Unpaid And Underrated - 155 : Field Mouse Happen (ft. Big Sterling)

Episode Date: April 28, 2026

This week Joey and Keith get to know Big Sterling. They dive right into great topics like Freezing vs. numbing, eating chalk, gymnastics, drones, kilts, and wrestling. 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 @strongmansterfry Our Hosts @keithhoneycutt73 or his orange gym, @thenowhinecellar @joey_mleczko Special Guest: Big Sterling.

Welcome back, everybody, to episode 0320. That's 0320 of the unpaid and underrated podcast, podcast by crew for a crew, relentlessly mocked by crew, brought to you from all over the world. There are tons of crew all over the world, as I can tell you, I have been mailing stuff out. You know what? We'll get to that in a second. I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, Big Keith. Howdy, howdy, howdy?

And we are joined today by Big Sterling. How are you? You guys are pretty good, how are you? I'm living somebody's dream, my friend. Live in somebody's dream. Someone's. Is anybody drinking anything cool? I actually have something different.

I actually just topped off my guava vice or vice guava monster. Yeah, it's, I don't know, it's kind of shimmery. It's like literally all metallic. It's really shimmery. So it's not the regular white can? I mean, it's kind of blurry. No, it's like, oh, it's got a, it's got a, I do see that.

I do see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that's what that is. I'm pretty nice little. And I was going to Old Faithful Code Red. What time is it where you are? That is so much caffeine. That's Omaha.

I'm like ADHD. I'm like ADHD. So it's pushed me asleep. I have a root beer sparkling water. As heard on Massonomics, I think I sent them this one. No, I send them the cream soda. But this one is,

it's just sparkling water that tastes just like a root beer. and it's the best. No sugar, no nothing. Just straight up flavored sparkling water. Is that made with ruts? With rut beer? Yeah, there we go.

Like, no, because Tommy said it this week, I think, or the most recent episode. And, like, did he say it to make fun of Tanner? Because Tommy usually isn't as rutty as Tanner, but he was pretty rutty last week. Well, it might be. We'll pretend that I did that on purpose. There you go.

I am wearing my wrong. again shirt because of the numbing versus freezing conversation. That was actually pretty funny. It's, okay, it's wild. Apparently, me and Cam both say freezing. I wanted more Canadians to chime in, though, because you guys live an hour apart.

I wanted, like, you know, some of the other provinces to speak up because I was foreign dominated here, for sure. But does it make sense to you? I mean, it's not, they're freezing your nerves, right? Yeah, I mean, it's not. inaccurate, like, phonetic, well, not phonetically, but like, it's, yeah, it's, it's,

literally what you're feeling, I suppose, or not feeling, but I don't know. I've just, I think it's always just been numbing cream or, I mean, you know, I never heard freezing in any capacity of that. I mean, do you use bio-freeze when your muscles hurt? I have, I have had several containers of it. I don't say, I'm going to go free. I don't, I don't really have a term for what I, I just put you don't say I'm going to rub the numbing on me. I'm going to rub bio freeze on me, right? Yeah. Yeah.

So anyway, that was wild. I'm actually really basic. I just call everything icy hot. I'm just going to put ice hot. That's true. Well, because if I say biof-if,

if someone's like, oh, I hurt myself and it's like, I have biofreeze. Like, I like pulled out of my bag and they're like, what is? You just have to say icy hot

because people are just stupid to know what biofreezes for the most part. So if you aren't up in the discord, but for some reason, listening to this, which seems kind of wild. I went to the dentist on Wednesday

and I hate the dentist. Like I don't hate the dentist for cleaning or any of the other reasons. I just don't like it that when you're getting surgery, they put the anesthetic in you. I don't like my face being numb or whatever you guys want to call it. And I called it freezing. And that's what we all call it up here. My wife calls it that.

Cam calls it that. We say I don't like the freezing or they're putting the freezing in, which is when they numb the nerves. But what does, what is the, what is like the, you know, the person actually implementing the application of the drug? Is there like, we're going to freeze you now? Like, like, what is the term? Some of them, some of them say that.

Some of them will say apply the anesthetic. Like there's, and interestingly, they say numbing cream where they put it, it's a topical, which is what Morgan said. The numbing is topical. The freezing is internal. And suddenly the discord was like, what are you talking about? What's freezing? Literally no one knew what you were talking about.

Yeah. And that's wild. But I mean, I guess it's just a local dialect thing that like we refer to that as freezing your nerves. And the end of the story is they didn't have to. They did the, I went in, I'll tell Keith, I went in so grumpy. I was just so mad that I knew that my face was going to be numb for the next two hours. And then I have to deal with the unnumbing and the pain afterwards. And the dentist goes,

actually I don't think we need it. And I'll tell you, my entire mood changed. I started cracking jokes with them. I was just like, yeah, I'm so thrilled. And they do the quick little filling. And then she goes, is there any pain? And I said, nothing a beer won't fix. And she goes, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

And then as I'm leaving, there's a restaurant next door to the dentist that has $5 pints. And I was like, I'm in. So I go in and I order a. pint and doesn't my dentist walk in and order food? And everybody's, the guys are looking at me. They're like, do you know her? I'm like, that's my dentist.

She turns to me. She goes, oh, hi again. And I went, told you I was getting a beer. She's like, yeah, you did. And then she walked out. I don't think I've had a cavity that's need. I don't think I've had a like a numbing cream applied in, uh, at least five or six. I think during COVID, which was like awkward as shit because I'm going to like go to

the dentist to get like an emergency because they weren't doing like cleaning. They normally don't like emergency stuff if I recall. I think it's thankfully it's been many years since I've had to have that. I do not like that feeling like that. No, it's the worst. It's genuinely like it ruined my whole day. I'm always afraid I'm not like literally bite my cheek off. It's like I'm going to bite.

I'm going to just have a fucking hole in the side of my cheek. I knew I had to go to the post office right after and I just envisioned me being like, I have to send the, like with my half my face frozen. And no, no. Essentially I have a cracked tooth that already has a filling and the cracked tooth just like won't accept the filling and I'm too cheap to put a crown on it. So I'd rather just keep putting topical treatments on it. Anybody else wearing anything cool?

Yeah, I can just, I'll do my. Oh, what do you got, Sterling? Oh, shoot, I'm sorry. I was actually scratching, but I got my strong man. What is it? Bit shirt. I figured if I'm going to be, if I'm going to be doing strong, man, I might as well rep it, right?

There you go. I am wearing the Salt City Strongest competitor shirt from this year's show. And I can just go ahead and knock out my recap. I'll do a little few minute recap here. So Big Dan Eager put together. This is the second annual Salt City Strongest Strongman show in Syracuse, New York. There was actually, I think, seven homies there from, like, literal, like, paying crew members, not just like, not counting, like, you know, friends of the podcast kind of thing. But, like, in Discord, like crew, crew members.

three of us competing and Dan putting on the show and then another three spotting, loading and judging, which is really cool. Sessneys were there, Matt and Jess, Big Chris was there, and then I competed against a big stall mat, Matt, and Joe Lisa was in the open class. So had a really awesome fun time, very short prep. It was kind of one of those things where, you know, after I did my Christmas show in December, or actually no idea, I did a Christmas show and then I did, I think I show in like, January or February for the static monsters. And I told my coach, I was like, yeah, we'll do an offseason and then just going to lift hard of easy prep. And then like, like, two weeks later, I think I was like, oh, yeah, I signed up for a show

in two weeks. And he's like, God damn it. So that's, that's kind of my trend of what I do sometimes, but it is what it is. It's fun. I like supporting my friends. So I do a quick, this was actually the coolest thing about this show, I think, I've never competed against, so outside of my first strong man show, which was like a charity thing, there was a shit ton of people in the novice.

But, like, I don't really count that because I didn't know what I was. literally so far removed from like where I am now as far as like my strong man journey but like once I've actually like understood what strong man is and how to compete and like how judging and scoring and all that works like I've never competed against more than two people like in a show like in my class so this had 12 people uh including me like there was 12 competitors in the intermediate class that Dan came up with which was actually really cool so like novice plus if you will so like all the weights were you know probably a little bit less than maybe what a or right on par with maybe like what a lightweight strongman would be.

So just to give people reference somewhere in that ballpark. I think he did that just because all the, you know, this is a, this was a strong man core. So their weights are a little more aggressive than the other fed were kind of used to, I feel. And then even like the masters for a lot of guys, like unless you're pressing like 230, 250, like you're not going to get any of the presses because it's just, it's just that heavy of a show. So, uh, deficit deadlift.

Well, it was a varying height deadlift. So you could do from the like a 13 inch deadlift. a from the floor deadlift or a deficit deadlift as a essentially as a trump and it was 60 seconds for reps. So I was able to do the deficit. I got a double there at 405 finished right in the middle of the pack. The next one was my, it ended up being my favorite event of the day just because I did me the best in it. But it was a safety squat bar to a 15 inch box. So depending on your height, some people, it was like way above parallel.

Some guys it was parallel. Some guys it was below. But it was the easiest way to like not get people to, you know, die and to not. have to worry about actually judging depth because like no one's there to judge depth. So I ended up finishing up at 455. I had a lot more in the tank after watching it back. And I was just like, and 455 actually got second place. The other, the next heaviest one was someone got me at 465 and like watching back.

Like in a bubble, it's not how strong men works because obviously everyone else would have like, there's probably other guys that had 20, 30, 30 more pounds in them also. But, you know, if I was in a bubble and I could just sort of read on my attempts and just put 15 pounds or 20 pounds on everything and finished up, you know, with the event win. It would have been cool. But getting 11 a point. That was the coolest thing. I think the way Strongman scoring works is obviously you get as many.

If you finish first, you get the amount of points that have everyone else in the class total. So like actually getting 11 points for a second place win was wild to me because I've only ever got like one or two points for any type of, you know, pretty much any events that I competed in. So I was like, oh, that's dope. The overhead press medley was a 80 pound kettlebell, 100,000. 75 pound axe log and then you could rep off an axle. You could pick the log or the axle, but I did the axle. End up doing

eight reps on the axle in the time limit. I think I was just one under what I'd done in training. So you know, I would have been cool to have matched or beat it, but I was just watching it back, I probably paced myself a little bit, but like, man, it's a minute is a really

long time sometimes when you're doing a amount of pressing and I'm just like, I didn't honestly, what I think I was worried about was the last time I had did that when I had done the 10 or like when I had got the extra rep or two in training I ended up like you know getting the dry heaves and puking right after so like I was had such a fear of like if I redlined it I was literally going to puke in front of 100 people and there was like no trash cans to puke in or anything so I would have

literally puked like on the floor so I was like I can't do that I remember even asking Dan before the show was like do you have any like they're like puke buckets around he's like no when I was like fuck so this kind of is they go Dan for the next time sort of an excuse like maybe maybe I Maybe I should have read, like, I, but I don't know, there's a lot of people that were pushing that pretty hard. So my, my 10 reps there got me fourth out of 12th, which wasn't horrible. Uh, the top third there. And then where I, and so after those three events, I was actually, I think I was in fourth place, but only like a half point out up to like podium, which was really fucking cool for me.

It goes like, oh, this is awesome. But then I knew my Achilles heel was coming up of like the ramp medley. So it was a 40 foot ramp that was, it was an incline ramp with like a plateau in the middle or like a flat. spot. And you had to, and for our class, it was a 175 pound sandbag up the ramp for 45 feet, loaded on the tank torque, a 200 pound bag up the 40 foot ramp loaded on the tank torque, and then push the tank back down, which the way the tank works, it really doesn't matter if you're pushing flat uphill or downhill. It's all mechanical resistance or magnetic resistance. And I was, I was fully confident in training that I was going to time out on that because,

like I know how quick I am with sandbags on flat and I was like, man, when I add the element of like uphill and I just, I was worried about running downhill. So when I watched it back, I probably should have ran a lot faster on the way back. But I was just afraid of like eating shit or rolling my ankle or like blowing my knee out. Just like I don't, I haven't like ran ran. I haven't ran downhill in a long time. I can run. I can kind of run on a flat surface.

But I was just, I think I was just in my head to be super timid on like just sprinting back. Because I was like, man, that's a, it's a lot of weight to go falling down the stairs. falling down the ramp. So I ended up. So, but proud of myself that I did not time out. I finished in like 55 seconds

in a 60 second time limit. But the negative was I did come in second to last place. The only other, there was one other kid in the class that didn't finish. And everyone else had beat me by like 10 seconds. But so I would have had to have like really hustled to even come into like 10th out of 12th place versus 11th. So I kind of is what it is. I was,

that was a moral victory to finish in time. But I was going to lose a lot of points there. regardless. And that's what's wild about such a big event. I feel like the scoring with the bigger class, like getting higher. So if it's just two or three people, you could finish last and it's not as, it doesn't seem to be as insurmountable. Whereas if you finish last or such low on this and somebody else can fucking get 12 points on you, it's like, well, fuck, that was your whole lead. And then that's kind of what happened. So then I went from like fourth place down to fifth or six after that. And then yoke was not a super heavy yoke, but it was a 60 second time limit.

And it was just 25 feet down. You weren't turning the yoke. You were just turning yourself around and then just picking the yoke back up. So however many fucking feet I got on that, I got 140 feet on that in the 60 seconds, which I think would have been like, it's kind of hard to say, hey, it's a PR because I've never carried a yoke for 25 feet and turned around and carried it. I mean, I've carried it. I know what like my distance is, but not necessarily with drops and turns in between.

but I did finish just fifth out of 12th on that, which was the top half, which was cool. But, you know, definitely lost any chance of podium. And then my good friend, Stoll Matt, Matt there, fucking got me by like, I think, a point and a half total because he ended up winning that event after. So he, Matt zeroed the first event on deadlift because his back was kind of tweaking.

So for him to, for his entry in the strongman, I'm so proud of him, He literally zeroed his first event and won the last event and got him enough points to fucking beat me on the overall scoring. So kudos to him. It was a really fun day. It was super cool to compete against friends. And Joe Lisa and I had a little banter going, a little rivalry going into it because his biggest struggle was the box squat because he just couldn't master basically squatting to a box because the way his form is he likes to bounce it out of the bottom. Um, so he was like cheering me on for me to beat him and I was able to chip him by 10 pounds.

I think it's just how it worked out. So that was really cool to be like, oh, the guy that finished like second in the open in his class that is significantly stronger than me. I, I casually just squat 10 more pounds in him, you know. So that was fun. Just a really good day. Long fucking day. I left Rochester at right at 7 a.m. and I think I got home at like 8.30. Not that Dan put on a long meet.

I mean, it's a 90 minute commute to get there one way. you know, the show was over. I mean, it wasn't a short day, but it wasn't like an obnox. I've had longer shows and did meat. But we ended up, a lot of us went and got food together, like a lot, a lot of the mathematics crew and some of my friends from the local Strongman Jim, we all went and had the Korean barbecue again, which we knew how to do better this time because the last time we didn't realize, oh, all the oils and the salts and the peppers and the sauces

and shit, it's just you get to bring those back in ramekins because none of that's at the table, not knowing that last time. I'm just raw dog and a bunch of unflavored steaks. So definitely we're a little more prepared this year. But yeah, it was a long day. It was a fun day. I ended up finishing, like I said, I ended up finishing, so I finished seventh out of 12th. So the cool thing about that was like still finishing right in the middle.

And they go, you know, slightly under the middle of the pack, I guess. But I beat five people. Like I've never beaten outside of that one first show, which I don't really count because there was a bunch of like 16 year olds doing it and stuff just in the novice class because it was like a charity thing for a gentleman that had passed away locally at cancer. I'd never beaten, like, actual people that are real lifters that do this semi-regularly. Like, I'd never beaten that many. I've beaten, like, one or two guys, like, once. So I'm almost always finishing last or second to last. And, like, if I do beat someone, it's someone that's like, oh, he's never done this before.

It doesn't really know what he's doing. So it was just a fucking awesome day. It was fun. Just doing something with kind of not having a lot of warm-ups, I think, will help getting prepped up for Lift Hard Live Easy. And just strong man in general, it's just, like, my last deadlift wasn't out my my my my last deadlift warm up at 365 was over an hour before my you know my my actual deadlift event just because the way it worked out because we were the intermediates were grouped with the women and the masters so it was actually know the women so the women and the novice so there was like 30 of us in one or 25 of us in one group so it was a long time until we got some of the lifts in so it was probably 45 minutes from the time i took my last squat so just uh i don't know it's fun If you haven't had a chance to do a strong man show, do it. They're really fun, but just prepare to stand around for a long time until it's your time to lift.

And don't expect to be able to warm up like 15 minutes before your lift. Like you can't empower lifting. So it's just, it was good training for knowing what I have to do this summer. And you just, you know, it was just fun. So I had a blast. And I might, uh, might have to do Salt City again going forward. It's, uh, I feel bad because there's another local show in two weeks that I would like at my home base. Jim here in Rochester that I should, you know, I almost, you know, obligate is not the right word,

but like, I feel bad that I like, I'm probably not going to do that show, but in reality, I've also just, I've given him money and done two of his shows in the last six months. So I think I've done my part across the board. So anyway, strong man, best things ever happen to me outside of like, you know, real things in real life. So, yeah, give it a shot if you haven't. Speaking of strong man, I think we'll just get this one out of the way. The Snap City Open is coming up.

if you don't know what the Snap City Open is, the deadliest lift, who was in the Eagle Olympics with the sister podcast hosts, he just runs a lift something stupid and send it to me. And normally I wouldn't bring up something that I might not do. I might still do this just for the fun, but the problem is all of the sponsors don't ship to Canada. So I won't be winning any prizes,

which is part of the reason I dropped out of the GGC for the most part, is I just can't win prizes. But I was looking at some of the sponsors and he has some of the craziest prizes I think I have ever seen. So, you know, if you're one of those odd lifters like some of us are, you know, me doing the rocks and the dinnies and the dumb stuff I do,

check out the Snap City Open from Deadliest Lift. I think he actually holds the Jefferson Deadlift Yeah, I'm pretty sure up there. Yeah, he's If he's not number one, he's number one or two, yeah. Yeah, no, because he's done like, in person seeing him do, like, I think it was on at a height,

but maybe it wasn't, because it was wagon wheels, but he was staying on a platform, so it still might have been, like, from the floor, but it was like 11, 1,200. It was like a stupid amount of it. It was over a thousand pounds, stupid weight. Yeah, he's, he's not strong, so. Jump in the Snap City opening.

If you are within the shipping area of all of their sponsors, just go ahead and join in. It doesn't cost you anything. You just have to lift something funny. And when I say funny, I don't mean hilarious funny. I don't mean ha ha funny.

I just mean it's all about odd lifts with him. Tuesday drop. I did get the gym radar shirt. Nice. Been a long time since I ordered something from Assonomics. I think March was the last time I did. But there was no way I wasn't going to get

on a gym radar shirt. Did you guys grab anything? from this? Not yet. It's on my radar, but I didn't even like, I didn't even, by the time I saw there was a drop, I was like, I just, I looked at it and I was like, oh, someday, probably for too long, but I was just, my mental bandwidth has been exhausted this week. I wanted a new type of installation at work, and it's just taking all I can do to, like, get through my day and come home and just, like, take a shower and go to bed. So it's been a very, very busy week. I already have the, uh, drinking shirt, the drinking team shirt, so I wasn't going to get a second

one of those. Sterling, do grab anything? I'm actually going to second Keith's comment. I've been so busy the last week or so that I saw it. I jumped on there and I was like, ooh, I might get the, I think it was the drinking one. I was like, who I might get that when I put it in my cart and then I got busy with something else and I still haven't come back. I'm probably going to get that in the next couple of days. Unless it's already sold out probably. Yeah. I did message Tanner and ask him if he has Oh, yep, Sanchez is double certified. Yeah, I'm not going to do that.

That seems weird. And, yeah, I was like, yo, do you have any of the stuff from the Arnold, the gym radar stuff? Because I want to put one of the gym radar things in with my certificate, my certified training facility certificate. And Tanner said, I have a new one coming that nobody has ever seen.

Oh, nice. So, yeah, if you haven't got your orders yet, look out for those. You've got some new stickers coming your way. that he's actually that he implied that he's given out because he's had Jim Radar merch, yeah, since it was just the circular logo with the G Radar and then

just Jim Radar and a skinny rectangle. He says he's got a new one that nobody's ever seen, so maybe he's sending it to everybody or maybe I'll get one and I'll post it and I don't know, but I think everybody will be really happy with that. Yeah.

So the big announcement this week was actually it wasn't just smoking mirrors they actually did come up with an announcement. They actually stuck to their guns during the pre-show. They were like, we are going to, or maybe it was the beginning of the episode, but they were like, within like 10 or 15 minutes, we're actually going to do the announcement.

I think I was like, bullshit. No, you're not. You're going to say that. Kick everybody off. Ray Williams is calling me. We got to go, guys. Yeah, well, fuck you. You're not going to tell us.

But then they did. And it ended up being a, there's an opportunity to do essentially like a virtual meet the week before Lift Hard Live Easy. And I kind of have, I kind of knew, in my head, I was, it's got to be what it is because, like, Tanner, like, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his, his preview was, like, a chance for people that can't make it to Aberdeen to, you know, contribute or to partake or something. So it's kind of obvious what it might have been, or at least the outline of it. So, uh, I was, I wouldn't say skeptical, but I was kind of like, oh, I hope it's not like,

in my, in my, in my pessimistic brain is like, like, uh, so last time we want is like 50 assholes, like posting in the Lyftardly, easy chat, like, during Liftardly easy when they're not there. Like, I don't need that. We're trying to, like, organize who, who's going to dinner and shit like that and they got like people just posting stuff at home. So, but at the fact that it's a week before, super awesome, 100% get on board with that. I think that's a great idea, let people still get the shirt early if they want and kind of like be part of the community, but not necessarily have it compete against the people that are in Aberdeen that put in the time and the money to get there. So like awesome, love what they're doing, want to see a bunch of people sign up.

The rules were basically like for every, for every 50 people that sign up, like a $100 card or something maybe and then it was either a I don't remember what he quoted because it's not I think it was actually in pen and paper I want to say it was a hundred but it's on the discord well it was on the discord but it wasn't on the the I don't whatever the number was I think it was a hundred but I think it should be more I thought it was more for it to be a contest win oh he know that wasn't in the discord no so yeah that was the live thing but like maybe he changed his mind or maybe he has to up the number because I don't know that just a hundred people signing up is worth it I mean I don't know like because it's all random drugs.

at least like the fantasy football stuff like it's not necessarily random so like to get a contest win for literally like just getting your having your name drawing like like i don't know like i don't know if people are gonna love that i mean people like now if i win 100% it was the best idea yeah yeah if keith wins it's the best idea yeah fuck yeah if he doesn't win how dare you dumbest fucking ever but like that that that will be like because depending on the timing like because basically it was if anyone's not familiar somehow you're living under a rock and don't haven't read it it it's it's 50s bucks. It gets you the t-shirt and you can do the comp. And like, I mean, the t-shirt alone is going to be $32 probably. Well, it depends, though. If they, in person, they sell them at cost, but I don't think they sell them at cost online. So yeah, regardless, if you're buying the shirt online and you're not in Aberdeen, it's going to be a $30 to $1 or $2 t-shirt. So you're really paying $18 to do a virtual meet. That's not a bad. That's a really good deal, honestly. With a chance to win. Yeah. If there's a lot of economics, right? Yes. With a gift. with a random drawing for a gift card and a possible random drawing if I want to say it was 100 but I feel like it's got to be more than that for the for the so they said

if a certain amount of people show up there's a $100 gift card if double the amount then it's a $200 gift card and there's no mention of the of the contest win but yeah that was definitely mentioned on the podcast I just don't recall what the quantity was but I think that's really cool

I see a lot of people maybe that are competing signing up just I would consider doing it just to get the T-shirt early. Like if the T-shirt would be there before, because I don't love wearing non-laundered shirts, it's just like a tick. But that doesn't make sense, because why don't you just arrange to pick up the shirt

while you're there at that point, but you're going to do anyway. Well, I know, I know. That's the only bit I'm, the whole thing is it'd be nice to wear the shirt there and have it be laundered first because I'm, I see. I'm picky about that.

It just is, I feel itchy. But after the shit, I dealt with at work this week. I don't go ever since you again. any it's here than I have been feeling. So I'll probably deal with it. You have an unpaid underrated shirt that you're supposed to wear there. So that's the red shirt.

Everybody makes sure while you're traveling, the Lift Hard Live Easy in about a month or two that you are wearing the red shirt while you travel. That is the uniform. You wear the red unpaid underrated shirt. It's almost May. Unless you're me. Then everybody shows up.

Everybody's wearing it and you're the only one not. And you're one of the damn co-hosts. I think I've ended up always wearing my. I think I wore mine on Saturday or Friday or Saturday. I don't think I've worn it on the travel day yet. I'd get too pity on the travel day, so it's got to be a red shirt or a black shirt for me. What else? YouTube video this week.

The bar gym reviews, recently new crew member. I mean, recently, I've, you know, he just got on my radar here. I think when he actually did the gym radar video there a few months ago. So pretty cool video, pretty cool gym. I'm jealous of how big his basement was and how, And then, like, not job. It would be the right word of a, I wish he would get, you know, it seems like he was, like, talking a game about having to, like, talk to his wife to expand it. Because, like, it's such a huge, massive basement.

I'm like, dude, I could do so much. But also, like, in my mind, it's like, I could, I could have a yoke down there. I could have, like, a fucking track for, uh, by farmer's handle. Like, like, it'd be so cool to be able to do all my strongman shit in the basement. And it looked like his basement theoretically was big enough to do that. But he had, like, a couch and a TV and shit. I'm just like, oh, man, you got to get rid of. all that.

Like that's, he got rid of it. Yeah, like basements are for gyms, not for like second family rooms, but also I think he has a bunch of kids. So I get it. But a good,

good video overall. The intro of Tanner sleeping on the couch. I think they're getting, they're really getting better at their intros because I think they just, obviously, the social media aspect of it is, you know, that 60 second intro that you do can also be a real.

It can be a YouTube short. So like, it's, there's a reason they do it and it makes logical sense. So I think they're just, for every video, that comes out, well, it's kind of hard to say everybody because it's like one, the one that comes out next week could have been from nine months ago or from a week ago, but a lot of the,

a lot of their intros lately, Tanner's really been on point of, you know, getting, getting content Tanner out and like knowing that it's going to turn into, you know, a good reel and shit later. But overall good video, uh, yeah, give it out a watch and put it on your radar if you haven't seen it yet. And then, Big Sterling, did you get a chance to listen to Massonomics podcast this week? If you had to read it and give us a little feedback, what do you think would that be? Oh, my rating is five out of five crammy patties. Always.

I enjoyed it. My thing is they went with some good classics, obviously. My favorite one, I would say from the first, what, 100 was when they interviewed the grizzly. I always love that one. That's, I watch, I think I've listened to that one probably three or four times just because it's kind of funny, because the way that it's kind of talked to each other is kind of funny how they kind of bounce off. jokes and stuff. It's just fun to see how playfully actually is.

He's not like better than anybody. He's like, oh, this is going to be a fun podcast. So it was kind of fun to listen to that one. Nice. Yeah. Yeah,

it was the 10 year, yeah, the actual 10 year anniversary, which is just wild. That's like, that's like me and Joey doing this for seven more years and that they've done it. Like,

that's, that's intent. That's, that is a decade of, like, they were, they were in their, they were both in their 20s.

Like, they would have been like like Tanner probably would have been like 29 and because there neither I think Tanner is just under masters I believe I think he's 38 or 39 and Tommy's like a year or two behind him but so to like and just envision starting a podcast at like 27 I'm gonna guess and say at 27 we did we did that we started in our late 30s yeah like well we started like the age they are we were the age they are now we started a podcast they started a decade prior to basically that's just wild to me like I don't. And like, I think the funniest thing, I think they, they kept,

there's a reoccurring thing, a bunch of them, like Tommy says a lot of times. It's like, like, we didn't know what a pod, like no one knew what a podcast was 10 years ago. Yeah.

Shit like that. Them just kind of, I think my favorite part was just like, both of them kind of remembering stuff. And then a, the Mandela effect of did we actually do that? It did we not? Because I want to say their,

their first X amount of episodes, like up till, I don't know, four, there is some number like, you know, between the one and 50 or 60 that like there aren't on YouTube if I recall. So I don't know how many of the ones they were trying to remember were just like the pre YouTube and like thumbnail era.

But, you know, seeing some of the posts this week in Discord of them sitting on the back porch at Tanner's or Tommy's and they're just like, they're just babies. So it's just, it's just kudos to them for doing doing anything for a decade. Like literally do anything for a decade. I think I, you know, it's just wild. It's an impressive. and I'm glad they do what they do so we can do what we can do. Oh, five out of five backyards. I almost forgot the rating.

Yeah, I was about to, I was about to remind you. Yeah, I definitely listened. It took me two days, but I got through it. Again, congratulations on 10 years. It's also wild to think that I've been here for five of those 10 years. That's kind of wild. Can't say I remember much from the episode. I do recall them poking jabs at some of the episodes that the Discord likes to poke jabs at.

You know, the party cast, the Julian Pinot ones. They did bring up Powerdwires episode. I don't think they put that as their number one, but I think I would because I think that that is still one of my favorite episodes of all time. Rest in peace, Pa. So I'm going to give that five out of five you cunts. Mm-hmm. Pardon the language, Sterling. And I, we swear sometimes.

Oh, I'm not to keep my mouth chill, because I'm a sailor. Yeah, that's just a, that was just my tribute to Pa. Oh, yeah, I love it. So, moving on, we've got our affiliates. I think we're still doing these. Yeah, do them all. We're good. Quick, quick anything.

We've got obsidian ammonia, 10% or 15% actually with code unpaid. Plate snacks is 10% as well. Love to see it. Oh, I said I would talk about my sticker exchange. I'll do that in one second. And of course, belt fed strength. Also 10%. You know, make sure Chris knows that you are a member of crew and that you are ordering for that.

Speaking of plate snacks, I had to mail something to Australia. That had to take a lot of stamps. Well, no. No, no. Does this is this? Canada Post work the same? Like you have to put more stamps on shit like we do here? So we actually can purchase stamps for different countries around the world.

Oh. Okay. So within Canada, it's 75 cents. That's what it takes for me to mail something anywhere in Canada. To the U.S. is $1.75 to anywhere in the U.S. So I went and I said, I need to send this to Australia. $4. I got to say

not horrible. Not like not out of my pocket $4. It's just weird that it's like so I can give you this envelope and $4. And it will end up across the world. That's crazy. That is so crazy to me, I think.

You have to go to like, it goes west, right? Like I'm really like I'm, Who knows? I'm trying to envision, like, where on the globe? It would probably go west. Maybe they fly it over an article. I know where it is on a world map, but not necessarily a world globe.

Like, is it so far onto the bottom right of a big map that it's quicker to, like, from us, we'd go all the way west through like California and Hawaii and shit and then catch it. Like, I don't, I honestly don't know. For $4. Yeah. Either way, it's a long-ass plane ride it's taken. That's it. Yeah. With the way gas, with everything going on and gas not being cheap.

I'm surprised, like, something like that. Like, they're probably losing money on that almost. And that was kind of my point. Like, $4 was a lot out of my pocket in comparison to mailing to the U.S. or Canada. But also, for $4, this went up across the world. That's insane to me. But then also I had to hand them a bunch of stuff with Dilf dungeon written on the back. And I'm wondering if they picked it up and was like, what is this guy sending?

It even occurred to me until I was driving away. And I was like, oh, they're going to think these are inappropriate. Oh, I will. What's in my sack real quick segment? Big, big, bam. Oh, God. Why he's going to be so mad at me? I can't think of his name.

What's the Boston kid? Bam Bam. Oh, fuck. He literally is like a good. Oh, God damn it. He's going to be so mad at me. I can't think of his name. We literally had him on the podcast like three weeks ago.

Yep. You let's certainly do his ad. I'll talk later. I get, that's really bugging me. Why can't I fucking name? Sterling, do you have an ad read for us, my friend? I actually do. It's a nice short one.

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Thank you, Sterling. You were saying Big Steve, you had a sack segment. Yep, yep. Big, yeah. Well, first I'm going to call it. You can't be mad at me because your fucking Instagram isn't your goddamn name. So the fact that I remembered it was Bam Bam. I get credit for that if your fucking Instagram name was Steve.

It would not elaps me. I talked to the kid at least two or three times a week on Instagram, too. So, like, that's the funny part. But no, he had sent me, he had made those coosies with his gym logo on one side and then the RPE rating with my faces on the back of like an RPE6 and 8 and a 10, I think, with like varying degrees of my face being, you know, exerting energy and exerting RPE higher levels. So, but he sent me one like, I think a month ago now and either it didn't make it through post or he fucked up the address or something.

But I was also surprised it made it through because he didn't do it in like a small sack. It was like just an envelope. And I remember at the post office years ago, I was mailing something. I think it was a, I think during COVID I made no wine seller mask and one of my buddies wanted one in Buffalo. So I had to ship it to him. And the lady was like, yeah, you can't just put that. Like the post office, you know, clerk was like, you can't just put a stamp on that and send it because we have to, it like goes through machines and rollers and stuff and it'll just kick it back. So like, I don't know if that was the issue, but the second time he sent it, it did go through.

and ironically to get back to stamps it only had one stamp on it so he didn't have to maybe like the i would assume it because it was a hefty package i figured they'd have to like do a double stamp for the you know because you don't know because if it weighs a certain amount you have to put extra extra postage on it but nonetheless it showed up really cool i don't my face is on all kinds of shit now it's just weird it's funny yeah your butts on stuff my yeah oh yeah no yeah the booty stickers are yeah you know in in in keith form i do have to recall my favorite part of the podcast is when Tommy talked about my ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, uh, yeah, there it is. There's here's the screen. Well, I actually have one permanently up now on

the board. Nice. The board of stuff I want to say forever. Oh, that, uh, one thing was really cool about the Strongman show is Dan had bought a plate snacks code unpaid, uh, crew York or there's like the outline or it was, well, the state of New York with, I think, I want to say it's crew York on it. And he had all the crew that were there sign it. So there was like six or seven of a sign it. And it was funny because there was a couple of other buddies that are not in the masonomics, but they're just our local lifting buddies. And they were like, oh, is there a New York flagress a sign or something? And then, like, I had to hear Chris, like, explain to his, like, one of his really good friends that he trains with regularly of like, yeah, you don't, you don't,

you don't, you don't get to sign that because you're not. Oh. But I mean, like, it's, like, he didn't say it maliciously. He just kind of like, the awkward as of, well, yeah, we're like, we're in this, like, inner cult and that you're not in the cult, so you don't get to contribute to the cult. And it was just kind of funny to me to see it in person. That would be very funny. I'm going to get our guest on the horn now. Yeah, you go ahead. Grab him.

Big Sterling, you there, buddy. You coming through? Yes, sir. I am here. Hey, welcome to the podcast, my friend. Welcome, welcome. This is the podcast for crew by crew, et cetera. Big Sterling, you want to hit us with your name, your Instagram, your Discord.

What do people call you? Where are they going to find you? How do we get a hold of you? Oh, well, my name is Big Sterling or Sterling Schneider. That's my full name, I guess. my Instagram is Strongman Stir Fry or you can also follow I guess I have my gym

which is Strongman Sanctuary Those are I guess those are the two that I really use the most Facebook I don't really use all that often We don't need Facebook Yeah I don't use any of that stuff Basically I shouldn't

Yeah Well it's easier to say where can you find it It's better than saying hey we're Give me your Instagram or discord But don't tell me your Facebook Because Yeah Tell me everything

I do follow a lot of people on Facebook. I mean, I'm friends with a lot of people. That's how you know about birthdays, but that's what really all it's good for. Yeah, I have to know, I have to have at least had some interaction with you to be your Facebook friend, though. Well, that's good. That's good. Well, let's hear the Masonomic origin story. We're not sure what it is.

So, you know, let's give everybody that walkthrough. When did you find us? Why are you still here? You know, it kind of first started with me just kind of dabbling on Instagram. Obviously, like everybody else seeing videos and memes here and there. And then I one day was just like, you know what? I kind of want to listen to this podcast and, you know, support it. I like it.

And so I kind of just paid into it about two years ago. I want to say I'll be two-year member in November. And so I've been about two years now. And after that, it was ironic. I had a competition with a whole Benabile. Didn't even know he was a crew member until after the competition. And then about a month later. Because in about, I want to say about a month or two later is when he did the snow beday

interview with you guys and I was like what the heck I just competed with him I was like what and then you were listening to us at the time already and then you saw someone you would know like you know yes yes that's actually yeah I climb on there and I was like actually like I still don't know what meta means but that might be it I don't know right that's we've never had anyone tell us that they've that they've in person it was pretty weird that's kind of that's kind of a big moment for us I think Like that's pretty cool. Because as we all know, as we all know,

Ben, where's the sunglasses and I was like, hey, that's the guy with the sunshades. And I was like, that's awesome. And then I go to the gym with Lou Nutter,

Big Lou and Big Matthew. I go to their gym and we, I mean, Big Matthew and I are going to be doing a competition together in Utah in about a month. Oh yeah. He's got dabbling strong man.

Yeah, he's going to go into deep end. We're going to the World Strength Games. So, yeah. Yeah, so he was throwing him straight to the deep end. And then, yeah, so just honestly, it was all about that. And then we kind of got to know more crew members.

And I kind of got just a little bit more in the deep end of the cult. You know, once you go into a cult, you got to go all the way, right? Oh, yeah. Well, that's really cool. I love to hear that. Well, I think that really takes away is that our friends of the podcast aren't wearing enough mastic stuff at Strongman shows. I mean, how are you not wearing your lift shorts and your 8-bit shirt?

because if you were, that's how you fucking meet your other buddies in the cult. Like, it's kind of... That's actually, that's what I do now. I wear all my stuff. I usually, my silly, actually, what is it? My main competition shirt, I would say is my silly goose. But for stones, I take it off because I don't want to ruin it. Yes, for sure.

You got to have stone. Like, if you don't have extra shorts and a shitty shirt or your grip shirt for stones, like, you're doing something. Like, I don't know. I don't want to ruin my good shit. Exactly. So, that tracks with me, my friend. Well, that's really cool.

cool, I love to hear that. So that was basically Instagram, got to the podcast, got into our podcast. Yeah. And how long ago? Like, give me like a numerical timeline ish of that. Or like when you when you first started, I guess, getting into this. So I first started, I want to say I became an actual like paying member November of two years ago. So would that be 2024. Yeah. And yeah, because it'll be two years coming up. So yeah, about a year and a half now, almost two years. I'll have to double check that, but I'm almost pretty sure it's coming up two years. But anyway, yeah, so I've been, I want to say November of 2024, and he and I competed against each other like that September. Nice. So it was like two or three months beforehand.

So then, like I said, then you guys did the interview, like, not too much longer after that. And I was like, hey, I just competed with him. That is really cool. I do like that. Yeah. That's a really cool story. I dig that. Yes.

All right, so you're out in Omaha. Is that where you're always been, or is that kind of bouncing around? I've kind of, well, I grew up, yeah. I mean, I've been to this area. I've been about 45 minutes east in Iowa. It's actually where I'm from. Underwood is where it's called. It's actually a smaller town outside of the town of 350 is what I grew up in.

Wow. So I just tell people the closest town and really the closest town is Omaha and that's still 45 minutes away. At 350, there's no way you had a, like you didn't have a high school then, did you? Like you had to, oh no, I open a roll to the big school because, yeah, we're supposed to, I was supposed to go to Underwood, but I was like, now I'm going to open a roll to the big school. What is, does that just mean you can transfer or commute basically? Yeah, you just pretty, yeah, essentially I was like in like a no man's land where I could pick where I wanted to go. And I was like, I'll just go to the big city school. That was, it was like a five, it was like 10 extra minute drive, you know, what do you do at that point?

Yeah. So I had to drive 20 minutes regardless. Gotcha. Makes sense. what is the uh so coming up in two years do you know your hall of fame status do you have a card so i'm with that packing and stuff i actually threw it and not threw it away but threw it in the packing stuff oh no off of my stuff i know where it's at i just need to grab it um okay what i'm pretty sure right now i'm only at about four but after this year i should be at like almost nine

nice so i'll be going to lift heavy you know lift hard live easy i'll be competing i'll be beating and going, going to the gym, probably obviously. And then I'm going, I'm going for that W. I'm going for that W. Oh, yeah, yeah. Grift competition or strong man competition. I got two chances.

So I'm going to, we got to pick Tanner and Jake's brain and see because I think last year, like winning didn't get you shit. Like you could have won your class, but I didn't get you a contest. So the only thing it gets you, yeah. So in powerlifting,

the best Wilkes, So basically, Matthias got like 17 contest wins because he's fucking, you know, he squats, you know,

deadlift 700 and fucking weighs as much as my leg. Yeah, it's wild. But I want to say that Dodds got it, but that was a Jake

choice award, I believe. Yeah. And that one doesn't count. No, Dodds already had it, had an award, but I'm pretty sure it did it count.

I heard Jake's prizes don't count because he's not massonomics. I don't care if, if, it counts because, especially this year, the Strongman's going to be fucking have its own.

No, it fucking counts. I'm saying it counts. I think that's up to Tanner and Tommy. Tommy and Tanner. Yeah, Toney and Tanner. If they're going to give out 17 fucking wooden awards

that are all fake, I think Strongman can get one or two fucking awards. Well, in that case, then take one away. But I do hope on next year, possibly going to HomeCon or I don't know which one.

They're just both so far away from me. Yeah, Yeah, that's here at Omaha, that's what a 15-hour drive for me. And I'm not, none that I don't hate flying. It's just that's such an expensive mode in comparison to this drive. Oh, well, you got an easy one for you, the low-hanging fruit, then it was crew falls. Yeah. Well, yeah, that goes without saying.

Yeah, because that's, that's, that's an easy, that's a super easy one. Because that's, you're probably quicker to Sue Falls than you are to Aberdeen, aren't you? Three hours. Yeah, three hours for me. And what's Aberdeen then like six or, I guess it's different. I think it'll be about four and a half, five or something like that. Yeah, something like that because I used to live in Fargo, so I used to do that drive all the time. It's a six and a half hour drive.

Well, yeah, who doesn't drive to Aberdeen all the time? I mean, it's the dean. Yeah, we got to love it. It's the only reason to go. They have all the best one-way streets. Yeah. I know we don't talk about it. I'm just going to tease it, but we don't talk about the Massonomics pre-show, but there's been the last couple weeks or maybe like two.

this week and then maybe a three or four weeks ago, they've been talking about some like people from Aberdeen and oh my God, it's been some of the funniest pre-shows. So if you're, you know, if you don't have a chance, we don't talk about the pre-show.

We just, there is no pre-show. It's fake. Yeah, there's, it's just, it's been really enjoyable. I don't know what you're talking about.

And amusing. The pre-shows are very much enjoyable. And they're hard because it's like, you know, it's 930 hour time. Well, I wish it would be nice. It'd be awesome it was 930.

Like it says 9.45 and then like it goes live anywhere between like 950 and fucking 10 basically. Yeah, I'm in bed every time. Yeah. But there's there is some like it in it so spuret. I mean, it's always the best pre-show ever. But there are some that are like really in depth and like said and there's like 79 fucks given. And then there's others that are like, eh, not, not a lot, you know, it's a little more abbreviated. But you know, just tune in.

It is one of the part. It really is one of the like I go look at it. way like you can that's what your three dollars gets you like you get as much out of your okay here's I guess my little massonomics support ownership you know you get as much out of massonomics being a supporting member as you know want to because and I I know people got to go to bed early I get that too but like you have opportunities to consume so much more shit between the discord and essentially like just the live podcast because you know see it a week early but then like that that that you know five to 15 minute pre show depending on how it goes.

It's like there is like shit. There's like so many levels to it that if you don't get to consume all of it, there is always something you're missing. But that's the beauty of it. It's like it's the same thing with the Discord. It's like you could not read the Discord for a month and then pick it back up and kind of, you know, be in the same boat as everybody else.

But I don't know. I'm just, this is my long rambling point of like the pre-show can be really cool sometimes. So take advantage of being a supporting member and, you know, all the perks that it gets you. So back to our guest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shut up. You ramble and talk all the time too.

Me, ramble? No. Yeah, fuck you. I didn't just go off for 10 minutes on mailing stuff. Okay, so you've been around for about two years, let's say. We ask everybody the same question. And of course, this question is a leading question because eventually we want them to release some of this stuff from the vault. What is, yeah, they have been.

What is one piece of Massonomics merch that you want? wish you had bought that you see us wearing that you see Matt and Lou has to wear all kinds of shit you know yeah especially yeah they do yes they do uh honestly the one that I really miss um that really missed out on is um the joggers I personally love joggers but overall I would probably say um oh yeah I'm not going to lie to you I probably have to go the joggers that's the only one that I literally sat there and I had a debate if it was worth, you know, not sinking the ship, but like, should I get in trouble with the wife today? I don't know if that's a valid answer because you could have bought the joggers twice in the last two months.

So I'm going to overrule your answer and that's not allowed. You could literally have, it's got to be something that like you've seen Ben or Lou Ware and you're like, oh, that doesn't exist. I wanted to buy it. I don't like overruling people, but I think I'm allowed to in that's here because they literally just came out. No, you're fine. No, no, you're fine. But if you don't have any other answer, we can circle back to it if you want. Yeah, let's, I just like, I'm not going to lie to you.

Most of the time I see Lou, he's wearing booty shorts and, and, uh, he'll, yeah, Lou doesn't wear a shirt very often, does he. So that makes, yeah, he's, uh, I'm not going to lie to you. It's not, it's not, it's not a, it's a hidden piece. I can't, I guess, I guess I can't buy it. It's not a test technically a massonomics piece, but I want that dang gene belt he has. I love that belt, that he has with the jeans on it. I want that one.

really good. Code on pay it. Yeah, no worries. I don't want to put you on the spot. I was just, it was kind of funny because they just came out, but I don't want to, we're not going to hurt your people.

I wish I thought these two weeks ago. Well, yeah. You didn't miss that. You just chose not to. I know. I just chose not to. There's a lot of, I'm not going to buy you.

I do get it. You chose not to piss off the wife, and sometimes that's the right move. Well, I asked Matthew, I want to say a couple months ago, because I was looking at the thing, you know, forbidden piece of massonomous clothes.

I'm like, what is that? And he was like, oh, there's a whole list. You have to ask someone. I'm like, I don't know who to ask. And I guess now I might have it. I might have a piece now with my buddy light shirt. Yep. Well, there you go.

Yeah. A lot of the beer. Yeah, a lot of the beer parody stuff, they're not allowed to do. I decided not to wear that today because I was going to wear it. But I don't know if you guys are getting trouble or something for that. We don't do it. No, if it's something you already own, it's fine. But also we only do like a, you know, I'll post a screenshot of the video.

we don't actually post the video because we're not going to edit audio and video. So Nate's got enough on this plate already with just one. Hey, nobody got time for that. Yeah, nobody wants to see our. And we still get engagement on YouTube. And I know some people listen on YouTube, but like, for the six people, I'm actually, I'm being very generous. For the two people that would watch the video, it ain't worth us to put it out.

I don't, hold on. I think if we did release video, we would have more people tuning into video. Like, remember last week? where you almost called yourself Joey and I was like, no, no, no, no, it was the I twitch. Like, that would make a difference to people, I think. Is that, like, they can hear me

describe it, but, like, if they got to see it happen and be like, why did his eye twitch and then I call it? Like, I, I think if we did load video, we would get more YouTube engagement, but also, I'm not about to invest that time, effort. We can. It just

would be, there just would be no intro. We wouldn't do the doc, the quack, the fucking... Hong Kong. That, I was like, why can't I think of the fucking phrase? Quack, the silly hawk, quack, quack. It would literally just be... But even then we'd have to, like...

Even then someone would have to go through and edit the beginning and the ending just to like be welcome and welcome and like, just that five minutes I don't even want to do... Yeah, and that might get us 15 subscribers. Like, I think that... I think video would increase the subscribers, but not enough that I want to do it.

Does that make sense? Yeah, if we ever switch to one... because there's, I think it's Streamyard where you can edit, when you edit the audio, it edits the video simultaneously and it's not like two separate. I think that is a technology, but we just use Zoom and we don't really need it. And we're not going to edit two fucking things. So until Nate wants to do that, we ain't going to do it. All right.

Moving on. Yeah, we got a guy. Yeah, buddy, it's almost eight o'clock. Oh, my word. Mylanta. Oh, my lanta. Do you have a certified chart? chaining facility. What is it? What's the name? And are you on Jim radar?

Yes. Yes. And yes. So right here is actually my certification right there. It is a strong man sanctuary again. Star Star Man Sanctuary. And I am on Jim radar. I've added some stuff. I need to do better. I need to get more stuff in there. I think I'm only like 300 point range right now. Do you at least published though. Because a lot of guys. Oh yeah. I was published got pictures, got reviews. I got reviews. I got everything. I got a little bit of everything. Just need to do more. You're like shame on those unpublished gyms here. Shame them again.

I'm cool with that. You did it last week. Are you? Did I actually? So you're Massonomics certified or Jim Radar certified or both? Massonomics, not Jim Radar. I'm debating that one just like you are, debating if I, if, to be double-certed. Double-serted.

Yeah, it's just if you want the extra flag, but at least it's the disc, I mean, you end up being able to get it for like 30 bucks or something. Yeah. And by the way, that was awesome of Tanner. but also yeah certify me harder daddy like I'm not about to do that um so when you set this out to all your friend uh we always ask people this people probably know you're into massonomics at this rate like there's none of us that like are into it that don't talk about it and then you sent them this thing and you're like i'm going to be an unpaid and underrated how did you explain unpaid and

underrated because like that's a keith came up with this question and i love hearing the answers I actually did I actually just did about three hours ago with my mother and a log I was like hey you're in about an hour or so I have to go downstairs for a podcast that I'm that I'm going to be on and she's like oh and I was like yeah it's underpaid underrated

and she's like what's that? And I was like well it's a podcast about a podcast and I'm like in his crew members and she's like what? And I was like essentially we're a cult and we all just like talk about ourselves and we all want to know each other and she's like oh that's a good way of explaining it

I'm like, that's the best I can explain. It's the best way. Yep. So we have these online and offline events. I'm going to be going to some offline events, and I want people to know who I am before I go. So these two guys, they interview us, and they treat us like the original guys,

treat the big lifters that they interviewed. And it's really weird. It follows the same format, but not the same format. Anyway, I'm going to go now, and you're looking at me like I'm insane. That's exactly how it went pretty much. Nice. Good stuff.

Hit him with your least fun most fun. Was there a supportive membership number? Or was that the three? That wasn't the 300 numbers. No, no, no, no, no. That was it. No, I'm. That's for us.

I got you. I don't think I know that, to be honest. Oh, good. Tanner might add it to the Discord. He's in, intermittently. Yeah, because we got this, we got last week's guest.

It was like 700 something, which was pretty cool. Just to, because he's relatively new and there's got to be at least 100 people after him already, which is pretty dope. All right. So least fun, most fun, Sterling. Are you familiar with this game? Oh, yeah.

So I'm going to give you anyone listening for the first time, which, you know, every week, they're, they like to say it on the sister podcast. And I've never really thought about it until now, like in regards to ours. But yeah, every week there might be someone listening for the first time. So least fun, most fun. Relatively new segment slash game we came up with here. I'm going to give Big Sterling a single topic and his job is to tell me the least fun thing about it and then following that the most fun thing. So two separate answers for one topic. Big Sterling. Least fun, most fun.

What I'm going to ask, if I'm wrong on the number, we can edit it on the fly, but the sentiment is still the same. So least fun, most fun, a thousand pound yoke walk. Have you done a thousand pound of yoke? I thought I saw, I thought I saw on Instagram you did, but then the most recent video was only like 900. And I was like, fuck, it's going to ruin my bit. But you know, you've done that. No, no, I did 1,000 pounds on Sunday. And I did 1,000 pounds about a month ago for a half 50 foot.

So I done twice. Love it. Least fun. Least fun, probably the fill. of the compression of the spine and your CNS automatically saying, I hate you. Yep. Most fun. Go ahead.

I was just going to see how tall you are too because that's got to make you. Oh, I'm 6.3. Okay. So you're big boy. Yeah, 6.3, about 315. Okay. That's a big fucking yoke, no matter how big you are, though. Right, right.

I mean, and that's how I was going to say is the most fun is being able to say I can do a thousand pound yoke, which is a pretty elite club. For sure. Like, I don't think you'll never see that. I know, like, you have a thousand, like, are you training that for a show, like, locally or something? Or, like, is the big, that as a fucking massive. That is such a big yoke.

Yeah, the big show is going to be max yoke for 50 foot for a minute. You have two attempts. So you can pick two different weights. Oh, there's a Trump yoke. Is the 1,000 the bigger one then? No, no, no, no, no. You get to pick. It's like essentially, it's like a sending.

It's like doing a max deadlift, but we're doing max yoke. And you only get two attempts. Oh, okay, okay. And so you have to pick your attempts wisely. I'm thinking about. What's the feet wall? walk like what's the distance 50 he's 50 foot oh damn 50 foot

you can do that twice fuck that but it's essentially it's essentially you're attempting to go for a world record so the record's 1280 for 50 foot I'm not going to lie to you I'd like to get over 1100 I think that's possible so do you think people are going to game that and just do like their their one attempt and not do a second one

because like 50 feet twice at a like that's I'm not going to lie to you that's not even that but this competition is going to be so the first day it's a two-day comp it's going to be max yoke into a carpool or truck pole which is going to be about a 25,000 pound truck and then ending off on max log and the next day is to do like a max and the next day is max farmers then a car deadlift and then a stone lift it's a four hundred five pound stone you just pick it up and carry it as far as you can fuck it's called the magna's called the magnet stone that's what that's a wild contest like there so it's brutal that is um uh that is um uh

Yeah, unless you're really, really good at Strongman. I wouldn't sign up for the open there because those weights are ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, and that's all essentially, I was asking the guy the other day, I was like, what's the car? He's like, we're debating if it's going to be a truck or a van. So, I'm like, oh, great. Heavy. Heavy. Yeah, I love it.

That's awesome. Heavy. So when are you competing in that? That's Memorial Day weekend, the 21st through the 23rd. And where's that at for if anybody? St. George, Utah. Oh, dang. Okay. So you're traveling for that. Yeah. Yeah, Matthew and I will be traveling. We'll be actually traveling together.

Is there going to be a live stream on YouTube? Yes, it'll be on the YouTube. Yes. Beautiful. Beautiful. Yes. You can share that with us or something. We can post. Oh, absolutely. Or at least make sure you share it in Discord and in competitions and stuff. So, you know, it's good stuff. Good stuff. I like that answer. So I'm going to go with my height person question. So you've got, let's say you're going for that yoke. and you got one person, a living person,

dead person, fictional person, just anybody in your life that you think would really hype you up for that lift. Who are you picking? Not going to lie to you.

I kind of have that hype man already. It's actually one of the guys who filled out, one of the questionnaires, the name's Dallas. Actually, when I did my first, I did 1,300 pound picks

about a month ago, and he was there to give me some good backslaps. And, man, to get me like, where am I? Where are my slap? It's like, all right, let's focus on the yoke now. So, yeah, honestly, I think I already got a good yoke guy, or not a yoke guy, slap guy, Dallas. Awesome. Awesome. Good answer. Okay. Occupation, again, talk as little or as much as you want about it.

What do you do? I, uh, I just say I'm a tech for Google. I don't work for Google, but what I do is I essentially I help all the Googlers get set up. Like when there's a new Googler, I will give them their laptop. I'll set them up. I'll image it for them. I'll pretty much get them all ready to go. Whenever their stuff breaks, I'll fix it for them. So I'm the Googler's Googler.

Okay, so you're the IT person behind the Google people. Yep, yep. Gotcha. That's wild. Is that a remote then? No, no. I run across five scopes. We actually have the largest mega scope in the world, actually.

Um, we have five scopes about, I don't know what scope is in this term. They call, they like data centers. Okay. They call, yeah, data centers. District maybe. Gotcha.

Yep. Yeah. Uh, we have five sites here. We have five sites that accumulate to about 120 buildings. So when they see a pretty well put together six foot three, three, three hundred 15 pound tech guy come in. You got to get comments on how's the weather up there.

You know, you're a big fucker. Like, you got to get that all the time, right? Like, or the alternative. when you hit them with the have you tried turning it off and then on again do they look at you and go you don't know what you're talking about no funny story i actually had to tell that to somebody they were they're like hey my keyboard doesn't work and i go did you turn off the num lock and they're like oh never mind so we do have that don't worry that's happened but uh yeah i do get those comments every so often

but ironically enough there's actually about two of the people that i work with who actually do strongmen as well so that's so funny yeah we try to we try to we try to We actually work out every so often. We just had a competition also this last weekend that I helped spot and load at, and they both competed there. Are they crew? It sounds like they should be. I think I'm trying to convince one of them. The other one, I'm not going to lie to you.

I don't know. Not that he doesn't, that he wouldn't mesh the group, but you know, some people, you don't think that they'd be dabbled in the squad too well. Got it. Got it. I know a lot of lifter. I had a lot of lifter buddies that would not mesh with our crew. Exactly. So, like, I'm still going to be friends with them, but there's a lot of people that I think.

Exactly. Wouldn't get the vibe or have fun here. Yep. Or to ruin it for other people. They aren't silly geuses. They take it a little too seriously. Oh, no. No, no.

The war with a bar type. The war with the bar, the war with the leg extension. So is, is stir fry derived from sterling or where's, So that's kind of a funny origin story. So my freshman year, I had a coach. He called everybody by their last name. Well, my last name is Schneiderwood. That's a long name to say over.

Say it one more time slower because you said it twice and it's so fast that I can't actually understand what you're saying. Schneiderwind. Schneiderwind. That's a big, that's a multi-syllable. 12 letter name. God damn. 12 letters.

Do you get a cream? When you sign your name? You get a hand frame? Second grade sucked, man. You have an alert to spell my name. but no but no um two pages she wrote that's cursive uh just just the nickname stir fry freshman football coach last names yeah so freshman football so he uh so he was asking me names he's like what if i call you red and i said absolutely not just because i have red hair obviously yeah for the listener he's absolutely

not and uh he was like when he wouldn't be called and i was like give me a day and i'll think of something he's like all right cool and then i came up to him i was like call me stir fry And he's like, and I was like, yeah, like Chinese food. And it would be just a fun play on my name. And he's like, all right, that sounds good to me. That's funny. And that stuck. It seems like.

Honestly, everybody else loved it. Ironically enough, I have my other nickname during high school was Big Stir in soccer because I played goalkeeper. And I was like a wall. So big Sterling, but they would never say my full name. So kind of already had my Masonomics name pre-Massonomics. Wait, how are you? So did you not stick with football then? Because how are you playing soccer and football?

Because that's the same fall. Two different seasons. Two different seasons. Fall season for football, spring season for soccer here. Oh, okay. In West Virginia, soccer was a fall sport. Yeah. Because our kicker was an all-state football kicker, but he was also All-State.

He never came to practice once, except I think on Thursdays every now and then, but he was a full-time soccer player. And that was the benefit of the football coach. You'd actually come to soccer practice and recruit. He was like, hey, why don't you guys come over and play football next year? So, yeah, he was smart. He hated, he didn't hate soccer, but he just knew. He's like, I'm going to come over here and check out for kickers.

And for a reference for the listeners, how old are you? I'm 35. I'm just turned 35 in February. I was just trying to, I was trying to envision how long ago freshman football was for he, so 20 years ago. 09 was my graduation year. I've been a couple days. Just a baby.

Still, still a baby. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah. I'm about to be in master class in a few years. There you go. I mean, the weights will, if you listen to, I mean, and it is true. Sometimes the weights don't get any easier. Like, it's equivalently the same, but sometimes it does, just depending on who their, you know, local director is.

Right. So you did soccer, football. Forgive me if I miss this. You mentioned wrestling. Yep. Yeah. So that would. For 14 years.

That would have been Olympic style wrestling, right? Not professional wrestling. Folk style. But yeah, Olympic style. Yeah, I did folk style. I did actually, I did one year at Greco-Roman. I did the Fargo Open or whatever up in Fargo. Did Greco-Roman for that one because I'm a thrower.

I like throwing people. Yeah, don't put me against that guy. But also, this is probably one of the first times I've seen this, and I'm excited about it because I did some of this. You did gymnastics. Yeah. Yep. I did gymnastics.

For eight years. Eight years. Eight years. Years of gymnastics. Yeah. I would say I tell people. At 6.3. Yeah.

Well, obviously not at the time, but like 6.9. Yeah. What age was for you? So I started around 7.8 and I got out my freshman year of high school. Just unfortunately, because I didn't want to, I guess I didn't want to be made fun of, you know, the old avoid it, you know, type of thing. So I chose, I chose football over gymnastics. but like I said, I was nationally good. I mean, kind of happy because my gross spirit would have ruined it anyway.

They had to help build a hell of an athletic basis. Literally, I tell everybody every time, like, someone's like, oh, I'm going to get my kids in the sports. I said gymnastics. Every single time I say, if your kid isn't in gymnastics, you're going to waste a lot of opportunity. Like, I tell one of my favorite stories is when I was 13 years old, we did a push-up contest, and you couldn't stop for more than two seconds between

push-ups. And obviously you couldn't put your knees down and stuff like that. I did 216. And the winter did 22. We were 13 years old. Like that's, and I was across the board, everybody was hitting over 175.

And it's like, that's gymnastics. You have to be able to be stupid strong. So, uh, what was your favorite gymnastic event? Uh, parallel bars and rings.

I got gold in both of those in national. See, when I was trying to get into gymnastics in high school, I was told men don't do parallel bars. Oh, that's all we do. We don't do. The girls do uneven bars.

Oh, okay, that was. Yeah, we do the one that's like that's totally parallel with each other. Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay. All right. That's my mistake. It's then we don't do that. Did you do a lot of tumbling?

Oh, yeah. I mean, actually kind of ironically, even after I did do gymnastics all through high school and stuff, when I went to college, I went to Iowa Western is here in town. I tried out for the cheerily. team and actually made it. And I was like, oh, I was just joking. Like, I didn't know. I was actually make it. And they were like, oh, no, you can be a tumbler and a spotter. And I was like, oh, no, I'm, I would, I don't think I can actually do this. So I know, I literally,

even after years, I was still able to do, you know, back, I've never got to think crazy. I think I only got up to be able to do like double back tucks was about the most like. It's just so relevant because my kids are now learning. My kids are six and four. And they're learning somersaults and we have a trampoline in the back and they're doing it. And so I'm trying to teach them proper things. Like, you know, when you do a somersault, you have to tuck your shoulders. You have to land on your shoulders, not the back of your head. And then, you know, my son is trying to do a somersault, but he's doing a handstand. And I was like, no, that's a handstand. So like, I'm showing them all of these things. And, uh, yeah, that's a, that was a little relevant and

also very interesting, very, very interesting. Um, um, Keith, you are highlighting things. It looks like you want to talk about. No, no, no. I was just OCD and like, looking for stuff. Nope. Busy body.

I forget that sometimes, because Nate did that to me and it gave me a fucking seizure one, so I'm sorry, I did that. I know how annoying that is, especially because you're probably in dark mode and I'm in light mode and looks worse on your end, maybe.

Yeah, I was like, what are you doing? Like, do you want to talk about that? You keep highlighting it? Just my eyes, my eyes are bad, so it's hard to fucking, I'm just trying to be like, all right, I read that already and moving to the next book.

Okay. How much chalk do you eat on a daily? Chalk do I eat? I try not to eat too much chalk, but sometimes it happens. It just says here that you like to take a good bite out of a raw block of chalk. Yeah. Oh, Jesus. So that was just a goofy little, like someone was like, you won't do it type of thing. And I was like, all right. It's like, whatever. But obviously, I didn't like eat it. I just brought. broke it off and like pulled it back out of my mouth.

Yeah, but even that like chalk. This is my home gym, so it's my chalk. I just pulled it back out. Yeah, no, no, not even that. But like I, you know, when I have like, like, when I chalk up the shit out of my shirt and then like I smack it later and I forget that it's there and I just like eat that dust chalk. I just imagine that that times a thousand in your mouth.

It's like, oh. Right. I actually created, we actually kind of created something that, uh, uh, helps me with the freaking the chalk messes because, uh, we made like, what we call it a chalk enhancer. you kind of put it on like liquid chalk type of thing and then uh what it dry because it won't dry like liquid chalk like you won't see it but we use bone marrow so it kind of has like this nice little like thick layer on it yeah i have i have bone marrow and then you put your dry chalk on and it just cakes like crazy and uh like i usually i'll say like i'll apply it and i won't have

the chalk up for like three or four sets interesting with yeah it's really nice so we we kind of came up across that my buddy was like dabbling with like liquid chalk ideas and he did that and it didn't work out to his idea but I was like no this could be better. Yeah, yeah, I've tried liquid chalk and I didn't, I didn't love it. But I do, you're talking about the bag of bone marrow, right? Like the super fine. Are you actually grinding bones? No, we're doing like the bone marrow, melting it down, you know, getting the jar of it. Okay. And then we put it in like our liquid chalk mixture. And then so when it hardens, you know, we kind of get like almost like a lotiony feel to it when you do it. And also in contrary to dry and. Also in contrary to dry and.

in liquid in liquid chalk. Whenever I'm done with it, my hands aren't cracked and crap. Now I wonder if the bone marrow chalk bag I have actually has bone marrow in it. I mean, it might be on the outside of the bag. Maybe they have like kind of like, maybe like a oil coated on the bag or something. Weird. Weird.

Okay. Apparently you're also obsessed with meteorology? Oh, yeah. I was my first, I want to say my freshman year, I ended up going to college for meteorology, Earth Sciences, and I did storm chasing for a year. We went down to Kansas and Oklahoma for like two weeks, went down there and chase storms. Every so often, actually tonight we had tornadoes close by. I wanted to, so bad to go chase them, but didn't do it. I have a podcast. Go away, tornado.

Essentially what it was. It's like, hurry, I'm getting out of here. But yeah, we used to go to, I used to go chase them. Jason and never nothing too crazy no no like you know oh my god like twister stories and nothing like that but i've gotten within like a mile or so like f3 so you know like still scary you know but like it's controlled environment where we were behind it and it was going to be nowhere dear us type of thing so um but yeah that i mean that is definitely a passion like my wife always makes fun of me my wife you know she always makes fun of me and uh whenever the weather happens she's like what do you do and I'm like scrolling on the radar just like refreshing it over and over and like doing the

different styles of maps. Nah, no, my, my wife really, um, she leans into my nerdiness because I don't have a lot of them. And, uh, it's like, she's like, your things are wrestling, old school metal and a little bit of lifting. And she's like, right. I love, I don't care about them, but I love hearing about them. Right. Uh, all right.

All right. Keith, what do you got already? Are we going out of games? It's 20 after 8. We've been at this. Things are going smooth and I love it. We can. We can always circle. Anything that we missed out on two,

we can throw into unpaid and underrated. I moved a lot of stuff in unpaid and underrated. Oh, so I do hear you and I have one thing in common. They're very skittish when someone kind of comes up behind you or something, catch you out of corner of your eye, kind of. Hey, I'm not worse at that. God, I'll be doing something. in the kitchen. It's always the kitchen. I don't know why it's the kitchen, but I'll be in there doing

like dishes or making myself dinner and my wife will like come in and I won't hear her and I'll turn around and I'll see her like, Jesus, like, you know, I'll still say something and I won't hear her come in and I'll like, it'll jump scare me. And she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, announce yourself. Okay. So what if your wife was a mouse? I would probably be out of that room within about three seconds. Tell us about why we heard about that. Yeah. Well, I know.

Oh, my God. Is that my mom telling us? Yeah, probably. So that was, I want to say when I was like 16 or 15, I was down in the basement of my house. And we live out in the middle of a farm. So, you know, field mice happen. Of course. You can't stop it.

You know, I was sitting on the, you know, we had all these old-fashioned entertainment kiosk. You know, I was on the desktop playing my, you know, my room. escape or whatever I was playing. And all of a sudden I saw something to skitter out of the corner of my eye and I looked over and I was like, what the heck? And then all of a sudden it ran like just in front of my feet. And so I ran up the stairs and I remember it, oh crap, I forgot my phone. I went to go run down the stairs. I forgot there were stairs. I just took one giant step and went wham. I just smacked on the ground. Got up grab my phone and just like went back up the stairs. Like, oh my God. Yeah. So,

There you have it. 315 pounds strong man, former gymnast, former wrestler, former football player, former soccer player, eight shit running away from a mouse. Yes.

It happens to the best of us. And like, like, I'm also not afraid of mice. But like if I'm, I remember I went downstairs and a rat had gotten into our basement. And like,

it didn't, it didn't scare me. But, Like it's not where you expect it, right? So you just see it and you're just like, you're not supposed to be there. And that is jarring to anybody, except I went upstairs because I think it was actually right before we recorded, Keith.

I never told you this. I was literally going downstairs to get something right before we recorded. And I went, you're going to need a bigger trap downstairs. And then I went and put the headphones on and recorded this podcast. And I just left the house in disarray for a minute. I know there's a mouse in the area. I will vacate. I'm like,

I won't go down, like, why? What is it about them? Basement right now? When I was, it's honestly mostly probably PTSD, to be honest.

When I was eighth grade or so, also at that house, we, you know, the bags of starburst, you know, individually, like you can grab a bag, just get like a handful of starbursts.

Oh, no. I did that in one skittered down my freaking arm. So I have a reason to be a scared of them. Again, and it's like it's not where it's supposed to be. Mice themselves, like they're not scary. No. Well, when they run around your house, it's not cool. My old cat that we no longer have would bring Mike, he was an indoor outer cat and would bring mice in and they play fucking dead.

You go to pick it up and then you'd fucking chase around the house for a half hour trying to like, that's what you can mainly get rid of it. And then it's just like, it's fucking two in the morning. I'm chasing a squeaky fucking mouse. It's pissing and shit all over my house. My God fucking damn it. It's true. I mean, I mean, the truth is that cat thought you were too skinny. So that cat was like, you don't.

eat enough. Here, I brought you this. Thanks, buddy. Yeah, we can do some FMK. There's a lot of good stuff, but we only... There is, actually. There's only so much time in a day, and there's only so much time in a podcast. So, Big Sterling, are you familiar with Fuck Mary Kill? Oh, of course. So we're going to give Big Sterling three topics, and he has to rank them between

fucking one of them, marrying one of them, and killing one of them, and he can use his druthers. He's encouraged, uses druthers. We want to hear why he made these selections. So we're going to go with some Strongman events. I'm going to go with some Lift Hard Live Easy Strongman events, actually, so we can let Jake know how you feel about his events. I was going to put a mystery event in there, but, you know, so we don't know what it is. We'll have to save that one for later. How do you feel about the thing you don't know about? Yep.

Well, it's the concept of it is more, but we'll save that for unpaid, I think. Rocks. FMK, tire flip, farmers carry, max deadlift event. So all these in a strongman show specifically, not just like training them at home. So tire flip, farmers carry, max deadlift As a strong man, I will The personal is going to be easy I will kill tire flip

I have some personal trauma with that one Yes Farmers carry I'm Marion all day long That is a love of mine That is yoke are my loves Those are my two true loves And then I'm probably gonna I'm probably just gonna fuck a good

Max deadlift Nice nice Nice That's wild, man. Like that's, it is hoping to do that, maybe at the 4-10. That's a big farmers. I try. What was your, what was your traumatic tire flip?

Because a lot of people, a lot of people are averse to a lot of tire flips. So mine was more of us. Mine was more of a stupidity mistake. I never have ever trained with belt or anything on my tire flips. And for whatever reason, I put my hard belt on and it was a lever belt. on for tire flip and of course when you go to pick it up what is it going to catch on? Oh yeah. I kept on catching on the lever and then after about the third time I just grabbed it and just

threw it to the side and I like picked up like massive steam to finish and then I never needed belt for the farmers anyway because it was only like 275 so I know I can just grip and rip at that weight. I literally don't even have to like set myself. I can just pick it up and just run and so I did. So with that one I have a little bit of trauma because I lost it by like. eight seconds and then I count all the time that I wasted on the lever. It was about nine seconds.

And I'm like, dang it. I think we have to address the elephant in the room. Is it a Midwest thing or a you thing? Because I call it a lever. I have never called it a lever. Is that a, is that something you've been questioned?

I would say lever. I would say lever. Honestly, it might just be a me thing. I guess I hear some people call it a lever belt. I heard people call a lever belt. I guess me too. also depends on sometimes I say it the other way.

Maybe the Midwest thing. Like I say Warsh. That's one thing I will say. So I say Warsh as well, but that's because of my grandpa. I used to say drawer, but I got that out of my vocabulary. Instead of drawer? Draw or draw our drawer. Yep.

Worse your hands. Yep. Maybe Michael Warsh the car. Leave her at home. I say Crick a lot, but I also think Crick and Creek are different. right? I agree. Yeah.

Like my neck versus the thing. No, no. Like a crick is like smaller, maybe closer to the house. A creek isn't a river, right? But it's probably bigger, probably has crawfish in it. Whereas the river probably is bigger and has real fish in it. Yeah, yeah. I do think.

You agree on that, actually. I think there are differences there as well. Um, Mount Rushmore. Found one I wanted. Not even going to pretend the rest of these exist. Oh gosh. We might do too. It depends on how much you like the first one.

All right. All right. So Mount Rushmore, do you know what it is? Do you want to explain it to anybody? Oh, of course. Hey, pick your, was it your four best or your top four or whatever? Yep. And you have the alien face if you choose an alien face,

which actually goes really well with my, uh, with my pick here. Top four horror movie monsters. Ooh, horror movie monsters. well, got to go with old-fashioned Jeepers, creepers. Yep. I mean, that's a goat. I guess it's not, I mean, I guess it's technically a horror movie, but it's more of a cryptid, but Mothman. Because Mothman is a movie, but there's more ways to talk to the cryptids.

Yeah, but I don't think that it's, it's your game. Yeah, it's your game. You might both agree with that one. So, like, there was cryptids involved. it was put in here as well, but I wanted to go with horror movie monsters. We can talk cryptids all day. I think we did that with.

Who did we do that with? That was, we went off on cryptids. I think with, was that Sanchez? There's Tyler, I think. I'm not sure. Okay, so you're at two.

We'll allow them off, man. That movie sucked. That movie kind of said. Yeah, I'm not going to lie to you. I was kind of disappointed in it, too. I'm not going to lie to you. Of all the things. Oh, balloons.

I think it was like a double header. We got to watch Black Hawk down and then the Mothman brought the prophecy. All right. So you're at too. You've got Jeepers, creepers and the Mothman. So we're going to have to go with, I always kind of liked the Lepercon. That as a monster, I guess, or more... Absolutely. Absolutely.

You think it could have been. The age you were. Yeah, then I honestly, personally, I also thought the Gremlins, they scared the living crap out of me. Yeah, those things. I don't know why. I was not that I was kind of goofy as an older person, but when I was younger,

I was like, what in the living crap is that thing? Yeah. When they were hairy or when they were like the lizard? The nighttime thing. They're all swarried. I didn't know. I mean, you're afraid of fucking mice, so I figured the little,

the little thing was the shesmo. Gizmo isn't scary, but in the first gremlin's, they're scary. Then the second gremlin, they become funny for whatever reason. New York. New York.

Yes. Yeah. Is there, the first one specifically? I think there's a new Grimlins coming. I think like the original cast, I think it's coming out with a movie like sometime. Wild.

You know what I just watched? And Keith, I don't know if this is on your glazerating or not, but I just watched, I just watched Bone Temple. Yeah, I saw that, yeah.

Yeah, and I was live tweeting it during live tweeting. I call it that, but like, it's so hard to not do that. The big dicks. I'm sure they come. There's a little Jackdood,

the movie. That whole movie is dicks. Like for the first 30 minutes, there's just dicks in that entire movie. But ultimately, I loved that movie. That was incredible. It was not what they advertised. It was not what you expected. You know, some really good twist and stuff like that.

But like, yeah, I wonder if I, there he is. I wonder if I should do that more often. Like, as I'm watching movies, like, create a different thread and just like do that kind of like, lie. I'm watching this movie you guys might have seen because I do think some of the times I do have kind of funny takes but ultimately yeah

that movie 30 minutes of penis just you see Ralph Ralph find Ralph find the guy like he's the guy and his dong is out in that movie like that was all dong um

so yeah I think he passed not Rushmore do you have an alien head Do you have anybody you want to add that you might have been thinking about? Honestly, not really because all the ones that I personally love, movies-wise, or people are the monster. Oh, you're into those kinds. Okay.

I don't know if you've heard about the house that Jack built. I don't know if you've heard of that movie or at all. I do think I saw that actually. That's actually, ironically enough, that was the movie that on my wife and I was very first date, we watched. So she was like, oh, in my house. Yeah, that's an awful first. personally. How do you feel about the monster series on Netflix? The Ed Gain and the

Oh, that other guy. Yeah. Amazing, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. I got into the other documentary. It's like crappy pixelated and stuff. It's like an hour and a half documentary and it's great because it talks very in depth about the whole entire like investigation and stuff like that. It's very, very fun. The next one they're doing, I think, is Lizzie Borden for some reason, even though she didn't, she only killed two people. Yeah, they're going off namesakes probably nowadays. Yeah, I really, Edward Temper deserves one. I think if they're going to do that for sure.

That dude killed more people than anybody for years and years and years. I always think that they do that. There's a guy down in, I want to say it's Brazil or Columbia. I don't remember exactly which country, but he has like the highest count technically, and it's like 500. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's like, who shit and this one?

Well, there's probably a reason they're not doing that one. Yeah, exactly. Let's not celebrate that guy. Right. Well,

I mean, I don't know, I don't think any of it. She's, my wife has a pretty stern, like, she won't watch any of that stuff because, like,

she'll watch the real documentaries that's, like, actually, like, seeing what happened of the victim and stuff, but she doesn't want to watch, like, the, like,

basically the immortalizing these fucking actual killers and getting them, like, kudos essentially. She just refuses. Horrifying weirdos. Yeah,

fucking turns her stomach. I can see that kind of, but at the same time, I don't think. She literally does it for a living. Yeah, I don't think that's what some of these are doing. Like, they make sure that you understand that these people are fucked up. Yeah. But there's still that one crazy fucking person that's going to like, oh, I love this person. He's my idol and shit like that.

Yeah, and that's weird. But that's like a, that's a weird, edgy teenager thing. All right. I think we got, I'll do one out of the additional info here for you, Sterling, just because it stands out to me. And I had to go actually look to see who's, submitted it because I thought it was your wife and it was like a funny thing, but it's one of your buddies. So the additional info essentially is just ask you about your mistress.

Oh, Jesus. So my buddy, it's kind of a joke with my wife, but my buddy Zach, he and I talk all the time. Like he'll call me like two or three times a day type of a friend. You know, he's like my, he's my brother type of, you know, best friend. And my wife used to always joke around like, oh, is that your mistress? And then I'd like, you know, Yep. And then we even got, we have a gym t-shirts and mine says grapple hook because that's my wife's name for me. His says mistress on the back of it. Oh, that's great. And he wears it probably. Where does, where's grapple hook, hook derived from? And this is, um, so it's not really super TMI, but me and my wife, you know, you don't have to share it. You don't have to share it.

You know, my wife would cuddle. I just reach over and grab an polar and grapple hook. I just got you. Ah, that hurts type of a thing. there is one from additional information I want to know about. And damn it, I demand proof. You have a twerking video that you wish wasn't out there? If you need me to, I'll share that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you will. It's like Dom smash or whatever it is, you know, between fine and

Instagram or not, I guess TikTok, there was a thing about Dub smash. Nope, but it was like a second video. It was just those eight-second video things, you know, where you had to kind of do like the little, you know, a little meme type thing in eight seconds. Well, it was like a song called twerk it like Wiley.

Yeah. And I just was just sitting there in the garage and my, my sister was like, dance to this. And I just put my foot up on the hood of the car and it's twerk. Oh, hell yeah. Send that to us. And let this be out there for the rest of the crew listening.

Twerking videos are welcome. We will take all of the twerking videos you want to make. And good shit stories. I haven't had a good one of those in a while. while. I mean, I'm a straight man, but I like a good twerking video. I'm as straight as they come, but I want to see your twerking videos. The thumbs up from the audience. I love it. Oh, Tanner's here.

Oh, you didn't notice that. Yeah. I did notice. I just didn't tell you. Oh, yeah. It's one of those things to let the listeners know. I see. It was subtle. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah. We're not professional brothers. We're not professional brothers. I'd fuck to even fuck that. It's a long week, my friend. Unpaid or underrated, are you familiar with this game? Would you like to explain the rules to Tanner so he knows how we play it?

Well, I'm going to say unpaid. Underrated and unpaid. Unpaid is something that we're not too big of a fan of. And underrated is something that I think needs more credit. Beautiful. Simple as that. None of this interpretation of it. Just cutting black and white. cut in grass how we like it. All right. Unpaid or underrated strong man mystery events.

You know, I'm actually going to go unpaid because I've always been kind of a, I know, but I'm actually a fan of the unknown. Like I actually kind of like tiebreaker events and stuff like that. Like most of the time, they end up being a grip event, which is in my alley with, with stones, with the being the mystery event this time. I mean, I have the long, lanky arm, so a lot of stone stuff doesn't bother me if it's sandbags, if it's natural stone to shoulder, any of those stuff. So I love, I love a nice mystery event. Good deal. I mean, you mentioned tiebreakers. I just want to take a 30 second thing and give, I will give Big Dan eager a little bit of shit. Yeah, there was a couple of tie. At least there was one tie. There was a tie for podium.

It was, there was two guys pied at third at like 35 points or whatever. And they just, I'm assuming they did a count, they had to have done a count back, which I think that's basically if you won, if you won more events or like how the high, I'm not really sure exactly mathematically it works, but it's all based on how you finished, but not necessarily equates you being better than the other person. So kind of, and I get it.

It was a long day and I understand, but I, you know, can't give the man praise the whole day without giving them a little bit of heck. So I would have seen a tiebreaker to where that third and fourth place actually meant something to me a little bit more. And like, it was just,

I don't know, I think it would have been a little cooler, but that's also unpaid or underrated crossfit. strong opinion on this. Very unpaid. Yeah, just say that. I'm not a massive fan of CrossFit. I respect it and the fact that it's a very, you know,

very demanding sport. I just, I've had competitions at CrossFit gyms or held by CrossFit gyms and the people weren't really the greatest, let's just say. So, and I don't know if I want to associate it with the community or if it's just those people, but yeah, I always just try to avoid CrossFit community stuff. It's unpaid for me, but I, you know what, I respect it and the fact that I can't do it. I couldn't do no work out of the day every day. I couldn't do that Wad. I respect it.

I like carrying 250 pounds. Nice. All right. Only last one here. Unpaid or underrated drones. Oh. you're underrated. Okay.

Is there a story about... So the fun story on that one... Yes. My neighbor, his name's Griff. He was like, I want to say, it was just a night.

He and I were out, just kind of having drinks out in the driveway, just kind of hanging out. As well as one does in Omaha. Yeah, of course, right.

We were just hanging out, and all of a sudden, he was like, I have a drone if you want to fly it. I'm like, all right, bet. And so he threw it up and got it.

Got it. Got it all set up. We put it up in the air, and he started flying it around. and then all of a sudden it was like battery load powering down and it was like a quarter mile away. And then all of a sudden it was just powered down. And he and I were like, all right, let's go get it. So we really walked a quarter mile just to go find his drone.

That's rather smart enough to like I have this much battery left. But I guess the wind would affect it too because like the more, but you think it would have no, hey, I have. Some do have that ability. Some do. I just don't know if I'm going to come home before I die. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see. I see.

Most of them should have that. I agree. I believe it they do, but I think either he didn't have that on or he just, I mean, like I said, we got a few. Get your steps in that day, it sounds like. Oh, it was actually, I was laughing the entire time. Because we were, like, trying to chase and we were like looking for the blinking light up in the sky and we're like trying to find it. Oh, that's wild. Good deal. So that's it. That's all you're going to do because there's a lot here. I'd cherry pick stuff that we had missed from earlier. So that's a lot of time. Okay, my turn. No, I'll do one more. Do one more. Yeah, do one.

Taco Bell, unpaid or underrated? I would used to have said underrated, but now it's unpaid. Ever since my fitness journey began, my taste buds have completely rejected Taco Bell. Like, I don't know what it is. It's weird because I'll be eating it and it just tastes like bitter and sour and just nasty to me. But I can have Taco Johns and it tastes fine. I don't know if that was just like a weird thing. And maybe like I just associated that with bad food when I was dieting because

for like eight months when I went on my diet, I pretty much didn't touch fast food. And I went from, oh, I want to say like 350 down to like 270 in like that eight months. But I didn't do any like horrible dieting. It wasn't like starving myself. Definitely not that. But yeah, I would say probably unpaid now just because how much my body does. doesn't love it anymore. Now, that's fair. That's fair.

I think I've eaten Taco Bell once, maybe twice, three times since I started lifting. And it is one of those things where it's like, I'm hungry and I need the dumbest amount of calories in the lowest amount of food I can get. And that's when I go and I get like a Doritos taco or something. That's just like, okay, this is 600 calories in six bites. I'll take it. Um, okay, my turn. Unpaid or underrated?

Crunchy food. So I'd say unpaid. I'm weird, I guess. I know a lot of people out there who love crunchy food. Um, I don't know what it is about me, but I just like chips, you'll very rarely see me eating chips. Like I just don't do chips. Um, crunchy like, you know, jolly ranchers or stuff like that crunchy foods, like that

type of stuff, but not, not my thing. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just, I know it sounds. maybe kind of goofy, but I can't really hear. It's, you know, when you're just crunching, you're like, God, what's going on? So that's unpaid for me. I know it sounds goofy, but for every reason, it's just never been my thing, like chips and stuff.

Like, I've always like, hey, you want my chips? I'll take your cookie type of thing. Yeah. Actually, a lot of us lifters are autistic, so that would make sense. Yeah, so, yeah. It's a, it's a sensory thing for sure. I get it. Trust me, I get it.

unpaid or underrated gloves instead of chalk the nerling is sharp i mean the nerling is too sharp we just gotta shave it down right as a guy who likes to do heavy farmers i am always going to say rip that skin no gloves the gloves are unpaid did you see adam bishop's hands today when he pulled out i did not see it but i heard there was some story pictures

oh yeah it was just fucking raw meat eat on his his hands it was horrendous like what happened to mitchell a couple years ago i yeah i mean it had to be bad enough that he fucking pulled out of it yeah mitchel didn't even pull out so that must have been worse well it's cool that he pulled out prior to because it would be a douche to like try the event eat shit and then like not let the alternate take your place so it was good to him for knowing he was gonna eat shit and gave the alternate the spot yeah they even said that if they would have started that after like the second event that essentially they would just stayed at four and i'm like well that's good that he like you said he made that decision

to just bow out. Yeah. Unpaid or underrated. Not the first time this has come up. The suicide boys. Oh, underrated. I love that. I can't get into it.

I can't. I tried after the, no, somebody else on here has brought this up. Well, I. And I was like, okay, I'll give it a try. Nope, couldn't do it. I will say it is definitely not for everybody there. Their music is very aggressive, we'll call it.

Now, hold on. I love aggressive and dark music. No, I mean like aggressive isn't like towards people. Like just. Yeah. Yeah. I listen to. The way they talk,

it's not that great. Yeah. I listen to things like Slipknot and Amigo the devil, which is like really. But I, for whatever reason, I just, I was like,

okay, I'm going to get into this because whoever we interviewed that loved them, I wanted to give it a try. I couldn't do it. But I think it's just because to me, it's SoundCloud rapper. And I just,

it wasn't. they're like the only trap wrap wrap that I really like. And I think the only reason why I like it is because they have that like, I'm angry tone. And when I'm lifting, I kind of like having that like angry tone. I don't, I've tried to listen to like gentle music like every so often I will.

But I'm just like I have to listen to scream. I have to have someone screaming on here. No enia for you, right? No. I tried Nora Jones one time and I'm like halfway through it. I'm like, all right, I got to get into this.

Yeah. I actually love Nora Jones. Nora Jones is like a good, like lay in bed and cuddle music. I love Nora Jones. I was going up driving. You know what? Let's keep going with music. And I wonder if you and I are going to agree here.

Unpaid or underrated the Beatles. You're probably going to disagree. I say they're unpaid. I agree 100%. Oh, okay. Cool. Absolutely. Whenever I say I don't like the Beatles, everybody's like, what do you mean?

I'm like, I don't like the Beatles. And honestly, I only like, I only like one or two songs of the Stones, even. I'm not going to lie. I think they're also unpaid. I will, I'll go out there and say that. Yeah, better than the Beatles. Yeah, agreed. That's why I didn't say them on there.

I was like, I feel more disdain towards the Beatles than I do towards the Stones. Yeah, I don't like boy bands now and I don't like boy bands from back then. I agree. I think, yeah, I mean, my wife loves boy band. She's going to see BTS in August. Great. absolutely. Do I seek out the backstreet boys? No. Do I seek out the Beatles? No. Are they the same thing in my brain? Yes. What's that?

Are metal bands be boy bands technically or no? No, because like, I look at it in the way that they're manufactured and marketed, right? Remember the Beatles when they went on Ed Sullivan. People were throwing underwear at them. Yeah, yeah. Right? Like, it's like, it was like all, it was all. And it's not because it's marketed towards young women because like, that's a weird thing too, right? Like, we can't hate things because they're marketed towards young women. It's just, it's not anything I'm interested in.

If Backstreet's Back comes on, I'm fucking amped. That's a great song. Do I seek it out? No. I'm not going for my, I'm not going on my playlist and look at it. Yeah, like, oh, God, I can't wait to hear this. Right. Like, it's one of those things.

Like, I like these songs. They're great. songs so and so and so and so but like are they my favorite no and the beetles are the same way i think they have one song she's so heavy i love that song that song is freaking dope that's the only one i like right twist and shout great song like they have great songs right i just don't think that they deserve what they're like the greatest rock and roll band of all time no they're not no they're also like is it just because we weren't there to like did they actually revolutionize stuff. So do you have to see it live?

Like that's what you're saying to me. No, no, no, no. Like, did they do something groundbreaking that now's been done a thousand times? Like, I don't know. I wasn't around in the fucking 607, like 1967. So like they were a craze or I don't know. Yeah. So no, I'm with you on that one, my friend. That's why I wanted to get that because I didn't want to be the only one under the bus on that one. Gosh, I have so many more here.

actually I want to hear this one this is my last one I promise Keith I'm sorry you're good to figure this out techno metal music oh that's underrated for sure okay who's your favorite because I can tell you my right now honestly right now it's I've been really

a vibe with the Browning I never heard of them I'll look it out they woke them up they have an album that came out just not too long ago called Omni but they're like to me the perfect blend of techno and metal because it's like almost like the whole thing is about the techno it's just like the backtrack is techno but you're still getting a dude screaming in your face it's great okay so then i'm going to put oh uh they actually have a new one out as of february the burn the world burn this

yes yes yeah that's when i've been i've been on repeat okay uh so i'll put out there the um uh not eskimo call boy they go by something else now something callboy um look them up okay uh gosh darn it what do they go by in canada because we're not we don't really say eskimo up here and then another one that isn't too it's electric call boy it's electric call boy oh i have heard of them yeah i've heard of them i haven't heard a whole lot of their music but i've because of browning they throw it in their radio yeah they they do it really well because they do it silly yeah like they're very funny when they do it.

It's a Vianova. And then there's Jiluka. So Jaluka is a Japanese metal that randomly throws in techno. They're awesome. Yeah, they really are. Like, it's one of those things where every time I hear it,

they released a new song and I was like, I'm prepared to not like this. And then like the breakdown hits and I'm like, oh, gosh, this is good. You get the stank. during the breakdown. Oh, no, this is too good. All right.

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we come meet Cam and us and a whole bunch of other crew at the Jim Radar booth. You know, Code Unpaid will save you a little bit of money at all those things. And, you know, they're all friend and crew-related. And Big Sterling, we heard you had some questions or games for us. I do.

Joey, you're going to be first. Okay. Hit me on. The question I have for you is I was looking on your IG or as I do often, but today I was looking at it again. And you're a man of many kilts. Yes. What is your favorite one that you have or have had?

What is your favorite? That's hard. Yeah. Obviously the one I have with my family's. tartan on it is my favorite, right? That's the McKenzie tartan that goes back to about three generations past my mom. It is my favorite killed. It is handmade and shipped me from Scotland, from the Scotland shop. Weird story about that. I was at a random Irish pub, probably about three weeks before a big Scottish festival here. And there's just a lady sitting there and she has this

little booth set up. And she's like, we make kilts and tartans. And I was like, what do you mean? And we got to talking and I found, I said, okay, well, my families would be the McKenzie. She's like, oh, no, we've got those. You've got three different versions, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So mine's actually the, the McKenzie, it's called the worn, like the worn out, the worn down. Most tartans will have like a hunter's version, a celebratory version, a worn version, stuff

like that. So that would be my favorite, but it's not my most worn because that's a $500 kill versus my utility kilts. So Utila kilts is a company out of the states, and they make kilts for just everyday wear for people in the city. Right. So I don't have a thing, so don't influence me on this shit. But like, um, they, they just make them with pockets and belt loops and they're just the best. So my everyday kilt is my black utilicailt. It's got four pockets, two on the side, two in the back. It's the everyday kilt. I've had that for so long. It has a, I've had that for so long. It has a gum stain from the bus from when I was in my 20s. Like it's, but that's my favorite kilt. The third kilt I have is a turmeric colored kilt from a guy in Montreal. It

actually is the color of the Irish military. So I don't wear that one very often because A, I'm not Irish, B, I'm not in the military, but it is such a gorgeous color of turmeric that I do enjoy that killed, but I don't wear it very often. Then I also had another one for you. What is your Mount Rushmore of Attitude Era Wrestlers? You've probably done it before, but I haven't heard it myself. Attitude era wrestlers

Gold Dust I still believe Gold Dust started the attitude era and if it wasn't for him and his stuff with Ahmed Johnson and Roddy Piper there would be no Attitude Era I know we like to credit

Stone Cold Steve Austin with the beginning but the kind of gender bending weirding people out stuff that Gold Dust did and did so well that I think that you would be if somebody tells you he didn't

then they're not a real kind of wrestling nerd obviously Stone Cold is next because I was a big Stone Cold fan as a kid still am I still love that guy everything he'd do what what like he's he's and his cat Keith have you seen Stone Cold's cats yeah what's his name

Poncho Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Poncho the Barncat. Like, he's still going strong. I still love Stone Cold. Attitude era. So, yeah, there's a part of me that says the attitude era is one of the worst eras.

Triple H, but I would say the cerebral assassin Triple H might be one of the best. And we're talking to WWE, right? We're not talking anybody else. I was actually going to say, I mean, we could, I guess technically that era would also be bringing in the WCW battles and stuff.

Isn't that where they had those issues? Well, I mean, if it wasn't for the attitude era, then WW wouldn't have won the Monday Night Wars. So I would say that, yeah, Triple H, the Sribal Assassin. I remember when he, that was his best villain era, because you legitimately hated the guy. He was so good at making you hate him. I remember watching it.

I'd be like, oh, just get a little. The gamer. Yeah. The spit, the water bottle fucking... Yeah. But imagine that guy created the best entrance of all time. Oh, yeah. With a water bottle.

Right? Like, that's insane to think about, but that's wrestling, right? We can get into the talk of semiotics and stuff like that. Semiotic is one of my favorite things to discuss. I'm a bit of a nerd like that in that sense of the thing. Roland Barth's wrote a really good at. essay on semiotics about wrestling and how wrestling is essentially the basis of all semiotics and how it gives you the signal and the signifier and stuff like that where you know you hate

the guy you could you could attend a show and never have seen a guy but you know within the first three seconds of their music their entrance their body language and everything whether you're supposed to like them or not right um or face Fourth one. Oh, that one's killing me. The fourth one. I don't know if I have a fourth. I mean, if we're talking all factions and all everybody, Taz is always on my list.

Yep. There you go. I was it. Where's Taz at? Yeah, Taz is one of my, he's up there with one of my favorite wrestlers of all time for every reason. The dude was my height. but like also five feet wide. Like he was strong.

He was, he was intimidating. He was everything I think the attitude era should have had. And then Vince McMahon ruined him. Absolutely ruined him. But his ECW stuff with his Sabu and all of the stuff that he did there,

before he won the championship, the FTW World Championships, the only one I don't own and the one I would love to own a replica FTW championship. because like yeah he really he was for me the defining era of that time

I like it that's a winning four I tell you that again I need a wrestling podcast at some point I I was no because my buddy he uh I'm actually my co-worker he is a massive wrestling fanatic right now he's been an AEW

like Mark as he calls it he loves AEW right now but he's been kind of getting me back into it because I've been like I you know as you know you get older you kind of get away from it a little bit and then he kind of talks about it so much I'm like you know what I kind of want to know what he's talking about so that watch raw smackdowns that so that that was me back in the bray Wyatt era I had actually not watched for about eight years and then somebody was like you might like this new guy bray Wyatt and then I watched every week twice a week forever until bray Wyatt died right I like I have this.

Bray Wyatt tattoos. Yeah, he was a great, yeah. And I was, the other day, somebody asked me about Bray Wyatt, and I went probably for 20 minutes, just about the lore and everything he did and about how he chose the mandible. This is a weird thing I haven't brought up yet, and wrestling nerds, Keith, I'm so sorry, this is going to bore you for 30 seconds. He had the hurt and the heel on his gloves as the fiend, right? because the entire idea was when he laid his hands on you,

he made a choice to do one or the other. Well, what was his finisher? It was the mandible claw. It wasn't the mandible claw, yeah, wasn't it? It was his hand. He would use his literal hands to finish you off. Like, it was just so everything he did was so calculated over 10 years. Yeah.

that like somebody I hope it's not me but it might end up being me needs to go back and rewatch literally everything he ever did and tie it into just how much he meant to wrestling and that's why like my daughter goes daddy what do your tattoos mean and I was like and I put it on YouTube and I was like we're going to watch the Bray Wyatt story we're going to watch the fiend we're going to watch this

we're going to watch that right and like I'm like half crying thinking about Ray Wyatt there's been several times where I'm kind of tearing up thinking about this guy and everything he did. So yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I went off. Tengent. Oh, so the first one is a fun, but also a serious question.

Not serious, but I have a little bit of a joke of it. So what is your favorite deadlift variant? And why is it no strap axle double overhand? Man, my double overhand axon. fucking like 240 or something. Maybe like like LBs, not fucking kilos. Like it is not.

I mean, it's, it's just under half, just over half. It's somewhere in the 50% range of all I can do to hold on to it. It's just, it's hard, man.

As far as my favorite variant, I really do like an, I don't know, like, each height has its own kind of plus and minuses, but like, right. After missing,

uh, Probably just axle from the floor because it's the most real. Axel from the floor, I think it'll transition the, it's, it's strong man, but it also transitions back to powerlifting. It's like, you know, and if you can fucking, if you can axle deadlift, whatever weight, there's no way you can't hold on. Even with straps, there's no way because the axle is just, you know, it's, we've talked about it on here in the past and I think in Discord it. I think in my head, I used to think it was a lot harder. It is still harder than a power bar, but it's not like, I do agree with Joe. it's closer to a smaller percentage.

I think maybe a while ago, I thought it was a bigger percentage, but like after seeing what I've been able to pull on a power bar or a deadlift bar in comparison to an axle, like, I don't know, but maybe I'm just thinking that much stronger in general and haven't pushed it on a,

your bar, so maybe I don't know. But, uh, yeah, axle from the floor, I guess right now probably because you, with that,

you can still strong man cheat, but then it transitions more and you're not going to get as much in the powerlifting world. Like, oh, it's from a different height, pussy. I can,

1,000 pounds from that high. But like, just because you do it elevated, it's not, necessarily makes it that much easier because you still got to fucking finish it. And you know what's not my favorite is fucking Jefferson. I fucking hate a Jefferson deadlift.

I do want to, I want to see what I could, like, it was pretty cool to deficit fucking 405. But the one good thing is like the way it ended up working out, Dan in his initial email was going to be a three inch deficit, which is pretty fucking, that's essentially standing on like a rogue bumper plate. That is, so I like trained that and I couldn't wear my belt and still get in position.

So I had to do a beltless at that height and I could only do like 365 or something, I think. That's all I pushed it to. But when I stepped it down to standing on a rogue 25 bumper, which ended up being closer to about a two inch deficit, and that's ended up being pretty much dead on and what we had to do in comp. I was like, oh, that's not bad. So, but yeah, two inch deficit, which is. I don't know. that's hard. Like my hamstring fucking hurt for like my right hamstring hurt for like three

days after that from right off the bat from that deadlift because like I think some people might have been afraid of it too because like it is such a hyper, I don't know what the, it's such a, an excessive range of motion. Like your, your ass is like, you're literally stretching your ass in your hamstrings and your glutes as far as you can. But it's just pretty cool. It was, it was interesting, but I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't have wanted to do a whole lot heavier. And I'm, I'll actually circle back on that. I don't think I touched me. I did two reps of that, and I'm really glad I called it at two because I beat a handful of people,

and then the next closest guy had like six reps or something. So I could have done three or four probably, but like I didn't at the time know that it wouldn't have got me more points. But like looking back on it was like, I'm really glad I didn't push it for a couple more reps because unless I had done three or four more reps, it wouldn't have done me any good. But there's so many goddamn deadlift variations. Oh, just deadlift in general is healthy. Yeah. I like my coach works in like trap bar and stuff too. was like delode weeks and there's just there's if you're not deadlifted or something wrong with it because

there's a variation that you can do i don't care listening to the back catalog uh they talk about the jefferson curl which is essentially what you're describing it's a deficit deadlift from something stupid where you're like bent all the way over yeah yeah yeah it's dangerous for your hand i i definitely had never felt my i don't want to say the term my ass stretch that much because someone's gonna make fun of that but like you really is like you're you're you're stretching things you've never stretched before. I do enjoy what you were saying there for a second. And if I could go back to that,

um, where some fucking dumb power lifter is going to be like, we'll do it without straps. And it's just like, I can. I just don't want to. I, I distinctly remember some guy telling me,

I think it was the first time I did 365 for reps. And he goes, we'll do it without straps. So I did 405 without straps. And I'm like, now what idiot? And he was like, oh, you officially beat me.

And I'm like, I know. I know I did. Like, shut up. I might have been that guy years ago. And if I was, I regret it. Because like, yeah, I mean, you weren't that guy to me. No, no, no, no. Because I mean, I can, granted, we all know I can't double overhand an axle for shit,

but I've double overhanded, like, not hook grip 405 plus. Yeah. And I've, I've hooked like 460, I think. So it's like, it's, uh, you know, I care less about a lot of that stuff now. I'm not afraid to use straps on a lot of deadlifts because I know in a pinch that I could, even if I have to just run a couple week block that like even if I do get back into power lifting this fall, like it's not going to be the end of the world to train myself the hook grip, a deadlift bar for a few weeks and like, you know, I'm not going to drop the bar.

To me, again, somebody with like tendon damage and elbow damage and all the stuff I have, imagine that you're going to let your grip limit your back. Yeah. Right? Like, my back is 20 times stronger than my grip. So if I can deadlift with straps and deadlift 100 pounds more than I could without straps, I'm going to pick straps because I'm building my back. If I want to do grip exercises, I'll do grip exercises.

straps have their place. Straps don't have their place. If you're a powerlifter and you're training to power lift in a competition and you need to make sure that your grip is ready to go for that competition, you should not use straps. If you're deadlifting to build your back, if you're doing rows, you should be using straps. I'll put that out there. That's probably going to be unpopular. But if you're just doing rows or even shrugs, put straps on.

why are you going to hurt your hands so that you don't get the full weight on your shoulders and back? That's stupid to me. Yeah, don't let the grip be the limiting factor. Exactly. Like I said, even during shrugs, not the new ones I'm doing. I'm doing the Tom Havilland ones.

The leaning over one-handed. Oh, yeah, I'm doing those now. Those are, I want my traps back. I lost a ton of weight and I've lost some of my traps and I'm not having any of that. But like if you're just doing barbell shrugs, put on straps, man. And then add 20 pounds.

Like get over it. Because your grip will give out before your shoulders. That's what do I know? That's my incorrect opinion. I remember years ago having a conversation with a younger power lifter. And I think I was kind of like my philosophy was like, as long as I can hook grip a couple reps throughout a set,

I don't, I can either double overhand or, you know, strap the rest of stuff. He's like, not me, man. I have to hook her everything. I hook her up my rose. I hook up my RDLs. I'm like, you're fucking stupid.

Yeah. Like looking back, I think I thought he was stupid then, but looking back now, 10 years later, I'm like, that was really fucking fucking. That was really stupid.

Yeah, yeah. You left hundreds of pounds off of your accessories because you're afraid of straps. Because it was like, if, yep, go ahead, Sterling, sorry.

Oh, I was going to say what I kind of do essentially is I'll go strapless up until, uh, honestly like my first, working set usually or until I can't go anymore. So usually I'll max out and then I'll strap up and then I'll hit my sets. So like you're saying, Joey, I don't miss a rep.

There's no reason to miss a rep for pride. But with all that sense, Sterling didn't get a 400 pound farmers by always always straight. You do have to have. Like, also a bunch of years that I've been training for 10 plus years and like have our baseline kind of strength already to an extent. Like, like, I don't know. Like, if I needed to train grip, like, I can, you can build that up at least for

the sense of holding on to stuff. Like I'm not necessarily good at grip events, but like, I don't know. You can hold on. What happened to Bishop, essentially has happened to me. I've had where my entire hand has been like ripped off before. And so I feel like if I can do with that pain, nothing's going to get worse than that ever. I got to start my road to my lift hard, live easy starts really soon. I think this weekend I'm going to break out the, I think I'm going to

I think I'm ready strong man Saturday at the gym. And I think there's their group training they're doing. They're training for the upcoming event that I was talking about earlier that my, like the coach is putting on. out there and it's going to be a full run through of the vent in a couple weeks and one of them is a farmers and we have farmers obviously lived hard and I haven't I haven't touched my farmers since fucking like October I think so I might have to touch some heavy farmers and see where my grip is because I think what we have to do is like right around like maybe just under what my max is but only because like I've literally trained farmers like even though I own a pair

like I think I've trained them like 10 times in my life so it's something I just got to implement again and get used to um I think it's only a 30th foot around Yeah, 20. I think it's like, yeah, that is, that will help. The shorter runs is always nice. Right. I'm curious if that tire, man, we're going to, like, some of that tire is going to go rolling at somebody. See, that's what I'm wondering about too. Jake on Facebook last week looking for tires. So if anyone is asking Jake what weights the tires are, he don't know yet because he ain't fucking, he doesn't own the tires or got him yet. Shoot, if I bring the truck, I can bring my tire up. And I even, I think I commented. He never responded back. I was like, dude, just like ask a couple of the CrossFit gyms locally or have Tyler reach out. to the CrossFit gyms.

Like, there's got to be, like, three or four tires in Aberdeen that someone can, like, just bring and donate for a day, like, and then just pick back up or whatever. Shoot, the diesel mechanic would probably have some. Good deal. Get anything else, buddy, or?

Um, it wasn't, I don't know if I want to call it a Mount Rushmore, but it's more of, like, a couple of, uh, what are your favorite PR songs? Like, songs that you, you know, you like to throw on when you're, uh, I got to hit something. I'll go to my hold.

I mean, obviously. He's like, oh, don't worry about that. I literally have a Keith's PR list. Oh, I love it. And some of them probably don't get played as often.

But like the top, I'm at the top of my head is or shit, there it is. Okay. So, like the OG sale by Awell Nation. Like, they'd listen to that.

Oh, yeah. And that was like, that one's just retro. Because like, and that was already an old song before I even heard it. Like,

uh, and then like I, I mean, I with, I'm sure other millions of other people adopted it as like a gym song, but like unlike them, I still listen to it because I don't care. Once I like something, I seldom stop liking it just because it's old. Like, that's stupid to me.

Like, that doesn't make sense to me. Like that whole concept. Like, once you're my favorite thing, you're like always in the top, like, just an ever growing top 10 list that's like more like a top 100, but you're there. Keep the Wolfe's away. That was like a, I remember listening to that on, um, it was the first train ride on Yellowstone. where Lloyd fucking kills the guy that picked on Jimmy. And that was the,

that was, like, the song, like, building up to that, like, very tense scene, like, for the first time where he just fucking blows his brains out on the side of the fucking, the road. So that song, like, that is just such a weird, dark, like, I don't know, there's something about that song, just, like, the beat and everything. I will crank that.

Strawberry wine, like, I really got into that just for, like, the bit of there was a power that he meet two or three years ago that I did, and you could pay like 10 bucks to get your deadlift song played and i was like i don't want to just play like a rock song that everybody else is because everyone else just playing rock rap like that's already going to be on the fucking playlist i want to stand out so like i had honestly don't think i'd ever really listen to it until that meet like as a lifting song and then it kind of you just got adopted as my lifting song and then uh oh that's great cody jinks is uh david

a fucking morbid ass song about someone dying i love that song yeah like i love that song yeah like i listen to some weird shit. Like, and I, and as of late, too, like, much just, I just have like a, like, like, a 300-ish song country playlist. It's like, anything from like the newer shit, like, like, like, like, like, not, not a ton of, like, country. It would have been radio country music from 25 years ago, but it's not a whole lot of, like, what you're here on the radio country now.

It's just like the more obscure stuff. But, uh, I don't know. I can just, I can listen to country all day. But I also, I don't, I don't listen to music outside of the gym, like, ever. So the gym is the only place I listen to music. Because I just, I get too amped. If I'm driving, I mean, I will, I'll listen to music why I drive like once a month maybe, but I get, I get too involved in the music. And I'm obviously in a company truck, I cannot like speed because I'm like listening to a fucking metal song that I'm jamming to the beat of.

I just can't do it. So I'm all. Yeah, yeah. Literally my Spotify would not exist if I didn't like work out. It's just, uh, all book tapes and audio and a podcast and in the, in the work van. But yeah, those are my, that's like my top, that's my Mount Rushmore, if you will, I guess, if I had to pick of, like, a song that is just meaningful. And if I'm going to post a PR lift, it's going to be like one of these 10 songs kind of. And I was just the ones that flow to the top.

Yeah, I mean, that's all I had for you guys. I figured just ask you guys a question and do play a quick game with you guys. Love it. Love it. Yeah, did great. I was going to ask you. One thing I don't think we covered, where, how's your backlog journey on Massonomics and you and you coming? Where you had on either of them?

So you and you, I think I was telling Joey earlier, it was like 60 or 70. I was actually closer to like 80 or 90. Yes. Yeah, consumed of you and you. That's like, that's like 80%. Yeah. Yeah. And it's in progress because like today I already like I watched,

I listened to both podcasts over the last two days of this last week's. But, and then of the backlog of the massonomics, I want to say I was counting it the other a day. I'm somewhere, because I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not the greatest of staying on top of it. I'll do it spurts. But I want to say I'm probably around somewhere I got 100 to 120 episodes consumed in a year and a half or so. So about one or two a week. By that, I mean, nice in the sense of like you have consumed a significantly higher percentage of you. And you're like, you know, you're like well over 69% of you and you. And you're like down down on like 15% of massonomic. So that just means you're bigger fans of us and you are

Yep. We'll take it. We'll take it. Ourself on the shoulders. Yes. All the credit. They walked so we could run, you know. Yes.

Love you guys. Those guys over at Jim Raider. They're really doing something good. Yeah. I heard about you guys through them and I realized I need to go to you guys. That's why they call it you and you. All right, boys. Sterling, where are they going to find you, including your gym radar?

So my gym radar is going to be Strongman Sanctuary, just this name of my gym. So pretty simple. And then where you can find me on my handles, again, it's at Strongman's Stirfri, S-T-E-R-F-R-Y, all one word, all lowercase. Yeah, so that's pretty much it. Those are my only two. And then Strongman's Sanctuary is the IG name for my page, which is also linked on to my IG. So you can just click on it there. Love it, love it.

Well, everyone go give him a follow. And when this drops, you know, you get your new friend, you get your new Massonomics crew friend. And I, well, ideally, he's going to be starting to update his Jim Radar a little more. And you should get lots of blips. Yes, her. I'm at Joey underscore Mlesco, M-L-E-C-Z-K-O, DILF dungeon on Jim Radar.

Sorry to everybody that I am mailing things to. I am going to run out of those. very soon. So what I've been doing is I've been using the shitty stickers I got as sealing the labels. So your mail carriers are going to see those for about the next six people that get those, but I will not be reordering. And that's it, actually. I'm not on Facebook, not on Twitter, not on YouTube. I'm on Jim Radar and Instagram and Discord at Big Joey. We have the Instagram, unpaid and underrated podcast, lots of good stuff over there, the website that Nate did not create unpaid internpodcast.com, the UNU channel in Massonomics

Discord, we've been saying it for the last few weeks here, love seeing all the interactions there. I mean, it is actually enjoyable. It motivates us to keep doing this because there's been weeks in the past couple years where like fucking crickets there. And then the last month or so, it's like there's just actual real engagement from people that you could tell, listen to the episode. The worst part is, sorry to cut you off for a second, Keith, but the worst part is, like, we think we have a banger episode and then nothing happens for like two days. And me and you are like texting each other, being like, what the fuck?

That episode was incredible and nobody's saying anything. And that hasn't happened for a while. So just thank you, crew, for like, get in there, talk about what we're doing. Let us know what we're doing wrong. Let us know what we're doing right. You're going to focus more on the wrong because that's what you do. but that's kind of why we signed up for this. So, like, great.

The memes, too. The memes are always good. It helps us throw some stories out there. I actually stall Matt Matt. Had making so many memes lately with the AI that when a new one came in today, there was Garrison, Andrew Garrison posted it. I thought it was Matt first. Like, I think I shared it.

I didn't tag you because I don't, I try not to tag people, but sometimes I do. But for the most part, it's just like, yeah. Because with Instagram now, you can reshare any, in stories without being tagged. So it's almost like you don't have to tag as many people. Which is nice. But yeah, I just thought it was really funny. I was like, oh, fuck, that was my buddy Andrew, not my buddy Matt.

So I've got to kick out of that. So yeah, go follow us on all those locations. Go interact with us on all those locations. I am Keith Honeycutt 73 on Instagram. More importantly, go follow my orange gym, then a wine seller on Instagram and Jim Radar. And until then, we will see you next Tuesday. Beautiful. Yeah.

No editing is always good for our HR or IT. For our HR. Nate is not our HR. Nate is technically our HR, but like I get the feeling that he would like, if Nate, he's picked on me in the past. I don't think you can be HR. Yeah, if Nate was HR, he would throw us under the bus in seconds. He's like a dad of four kids and he's just like, shut up.

This isn't important enough to bug me. Like that's his HR philosophy. Those dad are responsive. I might have said something offensive. Good, you deserve it, idiot. Like, thanks, Nate. I love you too. It keeps you human.

I want to say about a month ago, you guys did, like, a funny crew video. Where, like, there's falls and trips and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Aaron did that, I think. Big, big mofo does that. Yeah, that's Aaron.

You can always post that and tag big mofo. He'll add it. I was like, is that a perfect one because I was doing smelling salts. And my buddy told me it was a weak batch. And I was like, okay, cool. So I dug my nose in that thing. And it sent me to like three universes away. And I was trying to get away from it.

And I tripped. And I like, I actually have a scar on my shin because of it. Oh, no. I ran my shoe across a brand new Texas power bar, deadlift bar. He trying to get away from it. And then like the bottle dumped everywhere because it was obsidian. Oh, even better. Just everywhere, dude.

It was just everywhere. And I'm just like, get away from me. Oh, yeah. Yes, please. Put that in Discord and tag mofo. The twerking video. The twerking video. I'll see if I can find it.

It's boring as crap. I'm not going to lie, but I'll still sit it. Hong Kong.