The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - Ep. 101: Mexican Breakfast, Jay Cutler & Rescuing Starlink

Episode Date: March 20, 2026

Episode 101 of The Okay Podcast dives into USA vs Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic, March Madness storylines, and reactions to an 83-point NBA performance. The guys also break down everything from Texas Tech’s wild weight room rules to Lou Holtz’s funeral and the current state of sports culture. It all starts with one of their funniest and most chaotic “staff brief” segments yet, blending sports, life, and pure podcast chaos.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 - Intro07:51 - Staff Brief25:34 - Lou Holtz Funeral27:56 - World Baseball Classic43:55 - Jay Cutler Sighting49:39 - No Light Dumbbells52:07 - Johnny Blue Skies Update01:01:31 - Hot Sauce & Mexican Breakfast01:14:54 - Starlink Update01:22:09 - Do People Watch The Oscars?01:26:13 - Honoring Little Zoey

All right, and welcome back to episode 101, 101 of the OK podcast powered by the Strength Co, 101, or it could also be called episode one of set two. We've been working on the set for about two years. We finished the first set. Instead of resting, we're going right back into set two. We're on set two of the OK podcast, episode 101, lightweight, powered by the Stranko. This podcast night is also powered by Sudafed. Potential sponsor, Sudafed.

If you wonder why I'm here, it's because I'm on a lot of Sudafed, but a little sick. So you might hear some background sniffles and wiggles and jiggles. We appreciate Sudafed potential sponsor keeping the lights on, if you will. The price of Bitcoin is $75,070.20.21 cents. it is day 16 of the war in Iran. Remember two weeks to stop the spread. Two weeks to stop the war. We're on day 16.

Bitcoin is pumping. The Ayatola of rock and rolla is gay, I guess, which for some reason made the markets all go up. I don't know why that's relevant, but it seems to be relevant. So remember you heard it here on the OK podcast. So there's that. we got a lot of friends down range

headed down range so to the FDO down range Godfather speed as they say today's date is March the 16th in the year of our Lord 2026 that means tomorrow St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick I don't think I can call him a great American hero but you know what I mean when I say the sentiment because we support the troops tomorrow St. Patrick's Day Chicago's. flooding the river green. I'm sure there's a lot of people that are partaking in

corned beef hash and mash and bangers and Guinness by the pint. So happy St. Patrick's Day. We're here podcasting, though, because that's what we do. And we're recording live. We're live on X right now. If you're not checking it out on X live, that's weird. There's not three of you that do so far. and we're just going to keep doing live over there.

I don't know why. I'm impressed. But I got the link to work. My camera's still broken. So if you're watching us on YouTube, which is like four of you, there's three watching on X, four watching on YouTube,

and I think five followers on Instagram, but if you're watching on YouTube, blame PJ. I had a call with them today, did the equipment strand, but digcoms are tough, especially. I mean,

digoms are always tough, but that's why we do voiceover ditch, and that's why we got. good microphones and I'm here in Coast Mesa, California, recording live. Jeff, Mr. Jeff Bouget, we cleared up his name. It's Biggie. It's Biggie for you, non-Somhow, some way. American types, or as my brother calls him Biggie Blue Jeans, and I don't know why he calls him.

I like that. That's what the President of Home Depot calls him. He calls him Biggie Blue Jeans. How's old Biggie Blue Jeans doing? He's in the Greater Salt Lake City area. So it's great to have him. And then also joining us from a little town in Texas where the stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart. Jeff, where's he at?

Oh, gosh. Give me an off the cup. It would be a good. Is there a Dublin, Texas? Oh, Dublin. I feel like I even guessed that one before. Dublin. Yeah, for St. Patrick's Day, he went to Dublin, Texas. Dublin, city and Texas, East

County, East County and Central Texas, 3,559 in the 2020 census. So they probably all left after 2020 because they were told two weeks to stop the spread. Because everything going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, with everything going on. They got a Ben Hogan Museum. That's kind of cool. Okay. A golfer. Big golf guy. They got a, they got a

rodeo museum. Local culture known for things Celtic, a specialty shop. They're also known for Valdhusian cheese. Oh, yeah. And they have an annual St. Patrick's Day Festivals. I've great, great choice, Jeff.

Great pick. Great pick. Dublin, Texas, potential sponsor. Maybe the city's got a local high school. They want some Stranko player. Maybe they want an ice helmet. You know, maybe they want an ice helmet to put up in their high school locker room. I mean, who doesn't?

You know what I mean? Yeah, who doesn't? Hey, we appreciate you. They're selling out of those things. I bet. Oh, gridiron. Yeah, here's your, oh, it's a nice helmet.

It's U.S. Border Patrol. Same but different. Iraq, Iran. I've read the book, you know. Same same. Iraq. Yeah. What's the meme going on the internet right now?

It's like Iraq. No, it's, I ran this. I ran this is real that. I ran out of beer and the struggle is real. That's a popular. I say I ran out of Stranko-Forty-Five-Fed and the struggle is real or whatever you want. Big episode. Like I said, powered by Sudafed.

If I'm sounding a little funky, you know why. We appreciate you tuning in episode 100. A lot of folks excited about 100 going into it. And I think we're like the Bad Bunny halftime show. We delivered. okay we delivered with ethnic history had a lot of guests on here made PJ sit and watch us for an hour

before we even said anything to him I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed that just hey PJ we watch you on the show sit in the corner and shut up we'll talk to you at the end so we appreciate PJ coming a lot of people listening though a lot of people you know I didn't think we're listeners said hey episode 100

good job. I said, wait, you're not my mother. Who are you? You're listening to the pod? Any surprises? Anybody good? I mean, you don't want to me to make a list, do you? Yeah, no, I want you to wrap that. I don't know. We don't have enough time. You don't have enough time in a day to go through all days. Even like, you know, half of them that would take forever.

A lot of listeners. Yeah. I think that's pretty good. Seven minute. intro, I think the diehards will appreciate that. The Tim Bains of the world, BW Taxes of the world. This podcast brought to you by BW. Tax. It is tax season.

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So head over to bwtax LLC.com. And with that, I'm fired up for the staff brief. I'm fired up. I'm fired up. I'll kick in three. As we should be fired up because it looks like, well, hold on. Let me load the team, the brief on teams.

Okay. Okay. Can everyone see my screen? Is it screen sharing? No. Is it? Okay. Okay.

It looks like my screen isn't sharing and looking at the last updated notation on teams. Okay. No one got their slides updated. Okay. Hey, sir, sir. Sir, can you hear me? This, Gunny Rod. Can you hear me?

Yes, Gunny. Gunny. Have you loud and clear, Gunny, loud and clear. Hey, thanks, sir. I'm headed to my daughter's soccer game. Hang on, sweetie. Hang on, sweetie. I'm on the call.

I'll be out for about four minutes, but I just wanted you to know I'm here. Okay, I'm here. Okay, excellent, excellent. Thank you for that. Needed that, definitely. Really added a lot to the call, and I'm sure you're going to be taking copious notes.

But with that, moving forward, let's go kick it over to the One Shop. Let's talk per stats, admin, G1 report card. What do we got? Good evening, sir. This is Chief Foreign Officer 19. My last name's not 19. That's my rank.

I just keep adding numbers on. I'm a pursu. I'm a byproduct of blam. And I just want to say that DTS authorizations need to be done prior to travel within 96 hours. And we are not having people construct their worksheets. and we need the worksheets constructed and uploaded in to DTS prior to the travel. And then the Marines actually have 72 hours from the time that their travel begins on the way home to put their DTS vouchers in.

Now, we realize that some of them fly coast to coast with each 24 hours with the time change, but they have 72 hours or we're going to fail the McCram and the McCatt and the CGRR. and this ground safety inspection. It's actually tied to ground safety. So if people could just go into McTiffs, because I know that like the average corporal that flies to Florida for drill has McTiffs access and upload the proof that he drilled, we want to get those things paid out post-haste.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, nothing for the group. Excellent. And on an actual note, that reminds me I need to do my DTS for travel. So thank you S1 Whether fictional or actual. None of that was fictional. That was productive.

Okay. Moving along, S2. What do we got? Intel. We got anybody from the Intel shop here. Is that me this week? Yeah, that's you.

Sir, apologies. This is Lance Corporal Smith. As you know, the S1 is still out, sir. I'm usually just in the cave most of the time, sir, but really nothing new to brief to the group. The Laminator is fixed. It was working for a couple days,

and now it is back down. So I'm working on getting that fixer. I will try my best and hopefully have a update for you. A trash chick's here, Smith. I appreciate what you do, Smitty. You really fill in the gaps with the LT out there. Mark Sock. He's a quitter. He's a traitor. He should have been here. These guys want to go high speed, low drag. And what they really ought to be

focused on is no trash in the wag bag. But in any event, we appreciate what you do. You got any updates on drones as an 05 commander. I like to reach down to the young 19 Lance Corporal. It's been in the seat for about three days to get my Intel updates. Can you tell me anything about drones in Iran? No, sir, not about Iran. The recently, there was a drone delivery service that Walmart offers

that I've been using. That's actually fairly pretty nifty. I can write a report about that, sir, and get back to you as quick as I can't. I don't have anything about Iran drones. No, sir, I don't. They got Walmarts in Iran.

Oh, yes, sir, yeah. looking to spread that democracy around the globe, maybe. So, they were a white guy. A, three, give it the five, couple of major brains, write me a white paper. If there's Walmarts in Iran and they're using delivery system, I could see where the enemy could vote. The enemy has a vote and a will. Do I need more guidance, or am I clear?

Do you need more guidance? Crystal clear, sir, crystal clear. We understand that's a glass ball, a glass ball that we will not drive. We will look into it for guidance and a few into the future. We'll have that white paper on your desk in the morning. Yeah. Yeah. Tomorrow would be great.

That's realistic to have a real good non-chat GPT article. Absolutely, sir. We won't sleep. We won't. We'll bust out a couple cots from supply. We'll sleep at the office. We'll grab our sleep systems and roll them out and be just a couple iron majors. When I was a lieutenant, I might have been an XO, a trash company.

You know, we never really went back. We just slept in the office all the time. And, yeah, good ties back there. Had a great guttery sergeant. You know, they don't make staff NCOs like they used to. Wasn't near as hard as recruiting was. But anyhow, yeah, go ahead, three. Oh, great, always love the really good lieutenant stories, sir.

Amazing. All right. Stories, sir, very motivating. I appreciate you guys as a positive feedback just keeps them coming you know yeah I'd tell you one time

Gunny showed up in my house with a wig on and a 12 pack of beer but I'll say that for another day all right no sounds like a good one sir sounds like a good one

okay and that brings us to operations all right hey we're we're driving the bus here we got 12 confirmation briefs this week so we got to make sure

we're updating all of our slides. You're still trying to get that to 15, right? Remember, we talked at a dozen's not really enough briefs for people to call into in a week. I want to see that number at 1-5. 1-5 briefs. Track it, tracking.

2.A with one extra per capita. Hi, sir. One extra per capita. Okay, yeah, we'll get the 3-Alpha and the 3 Zulu and the 3 Zulu Charlie grinding on those briefs. They too will also check out costs from supply and will not sleep unless we grant them a couple of hours here at the office. But other than that, operations were tracking along. Go ahead and pull up the po-am.

Okay, we got the po-am. Okay. Yep. Looks great. As you can see where we are on the po-am because it's obviously always up to date and always has a lot of really relevant information for everybody that's looking at the po-am. maybe we're just go ahead and take a quick snapshot and then just turn two on what you got to get done we'll kick it over to the four now that's all we got sir this is Lance Corporal Smith

from the two there wasn't supposed to be any phones in here because I was talking about Iranian Walmarks can me please have that anyone delete everything from their minds that they just thought about and then I'll take those now okay thank you sir everyone everyone okay I got a

time hack. I got 23, 55, or 35 and then I got 56 and 2, 1. Okay, hack. Okay, everybody hopefully hacked your 1. I got 21, 36 and 4, 5, okay, good hack.

All right. And go ahead and just delete everything from your brain that you just had. Okay, that was a good time hack. Erased. Okay. Moving on. Moving on. S4. Oh, yeah. talk about typical

four stuff here. I just wanted to add my two cents on those Walmart drones. I have also used them and they are very helpful. Nothing to do. I know this is the S2's lane. I just also kind of want to touch base on it. But no, very good. I could see them eventually

using them drones to kind of pick up trash with the battalion. I think that would be very helpful. But until we get those drones to pick up the trash, I am going to need another set of Marines or some working party. We do have phasmo coming down. in the next two years. We need to get ready for that now.

The pipe. Dumpsters. Excuse me? Coming down to the pipe. Oh, sir, go ahead. Coming down the pipe. Oh, sir, go ahead. Excuse me.

This is the 3-alpha. I've also used the Walmart drones, and I got to say, they're pretty great. I get my protein supplements brought to me. I'm in a bulking phase. It's more of a dirty bulking phase. I'm also trying to eat this.

This trash 5, 3-alpha. Hey, listen, three, Alva, you've got to be two something to do something, okay? You got to be two something to do something. You're looking a little light there. Looking lighter than PJ coming off a birth of a child. I am currently 176 right now, right now, sir. But yeah, I get my Walmart delivery drones. It may be soaked a wet, and a wet paper bag.

I love when Major's bully, bully lie. There's nothing better. just the bullying major all the briefs and I always did love trying to get the like whoever was in charge to get him on a tangent so like

I got a story for another time hey sir what was going on with that story about the gunny you showed up in the dress tell that story all right you got a couple minutes oh man okay anything further from the foreshop

anything else oh no sir yeah no just face my prep coming down the pocket. Okay, okay. Good to go. Good to go. Good to go. Okay. Medical, dental. We got any of those cats in here? Chaps, you in here. Rodeos happened this week. Oh, good to go. Good to go.

Brush your teeth. Brush your teeth. Floss. All that good trash. Prey. It's all inside S4. All right, hold on. S6. Are you in here? We got anybody from the six shop communications? So this is the foreshop. I was

S6, they're doing a ComX, doing some sloping Vs. Oh, great, great, great, great. Slanted eyes. What, what, I don't know the, what all the letters they do and what angles are at, but that's what they're doing

with the comms. That's good trash. Appreciate you covering now for it. So you're not a major. Oh, yes, sir. Outline stations. All right, outline stations. Let's see.

We got the chaplain. Chaplain checking in here. I was notified by the FFIs. I wonder if he's a force fitness instructors could be. Probably. Okay. It looks like Chaps is up with the lingo. He gets it.

He knows what's going on. He's figuring it out. I was notified by the FFIs that we are having issues with the Marines not properly girding their loins during their PT. It is of the utmost importance to keep your loins properly girded. I'm not sure why I was made. aware of this, but they noted my position placed me as the Smee or subject matter expert. That's true.

Of loin girding, speaking of which. And then in quotation, for where your treasure is, there will be your heart also. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning. So then closes with, gird your loins, gird your trash. Nothing else for the group over. Simper. So I talked to Chaps the other day and you know, we missed

the Arnold. We had Tanner on. He gave us a little Arnold recap. Hope you enjoyed that in episode 100. And I was talking to Chaps and he said man, I was at the Arnold and like a lot of listeners came up to me and we're like, oh, you're the chaplain.

And he's like the pressure's on more than ever now that like I'm like a part of it. He's like, Sometimes you put outlying stations on so late and I'm on the East Coast directly above Georgia and Ohio and I'm like scrambling for time. But yeah, Chapin, we appreciate what you do. We really do. We would really like someone to have like a bunch on deck and just send them out like in.

No, that's not real. That'd be like us. That'd be like us just like playing a previous recording of the staff brief for the first 15 minutes of the show. again that's something we should really do. It doesn't make it. No.

Trey. Always new data. Remember, part of making the sausage is making the sausage. That is true. Tell you would. Do we get any more online stations?

I didn't see any other ones in there. I do feel like to. It would feel weird if the chaplain didn't say anything. It was just Jeff. And then I know all Johnny Shepherd, aka Billy Martin is in Norway

so he may be having trouble checking in. We don't have the HF shot set up for that on vacation. Stephen Cato of sorts. If I know you and now I'm going to say I don't know

you, my apologies. I'm looking at your profile picture here. I'm trying to watch the Grammys. But I appreciate you tagging this in some dumpsters which looks like in a That was great. City somewhere. We appreciate that.

Matt Rohnen, we appreciate you tagging Chaps. And I really enjoyed that video where the Chaps is like, oh, right, salute. forgot about that part. That was good. Donnie Bowers.

Appreciate you. Tagging us in the top 10 music videos to watch while drinking beer in the garage. That was good. Dan O'Connell, Taliban, don't serve. I appreciate your comment. Brian Draleigh laughing at our Ohio State

days since last sexual misconduct, looking at the mix, not Mexican, Michigan guy, mean. We appreciate that. Joshua Hansen, appreciate you saying Auburn three times. Auburn.

Auburn. I think that wraps up the outlying stations. Hey, that's why they call it a staff brief. We've always done it. We'll never not do it. Some people don't like it. Some people, it's the only part of the show.

They listen to you. We got a little bit of, we got a little bit of something for everyone, right? That's right. We're like the Trump administration. You want somebody telling you to raw milk? Here's the raw milk guy. You want to bomb Iran? Here's this guy.

You don't want to bomb Iran. Here's this guy. Spread it all out for everybody. Make sure everyone's entertained. So, yeah, I totally. We've always said we're exactly the Trump administration. That's what I wanted my politics. Entertainment.

Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Okay. Okay. Auburn. A little warning for the show. We've been a little busy lately.

People got a lot of life stuff going on. And the slides were not upstated very much. A couple people mailed it in with a few comments. but yeah. Actually, I feel like I contributed more than usual. That was the most you've ever done, the one time you posted something. That will, honestly, that's wow. Wow.

Okay. Yeah. I feel like I'll get with you offline. Hey, keep the sidebars to a minimum. Yeah. Get with them offline. This podcast is brought to you by green gridiron, gridiron green, locally known for those in the greater Salt Lake City area

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Yeah, we should start the show. I think we've got to start with Lou Holtz's funeral. Oh, tell me about it. Was that televised? Oh, yeah. It's not in the show notes. I spent the majority of my day dumping 4,000 gallons of mucus into tissues so I didn't actually watch it all but I did see a lot of clips of it

yeah it was at Notre Dame at the Basilica what stood out as team marched down the street it was snowing it was the day you know we talk a lot of

smack on Notre Dame, but it's hard to not like Irish Catholics, and it's hard to not like Lou Holtz. And it was just like a snowy day, old team walking down the street, all the songs he had picked out were phenomenal hymns, Bible verses scripture readings. I actually do plan to watch the service, but RIP to a legend, Lou Holtz. Was that a long one? Or do you know? I don't know. I mean, I think it was a two, three, two, three hours.

Like, it was, it was live on TV. If you, if you. Yeah. Oh, I don't know that the mass was that long. I know that the broadcast, because it was like the team marched in, Skip Holtz, former Gamecock coach and, you know, the rest of the Holtz family of the Paul Bears. And so, you know, a lot of that was broadcasted.

I think the ceremony was broadcasted. but I think all in all it was like a two and a half hour broadcast. But, uh, yeah, old Lou, man, old Lou. It was sad, man, but I don't know. How old do you, do you say it was 90? Is he 90 something? Uh, I want to say he was 89. Lou Holtz, but he might have been 92 age at death.

Yeah, good run. Yeah, 89. Yeah, 89. Still good run, yeah. Good run. Good run. Good run. Good run.

Good dude. Good dude. Still good dude. Better coaching. Good dude. Hey, pretty good at coaching. Pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good.

Pretty good. All right. We want to then jump into sports talk. That's like, that's like sports adjacent. Do we want to do, do we want to talk? Do you want to talk? No, let's do sports. Yeah, stick with the sports.

Yeah. Yeah, we're still in sports. I can dig it. Do we, did you, I don't know if we put this in there, but the American, or what's the World Baseball Classic? Oh, yeah. What's the latest update on that?

Venezuela's playing Italy. Did Venezuela hang on to win that? Let me pull it up. Okay, Venezuela beat the finals. They beat Dominican Republic. Great game. Yeah, dude. Venezuela beat Italy 4-2.

So now that takes us to the final, right? USA versus Venezuela. I think on Wednesday. I should be a good game. DR's lineup. Dude. I did not realize they were that stacked.

And I like pulled it up the day before. And I was like, oh my gosh. It's like, hey, we got to get through the heart of the lineup. That's literally the lineup. It's like, oh, yeah. Three of these people could win the MVP of the league next year. Here's. Like, who's on it?

Here's one through six. Tatis, Marie, Juan Soto, Vladdi, Comanaro, and Machado. That's one through six. I mean, Juan Soto followed by Vlad Guerrero is enough. Dude. Right? And Fernando Tatis Jr. Leigh, no.

Oh, my. Yeah. Dude. It's bananas. Bananas. Yeah. It was crazy. It was crazy.

But we beat them. Good team effort by the bullpen. Skeins. Yeah. okay okay okay Auburn and I think even like admittedly in the interview after the game he was like yeah it wasn't my best wasn't the prettiest

but like got it to the bullpen and then they took what lock was ice yeah yeah what lock was huge did you watch your tray would you say the I didn't I kind of watched for some reason I couldn't find on YouTube TV it said it was on Fox

I tried pulling up it was on FS1 oh weird I watched that why I was looking it's probably why I couldn't find it I was looking on the wrong channel. So I was kind of just watching the, you know, on ESPN. It was the ninth inning.

And you know how you can see like, oh, ball, strike. Pitch cap. Yeah. So I was kind of watching it there just before I was going to bed. Got a little bit of watching there at the end. Yeah. Right on third. Yeah, stressful.

I'd be ticked if I was DR. Oh, dude. Over that. Yeah. Called strike. Yeah. I mean, I loved it. I mean, it was a, it was a, I'm a, I'm a Patriots fan, you know.

It was a great pitch. And it was the pitch he was like kind of, he was trying to throw. And so I don't know, like, yeah, I'm okay. It was a little loud. Yeah, but I'm like, that's what he was trying to do. Like, I'm okay with the beat. So is the American team, are they just good all around? Are they, is there straight?

It's our sport, Trey. It's our sport, okay? We're good. We're good at two things. Baseball and I ran. All right. That's what we do. It's not a sport.

It's a pastime. So it's America's pastime, but it's also a sport. We're going to talk about that Aggie dugout today, too. Someone sitting, yeah, someone's saving that video. I haven't seen that a lot. Yeah, so USA versus Vidensuela. Wednesday. Wednesday, okay.

Yeah, I'm going to say, 4-3 USA right now off a Schwabobabom. There you go. It could be good game. Ronald Cooney Jr. Land of Braves. Venezuela's not messing around either.

No, that's not an easy lineup again. We'll see. Yeah. I wonder who's going to start on the mound for US. I haven't really looked. Oh, yeah. I don't know. Let's look that up.

Who is starting for USA World Base of a Classic Final? Nolan McLean, New York Mets. Okay. Nolan McLean. Nolan. Okay. Okay.

Oh, we got, Ryan. Oh, Nolan Ryan. Nolan Hickey. Nolan Hickey. Nolan, Ryan. Hey, man. A bunch of good Nolan's. A lot of good Nolan.

Yeah. McLean. No, I'll probably try to actually watch this one. So, yeah. Oh, yeah. I was sad I'm going to miss the other one. Hey, it was a good game. It was a good game.

Had a lot of people messaging about it. It was in Slack channel. Had friends messaging about it. Good game. Good game. Go USA. Dominate. USA.

USA. Okay. A couple of basketball topics. I put them in there. You see Bam at a bio had an 80-point game. Yeah, I did. People are kind of hating on it, though, because like 40 some points

of that were free throws. Yeah. You gotta make them. I mean, it's part of the game. I'm okay with it. I'm okay with the team. 83 points, yeah. What are you going to do?

It's still really impressive. Like, he was giving him enough trouble and they had to foul him that many times. And so like. And then he made his shots. Yeah. So hearing those points. I don't know.

Yeah. People are like, well, no, Kobe's. 81 point game was was better and it was different and I'm like that's probably true because is it because he had less free throws is that why yes that's the argument I think it's why some people are trying to hate on it is because it was so free throw heavy

I've never heard of this guy before that 83 points like really pretty good player I knew the name but I never would have like oh I know like oh he's gonna drop 80 one day but you know Oh, yeah, maybe I didn't think of that. Yeah. Like is he like, is he like go to the All-Stars, All-Star game? Is that even a thing anymore?

Yeah, don't they do it? They do, but it's like, it's like weird. It's terrible. Yeah, it's like they don't. They're all-star. They ruined it. And now it's like, they all act like a bad version of the Globetrotters. Okay.

Does he get the accolade of going to the? I mean, kind of, but kind of like people say like pro bowler, I feel like that's gone away too. Like they kind of ruined that too. Like they turn it into like Disneyland. It's like, oh, you're talking about the event itself. Okay. He's a three-time NBA All-Star. I get what you're saying.

I agree with you. I think it's a waste of time. But I think like it's a resume. Yeah. To help you get into it. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think basketball players have job interviews?

What resume? Is that going on? It's a resume for the Hall of Fame. Yeah. No, yeah, three-time NBA All-Star. All-Defense all-team. See, we're a three-time All-Star. We'll take you.

Well, we're looking for people that have been five-time All-Stars in above. So, sorry, we're able to pass a different candidate. So, yeah. And then other basketball. I guess there's one other basketball topic. It was controversial was the Big 12 rolled out for their conference tournament. They had like a glass court and it was all like LED. Almost killed three kids.

I don't know if that's tough. But it looked three kids got hurt. It looked pretty cool. Oh, it looked really cool. And then, but then like, yeah, they're like players slipping, people complaining about it. I think, yeah, there were some injuries. and so they pulled the LED court for like the finals or the semifinals because they like so they made and they put it back to a traditional hard court

but it looked pretty sick hopefully they figure out that coding or like how the I think it was maybe the seams were like not great I think it was something like it was too slippery is what they the complaint was right real question is where they playing with a glass ball because you can't drop those can not drop those let's get dropped those yeah and you can't throw in the glass house on a glass court

Yeah, that's what they've always said. That's what I said. We've always said that. Never not. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, the tech kid, I feel like his season. I don't feel like it's over. But I'm like, is it?

Would these have happened? People slip on regular basketball courts, like not all. People slip on tall grass. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, but when, but like when both teams, like when multiple teams are complaining about the same thing. I feel like there's some,

I would give it a little bit of credence. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like one of those things like, did they, was it, were they like look? I don't know. I don't know. But I mean, yeah, like probably right call to pull,

to swap it for the other court just to couldily remove that. And I think it's just because they just like threw it out there, like at the last minute. And that's why a lot of them were like not used to it. Yeah. I don't know. They did from the beginning of the season. It might be a different story.

True, true. Well, the Citadel made it to the, the semifinals of the Socon tournament and lost to East Tennessee State University by three. I thought it was the year. We got Ed Conroy coaching again, Pat Conroy's nephew, Deep Southern take there, who was the coach when I was at the school. And we packed the Mac, as they say, McAllister Fieldhouse. We beat Michigan.

and we were ranked. We almost made the tournament. And we won the, what, one, two, three games in the Socon tournament. And I was fired up thinking we're going to make the finals. We lost. But yeah, it was good. Good to see the Citadel make a little run. That's fun.

That's rough. Yeah, what are you going to do? How did A&M? How did A&M? What was the hell? How was their basketball team? They got tin seed. Okay. They're going up against St. Mary's.

on Thursday. Okay. Okay. Did you guys see St. John's? They got the Italian coach. What is it? Rick? St. John's coach. I'm embarrassed on. Rick Patino. Rick Patino, yeah.

You know, he's got some like adultery charges back in his life or whatever. But he had, they put the cameras in the locker room, Jeff. And he had some good sound bites. He had some good sound bites. Got to get those cameras out of there. Yeah. Then he won the game and just has like a beer at his presser.

And like the, they're just, and he's just like drinking a beer. And I'm like, this is like 60. I don't care. I'm just Patel was there. Yeah, Cash Patel was there. We got to get FDA director in there. Really see what's going on. Cash Patel was there. The new

Ayatollah was there. Rick Patino wasn't a fan. They had to keep Lindsey Graham out. It was crazy. Damn. He's that. What's the We start photoshopping just cash Patel. Update to it. Yeah.

No, no cameras in the locker room. No cabinet members in the locker room. No FBI agents. No politicians. Is the whole bracket made? Yes. Yeah.

Oh. I guess they have that like first four. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I see it here. Sort of. Okay.

I'm looking at it. Is Auburn in? Did they make it? Dude, Cal Baptist. made it. California Baptist made it? I'm pulling for Cal Baptist. A big Cal Baptist podcast. A&M. What's your mascot?

I don't know. Let me look it up. But I pass Cal Baptist and I'm pulling for Cal Baptist. I'm a Baptist. I'm living California. It's a Lancor. It's a Cal Baptist Landowners. I love that. Dang. I'm kind of St. John's

Northern Iowa High Point, good North Carolina. school. Missouri, Miami should be fun. The city of Queens, New York. No, Queens, North Carolina, my bad. Hofstra, Wright State, Santa Clara, Tennessee State, Iowa State. Then there's the first four play-ins. Yeah, I'm pulling for looking at this lineup. Pulling for Chapel Hill, because my mother will be happy. Happy mother, happy life. True.

And I'm pulling for Furman because they won the Socon tournament and they're Greenville, South Carolina, and I'm pulling for Cal Baptist. So give me, what do they call it? Mary story, a Virgin Mary. What do they call it?

What do they call it when a team? Come on. Hell Mary? You know. No, no. Cinderella story. The Cinderella story. Yeah.

I'm mad. I couldn't decipher the grant. Great work. Trey. Nice. Trey. That's what 101 episodes get you. I'm pulling for the Virgin Mary of college basketball.

It's a Virgin Mary story. Yeah. Oh, that was good. That was really good. Great story. It is a good story. It is a good story. Yeah.

A lot of implications on life. Yeah. All right. What else we got? That's basketball. We're closing out. Okay, closing out basketball. I had one other quick little sports topic.

I just just, it was late addition to the slide deck, threw it in there. But I guess today they did release Team USA's soccer kit for the World Cup this summer. They're like old school, man. Jersey there is like a kind of waving red and white stripes there on the jersey with some blue shorts. I posted it in the slack if y'all wanted to take a look. But yeah. Looks good.

I feel like they did this. Looking at it. They did something similar with like, I think without like the wavy stripes. It was just like. But I like it. I can dig it. I can do it.

Mm-hmm. Gray, you think you're going to watch World Cup? No. Not at all. If Mexico plays like USA and it's like on in every canteen in California, then yeah, I'll probably stumble into it. It's not that I won't want to watch it,

but look, when you're a sports guy, I mean, we're coming in hockey playoffs soon. We got NBA coming, spring trainings going. But no, I don't think I will make a conscious effort to turn on a World Cup game. If I do, if I end up watching one, I won't be upset, but it's not,

that will not be on my gym radar. Okay, it's not a priority. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good to go. Good to go. This podcast brought to you by Sudafed.

Sudafed. Keeping the snot back. Potential sponsor, baby. Is that what they say? Yeah. I don't know if this falls into the, still like in the sports world or the weightlifting world or the bodybuilding world. But Jake Cutler on the beach is that Jake Cutler, the bodybuilder or Jake Keller former Broncos? in Chicago Bears quarterback,

former Vanderville quarterback, SEC guy. Oh, no, I love that. No, I thought you were going to go to Texas Tech not allowed in 45s, but Jay Cutler's good too. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm on the beach last week. We got, I can't remember his name right now. I should, and I feel bad.

Whoever you are, I feel terrible. I want to see your last name's like Morrissey, but it got comments on the podcast a lot. faithful listener, keeps asking me for my running PFT plan. Good news is I just recorded, did a seminar last week for a bunch of Marines from Seal Beach at my gym. There was a question on how to train for your PFT, and I gave a full disclosure that like I'm totally okay with a 23-minute, three-mile these days. But I covered that in-depth in PGA's slicing and dice in videos, and you'll see that on YouTube soon. on strength training, being good for being a Marine.

It'll be four or five videos. Also being good for the CFT and then also like being good for the PFT, but you do have to do a little bit more for the PFT. And one of the things you have to do is you have to run. And I say, I'll say say I'm going to run my physical fitness test with old Mr. Jeff Bouget up in Seal Beach on or around 1 May in Seal Beach, which put me at the realization that I'm about six weeks out. which meant that I had to put feet to pavement,

Christianity and shoe leather, and go live it out. And so I go last week, and I'm going for a little jog. And I'm running. And I like to go down to Newport Beach. If I can in the mornings, park my truck,

and there'll be a bunch of people swimming around this pier. And you just go for a run. And you're on the beach. And it's easy. Sometimes you live near a location and never go. right and so whenever i need to run when i can i try to go to another run so anyway i'm down on

newport beach i'm running i remember i did two miles out two miles back something like that i'm running the pier and i'm running back and i see a dude on a bike and i just think man that guy is gigantic like he is huge and i'm running not very fast and he's biking not very fast and we're coming And before he's to me, at a point that we were able to make eye contact and him to say hello, I thought, oh, that's Jay Cutler. And I've met up at the Arnold a few times. Diana, my wife's gotten her photo with him. You know, and I know he's an Orange County guy.

He's bumped into Connor over the years at restaurants. They've taken selfies. And so I'm running. And like, you know, I don't look like a gazelle. I look like a guy that, like, why is that guy running? and he's on a bike and it's like, why is that guy biking? And I'm not saying I'm even anywhere in the neighborhood, Jay Cutler. I'm not, but I realize it in time and I say, hey, Jay, how's it going, man?

And he's biking. And then I was wearing a Strenko T-shirt, obviously. And he goes, oh, Stranko, what's up? And I was like, that's SoCal right there, baby. It's like 70 degrees. It's 8.30 in the morning. The place is filled with fitness enthusiasts. And I'm running down the boardwalk and just seeing Jay

Cutler and he's got a little brand recognition from the Strength Co and that was it you know in my mind he was going to turn the bike around combined like hey by the way i've been wanting to put build a home gym that didn't happen but uh you know just saying hello for a selfie with great hey grand strength listener of the kai podcast yeah love it thinking about coming on yeah good to see old j cutler uh good good old good old is he really Yeah, does he look good? No, homero? No, Dittie.

No, Dittie. As a guy whose buddy drills on Fort Dix where Ditty lives, no Ditty. Yeah, no. I mean, I don't know. That's actually, I don't think Jay's ever to listen to this podcast, so I think I'm safe. Oh, you ever know? That is a, yes, he looks jacked. I should rephrase it.

Does he look 52? No. doesn't look 52. Okay. Yeah. That's how it should have been for his beginning. No, I like the way he. But also like, was he pretty hot?

Is he a hot dude? Is he hot dude? Looks like a guy that's taking a lot of D ball and spent a lot of time in taining that, you know? Hey, there you go. He's pretty hot dude. Maybe it looks good. I don't know.

I also think like we're getting old enough that 52 doesn't sound crazy anymore. No. which is terrifying. Yeah, that's terrifying. It's just like, oh. Yeah. I would say if I was 52 and looked like him, I'd be happy.

No, did he? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Next slide. Yeah, next slide. This is getting weird. We'll be talking about the Shah of Iran pretty soon.

Is he hot dude? Is that we're talking about? No, he's just pro-diddy, I think. Oh, right. Got it. Yeah. You touched out there. But yeah, Texas Tech.

No dumbbells. Below 40 or 45? What are the, yeah, but like... I think it was below 40. A couple people sent it to me. I actually saw it before some folks sent it to me. I saw it and I just kind of scanned on and then people sent it to me. I was like, oh, maybe this is interesting.

And then I listened to a couple of clips. And, you know, and then I looked at people commenting and they're like, yeah, my strength coach would never allow two and a halfs in the gym. And there was just this like bias of like, yeah, if everything's heavier in here, everyone will just be stronger, which is like a pretty ignorant take. But yeah, they have no dumbbells under 40s. And they were talking about like side lateral raises and stuff, which are fine. And, you know, with a bunch of thoroughbred Texans might actually work out.

It might be okay. I don't know if they're Texans, man. What do you think? They're like Somalians? No, I feel like Texas, Texas, you just spend a ton of money and just paid people from all across the country to come join. Oh, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it doesn't matter. My point is with... They're thoroughbreds, U.S. Superbrates. Yeah, with D1 Division athletes, that kind of take might actually work. Yeah.

Like, it really might actually work. It's just funny to me of like, the strength coach there, having zero understanding of stress recovery adaptation and getting stronger, just like, taking everything out of the gym

that weighs less than 40 pounds, brother. Yeah. I thought it was. It was Jay, Cutler's a coach. Yeah, Jay Cutler. No, he's a California guy, man. He's pulled to Cal Baptist.

Yeah, Cal Baptist. That's why they're in the tournament. That's why they're in the tournament. That's why they made it. They got nothing above a 40. Yeah, he's, Hypertrophy. High reps.

Hypertrophy, baby. It's like you got to dribble a dumbbell. We're going to have the hottest basketball team. We're going to have the tannest basketball team. Lowest body fat percentage. It's going to be great. Shredded. It's going to distract the other teams.

That's what it'll deal. Amen. Hey, we'll see if it pays off for them. So that's all the sports topics. I think. So we're real big on sports. Tell me about this record. Oh, okay. Okay.

Johnny Blue Mile. Johnny one times. Johnny Blue Skies. Johnny Blue Skies. Johnny Blue Skies. Johnny one time. So yeah, had, you know, Sturgle or Johnny Blue Skies, Sturgeon, whatever you want to call him, released. Or it was like, hey, I'm only releasing the album on like, you know,

physical media. And then I feel like a couple weeks later. jokes aside i think we talked about that on what like episode 97 like it hasn't been very long no i assumed this was going to be like a 2027 release like when you were spinning that vinyl actually before you sent the video of you spinning it Tanner sent me a photo of it like in a record shop and i almost thought it was a joke because i'm like well this can't be already but it's like it's it's oh yeah they announced it was like a month later i think okay came out And they like leaked it on to like YouTube so you could.

Oh no. Yeah. I know. And then but I was like, no, no, no. I'm going to wait till I get my like physical copy. Um, yeah. Pre ordered. I preordered, uh, the vinyl in white, orange.

And then they did like a clear one. The clear one showed up. White and clear. Clear like more like translucent. And then. Yeah, white being like me. A white white, white board. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. It looks like, yeah. So, yeah, spun it the other day for the first time. And it was kind of like, it was cool. You know, had the liner notes out, was reading the, like, you know, listening to the lyrics and like reading them along and just like sitting on the couch and ingesting it that way. Phone was, was somewhere else. So it's like, oh, yeah.

It's like, well, you know, what people did in the in the 70s. So we used to be a proper. to do with the house. I know, right? We used to be a proper country. So again, I just think of it's cool. Is it good, though? I think it's cool no matter what.

The songs could be, every song on the track could be a four out of ten, and I would still think it's cool. Yeah. Right? Especially, I plan to get it on cassette deck for my 97 Chevy. I love it. That is like a plan for me.

But, like, are the tracks good? there I need to listen to it again I think it's like it's deaf and I think in my mind when I think of Sturgle Simpson I think of like a sailor's guide to earth and metamomodern sounds and country music is like him like I feel he goes for it a lot more with his voice

and stuff and like it's a little more country sounding this one's definitely more funk isn't the right word but it's like almost kind of like that it's like a little more like you almost like on his guitar jamming out on g yeah you can like dance to it a little bit more maybe you're like okay shake to it um yeah there's some it's just different i think i'm still i got i kind of find him to be all over the map so if i not a spotify guy i'm pandora guy but if i'm on spotify and i type in sturgel simpson radio that's that takes you on a ride for your workout

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So. Try, you can't do it, though? I was to a couple songs. I've listened from like. Oh, you have it too? I like it.

I like it. I do like it. I do like it. Oh, YouTube. So you cheated. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Three kids.

I get it. I don't know, man. Like he, that dude takes so many chances. Like one of his records, like he, it was like two, like he did something with like Japanese anime. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it Roman? For a day. Was that Ronan?

I think, yeah. Yeah, similar. He got that idea from Forest Day. Yeah, everyone's just stealing from Forest Day. Yeah. But I don't, yeah, the dude just takes chances. You go from, like, country music to rock and roll. I don't know.

Yeah. So apparently shake your booty music. I don't like all of it, but, you know. I mean, more of like a, not like a, not like a twerk to it, but like, you know, kind of like, just moving with the groove. Yeah. Yeah. So like a shag.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Carolina shag. But I'm trying to think of the song. There was a couple that stood out.

I think like don't let go was like it's on the first side. To that to me. Yeah. Big lifter. I get it. That was I think you like stood out immediately as like a standout track from the beginning where I was like okay. I like this one. I like this one. So, Green, are you just getting it on cassette? Are you doing the vinyl too?

No, I'm going to get it on vinyl. I realize it should have pre-ordered. My buddy's leaving tomorrow to go be Godfather Six for a few days. So I may order it while I'm gone. I meant to today get to a record shop. There's a couple in my area. And I just didn't. I might buy it from a record shop. the vinyl like that yeah yeah yeah it's kind of fun right like we used to go to that place down and insinitas like it's kind of fun to walk into it so i might go into a record shop i do want to get on

cassette um my 97 Chevy's not here i'll have it again this summer at my 96 Chevy here and the 96 uh actually the whole the whole uh audio interface is broken right now it sold the CD player the original uh radio and cassette deck was taken out taken out and put a like a dual media $90 Best Buy thing in there, which has been nice because it gives you Bluetooth and that thing crapped the bed and

it could be the harness popped out of the back. It could be a fuse. I just haven't had time to mess with it. But in any event, my white truck that's been redone when I get that back, yeah, I think I want that on cassette to play. I think

that would be fun. That's cool. And I have some cassettes in there. My grandfather gave me, sometime after I graduated the Citadel, he liked that I liked his music. So I have a, my vinyl collection's bigger,

but I have a collection that's probably more sentimental, although I do have a lot of my grandfather's records. But I got a lot of Perry Como, a lot of Glenn Campbell, a lot of Barry Mantolo, a lot of Frank Sinai. I probably have 50 cassettes from him. Okay.

And then the the 97 has like you open the center console. And then you know, there's like the slots. You can put the sets in there. Oh my gosh. And so I would, I want to take a picture, post on the OK podcast, Instagram, if you opening it up. And it's like some really old cassettes and then Johnny Walker, blues guys in the mix. So, so, but no, I'll for sure get it on.

vital for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And clear. Yeah, Clear is still available. Yeah. You're talking to a guy that would, hey, trash six here. One time I was on Dube.

And old Jack White was releasing a album that he recorded in Germany in an amphitheater. What's that one called? Satan has me. Get behind me, Satan. Get behind me, Satan. when she lines up with my Baptist theology

and it was available in red and an auction on eBay and I spent too many lieutenant dollars on it. I still play it. Hey, but lieutenant dollars aren't real dollars. No, lieutenant dollars are great. Oh, man. They went pretty far. I'm a lieutenant.

I get Southern California B.A.H. And I live with six of my friends. and my rents like $400 in Southern California. Like, where do you want to go eat? I can afford it. Let's go. $250 Jack White record? Done.

Paying grant to cook for it. That's how much money I have. That was great. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a winning. You're on the winning side of the deal. Oh, yeah. What if every time you went to the grocery store, you just bought extra? And every time you cooked, you just made extra.

And Monday through Thursday, I went to work with Tupper's full of food. Done. You're like, I'm all about it. Yeah, everyone was happy. You're going to cook two pounds of beef instead of one? Easy. We had a verbal, we had a verbal contract. And I feel like halfway through grades, like, I don't know why I said yes.

Yeah, I think you owe me money. And so I think, yeah, you should send me a check. Groceries for 2014. Oh, it's in the mail. The check is in the mail. It's in the mail. It's in the mail. It's in the mail.

It's in the mail. Well, that's a good segue to chow talk. If you guys want to talk some chow. Yeah. Okay, hot sauce. That's one I've had on here for a couple weeks. But I know, Grant, your big hot sauce guy, Trey, I think you also dabble in a little bit of hot sauce here and there.

Do you have like a current go-to hot sauces that you're like, yep, all about it? Or do you have like a variety of hot sauce and how hot do you like your hot sauce? I'm thinking right now honestly like so my go to like I think Chulula is probably like my favorite oh is probably my favorite

I think it tastes good but I do I like I enjoy them spicy so I always go when we go to the grocery store like you just pick out like one of these I don't know unknown hot sauce

and I try it like try those it's like craft hot sauce yeah exactly have a bunch to pick from so i don't know i usually will try to get a spicy one nice and then i have chaloo is like my base that's like my palate cleanser you're talking brand are you talking spice are you talking to me or jeff yeah i'm talking to you i mean i just mean like like chalula's like brand recognition i wouldn't even know like what type of pepper spices in there like chulula could

probably put up against like a tappatio i think a tabasco is way different but those or like well-known brands, daily drivers, any grocery stores. But then there's also like, do you prefer like a salsa verde or like a green hot sauce or do you prefer like habanero? Yeah, so I like the,

I like the habanero. I don't know. So like Tabasco, I feel, it was like its own thing, right? I don't. It is. They on the market. Yeah.

They do. But I feel like it has its own unique taste and everything. But I think Chulula, if I'm just looking for a daily, daily hot sauce, hey, I'm going to put some hot sauce on eggs or whatever it is. Chulula is my go-to. Okay. Usually for that.

Okay. But yeah, I'm usually, like, I like Verdei. I like red. I like Havanaero. I'm really not picky at all. Like, I'll try it. Okay. I like Habanero a lot.

And I'm also in Southern California, South California. So like every taco shop has salsas, right? They got a green one. They got a whatever. It's like it's a whole kind of different world over here. But I do like Abenara. If I was going to put it on a brand, I'd actually go to Texas. I'd go with yellow bird.

Yeah, yellow birds. That is good. I think that is if I was going to buy, like how you're buying a Chulula, I would probably buy yellow bird, Avonara. I know. I say it's offensive. lately, lately last few years, the Asians do this and the Spaniards or the Latin community does as well. But I like the, in Mexico they would say Chile de Arbor, but like the long red chili and it's baked and then it's crushed and then it's covered in oil.

and the Asians do this really well as well. And so if you go to like a dumpling restaurant or whatever, but it's like a deep, it's like a chili oil might be like the way us white folk would talk about it. But you've got to be careful saying chili oil because it needs to be like a lot of the pepper crushed up. And I buy a lot of that.

And I generally try to buy what I would call like a craft version of it. Like I'm at my local state. brothers and they carry like Vincent's Chilli Dauro bowl and oil and it's like this dude's like Grant trying to sell

stranko plates right? No one's ever heard of it right? So like I generally try to buy those and I don't even know a name brand but I like that a lot it's good on eggs it can go on pasta yeah I'm a big

fan of that I don't know that I have a favorite like major brand like I like Louisiana's I like Franks Red Pot I like Crystal I like I do like if I'm buying

mainstream I like lighter viscosity hot sauce I don't dislike Chalula I'm sounding negative on it but it's like too thick for me and not spicy enough for me it's fine

I just I like to wait taste. I think it just tastes. Yeah. Yeah. But crystals get too. My, I remember growing up, my dad would always have, I don't even know what the brand is. It was like a clear bottle. You don't have a bunch of peppers inside and you would just put vinegar in it. Yeah, pepper vinegar. Texpeat. I mean, Texpea made the biggest. Yeah. No, my, yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah. That's like good on like collards and in greens and stuff. It's like a bunch of the small peppers in it with vinegar. No, that, I mean, that's almost a different thing. You just refill it.

Yeah, it was, I thought that, I don't know, I remember growing up, that was always my favorite. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good stuff. I've been that yellow bird, Havanaero, that was like a good one. Great go-to for a long, long time. And then, like, the grocery store we typically go to

doesn't have it anymore. They don't have any of, like, the yellow birds anymore. It was very upsetting. I think that whole food and sprouts. And sprouts. Yeah, it used to be the like the Kroger variant out here is Smiths. Is that like a Mormon store, like John Smith? I mean, it could. It probably does have some sort of Mormon connection.

I just want to make sure I do it. But yeah, it's Smiths, but it's like, you know, like Kroger owns that brand or whatever, you know. So they had it for a long time. But then the one I've been digging a lot lately, are you off familiar? assuming you're familiar with it, at least one of you will be, like that hot ones show. It's like YouTube thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they like now have their own like branded hot sauces that they like put out. Are they good? There's one that's like, honestly, there's one that's very good. It's not it's like mid-level spicy for them.

Los Calientes and it's their Verde version. Dude, it's good. Good pronunciation. It's solid. So big fan of that one. Big fan of Valentinas. And that one I just remember. I just remember that one being the one that was at the Ramones truck. Oh, yeah. In Polgis. So that's just like a big nostalgia, like vibe when I eat that.

That's thick. That is thick. Yeah. The first thing I thought was I really like that. But it's also a little bit hotter. I don't know. Yeah. Chulula.

Chuloo is like a smoky flavor. Yes. Yeah. I don't just like Chalula. I do think it's bit overrated. I would go tap a Tio over Chulula 10 times in a row. Just say, if you don't like it, you don't like it.

They're not a sponsor. No, I like it. Yeah. It's potential. Well, not after this podcast. Yeah, after this one. If you got a hot sauce, she wants to try, send it over. I got a guy out here. I can't remember the name was Brand. Dave Kruger, long time supporter of the Strength Co. NAC, Newport Aquatic Center,

where we hold the turkey pole every year. And he makes hot sauces. I will get bottles and send them to you guys. What? His habanero was called the Trump sauce because it was orange. But, but yeah, he's in all the street markets and stuff out here. And I've known him enough that I just always have some of his. And I cannot remember the name.

I think it might be Dave's hot sauce. It's something catchy. but or not catchy depending on how you're thinking about it. Yeah, hot sauce, good. You said that Mexican foods the best breakfast food. Yeah.

Interesting. Defend that. I don't know. Does it need a defense? I don't think it needs. It's not like it's going to be a, like I feel like the defense rest. So I was in El Paso.

Great city. Great city. And I was out with the client and we had a, we were getting breakfast at. Were you selling them hoses? Yeah. What type? Like garden hoses that like you'd like drink water out of? Yeah.

Since we were talking about it, I figured I would start trying to pedal those a little bit more. Yeah. So yeah. So we were talking really in depth about garden hoses. But we were at L&J Cafe. Great spot. Better at enchiladas. We were there for like breakfast brunch.

and I had a chili quiles. And I was looking through it, I'm like, dude, each one of these like burrito chili quiles, I can't remember what else we were looking at. Wevos, Wivers Ranchero. I don't know.

It was like all, it was like hit after hit after hit. Yeah. I'm like, Mexican food, but breakfast is, I think, better than is the best in my opinion.

It's crazy. In Mexico, they just call it food. that is true. Yeah. I don't know that I'm comfortable hitching my wagon to that. Well, first of all, breakfast.

I actually tend to think you're correct, but like, man, there's, like, well, my swagger makes me chila quillas. In Mexico, we say chilequillas, not chila quillas or whatever you're saying. It's phenomenal.

It's phenomenal. It's, like, it's, and when it's made by your mother-in-law, like nothing's better. Yeah. But man, put me at a waffle house at 6 a.m.

sitting across from Jeff Biggie and Trey Gottlitz and give me an all-star special with like three eggs over easy. Like three sticks or bacon grits with so much butter in them that like I'm not sure there's grits in the bowl. And that's up there. Also put me at Dick's Churches, Dick Churches here in Costa Mesa with Connor King and Ray Too. I just lived this.

And we're eating corned beef half. because the waitress is like you got to have the corned beef hash and it's like covered in eggs and like that like I don't know that I'm comfortable hitching my wagon to any breakfast is the best yeah but I'm I do my wagon is hitched to Mexican food I'm in yeah like I'm in yeah I had a bowl of guacamole for breakfast I had chips and salsa I had chili quillades I'm like what I could have a margarita and it would have been like yeah yeah this is a bowl of guacamolea and it would have been like yeah yeah this is a Faces. It would have been the best of California. We just call that breakfast. Breakfast. Yeah. Just could have had breakfast.

Yeah, I don't know. It's like I'm, I'm always very torn on the breakfast decision. Like, whenever, anytime we go out to breakfast anywhere, it doesn't matter if it's like, I'm always been torn between like the sweet and savory, like, option. I love, I love some pancakes and waffles. Jeff told me this once. And he goes, and it's, has. with me for what 10 plus years now he's like breakfast is the only food that you can like have

dessert and be like oh yeah this just breakfast yeah no one blinks on it if i doubt i'm gonna have chocolate chicken cakes and syrup and butter and they're like well that's that's that's a great way to start today so that's very appealing to me um but man yeah i mean i mean Mexican food's kind of undefeated in a lot of ways just in general like for any meal i don't I think the versatility in Mexican food is. That's, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. And maybe you just, maybe I got, I was a prisoner of the moment, just like, have.

I appreciate that. A really solid Mexican food meal. I love it. And I was just like, man, this, what's better than this? So maybe you don't know. That's a great. It was a great meal. It was right.

It was shifting your, your mindset fully. That's the sign of a great meal. You were like, you know what? I'm throwing my ice helmets away. Open the border up. I need more chila-kila's options. Call off all the border patrols. We need open borders.

Open borders. I need more hominero hot sauce flowing through. I don't care down that wall. I respect that. My helmets are trash, man. You've always said that. I've always said that. Never got to it.

You've always said that. Oh, goodness. All right. Save rounds, alibis. What's the Starlink update? Oh, yeah, quick story. I'll make quick. I think it was before we recorded episode 100.

I didn't tell you guys about it last week, right? Didn't tell you about Starlink Outage. And to be clear, there was no Starlink Outage. Starlink's the best thing ever. I had a day was coming back from... My buddy was coming back from New Jersey. He has to go and be Godfather Six all this. time and lately he has to go be that often.

You only get to do it one more time, so that's something to think about. But in any event, came back, busy Monday, out with the baby, rattling around on a big red car, getting coffee, hit the gym, hit Dick Church's breakfast with Connor and Ray,

head to the warehouse, walk in, trying to send a text message, getting a message failed. That's weird. I'm not even texting a droid user. I'm just checking another iPhone. go to log in the computer there's no internet and at the strength co warehouse the starlink is on the roof and I thought man did it get stolen and while I had been in New Jersey everyone had told me about bad storms so I was like oh maybe it got like blown away unplugged so I go employees out on a gym

install and he has my ladder you don't have the ladder that reaches the top so I go down to the electronics guy that's three doors down. I'm like, hey, brother, can you come hop on my forklift and lift me up? I need to get on the roof. And he's like, what? What? Like, we're Bob and I ran. We may need you to go over there. And I was like,

that's, you're out? I was like, yeah, no, just lift me up. So he comes, gets on my forklift. I had a pallet on it. And he's like, your forklifts different than mine. I'm going to get my forklifts. So he moves his forklift, he goes, gets in, he moves my forklift, goes against his forklifts.

he lifts me up. I'm on a pallet. I'm 20 feet in the air. I'm holding on to the for lift, you know, like guide rails, if you will. Yeah. Like OSHA intends. Yeah. And I turn around and the roof ledge is like four or five feet above me. And I'm like 100%. I'm a guy to this day can do a muscle up. I can like get up there. But then I'm like looking down. like I'm kind of high I'm realizing there's like nails missing in this palette the guy down there's like

we need you to fight for Iran don't fall brother and I'm like weird take I'm like picture and if I fall and then I'm like no I can do this and I'm like I can definitely get up but getting down maybe tricky but I look across the roof

and I verify that my Starlink has flipped over like on its butt and I'm like take me down Doug and Doug's like thank God you wouldn't have died from there you would have broke your hip imagine if they needed to deploy you you would have probably been in physical therapy for six months I'm like yeah okay thanks Doug and so I leave that I go to every neighbor in the complex Haiti have a ladder no one has a ladder big enough like three of the dudes are like just get up on your forklift I'm like already tried that I'm like it's not tall enough like yeah you can just jump I'm like I thought

about it 22 year old grant would have definitely jumped I got like I got like like a kid now. So then I go cross street, Marine Corporal 20 years ago. It's a place called Stucco signs. They do big commercial signs. I have moved some stuff for him in the past. He's moved some stuff for me. He's a forklift guy. I'm a forklift guy. Forklift people, we have our own community. I go over, a walk in the front room. And the guys are like, can we help you? I'm like, yeah, I forget his name. He's the owner. He was like a Marine corporal. It's like tall, beard. They're like Travis. I'm like, yep, Travis. I want to see, I live across street. I wanted to see if I could borrow one of his ladders. And they're like,

yeah, he's in the back. So I got to like open the door to the back. They're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we'll go back to him first. We don't know who you are. Okay. Fair enough. They go, they go back there. I mean, not huge, right? Probably like 30 employees. They go back and they're like, hey, there's a guy from across the way wants to borrow your ladder. And he goes, Is it the F and S-O-B that's always complaining about the parking spots? And they're like, I don't know. He seems like pretty nice guy. He comes out.

He goes, oh, Grant, what's up, man? I'm like, ah, you remember my name. It's been five years. What's up? Put one of the old vice. We put him in the vice. I'm like, hey, by the way, the guy that complains about the parking spots, he's like, F that guy.

I'm like, no, seriously, that guy sucks. He's like, no, he's terrible. So then we talk about how much that guy sucks. But we send him to Iran. He's like, yeah, let's send him to Iran. then it gave me it's not Doug is it no not Doug yeah no

Doug's cool Doug school yeah so go around back gives me a ladder walk it over set it up put some dumbbells for footings go to the roof

and like this is if you're not watching YouTube you're an idiot this is Starlink and the Starlink by the way is like pretty big and it's flipped over and I literally like

take the tip of my boot and go bloop and just flip it over and like internet phone starts cameras are on line. So we had some kind of crazy windstorm that had flipped it over. So I put a dumbbell on the roof. So that's now anchored down. That's how much is the dumbbell way? Was it 40 pounds?

I just put a five. Oh. Oh. No. Texas Tech not approved. Not approved. Give me all Texas tech. Yeah. Dumbbells. I'll sell them a Starlink anchors. Yeah. New strength co-products. What did Texas check do with all those dumbbells? I'll take them. My feeling about this whole story is that Doug thinks it's like break glass in case of emergency.

Grant needs to go to Iran. He was super concerned. Yeah. He's like, we got to keep Grant safe. Hey, Doug's Patriots. Grant may be the guy. Grant may be the guy. Yeah, Doug's a true patron.

Good guy. Better sell electronics. That's where I get all my electronics. Doug. Doug. Seriously, you need a monitor. I'll send you on both the microphones you guys have. I got from Doug. Hey, Doug.

Dude, do, do, do, do, do, fruit salad. Yummy,

yummy, yeah, no, there was no, there was no chance, Graham's to you. What's Doug? Is it like the Grammys?

Yeah, Patty mayonnaise. Patty mayonnaise. Patty mayonnaise. Never heard of them. Roger, the bully. That's it. Roger the Bull.

No idea what you're talking about. What is that? Nickelodeon cartoon on cable, which I know you didn't have. So you're already out. No. I was busy drinking my water out of a well. Good. Yeah, I literally have no idea what you guys are talking about.

Speaking of things, I did know I was talking about, Trey, when you put the thing in about the Grammys, I thought maybe that was a joke. Oscars. Oh, Gold and Gloves. No. I well I knew that it was I really just meant to say hey this is for Jeff because I knew you haven't watched the Oscars. Is that like Oscar the Grouch?

Yeah, yeah, I was right. No idea. Like did Kanye win one? No, he was nominated, yeah. For an Oscar? Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah.

So it's like musical awards. it's movies yeah yeah yeah what's a golden globe golden globe is like TV and movies yeah it's confusing

it's confusing yeah that was a proper country and then gramies I'll let you yeah I'll let you guys talk

because I don't know what you're talking about yeah okay well Trey's question was when was the last time that you cared about the Oscars did you ever watch them

growing up I feel like I know my sister was definitely more into it. So I remember, you know, by default being the younger brother. Then I was like, well, okay, I guess we're watching the Oscars then. But like, yeah, I mean, I remember, you know, you'd like want to know who, oh, like, you know, usually it was like, oh, it's too late for your, you know, you got to go to bed and you'd find out in the morning like who won like best picture, who won best actor or fact actress. and like being interested in that, like, growing up. But man, the last time I cared about it, it's been a long time. Did someone just win the Oscars?

It was last night. It was last night. Oh, is that the Leonardo DiCaprio meme? Could be. It's like a meme trending on X that I used today where it's like him with a mustache with both hands out. And he looks happy. And I made a meme for X. day that said

it said another FedEx just dropped off more strength co-45s my wife I thought you said you weren't going to buy any more strength co-45s

me ha ha ha and it's like Leonardo is that from the Oscars let me see I'm current without being current that's like

I love that I love that here I'm going to show you right here right here yeah pull it up Look.

Yeah. It looks like he's dressed up. It looks great. I'm growing my mustache back in. I didn't watch it, so I don't know. Yeah, I didn't mustache. Growing up back. I guess the whole point is, yeah, I used to have, like,

had seen most of the movies that were, like, nominated. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you tried to see all the ones that were. I don't think I've seen, I don't think I've seen any of them. I were nominated this year. I didn't. And I don't plan to, so. I'd heard that.

What was the movie? What was the movie Leonardo Caparino's? Yeah, I mean, I might watch that one. I've heard that was good. But other than that, I couldn't tell you one movie that was nominated. Lord of the Rings. I don't know. Next year.

At the time it was. Okay. Yeah, because did that win? Like, Return of the King. Did that one win? Well, I think it broke a record for either most nominations or most wins. in different various categories. Great movies.

That's why it is. That's right. I remember watching it that year whenever Lord of the Rings was on. Yeah. Man, when the Hobbit came out, that was crazy. Auburn.

Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. All right. Save rounds, alibis. Because this show is brought to you by Sudafed. And we are running out of Sudafed.

Mm. By the way, buying Sudafed is like buying drugs, which I guess it is. But I went to the pharmacy. And I'm like, hey, I need Sudafed. And they're like, it's over there. I'm like, nope, had a cold a few weeks ago. Did that one? Didn't work.

I want what's back there. And they're like, that's weird that you like know the difference in what's inside. And I was like, what? One works. One doesn't. It's behind the counter. It must be better. want that one. They're like, we need your driver's license. It's like, sure. So you're from South

Carolina? Like, yeah, well, I mean, technically, that's complicated. And they're like, wait, why are you being weird? And I'm like, wait, what do you mean? Like, do you live in South Carolina? I'm like, no, I was raised there. I live here. I'm like, well, you're giving us the South Carolina ID. I'm like, well, yeah, that's my idea. Like, well, where do you live? I was like, I live down the street. And they're like, well, why don't you have a California ID? I was like, well, it's like, well, this long story. My buddy just deployed and my buddy is like tied to me and so I don't have to move

and then I had like fill out this paper and sign a bunch of stuff. And I was like, can I get a bottle of water? And he's like, why? I was like, because I want to take it right now. They're like, this is weird. You're like too excited about the suit of that. I'm like, yeah, I was up all night. Running my nose.

Anyway. Damn. Yeah. Walter White over here. It's part of what they thought you were. Seriously. Good use of over here. No, no save rounds. Alibis?

I got one. Yeah, hit it, Jeff. Hey, so been featured on this podcast, probably close to a dozen times, but we had to say goodbye to Little Zoe this morning. So, a hell of a cat. Good cat. We'll miss her a lot.

Yeah. Yeah. nice words. It's always tough. Dude. Been sitting on that for an hour and a half, wondering if you wanted to bring it up. But yeah,

for the listeners that aren't sure, Jeff's cat, if you haven't watched on YouTube, you should go back and look at the episodes. So as a frequent guest, I've met Zoe quite a few times. Got some photos of Zoe laying on string coat plates. That's right.

I've put my hand in Zoe's vice, great cat and yeah when you sent that text i uh animals man it's uh it's uh they get you get you yeah it's a weird situation because you you realize you probably don't realize this child but when you're like maybe in your 20s but in your 30s there's like a real time that goes unless something catastrophically weird happens to me my animal's going to to die before I do. And it is like a not good feeling. And yeah, when you should have that text, Jeff, I, last night, I'll make it lighthearted because I think that's what you would like for Zoe. Last night, I had a cat get out. I love that. You know, our cats, they go out and do stuff,

but we like keep them contained. And I came in the house. I shut the screen door and there's a hole on the screen by design so the cats can leave. But the little cat, we usually, and I say little one's 25 pounds, one's 15. But the little cat we usually put in like a tin out there. Anyway, I left. I got the shower. I came out and Diana, it's like, you know, whalen's gone. I said, oh, man. And it's like he's got an apple tag on him and he's two roofs down. And you're like, this will not be a problem. It'll be fine. Like he'll just come back. He'll get hungry. And so you go out, you're shaking food. The other cat's going crazy because he's upset that the other one's gone,

which is a whole other thing I'm sure you're dealing with right now. You know, they're running pairs. And in any event, there was a scenario at 3 a.m. where my wife's like calling the cat off the roof to get onto the sale to pull the cat down. And everyone was tired today, not to mention like sick. And you're like, yeah, but, like, like if the coyotes got my cat, I would be devastated. Yeah.

And I would never forgive myself. And so I kind of today was not mad at my cats, but I was like, man, they cause like, I got a door that like the corner of it can be flipped up so they don't feel like they're locked out of the room. Like there's a lot that goes on for my cats and insert dogs. You know, it doesn't matter. Yeah. And when you send me that today, I was like, ah.

Yeah. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, I don't know if I want to get into all the, yeah, great cat. We thought she was going to ruin Christmas when we took her into the vet, like back in early December. She kept, you know, stuck around and kept fighting all the way and ruined Kaylee's birthday.

But in the end, that was the right move because Kaylee likes Christmas way more than she likes her own birthday. Is her birthday today? It was yesterday. It was yesterday. Yesterday was our last day So it was a good day though It was a good day

Yeah She got all that's Yeah Yeah That's A few cats like me man I remember Zoe actually did like me So

I was always asking about you Always said that She was like What's his lifting up to? Yeah I need it Is he still that lifting? What's he doing?

I remember that she goes Hey how's Jake Keller Looking these days? Yeah Like would you want to look like him at 52 do? Yeah. That's all I got. That's all I got. Yeah.

Yeah. Good, good, good, good, good, good. All right. This has been episodes 101 of the OK podcast. We haven't talked about much, but we've talked about a lot. We hope you've enjoyed it. Thanks for hanging on for 100. And to Marines, mothers, civilians, civilians, lifters, chaplains, Baptist,

whoever you are listening, we appreciate it. And there's more of you than we ever thought was possible. But this is where I turned over to Trey. Shut us down.

I don't know. I feel like you covered. That was a pretty good closing right there. She just left it. We'll edit it and put it at the end. And post. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. And post. Fixing. I was right. I mentioned. Let's thank our listeners as always. This has been episodes 010 of the

Okay. That's pretty good. Wait, are we saying 0-1-0? Yeah. I thought we got rid of the 0-0 now. We're just 101. Oh, 101. Oh, bingo. Yeah, come on. 1-0-1. Oh, dang. Talk about 90 episodes again. 91 episodes again.

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