The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - Ep. 116: FLY FISHIN', CRU LIFTIN' & SOLO DADDING

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

Grant's back from fly fishing in the desert wilderness, bruised up from circus dumbbells at the Strength Co. crew meet-up, and fresh off a sweaty PFT.Tres is closing in on an echo bike deal (Facebook Marketplace, obviously). Jeff is back from leave and energized (according to his wife, who finally started listening). We do the fastest staff brief in show history — nine minutes flat — and nobody got hurt.Also: Tres goes solo dad for 48 hours, takes three girls to Cracker Barrel, changes a diaper on the bathroom floor, and comes out the other side with a new appreciation for stay-at-home moms.Plus Alan Jackson's final concert, Waylon Jennings on vinyl, the America 250 plate drops July 4th, and Tres is buying a helmet for the Gamecocks. College football season is coming.Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:⁠https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ks⁠Check out BW Tax: ⁠https://www.bwtaxllc.com⁠BUY A FOOTBALL HELMET:⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.thestrength.co/mrhelmet/?utm_source=The+Okay+Podcast&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Okay_Pod⁠Timestamps:00:00 - Intro01:45 - Staff Brief12:50 - Tres Lifting Update18:59 - PFT Anxiety27:10 - Massenomics Cru Circus Dumbbell Lifting36:12 - Moving Across Country39:34 - 15lb Plate44:31 - Fly Fishing Trip01:03:32 - Solo Dadding01:11:24 - Alan Jackson01:15:14 - Saved Rounds

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We're on an expedited episode. Hello, and welcome back to episode 116 of the OK podcast. Power by the Stranko. I'm your host, Grant Broji. And we're recording live from the Coast of Mesa Gym, joined in studio. This is an expedited version. If you're listening, you think that you're on 2X speed, you're actually not on 2x speed. This is just that speed at which we're going to do the podcast night.

And if you listen to live, if you're not on YouTube, you're an idiot. Like we've always said, we've always said that and never not said that. And joining me in studio is Mr. Jeff Beggy, Jeff Bougier, Jeff Bege, whatever you would call him, currently not in the drilling status. And also joining us is Mr. Tray, Robert T, Tray, Gottlach, Gautil, your third. His parents call him T-R-E-S for you types. And he's joining us from Odessa, Texas. We're not even going to look it up because we know that's where he's from.

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It's going to make him talk really fast. I don't know how much about it. Bro, that was record time. That was really good. Okay, gentlemen, gentlemen, eddies, eddies, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, sidebars to a minimum, as we all know, that's one of the ROEs for this meeting,

rules of engagement for the meeting. We always like to establish those because it's a meeting. and obviously they need rules of engagement. But okay, with that, let's take it over to the S-1. Let's talk about the numbers. I hope that they're bumping. Are they bumping? Sorry, to S-1.

Yeah, numbers are bumping. Or park cards good. Okay. Nothing for the group. Okay, good. Hey, thanks. Great to see you back from all that leave. The Cajun Sergeant Major gave you.

Really good to have you back here. Yeah, sir, yeah, I got yelled out. I'm dipping out tomorrow, actually, for some more leave, but I wanted to come in from the staff brief. Okay. Hey, this is John, Sergeant Major. I just want to say that. My wife was done listen to the podcast this

morning when she was driving to the dentist office. And she said, hey, that three guy, he seemed to be energized after three weeks off. When are you going to get three weeks off when I said, maybe I'd never get three weeks off, but that's what happens when I be giving out to leave. It's a real conversation.

Yeah, I don't know if it was three weeks off of podcasting. Hey, love What you do? You never work a day in your life. Yeah. Heck of a vacation. Yeah, let me tell you.

Let me tell you. I got a terrible travel agent if that's a vacation. Okay. S2. S2, let's see what you got. S-Trash 5. Sorry, Major. Could you keep the sidebars to a minimum? No, he is.

Look, tiger. Go, Tiger. So, this to S2. Just so. I'm on vacation. Every single day. because I love my occupation. Hey, hey, hey.

If you don't like your life, then you should go and check. Sorry. Sorry about that sidebar that's kind of popped in there out of nowhere. It's sounding an AI song. I was just informed the straight of hor moves is still closed. It is not open. This is Trash Five. Actually, the way we answer that, is the straight of hormoos open?

It's a yes or no question. Oh, no is the answer. There you go. Good job. A, well done. Thank you, sir. That's all up for the group, sir. Yeah, good brief. Good brief. Okay. As three operations, you know what? Nothing for the group. Nothing for the group. Just keep picking up trash. That's all we got to do. Kicking it to the four. Oh, four shop. What do we got? What do we got?

That you, Dr. I'm all the shops today, baby. Let me see the four. Yeah, yes, sir. Our gentleman, what are I call y'all? fellow majors. I appreciate the feel great humor, but let's keep some decorum and professionalism. All right. We don't want to turn in the MAGA. I'm just a dirty old four, sir. I apologize. I appreciate what you do.

Yes, sir. Yeah, I pretty much Fraser will come down the pipe here in the next three to five years. Dumpsters, I believe, are still at 100%. It's a miracle. Lids are all on the dumpsters. green and blue dumpsters all online. Love to see it. All right. It's a lot for the group.

Click one save round for the four. This is three. Oh, yeah. What's that, brother? Oh, brother. Hey, great brief. Brother, really appreciate it. By the way, brother, this is trash five.

You guys got time this weekend. You guys want to come over, crush my PAs. Come out of the house. Kitchen six. She'll be cooking up, you know, whatever she cooks up. But come over, get the grill going. You know, we could look up some barbecue recipes. Oh, dude.

Yeah. It's Sergeant Major over him. You want to fight tag along with that? Bringing them some gumble. This is just a major thing. Sorry, sorry. It's actually an officer thing. Oh, but if I bring you something with me, then I might change your mind there.

Sergeant Major, do you even know what IPA stands for? It sounds like it stands for something down in the bayou. Well, I thought we can leave if you get me one. well sorry if you're not even like that actually yeah just come on just uh yeah come in when you won't do okay come in when you won't too that's what i did so okay could you uh not bring the gala sergeant major uh yeah no no i'm not that sound of major he's all about them moose stashies okay yeah sorry about that gentleman i was told to keep sideballs to a minimum that's all after the group thank you sir yes sir major we'll see saturday okay i can't wait so i'm so good

side of a go tiger. A good tiger. Yeah, we were doing so good. Hey, where's the sergeant major got to go? He just derails. Okay. Yeah, I forgot my question. Good afternoon, sir.

This don't be. God, Sergeant Major. I feel like we don't be doing a staff briefer too dang fast. I just want to say if, if you be busy this weekend, we be having church of us on Sunday. zero way and it's not a creole it's the gala service and we'd be having shrimp gumbo for communion so come on my oh that's interesting um hey shut up shut up cajans sergeant major

you're over there preface of your sergeant major even here doing a voodoo over here take it to the african village These sergeant majors. Sargent's major, always debrief. Out of control. Good stuff. Good stuff. Let's get this back on the rails here. S6, do you have anything?

Nothing for the record. Oh, wait, great brief. Great brief. Wow. Okay. Then I guess you go over to our... Outlying stations. Outlying stations.

I got to pull them up. You got them up? Got them up. Up. Who's saying up? Who's saying up? Chaplain checking in. I've been out of the field last week due to paternity leave,

but I did check in with Cajun Chapin, chaplain, who was covering for me in my absence. He assured me that the numbers were in fact still bumping. He did mention something about having a jambal eye on Jesus Bible study and say that would leave Marines, mission ready, and spirit fed. If that's something you were near us, said, please get with him offline. Man should not live on bread alone,

but on everywhere that comes to the mouth of God, Matthew 4, 4, NASB, 1995. even though I love a good pot of jambalaya let's remember that nothing will truly fill us up for the day i got to read this lesson it's different even though i love a good pot of jamela i let's remember that nothing that truly fills up daily battle like the word of the lord hold fast to the word and let it sustain you nothing else for the group over over um love the kajun's chaplain cage and chaplain great chaplain uh we got mike kelly brother we are not professional but are simply unbiased and honest email farmers.

That's it for outlying stations. And this is a record time. Nine minutes and 13 seconds, staff brief over. Goodness gracious. All right. Well, I guess it frees up a lot of time for everyone to go back to their. Sir, this is the MO. I just wanted to say that medical readiness is actually at 4%.

And everyone needs to do their EPAHA. There should be a link in their MOL. And if they could do that by today at 1600, sorry, I still think in civilian time that we can be good. Nothing further for the group. Great addition. Thanks. It's very accurate for an MOT.

Just come in randomly. Just come in randomly, the one staff brief she makes. We're like everyone's walking out. Yeah. Gentlemen. Oh, actually, if everyone can just go ahead and just take their seats. That's a record. 10-minute staff brief to include intro.

I'm a little sad. We didn't look up a city in Texas. It's one of my favorite parts of the show. Oh, we could. Mr. Biggie Buge message and said that he was on a tight timeline. And there was two options. There was either a one-hour-long staff brief or an abbreviated staff brief. We went with the last.

matter. Much to my... Just the Tray's dismayed. Yeah. Trey was the most disappointed. Man, I love this. Stap brief. He really wanted a 59 minutes to have brief. We'll get into the topics in a second. I do want to say,

had some Massanomics crew members in here Saturday, which I'm sure we'll talk about. But one of the guys is a master sergeant or master sergeant equivalent in the active duty guard. Oh, a buck sergeant.

Yeah, a buck sergeant. Oh, you know, my books are. Yeah. And he said, yep, every time I listen to that staff brief, I think, yep, that's what I do three times a week or whatever his frequency was. And we had some good belly laugh because he's like, oh, it's exactly right. And we were with some guys that were non-military types. And they were like, is that really what it's like?

And it's like, yep, that's exactly what it's like. And they're like, so you guys hate it. Why do you just do it every week? It's like, well, it's, it's fun when it's funny. Yeah. It's just not fun when it's supposed to be serious. And you're like, oh, gosh, this is, someone's actually briefing this right now. Nothing further for the group.

Thank you. All right. All right. Go mudhands. Let's, yeah, obviously, go mudheds. I got my runner, I got my runner up hat on. Oh, look at that. If you're not watching on YouTube, one, you're an idiot.

And two, you don't see the Citadel, number two baseball team in the country. Yeah, so kind of champions. Yeah, science. Hell yeah. Yeah, science. Trust the science. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, always.

Yeah. Always. Dr. Fauci over here. Yeah, thank you. Oh, yeah. Thank God for him. Yeah, I know, right? Well, we'd do without him, you know.

Probably be dead. Oh, we would all be dead. We would all be dead from Corona. There'd be no strength coat plates. Dr. Fauci's single. handily basically made strangle plates. True. It inspired fear into Americans and

fear brings iron. Fear does bring iron. That is a good shirt. I don't realize that. Fear brings iron. Yeah. Thank you, Dr. Fauci for my strength coat plates. Without you. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Trust sticker with every order. Oh, man, oh man.

Okay. Abraviated podcasts. We're doing great so far. Trey, lifting updates. You've been hitting the weights? I know you've been a little busy with your current or... I guess the latest update. I am in line. I've in contact with somebody who owns a rogue echo bike.

Oh, whoa. Oh, he who shall not be named Echo bike. Yeah, okay, I'm sorry. Just an undisclosed echo bike. Yeah, a brand doesn't matter. Brand doesn't matter. Yeah. Probably a Dyson.

Yeah. A Dyson Echo bike? Yeah. Yeah. So, when you hear back, we're in negotiations, should be closing here pretty soon. Okay. What platform you buy it on?

Serious question. I am discussing this through Abby's Facebook marketplace. Excellent. Okay, good. As long as it's your wife's marketplace. Love good marketplace. I say, you know, she's a Proverbs 31 woman. She, you know, she sells on them

Facebook marketplace. Yeah. Yeah. I've always said. Yeah. So, hopefully you're pretty soon. I know the stickers have gotten out, but better like than ever.

Yeah. Jeff got one from the Cajun Sergeant Major. Oh, the Gallus Sergeant Major. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He can be in charge of man. He's right to Handerin' notes. It's standard notes. Yeah.

It was really good. I got to say, you know, my mom listens. As of today, I guess my wife listens because she said that Jeff sounded super energized after three weeks off. And I said, and I said, no, I think Trey and I were energized and Jeff was back. Jeff was just himself. I didn't want to give Jeff any credit. But I guess my wife listens as well.

But I will say I've been getting not me. my buddy, I guess me. My buddy's doing marine stuff. Yeah, me. There's been a lot of like customer service emails from the Strength Co. And I know we power the podcast, but I didn't think the crossover. And they just, they address the customer service team as the Cajun Sergeant Major. And there's a guy doing a drop-in.

So we do drop-ins at the gym. If you go to Jims.combeats.com, that's what the Costa Mason's Gym in SouthKline, Jim are on. And if you're ever in Southern California, I need a place to lift. I should totally come through the gym. It's a cool spot sitting at it right now. And, you know, I call it an IQ test. If you have the capability to create an account, sign the waiver, give me $25. If all those things happen, I get a text that say, hey, someone just gave you $25 and wants to work out.

And then we send you the code to the gym. And so I had an individual that was texting at the end of my fly fishing journey. trying to get into the gym and then we'll you can't sign up within five minutes of the next time slot like you have to it has to be like we're not asking for much

we're asking for six minutes of lead time and so the person's like hey I'm at the gym and I can't get in and I don't want to disparage the person at all because they're a listener of the podcast as I now know and and I'm thinking like okay like all you got to do is like

pay the money online and we'll send you the code and it's like I was going to sign up earlier but my daughter's in a water polo tournament, which is why I'm in town. I didn't know if I'd be done in time. I'm at the gym now. And so I reply, you know, it's a text to the gym number and just say, hey, go ahead and check out and we'll send you the thing.

So the guy passes the IQ test. He checks out. I send him the code and I say, hey, you got about an hour until a class starts. If the class isn't full, like work out plenty of time, but if the class is full, you know, you'll have to leave. and it's about 30 minutes later the guy says oh yeah the coach is here he's got six there's eight power racks in the strinkgo cost of mese he's got he's got six so i'm gonna have plenty of time thanks so much for getting me in i was really hoping in to run into the cajian sergeant major and and i just thought i was going to be like rando right uh because we get you know we probably get six randos a month that come through and i said wow the cage and sergeant major will be there tomorrow at 815 and he was like oh great if my daughter's water polo tournament works out, I'm going to stop by. And, yeah, anyway.

So a lot of people like the Cajun Sergeant Major. I like the Cajun Sergeant Major personally. And the Marine Court, we just call them Sergeant's Major. But are the OK podcast? We call them Cajun Sergeant Major. Well, it's a special thing. Unless he's not a listener and just was actually just waiting for some Cajun Sergeant Major. I mean, can you imagine?

What would the odds of that be? Can you imagine pushing a bunch of chow and then just, or I, excuse me, pushing a bunch of weights and then just pushing a bunch of Creole gumbo, like Cajun Sartimer Major. He said, hey, they had recruit. You aren't leaving yet? No, not yet. A lot of comments about weeks of leave, too. Sarat Major, how much leave do you have at your discretion? Is this like an under-Secwar?

Ask no questions, get no lie, sir. That's what I'm going to say about that. Never not said that. Never not said that, sir. The expedited episode. I love the Kijin Sergeant Major. He's my favorite.

I feel that's sort of good. Well, okay, so, Trey, you're closing in on the deal with Echo Bike. You've been pushing any iron and you're lifting any of those strength coat plates you got? Yeah, you know, just still kind of trying to do something at least once a day. Nice. Nothing really too exciting me. Did you do anything today? No, I'm not yet.

Yeah, well, there's still got time. 24 hours in a day, maybe. Yeah, still got time. All right. Hey, love it, love it. Well, then this is kind of like, I feel like it's a natural segue into some lifting slash fitness adjacent talk for Grant. You had the PFT, it was all downhill, right?

All downhill. Oh, baby. Have you run the PFT on Del Mar? Yes. In probably like 20. Where'd you start? It's been a while. Oh, gosh.

It's been a while. It was kind of in like one of those parking lots kind of near like where the RVs are or something like that. Right next to the porter crappers? I don't remember there being any port of John. there. I remember running one on Del Mar, and I think it would have been like 2014. And I feel like we started near

Sharkies and ran like the main road down towards the PX, kind of down by the Corpus course. This one was different. This one started in a parking lot, kind of by the RVs, by boat landing. And you ran out and kind of like around the reservoir

and then down by the condos. like, you know, like where you can go stay. Okay. Yeah, you kind of stay close to the water. You run around this reservoir, then you stay along the beach and it's a mountain back. Yeah, no, I ran the PFT. People on X have been,

we've got to get back to our X segments. They've been telling me how bad my runtime was. I posted a photo of me and Lieutenant Colonel Lowen by the pull-up bars, and I just said something. Like, for those interested, 20 pull-ups, 3-45 plank, and, you know, 24-30. I don't even remember what I ran. Okay.

And people like, that run time sucks. And I'm like, well, you know, combat, yeah, I don't care. It's a first class. It's a 263, but it is just funny. I'll take this two different ways. First way is if you run eight minute and 10 second miles, eight minutes and second miles, that how you'd say it? Yeah, if you run those in the like real world,

people like, oh, you're a pretty good. She's pretty good. For other than the Marine Corps, they're like, whoa, when you said Max, Max, relax, relax. I didn't know it was relaxed. And I was like, relax, hey, brother, let me tell you something. That was not relaxed. That could have easily been a 27-minute, three-mile.

But so there's that part. But the bigger part that I wanted to talk to and the reason I put it in the notes or updated my slide was, there is something about the PFT and I think we've touched on on the pod before but it's worth touching on every year

it's like man I can't sleep the night before it is you know I'm supposed to run it it was going to be at 06 and so I'm all prepped to go to bed early and then the guy that's facilitating it or I'm hopping in on another unit's PFT they're like hey

it's actually at 11 tomorrow and I'm like oh sweet perfect that sounds great And then I get down there and it's like, well, it's at 11 because I'm a lieutenant colonel. And I was stuck in a planning meeting until 2,300 last night. So I told my three shop, like, I'm not running it at 06. I'm running it on 11. And this other major is coming with it.

And that person was Matt Lohen, who's a friend of the podcast. So it was just two people's, two sergeants running a PFT for a major and a lieutenant colonel. And so I text him on the way down. He's like, hey, meet me here at 11. And I sent him a screenshot. I'm going to arrive at 1055. I'm a TOT guy. And I said, man, why do I feel like I want to puke?

And then he's like, dude, I woke up at 4 o'clock, haven't been able to sleep. And this is a lieutenant colonel. And I mean, golly, gee whiz. I'm a major. So is Jeff. It's like, I've run this thing so many times. But it is, it just, they put you in. Like, I don't even know how to explain it.

It just puts you in knots every time. And then you do it. And was that my best PFT? Absolutely not. For those that listen to like how to do well for the PFT, this isn't a year to listen to me. Okay. Like I've done much better on the runtime. I mean, I max the other two events out.

But man, I think it's because when you're getting selected to be an officer and I'll need feedback. Because, Trey, you were a rotsie, right? I was. Yeah. Okay, and Jeff, you're OCC like me. OCC, be like me. That's what they say. I think it is, there's so much put on that.

It's the first thing that the guy recruiting you is like, you got to get your BFT up or you're not. I don't know what it is, but like I'm on, uh, uh, end of tour fit rep with a long period of non-availability. Like I'm literally like, I'm not going to be.

if I ran a second class, I'm sure someone would mark me more negatively. But like this PFT is not like, it's not a big part of my evaluation. You know what I mean? Like it's like, it's like this one doesn't really matter. Like you got to do it.

And man, I was, I was so paranoid about that thing. Diana was making fun of me. She was like, for you non-brogy text, that's Kitchen Six. She was like,

you freak out about this every year. And then you just go and do fine. And yeah, that's my thoughts. That's how it always goes. You got to have the anxiety and the yeah, the freak out. Trey, do you feel that way? Like when you're doing PFTs were you like

kind of stressing, not stressing it, but like would it kind of mess with you? No, I mean, I was young enough to where I was always confident that I was going to get, I was going to do fine. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? Ray, way to not relate to it.

I was like, I've never been like, worried about not doing well. That was the one thing when I was like a 22, 23 year old second lieutenant, man, that I was actually in shape and didn't worry about. Yeah, no, it never really stressed me. I think as I got older and I think it would mean more to like, you know, as like a lieutenant colonel, like I know you run a first class, as you get older, it might be more.

Definitely, I would probably be sweating, sweating more now. But when I was a second lieutenant now, I was pretty good at it. So I do, I do not relate to that. Okay, fair enough. No, next topic. I still even, like, when I was, you know, like, 280, 290 guy, I was like, still like, oh, my gosh. Like, this is, it was the same. When I would run a 285, I'd be like, 290.

You know what, you know what it was? It was more of once I got the. pull-ups. I would sweat the pull-ups. And then once I would get 20, if I could get 20 pull-ups, I'd be like, okay, rest of this is bad. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because it was crunches after that at that,

at that time. Yeah, and then crunches just like, duh. Crunches were harder for me than planks. Really? Dude. I like, I don't know if it's because I squat and deadlift's heavy. Oh, no, no, no. But, yeah, no.

But I just mean, like, planks. Like I can just like I never train it and I do it in crunches. Dude, I'd have to like practice crunch. I would I would have to like train the crunches way more. Yeah, I feel like. The plank. I mean, I did nothing. I just was like, all right.

I'm just like I have to. I just. It's it's completely mental. Yeah. You go, well, I just don't drop. That's okay. Don't stop. Come in when you won't, dude.

All right. So PFT in the book. always a great feeling. And then you rolled right into CFT training with some circus dumbbells it looked like with some cute folks. I'm not even gonna, I'm gonna take your joke and then come back to the circus dumbbells.

I literally was thinking because you know, my buddy's going to school, you're going to school. I was like, I should do a CFT before I move on July 8th. Have you ever done them back to back? No, but I did this one, June 25th. So five days with me

within the max. and I'm like, I might do a CFT next week. I've done it pretty close. I've done it once almost back to back. Wow. It was the best thing. You just knock them up, everything out. Then you're done until Christmas.

Yeah. Yeah, I feel like one year, I think I did like a May or June PFT, like an early June PFT. And then at Engelco, they were like, everyone's going to run a CFT after like the July 4th, like 96 or something like that. That must have been the sergeant. Major. Everyone was so mad.

But, like, you did it, and it was done, you're like, oh, I'm so glad that's over. Yeah. Well, CFT... I'm sorry, go ahead, Trey. I was saying, I remember, like, PFT seasons. I would always try to run one, like, right when it started. And then if I didn't like it, then I would, you know,

try, I would try to schedule another one or hop on another one that somebody was doing. Yeah. Yeah. And so I would always do two, but yeah. Big one and done guy. One and done. Get it over. Well, if you wait until June 25th, you don't really have any other.

You don't really have a choice. Well, I'm done. That's the way to do it. Yeah, so the Massonomics Discord, we plugged on here a few times. You'd be a supporting member with Massonomics. It's kind of like the Slack channel, except a lot cheaper because we provide expert coaching. And Massonomics is more about the vibes. But anyway, I'm in a thread.

Discord's a lot of stimulation for me, and I'm a stimulation guy, but there's a lot to unpack there. But anyway, I'm in a thread that's SoCal, and I saw there was a meetup that had occurred. I said, let's do the next one at my gym. So we threw it on the calendar. And if there's one thing that wives like right before, you know, maybe like 10 days before you move and you got to pack your house and your wife's pregnant and got a toddler, they love like, hey, babe, I got a gym. meet up today that I got to go to. They love that. Perfect. Yeah, do that for your marriage.

It'll be great for you. So we had a meet up here. So I coach a class 815 to 10. I told the guys come at 10. And I thought maybe we'd do some squats and bounce. Well, in come the farmers carry handles. In comes the circus dumbbell. And comes the

crash pad. In comes the axle bar. Which I wouldn't have it any other. way. And so circus dumbbell, all these guys are competing the Lift Hard Live Easy Classic, which is in Aberdeen, South Dakota. And they're all doing the circus dumbbell training. I've never done a circus dumbbell. If you don't know what a circus dumbbell is, think about the circus and then think about a dumbbell. Oh, okay. I get it. Yeah. Yeah. And so that thing's 85 pounds. Dude, it, I don't, I feel bad. Big and awkward. Yeah. These guys listen to the podcast. I don't

want them to know but i'm i'm all bruised up like that thing uh no not in a bad way but that thing uh kicked my arse uh yeah so i i think i got up to 115 dang we made a youtube video while we were doing it so i i think the heaviest it went to the day was 1 30 and i think i got 1 15 on my right side but no it was it was difficult then there's definitely and and the guys were laughing at me because i guess i was strict pressing it like i was i was dipping in driving, but I wasn't like doing it efficiently, you know, like going to clean and jerk. Yeah. And so, but yeah, no, it was, it was a, it was a good time.

We had, uh, Andrew, David, uh, and big mofo, uh, who has a name? I wrote it down. I'm Discord. It's just big mofo. But it's just big mofo. That's, that's all you need to know. Big mofo. That's your mess on type.

Aaron, Aaron. Yeah. Uh, so yeah. No, it was cool. They were coaching me up. on where to look, where to do stuff. And yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah, so I don't know.

I probably did 30 wraps. And I'll tell you what, man, Sunday morning when I sat down in church, I was, I was sore. Like my traps hurt. My arm was all like puffy on both sides. My wife was like, what happened? I was like, what was just saying? Called a circus dumbbell. And she's like, why?

Yeah, right. Grant's in a fight club. Yeah, that's actually. Boytime. Yeah. Yeah, for, and we all know what it is, but like, if you want to explain what a circus dumbbell is, that's cool too. But like, everyone knows what it is. Yeah, so like picture the circus.

Okay. And then add a dumbbell. Is it the one with the ball at the end of it? Come in when you won't do. Sometimes they are. That's what I did. This one is like, it looks like if you took, all right. So in the gym, we have nitro cold brew coffee.

Nitro cold brew coffee is a five gallon keg. There's a coffee front on top. It always has 11 cents. It's never had more than 11 cents. It's just 11 cents a lot of times. I checked it tonight when I came in. It's just always empty. But there was actually a guy from the crew meetup that said he was drinking nitro coffee

while we're doing the circus stubbells. I'm going to get back to the keg and make it make sense in a second. And he goes, hey, so I kind of want to put money in here. but I don't want to ruin the bit. And I go, brother, it's not a bit. Like, we want money. He's like, yeah, but on the podcast, you talk about how it's always empty. I'm like, yeah, because I want people to put money in it.

I'll talk about it. Yeah. In any event, if you took a five-gallon small keg, cut it in half, then flipped them outboard and then welded a handle in the middle, that's about what we'll watch it. And then on the inside of the keg, if you put a two-inch shaft, and then, yeah, that's all you need, two inches, two inches in diameter. And then you can load plates on it.

But it's just a really awkward. I mean, I won't say really awkward. It was for me because I'd never done it before, but it's just, it's like, it's way oversized. So, yeah. Yeah, it's way oversized. Yeah. Left side was way hard.

Oh, kind of like a circus. Yeah. So picture. You should have said that at the beginning. Yeah, you should have said that. I should have left the circus dumbbell. Yeah. Okay.

I get it. So, wow. Wow. Actually, that keg was actually pretty accurate. Pretty small. Yeah. Five-gallon keg, cut it in half, turn it outboard, weld the middle, add a two-in-shaft. You're done.

You're done. Good stuff. Yeah, we had a good time, though. So we did a bunch of circus stuff, filmed a bunch of stuff, it would be YouTube. By the time you hear this video, go check out the Strength Co YouTube, who were powered by, and there'll be a fun little lifting blog from it.

But then the guys had to Axel Press, and they had to do farmer scares. And I'm like, hey, guys, I'm moving. My wife's Latina. I would like to see tomorrow. Like, I got to go. So I left around 12.30. and I think they stayed for a couple more hours and got the workout.

That was a good time. So if you're in SoCal, you should join up. I mean, those guys, if you put pin to paper, let's say they're on a LaCroy membership of Massonomics Discord. That is $3 a month. Very manageable. Let's say there's 10 months in a year because 12 would make the math harder. That would be $30 a year. 12 months, 36.

Plus two bonus months. Yeah, yeah. 36 months. So it costs 36 months to be a member, but you got to live for free at the Strenco, which costs $25 for a drop-in. Wow. So it costs you $9. That's putting money back in your pocket. Is that $9?11, $36, $25, $11. $11. This is a girl math kind of thing right here. This is, this is, this is, you really can't afford not to be a crew member. BW would approve this number crunching right here. Oh, he would. And it's a tax right off.

Oh, yeah. Work trip. Yeah, so work trip. Which means it's free. Yeah. Yeah. Right it off. So you ducked out of farmers' carries because you're moving.

I feel like that's pretty much all moving is. Yeah. I mean, basically, you got your workout in for the day. Are we going to go straight into moving? Yeah, obviously. Yeah, I should like me. Love moving. It's the best.

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Oh, gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grant, that's scary. Don't do that, man. Okay. Next slide. Yeah, move it. Push.

Next slide. A lot of slides this week. I think we'll have to push. the college football bubble selection thing to next week because I feel like I'm going to spend some time on that.

I did want to, okay, I know the 35 pound plate is kind of like widely regarded as a frivolous plate to have in the collection, but the 15 pound plate is way more pointless

and, wow, does the gym I have, the gym I go to have a lot of them. It is unbelievable. So Strength Co. You need to make a 15 pound plate. Bumper? Yeah, they're all bumpers. Yeah, they're bumpers. So you want it? You want it

bumper? No, I want, I want iron one. Do you want a full tech market? Oh, yes. Definitely full day. Yeah. Yeah. I want that they to be paper thin. Hang on. Hang on, hang on. Yeah. Hello, I'm calling for the Titan of Industry. Yes. I have a very obscure idea

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Yeah, he's still on this. It's, it's the dumbest plate ever. And they literally have, like, 50 of them. Wait, why do you just, why do you hate it so much? So you want to know why I like the 15 pound plate? Why do you like the 15 pound plate? Do you make a bumper a 15 pound plate? I want to. No.

Because the problem with the tins. I can. I see where you're going. Stability, right? Like, you need more mass. Mass moves mass. Mass. I always said that. Never not said that. The 10, it's tough to make a sturdy 10. There's not one. And I mean, there's the strength.

Well, I mean, there's the strength. Well, I mean, right, right, right. No, no, no. But even those, it's, you know, the problem with the tens is the folks that need the tens are not very strong, which means they can't go from 65 to 95. True. And the tens on their own are fine. But as soon as you put more than 10 pounds on top of. of the rubber 10, you start to get the flex and the bend and the 10.

And so 15s is just a little bit thicker. But no, the number's all jacked up. I mean, I guess you got, yeah, it's tough. It's tough for running business. Yeah. Just go ahead. You should start just adding. You should make one, two, a three, a four, a five, a six, seven, eight, ten,

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20. 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 25. You should make all those plates. Jeff, I hadn't thought of that. You should do that. Think you could think how much possible that would be. Trey, imagine a hose in every diameter possible. Every diameter.

I already had that. Oh, I forgot. Does the street code not have that? I forgot that you're the CEO of a hose company. Sometimes I forget. I love pitching ideas to the Strength Co. Yeah, me too. Hey, now, LPD 2-2, but it's called the USS Strength Co.

Hey, Grant, I bet you don't think about your own business at all. Let me tell you here's some ideas that I have, I thought of in 30 seconds. Why don't you do that, Grant? That's my favorite. Well, let's let's sit here over to a better topic. Let's hear about this fly fishing trip. Hey, oh! I don't even know where to go.

So what, you went on Friday? Is that when you went? Friday. Friday. Friday. Is it a new, was this a new spot or was it a whole spot? I've been once before. I've been once before.

I went with a guide. I'm a big guy. This one where you met him at a gas station? That one. And so, and we went in a Subaru. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And my big question was, could I make it down the hill?

or not, right? So I only went once and I'm with the guide and the guide's being all secretive so I can't take photos. And so my assumption was that my long bed Chevy, Black Beauty, couldn't make it down. So the truck we talked about last week, Tacoma 2010 extended cab, jacked up, no rear shocks, got her running, a couple sensors, couple batteries. I just said I'm going to go for it. And I'll put it to you this way.

And this is, this is YOLO vibes. I hate seeing vibes. I just said it. Damn, I'm the worst. But this is YOLO. Energy. I brought my Starlink. I brought a thing that you plug to the positive and negative terminals

and then gives you a 120 volt to power the Starlink. And I brought two MREs. Now, you can imagine the odds of me. You can't imagine the odds of me eating an MRE. They're low. Those meals are ready to eat. What that means is there was like a real thought in my mind of like, I go down, a truck does not come up, and like I need help.

That's why I brought a Starlink in MREs. But I went with my buddy Ray, a long time listening to the podcast. Nice. We met at the warehouse around 05, had some coffee. I strapped a bunch of dumbbells in the back of the truck because there's no shocks, just leaf springs, so it wasn't so bouncy. Road out an hour and a half to the top of the trail. And then it took us about 30 minutes to get down to the creek.

We're going down. And I didn't bet Ray any money, but he had asked me, are we going to see anyone? I said, oh, no. But I thought in my mind, like, oh, I could bet him $1,000. Like, there's no way we see anybody. We're going down. Bro, there's a Chevy, Tahoe, Z-71 in front of us.

And I'm riding this truck and Ray's a retired firefighter. And I'm a little worried, you know, he's 60. I'm a little worried that, like, he's going to be like, hey, I did fire service for 30 years not to fall off a mountain with you, right? Like I was like as like I was Lord. I was wrong. He was like totally down. Like he I think he wanted to fall off the mountain.

Like he he was zero percent scared. And so this Tahoe is there and I'm like man, I can't believe it. It's just switchbacks like switchbacks switch backs. Switch backs. You're kind of going up, you're going down. You're ultimately going down to the creek bed. But it's really switchy. And so we see this Tahoe and bro, I'm driving as conservative as I've ever driven.

Right. Like I'm, I'm in. my brother-in-law's truck when she's registered but it has fake plates on it that belong to me. So it's street legal but the plates on it are not

the street legal plates, right? The plates on it are so I don't get pulled over and I'm saying this on a podcast. We call that which is probably illegal. Yeah. No, no, no, but like if you got pulled over and you ran the truck, it'd be like, oh, you're legal. But but like the idea of the plates that were on the truck was the Cajun's Art Major

gets it. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going And we see this Tahoe, and I'm in shock. I can't believe there's anyone out there. And I won't even tell anyone where this spot is. And so the Tahoe then pulls over. And it pulls over at a lookout, which there's only two. I counted, I was keeping copious notes. We're working on a site called Fish Radar.

It's going to be where to fly fish. It's going to be a very expensive paywall because we don't want to let you on. Fish radar coming soon. So they pull over at the lookout. And I say to Ray, I said, well, they've got to be fly fishermen. Like, why else would someone drive way out here to the crackheadville and then go down this mountain? Guy gets out. He's got his gay fishing hat on.

And I'm just like, nerd alert. And he's like, hey, yeah, do you know if the road's trafficable since the Christmas flood? And I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's good. I've been down there one time in someone else's car last March. And he's like, okay, we're in the family vehicle today. You guys look like you know what you're doing. And I'm like, oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And so there was a little fishing truck hierarchy there, like raised up, trucks dirty. So he said, we're going to let you guys first. Like, oh, you want me to play through? I'm a golfer. I get it. So I go through. We get down to the bottom. Right at the bottom, there's a big, like,

river, a river runs through it, you might say, and we cross and then we park and we're setting up our lines and here comes the Tahoe and they made it all the way down. Good on. And then they tried to cross the river and they couldn't cross the river. And they had to back up and I was like, yeah, I got the better fly fishing truck here than you guys. So then they came, there was big like, where are you going to fish?

And I'm like, well, where are you going to fish? And they're like, oh, Buck Falls. And I'm like, oh, yeah, Buck Falls. Yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah, you guys go up there. I'm thinking, like, I'm just going to fish right where I know. So we just, we fish the first stretch there, got in the water. I think I caught a fish in the first 20 minutes.

Nice. Which just takes all the pressure off. Yep. And I was going to bring my, I only have one net. I'm a novice fly fisherman. I only have one net. And Ray was making fun of me because he can't bring that net. And I was like, well, like when I catch a fish,

fish, it's like a calamity, because I have to, like, photograph it or no one will believe that I actually caught a fish. And if I don't have a net, he's like, yeah, but that net's huge. We're like creek fishing. And I'm like, yeah, but. Yeah, shut up. Shut up, Ray. Okay, Ray, I won't bring the net. So the first fish, don't judge my net, Ray. I get it. I strip her in. She's about maybe eight inches long. Caught her on a Patagonia pheasant tail. Hey, love it. And the dry. I strip her in. And I, I wet my hands. You know, I'm a conservationist. Right.

I'm not in a liberal gay way, just in a normal way. And I, I grab the fish and then I go to take the fly out. But as I'm doing that, I was dry dropping at the time. And so like the weight and the nymph below gets like wrapped around the fish. So then I'm like trying to like get it out. I get it out. And then I'm like, I got to get my phone. And I go to grab my phone and the fish just squirms out of my hands.

And I'm like, man, I knew I should have. about my net. I'm probably not going to catch another fish. No one's going to believe I caught a fish. But an hour later, maybe 30 minutes I'm going. And the water was a little shallow. Last time I fished it was in March. There was still snow in the mountains. It wasn't snow this time. So the water was down. It was super clear. So you could almost like know where the fish were. And I don't mean that like I'm any kind of expert. But it's like you look at the creek and you're like, oh, the shade covers that part of the creek. And it looks like it's deeper over there. I bet the fish are there.

Bam, fish on. So I catch the next one. I'm able to take a photo of it, which was great. Ray caught one. Probably about 10, 12 incher. Pretty nice trout. It was actually...

Is Ray pretty avid? Is he avid fly fishing? He's retired. So yes. Yeah. The answer's yes. That's, yeah. Yeah, he goes all the time.

He's better than me. Like, he goes all the time. So anyway, the fishing thing goes on. We go up. sun comes out. It gets real hot. The water's still cool, but it gets less fishy. And we decided to take off. So we got on the water maybe by eight, probably fish till noon. And then I was like, yeah, I could call him that. He was like, well, the reason I told him to bring net is because, like, those guys would have thought you were like, you were talking a big game like you knew the river.

and those guys would have been like, well, if he knows the river, he knows there's no carp in here, right? Like he doesn't need, because I just have one big wooden net. Like it's the only net I own. I'm big on use what you have, right? So Ray had like a little fold-up net because he's retired, so he gets to do stuff like that. So yeah, so three fish were bagged, which wasn't much, but it was fun.

The ride up and down into the canyon was probably the best part. And then when we wrote out, like once we made it down, I was feeling really confident in the Tacoma. And I'm a Chevy guy, but I was like, oh, we'll make it out here. So we went out a little faster, had Wayland Jennings playing. Come in when you want to. Good stuff. Man, so what was the last time you went fishing was before the deployment? Yeah.

Yeah. So it was March. It was March. Yeah, it was the longest gap. And it actually, I'm not good at all. This was my style of fishing. I wouldn't call it a crick. It was a stream.

It was bigger than that. But you could flop everything out there. There was a couple holes where I fed some line, did some mending. But most of it was like high sticking, you know, somewhat fast water. And so it was it was perfect for me being rusty. And it did kind of come back. I mean, I was worried about like being able to tie knots again because that was like really hard for me when I started.

But yeah, got her figured out and ended up catching the second one on the indicator. Yeah, it was great. It was great. SoCal fishing, man. I'm all in. I've been doing some map study in my free time. I see, I see chow radar and fish radar. They complement each other.

It's an overlay. It's behind a paywall. It streams over the chow. So basically how it's going to look. is you're looking at where do Jeff, Tray, and Grant like to eat. And then you put in the fish radar on top of it, and you see the blue streams. And then you're like, well, if I go to Lockhart, I can fit.

You see what I'm saying? And so ultimately, you'll be able to plan your whole family vacation off of one site. And then you overlay Jim Rader on top of that. It's just a bunch of radars. Yeah. No, it was great. It was great. I called my oldest brother and I'll leave the fishing at this.

I told my oldest brother I was going. I tried to call him on the way out there. He didn't answer. And then when I came out of the hole, because you don't have service, you know, for five hours, he's like, hey, sorry, I missed your call, try to call you back. I guess that means you're in it.

And so I sent him a couple photos. I was like, I don't have time to talk. I'll talk to you soon. And then I got him on the phone. And I'm telling the story in greater detail than I told right now. And he's like, and I was like, dude, it was like, he's like the best day.

And I was like, dude, he's like, man, I went last Saturday. And he went somewhere in Virginia. And he was like, I don't even know how to explain it to my wife. And my brother's 40, he'll be 45 this December. He's got four kids happily married, 15, 20 years, somewhere in that ballpark. And he's just like, dude, it's like, you get down there in the river. And it's just, and I was like, dude, it's people say I'm ADHD, but I'm just, just like in the zone.

He's like, dude, it's the best. Yeah. It was a good fishing trip. All I want to do is more. And I don't know when that's coming. Yeah. But hopefully soon. That's good stuff.

That's good stuff. Anyway, all right. Jeff, we'll see you later. Yeah. Are you guys going to keep going? Yeah. We'll probably close it up here. We'll bring you down for a landing.

But I want you to win your bad. Okay. Yeah. No, that's, talk about B. F-T-O-T-A-B-D-B-G. Yeah. Come in when you want to. We've got four minutes. Four, three, three, two, two, and one.

I'm just going to go out. Look at that. Splash. Talk about being good friends. This is a big, like old memories when we were doing a podcast together. Oh, just so it's me and Trey. Yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, that was fishing year. I could talk more about it. It was, man, I've been, I've been since someone who's asked me today, so I was, I'm driving around somebody from work today.

Oh, ride along? What are you, a cop? Right, do a little ride along. And they were asking, they're like,

hey, so you're into fishing, right? Because whenever I call my work phone, there's a picture of me with a fish on there. Yeah, same photo I have.

Yeah. And, and so they're like, oh, you're into fish. I'm like, yeah, they're like,

oh, you should take your daughter's fishing. I go, no my daughter's like zero chance yeah yeah i'd be like one that'd be a nightmare but two that's uh it's it's kind of like what you were saying man it's kind of like a little getaway kind of unwind yeah so my oldest brother has taken his daughters because he'll send me videos and they've caught fish and he's got i'm gonna butcher it and i'm sorry to his wife he won't be offended but i'm sorry to Kessid, but I think they're 16, 13, 11, 9, and 7, something like that, right?

There's four. Are they all girls? All girls. And he's like, dude, every time I plan a vacation, I'm looking at streams. He's like, but then the problem of fly fishing or just fishing is there's always one more cast, there's always one more hole. And so that's why you can drive up to Bishop, California, you're in, in California.

You can go up into the Sierra's and be in fly fishing haven. Heaven. The reason I wanted to go back to this spot was because it's like, well, if I get up at four, my wife and daughter sleep until seven anyway. So there's three hours of free time to get to the water. And if I can get somewhere within two hours, like I was home by 4 p.m. that day. And so that was the advantage was, you know, you could do a day trip.

But yeah, he plans his whole, I mean, I will say he plans. He wants to plan all of his trips around being able to fish. But yeah, no, it was, it was great. And it's like a time warp. It's literally like a time warp. You get on the water. Like how quick it goes. Yeah.

You get on the water at seven. 55 and you think, man, I told my wife I'd be home by five. I got nothing but time. You catch fish, you miss fish, you have bug action, you got something. The line gets stuck in a tree. You fix that. And all of a sudden, you're like, how is it noon? It's devastating.

Yeah. It's worse when it's like a guide and he's like, all right, last cast. Dude, I think we just got after it. It's time to go already. I don't know. There is some good feeling of, I went to this place the first time with a guide, but there is some good feeling of going to a place

by yourself and catching fish. And I'm zero percent good. Like I'm not a fly fisherman. But I'm like, you know what? I went out into the remote desert wilderness, found water, looked at it, picked a fly, caught a fish. I'm okay with that.

To me, that's the whole point of a guide is to kind of like teach you how to get on fish, how to catch fish. Yeah. And then like, are you self-sufficient after that? I think that's early on in the guiding. And then I think later in the guiding, and when I was in, if you haven't listened, go back and listen to the podcast with John Connance from here's fly fishing. Here's ear fly fishing at the Greenville, South Carolina. later on, you're paying for like the current read. Like what the latest is?

Yeah. Well, that guy's on the river 300 days a year. And so it's like, oh, 14 months ago you had success at this river. Actually, like today, based off how the water's running, what the bugs are doing, what the fish are doing, what the temperature is, you should actually fish this river on this fork and float. this fly right yeah i think later on it's that but yeah i think early on it's teach you out of fish no i agree with that 100 but i don't know i need to get back out man i'm doing and i wish you golly yeah we have that pond right by your house yeah i know it's one of those things that i'm like if i come home yeah you're with your daughters what are you a

good dad all the all the girls are like not asleep yet and abby's She would be like, okay, can I go fish? She'd be like, I'm going to kill you if you step outside. Summertime. What time of your girls go to bed? 738. So still a little bit light out, right? I could probably get in a half hour if I wanted to.

Yeah. If you went in that pond, could you for sure catch something? Like, is it shooting fish in a barrel? Yes. Okay. 100%. Okay. I've seen, I've seen people out there fly fishing, too.

Yeah, that's where you should practice. Where I'm from, we just call it fishing. Yeah, I guess. Teach their own. It ain't my thing. The podcast without Jeff, how the podcast is meant to be. Just kidding, Jeff.

Just kidding. Let me see. What else do you have on here? I don't even know. I don't even have the slide deck open. I got it right here. Just vibe and. Oh, Trey Dadding Solo.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think we had to come around. I think we got to cover that. And Alan Jackson's final concert. Yeah. We'll see that.

And we'll just keep pushing your other question. Yeah. We'll just keep pushing it. That's the next running joke is just, we'll push trace. Yeah. We'll push trace, yeah. Yeah. So Abby for Mother's Day, I got Abby.

For you non-gotich types, Kitchen Six and the Gotledge House. is Abby. Abby. Yeah. Thank you. So for Mother's Day for Abby, I got like a, it's like a, the PGA headquarters has like an Omni PGA and this sounds real nice area.

This sounds self-inflicted. Real swanky. And so I got it ended up with you being a dad for three girls solo. Correct. Yeah. You know. Try to be nice, but it turned, you know. But it turned, yeah, it turned into a girls' weekend.

I got her a spa day at this place and it turned into like an overnight. Yeah, like girls weekend trip with her and some friends in our small group that she went up there with. They had a really good time. And church types, small group means community from within side of the church that you meet up with weekly for accountability and to go through the Bible, small group. Encouragement. Encouragement when you're feeling stress. you reach out your small group it's it brings the church it can be yeah anyway continue um so they went up there yeah and so she took off uh like friday around lunch time

and then was up there and then i was home with the girls first night was fine went over to my parents house had some assistance there but then like cheating yeah i would agree is cheating but then Saturday. All me, baby. That's what you called me, right? Yeah, I think I was calling you on Saturday and you were busy. I was like, dang, I was just going to try to kill some time. Yeah.

The amount of times that I've called, we're going to come back to your three girls, but the amount of times that I've needed to do something. So we try to like, we're not phone Nazis, but we do try to like not give our kid the phone all the time. And we give it to her. when it's FaceTime. So the amount of times I've FaceTime my mother, my poor mother. And as soon as my mother answers, I just hand it to my daughter.

And then it's like, oh, I just bought myself 30 minutes, do whatever I want. The mom's like singing, who made mountains, who made sunshine. And my daughter's like eating it up. Anyway. So, yeah, I use FaceTime's a great tool. It's an asset. I will say FaceTime. That would be a good one.

Big. It's already on your phone. So we went to Cracker Barrel, and there was a guy, his family was out of town, so he was riding solo. And so I called him, I go, hey, let's go out. You want to go out to breakfast? By the way, it's me and just the girls, so you're going to be co-parenting with me at Cracker Barrel. So went out to Cracker Barrel, and I do, probably four people came up to us because it was

me and him roughly the same age, two little black girls, and then there's another little baby. And they all came up to us and they're like, you guys are doing such a great job parenting. And I'd be like, and I'd be like, first I was like, no, no, no, no. Like my wife's out a weekend. Like he's just a friend. And by the fourth, the fourth person came with me, I was like, thank you. That means a lot. I just don't want to explain to you.

And so, man, it was. And that was a mess, like just because it took an hour. He did not have kids. His kids were out of town with, yeah, his wife went down and he was meeting up with them later in the week. Get a work thing. Yeah. Yeah. So it was a mess.

So it took an hour in like an hour and a half of the food to come out, which is already a nightmare. At Cracker Barrel. At Cracker Barrow. What happens? During breakfast. That's what happens when you rebrand. I know. But, man, I took one.

who's party training to go to the bathroom in the men's bathroom which is a topic amongst itself. Agua. And then the other

I know the small one in there with me and I'm changing her, she pooped. So I'm changing her on the bathroom floor. I have like a mat laid out, but like once pooping or once peeing on the toilet, I'm changing on,

I'm like, dude, this is a night there. So it was a good time. We got through it. And then, that became back Sunday. Yeah, very refreshed, ready to parent. And I was like, you got a girl.

Like Jeff after three weeks of no podcasting. I haven't, dude, I have a new respect for mothers who stay home. Like anybody who dogs on them saying this, oh, you're just staying home mom. I'm like, I would like going to work is so much easier. Dude, I think about this. all the time. I like to think of myself as a superhero. I wake up in the morning and I generally, not every day, but days that are allotted for about an hour and a half, I hang out with Isabella. And it's like, and I don't mean to sound out like, I'm not usually hanging out with her,

but I mean like, I get up, maybe we walk to coffee, maybe I make coffee, but like, I try to like, hey, let my wife's pregnant, let her sleep, build some family equity, you know, hang out. And then, you know, eight, nine o'clock, I'm like, here. And then I leave. And then I try to get home by five to six. And then I try to basically do the same thing, like give Diana a break, right? Take her in the backyard, throw the big red ball around, whatever. And I, I, dude anyone that talks any crap on stay-at-home moms like I I there's a lot of stress in the Marine Corps and PFTs and running a business and selling plates but I'm like this is non-stop it's mental exhaustion it's mental like I did I did it for yeah like 48 hours and

just mentally just war down and I'm like golly like moms you do this or dads who do it full time i'm like yeah it's it's it takes a different level of uh endurance on that one yeah sure no sure it's uh but no it was overall man it was it was good quality time like i had a good time hanging out the girls it was tiring but i'm glad to abby got a little break so yeah that's great so saturday morning she left and she came back sunday yeah okay so you put them all to bed, fed them all dinner. Yeah. And your mom didn't come over.

So, no, I went over to her house. Okay, right, right. You said. So when I say, no, she, she was back home because she went to church with on Sunday. So, yeah, she was back home in time for that. So it was Friday, all day, all day Saturday. Nuts. Yeah.

Wouldn't have it any other way. Yeah, man. No, it was a good time. But let's get into a, let's close the stuff. Close it up. Talk about Alan Jackson. Did you see his final concert? I didn't see it.

I heard he's donezo, though. Yeah, I heard he was Dunzo. I knew it was coming. And I was a little frustrated last night because I wanted to find, like, the stream. And we put Isabella to bed. And, you know, Diana and I basically hang out for about an hour every night after the baby goes bed before we go to bed. And I was like, let's watch Alan Jackson's last concert. and she was in

and I couldn't find it on YouTube I found a bunch of scammers with big thumbnails and title cards trying to make you think it was the last one kind of probably like I do and it wasn't a couple live streams from like a phone like far away

so I did up then I went to bed and for about 30 minutes I just was on X and it was like all over my feed and yeah man like a legend. End of an era, for sure. And even George Strait, and I think we're going to have

maybe Alan Jackson's Alabama. I believe that's correct. No, I think he's Alabama. Where is Alan Jackson from? He's not Texas. No. Because he would have said, take my ear from Georgia, Georgia.

Yeah, Newman, Georgia. Yeah, he brought George straight out and I like George straight a lot. I didn't write his own music so that's a problem. But I'm kidding. I like George straight, but I'm like, man, I think I like Ellen a lot more. And he just looked kind of old. And I watched the song is, remember when song? Maybe it hits hard. Maybe it hits hard. Maybe it hits hard. Yeah. Kids now. It's like sound little feet, whatever. But I'm just like, man, dude's great. But yeah, he's gone. I don't know. I grew up in, with 90s country.

So, Alan. Was he inside the pocket of a clown or was that Dwight Yocum? I don't know that song. Inside the pocket of a clown. Inside the pocket of a clown. Oh. Was that Joe Diffy? I think it's Joe Diffy.

I think it might be right. You know what? Who I'm going to be sad is, and I know you're a big fan of him too, is Dwight Yocom. Dude, there's like two deaths in my mind. And it's Dwight and Willie Nelson. Yeah. And like Willie's been so long, you're not even going to have the Wayland Jennings effect where it's like, hey, we found this song. It's like, nah, that guy was live until he was 100.

We literally published everything possible. A lot of it's bad. We published it anyway. I told you last week that I bought the new Waylon album. Uh-uh. Yeah, bought it on vinyl and cassette. And it comes out in November. So it was the first thing that I purchased to be mailed to my buddy's house in Rhode Island.

I saw they released streaming of the second single, I think. No. Excuse me. If they did, I didn't see it. I think they did. I feel like I heard a second song come out from it. Jordy, sorry for the sneezes. Just put a dunking across the screen.

Okay, thanks, Jory. we've been the same album right no nothing they released it could be wrong they released everything that's coming out got you like but you can't click them yet anyway uh save rounds alibis no you're doing things for the fourth besides moving um my father is turning 70 Ooh, big 7-0. And so between recording this on a Tuesday night, by the time you hear this on Friday,

I'll be flying back. I'm going to go to Georgia to celebrate my dad's 70th. Dad's only turned 70 once. That's what I've always said. I could think of a more inconvenient time for me to go. Just nothing comes to mind.

But I'm sure there's, I'm sure there's a more inconvenient time. But it's my dad. And super appreciative for, you know, it's, it's super inconvenient for me to fly to Georgia in the middle of a move before I moved my wife across the country. But I can only imagine the things that were super inconvenient for my dad that he did for me. Sure. In my 38 years of life. So, yeah, I'm going to Georgia.

I'm going to see my dad. I come back the night of the third. And on the fourth, yeah, there's like a neighborhood. Fourth of July parade, we're going to go hang out in. My pod is packed. My buddy's pod. And so when I come back, the stressful parts now, it was the last three days and it's tomorrow. And then once I come back, it's like I'm living out of a suitcase and I'm ready to rock.

So yeah, I think we're having a good Fourth of July. What are you guys doing? We had not your neck of the woods here on Thursday, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thursday, yeah. So, yeah, we get there Thursday morning. South California for you, no,

the woods types. We're SoCal it hurts this weekend. It's, uh, get there, yeah, Thursday morning, staying there through Sunday, hanging out down in San Diego area. And put you on some trout streams if you want. Bring your rod.

Yeah, potentially. Potential sponsor. Potential sponsor, Fish radar. Yeah, fish radar. Yeah, no, we're looking forward to, man. We're having a good time. Yeah, it's good. Nothing like flying with kids.

Dude, I'm super excited. That's six a-in-in. So, real talk, and then I know we got closed it down. You got seats for you and Abby. And now have to have... Three more seats? Two. So the youngest one's the only wife child.

Okay, so you got... Four seats. Four seats, five people. Yeah. And then we we go no strollers at the airport. I like that. Yeah. I don't I don't mess with it.

So I check. Great. We did a veer valet. I'm not sure if you're familiar with that. Is it like running the veer, like a little option, like, flick the stroller off? I think that's where they pulled the name from.

But then so there's a veer wagon that we have. And then a veer valet is just this box you buy from them. and then they ship it, you can ship it to your location. So buy like a VIR ticket. So we shipped off our VIR valet box with our wagon and a bunch of other stuff in it. Okay. Earlier this week, so it should be there by the time you get up so that way we're only checking a handful of stuff. So we're doing something similar.

We fly across the country. It's going to be pregnant wife, baby, two cats. And, well, the pods separate. The pod leaves before. But what I'm going to do, because I live close to the airport, is I got to park my black 95 Chevy at the warehouse. So I'm going to put all the bags. We're checking at least five bags.

Could be more. We're military. You know, we're taking advantage of five bags. So I'm going to, you can check bags three hours prior to departure time. So I'm going to drive to the airport, check all the bags, and get the boarding passes. drive my truck to the warehouse, have Connor or potentially Ray pick me up, drive home, all the bags will be checked.

Smart. And then have the boarding pass in hand. And then I'll have a cat. Diana will have a cat. Mama Gay, as we call her, Ms. Claudia, will have my child. And then we'll have a diaper bag and a stroller. And then when we go in,

there's at least like less chaos of all the, cases. It's a good way to do it. There's a good way. I'll let you know on the back in. Yeah. I'll let you know on the back in. There's no good way.

There's can be more stressful ways to do it. Yeah. Anyway, this has been episode 116 of the OK podcast. Trey, take it down for a landing. All right. It's great set. Episode 116 of the OK. Okay.

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