The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP. 106: New Chow Push, Strait of Hormuz & Lifting Physics

Episode Date: April 24, 2026

The guys break down a ridiculously simple meal that actually works for getting jacked, recap a wild jiu-jitsu competition experience, and 50 cal challenges. From dad life and lifting updates to sports and complete nonsense, this episode is peak Okay Podcast energy. Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ksCheck out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.comBUY A FOOTBALL HELMET:⁠https://www.thestrength.co/mrhelmet/?utm_source=The+Okay+Podcast&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Okay_PodTimestamps:00:00 - Intro08:39 - Staff Brief & Strait of Hormuz34:35 - New Bangin’ Chow Push42:41 - Potty Training Update52:29 - Weight Lifting Competition59:30 - ADCC’s Jiu Jitsu Tournament01:08:57 - Sports Talk01:27:44 - Lifting, Mobility, and Squat Physics01:38:02 - Snooze Button01:44:59 - 50 Cal Challenge01:52:38 - Saved Rounds

Keep it in mint condition. Nailstone. Am I hot on my hot. I'm good. It's not pegging anymore. I think I'm good. All right. And welcome back to episode 106, 106,

of the OK podcast, Powered by the Stranko. I'm your host. Grant Broji. And we are recording live. I'm in South California. No, I got answered the phone yesterday. Someone said, are you in Grainville? And I said, no, I am no longer in the upstate.

I'm in South California. But you can go train there in South Carolina if you want to use some Made in USA Barbell equipment. But we're recording live. I'm in South California. We're on the internet. For the boomers that are listening, there's this thing called the internet.

And it connects people from all over the world and allows people like, us yeah thank you Al Gore for creating that allows people like us to have a podcast that's what they call podcasting uh today's date is April the 21st in the year of our Lord 2026 a lot of sports to talk about today almost like confusing almost overloads people like oh college football is over this time of year is like sports overload it's just everywhere you look there's a game you care about don't get me started about Arsenal okay like it's just sports overload this time a year. Price of Bitcoin is $77,538.30 cents.

I straight is open or closed. I'm not sure. It was, what I've heard of, we'll get to it in the brief. Yeah, I've heard that it's open when the stock market is open. The stock market is currently closed. Oh, right. Straight to be open when Bitcoin is open, then the straight would just always be open, which would bring the price of oil down, which would bring the price of your plates down. but anyway, I'm joined in studio with Mr. Jeff Bouget, B-U-E-G-E-E.

You figure out how to say it. Some people call them Biggie Blue Jeans. Some people call them JP Biggie. Some people call them Biggie J-P. Some people just call them Auburn. But he is Mr. Jeff Bouget. He's a major in the Marine Corps Reserves, not to be confused with the active duty. and he's currently not in a drilling status

so he can give us his thoughts on flu shots and whether or not we should take them and the important things that are going on there he does not have the nuclear codes I also don't have the nuclear code so remember it's not our fault we vote to trash six also joining us

from Columbus, Texas is there Columbus Texas? Yeah that's where I do have nuclear codes that's where Columbus. Is that why you're there? Yeah, you heard Trump wanted the codes and you're like, I got to go to Columbus.

Mr. Trump doesn't even have the codes? I don't know. There's a story Circulated. It's called decentralized command. There's a story circulating on the internet. No, that's for the Constitution, I thought. The Declaration of Independence.

Oh, all right. Popperian reference by grant. All right. What movie? What movie? you have pop quiz. National treasure. National treasure. Big national treasure guy. What's the movie where he opens and closes the door two times every time?

Where he has like autism or OCD. Same thing. Oh, come on. Stop. Stop. We got to figure this out. He opens and closes the door two times. It's not it's not gone in 60 seconds. It's not face off. Popped right up for me. So my, my description, you guys like to give me crap on my, the way my brain works.

No, I don't doubt that it's real. They immediately popped up. What is it? It's a 2003 movie. You want to play this game or you want to me to just give it up? No, I like the clues. Let's play it. Yeah.

We're in it. He suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Like I said, has autism. Has autism. Here we go. Opens and closes the door three times. I said two. Three times.

Maybe that helps. okay yeah oh oh yeah i was thinking of the two okay yeah totally yeah 2003 uh let me see who else is in it you know this guy but i don't uh sam rockwell yeah okay is it match stick man match stick man you got it great work great great great great great great great great great great job trey 10 points to tray what a what a cast man great movie wow anyway from columbus texas mr robert trey goth the third he He's the third and he's named Trey because God knew he was going to have three daughters under the age of one. They're all over the age of one now. But there was a time in life where Trey came home every day and he had a wife and three girls under the age of one that he was responsible for.

So you ask about Trey's lifting. And a girl dog. Well, you killed that one, right? Like Christy know him? You Christy know him did? No, we killed the boy dog. Killed the boy dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Christy know. really tiffy odds. The girl dog's got balloons under its shirt. And in any event, there was a time when he came home. And so you ask yourself, when you guys get on your YouTube's and your Spotify's and say, eh, Trey's lifting updates suck, wouldn't you all do all the time? Ask yourself, what was the last time you came home to a wife

and three girls under the age of one? Okay. You just think about that. I think I covered all the preamble. burned up six minutes, which is good. That's good. And so now we go into the next part of the show where we really burn up some time.

Trey's favorite part of the show. It is, Trace. We keep wanting to get rid of it, but Trace is no. Everyone is updated their slides. This podcast brought you by BW. Tax. Tax season's over. Remember the best day to start thinking about next year's taxes is right after you did this year's taxes. If you messed up, you haven't got your return, you're paying the government a bunch of money,

and you realize like, man, for nearly 52 episodes last year, I listened to talk about BW Tax and never gave them a call, don't let that be you this year. Also, it's sports season. It's baseball. The Mets are really good. What comes in dozens? Eggs, donuts, and Mets lost. A.

Mets are really good. They're the worst. They're making the Red Sox look great, actually. Real bad start. Long season, though. They just plus 12 in a row. You got playoff hockey going. You got playoff basketball going.

And when all these sports are coming across your feed, what you should really be thinking is, you know what I need a mini football helmet? I need a football helmet to help me cheer for all these other sports teams. I know football is not playing right now, but that's what you need. And listen, you might be looking at yourself and saying, hey, not a sports guy.

I'm a MAGA guy. Listen, trade's the same. That's why he owns an ice helmet. Okay? There are options for you. We'll make you a Kamala Harris helmet if you want. We have no limits here. U.S. Border Patrol. There you go. I still think it should be an ice helmet. PJ just...

Whoa, hey, you just did it out of the packaging? That's not made condition anymore. Yeah, I know. Man, Grant Forcement. Oh, there goes the girls' college funds. Who designed this? This looks like Jimmy Fallon. U.S. Border Patrol.

It really is like the worst logo. Yeah. That's their official logo too. Borders. Yeah. No kings, no borders. Open borders. I'm an open borders guy. Yeah. Well, they can't even get the wording in the borders.

Yeah, that doesn't really make sense. Yeah, the wording's outside. Well, that's because they're patrolling it. But actually, they're not really patrolling it. The Marines are patrolling it. Yeah, that's true. But anyway, I digress. Thanks for tuning in.

before I kick it to the three, I want to say thanks to all the new listeners. We know we got new listeners this week. Oh, Mason Wells, Sergeant type, was quite a hit amongst the E4 Mafia. So a lot of new listeners joining in. Listen, if you're a corporal, Sergeant, maybe Lance Corporal,

and you're listening to show right now, the next 10 minutes or so, you're going to think to yourself, what in the hell is going on? And all those days when you were wondering, why can't I go home right now? And the answer was, well, we got to have formation and the CEO wants to be at formation.

The CEO was in one of these meetings. And this isn't just me. I'm not speaking for my buddy. This is everyone ever. But I want you to work. This is a peek behind the curtain from you of how sausage is made. And sometimes the most important part of the meeting

is the meeting itself. And with that, I'll kick it over to the three. Okay, hey, thank you. Appreciate that preamble there. Good evening. Ladies, gentlemen, commanders, staff, section heads, section chiefs,

A slashes, Zulus, and Lance corpals that are just filling in because they got told to be here. Let's get things started. We'll go ahead, kick it over to the S-1. Two, Trey. Oh, yes, sir. Apologies.

I'm just getting back off leave. So, but it's coming off leaving, then I just take a look at the report card. Report card, all A still, sir. Oh, wow. I'm not really sure how this report card works, but we're, I guess, doing pretty good. Numbers are bumping.

It's not a really A to F thing, but sure. Oh, what is the scaled in, sir? I haven't been briefed on it yet. Jeff, isn't it like it's just a you just want to be, it's like golf. You want a lower score. You want your unit.

I have no idea. Yes, sir. So, report card. I'll take that back here. Keep us sidebars to a minimum. Oh, oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, thank you, sir. Appreciate. Yeah, sir, we are too below par then on our report card. Have we made any birdies? Have we made a couple birdies in or is that a big old? We have. Yep.

Okay. So we have no equals yet, but we are a bar bar. So outside of that, numbers are bumping. Please get me, before we go to the field here, next couple weeks, I need your, the count of everybody who's going to be going to the field so I can. Hey, trash six here real quick. Oh, yes, sir. Edge, you plan on coming to the field?

Sir, if I don't have to, I will not be there. But it's a requirement. It's a requirement. Okay, one team, one trash, one fight. Yeah, it's not for me. Okay, it's for the Marines. It's for the Marines. Yes, sir.

It's for everybody in Trash Battalion. Yeah, Combat Edge. Combat Edge. You get you on a 240 range, Edge. Get you behind the 240, we call you Combat Edge. Had an edge one time. 240 tail gunner.

Great guy. Back in NAM. Combat Ash. So I'm going to call you now, all right? Combat Edge. Hey, appreciate what you do, Edge. Good brief. Good brief.

Back at NAM. It's the Lieutenant Colonel that was in NAM. Well, it was for a training exercise. It was a training exercise. It was a bilateral training exercise. Oh, it was a training exercise. Gentlemen, is trash five keep the sidebars to a minimum. Oh, yes, sir.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the motor T chief. Could I just go ahead and brief my portion now so I can hang up and then not be the rep part of the rest of this meeting? You are a four commodity. We do this by war fighting function. You'll be on after the chaplain. Oh, so I have to like stay on this call? Yes.

Okay. All right. Hey, gentlemen, at ease, at ease, at ease. Okay, S2. Okay, okay. It's a very serious time right now. The straight is we don't even know if it's open or closed or whatever. So we're going to kick it over to the deuce and the deuce is going to have some very hot.

hot off the press coming through the wire the red lines ringing the the deuce is in the vault getting the latest and greatest deuce what do you have for us sorry gentlemen a little breath just ran from the vault good evening sir sergeants major commanders staff fellow members of trash battalion my name is lieutenant rutherford uh i just checked in yesterday the last guy went to A&S. I just want to be clear that I am a ground intel officer, which means that I'm an 0302. I've been to IOC.

And we are monitoring the situation. We are monitoring a situation. It's me and three Lance corporals that are in the vault all day. And we are on a bunch of sipper sites looking for the current information on the straight.

And nothing really gets uploaded. So I have two Lance corporals that I leave outside of the vault that are just on X and they get more live updates from the POTUS, from POTUS, from Seq War, and from everything that's going on on X. So I've actually, I'm not really using the SIPPERS system that much, but I'm monitoring it. But the straight is currently closed. It was opened and then it was closed. And that happened about nine times today. We don't know what the long term plan is, but we are monitoring the situation. I also want to update that.

the laminar is still down. I know that's been an ongoing issue for past S2 administrations, but I'm happy to be here. It's great to meet everybody. I'm super motivated. Super Fidelis. I have nothing further for the group.

S2 out. Hey, Deuce, if you could let us know what your handle is and then just retweet any time, then we know it to be up to date constantly. Oh, yeah, no problem.

It's called Breaking News 911. And I just basically retweet all or, repost all of Iran's Lego videos. Great account. I also get a lot of info from Investment Hulk on X. You can go give that a follow as well. Another further for the group.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate, sir. Appreciate the follow-up question, sir. Sir, sir. Good brief, doose. Good brief. Okay. All right, kicking it over to ops.

All right, updated the training schedule, right? In light of current events, we've been receiving a lot of trash reps about the disposition and composition of the trash. It's coming out of the Strait of Hormuz. So with that, we're going to be conducting a strap trash X, where we're going to go ahead and load all of our dumpsters, our garbage cans, our trash bags, anything that's a receptacle for trash.

We're going to go ahead and make sure we can load those up into our quadcons, get them weighed, get them measured, right? We need to be ready to deploy. within 48 hours of the balloon going up. And then when the balloon comes down, we need to be ready to then collect that trash because I'm pretty sure that also falls into our area of responsibility. So just want to let you all know that's coming down the pipe, okay?

Coming down the pipe. Okay, trash six here just to echo trash three. Nobody thinks you're in the straight of her moves until they're in the straight. All right. It's all fun and games until you're in the straight picking up trash. Trash six out. Sir, were you saying that you are straight?

Was that what you were saying? That you're straight? Let's just say, I like Venezuela oil. That's it. Oh, okay. All right, moving on. That was a bit of an off topic sidebar.

Okay, S4. Log, what do we got going on, logistics-wise? No one knows they're in the straight until they're straight. I've always said that. You've never not said that, honestly. You've always said this. You don't know you're in the straight until you're in the straight. And then all of a straight man.

How many times has the straight of her moves come up in 2026? And then tell me how many compared to 2025. Ooh. 2024. What was the last time you heard of the straight of her moose? I follow the 2019. Called 2014. Yeah, as one does.

Yeah. I've been following him since 2011. Okay, real quick for the fans. So basically mom, Mr. Campbell, senior type, Ray Toey, Mason Wells now, maybe.

There's trash six need an X account. You guys lost to know in the comments. Oh, that would be entertaining. Man, I can't manage it. Oh, yes, sir. Three, yeah, I'll brief for the four. as I am before. Currently, dumpsters are down.

We're signing over a couple dumpsters since we're a bunch of ours are just down. We're signing over from Recycle Battalion. Should be getting those sometime today, hopefully. Yeah. Now, question. Now, are those trumpeters all going to be blue and are we going to have to repaint all those dumpsters? Correct. Yeah.

Unfortunately, yeah. They are blue dumpsters. or green dumpsters, we're going to have to repaint them. Okay. Oh, man, I can't wait to kick Recycle Batheen's butt in the Trebyshire competition. Oh, the Tug of War, the Trash securing competition. Oh, man. We need a- Recycle battalion makes her Trebyshe out of this recycling materials.

Crappy plastic bottles. Oh, man. They don't even throw real trash. They throw recycled trash. A bunch of hippies. Yeah, seriously. just a bunch of monster cans Oh man

A bunch of monster cans Oh man That's all it would be That's all they would be recycling Gentlemen, this is trash vibe Please keep sidebars to a minimum We're grown men We're grown men

We're grown men Yes you're outside of that Phase mode coming down the pipe here in the next three to four years I believe So we're looking to be ready hopefully by next week on that. Outside of that, sir, that's all I have for the group. Great, great brief, great brief. Good brief. Good brief. Good brief.

Good stuff. Good stuff. Okay. Hey, thanks for what you do for Alpha. Hey, have you reconsider career designation? No, sir. I have not. Okay, hey, I just want to schedule a meeting with you. Come in and have many a lieutenant think they're going to get out. But once you get 50040 days of observed time, I'm coming and talk to me. I think, you know, never judge your first unit as the only unit. This is the best unit.

And I actually, the problem is you're in such a great unit that you feel not needed. It's all downhill from here. But no, we put you in a bad unit and you can turn that thing around. Just come in and come in and see. You're an Aggie, right? Yes, sir. Yeah, I mean, me too. Yeah, I was a yell leader back in 92.

Yeah, come on, come on through. We'll talk. Yeah, I'm a Robert Earl Keene guy. Yeah, I think we got four more years over you, you know, West Texas, best Texas, am I right? Oh, yes. Yeah, come on in. Come on have a glass sweet tea. We'll talk.

All right. Three, go ahead. Great stuff. You know, it's always good to see the mentorship of the young lieutenants there. Okay, hey, we're still in the four shop, right? We're going to kick it out. Oh, yeah, thank you. Hold on.

Yeah, just pause a brief real quick. Auburn. Auburn. Actually, I got something better. Hang on. Let me, we could pause this brief. It turns out we run the show. Yeah, it turns out it is our, we run the brief and the show.

It was the old song we said, and it turns out we ain't gay. Did you hear that? Yeah, buddy, War Eagle. War Eagle, baby. Ella Langley, she been super popular lately. Well, she was at A day. popping off. I don't know if you guys have heard it. It's underground music. The problem

sometimes when we find underground music, we dig it up and we've essentially built like a monument to her. Now everyone knows who she is. And she listens to the pod. Potential sponsor, potential guest and never has she ever worn an Auburn jersey.

We make it the number one word on the podcast and now she's running around in the Auburn jersey saying War Eagle. Coincolce? I think not. No. She was like, I've always said that. I said, you've never said that.

She's like, well, big fan of the podcast. Big fan of the podcast. Anyway, three, sidebars. All right. All right. Before Shop, A, we got Chaplin. Chaplin, we got your slides updated. Hey, appreciate that.

I'm just going to read this real quick. Chaplin, checking in. Nothing new for my end. I did, however, want to make a quick note of this passage I was reading this week. unless the Lord builds a house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards a city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Psalm 127, verse 1. Trash 6 wanted me to make it abundantly clear that trash battalion,

that we are securing the trash with the Lord on our side. Nothing else from my end. Over. Interesting use of the King James version. I noticed that he didn't indicate whether it was in ASB 1995 or ESB. That's true, he did not. There's no indication. Yeah.

Labor in vain let you know that it's new King James. If it was old King James, it would have had a OU said he just used OR. Interesting news. I'm going to research Psalm 127-1, figure out why you did that, Chaps.

But I appreciate it. Yeah, we got any more outlying stations? We have one more outline station. We have a late shot. We got seven people watching on X right now. Wow. This is a little Billy Mitchell, not to be confused with Billy Martin. Yeah.

Late shot, who would you rather have driving? Billy Martin or Tiger Woods. Oh. I mean, I think Tiger is still alive. True. But I don't imagine it was Billy's first. when it was his last time, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

No, I'm probably had a pretty solid number under his belt. So I'm a Billy Martin fan over here. Big Billy Martin guy. Same. I can drive. But Tiger having four public ones. If you got, so Billy has one public one. True.

Different era, though. Death. Different era. different era before TikTok. It might have been a bunch where they just let him slide. Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm riding.

Who am I kidding? I'm riding with Billy Martin. You go, we're all riding with Billy. I'm riding with Billy. I'm riding with Billy. I'm actually going to crash him way before so the Yankees start losing more games. Jay, what you're riding with?

Yeah, probably Billy Martin. I don't know. That's a tough question. That's probably the hardest question we've had on this podcast. That might be the hardest question I've had in my life. Potentially. Tiger Woods or Billy Martin? I feel you can rip Sigs in the car with Billy Martin.

If I forget, Jeff, after the episode airs, you need to do a poll on IG. So for everyone that thinks that trash sacks is just capable of managing 4,000 accounts, Jeff does help me on the OK podcast. Instagram. When I say, help me, I mean, he posts a lot. and BW. I mean, well, BW doesn't post, but BW sends a lot of free. Funnels, yeah, a lot of content. BW.

Yeah, if you want, so this is going to sound like an insult to our own podcast, but it's actually a compliment. If you have, like, trash that hits your feed, that you're like, I wish I could post this,

but like I don't want my aunt to, like, see it. The okay podcast is that outlet. It is your trash, on display. So just send them over. And we'll put those things on the store. We don't, there's no. There's no.

There's no, there's no. There's no. There's no. There's no algorithm. We might get some weird stuff. There's no algorithm. No, no. We filter.

We filter. It is sensor. No, no. But, but like there's no algorithm we're after. We don't have a product we're selling you. This is just, this is just where you. escape reality. I'm going to start sitting Jeff some weird stuff.

Well, send him to the OK podcast. So, oh yeah, that's it. Yeah. I ate lunch today with, oh,

good job. Thanks. Thanks. Who's his job talk? I don't eat lunch. I know, well, no,

we're not even done with the staff brief. Oh, right, right. Right. I ate lunch today with a former firefighter, high level official. and a former police officer

high level official and they tried to talk conspiracy theories I said look you're with me we just call them theories and the firefighter who's Ray Toey you know big fan of the show says something like oh that should be on the okay podcast and the police guy who I don't really know I mean I know a friend of mine

like you I'm in a text chat with him now says what's the okay podcast. I'm like, that's like small little thing. We run. And so, you know, yeah, check it out. And then today as I was walking to set up, I'm like, what is a former, I don't know, I don't know police hierarchy. But I'm like, if this guy listens this Friday and he's 27 minutes in, like, does he make it 27 minutes? Does he even know we talked about him? Or is he just like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard? I don't know. But people keep looking. listening is so we keep creating

it, but anyway, I can drive. I can drive. Should we start the show, Trey? We've wasted 30 minutes. Might as well, yeah. You said we're not doing with the staff brief, so. Oh, uh, trash it's out. To John there? Oh. chairs flying, coffee cups spilling.

Sergeant Major running behind them. Okay, staff brief over. Ooh. Hey, great brief. All right. Yeah. Let's start the show. Should we start it? Let's get this thing going.

All right. Get my note taking gear out real quick. Yeah, good to go. Good to go, Marine. All right, go ahead, sir. I want to hear about the, this is the first topic in there, and it's the first topic I want to talk about because what's the new banging chow push? Oh, dude, I got a new banging chow push.

I love a good chow push. And on this, it can be chicken or it can be beef. Okay. Versatile. Wife's pregnant. In case you're not listening to the show, got a second daughter coming in September, got a toddler.

Let's just say there's not a lot of time for my wife to be digging through cookbooks and, you know, making a, what is, I don't know, Bobby Bouffle, is he, is that a guy? Yeah. Bobby Boofly, yeah. Who's a water boy?

He was a water boy. a celebrity chef. I said Bobby Boofley on. You meant Bobby Flay. Yeah. And you also confuse him with Bobby Boucher. That's just I did say.

Lexia. Thanks, Trey. Anyway, that's true. You have time to go into Bobby Buflea cookbooks. I would buy that cook, though. And she, she, I've never seen

Waterboy in case I was curious. I figured. Yeah, she feels bad. I know it's like one of the movies I'm supposed to watch, but I just haven't. I imagine if I was on the Masonomics, has he seen it? The answer is just no. But in any event,

I said, babe, literally if you just make chicken or beef, I'm so happy. Like, you feed the daughter, the daughters and yourself, whatever, like chicken or beef, I'm happy. And she's like, great. I'm at Costco. What do you need? I'm like, I need

like four gallons of Greek yogurt. and she's like four gallons. I said, yeah, you always buy me that like little tub. It's like the size of a coffee mug. And that's like not even a meal. So she stocks up on Greek yogurt and she's been cooking me for dinner, either like chicken chunks, which could be thighs or breast, up before thighs.

Let me tell you, white people in America, you guys eating chicken breasts or idiots, eat the thighs. It's way better. But it's chopped up chicken cooked or beef, ground beef, or bison, deer meat, whatever. It doesn't matter. You're missing the point that I haven't made yet. You get a hunk of meat, chicken, beef, venison, whatever. Put it in a bowl.

Then you put like a cup of Greek yogurt on. Okay. Plain Greek yogurt. Is there another type of Greek yogurt? Well, sometimes they're flavored. Oh, flavored. Oh, yeah, yeah, plain, yeah. Plain, yeah, plain, like whole fat Greek yogurt.

Yeah. And then you get, I've been, I got to look in the Slack channel where we talk about lifting life and love to get this right. My preferred is when my wife takes the chili day arbor, which is chili of the tree, translated for you non-Mexican types, and it's ground in oil. And it's, you know, like, you know, chili oil? Yeah. Okay.

So like that, except way more chilies. So it's like, it's like, think crush red pepper in a hot oil. And the one we've been using that she bought is called Fly by Jing. I know forget Pearl Harbor for a second. Fly by Jing. Sishuan, Sishuan. Sishuan. That one, the chili crisp.

Chinese. Yeah. Well, you know what I mean. In any event, take the meat, you add the yogurt, and then you put that spicy chili in and you mix it up. And it is, dude, that is my new bang and chow push. It is incredible. So go ahead. So you have the hot meat.

So it's like come straight off the. Straight off. You save all the juices, all the oil, you know, the fat, whatever. And then you put cold, cold Greek yogurt on it. Yep. Okay. And then you add in the spice. Okay.

To one's preference. right which mine is heavy if I'm not sweating like if I'm wearing I the test for me I did yeah right I should have a hat on at the start of the meal and three bites in I should want to take the hat off yeah yeah and it is it is a it's a bang and chowpush like it is a good job I'm loving it and I and I every time and I probably had it over the last two weeks I've probably eaten it eight nights and 14 days and at the end of it every time i said man diana you are the best cook in the world and she's like i literally just like brown chicken for you and i'm like the best um yeah that's my new bang and chop push i'm all in i'm all in sounds like you're doing with if you want it that sounds pretty yeah yeah yeah you could add rice because i've been trying to find things easy for like if i'm out of town for kitchen six to cook for the little ones. Pull it off on the spice.

Yeah. Start him young. Drop the spice off. And then I feel like that would be a pretty big hit with like kids. Yeah. You know, I actually have not given any to Isabella, but I think she would like it. There's something about the yogurt and like the ground beef and the chicken. But like it, man, it's.

I'm all in. It's great meal. Great meal. Yeah. It's like no carbs. That's yeah. And so there was one night where Diana was eating it with me and she made rice and I put some rice in mind. And that only makes it even better.

But at that point, all I could think about was like a handmade tortilla and you just put the whole concoction inside the turkey and wrap it up. Yeah. That's good cooking. But yeah, that's, I'm in. I'm in. Wives, it's not hard. Ground beef, Greek yogurt, sisui peppers, or whatever they're called.

And what's funny is you could probably eat that literally every, like you could switch chicken, beef, pork every night. Oh, yeah. And you would be happy. Oh, the happiest. Like, I never need a side dish, like vegetables. Like, if you were single by yourself, like, that's what you would eat for this month. Yes.

Just be by the bucket, yeah. Ever. ever. Anyway, it's my new banging chapples. That sounds pretty good, man. Yeah, I need to find that oil whatever brand that is. Yeah, it's in the Slack channel.

I'll post it on the IG story after the episode airs so people know what I'm talking about. I actually probably post it before it airs so people are confused. The chili crisp are, yeah, they're good. It's at Whole Foods.

Okay. Diana buys it. I warning don't put it on your counter it's the same thing with like the Mexican variety of this those chili oil it'll be in a glass container and somehow it like oozes out it's crazy so I actually keep it in a little Ziploc bag in the fridge yeah anyway it's a new bang and chow push I love it sounds pretty good all right hey good chow talk oh let me go get back to the slides Okay. I need to add one on there. I had a question. I'm going to add on there.

We'll get to it later. Okay. We'll get to it. We'll get to it later. We'll put a pin in that one. Put in the parking lot. Put in the parking lot. Not a topic in the post here, but Trey, we got a potty training update.

Still like Trey's training update. You know, just a different type of training update. Yeah. You know, I feel like we've made strides. one of them so they're still pooping like throughout like during the their life yeah in general

yeah okay good yeah we're making strides we're making strides so both are kind of like interested in the like sitting on the toilet which is good because we've been just bribing them right as we've talked previously it's a transaction and so they both do it

And then one has gotten to the point out to where she's like, hey, I need to go. And most of the time, it's, she's like, oh, I need to go. And then you're like rushing, rushing over there. What I've had to kind of tell, I'm kind of coaching Abby on it. Because I've, you know, we critique your coach. You're coaching your wife. Mark Ripatose.

She critiques. She critiques me. I critique, you know, it's a learning experience. We're learned together. So she, the, she'll go, hey, I need to go potty. Joy and then Abby just like flat out sprints at her like a crazy person and then the kid freaks out because she's like oh this woman is sprinted at me and runs away. I'm like, hey, slow, smooth smooth is fast on the show.

Always said that. We've always said that. But no, it's overall, man. It's gotten better. I feel like Joy is picking it up and then Ray is getting back into it. So you know, heading the right. Linear progression. Linear progression, man.

I was at the park today. Diana had like a doctor's appointment. So I left for her, came back and there was like a, hey, I'm going to watch her at this portion of the day. Went to over to the park. And there's a couple there, older, definitely grandparent types. And I start talking to them. It's going to get back to potty training. I promise this is on topic.

And Isabelle's there. There's a little girl there like playing in the sand. I'm like, how old is she? she. And they're like, oh, she's one year, five months. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah, like my daughter's, you know, a year and a half, English is a little broken. I start trying to speak Ukrainian to him. Doesn't work super well. Yes, I know a lot of Ukrainian, but they're like, oh, do you understand Russian? I'm like, not as much as I would. I'm more of a Ukraine guy. So I'm talking to them. They're from Bulgaria. They come out for a month. Their kids live here.

the daughters lived here for nine years. She married an American guy from Ohio. All roads run through Toledo. I've always said that. And we're sitting there talking and they said, is she potty trained? No, no, no. They said, does she wear diapers?

I'm like, yeah, just a year and a half. Like, oh, in Bulgaria, no diapers. And I'm like, because like he can't afford them or what? They're like, no. in Bulgaria, no diapers. You just teach your baby. And I was like, oh, so your daughter's not teaching your baby. They're like, no, big problem, big, big fight.

We, she wear diapers. We know like diapers. And I'm like, oh. And then the guy's like, continue to talk to me. Isabel was running off, look at planes and dogs. I'm like, yo, I got to go. I own a gym. Give this to your neighbor or to your kids.

maybe they live in the neighborhood. Maybe they'll like the gym. Isabella goes and chases this dog. I come back. I'm going to get put her in a little push cart and leave. And the guy's like, look, Bulgaria. Number one, weightlifting. And he's like showing me his phone. And there's some

like competition going on right now. Bulgaria is like winning and weightlifting. And I was like, yeah, cool. Anyway, Bulgarians, Bulgarians don't potty train their kids. They just train their kids. Dude, that's, that's actually pretty common. I remember so we ordered like a Halloween costume for the kids and there was like a flap on the

back of it. And so the costume like I came from was it China at some point. So in China there's a like on kids clothing. Yeah. And so on kids clothing there's like a flap where the rear end is. And then apparently all they do is they just like if they start going they just kind of hold them off to the side and just let them go. I got like that's apparently that's pretty common. I got friends from Taiwan, gym members. They had two sons, and they just stare at their sons all day or dead. The kids are like three and five now in potty train. They just like stare at them all day.

And they're like, that's the face. And they just hold them over the toilet. And I'm like, I don't know. You save a fortune. Do you? Because you're not working because you're sitting at home. I say it's a tradeoff face. You're like constantly on edge, probably anxious.

Yeah. Edging nonstop. Nah, you're like, was it, was it, was it, was it, oh,

dang, it was, it was, we're a little late. For the diaper. For the diaper. Anyway, it's potty training updates.

It's pretty common. Why were, why we're off topic, uh, Trey, you got a lifting update? No, keep going.

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So when I asked you about a lifting update, I was actually baiting you to our conversation. And so I thought maybe you didn't want to talk about it. I'm going to read it to you. Trey sent me a Jim Radar update. Trey sent me a Jim Radar. Said, what a great gym name. And he sends me a screenshot of his gym on Jim Radar. If you're not on Jim Radar, go to Jimradar.com, Builder Gymcoe at Shrenko plates.

You know, shrinko plates. Go buy Stranko Plates. It's a podcast Power of the Stranko. He said, I think so. I said photos are going to be lit, which was a little zinger, meaning you made a gym, but he didn't put photos in it yet. still haven't put photos in it, but I believe in you. And he just writes back.

So I say about at 1140, photos are going to be lit. He writes back at 1142. I have a good feeling about lifting today. I don't even see the text yet. At 1202, 20 minutes later, he says, right when I send this daycare call saying, kid has 103 and is throwing up going to be a fun night. And I said, actually not funny at all.

you don't get to the left or have a good night yeah that's what they call parenting yeah it's been a long week brother parenting and podcasting two hardest things you'll do in life that's true yeah

it's always not a certain order hey parenting's tough to do against tall grass yeah anyway I love how off topic we are today it's great now we're next slide Someone said, who's the guess? I said, nah, we just need a week of just constant nonsense.

Yeah, right? System, yeah. Potato, potato. Bo day to. Since we didn't have any trays lifting updates, Grant, you put in there a weightlifting competition. I believe someone from the gym. Yeah, big Brad, big Brad,

former Marine E4 Mafia type, the starting strength coach at the gym, Brad Mullen Camp. I think he listens to the podcast. I hope he does. His job depends on it. Yeah, his job depends on it. Brad, if you don't text me, I listen to this podcast.

You're going to be fired. No, he messaged me sometime in the chaos of I'm back in America, but I'm still in command in New Jersey all the time. It was like, well, you handled me at this meet on whatever day. And I just said, dude, I can't think until I'm no longer my buddy, Godfather 6, asked me post March 23rd. I totally data dump it. Like just, I was in New Jersey when he said, just completely gone.

So he messaged me Wednesday and says, hey, the meets this Sunday, can you still handle me? And I think, oh, man, I totally forgot about that. And I look. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'll handle you. in Brad's defense and my defense, he actually also forgot about the meat and didn't sign up for it until the Wednesday before it occurred on Sunday.

So I go to a weightlifting meet. And I have been to weightlifting meets before. I haven't done like an official like USA weightlifting meat, but I've done like plenty of CrossFit like weightlifting meets where it's snatching clean jerks. And I say plenty like probably like six. We're like you put the singlet on like you're competing kind of deal.

And to clarify for the listeners, when we say weightlifting, he's using the proper term of like, this is the snatch and the clean and jerk, not like bench, squat, deadlift. This is, this is weightlifting or Olympic weightlifting, as some might say. Do you ever just like snap in your back in Fort Hill, Oklahoma at Jim DeNovas gym? And he's like, there's two sports that lift weights. One is power lifting. That's the squat bench and deadlift. Everyone's fat and really strong. The second one is weightlifting. In every other country besides America, they call it weightlifting.

In America, we call it Olympic weightlifting so that we can tell people, this happens on the Olympics. I'm like, wait, Jim, do you want us to call it something else? No, I just want to be clear. So, yeah, snatch and clean and jerk. So anyway, I hadn't been to one in a while, and it was just funny. Like the coaches are in the back in the warm-up room. have like fanny packs on

and that everyone has like a note card and they're like super like they act like they're what's the movie that was popular last year of the guy that or maybe two years ago the guy that made the nuke oh Rattahatooie oh O Oppenheimer

I was thinking Rattitouy like they act like they're like figuring out like some complex situation where really it's just Matt Damon and hey you like apples how you like these apples kind of deal and so no it was just it was just funny

like Olympic weight lifters are just way different than power lifters yeah they're just like there there's way more screaming there's way more than there isn't power lifting and yeah it was just it was just fun to observe

Brad did great by the way six for six what pretty conservative wanted to do well he could have a more weight in my opinion. I had some gym members come out. Yeah, it was fun. It was just, yeah.

The cultures were, it was funny. I love it. It was fast, by the way, two hours. I got there at 10. Yeah,

and like we left at 1230. And it just goes by, the weight on the bar just goes up, which it kind of does in power lifting, but in power lifting, it's like flights. Whereas like in weightlifting,

it's like, trade us 60 kilograms. and then if Trey doesn't update his weight, then he automatically gets put to 61, which means he has one minute to go out there and do 61 kilograms. But if he ups his weight, it adds like a minute. And so there's like this like strategy that like coaches are trying to like achieve. And it's like, come on.

Like this is a recreational meat. What is a handler? Are you coaching or is that a different thing? I mean, I don't, I hope Brad feels like I coached. I don't think I coach. It's basically like, hey, you're the warm-up room. I'm the guy making sure throughout the event what's happening and like making sure like, yeah, you should do your last warm-up now.

You're going to go next. You got five minutes. And you're just kind of like big picturing the event itself. So like people hire us to do it for power lifting or weight lifting. And you're just like you're going and talking to the meet director and being like, like we want 105 kilograms next. And so the idea is that the lifter is just someone is taking care of. Yeah, just all the extracurriculars.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, hey, you should hit your last warm up now, which would mean seven minutes from now, you'll most likely do your next, you know, lift. It's, it's, I mean, it's a, it's a service we sell. So I shouldn't undersell it. But it's, no, it's, it's useful. And it's also like you just have someone in your corner,

you know, like when you walk out to lift, someone's like, hey, that looked like really good, good job. Like we should make a 10 kilogram jump or whatever the case is. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. Handler. Nice.

Cool, cool, cool. Yeah. I don't know you all have that service. It's pretty cool. Yeah. I mean, that's for the local South California types. Oh, the yokels. The yokels.

Local yokels. Well, you can do it virtually and then just then another, they have to hire another person that just carries around the lap. Just carry the phone. Yeah, the handler. But only on a laptop. It has to be a laptop. Yeah.

Two handlers. Oh, I've no input. I just carry stuff. Oh, I'm just a lot of. I'm just here from laptop. Yeah. Yeah. They actually, I don't get paid if I talk.

Yeah. I actually never get paid. Grant never paid me. But I'm, but I'm going to pay me. He just keeps giving me okay podcast. Yeah. He just gets. He said, he's not going to be a t-shirt and read out this.

Say it'd be a future guest. It's been 106 episodes. Still not a guest. Grant pays people in ice helmets. Yeah. We have an outpouring of the E4 Mafia trying to come on the pod since last week. Oh, I bet. Get them on, man.

Yeah, get them on. Let's do it. Okay. You know, there's like local sporting news for Orange County, I'm guessing, or maybe just South California. ADCCCC's. Oh, yeah. No clue what that acronym is. some sort of tournament

it sounds like I saw some stuff Jocko was there how's that for you? Hey Wow he's at the it stands for the

no that's a did you meet him there no I saw him I saw it big head like across oh no that's great that's kind of what I want to talk about it stands for the

Abu Dhabi combat club submission I never would have guessed that Yeah, so mission fighting. It's kind of like live golf. It's kind of like live hard, live easy. Lift hard, live easy.

Right. It is the world's most prestigious no grappling tournament. Also often called the Olympics of grappling. Cool. Yeah, it is, I learned a lot about, what's you guys' knowledge of BJJ? I know, it exists. What's the scale?

I know. Scale is one to three daughters under the age of one. That's how we've always rated things. So like if you have no kids, you don't know if you have one kid, you know a little bit.

If you have twins and a kid, you know a lot. So then I would be like no kids. You'd be no kids. All right. Yeah. I mean, like maybe like one on the way. Okay.

Okay, so you know a little bit. Terrible scale. That's a great scale. That's the only scale. That's the only scale we're going to hear. I think that makes a lot of sense. So Tray City's single. Jeff City is one of the way, which probably implies he's married,

which like people married trying to have kids have not. I think that's a great scale. My knowledge is a lot of people that do BJJ want to get stronger. And therefore, we have a lot of clients, whether it's online or in the, gym that are like they find starting strength because they're like on bjj i want to get bigger uh if you haven't seen it go to google type in how to get jack strength co and you'll find a video of my cousin plosito who was fighting in like the 160s yeah former guest finding in the 160s got him on starting

strength went all the way up 220 everyone thought he was on steroids he's not long story longer he messages me and my wife is like, hey, I'm coming to SoCal, I'm doing the 80CCs. And I'm like, what's the ADCC? He's like, Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. Yeah, ABCs, yeah, Isabella is working on that too. Jiu-Jitsu tournament in Pomona, which is about, it's 30 miles from us, which against tall traffic grass could be really long. But on a Saturday, not too bad.

And so I'm like, yeah, yeah, we'll come out and see you. And so we put it on the calendar. He told us, you know, a month in advance, I'm like Brad. And we went out there on Saturday. It was really good to see. I mean, he is, he fights under John Danaher. If we have any jih Tijuana, well, so Jeff knows. Jeff just said he's expecting and he knows.

John Danaher is like, I don't know this sport, full disclaimer, but he's like the biggest name in coaching for BJJ. super legit and Placido is like his what do we call him McMap the guy that holds the suitcases okay Placito's basically

you know what I'm talking about right Jeff? They tell you to pretend like you're holding a suitcase so you stand there with your hands on each side like making a fist and they grab your hand I'm not wrong that's how I was talking that's how my tan belt went

And in any event, he was the Uki. And then being a part of like thousands of instructional videos got like really good. And then got really strong doing the Strenko method. And so he was at ADCC's. And so we went and I'll tell about how he did. And then we'll just talk to Jitsu culture because it's really funny. But so we go to the event and I'm trying to like figure it out. And at one point he's like, hey, can you come warm up with me?

And I'm like, brother, I like know how to warm up a 500 pound squat. I have no idea. He's like, no, I just need like someone heavy to throw around. I'm like, okay. So I'm like on the mat with him. Like Gordon Ryan's there. Jock-Lewanix there. All these big names are there.

And Placito's like, I'm just going to keep like throwing you up. Whenever I throw you up, like put your hands in the mat. So he's like doing something. something weird with his feet my body wants to like go flying i just like put my hands in the mat and he's like flipping me this way and that way and i'm like okay and then his first match gets uh called and it was way better than expected my expectations were low i don't i don't know pasta listens sometimes i hope he listens this one i was like i love my cousin i don't really want to go watch jutsu dude the fights were so fun they were and i don't know if it's because it's like i got

blood on the other side but like they're like choking each other like hands to the throat head to the dick that sounds gay but like it it was like it was intense uh and so he wins all three matches which puts them in the top 16 i think it was like 253 competitors which puts them to day two um so he did really well all the ones he did uh he won jaco was there i'm standing there with john Dana her and Plasto's going to go on like five minutes and I'm kind of talking to him. I'm talking to like Plastos other guy that he's got there and I'm like kind of like oh that's Jock and he's like 10 feet for me and his neck is bigger than I thought

I've also seen him at the Arnold but that dude's head is like huge and he's he's not getting like mugged, I think, as the kids say, like someone would at the Arnold. But people are like, oh, it's Jocko, and they're going up and saying stuff. And there was like a brief moment in me where I was like, oh, I should go say hey.

And I was like, nah, I'm just going to like let him go. And then I asked. Are you wearing origin? I wasn't. I wasn't wearing my origin jeans. Yeah, I was wearing a string. You got to always be wearing origin because you never know you're going to rocko. But his daughter was there, his daughter was there fighting. Oh, yeah. And when I found that out, I was like,

I actually want to leave him alone even more because he's like just trying to be here to sport. But anyway, it was it was fun. It was it was a big event. Plosso did really well. It was fun to watch him. I was going to go Sunday after the weightlifting stuff, but he lost

in overtime. So there's like a six minute match. The first three minutes is just submission. So like you can win in the first three minutes if someone taps out. You can win in the second three minutes. I'm butchering this. your jihitsu person I'm butchering it I'm sorry you can also in the second three minutes based

of submission but you can also win in points so like basically if the whole six my understanding is if the whole six minutes goes and no one submits then they look at the second three minutes and they're like trade did these four moves against Jeff which was better than what Jeff did against Trey he went some kind of scoring so subjective yes well that's what I'm saying I think it's rigged. So he lost and the guy he lost to ended up winning the whole thing. So yeah. Yeah, that's fun. But it's like everyone's

like barefoot. The place just smells like urine, vomit, and sweat. Like it is it's not a power lifting meat. It's not a strong man meat. It's not a weight lifting meat. It's like a whole everyone has cauliflower ear and

5,000 tattoos. Like it's just it's just so interesting like seeing like you look at everyone I'm like oh you're like trying to look a certain way to like fit into this group and that's nothing against them that I actually it's just the culture that sounded mean it's just I don't mean it like that it's just like you know this culture I don't know this culture you were like doing a certain thing to be in this culture but yeah I actually I really wanted to go back Sunday Brad's meat was really fun actually got me like fired up by waylifting but I

I was really hoping he won his first meet so that I could go back because it was yeah it was really good time uh anyway yeah jaco came up he was like hey okay podcast can be on episode 107 i'm busy we're busy we're pretty booked up jaco uh we'll reach out to you yeah we'll get you on right after rogan yeah yeah yeah we got a lot of guess a lot of guess who should we talk some sports uh i was hoping tray was gonna take that tray's looking at Utah, Mammoth. Oh, yeah. Oh, is there still games going?

Yeah, and two right now. Oh, two, two. Let me get a little primer. Let me get up a little primer for sports. Trey, what's your basketball team? NBA? Yeah, like in your state. I know you don't care about the NBA.

I get basketball team in the state. I guess I'm more of a Spurs guy, I guess. Oh, you were going to. I don't know. I thought you were, which one's in the play? playoffs. Spurs. I would assume Spurs.

And Rockets? I thought it was the Mavericks and the Spurs. They're both in. They're both in. Oh, Mavericks are in the playoffs? Yes. And they all came out. The starting five came out in Ella Fella T-shirts.

And Ella Langley saw it and sent them all custom like Mavs, hoodies that say Ella fellas. Oh, dang. I think she said the Dallas Stars, some also. Was it the Stars? Am I wrong? Was it

I mean, that's the one I saw. That's like that was I could be wrong. I thought it was NBA. Ella Langley, Dallas team. Let's see what. Because I don't think the Matt I don't think the Mavericks are very good. Stars, stars, stars. You're right. It's the Stars. It's the Stars.

The Stars at night. Our big and bright. Yeah, Dallas Stars player received surprise gifts from country music superstar. So they are Ella fellas. Woo. I think our shirts are in the mail too from her.

Oh, yeah. She loves a car. Okay podcast. She always tells me that. What's very cool. Would you call her? Nothing. Don't bring it up.

I didn't call her anything. I think on the sopranos, they say hooa. Whoa? Yeah. Whoa. We're saying hoo-up for your army types. Who?

Who? Playoff hockey. Speaking of the stars. How's Utah? How the stars doing? Utah, we're down one. We're down a game, but tied right now, two, two. So we'll see, you know.

Hey, we'll see what happens. I'm still, I'm still kind of bitter that they win with the mammoth as a mascot. I just like Utah hockey club. It's so cool. It's like, it's so clean. It's like, you just left it? Strength company.

Oh, dude. I feel like, just do anything. It's just simple. Yeah. I think I appreciate it, but I can see why they would want like a mascot from just like a marketing. When was the last time there was a mammoth in Utah? I don't know.

Probably a while ago. Probably willy. Probably. Probably. Let me search real quick. Last time. There. probably in the bottom of the Salt Lake.

Hey, by the way, I forgot to say it in the opener, Jeff is not a Mormon. Okay, thank you. That's true. Thank you. Yes, still not. About 10,000 to 11,000 years ago, they think approximately that the mammoth. I mean, I don't even believe the earth has been around that long. I mean, it doesn't. Yeah. Well, they were just, they're flattening it out. That's what they were doing. They weren't.

They weren't native to Utah. You guys ever been in the Chesapeake Bay? Six inches of drop every mile. Am I right? You're right. You are right. It's funny. So the mammoth weren't even native to Utah,

but they go, we got to get down there because we want a hockey team. We're playing a long game. We're thinking about 10,000 years from now. They're going to need a good mascot. And you know what? We're just the animal to do it. We're going to be going to head down south.

We're going to be the greatest rival to the Golden Knights in all of sports. When I think at knights, when you think in nights, what do knights always slay? Mammoth. Oh, no. Oh, right. That's what that's a misnomer. Yeah, that's what it's not, big dragon wants you to think. Yeah.

Big dragon. West Texas is the best Texas. Hey, I got to call my buddy back. We'll come back to hockey. I got a call today. I was with my daughter. And I'm going to, I'm going to. redo this for Trey goes, I answer the phone on the number.

Stranko, this is Grant. Hey, it's Barry. Oh, what's up, Barry? What can I do? Hey, I got a problem with the weights you're saying. I said, well, what's the matter? You need more? No, no, I just got a shoulder problem. It's Barry.

Remember the rancher? I said, oh, you're from Eden, Texas. He goes, not, not, not, not Eden, Texas. next county over. My phone says Eden, Texas, but basically college station. I said, oh, yeah, yeah, I'm actually with my daughter. Oh, I don't want to interrupt that.

Children are a blessing from the Lord. You call me back when you got time. I got some lifting questions for you. And I haven't called Barry back yet, but I will. I like this. You got to develop this relationship so we get him as a guest. I just call me. We got to get, Barry.

Like I'm his buddy. Hey, Barry. Okay. Okay. If it's not a question about the waist, it's just a question of how to use the waste, I guess what the question is. I think where the question's going,

and I will remind me to update this next week, I bet my gamble is that, that was literally our conversation and ended. I bet he's calling to ask me if he should buy a Mars bar. I bet that's where the question's headed. Because he said shoulder mobility. He's calling the store.

He's a faithful listener. Not to this podcast, to God. And, yeah. Defense, that's about the Mars. Different podcast. God's podcast. Ooh.

All right, Barry. All right. All right. All right. All right. Back to hockey. Bruins put me on edge, man. Up 2.

Oh, I was texting my buddy, Caleb Smith. I hope Caleb will say, of the pod. We should have Caleb on, actually, attorney down in Florida, Tampa Bay fan. That game. Yeah, he, yeah, that game. Did they win tonight in overtime? Yeah, they did win.

Okay, good. Got to win that game. Yeah, they, he, he's my sports buddy. I mean, I got a lot of sports buddies, but it's like, if there's a game on, if you text Caleb, he's watching it. Like anytime, right?

Like, you guys are great at sports, but it's like, he's a different level. Oh, if it's 1 a.m. in Texas, Trays asleep, right? If it's 3 a.m. in Florida, Caleb's watching whatever game's on. And so it's like, whenever I find myself

watching a game, I'll just text about it. And so we have this banter with hockey. He knows I'm a Bruins fan. He's a Tampa guy. He hate, we both hate the Florida rats. Where we always say it's a barstool comment that being down, being up

2 is the most dangerous lead in sports. and so Bruins go up 2-0 and I text him, most dangerous lead in sports. And he writes back, always said that, which makes me think he listens to the podcast.

I'm not sure. And sure enough, did the Bruins blow that game, man? It was crazy. I came home. I was out with my daughter and what was that? Sunday?

It was Sunday. So I come back from the meet. My wife's tired. I said, I'm just to take Isabella for a couple hours. And I leave. and as I'm coming back, B.W. text me and says, you watchin the Bruins. And I see it and I don't even open it yet. And I'm like, oh, right, the Bruins are on. And I walk into my house and Diana has the Bruins game on and she's ordered a pizza pregnant life and is eating it. And I just send BW. Tax a photo back of Diana eating a pizza watching the Bruin. He's like, dude, your wife is amazing. just got my wife to order

Papa Johns. I was like, yeah, she's the best. So anyway, they blew that game. And then tonight up 4-0. I was coaching in the gym, had the game on. They go up 4-0. A lot of fights. Really exciting. I'm like, oh, money in the bank. Come back, getting ready to go on the pod.

And freaking Buffalo scores two shots. And I was nervous there for a second. No. I remember I texted. I'm like, Oh, Diana was so mad at you guys. Of all the sports I've tried to get her into, Celtics, Red Sox,

Gamecocks. The only thing that, like, she's, like, actually into is the bees. And she was like, Jeff jinxed it. And I was like, yeah, he's got skin in the game now. He's a mammoth guy. And then tonight she was like, now, Tray's trying to jinx it. And I was like, they only knew the wrath of a pregnant woman. They would not try to jinx it.

We're trying to jinx it. Oh, no, I for sure. Yeah, I know. Trey was. Yeah. Respect. Mammoth up 3-2 live update, so all the listeners can follow along on Friday. Let's go mammoth.

Yeah, I guess people were flying to, like, people from Salt Lake City were flying to Vegas and getting tickets to see it at Vegas's arena or whatever because it was cheaper. than like the tickets here in in salt lake I guess we're like super super expensive is the Salt Lake one is it like do they split it with the basketball team or is it strictly yeah okay yeah so it's with the jazz so like they

they're gonna make renovations to it because it's like it's not it wasn't built with hockey in mind so there's like seats that if you're sitting up high enough can't see anything like the corner yeah somewhere like the corners are like cut off or you can't see like the goal from some places.

So they're going to make like, they're going to, I think, raise the floor or something like that. It's a big, some big project that Ryan Smith's going to dump a bunch of money to. Oh, good guy. That's good. Ryan's good. No, I bet that's a crazy, that's a crazy atmosphere, man. It's good, man.

People, yeah, have really embraced it. I think it's helped that in their second season, they're like in the playoffs. So I think that's always like recipe for success of like, all right first season always has all the hype but then if like you know in two or three seasons the team isn't very good then like it falls off kind of quick and then like you know the fan base do you have any uh do you have a Utah

hockey jersey yet? I don't I don't Kaley has one okay all right that means you have one that means you have one oh yeah yeah yeah yeah we yeah we collectively yeah but yeah yeah yeah um yeah um yeah

I don't know. All my Boston friends, Boston Grant, has been talking to his Boston friends. Today was like a Boston nightmare. It was like Red Sox are playing the Yankees. Celtics are playing in the playoffs. Bruins are playing in the South. And it's like I got,

my phone was a disaster. And I was locked in on the Bruins. And Dan O'Connell, listener of the show, Lieutenant Colonel type, artillery men, Red Lager. He said to me,

we were texting during the loss. And he's like, not a very good team should have won that one. And I have just run with that with all my other Boston friends that said, you know what I want right now? I'm not a very good team because I have watched good Bruins teams for the last 10 years just get crushed in the playoffs. I want a not a very good team that is scrapping the playoffs.

And so I got hope. I don't think without Tatum healthy Celtics have a chance. The Red Sox are abysmal. But I got hope in the Bruins because. I like the fact that people like, they're not very good. They shouldn't win. Because I've seen the good teams.

I've won the President's Cup. Okay? You know what that means? That means you lose to the Panthers. And I don't want that anymore. So true, though. No, I went to oh, yeah,

watch the Stars game yesterday at, I think I've talked about before. You know the Cosm? Have you seen that before? They went out in L.A. Yeah, I haven't been, but I've heard all about it. I'm big fan.

Dude, it's insane. So I've watched a football game there. I watched an A&M game there. And now I watch the stars play. Dude, hockey's a lot harder to follow. So when you go there, you're in the dome. It's like a dome, right? So, like, kind of like when you're on a plane

and you think the earth's not flat, but you realize it's just a dome. Same, same. It's the opposite of the earth. Yeah, it's a dome. It's a dome. No, there's a dome over the flatter. You don't over.

Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Same thing. The same thing is here. Yeah. Same same.

Yeah. Thanks, Mason Wells. And so then, but then there's multiple cameras. It's like, there's one camera that has the whole stadium and then out of nowhere, like, once it gets down to the end, it like switches over. So then like, you're like doing this the whole entire time, like trying to follow. proprietary.

But it's pretty, it's still pretty cool, man. It's definitely worth going to. And you went to the Cosm Stars game. Yes, yeah. You didn't go to the Stars game. I'm not actually trying to be funny. You went to the Cosm. Okay, got it.

Went to the Cosm to watch the game too. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Big Stars guy. Texas is a big hockey state. Always said that, never not said it. Huge hockey state.

Surprisingly, man. Yeah, they actually have a pretty good following. Right after Florida. Yeah That's in Florida Anywhere where immigrants are just coming over the border They love They love they love

So I post that D goes on the Slack she goes I didn't know Texas Followed hockey And I go they don't But apparently they have a really good team So

So Okay The Aggie's under delivered Go stars Am I right? You got you get you know Roof for something Yeah

That's why I'm a women's basketball fan. I'm not hating over here. There you go. Hey. Man. But no, man, it's still fun. College hot college or I'm sorry, playoff hockey delivers. Playoff hockey's the best. It's, it's, oh, man, it's

it's really fun. It's like two different sports almost. Like putting this up with March, March madness, straight into college hockey, straight into NBA playoffs. Dude, who needs Nick Sater? And it's a dead season. You got baseball.

America's pastime. That's what they call it a pastime. America's nap time. Hey, come on. Come on. They got automated balls and strikes now. Come on. Hey, I'm hitting my helmet right now.

That was a strike, baby. Yeah. We're going to get your dad on here, Jeff. We got to get your dad on here. Oh, shout out to my dad. His birthday today. Oh, hey. Your birthday is tomorrow.

Last week. last week it was my mom's birthday this week in this bandance 83. And yours is tomorrow right? Mine? Yeah, and your birthday? Just got two more

months. I got a couple more months in my 30s, you know. Push my birthday back to the strength. Oh, no, Jeff Harrison, Coach of the Stranko tomorrow. Sorry, I had an alert today that's a Jeff's birthday's tomorrow. I was like, man, I felt like Jeff's birthday was later.

I'm sorry, Jeff. I'm going to love you. Your birthday's June 2nd. That is correct. That is correct. Dude, sidebar this week, I was like going through like daily life and then I would just think about when that Mason kid last episode would just be like, yeah, I think about giving up on squatting.

I think Grant's like falling out of his chair. Dude, I was, I had a good talk with Tanner from Massonomics. This will be a little gym radar plug. I'm going to keep plugging Jim Raider. I may not Jim Rader. I don't own Jim Radar. But if you own StrankoPolates, please get to Jimrater.com,

build your gym and add your plate. I was talking to Tanner and Tanner, you know, he's, man, I don't want a short change of service. Do you know how long you served, Jeff? I can't remember.

Six years, four years. Yeah, I think it's like four or six, sir and I don't know how like the army like works. Yeah, especially in the National Guard. So I don't know.

What I'll tell you is Tanner does not, how do I say this and be polite? He doesn't like, his identity is not based off the fact that he served, right? He's served. He's very proud, did some great things and learned a lot, great people. He's as straight as they come in case you're curious. He's as straight as they come. But he doesn't like identify of it. But he said something to the fact of like, oh, I really enjoyed.

the E4 Mafia guy you had. He's like, because it's just like that is the bread and butter of the service. And I said, yeah, no, it's really good. And I had another point I wanted to make and I forgot now. But anyway, yeah, Tanner, thanks for your service. Mason, thanks for coming. We'll just, we support the troops over here for the- Yeah, we do.

Support every single troop. Whatever is him. Yeah, carry on. Yeah, carry on. Yeah. Just poured those troops. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, I don't know where I was going. I was headed somewhere and I forgot. So we got a lifting question in there, right?

Remember this podcast about lifting? Oh, yeah. There's a screenshot. Oh, that slide? Oh, that slide. I thought that was a hidden slide. That slide. All right. Let me, let me. This comes from

At Matthew Ballou Ballou B-A-L-E-W Bobby Bufle-Fle Yeah Matthew Balu

98-69 Nice I love starting strength My first My issue is How do I get someone to squat That has mobility issues And their ankles and

shoulders. I have trained clients for over 15 years. Not everyone can just squat without accessory work for mobility and stability. In my humble opinion experience, I had a client that moved and worked with a starting strength coach. His recommendations were great. He just neglected the baker's cyst on his knee and had him squat anyway. No shade whatsoever. Extreme respect to rip. Yeah. So this is in response to a YouTube. short that the Strength Co put out I happen to own

the Strength Co. So I am biased and opinionated on this matter that said hey I can get anyone to squat to depth and I was teaching a seminar of a bunch of folks and I was basically saying if you

get your foot position correct and your toe angle correct I believe that I can get any person to squat to depth. Now, with that said, there could be an older or super under-trained trainee that may not be able to come out of that position,

but I think that if you put your heels under your shoulders and point your toes out roughly 30 degrees, that I can then talk you down to where your hip crease goes below your patella or put you down there, right? I may have to physically put you down there. And so that was the point of the video was like, most people mess up the stance or they mess up the toe angle and then they can't achieve depth.

Now the interesting part about his question was the ankle mobility to me. I remember having a guy in my gym back in like 2019, 2020, somewhere in there, who had what seemed to have no ankle mobility, like literally zero.

And if you tried to put him down to depth because his ankles didn't have any door, dorsiflection, he would start to lean backward, right? Like he would try to like sit back, but like he couldn't lean over forward. And so he would fall over. And it was a huge problem. And I kept trying to coach him.

And as a result, he couldn't hit depth. And I thought the whole starting shrink method's flawed. And so I took a video of them and I sent it to Rip. And I said, hey, and I don't usually, I mean,

like Rip and I are buddies, but I'm not like calling Rip being like, this client's doing this. I don't usually do it, but I thought like I have an interesting case here that I can't solve. And I had been a starting train coach, I don't know, four or five years at the time. And so I send the video to Rip. And Rip immediately calls me and says, you're not understanding the physics of the situation. And I said, I appreciate the angry Texan comment.

But what do I do with the client? And he says he's not getting enough weight forward. So he's trying to sit back, but he's refusing to lean over. And because he's refusing to lean over and because he does have bad ankle mobility, like it's a real thing, right? Like his ankles did not bend or go into flexion like most people will. He just wants to fall over backwards. And he told me, he said, hand him a 25 pound plate, have him hold it out in front of him and squat down.

And he goes, and I bet that he can squat to depth if he does that. So I go back, guys name was Sergio, hand him a 25 pound plate. I say, hey, you're going to take this plate. You're going to do everything I've already told you. And you're just going to hold the plate out and basically uses a counterbalance. And dude squat in depth like that. And now at the bottom, he's like, you know, his feet are shaky. He wants to fall backward.

And when he wants to fall backward, he just reaches the plate out more. And like in real time, I took the video and this kid doesn't even, I say kid. I mean, he's probably 20 at the time. He's probably, I guess he's 26, 27 now. He doesn't even know that like he's getting coaching from Mark Repito. And Rip says, there you go. He's got to get his upper body down in order to stay in balance. And Rip was right.

Rip was right. It's almost like Rips in terms of squatting. and deadlifting, and sometimes politics, almost always right, that was the case. Like he, he, this dude could squat to depth, holding a 25 pound weight in front of his body and drive his hips up perfectly. And then you take the 25 pound weight off and he would want to fall backwards and rips the initial thing they said on the phone. He doesn't understand the physics of the situation actually ended up raining

true to me because we put the 45 pound bar in his back and I'm like, hey, bam, you were holding a 25 pound weight plate in your hands. Now you have a 45 pound bar in your back. You got to get that bar forward to compensate for your lack of ankle mobility, if you will. And dude, that kid ended up squat in 315 in the gym. I don't know that if I have that on film, but I probably have 285 and people. PJ will put it on here and show like that kid ended up getting really strong. And it just showed you like that. I'm with you. The knee cysts thing is a totally different deal.

The Baker cysts in the knee. I mean, my philosophy is if there's any meniscus there, you should still be squatting. If it's bone on bone, maybe you make an argument for a box squat. I still think all of the muscles that are involved in your lower extremity are worth being worked out. The Baker says it's not a thing that should be ignored. But in terms of the ankle mobility or ankle flexibility or whatever you want to call it, that can be worked through and should be worked through.

And you need someone that has the experience to understand how to get you. I mean, there was a time with this guy that I would have him squat and I would stand behind him. This was prior to me talking to Rip before I got him to like lean over enough. I would stand behind him and the guy could squat. I don't remember what it was, 135, 155. It doesn't matter. He would go down, but at the bottom he would want to fall back. And I would literally have my quad like up against his butt.

And so when he went to like fall over backwards, I would basically push him back forward and he would do the reps. I tried everything before I'd reach out to rip. But yeah, anyway, ankle mobility should not be a reason to not squat. And does that mean that maybe you're doing less weight? 100%. It may mean that you need more weight. It may mean that instead of like with an empty bar, you want to fall backward. But with a 95 pound bar, if you lean over, there's enough mass forward that can fight the ankle dorsal flexion.

right so like there's it's it's actually really interesting you might need to put more weight on the bar in order to squat correctly so with this guy he would actually do an empty bar for two sets of five and i would have him the bar would be on his back and i would have a band that was like on his low back attached to the front post of the squat rack to basically pull him forward and then as soon as you got 135 on it, there was enough weight in the bar that when he leaned over, he could stay in balance. Yeah. And then once he actually got better at squatting, the stronger he got because there was more weight that he could put forward.

And he's actually still squatting to this day. He reached out to me, it's, I don't know, time flies near him fun. It's probably been a year. But he was like, hey, the stuff you taught me at the gym, still doing it. And he sent me a photo and he's still working out in this garage gym. But anyway, yeah, don't let. don't let dorsal flexion get you down. Did his ankle like mobility improve at all?

Like as he got stronger, it was kind of like forcing it through more range of motion or like. Yeah, I think so. I don't know that he, he would say, I mean, he definitely had a thing,

right? Like it wasn't like people have issues. It was not, not a thing. But I remember watching him squat 315 in the gym. And I don't know. I can't say if his ankle dorsal flexion improved. Yeah.

But he learned how to load his body despite the issue. I like to think it improved, but yeah, I actually can't probably answer that. But yeah, good dude. Cool. Love that. Good question. Lifting talk. Great question.

If you got more questions, pop them wherever. Nice. Pop them wherever. We'll find them. We'll track them down. We're like blood out. We're going to find them. Well, Trey

Trey, do you hit the snooze button? This is Trey's question you put in here. Yeah, what does that even mean? Yeah, I guess it could be, you know, it would be a saved round technically too. I wanted, you know, I wanted to hear a Trey question. Do you wake up? I assume we're all grown men.

Like, do you said, we're a grown man, man. We're grown men. Jeff, don't sleep on, don't sleep on the skydiver or the 50 Cal. I don't care if this episode goes two hours. Don't sleep. Love it. Continue. Yeah. No, I don't care either. Yeah. I got to, Trey, three hours. You got it,

I told you tonight. I'm going to make this podcast longer. Sunday night, I filmed a vlog, which means I took down the whole okay podcast set up and I went and filmed. And tonight, then I was like, oh, your podcast night. I said, yeah, actually, as soon as the Bruins game ends, I got to go set up the pod.

And she's like, well, you usually go out there about 10 minutes prior. I said, I know. And I said, every time that I complain about having to go out there, I think I have one wife and one daughter. And Trey has one wife in three daughters. And he's two hours ahead of me. And I was like, and I've been late the last couple of weeks. So like, I'm going to be on time. She's like, man, I appreciate that. Dina ain't a great move. It's like, oh, yeah, make sure it's all set up for him. And yeah. Anyway, I appreciate that. We're thinking about you. If you don't care about you, what we think about you. That's good.

You know, that's all I can ask for. When you, so you set an alarm. We all set alarms to get up. Do you get up as soon as your alarm goes up? Or do you, are you a snooze guy? I kind of go through phases, I feel like. And I feel like right now I'm in a snooze button phase. But I'll definitely go through like, you know, long stretches where like, yep, it's like get up.

Or if I like wake up. up before my alarm. I'm like, you know, five minutes of things are going to go off. All right, shut the alarm off. Just get up then. But I'm currently in a phase where I hit the snooze button. You're a snooze guy. My wife does not appreciate it. Oh, dude. Trey, do you really still set an alarm with three daughters? Yeah. Do I try to, we try to get up before they get up. Okay. I, I would say I used to be a news guy. I now have two cats that they used to love that now run my entire life. Oh yeah. They keep you on schedule. Dude, I could go to bed at 3 a.m. and the cats are going to wake

me up at 5.30. Yeah. Like the cats. Regardless. Yeah. So I. Tight schedule. Cats. Yeah. I actually don't set a routine. I don't set an alarm anymore. I plug my phone in the living room. I don't even take into the bedroom and the cats wake up between 515 and 530 no matter what and they start banging against the door literally one of my cats 25 i feel like that's a good plug to get a cat honestly um like if you're if you have trouble getting up i feel like that's a pretty good plug that's are relentless yeah so i wake up and i put the cats outside that's a whole other story i won't get into but i put them out And then I get back into the bed.

And then my daughter is also released between 630 and 7. She's like, oh, you like fishing? Let me fish hook your mouth because we sleep with our daughter. And so she fish hooks me. And then there's like this moment of like, I can try to keep sleeping, which means that both of us wake up, me and Diana. Or I can immediately get up and make a express with my daughter, which means that Diana gets to keep sleeping.

And nature, nurture, creation, evolution. Creation takes over. And I immediately, I'm like, I should just get up with my daughter right now and make espresso. And so that's what I do. Pass old grant. Were you a snooze guy then? No. But I was a three alarm guy.

Yeah, that's what I am now. I was a three alarm guy. I was, so I would not, if I wake up, I'm awake. I wouldn't wake up and hit snooze. What I might do is sleep through an alarm for 15 minutes. Yeah. Oh, man. Screw it.

There's been times recently where I just like, we'll wake up and I'm like, oh, I didn't, like, my alarm didn't go off. And I'm like, no, my alarm is definitely went off. It's just like my alarm just quit. He was like, I guess he's not going to do it. I think the answer there, I had that happen. I had that happen. And one of my last drills is a commander. I set one alarm because I'm just so used to kids and cats.

And I, like, overslept. And I was so embarrassed. And everyone was like, it's fine. And then, like, I looked back on the scenario. I'm like, what the heck happened? I'm like, I just been running on empty for like a month. and like you put me in a motel 6 with like no baby and no cats

and like I just oh man it was like I wore shower shoes in the bathroom but heck did I sleep well no but so we set multiple alarms but we just discovered so we have a Google I don't know home in our bedroom and they have a feature where it's just like 15 minutes before your alarm goes up, they just play like noises.

Yeah. It starts off, like, pretty quiet and then like progressively gets louder the closer. It's an audiogram. Okay. I got you. And then we have like bird's chirping. So it's actually fairly nice, just like Tim is where the alarm goes off. It's like sleeping with Jeff except waking up with Jeff.

Yeah. And by that, you mean Jeff Bridges. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Not Jeff. No. Yeah.

Not Jeff. Blue jeans. No. No. no still use jeff bridges all the time hey good dude we're going through to come out of valley

I want to get y'all's take so jeff yeah I can relate to Jeff I go through phases too so I can relate to that Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn

who whoop Auburn Auburn Auburn what's the 50 what's the 50 what's a 50 Cal's for her 50 kil yeah we got another topic forgot well i put that in there because we well we talked about it

what was that episode was it episode on or when we we had PJ on uh 100 yeah yeah so we talked you know he was he had the echo bike was looking to some nation we and grant talked about the you know 50 cal for time and then uh oh big tanner for massonomics dude shame this week and uh what was it like sub sub two minute uh one 56. I went back. Ron Mitchell. That's cooking.

You're not following Ron Mitchell. A long time coached the Stranko, been to the Arnold, been to live hard, live easy. Great guy better at being awesome. He takes photos. And if you go to R.A. Mitchell.com. There's a link you can click Stranko. And man, that guy's actually been like a historian of the Stranko because he joined. kind of when we started and over the years I've hired him to come in and take photos most of the time

he rejects money and just takes photos but you can go and it's actually really cool because he's a photographer right so he like takes photos of interesting stuff so anyway the 50 cow challenge I think we started doing it in like 2018 something like that I don't know it's crazy that the gym's coming up on 10 years open but I went back and I remember that I one member of him beat me, John Thulin, Coz de Mesa P.D. Bike cop. And he was like 50. And he beat me.

And he did like a 130 something. And I did a 140, I think 141, 146. I can't remember off the reference to the photo. But that was my time. And that was almost 10 years ago, eight years ago. And so we talked about it.

Tanner text me and was like, hey, what are the rules for this thing? I'm like, you just go to 50 cow. And we've done it a few times in the gym over the years. And he's like, what's the strategy? And I'm like, ah, there's like no strategy. Don't start off too hot. I don't remember what he said.

And then he texted me the photo. Then he ended up putting on Instagram. I think he did a 156. And I was like, dude, that's really good. That's really good. Yeah, sub two is good. And he was like, I see Crossfitters doing 30 seconds. So I was like, yep, there are people that do.

like that but like sub two's good for like general populist lifters so i went to i did it sunday night i was like i squatted five by five made a lifting blog it'll come out it's out if you're listening this podcast it's out i didn't put the 50 count challenge on there i should have content grant turned his brain off when he finished pressing and i did it at 303 and i was like man tanner beat me by a minute I'm a scumbag. And then this week, everyone's been doing it. And it's like, there's a guy today. He's like 26, 27, strong, fit.

And he did it like 4.50. And I was like, okay, I'm okay. Yeah. But yeah, no, it's, it's three or three. Three or three is terrible based up my former self. But, yeah, I'm actually going to do it. I'm going to do it tomorrow morning. I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do it after every left lift. until the PFT. Okay. I'm gonna do it after every lip. But yeah, it's not for the fan of heart. It translates super well with the PFT. I actually,

or the, I don't imagine CFT, it probably translates super well. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're, I think you're right technically, Trey.

I also think that like, if you just do it, it'll still help. It'll help. It'll help. That's the answer. It'll help. It'll help.

It'll help. it'll help. Yeah. I did one. because I was like, I don't know if I'd ever done 50 cows for time. And kind of like my normal, like, firstly I do like before lifting is I just like get on the bike and I try to go for five minutes. Like just breathing through my nose and I try to hit two miles on the bike. And you have a rogue echo bike?

Okay, I have an assault bike. Okay. Nice. which I think you guys are cheating with your rogue bites. Whoa, I don't know. There's like they, I think they end up like coming to be about the same in terms of like. I'm sure it's the same. But I think I think in like there are different ways that they're like one's more advantageous for like certain things.

And I can't remember what they are. So I think the like five minutes usually puts me around like 75ish calories if I hit two miles. like roughly speaking um so i was like all right this time i'm just going like you know i started going and i was like you know what no i'm just going to go for 50 cal um and i did i think i did it in 229 oh that was good but i'm like ooh that that didn't feel great yeah that was uh yeah i was like feeling the like the lungs but it was like a colder day it was like a colder day out of nowhere and so like i just like was feeling the lungs like the rest of the day um yeah but now i'm like I got to get it under two minutes.

No. That's probably what I would get next. Yeah, that's what you need. Just because, I don't know, I feel like that would, compared to like the road machine that takes up less room. No, I'm a huge fan. And I say I'm a huge fan. And I was on the assault bike on Sunday for the first time.

And like, I think the last time I was an assault bike was my initial counseling when I activated with my lieutenant colonel. And he was like, hey, I like to. You're headed on the assault bike. Well, no, yeah, literally, literally. He was like, I like to lift with my commanders and then do your initial counseling. And I just thought, you poor lieutenant colonel, you have no idea how much more I can lift than you. And so we went and lifted.

And I just, I was like, do it way less than I could just like, oh, yeah, like we're lifting together. Yeah. And then he was like, let's do some conditioning. And we went on the assault bike. And he destroyed me. This guy's like 6% body fat. Like he destroyed me. But I think that was the last time I was on it. But I am a big fan of it. I think it's a great tool in a home gym, the assault bike. Like I think it's yeah, I think I think it's great. I actually think it's so much better than running. So much better. Anyway. Yeah. Get a saltpike, you're ready to 50 cows? Yeah. Call Josh Hansen, go over to starting shrink Plano, wherever the heck he's at, and hop on one of his bikes. Oh, Joshua, I text him the other.

He texted me the other day. Good dude. Yeah. Hey, Josh, here's a business opportunity for you. Move back to California. Come work with Shrenko. Hey. Nah. West Texas is the...

Josh, here's another business opportunity. moving to my house, just be my personal nanny. And sell hoses. Just be a nanny, teach my kids to swim. Yeah. We used to be a proper country. We really used to be a proper country.

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Yeah. Trey, you want to bring this thing down for a landing? Wait, wait. Yeah, sure. Any safe rounds, alibis? No, I will. Yeah, Trey. No, no, no.

No, if you got one, I'm just thinking what it's. Well, I wanted to hear post office ideas. center because i feel like those are like current events and they may not the story may be decayed by the time we i'm gonna go super fast post office now you're good we ship predominantly fedex express some fedex ground two different businesses i know it sounds crazy that's reality we also ship ups if i created a label with any of those institutions a truck is going to show up as long as they create the label before 1 p.m that's how it works the united states postal service for you folks that buy t-shirts.

I appreciate you looking for cheap shipping, and I love it. If you buy a t-shirt, the post office does not show up. The post office shows up every day, rain, slither snow, to drop a letter in the mail. They are not looking to pick up packages.

I have a post office about thousand meters from my warehouse. It's also in the parking lot with a 7-Eleven, a Taco Bell and 9,000 crackheads. And there's nothing. I hate more than going to the post office. So I always try to print and label the t-shirts as quickly as I can so that when the mailman comes and I hear the mail drop to the door, I say, hey, take these packages.

The other day, I had a bunch of 1.2-5s that sold. Thank you for buying. I had like maybe, I don't know, 12 packages. So I'm like, I go to the post office. Post office opens up. It's closed from 12 to 1. For training. Go there at 1258.

They're like an admin shop. Dude, I showed up at 1258. There was 25 people. And I don't need the mailman. I just need the door to open so I can put all the stuff on the box or on the table. Because there's a table that's like your stuff's pre-labeled. Everyone else is an idiot and it's like holding grandma's photo and an empty box and like they've got to go in there and like tape stuff up. Dude, 12 to 1, the federal government, 12 to 1.

12 to 1 is the published office. It opened at 1 14 p.m. And people were losing their minds. And the male lady that walked out did not give any care whatsoever. Anyway, she opened the door. I cut everyone in line, went to the desk, dropped my box in left. ID center. My ID was set to expire April 12th.

I think I'm doxing myself, 2026. I tried three times during drill in New Jersey. I set appointments every time I went when I was drilling on a Friday because a reserve drill center isn't open on the weekends. Weird. The ID office isn't open on the weekends. I went on a Friday every time it was like a laminated machine closed. It's broken.

It's broken. So my ID expires. So I'm like, okay, I got to send an ID appointment. Well, Doge and Trump fired all the civilians that work at ID center. So if you want to go to an ID center right now, the appointments are like 45 days out. And I'm like, I can't do this. I'm a reservist. I can't log into anything right now.

Today's 20th. I'm back up on the net, 21st. But on the 12th, I was off the net. And so I'm trying to sit ID appointments. I'm texting active duty. But he's like, hey, what's the culture there for walking? They're like, dude, it's bad. Like it is appointment only and so every night I'm checking and I find one on Long Beach open today

10 a.m. I find an appointment. I book it. I book it like three days ago. Drive up to Long Beach this morning. I go in 940. Place is empty. It's closed 940. I'm early. So I'm like, all right. I'll just get a haircut that some Marines do. So I go to the barber. I get a haircut. and then I go back, guy comes out of 10, Coast Guard, dude, lets me in. I'm the only person in the building.

They have a waiting room for like 20, only person in the building. Do you have this document? Do you have this document? Of course, I have it all, because I read the website. And I get my new ID, and I'm like,

so when's your next appointment? He's like 11. It's like 10.08. And I was just like, I hate the government. So I leave, I leave. I go back and I have like basically eight days of stuff I need to do for Marine Corps that I haven't been able to do because I haven't been able to log anything.

Go to log in and they're like, everything's denied. So I call the help desk. I'm like, hey, everything's not. They're like, oh, well, your SAR is no longer valid because it's set for your expiration date of your cat card. And then I'm like, oh, my gosh, you can call the calm guy. I'm like, hey, I got a new ID card. He's like, oh, I got to send you a new document. He sends like four documents.

None of them will open up on a MacBook. Like none of them. He's like, oh, it's got to be on a PC. I go to the PC. It's still one open. He's got to be Adobe. I'm like, this PC I just used like print shipping. Anyway, I'm up and running.

Everything's good. The nuclear codes are safe. But like, I spent five hours today, unpaid working on getting an ID. It's crazy. It's so fun being a reservist. That's the best. They make it just so easy for all those things.

They really appreciate their service, your service, our service. All right, Trey, take it down for a landing. That's why when people talk about conspiracy theories, I'm like, can't even get an ID made. Like, bro, dude, I was. There's no way government's doing any of this stuff. That's what I always.

That's exactly what I always say when people are like, oh, this was fake. I'm like, dude, we're too incompetent to pull that off. And yeah, anything that like feels like a conspiracy theory or a theory, like it probably is the result of incompetence by a multitude of people. Yeah. All right. All right. Episode 016.16. Okay, Trey.

I'm not trying to grant talk you. But we're either going to say 106 or we're going to say 0106. 010. Okay. You're doing four digits. It's 106 is the episode, bingo. Okay, bingo, okay. Start over.

We'll get in post. Yeah, we'll get in post. This is episode 0106 of the. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

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Oh, yeah, of course. Bumpers, too. Pants. You said, pants. I thought you meant pans. Yeah, yeah, pans, too. Do you have bumper? Bumper pants. That would be epic.

You put up like a rubber pan on the stove. Yeah, that wouldn't, that wouldn't release any sort of toxins in your food. Talk about a way to end everything. bumper pants. We're still in D phase. It's all right. It's all right. But all right,

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