S2 Ep.022: Gold
Chubstep
For the last 6,000 years humans have idolized gold. After listening to this episode you’ll be idolizing Chubstep for its vast knowledge transfer to you the listener. Steed and Jrad start with not so easy to open plastic packages, why bald Steed is buying women’s shampoo, and ignoring annoying people that are talking to you before getting to the main topic. The guys cover all aspects of gold from the man who got ripped off to start the gold rushes, the original cursed California gold man, how little gold has been discovered, dangers of gold mining, recent gold thefts including a gold...
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S2 Ep.021: Appalachia feat. Nick T
Chubstep
This week features a deep dive into the deep hollers of the Appalachians with a local to the mountains, fishing guide, and friend of the show Nick T. The guys start with a strange correlation with the country of Georgia cuisine, why younger brothers can never win, and a “small world” story between a TV host and Big Money Banks. Next the three get into the correct pronunciation, Jrad’s time with the Appalachian Service Project, driving ATV’s with snakes, life in the hollers, the best Appalachian food like pickled eggs, wild true and ghost stories alike only possible in this part of the...
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S2 Ep.020: Tarot feat. Mike James
Chubstep
Chubstep legend and man of divine wisdom Mike James joins Steed and Jrad to discuss all things tarot in this week’s episode. The guys start with neck beards before getting into how Mike James got into tarot readings, goth girls, advantageously incorporating tarot into dates, types of cards, judging other readings, early 2000’s late night Comedy Central themed tarot deck, a ‘Chubistory’ on its origins, how to receive a reading, readings and pole dancing, a live reading of Steed from Mike, tarot true crime in Florida involving egg money replication, and the most expensive decks.
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S2 Ep.019: Chewing Gum
Chubstep
This week’s Chubstep starts with the guy recently losing bets on the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest before getting into the improbable world of chewing gum. Steed and Jrad start with people getting triggered by chewing, the ancient history around the world of gum, the Aztecs looking at chewing gum as feminine, the Mexican dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna’s connection to the invention of modern chewing gum, multiple arrests because of gum, gum warnings, gum deaths, the chewing gum diet, and the most expensive piece of chewing gum ever sold.
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S2 Ep.018: Bloodsports
Chubstep
This episode is filled with the pastime activities that are no longer legal and no longer popular for a good reason, Jrad and Steed do a deep dive on bloodsports in this week’s disturbing Chubstep. Before that, the guys discuss why you can’t be putting off doing steroids, the 2025 Nathan’s hot dog eating contest, Andor, and doing the splits like Jean-Claude Van Damme. They continue with a series of “sports” that would be better off with a ball, the money behind 1000 year old cricket fighting, England being the culprit behind most bloodsports, the legacy of Kimbo Slice and his tie to...
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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...
info_outlinePope 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 be pope.