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Steed is going full Waluigi with his mustache in this week's up and down Chubstep. The guys start with his fantasy of being Josh Allen's butler, and having loud friends visiting before getting to the main topic. Jrad and Steed cover all things elevators like a grandma and emo kid argument in front of one, why penthouses used to be the cheapest in a highrise, how Otis's elevator brake live demonstration made him a household name, a 'Steed Science' on how elevators are basically cars, a man getting stuck in an elevator for 41 hours, a women who survived a 1000...

Steed survived a near death experience to record this week's episode of Chubstep with Jrad. The guys start with coming across a man with a gun in the middle of the forest, how to intimidate someone who is trying to kill you before getting to the main topic and Jrad shaving using a car's side mirror for a wedding. The guys cover why they're not going into the world's most dangerous game before getting to the ginormous illegal punt gun, strange hunting laws involving camels, the blind, and hunting out of hotel windows, the time Napoleon got attacked by...

Steed is back with Jrad to talk all things Jell-O in this week's Chubstep. The guys start with Jrad's recent bachelor party trip with orange chicken at a fish fry and a psycho Airbnb host, and Steed having his hat removed without his consent at a gentleman's club. For the main topic Jrad goes through his 1970's Jell-O cookbook featuring savory lemon seafood Jell-O molds, the origins of Jell-O featuring a carpenter, cough syrup, false advertising, and  the attempted sale of the company for a few dollars, the battle of the Jell-O cities, Jell-O involved in deaths, and how t...

Chubstep favorite Trent Vern returns to tell Jrad about his more recent Las Vegas encounter including a surprising topless pick pocket before getting to his latest role as a Smoke Jumper. The guys cover parachuting to remote places to stop spreading wild fires, how to eat and sleep in the middle of no where, getting stuck in trees and break femurs.

Some people live so far on the fringes of society that they don't even consider themselves part of it, that's what Jrad and Steed are covering on this week's episode of Chubstep. The guys start with a correction on the Greenland episode before getting into why Steed's boredom led him to choose the main topic. Micronations and sovereign citizens starts out with the crazy people defending themselves in court, trying to use this excuse to get out of tickets, Mos Def / Yasiin Bey's trouble with his World Passport, the complicated beliefs of Sovereign Citizens and how it ties to...

A good forgery can last forever so Steed and Jrad cover the one's that almost stood the test of time on this week's Chubstep. The guys start with Steed's recent love triangle/missed connection before getting to the main topic. For forgeries they cover a man who spent thousands on a fake stone giant and became famous nationwide all to prove a point to a preacher, finding the bones on Jesus's "Brother", a skull that shaped science from a mammal that never existed, a Roman emperor who found a very convenient letter, making millions off Hitler's letters he never...

Want to cool off this summer? How about Chubstep's deep dive on one of the most scarcely populated countries in the world with: a history of disappearing civilizations, a shark that defies the odds of living hundreds of years and people eat despite being poisonous, a constant rejection to being purchased by the US, a hidden US nuclear base without Greenland's permission, no history of serial killers (although Iceland does). Before Greenland the guys discussed Steed witnessing another near death while traveling, and losing $50 betting on the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Championship.

How did a volcano eruption eventually lead to Lance Armstrong requiring everyone to wear yellow bracelets? Steed and Jrad cover everything bicycles and more in this week's Chubstep. The guys start with Jrad being a part of a real life horror movie and how wildfires are obstructing Steed's views before getting to the main topic. The transformation of the Flintstones bike, to the hipster death bike to the "Safety Bike", bikes in war, severe bicycle crimes and scams, the guys worst bike accidents, the disaster that was the first Tour de France, and the worlds most expensive bikes

What are the strangest ways leaders throughout time have died? The list is never ending but the Chubstep boys cover some of the oddest in this week's episode. First they cover if it is socially acceptable to eat popsicles as a grown man, being hired out as a Karen, guest Patrick Bertoletti winning a banana eating contest, and buying weapons as a joke. For the main topic the guys discuss a monkey bite that caused 250,000 deaths, when a nose bleed goes bad, getting killed by your human head trophy, laughing to death, over the top mourning, heading into battle...

Will there be a part 2? TBD but there are so many wild diseases out there that this probably isn't the last time Chubstep's Steed and Jrad cover the topic. First the guys discuss the delay in releasing this episode, when hospital staff isn't prepared for standard scenarios, Steed's memorial day trip to Chicago with bleeding ears and a leaky air mattress. The guys then cover people convinced they're already dead, the dancing plague, the laughing epidemic in 'Tanzania News', the forgotten living statues that awoke after 40 years in the 1960's, and when ancient treatments like blood letting and maggots...

The pendulum swings as an episode dedicated to something only a woman can do is followed by a show based on all things masculine in this week's Chubstep. The guys start with thanking the fans for their most downloads ever in the month of April, Steed quitting his part time job in college by ghosting a sub shop, and a casino commercial which can't be interpreted in an appropriate way. The guys get to what they meant by the topic of masculinity doing an ASMR of eating a meat sticks, a 90's kid peak image of masculinity, the positive...

What has been missing from pregnancy since the dawn of time? How about the male's on Chubstep perspective and deep understanding! The guys start with Jrad's surprise trip to Las Vegas, soy boys, and nobody being happy with the Kentucky Derby. For the main topic the guys start with how pregnancy is like a vending machine, ancient ways of determining if you're pregnant, the biggest baby ever and how it's like a first round draft bust, an impossibly small baby and long pregnancy, a cure all for pregnancy symptoms, how pregnant women can be helped by lonely men at...

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 live, the life...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 mountain...

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...

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...

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, Steed's tattoo bet that he...

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...

In this week's Chubstep Steed and Jrad start with losing weight now that eggnog season is over, drinking a suspect cocktail at a bar, the worst kind of lettuce, and brainstorming a scam involving returning glass milk bottles to the grocery store before getting into the main topic, survival foods. The two cover surviving on ice cream cones only, the limit of what foods they would eat to survive, stories of extreme survival off odd foods like leathers boots and planting seeds vs eating them, salting, and the three foods they would want to survive on forever

It's a crossover episode! Comedian Mickey at ‪‪@OhItsGoing‬ joins this week to talk the most annoying TV characters, share their gripes: like the Bills ref's, Jrad's wife smashing things on his car seat, and why its offensive to Italians to say red sauce and pasta is not dinner, and of course a game of BLIND RANK.

Chubstep favorite Rosalee returns to the pod to talk men's fashion in this week's Chubstep. Steed, Jrad, and Rosalee start with broaches for men, overly large bowties, how to stand out without being at the level of Lil Nas X, getting the right fit for the size and theme, why Steed can't go full bald, attitude t shirts, gen z white socks, if anyone can pull off a formal vest, hats vs balding, stolen valor with Carhartt, a segment of "bring it back or girl that's wack" with tails on a tux, blackened teeth, tudor collars, and more. Finally...

Steed and Jrad are back while JC and Santa are gone in this resolution focused Chubstep. The guys start with Steed's newest heroic act where he resuscitated a man, and Jrad's car breaking down on his Christmas drive before getting into the main topic. The guys start with why the New Year is on January 1st and hows that's changed over time, the unlikely religious connection to January 1st, a 10 month calendar, the timing of when resolutions fail, historical figures resolutions they couldn't keep, virtue signaling with resolutions, corporate and political promises they have no plan of keeping, and...

Santa has something to tell Chubstep that is the biggest piece of Christmas news the world has seen in the last 2000 years in this hard hitting interview episode featuring Santa Claus, Jesus, and Big Money Banks. First Steed, Jrad and Big Money banks discuss the extremely expensive premium subscription of Chubstep Extra, and Jrad shaming a fellow traveler who stood up in the aisle on a flight to Cancun. Next Santa joins Jrad and Big Money Banks to break his news on a religious transformation and how that's leading to a long deserved break in the Bahamas, elves revolting...

A Chubstep special from The Christmas Bro's for all the listeners...It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

In this filler Chubstep episode Steed and Jrad catch up after their recent trip to Atlanta. The guys talk about seeing the Atlanta Falcons vs Seattle Seahawks live, crazy cheap concessions, breakdancing kids, using someone dying of thirst as an advantage in the game of Risk on a plane, drinking warm sink airport bathroom water, an Uber ride that deserved 1 star, and driverless cars getting stuck.

A recent series of events have led the Chubstep boys to ponder the world of greetings. Before they get to that the two start with why they didn't talk about Thanksgiving, Jrad playing football at Wrigley Field, and why Steed can't support local pizza. When it comes to greetings the guys cover handshakes vs hugs in a professional setting, bowing to show your weakness as a bald man, Steed being creeped out by the Euro kiss, handshakes in 'Chubistory', a disaster handshake between Ben Affleck and John Kerry, and the strangest greetings around the world.

Here's everything about snakes you didn't know was missing from your life told in the only way Chubstep knows how. Steed and Jrad start with a timely complaint about a show ending, and a sledding commercial that is not based in reality before getting to Snakes. The guys cover when snakes had legs, Steed's run in with a mole in his basement, almost stepping on a rattlesnake in The Badlands, if some snakes are incels, flying snakes, the type of people that make selling reptiles their living, a series of snake owners killed by their pets, snakes eating themselves...

Everyone has a name but Chubstep is here to help you understand the beginnings, wild stories, and restrictions of names throughout the world and time. The guys start with Jrad starting his eggnog journey early this year, why Steed needs the gun laws to change, why stealing a grocery store basket makes sense financially, and when themed parties pay off before getting to the main topic. Covering everything Names, the hosts go over if Steed would change his name, the food themed names of Steed's future kids, the dork who had the oldest recorded name, why we thank Trent...

The best part of a failed business idea is that multiple people sign off on something that completely backfires and that's what Steed and Jrad are investigating in this week's Chubstep. First the guys discuss Jrad's quick trip to Las Vegas with a magician dealer, and why bald guys are more attractive because they have nothing to hide. For the main topic the guys start with the Pepsi Harrier jet marketing disaster, only weirdos using Google Glass, Netflix's dive back into DVD's, a juicer that no one could afford, a chip that caused anal leakage, toaster bacon and a...

It's egg season so Chubstep is going to give you everything to know about eggs you never knew you needed. First the guys start with the stolen jewels from the Louvre featuring episode S2-E24's topic ladders, Jrad's latest trip to Miami and being seated next to a man with two women of the night at brunch, and Boise being the Miami of Idaho. When it comes to eggs the guys discuss why humans don't lay eggs (but maybe should), what came first: the chicken or the egg, the first things to lay eggs, animals that lay eggs...

Since the days of the Spartans men have been celebrating the end of their singledom. In this week's Chubstep Steed and Jrad cover all things Bachelor Party. The guys start with Steed's latest homeless encounter, and a Japanese maid outfit before getting to the main topic. As an expert who has been to 16 bachelor parties, Jrad starts with some quick tips like making a basic plan, then Steed discusses his future bachelor party where no one will be able to discuss it or they will be implicated. The guys discuss the bachelor party that started their risque implications in...

Do you need to hear Chubstep's take on electricity? Well you're using electricity reading this description so explain that? Steed and Jrad will try on this week's Chubstep. The guys start with Steed solving crime by sacrificing Nebraska, Lil Jon becoming a bodybuilder, AirCanada's media team being Chubaholics, Jrad's trip to Montreal and the excessive speed of electric wheelchairs. Getting into electricity, they start with a 'Steed Science' that leaves you maybe more confused than when you started, the 'Spark Ranger' who was struck by lightning 7 times, the BS story behind Benjamin Franklin and electricity, the exaggerated feud between...

Anything 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...

For ol' times sake Jrad and Steed welcome back television aficionado Lil' Stevie to discuss the best TV shows of 2024 and 2025 on this week's Chubstep. The guys start with Steed not allowing any criticism of the Buffalo Bills and his favorite show of 2025 which is 15 years old before getting to the ranking. In 2024 the guys go over shows like Hacks, Somebody Somewhere, The Penguin, Ripley and Shogun. In 2025 the guys go over shows like Studio, The Rehearsal, Gilded Age with the Carrie Coon fan club, Adolescence, and Andor. Finally the guys talk about how to balance great shows when...

Who are the strongest men (and women) in the world? How about of all time? This week Steed and Jrad cover everything from mass monsters, controversies, and the true origins of the keg toss when it comes to strong men and women. The guys start with a potential new 3rd host, a pie eating contest and almost drowning on the river. The main topic starts off with greasing and tanning before Mr. Olympia competitions, body building not equaling athletic ability, Louis Cyr the strongest man of all time in 'Chubistory', the Strongman competition, the world's strongest: woman, gay man...

Steed and Jrad tackle one of the most basic inventions of all time, the ladder in this week's Chubstep.First the guys start with a lifelong regret involving the drawings of the mentally ill and why Shutter Island got it wrong before getting to ladders. They discuss ladder world records, cavemen ladders, how 500,000 ladder hospitalizations a year happen, the best looking yet most dangerous ladder, the legality of walking under a ladder, two brothers balancing on each others head climbing over a ladder in 'Tanzania News', ladders in crime, and forced good luck with ladders.