The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 46: Marine Corps Birthday, Monkeys & Missing Reps

Episode Date: November 15, 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 046 of the OK podcast powered by the strength code. Today's date is November the 12th day after Veterans Day, which is the second best day of the year after the Marine Corps birthday. We'll talk about the price of Bitcoin is $87,071. I'm kind of getting tired of winning. Yeah, we're like on the cusp of 90, like we're right there. It's pretty great.

Year of our Lord 2024. We're recording live from the upstate of South Carolina. That's where I am. Last I checked, still powered by the strength code. This is where we operate out of. And if we ever move, we'll tell the IRS, this is where we spend more than half of the days of the year. That's right. Yeah. Jeff major, Jeff, biggie Marine commander,

nacho battery formerly known as November. I'm just kidding. November battery a five 14 coming from Mormon paradise and, um, Mormon then the Mormon Mormon church they just call it Utah. That's true. Yeah. I do like some of their history that like the arc floated down the Mississippi. They have to be the most American religion. It's just like, yeah, the arc. Yeah, it floated down the Mississippi. That's how we ended the civil war. And Captain Trey Gotledge, Marine type, once Marine, always a Marine. He's half as lean, twice as mean,

but he's still a Marine. There it is. Coming out of Frisco. Well, where are you today? You're not in the home. Midland. Midland. Odessa? Oh man.

Odessa? I wanna go to Odessa. My favorite city in Texas, Midland, Midland, Odessa. Oh, man, I want to go to Odessa. My favorite city in Texas, Midland, it's the says nobody. Yeah. Former President George W. Bush, I've been to his birth house there. Pretty sure that's not true. I thought he was born up in the Northeast. Oh, OK. Now let's just get right into fact checking ourselves. I went to a house

in Midland that has something to do with Bush. It's a guy named George Bush was born there, just not the president. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, state historic site, Texas historical committee. So it's Texas history, federal history. So it could be incorrect. They want me to subscribe. I just know things. What if I just Google where was George Bush? Is this 43? Real quick, senior veteran price is only $3. Give me some history. The Bush family left New England to make a new start in West Texas. George and Barbara Bush moved constantly since they married on January 6, 1945. Get me to the point. I have it right here. Do you want me to read it to you?

Yeah, go ahead. You put a lot of work into this, but I feel bad. Yeah. George Walker Bush was born July 6, 1946 at Grace New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. Okay, so it was the home where he grew up. It's all coming back to him. He wasn't born here, he just got here as quickly as he could. Yeah, he was manufactured a Yankee.

Yeah, he was designed in Texas. But I I guarantee you he has told his family and the will that when he dies, take me to Texas because he's a child of the Alamo. His dad's down at A&M. Not the start I expected to 46. Hey, we're at 88 now, though. We're at 88. Bitcoin. You can see it on the camera. Yeah. Wow. I can't see it.

We're pumping. So real quick, not financial advice, but if you've, you're an early subscriber to this podcast mom who didn't buy any Bitcoin, you missed out because we've literally more than doubled Bitcoin. It's been the effort of three guys plus PJ just coming at you every single week and we won't stop until we're on the moon. So Bitcoin is pumping. There's a lot of stuff going on. The Elon thing is official. Department of Government Efficiency. I feel like that only helps the crypto. Although what I've said, what I've always said is the sovereign government must hate crypto. But I don't know, it seems like everything's on the up and up. It's a serious question for you.

Can that clock go to six figures? Yeah, yeah, no, it can. Oh, okay. I think. Yeah, we'll find out. We'll find out. We might get a second clock. That would be great.

The six figure called the six figure clock made, made by the street. Co. Yeah. How to cast iron. Yeah. All made of cast iron. It just doesn't move. It just doesn't move. It just sits there and it weighs 45 pounds. You have to manually move the numbers. Yes. Like why do I? I've already been in five. Yeah. When Bitcoin gets to a hundred thousand, I'm like, I can't wait to put the block clock on a hundred pound plate and I don't know, post something. Yeah. That all of that. Yeah.

Lifting a big lifter guy over here. My lifting, I'm just constantly lifting lifting lifting more than I ever know. Yeah. A baby PR. A baby PR. Every day's a dad PR. Every day. Yeah. That's so true. Yeah. This is my first time deadlifting 495 by being the father of a three week, two day

year old. There you go. Sounds like a record book to me. Never done it before. Never done it. You never done it? Thanks for tuning in. We got a lot book. Never done it before. Never done it. Never done. Thanks for tuning in. We got a lot of exciting stuff to talk about. Thanks for the comments on Spotify. They came rolling in. I don't know what we did. I don't know if it was dad's

sympathy. I don't know what changed, but everyone just wants to make a, this is a family friendly podcast, a smart Alec host now, but I like it. So keep commenting YouTube subscribers are through the roof. I mean, any day now will be at 500. So you can't really afford 500,000. Is that what you're checking? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're talking mobile Bitcoin. Okay. I feel like I think we gain an average of 1.5 per week, if my math's correct. That's like way faster than my family grows. Yeah. So if you don't subscribe on YouTube, please go subscribe, comment there.

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And I'm like, do I need to pay this like four times? And BW was just like, dude, just like do it like this. You can do it through your payroll software. It's like, you can pay me less. And I'm like, that's a guy that has my back. So we appreciate BW for keeping the lights on. They're on. I'm a little slow here right now, but there's a point. We're going to play an ad read from hell yeah. A marine because it's Semper Fi Week. So none other than Captain Jameson Brogy, Judge Advocate General, Cherry Point North. Number one, no one's paying me to say anything. I received one paycheck only and it's from the United States government. One thing to say anything at all

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Yeah, he really wanted to make it clear he was not getting that paycheck. We appreciate you percent ad read and 50% legal disclaimers He really wouldn't make it clear. He was not getting that paycheck. I am an attorney I'm actually a gunpoint by my brother to be on this podcast right now The gun is off-screen But yeah, all right slide deck over But yeah, all right. Slide deck overview. Can we get an agenda slide? Oh agenda. We got college football.

We're going to talk about monkeys. We're going to talk about record birthday ball, bill burr, all sorts of stuff. Drawings of phallic images. Yep. Trump. We got coach prime. We got a big solid agenda. But first things first, Tracey, go ahead and give us the trash brief real quick.

Make sure we really drive that home. I just want to make sure everyone is picking up their trash at all time. If you're not policing, you're wrong. Are you policing your areas? We are going to leave this AO better than we found it. Amen. Preach. Good way to live your life, man.

Yeah. Honestly, it is. Pick up after yourself. It really is. It's just, hey, we got one mother earth, you know what I mean? Hey, we only got one. We got one.

It's down in Patagonia, I gotta visit it sometime. I counted it. That's where she goes. Just a side note, and we do have a fellow, They got one down in Patagonia. I got to visit it sometime. I counted it. That's where she's right. Just a side note. And we do have a fellow, a number of committed listeners that are Masanomics fans. And we appreciate all of you. Some people have said it's a cousin podcast. I'm from the South. And so cousins to me, it's just like family. But your shirt, it looks like you're wearing a Masanomics Polo. Oh no.

Like, okay. This is the company, Akeriyama. Okay, so I'm really curious if Masanomics ripped them off or if you listened to the podcast and had your company rip Masanomics off. Yeah, no, that's how influential that's not. It's just making huge waves in the industrial hose business. That's we got to get after that.

A lot of a lot of pipe getting laid. Yeah. OK, next slide. Next slide. So some monkeys escaped in South Carolina. Okay, next slide. Next slide. So some monkeys escaped in South Carolina. I saw a little bit of talk back and forth between you and trade. Just plot to outbreak.

Is that a movie? Yes, it is a movie. And it's literally like monkeys escape and I think infect people. They have like a virus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do they catch any monkeys? No, not yet. So the monkey thing is like near and dear to me. So if you're driving I-95 and the South, we just say I-95. And the West Coast, you'd say the I-95. There's two ways to get to where Grant's from, which is Seabrook, South Carolina, not to

be confused with Seabrook, the island, which is where the rich people live, but where the common people live, the base of the Whale Branch River. Also Seabrook. You can exit, yeah, also Seabrook, you can exit 38, you can exit 33. If you are not a townie, you just put it in your whatever vehicle, your phone, and it takes you to 33, which is what is known as Point South, one of the largest firework distributors probably in the world. I made that up, but there's a lot of fireworks that you can buy there.

Or if you're a townie, you exit 38 and you go down Old Sheldon Church Road, which is where Sherman burned the South once he got done with Atlanta, he came to Beaufort. And there's the town of Yemesie, former Native American type tribe that's based out of South Carolina. And you go into Yemesie, which is the Marines used to get dropped off. And as you pass that area, on the left side, there's like a sign. It's like right after the section eight housing and there's like a bunch of fences. And my dad would always be like, yeah, it's where they keep the monkeys. And I'm like, what? Like, I don't, I don't even know what that means. And I just thought he was kidding. And he's like, Oh yeah, they got monkeys back there.

And I just thought it was like a, Hey, you're six. I'm going to play with your fragile brain. And then I'm like 12. And I'm out on the river shrimping with my buddy Hunter. And he's like, that's Monkey Island. I'm like, what? He's like, yeah, they take the monkeys from Yemisi. And they put them on Monkey Island. And like, after they vaccinate them, they like test them and like, see what they do. And I'm like, that's not true. And as we get closer with the boat, you can hear like, oh my God. They're all saying the potatoes. Get out of here. Dad, seriously. Dad, I'm not making anything up. So then I go back to dad. I'm like a newly

minted 13 year old. I'm like, wait, is there really monkeys in Yemisi? And he's like, yeah, it's like a research thing. I was like, okay. And then when I'm older, I remember driving by one day and they were like redoing the fence and you could see in and you could see all of these monkeys. So I wake up whatever day it was. I'm not a lot of sleep these days, but I wake up and my family thread, like we usually get excited over like the day that Jonathan Edwards, you know, posted the stuff to the doors of the Catholic Church, Reformation Sunday, Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday, the birth

of Jesus. Like that's when the family thread pops off and everyone's just sending like monkey links. And I'm like, wow. And then so like three hours go by and the normal world starts to learn about monkeys. And everyone that I know on the West Coast that just knows I'm from South Carolina, they don't even know that this is like 10 minutes from my house, just start sending me monkey leaks about these 43 monkeys, all females, white variety of monkeys.

They're like a pale kind of pink, kind of look like Mark Ripitow style monkey. Get turned loose. And what was happening is they were going to move them to the island. Like the thing I learned about as a child and the monkeys broke free. And so my family's like, we're like on, you know, Beaufort County, Twitter, Yemesie police department, we're getting like all the updates. And then people that are not so in tune with monkey life are

sending me like AP articles. I'm like, you have no idea. The Brogies have been tracking this since zero five 30 in the morning. Anyway, the monkeys are on the loose and then Rogan talks about them. And so then a bunch of other people sent articles, but they have not gotten the monkeys. And there's all these videos on these like deep Beaufort County, Yemesie subreddits of like people like, look, there's one right there. And there's like monkeys like running around the woods and they like set up all the traps. I'm a little disappointed. I don't have an update, but yeah, monkeys are on the loose monkey season.

South Carolina, South Carolina. We just call that November. You're tackling it's 43. I wonder who the CMR they're like, ah, the numbers are not bumping. Hey, have you seen our monkey count? You're going to want to call the commander. Let's go and line up. Let's go and read off the serial numbers. Go ahead. Hold your monkeys high in the sky. Let's see and line up. Let's go and read off the serial numbers. Go ahead. Hold your monkeys high in the sky. Let's see you.

Count off. Yeah. So they're still on the loose. I haven't looked for an update this afternoon, but a fun story. You know, it's not often that your town, your hometown makes the news, but when it does, I hope it's about 43 monkeys starting the next one on virus. That's fine. That's fine. It's like, let's see. Let's just say it's like it was a good slide.

Yeah, it's a random slide. Great slide. We're from the. Obviously, yeah, it was a good segue into. So you want to talk about golf? Well, I got golf on the brain or something. Not golf battery, but golf, the game or sport. Next slide.

I can't talk about it. I was talking with Grant about this and just so like in sales, everyone goes, oh, you have to know how to golf to sale, which I disagree with. Now, yeah, I don't know how to golf to sale, which I disagree with strongly. I don't know. This is short slide. It's just I've never been into golf. I've never understood the appeal of golf. I've tried it one time and I held up. Everyone was mad at me because I held up the people behind me. And so I did not have fun. It was not a good time. So I don't know. I feel like we were just talking about it and just in sales and this occupation, everyone was like,

oh, you have to golf to be good at sales. And I go, I don't, I don't think that's true at all. I just immediately agreed with Trey instantly when I took command of a Godfather golf battery. They were like, sir, we're going to take you golfing. I was like, no, you're not. And they're like, no, no, no, no, the base course is really nice. Like we'll go golfing. I was like, I don't golf.

And they're like, well, it's just, you just get in a golf cart and ride around and drink beer. And I'm like, yeah, so what do you need all the seven irons for? Like, I understand the golfing part of this. This sounds terrible. Yeah, I'm not a fan. It's probably because I'm bad at it,

but it's too slow, takes too long. I also don't have like, I'm already way too into fishing. You know, I haven't done it in a while, but I can't pick up another hobby, but it just like a huge time suck. Yeah. What I said, what I've always said is people that golf

have never fished. I've always said that. I agree with that. There's a, I was just, it was a, who's a guy who wrote like, uh, Oh, Robert Redford. No, like JR Tolkien, not freaking economics. What am I thinking of outliers? Who wrote that? Oh, Malcolm Gladwell, Malcolm Gladwell. He did. He has a, have you ever listened to his podcast? Not in a while, but the revision is just a one.

Yeah, it was like his first or second season. And he was talking about the correlation to CEOs and how much time they golfed and how successful their business was. And just the more they golfed, like the Lehman brothers golfed every day and they just like went completely bankrupt. Interesting.

Yeah, they're going to say the business group. Yeah, that's what I was like. I was like, wait a minute. No, no, exactly. Exactly. Are you do you do it? I haven't played in. Oh, gosh.

Probably like five years, but OK, I'll put it this way. It's fun. I got into golf for a little bit before for Jordan Rincourt, like had a buddy that was pretty in the car that was like what? 1773 or? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you go to a driving range, like people would be like, oh, Jeff knows how to golf. Like you could swing it. I have never been great at hitting a driver,

but like, you know, see Jeff with a killer short game. I mean, a couple of days of practice, not like you'd probably be OK with. I look like we taught me in like, oh, that's he does what he's doing. I'm just going to do what he does. What was the, uh, and we'll, we'll, we'll transition from golf to sports because we're two different things after this. What was the, um, you guys both sent it to me. So it was the Citadel running back 96 Everett sands sand man went to play in the league and oh yeah, I remember now. Perfect. So he goes golfing and there's this like, you

know, attractive blonde ESPN personality. It's like during some big golf tournament and they're like, so Vince Young, uh, how's your game today? And he's wearing like a baby blue Citadel polo. He's like our most famous player, Citadel hat. And she asked him like something about like not him, but like other people playing. So he answers it. And then she's like, well, Vince, how's your game? He's like, well, first of all, I want to say thanks for interviewing me. Second, I'm not been shown. That's racist. So same people that don't know that pink monkeys exist. That was an OK slide.

That's an OK. Yeah. Yeah. OK. OK. I mean, they should talk about real sports now. Yeah. I think golf is a sport.

I think it's a game that takes a lot of skill, a lot of skill. And you might be a good athlete if you're a good golfer. But you don't have to be a good athlete. Would you say baseball is also a game or you think it's sport? Mm hmm. I think we throw in a running player. Running and you like throwing, I think. If you can dip tobacco, I think, feel like throwing, I think if you can dip tobacco, I think feel like we talked about this. If you put it in a fat lip and it becomes a game again. OK, I think Baker Mayfield was stuffing some zins in his.

Lace. I'm sure. Point point. So wait a minute, then, before we leave this slide. What is more of a sport, golf or bowling? Oh. What is more of a sport golf or bowling? Oh, I see them on the same level. I would say, yeah. You least have to walk between holes, right?

See the difference that I see is at least bowling's fun. You'd be in the gutter ball and have a great time. Like when your balls in the water, you're like, three more dollars for another pain. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was always my gauge. If it was a good round, if I, if I only had to use three golf balls for the whole round, I'm like, okay, that's good. I don't care what my score was. At Fort Sill, I got really good at bowling. Remember that bowling alley there? Really?

Oh dude, we went all the time. I love bowling. My role was a lot of fun. I had a buddy who bought a bowling ball while we were there. Yeah. That's awesome. That is awesome.

Yeah, no, I, that's like a goal for me. I don't know if it'll be in my forties or my fifties, but like, I want to be like, where's dad? Tuesday night bowling league. He's there with the boys. There was one drill, this is a long golf slide. There was one drill where I went and drilled and I stayed in the hotel and I was there a night early and I usually hang out with my battery gunny, but he was busy and I was like, man, I don't really have anything to do. And I texted Diana and I was like, I really want to bowl and there's a bowling alley next door. Is it weird if I go bowl by myself? She's like 100% you should do it. And I went and when you bowl alone, you can bowl like 10

games really fast. And yeah, it was, it was really fun. So I am like very bad in my opinion, but like, okay, I haven't bowled. That was like probably four months ago. If we all went bowling right now, my first game I'd bowl like a 94. Okay. And then my second game I'd bowl like a 120. Okay. Okay. And then if you'd like, let me keep playing, I'll bowl like a upper 100. It's like a, like a 190 would be a great game for me. But like, I, like, I get my groove. But I always start terrible and I forget and I have, I do nothing cool. There's like no spin. There's no twirl. I'm like, there's a pyramid on the wood. And if, well, I don't throw it that hard. I'm just like, there's a triangle

and there's another triangle a little bit to the right. And if I split those with a slight left curve, I'm good. And that's, I'm like straight lines. I'm like an artillery officer bowling. I guess that's what I am when I bowl. Literally five requirements of active, predictive bowling. One, put your shoes on to order a pizza. Three, get a pitcher of light beer.

Yeah, for spill it. Know where the pins are. Oh, man. All right. Next slide. Decision slide. OK, we jump in on college football? I'll be honest. I can't contribute at all. I didn't see one second of college football on Saturday with the rankings. The new rankings just came out today. Oh, Hey, as, as BW always says every Tuesday,

you guys are genius for doing recording the podcast on Tuesday nights because you get to have the first takes of the new college football playoff for everyone. For BW and grants. That's exactly America tunes. I think we got to dive hard into that talk last weekend. And then I want to hear all about Jeff's ball veterans day. I think we'd be remiss not to talk about the Marine Corps birthday, Trey preaching. But yeah, let's go. Somebody pull up the rankings. Trying to find the newest one. I got to look at these weird.

So Jeff, you didn't watch any football? I didn't see any. I was drilling. I was hoping you could. I missed the BYU Utah game and all I saw afterwards was the Utah A.D. just like oh he was very excited railing on the refs. Yeah. Fair. Yeah. And I've I've I saw it on my cattle. Like I don't know what the call was exactly. It's not often the last game that I didn't finish.

Yeah. It was late. That would have been super late for you. It's sort of the last game that I didn't finish. Yeah. That would've been super late for you. It started at 8.30. I know our time. So I watched like, I think the first quarter and I was like, I can't, I gotta stop. Oh, I made it three minutes in and I passed out. So.

Okay. Okay. I got the rankings pulled up. Do you want to jump in on them now or do you want to join? Yeah, let's go right in. Yeah. I'm trying to remember if I, I feel like people were talking about the BYU talking, but I didn't really pay attention. So number 12, the two lost Georgia Bulldogs. I still think they're in. Ooh, really? Yeah. I still think they're in. They got tennis. They think they'd be. I think they'd be Tennessee. I think they'd be Tennessee.

Tennessee's out. Yeah, I think Tennessee's saying this a long time. Mm hmm. Number 11 name. Ole Miss Rebels jumping up. See if they don't have any hard games left, I don't think. I don't think so. They don't. Yeah, I think they're in. I think that's fair. I think it's either Georgia or I don't know.

South Carolina. I get it, man. Yeah, yeah. OK, so you think you think Georgia, you think Georgia and Ole Miss are in. OK, keep going. Number 10. No, I think. Yeah, I think they're both in. OK, yeah. Yeah. Number 10, Alabama Crimson Tad. Who do they have last? Auburn. Yeah, that's not.

I'm not. I'm not even kidding. I could see Auburn coming. Auburn will game cock at this year. They'll be like, you know what we have to play for ruining this for Bama. Yeah, that's true. That is pretty big motivation. Yeah. Um, you gotta see who, just hopefully they're not with the rest. They're like, it's like a, it's like a log jam man.

Right now it is just like, uh, when I saw that Texas A and M, not to get off topic, but it's on topic, had a 14.3% chance of making the college football playoff in South Carolina had a 13.9. That is not what I thought. Even I went into the Texas game thinking we would win. That is not like if you told me at the end of the game, you'll both have, let's just call it 15% chance. That's not what I thought in my mind, but like the sec is just, it's, I feel like, yeah. Give a team a three third loss and you're done. I'm not eating the home cooking here,

but I feel like that's a little bit, uh, under an AMM. All the guys, so they have to be, they beat all and they have to be Texas at home, probably a night game. I also know that there's these things that come out in Vegas called odds. And I'm like, Vegas is wrong. And it's like, they've been brought on. Yeah, they're so right. Oh, they're always right.

Over under 44. Are you kidding me? Right. Field goal just hit 45. So Alabama has Mercer, OU and then Auburn. They should. They should win all those. Hey ma'am. You put if I'm Oklahoma university, I at halftime do that thing they do now where they play, uh, the Toby Keith song and a start of the fourth quarter,

I put up every county in Oklahoma that voted red, which is all of that on this, which is the single one. I put that on the screen and the fans go berserk and they beat Alabama. Yeah. If you need me, if you need media to work on football teams, call Grant. Do you bring, do you bring the football team out of the locker room? I'm telling you, you put that on in that stadium. It would go berserk, berserk. Like the state is already that way. And then the people that are at college football games and pull for the Sooners, like they were all at the Capitol on January 6th. Like that is like that gets everyone fired.

I feel like leans and uncovers. Like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm all at the Capitol on January 6th. Like that is like, that gets everyone fired. I feel like leans and understatement. Yeah. I feel like they've fallen over. Oh man. Okay. Moving on. Uh, number nine, Miami. So great. You said Alabama's out. I think Alabama's out. I think they, they, they slip up. Number nine, Miami. So great. You said Alabama's out.

I think Alabama's out. I think they they they slip up. It's it's Oklahoma or Auburn, but one of them, they they do some dumb and they're out. They like discipline. Or a two loss team doesn't make it in. Could be that. All right, Grant, you said nine my, or Jeff nine's Miami. Nine is Miami. Yeah, they're out. They're going to lose to Clemson.

I think they're gonna lose again too. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very pro Clemson beating Miami before coming to play South Carolina. So why they would play Miami in the ACC championship. The ACC championship would be after. Yeah. Yeah. It would be nice if Clemson loses out and then beats Miami. Hmm. Yeah.

That'd be great. Strike the record, Jory. I never have said I wanted Clemson to win. That would not be great. I want Miami to beat Clemson in the ACC championship. I'm a game cop. There you go. Number eight. Number eight is Notre Dame. They play Army? They're just going to get in. Just they can have five losses and they're like, oh yeah, Notre Dame, number 12.

Yep. Get them in. What do you know? I mean, they're really underrated. Yeah. Yeah. I think they still have Army left. Who knows who else?

Because I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game.

I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going to be in the game. I think they're going underrated. Yeah. Yeah, I think they still have Army left. Who knows who else? Because they're not in a conference. I know they finished with USC. Is there a scenario where the Army-Navy game happens back to back? Not anymore, I don't think.

Not anymore because Navy lost. But they could have, because they're in that whatever American conference. Oh, I see. And they're on episode sides. But yeah, I think you're right. I think that's off the table. That would have been great. Imagine the army Navy game. All the politicians, they would have played the championship game before the actual army Navy game. It would be real. Oh yeah. It would, it would have been like when you celebrate the Marine Corps birthday and then the next day you have Veterans Day.

Yeah, it would have been the greatest thing ever. Yeah. That's good. All right, number seven. Tennessee volunteers. I think they're. I really think they're out. I don't know why, but I think they're, I really think they're out. I don't know why, but I, like, I don't,

I think they're fake news for now. I know they have, I've watched them this week, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When I've watched them play, I'm like, man, this is not feel like, like this team should not be like near the top of the sec. Like what I'm not against it. Like Tennessee's not a team that I just like go out and hate

But I just I just doesn't I'm like, yeah, I don't think this is real but they have number seven I mean, who do they have left right play Georgia this week Then they got the the UTEP and then they got a Vanderbilt is what they finished with If they finish 10 and two. Yeah. It's gonna be wild. It's gonna be really interesting. Once we get through these numbers, I want to talk about if the BCS was on to something. Oh, computers? Yeah. Number six is the BYU Cougars. Oh, man, I'm from the south. I have a hard time seeing that team making it. I don't. And let's Colorado beats them.

I feel like they're a possible. Well, about those buffs. Hang on. Actually, I am. Mm hmm. It's prime time. They beat tech. It's true. It's prime time. They beat tech. It's true. It's true. They're rolling.

We'll see. All right. Number six. So now number five, Indiana Hoosiers undefeated Indiana Hoosiers. They got Ohio State coming up. I think so. Is it this week or no? Maybe it is.

I can't remember. I feel like Tennessee, Georgia was like the biggest game of this weekend. We see Big 10. Okay, I guess you're not paying attention to the Citadel versus Wofford, but. Sorry. Sorry, my mistake.

And Wofford in the English Premier League? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're playing a soccer team. yeah. They're playing a soccer. Oh, they're playing a soccer team. The Wolves. They are. Yeah, it's a collab. I don't know. I still think South Carolina Mizzou is the biggest game of the SEC.

In all seriousness, I guess Tennessee, Georgia. Yeah, I think it's a Georgia. I be. Yeah. seriousness, I guess Tennessee George. Yeah, I think Tennessee George might be. Yeah. No, they got them not this week. Ohio State, Indiana is the second to last game. Oh boy. Indiana, let me see.

They have a bye this week and then they go Ohio State and then they go Purdue. And that'd be crazy if they. That's bait that they have the bye week going into Ohio State. That's nice. That's nice. But it's at Ohio state. That's not as nice, but it's at 11 AM. So that's nice. That's called tray time and South Carolina. We just call that noon. True story. All right. Number four.

Number four is Penn State. Oh, frauds. Yeah. I just want to be so happy that I've been rooting for them to lose all season, waiting for them to lose. And they did it. Go Joe Paterno. They got Purdue, Minnesota and they did it. Go Joe Paterno.

They got Purdue, Minnesota and Maryland. Oh my goodness. Look at that cat. If you're not watching on YouTube, is that a? It's Zoe. Zoe. Sorry, I was thinking of Jordy's or PJ's cat, Sardine for a second. Sardine?

It's a good name. She's like silver and white. Looks like a little fish sardine. I'm always saying that sardine. They go. All right. So we talked about him before Penn State. Number three, Texas Longhorns. Obviously going to catch another loss when they play the Aggies.

That's right. Farmers fight. That's right. Seahawks, 12th man. Who? Sure. Hey, we sued them. Number two, Ohio State Buckeyes. Man, I would love to see Indiana go undefeated and beat them. That would be nice. I'd like that too. And then Indiana's Big Ten, right? Yeah.

So then like losing the Big Ten championship after beating Ohio State. That would be even better. Yeah. Which is probably true. I just can't wrap my head around. We're doing is in the big 10 or that Texas is in the SEC. But we're behind me. It's weird. Uh, this has been so yeah. And then number one, or Stanford in the AC. Like, yeah, who's yeah. I was to the Ohio State.

Yeah. OK. So long one to Ohio State and then Oregon and Oregon. Yeah. That's me. SEC is going to be so if A&M wins out, Texas tended to A&M's tended to. Gamecocks went out. Well. I feel like the way the SEC schedule is lined up this year, that like all the good teams are just like kind of knocking each other off, where it's like the big 10 teams, not as much.

It's I don't know. I don't know. Weird. Yeah. It's because there's a hundred. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's literally a quarter. Twenty five percent of one hundred. All right. They just call it the big one hundred. Yeah. And then some teams that are on the bubble. Let's talk about them.

I'll start with I'll start with number 21. I'll go down to number 21. That's near and dear to this podcast. Heart, South Carolina, Gamecocks, sitting number start with number 21. I'll go down to number 21. That's near and dear to this podcast's heart. South Carolina Gamecocks. Is it at number 21 in the bowl? So there's a chance. I don't see any way they make it in. I guess they're, like when I saw 13%, like Trey said,

I mean, I didn't think it was a knock on A&M. I was just like, and what, is this girl math? Like, how is this possible? I guess you beat Mizzou. you'd have to be Mizzou. You'd have to be. You'd win out and then you'd have to see some other teams lose. Yeah, I haven't gotten deep on the subreddits.

I've been looking up monkeys, but it must be some kind of path. I need to figure out what it is. Put a couple of those monkeys on the squad. Get them in there. Little tiny elements. If they win out and end up with a three lost season man. And so they kick Boise State out of the top 12. Yeah. For winning.

I was always like, I don't know. So what happens when you paint grass blue? Like it's unnatural. It's not natural. It's tall grass turf. Bluegrass. Yeah. It's unnatural. It's not natural. It's all grass turf. Grass here. Just above them is Clemson Tigers at number 20, so we hope we see them lose. We don't want to see them. We do.

The Colorado Buffalo's number 17, seven and two, so they got a fight in chance. Yeah. They figured out, yeah. Moving up a couple spots. Number 15, Texas A&M. So we'll see. Yeah, it should be interesting. Yeah, I mean, if you beat Texas,

you be saying it beats Texas, they go, they go to Atlanta. They go. Yeah. And if you win that, then you're in automatically. Definitely. Yeah. 100% would be interesting as if they go undefeated, go to Atlanta, and then lose. Yeah. You're going to let a three-loss team into the playoff.

I feel like you have to look at the runner-up to the SEC championship game as like that loss weighs differently than like a two. If they have three losses and there's a two, like, you know, if they have three losses and there's a two loss Tennessee, it's like, okay, that two loss Tennessee is different than a three loss. And now I think that's why I need never. That's why I need South Carolina to win out.

Never forget recency bias. True. Recency bias is real. It's very real and really real. See, I think to make it in the playoff, I think A&M is going to have to. When when the SEC is so does it, is there excuse my ignorance? I'm used to computers. I forgive you. Is is there is is is this just coaches voting to know? Is it like, no, the top 12?

No, this is this is the playoff committee. So it's people, not necessarily coaches. But it's just, it's all human. It's all human. I don't like that. Yeah, I don't know. It condoleezza rice. He gets used to be in charge.

I remember kind of Lisa Rice was kind of Lisa. Like her either, but I don't know. Like I like, I like stats. I like, like, I like computers crunching numbers. So I'm a money ball guy. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, national championship. Did you guys look at those odds?

No, who's going to win? Yeah, I was on that today. Let me go back. Top 25. And somehow I went to futures. Assume they're projected. If I take a guess, I would say Oregon. I want to say that was the cheapest. Here we go. Boom. Odds, futures. Here it is. Ohio State plus 300, Oregon plus 360, Texas plus 450. And then the drop off happens. UGA plus 900. Like for example, South Carolina is plus 30,000, Texas A&M is plus 10,000. That's why I thought those like 0.4 percentage points didn't make sense because I'm like, where's the money going Vegas? Yeah. Man. But yeah, Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, Georgia, top four per the odds of people betting.

Non-bias. Name Texas's hardest, best win. These are best when they have. To beat Tennessee, right? Nope They play Tennessee. Nope, they played Vanderbilt. They beat Vanderbilt by three points They beat Michigan which who's not lost to Georgia lost to Georgia. Let's just go through it They beat the breaks off Colorado State. They beat Michigan They beat the breaks off Colorado state. They beat Michigan, UTSA, Monroe, Mississippi state, Oklahoma, lost to Georgia, beat Vanderbilt, beat Florida. On with their third string quarterback. Watch. Texas is going to get beat by Kentucky.

I see. I think Arkansas this week. They play at Arkansas. Even better. I know. Trace big Arkansas guy. This week, I mean, I have. I have. So we were from the. They did also publish the so if like the season ended

right today and then like the season ended right today and then like the rankings were locked in. So Oregon would be the number one seed, Texas, number two. BYU would be the number three seed. Number four seed would be Miami. So that's kind of interesting. Seemed that like. Did they say publish the published the order? Why does that change from the rankings you just put out there? Because of the conference, it's like those would be like the conference

champions technically. So if like they're saying, assuming they're in the first place right now. Hey, man. I guess they're just saying, I don't get why. Yeah, I don't get why that would change. I don't know. Yeah. But interesting, interesting. Well, good slide. And South Carolina, we just call that fall.

Citadel plays Wofford this Saturday, 1330 Eastern time Wofford, known as the Southern Conference juggernaut Citadel with the win over Wofford and Clemson ends up six and six. I think both things are possible. But yeah, might be baby's first game because I'm like, Hey, Spartanburg is 30 minutes from here. Okay. Can't afford not to tickets are going to be like $17. And if you go in and have a meltdown, you just leave. No big deal. Even though you're leaving the most exciting game in sports that weekend, like you don't really care. Um, so, you know, a little potential there. Go watch the beer in person. Hey, against a below average EPL team. Hey, yeah.

Crushing it. You really following Southern sports over here? What else we got on the slide deck? Do we want to get into the, the beginning of Marine Corps Ramadan and the festivities that occur? We already published the order. So 249. Oh man. Next year's going to be so great. Oh, people are going to go nuts. I'm pretty excited about it. Honestly. You'll be back. When do you get back from your long vacation?

Your trip. Oh yeah. The deployment. Yeah. We haven't really announced on the podcast. We'll talk about it next week, but we'll tell people now. I'll leave in like April and come back in October. I actually, we went to a Marine Corps birthday. Yeah. Sink Ships. We went to a Marine Corps birthday event on Sunday and we were there and they cut the cake and it's like a South Carolina event. Like I didn't like know any devil dogs there. I mean, everyone's like, I'm like, got yas and they're like, Oh, what are you? And I'm like, artillery. They're like the king of battle. Like that camaraderie school. But I did tell D I was like, Hey, next year on the birthday, it'll be over. And like the three of us will be together and it'll be over.

And I was like, and that's kind of exciting. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. So we'll be back for 250. But no, it is interesting. You know, I don't feel like any of us are like super rah rah, like wearing Mali gear out in public. People that wear Mali gear in public probably never serve. This is how that always goes.

Yeah. Maybe you are. I kind of wish I had a tactical baby carrier, honestly. The one I have looks like it was made by Fisher Price. But it is, what's interesting to me is like the amount of people that you hear from. And like we obviously talk a lot and like we keep things together, but it's like random staff sergeant. And if any of the Marines are listening and they think you're the random staff sergeant,

you're not someone more random. Because if you listen to this podcast, you're near and near to me. But it's just like, Oh, I forgot that guy existed. And it's like, happy birthday, sir. Or me, I'll just like think of someone. I'll be like, I think he was a PFC in Afghanistan. Got out as a corporal. I'm like, a corporal, happy birthday. Like, ooh, Ross, are you a general yet? And like, it's just, it's just amazing the amount of people you talk to. And Diana's just always like, you like this so much better than your birthday.

She's like, you like actually get excited. And I'm like, I really do. And we talked about that that morning. And then when we went to the event, the guy got up that owns the restaurant, he's like an Iraq vet, has one eye, like real wartime service and not the best public speaker, but like really hit home. And he was just like, you

know, how many of you guys remember when your birthday is? And like, you know, it's like quiet, you know, there's like a vet on a ladder with a microphone. He's like, none of you. He's like, like your wife reminds you. And everyone's like, and like, I just like that, like a Marine can say anything with a microphone and everyone's just like, and he's like, but we all know today. And I was like, it's like actually like a great way to put it. And it's not eloquent at all when she was in Marine fashion, but it's just like, ah, November 10th. Amazing. It's August 26th, grand. It's your birthday. Whatever. I gotta go to work. But like, yeah. Marine Corps birthday. It's a great day. It's a great day. It was a good day. How was your ball, Jeff? It was a good time. Yeah, let's see. We were near Anaheim at the

Hyatt Regency. I said, Marine's favorite hotel is a Hyatt. Hyatt. Marine's favorite hotel is a Hyatt. Hyatt, Marine's favorite month. Marine's favorite month. March. Marine's favorite boat. Hyatt. Never gets old. Never. Really good time.

Guest of honor was Brigadier General Everly, our first battalion commander, Grant, back in the day, 511. Be my little general. So it was pretty cool. Everly, was he, was that the bald guy? No, that was Beltran. Hey, let's, let's ask a group of Marines if that was the bald guy.

I think you're thinking of Beltran, like the ride. I'm thinking of Beltran. Yeah. Yeah. thinking of Beltran. I like to ride a lot. I'm thinking of Beltran. Yeah. Yeah. Love to ride. He was the guy right before him. He was, he turned over pretty soon after I know Grant and I checked in. I don't know if you had- Yeah. I actually think he might've been gone. And the only reason- He was gone when I was there. I only think of Beltran. Yeah. He's a general. So obviously he knows what he's doing. But the reason he remembered us was because we had this OJT trip

right before Fort Sill. And we went out together and like they screwed up like all the S1, admin, DTS. And so Jeff and I ended up like just like buying plane tickets to go back to Fort Sill, like on our maybe personal credit cards. Anyway, there and Biggie because we brought money to the government. And we're like, we were just trying to get back to school. We can't help it that you guys messed this up. We were at the airport at like 5 a.m. and we were checking in. They're like, you don't have flights. They were like, but we have this printout and it says I have a flight.

And we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we're like, we'rem. We were checking and they're like, you don't have flights. They were like, but we have this printout and it says I have a flight. And they're like, yeah, they booked it. But then the day of the money doesn't actually get taken from the account. So it was like crash course and DTS and how like,

yeah, you buy the flights, but they're not actually bought because it's different pots of money. And you got to move it around and different cross org. It's the end of the fiscal year. Bitcoin, it's second coin base. Yeah. We had 90 at 87 or dropping.

But yeah, good time. Good time. Nice. Lieutenant Colonel, retired Lieutenant Colonel, Angel Torres was there, former battery commander of mine from my headquarters. I did not know you were retired. Yeah, recently retired now in executive, Lieutenant Colonel Angel Torres was there, former battery commander of mine from my headquarters back in time.

I did not know you was retired. Yeah, recently retired now in executive business school at UCLA. So got to check in with him, which was super fun. He just exactly how I remember him. I'm a really great guy, but it was, yeah, it was a good time, I think. This is the one time you were, you remember Major Sergeant? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

So he was CO of Sierra whenever I checked in. Really good guy. I love Major Sergeant. Love that guy. Super, like the nicest. You have like good dude. Good dude. Prior enlisted, he was a Sergeant at one point times. Sergeant, Sergeant.

Sergeant, Sergeant. That's the best. But no, I get it. That's the one time a year I get a text from him. There's like a group text with like me and Major Dill now. Oh no, I see. Yeah, I get it. That's the one time a year I get a text from him. There's like a group text with like me and, uh, major deal now. Oh no. Yeah. Major deal. Yeah. Yeah. Major deal. Just, I saw, uh, when Nova who we had on the podcast, promoted a captain. I was like, is that deal? Yeah.

Fire battalion commander. Yeah. She's like, you know him. I'm like, so whenever I was FDO, he was the team commander for me. So deal. He's great deal. Yeah. What else? Yeah, it's good. I think, you know, one loss of PJ is we just talk about stuff, but maybe explaining it to folks is a little bit helpful. So you're recording. if you wonder what a Marine Corps birthday ball is like, it is like, it's an event that all the young Marines at first don't want to go to, and they have to buy a ticket. And if they don't go, there's a lot of like stigma. It's like, if you have to get taped and you're like, but I'm not fat, I just weigh more than

you want me to. So if you don't pay for your ball ticket, they put you in the most uncomfortable uniform and make you like run the sales at the front gate. But you go and it's just, yeah, it's just, it's mandatory fun and it's finest. I would say now maybe this is my post lobotomy field grade brain. Now I get really excited but like a lot of people dread it and then they go and it's like amazing. But you do go into the ball and there's like a cake cutting thing. There's a guest of honor. They play the commonance video and the adjunct reads a message from general June, not in

that order. So you go in, there's like a cocktail hour, Marines are just smoking cigarettes. It's like everywhere you go, you just smell cigarettes. And then you go inside and the cake gets marched in, the adjutant reads the thing and then they cut the cake and the, help me out here. Guest of honor, Guest of the Marine. No, no, Old Miss. Oh, Guest of honor. No, no, almost first piece. And the oldest Marine feeds it to the youngest Marine. And whenever the youngest Marine, they're like, he was born in 2020.

That was it. That's why you have to feed the cake to them. So yeah, it's like a whole thing. And then they play the common ounce message, which is always, I say it gets better every year since we've been in. Did you watch this year's? Yeah, I liked it. Really?

Yeah. You didn't like it? I mean, whenever there's a triple seven and a later, you know, and then just everyone was going crazy at the ball in the pop up. It's like nine minutes and 32 seconds of Marine Corps production, three seconds of artillery to have the ball. Everyone's like, ah! That actually might be one of my favorite things,

is sitting in that usually ballroom, watching the video with tons of Marines, and just all of the random. So if you're like, oh, ah! Yeah, ah! Yeah. Yeah. Like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. watching the video with tons of Marines and just all of like the random. So if you look, like, that actually is my favorite part of the ball.

It's getting fired up by the video. It's my favorite. Well, my, my other favorite part is like, then you sing the hymn. Yes. And every Marine and myself included, it's like from the halls up. And you're like screaming and then they go to verse two and everyone's like something Northern snow, blah, blah. And then it goes like very quiet. And then it's like, if the army, and they come back on. Yeah. Great day. Did you do any ball activities, Trey? I mean, I don't know. You didn't go to Marine Corps ball, but like, did, is there like, I don't know, Texas meetup for Marines or?

No. Yeah, no, we just, it was a Sunday man. We just went to church. And the South would just call that church. And you just call it church, man. Yeah. You talked a little about, about the Marine Corps in church, didn't you? I did man. So I was doing a communion thoughts communion thoughts at church, got in front of the congregation, and it just happened to work out that it was the Marine Corps birthday. If you don't know what communion thoughts are, you can get with me later. I'll introduce you to a guy. But no, it was like the easy, it just happened to work out and it was like,

oh, Marine Corps birthday. This is going to be the easiest. I didn't really have to prepare that much. Tell us what you said. I think like the... I think what I pretty much... A train of thought. Yeah. My train of thought was I kind of talked to all my time in the Marine Corps and like,

hey, there's things that Marine Corps is frustrating, bureaucracy, whatnot, but there's things that I love. I love the Marines. I think I took a quote from Donnie as far as the clouds in the circus. I mentioned that, which I think all the veterans in there have got to kick out of it. Oh yeah. But then I said, then once I'm here, you go to the Marine Corps birthday ball and it's just like, you're reminded of how much like

why you wanted to join and like how proud you are to be there and then kind of we'll get back to to communion while we do it. So yeah, that's pretty good man. Yeah. It was like I said, probably super easy. It was a great day. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Great day to do it. Don't have them do it on November 9th. No. Oh gosh. What are we talking about? I will say, and then we'll wrap up all this Semper Fi do or die talk. I think Jeff and I are in a super weird position because you know, when you're a reservist,

you're technically a veteran because you possess a DD 214. And Jeff and I both like got out. Well while I went into the reserves and then I like left the reserves for a minute, Jeff got out and was like out out. And then like we're both like very active, you know, obviously doing stuff in the SMCR. But you have like a group of people that never served, which is great. That's the whole point of all of this. And then they know you're a Marine. So like happy

Veterans Day. And then like now like for me, I'm activating next year. I'm like, do I read that? Like, like, and obviously, like I do, but you're in this like weird, I call it a cheat code. Like the SMCR is like a cheat code because you get like all the, yeah, I'm a veteran. And then also like, you're still in this. Yeah. So it's, it's kind of wild, but it is funny on Veterans Day because people message you and, and it is also still amazing to me.

Nothing is amazing to me as when you meet someone and they're like, Oh, my dad was a Marine and like, I'm not playing stump the chump. I'm just like, Oh, what did he do? No idea. No idea. Right. Like that's, that's always amazing to me, but it's also amazing to me that people like veterans, they're like, am I allowed to say happy veterans day? I'm like, yeah. My favorite is when someone goes, Oh, my dad was a Marine. You're like, Oh, what do you do? Oh, he flew. I was like, Oh, that's cool. Yeah. When he enlisted, he was like, okay. He didn't fly.

Yeah. It's always amazing how people have no idea. But anyway, Semper Fi do or die. 1775 to 49. Thanks to help me remember here. Donnie Bowers, Sean Shepherd, Master Gunnery Sergeant Select Teal, Nova Sky. What are the Marines have we had on? Nolan Hickey, Andrew Herbert. That dude who makes memes Yep Lance Corporal Lance Captain USM CR Seven man if we had seven Marines on this podcast It's incredible. Maybe more maybe more cross-fitting. Who's the crossfit gym owner? He's army. He's army Jim de Nosa Veterans Day If the army or the Navy.

I told, I told some guy he, we're, is, I think we were walking out and he goes, Oh yeah. Happy, happy. I'm like, Oh, were you in? He's like, yeah, I was in the Navy. I got a Marine Corps Uber and he got legitimately, he got kind of upset by that. Yeah. I enjoy that. Sorry, dude. Sucks sucks. Sucks sucks. You made your choice. Yeah, you can be an A&M grad or you could have gone to Southern Methodist. Wasn't my fault when you chose.

What? Which one's the right one in this case? I don't know what your angle is. I get that. That's the point one in this case. I don't know what your angle is. I get that. That's the point. Confusion. Oh. All right, did we wrap up? Mm. It's a good slide.

Yeah. Good slide. Although I think kind of like to piggyback off of that slide. Save ground. Got it. Seems like there was maybe a text message picture you sent on, I guess probably the Marine Corps birthday to a fellow Marine. And it turned out this person had changed their number.

If you, I don't know if you want to, how you want to tap dance around that slide, but I'm here for it. I'm gonna let my mom listen to this. It needs to be done. It needs to be done. Cause it's just real life. It was a good story. It was hilarious. Yeah. So let's just say that Marines like phallic objects and like a pastime is drawing them. Yes. And then the worst thing you can do, and this is advice to company grades. If you are a

company grade officer, particularly a captain, if you're a lieutenant, brace it, roll with it. The boys will love you. If you're a captain and you're supposed to monitor it, if you try to moderate or monitor it, it only gets worse. And so we had a captain that tried to moderate the amount of phallic images being drawn in the battery office, which only made everyone draw them and put them everywhere. Everywhere. No, the person on text was not an officer. Okay. But the person that sparks the outbreak. Yeah, there was a time in Tango battery where it was just when you woke up,

you were like, I need to PT. I need to make sure my launcher has ditch comms with the FTC and I need to draw a dick today. Like those are the three requirements that I have as a Tango battery Marine. And so Schroeder was known for this one drawing that was like a high Mars launcher. We were high Mars at the time and just every aspect of it was a genital, like the tires, the cab, but it looked like a High Mars launcher. And my favorite part is that there's a pod off to the side that like is just nothing but phallic images.

A PJ, I'd throw it on the screen, but don't, cause then when we check, no, it's not made for kids. We'll get flagged by YouTube. So we'll leave it off. It's whatever your imagination thinks it is. That's it's my, that's exactly what it is. And then add a few more male genitalia to it. Yeah. Yeah.

Male genitalia is where it was before, but it's everywhere. But it looks like a high Mars launcher with a pod to the side. And so there's like you texting Major Sergeant, I got like different threads, like Tango Battery Staff and CEOs, all of our lieutenants, like all these things are going. And in all of them, there permeates this one image. And to be fair to the people listening

that also know that we just talked about communion and I'm a Southern Baptist, there's nothing wrong with it. It's like a Southern Baptist. There's nothing wrong with it. It's like a pencil drawing. It's not like actually anything crazy. And so I'm thinking about Schroeder and I'm like, I haven't talked to Schroeder. And I open it and I was like, oh man, I haven't texted him on the birthday in three years. And so I'm like, I'm just gonna send it to him.

So I sent him the photo and uh, and I say happy birthday devil and I get a response and it was like yeah with the pictures in it and it says who's this and that's where the guy got me because I was like sitting there like uh and I was like it's definitely Schroeder like people haven't changed their numbers since the 90s like once you're once you're an adult you just like go to the new carrier and you're like, that's the number whatever it's called. I don't know why you would. Yeah. So it's like, who's this?

So then I'm like, simplified do or die major Brody. And then the person's like, wrong number, brother. Killer pick though. Go Trump. I just started crying. I was literally in tears. I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're telling me you saw a photo of something that was military related but covered or guised as male genitalia. And your first instinct to write back was killer pick, Go Trump. You're like, that's why Oklahoma's going to win the football. We might need to keep this text thread going. I think we could be friends. Do you want to be

on the okay podcast? Like, Oh, we should, I should just write it back. Hey man, I got a podcast. You're gonna come on and talk about this text message. It's a good idea. Yeah, it was wild. I love it. I love it. Next slide. Oh man. All right. So I posted. Sorry. We got a question. They got posted. Is this, I guess on the starting strength X page? Oh dude, I thought that was a good question. Yeah. Do you want to, do you want me to just, do you want to go over it? Yeah, you can read it. I don't want to butcher it. I remember. I just want to butcher it. Okay. It says, uh, actually let's do this real quick. I mean, I'm a new dad. I'm short on time.

Hey guys. And welcome back. It's Grant Brogan from the strength code. We're live on the okay podcast and we have a question that we think you made like the answer to. If you liked the video, like and subscribe to the channel. Jordy, this is a YouTube video. Go ahead. All right. So this is posted on the starting strength X page. It says discussion topic on a work set. Is it better to fail correctly or succeed incorrectly? What is the range of allowance on each? Hmm. Hmm. Um, what do you think that question means? Trey? So if you're cool, but what I, what I took that question as is, is if you're in your work, let's say you're on your second or the senior on your final, you're in the novice program, three

sets of five, and you're on your last, like you do your first one and you're like, oh, I went high on that one. All right, you know your form is starting to go. Like is it better to complete it and get five bad ones or should you do, hey, I'm gonna do one good one, but I might fail? Okay, I think it's- Is that the way you took it?

Yeah, yeah, that's kinda how I took it? Yeah, yeah. That's kind of how I took it. I didn't think depth in the squat and that changes my answer a little bit. Cause what I think in the squat and I coach all the time is tell people I would rather you do three correct than five wrong. Right? So, and what I mean by that is depth. If they're squatting high, I don't want them to not squat high. So I'd rather them do three hip crease breaks parallel and they fail number four. I think that's good.

If they're squatting four inches high on every rep, I'd rather them squat to depth. However, if they're squatting and they have knee slide or they're leaving the hips too soon and pulling the chest up and they're grinding. If you ever watch really heavy squats by efficient lifters, the grind should never really look bad. I'm driving my hips up, the bar is over mid foot and it's slow. What usually happens is there's some type of form breakdown and so The knees slide forward or the back rounds out or they breathe out or they pull their

head up and the chest starts coming up. Then it's hard because they're no longer being efficient, which is the whole point of why we teach the squat the way we do it. Not saying it's the only way to squat, but the low bar back squat is the efficient way to squat the most weight. So in the squat, I would say it's better to go deep and misreps. On the deadlift on the other hand, not saying everyone should deadlift with catbacks, but like there is a learning thing that occurs of I have lost position. My form is no longer correct. My low back is rounded out. But I, even though this sucks really bad, I'm going to finish the rep.

And I think there's like a lot of value in that of just like, like I'll coach someone through a set of five rep one looks great. Rep two little rounding rep three lot of rounding rep four head positions in the wrong place. And I'm just like, dude, you got to finish this set or girl, you got to get five, like you must finish. And there's like this doubt in their mind that you can see. And you scream at them or yell at them or whatever you do or coach them. And then they finished the rep and they finished like, wow, I could do that. So I think there's instances, depending on the lift. And I think the press and the bench, like you're either going to miss those or not. I mean, you can definitely make form errors in the press and the bench, but I think it's the squat

and the deadlift where like form breakdown could be quote bad. I also don't think like, I think if you're pulling 395 for five and the first three look great and number five is rounded out, like I don't think you're going to crack your spine. I think it's okay. I think you should be trying to hold your back in position. Um, I don't think I answered the question, but I guess my thought would be, I don't want you to not do the complete range of motion. Yeah. I think if you're doing the complete range of motion, I think it's okay to finish it incorrectly. Especially having coached like a wide variety of people.

The problem usually is not form. It's like the guts to go for it. Right? Like I hate when someone lets go a rep three and I'm like, do you understand how many sets of five I've watched? You definitely had two more, but they stop. And then they'll say something like my back was rounding out, which is like a valid thing to bring up. But yeah, I'd rather the person finish it. I think there's more learning there. And I don't think the risk is as bad as people think. Like, like you're not like your back is not going to break in half. It's most of the form stuff that's taught is for efficiency, or it's for

attempting to use stuff, right? So if your first three reps, the deadlift, your back is flat, I know that you are contracting your lumbar muscles and you're bracing your abs and you're trying to hold. And what's happening is now you're fatigued and there's some rounding. If you just go rip the bar off rep one and you look like a cat in the toilet,

like we have a problem, but if it's form breakdown throughout the set and the load is moving and it's a new load and you're getting the whole range of motion, I'm just going to tell you, hell yeah, brother, finish the set. Now, oh yeah, brother. Caveat off that man. If let's say they had not the greatest form and then they went up, would you tell them

to go up next week and like, Hey, try to add more weight. Yeah. Um, good question. So we had a guy on Slack this week or today that posted a set of five and last week, I forgot what it was. Might've been like three 75 and he posted a set of five last week. I was like, Hey, you need to lock your knees out. And if you watch his deadlift, common mistake, get it to the hips and people

try to lean the bar back and it's a hitch and in, and in competition, it's very easy to see like, Oh, he's hitching in a set of five, it's more like there's a re-bend happening to extend the hips, which makes you feel like you're up. But then the rep never gets finished. So like that guy, I'm like, hey, don't panic. It's not the end of the world, but yeah, probably 20 pounds need to come off and you need to train your brain to lock the knee out.

So some of it depends on the error, but I think minor breakdowns, like if it's like, hey, I'm locking out every set, I'm completing the range of motion, but reps four and five look like trash and I'm at the end of my NLP. I'm going to tell him to go up. If he's not squatting to depth, I'm going to say, stop going up. I'm not necessarily going to say go down and wait because if you just did two 15 for three sets of five to depth, and then now at two 20 or squatting high, that's a you problem. Because like the adaptation occurred,

it's only five pounds of difference. Like you can totally do this. You're just scared, you're mental, you're in your brains. But I think, I guess my answer, excuse me, I guess my answer would be most of the time I would say go up, unless you're not finishing the range of motion. And I'm not saying that form doesn't matter. Obviously form matters a lot, but I just, the bigger problem having

coached a wide variety of people is most people just quit. And like you, if you're gonna get strong and lift heavy, you have to learn how not to quit. And I'm also very against taking weight off. Everyone wants an excuse to make it easier. So I squat 235 and maybe they're all a little bit high and they're like, okay, therefore I need to reset and go back down to 200. No, you just need to commit to sinking your squats. Right. So I'm coaching the form part is about efficiency, but the hard part is about mental toughness. And that's like the part that you end up coaching a lot more. But yeah, no, I thought that was a good question. Starting strength, we answered it. If you'd

like to post this on YouTube, you can just tag BWTacks, so llc.com. Love it. I wonder if that mental game, is that just a learn thing over time? I mean, what do you think? You've lifted a lot of weights, both of you guys. Trey, what do you think? Yeah, Trey, you're live.

Yeah, I don't know. I get in my head probably more than anything on deadlift. And then once I do the first one, I know how the other four are going to go. And that's usually, if I can get over that first one, then I'm good. But it's always that first one that I'm usually in my head the most. Cause then like, I'll do the first one.

Like that was okay. Let's just knock it. And by the time like I finished thinking about it, like I'm on four, you know what I mean? Yeah. So one rep at a time. It's a, I think it's definitely the first one that I've always struggled with. The mental things like a curve or the mental things like a curve. So like you take like a 180 pound guy

and he's new to the gym and you're like, hey, you're gonna deadlift and your potential is 405 pounds. And that sounds absurd to them. Like it sounds absolutely crazy. Like they've always gone to the gym and deadlifted like 155 for six or they've never gone to the gym. And then at some point, there's like a realization

of like, Oh, if I work really hard, I will actually get stronger and be able to do more. And to me, that's what you're always trying to coach the person through is I get it. You weigh 180 pounds, but that is 360 and you can totally do it. And there's some type of mental breakthrough that happens. This is why you have Corky, 88 now. I can deadlift 150 pounds. That's why my mom will go into the gym or the garage by herself at 66 and pull 250 for a triple. by herself at 66 and pull 250 for a triple because like they cross this point of like not being scared of the weights. Yes, it's hard, but they're no longer. They, there's like this threshold people have to pass where it's like, they don't tie hard to injury. And I think that's, that's where you're always trying to get people past like just because

it's hard, doesn't mean you're always trying to get people past like, just because it's hard, doesn't mean you're going to be injured. And I had a guy last week, I was coaching really cool guy. And he's deadlifting like 50, deadlifting like 250, something like that. He's like, where am I more likely to get injured? Squatting or deadlifting? And I was like, getting out of your truck. And he's like, no, no, but seriously, I'm like, no, I'm dead serious. I was like, like when you're in here, especially like you've hired a starting strength coach and you're thinking about mechanics and how to be efficient, like you're most likely not going to get injured here.

You're going to get injured like baby cry. Oh, man, let me go grab it. Oh, I just did something weird to my back. You know, like those are when those things happen. That's the, it's the tipping point. It was getting, getting past fear. Yeah. Yeah. Good question. I like it. Let's see. Um, East coasters saying Cali. I want you guys to answer this before me. I know that's all I wrote for context, but I want you guys to just think about that. And then because Trey, you lived in California for six years. Yeah.

Five. Jeff three to four. Yeah. So you're looking for Jeff. Seven. Okay. And me 12. What do you, what comes to mind when you think of that? East coast are saying Callie, like not, not sarcastically. No. There's nothing come to mind. Maybe it's a moot point. I'm like, uh, I don't think you rate that. I don't think you rate Cali. Okay. It's kind of silly. Yeah.

I think it's silly when people from California say it. That's true. of silly. Yeah. I think it's silly when people from California say it. That's true. Do you think that that's my point is what Jeff said. Like when you lived in California, did you ever say Cali? In all seriousness, no. Yeah. I mean, maybe jokingly. Yeah. Like no one says Cali is my point. I'm married to a California. No one says it. And like, I'll meet, like I just ran into some sit-in alumni this weekend. Like, so you're out in Cali for a while, huh? And I'm like, what? We used to be friends. I remember that. There's a reason it's been a while since we've talked. Yeah. I just always think that's like really funny when they're like, Cali.

I'm like, we, no one says that. Okay. I say it in text, I guess that's the only time I would say it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm too lazy. And I'm just like, say CA. Yeah. Oh, so you say Cali, CA I, L I, L I even better. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. I thought it was funny. Okay.I. L.I. L.I. Oh, I even better. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I thought it was funny.

OK, OK. Short, sweet. Good. Good. OK. OK. Next slide. OK, let's see. Clean it up. Grant, you put in the slack gas lighting. When you just talk to a Democrat, you need a democratic campaign? Green just has a train of thought.

It's 2 AM, I'm holding the baby. Gaslighting. Has anyone been able to explain to you what gaslighting means? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. Can one of you explain it to me? Yeah, I don't understand it.

I think it came, I can't remember what movie it came from, but it was like a movie back from like the fifties. And it was, I think it might've been called gaslight or gaslighting. And then I think it's a history of it. And the whole principle of the movie. Can you gaslight me right now? Yeah, dude. I can.

Do you want me to? Yeah. Give me a talk yeah Give me a top You on a see this is a nation. Sorry inflation the price of Bitcoin Yeah, okay price of Bitcoin so it is essentially just be me saying Like hey I think I don't think I think Bitcoin now, I can't do it. I guess, OK, I know.

You got the economy is stronger than ever right now. The economy is amazing. This is the best economy we've ever had. Thanks to the Biden administration, they've had. This is the best economy ever. ever had. Thanks to the Biden administration. They've had this is the best economy ever. The data clearly proves it, Grant. So it's just called lying. Yeah, basically, it's just like something like you and I know is true.

You are like this is fact and like I have evidence. But then like usually many other people are like telling you, no, no, no, that is not true. The statistics that you're looking at, that is all funded by... Wait, so the second person is the gas lighter. Yeah. It's essentially like if we get into an argument, are you accusing me of something? I deny.

NM is worse than the Gamecocks. I deny, deny, and I make counter accusations. That's gas lighting. Yeah. So is it like guilt tripping? It's it would be more of like no confusion. If mean you if you said, hey, like you stole my bike, you stole my Tesla, I'd be like, I didn't steal your Tesla. I mean, I don't. When do you have a Tesla? I didn't have a Tesla. Okay. It's like, yeah, basically, like trying to convince you that the reality? You know, the Tesla. Ah, OK. It's like, yeah, basically, like trying to convince you trying to make you that the reality that you know

is not correct to think of the trick you into being like, oh, maybe I maybe maybe this is a great economy. I don't know. I think I got it. I think I got it. Let me try this sales pitch for the strength. OK, Trey keeps quitting his deadlift after rep three every time. And I watch it and I'm like, he could totally do five.

And then I'm like, dude, you know what you're missing out on? The Slack channel. If you were in the Slack channel, you could do five reps. Is that right? No, that's not really it. No.

It would be more of me being like, I think if three reps is probably equally or more efficient than five reps, it's getting stronger. Yeah. I've seen articles- But now you're gaslighting me. Yeah. Now I'm turning around and gaslighting you. I've seen so many peer reviewed articles about why three reps is so superior to five reps. I've heard five reps is actually just bad for you. It's dangerous. It makes you weaker, Grant.

But I know to be true that five reps is superior. Everyone knows it's true. No, no, no. I have articles that will show you, Grant. Okay. I'm more confused than when I arrived, but... They will light these gas lamps and then you'll see. I think that's the goal of gas lighting is just to confuse you and not be upset. You know those lamps that have like oil in the bottom and the little wick. I'm going to start selling those on the strength Co made out of gas.

I have a cast iron strength. 45 pound lamp. Yeah. The gas lamp. I'm going to sell it to all the residents of Oklahoma. 45 pound gap. Yeah. The gas lamp. I'm going to sell it to all the residents of Oklahoma. These lamps will make you stronger. That's the gas. Yeah. Yeah. OK. Got it. Yeah. Good slide. That's good.

China. I didn't see the full episode. You don't get it. I didn't see the full episode of Serent Life, but I do watch a couple of the skits from Bilber. I really liked the the Buffalo Wild Wings one. Where that was my favorite. I was so good. Oh, but the Patriots fan.

Yeah. Yeah. I just liked it because I just. So you interviewed Bilber on Emerson radio. No, no, no, no. I'm not Bill Burr on Emerson radio? No. No, no. I'm not. He went to Emerson. I'm gaslighting you.

Oh, I, yeah, oh no. He's laughing. He's laughing. No, Jeff, you did interview him. I remember you told me that. He did, right Trey? Yeah. Yeah, you just forgot.

Because you said he wasn't as funny in person. That's right. Yeah. Oh. Oh yeah. I must be like that. The smoking lamp is lit. No, I just thought billboard. Like I haven't tuned into Saturday, maybe once in my life. I've ever watched many people have recently. Yeah. But yeah, it was good. And I was like, Emerson grad, basically the OK podcast. That's right.

Yeah. It was good. I feel like this current Siren Life cast, it's okay. They're okay. It's okay. It's not like an all-time great, but there's some- Who does the news? Colin Jost and Michael Che?

Yeah, I do like them. Best thing that Grant's good at is people naming celebrities. Yeah. Yeah. Especially like. Fairly obscure ones. Especially C-list celebrities. Yeah, that's accurate.

I feel like that's a fair categorization of those two. Yeah. Also like how you have your baby fan in here. Isn't that thing awesome? Who's the grant fan? Dude, this thing has never been pointed at the baby. It's just constantly for Grant. Um, everyone says like, what's fatherhood like? And I just say hot. Yeah. I know. Like what? I'm like, I'm always hot.

The battery just died You know anyway, all right any slides Gentlemen we can cut to the last slide for commanders comments Hey, I got an alibi See I'm good alibi. I'm one episode in soon to probably finish it. What's the Boston Red Sox documentary Tony to watch? Oh, so good. The comeback. I just finished episode one right before we hopped on. I got to watch it. You loved it, right? Well, yeah. The only thing I'm upset about is I had to hop on this podcast. I watched the next two.

Yeah. That's how I feel every night when I watch the town. Every night. You watch every Tuesday? Every night when I watched the town. Every night. Do you watch every Tuesday? That's a whole podcast. We could just break down the town. Yeah, I don't have any commander's comments. If you listen to this podcast and you're a Marine, happy birthday.

We're not done yet. It goes all in November. My ball is the 23rd. So a week from Saturday if that math checks out. But it is cool. Semper Fi. Happy Veterans Day. Yeah. Happy Veterans Day to everyone that served. Let's see. We got the Turkey poll this Saturday in Newport Beach, California. I think we have 56 something like that participants. So the Semper Fi and America's Fun will be there. Give them a big fat check. So if you bought a t-shirt and you're doing a remote, which is probably about another 50 folks, all that money is going to them. Yep. Jeff got two, I think. So we appreciate it. Those

will start mailing on Monday. So you've listened to this on Friday, you'll get into the mail next week. FedEx, two day express. They never miss a deadline. So yeah, thanks for supporting the Turkey poll. If you're just like, Hey, probably can't get a shirt, but all this Marine talk has me motivated. We keep $0 of that. Everything that comes out as profit, we just put on a check. So if you want to go spend some money and maybe get a shirt, you can still do that. And I'll take it down. At this point of the show, do we just do an ad read off the cuff? Hell yeah, brother. Yeah. Um, let's just do that before we hand it over to Trey. So, uh, I guess I'll start. We'll go to Jeff. Actually, this has been episode

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He's the one that he goes through the whole first, follow him, gives you a clear running lane. Yeah. You know what I mean? He's not doing it for himself. No, he's doing it for you. Honestly, he was voted most selfless Maine in South Carolina. It says a lot. Ten years over. It's ten years over. PJ, just grab a little video of Mike Alstott doing something very full buck related, put on BW's head and just have it run across the screen. Touchdown. All right, Trey, do what you do every week for 46 weeks. Forty-six.

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