The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 019: Twins, Training While Traveling & Tom Brady Roast

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

Podcast Hosts: Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach. Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter Check out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Bitcoin Price Predictions 03:33 - Strength Co. YouTube Update 10:01 - Strength Co. Jeans Update 11:37 - Grant Got Called Out 15:30 - Jeff and Tres Join! 17:35 - Tres Has Big News 30:02 - Grant’s May The Fourth 37:12 - Hockey Coaches Wearing Suits 47:11 - Tom Brady Roast 53:48 - Slack Question: Training On The Road 01:00:12 - Slack Question: Picking The Right Weight 01:07:20 - Top 3 Southern Revolutionary War Heroes 01:13:39 - Kendrick vs Drake 01:15:13 - Solo Fishing 01:23:33 - Tres Signs Us Off

All right, and welcome back to episode 019 of the OK Podcast, powered by the Strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogy, joined in studio in the beautiful upstate of the great state of first to secede state of South Carolina with PJ, producer Jordy. What's up? What's up? What's up? And the block height is currently 88, 4, 2, 3, 8. So is that 8 million?

842,383. This is why you always have someone that went to public school on with you. Half Asian one. To do the numbers. Math in public is not a strong suit for Marines. We'll give you the bitcoin price here in a second but last i checked it was around 63 000 and some change i'll take it i mean we're still up 20k since episode zero zero one that's that's the fact and we're what within six of the

all-time high 69 nice is the all-time high so did, we hit 70. Oh, no, no, no. We hit 70 recently. It was a 73. 72, 3? Yeah, somewhere in there. Yeah, I'll take that. You're so rich, you can't even remember. It's all just numbers on the screen, man. Once you hit 69, it's over. But anyway, Bitcoin's doing...

What's the Bitcoin world saying right now? The Bitcoin world is wondering why the... There's two Bitcoin worlds. The first one is all the new guys they're all impatient like these guys having happened i thought we were supposed to be all rich by now it wasn't supposed to explode and all the ogs are like patience dude just relax huddle baby give it a year and a half we'll be i think i think uh this is not financial advice i think we'll hit 100 this year okay 100 it might crash back down but i i think we'll i think we'll tap it it's not called crashing back down that's called a sale it's a clearance it'll go on a

big clearance sale around november it's like every now and then you buy cool stuff at big lots and sometimes you can buy cool stuff on coinbase or wherever you like to trade not trading advice i'm gonna i'm gonna mark my just for fun this is based on just pure nothing and vibes, but I'm going to say Thanksgiving day when we do the podcast, when it comes out, that's what we do. We try to choose choice opportunities to record a podcast. Yeah. Most playoff games. Yeah.

Let's do it then. Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah. Thanksgiving. I think by Thanksgiving, we've hit a hundred K a hundred K man. I'll just mark it as based on pure vibes. Would you go crazy at a hundred K? No, not at this point. I mean, man. I'll just mark it. It's based on pure vibes. Would you go crazy at 100K? No, not at this point.

Me neither. Because that's like a 40% increase, something like that? Yeah, I don't think I'd think anything. I would just think, oh, we're going to go to a million. Yeah, I think if it hit like 300 this year, I'd be like, this is clearly, people are going nuts. I don't know what happened. Russia bought Bitcoin or something.

You could buy a Tesla truck. Cyber truck. Cyber truck. Cyber truck. Hodl. Grant still doesn't have one, which is disappointing. Hey, if that's what the future looks like, I'm happy to stay in the past. Dude, the fact you don't have a Strength Co. branded cyber truck. I mean, I feel like the 97 Silverado is on brand.

It is, but why not have both? Yeah, why not have both? Well, because I need Bitcoin to hit 300,000. 300,000. We're not there yet. And then he'll buy it live. That's right. We'll buy it live, which you could do in like 90 seconds.

Dude, dude. You could do it. You can also buy strength coplates in 90 seconds. You could. You could also buy strength coplates with Bitcoin now. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Look for the little golden B with the dollar signs through it. Take you over to BitPay and you can pay.

Shout out again, Zach Copley for the block clock. We're back up and running. But yeah, so episode 019, exciting for next week. Episode 020. Man, 20 weeks. That's like three months,

four months. Yeah. Man. We just recorded some bangers for the YouTube channel. Yeah, we weeks. That's like three months, four months. Yeah. Man. We just recorded some bangers for the YouTube channel. Yeah, we did. Yeah. We recorded some videos today. We did pros and cons of starting strength. Make them mad.

Are there cons? We did. Rip made me fat. Yeah. Rip made me fat. A lot of fat talk. What else did we film? We filmed what's a Good One Mile Time.

Oh, yeah. What's a Good One Mile Time. Marine Major says What's a Good One Mile Time. And we did, it was the first one. Oh, Should You Eat Before You Lift? Should You Eat Before You Lift? Should You Eat Before You Lift or podcast. Yeah.

So we record some good ones. We've had some good ones in the past uh week or so we released a new video on our barbells if you're a manufacturing head and when you if you listen to this podcast you probably are because most of the internet doesn't like when we show how we build stuff because most of the internet is lame yeah and just wants to see like women in skimpy clothes but if you're interested in how things are made and how the economy keeps going and uh capitalism survives we made a pretty cool video on how we make our barbells kind of shows the process all done

in grand perry minnesota uh so that went up on the channel uh clip from the podcast went up on the channel from a from a question from the slack community yeah from the slack which i really like that yeah we got two more tonight okay good we gotta hit them tonight yeah so we gotta hit the questions more so we're gonna do that more so if you're not part of the slack if you want to be a part of this if you want to hear your question on the okay podcast uh go to the shrink.co click on the media page go down to the bottom and it says do you want help with your lifts click a big yellow button um and it'll give you a couple options we do consults for people sometimes people want to talk about nutrition sometimes people want to talk about their blood work sometimes people want to talk about their lifting sometimes people want us to watch you lift for an hour live uh i've done i

did that yep i've done all of those this week all all four of those scenarios there so you can book a consult with a with a starting strength coach. It's most likely going to be me or Connor King. You can also sign up for our online coaching. We're live six days a week over Zoom. Application only. You almost need a referral to get into that group. Tight, tight group of guys.

And then you can also join our Slack channel or Slack channel. $29 a month. Three different programming channels for different programs that you might be interested in. Also, you know, over 200 lifters. I think we're at 213 in there now. Five starting strength coaches that moderate. You got behind the scenes access to stuff from the OK podcast clips that we haven't aired yet. You get to see other people lifting. So if you wake up, you don't want to go from the OK podcast clips that we haven't aired yet. You get to see other people lifting. So if you wake up, you don't want to go to the gym and you feel like a fat piece of turd, you can go, well, this guy over in this state lifted today. So I guess I better do my lifts,

too. You can drop videos in the form checks for us to look at. You can ask nutrition advice. You can post pictures of your pizza, which I think is new. I think that is a question for nutrition. I shouldn't do this, right? Yeah. So yeah, the Slack channel. But anyway, we answered some questions from the Slack channel. What else did we release this week? That was the main things yeah how to bench 315 still going really really strong i still think that's the most watched clip or video per week yeah it is like 10 weeks in a row or something yeah like even though we're releasing new ones that one still gets new the more views in that week yeah it's like all the other videos so we I think on average, and this is grant off the cuff, but I'm going to guess we get on average like 4,000 views of video around 4,000,

like within the first 10 days of it being released. Yep. Um, I think that one's averaging like 25 K something a week. Insane dude. So guys want to bench three 15. Um, you know,

lifting shoes was the other clip. Yeah. Lifting shoes, lifting shoes, which is really for some reason super controversial is it you didn't cover drop shoes why would you deadlift in your lifting shoes at the same time you get dms that say hey grant thanks for your advice on lifting shoes also which one should i buy because you don't sell any yeah um so but yeah lifting

is it not to look behind the curtain but is there a reason you don't sell shoes on the Strength Co store? Yeah. So I've actually looked a lot into, I mean, I could sell someone else's shoes, but we've looked a lot into this for a while. Starting Strength was going to release a starting strength boot from White's Boots, which I'm a fan of in Spokane, Washington. I went up there and I interviewed those guys. If you want to hear an hour and 20 minute interview on how a shoe is made, it's deep in the Strength Co. YouTube archives, but it is there. Much younger version of myself thinking that the world

was just full of opportunities talking about boots. That didn't end up coming around. They tried a couple different manufacturers, but in short, like I complain about carrying a bunch of different t-shirts and all the sizes and colors and a shoe the leathers formed around something called a last which is like um i don't know what it's made of i would it's not plastic but it's the mold that you use the mold okay so then you need like a six a six and a half a seven a seven and a half

oh so it's an investment to get all the last. Yeah, just to get the last, to have all the sizes. And then people are really funny about shoes. Not in a bad way. You want your shoes to fit well. So I have no desire at the moment to get into manufacturing shoes. So if you're waiting on that, don't wait on that. I could carry someone else's, but I haven't found um i haven't found someone the right person yeah i

found a couple different brands that make a shoe that i like one made in mexico and i reached out to them saying hey i like this shoe i'd love to put a wedge on it like the shoe's already there i don't want to change anything about the shoe i just want to put a wedge on it and uh and they said no for now so maybe we'll convince them in the later days to come but uh yeah yeah i should probably put like a amazon referral link or something oh yeah actually there's probably something to move some type of shoes but uh yeah wear your lifting shoes do your squats uh subscribe to our youtube channel real quick is there an update on the the strength code jeans project or is that still a secret yeah, is there an update on the Strength Code Jeans project,

or is that still a secret? Yeah, there is. I got the prototypes in from Steven over at Railcar Fine Goods. Glad you brought that up. I can't wait for these. I want to get him on the podcast, so I'm going to shoot him a text right now. Dude, I can't wait for these. I will be the first person to order.

There you go. First person to order. Would love to get you on the pod look at that live business that's it that's how it works well i i thought of him the other day he texted me his dad was like former army he's a vietnamese guy so he sent me a bunch of photos of this military event that he was at it was like hey man i thought you'd enjoy this which i did i thought it was cool he reached out to me he's like by the way i just shipped your jeans i got the jeans in. And,

um, and as I was doing all that, I thought I need to message him. He'd be a great podcast guest. And then I forgot until you mentioned it right now. So perfect. I got a message him while it's on the brain, but a rail car,

find goods out of Monrovia, California, all, uh, USA products. That's why we're a big fan of those guys. They actually have a collaboration with white boots. Uh, and they make a rail car, uh's Boots deal. They make really cool jeans.

If you like American denim that you have to break in and all that kind of stuff, it's pretty cool. What do we talk about that? Like maybe episode three? It was early on. Early on, but yeah, rail car, fine goods, big Steven. And if you do starting strength, everyone knows you just get massive, massive, massive, massive quads. No gene will fit. You can get it. You're going to need the strength coaching. That's right. Not like you want them. It's not a want thing. It's a need. Oh, that's what I wanted to talk about. Uh, what was the video you sent me from the starting strength podcast? You sent me a video. Yeah. Someone, uh, it was a, um, a question

from the starting strength community, I believe., uh, it was a, um, a question from the starting strength community, I believe. And someone, it actually clipped off reading the question, which I think was maybe strategic. I got to go. I think it was maybe released Friday. I have to dig into it. It's definitely out and that's where I'm going to go with it, but I'm going to look into it. Maybe we can like play a snippet right here. If I could find it. Rushed instruction, no actual demonstration, which in my opinion is the most valuable tool okay to instruct a client on execution of a technical lift that's literally what the whole video was but okay and questionable attempts at hands-on instruction

that would be three strikes and he's out, but maybe if the session was free. God damn. Oh, shit. I think he was talking that Brogy didn't do one so she sees what it looks like. Right. That and he didn't talk for 20 minutes. Brogy talks a lot, but he didn't talk for 20 minutes before having her do anything. Because that's what they wanted to do.

Because it's a short video. No, because he's actually coaching. He's not explaining how to do shit before actually doing it. So Jordy sends it to me. He's like, you need to react to this. I watch it, and it's a good clip. And Nick Delgadillo and Ripito are kind of defending me. I'm like, well, Brogy's actually coaching.

He's not displaying. He's actually taking control of the lifter. Anyway, so I see the clip, and I'm like, oh, Brogy's actually coaching. He's not displaying. He's, he's actually taking control of the lifter anyway. So I see the clip and I'm like, oh, that's a good idea. Um, maybe a little too much profanity to react to. So I don't know how I could use this, use this clip, but I bleep it out. Yeah. But I, but I liked it. And then, uh, I get a message Friday morning from a big Tanner over at massonomics, lift hard, live easy. And he says, uh, have you listened to Starting Strength Radio this week? And I'm like, dude, it's Friday at 9 a.m. Eastern. Wow.

Why are you bothering me before I've had my morning coffee? No. And in any event, I said, no. And he said, oh, there's a clip about you. And I immediately think like, is it bad? Were they like, oh, brogy out there advocating for people running.

But, and then I said, wait, is it about the coaching? And he's like, yeah, it's about the coaching clip. He's like,

I did a little research and I clicked on the guy's profile. Oh, and I said, and I go, oh, he's a mass dynamics gym member. He goes, no,

he said, but he definitely lives in Aberdeen, South Dakota. And Tanner had set me up. Like I didn't know where it was going, but he had already formulated his thoughts., South Dakota, and Tanner had set me up like I didn't know where it was going, but he had already formulated his thoughts and like I'm like you're just in his world. Yeah, I'm like a step behind him and he's like so when you come here in July, what if

you draw he goes? He's a personal trainer at this gym and I was like tracking down already know the word haters tracking down the haters and we just show up hey man you want me to show you how to squat i can i can demo it for you right now dude and and the youtube video you have to use the word confronts grant starting strength coach grand brogie confronts hater confronts starting strength hater. Yeah. Yeah. So Aberdeen, Aberdeen, South Dakota, July.

I feel like I should bring a gun. I mean, they let, they allow those. Yeah, I think so. But like those Dakota, like you,

you roll up on a dude in Dakotas. Don't do that. Yeah. South Dakota to be, to be frank, I feel like the boys, Tanner and Tommy, Massanomics are some of the few people that aren't from the Carolinas that understand that if there are states,

and one is south and one is north, they are very different. It doesn't mean the northern one's bad, but... It's not the same thing. I'd rather spend a sunny day in Aberdeen, South Dakota, than Fargo any day of the week. So anyway, yeah, we're going to track down that hater, find that guy, but... We're coming for you.

Yeah. With that said, let's get these guys on here. All right. The stars at night are big and bright. Trey? Check, check. Deep in the heart of Texas. Oh, they're going to say Frisco.

Oh, yeah. Frisco. Episode 019, the OK Podcast, and we've got back in studio in the heart of Texas, Big Frisco, Trey Gottlich,

Robert Gottlich III. Y'all kept recording while I was gone? We kept recording. The show must go on. The show must go on. There was a lot of bad. Yeah, yeah, there was a lot of bad. Yeah, actually letters directly. I tray. Yeah, you just say a use in a I tray. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, downloads downloads were way down, so we usually we usually ride. We usually ride just kind of like right,

like whatever Rogan gets a week. We're usually about like 500 to 1,000 more. And we were below the last two weeks. That's bad. Well, I bought 100 phones whenever we started this podcast and just subscribed to each. Oh, that's good. 100 phones. Yeah.

We should make a phone farm, like an operation, and just stream the OK Podcast. That's a great idea. Or we could just mine for Bitcoin here. Why choose? Why choose? Why choose? We could do both. Yeah.

Why not both? When you can do both. I just want to say, for those that are listening, it's Friday, which means that the Bruins will have played twice in the second round

against the Florida Panthers. And I don't think you understand the amount of love I have for you, the listener, and our country for the fact that I am not watching the Boston Bruins play the Florida Panthers right now in game one, the second round playing right now at zero,

zero started the second period. Boston's on a power play. And, but yeah, I can't, yeah, I can't tomorrow. I got Marine work.

So that's my love of country and hearing recording, which is my love for the listener. So if you have not liked subscribed and gone to BW tax LLC dot com and typed in okay in the chat box, you're doing it all wrong. Yeah, what's wrong with you? Oh, seriously. So

Trey, we've been on vacation or what? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, no, not really. I switched to switch car insurance. That's about it. Oh, cool. Dude, that's huge. Dude, that's big deal. Yeah, it is.

That's like the most significant event of your life, probably. Three things I always say. If you got a lifting question, call Grant. If you got a tax question, call BW Tax. Call BW. And if you need car insurance, call Flo. Flo. That's it? That's you need car insurance, call flow. Flow. That's it.

That's it. You've always said that. Yeah. Big progressive guy. Oh man. What's new? It's a huge progressive. What's new in the Gottlich household?

Yeah. I would say we, we had an addition. Okay. Plus two. So now you built two new rooms or? A family PR? No, they're sharing rooms. Family PR.

We progressively overloaded kids and now we're up to two. Wow. As a PR. Yeah. I don't know if it was that progressive. Just add two kids every week. You're good. We just went straight for the one rep max. Like a novice lifter.

Let me just load two kits up see how this goes why not do it yeah no so yeah me and abby uh have been going through the adoption process and so uh we were blessed let me see was it two weeks ago now geez we got a phone call yeah two weeks ago so let me see long story short on a tuesday on a tuesday i remember the timeline you haven't slept in 14 days but i remember the time yeah sorry we tuesday afternoon tuesday yeah tuesday afternoon got a phone call after being approved for 10 days yeah it's quick in the adoption yeah it was real quick got a phone call saying hey you matched with the birth mom we said fantastic awesome news and they go it's twins and i we said

okay let's do this okay okay oh then they said oh by the way pick them up on thursday and we said okay let's do it okay so it was uh it's it's been a whirlwind for sure but i don't know that's a new normal for me. Ah, the new normal. We're all chasing that new normal. A new normal. I hope this email finds you well. Yeah.

Stay safe, Trey. Stay safe. It's been good, man. Yeah. So two girls. Two girls. Are we sharing names? Are we keeping it cryptic?

Yeah, Ray and Joy. Ray and Joy. Love it. enjoy yeah and ray's name was like something about sunshine right so it's like a ray of sunshine yeah yeah so it's spelled like yeah i smell like a man's name yeah ray romano we're big everybody was right man's fans and then joy dish soap yeah my deborah sounds like rocky yeah joy like the off-brand dish soap yeah nice yeah yeah really fan of clean dishes yeah can't afford it what do you like more clean dishes or saving money the best shoes the best disinfectant is sunlight and oh man look at that action there potential sponsors it's been a yeah it's been been a whirlwind, so it's been good, though.

That's amazing. So, I mean, I don't think we can leave this topic for a minute. So, first question. Shoot. Have you lifted since adoption? No. Okay, like not even once, right? That's not a trick question.

I'm actually curious. I just assume there's not a free moment i'm actually like curious like i just assume like there's not a free moment and you're like especially with adoption because you don't have nine months i've walked past the the weights a couple times but every time i walk past ago those are some good looking plates no man so it's so one thing is like well after we were approved we were under the impression because they they kind of set an expectation it's gonna be like hey 10 to 18 months isn't on average kind of how long you wait and so i'm like okay so we got some time just like

slowly put together a nursery and kind of get with so we had we had nothing like we had right we had like the room we had the room picked out and then yeah and then we pretty much were like okay got the phone call next day we were just going i bought out target i think and then we had to build a nursery from scratch so yeah that's crazy it's the same feeling i had when we got whalen we were like we want another cat on a tuesday on a, we got a call, and they just hand me a cat, and I'm like, I don't have toys. The thing has diarrhea. What am I supposed to do here?

I was, yeah. I get it, bro. Called your pediatrician. Yeah. Did you get a pediatrician? Yeah, I got a pediatrician. Grant totally gets it, man. I get it.

Yeah. Same boat. Same boat. Yeah, same, same. Yeah. Yeah, same, same. It's been good, man. How's the wife doing? She's doing good. She, same, same. Yeah. Yeah, same, same. No, it's been good, man. How's the wife doing?

She's doing good. She's playing zone coverage right now. Oh, not just like the Aggies. Yeah. Not as successful. Not as successful, yeah. How's the sleeping been? Dude, I think I texted you all this.

I would equate the sleeping to going to the field. Yeah, you did Texas. And it's, but, but elaborate. So like you go to the field and like you get woken up. I don't know.

Like, would you say like every couple hours? Okay. We did have a, we did have an intense Marine episode. You were gone and keep Jeff and I on track. So a lot of people probably know what the field is. But for those that are just tuning in for the first time, we're not farmers. I mean, we are in spirit, but the field means going out for a Marine Corps training exercise,

shooting, moving, and yeah, fighting farmers. So anyway, yeah. You were asking, do you wake up every three hours? Yeah, I would. So right now they're like on a three-hour eating cycle, right? So they wake up about every three hours and they're synced up, so it's pretty good. But yeah, man, it's just like that's the amount of sleep that I kind of remember in the Marine Corps, just kind of operating off that. Like whenever you go do a training exercise, you get woken up. Someone has a complaint or has a question.

It's never anything good. No, it's like nothing. It's also like it's not a big deal. It's just like, okay, yeah, do this. They're like, oh, okay, roger that. Sir, the log train's not coming until 06, and you had to tell me at 03? I don't understand now. Or they wake you up, they're like, hey, sir, the count of the rifles are good, and you had to tell me at 03 are they like wake you up they're like hey sir

the count of the rifles are good and you're like oh okay good night glad i went to college just so you could tell me how many rifles are in the position okay so same thing so basically for you this is just another day at the office yeah yeah yeah abby okay yeah it's like you redeployed yeah abby's getting used to it she's i did i did put i had to go abby you got to go to sleep a couple days ago she was she's run on fumes and i asked her i go i go abby hey have you fed have you fed the girls and she's like no your sister's not coming over i go what are you talking about you psycho are you losing it oh yeah so i go all right go to bed go to bed go to bed i got this she's doing good man she's you have like a thing that you can put on and like carry both of them like strapped to your chest at once he's got a

barbell yeah you just have to have a barbell side yeah each side i do i i run hot so they don't they like they can be in there for about 10 minutes and they start complaining they're giving me this sauna give me out of texas oh but yeah abby okay nice yeah and are you just like uh flooded with family and friends family and friends man so yeah we're we're blessed enough to have a good church community good good family friend friend group around us too so like like we found out on tuesday and then like by wednesday night i think i have like four bassinets and three strollers how many casseroles oh dude it's it's a ton yeah my carbon take is through the roof right now.

Your lips would be great right now. Yeah, it would be good. We should chow. Chow's continuous. I love in church communities, when anything good or bad happens, grandma dies, Trey gets twins. It's just casseroles. Oh, man, I heard Jeff's grandma died. Bring my pound cake, honey. Herey gets twins. It's just casseroles. Yeah.

Oh, man. I heard Jeff's grandma died. Bring my pound cake, honey. He'll love it. It's like, wait, what? That's 100% accurate. So, yeah, man, I think we got it for like the next. We got a meal train for like the next three and a half weeks. So that's good.

Yeah. If you want to come eat, come on over. I got, you know, it goes well right next to a meal train. What's that? A strength train. Yeah. If y'all want to come eat, come on over. I got 21 hours. You know what goes well right next to a meal train? What's that? A strength train. Oh. Eat chow and lift weights. Yeah.

I got to try to figure out when to get that in. Hey. They sleep. Yeah. Could be an amateur lifting question. That's actually, yeah. We can get to that. Yeah, we can get to that.

Yeah. We can get to that. Yeah. Hey, how's bw doing all right bw is doing great uh i actually saw bw tax on sunday hung out with him and his three kids and like you he has twins and uh he actually said to me you know i realized that when you talk on the podcast you refer to bw tax like it's me. Yeah. And I'm like, well, it is you.

And he's like, yeah, but like, you never say my name. You just say BW tax. Like I'm a, like a person. I'm like,

I don't understand how this is. What's your name? And then later, later we're on a text thread. Three guys all went to the Citadel together. All Bruins fans. They're both from mass. I'm an honorary Massachusetts resident and they're texting about the Bruins game. And the other guy says,

hey, I really like the podcast, Grant. It's really good. And I'm like, oh, I had no idea you were listening to that. That's awesome. You only talked to me during Bruins playoffs. He's like, no, I've listened to every episode and a BW tax is on the thread. And so I say, I said, do you like the tax reads? He's like, dude,

I think it's so funny that you have some random business that you talk about every week. And I go, you know, it's BW tax. Right. But I say the guy's name, which I think we're just going to withhold from now and just go by.

Yeah. I'm just calling you strength. Go. Yeah. It's an alias. And he had no, he had no idea when she made it even better. So that's incredible.

Yeah. BW tax. I got a call, you know, uh, tax questions. They stay to Kansas, shaking me down.

And I, I didn't have to guess where to go. I just, Hey, BW, what's up here? You know, so it's never too early to start next year's taxes. That's what I always say.

I've already started. Yeah. Two child tax credits? Oh, man. Dude. Cha-ching, baby. Cha-ching. I'm pretty sure all the diapers are a write-off now that you talked about it on the podcast.

Business expense. Business expense. This is tax advice. Oh, my goodness. Dude. Where's PJ's tax business expense. This is tax advice. Oh my goodness. Where's PJ's tax? Do you have a tax company too, dude? PW Tax. PJTaxLLC.com.

A competition. Rival business. Much less successful. Yeah, that's right. Yes. Anyway, if you're not, if you don't know, BW Tax is our sponsor.

We have, I think, Jeff, what did you say? We have 23 people in the pipeline right now requesting to be sponsors. We haven't accepted any of them. I think we're up to 25. Sorry, more just came in. Sorry, guys. Yeah. You're out of luck.

It's a tough application process. You have to deadlift 500. Well, there it goes. There it goes. There it goes. Sorry, Patagonia guy. Yeah, what's his name? No, he's not deadlifted.

Yeah, he's not deadlifted. But he's quite efficient, that's for sure. What's his name, Manish Yahoo? Yes, yes, that's his name. Bless you. Good goal. Manish Yahoo. good ball brush it up on his early 2000s i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready ready for the rapture um trade do you feel like we've given you enough segment about you

can we go to the next slide or do we need yeah push next slide next slide okay okay well uh kind of two topics rolled into one but i mean grant basically just had grant this was your super bowl a few days ago right you rolled from may the 4th to right into cinco de mayo how do you like are you kidding me grants two biggest days of the year the super bowl it's what you think you're thinking about it for the next 364 days like you are just primed and ready for May the 4th, followed by Cinco de Mayo. Let's hear about your experiences.

So Big Connor, I message him, and he likes to make memes for the account. But he only likes to make memes if they're unsolicited memes. If he just makes the memes and sends it to me. And every time he does, I'm like, this is stupid. And he's like, post it. Put this in the caption. And he's always right. He's always right. And I never know what it means. So I'm like,

all right, May the 4th is coming up. A lot of nerds like Star Wars, sci-fi Grant loves Star Wars. So I text him like on Monday. Hey, you working on the May the 4th meme? He's like, no, I'm at work. Leave me alone. That's the kind of response he gives. Next day, you working on the May the 4th meme? No, I'm not working on May the the fourth meme he's like no i'm at work leave me alone you know this is the kind of response he gives next day you're working on the may the fourth meme no i'm not working on may the fourth meme are you working on may the fourth meme no my daughter is sick with a fever i'm not working on the may the fourth meme hey how's that star wars meme coming i'm not working on it and so then may the fourth comes and i'm like i gotta find something to post on instagram and so i'm like how's that may the fourth meme? He's like, no, I'm not doing it. And like now I'm like, I think he's actually mad. I think he really doesn't want to

do it. So I'm trying to figure out what to post. And then I thought Star Wars reminds me just stay with the logic. Jeff will get it. But for the other guys in the listeners Star Wars reminds me of Lord of the Rings, which reminds me of lord of the rings which

reminds me of game of thrones yep which i've never seen game of thrones any has any i've seen lord i've seen lord of the rings i've seen lord of the rings game of thrones has an actor named thor who i've shown a 45 pound plate so when So when I think of May the 4th, I think of Thor. So I'm like, I got Thor footage from the Arnold. So I grab it. I put it to the music of dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, which was something that the Citadel band used to play during parades. That's the only reason I know the song.

Imperial March is what they were named. It's also in Star Wars. And then I type into google famous star wars quotes and it's like all this stuff comes up but i'm like it's got to be han solo han shot first and i find the one don't tell me the odds or something like that oh yeah yeah yeah i don't know yeah never tell me the odds And so I say to Thor like, Hey man, you want this plate? He's like,

I'm sponsored by rogue. I'm like, I'll sponsor you next. Imperial March is going. And then I like freezing on my face and it says, don't tell me the odds. That's good. And Connor's like,

text me. Like it's been up for two seconds, dude. That's a great star Wars meme. How did you come up with that? Who made that for you? And I was like, this is my Superbowl. I love star Wars. I was a Wars meme. How did you come up with that? Who made that for you? And I was like, this is my Super Bowl.

I love Star Wars. That was a clutch meme. It's a deep cut. That was a deep cut. Can we just talk about how tiny Grant looked next to Thor? Yeah. Did you see that? Did you see the meme?

It's kind of wild. You're like, he might be the biggest human ever. Yeah. I mean, I knew he was big, but I saw him at the Arnold walking by. And I just go like your brain like freezes for a second like it doesn't cannot compute it can't compute you're like is that a human male and like his grandfather and dad are like the same size i think it was like it was like are we talking about han solo like. I thought we were talking about that big Java bean named Attila.

Yeah. Yeah. All those. Yeah. All those. Yeah. Can you. Did you actually watch any Star Wars?

No. But Jeff, could you tell me what they never tell me the odds? Is that like, is that like when they're in the bar and they're singing and they go, hey, play that song again. And then Hans goes, never tell me the odds of them saying that. No. Nailed it. Yeah. No, he nailed it yeah big star wars fan uh it's it's a it's a big like man versus machine moment like han solo is like or the machine is like i've calculated the odds and you have a one

in seven thousand million percent chance to be in successful this mission and he just like looks back at him with this like sly smile he's like, never tell me the odds. And then does it. It was good. And then he throws the ring in the fire. He throws the ring in. And then the trees start walking around. Yeah. And Dumbledore's like, you can do it, Harry. Yeah.

Dumbledore. Wait, but what episode is that? Is that episode four? Here we go. Four and a half. We'll do it live. Four and a half. Oh, I'm watching it. Let's do it. We'll do it live.

Put the mic up. You're crazy to follow us, aren't you? Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid beyond is approximately 3,720 to one. Never tell me beyond. We'll get it in post. We'll get it in post. We'll get it in post, yeah. Anyway, yeah, then Cin then cinco de mayo happened which was great i will give you one quick cinco de mayo story and then we'll go to the next slide we go to church we leave church

and i tell diana i'm going to show you how white people celebrate cinco de mayo and i take her to the whitest mexican restaurant yes. Like my childhood, right? The salsa comes in like that weird plastic bottle. Yeah. Like hourglass almost. And it's like basically marinara sauce and the chips are flowing and we walk in and the guy actually hands me those green and red beans and he beads and he puts them over my neck. And so I have the beads and we sit down and I order enchiladas and Diana orders a burrito and the burrito comes out and it's just covered in like that white queso.

And she's like, what is this? And she hates it. Like hates it. She thinks it's like the most disgusting thing ever. I was like, you will eat that. This is Sunday.

And it's Cinco de Mayo. Cinco de Mayo. Yeah. This is Sunday. This is Sunday. And it's Cinco de Mayo. Yeah. This is Sunday. Yes. This is Sunday. This is Sunday. Eat your burrito.

So she eats it. The whole place is full of white people just ordering queso by the gallon. We leave. We go to meet up with some friends, like this outdoor area. They bring their kids. And I'm wearing my 10X. 10X. My 10X Stetson and some guy,

some kid, he's like five. It's like a big park field. Kids are like kicking stuff around and goes, Hey sir, is that a Mexico hat? And I was like, see,

son. Yeah, pretty much. Tejano. You're correct. I found the thumbnail there it is I put it in the slack channel Trump eating the taco salad

and says Cinco de Mayo the best taco salads are at Trump Tower I love Hispanics and then he said never tell me the odds never tell me the odds yeah never tell me the odds my wall excuse me okay excuse me oh man all right next slide well then we want to talk about something that grant can get yeah hockey coaches wearing suits is it yeah you look at it and it's like a very yeah very unique thing kind of used to be the norm but

hockey's still hanging on it's like the last like vestige of the the coach in the suit i love it our basketball coach is not doing it anymore nope not really well the celtics guy wears a sweater with a cross on it that's about as dressy as they get now it's all like the tech polo with some slacks. Yeah, Doc Rivers wears like a tech polo and a slacks. I think college basketball coaches were wearing suits. But I don't think NBA

has for a while. Are you pro suit? Okay. What I'm pro and the reason I put that note in there is hockey, I feel like is the last bastion of like testosterone men being men like it's just like it's just like unreal like no teeth they all show up in their suits and then they just grind it out in front of the net i mean diana was looking it up she like loves to watch hockey so like yeah like the one sport that it's like really i mean she likes other sports a lot

but like she's like become a bruins fan she likes like watch it she's watching the game right now she's texting me it's one one posture knock just scored but anyway she doesn't watch it and she's like googling she's like these guys make the same amount of money as these NBA players, but they're not like flopping all over the ground and constantly talking about politics. And, uh, and I was like, wow, D that's an all right take. But anyway, uh, so we're watching it. And then I'm looking at the coaches and I'm like, it's just interesting. Like hockey's like the, I don't know. It's like the gruel is it's just, it's, it's savage. And then the coaches are in suits.

Just like cursing out. It's just interesting. Yeah, it's just interesting. What about what about UFC? Is that a sport? There's no suits. Yeah. How is that?

How is that? It's a sport. It's a hobby. It's more of like a hobby that they just do on the weekends. I think it's not. I don't think there's that much that goes into it do those guys wear suits or you met just get lucky savage you're like it's the last bastion of testosterone filled savagery i'm like every fighting sport yeah i don't know do you think mma is on par with like the big leagues in terms of like the way it's

viewed as a sport i do think it has a huge following and i'm like my brother-in-laws will be hating me for this, but I just mean like when you think sports, you think basketball, football, baseball, soccer,

hockey, team sports, team sports. There you go. Which I think I would, a lot more people would watch UFC if it was a team sport. Oh,

there isn't that war you just have like four and four in there. Yeah, you watch that all day. You want to fly to Ukraine, Trey? You're on to something here. We started our own fight league.

Four versus four. It's a larger ring. The coach has to wear a suit. There's one baseball bat in the middle. They don't get to kneel for the national anthem. Baseball bat. War is the last true team sport.

That's right. What is good for the last team sport? I think it was Bruins. I can't remember if it was Bruins player. I think he scored and he turned and the camera got him and he smiled and he's like missing all of them. All teeth.

No, what I mean, all of them. I don't mean all of his teeth. I mean, all the players have like my great grandfather, Walter Hill, Timmonsville, South Carolina, rest of the kids. He would like you'd walk up to him and he go and he'd like pop his dentures out and then he'd just take them out and he'd just have no teeth. And that's what I think of when I watch hockey games. I don't know anything about like the gear of hockey,

like how you, like the uniform, whatever. But like, do you have a mouth guard? Yeah. And they still. It doesn't work. And they still just. Pure fancy. I don't know.

Do all of them wear mouthpieces? I don't think they do. I know they have. Pretty boys. They had to wear an eye visor that was like a rule and that was there were some guys who were like what no i don't need that i'm gonna get smashed in the face this is this is almost old news now but you remember that it was like a viral clip going around and when that guy killed that guy with a skate. The guy kicked him in the throat, dude. Yeah, it was murder. It was like, oh, it was an accident.

I'm like, I don't know if someone falls with a kick attached to the throat. I guess I missed this. It was about a year ago. It wasn't Team UFC. It was not NHL, right, Jeff?

I feel like it was in Europe. I don't remember. Yeah, a guy gets checked. I don't think it was NHL. And then he just kicks the guy very blatantly and just slices his neck. And then he had a background of always attacking people and being overly aggressive. Yeah, he died. It was rough.

Oh, he died on the ice. It was awful. Yeah, because he hit his carotid artery artery i think the other thing that's interesting about hockey which probably carries over to mma and brazilian jiu-jitsu is like if you saw a man or you met a man and he was like i'm just really into skating i love to ice skate you'd'd be like this guy, but then he's like, I skate, but I hold a stick and it's like, oh, that's cool. So same thing. If you met a guy and he's like, ah,

I just want to, I just really want to do the guard on this other man. You'd be like, just the guy where sweaty. If they put on a gi, it's okay. It's like, oh yeah, this is cool. Let's put on bathrobes and wrestle. Yeah, totally fine. That's way better. better way better it's way better potential sponsor potential sponsor it's hit or miss if they wear a cup during that it's hit or miss you don't know what you're getting

you don't know yeah all right next slide before it gets too long i was going to kind of say on the flip side of suits which is also like a uh yeah that's what we're talking about yeah yeah suits but like great baseball managers are like they're in uniform and like some of them wear cleats and like they're gonna go into the game and you're like this does this need to change like this kind of just seems silly like this 75 year old man dressed up like the players. He might go in, Jeff. You never know. I mean, that's how it started. They do go in and yell at the refs or the umps.

Dude, I was watching that 30 for 30 last night. I was watching the Brady roast. Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa. Was it 98? Do you remember when that was going on? Oh,

yeah. It was just like, bring, bring back steroids. Yeah. Bring back steroids. It was entertaining season in baseball. I remember that year.

You should bring it back to my oldest brother was his favorite player was Mark McGuire. My second oldest brother was Sammy Sosa. And it was like, it was just, all we did was listen to the radio and find out who's hitting more home runs. He hit two. He hit one.

Yeah, man. That was awesome. Do you think we should bring steroids back to sports like officially? Yeah. John McCain ruined baseball by calling those guys in before Congress. Just let it slide, John. What are our elected officials doing? We need to meddle with baseball.

This is a national... Yeah, this is definitely why I was put in office. How do we make sports better? Call the governor of South Dakota. She'll figure it out for you. Don't look at my blood, government. She has her finger on the pulse. Yeah, the pulse of her dead dog.

Hey. Hey. You know, but speaking of suits not that you know because clearly my opinion matters in all of this but i'm pro suit for what it's worth i think it's cool that's a little bit of decorum i've always appreciated that the uh the baseball players you're not talking to tv show no yeah i thought i was talking about the prince's wife. I do. Actually, that is a good show, by the way. But I always appreciated the baseball players. It's like they're wearing slacks, basically. It's like they dressed up.

Like their uniform was classy. It is an odd uniform. It is. It's not like, I'm not saying it's the most optimal athletic wear, but like as opposed to like a t-shirt or a jersey and shorts, like a basketball game, which I understand. It's like, no, they're going out and they look dressed up.

I'm wearing pants and a button-up and a belt. You know, it's not a sport. My shirt's tucked in. It's not a sport. It's a pastime. It's not a sport. Okay, real quick. Real quick, Jeff. Jeff, I feel like you wore your socks up.

I didn't. Did you wear pants down? I was pants't. I didn't. You didn't? You were pants down? I was pants down. I was all about the baggy pants. I loved that. Ah. Yeah.

Throwing a heat. Yeah. Yeah. I think Jeff's our first collegiate ball player to be on the show. Yeah. Hey, my busy schedule just had to clear to be on here. I don't know about this. Were you a pitcher? Yeah, I was a relief pitcher. Yeah. Hey, my busy schedule. I don't know about this. Were you a pitcher?

Yeah, I was like a relief pitcher. Yeah. A relief pitcher. Did you have any shoulder issues from that? Not really. I mean, like there were, I remember like times where like in season, I'd be like, oh man, like my arms tired. Like, but yeah, nothing, nothing lingering afterwards, which is. So there's not like an arm injury called

like the Jeff Biggie surgery he was gonna get Tommy John's but instead he got Jeff Biggie's where they take your pinky toe and attach it you need a sixth finger throw your change up better yeah the Biggie ball

it's like a knuckleball, but slower. It's the other way. Oh, man. Next slide. Next slide. Oh, gosh. Let's see.

Do we want to talk about the Brady roast? You just talked about that. I was not tracking this at all. It was not on my radar. I don't know if we can talk about it. Yeah, I didn't see it in Cops or Fops. I had no idea i was watching the golden knight stars game finishes and i'm like in that like in between

limbo we're like i should go to bed but i'm not really tired yet i just need to turn on like a a dumb show for 20 minutes then go to bed and i go to netflix and it's like live brady roast oh what is the whole thing i didn't i watched the last hour and i don't think i can quote a single thing from it no i cannot believe the things that people were saying like it was unbelievable comedy's back yeah gronk comedy's back gronk spiked a shot glass like robert craft was getting made fun of for massage parlors like it was absolute mayhem is devastating brady admitted to cheating and deflate gate and said the nfl should just given him 20 million instead of like you know playing for the investigation randy moss is like dude why

couldn't you cheat while i was there? I mean, it was just and those are the only safe things I could say. Yeah, it was devastating. Yeah. Did you watch the whole thing? I watched not the whole thing, but like most of it. Yeah, like on Twitter the next day. Yeah, yeah. I like watch different people. Tony

Hinchcliffe is brutal. Yeah, he's so good at roasts. He's so good. I didn't know there was this whole like roast community. That's all they do. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, what's his name?

Jeff Ross. Jeff Ross. Yeah. Yeah. He's classic. Yeah. We're, I saw there's a guy with like really were in it,

right? Like long hair, like peaky blinders, but shaved on the bottom of the mustache. Yeah. Um, like I forgetting his Sean, maybe bottom with a mustache. Yeah. How am I forgetting his name? Sean, maybe?

Andrew Schultz. Yeah, Andrew Schultz. Sean, Jeff gets it. Thor, Star Wars. Star Wars. Peyton Manning came on. He was the last one. I thought Ben Affleck was a great lineup. Oh, it was unreal.

And Peyton goes, and of course Peyton's just like wholesome and stuff. And I'm like, this guy's like just the salt of the earth. And then Brady says, like, sometimes you live in Denver. Sometimes you live in Louisiana, but you'll always live in my shadow. And I was like, oh, that's pretty good. It was brutal. It was brutal. And also not safe for work.

No. N-S-F-W. But it was funny, though brutal and also not safe for work no nsfw no but it was funny though it was funny i liked it it was just no holds barred you know wild that's good wild roasted comedy's back no no one got canceled that's what i'm that's what i'm saying i know i know that's what i'm saying it was brutal and no one got canceled i'm like thank you yeah well not yet i mean it just aired last night i'm sure sure. Yeah, give it time. They'll just roast that person on the next roast. I've been tweeting about

canceling those people. Oh, yeah, dude. I usually start those trends. The trends pick it up. I'm a big cancel guy. Yeah. If you pull the thread on all those, it all leads back to Trey Gottlich 3 or whatever

wait a minute that's not appropriate cancel this guy yeah trey gets offended very easily he said baseball's not a sport it's a past time hey if you can do tobacco and play at the same time. Yeah. That's called war. No, that is true. That's true. Best team sport. I'm wrong. Best team sport.

Checkmate. There's a baseball bat on the Ukrainian-Russia border. Ready? Go. There was a guy that threw a no-hitter on LSD hitter on lsd like back in the 80s there's a good google like lsd no hitter like in youtube there's all these like shorts that like highlight like have like interviews of him quoting like yeah and at one point like i was hallucinated and uh like richard nixon was it bad and i like it was like he just has all these like freak outs and it was just epic. It's good. It's good. I just found it.

It's like Doc Ellis. Doc Ellis. It's really no hitters. No hitters. Just like people get on base still like he yeah, so he like walked a bunch of people on the list. They still got a hit. I'll break it down for you since you're

a church gun man. The way my pastor broke down first John to today. Trey, I'll break it down for you since you're a church-going man, the way my pastor broke down 1 John 2 today. He said, now when John says antichrist, he means they're antichrist. So no hits, no hits. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, I knew that. That resonates.

Yeah. That resonates with you. Got it. Thanks, Pastor Corey. There he is. Potential sponsor. Potential sponsor. Brushy Creek Baptist Church LSD. LSD pitcher and

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where you may not always be sure about the weight you're putting on the bar. I mean. Meaning that there is sometimes a little more play in the weight you're putting on the bar i mean meaning that there is sometimes a little more play in that the weight of that 45 pound plate that you're pulling from a company that shall not be named ah amen i mean do you like do you worry about it no can you even do that oh well i have my thoughts i'm curious what trey thinks maybe so you've as far as yeah like whenever i go on the road, I don't know where Luis is traveling.

So it might be a little bit more difficult for him. He's in Venezuela, which is America to the south. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The first thing I always do, kind of as I'm setting my travel schedule, is I just, I Google barbell gyms. I go barbell gyms, Tulsa, barbell gyms, Oklahoma barbell gyms tulsa barbell gyms oklahoma city wherever i'm going and then i kind of will then plan my stay relatively close to that and then i get my schedule is fortunate i don't know what his schedule looks like but i'm fortunate enough to where i can kind of

finish my day shoot off some emails and then kind of the last thing i do is i'll go to the gym before i grab you know grab dinner on the way back it's kind of the way i I do is I'll go to the gym before I grab, grab dinner on the way back is kind of the way I do it. But I don't know, as far as I mean, I schedule that's tough. I, I definitely, it's a priority,

I guess is what short answer what I'm trying to try to make it. I actually think you hit the root cause of the problem, which doesn't really answer his question. But the real thing is, is if you're training or if you're, if you travel for work, you have to make training a priority or you'll never have success, right?

If you travel once in a while, yeah, skip your workout, whatever. But if you're like Trey and every other week, you're in a different city, then you have to make training the priority. Where I think that Luis is getting a little bit caught up is he's worried about, hey, if I put 345s on each side of the bar

and I'm trying to do progressive overload and get stronger and go up by five pounds, is 315 actually 15? At my house where I have strength coat plates, it's 315. But maybe here, these are 42 pound 45s and it's off. And what I would say is don't worry about that. Just go train. Like if it's five pounds too heavy, who cares?

If it's five pound twos light, also who cares? Like if you are supposed to do 315 and you load what is stated as supposed to be 315, I promise you it's still going to be hard if that's the next work weight you're going to go. Maybe the plates are way off. Maybe it's 302 and a half pounds. But like the win is that you prioritize

while you're traveling to go in and train. And if it was a little bit too light, then you go back to your home gym and 320 crushes you. I don't think that minutia is what to worry about. What I would say, if you're traveling on the road and you're doing progressive overload, the one thing that you can do is buy a pair of 1.25s that we make, or you could buy even smaller and have a pair of micro plates. Cause most gyms won't have below two and a half. Some won't even have below fives. So then you can at least try that they're light enough to go in your gym bag. And you can, if you're pressing add, you know, make a two and a half pound jump. But I don't

think if you're traveling on the road, um, you don't need to be so worried about, is this actually 205 pounds or is it 207 or is it 209? Like it doesn't matter. Go train. You know what 15 hard reps feel like. If you walk out three 15 and you're like, you know, Oh,

these weights must be light. Let me see if I can add a five on each side for my second set. But don't dig for an excuse of, oh, I'm not going to train because the plates are probably not accurate. You know, just go in there and lift. I bet it kind of evens out. After a while, you're like, oh, you made a five-pound jump, then a six-pound jump, then a three-pound jump,

then a seven-pound, and then a five pound and then a five and then a six. It's like going up. Yeah. And if you go in, if you're doing progressive overload and you're like somewhat of a beginner, let's say you are supposed to do three 15 for five. Let's say the plates are heavy and it's three 25 and you get five,

four, four. What do you do? Just do a double at the end, double it. And now you got your 15 reps and you move on. Or just tell louise just dude just buy what that was gonna be my advice buy buy a set of all the plates and just travel

promoted at your job do better at work you get a bigger salary and you just travel on the road with strength go plates what's so hard about check the bag. Check the bag. You should make strength coat, 45 pound plate carrying bags. That'd be beautiful. Two or three in each ones with handles. Boom. You make ones that folds. That would also be done.

You want me to make a Navy ship, Jeff? Yeah, I think that's really, I think things, right. Can you make me a kitchen table grant? That's how that works.

Have strings go all over it. Yeah, that's right. All right. What's the next one? Okay. So the next one kind of, you kind of touched on, I think maybe what your answer might be for this one a little bit. So it's kind of a good compliment to this one.

So Christopher's asking, is there anything wrong with adding more weight to your work set if you feel you can do more? So Christopher is asking, is there anything wrong with adding more weight to your work set? If you feel you can do more also in the event that if the weight is too heavy, how much weight should you remove to the bar to finish the set? Those are very different though. I feel like Trey amateur. Someone say their opposite first.

Do we have an, is he, is he just running like the answer? Just running the novice program. This is, this is why it's nice to be in the Slack channel and see behind the curtain. I happen to know that Christopher is an intermediate. Jersey cop.

And he's about 220 pounds. He's down about 1015. Did our nutrition consult and he and got some good gains there. Nice. And so, well, I'll let Trey answer, and then I'll say my thoughts. But no, he's an intermediate. He ran out novice, and now he's running a program. Man, I would say, to me, let's do the first part.

If you add weight to the first, first one, I don't know, to me, I would just say, run what you have on your program. And then if it feels good, then maybe make a bigger jump next time. Yeah. I think, I think that's good advice. I mean, I think that the big thing for intermediate programming, right? So people want to beat up starting strength because, Oh, you can't just add five pounds forever. No, you can't, but you run five pounds until you can't. And guess what? Now you're an intermediate and now you just have to do a program. And what you can't do is jump around all over the place. So if you're running a 12 week program and it starts out, you know, five by five

at 72% of your one rep max, that might feel kind of easy. Hey, just ride with it. Like it's going to accumulate over time. You're strong. Yeah. Um, just ride with it. And then if you are feeling, you know, super strong at the end of it, you know, if you have like a testing day, like when we do on all of our, our programs that we run, it'll show itself there. Um, but once you're, yes, you need to learn how to grind, be in pain, add five pounds where you don't want to and go through that. But once you're an intermediate, like every session doesn't have to be like bone on bone. I'm about to crap my pants squatting, right? Like every, every deadlift doesn't have to be squatting. Yeah. I mean, it's motivation to stand back up what was the second half

should you know the second one is off how yeah and how much yeah so like say like all right you hit your first set and it's supposed to be a five by five and you go into that first set and you hit a four and you're like oh like maybe you're gassed that day or just for some reason first set goes off the rails what do you recommend yeah then back it off yeah so i think if you're gassed that day or just for some reason, first set goes off the rails. What do you recommend? Yeah. Back it off. Yeah. So I think if you're a novice and you're running that novice linear progression, then my answer is usually like collect 15 reps.

So maybe a four, four, three, three, one. Right. Something like that. Like get like get what you're supposed to get if you're an intermediate and you're having a bad day or you know like today i was going in squatting and i was doing 355 for five by five and we were having some issues with some software and like my phone just kept ringing during my workout and uh i was just like i did three sets at 355. I was like, I'm just taking this down to 335. Like, I'm like, so not mentally into this. I'm busy when people could make arguments,

shouldn't bring your phone to the gym, all that stuff. But like, it is what it is. And so I'm like, I'm just gonna take 20 pounds off where I know it's still gonna be kind of challenging, but it's fine. I don't think there's any hard, fast rule on like how much to take off if it's hard. But I think at the end of

the day, if you've ever run some type of linear progression, you know, what hard feels like. And if you want weight training to produce an impact in results, it has to be hard. And so if you do a top set and it totally gassed you, you didn't sleep last night because you have two new twins, Ray and joy, and they were screaming all night and you're exhausted hey i'm gonna do my back i'm now i'm gonna do two back offsets what did you do your top set at 335 okay 300 still gonna be hard but it's also like you're not gonna be like can i do this can i not i mean i think yeah it's still gotta be difficult like it still has to be difficult but every five, especially if you're a recreational lifter lifting just for general health, you're not prepping for a powerlifting meet.

Every rep five doesn't have to be brace. Oh my goodness. Am I going to be able to come up? Right? Like you're allowed to take a rep five down and be like, oh yeah, I got this. You know, that's okay. The only time I've gone up from that, which I usually don't, I mean, most of the time I'm not like that was way too easy. That's not usually what happens.

But the only time I've done that is when like you had programmed me a, uh, a press PR like YOLO press. I think that was the correct term, the technical term for it. Thank you. And, uh, I hit, I hit, like, I, I hit it and I was like, dude, I think that wasn't a PR. I think that was like, I got more in the tank and I rested some time and, uh, ended up, I just added five pounds to it and hit that too. But that was like a rare circumstance. Yeah, no, I think if you're, it's like, we have a bunch of guys, like 35 guys this week in the Slack channel that are testing out. And what I tell them is, what's your PR on the bench? Trey says, it's 240.

Warm up and do 245. Make a baby PR. Yeah. If it takes you 12 seconds to press that thing off your chest, you're done. If it went fast, I don't know. I'm not there with you, but maybe make a five-pound jump. Maybe make a 10-pound jump. Let's say you make a five-pound jump. Do 250. pound, but let's say make a five pound jump to two 50.

Oh, that was pretty fast too. Okay. Like what do you want here? You've already hit two PRs. You should be very, very happy. Like I'm going to go for it all. I'm gonna try two 65. Okay, good. Go for it. Boom. You fail. Who cares? You made two PRS, but you know, yeah. And a testing day or a singles day. Yeah, for sure. Especially as an intermediate. I mean, I've had days where I've been pressing and say, okay, I'm supposed to do whatever two 30 on the press. And I do, I'm like, man,

that feels good. I'm like, there's not a lot of days. I can come in here and press more than two 30. Like I'm going to go ahead and do two 37 and a half. Right. But that's a little bit different. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. Going back to the first part of that question would be like if you're especially if you're like an intermediate lifter i'd be like uh kind of savor those days where it does kind of feel easier amen brother the difficulty is right around the corner it's like it's the next workout training sessions away yeah like you're gonna you're gonna be grinding here

soon enough so like savor those opportunities for sure. Good questions, though. Yeah. Luis, and who's the other one? Christopher. Christopher. Yeah. Thanks, guys.

The two I pulled from the ones we got submitted, I can grab another one if we want. No, it's good. I'll just recycle last week's that I kind of answered. I'm curious what Trey thinks. Jeff Graham, lifter out of Georgia, hosts a podcast called the Yeoman Podcast. I've been lifting for like three or four years. Also, big Murph guy, Jeff. Jeff, J-E-F-F. Jeff, J-E-O-F-F, is also a big Murph guy. Every year he trains with it with his son. And he always thinks like I discussed it. He's like, I'm always embarrassed to tell Graham to Murph. I'm like, dude, I'm pro Murph.

I'm like pro Murph. Murph's great. The only year I discussed it was like your first year when you just started lifting. And I just thought like you should just keep squatting. Like you're strong as a house now. Like go do Murph. I don't care. There's tons of people in this world. Yeah.

But yeah, those who do Murph. Pro Murph and anti. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anti Murph, Pastor Corey. That means they're anti Murph. people in this world yeah but yeah those who do yeah yeah yeah yeah anti-murf pastor cory that means they're anti-murf um people are people anti-christ no people anti-murf like i feel like there's like people who don't want to do it but then are they like actually no i don't know i don't think they're anti-murf i think you should not honor that fallen navy seal

no i think the first year he was asking me about doing MRF, and he was like four weeks into lifting. And I was like, he was like, how do I tailor my MRF training? I was like, who's anti? Typical anti-MRF Grant. Typical Marine just hating on the SEALs. Trey, we did have a spot last week. Someone asked a MARSOC question. I'll get back to Jeff

and his question saying it, but someone asked a MARSOC question and I was like, you know, like Special Forces, JSOC, they have money in the Army. We have the Green Berets, Marines. We have MARSOC and Coast Guard or who has the paratroopers or parajumpers? Air Force. Air Force has the paratroopers or para jumpers air force air

force has a pair of jumpers like the navy what does the navy have and jeff's like the seals and i was like oh that's funny that i forgot about the seals oh yeah anyway up there marketing yeah seriously uh those footprints on the beach with the wave going over so good that's a good one A lot of ship painters were recruited by that commercial. He asked top three Still in the Navy. Top three revolutionary heroes

of the South. Yeah. And that can be interpreted different ways. Of the South? Yeah. So Revolutionary War lived Of the South? Yeah. So Revolutionary War. Yeah.

Yeah. Lived in the South, Southern colonies. Yeah, I mean. I just want to make sure I knew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're good, you're good. No idea? No.

So I said Francis. I said Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox. Swamp Fox. Number one battle deal. And then I said Patrick Keene. Then I said, Marion, the Swamp Fox, number one battle deal. And then I said Patrick Keene. Go ahead. Was that Mel Gibson's character? Yes, loosely.

Kind of like how. Loosely? Heck no, that's exactly historically accurate. What's the black mask guy? Whitey Bulger, kind of like how The Departed, that was Whitey Bulger. But, you know, Winter yeah but i said uh i said uh swamp fox francis uh and then i said um patrick henry give me liberty give me death which jeff didn't like that answer because he meant like war battle heroes i meant that heroes like i didn't give me liberty give me death you know

kind of deal what is specific regional question yeah and then william moultrie south carolina day carolina day uh we want to battle and then i mean if you really want to go deep into it we could say the citadel cadets firing on star of the west january 1961 i don't know i was gonna say texas wasn't around yet so yeah well i was hoping you were gonna say something about like the Alamo. Yeah. That's what Cinco de Mayo is about, right?

Davey Crockett. Uh, yeah. Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone. William Barrett. William Barrett. Travis.

Yeah. All those guys. Those guys. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with Grant. His, I think you picked him good yeah

yeah if you got lifting questions call grant if you got star wars questions call grant if you got a revolutionary war question of the southern specific southern states yeah southern states only yeah just call grant here let me give out his phone number real quick. No, no, no. So thanks, Jeff, G-E-O-F-F, Joff. Christopher, New Jersey Cop, and Luis, who has to-go plates in South America. For your questions, join the Stranco Slack channel and come ask your question. Nice. We got any slides left or you want to push? I think that's about it on the slides.

Let me just let me circle back. See if we got any saved rounds. Save rounds. Jeff, how's your lifting? Lifting has been alright. It's mostly been deadlifts

been cruising along, pressing bench. What are you pulling these days? Last session was 370 for five. Get your fives back. Really want to get back up to over 400. But yeah, we got a...

Kaylee and I are going down on Thursday to Zion to do this Ragnar trail relay ah ragnar race exactly thor is going to be there he's on our team uh originally it was like just like a women's team that kaylee was signed up for and then they had i think a few people drop out jeff put on they're like okay so we need yeah i'm gonna wear a wig uh no so they opened up to like a mixed team um because they had a bunch of people drop out so we're going down there can i say something real quick jeff that's a typical progressive sports

just running don't look at that oh my goodness what i thought that was velvet for a second. Draped in velvet. Jeff. It's a good piece. I got a good save round. I have another good one. You go first. You go first.

You sure? No, I'll go first. I'll go first. You go first. Grant, what's your thoughts on this? Kendrick Lamar,

Drake beef. Dude, but I'm so sick of keep it up with that. But I'm so sick of seeing it on my timeline. I don't even know what it is. I know it's like a map and pictures of the house and people telling Drake to go home. I think Drake rear-ended Kendrick Lamar's car and left without giving insurance. Really?

I have no idea. That's not what happened to you yeah fender bender super offended by that what i care a lot about this beef you can't be making light of it yeah grant's super offended by this he had to i had to leave. I had to leave. I'm a big Kendrick Lamar guy. Collect his huge. Well, I assume Kendrick Lamar is an American. He's American, right? Yes. And Drake's and Drake's can West Coast. He's from America's hat.

Yeah, Toronto. So go Kendrick. Love it. That's I mean, that's that solves that. I mean, I love you guys know this, but the greatest sport still being played is called war. Greatest team sport. Yeah, greatest team sport there is.

Okay, podcast potential sponsor, Kendrick Lamar. Not yours. Yeah. I was thinking you were saying the United States government for war. I was like, war? We are going after those DOD contracts. What is it good for? I just wanted to draw

a line in the sand and just make sure we're all team Kendrick. Team America. Same draft complete. My save round was, because you've been gone so long, Trey, I went fishing by myself a week ago

Saturday. Not the first time I've been fishing by myself, but when I go by myself, honestly, my expectation is zero. I'm like, I will catch nothing, but I will learn, and I will be in outdoors. And I don't know if you guys know this. I'm a big conservationist. Is this what you say to yourself? Whatever you do, I will learn.

I will learn fish things. So usually when I go by myself, I go to kind of like the easier rivers, like meaning like you pull up and like everyone pulls up and like, there's a trail while it defined you go in. And you know, when I go with the guide after I've been with him a few times, he'll take me to like more remote places where it's like you park and you're

like, where did I park? Like, I think there's a trail here. this isn't really a trail it's no longer a trail you get down to the river and you're like uh all right i need to i'll remember what that rock formation looks like i won't remember what that rock formation looks like like let me let me build a little ebenezer here you need gps dude dude there's no service in there just completely drops out this particular place that i can't name yeah handheld garment i need to send you one send it uh yeah to all the listeners if you have if you have two to three hundred dollar items that you want to send to my house just uh dm us the okay pod and say grant what's your address? And we accept gifts year round. Garmin, potential sponsor. Yeah, Garmin, potential sponsor.

Anyway. Potential sponsor. Every time I've gone fishing, I think I've left the house before seven and come home after six. Because there's like an hour drive each way. And I'm like, all right. So I tell Diane, I'm like, I'm on fishing. I'm going to be back midday. We'll do X.

And so I'm like, all right, I got like four hours of fish time. So I get on the water about like 8.15. I'm like looking at the stuff, and I'm like, all right, the sun's not out. I don't see bugs. I'm just going to high stick and nymph like this area. I rig up when I think is right. I wade down in like fourth calf bam and i catch a fish you know like four inches long like tiny it's a good feeling though yeah connor loves to make

fun of like my small fish feelings and immediately i'm like the day is one like i could fish for four hours and not catch another thing but i came out by myself in the wilderness and caught a wild trout. Like the day is one. Keep high sticking. Boom. Another fish. Another fish. I had four in like the first 45 minutes.

I'm like, this is pretty cool. The bite is on. Fish is on. So I'm walking upstream and I see the sun coming out and the sun's coming out and like i start to see like bugs i'm like all right i'm gonna do a dry dropper i'll use the dry flies the top as my indicator drop a nymph down below i'll try and just like work the swing if it doesn't work i'll just high stick it and like boom attacks the dry and it's like not a huge, I mean, it's like a probably 12 to 14 inch brown, but it's like a nice fish.

It's like when it bites, which also first one I've caught off a dry fly. And like the way they hit the dry fly is like a whole different feeling. Cause like when you're high sticking, you feel it and you have to set, like when they hit the dry, they hit the dry.

They're like, boom, they yoked it. There's nothing like it. Is it a top water? Yeah. I lift up and I'm like, oh, this is like a real fish. I'm like, I'm letting it go. I finally get it on the reel and I'm going to pull them in. Then also, fly fishing by yourself.

You have to take a picture of it. Not for me. It's tricky. Not for the internet. Only for the guide. Because I've told the guide I'm going fishing. And I know at like 7 p.m. when he gets off the water, he's going to text me and go, how to go, bud?

And so I'm like, this is actually like a good fish. Like, I got to take a picture. So I'm like working it in. But then I'm like, I can't let this thing break off. Like, I have to like, I have to get it. I get my net. Boom. I scoop them.

And then like, I'm way steep in water. The current's rushing. So like, I put the net like between them and then like I'm waist deep in water the currents Russian so like I put the net like between my crotch I'm like trying to hold it and I'm like what do I do with my rod my phone's like inside my poncho potential sponsor shirt I'm like holding the rod and then like finally get the phone out there's like water on you you're like the net's almost falling you're like how do I I'm gonna'm going to grab the fish. It's going to go crazy. It's so stressful. It's so stressful. It's like, I get the photo and it was perfect. And I just like casual, right? Like I'll get to the rest of the fishing trip in a minute, but like,

I'm just like, get it, you know, go home. John texted me. Hey buddy, how'd it go? I'm like, Oh, decent day. Send them like six photos. Like, you know, the big one first. Like, oh, yeah, no big deal. I just casually took some photos of some of the fish I caught.

Was he excited for you? Oh, he was pumped. Oh, it's like better than like your dad being proud of you. It's like, you know. Yeah, it's like the guide is like, you did it. You were on your own. But anyway, so I caught, I caught nine. And I actually caught 11.

Two, I got like right up and was doing the whole trying to take a photo thing and they broke off. I still kind of count those. But nine, I like touched. And yeah, it was a good day. We'll call it a 10. We'll call it even 10. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll call it 10. It's a good feeling. Like, so what would you say you always everyone has like their confidence baits or lures that you throw so is yours like is it the nymph you know what i mean yeah high sticking a nymph is what i feel like like you're you're by no means good at it but i'm like hey fast moving water around structures float the bubble line high stick it that's my thing. Yeah, I'd call that your confidence bait.

So it's always a good feeling. Like if you throw your – like my confidence bait is like a Texas rig, weightless Senko, right? So it's like a worm. What makes it a Texas rig? The way you hook it. Senko's the lure. Senko's the lure that you use.

I thought that was five in Spain. Yeah, I thought that was five. And then, yeah, so that's always my confidence. But then when you throw something else that you're like, hey, I'm going to try this out and you catch a fish, you're like, oh, that feels so much better. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I was high-sticking and I caught them and I caught these little fish. So then after I caught the decent-sized one off the top dry, I I was like I'm just switching to total dries because I'd gone out with my oldest brother Jeremy and he had been like dude you don't fish dries I'm like I don't know man I started fishing in the winter like this is what the guy said to do fishing being the fast moving water to stay warm and move around like and so he was like working with me and so then I then I fished drives for like the last two hours and caught three or four and that's that was that was cool because it was new yeah

and uh and it's completely different because you put it out there and it's like the fish are rising and they're just like grabbing it and i the funny thing to me is i could catch a fish smaller than my thumb and i'm just like hell yeah i don't even care about the size like this is amazing so anyway good day good save round this is inspiring inspiring yeah uh any save save rounds Bruins are up 3-1 last I checked yeah yeah the bees coming off yep they're doing good

uh any save save rounds I got nothing here Trey for two weeks you've been gone raising chillins which we appreciate um well we've Trey for two weeks you've been gone raising chillins which we appreciate um well we've we've kind of kicked it back and forth and around but

it's it's back to where it all started yeah thank god you're back that's right uh sweating bullets maybe just maybe just kind of tell them like you know where they could find us we appreciate their support you know yeah stuff truth back on true social

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We don't know. Big guest next week. Big guess. Huge following on the internet. Huge. I'm excited for this one. Yeah, it's not Jocko Wilnick. We're trying to pencil him in.

He keeps bugging us. He keeps bugging us. Won't stop. Can't stop. Won't stop. We're busy. Yeah. As always,. Can't stop. Won't stop. We're busy. Yeah. As always, thanks for tuning in.

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