Unpaid And Underrated - 136 : Crü Falls 2026 Recap

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

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This is my first time recording in like several months. Joey usually handles that, but I do have a, obviously a nice new laptop now, but it's like we don't do a ton of episodes not together or when we do one. Either Nate's there or there without me. So it's like, oh,

okay. So I'm like, I fucking had all night to get ready. And I was like laying on the couch till like 640. And I was like, oh yeah, like my headphones are still packed from crew falls. Then I found the headphones,

but I couldn't find the fucking the cord. And that was in the back. It was like in a different part in my suitcase. and I had to get my drinks. Had to go find some socks and underwear because I was just fucking Winnie pooing it after the shower and any of any goddamn clean clothes upstairs because who puts their clothes away

when they can just live in the basement by the fucking washer and dryer for weeks. I hope I didn't fuck ourselves because I like when I created the Zoom I set it up like I didn't, I don't know, I just like OCD Lee was in there fucking with it and set a time. It was like a start time and an in time and just like ballparked it

and assuming that it like wouldn't kick us out but now I've got like a countdown clock and I'm like oh fuck I think it counts up after but I could be wrong I'd hope because we got two hours and 12 minutes to wrap this up if it kicks us out but in case I'll just send the link real quick and I was gonna say we can you can reset

it too yeah I'm like I'm like keep looking at it I'm like it won't let me edit it now fucker but it's not like we're live so yeah it'll be good And welcome back to the unpaid and underrated podcast. Ah, I fucked that one up. All right. Nate will just leave that one in, I'm sure.

That first one sounded really good, though. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That was like, that was literally. That was the one. He's got to have that butterfly effect and go back to that exact time. All right. And welcome back to episode three of the unpaid and underrated podcast.

We were a podcast for crew by crew and constantly, you know, inundated by crew on the podcast, you know. That's kind of why we're here. We'll get everybody, you know, get together and just shoot the shit. So this is a nice special episode for everybody this week. This is the third annual crew falls recap. And I had to go back and verify that because I couldn't remember if year one we actually did a recap. I know I would have talked about it, but I don't know if it was like a dedicated episode. And I think it was a more or less was.

So third annual. And hopefully we can keep this thing going. going and just have a good time. So we have a big roster crew tonight. There is, let's see, we got Big Trond. Sayba. Howdy. Everybody knows him. We got Mr. Big Brandon O'Doyle. We got Big Jakey. We got Mr. Big Lou, the fireball man himself. So let me tell you what we're going to talk about here. We got a lot of it. Then we have Big Hannah. Yo. The only, yeah, the only local one. We had to get one local. So we were glad it's you. We had to get her favorite.

And I am Big Keith, joined as always by no co-host tonight. Debo might pop in a little later. He was working. If not, we still got a solid crew right here, as is. Anyone drinking anything fancy they want to talk about? Well, go ahead. I think we all have a vague idea, which you might have, Lou. First off, you got a 50% chance of getting one of them right. But I will say, I made sure to stock up on this before we We went up to Crew Falls because I know they don't sell it in Crew Falls. Got me a nice couple of lovely real American beers. Oh, nice.

Courtesy of the Holkser himself. All right. Peace, brother. Yep, I enjoy them. I know some people have some things to say about it, but I enjoy it. So I'm going to keep buying it as long as I can. Nice. Deal.

Anybody else got anything fancy or special? Just flat water tonight from the old Louisville Water Company. Nice. Right. I got a Breckenridge. Christmas ale, there we go, because it is Christmas time, and we had an ice storm here in Chamberlain. So feeling a little Christmassy, and then a little later, once this, my space heater heats this puppy up, I got a polar orange vanilla seltzer in honor of being with the glaze himself. Nice.

An ice storm and then tramsing out to the shed in your backyard. I just envision your shed has got to be like 200 feet from your house. or something. Oh, I, yeah, I mean, I, I threw about 20 pounds of, uh, ice melt down, uh, between my, my back door and my shed. That's smart, smart man. So you have just like this worst ground in the, in the spring. Oh, it's, I literally, uh, I literally slid down my sidewalk, down my driveway to the

street this morning and I had to walk back up on the yard to get to my car. Oh, that sounds fun. Oh, wow. Your car had a good time in that, too, I bet. Uh, big Jake. Yeah. Anything, buddy? nothing crazy

I've got a fireball for Lou and I've just got flat water like Big Brandon but you know you got the metal nomic sticker on the cup so I'm ready I'm ready this is better I bet you have anything anything good

Oh crispy waterloo Nah oh is that the I don't know I'm that's similar I think I had one of those a couple weeks this What do I have? I got a bubbly I think I ran out of my waterloo But I did I did drink one of those

A couple weeks ago Good stuff Um As far as wearing I just got the buddy light shirt on. I'm going to just go around to describe people just to make it quicker. Big Tron's got a little hoodie on. Brandon's got the Squat's shirt on. Jake, he's got the U and you hoodie and a quarter zip with something else, all kinds of goodies.

I'm layered up. Oh, yeah. Big Lou's rocking the huge life cutoff. So that's one of his, you know, big famous lats popping out there. And Big Hannah is rocking this awesome webcam she got just for us. She texted me today at like news. or something and was like, oh, God, I'm so sorry to let you know. I literally don't have a webcam for tonight. And I was like, well, in my mind, I was like, well, you're not getting out of this. God damn it, Hannah. So, you know, we were just going to roll with the punches.

And then she texted me a couple hours later and with a picture of a cam, video camera, not a video camera, web cam, there you go. That's the word I was evading me. So, yeah, we are rolling and we're seeing Hannah in 4K. And he told me I could Bill Tanner for this. So Tanner, if you're listening, expect this in the mail. Yeah, yeah. Yep, that is, that is the, that is, that is 100% what I would like to do.

And Tanner, it will tell you you can just collect from Tommy, beans as he's down already, so let's go over to your, go over to his house and help yourself to whatever equal value you can get. That's fair. I mean, I mean, that's what we were supposed to. Like, I walked over so much shit when we left Tommy. Like that was the deal, right? Like, my pockets were very full when I left.

Like, he's missing all his two and a half pound string coat plates and a variety of other things that fit in the pocket. That would be kind of scummy. Can you imagine if some, like, no. one coming to crew falls but like you never know like some people could like be somebody like accidentally yeah like you know like they've been they they threw something in their pocket or whatever like i don't know one of the grippers or something like that went to set it down or something like that but but they'd be pretty quick to get it back i'm pretty sure for what a dagger people stealing from tommy and taking a shit in his bathroom stole pride from them with that

yeah that's that's one thing i haven't done I do kind of have a little... Has anybody heard of the app called Places I Poop? No, but that actually would sound from... That would be beneficial. Especially if it gives you recommendations. I'm not sure if it gives recommendations because it had it and it was malfunctioning, so I think I got it right before it got an update.

But it's legitimately just wherever you are, tag it when you're there. And I don't know if it compares it with other people of how many places you have, but yeah, it's something that was really intrigued him for a little bit. That's pretty funny. I think Kurt could have used that this weekend? Sounds like he was dumping all over town. all right well speaking of dumping all over town how did you guys think about last week's episode of massonomics podcast

uh no that was actually better than digging a dump uh which one was that that was the call-in episode so how many people here got featured on that i at least see two uh so big brandon and big jake jake how did uh how would you think of the call-end episode was the highlight your part i'm assuming i loved it loved it those are my favorite episodes you get to hear from crew so I'm all in Nice Brandon I know you enjoyed that

Was that your first time Getting on the your voice on there Or did you already Was that something you already knocked off the card That was first time Yeah it was pretty I was about half asleep You know the Eastern Time zone out here

So it was pushing pretty late But it was good Good to get Just think that's Just think that's one step closer To get into that premium jacket level Yeah that's true It's a prestigious award

We got some jackets in here, huh? Oh, yeah. A couple. Well, a few. Yeah, I see two of them. Um, I did enjoy the episode. We probably don't. We're all just going to assume we rated a five out of five so we can knock that out. The one thing I will touch on is, uh, Tommy kicking us out early. And then I don't, I called him out on that a little bit in person. I was like, why did you kick us out? And he's like, oh, I guess we usually don't do that on calling episodes. I was like, no, I think, I think that contributed to why you had so many, like, not to say that you don't get a lot of people that go right to voicemail, but like, I know all the East Coast people were like, oh, they kicked us out.

I guess they're just going to shoot the shit and go to bed because that's what I'm going to do. I'm just going to go to bed and, uh, I know, that was kind of disappointing to miss out on that tail end of it, but it is all good. Uh, the funny,

the one thing I really didn't enjoy, though, is, is, um, Tanner was literally pulling tidbits from a lot of people's, you and you episodes to shoot the shit about like, when it was, uh,

fit Matt, fat Matt, he was asking him about like philamprathy. That's not the right word, but you know what I'm trying to say. Um, so just like, there was multiple occurrences where he was like,

oh, you were just on you and you and this, that, and the other. I was just like, oh, it's always like when they, you know, can pull from our podcast to help theirs. That's kind of why we're here. Anybody else ever? Tanner has the mind of a steel trap. It's crazy.

I met him at home Jim Con for the first time. And meeting him in Crew Falls, I was like, hey, I don't know if you remember or not. And he was like, yeah, of course I remember. Yeah. And it was like, right as he was coming in, he was with mini action Jesus. And he remembered it. And for a guy like me, I was like, okay, cool. Yeah, I don't think, I don't think very many, I would be highly, highly shocked if anyone

ever walked away from a conversation with Tanner. It was kind of like, I kind of cold shoulder, may I let prick? Like, I just, I just don't think that, like, even if he, like, and I think his interpretation, he might think he's cold shouldering someone, but he still talked to him for like two minutes. And it's just kind of, sometimes he'll do the, have you met Keith? Mm-hmm. yeah he got me now that you mentioned

yeah now that you mentioned that actually I've actually noticed that a handful of times is not actually noticing let's see what do we got Alan Larsen's gym tour anybody get a chance to consume that one today on the old YouTubers halfway through on that one

it was cool to meet him at Crew Falls and I didn't know who he was and so it was cool when he popped up on my YouTube feed I was told my wife I'm like Hey, I met that guy last weekend at the thing I went to. So it's pretty cool. Yeah, that is kind of a good selling point for these meetups.

It's just like, literally just makes it easier when you see them again in the future or stuff like that. I think I was, I might even, I might reach out to Tanner and be like, do you have the backlog of who else's episodes are coming up? Like, I mean, I pretty much know most of the videos, but I would like to make sure that like people that got their gym tours are at least on my radar. are to be on the podcast. And I kind of did the new York trip. I ended up scheduling like two or three of those guys specifically from that trip or at least put it in their ear that I'd like to get them on, but like show me that you've done a couple episodes and then we'll get you on. And, you know, everyone's kind of followed through on that. And we've got a handful of new, new episodes coming up. That's for the most part. That's general topics. We'll hitch you

with a little affiliate read here before I let Jake do the sponsor reading in about, you know, 30 seconds or so. Got to give him a little warning. So obsitting ammonia, uh, looks like he was Travis, I think Joey calls him. He just, I said he had surgery I saw, so hopefully he's doing better. So go out and spend a bunch of money to the city and help him with his recovery. Plate snacks, can't really go wrong there. If you want stickers, if you want badges for your plate tree, your weight stacks, you know, all kinds of bling that he can put on pretty much anything. Go to plate snacks, use code unpaid.

And then Big Chris and Randy at belt fed strength, you know, every time I hear someone talking about other people's belts, you know, outside of Pioneer, sure, if you want a pioneer, go for it. But, like, no one's going to make as cool a belt as Chris and Randy. And then, you know, go slap a pal on it, you know, so you're still supporting Pioneer if you're a pioneer fan. But you really can't go wrong with a custom belt from Bill Fed Strength or any of their accessories. And Jakey, what do you want to tell us about massonomics? Listen, last weekend, Crew Falls, it was one of the highlights of my year. So if you're out there, this is from the heart. If you're out there and you're probably already aware of massanom,

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Let's go. Nice. I do. And just one last sponsor, we want to touch base on. This podcast is brought to you by Big Joey's birthday. Happy birthday, Big Joey, when this comes out. You're one year old, son of a bitch. Happy birthday, Joey.

Happy birthday, Joey. All right. I'm going to set you up. Tell me as much of your name as you want to, where they can find you, you know, et cetera. So Bigtron, who are you where you at? My name's Bigtron. I'm in Chamberlain, South Dakota. You can find me on the Discord, and that's about it,

except for maybe like Facebook post from like 2016. Other than that, yeah, I've got an Instagram. I don't think I ever check. it? Nope, I've tagged you in like 30 things. I think you've ever seen a one. It causes some issues. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, no, that's all I got. Good deal. Brandon, who are you where you from, et cetera? Brandon Doyle from Louisville, Kentucky, where I have the O'Doyle Rules Barbell Club here. And yeah, I have an Instagram, O'Doyle underscore Baseman underscore Rules. Just happy to be here.

Good deal. Hannah, who are you where you at? big hannah here in the lovely crew falls i technically also have instagram i'm really bad about checking it but it is just h dot bowling b o h l i and g and maybe in four weeks i will get back to a message that you send me and then on uh discord you are big manna big manna not to be confused with uh big manna's husband correct who is big graysen uh big lu who you are I am, Big Lou, residing out of Bellevue, Nebraska currently, a little suburb of Omaha to make it easier for everybody. At Lou Nutter, make it nice and simple, just half of my first name, my last name. I mean, I feel like if you see me, you got a pretty good idea of who I am.

If you see my Instagram, you get a pretty good idea of who I am, what I do. I do want to make a mention about, we talked about Obsidian earlier. I chatted with Travis earlier. I got a nice shipment of ammonia from him and talk to him because he re-shared one of my stories today. He is out of surgery. He's at home recovering. Everything went well.

Everything went great. So, looking for wishing a nice speedy recovery for him. So it just had to make sure and throw that in there. Appreciate that. Big Jakey. Close us out here. Yeah, absolutely. Big Jackie 121 on Instagram.

Also at Anchor Barbell Club at Instagram. I'm in Southern Indiana, about 15 minutes from. Big Brandon. Nice. All right. Well, I think it's time we dive into this. Uh, it's kind of there's so many topics. Uh, traveling in, anybody have any, uh, you know, I'm just going to kind of, I'm, I think my intent is going to be keep it somewhat chronological, but we'll veer off and go this way and go that way, but I got to have some kind of baseline. So chronological to some extent. So traveling in, anybody have any horror stories or anything like that? Nope. That was pretty smooth for me. Good. Love it. Awesome.

Awesome. So we all, well, so tell us, well, you can briefly touch on, was there you, you, Brandon, you flew out with a bunch of the guys, right? Yeah. So, Debo, J.P. and I. Is it easier, do you think? It was definitely more fun. Yeah. And it was easier just because we could kind of, you know, bullshit around the airport together. Pass the time for sure. We had a really short layover. We flew into Minneapolis and we had a short layover and then flying back to or flying to, or flying to,

South Dakota. We had to get our plane di-ice, so that pushed it back just a little bit. Other than that, real smooth flight. Nothing really crazy. Jake, remember us anything? It was it easy to spot each other? Yeah. Super easy. We were all in Mesonomics

gear, so walking to the gate. I saw Brandon. I saw Debo. These are my people. Let's go. Nice. All right. Yeah, oh, I will say that Jake, so Debo and I sat together the whole time, but Jake was like, I'm going to do first class because I don't know if you know this, but Jake's part of the 1%.

So he's just like super rich. Like he took a limousine to the airport. He wouldn't even ride with Dbo and I. That's true story. Nice. It is what it is. I mean, I got an image to obtain. So here we go.

So Pizza Ranch. Did you make it to Pizza Ranch, Anna? Yeah, I was late because I was picking up Big Aff from the airport, so it's his fault. But don't worry, I ate enough to be burping up pizza all night. And Big Lou, we didn't see you till, did we see you Friday night? I don't think we did, did we? No, we saw you late night. Yeah, you made it to months, right?

Late. Yep, good deal. We were still good to have. Yep, because I drove up. I worked, I worked, I only took off two hours early. So I worked to the beginning of the day. And then it's a two and a half hour drive for me, between two and a half and three, depending on traffic.

So I was able to get out a good time, make some pretty good time with traffic. And went in, checked in a hotel. I checked with you guys at Mons. I'm a little sad, but at the same time, not very sad that I missed out on Pizza Ranch because... Yeah, Pizza Ranch wasn't the highlight. Well, I'm sure a handful of people here know this, but the older that you get, the more that certain foods do not tolerate, you do not tolerate those foods very well anymore. And Pizza Rant is one of them.

I had this lovely deal where it fits of foods that I think are delicious, even though I know they're bad for me. I don't stop eating until I'm miserable. And then it's just pain and suffering after that. Yeah, this might have been a good thing to miss that then. uh we almost missed it uh me brandon jake and debo we uh we had an air bambi right next to lose uh where we knew we're going to spend a lot of time and there's a pizza ranch right next to there but that is not the pizza ranch where we get together with crew because we get to the pizza we there's two pizza ranches in sue falls and one's a lot closer to tommy's house so pizza ranch is the one by tommy's house and we didn't realize that well i knew that from last year but i just wasn't really thinking and i walk in and we like three or four of us pay and then i go to the bathroom and i'm like man this is not the the fucking right pay. There's like, there's like five massive like rooms that are all like labeled and shit. And I'm like, I'm kind of looking around. And I'm like, dude, this is not the right place. So we, we deduced. And once we actually found the discord link and or the,

the, uh, the massonomics like thing, I was like, oh yeah, we definitely were in the wrong place. But the funny enough, it wasn't just our car. It was our car plus, uh, two was it. It was curtain, uh, Gary. Gary. And I think was someone else or just those two. Maybe it was just those two. Because they also got done working out the gym. Yeah. And they also have the Airbnb, like, in the same area. So it was at least two more guys. So, oh, big spicy was with them, too. Okay.

So, yeah, several of us. And then, uh, I had no, uh, confidence that the guy was going to give us a refund because we were all individual orders. And then, like, but I got lucky there was a manager walking right by and I kind of sweet talked to him. And I think he thought it was like a party of five that had paid as one. So then when I realized, once he realized, it was like a line of five people trying to get their $14 back, he was like, fuck you guy.

He was, he was not happy. But he let us out. And we did make it over the second. place. God, there was at least 30 of us there, probably. You know, no exaggeration, there's 30 of us at Pizza Ranch. We're there for about an hour and a half or so, and then headed over to Tommy's.

That was, three of us had been there before, so I guess I don't, no, no, so yeah, I guess it was just, yeah, Trond wasn't there, Lou wasn't there, but the other four of us were. So, Jake and Brandon, seeing Tommy's for the first time, what do you think it compared to to Instagram? Brian, go for it, man. you got a good story about this. Oh, well, it's just on Instagram and, like, his videos and things like that,

or even when he's doing some, you know, massonomics videos for YouTube. I always thought it was, like, perpendicular to what it is, like, in my head for some reason, like the way you walk in. And then so, like, when I walked in immediately, I was just like, oh, this is backwards to what I thought in my head. So it was kind of cool. I mean, just to, it's also much bigger than I thought. You know, he always, he always says it's a whole one stall, but I'm just like.

Yeah, it's inside of a fucking four stall. a three-stall garage or something, too. So it's, it's a... Right. It's about the size of your garage, right, Keith? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, if you count, like, my house is part of the, like, his garage is bigger than my house, my basement in my garage, I think.

So it's, uh, it'd be nice to have that South Dakota space. Yeah, his gym was awesome. It was awesome. And I, I'm, after their review, I'm seriously, I'm seriously considering the, the leg curl leg extension that Tommy has. Yeah, yeah. And I talked to him on Saturday. He goes, did you try it?

I was like, well, no, but I saw a lot of people trying it. And it looked pretty sick. So I'm in on that. Yeah. Nice, yeah. So I got to town right when everybody was leaving. So as I was driving in, I saw Tanner coming out and a whole string of guys. And so I pulled up and I ended up being able to pick up Big Lauren and his dad,

Darren and American Joey. And so you did not go to Tommy's first then. Yeah, so I went straight to Tommy's just in case. Yeah, yeah. It's probably like there were still a few people milling around. But save those guys having to pay for an Uber ride and got to meet Darren and Lauren and Joe. And they were all great. And then, yeah, I'm sure there'll be a few stories about Darren buying drinks for the rest of weekend.

I was just going to say, did he manage to buy you a beer in your own truck, literally like with no ice? I bet he did. I bet he was kept looking around for a fucking bartender. You know, if he would have known that there was beer in my cooler in the back seat, he probably would have not. He would have just been sort of feeding it to you. Yeah,

no, he caught me a couple times at the end of the night. He was all excited to congratulate me for my jacket and whatnot. And he's just a great dude. Yeah. So the grip gauntlet as a whole, Hannah, how did you perform in that overall?

Do you think you, oh, awesome. I got dead last, just like last year. Nice. I think I was right behind you. What did, uh, the, the tricky part was when they, uh, had you pair off, which is anyone, quote, unquote, randomly. And then it was an elimination fucking round, uh, the dynamometer. So they, they did the, they did the dynamometer. The first, it basically, the whole round essentially was a, was a elimination. So it was like March Madness versus last year where it was like, all right, you got 190. This guy got 192. You lost. It was, it. You, you, you could have this. Cause, uh, who was it? Uh, big Colton was up against Tom, I think. And. And,

And so those both guys probably would have made it to like the elite eight or the final four essentially. But Colton went out in the first round, even though his best score was probably like in the top five. But it's just the way they did elimination. It's just kind of the luck of the draw. So Tanner was pretty proud of himself for that random assignment of partner. I did like their categories how they were lining people up though. Yeah. I always like when there's no thought to it.

They're just like, uh, who's the oldest here? You know, who's taller? Yeah, on the fly we did that. That, they did that for sure. That was fun. Yeah, I was up against Big Anthony in the first round. That's a hard draw. Well, I've never touched whatever you call that.

Dynamometer. Dynamometer. I've never touched one of my life. And he goes, you know I finished third in this, right? And I go, okay, all right, fine, whatever. I had no expectation. None, none. I smoked his ass.

Oh, nice. So I'm like, all right, yeah, let's go. And so I wound up holding my own. Oh, that's right. You did finish pretty far. Yeah, I went. It's hard to remember everything, man. It was such a long week.

Yeah, but it's the look of the draw. For sure. And I did okay. So I'm old. So I wound up against other master's athletes. So I did my, I held my own. I kind of liked that a little bit better than,

I mean, I wasn't there the year prior, but just from the video. I thought that was cool to have kind of like a knockout scenario because you had like multiple opportunities to a screw up or a, like rise above and do really good. So I thought that was just kind of a cool aspect of it.

It wasn't a lot faster too. Oh, okay. Well, I think last night, I think the opposite though, because I think last year it was just, you do your number and you write it down and then someone has to go and tally it. Like there wasn't a progression last year. It was just one and done. And then, but so I think it, I think overall the whole thing went faster because we did get some better organization on it.

But the first round was kind of cool to get the, I enjoyed it. I thought it was fun. The whole thing was fun. The only downside of it was fucking. and they let Paul win for some reason. I don't understand that. I'm not really sure how he figured that one out. He's got catcher's mitts for hands.

Yeah. Dude, yeah. Yeah, I finally got a good look at his hands, and he's got some paws on him. Plus, he used to be 3.30 pounds. So, I mean, you look at his calves. You look at his hands. You can tell he was a, I mean, he's still a big boy, but you can tell he was even bigger boy.

And I was talking to Tanner about it, I think, on Friday. And he even said, it's like, yeah, like, whatever we do, we just can't let Paul win. and he started looking at all the numbers and everything's like, shit. You can't not do that without not being fair to him. Yeah. So like I said,

to structure it to not let him win, but it was just Paul's got, Paul's got some pause on him. Well, Paul's, Paul's big, he's a big cheater as far as I'm concerned. I wasn't thinking, but I just know he was cheating.

And his, his secret is he uses other people's best attempts. He buys other people's best. and he must have taken all of mine then everybody else there were nothing I won't name names but there were some people fucking cheating on the the horse stall mat told for time because

in the rules it very much clearly said no fingertip grips they didn't want to do the fucking oh no fingernail grip yeah sorry yes that's what I'm and I definitely like I don't know maybe nobody did but I swear there was some fingernails going on for sure and there was some like

let me kind of rest this on my quads a little bit happening to rather than actually holding it. So that might have to get a little more better clarified next year. Big, big, big, Tanner, because I don't think anyone really cared, but there was definitely some like, what the fuck is this shit going on? My favorite part of that one is Paul writing

my scoredown, and it just said, nice try, L.O. in this space. I think I just woke Stephanie up with that laugh. Tanner walking around. That was when we, he did the, uh, the crew falls card this year as opposed to the sticker. So I think that's kind of they're going all

in on these trading cards as well as Hogan, but we'll do Tanner's first. So we all got the Crew Falls trading card. Very cool. And I really liked how he also, he gave out some bonus cards, some, some bonus of the basic ones or what,

what's the name he uses for the basic cards? Commons. Yeah, the commons. So he kind of like, if you were there and you didn't at least get a fill some voids in your common collection, that's your own fault.

And he also like, like second and third place at the grip gauntlet. And I think like big, I think he gave him out to Summit Lowe's his, well, he gave out some rairs. So, like, I think that's really cool because for them, it, it's kind of cool because we, we, we get more cards out of it. And they also get an easy way to reward people that, like, isn't them going out and buying

a bunch of random shit all the time. And, like, it's not all specialized, you know, prizes. It's just like, all right, well, we have these made already, you know, they're, they mean something to people because we've put this meeting on to them. So it's cost effective for them. And it's cool and smart for us. So, I think it was pretty cool all the way around. yeah he

at Los Campionis he came up to me and said do you have a Pueblo card and I was like no and I absolutely did but I don't know what to say so I was like no all right fine yeah so I have

it is very much it's very much hard now you got some trading ammo there so yeah let's go I had a text definitely to be like send me a picture of my cards and I think I'm gonna I need to make a spreadsheet of what I have now too

and then that leads us to well we'll get to Hogan cards in a bit. Let's see. So Paul won. Fuck Paul. I got to cross that one off the list. Pris-Lillan. I guess what else? Nobody had tiger meat at Tommies, but I know you broke out some tiger meat that night, at Monks, maybe? Yeah, I had it at Monks. I don't think I ever brought it in. Oh, okay. Well, so it was it was at Lohsten, yeah. I definitely saw people. Yeah, you sure brought it into the gym, though. Yeah, yeah. I definitely saw someone consume Tiger

meat. I tried it for the first time. All right. What do you? what do you think i was a fan for sure it took me a second to kind of like the first like as soon as it was in my mouth i was like all right this is raw minced meat and so it gave me a second to like think about it and then i'm like oh but it's good like the seasoning is good the cracker's good like it was a good you know it's overall a good experience crackers almost yeah no and i and i messed up i didn't bring a spoon so all all the crackers were busting off in there but yeah i should have just been here hand and out handfuls is what I said.

Yeah. We all pretty much have the, we all pretty much have the same germs that weekend anyway. Yeah. I'm like, I mean, it's been what, I think if we were going to get a cold,

it would have got it by now. I'm hoping. So like I think we're, at least I'm in the clear. I don't know. You guys might be sick. But I think as long as I don't get sick. That's all I care about.

And I think a little chalk would definitely add to the flavor. Oh, yeah. Just really. The video. So we fuck Tommy's floor up good. It was the best. But then like the,

even the better part was like his video today where it's just all gray and smeared and like just he's just like half-ass attempt to clean it just made it so much worse and it's just funny as shit dude chalk is a pain in the ass to clean up I had tried to clean up some of it from some of the dummies at one of the gym that I go to

that spill it everywhere and sort of wiping it and all it was doing is just spreading oh that's that's good that's leaving with all the guys Tommy opened his garage door and he was trying to sweep all the chalk out with this the big broom

it's like a baby powder when it just absorbs into everything yeah did anybody I'm assuming everyone came home with about 20 extra stickers and when they left their house no

that was that's always the cool thing if you haven't experienced that yet in person have a way to like because the the worst part is I put them in your pocket and then like pulling them out that night and they're all fucking crimped up and stuff so putting them in your wall

it's the worst idea I ended up packing I had a coozy so I put them in a coozy And then I just ended up, they just lived in a coozy the rest of the weekend. So that was pretty good. Yeah, fanny pack would work for sure. I think if only there was a specific massonomics item that they have sold a couple times. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like a fanny pack. Sticker holder, that's what they call it, I think. Yeah, I got there, you know, it was last year, crew falls that I got the second fanny pack. And that held, that had a lot of stickers in it by the end of the book. See, that's a good idea. Rerelease it labeled as a sticker holder and then they can upcharge it. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then everyone has to buy it again.

Absolutely. It's a different unique. It's a collector. It's a collector item. Did anybody get the first Fanny Pack that came out of? I think is this the first one? Yep, that was the first one. I love that thing. That thing was awesome.

But my problem with Fanny Packs is I wear them so much to the point where they're ready to bust at the seams. So I had to retire it. A lot of fireball you got to keep in there. That's how I pick my Fanny Paxes. That's how many Fanny Packs is how many nice i was going to say do we have a uh um like a spreadsheet of everybody's stickers associated with or anything like that give keith another spreadsheet to make do that

no because i think that's there should be right up big devil yeah right or some part is like we got a couple guys in this podcast that are on like their 19th iteration of a sticker so it's like well that's just divide they get one they get one that's kind of where i'm at there we go well also i mean a lot of times i get a bunch of stickers and by the end of the weekend, I may not have all of my memories intact. And so I'm looking through the stickers. Okay, so who, who's was this one? Who's was this one?

I might recognize the gym or something like, okay, that's got to be, ah, dang it, I can't remember. I think I had only stickers, yeah, so. I think I had two or three from this weekend. I did have to take to a couple group chats to be like, is this? Who's is this? And then it was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I should have known that. But sometimes it's just like, I don't know who that.

Did I meet that person? That's where I got my name and mine It just makes it easier Yeah, yeah, there you go That's smart When I got my sticker out My name will be honest You'll be you'll know who's

And then Hannah Did you get a pack of the Trading cards from Hogan? No Oh well I mean I got the one That he passed out to everybody But I messed up

And I didn't respond to him When he asked me to send him in one So there is not a big manna trading card You're the worst Did I not message you to look into that? I think Hogan sent me the list of people that didn't, and then I attempted to follow up with everyone. That's part of that four weeks, not checking Instagram stuff.

Well, next time I'll just, I should have texted. I know, fuck that. I texted Grayson about it, I think. That's your fault, you fuck. I would a million percent, like, texted Grayson's cell phone because I knew you weren't on Instagram. Oh, if you didn't get the camera to be, you would be the worst. I know.

Just because you message Grayson about it, it doesn't mean that got to Hannah. Yeah, because he doesn't. fucking know he's he's he's he's waiting for a birthday to fucking tell her and he'll know he'll never find that and he doesn't know when that is so exactly he did tell me in my defense and then I was trying to find a picture

then I was like I can't fucking find one and then I was like well maybe and then I forgot that's funny in your defense Stephanie has like still working on her pictures as well and I'm like he token like choking if she doesn't actually get him to me it's your fault and I was like oh so hopefully she doesn't

collude against me and just not submit it because I'd be But regardless of, so that's a reminder to everyone listening to this. Check your DMs. If you don't follow Hogan, World Strongest Psychologist, yeah. Check your DMs, go following. If you, if you, if you aren't following it, maybe people, some people might not know this. If you're not actively following someone back, like 99% of the time, if not 100% of the time, their messages to you go into a message request or like a separate DM folder. So, you know, if you know you were a guest in the first.

Where's he at? Is he up to 100 episodes now? I don't know where he's at. Regardless, if you've been a guest in the first two years of this podcast, check your DMs if you want to get your crew card. But when you did open your, so when you did open your crew card, were you impressed that this is something that Hogan kind of bootstrapped and built all on his own? It looked pretty cool to me. It looks sick. As someone that grew up playing Yu-Gi-O-in-Pokymon, it was equal or better quality. That's awesome. I'm sure we'll love to hear that. Tron, you ended up getting your sticker pack, right? What did you think? as someone who's not on Instagram

you may not have even known about him unless you're like you're right in the you know up on so Hannah you're in a really good company I believe Hogan I texted you too you fucker you texted me

Hogan texted me Hogan DM me on Instagram and on Discord and I had all the text I've got it I've got it I've got the form pulled up on my phone I've got to find the picture

but I'm I want to get in on the second one, all right? He said, I've got until this weekend. He's printed. That's good. I didn't know if he was going to allow people to, to resubmit. He did say if you missed the first, I, well, maybe he just told me that because I'm Oh, yeah.

We didn't tell Hannah that because of fuck her. But, uh, um, but yes, I was also a giant pile of shit. This is not where I wanted this to go. I wanted people talk about how awesome Hogan's cards were. I mean, this is fun. The cards. I mean, I'm enjoying it, but, uh, he did still give me a pack, even though you gave me everything.

Do you think you deserved it, though? No. Probably. Lou, I got some, oh, sorry, go ahead, Lou. What did you think of him, Lou? I want to. You know what?

I enjoyed him. I was not expecting it. I guess I didn't know what to expect. I opened mine. I kind of told him because I was going back and forward through a couple of pictures and then stumbled upon up, or as I was looking through, stumbled upon a picture of me from the backyard barbecue that I do every year

with my lovely, American flag theme, Bush Light Singlet and figured that was, you know what? That's perfect right there. So got that one. And then I got the, he gave me the card pack. I honestly didn't know what it was because I was a little throwing off about it. And I didn't even take the time to read it to see what it was. I'm like, I don't know if this is like an air freshener or if this is special.

I'm not supposed to open it. Like, I don't know. That is fine. I'm scared to open this thing right now. So I didn't even open it until I got home, realizing that it's three more cards there. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, it's, it's a lot. I mean, Discord in general, Instagram in general, like, it's hard to keep attack on everybody.

I know Hogan's, I've been trying to share as much stuff that he puts out about it because it's a really cool venture that he went out on. And it's a very selfless thing, you know, it's really cool. So we're proud of him. Oh, yeah. The fact that he took the time to do that for, like, for every single person that submitted in, like, making sure and getting those specific details about somebody on there, like, whether it's like Paul with the Golden Peepie on there or, like, whatever else it may be. Like, the fact that he took the time to go through that much detail with all of them, just. brother you got some commitment there i know that much and and while doing all that in the background as well as working a full-time job and uh you know for a very high stressful job and you know

working out four or five days a week being super jacked he also fucking got tanner and tommy probably the coolest gift i think i've ever seen a crew member give tanner and tommy so whoever has absolutely who has the strongest feelings about that anybody he he must have done it to one-up bryce last year who showed up at monks with the creed record that he's like i gotta somehow be able to top this. I think he, I think he knocked it out of the park. So anyone, anyone listening that didn't see it on Instagram yet, Hogan, uh, had a custom made vinyl rec two, custom, three, I think, because he made himself one. So three custom made vinyl records, uh, with the massonomics podcast, the very first Maxonomics podcast on it, like a side A and a side B. And I think I heard him say

he had to speed it up to one point one to actually get it to fit on the, the vinyl. But obviously Tanner's a big vinyl guy, kind of, kind of a record guy. He hasn't said that one in a while. a record guy we're gonna have to bring that back it was it was and I actually I think I I don't it was kind of like an after the grip party I think people were kind of you know trickling out but I got to watch it firsthand and like Tanner Tommy's reaction both was like just it was very cool to see him get that and then once you realize what it was I was like that's just even even a real record even it was just a fake record like a fake record like sleeve would have been pretty cool but realize it was a real fucking playable record that was just wild to me so

and that could have been that had to be not cheap I thought season go ahead Lou so I say you gotta have some resources yeah

yeah I thought season one was going to be on there you know but you get the first episode you get Tyler oh I mean

it's not a fucking two terribut MP4 player it's a goddamn record oh but yeah no it was

now this is transposed sound waves onto vinyl and then rebroadcasting it. This is a space slum. And this uh, and this was so the Friday. I don't remember the, it was definitely had no snow. We'll get into the weather later when it's timely, but like Friday, like to paint a picture

for people wasn't uncomfortable. Like it wasn't, I mean, it was winter, but it was like, it was 30-ish, right? Like, I don't remember it being. Yeah, it was fine. I don't think it was easy. Yeah. So it wasn't gnarly out yet. So the calm before he is the storm.

if you will. Yeah. So are we into the snow yet, or are we just talking about that? We'll get, uh, we'll get to that. That was a Saturday event. Yeah, no, I was, well, I was just trying to paint the picture of how the weather wasn't shit. And then we're, we're, we're building it up, you know, it's, uh, building some excitement.

So we'll talk about it in like a half hour. Uh, so monks Thursday night, I think after Tommy's everyone kind of, a lot of us, most of us did, some of us went back to our Airbnb, some of us went back to the hotel. Some of us probably went straight to monks, kind of, uh, but, well, ended up at the end, I think it was a big, Big Antonio and his wife, I think got a bunch of tables reserved for us and just kept like, you know, hoarding tables once people had left. So we ended up getting the whole, you know, damn near the whole back of it to where we were fairly spread out amongst crew. And you couldn't really, you couldn't really turn one way or other and not see 10 crew sitting at a table. So Big Tron, that's when you made your appearance to most of us.

So what do you think? Just a good old time amongst. oh yeah that's uh it's always uh it's it's always nice because it's within walking distance of uh most of people's hotel um and uh and yeah that's that's kind of especially if you miss the the grip gauntlet um that's when everybody's there you come walking in when you're just walking past tables of crew and uh and yeah it's a good time this year i will say i think the service was a little better than it was last year as far as uh uh uh uh uh keeping track of your

order and all of that kind of stuff. Yeah, I'm still waiting for her to come get my credit card. In the first one, yeah. Oh, yeah, that too. But this year we had a pretty bottom. What happened, Brandon? Oh, so is it Big Stephen, and he's out of Massachusetts? Is that right?

Yes. So we all, there was probably what, eight of us at that high top. I have every bit of it, yeah. Yeah, and we all got, I mean, like, I know Jake and I had like eight weeks. beers each and you know yeah everybody got i mean we had appetizers we had everything and we go to settle up at the end of the night and then darren the rest of the night i mean he bought me at least 140 beers so i mean shout out to big darren for that uh but at the end the night we get you know

finally find the waitress and asked for our tab and she's like oh you all been taken care of hours ago you know like an hour ago you were taken care of so uh we figured it out it was is big stephen so shout out to big stephen for taking care of us appreciate that friend. And then, uh, touch base with him, I think a couple days ago. And he, he, he actively started his podcast consumption. Um, I think he knocked out the first 10 episodes, like on his travels or within like the last few days. So very cool. So stay tuned. Uh, get him on the podcast sometime in 26. I'm sure. But yeah, that was, that was one of, I think three new people I met. That's, that's the cool thing for me. I was like, cool. But like, I do like meeting the new people. For me, I guess it's slightly less overwhelming. Because you got a lot of, you know, Brandon and Jake. A lot of people probably met 15 new people. We're 10 new people, whereas I kind of like, you know, I've had a pretty good handle on most of the career, but it is kind of nice to be like, oh, I do not know who you are. And then those are the people that I forget their names, the entire fucking weekend and have to keep asking people, what was that guy's name again? I can't fucking remember that guy's name. And then you add beer to that and it gets really confusing.

I'm like, wait, I, but yeah, Monks was good. I will have to caveat my statement on Monk's service. It might have had something to do with Big Darren got our table, too. Oh, yeah, he could see that. Yeah, that would ruin because she'd be like, well, I'm bringing to this guy. So who's paying for it? And Darren had to drop $2,000 that weekend just on fucking half. He was dropping bands.

Yeah, he was found bands, man. And yeah, he kept on just saying how much fun he was having and how much, you know, how much he liked everybody he was meeting and how great, you know, just conversations he was having with all these crew kids and yeah and he just came along because he didn't want his son to have to come there you know big lawn by himself and yeah i think he had a good time yeah i know he made me have a good time yeah that also he uh he the guy i specifically told the waitress that there was a couple beers of that got that he said he picked up and i was specifically told her i'm like hey like i know he said he got those two please put those

on my tab because I know I'm going to drink a lot. Then I go to pay at the end of the night. It's like, oh, no, you're taking care of if he got it. It's already. Yeah. An asshole. Yeah. How dare you be nice, you said, my bitch. I mean, honestly, like, that's crew.

Like, we're all buying drinks for each other. We're all there to have a good time. And, like, no matter where we went, Darren, yeah, he bought a bunch of beer, liquor, whatever, for everybody. But, like, we're there and had a ball.

and we did. Yeah, it was, like he was the, the key is the prime example of somebody that was just the absolute most happy to be there, like happy to see everybody had a good time because if everybody was having a good time, he was having to have a good time. If he was having a good time, that means

everybody else is going to have an even better time. It was just a vicious cycle of just a lot of stuff going on. Yep. So what time, who's the, let's see, we left really, not super late, but it was, I don't know, 10 or so maybe. I don't remember. I remember getting back to the Airbnb that late. Jake, what do you think?

What time? What time we leave? Is way past your bedtime? I know that much. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There was a, I would put this way, at least 50% of the people had already left by the time we pulled out of there. I just, I don't know how late some other, like, I'm sure Tron probably closed amongst dead. Like, who was the, where people there told, like, they actually, was at a bar or a restaurant, too.

So like, they close at 10, I think. Okay. So we might have got out there right before they closed anyway. So some of you. It opened a little later for us then because it was. Oh, okay. You were there past 10? Well, it was time to remember.

I didn't get back to my hotel until 11-something. Okay, so maybe they did a late last call then. Well, with the number of people that were still drinking, they probably put into paper and realize, hey, we can't afford not to stay open. They begrudgingly did that last year, too, but I think it's because their service was so slow, they felt bad that we sat there for so long without getting anything. but it wasn't much longer after you left keith

maybe an hour after you guys out so there was a few different crew so we will give an update this was not the Airbnb situation that Big Matt Sondling put everybody through last year that that horrible horrible Airbnb that caused so many memes and pictures and horror stories

we did not have that and I know that at least three different bonding experience Yeah, no, I mean, I thought that having my own bedroom and a two separate bathrooms between four dudes was at the great bonding experience. I think sleeping on a fucking floor would have been an anti-bonding experience because I would have fucking hated every person in that house by the time I got off the floors. But no, I thought it was great. Big Jake, Brandon and Debo brought me into a to a little four way they were having. And, you know, they needed a fourth for the Airbnb. And I, you know, glad.

Yep, yep, four tips touching as Brandon just, you know, showed me. I thought it was great. We had a little scare when we first got there. It did take us about three hours. It took us seven hours to actually finally get checked in because we were trying to do early check-in. The guy changed the code, but then didn't remember to do it. We were trying to go to Bryce's house. Bryce gave me the code to his garage like a month ago.

But then when I went to go find it, I couldn't find it. And I couldn't get a hold of him. We were right by his fucking house. Then we went back to the Airbnb because the guy said, oh, yeah, the door will be open. Door still wasn't fucking open. Finally got the answer back from Bryce, go back to Bryce's, you know, did get a tour perfectly. little sweeties and you know it all of 30 some degrees that it wasn't there but we were probably there for 15 20 minutes just getting some pictures uh brandon made me do a uh double-legged standing

fucking leg curl that i literally did like a half a rep on and about fell on my face that was interesting uh stolen valor yeah you you you you tried little sweeties uh jagged on didn't you oh i don't know about that but not you no it must have been it must have been debo because he's not here as debo for sure yeah yeah and the whole time like we're we're trying to make it just to some destination like pinballing back and forth from the Airbnb and bryce's house i had to use the bathroom like 10 out of 10 like and i did you know not one i could just go outside for like i had to go to the bathroom and like oh man i was so happy when i walked into the pizza ranch and i was and you know there was nobody in the bathroom so because there was so well the first pizza ranch

was full, but then we realized it was the right one. So that actually, that actually worked out better because if we had to wait for you to do your business and why we were trying to go to the other one, I mean, it would have been fine. But yes, that was, that was a common thread of us driving around. I could tell you guys were kind of like, oh, I saw this football field for the seventh time in the last

45 minutes because we just kept, you know, essentially because we, yep. But that was the scary part for me because I lined everything up and we walked in. And Brandon goes, Is this four bedrooms or does it sleep four? And I was like, oh, damn.

Yeah, that was scary at first. Yeah. For context, we didn't see there was a basement stairwell. Because I think the door in kitchen might have been closed. We just assumed it was just a back door or something. So, yes, we walk in. There's a huge massive kitchen, living room, dining room, two awesome bedrooms upstairs. And then we don't see anything else.

And we're like walking around. And eventually I hear someone say, oh, I found the stairs to the basement. I was like, thank God, because I don't want to fucking. And we could have, honestly, we could have made it work because there was a, there would have been one guy that got kind of screwed because the couch would have slept, well, there was a couch and a love seat. So I'll sleep with you, Keith. Well, that's fine. That would have worked too. Honestly, it probably would have been like me and Debo in the living room or something because we were the shortest people.

And it would have made it happen. But yeah, no, the Airbnb was great to no one, no one had a CPAP machine. No one had a sleep on the floor. It was quiet as shit, you know, it was great experience. and it looked like Kurt and Brad and Gary. Yeah, all those

was there too. And Leasy was there too. Whoever the fuck that is. Well, you're going to learn tonight, Keith. Don't worry. Apparently. But yeah, and then we all woke up that next morning

and we had an alarm set for the original pancake house breakfast. We got there. Normally when we get there right around time, there's 20 people out in the foyer waiting for a table and stuff. We, I walked,

you know, we walked in with five or six of us and it was like, you know, 10 minutes before we were supposed to be there, I think. And they were like, yep, your party's in the back. We go back there and there's already 20 people there. And I was like, fuck, I've never been this, the, you know, early and then still already be like not the, you know, first handful of people there.

So that was just a great experience again, as always. Trond, you've been to the pancake house a time or two. About the same very positive experience. Anything noteworthy? You know, the only thing was Bryce's brother wasn't working. I know.

It was so sad. That was sad. And then the wait staff accidentally gave me your order to start the morning off. Did you get some butter and syrup, you're saying? Yeah, we did check and you did get your order as well. But yeah, me and Bryce both got two platters of butter and syrup. Nice. We thought, I don't know.

We didn't order this. This is that guy right over there. But no, you had yours. Yeah, they only... I went with the Swedish pancakes, which you roll up because they're almost like they're as thin as a crepe. And I had not had them before, but highly recommend Swedish pancakes to give you a

a lingonberry jam to put on it. Don't know what lingonberries are, but they were delicious. I know what jam is. That sounds halfway there. Yeah, but Tron, Do not sleep on the hash brown. Oh, I was so confused when a skillet of hashbrowns. Like a plate of hashbrowns shows up.

It was a skillet. It's a full-blown skillet. And I'm like, I need someone to eat this with me. Yeah. Okay, because, because Big Jake, Hydenraig also got the loaded hash browns. Yeah. So both, both Jake's got the loaded hash browns. All right.

And those look freaking good. I mean, because they were excellent. I needed help. I needed big Brandon, big Keith, big, uh, manna. Somebody, come on. Help me out with this thing. They definitely don't skimp on serving there. Normally when I buy those, I take half of it home and I eat it later.

I get it. Yeah. It was delicious, but it was too much with what I had going on. That's lunch for Hannah the next day. I was the big negative. The big negative was like, we hadn't even got her food yet. And the waitress was like, here you guys can start paying with your cards and just pass it around which is fine like makes it easy on her but also like no one can figure it out for the first like five people and it was like i think uh the very first person was who the very first person was oh it was Antonio is Antonio Tommy then me and then I went to go get my fucking wallet and I didn't have my goddamn wallet so I had to like beg I was like dba will you please pay and I'll just Venmo you the difference and he's like yeah yeah so you bummed your breakfast off someone yeah yeah well it was that or have to fucking walk across the street and it really could have walked like if

If I, if I, if I was alone, see our Airbnb. Yeah, yeah. But also there was like 50 personal friends that I could, that I could like touch. So I wasn't going to be like, yeah, I'm not going to leave this to go get my wallet when I can just VINMO someone fucking and like in real time. So yeah, but there was also an additional party of 30 waiting for us to leave. We were walking out there like, thank God. They were. They were.

That was my, literally, it was my favorite part of the weekend. because there was like 40 of us or whatever it was we were all in a single file line and I don't know who it was in front of me but they were like a grandma stopped them and were like are you guys a pro football team

and whoever it was like no we just lived a lot of ways and it was like yeah that's what we do it was awesome it was so awesome you're right though it was uh I was towards the back of that and like we were still in the the hall that we were eating

breakfast at while the first person was exiting. So we were one to one like nuts to butts and we were at the back, either end of the fucking pancake house. I just thought that was a really cool thing. And I hope someone got at least a partial picture of that because it was pretty cool. Tommy did. Nice.

Good deal. Hopefully that was good. If you're listening to this, the vlog, so the vlog video I think should come out the day this hits too. I think they have it set up for a Tuesday release and we're obviously seeing next Tuesday as well. So there'll be a lot of you and you going on on Tuesday or sorry a lot of crew falls that is um speaking to you and you brandon a woman asked you about your sweatshirt because there was four of us or four or five

of us wearing it um what did you uh tell her we were uh did i say it was a podcast i'm trying to think you started with the podcast and i think she didn't know what that was yeah so what you followed up with was what i'm searching for that's what i'm searching for also oh you had uh you had told her it's like a radio show yeah yeah yeah and i was just like somebody else might have said the radio show thing i definitely i said podcast and i was like searching for words and i think it might have been debo or somebody it's like it's like a radio show and this lady was i got you maybe it was dbo okay yeah he do hasn't tried to log in yet is he i thought did he say anything i thought he was supposed to make it by now but i can text him it's all good no you're it's all

good i just don't want him to think that he can't come on yeah that happened a few times though like But we were, you know, just like Jake said, when we were leaving and everybody was perplexed of what we were doing. I mean, it is kind of odd. Like, everybody's kind of dressed the same. We're all, like, different ages. We're all kind of like large people overall. So I'm sure it's kind of like bewildering to some of these people.

And everybody's wearing similar logos and stuff. Right. I think every year we've left, I've heard comments or had comments made to me about, are you guys some sort of sports team? Are you guys, like, like, what are you guys? because clearly you're all something together and you don't look like a normal family group of, you know, 40 people leaving the pancake house on a Saturday morning together.

Would you rather get those comments or the ones like last year where they asked you if you were in town for the big hair convention? That was at the bar and it was, is there like a big beautiful men hair convention or big hair? I don't know if they said big beautiful men part, Trond. I think you're fluffing yourself a little bit. Big men, beautiful hair convention. And yeah, no, that was me and Bryce saying, well, I believe, well, we are kind of like all in a big hair club for men.

It really is. There's like an abnormal, like the percentage of like dudes with like long locks in that group was pretty high. And I will say Friday morning I got my haircut. And I donated 11 inches of hair. and I still got hair down to my shoulders and can put it up in a ponytail. So I hadn't cut my hair in four years. What was the, I mean, that's always cool that I know you donate that.

But like, what was the catalyst to do or before crew falls? You were, well, was it, was it the, so I know it was the fucking rock you were afraid of, right? Yeah, it is honestly, it was. It was, it was the rock. I was afraid of losing more hair to the rock. So I was going to cut it off before the rock got me. That's real smart, actually. That, that put two and two together with that one.

I'm not familiar. Tron lost a good section. of his scalp and hair last year with a natural stone that he was trying to press overhead and came down on him a little aggressively. Yeah. This year it got Big Hogan. Well, I guess it was a circus dumbbell,

but he was doing that shed blood this time. Yeah, I have a story about it. I put that band-aid on his ear. Oh, nice. Yeah, I went to the bathroom, you know, to do my business again, because that's coming up a lot. And so, Joe wants to keep bringing it up.

Well, Hogan comes in, and he's like holding his ear. and then I see blood like coming down his wrist a little bit or maybe it wasn't that much but I mean it was visible blood and I'm like you're good and he's like yeah well don't you give me a hand for a second so kind of help him apply that band-aid on him but yeah he was like I'm fine he's like it didn't hurt or anything but yeah he he got it pretty good well Hogan made sure to come up and find me when we were at Los Campionis and now we're blood brothers so that's what I told him immediately when I saw the the Band-Aid on the year an excellent job on the Band-Aid work there.

Oh, I appreciate that, you know. Yeah. No, it was, yeah, it was a good, good chuckle because, again, it's in the Strongman section. So same spot, same gym, you know, just so next year, we got to start taking bets on who's going to be bleeding in the Strongman area next year. That's the real price that Tanner and Tommy pay for us to be there as a blood sacrifice and someone has to get chosen every year. It sounds like a cult is like evolving. You know, you already get enough cult comments. but it's only a cult if you don't believe all right

i bet paul was doing some voodoo shit the night before so we could actually fucking win because there was a big uh i know uh are you know new to the crew well not new but um was it marissa uh i met her for the first time this weekend she's a regular gym member at lose and i i'd assume him that she organized most of it and maybe casey paid for it i really don't know but it was a it was like a few different gift cards and I think some of us thought it was going to be like, oh, we're going to do like, we're going to do like a top three. And then, uh, yeah, it was like a hundred. Yeah, because like they put all the effort into making the, uh, the spin dial thing.

And I was like, okay, well, we didn't get the first one, but, you know, there's like three more tries. And then they just hand everything to fucking Paul because Paul won the first one. And we're like, oh, pool, Paul got the grand prize, but, you know, yeah, whatever. There's going to be like four other people that win. And then it's like, nope, Paul got everything, the son of a bitch. So congratulations, Paul. You're our friend and you won the weekend. You're a winner, Paul. So, like, it was like watching Hulk Hogan bust out at the NWO.

Paul has turned to heel. He's the villains. And don't, don't let him try to. But his fucking heels are as big as his palms, too. But he's the fucking feet bigger than his hands. Yeah, he's, uh, he's a good guy, though. Deep down, we love you, Paul. I love Paul.

But I, I look forward to his heel turn this next, this next season. I'm glad his sword was not sharp, because when I had Jefferson deadlifted that up my taint, I was like, this could have ended bad if I, but, uh, I, well, I did it too, because last year I had Jefferson deadlifted his, uh, his, um, Rogue Ohio deadlift bar. Well, yeah, that's who, uh, the Ohio deadlift bar that I give constant shit to. So it's like a, a last, it's a memorable image of me, like, basically teabag in that bar. So then I had to tee bag his sword. So I was a really cool sword, though. Um, that was a pretty cool prize. And, you know, good thing, Tanner, you know, had to give it to the Homer winner and so no one had to go fly with it but I mean we're still tallying to see if tall really did win but it would have been horrible to try to give that to someone else. I'm pretty sure you can check a sword.

I think you can't, right? You can check it done. Why can't you check a sword? I guess, but then it's like, I don't know, you might be paying more in the baggage than what the sword. Well, I'm sure you'd have to encapsulate that sword.

Better than like the cardboard box. Let you walk in the sword and be like, can I check this please. Uh, yeah. Is it a, now does it go inside of a shee or a scabbard? Because I think one of the, I, well, didn't Tanner learn one of those words the other day for the first time? I want to say a scabbard is for a sword and a sheath is for a knife. I would agree with that big. I would agree with that. Um, I'm sure most people would use them interchangeably, but, uh, but yeah. So we had that massive, how, I mean, we had that massive trek from pancake house to the gym. The weather was still good then. And by massive trek, I mean, it was less than, like 20 steps. Yeah, like, you could have walked. but I'm glad we didn't because the weather leaving the gym would have been really shitty to then have to walk all the way to the other side of the parking lot so but at Lose Hannah I heard you had a hell of a RP 11 lift there anything cool I really did yeah I don't know if you guys have heard of a log dump it's in the bathroom on the toilet and I think I was in there for fucking 35 minutes just absolutely ripping it up in there and I missed everyone's awesome lifts

I miss Big Spicey's deadlift I heard everyone else having a lot of fun though so you heard you too you heard it that's all it counts the important thing

you heard it was it was it a PR I think it had to be yeah so you PR'd at Los Campiones just like there you go several other people

that's the that's the I'll tell my big spicy he needs to lift because it's most uneventful and boring. I was trying out the machines out front and going through some of the techno gym stuff and the arsenal fly machine, which is amazing, by the way.

And all of a sudden, I just hear this cacophony of screaming and yelling and just chaos. And I'm like, what the hell is going on? And I ran around through the archway there and come around. And I missed his lift, but I saw the, some of the celebration and everybody going absolutely crazy. But, yeah, it sounded amazing. So if anyone who wasn't there that saw it and given an eyewitness account, I'd love to hear it. I did.

I spent 90% of my time in the Strongman Corner, but on two or three separate occasions, I made a lap, basically, into like, the bodybuilding area or like, well, the squat racks and shit are, just kind of see if there was anybody I could strike up a conversation with, for the most part, I kind of hung out back there. But yeah, I, spicy, I literally, it was like perfect timing. He was getting amped up for it. I was like, oh, I'll watch this. I think I walked up, like, right as he was setting up, kind of watched the whole thing.

I actually made his video, you know, so I was just like perfect timing. He locked out 405, I think, for the first time in his life. And I'd never seen anyone be so. Like, like, if you've seen me celebrate, just amplify that by 69% but then, like, have it take as long as Hannah's shit did because it was the longest celebration I had ever seen. And I'm proud of him and I'm happy for him. And that was just awesome to see. I know he's been putting some work into that. He's, you know, dealing with his health issues.

So being able to still lift heavy and, you know, just so genuinely happy to see him be so excited. He's a really good kid. I agree. I was in the bodybuilding area with Trond, I think. And I was just like testing out all the machines. And I was like, what is all that noise? And I go in there and it's spicy going. ham. I loved it.

Good deal. And then as far as anyone's personal lifts, do anyone themselves hitting any PRs or just kind of planning to have fun? So I had a delode week, but of course I'm not going to do that there. But it was kind of perfect because that could be like off program, you know, kind of just do whatever I want.

I have a valid excuse. Yeah. So they had that rogue Keith, you'll know what it's called the, it's kind of like the Duffalo bar, but it's rogue's version. Oh, yeah. It's like a C3 or C4. 4 or something. Yeah, yeah. R2D2.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So I used that and I didn't, of course, didn't know the weight of it, didn't bother asking Keith. But I should have asked Keith because apparently it's like 60 pounds, something like that. But I wanted to go heavy enough that I needed like spotters, like people screaming in my face, but not like so heavy that it was going to wreck me for the next week of training. So yeah, yeah, it was a good. I think I did a set of four fairly heavy weight. So for me, you know, but it was pretty good.

Nice. Nice. I was a week out at the time from a Strongman show. I was also in the middle of a delode, but I kind of was like, told my coach, I'm probably just going to hit my top press one more time because we essentially did it the week before and doing it on a shitty equipment. Like an act, like I have my actuals got a little bit of grip to it. Um, so doing it on a super slick grip. It's, it's game change. Like if it's good to go out to certain different gyms. Like if you know your equipment kind of caters to just having better nerling or better than. this or better that, but that might not be what you see in competition. It behooves you to go trying to use, you know, slick or axle. So it helps me to go to my Strongman gym periodically and use their competition equipment because it's a lot of it's just like slippery shit. So having the one at low speed, just a slippery of shit tight and axle, like it was a motherfucker to clean for me. Also, we were jet lagged as shit.

And, uh, but yeah, I think I had 2.15 for a, uh, for a single and clean and press. That's what I'm trying to do in my competition next week. or well a couple days from now and then we broke out the tsunami bar in the back and had some fun with that and I think now Jake up to everyone's weights 20 pounds because everyone was pretty much able to do significantly more weight than what was

initially called out for the tsunami bar clean and press definitely personally hit myself in the chest and in the chin very very hard a couple times I saw Paul floss this is the highlight I think for some people's weekend is Paul damn near lost a tooth because he whacked himself in the chin

on the tsunami bar press and he was pretty pissed off about it. But... That's all right. Yeah, I mean, I'm glad he's okay, but, yeah, Tron said it. I mean, I hope... I know Paul listens every week, so I hope you don't get too upset, buddy. We are just jabbing you.

We do care for you deeply. I love to him. We can't let anyone be at the top too long. And I think that's really all I did. He's fucked around after that. I did a lot of just hanging out and just shooting the shit. I had a good yap session with Trond there. I didn't let him leave for a good.

good 25, 30 minutes. Nice. I mean, we, yeah, we, we complained about a lot of the world's problems, which is solving the world's problems as far as I think. One step closer, though. I mean, yeah, we were one step. We identified. We identified the problem.

The next step is going to be to eliminate it. So, uh, next year, we're going to solve them. I should probably shout out Big Grayson as well. He also hit a bench PR that I also didn't. see, but it sounded great. He hit 405 for the first time. Oh, dope. I did.

Oh, damn. That was awesome. I think Tommy got it. Yeah, I didn't see it either because me and Hannah were again complaining. Whoops. Identifying the world's problems. Whoops. He'll forgive me.

He did come over and tap her on the shoulder and say. I didn't acknowledge him at all. I was like, can I see him talking to drugs? And he goes, hey, I hit 405 on the bench. They just walked away. so i uh speaking of of big uh big grace and i'm just now seeing messages he sent me two minutes into us recording this podcast i just got home asked hannah when when she is recording her podcast quotations seven p m but i should check oh my fucking god at seven p m eastern so i'm saying she'll be on her

way in a little bit so that was verbatim from from big big gracin's good job hannah thanks if he wouldn't have come home i probably would have still been tootling around. That's all good. So Lowe's was good. Everyone had a good lift. Going around the table here. Jake, you did anything fun at Lose?

I just hit the machines. That was, Trong mentioned that before. And I was like, yeah, I like that. So that's what I went for. Good deal. It's a good idea that, you know, hit all the, you know,

five to $10,000 machines that you're not going to have in your home. I agree. And so, yeah, that's always, I enjoy playing around with some of the fun stuff that they've got. And, yeah, and then also, I completely forgot my nephew, he works out at Los Campione's and does high school power lifting. And he does pretty well. He's won his weight division at the, won the state competition in his weight division the last two years. And so he was, he showed up just out of that.

Yeah, I was in that particular branch because there's like, there's like 20 of them in the Midwest, I think, or at least at least there's three or four that the crew lived in. Yeah, he lives like 20 minutes north, uh, he comes down there. And, uh, and he came down there because of last year, we worked out there the first time when I was like, hey, if you want a power lift at a actual gym that's got powerlifting stuff, yeah, check this gym out, man. Like, it's really good. And he loves it and all that. And so, uh, so then I got to spot him a couple times on some of his lifts and some of his, some of his, and he's out, going out to Illinois this weekend for a national competition, too. So that was cool running to him and being able to work out with him. Sounds like the next step is just send him the link to the podcast, get him to listen to that podcast on that Illinois drive.

Yeah, I will. I told him, how about you just graduate high school first? Get out of my brother's house. Yeah, that's fair. Then you can start listening to the podcast and get in the Discord. Jordan and start hearing some of your uncle's college stories and all that. You don't need to hear that now. Let's just wait up just a minute.

And then so while all that was going on, the weather took a little turn in the, you know, in Crew Falls for us. I think we walked out to at least three or four in, I don't know, at least three inches maybe. Three inches. Just from the time we left Pancake House and original Pancake House and left the gym, the good thing we weren't going very far but we were slipping and sliding all over the place. One good thing I'll say is

Jakey had got the rental car for us and they were able to upgrade us. I am glad he went to the desk because at first he was just going to go right out to the right out and just find a car, just take one, I guess. I don't know sure what his plan was, but regardless,

they upgraded us to an all-wheel drive Jeep, which was great because that would have been shitty and a two-wheel-drive sedan that on Saturday. That would have been very, very shitty. So that worked out. And then I would say 90, maybe not 9, 75% of us probably made it at the same lunch place. We all went and got habachi, literally right next door.

You know, it worked out great. That's where I ate last year, too. But I think last year I didn't do the habachi. We ate in the other section. But this year we just all camped out in like two different massive habauchy areas. Very, very good food there. Enjoyed that immensely. And then, uh, somebody got like a, I don't know, like a birthday.

Yeah. His birthday was it? Yeah. That was me. met it all about themselves and wanted to be the center of attention. Yeah, that's Got a free dish, chief stuff.

I did. Someone had told me about that the night before. I can remember who was talking to like, oh, we're going to get, we're going to get Jake tomorrow. We're going to make, wherever we go,

someone's going to come seeing him, happy birthday, and I completely forgot. And then it was, they come out and they got his ass good. And they gave you, like, oh, the biggest fucking sparkler,

like, thing I've ever seen. Like, I think, I think Brandon was, like, running to find a hose. It was so fucking, like dangerous looking it might have been a fire hazard right didn't know what to do and i've gone back and i've reviewed the tape and there's like blow it blow it out blow it out and i don't know what to do so i tried and then i just moved along yeah yeah it's bad blowing it out i think

it just had a 45 second timer it was going to run and then it was just going to burn itself out i think there was any blowing that one out yeah yeah your face was pretty good when they started bringing that out so it's i couldn't believe it so it's kind of funny so like all of us independently like who was was at the house like nobody like agreed verbally or anything but like i'm glad we all kind of like didn't celebrate your birthday whatsoever that morning like everybody just like never said anything to you and then like we let the whole day go by you know and this finally lunchtime and at first i was going to tell the waitress like right at the beginning and then i didn't i waited until like she was at the other table behind us.

So like I stood up, walked over there. I was like, hey, it's the guy with the, I think you had on the Lift Hardly Vizzy 3 shirt maybe. So I was like he's got the like the cowboy skull and the orange lettering. And she like looks around. She's like who. And I like, I didn't want to point to you. You know what I mean?

Like I wanted to like. So I'm trying to like describe you like, oh, he's got a hat on. I think you had that same hat on too. So it was like trying to describe you. And then yeah. So then I came over to Tanner and I was like, hey. We're going to have, we're going to celebrate his birthday. And then Tanner, like, at first he was like, is it his birthday?

Like, yeah, literally, yeah, that day. Yeah. So, it was pretty cool. It was a good self-present to get out there, too. It's like, it's a hard trip to kind of convince the family to let you go on sometimes. So, like, hey, it is, well, that even, they'd even be harder to be like, honey, I know you like spending my, my birthday with me, but I'm going to go hang out with my 40 friends instead. Like, that was a, that was a good job on you getting that.

But also, it's like, it is your birthday, so you can do whatever the fucking out. Yeah, but she's like, you have to go. So Brandon messaged me, and he goes, I'm going to Crew Falls. And I was like, damn, I kind of want to go. And my wife is like, you have to go. So we went. And it was awesome. Like, I wouldn't change anything.

It was awesome. Yeah, I enjoyed it. Habachi lunch. And then we kind of, everyone went their way there for a few hours. Oh, we can't, we can't glaze over Gary scaring the, the staff at the Habachi place with this goblin mask.

Is that what that is? I didn't, I thought he was trying to rob the place. I was so confident. I looked over and I thought it was a Shrek mask. Yeah, I was like, he didn't put it on until the building.

Is this some like furry shit? I was very confused. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he had it off when he walked in and then he put it back on. Well, he just had it, he had it rolled up. So it looked like,

uh, like it like a green stocking cap. And then all of a sudden I look over and it's pulled down over his face and it's a goblin mask with ears. Yeah. Gary is a unique creature. That's ground beef, Gary, to you. Yeah.

Yeah. And it's just Gary. He's a good guy. And the weather did not get any better. I think it was significantly, another few inches had fallen. Some, a lot of us, we ended up camping out of the Airbnb for three or four hours, at least three hours.

There's definitely, you know, shower. attempt a nap city some of the people went out to the I'm assuming Tron made the trek down to the first bar Blarney Stone Yeah yeah yeah well that's That's my that's my go-to

It's got Guinness on tap And no I came back to the hotel And well before we left Tanner was like Hey what time were going down there and I was like I don't know Like what do you guys think like four to five something like that I went back to the hotel laid down, I was like, oh, set an alarm, whatever, started dinking around on my phone or whatever, woke up at, like, I don't know what time it was, 345, and I was like, shit.

And I'm getting texts blowing up, like, hey, were we going to Blarney Stone? I'm going to Blarney Stone. I'm like, oh, on my way. Hop to the shower real quick, ran down, got to see all the snow plows, pushing the snow because everybody was texting, like, hey, are we going to be able to get around downtown? Yeah. Because that's a real issue. Is the weekend literally over because we're all snowed in at this point?

Right. I mean, that was a possibility. Yeah, it's a problem, especially like when you get a South Dakota storm, a lot of times the snow plows don't come out until the forecast says like the snow's done. Because they're not going to come out and like plow twice or three times or whatever.

And so, yeah, there was legitimately like a lot of people going like, hey, are we going to be able to make it down there? And luckily, like, yeah,

walk down there and the snow plows were out on Phillips. they were plowing that out so i was like it'll be clear to remedy by six o'clock or whatever time we were supposed to get there whatever so yeah um so that that was good and then yeah we went to went to blarney and uh we had a we had a couple of tables and just uh hung out it was a big moe and uh it was uh big jake and his wife abby a big brad me a big uh big ryan made it down um who was over at the other table. Big Lauren and Darren made it down, and then there was a couple others.

Again, my memory from the weekend is a little. That's all good. But yeah, you guys made it now. You guys did some pre-gaming before we ended up over at Remedy. A little pre-gaming. And we were a little disappointed because we pre-gamed at Barney Stone, had a few Ginnises and some Guinnesses, which are, again, I will say,

one of the best non-alcoholic beers you can have. It tastes like Guinness. It's great. Highly recommend it. Normally every year for the last two years, we've gone from Blarney Stone, and there's a little courtyard that you can kind of like walk through to get towards your path to remedy. And they usually have like Christmas light display and all that stuff. That's where we've taken our picture. And they had like no lights in that area this time.

So we were a little bummed about that. But I'm trying to remember who all walked. It was me, me, big Lauren, big Darren, and who all steps in? Yep. It was a few others of us. And the rest all drove. And we all walked into remedy at the same time. So those lazy bums took the scenic route driving over to remedy.

and we uh we we almost beat them i know uh yeah sorry hannah you had good handfuls shoveling your car out didn't you oh i wasn't shoveling anything i was watching grace and dig my car out it really got we really kind of got fucked we're right on the north side of the building but there's like the there's like garages behind me and then i was right next to like where the cement and like the trees and whatever was so it really kind of just collected all around my car he really had to dig out quite a lot of to get us out and then he's driving naturally you can't trust me to drive there but we get stuck or no time yeah we get stuck and he's like well you got to hop out so then i pushed us out good for you so i know i saved the weekend well we're glad to have you um we're remedy there

for a bit i think i think someone i don't know is there like a whole other discord that i'm not in or Tanner just go around and tell 79 people to ask me about fucking chicken parm again because last for reference last year remedy did have a chicken parm sandwich on the menu and everyone thought it was funny to ask me and tell me about it and then this year there was not a chicken parm sandwich on the menu but 19 people reminded me of it some people that weren't even there last year I think so oh kitty some people that weren't even there last year so I think someone was putting it in someone's ear to because I think Tanner was like that that joke's kind of died he said that

to me so I think he single-handedly tried to revive it that night so that was it work. I literally just ignored at this point. I'm just, I don't even, I try not to let things affect me. And I think that's why people like to jab at me so much, because I do get so animated when I'm either happy or annoyed. So if I just play the whole Stoic, like, that doesn't mean anything to me anymore, it kind of ruins it for everyone. And I guess I get what I want at the end, which is not to be picked on anymore, you fucks. Um, but yeah, we were there. Lots of food, lots of drinks. Very, very cold. to begin with my feet were so goddamn cold because like there was that like the like people were using the back door so then like all the cold airs would like just evaporate uh but it was still great and then towards the a week they finally did crank it up and it got hotter and shit back there but still a great venue for us because we're pretty much like 90% of the part patrons when we're there i think um so we do i think we do right by them and they get a a good night business from us and there was a little jacket ceremony this week um that was very

fun. I think. I'd let Big Lou tell his story, but we have lost Big Lou. I'm not, I hope there's no, uh, if anyone, anyone's friends with Big Lou and he doesn't come back on this episode, maybe reach out to him, make sure he's okay. I need to do a wellness check. I'm not sure where he's not sure big, I figured Big Lou being the fellow Hall of Fame jacket, uh, person could kind of set that up, but, uh, maybe. You can be selfish. You can talk about your own jacket, Keith. It's fine. Well, yeah, no, it was just cool. Um, um, you know i did like the tenor did like the little fake out like saved you for last and then he was like all right that that that's all of them you know and then he's ah you know i think he did that

on the damn yeah he did that on the pod he oh he did that on the podcast last night oh did he oh maybe that's what it was he did on the podcast yeah yeah yeah that's what it was that's what it was but yeah they did um it was just cool it was good to go in with a good group too with like personal friends with all those guys i wish jake had been there too but jake had to get back to pick to get back to work i guess or get back to the you know he had a long drive to san francisco Hey, Big Lou, you must have hurt us. We've been waiting for you this whole time. So, you know, my bad.

We were still, you know, when you left, we were, you know. And shit talking you for the last, like, 25 minutes. You know what? I would have been disappointed if. So we were just getting to that. I got good justification. Yeah, brother. The reason.

Over everything is right. Oh, yeah. Oh, absolutely. No, the reason that I decided we wanted to build this lovely, my podcast studio or whatever I want to call it down here. year because I had this desk upstairs and Al bought a new couch because she's in a very big 80s and 90s kick. So she bought a new couch for her office. So I had to help her put that together. So I would not be sleeping in the doghouse tonight. And so got the heart pieces put together.

Nice. Good deal. Cheers, fellas. So you had to build a couch. You didn't have to sleep on a couch. That sounds like that's smart man. Smart man. Pretty much. So yeah, we were just getting to the Hall of Fame ceremony. So as a Hall of Fame member, Can I pop in before all the same ceremony? Absolutely. I want to hear it all. We had another remedy bathroom situation. Was there really?

It was not me. It was not in on this one. All right. So, okay. Remind me which one remedy is? So that's the brewery that we go to at six after Blarney Stone. Anyways. So Big Lou, this involves you and your tattoos,

which are freaking awesome. awesome, by the way. So I don't know, and anybody out there listening, Big Lou has, has some, no, no, no, not Big Blue. That's Big Bryce has some perfect little sweetie statues. Yeah, yeah. But, well, Lauren and men were very impressed. It's not that hard to mix. Yes. Yeah. Got it got to confuse. Anyways, so Big Bryce is handing out his temporary tattoos. And everybody was going out. These are really cool, really loved them. His mom made them. They're awesome. And anyways, I go back to the bathroom and I open up the door and there's two guys in there with their arms out in front of the mirror with like paper towels and like just just two arms. It's the first thing I see. I walk in. I'm like, oh, shit. Like, God damn, this bathroom is fucking cursed. Like, I don't need any heroin.

I'm good. I'll wait. that would be pretty trippy to see for sure no it was uh it was big it was uh big jake heightened strength and uh and big andy putting on the temporary tattoos so uh big jake had uh had the tattoo on his forearm big andy was putting it on his bicep and so it was it was literally like a two second like what the fuck am i walking into here oh it's you guys okay all right all right all right i can take a piss while you guys finish up all right no problem Yeah, considering that we were about 90% of that bar, the majority of the time that we were there, I think it was pretty safe to say there wasn't going to be a lot of small part shenanigans going on there.

But I will say those temporary tattoos are one of the smartest things. I keep telling her one on her butt cheeks so bad. She won't do it. Yeah, that's that's what I, that's because you were telling us all about where you're going to put that tattoo. That's why I was stuck in my head. Yeah, Big Lou associated with that tattoo. Yeah, he had some brilliant ideas, absolutely brilliant ideas. But also, if you said, or you made the mention that Bryce's mom made those.

Yeah. If you have not had the pleasure of meeting Bryce's mom, Keith, I think you met her pretty well. No comment. She is a very loud, stern woman, and she is a very large woman. I can tell you this much. If you want to know where Bryce got is genetic, from take a look at her and a lot of things are going to make sense that's true uh so we were just getting to the hall of fame ceremony uh who else see so big antony big ryan big jake from state

farm and the orange glaze himself me i i hate that that sounded so horrible i don't i don't talk i think you've been waiting to say that well no i just uh no it was pretty cool though it was you look like you practiced that my speech uh and then i like why the fuck did I have to give a speech? Like, nobody else had to give a speech. Because I started chanting speech. Somebody had to have.

No, that was cool. I think I hit him with something about, I came for the chicken parm and all I got were then friends we made along the way. So that did go over well with the room, I feel.

But the fact that you didn't have that pre-written down. No, not even. I just, and well, like, you could see, like, I bet,

depending on how much of the video, I actually, I think I think I should go back and watch the video and see how long, because I felt like I was, it felt like I was there for like three minutes like people stare at me like trying to get out like that one sentence but I think it was like it was eight seconds yeah yeah so the the spotlight hits different when it's in real life and not just a fucking zoom computer in my computer in my office in my underwear it's a completely different scenario but no it was a blast it was great to be a part of the club now you know all the state secrets we have now though that's just one more level of anxiety I have is like not not spilling the beans and all this cool stuff we know about that you know you have to just keep putting the work in and maybe just

you'll know about it someday as well. So keep those Hall of Fame cards updated. Where's the Hall of Fame jacket bunker located? That's what I want to. Can we get in if we have a cup? No. I mean, you'll have to go to the cup level,

which is kind of like, you know, that's the cross town. You know, it's the one that's not buried as deep. You know, um, let's see.

We were kind of not sure if we were going to end up going out. to luckies that night because i was kind of everyone else was pretty sure i don't know i think i was going to say i don't know my entire my entire Airbnb thought we were leaving and then i was like i was like no we really should put an appearance in at luckies and i had to kind of twist some arms but then brandon was like here you need to uh finish this beer and then i fucking guzzled a an a high percentage beer after milking a couple shitty ones earlier i mean i can tell you as a uh as a born and raised midwesterner you you I can tell you this much, a little bit of snowing

and to scare me. But I will say that the amount of snow that we got in Sioux Falls that day was quite a pretty good amount for as quick as it came down. Because I was sending Snapchat's to like my I got group snaps with my family, my brothers, everybody. And I was sending it to them. It's like, you know, that's a pretty good

amount of snow. Like when I was driving back from when I was driving back from Mbachi, like I took, like, not back roads, but not like the main way there. Like I had to I was very thankful that I had all-wheel drive and the old terrain train. So it was able to get me there safely,

get me back to the hotel. So I was able to get back there and relax a little bit before we got ready for even more shenanigans, even more silly goose activities. Some of us made it to our Christmas photo. Others did not make that appearance. Which one was the Christmas photo? The one that you took on your tripod,

you pulled out of your pants and fucking side of the road. don't you worry don't you worry don't you worry i still got it right here it comes with me everywhere hey never know when you're going to need it and of course we need it you needed it oh my goodness there he is we are live been waiting for this guy all night or welcome to the podcast big debo hey how's it going guys good are you actually able to join or you just don't pop in no i can say for yeah yeah it's cool

glad to have you so yeah uh we were just talking about the uh getting ready to leave remedy and our travels over to, well, we kind of cut cut Lou off.

We're going to say you shut the fuck up here for a second and let Lou finish a story about his his his fanny pack tripod.

Okay. Let's go. Because I know we got a picture last year. I can't remember who all was with. I know Sunling and a handful of

other. I can't remember if you were with there, if you were there, Keith, I'm not going to lie. A lot of what happens at crew falls

is a blur. I remember two or three people that are there in the midst of the 15 people. That's why I got take so many pictures. Because if you don't fucking have the picture of memories, it's like, did it really happen?

Because I was so fucking drunk, I don't remember. I don't have anything I don't remember. But some people definitely do, I'm sure. You know, my biggest concern of the entire weekend, I might be jumping ahead or staying right in line. I'm happy that Andy made it out okay, because I know we're going to get this later. We'll get to that. We'll get to that. We'll be one of the clothes with the bangers.

Yeah, so. so that the the the crew falls family picture that was taken that was taken on the or coming from remedy to yeah so anyone that drove missed out on that one we were we were one of the driving cars so I did it did miss out on that picture but it was a good one it was really cool to see and then like it was it was past it was posted as a video so but it's them filming you at first I think or something it was no it was loose setting up the video yeah okay there was yeah that he runs into frame oh that's That's what, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah, because I, like, I found, like, if you're trying to, like, if you're trying to, you know, get a picture with something, especially if you're not at your phone, sometimes just a pain in the ass, I get everything there. So, with that and having an iPhone, have an Apple watch, being able to coordinate all that, was able to see, like, everything is like, so I just recorded a video. It's like, you know what? I'll just send this to whoever, take a screenshot of it when everybody's still enough for a picture and then good to go from there. Nice.

I've done this a time or two. Mm-hmm. So we eventually made it to the luckies. So Debo, give you the floor for like a minute. Is there anything you want to say prior to luckies that stood out that you were involved in that you wanted to highlight since you kind of, you missed it in the beginning? Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it has already been said, but I just enjoyed all the conversations that I got to have with the different crew, standing around there, Remedy, and even at the gym and stuff. I'm pretty sure me and Lauren talked for about an hour

hour and a half at remedy just shooting a breeze and it was so much fun yeah nice how much you to talk to his dad that's the other question yeah well he

his dad just talked to me like I didn't even have to talk like he just kept it going I can tell you about I can tell you this much like when it comes to dad's like that that I've been around the block

or time or two like you don't even need to say anything all you got to do is just sit there listen to everything because you know there's some good stories there. Just like, well, all right. Like, brother, you've been around.

All right. Yeah. Lots of wisdom there. Sorry, my fucking screen just popped open. God damn it. Where are we at? Lucky's. Yeah.

Yeah. Lucky's. Hannah, you're a, you're a pool shark, aren't you? Yeah. I'm glad that you noticed it and recognized it and are calling it out for what it is. I did really well. I hit some balls around in some holes

some not but you're welcome for paying for all the games I do appreciate that I mean you're also like it's not really sure your partner sunk the eight ball on the first hit of the game

and I saved it and then we still were able to play for like a half hour because it took us so long to the other balls in but Anthony yes Anthony and I had already won the game by then but it was really fun to still play

I literally sunk my first shot was a fucking a great shot, went in the hole, and then I think I didn't, the only ball I sunk the rest of the night was one of your guys's balls in. So, and they definitely carried the game after the game. But no, it was fun. I literally the first time I've touched a pull stick and pull cue and fucking at least 10 years, if not more.

So, uh, when we first, my, my, my big impression was some people got there before us and already had, um, the fucking song play and the, uh, wreck of the admins for Fitzgerald. Yes. Yes. That. So then, and it was fairly dead. So, like, like, walking in and actually being able to, like, see the floor and not having rap music blaring at, like, level 69 on base, um, actually be able to have, like, carry

on a conversation for a few minutes. Like, that was wild. I think Tanner and I both were like, this is the least douchey. I've, like, ever seen this place in my life. And that, that did, that, that fluctuated back and forth because as other people got the jukebox, it was, uh, pretty obnoxious with how loud it was at times. But someone, I think, Lauren and some other people were throwing a lot of money in that jukebox to keep it like... Oh, Marissa was doing it

too. Good. Yeah. To keep it like non-dushy music throughout the evening was very helpful. I did not even make it at the jukebox, so I didn't know there was one. Otherwise, I also would have been playing the record the Edmund Fitzgerald. Anyone that saw my pictures,

I think it was a picture of a selfie with me, Trond and Bryce, and Trond wasn't making the best face. And that was like four I think I did, like, a burst of, like, four or five photos. And that was the only one that he, that was the least offensive looking one, not offensive, the, the, the, the least amusing. That was, that was the, the most, um, uh, what would you want to say how to Al real quick? Hello. Hello.

Oh. Hope you like your couch. I'm the, I'm the beer bitch. Uh-oh. He earned it. He built a key. I will say the couch is put together. It's one of those where it was vacuumed.

It was one of those where the cushions were all kind of like vacuumed, so she finally got them out and done. And they fluffed up almost instantly. And all the dogs went on it right now. Nice. There was some couch action going on at Lucky's. Like I didn't know the worst couch is there. Like, I don't think I've ever been able to see them in the past.

I don't know if that's something they knew. they added or there was just always 400 people in front of them in previous? Well, I can tell you I can tell you this much of these very sunglasses that I'm wearing, well, not sunglasses. These very glasses I'm wearing right now, I thought they were going to go back to up to the Northeast, because somebody kept wearing them all night, Keith.

I have photo evidence. I'm pretty sure like, I'm pretty sure someone, someone, either you or someone else put them on my face and I think I had them on for like two minutes, but yes, I definitely had that. I was, I don't know. I was pretty drunk by that time. It may have been two minutes, but it felt like about two hours.

I was, I was pretty tuned. I didn't let my, I haven't let myself kind of, probably since crew falls one was the last time I had more than like four or five beers in a sitting or like an evening. So I think I ended up totaling like eight or nine that night. Counting the one you stole for me.

The one that you fucking spit in my mouth essentially. You were like, here, take this. Well, you did actually spit my mouth later. Mama bird, baby bird. Yeah. But I was just trying to get you that, crew falls PR right there yeah i definitely hit that i think i guess the latest i've stayed out in south dakota and definitely the most of drank in south dakota i paid for it the next day

but it was really fun in the moment for sure uh but it was that like was that like that perfect like i maybe had one too many but like everything i have like no blur in my memory at all and it was like you know i feel like i maybe had competent conversation even towards the end so it's of that like that perfect level of a little drunk. It's where you have like no regrets. Welcome to the Midwest. That's what we had. Who was doing the push-ups there?

Yeah, speaking of regrets. Whoever fucking those are your hands, are they recovered from the glass and the fucking germs? Because, yeah, who was that? I think Andy was the Andy the driving force on that, I think, the troublemaker. A cool idea, but I remember hearing about it. And then all of a sudden, everybody started doing it. I said, well, I guess, like, we're doing it, so I'm in. Yeah, I had no desire for that shit, so I videoed it.

What, what, what was the top number? What's that? What was the top number for push-ups? No, no, no, no. So it was, it was for the, it was, everybody's in 29. For the record, Edmondson. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, for the song.

Got you. My co-worker asked me if I picked up any, um, contagions or any diseases on my hands, but I said, pretty much just said, no, my hands are, like, these hands are touch enough. and pretty much if you're already touching the bar for and touching everything else that you were touching that weekend, your hands are just in- It may not be true, but I'm going to believe that. There were some flips also, right?

Yeah, there were some local college, I'll assume college-age girls that were trying to, you know, stay up with the athletic crew, and yeah, I don't know. They weren't wearing the right attire for that. Or the hell of the guy at that I miss girls flipping in the bar. Playing pool, I think.

hustling I was probably losing my shorts in darts on the other side. I think I had three girls ask if they could braid my hair because I left the mane down all night. I left the main just flowing. And I had about three girls ask if they could braid my hair.

I'm like, not only my girlfriend can do that. And you're not her. The hair down, Lou, is great for when that Nickelback song came on because you're just ready to head bang. You know, so it's perfect. I had one of my friends told me one time.

It's like, well, I don't know ways you don't cut your hair. And I sent her a Snapchat and me headbag into a song. She's like, okay, never mind. Carry on. That's one of the reasons I grew it. Just so, like, the way can head banged the songs and get the full feeling of it. Me too. You can't do it short hair.

Yeah. So this would be for. I'm laughing at Hannah, not you guys. We all laugh at Hannah. Hey, when you met me, I was like bald. I didn't have any hair at the first lift hard lived easy. I remember. So it's been a project, grown it out?

Big Debo and Big Brandon, either you get a chance to corner Tanner and hear the gym member story when they tell in person. Obviously, don't say if you did, or don't tell the story if you did hear it, but did either you remember to ask that? I actually missed it.

So that picture, I guess, I'm assuming he was telling that story in Tommy's garage, and I'd missed that. I think I'm actually in the background, like trying to blob out, which I eventually finally got. got the half 90s. You got the 90, right? Yeah, that's good stuff.

So I was pretty pumped about that. But, so I missed that part. So that just saved something for next time. I got some other good grease, but. Yeah, we'll touch. I'll close. I'll touch on a little bit of that, but we have to be very specific on what we say. But Debo, what about you?

Did you get any grease this weekend? I got some grease, but it wasn't that grease. Okay. So, like Brandon said, I lift hard. Maybe I can pin Tanner down and get that story out of him. nice now you guys both might have been were you think you were on the fence about lift hard and now you're pretty committed or you're already committed to lift hard

I've already signed up oh that's right yeah you were already for strong man so what about were you brandon or do you think you were pretty much a lock already or I was pretty much a lock already so but for power lifting so we'll see when that comes out and if I sign up in time and everything but yeah yeah I'm pretty much I'd say I'm 99% going going, so.

And if you had to sign up today for crew falls 2026, what's the likelihood you'd pull the trigger on that? If Big Emily's good with it, then it would be 100% for sure. Same thing. Why don't you bring her with? I should bring her with. Yeah. Bring my little daughter with me too.

That was really the only reason why she had to stay behind was, you know, child care. Yeah, I would say crew falls wouldn't be family friendly necessary, like children. If kids did something else. Well, yeah, but then you still have to like, but then you're just, but then like the parents. You just leave him at the hotel. Yeah, she'll be seven next year. She'll be fine.

We can leave her at the house. She can babysit all the other kids. The issue is none of the hotels downtown have like a really good pool. So you'd have to, you'd want to stay at one of the better pool hotels, which are not near downtown. Right. That's sort of the interstate, yeah. But I will say the falls at night when they're all lit up with the Christmas lights, telling you. Oh, you didn't get a sea of falls.

It's a destination. I have not taken Keith to the falls No, you guys usually do that Sunday when I'm fucking heading to head in the airport at 5 a.m. And it's a bit of a jaunt from Pave, so I won't be walking you to the falls next year because I've had my fair share

of long walks in the winter well intoxicated, and they don't usually end up very well. so let's see last thing about oh sorry I was to say last thing about luckies I just I thought personally

that was like a perfect like culmination of crew falls there at the end so sure is it had some really good conversations with people and good conversation with Lou and just a really good time drink it with the guys and gals I would say this was definitely the best

luckies has been for us because it was like said we kind of controlled a lot of the music so it's a lot I mean you gotta get your your your your your your your your your your mouth to ear having conversations I think in other years at least I like I can't your mouth and people's ears Keith uh-huh but like weird be actually being able to like carry a conversation on and not have to

like fucking like inch closer to someone was it very enjoyable for me because I've I always fucking kind of hate going to the clubs and shit because I'm not a club guy but this year was as chill as it could be in a nice variety it's always about who you're around when when you're with a massonomics family absolutely well we rolled in about 30 deep there so it was pretty hard for Pete with us and that's the thing too it's uh that's kind of the you know happens every year at every different thing it's like people just start trickling off you know and it's like you go from seeing you know looking around and seeing 30 people to then now you look around to 20 people and you look around see 15 and then it's 10 and then you know we we left

our group left probably there couldn't have been 15 people still there I don't think We had to have been a quarter of the group when we left, I think, the four of us. Debo took one like a champ for us and was kind of, you know, keeping us safe all weekend. Yeah, Debo did, I'm going to go ahead and give him props because, like I said, Jakey and I were still drunk at 5 a.m. So, Debo drove him to the airport, you know, like a champ. So he didn't have to spend $50 on an Uber. It was going to be, I was going to be stupid.

I waited because I priced it that morning. it was going to be like $25 or something. And then I waited until like the snowstorm, I didn't wait to the snowstorm, but I waited until I was actually at the house, knew the destination, knew the address I was at. I was like, all right, I'll book it now. And it was like 50 fucking $4 or something.

I always said, fuck it, I'll just still book it. And then when I came out, you guys kind of had volunteered Debo, I guess, or you were just like, one of us will take you. And I was like, oh,

we'll confirm that before I cancel this, please. And I think he might have regretted it when his alarm went off at fucking $450, but we did it. And so then just have flights delayed all goddamn day. So that was. but, you know, wouldn't have known that. But, yeah, let's close out. Lucky, anything else on Lucky's?

Was Lucky's the very last place we went to? No, Lucky's was the pool to, yeah. So, like, that's Trond. Yeah, so it's going to be, so the rest will basically be, Hannah Lou and Trond kind of carrying us home, I think, for the, for the chronological evening. Well, Lucky's is unannounced that Paul was the villain. Yes.

That's the villain. I tried to get that. started at Remedy and I was pushing it pretty hard the rest of the night and I'm glad that it's caught on because he is a well it was really hard to see him as his wife

and his dog were there I know what remedy sage the dog I was like you're really really making this hard dude dog's adorable your wife's wonderful he's the village the wife they're

great he's isn't them all right so we had our great exodus around midnight and then hannah did you corral the other guys to get up and i think there was a what only six of us that went to pave because it was me and trond marissa andy anthony lou do you lose tanner and tommy already at that point oh yeah oh those fuckers no they didn't go rice come with us no wow you had a lot of irish grubas. We really said goodbye.

People were doing the, did the Irish grubon. But yeah, so we went to Pave and Andy got picked out because he dropped onto the floor like a rag doll. I don't know if any of you guys saw it earlier. Like not a dance floor. No, not the dance floor. Literally just by the bar. But I was picking on him earlier when he had remedy and he was being dramatic and he flung himself out of his chair. And so he was doing the same thing when we went to pave, except you can't really convince

the bouncer that he didn't just collapse from like alcohol poisoning or something. And so the bouncer picked him up and drug him out. And then me and Marissa were like, well, we can't let him be the only one that gets kicked out. There's barely any of us here. Like maybe this is just a good time to leave. So you go outside. And then we were maybe going to go to Hello High, the place, the tiki bar that we went to last year that had pizza and whatever. they were closed already.

So then Trond has a bright idea to just sneak him back in the back door through the alley, and then they disappeared, and I didn't hear anything from them. So anything else that happened is going to be coming from Trond. So I've... We did go home after that.

Yeah, I've had my fair share of being asked to leave a bar or being told to leave a bar or being physically removed from a bar. So when I asked like what happened and I came out in and Andy was standing up I was like oh they didn't throw him out because he'd still be in the snowbank they'd be calling the cops right now so I said oh they just escorted him out we'd get him back in so I escorted

Andy back around to the back alley entrance to the pave and we got upstairs we got in we got upstairs and I think it was me Andy and Marissa that went around and we were coming up And I was like, okay, guys, here's what we got to do. Like, you got thrown out upstairs up front, right? Okay, so we got to go outside real quick. And I went outside. They stayed inside, but I locked eye contact with one of the security guards. And I go outside.

I turn around. I see the security guard do a 180 and just beeline on me, which good spider sense on that guy. That's, yeah. He knew he was dealing with. He'd been doing his job for a while. He could tell when somebody was... He had to run in with a bizarreotron a time or two, I bet. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. And so, anyways, I'd be lying outside. He follows me. So I just peel off to the first table of people that I see and start chatting up. It turned out to be a bunch of teachers from Minnesota. So we started talking about school and talking about kids. That's actually funny. And issues with dealing with difficult parents and, and, uh,

and classroom, you know, management styles and stuff like that. And for the listeners, these aren't crew. These are just complete strangers. Complete strangers. In case you've lost context here. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. So the security guard is like, well, clearly, okay, he's got people. He's not going to be a problem. And then I ended up smoking a cigar with those people.

And then I think Andy and Marissa were still out there, and I think I gave them a cigar too. And I would say, like, I don't know how long we were there before they closed down. It wasn't much longer. maybe like another hour, if that, before it was last call. And then, yeah, it was gone.

I did notice, I think, did Big Anthony make it back in? No, Anthony left when I did. Okay, okay, because like, he called his brother to come and get him. Okay, because he came out and he was like, oh, I'm outside. Because when Andy got kicked out, Hannah came around, I was like, Andy got kicked out. We got to let go outside. And so then I came back out.

Yeah, I came down. And I was like, oh, I can get it. them back in no problem we can all keep having fun uh living easy if you will and uh and then i did that without fully explaining my plan to everyone involved so i do believe we lost a few people in that that that just came outside there was nobody there and they were like oh i guess everybody left and then yeah because we mean just like what hannah said like we like you guys went around back at at least 10 minutes and we didn't hear anything from you guys so i was like oh god stood in the snow for 10 minutes i was i was i was i was seeing in july i was i was paving my cover story so i couldn't

i also completely forgot so anyway that's really funny did get confirmation as well marissa got andy home safely but he did make the lift driver pull over on the side of the road so he could get out and throw up oh rookie he got so mad at me when i said he was 20 years old too he did his dramatic fall on the ground like literally fall out of the chair there was a lot of good book talk that remedy too how did it get to where you can't read

was that one in Andy just Anthony he's sitting next to me and he does one of these he's like you can read and I'm like hello okay thank you so nice for that to come out of him is great I think I think I saw that live he asked me he's like

well how many books did you read last year and I was like I don't know like 10 And he's like, wow, Google says average is 12, so only 10. I was like, okay, well, thanks for that. So I got to up it for next year. I know. I got to up it for next year. Let's see.

So everyone, you know, the travel home kind of glazed over that. Everyone made it home. Everyone made everyone except Brad. I think Brad is still, you know, waiting for his airport. In Minneapolis, yeah. I think he's actually in Jamaica now, but he definitely, I think Brad got the worst of it. I had a six-hour delay, but I think his was significant. He just blind his connecting flights while in Minneapolis and it's like, forget it.

I'm not making it home. I'm just going to stay here for another couple of days and go straight to Jamaica. White meets him in Minneapolis and they leave from there. I'm just going to wear a parka in Jamaica. I think we can start wrapping this up shortly. I do have a quick you and you we're going to do. But before that, I just want to touch base on. So we're not going to go in any details.

But remember back to the, shit, the Mount Rush, episode where Tommy and I think it was specifically Tommy kind of went on how they have this really big cool thing in the works so we didn't really get to hear we all kind of heard very small tidbits about that but let's put us put it like to put it bluntly like they're very excited about something coming out in the future and it is going to be something that's going to be very beneficial for a lot of people potentially and you're not going to no no I don't know I I know a little bit more than some other people but not by much this is their news to spoil it's just more of a way to help kind of push the momentum because

I want them to you know build this up a little bit so there is legitimately like we're not just blowing some but there is something coming down the pipeline that is going to be something that you have to like be like oh damn this is the thing we have to do now or buy I'm not really sure change the game it is going to be I heard revolutionary I heard game changer I heard other people are going to say oh fuck so that's all we're really going to touch on that and no details. Some of us got a little more details than that, but not by much. So you're not missing out on too much more. But if you do want to hear cool shit like that, you got to come to Crewe Falls, guys. Like half this episode is a sales pitch to get more of you to come out next

year. Lift Hardly Leveezy is fun. This is just different. Like I, I think I even said it. I kind of ranked them, but I edge out. Crew Falls edges out. Lifts Hardly Easy for me personally, just because it's a chill weekend. It's harder for me to be chill at Lyft Hard Levis because we're trying to compete. And then there's like that whole anxiety for me and I can't just like turn that off. not having to compete at Lifted Live Easy and it can just be a dude hanging out with dudes and not like having my inner, you know, mind racing because I have to compete. Like, it's just such a more enjoyable weekend for me personally. That might not be for everybody, but for me, Crew Falls is fucking S tier and

Lifted LeVosie is just like just to see here below it. So weird. Good deal. All right. Just we're not going for hours and hours. I'm going to do a quick you and you for everybody. So anyone not familiar with the game. Does anyone volunteer to explain the game to our listeners?

Brandon, you know you know how to play. Yeah, so you're still sober. Yeah. Bye, Jake. Big Keith's going to give you all the series of topics and probably one topic per person, I would assume. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're going to determine if they are unpaid as not good in your opinion or underrated as not good enough in your opinion. And you have your druthers to explain why or why not.

Good deal. Perfect. Big Hannah, are you ready? I'm ready. unpaid or underrated consuming glizzies underrated I don't think people suck enough dogs down per year or at any given event I do say maybe check the temp of it

before you absolutely slam it down your gullet I still think I've got a burn mark on my uvula from that first dog at remedy there but overall definitely underrated people need more dogs Love it And I loved how Like there was like It was some like only fan shit going on

Like four people videotaping you There was every POV you could imagine Yeah I'm like am I gonna get famous off of this video It was a cinematic production I think Me taking down that first dog The And I'm buying there more later

Yes Okay You can't stop at one Nope all right That's what she says Yep big i mean i know some of these we've already hit on so i don't on the fly i'm not going to change your thing so even though we hit on it we'll still get right i'm not i don't have enough

fucking energy to change something on the fly so big trond uh unpaid or underrated paul floss that man is unpaid it's fair i i i may or may not have started the boo uh chant when he won um i may or may not have single-handedly initiated the smear campaign of ball floss being the villain. But I stand by whoever did it. Because no man can be that likable. He is a genuine good dude.

And also that's successful without having some skeletons in his closet. Good looking guy, too. Yeah. Big Lou, you're ready? we're about to find out unpaid or underrated this was a fan submitted friend submitted from some of the homies here tonight

even I believe shots of rumplements Oh Underrated Underrated I am not afraid to admit that I've had I've told some people that I enjoy rumplements

And I've gotten a lot of dirty looks from it It's kind of To me it's on the lines of taking a straight shot of tequila if anybody is too much of a sissy to take one of those, then we got some work to do. I can say that much. I am a fan of Rupplements. Big Debo, unpaid or underrated, being the D.D. for the weekend.

Underrated, actually. I was coherent for all of the shenanigans. And I, I mean, I had a blast. and it was it was a good time um i know you guys kept apologizing we were leaving i'm like it's not i i said it was okay it's like it's not a big deal so i had i had a blast and i would do it again every single time if if i had to um it's it's not a problem for me nice we're definitely going to run that Airbnb back if if obviously if crew falls happens again and we can hopefully jake has that saved in his his Airbnb profile so

we know which one it is, because that was the perfect price, the perfect location, the perfect group of four dudes, it was just, it was meant to be. The only thing I would make the change is I would probably just book the fucking lift and let you sleep in because I did feel like a dick about that. And then we probably would have not been as, I would have, you know, we'd have been able to keep you out a little later the night before or two, but, uh, knowing that, yep, I was going to say, I just want to throw out, like, I know we talk about drinking a lot and all that kind of stuff, but there's not a single crew member that

cares, whether you're drinking alcohol, whether you're drinking not out, water, whatever, like, hey, like, if you're having fun, we're having fun. And so if anybody that's like, you know, that doesn't drink, it's like, well, I just don't want to go to a, you know, to a booze party or anything like that. Big Debo can attest, you can still have fun with the crew. If you're not drinking and some of them are and some of them aren't and some are drinking more than others and all that stuff. It's, uh, we just all want to have fun as long as you're having fun. As long as you're having fun we're having fun we're all having a good time so yeah no there's no pressure or judgment or anything like that um so yeah like don't don't let that hold back from come and having

a great experience yeah you're not you're not you're not missing out like we we elaborate on some of the drinking stories just because they were somewhere the funny shit comes out but crew falls at its heart is you know it's it's it's tommy's on friday night it's the lois at the you know in the morning on saturday it's the breakfast it's it's it's the it's remedy and you know all A lot of people peel off after remedy. So Lux is essentially Lux and whatever, or Luckies and whatever happens after Lucky's is all bonus. Big Brandon, last one here.

Unpaid or underrated. Incidental mustache spitting. Oh, man. You know, we got to weigh our options here. No, that's totally underrated. And I think every time I greet you from now on, I'm just going to just immediately just right in your face. Just because I think that it was weird when you like open your mouth.

Everyone should be in your mouth. I do. It was like, this was like the last like half hour we were there. And I were both pretty, you were really tuned up, but I was a little tuned up. And you just start talking. And the next thing I know, I'm getting spit in my mouth from like a foot away. Or actually, it wasn't even that close. But yeah, it was. You're like, did you eat the steak sandwich tonight? I was like, I did. Yeah. All right. So that wraps that up. I'm, I'm going to do a rapid fire get out of here. Because I've got, I accidentally set a countdown to this. And I don't know if it's going to kick us off. So if we get kicked off in two minutes, it is what it is. If, if, uh, But if not, it will just keep going. But for the most part, affiliates here, home gymcon, freedom, fitness equipment, and strength, co-apparel, code unpaid will save you a little bit of money at all those. And the one I really want to hit on is Barbell Rescue. Recently, we've had some competition in the affiliate game here,

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You can technically find me on Instagram at H.Bowling or on Discord with Big Manah. Dibbo, where are you at, buddy? I'm on Instagram at at Coach Debo and on the Discord as Big Debo. Nice. Big Lou where you at? You can find me on Instagram at Lou Nutter. Keep it nice and simple for you. I think I'm Big Lou on Instagram, or not Instagram, Discord. Yeah, I try and keep it pretty consistent with either Lou Nutter or Big Lou on everything.

You should be Big Nutt. Nah, that's my oldest, brother. Big Brandon, where they're going to find you at? O'Doriole Basement Lifts. That's O'Doyle underscore Basement underscore Lifts on Instagram. Yeah. And Bigtron, where can Hogan find you at so you can finally submit this fucking card for him? Well, if you want to find me, you're going to have to join the Discord.

because that's pretty much the only thing I ever check. So Bigtron on Discord, pay the $3 best $3 a month you'll ever spend in your life. Absolutely. We have an Instagram, unpaid underrated podcast. We've got the website, Unpaid Internpodcast.com. There is a YouTube. Nate's got that strongman scoreboard, all that good stuff. We'll be using that this summer.

I am Keith Honeycutt 73. More importantly, go follow my orange gym than a wine cellar. Until then, we'll see you next Tuesday. I did have to corral, Andy, in the one-block walk to the alley. I had to corral him a couple of times. To get him on the street, to get him to follow me. Get him on the control, like, hey, you got to be cool to get him to the bar, all right? Stop being an asshole.

But I'm also well-versed in being a drunk. Youngens and their shenanigans. And youngens and their shenanigans and getting them. snap back into like hey real just focus focus focus hey hey focus focus focus focus focus focus focus focus focus 15 seconds in the door act cool will be in done just don't blame me i may have given a couple shots of fireball that was on that was on his bucket um you're welcome but also he was fine he made it he made well the great thing was like after i got done talking to all of those teachers from Minnesota.

And it was like a whole table of teachers because our education system is broken and they all need to drink, which, yes, they do. But anyways, I turned around from that table, which I actually shared more cigars with them, I think, than I did with crew.

And I saw Annie Marissa were over there chatting and came over and I gave them some cigars and all that stuff. But he made it all the way till last call, walked out the front door. They completely forgot that they had kicked him out. Well, that's good. Also, I think I missed that. So he did get back in.

And I know you got back in, obviously. Yeah, you know, I made sure to get him back in with me. I wasn't going to. Oh, and then that's when you got to go off from him. I wasn't just like bail on him like, oh, I'm like, hurry, I tried. Better luck next time. Enjoy the alley.