S2 Ep.017: Strikes
Chubstep
In this week’s Chubstep Strikes! Strikes in bowling? Strikes in baseball? Kind of, it’s the kind where someone is so mad at their job that they create a chant and signs until the bosses become nice. But before Steed and Jrad get to strikes the talk about how rich they are from advertising revenue, Steed getting stared at during a play, and Jrad’s ideally celebrity entourage. For the main segment the guys discuss the first recorded strike, when striking got deadly, buying a scabby rat, the most ridiculous picket sign, professional scabs, bad strike chants, a failed strike, and Ben Affleck...
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S2 Ep.016: Tales from the Wild West
Chubstep
What was the wild west? Was it a time in the late 1800's where dust, guns, and illiteracy ruled the land or was it a 1999 movie featuring Will Smith and robot spiders? In this week’s Chubstep, Steed and Jrad cover all that and some of the most ridiculous stories about this crazy time in history from a man who claimed to create weather to the least successful train robbery. This podcast is about as untamed as the west was wild.
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S2 Ep.015: Lego feat. Randall Wilson
Chubstep
Lego Master contestant and professional Lego builder Randall Wilson joins Steed and Jrad as the first guest of season 2 of Chubstep to discuss everyone's favorite plastic building block. The guys discuss Randall’s first build, replicating the Chicago Theatre, the karaoke to lego connection, the worst Lego brick out there, Will Arnett’s voice, trying to build on TV vs on your own, Steed’s resemblance to Pootietang, and the business of Lego Building. Steed and Jrad continue with the worst environmental toy disaster in history, Ben Affleck’s connection to Lego, the most expensive Lego...
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S2 Ep.014: Gambling
Chubstep
Since the beginning of time people have appreciated one thing…Gambling, and these Chubsteppers are no different. This week Steed and J-rad start with the worst kind of people that play music loud in public settings, and the Pope’s relation to a crazy mayor before getting to the world of gambling. The guys discuss betting in the days of Jesus, America’s original funding coming from gambling, 21 vs blackjack, the largest bets in history, a large ping pong bet involving Coke bottles from Amarillo Slim, Ben Affleck card counting in Las Vegas, betting on obscure items, celebrities and...
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S2 Ep.013: Frank Lloyd Wright
Chubstep
Steed’s twisted brilliant mind came up with Chubstep covering the most famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright and his controversial personal life. The guys start with a correction about the cocktail Bee’s Knees, a business and maybe crime involving the street free libraries, dancing older on acid at the beach before getting into Frank Lloyd Wright. Steed and Jrad cover his design style, way staying out of school pays off, his most expensive and worst houses, his long string of scandalous relationships, getting arrested for cheating, his son inventing Lincoln Logs, a true crime mass murder at...
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S2 Ep.012: Sayings and Idioms
Chubstep
Hot off the press this week’s Chubstep is all about sayings and idioms. First Steed and Jrad get into the wedding in Minnesota they were at the past week, why being the “Best Man” is tough, the worst wedding speeches, and Star Wars music at cocktail hour. Next the guys break it down, idiom by idiom, starting with the sayings that have gone the way of the dodo and which they wish would come back before getting to the meaning of common idioms, some Swahili in ‘Tanzania News’, and presidential saying that stuck with em, whether that be good or bad.
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S2 Ep.011: Popes
Chubstep
Pope Leo XIV is in power so Steed and Jrad decided to do a pivot and talk all things pope in this week’s Chubstep. The guys start with Jrad finally understanding Chappell Roan before getting to the first pope, the crazy ways pope’s have been killed, a ‘Chubsitory’ on their countries of origins and names including 3 african popes and 13 Pope Innocents, the background on the first American Pope Leo XIV including his new Chicago policies, conspiracies and controversies around him. They continue with wild pope stories like undigging a pope to put him on trial, and the loose requirement to...
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S2 Ep.010: Weddings
Chubstep
As Jrad approaches a record number of weddings attended, Chubstep decides to take on this topic from all angles. First Steed and Jrad discuss Steed’s close resemblance to Li Shang from “Mulan”, that most of the US is desolate, cities that suck, Jrad’s trip to the catskills/upstate New York for a wedding. The guys start the topic of the week with the first and history of weddings that was fun until religion got involved, wild wedding traditions around the world like guests kissing the couple in Sweden, or having to cry at your wedding in China. They continue with the best celebrities to...
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S2 Ep.009: World’s Largest
Chubstep
Ever wondered what the biggest things in the world are? Steed and Jrad have you covered in this week’s episode of Chubstep. The guys start with them going to a wedding in Malibu, drinking no water for 3 days straight, climbing a 30’ rope in Santa Monica, and not letting someone sleep on an airplane because they reclined. All of that before getting to the world’s biggest mountain, roadside world’s largest attractions, Illinois having the most world’s largest items, biggest dinosaur, the largest living animal, biggest organism, largest crime organization, biggest tree/plant, the...
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S2 Ep.008: Pandas
Chubstep
The black and white bear from China can’t hide from Jrad and Steed in this week's Chubstep as they talk all things Panda. But first Jrad is back from Namibia where he has been introducing Beanie Babies into the country for the first time and creating a new Beanie economy. The guys discuss recent trips to Austin, Texas with repeated back injuries, running into Jersey Mike in St. Augustine, Florida and getting one weekend away with a groom before he’s married. For the main Panda event the guys discuss: the performer Red Panda, why these carnivores eating bamboo is stupid, captivity...
info_outlineHappy Thanksgiving from Chubstep Steed and Chubstep Jrad as the guys enjoy a nice swan for dinner. Listen to this rollercoaster of an episode where they discuss how the writer of a children's song forced the president to make Thanksgiving a holiday, then told the country turkey was the best food choice for the day, the best tasting obscure birds, Jrad’s trip to a 3 Michelin star restaurant and what not to do, a stranger accidentally showing shirtless pictures of himself at a networking event, listening to an odd audiobook on speaker in the grocery store, and the Catholic Church’s new anime mascot?