The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP. 100: The 100th Episode Special feat. PJ, Tanner & Connor

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

The Okay Podcast hits Episode 100.Grant Broggi, Jeff Buege, and Tres Gottlich break down everything happening in the strength world — from the Arnold Fitness Expo to the ongoing debate around real strength standards.Guests PJ, Tanner Baird, and Connor King join the show to talk about:• The Arnold Expo experience• The evolution of gym culture• Strength standards for everyday lifters• Garage gyms vs commercial gyms• Building equipment companies and fitness platforms• Why consistency matters more than hypeThe guys also discuss the reality of hitting big lifts like a 500 lb deadlift and what it actually takes to get there.Episode 100 also marks a milestone for the show — and a look back at what it takes to keep a podcast going for the long haul.Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ksCheck out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.comBUY A FOOTBALL HELMET:⁠https://www.thestrength.co/mrhelmet/?utm_source=The+Okay+Podcast&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Okay_PodTimestamps: 00:00 - Pre Show07:39 - Outlying Stations Join & STAFF BRIEF26:46 - Tanner Questions, The Arnold & Gym Radar57:27 - PJ Questions, Producing 100 Episodes, Moving Home01:14:33 - Leveling Gym Floors 01:25:34 - New USMC Height & Weight Standards01:32 - NADS01:40:19 - Lincoln’s Flag01:43:32 - RIP Lou Holtz01:49:38 - Conditioning Standards01:55:40 - Sign Off

tweet. How many people are watching live? 69,000 people are watching live on the internets. And that's why they call it Starlink. No pressure. No pressure. Let me go to profile here. From New York.

Oh, man. That was a funny episode last weekend. If you're already tuned in, I see there's a lot tuned in. Just give us a second. We're almost ready. And now we are ready. If you're watching on Twitter, excuse me, X previous knows Twitter, this is the pre-show. Very few people see the pre-show. It's usually me, Trey, and Jeff. Very few people see the post show, but now the pre-show is available to you

live every week on X. That's how we've always done it. Yeah. We've never not done it that way. That's true. That's just, it's, it's, it's, what we do. It's what we do. All right. Props are ready. Tray's ready. Jeff's ready. We're recording. We're live. All right. And welcome back to episode 100. 100. That's right. 100. We don't say 100. That would be a bingo. If you don't know a bingo means you're not listening to show. You're not doing your due diligence. This is episode 100. Okay. When you get to the hundreds, you say the numbers out. When you're not at 100,

you would say, 9-0-0-15. And we have said numbers for a long time. There was episode 0-0-1, 002, there was episode 0-6-9, there was episode 0-7-5.

You're supposed to say nice there. But we are on episode 100 of the... Okay. Okay. Okay. Podcast powered by the Shrenko. I'm your host, Rogi. Today's date is

Tuesday, March the 10th in the year of our Lord, 2026. The price of Bitcoin is currently $6,8809.71. We're doing just fine. If you're worried about the future, watch the futures of oil. That's where the interesting

stuff is. There's some landman in Texas right now who's probably really happy watching oil just pump. Probably a landman in the Middle East to. who might have different opinions. But oil's crazy. Bitcoin's doing just fine.

I hope you bought the dip. Don't you worry about Bitcoin. You remember 100 episodes ago, Bitcoin was at 41,000. Now we're at 69,000. Nice. Kind of fitting. As I said,

we're recording live from Costa Mesa, California. I am in Coast of Mesa, California. For those that are still confused and call and ask if you can get coached in Greenville or Okinawa, Japan, or Australia. My butt is. in Southern California. It's 75 degrees and gases $5 a gallon. Don't come here. Okay. It's terrible. Stay in Texas looking at steers and enjoying the heat. All right. That's where you belong. We have a lot to talk about. It's a special episode. Episode 100. As I've said,

in studio, I have Mr. Jeff Bougier. Biggie for you non-French types. He's currently not in a drilling status. He's a major of Marines. He's a battery command. not all of us can say that for much longer. He's a battery commander of Nacho Battery 514 up in Seal Beach. But he comes to us tonight from the Greater Salt Lake City area. Also on the line

is Robert Trace Gottlitch the 3rd. Trace. Try to teach Siri to call Tris. Good luck. His name is Trey. But in Texas, they spell that T-R-E-S. And he is joining us from

It's your favorite city. Eden, Texas. There's probably an Eden. I know it exists because I had a Texan call me wanting to buy plates. Is this Grant? Last of check. Outside of college station. I was going to order some plates.

I said, oh, okay. Have you been to the website? Yeah, I don't do websites. Okay, well, I'm driving right now. Can I let me put, well, no, I'm about to go to the Sam's Club. Let me go to the Sam's Club quick. And I'm going with my wife. We got to pick up some milk.

And when I come back from Sands Club, I'll call you. And then I'll place more than. Okay? Okay, sir. Yeah, no problem. Yeah, I'll call back. Don't worry. I run a ranch.

And I know when you feel like you've got a big sale coming and they don't come through. I'm going to come through. I'm going to call you back. I'll go to Sam's Club in about 45 minutes a show. And I'll call you back. Okay, sir. Thanks. Ring, ring, ring, ring.

That's a warning order is what we call that. Warning order. Grant Warning order. Grant misses it. I call back. Hello. Yeah. I'm looking for Bob.

Okay, hang on. Let me see if I can get them. The phone don't reach that far. Hang on a second. Phone gets put down in the corner. Oh, hey, I called back at Bailey. It took in about 50 minutes. We lost a lot of free samples of Sam's Club.

Anyway, I'm ready to place some order for some weight. By the way, I was Googling you. I see your daddy's a preacher. Yeah, he is. Oh, man, I'm going to have to check that out. Lord willing, you know, God gives me another day. Anyway, I appreciate what you do. Thank you for your service, by the way.

Appreciate that. Yeah, no problem. By chance you're an Aggie fan. Oh, yeah, both my boys went there. Real good boys, too. You know, and I say they didn't go into the service or nothing. They just did the Corps of cadets. And that really just set them up for life.

You know what I mean? And they got a lot of good friends out of there. And, yeah, they liked being fish. It was a tough time. I mean, that's rough, you know, their freshman year sounded rough. But I say, you know what? and Anand Ruff is running a ranch, he's a boys. But they do business stuff now, you know, the family business.

But, yeah, my neighbor told me about your plates. He said, y'all make the best plates. And I said, well, isn't he in California? And he said, well, yeah, but they make him in Wisconsin. And I said, well, that's just about as bad, ain't it? And, but anyhow, yeah, I'm looking forward to him. And, hey, you want my credit card number? You need, like, mother's made name, social or anything?

No, sir, just a credit card number. remember okay yeah appreciate you man bye you're gonna give out his credit card number on that's part of that that's where that's where tray's 's broadcasting from yeah I love it from Eden Texas Eden Texas anyway salt to the earth the topic from a few weeks back of Texas rancher yeah yeah yeah that was that that was it

I might have messed it up if that guy's listened to the podcast there seems to be more and more people listen to the podcast. If that guy's listen to the podcast right now, I may have butchered that a little bit. My mother said I was a good embellisher. And so that's what I am. You're a talented storyteller. That's all that means. No, that's Nolan Hickey. That is, well, no one's the best. No one's the best.

Before I kick it over to three, looks like I got some outlying stations ready to come in. I'm going to start letting the outline. stations in, Outline stations, Outline stations, Iran. We've just done the preamble. We know that Trays in Texas, Jeffson, Gras, Salt Lake City, Price, Bitcoin, $6,9,000.

This is episode 100. We're excited to be here. And with that, I'll turn it over to the three. Okay. Quick staff brief here. We got a lot of things to do and a short time to get there. So we're going to kick it over

the one. What do you got for us? Per Stats, how we look in. Are the numbers bumping? That's you, Trey. Oh, is it still me? Even with all these people in? Okay. Sir, yeah, as far as the numbers have been bumping, still bumping. Nothing for the group, really. Good brief. Great.

Yeah, gosh, sweet. Trash six here. Just going to say, thanks for what you do, one shop. I know y'all are, you're overworked, underpaid. and underappreciated, but I appreciate you. You tell Lance Corporal Featherweather ran into him in the gym last week. He's a motivator. You tell him trash six, I appreciate it's what he does, okay?

Oh, yes, sir. Okay, moving along, moving along. S2, Intel, what do we got? Anything going on in the world anywhere? That's you, PJ. This is where you talk about the Jews. Ah, okay. Yeah, that's me.

Anything going on the world? Not a lie going on the world. Really kind of a boring time. I scroll my X-Feed and I just see pictures of little bunny rabbits and cute animals and it's kind of boring. Other than that, I do have a couple charts that I prepared for them. Let's see if I can share my screen really quick. I got recent intel on the amount of trash. Hey, real quick, trash sticks here.

Do we need to take our watches off? Just make sure there's no Bluetooth. Do we need to take our watches off, make sure there's no Bluetooth, you know. Are you about to share secret information or just, you know, just confidential? Confidential. Well, it was supposed to be classified, but the classifier is actually on leave right now. Classifier. Okay.

It's not really how that works, but we get it, dude. She's fresh out of the schoolhouse. Go ahead. Continue with the brief. Kind of believable. Yeah. So if you could see here, the charts actually down to the left. Okay.

And this is this is a mound of trash and this is time. So that's where we're tracking right now. Wait, so Y-axis is trash? Yes, that's amount of trash. Okay, and then X-axis time. Let me write that down real quick. All right, I got it. Yeah, proceed.

Hey, real quick, dudes. I appreciate that. I heard you got the laminator running. Let's get these printed out next week and laminated for everybody. and this is the country. I'd also like to see the world, particularly the Middle East. We've got a lot of business over there.

So just expand, you know, the web. Let's see what you can do for us. And what inject for you, Deuce, when we eliminate these, can we go ahead and make sure they get placed in front of every urinal in the, in like the, like a five-mile radius? We want to make sure that every urinal

has something that someone can read while they're peeing. Absolutely, sir. I will do that. I'm not sure if we need to add that to the toilets as well. And if you're in Japan, they have those electronic toilets that do a lot of different stuff. I don't know if those count as well, but please just know about that. Excellent. Okay. Great.

You have 100 outline stations. Real quick, PJ. I know you're new to the battalion. I know you were here previously in your back, but when you're done briefing, you say nothing for the group. nothing for the Oh, okay, okay. Now I know that's further.

Okay. But for operations, right, hey, we're nested with what Intel is pushing, right? They push us to then drive operations and logistics and supports those operations. And so we're operating with the Intel

and then we're using the logistics to then funnel that operation forward. We're driving forward as a team, one team, one fight. We're all on the same. Real quick here. Same step, the same beat of music.

just remember amateurs talk operations professionals talk logistics carry on yeah so we're just making sure that we're nested everything's nested if you if you look up on the slide here just everything's nested and so just as everyone notes that nothing further for the group s4 over to you talk logistics uh that that's you corporal beard oh great happy to be here in front of the group for the staff briefing My slides might be a little bit out of a

out of date here. I haven't actually updated them since 2012 when I ETS but it's like we say in the South Dakota Army National Guard once an E5 in the South Dakota Army National Guard always an E5 in the South Dakota Army National Guard.

What's my topic? Logistics. Logistics. Beans bullets and band-aids. Yeah, bean, bullets, band-aids, bad guys. I feel a little over my head in this staff brief. So I'm just going to have to mention that I have not much else for the group other than what I prepared here

prior. So nothing much else for the group. Good brief. It's a good staff brief. I just most I mostly came only with sidebars. I don't know what our stance here and this is on sidebars. And this is we keep those to a minimum. Yeah, we try to keep sidebars to a minimum. I see we have someone else that called in. Maybe they're having technical

difficulties. Do they need, King, do you need comm support over there? No, just civilian checking in here. Don't know how I made it into the staff briefing, but I appreciate the invite. Real quick, trash six here. We do things by war fighting function. We just left the four. We'll get to the casualties.

The three, keep driving. Your show, Iron Major. Yeah, very well, very well, yes, sir. Okay, push it along, medical dental. Do we have anybody any updates on our readiness? That's you, Connor. That's basically a civilian. Yeah, yeah. Check it in here.

I'll cover the dental. Make sure you guys are check it in, getting your two times a year visit. We're booked up now. So we don't really have any oncoming availability. But you don't brush your teeth twice a day. That actually sounds like a real.

it did down. We don't have any availability. Just brush your teeth. Yeah. Three, you want to kick it over to the six? Or should we go to outlying stations? S6, we'll just check in real quick. See what you got.

See how those record jackets are doing. I feel like that's a hot button issue. Record jackets. How are those looking six? That's you, Trey. Oh, is it me? I'm also saying, okay. Yes, sir.

As far as record jackets go, we decided to scrap those. They were just, you know, they just became trash. It was just everything was going in. It was all trash. So we scrapped them, recycled them. We're starting all over. Nothing really further for the group, sir.

That's about all I got. Excellent. Excellent. Good brief. Appreciate what you do. Phase Moe in two years. Thanks. I was in a dumpster today. Real story. You know, people think us old hats don't get down there with the boys and do the dirty work.

I was in a dumpster today. And yeah, I appreciate what everyone. one does three wants you take us the outline stations and then we'll start the show okay uh outline stations uh looks like we got billy mitchell congrats on episode on a hundred episodes truly against all odds um that's my buddy's x-o so truly it was against all odds uh yeah yeah that's good oh so he's good friend he knows your buddy very well deep yeah good all very well too well probably more than he would like to Let's see. Just some folks reacting to trash six in a dumpster.

True story. If you're not following us in the OK podcast on Instagram, go check it out. If you're not watching it on YouTube, you're missing Tanner. He's on my radar right now. I literally can see his face. The word radar in a massonomic certified training facility. You're missing Trey. You're missing PJ who like, I don't know.

He must have got like a brand consultant and read it his living room because he's looking pretty bougie. very moody. Looks like a bond villain. Yeah. Kind of want to take a nap. And you're also missing Connor who just has the letter C on the screen.

So he's really getting things done. So go check us out on YouTube or Instagram. BW. Tax just hit me up. He said, always will answer the phone. I can't answer. I'm grinding. He's probably working on your taxes. You, the listener.

We'll get to BW. Tax in a minute. Do we have any more outlying stations? Chaplin did check in. Want to make sure that gets covered. Chaplain here. Busy day in the field. Nothing for the group over. Oh, man.

One quick sidebar. Oh, yeah. Oh, go ahead. Quick sidebar. I was with Chaps this weekend. I did talk to him quite a bit. Really inspirational stuff, although it seemed like he had no idea what's actually going on out in the field.

Typical chaplain. Several verses that he provided that could be helpful, but it just didn't seem like. Yeah, that's what happens when you're in the field. It's tough work for the chaps. Yeah, good sidebar. As long as we're kept to a minimum, we're good. I got a couple, a couple folks.

I got former Cobra 6 known to the group as Captain Dan O'Connell, now Lieutenant Colonel type. Seriously, I can't believe I've listened to this podcast a hundred times, tell everyone to secure the trash. So we appreciate you, Lieutenant Colonel Dan O'Coh, Connell, big Boston guy, probably BW Tax guy. You got any more over there? Are we good?

I have cleared out the inbox. I got nothing. I got nothing for the group. I think we had something from Donnie Bowers. Did I make that up? Nope, I got it here. You day me, Fee, Fee, K. So that was in depth.

So at this point of the show, we usually start the show once we've gotten to the staff brief. Trey has been a big advocate of ending the staff brief. but it turns out that the majority of our listeners just log off after the staff brief. So we got some guests here tonight. We got Jory Long, formerly known as PJ, but he's tonight. He's PJ again. And we got Tanner.

This show is brought to you by BW Tax. I have a gift here for the guys that I got to open. I don't know what's in it. But before I do that, and we'll do this a few times, I think Tanner, you're on the Mount Rushmore, if you will, as a South Dakota of BW tax ads. And there's one thing that has, you know, there's, a few ads that have stuck out and there's a lot of ads where people have just imitated you, which is why you are the Mount Rushmore. And so not imitating yourself, I'd love just a fresh

off-the-cuff ad read. I am going to give you a quick story from this morning that maybe we'll give you some content. Many people have tried to be Tanner Baird and talk about warm bodies and chat bots, but only you have done it the best. I talked to BW this morning and he said, I actually We woke up to a screenshot from them, said, hey, I want tax work, what's your pricing, this kind of deal. And so BW called the guy and he said, yeah, I'm from Connecticut. You know, here's my scenario. He gave, you know, BW a five minute of the ins and outs of, you know, trying to evade the IRS.

And BW said, yeah, well, I can help you. How did you hear about us? And he said, oh, the okay podcast. And BW said he started laughing. And the guy said, well, why are you laughing? He said, I just have an influx of calls. And the guy said, oh, I listen to the podcast. You're kidding, right?

Only Grant's mom listens to it. And BW said, no, like I literally have like an influx of calls. And I pay Grant like thinking it's a joke. And that's just hilarious. And he said, well, what do you know about Grant? I've never met Grant. How is he? and BW said, well, he grew up in South Carolina but falls asleep to the town every night.

So that kind of tells you everything you need to know. So there's some fresh BW tax information for you. And Tanner, I want you to hear this with a podcast ad read. Okay, first thing I'd say about BW tax and the BW tax ad read, I believe I was one of the first, but there's been better ad reads than mine since then. Definitely there's been better ones, but nobody talks. about the second man to walk on the moon or the third man to walk on the moon. They talk about the first to talk about BW attacks.

So that's first thing. Then I would agree. Everyone by now knows about the warm body. You're not getting a chat GPT service. You're not getting Grunk or Gemini or whatever AI has materialized since the first ad read. I don't even know. I think I just said reference chat GPT that time. But it's been like two years.

There's a lot more now. or AI since then, but BW hasn't changed still. Continue to help you from everywhere. We know all that stuff. He's from South Carolina. Can help you from everywhere. But here's what's changed since then. I got the opportunity to sit and break bread with BW since the first time I read an ad read.

And now I can officially say this is a man of character. And a man of character is someone you want when you're looking for someone to do your taxes. It's an important service that he, provides there. It's an important time of year. We're coming up mid March right now. We've got perhaps a month to go. Call BW. Tax. Get that warm body on the phone. Make sure this is the most important part. Use promo code OK when you give them a call, BW. Tax. Yeah, great ad read. Thank you, everyone for slow clapping. I gave Tanner. I asked him to come on tonight and I sent him a little screenshot and BW said, I've got to find it here.

Now he's all upset about Italy beating USA and baseball. But he said, make sure to tell them to use code OK when they're booking meetings with me. So that way they can get an extra warm body. It definitely helps. They move to the front of the line. When I see OK, I literally drop everything I'm doing. So that's the kind of service you get from BWTax. This podcast, 100 episodes strong, the lights are still on.

Jordy's is barely on, but that's by design. But it's also brought to you by green, gridiron, gridiron green. And we just call him Mr. Helmand on the show. A lot of people think it's a joke. And I'll be honest with you. It was a joke for about 50 episodes. And then one day he said, I need to give you money. And I said, that's what we always wanted, was for you to go from a potential sponsor to a sponsor.

So a real paid sponsor. And I got a big box from them right here. And PJ, we got a talk later. I'm a little ticked. My camera's still not working. I got two HTML to mini-H-D-M-A cables. But before I open this box, Connor, you're a football guy,

former football coach. Why don't you tell everyone about Mr. Helmut? Connor, that's you, Connor. He just logged off. Wow, that's gone. That's it. PJ, why don't you tell everyone about Mr. Helmet? Mr. Helmet,

really the best helmet maker in the game, if I'm honest. You know, I was looking for some helmets the other day. I fell down, hit my head, and I thought, wow, I could use a helmet right now. If only I had a helmet, if only there was a guy who was known for making helmets. But anyway, Mr. Helmet, Gritting, Grid Iron, Grid Iron Green, go get your favorite helmet. Any of your favorite team's logos on there with a visor, without a visor, whatever you want.

Everyone knows that you get a visor for your real friends. You're just acquaintances. You get one without the visor. and that's just the rule. So what we've always said. Green Mr. Helmet. Pretty good. You clicked the link in the show notes.

Let's see what he gave us here. He gave me, I'm guessing these are for me, Gamecock stickers, worst men, sports teams combined between baseball, football, and basketball and all the SEC. So I will wear that with pride. And then we got three helmets here. U.S. Border Patrol.

Trey, I think I'm going to send this one to you. It seems like it would impact your life the most down there on Tejas. Oh, wow. Awesome. Yeah. It has a visor black. So that one's going to you, Trey. And I got this one.

Super pumped. It looks like some kind of naval. I don't know what this is. It says 114 on the front. Oh, Ralph Johnson, whoever that is. It's got a South Carolina flag on the back. I'm probably going to keep this one for myself. It's got the name.

I think this is a Navy ship or some type of unit. It's got like something you'd shoot into Iran on the top of it. That's kind of cool. So a lot of. options there. And then we got a salute to the Veterans Bowl, Montgomery, Alabama. This has Jeff Biggie written all over it. It's got Iwo Jima on the back, Mount Sierra Bachi. Tanner wouldn't know about that. So the point is, you can do whatever you want with your helmet. You can make your own helmet. You can do it for your Marine unit. You can do it for the Border Patrol. You

could probably make one for ice. You could probably put helmet stickers for everyone you've deported. There's a lot of options. You can do anything you want. Go over to Mr. Helmet.com. That's not it. Click the link in the show notes. With that, we've read the sponsors. We wasted 20 minutes in a staff brief. It's episode

100. I'm fired up. We're powered up by Starlink. What's on the slide deck, Jeff? I feel like we need to catch you up with PJ. I also need to throw a disclaimer to Tanner. You can stay for the duration of the show, but as a guy

that just sat on a three-hour confirmation brief yesterday. People just logging and out whenever they want. So like the world is your oyster. But I probably won't stay for the entire thing because I got to have something to listen to on Friday.

Yeah. But I would just say great job on episode 100. In South Dakota, we just call that an episode. But I suppose we'll call it episode 100. Congratulations on that. One point of clarification I want to make, it's a naming convention with all three of the

hosts here. I've become thoroughly confused over the years. I don't know when Grant is joking and when he's being serious anymore. Jeff, I actually don't know what your last name is. I don't know. Can we reveal? I don't know. Is it biggie? It is. It is. Okay. It is. It is. Okay. That was my biggest pretty question. Trey, I was just, my name question for you would be, well, who gets an S and who gets a why? You know, I've seen T-R-E-Y before, obviously. Yes, spelled correctly, yeah. Okay.

With an ass is correct, though, you're saying. No. With an ass is not correct. Yeah, no. So you're not claiming your own version. No, my parents misspelled it. Yeah. And they had just stuck.

Okay. If you spelled with a Y, it's correct, yeah. Okay. But an S is not uncommon. It's not just special to you or it is very few. Honestly, I don't know if I've ever met another Trey. with an S. Okay. Because I've not, I've like seen it enough times and heard it that I didn't know if that just as common or. No, absolutely not. Yeah, no, not common at all. We're still trying to get Texans to read.

Well, have you ever met a tray that's those funny? Yeah. T-R-A-Y. That was good. And Grant, I guess it's Broggy, right? Do I say that correctly? Yeah, it's Brogi. The reason I do the back and forth is my grandfather had a good bit that when his dad came through Ellis Island and it was Broji. And so that's what he would say. And then he opened up a optometry in Worcester. And he said, and all I had was Irish people and they couldn't figure it out. So I just changed it to Broggy so I would get more customers.

And then the only reason. I've belabored it is because the first time I was on Rips podcast, he pontificated about my last name for at least 15 minutes and where the emphasis was and the solubal and kind of deal.

And yeah, it was a good time. So yeah, it's Broghi, biggie, and Trey but Tress. Yes, okay. We do have a burning. I've been waiting 100 episodes to know the answers to that.

Well, that's how that works. We do have a burning. in question for you. We're artillery men. You seem like a target of opportunity. We won't take too much of your time. But everyone on this podcast right now, even when Connor here, has been to the Arnold,

all of us. And we were unable to make it this year and body. We were there in iron. And I just like, if you have the time, I don't know, three to five minute recap. I'm seeing on the internet that the trend twins were nuts.

I'm hearing from the Arnold people already trying to get me to buy for next year. That's the biggest show in 10 years. You're an old hat, as we say, in South Carolina, Georgia, and Texas and North Carolina for PJ. Give us the brass tacks. I know that the 21 beer salute

happened with Huck Finn. I saw C.T. Fletcher was there. Give us a little recap on the Arnold. I'll give you my three to five minute version. I'll keep it as concise as I can. I've been there every year since 2017. that's existed, there took a hiatus in 2020 and 2021 with everything that was going on. But to say it's the biggest in 10 years, I think is not true.

2019 was larger. 2018 was probably larger. 2019 was definitely larger. It is the biggest one since they came back in 2022. It was bigger than last year. There was more people than I've seen there for quite a while. Saturday afternoon was pretty crazy. Also, Tommy and I remarked this year for the first time,

I don't know if we aged 10 years in one year or what if I just now became aware of it, but we got really old all of a sudden. It just hit us this year where I'm like, when did we get so old here? Like when we started coming, we were noticeably not. And now we noticeably are. I mean, I feel like the average age there was 20. Okay, really? I don't know.

The young L., you, California guy, you'll know this. Young L.A. booth is insane. In South California, we just call that Youngla. Yes, Youngla. That booth, I heard estimates. I mean, there was Lamborghini's up in the air. And like, it was the size of a couple football football football. fields like three, I don't know how much I'm exaggerating or how much, but I heard estimates that

they spent multiple millions of dollars on the setup. And I actually kind of believe it. And that whole one third of the place is just absolutely packed with like young people. It's just it is crazy. I can't believe it. And I do not want to be around that. The rest of it's pretty good. Is that the trend twins?

Were they at young L.A.? I'm sure if they were there that's where they were at 100%. And I didn't know. I didn't run into them. It was crazy. A lot of the booths that I've enjoyed being there with over the last several years aren't there as booths anymore. There's not very many small booths like ours.

Yours wasn't particularly small, but obviously I'd like go. A lot of the people that I kind of have gotten used to going there as fellow booth mates over the last few years don't have booths anymore. They're mostly just like mega booths of really big supplement companies or like these young LA that I'm talking about or I don't even know what they all are.

You know, Red Bull, of course, that sort of thing. They're just not that many smaller booths anymore. A ton of people, though. I have every reason to believe it wouldn't be any smaller next year or two. It'll probably get bigger even yet. They just announced today, this is insane.

They're adding another day. I saw that. Yeah. And as someone that would potentially have a booth, that makes me really not want to have a booth because I couldn't do another day of that. That's exactly. Actually, the reason Connor popped on the show for a bit because he texted me and said, wow, another day of the Arnold.

Can you imagine setting up Wednesday, which means you have to get there Tuesday? And I was like, I can't even think about that right now. You want to pop on the podcast for three minutes later? and send him the link, but sounds crazy. That's insane. You know, there was a few equipment companies there and I wanted to check out their stuff. And there was just so many people around.

I couldn't even like get to things I was curious about looking at. There was a lot of people there. I heard the bathrooms were pretty good this year. Yeah. The bathroom's pretty good. Brian Powers, who's Arnold's right-hand man. He confronted us about our bathroom propaganda last year. stayed in contact with him over this last year.

We did have a few jokes about Arnold bathrooms, and I hadn't heard much from them for six, eight months, something like that. The second we posted an Arnold bathroom meme, he was there commenting on it. So I'm like, he's just been waiting poised to see if we would just spool up the propaganda machine again this year. So we're going to talk about something else. You know, we're going to hold you hostage here. Typical trash shacks, lieutenant colonel type. everyone wants to leave the room the lieutenant colonel can't read the room so he keeps just asking questions

but we want to talk about something else you've influenced greatly before you leave but i will say outside of what we're going to talk about i feel like you actually made a huge impact with the bathrooms and for okay podcast listeners mom um basically the the bathrooms of the arnold are a travesty and the Massonomics fellows have talked extensively about that to the point that the Arnold fixed the bathrooms. You can walk in and not be walking on poop anymore and you can flush a toilet. But like do you, and I've listened to at least a whole first season

of the Massonomics podcast, I'm working on it. The OK podcast, we call them sets. So we've got 100 episodes that's set one. We're hoping to do a five by five. Five by five. Yeah. So we're one set. we just finished our first set.

Well, we're on our first set right now. But you must take that as a feather in the cap or in the hat, as we call them, over here. Yeah, there is. But there's also something about when something's gone, you miss it. Even if it was bad. Yeah. You know, like, it's like, oh, I kind of miss that, even though some people just want something to complain about. Maybe I wanted to complain about the Arnold bathrooms.

And like when they took that away from me. me, it's a little, feels a little rudderless not having that tent pole to lean on. I mean, you were an E5 in the Army. What do they say? If they're not bitching and moaning, then something's wrong. So that's how it goes. Makes sense. Yes. Talk about flipping things on their head. P.J's on Jim radar. Grant's on Jim Radar. Tray and Jeff are not yet on Jim radar, but they will be soon. I realize I'm losing a footing there. I am the most popular plate. I am the highest reviewed plate in terms of number of reviews.

I'm the highest reviewed plate in terms of quality. I'm not the most owned anymore. I've fallen to second place to cap barbell. Chinese. Yeah, Chinese. And that's not true, right? People, you know, everyone's monitoring the situation with everything that's going on. It means a little bit different than it did in 2020 these days.

They haven't had time. But what do you guys say? You call it a 60,000 foot view or an elevator pitch. but there's listeners here, Mom. There's people that are loyal to the okay podcast, Ray. There's a lot of people, Jamie, that I know listen to this podcast that have not gone on and built their profile on Jimradar.com and put strength coat plates on. And I know that you care about everything.

I care about strength coat plates, which you do too. I mean, you're a huge fan. But give us the pitch of Jim Radar and what everyone needs to do. Okay. They're smooth and easy to grip right there. Good job, PJ. See how quickly I gripped that? It was no problem.

Easy. Yeah, Jimradar.com is our new website. Everyone couldn't go on there. It's kind of what we built for home gym owners as a community tool. It's also a big equipment tool. As we're talking about the Strength Co, of course, you can go on there right now. And every single product, I think, in the Strength Coe website, you can find at least that's strictly gym equipment related is on gym radar.

And so if you're someone that owns a home gym, you can use this website to check out what other people are doing in their home gyms. You can use it to show off your own via pictures or listing that equipment and that sort of thing. Also, what Grant alluded to, there's reviews. So as of today, we're two weeks into this and there's now just about 10,000 unique equipment reviews that have been left by. the users on Jim radar.

So you can go check out equipment before you buy it from unbiased, third-party community sources where the reviews are all aggregated. And you can search it like Grant was saying. You can go to plates and look by most owned. And the Strent Co is going to be towards the top, of course. You can look by highest rating. They're going to be at the very top. Any of those ways that you might use, you can compare across brands.

You can see Cat Barbell is more owned technically, but it's also rated considerably lower. You know, so people are purchasing those at time or be probably because they're honestly getting them on secondhand market or it's just the crap that they dug out of the dumpster instead of buying a strong tank plate. It's trash. But yeah, that's the platform. Grant's got it pulled up. We're looking at it. You can look at specific pieces of equipment. You can look at gyms.

There's a leaderboard. see who's most active on the site. There's a map. If you want to kind of use it to maybe find other gyms in your area, it's not the primary use of the site, but it is a tertiary use. I got one in Hawaii. Yeah, there's one in Hawaii now even. There's some kind of all over the country. All over the world, if you will. We're active. That is pretty cool, man. still working on it. There's almost 6,000 pieces of equipment in the database today. There's over 800 gyms, 900 users.

I think it's pretty cool. It's also a, there's other home gym communities on the internet, like there's Facebook groups, there's Discord channels for home gyms. And some of those get a little bit, oh, annoying or possibly toxic or just like crap conversation that you don't really care about and you don't want to read and this kind of avoid the the separates the wheat from the chaff and gets the good stuff good biblical reference there chaplain will appreciate that pj click uh the upper left click jim radar um that little button on the top left yeah and this is my favorite part is the feed and this is what

tanner was alluding to so this these are like the most recent people that have interacted someone's got their beautiful daughter on there here's a guy using a rolling mat this guy got spring collars, but you can't comment. And I actually think it's a genius thing by Tanner. You can just like stuff, but you can't comment. So it's fun. And I, I'm on, well, my buddies in New Jersey, when she's not going to be going for much longer, he doesn't get on it every day, but other times he's on it every day. And Tanner, I tell you, I'm worried. I feel like, you know, I'm a business owner. I care about my product on there. I've pushed a lot of people to Jim Radar. And I feel like I've giving a lot of reviews. I have more to give. I just took some photos day of stuff I need to review

other equipment. That's not even made by the Strength Co. Because I'm worried about losing my spot on the leaderboard. The leaderboard is the top 100 only. And I've dropped down to number 74. And it is, I mean, people are going nuts on that thing. Like, like, basement Brandon is just like one right now. He's left probably over 300 equipment reviews on the site. Well, who's the guy that that does the cards, the professor, no, go to number two, PJ, scroll to the top, number two, Hogan. Oh, yeah, Hogan.

So I, Hogan had such a big, yeah, psychiatrists, yeah, starts with the P, same, same. Per capita, he has a lot of reviews. He, I thought he, he had such a hefty lead at the start. I thought it wouldn't be touched. And then I saw basement Brandon, and I was like, oh, Brandon will not be denied here.

and I expect a war up to 5,000 between the two of those guys. Yeah, it's insane. People have done more than we actually, they've actually crossed the ceiling that we were projecting in like a year. We have more activity than that. So that's kind of crazy. One other thing about the feed, just because I wanted an opportunity to say we used to be a proper country.

Our free feed is 100% chronological, the way that feeds were when we used to be a proper country. There is no proprietary algorithm behind what you're getting shown here. You are getting shown a chronological feed. You can choose to follow people and then you can only see following in your feed if you want to, but still chronological.

Blips on the radar, man. Blips on the radar. I appreciate the Jim Radar shout out too. Yeah, no, we're serious about it. Yeah, I care about it a lot. If you listen to this podcast, you're fan. I got people that have literally bought 1.25s.

So let me ask you this. Let's say I have like some people's dads, a considerable amount that buy 1.25s for coasters. And I've even thought about creating it as an additional product, but it's named a, you know, weight plate coaster just for funds. But can I create an account and say I own an equipment without building a gym or do I have to build a gym? You have to build a gym to tie equipment to it.

Okay, got it. gym. Someone built a gym the other day that it just looked like it was, they added one piece of equipment and the picture was one dumbbell next to an old rusty water heater in the basement. So your gym could be a lot of different things. Yeah. No, no. I mean, I, I know a lot of equipment manufacturers and people have like reached out to you with a lot of excitement. And I'm, if you're listening to this, I'm pitching you hard here. I want to do my dangdice as we say in the Southern Baptist community to have all my friends

go in there and say they own Strank Co. Plates because let me tell you, the owners of Young Law aren't logging into Jim Radar, but Grant Brogey is. We're going to take Strencow plates to the moon on Jim Radar. That's what we've always wanted to do to the moon.

You guys got any saved rounds or alibis for Tanner before we let them go back to building the future? Yeah, I'm just trying to come up with a good gym name, right? Do you have any clever ones that you've seen? Actually, let's do it.

Let's do it right now, Trey. Let's name your gym. Why don't you tell Tanner like five characteristics about your gym? Like, you know, it's in a garage, these equipment. It is in a garage. I was thinking it's in a garage. Yeah, that's one. I was thinking of a playoff my name.

So I was thinking like Trace Amigos, Trace Amigos, Jim. Yeah. I think play off your name is. exactly what I was thinking already too. That's what I was going with that. It's very heavy strength co. And there's also a ton of strollers in there too. Yeah.

Strollers take up so much garage space. Do you have a double stroller? Double strollers are insanely large, the amount of space they take up. And I feel like, because I think I have like five different strollers in there. Oh yeah. I can't wait for the day that we get to get rid of all of our strollers.

I'm going to like you know in office office space when they like take the fax machine out back and give it the beat down

beat it I'm going to set fire to all the strollers and be like we just we can get another car in here now like we can set up

a whole other gym but yeah I like that plan the name plan that or I was thinking since I sell hoses and I know y'all are big on hoses over there

I'm kind of working off that too we are big on hoses do you do you do you have an end on garden hoses at all? Oh yeah. Manufactured in Indiana, baby. Really? Like a three quarter inch garden hose five eights, whatever. Tanner.

Yeah. I'll send you some samples. I know I know you guys don't do a lot of guests these days and you can't even get Godfather six on. But trace hose knowledge is he could literally send you hose samples. It's it's insane. Like and it ranges from. Yeah, go ahead. No, I was, uh, I've heard about the hose.

stuff and I just was not picturing like residential garden hose though like that when we were talking hose that's not what I was thinking we were talking about here that's not the big mover right yeah like it is in the repertoire yeah exactly

yeah it's in the offering well that completely changes things so I think when you when you make trace amigos so whatever you're going to call your gym I think you have you can also create equipment on Jim Radar, and I think you need to create your company's hose on Jim Radar. And I can see that doing really well. Tanner's actually, he can't believe he hasn't thought

of this yet, but you need to create the hose that you sell as, I mean, it could be a real thing. You could have it outside and you could, you know, hydrate why you're working out. Yeah, just a 100-footer garden hose. Yeah. 60 PSI. Yeah, you know, struggling out of it. And that's a ski one, yeah. Let's do it. We're going to let you go. One more saved round, though, for me.

We haven't had truck talk in a while. And I'm curious on updates in the 6th night. I will give you a little update this morning. I parked last night. Black Beauty, as they call her. I parked her on the street. She's a 95 GMT. 400 extended cab long bed and it has power steering but it really feels like it doesn't have power

steering unless you're going five miles an hour like under like when you first crank it up and some not proper country type folks parked parked parked like a Volkswagen jetta and like a Hyundai something or another behind me and they were like bumper to bumper with me and Tanner I must have made it must have been a 17 point turn like It was unbelievable. I'm not even kidding. Like, it was, there was a moment where I was,

yeah, no bad, all skill work, right? I mean, all everyone wants to drive a computer these days. This is real work. It was,

yeah, and I got out. And as I, and I finally got out. And like when I cleared that final bumper, I just, you know, punched in.

It's like, burr. And I'm going down. I roll the windows down. And I thought, man, I haven't talked to Tanner about his truck. And you haven't posted,

much about your truck. I haven't seen your kid in a truck with no car seed. I hope Diana's not listening. I may or may not have given my one and a half year old little ride in the truck. Oh, I got to do that. Well, yeah, you can't do that. I would never do that. My buddy, Mike. Any truck updates? Yeah. I've got like three things here. First, I just want to tell you everyone, the listeners of the story because they'll like it with Grant at the 2023 Lift Hardly Easy Classic Grants there. I've got this big trailer, flatbed trailer, hooked up to my pickup for hauling equipment in and out of the ice arena where we're at.

And there's ice arena is full of several hundred people. This thing's just ending. I'm kind of running around with the chicken with my head cut off. And I need someone to back up this trailer into this arena, like where 500 people are watching you. And most of these people are like middle age, midwestern guys that want nothing more. than to judge someone improperly backing up a trailer. So it's not even joking.

It is kind of a high pressure situation. There's people running around everywhere. And you want to get this thing backed up like in one shot because otherwise the whole crowd is, you know, they're not going to start booing, but they're just all sitting there judging 100%. And if you go out there and pull a forward seven times and keep backing up, you're going to look like kind of an idiot. And I thought, I just knew Grant,

was the man for the job. I didn't even ask anyone else. I just walked up and handed in the keys. I'm like, I know you can do this. Can you please go do this while I go do something else? And Grant, uh, did it perfectly. I think, right, Grant? Is that kind of how the story goes? Yeah, no, I went off without a hitch better than our booths at the Arnold. But yeah, no, it was actually, the funny part is that we talked about it later. Because you were like in passing, you were covered in sticky. You would just finish the strong man stuff. And you were like, I think you just toss me the keys. You were like, my truck there. I got to get stuff out while I got hands. Can you back this thing up? And I was like, yeah, I didn't think anything of it. And I got it

and whatever. We loaded everything up. And then it was actually your wife, Mary. Shut up, Mary Baird, not a listener to the podcast, I'm sure. But if she was, I'd love that. But I think she texted me that night and was like, Tanner's just like so grateful for all the help. And I was thinking like, I don't know that I did anything. I literally like took out the trash. and like literally pun intended. I actually did take out the trash. Yeah. And I was like and I backed up the truck and like I was one of many people that put

equipment back into the gym. And then I don't know, a week or so later, Tanner called me and was and he was like, I was like really on edge of boot ass to back the truck up. All right. That's thing one. That's same round number one.

Other quick thing on my wife's 69 C10 Chevy. Haven't been out much because South Dakota winner. aren't excellent for that particular unit. Although we have had some false springs here, so we've gotten to get it out a couple times and knock the dust out off of it, literally and figuratively, and still all good there, running like a top,

put a new alternator and a couple things in here before the end of this last fall, and everything's running real sweet on that. The last and third final truck talk, I was just thinking the other day, my daily driver now, what I consider my new pickup is now a 2013, which is 13 years old. And I'm like, when do I get to consider this also to be like, it's no longer new, obviously. But so my daily driver, as long as we're doing truck talk, is an extended cab because we used to be a proper country.

2013 Ford and F150, the last year of the fully steel body for F-150. and it has the 5-0 V8 Coyote engine in it, which is one of the most reliable modern V8s that you can find. I know this truck well. What color is it? It's red. Massanomics. 4x.

Yep. 4x is what it is. Nice. matching color bumpers. It's breaking up my 15-year-old pickup. Have I seen this truck or is this the one you took to the Arnold a few years ago? Yeah, I took it to the Arnold a few years ago. Yeah.

yeah yeah okay yeah i think it's a truck i back the trailer up with yeah i think you yeah yeah yeah okay okay i thought you were seeing you got something truck in question okay uh okay oh go ahead do you got anything else no no nothing else to add for the group that was good that's good way to be on brink i'll i'll leave you with this and i know it sounds silly because i've been on your podcast uh and we obviously converse a good bit but i somehow this has turned into more people than my mother. And a lot of the folks are military types that care about trash and like staff briefs. And so there's actually a lot of people listening right now. And I say a lot very loosely. But there are people listening right now that actually have no idea who you are.

So they're now acquainted with Jim Radar. What else would they want to hear from you or where to find you? Or like, what are you pitching right now? Where do people need to go? Yeah. If you're not a home gym owner, you probably don't care about Jim Radar. You can also find us at Massonomics. And you just Google Massonomics.com is our website. We sell a bunch of stuff like drinks, magnetic cup holders and... Great on forklifts. Yep, perfect on forklifts.

We'd work on a Humvee or any of that stuff as well. Massanomics.com, check us out on Instagram. YouTube. If you like watching Jim tour videos, we do a new one of those pretty much every week where we travel all over the country and tour video, tour home gyms. We've toured the Strength Co Coast of Mesa. That's out there.

Go check that video out. We had a lot of fun doing that like a year ago maybe. Yeah. That's it. Massanomics and Jim Radar. We've got a podcast that we record every week. So if you like this podcast, there's like a 50% chance. You'll probably like that.

It's about 80% chance. There's a lot of gross over there. If you listen to this all the time, there's like a relatively high probability you might enjoy ours too. So the guy that BW told me about this morning that he said he's from South Carolina falls asleep to the town. You know, he uses okay podcast getting his taxes done. And I think BW said, well, how'd you find Grant? And he said, well, I found Grant through Masonomics. And BW. He was like, oh, well, how'd you find Massonomics? He was like, I think I bought like a like a Bush Light T-shirt, but it said like bench heavy or something or like, you know,

So, yeah, there's a lot of a lot of crossover. And last thing I would say, honestly, you have to say you have an alibi. Alibis come after save rounds. One last sidebar. I kind of prefer a sidebar. Great job on 100 episodes. You know, that isn't a small feat.

You know, there's statistics out there about podcasts, making it to so many episodes, that sort of thing. And I'm sure 100 episodes is like less than 1% probability. for podcasts to ever make it that far. So it is pretty cool and there's a bunch of people listening. You know, people in our group are always referencing the okay podcast and things that go on here. So I'd say you guys are just doing a really good job. Keep it up.

Tray, every week. So if my contracts up. Yeah. Would you say a hundred episode is tough? It's against tall grass. Oh, yeah. That's right. That's right.

That's what we've always said. Well, Tanner, thanks for your time. We appreciate you. Go to Jim Radio. our com, esonomics.com. We'll see you next time. Thanks, fellas. See you. See you. See you. Good dude.

Good dude. You know, PJ, poor PJ. He's on the Eastern Standard Time. We tell him he's going to come on for episode 100. And then we just flood it with other people. He's great. But I got, I got to, I got to give. I expected nothing else.

It's all. I got to give PJ's ego a bump here. If you've listened to 100 episodes or if you've listened to 50 of 100, but if you've liked it and if you've appreciated that it comes out on time, I think we've been on time. I'm not even trying to be funny here. What, 98 times out of 100 we've like posted on time? I was going to say 98. It's got to be close.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that is PJ. PJ does that for us. It wouldn't be possible without PJ. PJ is like an encouragement to do it, got me the equipment. Anything that I know about podcasting. I learned from PJ. he has a business where he produces for people much more important than me,

but he still works with me, and I appreciate that. But PJ, you're here now. The slide deck's just going to get burnt. We're not even going to read the slide deck. First things first. When was the last time you weighed in? What did you weigh? Last time I weighed in was last week.

I actually, well, actually technically the last time I stepped on a scale was for the video question I recorded. Well, that was 200. 200 pounds. That was 200, but before that, I was actually 182, which is about a week before that. And you've had some struggles as a dad lifting weights. Is that right? Well, yeah, I just call that being a dad personally. Yeah. Yeah, I would say that lifting as a dad has been interesting. So, you know, relatable to a lot of people here. you're going to it and I was like, this is going to be easy.

No problem. I'm just going to keep lifting. Like, what's the big deal? And then you faced reality. And yeah, I lifted for the first little bit. Then I fell off the wagon, got back on the wagon, decided to do some heavy presses, messed up my shoulder mysteriously. I had to rehab that started back in the lifting game.

And now, I can honestly say in the last three weeks, I've squatted and deadlifted, at least once during those weeks. So there you go. It's not incredible. Nothing impressive to write how I'm about, but squads and deadlifts are being done. Nice. Nice.

That's what we like to hear. That's what we like to hear. I don't know. Trey, Jeff, you guys are always asking how PJ is doing. You guys take it away. I'm chilled. Let's see.

I'm trying to think of a good, like, get like some good behind the scenes insight of the okay podcast or like trends or things you've noticed about the podcast and your hours of you know editing and producing um Auburn yeah yeah how about the podcast oh so the that's funny I didn't think about that question so what I've noticed and I like actually like this about the podcast is that if you could take the percentage of the podcast that is you know conversation topics questions, material. And then there's another percentage of the podcast. This is just inside jokes. The inside jokes percentage just slowly increases over time. And so I'm thinking by episode

a thousand, it's just going to be tall grass. That's what I've always said, Auburn, just the entire podcast and everyone's going to get it. And that's they're going to say thanks for listening. What's funny is that's basically like what the house was like when we all live together. It was just one inside joke. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like no actual conversations happen. It's just some inside joked inside joke. Yeah. So I think Tanner said, oh, go ahead, PJ, go, no, you go. No, you go. Now, I just say it's cool because it's not just you guys.

It's the audience, too. You know, they're participating in the inside jokes. Even the comments everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm saying. Yeah. I thought what Tanner would said was interesting. And I thought it was interesting because, I mean, I do really. feel it like it's a feat that we got to episode 100. And when I look at massonomics over episode 500, it's actually kind of mind boggling. And actually the outlying station my exos saying

literally against all odds, I mean, when I was deployed in Okinawa, when I was on ship, I didn't podcast. But when I was in Okinawa, it was like, hey, you're finally off. And I was like, Jeff, Trey, can you get on? And I don't think those were the best episodes, but like we did it, right? And I think Tanner's seriousness of like, hey, congrats on episode 100 was real. You've produced a lot of podcasts.

I don't know how many. Maybe you want to share. Maybe you don't. But like is that? I mean, I remember when we did the first podcast and I think we had like 88 listens. And you were like, dude, that's really good. And I was like, that's no one.

You're like, no, you don't understand. People publish podcasts and they get like zero. Yeah, we got two this week. Yeah. So I don't know. You got any thoughts on with all the podcasts you've published and stuff. And like, obviously, we're not big. We're talking to my mom and a couple boomers.

But, yeah, yeah. I mean, but you are making an impact, which is interesting. And you're starting to see it take place with BW getting just flooded with calls. Dude, that's real. That's not a joke. To the listeners, that is. That is not a joke. BW is like,

dude, I literally was giving you money as a joke because I want to listen to your podcast. I mean, no joke, I can share this really quick. I'm just going to go ahead and actually show my tax returns

for the last two years. Don't do that. This is actually it. This is how much I've paid the government each year. And as you can sit from the chart, it just goes down and down. So that's real. He knows what he's doing.

he actually does do my taxes okay but actually in all seriousness uh it the the analogy is to the gym right it's the same thing like the real thing is consistency and everyone quits after like 10 episodes and they're like i don't really want to do it which is why you know i make videos edit videos produce things for a living and i actually do maybe the worst thing that i could do as a businessman is like hey before you do this uh strongly consider not doing this and just putting this aside spending your time doing other things and just never call me again. Like, I want you to really consider that because you were signing up for the content treadmill that never ends.

Now, it can pay off, but you've got to grind for a long time, brother. So, yeah, it's actually a really good feat hitting 100 episodes. A lot of the smaller clients that I've worked with do not hit 100. It's rare to hit 100. You're like in the top, I don't know, 10%. What do you usually see? Do people come out and like maybe they're busy and they're like, hey, I'm going to produce once a month or I'm going to produce once a week and then they go for 12 weeks and they stop or do like what's the? Yeah.

I mean, to start up. To me it's you have to have two. There's two like, I think there's two reasons to do the podcast. So the first reason is like this is purely an art project for you. And so there's the Yeoman podcast, right? Jeff Graham, right? Yeah, go check him out. He's doing it. Yeah, it's really good actually.

You should, but there's one way to do it where you're like, I want to start a podcast. I don't care if it comes out every week. I don't care if it comes out every two weeks or two days in a row. I just like doing this. And when I do one, I'm going to do one. And if you're truly like that, then that's going to work for you. Or you have to say, like, I'm committed to this. Maybe it's part of my business.

Maybe I want to make it my business. And I'm in it for the long haul. In the middle where you're like, oh, let's just start a podcast. what happens, like, you know, whatever. That always fails. That's due from the start. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. Okay, Auburn. 100 episodes, tough to do good as tall grass. Yeah, I mean, 100 episodes. I'm just here to have fun tonight. I don't care what we talk about. I know PG probably wants me to talk about lifting so you make a YouTube video, but I'm just here to hang out.

You're in North Carolina. Have you seen the ex? Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Have you seen the X debate? It's a big fitness X debate right now of is 500 pound deadlift heavy? No, but I noticed that you retweeted something of mine and kind of, you didn't say 500 pounds. I was deadlifting 500 pounds. So the video did that lifting for you, pun intended.

But you said something like, I don't know if this is heavy, but I know that it's hard. What did you say? Do you remember? I can look it up. I said something like Fitness X tells me that this is heavy, but it's also not, but it depends on what you mean by heavy, but also it isn't, but really it is like something stupid like that. What's the debate?

Actually, that's not on my algorithm. My algorithm is just literally bombing Iran. That's like all I see is just bombing Iran. Potential sponsor. Mine was bombing Iran. Iran. Iran. Yeah. Potient.

Oh, Raytheon. Rathion. raising out of the boss. I went to the gas station today and I was checking out and the dude like was definitely from the Middle East and I was like,

where are you from? And I was like being grantee and so he was like talking to me and he was like, oh my God, if he says I ran, what am I to do? And he was like, Syria. I was like,

you're like, only slightly better than I. I just want to. Anyway, continue. Tell me about this 500x debate. Oh, people are like, you know, people post like trolling comments. Like, like, they'll post like the standards. Like the standards 1.0.

The standards 2.0 lifting. Like, you know, stuff like that. And then they'll be the people will just comment like, well, 500 pounds. Dude, that's not even heavy. Like you can be able, you should be able to lift that. Like most men can hit the standards 2.0. Just hit it. It's not heavy.

And then other people are like, what are you talking about, brother? for like 500 pounds is a lot of pounds. Like that's not nothing. And they're like, well, walk into an average powerlifting gym. Like that's like their second warm up or something like that. And so it's just this debate. It's like Schrodinger's deadlift. That's what they're calling the Strodinger's deadlift of like,

yes, it's heavy. Also, it's not that impressive. Is that like Lord of the Rings comment, Jeff? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I figured it was. Yeah.

Must be philosophy. Him and his cat. It's definitely not Southern Baptist. Yeah, it's about a cat. I figured you would like it. Yeah, no, that's Sam Ground Strength. He's a member of the Slack channel,

his gym's full strength co-plates. Yeah, we like him. He's in Idaho. What I've always said is if you want coaching, call Grant, but in all seriousness, if you call me and I think there's a competent coach in your area,

I'm going to tell you to go see him. And Sam, Ground Zero Strength is out there. And he's the standards, 1.0 and 2.0. And PG, maybe you know it better than me. I think at 1.0 is press 135, bench 225, squat 315, dead left 405. And I actually agree with him. Yeah, I agree with him on those that most males over 175 pounds, under 70 years old, can, you know, achieve that.

and then the 2.0 I don't know. I like to think that he's correct, but I have seen, I mean, he is correct. If you want to gain a bunch of body weight and get really big, yeah, you can probably, you know,

if you want to get your body weight to 230 pounds, you can probably deadlift 500 pounds. But a lot of people don't. And then what I've seen as the user, so there's like enthusiasts and coaches, which is a small population, that, like, dedicate their life to this thing,

which is probably me, right? Like, I never miss workouts. I go, I do it. And that's like, yes, I believe that a 37-year-old can deadlift 500 pounds with a proper dedication. But as I, like, zoom out and look at my online clients and my in-the-jim clients, it's like, well, it actually takes a lot of dedication to get to 500 pounds. Like, I think PJ, you could deadlift 500 pounds.

I also think your business would suffer, right? because you would not be on a podcast at, you know, almost one in the morning because, you know, you'd be like, I'm worried about my recovery and all those sorts of things. So, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. All right, so back into your personal, we and your personal data, PJ, put a Dunkin across the screen real quick, just for you just to make sure, yeah. No, kidding. I mean, but seriously make Duncan go across the screen.

I'll do it now. You got a kid, you got a wife, you move back, home you move back home and i'm interested in that and you're from greenville north carolina home of mr beast he doesn't need a shout out i'm just i said it so it's technically a shout out but mr beast has need one but greenville's not we shout out jordy go ahead do you eat that's it it's small and you know i've often said about my hometown like i love buford south Carolina. I would love to go back there when I'm 70.

And, you know, I see that that was a joke. But it was real, but it was supposed to be funny, but no one left. But I just mean, like, you're back in your hometown. Like, what's that been like? And I know all your works remote and all that stuff, but like, like, you literally like went back. Like, is it new dad? Like, how's it going?

It's great. I mean, I'm home all the time anyway. So, you know, it's kind of like your home. if you're in your house like it's kind of the same anywhere in a lot of ways but no there's a lot of you know not so great things living in a small town too obviously there's not as much to do is not as good restaurants you know mr bese is blowing things up at a studio 10 minutes down the road things like that but um i tell you the reason i did it's actually serious reason so uh i got married and i was trying to think about hey what's going to be the best set up for our marriage all this stuff.

At the time, like all the people we knew in Greenwood, South Carolina, were kind of like moving away anyway, and we were kind of going to be just hanging out there by ourselves. And luckily, because of what I do right now, it's, you know, I could work remotely. It doesn't really matter where I'm at, kind of like BW. Tax, give them a call. So I actually had a thought of, hey, we're just getting married.

I know that my parents struggled in their marriage. They told me this when they were living in Indiana by themselves. and they say it was really hard because we were so isolated. It was just those two. They didn't even have very many friends there at the time. And they had a, they went through a really tough time. And they told me growing up,

they're like, I wish I could have just talked to some family or some older person and said, hey, I've got all these stresses going on. Got a new kid trying to finish school, trying to, we just moved into this house. We got to fix up.

And oh, it looks like, turns out we're like arguing a lot. And they're like, I wish I would have like had family around this like, okay. Yeah, talk to you. Yeah. They're like, of course you're stressed and like bickering more like, dude, you're in a hard time of life, right? And so I was thinking about that and I'm like, man, new marriage, it'd be a good time to save money to build relationships with the family. And man, who knows, what if we have a kid or something like that?

I feel like being by ourselves largely isn't a wise move. So I don't want to move to New Jersey, which is where my wife's from. So let's move to North Carolina for right now just to get around family, kind of establish our base, save up some money. and then figure out what you do from there. Well, three days after we move, there's a positive pregnancy test. And so, wow, talk about timing, right? And I will say there's been a lot of hard things.

You know, we miss going to a lot of places around Greenwood, South Carolina. But man, having the family around, especially me being super busy with work, Kate being a new place, having a baby. It's been really, really helpful. We're really involved with a church around here that we have a lot of friends, a lot of family that goes to that church. So I'm actually really excited

that we moved here. That's my take on it. I won't be here forever, but as of like starting your marriage and having kids and trying to get set up, I think it's a good move. You love it. Sounds smart. Did you level out of your gym floor yet?

No, I'm actually strongly considering just a, so, okay, let's talk about this. I actually liked your answer. I'm actually considering doing the tray move, which is just, hey, why don't I just turn this 90 degrees and my problems are solved? That's the move. Now, the problem is one side is where I parked the car.

The other side, there's like these cabinets along the back wall. And I was like, well, the squat stand is going to be like right in front of the cabinets. And it's going to be hard to like open the cabinets and access them. And then I thought about and then I thought about leveling a garage gym floor. And I was like, I don't even need cabinets, dude. Yeah, what are cabinets? Yeah. I'll just pull my little squat rack out of the way and open the cabinets.

That's normally the answer. I mean, I'm literally sitting in the garage that I opened my business out of. If you look above my head, if you're not watching YouTube, you should. P.J. you're going to tell me why my camera's not working, but that's like the schematic of my gym right there. But it all started in here. Can you press in there? No. So I owned a R3 in here.

and I did shim the platform. I could have faced it that way, but I faced it this way. And then I had two squat stands in the corner. And when I would coach clients or lift myself, I would take these squat stands outside. And I own some like really cheap ones. I don't know where I bought them from.

It wasn't Amazon, but it was probably like ET fitness or something. And I actually recommend that to a lot of folks. And we should make it a reel. and I'll show you a video of me like pressing 225 outside, but I would just take the squat stands when I needed a press, and I would move them right outside, and they probably cost $100.

And do they suck? Yes. Or were they good? Absolutely not. But did they allow me to not clean my press and put them outside and press and take up very little real estate in my garage? Yes, they did.

And it was very similar. It was the exact thing that we made in 2020, called the captain. It was just like two little posts that you could move. move out. But yeah, I think the move is if you can face upstream. Sorry, I know I'm talking to fishermen. Upstate. Yeah, upstate, face upstate of the garage and then just wear a squat shoe. And you will lose a little bit, but like not that much, right? And that's that's the move

if you can. Leveling mud, you don't want to do it. And you're going to sell that house. You're going to have like 20 you don't want to do all that like you just yeah just just face up stream man so i've always said yeah i lost you on audio i couldn't hear yeah awesome too oh can you hear me now they call it podcasting that's why they call up podcasting so are we good it's okay are we good can you hear me do we do we do we do we do we can i can i hear yeah can i hear jeff's here i'm here PJ can you hear me? PJ, can you hear me? Is the little meter showing up,

bouncing up and down when you talk? Real quick, Jeff, can you hear me? Yeah, nothing right now. You look good, yeah. You look good, feel good. Trey, you look good too. What do I do? Hey, man, you look good too, Jess.

Oh, I never just compliment each other. So no one can hear me. Jordy, what do you've been listening to recently? Jeff sent me a new artist today that I've been Dude, I'll put that in the slack. Yeah, you've been listening to Good tunes recently? Dude, I'll be honest with you. I've been listening to a lot of Rafi.

I thought you might say so much that. Rafi. You know who Rafi is? He's like a children's singer. Oh, okay. You got to check out Rafi, like the old school Rafi. Yeah, Grant would love Grant would love this song called,

I like to go bowling with my friend Bert, dude. Oh, he loved that song. Was Rafi and the Wiggles? No. No. He predates down. Pre-wiggles, dude. Pre-date, like, way, like, when I was a little kid,

I went to a rap. Oh, so. Yeah, it's, we've been listed a lot of, let's see. I love. So that's been. Can no one here. That's been your go-to. He's old school.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, we just run that constantly, his, like his concert video. Let's see. I'm trying to fix Grants. I love it. Audio here. Real on the fly. Producing.

This is why they call it podcasting. This is why they call it podcasting. I've always wondered that. And now I know. Hey, sometimes you just got to restart it as a military podcast. Turn it off. Turn it back on. Check the equipment strand.

Get the Jenny back out there. Yeah. It's amazing how much that fixes things. it's crazy. I didn't know if it was like leave. Do you want to end it for everyone? I was like, no. This is episode 100 guys. If you're listening, if you're not watching YouTube, you can see PJ in his very, man, that room, that is, uh, I feel like my lights are too hot. I got helmets. You don't have any helmets. PJ. I got to send you a helmet, brother. One of these helmets is going to you. Yeah, you need a helmet. Well, this is like, I can't be like a barber without a, it's like being a barber with a bad

haircut or like a strength a strength a strength coach and you're you're not jacked you know what I mean it's like I mean I'm not jacked I'm just strong yeah relatively speaking 500 isn't strong

yeah that's not heavy that's a great question yeah it's not heavy do a heavy deadlift well PJ we want you to ask us some questions but first three

do we have any slides we really need to hit because I feel like so PJ I want you to know, we're going to pull back the curtain. We're going to talk about 100 episodes. I just want to say that, Jeff, and you have seen all this, PJ, because you're in Slack.

If you're not in Slack, click link below, join Slack. Use code OK. If you're paying for chat GPT somewhere else, you're actually stupid, because you get all chat GPT, five benefits mixed with GROC because the code we've written in. So if you're like political about chat GPT or GROC, you get both. And you also get a bunch of lifting stuff.

So if you don't want, you know, if you don't want to join the community, but you want like a Mark Ripito style of like intermediate or advanced programming. And you also are paying for chat GPT through Apple or whatever you're paying it for, you should literally cancel all of that, join the Slack channel and just talk to Grandpot. And I know it has my own name, which I feel like I should change it. So you don't think that it's like what I'm saying. But like, we have written a lot of code and that they are for like lifting people. And if you're paying for something somewhere, you should join that.

Anyway, with that said, PG, I know you see the comments. But I'm going to say it anyway for the listeners, Mom. These guys are great at putting topics in, you know, like episode one through 49. It's like they're just crushing it. 50 through 100, 100, bingo. Man, Jeff helps. Trey, I mean, and Trey told me today on the phone. I talked about the phone today.

He said, brother, I don't even text my wife back. And I said, well, yeah, but there's a lot of people wanting to talk to you about lifting, life, love. And I don't remember where I was going with that. topic. It was great, though. It was good. Oh, yeah, I was pulling by the curtain that, you know, they don't say much. But you do see that there were a few topics for this week.

And Jeff, before we kick over to PGA to grill us, what were the things that we needed to talk about this week? Briefly, we're going to let PGA go to bed at some point. World baseball classic. You might have to repeat that one more time. Your audio was kind of. Ah, okay. Am I back? Yeah.

have you have y'all been watching any of it or just like following it through like scores and stuff i've watched i haven't watched any of it there was like there's like 10 minute like game highlights that they're putting up on youtube um big fan of those so gets all the the high notes if you will um i will but yeah yeah i don't know what we we opened up or opened up against brazil won that game then played great britain or the uk whatever they're called themselves well that game didn't start out great at Scoobel gave up a lead off home run

that was a little shaky yeah then Schwab I hit a bomb Bob baby and then we played Mexico beat Mexico that was a good game though good game we let him hang around too long yeah we hadn't beat Mexico since the

first world baseball classic like they've had our number for a bit the rules are interesting in terms of national Like, if I play baseball, I think I could get in saying I'm Mexican. Oh, yeah. Like, it's, it's, yeah, it's fast and lose. My amico.

I also think I could get in being Italy, and I think they beat the socks off us last, tonight. It was five, nothing less. It's all. Did we lose? I'm looking at my text thread based off what I'm, I think we lost. Dang. Which is upsetting. Baseball.

I know, right? We lose to him in coffee cups, but Italy stuns team USA to put America on brink of elimination. Well, yeah, if you lose one game, you're on the brink. We're three and one. Okay. Okay.

Washington Post. No, New York Times. Okay. Okay. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn.

P.J. say Auburn. Auburn. Yeah, they just got to make sure Riverside catches it. There are a lot of very Italian last names

on this team, though. That's true. Like Broji? Broji. Yeah, they beat us. Fair and Square, so I don't know where we had next. But go USA. We're pro USA over here.

We're team USA. What else we have on a slide deck? Let me take a look. I kind of want it. It sounds like, I mean, I know you had a drill weekend out in or we're out drilling in um so but there's some good stuff yeah your buddy is out there on the east coast um i did want to talk about the new marine corps height weight standard uh i think this is beneficial i think even pg i would find it interesting so there's new high

weight standard so in the past prior to being the department of war your height and weight was based off some, I think it was from like 1948, 1952, somewhere. It's really old. It was like if you were this many inches, you need to be this many pounds. So I am 73 inches in the Marine Corps

6-1 and my max weight has always been 208. I think when I came in, I went to Officer Candidate School like 215, but I graduated underneath the 208 limits. And if you're under, you're

max weight per your height, you're just good. And you have to get weight in twice a year. This is before Department of War. This has been the Marine Corps we've held standards since 1775. You're weighing twice a year. You have an inch's standard and base of your inches. You have to do the weight. Then if you're over the weight, you have to get taped

and to figure your body fat composition. And the way that we tape people is also from 1952. And it is basically you measure the circumference of your neck and you measure the circumference of your waist at the navel and you like enter a spreadsheet of your height and your weight and they determine your body weight. So for example, the preponderance of my marine career, 14 years, I've been 6.1, roughly 220 pounds. And I usually tape out at like 12% body fat, which I think is ridiculous. I actually think I walk around at 15% body fat, but the Marine Corps does have been 12% and that's great. And you have to be under 18%. Well, now they have said, we just want to do your height and your waist circumference.

And this year, and being the inaugural year, you have to record your weight. And I think they're just collecting data. So I was 73 inches. I was 216 pounds. And I was a 35 inch waist, if I remember. And you take your height and you divide it by your waist circumference. And Jeff, I mean, is your help. You need to be under 0.052.

Yeah. 0.52. 0.52. Yeah. And the other services allowed 0.55, which is funny. And the Marine Corps was like, no, we need to make this harder. 0.52. And so I passed. I think I was like 5.1 and some change. And then I was like, well, now I'm curious. I'm like in here and you're taping me. So I got on the machine. The machine told me I was like 14% body fat. I did the old school tape. And they're like your 12% body fat.

But it's really wild. So basically it's like, Jordy, how tall are you? 5.8. So how many inches? 68 inches. Is your waist 34 or larger?

So you pass. So basically it is, if your waist is half of your height, you pass in inches. Oh, got it. Yeah. And it kind of makes sense. And I was watching my buddies,

Marines go through. and everyone that passed or failed, it was like, oh, that makes sense. And so if you fail the new standard, then you do the old standard, which is neck circumference base and weight circumference, and there's like a chart you enter. And if you fail that,

you can get on the in-body machine and do the body fat percentage. And if you fail all three, you go into BCP. But it's much different. Jeff, have you done it yet? No, not yet. yeah we did it's like we did like height weight in February's drill for after we did our PFT

and so I was like okay we did that and then you know I don't know it was a couple weeks later they came out with the new thing they're like retroact or like you know effective one January 2026 so it's like everybody's got to redo their stuff so this is just solving for like jacked dudes basically because you could be just juiced out of your mind, have a tight waste, and then you're good, but you would fail the BMI test. Yeah, this is solving. I appreciate the joke.

I know you're being funny, but I, this is, I'm not. No, no, everyone is complaining, has complained about the previous height weight standards. And I think this works. this is basically it's basically saying like if you're 5-8

you can have a waste of this big and if you're 5-10 it doesn't punish you for muscle mass basically right right yes whereas in the past it did and there was a stigma before of if you got taped there was a huge stigma

and I would always laugh because it'd be like you go to get taped and it would be like me well if you went with the masses there'd be fat people but like if you went with like Stapano it would be like me and like three jacked black dudes who have very low body fat percentage

but they're they're jacked so they're over their weight and I would always laugh at them because they if they didn't lift weights didn't have a smaller neck and so it's like we're all standing there with our shirts off getting taped and like I have belly fat like I'm a white 33 year old man at the time I have belly fat, but my neck's big.

And so, like, the breeding would come out, like, Brogey's 12% body fat. And there'd literally be a dude there with a six pack, but he doesn't have big neck. It literally has a six pack. And they'd be like, you're 16% body fat. And I just be like, this is the dumbest thing. Yeah. The body fat calculation, you're just like, this is not correct. I don't know.

Yeah. But I think the new one's good. You like the standard? I like the new one. I think I do. Yeah, I think I do. I mean, I watched it in real time as 140 Marines went through the test. And people that passed or failed or were borderline, it was like, everything makes sense.

Like, everything makes sense. The Marine Corps picked a stricter one because they're like, we don't want you to have a pot belly. The other services were like, we'll accept a belly. Yeah, I don't know. It's interesting. Trey's so bored Is my audio off? No, I'm here.

I got about half of what Grant said, so I was just like, yeah. Is it Trey's bored? Yeah. Oh, no, of course not. Before we kick over to PJ to interrogate us. I want to talk about my nads. Oh, yeah, we got to talk about nads. I think, I actually think PJ,

I know it's late for him on the East Coast, And PJ, we're going to get you off here by 1 a.m. I promise. But I think I could see him placing in order for NADS tonight. All good, but I'm already in deep water. You know what I mean? What's another hour? You're already in tall grass, you know? I'm in tall grass. What's taller grass? You're right? Yeah, I've always said that. Exactly. What are we talking about? NADS. Underware. It's underwear. It's underwear. Honestly, there's nothing like super, it's just like an all organic like cotton, underwear. I don't know.

It seems like it's really well made. But I'll tell you, I've been wearing like a full a full like synthetic polyester like just like some of Patagonia's boxers. Just say like regulates temperature a little bit better without getting too

into detail. And so it's just, you know, things stay a little more cool, I think, down there. Without without talking about Adam and Eve. Exactly. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, I have to share this. Hold on.

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They know. That's a loaded question. So. One extra 50% off use code. Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's a potential sponsor, Nats.

Trey. Trey. Trey. Nothing's happening. Trey, why don't you tell the folks about the King's Cloth? So the King's Cloth, yeah, we'll just let them in on another. But just tell them what you thought it was, and then I'm going to end up telling you why you should switch the Nads.

So King's Cloth was just an identifier, unless you're thinking of something else, that it was essentially all of Jeff's clothes that he owned that we would. No, but it was Lulu Lemon. Well, that was one of them. I feel like there was multiple brands that were that we considered King's Cloth. I feel like Patagonia was in there. What kind of jeans were they at the time?

Oh, man. Probably Patagonia. Okay, no, fair. So we're going to get off topic. Lucky. I can't remember. Lucky, lucky jeans, yeah. I thought King's Cloth was Lou Lawn.

And I have been, since we all lived together in the same house in 2014, I have been a Lulu Lemon underwear subscriber. I don't, I'm not a fan of pants that aren't real. I'm not a pants. Dude, I'm wearing it right now. Yeah, yeah. I was always a Lulu Lemon underwear guy. And everything else, Little Lemon, like, I'm actually not a fan.

Like, I don't want to wear a Little Lemon T-shirt. Like, I want to wear a cotton t-shirt. The Strenko Railcar jeans failed, but I still like the idea. But I was always, I have worn Lulu Lemon underwear. and my wife was like, all your underwear have holes in it. I was like, good. I made it as a man.

I've worn things too long. And she was like microplastics. I'm like, oh, my goodness, you sound like RFK, but whatever. And so she bought me like eight pairs of gnats for Christmas. Literally, I'm like a living meme. And they came and I was like, this is so much better.

Like, it's so much better. What? They're great. Yeah, dude. Dude. No, I wish they would pay us for this. I wish they would listen to the podcast and make a commercial a lot, but they won't.

But like I got them in Jordy. They're like all of the comfort you wanted from Lulu Lemon, but they're cotton. And I don't love that they're made in India, but I'm like still doing it. They're, you can get them in boxers. You can get them in briefs,

which is like shorter length. And you can get them in, I'm a box of brief sort of man. Yeah, yeah, you can get him in the longer ones. And I own four and four. I'm all in. And I mentioned something to Jeff about it. And he was like, hey, what was the underwear you mentioned?

I said, Nads. And then I've been meaning, it has come across my mind a dozen times to ask Jeff, hey, did you end up getting the Nads? And then this week he was like, Nads. And I was like, oh, he got him. And they're a game changer. Well, it's, it sounds like, so whenever we would induct a new clothing line into Kingscloth, we would have counsel of the Kings. Of course.

And that sounds like what we need to do now. Yeah. This is officially, Dad's is officially King's Cloth, correct? Omnis, ominous. 100%. Okay. All right. Hey, it's in.

Yeah. Dude, they're great. I feel like products. You guys sold me on the hair. it's jeans, dude. Dude, they're great. Oh, yeah. Orange jeans.

Dude, I'm not kidding. I bought them from the podcast. I was editing it. Yeah. Edding the podcast. Jaco, send us money. Check that out. Yeah.

Dude, I'm wearing, I'm wearing them right now. They're my favorite jeans I've ever worn. I feel like, yeah, lucky jeans out, heritage in. Yeah. Yeah, origin jeans. And I didn't want to love them. The, the, the fun thing that happened was why I was deployed. and I'm not a style guy

but like I came back and I was like oh we don't wear like tapered jeans anymore we just wear like cool dads in the 90s jeans this is convenient and I bought a pair and for off the shelf so the rail car jeans that I wanted to sell and I still want to do a strength coat pair were phenomenal but you had to break them in and the heritage jeans came in

and man like off the shelf I was in the I shipped probably 7545s today And I put on Jesus this morning because it was like California cloud coverage. It was cold when I left. And the sun came out. I was like, I'm going to be dying. And I was not dying. Like it is.

They're the best. They're, Jocko. I don't like to plug Jocko. I don't want to not plug Jocko, but I just mean he's right on these jeans. It's great. I don't love the way the back pockets cut,

but that's near here there. But yeah, I feel like Jocko's wearing them for a little bit. before they ship them out like they're broken in you wear every yeah i think he went to i ran bombed it came back and then folded the jeans up and put him in a back i like it yeah mine smelled like gunpowder yeah yeah yeah mine smelled like cordite um we got any more topics before we handed over to jordia i know he's mad that he hasn't been on in 60 episodes he's here now. What

what we got here? I mean, we got a Lincoln Castic Casket flag. That's worth talking about. Okay. I do want to hear that one. Rain safety class. We bumped to next week. We got a tip our hat to Lou. Yeah, we have pay respect to Lou. Yeah, for sure.

Yeah. The Abraham Lincoln Casket thing, I forget what it was. There was a museum that had the casket that went on Abraham Lincoln's casket. and the museum had to close, which is sad,

which means people aren't looking into American history, which is like part of the problem. And a restaurant bought it, and it was for something crazy. I could say $250,000 or I could say $550,000, and I don't remember which one it was, but either way it was nuts. And they hung it in the restaurant,

and the wall that they're hanging on, the stars are upper right, and obviously that always catches my attention and someone posted like this restaurant, bought this flag, and so then I'm like click below, you know, to open the mess. And it's like, it's a one-sided flag.

I guess the photos they use on flags, or not the photos, the flags they use on caskets back in the day were one-sided. So there wasn't two sides. And so my thought was like, hey, restaurant, put it on the other wall and you're and you're focused right. But there's a lot of constraints to business.

But then there was like, there was only sub things for like people that say, why is this not in a museum? And it tells a story about the museum being closed. People that say this and tells a story about whatever it was. People that say the stars are oriented incorrectly. And it said this is a one-sided flag. And I was like, oh, that's interesting. But yeah, it was kind of cool.

I'm sad. I forgot. I could pull it up. What restaurant was it? Like Jimmy Jones or what? No. No, yeah. Something like that. I think it was Abraham Lincoln Bulletproof. Flag.

I mean, I'm not, $525,000. So I was right about that. Oh, wow. New York City Steakhouse. Here, let me see if I can share. I love that Tanner thought that I was sharing my brother. That's all

PJ. If PJ was on here. I don't know how to close this ad. There we go. There it is. It's coming. It's thinking about it. Oh, there is. Oh, yeah, I see it. You see it? Yeah. That's pretty cool. Wow. Yeah.

There's the King's State house. It's a Matador. Yeah. Dude, he looks sweet. Doesn't he? Look at that guy. That's a major. I've never seen one. A mustache. That's a mustache.

Uh, uh, yeah. I don't want to stop sharing. You stop sharing. Oh, good. Um, Lou Holtz,

Rip a legend. That's all I have to say. Mm. No. You want to be happy for a day? Eat a steak. Yeah. tell another story, Trey.

You got another one? I think that's all I got. He had a ton of quotes. He's very quotable. Yeah, he had a good one that was like something about your wife. And it's like leave your wife and your dog for a certain amount of time or put them in the trunk of your car or something like that. Open the trunk and see you's happy to see it. It's your dog. I will tell you this. Lou Holtz, Vince Smith,

as one of the elders of my dad's church, still as to this day. I hope Cindy Smith listens. She's a good friend of mine in front of my mother's. And Vince took me to my first game in, I think it was 99. So I would have been 11. And it was Lou Holtz's first year, and he lost every game. and he has a quote about that for the Gamecocks. It's like, yeah, I know we're Owen 11,

but it's actually worse if you look at the stat line. But I remember watching the South Carolina band spell out Lou Holtz and everyone yelled Lou. And then he had some greatness, Bito House State a couple years in a row. But I had a poster in my room. I'm going to read it right now. And it's got the USC South Carolina type.

It says, be accountable for your action. is this the right thing to do? Is this the best I can do? Is this the way I will want to be treated? Will this help me achieve my goals? How will affect my future? Is this a risk I can afford to take? How will this reflect on my parents,

players, and coaches of South Carolina? And he was like a huge part. And then he came to Paris Island. I'm like in high school. And I go to like see him speak. And it's just like, oh man. I was actually, I think his funeral Sunday, and it's going to be live streamed.

I think it's this Sunday. But man, Lou is, Lou is the man. And he, South Carolina is not a greatness by any means. But man, he turned a no and six team around to win eight games and beat Ohio State. And without Lou Holtz, we never had Steve Spurrier. And it's not all about that. I more appreciate him as like a person as a Catholic. Like, oh, yeah.

I was like super. I mean, and also it's like you're 90. It's time to die, right? Like, like, there's like no love loss. I don't mean that in a bad way, right? Like, I know it's funny, but I just mean like, you know, my grandmother's passed. They both like made it the full term.

And like, yeah, I was like legitimately like, oh, man, Lou Holtz passed. Big part of my childhood. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Notre Dame. You should love that, PJ.

He had a bunch of different eras. You know, he was Notre Dame coach, South Carolina, turn that around. And then like his like commentator career. Oh, there's nothing better. So like us being in high school watching him on, what was it called where he was like a judge? Oh, like it was like the college like post all the games. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Him and Mark May would just like get into it. Oh, man. So great. So great. Lou, great.

I know you're from Texas, but you like Lou Holtz? Yeah, man. He's a character. Like, that's for sure. Like,

that's, I don't know, he's one of a kind. That's why I think, that's what makes college football, college football, is you have these guys

like Seasbury or Lou Holtz, I don't know. Lee Corso. Lee Corso. You kind of go through. That's kind of like what makes it. So what makes it special?

Yeah, Kiffin. Oh, I got a little holt's memory. Ooh, this must have been, like, I must have been, like, middle school. So I grew up with a, I grew up a University of Georgia fan, like, by, like, best friend growing up, big University of Georgiaton. His dad had been the team doctor for a little bit during, like, the Vince Dooley era. So they, you know, like, big Georgia fans, season tickets. So I would usually go with him to a lot of games on. Saturday. And then sometimes we would like be able to go down like after the game and kind of like

stand by like the locker rooms are. I remember like Georgia beat South Carolina. No cameras. No cameras. Of course. We were we were there to make sure that the cameras got out like didn't go in the locker room or they were in there. We pulled them out. Yeah, FBI directors just everywhere. BJ that's why we needed you. And so I remember like peeked like we like peeked into you know we're like 13 or 14, like peaked into the South Carolina, like, visiting locker room and, like, Lou Holtz is just sitting in there after all the players have left. And he's just like smoking a cigar, like after loss, he was just like, ah, coach holds. So, yeah. Legend.

Good, dude. Good, dude. Good, dude. Good, dude. Good, dude. Good, dude. Good, dude. All right, PJ, floor is yours, buddy.

Oh, no. Floor is mine. I mean, you just say, okay, and walk off the set if you want. that'd be kind of cool to be a strong R as the kids say that's what Connor already did that so yeah I literally was like hey Connor

and you just drop the mic dropped the mic that was crazy I mean I have some questions but they're like they're like boring like fitness questions that I'm curious about

I don't know if you want to go down that rabbit hole. That's episode 100. We're just fiving. Don't worry, PJ, as my producer, I'm filming 10 Marines in the gym tomorrow. It'll be uploaded by Thursday. We got plenty of content. So don't think about it from a business perspective. Just ask what's on your heart.

Yeah. If the fitness questions are on your heart, I'll also answer them. Yeah, no. Okay. So I'll ask one. So this is a genuine question. So as a person who's trying to like stay in somewhat decent shape, you have to like, I realize that zero cardio is probably the wrong amount of cardio. You know, I'm not trying to like run marathons, but like, hey, I have probably do something.

So I have a rogue echo bike actually. Sorry, an echo bike from an assault by air bike from some company. There you go. Remember the name of. Right. And, but you know, you just get on there and bike. And it's been a great investment. But I'm like trying to figure out like, you know, there's the standards 1.0.

in like the lifting world of like, hey, you know, press 135, they have the answer. Now where you're going. What's like, yeah, is there like a conditioning standards that I'm like, hey, if I could at least hit this, I'm not. 50 calories and under four minutes. 50 cow under four minutes. And that's a pretty intense.

It's going to be very intense. And you will find. that the four minutes is equivalent to a 225 press or a bench press, bench press, excuse me. Oh, like very achievable, but you have to work at it unless you're just blessed. And this department, you're not blessed. And I don't mean that it'd be mean. But the people that can do that off the jump even, and they're hurting afterwards,

is if you're big, if you're a big person over six feet, over 200 pounds. You can lean into that thing. And I will tell you not to sound like an arrogant douchebag, but like good people can do it in three minutes, but having watch

and gin pop, if you can do it under four minutes, that's a good base. It's like you're like a 50 cow, put it on calorie mode, 50 cal and under four minutes. And I think you can do it. I'm actually curious now and knowing you, you'll probably try this tomorrow.

it's it's it's a it's a gut punch yeah it's a gut punch um I mean good people when I say good people I mean like CrossFit athletes do it in under a minute right yeah yeah but uh under four minutes because I we used to do it in the gym all the time 50 Cal Challenge and man a lot of people just wouldn't even finish because they go all out and the blood oxygen just gets sucked out of your body and yeah jeff you've done it before i assume yeah uh that bike by that company i think is a great like conditioning tool that's a good bike it's a good bike we could say road yeah i don't make assault bikes they make a great assault bike i still like the airdine one but yeah it doesn't matter put it on jim it's overbuilt but it's like nice you know i feel like it's a good r oi like terms of

how much space it takes up. Oh, yeah. Yeah, mess around with that. It's one of the preset, like, buttons. If you have the older monitor, it's like the top right button. And it's like the 2010 intervals, the Tabata. It's like 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, and you do that for eight rounds. If you push hard on that 20 seconds, like, dude, you're crushed at the end of that.

That's a B. Yeah, yeah. I like doing that. Okay. And then I'll, I'll like, fully recover. I'll let my heart rate come all the way back down. And then I'll do the 10-calorie or the 10-second work, 20-second rest. So it's just kind of like a, it's good just to hit it again.

But it's like a little bit mentally it's easier because you're like, oh, okay, I'm only pushing hard for 10 seconds and I get 20 seconds of rest. So that's a good little combo, I think. That's interesting because it's like a different form of cardio. There's like different versions of cardio. And I was like four minutes at that level of work. capacity is like pretty intense. And then there's also the other kind of like, hey, I'm just going to go, I'm just going to

keep going at a low pace for an hour. That's like a different form of it, right? Yeah. I've been trying to do like 10 minutes on the bike because it's like, hey, I got 10 minutes. I can do something. So I'd either do like, hey, do 10 minutes and stay above this wattage like 150 or 200 watch or something decent. Or I do like an interval like, you know, 10 seconds as hard as I can go, 50 seconds,

over 100 or 150 watts something just chill i'd just do that and that seems to be pretty good but i'm gonna try like the i'm gonna try to n lp my uh 50 cow you know you gotta go one off you gotta go one off the cuff next time you want to do it and see what you get and you can't tell me that because i'm gonna get i'm gonna do it i'm gonna do it yeah you got it's part of the fun you got it's part of the no no you actually got it's actually what i do to gym members is they i want to do conditioning i'm like do it 50-cow challenge. And they're like, I don't want to do conditioning. Dude, I can't remember what this guy told me to do, but I was with my friend in Indiana, and he made me do a challenge on the bike. And I was doing no cardio, and I did it. But I could,

like, my quads spasomed. I couldn't walk for like 10 minutes. Like, they were cramping that bad. You're a dad now. You just are used to abuse. Yeah, you just kind of like, just do it. It's fine. All right. That's a good answer. That's a good answer. Strong. Yeah. All right, PJ, you got anything else before we handing out on the tray to take it down for a landing? Boy. No, I think that's, I think it's nothing else for the group. Hey, good brief.

Good brief. Episode 100 of the OK podcast. We're brought to you by Mr. Helmut, Green, Gridiron, Gridiron, Green. We're brought to you by BW Tax. Taxes here. We appreciate the listeners giving them a call. Make sure you tell them that you're coming from the OK podcast. asked so that he can stop everything that he's doing, Auburn, and make sure that he handles your tax needs.

Trey, this is the part of the show where you take it down for a landing. No, I would love to. I'm sure you would. It's late here. Yeah, you stole a little bit of my thunder there, but yeah, this is, I actually know the episode, this is episode 100. 100. The.

Okay. Okay. Pretty good, PJ. Okay, we'll get it together. Maybe by next 100. We'll figure that out. Of the OK podcasts, we'd like to thank our guests, multiple guests that we had on the episode today. PJ, always great to have you on.

Tanner, love talking to Tanner. The biggest guest we had by far was 100% Connor. So glad that he was able to hop on and grace us with his presence for all of 30 seconds. Yeah, in the car, man. What a great guy. Good dude. Better at podcasting. That's what we've always said about fire.

Better at teaching special ad, I think. Hey, fake to be a pretty good dentist there. He knows how to fake being a good thing. That is true. Yeah. He did. He had a good dinner. Yeah.

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always hungry for content if you're not throwing up in a bucket at the end of that that's uh that's what we want to see that's the good content we came for yeah uh Jeff's live right now grain is actually live right now I believe on X so there's actually six people watching whoa I cannot believe that. I can. Yeah. Five bots. Yeah.

Some Jordy. Jordan. Outside of that, we are powered by the Strength Co. What's anything new with the Strength Co? Uh, go buy plates. Go buy some plates,

man. Yeah. The 0.7. Outside of that. popped off. What's that? The 0.75 real that we made. Yeah,

they did pop off. They really did pop off. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I was in full grantee mode when we film that. So it was good. It's my favorite. It's my favorite mode, to be honest.

Yeah. I see this real. It's the best, it's the best mode. People say, it's popping off. Now, 0.75 reels are popping off, dude. Yeah. We're going to. 0.7.5s.

We're actually so a lot of them, literally. In contact. I think there's like six sets left. They like literally, I'm not attributing at all to that real, PJ. But we had a run on 0.75s. Like, oil started spiking and point seven five started disappearing and bitcoin started plummeting and then it came back and like everything's okay i heard if point seven five plates hit two hundred dollars a plate

then the economy crashes uh for sure i heard that about oil and i think it's true but go ahead so power it's right power but yeah excuse me uh slide bar to a minimum please Is sidebars who minimum? Yeah, Powered by the Strength Co. as I was wrapping up here, King's Cloth, as you can see,

it is inducted. Yeah, we all, Jordy has his somewhere in there. You should. Yeah, he's even better. Even better.

Even better. But, Coach, I miss anything. Episode 100. No, episode 100. Appreciate you listening for 100 episodes. Last episode as Godfather.

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