In Moderation
Providing health, nutrition and fitness advice in moderate amounts to help you live your best life.
Rob: Co-host of the podcast "In Moderation" and fitness enthusiast. Rob has a background in exercise science and is passionate about helping others achieve their health and fitness goals. He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the show, providing valuable insights on topics such as calories, metabolism, and weight loss.
Liam: Co-host of the podcast "In Moderation" and new father. Liam has a background in nutrition and is dedicated to promoting a balanced and sustainable approach to health and wellness. With his witty and sarcastic style, Liam adds a unique flavor to the show, making it both informative and entertaining.
In Moderation
From Fire Department to Fame: ScottyKFitness' Remarkable Path
Remember that mustache guy who made you spit out your coffee laughing about beef jerky and HOA disputes? Scotty K returns to the podcast where it all began, bringing us along for the wild ride his life has become since our last conversation.
From quitting his firefighter job to reaching nearly 4 million TikTok followers in just over a year, Scotty's transformation has been nothing short of extraordinary. But what stands out isn't the follower count—it's what he's done with it. Through marathon livestreams and ruck marches, he's raised over $143,000 for the American Heart Association. His fitness company now employs 25 full-time coaches (including actual doctors) and helps clients like Eric, who at 800 pounds is working toward standing up for the first time in four years.
The conversation takes us through Scotty's adventures across America, from being recognized everywhere he goes to jumping out of planes with Army paratroopers. We get the inside scoop on his upcoming apparel brand, Fault Line Apparel, designed to combat toxic masculinity with a "brutalist survivalist" aesthetic. There's also his unexpected partnership with Bethesda, where he'll be cosplaying as an NCR Ranger from Fallout at gaming conventions.
What makes this episode special is the genuine reflection on what it means to suddenly have influence. As Scotty puts it, "I didn't anticipate the impact some of my videos would have on people." Whether he's making viewers laugh with outlandish food reviews or moving them to tears with vulnerable moments, his authenticity shines through. Because as he learned in therapy: "I don't deserve it, but I belong here."
Ready to laugh, be inspired, and maybe shed a tear? Press play and discover what happens when a mustached fitness guy decides to weaponize his audience—not for personal gain, but for making the world better, one video at a time.
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Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast things and stuff, all that good stuff. We're here with Scotty, who was here, I think, a year ago I don't remember, who knows, doesn't matter. Good, it's fine. We were talking about all the stuff Scotty got and he was telling me about how much he absolutely hates beef jerky and anyone who likes beef jerky, he doesn't like them. So you can take it from there.
Speaker 3:Scotty, that's a bit hyperbolic, A bit of a stretch. No, somebody keeps sending me beef jerky on like a weekly basis, as if I have a subscription to beef jerky now On a weekly basis, you've got a Netflix for jerky Not on purpose. I don't like beef jerky, millie, go inside baby, go inside baby, but no, yeah. So I have so much beef jerky for no good reason. But no, people send me a lot of crazy things. I get a lot of.
Speaker 1:I was going to ask you. I want to know, like, what are the weird things that you get in the mail? Like I'm just curious.
Speaker 3:I get a lot of people send me food products which I very rarely, and I'm talking like unpackaged home goods. Yeah, I see you opening bread once in a while. Sourdough bread is a big one. I get pretty often. Uh, somebody sent me uh honey jam which I would try, but I can't fucking open this. And then I get a lot of wedding invites and, like high school graduation invites. How weird would it be if I showed up to one of those.
Speaker 1:Uh, I mean I think you would make their year if you did it, but like that's, I'm sure that's. None of them are going to be that close to where you live yeah, probably not.
Speaker 3:Uh, speaking about where I live, god, I hate this place.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to move uh, I was trying to open the door for you to complain about where you live.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, liam, and I have talked about it almost at nauseam at this rate, about how much we want to move to new england. Yeah, you went up there recently as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I went up to new england, boston. I did not expect boston to be like new york city or as much as new york's like new york city as it is, it's just a lot bigger skyscrapers. I don't know what I wasn't expecting. Like fucking benjamin franklin there with, like you know, with his stands, with scrolls, with scrolls, and it's what's his kite in the key? I don't remember history you know.
Speaker 1:But like I wasn't expecting to be new york like new york city and it really was I was like this is a little extreme for me. I'd tell it's a little so I could see I. We loved salem. It was full of people dressing up like witches and shit.
Speaker 1:That was super cool, like was it really yeah, like a ton of people were dressed up as, like you know, wiccan witches stuff. There was like they were selling all that stuff it I had. We had a lot of fun. The restaurants there were like surprisingly good. We and we were and what's the? You know, the funny thing is like you get people that dressed up like in suits all the time. A lot of them are just dicks like I'm just gonna not all of them, but like a lot of them but everybody dressed, every person dressed, as a witch is like the nicest person ever yeah, they're like super cool and talk to you like if they're dressed like that
Speaker 3:yeah, we spent two days in salem, uh, on our honey not our honeymoon, but our, our trip out there for our anniversary and we, we loved it. I mean it was gorgeous, every part of it, like it was so pretty. When you woke up in the morning too, like, and the weather was nice and the people were nice, and that was the thing we went to walk across the street to go into this coffee shop and this box truck I think it was like a U-Haul truck or something like a Renne Center truck is actively driving down the road and slams on their brakes, and it's like the two guys in the truck were like Scotty, you know, it's like you guys are driving right now. What are you doing? And there was like four cars behind them and they just sat there and nobody honked. They were just like oh, they must know each other, let's just give them a minute. It was so, it was cool. They were just like oh, they must know each other.
Speaker 2:Let's just give them a minute. It was so, it was cool, I love.
Speaker 3:Canadian. There's yeah, I think the farther north you go, the nicer people get.
Speaker 1:Somebody was on one of those little trolleys. They're like you're the guy from TikTok and I was like, okay, bye, as he's like driving, like driving away. That's going to be nice that you're bye, but there was like a really cool, like a place where they sold like these, uh, chocolate drinks like coffee, but it was made of chocolate. It was like what you know, like people like mayans or whatever would drink, so they would make it mocha.
Speaker 3:You nerd. I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 1:I called, but it was it was like super, like dark chocolate it was. It was really interesting. There was like so many cool places we like it's just it's just really expensive to live there. The houses are I was like damn like it's like three times the price of our house easily, and we get made not even as much as this. So we're we're not so sure.
Speaker 3:Maybe yeah.
Speaker 1:You'll. We're not so sure. Maybe yeah you'll. You still need a basement for your blender.
Speaker 3:Well, oakley will get older and not fear the blender and not nap as much maybe, hopefully, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So people have been tagging me a bunch in this video of like this company sells this thing that goes over the ninja creamy to cancel out the sound. It's really you gotta get this, you gotta this like that's a that's.
Speaker 3:There's a market for it. Rob, the last time I saw you was in San Diego for TwitchCon. Yes, it was when you got overwhelmed by the amount of cereal in the cereal aisle and the amount of beverages in the beverage aisle too.
Speaker 2:Don't get that. Yeah, that was insane.
Speaker 3:How many things did you take home with you? It had to have been how many things did you take home with you? It had to have been how many things you have to declare at customs.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I've got. I've got my little carry-on thing that I had my laptop in and I just filled this sucker up with as much as I could.
Speaker 3:That was great, man.
Speaker 1:Your shoulders are looking bigger, yeah I'm carrying all the diet soda across the border yeah, man, it's been great.
Speaker 3:Um, I appreciate you guys having me back on. This was the first podcast I was ever on oh was it well I mean because you were.
Speaker 1:I like I saw, like because when you got the like long story short, I got tagged in a bunch of your videos. People probably heard the story, everything like that, and then I was like, okay, so it's, this content's gonna blow up and it's gonna go there. So I guess we kind of got you like right before things really started to take off, right yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Uh, you were the first podcast I went on and then, like I think, the following week, I went down to Houston uh to hang out with the Echo Vision athletes, uh, before I joined Rise, and I met michael smoke or higher up wellness, and I was on his podcast that weekend and so it just it just kind of spiraled out of control after that.
Speaker 1:So as with everything else as well, or just that, because it seemed like everything kind of just went crazy after that everything went crazy.
Speaker 3:God, I'm so tired of traveling. Liam, I'm over it.
Speaker 1:I just got back. What's the worst place that you can talk shit about and you don't like? Oh?
Speaker 3:man shit, or is that just where you live?
Speaker 1:right now. That's where, yeah, currently currently where you are.
Speaker 3:Um, man, I think of all places that I've traveled that I really just haven't liked. Uh, mainly like dallas, because it's hot as fuck, um, and I don't like the heat, but also like LA is just, it's LA, it's busy. You know what I mean. New York is cool, but it's dirty and everything smells like urine. Um, but I think my one of my favorite places I visited outside of new England cause I fell in love with that place, going back for the bachelor party soon, that's going to be cool. Um, yeah, but other than that has been washington, washington's fantastic love. That dc no, washington dc is a cesspool of a bunch of ants crawling over each other, snagging each other's butts. I fucking can't. Uh, that sucked we. I was there for a good cause, but I I hated it.
Speaker 1:I remember you going there, so I was like, is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 3:No, Washington State, washington State, the PNW is gorgeous, but no, I just got back two days ago, I think, from Kentucky. You want to talk about a fucking flyover state.
Speaker 1:All the Kentucky people right now are like, yeah, OK.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I get it. No, I went out to Kentucky, the army's uh professional parachuting team, the army knights uh, invited me out to jump out of an airplane and parachute with them and I was like sure, let's do that. Um, and it was fun, it was cool, um, and they wanted it to be like a recruiting thing for, like for the army. And I was in the army and I I tell people actively all the time not to join the army because it sucks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's a little ironic, yeah, yeah, yeah and so I went out there and they're like yeah, if you just want to shout out like the recruiting. And I was like how about? How about I do, how about I shout out?
Speaker 1:the timing especially is like a little rough.
Speaker 3:I feel like Well, there's a nationwide recruiting shortage in the military, especially in the army, and so I was like, how about I shout out a charity that I work with? And they couldn't say, no, you know, because then they'd have to be like no no to charity. So I just ended up shouting out a charity before I jumped out of the plane. It was cool.
Speaker 1:Did you listen to Tom Haney's Free?
Speaker 3:Falling as you went down. That was the song that was in my heart. Yeah, but no, it was a good time. The flights home were horrible, horrible. Woke up early to get to the airport and then my flights got delayed like five times. I was supposed to get home at like 11 am. Got home at 6 pm. It was horrible. Hor got home at 6 pm. It was horrible, horrible. Yeah, so all in all, I'm home for another week and I go to la for a dungeons and dragons thing.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's super sick is it just like a one-shot?
Speaker 3:campaign thing that somebody it is or it's like so, uh, derrington press is like a sister company of critical role and they, they own dagger heart, which a good friend of mine, elise, created. They sold out and they're trying to get more pr on it. So myself and tank tolman and if he, uh, uh, and a couple other creators are going to dice times studio in la to film, um, it's not gonna to be live streamed, so it's going to be on their YouTube on Darrington press and it's. I made a character for it yesterday during our zero or session zero, and it was funny because there's specific like damage.
Speaker 3:How you take damage is like under your armor class of like three or four and then anything higher than that you get into like severe damage or major damage and things like that, and it's like one damage, two damage or three damage and they're like, yeah, it should be like a two or a four. And I was like, uh, mine's a fucking 13 and a 26, did I? They were like, how the fuck did you build that? And I told them I made a, uh, a juggernaut human brawler. And they were like, oh, yeah, so you're literally just a fucking tank. And I was like, yeah, that's the idea. So my character's name is uh well, don't get me lying to you. I built it um buckshaw, okay, because?
Speaker 3:it's a western campaign, so the name is buckshaw I guess I have to talk a lot.
Speaker 1:My favorite character to play is the one with eight intelligence, all the strength, and I name them Oof or Oog or something like that. Those are my favorite characters to play and Oof always talks about Oof in the third person, like, of course.
Speaker 2:And those are the best ones. And you took a big old bite out of a cabbage and you spit it on a plate and presented it to people.
Speaker 1:I don't even remember what I did, but I'm sure I did it was amazing Oof hungry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1:That's great, fresca, fresca. I actually have tea. I actually don't have a diet soda. It's weird.
Speaker 3:That's so weird.
Speaker 1:It's so weird, but I just, I don't know I finished something I don't even remember. I don't remember anything that's going on, but anyway.
Speaker 3:I kind of wanted to talk to you. Sorry. Last time that I was on this podcast you were gainfully employed. You are fucking unemployed now. You quit your job.
Speaker 1:Being unemployed has been the best decision I've ever made. Man, it's nice, huh. It's just. I don't have Working overnight just sucked so many asses that I just it's the best getting out of that. Yeah, oakley, sleep still sucks, so I still wake up early and whatever, but at least I can make it all work, whereas when I was overnight that's. Please, don't do that. It just destroys you Anybody working overnights. I feel for you because it's absolutely rough. But, yeah, quitting has been just the best thing it's great, no but go on you were gonna ask me a question.
Speaker 1:I just want to see like yeah, because you're trans, because I mean like you had a lot of you know like success since the last time we met you, I kind of want to just kind of get your take on just like on, on on, like the growth that you've had in some of the like you know what's the, you know some parts about it, some parts that are like you didn't realize. Maybe is there anything that you're like wow, I didn't actually like. You know, I didn't see this coming.
Speaker 3:I running the risk of sounding like a conceited dickhead here we, as a channel on Tik TOK. I went from, like I say we because it's, you know, me and my fiance that handle everything we went from 750 followers to a million and 38 days and so it's just, and from there it's it's rarely slowed down. Um, we're almost and I say almost by, like, I think, 300 followers. Uh, on Tik TOK, we're away from 300 followers, away from 3.9 million, just hit 1.4 million on instagram, which I did not anticipate that happening at all. Uh, in the videos that did really well, there were pissing off my hoa and my shaving videos those two ones.
Speaker 1:Those ones did well. Interesting, I kind of expected more of your like fitness ones, I guess to do well on instagram because it seems like that's what does. Well, really, that's interesting yeah, yeah and uh.
Speaker 3:So like the success overall is it's. It still floors me. You know, I wake up and I'm like nobody deserves this kind of life. You know, like I've, I've traveled way more than I ever thought I would. I've met so many amazing people and heard so many amazing stories, going to the Arnold where you and I finally hung out Um, I met 2,500 people at a meet and greet, uh, over a couple of days, and I ran out of Germ-X and I got sick.
Speaker 3:But it was incredible because you know of the, the connections that you make and the uh, I didn't realize. I think that I belong where I've been placed and I think that I don't deserve it, but I belong there. And it's a weird duality that I find myself in, because the LA fit expo was the first time I was ever on a panel and I'm sitting up there with lean beef patty and the trend twins and professional week guy and I'm like the fuck am I doing up here? I'm a 30 year old mustache fitness. This is weird. And, um, I realized, like I, I'm not the one who decided that I needed to be on this stage, right, uh, so I can't take it away from myself. So, um, I and that comes from therapy, I've been working on that Um.
Speaker 3:And then, like, I met some of my, my favorite creators that I followed for years and, um, they're incredible people. There's some that I met that aren't incredible people. Uh, you know, uh, you meet people who you're like, how have you not been discovered yet as as just a giant shit bag? Um, but for the majority of the people that I've met in the space, they're just fucking awesome people right? Lean B Fatty's a sweetheart. Professional Weak Guy's a sweetheart. I was texting Sam Sulik this week which is a weird sentence to say out loud and he's just the simplest, nicest guy he texted me.
Speaker 1:That's what I expected from him, though, like every video I see from him.
Speaker 3:that's exactly what I expected To just marry just like down to earth, like, yeah, all right, cool yeah, he texted me, was like I just crushed chest and I was like nice. Then he sent me a picture of a fish and I was like hell, yeah, sam, that's, that's sam, truly for you. Um, you know, meeting will tennyson or chris bumstead or these guys that I've followed for absolute years. It's incredible, man. I'm happy to call some of these people, uh, my friends, you know.
Speaker 3:And something that I didn't anticipate was how recognizable or how well branded I am with the mustache, with the hat, with the converse Okay, yeah. And so like walking through a target in the middle of nowhere, illinois, and uh, I was up there for my, my weights back here being painted. He's up there with like five days, middle of a blizzard and my videographer, josh, and I go to a target to get groceries for this Airbnb and there's this kid walking through holding these frozen pizzas and he sees me and he drops them and he starts shaking and I was like what's going on, man? And so like in the middle of nowhere or in the middle of a subway in New York city, or, uh, going through a drive-through for my kiddo. I went to Walmart this morning when I woke up to meal prep and nine people stopped me. One of the cashiers, super nice girl cried and hugged me and like or I'm going through a, a, a, the Las Vegas air pardon me airport, and a woman taps me on my shoulder while I'm filling up a Diet Pepsi at a Burger King and just tears.
Speaker 3:And that I didn't anticipate.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't want to brag.
Speaker 3:I'll go to a dinner with my fiance or my friends while we're traveling and I'll leave that restaurant and a day later I'll get three messages that are like hey, you came to the restaurant I worked at, or I was sitting across from you and I didn't want to bug you and I'm like bro, say hi.
Speaker 1:I've actually gotten that a few times. I've had people say like I didn't want to say anything or do it. Or if people did, say hi, they'll message me like I didn't want to. I'm sorry for saying hi. I'm so sorry. I'm like aren't you the guy that like eats food online sometimes? And I was like, yeah, I am.
Speaker 3:So you might have people that cry, but like, come on, that's pretty good no, that's, that's the thing is I, uh I didn't anticipate overall the impact that some of the videos that I have made would have on people. Yeah and uh, you get that a lot, you know. I think that's why you're.
Speaker 1:So you fit well into like a panel or something, because I don't think the trend twins are making too many videos that are like hitting people in their soul, talking about you know real life shit.
Speaker 3:You know like they're, they are what they are and I'm not trying to hate on any of those well, you know, what's funny about that is that my personal experience with the trend twins was very minimal before we got on stage. And then on stage, of course they're the trend twins, they're the whole time. Um, and hilariously, a woman from the audience finally got the microphone she was the last one to receive the microphone for this panel and she was like I made a rap for you guys and if and if you guys like it, I want to be in your, I want to put you in my music video. And then she just like no music or nothing, she just started like freestyling and it was ass. It was so bad.
Speaker 3:My videographer went from filming, you know, uh, wide to for the YouTube to vertical right on this. It was so bad, um, but we got offstage and they were just like normal dudes, really interesting. They weren't bravado. They were like oh, it's really nice to meet you, sir, and like they were super nice and they were chill and so very much characters, right, and I didn't anticipate that either. I was like, oh, these guys have to be like bros all the time, right, yeah, it's just not the case. Yeah, I think, I think they, uh, they found their niche and what sells what they need to sell.
Speaker 1:I gotta say like that character though has got to be kind of fun to play eventually after years, I'm sure you're like all right, I gotta be fucking done with bro a and bro b, but like you know, like it's for the time being like I can see it being being fun sure, yeah, well sure, you're the person that plays oof. I like the characters are fun. Man, I'd love to play like a crunk, like playing a crunk from like Embers of Earth is like amazing, it's poison for.
Speaker 2:Cusco like it's so great that's fun, man.
Speaker 1:Eventually I'm sure it gets tiring. But is there any like? I'm wondering like is there any like parts of this whole thing that you're like you don't enjoy so much? Is there any like aspects to it?
Speaker 3:they're like I could go without this brand deals, so like a lot of the like. For the viewers watching who may not know, part of signing on to a company, they're giving you a salary. Most of the time, with that salary comes expectations of posting on a schedule, and I hate that. I hate being under the gun to create content, and so I've told a lot of these companies to suck a fart. I'll make a video when it makes sense for my brand. And I didn't say it in those terms, right, it's very professionally. I put it in the chat.
Speaker 1:It was in all caps, so make me sound smarter.
Speaker 3:But the idea is that, like I don't want to be one of those guys that makes content that like you watch and you're like, oh man, I wonder how much you got paid for that. You know, I've done.
Speaker 3:I've done one one off video even though that's what you're getting already right, you get that all the time, and that's the thing is something that I've learned from a lot of like watching creators. I want to create content, like I'm a consumer of that content. Yeah, right, and that's how I think about. That's what I think about when I'm editing as well. Like am I bored? And and that's super easy is to get bored while watching content, especially content that's like over a minute to two minutes long, and I'm no longer in the creator fund either, and so I'm just making content that I want to make, and so it's fun for me.
Speaker 2:Don't worry, when we hire you on as spokesperson for Oops All Chemicals pre-workout, you will have full creative control. We hire you on as spokesperson for oops all chemicals pre-workout. We're working on creative controls yes, I love yes locally.
Speaker 1:You can go, you can take it any direction you want to they're fucking all of them, all of the. You're like, listen with all the followers that you have followers I have, don't you think, oops, all chemicals would do fucking numbers? That's really numbers yeah that's really as long as it tasted decent and had a bunch of chemicals in it. It doesn't matter put caffeine in there it doesn't matter, you throw ashwagandha in there who gives a shit, doesn't?
Speaker 3:yeah, I mean. Another thing that I didn't like foresee is, uh, working with some of the companies that I have been able to work with right. So, like gymshark Now, right now we are negotiating our third contract. So if I leave Gymshark, I won't go to another clothing company because I want to build a flagship with companies, not seem like I'm jumping ship to ship whoever pays me more. I will not go to Young LA because they don't have plus size clothing and they have a pretty spotted history when it comes to how they treat people of specific lifestyles. I'll put it at that, and so if I leave, I'm not going anywhere else. But I I got signed on with Gymshark cause I broke into their New York event, like that.
Speaker 1:Physically like your chain that you had to break, or like wait no, there wasn't a they they ran out of tickets.
Speaker 3:They were. They were sold out and so I snuck in and just pretended like I was supposed to be there and I got recognized by one of the talent managers, who's a very close friend of mine. Now he's coming to the wedding, um, and he signed me and he's. He's incredible and I I've developed a really good working relationship with Jim shark and then same with rise. Rise supplements was the first company that I signed on to. Rise Supplements was the first company that I signed on to and I love those guys. They're incredible. Nick Stella is the CEO and Noel Dizel Love that guy to death.
Speaker 3:And we've been working on my protein and that's the thing is like I didn't anticipate having signature products. You know what I mean. Like that's something that just doesn't come to mind when you're first starting making content or you finally get a video that pops off is like, oh, I'm going to get my own protein or pre-workout or whatever. And so, like my protein was supposed to come out last week but, in very Scotty K fashion, the manufacturers forgot the fucking sweetener, so they had wait, wait, wait wait, they made.
Speaker 1:so how many did they make before they like?
Speaker 3:fucking a whole run of them 500. Oh, my god, yeah, they had to make, they had to run a whole new product line and so, um, and then the helimix bottle. That was insane. Like I didn't, you know, I got on the phone with helimix and they were like, yeah, we can get you an athlete code and affiliate. I don't want one. I don't want to do that. I've got enough of the code. Scotty, you know, sniff this, scratch that for 10% off. I fucking don't like that. And um, he was like what do you?
Speaker 3:want. And I don't know what came over me. He's like what do you want? I was like I want a signature bottle. He said we've only done that for two people, uh, max Taylor and David Ziegler. I was like I know I'm going to be the third and he was like you know what? Fuck it, let's do it. And then we just started and it was awesome. Uh, and then he was like God, like two or three weeks later he's like hey, I need your signature man. And I was driving back from Dallas and I stopped into a target and I walked in and I asked him.
Speaker 3:I walked in and as I was walking in, I came across somebody and I was like hey, can I have your receipt please? Do you need it? And she was like no, and I was like thanks. And I went back to my truck and I wrote I wrote my signature on the back of a fucking target receipt from somebody else's purchase. Um, it was fantastic and that's what I sent into them.
Speaker 3:Um, but, yeah, and we've had, we've had a lot of success with that stuff and, more importantly, we've had success with charity. You know we've done so much charity work, um, and it's been the forefront of a lot of things we've done. So, like selling this hat. You know this hat was created by dad brand apparel and, uh, it's really funny because the washing instructions on the inside of the hat says Ask your Mom. That's objectively hilarious. But it took me five months to break the door down for them. I was like, hey, I want to work with you guys. Eventually they're like, yeah, how can we do that? Now, this hat initially said MILF, right here, I had to seam, rip it out of my hat to actually wear it.
Speaker 3:And they wanted to put that back on there. They were like, yeah, we have the blanks, we just won't stitch MILF into it. We can sell it as a Scotty K signature hat. They were like do you want $4.50 from every purchase or do you want 20%? I was like I did the math and 20% was $5. I was like let's just go with 20%. And whenever they agreed to that, I was like, great, Now all of that's going to go to this charity. And so we raised over 15 grand selling these hats. It was awesome. And then I get to see this hat when I go to conventions. It's really cool, yeah. And then we did the American Heart Association stream, where we streamed for five days straight I was sleeping on stream, you know, and all kinds of stuff which was inside an average of like 2000 people watching me sleep. You guys are weird.
Speaker 1:This guy's going to wake up any moment. Hold on, no, no, no, no, no. Don't leave yet, don't leave yet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it was. We raised $143,000 in five days and we're we're already ramping up, uh, the next event and we're getting so many people involved. Um, that I'm super excited about.
Speaker 1:We've got god, we're working with toyota, we're working with walmart and I mean all kinds of people intel nice well, yeah, with the american art association I'm sure you can get you know a few or a big companies you know on board with that.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm also super creepy. So when I want to work with a company, I just look up their PR rep and I find them like their address, their phone number, like pictures of their kids, and then I call them. There's a bounty hunter kicking in. That's the bounty hunter thing. Yeah, and it works, man, because I don't call them like breathing heavy. I start off the call with like hey, sorry to cold call you, I'm scotty from the, you know calling on behalf of the american heart association, and then people's ears perk up. But it's been super beneficial.
Speaker 3:And I also joined a veteran gaming community called regiment gaming. Um, now, they had a history of being a for-profit veteran gaming company, which landed them in some pretty hot water. So I joined that company as soon as they went nonprofit, and so myself and a few other streamers are now the face of the company, and so we're doing a ton of activations and building PCs for veterans and doing all kinds of fun stuff. So there's that. And now I'm working with Bethesda on a bunch of things too. They're sending me out to GCX, which is a gaming conference in Orlando, where I'm going to be cosplaying and judging cosplay competitions and interviewing people on the main stage, do you?
Speaker 1:have your costume set up, or are you still waiting to figure out what you're doing?
Speaker 3:I have a professional, uh, a professional cosplay like costume designer, making two different ones, so I'll be an ncr, yeah. So here's why I'll be an ncr ranger for gcx, right, and uh, I'll have like the rifle and the whole thing, um, and then I'll move on. Like, while I'm there, I'm going to be doing a bunch of stuff on the main stage. It's going to be really cool Interviewing the main makeup effects artists for the TV show, the fallout TV show, and it's very fallout adjacent. All I have to do is stream for like four hours whatever video game I want for St Jude's and then we're going out there. It's going to be really neat. Um, my good friend, batty, or Kyle Batty, streams. He's on the board and Batty is one of the other gentlemen who is the face of regiment gaming, so we're very close, um, and so doing that.
Speaker 3:And then, three days after my wedding, we're in the Mojave desert for wasteland weekend is the 15th anniversary of it, uh, and it's like it's like Mad Max and fallout had a bastard baby, um, and it's going to be really cool. So I'm going out there not only as an NCR ranger on day one, but on day two I'm going to be a Raider. So in the fall universe Now I'm going on a prep for my wedding. That's why I meal prep today and I'm going to be absolutely just dick skin shredded. It's going to be really cool. And so the Raider cosplay is very bare bones. I'm shirtless, covered in blood, right. I look like a murderous rampant, but with the juxtaposition of a reporter in the field vibe. So I'm going to have like a newsboy cap on and a microphone and it's going to be recorded where I'm like all right, jim we're here with, and then it's going to be a bunch of that.
Speaker 3:That's all recorded for Fallout Day, which happens in October. I'll be helping put that on, which is also a prerecorded stream for charity. So it's going to be really freaking cool all the things that we're layering in for bethesda. Um, and I just streamed a couple of days ago before I fucking jumped out of an airplane with uh west johnson, the voice actor for skyrim, oblivion, uh morrowinds, fallout, new vegas 476. He's been involved in so many Fallout projects or Bethesda projects. Overall he's incredible. So we got to stream with him. I didn't know I was streaming with him until 3 days prior and then he did a bunch of like cameo type videos where he was in character and then sent them to me and so I had to make a video kind of bolstering this.
Speaker 1:and that's when I realized, when he sent those videos, uh, the day after I found out we were doing this, that's when I found out that it was for alzheimer's uh, charity, and I was like fuck, all right so you have like a charity bingo card or something that you have to get all of them in a row, or it's just like you try and get off as many as you can with that little, that little stopper, with the little glue stick thing.
Speaker 3:No, man, I just I think that, like when you have an audience and like a community, a lot of people like weaponize that community or that audience for their own personal gain, yeah, and to line their pockets. Think like cooking for gains. That guy is a bitch. But if you can weaponize that audience or utilize that audience for charity, let me fucking why not? Right, as long as your bills are paid go for it. So we do a ton of charity work, man. Honestly it makes me happy. I, the last day of the American Heart Association charity event was a ruck march and I stepped off on that ruck march with the idea like, hey, every two hundred and fifty dollars we're going another mile Right. And then eventually it turned into I'm not stopping until we hit 100 grand.
Speaker 1:I remember that, I remember watching that we were just like walking 1,800 miles or whatever it was.
Speaker 3:It was horrible. At like mile 18, there was this old man named Robert who had like like high centered his fucking truck on a rock outside of a schlotzky's which is a sandwich shop. And we walk up and he's like I've been here for three hours, I can't get off the rock. And so we deadlifted this guy's fucking truck off of this rock and god, that hurt my back, uh, because military. And then we just kept rucking and, uh, we just kept going for miles and people would get on the live, like where are you going? I'm like fucking west, I don't know, uh, um, and but it was really cool to see that we had a lot of, uh, people in the community that were watching the live stream. They would come by and they would honk, or some people even go slightly ahead of us by like a quarter mile and brought us like oranges and bananas and water and Gatorades and stuff. And it was really neat, man, um, and having that community aspect come together.
Speaker 3:And so for this next event, we're pushing it to potentially eight to 10 days. We're going to do an in-person event for the ruck March where people can join in, uh, for a fee, obviously, for charity, um, and then we're doing a virtual ruck march because a lot of people on that live stream were like, oh, I want to join in, but I'm like in Nebraska and I'm like, oh, fucking sorry. And then people even days after we're making videos that were like I was motivated to do this because of that live stream and so we're going to do that. We're almost like a virtual five K, all kinds of stuff. We're getting john cena involved.
Speaker 1:I've gotten a little obsessed with the american ninja warrior thing I watched, can I just say, like a ninja warrior, back when it was sasuke which was like the original japanese, you know, ninja warrior and then america I remember was it g, was it g4 tv or whatever they.
Speaker 1:They sent people over to compete in Sasuke. I watched that and then I got to see it. When it came to America and they're like American Ninja Warrior, I was like I got. So there's a Ninja Warrior gym like 20 minutes from my house that I like going to. They have like the salmon ladder and all that stuff, those, are really cool.
Speaker 3:I got to hang out with Flip Rodriguez oh shit, no kidding. Yeah, I got to hang out with Flip Rodriguez oh shit, no kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's actually apparently cousins to a very close friend of mine, and so we ended up meeting in Dallas for DreamCon DreamHack one of the fucking conventions and so he's a really cool guy. We're working on getting those guys out for this event. It's going to be really cool. We're trying to do a lot of things. I want like an avengers level threat when it comes to, uh, this charity this year. So it's gonna be really neat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome man, so you got a couple things going on. Is what you're saying, just like just? A few, just a few, I'm very tired I don't know. I mean, I know you don't really keep track of all of it. You have people that kind of keep track of your. You know like you know everybody else, but yeah, still, I don't know how you get to all.
Speaker 3:I do have an assistant. You know I have a full time assistant and she's great. I mean all of this, not to mention that I started a fitness company to absolutely bankrupt V Shred Right, because, fuck that guy. So I started my fitness company in November and, uh, we have done very well and uh happy to say that I now employ over 25 full time coaches and uh, two of which are fucking doctors. I have doctors on staff. It's fucking crazy and, um, it's great. Man, I love it. We actually make a difference. Doctors, uh, physical therapists, yeah, so, uh, yeah, not, not, not just to see yeah, yeah, align your fucking chakras, dude, um.
Speaker 3:But no, we we have a lot of, really. We, we make a difference. You know what I mean? I just signed on about a month ago.
Speaker 3:This guy, eric and Eric um, has been bedridden for four years. He was 1200 fucking pounds. Um, he has congestive heart failure and left side edema and he's been pissing in a pan for four years his words. He's been pissing in a pan for four years, his words. And so now his only goal and conceptualize this, if you can is to fucking stand up. Are you kidding me? Like how, how privileged are we to just get the fuck up in comparison? So this guy, I was very wary on signing them and taking them on as a personal client of mine. Um, cause I take VIP clients. I don't charge any extra, I'm not capital one, I don't care what's in your wallet, I just want to work with specific people. And so this guy was like I'm going to do it with or without you and I'm like that was the fucking answer, right. And so um he's. He got down to 800 pounds, but his doctors won't even look at him for weight loss surgery until he hits 600 pounds.
Speaker 1:And then like five or six pounds that they'll start.
Speaker 3:And then he still got work to do there. So his next goal is standing and that shit gives me chills, dude. And so I called his local fire department, got on the line with his captain, uh, on that shift, and they agreed to go out and put up a series of pulley systems above his bed so he can do exercise, and had a very long and in-depth conversation about nutrition with him and his fiance and how to properly, you know, structure his meals throughout the day, and we had an all hands on deck with all the specialists that work for my company to build him a protocol that he can manage while he's still in bed, and it was. It was very like, very detailed.
Speaker 3:Like can you scoot to the edge of your bed? How long does it take you to get to your edge of bed Right? Can you lift your left leg? How high can you lift? And so, in comparison, it was such a good call and we built something for this guy that's actually working, and I had his check-in that I did today and almost every time we talk he can recognize the differences in himself and that is so powerful. So I love it, man, the the amount of changes that we've been able to affect, not only for charity but for people on a personal scale and the impact that you have just making a video putting a cup of coffee down and asking people how they are.
Speaker 3:Saw that like it's incredible and I get to, I get to do this, I get to do this. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's crazy oh I, every day I tell my wife I'm like this is my job, like this is just wild, it's I'm going to work honey six steps into that. You know, dirty like uh, messed up, uh computer room we have over there and that's my job.
Speaker 3:And then I get to take oakley out and we go to like the museum and shit I was watching one of your videos right before we hopped on and it was the uh god, you said something. It was had the quest pizza in it, um, and you said something about how like this tastes, like this fucked of this, but that I had a lot of comments about that, but I don't even remember what it is, because I say like that's just kind of my thing.
Speaker 1:It's like I'll just say this, fuck this. And like this came out and people are like that's wild I'm like, I'm, I don't like, I just say shit like the other day I said I would rather uh have intimate relations with a pencil sharpener than listen to this guy talk and people are like that's. I'm like you haven't heard this guy talk. It's really annoying.
Speaker 1:At least a pencil sharpener I can get over quick. I can get intimacy done fast when I need to. This guy's videos is 10 minutes long. I don't want to listen to. I'm not going to listen to that for 10 minutes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, no, your videos crack me up. I was funny.
Speaker 1:The konjac noodles. They was like rubber bands shoelaces yeah, that's what those fucking things man, they're not they don't taste like real food. And people say like you have to make them like the, like japanese make them. And I'm like well, I only know american way and it's fucking awful fucking, so apparently you need to get the japanese to make no, being in a couple of your videos was really fun too.
Speaker 3:Didn't like the popcorn video and the muffin video.
Speaker 1:It's just doing stupid shit, like you know, that's, I think, like for a lot of people. You know, they've got work, they've got school, they got their kids, they got all these things going on, and it's just like there's a lot of people giving good information, right like there's a lot of people giving really good information. But like being able to make it just like light-hearted and give people just like a quick laugh and just like you'll be like okay, you know, just you know, wind down from the day and also here's some decent information that hopefully you can use. That that's what I I do my best to get get across, you know yeah, so yeah, no, it works too yeah I think you know you really allow, like your videos, especially kind of like allow people to really just like kind of
Speaker 1:open up about shit that's going on in their life. You know, I think it's the you do a great job of that, of allowing people to kind of like work through some of the emotions that they have and they're dealing with, like especially that coffee. When you talk about it, like you just sit a coffee down, you're like how you doing, because I think we all kind of have this shit built up, especially like if you live in the states and all the things are going on, you're just like fuck, what is? Yeah, I just have, I want to yell or whatever it is, you know. So it kind of gives you just an avenue for that yeah, no, I'm uh.
Speaker 3:It's really funny. One of my close friends is working with a relocation company that works with social media influencers. Like he's moving to spain. All he has to do is make like five videos about it. I think he said like the process of which moving, packing, and then like acclimating, and then what his favorite things are about spain. Once he gets there, then I'm like I can't tan, so probably not spain, but like run that bitch back for scotland and I got you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, I'm good, I'm good let me see.
Speaker 1:good, I don't want to go down. Let me see.
Speaker 3:Leaving.
Speaker 2:Can't get far enough away from that Mike guy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, dude, I can't man. I just don't do well with the heat, honestly. But no, it's been really, really incredible. And then, like, leaving the fire department was such an unsettling moment for me and it's been a year now. You know I should make a follow-up video about that, but it's been a year and there's been such a tone shift around the local fire department and the firemen that I still know on the job.
Speaker 3:Um, like my fiance's father, my soon to be father-in-law he's a captain in the fire department and so people always ask him in a very shitty manner like how's father? My soon to be father-in-law, he's a captain in the fire department and so people always ask him in a very shitty manner like how's your boy doing? And he was a little embarrassed because I quit the fire department to be a fucking influencer and so he'd be like, oh, you know, he's all right. I don't really know about none of that, and that was the conversation. But there was such a shift for him when he realized that it was working and that so far it's been successful. And he people ask him now and he's like he's doing really good.
Speaker 3:He's doing, you know, and I've had a, I've had like three or four firemen reach out and ask for coaching and, uh, one of them is a VIP client of mine, is also now become a very close friend, um, and he's built like a grizzly bear fucked a fridge. That guy is huge. Uh, he is massive. He's like six foot three, 400 pounds. He's a big dude. Um, and you just, uh, I don't know man it's been. It's been really cool to decide who I wanted to be and then not back down off of it. I like that.
Speaker 1:My dad was just telling me a story. He's watching one of my videos at work and someone asked him like hey, I watched that guy and he's like that's my son. And they're like wait what? Like yeah, it's just really cool to kind of have those moments. You know, yeah, just one day at a time.
Speaker 3:It. You know like, just you know, just one day at a time. It gives you a unique opportunity to be petty as well. So I, uh, it does. It does like you have those that's really the most important part, that's the most important no like charity, you know whatever no, we have a.
Speaker 3:The reason why I got out of the military on my first contract with this was this guy named, uh, michael matthew mumford. Right, I called him eminem and eminem um, and he sucked he like pencil, whipped his pt tests, uh to get uh promoted, and he was just a general shitbag, and I hated that guy. Now I was also a shitbag. We just didn't like each other. He made my life a living hell, and I got out because of him and I told him. As such, I was like you're the reason why I'm leaving. I hate you. And then I would run into him in the wild like a Costco and he'd try to shake my hand. I'm like fuck you.
Speaker 3:And it was really fun, but Now that I have this company that I get to manage and run as a CEO, I found out that his ex-wife really needed a job, and you know albeit far be it from me to deny somebody who's so hardworking a position with my company. She is incredible, though, and so she was like while she was in her interview process, they were talking and she was like yeah, I might go work for this fitness influencer. He's like oh who? And she was like yes, might go work for this, uh, fitness influencer. He's like oh who. And she was like, yes, uh, scotty k fitness. And he was like, well, I really hoped that he's, yeah, I really hoped that he's like a better person now and she's like that guy sucks, uh, but no, there's so much lore as well. Yeah, it's such a good time, um, but no, man, I am happy, I'm, I'm just busy, you know, just busy I, you know, just busy.
Speaker 1:I would say it's going to calm down for you, but it's not so like I don't know. Just kind of keep riding the wave, I don't know yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, that's another thing is like we have more things that are happening behind the scenes. I'm launching I just opened another LLC launching casino why not? I'm launching my own merch company.
Speaker 1:I saw you were responding to comments and stuff. You were telling people that you were gonna like do a merch thing. So august 2nd I'm hard launching my uh company at the anaheim fit expo okay, are we getting some mustaches in the bowl?
Speaker 3:it's gonna be. It's less personally branded. There's gonna be like some things here and there that are like definitely like stupid mustache stuff. Um, but it's uh, I wanted to go like somewhat brutalist, survivalist vibe, like, okay, I dove like fallout, but I dove into the psychology behind branding and like colorways and the duality of personality when it comes to branding, right, so you need like, uh, a logo and a namesake and, like you need to know where you fall on a spectrum in, uh, what you don't want your company to represent, when you do want it to represent, like, is it raw, is it refined, is it serious, is it silly? You know where do you fall on that? Um, and find your, find your spot on there. Then go from there. What do you want it to represent? How do you want it to come across? And so, with the duality stuff, there's so many different archetypes you can go with, and what I went with was like the shaman, who provides wisdom and uh, you know things like that to the his people, but also the jester.
Speaker 1:So think like rafiki from the line I was just gonna say rafiki from like that's a hundred percent.
Speaker 3:That's the vibe, but that's not like the artistic vibe. The artistic vibe, that's the art. The art vibe is brutalist, survivalist, wasteland, um, and so I came up with the name of this and, uh, it is fault line apparel. The idea is that the main like antagonist of the brand is toxic masculinity. So trying to break that down in the way of like this isn't ego lifting, it is emotional resistance training, right, real warriors and real, uh, strong people build back from being broken, right, uh, and things like this. So that's the whole vibe is fuck the toxic masculinity and the toxic like bro culture, like rah, rah, rah, I'm tough, and how much do you bench? And rah rah, it doesn't fucking matter. Like shut up, it's not that serious.
Speaker 3:Um, and so there's gonna be like different factions as well, and so doing different product launches around the factions. So, um, tankless, like our tank tops and like stringers are going to be called, uh, unarmored, and then, like hoodies and joggers, are the armored series and you have heavyweight stuff, the up armored series and things like that. That's just some of the stuff that we've done behind the scenes. I'm super excited about all of it. Um, and so we're also selling the hat in different colorways and for the different factions. We're gonna have like dog tags and patches and stuff and so many different things. Also jorts I'm doing jorts, uh, because you gotta do jorts on on leg day when you're hitting quads. You gotta, you gotta rock the jorts, and so got crocs as well are we getting some crocs?
Speaker 3:and then you could have no crocs, you have a bunch of different little mustaches and like I'm just saying, not a crocs guy. Man never have been to make my feet sweat.
Speaker 1:I've never worn a pair of crocs, but like they seem popular and I think people would buy them. That's what I'm just saying for your audience especially.
Speaker 2:You can dress them up like mr potato head there you go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, but no, uh, it's exciting, man. There's a lot of, a lot of things that that are happening behind the scenes, uh, that I'm not at liberty to discuss yet, but a lot, of, a lot of fun stuff. So that's, that's like probably 60 of the plates that I'm currently spinning, and, uh, a good friend of mine recently told me that there's no such thing as extraordinary people. It's just people who show up, uh, an extra amount of time and do ordinary shit, you know.
Speaker 1:So that's it, just doing the ordinary shit extra it seems like you got a lot going on and I I wish you luck with all of that. I I don't have a tenth of that and I've already felt like I have too much so uh, my sleep quality is not great um apparently you're sleeping all while people, while you're being recorded and shit like that.
Speaker 3:I mean damn for the live streams. Yeah, yeah, people are strange.
Speaker 1:People are strange. There's so much content you have to make. You need to do it while sleeping.
Speaker 3:Yeah, honestly, that's good for the charity event though, because we got the TikTok live stream got up to six and a half million likes. That was crazy. That's really good, and so we learned a lot from that. This next event probably will not be at my house, thank God. That was a lot, but no, also doing stuff with the new car, that's fun. Got my dream car and I started modifying it.
Speaker 1:Are you still fucking around with the HOA, still pissing them off?
Speaker 3:I hope so. Yeah, I'm working on something, something. I'm gonna film a video before I go to la. They fucking charged me again for my trash can, so I'm gonna bedazzle them this time and put googly eyes on them, just in case they miss them. You know, I want them to be able to see them, for sure fuck, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, do you have anything else that you want to talk about and you're looking forward to in the future? Are you kind of gone over everything? What do you anything else?
Speaker 3:man, I'm looking forward to hanging out with you guys again. I'm looking forward to hanging out with Oakley Rob. I hope I get to see you back in San Diego for the Twitch con. Hope your dad's doing well. Twitchcon. Hope your dad's doing well. That's good. I'm glad to hear man. I'm looking forward to tomorrow. That's it. That's the best I got Just tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Well, before you go, I want you to tell people where to find you, but in your RFK voice, I just got it all.
Speaker 3:I fucking can't dude.
Speaker 1:God, that's so bad. No it that was good.
Speaker 3:I like, quite frankly, uh, you sound really gross. Um, no, yeah, I, if you guys feel so inclined, to follow me. I'm scotty k fitness on all platforms. Um, there's a lot of fake accounts out there. Tiktok won't verify me. I've tried 17 fucking times, 17 times. No shit, it's ridiculous. I gave up. I fucking don't care anymore.
Speaker 1:I haven't tried once, because if you can't do it 17 times, there ain't a fucking dick's chance in hell that I'm doing it.
Speaker 3:I wasted so much time on that stuff. I've been to TikTok headquarters three fucking times. They still won't verify me. It's so annoying. But no, thank you guys. I've been looking forward to hopping back on this podcast.
Speaker 1:The first podcast I've ever been on and get to reprise my role as the dumb mustache guy.
Speaker 3:Considering the way things are going in America, maybe the last podcast you'll ever go on Could be. Could be I'm making a video on how to get your special stats for the wasteland, like in real life, just to, just to get people prepped for the fucking apocalypse. Um, just in case, just in case I may or may not have bought brand new handheld ham radios for me and kylie. So good fucking times. I also got night vision.
Speaker 1:Go check out kylie's I saw that video, the night vision for you page like.
Speaker 3:It's not, it's not binoculars, it's I mean, to her credit, they are binocular night vision, so yeah, but those are definitely uh, yeah, those good times, good stuff, but no, I really appreciate you guys man and always, always.
Speaker 1:We'll have you on again another sometime amount of time when you're free we gotta get you t-shirts that don't make you look like you're 12. Uh, those this one, so I funny story.
Speaker 1:You should say that I bought this when I was about 12. I'm not lying. I bought this when I was, I'm gonna say, 16 or 17 years, I don't know when I was very young and it's still a comfy shirt and honestly, I'm just like. At nighttime, I'm like fuck it. I throw on whatever I'm comfortable with and I play some games and I finally have like an hour or two to myself, which is just a beautiful it was already six foot three by the time he was eight.
Speaker 1:I what's that like I was the tallest person in my middle school, including the teachers like jesus christ, yeah, I got, I got tall pretty fast the widest.
Speaker 3:I was the widest, so that's fair. But all right, I appreciate you guys. I'm gonna go use the little boys room and then I'm gonna play some video games. So I like it. I like it, rob, it's always good to see you, brother liam, all the people here. I'll see you guys later.
