The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 3: The Importance of Strength, Bill Belicheck & The Olympics

Episode Date: January 19, 2024

Podcast Hosts: Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach. Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 02:06 - YouTube update 07:02 - Coffee and Preworkout 11:01 - Carnivore Update 22:29 - Bitcoin Update 24:22 - Why Strength Matters (Taking Care Of Your Parents) 34:20 - Mrbeast & Getting Bush Jr. Elected 38:17 - Cold Weather 39:10 - Amateur Lifting Update & Knee Rehab 43:39 - Garth Brooks 45:07 - Nick Saban, Billy B  53:46 - Futbol 57:06 - Unboxing 01:00:47 - Movies 01:03:19 - Books 01:07:18 - Murdocks 01:11:47 - The Olympics  01:27:49 - Weighted Blankets 01:30:41 - Grant Caught A Fish 01:36:17 - Upcoming Texas Trip 01:37:38 - The Arnold

All right, and welcome back to episode three of the OK Podcast, powered by The Strength Co. I am your host, Grant Brogy. We are recording live from the cold and frigid upstate of South Carolina. The date is January 16th in the year of our Lord, 2024. The current price of Bitcoin is $43,153.20. Do you say cents, PJ? Yeah, you do. You say cents. So $43,153.20 is the current value of Bitcoin. PJ's live here in the studio.

PJ for the nerds. Give them the block height 826 077 there you go block height confirmed we are indeed recording here on january 16th which makes us three for three hey third streak three weeks in a row now don't grab your little bitcoin graph and widen it out to three weeks because then you might think that the OK podcast is bringing the price down. But I don't think I don't think we need to be worried about that. But we got some exciting things to talk about today on the show. Jeff and Trey will join us here at about the 30 minute mark. But we're going to talk about give you a carnivore update. What's been going on with that? An update on my poop, obviously, because everyone wants to hear about that.

The videos we posted here on YouTube this week and and as well talk a little bit about strength who needs to get strong um and kind of a new way that i've thought about that this week first i want you to know that we have the aviation cheat codes right here mr matt hallock uh sent this over uh so thanks matt for the aviation cheat code 7 500 fly formation Formation with F-16 Sierra. Do you know what that means, Jordan? I don't. 7600 ATC Mute. 7700 Priority Landing Anywhere.

Aviation cheat code. So for my aviators out there, as an artilleryman, you know we like to say, big sky, little bullet. You'll be just fine. But thanks, Matt, for the mug. But yeah, let's get right into it. So let's see. Since last week, we published three videos on YouTube. The first one was how to film your lifts. That was just to be useful to you. If you lift on your own, you should film

your lifts. You should take a look. You should look at bar speed. You should look to make sure you're squatting to depth. You should look for errors. And there's a right and there's a wrong way to do that. And so we try to outline it. If you're looking for it for a form perspective to give yourself data, then that is the way to film it. If you are filming it to be famous on Instagram and show off your wedgie butt spandex pants, it's probably not for you. There's probably another podcast out there with an intelligent young lady that can tell you how to do that. I can't tell you how to do that. But if you want your lifting to get better, do you own those spandex jewelry? I don't want to talk about it. Not yet. Yeah.

Actually, can we get a weight update before we continue? I was 183. So that's one pound. One pound. Okay. So you're up. So a lot of people have asked that PJ gets on a camera. And so we've said PJ is on camera when he's 200 pounds. So we're 17 pounds away from camera weight. Right. Yeah. So exactly. Uh, what would that be? 17 more episodes than a pound a week. And then you'll see, you'll see Geordie on episode two zero. So that's a good goal. Looking fluffy. Yeah, looking fluffy, looking thick,

not looking like a victim. But yeah, so we did the how to film your lifts video. Check that out. A lot of people liked it. A lot of people joined our Slack from watching that, realizing that we have a $29 option for people that just want minimal coaching, the occasional form check and a program to follow.

So for everyone that's joined up in the last week or so, thanks for coming in. A lot of you have said it was from that video. So we're happy to have you. And then Friday we took an excerpt, an excerpt, excerpt, excerpt. Yeah. Okay. We took a snippet, a clip, a tidbit, a little portion of the video podcast, and we launched it on Friday on YouTube, on the Strength Co. YouTube. Remember this podcast is powered by the Strength Co. And you're going to see that every Friday. Every Friday, we're going to take something strength related, post it on Fridays on the YouTube channel. And that was the importance of hitting PRs or the truth about PRs, or really as you become a lifter, understanding that PRs don't come around as often. I talked a

little bit about my own experience in that. So if you didn't catch last week's podcast, go listen to it. Please follow us on, I want to say Shopify. Buy on our Shopify store. Follow us on Spotify. Give us a five-star review or Apple or overcast or YouTube or whatever, but go listen to the episode. If you miss that, subscribe to the YouTube channel, the strength co, and you can watch that video for the nice little seven, eight minute clip. So the, the, how to record your lifts to just find that, that clip on PRS did fine. And then we posted a coffee video because Jordy decided he was going to go on vacation. And so I was behind the eight ball. And remember, Jordy and PJ are two different people. But so I was behind the

eight ball. So I had to record something. So I was in the mountains with my wife. We were working up there and it was snowing and sleeting. And I said, I got to record something. And I went to lift in the morning and I went to lift at 6 a.m. and it was, I think it was 22 degrees out and it was raining sideways, which I now know is a squall, but in a, in a wintry mix of sorts. And I took my camera down there and I put the mic on and I looked at it and I said, I really do not want to talk to you in the camera during this lift. I just want to slug it out and get it done so that's what I did so I did not make a lifting vlog I did squat 420 for a triple which I was happy about because surely that's impossible to do anything

that's remotely a feat of strength while you're in the carnivore dykes if you're not eating carbohydrates you're just gonna wither away and die. But I lifted and I realized I needed a video. So I went upstairs and my friend that owns the cabin that he graciously let us go and visit says, you know, if things aren't hard, they're usually not worthwhile, or if they don't take some effort. And so in his place, there's no drip coffee machine, which I respect. So he has a Chemex, a Brica. He does have a little Nespresso pod machine, but I think his wife won that war. So that's in there. So we went to make the Chemex and I used to be into Chemex's. I had them maybe actually, we'll probably talk about with Trey. I think I had one when I lived

with Trey and Jeff, it might've been Jeff's. I don't remember. I definitely own one myself for a while, but it's slow. It's probably user error. So I just thought, Hey, how do I keep this warm? So we did the video on how to, how to warm up the Chemex itself beforehand and keep it warm and blah, blah, blah. And I intentionally didn't weigh and measure to make coffee people mad. And that video just tanked Jordy. No one, no one cared. No one cares, but you're a big coffee guy. I didn't know how big of a coffee guy you were. You might say you're not, but then you just talk about like all the intricacies of the different ways to make coffee, preheating your mug, the different weights and measures, types of different types of grinders. Like you are a big coffee guy. Yeah. I guess I'll just embrace that big coffee guy right here. Yeah. So, I mean,

I do like, but it's cold right now here. And if you make coffee in the morning, you come down, I use a Mocha Master at home. I think that is the best coffee that brews quickly. It's the best drip coffee you can get. It's German made. And it's a great thing. So you make that and it's got, you know, the copper wires in it, the heat's all nice, but you make that and it's got the copper wires in it. The heat's all nice. But you make that cup of coffee and you come down and your house is, you get the heater on to 67 and you grab your mug out of the cupboard and it's cold. And you have this beautifully hot coffee you've just brewed in this cold mug.

And when the two meet, you now have warm coffee and no one wants warm coffee. You want hot coffee. So I'm a big fan of preheating mugs. I'm also, this mug's pretty good. This is a good average mug, but you want to pay attention to the surface area on the top. Some of these mugs, like these, you know, Instagram mugs, I call them where, you know, someone, I say a girl could could be a guy. They have a big, wide mouth mug and there's a journal next to it and a nice pen and Monday morning thoughts. But all I think is the heat is just disappearing rapidly with all that open surface area. So I like a more narrow mug. My favorite mugs are wide in the bottom and actually get a little

smaller on the top. But yeah, I guess I, I guess I have some opinions on coffee. I like the, uh, the diner mugs, like the real thick walled diner mugs. Yes. But, uh, Oh, here's a question. Is coffee the best pre-workout? You know, I think so. I've tried them all in my younger days. You know, you know, explode was the thing that my brothers and I did, uh, in college

we did jacked 3d. Oh man. Isn't that stuff illegal now? It is illegal now. Thank God. But yeah, I think coffee is, I don't think you can beat it. Plus it's natural. It's clean. You don't know it's in the proprietary blends. That's really good stuff is, but yeah, I think coffee is the best pre-workout that you could use. So I'm a fan. So however you like it, the best coffee is like the best diet, whichever one you enjoy. No, I'm just kidding. Whichever one's carnivore.

Yeah. Whichever one's carnivore. So yeah, the coffee video didn't do well, but whatever, we don't care. And it's going to pick up steam over time. And I know this because I did a mocha versus brica video about five years ago now. And that's one of our top videos. I mean, I think it's 40,000 views or something. It's at 28,000 views, which is very good. Yeah, that's good. I guess 40 was... And it's still going, the graph on the chart. It's a slow burn. It's a slow burn up into the right. There's a lot more people that want to drink coffee than there are people that want to lift weights. I've learned this. So that video will be just fine and it'll come along and be okay. So that's what we released on YouTube this week. We got some new stuff coming this week on Wednesday, which is tomorrow. So by

the time you're listening to this episode, which will be Friday, we'll release my update on the carnivore diet. I am on day 16. So halfway through the month and I'll tell you my thoughts and the videos kind of laid out so that you can, if you want to go to the carnivore diet, who I think should do it, what to expect, expectations, what to think of, how to prepare. And I think it'll be useful. And I go over a lot of our clients that have done it, the results that they've had. And it's all positive. I know you want to know if I think that everyone should be carnivore forever and never eat carbohydrates again. No, that's not what I think. But watch that video. If you haven't, we'll give you the update on the carnivore diet itself. So I guess I'll give you

my update on the carnivore diet now. So did carnivore make you lose all your gains? Yeah. I'm so weak now. I'm victim weight over here. I am down nine pounds from 224 to 215. And I'm trying not to lose anymore. I think I lost nine pounds. I think eight of them came out of my cheeks and maybe one out of my stomach. So that tends to be how I like to lose my weight. But yeah, I have lost some weight and my lifts have been fine. Like we talked about last week, you can't look at one set of data and say, okay, here I am trying this carnivore diet. Am I as strong as I've ever been? There's a lot of different variables. So I'm not, but I'm progressing fine. I'm running a, I have an article on the website called intermediate,

efficient five by fives for an intermediate lifter. So you squat five by five on Monday, you do an intensity day on Friday, you deadlift for some volume in the middle of the week and you're pressing and benches get split up. And so I've run this many times and I usually start my five by fives in the upper threes. And I think my best five by five is like 430, 435, something like that. And if I can do that, then I can squat over 500 and or at 400 or I think 495 for a double I've done before. So that's always where I'm trying to get. I did 375 yesterday morning for five sets of five. Felt pretty good. I'm lifting in the mornings right now, around seven in the morning. So I'm fasted because I slept the night before. Russell, or he does that. Yeah, I'm fasted. Oh, wait, that's impossible. He's strong.

Yeah. He lost all his games. That's impossible. Yeah. How is, yeah. He only squatched 700. Only for like a triple. Yeah. He'd be at a000 by now. Yeah, obviously. So the carnivore diet is going fine. I still haven't had any explosions, no rocket fuel coming out of my... No, I haven't. But so here's my thoughts on that. I think it comes down to what your diet was going into this.

And being carnivore is a lot different than being vertical diet or keto diet or low-carb diet, Atkins diet. You'd think like, oh, high protein, I'm used to this. But eliminating everything is different. I mean, when you're at dinner and you're eating shrimp and your wife's eating shrimp and you want to get a side, so you get some oysters and you're like, and your wife's eating shrimp and you know, you want to get a side. So you get some oysters and you're like, well, I want another side. And she orders asparagus cause she's keto. And you look at the asparagus and you go, well, why can't I eat an asparagus? That seems dumb. But then you realize that vegetables are fake and don't do anything

for you. So why would you eat an asparagus? That is true. Yeah. That's science. Um, so yeah, it is different but um i forgot where i was going with that i don't know eating yeah eating yeah so uh anyway i'm down nine pats oh that's what i was gonna say the rocket fuel coming out i think the reason i have not experienced that is because my diet was very high protein and And I would say moderately low carbs, not like, oh, I can't go over 20 grams. But like in one meal of the day, I would have maybe rice or potatoes or something or noodles once in a while. But I wasn't a guy that woke up and ate, you know, two bagels. I wasn't a guy that was eating a sandwich for lunch every day.

And so I think the changes for me haven't been that drastic. And what we've seen with the people that have done this with us is that the folks whose diets were not as clean and it was a more of a drastic change, they were definitely on the toilet. So it's not fake news. That could happen to you. It has not happened to me, but it's not over yet. We're only halfway there. Has your sleep changed, Denny? My sleep's gotten better. So it was rough at first. And when I say rough, I just woke up a lot.

And I'm guessing that's why it was. But I usually sleep between six to seven hours is what I shoot for. I'm not waking up anymore. I'm falling asleep a little bit easier. Um, it seems, so I get into bed around between 10 and 10 30 and I'm asleep within, you know, 20 minutes or so. So my sleep seems to be better. Um, and now here in week, you know, three, we're into, uh, my energy's up. Uh, the first week, my energy was definitely low. Uh, I mean, you worked out with me that day. I was like, uh, the walking dead in there. You need some Jack 3d. Yeah. And

he said Jack 3d and some carbohydrates, but, uh, but yeah, so carnivores going fine. Uh, haven't lost all my gains. Um, we'll keep you up to date as it progresses, but, uh, so far so good. I went into more detail on it in Wednesday's videos. You listen to this. So go back, watch that one if you want to give it a shot. I will say I've done a lot in 2008. I was all over that book. I met Rob Wolf. I read all his books. You know, I did paleo leaky gut. You know, my brother still makes fun of me this day. You're going to get a leaky gut.

I would always tell him. So I'm a paleo fan. I did that. I did the zone diet. I did the block, you know block where you count your blocks and your macros. So I've done a bunch of them. And I will say this one, the reason I think it's a good diet for people is the same way or the same reason that when people come to me and they want to lose weight, the first thing I do is make them skip a meal because if they can't skip one meal they're not serious

about losing weight i'm not saying that works for everyone but for most people i mean if you are overweight and you need to lose weight i promise you you can skip breakfast and you are going to be just fine um and so i often tell people hey here's what you're going to do for the next three days you're not going to eat until noon. I don't care what you eat afternoon, but you're not going to eat until noon, and it starts some habit building. Well, so then if you got a person and they're on macros and, okay, I want this many calories and this many protein and this many carbohydrates and this many fats, what does it do? It gives them a lot of options on what they can eat, which is good, which is good. You should not shame foods or

think that foods are bad, you know, all the time. But the problem with that is, hey, if I'm eating a little bit of everything and then someone comes over and says, hey, you know, we're having a pizza party. You're like, well, I'll just have some pizza. And all of a sudden it goes out of control very easily. So one thing that I think that is interesting about the carnivore diet and the reason that the lifters that have been doing it and myself have had success, so to speak, if some weight loss is what they were after, is because the rules are very simple. You can eat meat, fish, poultry, eggs, butter and cheese if you'd like. And that's it. And it just makes it simple. It's not a great diet for social living. It's just not because, um, it's just, you go to a restaurant and you're throwing everything away. Um, you'd be the worst person at Thanksgiving. Oh yeah. Yeah. Everyone hates you. Everyone hates you. So this is not a, and again, I don't know that I think this is a thing people should do

around, you know, 12 months a year, but I think it's a good endeavor for people to try, kind of reset, and all that stuff. I thought you just take Ozempic to lose weight. Yeah. There's a new study coming out that it's really bad for you. I mean, I'm sure there's going to be some. Yeah. No, there's a bunch of stuff coming out that it's like, I don't know, it's eating away at your gut. I mean, it's definitely eating away at your gut. I mean, yeah, in more ways than one, I guess, but did Laney Wilson do Ozempic? I don't know. Yeah. So Laney Wilson used to be kind of like heavy set, you know, Laney Wilson is a country singer. Um, she was heavy set. She was on the show Yellowstone and then she lost a bunch of weight apparently with Ozempic.

Um, but they were talking about like, like that her butt disappeared. Okay. And so, you know, the Cowboys lost, we'd have boys, America's team,

they lost. And there was a meme where it showed Laney Wilson, like pre weight loss from the back. Yeah. And her butts like really big. And it says Cowboys during the regular season. And then post-Ozempic and her butts like really flat and small. It says Cowboys in the playoffs. I mean it does seem I mean on his face it seemed

too good to be true like you just take this drug and you just lose 30 pounds because that's how that works yeah and I'm like that sounds good but what else happened yeah there's no free lunch you know yeah well I mean I offer you free milk every week maybe that's the free lunch that's your free lunch I have one more question on carnivore. Do you think you could gain weight and hit new PRs on carnivore now that you've been trying it? Yeah. You think me, like me specifically with my training history. Like you.

Yeah. I think that's what I'm going to try and do. I'm going to ride the extra of the month. I don't want to go below 215. I am leaner. And so now I'm, now I'm trying to get more calories to stay up. What I'd really like to see is if I can, I get back to two 24. I don't care about the number on the scale at all.

Yeah. Just what you look like. Yeah. And I don't even, I'm fine to look like a lifter. You know, we've got comments on it. Oh, why are you trying to lose weight? You look like a lifter. I'm like, well, I want to look like a lifter, but I want to look like a lifter that you want to look like. And at the end of the day, I sell coaching services and I don't care what you tell yourself. Everybody wants to go to the beach in the summer and take their shirt off and look fine. Now, people have different ideas of what fine looks like. Some people want Matthew McConaughey abs. I don't care about Matthew McConaughey abs. All right, all right, all right. I don't care. But at the same time, I don't want to walk around with a keg on my stomach and just be like, well, I can deadlift 600 pounds. Some people like that, and that's fine. But the majority of people do not want that. And so I'm trying to show people that you can be relatively strong,

you can be much stronger than the average, and you can also be relatively lean. So to answer your question, yeah, I think I can hit a PR on the carnivore. I'm kind of thinking right now I'm going to go at least through February. I mean, you got two weeks. You think you can do it? I'm not trying to be negative here. Well, what would you consider?

I mean, a PR is a PR. But on any lift? Any lift. Okay, so for me, what I think is, I bet I could PR my bench or my press. I don't know if I could PR one of the big ones. Okay. What are your current bench and press PRs? My bench is either 375 or 377 and a half.

My press is 256 and a half. Okay. But I think that would be... I mean, maybe I can squat 520. I don't know. We're going to find out. Everyone says that I can't do anything, so we're going to find out. I'm going to go for it. Go for something.

See, I mean, back to two 25, a wise man would said girls don't care about your ass. That's right. That's right. Um, they just care about your wallet. Is that the second part of the second part? They care about your wallet or your ledger. So before we go into the kind of strength part, I want to end this segment with, do you have a Bitcoin update? Is there anything crazy that happened this week? Anything I need to know? I mean, the only update is that they launched the ETFs. They're live. It's not fake news. So Blackstone is the highest traded right now? Yeah, BlackRock. And it it was like it crushed the trading volume uh the previous record of like most trading volume in 48 hours it was like in the four billion

blast the last one to hit a big number was the gold etf when he got a gold etf um so it seems fine price is going down a little bit but people just zoom in too much they're thinking they're thinking too short term you know these people aren people aren't rushing like these crazy Bitcoin. They're not lifters. They're not real lifters. But the only other upcoming thing is we've got the halving coming up for you, Bitcoin nerds. Halving. Halving. So I think it'll be a fun 2024, 2025.

That's this year. This spring. Yeah, this spring. Coming up. This is not financial advice. Well, no, it's not. But buy Bitcoin. Yeah. this is not financial advice. Well, no, it's not, but, uh, buy Bitcoin. Um, yeah. Um, yeah.

So there's your, there's your weekly Bitcoin update, which no one really comments on except about the block height. So you may hate it, but we're going to talk about it. Cause we think there's carry over between people that buy Bitcoin and deadlift and eat steak. I mean, this is a weird carnivore.

Oh, the, uh, the political food thing did well. Oh, it lifting. Oh, the political food thing did well. Oh, it did? Yeah, the political food thing did well, which I thought was, I thought it was all in good fun.

And some people are like, well, I hope this podcast isn't political. I'm like, that's not political that I think Chris goes a Southern Democrat. No, that's a deep, nuanced text. That's just worthy of a podcast. That's just called geography. Yeah, I mean.

That's all that is. I mean, Sean Baker was on Anthony Pobliano's podcast, the Bitcoin podcast. There you go. There's crossover. I mean, I think Sean Baker has laser eyes or did at one point. He did. He was one of the first. Yeah. Yeah. Laser eyes. I may need to update that. Maybe we need laser eyes on this week's thumbnail. Laser eyes. We're bringing it back. Yeah. We're bringing back laser eyes. Okay. So I did want to talk about one thing on a serious note about strength. And if you followed my stuff at all, if you've read my blog, if you follow my YouTube videos or, you know, follow my tweets, I got my parents lifting in 2019. And I often talk about the importance of getting your parents to lift

and the way that you should view lifting. And the way that you should view lifting is that as you age, you atrophy unless you do something about it. You will lose muscle mass starting in your 30s. Some people even start in their 20s if they're programmers, software people, and they're not active. And they lose muscle mass as they get older. I've talked about this a lot. It's in a bunch of different YouTube videos. So as they get older, they can do less things. Things tend to hurt more. And so most people start doing less, which only exasperates the problem and makes them lose strength even faster because they're not doing anything anymore. Most 20 and 30 year olds aren't doing an intelligent strength program. They're just doing stuff. So they maintain a lot of strength. Not so much as people age. So my parents, my mother's 65, we're exactly 30 years apart or 30 years and one week apart. And my dad is 68. They started

lifting in 2019. So minus four on those numbers. They'd never lifted. They'd been runners. And I tried to get them to lift. I'd been working on them for a long time. And I finally said, hey, I know three of my siblings have kids. I haven't had kids yet. I hope to have kids. And I want you to be around for them. I see how you build into the lives of my nieces and nephews. I want you to do a blah, blah, mom. You look great, but you're weak. I would tell her that. And so they started lifting. And they never looked back. And they're super strong. My dad deadlifts in the 300s, even having no elbow. My mom deadlifts in the mid-2s. I mean, they're super strong. It's been awesome. And I thought, you know what, Grant? You're so

smart. Just telling people that they need to get stronger for my benefit for grant's benefit because grant now will have strong parents that he can do things with um well this year uh december 27th or last year rather my grandmother who's 90 uh passed away and she lived a great life um all the way to 90 can't ask for, for much more. My grandfather died, um, when he was 82, uh, back in 2014. Um, so, you know, it w it was time and there was really, I mean, there, there's always sadness and some grief, but there really, you know, it was, it was a life well lived and it was, you know, what happens at the end of life. And so my mom, you know, has been, you know, losing your mother is sad, no matter what the occasion is. And so, you know, my mom's been grieving and, you know, we all have been to an extent. And so, you know, one thing I will say about my grandmother making

it to 90 is, you know, it was completely different than how I see a lot of people. And I coach a lot of people and And I coach a lot of people. And I have coached a lot of people. And not to sound just like an old-timey Southerner, but they really just don't make them like they used to. My grandmother strung tobacco, picked cotton, tomato garden, zucchini garden, a garden, all kinds of vegetables. She worked. And I always remember my grandmother as being strong and capable. And on her 80th birthday, there's a video back there somewhere on my Instagram. I taught her how to squat and she went in the mantel of her house and she put on a squat routine. She didn't have a barbell, but I gave her some weights and she would squat

to this bench and she understood the importance of her strength. And I remember going to see her at her home, you know, in the last few years, and you'd go to walk her to lunch and, you know, she'd have this walker, but she would hold it about six inches off the ground and just zoom around and cause she was strong. And, um, you know, and so I tell everyone, Hey, you need to lift weights. You need to lift so that you have your physical capability. And that's not the thing that's holding you back. My grandmother never lifted weights, but strength was not the thing that held her back. She ended up getting white matter disease. And so she started to lose her mind. And so while she had the physical capabilities, she lost the mental capabilities. And that's a sad thing to watch. It's a sad thing to see.

But my mother was lifting this Sunday morning and she shared something with me. She sent me a text and I want to read it with you because I thought about strength and the importance of it in a different light than really I ever have. And so I'll just read it. She just texted me Sunday morning thoughts, strength, strength comes in all forms, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Grant, I am thankful for God for grabbing my heart back in the seventies and helping me understand how important it was to build my spiritual muscles. Life is hard. And when all is said and done, spiritual strength is the core of getting you through life and not only getting you through, but enjoying it along the way.

Emotional strength, that too. I think my mother helped me with that the most as I was growing up, telling me things like, sometimes you just have to keep going, even if you don't feel like it. And you have to do the job, whether you want to or not. And some things are worth crying over, but this isn't one of them. So stop crying. Things like that. And then my mother says, and then there's physical strength. Early in my college days, I wanted to be intentional and taking care of physical health. So I joined a craze of running and aerobics and worked hard at it, even majoring in health

education. But I never saw the importance of resistance training with weights in a barbell. That didn't happen until I was 61 years old. It was you who kept telling me that I was fit, but I was weak, insulting, but true. So you started me on the journey of getting under a barbell. Now, here's the part that I think is interesting to me. And I thought about it in a completely different way. My mother continues to say, I had no idea how much this was going to help me in the final two years of mama's life. In 2019, the same year I began weightlifting, she was diagnosed with white matter disease

and then typical Francis McKay fashion. She looked it up and she knew what was coming. After all, she was retired, registered nurse, and she was preparing herself for what was to come. I think we children were in denial because she had always been so strong. But nonetheless, it strikes me that her mental decline and my getting strong began at the same time. And so to kind of get you where we're at, then she had her brain bleed in January 2022 that sent her a downward spiral. The first days were so tough in the hospital. She didn't like it. She went to an intense rehab facility and then a retirement home.

We knew she could never go home again. Last two years of her life with her memory fading, she was still so much fun, confused, but laughed. And we saw her all the time, took her places, told her stories, and basically enjoyed life with her. As you know, she lost her ability to walk as her brain could not send the signals anymore. She became wheelchair bound and I quickly learned that I was strong enough to literally deadlift her from her recliner to her bed, to her wheelchair, to the car, to wherever it was that I wanted to take her. She still enjoyed life in her limited capacity, and I wanted to enjoy it with her until the very end. And I did, as did my siblings. God is so kind. She is now rejoicing with her Savior. I thank you for your part in this. Love you, Mom.

So I bring that up. My father's a pastor. My mom's a pastor's wife. She has a podcast. It's called Rare But Real about being godly women in this day and age. But I just thought about strength from a way that I had never thought of it. lifting. You got to get them getting strong. You need your parents to help build into your family. You want your parents around as long as possible. But I never thought about the responsibility for you at age 40, 45, 50, 61 to have the physical strength to give back to your parents. And hopefully, they get serious about getting strong and they train and get stronger. But even if they do, even if they're like my grandmother, built different, made it to 90, strong, carrying her walker around. At some point towards the end of life, if you were taken naturally and not hit by a semi-truck, you are going to have serious decline. And I think for the first time that I've thought of it in this way, it is a responsibility of children to have the physical strength to do that. And I'm grateful

for my mom and proud of my mother for being able to go there and take care of her. And obviously, she had people in that home that helped her too. But how nice must have that been for my grandmother for her own child to be able to come in, pick her up, put her in a chair, and take her to a farmer's market. So I know it's a heavy topic, but I think it's an important one. And it was something that I wanted to share. So strength, yes, get your parents to lift, but you need to lift and make sure that you are ready and capable. So, mom, thanks for sharing that. Everyone else, I hope you benefit from it.

All right. So it is. Here we are. We're in the next segment. It's time to move on. We'll try and up the spirits, make it a little joyful event. Okay. Okay.

Just a normal Tuesday. Just a normal Tuesday where we get you guys on the horn with no problems don't worry we still got pj we still got pj here i'm here nice was he on vacation yes yes he was i went to my cousin's wedding so i don't know if that's vacation but i'm on vacation no i was just attending where was the way that's a vacation i was in it was in the other greenville's in greenville north carolina i did have to sing in it but that was that was a that was the only part i was in did you sing star wars i did nice yeah songbird of our generation yeah he really he really is what i say do you want to give them a fun fact about greenville north carolina uh yeah um fun fact about greenville north carolina

it's the mecca of youtube mr beast lives there who's the largest youtube youtuber in history and and probably the biggest media person ever do you guys know who mr beast is i do yeah he has a he has the burgers right that's a funny thing to say about him but yes he does yeah yeah that's how you remember yeah i think he's got a youtube channel or something might be relatively popular burgers good yeah but those burgers i'll tell you what you should make a youtube about those you should do some youtube stuff on the on those burgers i think it'd be good i'm gonna make to make a YouTube channel called Mr. Burger.

And then I'm going to have Beast. What? That doesn't make any sense. Let's work on getting them on next week. Shoot me a message. Actually, so my cousins went to school with them.

Went to high school with them. Actually, Mr. Beast my, my cousins went to school with them. Yeah. Went to high school with them. I'm actually, Mr. Beast was at my other cousin's wedding and I met him there. It's crazy. I did. I met him there and I was just a normal dude in the small town,

but Mr. Beast, he's six, seven. Yeah. He knew liver King. Yeah. Mr.

Beast. What other internet personalities do you know? Grand Brogy. Vivek. Show. Waka, maca, maca flame. Oh yeah. I met that guy. Yeah. Mr. Beast? What other internet personalities do you know? Grant Brogy. Vivek Shawakamaka Maka Flame. Oh, yeah. I met that guy. Yeah. He's out, though. Yeah, he's out. He's out. The political guy, Vivek. Oh, oh, oh. Ramaswamy. Yeah. Yeah. I had a thing. I actually know a guy that works on his campaign. And I said, do you want to know how to win this election? And he said, yeah, well, we're working on it. You know, we think Trump's going to get arrested and he'll pick up all those votes.

But I said, no, no, I can tell you how to get this guy elected. And he's like, what? I was like, just change his last name to the Indian guy. And then like all the MAGA people will be like, oh, yeah, Vivek, the Indian guy. I like him. I was like, but they can't say his last name right now, so they don't like him. And he dropped out. So clearly my political vice is spot on.

Missed opportunity. They should have worked on it. Missed opportunity big time. You got Bush elected, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oil money. I got Luke Casey boots and some oil money. I don't really know this story. You were working on the Bush campaign? No. Yes. I don't really know this story. You were working on the Bush campaign?

No. Yes. I don't know. Yeah. Kind of. I was working for the EPA. Okay. But as a Schedule C employee for the Bush administration.

Oh. But like as it was, I started as a White House intern and then I got that job. And so it depends what kind of circle i'm in and who i'm trying to sell barbell equipment to if i see they're wearing a red hat with white rope i'm like yeah i work for bush and they're like yeah and then but if i swap but if i see they're like drinking oat life i'm like oh i work for the epa and i'm fly fisherman. And they're like, oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Conservationist right here.

Come on in. I'm like, oh, yeah, we got to protect that environment. My wife drives a Tesla. Man of the people. That's right. Populist. Yeah. Yeah.

Are you freezing your nuts off, Trey? Dude, it's actually warmed up to, we're at 28 degrees right before we started took my shirt off went outside so what are we at we're at i think today we're at like we're at 30 we got you beat we're at 30 no he's at 28 oh we're warmer warmer yeah you're warmer yeah uh do you guys know the band midland yeah yes it's your favorite town yeah favorite town favorite band she really likes him they have a song called up in texas and it's like you ain't done this till you've looked up in texas you know because the stars and stripes are big and bright they're bringing right so diana sends it to me the other day and goes this makes me want to move to texas and i just quickly grabbed

fort worth weather it said 13 degrees i screenshot it and sent it to her. She was so aligned. Never mind. Well played, sir. Well played. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trey, you got a good amateur lifting update for us? Dude, yeah. Actually, I wrote it down. I wrote down my numbers as of yesterday. Most recent squat

250 felt good. I started doing that three sets of five, three sets of five. Yeah. I started doing, I reset the novice linear progression. So I started to was doing two 50, uh,

overhead press one 25 deadlift two 90. Nice. Yeah, man. All right. And the knees holding up new knee feels good. It was moving smooth. Yeah,

man. Besides just being cold. That's about it. all right and the knees holding up new knee feels good it was moving smooth yeah man besides just being cold that's about it do you have any uh major amateur lifting questions after training in the books yeah i so here's a random one you ready for it so amateur lifting question of the week okay so i did deadlift i was i did not unpack my converse because I was too lazy. And so I deadlifted barefoot. Okay. Primal. That's the Viking lifestyle. And I'm like,

it feels good. Is there any pros cons to that? I don't know. To me, it was easier. Oh, to deadlift foot versus a shoe? Yeah. So what we would say is that your foot, even if you're flat footed you're not able to produce force over the entire surface area of your foot because you have an arch and

different things so like okay you know the ball of your foot's going to be touching your heels going to be touching but as you go to exert a lot of force your foot's going to move around and take some of that whereas in a shoe with a strap on it it's going to suck your foot's going to move around and take some of that. Whereas in a shoe with a strap on it, it's going to suck your foot down. And now the entire surface area of what is around your foot where you're driving through is a force transmitter, right? So you can produce more force because there's greater area. With that said, I think the heaviest deadlift I've seen was Shane Hunt last year. Jeff was there. What did he pull? Nine something for seven barefoot. It was insane.

Yeah, it was something stupid. So you can totally deadlift barefoot, not a problem. For most people, I like them to squat in a squat shoe. So then I go, all right, you go in the gym, you put on your squat shoes unless you're like lifting for a long time you're really strong just like wear the shoes your whole just leave your shoes on yeah exactly yeah but uh but no i mean i i'm not like anti i mean i've been dead lifting in those barefoot shoes but they're not barefoot like b-a-r-e they're like they're like growling barefoot shoes and they have a paw print on the side and diana hates them oh yeah they kind of look good yeah no like i said i it moved easy yesterday it felt good man so okay okay okay so prs are coming we'll see see. Yeah. We'll see.

Are you wearing any knee sleeves or anything like that? I did on the squat. Yeah, I did on the squat. And like I said, it felt good yesterday, man. Like I said, knees hold up, had the knee sleeves on, and I don't know. I don't know if it's like a psychological thing that it just makes you feel better, but I don't know. It felt good.

It works. I'm out of the loop. What what happened to your knee and how'd you rehab it uh rehabbed it essentially just kind of ice and rest it was uh what i say jumper's knee is that what it's called jumper yeah yeah intelligent eyes and then i just started being more intense i'm doing like more body weight warm-up stuff so big jumping guy yeah dude i've been jumping all over the place been jumping since 1989 when i was one oh you're 88 i mean you're i'm literally like i think a one-year-old during you what are you august 26 i'm 88 too though yeah august yeah you're 88 you're june july july you're one that's right i think it's one month exactly yeah i think jeff's what 45 this year yeah 45 again 45 and thriving he's pulling out of that roth 38 no i don't wish

i was 45 i feel like i'm gonna feel terrible was 45. i feel like i feel terrible at 45. uh if it's 10 times worse than 35 we're in for a real ride oh no i'm 37 i'm 37. yeah okay 30. going on 38. yeah okay okay going on 86. yeah uh much too young what did garth brooks say i'm much too young to be feeling this damn old but you can't play that i would play it right now but it's garth brooks and so you can't pull it up on pandora you can't pull it up on spotify you can't pull it up where where can you listen to garth brooks robin garth brooks.com yeah i think it's not walmart isn't it walmart yeah i think it's not mart isn't it walmart yeah i think so yeah what was his like fake studio name was it chris ledoux no chris gaines chris gaines yeah that's his rock and roll personality didn't he have the bangs he had like bangs like he was like i had like that emo haircut before that was even a thing. It was one of a kind.

Why did he go off of Spotify in the first place? Was it because of the payouts or what? I don't know. He's from Oklahoma. I don't know. Oklahoma, that's why. Go Sooners! I think he was a pole vaulter

at Oklahoma State. A big jumping guy. I wonder think he was a pole vaulter at Oklahoma State. What? Oh, a big jumping guy. Yeah. I wonder if he was jumpers. He got that jumpers knee. He was a jumping guy. Hey, Garth, how's your knee?

Get your thighs back, Garth. Stare at it. Stare at it, Garth. I didn't see Garth Brooks. That wasn't on our list, but we brought Garth in. Yeah. Yeah. Jeff, you got some sports updates for us? What kind of sports updates are you looking for?

I mean, the devil retired. I mean, yeah. Do we want to talk college football stuff? I'm sad he retired. What? It probably sounds weird, but there was nothing like beating nick saban you were like as you felt like that was accomplishing something that you're like your team went up against it and you beat you beat the guy that's like the best so you're saying if auburn if auburn wins this year

you will not feel as good no no i agree that's good good. So funny, Stephen Garcia, Gamecock, my favorite quarterback of all time during the, you know, a couple of the 11 win seasons back to back to back. Alabama comes in 2010. We beat number one, Alabama and his profile pick every year. I think Georgia beat them last year, but until then no team in the sec east had beaten alabama since 2010 so he would post it's been 648 days it's been 1000 to you know what since since an sec east

team beat alabama and uh yeah so he did like a cheers to Saban, which I meant to tell you, um, last week. And I thought about it after he, someone like a, there's this thing called sec unfiltered, which the guy that runs it, he's on Twitter and Instagram. The guy that runs it used to be, it used to be called, um, the spurs up show. And then he realized like, wow, I picked the worst team ever to make media about and people still really like it i should make it the whole sec so he made sec unfiltered and so during the game last week yeah during the game last week he put well it's still all gamecock stuff but he put uh the national championship without the sec is blank and And he types like, fill in the blank column below. And Steven Garcia just writes back, gay. And I was like, oh, all right. He's not wrong. The devil's gone.

I don't know. I'm excited. And if Aiden beats Alabama ever again, I'd be equally as excited as if he was there. That's just me, though. Did the Washington guy get confirmed in there? Yeah. Is that a lock?

Yeah. So he was the coach? It was a good hire. I don't know. Dude, I did not want that job. Well, I mean, good move for that guy. He'll get a big paycheck, and then that job's not coming back. You're not getting that offer again.

His stock's never going to be that high. You have to take it. But Alabama fans' expectations. Oh, my gosh. I think he'll do good. Have you seen their schedule for next year? It looks pretty easy relatively. I think they got Georgia.

They got Georgia and they go to LSU. And I think he's going to have a ton of talent. That dude just wins football games. So I think he's going to do, I don't know, what did I say, Jeff? Like 10-2? I think that's what I texted you. Yeah, he's done like two losses. I think two losses, if I take a guess.

I don't know. You're thinking Georgia and maybe I think Tennessee was the other one you said? Tennessee or LSU. I bet he drops one of those. I mean, I'm more excited. I don't know. If I was a Husky fan, I'd be excited about the Arizona Cubs. They got a good guy.

They got a good hire. I think that's an upgrade personally. Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick coaching tree right there, man. Bill Belichick coaching tree. Speaking of Billy B, after last week when we talked about it, I'm like, I don't want to say I'm super sad, but I'm like, I'm pretty bummed.

I'd be bummed. Yeah. Yeah. And like the Patriots, and I love Gamecock football, but the Patriots, like my upbringing with the Patriots was like, not many people ever experienced that. Like I became a Patriots fan because all my dad's family. And like, I remember watching us get destroyed by the packers i remember blood so being the

quarterback i remember the game where they got injured remember brady coming in i remember that belichick got hired from the browns i'm like 12. and it was just like greatness forever and i'm like oh bill belichick and tom brady like that'll be the combo for the rest of my life and then it's no longer is but okay deep take you know Belichick's dad went to Navy. Yes. Is that why you always recruit from there? Yes. And I am hoping that he goes and coaches at Navy.

And that is a grand take that you're not going to find. I mean, you will find it on the internet if you go deep. Like, so if you go to, all right, so there's this forum called Michigan music from the nineties. And if you go to all right so there's this forum called michigan music from the 90s and if you go to that forum there's a sub forum it's called jack white's couch but it's not called jack white's

couch it's called deadweathers and then if you buy a sofa from there and it gets shipped to your house and you open it there's a passcode to another forum which is bill belichick's coach at navy wow so it's like real deep you and and three other people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and you're all on this podcast that now everyone knows me and one, two,

three, but no. Wow. So he loves the Naval Academy, but think about Belichick style. I think a college football coach is sales. It's going on the road and finding some young punk and convincing him why it's going to be cool to come play at X University, but not at the Naval Academy.

No. That's a different breed of people going there for different reasons. And I feel like it totally lines up with Belichick philosophy, like, oh, you want to play ball or not? So I don't know. I would love to see him go to Navy. Craig and I were actually kind of like talking about Navy a little bit or just like the surface academies in general like do they can they get nil deals oh i don't know like oh that if i'm gonna go with that that's a game changer like that makes it even harder for that recruiting to get those get those guys in there um

i i think now i'm to go with no on that one I would think no also I don't know I think Bill Belichick is going to I think Jared Jones is going to try to hire him if they fire Mike McCarthy yeah well McCarthy is gone I know you're a Cowboys

fan Trey but man that was so funny that was so funny especially because I drilled drilling in Fort Worth they're like all Pantray, but man, that was so funny. Loosely. Okay, that was so funny. Especially because I drilled. I loved it. Drilling in Fort Worth, they're like all Cowboys fans. We them boys, we them boys. And I like, what was the game before that?

That's Texans? Yeah, Texans. So I watched a little bit of that. And then Diane and I went with our neighbors to Hot Pot. And we left Hot Pot. We left Hot Pot and I turned on the game and they were just getting trounced. I was like, I love this. Dude, murdered.

Yeah, murdered. Fantastic. I don't know. Jeff made me a Green Bay Packers fan. Low key. Partial owner. Go Pack Go. The fold. Go Pack Go. The fold. Go Pack Go. It's like all the fairytale

teams making it. Lions, Packers. Yeah, I love that Lions win. I love that. Dan Campbell, man. I love that guy. Dan Campbell. I just want to see Patrick Mahomes lose. That guy.

If I was going to Nolan Hickey it, I'd say his last name three times out loud. Do you see who's the, who's the chief's coach? What's his name? Andy Reed. Do you see Andy Reed's mustache? Of course I did.

I was like, is that my dad? No, just see the frozen mustache. Yeah. Yeah. I saw it. It was epic.

Yeah. Epic. So Kansas City's playing the Bills, and the Bills are playing at home, and Patrick Mahomes has never played in a way playoff game. What a crazy stat. Isn't that crazy? That is crazy. I'm going Bills. That was that shootout.

Was that two years ago when it was just back and forth? Do you remember that? Whoever had the ball last was going to win. Yeah, it was Bills-Chiefs. I remember that. That was the best game of the playoffs. Yeah. I don't remember. So many football games.

That's true. Yeah. Speaking of football, how about some foodball? Some foodball? Let's see what's going on. Liverpool, still top of the table in the Premier League. Oh, Liverpool. Sorry.

It's a pool that Liver King sits in. He just hangs out in it. Yeah, it's a pool that liver king sits in yeah primal anyway continue uh but what's scary is that they've got a bunch of injuries now and man city who's kind of just been running the league for the last i don't know decade-ish and they just got some guys healthy. The Viking guy, right? Yeah, he's been hurt the last three or four games for them, and they've had some struggles, but they just got Kevin De Bruyne back.

Now he has this long, flowing hair. He got subbed on in the second half, immediately scored a goal, had an assist to win the game. It was just like, oh no, they're back. Who's the uh who's the egyptian guy who plays for liverpool mo salah ah that's what i like that guy yeah he's the guy who's the guy in miami i like jp pj messy messy messy messy yeah like wow big big messy guy

i think you're the only one wow you're right well i think a lot of people might hop on that bandwagon yeah i think so it's jersey sales young up and coming player yeah that's right anyway continue uh long flowing yeah so yeah most salah he's actually away though playing at the africa like uh nations cup or whatever so they're like Continental Tournament and then when there are the other good players is in Asia playing in that like Continental Tournament and so it's kind of tough right now for Liverpool but we'll be all right we'll be all right it's a long season um at least you won't get relegated yeah true yeah speaking of uh football really for something good on Netflix there's called it's called Captains of the world ooh and it like follows this past world cup and it's like it just basically kind of like follows

all the teams and specifically like the captains of each team and it's like netflix typical like very dramatic like engrossing editing it's good it's good could you guys do me a favor and i say you guys i mean jeff could you make like a 15 minute youtube video that explains all the different soccer leagues oh yeah where they are 15 minutes who's yeah 15 i just i want to like watch one video and be like oh i understand it because every time i think i understand it i'm like i don't that's not fifa manchester united i don't get it that That's MLS. That's the Olympics. I don't understand what's happening. So, yeah,

I think that's a good, or maybe next year we just, or next episode, we just do soccer, soccer basics. It is extremely convoluted and just like, so it is, it is kind of confusing,

right? Oh yeah, absolutely. Okay. It's not like Grant's just being Grant. No, it's not. It's weird. grant no it's not it's weird especially like there was the world cup in the winter so they paused the season but then every season

there's also like two other club so like not the national team like tournaments that go on and then this year within the season there's also the african continental cup and the asian continental like cup so like players are leaving to go play for their national teams and they have And then this year, within the season, there's also the African Continental Cup and the Asian Continental Cup. So players are leaving to go play for their national teams, and they have their club team. It's just a disaster. It's very complicated. Complicated. Disaster, yeah.

Yeah, disaster. I mean, complicated. No good. What else we got? Actually got something okay i got this in the i got this in the mail okay unboxing unboxing oh i recognize that peck job from ups and so i want to get to the bottom of that because this isn't the first thing that's been sent to me from an undisclosed sender but i have received things from this undisclosed sender before and i want to talk about who packs it but before i do that real quick someone sent me this by the name of matt hallock says aviation codes and the codes are 7500 fly formation with

F-16 Sierra. 7600 ATC mute. 7700 priority landing. Anywhere. Does that make any sense to you guys? I'm not a JTAC.

But Jeff is. I don't know any of that. So someone sent me right. Yeah, I don't know any of that. So someone sent me this. Okay, I don't know what it means. All right, so yeah, I got an unboxing here, a live unboxing. Give me your P. I think you would call this a live unbagging. Ooh.

Is this safe for work? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Cool conservationist care package. I didn't know if it was NSFW. So the undisclosed recipient is Mr. Bouge. And the reason I know that is because I got an email from UPS that says,

you have a package coming. And it's like Cinder Patagonia. And I was like, oh, it's Jeff. So I was hoping he was sending me $700 waiters. Well, this was before I knew what size you were, but now I know what size you are. You already got some. You're good. Ooh.

Simple fly fishing. Simple. Ooh, look at these guys in the back. Is that the Patagonia founder right there? Oh, yeah. He's definitely, yeah. Yvon Chouinard's definitely in there. Thanks. Nice. It's a good book. It's a really good book. Excellent. And then there's a little conservation

cap here um so you pack this you do do the packing i did that yeah yeah so you grab it off the shelf and pack it yeah okay i didn't know if it was like you go into the system and put the oh no no yeah we had that stuff at the store so i was like i'm gonna pull it and send it man you're gonna try it on i'll try to put it over my headphone oh dude i got that one look at that you like this one this is how you wear it right thumbnail yeah there you go that's true fly fisherman yeah pj liked my thumbnail photo it's perfect mr beast approved mr beast approved i'm the burger guy yeah Yeah. Well, thanks. I sent you guys microphones, and Jeff sent me a book and a hat. So I feel like I'm on the winning side of this.

I sent you thoughts and prayers. Yeah. Thoughts. Trey, you already have that hat. Yeah, you already gave it to me. It's a good hat. Is this actually Trey's hat that he returned to the store? I still look great.

I didn't even like the gift. That's my fishing hat, dude. Yeah. PJ's wearing a lift hat right now. You guys want to PJ weight update? Yeah. What are we tipping the scales at? I'm up to 183.

So up one pound. So by episode 17 more episodes, I'll be on vacation and gains a pound. Dude, he's really upset. I'm more vacation story. That's what I'm saying. Vacation every day. Every day. Do what you love.

You'll never work a day in your life. All right. That's what they said. Who said that? Abe Lincoln, I believe. Hawthorne. I think it is Abe Lincoln. Yeah.

Yeah, that was him. What's the matter? You don't know any Shakespeare? Sorry. Departed quote. Speaking of Scorsese, I was going to watch that Killers of the Flower Moon today.

Flower Moon. Yeah. It wasn't enough time before the podcast. It's like three and a half hour. Yeah, you're like, I'm going to watch a movie. Sorry, I don't have nine hours that I'm going to be awake. I wanted to... What was the other source? The Irishman?

Also flowers. There was a meme that came out that said, how to turn the Irishman into a miniseries. And it picked you somewhere between 35 and 50-minute segments. And I did it, and it was great. That's really smart. So I need someone to do that for Killers of the Flower Moon.

It has bad reviews which tells me it's going to be a movie that I like. What? Killers of the Flower Moon does? Yeah, like a lot of people don't like it. Barbie and Oppenheimer

just changed the game for movie like it just i feel like those movies last year they were like the first two movies since 2020 that people like got excited about and talk like tell me a movie between 2020 and barbie and oppenheimer that people talked about dude i'm a sucker for anything mission impossible okay new one tom cruise dude sure sure i'm just saying those were like the first two movies in a few years where there was like buzz you remember when we used to come out and everyone talked about it i would say that the only thing in between there was that new top gun there was some buzz again but i don't know i think the phenomenal that was a good movie too the movies are dead agree keep just they just keep just making superhero movies

i mean once you've watched reacher why would you watch anything else you're a big reacher guy now that's a good flick my british clients were like oh my gosh thank you so much for recommending reacher every time we watch it we look and say that's basically grant and i was like uh yeah just missing some growth hormone uh some trend balloon and some trt and yep that's me also that's what i did every day in the marine corps i just punched in windows grabbed bad guys ripped them out and saved victims. Semper Fi. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Some whole feast. You'll be there. Yeah. Whole feast. Is it good? Are you all caught up? No, I'm not all caught up. I'm season two. I think I'm two ups. I haven't watched it in a few days. I've been reading. Oh yeah. What you been reading? Big reader.

I used to be a good big reader, which I think means I still am a big reader, but then I got busy. But I cracked a Grisham book, The Reckoning. And so I was always very proud that every time Grisham released a new book, I would pre-order it.

And I was caught up. And I had one book from, I don't know, a few years ago, The Reckoning. And I had started it and hadn't finished it. So anyway, I grabbed it. I stay up. I finished the book. And I'm like, oh, I got to buy the new one. There must be a new one. It's pre-order. Usually, you can pre-order them in the spring. And they come out late summer. And I go, there's six books I haven't read because I've like fallen behind over the last few years. So I just bought them all on Amazon. So I'm actually, so I buy them all. Then I realized he took the Camino Island story, which was like, they went into Princeton

and they sold the manuscripts of the great Gatsby and all the Fitzgerald stuff. And they run away with them and i've read it before but now they made a second and a third book to that like over the last few years is a sequel what do you call the third book in a series third episode three three it's a star wars thing does that have a name like is that that is that the triquel yeah i think that's probably some name. Sequel has to be SE for second.

Right? PJ, are you looking this up? Yeah, I'm doing some Googling. Yeah. Abe Lincoln said sequel first. Anyway, Lincoln. So Camino Island, Camino wins and then Camino ghost. And I got a time

for mercy when Grisham's first book was A Time to Kill. Did you guys see that movie? Yeah. What's the famous line from that movie? Oh, I'll be back. It's Samuel L. Jackson, right? Samuel L. Jackson, yeah. Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn

in hell. Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn hell yes they deserve to die and i hope they burn in hell that's right there's too many snakes on this plane yeah yeah different something like different different book oh john grisham still yeah uh anyway he wrote a sequel to that so anyway i've been reading so i i've stopped reacher i'm back on i'm back on the grisham train um book review segment i think it's happening i think so yeah i mean Grisham train. Book review segment? I think it's happening. I think so. Yeah. I mean, Grisham was like-

Sports and books? Yeah, one of the first books. I read The Brethren. Did you guys ever read The Brethren? Oh, what's that about? I'll tell this real quick because it's just interesting. So The Brethren is these white collar criminals that launder money, get sent to prison.

And they're in prison. They're trying to get out. So they start putting, um, ads, uh, in magazines from prison for like homosexual partners.

And they start letters, pen pals with like very high up businessmen, guys that are gay. And then like, once they have like all the stuff, they extort them, they take all their money, they escape and they leave. And so my brother, my older brother, Jordan is five years older than me. Handed me that book when I was like 13. He's like, you'll love this. And I'm reading it and I'm like, this is like genius. Like they're criminals. They're going to make money. They're going to get out. They're extorting these people for stuff they're embarrassed about. Long story longer. I'm like, this is like genius. Like they're criminals. They're going to make money. They're going to get out. They're extorting these people for stuff they're embarrassed about.

Long story longer. I'm talking about brother the day I'm like, Hey, you got to read the new Grisham. He's a big Grisham head too. I'm like, you got to read blah, blah, blah. He's like, man, I was thinking about the brethren the other day. And I was like, yeah, he's like, yeah, because like in the nineties, if you were a businessman and gay, you hit it. Now no one cares. He's like, I don't think that extortion thing would work anymore. I was like, yeah, that's true. So yeah, The Brethren, good read.

Romantic comedy. Yeah. Yeah. Mostly romantic. Man, I was watching Netflix the other day. Actually, I think it was a couple months ago. Me and Abby were watching this documentary series. What's the... It's like a lawyer family.

It's like a powerful family. Is it South Carolina? Oh. What am I talking about? Is it South Carolina? South Carolina. Keep talking. It's one of the Carolinas.

Well, there's only two. True, yeah. I just counted them again turns out verified all right let me just test this real good because we're from the South Jeff and I used to do that when we would cook collards or get better out. And Rimpi from Kansas would be like, why are you doing that, Jeff? Because we're from the... And I would go, The South.

Yeah. Anyway. What's the show called? The Murdaugh's or whatever. The Murdaugh's. That's it. Grant knows all about this. I'm basically a Murdaugh. Grant's keen. That's what I all about this i'm basically a murdoch grant's keen i was watching it i was like i wonder if grant knows these knows these people so the kids buster and then what's the one that died what a great name it would be a buster um

so they're a little young for me okay we're not asking you to marry him he's gonna extort him sorry i'm still thinking about letters from him i'm still thinking about the brethren um they are a lot younger than me that family so when i watch the shows or the news clippings there's a podcast on it called murdoch murders i've listened the whole thing it's fun to listen to because when they talk about every town and road it's like literally right where I grew up. So they are towards Walterboro. They're like 20 minutes from me and they own a bunch of land between Beaufort and Charleston. So like when I was at the Citadel, I would obviously make the drive a bunch. So like another area. So I would see signs for like Murdoch's attorney at law, Murdoch's like storage,

like different things, but no no i didn't know them but the girl that um the girl that died in the boating accident her dad goes to my dad's church and oh okay and her stepmom so like and that happened like i when i worked on the shrimp docks that happened like right around the corner from that uh yeah that's all there's what what new show i'm wondering if i've seen it now it's a netflix documentary right i think so i haven't seen it yeah uh it's pretty it's just kind of detailed i had no idea like what that story was but it was wild it was my only beef with it is like nobody runs the low country like the murdochs and i'm like man like we just kind of thought they

were rich rednecks like no one like i grew up there No one was like, oh, look, there's a Murdoch. No one really cares. There was some cutthroat Murdoch stuff at the game days, though, this year. Like, oh, yeah. Like, ripping on the Murdochs. Like, oh, yeah, it was wild. But yeah, that's a crazy. That's a crazy one that was crazy yeah i thought

you were talking about southern charm uh no it's like a bravo show is that a good show uh i've only seen one episode and i've only seen one episode because a guy that i went to college with was in it he played baseball at the citadel and he was like someone's boyfriend at the time of like one of the female characters. No, it looks terrible. I mean, if you're into like Real Housewives of Orange County, you might like it. Real Housewives of Dallas?

What's that one? Remember we got, it was like we were all living together and we all got into The Bachelor that one season. We ran into one of those girls. Yeah, JoJo. No, it was the blonde one with the kids. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We did run into that one, yep. And I remember we were walking in, she was walking out, and I go, hey, you're The Bachelor girl. And she's like, actually, I'm a bachelorette. Disdain. She hated me, yeah. Get it right.

Is this the part of the show where we're trying to get more female viewers? Yeah. Up from three to four. I don't think it's working. But yeah, we just went from three to four. By the way, we got almost 300 listens here on episode two.

So the people are enjoying it. People love it. People love the show. Which is good. I was excited about what, Jeff, what you post. You had it. Was it the Olympics? Oh, yeah.

I got my list. I got my list. Oh, yeah. We're playing an Olympics game. Dude, I got super excited about this. Okay. I'm ready. Oh, okay. All right.

Explain the rules. Explain the rules. Okay. So I've got okay i've got i've got 10 uh it would say sports we'll just call them sports could you know you could throw some of them into the activities category um but the question is will these be events at the 2024 olympics in paris I'm going to do from three columns. I've got Trey grant and PJ. So we'll go around the horn here.

You'll weigh in whether you think yay or nay. We keep in store. You Jeff. I'll keep. Yeah, I'm keeping score. Okay. I can't count.

Yeah. Okay. All right. First one. Everybody ready. Am I first? Yes. Yeah.

We'll go grant Trey and then we'll get PJ. Okay. All right. First one. Everybody ready? Am I first? Yes. Yeah. We'll go Grant, Trey, and then we'll kick PJ. Okay. All right. First one. Wrestling. Okay.

I know that's an Olympic sport. I don't think it's an Olympic sport they've gotten rid of. And I think you could do that in the summer or the winter, but it seems like you do it in the summer. I'm going to go with a yes you're going to go with it oh correct so we're going to know the answer as we wait is everyone going to weigh in or does everyone have their own question everyone's going to weigh in on all these or we can yeah yeah no yeah okay i'm going to say yes all right grant says yes there's two different kinds there's roman greco yeah they can't get rid

of both of them I'm gonna go yeah yeah I'm going yeah too I mean that was probably one of the first sports in the first Olympics so they can't get rid of that I think that's why they're all correct all right but several years ago it was it was official it was dropped and then whoever like the governing body for wrestling you know not in the olympics like they made a bunch of changes yeah yeah it's fitzmick they made a bunch of changes and so before the olympics that rolled around that it was supposed to be dropped by they they added it back in so at one point it was cut which was bananas because you like the you guys said it's the like original olympic sport fascinating okay love it next one next tug of war no no i'd agree with that i'm gonna go no as well i mean that's basically wrestling with a rope. So I'm going to say yes.

Okay. It is not going to be in these Olympics, but it was part of the Olympics from 1900 to 1920. Not bad. And then the Marines took it over for field day. It's also interesting looking at some research because I kind of was just like going down a rabbit hole of Olympic sports. And so at one point yeah so the u great britain had the most success in it with like i think five medals total or something like that us was number two but then

there were these like mixed teams that won medals and then doing the research it was like yeah and this year there were four americans and one german guy and my just like take on this is it probably was like there were no tug-of-war teams. They just got to the Olympics and were like, I got four strong people. We need one more. Look at these guys from the OK podcast. They look like

they're from Nebraska. Put them in. Well, three of us do. Next one. We're going to go reverse order this time so we're gonna go pj trey and then okay okay perfect baseball slash softball it's gotta be a yes yeah i would agree with that as well no oh grant gets it. What? It is not part of this Olympics. And this is kind of a tricky one because it was part of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

But then before that, it was not. But then Otani-san got drafted and they were like, why would we play this anymore? Yeah. So yeah, 2006, it got dropped from the Olympics, made a comeback in 2020 because Japan, I guess the host nation gets to like lobby for certain events that maybe like align with their countries, kind of like, you know, traditions or whatever. So baseball, big in Japan.

So they were like, we want baseball slash softball in the Olympics. France said, no, we don't really care about our baseball team. All right. But it will be back in 2028 when it's in Los Angeles. That's why I was confused. For you non-Spanish speakers, that means the City of Angels.

Los Angeles. Thank you for the translation. You're welcome. Bueno. We'll go reverse order again. My first flag. We'll go PJ, then Grant, and then we'll switch up the order again my first flag or yeah we'll go pj to tray then grant and then we'll switch up the order again so flag football no

i'm gonna go yes i'm gonna go yes it's not oh not yet it was kind of if you were watching the playoffs, I feel like it gave a lot of, I don't know, little sizzle packages of talking about flag football going to the Olympics. But it'll be 2028 is the first year for flag football. There's like, I remember there was a commercial, I think a Nike commercial, where like a girl from Mexico is like phenomenal flag football. Have you seen this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's getting some hype. it's big in like the youth leagues uh i know my my niece played it my nephew played it yeah a lot less brain injuries maybe i don't know worth it worth it okay next one next one. Next one. This one will go Trey, Grant, and PJ. On pressure. Weightlifting. So talking about clean and jerk and snatch. Yes, of course.

No. I think no. Wait. Just any weightlifting whatsoever. Yeah, weightlifting. So the sport of weightlifting is the snatch or the clean and jerk and the snatch, right? So clean and jerk. Remember Jim DeNova's lesson on this yeah if you live weights you need to know

weightlifting is a sport every other country calls it weightlifting in america we call it olympic weightlifting because it happens in the olympics and i'm like so i'm an american so i call olympic weightlifting right he's like, you call it weightlifting. It's these two movements. Is that different than powerlifting? Yeah, powerlifting, squat, bench, deadlift. Strength lifting, which is kind of like a starting strength, semi-made-up thing, a squat press deadlift. Weightlifting is the thing that was done in the Olympics,

which is the clean and jerk and the snatch. I should have been omitted from this question after yeah after that explanation i would like to change my answer yeah wait i'll see what yes wait is it here this year it is pj said yes oh pj said yes too wait oh yeah pj said no no i said it was gonna be cut yeah he said no he said no okay it is being cut i thought it was oh it changed but they like they it like went through a two-year period where it was like dropped and then the iwf came back out and said oh it will be part of the olympics oh okay i heard it was cut so there's like a couple big olympic lifters that were at the starting

strength seminar in December. And they were telling me how it's gone. Yeah. There was, I'll pull up the, no, I believe you. I just,

I'm glad. I'm glad it's back because I always like to. Yeah. I just thought it seems upset. Yeah. It was supposed to go away in 2020. Like this was supposed to be the last Olympics of it. And then now it's like the IWF.

So International Weightlifting Federation came out and was like, talk to the IOC. So the International Olympic Committee. And it is now like on the program for 20. They got extorted. They got extorted. They got extorted. Okay. Somebody in prison writing letters.

Are you reading John Grisham? Hey, Trey, I wrote you a letter last night, by the way. I've been reading it. I feel extorted. You can pay me in Bitcoin. Alright, so next one.

Next one. Trey, PJ, Grant. Cricket. Yes. Yes. It's going to be in France. Yes. No.

Wow. It has not been in the Olympics since 1900. We are terrible at this. Which is crazy because it's like huge internationally like it's one of the the biggest sports internationally i'm more of a uh a winter olympics guy that's it yeah big big bobsled guy yeah big bobsled guy really into hurling and curling don't they take breaks and drink tea? Isn't that the cricket? Yeah. It's like your halftime.

Is it boba tea? No. It's tea with milk in it. Just brown water. It's anabolic. We'll do a quick scoring update. We've got four more. Where are we at?

Trey, you have three grant has three pj two all right there's time to think about it yeah you got victim weight victim weight over there all right next one up surfing who's going first we'll go grant trey pj okay france summer i want to say no but i'm gonna say yes i don't think there's surfing in the english channel is there i mean you can make water kelly slater has like a surf park oh wow dude i'm gonna go now i think in texas right yeah wow just remember that he kelly slater from saved by the bell he dated uh giselle before brady all right i'm going yes because that just seems so random it just feels like a setup yes it is but trey you're kind of you're kind of

on the right track in that it is no it is not anywhere near the country of france they're doing it at uh to hoi pu to hey poo i don't know how you say it exactly but it's in like micro neat or like french micronesia or like tahiti just sounds like a it's like a super world-class surf break that they always have like tournament set so it has some tie to france but it's not anywhere near the country of france so i'm back in the game back in the game that's right all right next one change we'll go pj grant trey okay trampoline what big jumping guy i'm gonna say garthth Brooks is in the Olympics.

Get that jumpers me. I'm going to say yes. I'm next. Yeah, I'll go grant trampoline. That seems like an incomplete sentence. What like trampoline by itself? It is a thing wrong.

He's not like, hey, is this in the Olympics trampolining? He's just like, is this in the olympics trampolining he's just like is there going to be a trampoline there so i'm going to go yes watched at last olympics i'm going to go yeah oh correct oh good point on that one yeah trampoline and it is not like a an event within gymnastics it's like apparently it's its own standalone thing what's the objective lean jump i think you just do a bunch of flips and tricks and bounce around on a trampoline it's like one guy gets in the center and like acts like an egg and the guy that gets bounced out has to write a letter yep he has to make a pen pal what's up

brethren we're out of control oh we are all right okay next one next one let's go uh we'll go grant trey pj for this one. Breaking, also known as break dancing. I'm first. Will Grant first. No. This is tough. I'm going to go no. I'm going to go yes, because I know that's a big European thing.

PJ is correct are you kidding me you got to figure out the pulse of Europe back on top Euro trash guy over here the first year for it European PJ European PJ

first year for it and yeah it was like France is kind of one of their sports that they lobbied for to have included as part of the olympics seems french is this the last one all right we're going into the last one score update pj's winning right i'm on top it's five four four pj's making a comeback since the last scoring update he's hit three in a row. We've got Trey sitting at four.

Grant's got five. PJ's got five. This one's worth two. This one's worth two. What? Alright. We'll go original. We'll go Trey, Grant, PJ.

Deal. All right. Yo-yoing. I'm going to go yes. Really? Yo-yoing? I'm down. I got to take a stab at this.

Yes. Going no. Congratulations, producer Jory PJ no no no not once has yo-yoing ever been in the Olympics that was the next one though right no it's not on the schedule

oh that's too bad other ones that are scheduled in the future like lacrosse um baseball softball what else yeah schedule. Oh, that's too bad. Other ones that are scheduled in the future are like lacrosse, baseball, softball, and sport climbing is new for this Olympics. I really wanted to watch Sloan walk the dog. By the numbers,

can we get the final score? Alright, final score. Trey, four points. Bronsmetal. Grant, five points. Erey, four points. Bronze medal. Grant, five points. Silver. Silver.

Nice Olympic tie-in. That was pretty good. That was good. That last one was courtesy of my wife. Oh, nice. Oh, nice. She did a little research for you. Yeah, she threw it.

She was like yo-yoing that like could maybe especially if you follow it after break dancing where it just seems plausible fooled me yeah it's like how sure pj is about break dancing in the olympics yeah yeah dude just you should move to europe yeah who's the top breakdancer, PJ? I believe Bill Belichick. Nope, that's not right. That's why you retire. He's like, gotta focus on the games.

Gotta focus on the Olympics. Oh, man. That's good. All right. Well, I can't wait to see what game you have for next week. It, man. That's good. All right. Well, I can't wait to see what game you have for next week. It was fun. Speaking of games, Trey, what's this about you sleeping with a weighted blanket? Have you ever slept with one? Yes, and I have very strong feelings about it, but I'm going to let you tell your story first.

Well, first of all, it was two degrees. And so we threw on a weighted blanket. Okay. So for warmth, not for anti-anxiety. Well, I also get nervous too, like super easy.

So yeah. Sure. Yeah. No, I was strictly for warmth. Okay. So they make it good. I slept like a baby,

man. We have a king size one. Ooh. A California king or a regular king? Just a regular king. Texas king. Well, you do wear the king's cloth. Every day.

We threw it on there and I slept like a baby. I was out immediately. How much does it weigh? 150 pounds. Get out of here. No, it doesn't. What is it? 15 pounds? I think they're like...

Abby's still in bed. Abby can't move. Abby hasn't been out of bed all week. Do you progress the weight? Do you like add five pounds a night? Yeah. We're on the novice program. NLP.

NLP, novice lender progression. Why do you keep buying 1.25 pound plates, Trey? I'm just adding them to my weighted blanket. To my duvet. That'd be, maybe we could get in the weighted blanket scene. Yeah, strength to a weighted blanket. You know, like when people when people uh make those uh blankets out of like denim jeans like all the different things so we could make

them out of old denim jeans and every square could be a back pocket of a pair of wranglers and then you could just fill the pockets with 1.25s and sew it together it's the same thing it's i mean i feel like we're on to something here wait so what's your opinion of him are you not a fan i'm not a fan uh someone gave me one one year and i felt trapped i felt like yeah i was not i was not a fan i remember you just you hate being comfortable i remember that yeah i'm here for pain and suffering yeah uh yeah no i'm not a fan i also sleep weird though like i sleep with my hands over my chest like this on my back and i don't move like dracula yeah because i know exactly what that means is that a star wars

character i feel like that's a very well-known literary reference. You don't have to scare a reference. What? Is that from the Enlightenment? Yeah. Yeah, like Dracula. Yeah. It's way up here. What else we got, guys? I caught my first fish by myself.

Oh, yeah. I saw that. Yeah. Let's hear it. Let's hear the story. What'd you catch? Caught it on a red worm, the killer red. Uh,

so I had a, a dry nymph or I had a, I had a nymph. I had a dry fly on the top as my indicator, but did have a hook in it. And then I went in, you know, I had my guide.

He's like, you can go here, you can go there, whatever. When you go in, he's like, the water's going to be flowing a lot. Cause we've had all this rain, try and judge the water depth, you know, do this, here's some junk. You know, we bought, I bought some flies and, you know, not many had like maybe like 10 in case I lost some. And I went in and I, I mean, Diana came and like sat on the bank and I was like, look,

like I'll just be very clear. I'm not going to catch a fish a fish I was like I'm going to learn a lot because like I need to do this by myself I need to like hook things up myself whatever so I go into the first place that he sent me and I go and there's like five dudes like floating the river and I know about this because he that's what he does in Tennessee a lot like up near Johnson City and like you can just tell me you see the boat they're floating. There's like four guys on it. Lines are going everywhere. And I'm like, I don't want to get in and fish in front of these people. I don't even know if these waiters work. I'm going to fall in my cast sucks. They're going to be like, why are you fishing a red worm? Blah, blah, blah. So I like go further down and I got to get in Diana, like

sets up her chair and I get in and the water is just like rushing. Like, it's like, it's like whitewater Rapids. And, um, so I'm like trying, I get to a spot where it's a little bit smoother.

I'm like casting. It's like kind of going, okay. I'm like trying to catch a drift. It's like going way too fast. Then I finally get it stuck and I lose my bottom fly. So I come out of the water, I retie it.

And then I'm like, let's go down here. So we get another place. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to go exactly where he told me to go. Like the pin, he dropped them,

go that area. There was fishermen there, whatever. So I go back, fishermen are there and I'm watching him in my, and John will always be like, you see all these guys are just flies going everywhere. All they're saying is bald eagle bald eagle bald

eagle that's all they're telling the fish you don't need to do all that nonsense just get in there catch your drift so i get in and i noticed like these guys aren't catching any fish and so i found like some water that looked familiar to what i'm like used to like fast moving water but you see like the brakes and the current you're like oh if it goes there i might go slow and i just start you know working the different little channels and um yeah maybe like an hour in i like feel it and i see my you know indicator going around i'm like no way and i'm set to the left two inches that's what he always tells me two inches you said that 20 feet two inches set it come up boom i get it like, for some reason I'm like smart enough. Cause my problem is like, I always like keep it clasped and like, don't let

the fish run. And they just like break off. It's like, I let it run. And then like, I've never netted my own fish. And so I'm like, all right. And I'm always like awkward with it. Like here, he's like, just go up with it. Like, why are you like reaching out? Like, just go up. And so like, I, I, I reel it and it's like coming thing. It's going away. It's coming back. And then it like gives up and it's tired. I just like reaching my back and grab my net.

And I just like hold the rod up and the fish is right there. And I grabbed it and I was just like, this is like a top, top moment of the last 24 months. Like I can't believe I caught my own fish. Um, yeah. So I caught it, caught, caught the little rainbow and,

uh, let him go fish for a little while longer. And then the next day it just rained sideways all day. And I, and I was like, I am not going. And Saturday we came home. So we only got to go once,

but, uh, but yeah, so that was, I was pumped. I was, well, because I mean, you do it with him we only got to go once but uh but yeah so that was that was i was pumped i was well because i mean you do it with him and you gotta say and he doesn't like baby you but he's like put it there just cast it there do this do that and you know with that gone it's like i i realize like i know nothing but like oh i do know like a little bit about a little something so that's cool so yeah caught me that rainbow yeah yeah you just like talk it through and you were like okay i found

a spot that you were like used to fishing and then you just started working the segments it's like yeah yeah dude that it was that's what it is it was fun and i was just like all i want to do is go fish i think i just you know i'm hooked oh it's a bass fishing joke yeah boom boom show real fishing trey me and jeff are conservationists say we believe we believe just simple men yeah so you gotta get a fancy dallas oil man like yeah we don't have luke casey's and reels some new chases blue chessies blue chessies with the blue bands but that's definitely how you say that word like that's i mean that's what i'm saying chessies no one's fanatically see except those rich boys from dallas they might say lou chasey actually i don't know what do you say

luke casey luke casey yeah chessie is what i said yeah like way down young retail you're not from around these shows yeah a couple old men up from Dallas. This boy must be raised in South Carolina. Coming in here with his new chassis on. That's right. No, man. It looked good. Good looking fish. Yeah, it was fun. It was cool.

Speaking of Texas, I guess we'll all be together next week, yeah? It's the 29th, right? Are you still pro carnivore? Is that a thing? Yeah, I'm still pro carnivore. So twofold on that.

We talked a little bit at the beginning. I just recorded a video that will be released tomorrow on carnivore. Do you mean pro? Like, am I still a fan? Or do you mean like when I come to your house, am I going to refuse bread? You can take it however you want to i already me and abby already planned on doing a uh charcuterie board of just meats and hard cheese hard cheese throw it at each other i'm still a fan i'm not a fan like everyone needs to go carnivore but uh having walked a lot of people through it like um everyone's like

maintained their strength lost a little weight i'm down like nine pounds um i'm actually trying not to lose anymore but uh yeah i'm a fan and it's simple to follow and i mean it's tasty you get to eat ribeyes every day that's a good point yeah um but yeah no i'm still i'm still pro carnivore it's not for everybody but i'm it has its place has its place um so yeah we'll come in there what thursday night yeah right next thursday right yeah next thursday yeah i'll be around fresco all right uh i think we should wrap up by talking about the big trip at the end of February and um Mr. Jeff's gonna Mr. Jeff's gonna make a little sales pitch on why you should be there Trey but uh I've been thinking about this a lot actually the 36th Arnold Sports Festival is the first weekend of March

so I think the 29th is like the setup day. I'm getting in like that Wednesday or Tuesday. I can't remember. But the festival is 1, 2, 3 March, which is Friday, Saturday, Sunday. PGA will be there. Jeff will be there. And we're thinking if Trey is there, then we can just record live from the Arnold. Just like all the people I know are there.

Okay. Yeah. We'll just see. live from the Arnold. Just like all the people I know are there. Okay. Yeah. We'll just, we'll just see. I'll grab Arnold and we'll just throw him on the podcast. Okay. Get to the job. CIA has you pushing too many papers.

Yeah. My favorite movie is junior. That's where he has the baby, right? Yeah. Before it's time, you know, that's where he writes letters from jail yeah before it's time you know that's where he writes letters from jail right yeah yeah yeah the brethren junior so are you are you available that weekend

i gotta check i gotta check with uh kitchen six and i'll let you know we'll take it we'll take you to the eagle dude what day are you coming in jeff uh oh gosh i gotta look at the hotel reservation i can't remember it was a maybe i think so that sounds right friday yeah that sounds right are you are you still driving yeah i'm gonna drive um yeah so i got one truck that'll leave california that'll have like all the signage all the plates like everything i had like a 10,000 pound capable box truck. So that'll go in. We're building a stage this year for the deadlift platform. So Eddie's helping me out with that.

So to be elevated. So all that stuff will come. And then, you know, the weights, if you're listening and you're in the Ohio area and and you want some weights we sell the weights at a discount at the end of the show we don't haul them out of there so there's a good opportunity if you're looking for cast iron uh to come and get some along with bars um looks like we're gonna have 7 500 t-shirts to give away so that'll be fun and then uh we'll have like we got well you guys have seen some of the new shirts we won't spill it yet but we got a couple new shirt designs we got the new arnold shirt design which i haven't seen on you guys but i'll i'll drop it and show you um so we'll have some

cool stuff for sale and then um yeah it should be fun it's gonna be interesting with the animal cage back i feel like we did well because the animal cage wasn't there. Are you familiar with the animal cage at all? Trey? I think you've told me about him. Yeah. So I never, I never went to an Arnold when it was there,

but I've watched many a YouTube video of when it did exist. They literally put a cage like around a squat rack and a deadlift platform. They get big names to go in there and everyone's like banging on the cage. It's, it's put on by that company animal, which is now i think going by universal nutrition animal packs yeah uh yeah well anyway it didn't exist so we became like where all the big people go to lyft and like showcase themselves so now i'm interested but they teamed up with the company that should not be named and the Arnold

like team them up with them. So I think it's going to be like two corporatey and not be like as cool personally. I mean, it'll be cool, but I just mean like, I think there's still a spot for like a sweaty deadlift platform. Oh yeah.

Dude. The deadlift party was, is raw. Yeah. Beers flowing. There's people doing all sorts of weird shit. Slash back alley deadlifts. It's wild, dude. It's wild. Like Diana was like, yeah beers flowing there's just people doing all sorts of weird shit slash amazing stuff back alley dead loops it's wild dude it's wild like diana was like i can't handle this it just

smells like toe jam armpit sweat like people are spitting on you like it's it's it's wild but i think that will will still be good um so yeah we'll bring some bumpers out there too we may have a couple extra like little platforms and stuff so so we'll see yeah it's fun though you got like it it's uh yeah it's you sold me when you said there's gonna be swag there we all get swag swag there's so much swag. It's fun. It's fun. So, and I got these signs being made this year with a QR code.

And so you'll scan it. So last year we scanned wristbands, get emails, which is great. But then the system broke. So then like when we realized they came up, they're like, you've scanned more than anyone in the entire convention.

Cause like everyone was just awesome. Like out there, like, Hey, thanks. You want a sticker? Let me skin your wristband because like obviously you know we want to email these people try to sell them stuff and then the system broke we found out the system broke we started saying hey make a you follow us on instagram well this was we had 5 000 shirts to give away last year this is like when we had already given away like 4 200 we thought of this

um so this year i got like a qr code that's going to link you and you're going to follow on the podcast, the Instagram, the X and YouTube and my space because, because no, no, my face. Cause the line's so long. Um, they have time to do all that. So that's, that's the goal. Do we have a MySpace? Do you have a MySpace? I've never had a MySpace. I've never had a Facebook.

Do you have a top eight? What's a top eight? You're saying I'm not in your top eight? That was an old school social media knowledge right there. What is top eight? That's the last social media I had. You would rank your top eight. If you would rank your friends, it was You would rank your friends.

It was fantastic. Seriously. Yeah. Yeah. Should I give you my top eight? Now Grant wants a MySpace. I kind of want to do a top eight. God.

Country. Tom. Tom. Yeah. Who's Tom? Creator of MySpace. Oh, right. Tom.

He was automatically your friend. You told me that one time. Yeah. Tom. Yeah. Big Tom guy. No choice. Mr. Oh, right, Tom. He was automatically your friend. You told me that one time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tom, yeah, yeah. Big Tom guy. No choice. Mr. Beast. Big Tom guy.

Liver King. Diana and Calhoun. Done. Boom. My top pick. No particular order. Yeah. Well.

Sounds fun, man. I'm excited for it. Yeah. I'll check schedule, let you know. Can't wait to see you there. Any saved rounds. Anybody. I got one.

Okay. First five people that leave us a five star review or the next five people that leaves a five star review. I'll send you a Patagonia 40% off discount code. All right. There you go. How do we... So they need to screenshot their review

and email it to theokcastatgmail.com. Yep. Let's do that. I'll send you the code. You can use it on the website. What about... I will double check and make sure you're following on Instagram too.

You have to do both of those things. That's a good deal. Yeah, 40% off Patagonia. That is a good deal um so there you go the okay cast at gmail.com send it in you get a nice little gift from jeff maybe this will be a reoccurring thing we're feeling good uh and feeling generous even when it's not i'll put you in my top eight yeah yeah trey will put you in your top eight and i will email you and try to sell you stuff so it's a win win win everywhere you look hey no uh this has been episode three of the okay okay podcast uh with your host grant brogie trey gotledge jeff biggie and producer jordy

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