The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - Ep. 111: Wienie 500, Deadlift Grip & Tarps Off Baseball

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

Episode 111 of The Okay Podcast is here. The guys celebrate Memorial Day weekend, conduct another legendary Trash Battalion staff briefing, break down Johnny Manziel’s latest fight, discuss the viral "Tarps Off" baseball movement, debate deadlift grips and lifting technique, and somehow end up talking about Wienermobile racing. Along the way, Grant answers listener lifting questions, the crew opens listener mail, and the Cajun Sergeants Major make another appearance. If you came for fitness, sports, military humor, baseball, or absolute nonsense, this episode has all of it. Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:⁠https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ks⁠Check out BW Tax: ⁠https://www.bwtaxllc.com⁠BUY A FOOTBALL HELMET:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.thestrength.co/mrhelmet/?utm_source=The+Okay+Podcast&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Okay_Pod⁠

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Classic. All right. Welcome back to episode 1-1-1-1-1-1 of the OK podcast. Power by the Stranko. I am your host, Grant Broji. And we are recording live on the internet.

We've got a little technical difficulties going on. That's what we call it a podcast. We know that the preponderance of our listeners, McCollum, listeners, before I call them viewers, but the preponderance of our listeners are viewers. And you're probably watching YouTube right now. You're like, man, grants were in the same shirt he wore last week. See an American flag behind him. Trey's wearing a brass, extra large squat tea. Great shirt. Trey must be on the road. We'll talk about where he is in a second. And a lot of you that are

viewing right now, as you always do, as you've always done, as you've never not done it, are like, Where's Jeff? Well, Jeff's got a little technical difficulties, but we think that his face will be on camera before you know it. But this is episode 1-1-1 of the OK podcast, powered by the Strength Co, brought to you by BW Tax, sponsored by Green, gridiron, gridiron, green. I'm changing up the preamble here and it's thrown me off.

Price of Bitcoin is $75,773. $77. Today's date is May. the 26 and the year of our Lord, 2000, which is crazy to think about, 2026. I'm joined in studio with Mr. Jeff Biggie. He is not in a drilling status, therefore the name Jeff. If you ask, why is the therefore, therefore, as we often do and reading through the Corinthians or the Thessalonians, we say, why is it therefore, therefore?

Mr. Jeff Beggey, therefore, is not in a drilling status. He's in the greater Salt Lake City area, but he is not Mormon. So there's two things that can be true. You can be in Utah and also not Mormon. Both of the things are true. Also, I have heard Jeff through the great vine that Utah has bad snow this year for skiers. Awful. Can you confirm? Oh, 100%.

Okay, Alta is always fine. Alta's always fine. Oh, is it Alta? What's the, what's the, what's the, yeah, yeah. As the local say Alta. Alta, my bad. Sorry, sorry. I was homeschooled.

Alta is always fine. But the rest of Utah's, it's egregious, right? It's bad. It was very, very bad. I feel like we only got like snow, like significant snow in the valley twice. And both I ended up pretty quick after that. all gone. There's very little snow up on the

on the last edge front right now. Okay. At any event, that's where Jeff is and the snow's bad also joining us and I am going through orders from last week to find

a good city. I guarantee the snow's bad there too. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. I'm struggling right now. I seem to Make up a word like usually do. Yeah, I just,

yeah, nothing's coming up. All right. Joining us from Bledso, Texas. It's Mr. Robert Trey Gallich, the third. I think Bledso, Texas is real. It sounds like a last name to me, but I also feel like it's potentially a city in Texas. It's real, isn't it?

It is unincorporated community in Texas. I love these unincorporated. Texas cities. They're some of my favorite cities. That is up by... Oh, dude, you're right on the border. It's like, yeah. It's not the Clovis, New Mexico. That's about as far west you can get.

Yeah. West Texas is the best Texas from the Bledso, Texas to the New Mexico, Texas. That's, yeah. Hey, congrats. You're like right there. Robert, Robert Tragauch, third. father three. That's why they call him the third. He's got three under three, three daughters under three. He's joining us. We got a lot to talk about in the show. We can't believe we've made it to

one, one, one. The guys were texting me all week, like, man, we're at one-one-one. I was like, why is this more significant to you guys to 100? And they were like, I don't know, but it's a lot of ones to episode 100 and 1-1, because no bingo's here. No bingo. Yeah, no bingoes here. A lot to talk about Memorial Day weekend has come and gone. If you're listening to this, it's the Friday after Memorial Day weekend, which means if you haven't put your ice hat on in a while, you should or your Border Patrol helmet on.

So true. Arsenal's probably playing soccer. We got the World Cup coming up. there's a lot to talk about law I mean really I don't even know where to begin so I'll just give the people what they came for yeah let's kick it over to the three

oh oh I thought we were going to write into soccer I thought you were talking about soccer I thought that's what people came for no okay appreciate it gents oh man this is all major real quick I just want to see you thanks for everybody that came over

for Memorial Day weekend for the Bayou house I had a great time Anyway, go ahead, three, Mr. Master. Thanks, sir. I feel like I didn't get the invite. I don't know if we got lost to the mail or you did you send it to my civilian email and sent it on my dot mail if you were sending on an evite. But no, I'm dialed in TDY.

I am at the operational trash conference here. All the track battalions from across the trash divisions. Ah, the OTC. Yeah, we're at the operational trash conference. learned about the new and emerging threats in the trash environment and how we play to counteract them with our updated dubster

technology and techniques, tactics and procedures or TTPs, as we like to say in the biz here. But let's get it started here. S1, what do we have? Ah, good evening, sir. Good evening, staff. Good evening. Sergeant's major Cajun types and commanders

and a trash Battalion. My name is 2nd Lieutenant McKenzie and I just checked in along with the new Deuce who you hear from after me. I actually checked

him because he was at IOC. He's a ground intel guy. But I just want to say I got into my office. The last guy put a note on my whiteboard. I'm not sure what it means but it says the numbers are bumping and then beneath that it has an arrow and it says say

this in the next staff brief. So I really just got here, but the numbers are bumping. And the G1 report card is reported. And I'll say that, I have nothing further for the group.

Hey, great brief. Great brief. This is great turnover binder. Desktop procedures were followed there. Whatever that means. I'm amazing how well this battalion runs with the amount of turnover that the staff officer have in the headquarters

just going through every week. Just immediately check in and then PCS. Hey sir. By the way, I just want to make it known as a part of my duties as the one. I'm also the voting officer. It was in my

turn of her. And actually as a part of the CGRI, in order to be the voting officer, there's actually a directed comment that's supposed to go into my fit rep, which technically makes it commendatory. So, uh,

sir, Mr. three, uh, uh, so, sir, should I talk to you about that or should I talk to trash?

Um, I think you guys come five. Hey, man, I think we're going to be voting on around here is the, who has a spicy a gumbo? I don't know. I don't think that,

some sort of extra benefit for that. I think we can all do that ourselves. Vote? Yes. No. And that Cajun Sergeant Major, this is the other Cajun Sergeant Major. Oh, good to see you, brother. You're going to see you, brother. I think they're talking about our

Office of FitRab stuff. We wouldn't know anything about that. We just tell them to look at the pairs. But, come on Friday. I just go to a gumbo. This is Trash 5. Keep your sidebars to a minimum. One, come see me about that

directed comment. Yes, sir. Hey, thanks, brother. Yeah, I was going to get the same guidance to that young tenant. I was going to, you know, give that same, same good guidance. Appreciate that brother. Really, really appreciate that. Hey, no problem, brother.

Hey, I appreciate it, brother. Hey, all right, great. Thanks, bro. All right. Hey, uh, do you know, what do we got? You want to lift in tomorrow, bro? Oh, lift it? We lift in?

Yeah, let's see. Yeah, yeah. I got a new creatine here. Yeah, bro, hit me up offline. I'll bring you a monster. Oh, oh, bro. Appreciate it. brother. No problem, dude.

All right, bro. My bad, bro. Keep going, bro. Okay. Oh, okay. Back to the brief. That was on a sidebar. Okay, with field grades. Nah, hell yeah, Major. That was a field grade conversation that you just witnessed there. So, Lieutenant, take note. Okay. S2, what do we got? Is the straight open or closed?

Have we checked the latest intel? That's you, Dre. Sir, as previously mentioned, I have also just checked in to the battalion. I am a ground intel officer. I did do IOC if you were asking. Trash six. Trash six real quick.

Just want to say, what's your last name then there, Lieutenant? It's Bluto. Lieutenant Bluto, sir. You got me. That was funny. Remember, stop the, it's not the organization on the uniform.

It's the last name that you live for. I just want to say this is a new record in Trash Battalion. We've had nine ground intel officers in a row. Every single one of them is the IOC. They make it through IOC. They don't make it in Trash Petalian. But I'm excited about Latina Blood, so I think he's got a bright future.

Hey, thanks for what you do. Yeah, go ahead. Yes, sir. I guess the straight of food. Oh, go ahead, sir. Sorry to interrupt. Did Trash Six just like interject and talk for no reason whatsoever that was completely irrelevant right now?

It did, it did seem that way, brother. I'm not really sure what that is. You didn't give me, you didn't give us any guidance or intent. He just talked and then stop talking. Anyway, sir, thank you, sir. Anyway, back to you three, when she'll take it back to the deuce. Right.

Okay. Yeah. kicking it back over to the deuce after the five kicked it over to me so then I'm the three so then I'm kicking it back over to the two oh they're killing me thinking about some gumbo oh thank you uh sorry major no problem uh okay so then kicking it back over to the deuce after we kicked it over well we didn't kick it over to uh trash nine trash nine more just kind of like grabbed it and then we took it back over to and now we're kicking it over to the dude. And the bayou, we say, take it. I got it. No, gumboo.

Yes, thank you, gentlemen. I was reading the SOPs for the battalion, and they had mentioned something that sidebars were at a minimum. Is that now changed, or is that? Hey, Lieutenant, what you're going to learn is that we're constantly always updating and evaluating our TTPs and our. SOPs and we're always like working on things, you know, right? Enemy has a vote.

And in this case, you know, we're experimenting with some new tactics, techniques, and procedures in regards to our sidebars. Sidebars. Yeah. Okay. Brother, brother, thanks. This trash five, this trash XO here. I want to get all the XOs.

I want to do some bottom up refinement. I want to get, take things from the bottom and refine them as they come up. commanders you guys are like six months behind me and rank i want you go back to your exos i want them to talk down to the lieutenants which they can then talk down to the nCOs get some feedback on on the sops uh strategic corporal coming up from the bottom to the top uh like my brother three said sorry sorry to cut your off brother but i just i want i want to get this back down it's all good brother I want to get this down to the back to the company level. Have your exos reach out to me.

Yeah, anyway, another further for the group. Go ahead. Hey, Sarmajor, would you mind actually also talking to the first search about this? You know what? You'll be talking about the what? The SOP on the what? That gumbo. I think he made gumbo refinement.

Yeah, no. It's funny you say that. All the first hundreds came over this past weekend, and again, they're all gone this week because they don't know we can leave. So as soon as they come back, I would love to talk to about this stuff. But at the time being, sir, they happen to be out out of pocket, as we like to say, you're right here. Okay.

Thank you, sir. Down in the bayou. Man, we could just stop podcasting, and I could just listen to two Cajun Sargent's majors talk. Bye. Hey, uh, sub boss to a minimum of five says, uh,

three, sorry about that. I keep the enlisted. I keep the lid on these new sergeant majors. Go ahead. Uh, three, sir.

I love it. We're 18 minutes in and we're on the deuce. Uh, yep. Just to close up the deuce, sir, uh, straight to hormoos.

Straight of Hormuz. I believe it. Someone said it was open. I checked it and it's still close. So, yeah, so close. Okay. Well, hey, you're here first, folks. Straighter removes.

Not open. Not open. Hey, this is Sajar, made you the straight of the bayou is open. Oh, stay open. Okay. Okay. So is that off of www. is the straight of the bayou open.com?

No, no. That's just a board of the bayou. com. You go to the right side. You click on the little loppy. to crawl dad fish you see you over there and just click bye you okay okay excellent hey good good stuff we'll get that added into our SOP right hey

lieutenant lieutenant blood so right we're always updating always getting refinements you know we're taking in every perspective so make sure you're taking notes yeah roger that sir uh i might be i might be leaving next week to try to out from our side never know yeah you never know you never know i think we do have, yeah, we have three more Intel officers inbound on our inbound roster.

And it's trash six. Just want to say if, if 10 bloods, so then make it five and three, make sure we get another ground intel deuce. It's important for dumpster health.

Yes, sir, yes, sir. Right. Yeah, dumpsters go on the ground. So we need the intel to also be on the ground. I mean, I understood. Yeah, yeah. Thanks, three, Iron Major, great briefer. You do what you do well. Think about dumpsters is dumpsters actually collect Intel. So a lot of people don't realize that.

But if you want to know what's going on in the world, look at people's trash. I've always said that. That's always been our motto, sir, here at Trash Italia. I've always been our motto. Let me see your trash, please. Yes, yes, Caget and Sergeant Major. Okay, great.

Cajun Sergeant Major number two. Oh, yes, sir, this is the four. I have nothing for the group. Hey, good brief, good brief. Trash five, good brief. Okay, do you have any of my medical or dental folks here? Nothing for the group, sir. Okay, great brief, great brief.

S6, Como. Nothing for the group, sir. Okay, oh, good, God, this is great. really good briefing here. Everyone's been, I feel like you've been working on their briefing skills on those weeks of leave that you've had. Yes, sir.

Sergeant Major gave us, this is six. So our major gave me a week of leave and I just been practicing on briefing. Hey, that's a great way to spend your leave. Yeah, you know,

that's a professional, self professional military education. Very, very, very important there. Okay. Hey, uh,

before we go to our outlying stations, um, Cajun, sergeant's major, Do y'all have anything for the group? I'm terrified to ask. This is, this is the Bayousa Major.

No, I think everybody don't cover this, sir. I appreciate what you do. Appreciate Trasix. Go Tigers. Go Tiger. You know, make that? I would say that the, I would say that morale has never been high around

here. Because I'm not called on leave. Yeah. Go Tiger. Go tigers. Hey, Sawmajor, if you free later on, let's come over to the house for some Bull Dean and Go Tigers. Oh, yes, I'll go, go, go tag. Hey, sir, I'm a Sawmajor. Oh, excuse me, Sal Major.

Oh, sorry. That's all right for the group, sir. Thank you. I appreciate that. Also, say Brown from Ops, I did notice that the Cajun sergeant's major did somehow get into the ops calendar and they have added in crockfish boils every weekend

alternating between the houses, their houses, every other weekend. Both houses is in the bayou, don't worry. Yeah, yeah. We call them talking gumboes. And there have never been more leave requests in the hopper before ever. Okay, all right, outline stations. I guess talking talking gumbos might be the funniest thing Trace ever said.

That bar is low, baby. Oh, man. That was good. Anyway, I'm sorry, three. Hey, hey, brother. Go ahead, brother. Hey, no problem, brother. Brother, we got these outline stations, you know, we got to make sure our folks that are checking in from those outline stations, those far reaches of the empire, you know, on the edge, you know, out there hooking and jabbing.

We got Scott Dubois checking in. Southern New Hampshire trash has been secured. Excellent work. Love to hear. That's what we like. Dubois. I feel like he'll buy you. Hey, Scott Dubois, I think you're a customer.

I know you're a customer. You're in New Hampshire. My buddy is going to the Newport War College this year. New Hampshire sounds like a hop, skip, and a jump from Rhode Island. So let's make sure that we have a crawfish boil together. excellent excellent I love that Fops good Fops sorry working on Fops

Hey and we got we got the chaplain checking in here Chaplain he's back from Chaplain hello and thank you for reaching out I am currently out of office with Sergeant Major I'm assuming he means one of the Cajun Sargent's Major I will get back

to you as soon as we return in the meantime if you need something immediately you can pray. What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you is not this, that your passions are at war with you. You desire and do not have so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

You ask and do not receive because you ask Ronley to spend it on your passions. James 4-4 versus 1 through 3. Until he returns, Nathan Eckberg, Trash Battalion, Chaplin. Phone number won't give it out here, but he gave it out. And he put a signature block and everything. It's amazing. Great work, Chapman.

Hey, in the gullarablet, in the gullabwe, we say, you had not because your ass not. It's the longest out of office, but a good one. I liked it. Yeah, good. All right, 25 minutes, guys. 25 minutes. Our Diard fans say, please never stop doing this. And I always say it's the same thing.

And they're like, nope, it's different every week. And I'm like, Matt, it's the same. It's just different. And they're like, okay, mom. Hey? As long as, yeah. I was about say, as long as Ms. Brogie likes it, then we'll keep doing it. I'm going to guess that Mrs. Brogie does not listen to this portion of the podcast.

Actually, she hasn't even messaged me about the podcast at all lately. So, uh, oh, no. Yeah, we might have lost her. Yeah. Check the listeners stats. Yeah. Well, it's crazy. I was actually looking at the, um, listener stats the other day.

we have a huge influx from Louisiana. Ah, good. It's like the Bayou, everyone stop looking at LSU and they're watching the OK podcast, Sergeant Majors. Ah, the Cajun Mafia. Excuse me, Sergeant's Major. Sergeant Majors. Mm.

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Yelp reviews, not so good. Are they're bad? They're just one. They're just one. And I got one. This is not Grant's buddy. This is not Trash 5 or Trash 6. This isn't even a Cajun Sergeant Major.

I have a review on my gym. I'm calling it My Gym to let you know that I'm being 100% serious. I think we're 4.9. We're like 120 reviews or something on Google. And I have a review for the Costa Mesa Gym. man, you guys can go pull it up. I probably shouldn't talk about it, but I'm going to. But it's like, it's so obnoxious that like obviously it's not true.

And it's like I called and the owner answered the phone and said, F you or F off. And it's just like some like obnoxious thing that then I replied to. It's from like four years ago. So I'm like, we're four point something because some people rate the gym and this is fair. are like no sauna, no shower. No, and it's like, yep, we're a black iron barbell gym. You come into here to lift. We're like, you don't come in here to take a bath.

But there's one like zero star review that's like, I called the owner. And he told me to F off. And yeah, I wish I could get rid of it. I probably want to, you should make that into a T-shirt. Just put that review on a T-shirt. I'd buy that. you cut out party if it's on a squat tea

if it's on a squat tea I'd buy it yeah if you put that review on a squat tea oh a squat tea oh yeah yeah yeah print that review on a squat tea and you'll sell a good one you'll sell a hundred of them in an hour I mean that's how sales work

you put it out sales and then you just make money and then I would rate that shirt the zero stars that's why I would write that shirt dude can you imagine if you you could get a t-shirt made of like garden hoses. It'd be crazy. Well,

Han, like made out of them or just like a t-shirt? Oh, you got a business idea? This is a sergeant-fayasia. Sorry to be offline for. I got some Cajun garden hoses. It's going to be a terrible episode. I already know. That's right.

They all can't be winners. Yeah, I mean, there's only so many sergeants major. Yeah. Yeah. Can all be winners. Oh, you met the episode. Yeah, got it. Oh, right.

Oh, right. Yeah. Both. Yeah. You know, it goes for a lot of things in life. Well, we're 30 minutes in. Should we start the show? I say, let's go and start it.

All right. Let's start it. First slide. I'm just going to, well, I guess as is tradition, Trey, you've been lifting? I have been. Yeah, man. I'm going.

Have you really? Actually, I have, yeah. I lifted today on the road. It's actually find it much easier to lift while I'm on the road. Where are you in by you? No, close. I'm in long, I'm in Longview, Texas. Longview.

Oh, Longview. That's like kind of like the spur of Louisiana. A little bit north of that, yeah. North, okay. Yeah, it's closer to all. Arkansas. Arkansas. I would say.

Arkansas. Arkansas. So yeah. No, when I lifted today. Got a good squat session in. And then, yeah.

So I don't know. Still going. Feeling good still. Doing the heavyweight three by five. We got, I want to talk about heavyweight three by five. I also want to talk about Slack channel. We did a lot of stuff in the Slack channel.

We talked about lifting, life, love. Jordy posted episode 110 in there in Barclay West Citadel alumnus I think I forgot he was a Texan

replied Jeff I don't know if you have it up I'm just going to read it says okay I think native bishop listeners got an automatic guest slot Bishop adjacent gets a pair

of hondo's her Jeff's recount. Or was it a discount on the America 250 plates? At Grant gives out discounts like Sergeant Major gives out leave. So here's what I'm going to say, Barclay, we want to make good on our promise that if you're from Bishop, Texas, you get something special, which you are adjacent. The problem is you're on the East Coast. So as we're recording right now, it's nearly one in the morning.

Lucky for you, my buddy, Jeff and Grant's buddy will be on the Easter standard time next year. So I think we have you on like post August. So we want to have you on. We're just doing you a solid right now. And we're going to wait to have you on. But yeah, anyway, back over to you three. Thanks for what you to do. Yeah.

appreciate. I want, okay, so. Oh, lifting. First, first time about Trey's lifting. Yeah. What did you squat, Trey? Today, dude. So, what did I do today?

I did three 55. Who, squat? Yeah. Dude, you're out squatting me. What, 355? Three by five? I mean, not that I Well, it's because we've been sick.

Yeah. Well, that's what she said. I, no, no, no. I'm trying to think now to make the conversation useful. I did last week was my first full week of lifting. I did Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Monday, I did 3.15 for a top set of five. Wednesday, I did 3.15 for three sets of five.

Friday, I did 3.35. for 365 and Monday Memorial Day yeah I did 355 for 365 actually I guess we did the same maybe we're the same 45 I can't remember yeah so okay yeah just a couple of dads out there trying to get strong mm yeah deadlit yeah deadlift squat both feeling good today today was the first time I'm like oh it's getting heavy so it's it's getting to where it needs to be so but it's a good work you're still dead let you on the same day I am deadly I try to do it twice a week now. So I'm doing it like, I will deadlift like on a Wednesday.

You're kind of stringing together a little hot streak right now. You're like, what, about three weeks of solid lifting? Yeah, man, it's, it's, uh, night wait, baby. It's, uh, you know, if it's either one, either one lift or going to try to do multiple lists, but yeah. So far so good. But yeah, so I deadlifted on Wednesdays and I think Sundays. is what I have programmed right now.

So. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I did have a question, though. Okay, so I made you. Auburn. Hey me with a question. Hey, me with a question. Okay. I got to make Jordy a YouTube video because sometimes YouTube videos are like lifting for you. YouTube videos for me are like lifting for you. I have every intention to record them and sometimes I forget. Are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. And this one. Okay. So the question. question is, where is it? Okay.

Is the PFT question? No. Okay. This is the one. So explain where how the hands should go on the squat, bench, press, press, deadlift. You need to do one, all four of them and explain kind of the science behind it. Like why? Where's your, where your hand placement going on all those lifts and kind of what's the reasoning behind it? I'm going to do a little YouTube opener for this in just a second, but what made you think of this question? which will not be in the video. This is just for okay podcast listeners. Like, why? Oh, exclusive. It was the bench, it was the bench press,

like the orientation of my, on the bench press, I think is like how far I wanted them out versus in, you know what I mean? Like, hey. And that just made you wonder like, where should my hands go on all the lifts? Yeah,

I feel like that's a very solid question. Dude, I'm about to go all in. And then I'm like, what's the science behind it? Yeah. Well, don't ask me about the science. Just I am the science. Yeah, that's right, maybe.

I am the science. Everybody knows that our science is a science. But I do all the value. Hey guys and welcome back, Scranto. And today we're going to talk about where should your hands be in all of the big barbell lifts.

If you like the video, like and subscribe to the channel. So if you've been reading starting strength, if you've watched Starting Strength, YouTube videos. If you've watched Rip A Toe, you've got the blue book, you've got the gray book, everyone sees the thumb on top of the bar and the squat. Why do we do that? And is it important? Why do we do it? Well, the answer is if put the thumb on top of the bar, it tells the brain that we are not holding the bar on our back with our hands. The back supports the load in the low bar back squat, or even if you were doing a high bar back squat,

your hands are not the things that keep the bar from sliding down your back. Your back is supporting the load, particularly in a low bar back squat. So we put the thumb on top, one, because we don't need it, but two, because it facilitates a neutral wrist. If the wrist goes into a bunch of extension, or you might think of it as bending, then over time, as you get stronger, it can cause pain. to the elbow. A lot of times it will cause elbow tendonitis. People get elbow tendinitis from squatting.

That means that the weight is not being supported by the back, but rather is being absorbed by the wrist. And because of the bar position, the elbow ends up eating a lot of it. So you don't want that. So we put the thumb over the bar to try to keep a neutral wrist. Now, the problem is a lot of things. people that are looking for starting strength or doing starting strength are people that have lost physical function. No one wants a doctor unless they're sick is the famous gospel, but it's the

same thing in lifting. You can't convince a 20-year-old, hey, you're going to lose all your muscle mass one day. You should learn how to lift correctly and preserve it. No, people that come to the gym are people that have back pain, bulging discs, osteoporosis, all kinds of issues, and they don't know how to get strong. So they come to the gym and say, can you help me get stronger? Well, what does that also mean? It means that they probably lost a lot of shoulder flexibility, mobility, and therefore, when they go to get under the bar, they struggle to put the thumb on top of the bar. Most people, when I first coach them, their biggest ailment or thing that they complained about it is the lateral edge of their shoulders hurting while they're trying to squat.

And it's very normal because the bar is so low on their back and they're so tight from having lost so much movement capability that the pain ends up in their shoulders. And I'll often tell those people, you are stronger today than you are good. The limiting factor is not your physical strength. it is your skill and your ability to get into the correct position. So what do I say all that? To answer Trey's question on how do the hands go, if you are brand new to lifting and I cannot get your thumb on top of the bar

to get you into a neutral wrist, guess what? I don't care. I would prefer that you squat something, anything. I would prefer that you get the bar on your back. back and lift. Over time, do I need to adjust how your hands meet the barbell and how the barbell meet your back to ensure you don't get elbow tendinitis and have pain? Yes, but right now, I'm just happy you're here and I'm going to allow your wrist to bend. I'm going to allow your thumb to go around the bar. And I'm not worried about a neutral risk because the limiting factor

is not your strength. It's been the fact that you have not lifted in years, right? It's like getting someone to go to church. If someone comes to church for the first time, I'm not going to say, when was the last time you get communion? How do you giving us money? I'm not going to ask for these questions.

I'm like, hey, I'm just glad you're here, brother. And it's the same concept with hand placement on the barbell back swat. Over time, do I want to get you to a neutral position? Yes. but if we're not there, day one, that's okay. If you want an answer to the other questions of how should your hands be on that bench press, press, and the deadlift, well, like to subscribe to the channel.

See you next time. There you go, Trey. Thanks, bro. That was good. Jeff had one that kind of tagged along with it. Or hang on. Let me get content grant back up. Hang on.

Let me hit some helium or something. All right, I'm ready. So Jeff had one in, I kind of got an answer to bell. I'm really throwing me off with no video. You don't know what I'm doing. Me too, sir. I appreciate you bringing that up.

I don't miss seeing a major piggy in the bio. You don't know what I'm doing over here. Just sitting there completely in the nude talking to us right now. Thanks, Cajun, surgery, major. Oh, no problem, sir. So Jeff says double overhand, hook grip, mixed grip, and straps. Are there certain situations you'd recommend? each one. This might be a real. How long you want me to go? Hey. Hey guys. Welcome back.

You're your choice. Hey guys. Welcome back. Scrimbrids from straight. Today we're going to talk about grip and the deadlift. She'd do the hook grip. She'd do double overhand grip. She'd do a mixed grip. What was the other one? Strap. If you liked the video, like to subscribe to the channel. Back in the day, if you can't brought straps in my gym, I would look at you and I would say, hey, what colors your purse? And the gym client would look at me and say, what? And I would say, well, you brought straps, so you must have a purse, and they must match your straps. Don't smash your purse.

And they would never get the joke. And then the person would never sign up for the gym. Not a good business strategy. But how should you grip the barbell when you deadlift? Double overhand, for most people getting started. Double overhand means hands are over, not supine. Supine would be facing up. So they are turned down.

Thumbs are around the bar. This works for most people and they're just learning to deadlift. And it'll work for a couple weeks, a couple months. The problem is if you stop being able to grip the deadlift, it's slipping out of your fingers, it's slipping out of your hands. You go to lock out, the low back will round. Back positioning the deadlift is a whole different video.

Go watch the video, how to deadlift. I think we have a couple. Look at that one. Look at that one. Look at that one. In any event, if your back, if your hands cannot hold the bar, your back will stop holding its position. So once double overhand starts to give up, what should you do?

My favorite option is the hook grip. That means the thumbs go around the bar. We have a video on that. They go around the bar. And then your index and middle finger for some people, even the ring finger, then squeeze the thumb against the bar. So there's a friction point of pushing. your thumb back into the bar. It's a very effective way to hold the barbell. It's also painful.

And I'm a guy that deadlifts 585, my best ever. And when I deadlift heavy and I hook grip, I don't like it. I don't think about it, probably as much as the new lifter is, but it's not fun. But it's effective and it's done with your hands, meaning you don't need any external support. A third way would be to do a mixed grip. So you flip one hand supine, often tell people it's like hopping on a skateboard or a surfboard for you South California types. Some people get on this way or that way. I don't really care which hand flips over, which hand makes sense to you to flip over. But one hand is facing up.

One hand is facing down. This creates rotational force in opposite directions. and the hand that is supine allows you to not drop the barbell as it gets super heavy and your back wants to give out. It's a fine lift.

It's totally okay. But on the supine hand, the hand that is turned up, you want to make sure the elbows completely extended. If it's not, there is potential, I am not trying to scare you.

I'm not fear mongering. This is not 2020. This is not COVID. But there is potential to strain the bicep tendon and pop the bicep. I've seen this happen a few times. So if you were going to deadlift in that fashion, make sure that the arm is completely locked out.

The fourth option would be deadlift straps. And as I said, to open the video to get your attention, when I first started coaching, it was very anti-deadlift straps. Now, not just because I killed cows in Texas, and slaughter them and get their hides and make straps and sell them, not because of that. That was a joke. I think that straps are very beneficial for most people.

Most people do not want to compete in powerlifting. Most people do not want to, you know, do some type of sports. Grip strength is important, but what I prefer is back strength, leg strength, all the things that come from a deadlift by doing the whole body exercise. I don't want grip to be a limiting factor. I think that straps should be a huge tool in people's training. So if you, the listener, would say, Grant, what do you want me to do?

I'm going to do exactly what you tell me. What would my progression be? You would do double overhand until it didn't work. Then you would do hook grip until you didn't like it. And then you would introduce straps into your lifts, but you would keep some element of the hook grip. that might be pulling a top set of five. You strap in, you pull reps one, two, three, and four with the straps on.

Then you release the straps and pull rep five with a hook grip. It may also be I'm pulling maybe two sets of five or a top single and then back off sets because I'm more advanced. The heaviest thing you do is done with a hook grip. And then the back off or volume work is done with strap. that's my thoughts on gripping the barbell. If like the video, like subscribe to the channel. Sometimes I feel like you guys just came to watch me go to work.

Yeah, that's basically what I'm. Yeah, it's over here. Yeah, thanks, guys. I'm going to switch over to the laptop. Oh, we're going, we're going on. I'm getting back from my TDI trip, you know, I'm going to be back on station. I'll let you know what I got a good handshake.

Okay, good, we go. They slew your pod over to yourself. Well, he's going. No, that's good. You use straps, right? You're a big strap guy. I'm pretty much straight straps. Yeah, I'm almost, I,

what I said there, I learned actually from Tanner, from Massonomics. He's the guy that said, uh, he pulls sets with straps on and then releases and hook grips. And I was like, that's genius. Because if I pull a set of,

five with just my hands. I'm dying. But if I release, I can, like, still keep the hook grip, you know? Yeah. Anyway. Sorry, Jeff. You're back. We were just talking about Trey strap-ons.

Oh. And what were the, what are the straps I used when I did at your gym? But I went, like, straight up the middle. What am I thinking of? Oh, yeah. We call them neckties. I like that. I like this.

Yeah, I like this, too. I like this too. Trey likes it a lot. I like the necktire. I can't wait. I feel like every episode we're getting more and more Cajun and one day we're just going to get on here. It's just going to be a crawled bad boy.

Cajun. Welcome back to the Cajian podcast. You're logging to YouTube and it's literally just like Trey cooking crawfish live on YouTube. Little mupper. Handing out. leave. I got some leave for you.

Hey, you go here, subscribe to the channel. I give you a week of leave. Come on now, leave a comment. Yeah, we can leave for you too. Oh, man. I like that. If you don't follow us on the OK podcast, Instagram, go give us a follow.

But on the rise lately, the one I made of Sergeant Major that says like, born on the bayou. Actually, let me pull up the prompt for it. it. My joke is that it's funny that it got like way more

likes than most of the silly stuff we post, which is ridiculous. Hang, let me pull this up. It said we pull up the prompt. Oh, man. All right, here we go. I said illustrated

funny, high detail backyard scene in a Louisiana-style crawfish boil, a black Cajun older man with big authority energy is hosting in his house, standing along by a table covered in crawfish, corn, potatoes, and sausage, smiling and handing out stacks of paper that say leave slips like paychecks to a group of eager, much younger, clean cut guys and tucked in polos and khakis. It's basically, yeah, you just described as Sergeant Major.

He just described OCS. I also love how it's just it's all the same white dude like just making the faces around it. Well, I'm still okay podcast Instagram. I don't have time to like edit things. I just create them and let him rip. Just the same face.

Oh, look at all this Lee. Look at all this Lee. All right. We ready to talk sports. Are we going to talk sports? Okay. We can talk sports. Arsenal. Auburn.

Auburn Auburn Okay The only thing Sports thing we had on there was Old Johnny football Multi-sport athlete We got something a lot more than that

I feel like we got to touch on that a little bit Did you see a clip from it? It looked like if I was If I was fighting Jeff I was very out of sheep guys I was going to say the same thing it looked like me coming off of this sickness being told now go fight this person there's like he's not like fat but he's like you know yeah yeah he's out of shape and he won right

yeah yeah i think so whoop who whop farmers yeah fight literally farmer's five man who I pretty much got it right right? You nailed it, ma'am. Gigamags. Gigamags. Yeah. Killed it.

Gigamags. I'm just going to stay silent. Farmers. I'm going to let him. Farmers. Let him. Tire himself out. Gigamags.

I really would. That's all I was going to say about. that. It looked like if I was attempting to fight somebody. I really would tire myself out doing Texas saying him. Yeah, lead or stuff. What happened to Grant?

He died. Making fun of Texas A and him, he did it for so long. He just died. They'd be like, what happened to Green? I'd be like, he'd be like, shh, he tuckered himself out. Yeah, he don't got without Cajos, Sajum, yo. What other sports stuff

happened this week? I thought that was the only thing. Oh, come on. I know what Grants wants to talk about. He wants to talk about the Weenie 500. No, yeah, that's that one time about. Weenie 500. Weenie 500.

Where is that? I was curious when you post that. It's the second running of the Weenie 500. It's, I think, 12 Oscar Meyer weiner mobiles that race. They did it, I think. Race where? I think this might have been. at the Indianapolis Speedway.

It was like, are they full size? Oh, yeah, full size Wiener Mobiles. That's cool. Compact. No,

they're just, they're all racing each other. Oh, of course. It's like a couple of sods. Your majors run up PFT. Yes, you know,

a big. So, is there more than one size of WienerMobile? I'm sure there are. I don't know. It could be. But yeah,

that's great. You know, great American fun. They all have, like, different names. Like, one's like the Chicago dog. One's the New York dog. I think the New York dog won. Boo. Yeah.

Okay, when that happens. Yeah, I know. But hey, yeah, you can watch. Wait, is that not the sports thing you wanted to talk about? That must have been the sports thing you wanted to talk about. Because, you know, it was so viral. That was it. That was it.

That was it. That was it. That was right after the Johnny Manzell fight. It was back to back. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Can we do a sack segment, now that your camera's up? I was, okay, I was wondering.

All right, all right. And then we can go to the sports thing I want to talk about. All right. So wait, wait, all right. So let me, for everyone that's listening in and watching lots of viewers,

if you're not watching YouTube, you should be watching YouTube. Honestly, if you never want to watch on YouTube, just do me a favor. If you have a YouTube account, go subscribe. That helps us.

You never have to watch again, but subscribe. but we're about to do a very famous and very reoccurring segment where we all open up a piece of mail that we've gotten. And Trey's very good at it. He always waits to open it. He doesn't open it ahead of time. He doesn't look at the package and see like, oh, this is definitely from OK podcast. I should probably wait.

Trey just opens it. Jeff, on the other hand, is what you would call an old soul. He gets a package. He can tell it's packed by grand. He goes, probably supposed to open this on the podcast. So Jeff's got a package here. Man, it's from a listener. And Jeff, you have not opened the package yet, right?

I have pre-cut the tape, but I have not looked inside. Okay, good. The best thing about it was so how it works is a podcast fans send thing. And when I say podcast fans, the asses very loose, but they send stuff to me. And then I have to then,

like, redistribute it. So every time you guys send something, yeah, every time you guys send something to me, we appreciate it. It costs me money. But I will get it to Trey and Jeff.

And my favorite part about this particular package was I took one box, cut it in half, and put, you got, I don't like, can you tell it's a custom box? That's how I would like to say. This is not a standard.

That's a custom. Configuration. This is, you know, it's custom. All right. Open that. Let, let that thing rip. Okay.

Well, I mean, I saw us from Strengthco. So I was like, oh, maybe Grant sent me a pair of the powered by the 20, 250 anniversary plates, you know,

you know, chopped them up into little pieces maybe. Not that heavy. It's a hat. Oh, it's a hat and a shirt. Excuse me. Okay. Okay.

We've got the Toledo Mudhens. I was actually pretty pumped about that. Special occasion. Swap out the hat. Auburn. Look at that hair. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Just got good-looking hair. That's perfect. It's like a glove. It's a glove. That is, if you're not watching, Jeff's wearing a Toledo Mudhins hat. And he's holding up at Toledo Mudhens shirt.

Troy Campbell Senior sent us a little goodie bag when I say us. I mean me. But we all got fitted hats, Troy Mudhins. And I got a little story for Troy Campbell

that he will like that you hopefully all will like. Troy Campbell's from I can't remember if he's from Michigan or Ohio. But in any event, there's a lot of time spent in Toledo. And so his joke in sports sports is all runs, all roads run through Toledo. And he sent this thing.

He also sent my daughter, the mascot. They have, they have like a main mascot. And the secondary one is like a female mud hen. And his name is Madonna. Madonna. Oh, that's great. Yeah. And so he sent that.

And my daughter, my daughter has really enjoyed. with that and we were on FaceTime with a good friend of mine from Beaufort, South Carolina, from Nabayu, Claudia Gay, a great friend I worked for their family growing up and they're just great friends from church growing up. And I was wearing this hat on FaceTime as she was talking to Isabella and she said, what's that tea? And I said, oh, it's, you know, I get that dumb podcast. where we like talk like Cajuns.

I was like. He's talking about another podcast. Yeah, I got a friend that listens to it. And he's from Toledo. And she goes, yeah, is that like the mud ducks? And I was like, wait, you know what this? She goes, no, I've been to a game there. I dated a guy there like 45 years ago.

And he was like, I got to bring you back to Toledo to take you to a mud ducks game. Claudia. I was like, it's the mud hins. In any event, Troy, Campbell, Senior said, most iconic AAA team of all time, he might be right. So you saw it here first in the OK podcast. I like the T, because I think

it says the OK podcast. Troy Campbell, he was the women's hockey coach. Where? Didn't we talk about that? I can't remember where he went to. Like that? I'm not putting all of us as a collective. Whoop. Gigamags.

And here's the thing. It's already been noted that me and Grant brain dump everything. So this is really just a Jeff question. Yeah, Grant and Trey are actually not on the podcast. So he's an Ohio state fan. He did not go to Ohio State. You went to Akron, right?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But where did he coach women's hockey? I think he was Akron. Might have been Toledo. All runs run through there. That's what I want. I want whatever women's hockey team he coach. That's only a nice hat. Jeff, it's a nice hat. I'm telling Jeff, I've been

sported it all week and you were going to get complimented on that hat. It's a good looking hat. So do as I say, not as I do as far as. He just took it off. I got to look at it. And I'm, you know, I got to take the stickers off. Grant can open all the packages, but. Which is a package.

Hey, I got to open the package in order to mail you the package. We got the Ohio State T-C. I open that immediately. I expect Grant to open these packages in the future with his eyes closed, not seeing what's inside. I just had cage inside and made you open them. Well, we'll get him to the house crawl fish. Oh, man.

You guys want to talk sports? Yes. I don't think Jeff wants to talk sports. Do we know what MLB team that the mud hens are affiliated with? Uh, for like Cincinnati, Cleveland. Mudhins, a affiliation.

I don't actually. I feel like I've been told, but I forgot Detroit. Yeah, Detroit Tigers, of course. Detroit and the Midwest Division. Jack White must be a big fan then. Dude, Jack, actually, if you can cut your hat open, there might be a record in there.

I can feel it. I can feel it. Yeah, that's why it's, yes. Dead leaves in the dirty hound. That was when Jack White was a hatmaker. He was an adadishery. So Jack White has a band after he was an upholstery maker before he was, yeah, and he made hats for Toledo, Ohio. Jack White has always said all roads run through Toledo.

Yeah. That's true. He says that in every, every song, at least once. I am only going to call mud dugs from now on. Mudducks is great. I think Claudia for that one. Future, future gas potential sponsor. I hope so.

Okay. Speaking of baseball, have you all heard about this? Oh, you guys want to talk sports? Have you all heard about the tarps off movement or like a trend? Every time I think we're getting to what I want to get to. just not there. I know exactly what you want to get to. No, no.

I'm wearing the T for TARPS off on my hat right now. Tarps off. Is that like it? No, no idea. It's exactly that. It's so like last week, a big rain delay at a St. Louis Cardinals game.

So like, you know, a lot of people cleared out of the stadium. But like as the rain delay, like, I think, They came out of it. Tarp comes out the field. But eventually, like, there's this one group, and I think they're, like, a college baseball team or some sort of baseball team.

They're in, like, the right field or left field, and they've all got their shirts off, and they're all just, like, waving their shirts over their head. Other guys that are still at the game see this, and it ends up, like, everyone just goes, like, to this section, and they have, like, you know, maybe a couple hundred dudes just, like, swinging their shirts around off.

And so then the Cardinals, are like, hey, we love this. I think the Cardinals come back and, like, win the game. They, like, make sure that all these guys, like, get tickets to the next night's game. And then now there's, like, and now it's, like, grown to where there's, like, like,

1,500 people in this section. Like, all these dudes, just, like, taking their shirts off, wave them around. And it's, like, kind of spread to other clubs or other MLB teams, because, like, the Braves. I was watching one of their, like, highlights, and they were some reference to, like, oh, we got the tarps

off section over there after the rain delay and it's a bunch of dudes just popping their tops and swinging their shirts around their head. Pop and tarps. I love that. Go ahead and pop that shirt off. I was talking to Kaylee about it and she was like, that's the most guy thing ever to do. Just like

Oh, 100%. See another random group of guys with their shirts off swinging around over their head and be like, should we? Let's go join them. Should we go join those guys? I think we should join those guys. Yeah. I would probably go. I'm going to That's why we call them guys.

That's why dudes are the best. Yeah. More dudes less space. Oh, yeah. Well, we'd love dudes. Dude. We've always said that. We love dudes with their shirts off.

Dudes are their shirts off. Tough to do against tall grass. Never not said that. In Texas, we just call them hats. Well, that was good. That was a good sports talk. Yeah. Yeah.

Was that the last sports topic? I'm guessing the Angels game is a reference to a baseball game. Oh, yeah, that's what I want to talk about. Yeah, I went to an Angels game on Friday. What was the funny part about that? The funny part of the Angels game was date night. You know what I always say, date your wife or somebody else will. So we had a babysitter, went to the game, and it was Camo Trucker Hat Night.

Oh, man. which is like the antithesis of Orange County in my mind. So it's like you go to a game in California and they give you a camo, real tree camo trucker hat with an angel emblem with a halo, which I personally love as the South Carolina and not a fan of the angels. I have no idea what the fans thought. But anyway, I got the free hat. I had a great time with the wife.

Memorial Day. I was in a little Memorial Day function. I saw some guy wearing the hat and I go, hey, Cammo Trucker Hat night. He's like, dude, I was there. I was there too. That's how I know about this. But yeah, one's the angels. No one cares. I paid $8.83 cents per ticket. Dang. How much you spend on Chow, though? That's a real question. Oh, yeah. What I eat.

There we ate. No, we went to park outside the stadium. I went to park and they go, it was $20 for parking. And they go, hey, if you take this voucher inside Carl Strauss brewing next door, you get $20 of free food, free chow. And we were two cars, not because we needed to be. It was four of us who went to the game was Diana, myself and a buddy of mine and his, girlfriend and well it's like well there's 40 bucks of free chow so we went and cashed on the free chow so in the game i had a bag of peanuts yeah it was i mean you couldn't afford not to go when you ran the numbers

uh it was basically free love yeah it's broke even so i so this is the thing that i have and i want to get back to sports trade but it's like i don't know how to show those types of deals on chow radar i think I have a pretty good idea of what Chow Radar looks like. I'm working on it. I'm talking behind the scenes to people that you guys wouldn't get it. You're not business owners, but like Chow Radar

we're talking. Okay? Like, it's, it's this has a lot more legs on it. Yeah. Yeah, but I think you were joking. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, then you're not. Yeah, not a joke. But my question is like, do we need to be able to

show on Chow radar, like you could go to an Angels baseball game, get a free parking pass that turns into $20 that turns into peanuts, or can we just like focus on Texas barbecue? There's enough. Yeah, I feel like there's enough dedicated establishments just for Chow that we just need to focus on. I personally think that's short-sided right now, but I appreciate that feedback. again and I am not the business I'm not the businessman and maybe it's some sort of function of like chow radar hot tip of the week I don't know

something like where it's more like a I feel like it's just got to be a drop down put this on your radar yeah like uh chow radar now that we own the domain I mean the world is our oyster Chow Radar, baby. I told Diana, I said, this is bigger than Stranko. I can't wait. She was like, you almost sold your house to open Stranko plates. And I was like, I know.

And I'm telling you. You're going to sell the Strength Code to open Chow Radar. That's it. That's how this has all been building towards. Great, great text me. He's like, hey, I need you text me. What's the list that you put together for? for some of the restaurants in Texas.

And I go, not what I said. Not what I said at all. I said. So I thought you were just curious. Oh, oh, oh. I thought you were just curious of like what I had. It creates like, I am, Trey. So is the rest of the world.

So is the world. Chat. Everybody's chow. Everyone is chow. Sent this list of just like random restaurants I put together to Graham. Like, yeah, here's the instruction of it. It was so bad. I was trying to like feed it to the web.

guy in like a way. So like and Tray's like it's like at one point it's by a county and one point it's like by a city in another point it's like alphabetical based off the name of the restaurant. It was a make make sense in my head. Exactly. It made sense in Tray's head. It's kind of like when actually when I saw that list, I was like I see this list and think I have no idea. how Trey's brain works.

But if I were to give this list to Jeff, he would go, I can tell you exactly how Grant's brain works. And that's a gift Jeff has, you know? I don't know. That's true. But me. He's a Grants speaker. Okay.

Chow radar. So you know what it was? I'd put this list together. And then when I was converted in it to Google Maps, I was like editing it. And then I just like haven't touched that list since. And so it got all screwed up. And so, yeah. the Google Maps is where

that's where I made my money that's Trace Child Radar I just yeah not The Chow Radar Jim Radar I didn't realize we were on step I didn't realize we're on step 10 of like 12 we're almost done just roll it out

We're getting somewhere Yeah we're close Um www www. Chowradar.com slash the okay podcast slash all roads run through Toledo And that's the domain that we buy and you can go Check it out

Yeah, there's a plug in where you can see whether or not the straight of four movies is open also So we're really kind of I did tailor you to our listener base I will say one for it We guys want to talk sports Let's talk sports Let's talk sports Was there anything going on

that was near and dear to your heart. Oh, Jeff, I didn't want to talk about the Citadel went in the Southern Conference for the first time. I brought it up, you know, I brought it up because I really wanted to talk about it. It must be on your radar. You were on Chow Radar. You clicked the straighter for a moose icon,

then you checked in alma maters. And next thing you know, here we are. Yeah. The Citadel won the Southern Conference, not regular season conference. They won the conference tournament. Socon tournament. I'll actually keep this short,

but I am really excited. First time since you're a graduate college, which is 2010. We're playing in the Atlanta regional, which is Georgia Tech, Oklahoma, weird. That's weird because Columbus, Ohio is directly above Georgia,

which makes sense, because all roads run through Toledo. But now it makes sense. Somehow the Citadel is playing Oklahoma in the Atlanta regional along with the university in Chicago. I'm not kidding. The school is UIC. But yeah, we're in the regionals first time in 16 years. I'm excited.

And were they, have they always been like a solid program? And they just have a one or is this is a sort of. surprise or no well i mean it's like first since time since 2010 yeah so prior to that this is our 10th conference tournament uh when we've been in a college world series once here's what i would tell you it's the citadel right we're talking a really small school in the south that fought against the republic right like we're talking like the smallest of small What I would tell you is that of all of the sports that we have, this is the one that does have a reputation of it's not surprising, right?

Like if the Citadel Football made it to the FCS tournament, which they did in 2012, it was like, whoa! Where it's like, oh, yeah, we're going to baseball. That's what we do. I mean, you probably wouldn't get it, Trey. You didn't play baseball at Emerson like me and Jeff. So, like, you don't really understand the dichotomy.

It's true. Todd's baseball is its own sport. No, but so we've, so I'll put it to this way. There's, it's his own sport. I've always said that. There's the Southern Conference. We have won the tournament now nine times.

And we've, we're the second in most wins. Okay. So like we're, it's a good program. Yeah. It's a good program. Yeah.

But I'll leave it at this and we'll move on. they didn't just win the tournament. They went in on like a 34 game win year prior to the tournament. So like Jeff can you weigh in here like 30 games probably means you're like slightly above 500. 40 games mean like you're pretty good team. Yeah. It's a solid season.

It's not like an amazing one but not like you're like, yeah, we're pretty, we're decent. Trey, they went in and like beat the brakes off of them. everyone. What was the final score? Got hot at the right time. 9-1, 15-1, 14-2, 9-2, like just... Oh, just like run-ruling people? Yeah, literally run-ruling

the championship game. Wow. Seven innings. It's over. Citadel can't be stopped. So, that's a good time to get hot. Dude, even me... Either means we're about to go out of run or we're going to lose, like, on the first game.

It's going to be over really fast. But Now, you said they made the College World Series once. What's the, did they have a run in that? Or did it? Yeah, they did. They were semifinals. Eight teams. They got down to the four teams.

It was 91. They made super regionals, I think, four times. So yeah. Anyway, good regions. Oklahoma, if you're listening to this podcast on Friday, because you're a okay podcast fan, 5 p.m. Eastern time, 2 p.m. for you

California types we play Oklahoma at Georgia Tech Field to kickoff regional and again get super regionals and yeah anyway

is Auburn Austin Auburn Yes yeah Auburn Auburn there was potential

that they were going to play the same region is Ciddle that would have been A&M did not make it no they did

they're hosting oh they're hosting oh my bad let's just talk sports guys I mean we're all we're all college baseball guys with you know alma maters that made it

you know like we do every year so actually Auburn knocked out A&M in the SEC tournament I think yeah right okay who's Auburn playing Jeff Milwaukee

is that a beer company yes and also a baseball team. Oh, well, all roads run through Toledo. The Bucks, right? Yes, Milwaukee, but yeah, they didn't play basketball

against. Trey, who you guys playing? Let me see. So Texas A&M, Jeff's favorite school, Lamar. Big Lamar guy. Texas State and USC. That's your region. I'm sorry. University of Southern California.

Yeah, yeah. Thanks. The other USC. The safe one, yeah. Wait, so it's 64 teams, math for Marines. It's 16 regionals of four teams. No, eight. Is it 64 teams total? I'm actually not asking trick questions or trying to make fun of fun of schoolers. 16, yeah. Yeah.

It's 16 regionals of four. Correct. And then super regionals is. I would assume the next round. About four. Because the top two of each go on. Top two and it's double elimination.

Yes. Right? Yeah. So you can lose which is crazy. Yeah. But it's, hey, it's, you know, I kind of like it. Yeah. No, I like it. Yeah. Auburn's got Milwaukee, NC State

and Central Florida in their, in their regional. NC states historically good good program yeah we'll see we'll see should be fun when is when does that kick off this weekend Friday 2 p.m. yeah for my time yeah I'll replace on the 29th

you guys at Zulu time yeah Zulu yeah Zulu okay yeah 20 I only speak in Zulu yeah I don't even know yeah times we get a time hack time, yeah. Oh, do you need to get a time hack? Okay. Go ahead.

Let's actually, should we do a weekly time hack? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so if you're, this is a new segment of the show. We mean to start it. We kind of want to get everyone synced up. Yeah. So we're going to do this on.

As he watched this tape. Tuesdays as we record. Hey, it's fine. It'll, Jordy, sync it up. Sink it up with time. George, sync up. Yep. We're going to come over to one MC every week.

Jeff, make sure Jorny put like a thing like weekly time hack. We're going to just do a time hack. What's the sponsor for this? Oh, that's a good point. Quick, I only have 20 seconds for the next minute changes. Potential sponsor Rolex. Oh, yes.

It's kind of gay. That's a guy. Yeah. Let's do you. What's the name of your host company? What's name of your host, Tony? Kiriyama. They would happily.

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If you're not, you won't. That's true. That's true. Always said that. Oh, man. Yeah, I'm pumped up at the Citadel. It's going to, yeah. A lot of times you get pumped up, be a Citadel fan.

What else we're going to talk about? We could talk about celebrity Marines that are coming back in. Dude. Talk about Boomer's and boomers and MAGA. And then who's...

I don't know this Johnny Joey guy. So I don't either. I guess he's like a Fox News guy. I bet Trey knows him. Trace from Texas. He's not just I can tell by the way. His name is Johnny Joey. Johnny Joey.

You don't know him? I think. Let me double check. Yeah, it's Johnny Joey. I also don't want to take away from his service because I think he's a double amputee. He doesn't pop right up on Wikipedia.

But he's definitely double ampute. My point is this. And Sec War Trump's America. There's a big push. I think the big push is to bring back the folks that left over the vaccine. And I support that. I actually support bringing a bunch of people back. Like, I think Jeff and I are people if you looked at,

like, there was a time in my service where I was like, oh, I'm done. Like, it's over. Like, I literally thought back. that's still going, right? And I would say, Jeff, there's a time on your service. You thought the same thing, right? So, like, I actually really like the initiative of getting people back. But Joey Jones came back at-

Joey-Jones. No, Johnny Joey. Sorry, it's tough. Now, I'm going to throw your mind for a loop even more, Tray. You're thinking I'm kidding. His name is Johnny, Johnny, Joey. Joey Jones. It's true.

Yeah, verified. Jeff, fact check me. I need a second independent check. It's Johnny Joey Jones. Joey Jones. Am I lying to you, Jay? No, you're not lying. And he is missing his legs.

Yeah. Verified. Legs, can't find them. Them legs are gone, yeah. Yeah. I don't know where they were. In any event, Dakota Meyer comes back. Marines, I think,

know. I mean, they don't know. I'm like they know Mattis, but like that generation of Marines know Dakota Myers. I had never heard of this guy. Yeah. Except for Fox. Yeah. Except from Fox News. But it's

interesting. They're promoting these guys promoting is not the right word because promoting would mean he was a gunny but they are advertising these guys as they come back. And I'm super happy they're back.

It's just interesting. There's like a there's like a push. I mean, what I think is happening because I run a business and I think that Sec War is currently running a business is like, oh, if I get some big names that have left to come back, then like the everyday person will come back,

which I think is good. But yeah, I just didn't know if you had seen that. Because it's like all over my feed. No, Jeff, hadn't seen it at all. I hadn't seen it. But until you put that comment in there, yeah. And then like, yeah. They called me.

They go, hey. Now, we're getting, never mind. We don't need money. Oh, is this, Trey Gottlitch? Oh, my man. Sorry, sorry. Oh, is Robert Gowler. It's the third?

Well, we were going to do with the Cajon. Major. We were just looking for a Cajon. We need that good. I would sign up. I would sign up. If I could be a Caged term major, I would sign up. right now. I mean,

Trey, I actually think there's a way to make that happen. Yeah. Yeah, there's like shoe polish. Wait, why is it? There's some Cajun people. I think of white people. Oh,

yeah. You never seen swamp people? I don't. It's funny to me that you guys thought that I was talking about black shoe polish. I was talking about The white shoe polish. You know that white shoebox. That's right.

That's very. You guys. That's on me. You guys. That's on you, Trey. That's us. Yeah.

To think that that's what I meant. I'm going to buy you. So you can shine your shoes. That's why you need them. Because I guarantee your shoes on shining right now. I got to read a couple of comments from last week. But my mom listens to this and is like, Why is Grant keep talking Cajun?

Mom, first of all, it's not race. It's Cajun. It's culture. Second of all, I got to read a message here that was sent to me on Friday morning. I'm sorry, guys, it's in a Citadel thread, and we've had a lot to talk about lately. We're getting close. We're getting close. Almost a Friday. Charlie and fix him post.

Yeah. Just make a Dunkin' Donuts go by. Uh-huh. Thanks, PJ. Oh, man, that looks good. That looks good, PJ. That looks good. Good-looking Duncan.

Sergeant Major. Sometimes I get so excited. Sometimes I can't decide who I like more trash-shick six or the Cajun Sergeant Major. It's definitely the Cajun Sergeant Major because there's two of them. Yeah, that's about all you see. They rate it. They do. As Jeff said, it's a holdover from the Gulf War.

Yeah, go for when you had your one Cajun Sergeant Major that was in charge of the crawfish and the other Cajun Sergeant Major was in charge of the gumbo. I think you made a Cajun Sergeant Major. Yeah, yeah. Any safe rounds, alibis? I guess Saved Down, I finally purchased the Barefoot

Oh, nice. Oh, which one you did? For you. For me. So whoever that lady was at the Arnold that I promised three years ago. We did it.

If you promised me three years ago to buy Stranko plates, today is the day. Yeah. If you listen to us, go by. I remember there. I got to say, I got to say, I felt a little bad, but also felt good.

But we sold a lot of T-shirts last week. I don't know if you guys remember, but I was like, if you listen to the OK podcast and you haven't bought anything in a while, you should go buy a T-shirt. Okay. And then it was like podcast comes on a Friday. And then the weekend goes, I was like, man, why are we selling so many T-shirts? I was like, oh, great. Manipulate, ordered it.

The zeitgeist. So let me tell you right now. This is such a major. If you bought a few t-shirts. You need to go spend $1,000 on a strength cold. If you listen to this podcast and you haven't bought, let's see, four barbells and seven pairs of 45s. If you don't know what a hundred pound plates, then I wonder if you can be a part of this battalion. Hey, good to see you.

There was another person out there that wanted the, the 250 shirt on a squat tee. Agreed. Oh, yeah. 250 shirts happening. Man, Jeff, do you really want me to advertise this? Like, it's funny for you, it creates a lot of work for me. I did post them. No, I don't want you to have to do a lot of work.

All right, here's the deal. I know you're already doing enough. He's too busy on Chow Radar right now. Yeah. I'm telling you, I'm thinking about selling the Stranco and going all in on Chow Radar. So where did you get this business idea? I knew this guy in Texas. He had three daughters under the age of three.

And he said, these are my favorite business barbecue places. So you opened a business based up that? Well, yeah, that was the business. Yeah. Yeah. It's a Chal Radar. Dynamite. The 250 America design is awesome.

I in general want to put everything on a 6.5 ounce 100% cotton t-shirt, which we call it, a shrink, a squat tea. I want to put everything on it. Actually, I do put everything on it. So if I make one for you, the consumer, that's a 50-50, like the shirt I'm wearing now, I make one for me that's a squat tea. So I also have a list of people that I know view the world like me

and also believe that everything should be in 100% cotton six and a half ounce squat tea and whenever I make a t-shirt I make it for them in that side they pay me for it right? This is in a charity but someone emailed me and said for the love of God

please put the 250 shirt I'm a squat tea. I email him back. I said, what size are you? So I've ordered him blanks. He's going to have on a squat tea. This is the part I regret.

Hey, that's called customer service. That's elite customer service. No, I don't regret that part. The regret part is now saying it out loud. And now I'm going to have like 20 emails. So if you email grant, anything you want. Yeah, anything you want. Great won't get it made.

But you got to do it in that cage and such a major voice. And the guy said in the email, okay. And I was like, oh, dude, I got to give this guy the shirt he wants. A little we can leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And a week of leave. Oh, man, what I would do for a week of leave right now. Oh, we can leave in every order.

Every order you make from, uh, Draco, you go on a week of leave. That's what I call him, Sergeant Major. But yeah, so I got the shoes. That was it. Yeah, that's, yeah. That was the shoes. Which ones did you? you get?

I got the no, I got the barefoot. Actually, I think they look like the one Green has. I wear the Ursus. Yeah, ursus. Yeah.

I almost got to have some slip-ons. I'm like, oh, this is pretty cool. I did see the slip-ons. I Yeah, they're all pretty cool. Yeah, they'll look I'm excited about it. We'll see.

I'm excited. I need some deadlifting shoes. Best thing about those shoes. They're great for deadlifting. They held up for a long time. I think I've had mine for three years. And they also travel well as a lifting

shoe and also just as like a shoe. Because they go real flat. Dude, they just like it's crazy. They just lay down. Get all flat,

get up, shoes. No, I'm gonna lay down over here. Who's saying, who's saying up? Up. Oh, yeah. No, that's it. That's all I got.

All right, Jeff. It's pretty good to go. What else we got? I say it's pretty good to go. Oh, SMS broken on, Mac systems due to update is what you're supposed to create.

I'm not important. Next slide. Next slide. I think that might be nothing further for the group. I'm looking at Trey's eyes and he's like push. Nothing further for the group. I was really mad. I was really mad

with it. I was really mad on SMS broken back though, but I'm over it. I do appreciate you coming on on. Sajemedia. Oh, take you. are we bringing this thing down? Is that what we're doing? Is that what we're doing?

Wait for my cue. You got to call my subject Major, Sondon Major. Oh, excuse me, Sondon Major. So, Habits from the Bay, you die hard. Sorry about that. What do they call them in the Army

at Sergeant Major? Is it the same? Sarge. They call them Sarge. Yeah, there's like ones, because all E-9s are Sergeant Major's. One's like the ops. Sergeant Major.

One's a... But they're all sergeant's major? Yeah, I think so. Okay. Okay, cool. I assume you're an Army Sergeant Major. Go ahead and stay down for Atlanta. And so I mean.

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Would there anybody else on the website, on the leaderboard? Anybody else? Jump up there. Oh, man. We need to talk about Fiddy College. I think we're up to 80. Stickers came in today.

So I got cool stickers. I was passing them out. You can fact check me, Jeff. It might be 65, but I feel like it's 69. Is this straight of Hormuzopin.com? No.

Okay. Okay. 61. 61. Okay. I'm sorry. Evangelistic numbers. Yeah, go get on the 50 Cow Challenge.

Anyway, keep going, Trey. I got stickers to mail out. Yeah, you're going to about if you've done it, you're going to get a, well, I want to be really clear for the OK podcast listeners. Just because you do the 50 Cow Challenge doesn't mean that I have your address, which means that we're going to spam you with a sale, but there'll be an option for you to get a sticker.

And if it's not for money, it's going to be for very little money. You're having an option to get a sticker, probably for free. I haven't decided. Anyway, continue, Trey. Bring the same down for Atlanta. Go ahead and get you. Yeah. If you don't have a shirt from the Strength Co yet, as you can see, we are powered by.

Go to yourself, get a shirt down there. If you already have a shirt, get yourself two shirts. If you have one, you have none. So being outside of that, while you're on there, you will see we have our social media accounts that we are very active on. I actually am pretty active.

I can follow there. I know. That's whatever. Yeah, we've always said that. Is anybody listening to us live on X? No, I just looked.

I just looked. It's funny. We have more listeners on X than people are in space. Hey, that's, how are people in space right now? That's a great question. Well, let me look.

Hey, let me. Actually, Jeff, you look up space. I'll look up how many of watching. There's 17 people watch us on X-ray now. Oh, yeah.

Wow. No. How many do you have space? Close, though. 14 people in space. And actually what if? Four moves open or closed?

Oh, gosh, here we go. It's, of course, it's no. Do you think there is no. So P.

You think the 17. PJ, that's a great reel. We hit space. We hit, yeah, PJ, that's a real. It'd be even crazy. 14 of the 17 people are in space listening to us. Are also listening. Well, actually, according to Sec War, if you're in space,

you have to listen to the OK podcast live on X. It was part of the deal brokered with Doge and the OK podcast in Bitcoin. Not to get in the... We don't anything. Not political. Not political. Last thing we got, we were powered by the stream. Still going.

Yeah. This plane has landed. Coach, did I miss anything? Did it great. We'll see you next time.