The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 11: The Arnold Recap, Training After A Layoff, & Women’s College Basketball

Episode Date: March 15, 2024

Podcast Hosts: Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach. Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter Check out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 02:14 - BTC Update 04:54 - Carnivore Update 06:34 - Training After A Layoff 12:26 - Strength Is Sticky 23:55 - Jeff and Tres Join 28:36 - Jordy’s Bodyweight Update 31:49 - Amateur Lifting Update  38:31 - Arnold Recap 42:23 - Rugby 45:02 - Women’s College Basketball 57:21 - Top Sporting Events You’d Want To See 01:02:57 - Free Agents In Football 01:06:17 - Stetson Hats 01:11:21 - 5th Battalion 11th Marines Rolled Up 01:18:45 - Dune 2 01:23:45 - Javier Bardem Is A Hotel Manager 01:26:39 - Northern And Southern Batteries 01:28:37 - Sign Off

All right, and welcome back to episode 011 of the OK Podcast. I am your host, Grant Brogy, and the OK Podcast is powered by The Strength Co. We are coming to you live. Well, we're coming to you three days later because we record on Tuesdays, which we've been pretty consistent about unless we record on Fridays at the Arnold. But we we launch on Friday and we are recording from the upstate of South Carolina where the rain has stopped. The Gamecocks are women's basketball champions and it's sunny and the weather is really nice. I'm here in studio with PJ and today's date is Tuesday, March the 12th in the year of our Lord 2024. And that means that we need a number. The block height. Ah, the block height. So today the block height is officially 834,425. And what's the current price of Bitcoin? Current price of Bitcoin today is of March 12th is just a hair over $71,000 for Bitcoin.

And it's kind of getting crazy right now. We were into the 72s for a little while. We hit the 72s, new all-time high. Yeah, 72.5. I think that was somewhere around there. And the, you know, Bitcoin always ends up being a meme. Always. And so, you know, the meme of, hey, Bitcoin's up this much since the start of the OK podcast was me ripping off.

There's an account saying Bitcoin is the price of Bitcoin is up or down since Nassim Taleb sold. Yes. And so I was like, oh, that's funny. I'll do that with the podcast. And it's working. I mean, I knew we were going to get to the halving. It would really go crazy.

Yeah. But I didn't think we'd be up 69% in 10 episodes. But we are. So by the time this comes out Friday, we'll be up another 6.9%, I guess, approaching 80,000. But don't take our word for it. That's just math. Yeah.

And Shatisho, Satoshi. Satoshi. Satoshi. Thanks, Sat toshitoshi modish yahoo but yeah what is the um your take on uh bitcoin this what's the crypto world saying yeah so i'll just give a quick two minute overview what's going on in the bitcoin market just because it's pretty crazy right now and it's about to get crazier so um just to illustrate this I'll just paint a picture uh with an analogy so imagine there are 10 strength co plates left in the entire world I like this analogy already and there's a hundred people who each want to plate okay that means we have 10 times the demand as we have supply right right because it's capped. It's capped. Strength Co plates are capped at 21 million. Got it. Just like Bitcoin. Just like Bitcoin. So that's kind of what's going

on right now in the Bitcoin market. So as of two months ago, we had the Bitcoin ETFs be approved by the U.S. government. What this means is that now big money institutional managers, the guys with a lot of money who can move markets are now legally allowed to buy Bitcoin and they're buying. They're buying a lot of it to the tune of $500 million a day are going into these Bitcoin ETFs. Well, here's the thing, just like there's only 10 strength code plates, there's only $50 million worth of Bitcoin being produced in the market per day. So we have 10 times demand as we have supply. And that's why most likely we have seen this crazy run up in price over the last few weeks. Now, here's where it's going to get really crazy is that in April, we have the Bitcoin

halving. The Bitcoin halving happens about every four years. It's something encoded in the network where the daily incoming supply of Bitcoin gets cut in half. So instead of 10 strength coplays, there's only going to be five. So now you just made a bad situation even worse, or maybe a good situation even better. I mean, if you've been waiting for this, it doesn't seem that crazy, does it? I mean, not to us, but anyway, so you're in the situation where you have way too much. You have a, you have a demand shock at the same time you're in the situation where you have way too much you have a you have a demand shock at the same time you're getting the supply shock and i don't know i ain't no economist but i took econ 101 too much demand not enough supply means price goes prices go up so basically see you

on the moon that's right yeah that's good so that's that's your bitcoin uh update and we got to keep the nerds happy. We appreciate the nerds. I do get a couple of DMS each week or replies on Twitter saying they love the Bitcoin stuff. I also get a couple of DMS each week from people saying, stop talking about Bitcoin in your podcast, but I can't. Uh, so that's going to continue, but, um, have they discovered the invention of the fast forward button? Yeah, I know. I told him just go on to X and it'll be over. But do they know it's it's time. It's time stamped. You could just skip it like so you could start right now.

We've been going for what? Six minutes and twenty eight seconds. Hey, welcome. If you're just tuning in. Yeah. If you're just tuning in, welcome. You will hear nothing about Bitcoin. So. All right. Let's let's see what else we got to talk about today. So, talk a little bit. I haven't talked about carnivore in a while. I'm still very carnivore-ish. I'm not carnivore heavy, but I still haven't had a piece of bread, a grain of rice, or anything of that nature.

I've eaten fried chicken wings and things that aren't carnivore. I actually had a meat pasta sauce, uh, tonight for dinner. So no noodles. Um, but I'm still doing that. And people, um, asked me that particularly on X, you know, how I'm feeling training's feeling fine. Uh, the Arnold's obviously a busy event for us. So while I trained through it, which I'm going to talk about here in a little bit, uh, you don't train as much. And so my training hasn't been as intense as it, you know, has been at times where I'm like making a run on a program. Um, but all in all feel pretty good. I do full dairy drinking milk again. Um, and yeah, it's, it's been enjoyable. So that's that. Um, and then, yeah,

it's been, uh, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. I feel like we're just kind of getting, I mean, we haven't recorded this here in two weeks. Yeah, it seems like forever. Your OK Podcast sticker is on your mic. You like the sticker? Yeah. From the Arnold. And I'm sure when Jeff and Trey get on, we'll talk a little bit about the Arnold. But it's good to be back.

It's real good to be back. Yeah, good to be back in the swing of things. Going to talk some sports today. All the college tournaments are getting started. I do want to talk a little bit about training and particularly kind of training after a layoff or after time off or after you break away from your normally scheduled routine. And I think that people often overthink this and make too many adjustments and back the weight down

too much when it's not needed. And so I'll give you my example. You know, for me, we left for the Arnold on a Wednesday. I trained that Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. I generally do like a one lift per day kind of deal. And I kind of set it up where, Hey, if I deadlift while I'm in Columbus, Ohio, I'll have gotten four sessions into my seven day period, whatever. So long story short, I trained Monday, Wednesday, Tuesday. I pulled a little something on Friday, maybe like four or five just to get moving and test the platform. And then I didn't train till the following Tuesday. We came back Monday. So essentially you kind of have a week without a, you know, hour to an hour and a half long session where you're running a training program, looking at your last weights, probably going up and load or, you know, adjusting reps. So you can go up and wait or whatever the

case may be. And I get this question a lot from our members on our Slack channel. You can join our Slack channel for $29 a month. You can come on. It's over 200 lifters, uh, get programming advice, you know, post your weights in there for form checks and all that kind of stuff. And people often get really confused when they miss a week. Maybe they go on a cruise, maybe they, um, you know, work gets crazy. Maybe they get sick and get the flu. And they want to know, hey, how do I come back from this? And the answer is just don't overthink it. So if you're squatting, I don't know, let's say you're running a linear progression. We'll give you two examples, a novice and an intermediate. If you're running a linear progression and your back squats at 225

and you go on a cruise for a week. Well, when you come back, you're not going to do 230 most likely because you missed a week, but you also don't have to go back to 175 or something way, way lower. And that's what I see people doing a lot is they think they need some drastic deload because they've missed, um, you know, a week or two weeks or whatever it is. So what I generally tell people to do is, Hey, on that first day back, come back and just work up to as close as you were that you feel like you can do for one set of five. I'm particularly talking about the squat. Cause most of these folks are coming back and I encourage them to squat first. So if you did two 25, you're supposed to do two 30, you're gone for a week, come back and walk into the gym and

say, Hey, I'm just gonna do one set of five. And my goal is going to be two 25, the same thing I did last time. And if you go to do 200 for a double for a last warmup or one 95, and you're like, wow, this is pretty hard. This is, you know, maybe, maybe you were partying on your, on your week off, or maybe you weren't eating and you're like, wow, this is, this is hard. Then just stay there and do one set of five and then move on to your next lift. And then the following time you train, do that same weight for three sets of five, and then just go back into whatever you're doing for adding weights to the bar or adding weight to the bar and continuing your three sets of five or whatever it is. If you're coming there from a flu or a sickness, it's a little bit different because, you know,

you've some stress has happened to your body. Maybe not stress from the bar and a, you know, a exact lifting program, but you have had something happen to your body. So in that case, you, I like the same approach. If you've missed time in the gym of, Hey, I'm going to go back roughly to where I am, but for less volume, uh, but know that the number may be a little lower. So if you were supposed to do two 30, you're like, Hey, I'm going to just shoot for 200. I'm just going to shave a little bit off, but don't shave a ton of weight off. Um, and also don't be discouraged the first week back and don't be discouraged the day after your first session back. And the reason that volume is lower on the squat is because if you come in and you run

a whole bunch of sets and reps, you are going to become really sore. Remember, soreness is caused by centric range of motion, muscle bellies lengthening for a range of motion that you are not accustomed to. So when you squat for me to this day, who has been squatting for a range of motion that you are not accustomed to. So when you squat for me to this day, who've been squatting, has been squatting for a long time. If I take two weeks off the gym and I come back and I'm still capable of squatting 405 or whatever the number is, the strength doesn't matter. But I go through this eccentric range of motion loading again, I am going to be super sore. So that's the reason we reduce the volume of that first set you're pressing your bench um at generally just five pounds kind of regardless of

your strength just take five pounds off and you'll probably be able to do three sets of five you don't just lose a ton of strength just because you've been out for a week if you've been out for a month it gets a little bit more complicated but that's what i was thinking about because when i was coming back from the arnold i wouldn't say I missed training, but the training was different and the volume was different. And it was, you know, stressful. You're running around, you're screaming, you're up late at night, you're up back up early in the morning. And so I came back and just said, Hey, at Mondays, I usually do five by five. I'm going to do three by five. So I cut the volume a little bit. Um, I did the top set where I was supposed to do the top set, meaning what I had done the week before, which I think was like four 15. And then I said, okay, for my second two sets of five,

I'm going to take the weight down a little bit. So, um, and then your deadlift deadlift seems that hang on pretty well, uh, for a lay a layoff sometimes you come back after a layoff and your deadlift almost goes up um but yeah just don't overthink it get back in the gym you can miss don't miss twice don't miss three times if you find yourself in that position don't then as you're coming back get wrapped around the number on the bar and then have a bad session anyway that's my layoff rant. That was a good rant. That was a good rant. You know, real quick, we should talk about, um, I don't think we've talked about on the podcast, but something that fascinates me is

how strength is stickier than cardio and it stays around longer. And, you know, actually, so I'll just relate it to my life a little bit. So, uh, last Saturday I had to go get some squats in, had to go do some squats. And, uh, I was with my fiance at the time and I was like, she's no longer your fiance or at the time of the squats, my commas are important. At the time, my fiance and I were together and I said, Hey, before we go to dinner, I need to go get some squats in. Okay. Do you want to just go like hang out at the gym? Sure. You know, I just got, it'll take me, you know, it's what every woman wants to do. Watch someone work out. Exactly. So I was like, it'll be fun. You know, just check it out, you know, see what I've been doing. And so she's nice and she agreed. And so we go over there and then obviously I start, you know, setting the safeties and everything. I'm like, well, we're here. Do you want to try a squat? I might as well. And she was like, okay, yeah, I'll try one. And so she tried,

I taught her how to do it. Did the whole like, you know, hands together, do the, do the squat down without at it, then go into the bar. And surprisingly, actually, I'm not just saying this. She actually did pretty good. Yeah. I saw the video. Yeah. Look good. And then I was like, well, you can't just do the bar. You got to do something. So then basically the story is how I just slowly introduced her first set of squats to her. And the reason I say that is I've been telling her just slowly over time, like, Hey, even if you don't want to be a power lifter or something like that, I think six months of training and getting stronger will change your life. Yeah. Because even the strength that you can build, even going through a novice linear progression is valuable for a long time. And it'll, you know, not all of it, but it'll

stay around with you for a while. What do you, what's your thoughts on that? Or do you encounter that a lot? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And wait, so what was the part? Cause originally you said, and cardio where I said, I did actually randomly think yesterday before I answered that. I thought, I don't know why I thought of it, but I was like, Oh, I remember when I took Jordy running in Miami and broke him. Oh, I do. I'll touch on that in a second. Yeah. That was, that was brutal. But, but I said how strength isn't interesting. How strength is stickier than cardio. It stays around. So it's harder to, it's harder to attain, but it's also harder to lose or slower to lose. And

that's why the novice linear progression is so important. That's why that first, I say six months, but it may be three to four months in the gym. If you're actually training seriously, if you're actually eating enough, if you're actually, you know, not missing sessions and following, you know, all the rules and resting enough between sets, you get strong. And then once you're strong, it's a lot easier to maintain. You can miss time in the gym, come back. And there's so much that happens. There's connective tissue gets stronger. Tendons get stronger. Ligaments get stronger. You get stronger. And if you miss time in the gym, what happens is you may not be able to perform maximum weights when you first come back, but it's, you don't just get weaker overnight. And it comes, if you do try to come back, it comes back way quick.

Comes back quicker. Yeah. And I think some of that's a mental aspect. Like you keep, you're constantly breaking through these barriers of loads. And so, you know, if you've gotten up to 400, let's say you had a month off, something terrible happened and you come back and you start squatting at 300. Right. When you're at three 15, three 25, three 35 in your mind, you're like, I've been a 400 before. Right. This is fine. So there's that aspect. And then there's just the aspect of you didn't actually lose all of your strength, but you weren't peaked on a training programs. Like maybe you were when you went away from the gym. And so you can't perform your top set that first day back, but it's not gone and it comes back quicker. Um, and that's probably another good point to put on the, um, coming back from a layoff if you come back in that first session you feel beat up and you feel like crap and you know you instead of squatting 275 squat 225 that's fine then the next time you might do 223 65 the next time you might jump to 250 right you know um

so but yeah that's that's uh and and cardio is different and i about i'm about to have to do this again because i have to run my marine corps three mile run before one july and it's, uh, and, and cardio is different. And I about, I'm about to have to do this again because I have to run my Marine Corps three mile run before one July and it's already March 12th. So at some point I'm going to have to start running it. I usually train it for about six weeks. The weather's cleared up. So I'll probably start doing that again. But when I go out to run for the first time, I ran pretty much all last year and I haven't really run since the start of this year. it's gonna be awful it's gonna i will literally have lost that conditioning base obviously i have a conditioning

base from squatting heavy and deadlifting heavy but when i go to run a mile i bet it'll take me 10 minutes 13 minutes it's going to take me a long time and then after i run for four sessions i'll have an eight minute mile back isn't that crazy crazy? It's it's wild. Um, yeah, I just think it's important. Like if you squat, I mean, for, I guess for a guy, if you deadlift four or five, like your whole, your whole body changes, like you're prepared, not only your muscles, but your nervous system, your technique and your connective tissue, just to handle that. And you're just like a more robust human going for it. That's it. That's it. I think it's great, but you got to focus on. You're just like a more robust human going for it. That's it. That's it. I think it's great,

but you got to focus on that first. And then adding the other stuff. And last year when the Celtics from the playoffs, Diane and I went down, visited Geordie and watched a great, a great Celtics victory when the heat were down or when the Celtics were down. Oh,

and three, I was like the only guy with a green Jersey in the, in the arena. Yeah. But, um, I took Geordie running and this is after maybe you'd probably been lifting with me for maybe nine months at that point or maybe a little longer somewhere i don't know probably nine months and

you said that you're going on a run in the morning and you're like i want to go i was like yeah i totally can go i don't run at all but like how hard could it be yeah and we went and uh it was a good wake-up call and i had thought and, uh, it was a good wake up call. And I had thought about it, not that it was strategic, but I'd thought, okay, he's been lifting for a long time now. He's got his base of strength up, but you do want to have the cardio ability to do something, to pull something off. And I think that that time I was doing, um, Peter Atiyah's like CO2 max test when just four minutes run, um, you know, with your heart rate around like one 70 or, you know, whatever zone five is, and then four minutes rest, which was like walking or

very slow jogging zone too. Yeah. Yeah. And then four and then four rounds of that. And, uh, I think you survived one round. Yeah. So where I was, I was right by this like small man-made Island that if you, if you, so you can run up to that. And then if you run around a lap on that little Island, yeah, I think it's a 1.1 miles, I believe. And I remember I was hanging with you. We got to the bridge, we go over, we get to the Island and then right around, we get to the Island, just slowly Grant just pulls away.

I'm like, I'm fighting for it. And then by the time Grant's, you know, 50 yards in front of me, I just felt the deep despair enter my soul. And then I think you laughed me twice. Yeah. I think something brutal and it didn't matter, but it was a good wake up call for you. It was really, really. Cause then you were like, Hey, I need to add in more conditioning. And so, and that is good. And I think you need to have a conditioning base, some type, but I think for people, cause people ask this all the time. We just had someone asked in the Slack this week, Hey, I'm following this program. How do I add in conditioning? And it's like, well, first follow the program. And then

if you get to the point where you've been training for nine months and you want to add a conditioning base, yes, you totally can, but always prioritize the strength first. Uh, always set that up as the first thing. And then if your life gets, and then if you, training's going really well, you have time to train, you're training maybe three, four days a week in the gym, or you're doing two conditioning sessions and something has to go, ax that one because that one will come back fast. It'll also leave fast, but it'll come back fast and your strength training should be, because if you're, if you're lifting heavy, you maintain a conditioning base. Actually, I will say in my own defense and actually to this point,

if you think about it, I probably ran a nine minute mile to start the, to start that run. Probably faster, probably eight and a half, nine minutes, somewhere in there. So that was with no running, just lifting. And out of nowhere on a whim, after a late night, you were like, Hey, you want to go on a run? And I was actually able to just pull off eight and a half, nine minute mile, just out of nowhere. Yeah, no, that's, I mean, so I say slow. Cause of my Marine Corps background and times when I would run three miles and like between 18 and 19 minutes, I never did an 18, which is the max. But, um, I say I've never done, I shouldn't say I never have, maybe I still will. But, um, uh, and when I say, Hey, I'm going to go out next week and start running and I'll

run a 10 minute mile for some people, that's a huge goal, huge, huge goal, or just to like, not stop running for one mile. How about that? Even if it's 18 minutes. So if you have a strength base, um, yeah, you're going to be able to, you're going to have a conditioning base. It may not be where you want it to be, but you're going to have some, but that's why I think the basics of, you know, walk 10,000 steps a day and then find something that you enjoy doing and do that and make it hard. Maybe it's running, maybe it's biking, not cycling. We don't like cyclists on our national parks, but maybe it's biking. My wife and I were in California, had a, had a trail right near our warehouse. We went every Tuesday and we'd walk the first 30 minutes through the bottom. And then as soon as we'd hit that first Hill, I'd run up it, you know, she'd jog up it. And then I would run the, the, the peaks and then walk the ridge lines. And, you know, you get to be outdoors in the sunlight and you get a conditioning base. And yeah, I tracked it on my

watch, how far it was like a four mile loop we would do, but I wasn't overthinking it. I was just like, Hey, I'm going to go out there and do something. And then, you know, when you want to do cool stuff, like go to secret fly fishing holes or, um, hike mountains, uh, you have the capacity. I mean, that's like when we moved here, I really wanted to do, um, what's the mountain, not flat rock. Um, I'm forgetting it. I hiked it with Connor, um, table rock, table rock, table rock. And it's like a six mile or round trip. And, but it's pretty steep. I forget the elevation game, maybe like 3,500 feet. And I've been wanting to do it. Um, and I actually, I'd done like half of it with Diana one time and then Connor was coming into town and I was like, Oh, perfect. Because I know

he lifts and he doesn't do like a bunch of conditioning stuff, but he'll be able to do it and do it at a high clip. And he had his family here. So we, we left early in the morning and, um, and did the whole thing. I forget what our time was, but I just, Connor thought it was six miles each way. So when we got to the top, he had been worried he wasn't going to make it. And then I'm like, he's like, is this the top? I'm like, yeah. He's like, oh, it's six miles round trip. Thank God. Um, so yeah, well, nice at that point, I think on the way up, he was like, are we really going to keep this pace? But anyway, yeah, so squat, deadlift, bench, press. Don't miss your lifts. And also, don't be a fat.

So, you know, get up, go make your heartbeat for a while. Run for 30 minutes. Climb a mountain. Ride a bike. Just don't wear lycra and ride where I'm trying to drive. Amen. Amen to that. All right.

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Choose your own adventure. Choose your guide. I mean, I think we should kick off with some of our usual topics here just you know keep the listeners well informed uh so we're gonna do a little check-in with jordy how's the body weight doing oh yeah i didn't even ask him that in the pre-show you quit drinking milk no dude i've i've polished off a fair life today so that was good um actually i was expecting maybe this is the danger of having low expectations, but I was expecting to lose some weight at the Arnold because I thought I'm getting 25,000 steps a day. I don't know when I'm eating or if I'm eating or what.

We'll see what happens. I know when and what you're eating. The eagle fried chicken, duh. I was chugging chocolate milk little chocolate milk things. Oh, yeah. You're crushing them. Just in case as an emergency backup. But I was expecting to lose some weight there.

I actually came back flat. So I'm still about 186, 7 right in there. Wait, but we've been back for a week. I got the Arnold flu, dude. He did get the Arnold flu. Yeah, it wrecked me. Is that actually the flu or is it something else? Yeah, it's like

the flu, but it has a good deadlift. Yeah. Oh, okay. It's a stronger flu. Yeah. There's only one vaccine for it and it's called Trenbolone. Get to the toilet! toilet oh that's good i just made that up yeah but you know what with the arnold and the arnold flu i'll take breaking even so the journey continues hey yeah it's not yeah i would have expected yeah

a driver just quit nice yeah no just quit don't listen to tre Nice. Yeah. No. Just quit. Don't listen to Trey. No way. No way, dude. Well, good luck chasing the follower count with your body weight because we're at 405. Yeah. You'll have to go morbidly obese. That was hilarious because most of the time when we were getting people to scan QR codes, it was for the Strength Code YouTube or whatever. And then one day I was like, here, just scan OK Podcast. So we went from like 150 followers to like four 50.

And then it was so funny. Cause the first like three days after the Arnold, Ron posting cats and Bitcoin and like photos of us, it's like unfollowed and it went down and went down to like three 75, but now we're back up in the four hundreds. So yeah. Bitcoin price. Yeah. I feel like they, we're going to unf the 400s um so it's like bitcoin price yeah i feel like they we're gonna unfollowed and then they're like well maybe i need some cats in my life yeah yeah immediately yeah maybe i need some cats there's gonna be a having where we go through

yeah and we just we un we make them unfollow half of you know half of our followers get it back down to your body weight you know you make You get all of them to unfollow and then see who follows back, who the true followers are. That's right. Because we're actually building a cult, not a podcast. Correct.

We want true, dedicated followers. We don't drink Kool-Aid at the end. We drink milk. Jim Jones jokes there for everybody. That's a good one. I'm on fire tonight. Yeah,'s a good one that's good i'm on fire tonight yeah you're good that's good well then troy how was your post arnold did you have a post-arnold dip and lifting or what's going on with the yeah man so we went from i went from the arnold and then we went uh i had to go straight out to uh the city of broad shoulders. My favorite city. Is that Columbus, Ohio?

No, it's Chicago. I'm pretty sure it's Columbus, Ohio. There's a joke behind that. We were talking about it on the pre-show, which we can get into. But dude, there was like no gym, like 45 minutes away. And it's just, yeah,

while I was doing the regional sales meeting, I was tied up all day. So lifting fell off, got back onto it this past week so i kind of tapered back down a little bit to kind of get back used to that heavy weight but we're moving right now uh how many days did you miss we may or may not have covered in the pre-show what to do after a week off of lifting so wow you you can i would say i would say yeah i maybe a 10 day 7 to 10 days right okay all right but you're back so your deadlift back up to 455 by 5 uh so tomorrow's my heavy deadlift i did i did like a light deadlift when i say like like it was like three 85 this for my first time back.

And then I'm doing a heavy deadlift tomorrow. Yeah. Nobody's pretty lightweight for me. You know, I was just being broad shoulders. Did a light deadlift in the brain. So doing a heavy deadlift tomorrow. I don't know if I'm going to go all the way up to four 55.

I don't know. I might be just a little bit shy of that. I was thinking like 420. Yeah, 420, 430. Do it for Elon. 420. Big 420 guys here. I did have

an amateur lifting question though. Let's hit it. Are you ready for it? Hey, if you got questions on taxes, call BW. I got questions on lifting. Who do I call? I call Graham. There we go.

Hey, there it is. So I started incorporating the row. I watched a couple of the videos on it. And so I assume the row kind of helps the deadlift correct yeah is that a complete question no yeah no so i would say so yeah like row helps the deadlift so like what are some other exercises like if i assume like if i want to help bench increase or overhead press or some other good exercise to kind of throw in there at some point yeah so so Yeah. So, so,

so one thing to keep in mind with the row specifically, particularly if you're running the novice linear progression, like you are where you're going up and adding weight is yes, the road does help the deadlift, but one of the ways that it helps the deadlift and the main reason is so that you're not deadlifting four 55, three times a week. So the load is much lighter, right? Well, like what did you row? Probably two 15. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Right. So, so the row, you still have to set your lumbar into extension. You're still going to, you know, use your quads to break the thing

off the floor. Then you get some arm work out of it, but it's, so you still get to use the muscles that you use in the deadlift, but it's much lighter. And so it's a great thing to do instead of the deadlift. So that if you train the deadlift heavy or you try to three times a week, it would just stall. Okay. So it's just like taking a break from it. Yeah. Reduce the frequency. But outside of that, I mean, there's a lot of people that really like to do stuff off the pins. It's like, if you're really into overhead press, people like to pin press the press generally fails like above the forehead as you get it back over the shoulder. So people will set up in that awkward position where you have a really bad kind of like mechanical position to start from and you have to, you know,

do it. Same thing on the bench press. Even Jen Thompson last week talked about, you know, pressing off the pins a little bit. People rack pull. I'm not a huge fan of those. For the bench, I generally, after people have been training for a while, I like to add in a close grip bench press. So it's literally, just like it sounds, basically like a press grip. So right after the knurling, maybe a little longer. And what that does is it brings your elbows in a lot more. More tricep. More tricep, right? So which then helps your bench press and your press. So that's, I mean, that's the one I usually throw in for people. If people do actually power clean, I like to, you know, so they're like somewhat into cross-fittish, you know, Olympic style lifting.

Then I'll often give them a push press just, while you use your legs to get it up, you do strengthen your lockout cause you're lifting more load over head than you on a traditional press. But those are kind of the two that I, I mean, there's plenty, there's tons, but those are the two when I'm looking at basic people, you know, lifting three days a week for 60 to 70 minutes. A lot of my lifters that are super consistent, they'll bench on Monday, they'll press on Wednesday and they'll close grip bench press on Friday. And it's just, you know, they get a little variation. Are you still adding weight to the bar, like on the row every time, or is it just a percentage of what you deadlifted?

Well, I mean, if the deadlift's going up and it's a percentage of where you deadlifted, that will go up. But yes and no. I often tell people to shoot for like six to eight reps. And so when you. Just don't let it go below three sets of six. And then someone might be between two 40 and two 50 for three sets of six for a month. And like, that's okay. Like, you know, we're, it's not, it's not as important for more load on the bar. It's to take off the stress from the deadlift. Yeah, I got you. That's it. That was my question next slide next slide I just want you to know when you guys release me to open the floodgates on women's

college basketball I'm so ready like so I don't know if you're ready for that when it gets there just stand by to stand by we got a couple topics in the shoot ahead of that. It's a teaser. Let's not even talk about it. Let's not even get to it.

Maybe next week, Grant. Sorry. Oh, no. We'll see. I had my class, my Zoom, as Zach Copley likes to say, students, asking me all about it. I was like, I don't want to talk about it because I don't want to talk about it because i don't want to take away from what i recorded on the podcast so a few priorities anyway go ahead

all right all right i mean are there we last episode we were recording at arnold so are there any like saved rounds from arnold experience uh anything that maybe happened after we recorded what was at the end of Saturday that we recorded that I think Friday right I think it was Friday yeah we were in the black shirt Saturday yeah

yeah all blacks whenever I see all blacks I know the strength goes recording a podcast right okay podcast saved rounds from that. I listened to that one yesterday for the first time. Um, I thought it was really good. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I, yeah, I thought, uh, I forgot like Eddie going on his corn riff was pretty funny.

Um, Jen is just as nice and fantastic as we have seen for the last three years and expected if you freaking natural find the microphone man well what's funny about that she comes feeling guilty we're recording and i'm just like hey sit down here's a mic she's just like oh hey guys what's going on and halfway through if you listen to it halfway through she goes so what podcast is this she worried about it i said okay just always podcasting i guess just she's ready she's always ready always a true professional we need to have a school on how to say okay correctly oh there were some of the rough why did that marine guy who was awesome and his son's an 0844 why did he go okay he's like a

little john yeah i mean that's what it is i think that's what that just seared into everybody's brain from him saying it a million times in 25 different songs what okay uh we gotta get him on the podcast we gotta yeah we got a random guy if you're listening reach out yeah yeah do you guys remember his name uh no oh i was in my little john okay or or the marine yeah i thought you were talking about Russell Wilson. Either or, yeah. No, he's next. Yeah, he'll be on next week.

Russell Wilson. He's a big fan of the podcast. He's always commenting. Yeah, big fan of the podcast. But no, the Arnold podcast went well. I think that's a sustain. Put that in the AR notes. But I thought it was good, and it was a good time of day to do it

because there was people to like heckle, but it wasn't like too crazy. Yeah, that was good. Good. No drink. Give grantee sooner. So yeah. Or like the week leading up to it,

you just take a vow of silence and you just, you don't talk. I think you go the other way. I think you go the other way. You do three sets of five and just screaming. Progressive overload. Progressive overload. Progressive overload. A decibel meter. Okay, louder.

You got to get louder. So I had the opposite of what Jordy had. I woke up Monday before the Arnold with a sore throat. And I was like, literally, dear God, you can make me sick. You can't make me sick this week. I went out like this is going to be bad. But then I came back and felt great. Yeah, that was a story of biblical times.

I think it's probably one of the 333 fulfilled prophecies in the Old Testament. That Grant's voice will work from the time the convention doors open until they close. And then it shuts off. But from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., there was something there. The Book of Grant. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, the Book of Grant. Found in the Book of Mormon.

Lost book. Chapter one, verse one. Next slide. I think we just need to jump into some sports stuff absolutely first one on the list and then grant will let you loose uh but the six nations rugby did you want to recap that i know there was a couple big matches did you see that england game no what was i saw the messages as you were watching it like what was going on so it was saturday i think it started at 11 uh d and i went to watch it and ireland for all intents and purposes should have i don't say

should have beaten them handedly but they're the better team and so they uh went in so italy won the game before italy played wales or scotland all these little little British teams are hard to remember, but Italy won, which was surprising. And then it was this back and forth rugby match with England and Ireland. And I kept waiting for Ireland to pull away and they would go up by like two points, something like that. And it, you know, rugby, yes, you have like great finishes sometimes, but it's kind of like soccer or hockey, you like someone gets up and it's like oh it's 3-1 like like yes you technically can come back but whatever it's not likely right so uh ireland's up by two they get it all the way down the other end of england there's like two minutes left and england just comes storming up storms all the way up. And it's like four rucks in a row,

right at the try line, Ireland stops them on everyone. There's a stoppage and there's a thing in rugby where you can just drop kick it for three points. And it doesn't happen often. Cause like you toss the ball and it's crazy and it's hard to, you know, it's not like football where everyone stops and the guy gets to, you know, kick it and then you try to block know it's not like football where everyone stops and the guy gets to you know kick it and then you try to block it it's in real time and so time is expiring they throw it in and he just dropped kicks it through for three in ireland england wins by one yeah it was it was a wild game oh ireland lost day ireland lost and i was i was so upset because i've always liked rugby like when i played it in

college i used to watch it a lot and then i won't watch rugby for five years and then i'll watch a little bit more rugby and then i won't watch it so i haven't watched it in a long time but our friends over at bw tax sponsors of the podcast uh he's really into ireland rugby so i'm like why am i watching this game and now i'm emotionally upset, but now I'm distracted by a cat. Okay. Zoe jumped up on the table. Classic. Classic cat.

Do the opposite of what you want to see. Stage fright, yeah. All right. We're going to let the dog off the leash. Let him lose. Let's talk about some women's college basketball, should we? Let the big dogs eat. I think you went to a couple games or a game or a big tournament.

I'm talking about BW taxes. You know, you could be something like that. First a commercial. You have a W2 job. Just kidding. Just a brief interruption. Okay, that was good. Good enough. All right, so this was set to stay. This was SEC tournament, right?

Oh, I'm going to talk about localism. I think there's more was sec tournament right oh i'm gonna talk about localism i think there's i think there's more than yeah i'm gonna talk about i'm i'm gonna talk about uh alt-right people like we're gonna get into the weeds unleashed uh oh geez so the the tournament there go the followers there go the followers well no i'm gonna attack them now um the uh the the tournament happens here every year and last year we had just moved here and i remember seeing some of it but like literally we're unpacking not thinking much about it but we're we go to eat like on thursday or friday and we're uh eating oysters diana and i and there's like four old women that look like they're all in their seventies,

just decked out in old misc gear. And they're like, Hey, I got a question for you. Y'all from around here. And I was like, Oh yeah, yeah. We live here. Like, okay, good. You eat here before I was like, what should I get to eat? So I'm like walking her through the menu. She was good. Now I want to know what's some other good restaurants to go. I'm here because we, when we come come in we want to support all the local business I ain't gonna know McDonald's and Waffle House I want to support local business and I was like respect okay this is this is amazing and so I'm telling her different places to go and then side

note the like hostess comes over us a place down and I go a lot we see the hostess and I say um I say hey have you talked to them and I say to the ladies she went to old miss and the hostess goes I went to Mississippi state and the old ladies are like yeah get out of here girl and like it's all in good front and she leaves and then the old lady leans kettle black um classy up here yeah so yeah we were on a we were just on a sports fiasco so the bruins were playing the pittsburgh so it went down and in tennessee men's is playing in tennessee women's is playing pace is packed with volunteer fans. And I'm just being

Grant talking to people still in Arnold mode. And I'm just like, man, all these people are coming into town for this women's college bat. Does anyone even watch women's college basketball? And I was just thinking about like Southern sports, having lived on the West coast for 10 years. I think the big on the West coast. Yes. You have the Lakers. You have the Raiders. You have big pro teams,

not the college. It's, it's not even remotely the same. And yes, like people going into watch a Lakers game, like stimulates an economy, you know, of course,

but LA's people are going to LA anyway. And so i was just like watching this unravel over the weekend and all the people in the bands marching up and down the street playing the stuff i told diane i was like if south carolina beats tennessee tonight we're gonna go to the championship tomorrow and she was like okay yeah so we're watching the game carmella you know inbound 1.1 seconds they're down by two inbound it to the center who hadn't shot a three, the whole tournament from the top of the key doesn't even get, uh, defended lights out three, they go to the championship. And so I'm like, we're going,

um, I buy the tickets. I buy the tickets while I'm in church Sunday morning and, uh, Lord, forgive me. And, uh, they're like 80 bucks, 75 bucks. And I buy like the cheapest ones. Yeah. And I tell D I'm like, Hey, I didn't buy like good tickets. Like I generally like good tickets, but it's, it's the women's championship game. Like we'll be able to move around. Like, don't worry. And, and Diana's like, yeah, sure. Whatever. And so then I like looking up like you do for a football game. Like when's the game cock walk? And I'm like, Oh, they're leaving the hotel down the street. We're going to go over for that. So we go over for that, you know, cockies there, the tubas are playing and like, everyone's just going crazy. And then

I'm like, where's the LSU one? It's at the hotel three blocks up. So the LSU one, I got to say they did a better job for their walkout and they were in this alley where the hotel is and i couldn't tell if you could walk through or not because in the center of the alley was the band and i was like i was like i think you can walk through so i'm like d we'll just walk through so i'm walking through and the band is like starts cranking up the tubas and the mascots coming over like waving his tail at me and i'm like center stage gamecock garnet red on in a sea of purple and like horns in louisiana and they start doing this chant which maybe you guys know it whereas you walk anyone

from the like an opposing fan walk through they go right you left your tiger bait right and they do the whole thing they're like screaming at me i get to the other side i like kind of like oh with the mascot like pretend to punch him and then i turn around diana did not walk through that so then the team comes out diana's film on the team and then we go to go into the game and we walked out we get to the game like 30 minutes early we're like so pumped and hyped and the place is absolutely packed i mean packed lsu fans i mean obviously heavily gamecock but i've been to swamp rabbit games there i've been to a thomas rett concert there that has been in the rodeo there like there was not there was not an empty seat and the fans were going crazy and it was not the best sporting event that I've been to the most sporting event I've been blown away for how into it I was and

then the fight happens and they're like pulling hair we're watching on Twitter and we're with all these Gamecock fans and I'm wearing my hat some Some people will call it a cowboy hat. I'm just wearing a hat. That's what we call them here in South Carolina. And so when, when the fight breaks out, I'm like following in a barstool sports, like quickly pulling up in, um, you know, updates in the crowd in front of us who we've been, as they said at the end, man, it was so good clowning with y'all. We love clowning with y'all. Um, at that point they just go ask the cowboy, the cowboy knows everything the cowboy got all the details and so i'm like telling all these people like she did this her brother jumped over and we left and diana was just like i am ride or die on gamecocks women's

basketball and i'm like i am too i like followed all the players on instagram i was like and they're good eight s it helps if they're undefeated. Yeah. Yeah. It helps when they're good. Championships in a row. And then I posted stuff and I had like all right people like, I can't believe you went to a women's basketball.

What are you voting for Biden now? Okay. Okay. Guys. Oh my God. What? Like women can't play sports. Like, what are you talking about oh my god and so the economy

boosting the localism the people have brought in the college atmosphere the good win the aggressive sports play by women uh yeah big big women's college basketball guy over here nice anyway yeah i did see some like some stat the other day that like women's college basketball guy over here all right anyway yeah I did see some like some stat the other day that like women's college basketball is blowing men's college basketball out of the water and they're like yeah they're ahead for the first time yeah this year really that's like oh interesting I mean yeah Caitlin Clark like huge huge superstar like been blowing it up this year so I mean LSU has some big names, too. Yeah, LSU's good. Angel Reese is who

talks a lot of smack, was pulling hair the whole game. But that game was so intense. I'm like, I hope LSU plays South Carolina in the tournament. I want a rematch so bad. And that's what the sports head, like all the stoolies were saying, was like,

forget this game. Forget this game. i want to rematch a south carolina lsu dude that game would be nuts it was good is what was lsu ranked going into that game uh they were the two seed in the tournament i think they're ranked six i think they they had three, four losses. And they had that flashy coach that's like crazy. And she's like, you know, the whole staff, the whole coaching staff, wears like Ric Flair type suits. Gator skin. Gator skin shoes. Tiger bait.

Oh, my God. That was interesting at the end of the game so you know they get it so there's like four players that aren't even on the stage because they were rejected and don staley they're like presented the trophy and she's like hey i want to apologize like we have competitive athletes this should never have happened blah blah blah i was like super classy you could tell she was like super pissed and totally gonna kill those girls and she got back to the locker room, but handled it. And then Mulkey, the LSU coach is like,

yeah, she should have hit a bigger girl. I wish you would hit Angel Reese. Why did she push over that little girl? And I was like, oh man, two totally different coaching styles. The Rolex wearing. The ring wearing. Pick on somebody your own size.

Buy gold. Gold titles. So, anyway. That's an interesting point you made, though, about, like, West Coast fans versus, like, I don't know, South. I would say Big Ten SEC fans. I don't know, like, West Coast fans. Like, you have – who's the guy on the Slack who's, like,

big-time Washington fan? fans this i don't know like westco fans like you have who's a guy in the slack who's like big time washington uh um uh yeah craig he's a red yeah he he's an anomaly yeah well that's what i'm saying it's like you're either like a hardcore follower or like don't follow it at all we're like like everywhere else it's like you can like there's a lot of casual followers, you know what I mean? Well, there's people that just like love a university. And so like me, like I've always been a Gamecock fan. I've never been to a women's basketball game, like not a kid's women's. I've never been to a women's basketball game. I'm like, Oh, it's the Gamecocks like I'm going to go. And it's a different,

I don't even think it's West coast versus East Coast. I think it's, does your state have no pro teams? Yep, true. And I think that's probably the end of it. That's a big part of it. And like, does your state have, and the caveat of that may be New England because like Boston College has a pretty big fall. Like there's still like colleges up there, but in general, I feel like outside of Emerson, we're just – everyone's a diehard fan.

Just big Emerson football fan. Dude, I'm defeated every year. Yeah. Anyway, it was wild. I was like – I had the SEC just running through my veins this weekend. I was all in. You got me pumped for college football. Yeah.

Spring ball is getting ready to start, baby. I know. Well, no. Most important game of the year. Spring ball is the bowl games now. Now with the portal open, I call the spring games the bowl games. Yeah.

Portal opens after spring ball. So it's like the week after right sometime in april the second portal yes portal round two yeah it's like an inception kind of deal yeah exactly yeah and then there's like 10 different signing days so first of all let's hey grant good cultural reference i appreciate that yeah i was hoping you guys would realize like really yeah i'm proud of you for making that that's good oh the inception reference yeah inside a dream a portal inside a portal i almost made the narnia reference but i didn't want to nerd out too hard yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't want to go through the wardrobe that's the wrong quote, dude. No, he said rabbit hole.

He said rabbit hole. I said wardrobe. Yeah, no. Grant's right. Yeah, wardrobe. Two and O, cultural references. Next slide. Next slide. I think kind of segueing,

one of the topics I put in the Slack thread was talking about like top like matchups or like sports venues or stadiums or like events that you'd want to go to. And that was triggered by me watching the Duke North Carolina game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. And I was like, oh, that's 100% a place I want to go see a Duke North Carolina game at Cameron Indoor. That just looks like an unforgettable experience, like unbeatable atmosphere kind of thing. Cameron's Chapel Hill, right? That one, that's Duke. Or Cameron's Duke, yeah.

Yeah, it's really small small like a pretty old facility um whereas i think like the smith center at unc is like i don't think it's like super modern because i remember going to yennsy basketball camp and it was like newish then but it's like a much bigger stadium but like cameron was like really small just like into a basketball camp i did yeah is that when is that when the the aggies all came up and started changing in front of you or was that different no this is in height like in high school yeah that's different i mean there might have been aggies getting in front of me that's right that's what we do we just change in public everywhere yeah giggle hey you might as well take my shirt off yeah we just we had to stop trey a few times

uh no i would love to go to that you know that was another thing i was thinking about so my mother went to chapel hill her brother went to chapel hill her sister went to chapel hill so my mom has never really I mean she's over the years as we've cared a lot she cares a lot but like one thing that she's always followed was like Chapel Hill basketball and my dad was always kind of like anti-sports I remember her being in in the closet with a TV like holding the antenna like watching a Chapel Hill you know March Madness game and she's always been into it. Always into the Duke game. Always doesn't like Duke.

Always knows the players on both teams. Yeah, I've never been to Duke, North Carolina. But, yeah, I think that's like a once-in-a-lifetime. I mean, that's like a crazy experience, you know. Yeah. That'd be one. I don't know, man. I think the Iron Bowl would be a blast to go to.

Yes. It's a good time. Yeah. It's a good time yeah it's just i've never been so i've been to either stadium but for some reason it looks a lot cooler and not just i'm not saying this because jeff's here but at uh what's the auburn stadium called uh jordan hair jordan hair jordan hair yeah jordan hair but it was spelled jordan but some yeah you know jordan jordan jordan jordan hair jordan like pick any big robbery game and i'm like that would be you know that'd be pretty cool to get michigan ohio state have you been to a&m texas i mean oh yeah yeah like so we played them all

four years i was there oh you're right. Yeah, of course. Of course. You went while you were in college. Yeah, that one always looked cool. And that one was always cool because the day – like I said, South Carolina Clemson was always played on Big Thursday. And it was on Thanksgiving Day. And then they ended up moving it to Saturday, which is still cool. But A&M Texas was always on Friday, right?

The day after Thanksgiving. Man, they moved it a couple times. At one point in time, it was on Thanksgiving Day. And then, yeah, and then after that, it was like on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Yeah, the Iron Bowl was like that a couple years when I was having to like go home for Thanksgiving and then drive back immediately to go to the Iron Bowl.

It all depends. Honestly, now it's all run off. And I'll be curious kind of what it looks like, but it's all run off and i'll be curious kind of what it looks like but it's all run off the nfl schedule like they they kind of run everything right now so yeah when the nf the way the sports are set up now i remember um uh ken to uh jordy's uh pj's uh boss or guy that works for Pompliano, Joe Pompliano, good follow on Twitter, Trey, because you're on there. He just breaks down sports, the business behind sports.

At one point last year, he tweeted, there is a football game every day on national TV, 65, whatever it was. It was some amount of time. And I was like, wait, how is that possible? I was like, oh, Monday night football. And they were to have like a college game on a Tuesday night. Yeah. NFL game on Wednesday.

And, you know, the games in England that the NFL is doing now. And I was like, that is insane. But yeah, big business. No. You know what? If I had a big business at this time of year, I would call our sponsors BW Tax. Well, what if I'm out of state? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't. You could be a single LLC. You could be a partnership. You could be an LLC and call

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and butter. Tax inception. BWtaxllc.com That's BWtax cutting through that red tape oh my gosh hot knife for butter next slide okay okay okay uh still on the topic of football uh it was alluded to earlier that russell wilson is now pittsburgh's dealer but i feel like there's been a lot of movements here a lot of headlines in the nfl free agency any on other ones that popped out to people so i saw someone uh posted on twitter x whatever you want to call it the steelers congratulations steelers you just bought an 07 mercedes yeah

hey still better than a 2024 mini cooper there you go there you go better than some not as good as the most that's right that was the only one i actually saw but that's because i have been deep into the women's college basketball scene so uh you haven't had time yeah i haven't had time but no i saw the russell wilson i saw Mac Jones. He's gone. And he finally got booted. Yep. I forget where he went. Do you get the angles?

No, that's not right. Are y'all bringing back Garoppolo? Yeah. I wish I saw his name and I was joking. No, I think his name was thrown out there. His name is Patriots. Yeah. His name was thrown out there his name is patriots yeah his name was thrown out there the biggest one that so i'll often like walk into my office hey alexa turn

on boston sports radio and i'll just like let it let it roll and they um there's like this whole thing where like you trade a draft pick and trade these people and the pats will be able to get pinnicks from washington uh that's like big in the in the boston sports scenes i don't know if it'll happen but trade i don't know train draft picks i don't know yeah yeah that never seems to work out well yeah is brett farve coming back potentially i'm sure yeah i just thought erin Rodgers is on the short list for RFK's running mate. I saw something like that. Wait, really? Yeah, I saw that tweet.

I'll pull it up. I might vote for that. I feel like they'd be pro women's sports. Anti-vax, pro women's sports. It's a question for the candidate. What's your stance on women's college basketball? Would you attend the SEC tournament?

Yeah, like if I was there, yeah. I wouldn't go out of my way. I wouldn't go out of my way, but if it's there, I'll do it. Aaron Rodgers at top of list to be running mate with RFK Jr. Incredible. The first line of the article is get ready for the decriminalization of ayahuasca. Yeah. Get ready. The first line of the article is, get ready for the decriminalization of ayahuasca.

Wow. Oh, thank goodness. Get ready. I know you're not ready yet, but you should get ready. Yeah, my ayahuasca guy's been tapped out recently. Get ready, everyone. Oh, man. See, other free agents moves.

What's his first name henry the running back from tennessee went to the ravens oh the old dama the old damn yeah yeah yeah derrick henry yeah yeah um and then i saw green bay signed josh jacobs from the raiders and they released uh aaron jones which i was sad to sad to see because Aaron Jones has been damn good for him. Go pack, go. But it's a business, you know, it's a business. It's business. Speaking of businesses, Stetson is sold out of the Gunfighter 10X. Wait, just half.

Did you look at other places besides the boot barn no i only shot so you only shot that i only shot well no i generally liked i generally like to buy the item from the creator of the item oh so you don't like the distributor yeah well i'm a distributor so i shouldn't say that but i didn't it didn't even occur to me to look somewhere besides stetson it's a good hat man good looking hat sold out well it's just in the two sizes that i would wear there was seven seven and a half you're so fractions are tough for a homeschool kid you're seven and five eights no three quarter okay so the next one down is five eights and the next one is a half correct let's look at that math in public uh so

yours was a little too big and i have a seven and three quarter right now would that be smaller than a half i've three eights i've three eights i have seven and three it's a smaller yeah and it's a little tight so there's two yours wasn't bad but i wanted a little bit smaller and my three eights is a little too small so i was like the felt one you have i have two felt ones here in south carolina we just call them hats yeah he's got a whole quiver of hats uh and i have a stats and crushable i guess i have three um but yeah i want that straw one that's a good looking hat the one i the one you bought off me had been in my family for 10 generations so the best thing about that was the 10 x's yeah x for every year generation you going to see that hat every

year you go back to the Arnold, guaranteed. Just bring up terrible memories. I'm like, why'd I sell that hat? Why'd I sell that hat? Wait. So after hearing you guys talking about this, I was like looking up hats as they call them. Cause I'm an owner of zero hats. I don't have any hats. Right. I was like, dang, I gotta look this up. I was measuring my head size and figuring out my hat size and all this. I think I'm the same as you, Trey, potentially. Are you 73 quarter? That's really big. I got a big old head. I got a big dome, dude.

I have a weirdly large cranium, but yeah, I measured it. Maybe I didn't do it right, but I think it was around there. It was either that or 5'8", but my question was, what's a good you know first hat stats oh yeah more specific than stetson like i like the one he's there's a difference it depends like how big of a brim do you want man it just kind of like the one i was wearing at the the arnold was that one that grant's talking about that 10x the 10x and like

i said it's that's a to me that's a good size hat it also depends like do you want to own a hat to go to a country concert or will you wear it so in california i had that stats and crushable and the sun was so you know brutal like that's why i actually like wearing those hats because i'm always paranoid about getting sun you know sun on my face and so yeah that hat you're good um but i would say if you're gonna like buy it so if you go to a rodeo you have sorry the cat's attacking oh my gosh see going completely crazy um i'm gonna get petta calling me for grabbing my cat by the scruff but uh he likes it yeah if you want one for like to look western like to play like hey i'm gonna go to jason aldean concert then you go like super cowboyish and then if you're just like hey i might actually wear this

around i mean that would be my take yeah and i And I said the only other thing. So like if you wear it to like nicer occasions, you wear felt. If you're just wearing it. So it's like usually the rule of thumb is like summer, hotter weather, you wear straw. Winter, you wear felt. And then nicer occasions, like if you were at the church, wear a felt. Yeah. Dude, straw hats in the heat are the best thing. That felt traps heat like nobody's business.

Oh, I can imagine. It is fun to wear a felt hat to church as I sent Trey a photo of me on Sunday. And then I sat down next to the guy down. I was like, leave it in the car. So I left it in the car. And the guy I sat next down to had his cowboy hat on the chair in between us. And I was like, nice hat. Mine's in the car.

He's like, why'd you leave it in the car? My wife made me. I don't know. Forgot to ask permission from my wife to wear my hat in the church. Anyway. Good question. Good question about hats.

Yeah. Big hat podcast big hat yeah that's potential sponsor hats on stetson no just hats period yeah yeah i like that i like that next slide next slide uh the next one i mean do we want to talk about this is a little bit dated but uh fifth battalion 11th marines got rolled up as three of the four people on camera right now former members we all met yeah that was the the birth well i guess that's not true you and i met that's true at the uh officer candidate school i met gra Grant briefly at artillery school. I would erroneously get your mail, and I was like, who's this brogy guy? Yeah, I would get, why does this brogy guy get so much mail? Who the heck would think I would be a part of third platoon?

Ew. I think I was first. We don't do turn. I think I was first platoon. I was second then. Yeah, I was second. Okay. Yeah, so it kind of weirdly got rolled up,

and I should know this as a SMCR artillery officer, but basically all the batteries still exist and got put into the three other battalions and the guidon. Oh, so the TO just got changed up. Okay. So like 111 lieutenant colonel paulka's battalion absorbed a high mars battery i think it was quebec actually i know it was quebec because he was asking me for like details about quebec when they you know did the

ceremony and then like where did tango go do you? Did they go to 311 or did they? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I had it figured out. And then the whole plan that they had unveiled was like, Nemesis is coming in and this and that. Then they were like, oh yeah, and we're not going to do that. We're going to keep God's gun.

And now I need to re-figure out what it is. But yeah, 511, crazy. I remember Dan O'connell listener of the podcast follower on instagram hey i remember him posting on his hatch when he was our staff platoon commander when um 510 got rolled up and i remember thinking like oh man like his battalion like we're lieutenant like they got rid of it? Why would they do that? Here we are. Come full circle. No more 511.

I feel like that's happened at some... I don't know why that rings a bell that 511's gotten rolled up before and they deactivated it and reactivated it. Right? Wars tend to dictate those sorts of things. Yeah.

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and questions I have no more for you gentlemen do you have any questions? That is so good. Well, no, no, no, no. They say questions. The question slides come up and say, well, if you don't have a question for me, I got a question for you. Ambush is killing.

Killing is fun. That's my favorite. That was when I really felt institutionalized. Ambush is killing. Killing is fun. That was my favorite. That was when I really felt institutionalized. Ambush is killing. Killing is fun. I was like, oh, this really is full metal jacket come to life. We're being brainwashed. And it worked.

I liked it. Killing is fun. And ambushes. Here, here. And then we would write them, right? And then you're just like, give me all five. All your IRFs. Yeah, the IRFs.

What is it? Instruction. Who's got those IRFs? Instruction. What is it? Instruction. Like instructor rating form or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like, yeah, I'll send Jeff my IRF after this. Yeah. Yeah. You know, the instructor's like looking at the air it's like oh screw this guy oh man that was i will say one of the big takeaways from tbs is i remember the uh mcmack like sergeant giving you know black belt red tab walking up in front down and back and he was just holding like a gallon of water uh i don't know if you remember this jeff and he's like you know take breaks and drink his water and he's like giving his brief he's like very matter of fact like too cool for

school type of sergeant but like doing a good job and then at one point he's like and he's jacked out of his mind like you know like he's like definitely on the gear and he, and he, and he just says, uh, if you guys are wondering why I'm drinking out of a gallon of water, it's because everyone that's jacked got together and we had a convention and we just said, Jack guys drink out of gallon water bottles. So that's how it goes. It was something like that.

I saw the booth at the Arnold. Yeah. And then like, sure enough, like the rest of the POI, people are just like walking around carrying gallons of water or gallon jugs of water. Apparently it works. Was it the OCS? Remember that British dude who was always there?

Oh yeah, the Royal Marine. The Royal Marine who came in? I remember like we were there. I prefer we just call him the British dude. Yeah, the British dude. Someone asked him. They're like, hey, color sergeant, what do you think about P90X? That's what someone said. He was like, oh, that's for fat chicks.

I'm like, hey, all right. As a women's basketball fan, I take offense to that. Yeah, you take offense to that. I apologize. Wow. I need to go edit my post I sent you like what do you do the women's basketball game for grant yeah that's right yeah that was it that was me yeah oh it's gotlach three on ig alt right trey yeah maggot gotlage yeah someone was like what are they what do they have two

inch verticals i'm like Wow. What is wrong with you people? Wow. They were also defending women's sports not too long ago. Yeah. Yeah. That's a thing for them right now with Title IX. They also used to defend vaccines. Funny how the political waters have changed. Oh.

Shifting politicians. RFK, potential sponsor. I recently interviewed Jen Thompson thompson and she bench pressed me so uh i'm not gonna say anything about women's sports at all so yeah yeah they're so much more athletic than i am yeah with me oh man yeah that's what i was i was talking in my class a little bit about that and um my brother jeremy has four daughters and they all play basketball which is why i think i was kind of like triggered by the comments because i'm like like i could be my niece in like three years obviously she's going to be a defending national

championship that's the only option when your last name is brogy um but and jeremy goes yeah i don't know people talk smack about women's sports and I watch them play and I go, they could beat me in basketball. That's awesome. They're better than I am. They're better than I am. Oh, man. Well.

Well. Well, any save rounds? Parting shots? Besides, I don't know. I would just say go see Dune 2. Me and Jeff saw it. Dune 2 is good. Did you see the first one? I know Grant did.

We don't have to bring him in. We know he didn't. I actually didn't either. The first one. Not joking. Are we saying Dune or Dune? D-U-N-E. Okay. Wasn't Dune like a computer game?

Video game. Yeah. Yeah. I think it did get me into a movie at one point. Okay. I think you're right. We're saying Dune. Correct.

Dune. I guess Dune. Yes. Why don't you give me a quick, tell me about Dune 1. Well, real quick. So I'm kind of into sci-fi stuff yeah so all the movies that i watched growing up they we would like to release like episode four five and six then come back and do one and right pick up the pieces uh yeah so is

this like the hobbit or is this like return of the jedi i'm like i don't even know it's like if they met each other it's like yeah it's like both yeah it was like if it's return of the jedi i'm like i don't even know it's like if they met each other it's like yeah it's like both yeah it was like if it's return of the hobbit yeah return okay actually it's called dune one return of the hobbit yeah yeah but it's actually episode three wait so dune one did come out first correct yeah yeah what like in the 90s the uh two years ago no yeah so there was an original 80s ones yeah the book was in the 70s then there was in the movies late 70s early 80s and then they just remade that and was it 2019 maybe i can't remember how long ago it was it's all here after 2020 am i right yeah i know it's it's somewhere in between 2019 and now the first one yeah but very good trade do you want to give a quick uh plot summary to that one i don't

even know if like i could like begin to explain this movie i'll is it in space it's so yes is in space there's different there's like houses they They're so different. So it's like Harry Potter. Civilizations, I would say. Different civilizations. Wait, so like DC comic books versus Marvel. Yeah. Marvel versus Capcom.

God help me. Serenity now! Let's see yeah dude recap uh there's this planet that produces this like we'll just call it it's called spice it's like this resource that they're oil call it yeah i think oil and age of empires got it it's like a desert planet similar like Tatooine. Like a Star Wars collection. You get that. He doesn't get that. I thought that was a town south of Amarillo.

That's Tatooine, Texas. I actually never heard that word, Jeff. Continue. Keep throwing other references. I no i thought i was like i'm gonna connect it to as many sci-fi things that way he gets the reference um spock fingers are happening people go there to like kind of colonize it slash tame the local populace and then doesn't and then other people get sent in to like subvert this

this one family that the family that got sent there like gets kind of annihilated there's a son of the the guy that gets killed and he's like kind of the chosen one and like has a special power and like

is kind of then gets in with the local people that live on this planet this desert planet and then like kind of gets in with them and then it's like yeah yeah he's a free state yeah is it like actual people or is it like those white things that run around no it's actual people actual people. It's like people. There are giant sandworms. Oh, of course. Yeah, I run into those when I'm fly fishing this time of year. Yeah, you got to watch out for them.

Yeah, they hatch and that's when you want to fish. I'd say, yeah. First of all, good synopsis. Difficult movie to summarize. I'm going to go watch Dune 1 right now since this podcast is over. If you've got about four hours to kill, I think you would like it. They're really long, but they're really good.

Timothy Chalamet, if you're a fan of him. No, he's too skinny. Zendaya. Who else is in it? Russell Wilson. Jason Momoa. Josh Bolin. Josh Bolin's in it it big yeah he's great he plays a great he plays a great gw dude i love josh brolin he was also so it's the same character

from no country for old man that he just did yeah oh and javier javier bardem is in it so it's like it's basically the oxygen tank yeah oh yeah the guy from the holiday and express at dfw yeah yeah do you know about that try no but i just love the inside jokes that we tell that no one has any idea okay i'm gonna give some context to this and then and then i and then i have one save round that's also funny but so the the Marine Corps, if you go to DFW and you live outside of 50 miles, you get a hotel room. And so when you go to drill, if you're not in the field, they give you a hotel. So you think they would give you a hotel close to base that, you know, is a place where Marines couldn't make dumb decisions. Or maybe it's like walkable to a place to eat because they won't pay for your rental car.

Just something that would make sense. But no, there's a Holiday Inn Express that's like maybe 12, 13 minutes from the home training center, HTC. And it's in the same parking lot as a smoke and vape, which I don't know what the difference between smoke and vape is. I mean, I know the difference between cigarettes and vape is,

but you smoke and you vape. I don't get it. But smoke and vape, which sells Bitcoin, by the way, so it's interesting. A massage parlor with like three lights out of the sign, so you know something weird is going on there. A donut shop and a liquor store. Like that's where, I'm like,

this is where you're going to drop a Marine off. Support local business, baby. Support local business. Localism. Localism. Marine Corps, federal government, big localisms. Anyway, that hotel is the, like, I'm, this isn't, hey, I'm a hotel snob. I've stayed in nice hotels. It is the dumpiest hotel I've ever been in. The couches are stained. The sheets are dirty.

Like it is unbelievably weird, but none of that even matters. In the lobby, in the lobby, what's that actor's name? The sheets are dirty. It is unbelievably weird, but none of that even matters. Potential sponsor. In the lobby, in the lobby, what's that actor's name? Javier Bardem. Javier Bardem. Javier Bardem is the manager. He is the front guest door host. And when you walk into the hotel, every time you go through two sets of electric doors and you look at the front desk where you expect a person to be and there's no one there and you hear can i help you

and you turn around and like just to the right of the door opening is a guy wearing like a suit with no tie and like not matching blazer and pants not like a suit suit like a blazer with slacks like none of it makes sense looks just like him like straightened hair not super long but long enough big bangs doesn't smile and we just always call him the guy from no country and the text threads just start going off like, oh man, he's creeping out by the right side of the, when you walk in.

Does he make you flip a quarter? Yeah. This is your oxygen tank. Yeah. Anyway, that's that. Okay, my save round was so Trey, I'm taking command of golf battery 314 this month up in Jersey at Fort Dix. Congratulations.

So I'm going for my first shoot. Thanks. And so I was on the confirmation brief. I was on the rehearsal last night and then the actual brief to the colonel today and i had never heard i have heard this in gods and generals but i never heard this in marine corps so the 314 they have uh batteries in chattanooga and alabama and then two in or in jersey or one in jersey and one in pennsylvania and they call them the northern and the southern batteries and the battalion commanders from virginia and sounds like he model real articles

for secession and so when he believes he's like well so on day through to the northern batteries are gonna come in from fort dixon and then the southern batteries will come up from tennessee and i'm just like on mute dying laughing i feel like i'm listening to people playing antietam like it is just the northern batteries the southern batteries and i've started like texting the different battery commanders and like master guns ortega and i'm like does no one else think this is funny and then teal finally sharps and he's like oh sir major skip i always think we're playing in a civil war battle where 314 goes on a giant fire giant mustache is it is it like a handlebar goes down we'll win the day

so we will hit them with the H E. Yeah. The Northern batteries. I'm like, wait, am I Lawrence Chamberlain? Is that what's happening? Anyway,

uh, Trey, have you been practicing your sign off? Absolutely not. Okay. You want me to just do it? I don't care. Let me do it.

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