The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 33: Back Pain & Bitcoin

Episode Date: August 16, 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 - Bitcoin 06:07 - PJ’s Getting Married 10:06 - Stock Crash 13:43 - Media Update 18:38 - Back Tweaks 23:48 - Jeff and Tres Join 25:05 - New Jack White Album 29:54 - The Olympics 36:41 - Tres Learns Bitcoin 54:52 - Complicated Military Processes 01:00:38 - College Football 01:05:43 - Wolverine 01:08:43 - Chiropractors 01:20:27 - Wild Slack Questions 01:24:20 - Saved Rounds

All right, welcome back to episode 033 of the OK podcast powered by the strength co. I'm your host, Grant Brogy. The price of Bitcoin is $56,163. We'll cover that here in a second. We are broadcasting in the future from the upstate of South Carolina. PJ decided to get married this month. My bad. Yeah, seriously.

So we're about a week ahead. So today is June. Listen to me. June. August the 6th in the year of our Lord 2024. We already got Friday's episode recorded this Friday. So if you haven't listened to Placido Santos, talk about how much he loves his God, his country, his president,

and his seven kids and his jujitsu boyfriends. Go back and listen to that one. But yeah, we'll be a week late for some of this month, which will be interesting, especially when we talk about Bitcoin, because are you freaking out? Nah, dude, I've been in the game a minute. I've been in the game. I've seen worse. Yeah. So when did you buy your first Bitcoin? First, like, and there's like, there's like, there's like mess around. Someone's like, you should buy Bitcoin. You buy a hundred dollars. And then there's like, Hey, I'm'm actually gonna buy some Bitcoin or was you were you just like sold from day

one no no I was for me there was two stages for me actually so me too I first heard about it me to movement I love it hashtag me too I first heard about it in I think 2018 or 19 something like that. And thought it was dumb. Thought it was like, this sounds like a, some like thing that some kids spun up in his basement and it's just some scam or something like that. Never underestimate kids in their basements. They kind of run the world now, but, and then I just didn't pay attention to it. And then I remember the whole thing, March of 2020 happened. And then that got me down a rabbit hole of, I don't understand the economy. And, uh, cause I, the, the simple way I put it is I, I had this idea in my head of,

oh, I understand the economy and the stock market. Like if businesses are doing well, then life is good. Then it goes up. Yeah. And if they're doing bad, it goes down. Obviously that's how it works. And then I remember seeing, uh, March of 2020 happened, everything crashed. I was like, okay, this is interesting. Well, that was like a housing boom or I think, Oh, that was the brainwashing thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That one, that one, they get confused sometimes. I remember now. And I remember seeing all of main street, all of the stores, restaurants, everything, gyms shut down, boarded up, everything's screwed. And I look at the stock market and it's screaming higher.

And I go, okay, I don't understand this at all then. Cause it just broke my whole worldview. So then I went down the rabbit hole, long story short, I started going down like the gold bug kind of rabbit hole, the guys who love gold. And then from there, I kind of looked at some, one of the gold guys, Peter Schiff was talking to Anthony Pompliano. I was like, what's this Bitcoin thing? Two big names there, casual name drop, humble brag. I didn't know him at the time, but it was like, uh, just hearing about him on, on YouTube. And then 2020, I finally finally was like i'm putting some money into bitcoin this makes sense yeah i was a little earlier i think 2017 i had a gunny it's all he talked about oh humble brag yeah no i don't mean like that i actually just did it idiotically like like you go you go to a horse

race and someone's like bet on this one and you're like all right okay no you know more than i know yeah um yeah so i did a little bit then and then but yeah but anyway i still have to say if you're a bit coiner and that's why you listen to this podcast i'm sorry we don't talk about it enough but uh it's just funny because it's actually fine it's even like the dow yesterday down 1100 yeah and it's like hey zoom. We're up 9% on the year. Isn't that correct? 9% is more than what most financial advisors would tell you to expect on average. Yes. And it's why I hate politics. So I hate both sides because all of the memes of like Kamala dancing to all the red, we did joe yeah that's like pretty great it's funny uh

no it's funny and trump being like oh the stock market would be tripled and it's just like oh you're just like using this day he said kamala crash trump cash yeah there you go uh that's but uh no it's funny and in bitcoin i mean i, I'll say this to the listeners. We're at 55. We started the podcast 33 weeks ago. We were at 41. So were we at 70 two weeks ago? Dang right. Yeah. So zoom out a little bit. It's okay. Bitcoin's going to be fine. If anything, it's on sale. I like when things are on sales. We don't run sales with a strength co who the podcast is powered by unless a presence or shot at. And then we run sales and then everyone says,

Oh, you did that. You shouldn't have done that. And I said, well, we ran on a 45. So, so yeah,

you know, the biggest drop I, I wrote out was the 69,000 to the 15,000. That one was, was the real deal000 to the 15,000. That one was, was the real deal. That one was real deal. Whenever it goes back below what you bought in at, you just got it.

You do think about it, but you just say huddle and you, and you back up the truck and you just load up and you just load up. But yeah, I think it's no big deal. I, if I want to, if I want to transition it to strength training,

it's like having a bad day in the gym. It doesn't really mean much. Yeah. It doesn't mean much. You just keep showing up. You just, you just hold on to your Bitcoin. Yeah.

This applies to all investments by the way. Yeah. This is not investment advice, but if you're looking to invest by the block clock mini, it's a current block height is eight, five, five, seven,

one, five. Shout out Zach Copley. We are broadcasting from the upstate of South Carolina, which some people find interesting. I've just always thought this was the upstate. There's two upstates in the countries. One is the upstate of South Carolina.

The other one is upstate New York. And I don't know anyone else that says upstate. I didn't even think about that. But one nice thing about the upstate is all my friends from like Mexico. I want to say Mexico. I mean, Texas, it's like the same thing used to be.

Yeah. I mean, still is, but, uh, you know, and those folks are even friends out in California and no one who's ever lived in California says Cali,

but those people, they're like, are you underwater? And I'm like, no, I'm in the upstate. Yeah. I felt nothing. Although we're supposed to go to Charleston for a honeymoon. Yeah. You're screwed. Yeah, you are actually like, no, no, no. I've been getting videos from my dad today. And

I want to wait for Trey and Jeff to come on. Cause dad's love to talk about weather. Yeah. And they do. My dad lives in the literally low country, which isn't a word. He's close to Charleston, right? Yeah. So, I mean, on the Southern coast, you have Charleston, Beaufort, Savannah. Okay. Yeah. And between all that region, same stuff.

That's called the low country. And no, he's underwater. Like he is like, like his driveway is flooded. Really? Oh, it is like actually kind of unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah. I got a cousin in Naples.

I talked to him today and they're, they're doing, they're experiencing the same thing. Everything's underwater. You know, Ron DeSantis took a lot of heat for his boots. He's just prepping for hurricanes. Now I get it. Like, it's like, no, this is a guy that understands where he lives. He said, no. Yeah.

Alligators flooding, I'm good. I'll just wear these boots and I'll be fine. So we're not going to, the honeymoon we're supposed to go on is not this Saturday. And then the next Saturday is the wedding, the 17th. Wait, so for the listeners, you'll get married tomorrow. If you're listening to this right now, Jordy's getting married tomorrow. I'm getting married tomorrow. Okay. And then we're supposed to go on the honeymoon so that's generally how the order

that it's supposed to happen yeah typically yeah but I'm saying do you think that's enough time between Debbie hey Debbie and us being there for us to not have to ride around in boats Charleston's so used to flooding yeah um I mean they really are that's what i hear yeah no i mean it's like you get a part of life you get a five six inch rainstorm yeah that's not named yeah it's just a storm and everything is cobblestone is flooded and charleston they just call it a storm they do they do i mean like i remember people coming into town different things in the city like whoa meeting streets underwater i'm like yeah it rained yeah i mean i lived in brickle miami which was like six feet above sea level and it would just rain

sort of hard and my street would be flooded yeah sea level such a vibe level such such an interesting concept but yeah anyway so we got storms happening Debbie will be over by the time this is out we'll have we'll have moved on um no it's a tropical storm it's below a category it's below a category no it's interesting because my dad did send videos today and it's definitely raining non-stop but like my dad has this thing where he wants to, when the neighbor, nothing's better than a hurricane where people evacuate and he doesn't.

Oh, yeah. Because as soon as it dies down, he's cleaning his yard. Yeah. And he's cleaning his neighbor's yards. And then they get back. And they get back. And he's like, yeah, the Lord spared me.

You should come to church. Oh, my gosh, dude. So he was out picking up sticks today my mom was even picking up sticks she's like well i needed to get steps and so i went outside and i got wet and i was just like hurricane was just a mission trip for him yeah it's nothing bringing people to the lord just prepping for africa oh is he going ukraine i don't know where he's going. I just mean wherever. Wherever you need to go. He's at stock market. Yeah. Can you stock market me for dummies?

Yeah, I can go. I can go kind of deep. I've heard it's down. It is down. Biggest big or big drop in a long time. But I heard about the root cause of this whole stock market crash. And it all has to do with Japan in the end, baby. It has to do with my homeland. My all right my people actually technically wasn't my people

as people interacting with my people same so the the Japanese they held strong with zero percent interest rates which basically means you can borrow money for like basically free forever basically free money forever right and in the u.s we have not historically but in modern times pretty high interest rates so then people on wall street got to thinking well you're telling me that i can go borrow japanese yen for nothing convert that to dollars buy whatever i want and it's like i'm just getting free returns and the answer is kind of yes until no. So what brought about the no? So what brought about the no was there was some selling pressure. And so as the market dropped a little bit, it started to snowball because once it drops a little bit, now some of those

Wall Street guys got to sell to make sure that they can still pay back their Japanese yen loan yeah and then a few of them were underwater so then more people have to sell which means the stock market goes down more which means they have to sell even more so it had this like cascading effect is it done it's probably done yeah it's probably done i mean um funny enough warren buffett sold like a ton of stock uh right all of this happened. He sold, I think half of his Apple stake, which, you know, maybe he was just trying to trim his position as, as they say, maybe he's just diversifying or rebalancing as they say. But he also bought a bunch of iron right after that. So he might've been trying to big and we should call Warren. He should be an investor. He should be a sponsor, a sponsor. sponsor yeah yeah warren buffett

potential sponsor i wish we got some warren buffett sponsorship um but yeah it was one of those things where you know you you play stupid games you win stupid prizes nothing lasts forever once again that's that's what's happening i know japan had the biggest drop in their stock market since like black monday which i think was 1987, something like that. Okay. Um, it was, it was pretty major. Black Monday was bad. Black Monday was very bad. Friday is good. It depends on if you're in the Walmart parking lot or not. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, big week in the markets, guys, I know that work in the markets, uh, guys, I train, uh, they're like, yep, basically off this week. week uh not much i can do i just gotta

wait for the aftermath but um just go to the beach just go to the beach go to the beach uh and buy bitcoin buy the dip buy the dip the dips never been better did we hit the 40s we did right i think it tapped 49 okay which is so funny because then it shot back up to 53, four, whatever like that. 56. They're like, oh, Bitcoin, 10% gain in two days. I'm like, dude, your brains are so ruined. Always, always zoom out to episode one of the okay podcast because that's where you measure Bitcoin from. If you're an early hodler we appreciate you but really the price of bitcoin is based off episode one of the okay podcast it's like it's like bc it is yeah right you know domini yes yeah after christ returns i feel that's kind of sacrilegious but uh

but yeah anyway so that's uh what's up with the markets. Do you have anything media to bring up? Nova's episodes doing well on YouTube. You see that? I did see that. It's like 7X the other ones. Yeah. So Nova thumbnails. It's a thumbnail game.

If you want to start a YouTube channel, just let your content be whatever it is. Just have a good thumbnail. So if you have a female that looks more muscular than the viewers people click on it yeah uh but also I've gotten a lot of feedback from that from Marines from women all six of them that listen yep uh but no people are like oh that was an interesting pocket I thought she did a great job thanks Nova Sky ward from scotland for coming on yeah that was good um but yeah i did see she was doing well there i saw she was doing well on the podcast numbers i didn't check the podcast number she was yeah they were up yeah i mean they were up for the

first week i mean most i mean i have nothing to hide here if you want to sponsor this podcast we will totally oh i forgot your gift whoa we got a new podcast sponsor we did well someone that said they're interested and they sent us an item that they create and it's a wedding gift for you and I left it at the office I'm just now remembering and so they sent us all their info yeah uh so we'll do that next week uh we'll do it wedding has sponsors yeah yeah um Should I do a BW ad read in my wedding? Oh, isn't BW officiating your wedding? Yes. Yes.

I mean, BW was at my wedding. Good guy, better wedding officiant, best at taxes. Best at taxes. But I lost my train of thought there. Sponsors, numbers on the podcast. Sponsors, numbers on the podcast. Yeah, but no. So I think we get about 400 in the first week and then they all kind of top off between

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It's actually, it might be better to be in now because the people that listen now are really into it. They're motivated. Yeah, they're motivated

and they're your first, what's the book or the website? First 1,000 fans, 10,000 fans, something like that. 1,000. 1,000 true fans. 1,000 true fans, right?

I think that's what it's called. So we're not peaking 1,000 fans every episode, but we're close. But Nova basically blew out the first week listeners. So thanks, Nova, for being cool, being a good Marine officer and doing that for us. And if you want to sponsor, hit us up. Also, this podcast is powered by the Strength Co. And the Strength Co. sponsors the Massanomics podcast. They power this podcast.

And we have a third one kicking off next week. It's called Tailgate Talks with Gamecock Legends. kicking off next week it's called tailgate talks with gamecock legend uh legends stephen garcia and patrick demarco he was a 4.0 student they call him 4-0 demarco he's number four fullback type uh tailgate talks they're kicking off for this college football season and we are their what they call a built by sponsor wow yeah the podcast is not just put on by them. It's put on by the university by, or Gamecock football plus I think it's called. So we had some cool footage from those guys.

They were texting me, you know, them and strength co gear on Williams Bryce stadium doing different things. So check out tailgate talks two, four, seven. I think it is 24, seven. I assume it is 24,

seven. I assume. Yeah. Yeah. On Instagram. Uh, I'll give you the link. You can put it in the show notes, but we're,

we're, we're sponsoring that. But if you want to sponsor this podcast, Hey, line is long. First of all, if the line is long, there are,

there are people chopping down the door to just sponsor your wedding. I know. Listen, we, you can't hear this because of the type of the microphone that we're using, but there's people knocking on the door right now. You just can't hear it. So the mic's good, right?

It's a good mic. It means it's not bad. It means it's the best mic. Many people are saying it may be the best mic. You've never seen a better one. No. There have been other mics. Other people have mics.

They're so tiny. They're tiny mics. This mic, it's the best. You're going to get tired of this mic. It tremendous it's tremendous it sounds so good you'll be tired of sounding good yeah anyway and the listeners they're not just kicking tires no no they're real buyers so uh check that out uh it is bw tax small business i own a couple llcs i just switched one to an s corp who am i going to talk to to hey this is bw that's our guy so check him out um but yeah that's what's that's what's new in the news anything new in training yeah so by the time you watch this we released a video on

back pain um i dealt with a tweak. Oh, you got a tweak. That's not the sponsors knocking. That's me knocking on wood that I won't have another one. Yeah, that's opportunity. I dealt with a tweak and I'll keep it short because you probably at this point watch a YouTube video. But basically, I went seven days without training. This is when these sort of things always happen.

They always happen off of some kind of delay. And it wasn't me being lazy. I trained the day before I left for drill. I did come back on Monday, but I had not slept. And it's a little risk versus reward thing. I was like, I'm going to sleep train tomorrow. So I trained on Tuesday. Then I trained the following Tuesday.

I squatted kind of heavy. I dropped a set and I did two sets of five at 425 and whatever. I benched, I pressed, I came in the middle day. I did the other upper body exercise. I don't remember if you haven't seen the YouTube video, do it because I pull up my stats today and I went through all of them when I recorded it. And then Friday I went to lift and I was like, well, I kind of want to squat and deadlift because I haven't done either of them heavy. And part of me was like, well, I kind of want to squat and deadlift because I haven't done either of them heavy. And part of me was like, well, you should deadlift heavy because you squatted heavy Tuesday. But I thought, I only did two sets of five.

I'll squat three sets of five. Same weight. So I'll keep the same weight. 425 on the Mars bar, which definitely, you know, you can squat a little bit more. Loads of hips a little bit more. In any event, I'm on my third set. I'm on rep four. And like, it's like my back just went like nothing bad. Like I didn't fall over no shooting pain. I didn't finish and I couldn't walk. I just felt my back do something. And so I racked after rep four, I was like, I'm done.

And so I racked after rep four. I was like, I'm done. I walked around the gym. I was like, okay, I'm not broken. Let me bench. So I benched and I benched, I don't know, upper twos. Maybe it was 300. I benched five by five.

And you use your low back in the bench, particularly with that little arch. I've kind of felt it in my low back every now and then. Oh, I've been sore sometimes after benching. Yeah, yeah. If you're making a big arch, but I did that and I felt nothing. So then I thought, okay, my back feels weird. I should deadlift to use

it. And then for whatever reason, I power cleaned. I was like, I should power clean. So I power cleaned to warm up and felt fine. I think I power cleaned like 235 for three sets of three okay and then i warmed up and i did lift it one set of 405 by five yeah i left i felt great i got home i don't remember what i did but after sitting which is my point in all this and i got up my back hurt

yeah i mentioned that on friday when we recorded yep yep yeah so I was like it'll be fine I woke up Saturday morning I was in a lot of pain yeah but I was just like okay let me just think about this like I know I'm not super hurt because I quote hurt my back and then I was able to power clean deadlift yeah if you were really hurt you'd be on the ground yeah so i but my back was definitely hurting so about middle of the afternoon i was like all right i need to go on a walk so i went on like a two mile walk okay and anytime i hit a little bit of an incline i like really opened up my stride like normal people walking trails but i thought i looked like i was on crack like I was definitely walking a little bit weird but the more move the better I

felt came back went to dinner Saturday night sat down got up from dinner back hurt again same story through Sunday and then I go to Monday it's time to lift and I'm like well my back hurts I clearly can't lift I was like let me just try and for whatever reason I was like let me use a straight bar I heard it on the Mars bar let me try the straight bar I use a straight bar I worked up 365 I did five sets of five I didn't use a belt like I don't know I'm not saying that's a go-to should buy our belts our belts are great a lot of times when people have back pain I tell them to wear a

belt anyway but for some reason it felt like I could focus more like I say why why did you not wear a belt I felt like for some reason, it felt like I could focus more. I was going to say, why did you not wear a belt? I felt like I could just like really focus on the brace more because like nothing else was helping me. And that's a grantism. There's no science there. This isn't Peter Atiyah.

Like it's just, I was just like, I'm not going to use a belt. And I'd say I'm 85% now. I got to lift tomorrow. Like today when I woke up, I hurt a little bit. Yep. I got up, I stretched, I'm 85% now. I got to lift tomorrow. Like today I woke up. I hurt a little bit. Yep.

I got up. I stretched. I walked. And yeah, I mean, now I'm feeling decent. But the moral of the story and the thing I want you to understand is if your back hurts, it is never, ever, ever the answer to not lift. Like you must go lift. And the reality is, I heard it on Friday here it is Tuesday

the moments that I have felt the best have been like during like literally during the execution using it and it's like after that stuff hurts but anyway that's training that's your mediocre lifter update I guess we should get these guys on here let's do it mediocre lifter update. I guess we should get these guys on here. Let's do it. Episode 033 of the

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Guidance means everyone. And we just lengthened the K part if we missed the O. That's how you clean that up. Anyway, the Olympics are going on. We've talked about the stock market crash. We want to talk weather and how every dad in the Southeast is really concerned about the weather. Well, actually, Jeff, let's just get right into that. Your dad, like what's his pool temperature right now?

Good question. I haven't gotten a most recent update. I imagine it's in the mid 80s. Okay. So he doesn't chill that thing. Definitely getting documented. No. Yeah. Just, oh, natural. in the mid 80s okay so he doesn't show that thing definitely getting document oh yeah just oh natural so in a rainstorm does he let it overflow uh i don't or does he cover it i don't think it's well i mean it has happened but he's a conservationist i can never remember okay all natural but But yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, a tropical storm. Debbie is rolling through the Southeast. Debbie. Debbie. Yeah. Little Debbie,

the white stripes. She plays the drums. What's her real name? Meg white. Definitely. Debbie. Everyone calls her a little Debbie. That's I mean,

I don't know. That's what I've always said. Her real name though. It might not be. No, that is her real name. Little Debbie. Everyone calls her Lil Debbie. That's what I've always said. That's her real name though. It might not be. No, that is her real name. Lil Debbie. Have you listened any more to that No Name album? It's all I've been listening to. When I've been going to music

during workouts or walking to work, it's been No Name. I'm digging it. What's your favorite track? I definitely love that first one. I think that one's super good. What's I can't remember what it's called.

I gotta pull it up. Yeah. I know what you're talking about. Old scratch blues. Yeah. Um, what's been another, I like that.

That's how I'm feeling. Well, I don't know if that's what it's named, but that's how I'm feeling Well I don't know if that's what it's named But that's what I'm calling it That's how you're feeling That's actually the name you nailed it That's how I'm feeling right now PJ are you listening to this I did not listen to it yet

You're a musician Dude you know how much music there is Yeah you gotta listen to all the music All of it I got some long car rides coming up. Queuing it up. It's a good album. Driving to North Carolina for six hours

and then driving to Charleston for four or five, then driving to Greenville for four-ish. That's called his wedding. That's called my wedding honeymoon triangle adventure. Good old car wedding mobile wedding southern car wedding little does he know that the okay podcast hired jack white

to sing at his wedding oh no way gosh yeah it's gonna be sponsorship money yeah i am gonna i mean part of the the strength co sorry the okay podcast deal was I have to do an ad read during the ceremony. Oh, yeah. Which I feel like it's fair. Your wedding's brought to you by BW Tax. Yeah. BW's officiating it. Yeah.

And sponsoring it, right? Yeah. And sponsoring it. You can't afford not to. What a guy. These vows are brought to you by BW Tax. Listen, you get married. The financials get combined.

There's a lot of red tape you got to work through. I know who I'm calling. A lot of people wait until years after their marriage to make the, you know, the financial changes. But when BW officiates a wedding, he's just like, hey, look, talk to me. Are you guys filing joint? Are you filing separately? Is she a woman? Is she going to own the business? Is this a woman owned business or because you're Japanese,

is this minority owned? The answer is yes. Let me know. I know all the answers to get through. Cutting through the red tape. You know what? Whoever owns it is whoever gets the biggest tax break. That's who owns it. Wow. Yeah. I'm going to leave with a joint bank account and a tax return. That's what I'm going to leave the wedding with that's it dang yeah and instead of like a dj you're just gonna have a booth set up with bw to do people's taxes right can you imagine can you man no one wants to go to a wedding but if you get to go to a wedding and get ahead of your taxes and here's the thing i'm also gonna i'll probably podcast during during the reception. So now it's a write-off.

Now I can write off the whole wedding. And remember that business write-offs equal free money. It's free. You can't afford not to. Whenever a business owner says, well, it's a write-off, that means it's free. Right. Yeah. I had to buy this plane. I had to.

That's like girl math. It's a write-off. Yeah. Yeah. Girl math. As Nova says, the only thing harder than girl math, there's nothing harder. Artillery math is easier than girl math. It's all difficult.

Verified. Dude, speaking of that, I was driving home, and I was like, oh, which I listen to. I'm like, oh, I'll listen to the OK Podcast. Pulled up the YouTube. Do you see? She's smoking. Dude, there's a lot of people pumping a lot of people pumping dude i i so mom i know that you know i just saw my mom this weekend and she was like

you know i just want to say that you're my son and i love you and i know you guys think it's i know i think you guys think it's funny that i'm your only listener, but I take pride. And then I was like, I was like, Oh mom, seven other people listen this week. You're not the only one. But yeah, she's getting lost in the crowd now.

Yeah, seriously. Hey, she was the first. She was the first. And if you're not first, you're last. You're seventh.

Yeah. We're from the south. And if you're not first, you're last. You're seventh. I heard both. That's how I want to say that. South. We told the audience early on that we're kind of futuristic right now because DJ's getting married and it ruined everything. Brought to you by BW Tech. Brought to you by BW Tech. This is the end of the olympics

in real time oh okay uh last was a good one well so many good events so many good fun medals that they gave out yeah that thing that happened was crazy you're That one thing? Oh my God. I was like, what? I didn't expect that. I like how Grant was on the roll. Everyone was talking about it the next day. We were all talking about it. They were all talking about it. Everyone was talking about it. We were podcasting about it.

Every day I stopped what I was doing to watch it. It was phenomenal. I cried that one time. Yeah. Trey, I'm not going to bring up any more topics. Olympic updates. Okay. You'll just get interrupted.

You guys just seen a crap on it. Yeah. But the U.S. is up in metals, right? Gold. The last time I checked. Yeah. Yeah. USA.

Time of reporting. I think they were up. USA. Like, what was it? 24 to 21 or 22 or something like that? Yeah. I'll take it. I'm pulling it up.

We had 24 to 22. I saw that. China. Ooh. China. I saw that guy win the 1,500 meter today out of nowhere. Dude. That was a fun thing to watch. The US guy? Did either of nowhere dude that was that was a that was a fun the u.s guy

was that today or was that the one yesterday where the photo finish was all over x today not the like the black guy with the painted nails is that who we're talking that was so you're talking about the 100 that was the 100 okay okay okay so what are we talking about that was this is the yeah this is the, so like a little short of a mile. And apparently the U.S. guy won gold. And then, Jeff, what were you saying? He qualified on time. Yeah, he didn't even like, he wasn't top two in his heat.

I want to say he was like third or fourth in his qualifying heat. And so he had like he had to wait for the other heats to get done so he could see if his time qualified him for the final it did like you know they talked about him but they weren't like oh this guy's a gold medal contender let's let's like keep an eye on him they're kind of like oh cool and this cole hawker guy he qualified he'll probably qualify on time. That's cool. Good for him. And then he went ahead and just took the gold from these two guys that were like all-time favorites.

Was he Great Britain? Was that what he was? Great Britain. Yeah, a British guy and a Norwegian guy, I think, were the two American favorites to win it. Britain's been second for a long time, am I right? Classic. Our greatest export. British guy got second. British people.

American guy got bronze. Wow. Anyway, the Olympics. They were great. We loved it. All I could see on X was the pole vaulting. Yeah, the pole vaulting. So there's the pole vaulting and we'll vaulted well so was it just the so there's the pole vaulting and we'll just tell the listeners mom earmuffs you know the guy's junk gets clipped by

the thing his equipment but then there then then there was like a oh there was a bunch of memes from that but then there were poor poor michelle obama i always feel bad for her but then there was like the oh i can't believe i didn't get selected for the olympics and there was like the, oh, I can't believe I didn't get selected for the Olympics. And there was like a run of everyone failing things like in sports. Yeah. Yeah. I always feel a little bit bad for Michelle Obama's daughter. So I'm like, man, politics are rough.

You know, if you're going to, if you're going to not go over the bar, like what a way to be known, known by. Oh yeah. If you're going to not go over the bar, what a way to be known by it. If you're going to lose, win. I love it. Did he lose? Did he lose? The whole world's like, okay. You put anyone's face

on that body with the equipment getting checked and it's funny. You could You put anyone's face on that body with the equipment getting checked and it's funny. Yeah. Like you could put Trey's face. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. They already think it's funny. Yeah, but there's a thumbnail. Yeah, that'd be a good thumbnail.

That'd be a good thumbnail. We just talked about how the thumbnail matters for views. We had Nova on there last week. It popped. No, two weeks ago. Just continue to put her on it. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll put Nova's face on it. Yeah. Some people just think she's on it every time. Yeah. So Nova, if you're listening, we need more photos of you in sporting gear, and we'll just always put them as the thumbnail. Just flexing.

And the podcast will just skyrocket. Can't afford not to. I like the Photoshop Trey pole vaulter. That's pretty. That's good. I would click. I like Trey. I would click.

Someone sent it to me. There you go. That's for Ace. Yeah, there you go. Click that. Good job. I'm going to make that either way. Yeah, there you are.

A former female from the gym, gyms.thestrength.co we got two of them we got one in california one in south carolina but a former member from the original og the strength co-coast to mesa messaged me a link to the podcast and said who's this and it's because this girl like cares a lot about lifting and like buff and i said it doesn't matter you clicked it right and she goes oh i listened to the whole thing i've never listened to your podcast before and i was like ah thanks nova thanks nova we don't make the rules we've cracked the code yeah we don't make the rules we just obey them it really does like guests are big for

especially podcasts are starting out like you guys got to break into other rooms of YouTube. So good news, there's no guests this week. Yes. So we're talking about total vaulting. So for listeners. If you're listening, you're one of our thousand true fans. That's right. And we appreciate you.

That's awesome. We should make like a, I mean, it's easy for me to say this, Grant actually has to do it, but we should make like a okay podcast, like OG swag, like a shirt, like original listener. You know what I mean? Like I was here first. It's Trey Gottlich pole vaulting.

It's just him on the front. We got Nova flexing on the back and then on the side of the arm, it's just OG right here. Yeah. If you know if you know you know again i mean i feel like if we were going to sell a t-shirt it's zach copley at the arnold going okay i mean that's got to be the top five still the best okay podcast moments shout out zach copley yeah speaking of that did y'all talk Bitcoin already yeah

yeah but we're ready to talk about it more don't worry buddy did you buy are you in no dude I still like you don't know

how to buy it Coinbase yeah so then what do you do after then I go Grant what do you keep it you just keep it on Coinbase

oh god let me can I answer yeah yeah oh man I'm struggling over here don't worry about it right now Do you just keep it on Coinbase? Oh, God. Let me... Can I answer? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm struggling over here.

Don't worry about it right now. Grant's going to yell at me. Just go to Coinbase. If you want to do this, just buy some Bitcoin. All the other problems, we'll figure out. That's a future trade problem. Terrible advice. That's not terrible.

The moment you buy it, you should move it off or you don't own it. Because he won't do it. He won't do it. Like a wallet. No, you get a Bitcoin grenade. Yeah, no, you get like, okay, let me talk this like if I was a Texan. If I was a Mexican. If I was a Mexican Texan, you just buy, it looks like a thumb drive, and you put a password on the thumb drive.

And so you buy your Bitcoin on Coinbase, like PJ said, that's your bank, right? That's where you're going to make the transaction. So it's like, so imagine you go to the bank and you give them $500. And they're like, okay, you have $500 in the bank. It's technically your money, but while Bill Hitchcock comes in and he robs the bank, right? Your money's not there.

It's like, or you buy a bond. It's probably a better thing. You buy a bond. This is weirdly making a lot of sense. Yeah. It is, right? But you're like, well, the bond is mine. I gave you the money for it, but you're in possession of it. I'm not. And so while crypto is safe, Bitcoiners will hate me for this. Crypto is also like the most notorious, notoriously thing hacked. And like the people that like the safety of it are the same people that are

like, if I steal it from you, you can't do it because you're a dumb Texan. So like the moment you buy it you want to put it on a physical thing that you possess in your home and the well yes yeah actually kind of um there's a lot of different things they make to do that sort of thing you lose it but you take it you buy it on coin or whatever, and then you transfer it to a physical thing. And then that physical thing you possess and you can't trade it.

You can't buy things with it unless you plug that physical thing into some type of merchant. And you send it back to Coinbase, maybe. You might send it back. But my advice, and this podcast is not give financial advice, but if you actually think there's a future in Bitcoin, is you buy it, you put it on a physical device, you make sure you remember all your 21 words and all your codes and all that stuff,

and then you keep that device somewhere. And it's like a safety deposit box. It's like withdrawing cash. Except in your house instead of in the bank bank where you can protect it with your own guns in Texas. It's like withdrawing cash from the bank. Like if you have a thousand dollars in the bank, it's actually not there. There's like maybe a hundred dollars there.

And then they're loaning out 900 because that's apparently how the fractional reserve banking system works. But if you withdraw it now, you have it under your mattress and it actually is a thousand dollars, not just an IOU of IOTray a thousand dollars. So I don't disagree with Grant's advice. I was just saying, if you're overwhelmed by all that, just get through buying a little bit on Coinbase. I think he's right in terms of right now with the price of Bitcoin. I do think if you don't own anything, like it may be $300, maybe $500, maybe like whatever. I do think it's a good time to buy and figure the rest out later.

I also think like Bitcoin is notorious for people that understand what's going on, taking advantage of people that don't understand what's going on. So I would say the moment you buy it, transfer it to something you own. Yeah, that's life. Yeah. I'll give you one more analogy. I don't know if this will make things more clear or more confusing. The price of Bitcoin is just going up as we're

talking about it. Your analogy needs to have a bank robber in it, like Grant had. Okay. Wild Bill. All right. Wild Bill. Bam!

I just shot my deputy. All right. I can do that. I can do that. So let's see if Grant disagrees with this, but let's just pretend Coinbase is your bank. It has an address on the front door, right? You want to buy a house with your own address that you own. This is my house. This is not in my possession.

It also has an address. When you're sending it to that little thing that we're talking about, that little thumb drive, it's basically like you have to go in there and be like, hey, my Bitcoin is at this address. I want to send it to my house address or my little wallet address. And you send it over that way. Wild Bill can't come into the bank and take all your money it's that it's not even there wow that's pretty hang on i need a grain so offended he left

can't say it sucks oh he's going to get all his bitcoin oh that's his bitcoin there it is all right here we go there's a bitcoin here go. If you don't watch us on YouTube. You're missing out. You need to watch us on YouTube. Oh my gosh. This is the bank. This is Coinbase. This is the bank.

Okay. And Trey says, I want Bitcoin. And he takes a $100 bill. This was given to me by my mother. Because we had a baby shower. We had a baby shower for my wife this weekend. And she somehow thought this paid for all of it. But anyway, she gave me this $100 bill before she left.

So the $100 bill goes in the bank. But the bank's down the street. It's over there, right? It's over there. But the $100 is there. And it's mine. It's mine. But it's not mine because it's over there right it's it's it's over there but the hundred dollars there and it's mine it's mine but it's not mine because it's over there you have a note that says it's yours someone has told me it's mine but it's inside this bank but then you have my wallet which is

bitcoin grenade shout out zach copley again shout out out. And I say, you know what? I know the $100 is mine over there, but I'd like to take this $100 and put it in here. And I'd like to just, I'm going to ruin this $100. Blow it up. Sorry, mom. I just want to keep this $100 on me. And I don't care if the bank knows anything anymore because my $100 is right here.

So it's, and you can send it back. And you here so it's and you can send it back and you could send it back you could send it back to the bank but like if the bank has your money trey you don't have your money the bank has your money but if you're holding the grenade you have all the power i love first i'm gonna say i got analogies i got a couple questions but i love how your first analogy made perfect sense, but we also explained it two other times. So I appreciate it. It was the same analogy.

Y'all hammer it. I just love how y'all hammer that home. I get it. It's fantastic. Do you want one more? Do you want another one? Imagine a bank. Okay.

Imagine in your mind, close your eyes. Imagine a bank. Okay. Imagine that bank is your money, but it's not actually your money because the bank has it. Okay. Okay. Take sure with me now.

You know what's funny is I think a lot of listeners that listen to this and don't really think about Bitcoin are going to be like, oh, I get it now. I get it.

So I guess two other questions. Two other analogies? Two other analogies? We got you covered, brother. Yeah. These are questions. So why wouldn't you just buy like a gold, but like a hard gold coin? You can.

You could. Okay. You can. But actually, so there's similar rules about that or similar analogies, just to add more. Like you can buy gld in your retirement account which is a gold etf which is tracks the price of gold it's just some security sitting in your yeah but i don't have it i don't have it physically or you could call up what is it jw something bullion something like that i can't remember the name of it. And buy a gold coin, a gold bar, and it gets

shipped to your house and you have a rock. Yeah. Same concept in my opinion. Commemorative 9-11 gold coins. That Fox News always advertises? Heck yeah. One more analogy. It's Mr. Pillow. You either give him money or you

actually sleep on the pillow. Or it's the Donald Trump Bible. You either believe in America or you actually sleep on the pillow. Or it's the Donald Trump Bible. You either believe in America or you have his Bible, which is a different thing. The greatest book. That's what it all comes down to. Yeah. This is the best book. We love this book.

We love this book. Second question. So you buy it. Do you have a price in your head if it hits this, like I sell it? price in your head if it hits this like i sell it uh selling strategies are are is uh there's a lot of them well you could do whatever you want you could say i mean here's probably your best strategy just buy it and say i'm not going to think about this for 10 years i'm going to look at it again in 10 years probably the smartest thing to do another thing is you could say hey if it hits this price i will sell it or say if it hits this price, I will sell it

or say if it hits a hundred K or two or whatever, 200 K, I don't know what your number is. I'll sell half of it. If it hits another one, I'll sell or I'll sell, um, the amount that I put in. So if you bought a hundred dollars, it goes up to a thousand. You could take out, if it hits a number, it hits a thousand dollars, take your a hundred dollars back out. Now people think that they're playing with the house money right i don't know if that if you like that sort of thing so my my my thought is i know i know business owners and like i won't i won't name them but people that own like pretty big businesses that basically in my opinion gamble with it like I'm going to put 300K into this, and I'm going to ride from 40 to 70, and I'm going to exit.

I know a guy that did that with a couple hundred grand, made a bunch of money, right? So there's people that, in my opinion, are gambling with it. I wouldn't recommend that one. I don't either. My opinion on Bitcoin is if you actually believe in the system and what it is and what it's protecting you from, then my thing is, hey, I'm putting in enough money to where, and this is a grantism, but if it hits, if it goes a certain height, it's actually life

changing. So like if it goes to the point where I can buy a new car and it didn't really change my life, right. There's a lot of different things I could do where I could buy a new car. So for me, I'm like, I'm holding out to where it's like, Oh, it changed my life. And we may never get there. Although I do think we are going to go to the moon, but like, uh, my opinion is put enough in that, like, and it could be a thousand dollars. It might be $5,000. It might be $10,000,

but some amount where you're like, Hey, if this actually goes from 50 to one 50, like I actually made a lot and I'm kind of with PJ on like, Hey, I'm not going to think about it for 10 years. Although I don't think it's going to take 10 years. I think it might be five years.

It can make three. And I'm not knocking him on that. I'm not saying he thinks he's going to take 10 years. But my opinion is like, put him out. Like, I actually think you should think of it as an investment. And I think one of the benefits to Bitcoin is that a lot of people actually do gamble with it, which when it's on a run, it runs further. But that's where you need to know like, hey, these things are happening in life where we hit 60. Why do we shoot to 70? Because you got guys trying to gamble on it, right? You got guys like in there for the short term. But if you look at it, zoomed out eight years, what do we see? A steady climb, right? More people thinking, hey, I don't believe in fiat. I don't like the federal bank controlling everything. and so I think it's on a rise over time but eight years ago it's like a thousand dollars something that but I will say can I play the devil on the other side of the shoulder so also put it I only got two shoulders put put in

I've uh I'm speaking from experience put an amount in there that if it drops in half tomorrow, you can sleep at night. So one Bitcoin. Oh, okay. Okay. How much did it drop? Yeah, Bitcoin's worth 55 grand.

Because you'll get emotional about it. So just put enough you know on the one side hey make it make it count if you're gonna do something on the other hand just like having your mind this drops in half or by 80 tomorrow i'm not like tossing and turning all night because i'm so stressed definitely thing yeah oh this is a good... We can bring Wild Bill into this one more time. I love Wild Bill. It's like a bank.

It's been like 2015. I'm doing this tactical air control party school primer thing. It's like a two-week course to get you ready for this six-week course. I'm in it with a couple other guys.

So it's like artillery guys and some pilots. And the guy that's like sitting in front of me in this course is kind of like squirrely looking dude. He's an Osprey pilot. And like between classes, you know, just kind of like talking with each other, shooting the shit. And he like turns around and he's like, hey, what's going on?

Like he introduced him. I'm Wild Bill. I'm like, oh, hey man, what's up? He's like, I'm an Osprey pilot. I was like like oh hey man what's up he's like i'm an osprey pilot i was like oh cool cool he's like you know anything about bitcoin i was like uh i've heard of it i don't know what's talking about i just i just shot my co-pilot he just like dumped like fifty thousand dollars into it at that point so he's probably sitting pretty right about now he's probably bought his own Osprey. I don't know what he's doing, but he was an interesting fellow. I actually know

him. He's actually with BLT17 and they changed his call sign from Wild Bill to Rich Bill. They just call him Rich Bill. You're a rich bill. Another quick story about Wild Bill. Later on, this is a couple couple of years later.

Yeah, same one. We're like, he gets attached to some infantry battalion. And so we're out like doing some sort of like close air support, like drills with them. And we have some helicopters on station. And we have this like internal radio net. So we have like the radio net where we're talking to the aircraft. And then we have one where like internal to the,

like the folks on the ground. And we're like talking to aircraft and all of a sudden you hear it. And like the other, like earpiece, you're like, Hey, Hey, this is wild bill.

Hey, these guys, these guys only got five more minutes on station. We got to get them out of here before they, and we're like, do you think they're just going to let themselves like crash they're just if we don't see like they only got like five minutes left to gas we got to get him out of here we got to get him out of here now they're gonna let us know like i think it's gonna be okay they'll tell us when they need to leave

we'll be the truth of the matter was he had 50 grand on coinbase and you need to get back to wi-fi to transfer it to his ledger. And he's freaking out. I'm going to go rob Coinbase some wild deal. This has been the Bitcoin episode. Take us down for a landing, Trey. No, I'm just kidding. If you think about the thumbnail, we could now justify

putting a giant Bitcoin on it and it would smoke. No, no. So you have the pole vaulting guy and his nuts are Bitcoins. This can't fail. And then nobody's just in there. Yeah, no. So you kept the pole vaulting guy and his nuts are Bitcoins. This can't fail. Yeah. And then nobody's just in there. Yeah. She's in the corner. Yeah. This, I get a funny money story too. It's a, what's the, Oh, you have another analogy. I know. What's a board, board apes. You heard of them? Yeah. NFT. So I, I was sitting in Tulsa. NFT.

So I was sitting in Tulsa. Were you on Tulsa time? I was on Tulsa time. And I was, I think I was like waiting to see a customer. So I went to go grab lunch and I was sitting at the bar and like the guy next to me was also like eating by himself. So I just started, we started conversation.

Typical behavior in Oklahoma. But he had just read, he's like, I'm'm like so what do you do he's like well I'm getting ready I think I'm gonna get ready to quit this job and I'm like then we're gonna he's like I think I might retire I'm like what he's so yeah so about six months ago I he's like I didn't know anything about uh nfts but I read uh like crypto for dummies where i like that was the book and then the next day the bored apes came out he goes oh this seems interesting and he bought four of them like the original that is insane he's rich he sold rich he's like i he's like i sold one and paid off my house and then like i have and he's like and then i have like three more. And then he was telling me like, he goes on like yachts with like famous people.

Crypto people do the weirdest stuff. They're weird. That's true. They're weirdos who got rich. It's super weird. But yeah, he's hanging out. Everyone's got a story. I had a gym client that mined, I think 10 Ethereum.

Yeah. In his garage and then like ethereum mooned and now he owns like a house and that's it's got to be more than 10 ethereum what did ethereum top at like like five four thousand yeah and bitcoin i don't remember what it was but i know that he is a multimillionaire now. Maybe. Maybe it's a little more than 10 ETH. Yeah, more than 10 ETH. But, you know, anyway.

Well, yeah, just... Well, my mom's even logged off. Oh, yeah. We should move on. We should totally move on. So it's like a bank. Yeah. It's like a bank,

and you're protecting it from Wild Bill. Who's actually trying to protect you. He's just doing it wrong. he just is doing it wrong he's just doing uh next slide uh okay other thing i had in there super just love really convoluted processes in the military where like so i'm trying to get actually transferred over to the new unit that i'm in but like so they have to like send in this form that one i didn't even know about and i remember checking out of the unit i was like is there anything else i need to do and they were like oh no you're good sir we got everything on your checkout sheet done so i was like okay cool and then like a couple weeks go by and I get an email.

It's like, oh, sir, we got to do your like your, your inner unit transfer. And I'm like, okay, cool. Get that like routed up. It gets pushed over to the new unit. They have to like change the actual, like, I don't even know what BIC stands for, but it's like the specific. Billet identification code. Yeah. There you go.

That everyone, everyone say that. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, okay. So I like see some emails hit that like something got updated. So I go in and look at it and they like changed my BIC to the battalion

commander one. And like, which is definitely not the job that I'm coming in to do. And there's a new guy that's coming in so i'm like this definitely needs to get freed up for this new person coming in and so it's just been a lot of back and forth of like well we can't do it on our end so we gotta send it all the way back to you and then you gotta send it back up here we gotta reroute this and then well we'll send it up to these people and if they ever get to it then maybe

you'll actually get joined to it. And I was like, I just want to make sure I get paid and that I can get a hotel room. No, it doesn't seem like it's going to happen anytime soon. I mean, I, uh,

when I took command of this unit, the guy that I took over from is still on our roles and he's in what's called an excess big, but he's attached to us. he's drilling in texas and like every month he messages me like hey man can you certify my stuff so i can get paid and every month i'm like hey why is this guy still on my roles and they're like well there's not a big open forum in texas so we're just gonna yeah it's it's that's it's fun that's what it's called

government but what i always tell people and like people not to make it political they get really upset about government libertarian and states rights and was lincoln good and all this stuff and i just always say i don't want to be unburdened by what has been like like like i just like i don't want to be unburdened by that so or maybe i do want to be unburdened by it but like currently i'm burdened by what has been and i have four officers on my roles and i'm like can i be unburdened you're burdened by what has been because yeah i'm a burden to headquarters battery yeah you're birds because i'm like hey yeah i still haven't figured this out can you guys uh run my? I'd like to get paid.

Yeah. So it's so fun. Because it seems like a process where, you know, click a few buttons. There should be somebody with the permissions to do this, but it's got to go through four different levels. And, yep, they don't work past noon on any day of the week ever because they're like, we're just eye and eye. These reservists don't need anything.

We have this other thing we have to do this afternoon. Yeah, it's a lot of red tape. It really is. BW is good at cutting through that. The government is... Whenever there's like a military thing,

or it could even be Secret Service, or whenever there's any kind of military thing and like civilians are like, I don't understand how this happened. I'm like, oh, I do. I know exactly why this happened. I'm actually surprised more Benghazis haven't happened. I totally get what's going on.

Like this makes perfect sense to me. Yes. Anyway. Don't you miss it, Trey? Trey, just take us to college football. Get us off of this. We need to be unburdened by this. I need to be unburdened by what has been.

I remember. It makes me laugh. I remember Jeff, I can't remember if you were going over to the east coast to train. Remember we put the HIMARS on an actual train and shipped them over there. And then there was one time they were like,

hey, we don't know where the HIMARS are. I'm like, what do you mean you don't know? They were on a train. I'm like, I'm sure they'll show up. I'm like, I hope so. I signed for them. The same thing happened to me. I was doing an operation in the Republic of Georgia. It was big like flex on Russia kind of deal.

And we went and checked out a bunch of gear from Norway. So I sent a whole team of people there. We checked the gear out and they go on trains. We mobilize all those reservists to ride on the trains. It'll be 14 days through Europe. They'll show up from Norway to the Republic of Georgia. Like day 14 comes and these marines are like calling me like hey sir uh we're stuck in wherever like i don't even remember and i'm like what what do you mean you're stuck they're like i don't know we're out

of food we ran out of mre's like i'm like are you close to like no they're like luckily the romanian army is feeding us and i'm like like why are the romanians involved and uh we ended up getting there and i just remember good dudes yeah it's always good to get the romanians involved i just remember me showing up to the republic of georgia and these guys getting off the train, they had beards. They weren't in uniform. They were like, sir, it's been wild. And I'm like, all right. The government.

Sounds about right. What were you talking about? You want to do some college football? Yeah. Don't remind me about how efficient the government is. Talk to me about Nick Saban or something. I love that meme. I saw a meme and it was like. Oh, of the Michigan football coach?

No. Well, that was crazy. It's like the whole world's on fire. Yeah. It's like, don't worry. College football starts in like 30 days. I will bring this together. I'm like, that's so true.

Almost there. I was talking to Jeff. What was it? On the episode that Jeff wasn't able to make, that's when we did the stadiums. Yeah. I still, I lost sleep over that. I was like putting Alabama that high.

So dumb. The stadiums, not. Well, it's okay now. I remember when I went to it. Well, Jeff, you've been there. It's not that sweet. And like Tuscaloosa was not that sweet. So I don't know how they rebuilt after that whole tornado.

Yeah, so the Michigan coach, like Jim Harbaugh, like, wait, screw over your dude, man. Just bouncing and leaving him. So I saw a bunch of screenshots of text messages that I don't feel comfortable talking about on the podcast. And I was like, wait, who's on the other end of this.

And I thought it was a player, but then I realized it was like the, the mastermind behind the sign stealing deal. Yeah. He was like wearing disguises. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I was like, Oh man. and then like i was watching a documentary just came out on netflix like basically like saying no this guy wasn't bad and like yeah it was like we're lucky we're in the middle of a big political war right now because i was like no i don't really want to yeah i was like i don't want to go down this rabbit hole like i actually don't want to know the details. Wait, do you think Michigan is the cause of all this political turmoil so that everyone's

going to overlook? Everyone's overlooking their signs. It is a swing state. Am I wrong? It is a swing state. He ain't wrong. Michigan, where are you from? I'm from up here in Traverse City

Let me see your text messages Let me see your text messages You think Michigan was behind the moon landing What moon landing Probably just to throw everybody off From them cheating What moon landing But

I don't know I feel I don't know ready for it, yeah, I don't know. Ready for it to kick off. I've been following fall camp for good things. How the Aggies looking. Go ahead. Be biased for a minute. You,

you come in here for 33 weeks straight. You get, it's talking, it's talking season, man. You know how it is. Everyone looks good. You're talking to you.

I don't, I don't actually, I always think we're four and seven. So, but I can imagine. Apparently you're that wide wide receiver y'all got is a freak of nature. I know.

Someone was saying that he could have gone to the Olympics. That's how fast he is. Is this guy? I keep watching the Olympics and I wonder if Olympians are that good. Hey! How's his pole vault? Well, he would have been in the same predicament.

No, he's good. Yeah, he's good. Yeah, I don't know. I think big money schools are going to shine this year. That's what I think. Big money. I think that the, what's it called? Transfer portal? NIL. NIL. the um what's it called transfer portal the the money nil nil yeah i i think it just favors

if if the school has been good historically and if they have money uh if they're good historically they do have money so like i i want to see the gamecock shine but i i don't think it's going to happen because it's it's i mean they have a fan base right but i think the times of hey we're bad and the fans love us and so therefore players want to go are over and it's who's historically good and who will pay the players follow so like a and m base use coinbase Coinbase? Are they using that? I was going to say this.

A&M has Exxon, right? That's a really good one. That's a lot of money in there. Auburn has Yellowwood. That doesn't sound impressive, but apparently it's a lot of money in it. A lot of money in it.

And the Gamecocks have the Strength Co. That's what I was going to say. Up and coming. Hey, we're up and comers. Up and coming. Hey, it's a slow build. Soon to be. Soon to be. We need to get Nova back on.

Yeah. More Nova equals Gamecock wins. Nova got some college eligibility left. Get her over there. She played lacrosse, right? Yeah, she was lacrosse. I just remember she was a strong woman. Literally and figuratively.

Yeah. In all senses. In all senses. What else you got on the slide deck? You got a couple things up there. It's not on the slide deck. I saw Deadpool things up there um it's not on the slide uh i saw a deadpool wolverine thought it was good was that good was it good i would like it but i don't even know what we're talking about it actually was good

yeah i thought it was fun good summer like marvel movie there's a got some good cameos in there there's some good little like hugh jackman easter eggs that that are in there it's i'd say it's worth if you like the other deadpool movies you'll like this one if you like star wars yeah and lord of the rings what is harry potter what is deadpool it's a marvel superhero comic book character yeah so i'm a wolverine who's also a comic book character. Is that the, is that the meme I see where it's a guy laying? Yeah. Yeah. Yellow and blue looking at a picture frame.

And then the second part of the meme is like what he's looking at. And that's the meme I'm seeing. Could be potentially. It could be. I just remember. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That wolverine looking at a picture and it's always so glad jeff speaks for you topical me too he's so good at it the only thing the only thing i remember about marvel is uh so my brother jordan home depot owned a window cleaning business in high school and i would ride with him and clean windows. And so when you clean a window, you use a, uh, you know, a doppler and then the squeegee and then, but, but a good window cleaner does the towel work on the end. So you get that, you get, you call them edges and corners and ledges. And so, and so you get those with the towel. So there's no like streaks and water dripping. And so one of Jordan had a couple good clients on paris island and one of them was the paris island food court so i remember it because long before as a marine we would go to ride in

and we'd have to like show his business license like get in and then we'd go in and we'd clean the food court and the food court we always cleaned before it opened any restaurant you always clean before they open we had a lot of Applebee's too but I just remember I'd be in there and like he'd be squeegeeing because he was the intelligent one and I would be cornering and ledging the windows and there was a there was a game in there and it was like Marvel vs. Capcom and I would always be like oh where we going next and he would be like marvel versus capcom i'm like oh we're going to paris island and uh so i always any time in my life since that that i've seen a machine like a what do you even call those games arcade arcade arcade games i'm always like marvel

verse and i send him a photo and uh yeah anyway that's my only yeah it's marvel so marvel is wolverine and deadpool yeah okay and the avengers all those avengers okay got it yeah yeah all right that's good it's good but we're so we had a we had a good discussion on the pre-show that i'd be curious yeah to get everybody's thoughts on is what's your uh opinion of chiropractors i went to one as just an experiment oh do tell yeah okay uh i felt the same didn't really do much but i didn't really have a problem either i was just kind of like is this fake i'll just go look at it i've never done they just do like the adjustments and like cracking yeah i went down the rabbit hole and i got the doctor quote unquote

doctor to uh describe all of the uh the mechanisms behind it. It seems like, it seems like there might be something there. Like, you know, every great conspiracy, there's a kernel of truth. It looks like there's something there. Cause you are applying like a physical force to muscles. Basically. It's more about the muscles, honestly, than the spine because you're trying to adjust the, like the muscle and the fascia around the spine to kind of get it to, to loosen up and

everything there's probably something there but it's probably one of those things where if you want to see real results from chiropractic care one you might not and then two i think you'd have to go like two or three times a week for three years like it's not like cracked your back now you're better i think that's fake you go but there's a lot of quackery in terms of like oh let me just like adjust you real quick you'll be walking perfectly after this Now you're better. I think that's fake, but there's a lot of quackery in terms of like, Oh, let me just like adjust you real quick. You'll be walking perfectly after this. I have a little bit different of a take,

but I'm actually curious of Jeff's takes first. I've, I've only been in the chiropractor once. Okay. And they didn't do it. It was like, I guess he could have done it. I mean, he was labeled as chiropractor,

but he just did like dry needling. And so like, I actually did feel like that helped. Cause my, it was like a time when my back was like i guess he could have done i mean he was labeled as a chiropractor but he just did like dry needling and so like i actually did feel like that helped because my it was like a time my back was like super locked up so that like i definitely felt some relief from that because it was just like okay letting the muscles actually relax yeah and not like the adjustment like kind of like classic chiropractor so i don't know yeah i'm kind of with pj and i think a lot of the like it's like 20 percent mind is like not necessarily so if it's like a chiropractor comes in like oh well we're just gonna do a quick adjustment of the spine and that'll get your like left big toe back in order and then yeah get you out the door let's book you now for a

get you out the door let's book you now for a one every two weeks so i'm kind of like halfway between i think i'm mostly against you guys like what i think is that if a muscle is touching a nerve then you can be in a bunch of pain and that a chiropractor can actually move a muscle or fascia like pj says and relieve the nerve and you might actually instantly feel better right what i don't think is that a chiropractor scans you and i did this actually when i live with you jeff they scan you they show your x-ray and they're like your neck is too far forward this part of your spine yeah and they say if you come in twice a week we're gonna fix your alignment i actually while while like with strength training you're like hey if you come in you add a little bit more weight it works i actually don't think like if you have scoliosis a chiropractor snapping your neck, or even if

they're, that's an unfair thing to chiropractors. If they're trying to crack your back in a way to straighten it, I don't think it straightens. What I do think is that if a muscle is touching a nerve, they may adjust you in such a way that you have a relief. What I also think is if they needle you, they do cupping, they do vibration, they do tins, and it makes you, the placebo effect is real, right? So you may feel better. I am pro chiropractor of something really hurts, you either make me believe it's going to feel better or you actually remove tension between nerve and muscle or bone and nerve and I feel relief. What I don't think is that, hey, if your spine is crooked,

going to the chiropractor two times a week is going to fix that over time. Yeah. I think there's good ones out there. No, there's definitely good ones out there. going to the chiropractor two times a week is going to fix that over time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think there's good ones out there. You know, there's, there's definitely good ones out there. Like there's definitely good ones out there. I'm not anti chiropractor.

I'm just like, I've had a lot of clients that go to the chiropractor. They're like, Oh, I have a 16 degree curve in my spine. I can't deadlift. I'm like, well,

you do have a 16 degree curve in your spine and he's not gonna fix it it being stronger is probably gonna help like you should probably deadlift anyway you know and everybody was everybody's got some kind of curve going on like no one's got a perfect back there's zero people i always kind of think about i kind of use this test of like this isn't a perfect thing just kind of a but just like a basic uh test of like, this isn't a perfect thing, just kind of a, but just like a basic test of like, okay, they are actually applying stress to you. Yes. And most things that are useful and actually good involves some sort of actual stress happening. They're not just like, Hey, or take this pill or let me just like wave this magic wand or I don't know, like whatever. But like there is a real stress and the best light I could paint it

in is over three to five years. It's sort of like braces for like getting on your teeth, you know, braces on your teeth. It's like a little bit of pressure over a long time can make a move. But I think it's like probably a lot of the benefits are way overstated, but I feel like there's something there. And the other thing is funny about chiropractors is whenever they are talking about like diagnosing you and their approach and the problems with human health, I'm like, I'm with you. I'm with you. And then the practice of what their application is completely different. Yeah. And it's like, okay, holistic approach, you got to treat the body. You got to treat this, the, the cause, not the symptoms. You have to like apply a real stress. i'm with you i'm with you and then they're like and so we're gonna crack your

neck i'm like ah you lost me but i mean they would say that they're not cracking your spine they're adjusting your muscles and bone and sometimes a crack happens that would be what they would say so i have a good friend who's a uh she's has her phd in physical therapy she teaches i love i love doctors and so she well yeah the what logical fallacy from authority um well she said like because she's like overall like not really pro chiropractor but she goes there are good ones out there and she's like how you know they're a good one is if you go to them and they give you a start and you have an end date. If you go see a chiropractor and you got to come back every two weeks in perpetuity, then you know that it's probably not a good chiropractor. But if you have like, Hey,

here's a program we're going to do. It's going to be 16 weeks after that, you should see some sort of results. That's usually how you know it's a good one. But again, I've never done one before. I don't go to one, so that really tells you my opinion. Yeah, so four guys who've never really been to a chiropractor before. No, I went to one for a while. Oh, okay. Great news. No, I'm not saying I know.

I'm just saying there's definitely good ones. And I also think that back pain is super funny and brain triggering it's weird so like if if you go if if your back's killing you and you feel like you can't lift and you go to a chiropractor and he does some weird twist and then you're like hey i can go to the gym i'm pro that chiropractor that works and i don't know that anything like medically happened but i think that um yeah no i think it's i think it's an interesting trade i would probably i don't think it's probably i would probably send people to chiropractors before that i would send them to mds for back pain because i think that there's some value of, Hey, I'm going to do this thing to you

and convince you that you're fixed. And most of the time, I think that the pain is coming. The pain is real, but it's signaling something in the brain to where you think you can't do anything, which is making the actual problem worse. And so a chiropractor will be like, Hey, I did this adjustment. You you're good and if you believe that you may go back to the gym or wherever and do whatever you're going to do and like now you're actually on the road to good it's a bridge whereas if you're an md they're like don't lift anything over 50 pounds and now you're like i can't the doctor your baby shower because the doctor said. Come to your baby shower because the doctor said my back, you know, like so I think there's, I'm probably pro, I'm not probably, I'm way more pro chiropractor than I am.

Skin surgery. When it comes to. Yeah, I mean, no, the surgery is crazy. I mean, like, and I don't think, I don't think coach Ron will be upset about this. Coach Ron, feeling the strength codes. One of my first clients been coaching a gym for a long time. Spondylolisthesis all this back pain they've been trying to give him back surgery he's been fighting it he goes in new specials they're like hey man it's not your back

it's your hip they're like there's this thing going on your hip and we think we can inject it and he's like wait what are you talking about i've been to five back doctors they're like nope it's your hip it's your hip and with that said he's going through some hip treatment now he's getting some shots in his hip but they're like we think it's your hip and because he was just like i don't want them to cut my spine open yeah what can i do not yeah no i think good call right like like yeah don't have them cut open your spine and now he's like relieved that like someone's seeing something different and it may not be right right it may not fix it and that's where i'm kind of like even in his case he's like what do you think and i'm like i just think like

even if it's painful if it's livable like i don't want someone cutting open my back yeah like there are a few people yeah they've had the surgery and they did like no results man isn't it like almost worse because like yeah they're just like immobile like in that part of their body and just like and there's a guy at work you know when i first started there he was talking about getting back surgery and i was like i was like dude i know i've only moaned you for like three months but i was like i would avoid that at all costs like do something isn't it like isn't it like a third is like what is like a third of back surgery works a third of it doesn't do anything and a third makes it worse so two thirds chance it's either the same and you just expose yourself to surgery risks or worse yeah i think it's i think

it's 75 don't work it's like that's roughly the same thing you're saying yeah yeah yeah um but yeah no it's it's wild that's bad odds dude yeah just go to the chiropractor that's what they call the practice of medicine right oh yeah i mean that's why people listen to the okay podcast they go to the doctor and they're like, that doesn't make sense. Let me check this with them. Hold on. Let me listen to this podcast real quick. Now I know what to do.

The doctor's left me. No, the title is Back Pain and Bitcoin. Back Pain and Bitcoin. God, Back Pain sucks. Bitcoin caused my back pain. Oh, my gosh. Too much in my coin. Too much in Coinbase. Carrying too Bitcoin caused my back pain. Oh my gosh. Too much in my coin, too much in Coinbase. Carrying too much in my ledger.

You got to protect it from wild Bill. Bags are too heavy. Bam! There goes your back. Now give me your Bitcoin. Rich Bill. Rich Bill. Anything else on the slide deck?

There was nothing else on the slide deck that i found and then just quick shout out to the slack um we asked for some questions a couple weeks ago let's try to post some real questions in there i feel like i feel like do you have craig's question handy because this is the one about the prolapsed anuses? Yeah, I feel like we have to touch it. All right, hold on. Let me pull it. Ew, gross. No, it's gross. But for his persistence, like every time.

I don't want to touch it. I'm with Jeff. Like, ask us a real question. Like, Mike Benner, I get it. You want to know if a skinny Marg is better than a non-skinny Marg. But like, for Craig's sake, just read it and then just send full send it scroll i'll answer this i'll answer the margarita one it's not there we go next question yeah here's the next one just read it out that may be all we need to do or we'll just ask trey for advice

okay um the question is how to stop anus from prolapsing while deadlifting. So I think you got to go over to you as our anus expert. I'm a pelvic floor specialist. I'm not an anus expert. It's close though. That's close. Close enough. I'm skipping a jump. you can't afford not to go

as a homeschooler what does prolapse mean goes out uh means your anus is like coming out like it's supposed to be in here now your anus is out there so is he pooping just this part here but then it like comes out so he's not pooping. It's almost like a honey. It's like a hemorrhoid. Yeah, hemorrhoid. It's like a hemorrhoid for lifters. This question is sponsored by the stream. But Grandpa chimed right in on it. What did Grandpa say?

Actually, what did Grandpa say? What did A.I. Grant say? For issues like a prolapsed anus during deadlifting, it's crucial to consult with a medical professional or a physical therapist who specializes in pelvic floor disorders. They can provide tailored advice and exercises to help strengthen the area and potentially prevent such occurrences when heavy lifting. Meanwhile, ensuring proper form and not exceeding your lifting capabilities is essential. Stay safe.

Yeah. Question and answer. End to end care. Powered by the strength, bro. You actually, you don't even need to listen to this podcast. You don't have to listen about Bitcoin. You don't have to listen about college football. You don't have to listen about the Marine Corps.

You can just join the Slack channel, $29 a month, and Grant Bott will answer the questions for you. I don't have a better answer. I'll be honest. Like, if your anus is prolapsing... You got a problem, bro. Yeah, you got a problem. You're doing something wrong.

You got a problem. You probably saw too many chiropractors, and, you know, you have the booster, and there's stuff going wrong. Like, I can't help you there. Can you go to the chiropractor for... Who has that question? Do you thinkactor for... Who asked that question? Craig.

Craig. Craig. What if Craig is actually being 100% dead serious and he's actually suffering from this? He's in a lot of pain. He might be. He's in a lot of pain because his Washington head football coach left

for what, Texas? A&M. Or Alabama for Texas. A&M. All right. Alabama. No, Alabama. Alabama. Yeah. Yeah.

So he's in a lot of pain. Pennix is gone. I get it. I'd be prolapsing, too, under deadlift. It's a stressful time. Now the title got more complicated. So I move this one up. Yeah.

At this point, like, we got we got a new like not a lot of people make the soundboard we've had oh nice cat love the cat cat i've had two cats i don't know if you've noticed throughout time here uh so i think uh no 12 people have read an ad read seven are on the board here's a wow all right based in south Carolina, but wherever you live, whether homeless or in a bougie house, VW Tax LLC will help you maintain and receive the money that you earn. I like it. I love it. That was good.

Short and sweet to the point. Love it. Bougie house. None of us live in a bougie. So I feel like we're more on the homeless side. That's true. Well, at this point in every episode, we ask for saved rounds.

No saved rounds. Alibis? I'm trying to think. No. No saved rounds. No alibis. No prolapses. Nothing. At this point in the show, we've gone through all the saved rounds and alibis. No prolapses. Nothing. At this point in the show, when we've gone through all the save rounds and alibis, when this show is zero,

Trey, we appreciate how much you rehearse this every week, how much you look into it. Printing it out and putting it in front of you. We love your preparation. Take us for a landing. You know, yeah. Tell the people. What episode? 033. tickets for a landing you know yeah tell the people 033

033 this has been episode 033 of the okay that sounded great Mike Finker sponsor BW Tax this has been an informative

episode. I just trying to wrap my head around everything that we talked about. It's been fantastic,

especially that those Slack questions. It's really tied a bow on it. So really happy for all the

Slack question. Slack question. Well, we have the skinny mark one too. That was that's right. You're right. You did answer

that one. Yeah. Next question. Second, we have the Skinny Mark one, too. That's right. You're right. You did answer that one expertly. Yeah, next question. Second was a pain in the butt. So, yeah, as Grant said, you can find the Slack info below. Click the link. Love to see you there. Ask a real question would be nice. But if not, I don't know.

We'll still answer them anyways. Where are we at? Yeah. You can go to www.theokpodcast.com. Find all of our social media links there. We all have our each individual social media accounts that we're all very active on. What's the biggest one? What's the biggest one?

The biggest one is definitely 100% Jeff. Not even close. He's live right now. Yeah. Can't stop. You know, Biggie JP. Can't stop. Can't stop.

Won't stop. Everyone knows his handle. Everyone knows all of our handles but most importantly we are powered by the strength code but we would like to thank our sponsor great guy better at taxes bw officiating my wedding officiating pj's wedding coach i missed anything, it was great. Yeah, thanks for tuning in to episode 033, the OK Podcast. We're well over halfway through a year. I can't do math. I was homeschooled. But if you were going to take 52 and put it down to thirds,

I would assume we're pretty close to two-thirds. Am I right, Trey? Yeah, check this out. Yeah, crunching numbers yeah artillery math harder than girl math uh no girl math harder than artillery math but no thanks for listening uh we know we're broadcasting from the future the olympics are over but don't worry we got some exciting things coming up we got stephen garcia next week we're gonna talk about college football Steven Garcia next week.

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