S2 Ep.050: Competitive Eating feat. Patrick Bertoletti
Chubstep
For the second time, #2 ranked competitive eater in the world Patrick Bertoletti joins Chubstep to discuss all things food and eating a lot of it. Jrad and Steed start with the shame of a Mountain Dew-livery, eating pistachios in bed alone, and knock off foods. Next the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Champion joins and the three discuss Jrad’s Jamiroquai hat, Patrick winning the Mass Hole Donut Marathon with 100.5 donuts in 10 minutes, technique vs mentality for competitive eating, the official sandwich debate in Illinois, giving fake advice, Jrad downing a banana as fast as he can...
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S2 Ep.049: Eels
Chubstep
No animal has made some of the smartest people ever seem more stupid than eels. This is why Steed and Jrad tell you everything you need to know in this week’s Chubstep. The guys start with still being ranked in the top 10 of Tanzanian podcasts, topical/tropical storms in Saipan, and Steed’s heroic rescue of a family in need and his likely familial tie to Jesus before getting to Eels. For eels the guys start with how little there still is known about how they reproduce, all coming from one location, the idiocracy of: Aristotle and Sigmund Freud, the black market around baby eels, electric...
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S2 Ep.048: The Moon
Chubstep
The Moon, the myth, the legend is what Steed and Jrad focus on in this week’s Chubstep. First there are some pressing matters to get to like small batch eggnog before Easter, having the past coming back to bite you in Easter egg hunts, and an audience member getting kicked out of a comedy show. For the Moon segment the guys cover bad Moon puns, Artemis II making us all look bad, how the Moon was created, why no season would lead to better skiing, why you didn’t always want to be king in ancient times, using the Moon to find dung, when we almost nuked the Moon, and the insane items still...
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S2 Ep.047: Sleep
Chubstep
From sleep walking murders to mid-flight snoozes for birds, Steed and Jrad are covering sleep in this week’s Chubstep so you can rest easy tonight. Steed starts off with being approached for money for fake gas and how that could have led to the relationship of a lifetime, and heckling 18 year olds at the March Madness game before getting to the main topic. The guys cover humans initial sleep patterns of 2 sleeps a night, why you should go on the record as a sleep walker, a cursed family line that dies from a lack of sleep, setting the Guinness World Record for staying up the longest, the...
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S2 Ep.046: Prisons
Chubstep
Steed is back with his new face while he and Jrad talk all things prisons in this week’s Chubstep. The guys start with free soloing at the rock climbing gym, a controversial march madness decision before getting to the main topic. The cohosts start with how to escape from Alcatraz, Norway's luxury prison, the massive amount of convicts in the USA, being safer in prison than out, when solitary confinement was a ‘good’ thing, prison uniform fashion, Steed being waterboarded, the largest prison - Australia, the great escape of WWII, an escape gone wrong when the driver doesn’t show up,...
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S2 Ep.045: Body Disposal
Chubstep
FBI Warning, this is for podcasting purposes only because Steed and Jrad are covering the world of body disposal in this week’s Chubstep. First the guys start Tesla fires, wanting a serrano plant to die, the freeing of Chet Hanks, the ultimate Chubstep thumbnail, and Steed’s shut down episode ideas. The guys deep dive on body disposal with bone sculptures from 28 Years Later, a ‘Chubistory’ on burials thousands of years ago, why 6’ under, cremation vs bodies coming back to life, a middle age bone shipping service, bodies into diamonds, The Last of Us mushroom burial, Nepalese exposed...
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S2 Ep.044: Maps
Chubstep
Steed and Jrad center this week’s Chubstep around the ways maps have strangely caused problems throughout time including now. First Jrad starts with how he felt justified gaming the system to get a new Stanley mug until his memory deceived him before getting to the main topic. The guys cover how terrible the first map was, how very short women are at the center of certain ideological maps, arbitrary lines on a map that led to conflicts hundreds of years later, disappearing islands, the lie your classroom maps told, when a watermark turned into a real town, the most expensive map ever...
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S2 Ep.043: Bread
Chubstep
Steed is back from Korea and Saipan to tell the world of Chubstep about bread with the help of Jrad on this week’s Chubstep. The guys start with Steed’s 8 year old bald son, luxury’s in Korea we need in the US like new Coke Zero, and undoing selected buttons on the elevator. They continue with the confusing world of beef tartare before getting to bread. It starts off with a quiz of bread around the world, how to make yeast and bread from scratch, bread and the French revolution in ‘Chubsitory’, the legality of baguettes, when being hangry leads to death, tainted bread, bread cut with...
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S2 Ep.042: Tattoos feat. Nava
Chubstep
While Steed is visiting his long lost son in Korea, friend of the show and tattoo owner Nava joins Jrad to talk everything tattoo in this week’s Chubstep. The guys cover Jrad’s infant glasses, putting on Chubstep at the tattoo parlor, the first tattoo on record 5000 years ago, the positive and negative connotation of tattoos, from peasants and criminals to royalty, tattoo fads from the 1700’s to present day, having every inch of your body covered, Rasheed Wallace’s tattoo legal battle, rotisserie chicken ink, crimes getting solved from body art, permanently coloring your eyes,...
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S2 Ep.041: Sexy Paper vs Cardboard
Chubstep
Steed and Jrad disagreed on a topic this week which led to the combination of multiple aka this sexiest paper vs cardboard episode of Chubstep. The guys start with how to make having a couch cool, and Jrad getting paid back from the government 15 years after he was robbed at gunpoint. For the main topics Jrad starts with women modeling cardboard, the sexiest papers you never knew you needed, fetishes that should get people automatically locked up like enjoying being in wet clothes, why cardboard has been around for 4000 years, and why cardboard is Sylvester Stallone and vellum paper is...
info_outlineAnything can be a death defying stunt until something goes wrong but that hasn’t stopped people for hundreds of years of making spectacles of doing what seems impossible. This week on Chubstep Steed and Jrad start with why Steed’s apartment smells like fish, almost getting pulled into the water deep sea fishing in Miami, getting kicked out of the exit row on a plane, a walking stereotype, and Steed breaking into a construction site causing light pollution before getting to the main topic, daredevils. The guys start with the Frenchman credited with inventing the parachute by jumping out of a hot air balloon, a teacher jumping over the Niagara Falls, the first famous American daredevil, Charles Lindberg’s checkered past, a hero’s stolen plane for Tanzania in ‘Tanzania News’, the naming of Angel Falls, Ben Affleck in Daredevil, an influencer’s accident on a skyscraper, the wild beginnings that led to the legend Evel Knievel, and The Flying Wallendas