Unpaid And Underrated - 147 : It Should Happen Over Water (ft. Big Risa)

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Risa. They dive right into great topics like Crü Cards, Gym Radar, darts, meeting LeanBeefPatty, and Taco Bell. Links Ü&Ü Hoodie Massenomics x Ünpaid and Ünderrated Colab Get Your Own Keith Head Follow The Podcast On Instagram @unpaid.underrated.podcast Online UnpaidInternPodcast.com On Youtube @Unpaid.Underrated.Podcast Our Guest On Instagram @sith.lord.risa Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar @joey_mleczko Special Guest: Big Risa.

All right, everybody. So we're here to go over the crew card contest for the ultra-rare crew card from set one of crew cards. That card somehow has not been pulled. I've had so many people asking, did they find it or not? And I have never seen anybody pull it. There's two in the wild that were in packs. and then the person who it was for, they have a version, and then I have a version that I keep as part as the master set,

and then I have one card that I got from them that they signed in gold Sharpie. So I sent that to them and got that mailed back. And so that's what we're up for grabs today. So the winner of the contest, which was an advertisement for the crew card project, we're going to go over some submissions for that and then announce the winner.

And the reminder for the contest, it was just an ad promoting the project. So with that in mind, I did want to, before we jump right into who won, I wanted to kind of have our moment to go over some of the submissions, give people some spotlight. I can't appreciate or say enough to everyone who did submit. Thank you so much. My intention is to continue to do some other types of projects like this

to promote the crew cards, different types of giveaways, and things like that. It's a special announcement to all the people who submitted for this contest. I will be mailing you your own pack of set two of crew cards. So you'll get that in the mail whenever those are done. So they'll probably be within a week or so that I get them out in the mail. They'll be arriving at your door. And if I don't have your address, I'll be reaching out to you to be able to get that. So thank you so much for your submission. That's the prize for you just taking apart. But to the winner, we'll get to that shortly. I have kind of an order of the people that I got for submissions,

but was there anything to you, Keith or Joey, that really stuck out, things that were really cool submissions? I just appreciate everyone doing it. We had 10 submissions, so if you don't have the list, I can go over it too. If there's anybody we miss.

But yeah, a couple people got in right off the bat. A couple guys, one of the, Sanchez got in super, super late. I was like, we pretty much did a good bit of deliberating, yeah,

deliberating before he, that's not the right word. Delivered? Maybe. I'm muted. How did I get muted? You're in here. I don't see any mutes.

You know, a lot of familiar faces. A couple new guys. I do appreciate when the newer crew, there's a handful of the guys that have been around for less than a year or so, like, just dive in and go, go all in. So I didn't. It's just, there's a good variety. We got some old, some old crew, some new crew, some middle of the road crew. Just, you know, can't, you know, stress enough just how thankful we are for people to actually, you know, help us, you know, this. This spreads Hogan's project.

This helps spreads our podcast. Like, you know, there's a little bit of like selfishness behind it. It's like, yes, we want to help Hogan, but it's also like,

hey, that gets our podcast out there on some other people's, you know, pages, you know, get some shares, get some likes, you know,

it's good for everybody. You know, what's good for you, is good for us. So just appreciate everyone that contributed. And I laugh. I don't think there was one

that I watched and I didn't at least get like a nose breath chuckle. I mean, there were some that I hysterically laughed out loud with. And there were some that, you know, nothing didn't make me smile. So I appreciate that.

Except mofos. He probably didn't submit one, but if you did, I wouldn't have laughed at that. So obviously the first one that came out would have been Steve's or Bam Bam on Instagram. And I do have to say when they announced it, like when Hogan

jumped on and we talked about this, that was actually what I envisioned. Was the old school like kids at a comic shop, and open cards, but they were crew cards. And that was my first kind of like, if I could make one and win, which I can't as a host,

but I definitely would have gone that direction, except I, you know, I might have done it myself, like put on a backwards hat or a beanie hat and, like, look like a kid myself. So I got to say, like, that kudos to that one. Sanchez definitely made me laugh out loud.

Can't confirm. With the end there at the, the wine cellar. trying to remember all of them. I just threw the whole thing and go to the dock. It's just right of the tab. Just refresh it if you need to. No, no, no.

Like I remember who submitted, but I can't remember who submitted. Oh, Nate's Scant. So Nate's Scants. Okay, I have to say, I thought that was Scants. And they just recorded two videos separately, one from Canada and one from South Dakota, and then splice them together.

And it wasn't until somebody said, hey, nice impression that I went, wait a minute. Like, he had the opening of the drink, like the aggressive, like stare at the camera and pop the drink down to a tea. It was, that was really, really funny. But yeah, whatever you got there, Hogan, you're up. Yeah, yeah, sure. Well, I do want to talk about just a couple more. But before that, I think I'm just going to jump in and say who won because I feel like we're being cautious to talk around. that and I want to be able to talk about these for a couple of minutes.

But without further ado, the announcement of the winner of the crew card, the ultra crew card from set one, was Big Megan. Congratulations to Big Megan for your submission by all the officiants here. In our correct opinion, you had the submission that we all liked the most. your almost testimonial, uh, medication or like new life type of video really tickled all our funny bones. And we really liked what you submitted. So thank you big Megan.

You will be the winner of this contest. And I will get that card submit out to you, uh, very shortly. Awesome. Congratulations, uh, just,

I mean, we got enough time. We can kind of touch on all. I thought Gary's was really good. So, you know, the way we came to the conclusion was it essentially who, between the three of us, who was the highest consecutively, you know, Megan was in the top two on all our list, I believe. So it was just, you know, math essentially won that out. And, but most of mine were scored relatively close. Like there wasn't, like no one was a stinker.

So Gary's put a lot of effort in his. I like talking back and forth to himself. I'm not a fan of the goblet. I just don't get it, but the back and forth was pretty hysterical. Matt's was good. Kevin McHale, I did chuckle at that. Megan's was just, Megan's the laugh the hardest with, and I think I rewatched Megan's a couple times.

Nate's, yeah, the Scant's impression was great. I like Debo's, Debo's and getting his whole family in on it, and like him and his wife just like doing the skit and busting up laughing and just like theirs was the most genuinely the inner like like like just fun i think uh brandon's with a little simple the subliminal message uh was was a nice little uh trick and then uh you know fit fat matt well it was his was put a lot effort in his i did i did enjoy it um just all and all it was hard to like like you know everyone is a winner here so but we had to give the prize of somebody so big megan that's you this year i still really like stall matt um oh yeah i forgot about him sorry yeah yeah

Oh my gosh. Glazed over his, yeah, the kid. His kid. He needs to get him a supporting membership so the kid can, it can make a submission because I think I would have. It's the same.

You got to pronounce the, yeah, I would have, oh, man, that was great. That was high up there on my list. But yeah, everybody was great.

I really liked Gary's. I, again, the goblin itself is a bit tough, but it just, there's humor of what I feel like this podcast or this group. is very well represented in his submission as well. And I believe his was very,

I had his down as the first submission, at least in my listing. And so I do know it's always tough being the one to break the ice on the vibe that you go for for submission. So early submitters always hold a special place to me because it's tough. When we do this submission for a contest,

it's hard to know what we're trying to do. So good job to them. and correction it was Debo's daughter, not his wife. I, uh, yeah, I don't know how I missed that one. But yeah, I guess that's, uh, you're, Hey, because I forgot how old you are, when you said wife, I was just like,

like, maybe I missed something. Like I know I watched it, but I must have missed something. That's true. Yeah, that's on me. I just, yeah. Well, I, someone that doesn't have kids, I'm just, I guess I don't like, enter, like, any woman and keeps home is his wife. Yeah.

basically like the there is no yeah um i had a train of thought there was i gonna say uh but yeah everyone's was oh i i will one criticism i'll say a lot of you did not follow the instructions very well as far as like like like the parameters of what hogan said to kind of do as far as like uh really sell home the whole like helping other people who actually submit their questionnaires like i feel like most of it was just kind of played into the humor bit and didn't really follow through with the uh oh What did Hogan ask for? Let me not give him that. So everyone lost a point for that.

I do like in the chat here, Matt Sanchez asking who, who is the card when in the submission, like for the instructions, it explicitly states there we won't, I'm not going to tell you. You have to find out from the winners. I,

I think we might be able to doce, I think we might be able to reduce it down to 50 different people. assuming that you so it was signed so it's either someone in columbus someone you've interacted with or someone at crew falls i don't want to you so i mean that might be a story i'll merely throw wrenching your plans that i i i did i did mail it to them oh well shit but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been semi-local or i could have seen them otherwise so i did i mailed to them i mailed it back gotcha um so the last point just you know as we jump in to general topics here. Sorry guys, I'm just being a

clock watcher. I know I'm not supposed to do that during teams meetings, but I had to do that here. It's from now on, whenever we have a competition, we get to say, the blind girl did it and you didn't. That's the best. Good deal. And I know she knows

we're saying that with love. Oh, yeah. I'll have to have to have Tanner, let her know she won. No, I'll, well, that's the thing to we can get a debate. You could just message her. No, I know. trying to be funny, but, uh, because I can't write in braille or something, but I don't know.

Do we want to just let her know? We do got to figure out, we can do that off here, but like figure out, uh, how we want to make an announcement or just kind of let only the people that were live here. And then we'll just have it come out with the podcast next week and not make a show about it until after the fact. So I guess Hogan let us know in the art group chat. But yeah. Um, does anyone on that list? Can you give anyone their, uh, cards at the Arnold? Just give them a two pack.

I'm trying to think. I know Debo and Brandon will be there for sure. Oh man, this sounds like something to take offline. Yeah, I don't know. It was just food for thought. Oh, appreciate everyone joining us. And with that, get the fuck out of here. Or stick around.

Well, yeah, that too, but maybe kill the videos. Yeah, he gets all distracted from videos of handsome dudes on the screen. I can only have my reflection. Welcome back to episode. we didn't get an episode number of the unpaid and underrated podcast, the podcast for crew, buying crew, and joined by a lot of the crew,

making Rizza laugh. Is it Riza or Riza? Oh, I can't hear you. I think your actual mic is muted. Oh, she's going to spell it out. See, I've just been saying Rizza because I'm a Wu-Tang fan. So I've just been calling her the Rizza ever since.

I saw her pop up there on the Instagrams. Well, it's, it's Marissa. I just making sure it's not pronounced Marisa. It's got to be Marissa, though, right? Like, I've talked to her at a crew fault. I don't think we actually ever like, hi, I'm so-and-so and she'll cans. It was just like that awkward thing where like you know someone on Instagram and then you meet them on for the first time, but you like don't know if you should introduce yourself

or not kind of thing. Is what am I going to walk? Yeah, it is. There we go. Cool. Sorry. She is here. I don't know how to work soon.

Oh, good. And so, okay, so I am Big Joey. I am joined by Keith and the person who's going to tell me how to say their name. Rissa. Rissa, okay. Yeah, so I was way off. I was just like the Rizzo. That works, too.

That's cool. And Hogan's here as well. Big Hogan all the way from the bus. Beep, beep. Well, Hogan, why we have you here? We'll go a little bit out of order. But we're probably going to do a, like me, Nate and Joey. a breakdown here in a few weeks when we get a chance.

But Jim Radar, it is official. It's released to the public. You know, there's several hundred people on there now. There's several thousand reviews. There's a couple guys with multiple thousands of points, you know. What do you think? What's Jim Radar done to your life the last couple weeks? What it's done to my life is completely derailed all my progress on crew cards.

I want my life back. I mean, my time back. Yeah, me and Keith have. a nice agreement of like, okay, let's calm down. And that way we can get back to life. Yeah. We went very hard and very heavy.

We obviously opened up and Brandon was like a thousand points ahead of everybody. And then you shot past him. It took me a while to get past him. And then I was within two, three hundred points of you for like a week. And then I woke up one morning and you were like a thousand points ahead of me again. I was like, this motherfucker. So I think I'm-

I stayed up late one night. Yeah, because I went to bed at like 11 or 12. And like we were like close. And then I wake up and you had Eclipse 3,000 and I was still like 25 or something. I'm like this motherfucker. I get a text from Tanner late in the night because I guess they were doing packaging fulfillment or something. And he just said Keith's face when he wakes up to see how far are you past?

And I think you literally broke me. Like I think I've only put like 200 points in since then over like the past two weeks. Just because it's like it's also getting harder now because I've. all the low-hanging fruit with pictures essentially is done. So now it's like, what have I use in commercial gyms that I can, like more than once that I can justifiably review? Or what is a variation of something that's close enough

that I can still say I used it and review it or something. So yeah, but Jim Radar is awesome. If you're not on there yet, I don't know why you're not. Obviously, Tanner and Tommy are going to talk about it, you know, in depth. They already had the video.

They're going to, their podcast, they're recording tonight is all Jim Radar. So when this comes out, it'll be a day or two after you've listened to them talking about Jim Radar for two hours. So that's probably all we'll touch on it tonight. Unless anyone else, if Joey has any thoughts,

he wanted to share. Nah, not really. I was up in the low 20s. I think I broke under 20 at some point. And then when it opened in public, I'm back down to like 20. No,

I was actually a lot higher than that, but now I'm back down to like 25 or 20. You're 17 for a bit. Yeah, now I'm not like the upper teen. 25 or 31. But it's also like I'm also kind of the, opposite of you two. I'm just like, I did all the main parts of my gym. And then I was like,

oh, that's on there. I might add that or I might review that. Like just to kind of, but I'm not like out looking for points. For me, I don't think that that's, that's my driving factor. Yeah, I think we're both done with that to an extent until someone else, they can think of the closest person out outside of Brandon. Like, Brandon could beat me if he just spent four hours and put all his pictures and was his reviews, but I don't. And everybody's got that amount of time. And I think Yeah, I think he's, I think Brandon went, I think Brandon OCD about it for like a week. And then I don't think Brandon's opened up Jim Radar in a month or if he has. It's been very briefly.

But I mean, he, he very much helped out Tanner and taught me a lot to put him on the, I wouldn't say to help put him on the map. But like, I've seen a couple different review. There was a guy, the, the YouTube video they shared. I wasn't overly familiar with the guy, but I did watch this half hour YouTube video talking about Jim Radar. And like he didn't, you could tell he didn't know a lot of the people that were on the leaderboard. So he just kept talking about, he didn't think he mentioned Hogan. And then he mentioned basement Brandon. And I was like, I'm fucking right there.

It's like you did everything except say my name. Oh, yeah. And that's that's a card message. Super important. Yeah, yeah, I got to hear my name. You know, that's when he gets. That's when I know it's real. But yeah, that's Jim Radar in a nutshell.

You should know all about it by now. Get on it. It will, you know, be friends there. My challenge to crew is to get all the people in the top 100 over, I think it's very doable over 500 points. Like I think that top 100 should all be gold. I think every crew who's got to. a home gym has enough in them to because it all comes down to reviews like that's what's going to be

and the website it gets so much better the more aggregate reviews we do like we talk a lot about points but that's what it comes down to and i think that just feeds into making the website better for tanner and tommy is that it has such a strong basis for that engagement um and so me and keith have a rivalry going on it which is silly and means nothing but it all gets back to the project that tanner and Tommy are trying to make do really well. And I think our participation just does that even more. And if you're going to post reviews, they shouldn't be for points. Because the last thing I want to do is go, oh, I'm thinking of buying this bar.

And meanwhile, it's just like, I like this bar. It's orange. And it was just a post for the points. I'm going to be like, well, that's the most useless review I've ever heard in my life. And, you know, I'm going to go back and review all of my reviews and talk about, you know, when I used it, how I used it. I tried to do that as much as I could. I'm glad you in Peru.

because when you first got on Regim radar, you kind of irked me, because you were like, I'm just going to rate everything five out of five because I own it and I use it. And then I was like, well, that would be the dumbest fucking thing in the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why I'm going to go. Actually do that. So that was helpful because I was like, those are mine. And they're my favorite thing in the world.

No, but I've looked at your reviews. You have not rated everything five out of five. Oh, God, no, no, especially the things I don't like. Because when you initially said that, I was like, I'm just not even going to follow you if you do that because that's just fucking stupid. But you have to help. Well, we all know your favorite review because I keep seeing it pop up. penis. I didn't think that, like, the funniest thing was, like, I never, like, self-promoted that at all.

It just, uh, it just happened to naturally someone shared. And I was like, I was so happy that that got shared because it was the funniest thing I thought I did. I just was a little Easter egg. I put on Jim Radar. And then to get it shown like a week later, I was like, oh, I was so proud of that. Uh, you know, last thing we can say on it is if you have any questions that, you know, uh, Keith Hogan, even myself, I'm, like, I'm not as familiar with those two. But, I'm pretty familiar. If you have other questions that we can't answer, please check out the YouTube video that they posted,

where they go in-depth into some of the beta testing that they did. It is not what it looks like now. It is a much more fluid and better-looking website than what they show on the YouTube, but it is roughly the same idea. And I want to point out that when they first log in, my gym is the first two gyms they show, but you can see them quickly scroll.

And I'm wondering, name of my gym is the problem. Oh, that's funny. And they're like, yeah, you can check out this name. And then they're like, nope. And then they just go ray past it. And I'm just like, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Did you say there was like a milf dungeon or something?

Yeah, there's a guy that has his. It's like the something ILF. But it like, it stands for something actual. And then in brackets, it's milf. And I'm just like, hey, whoa, whoa, who is that? Who is that? Who is that? We got to talk.

It's funny. I didn't think about that, Joe. I like the idea of like, becoming different gym friends based off the names. Like we have similar name, Jim. So we're now gym buddies. When I see orange in someone's gym, I definitely go click on it and like,

do this part of it's me judging too. It's like, does he seem more orange than me? I want to, I want to say it's like the Muscle Institute, LF or something. And then it's mill for short. And I was just like,

that's great. Uh, reason of mine is the, the DILF dungeon where we rebuild strong dads. I think I have the original logo up there. And, yeah, it's, that one is what it's, no, that one stands for, uh, dad. Dad, I'd like a friend. Dad, I'd like to follow on Instagram, please.

I thought it was a friend. All right. Well, why I still have Hogan, I'd like to do a brief, uh, static monster recap as my fellow strong man and guy that used to be of similar strength that has far surpassed me and his, you know, smaller stature. So congratulations for outdotsing me and outtoteling me. Um, static monsters is a two event strongman show. that you essentially compete against everyone else in the world that is signed up for the same show.

So it's very cool. All your numbers kind of go into this big aggregate and you see like where you, you know, stacked up against Joe Schmo in California or Ireland or whatever. So very cool. Our local promoter adds a third event for stones just so you're not paying $100 to do two lifts. So it's still kind of fun. You get to go do a stone number bar. I went in.

I wasn't. The shitty thing was I was fully expecting to kind of not hit up the PR or on my log and then like blow up my deadlift. And in reality, it was the complete opposite. I hit a five pound, uh, uh,

log PR and probably had another five or 10 pounds in it watching the video, uh, opened in hindsight, I opened too heavy. I didn't kind of affect count in how fatigued it'd be coming out of log. I didn't really count in the fact that I was only going to have like three minute rest, which we probably, I probably, I don't even know if I took my three minutes,

but you know, Dan eager with, uh, fellow crew was the judge and he essentially told me to take as time as I needed up to like something reasonable, but I probably jumped in a little too early because I was super, uh, confident that I was going to rip up, destroy my second attempt and didn't get the second attempt to pass my ease, which sucked. So took took, took, took another three or four minutes, tried it again to no avail. So very disappointed in that, but I still, you still pulled 500, uh, and it was only a little bit less than what I had pulled in training. And that deadlift I hit in training was like a 40 pound PR. So it's, if I take away my last deadlift training session, I still

hit like a 30 pound deadlift PR essentially. I just happened to hit like a really big PR at the end of my training. So whatever. And then I hit a stone PR. It was the same way. I've lifted that stone over a 48, but it was over 52. So that in itself, like people are like, oh, that's not a PR. Yeah, the fuck it is. Like you definitely should track your heights on loading events, especially if you're short as fuck. So that was cool. So all and all, very happy day. Blue my numbers out of the water from what I did at the 20, the last event they had in 2024. So, I don't know, they're just very happy.

So it was an easy show to do. Was a stone in like the 260s? Was that what it was? Oh, yeah, it was a 265. Yeah. Did you say it was it? You normally do 48, but you hit 52 at the meeting? Yeah, as far as height.

Yeah. Oh, okay. Four inches, they was. Yeah. I'm out with a four inch king. No, they can do a lot. Definitely. There was a lot of damage with four inches.

I should know I got two kids. Yeah. Yeah. The, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the strongman promoter. He's a good friend of mine. He's a good guy. Uh, he just, he just had a major surgery on his, he got his ACL repaired, like, in the last couple weeks. I don't know if he was still high on drugs or what, but like, he changed the start time of the show and he only, but he didn't

update Iron Podium. He just did it in an email, which kind of sucked. Because there were people that, like, had family members coming that didn't know it was a half hour earlier. So that kind of sucked. And then the stone height in all the emails and Iron Podium was 48. And then he was like, in the meeting, he was like, oh, we're going to do 52. And I was like, what the fuck? Like, okay, I wish I had trained bag over bar at 52, not 48 for the past month. Like, this sucks, but that's it. It's a big jump. Like 48 to 52 is significantly different.

Especially for my setup. Like when I think about my like the triple extension, when I really rise up, I can't just kind of power it through my hips. I have to make sure I go up on my toes if it's a 52. Like we like right now I'm set up at 48 and I do that for a lot of like casual keg loading. And that's, I can muscle something up to. 48. I have to really be technical if I do 52. In hindsight

now I think he actually said it was supposed to be 50 and then they didn't adjust it so it was, or they like they have two yokes but whoever labeled them like 10 years ago labeled each hole two inches off. But it like I think someone forgot which way it was off maybe. So it was supposed to be 50 which would have been

fine I guess 48 to 50 but then it ended up being 52. So because there was like in like I had to like text a couple different guys like hours later and there was still like debate on what fucking height it was and then finally the definitive answer was no it was 52 so I was like I can't wait for all the strong man over 5-8

who are like why are you all complaining these are and it's so low it's like 5-4 will be like well fuck you I can still you know just just just just be tall yeah just just just just just be tall inside your heart and I'm like just overhead press it like that's what it becomes

I feel like I'm pressing it over it was still cool did you break any sandbags out of revenge no not that day. The log broke a log. The log went flying for sure. Because I was so, because my, my 200 log, so my second attempt log was like really shitty and slow and I actually had to

like take a step to balance. So then I was like, I was like 50-50 in my mind going into the 210 and it fucking like, it popped up so fast that I think I was like shocked and excited. So normally I'll do like, what you know, if you watch big, big Jake's training tip Tuesdays, one of them recently was like,

you know, don't be a dick with your log and kind of like tap your chest on the way down. so it doesn't go flying. And I just fucking let the bitch go. And it went fucking rolling right at Dan Eager. And then I want to say stall Matt stall made a video edit where if you don't watch the whole thing, you don't even know it's an edit. So it's like the regular lift. And then like the last three seconds is the fucking log like breaking out of the side of a gym like some AI thing.

It was the funniest thing. But yeah, that got a lot of traction. And then a lot of people were giving me shit about the sandbag. Tanner was like, you know, meet strongman directors. Hate to see this guy coming. Yeah. It did get some legs and I got a kick out of it. But yeah, that was my strongman recap.

I mean, once is an accident, Keith, several times. That's a pattern. I know we got cops in the crew. I'll tell you. And I haven't done a static moniker's, Keith. So I know that's like a comparable event. So do you, is there like a national leaderboard for this time of year for you or something like that? I think it's getting released tomorrow.

Like it, I think it either got sold or whatever because like I haven't, I did it two years ago. which was the last one they put on. And you didn't have to pay shit just like your, your fee locally. But then this year, I think someone else bought it or it's putting, put, putting on by someone else because it was like my $65 to compete and another like $40 just to join

static monsters club or whatever. And like, well, fuck, at that rate, I would have rather paid a little bit more and just done a five event show, but didn't really know about it until, you know,

and it's, it's hard because it's a local show. It's like, it's hard for me to turn down a show that's 10 minutes from my house. And especially like, it's static lifting. It's like the easiest thing ever. and it's like there were like six of my training partners that from strong men

Saturdays all did it too so it was a lot of the boys just it was just fun but yeah there is a leaderboard and like post and stuff that'll come out tomorrow i think one of the guys in our group he didn't he uh he's like 10 pound i think his was like 10 pounds under like the record at like 231 for his press i think he hit 350 and he just missed 370 uh so i'll see where that stacks up like nationwide or well worldwide i guess tomorrow when they do the full result release but it's just a fun show but i mean it's also a lot of it's fun because I knew 25 people that were there and competed with, like, 10 people that I'd trained with and stuff.

So, like, that's a lot of what's fun about local shows is get in with the crowd, know the people, and it's just, it's not awkward or intimidating at that point. Well, good work. Great job. It was fun to watch. Yep. Good work. Appreciate your brother.

Well, Hogan, I know you got to get to training, so I will see you in seven, well, I'll see you in eight, eight days at the Eagle. If I don't see you at the Arnold, uh, we're getting in an early afternoon, but, well, I'm sure I'll pop in the Arnold briefly. but yeah, I'm all about the equal next week. Sounds good. See guys. All right.

Appreciate you, man. Thanks for doing all this. All right. That was fun. Yeah, it was good stuff. I thought that was the sound of Hogan leaving, but no, that's. It sounds like, I don't know how he did that, but like, I'm in. They're so proud of him.

Yeah. Every time somebody leaves, it plays that sound. I'm pretty happy. That's a fun noise. I'm not drinking anything fancy. Is anybody else? Nah. Protein shake.

There you go. What brand? Anything good? Or just storeball shaker? These were on sale. They're called Jocco's. Mole? Okay.

Oh, wait. Camera. Never had one of those. They taste like every other protein shake, honestly. Shitty chocolate milk. I know what, was it Tanner that was drinking an oikos or something in the episode? I had the carbonated one. I wanted to try that.

Well, no, he said it wasn't carbonated, but it was in a can. That's what it was. That was the. Yeah, those ones are. interesting. Which I guess might be more, trying to think, what is more environmental friendly,

a metal can or a plastic bottle? Like, they're both really bad. Neither. They're both really bad. It's like, I mean, Joey wants his protein in a bag,

so I, that's actually true. I know, I know. I had the clear protein finally. So I was talking about trying it because it was really interesting, because I don't like protein powder.

I think that I just need to come to terms with that. I don't like weigh protein powders. So I was like, I'm going to give this a try. And they're giving out samples at Costco. And honestly, that tasted so good. It tasted like candy until you find out there's only four grams per serving. Ooh.

Yeah. I was like, well, this is pointless. Like, who is this directed at? That kind of sucks. Yeah, so I guess I'll have to keep choking down the chalky crap. Oh, yeah. Risa, what you're wearing over there? I got, well, thanks to Ground Beef Gary.

No, I'm calling her the Rizza all night. Ground Beef Gary. Shout out. Sent me this shirt. Really cool. The best shirts, the logo. The, uh, massnomics. Yeah, the black logo.

I think it, uh, on the right side of history right now with that one. Yeah. The, the, the, the, the, the, the lifter comfort colors for, uh, tomorrow's deadlift. I always like to, to wear, whatever I wear Thursday nights, what I'm going to train in Friday, typically. So I always try to play, play, plan a quay. Nice. I've got, I've got, yeah, buddy.

Lightweight. Yeah, buddy. Speaking of, uh, speaking of, uh, speaking of, um, Jim sings. Oh yeah, we can rate last week's episode Yeah, because it's pretty much And that was when I talk about hockey briefly Yeah, that's first hockey game I think I've watched and I don't know,

many a year Maybe 12 years Because the last time in the Americans won Oh, I thought it was longer than that one No, it was like 60, 80 and then like 20, 26 They might have won like something Against Canada not related to the Olympics or something.

But I don't know. Like the actual gold medal. I know the gold medal they had won since 80. But yeah, it was fun. My wife left for church and she was like, are you going to watch this all morning? And I was like, probably. Like, I just competed yesterday. I'm sure as fuck not training in the basement.

Normally Sunday. I'd be like, I'd be down warming up when she goes to church. And I was like, yeah, no. Like, I'm not getting up. Like, this is exactly what I want to do. Like, so I think I passively watched it for a little bit. And then I was like, oh, this is a fucking game. Like, then I'm like,

like really intensely watching it and then you know I sure for sure thought they were going to take it in overtime and then we got that goal pretty early and boom done but it was a very enjoyable game you couldn't have like you can't be a sports fan or I think honestly an American or Canadian so you didn't like enjoy watching that game I didn't enjoy the ending but it was still a very entertaining game as much as I was chirping you there for a second I it's also the first game full game I've watched a decade because I don't care about hockey but I knew that I was chirping you there for a second I was also the first game full game I've watched a decade because I don't care about hockey but I knew people were going to want to talk about it, so I wanted to watch it. No, it was a really good game. Canada outplayed the U.S., but the U.S. outscored Canada, and that's the way she went down. You know, big ups to the American goalie. Like I said in the Discord, that dude was a wall. That was a wall. He stopped over 40 shots on that.

Well, yeah, he did. He stopped over 50. So that's incredible work, right? Like, that's what won the game. That's what wins games. So last week's Maxonomic episode, we'll get into the ratings of that. So it was the Jim Sains and the Jim Quote and the Jim's this and that was always enjoyable. I think the funniest parts for me, though, was probably just the banter and the chit chat,

but you know, not even related to the leaderboard. So the ski free talk, like I had to think about that for a second. It's like, what's he talking about? I was like, oh, that Windows 95 game or you're fucking skiing with your goddamn mouse and, you know, the Sasquatch or well no the Polar Bear Sasquatch. Abominable snowman. Yeah, that guy comes out and eats you and does he eat you or just break you in half? I can't even remember.

Like I know he laughs at you, I think, too, if I recall, like he's just, I don't know, it's been so long since I played that game, but that was like definitely a throwback. Another throwback was the daddy fat sex, which was, I recall. What's your email again this time? It was. It was. Yeah. It was an email that Tyler referenced.

And then they were confused because I, my, like, I think, pre-crew. So this would have been like right off the bat when COVID hit in 2020 and I just started listening to the podcast. I think I did rate at five stars because that's back when they were like asking for every week. And I think it was I had just listened to the backlog or maybe I listened to like the first episode and then I decided to go get into the backlog. And it was Tyler talking about his email being daddy fat sex or something. So like I put that as my title or my name or something in my Apple review. So I'm curious if that's what they were referencing when it was like wasn't it like someone's review. So that was fun. And then they randomly, we're talking about

strippers at the Arnold and I was like that was just so so off the wall. The fire department shows up at the needle and yeah the strippers are here. So that was that was really enjoyable. Like I mean, I could, I don't want to really debate on if I thought this quote should have been higher or lower, but just all in all, I'll go ahead and give it a five out of five firemen stripper polls. Uh, Riza, you're up. I'm going to keep following you the Riz.

I'm sorry. Oh, you're fine. Um, honestly, I give it a four out of five. I, I want to give it a five out of five. It was a five out of five. I think the banter was really good. I enjoyed their tier list. I was happy that they put Ronnie Coleman's quotes. I think they did an A list, right? Or something like that.

There's S tier, which is like, I still don't know why something that's called S tier, but S tier is like a plus plus, but I don't know what S means. Like, what the fuck is the S mean? Like say one word that starts with an S that means elite. like I don't get it. Like I couldn't tell you. I couldn't either. I'll give it a five out of five.

Yeah, Daddy, after they mentioned the daddy fat sex thing, I went to my discord, my personal one and changed my name to that as a joke. Everybody loved it because I told them what it was from. They had a good laugh at that. So that'll be my name for the week.

Nice. There you go. I'm going to go ahead and give that five out of five. What the hell does S-tier stand for? But now I want to ask you guys. aside from that list, what is your favorite James saying?

One that they say, like, if I have to go with like a cue, it's just like up because that is just what you say in power of me needs. If it's far of something like you say to kind of get someone motivated, and it's only,

it's probably more recently, recent bias. The fuck am I trying to be. You're referencing the recency bias. Recent C, that's the word I couldn't. Yeah, I said recent and recent. whichever, they say it a lot, or at least Chris Mark does, and it's kind of always stuck with me.

It's just saying lock in, just like, it's almost, they say it to the point that it's almost a joke now, but like if you tell someone to lock in, it's kind of, you know, it's game time for me. So that's, to me, it's got to be lock in. And prior to that, like, I didn't really have a whole lot of training groups. So it's, or at least not, when people come over here and train, it's not really going balls to the walls. So, like, you're not really saying stuff to motivate each other. So I never really had that culture. So, yeah, up and lock in for me.

yeah up was a good one especially when they're all everyone in the gym screaming like up up but uh i really like i picked up on this one chick's saying um i don't know if you guys know who crannon is or cranin i forgot how to pronounce it but she says it's it's just the bar so she walks up to it's heavy ass weight it's just the bar goes and picks it up like it's nothing i really like that because it really is just the bar um so it's one that big steve always said to me and it was just stand up. Just stand up. I got to do a stand up.

So it's kind of like the what you were saying there. It's just the bar, but you just stand up. Just pick it up. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Like when he was my handler and I was going for my fourth attempt and I was like, how much weights on there? And he says, don't worry about it.

Just go stand up. And I like, that's pretty awesome. But I will put out, everything is fine. Everything is fine is a good one for when you fail. Everything is fine. Because you want to kick yourself in the ass, you want to go back, and how could I have done better? How could I have, nope, everything is fine. Then you.

So much. I know you do. I hate that so much. I, like, not even gym related. Like, I hate that, like, is just a saying, because it's just like, let me be anxious for, like, 30 seconds. The kind of mentality. When have you ever been anxious for people for 30 seconds? Like, for the entirety of that 30 seconds.

Yeah. And then the next 30 seconds. Several minutes of 30 seconds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not. It's a reoccurring. You know, we have reoccurring bits. I have reoccurring 30 seconds of anxiety.

Yeah, everything is fine is a good one. I say that a lot. And I'm glad Nate got something out of that too. Very positive. That was very refreshing to hear that my voice in Nate's head saying everything is fine. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's right. Yeah, and our group chat, he had mentioned that.

And I'm not, everything is fine. So are we still doing affiliate ad? rates? Are we still doing those? Yeah, but like we could probably make it like a 60 second or less thing. Oh, watch me go. Do like 30 seconds. Yeah, code, code unpaid at obsidian ammonia, although he is doing a rad 40. So like I said, use rad 40 to save 40 percent. And then add my code later, which is code unpaid. It just gives us recognition. We don't get anything from it, but it still tells him we refer to you. Plate snacks and belt fed strength. Plate snacks for your stickers, banners, unpaid and underrated banner which is on

Jim Radar and Belfts I'm so happy they did that yeah that was pretty awesome all using code unpaid was that 15 seconds yeah it works nailed it um

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have a massanomic sponsor report this week I'm sorry I know that's not your name and I'm not doing it to undermine you but that's how I've been reading it since you first joined Discord. But again, honestly,

a fun way to, like, say it. I'm okay with this. People call me Risa, Risa, Risa, Riza.

All of the above. Yeah, like, the crew has their own Rizza. Like, that's awesome. No, I love it.

I do have an ad read. I couldn't think of anything, like, funny or creative. I was pulling a little bit of a deeper side of my heart. I want to start off. by saying that when I first started lifting, you know, I didn't ever expect to come across, like, this big community or anything of the sorts and didn't even know it existed.

Shout out to Big Garrett, by the way, for that. And when I found Massonomics, it basically felt like a freaking home. I felt bigger as a person and a part of something really important. You know, Tommy and Tanner are really amazing in the community of people they brought together. are amazing. They feel like family. The more you get to know them. Such a great community of people who uplift each other, support each other, people who are so genuine and nice, but also funny and have fun to make jokes at and talk about anything and nothing at all at the same time. It's just all around amazing. And I just want to thank Massonomics for existing and bringing

everybody together, even though I'm new. I'm happy to be here. If you're listening to this, and you're not already a supporting member. I highly recommend that you sign up at masonomics.com, become a part of the family, the community, help keep it thriving and growing, and you won't regret it at all because I don't. But yeah. Thank you so much.

I know you're nervous about that, but that was being hit it out of the park. Well done. Yeah, I love telling people about massonomics. It's my favorite thing to talk about. It's not a cult, but kind of.

It's not it. A little bit. All right, should we get our guest on the horn? Yeah, let's see if we can get this person on. We get a hair, have our introduce her. Hello. Big Riza, is that you? It is. It is me. I am here.

I am Big Rissa. Where are they going to find Jets on just the socials? I recently changed my name on Instagram. I think it's Sith Lord Rissa. I went from Jedi Master to Sith Lord, because I changed the strongman and that's the dark side of me. Nice.

I was going to say, when did that switch happen? I think when I signed up for the Mastronomic Strongman, I got bullied into it, essentially. Oh, yeah, crew falls. They do that. Yeah, I was worth it. I like trying new things and I think it'll be a fun event.

I get to train with Big Hanna at my Los Campionis. I convinced her to join my gym. so we've been training over there. Yeah, we've been trading. Love him. Yeah, she's awesome. I seriously love her. She's cool. I'm glad they're in Sioux Falls.

Can hang out, do things. That's awesome. You got to get a Casey's got to buy a circus dumbbell off of big, the Phillips, because Jonathan's down there making them for everybody. He at least needs to buy one, like, from Titan that weighs like 50 pounds or something, so you guys can actually have a chance of picking it up because... Except for the three they already have.

Yeah, but they don't have one that... What's the lightest one they have, Colton? Don't they all like 80 pounds or more? Alos? Yeah. Are there any circus dumbbells that are like light? There are three of them, and I think they're all over 80 pounds.

Yeah, I tried picking one up. He says 75-ish. That's what you want to hear. Keith loves the word ish at the end of a week he has to pick up. Well, no, I just have just had like if you like the like a lot of like a newer or a novice strong man or songwoman that is like 75 pounds is a lot of way I saw a lot of guys try to pick up the 75 pound I don't even think

I put it off and I was there yeah struggled with it so uh you know if Casey's gonna you know run shows and stuff he should uh you know some other guys a couple hundred a few few more hundred dollars but you know I'm I'm always advocate of people buying more strong man equipment that you know cater to to both genders and you know all strength strength levels especially when they buy them from our friends. Yeah. Well, I don't even think Jonathan wants to make him public legally because it's just extra time that I don't think he has.

I think he just made him for like people that he's making Jake one. He made Jen one. He made his wife one. I don't know that he wants to like do it for a living, but all good. Have him make one more. Yeah, that's the thing. Well, newer crew, you kind of touched on a little bit in your ad read, but just in general, what, you know, you'd even said Garrett.

So I want to hear your origin story of massanomics and kind of why you're so here. So was it a year or two ago? I went to a lift-a-thon and I can't remember the town. Was it Yankton? Was it Yankton? No, whatever USDA is. Yeah, the one that Garrett puts on every well, previously.

I think he's moved on now. But yeah, he took that for a few years. I had been told about that. So I went there. Yeah, for a million. I don't know my town's here. Thank you. But that was fun. Nice little fundraiser event. I met Big Garrett and Sydney for the first time. And they were really cool. They had mentioned, you know, next meet, Massonomics. I was like, what is that? Basically explained it to me a little bit. I just did a little research later on. I didn't get into the podcast a little bit later, but I did some research. I immediately signed up. I paid the subscription. And I was like, okay,

cool, who do I hit up for this? I got in the Discord. I was like, cool, there's a bunch of people in here. Really cool. I looked through all the channels, was seeing everybody just, you know, talking about lifting, talking about random stuff. I made a couple of friends before the event, and I went to Massonomics alone. And it was kind of nerve-wracking, but I think that's the most fun I've ever had, just going to an event by myself, meeting strangers for the first time. Everyone was just super nice. And I think that's what kept me here too.

It was like, okay, I want to keep partaking in these events. Oh, crew falls. You were at crew falls. That was later in the year. She did, she did lift hard, live easy and power lifting in 2020. Yeah. Signed up for. I wasn't down for that one.

There it is. She did do. Then crew falls, 2025. So that's true. Which was also awesome. I love that they are able to get people together multiple times a year for these little events, just to hang out. everyone flies from all over.

It's really fucking cool. My bank account doesn't love it, but yeah. It's pretty damn fun. Good memories. There's got to be a fur. Just to jog your memory, if I can for a second. Do you remember at Lois Campiona's big Gary shoving a phone in your face and saying, yeah, that was me. Yep, I remember that.

He facetimed me and he's like, it's Risa. And then I was like, I don't know who that is. I didn't know who you were if I was like, fuck yeah. I could tell from your face. I was like, she doesn't know. who I am and I thought that was so funny because it's just like he's just running around with his phone

shoving it in everybody's face and everybody's all like yeah Joey and you're just like hey and I'm just like hi friend yeah that was cool for the meat in the summer did you end up making it down Friday or to just show him because I don't know or basically

did you show up at Tanner's on Friday night I was there Friday I didn't go to Tanner's I was a little nervous yeah Yeah, I got a, yeah. Do you think now, like, you're going to come this Friday, I'm assuming. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

I'm a lot more comfortable, you know, that one made me feel like excluded. So it's like, I want to be at every event that I can. If it's Tanner's house, we're actually, I got some people together that want to play Magic the Gathering at his house. So we're going to be doing that. Oh, that's my favorite thing. There's just going to be one whole table of nerds. Yep.

And then nobody will flinch. Everybody would be like, yeah, that's dope and, like, go about their night. Yeah, I think it's going to be really fun. You think we're going to have a cottage cheese contest again? I heard that was a really good one. It'll be a hose water contest this year. Actually, how would you? Yeah, like, that's so hard to, like, you could, like, chug water and out of a hose and, like, do a gallon out of a thing and then be out of a cake.

But that's pretty elaborate. No, Tanner can just put a bunch of couplers out of all the, faucets at the back there. It's pretty elaborate. They always talk about Hosewater. It's so funny. So was the Lyftred Levisi your first competition then, or had you done some other

previous, well, other than Garrett's, was it their first sanctioned competition? Yeah, that was the first big one. It was intense. I didn't expect it to be as big as it was, especially with the crowd there watching. and I think the adrenaline was really high. I love the energy. I don't want to partake the next however many years it goes for,

hopefully forever. I'm glad I swapped from powerlifting and strong man. I think that'll be a lot more fun. And they're doing it on Friday instead of one day now, which is really cool. I enjoy that. Yeah, so that'll be a good change. It's like dual purpose because we get more competitors for Strongman

and we get an extra event for Strongman. So it's actually more like a, you know from spending a couple thousand dollars to get out there it's actually we get to a whole day dedicated to us not just shoehorned at the end and everyone's tired and wants to go home anyway so like i'm very very happy with it uh i much rather compete at fucking like nine or ten in the morning than like two in the afternoon dehydrated so that'll be fun uh just all and all it's gonna be great so yeah didn't you compete in both last year or i didn't know no no they're uh big sam big big sam has done it there might have i think he's the only that there might have been a couple guys that did strong man maybe like bench only but i think i to um to my knowledge, Sam's the only one that two years in a row so far has done like a full power, like a legitimate like all three lifts. Like so nine max effort attempts and then a full strong man show in like an eight hour span, which is wild. And I think he did it like somewhere in between too, like locally.

Like I think he was in Baltimore or something and did it maybe once in the past year. Uh, similar thing. So it's pretty wild. I will not be. I did consider like, oh, I could just, I could do a bench only or something. But like, I don't know. I don't want to do a single lift meet. That's just my OCD only open powerlifting.

It has to be like a full power lifting meet. So I do still need to try to get a shepardly meet in this year. But it's less of a priority. Yeah. Well, we know you're in crew falls now. So if you wanted to share anywhere else you've been or, you know, where your travels have taken you. I thought about going to the Arnold this year, but that ended up not becoming a thing. I really wanted to.

I think I'll go next year. You guys usually have a big group going, right? The meetup. Yeah. They typically have the booth. There's a be the first year in the last handful. They haven't had a booth. Yeah.

It would really be like a home base, but we're doing a big dinner. Like, it's just going to be like 50 to 60 people. It's going to be pretty wild. So that's the only reason we're going is because there's actually a super organized event to go to. Yeah, next year will be good then. The booth was a lot of money for a place for most of us to rest our bags. Yeah. No, no. I fully understand why.

Oh, me too. It makes sense. It's just, uh, but, like, I don't think barefoot's going to be there either this year. Like, it's, it's, I don't want to associate with, like, I don't even care if I go into the expo whatsoever, but I probably will just to, you know, maybe watch Tyler Lyft if he's still going or I got a buddy that's still on the strongest fireman. So it's just a matter of timing. But, yeah, definitely going for the Eagle dinner. It's going to be the blast. Um, so then always, always in crew falls or does you kind of bounce around?

Uh, just had crew falls this last year. Oh, no, sorry. I meant as far as, yeah. Sorry, I was trying to, yeah, a reoccurring question is essentially, you know, where do you live where you're from? But I don't think I must not have phrased it right to the, yeah. I live in crew falls. No, I, I've been here for since 2022. Before that, I was Florida.

And before that was South Dakota. And then it was Arizona before that. So it bounced around. Yeah. Yeah, that's fun. Did you come back to Sioux Falls? Because that's like a family thing or you literally just randomly ended up in Siouxville. Did you like throw a dart at a map or something?

How else does someone end up in Sioux Falls? I came up here for my birthday to visit my family who I don't really see anymore, but it's fine. But I was like, okay, I just ended up never going home. I never went back home. And then one day I was like, I'm going to fly down, go get my car and my stuff came back up. It's just kind of on a whim. It was spontaneous. I don't regret it.

Florida is expensive. and overcrowded, but I do miss the weather. The Midwest is growing on me. I do enjoy the people out here. And there's not much to do out here besides drink and stuff, but I do enjoy it out here. Nice. Yeah. Ironically, I think I had that similar conversation with a buddy that was talking about moving to Florida.

And he was like, but there's this, this and this that's like potentially wrong with it. And it was like that kind of checked all the box. Yeah, that seems like all the red flags. Thank you. Yep. It's a lot wrong with Florida. Do you know your Hall of Fame status? Do you have that card?

I don't have it on me, but I know that, well, it's in my wallet, which I can never find. I think I crossed off about 10 of them so far. Well, this is another one. Was it 10? This would include the 10, yeah. Wait, was it 10? I'm missing, I think it's be a part of the podcast or the Mastonomics for four years, right? And then.

Yeah, there's podcasts for two years, podcast for four years. voice on their podcast, contest win, the Arnold. I know you don't have any of those at a mouth, just off the top of my head. So that's five. So you might be at 10 unless there's another one. Those are the, yeah. Everything. Everything's out. Yeah, the backlogs.

You're probably only at eight or nine then because you don't know what you did the backlog. I think I died. I crossed on a bunch of them last year. I don't think it's nine. So this would be 10, I think, maybe. Setting the bar pretty high for a newbie. That's good. Yep.

A couple years. So yeah, I think I'll complete them all, hopefully. The contest one I heard is kind of difficult, though. It's the hardest one. I have like seven of them. Tanner just like keeps forgetting and like doesn't acknowledge them. One thing we will touch. I'm going to briefly sidetrack here.

Tommy in the YouTube video specifically said there might be awards that come with Jim Radar. So I'm going to assuming like anybody that cracks the 2000 maybe gets some kind of like pin or something. That'd be really cool. Does that count? is a, you know, is an award, a contest? I mean, I think an award. Uh-huh.

I know you do. Gets his jacket early, wants to make up how he can just like... If Tanner ever mails you your fucking jacket, I'm never going to let you here. I know, but if he did, like, if you cried about it enough that he did, I would never let you live that down because all you fucking do is shit on me and my fucking same month qualifying fucking... And Tanner's the one that said, yeah, yeah. No, I actually, I'm totally down with it because otherwise, you'd have to fly out there to get it again. It's just when you are such a stickler for the rules all the time.

December 8th and December 22nd. It's pretty fucking close. You're always such a rule stickler, but then not when you let slide. Everyone can stick it up their ass. Though I want to teach you sometimes. But no, that I don't actually, I don't actually care. Like this. Well, really, oh, I can't.

Fucking sidetracked. Oh, yeah. Sorry, Keith. Big, big, big. Big guest. So you've been around here for a minute. You've met a handful of people. You've interacted with Hannah who actually has some pretty dope old merch.

What's that one thing you've seen someone wearing? And you're like, I'm going to go check out that website. And it's just not there as far as something they don't make anymore. You know the metal font hoodie. I really want. That thing is awesome. I think it's like a black hoodie with the metal, like album font on it, Massonomics. I love that thing.

We call it the Metonomics. Metonomics. I love it. I've seen it on some people. I've been wanting it, but they don't have it. Yeah, that's the thing you'll come to learn. It's a lot of it. It's like, you know, they buy a couple hundred shirts and that's like a, you know,

that's unless it sells out immediately, like you might not see that shirt once it sells out for like five more years. So it's kind of like if you see something you like, like, you know, buy it. Do you know your sporting membership number? Actually, you probably wouldn't because you're new enough that, unless Tanner's told you in Discord, you wouldn't have a card. I don't think I do. I'm going to assume he's good about letting people know in the discord after the fact sometimes. So you may or may not know about it.

And if you see him in person, he loves pulling up the spreadsheet and letting people know. That's a thing you can always ask. But I'm going to assume. Yeah, I'll ask him. Probably the 5 to 600 range, give or take. So I'm a fair guess. So you've got a handful of people that filled out the questionnaire. error. I know you were pretty nervous about, you know, sending it out to people or at least

filling it out. So like, how did that, uh, essentially were you like, hey, will you fill this out for me and was kind of vague with it? Or did you actually kind of go into detail of why you were asking people to fill out something so personal for you? Well, one of the people, I, I explained most of what it was. They're like, oh, cool. And then one of the people was like, okay, oh, I'm just going to put down this, this and that. And I was like, okay, I don't remember what they put down was something about Taco Bell and their answers were very vague. But, There's a lot of Taco Bell talk. Yeah.

They didn't take it very. If we don't talk about Taco Bell, like, I think that's like 80% of her notes, but not really, but there was a lot of Taco Bell. And I could see a couple of things where people were trying were just busting your chops, but I don't know. Yeah, yeah, a little bit. I told them it's a little bit serious, but you know, you don't have to be super serious, but that's what they did. So you don't like Taco Bell. Oh, man. It's a love-hate relationship.

So I had a habit for a couple years in Discord when we're gaming. I always say getting Taco Bell for food because it's so cheap, you know? Like it's just they had these chicken nuggets come out. And I was obsessed with them for the longest time. They're like 70 grams of the protein for 10 nuggets. But I hate that. The fats are pretty high on that though. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, it is. It's got to be like 100 grams of fat. Yeah. So I have to stop. I hate it because I have to stop eating it. But also gives you. do the shit. So it's like, I don't talk about it's like a very love

hate relationship with my stomach, but it tastes so good. So it's been a meme forever. One of our reoccurring games here, we have a handful of games we like to play. Essentially just a question. I'm going to, I'm going to pose you, you know, a thing and I need you to tell me the least

fun thing about it and the most fun thing about it. So it's not pick one and elaborate. It's kind of elaborate on what the best and worst part about this or is, you know, as I like to call it, least fun, most fun. kind of vague and easy for you. So just training at Los Campionos. The least fun and the most fun thing about it.

Or the gym itself, however you want to. One of each. Most fun about it is anytime you're lifting there, doing any lift, heavy, people will literally drop what they're doing and go, like, yell at you, cheer you on, watch you. I think that's the best part of it. That's awesome. Their community.

Least fun. I wish there was lights in the strong man room. Yeah. A little bit more. That still wasn't fucking fixed yet. That pisses me off so much. Like that borderline ruined my like whole lifting there because I'm like, it's so fucking dark.

Like I'm old. I can't see shit. And now I really can't see shit. It's like that's not safe. It's not cool. It's you're not like, you're not edgy because your fucking strong room is dark. And he's having a goddamn show there this weekend.

And if it's pitch black, like that's going to be stupid. Like I don't like, it's a great gym. But that's, fucking stupid as shit to not fix your goddamn lights. I don't remember why. Luckily when I was there, we just opened the door because it was so balmy. Right? If you remember that, I think the lights worked with.

That crew falls. Oh, did so it's worse than it was? No, no. There's, say there's like six rows of lights up top, like, only the ones by like the, like, maybe one light by the combo rack works. And like, oh, jeez. Nothing. Okay. Because it was dark when I was there and that's when

they worked. No, nothing for like 90% of that room has light. And it's kind of. I don't like to say shit's obnoxious, but like, that's fucking obnoxious. Like, fix it. Colton, like, get up there yourself with a ladder and fix it if, if, Casey won't. But I get, having a gym, super expensive, but you got thousands of dollars to paint murals, but you can't spend money to either, if the lights are dead, like, I understand, like, I literally do lighting for a living.

Like, like, maybe the lights literally need to be replaced and that's a financial investment, but like someone fucking falling and breaking their neck on a goddamn axe or a stone because they can't see is really fucking a big deal. It's really dark. there. Agree. Definitely. No offense, Casey, but. Definitely at least fun, Casey.

Figure that shit out, buddy. I will Venmo you 50 bucks if it means you'll go buy light bulbs. I'll do it myself. I don't care. All right. rant over. But yeah, no, that's very, very cool that you guys have that training atmosphere that, like, people actually kind of, you know, get in the zone and cheer for you.

Love it. The question I always ask everybody is if you could have one person hyping you up for your next big lift. and they can be living, dead, or fictional, who would you choose? Oh, man. I'm just going to go with Gimley from Lord of the Rings, man. I love him as my little sidekick.

That's a good answer. He's rowdy. He's funny. He is. I know he'd be out there, out yelling everybody. He could probably squat a thousand pounds. He probably couldn't deadlift one 500, I bet.

He's a little too short for that, I think. Probably benches what he deadlifts and squats double. And then everybody would just, you know, there's no ROM. Of course he could double. There's just no many ROM. Probably wears equipment, too, honestly. Good answer. It lays an equipment.

We don't get a lot of like, he's just going out there to squat suit all. Oh, geez. And you have my canvas. good answer so occupation we always ask if people you know as little as much as you want to you know elaborate on what you do for a living but you know

some people talk for five minutes about some people just to skip so it's up to you um well I just recently quit my job of six years at UPS due to some management issues CEO a lot of bad shit's happening over there but my most fun job I ever had

was I was a private investigator in Florida for a few years before that. I saw that in the notes and didn't know if it was serious or not. So let's let's talk about that job then. That's pretty cool. It's not like your typical like cool FBI detective on the shows and stuff like that. But you know, I think it was just I liked it because I was just on my own routine. You know, you contract with customers. You work for them.

you get paid a good amount of money. You can usually set your pay too. I was a trainee at first, so I didn't make that much. But I think it was really overwhelming. A lot of the jobs were they kind of make you think of the world a little bit more negatively because we had to work with child custody, missing people, people missing money. And then, you know, people who are cheating on each other, if you're married, You can legally go get a tracker and, like, we had to deal with stuff like that.

It was just a lot of crazy stories. I do miss that job a little bit. I always wanted to start my own business in South Dakota because you don't need a license. But I never really got to it because I'm trying to gather my certifications for cybersecurity, which is not going very well at the moment, but I'm working on it. That's why I quit my job, too, is I need to focus more time into that. I took out some money. I just need to hit up my counselor for school again and get back into it.

Well, we wish you the best. Sorry to hear that things kind of, you know, whatever things escalated to the point that you had to leave. That's never fun. Like, I mean, yeah, good luck on the next venture. And hopefully, you know, that's, gets you where you want to be and get you just doing something. Hell, yeah. Thank you. If I could say walking away from bad management,

is it sucks, but it's also the best. Right? Like, because usually a bad manager makes you think that you owe them your job. And at that point, by the time you're like, fuck you, I don't need this anymore. It's, who said it? No divorce ever ends because things are going well. What is it? Like, no divorce ever happens because things are going well.

Nobody's ever like, oh, things are going great. Let's break this off. Like, it's always bad. in the long run. So, yeah. I believe in you. Yeah, I just think they, they did a lot of buyouts

for our management and they replaced them with like, low ends. Yeah, idiots. They got a lot of people harassing our workers, not following the union rules, basically treating them like they don't are human.

And it was just, even fighting a lot with the management. It's just not going anywhere. I just said, this isn't worth the few hours a day I work there. They've been cutting our hours. So it's like, whatever. I'm out. Like, I know my worth. Goodbye. Good for you. Yeah. Good for you. Tell us about some of the lifting history. Now you're in Strongman. We know you were doing power lifting. What was before that? What got you into that? You're jacked as shit, so you can't. Correct. The note's literally, she started lifting in 2022 or 2023. I'm like, yeah, okay. Unless she's fucking been doing shrugs since she was 11, I think. I'm gonna wrap stuff to her goddamn forehead.

Oh, my God. I, when was it? I think it was 2023, summer. I started lifting a little bit. Sure. Yeah, sure. Well, actually, well, yeah, hold on, Natty or not. For perspective, though, like, you could, like, I guess it would make sense.

How old are you, Bopark? 28. Okay, so, yeah, you still, you're, yeah, I guess. Still made of magic. Like, you can rubber. Yeah, like, Joey and I don't, don't lift until we turn 40. And then, like, magically we don't just get jacked. So youth is still on your side.

I mean, I just, I think it's, I don't know if it's the way I train, if it's what I eat. Like, when I first started lifting, a lot of it came from UPS. Like, my shoulders for a little bit more broad than I had biceps. Then I was like, hmm, this is really cool. It's not the main reason why I start lifting. But I liked the look, the feeling of being strong. I started going to crunch for a little bit. I didn't eat very well, but I was just, I was that person going in.

Talk about nuggets. Go and train till my veins pop and then down 10 nuggies. I could eat some nuggets right now. Some gordita crunches and chalupas. Gordita crunches are the best. They're really good. A fridge in an hour. Yeah, if I don't meal prep, I end up going to places like Taco Bell to eat. It's pretty bad.

Yeah, so much more financially, like, just enjoyable to be like, oh, I ate my packed lunch every day this week and I didn't spend any money. Like that, like, because like you literally, even if you try to eat, like, it's, you can take 18 bucks to eat anywhere. Like, you know, unless you not a Taco Bell. Six dollar box. With my job, too, like, if I, if I eat on the road a lot of times, like a lot of my driving is on the throughway. so all the places that are next on the throughway or even off the throughway, it's like inflated by like 40% of what like McDonald's or the Wendy's like and none of them have bathrooms. So you're going to eat that high fat crap. Your body is immediately going to go,

I'm not processing this. So by the next on route, where we call them on routes up here, you're like, well, now I need the bathroom. So there's another half an hour off my day. Yeah. That's not right. So so so so so so so so so so so so crunch fitness a couple years ago. How long were you were there before you were or was you know, did you end up going to Lowe's Well, no, I'm trying to think that as far as time. Like you said you did the liftathon. Did you see that where you were still just doing crunch? So crunch opened.

Crunch opened pretty recently that year. I got maybe a couple months before I started going there. And Lowe's opened up at the end of the year. And that's why I did the swap. And then after that, I did the liftathon. Then Livedar Lovizi 4. When I got to Lose, I realized some big dogs were lifting. in there. And I think that's what pushed me to lift a little bit differently. I had it more

set routine because I was that person. I just went to the gym. I was like, okay, I feel like hitting arms today or, you know, legs. I honestly didn't hit legs that much. I was not a leg person. I was about to say that when you're doing your own thing, you're not hitting legs. Don't lie to me. It was all upper body. But now I have to pay for that now and train legs extra hard to get where I want to be. So did you get into where you started working with a coach or paying for programming or just following people's old programs or anything? Or what are you doing? I worked with Casey for a powerlifting.

I only did powerlifting. I started in January, the end of January of, um, was it 2024 or 2025? I got my years ago. Yeah, it would have been January 2025 if you were prepping for Lift Hard Live Easy in 2025, which would have been the meet you did this summer. And then I trained with him. I stopped training with him because I was just financially. I didn't, couldn't have a coach. And someone hit me up for a cheap training coach.

So I did that. He helped a little bit. Powerlifting was just, I don't have any hate towards it, but it was really fatiguing. I didn't like going to the gym. It felt like a job almost. And it was just like, oh, great, I get to squat for the third time this week and bench for the third time this week. Deadlift. Oh, God, for the fucking third time this week.

That sounds like a program my old ass wouldn't be doing. once deadlift, one's been twice me. Yeah, it was three times a week, and I really love training accessories. Like, I love hitting biceps, doing traps. So I wanted to focus on that more. So when I moved to Strongman,

it felt like, I don't know, it felt like I was a little kid again is what I explained to people. It's like, oh, I'm going to go pick up a big rock today and throw it over, you know, the, yeah, like. It is. It's so fun. Like, it's something new every day,

you trained for the comp that you're signed up for is what I've learned. But like all the lifts are fun. Like I actually enjoy and look forward to going to the gym now and being like, oh, I got to do the axle cleaning press. Like that's my favorite one. That's awesome. Yeah. And you were competing this weekend.

Like we're right. Is that this weekend or next week? Yes, this weekend. This is Saturday. We have some crew members actually coming out. I just found out about. Yeah. There'll be a little.

Yeah. I know Jake was coming up. Colton will be there. Paul and Bryce. might make an appearance if they can, but it was Colton competing? Do you know that? Like, you're familiar with, I'm assuming you're no big Colton then, right? He's like one of the, he's a regular at Lowe's. I, but with people's schedules, I mean, very much he could never train at the same time.

Okay. Yeah, I don't think I ever really see him. I might have seen him. I've heard of his name. I know I'm trying to visualize who he is. I think I've seen him a couple of times. We kind of train it. I train at different times. It could be morning. It could be late at night or right after work, but. I think, I think the gig is up. Colton's never there. he's not actually training. Proof. He's out playing with his blood and doing his plasma stuff at the lab 24-7.

You know, being a dad and a husband, he's busy. Yeah, that's a busy life. Yeah. So as far as your show, anything you're looking forward to, anything you're nervous about, what's the, you know, I know, I know you said one of the lifts, you know, as far as the weight class goes, it was like, ah, shit, this is heavier than I think I can do. Yeah, I don't lie. I'm not, I'm excited to go just to experience it before. for my first big meet with you guys. I'm not very excited about my lifts.

You know, I was supposed to be in the 132 weight class, and I'm 147 right now. And I go to Casey. I was like, okay, so what's the difference between my axle clean and press? It's 95 pounds to 115. My PR just hit 95. So I'm like, okay, well, if I hit it once, I'm going to be happy. It's fine.

I'm not going to do it for reps and hurt myself. I'll be excited. The stones, in case he has so many stones, I wish he had some stones in between, what is it? 135 and 170. I want to go pick up the 170. Yeah, you definitely should be a 150 in there. That's a big jump. Yeah, because I can pick up the 150 keg just fine.

I just wish there was stones in between. So I know I'm going to hit the first two stones. I'll attempt the 170 because why not? And then we'll see how it goes from there. You know, my lifts will be all over the place. I'm excited to just do the event. I'm in there for the people. You know,

I guess it's a little crew meetup now. Yeah. And it's good. I think Tommy might even show up. Yeah, he was. He asked what time it was. So,

yeah, we'll see. That'd be cool. Like 9 a.m. I think. Yeah, that should be fun. No,

that's just, it is, it's fun to do like, like, like, I mean, I'm assuming that Jim's like within 10 minutes from your house.

So it's like, it's like, it's low pressure. There's no, I gotta go get a hotel room. I got to go socialize the night before with people and figure all that out. So it's like just to live easy, it's its own monster of a weekend to like mentally, like even like I love hanging out with people, but like it's overwhelming as shit every year or two in general. So it's like not having to deal with that.

Just being able to like wake up, go lift, you know, it's just it'll be a good icebreaker for you to kind of get your teeth wet on strong wind for sure. Yeah, yeah. Too bad you won't be able to see anything, you know, but other than that, it's. Yeah. I hope he has a flashlight. Yeah. You were those headlamps.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you just walk up to the wait and stand up. You'll be fine. Still, yeah, just stand up. Chaps my ass so much. What, just stand up or the darkness? No, no, no, no. I don't think if I didn't do lighting for a living,

probably wouldn't care as much. But like, it's just like nothing should be dark. Like, it's so easy to replace lights. It's so. Everything should be dark. Like my soul. Like, I don't, the overhead lights, you don't use those. Those are the bad lights.

You got to use these little lights. I don't use my overhead, apparently. It's all duck in here. Is your room just like wall-to-wall desks with computers? Yeah, this basement is. I got a couple PCs set up right now. It's kind of messy, but. That's because she's out there hacking and docks and people who are mean on, was it, Counter-Strike?

Oh, who put that on there? Did I put that on there? Somebody did. I laughed. I laughed when I read. When I was in high school, I played a lot of call of duty, and I was so fucking fed up with the idiots on Twitter. And because I was in the call of duty community,

I went to MLG events. I traveled to Anaheim and Orlando for them. And, you know, we meet a lot of people from the Twitter community that play Call of Duty. We played UMGs for money online, um, money eights. And we dealt with a lot of,

there's a lot of hacks. hackers online that would love to go after women mostly. They, you know, send police department to their house and do all those crazy shit and it was a crazy world I lived in with that. So I got so pissed off. I started learning how to do the same thing to them.

Good. That was a fun little hobby. My mom hated it. She didn't like that. I was involved with that stuff, but I was like, these people are fucking pissing me off. I got one of them arrested. Um, nice. The one that was messing with me and my, like, they called a, they called a bomb threat to my fucking school.

And it was, it was so crazy. And I was so fed up after that. I was like, I had to talk to detectives. It was crazy all over a fucking video game. I was like, bro, really? Yeah. That was a crazy time back then. I think, I don't know.

I don't think anyone these days could handle the things we dealt with and Call it Duty back then in gaming. It was so toxic. No, it's, it's, I've seen a few Twitch streamers. It's still kind of is. So good for you for, for hitting back. Like, that's, that's dope. I'm real proud of you for that.

That was fun. Not that it means anything, but like, that's amazing. Good work for you. I just hate mean people, man. Like, I get being toxic in a video game is fun sometimes, but that was just, the hacker thing was too much. Yeah. And it was pissing people off.

Swatting people, swatting people over Call of Duty. Like, calm down. Putting their information online. It's like, seriously, dude, like, this is fun for you. You're going to get caught. You're going to be in prison. Yeah. That's the point.

Over a game. Yep. The Call of Duty was, that was a good old days. I do appreciate the good times with that game. So I'm reading how much you, you, you know, I'm sorry. Yeah. You have reading how much how you'd love being outside. You love hiking and you love doing that.

And then you've lived in Florida for five years. Or than other places that were warm. Like, how is, uh, How is getting used to seasons and winter and when you're an avid outdoors lady, outdoors woman, outdoorsmen? Outdoorsmen, yeah, there you go. How are those South Dakota winters treating you? I don't handle the cold very well. I can adapt pretty, like if I put on like six layers of clothes, I'll be fine.

Like I've been hiking in the snow. Yeah, my snow pants on. And when you're going through the hills, you know, it gets hotter. So you just take off a couple layers. I don't like I think I spent most of this winter inside though it's pretty there's a few times it hit so cold outside you know my car battery died uh it felt like I was gonna die as soon as I stepped outside it's I think it's the what is the Midwestern thing if it wasn't so windy out you literally isn't the wind you think people that haven't been to South Dakota I think that's a joke but like year one of crew falls like I saw people's hats go flying the other direction like like I've never seen t-shirts like Whipple and the wind as much as like people like walking from their car to the gym because it's like 50 degrees or something but it was we had like I think you're one it was really warm but the wind was like fucking

I don't know the mile per hour but it's just like wild like I've never saw so many hats go flying and it really is the wind that gets you there's something about like the landscape in winter like maybe just because I'm Canadian I'm spoiled but it's gorgeous because it's so barren yeah it's pretty what's the what's the meme like um the the the the male fantasy of bleeding out here. You have seen those? You get that Allison Jane's song over it. Yeah, exactly.

But like that's not untrue. Like it's so pretty you want to die there you're saying? Yeah, you're out hiking in the winter and you look and like, like everything's got that small layer of snow. The river is frozen and you're like, I could die here and it would be fine. Like every morning at 5 a.m. in the past like three months, just walk outside. I was like, oh. Up here, it's been awful.

Like, it's been, so this morning was like minus 10 Celsius. And then yesterday was like plus two Celsius at five in the morning. Like, how does anything survive that? Like, even as a person who's okay with the cold, give me cold or give me warm, stop giving me one of each every 24 hours. Yeah, it was, it was really nice out today here. and before that it was just, it snowed a little bit yesterday. So it was just weird how bipolar the weather is here.

Yeah. It's different from Florida. I mean, Florida was bipolar, but you know it was going to rain 90% of the week every single week. So it was like that or sunshine. And then here we, so I work in one town and I live in another and there's an escarpment in between. So an escarpment for those of you who don't know isn't a mountain, even though we call it that colloquially. it's just like where a plateau, what do you call those? A plateau, I guess.

Yeah. So it's like, it's where the fault line meets and raises up and then fuse together. I was driving home from work, which is down the escarpment, and it was snowing. And then I got up here and it was plus one. Like, because all of the wind just stops at the escarpment. So all the weather just stops at the escarpment because there's a lake right up against the escarpment. it's an annoying pardon me pardon my rant

you're good so have we have we got you on good reads yet I know you've recently gotten there's a bunch of reading and we had a lot of we had a lot of book talk you know we watch

and uh and well fuck was Andrew Andy you know Andy literally like flamboyantly fall on the ground when someone said something about a book he liked and no one else did or something to that extent so you know I enjoyed a lot of the book talk

we had there at crew falls but uh good reads Is that something you've downloaded and got on yet? I haven't gotten on Goodread. I was told to do that. I need to clear up some space on my phone because I have so many apps. But I remember, I think it was Hannah at Crew Falls, brought up books. And then Andy got in the conversation and just went into like, oh, we should start a book club.

I don't know if they did that yet or anything. But I would love. So on Goodreads is that we do have a group, but Goodreads is very clunky with the groups on your, on mobile or on the app itself. so no one's really done anything about it. Like, I started a, I think we started a book. We have a book chat on our personal unpaid and narrated discord that you're only really get to see if you've been a guest. Which, like, we always thought, like, it's wild in general to realize that we have like 150 people in there now or something crazy because we've had that many, fuck it. It's just three years, three years later.

I was like, oh, yeah, got 137, nine people or whatever. That's a good discord. but yeah. Yeah, I'll jump in on that app. I can't remember how do you how do you get into the group? Is there like a little link or like a thing you join? On the,

specifically on Goodreads there. If you just search, I can, it's there. I don't know if you have to get invited or not, but like if you find a couple mutuals and they're all part of it, so I can send you a link off air. Okay.

Yeah, I'll download that tonight. A lot of video game stuff. I'm going to leave that to Joey because I don't, It's like reading Greek to me. I'm like, I know what that word means, but not in that context. After last week's episode, me and Chris going off on comic books and then stopping that, and then you would bring up something about the gym,

and then we would go right like in the comic book movies. Also, see a lot of your stories and stuff. You know, you got one of your Renfair costumes on or your cosplay. I guess what caught, Renfair and cosplay would be different, but in general,

like feel free to elaborate on your enjoyment and what you do with all that with your costumes. I think it's really fun to dress up and go to events and not just pretend to be something else. It's like,

you put effort into something to look a certain way. Like, by Renfares, I like going as Viking or Shield Maiden. I think it's, you know, because you got the muscle and that's a really badass outfit to wear.

It's either that or I, I think I didn't. elf one time. That was fun with it. Then cosplaying. I went to a... Where did I go? I went to Magfest this year. It's a big gaming convention

for like not just video games but like arcade games, pinball. Oh, cool. Board games, Magic the Gathering. I went as Frost from Mortal Kombat and I went as a Hobbit. Damn, that's cool. Yeah. That was really fun. I actually, I had a

had sewn that outfit together. It didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, but it looked all right. And I bought the wig. I don't know, something about dressing up. And just acting in character is really cool. Especially at a rent fare. You know, you have two meads in your hand.

You're a Viking. You're like, ha-zah. And you talk to people like you're a Viking and just stupid shit. But I can see you. LARPing adjacent. Yeah, yeah. When you're in costume, do you lose some of your nervousness? I can, I'm guessing that you do, don't you?

Like when you're in that element, or are you still as, not antisocial, but are you still as nervous interacting with people? Or is it kind of like, can you kind of turn a switch a little bit and be like, oh, I'm a different person so I don't have to be. This person isn't nervous. The anxiety is still there because, you know, you're in a giant event with like 30,000 people. But, you know, when you're with your friends, you kind of flip a switch, you feel more a little bit loose. Someone comes up to you and you're like, oh, I know who you are. I saw a scorpion from Mortal Kombat come up to me a couple of times. We were like fighting, fake fighting and stuff like that.

That's where I was like, this is really cool. I'm comfortable doing this, yeah. Was that stuff you had to travel pretty far for? Or is there like something in like the Twin Cities? That was in DC kind of area, the harbor, yeah. Because I had mentioned to some people in the Discord that I was going out there and they're like, oh, because I was looking for a gym to lift at it. They're recommending like Strongman gyms and stuff.

stuff. But I wanted to meet up, but I didn't have time because we were so busy with the convention. Yeah, what's it like playing in a dart league in Florida? And why was that worth bringing up? Like, is there a story there? I saw her play darts at Lux. Lux. Yeah, that was fun. I don't play as much as I used to, but I randomly, I got so bored one day, and this was during the time I was doing the PI stuff. I just wanted a different hobby besides video games. And someone brought up a Dart League. And it was like, you know, pay 50 bucks go join this league. You can compete and stuff and win money or prizes. And I ended up getting

kind of good at it. And I was just proud that I did something like that. Because I'm not, I'm the type that doesn't go out, get myself out there that much. You know, a lot of my life, I was just kind of inside or alone, outdoorsy, playing video games. I wasn't a part of a bunch of clubs in high school or college and stuff like that. So that was impressive for me. It was fun. You know,

I get to travel around Florida, going to different bars, playing darts, compete. That's awesome to hear. I'm glad Joey's shit on it. I'm sorry that Joey shit on that before, you know,

having to be such a, no, I understand. It's just like, it's in there and I'm like, okay, there's got to be a really cool story here. I know,

I know. No, it turns out it was just awesome. It was just awesome. It was fun. I never thought I'd be in a dart league. Dart adjacent. Who's a better pool player?

You or Hannah. Oh, fuck, man. God, I was so drunk that night. Yeah. She's really good at pool. I think we both were a little even on that. But we were on the same team, so it was like, I mean. I think the game that me, you and Anthony and Hannah played lasted like a half hour.

It was the longest. game and I'm pretty sure and I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure you striked on like the first or not strength but you you sunk the eight ball but I caught it and put it back on the table so we could still play because I was like we just put money in this thing I don't want the game to be over nobody saw that stupid so then we just played

you know we played like extra shit pool for like a half hour but that was a fun game that was a really fun night so good at pool good at good at darts what are you hawkeye I would she's better I don't know much about the Marvel universe, but Hawkeye is probably one of my favorite characters.

Neither of them probably like snow plows. Snow plows. She doesn't like the cold and he almost died with a snowplow. We, uh, like, got ran over by his, like, own snowplow on like his ATV or something and, like, almost died a couple years ago. That's crazy. I didn't even know that. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, Jeremy Renner. Oh, the guy that played him. Oh, geez. Yeah. I was not following you.

there. No, yeah, the actual actor, like, almost died shoveling. Holy shit. Plowing snow with his, I want to say it was like a side by side of the plow on it or a snowblower. And somehow he got ran over or under it or something happened for who's in the hospital for like months and several broken bones. Damn, dude. I had no idea. I thought he said Hawkeye got run over.

Yeah, I was going through the Avengers movies because that's only thing Keith would know. I was like, I don't remember that. Like, what a weird thing. to include an end game. The reason I couldn't fight Thanos. I got ran over by my snowmobile or snowblower. All right. Good thing.

Stories. So much Taco Bell. Like, is it the Taco Bell story? Are there multiple Taco Bell stories? Or is it just the three people that submitted just know that so many lines. There's multiple lines about Taco Bell and you pooping yourself. And that's where it's got to be a poop.

story there because it's not just someone being funny because it is like three times. Yeah, and you're an unpaid and underrated. Keith loves to hear poop stories. Don't say we. I've heard. We, we, the collective crew.

Okay. We've had some, so like, today we've had some really funny, like, elaborate. That's true. And then I shit my pants in front of,

like, a tour bus of people on the side of a mountain or in front of a, a, a, a 4-H club or something. It's just been, I think Nate was the favorite, because, like, we didn't ask him.

And he was like, you're not even ask me about my poop story? And we're like, what? And he was, like, so happy to tell him. I don't know how his didn't end in divorce, too. Like, that's the most of why. Love, keep. True love. But, like, it's fine.

Everyone's like, you can shit yourself. That's perfectly acceptable. Like, you shouldn't, no one's going to divorce you for shitting yourself. But what you did after that, Nate was the most heinous act. Nate put it on the sink and walked away. I heard about that. No, he put a note on it that said, please take care. I don't even.

it was just take care of this or something like woman this is your job like it was so bad like it wasn't that bad but it was like that but it was also I think like 21 years old and didn't know how to so he didn't want to take it care of himself I'm sure that 30 year old Nate wouldn't do that now but it

was really a thing Sabrina Carpenter has a song about that that's so funny yeah I think one of your podcasts I listened to first thing I me off. I was like, he's talking about shitting himself. I don't remember who it was. But it was so funny. I was like, okay, so this is what we can

talk about. It would have been anybody. Yeah, if you'd be telling me the context of the story, I could probably remember who it was. Was it the one where you just talked about? I can't remember. No, did he, I think he shit himself on, like, at the gym or I can't remember. But it was funny. It was really funny. Oh, yeah.

It was one of your earlier ones. But nothing stands out that you would, I mean, you don't have to share a shit story, but if people have a funny one, it would, no, we don't, we don't, it's, none of it's ever meant to embarrass people. It's just if there's a funny story, we like... It's humanizing the crew. Yeah, but if there's not... We all get together and talk about how we shit ourselves one time. But the fact that like seven people said you shit your pants, like,

it's either seven multiple times or you just told the same story at all, every single person. And that's all. You know, when you're sitting in Discord or, I don't know, it's like you guys video games, but I, there was one time, it was actually the time with the chicken nuggets. Uh, I don't know what threw my stomach off, but I was sitting there there and I had said something about like ripping one and it happened to not be that. So we were in the middle of an intense game too. So I literally said it. I think I just shit myself. I didn't come back for like a solid 45 minutes. I think. Because you had to have a shower, obviously. A shower? I sat in the toilet for about 20 minutes and I washed my clothes.

I had to change. It was really bad. Never ate Taco Bell after that until like three months later. Three months. See there is. Now, I'm going to assume it's just someone Josh and you and part of the story. Ah, Josh, that's ironic.

Yeah. The things they hate. Like, I assume this would have been under things you love, but someone submitted things you hate as clean underwear. I don't know if that's in the wrong spot or if there's a more funny story there about. I think that's about the thing I just said. Okay.

That's what I thought. But so someone just, that's an elaborate way to bust your chops of things she hates. That's probably busts. That's really funny. Probably because of all the protein we eat, you just rip an ass. Oh, yeah. No, I have to warn my coworkers multiple times. I was like, guys, like, I'm going to work like 20 feet away.

Don't come down here the rest of the day because I'm literally farting every 10 minutes. And it's really bad. Like, like, we're in a non-ventilated hallway replacing lights. Like, stay away from me. It's a hot box. It's bad. I think within my first month at my new job, the guy that I work the closest with,

I said, hey, I'll be right back. And he's like, oh, the washroom? I'm like, yeah, I don't know what's going to happen,

but I think it should happen over water. And that was apparently the funniest thing he has ever heard. He has never let that one go. Yeah, that's fucking funny. Anything standing out, Keith? Do you want to get into a crew? I do want to.

I got to scroll. I want to go down and look at proud real quick. I can't believe there was a lot of Taco Bell in there. So you did work at Taco Bell then? No. No. No, the quitting Taco Bell. Oh, quitting, consuming Taco Bell.

Yeah, eating it. Word. I give it a break. I come back sometimes. I haven't, like, I had Taco Bell for the first. So I worked at Taco Bell when I was like 16. And I think I'm one of like the only people in the world that went, actually this isn't that bad and like didn't hate it after I worked there.

because like I saw that they do take care of the food. Like I saw the heat and how they take care of everything. But I also just don't eat fast food as often. But I did go once with one of those like big boxes or something. And they now have like a deep fried taco. Yep. Yeah, I could see myself like dying on those. That was incredible.

They have a grilled cheese burrito too. It's really good. Oh man. And then I had my first Baja blast because we don't really have those up here in Canada. I let my kid try it Can I have more? And I'm like, no, six-year-old. You cannot have more mountain dew.

It's addicting, man. Yeah, I pulled one out of some of the disc. We had some Instagram submissions that I copy and paste it in. And the one that stood out the most that we hadn't already kind of touched on to some extent was your lean beef patty meetup or what all entailed with that. Oh, yeah.

I jokingly signed up for a Versa Grips contest. Very great company. I like their stuff. They gave it. I randomly won. And I was like, oh shit, this is really cool.

Okay. They sent me a really nice belt. It's like a soft belt. And these custom engraved wraps, they're like those wraps that kind of tie tight and then they have that rubbery part. Yeah. Yeah. They're a good alternative.

I can't really, I mean, I can't do a ton with them in Strongman, but they're great for barbell accessories and stuff. Like you can, I do like lap pull downs with them too, sometimes. Very, very innovative, cool device. I like better than regular straps for most things. Yeah, I got flown to California, Long Beach, and I spent two days there. When I first flew down, I didn't have anything to do the first day. So I went on a whale watching tour. I just wanted to be on a boat.

So I was like, this is cool. I haven't been in the ocean since I've been in Florida. That's a good excuse. Sauce. No, honestly. I saw some whales. Yeah, I want to go Zisa. I want to be on a boat.

A whale thing would help. Yep. Yep. I was just, the boat, like the waves are perfect. It felt like you're like riding a horse. I don't know. It was cool. The boat was big and I had a good time.

It was nice weather. It wasn't snowing or freezing. I just did my own thing the first day. And then the second day, I met up with Patty. We went to her personal gym. We were supposed to go to L.A., but some plans changed. So we had to go to her town.

And she met up with me. You know, we were both kind of shy. And I didn't expect her to be so short. She is tiny. She is really small. But she was cute. She was shy. We hit legs.

And I think that was the hardest in a long time. that I hit legs. Like my legs were hurting for three days after that lift. And she told me that. You already told us she never hit legs anyway. So I mean, I'm not surprised with her. Yeah.

But she, she likes training with me. She was like, I trained with a lot of people and this was the most fun because we were like uplifting each other. She was helping with my reps. You know, I was matching her weight on stuff because she's been lifting a lot longer than me.

So I was like, I'm going to challenge myself. And she was doing like, what did she do RDLs? She did like two plates on RDLs. I tried to match up with her and that was pretty tough. I got a couple reps and, you know, she was helping me lift up the bar and stuff.

She gave me a bottle of pre-workout. She took me out to eat after. We went hiking at the beach. It was really fun. So I think that the big question here was, how do you know her? It was just from that. Oh, okay.

from the contest. It was part of your contest win, right? That's what I mean. That's what I gathered. But she followed me on Instagram and she didn't have to. And I was like, I'm not a big fitness, like, influencer person. But like, meeting her was really cool. I didn't expect her to be so nice and stuff. And she's really helpful. Like we, she helps me. I ask her questions about meal plans and cutting and stuff like that. She helps me out. She still does. Super dope. I wonder. Tive you, do you think that the content, like, I'm not saying like, about to not throw a shit, but like, do you think it was really? to play. Like to where they're like, we have to pick someone that's like not going to be some like old weird fucking like fat dude that wants to go out and like train. Like you know awkward to be if like some like some dude that the Riza is going to have the docks. Yeah. She's not going to like that person and like they have to like security and shit like how like awkward that would be to they would just be like all right what's like a normal like person that she'd be comfortable with. I mean I'm curious. I'm not saying that that's what happened but it's like that could have been such a shitty experience for her. Just take the competition. away from Reza, that's good. No, you're not wrong. You're honestly not.

I'm tracking what you're saying, Keith, that actually, yeah. I thought the same thing too. I do think maybe they kind of went through and was like, okay, this person looks normal. Yeah, it's just some weirdo that wins. You just stand there panting while they're trying to work out. Yep. I think she was happy because when I met her, I wasn't like, oh shit, it's Patty. I'm going to freak out.

I was just like, oh, this is like fucking lived with someone who's just like me. We have a lot in common. You know, we conversated about a lot of the anime video games. She doesn't play video games, really, but I told her about my stuff. She wants to learn strong men, but she said she's not going to compete, but she wants to, like, learn the lift. She was putting in her notes things that I do to train as a strongman and stuff like that. That was really funny.

Tell her she should come to Lift Hard Live Easy. I have, I wore my Masonomics gear. I was like, hey, you should come to Lift Hard Live Easy, you know, but I told her I might come down for a strongman meet. She told her, she told me to hit her up if I ever do, and she'll come watch or something. So it was pretty cool. Can we also point out for the listeners?

I actually know who that is. And I don't know any, I don't know any influencers. I don't. I vaguely know who she. I definitely. I only vaguely know her because of memes. Yep. And then I was like, who is that?

Oh, wait. Yeah, that's who that is. I don't think I follow her anything. But like, hey, I know somebody. I'm proud of myself. I think she was the only person I really followed besides like Seabom. That was like a big influencer. Just because like I like their physique.

That's kind of how I want to be ripped and lean. So it was nice following them for their routines. Like Seabom posts. What does he do? He does CrossFit now. He's doing less muscle building but more like mobility training with weights and stuff. It's really. Yeah.

That makes sense. I like seeing that new stuff. stuff. So you said you want to be, you know, ripped and lean, but at one point you wanted to be a car, right? Yeah. I mean, I still want that too. Love a good segue. I want to be a mountain, too.

That's another thing. Well, that's just something for me. I mean, that was like a real thing. Like your mom might have submitted or something. Like you pretended to be a car or wanted to be a car or something. Oh, she might have meant to put a dog or a cat or something. Oh, okay. Was it my mom that submitted that?

I think it was. I'm pretty sure. She liked to pretend she was a car when she was little. That might have been cat. Oh, okay. She was in the mountains when she sent that. That's embarrassing. I used to pretend that I was a dog when I was little.

Okay. I was really little. That's funny. That's why my son. What little kid doesn't? My joke. Well, no. That's why if it was just pretending to be a cat or a dog, I probably wouldn't

say anything, but like, pretends to be a car. Like that's just yelling her. Kerchow and running around. I guess it's like, I don't know, like, people, like, I never saw up, but doesn't that Cars movie, like, really popular with kids and shit? It's what I just referenced.

That's when I said, Kerchow. Yeah, I've never, never seen it, so I don't know. I just know that. What? I don't, never, never been glazed by this gay. I haven't, I would have never watched it. No, you're never too old for cars.

You need to watch it at least one. Yeah. Well, you would say that. You love cars. No. That's what you are. That's what you are. Because it's a fake more sense why like

I was like, because we always like to hit someone with something like not childhood, sometimes it is trout. Sometimes it is childhood trauma. Well, other times it's just something from your childhood. But our goal is to always get the guest to go, oh, fuck, who told you that at least once? And then, uh, I'm surprised it wasn't, you were like, oh, you should pretend to be a car.

And she's like, well, when I was young, my so-and-so died. And I wanted to be a car because of that. It's just like, fuck. This was supposed to be fun. That would have been funny. That car took my grandpa, so I pretend to take him over. I'm going to mute you there, buddy. Is that okay?

Yeah, I don't know. We got a way on time. We need to get into games. We got, I'm trying to make sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me look for on just around two hours. Is anything on the Instagram? Let's see.

Lord of the Ring. A lot of that stuff will come up still. No, yeah. We still have like three games to play. All right. Yeah. So a big guest here that still Joey keeps making me think of her name wrong. FMK.

So you got to fuck one of these. Mary one of them, kill one of them. You have your druthers, little or as much explanation as you want. Do you want to, so someone's, you know, there's a lot of stuff your love that was submitted. And there's one that's like things you hate. I think I'm going to go with the things you hate just to make it hard on you. What do you think of that? That's fine.

All right. So FMK, League of Legends. runescape, new Star Wars movies. League of Legends, Runecape, and the new Star Wars series. Oh, I'd marry Runecape. Because I know I say I hate that game, but I give it credit. It is a really good long-going game. Is Lou throwing you off?

Do you want me to turn off his camera? No, no. I would. I would, but I always do. I'd very no I'd fuck legal legends and I'd kill the new Star Wars sequels. There we go. Yeah, that would be. That one was easy.

Did you watch them all or did you give up after the first couple of? I watched them all and it's excruciating pain. Rewatch them at all or just the ones that theater and were just like, whoop, that's a shitty movie. I'm not one of those big haters like with things like every like, for example, everyone hates the hobbits because of the CGI, how rushed it was. but I actually appreciate the positives of that movie. I love the actors and stuff.

Yeah, I love watching them. I always have them on my marathon. I think the Hobbit movie, the Hobbit series was better than the Harry Potter, the fucking, the one with all the critters, whatever that one is called.

I did not enjoy that series as much. Yeah, I'm not a big Harry Potter fan, but yeah, the new Star Wars, I think Disney just doesn't listen to their fans. You know, they could produce a lot of good,

content. They just kind of, even the actors were like, we didn't even know what we were doing half the time. It was just made up on the spot. It was not a great. They had it just, they didn't execute it very well. They had a great start, you know, the Force Awakens. I'd rewatch that. You know, it wasn't a terrible movie. But after that, it just got really bad. Well, Rogue, I mean, I love Rogue One. Rogue One. Is Rogue One the only good standalone movie, though, out of like the other three or. Yeah, that is a really good one. And then there was another one, wasn't there? Or was it just Han Solo? Obi-Wan? Well, those are a series. I'm trying to think of like the bigger, the big butt. Well, that's a whole other thing. The series of peaks and valleys there,

but that's another game for another day. Yeah, Rob 1 was one of their best movies. I love it all around. I think they did really good with that one. All right. You got to Rushmore for her, bud? Yeah. Mount Rushmore of your favorite Goosebump's books.

Oh. Oh, God, those are those are old. Oh, God. Somebody submitted it. That would be very hard to answer. That's okay. We can always do something else. Not Rushmore.

I love the Night of the Living Dummy series, from what I remember. The Haunted Mask one, was it called that roller coaster land place? That book was really good in the game two. Oh, there were companions. games with them? I don't remember that. Yeah, they had games on the DS. Some park with, it was a horror

park. It was a horror land. Camp Jelly Jam? No, I think it was Welcome to Horrorland or something like that. And then I think the book was called Say Cheese and Die. Something about the camera. I really liked that one. There's a lot of good ones. I just don't remember all the names of

them. I do have a collection somewhere at home, though, some books. I didn't get back into reading those. Nice. Classics, though, from a childhood. I don't really did the goose, but I think, I don't know if it was, they were around when we were kids, right, Joey? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I feel like they've been around for like 30 years.

Long time. There's some I haven't even read still. They're out there. Yeah, they got mishandled bad by their publisher. Also, I think R.L. Stein was a team of people. I don't think he was pumping out books that often. Was the series any good? because the one with Ross from Friends.

Like, I think he was like a main character in it or something. I know there was a, like, a somewhat recent goosebumps, like TV series. I never watched it. There was a movie with Jack Black as well. Yeah, I remember that. That was a while ago. No, I just, I can't stand David Schwimmer. Like, he's-

Tanner's favorite actor. He greats me. Friends greets me. Pivot. Pivot. Yeah, pivot. We should pivot in another game. Let's see where we at.

I got some affiliates for you guys. So Barbar, Rescue, Home GymCon, and Apparel from the Strength Coat Unpaid, to save you a little bit of money at all those locations. Check them out. And we have this game we like to pay,

play. We don't pay for it. We pay for what pays us and now we play this, yes. So unpaid or underrated. So I'm going to give our guest here a handful of topics. Joey's going to give her handful of topics,

and it's her job and duty to use her druthers and explain to us why each topic is unpaid or underrated. Unpaid being shitty because no one wants to be unpaid and underrated is awesome. So unpaid or underrated

oh, let's go with Minutamed Lemonade. Underrated. That was really good. Get from Taco Bell too. It's every time. Is that like packets or is that the shit where it's like

the frozen thing in the freezer you break open like it's biscuits and then you pour six cups of water in with... I don't know that I've had Minutemate since I was a kid.

I don't know. I don't drink it that way. I just get it from everywhere I go. Oh, you just mean so like just in the fountain drink. Yeah, yeah.

Or like a bottle. Yeah. Every now and then I find one that's like, it's like light or it's like Minut Made like no sugar added or Minut made light or something. I'm like, oh, that's, you know, you feel better about not being so horrible for you.

Um, let's say. unpaid or underrated Will Ferrell movies Unpaid I Like Yes You know

Step Brothers was funny There's a couple movies I also just don't like Will Ferrell I think he's kind of creepy But I don't Like comparing him to like

Adam Sandler movies I'd go for Adam Sandler movies Any day over his They're just I don't know I never really found him to be that funny But Step Brothers was a funny movie Not even your own

I don't have I seen that one? I don't know if I have. I don't classify it as a Will Ferro movie. I think he just happened to be in it. I've never heard of that. Eurovision. What did you call it? Eurovision.

Yeah. It came out like during the pandemic and like saved, for me, saved movies during the pandemic. I've never seen that. Oh. That one looks interesting. So it's based on a big competition that happens over in Europe. Canada and the US have been part of it, but we never do well. where you have to write and perform a pop song.

And you do different versions of it. Is that a musical? A movie, ish. I can't stand a music. No, no, no. It's not like a musical where like everybody suddenly breaks out into dance. It's based on the pop competition. And I will tell you that movie is genuinely funny.

Yeah, you guys got long hair. Yes. It's actually the singer that sings for Rachel McAdams is a, former loser of the Eurovision who wrote all of her songs. That movie's amazing. It's not a Will Ferrell movie. He just happens to be there. He said a lot of the pictures I'm looking at. Well, because he's the biggest name, right? Yeah. But the guy that plays the main antagonist is a Russian singer who uses the strangest voice, but he's apparently like actually a really good singer, but in this movie decided to be a complete weirdo and have this like super deep, crazy Russian voice.

might be worth a watch. Like if you're just sitting around and you're like on Netflix, try that one. You might hate it. Might hate it, but I thought it was really funny knowing a little bit about Eurovision

because Little Big was in Eurovision one year and in Canada we don't get a lot of Eurovision. Lordy, I know you're into rock music. Do you ever heard of Lordy? I've heard of Lordy. I don't listen though. Okay, but they won Eurovision one year.

Yeah, okay. That's where they came from. Interesting. I didn't know that. I'll give that shots on Netflix. I have Netflix. I like to watch movies at least once one time around. I hate it, whatever.

I got a 6.5 out of 10 rating. Wrong. I don't trust in the internet. 6.5 is actually like, that's not bad on IMBD. Like, that's like a fair. Like most movies are rated between a 6 and a 7, like on that platform in general. And that's what I rate most movies. And great soundtrack.

Go ahead. Sorry. All right. I think I'm going to go two more. So unpaid or underrated journaling. Underrated. I think I think it's really healthy.

Do you know? Yeah, I think it's good to jot down your thoughts, your goals, your dreams, and things you want to get done. I think it does something good to your brain and gets you off your phone and you get time to yourself. So with the pen and paper, is this print journaling or cursive journaling? print. I wish I could write in cursive. I wish I was cool enough to write in cursive and to read it. I can't read it for the life of me.

There was a good bit of cursive talk the last couple weeks in the discord on the podcast. So that's kind of why I threw that in there. And I want to hit you with this one just because it was it was right next to what I just saw in journaling. And it's the way you submitted it makes me chuckle. So bombing hills in Arizona on longboard. Is that snowboarding? I'm guessing like. Oh, longboarding. I don't know what that means. So it's a big skateboard. It's like a big, it's like a cruising skateboard. Oh, okay, okay. Like a 40 inch drops through kind of. When you see it. Like it like pivot so you can like visibly see it pivot.

But they call it bombing hills because you're starting at the top of a mountain hill and you are riding down on a long board. professionally, you can't do that. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll probably end up dying. But just a, you should. Good call Lou. I mean, there's so big glue nutters in the chat here. And he just said, did you just suggest snow in Arizona? And I had to like think about that.

And like, yeah, yeah, yeah, apparently I did. Well, there is snow. There's got to be mountains that have like, like, there are people like ski and fucking like. Yeah. Out west like, like California. And like I don't know, there's places where people can ski if they go high enough, right? There's no, there's snow. It's just, um, in one section of Arizona literally just, I think Tucson gets a little

snow sometimes. but Flagstaff has some, you go to Flagstaff, you don't even realize you're in Arizona anymore, because there's trees everywhere, mountains, scenery, and snow, and it's really pretty over there. It's cold. Arizona does get pretty cold in the winter. What I consider cold is like 50 degrees, but. I'm glad I asked that. Usually I don't do four, but I had to steal that last one there.

You said what? What? Sometimes it's fun to actually have people in here. And we almost never get Lou, so I'll take it. I was surprised. I was like, just, I was like, you're not wrong. 50 shorts.

All right. What do you got for? So we did that one. All right. Unpaid or underrated. All right. Cottage cheese. Underrated.

People crap on cottage cheese so much for its taste, But, you know, the protein, you can mix it in with, like, raw eggs in a blender, make eggs. I like to put it on my, I make bagels. I put avocado, cottage cheese, bacon, and, like, two eggs on it. It's so delicious. I don't think I would ever do with the cottage contest. I think that would make me puke. Yep.

Watching it on your guys' stories almost made me puke. But, no, I think cottage cheese is great. I think everyone should eat it. You put in almost everything. Unpaid or underrated crystals. Crystals, that's interesting one. Underrated, I think they're, I used to be a little bit of a hippie,

so I think they're really pretty. I collect rocks and crystals including, so there's a meme of my, I have like 50 pound rocks in my car right now. They're like crystal rocks. I took them from a hike. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to. I found that out later, but I took them.

And I use them with the lift with and now I'm strung in. So it makes a lot more sense that I have them. But I like crystals and rocks. I collect a little bit of them. I think crystals give a unique aura, depending on which ones you have. I won't get into the hippie, dipty crap. But I need a rakey. Is that what that is?

Huh? Is that rakey? Reiki? Reiki. Oh, like, like, um. Like using Chris, I don't know. I could be wrong, but what Reiki is. Yeah, I think they do use crystals in that.

I don't remember exactly what that is. Isn't that something with like the bowl or the sounds or, uh. Oh, that's using rocks to massage. All right. I was close. Okay. Yeah, that's a, that's different, isn't it? Like, that's like hot rocks or something.

Yeah, it must be. Hot stones. I think it feels good. I've heard. Hot stone's pretty damn nice, but it's fairly elaborate and I'm not paying extra for it. if you want to do it on the house, you can rub my back with a hot stuff. I also have two more.

Unpaid or underrated. Social media. Unpaid. I think social media is, I think it has benefits. Like you get to meet people, post things, get out there.

But I think for mental health, relationships, the amount of things that are online that are false, I think scrolling on your phone for out. Like there was a time I was addicted to like scrolling through reels or TikToks. I don't have TikTok anymore, but and I found myself not getting things done. And I made fun of people for saying, oh, it's an addiction.

And so I realized how bad of an addiction it was to the point where I would sit here for an hour or two scrolling. And then I'd get up like, I could have gotten this done. I could have gotten this done. So it's just like, I don't have the greatest view on social media. Do I use it? Yes. not as frequently as I used to.

It's a good training log for sure, but yeah. I try to get on TikTok less than once every six months. Yeah, same. I rarely load it. Okay, last one. Unpaid or underrated. Using add-ons for World of Warcraft. Oh, Jesus.

Unpaid. Ad-ons are like mods, if you don't know what those are. and there was a time where America was great in World Warcraft and having add-ons. Back in the day, we had to play World Warcraft without add-ons, bots, and we didn't have these damage meters to look at everybody's damage and crap on them for how they're playing. I think there's a lot of good add-ons,

like quality of life stuff, but now that World Warcraft has evolved so much, their game has basically put their own add-ons into the game, or you don't even need them anymore. But I try not to use them as much. I don't even have, like, the damage meter. There's some add-ons on there that customize the UI that are kind of cool, but, yeah, they're unpaid for sure.

I always thought that. See, I never played wow. I had a friend who was addicted and literally dropped out of school, to play it. And, you know, we used to be a proper country when Starcraft 2 was the big thing. I've heard good things about Starcraft. Yeah. And that eventually led to World of Warcraft, right?

That was the same, same universe. Yep. Okay. Yep. Okay. I think you passed unpaid and underrated. Good work. We can air this episode.

Thank you for having me. That was really fun. So now is the time. we mentioned it earlier, do you have anything you want to talk to us about? Any games you want to play with us? If not, that's awesome dope. You guys, you guys play. Some of you, the crew plays video games, right? Like, I know Hannah

and her boyfriend do. Yeah, Hannah and racing her big into it. Joy, it probably plays more than I do. I and I don't that much. I, like, I was just happy. I got the gold suit in Batman. It took me like 10 years. I'd love

to play games with the crew, but I usually just play a story mode or World Warc, actually today at 3 p.m. World Warcraft dropped their new expansion. I bought the early release, but you know, I was like, I got to do my podcast. I got to get away from Wow.

I was like, sitting here, itching the whole time. I was like, I can't wait to play tonight. But, um, I love the game. Fair amount. And then I'm waiting for GTA eventually. And then oh, yeah, if it ever comes out. I'm waiting on Wolverine.

I have to look into that. I don't know, like, what's the story mode? Or what's the, what's the, I didn't see a trailer or anything. And like, is that like a,

like, obviously it's Wolverine, but it's, so it's the same people that made the last Spider-Man game. Okay, so it's just, do you know to be Wolverine,

just walking shit up somewhat. Yeah. Yeah. dumb violent. Dumb violent. That sounds fun. My kids can't watch it. The gameplay is violent.

Uh, so I'm pretty excited for it, especially because the Spider-Man games were so incredible. And the storylines were just amazing. And for them to make that into a Wolverine game,

but they're like, now we're going to amp up the violence a hundred times. Yeah, I'm in. We're going to get that before. You'll get that before GTA sex, for sure, because it's already been announced. The release date, I think, is September.

Oh. They're really teasing us with that GTA. Yeah. Never going to happen. I'll be excited when it does. I play GTA 5 so much even now sometimes we still play. We mod it a little bit for fun, but. Oh, now you're into add-ons and mods.

Well, DTA, once you play a game so much, like, Eldon Ring or something, and you end up just wanting to be like, all right, the next run through, I'm just going to mod it or Skyrim or something. They're really fun. Now, World Warcraft's different with its mods. I actually have a question about the Lift Hard LiveE, easy. You know, for Strongman, we're going to be doing the stones over the, not over a bar.

Are we doing the cup holder? Yeah. Oh, cake? It'll be the, yeah. So the events, there is no, there, there is a mystery stone event, which no tacky, I think is the rule right now. We don't, we literally don't know what it is, but my educated guess is at some, it's either a, I think it's going to be a natural stone to shoulder, but it could be an, an Atlas stone to shoulder. I don't know. I could be completely wrong too, but like the fact that he's saying no tacky, it's like, well, then it's got to be something relatively not obnoxiously heavy. Like, it's not going to be a max stone over bar tackyless because like they're just leaving a lot of weight on the floor. So we'll see. As far as the moving

event, it's, I think it's going to be exactly what last year was minus the stalemate drags. So we're just, we're not going to have that like, you know, play into that bit. We're going to actually keep it more serious. keg, keg, keg, and it should it will be loaded into the, to the big drink spotter. I don't know the height on those. Okay, that's my ask.

It's probably in the open on Iron Podium as far as the height. If not, we could actually get that from Jake and Abby. So that's a good question. I don't remember it, I can't really remember it being super. I think the kegs last year, at least because it was a novice, it was a relatively light keg.

So it was hard to, to remember the height. But that is a good, good call because I do need to start, you know, in the next couple months, like really, locking in on that and I do I will want to set my my yoke to the right height but it won't

be to a platform it should just be it'll be you you should train it just over the the the the yoke so whatever the height ends up being set the yoke to that height and just even if you have to carry the same keg back because depending on what case he has for kegs you might have to literally just like run it back run it back run it back

so I don't know it's hard to say I want to assume maybe four feet but I don't I'm 5 foot 3, so I'm worried that it's going to be close to my height, and I struggle with getting up a little bit higher than 4 feet, I think it was. I'll have to look. I don't remember it being like a deterrent, but yeah, it's probably 48 inches, but we can confirm that and done Discord, I'm sure. Yeah, that'd be great.

I'd love to know that. I need to start. The mystery event for me is like the biggest, like, what do you do? It's like, I'm just going to, I'm going to, you know, because we're all. already don't want to carry, so it's probably not like a natural stone carry. It could be a natural stone to shoulder. It could be a natural, but like, you got to think of like what's logistically like not a big pain in the dick for Jake and Abby and, you know, the having it in the hotel and stuff. So it's like, you can't be anything where we're dropping like a 400 pound rock on the

concrete with one stall mat. So it's like, I think a stone to shoulder of some sort is probably it, but like, I don't. Okay. I've been practicing that. I don't know. I really, really don't know. So like, don't in July, don't be like, you fucker, you told me it was stone's shoulder. And it's a fucking something else. There's, uh, I don't know what it's going to be, but I think it's that. That's not, Hannah said the same thing. So I'm just training that. And it's, it's, stone to shoulder is humbling.

I, it's really hard. I don't know how you guys get that on your shoulder. Let your arm go. And like you can like, like, and also to call back when you were saying, like, you wish Casey had a sand, a stone in between those heights too. Like sandbags. are similar. They're not the same, but you're this far out. It's not the worst thing. Like, like, if, if the only bag you can shoulder is, you know, whatever weight, I mean, they don't

have a stone that light, like feel, you know, it is what it is. Like, you know, do what you can, but I don't know, it's fun. I'm stoked to, you know, watch a train over the next few months and excited to see how you do this weekend. So hopefully you, you know, hopefully, I'll, I'll give you some advice. Like, it doesn't matter if, like, if you zero a couple events, if you only hit the one rep because it's up 20 pounds in what you thought, like, it's just for fun. You're having fun with the friends. Like, this is you getting your toes wet into the sport of strong man. Whatever happens, don't get deterred.

Even if you go fucking, like, oh, for three and like, you know, shit the bed on a cup. Well, you know, hopefully don't shit because you didn't have Taco Bell the night before. But, uh, I might. I might eat it right. Taco Johns in Aberdeen. Yeah. Oh, that's even better. Just something what you were saying there, Keith, with, uh, no tacky.

When I went to that stone party, uh, the historical stones we lifted with, uh, you weren't allowed to use tacky because of the historical. importance of the stone. So maybe that could be... Yeah, and even if... Yeah, that could be interesting. But even if it is stone over the bar, like, I'm ready.

There's times I don't use tacky, but it definitely, like, is going to take, like, you know... Invest in some tape? Some amount of weight. I mean, it's just more, I don't know. Like, I don't even worry about the bruises. Like, I didn't even...

I taped a lot the first couple times, but that's not, like, necessarily... I don't feel that I'm grippier with tape. I just do it so you have less tacky on your forearms. Um, but yeah, I don't know. Lford Lazy would be fun. Your show this weekend will be fun.

And that's just Casey putting it on too, right? It's not like another person coming to run it. Yeah, it's just Casey. Show. He has to make all this. Yeah. He has to do non-sanction. And someone told him he has to start doing it.

So now it's all sanctioned. So he's got a bunch of big leagues coming in to get qualified for a bigger comp or something like that. Oh, that's cool. So you might actually, well, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully you can see it because maybe he's got the lighting fix tonight, but I doubt it. Tonight, yeah. That's kind of a, maybe, I mean,

such as, like, if the whole thing is in that back room, it kind of like leaves for no audience. There's no. It's crowded. It might not be. Maybe they clear out some of that power lifting area. I don't know. Last time they did it, they just had everyone sit in chairs alongside and then the strong

men in the middle come up and do their lift. But he might do it outside. depending on how nice it is, too. Is it probably, is it going to be 28 degrees on Saturday, 58 tomorrow. But make sure you find Colton and say hi to him, introduce yourself if you haven't become acquainted. He was definitely at Crew Falls,

so you should recognize his face. Yeah, it was, oh, the one thing I do want to ask you is, or give you prep compliment for as you hosted the, you had an award, sorry, you had a prize giveaway thing basically set up at Lowe's. Was that something you just kind of did all on your own accord? And did Casey sponsor that?

Or was that you out of pocket doing that? The giveaway. Yeah, I forgot about that. I asked both of them if I could do a giveaway. I was like, this would be really cool. You know, you guys put on these events. They, Massonomics funded the gift card. Oh, dope.

And the merch that was, I think it was the band lift. hoodie that I put in there and then the rest of it was just me. I told Casey, hey, I'm going to snag a backpack and what else did I get? There was a barefoot gift card. Yeah, there's all kinds of things. And you know what? The more I thought about it, I was like, I should have split up the giveaway instead of giving it to all one person. That was going to be my, that was my follow up critique was especially because the biggest, like, like, we love Paul.

We love giving him a shit. But Paul had just won the goddamn grip gauntlet like 12 hours before. and here you are giving him like $300 with a free shit. So that's why if anyone's like, why have people given Paul shit in the last six months? And like over the last couple months in Discord, I was like, because Paul literally won the weekend. He got hundreds of dollars of free shit for just, you know, having big fucking hands and being strong and shit on grip. And then just being lucky the next day. So it was just really funny.

But it kind of like was the bit of the weekend. And even Tanner, like Tanner with his hoarse voice going, not Paul. Like that's a great memory in my head. But yeah, no, that was super cool that you did that. But yeah, definitely splitting it up would have been great. Yeah, next time. Everyone started booing. I was like, what the hell is going on?

Like, all you poor thing. Yeah. Like, because you were, because you didn't, I, did your nerves play a role in why you didn't end up making it out to Tommy's or did you end up being stuck at work on Friday? I didn't know where he lived. And I, I also was a little bit nervous, too, because I think it was, smaller group that was there compared to like tanners. They're still a decent amount of,

well, yeah, it was definitely smaller than tanners, but it was, like there wasn't a ton of people there. Like, like, like, it was similar numbers at Tommy's garage to Lowe's.

Cause we lost some people and then gained some people because like, like the Phillips had to go home. So you didn't get to meet the, you didn't get to meet them. But then like, yeah, like, keep thinking there's multiple fucking.

Yeah. In my head, I was thinking, crazy. Yeah. Like, like, no,

it was, it was, it was, uh, it was, uh, it was, It was the senior Phillips, the master's Phillips, if you will. Wow.

But yeah. No, that's awesome. This was a good episode. I had a blast. I'm glad. I didn't know, knowing, like, interacting with you a little bit and knowing how nervous and shy you were. Very glad you, very open and chatty the whole episode. And kind of three of the curveball, too, with having to have Hogan, not having to join our announcement and stuff before.

So I don't know if that helped or hurt. No, I helped. it was a little we didn't get as in depth of a pre show as we like to normally do and it was also like 10 people watching so like it even threw me off a little bit like doing my trial by fire yeah I was doing my normal spiel of telling the guests what's going on and then like the next thing I know there's like 15 people looking at me in the face like Jesus guys like go away now Megan won you didn't you didn't win fuck off like let's we have a podcast to do now we are still recording that's fine that was all valid I didn't say anything I don't Don't stand by. But yeah. Where you just want to, Big Risa one more time, where they're going to find you at? And how do you pronounce your name? Big Rissa is fine or Risa.

It's not fine. What is your name? People are going to call you this. We have the Riza. That's our producer now. I think Rizza is pretty good. I think that's all of our beats. Yeah.

I can think that's your name for the rest of your life now. God damn it. Well, that's perfect. I'll be the Riza. And then my other. friends will be Risa and everyone else will be Rissa. I'll keep track. It'll be good.

You'll know if somebody calls you Rizza. You'll be like, oh, crew, hey. Yeah, exactly. It's the Rizza. Big Rizza. The Instagram real quick, one more time. Oh, Sith Lord Rissa. There's dots in between there.

It just occurred to me. Like, Rizza isn't the, like, Riz. It's not charisma. Yeah, I see like Rizza for the chriza. Like, no. No, That's time charisma. Yeah, damn it.

No, that's not what I was saying. The Riza is the producer from Wu Tang. Damn it. I'll take it. Joey, we're going to find you up. On Instagram, Joey underscore Mlesco, M-L-E-C-Z-K-O. It is not Josh. Sorry, Tanner.

I was just going to have you spell Josh for us. Yeah. No, it is not Josh. I was soaking, like, what was that? So Wednesday morning or something at like 4 a.m. Joey text me. It's like, what does this mean? Who that heck is Josh?

Like, do I forget something we recorded? You can tell that Tanner's so overwhelmed right now because like everything that day I read from him had a typo in it. And like I've never seen Tanner have a typo. And there were like three following messages that all had like a couple in Discord and then a follow up in our group chat that night

that all had typos. And I was just like, oh, this guy is burning both ends of the candle. So we have an Instagram, unpaid, intermedded podcast.com. We've got the website, Unpaid Internpodcast.com where Nate does nothing. Wrong again. Keith. And even lets the podcast just not even post, you know, just, I don't understand. But no, none of that's his fault. And we love him. He's a good guy. No one cares about YouTube anymore. But we do have the Discord channel on Massonomics's page. So go check us out in there. Go talk to us. Go, you know, tell us what you hated, what you loved about the podcast, interact with us. And, you know, doing stuff like that is a good way to get on the podcast because then I'll know you listen. Keith Honeycutt 73 on Instagram. More importantly, go follow my orange gem, the no wine cellar. Until then, see you next Tuesday.