The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - Ep. 105: Flat Earth, Flamethrowers & Gymflation feat. Sgt. Mason Wells

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

Marine Sgt. Mason Wells joins Grant, Jeff, and Trey for episode 105.Mason went from a motorcycle crash that shattered his foot eight months before deployment — to running a 270 on the CFT two and a half months post-surgery — to cutting hair for 1,200 Marines aboard the USS San Diego on the 31st MEU. He talks about putting life on hold for a year, what he'd tell the deploying reservists of Quebec Battery, the military's food conspiracy theory, and why doing the right thing got everyone in trouble at the range.Plus: the flat earth 90-second pitch and retraction, the Masters and its decorum problem, potty training updates, leg extension machines, and business cards in 2026.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_Pod

Or was it this one? But it's all right. It's a great one. It's definitely this one. All the followers on X. Like a phone check. One two, one,

two. Oh, is he podcasting? That was a different song last week. All right. And welcome back to episode 105 of the OK podcast powered by the Strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Broji,

105. I think you're allowed to say 105. 5-105, episode 105. Set 2. We're on episode 5 of set 2. So we are just chugging along. We're recording live. I'm in Southern California,

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Salt Lake City area Mr. Mr. it's currently not in a drilling status Jeff Bouget Biggie Buege Biggay I've been asked twice in the last two weeks by two different people

in person hey love the podcast. How do you say Jeff's last name? And I said one of the people was Jeff. You'll never know. We'll never know. We'll never know. No, I don't listen to the podcast.

Greater Salt Lake City area, Jeff Bouget. Also joining us live from McKinney, Texas. Right next door, maybe. Is it next door? Somebody just ordered from McKinney. I saw the order come through, and I was like, well, he probably goes to Church of Christ. I'm sure he's an Aggies fan.

I'm going to use McKinney on the pod this week. I'm not even going to make up a city like Chester. Is McKinney really next door? it really is yeah i actually just went to the town of mckinney five minutes and ordered your place ordered strength coat yeah hey hey i'm glad build a second gym on jim radar over there and add that robert trade got like the third he's the third he has three daughters he's a busy dad anytime i sit around and feel sorry for myself i picture just fecal matter all over his living room and say you know what i'm gonna be just fine uh the price of bitcoin

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Exciting show. We got a guest tonight. We'll leave that as a surprise. Guess like we've never had. Be a guest like no other. It's like a guest like we've never, ever had before. You're going to get tired of guest.

Wait, what? With that, I'll kick it over to the three. Hey, one thing before we jump into the brief gentleman, maybe many to you think this is the tax day Eve, also known as April 14th, also known as Pearl Biggie's birthday. So shout out to my mom. Oh, Mom. That's the guest tonight, right?

What's that? Is she listening right now? I did talk to her on the phone today. And she was asking, I was like, oh, we're recording the podcast tonight. I think she listens. She was talking about me. She was like, oh, you guys are putting out more episodes. Not same amount. Yeah. That's all, you know, I think yeah, yeah. I told her we are live on X or Twitter, but I don't think she's very active on those sites. Uh, she's,

she's active on there. She's been monitoring the situation. We have a lot of back and forth. I think we're like crazy. We have a lot of back and forth. I guess you didn't let me know where her handle is. But I did let her know that she could, in fact, listen to it live, but I don't, I don't think, I don't think she is. Okay. Well, I won't happy birthday prill, right? That's how you say it for short. Prill. Yeah, happy birthday, Prill, been to her house before, swam in her pool. I think I got fed an egg salad sandwich. Prill looks like someone that would be very comfortable at the Masters. Like if she went to the master, she would just fit right in. She wouldn't look like Trey and I

bumbling around with hats on, you know, saying, look, look, he's about to hit it out of tall grass. That's tough to do. What that boy doing over there? Yeah, Prill would just fit in. I'd be trying to make content. They'd be like, hey, no phones.

I'm for tigers driving. I don't want to miss it. We'll talk about the masters later. Now, happy birthday pro. You got birthday coming up too, Jeff, but I won't docks you like I did the man from McKinney, Trey. Hey, good, good.

Good. Okay, all right. Big birthday guy. go ahead let's pull up the slides let's get this brief going okay we're uh short on time long on trash to pick up so let's let's get to it ladies and gents uh all right s one what do you got for us that you try uh yes sir as far as s one just got back off leave trying to play a little bit of catch up here got our g1 report card oh wow right there oh yeah a plus excellent Excellent.

I think I had that from a previous show, but it still holds true. Outside of that. Real quick here. Oh, yes, sir. I got nine Zinn six is in right now. I just want to say the G1 report card is tested over 17 functional areas with the same letters as JJ did tie buckle.

And the T is trash. And I just want to shout out to our new one. He's been on leave a lot. think we're going to pass it. We did with flying colors. That's the hard work and the testament to the NCOs of Trash Battalion. Thanks for what you do. 17. Wow. We're killing it. Yes, sir. As far as that, numbers are pumping. People are happy. A bunch of new. We got a boot drop coming in. That's all that for the group, sir. Hey, great brief, great brief. Love to see what you're doing. Yeah, okay, S2. We'll kick it over to you. I think,

earlier, I sent you email about, we want hourly updates of the straits. Is it closed? Is it open? It seems to be every 20 minutes the straight is open and then the straight is closed. We have a current update. I mean, I'm talking live. Nat's ass detail. Is the straight open or

is it closed right now? Yes, sir. This is Lieutenant Mickentosh. This is actually my first day. The last guy went to A&S. I want everyone to know that I am a ground intel officer, so I've also been to IOC. in terms of the straight of Hermuz.

It is currently, I'm just looking on the map here. I got this slide from Division a week ago. And a week ago, the puck looks like it's blocking the straight, but I'm just going to move it here with my cursor. So the straight is currently open. It is open for business unless you're from Iran. If you're Iranian, the straits closed. If you're any other country, it's open.

Also, live update from X. looks like the war's over. The president just told a Fox News reporter. So, well, it's not, he said it's about to be over. So I don't know if that means we're going to leave it closed or open. It was originally open. We started the war, which closed it. And then we opened it and now it's closed.

But I will keep the updated on the slide. I'll just make a, I don't know what it is, but I've heard about POA and M's. And so I'm going to make a POA and M. And I'll just have a drop down red or green. green will mean that it is well sir if I can ask I'm new here do we want it open or closed well we want it closed if we're closing it

but if it's closed because they're closing it that's bad so we want it open so we'll have to figure out some sort of system that denotes whether it's closed because we're closing it or closed because they're closing it or open because China is just doing what they want so we'll get with you offline sir I'm just going to take sounds good sir I'm just

to take the POA and M and upload it to Claude and let Claude manage it. And what should be good? Nothing further for the group. Okay. Gigum. That's what I always say. Oh.

You know, baby. This is trash five. I just want to say great, great brief from the deuce. Great brief from the deuce. We're happy to have you on the team. You're doing it and pat yourself on the back there. Oh, my. Me.

Oh, you talk about everything he knows, huh? Hey, anybody can be trash five. No, the only characters are trash three and trash six. It's true. You need to hop on some exhilarated characters. Yeah. Hey, this is trash five.

Keep the sidebars to a minimum. Oh. Oh. Hey, hey, hey, jets, jets, hey,

hey, Addies, Eddie's. Aties. All right, all right. Okay, yeah, ops here,

right? We're working hard on developing, right? We've been, we're receiving, uh, indications and warnings from higher that they're, that they're going to be,

sending us over to basically conduct an open water trash police call, right? So we're going to be having to get Marines licensed on these boats and we'll string nets out between the boats because then they're going to have us go through the straits because there's a lot of trash that's going in these straits and

someone's got a police call it. It seems like the Iranians aren't police calling their trash. So we're going to have to step in police car our own trash and imagine there's going to be some enemy trash out there that will also have to pick up. So I just want to say indications and warnings are coming down that there's going to be a big, big police call operation

in the Straits of Hormuz. So just, hey, start getting ready. Start getting your desert camis ready. And start getting a roster of Marines that have previous boat driving experience. We're going to lean heavy on those Marines. You know, one team, one fight, Ura.

We're amphibious. Yeah, get your swim calls prepped. A trash vibe here, not to, start a sidebarred three, but there probably is a lot of trash in the straight. Oh, yeah. There's got to be a lot more boats there. I mean, I've seen where the trash goes on a boat. Oh, yeah.

They just let that suck. They let that stuff loose. I mean, you know, theoretically, we're not. Yeah, the ocean does secure beside ocean secures it. The ocean secures it. King Neptune comes up from the bottom with Dave Jones and they secure it. Davey Jones. They beat it to the polywogs.

We're getting called. Close to the equator, Davy Jones is coming aboard tonight. And you're like, oh, this is a real, real life military vessel that we're on. And this is being broadcasted. We're talking about Davey Jones. So what's it called the one MC? The one MC. Uh, one MC.

Sometimes at night I just wish I could be awakened by the one MC. And then my child just awakens me and I'm like, oh, no, I'm fine. Perfect. Yeah, you have a one emceecee. I have a one MC sidebars to a minimum Eddie Eddie, Eddie's Eddie's gentlemen gentlemen

Eddie Eddies He's getting mad over there Okay Gig them baby All right That's enough for ops here So S4 Let's see any updates you got

At you try Yes sir Oh fellow major Oh we're majoring in the minors over here Oh yeah It's recently promoted Hold your applause to the end, please. And your sidebars.

What? Let me see what I got. Yeah, and sidebars. Let me see what I got for the four. Sir, yeah, we collected a decent amount of trash. I'm coordinating with range control. We're going to do a controlled burn on range 13 of said trash. Bingo.

That is a range. Oh, 1-3, excuse me. I've been in the logistics too long. Oh, my goodness. We've got our terminology. I need a working party. If you could talk to your Marines, the last time we ended up with more Zen cans and white monsters on,

there's way too much trash that was left behind from the working party. That was pretty of trash. Long story short, just have a conversation with them. Outside of that, sir, got a letter from Fasmo. We got the green lights coming down the pipe in 2030s. So we'll be gone by then, but that's fine. Hey, somebody else is that. All right for real quick.

You got any update on the deadline dumpsters? I didn't see him on your slide here. Oh, yes, sir. Yep, they are still deadline. No lids. So no, no. Oh, so they're the flip-top dumpsters. I was picturing the big pull-up behind the barracks,

but you're not allowed to throw electronics in them dumpsters. I assume we're going to. Yeah, the dumpsters have come. with the government has come down. Who are the people who worked on the High Mars that were civilians? FSRs. FSRs. So there's FSR dumpsters that

that we have connected to us now. So we'll begin with them. They're going to be getting these dumpsters back online pretty quick, so it's all a half for the group. Thank you. Okay, thanks for, I'm going to talk with Sec War and see if we can get some drone dumpsters and I'll talk with you offline.

Drone dumpsters. Oh, great. Great stuff for medical dental. We got any of our Navy counterparts in here on the line? Sir, this is chief. I'm at the goat locker. It's chief season. But Chaplin's got a brief. Nothing for the group.

Okay, great, great. Chaps, you brief in a brief now. Oh, right. I got a brief chaps. Well, what did you get? What did you get on the... We got in the... Let's just kick it to outlying stations.

What did Chap say to you? Oh, very well. Slides have been sent directly to Trash Six. So I think he had Durloth. So he had direct liaison authority, right to Trash Six. I don't know what he's... I don't know he sent that Instagram wouldn't allow it. Hope it's nothing anti-Semitic.

Let's see what he said. that's usually talk about my emails. The P-E-E-E-C-I-T-I-T-I-T-I-T-I-T-I-T-I-T-I-T-I-C-I-T-I-Rackers have all been submitted in SharePoint. Unfortunately, I've lost access to the Finder to review those trackers. I think he means folders. So I'll be reaching out to IT to try and get across those, hopefully, report on next week. Speaking of access, I just want to remind you all of the access we have, thanks to work

of Jesus on the cross. Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, Son of God. Let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who is in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the time of need.

So Trash six here, difficult for me to read. Hebrews 4, 14 to 16 in the ESV, because I haven't memorized in the NASB 1995 for those sergeants major in the room that know the old NCO Creed very similar kind of effect. I'll continue with the chapter notes. We are now free to directly access to throne of God. Not only that, but this passage talks about how Jesus can sympathize with us as he struggled as we did. There was trash that needed to be secured and secured it just like we did. Nothing else for the throne. Over.

Thanks, chaps. Great stuff, chaps. All right. Other outline stations, we got a big friend of the podcast here, Sean Shepard, aka Billy Martin, aka Trash 6-9, checking in from the soccer field with Little Trash 6-9, running around and kicking a round ball into a large net,

spring sports in full swing, which means you need to keep your head on a swivel, and remember your ABC. Always be cleaning. Trash doesn't rest. and neither should you. Great, great guidance from our, our master guns there. All right.

We got Scott Dubois just wrote in and says, okay. It's good Dubois? Is it Dubois or Du Bois? I'm going to say Dubois. You know, I took French in high school, you know, so. Spell it. D, Delta, uniform, Bravo, Oscar, India, Sierra. use it in a sentence

Scott Dubois Scott Dubois checked in Scott Dubois says okay I'm putting up my insurance card well you want me to

Dubois with that trash oh man what else we got we got shale ring shale chalet rings Oh, okay, okay.

Spell it? The first name. Sierra, Hotel, Alfa, Lima, Echo. Use it in a sentence. I don't know how to if I'm pronouncing this name, Shale, right.

What's a country of origin? Stand by. Hang on, let me ask, God. America? The word, the word shell, country of origin. Country of origin is England. It's derived from the old English Germanic roots,

specifically the old English shell or husk. It was used to describe laminated clayey rock with the first recorded geological use in 1747. Okay. It was laminated? And laminarers used to work back in the old core. Man, what happened? Part of the same one, huh?

Anyway, what did this Shaley Whaley say? All right. Went to bed with a lot of work and life events on my mind. I decided to take my buddy Charles advice and wake up early and hike to watch the sunrise. He's a huge sunrise guy. You know, hey. Charlie Sunrise. Nice way to spend a morning.

Good tip. Yeah. And then last but now, least, right? We got our 8999 checking in with us, aka the adjusting piece. This is a good one. All right, strap in. Okay, leaders, OMPF photos.

Stop sending me Marines for OMPF photo forms looking like hot trash. As leaders, we need to enforce trash standard. Any standard non-enforce creates a new standard and that standard is unpoliced trash. I get it. They don't use the OMP.N. PF for promotion photos anymore. Great. I don't care. That's not the point. These Marines show up looking like they came from trash consolidation

point, which is unsat. That tells me we are not being leaders. Leaders in Trash Battalion teach, train, and lead. We inspect what we expect. Devil Dogg should be going through at least three levels of inspection before they come to me. Tighten up that trash. This battalion needs to be able to get online and conduct police calls at Any moments notice.

And that starts with the basics. A simple photo and a service uniform is routine trash. We secure the trash. We don't act like it. Okay? Man, first serge really gave chat GPT. A lot of prompts there. He really had his drudders.

I got to say, sometimes, sometimes I think about it. And I'm like, I think we could go to war as trash battalion. And I'm not even kidding. We got two majors. We got a first sergeant. We have like the most Calvinistic chaplain of all time. We got a former lieutenant. We could call on all these like.

We got an S4. Yeah. Oh yeah. All these 1980s Marines that listen. If the balloon goes up and actually the balloon's up. If you got to need trash battalion, just call trash six. It could be like. Texas called BW.

We can basically like bring the dirty dozen to life in a way like, you know, but it's like we're like. we just form our own kind of unit like you know under the table the government comes to us and we're like hey we need this trash secured right like this isn't like an on the books operation but we've been listening to your podcast for like a year now and we think you guys got the right stuff so that's what i'm waiting is is dirty doesn't like a group in star or something you don't get that you don't get that no oh you would like this movie it's uh lee marvin i think is the guy the actor Oh, that guy.

No him for sure. And you might have seen some movies, but it's, I know, probably a movie from the 60s or 70s, yeah, maybe 60s. And it's a dozen guys get together for the kind of like a, it's set in World War II. Oh. And they get it like a rag tag group, like a lot of them are like convicts or like prison or have something, you know, something against them.

And they kind of go on like a suicide mission because they're like, well, if these guys die, no one's going to care. When I type in dirty dozen into Google, it gives me the environmental working groups guide the pesticides that tells me the number one pesticides and produce since we're here. Spinage, kale, strawberries, grapes, peaches, cherries, necterines, pears, apples, black, berries, blueberries, green beans. That's why I- Donald Sutherland was in this movie.

Donald Sutherland. Immediately following the show, we generally stay on for what's called the after show where we all watch a movie together And tonight we're going to be watching Dirty Dozen. If you're not live on X, you'll miss it. Any other Outlying stations? Because we got our guests. Knock, knock, knocking. I think we are rounds complete on outline stations.

Hey, great brief. Great brief, y'all. So I call us tap brief. All right, let's let this guy in here. Bo, blah, whoa. Whoa. What a backdrop. Wow.

Super five. I just put it together. Nice. Corpool Mason Wells. Welcome to the show. Sorry, we're running a little late. I've told these guys nothing about you. Sir.

Yeah. What? Sergeant. I just got promoted. What did you go? Since I left, huh? My bad. Mazel toff.

Since I left, right? Say again, sir. Since I left, right? As of yesterday. Oh, as of you. Oh, I got a cold. Hey. Yeah.

That's how. they bring you back in just when you think you're out they won't be so bad and i do not want to but we'll see well we'll see well congratulations uh new rule i'm sure you'll break it but you just get to talk to us like people tonight uh so you don't have to say sir every time i'm i'm in i'm in cosplay mode i'm pretending to not be a major um let me tell these guys a little bit about it this is uh mason wells uh new jersey native or pennsylvania new jersey right new jersey native yeah new jersey now live in Pennsylvania. Now lives in Pennsylvania.

Okay, I was kind of two for two there. Motor T. Mech type, survivor of a gnarly survivor of a gnarly motorcycle crass. Somehow got healed up in time to go on the 31st Mew. On the USS San Diego, he was the barber.

And I would say he was the number one barber, not just because he was my barber, but everyone wanted, you know, to go to Wells' chair. Great. to eat an MRE with in the field. Confirm, sorry, Mom, but it just doesn't come off with the same

ump if I don't say it. Confirmed not the surface shitter. He was a, you know, suspect number one for a while. Wow. It was not him. Beats charges. Yeah, and I don't even know where you're working now.

So, uh, you got back from deployment, day before Thanksgiving, came off orders into December. You're six years in the Marine Corps. eight seven seven six seven there you go take the average yeah yeah and uh you drop to the i r now now they're promoting you to sergeant to bring you back uh but before that happened you dropped to the iR what was the plan so as of right now i got a i got a pretty good job i'm working at a honda

dealership as a technician so living life there that's pretty cool got a girlfriend trying to make her wife by the end of the year. Hey, who. Get a house, do the whole nine. That's some pretty bold, some pretty bold planning. Let's see if it'll happen. If not, World War III

School, we'll just do that instead. Yeah. I mean, it's like, buy a house or go to World War III, both sound pretty hard and difficult. I'll try to figure out which one I can make. I want to ask you a specific question. And then basically we have a guest, I don't know if you've listened to the show before. We go around the room. We ask

you random stuff. These guys will be interested in your lifting. You're a 405 deadlifter. But I got a question for you because it's something I've thought a lot about for the guys we deployed with. And, you know, we're all officers here. We got a lot of enlisted folk that listen to the show. But I joined, I got a new sense of appreciation for the deploying reservist. And if you look at like, you know, as as the corporals would say the higher ups, you know, like when they, deploy if you're a first sergeant, if you're a gunny, if you're a major, your life's probably a little bit more established because you are older, right? You're 37 years old. You're 39 years old, whatever the case is. And so there's an appreciation I have for putting your life on hold,

which is difficult. There's an employer that you've got to tell you're not going to come. There's probably a wife. There's a kid you're going to miss out on, whatever that case is. And we've talked about that of the show before. But I've also developed an appreciation of the younger Marine, and I don't mean younger as derogatory, just factual, that like your case, and you were kind of more senior, you're year six when the activation came up, but it's like you find out about 10 months before, like, hey, we're deploying. And then as a Marine, you're like, well, I'll believe that when I'm actually flying away because I've heard this, you know, story before. But basically, you kind of put like your job aspirations and a lot of things on hold because

you might get the opportunity. And so that kind of eats up 10 months or so. And then the deployment does happen. And then that eats up a year. You know, and then you come back. And if you're in the reserves, it's like, well, I just kind of missed a critical. Obviously, I had like great life experience, learned a lot. Not saying it wasn't worth it. But I just missed like a critical juncture of my life in terms of like starting a family,

you know, buying a house, figuring out what my career is. And so I'm just curious from like your lens, you know, your five months removed now, four months removed. Like, how's that transition? been back, sounds like you get a good job. What are your thoughts on kind of that whole concept? So the whole leading up to the deployment thing was interesting. I was approaching the end of my fifth year coming on my sixth.

My contract was up. We heard that we were going to get deployed. I was not obligated. I decided to do it. So extended for an extra year to do the deployment because, like, I hated telling people I was a Marine. I felt, I felt almost ashamed like, oh, you're a Marine, where have you gone?

And, you know, I joined it 2019. No way. Fort Dix. Most people, I've been in Fort Dix of Fort Bragg, Drum, Bragg again. Like, I haven't been anywhere. I haven't done anything. So, like, I would almost, like, try to steer conversations away. And then I hear the opportunity for deployment to come up.

Cool. I can actually, like, have a story to tell because for the most parts, I just tell people I get yelled at on weekends. That's my time of service. So, yeah, that year leading up to the deployment, I had a job. I left that job to start working at a Honda dealership selling motorcycles. They said, show up with your license. I said, cool, no problem.

Went out to the rider safety course. Met some guys on that course. Went out for a ride with them. Hit a patch of gravel and then hit the ground at 65 miles an hour. So foot spun around like that. Plate and five screws in a surgery later. No, no. Nobody told me to ride safe.

that day and I think I forgot. That's the problem. No safety brief. No safety brief. Yeah. So no safety brief. Yeah. That's what happens when you just grow up on to your own.

That's right. Yeah, that was eight months prior to the deployment. And about two and a half months after that crash, I ran a 270 CFT. Hell yeah, brother. Two and a half months post-surgery ran a 270 CFT. Like I spoke a lot of the guys in the unit. In 270's nothing. That's not high at all.

But like I just was bedridden with a broken leg for three months. And y'all are just, yeah. So that was funny. That was cool. I like that. I like fat people. Hey, that's allowed in the Marine Corps. You can say that.

We are allowed to be fatphobic. And I'm trying to carry that with me into the civilian. No, Honda has the same policy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. for fat people oh yeah yeah they're

robered out for but not yeah putting everything on hold it was very interesting um I left right as I got a girlfriend so like doing the long distance thing

I was I thought I was going to be like all the statistics um wasn't you made it that's cool yeah I made it we made it she gave me zero reason not to trust her so yeah we both go to

the same church now we're both living the dream there um it's awesome. So, I'm married her sometime this year. She knows his public knowledge. So, I mean,

is she going to listen to the pod and be surprised? Like, oh, he's thinking about it, you know, or she already knows. Okay. She's,

she's pressuring me. Okay. It's cool because I'm pressured her too. Okay. We both want it fast, quick, and in a hurry. We just want to get started with life.

I want the whole white picket fence thing. Yeah. Have a couple of mini-meas running around, terrorizing the world. It's the best ever. I want to, I want at least like eight or nine enough for like half a basketball team or something.

Okay, all right. Two fire teams. I like it. Two fire teams that works. Yeah. All right, Jeff, what do you got for Mason Wells? Let's see.

There's a couple things I want to ask. I want to see like, hey, give me like your best major Brogey story, something. Oh, no. Maybe he hasn't heard before, but I don't know if I want to put on the spot like that. No, we can do that because it's Grant's buddy.

You know, it's Grant's buddy. Yeah. Yeah, it's buddy, right. I'm trying to think. And if you don't have a good one off the top of the dome, I got another, I got a backup question. I just make one up. Yeah.

All right, all right. So we're big on chow here on this podcast. I don't know if you're a listener or how much you've listened, but what did you think of the chow in Okinawa? Did you get out and taste the local fare? I got to go out of town. I got to do the local fare. I got to do the wagu, the wago steak that I've heard so much about.

I'm a huge steak guy. I've been on a carnivore diet for like the last two years, two or three years leading up to the deployment. Felt great, looked great, loved it. Highly recommend it. Anyways, huge steak guy. Steak of the chow hall is boiled. Yes.

So. But, you know, Kintown had some decent delicacies. Let's focus on the chow hall for a little bit because I have complained a lot. And I don't think the listeners appreciate. So we need someone else. point of view. Can you just have your way with that's true. Yeah, you're here to corroborate Grants Buddy's stories. Yeah. So this is a, this is a theory that I have. Um, I believe that the military, more specifically the government feeds us Marines crap on purpose. Not just

because it's cheap. That's one reason. The other reason is you can absolutely PT and absolutely work out through a crap diet and still maintain a good physique, still maintain good cardio, still maintain good health. You get absolutely PT through a bad diet. Now, you're used to eating that bad diet for your four years, for your eight years, for however long you stay in. Now you get out, you're all disgruntled, you're, you hated the war, you hated everything going on, and then you look at everything happening up top right now, you're just like, wow, this absolutely sucks. I wish I could do something, but you're not going to because everybody's a coward. But at least, at least, your jacks, right? Because you

had to wake up for 06 PT every morning and then after work every day you still went to the gym and lifted with your buddies. Well, guess what? Now you're out of the Marine Corps. Now no one's telling you to wake up at 6 in the morning to go PT. Now you're not working out after your job when you got back. But guess what you're still doing?

Eating garbage. Well, wait till what's... Now we have... Oh, go ahead. The conspiracy is we have a lethal person, a person who's trained to do important, like dangerous things, who is capable of creating this change in the government, who can't now because he's fat. He lost his discipline to work out.

I see. I see. The conspiracy hits harder with the backdrop of two. They're talking about your weapons behind you. No, I'm talking about the guns on that boy, man. Come on now. Yeah. So basically.

The food on Hansen sucked. Absolutely. Horrible. Yeah. That was the worst. Everything came out of a can. Everything was boiled. Like this steak, I might as well have been chewing on the chow hall chairs.

It was disgusting. It's a leathery belt. Best. Just no flavor on anything. They're not like, even the salt tasted weird. How do you think salt taste weird? They found a way. Found a way.

But the chocolate milk on Hanson, the chocolate milk on Hanson, the chocolate milk on Hanston. and was better than the chocolate milk in 2-9. I would die on that. I agree with that statement. I mean, I basically lived off the milks, so because the food didn't have sustenance. So, yeah, no, it was good chocolate milk.

Okay. Trey, you got something for them? I mean, I could kick it with them all day, but I'd love them. Yeah, you said. So you're a lifter, did, did a grant forced you to lift with them whenever you all were deployed? That's me. he didn't force me to lift i wanted to lift with him i never really got the chance to i did compete

in 1,000 pound competition with him and how'd you do and i knew i wasn't ready but i got peer pressure into it love that i think i i think that time i picked up like 905 maybe 925 okay okay something like that i failed a 405 deadlift and i knew it was over from there um but that was when i was in the process but now i'm in a thousand pound club i did a thousand 25 pounds two weeks ago Excellent. Did your t-shirt come? Yeah. The t-shirt I said?

My t-shirt came. All right. I got the t-shirt. It's not a thousand-pound club. It's just a T-shirt. I know. That was one of a kind. Yeah, I'm sorry.

I don't have any. Maybe I'll make one special for you. Did you not, uh, did you go on AP? I can't remember. I did not go on AP. So you didn't lift with us, uh, you didn't lift with us, uh, 29 when we went and lifted down by the track and I took like all the NCOs down there. We did.

I did do that. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you and I were never like lifting bros, but there was multiple times we were both in the gym lifting. Yeah. And my mind would be together. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were both in the same facility.

We were both in the same facility. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. So you have, for those listening, for reservist activation, you have something called ILOC, which is like preparation for the deployment. Then you have the deployment.

And then our deployment was kind of threefold. It was like, hey, you're in Japan just to be in Japan in case you're needed. Then you're on ship, like you are the people if something needs to happen. Like, for example, R MU is currently in the straight of Hormuz. And then you're back in Japan just in case something happens. So it's like one, two alpha, two Bravo, two Charlie. And then part three is, you know, finishing the deployment. And so it's a lot of stages and it's a long year.

I guess what I would ask you is I'm sure you've reflected a little bit now. like what what's like the highs what what is like you know what like at that point i was like man this is great uh or does anything stick out or is it all just like nope just going 100 miles an hour exactly what's in front of me there is there is two two specific like i guess you can say training events that stood out to be the most i didn't i wasted all of our time off all of our lead days, everything that we had, like on-chip, all of our, all of our limbo, I wasted all of that, just going at getting as bombed as possible. And I hate myself for it because I should have, like, explored Australia, but no, I just found a nice little dive and just drank myself to oblivion.

Biggest mistake ever, if I could go back, I'd reverse that. But what a good way. Hopefully some of your peers will listen to this and, you know. Hopefully. Yeah, hopefully. Hopefully they've learned their lesson. Yeah. Yeah. The best times I've had. I'm not going to say which one was better because I'm not sure, but it was definitely being in Australia, just being in the field. Yeah. Enjoyed that a lot. But we were parked for the Talzman Saber and just hung out there for a couple of days. That was awesome, getting to hang out and talk to the lower listed for the, we got to hang out with the South Koreans. I got to hang out with the Germans and the Australians.

And it's cool chat with all these guys because they're all just like us. Like, like Lower listed is exactly the same everywhere. Yeah. The same joke, same mentality, same everything. It was so cool. Made some pretty cool trades. The Australians were awesome. But yeah, just being in the bush in Australia was awesome.

And then number two had to be the sweet and condensed jungle warfare training thing we did. Yeah, that was pretty fun. That was a blast, absolute blast. I love that. Number three was taking a dump on above the surface. taking the dump and not getting caught. Yeah, that was number three. Yeah.

That was number three. You know, I think there's some parts about ship life that get really monotonous. But there's also... Talking to the guy who was in the barber shop. No, I know. I mean, I know. For 12 hours a day. I know, but I got to say, like, some of my highlights, and I'm not just like pumping you up here.

But the monotonous is almost kind of like, oh, it's this day? Yeah, I'm going to walk down and see Corporal Wells. is at 11 and uh what was the black dude's name fletcher or uh the navy felton felton felton's going to be next to him listening to like a sermon and we're going to cut hair and talk about or i'm going to get my hair cut and hear about flat earth and some chief's going to walk in and cut the line and you know and it's like yeah this is it kind of has its own mystique to it um Jeff I assume you agree with that having a been a two-time meurer yeah oh yeah no that's important finding the finding the right barber on ship is is big deal uh yeah first it's first he's getting like

you're like okay who who can cut hair okay but who could actually cut hair then you figure it on you're like no no no that that's my that's my guy every time not compromising on this one yeah that's fun like did you know you were to be cutting hair before like was it something you picked up kind of like on the deployment or like did you come already with that skill set It was something I picked up on the deployment. My first art came up to be an axe. He's like, hey, have you ever cut hair? And, like, real quick, all my memories floged back to me of me,

just giving my dad a three all around when I'm like seven. I'm like, yeah, I've cut hair before. He's like, you're a barber on ship now. I'm like, oh. So, yeah. Then the first haircuts I actually gave out two Marines was shave us all bald to go to Hokie. And then from there, I just practiced my fades on all the bald heads.

And, you know, no harm no foul because they're already bald. Yeah, perfect. And then made it on ship, learned how to scissor cut. That was something. And, yeah, almost full-fledged barber. Not like perfect cuts, but like I can, you don't look stupid. Yes. Oh, no.

That's always the goal. Yeah, it's always a goal after you. I'll put it to you this. What was there? Eight chairs down there, six chairs? We had four chairs total. And then how many barbers total, including the Navy Cats? Like, because I know you rotate through, but how many total?

I want to say. when we had Godfather kicking up and volunteering. At most we had about eight barbers. Okay. But on staff every day we had four, three Marines one day. Well, to give yourself some credit,

there's one BLT commander, Lieutenant Colonel 1,200 Marines, and he got his haircut by Mason Wells. And it's always kind of aggravating because he'd be like, hey, XOT, can you set up a

haircut for me? And I'm like, yeah, sure. So, but basically I would just tell him it was set up. And then he would just go down there and it wasn't set up. And then Wells would be like, oh, yeah, sir, you're next. And someone would be pissed. But it's like, what are you going to do? It's a lieutenant colonel. Yeah, right? He's like the only guy working on ship right now. Okay. So one thing about Mason is he's got a lot of what we just call on this show theories. And we don't want to dive too deep. And the reason we don't want to dive too deep into some of the places we could go is because for a lot of folks, this is like an escape. They're on Instagram.

They're on X. And they're just seeing video after video after video of everything that's going on in the world. And when they tune to this podcast, we make jokes about where to find the best best glizzy and like just talk about nonsense. But I don't want to leave you out to dry. And I'm going to put you on the spot because I will tell Corporal Wells. can get going. Sergeant now, sorry,

Mason, can get going. So I want to put you to a test, and you're going to have to formulate your thoughts quickly here, but convince us that the earth is flat in 90 seconds. And you tell me when you're ready, and I'll start the time. I'm going to say,

I'm, all right, I would say my 90-second piece, and then I'm going to retract everything. Right. And explain to you why. Okay. Yeah.

You tell me when you're ready. All right. I was trying to figure out where to start. Okay. Go. So, Galileo decided to grab a telescope and make Earth not the center of the universe. In doing so, making Earth not the center of the universe expanded the idea that there's more stuff out there. More stuff out there is dangerous.

It should not be. There is no anything else out there. It is just Earth. Earth is flat. This is how. Multiple people have done experiments, and you can do this experiment yourself at Chesapeake. Bay, I believe, is about 19 miles long. Now, according to round her theory, there is a 7-inch drop per mile. So every mile, there should be a 7-inch horizon drop. So if you go to the Chesapeake Bay

and you look out that 19-mile bay, if you stand on that shore, me being six feet tall with a pair of binoculars, I can see the beach and the shoreline on the other side. But hang on a second. It's supposed to be a 7-inch drop for every miles. That's 19 miles. We're going to do quick math here and just call that. at least 20 feet. All right. Sorry, 15 feet. We'll round down just to make it more convenient.

But still, at 15 feet, I can see the shoreline. And this is, this is, that doesn't make sense. All right, that's fine. Now let's go up on an airplane. Be 30,000 feet in the sky. Look out. Show me the curve. There is no curve.

But you can see the clouds doing this. Yeah, it's called a dome. A dome. There's a dome that sits over it. How much time I got? Five seconds. you should stop. I'm convinced.

I'm going to take a plane ride to Chesapeake, Virginia, and I can knock this out in one trip. I'll look out, not. Okay, dome. Yeah, it's kind of like Kanye's thing in L.A. It's just a dome over the stage. Now, can I retract and tell you why I'm attracting? Oh, yeah, go for it.

All right, so Flat Earth is a, I call it a fake conspiracy area. A conspiracy of a conspiracy. The reason why is it's designed to discredit the real thing. So if I tell you, the sinking in the Titanic led to the creation of the Federal Reserve, you'll be like, how? I explain to you how. You're like, okay, that makes a lot of sense. And then I explain to you, JFK was assassinated by the mob, the CIA, and Mossad.

And you'll be like, what, how? I explain to you how. And you're like, okay, this makes sense. And then I say, by the way, the earth's flat. And you're like, yeah, you lost me. And that just discredited the other two theories that I had that are correct. So flat earth as well as aliens, and a lot of the space stuff is all put out there to discredit real conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theory itself, that word was coined by the CIA during the 50s to cover up their military plane testing.

As I've said before, Mason, on this show, we just call them theories. Yeah, they're just theories. I'm at the point where I call him just world news because I'm out of them. Yeah. I'm excited for, I'm excited for Mason to have some of kids. And then he's going to be like, I don't care about any of this stuff.

Yeah, Mason, I'm excited for your white picket fence as you said at life too, because I remember a year or two ago, I'd send, there's a guy that works at the strength code named Connor. He's ahead of me in the kid game. He's got a four-year-old,

and he's got a six-month-year-old. And maybe about two years ago, I'd send them all these ideas and stuff. And he'd be like, dude, I, what? The California congressman did what? Like, huh? Like, what are you talking about? I'm like, are you not paying attention?

And then I had a kid and I was like, oh, don't pay attention. Just pay attention to your kid. That's the only thing that you can actually influence. But no, that's good. That's good. All right. So we're going to, we're going to let you make an impact here. There's another reserve battery from 5th Battalion, 14th Marines.

Major Biggie here. Jeff is a, he's the November battery commander, but Quebec battery is in Ilock right now. They got delayed a little bit. They're going to head out at some point here soon. And go on deployment. Their commander listens to this show. And I imagine when you,

when we publish this on Friday, that a lot of the Marines from Godfather just deployed, we'll find their way to it. And some of those Marines are from 514. And I imagine that'll get like passed around. So you just did the 31st Mew. You just did the entire reserve, enlisted Marine activation, mobilization, whatever you'll call experience.

If you could talk to the 140 Marines of Quebec battery, and you can take this whatever direction you can want in terms of Marine MOS proficiency, wherever you want. But like, what would you tell them? I'm going to go down in a couple weeks and talk to their whole formation, but I'm a major. So, you know, I have a lobotomy on my head and everything I say, no one will listen to. But if you could talk to him, what would you say? I would say there is a plan.

It might not be a good one, but there is a plan and you can trust it. And you might not fully understand it. You probably never will understand it. And it's just not, I'm not taking a jab at you says. No, I feel no jab. It's my buddy anyway. So there is a plan. You can trust it.

It will get you there. Might not be the quickest, fastest, they're most efficient, but it will get you there. You're just going to deal. This is a reserve battery, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Same deal just west coast. The day you wake up as a active duty Marine, you will wake up in fairy tale fantasy gayland, where everything is dumb and spelled out for you.

And you have to show up to places that don't make. make sense and stand places for way too long. And yeah, just it's all done. Like, hey, everybody needs to walk 45 minutes across 29 palms because this guy wants to see you for like two minutes. Okay. That's just the Marine Corps. Just do it. Just do the thing.

That was a culture shot for me, dude. I'm a reservist. I'm weekend. I'm a day. I just show up and I show up and. That's that gun club. take pictures for Instagram and leave. Yeah.

They're like, wait, Mason, turn your brain off. Yeah. That's a funny thing to do. You're going to have people in charge of you that are not as competent as you. That's going to be difficult to deal with, but you just, it's just something you've got to figure out. Don't pick fights. That's something I wish I did. I wish I didn't pick as many fights as I did.

I wish I would have just like sat down and shut up because your life would have been so much more simple, so much more stress free, man. During the DAF, oh, I hope, I hope you guys go to Australia instead. I hope you do. The DAF probably took like five or ten years off my life. All that stress, all that work. I'm definitely getting skin cancer. Thanks all that sun exposure.

Yeah. I'm tied in with the VA now, so we're all good. We're all good. Yeah. And it's okay to not be with your boys all the time. like motor tea we all that's all we did was everything together at all times you will get burnt out your social battery will train it's okay to spend a weekend or spend a couple nights alone in your barracks room just don't drink just spend it alone play your new games read your book

call your lady whatever it is yeah uh just embrace the suck embrace the suck and um stay safe that's it yeah we got uh before we take him before we take him through the standard rigmar roll. Are we going to save rounds, alibines for old Mason? I can't think of any. I'm excited to, I don't know. So you hit the 1,000 pound club. What's your next goal as far as lifting goes?

Do you have any? 315 on bench. Okay. I'm at 275 right now. Pretty close. 315's in the hopper. It's almost there. It's almost there.

So I'm working at that. I got a 425 deadlift. And that felt good. I hate squatting so much. I think I'm just going to stop. No, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. My back is breaking. PJ, edit that out. Edit that out. Put a deep fake in. Put a deep fake in. Long femurs are fine. I know, I know.

I love the other two lifts. The squatting is just my, it's my arch and nemesis worst enemy nightmare. I hate. You just got to keep your squat at 225 for three sets of five and then focus on the other lifts. But just keep it at that and you'll be fine. I did 305, 3 sets of eight today on squat. Man, crushing it. Great.

That's the thing that doesn't help is Jim Flation on Instagram, you know, seeing all these dudes like squatting the 1,000 pounds. I'm like, okay, I should just stop. Who's that one guy, Quentin? Quentin, you know what I'm talking about? Quentin, Quentin. I don't. You should send me that. I will, I will.

Next time I come across it, but he just, the guy bench is like 900 pounds. Yeah. Just, yeah. He's on one. Anyway, I see that stuff and I'm like, I just want to leave. I got another non-lifting safe round for him. You got any, uh, when I was in, I was a huge fan of police calls. I didn't know if you got any good police call stories.

Yes So This one was fun I was a newly promoted corporal And it was our first Our first Or my first drill As a corporal

We went to the range Down in Quantico Okay And we ended up splitting up Shooting on two different ranges We were on the furthest range And everybody left us It was just me

And like probably 10 or 20 boots Or juniors You could say boots We're cool here cool, no problem. Okay. So, of course, I'm an NCO, I'm a corporal, give all your live rounds to make. And I'll figure it out.

I'll figure out where to put them, where to chuck them, what we're going to do with them. Anyways, I get about like 60 rounds. 5.56. I assume. 5, 5, 6. Yeah. 5.6. And a ton of stripper clips. I just throw them in my dump pouch on my belt. And we all pick up our marocates and hike back over to where we were.

Well, I'm looking around for some staff to, like, hand the rounds to. No one's there. By the way, this is, this is pre my buddies, my buddy's command tour. Thanks. Oh, okay. Yeah, this is pre-that. Yeah. This is pre-that.

This is way pre-that. And I'm looking around. I'm not seeing anybody. So I just sleep on them. We go to bed, wake up the next morning. I see her. I see a staff's arm walking around. And, oh, hey, staff's arm.

I got some, I got some. I got some stuff. I couldn't turn in the other day. He's like, okay. So I give him a giant handful of stripper clips and a ton of rounds. What you doing with this? I'm like, I was the only NCO on the range, and we had the police call, and I wasn't going to let Lance take it, so I took it.

And then I tried to turn it into somebody last night, but everybody was busy, so I kept them, and now I'm giving them to you. I could have not. I could have very easily, because I brought my own magazines to the, like, I bring all of my own stuff. Yeah. Like, you get it, made,

Major Broge, you can attest. I bring all of my own stuff all the time. I brought my own helmet. I brought my own vest. I brought my own plates. I bring all of my own cool guy gear because I love it. The only thing I didn't do is bring my own upper,

which I wish I did from the range, because mine sucked. My rifle sucked. Anyway, but yeah, I brought my own magazines to that. And then they gave me security rounds to ride on the bus, and I put that in my own personal magazine.

It doesn't matter. But like, I like doing cowboy stuff. And I could have just, like, said, hey, fuck, the 360 rounds. I don't care. But I didn't, and I decided to be a good boy. And what did that get me? Everybody getting all their stuff dumped.

Yeah. Me doing the right thing still got everybody's stuff dumped. So what did I learn? Don't do the right thing. Yeah. Just keep secrets and lie. That's how you get ahead. That's what, put that on a T-shirt, man.

That's when you need to tell that battery. Now you sound like you're high up in the government saying stuff like that. Keep secrets and lie. Keep secrets and lie. Keep secrets and lie. It works for everybody else. Yeah. As soon as you try to be a good person, the entire battery gets screwed.

Yeah. I'm just not going to be a good person anymore. I won't let it happen again. All right. Well, we got like two little things. So let me ask you this first. So I'll know how, uh, how off guard you're going to be caught. Have you listened to a full episode before?

And I'm not offended if you haven't. I'm just curious. I have two or three. Yeah. Okay. You listen. Okay. Okay.

Well, then. Jeff, why don't you take him through? I mean, it sounds like the staff sergeant story right there would have been perfect. Yeah. But why don't you take him through the first one and we'll have a trade taking to the second one. Okay. Got it. Got it.

Okay. So yeah, the name of this podcast draws itself. You know, we had a battery gunner or a battery mass sergeant that was, you know, could get, could lock a Marine on like, like no one else. And just like stop them in their tracks. They're walking by the office doing something dumb. And so I'm thinking like if you ever saw like, okay, hey, battery's getting ready to move out and some vehicles like still got their chalk block like in front of their tire or something like that or they left their drift pan and you're just like this dumb Lance Corporal like what's he doing? I got to I got to blast him and you got to just give him a good like, okay. Like I know we do vehicle walk arounds before we freaking roll out of the pause.

So something like that, just give me your best like okay. as you're about to be like just like lock somebody on so I never had the opportunity I never really did anything like that again motor T they respected the guy not the rank yeah which was cool so like I was getting treated as a corporal as a lance and that never like it was just an extra thing I got to wear that was it hypothetically though I got blasted in a really fun way for a really fun situation hypothetically I want to tell this story because this story is great So this is pre. You got to work in the word okay at some point.

In the story, there's got to be. It's there. Okay, there you go ahead. Go ahead. This is pre-grant. This was our old CEO, major. Yeah, we'll just dock someone. Yeah.

So he was a good guy in this story. Yeah. For the Marine Corps. Yeah. So I bought a, I bought a flamethrower. and not like one of those crappy little Elon Musk ones. I'm talking like can of gasoline shoots gas like 25 feet giant freaking flame, like clearing out bunkers and Iwojima kind of.

Hell yeah, brother. So I bought this thing and it's a January field op and we were going to Ford Indian Town gap in Pennsylvania, which is like ridiculously cold. So I'm like, okay, I have my own truck. I'm going to bring a flame thrower because we're probably going to need it. point because it's going to be cold. Obviously. A flame thrower is great. I could light nine cigarettes at once. I could unfreeze the water bowl. Oh yeah. You know, I would find a good use for it. So anyways, I'm in my full battle rattle. I go to my truck. I grabbed the flamethrower,

a can of gas, and I'll walk it over to my seven time to go throw it in. And I hear, Hey, Marine. Turn around. And this is, this is our mass art, or our gun. at the time and our CO's first drill with us, their first field out. And they see me walking to a truck carrying a can of gasoline, this cool looking green thing. And I hear hammering, so I'll turn around. What's you got there? It's a flamethrower.

What's it too? He'll throw those flames. How far? I'm 25 feet. How much is that? $650. You're like, what are you doing with it? I'm like, I'm going to bring it.

Why are you going to bring it? Like, because it's going to be cold. It might be to unfreeze the water bowl, you know, light nine cigarettes. Do flame throw or things. It might need to clear out some brus you never know. And the gutty is like, nice. Looks the CO. And the CO is like, no, not nice.

He'll put that away. That's a good CEO. Okay. Oh, there's your okay. There's your okay. Oh. Like how you work. And then guess what?

The water bowl froze and nobody could light their cigarettes. A. Couldn't fix both those problems. I'm just saying, what do I know? I feel like the next administration would have let that thing come to the field out. That's all I'm saying. I broke it by the time that next administration showed up. I wish I got

that thing everybody. Because that belonged in Australia. That needed to be in Australia. That did. Trey, why don't you take him to the last part? All right, man. So here's how we usually end all of our guest appearances that we have. So we have a sponsor.

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for BW. Tax. So we'll go around, we'll give you a couple facts about BW. Tax and you can take this kind of wherever you want it when we say action. It's all up to you. You can take it like, hey, no one likes taxes or

super patriotic to pay taxes, which I don't think anybody's ever said yet, but you can't take it there if you want to. So we'll give you a handful of facts about BW. And then you have to do a little impromptu ad read. So, Jeff, you want to kick us off? Give us your favorite fact about him. Gosh, there's so many to choose from.

I'm going to have to go with the fact that, like, BW is going to pick up the phone day, night, whatever he's got going on. You're going to be his main priority and his focus. So, you know, you could call him right now. He might be up. again, we kind of alluded to this earlier in the podcast. Like, it's the night before tax day.

Like, he's probably in the trenches still. People have dropped their W-2s on them at the last minute. But you can give him a call. And if you get a hold of him, right? Like, he's going to listen to you. And he's going to help you out, get you what you need. So I'll let Grant finish us off. But the thing that's pretty nifty, which is great for me.

He is based out of South Carolina. That's where he lives. that's where his business is. I do not live in South Carolina. He can take care of you no matter where you are, whatever state you're in. Where are you, New Jersey right now? That might be the only exception.

I'm in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Oh, okay. You're good, you're good, okay. Yeah, you're good, thank you. Yeah, you're good. So you don't have to be in South Carolina. He's a Boston guy,

but he lives in South Carolina now, taking care of people across the country. So. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll end it with this and then we'll turn it over for action. You know, your advice to the future battery deploying was even when you don't feel like their plan, there is a plan, trust the process. It's going to get you there.

What I would say is BW tells you the plan. And he's like, hey, and it doesn't matter if you're 26 or 66. It doesn't matter if you don't own a house or you own five houses. You don't own a business. You own five businesses. He's like, hey, this is what you should do. And sometimes it's, hey, brother, come sit in my office and do turbo tax in front of me. And I'm going to save you a bunch of money because that's all you need.

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Were you done? I could stop, but he can hook you up. This guy, this guy will drop all, pick up the phone and answer you. Why? Because you're going to Pay him to do your taxes. And that's going to work. He's going to do the thing that's going to keep you out of jail.

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Yeah. Good ad. Just a little. The little that I've known you, Mason, I had a feeling you were going to take in that direction. and I loved it. It was pretty good. I loved it. I thought he was going to take it a little further, but yeah. That was good. That was good.

I didn't want to get you guys demonetized. No, yeah, yeah. Hey, yeah, that's our- We're trying to get monetized first, man. You got to do that first. So that's what we're going to talk good about him. I am Mr. Helmut. Okay, let's see.

Is your account private? My account, my Instagram account? Yeah. No, that is open to the public. I was canceled in the past. I don't care about it. So if you like where his head's at, go follow Mason underscore Wells.

That's W-E-L-L-S-4-2-3. Mason-U-L-S-4-2-3 on Instagram and just DM him and say, okay. And if you want to know what's really going on in the world, he'll send you about 15 Instagram reels a day, and he'll keep you up to date on what's happening behind the scene. So Mason underscore Wells 423. This is going to sound cheesy coming from three hosts that are all Marines, but I actually mean it.

Mason, I appreciate your service. I appreciate you putting your life on hold, putting your girlfriend on hold, and deploying for a year. And as you develop and grow and question things that you did it and you're still like, hey, maybe I should go back in. Congratulations on your promotion to sergeant. That is like actually seriously really cool. I wish that it happened sometime last month. So we could have stuck it on you. That would have been an honor for me.

But I appreciate all the work that you did for the battery. I appreciate you coming on. And, hey, this will air Friday at 9 a.m. You send it to the boys and we'll get someone on next. All right. That works. All right, brother. Thanks for your time, Jess.

Yeah, we'll see you. You too, buddy. Good talking to you. There's always this weird moment where they think I can boot you, but you just have to leave. Oh, I have to leave. Yeah, because the show goes on. Yeah, so you'll have fun. Yeah, see you.

Later, later. Good, dude. That right there is probably what I miss most about the Marine Corps. That's the backbone. That's the back button. Just the characters, I love. It's the best, man. Yeah.

So for all the people we're educating to activate Trash Battalion, you guys hear silly goose banter from people that are majoring in the minors, meaning a bunch of majors, that's the Marine Corps right there.

Okay, that's the Marine Corps. So just get ready when the balloon goes up. But yeah, no, good dude, good dude. Good ad read. That's tough to do against tall grass. yeah i i forgot to get into the different regions of new jersey with them but what are you going to do who'd have been good i'm going to do i'm going to the chestnut i'll tell you that much right i'm

going to bring my my tape measure and my binoculars no i'm going to do the VA the VA subtense i'm going to bring my m16 and figure out exosite to crest xxas yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we could solve this whole flat earth thing right there just that should be a part of the same safety test. Hey, all you need is an aiming circle and yeah. Sad Ulu. At M16.82. There you go. Someone knows what Sad Ulu means DM the OK podcast and I will send you a free t-shirt. Sean Shepard's about to get a free t-shirt. No, not Sean Shepard. Sean Shepard doesn't count. He can drive.

All right. Should we get into the topics? Should we start the show? Should we start the show? Yeah, might as well. Okay. I think we start it. Um, hey, y'all listen to that new Ella Langley album yet? Oh, man. Dandelion, dude, it's good. Trey, we got a, we got a level set here, brother.

I don't have Apple music. And every time you sing this song, I know you don't, yeah. How do you know? Because you know I don't click on them? No, I know you don't because you've told me before you're a Spotify guy, and I send you Apple music on purpose to force your hand. Try to convert you. Oh, so all the songs you send me I don't listen to.

I'm sorry. I expect you to then search them on Spotify. Way too much work. What I expect you to start doing is get an external Bluetooth speaker, put it in your truck, play the song you want the person to listen and then send them a video like I do you. I'm old school, brother. Fair enough.

Okay. There was one time, there was something I really wanted you to listen to. and I just sent you a Spotify link to it. I listened to that one. Yeah, I know you. That's the one I really wanted you to listen to. Ella Langley album's good. And I, you know, there's, I was, I like to think when Ella was underground, I was a fan.

And I think I can say that she might have been like at the surface. And for those of those of those of understand, there's a thing called underground music, which is where Jeff and Trey say, hey, have you heard this song? And I say, no, I really like it. Is it, how would I have heard it? Oh, you wouldn't have. It was recorded four minutes ago,

and it's been released to two people on the way. And we had to use a shovel to go find it underground. Oh, so it's like underground music. Yeah, it's under. No one knows about it except me. Like that song about, like that song about bacon on your lips or whatever, Abby Buffaro, you know?

Your lips they smell like bacon. Yeah, my lips would smell like bacon too if I was eating breakfast. But anyway, I would say I found Ella when she was at the surface. Like when everyone was focused on Lainey Wilson, I was focused on Ella.

And now there's a whole trend of like Ella fella. She's making cool t-shirts. And it's almost like, I want to not like this because it's so popular. And then I listen to it. And it's like, I actually still like this. It's good. I said to Diana, I said, you know, I kind of feel bad.

And she's like what? I said, we talked about Ella on the podcast on like episode 40. She goes, yeah, didn't you call her like a whore? I said, yeah, I did because the song was called, Excuse Me, You Look Like You Love Me. And it was about going home together. And I said, now I'm a big fan. Yeah, great album, great album. But do you know where she?

Or she went to school. Auburn. Auburn. I knew this was going. Did she? Yeah. No. She had two years there.

She, you know, she followed in my footsteps and did two years there. Yeah. She transferred to play, she transferred to play baseball up in Boston. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Literally. Then now she's going to go to OCS, become a Marine officer, hopefully getting dark Hillary. And she's got a podcast. She's got to lead Sergeant Wells. It's going to be great.

Excuse me What else you got? The Masters, did y'all take any of that in? I guess it's kind of our sports topic. It's not really much else going on. Trey's giving me a thumbs down. I'm not a golf guy, man.

I'm not super into it, but I'll always turn on the Masters. Every year I'm going to turn on the Masters and watch at least one round of it. I struggle to watch golf on TV. It's great to fall asleep too. Great. Yeah, I like the Masters because that's how we got Steve Spurrier.

And that's how we got three level one seasons in a row. The University of South Carolina got access to the Masters. But no, I do turn on the Masters. When I lived in, I don't remember it growing up. But like when I grew up, you just went to church or caught shrimp. And that was like all you did. So I don't remember much talk about the masters growing up. But when we moved back to South Carolina, we're living in the upstate, that city shut down.

The entire city shut down. And when I say shut down, I mean, people stopped working. All the bars and restaurants were open and everyone was dressed like an Easter egg for four days, just watching golf on TV. And I kind of, it's like a thing that, I don't know, I want to say if you're not from the South, you don't get it. but there's some folks here in California, South California at least, that like it. I did not watch Thursday, Friday, or Saturday.

I watched about Sunday after church. I went to the warehouse for like two hours to do some work, and I watched, I had it on there. Rory won, the American didn't win, the Catholic that went to Mass before playing golf.

What was his name? Cam, something. Cameron. Young, maybe. Do you guys don't know this? How do I know more about the Masters? you can't know about the master don't they got a pretty good chow chow list very reasonable prices Cameron young

yeah uh yeah i think you could buy everything on the menu and it's $74 now here's my problem with the masters this is actually why i dropped it in was not to talk about southern war what i did see on my feed was Jason um Jason day no uh not a golfer the uh taylor swift brother guy um States of. Oh, Jason Kelsey.

Kelsey. Jason Kelsey, Pat McAfee, and some other guy, like, jumping in a pond. I saw Jason Kelsey like, hey, I'm at the Masters. I'm going to eat X.lla, blah, blah, blah. And then I saw a bunch of stuff. Yeah, I saw a bunch of stuff of people just ripping them and being like the Masters was like the last sport we had where there was like decorum. Literally no phone. You want to talk about no phones in the law? How about no phones in the stands? And I did think that it was taken down a level. What I've seen on the internet, as people call it barstoolified.

And I like barstool sports for a lot of things. But it's different than the masters. It would be like, yeah, it'd be like if there was a busing with the boys for like your church, you know. it's what it felt like. They're welcome. They're welcome. I'm not saying they're not welcome.

We just don't need their accounts. Oh, that is true. But yeah. Yeah, that's the Masters. Yeah, I did hear that. I read an article about someone being upset with the Kelsey, whatever his name is. Jason. The decorum.

The decorum. It was distasteful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, and I wonder if a gutter's life. Augustin National, like, signed off on that?

Like, they're so over the top controlling of everything that goes on all the time, but especially during that weekend, like, part of me is like, man, I don't know if they, I wonder if, like, they kind of, like, didn't tell them they were going to do that. Or, like, I cannot see Augustine National, like, okaying that. Okay. Okay. Does Disney own them? Who?

Oh, man. I assume Disney owns everybody. So I would not have a guy. Augustine National. Dude, Augustine National is its own thing for sure. Like, if, like, there's only like, it's on ESPN though, right? No, CBS. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, they like exclusively, they like negotiated the contract. Like, I kind of deep dove on the, on the masters. They're like, and like only like Mercedes-Benz, like Bank of America and like somebody else can advertise. Strength Co. Yeah, it's Strength Co. And all the advertisements are like. or all the commercial breaks are like less than three minutes or something like that. So yeah, the TV thing is kind of weird because it like, uh, it switches like who has it.

Yeah, I think like the opening like maybe like Thursday. Yeah. It's like ESPN. But I think like at least Saturday, Sunday are like always CBS. Yeah. I watch it on masters.com for free. It's great. Hey, great. Nice. Anyway, Rory won two of them. There you go, buddy.

Good for him. Good for him. Good for him. I want to hear about how's the potty training going? Let's get a potty training update. Yeah, can we get a fecal matter update? Yeah, you know, the bribe's still working. Okay.

She hasn't, we haven't had any candy inflation. So one piece of candy equals one minute. So far so good. we've had two success stories. Hey, thanks. It's outweighed by the non-success stories, but you know, it's a, so we're heading the right direction.

I'll put it that way. There we go. Love that. Good. Yeah. Good. Okay. Well, that was Tray's potty training update of the week. Everyone's tuning in for those. And now it's time for, and that was, and that was, it would Trace Potty update,

potty update, potty training update of the week. We do it after. so with this picks the week before but we always do it after we've always done that never not to that so that was Trey's Pottie Training Update of the week by BW

Tax powered by the strength tank and Mr. Helmut amazing amazing it was good and we've always seen it. I did update my Jim Radar before we in Jim Radar because I do want to talk about Jim Radar

and what's blippin on there for me while we're on toddlers Tray, do you take your toddlers to church? We attempt to, yeah. Well, you're picking up when I'm putting down. Do you want me to go first and then you riff back? Or do you want to just run me through what a Sunday of getting your toddler to church is like? Or most specifically, the toddler at church?

Toddler at church. So we're fortunate enough to where, yeah, so we come in, we go to early service, right? What is that? We got options too. Yeah, it starts to 815. Okay. We're there at 815. The schedule, church schedule for toddlers throws everything off, right?

Everything. So everything. They don't make church for toddlers. Shock. It's, you know, it's not, but, you know, it's part of the pain that you go through. So breakfast is an hour earlier, and then they're hungry as soon as you get there. so that we have a snack queued up.

Once they finish the snack, it's just chaos. And so they go straight to the nursery, which we're fortunate enough to have a pretty good nursery program. So how does the nursery go? So the nursery, like you have volunteers.

I know how a nursery works. I don't mean to sound. So nurseries are like a, so nursery is like a room for small children. I haven't seen Star Wars. I have seen quite a few church nurseries. I mean, how does it go for your daughters? It depends on the Sunday, man.

Sometimes it's without incident. And then other times it's like someone just murdered somebody. Okay. And so then what happens? Let's say someone just murdered someone. What do you have to do? So I cannot stay there because I'm usually the source of the grief. And so I bolt out and just leave Abby to clean up the mess.

So Abby sometimes worst case scenario has to stay just in the nursery. Oh, so she can go inside the nursery? Yes, yeah. Oh, okay. Small church. Yes, a smaller church. So, yeah, she'll go and kind of calm them down. And then she'll sneak out before like the closing prayer if it's a bad Sunday.

So if not, if it's good, then we're back in there by like the first part of the sermon usually. so. Okay. Mine is, same problem set, different outcome. If we go to the 11 o'clock service, it's like right before nap time. So that it just like doesn't matter. If you go to the 9 o'clock service, if you were to put pen to paper on how the timeline should work, it should work perfectly.

But the second you turn the corner that that nursery's in, it just becomes, an absolute dog fight and all my Christian mentors are like I'll be like yeah I'll get to this in a second like yeah I mean we go we just watch it from the atron but no no you got to get in the service get the get the word opened up I'm like no I agree just put your kid in the just put your kid in there you just got to do it you just got to do it I'm like okay and so every week we're like all right we're going to do it this is going to be the week brother they're supposed to give you 15 minutes and we make it about three and a half. And they're like, well, one, they don't even need to text me

because I can just hear it. And they're just like, yeah, well, this is not working. I walked in Sunday, dropped her off. She's screaming. It's also like not a fun feeling, at least for me. It's like your baby's holding on to you with all their might, like crying and you're like stripping them off of you and handing them to a stranger.

Like I don't actually like that feeling. I was talking to Diana about that on Sunday. on day. I'm like, I don't know that we're going to do that anymore. But all my Christian mentors tell me, just drop them off. You've got to do it. So you strip them off, you hand them in. And Diana's like, how to go? I was like, terrible. Terrible.

I was like, I'm not even going to the service. We're just sitting in the atrium because they're going to call us like in any minute. And she's like, oh, I can hear her. I was like, yeah. So she's like, just go get her. So it's probably been three minutes. So I'm walking down the hall. Door to the nursery's open.

There's like three, I don't know, 20-year-old girls, sitting there all holding babies. And the girls, meaning the 20-year-olds, not the babies, are looking at me as I'm walking down the hall. And their eyes are like as big as like saucers. And the little kids that they're holding are all like neck cranked to the left, like staring at my daughter with like their eyes wide open. Like what is happening?

And I walk in and they, she's in the swing. And the woman turns around going to talk to the 20-year-olds and sees me and goes, yeah, this isn't going to work. I was like, yeah, yeah, I'll take it. But which is funny, because when Diana goes to like women's group, like on Fridays, it works perfectly. It works perfectly. So it's me. I'm the problem.

But in any event, so that we take her out, so then when you're in the atrium and you're just like in the atrium and there's TVs and the audio's up top, but if you walk outside, there's audio outside, there's a playground, there's audio everywhere. But you're just, everyone's quiet because it's church, even though everyone's, outside with a two-year-old and you're just like doing the nod to the parent like yep

wish i could be in the service too that how that works uh but no it's it's it's it's it's uh own thing but uh yeah we we march on we mark we march on it's about all you can do yeah i so we got we got small group and then i was in charge of watching children we like rotate couples rotate watching children okay yeah and i was watching is that like a small group of people. Yeah, it's like a small group of people. Got it. We discuss church.

Yeah. It's later in the day and we just discuss church. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, let's talk about what happened this morning. And so, yeah,

exactly. And so we were watching the kids in Abby. I, my favorite, it's like Lord of the Flies whenever I watch them. I just like, I like rowdy, like get them all riled up and then just like send them back to the parents.

I'm like, that's great. Yeah. Feel my pain. Hey, stinker. Yeah. just screaming back there. Yeah, it's great.

Yep. That's what I call church. That's what I call podcasting. That is. All right. I don't know, Grant, do you want to, if you're trying to get some Strength Co content,

talking about progressing and Chuck Press? Nah, next slide. Thoughts on the leg extension machine? I know that's popped up on the Massonomics. Yeah, this will take us to Jim Radar. I don't know. Tanner messaged me and sent me the link to the video. It was like, this is great, okay podcast coverage.

And the comments are crazy. And I'll be honest, I opened it. And I don't know that there's a bigger Massanomics Jim Raider, Jim Radar are supportive than me. I know there are. There's people that spend more money, and those are the best kind of customers. But I'm a huge fan.

No one wants their success more than me. And I saw it was 21 minutes and I was like, man, I don't know when I'm going to have 21 minutes. I think I got through like three minutes of it and Tanner and Tommy are super funny going over the machine. I didn't get to get. Did you look? My point in telling the preamble to the story is when I dropped the topic in, in my mind, I was going to watch the video, start to finish, read all the comments and be prepared to talk about it. And I'm not. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

Okay. I'm like a Marine captain and a staff brief. I meant to update my slides and prepare a brief, but I didn't. I have watched that video. I've now looked at the comments section, so let me see if I can pull that up real quick. Yeah, I think the comments are, I think they're the best part, as they say. But the video basically says what? It's supposed to be for commercial use.

He used it. I didn't get together that as much as they were like, it's a, it should be heavier. I don't know. Tanner is having no problem like with the like basically doing like the full stack. And like yes, Tanner is a is a strong guy like a pretty dang strong guy. Yeah, but he's natty.

But straight. Yeah. Oh, right? The straightest straightest. That's his job. I can't think of a straighter guy. That's always been his bread and butter. It's just being straight.

He's so straight. Tanner. That's the first thing he said to me when I met him. He's like, Hey. My name's Tanner. I'm straight. I'm straight.

As straight as they can. come as they say in South Dakota. That's just how they come in South Dakota. South Dakota, we just called straight. Yeah, right? Man, let's see, let's see. Good review, no drama, positive and provided constructive feedback. Yeah, I mean, the big takeaway, I think, I feel like was like, they're like, hey, this

is a good option, maybe not the best option. And then they kind of, and then I feel like on the podcast, they've been talking about, like, Maybe actually like, you know, you don't need a leg extension machine. Maybe you just squat. Like just squat and you, they're starting strength enthusiast. I love it. When he sent me the video, I thought about have I ever been on a leg extension machine?

Ooh. And the answer to that is yes. And I can think of one memory. And I think I was a sophomore in college. And I worked out with this guy named Wade. And way would say he was really. real southern still is he talks real low still does and he would say don't won't be can't be as big as a house if you can't move one and i was like what what i couldn't you can't be big as i asked you

move it and he was big leg extension guy and i have no idea what kind of machine we use probably a nordic i have no idea how much weight but i don't think i have been on a leg extension machine since It's 2007. With Wade. At all. Good. Good dude. Wade.

Oh, Wade. Good dude. Future guest potential sponsor. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Also, yeah.

Yeah. Also, yeah. Also, straight. Yeah. Straight as they come. Married two kids. I mean, come on. Yeah.

Him and the Noam husband, you know. Not too soon. No. Yeah. Oh, so I have a review about Temple of Doom. Temple of Doom? Templegains. Templa gains. Temple of Gaines. We sell, and this will take us to Jim Radar, we sell a magnetic post.

So we used to make a plate tree, we don't make it anymore. And it's designed for like everything I want. It was inch and a quarter piping, which means with a two inch plate with a lip, if you grab it, you never have to like bend down. Like it's the piping is small enough that you can just slide it off. holds 45s on both sides, 25s above the 45s on one side, tens of fives on the other side,

and in the middle post, it holds two and a halfs. It was pretty much perfect. And then as I got 1.2s and 0.7.5s in my gym, prior to even making them, but people needed it, I was like, I don't like that these just sit on the floor under the rack. So we made a piece of piping.

It takes a magnet and has an ounce grew through it. Uh, anyway, we make them. Like we actually make the whole thing. I buy the pipes, I cut the pipes, I powder cut the pipes, buy the magnets. I, we have this jig where you insert the star nuts that it can take an Allen screw. And it's four inches long and it's designed where you can like stick it to your rack. For me in my gym, which everything I designed is basically like, what do I want to like run my gym with? It sits on the bottom of the A frame.

So it's actually vertical and you put plates on it. But it works horizontally as well. It holds 10 pounds. It actually holds like 12. But if you say 12, you know, people get funky. So we say 10 pounds. So you stick on the side of your rack and you put plates on it. You can also put collars on it.

The lever collars that we use will actually clamp to it. So that's kind of cool too. And in any event, we sell them. It's a popular product for us. Like it's one of those products that it's like I literally made this for me. And I was like, I should make more. And it's a popular product. It's on Jim Radar.

You can go check it out. I've never had a complaint. Everyone's like, great product. They post photos on the side of their rack. It's holding their little microplates. It's doing whatever. I've had a couple complaints, and this is not a complaint to the customer.

This is a complaint maybe to Temple of Gaines. Whatever coding they're using, it doesn't hold 10 pounds. So I got this email. A guy brought like four of them. and he was complaining that it didn't hold 10 pounds. And I literally walked out into my warehouse floor and grabbed like six of them. I was like, let me just test and stuck them to, you know, pallet racks where we hold stuff.

And, you know, I put a 10, I'm going to two and a half on and like all of them held. And so that was how I had heard of temple of gains. And so I, you know, I asked the customer, I said, hey, happy to refund you, or you can send them back. I understand if you bought them for like a niche use. Like, hey, I want this thing to stick in this part of the gym. Like, I actually get that and appreciate that. Like, I'll refund you.

You can send them back to us, you know, whatever. But try it on another surface. And they tried it on another surface and it worked just fine. And they ended up, you know, people or strength of customers are awesome. They're just like, oh, no, I'm just going to use it over here instead. But that's all I had heard about the leg extension machine. prior to that video. So that's why they call it TIPLA gains.

That is. That video does a ton of comments, though. It's like 200 something. Yeah, I think they're all positive. I think that's what Tanner told me. Everyone was like, super positive. Yeah, a lot of it's like, hey, it's a very fair review. Yep, great, great assessment.

Blah, blah, yeah. So it's like. Yeah, they say in their podcast a lot that they're unbiased and, what, truthful, unbiased and something. It's like on paid. and overrated or whatever. They say unbiased and honest, unbiased and honest review. Let me tell you, if I talk about my equipment, it is a very biased review.

It is my livelihood. And it's also the best because I'm a real lifter. But my reviews are biased and also honest, but very biased. Yeah. Jim Radar, we're winning over there. Turns out I'm biased, but the customers agree. Most own plates, 120. 20 gems.

Yeah, buddy. Running it over there. Are you on there? 21 as of tonight. I think you were 120 because my brother actually sent me a

screenshot this afternoon that he was on my radar and I did a 10 minutes before we got we hopped on here. I love that. I appreciate you. Let's take a look. We'll go to equipment page. We'll go to equipment types.

We'll go to weight plates. 120 gems. You're number 120, Tray. Next up is standard barbell with 103. So I'm biased, but the customers have spoken. Did you find the process easy, Trey? Serious question. It took me a minute to kind of navigate through it.

Let's give them some feedback. Well, like, talk to some honest and unbiased feedback. Yeah, let's give some honest and unbiased feedback from Trey. And now it's time for Trays, unbiased and honest feedback on Jimbrator.com of the week. Yeah, like I said, overall, neat idea. Yeah, every week. We've always done it. Let me pull it up real quick.

Did you do it on mobile or desktop? No, I did a mobile. I do pretty much 99% of things on desktop is ancient to me now. Yeah, you're hearing on mobile. Exactly. So I assumed, I think I was like clicking. I'm like, oh, if I do edit my gym, I can just like add my stuff there. It took me a minute to figure out, okay, go to equipment, which now, like, after I did the first, I'm like, oh, this makes sense.

And then search and add it from there. The thing I was doing is like I would add it and then I would click back to do it and then it wasn't added. It might just be like a little bug right there. So you had to go, I had to go back to the equipment tab, search again, and then add the next thing. Okay. Oh, so it didn't like, it didn't like refresh to show it was added. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

So I got you. No, I've seen that one. I've also seen some people struggle with, they build their profile, they built their gym, and then they go to search for equipment on their inside edit my gym. and they type in the Strength Co or Strength Co or the Strength Co. period and I don't pop up because so many things have the word strength in it. And so what most people say is they type in Strength Co-Olympic and the plates pop up. So if that's bothering you, do it that way.

If that's still bothering you, the other way is build your profile, build your gym, go to the equipment tab. and then just search for the Strength Co brand under equipment. And then when you click on plates or Corbar or micro plate holder, once you're viewing it, you can just click right there, add to my gym. And that seems to be easier for people than through the edit my gym page. But here we are just critiquing a business that we didn't create. I love when people do that.

I love it. So there's about, yeah, I'm about like 50% done. I've added all the Strength Co stuff. Now I need to go through and add. No way by the rest of that crap. Put them on Mars Bar on there. I actually, yeah, the Mars Bar is definitely okay. I actually like, I mean, I don't make racks.

There's a lot of stuff I don't make. But I love when I see like Rogue Bar, tighten this, rep that, you know, whatever brand this and Stranko plates. Because I'm like, oh, this guy's like shopped everything. And he's been like, these are the plates. I want. So I, those are actually, so I mean, of course I like when people buy my leather deadlift jack and they buy, you know, like my smaller products or the bumpers, right, which are pretty popular on there. But I love when I see someone that has the whole gamut of equipment because I'm

like, oh, this guy knows what he's doing. And he still picks shrink plates. So you're good. But yeah, no. Can you get the sleeves? Like I have those sleeves that I got at the Arnold. Are those on there? Sleeves? Like sleep tattoos? There are there. Knees? No, yeah, knee sleeves.

Oh, knee sleeves. No, no knee sleeves. No belts. No straps. But you can get a resistance ban. I don't make the rules. Dude, I was pretty, yeah. I wish I would add the belts on there at some point.

I'm pretty proud of that belt. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of it too, you know. What are you going to do? I do understand where they're coming from because. Yeah. It does open up. Yeah, quick men. Is that the gym?

Is it home gym? You started adding in, oh, my shoes, my socks. You think you put squat teas on there. That would be fine. Like, I'm not. Squat teas would make sense. I'm not wearing that. I'm not wearing that gym belt when I'm barbecue.

So I feel like it's just. Well, why not? You're not. How do you hold your pants up? That thing's. My barbecue. How do you brace properly when you for her? Worker in the.

backyard get your strength coat belt down what are you talking about it right it's a good point yeah you're got chopped some wood sounds like you sounds like you don't live in west texas yeah that's the best texas speaking of shoes one of these dallas boys speaking of them some lucy boots like them rich boys from dallas dallas boys rich boys from dallas i love that that west texas song talks about Not Luke Casey boots, but like Dallas, Texas, more like Crystal Palace Texas. Driving a Lexus or whatever he says. Good song. Speaking of shoes, Jeff, so you had a little shoe comment in there.

Oh, dude. So, yeah, I know great, you're a fan of like barefoot shoes, like the brand barefoot, B-E-A-R. R. Yeah, Ro. So you're kind of, you're drinking the Kool-Aid a little bit at least. But yeah, I've been looking at it for a while, but there's a brand vivo barefoot. And then again, it's just like a very like minimal shoe. There's no insol or like there's no mid-soul.

Oh, I'm tracking. Very wide toe box. And I got a pair probably like three weeks ago, is. And kind of got them more like, you know, something to like. like using the gym, dead left in, do that sort of stuff. But now I'm like, I'm just wearing them all the time. And I find that like, dude, so like for a long time, I've had like deal with like a lot of like hip pain. Like I go down to like tie my shoes.

It's like real tight, especially on the right side. Just like, I'm like, man, I'm getting old. I'm like, I'm getting like arthritis already like my right hip or something. but like it's like going away and I'm like maybe it has to do with these shoes a little bit I don't know and like my I don't know so I think maybe having like shoes

because I'm on my feet a lot for work like where the midsoul is breaking down and it's just kind of like your foot's not sitting flat and so like I'm kind of all in on these these like very minimalist wide towbox shoes now for everyday wear

yeah I don't own those I think I'd like them. I could take this in two directions. I will tell you my barefoot shoes. Burr, barefoot. I like for two reasons. And I wear the shoes.

I own the boots. I don't really wear the boots. But the shoes, I like for two reasons. I love deadlift in them. I like to walk in them. They're like my go-to walk-in shoots with my daughter. But I also like when you're traveling, they, like, in my backpack,

I'll put my laptop and I'll put those things behind. behind him. So I do like that about them because they're so minimalist. But what I do really like about barefoot shoes and this brand may make them as well. And Trey, you need to listen closely, my friend. I know you want to tune out because it's lifting talk. I bought my daughter. I bought my daughter, rar, barefoot shoes. And she walks the best in those shoes. Like we have her chanclos or sandals for you white folk. We have her chanclos. We have her tennis shoes. We have tennis shoes. We have tennis shoes. that are like made to be

you know, they're slip on because they're kids shoes, but they're made to be wide toebox not mess with their toes or whatever. But if I'm going, if I'm going taking my daughter and a walk, and that doesn't mean putting her in the big red car and pushing around, like, I'm going to like let her walk 100% of the time.

I choose those over the Timberlands that I bought her. So they have kid shoes and big fan, big fan. Looks like, I'm on the website right now. Yeah, I think, yeah, I don't bear foot. Looks like Vivo does make kids ones. Like little kids ones, yeah.

Yeah. Well, we kind of know the barefoot folks, so we should probably support them. Yeah. I still have to buy a pair because when we were at the Arnold, I told that lady I would. She keeps calling about it.

Yeah. She listens every week. It's one of the outline stations. I don't read it out loud. She says some pretty nasty things about you. It's so mean. She's like, that's the guy. He was wearing a hat.

And she called it a cowboy hat. That's how I know she's not from Texas. Oh, you sold it to somebody at that point. She's mad, bro. She's mad. So mad. You say that jokingly, but like every now and then, like, it comes back. And I'm like, I owe this lady a pair of shoes.

Got to keep my word. Whatever her name was, let her know. I'll tell her. Okay. Actually, just someone go buy barefoot shoes so Tray can sleep at night. Yeah. We'll dove down our part. we're talking about it

any save rounds alibis a playoff hockey I think starts tomorrow right yeah playoff hockey does bees are in it there we go in it too stars are in it

the stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of Texas South Carolina and Utah and flatter earth

There's a dome and the stars The dome. The dome to be paid. They project the stars. I could let them go down in the Mossad path. I didn't, all right? So we could. That's probably a safe bad.

Love it. Deep in the heart of Texas. Last thing I'll say, business guards. Oh, yes. And then I'll go. we were at a kid spot on Saturday, live music, had food, big open AstroTurf for the stage, picking tables outside. You go, there's a bazillion kids there.

You bring like a ball. Some other kids takes it. Your kid comes back with four toys you've never seen. Great spot. Sitting next to this family that comes up. The son's like maybe 25. And I'm like, oh, you live around here? and I can tell their, you know,

to do they got some cash and the mom and dad are like, no, his sister plays at Oregon State. She's down here for a tournament. We're from San Diego. He lives in Newport or he lives, he lives here. I said, oh, I said, I own a gym

in Costa Mesa. And he said, I live in Newport Beach. I said, excuse me. Excuse me. Very close. And he said, where's your gym? I mean, literally, it's connecting cities. He's like, where's your gym?

I was like, oh, it's on Newport Boulevard. And I said, yeah, I said, you might like it. It's like barbell strength training. And I went into my wallet and I always keep about six, seven on me, business cards. And I handed it to him. And I said, yeah, but check it out. And he goes, a business card? What is this, 1975?

And I was like, actually, give me that back. I don't think you're going to be a good gym member. No, I didn't say that part. But are business cards dead? Like I always keep like I. No. No. You tell someone to.

look up my website or look at my Instagram. They're never going to do it. You physically hand them something. They're going to run into that thing at some point. And it may be on their way to secure the trash. But they're going to see that thing again for sure. That boy's never been to a trade show, man. Yeah. That's all trade shows are. You just like trade business cards. Are you saying tray show? A tray show like trace. He's never been to a trace show. That's all trace shows are. You just trace business cards. Business cards everywhere, man.

Hey, just splatter them. I keep mommy. I keep mommy. Keep that thing on me. Keep it on me. Next time you see me, whoever you are, you say,

Grant, give me a card, and I'll prove it to you. There you go. There it is. Curriama, number one hose seller in America. Always said that. Yeah.

Number one, baby. All right, Tray. I'll just take this thing down for a landing. All right. This is episode 0.1. Fife of the No, it's episode 1.05.

Oh, 0105. I don't think we have to do the zero anymore because we're past 100. No, no, no, but I'm prepared for a thousand. Okay. Oh, I like that mindset. I like it. 10 sets. I like that mindset.

Yeah. We're German volume. Yeah. Volume guy. Thousand sets of P.J. Put a Duncan logo across the screen and always use the Duncan. thing from the year that we started. And in 2050, when we hit

a thousand episodes, don't go with their new logo. Go with the old school one. All right, episode, as I said, 0105 of the Okay. That's pretty good. Podcasts. I'd like to thank our guest

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Underground music. That's four minutes old, apparently. That's what qualifies it. That got me. That was pretty good. That or if you got a question about lifting, you can talk to Grant Pot and ask him some questions, and he's very quick to respond. Instantly. Yeah.

Sometimes unwarranted. Yeah. But he was still respond. All so true. Here's my dinner. Hey, you fat butt. Hey, what? Most importantly, go to

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So get with grants. Actually, that's just on your personal one usually, right? Grant SSC. That's it. So on that note, we have our individual social media accounts that we're all very active on. Grant on X, Jeff on MySpace, me on Hoffspace. We got it all covered.

You're on true social. Yeah, I'm big truther, man. Big truth. Yeah, big truth. Yeah, you're like reaching up an ice helmet boys. Yeah, look at this ass helmet, boys. Hey, actually, you should probably create an account and drop the affiliate link for the ice helmet. We'd buy.

I honestly, we'd probably be priming a lot of money. We didn't do very well there. You can't think about your girls' college funds, okay? That's a good point, yeah. So, yeah, I sell them a two coma on my true social account. Be on the lookout for that. I think I will be live on that next week, for sure. As always, most importantly, we are powered by the Strengths Code.

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project. Trade this unveil. Not a lot of American made ones, it turns out. Not a lot of them are made in America. They had three daughters. I had a daughter. We're conservative by some views. We're making burqas. We need them. Made the USA out of cast

iron. Made for your next prayer session. Come get your burqa at the strength. Dot go. I'm dying. All right. I got to get a bad. Yeah. Yeah, most importantly, they have great plates. Coach, I miss anything.

That was great. Just real quick, the last thing we do every week, like we've always done, never not done it. Current favorite kids movie. The Godfather. Good answer. I'll just leave it at that. We'll see you next time.