program Nice. Joey, where are you at? At Joey underscore Malesco. I'm L-E-C-Z-K-O. And that's it. On the Instagram. Sorry. I'm on Discord too. Somewhere. I'm one of the Joey's. One of the Joey's. Alright. Instagram, we are unpaid and underrated podcast.

We've got the website unpaid intern podcast.com Go follow everybody over on YouTube try to get that first comment Keith honeycutt 73 on Instagram more importantly go follow my orange Jim than a wine cellar and we'll see you next Tuesday There's Gary Who was the other one in there the unpaid intern number 69 I didn't see I saw you comment that but the fuck was that someone has to like make that username first before you log in that's very strange Ryan he's pretty good with that good stuff do you have a

good time Justin yeah I did thanks guys I'm in like when we talked I apologize It wasn't way more shit for guys that were taking it seriously, but you're good, man I just circle small, you know Sometimes I like to it's almost good for us sometimes because I haven't harped on that like so hopefully anyone listening That's an upcoming guest goes. Oh, I should tell my buddies not to be assholes because they're really not funny For the most part, we have been pretty, we've been pretty good about that. And the new questionnaire. So you were, you were, you had the negative of like the questionnaire you filled out.

Well, you, you used both, but the, the one where you added the picture is the new one we're running with and it's like 1 million times better than the old one. Cause it's like, it just makes a shit ton of less work for Nate and I or Joey, whoever sends out the questionnaires. Like it's never me. I know. Well, I just wanted, I didn't want to, I didn't want to say I did all the, all that pre-show stuff, but it definitely is so much easier for Nate and I, because

now I don't have to like, now I don't have to tell people to send Nate a picture. Now it's just, I send you a thing that's all inclusive and it literally has everything for the follow-up that you need. Um, it's, it's fucking clutch. Uh, but yeah, we'll see you in a few days. I hope you can, uh, I do highly recommend coming out to pound or, uh, loggers try to just get the full experience, you know, if you enjoyed this, the one negative thing is like, I thought we were going to be able to get this on, get this out before lift hard.

I think it was going to before when I actually scheduled it, but with shoe horn in the, the home gym con episode in, and now we don't have to try to get an episode out when I'm traveling lift hard, live easy week. It's just kind of how it worked out. So everyone will listen to it on the way home or you know that week. And so if anything, you just just come to loggers and be like, man, you guys are you guys are going to love my podcast. You know, have you heard of an unpaid or underrated podcast? I'm the guest next week. That's that's how you should introduce yourself to all the crew and be good stuff. I'll definitely try to get down there, man. Make sure I don't work all day long. Yep, I think it's like six to 10 or something. And then maybe Tanner's is the same thing, six to 10. And

yeah, which I'm excited. This was a good episode. Appreciate everybody getting on a little early and wrapping this up. And I go to bed now He'd been awesome. Yeah me being off really helped and I think that again. Thanks you for adjusting times twice But yeah, I'm seeing weird Al tomorrow Awesome, and then the next day I'm seeing amigo the devil So that's two bucket list concerts that I'm going to and I was just like well I'm just not available like I'm just there's no way for me to be available on a Thursday to record this so It was super awesome for you to move this I

Watched the weirdo movie. I think I talked about before like a parody you didn't get it No, I didn't get it. It's not they didn't like it. You didn't get it Well, I don't yeah, I don. I don't get his music either. So it tracks. Did you, did you get to the tertiary part of no, it's so funny. It's like, it's, it's just prime me not understanding words and then like having these epiphanies where I learned something like in real time. It's really, it's like I said, the one day where it's just like, of course, how did I not know this my whole life? It makes perfect sense. And you feel so stupid for 20 minutes. Just like, of course it is. Of course, a coconut is a fruit or a coconut

to not. Of course it is. Has a rain the word, but I never considered it that yet. I get it. I get it. I do. Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate, Nate might be able to leave this in or not. But like, so everyone is like, I think think was towards the end of the podcast we got to When I was in Columbus, I literally the so I had to go we went to a random bar they had a cover charge because it was like this like, you know, it was a professional bull PBR professional Louisville not Columbus. Yes Louisville. Oh, well both the bars in both locations as relevant. Anyway, so Yes, Louisville. Oh, well both the bars in both locations with as relevant anyway, so

They it's a $10 covered card to get get in most people paying with with tip with card It's a $10 cover chart to get in and most people are paying with their card and they're trying to automatically bill people a tip Want a cover charge? What is your opinion on a goddamn like 20 to 30 percent tip? I don't I don't think I'm a church. I don't think I'm a Obviously, I wouldn't either but I'm with a group of ten people that I want to hang out with and continue hanging out with And we were literally only going up there to watch robo and Hogan ride a bull On a mechanical bull and it was just more like, you know Basically when this night was over home gym con was over because it was like 930 We just left dinner and I didn't want the night to be over. So it's like, okay

I didn't I didn't voluntarily go up to play a cover charge But it was like we were already in line before we realized where there was a be over. So it's like, okay. I didn't, I didn't voluntarily go up to play a cover charge, but it was like, we were already in line before we realized whether it was a cover charge. I was like, well, whatever. But nonetheless, like, what is your opinion on a cover charge having a tip and them basically being offended if you don't tip them? My opinion is you underpay your staff

in the United States. Yes. I think that's what it is. It's that you're asking us to supplement their income. See, up here in Ontario, there was a different pay for servers because of tips up until about, I'm going to say, 10 years ago. And then they upped the minimum wage for servers to the same as minimum wage for all people. And that meant that you weren't losing money

if people didn't tip you. Yeah. All that tells me is that in Louisville, that person was making $3 an hour to man that door. But it's like, but that type of job should, like I get that bartenders and actual servers, tip share. Yeah, make your $5 an hour, and then you still make $100 $200

a night in tip share maybe yeah but if you have to like some high school girl or some 20 year old person like if you can't pay them 20 bucks an hour or 15 bucks an hour to sit there and let people know bar like you that is not a tip share based job like that's all that tells me is they added that tip there because they don't want to pay that person that's just why it was it was wild to me yeah but yeah you know that tells me I I about it enough on last week's episode but I just I know you hadn't got to it yet so I went to a the same pub I go to three times a week I went I did a 13 hour shift right so

somebody called in so I had to go in and open and that as supervisor work, right, manager work, she said I can't make it in. And I was like, okay, so I had to do an open to close, which is 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. So at 9 p.m. I was hungry, I wanted a beer, and I wanted to check out. So I went to the same pub that I go to every day, three days a week, that I go to after work. And I walk up and they're like, oh, there's a cover for the band. And I went, nope. And I turned around and started to leave. And she was like, what do you mean no?

And I was like, I'm here for food and beer. I don't give a shit about your cover band that you want me to pay $10 for. And then one of the servers was like, Hey, Joey. And I was like, Hey, yeah, I'm leaving. And then she was like, Oh, I see what's going on. So she sat me on the patio because I was like, I don't, I'm going to put headphones in. I don't want to hear this band. Like I don't care.

I don't pay cover charges. I'm 40 years old. That's just my, I think my comment was I have not paid a cover charge in 20 years to my memory So it was just uh I don't know but it was more the the tip on the cover charge is in Yeah, I know right Do something like I don't I don't not tip I'm not a guy like I tip fucking percent pretty much even on bad service typically like like 15 15% on bad service 20 I'm good. Yep. Yeah.

I'm the same way where we've known like my, my wife will tip like fucking 30, 40% sometimes if it's just like easy to ensure prompt service, if I'm coming back, I want to make sure you remember me. Here's a good tip. So that the next time I show up, you remember who I am, you know that I tip well, and you will serve me properly for that reason. When I was a bartender, I had a guy look me dead in the face. And he told me if you had tits, I would tip you more.

Right. Cause there's also this weird thing in tipping where dudes that we started lifting, like is that what you sort of know? Uh, dudes don't tip dudes. Right. I've actually heard people say I'm not gay. I don't tip men. Just the tip. Yeah.

Uh, so I looked right at him and I went, well, I'll keep that in mind on your next round. And I made sure that all of my bar chores were done. Every other person that tipped properly had their drinks and he waited. And when he was like, what was that about? And I was like, oh, buddy, if you had tips, you would have got if you had tits, you would have got your drink faster. Yeah, don't don't say that at Costco now. No, no, I I know I know But the shit we could say it when we were younger at like just to service jobs and stuff that we yeah That's what a tip is for it's to make sure that the person serves you faster because you're incentivizing them The door person doesn't fucking need that pay them properly

And I got mad too when I told her I wasn't paying that like I had to like have her like void basically like back it out because like no you try to trick me and I'm not paying that so yeah here's cash here's ten bucks cash I'm not yeah I literally I got in you when you if you finish the episode you'll hear the rest of it but yeah it was just why I had more people to talk about it because it's just like I would have lost my mind it's still something that resonates with me like this is fucking ridiculous but But it just comes down to that they don't they don't pay properly. Has a you know, makes you pay a cover charge and wants a tip on

it. Don't they Justin? Say that again. I'm sorry. I bet Schwannis once that cover charge with a tip, right? No, not at all. I was gonna say, you know, obviously it's different here in the US. But even like, if I go and get a coffee in the morning before work, because I didn't have time to make one here, whatever, at the local coffee shop, they hand you the machine to put a tip on like, I watched you literally just take that off the rack, put it in this styrofoam cup and hand it to you. I'm saying it's not not that I don't tip at a restaurant, but I don't think I'm going to give you a 10% tip because you poured me a cup of black coffee.

You know what I'm saying? Like sometimes it's different if I have a big order, then sure. But I don't know. Some of that gets ridiculous to me, but I agree. I don't think they pay him quite enough. Well, yeah, that's, that's what it comes down to. In the States. I know there's a lot of right to work States where the minimum wage is so ridiculously

low that like We're getting close to politics here in Europe. You fucking don't tip because they just pay people they just like you don't you don't rely on the Kindness of strangers you were just paid to work there and you try to hand them a tip and they're just like No We don't do that here in Europe We just make a living wage because that's how this world works them a tip and they're just like no we don't do that here in Europe we just make a living wage because that's how this world works but over here in North

America we're like well because you could make tips we're gonna lower your wages and it's a huge thing because they also like the margins of food and drinks are so low that it yeah anyway i don't think we have cover charges at any of the bars here and at least in abridian when they had the silver dollars i was just gonna say i bet the silver dollar did but they they would be for like before liftoff leviz one you'd have to pay a cover charge to go see like midget strippers or something you know goofy like that you're gonna pay 10 bucks to go see like midget strippers or something you know goofy like that you're gonna pay 10 bucks to go see something funny you're like oh okay but other than that it's pretty chill. Hong Kong.