The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 30: Powerlifting Meet, CFB Stadiums and Trump's Golf Game

Episode Date: July 26, 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 Join the Slack and Use code OKAY: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ks Check out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Soft Opening 01:31 - Grand Opening 02:54 - Lifting 19:07 - Top 25 College Football Stadiums 38:09 - Celebrity Political Endorsements  40:31 - Trump Can Golf 45:02 - LHLE RECAP 01:27:06 - Saved Rounds

All right, and welcome back to episode 030. 030. 030 of the OK Podcast powered by the Strength Co. We're going to get to that in a second there, Trey. The opening's a little bit different. This is what we call a soft opening, and then we tell everyone you're here, and that's the grand opening. But episode 030 of the OK Podcast powered by the Strength Co.

I'm your host, Grant Brogy, broadcasting live right now. It won't be live when you're listening to it from the upstate of South Carolina, which I've gotten a lot of questions about this week. And again, as I met a lot of listeners, so I have to cover down on that. Once again, the upstate just is interesting to folks. But the price of Bitcoin is $65,836. Today is July the 23rd in the year of our Lord 2024. Joe Biden is president. Bitcoin's holding in the 60s. And I'm here in studio with PJ. What's up and joining us from beautiful Frisco, Texas, with not a yawn

in sight. Mr. Robert got Lich the third real quick. Shut up, shut up, that copy eight five three six four four from the block clock for the block height and usually we ramble for about 10 minutes and then say, let's get these guys on here. But a big Jeff can't make it today. So let's get this guy on here.

Play cool music. All right. Episode zero three30 of the... Okay. Okay. Guidelines. Okay. Podcast.

It wasn't the same without Jeff. It wasn't. Also, weird intro, but we're here. How you doing, Trey? Doing good, man. I like how you just now realize it's a weird intro. Yeah. No, tell us.

I also feel like we're getting worse at it every time we do it well yeah but that's just part of the deal uh did you see the little reel on the okay podcast where people were just like okay yeah it was pretty funny i need to do the blooper one because like one guy comes up to me on friday and after we get through a lot of slides we'll just like break down the lift hard live easy but one guy comes with me fr Friday and after we get through a lot of slides, we'll just like break down the lift hard, live easy. But one guy comes up to me Friday and he's like, okay. And I'm like, okay, like a lot of people did that. And he's like, dude, I love the podcast. I'm like, sweet. So

he was one of the first people I just, I just like popped up, right? People are like mid conversation, like one word, what would it be? And he goes, uh, uh, beep. And I'm like, I'm like the name of the podcast. He's like, oh, oh, oh, beep. And I'm like, I'm like the name of the podcast. He's like,

Oh, Oh, Oh, let me try again. Okay. Perfect. Yeah. We'll get it in post.

Uh, we did get it in post, but we'll, we'll show the blooper run later. Um, I think we gotta kick things off with the, uh, lifting update.

You know what I mean? It's, uh, it's Rome. Wasn't built in his days, they would say. It's an improvement, man. I didn't get all the lifts I wanted to get in, but we're getting better, man.

I did a bench press and then just, I don't know, got home and kind of got a little bit hectic. So you've lifted since last week we recorded? Yeah. Oh, that's a win. That's a huge win. Like I said kind of got a little bit hectic. So you've lifted since last week we recorded? Yeah. Oh, that's a win. That's a huge win. That's a win.

Yeah, yeah. Like I said, we're heading in the right direction. Not where we need to be. Were you sore for the 5x5s? I was so sore after that squat. Yeah. That was bad. That was bad.

Bad gouge for me. Well, now I got to do it every time now. Yeah. Can't afford not to. Now you're good. Can't afford not to. Now you're good. Can't afford not to. Bye. I thought about you today.

I thought about PJ today as he prepares for his wedding and he's busy. I thought about lots of people I talk to that have kids and stop lifting. So we got in last night around 8.30, 20.30 for you non-civilian types. And today was a busy day, but great. But I leave tomorrow morning at 07 to go out for drill, and so I was like, all right. Originally, I was supposed to get back at like 1830 last night, but you know, Microsoft and everything,

which I want PGA's breakdown of that here in a second, but anyway, I was like, all right, I've got to work into the gym, and we had like our doula meeting today, so the doula comes over, and like we're talking pregnancy stuff. It was at two 15. I was like,

okay, I bet that's like done at three. I have a meeting at five. Well, it ended up going until three 30 and it was great. Like amazing. Um, but so I get to the gym and I'm like,

I have 32 minutes. This is like while I'm in the parking lot. Yeah. And I was like, well, what am I to do? Not train. I think not. And so, uh, I went in am I to do? Not train. I think not.

And so I went in and did five by five squats. And one great thing, you know, I've talked about it on YouTube videos. That's quick. Yeah. Well, five sets, five ascending sets. Okay. And that's what I wanted to get out. One thing I've talked about is like putting your phone away if you're in a time crunch.

And one good way to do that, not that it's interesting to most listeners, but people on X really like time lapses. crunch and one good way to do that not that it's interesting to most listeners but people on x really like time lapses so i just like put my phone in a time lapse as i'm like putting on my shoes like getting the mars bar out and then i just did two sets five with empty bar then at 135 225 315 365 405 add 20 pounds all that because mars bar is different but whatever that's what it was plate wise. And, uh, and I was done in like 27 minutes. I was like in a full sweat, totally like wiped, you know, I was just like, okay, like, okay. Uh,

if you have 30 minutes, you can, you can get a decent workout. It can be done. Yeah, it can be done. And while I was thinking about like everything I was telling you last week, I was like, Oh, I'm living it right now. Um, but yeah living it right now. But yeah, it can be done. And is that as effective as five by five sets across? Probably not. But if you use your warmups as like, so usually, you know, you'd go down in reps as you add weight to the bar and warmups. But if you use your warmups as work sets and don't get me wrong, 135 is not super heavy for me whatever but it accumulated the volume and i kept the rest like really really short until that last set i think it took four

minutes but uh yeah sending five by fives underrated if you're in a jam i like that that's also the same thing i tell people to do if it's their first day back in the gym yeah like just do sending five of fives basically until it gets hard boom it's hard now okay stop move on to the next lift where did i end it where did i finish 265 okay next time i come to the gym 2665 three by five and then build back from there are you the cardio zone am i in the cardio so i you know i usually i actually start a um time like i go into my garment and go to strength and hit go and i do pay attention to my heart rate like after the fact today i didn't because i was just like really moving i did between i think 315 and 365 i sat down for a

second or got water or something i was like okay i okay, I should go. And I looked, I was like, Ooh, my heart rate's at like one 18. I need to like, let it chill. Uh, cause I had like gone so fast, but no, I mean, in general, I tell people if you're resting between heavy sets, probably get your heart rate down to a hundred or just below before you do your second set. Um, but yeah. Do you know where your heart rate is after a heavy set? No, not off the top of my head. Yeah. How useful is knowing that? Because I kind of rail against it a little bit in my mind. I'll try it here and there, and then I'll be like, I always fall off of it. And it's because if I'm trying to know, hey, is my heart rate up?

Usually I'm like, is my heart rate up? Yes. And then I'm like, hey, am I more relaxed now? I'm like, yeah, I feel fine. And isn't that what you need to know? Yeah, that's exactly what you need to know. The only thing I would say, you know, it's just like we use a timer because you can be like, Hey, I'm relaxed now at three minutes, but you might sit there until five minutes

because you're distracted or whatever. So just, it's kind of, it can be a metric useful for some people. My only thing with it is this Garmin solar Garmin potential sponsor, solar, uh, tactical it's called if I it's like it like warms up and then is accurate. So what I mean by that is I also have the Garmin heart rate monitor. If I go for a run in this, is it the one that goes around the chest? Yeah. and i wear it sometimes when i run uh but if i go for a run with just my watch let's say i run three miles at a nine minute pace my garmin the first two minutes will tell me like you never left zone one your heart rate was like 85 and i'm like that is not

true and then the last one it's like pegged out yeah whereas if i do the same run with the heart rate monitor yeah like my heart rate's elevated much quicker okay so it's it's kind of like i have the garmin scale of the garmin suite look at me it's like my garmin scale when i stand on it it's like you're 24 body fat but then like when the marine corps measures me or i get on or a DEXA scan or I do an in-body, I'm 14%. But what that does do is give me a baseline. So if I'm 24, 24.1, 23.9, 24. You always use that scale. Right.

So I feel like that's where the watch can be useful. But no, I don't think you have to look at your heart rate. But some people are really into that. So I would say if you're really into like following your heart rate during a workout, probably getting it down below a hundred. I mean, if you were doing like intense training for a race or a marathon,

then it's useful. Like you're actually trying to build your VO two max meticulously. Yeah. Then that makes sense. But, or you just do my strategy and just really don't do cardio and then you don't need it. There you go.

I was, I was talking to a Dr. Gatledge today. And he was telling me that. Former guest of the OK Podcast. Former guest. Actually, we were talking about this, and I'm curious to get your take on it. Have you ever tried swimming as a cardio workout? Yes.

Yes. What's your thoughts on that? Are you a fan, not a fan? Hard. I'm a fan. While I was in the Marine corps at some point i got like you know for those that don't know even though we're amphibious there's not a big swimming requirement in the marine corps you either know how to swim and that is aka not drown or you don't

and you fail um but unless you are in like marsauk i'm McQuist, you know, or like a special MOS that requires it, I'm not saying that the swim qual is super easy. Do you think it's super easy, Trey? So there's three levels to it. Yeah. Your entry level. Is it beginner, intermediate, and expert? Basic, intermediate, and I can't say what the top one is. Yeah.

The basic one, man, if you do not freak out and you get in water, like you'll be fine. Well, you just, you've had, I think you just have to actually know how to swim. It's, I've seen guys who can like dog paddle and they pass. No, that's what, that's what I mean. It's like, if you can swim. If you can not dive in the water.

You, you, you jump off a dive board dive board how high that one's not very high maybe 15 feet 10 the intermediate one's the high the intermediate is high three meter nine meter uh probably uh we don't we don't use meters yeah this is america i would say the the basic is 15 feet okay so you jump so it's like a high dive at a county pool i think i think they measure it in meters the board okay i was just throwing tray a bone there but you jump off now we're going to the swim qual then i'll answer the cardio question but you jump off you sink and then when you come up you have to splash like to clear debris like that's part of the test so you can't just pop your head up like what if there's a fire? What if there's something, what if someone's shooting at you?

So you clear your head. So that's like, it's kind of like a, a command in a powerlifting command. It's like, boom, I have to hold this on my chest till someone says, press.

It's like a little thing, but like people forget it all the time. And then you basically swim like 10 meters and get out of the pool. And then you put a bunch of gear on you jump in the pool and you swim down and back so like 50 meters okay and then when you're at the deep end you have to like maybe it's selling you have like don your gear meaning take it off yeah but retain it all so you have like a plastic rifle you have like a flak on and a Kevlar. Yeah, that's hard.

That's the intermediate one, right? Is it? Am I mixing them? The beginner one is like you jump off, you do that. No, you jump in the shallow end and just swim to like a marker, actually. You're right. And then you just do it. You do a survival float for like five minutes.

I was going to ask if you guys did that. I had to do that when i was growing up yeah yeah but the thing is like you can use your camis it's like your camis like you take off your trousers and then like you put air in your head and like go into the water and they inflate yeah so you tie them together you sounds like you've done it before then you put it over your head and it's a life jacket there's like a couple different ways i haven't done that that's kind of cool it's pretty cool yeah so or like blow into it and yeah sit there yeah so the basic one do you have to take your boots off i always think that's the hardest part i think that's intermediate yeah i think you're right yeah i think that's intermediate

anyway intermediate basically you jump off a really high dive that's actually pretty i mean like if you're like i get up there and it's like, whoa, it's like, don't think about it. 30 feet or something. Yeah. Probably 30 feet. And then you jump off. Same thing. Yeah.

But you go right into 500 meters or it's two. Yeah. I think it's 500. I think basics, maybe two 50. Oh, that sucks. So that you have to train for a little bit. That, that, that one sucks. So back to your question, have I ever done it for cardio?

to train for a little bit that that one sucks so back to your question have i ever done it for cardio i was doing the intermediate swim qual one time and i realized how gassed i was at the end of it yeah mostly because like i don't have a proper stroke like yeah i can you know what's this one breaststroke i can do the crawl stroke but like not efficiently yeah i was like oh i want to get better at this efficiently is the word because you can just like wiggle around and then you're going to die. Waste tons of energy. Yeah. Yeah. And that's so there's probably like maybe a six month period as the first lieutenant.

We're like three. Like, I think it's when I lived with you, Trey. I think three mornings a week I was going to the pool and swimming. Oh, wow. And I just like nov Davis linear progressed it. I think a lot of that, a lot of those gains is just learning how to swim efficiently because you're not, your cardio is not even getting better. You're just not wasting a bunch of energy. Right. And then once you can actually get a stroke down, that's efficient.

Then your cardio comes into play. Cause I remember when I was in college, I was, I was a bro lifting, uh, probably five days a week. Um, and I was like, I'm pretty in college. I was, I was a bro lifting, uh, probably five days a week. Um, and I was like, I'm pretty in shape. I need to, I'll do some cardio. Yeah. Oh, they have a pool. I'll jump at the pool. I can probably crush that. I remember going down and back in my, I guess I wasn't very good at swimming, but I thought I was. And I remember just being so gassed after just going down and back. And I was like, Oh, that's hard. Yeah. I was like, this is more serious than I thought it was. And I trained a little bit. Was it a 25 meter or 50 meter or do you know um I think it was 50 what's the pulpit pool that was 25 I think that was a 25 it was a pretty big pool most of you

see are 25 like if it's in a gym a lot of them are 25 yeah down and back is 50 yeah maybe that was it but it's I don't know, man. As you get older or as I get older and, like, bigger dudes, like, running on concrete, like, over time. Like you said, like, run once a week. Like, it's hard on your joints. Oh, yeah. So, like, I was thinking, like, swimming might just be a good, it's hard to find a good place, a good natatorium to swim in. Yep.

But if you do have one, man, I feel like that would be a good option. Because, like you say, you do have one man i feel like that would be a good option because you like you say you do it real quick and get gas yeah it's a good cardio workout and it's oh yeah no impact yeah and if you eat a bunch of church casserole you get like super fat then you just float there you just float baby you just cruise down the water i do love the marines like don't know how to swim and like during that yeah the basic is definitely 250 because they just get on their back and they just kick off the side and then they're just like backstroke but super slow and they're always like going at an angle there's like a couple marines that like know how to swim it's like move yeah yeah i was thinking about that the other day i gotta do my swim

call this year i guess it's been three years since i've done it and i was like oh man i should probably like swim a couple times before then but you could you could still muscle it I feel like oh yeah I have cardio shape yeah muscle and intermediate if you wanted three years ago that's why I did I just was like they're like what do you want I got there I was like how long is the basic good for like 18 months so intermediate give me three years you want to talk about efficiency give me the higher one i think i think what makes that hard is it's weird like you have to jump off with your clothes like your clothes on right

and you gotta wait for something and then you gotta take stuff off like just doing the swim i don't think it's that bad but those interruptions i think would throw you i guess i guess i gotta i guess i gotta give the marines some credit swimming in camis is a lot different than just being in swim trucks do you have boots on trip uh on the longer swim you do not up for the basic intermediate you do oh no that sucks yeah well just the the the camis are so like like you lift your arm and it's just like full of water oh yeah it's different that's different it's definitely different, yeah, do you have a pool you can go to, Trey? Not, man, not.

I've been asking around to see if I could find one, but, like, it's like 20 bucks a pop. And I'm like, I don't know. It's a lot for cardio. Right? You know what I mean? Yeah. It's just, let's go run up a hill. There you go.

Kettlebells, I think, are good. Kettlebells. That's cheap and not hard on the joints, I feel like. Yeah, just can cause a lot of soreness. It can't be a one-off. I'm still on the hunt for a good pool. I might try it out. Staying amphibious, I like it.

Or those bikes. Yeah, the Airdynes. Yeah, I need to get one of those. Are they expensive? I feel like you can find a cheap one. $600. I bet you can find a cheap one 600 bucks i bet you can find a used one no even even used i'll tell you this i made i had like a when i percent of a bitcoin when i closed the it is it is good job when i closed the villa

park gym i had two airdynes in there both of them i bought for $699. I sold both having been used commercially for three years for $600 each. Wow. It's kind of like a barbell. Unless it's completely rusted and the value you're saving is the fact that you're going to restore it. If it's in good condition

and assuming it's not bent, but it's like, hey, it's $325 new. Some guy just messaged me the other day. He's like, hey, what hey what bar is this said stranko it was the standard bar before the end cap said standard and i was like oh this is like from 2021. i was like yeah that's our bar he's like which one is it like standard bar and he's like oh nice i got it on offer up for 300. and i was thinking like man for 25 bucks i probably would have bought a new one but I guess it was there he didn't have to pay shipping you know it's a good deal look like it hadn't really been used so hey classic story good for him uh I think we have the next slide for Jeff since he's not here top top 25 top 25 college football stadiums I'll just go through them see if we

agree or not spark a little conversation. Okay. You down? All right. So when you say top 25, like by experience or by difficulty to play, or is there multiple things that are involved? We asked 14 of our college football writers to rank the best stadiums in the sport. No parameters, no criteria. Writers were asked to submit their top 20 stadiums in order. We have awarded 20.

We have awarded points. 20 for first place votes, 19 for second, all the way down to one point for the stadium for 20. So I think it's all of that combined. Okay. Okay.

So and then we can just do agree or disagree. Okay. Number one, Tiger Stadium, LSU Tiger. First place. The Bayou. Yeah, I don Tigers. First place. The Bayou.

Yeah, I don't know, man. I've heard... Also, I have not gone through this list. Having never been there, I've heard... I think it would be pretty cool to go to a night game there. I heard if you're an opposing fan, it's just not a whole lot of fun. Yeah, I've heard that too.

If you're an opposing fan, they just hound you so much. Which I guess is why it makes it difficult to play in. Right. I'll tell you, I've passed it three times in my life. And it looks pretty impressive. Just watching it on TV, man. It looks impressive. Like a night game at LSU.

And I think like two hours before the game starts, the entire student section is full. And so I've seen like, they just like heckle, like, like during the practice squad, they're just like crazy. So I don't know that that would be my number one.

Well, it wouldn't be my number one. You know where my number one is, but I do agree. That's up there. Yeah. Would you agree with something? Any, any thoughts yeah no thoughts no thoughts okay okay i have major problems with this one number two rose bowl ucla bruins 1922 no so here's what i would give to it i've been to the

nebraska georgia game Rose Bowl there. I think it was Nebraska-Georgia. Yeah, like maybe seven years ago. It would have been like 2018-17. I'm in a bowl game. Dang. I'm like 95% sure.

The inside of the stadium set in the mountains is cool. I think just for the history of it, it would be cool. Yeah. But you watch a game there, it's mostly empty. I don't know. I would not put it at number two if that's where it's at. I wouldn't put it top five.

No. But it is cool. Maybe back in the day, but yeah, not now. Number three, michigan 1927 you must have a thought of this pj you're from the midwest michigan no i didn't go to michigan no well i know you didn't go there but i just mean you know indiana i'm gonna vote whatever's in indiana okay good luck i think michigan again that Michigan, again, that would be on the bucket list for sure. So I could see that being up there.

Yeah, I agree with that. Biggest stadium, right? Yeah, biggest, 107,000. Yeah, 107,000. Yeah. So I would put it up. In 2013, they drew 115,000 for the Nutter game. That's insane.

Largest crowd to ever attend a football game on campus. On a campus. The only thing I've heard with that is like, you know how, I think William Bryce Stadium kind of goes up. William Bryce goes out and up. It goes out and up. The big house just goes out. so it's it's not really so it's like it's a giant i don't know don't go very high so it's still not very loud yeah you don't

have that you don't have that that effect yeah all right number four notre dame dude i feel like notre dame gets all this hype and i'm like i just feel like Notre Dame gets all this hype. I just feel like people like Jesus. I'm not even kidding. Like, touchdown Jesus is cool. Yeah. But, like, I don't know that that means inside the stadium is, like, that amazing. I vote Notre Dame.

That's number one. Notre Dame, number one. Okay. You got Rudy. I don't know, man. You got a lot of history. It would be a bucket list. It would be cool to go to.

Oh, so now we're basing on it if there's a cool movie made about it yeah yeah okay Junction Boys number one okay what's the South Carolina one I don't think we have a movie no we do have a movie yeah when Beamer took over uh or a show I don't know I don't know. Beaver Stadium, Penn State. Yeah. Up there, five. I think I would put that higher than – I would put that like top three. I actually agree with you. Yeah, I think it's ahead of Notre Dame and Michigan and the Rose Bowl.

But I think it – I wouldn't be mad with a LSU, Penn State, then Michigan in that order. Okay. I'd go with that so far. Whatever. Okay. This one I don't like. Shout out Craig Robinson. Number six, Washington Huskies.

Dude, I've seen pictures of that, man. And it's just like absolutely beautiful. They got the Navy, right? Kind of like Tennessee. I think they have the Husky Navy. I think so, but it's just like

the backdrop of it looks pretty awesome. They call it the greatest setting in college football. Yeah, it looks like it's not intimidating. It's probably not

intimidating to play in. Premier college football bucket list trip on the West Coast. Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, I think I'm just SEC. Although, we'll see if they make it or not. I have a couple smaller schools that I would argue are pretty amazing.

But, yeah, I think I'm just so removed from, I mean, thinking about Husky football that doesn't dawn on me. Number seven, the Ohio State Buckeyes. Just had a sheer disdain for that school. I know, me too. I'm going to say no.

This unfounded confidence in Ohio. They shouldn't be in the top 20. Have you ever been there? Never been to that stadium. To the stadium? No. Have you? I've been to the campus. Okay. you we I've been to the campus okay yeah I've been to the campus

we drove like I drove by it when we were in at the Arnold yeah yeah yeah I drove by it yeah yeah we were right there

but I've never I'm sure I'm sure it's cool and I'm sure it's a cool experience I don't know it's to me they don't have like a it's not like a Penn State

like cool tradition like white out game but I'm sure it's they have the band. Yeah. They got, they got the high. Cool.

Yeah. Cool. They don't cross the T I'll tell you that much. Um, Wisconsin. I've heard Madison's a cool town. Yeah. I've been there.

Do you like it? Yeah. Yeah. it's cool um yeah 1917 we played wisconsin and a bowl game in florida and we won one of spurs 3-11 one seasons how was how was their turnout their turnout was Like, the fans were just so nice. They were just like, oh, we lost. Okay. Good day. Yeah.

All right. They're too drunk to care. All right. Number nine, Alabama. Out of all the SEC schools, I'm surprised that that's that high. Well, you had LSU first, but I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, me too LSU first, but I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, me too. Me too. I think super cool. I think a tradition of winning, though, is what makes it cool. True. To me, I think Swamp's better, I think. Yep. I think the Hedges is cooler.

With the little guy who comes out with the trumpet before the Hedges game. Yeah, Hedges is Georgia. uh okay so you agree top 10 though i would take alabama out of there i would take probably ohio state out of there see and and i would take probably washington out of there deep cut number 10 Neyland stadium yeah Tennessee pretty cool Coliseum cool effects Vol Navy the when you're walking like out of it you actually feel like you're in the Coliseum which I've been to like it just feels like so old um again I probably have a bias. I don't even know I have because I've been there and it's cool. Although I don't necessarily like Tennessee,

but definitely cool. That should be higher in Alabama, I think. Number 11. You know who it is. Clamp Zoom. Oh, dude. Right? It's so lame.

The fake Death Valley. They just run down a hill. The seats are tight. It's like not cool. Yeah. It's not cool. I do think they touch a rock and then they run down a hill. Yeah.

Is that what it is? Yep. That's it. I don't even know the story behind that. That rock belongs to somebody. Let's see. They call it the most exciting 25 seconds in college football. Slow buildup, of course.

The video board keeps everyone excited. Coach Dabo Sweeney is always the first to run off the bus because it's all about him, and he's known as the team's cheerleader. Oh, sorry. He and his players stopped first to rub Howard's rock, which was placed on a pedestal at the top of the hill in 1966. Oh, it's not even that old. It's not even that old of a rock. Yeah, they play the Tiger Rag, whatever.

Alright, number 12, Army. Lang. Yeah. I think just going to any one of those military ones, I think it would be pretty cool. Army looks like it's Hogwarts. Like it's old castle. i don't know if you know

hogwarts is lord of the rings yeah you got it okay good i have a good star wars reference from the weekend what are you looking at pj same article he's getting ahead number 13. whoop whoop solve our city's horns you know i'm too i'm too biased i like to rag on a m when everyone goes hand in hand and sways looks pretty cool on tv it's big i love a core cadets i'm biased for that but i think of course cadets is cool um i think the 12th man story is cool. I'm too biased. I definitely put it way above Texas A&M. I mean, above Clemson.

All right, 14, Oregon. Only six to go. Yeah, I think Oregon. I've been to Eugene, not for a game. I was there for work, and I had to go by the stadium. That's a pretty cool spot, man. I think that deserves a high cool looking stadium a lot of that nike money so i i think that belongs up there the duck rides out on a motorcycle yeah pretty cool that's pretty cool nike money yeah they got those nike jerseys uh number 15 virginia tech yeah it's inner sandman yep i agree i think inner sandman was the smartest

thing they ever did yeah um okay 16 nebraska go big red if you have a stadium and on game days when it becomes the second most populated place in the state like it's that belongs there i think that'd be so i tend to agree and i like nebraska fans because okay i obviously i like all boston sports teams but one of the reasons i do is because south carolina doesn't have any pro sports teams and i do think there's an allegiance in like middle class states that don't have pro sports teams where the college scene is just nuts. Right. So it's like,

I need someone on the West coast. Where are you from? South Carolina, Gamecocks or tigers. Now we have two, right. I mean, obviously we have more,

but we have two big ones, but like people that don't know, no. Or like whenever I meet someone from Nebraska, I'm like, go big. Right. And they like,

love it. Right. Like, cause there's no other option. So I think someone from Nebraska, I'm like, go big. And they like love it, right? Like there's no other option. So I think that belongs up there. Number 17, Jeff Biggie, Auburn Tigers. That's a pretty cool stadium. Yeah, cool stadium. Surprise. I think, again, I would put that higher than Alabama.

I don't know why that. Yeah. Number 18, Georgia. Again, I think should be higher than alabama number 19 florida state yeah the can i say indian whoa that was offensive i have a lot of native american talk after going through what's her what's her mascot? Seminole. Oh, so I say Seminole. Yeah, just say a more specific Indian. That's okay. When the Seminole rides in on the horse

with the spear and throws it down, that's cool. Number 20. It's great to be a Florida Gator. That should be higher. I think the swamp should be higher. I think the Swamp should be higher. Yeah, I think that's good.

We're going all the way to 25. Five more. The next topic. Ole Miss Rebels, 21. I think outside the stadium is cool. I think inside the stadium is lame. I think it's the most frat boy university on the planet. 100%.

The Grove looks cool. Aren't they not? Are they not the Rebels now? I have been. Not to a game, but I've been there. But is it pretty? Is it like aesthetically appealing? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think so. Yeah. The Grove looks cool. Yeah. With tailgates. Yeah, they are just the Rebels, I believe. Not the Ole Miss Rebels? They're, I don't know. They believe not the old miss rebels there. I don't know.

They're listening to almost rebels. I thought they were like the sharks for a minute or something. Well, they had an identity crisis where they were trying to find new mascots. So it's almost racist. Like are the people actually racist or saying old miss those two words together? Racist.

I guess both, but the second one. Oh, uh, I don't know old mississippi old miss it was very confederate yeah yeah yeah branded maybe if they say old with a d it's not i think old miss that sounds i need to i need to send you whenever they were trying to find a new mascot there was a big push to have you know star wars yeah i know lord

of the rings so yeah same thing admiral admiral akbar yeah the commander of the rebel force i literally have no idea what you're talking about of course i'll send you i'll send you the video it's pretty good okay that'd be pretty good uh 22 los angeles memorial coliseum Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Trojans. Oh, I agree. Think it's terrible. Lived in Southern California for 12 years.

No one cares. There's a small population of alumni that care driven by it. I don't get it like and considering there's only three left in the amount of places we've left off the game uh does not belong yeah does not belong does not belong okay this is a small one that i had that i wanted i would put this way higher appalachian state i know nothing about that home stadium boone north carolina amazing i'm biased towards Eastern North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Mountains, but it is like nestled in and it is amazing. It's like a football stadium. It's not like one. It is a football stadium carved out of a mountain. It is amazing. tonight you're trying to go to bed just google appalachian state stadium and all the best photos will come up like during like fall transition and you're like wow i haven't ever seen anything like that it's on the list the same reason that washington's on the list like it looks yeah

very cool i think so okay yeah i think so uh 24 boomer sooner uh no yeah the wagon the wagon's cool though when it falls over it's even cooler yeah i've seen that of course um i don't think i should read 25 new new inductees to the sec oh that bevo they're just happy they made a list um it is a big stadium. You've been multiple times, I assume. Yeah, I've been a handful of times. Yeah.

Not since they've redone it. Okay. It looks like they're running out of a female body part whenever they run out of the stadium. It's like a uterus. Oh, it took me a second. Yeah. Okay, got it.

So it's like a Dodge Ram emblem. G took me a second. Yeah. Okay. Got it. But it's like a Dodge Ram emblem gets the crowd going. Yeah, gets the crowd going. I don't know, man. I like being unbiased. I think like there's a lot of crowd. They always draw a good crowd especially for a big game. Yeah, I could believe that. Okay. Others receiving

votes. Idaho. Nope. Others receiving votes. Idaho. I'm on there. Nope. Idaho, Iowa, Boise, which I've been to Boise. It's cool,

but it's only cool because it's blue. Bluefield. Yeah. Yeah. Colorado. Only cool because of Dion Sanders. BYU. Only cool because they're Mormon.

Penn Quakers. Only cool because they're Quakers. Utah Utes. Been there. Lame. Wyoming Cowboys. Cool because they're Quakers Utah Utes been there lame Wyoming Cowboys cool because they're Cowboys West Virginia Oklahoma

State UTEP Oregon State Air Force Washington State Hawaii South Carolina Gamecocks two votes very very last one no it was it was great and one of his brothers yeah yeah me and those grant into accounts it was me and one of his brothers yeah it was Grant and two accounts

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We covered sports pretty heavily. Yeah, I think so too. Quick hot take political. Oh, the last thing you posted. Yeah, go for it. I think this could be pretty quick, i think it is so lame i saw i think dave fortner was talking about it i was listening to him and he's like he's like who cares celebrity endorsements of political okay anybody political i gotta stop youities or sports celebrities?

To me, if it's an individual, is it really endorsing? Or is it just saying, I'm going to vote for this guy? Sure. But I just mean, are you talking in the nature of sports, the topic we've currently been on? Or are you counting George Clooney two weeks ago? Okay. I don't care who George Clooneyoney votes for i think it's all downside like i think there are brands or i guess the difference could be brands or individuals but

i think there are brands that like oh these people stand for these things that i like that makes me want to shop there more i think if you're a movie actor i don't really know what the upside is like but also i don't know what the downside is like if i disagree with george clooney's politics and he comes out with a great movie still gonna watch the movie so like yeah i don't know if it's up or down well you might it might be a downside for some in that industry if they don't make a statement endorsing the commonly like so you're saying he's doing for his own benefit i think probably a lot of people are in that hollywood world what about kid rock again don't care yeah it was what about what about right or left hulk hogan that was pretty that was cool all the memes were like the european mind cannot comprehend this when he just said the wait why didn't we make a meme of him pulling it open it says the strength go oh we should i got a

meme for you you're gonna like it okay from i don't think i don't think it's a coincidence that hulk hogan ripped off his shirt and then like the next day biden dropped out of the race it was that effective. The power of an endorsement. You're a celebrity. There you go. So celebrity endorsements are super important. Only if you're jacked.

Yeah. They're lame unless you're Hulk Hogan. That's the only thing. Do you guys see, I can't remember his name now, Brian something. I'm not, I don't follow pro golf,

but this pro golfer who's got a YouTube channel. Yeah. Yeah. He came out and he did it. Yeah, that's it. And he did a uh an hour long video of him just golfing with trump and uh they're just shooting the breeze and everything

and all i'll say is i watched some clips from it trump can golf yeah no he can definitely golf he can go so i saw it shared like joint account the golfer and trump and it said like let's see what trump has for youtube yeah i knew that the guy was a professional golfer and trump and it said like let's see what trump has for youtube yeah i knew that the guy was a professional golfer but i was like oh does that mean that like trump's gonna have a youtube channel now i wish dude you could make the thumbnails just flames i'm i could do it i could do it i'd be oh man dream job make trump thumbnails dude i would divide the country actually i don't know if i want to they're already pretty divided so i would cause problems we're already pretty divided no but i thought like it was like you know trump he's famous for hyperbole and saying that i'm the

best i'm the greatest at this and he's talked about his golf game i thought okay like he's old like he just plays golf no he's actually pretty good 242 pounds of spring and blue steel yeah apparently pretty good there you go check it out djt guy he's on youtube now so maybe he'll join the podcast last sports thing pj what happened with jake paul he won and then he did win he won and then conor mcgregor i don't even know. What he'd had to do was come up with a fight to fill in for Tyson, where Tyson dropped out and had to postpone it. Was this guy like his same age? No, he was much older than him, 40 pounds smaller than him.

And shocker, Jake Paul knocked him out. My kind of fighting right there. Yeah. Conor McGregor came out and just blasted him and just basically called him a lot of bad words and was like, this is a sham. You're fake. I would watch Conor McGregor versus Jake Paul.

I would watch that. Although, Jake Paul's a lot bigger than Conor McGregor. I'd still watch it, and I'd still put money on the Irishman. I would put money on the Irishman. He's got a magic touch. White people these days, they're no good. Can't do anything. They're not strong.

What? No, I'm just kidding. Oh, I guess Irish people are also white. Never mind. It depends on who you ask, I guess. All right. I think we covered sports. Yeah, covered. Covered politics.

I was pointing at the timer. Okay. Do we need to handle that or we're good? We got time for an ad read? We got time for an ad read. All right. So I'm going to guess that Connor didn't make the board. Not yet.

No. So the best thing is I've never told PJ, hey, put that ad read on the board. It's just sometimes I see a new light. It just appears. I'm fascinated by how he chooses. You don't even want to get into it. It's a long, complicated...

They have to call BW. There's bylaws. You have to second the motion to get into that. It's complicated. We have to call BW. It's a lot. It's a whole thing. Speaking of BW who approves ad reads,

we're going to take it back to our first ad read. Well, not the first. We were the first, but the first guest that did an ad read because then we're going to transition and talk about the Lift Hard, Live Easy class. I love it. That's what I love. What I've always loved about BW Tax is, you know, you can be someone like me. I have a W-2 job still.

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BWTaxLLC.com. Yeah, that's what I like. That's what I like about them. I'm inspired. Tear in my eye, man. Yeah, the goat. Speaking of the goat, did you lift hard or did you lift easy? I did a little bit of both.

I think, where do we start? At the beginning. Start at the beginning. Yeah, so let's see. We flew out of here Thursday early, landed in South Dakota at around 10 a.m. Connor was about an hour behind us. And you flew into Sioux Falls? No, we flew into Rapid City.

So last year, like this year, we didn't really plan it. We just said, yep, we'll be there. And we booked tickets. And I just thought, oh, we have like an extra day to spare. We'll go see Mount Rushmore. We're in South Dakota. Nope, six hours away. So we didn't go see that.

So this year, I said, let's do the reverse. We'll fly into Rapid City. We will go see Mount Rushmore, and then we'll do the meet. And so we landed, and it's just funny. It's just funny getting around new states and learning the ins and outs of them. So we land in Rapid City. I'm wearing my hat. I can't tell you the amount of times

that people said to me, hey, nice cowboy hat. I said, oh, in South Carolina we just call this a hat. But it was a lot. It was a lot. But we land. I'm wearing my hat because you can't pack a hat. The way you pack a hat is you put it on your head. Put it on your head. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, so we land. We have a check

bag with all the merchandise we're going to sell. We're waiting on it. I'm like, hey, I'll go ahead and go check in with the rental car. So I go to the Hertz desk. And the guy's like, oh, okay, nice hat. I'm like, oh, thanks. And then he's like, you're returning this in Sioux Falls? And I'm like, yeah. He's like, that side of the state is awful.

And that drive sucks. And I was like, well, yeah, we're going there for a lifting event but uh you know we yeah okay and he's like dude that drives terrible and i was like all right so we get the vehicle yeah we get the vehicle and i'm like well i asked the guy i'm like hey i got an hour to kill any places to get lunch and he's like well you could go to perkins or culver's. And I was like, well, I'm not really a big chain guy. Like, I kind of prefer like unique things.

So he's like, go to this burger place. I forget what it's called now. So we go to the burger place and it was like awful. And then Dan was like, remember that like all the food in South Dakota

is bad? And I'm like, yeah, I do kind of remember that. Should have hit that chain. Yeah, should have hit the chain. That's our state motto. Should have hit the chain. Yeah, should have hit the chain. That's our state motto.

Should have hit the chain. Yeah, should have hit the chain. Only eat our fast food. So we go back, pick up Connor, and we're just like, let's drive straight to Mount Rushmore, see it, which is like an hour from Rapid City. On the way there, we see like a bear explorer world where you like pay for your car and you go in and it's like elk.

And now you're looking at's like elk and now you're looking at lynx and now you're looking at you know ram goats and it's like a reservation now i i can't use the term reservation lightly in the state of south dakota because it's not and it's not an indian reservation it's like a zoo oh they're alive oh yeah they're alive and so you drive by and you're looking at just yeah I thought you meant like stuffed things, you know? Just dead animals. You just drive by them? Yeah, look at that.

They're alive. They're sleeping. And Connor's like, oh, I've been to one of these before. You have to get a loaf of Wonder Bread. And then you roll down the window and the bears get up and start waving. That sounds like what they don't want you to do. Yeah, and then we get there, we pay, and it's like, leave your windows up at all times.

It's like, okay, I guess there's no Wonder Bread happening. Oh, one guy got eaten and it ruined it for everyone. That's what always happens. Yeah. So we rode through the end. It was cool. Saw some animals, laughed, went about Rushmore. Have you been, Trey?

No, never. Have you been? No. Did they have the strength kill plates on there? They did, yeah. Have either of you been to the Grand Canyon? No. I want to go there.

Okay. Okay. Nothing. I've never seen any large rock ever, actually. I've been to Niagara Falls. Oh, okay. I've never been there. Okay.

So when you go to Niagara Falls, which I've seen tons of photos of, tons of videos of, when you went there, you like whoa this is even better than i thought or no yeah i like it it lived up to the hype i see because i've been to like some monuments and it's like you get there and you're like okay i'm here yeah you see it and you leave that's better that's called.C. Yeah, that's exactly right. But Niagara Falls is like, you have this big expectation that kind of lives up to it. So yeah, I would think Niagara Falls

does. Okay, so I've been to the Grand Canyon, and when you arrive at the Grand Canyon, your brain literally can't, at least mine couldn't, really understand what you're looking at. It doesn't compute. Yeah, and then we hiked 14 miles down, and then when you look up, it really doesn't compute. Yeah, and then we hiked 14 miles down, and then when you look up,

it really doesn't compute. Well, it's a hole, so you can't see it coming up. Well, you can see it. Only 1% ever leave the rim. Grand Canyon, hot fact. What does that mean? So it means 99% of people that visit the Grand Canyon

just drive all around the road on the top, and they never hike down at all. Oh, I can't imagine why yeah i can't imagine why i'm trying to go in there when people say one percenters that's what that means yeah that's what that means that sounds like a place you go to die it means one percent takes ozempic and hikes down to the bottom and back i have a thing against deserts too i just don't like being there so i'm i'm kind of like generally think desert scenery is not that cool grand canyon hugely underrated unbelievable like really like it's a must go so okay and i've done all the like northern california i say all of them but like i've done the redwoods i've done the sequoias you know i've done a lot of stuff and it's all fantastic tahoe uh trucky like all that's like

amazing i want to see the redwoods yeah all that's like amazing kind of mind-blowing grand canyon super mind-blowing mount rushmore i'm going in thinking gonna be really cool no way it's like mind-blowing and it's it's pretty crazy and then you go into the little museum area and you like watch the 21 minute video where these guys like hiked up every morning like got hooked i'm always like osha please i don't need a hard hat what is this these guys are hanging off the side of a mountain with like a 1940s winch no glasses no eye pro smoking a cigarette yeah no no no helmet nothing putting dynamite in the side of the mountain. They don't care.

And I'm like, wow, this is incredible. Was it bigger than you thought or smaller? Bigger. Bigger. Okay. I was thinking it would be the other way. Like, oh, there it is. Nope, nope.

It's the other way. It's very big. That's a big face. Yeah, it's a giant face. Four of them. How big do you think, like top to bottom to abe lincoln's face oh man i i read it about that museum uh right here it's just really close actually let's let's why don't you just fact check that i'll say i want to butcher it because i did see it but it's really big

and like you can see theodore roosevelt's glasses which is kind of weird and like mind-blowing that they were able to do that the level of detail that they could do is pretty mind-blowing that they were able to do that. The level of detail that they could do was pretty mind-blowing. Especially with dynamite. With dynamite, yeah. And it was like, they basically made a model and they used this long thing that comes out and they measure. They're like, put the dynamite here. Boom, boom, boom.

Dude, each one is like 60. Each face is like 60 feet tall. Okay, good. I was going to say 50. Yeah, it's huge. That's huge. That's like, how many stories? 10-foot ceilings, six stories? Six to eight stories, something like that? Yeah, it's huge. That's huge. That's like how many stories? 10 foot ceilings.

Six stories. Six to eight stories. Yeah, six to eight stories. Miami. 20 stories. Okay. Wow. It's huge. It's huge. So each face is a little smaller than my apartment building. There you go. Mind-blowing. That's a big face. Mind-blowing.

And it's high up and it still looks big and you're far away. mount rushmore great we'll leave mount rushmore and we drive to deadwood which i thought was in mount rushmore not another hour drive um hop skipping a jump yeah hop skipping a jump away we go to deadwood cool wild bill stuff everywhere like at just randomly like all of a sudden cowboys walk out into the street wearing their hats, and they put cones off and block traffic, and then they do a shootout.

It's almost kind of like being a... It's like if Disneyland married Vegas, you get Deadwood. It's like everything's kind of theatrical. I guess Vegas... It's like the Vegas of the Southwest. Well, whatever. It's West the Vegas of the Southwest. Well,

whatever it is West, but yeah, it's, it's cool. There's like the spot where, is that the picture I saw of you guys? Probably. You're like dressed up.

Oh yeah. So we went and did like the old time photos. Once there's a plan, like D you're pregnant, let's go get pregnancy photos, like the old time thing. So you go in there. She had a great pose.

Oh yeah. You haven't, there's like, there's like 80 of them. Really? Well, it's like you can, they're trying to like sell you like a print in a frame and then they're like or you can just buy all of them digitally i was like oh yeah i'll just do that yeah so we went there it's like an old time saloon connor's like the barkeep you know i have like a gun but like all the clothes they put on you. Checks out. Well, they're not real clothes, and they just keep layering stuff.

So I was just dripping sweat. Just like old times. Were you wearing the hat? Yeah, I was actually just wearing my hat. They were like, do you want one of our hats? And so you can pick the backdrop. One of them had a Confederate flag, and they had a bunch of of like robert e lee style hats and we thought about that yeah but i was like i'll just wear my hat and so we picked like this everything's like saloonish you

know old west backdrops so we picked that one we took the photos a lunch or dinner to have a revolver lunch had a revolver you could have like a sawed off shotgun there's like all kind of that's pretty awesome oh can i make a side a quick side comment uh dude there's something about stocks are legal i feel like you guys would agree with this maybe there's something about a revolver i was i was at my friend's house the other day and we were we were shooting it was for fourth of july and we were like shooting a bunch of stuff hanging out it was cool yeah and july and we were like shooting a bunch of stuff hanging out it was cool yeah and everybody's got like their with the pistols they've got like

whatever kind of semi-automatic pistol they've got and like oh this is cool all these cool features whatever blah blah blah and then someone pulls out like what was it like a 44 44 44 hairy it was like a 44 magnum like yeah they're cool i picked that up and i was like dang i kind of don't care about all the features of the semi-automatic things anymore like this thing is awesome it's like six rounds who cares you know rip it is a big revolver guy really i don't know if i'm all the way there but i did say like oh i kind of don't care about all the other stuff this is just there's just something cool about this what are we gonna say man they're fun to shoot yeah they're fun to shoot yeah but yeah reliable too when you're when you're holding a toy one yeah uh it's not the same you don't have

the same feeling uh so we did the photos left deadwood and drove to aberdeen and again again in deadwood people you know everyone's friendly making conversation where are you going what are you what are you doing here we're going to aberdeen why why would you go there oh how much time do you have uh i think it was five and a half hours we stopped once but really long i'm like you don't see a person you see nothing yeah like it is just like hay bales and like you rarely see a barn. You do see farming equipment passing you, but you see nothing. So we're leaving. We eat breakfast in Deadwood. We leave pretty early.

South Dakota has two time zones, which should be illegal. So you pick up an hour. So we leave at nine for a six-hour drive. But then you add an hour, which just makes a long drive worse. And we're looking for places to eat. Connor drove a little bit. And I'm just like looking, okay, what cities are we going through on the 212?

It's like this city, this city, population 284, population 304, population 402, right? Like all these small populations. And then I see Eagle Butte, population like 1,925. Whoa. I'm like, oh, great. Like they'll have good food so I look up like you know restaurants it's called Perkins I find no I find number nine

number nine steakhouse in a place we had gone and watched maybe we should talk about this we went and watched like a wild bill Hickok reenactment okay a place called Number 10 Saloon, which I guess is really famous in Deadwood. And he's like, well, there I was in Springfield, Missouri. And I walked down on the street, and a gunman walked out, and I shot him right between the eyes. And somebody said, hey, Bill! And I turned, and I shot, and oh, man!

I just killed my deputy! And he's going through his life until he comes to Deadwood. Yeah, it was all weekend. Connor was like, I don't want to say your name too loud. Hey, Grant. Oh, just shot my deputy. That was like our joke. But anyway, so Connor's like, oh, number nine.

We went to number 10 yesterday. Like now we have to go to number nine. So we pull in the Eagle Butte. We exit the interstate. And let me ask you this. Have you guys ever thought about an Indian reservation? Yes like the concept of it yeah. Yeah have you ever been to one?

I drove by a lot in Florida. Okay like on the map yeah. Okay on the map fair same. Yeah through Oklahoma yeah okay so have you ever entered one? No yes I feel like I have.

Okay. So I kind of pictured like you were now on the reservation. Yeah. There's like a gate and it's like- It's a welcome sign. Show your card. My Indian card. Yeah, that you're allowed to have.

I kind of assumed there was like some type of- Border? Yeah. Like a military base. base yeah maybe that's the problem maybe that's the problem is as a marine i was but i was thinking like there was going to be some type of entrance this is this tribe's reservation yeah you are now in you need to have these cards um like for example in uh buford county out where I live there's a thing called the African Village and when I was in high school we like to go to the African Village because it's this weird sign

African Village and you pull in and it's like you are now leaving the United States of America the chief is chief you know some long African name and like you pull up and there's like people with like headdress type things on like holding spears and so you always just get to the interest and then you like quick rip a donut and leave like that's just what you don't know what's going on there yeah you don't know what's going on there and uh so i kind of expected something like that anyway we pull off an eagle butte we're going to the thing and like there's just drunk people in the middle of the day uh native americans like walking around dogs crossing the road like it looked like

the end times like it was just wild i mean because it doesn't look like homeless it looks it's like a different feeling and i'm like where are we gonna eat and we pull in and tons of people there and a lot of people were like super nice i didn't talk to anyone but like looked super nice but a lot of like mischief going on. And so it was like some type of family day. It's like Friday at noon. And so there's like people playing basketball, people all over. And then the place that we went to, which had 184 Google reviews, was just closed and boarded up.

And so Diana, everyone has to use the bathroom. We've been in the car for like three hours. Like the only option is porta potties. And then we're leaving. It's like government building, you know, for this tribe, government building for this government building for that. And then so then I'm driving now. So I'm like, Connor's looking up. He's like, oh, that is like the reservation.

And I was like, that is not what I had pictured. I was bold going in there dressed as a cowboy. You know, they have beef. Yeah. Yeah, they do so actually actually i feel like wearing my hat is the thing that saved me what well because like lots of farming going on like it kind of makes sense if i had walked in dressed like a south carolina frat boy yeah they'd be like what is this yeah so anyway that was the time of the reservation got to aberdeen went to tanner's house and i

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And I was thinking in my mind, like, oh, the sponsorship works. If BW listened to this, he'd be so pissed. He'd be like, no, it was a real customer. No, no, no. They've been in contact today. Oh, really? Yeah, I linked him up. Yeah, of course.

Once I realized what was happening, I did it. That's a message to all you other advertisers out there listening our advertising works it works and on a large scale that guy's at jacksonville florida he was like well i love the fact that like bw knows how to like cross state lines and i was thinking like man this has been a joke the whole time i mean it is real though of course it's real no everything we say is real and true yeah it becomes a joke but then we forget oh yeah this is actually true yeah yeah man that's good yeah so i was bw uh got weighed in for the meet went and checked out the billboard

billboard was cool um was it american was it your first ever billboard? Yeah, I've never done a billboard. That's got to be kind of a surreal feeling, seeing your company on a billboard. Yeah, it was cool. Yeah. Even though it's in Aberdeen. It's not that surreal because I paid for it. But if I was just driving through Austin, Texas, and someone was like, oh, the Stranko plates, that's surreal. Like, no, I paid for every bit of this. It was surreal when he asked co plates that's surreal like no i paid for every

bit of this it was real when he asked me to to make it that's right he's supposed to be hey got a question for you can you make a billboard i'm like i can make a thumbnail it's basically the same thing bigger right yeah just printed yeah um i did learn a lot about it and it was cooler in person than when people had sent me photos but what i realized was we're probably not getting a bunch of sales from aberdeen drive buyers and true what the point of it was for the i don't know 250 people that went into town for this event was for them to take a photo in front of it and the way it was designed and placed, first one, I had control over. And if I knew the way the second one was, I would have done a little bit different.

Because it was hard. Like, I tried to take a good photo in front of it. Because there's that building jutting out in front of it. There's that building, and then the lights come out. Yeah. And so there's, like, no really good way to take a selfie. And we still had a bunch of people taking it. They should have warned us, too, because I would have designed it differently.

No, that's what I'm saying. Like i had known he's like you have this much space and this and whatever and remember there's this much of margin and bleed yeah i'm like cool let's make it this but like yeah if i would have known the lower third wasn't visible visible yeah i would have changed a few things really different but it was still cool we got a photo and then um saturday morning went to the meet set up the booth uh sold a lot of shirts so there's one which ones you sell the most of um calhoun teas no way by a large margin we sold a lot of squat teas i didn't bring them calling yeah oh i said that a million times i was like if trey was here like we'd be sold out by noon is that that blue one with the orange or no that's the bulldog the marine corps bulldog it was the gray one

it's like a tri-blend gray has calhoun's head says strinco oh yeah i don't have that i don't have that yeah then the same one that's black and white um and then i got that one i think we had 12 uh fourth of july shirts left but all in like weird sizes. We sold all but one. If you're a medium, it's up for sale on the site right now. Um, and then if people came up and they're like,

Hey, I like the squat tea. We just gave him a coupon code for no shipping. Okay. And so like, cause last year I think I brought a couple hundred shirts, you know, probably sold 60 or something in person.

And then it's like, Oh no, I have to ship all these shirts back. How many did you bring this time? I brought, I think 72 and I brought home nine. Not bad. And then we sold a good bit online and then we sold a lot of hats.

And then there are, as of right now, three pairs of lift hard, live easy collars left. So those, yeah, those were a big, those were a big hit. Did you say who or ooh, Trey?

I said, ooh. Yeah. So we're doing that, talking to people, making okay podcast jokes. Went to do my bench only, was back in the warmup room, hadn't competed in a while. I'm like, right, warming up with Tommy. The juices start flowing and Diana's there now. So she's running the booth. And so you can do, go ahead.

Do you treat your warmup in a competition the same as you do any other bench or is it a little bit different or what? Yeah. I'd say the warmup for competition is the same process. The only thing you have to be more aware of is the timing of it. So like you have, you have flights, right? So this will just be an example, but this is an accurate example. In my flight, there was 10 lifters. So they had two platforms going at once. So there's the bench, there's flight one, flight two, flight three, each one has 10 lifters. So flight one goes up and they do their first attempts. They do their second attempts. They do the third attempts.

And then flight two goes up and does first, second, third, then flight three. So like if I'm flight two, when flight one is on their third attempt, probably I'm going to go start warming up, but then I'm like last in the flight or not last.

I think it was second or third to last in the bench press. So then it's like, well, I don't want to get warmed up too early. And then the first guy goes and everyone has one minute. So it's like, if there's eight guys ahead of me, so there's a little bit more like timing,

I guess I've, I don't say I've done so many meets, but I've probably done like nine or 10. And then I've probably handled maybe, I don't know, 20 to 25 meets. So I don't know, 20 to 25 meets. So I don't really stress about that. Yeah, like I kind of get it.

That's tough though because you don't want to go too late either because then you warm up and now you're straight to your – Right. But yeah, I didn't really think about it. All I thought was like, man, I haven't done this in a while. This is pretty fun. So I hit my first bench at 330 and then I think i hit 348 and then i took 363 and i kind of thought 363 which was a pr for competition my best 380 but the competition you have to pause at the bottom and so you have

to wait for command so you come out and hold it and they go start and you go to the bench and pause preparatory command yeah yeah yeah then the command execution is bench and then what do you call the command that ends everything whatever that one is is rack yeah so i did everything right the first two then the second one i was like i think this is going to be kind of heavy because they kind of have long pauses oh you jump it yeah no so i went and like it got a little sticky and then it flew and i locked out and just like what i do every day in the gym boom and so technically it didn't count oh so you got in your head okay yeah yeah i got my head i was real stressed about it uh and then one of the things you could sign up for was a push pull meaning you just mentioned deadlift so i so i went and was like hey can you add me in for the deadlift and the meat director's

like yes no problem so uh so i deadlifted two which i hadn't planned to do and i pulled 520 something like that which was annoying that i missed what did i pull i don't remember exactly how i pulled but i calculated later if i'd hit that if that last bench had counted i would have done a thousand pounds on two lifts i was like oh that would have been cool whoa that's pretty crazy actually yeah no that's right. It would have been 900 pounds. I was going to say, yeah, I am. Yeah, I'm wrong. Did they have like a fire? Yeah, on your 32nd. That was sick.

Yeah, they have a fire. That's pretty nifty. Yeah. So I finished that, and then the strongman started. Much more fun to watch than powerlifting. One, because they use strength coat plates. In powerlifting, they use that company, which cannot be named plates. But it's just more dynamic, right?

Like someone's lifting a stone, throwing it over. Another person's going. They're going head to head. And then Grant's going against Jordy. Grant runs out of gas and leaves. But Jordy's still going. And Trey comes and takes Grant's place. And so then it's like still going,

but you look super fatigued. They had the huge carry, a shield carry. They made it the shape of the state of South Dakota. I saw that. That's hilarious. And they loaded it with plates. Kind of more exciting to watch. And then, go ahead. How'd my boy, America Jack Sparrow, do?

Was he announcing? Oh, man. Microsoft ruined his flight. He didn't make it. Yeah. A lot of people that were flying in Friday had issues. So he didn't make it. So they had another guy wearing a hat, which was cool.

And I walked into the platform for deadlifts. He's like, nice cowboy hat. And I was like, in South Carolina, we just call these hats. Now load the bar. Yeah. But Strongman ended a little bit later and then you know we run that turkey pull event we've run a lot of events at the gym and you never want to like you know your customers and clients are there to have a good time but at the same time as the owner, you just have this feeling of like, I have to get all this equipment up in a way. Cause like tomorrow,

in my case for the Turkey bowl tomorrow, people are going to want to go into the gym and do their workout. Yeah. That didn't come to us. And in Tanner's case tomorrow, people are going to, there's an event at massonomics gym for people to go lift. Right.

Yeah. And so he was doing the strong man thing and he asked me, he's like, Hey, can you just like help me break it? there'll be people like you know i assume he was like grant can back up a trailer because he's like can you bring my trailer in here i was thinking there's a lot of people i guess it's that i guess it's that states that south start with south feeling that you think i can do this um So yeah, so then it ended and it was

just like a rush of getting everything out. I bring that up because over my head, my trophy's hanging. Oh yeah. I won. But I don't know. Because I had loaded up all the gear during the awards ceremony with me and Tanner, maybe like

six or eight more guys. I think you won the trailer competition. Yeah, I won that trailer competition. But I was unloading at Massanog's gym, and Diana was helping Tanner's wife clean up their booth. And she goes, I just kept hearing Grant Brogy, Grant Brogy. So I went up, because I came back to get her, and she was wearing the medal.

I'm like, what's that? She's like, you won. So she won. I either won push, pull, or bench only. I don't know.'s great i want something but i left the hardware that's all that matters oh yeah dude um congratulations man i'm a champion first time back i'm winning bringing home hardware killing that trailer killing that trailer game maybe best hat i probably won best hat best hat yeah best hat uh and then sunday um

best hat yeah best hat uh and then sunday um let's see sunday got up went to massonomics gym put the greenville south carolina pin in the in the board appropriately and then uh drove three hours to sioux falls so most of the weekend was spent driving uh yeah to these places had dinner with tommy and his wife. And then Sunday morning went to the airport. Actually funny story about Connor. His fight was at one funny story that turns bad. Our flight was at 10. So I was like, Hey man,

this is before we go to dinner Sunday night. I'm like, Hey man, if you want in the morning, I could drop you off in downtown Sioux Falls. I was like, it's a little bit like Greenville. There's like a river that runs through it.

There's a bunch of like coffee shops, restaurants. And I was like, it's a little bit like Greenville. There's like a river that runs through it. There's a bunch of like coffee shops, restaurants. And I was like, then you could like walk around and see it. You're here. And then you could just Uber to the airport. And he's like, Oh yeah,

I'll definitely do that. I was like, cause tonight we're just going to the restaurant. D's pregnant. We're going to finishing dinner. We're gonna come right back. Right. And he's like,

yeah, I'll do that tomorrow. So we park downtown Sioux Falls in front of the restaurant. We all get out. Connor does like a 360 and goes, yeah, I'll just ride with you to the airport tomorrow. I feel like I've seen it. So,

uh, yeah, I went to the airport the next day, which was yesterday, which feels like a long time ago. And, check the bag, hopped on our flight.

No problem. And then, uh, Connor was stuck at the sioux falls airport for 12 hours jeez i think he got home at three in the morning oh brother this morning as we're recording yeah i will say i tuned in a little bit to the live stream oh that's a whole conversation that is a whole conversation i loved it they had a little bit of audio issues but it was cool. It was really cool. And they had, I mean, I've, I've done some live video stuff before and it's a whole different

beast than, Hey, set up some cameras and film this. And they had the whole station there. It was good. It was well done. And I liked as the viewer, one person would go do their attempt. It was cool. And my first thought was like okay man now it's like what are they gonna do you know while they're warming up or waiting for the next one and then it boom immediately switches to another platform they're going oh they're cheering boom switches to another one so it was like fast paced till it made it interesting to watch i only know his uh massonomics discord name which is mini action jesus but he set up the live stream and it looked like like he looked like a cia operator like he had probably six monitors and then he had like two

or three stationary cams one's a gopro what because i've live streamed from the arnold we take this camera filming in right now we plug the pure just like we are go live on youtube boom boom with one camera it's easy as soon as you add two oh it's like 10 times harder well then you have that production crew right then you have like that octagon thing that you hold on the sides or that's a gimbal yeah it's just a very elaborate gimbal so then he was like walking while doing strongman with the competitors and then what you have to do is you can't wire that so it's got to be wireless and now you have to attach the wireless thing to it have a receiver over at your desk pray that it doesn't get interrupted yeah and nothing runs out of battery or anything like that it's a it's a beast to do that it was production quality like it was it was hot like i was really impressed yeah well good job guy wherever you are

good job maniac potential sponsors we could do i mean i don't know if we want to get do all this but we could do a slightly like a little smaller scale version of that at the arnold potentially yeah if you ever thought about it but i think um it's a good amount of gear you got to bring in but they did a good job he had a lot of of stuff. I was watching it. Cause our booth was right behind where he was sitting. And I was like, I feel like I'm watching strong man actually. Well, I mean,

it was watching strong man, but I mean like the world's strongest man. I was like, actually this is almost better. Oh, it's cool. Yeah. And then it's hard.

Cause you gotta, you're the guy there. It's, it's intense to sit there and do that because you got how, how many cameras do you think he had? I'm going to guess four, maybe five with a GoPro four to five cameras. So you're watching all those and you got to keep up with like, who am I switching to? Oh, they just messed up. They got to redo it. Cut the camera, got to cut the camera. Oh, I clicked the wrong button. Good.

Go to the next one, you know? And Oh, why is the audio not working? Got to fix that while I'm trying to switch the cameras. It's elaborate. Where did you find the link? That's a good question. I think Connor put it on the story, maybe. It maybe was a story. I actually don't know. That's just the power of the internet.

That's just the power of the internet. I just found myself there. So was everybody amateur? Was there any big names there? Or was it just Connor? He just called you amateur. Yeah. So I was there, Trey.

Wow. I heard that. Yeah, I heard it too. I felt it, actually. It's okay. It's cool. So your name's Trey, so it's throwing me off. Strong man. I think his name's Trey Mitchell in Texas.

He's sponsored by Barefoot Shoes. We met him. Yeah, we met him. Yeah, he was there. He wasn't competing. But no, there wasn't anyone like... Oh. Like Steve Bake wasn't

there. Yeah. But I mean, again, Steve Bake. Steve Bake's a freak, but everyone knows Steve because we put him on a stage. Right? It's not like... There was no... You better be careful. You better no huge yeah you better be careful the baker he's baking up some cookies well so that was the thing i thought when gene like the

the loss of geno which like it was a big you can't help that mic he's alive by the way he's not dead yeah yeah yeah no he's alive unlike richard Simmons. R.I.P. But Gino really, even if he doesn't know anything about anyone. It doesn't matter. Justin from Alabama. Yeah. And the guy that did it, though, I want to make sure no shade. He did a great job. Especially, I even thought, what if Gino was here?

And I was like, Gino would have made a big deal about people that he knew. But with two platforms, it's like platform two, PJ, 200 kilos. The lift is good. Platform one, Trey, 220 kilos. And the lift is good. So this guy knew everybody competing. It's all on the screen. For the Mastodon family everybody competing. It's all on the screen. For the Mastinomics family.

It's all on the screen. It's just like reading a teleprompter. When she did a great job at it, but it's like, boom. And because there's two and each one's a minute, there's really not a lot of time for commentary. Gino would have found time. Gino would have found time, but there really wasn't a lot of time. Look at that American flag. I still love that story. Yeah, that a lot of time. Look at that American flag. I still love that story.

Yeah, that's the best one. Look at that American flag. Did you know he was the backup singer for Motley Crue? Shut up. Dead serious. You're lying. No, dead serious. This is not a Jack White story. Dead serious. So I'm in...

His get up now makes so much sense. I get it now. Yeah, so we had a joke last year we went to this caribou coffee and there's like a caribou coffee is like in south dakota's like a dunkin donuts in the northeast like every four feet you're at a caribou so there's one that we like that has like a i don't know couches a fireplace and so the massonomics guys always talk about how the Aberdeen magazine has never covered them. And they bring a lot of outsiders in. So last year, we went there, grabbed the Aberdeen magazine. I set it up with my coffee. And we photoshopped the guys on the

front of it and whatever for a photo. And so we were like, Oh, let's go back there Sunday morning. So we go there and there's the, not the Aberdeen magazine. It's like a print newspaper. And on the front page is Tanner. And it's about the lift hard, live easy too. And so I'm reading it like, and we take a photo,

but I'm reading it and it starts talking about, Oh yeah. And we have this colorful commentator coming. He's like the premier voice for powerlifting. You know, he was a backup singer for Motley crew. He dresses like Jack Sparrow and wears like dark eyeliner. And I was like, I had no idea. Wow. So that's just his clothes. It's not even a getup. Yeah. That's yeah. That's just close. And that's just in Motley crew. We just call them clothes. Yeah. So anyway, that's the lift hard live easy classic that's so awesome yeah wow i'll have to make it

out there eventually one day that assumes they keep doing them so they're not going to every day is a gift no i think they are yeah how'd you end up doing deadlift it's did you just like have a change of heart and be like i'm gonna try to try this out last minute or what? Yeah. So I wish I had. Peer pressure? No. I mean, maybe. I wouldn't call it peer pressure.

I'd call it more like warm-up juice. But basically, I wasn't. Okay, I go there to sell stuff and interact with people and have a good time. Right? But I don't. This is what I was saying in my mind. I don't go there to compete. Last year, D, Total Trooper, got there there seven in the morning stayed till 6 p.m helped run the booth and i

ran most of the camera um this year i'm like i mean you don't take a six-month pregnant woman and try to make her work for 12 hours especially if you don't have to it's a bad plan so i'm like hey drop us off go back to the hotel take your time eat breakfast come in and then hang out for a few hours and then because after the meat there's like a big meetup so i'm like you know i'd prefer like you have the gas to like go all day so i knew she wasn't going to be there for part of it and the majority of the sales i I mean, sales happened all day, but the majority is like people walk in. Oh, strength goes here.

Let me get a t-shirt. And so, I mean, it's, well, you were there at the Arnold trade. It's like somebody has to have the key card and do it. Right. And so it was just Connor and I. So Connor was running a lot of the camera. And so I was like running the booth, which is exactly what I wanted to do. And so the whole idea was, Hey, I'll do bench only.

I get to participate, but then I can do what I'm there to do. Cause bench is like very low risk. But by the time I started benching, Dinah was there running the booth and I'm like, Oh, I can deadlift. Yeah. So I just was like, Hey, I was just having, I was just having fun. So I was like, why not? It was a good time.

Yeah. It was deadlift. Dude. I'm it's super impressive that the pull they can get to come to Aberdeen. That's true. It's wild. That's so crazy. Yeah, it's wild.

And international travel. Guy from England was there. Wow. I mean, tons of Canadians, which I know is close, but still hard. But the amount of people there, it's, it's wild. You know, it's, it's, and it's like the event of the year for them. And I don't mean them like, like it was kind of like, it's one of the events of the year for me.

I mean, my childbirth will be more important, but like, it's, it's like a really fun second. Yeah. It's second. Yeah. It's tied with the Arnold. It's yeah. But no, it really is fun and it's like if you're into it and you listen and you know all the jokes and you by default kind of know all the people that's actually probably the hardest thing with it is because

you're like you see someone and you're like i've seen you on instagram i know you own our plates i talked to you last year i have no idea what your name what's your name yeah not a big guy yeah hey big guy working hard hardly work yeah exactly you just throw them a one-liner yeah oh i guess they'll let anyone in here um but yeah that was that so we did it and then we came home and uh that's fine i go to jersey in the morning for drill for five days so jersey yeah less fun less fun marine course field up summertime 90 degrees bring the electrolytes hey man i'm going to miami tomorrow what's the trip what's there uh going down see see old

co-worker that'd be good to do i'm gonna to visit a client that I've never really met in person. I just feel like we're all digital these days, but it's good to have some FaceTime. No, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to go meet them and we're having dinner at his house. Dave Rubin, if you ever followed him on YouTube. Yeah.

He's got a pretty big channel. Dinner at his house, huh? Yeah. Wait, Dave Rubin, if you ever followed him on YouTube. Yeah. He's got a pretty big channel dinner at his house, huh? Yeah. It's not just me. Yeah. His clients, Dave Rubin, that's a whole different relationship with friends. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, I met him one time before back in 2021. Um, but just briefly, cause I was, he came on and did an interview for another client that I was working for down there in miami but i just met him briefly i don't think he even remembers and uh yeah there the person i was talking to on the team was like hey there's gonna be a dinner at dave's house let me see if i can get you in um stay tuned we'll see because also like you don't random dude coming yeah dinner and then she gets back with me and she's like hey you're good to go um so me and kate are both going to go to that and uh she was like yeah the first question he asked was is he sane

well he follows your channel so no no no i'm saying don't worry i'm good nice but uh yeah man i'll report back next week are you gonna like hit all your old spots yeah yeah exactly so i'm gonna show kate around miami and hit all see the old stomping grounds you know brickle brickle yeah good spot good spot we'll go to that island that where you where i almost died from cardio and running where you smoked me in that run gotta get it that was the first time i felt good about my running capabilities in years just run with me. We should run together more often. Hit the swap rabbit, bro.

You'd feel good. Man, I am a premier athlete. I am in shape. Yeah, man. But it'll be good. I haven't been there in a while. And my continuous take on Miami is, man, great place to visit. I've lived there

and I say, great place to visit. Don't lived there, and I say, great place to visit. Don't want to live there. Only been once. Yeah. You had a good time, though. Great time. No, I loved it. I think it's a great place to visit.

It's like going to South America. It is. Actually, that's true. It's a different world down there. I guess technically is South America. Florida's not the South. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, you're right.

Even Hank Williams Jr. said that. Oh, dude. Solid week. the South. Yeah, you're right. Even Hank Williams Jr. said that. Dude, solid week. How are the girls doing? Girls doing good, man. Sleeping? They're sleeping. Let me see. They usually go to bed around 9, 9.30.

Wake up around 5, 5.30. It's pretty good. Wow, they30. So they sleep pretty good. Yeah. It's pretty good. While they sleep through that entire stretch? Yeah. Whoa. Start to, I would say in the last week and a half,

they've been pretty consistent with that. Okay. That's good, man. Better than my sleep schedule. Yeah. I guess. Somebody's going to try to think. Are you doing save rounds? Yeah, I was going to go save.

The Olympics is coming up. Oh, yeah. Everyone forgot about the Olympics. Let me announce it. Saved rounds and alibis. Oh, yeah. Trey, what do you got? Olympics, man.

What is it? July. Is it this weekend? Is that when it starts? Probably, because the Marine Corps always schedules like a field up when, when there's something you want to watch. Yeah. Yeah.

They scheduled around that. This is a dumb question. This is summer. Right. It's carrying the flag in. Yes. This is indeed summer. It is a summer.

Right. It's a fair question though. Yeah. Oh, correct. Once you finish this save round, I got a star Wars save round. Remind me.

Uh, LeBron's carrying the flag in. Yeah. I think they announced that. Okay. First NBA player to carry a basketball player to carry the flag in. So is USA basketball playing this summer? Yeah, man. They almost lost.

They had a warm-up game. They almost lost to South Sudan. Dare I bring up the fact that the WNBA All-Star team beat the USA women's team by nine points. I heard Caitlin Clark had it put on a show. Put on a show because she wasn't picked for the USA team.

She put on a show and then also was like, I don't need to do the three-point contest. I'm good. Baller. Lost to South Sudan, it was close or they were down and had to come back? They were down at halftime.

USA came back. South Sudan went up with eight seconds left. LeBron scored. I saw the game winner. Yep. Yeah, LeBron scored with eight seconds left. South Sudan missed it barely at the end i saw that part of me was rooting for part of me was rooting for south sudan yeah that'd be

major yeah representing my girls but yeah that checks that tracks that tracks oh that's where they're from yeah yeah wait so ignorant question and i should know because i'm from south carolina and i just went to south dakota is there a North Sudan or is it like South Sudan? Not making her a question. So South Sudan is like one of the newest countries in the world. I was going to say, I've never heard of that country. I thought it was just Sudan. Yeah.

So it was Sudan and then they broke apart. There was a war. Yeah. There was a war. Yeah. And then they broke, they broke apart and there was a bunch of, it was like refugees. And so it's, it's a war. Yeah. And then they broke, they broke apart and there was a bunch of, it was like refugees. And so it's,

it's a relatively new country. And then it's, it's been kind of a mess over there. So is it South Sudan and North Sudan, or is it South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan, South Sudan.

Okay. Sudan. So it's really cool to kind of see them, uh, see them do kind of, well, it's kind of, yeah.

Yeah. New country underdog. That's everything that got going on. It's really cool see yeah oh declared and recognized 2011. okay yeah i was close 20 i said 2010. do you call him a sudanian south sudanese sudanese sudanese is that the plural i i think this so you're a south carolinian right okay yeah if i'm from south sudan i say i'm sudanese oh it's right in the middle of africa or i'm south sudanese yeah i think that you could say that oh yeah it's right in the middle of africa right in the middle i miss the rains down there personally well toto reference baby i like that i like that. I like that Toto reference.

Oh, okay. So, what's your start? Yeah, the Star Wars. Yeah, save round.

So, we get to Sioux Falls Convention Center. We check in just ahead of Connor and you know, like the embassy suites where it's like, this was Sheraton or Marriott or something.

But you know, in the embassy suites are classic for this. It's like a glass elevator in like the middle where you light up. Yeah. So I get in and I don't even know what I'm with.

And this isn't Grant trying to be funny. And the reason Grant's funny with not understanding sci-fi is because he's not trying to be funny. But there's like two guys, combat boots. Like I'm going to guess Star Trek. Like a lot of like extra plastic. You know, gun on the leg. Gun here. Gun there. You know, grenades. But they're holding like a bunch of toys extra plastic you know gun on the leg gun here gun there you know grenades and but

they're holding like a bunch of toys like in bags like not a part of the costume okay and we get in and i'm just like man everywhere i go whenever i travel even in south dakota it's always like comic-con like everywhere like it's all like every day we we were in Boston for the Red Sox NBA finals. It was Comic-Con or some version of that. I'm like everywhere I go, there's like people doing, what do you, what did we say?

We call it the, the cosplay, cosplay, cosplay, right? It's like always that. So like we're standing there with the guys and what's funny is like, you look in their eyes and I'm thinking,

this is a South Dakota redneck. He's just dressed up. I'm like, what's the event brother? And he is like you look in their eyes and i'm thinking this is a south dakota redneck he's just dressed up i'm like what's the event brother and he's like oh it's like it was like a cancer awareness thing for kids it seemed like a great event so anyway boom we go up and then like i'm looking down you know the bottom of the hotel i'm seeing more like comic-con-esque people walking in okay and i'm thinking like connor's gonna crack a joke because he's in the elevator now doesn't we go to get dinner with me connor in the lobby we go to leave and there's just like um white no yellow yellow like it looks like a um oh man jeff's gonna be so mad about how bad i'm a butcher this it looks like a shop vacuum with like a dome on top with like a bunch of

buttons. Aren't you D2? Well, no, let me continue. I think the answer is no. Cause it's yellow. Isn't that one white?

Yeah, that one's white. So it's like yellow and I'm being dead serious. And I'm like, Connor, look, it's Obi-Wan Kenobi. And he's like,

he's like, no. And I'm like, is it C3PO? Isn't that the tall one? That's all gold. That's, that's the, no. Is it a C-3PO? Isn't that the tall one that's all gold? That's the all gold one. Does R2-D2 have a kid brother? That one.

This one? What is that? I don't know. That's the one. Is it the ball? That's deep. That's a deep cut. Yeah.

What's the R2-D2? Well, show Trey on the camera. I bet he knows. Star Wars Droid Factory R2-Yellow 2. R2-Yellow 2? what's the rd well show trey on the camera i bet he knows star wars droid factory r2 yellow two r2 yellow two yeah r2 y2 i don't y2k y2k i mean we kind of just lived that here it wasn't it wasn't bb8 we're going to show you on the camera right here okay yeah oh it's not going to work, is it? Oh.

Yeah, I have no idea. Oh, okay. Yeah. Connor. Star Wars droid. Yeah. Yeah, Star Wars droid. But was not Obi-Wan Kenobi.

No. Yeah, I could have told you that. Who's Obi-Wan Kenobi? Is that the wrong movie? He's the Jedi. Yeah, he's the Jedi. He's like the mentor figure of the i thought that was um not gandalf what's the little yoda yoda well he's another one

oh he's a swamp he's also a jedi yeah he's old school he's og yeah not gandalf well gandalf yoda's like the mark ripeter what's his name he's double door yeah the hobbit right yeah anyway so that was going on that was my save round with that and then connor was like wait you were seriously thought that was obi-wan kenobi i was like literally i saw a thing and i was like i know it's star wars first thing came to mind obi-wan kenobi where's jeff when you need him i know you know i hope he made it this long with my mom listening yeah that's hilarious any other saved rounds ah let's see you've been back in the gym i have been all right i was there yesterday i'm going tomorrow nice good for you yeah um fitting it in if you're if you're struggling to fit it in as they say uh you

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What did you want to talk about, Joe? Biden? Joe Biden? Resigned. He's gone. Yeah, wild. Joe Biden resigned. He's gone. Yeah. Wild. And everyone's surprised.

Yeah. Shocking. So Joe's gone. I think they had to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

It is weird, though. It's a weird political season. Yeah. Now, who do you think it's going to be? If it's not Joe, who yeah now who do you think it's gonna be if it's not joe who's it gonna be so whether you know joe or gino i'm just like can we just get to college football season because this is exhausting dude uh anyway at this point of the show which we've covered all current events important sports sports topics, talked about strength training, recap the lift hard,

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