The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 49: Cast Iron, Christmas Trees & College Football

Episode Date: December 6, 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 BUY A FOOTBALL HELMET:  https://www.greengridiron.com/?ref=thestrengthco TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 03:00 - Hand Trucks vs Dollies 8:48 - Cast Iron Pans 15:42 - Amateur Lifting Update 18:40 - Importance of Bracing 27:17 - College Football 58:39 - Holiday Update 01:12:22 - Christmas Trees 01:21:00 - What Is A MEU 01:35:21 - Oregon Fans 01:40:38 - Saved Rounds

Hey guys, welcome. That's a YouTube starter. What's the starter here? All right. Welcome back to episode 049 of the okay. Okay. Okay. Guidance.

Okay. Podcast powered by the strength. Oh, I'm your host, Grant Brogi. The price of Bitcoin is $95,680. We got Mr. Jeff bougie major type coming in from Utah. And of course, Robert Gouwledge, the third commonly known as Trey from the great state of Tejas, a real Tejana there, Tejano. When he dies, put him in Texas. He was basically a child of the Alamo. Today's date is December the third in the year of our Lord 2024.

And we are recording from the beautiful upstate of South Carolina, by the way, of Utah and Texas. This show may look a little bit different. That's because I'm moving. And no, we did not just talk to each other for 30 minutes thinking that we were recording when we weren't. So there was a long rant about me moving. That's not going to get reset because it's off my chest now and I can never replicate how I felt. But I am moving my family back to California because I'm deploying next year. With your friend.

So putting the, yeah, with my friend. With my friend. Yeah, it turns out my friend wanted me to come and so we're going together and yeah, so we're moving. The block height is 873148. Shout out to Zach Copley for the block clock. My house is empty. I still have my camera. I still have my camera, still have my TV,

still have my horns and I still have my podcasts. And what happens to the podcast? Well, let me tell you, good things never die. That's not true. But we're gonna do everything we can to keep it alive. It just may be a little less frequent, but we got a goal. And the goal is that we're going to make it to episode 52 on a weekly basis. So we got five, one, two, we got three more to go and we'll be there. This is

four and I were here. Yeah. So, so I'm moving. And basically what we talked about when we thought we were podcasting and I'm not a professional shout out. Nate, big Nate, long time listener, never been a caller, but hopefully soon he always says, brother, we are not professionals. We are not professionals. And I did not click record, but basically I just complained about moving everything into a pod. And the original pod was too slow, or too small, but I realized it early enough that I was able to change it. And now the pod is perfect and it's full and I just have a few more things to do. And my dad was a great help. And I don't think I said anything beyond that. That

was pretty much it. That was pretty much it. One blessing. You're a big fan of movies. Yeah. Big fan. One plus, there was a little note in the Slack. It was hand trucks versus dollies that did not get covered. And I didn't want to go back to the subject after the rant because I felt like he kind of had said it all at that point. But it was quite a, now we get another go at it. Oh, I like that. So first of all, what do you call it, Trey?

What hand trucker, Dolly? Well, let me be specific. And this is going to shout out to some Instagram comments. There's two wheels. Okay. There's a flat piece on the back on the bottom, and then there's like an upright and you put boxes on it and you roll it around. What do you call that?

Yeah, hand truck, right? Hmm. Hand truck. Are you telling me? Yeah. Okay. I truck, that's a... Yeah. Okay, I probably never thought about this. Okay, so I think Dolly too. Now are you talking about the long one? Well, there's also, now I'm team hand truck,

but you can also lay it down. Oh dude, that's the best. To pull up another set of uprights. See, that's a hand truck to me Me a dolly is worse as two wheels So this podcast is powered by the strength Co and it's sponsored by BW tax Don't let me forget about the helmet guy, but BW tax little known fact went to the Citadel, South Carolina fan Can do your taxes from anywhere, but he also worked for a company called Gentle Giant in Boston. He was a mover for a few summers.

Best shape of his life, he said. And I believe it. Because if you live on the second floor of a condo building, and then you have like technically a third floor, the loft, and you are moving like giant chairs and boxes and books. And dare I say my vinyl collection was annoying me a little bit because those get heavy. You will be in shape. Anyway, I still have to say I asked him to borrow a dolly. He comes to BW tax. He's like, Yeah, I got two like perfect. And he brings those like wooden things with four casters on them. Like that you like change the oil

on your truck with kind of. Yeah, yeah. He's like, and I'm like, No, I want a dolly. And he's like, No, you're talking about a hand truck. And I was like, Wait, what? And he's like, This is a dolly. This is a hand truck. And I was like, Oh, yeah.W can you get me a hand truck? And of course he did. It's the kind of guy he is. Yeah. So we had a hand truck and we got everything moved, but yeah, I don't see it wrong, but like, but you call it, you call it a dolly. He would like, he would like, he would appreciate the honest banter. Yeah, I would say it's a dolly. Okay. And Jeff, you would say dolly? Yeah, yeah. That's what I've always said. Yeah, that's you never stop saying so I live downtown. And I

live near a couple restaurants. And basically, there's a lot of trucks coming and going. So you have to picture basically, what I do is I, I've always done this every time I've moved, is I take all the boxes, I move them to the front door, but I can't open the front door because then the cats would run out. So then I lock the cats in the office, I've always done this.

And then I open the front door and I put everything out on like the ledge. Okay. And then I let the cats back out because you know, animal cruelty is bad. Think of what they did to the monkeys in South Carolina. And then I go outside and then I run all the boxes down to the bottom.

And then I repeat that process till I have a bunch of boxes at the bottom of the stairs. And then I grab what I'm now going to call a hand truck. And I have to walk like three blocks to where my pod is because I live downtown. It's the place that I was able to get it. And as I do that, there's like the centaurs guy delivering uniforms. There's the UPS guy, there's the FedEx guy, Carolina Ale houses getting a load of onions in, and they're all using the thing that we're talking about. And so I just started saying, Hey, what do you call that thing? And 95% of them say hand truck. And I wanted to film all of them, but like, it'd be weird if a stranger came by like unshaven and sweatpants.

I was like, what do you call that? But they did get a good chuckle. I was like, Oh, I call it a dolly. And they're like, Oh no, it's a hand truck. I was like, okay. Hmm. Okay. Okay.

No, Hey, they're the residents. Now there's two different kinds of dollies too. Well, there's dolly partners. That's true. That's true. I was talking about, have you seen the ones for like appliances? So it's a hand, okay, two different hand trucks. I think it's a hand truck. So it has the short, but it's like, so you have the lip, they put box on, but there's a smaller one with a smaller lip. They put like a fridge on it and then strap it around.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. one with a smaller lip. They put like a fridge on and then strap it around. What's frustrating is when you're like, Hey, I need a dolly or a hand truck. And then they give you that one. It was like completely. I'm like, I don't have one. I can use this once. Great. Yeah. Thanks for the hand. Coming soon. Coming soon. Cast iron hand trucks from the shrink. Yes. Love that. It'll 35 will be the wheels. Yeah, it's gonna find some. Finally something you can use it for. Yeah. But it just will wheels go up in size. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Some hundred pound wheels.

Well, I feel like we gotta touch on, you gotta touch on the cast iron plates. Or the paint. Yeah, we gotta touch on the paint. Well, I think, not that we were talking before, but if we were, I think Jeff should hit his first slide and then we go into the transition. Oh yeah, I forgot, the dress rehearsal. Yeah, that's that

slide made a lot of sense to me. Okay, so first slide, really important one just for the listeners, for Grant and Trey, truck nuts are alive and well. For those that are not in the know, it's either a metal or a molded plastic set of testicles that hang from your trailer hitch. It's just a really cool accessory that you can put on your truck just to let everybody know that like I'm a badass. Yeah so I think that's in the works. Strengthgo. With a pair of balls. Yeah, Strengthgo I think it's got some truck nuts in the works maybe?, maybe some other cast iron goods. Yeah. Same thing. Same thing. Cast iron pans are live. 12 inch cast iron pan.

What is segue? 12. It was better the first time when I was like, truck nuts? Are these like peanuts? Which kind of works. You know what I mean? Yeah. Anyway, cast iron pans live on the site for pre-order, doing everything we can to have them to you by Christmas. No promises. They did move from the foundry to the machine shop today because it will have a machine cooking surface, which means that it'll be easier to clean and smoother. And you'll be able to grab it with one hand and flip your four eggs over, hopefully six eggs, if you're a novice and cook those bad boys up.

Once it leaves machining, it goes to our coders and we're going to factory season it for you. Grape seed oil, you'll still need a little bit of work in there to make it work. First few times, you have to clean it nice. Trey, do you have any cleaning techniques? You're a big cast iron guy. Yeah, I do. I thought you might say that. Yeah. I thought, I thought you'd bring this up. This actually, this actually would be, I don't know if you've done a video on this, but it actually would be a very helpful video. So cleaning it.

What I always do is so one, I've always done this. So you're talking with it, right? You're cooking your cooking, your rib eye, cooking your eggs, whatever's in there, finished cooking. And then I let it cool down, bring it over to the sink. It has a little bit of particles in it. I put a little bit of water in there. Shallow shallow depth. And then I put some very coarse salt on there. And then they use that to scrub it. So don't use soap. If you've got- Pink Himalayan?

Pink Himalayan, yeah. Okay. What do you call that in Utah, Jeff? You just call that salt. Get the lake out back. We just grab a bucket, get some salt. You just call that, you just call that lake. Just call that.

Set a make- Go out to the lake. Time for me to clean my pan. Give me some of that lake dust. Pink Himalayan, and I use that and I scrub it and that usually takes up everything. And then once it's clean, all the particles are off, bring it back over to the stove, turn it on high,

let it sit, let it warm up for a little bit. So with nothing in it, no water, just empty pan. Empty pan. Yeah, turn on high. And then I'll either use olive oil, avocado oil, tallow, you said you used lard. Pretty much any- We've never talked about this actually.

It's funny that you said that. Oh yeah, no, I was being likey. You seem like a lard guy to me. Yeah. I do. Yeah. I see. I see like you.

Big lard guy. Yeah, you seem like you would like that lard. And then let that melt and then just get a paper towel and just wipe it down. Why do you pick those oils or like fats for that? What's a good characteristic of those? Was it high? I don't know.

It's usually just whatever's closest. Yeah. It's like what they typically run is someone with like a high smoke point. High smoke point is usually what you try to go for. I feel like, out of those three, I think olive oil has the worst one or lowest one. So usually avocado oil is really good. And then just beef

tallow, I think is really good. So yeah, I think too, it depends on how well the pan's seasoned. So when you have a new one, you need to work at it a little bit more. And like our grape seed oil, I'm not saying you should season it for life with grape seed. The point is if you don't have a factory oil and you just get a raw cast iron, it's gonna rust. And you can fight the rust. You can fight it with tallow, whatever. I mean, we thought about having the tagline for the pan that would be season your own damn pan

and you know, in a rust if you don't season it. And we thought about doing that and we may do that in the future, like offer a raw cast iron. But the factory seasoning will at least prevent it from doing that. But I think I always used lard and the ones that I've had, I've had about 15 years, I use lard, I kind of did what you said, I would bake it after I wouldn't put it on the stove

top, I put it in the oven after I bake it over and over and over. But now it's so seasoned and does so well that I just, I just, I have a squeeze bottle of olive oil and it's just, I just put a coating on. And it works, but like anything that's worth your time, it takes time to make it worth your time. And so even our pan is going to take a little bit of work at the beginning. But it's, it's available now. You can pre-order it. It's 129 bucks, but use code. Okay. Exclamation point all caps saving $19. There's 300 pans. There's 325 subscribers. The way I see it, I need to call a foundry tomorrow and make some more pants. At least 25 more. Yeah. At least 25. If you're

not subscribed to us on YouTube, that's what we're talking about. We have 325 subscribers. We would love you to subscribe. So you see Trey's face, Jeff's face, my face. Yeah. I wish I was holding the pan to show, but I'm not. But have a pan still across the screen. Yeah. Hey, Jordy, Jordy, just the pan. Don't take the raw cast iron one. Take the, actually take the raw cast iron one, make it hit the middle of the screen. And then I want to see a bottle of oil pour on it like biblical times in the middle. And then on the right side, I want to see the season pan come out. Yeah. No need with oil. And then I want you to make a reel about it, okay? You got it, Jordy.

PJ, bye bye. Dang. Yeah, PJ. I'm sure he loves that. Dag gum. Oh, he loves it. He loves it. Dag gum.

All he's gonna think about this whole episode is, well, if I'd been there, then it would have been recording the first time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he first time. He is right. 100% right. We love PJ and we're getting him back on the show. We're just a little busy right now. Yeah. Big shout out PJ. Good slide. Good slide. Yeah. Balls of the core and cast iron pants. Nice.

Okay. Typically this is kind of around the time. If you're a long time listener, you know, we would get trace amateur lifting updates, but now this is kind of a slot where we're going to, we're going to put in an amateur lifting question. So Trey's, I think I got a good lift in this morning. Ooh, okay. Let's tell us here about it. Oh my goodness. I assumed too much.

I assume it's too much. Freaking dang. That's who really much. Freaking day. It's me. OK. OK. I just remember this is me this morning. It was it was finally I go, I go, I need a lift. And I just got up. Oh, yeah, brother. So I tried to get one in for them.

Gals woke up. Love it. Yeah. So I did. I just got some squats in. It was beautiful. It was good. It was good. Love it. Yeah. So I didn't, I just got some squats in. Beautiful. It was good. It was good. It was good. Three sets of five, I think I did 255.

That's solid. Love it. Yeah. Just skidded. I woke up like that. What's today? Today's Tuesday. When you listen to this, it's Friday.

I woke up Monday. My dad had gotten in town late Saturday night. I didn't even see him to help me move. And I woke up and I woke up and said, I need to lift. But Monday mornings are like, when I take Isabella and walk her around and steal hotel coffee. And so I was around. So I called dad. I'm like, Hey, are you up? He's like, I'm up. I'm like, can you push the stroller for like 40 minutes? I need to lift. He's like, I got you. So he gets the baby. He's walking around downtown. And I told him, I was like, you can steal coffee from here. You can steal coffee from over there. You can steal coffee from over there.

It's been so long since he's had a newborn. He walked all the way back to his Holiday Inn Express. I find this out later because he's like, well, I didn't want to walk into a random hotel. They might think I'm stealing. I'm like, dad, you have a newborn. Like you can do no wrong. You could actually like steal the Christmas ornaments and no one would say anything. You can just rattle them in front of the baby's head. Like he needs that ornament right now. Yeah. Look at that, dad. Look at that grandpa. Anyway. So I went and I lifted and I did 360, something like that for three sets of five. I was in there like 25 minutes and then I started running boxes up and down the stairs,

the vinyls, the books and everything. And I was like, why did I squat this? This was a legitimate workout. That was so dumb, but I did. I lifted anyway. I thought running boxes was like a term that I'm like, is that like a workout? Running box. Yeah. Oh, movies. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

You want a good workout? Call me. You can click below. Buy me for a consult and help me move. Great workout. I'll encourage you the whole way. Hell yeah, brother. You got it.

No, no, no, no, no. Set your back. OK. OK. Brace. Brace the core. Brace. OK.

I know we've outsell going down these frigging stairs. Well, yeah. So, yeah, no. So I got a little lift and so it was nice trying to get back into some sort of routine, man. And stuff like the morning morning is my best bet. Yeah. Lifting question. Hmm. Lifting question. Got tax question. Call me. Oh, yeah. Got lifting question. Lifting question. You got a tax question.

Call BW. Oh yeah. You got a lifting question. Call Grant. So I had two, man. I'm trying to figure out which one, one or two to go with. Do we revoke? Or y'all just ignored me. No, you just go for it. I haven't even looked at them. I like number one. I'm busy moving. Yeah. So number one, talking about bracing, and importance of bracing properly, does it prevent injury?

And like, would a core exercise help you out, like in bracing at all, like whatsoever? And then it's basically, it's kind of this question all over the place, but then like, as you get heavier, the importance of bracing. So I guess there's a roundabout way of asking like, Hey, as you get heavier, the importance of bracing, so you don't injure yourself. And is there a way to like strengthen your core to make a better brace essentially?

Okay. Think I understand. Hey guys, it's all back. It's Graham. You're messing up. Sorry. My bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey guys and welcome back. Scram Brothers from the strength code today. We're going to talk about bracing is bracing important. Should you brace when you lift heavy? What about when you get to heavier weights? Does bracing become more

important, less important? What is bracing? If you liked the video, like and subscribe to the channel. Okay, cool. Now we can just be cool, but now we can just see it. Yeah, basically, yeah, you nailed it there. Yeah. I would say for bracing, okay.

Let me, you also want to know if core exercises are important to make you able to brace? Yeah, man. Yeah, so essentially let's start off with this. Like what is, like what's your body doing whenever you brace? Start off with that. So the thing that you want if you are a new lifter

or like a, you know, somewhat three, six months into it is you want to avoid your back moving a whole bunch under a load. So if I, if you come to me and I say, Hey, I'm going to teach you how to squat or deadlift, I'm going to teach you how to set a neutral lumbar. We have videos on this. You can go look at it from our squat camp in Charlotte. Recently we did one, uh, coach Nick Delgadillo talked about it. Uh, we have a bunch of videos in this. Put the squat video there, PJ. Put the other squat video there.

Put the deadlift there. Put the Valsalva video there. Yeah, we got a lot of videos on this stuff. Yeah, your head's spinning right now, I get it. No, but what we're trying to do is teach you how to hold a neutral spine. So there's a little anterior pelvic tilt that you have to learn in the squat.

Once it's the same thing in the deadlift, it just feels different. Once your low back goes into a little bit of extension, so like your lower back's round a little bit. And then when you take a big breath of air in and brace your abs, it goes into a neutral position. And what you're trying to do is contract your abdominal muscles so hard

that your low back doesn't move around while you are under load. So do you need core exercises to do this? No, what I would say is you need core exercises to do this? No. What I would say is you need to start intelligently at doing this. So that would mean, hey, what load can I brace my abs and hold my low back rigid as I do a set of five squats? Maybe it's 135 pounds. Great. Do a set of five, then do two more sets five, and then call it a day and move on to your next lift. And then as you lift each time and you're going up by five pounds because you're a new lifter and you're trying to get stronger, your core is getting stronger because you were doing these things.

Now, I think where the point of contention or the argument would be made would be if you see someone pulling something very heavy and you see the low back start to round. In my early coaching days, I would be very against this. I'd be like, stop, take weight off. The low back has to be rigid. What I think now is if you start, let's say your squat at 135 pounds and your back's perfectly rigid

and you all have 225 pounds and it's super rigid, but now it's like really hard and really slow. And then you go 230 and I don't know on rep five, you see a little bit of break in the back. And then you go 235 and a rep three, you see a little bit of break in the back. What I'm looking for is you not relaxing. So as long as you are bracing the abs

to try to hold extension, then you're strengthening the core and you're making sure that the back low back is not moving too much. So like in the deadlift, for example, you'll teach someone how to do this correctly. And this generally only happens if they're lifting well and they're adding five pounds, they're doing sets of five

and they're like, I wanna pull one rep max. And then they're about to pull a weight they've never pulled before. And so they jerk it off the floor and the low back rounds out and they never try to hold it. So what I'm looking for is for you to brace the abs and try to hold it. I do not think that you need additional core exercises. I think that I have enough muscle in my belly to have a six pack if I didn't eat so many cheeseburgers. Right? Like the reason isn't because my core is not strong. My core is very strong from squatting 400 pounds over and over and over. Uh, you don't see abs because

I eat like a jerk because I'm moving. So I don't think you need additional core exercises to strengthen the back. I would also say that, you know, if you watch strongman competitions or other things or people that lift stones, which is generally strongman, you'll see these rounded back pickups. You also have to remember, a guy doesn't just wake up and pick up a 300 pound stone. I mean, some people do, they're called half Thor, but most people don't. So that means that over time,

they have set their back in extension and gotten strong, and now they can go lift this thing in this, you know, with a rounded back or whatever the case may be. And there's other things to that. But what you don't want is under a load, get to the bottom and let a whole bunch of movement happen. I don't think it's the end of the world. You're not going to break your back. If you tweak your back doing that, you're going to go to the doctor or the chiropractor and they're going to tell you who have bulging disc. Everyone has bulging disc. I wouldn't freak out about it. But yeah, I don't know. Did that answer your question?

Yeah, basically, man. I guess the heart of it was like, do you think like additional core exercises would help? I don't. And it sounds like if you continue to do it in all your lifts, that it just strengthens naturally. Because you're doing it when you press, you're doing it when you squat, you're doing your dead lift, you should be doing it when you bench and like your core is just going to get strong. I don't think you need additional core work. I don't think you need to do planks. I don't think you need to do sit-ups. I actually think sit-ups are a big culprit of back pain. But yeah, I just think you need to do those lifts and try to

maintain. And also if like, and I tell you this for people that maybe you want to join the Slack channel, you can click the link below. You can join for 29 bucks a month and you can post form checks. But I do see it in there a lot where people are like, ah, rep five. I feel like my back was rounded. And I'm like, yeah, it was a little bit rounded, but you're pulling 425 for a set of five. Like you're fatigued, but I can tell that you were trying that is different than when you see a guy jerk a bar or like you can tell when someone's not trying to contract, contract the abdomen to set the back. And if you have a little form breakdown, I really wouldn't worry. I used to worry about the way it's not the end of the back. And if you have a little form breakdown, I really wouldn't

worry. I used to worry about the way it's not the end of the world. No, not at all. And that's not like you're not against having like auxiliary exercises that would help. No. Yeah. It's just, you just don't think it's necessary. I just don't think like specifically focusing on the core is worth it. I mean, I go back to the same dead horse that I've killed 5,000 times. And I just say like, man, if you would just not you, but or you or anyone, if you just squat three times a week and breaks your abs,

like you gotta learn how to do it. But then at the same time, you don't need someone telling you how to do it every time. But if you learn how to do it and it's heavy and it's hard, like your core is going to get strong. Yeah. Um, and I, you know, I think it'd be fine, but like, I don't think, Hey, I'm going to ditch a squat exercise to do planks or AB wheels. And I'm also not saying those things are bad. I just mean you doing an AB wheel is not going to take you from a 450 pound squat to a 500 pound squat. That's not going to be the difference maker. So anyway,

good slide. Love it. Good question. If you like the video, like and subscribe to the channel. Great question. Let's see. I feel like we kind of want do we want to save college football for last? Make the listeners stick around. Yeah. What are the slides you got? Wait, is it out? Did it come out? It did come out. Yeah. Yeah. So the new poll is out. Did we get hosed? Yeah. Man,

I think we got to talk about now cause now I'm looking, okay. You still got time. There's still one more week. Well, these these championship games are going to shake some things up, I think. Man, Alabama still. Yeah. OK. Yeah. You want to go through talk starting at number 12? Yeah, I say read them off. No, I just want to talk about how it relates to South Carolina, but no, I'm just kidding.

Go from number 12. All right. So number 12 garbage conference representative here, University of Miami, uh, two loss team. So are they in the ACC championship? Is it against Clemson? No, I think they're SMU and Clemson. Yeah. So since, since Miami lost to Syracuse, that kicked him out. He got Clemson in

joke conference. So it's the coach, the Syracuse coach was being interviewed at the end of the game. He's like, Hey, I'll be waiting for Davos phone call to thank me. Because he cannot have been in the game. I love that. Loved it. Uh, I don't know. I can't even know what to think.

I'm in shock. Yeah, I mean. I mean, so they're going to play SMU if they lose. If they're out. No, no, no, Miami's not done. Miami's done. And unless if they say in the playoff, they'll keep playing, but they don't have any more games. I think they're in. I mean, what would have to happen for them

to not get knocked out? So you would have Clemson, let's say Clemson wins the ACC. Let's see that. There's no way they're jumping from 17 to 12. Well, it's an automatic bid. They win the ACC. Yeah. And so if like ASU, if Arizona state wins the big 12 at 15 right now,

they're in since they're a conference champion. Yeah. That's why South Carolina, you just need to move to the big 12 for a season to get you into that playoff. Get you a change. Move to the ACC, man. Hey, we got another week. Let's go on to the next team. Number 11 is Alabama three loss team, kind of a unique feature. Kind of like South Carolina. So here's what I would say to you. Alabama beat old miss. Yep. Yep. I will miss beat the breaks off South Carolina. True.

Alabama got the break speed off them by Oklahoma. True. South Carolina beat the breaks off Oklahoma. South Carolina beat the breaks off Oklahoma. It's awesome. South Carolina lost Alabama by two on the road. They have another common they have another common team that I'm forgetting. That we beat and they lost to. Yeah, I don't know. Nine and three. Here's the thing, man.

I think if you're if you're not in at this point, and unless you're in a conference championship like Clemson. I think I think you're out of playoffs, unfortunately. And and with that, I was currently. I am. Yeah. But I think Alabama's Alabama's on the verge. Like if let's say Clemson wins, I think they'll move Alabama down. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, just silly. I think that's why I think they'll move Alabama down. Yeah. You know what I mean? Which is silly. That's why I think, that's why I think Miami's out like they're 12.

And so, so you think if Clemson beats, well, then I'm, I'm, I have always been the biggest SMU fan. That's where George W. Bush went to school. What are they? The Mustangs, the horses must think, there is a library there. What do you think?

They're saying the Yale. there. What do you think of school there? Same, same. The Yale? Yeah. What's their mascot? I think the Mustangs. It's a horse. Pony up, baby. Mustangs.

Yeah. Oh man. Pony Express. I've always loved SMU. I've never loved anyone more. I hate the taters. Dude. Same.

Pony up. SMU's playing good, man. They got your quarterback, so. All right,, he's playing good, man. They get a quarterback. So all right. So then moving up to number 10, the Smurf turf boys, Boise State. I think they're so who they playing in the big 12. So they're in the Mountain West. Our mountain was they'll play you in LV, you know, you and LV and Boise.

Good number. It's not an easy game. It's not an easy game. It's not an easy game. They've already played to. So UNLV wins. Boise's I, I thought that was an automatic bid. I could be wrong, but I thought, well, I don't think no, it's just the power for. Well, I don't think it's.

Yeah, it's top four. It's like what highest ranked call it or conference champions or something like that. So it's a conference champions. And then I think after that, it's just a crapshoot. So you LV beats Boise that could open us in and SMU beats Clemson. That could, that's a scenario. Yeah. No, I don't know. You'd want Clemson. You don't want Clemson to beat SMU.

No, because you said that was not. Oh, that's right. Yeah, they would be in the. Yeah. Oh, interesting. Interesting. That's tough. Moving up to number guy.

My favorite school. Indiana. Love that school. Whenever I think college football, Indiana, first thing that pops in my brain. So glad that they're just going to get they're just going to be in the they're just gonna get smoked. Absolutely smoked in the first round. They haven't played anybody except Ohio State.

They got smoked by them. What number are they? They're number nine, nine. All right. Who's number six, number six or eight? That's who they would play. Currently Ohio State. Yeah, so they would play Ohio State again. Number eight, SMU, Pony Up. My ex has blown up all about South Carolina.

Sad. Anyway, Pony Up, beat the Tigers, beat the taters, hate the taters. Number seven, Tennessee. I'm not really sure. Is it T? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know that either.

Yeah, that's tough. That's seven. Yeah. Whatever. Six. They should be in, but I don't know if that high. Yeah. Yeah.

So Ohio State has a six. Ohio State has a championship game, right? They must. Ohio State. Yes. No. Oh, no, you're right. You're right. Yeah. Oregon and Penn State are playing. Yeah. For the big 10. So Ohio State, they lost to Michigan. They lost to Michigan. They were out. If you're in right now and you're not playing, you're in. Yeah, true. Right. I think so. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah. So then like these teams are in Georgia and Georgia's playing Texas. Yep. Yep. The eyes of Texas. But if Georgia loses, how many losses would that be? Three. Three. They'll drop them to like they're not. I mean, they're not leaving. Yeah, they're not going out. They're not going to hold the championship game against you. We'll see. Yeah, I will tell you with that third number for everybody's favorite. The fighting Irish from Notre Dame.

Just unbelievable, unbelievable. You squeaked by Jesus took their wheel. Dude, I'm so I just I they're going to get blown out and then everyone's like, you know, lives rent free in my head right now. Remember that? Remember, we were watched the game and that girl? The leprechaun at the Hyatt.

Remember that girl who was just like mean mugging us all the time? Yep. She was super mad and her boyfriend was like about 110 pounds and he never drank milk in his life. I'm pretty sure he drank, pretty sure he lives off of soy and not soy milk, just like soy. And then I asked him, I go, hey, would you graduate? He goes, I did. And he's like, I didn't go there. I didn't go there. I'm like, and like soy. And then I asked him, I go, hey, would you graduate? He goes, I didn't. And he's like, I didn't go there. Ah, yeah.

I didn't go there. I'm like, and then, so then you do it with a follow-up question, which would make sense. And you're like, so you're Irish. He's like, no, I'm Italian. I'm Italian, yeah. Yeah.

Right. So you're Catholic? No. I don't go to church. So you live in South bend Indiana. So those colors are pretty. Yeah, from California. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense.

OK, moving on number three, Penn State. There you go. So they're playing Oregon. I mean, they lose. We can cover Oregon and Penn State at the same time. Oregon loses. They're a one loss team. They're definitely Oregon and Penn State at the same time. Oregon loses. They're a one loss team. They're definitely in Penn State loses. They're a two loss team from a national

champ or from a copper championship. They're in Texas is in. So really the only person that could potentially drop is Boise and is Indiana in a championship? Nope. We don't know. So Boise, Boise, the Boise's like Boise is the only thing that could shuffle some things. And if you look at it, then Ole Miss just moves up unless Miami loses to Clemson. But Clemson gets an automatic big. Miami's not playing. We're not saying that. Yeah. Miami's not playing. You really want big Miami guy. I really want my, yeah. Yeah. Cause well, it's just weird to think of SMU and the ACC.

I think that's what it is. Well, it's just, yeah, it's, it's just also really weird to think of South Carolina jumping Miami when neither of them play. Yeah. Well, maybe there'll be some. Really we need to, we need two teams to fall out and the potential is essentially Boise. Yeah. So Boise does not earn,

the Mount West does not earn an automatic bid. Correct. Yeah. So that gives you one spot. Once you've kept everything the same, that moves South Carolina up to 13. But there's not really any other shuffling. Yeah. Who's Notre Dame playing or they're not one. They're independent.

So there might be, there's not a comp. There's not a conference. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So tech. So Oregon's playing Penn state. They're both in, Texas playing Georgia. They're both in. Maybe you dropped Georgia out of Texas beats the break us off, but I still think they're a 10 win team compared to South Carolina. To me, if Clemson absolutely bulldozes SMU, like Goose eggs them, like it's nothing. I think you can have it. And then you say South Carolina beat Clemson. like it's nothing. I think you can have a South Carolina beat Clemson. But is the ACC an automatic bid? Yeah. Yeah, they're champions. They do get not so. Clemson will be in,

but then then your argument is like should South Carolina be in over SMU? Yeah. How far will SMU drop? I think they would drop. They should drop significantly. But then does that just bump Ole Miss? Yeah. Probably. I don't know. just they should drop significantly. But then does that just bump all missing? Probably, I don't know. That was also missing. What? Ah, it's fun.

And convincing loss. It's fun. That was. Yeah, they were. My argument would be that my argument would be that Alabama is ahead of us. That'll miss. I know Alabama beat us by two points, but it was Missouri. Oh, yeah. Vandy and Vandy.

They lost to Vandy. They lost to Vandy and we crush Vandy. Interesting. Do you play Missouri too? Yeah. And we beat them. So if you look at common teams, well, I mean, we didn't beat them by much, but we beat them. Yeah.

I don't know. Interesting. Anyway, Bama. it's the Bama bias. It's going to take a few years to wear off. You might get a shirt. You might get shirtable. Dude. Oh yeah. Well, well that's, I don't know if that was depressing going over those scenarios, but there was something not depressing from this last week of college football grant. You attended a game in person.

I want to hear about that experience game. Yeah, that was good. My brother, Jordan, like talked me into it, and I was in the middle of the move and post Thanksgiving and all that stuff. I was like, you know what? I'm going to do it. And the noon game was perfect because I could get up. I could do baby morning routines, middle of the day is kind of like our high point where everyone's the happiest. And then I could go and come back and I was home before

dark. Um, but I will tell you one death Valley sucks. Never been to a stadium that it's like so hard to get into. It's not loud. And I'm not, I obviously am a game, but it's really not loud because it's so open. It is very open. And also, and to Clemson's credit and the Gamecocks credit, Clemson was very nervous. Like you could tell they were like nervous from the start. So that might've affected the noise, but it wasn't, it wasn't loud. Uh, we were upper deck, uh, but decent seats were right above the South Carolina band. Like they got like 22 tubas. Now I remember my first game in 96. I think we had like three tubas. Now we have 22. It's amazing. Big tuba

Wow. Counting the tubas. Yeah. Tuba inventory over here. I took a lot of it with the tubas. Linear progression of tubas. Yeah, I love the tubas. Yeah, they have one tuba a year. The tubas though, like they just crush it. But anyway- It's a zoosophone. The first three quarters-

It's a hand truck dolly kind of thing. Yeah. So you put the tuba on the dolly and then you move it to the hand truck. Yeah. The first three quarters were boring. I'll tell you that. I mean, obviously I was excited. I was happy to be at a football game and watching, but it was boring football. Like it was, you know, we drove down the field, fumbled and back and forth. And then the fourth quarter, um, they finally started just like giving it to Lenoris. And what was interesting, I mean, I'll just recap the last three minutes is, you know, he goes

down, I think it was third and 12. And I remember saying to my brother, I was like, there's almost not enough room for him to like Michael Vick it up. And we got that false start. And of course, like my brother's all upset, but then now it's like third and 17 or 18 or whatever it was. And it was literally like, okay, I'll run over here. And he scored. And so then it's like game over. And then it's like 25 yard pass, 25 yard pass, 10 yard run. And you're like, no, man, they're going to kick this. And then, and then you're like, man, there's like 16 seconds left and they got to timeout. They're going to have like three shots at the end zone. Uh, and the game Cox

picked it and it was great. Yeah. It was an absolutely great victory. I was there with my brother, my nephew, who's a freshman at Georgia. And he had been at the eight overtime game, which was the night before. So he was there too. I think he got to my brother's house. It was a great football weekend for him. Oh, he was there like 4 AM went to bed, got up at 9, drove to Clemson to go to the game and my other nephew, Luke. And so yeah, it was really fun to spend time with them and to win. Like, I think I've been to, I think I've been to six or seven games at Clemson. One of them was A&M while my sister was in school. Yeah. It would have been like 07, 08, something like that. Oh no. See, I was, I think you, I think you, I think you smoked them actually.

See, I was saying about the most recent one. Yeah, no, no, no. My sister was in college and I went, so it would have been like sometimes, you know, six or eight. I think you won pretty handedly. But a couple of little games there and then I've been to three South Carolina games there and I'm two and one at that stadium. But yeah, it was, it was great for, it was great for W always great to beat Clemson. And then you drive home, should be about a 40 minute drive. You know, it's an hour and 10 with traffic and you just tune into Carolina calls. It's like, yeah, well, I just want to say that Chuck, well, Norris sailors is the man and blah, blah, blah, blah. And then like the next day I calls in and then someone else comes in and is like, I hate South Carolina. Go tigers. And like,

yeah, it was, it was, it was a good time. Go cocks. But you had to, we needed to win convincingly on. We really should be your rivals, man. But we beat the, yeah. Oh, should we just roll into the A and M game too brutal. If you were to tell me like before the game started, you're like, Hey, you're going to hold Texas to 17 points and you're going to have a pick six. I've been like, we're going to win the game. And then just could not get anything going. Yeah. The environment looked good. Yeah, man. Like 110,000 people there is a ton. So I gotta ask you,

and I'm gonna put you on the spot a little bit and you're gonna think I'm being a jerk, but I'm not. But I like A&M, to an extent. But the Yelp leader stuff is so weird to me. Yeah, it's a little weird. And like when you see it, no, I guess when I'm at, like you were in the Corps cadets, which I love. I was in a core cadets like, like when you see it, are you like,

yeah, do more mini pushups or are you like, why do we do this? Or do you like, Hey, I love tradition. Cause I like tradition. That's where I'm making cast iron pans. My grandma cooked on cast iron pans. So, so I guess I'm actually not trying to like make fun and poke you. I'm just, but it's a genuine question of like, why are you so weird? Yeah. Like, why are you doing this? And you're a graduate from the core cadets, like, and is it always this weird? Is it like this particular guy is just bad at doing this thing? Um, I've liked it, but it's, it's, well, it's just, it's, it's, it's, okay.

You're salty about these pushups because it's not full range of motion. That's the main thing. Let's be honest. Yeah, of course. It's not, it's not the full range. The guy posted the okay podcast was like doing a little chant and dancing and it was just, it was just awkward. That's the only way I know how to describe it.

And I just thought I was like, Trey's normal. He likes to fish and hunt. He's got a wife, couple girls. Like, majority of the A&M men are in the same boat. But everyone loves Jesus. Like, why do they endorse this weirdness? Like, what is it? Like, I have no idea, man. There's A&M just loves Jesus. Why do they endorse this weirdness? What is it? I have no idea, man. There's, ain't him just loves traditions. And it's just like, if you got to be like, why do we do this? And then people who love tradition more than me are like, quit asking why, just do it.

And you're like, okay, I guess I'll just pop in. It's a true cult, man. Is it ever cringe? Like from you as a, okay, it is. Okay, that makes sense. But you're like, hey, this is my team. I'm like, where are we doing this? But you're like, whatever.

My guess. Whoop, whoop. Love the school, man. Jeff, do you think it's weird at all? Am I out of left field here? It is weird. And I do like tradition. I do too.

A big tradition guy. But yeah, I like I like I'm like, how would I put myself in the frame of mind to be like, yeah, this is firing me up. I'm so I'm watching this. And now I'm pumped for the football game. And I guess if you're like, I grew up with this, it works. And like the crowd is that's what it is. Yeah, you grow up with it. You see it. You're like, okay, cool. This is Texas A&M football. This is a game at Kyle Field.

I think everybody agrees with you. Like it's, it's weird, but they've been doing it since like 1920 and they're like, well, we're going to keep doing it. We're all going to do it. Right. Everyone's like, yeah, we're all going to do it. Okay. So like, so I'm not going to be the only one doing it. We're all going to do it. Like, yeah, we're all gonna do it. Okay, so like, so I'm not gonna be the only one doing it. We're all gonna do it. Like, yeah, we're all gonna do it. You're like, all right, let's all do it. And then what happens is like, A&M will like try something new, or they'll like try to

like, hey, we're not gonna do this anymore. And then every billionaire Aggies like, no, we've always done it that way. We're gonna keep doing it. And they'll buy a new building for A&M and they'll keep doing the tradition. It's just, I agree with you. There's some that are weird. I'm not attacking it. Like I, and I love tradition. I just, when I see it, and now that you're in the SEC, I care more, but I'm just like, this is so strange. Like what? Aida, but honestly, Aida doesn't care. If people think that's weird, they're like, whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

That's just a cool identity too. Yeah. Like I said, there's really cool traditions that I really like that they do there. The cool ones they don't even talk about on TV. What are some of the cool ones actually? Let's just validate for some of the Aggie fans. I think Silver Taps is really cool. In Silver Taps, they do like the first Tuesday of every month,

any student who has died, like the last month, they knew like, uh, like a, you go out there and like, you have candles and like moment of silence. They do the 21 guns loot. And then South Carolina, we call that a vigil. Yeah. Essentially you do a vigil and then then once a year you do muster and that's for any Aggie who died, former student, current student, then you go do that. I'm like, I wish they would talk about that more

versus just like dagum yell leaders. Yeah, dagum yell leaders. You know what's frustrating? It's like, we have our cheerleading team has won nationals like 10 years in a row. I'm like, no one knows. So you have cheerleaders? Yeah. Put them on the field. You have like women that dance around. That are apparently pretty good at leading cheers. So. No, no. They're like, no. You want that new basketball arena? That's what you do to know. You want that new basketball arena?

Do not put those ladies on the field. That's a no-brainer. You want that new basketball arena? Do not put those ladies on the field. That's the conversation. Is that why the Cowboys go so far the other way and they're like, we're basically going to show porn because A&M's doing this on the other side of Texas. We got you covered. We talk about the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically.

Yeah. But it's a unique school, man. What'd they say outside, outside looking in, can't explain it. No, you won't understand it outside out. Can't explain something like that. Yeah. Inside out. Can't explain it. That's it. You get to. Auburn did not do their job. No, they almost, they had a couple of times where I was like, OK, maybe they're getting it together. And then what really killed, OK, what really killed them was when they're like, ah, we'll do a little trick play.

Always works. Charquette is like Hunter, like who's had an amazing season. And I feel bad that he like kind of wasted his best year at Auburn like during this season. Just tried to go for the glory with a half back pass and he threw it when he should not have thrown it and the running back through the interception, which is always a recipe for disaster. And that kind of killed the moment. Again, a lot of same stories. Couldn't get off the field on third downs,

like just defense got worn out. Why wasn't every play just third camp Coleman, dude, hand the ball off to camp Coleman. That's like booby miles. Maybe it needs to be when a wind put cam Coleman in the ball off to Hunter and then throw it to Coleman and then play action and throw it to Coleman and like have Hunter throw it to Coleman, have Coleman hands off to Hunter. Yeah. That's what it should be. in Thorne out of there. This is a lot of football talk.

Jeff, you anything on your desk? Maybe have something right here. A little something right there. What do you got there? You got a tiny head. Oh, we got a football helmet for you. Made for tiny. Where did you find that thing? This bad boy you can get from Green Gridiron,

who is a sponsor of. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, specifically that helmet. Specifically, you want this exact helmet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where do you get that? You gotta go to the Strength Co.'s website, strength.co, page three. And then you can find these there.

This is, yeah, the custom set up with the red visor. You got the Eagle Globe and anchor, Quasar foil, and then the number 21 for, you know, so glad he knows what that thing 21. Yeah, super cool. Like really nice details. If you look at that, this is from an army, Navy game a couple of years ago where they even have like the like 911 sticker they had on their American flag semper fi. Oh, raw here on the front to all the little details. So super cool.

Let's find your head back there. That's the spoils of war right there. And I would be honest, I forgot that that was part of the bet. And then I was listening to the podcast from last week that I missed. That's the only time I listened to the podcast because I think it's weird to listen to myself. So I was like, Oh, I'm getting a helmet. And then that day I could showed up and I was like, Oh, this thing's freaking sweet. And then today, the Marine Corps one showed up and I was like, Oh, this thing's fricking sweet. And then today the Marine Corps one showed up. So it's a good day.

So if you're not a Marine or a strength co guy, I mean, you're obviously a strength of guys podcast, power by strength. Oh, but let's say like, let's say you went to SMU like George W. Bush pony up and you want an SMU helmet. What would be the best way to help the okay podcast out the okay podcast out and buy one of those? What would be the best way to help the OK Podcast out the OK Podcast out and buy one of those? What would you do?

If you go into the show notes, there's a link to Green Grid Iron's website. If you go through that link, yeah, Mr. Helmet will hook you up. Again, you can go in there. You can just get the basic helmet. You can add in a face or you can add an advisor. You can change up face mask colors. So there's some options there to make it unique to you.

They've got NFL, they've got college, they've got mini helmets for people with tiny heads. They've got full size helmets for people with normal heads. So yeah, super cool. Lots of good stuff on there. I thought about doing a pink face mask on the Auburn helmet for you. You should have. Yeah, I should have. So with that said, a lot of college football talk. I'm going to give you guys the, the worst ad read we've ever gotten. Father of the Veer.

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But you the money's pay your paycheck as a Marine. Yeah. Is that tax or is it depends? No, it's like, no, it's, I think Jeff will be able to tell this better because I don't remember when I was in Afghanistan, but I think, like I think portions of your pay, like I'll get C pay Jeff,

and I'm pretty sure that's non-taxable. Sounds right. Like there's portions, but I think like your, your basic is always taxed. And any that sounds right. But you know, I know. I don't know what the current status is, but I know that if you were like in the the sent com area of operations, like the Middle East, I think you're going to be able to do that.

I think you're going to be able to do that. I think you're going to be able to do that. I think you're going to be able to do that. I think you're going to be able to do that. I think you're going to be able to do that. I don't know what the current status is, but I know that if you were in the CENTCOM area of operations, like the Middle East, there's some thresholds of like, for 14 days in a two-month period or something like that. If you hit that wicket, then whatever pay periods fall within that don't get taxed.

Like if you're deployed there the whole time, then your base pay is not taxed at all. So like you're just getting all that. And there's some stuff for like, what's the savings deployment program where like, you can like put money away and it's like not taxed. And then you can put it away to, it incurs interest.. And then you can, well, you can put it away to it, it incurs interest. And then when you pull it out, whatever money you put in while you were deployed,

it's like, it's like a Roth. Yeah. But you can pull out and while you were deployed, like you can pull it out immediately and it's not taxed, but it gained interest. There's like some, we don't pay facility on it for pulling out. Yeah. There's some like, it's something like pretty high. Yeah. Yeah. I want to see it's like, I mean, it's not as high as Bitcoin. Sir. Yeah. It went down. Might as well sell. Get rid of it. 890. Yeah. This is for the Hodlers. All right.

What else we got on the slide deck? Well, let me give a quick monkey. Uh, I did go home for Thanksgiving. I don't think we talked about holiday update. You didn't. Yeah. Holiday update. First time driving for multiple hours with the baby. Went pretty well. And we pulled into point south and we kind of did a thing. We were busy. I don't know if you know this one big moving guy, but we were starting the moving prep. And so I just said, Hey, let's just leave at like nine, 10 PM and stay in a hotel in the outskirts of like where my parents live. We'll land at like 1 AM, but like you can do the whatever 9 30 breastfeed, whatever

it is. And then we'll hit the road. So that's what we did. So we got down there and it was pretty late, but because of where we stayed, usually you exit, exit 38, hit old Sheldon Church road. If you're from South Carolina, you know what I'm talking about. And you passed the monkeys. So we didn't. So then on the way out, Elon was like, Hey, go back the same way you came and hit the supercharger. I'm like, I don't want to hit that supercharger. I want to hit the one that exit 58 going north so I can pass the monkeys. So I did. And then I had this like thing where I was going to stop and take a video for the OK podcast, Instagram real, but the baby was crying, which

is like, if you want to make sure your wife's happy, make sure the baby's crying. Because that always just makes everything happy. And there was two cops parked at the gate. And I was like, I'm gonna like pull over an electric vehicle, make a video while the baby's screaming. My wife's gonna love that I'm doing that. And the cops are gonna be like, what are you doing? So I didn't. So I took a photo, but it's kind of blurry. I'll post it. I'll post it. You know what? I'll put it in the stories Friday at about noon, like three hours after this drops and people have listened. But I took a blurry photo, but it's under surveillance. The cops, the state troopers, not just normal cops, state troopers are parked out front. So they're worried about people coming in, getting the monkeys?

Was it 63 or 43 monkeys? I already forgot. Whatever. It was 43. It was 43. Okay. They're missing two. So they have 41. Yeah. And my sister's telling me that people in North Carolina are saying that there's monkeys up there. I'm like, I don't think that's true, but I like it. Just like non-related monkey. Yeah. Like maybe. I want to take one to California and just, you know, let it spread. Anyway, there's your monkey update.

Oh, good monkey update. But Thanksgiving was good? Yeah, it was good. Had that turkey dead. Put it on the smoker. It was good. Had some collards. It was short. We got in, I guess. It's collards. It was short.

We got in, I guess, we got in. Is that a South Carolina staple Thanksgiving side? Collard greens? Collard, yeah. Really? It's kind of a South Carolina every holiday staple. Fair enough. You take that ham hock, boy,

throw that thing in the pot, and then you put the collards in. And then when you get that collards going, you put a couple of onions in there. You chop the onions up and you pour in the chicken stock boy And then if you would then like the way that the ham don't taste you don't fry up a little bacon and then you cast On skillet from a strength go and you pour that grease back in there boy And if it ain't tasting right you add yourself a little bit of salt and some of the pepper, you know what I'm saying boy

That was Jamaican You know what I'm saying, boy? That was Jamaican, New Orleans. It was Gullah. Oh, Gullah. It was Gullah. Close my eyes and I go, is that Miss Brolin? Yeah, basically. That's how she said.

Yeah, I got a lift in down there. I did some deadlift in. We did mom's home gym review. If you didn't see that on YouTube, go check it out. Yeah, it's actually, I mean, I think it's fun. There's some car talk with dad at the end. Yeah, yeah. Good video. Yeah. I think you'll enjoy it. Uh, yeah, it was a good trip. Yeah. It was short. Uh, but it was good. Anytime with families. Good, especially before you're going down. What about you, Trey? I'm hoping you guys record

a couple, uh, episodes without me just so you can say the FDO down range. I mean, I'm hoping you guys record a couple episodes without me, just so you can say the FDO down range. I mean, I'm in. Yeah. I mean, I just want to be known as the FDO. Oh yeah. But I just want to be that my second lieutenant ring from New Jersey, but it's somehow a Browns fan of Asian descent. Awesome dude.

I can picture him in my mind. Yeah, he can picture it. Yeah. Cause he's from the South. South New Jersey. Yeah. First time he, first time he shot, I was like, Hey man, it's tough to do against tall grass. Amen. Amen. Why you tray? How was your Thanksgiving? Let's go. Yeah, Jerry. It's the best holiday, man. It was good, man. I got some, we did some striper fishing. Um, are you fishing? I'm jealous.

It was, well, it's not your type of fishing. We use, okay. I know I do the gay kind. We use live bait. And- Sounds like cheating. Man, so everybody's limit was 10, right? Okay. We hit, I think we were on the water for half an hour and we all hit our way.

Oh dang. Just hit a school, everyone pulled them up. Went back, fried them up for lunch, man. It was a good day. It was a good day. It was a good day. Speaking of fishing, so the pods packed. I have like a couple things to put in there in the morning. And then the one thing that I've refused to put in there

is like my fly fishing bin. Cause I like have this dream in my head where I go fishing one more time. And then I'm like, yeah, Grant, I don't think that's going to happen. That's not going to happen. Should pack it. You don't drill, all right?

Yeah. Yeah. Big fly fishing in New Jersey. Jeff, how was your thing? It was good. Parents were in town. So let's see. Paul? Paul and Prill were in town. Well, well, just checked the temperature of the lake this morning and it seems to be it's about 63 degrees. Actually, no, it's 43 degrees. Getting a little nippy here. Yeah, a little nippy.

I was thinking about climbing up to the top of the mountain, but I see that the lake up top is frozen over. So I'm just gonna stay down here and collect some salt. Enter all that data into a spreadsheet and make sure we can reference it at a later time. It's good stuff, it's good stuff. Yeah. Dads are the best.

Good dude. Turkey trot in the morning and then. Very cool. Oh yeah, how far? It's a 5K, it was a good time, it was cold. So you did a 5K and then you did a deadlift PR the next day? That was two days later, wait, what day would we do that? Two days? A couple days later. I didn't realize fuck? How, what day would you do that? Two days?

Couple days later. I didn't realize that was a PR. I think it was. Congrats. It was a PR, right? Yeah, it's tough to know. How'd it feel? It felt heavy.

It felt heavy. Look good. That's good. Yeah, that was the second attempt that I got it. First attempt, it was like glued to the floor. And I was like, oh yeah, count to five, Mississippi. It's been a long time. I need to put some salt on these plates.

It's been a long time since I pulled a heavy single. I was like, oh, yeah, at first it doesn't move. You just got to keep pulling and it might move. And it turns out it did. So it was good. Nice. Yeah. For fifty seven and a half, fifty two and a half. Yeah, that was like, alright I'm probably gonna I was gonna hit I was like hit the 405

Felt really good did 435 next Kaylee said it moved fast. So I said let's go 450 then I remembered I had a pair of 1.25 in my gym bag So I was like, I've got to have some strength coat iron on the bar if we're going to make this a real turkey roll. And so I threw those on there and it eventually went up. So it was a good time.

It was a good time. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Turkey pull way more fun than a turkey trot verified. Yeah. So what was your time in your 5k? It was pretty slow. We were going pretty slow. We were going pretty slow. We were going pretty slow. I don't know.

Like, you're trying to drive, right? I'm just curious. So like, it was under 30 minutes, I think. I think we're like 33-ish. Oh, so you were enjoying scenery. That's my kind of trot. We were trying. I could actually, yeah, that's great. And then, oh, man. So we passed.

So it's like kind of like through a neighborhood that's just south of Salt Lake. And we kind of get to like the last we get to, I don't know, probably like the last mile. And there's just like big group outside one of the houses. And they're just like cheering like crazy. And it's like probably 20 people outside of this house. And they're yelling at this one guy that's like off to our left

and he's pushing a baby stroller. They're like, do a wheelie, do a wheelie. He like looks over, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna do this wheelie. Pops a wheelie with the stroller and is like pushing it and like, kind of like strutting. And the people go berserk. Like I felt like I was at Kyle Field

when A&M is beaten Texas like when the 12th man from the Seahawks came out. It was great. It's trade. There is the 12th man and just operated as the fullback. Trey would be a great fullback. He's basically a full like hit that whole. A lot of people say he's an artillery officer. I'm like, no, he's a great logistics officer

and a fullback at heart. Oh my God. What's that? MOS? What's the designator for a fullback? FBFBFBFU. Yeah. I don't know.

Dang. That's all right. What else we got to slide? I'm a little disappointed. Trey. Jeff's busy. He's got a lot going on. Could you cover the trash real quick?

Yeah, I don't know if y'all are policing your areas consistently, but that's something we do around here. It's mandatory state law. No trash ever. So please pick up all your trash, please your areas. Thank you. No trash. Can I mix the trash?

If I have like aluminum and MRE trash, what do I do with my MRE heaters? Can I mix those in? Did you say the word trash? Yes, I did. I had a question about trash. Yeah, no trash. Okay. I did. I had a question about trash. Yeah. Yeah, no trash.

OK. I just want to follow up the last brief. Hold on. Questions at the end. Go ahead. I know he already covered trash, but I would bring up trash again, because trash is a big deal. So first of all, if you have a dip bottle, that's allowed.

You can put that anywhere. And don't put a lid on it. Just leave it full Yeah, and actively use it. Yeah Yeah, if you have an MRE heater that you didn't use You need to walk 17,000 meters over there and put it in the designated bin. Thank you. Please no trash I will say I had a active policy

When that whenever I was FTO that no one could have a dip bottle over a quarter of the way full because I drank out of one, one time and cause it was like, I'm like, guys, we have no more. We got to, if once he, once he had a quarter, get a new bottle. So I had a similar policy and my mama liked this, sorry mom, but I was just like, dip is gross, smoke cigarettes. And they were like, sir, why?

I'm like, because I'm never gonna accidentally drink your cigarette. That is true. Just smoke cigarettes and get your nicotine fix and it'll never spill on the chart. You might burn the charts, but that's okay. Fix that.

And you look cool. Just just smoke. You look so much cooler. Like who wants to be a guy with a big wad in their mouth? And then you shoot out where if you were smoking, you'd be like grid eight, two, seven, four, eight, two, nine, eight, seven, four, eight, two, nine, baby at my command. At my command. Oh, I can understand everything he's saying. Yeah. And he, and he sounds cool because he's smoking. Anyway, I did have a moment at home.

Now my mom's really gonna kill me. I had an uncle that spoke for a while. I won't name his name, but he smoked for a while and my dad smoked the turkey and he, it's always like this year I'm doing this with the turkey. This year it's always like, it's like a big turkey extravaganza. It's every dad. It's perfect. It's like exactly what you want from your family. That's just like a Turkey story. So he smokes his Turkey and he brings it in the house and I just opened the door and I smell the smoke and I smell like collards and sweet potato pie and it all hits me. And I'm just like, it smells like uncle Tony in here. And my mom's like, what? I was 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 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 like, I'm like, I'm like my smoking uncle. And I like it. Like, just let me live in this moment for a minute. Yeah. That's not good. Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

Anyway, we are not endorsed by Marlboro, but they are a potential sponsor. Yeah, not yet. Yeah. We're working on it. Close. All right. What other slides we got?

Mm. Let's see. Well, while I'm thinking about Christmas trees, you guys, what's your take on Christmas trees? Real tree, fake tree, put it up as early as you can. Like when do you take it down? Satanic, Christian. Yeah. How much blood? How much blood do you pour onto your Christmas tree? So as a brick and mortar gym owner guy, I'm a big fan of the fake tree because it goes up every year, same ornaments, people add them because in the box, Malia is setting it up by Friday. It would be set up at home. You know, I'm a real tree fan, but I'll tell you right now, I own two fake trees in California.

Cause I used to have two gyms there and Diana's like, we don't need a tree this year. She's going to listen to this and so spoiled surprise, but whatever. But I'm like, I got a fake tree. I'm calling Malia set that thing up at the house. He landed California. It's Christmas. I'm like, I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to go to the gym. I'm going to got a fake tree. I'm calling Malia set that thing up at the house. He landed California. It's Christmas. Um, so I think,

I think fake has their place, but if I, if my friend wasn't deploying and he just was able to like stay and run his business and you know, buy dirt and raise his child. He would have a real tree. That's what my friend would do. Yeah. Now, hey, that's a smart guy. Cats love Christmas trees. Yes, they do. Dude. I've had the one, a couple of cats I've had, they love them.

Yeah. That's how that song goes. So the cats in the cradle in the Christmas tree. Little boy. I like that song goes, so the cats in the cradle in the Christmas tree. Yeah. Little boy. I knew exactly where you're going with that. Yeah. I've been hanging out with great. Yeah. I like real.

What do you like Trey? Fake. Fake. The better. Yeah. The fake. But like a nice fake because you can go like you can go to Home Depot. Shout out Jordan Brogi, potential sponsor. And the two I own

are like six foot fakers. You walk in, you look at it and it's fake. But then you also have like those people that live in Midland, Texas, and you walk into their house and you're like, is that fake? You know what I mean? You have those fancy fake. Yeah, they can't tell. Yeah, like the same people that own Lucas's boots have trees that you don't know if they're fake or not. Yeah. Yeah. The rich boys from Dallas.

The rich boys. Yeah. Well, they probably just have like a butler that puts up a real tree for them. That's true. And sweeps up all the needles every minute. I remember the water. That's true. Sweeps every minute. I remember the water. It's super fake. It's very, it's like a very skinny.

Like it's OK. It's pre and I'll come out on the go mad. No, it's about the smallest tree you can get. Smallest fake tree you can get. Well, Jeff, you're big on Instagram. I feel like I saw a post of your tree. Was that from you or your wife? Did she already put it up? Yeah, we got one today. So that's why it's on the brain. Is there a real tree?

We got a real tree. Yeah. Did you like wear like a nice padded go to a flannel and go and take photos and chop it down? No. So this year, just the way schedules worked out, we didn't get a Christmas tree cutting permit. So we just bought this one at a local spot. But you have before. Yeah.

Like last year, last year was an Epic experience. We, we got Christmas Christmas tree cutting permit up in Logan, Utah. So like a couple hours north of here. Um, and it's like huge winter storm rolled in like right as we were kind of like hunting our little trees. We like walked a mile out to like this, from the car to like the spot where you had to go chopped it down after like, you know, Kaylee is this tree good? She said, no, I don't like that tree. Like, what about this tree? No, that tree is not that great.

You found the right one. Wait, so you needed a permit and you need binoculars. Yeah. Sounds like it was exactly what it is. It was like a $25 permit to go cut one up. In South Carolina, we just call that our backyard. And so then we had to carry. Luckily, it was a very light tree. It wasn't the biggest tree in the grove.

So then carried it a mile out, strapped it to the top of the car, and then the storm just went off and like driving out of the canyon was a white knuckle experience. So this one was a lot more. This experience was a lot more low key. Local Whole Foods had a tree. They actually forgot to charge us for the tree. So it was a free tree this year. It was great. The big free. We'll tag you at home. Kind of like coffee for new dads. You know what? Hey, to pay for that tree, we'll give them a free ad rate. Hey, that's right.

We don't like part foods. We like whole foods. Whole foods. If you want to spend $12 on peanut butter, come to Whole Foods. Where do I go? Whole Foods. If you want a free tree tree also come to Whole Foods. Yeah. But yeah, it's good. Got the tree slogan free trees and nice peanut butter. That's right. Whole Foods. Well, nice. Send me a photo of your tree. I'll set up and we'll do. We'll do. I'll post it in the stories. Yeah. Yeah. Our tree, Star Wars ornaments,

Yeah, our tree, uh, Star Wars ornaments, Marine Corps ornaments, Brett Favre ornaments. Uh, those are kind of the, you can tell those are all my ornaments and then kind of some other random ones. So it's good. Do you have the Anastasia ornament up? No, sorry. That's super inside baseball. Anastasia. Everyone. Everyone listens. So Jeff has this icon. Talking about the Prince, Princess from Russia.

He's going to explain it in a second. He has this icon. You know how like, when you know someone for a long time, like before Apple had icons, you have their Google icon. or Apple had icons, you have their Google icon. Jeff has this icon. I don't even know what Anastasia is and I don't think I've ever seen it. Fantasia. Choose a real person. Fantasia.

Oh, Fantasia. Two different things. But Jeff's logo when he calls me, I think it's Anastasia, which is actually Fantasia, but it's actually Star Wars. What is it, Jeff? Can you show the screen? Yeah, that one.

Get that on there. There you go. It's like the original, like a new hope. Oh, okay. Like Darth Vader's head in the background and Luke and Leia. So it's not Fantasia. It's not. It's not Anastasia. It's just a Star Wars. Yeah. Yeah.

The benefits of being homeschooled. I should say real quick, Jeff was gone last week, but Tim Bain next morning stopped by. So it was great to see him. If you didn't listen last week, yeah, good dude. If you didn't listen last week, go listen to it. History buffed father to army major Intel type. But yeah, he was coming down his wife. Well, I mean, he's with his family, but his wife's family lives here. And so he came down and it was, it was actually, it was just funny because we recorded it, you know, late like we do. And the next day at like 10 AM he was here and he literally met me at BW tax. The one day that BW wasn't there. Don't worry. He had a warm body inside, but yeah, it was great to see him. It was fun. I was like, dude, if I'd known you were coming,

we could have just recorded it when you were here. And he was like, yeah, no, that was good help. Tim Bain, good dude, better at Intel. If you need an Intel report, call Tim Bain. If you need lifting advice, talk to Grant, Coach Brogi. And if you need tax advice, Trey, who should they reach out to? Oh, BW.

BW. BW. And if you have a head that's unprotected, who should you call, Trey? Mr. Helmet. Mr. Helmet, I've always said that. I think we're forgetting, if you need a free Christmas tree. Call Whole Foods.

Call Whole Foods. Yeah, man. I'm just saying. Oh man. Jeff, we must have a couple more slides. I'm feeling fine. Okay, I think there was one more, I know. Trey posted this one. I mean, don't forget my save rounds.

But that's after the last slide. I think this is, this might be a little more talking about what a Mew is a Marine expeditionary unit. So we got a lot of listeners that are Marines. We got a fair number of Marines or listeners that are not Marines or a fair number of Marines or listeners that are not Marines or like. We have a fair number of Marines. That don't know anything.

That are, have never, don't know anything or have never been on a Mew like the good Major here and my buddy that's about to go on one. Shout out to your buddy. So, yeah, why don't you give a 25 second summary of a MU and then I have some questions. Okay. Okay, Marine Expeditionary Unit.

That's what MU stands for. Think about a regimental size element of Marines. So, it's up where to like 1200 ish. Three elements, you have your ground combat element, your logistics combat element, and your air combat element. So that comprises the special purpose, or a MAGTF, or a Marine Air Ground Task Force. So basically it's spread across three Navy ships,

and they can go fulfill a wide variety of missions, crisis response, disaster relief. We got to go do an amphibious landing somewhere. We got to go get people out of the embassy. The Mew is ready to fight. That's pretty good. I have my spin and then I have questions because I've never done one. But what I've always said and what I like the room for a friend and I saw Fred. A quick evaluation of the situation. We entered into a conversation that seemed to last the better part of the next two songs. Now I didn't say and they didn't ask, but Fred did two tours over in Iraq.

And son, it was over before it was even on. Call the Marines! Yes, sir. That's what we listen to now instead of them ring for him. Yeah, we should. All right. All right. P Toby Keith doing the Catholic cross here. My favorite Catholic last family. Not this one. Sorry. That was funny. Yeah. Yeah. Previous life. No, I, what I would say, Jeff, and then I'll get into some details because that's what I'm going on as a mule, but I think the to explain it is there's a force and readiness.

That's the purpose of the Marine Corps to be ready for anything to happen. And the thing that the Marine Corps provides that the other services don't is land, ground, air from the sea forces at a smaller level that can react fast. So there's boats that are floating around. And I need to ask Jeff, because I'm going to be on these boats. And he's done it before that float around and they have all these elements. And so something pops off. Can they win the war? Of course, they're marine, but probably not, but they can get in there and secure for people to come in. And my question mainly is, I don't know the Navy that well. I know you told me to call everyone doc, but my question is as a major, do I get my own room?

Great question. Or do, or like, let me put it this way. So, so Mike Menegel used to work with me, just got off the, what goes out of California, the 15th, 11th? 11th, 15th, and 13th are all out of. So he just got off the 11th. He just got off the 11th. And I remember he sent me a photo and it was like six officers in bunk. Been there.

And I was like, that looks terrible. I was like, I really hope that I'm a field grade officer. Like maybe I get one roommate. I think that, I really hope that I'm a field grade officer. Like maybe I get one roommate. I think that's typically how it goes. Cause again, the net you're, you're living in the Navy's house. So you kind of play by their rules. They love that rank. So I want to say, it'll be interesting because you'll kind of be in that like battery commander company commander role.

So I'm in a 03 billet, but I'm an 04. I don't know if that then be like, it's good that you're going to be your major prior to going on the Mew. Because I know on a couple of the Mews I did, captains would get promoted to major and they would just stay in the room they have. It honestly will kind of come down. Majors do get better rooms. Usually it's like a, it's like a two person. I don't care about the troops. I support the troops. I don't care about them.

I care about me. Of course. I care about me. I would prefer one roommate. I mean that was tip. So like if you were like a battalion Ops or XO or, uh, something like that. Like they would, I know they were always in like two person rooms. So there's a little more space. You each have like your own desk. You know, you don't have as much, uh, space to fight for, for all your, like your gear and stuff like that. Um, so, but I don't, your crocs and honestly kind of depends on like,

just availability. They may put you in one if it's like available or if they're like, Oh, well he's actually, he's a battery commander. We're going to pair them up with the weapons company commander and alpha in Bravo company. Like they'll all share a room, but even a four person room is not bad. Um, honestly. Yeah, no, it's fine. I'm not actually, yeah. I'm not actually all about that.

But if you get a two person room, that would be nice. That would be sweet. That would be nice. That would be the worst thing. So I picture, what's the movie with Tom Hanks where he's like in a boat and I think he dies at the end. I don't wanna die at the end, but he has his own room and he goes back and like prays at night

and he never takes his shoes off. What's the movie? Oh, you completely World War Two one. That was Greyhound. No, Tom Hanks. Greyhound Greyhound. Yeah, it was like an apple. I think it was only an apple. Yeah, my feet are bloody. But I have my own room and I. Yeah, my feet are bloody, but I have my own room

and I'm like, I'll trade bloody feet for an old room. That sounds like a great trade. I was thinking he was like the ship's captain. Yeah, same thing. Major of a battery, ship's captain, same, same. World War II, 31st Mew, all the same. Is Greg gonna go for PR in the gym? I don't know, man.

I do wanna ask you, so there's three ships that comprise of Mew. What are they named? So it kind of varies. It's like all drugs, right? Like LSD, MDMA, and X- I don't know. One is called the LSD. One is the LSD. Okay, the LSD.

I got one. All right. LSD, LPD, and LHD were the both mews that I did. Where did the cannons go? One Mew, they were on the LPD, so like the middle-sized ship, and then one Mew, they were on... All six? Or like some of them? So like the middle size ship and then one Mew they were on all six Some of the first me I did EFSS was still a thing

So that was on That was on the big mic mic that was on the big so that was on the L PD or no LHD and then the triple sevens. I Think three triple sevens were on the L also on the L HD and then three triple sevens, I think three triple sevens were also on the LHD and then three triple sevens. What's the party boat? What boat do I wanna be on? You wanna be on the middle deck. So you wanna be on the LPD. The middle deck, LPD, okay.

Because those are typically a newer ship. And so a newer ship is way better than one of the older LHDs. It's like a pontoon boat, right? Get Starbucks on it. Yup. There's Starbucks. Uh, we had Starbucks on the LHDs. Is there any Duncan? No big Duncan guy. Duncan that I'm aware of, but they, who knows, you know, times they are changing.

So maybe there's Duncan. There's always coffee. Nice thing about being an officer is there's always coffee in the, in the wardroom, the wardroom there, get coffee 24 seven, uh, big wardroom, strawberry frosted pop cards. Lots of those podcasts from the wardroom. I think it's going to be difficult. Uh, like connection wise, could I pull it off? I don't think so. I don't think we'd be able to,

we wouldn't be able to dial in. I don't think. Ah, okay. Okay. We're not on the zipper. Oh wait, are we on the zipper? Wait, hold on. Yeah, we're on zipper right now.

This is actually zipper. Yeah, I got my red lines plugged in. Actually we were recording the first 30 minutes, but they cut it off because we talked about too many things. Yeah. That's many things. Yeah. That's too bad. So the West coast is odd numbers. Right.

So from my understanding is like East coast, like the worst place to be compared to the West coast, the worst place to be, uh, like Lejeune is not as good as penultimate, but they had the better news. Yeah. I don't know. So they'll, I don't know what their, I guess their first stop is like, Rota Spain, I think is their first stop.

And then they hit the Mediterranean until there's probably pork calls like in Greece or somewhere. I also think this changes a lot with age. So like the 31st to this day, I've told Marines about my buddy that's going on the 31st that had been out for years. They're all like the 30 worst. And I'm like, honestly, it sounds like the 30 best. Like I'm going to spend two months in Japan, only a few months on ship, and then two months more in Japan. Like the odds of dying decrease dramatically. If I'm in Japan,

this sounds fantastic. But like what's the Australia? We're doing Australia. The 31st Mute does the Southern Patrol. And I can say this unclassed, but Jordy just put CUI in the bottom and purple. Cause when it's on briefs, no one knows what it means. Jordy, you don't even have to make it float. Just put it on the bottom and it stands there. It just says it's purple and in white letters, it says CUI. And then everyone will ask, wait, why is this brief CUI? And it's like,

well, technically if we talk about the number of troops at CUI, but anyway, uh, yeah, we're doing the Southern. Yeah. Yeah. Nah, yeah, we're doing, well, Darwin can be its own exercise. Talisman Saber, you can Google it. That's like, basically they, they take the mute from Japan and you go south and you become a shell back and you go to Australia and you have one exercise name, which is Talisman Saber. Anyone can Google it. It's open source. And then, and then you float back. And if anything happens on either way, the exercise could be canceled and you respond to it.

So it's Japan down to Australia, the Southern patrol. But a Southern patrol. Darwin is essentially 29 palms. Cause we're from the South. Sorry, say it. Darwin's just like 29 palms, right? Except with like funny accents. I think it's. Yeah, I've heard a Darwin's just like 29 palms, right? Except with like funny accents. Yeah, I've heard a lot about like Australian women.

Did you go to Australia? No, it was like always the big rumor every time. Oh, we're going to Australia. We're going to go to Australia. We're going to go to Australia on the way back. The ship's captain, he really wants to go to Australia. So we're going to Australia. We didn't go anywhere near Australia.

They say that in Australia, as the ships get in that the hookers, sorry, mom, but it's just facts. The hookers write their numbers on tennis balls and throw them onto the boat. And so all the sergeants major are like, Oh, we're going to Australia. I'm bringing a tennis racket and hit him back. So none of my dogs getting any trouble. But yeah, apparently Australia, it's like Japan allegedly doesn't enjoy us being there all that much. But yeah, Australian women enjoy a bunch of Marines coming in. I don't know, if I had the choice between Japan and road to Spain, I would probably pick road to Spain. Personally.

As a vacation, that's the way I would get it. If you had a choice between spending six months on a boat versus two and a half, what would you choose? Do I get my own room? Nope. Rooms the same. Let's just say it's a two man, but in one scenario you're on a boat for six months and in the other scenario you have your own room in Japan. I got one thing I can throw at Trey. I would do the show one hour. What if I told you Trey, there was a rewards program at Whole Foods for riding on ship.

Oh, also known as Sea-Pay. Is there a Starbucks? Eat a little more Sea-Pay. I'm taking that Barrickstein, baby. Sea-Pay's not actually an option. I know what I-Bos would pick the longer. I-Bos would take whatever was the worst possibility. True.

You'd just be like, this sounds terrible. I'm in. The Muse out of San Diego you basically get two trips to Hawaii you get one on the front end you get one on the back end Yeah, then what? Okay, so that changes. Yeah, so Mike's just got yeah All right, what else we got on slide deck Probably covered it during college football, but had organ fans in there. It's very, uh, all Oregon fans are the same.

They all wear a flat brim camouflage, Oregon hats, and like a T-shirt and jeans. And like, they are very just like excitable. I don't know. I don't know. They're just like, it's a, they're very distinct type of fan. There was one sitting at the bar that we were at the other night when we were wanted to watch are also Seahawks fans. Yeah, basically the same as Seahawks fans. You just swap out the Seahawks thing for an Oregon hat and the same guy.

That's true. That is a good point, right? You said you set by one at the bar. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And there and it was like the Washington. It was the Oregon Washington game was on. And it was, there was one TV in this like hotel lounge bar. And I was like, well, I want to watch the Texas A&M Texas game. Because at that point it was still, you know.

So varsity's horns off, bum, bum, bum. So varsity's horns off. Not a short horn, so varsity's horns off. Short! Short! And then you just go right back into it, right? Well, then you saw them off, so then you say, varsity's horns are sawed off.

Dun, dun, dun. It's totally normal, man. Yeah. It's totally normal. You're telling a story. Yeah. Yeah. I like it.

It's fun. I want to saw them off. They are sawed off. Hey, I know a lot about it. I know a lot about A&M. It's a freak. A guy who dogs on them, you know more about A&M than I do, I think.

Hey, I was nice about it. I just said it was weird. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. It's like, with all due respect, yeah. With all due respect, what the actual... That's good. Yeah, I don't know about Oregon fans. It is funny, Jeff, and I'll tell you this in Utah,

it is funny being in the South and I'm back about to be back in the West that like, I never seen Oregon fan. I never see a Washington fan. And it's like everything. I mean, today BW helped me. I had like one line. My dad helped me move all the big stuff down and I had like one last dresser that I was like, Oh, we do have room for this. So BW came up and helped me move it down. And then we went into the hotel next door and we're hanging out and we were talking about the game Cox and someone was like, we deserve to be in. I'm not trying to eavesdrop. And I look at her and she's like wearing all black with garnet, like high heels and like a garnet headband, not like a headband.

Like I just, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a type one at whatever. I was like, I was like, yeah, yeah. Do rag. No, the bartender was more of like a do rag type. But yeah. And she also was pro game cocks. And it was just funny because I've said it on this podcast for, and I'll say it again, when I moved here, I remember seeing Carolina stuff and being like, go cocks. And they're like, yeah, we're in South Carolina. Of course I'm wearing a game. And I was like, Oh, sorry. I've been in California for 12 years. Like it's, it's a sight to see, but I don't see Oregon fans anymore. Like I don't, the only thing, and I'll give this to Trey that I see

here that is random to me as you still see Weed M boys, Dallas Cowboys stuff. And I'm like, why? I don't like Dallas Cowboys. Yeah. Yes you do. Why? Yes you do. It's America's team.

I will say living in California, I also never saw USC fans. Meaning Southern Cal? Oh yeah, Southern Cal, excuse me. Yeah, they don't exist. They only should come out on Monday. I don't know how they get their money. The business school, they all graduate and make millions of dollars and give back to the business school.

That's actually like, I'm not actually being funny. The business school there is good, but it's not. We lived in California together for four or five years. No one was like, let's go to the Coliseum. True. You're here and people are like, hey man, Wofford's playing Clemson. And I hate Clemson, but like, we gotta go. I'm like, no, we, we,

we don't. I hate Clemson. And like, no, but like there's a college football game, 30 minutes from you. It's a different environment. I've always thought this, the West coast, the beauty of it. Why would you care about it? If you're in the South, you just say, you just say collards and smoke to pack of Dorals. Like let's go watch a college football game. Like what else are we going to do? Great breakfast. Yeah. I was like breakfast South Carolina breakfast. Throw it on a cast iron man. Yeah, by the cast iron pan we hit Mr. Helmet, we hit BW tax. I played an ad, the worst one ever.

Steven Garcia. We gain slide. That is it, gentlemen. Over to commander's comments, saved rounds, alibis. Any of the outline stations have anything for the group? Let's just, I'm just going to leave the net open for a minute to see if the outline stations are here.

Okay. No one's here. Um, yeah. Well, should we go through the POA and M now? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go line by line. Um, okay. First up, Okay. First up trash, trash. We got that currently as pending pending. Can I make it green? No, I found an AMRE heater. Oh, I forgot to have these. You're sitting on the table. I got nothing left, man. I got everything's moved out. I got, I literally have no props to grab. You're doing great. I'm out.

Um, alibis. I have none. Trey, you got any save rounds? No, zero, man. I guess I have one save round. If it slightly implicates me in a crime, should I say it for the sake of the podcast? Just say the word allegedly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're talking about your friend. Well, actually, let me tell you about my friend. My friend's deploying, so he has this pod, and the pod shows up, and he has these weapons. And he hasn't looked at the weapons are allowed to go in the pod, but he thought like, I can't put the weapons in the pod, so I'll check them. But then he looked at one of the weapons.

He's like, this weapon is not allowed in the state that he's going to. So that weapon can't go and all the weapons can't go. So I'll check the weapons while I check two cats and a baby and a wife and fly. But then the friend thought about it and he was like, wow, it seems like adding weapons to cats and newborns seems like a bad idea. So then the friend of mine was packing and he was like, well, there's these wardrobe

boxes and they're going to be like in the middle of the thing. And then the pod got delivered and I was like, so how's the lock situation work? He's like, well, you buy your own locks. I was like, well, cool. I own some already. He's like, yeah, you lock it. I was like, so does it get open? He's like, no, like you have your locks on there.

It goes. And so my friend was like, well, maybe I just put the weapons in the wardrobe boxes and call them golf clubs. And like the ammunition, my friend was like, I'll just write nuts and balls. Oh, and car parts and car parts. And so he just labeled everything randomly and put them in random places like in the middle. And my friend's hoping that's going to work out. So your friend should have disassembled, you should have Johnny cashed it and just disassembled it. So the friend did disassemble the things.

I think your friend's okay. And just be like, that's not a weapon. That's just a bunch of useless parts that I found on the road. Like, Oh man. And this random suit jacket that he hasn't worn in six years that for some reason he's packing, there's a firing pin. And in this shoe that he hasn't worn. Your friend's all set. Yeah. Yeah.

I think good. Yeah. And then if for some reason your friend gets into trouble, just deny, deny, make counter accusations. That's all you have to do. I feel like I would just say like, that was my friend. Yeah. I hired a friend to pack for me. Those are my friend's golf clubs.

I'm deploying. I'm deploying. Oh, by the way, look at this newborn. I've done nothing wrong. There you go. Your friend's all set. I'm just gonna tell my friend the biggest crime he's committed is taking free coffee

from the hotel lobbies. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, uh, this part of the show, we usually sometimes not always have a guest and we coach them through the okay. We have no guests. So I'm just going to say guide ons.

Okay. All right. We got a couple no guests. So I'm just going to say guide on. Okay. All right. We got that done. And then Trey, why don't you take us down for a landing? All right. This is episode. 049. 049 of the. Okay. Podcast. Power. Oh, okay.

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