Unpaid And Underrated - 116 : Why Can’t Every Day Be the Lift Hard Live Easy

Episode Date: July 29, 2025

This week Keith and Nate team up with a gaggle of silly hawks to recap the Lift Hard Live Easy III weekend. Links Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab (https://www.massenomics.com/shop/unpaid-underrated-tee) Get Your Own Keith Head (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/articles/keith-head) Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast (https://www.instagram.com/unpaid.underrated.podcast/) Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com (https://www.unpaidinternpodcast.com/) On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/@Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast) Our Guest Big Curt On Instagram @curtlifts1988 (https://www.instagram.com/curtlifts1988/) Big Jen On Instagram @getstrongjen24 (https://www.instagram.com/getstrongjen24/) Big Chris On Instagram @beerbelly_lifts (https://www.instagram.com/beerbelly_lifts/) Big Garrett On Instagram @gcstrengthsystems (https://www.instagram.com/gc_strength_systems/) Or @garrett.cscs77 (https://www.instagram.com/garrett.cscs77/) Big Daniel On Instagram @spicypizza8123 (https://www.instagram.com/spicypizza8123/) Big Andrew On Instagram @clawtron (https://www.instagram.com/clawtron/) Big Nate On Instagram @natee561 (https://www.instagram.com/natee561/) Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 (https://www.instagram.com/keithhoneycutt73/) or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar (https://www.instagram.com/thenowhinecellar/) @joey_mleczko (https://www.instagram.com/joey_mleczko/) Special Guests: Big Andrew, Big Chris D., Big Curt, Big Daniel, Big Garrett, and Big Jen.

With skipping what are you drinking? What are you wearing? Yeah, I had a whole thing planned for that. Oh Jesus Christ. Well Just well you lost the 20-minute window to do it So I don't know. I don't care if you want to do what are you drinking? What are you wearing? You can do the intro then but I'm gonna go right into it if if not just to get the ball rolling But what are you drinking? What are you wearing? Is it pretty? Is it cute? Alright, fuck you. We'll do it. And it's a three hour episode and everyone... Last time we did one of these, everyone gave us an hour and a half or an hour and then went to bed.

And then it was like two of us left at the end. So I was just trying to avoid that. But no, it was so... Oh yeah, I've got a heart out in 30 minutes, by the way. That's fine. Thanks for letting me know, Tyler. Well, my wife took the kids to grandma so i'm good oh me and andrew will close this one down all right i'm assuming so i will do what are you drinking what are you wearing for you assholes you don't have to do that no i would never ask you to do something you weren't comfortable with that's what you've always said but that's not

true oh jeez um what's that gonna say? I can't remember now. I had a thought. ["Live Easy 3 Theme Song"] Hong Kong! ["Live Easy 3 Theme Song"] Hong Kong! Welcome back to episode. And welcome back to. Episode Lift Hard, Live Easy 3

of the unpaid and underrated podcast. I'm one of your hosts, Big Keith, joined as always here by Big Nate. He won't even let me interrupt him anymore. What's this place going to? He meets me one time. He thinks he runs the place. I don't have any power anymore. No, you are weak and small and not. Keith is feisty tonight. Everybody buckle up. Keith's coming for my gosh darn throat. I'm gonna buckle up. Keith's coming for my gosh darn throat. Gross. True Nate, because after he met you,

he came over and told me, he's like, Nate's a lot stronger than I thought he would be. I did say that. When we hugged him. Stronger? How does he know that? I didn't pick him up. Okay, looks more fit. When I hugged you, your back had muscles.

I didn't expect that. Oh, well what the heck's that supposed to mean? That you look smaller in pictures. I don't like that at all. Geez, ow. I thought Keith once said that I was becoming the the jacknade I guess he took that back something you did is you are I mean yes I mean Nathan Thomas is on the the the downward you know he had a PD pulled out of the meeting you know you almost didn't meet so you you both equally

lifted the same out of weight that's true that is true you know so you are neither neither neither, neither of you were jacked, Nate, this week, I guess? No, I was, I was guy that runs around on the microphone, Nate, this weekend. Indeed, so, all right, well, this is the recap episode of the Lift Hard, Live Easy 3s. We're gonna go around real quick

and I'll introduce everyone. I'll let them, yeah, so Andrew, say hi about it. This is Andrew here, hi. We got a big, big, big new new Kurt this week as well. Yeah, big hurt here by the way. Yep. And then we got a big Garrett. Okay. Are you sure you're not Mathias? I'm so confused. Who's who anymore?

It's all just a shit show of who. I don't know anymore. We got one of the Damagers over there. It is a big Damager. That sounds like Jen. Yep, I mean, that's that's well, and then yes, good, good segue, Nate. That might be your first segue. Welcome to the podcast, Big Jen.

Hey, guys, howdy, howdy. And then we got big Daniel, big spicy pizza. I think we'll we probably won't get into it, but there is going to be a new Randy. Did you guys see that shit? And I want to save it for next week, but my God, that got me heated that stuff that Tanner posted in the Discord a second ago about the person bitching about the order. It was just the most obnoxious email I've ever read. So I can't wait to see if there's any fallout from that or any memes.

I think they were trying to order the meat sure they were it was literally the End of Mastinomics like you should know how this stuff works. Yeah, they're gonna order them They're gonna sell them at the meat and then if you're not at the meat and your size is gone Oh, well, I I did um, maybe they're just in the Cowboys Keith. Have you considered that I don't oh yeah, cuz it's a roadie I mean, it's it's not my first rodeo, but I did let that one go over my head. I guess until just now That you said it. All right Anybody drinking anything fancy they want to talk about

Nope Good deal Extremely dehydrated over here That'll be a limited one nine of ten six of one number you Chris I don't know I did here I didn't get the key someone did say he got like I

think David wrote so they're talking about the the key that koozie with the what is it it's the beach on the one side and the you know my my handsome face big Keith here by the way on the other side. Big David one of the Davids handed those out and someone had mentioned they got an odd an authenticity card of like you know one of whatever. There were only 10 made Keith. I don't believe that I saw more they had to have been more than 10. the Okay, no it all the time my head. Oh, come on. I don't remember everything. I don't believe that He was he was so nice to give me number two because I'm always surprised man. Oh That I thought that was Daniel

Good stuff Well, we said we got a meat shirt, a meat shirt. Garrett's just wearing a random tank top. Damager's got a nice build fast formula. Jens benching 315. Daniel is probably sweating his ass off in his flannel from the meat. And Nate is wearing a metal nomic shirt, it looks like. Do I look big now, Keith? Do I look big in pictures now if I flex really hard, huh? Nate is wearing a metal nomic shirt, it looks like. Do I look big now, Keith?

Do I look big in pictures now if I flex really hard, huh? I don't know. I think it's just, I don't know. Now I've got a complex. It was a complex, like, I get that it's not a complex, or it's not a complex, because it's like, well, you used to always think I was small, but now it's like, I guess if I,

It's a backhanded compliment. That's, Nathan, you look really small in pictures, but in person, it looks like you actually have muscles. I don't know how to take that. You feel like you have muscles. Yeah, when I touch you, Nathan, you feel strong. Hmm. Hmm.

Well, you know, like when you give someone a hug, you can really like... Some people surprise you at how big their back... Like when I gave Nas a hug and he had like the biggest back like indentations You really feel people. Yeah, no kidding. Holy cow. Give him I gave a lot of doubt on this experience I had a lot of people hugging me this weekend and vice versa Keith a Keith and I's hug made it on into the YouTube recap That was cool. It was a good video. Oh, yeah. Oh, I will have a Quick tidbit on that. We won't really recap the whole thing because that's all the whole episode is for. But so I was

watching that at lunchtime. And remember, I was kind of upset, not upset, but like, I was disappointed that I didn't get to make it into the post meet picture because he kind of waited till everyone was gone to say, hey, let's get a picture. So in the video, I was watching it and it was like right where he says, you know, that's a wrap We'll see you in 2026 and then it went to an ad and I was like, well, that's the video and I fucking just turned It off and went about my day and then my wife wanted to watch the video that night and then I was like Oh, there's like fucking ten minutes left. What the shit? So he got he he got me twice with that See you next year a bit. So I thought that was kind of funny

But yeah, let's this obviously we're here to just kind of talk about the whole weekend. We can just go in chronological order to some extent. Anybody have any stories about traveling in that they wanted to hit on that was kind of? We're not even going to talk about the coffee discussion they had in the main podcast. I have six pages of notes to discuss the differences between iced coffee and cold brew prepared. I thought that's what this episode was about. Well, no, you have to come on next week when it's me, Joey and Odoil. That got it. I have so much research prepared as to the effects of acidity and the end product,

depending on cold brew versus like a Japanese iced pour over. I guess we'll have to save that. We'll release that on the Patreon. Make sure you subscribe. Well, you can always just do it in post and you know, it'd be good. Just add it. A 10 minute dissertation. All right, I'll put that in post.

We'll all go to bed and you just stay on and keep jabbering. Okay. Put all your thoughts in the description on the YouTube video. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who, see, I think Andrew probably flew in the farthest, right, or I don't know. the the the

the the Yes, so yeah flying in though wasn't bad at all. That's no problems The only issue I had was just the people in Minnesota. That was God worst fucking drivers, so so careful Yeah, me and Stephanie and Damager and gin both had the same well actually and several people had the same thing Flying to MSP get her car and then drive over I didn't realize how shitty of a drive it would be like I thought it my only experience last year was driving from Sioux Falls

Down or up that is and I was just like the greatest drive. You just go 80 miles an hour and it's awesome it's like very easy, you know Tulane Highway the Minnesota Drive was just Just horror. There's bad. She's a bad read. Well, they only do this mean that that's yeah. Yes the ticket this time anyway so you're probably fine. I got lucky on the way back and there was a guy that blew past me in Minnesota and I kind of just followed him in a distance. He had to be doing 90, I was doing 70 and made that ride so much easier. Good deal. So did David get pulled over for going too slow? No too fast. He got a speeding ticket and then he got pulled over for some new merging over rules.

That's weird, it's not a thing in California. Oh, zipper mergers? No, no, no, like if there's police on the side of the road and you don't get over, you're getting a ticket. If you don't go like 20 miles an hour or get the fuck over, you're getting pulled over. Yeah, we have real traffic out here. It's like five lanes, where are we gonna go?

Makes sense. Yeah, no one goes fast enough to hurt anyone in California on the highways. It's all backed up. You have to be so easy going. He's going like 90 miles an hour, damn David. I heard he was going 120. He was 80 and it went down to like 55 or something.

Or maybe it was 60 and it went to a 40. It's the government, man. They're trying to get him down. I think it's a Minnesota stupid expensive too. That's alright. It's not like he spent his life savings to get to South Dakota. So yeah, on QZs and travel expenditures. So if we stick in chronological order, let's go with Kurt and Garrett and kind of hit us off with volunteering and getting the gym basically over to the Ramcota. How was, were you guys both there and, you know, helped out with all that? It looked like

trailers so i missed the worst part um but kurt can talk more about so kurt did all the work yeah well i mean i can't take too much credit they were probably 15 of us that were hauling plates up and down stairs um so it went it seemed to go real quickly. The highlight of that was I ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time and was one of the people that got to bring up the big sandbag with the netting and the easy curl bar and I managed to not slip and get crushed. So I was pretty pleased with that. But it went really fast. There were three or four trailers worth of stuff that we brought over. I don't know that we took more than 20, 25 minutes to get them all loaded up with everyone that was helping.

It's a lot better than last year, it sounds like. And I imagine carrying a sandbag has to be a billion times better than doing bringing all those stones out for last year. Like that's just logistically, it had to be a much easier transfer. I can only imagine. So you guys got all that set up in the morning. They be a much easier transfer. I can only imagine So you guys got all that set up in the morning. They've set up the booth a lot of us got in Thursday ish You know, we can kind of I guess go to loggers unless anyone did anything before loggers I got in one. Yeah Nate Nate got in before longer. So do you do anything fun there buddy? Oh, I mean So why flew in direct to Aberdeen? Because my trip was sponsored by florals by Kay and we spare no expenditures.

But flight in Aberdeen is such a fun thing because there's like a gaggle of silly geese and just other people that are going to Aberdeen and I'm always curious what the other people are doing. Because the one, so the people I sat next to were going home for a family reunion in which the lady told me that they had 45 first cousins. And I was like, that's a lot. And then the guy next to her said, yeah, there's nothing to do here in the winter, which I thought was pretty funny. And then we got off the flight. There's nothing to do. It's just... Yeah. There's something. On Saturdays, things get pretty crazy in Aberdeen.

But we got off the plane and it was my first experience of the Aberdeen airport, which was hilarious. I did not... Just a little guy. And it was my first experience of the Aberdeen Airport, which was hilarious. I did not realize that it was literally just a box. I had lived very close to a small regional airport and it's substantially bigger than that and it was very funny. But when we got off the plane, there was a family waiting with a bunch of signs. And we were standing in the baggage claim and then all of a sudden this girl just like runs across in front of all of us and is just crying and her family's crying and it was some reunion not the

family reunion a completely different family reunion and that was quite an experience to witness there in the Aberdeen Airport apparently long lost family was reunited with tears and... Brad Kupiec I was sitting next to that woman on that flight and I, from what I understood, they were just very happy to see her because she had to sit by me. Robert Leonard Yes. Oh, also huge news on the flight in from Aberdeen, or into Aberdeen. Brad the pad was sitting in the emergency evacuation seat, which I felt so safe. It was like the best case scenario. On the ride home, I sat there, so everyone nearly died. But then he sat in the back. But yeah, when the lady,

it took like everything in me when the lady was like, because it was like a row in front of me. Like are you prepared to assist in safety, yada yada, and I just wanted to stand up and be like, you have no idea who you're talking to, man. That man is so qualified for this job. But yeah, other than that, a bunch of crew got in. Shout out to Jake and his wife for picking me up because I just mentioned that I might need a ride and I was just going to message him when I got there if I didn't find one

and he was just there to pick us up which was really nice. I didn't even tell him what time our flight was. He just figured it out. I think he literally like could either see it or maybe it was the day. I can't remember. I think he posted something about heading to the airport. Yeah, I mean there's only two flights that go in. It's not hard to figure out. There might be like one or two that come into the airport. So he picked us up. He drove us through Aberdeen, which was fun to see the entire city in one drive, and dropped us off at the hotel. I was rooming with our buddy Sam

of the normal warming up type and he was driving with Hogan from Ohio so I didn't have a room. So I did in fact get to sleep on Matt's floor for like all of an hour or two which was very exciting. I did get to fulfill that. He had like a really fancy chair in there that was pretty comfy. I almost slept on. But yeah, and then everyone's like, do you want to go check out the convention center? I think they've got some stuff set up. And I was like, sure. And one of my whole goals was to do a nice video where I surprised Tanner and I got it all on tape. And I walk in the convention center and he was just standing in the back. And I was very annoyed that I didn't get a nice cool video of him being shocked but he was pretty surprised and that was pretty exciting but I didn't get it on video so you guys will just have to believe me

that he was surprised. I did see it. I was in there. Oh yeah. I did see it too. Yeah. He was very surprised. Yeah that was that was very fun. Enjoyed that part of that. And then whatever happened after that, I have no recollection. So I remember I picked up the other big Kurt from Philly and I asked who was on the flight and he was like, you didn't hear this from me, but Nate GPT is here. And I kinda, I freaked out a little bit because I was super excited to see me. Yeah. And I freaked out a little bit, because I was super excited to see the end. Yeah, you just messaged me and were like,

something very derogatory. And I was like, what did I do? Did I post something accidentally? Like, I hate you or something like that. And I was like, oh no. No, it was you motherfucker. Oh, that's what it was. I was like, what did I do?

It was ambiguous enough. Yeah, well, one of the best moments of me trying to surprise everyone was that I showed up to the terminal on MSP and Brad the Pad just goes, oh, I knew you were coming. And I was like, how did you know? And he's like, I don't know. I just kind of knew. And I still don't to this day, neither of us know how he found out or who told him. But yeah, that was surprising.

Everyone was fun. Oh, yeah, I guess we hung around the restaurant bar area before loggers. I snuck away with Eddie to go find a spatula to use his microphones for the weekend. Now, it's actually good. So for the audio listeners, if you don't catch, make sure you're following on paid and underrated on Instagram. I think that's a handle if you don't catch, make sure you're following unpaid and underrated on Instagram.

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I had to escape to Walmart because I was afraid to get attacked by TSA for taking a weapon. Smart. smart smart I think everyone made it to Loggers, right? Anybody not there? Anybody have any good memories from that night? I can remember when we got to our tables the table next to us had people and they're like, yeah, it's something called Masonomics.

I thought that was pretty funny. I witnessed dogs calling Anthony Matthias in person. He comes up to him and he goes, Oh my God, I love your video when you're squatting with the cat jumping on you. And Anthony's like, what? I mean, you're both like, he's joking, right? And he just kept playing into it like he was dead serious. And then Anthony goes, no, I'm a bias and that and Dodds is like, what?

Listen, Dodds just remembers who people are by the fact that he can pick them up or not. So I did pick it was my last thing I did at the zoo was picked odds up or before I left and that was on that week. Easy anyone could pick them up now. I said so late. Yep. Okay.

Yeah. The the lagers was very cool. I feel like a lot happened there. Our table witnessed some kid throwing chalk all over a pool table at one point, which was pretty crazy. That made me not, yeah. It reminded me, it reminded me I didn't miss my kids

that much at that point. I was just like, yeah, that's something my children would do. Glad they're not here right now. But I do miss them. I love you guys. If you're listening 20 years later to this, I do love you guys. But yeah, witnessed all kinds of crazy things. The craziest part about loggers was the fact that like, all of the orders for everyone was just taken on paper with a random description of every person on it. And that was just the most impressive thing. Like I think Andrew, I think I heard at one point it was just Andrew Redshirt was on.

Yeah, I was Red Andrew. Red Andrew, that's what it was. Yeah, I tried to get Randrew and she wouldn't go for it. But it was just the craziest thing. I think Matt, Matt, Brehme and I, at one point, Jen and Chris, they drove us there. Oh, that's an important part of the story. But they drove us there and they left because they woke up at like 2 a.m. or something where we were complaining about being tired.

And so Matt, Brehme and I were sitting there and we're like, ah, we'll just hang around a little bit. And we just waited, I think, like an hour to get a bill. It was crazy. Slam boozled, but it's the only time in my life I've wished for one of those like little Applebee's little things where the bill's just there right in front of you at all times.

You guys know, like that's the only, I hate those things with a passion, but at that point I was like, I would love to just pay for my food and feel like I could leave this table and not like accidentally dine and dash so I didn't worry about that Stephanie was there with me and she only stayed for like an hour hour and a half and then kind of just made sure that a

Couple people knew I needed a ride and she did she'd paid the bill and dipped out and then you know I proceeded to have another three or four beers and very much enjoy my Thursday I had hardly drank at all the last year, maybe in the last, I pretty much haven't hardly drank at all. Um, but I really wanted to enjoy myself a little bit and I was like, well, Thursday's was the night I'm going to do it. Um, and, uh, yeah, I did. So if anyone talked to me too much that night, I was probably a little more

tuned up than I usually am. So that crazy ice came out. What'd you guys think of the food at at loggers? I thought it was pretty good. Mike, the chicken for being a dollar and like it actually being real chicken. Yeah. So good. I had 10 of them.

Nice. I had 10 of those. I had maybe five of the ribs. They were all good. Yeah, chicken strips were good. I was just really upset. Jake was like, yeah, three weeks ago I posted from the Discord, they're running this special, which I was like, that doesn't matter to me. I can't, literally for this recap podcast, I was like, I don't remember what happened last weekend. And I was physically there. And I was just like, I didn't know there was like a chicken nugget wings combo deal going on and I got a burger and I get up and start talking to everybody like yeah the chicken's so good here the ribs were fantastic and I

was just crushed I was so crushed that sounded amazing and everyone was like you should you should just get more and I was like I will. I was so full from the burger I had, but I was very sad. I didn't get it. What'd you say, Chris? So I completely forgot about that as well. I just had a burger as well. Yeah. What'd you say, Daniel?

Randy, sorry. Now you got to come back to lift hardly easy for, well, what if they don't have the special, we need to time it up. So the special comes back. J.K. J.K. with special, you know, Discord three weeks in advance and you won't see it or. Yeah, I'll just do this for the rest of my life.

I don't think you understand how I work. Is that you'll just never notice it? Yeah, I'll never get it. I'm a chronic menu investigator before I go anywhere, so I reminded my table of the special beforehand. Yep. I typically am too, but the theme of this trip was live fast and loose. No rules, no preparation just exist. And that's what I did. So did your wife end up surprising you to get you out there? I remember you kind of told us, me and Joey, but I don't know if you have a story you want to share. Part of that is well. Let's I got as little or as

much as you well. There's certain parts that I can't share because it's not public information yet. It's fine. Just move on. But basically she was going to get it. She was going to send me for Father's Day and then there was a family thing that was supposed to happen that exact weekend that came up before she had gifted that to me. And she told me, she was like, hey, I really wanted to send you out, but now we can't. I'm really sorry. And I was crushed. And then a few weeks later, after Father's Day, we found out that that was no longer happening and I was able to go. In which after we received that phone call, I didn't mention it because I didn't want to be a turd. But then suddenly, like a day later, she's like,

oh, that means you can go to Lift Hard, Leave Easy. And I was like, absolutely, I sure can. That sounds great. And then I booked my flight and headed out there. So yeah, it was like, I was probably like 30 days from the lift to hardly be easy that I figured out I was going and whatnot. Nice, more glad to have you buddy.

Yeah, and apparently she slid into Keith's DMs about it. She did a while ago, and then I was like, but she did it on you and you, and I was like, well he can see these if he really wanted to. So let me just delete this and be like, all right, if I shared all the information, like if you need anything else, So let me like just delete this and be like, all right, I guess I shared all the information. If you need anything else, just follow me on my personal.

Yeah, she was very confused by all of that. She was like, he does what and then all the messages were gone because he deleted them. I didn't want to spoil it. Oh, it's alright. She wasn't gonna figure out any of the travel anyway. Are we are we moving through loggers? Because I do have one last loggers story at the end of the travel anyway. Are we moving through loggers? Because I do have one last loggers story at the end of loggers.

Yeah, I want to hear about the end of your log. Yeah. So at the end, after Chris and Jen left us to dry at loggers, Matt, Bremy, and I all were kind of just like standing around like, ah, do we want to go home? Do we want to keep going? And then we all just decided, like, ah, let's just head out. And then none of us seemingly wanted to ask for a ride.

So we walked all the way home from Loggers back to the Ram Coda, which was kind of nice. It made all the burger digest real good and it was a beautiful night until the moon came out and all of the mosquitoes descended upon us like ravenous dogs. That part really sucked. I will say that we walked over, if you've been in Aberdeen, South Dakota like I have, I know some of you haven't,

be ashamed to never have attended, but. Lord of the Mist this year. Yeah. Or last year or the year before. Lord have missed this year. Yeah. Or last year or the year before. Yeah I would never do that. The bridge that you go over when you're headed back up, as we were descending down that bridge, who Matt Sesney and Waffle Iron drove right past us with a gigantic car and refused to pick us up.

Just honked, waved, and just kept driving with only two people in their car. And so the rest of us were left to walk like a mile and a half home. But it was nice. It was a great little bonding experience of walking home with like five dudes. I know why you guys left logger so early and then you were just walking around the hotel looking for something to do. I was like, we were at logger so there was something to do. I don't know. I just... Listen, Keith, the theme was no planning, fly by it and they said, do you want to walk? And I said, sure. And I wandered off. Do you think the elevation of that bridge is the highest point?

Very much so. It was very, I was very scared. The best was Matt is walking and he like kind of falls against the, the, um, get a fence that's on it. And he's like, oh, that must be for drunk people. They can't walk without falling. And we're all just like, yeah, but like you, and he's like, no, I'm yeah, there's not a lot to do in the summertime either. Yeah. the the the the

the You know comparing it to pounders real quick or. I'm not sure. No no way better. Yeah way better. Free peanuts I mean I don't know what pounders is like. How does the first year was. For first year was great second year we just big out through that place. Yep that's fair. Yeah no I had a blast I was just it was a great time. So that was so that that wrapped up Thursday night Well, no, there was then we got back to the hotel and there was all that drama fucking outside. That was wild shit

the best part about all of that is I'm wandering around the hotel with mofo just trying to find somewhere to like hang out until whenever Because there's nothing there was nothing to do in the Ram Coda that was the only downside is like at night there was nowhere just like sit and not be a bother. If only there had been a pounder still. Well, listen again no plans, no thoughts, only action. But we were wandering around and like one of the employees sees us after like all of this, Oh, beer bottles are being thrown outside and all of these things.

And she's like, are you looking for something? We're like, just looking, you know, wander around, checking the place out. She's like, okay. And we wander around some more run into her again. She's like, are you guys still looking? And we're like, yeah, we're just looking for somewhere to like not be a bother and not be like people at door six, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. And she was like, are you guys still looking? And we're like, yeah, we're just looking for somewhere to like not be a bother and not be like people at door six, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

And she was like, oh, okay, I'll just open the whole convention center for you. And then she just unlocked it and just let us sit in there after it was locked. And she was like, I leave at 3 a.m. Let me know when you guys head out or just shut the lights off, I'll know that you guys are gone. And I was like, this is,

there's people just throwing beer bottles outside. They're calling the police and they're like, oh, yeah, we'll just unlock this for this other group of people who seem obviously safe for I don't know what reason, maybe because Mofo has a mustache. I don't know. But yeah, it was, it was very funny of just like a, I feel like given the history I've seen so far, you should not trust anyone. She was just like, just don't make a mess. And I was like, OK.

But then she walks out the door. She's like, I'm going to go check on these rowdy people. And she's like, I'll lock this door so they don't come in through here. And like three minutes later, Ryan just walks through said door that's supposed to be locked. So that chick was doing a fantastic job on all accounts of keeping things safe. Hopefully her employers don't listen to this.

But yeah, that was quite a hilarious night of just like, hey, people are outside throwing beer bottles. We're calling the cops. But hey, the rest of the hotel, we'll just start unlocking it and letting people in whatever they want. So who knows? The Ram Code is a crazy place.

It was a rodeo. It's the Wild West, I guess. That's good stuff. Were any of the doors unlocked or were any of the doors locked? I don't know. I saw someone put a note. Yeah, that like you had the whole like put your card in to get through this door. But I don't think anyone ever ever.

All unlocked. Maybe like from like 4am to 5am is when they lock. Well, that's the danger time there. You know, I'd lock it 4 a.m. To 5 a.m. Is when they lock The danger time there, you know, I'd lock it up then yeah speaking of Ryan Yeah, he was only gave me I get a ride home from Pounders with him and I kept making the joke But how like I'm gonna feed he he handles the clutch and I'll shift but he wasn't he was he wasn't down for that I'd be your Keith is wild Yeah, he doesn't even know where he was Man they wiped out founders. He forgot a whole year loggers. I'd logger it's like it's

Always struggle to pronounce it because it's it's not like log like lo G It's like law la take I want to say laggers, but it's not laggers. You just say loggers like L.O.G. Still works. I guess. But speaking of those sitting around, I do think that the Fairfield was better for the fire. At least they had the fire pit and like, you know, a nice patio. Yeah, C.C. Kurt hung out the Fairfield time. So they should have hung out with

Kurt. So when I first joined the the Mastinomics Discord, it was around the time a lot of people were booking their hotels. And there was a lot of talk about which hotels people were saying at the previous year. And the Fairfield came up a whole bunch. And someone had mentioned that they were having trouble booking a Ram Coda room with the discount code for the event. I was like, Oh, well, I'm not competing and I'm going to have a car with me. I'll just stay at the Fairfield and let someone else have a room here. I'm pretty sure I was the only person from the event staying at the Fairfield. So it's a significantly nicer hotel, but it was nice. It was quiet. Yeah. I don't want to be. And quieter.

I don't remember a peak last year. I couldn't sleep at all. And this time it, so Toby and I were across from each other and we had the room next to us had two dogs and so they were whining and barking all the time. And then the wedding party, I swear, was in our row, or our aisle. And it was just in and out and just loud talking all night. Oh my god, that were so even being at the convention center and being able to like just walk to your meet. It wasn't worth it. Not this time. So that's like, me and Jen

said the one like, we didn't hear anything. Nope. I heard nothing on that side of the hotel. It was silent where I was. Even when they were in the pool the first night I could kind of hear them but not they didn't keep me up

I could just hear a lot of noise down there and I just looked out the window. I was like, Oh, yeah, there's like six or seven guys in the pool trying to climb across the lily pads. It was so I think it was Saturday night when I came back, it was so loud. And there was like three doors between where the wedding reception was, where they were still partying, and where our room was.

I fucking shut every common area door behind me just to try to make it a little bit quieter because I knew it was like, this is gonna be so fucking loud in my room because we were only like a couple of doors down from the stairwell, which was right above all the bullshit noise. So I was like, I'm just gonna shut all these doors.

So anyway, we just, Big Jeff and I talked about, Hey, why don't we just go hang out with Kurt real quick and chill over here. Oh, dope. It's cool. Spend 20 minutes trying to get the fire pit to start. All right. Well, that that's basically, I think that's, I think we beat

Thursday to death there. So Friday Way in Breakfast billboard the gym all that good stuff. Anybody have any really good stories that jumped out all the new merch Like we everyone picked up Millstone was not ready And we all got split up so it was like separate groups coming in and then we at one point there was 23 of us waiting there and they just had no room to put us anywhere. We left my I rode with Chris. We left at 930. We did I did not leave Millstone until 1145. Oh my gosh. We had the same waitress as last year, Chris.

Like at our big table, we had the same lady. She came to help, like when we started getting our food, she came around to help hand the food out. And she was like, oh, these guys are awesome. And that's all she said. There was one woman there that was extremely mad that we were. Her face as she was like putting she was put menus back and she slammed these menus into the holder. She was so mad. Money is the worst.

No kidding. Mastanomics party of 69. It was about 69. There was a lot of shove into the millhouse. There was a lot of people. Yeah, there was a lot of us. So Jonathan Genel's husband did say that they had new owners.

So I don't know if that made a difference or not, but. We used to be a proper country, that's all I have to say. We used to bring our proper millstone. I will say that my husband ordered tea and the lady asked if he wanted sweetened or on sweet and I looked at Keith and I said she just said on sweet like Tanner says. Maybe they're related. Probably I mean everyone that I meet was Tanner's Tanner's cousin right. Yeah basically.

Pretty much every I think was like I don't know how you say his name. I didn't Rick. I didn't. I like was working out. Sorry, not to say it yet. But basically, anybody in town was basically his brother or sister. So everyone who kind of saw the booth for the first time or saw the convention ground for the first time. So when I walked in, I like up this I didn't realize that it opened at eight

I knew Wayans were 830 so we just decided to go down a 30 and realize they actually like the doors open at 8 so when I walked down there was already like 30 people in line and like half the shit is I'm lucky I didn't wait any longer because that there I picked up that sweet orange shirt And I think a handful of people had already tried to you know Look at a river and big Jess actually had it in her hand, like holding it for me. It was like a, you know, joking around that she was going to buy it, but she was really just going to either buy it and sell it to me or hold it for me. So I got there. So, um, but that thing's awesome.

I loved it. They had a unpaid underrated one that, uh, Matt suddenly ended up getting, if anyone's not sure what we're talking about there, Tanner's, uh, so, um, Tanner's wife's mom. So his mother-in-law makes all these custom shirts like once a year. I think it's the second or third year she's done it. It's just like a cutoff flannel or like a cutoff long sleeve shirt with frayed arms and stuff and just sews a bunch of t-shirt logos and stuff on them. They're really sick and they're reasonable. I didn't even know how much it cost until we checked out.

I think I had to reverse engineer what it was. I was like, I think it was 40 bucks, but I don't really know. I don't really care because it's a fair price either way for all the work that it would they were More than $40 with effort went into making that shirt. I'm sure so I could not argue with that price Got the silly goose shorts got them another meat shirt. I Really enjoyed the the box of sale items that Tanner had which was just extra small and 3XL t-shirts. Yep. Oh, there were 3XLs? There was, yeah, a few of them. It was just very funny. And the whole time I just kept

going back and be like, could I fit one of these? Could I fit in a 3XL? What would it look like? Yeah, it was pretty slim pickings this time, but in the past it's been pretty good. Year one there was a large, huge, rubber-made tote the past, it's been pretty good. I'm proud of you. Year one, there was like a large, like huge rubber made tote. This year it was like a small box. Yeah. Getting more efficient, you love to see that.

Mr. Wonderful would love to see that on Shark Tank. Efficiency, or something like that, I don't know. I didn't realize that the good shirt, you know what shirt I'm talking about, that won't be named. I didn't have my glasses on and I thought it was just like the regular one that was blurry.

Oh, that is hysterical. So I had read that Daniel wanted, Daniel, Dave, Big Dave wanted the shirt in the discord. And so he's like, we might be able to help you with that. Well, I was thinking like he had a holdover that he was going to give big Dave for the meat. And then, yeah, and then I had someone, someone sent me a message and said, Hey, can you pick me up one of those shirts? I'm like, what the hell are you talking about? So I asked him,

I'm like, Hey, can I have one of those shirts too? And he's like, it's literally right there. Oh, okay, then I'll take two of them. So I had to make two separate purchases because I didn't realize that he was selling it. That's really funny, Jen. I was like, I wore the blurted one to Home Depot one time and some dude just walked by and was like, oh dude, I thought I had a crazy morning.

That shirt messed me up. It was like nine in the morning. I was like, the blue is not right on that shirt. I complained to Tommy, it's not the right blue, which he enjoyed arguing with me because I'm also colorblind so I have no grounds to stand on. But yeah, all the silly goose, I didn't realize on but yeah all the silly good I didn't do I didn't realize until everyone got home the silly goose shorts had the goose on it on the I didn't either until I was like I was taking the the picture of you know

new new new shorts who this I'm like fucking goose on my leg I'm so confused I'm like oh okay where's that hot come from yeah yeah I was because I was between those in the the shorts I did end up getting and I was kind, oh, okay. Where'd that hawk come from? Yeah. Yeah, I was, because I was between those and the shorts I did end up getting. And I was kind of sad I missed out on the goose shorts. But oh well. You didn't get the silly goose ones? Huh? You didn't get the silly goose ones?

No, well, so here's the thing. In my proof that I exist, I was trying to replicate Tom's wardrobe as much as possible and I'm pretty sure he has the green Mastodonics Lifting Department shorts so I wanted to get those so I can wear them and match him. I just need to get one of the shirts that he owns and we'll be perfect twins. You're going to end up like Robert pretty soon. The guy that sent the email. Oh, yeah.

Oh, I haven't. That's like it's too much. It's too new lore. Yeah, like I, I, I. Hang on. Yeah, Robert, that guy. God damn it. Who are you? Robert Oberst?

I've never heard anyone argue that they were funny like that except me. That's funny. That's good stuff. Um, all right. I think we, you know, a lot of us that's good stuff. Um, da da da da, all right. Uh, I think we, uh, you know, a lot of us went, you know, you have to go to the billboard, you gotta go to the gym, that's just kinda what you do on Friday. Like when you're trying to convince your spouse

to come out, and we're like, well what the fuck's there to do in Aberdeen? And I'm like, well, you know, it takes a day to get there, literally, and then you gotta be in and, you know, go get breakfast with the homies and do the billboard picture and go to the gym for a couple of like an hour and that's that's that's pretty much all morning then you then you

figure out what lunch is and then you you know go back to the hotel room for another couple hours and you go to Daner's house like that's pretty much that's the whole Friday you don't have to really go fill it up with stuff to do there's enough micro things to go do that it's a pretty full day and before a meet you really don't want to be running around too damn much anyway did you guys get I got to try the pendulum squat you guys get to try the pendulum squat I think yeah that loved it it's quite fun I watched Hogan and Nicole put it together for two hours and was like I'm glad some people some I'm glad some people are helping I felt bad

that I probably should have help offered but like they seem to always have at least one one or two people over there helping. I think it was, I think Bremy was helping him at one point, which is kind of, I just, I got a kick out of it because he's like, you know, he makes gym equipment and stuff. So he was like, I think he knows his way around some nuts and bolts and whatnot. It was really funny that, uh, across from Hogan, they were like at a different table at Millstone and they talked about, I said something about, I was like, did you guys, it's disassembled, right?

And he's like, yeah, we're going to go build it after this. And I was like, oh, cool. Like, I really want to try it. I'd love to come help you guys build it. And he's like, oh, yeah, we'd love to have you help. And I was like, great. He's like, OK, cool. You can just ride over with me after this.

And I was like, awesome. And then he left. They got their food paid, left. We still had not even got our food. I did not get to the gym until the thing was built. That's wild. Like in the time of- He was building it like forever.

I don't know how that worked out, but- That's just terrible. It was like, I had realized that now. It's just like, yeah, I said I was gonna go build that with them. I showed up and it was done. Like they were just putting on the stickers and whatnot. Who wasn't that, who wasn't that got so annoyed at Milstone

they just left and Venmoed someone else at the table money. Someone told me they did that because they were like, we're not waiting any longer. We'll just let the other guy pay and we'll. I know the answer to that. I don't know if we need to say their name. No, no, you're good. It could have been me, but not me.

I thought it was you. It's not, it wasn't me. One bit. I waited. Did you read the story that they put on the pendulum squat? I haven't read it. It's in the funniest place though. It's like so hidden. I think Tanner posted it on the Instagram with whatever post he made about the pendulum squat the like last slide in that is the story because it's like really long. It's long. Yeah, it's very long. Yeah. Yeah, she did. No, she said you down the gym getting a little workout in. Did you get a was that before after or during the I saw you down there doing some double over hand deadlifts? It looked like the Fairfield not have a good enough fitness center.

I thought it was a better hotel. I had doubled up to 50s. You can get real strong there. But actually I have a little bit of a story from my workout that may tie into our next topic here. So I don't know how many people watched the video where they were talking about getting their new dumbbell racks and ending up with the Alibaba version and whatnot. And that the, you know, at one point Tanner made the comment that like the one downside is with how the dumbbell racks are laid out that kind of tucked away in the top right

corner are 50 pound dumbbells but you know Tanner's so big he's like I don't think this is going to be a problem for anyone well I'm quite a bit smaller than Tanner And so like I get my hand out of there and I look down and there's like this nasty flap of skin and everything under that all I see is white and I'm like, Oh God, that's bone and I couldn't move my finger. I'm like, it's broken. And my very next thought had nothing to do with like driving home or needing to go to a doctor in a different town or anything. My first thought was I'm not going

to be able to compete in the cottage. That's my spoon. That was my spoon. So thankfully within a few minutes I could like move it again and everything but I had a little scary moment that I thought I broke my finger the very thing that Tanner assured himself wouldn't be an issue. I picked up a dumbbell off the top rack I think I don't know what what it might have been like 30s I was like yeah I'll just grab these off and I was like this is not meant for dudes that are my height like I could not I mean I know strong, Keith said that, but like the maneuver of like lifting as if I like there's, that has meant everyone in Aberdeen is also good for them.

With these three tiers, you have to like reach up and out to get there. Yeah, it's impossible. I don't understand. And my whole thought was I don't want to break a York round head. So I'm gonna use just the pro style dumbbells and you know, if I drop one, who cares, but.

Yeah, I did. We did the pro styles to do Hogan's the Orange Crush challenge. So I was definitely, we started at like 50 or something and it was the top. Yeah. So the ones that you broke your hand on was the ones I think I started on. They were a pain in the ass to get down for sure.

Yeah. Honestly, I'm writing a letter to the manager. Yeah. Wrongly worded email. All right. Honestly, I'm writing a letter to the manager. The word of email. All right. I am very curious about that. Yeah.

Never got. I never got the story of the person who got kicked out of the gym. No, next time. I'm going to have to go to another. I've asked Tanner multiple times and he's always like, oh yeah, he had just told it at the zoo on Friday. He's like, okay, next time I tell somebody I'll come get you. And I've asked him multiple times and like, I'm still talking about it. There is a story.

We'll tell you sometime. That's okay. It's more incentive to go back, you know, it's just brimmy. They're more, they're more open. They're less busy, I should say. Andy Pandy tried to get me to tell him the story like for like, I mean, he asked me a couple times, it was more like, should I ask Tanner? I was like, well, you can ask him, but he's fucking busy right now. So he's praying I got to tell you something. He's got to kind of like, casually have some like a few minutes of downtime. I gotta tell you, it's something you've gotta kinda like casually have some like a few minutes of downtime to...

I heard there's a lot of like, it's a lot of setup and that, and it's very beneficial if you know the back catalog. So I'm very, yeah, I'm very excited about it once I hear it. I think about it like every time before I go, but I never think about it when I'm actually in Aberdeen. So I always forget to ask. It's a shame. Yeah.

Good story. He should just host a seminar when we're all together. That's basically what he did the first year. Like we were all sitting at the table and he just gave everybody this story. the publicly apologize to Hogan. I was attempting to create a speed run home gym review of the massonomics gym which will be dropping on our Instagram. Make sure you follow that. And I accidentally ran in front of him and Nicole while they were filming a video and I still feel really bad about that. So just wanted to put that out there. Sorry. Go on. Go ahead. Public apology. I'm paying underrated, would like to apologize. You have to buy him a new pendulum squat now.

Yep, can't afford that. I went to Aberdeen. That's about the cost of one. Yeah. Just think about that, like how much, I could have like $7,000 worth of new gym equipment. You could have a new laptop. Well, I have one now finally.

Like, but every trip I've taken could have had a new laptop. Yep. Look at all the time you've had with your friends. Oh no, no, it's why I didn't get a laptop for fucking two years, because I didn't care that much. For us.

Yeah. For us. You guys. All right, so anything else? I think that pretty much prior to Tanner, does anybody else got anything you were playing Pokemon that was pretty crazy yeah I did like the pool hangout that was finally like cuz it was so hard to get everybody

together cuz they're we were so spread thin so having everybody at the pool and just people playing cards and Pokemon drinking beer that was one of my favorite days slide was the best. Oh yeah. I have never laughed so hard in my life. Been watching people go down that and just get their shit into the chute. Yeah, was it in the shallow end too? It wasn't like a... Yeah, one foot deep. It wasn't made for adults.

Yeah, it did not have a good ending. I've never seen a pool, someone pointed it out. The very beginning of the pool is a pool, someone pointed it out, the very beginning of the pool is marked as six inches deep. I've never seen a pool marked that in my life. I have children, like I've been to kid pools. I've never seen that. So that was, yeah, it looked, that frog slide looked like the most uncomfortable slide I've ever seen in my life. And as an active parent, I've like gone down some slides that were not comfortable, but that that one looked like it took the cake. We have a video of Scantz going down it and he hits the lip and he like perfectly stays in a seated position and then just slams into a foot of water.

A foot of what? Water. Water. Water. Water. Yeah, I think we never really made it to the pool. I think we ended up going out to I did something I went out to Mavericks again and did a nice steak dinner. Like the lunch ish and then before we went to Tanner's. Yeah, I think everyone got their fancy clothes on and that was always cool because it's like,

it was supposed to be cool. like it was like comfortable in the morning, but it ended up being like fucking like 89 degrees or something that night like I regretted the entire time wearing that second shirt like my you know The the orange cutoff like I had to because it was fucking orange and it was just awesome But god damn I sweated my ass off that whole night wearing that thing like my neck is still sweaty from that but Bring pants to wear Fuck yourself. I love you buddy. Um Somebody what ever so Kurt was first MC in Tanner's house was it like man this is what a ag this is this is the kind of lifestyle a single-family income with the agricultural banker of some sort can manage to have it's pretty good nice nice

nice dwelling yeah it's a nice setup but I mean coming from Denver to Western Northeast South Dakota the cost of living is a little different so kind of just expect there to be space for activities. Yep. I like to think that he's able to have such a nice house because of us. I mean, he does tell me that everything from economics just goes back into the budget. Yeah. So you're welcome, Tanner. Yeah is this is the same deal you know there was a you see that like the trifecta of the group photos i put up today you can see how much we've grown year one to year two is a huge explosion it looked like it was definitely more people like, and there was a lot more growth from year one to year two, but we didn't really add like the meat itself didn't necessarily get bigger from year two to year three, but to have that many more people in his yard was pretty added. The party was pretty cool.

Still disappointed. A lot of locals don't show up. Like a lot of like people that compete and just a lot of faces that you saw Saturday, you did not see Friday. That one's still always kind of confuses me why people just won't come out and hang out with us but whatever there were still 150 of us there a lot of a lot of pork man a lot of poor was always pork and cheese the um did anyone cheese to put on that pork I missed that I missed the cheese I missed the cheese no cupcakes though I will say after, I don't know, maybe the award ceremony, I walked back inside to look if there was any more like sandwiches or anything. And one of the older relatives of someone like happened to walk, I was just like in

there by myself. And I was like, Oh, it looks like there's just scotch-rews left. So I grabbed a scotch-rew to eat and one of the older ladies, no offense, if you're listening, just- Dana, I think. Well, she just walked in, she's like, you want a sandwich? And I was like, yeah, absolutely. I didn't like, I didn't even, this is just so kind.

And I walked over and there was just so much pork left. I didn't even realize there was still paprika. And she was like, I'll make you a sandwich. I was like, honestly, if you just throw like a giant heap of pork on this plate right now, I'd be so happy. And I just had a giant. I saw you eating said plate later that night. It was great.

That's really all I wanted the whole time. But there were so many people, I would want to ask for that up front. No side hot dogs. Yeah, no side hot dogs. I was upset. I did have the idea when I was in Walmart with Eddie to buy a George Foreman grill and a lot of hot dogs and start cooking side dogs for everyone Friday night.

That's really funny. That would have been really funny. I blew all my money on microphone stands. I was just waiting for Jen to go around and just start smacking the scotch roos out of people's hands and telling them, I'm not at my barbecue. Yeah, this is ridiculous.

Oh my gosh, scotch roos at a barbecue? Ah, they can have cupcakes next. Ah, we used to be a proper country. We had strip and go naked at our parties, ah. But yeah. I was angry. I wasn't stopping any food because I just wanted to eat. I want to be all your Scotcher's.

They're good. There was a never ending supply of Scotcher's. I don't think I ever saw them run out. You don't know the Midwest. Like, you know, I know the Midwest. Well. A few of us pregame that at Taco John's. I was just about to say that. Yeah, I went to Taco John's and then we saw we saw Kurt getting food, getting ready for his eating contest.

Gotta keep the stomach stretched. Yeah. So Joey Chestnut says, dude, just aside before we get into the food eating competition, Joey Chestnut just competed in a, not competed, but he completed an event where a group of dudes went to a Bears game or not Cubs game. My mistake, went to a Cubs game and ate 99 hot dogs, drank 99 beers in nine innings. And I was listening to one of the dudes talk about like working with Joey Chestnut,

cause he was at like doing it with them. And at one point the dude was like, Joey Chestnut turned to the guy and was like, no one cares about how you feel, they only care about the number. And it's like, I wish I would have had all these quotes for when people were getting ready for the cottage cheese eating contest. Because the dude, like the things that they said, Joey Chestnut told them about like eating and food. Kirk might have been able to come back with all of those tips. That's all I'm saying.

It was the inspiration we needed. That was a weekly I'm very sad but yeah just remember next time Kurt I mean those no one cares how you feel they only care about the number those tips might help you know big Eddie finish because I'm pretty sure he's still eating his cottage cheese DNF man is it just in there for a snack. Just enjoying life. Eating some curd. That was the craziest competition I've ever seen in my life. Very well said. Daisy actually reposted it is. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, I work for a different dairy company and that all happened

while I was at a like a corporate off-site team building. I was like checking my phone. It's like, Oh God, I hope HR don't see this. You did what with who? Next thing you know, you're at a Coldplay concert and you're holding the bucket of cottage cheese. Respect my privacy. There's a meme there. So Garrett or Kurt, either

of you do anything? So did you guys do any prep? Did you do a dry run of just like how much cottage cheese? Yeah, there you go. I did quite a few dry runs leading up to it. I never had I had zero experience with Daisy brand. That was a new one. But I was pretty consistently putting down 12 ounces in around 20 to 25 seconds. So I was pretty embarrassed with my performance

when it, when the clutch time game completely fumbled the ball there. I heard you brought your own spoon too. I did. I may have left that in Aberdeen. Casualty of the event. I also left my microphones in Aberdeen and I just set them both on the little coffee table and I'm curious what the maid thought

of two little pie cutters just sitting there bent to complete, because they're bent completely flat to work perfectly as a microphone. So it's like, we've got spoons, pie cutting, serving trays. Like what is, what was this group into? Oh, but I think Garrett was the real star of that. Like no offense to like the winner in second place. No offense.

I'd love to hear Garrett's perspective on this. I want you all to go back and I, I already told him him but go back and look at Jake's performance because the way that that man. Went down to a knee yeah he was literally like crouching the whole time to eat so Matt obviously looks like he's a good competition eater and that's why he won. But you watch Jake's performance and you can see that man has gorged before and he knows how to eat. Just go watch his face. I felt a kinship with him. That man has gone goblin mode in the pantry at 3am before. Yeah, exactly. His fat hack is you got to take a knee to double it in. We have the same level of the table. It's like the squatty potty, but for eating, you have to take a knee to properly open up the esophagus and all the other pipes. You know,

just don't break any more squatty potty's Nate. You got it. I can't promise, but I'll do my best. They posted the video and Jake said, I've never seen Garrett eat before, but this isn't exactly what I expected. I cried, I laughed so hard. And then every time I opened it up and it was showing, I cried again and I finally just screen shot and said to Jake, I'm like,

this is the funniest fucking thing to be fair I do finish a lot of my meals just like this so that was disgusting dude like you literally had more cottage cheese on your Channing shirt in your neck than you did in your stomach cottage cheese on your shirt and you didn't you're saying I've never eaten daisy before I didn't know it was that thick so I just assumed I could like drink it my plan was just to drink it but it was not oh my god other brands go down so much easier right I'm still dry heaving from this shit so I didn't't realize also how thick it was. So I was just kind of doing my normal where when I was practicing, I could just basically shovel it into my mouth

as fast as I could. And my throat would be clear by the time the next spoonful was there. But I just had like a backlog sitting in my throat. So I'm just sitting there trying not to vomit up the contents of my throat. And I'm hearing all of these sounds of desperation coming from Gary. We're gonna clip that part. All these strange gagging and groaning noises just trying not to let it affect me. So the last thing I wanted to do was be the new guy and puke in front of 150 people. I was so sad no one puked.

I was waiting. I was- No. Everyone was like- there was like 20 people in the crowd that would have puked if I know that would have been hilarious I would have literally puked on you here it almost puked in front of Tommy's kids I know well his so I was here and his kids were like any corner to me and I gag and I see Tommy like put his hand in front of them and move them back. I was not going to throw up on the stage. I would have turned and thrown up on that.

So that would have been great. That would have actually been really ruined his suit. I'm curious as to how warm the glass. Yeah. Cause his first bite of it was like a little bitter looking. because his first bite of it was like a little bitter looking. Oh, Stephanie. So they were, yeah. So you met Stephanie and somebody else all rode back together, right?

And she'd Stephanie tonight told me when she realized that Matt won, she was like, that's why I didn't eat any ice cream when we stopped for ice cream. I was nit nit. They was in the car. Yeah. Yeah, it sounded like he may have been going through with the rest that night from tidbits I heard. I bet that had to be brutal. Because he had what 40 ounces total like after 24. It was fine. I went inside got some watermelon

and Scotch arouse but like if nearly doubling that would have been a problem. Although I also was doping me and Jake were both on PEDs with the lactate. Oh, I thought. It was a little preventative measure to make sure the next day went a little better. I we need that. Does the commission know about the PEDs? Try and ban me if they want, but it's already happened. Doping scandal over here. Geez. Watching back the recap video, I saw Matt and Jake both pre-stirred their cottage cheese,

which was a real pro move because that creamy top layer was rough to get through. Just makes you want to puke. All, that was the cottage cheese segment moving on. I did have a couple people so if Tanner's looking for any positive critiques here, that's not the right word, but a couple people are like, where's the name tags at? And no name tags this year. Definitely had a handful of people that were missing out on those.

So maybe maybe bring those back in 2026, I suppose. Listen, they had enough going on, Keith. Relax. Okay, well, Nate, bring name tags next year, bud. They just need to delegate stuff. They just need to make a list of like 30 things and just start delegate. Like this week, I asked if anyone could help make the show notes and essentially delegated and Jen volunteered and made our life a hell of a lot easier.

So appreciate that. So they just need to start doing that next year. Okay, so Keith has volunteered to bring the name tags next year. Yep, that's what I heard. I have mine. I have numero unos. Yep, there you go.

I mean, they're like 20 bucks. Just go make one. It's easy peasy. I did find, we didn't have name tags, but, and I obviously, we've been together for now for a long time, maybe not Kurt, but. Yeah, but there was definitely, there was some new faces I didn't recognize. tags, but and I obviously we've been together for now for a long time. Maybe not Kurt, but yeah, but there's definitely a lot of service. Some new faces I didn't recognize for sure. And but then I was thinking to myself, I go to work sometimes and I've been at work

like for 27 years and there's times where I like see someone I'm like, oh, hey, guy. Hey, you for so long and I can't remember your name right now. But then I'm at his party and I'm like, how the hell do I know a hundred and some names like right off the top of my head? Because does it care? You care. True. So next year, if you get like, hey chief or something from Jen.

That's why she only gave me compliments. So next year if you get like, hey chief or something from Jeff. Oh, that's why she only gave me compliments. She couldn't remember who I was. I definitely had to say, Hey bud or Hey pal, like three or four times. There was a lot of, Hey buddy. And then it's like towards the end of the week, you're like, who the fuck is that? Like I'm multiple times. I had to like ask someone. I was like, do you know who this is? Like, I don't know who this is. There weren't many. I just commented with a hug.

Like, Oh yeah. Hey, so they give yourself more credit than that. Jen, you knew who I was before we had even met you. Yeah. You made me feel very welcome at loggers. Thank you. Yeah. The first person to come up to me for the supposed to be crew glue and he was asking you earlier about all the stuff and I'm like, I already knew he drove I knew it came from Denver like I knew I don't think I got to talk to Kurt too much. I was very overwhelmed was just trying to eat was a hot commodity all weekend. I don't know about that. But I was a little more preoccupied too just having the wife there and having to make

sure everything's good with her so uh just it was a good weekend though very good weekend are we going to skip over the the hall of fame uh we can go very i'm just uh so we got a bunch people got cups and a bunch of people got jackets and good stuff congratulations you guys rock people got jackets and good stuff. Congratulations. You guys rock. See, economics. Keith apparently does not care about you at all. So Keith apparently does not care about them at all. No, he doesn't have a jacket. Next time we do a recap episode, he gets a jacket. We'll have 45 minutes on what the jacket means and why it's important and all the work someone had to do,

but he doesn't have one. I heard Joey got a jacket. I heard they mailed him one. Maybe, I don't know. I don't know about that. But no, so David Hogan, Andy, Katie, Nate, Garrett all got cups and Bryce, Lou, Tommy, Brad, and Eddie got a jacket.

Nate wasn't sure if he deserved a cup. And we're doing a little last minute kind of check in. Yeah, for the record, when we were in the gym, Tanner showed up and Tanner was just like, are you in the Hall of Fame now that you finally made it out here? And I was like, I don't know. I said on my episode of on pain underrated, I got the card and I put it somewhere. I don't know where it is anymore. Did I like send you a blank? No, Keith, you just handed me your phone with a fully prepared spreadsheet to fill out with the Hall of Fame. Yeah Keith, you just handed me your phone with a fully prepared spreadsheet to fill out with the Hall of Fame.

Yeah, cause you wanted to tell me and I was like, no, just I don't have time for that here. I figured you had memorized it, you could just tell me. I thought you knew how many I had. That was kind of what I was hoping for. I could probably look at it. I could probably blindly tell you what you have. I look at the card.

So I realized I had made the had made the hall of fame. That was pretty exciting. Um, I did want to accidentally somehow, uh, just make it to the jacket level and him not have one for me. I thought that would have been funny, but I, I have a few, a few little things I got to clean up before I could get there, but that would have been hilarious if I was like, oh yeah, I guess I'm at the jacket level. Can you get one of those?

Uh, today? I, that would have been pretty good. I'm at the jacket level. Can you get one of those today? That would have been pretty great. Grab one from the fulfillment center. Yeah, just embroider that in your basement. Does your mother-in-law do that or whatever? I did like, they had to, they had to special order different jackets

for Eddie and Bryce. They look so much heavier too. It does, it's like a beefy jacket. It is not a nice little windbreaker. Looks like a bomber jacket. Yeah, it's very good. Eddie's. Bryce is so funny. Bryce is like, it's like a glove or whatever you have.

It's like a foot to shoe. Just like I like it. That's what he said. It was very funny. Yeah, also for the record, I had no plan to tear my pants off

at that moment in time at the party. It just kind of happened. So that's bullshit. I, I, I, a hundred percent. I forgot our scheme and I saw it. No, you were with the enemy. That's not true at all. I had, cause at one point I was like, we showed up cause we were talking to the car about

my tear away pants and tear away pants seem to be a topic and I was like, oh, I'll bring those and I'll wear them Friday night. But I was like, when do I pull them off? And uh I think I asked Matt, I was like, when should I do this? And Matt was like, I don't know for the group picture. I was like, I don't like that's a lot of people and I don't want to just like pull attention like that feels like a weird move to be like, alright, hold on. Let me rip my pants off to take this picture.

And like as I was receiving the cup, I was like, this is the only time it makes sense to do this. Like I have to do it now because if not, I'm just a random guy at a party that everyone turns around to be like four people going, what? When like my pants fly up in the air and that's just weird. So it all worked out because if not, I probably would have just had to wear them the whole night and never tell them off Yeah, it was perfect timing because it definitely wasn't weird. Yeah Okay

Yeah, someone was like do you have Keith head shorts and I was like I Way, you know and for everybody I regret the Keith head not having Keith. That's what's next year. Yeah, that would have been just I was just actually naked. Someone when I was walking back to I thought you were going to moon Tanner. And I was like, why would I do that? I heard I heard someone say that.

I can't remember who it was. But yeah, I heard that. But I wouldn't just moon someone with all of those people. Well, don't even the people there was like there was like 20 people 20 young children in there that would yeah Like more or less a federal crime at that point. I don't need a good reason. No, not yet Okay All right Yes, everyone can you know some people kind of dipped out of the world list

We will say a little late Huck Finn finally showed up at like fucking nine O'clock that night, I think Karen was fucking hammered when she showed up She was just riding shotgun just drinking the whole drive there It seemed like she was pretty tuned up But I was talking to her briefly about the the home gym nerd t-shirt and she said oh do you want to see it? It was like the day before and just like yeah, I want to see it So I was pretty funny. So a little sneak peek of that and then Kind of wrapped up Friday. Anybody have any closing Friday stories?

Got to pee in Tanner's house. Oh, yeah. There you go Another been a bunch but yeah, I'm down to the fulfillment side I saw the people I saw was it spicy. Do you have a picture down there? Somebody had a picture down there. Me always you hurt Nicole and Colton. Nice. What what spurned what what what that usually doesn't happen.

So was there like an underline? Hey, we need to buy a shirt for an emergency or something. No, I think Hogan is like, oh, I'm going to go film. Am I sleeping in the home gym tonight down there? And you went and asked Anthony and he's like, No, I've already been there. And I'm like, I am going with you. That's good stuff. Yeah, I just happened to be nearby when he's like, Hey, I

have permission to go down to the fulfillment center. I was like, Okay, cool. I'm in fucking new curtain in the, in the fulfillment center. He's been crew for three months. He's been in the goddamn fulfillment center. It's, it's more about who you know, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to motivate people like some newer crew that are like, man, there's this like 200 person really close knit family that go come out every year.

I was like, we can literally, someone can come in and be here for three weeks, you know, be here for three months and put in the work and, uh, you know, be, be brought in just like one of the old ones. So it's, it's, it's not hard to, if you put in the work, it's not hard to be one of us, essentially. Tanner was trying to make it up to him for being stuck in the fairfield by himself, let's be honest. And there was probably like some, some, some, uh, you know, bribery for not suing him for, you know, I don't think he signed a waiver before he worked out with those dumbbells and hurt himself. Let's be honest. And there was probably like some some some, you know, bribery for not suing him for, you know, I don't think he signed a

waiver before he worked out with those dumbbells and hurt himself. Yeah. I don't actually I don't I never actually got permission from Tanner to be clear. Hogan got permission. And then I was in the right place to tag along. I managed to not break anything. Permission to Jason. I know that guy, I'm just gonna follow this guy. Tanner lives by the ask for forgiveness,

not permission sort of motto. So I think you would have made him proud. It was everything about the meat, everything we talked about, like, what about this thing? Tanner's like, ah, I figure we'll just ask for forgiveness. I was like, what about the, ah, you know, that's kind of our fallback. I figured we'll ask for forgiveness if that happens. So I think you were, you're very much in the right in Tanner's eyes there. My intentions were pure. All right. Well, that pretty much takes us into the meat. So

let's see, out of this group, we had one, two, three, three power lifters, three power lifters. You did, you were, you were volunteering only right Kurt you didn't compete. Okay, so three three power lifters Two strongmen three strongmen. Okay. So yeah nice even group here So power lifters how'd that go? You know that this you know Dave I think it's everyone that did it has already done one of Dave's meet a couple times So it seemed like it should just be the old hat. I'm assuming right? Yeah, it was significantly better than last year. Nice. What's what stuck out to you? It wasn't on his balls. Nice was Ram code or was um was the OD hot I wasn't sure I

Don't know they got in the way of the jack and then there maybe that's fair. It was an hockey rink Yeah, yeah. Six months later. Ironically, it was 70 degrees outside, so we could have went to the oldie. I don't know. Everyone says that, but like I think the end, it got warm, especially stage anyone that was in the back

back during the end and was all warming up for Strongman or competing in Strongman when they had the door open the whole time, so there was no air conditioning doing shit the whole time we were doing Strongman. It was just whatever it was outside, it was inside, which is still fine, it was still like whatever, it was like 75 degrees.

I'll take 75 over 90, which is what the fucking Odie was, I don't care what anyone else says, so it was completely fine, Tanner and Tommy. It was great, but you know, the ODI wasn't bad. I think the ODI was a little bit, I like, I preferred the ODI. Um, I didn't, I didn't think it was hot last year at all. Uh, I was, I was more California sweat hog. It's okay. I was more warm this, this year backstage for the strong man.

You guys are packed in there, man. I was trying to get back there to do social content, and it was just a little sardine can back there with powerlifters. It was pretty crazy. Well, there was several non-competitors back there. There was people hanging out back there, and that was super annoying. Yeah, it couldn't have been me. You'd be an exception. People hang out back there and that was super annoying. Yeah couldn't have been me Now there was an exception

There was a there was one kid there who I guess is crew but doesn't say or is not on discord But he had about five four kids. I would come back with them every time no matter how many times They've said one handler fuck one person one person. That's it that there's four kids back there And now it's one handler for one person, one person. That's it. That there's four kids back there. Which would have been fine at the ODI, but not here. So not here now. It was way too during squats. I thought it was pretty warm. Then it cooled down significantly. And

I told almost the barbell to the face. Luckily, the kid I saw that you almost got fucking decapitated by the guy next to him. Those combos were a little and all I was trying to do is I was trying to go up a plate on ours. And as I bent down to get the weight and brought back up, he was squatting. So his bar was six inches from my face. Well. And luckily, his his spotter was like, you're watching it, watch it.

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this is what I want. So then I reached out to Nate, Nate gave the ones that you just uploaded a picture, I couldn't figure out how to tell them, like, this is what I want. So then I reached out to Nate, Nate gave me what he's using as a background. And, uh, well actually, well actually you used that, uh, that phone background. I did with the fancy, um, orange glaze, the orange glaze text on it. Yeah. So I used battle skins, the company that used to make a mass office old singlet cause they were much like I uploaded the photo

and then it was all emails back and forth. And at one point the guys like, ah, I got to remove the orange glaze because it's going to be on your crotch. I was like, no, just leave it there. I love you, man. That's great. And then,otch I was like no just leave it there. I love you man. No no no. You know what I'm just saying like this is just for a joke like it's perfectly fine I

don't care how it turns out and he's like well it's it's kind of pixelated I was like I can look at it and I can see that it's Gies head so I didn't really care and then he ended up moving the orange glaze on the front but left the other one on the ass It's hysterical yeah, I can't wait to see the pictures with it. So yeah, no Ready to be hung up in the no wine cellar for you. Oh Awesome. We have so many questions a bit like my friends are like What the fuck is up with your head and it's like I can't can't even, it's like it's too much of a story. I mean, Keith, we've been saying that

since before the sticker's dropped, but. No, it's not my idea. Yeah. Screenshot in the discord of Jake trying to explain it to his mother-in-law. Even better. I laughed so hard. I think one of my favorite things is like,

people were going up to Keith, asking him for like Keith head merch. Yeah. He's like, people were going up to Keith asking him for like Keith head merch. Yeah. He's like, I don't have any. I got asked for a koozie like 30 times and I'm like, I didn't make them. I'm not that fucking like self centered that I'm going to put myself like I love that people do it.

It's the greatest thing ever. It's the most flattering. Like I love that I'm part of the thing and that it's awesome and that you guys are run with it. But like I don't do it. I'm not out here putting my face on shit. It's my friends that are doing it because it's cool and funny. Yeah, someone came and asked me and I was like,

no, I've done other things like a whole app to build it into pictures, a website for his movie rankings. But yeah, the stickers, I can't get you any of those. But you know, anything else Keith related, I got you. I mean, we could, could but I don't want to I don't know I'd feel awkward if we were having like we go to plate stacks and just order them and just have Jeff send them out every time but then it's like I don't know that needs to be something you get from Tanner or someone else can order them is there a certain point when there's just going to be like thousands of dollars in Keith head merch, eventually quick very quickly approaching that $100,000 that your business pretty soon.

The David's koozies were cool, but the single it will fucking correct me because Stephanie was like, you have to get a picture with you and Damager and I was like okay and I was like I kind of figured like I didn't know what it was but I was like it has to be something with my head and I'm like whoa it's not like it's like what else could it be like it's a thing that's gotta be a single my face on it and she was like you have to see it first I'm not gonna tell you so I finally but it also like I tried not to be a dick. I heard Dave say don't go in the fucking back unless you're a handler. So like, I basically like waited for like, like, like a brief low and ran back there gave you a hug real quick, got a you know, saw it real quick and then ran back out because I didn't want to be that douche in the back when you weren't supposed to be but I tried to like, you were down there for a little bit like before warm-ups started and I was like Real quick gonna throw it back on and then all of a sudden you were gone. I was like, where'd you go as a strongman?

She starts dying laughing We were in and out all morning because I was like I didn't want to make the mistake of last year of just being At the venue just sweating for seven hours but no more like eight or nine hours before I competed so I spent a lot of time just hanging out in the room and going back and forth. And we went out and got lunch at one point. So I was just very, I would say the Strowman have it easier that way because. I want to compete and then I want to watch you guys go.

And I just want to scream my head off at you guys. And then we went out that night and I ate and I was done. That was it. There was nothing left. Yeah, that stinks. You guys keep talking about how we weren't supposed to be in the back. And now I just feel really bad because I was all over the place and I feel like I broke a lot of rules. But if you're doing a little bit, you were doing content.

I mean, I was doing my job. I was doing the soul perp. But I'm a big follower, so I'm glad I didn't hear the rule because I never would have let myself go back Well as Tanner the day before I was like, yo, can I get a press pass? He's like, you don't need one I was like, okay. Yeah, that's funny No Like I I had to like beg Stephanie to come back like during warm-ups and like she we she wouldn't like she came back for like A second then she's like, I don't wanna be back here. It's like, I shouldn't be back here, I'm not allowed.

And I was like, okay. It's like, you're literally my handler, if you will. So you're allowed back here. There's probably a lot of men with a straw man because there's only like 25 of you. Yeah. There's plenty of room back there. Okay, okay, because you would have had a lot.

And they all just sit in chairs too. They weren't even warming up. All I have is videos of Matt, just pictures of Scott and Matt just sitting in chairs with Scott with his shirt off and Matt making silly faces. Infinite videos of that. No one was warming up. I felt definitely more prepared going into the show this year, like from the warm up that we had than last year, I feel. So actually we had ample time to play with the axle, you know, didn't really warm up with anything else.

I think I did a couple of Jefferson deadlifts with like 135, just to like, you know, kind of do it. Pre-brews. Yeah. That started the brews. Just warm the hamstring up. I think I did scrape it a little bit, yeah. Yeah.

Back on the powerlifting side of things, before we, I don't know where we're at, what's time. We're all over. But a few things on the powerlifting side. So the whole, I had this idea at some point to to mic up the powerlifters and compile a video of just breathing

and grunting and screaming. And it should release by the time this podcast release. I'm trying to figure out, I got a lot of videos to drop. I can't people let you do that. I'd be like, you were trying to give that to me. Like I'm not putting a microphone on my dude. Like I'm sorry, I'm not doing that. It is.

Every meet needs everyone mic'd up from now on. It is. I on the plane on the plane from Aberdeen, MSP, I spent an hour just listening to grunts and breaths. And I just like I have my headphones in and I just hear like the we're going to be preparing the line. And I was like, have I been listening to just dudes and just breathing in my ear for like an hour straight? It was so funny. I really, I like the way that it turned out.

I'm excited to put that out there. But yeah, thanks to everyone who let me, who let me stick a microphone on. I do greatly appreciate me getting in your face about that. It was very funny. I put it on Bryce a couple of times and every time I'd walk over to Bryce to get it off, he would like kneel down to let me take it off of him.

I was like, I'm not that short, like relax, I can still reach your chest, dude. Was I the only one that said no at the end? Well, at one point you were going for like, I think your third attempt squat, I was like, you wanna do it one more time? He's like, not on this one. And I was like, okay, that's fine.

It's like, let me learn, Nate. Oh, you may not want this one, because if I miss like, not on this one. And I was like, okay, that's fine. It's like, let me let me let me let me know. Nate, you may not love this one, because if I miss it, there's gonna be a lot. That's what I wanted. I wanted just as much craziness as I could get. But towards the end, I started making some third attempt deadlifts, and people started missing not because of me, but I felt like it was because of me. And I just gave up on the project entirely. So there aren't many deadlifts, but the few that I put it on, they missed it.

And I was just like, all right, I'm bad luck. I'm out of here. We're done with this forever. Yeah, that was really fun. I'm excited to see that, to see it come around. But also the way they did the fire stuff was great this year. Yeah. With the poses.

Except for when people missed it. Then it was even greater. I can't believe Tommy was like, I just, I just walked right past it. Just didn't even pay attention to it. Well, that's the, someone was talking about how like the poses almost threw people off more and like took them out of the I think that would be awkward. I'm gonna like be really focused for my deadlift. Go out. Remember to strike a pose and then like go take my third attempt and someone was saying they're like everyone that hit like a really cool pose also missed their third deadlift. missed their third deadlift. And it's just like, woof, that's tough. So I don't know, it was really funny. At one point, I think I was, I think it was, who was it?

Oh, it was Paul, Paul Floss, my favorite dentist. Good guy. He, the fire turret thing fell like during his, like it fell forward. And I just was like that was like that was a little scary but happens you know playing with fire. Yeah Tommy and his brother were both in the zone though for those third attempts because that's around when the volunteers were starting to bring the strongman stuff backstage so

that they could get warming up right after the rules meeting. So I was around them when they were getting ready to go out for their final attempts and I was intimidated just being there. A hundred percent. The energy was unreal. That platform to flight C at no point did I want to walk anywhere near it. Like in every lift it was those set of people were so locked in because I wanted to like mic up Ryan or Tommy for the video because like that'd be those are perfect people to get and like the looks on their faces I was like I won't even ask them what day it is like I just I'd want

they will I think if I asked them something because I talked to Tommy about it later and he's like no you could have actually yeah I was I was pretty locked in and like Ryan said the same thing. I talked to Tommy about it later and he's like, no, you could have actually, yeah, I was, I was pretty locked in. And like, Ryan said the same thing as I would let you is like, actually, yeah, I think I would have like thrown you across the room, not because I didn't like you, but just I was so like in the zone. I just anyone would have talked about just thrown them or something. I felt in the way just getting set up for strong man, like how

you said you would have felt out of place if you knew the rules. Like, yeah, I was like, I should not be here carrying around axle bars around these dudes. No, those dudes were locked in. It was all, I loved it though. Like I was like, this is freaking great. It doesn't help my video. Um, but yeah, also to all the people I didn't get, there was so

many times where I was like, oh, I need to get that person. Then I realized, oh, they just took their third attempt. Shoot. I'll get them on the next lift. And then Bench would go by and I was like, oh, that was third attempt. Oh, dad gone. And then the whole meet went by.

And I was like, well, nevermind. Come breathe into this mic for me. Oh, I did get Bryce and Lou kissing on camera, mic'd up. So that's pretty exciting. Bryce and Lou or Bryce and Paul? Bryce and and Lou. People don't even know what's happening. I got the proof. Brice forgot he was mic'd up. All right. So, Garrett, how'd your meat go? Anything stand out briefly? Daniel, we'll talk about yours when you we get the awards in a little bit I mean my meet perfectly like I did everything I wanted to so so I pulled 550 like I got red lighted last year and it's been haunting me for a whole year so

I pulled it this year and that was really exciting it's awesome nice work and dammit you hit a pr total right uh pr pr on squat I hit 512. I think last year I hit 507 so I took a Keith PR. Dude that's, that's, that's That's fucking, that's paralyzing buddy. Uh missed, missed on bench again at 314. I don't know why I didn't, I didn't take a handoff on the first two and then on the third one I was like,

yeah I'll take a handoff and I just, it just, I was like, why did I even do that? And then it's 6 11 on deadlifts. And I was struggling. I've missed 6 10 6 25 a couple times now during like, I did a couple of a deadlift only like charity events. So I've missed them a couple of times and it was nice to actually get into the six plus team number, you know, and then a total of like 14, 14, 14, 15, I think it was. So PR total and everything. So it was nice. For more. Yeah.

And then then there was proud then there were strong men. Big Kurt said all that up single-handedly from what he was telling everybody before we got this check. He said said Jake didn't help fucking carry a goddamn thing. You know, he said I made all this shit you fucking carry it. So it's funny you mentioned that because so originally we were planning to have a volunteer powwow during the the flight C deadlifts and there was a little bit of a change in plan and they were going to do the rural meeting out in the hallway during that

and so some of the volunteers were kind of just left to fend for ourselves so me and Derek are both a little higher strung as it turns out we were both kind of running around a little bit kind of freaking out about the lack of direction is like we knew we were supposed to bring back as much as we could to make the rest of the changeovers easy, but we weren't sure exactly what needed to go, what didn't where we needed to put things which bar was for where which plates for what because we knew that Jake and Abby had everything so well planned. And

we just didn't want to be the people that screwed it up. So, you know, two guys with severe anxiety, apparently, were doing a lot of moving around of stuff, getting set up for that. And it probably wasn't necessarily the best combo, but it ended up working out in the end. We had a little bit of a AV delay that kind of saved the day for us

and gave us a little bit more breathing room. It was good. I thought you guys went pretty fast. The worst part about volunteering was moving those damn kegs. That was so hard to move in between. Me and Derek were pulling out the, well, we had like the two easy ones, but then we had the big men one and that two 75 K was like, well, I guess if it gets in there and we can't get it out fast enough, I'm not going to smash my hand between them. So you guys were getting about really quick. Oh yeah. Just watching you guys move. I was like,

they're doing a really good job at sliding those cakes out before somebody gets another one in They're, they're doing a really good job at sliding those cakes out before somebody gets another one in. Did like 75% of the work because I was so dead from powerlifting. And I'm just like, Oh, I'll help you as much as I can. But there's one video on Instagram where Ryan takes one out. And I think it was dots was bringing his over and Ryan just throws the pad was Dodds was bringing his over. And Ryan just throws the pad

inside the drink spotter just as Dodds is putting his keg in. Brad and Jake's brother did a lot of the yanking of the kegs out of there. I like I could roll them around and stuff, but I just wasn't strong enough to quickly get them out of there. So you know, the two of them took on a lot of that work for that event. But yeah, that was, so the mystery being unveiled Thursday, Friday was pretty cool. Those big ass drink spotters that Jake and Abby had put together and kind of been sitting on for, you know, however long that was very cool. And I was still kind of like confused to how it was even kind of work until kind of towards the end. I was

like, Okay, so that I thought because I don't know what I was thinking at one point, I think we have to like, put them in vertically, like Jen does, I can't do that. It's gonna kind of put it in like a normal keg load. Or I don't remember what I thought at first, I was like, Okay, they're just gonna go into it. But they were pretty cool. They were very cool. I don't know what the fuck he's gonna do with them. Like, like, he was offering people to just take them home.

And if I could have figured out how to take like just the front home, I would have. And hung it up, but I was like, I don't know how I would get this home. Because it wouldn't fit in the bed of Hogan's truck. So I really had no choice there. Keith, what did you think about your special keg? Those, all the kegs were awesome. But the one with the unpaid underrated one with the million stickers on it that Garrett has that he's probably sitting on right now was really cool to see. Because Jake did a, I think before evening weigh-ins, he did a reveal video, but he didn't

actually show it. Because I talked to him later that night, he didn't think that that keg was in it. He thought he was trying to save it for the next day, but you could see it for like an eighth of a second. I think I paused it, because I could see a big you and you sticker, and I was like, okay, well,

that's gotta be where all the stickers are. So that was awesome. I got a really cool picture with that at Tanner's. I got a couple of cool pictures of that holding it up. They must have emptied it out too, because I know it was empty, so they must have loaded that one Saturday morning but that was a cool surprise. So that's what so if anyone listening that didn't piece it together yet the surprise implement that Jake put

all the stickers on was one of the kegs and so it was a big you and you sticker from plates next code unpaid on it and then just like I think he said he had it was either 30 like, I think he said he had, it was either 30? Like 37, I think. Yeah, so call it a damn near 40 individual people sent him stickers to plaster on the keg. Uh, and that was really cool. So that was one of the ones we carried and everyone could see at Tanner's Friday night. Uh, yeah. What was the funny part about that, Keith, is like, months ago, Jake just messaged me and was like, I want to do this with all the crew

stickers on it he's like how can you I know you have a bunch of the files like how can we do this and I was like just ask people if you just ask they'll just send you stickers like it with the crew it's like he was thinking he'd have to like prim well that's yeah we were trying to he was like can we did it and I was like honestly if you just say like, please mail me stickers, the crew is like an opportunity to give someone a sticker. I'll take that every day. And little jump on that. Yeah. So and it worked.

Worked very well. Yeah, he sent me the the final version of that, and I was just like, I want it so bad, and then I didn't even pay for it because he it cuz He did he was like hey listen. I'll empty all the sand out You can check this on your airplane, and I was like I don't want to try to check a keg on an airport like in an airplane It happened. I didn't think about that. Yeah, that would have been interest Luckily there was just water in it, so I just had to dump it all out and i took it down here which style of me. How the big sense of water.

I'm a other strongman show when great the rules meeting out in the hallway lead to some good pictures and videos. I don't know what big andrew was doing on top of me but that was an interesting you know picture that I saw I forgot all about it until Jake posted it you know of us his ring I don't know why I I don't know why I was put in that position That's a question only you can answer for us Andrews Was the build-up of our head-to-head axle and you know that was that was that was the pregame to the axle head-off Yeah, that was good fight. Hey, I just want to say no one's mentioned it but man the scoreboard that was behind all the strongman competitors I really feel like

tied the whole event together I don't know how you guys feel but as a spectator seeing that and knowing who was currently in each lane who was coming up the amount of reps that had occurred. I felt like it was incredibly helpful to me as a spectator to understand really what was going on at the moment. And I heard, a little birdie told me that you could go, if you know a Strongman promoter or know a Strongman competition you wanna use it in, you can go to strongmanscoreboard.com,

you can subscribe and use it for an unlimited amount of events for the duration of your subscription. So I don't know, after seeing that in person, I mean, you'd be a fool not to get that and use that at your next Strongman competition. Just saying, I mean, completely unbiased. I love how Eddie was like, how many reps did they get? How many reps did they get?

No one briefed that man. No one. Yeah. Yeah. It was literally as big as him. Numbers of how many reps are completed behind him. I will say, I don't know who was doing the clicker for the reps or something,

but there were a couple times where but there were a couple times where, like mine only showed one number, but I had one more. Yeah, that's not possible. The app is not flawed and there could never be an issue with the system. We'll just delete that post. I think it was human error. Impossible.

The app only produces perfection. There are never any problems with it. And yeah, it happens. Honestly, I thought I beat David on sandbags because he only said two when he timed out and I was like, sweet, I got three. And then he was like, no, I got three. I was like, fuck. The system that Jake had running for the to get all of that working was insane. Yeah. Like he had all of his family prepared to like take score and do this and do like, I was all of his family prepared to like take score and do this and do like, I was so impressed at like,

cause last year they had one, one screen. And this year they had two separate screens, two separate computers. There were two of his family at each computer working on. I was like, this is so much. I'm so impressed. Um, running two lanes simultaneously. It was pretty cool. It had to be cool for the spectator. I haven't actually gone back and watched the whole Strongman show yet, but I need to.

But I can only imagine it had to be kind of cool, because it was all right in front of you, simultaneously happening. But I imagine it wasn't so overwhelming that you couldn't keep tabs on both lanes at the same time. Now with Strongman Scoreboard, it made everything really easy. You know who was going how many reps. So if you looked away for a second, you look back and know what was happening is great.

Someone should pay the guy that that built that. It's a fair point. I know this if I didn't bring up. Strongman scoreboard, you're right. Oh, yeah, and strongman scoreboard. But Dodzilla is repping out the. For actual deadlifts at the end and having a little bit of a pass out moment and his wife shouting he's OK before he

it was apparent that he was in fact, OK. I think she he told he told her he was going to pass that there was like a 90% chance he was going to pass out, I think. So yeah, he told her ahead of time if I pass out just keep filming He had a Dodge had a he already had he is he had his recap video come out like a Tuesday or Wednesday or something and I watched that the other day and I was just like god fucking wish I was still there like why can't it be like a

I can't every day just be lift hardly I fucking wish it was still there. Like, why can't it be like a, why can't every day just be Lift, Hurt, Live, Ease? Then it wouldn't be special. Oh, another big call out, big Katie Showman. Just putting on, putting on a daggum show is awesome. Her, I don't know, no one's mentioned it, but when she finished the keg run loading event,

running back, getting cardboard scans, dunking them in the drink spotter, and then jumping in the drink spotter with it, I was like, what a legend. What an absolute legend. She scraped her leg pretty bad on that one, but she said it was worth it. Yeah, just, well, I walked back and I said something to her.

She was like, listen, it's not a strongman competition. It's a strongman show. We're here to put on a show. And I was like, all right, let's do it. She had the drink spotter to drink, spot or chill. Oh, yeah. When the weights are like novice for her. Yeah.

Yeah, well, you know. I was entertained. Oh, you know, she she was kind. She asked if the if it's okay if she did crazy stuff. Oh, that's. Obviously, the three of us were not as strong as Katie. No, she didn't. But I do want to call out a couple of things from the women's side. First of all, Nicole was really

awesome because I hadn't really been able to talk to her because she didn't have her own Instagram. So I've been more so talking with Jenna Lee the whole time. And so Jenna Lee and I knew where we were going to be. But anyway, met Nicole. She's so great. And then she had never got, she really wanted to get the 150, the heavy sandbag over and she hadn't done it yet in prep. And I watched her kegs. And when she's getting ready to go out to the sandbag, I said, Can I tell you something and you won't get mad. And she's like, No, please tell me. And so I said, when you take that bag, like sit your ass to grass. And she like

got out there, sat all the way down and was able to get a rep. And then she got another rep. And so it was just so freaking cool. And then, and Jenna Lee, like last like two weeks ago, you know, I've been crying because you know how perhaps maybe not for women, but maybe since you guys aren't women, but it's always like the week before, like I'm in tears because you're tired, you can't get the lift you want, like whatever it is. And so she was struggling and couldn't get the lift you want, like whatever it is. And so she was struggling and couldn't get the press. And she ended up getting the press and then got it for two. And I'm not

even kidding. I started crying because I was so happy for her to get it. And then, and then I hadn't got the deadlift. And so they were, I could hear everybody cheering me on and got that actual deadlift and then got it for two. Oh my god. It was so great. So I'm gonna shout out the weaker women of the group. Yeah, Katie definitely kicked ass, but I think the weaker women they they did really good too. Listen, everyone did great. I don't want to disparage anyone. Okay, everyone did great. I just enjoyed dunking scans and just thinking I think that chick just destroyed cardboard scans for good. Like I think it's gone.

Yeah. Oh, and I do want to shout out like the Tim feathers. Oh my gosh. That guy is so I sent a message the next day or Monday or whatever. And I said, Tim, you don't even the You have this much time left. You can do it, do this. And like the whole time it's just him just talking to me. It was so awesome. Yeah. I was an awesome, Tim's a good guy. Andrew, how was your, uh, domination of me after me talking shit the last six months about how I'm going to beat you at press, we already talked about that picture, Keith, yes. We already talked about that picture, Keith. Yes.

Yeah, it was pretty it was pretty nice to do that to you. But no, I really I thought we were going to tie on the press. I really did. And I think I mean, we did if you just can't push presses. Yeah, yeah, OK. I just need I just need to try harder next time. That's all.

Well, I do think there is something to that, keep. I think if you push yourself a little bit further. I if I if I was going, I think you had the advantage to because the first you were you were last for the first four rounds weren't you? Yeah it was the first three. Sorry. Yeah it was beneficial for me in I would say it wasn't so beneficial for me in Axel because

I saw all you jerks put up more than I had done in training. I think I had like a four rep PR or three rep PR. Yeah, so the most I had done in training was seven. And I thought like, I thought that was gonna be, I was pretty sure that I was gonna end up second or third in that, but you know everybody everybody did so well you know that it stressed me out going there. I could see that.

I could see that. Yeah. Because you if you're going last and like it was fucking like 11 9 9 8 something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Because I was like oh shit I can't do I can't do more than seven because i killed myself doing seven here in the garage yeah trevor who we didn't trevor the enigma of not knowing anything about him just goes out and does like eight or nine like

just like a hundred pounds lighter than a couple of us yeah yeah i know um we worked together at usd and i'm like this is going to be so easy for him in this press because he was insanely strong. Yeah, that guy came out of nowhere. And he was super nice. I liked him. Yeah, he was awesome. Yeah, he was. So Keith, I guess we should move on to your your bruise from your deadlift. I guess we should move on to your, um, your brews from your dead lift. You can follow Keith honey cut 73 on Instagram. If you want to hear about that stinking brews, we'll have,

we'll have to post about it for the next four weeks. Literally like three pictures over the course of a week. Fuck all you subscribe to his only fans. Fuck all you guys. It'll be posting. It's a gnarly fucking. Yeah. That meme was actually really funny slightly hurtful, but still funny But no that was I was so happy I had like obviously I hit that way in training and then I think I told people I basically I hit it three times over the last three months

And I've also missed it 50 times, like legitimately over 50 times. So I was like, I'm gonna have to strap into it, it's the only way I'm gonna like, guarantee it can probably get it, and oh man, right into the leg, and then down and back up, and then down and back up again, and ugh, it hurts so bad.

Then just powered through. I wish I had realized that I could have bounced the deadlifts until the, like I didn't realize until I was like halfway through the reps that you could bounce the deadlifts They only said it three times in the rules me. No, no, no, no, I meant like by not by that I meant like that I could have I tried to bounce I tried to bounce stuff in before you try to bounce the wrong implement. You're gonna fucking Mean like you could physically do it. Yes that those were

Good implements to bounce because they were they bounced really well yeah because well I was like the Titan bounce the Titan metal ones wouldn't have no when I was when I was bouncing on my blocks at home like it would take me out of position I'd lose my brace and everything so I was like I don't know if I'm gonna do this but those rogue plates were like perfect for bouncing. Yeah agreed But yes Keith during that event. I Screamed I heard a lot of people screaming

When I watched the videos I didn't hear anything in the moment But a lot of so much I wish I could have like subtitles who was cheering for me because there's so many voices I'm like keep my voice was gone for like three days and it was, I think solely for just me yelling during that event and it got done and I was like, Oh, my voice is gone now. Cool. All right. Well, at least you did all the things. Like it's just like, and I'm done cheering for anyone else now.

Keith has stolen everything I had left. And then, uh, closed out with sandbags, did a little reordering and waited forever to get Iron Podium of the day. Cause you're like, who the fuck? Cause like Iron Podium had the first two events on but it didn't get the third one up for a while. So we were like, all right, what's the order?

How's it going? All that. And then, you know, finally updated and then Noah's going out first. And then on the third rep, well, my sandbag was like, my sandbag was falling apart when I got walked out to it. Like it was literally Like it didn't seal it didn't seal to begin with it was already it was already bleeding when I got to it

It's not what I heard. Yeah, it seemed fine ahead of time. I'm just I'm just glad that um Were you on our side or the other which which side were you on Kurt? I was on the other side, okay? So that's why I wasn't handled properly. Oh, Garrett was on my side. So I can blame Garrett. Yeah. Yeah. Garrett, Garrett forgot to load up the, uh, the, uh, yoke up to the higher height, which in my, in my, in my bed, it worked to my benefit because it was still set at the 48 that the women had just gone on on. So, and we obviously was to 52. Yeah. 52. So it worked out great for me that I was able to, for the taller guys, I don't think it really affected Andrew or any of the other taller guys necessarily.

But for me, I don't think I could have got three reps at 52 or it would have been like maybe. But going over 48, it was super easy. Keith, I do want you to know that maybe Friday or something we were talking and we were joking with you about them having a tape measure to make sure all the implements were the right height and all of these things. And it's like, of course, Keith is like, because you were just like, they better have a tape measure because like, I swear if it's not, I don't know. I was like, this is...

I never said that. Yeah, okay. But like, you were just like getting real serious about it. And I was poking fun of just like, of course, Keith, like it's strong, man. They don't even know what tape measure is, but lo and behold, um, when they were setting things up, I saw the tape measure out and I, I think I'm, I don't remember, maybe I didn't take a video, but I was like, need to take a video or a picture for Keith and show them like it was to spec. Maybe, I mean, who knows what numbers they were looking into the tape measure,

but they had one out working. I mean, who knows what numbers they were looking at on the tape measure, but they had one out working. So. Not, not only with the tape measure, it took us three attempts to get it in the right slot on the lane two. Tightening the yoke was impossible. I believe it. Also to be fair, I'm gonna point the blame

towards Jake and Naby Abby because they didn't have it on our clipboard so it's not directly my fault. Oh, to raise it, yeah. And I didn't notice it when I went out and I was just like, I was so proud of myself for getting three reps and then like when I watched it again later and the kid like, well I think when I watched David, was it David, whoever followed me I watched out and they were like two feet above the fucking yoke height I was like, all right. Well, that's not 50 to it. That's not right. And then so I think I think I told Abby and

Well, there's nothing we can do about it now. Like it's Like we're not gonna change it after one lifter goes when you said, okay Well, I guess it's 48 and then you're like, but I still got three that's a PR you're like Damn it. You're so mad. Cause you had thought that you had got the like 54 inch PR, but it's only a 48 inch PR. So that was what you were so mad about. Hey, it's still a PR cause you'd never done that height.

So good for you. It was, it did. I did update the spreadsheet for the 48 inches. When the bag broke, I thought I had more times. Cause I was kind of just like, what the fuck? And then I was trying to get like, but then because I was, Tim was just like, yeah, you're like seven seconds. I was like, all right, well, I'm not gonna argue about seven

seconds. That's fine. And then Abby was like, you could do the whole thing again, if you wanted. And in my head, I'm like, you can go fuck yourself. I'm not doing the whole damn thing again. I was like, No, that is not happening. Thank you for the offer I did is there was a fair again. I was like, no, that is not happening. Thank you for the offer. It was a fair offer, but no thank you. I will take my three and go home, but maybe I should have taken it again and tried to get four so I could have beat David, but whatever, just a point.

But it was a close race. It was fun. It was a really good time. The highlight was just having that group chat and just having the four of us in there busting each other's balls and supporting each other for the past six months and then being able to compete together on meet day it was really really fun. Just that kind of camaraderie. I've never competed with people I actually like were super tight with and had that such a close bond with going into a show. So it was an amazing event for me. That was an amazing event for me. Yeah. It was, it was, you know, we got to give credit to Ron.

It was nice to see one of us, you know, take, take it, you know, take Tom out. Yeah. You too. You took time. Tom, Tom was, he did really good in some things and just didn't know what it could, he couldn't figure out the deadlift and I, I should, if I got one more rep, I would have, I was one, I tied Tom. Like I shouldn't, in no world should and I should if I got one more rep I would I was one I tied Tom like

I shouldn't in no world should I have tied Tom in it in an event watching him do the sandbag event was the funniest thing I've ever seen like the sandbag was to his hips and he dropped it over the yoke Anybody else hear what Tom said in the in the rules meeting they want to share what he asked about the kegs You know when he when he asked if he could carry two kegs at one time. And I think he was serious. I think he was like, Can I carry both down? Can I carry two of the three down and just throw them in together at the same time? Like, I think he honestly, he's probably Yeah, no, that's that's the funny thing. That's the joke. Like, because it was like, it was a one, what do you have a 125 and 150 and 180 or something or something? So like yeah could have easily probably farmer carried him by the handle down. I don't know he and you know at At first I was thinking yeah that probably would have been faster for him, but he was fast

Yeah, so like he was much faster than I had anticipated So it was that like 22 seconds Yeah, there was like three of you that were all at the same time or like within like two seconds of each other which was really Yeah So I Don't know it was it was I thought it was good. It was good weights It was good like it was a good combat like a lot of the weight selections across the board seemed like it was fair Not a lot of not a lot of like 20 reps, not a lot of zeros.

It just seemed like most things were capable of being done or close. Yeah. At least for our, our, our class, at least I still, yeah, without deep dive in the other classes, I don't know, but it was a really fun. I had a blast. Yeah. And then, you know, um, just Dodds like cheering for us all like i don't i don't know i don't know if i would have gotten what i got on the axle like i don't think know if i would

have got that ninth you know if it wasn't for him and i know i wouldn't have got the not the nine sandbags if it wasn't for him you know. He was what was what pushed me. I think on the deadlift though I think it was Garrett like behind me counting down for me and I like as I was doing it was like who's this jerk counting behind me and then I was like oh he's like telling me how many more I have to do. It was like, all right, keep it going. Oh, he was giving you the, uh, to win or just what you need. Yeah. Yeah.

And then he's like, he's like, all right. Yeah. And he's like, all right, you won. And, and I, I backed up and then I was like, you know what? I think I'm going to do another one. Just in case he's not big math. Yeah. He could have been sabotaging you.

How do you know you can trust him? Yeah. I mean, his best, his best friend's Trevor. Like, I mean, fuck you. Oh yeah, that's true. You did one rep, you got it in the bag. It's over. Oh, you don't even need to do this one, but just leave it.

All right. Garrett on my third sandbag was, was great. Actually everybody on my third sandbag was great. was was great actually everybody on my third sandbag was great and I watched it back like that was so awesome to hear everybody. I'm thinking Wynne really got hurt throughout the meet right I saw so Katie's finger yeah and I did Nicole fell on her butt when she was carrying the sandbag or carrying the all mat right and then she got right back up and did all three gigs I think or at least the first two yeah that was good. Like it was just a good competition

like no one should be getting hurt and everyone should be able to do most of it. So yeah, it was as the rule of threes as a as a spectator. I thought it was it was great because the amount well obviously thank you. But the cheering from the crowd was incredible. Like, like, did we lose a lot of people? Like, I don't know. I have no clue what the attendance would have been, but there was just like screaming going on. It was awesome. I was a steer between that and the like 11, 12 and like 15 year old girls that were powerlifting earlier

in the day. More than Ryan. Those, dude, those watching them be so fired up, like deadlifting, I was ready to run through a brick wall between like that and the people being so excited for all the strong men. I was like, I'm like, I'm set for months. Like these guys got me fired up. Did you regret not competing? I know there was,

there was talks about you trying to sign up on Friday. Yeah. I mean, so here's the thing. Uh, Tanner when I showed up on Thursday, it was just like, do you want to lift? And I was like, well, kinda it's a check mark. And I, that Friday night when we were, when they opened the convention center, I was talking to, to Matt and Jess Sezney, and I was like, what would I even do? And like, Matt was hilariously just walking me through

like how I had periodized. I was like, dude, I've got like one day, like relax. But it's just because, you know, crew Wolfpack, talking about periodization, any opportunity they can get. So I was like, listen, what, like, so I thought about doing a push-pull or something, and then I walked into the weigh-ins and was like, ah, I'll just like kind of ask around.

And there was just so much going on. I was like, I'm overwhelmed and I don't wanna just, I'm scared to even talk to anyone right now. But it was great because it allowed me to make, to do a lot of video stuff. Content. Yeah, a lot of content. And at the zoo, everyone was like, oh, we're so tired.

And I was like, dude, I'm so exhausted. And someone was like, you didn't even compete, Nathan. And I was like, I don't know, man. I was doing a lot. And someone was like, you were moving around a lot. They're like, can you tell us how many steps you got? And I was like, ah, I checked my phone. I had gotten 15,000 steps on Saturday

from just like running around, like trying to get videos and do all of these things. So I didn't get to lift, but I sure put in an effort on Saturday. So maybe next year, maybe the year after, maybe never, who knows. The secret is I think I'm more like Keith than, than I would lead people to believe because the concept of like flying and preparing and being in an unknown place, trying to prepare for all that props to you guys.

Cause I feel like my brain would explode with over complication and worry trying to get ready for all that. Why don't do a ton of content. I didn't spend $2,000 to make stuff for people that didn't show up. I did it to enjoy my vacation. Like this is like, you know, this is for me, but you know, if there's content that comes at the side effect of that, that's great.

Yeah. I mean, I was, I was just there to prove to people I exist. So I got that out of the way and I was ready to do anything else. I'm still not convinced. Well, we're probably gonna keep this going for a little bit longer, but I know Kurt, you got to sign off shortly.

So if you just want to go ahead and hit them with where they're going to find you at and everything. And then just kind of bounce when it'll be good. At the bottom of a cottage cheese cup, right? I think I'm a swimmer. Yeah, I am. I recently got hired on by barbell rescue is their official glute model. So you can probably just find me there at barbell rescue one on Instagram.

I don't post a whole lot of my own but it's Kurt lifts 1988 if anyone wants to follow, but it's I mostly I'm just there doing my best Gary impression when I can. And you're one of those confusing guys that has three different handles on three different accounts. So what's your discord username or a discord is Kurt's new brand that comes from my video game streaming days so but this discord see you are D correct oh I'm back to big Kurt since I got demolished by by not in the cheese eating contest gotcha gotcha everyone's I didn't feel right saying it's big curd gotcha that's fair all right well we were glad to have you and we can you think you passed the test so we can go and get you scheduled on here in the next couple

months get you on the podcast but uh yeah thanks for having me stick around or dip out is up to you I just wanted to take that segue there before we hit on to the probably the awards right big Jen want to walk us through any of the awards oh boy or do do half of them and then somebody else if anybody else I know Chris has got a bonus screen if you guys want to split those up. Can I just read some of them and if you guys all right all right so it's your best announcer voice Jen I really want to hear this with gusto. Okay this is the I got this actually from Chris Harnix. Did you guys read his yeah that was a really article. Yeah so I'm just using his notes because he's the one that actually is the writer. So by the way, I'm featured

in that article. So please go read it. I thought I did my best. Okay. Best female lifter was Stormy Holcomb. Like she was insanely strong. It was stupid how fricking strong she was. And I asked her, did she do that? Natty, like everybody gave me shit for asking her. What'd she say? She is no good for her. Not geared, not anything. Yeah. Just really, really strong.

Uh, best male lifter of course was Mathias. Champ is here running it back Two years in a row. Well done, Antoni. Right. So hopefully he comes back for his, what, tertiary? He mentioned his thrice. He did, well, what is he, kind of plant the seed? He did, you know, we're trying to get Jake to expand some classes next year. Get a little masters, get a little, you know we're trying to get Jake to expand some classes next year get a little masters get a little uh you know sub 200 so there's a lot of strong dudes that are 181 and

below or something that would fucking be cool to see him go out and dick around with strongman for the first time so let's see all that happen Jakey. All right for strongman big, obviously Katie won. Big but new, Ron. Ron, if he's won. Ron. R-O-M. Wrong call. Big Men, James, Ronyak. He was fun to watch.

Sorry, did you see that? Sorry, sorry to keep interrupting you, but did you see the big, what did you see what Tanner changed his Discord handle to recently? Big, diet, James James Ron, yeah. Yeah, that is hysterical. I was so confused at first.

I'm like, wait, this isn't what? Then I was like, ah, now I see what he did. Because obviously, I coined James, big diet Tanner, like two years ago. And then I don't think he's changed his Discord handle back because he actually changed it to be funny. And then it's just who he is now. And then Tanner, I'm assuming it's after James won his class that Tanner

bestowed that on him for a short period of time, but it was very funny. Bigger man, Lauren. He was a good meet too. Loco on Instagram, wild iron. to loco on instagram wild iron oh yeah great guy yeah he was a good dude i and his wife was really nice too um biggest man was austin barrett and then to the wooden plaque award silliest goose was paul fos obviously she earned yeah yeah he definitely earned uh strongest Yeah, yeah. Strongest couple this year was Cody and scar. I thought that that was a that was a good pick. Yeah. Strongest volunteer. Horse Garrett Garrett is in every single one of my videos and I love like kind of like

he said in the moment you didn't really hear it except for that third Sandbag I definitely did. And then but then watching the videos back. My husband's like he is your biggest fan. Like I think he's everybody's biggest fan, but yeah and then This is my first word video. So I was actually standing by generally and for what a reason I go I think you're gonna get this award. She's like nah, and then it

Tanner said big generally and she's like So she was so excited to get the award. She was overwhelmed. I was holding that hope that I could, I, that I would ironically win it, but not it, not the stop it. You stop. You shut your mouth. Keith. I need an award.

God damn it. I know you do something to win an award and not stop looking for handouts. Keith needs some cottage cheese or something. Just need to get my jacket. I'm going to let the last one be told by someone else. All right, cool. Shut up. Let's hear it. Spicy. Well, you are talking to Big Randy. I had a terrible day lifting. I had missed my second bench. I had missed my second bench. Actually second and third attempt bench and my second.

So what's that? I'll circle back to that. That's wild. That makes it even more impressive. The fuck did you win the Randy, which is a coefficient based off your fucking bench and deadlift and your bench being bigger than your deadlift and you fucking only hit your opener. What the fuck? That's hysterical. You literally won., and you fucking only hit your opener. What the fuck?

That's hysterical. You literally won the meat on your fucking opener. Good luck with that ever happening to you, John. I still haven't fully wrapped my head around it. That's hysterical. Um, I just never learned deadlift in high school. I power cleaned, so. Gotcha.

I just haven't been good at deadlift ever, and it's finally paid off. That's awesome, man Open power living probably won't be up to date for a while. What was your bench and deadlift that gave us that 80% ratio? Oh, you what was I think I did work to 350 on Deadlift and then 275 ish on bent. That's fair. I can see how that would win then. Yeah.

Yeah, my second attempt bench, I didn't hear the start command. So I was holding it for five seconds and I was like, I have to wait for the start command. I need to get this lift. You think they would say it again after like two seconds. They did. It's just that five seconds I had up there was Waiting for a start command is the worst. People that don't realize that's a thing like hold, hold fucking 99% of your max out in front of your chest for seven seconds.

It's brutal. And then on my second deadlift, I. If I was a strong man or if I was in the gym, I would have counted as a good lift, but not in powerlifting, and that's just how it goes sometimes. But if I did hit that and didn't get my bench, I probably wouldn't have won this.

So I think I'm okay with that. Did you strategically like, you know, you didn't strategically hitch that deadlift? I don't know, I mean, I heard Tanner talking about talking about he said he's pretty sure that you've hitched on purpose I ramped I didn't hitch and same different that's all no but I could not have been happier with you are turned out so you had a shooting grin on your face the whole night at the zoo you wanted to get a picture with everybody with your trophy.

I never, I never been. Yeah, I feel like you were the only person that got the wooden award that like, everyone was happy but like, if everyone else was like a seven, you were like a 10 on like happy, happy scale. If everyone else was a three, he was a 10. I've never seen anyone more happy.

I've had three kids and I don't know if I'd have that much joy in my life. The thing about my family history is we're not good at anything. I'm not a good power lifter and I still won an award. So it's a pretty big accomplishment for just my family too. Yeah.

We're proud of you there, Spicy. Yeah. Oh yeah, and especially almost getting an award and not getting one. Oh, you got the consolation prize. I need to make sure that somebody that needed to get that understood the word, the award got the award. So I'm pretty happy I got it. All right.

All that. Um, I mean, that would have rounded out the, uh, you know, the whole power lifting me when Tanner said, we'll see you next year and we all started to walk away and then somehow you asshole stuck around to get a group photo and fucking I was already gone, you sons of bitches. But I think most, I think there was a, but, uh was a looking at the picture there was like an eighth of the people that were there so just to plan that out better next year put it in the agenda or something yeah I was starving yeah why was that not on the rubric for the

class that's ridiculous the fuck is a rubric oh boy hmm it's a big word around here um did ever was I the only one of the bad news But like I get for a power of the meat they weren't disgusting but just in general like they were just wet Yeah, but that's still like You just have to hope that it's not pissed. It's probably not but it's like it was pissed like I went in there fairly early and they were already wet. And I was like, well, that's pretty bad. It was wet Friday already. I heard the women's wasn't any better.

Big Jeff was wearing his brand new white barefoot shoes in there. And I was like, the bold move, dude, bold move. Like I hadn't seen anything overflow or anything in there. And it was still, it was just wet. They just need to learn how to mop in South Dakota, I think is the real answer. I think that's I think it's bad mopping is my guess.

At one point there was there was a urinal full of spitting chewing tobacco and there's another one full of protein powder. I was like well that's disgusting on both accounts. Thought one had a couple of zins in it. Yep there's one I kept being in that had a the zin pouch never left. I was like oh that must have been Chris's from the first night. From the first night. Still sitting there didn't feel anything. Still sitting there.

Um did anybody uh yeah so that pretty much wrapped that up. A lot of people, you guys were trying to go out to dinner and stuff, but like we didn't get fucking, it was like eight o'clock and I was like, I want to go to the zoo and just like start the evening. And I was like, I'm not going to be there for more than a couple hours. So the realization not go like find a Mexican restaurant at nine o'clock at night when everyone was already at the zoo. No, it was, it was a great choice to go to the Mexican restaurant.

Yeah. And very much we try to go to pizza ranch and close at eight and of course the place where a family may want to The lady was just like, we closed at eight. And I'm like, all right. All right. Cool, fill this bag with all the leftovers. We're heading out. I guess we'll go fuck ourselves now. All right.

No, I walked out of the hotel because I was just like, I'm so hungry. Because I went all day just like, I can't stop doing content. Uh, I can't go find food. And it was like two o'clock and I ate one of the, like the pulled pork sandwiches. And I was like, I just want like the food. And so I just walked out of the, I like, I was like, I told a couple of people,

they're like, do you want to ride? I'm going to take a shower. I was like, listen, I'm going to go to the lobby and the first person that says a restaurant that sounds good, I'm just going to get in their car and go. And I like walked out in the lobby and Gary was driving like a group of dudes. And I just like walked outside and he's like, you want to come eat some food? And I was like, where are you going? And they're like, Mexican.

I was like, that's fast. I've never been to a Mexican restaurant that's slow. I was like, you got it. So I got in the car in between, who was it? Sam and shoot, who was on the other side? I can't remember. Just two massive humans that I had no business sitting in between in the middle seat.

That's all I remember. And we went and got Mexican, it was great. And I don't regret it at all, Keith. That's fine. Still made it to the zoo. That was like an hour that you could have hung out with me at the zoo. Well. But I don't know, like we got to the zoo, That was like an hour that you could have hung out with me at the zoo. Well, mm-hmm.

But I don't know, like we got to the zoo. It was like me, Toby, Scar, Cody. It was a bunch of us there that were able to get food and like before it got like, you know, before it got crowded and loud. But I'm sure if there was like 50 of us trying to order food, it wouldn't have worked out. Yeah, but they were making guacamole at the table at this place, man. That's pretty good. I just knew that my night had a ticking time bomb at the end of it

so I just needed to like get where the people were. The people were at the Mexican restaurant. I saw quite a... Wow thanks Tanner, appreciate that. Tanner in the chat, I just want to put this out there. Thanks for subscribing. Nate looks jacked in the backyard party group photo. Surprised he can fit those arms in the back seat of that full car Just want to thank thank you for that. I just want to say Tanner thinks I look Jack and photos I don't know what the problem is Keith. I Did nothing but compliment you all night You just don't take a compliment the the Mexican restaurant for myself was a bad idea Oh, I I got done eating and it was like a wall and I was like, you know what?

I was like we're to go to the zoo. I'm going to say goodbye to everybody. And that's it for like 12 minutes. I think, dude, I was so tired. Yeah, I feel that. Yeah. I knew I had to get to the zoo by at least you had originally said 10 30 and it was like nine 30 and near, but we all went to the circle.

It was like the Hogan and Nicole and my husband and I and Katie. We went to the circus and I still got to get to the circus someday. And then I had told us that she didn't think it could accommodate us. And that's what she told me. And I was afraid to go. People, I bet 30 of us could have sat together. And I think a lot of the Minnesota Department of Lifter Safety was there. But the Hogan and I both had a burger and then there was a lot of wings being double

dipped wings being had. Yeah, I wish I had those damn. Frickin burger was so good. Like Hogan and I both kept saying, oh my God, this burger is just so good. Obviously you're starving. So it's probably not the best one I've ever had, but it was so good. So then I was sad that you guys were there. Do you get a peanut butter burger? No, I got a mushroom and Swiss.

Not peanut butter this time. Yeah. I was going to come to Iowa to do a dog show and I'm so excited. I told him like, please tell me if you do, then I'm going to come watch their their dog compete dog dog dogs, whatever Wow International competing family over there. Yeah, the Hogan household or however the guy Yeah gaggle of silly Hogan geese

You try to gaggle of geese gaggle of dogs and Lizard and cats they got everything over there man Clever built this is like three hours long. Yeah, okay. I am Everyone's gonna start going to bed. Um, all right final. Oh, Jesus Christ. There's a whole nother. There's a whole Sunday I don't know. I left I left Sunday morning a.m. Yeah, yeah, I Yeah, I drove, I rode back. I rode, I was a passenger princess Sunday,

so I definitely got home quicker. I think year one, it took us like 23, literally like 21 hours to get home. Year two was like, I don't know, 18. And this year was like 15 or 16, so still a long ass day, but could have been worse. Oh, but I want to say one thing about the zoo. I talked to Kim. First of all, we never went back and talked to Booth, but could have been worse. Oh, but I want to say one thing about the zoo. I talked to Kim.

First of all, we never went back and talked to boosts, but I did buy some stuff from Kim and like all the booths are all great, but, um, I mean, you can do this and add read, but, uh, talk to Kim real quick. I found out Kim's a twin. I don't know if you guys already knew that or not, but Kim's a twin. I don't know if they came up on the podcast. Maybe. And I asked him, uh, I'm like, wasn't, how old are you?

When's your birthday? And he said, I'm 47. It's November 24. I'm like, oh shit. Cause I'm 47, but October 24. And so we're exactly one, one apart. I'm like, we were one month from being triplets. No, the booths were great.

Uh, Friday night I hung out with the barefoot crew in the lobby, I think, Pete, you were there, right? Yes, I was there too. Oh yeah, Keith, you were there. Yeah, I think I fell asleep there, I was so tired. But I was like, I didn't want to just go back to the room because there were still people talking and stuff and then I eventually, towards midnight,

I was like, or maybe it was 11, I don't know, I was fucking late, I was like, I'm going to bed now yeah that was cool to get to hang out with them and chat so a big damn with the arm tattoos his booth was awesome I wanted to buy some stuff off of them but I had to pick up stuff for Jackson ginger so I didn't but eventually I will one of these days Ryan just came to the mead you You wouldn't buy anything for him. I'll see him Saturday. I'll tell him. Oh, that's right.

He's competing up there in your neck of the woods. And the the home, the Huck Finn booth, that one sucked. He was really mean. We are live. Oh, crap, he's back on the podcast again. Welcome back, Huck Finn. Tell us about your trip to South Dakota. It literally took him like an hour to get his audio to work for the night he was on.

That's true. His booth was great. The home gym nerd shirt was hilarious. I very much enjoyed that. Stephanie bought herself one. I was just like, yeah, go buy me a 2X because she was like, she was busy and she just knew I wanted that. Stephanie bought herself one. Like she bought me, I was just like, yeah, just go buy me a 2X. She was like, she knew I was busy and she just knew I wanted one. And she bought herself one. I was like, you realize there's a dick on that, right?

And she's like, what do you mean? There's not a dick on that. No, there's definitely a dick innuendo on that shirt. And she was like, it's just a comfortable shirt to wear around the house. Cause she literally bought it just cause it was like a soft, like silky shirt. She really liked how it fit.

So it was like cool. That's really funny. Hey, if she didn't notice no one else will eat. And that's, and that's, I think a couple other, like she said, a couple other people, she's like, were around and didn't notice it either. Maybe I was explaining it. Maybe I was talking to someone else about it and I was like, okay, well, these, it's not, it's not that obvious, but it is.

That's funny. Yeah. All his stuff, stuff was great. Uh, the zoo was a blast though Oh, oh, we can't forget. There's a very important sponsor We missed two of them. We have to say him one was build fast formula Shout out to them hitting people in the face and whatever they were doing. Oh Is it you?

Always Jen Jen throwing out samples. Yeah,, build faster. You haven't seen the video? Maybe probably. You gotta watch the video to support the brand. It wasn't just Rowan. She was pitching samples at me. Like, halting people. My feed has been overwhelming and so has life. I heard someone say that someone who got smacked in the face and I watched her video three times. I'm like, no one got hit in the face. They got hit in the chest. They're like, okay, I understand. I get your made. You're trying to warm up. It's something that started last year and great they were like little grenades this year that's funny

next year they're going to be full on lacrosse balls we're just going to pelt people with them there's not even going to be pre-workout yeah and then shout out to beef jerky boy I don't remember what that booth is called and I didn't get any beef jerky and I'm sorry Yeah, he's a good dude, I've never had a conversation with him past one o'clock where he was sober Good dude, I do it is called the lift hard live easy meat for a reason. That's true. That's true But the zoo was nice With they got so fucking loud in there I had to outside. And then this year the bugs weren't as bad. I don't think I even

saw a bug outside because the fire was going or it was just because it was cooler or what. But last year outside it was like impossible. You had to like go outside and spray shit on yourself to then still get bit by bugs. But there's a ton of people outside this year. I think the last like hour and a half I was there probably spent outside. But no, sitting outside there was pretty nice sitting around the fire. That must've been what the Fairfield was like last year. Pretty cozy. That's a Fairfield assessment. We took Derek back to the hotel with us and for a second we were outside for maybe five

minutes and I'm just standing there with him. We're bullshitting and I was getting eaten alive and he's just standing there and he's like, man, they must really like you. Every five seconds I was smacking one off me. I forgot the story about Derek. When we arrived in Aberdeen, Jake and his wife were driving us through the city and we had like just passed Masanomics gym and we just saw him standing on the side of the road by himself and we slow the car down and we're like because Jake's wife was like, is that Derek? And she's like, yeah. And so they like slow down.

And she's like, do you need a ride? And he's like, he's just standing there on the side of the road doing nothing, like not walking in any direction, just standing, like moving a rock under his foot. And he's like, no, I'm fine. And so we just like continued to drive. And I like turned around and looked out the back of the car. And he was just still standing there just not moving. And like we were convinced he wasn't okay.

Like we had been lost like he got lost something we like we didn't know what happened to him because then when we're at lagers that night. I was like has anyone seen Derek like I saw we saw him stand on the side of the road this morning. We haven't seen him since we're kind of concerned and was like, oh, I was supposed to text him. I need to text him right now and make sure he's OK. And like just at that moment, he walked in the door like an hour after the party started. But we were like, I wonder if he made it back. OK. And then we learned that that that's kind of just how he rolls.

It seemed that was the that was the theme with Big Derek all weekend was he just wanted to walk everywhere. He broke a leg and he broke his foot. Well, that's weird. Like he's standing on the side of the road. His leg was like recently broken. We're like, is he OK? Did he get stranded?

Yeah, that was a great, great, hilarious moment. Well, I had the pleasure of taking he. Matt and Toby home from the bar. And fucking fifth row, the third row backseat thing was the weirdest, most tight little thing I've ever sat in. Well, I didn't want to at least not since I was a child when it was a station wagon facing the other direction.

Um, but I had the pleasure of listening to Keith tell us about his morning shower routine. I'm not even shitting you. Like, fricking mostly Matt started laughing so fucking hard that, oh my God, even my husband started laughing. But then I had never heard, I heard Matt laugh really hard. Like the one time we were doing the, Nate, when we were doing the thing and he started laughing at the horse cock when he finally like actually caught you. How late was Matt? How did he, did Matt stay? Cause I thought he disappeared within like the first five minutes.

We'd left like 11 ish to me. Yeah, something around there. It wasn't, it wasn't mad early, but it wasn't like, it wasn't like two in the morning, but it was, huh, 11, 11 30 or 12. I got back to the room. Anyway. Yeah.

But listening to, so then at one point point he said he said he like sits on the bathtub and like washes himself or whatever. Matt like you meet with no like an old person. Fucking lost it and then Toby lost it. I had tears going down my eyes and I'm driving and I'm like, oh my god, I can't even see the road. This is so good. I regret not finding that right home. Very much so. I regret not having my phone on. You like sit on the side of the tub and freshen up, don't you?

Well, I bet the hardest game is a nosebleed fuck I gotta go oh Keeps abandoning shit He says he takes a morning shower, but it isn't really so The whole conversation of like Seinfeld and how Jerry had the peach cream or how to take a shower. You're taking a shower, you can use stove. You only need to be there for like five minutes. I'm so confused. Wait, he takes- It's just to wake up.

It's just to wake up, mate. Why does he get his whole body wet? Just splash yourself on the face with some water. Well, sometimes he doesn't have time. He's on the side. Oh, wait. the Keith came back with a tissue to the face. I'm good. OK. Oh, check this camera out. I didn't get a picture. Fuck you.

I'm like bleeding and crying and that was really I was laughing so hard that like I quit breathing, I think, and then I know sort of fucking bleep. I've never laughed to the point. I have chronic nose bleeds. He mainly runs in my family. I've never laughed so hard. My nose bled.

That's fantastic. Same and same. I was, uh, yeah. Oh my gosh. That's so funny, Keith. So wait on mornings that you don't have enough time. You sit on the side of the that's never a thing that's ever happened, no.

My morning shower is just a brush my teeth and wake up in the shower. And maybe- You brush your teeth in the shower? Yes. Okay. All right. I take multiple- You wake up in the shower? Oh, yeah. Wait, why do you wake up in the shower every morning, Keith?

You sleep in your shower, bud, we gotta talk about things. My alarm goes off. He up in the shower every morning, Keith? You sleep in your shower. But we got to talk about things. My alarm goes off and I walk to the shower. That's the first thing I do every morning. I start every work. Well, every workday, weekends, maybe not as much, but every workday, I start my day with like a five minute shower to wake up. And that's my cup of coffee.

Huh? Matt's whole thing was like, wait, you don't fully both bathe yourself with like soap and your whole entire body with like your loofah. And I'm like, no, I take a five minute shower. And I'm like, I might, I might wash my armpits and my balls, but I'm not. What about your butt crack?

You got to wash your butt crack. That's the smelliest spot. Maybe that too, but I'm not like worried about washing my feet when I took three showers the night before. I usually, I take three or four showers every day. Minimum three, well minimum two. Four showers a day. Three, okay, so two always, three of my workouts.

What, I have the ashiest skin ever? No. There's a lot of jokes here, Keith, so I'm just gonna fuck you guys. I've already told this story like 10 times. I've never heard it. I'm very think. Look, Keith, I'm thankful that you told the story again.

Thank you. I am grateful that you do take three to four showers a day because then I mean, you don't smell it. How if it meets? Yeah, yeah. So many of you motherfuckers smell so goddamn bad. Like I feel like somebody is like, stick their fucking sleeves up their ass and then come out and like why the fuck we haven't started lifting it you fucking stink already

Why do you motherfuckers stink so bad? It's not a beauty pageant Keith. Geez find a different sport. I Did that's why I do strongman now. Oh, yeah, those dude smells so much better It's worse. It's so much worse. They're like covered in so much hairier. There's so much hairier. All right. Is there anything else we got to talk about? Where I bleed to death over here? You're not going to bleed to death.

Hold the bridge of your nose. No, I'm good. Get some ice on it. It'll clear your head back. ice on it. It'll pull your head back. Oh, Tanner asked about the stickers at the gym in the chat. Tanner, we're trying to go to bed. Keeps bleeding over here.

This is a dangerous podcast. You got questions in here. Our pets heads are falling off. Yeah. What's going on? Uh, I got, um, a Midwest Jake state farm. Um, dang 3350. Don't tell, hey, don't put that out in public. Oh, I guess I did my bad.

Sorry. Dumb ass. Got to report that. No, it's a self bring quarter bring quarters next year. Cause like everyone was like, Oh, I want to get a sticker with no one at quarters. that note to self bring quarter bring quarters next year because like everyone was like oh i want to get a sticker but no one had quarters anthony had a bag of quarters and i don't know if that was a tanner job or if he just bought brought a bag of quarters i don't know if we can with the anthony mathias um trifecta they hit again um anthony is the reigning champ right now i believe yes he

they won on grip because because they did a, just like the Rolling Thunder, I think it was, or maybe one of the handle grip implements. It was a PP. Oh yeah, you're right, it was the PP. And they went heavy, they were doing quarter jumps. I'm like, that was RPE9, and you just fucking jumped a quarter. I've never done grip in my life, and they

were going back and forth. And a couple people walked in, grabbed it, and did it. And I was like, oh yeah, I'll just slide in there and just try it. the So Matt got ice, like was actually with Smirnoff ice just a beer. Oh my gosh. And it was so good. It has to be, yeah, like getting ice is only Smirnoff, right? Yeah, Lou Nutter had a backpack on and he asked for a beer and Matt goes and grabs it, he's like, oh yeah, we have a Smirnoff ice. And he's like, yeah, that's for you. He's like, gosh, damn it. That's actually funny. Well, it happened the second time as well. So after the power, like as the power, the strongman meat was wrapping up, I was in

the back and Lou walked up to me and is like, do you know which bag is Matt's? And, um, well, I was like, the blue wrestling bag. I started, I didn't realize he was doing something mischievous. And I was like that Matt. And I pointed at Matt and he was like, blue wrestling bag. I started I didn't realize he was doing something mischievous. And I was like that, Matt. And I pointed at Matt and Matt like turns and looks and lose like, shut up. And I was like, oh, you mean that guy? And I just pointed to every single person down the line to try to.

And then I was like, oh, Cody, yeah, he's the birdwatcher. And then like diverted. And then I made it back to the Lou and was like, this is I'm pretty sure this one's bag we confirmed it he planted the planted the ice and then just I was sitting watching some of the other competitors go and then all of a sudden Matt just walks up to me he was like where's Lou and I just died laughing it was so funny he was so mad but yeah he got him a second time during the, at the end of the strongman competition and Lou said he walked up and was very upset.

That's funny. Yeah, this is great. I think we're that's a final call for, you know, stories or call outs or shout outs or suggestions for changes additions removal, etc Crickets I think they I think well, you'll hear that in the next episode. I think they pretty much covered all that. Oh Yeah, I fell asleep hard dude. They did they let you fuckers stay on they had on the you were yeah You were there till like fucking 1230 Think that the last comment I had was like 1045 or something, or maybe like 11, and I was

like, I don't remember a single thing after this. How can they cover what we think they need to change? Are they mind readers? I'll be interested to hear their perspective. It's the king of the castle. You coming back out next year, Andrew? Yeah, that's the plan. the king of the castle, I that's the plan of my old wife and kids will probably come next year nice

that's that's the the thought you know my wife really enjoyed watching all the ladies in strongman , she does like she knows who She knows who Big Jen is. Oddly enough, the only episode of Unpaid and Underrated she's listened to is Jen Elise. I was taking her to a doctor's appointment and I was like, I need to listen to this. She was really interested in that. She couldn't bring a meatloaf? So yeah, she was really interested in that. She couldn't bring a meatloaf.

I don't think you could bring a meatloaf for anybody. I don't think it travels well, but we'll see what we can do, okay? We'll see what we can do. Listen, if she brings meatloaf, I'll bring side hot dogs, I promise. So the one thing I think we should hit on is our Mastronomics ad read. the Oh, as Keith was saying, you could put in the work and become crew, go to massnomics.com slash join, I believe. And then you probably have like about a 69% chance of being able to sign up for

lift hard, live easy and make it to the next one. So, uh, come join us. Oh yeah. And when you finish that, you can go over to strongmanscoreboard.com and subscribe to that. And honestly, you don't even have to have a strongman scoreboard, like a use for it. You can just subscribe. We don't require you to actually use the product if you're subscribed. Can we use it in our training? You can use it for really anything, pizza timer, counting how many times your kids have asked you

for something in the day. Like it really, the possibilities are endless, quite honestly. If you're a school teacher or a PE class teacher, maybe you could use it for that. I don't know, we don't have any anecdotal evidence, but you know, just subscribe, figure it it out and when you're done with that goes to glaze search comm it's the one true source to find all things that have been

glazed and Keith what do you on the glaze scale rating what do you give the lift hard live easy three weekend the solid nine point4. 9. We don't do have. I do. Well, nothing to 10. So it's on an eight scale to nine. It's a 10 in my book, Tanner. So I could have not finished last in the novice class. I probably would have given it a 10.

Only you can prevent that. Only that's a me problem. I got I motivated David too much in our group chat that he had to you know Outperform me handsomely. I think everybody's performance was thanks to you. Like I think Fucking annoying asshole in his place. That's what y'all said No, I think that we I was giving you credit everybody's performance was You had a hand in it all so you should take credit for it. I did I it was fun man I wish we could have got Trevor to know what Instagram was and get us in that chat too

Yeah, I think you would have fit right in. Yeah, I think I think that would have been Fun to have I don't know if Tom has a phone or knows what a phone is So then he might not have been able to get in on that. I didn't ideally, like, I think I might, I feel like, I know, I tried talking to Tom at crew falls and it was very like one, like two word response to me. And then when I saw him this year, it was just kind of like more like we were warming up in the same bar briefly. It didn't really, I don't know, a little overwhelmed with everything. So didn't really make an effort to talk to him too much. But all I'm saying is I don't trust dudes named Tom. So stay Real far from that dude. I've always said that's what I've that's what I've that's what I said

But yeah, just all at all great time Had I think everyone not only anyone walked away frustrated or annoyed and there's people that bombed out and we're still happy So it's like it's yeah, you know, I don't, I think if anyone that put the effort into coming out, they had a great time. Um, we're going to do it again and again and again. If they stopped doing it, we'll figure out a way to do it ourselves probably. So you know, I think it's, I mean, it's kind of the match made in heaven. It's like, as long as, you know, Dave, Dave handles all the power lifting and Jake can

handle the strong man, Tommy and Tanner Tanner Do a little shit and piece it together And yes Tanner did you hear that all the little just a little bit of thing that you have to do to make it happen Hey, it just sets up a booth, right? Yeah They rent a hall and they move all this stuff, but I'm just saying like if That's why I think that's why the strongman show only lasted three years before because he literally did do everything Whereas this they can kind of be like we're hands-off of powerlifting strongman to an extent Like I mean, I just hope that next year he orders enough to excel shirts to make sure that

Fuck that guy so hard. I can't I can't I can't wish that guy I didn't have a private profile like his profile picture was like Standing on like a mountain ridge taking a piss or something. That's what it looked like I'm like, well sure and I had like a flag and I'm like, oh you would that with that you would do that Yeah, that's how you know, he's not one of us cuz it wasn't a dump That's what I was trying to say. Oh, yeah. That's what we do around here. No good poop stories from the Lift Hard, Live Easy. Now, anyone that was their first time, like having a backyard party with a porta potty, amazing.

I don't think we, we didn't have those year one. So year two and year three having the porta potty, clutch. Very good clutch. Hey, listen, all the little things that Tanner has to do, like making sure that we have a porta potty in, listen, all the little things that Tanner has to do to make sure that we have a porta potty in the backyard, just the little things. I think his party Friday, he probably puts, I would, wouldn't, I say there's as much work that goes into the party Friday as it does for like what they do setting up the booth

on Saturday. Just the little things, Keith, just the little things. I was basically, I was essentially, you're taking it as a disrespect to Tommy and Tanner when it's a compliment to Dave, Katie, Jake and Abby. So fuck you for trying to like, you know, connive the words that I'm saying, you little shit. Still a disrespect. You're gonna give me back to little Nate.

I'm gonna think you're so small still. I am just a little guy over here. All right, I think everyone's, we're ready to wrap this up. I'm going to hit you guys with the affiliates real quick. So if you're obsidian ammonia, I'm pretty sure I smelled some of that last week. Barber rescue, Kim came out and had a great booth and was very supportive of the fellow crew plates. Next looked like Jake worked with him exclusively to make all those stickers for the kegs.

Those look really dope. Home gym con tickets are live now. Go ahead and use code unpaid, save some money and get your tickets for home gym con in Louisville. It's looking like it'll be two weeks after what we're going to assume. Lift Hard, Live Easy 4 dates. If Lift Hard, Live Easy 4 will be in the middle of July. This will be the end of July.

So not the perfect ideal dates, but still home gym con is not worth missing. Belt Fed Strength, they donated several awesome prizes for the competition. Those were really, I was very jealous. Those are the belts that like slide over your other belt too I think. That was just sick as shit looking. Incredible. Great, I got a great video of Katie riding off Saturday night with that on her back on the bike. Oh also, Noah Love was given to my, this could have been an email. That was hysterical.

I thought that was a good line. Just wanna. It was, I was gonna mention it earlier because I think I mentioned something about an email earlier or something, but yeah, you say, because that, that's, we gotta shave an hour off the whole meet somewhere.

If that means like 10 less people get to compete or something Like like that would do it like shrink awards a little bit. Like I don't know something Just a little things Honestly, yeah shorter awards can yeah just an email we call that an email Pizza party for you in the morning or something like that. Or do, like I know it would hurt our, it might potentially hurt attendance for Strongman, but if Dave just does the awards why Jake setting up Strongman, like,

but I mean, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how many people you're gonna, that are still gonna stay for the Strongman if they already have their shit, but either way, yeah, figuring something out would be dope, but getting back to the affiliates, like I think every single affiliate actually had a hand in home gym uh lift hard live easy that is so we like i said i definitely had an obsidian ammonia in the back kim was there plate snacks

was everywhere uh home gym con not really uh belt fed strength obviously ashton from freedom fitness equipment the rubber mat that everyone stood on for the rewards that was from ashton i believe from freedoms freedom fitness equipment and then uh the strength though apparel uh the Freedom Fitness Equipment, the rubber mat that everyone stood on for their awards. That was from Ashton, I believe, from Freedom Fitness Equipment. And then the Strength Co apparel. My one Strength Co thing this week would be Big David gave me a OK podcast sticker that I've been asking for forever and that was awesome. So that's Strength Co adjacent and that is seven people that were affiliated with our ad reads that are affiliated with our ad reads

that are affiliated with Lyft or the VZ. So that's a win. Hey, there was a moment, so I posted it to our story. Shout out to the Strength Co. I was just walking around in the back of the powerlifting warmup room. And completely organic. Yes, they did run the powerlifting warmup room, but. They did run the powerlifting warmup room.

But completely organically, in the powerlifting warmup area where I was not supposed to be, I just hear Tommy Schneider telling Tommy, dude, these StrengthGo plates are amazing. The way you can just, no mics, no cameras, just being in awe of the plates.

And I like stopped him in his tracks. I was like, hold on, let's get all of this on video, start from the top. And just, it was so funny to just be out in the wild and just hear someone be like, these plates, strength go plates are just the best thing I've ever seen in my life. I loved, it was just the most massonomics thing ever to be, uh, to happen. So shout out to those dudes. Also, Grant, I also would like an OK podcast sticker. I know you'll never hear this, but I would like one.

Literally can't get her goddamn name right. Yeah. So, yeah, Grant, just one of these days when I ever see you again. You know, it'd be nice. OK. Secure the trash. Yeah, if I can, I got a trash with bloody rag. I got to get rid of. I planned on doing a secure the trash. Yeah, I got a trash with a bloody rag I gotta get rid of. I planned on doing a secure the trash video. Never really saw any trash around the secure, so sorry about that. I think Tanner, they did not empty the trash throughout the venue. That was like Friday morning, trash started overflowing.

And I'm like, okay. And I think it was still there the next day. But all in all, I hope, I mean, I'm I'm gonna assume we're gonna try to run it back at the RM Coda I mean I don't see a reason not to just a little things you're not gonna let that go are you oh there's this thing about massonomics where we let nothing go Keith you guys Tanner says TBD and then disappeared. Who will never know. All right. Um, big year, everything I find you.

I'm me on Instagram at GC underscore strength on the score systems, or you can find my personal Garrett at CSCS 77. You can look me up on Facebook and I still need to post like a recap video on YouTube eventually when I have a lot of free time and I don't have. So you're not so busy. No, I'm not a dink yet. So yet that's when all the time unlocks. Big Danny, where you at?

Uh, just on Instagram beer belly underscore lists on Instagram. That's it. And that is Chris Damager for anyone new to the crew. Big Jen, where you at? Get strong Jen 24 on Instagram and Big Jen on Discord. And I'm not Jen Damager, just to be clear for anybody that's fair for big for big curd we gotta keep everything clear for him big Andrew Garrison where we gonna find you yeah this is Andrew by the way um you can find me on Instagram on clawtron thank you and anyone since we don't do video anytime soon is a big Andrew There's his background is my garage gym and it's just this hysterical and it's like recent

It's like my garage gym from like like 24 hours ago The most recent picture from your gym because I wanted to make sure that Yeah, it literally has my you know kind of sucks. I'm not stoked with it, but it was so cheap that it was still too warm in there. In my garage. My garage is very hot in the, uh, everyone was giving me shit for that. Like, no, the, the venue was perfect minus it was just, I was sweating profusely all through strongman warmups. And as soon as, but like, as soon as you walked, it's like the Strongman platform to perform on

was very comfortable. It was just the warmup room where the door was wide open. And I don't know if it was just a combination of like, the door was open, but it wasn't like outside, so you weren't like getting a nice breeze. So you were just getting like a little bit of heat and sun and humidity coming through the door. But like, no, none of the positives of being outside.

I don't know, when that door was open, I thought it cooled that area off a lot, but that was just. I don't know, that door was open. I thought it cooled that area off a lot But that was just I mean it was the opposite But hey, by the way, fine drink spot or chill fit sticks to that door and that was the best realization I had all weekend I also could put it right above Grayson so and I'm just slightly taller than him so he couldn't reach my drink. That was great Big spicy pizza where you at buddy?

I am at Big Spicy Pizza on Instagram and Discord. It's one of you Big Spicy Pizza on Instagram because I always think you- I changed it a couple days ago. Okay because every time I have to tag you it's like coach 80 fucking three six four or something and I'm like it's so hard to find you on Instagram. I always forget it's coach something. So now you're Big spicy pizza on instagram confirmed big spicy pizza eight one two three

that'll make that a lot easier good deal big nate who are you uh my name is big nate i come here from ohio born tim and barb many years ago you can follow me on instagram i'm nate Ohio, born Tim and Barb many years ago.

You can follow me on Instagram. I'm NateE561. You can find me on SoundCloud as Cut, Copy and Paste. Or there's another band that I played on. I can't remember the name of it. Goodnight Bestie. Don't look for it, please. I can't remember the name of it. Uh, good night, bestie.

Don't look for it, please. Um, you can also find me on strongmanscoreboard.com, uh, where you can get all of your scoreboard needs, glaze search.com show manager, uh, for Keith to help him get questionnaires done. That's actually, that is the most impressive thing you've ever done. I appreciate that. Thank you. Um, and soon, soon, it out except one person, ability register ever done. I appreciate that. Thank you. And soon, soon- Everyone's voted out except one person.

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All right. You can find us on Instagram at unpaid and underrated podcast website, unpaid intern podcast.com. Go raise somebody for that first comment on YouTube. I'm Keith and I get 73 on Instagram. More importantly, go follow my orange gym than a wine seller. And until then, we will see you next Tuesday. Holy fuck. No one's going to listen to this three hour episode, but I think it's a blast. It might be a little under, it'll be under three hours.

I don't think we started recording until like 11 or 850 or something. It's gonna be like two and a half. They're all gonna love it. And they're gonna be jealous that they were not part of it. I can't believe my, I was literally laughing profusely at the story of just listening, of remembering Matt laughing cause Matt has this high pitched squeal. I don't know, it's like, it's almost like a little girl like hyena, like little laugh squeal thing. And it just makes me laugh so hard.

Matt is just a little giggly girl. And that's how I describe him. Zoom cuts that. That's what I heard in the car is what I got to hear on our episode with Nate, but zoom cuts it out so you guys can hear it. Collectively, we kind of hear it. I have a question. I didn't want to bring it up in the episode.

It's in the show notes, but I didn't want to, well, I didn't want to have to look for it in the middle if it's in the post show, it's a little it's a little bit easier find what is this hand on gracing got married bit i don't know what did i miss and integration just change his name to his husband but i don't get the story somebody was at mass inomics and somebody couldn't remember Grayson's name. So then they said, oh, Hannah's husband, who's that? So it's now a full circle from being who's Grayson's girlfriend.

It's now who's Hannah's husband. That is funny. It's now who's Hannah's husband. That is funny. So can I just tell a quick work story? Sorry, random. You guys will get it. But I'm like the crew mom, right? But at work, I'm like the work mom. I work with two short kings,

Grayson, two engineers, young kids, shorter like Grayson and the ladies in my row make fun of them because it's like I have two children that come over and ask me things. So one of them, you know, he'll want me to like look at the parts that he's bringing over and get him approved and stuff. And she's like, every time he comes over, it's like, mom, look what I have today. And then so and I had him on the head. So yeah, so true. And he's so short, like shorter than me, like I could. But and, and then the other one, it's like the conflict having another your other child, but with a completely different personality, he'll be like, Mom, can we try? Can we like get

this thing for the product? Like, no, that's not gonna work. He'll be like, dang it! It's just like two different personalities and I had never really seen it until the ladies in the room started bringing it up and I'm like, oh my God, I'm the mom everywhere. It's ridiculous. We love you for it.

You're a great mom, we appreciate it. Appreciate all you do. So we always said, so we'll always say. Yeah, never you for it. You're a great mom. We appreciate it Appreciate all you do. So I said to always say yeah never stop saying it Damn, I think we really missed him. We talked about a lot of shit like yeah We did feel like we could have like and there's a million other things we could have talked about but yeah twist cone was dope Dig that place we went twist cone on on Sunday. It was just Gary, Kim and oh, Derek that drove. I always forget there's two there. I mean, I know there's two experts. I don't know how to ask you like fireman Derek and then Massachusetts Derek. Like, I don't know. Derek you drove I think is his new name.

Here's an observation. I made it last year, and it was more apparent this year that there's a lot of people that are bigger than me and stronger than me, and they eat less than me. So I'm just like, maybe I don't need to eat all this, but still. We probably should have mentioned waffle iron's breakfast. the the the

the the the the the the the the He carries himself well too. Yeah, sloppy. It was vastly impressive. Well, when when we were out for dinner on Sunday night,

Kim and I both got the same sandwich. We went to Keith's steakhouse and Kim ate. Kim ate half of the sandwich and the lady took it back and I was like. Didn't you didn't want that like, didn't you eat the protein out of it and he was like didn't you didn't want that like didn't you eat the protein out of it and he was like did you want to eat it and I was like almost like yeah like I don't know I don't know if that's it's always a little awkward it's like do you want to eat like the food your buddy didn't eat like if it's your wife for your kids or something yeah I know it's like your beer buddies like can I have your sloppy second sandwich yeah so I

went and ate a huge ice cream cone at Twisted Cone I do regret not getting any ice cream out there just never it was cool into the calendar dude when we showed up after the after Tanner's house there was just a whole live band playing yeah Stephanie was telling me about that it was was so funny. Just like showing up. It was their 50th anniversary or something, wasn't it? It was something. 55th, I think. Yeah, it was pretty nuts. But yeah, that was just so funny to be like,

what is, what's going on? There's a whole, okay, this is just a thing that happens in the city, I guess. I guess when you're the only ice cream placing and down you can take liberties to bring out a whole full band apparently someone told me that the band was Megan the quarter horses boyfriend's or something like that I would track he's a musician so that was cool meeting Megan was me well cause like we were like, we did the meet with Megan last year, but she was like pre really like. Crew or anything, I think, or maybe she was, but I didn't, I

didn't know of Megan until this year, obviously. But meeting her was great. She's such a good, I love talking to her. She's just so friendly. Um, I think this meat was even better. So I talked to Megan quite a bit and she obviously was shy of us here. But I think that goes for everybody like even Andrew and like others. So like, you guys had your first one under your belt. And then this year I just felt like you're everybody was a little bit more comfortable. And we chatted more at least when we got the time to chat. And so it was most certainly better. But yeah. That's a good observation.

I was very nervous last year, and then, you know, like last year, like I rented a car, you know, and ended up not needing it really all that much, you know, and it was like this year, I was like, I don't know, I'll just go and wing it, because like, they're like all my friends. That's the spirit.

You know? That's the spirit. That's the spirit. Fly by to see your pants. Nate, what was it like meeting me for the first time, bud? I know you always thought you'd never meet me. You'd never get the opportunity. You weren't even sure if I was real or not.

Well, I thought you were avoiding me cause you showed up and I was just sitting there and I was like, I'm pretty sure Keith looked this direction and he's not gonna come say anything. And I was sitting with like Jen and Chris and Matt and Brehme and I was like, I'm pretty sure Keith looked this direction and he's not gonna come say anything. And I was sitting with like Jen and Chris and Matt and Brehme and I was like, I'm gonna start a timer. And I kinda just wanna see how long it takes for Keith to realize I'm here.

Because that would be really funny if we, if I could go all of Loggers and him not see me. But then I really wanted like a video of me like walking up to you so I. I think I had the priority of I had to get, I had to get a food order in because I was starving I understand. I was also very I needed a food order and a drink and basically, but I tried to like work the room from like closest to the farthest away because it's like So I you know, I'm not the most I don't know

I always get social anxiety to some extent until you're kind of broken in. Like even though it's like everyone I know, it's more like it's not the people, which is more like I need to like that day to get acclimated and then I'm fine. So Thursday was like, oh, just like six hours in a car to then like 50 people. There's a lot going on. A lot going on. No, it's good. Glad to finally meet you. Now that joke's dead. Gotta find a new one. Hey, it's good. Glad to finally meet you. Now that joke's dead.

Got to find a new one. Hey, I killed Tom. Tom killed you. He wishes. What's he jiu jitsu or something? Yeah, I think he knows how to do that. I will say I'm very excited for some of these videos I got coming on. I think they're they go on tomorrow, right? I don't know. I don't know why not. Because it's fucking these videos I got coming on. I think they're... Yeah, you got one tomorrow, right? I don't know. I don't know when I...

How the fuck is it? Dude, it's fucking midnight. I gotta go. I'm trying to figure out when to drop them, when the view's gonna come. I don't know how to do this. I'm not a content person. Do you gotta wake up and squat in like three hours?

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that. Same Zeus. Hong Kong video. That came out. That's looking great. Ooh, okay. Did you video that came out. That's looking great. Oh, OK. Did you post that right before? I haven't posted it at all, but I edit. I have them all. Everything's ready.

I just haven't posted anything. I don't have it. I'm not. I'm not touching Instagram for the rest of the week. So it's all you like I am like I did every I've shout out to Oh, Joey and I have I forgot we got a good meme that's dropping here. Nice. See that. And I maybe I don't know. good meme that's dropping here nice See that Night, maybe I don't know just I'll just now no no Six messages and I've looked at

Nate you just handle all the small things. Yeah, I just handle all this. That's exactly it. Yeah, I really hate you guys I love you Keith. You're so mean to me Yes, are you the youngest brother? Yes. You have the biggest younger brother in our Keith ever. I think that's an insult but maybe not. That's an insult. That is not an insult. We are all who we are Keith. It's never an insult. You're exactly who we need you to be.

For sure the forgotten child I was the one that left behind you you weren't a middle child no no the neglected oh I see what you did I'm a I'm a middle child so I know what it's like to be ignored your wife literally ignored you when you told her you wanted to do a power lifting meet now Oh. Now that's just funny. When you told me that I laughed so hard. Yeah, well she... the strongman thing that... No, that's what it was.

Well, no, it was the powerlifting meet. I think she's gonna go to the strongman thing I'm looking to sign up for in October, so I'll try to remind her off tonight but now I guess I have to right spicy oh my gosh there he goes I don't think we've I don't know if I've gone to midnight before I must have well Keith we got two minutes I know we have to we got a push for it push for it and then we can all kiss we can all kiss each other at midnight making the koozies making my Keith had koozie every time I went around to someone at Tanner's and like I gave him the cheers it was always had to go like Keith on Keith face. I was pretty happy with that.

Oh, a crazy moment for me. I almost forgot. So Thursday night, I was doing the Hong Kong video, going around trying to get people to do it. And I saw Larry Legend and he was like wearing sunglasses. Very afraid. So I just avoided him entirely because he looked scary. And then at the powerlifting meet the next day,

when he was like helping doing the strong man stuff and he had like stripped, not stripped down, but like changed into like his t-shirt and he had like some sort of necklace on, his hair was up, looking all cool and fun. I like walked by him, he's like, oh, hey, big Nate. And I was like, how the heck do you know who I am? You don't even have the internet.

How does he know who I am? This is so weird. I could have asked him for the Hong Kong. Yeah, that was just a moment of just like, Larry Legend just calling me out by name was. That is actually really cool. I was, I talked to Tommy about it. He's like, honestly, if someone was just like, that's big Nate, he'll just remember that.

And I was like, that's crazy. But yeah, that was that moment. I was like, there's, and what, what? This is a prank. We just had Justin on too. So maybe Justin, like Justin and that was that moment. I was like, there's when what, what? We just had Justin on to some of it. Just like Justin, I'm a good buddy. So he might've just been like, yeah, but I'm not on the episode. Like there's no, you're the third leg of the hidden. No one knows who I am.

Except yes, it was surprising to me the face of you and you this weekend. Well, it was surprising to me the amount of people that like knew who I was that like I've never really talked to or just, yeah, the amount of kindness people showed of, and me just being like, I feel like I don't talk to a lot of like a large group of people in the crew. Cause like, I would just like walked up to Paul and Paul's like, Hey, then how you doing? What's what's what you've been up to?

And I was like, I don't know if I've ever actually talked to you, dude. Like this is cool. So yeah, it was all it was all cool to get out there and see everybody in real life I'm glad to have you but just think if you had a you know, you'd 24 months of missed opportunities that you could have already Been out there. Well, you know Life is life. I'm pretty sure I had a kid like one of the years Yeah, that is true I have had two children now no no no I keep thinking it's three years it's only been like twenty our third kids and like a week our third kid came on the first lift hard

live easy year I was so when Louie came. So we haven't had another one since then. All right. Hong Kong, good night, everybody. It was a pleasure. Hi, Keith. I love you. Don't think we hate you. If you want, I can fly out there.

I'll give you a kiss or a drive, honestly. It is a short drive. Yeah. Short. Dean can give you, so I can give you a log to take back to Kevin. I'll sell it to him cheap. Kevin, fucking graffiti in the inside of my log

was hysterical. Cause I posted it for sale cause I found another one that was like in better condition and I basically paid like nothing for it in comparison to what it's worth. And he was like, well, since you're selling it, I should tell you that I left you a note inside and I've had this thing for over a year.

And I don't know how he did it. Cause like where it's at, like, I don't know if he like fucking drew on it with a mirror or like shrunk himself down to get in there like I couldn't have like got my arm in there and held a pin like a speaking of short kings. Yeah, he hired one of Jen's coworkers. What? How many did you get a new log? I saw you were selling that. Yeah, so no, I, so I got the one, so Kevin did me a solid last year, I paid him the money to get that. I finally got that in March, and then literally like two weeks ago,

or three weeks ago, there was one in Syracuse for sale, the identical log with no dents in it, because the one I have is a little dent in it, but it's still completely functional, it's just got a dent on one side. It was like 120 bucks for like a $400 log, so it's like, yes, I will buy that. And so I had the guy, actually it was $120 and then I had to pay him $20 to deliver it to the Strongman show that Dan was hosting in Syracuse that I was already going to. So I was like, I didn't

even have to go like pick it up out of my way. I was already going to Syracuse. So I had $140 into a log that's, you know, a theoretic. I mean it's worth three, four hundred dollars to someone. It's just someone has to be in the market for a log, which isn't a large market. That's capitalism, baby. But I will see you on that. I'm gonna log that on your spreadsheet.

Log, log, I see that. There's two of them on there now. All right, I'm going to bed. Love you guys. I'm trying to see how late I can just keep Keith around. I don't have now. All right. I'm going to bed. Love you guys. I'm trying to see how late I can Keith around it's I don't have to fuck you. I've literally I'm I've been up since fucking four. I'm good I'm going to bed. Well, yeah, it's 9 p.m. Over here. So go fuck yourself I hope you drop your new fucking yoke on your toe. Jeez. Holy cow Maybe Keith just needs all of us. He's cranky.

Keith, get out of here. Go deal with some small things or something. I don't know. I hate you. Now, I thought this was the last thing I needed was more fucking people picking on me for shit. For shit, I say. Reeling them back in! Reeling them back in! Literally complimenting the other people at the meet and just saying that's why it's so worth it. I know, I know. It's just, it's one of those. Like, Hannah literally told me,

like it just got too overwhelming and like it only lasts three years because it was too much work essentially, so. It's a backhanded compliment of being like, yeah, they handle that, yeah, they handle that. They just handle the small things and it's like, there's so many other cracks to fill. But it is two very large things that they don't have to handle, you handle that. They just handle the small things and it's like, there's so many other cracks to fill, but it is, it is two very large things that they don't have to handle.

You are right. It's like 40%. It's just like done already. But the words that you said were, were very funny. Well, Tommy will never hear it and Tanner knows, I mean, well, so we're good. He did. He, I did get an LOL in the chat. So I feel Tanner.

So far, Tanner's told me I look jacked he's said LL to my joke I'm the new to the key and bloom and Uncle Sam's office on to medicine the bloom and Uncle Sam the profit that 30% tax enough to pay on that $ thirty five dollars is probably gonna break the company I mean It's a write-off. Maybe I don't know but listen the amount of money he spends on those cardboard things Offsets any profit he'll ever make the amount of money He spends on Friday like I feel like we should all been mowing 20 bucks for Friday cuz like that is a net loss of a Dow couple thousand dollars You think well a port of John alone for a couple of days is probably three, $400.

I guess that on its own food itself, $500 probably. I'm very curious about the pork cooking technique. So, I mean, if it's under a thousand, it'd be. I think there's a, an episode in the backlog where he talks about how they get all the, the pork. Oh, it's, it's a really early one when they had like a part, they had like a party for the gym, you know, like an anniversary party for the gym. I think it's the one where they rented out this space and got, uh, they went

in there the next day and there was just like beers. Yeah. All the beer. Yeah. And then it was like, there was like 17,000 half drank beers. I remember them talking. That was a funny episode. I might be confusing a couple, but yeah, the, yeah, the Arby's one. He's like, you know, what's awesome. Is it just go get a bunch of art?

I got some Arby's right now. Dinner was literally like seven hours ago. I had pulled pork with cheese. I saw that. That was funny. Committed to the bit. I told my wife, I was like, some people don't like cheese on their pulled pork,

and she's like, why not? Big. Don't get it started. Nate Moe did have like shredded cheese on his the like it was so I was about to say if you closed your eyes, they literally looked the same and I was like Keith, well, yeah, I mean, the inflect like the way he was able to turn on can't Canadian scans. I was it was unimpactable.

I'm just bummed Chris wouldn't do a one for one and we're live with Huck Finn on video. Oh, I did it with Huck Finn. I know and I was like, let's go back. We need to get this on video and you're live with Huck Finn on video. Oh, I did it with Huck Finn. I know, and I was like, let's go back, we need to get this on video, and you're like, no. And I was like, okay. Okay, fine. Okay, bye.

Okay, bye. Okay, Flo talked a lot, but it was like talking to Letter Kenny, like every character on Letter Kenny. I was around him a lot, but I didn't get a ton of interaction with him. I think I chocked his back. Yes, you did.

OK, so someone just handed me, and they're like, can you get my back? And I was like, this is. Oh, no, you got Bryce. No, it wasn't Bryce. I would have remembered it was Bryce. I'm pretty sure it was Flo. I did did his back and just covered my cup of coffee in shock.

It was awesome. I probably made it taste better. Yeah, just covered my cup of coffee in shock. It was awesome Yeah, just like Tom's it's fine Yeah No, hold on Keith before you go because I've been keeping Stephanie up all night than about me You gotta get a quiet down. We're gonna get you a little a little cabin Out in your backyard you can podcast from that's called called my garage gym but it's a thousand degrees up. Nah, not at this time of night. It's probably nice. It feels very nice right now. I'm out there. There it is.

I need to get my images back up and running on my computer because I couldn't, it wouldn't let me do photos only the apps are weird about that, even on iPhone, certain things only take from certain places that has been that's the start medical school yet there get the the the

the the that's a lot of hours. That is a lot of hours. I've seen what you eat like every day has to be like the worst day of your life. Boom! Roasted! Boom! Roasted! Got him! No, I think the best part of my day. Your life is a weird thing, man. You need to rethink some priorities. That should be on the, you should put it on the Q&A, the wedding Q&A. Will we serve Garrett food at the wedding? Probably not. No, the place we have for the wedding.

They make the food for us, So I don't enjoy that. That's a bummer. Did you say have to have at least one soft thing? I was on his wedding night. He probably shouldn't. Oh, gee, I'll let them done now.

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I got to go put the daughter to bed. No, we won't let anyone go. This podcast is Hotel California. Eagle. I'm leaving. No, stay. Stay. You can't go. Can't go. I feel like I can't go. OK, bye. the the

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