The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 5: Axis Deer, Jim Harbaugh, Jeans, & Barbells

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

Podcast Hosts: Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach. Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 04:33 - Carnivore Lifting & Axis Deer 24:50 - Strength Co Jeans 31:38 - Space 33:53 - Marine Terms Game! 39:26 - College Football Coaches 49:07 - Interesting Map 57:27 - Barbells Hack 01:07:09 - Outro

the dogs at night are big and bright deep in the heart of the frisco okay and welcome back to episode five of the okay okay podcast today is january the 25th in the year of our lord 2024 and uh pj's not here we'll get to that in a second but the current price of bitcoin is 40 135 dollars and 50 cents what's that the block height very important i don't know. Does he pull this from a special website? Block height. What do I type? Block height now. Block height dot com. Block height now. Block height dot org. Latest

block height. Latest BTC blocks. Okay, here we go. A million? Eighty-two. Wait, it's not. That can't be. What if there's six numbers? 8,274,000. No.

Read that top number. In the hundreds of thousands. The top number is... It starts with an 82. 827,411. Does that sound anywhere close right? Does that sound right? Top left.

Yeah, 827,411. 827,411. Verified. Verified. Individual, independent checks. Episode five, which means that for five weeks, we have come on and recorded a podcast that's not exactly true because today's a thursday true true and we're all in texas and so the reason

that these two guys are here with us now is because we're all together so why not do it all together also marks the fifth week of me not knowing what block height is oh yeah i've got my whole life not knowing so well pj's not here so does anyone want to take a stab at what block height is so i'm gonna go but do you know what bitcoin is yes it's on a blockchain yes do i know what blockchain is? Yes. No. No. No idea.

Nobody knows. But I have a... Block height has to do with blockchain? Yes. Digital. Look at that. So every time a transaction happens, it's creating. The block gets higher?

Think like Legos. Okay. Okay. And every time a transaction happens, another Lego is getting punched in. You could make... And you're making a tower. Do they make it out of Legos? Bitcoin for dummies.

Is that accurate? Yeah, it's accurate. And it's made out of Legos? It's made out of Legos. That's all it is. So we're coming to you live from Frisco, Texas. Live taped. Live taped.

Well, it's technically live when we're recording it. It'll be taped. We're doing it live right now. That're recording yeah it'll be live right now that's deep yeah it'll be taped when you listen to it uh frisco texas we are here uh jeff and i are here for our marine corps drill it's a big month in the marine corps in the artillery community it's saint barbara's uh month so the patron saint of artillery is saint barbara um she watches over stone hurlers catapultlers rocketeers rocketeers artillerymen i think firefighters are included yeah they hurl water not logisticians yeah not logisticians no saint philip saint joseph saint joseph yeah

saint joseph said it best watching over those cases mres yeah so here we are up in texas deep in the heart and uh deep in the heart and uh trey lives here so we from time to time from time to time so we took this thing on the road because we want to stay consistent and uh so it's it's week five. When you're listening to this, we'll have made a bunch of videos. Yeah. Yeah. At least a thousand. At least a thousand videos.

So do you guys want me to go through like the normal startup or we just want to go total? I'm curious what comes on before. Yeah. You don't listen to your own podcast? No, I skip ahead to when i come on i still have a razor phone so i still have the capabilities what's a podcast does it come on the radio i can't find the station well we'll skip some of the normal stuff but i feel like we can give a pretty good carnivore update go for it based off of what just transpired absolutely um so it's day 25 of

carnivore and i finally have um some bad news no but i will say on tuesday i had a very low calorie day so each day i've been two meals pretty high calorie have felt good in the weight room tuesday i went fishing which you might talk about later i was working until i had to go fishing had to go fishing uh working until i went fishing it's accurate and forgot to eat and realized i don't have time to eat so i went and then i fished all day you know a bunch of steps cold water 35 degrees got home ate at 6 p.m recorded two YouTube videos, then went on the podcast with you guys.

What time are you usually breaking fast? I usually eat at noon. Okay. Between, yeah, between noon and 1, somewhere in there. I don't, like, time it, but it's usually I'm coaching in the morning. I eat, like, yeah, midday. So I forgot. So I ate a meal, filmed filmed went on with you guys podcast usually

ends 10 30 or so i go ahead and upload the files i get to bed late okay i didn't need anymore next day i went to train and um my deadlift suffered big time i was gonna pull 455 i think for two sets of five which is like lower energy or what um well no i actually felt okay energy wise but i pulled three singles like i pulled one wrap okay it wasn't like oh rep one's a liar pull the next one i was like oh there's nothing here and so i salvaged it i pulled three singles and then i pulled some back offsets but i realized oh if i am full of carbohydrates and i miss a meal or two i can go into the gym and the glycogen storages are still there yeah and i can pull but i don't know this is just grant science but i think i've read that book yeah but i think if you just are total carnivore fat

fueled and you miss essentially a days of food um you pay the price you feel it yeah you feel the price so that's what i felt but i'm still 250 i didn't lose any weight which was weird good news good news great news great into skin yeah so uh 215 pounds still i still train i still made it hard i still made it heavy um how are the dookies the dookies the poopies yeah yeah um good you know i added in goat milk after like the 16th. I added in raw goat milk. Bah, bah, bah. Does a goat go bah? Or is it a sheep?

That's a sheep. A sheep goes bah. Did you hear that? Yeah. We don't want to rip it on the dog, but he's chilling. I added in the goat milk, which which gave me for like a day my stomach made noise growled but yeah that's it i never i never had the i never had the explosive rocket fuel i've been staying awake at night just curious but yeah i'm sure yeah yeah so um yeah i think that pretty much wraps up oh well i would say then we came here to texas and so i ate some leftover venison this morning had a little bit of goat milk flew in

we should talk about dfw we'll come back to that yeah yes we will and came um here the three of us hung out a bit we set up the mobile podcast studio and went out to have some appetizers and there was not a single carnivore option on that menu you found one though well you were trying to make me stumble you're like just get the tuna roll get behind me satan i asked the girl what i said to her what was her name do you remember oh shannon shannon shannon adides i'm I'm like, hey, I'm kind of weird. I only eat meat. I'm carnivore.

And she goes, oh, yeah, I have a steak egg roll. Yeah. I was like, I don't think you know. She didn't know what carnivore is. Yeah. But I appreciated her enthusiasm. God bless her. So I ordered the steak salad, essentially, without the salad.

Yeah. You just got to give me a bowl of steak. Yeah, steak salad. Hold the salad. Over here on the menu, it says add steak for $7. Give me that. I just want to add that steak. I don't want anything else.

Add it to a plate. I'm going to eat it. Yeah, you guys had chips. Carnivore chips. Yeah, they were meat-based. You didn't judge it. You didn't judge it. You didn't judge it.

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Deep take. Not according to that menu. So you had venison this morning. Yeah, and tonight. So then I was going to say compared. So you had whitetail venison. Whitetail deer that I shot. And then.

With my own fingers. Bougie venison, a.k. fingers venison aka axis yeah so i think that was imported from hawaii we need to prep the the dinner talk so we finished with shannon these guys had their meat chips which i didn't know were made out of meat i would have had some we came back here and um when we all used to live together. I would make Grant cook for me. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was a great deal.

I feel like it was almost like the perfect marriage. That's so true. I mean, Trey realized this guy goes to Costco, cooks his food, separates it into Tupperware, and then takes it to work. I want that to happen for me. Hey, Grant, can you just double that? Grant, I'll buy it. And he goes, and I go, I mean, I could.

He goes, but I mean, it's literally not any more work for you to cook four steaks instead of two, right? That's why I'm a salesman now. Yeah. I said, well, not really. And he goes, okay. And so I would go to Costco and I would just take a photo of the receipt and send it to Trey and he would send me half of it. Yeah. And he bought his own Tupperware.

I was like, I don't have enough Tupperware. You need to buy some Tupperware. Easy. Yeah. And so I would cook for him and it was kind of like our deal. It was our thing. So we were different batteries. Romeo.

For free. Grant would just come for me. He's a great guy. I'm a kind soul. Yeah, you are. Romeo, right? Sierra. Sierra. we were in tango uh sparta sparta yeah and so we would eat the same things and so tonight there was this big

back and forth of should we go out to eat should we eat the house i assumed your wife was going to be here i found out she's not in town so we come back here and trey has only imported the finest meats finest meats tell us a little bit about that venison before i elaborate what's the what's the brand maui maui i can't pronounce it i don't know so it's a it's a meat delivery subscription program okay and it's a conservation conservation so. I'm all about the conservation. Axe's deer have overrun a certain island of Hawaii because they were brought there. Which one?

Is it FBI? I'm going to go with, just based off the brand, I'm going to go with Maui. Maui. Because it's Maui, new I. That's a pretty good interpolation. It's having a dark. I'll go with Maui. Maui, got it not fbi not a big island so there's so apparently acts deer all over the place and so they're trying to bring down the

population so this uh program will shoot the deer process it and then you subscribe to it and then they'll just send you very good cuts of meat okay Okay. And I'm like, well, I don't know. So how often does this meat come? I order it, so I usually do about every other month. Okay. And you can do more frequently. And do you get a selection, like I want tenderloins, I want cube steak, I want salami?

So I pick out, like there's like, hey, I want the Maui box. And so I pick that, and seems to be pre-cut selects because i can't make decisions but you can pick like individual cuts and so i i get this box they send me a bunch of cuts and it acts as deer i don't know if you've ever had it y'all have now are they bigger deer no they're small right or no they're no they're bigger than white tail they gotta be bigger than south carolina white tail've got to be bigger than South Carolina whitetail. Some whitetails. Some whitetails are huge. Definitely bigger.

Up north, they're huge. But in Texas... North Texas or like the northeast? I would say northeast. Or like North Georgia, which is Columbus, Ohio. Texas, they're small. And like Iowa, like Wisconsin. Huge.

They're huge up there. Down here, and I guess in South Carolina, they're small. They're little. A big deer in South Carolina is 180 pounds pounds that's about the same here maybe a little bit that i mean every now and then someone killed 200 pounder but that's we're not hitting that here okay but axes you're bigger but they also i think they're have a little bit more fat on them so they're not gamey like axis deer are okay and so they just to me they just taste like so much better you don't have to access gear have more fat yeah the axis deer have okay and so they just to me they just taste like so much better you don't have to

access gear have more fat yeah the axis deer have more yeah i could be completely wrong on that that's what you feel they're just not gaining i mean i'm about to give my deep take having eaten loins of white teal deer and in the same day in the same day in the same day and also beef alongside it so like a lot of comparisons so um what's y'all's take on access tier well so well we'll do it we'll do a flight we'll rate it okay i like to rate things on the rpe scale because big rpe guy yeah big rpe guy rate of perceived exertion you know what this is yeah yeah so anyway trey has brought in all these fine meats axis um venison loin which is different from tenderloin correct and i think a lot of people don't understand that and the internet doesn't

understand that but if you kill a deer you're going to have a loin and you're also going to have a tenderloin and a loin is going to be like your back strap uh hardier almost think like a london broil right where's your tender loins more like a filet like a finer steak so anyway you had the venison loin then you had what were the steaks from butcher box butcher box so butcher box provided those were rib eyes bone out right correct and then you had bratwwurst from Grocery Store. Grocery Store. Grocery Store. Yeah. Grocery Store Bratwurst. Yeah. That's where you get Bratwurst. The finest. That's how the sausage is made.

The finest meats. Well, what grocery store are we talking about? Sprouts. Sprouts. A fine grocery store. That does not sound carnival. I go, oh, my buddies are coming. I got to get the best. Okay. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. That was a vegetarian. So wait for fun not. Yeah, that was a vegetarian problem. So wait, for fun.

So Trey pulls out all this meat, and he pulls out about an assortment of maybe, what, 12 hard cheeses? Easily, yeah. They just kept coming. A lot of cheeses. Jeff starts cutting up the cheese. Trey goes right to work, pulls out the cast iron pan, puts it on the stove, turns the stove on. And I said. to work pulls out the cast iron pan yeah puts it on the stove turns the stove on and i said takes the pan out a additional pan puts it on grabs butter takes the lid off the butter puts it there

grabs a knife puts it next to the steaks salt pepper on the side of the counter and goes all right grant do it go to town and i thought man, we're right back at the same place. Brought back so many memories. Trey's paying for it. I'm cooking it. We're both eating it together. Trey's going to sleep in a downstairs office tonight. It's going to be really good. He'll sleep in an office room.

That's a good take. But anyway, we made it quite the charcuterie board. Delicious. Does anyone know what I wish PJ was here. What does charcuterie mean delicious uh do you does anyone know what i wish pj was here what is charcuterie mean um meat and cheese board meat i don't know it's like but sometimes they have pickles like jam meat it's like a meat it's french is it french yeah um sounds french sounds french charcuterie means surrender it's like a meat shop like in france let me let me get the quick yeah if only we had a google device yeah if only had device in our pockets with all the answers to

the world's problems but uh anyway we made quite the spread i'm sure the the photo of the food will somehow make it onto the title card or somewhere or on an instagram story but um yeah quite the the spread of food and so the the axis deer um so i grabbed my loin last night i wrapped it in bacon okay broad room temp i salt peppered it uh maybe like 30 minutes before cooking i wrapped it in bacon just because i'm always worried that venison's gonna taste bad yeah so i'm like what can i do i put a 350 in the oven i stuffed my do you guys have a meter wait did you find that did you find the charcuterie answer uh so wikipedia here french term for a branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products such as bacon ham ham, sausage, in some words I can't pronounce, primarily

from pork. Every good meal starts with the death of a pig. Remember that? So basically, charcuterie is French for carnivore. Essentially, yeah. That's what it boils down to. So anyway, I wrap the loin in bacon,

baked it at 350, put a meter in. A meter is a wireless thermometer, potential sponsor. Wait, that's the company's meter? That's called M-E-A-T-E-R. Oh, okay. Sorry. I was going to say potential sponsor. Okay.

There we go. And I'm guessing they spell it in a clever way. No, they spell it meter. Meter? Hardly know her. Oh. I don't see M-E-A-T- e a t e r yeah meet me that would be clever yeah what would be the non-clever way like meter t r t r like a unit of measurement yeah that's

what i thought you were talking about yeah i was like oh that's what they spell it? That's odd. How big is this thermometer? This company's roughly three feet. About a yard. It's four clicks. About a yard. This company has had such an impact on me that when I hear meter, I now think M-E-A-T-E-R. But you stuff it in the meat, and then you can put it in the oven on your cast iron pan. Is it on your phone? And follow it on your phone.

Dang. And then you go in and you select the type type of meat okay so venison okay the apps always uh in the cloud on my phone so diana always has the watch it she does most of the meat cooking and then and then you say venison and then you say loin and then you say desire temperature oh wow and so i didn't realize with it is i said 125 you know i want to pull out rare let it rest it actually even calculates for the rest time so when it hit like 118 it's like pull your meat stop cooking and i was like no i want to pull it at 125 let it get a little bit more so that's what i did um last night i ate it um the bacon actually didn't really cook all the way.

Like it was edible. I saw a picture of it. Yeah, but it didn't like, it wasn't like crispy. Yeah, it wasn't crispy. And so I actually just unwrapped from the bacon and then cooked the rest of the bacon later and then went into the meat. And last night I would say it was great.

It needed some salt, but it was good. Kind of chewy, tough a little bit, but it was good kind of chewy tough a little bit but it was good so i ate half of that loin dennis uh dennison diana oh yeah diana and venison dennison there's a dennison texas yeah you ain't man till you wake up in texas oh yeah that's that's in yellow jackets all right baby okay yellow jacket yeah denison d venison denison um yeah she doesn't really enjoy the venison so i ate half the loin i put the rest in the fridge this morning before flying here i got up i was like i need to eat so i ate earlier than i usually do i had to leave there for about 10 30 so at 10 cut the venison up.

I reheated in the microwave, which is a sin. I always recommend in a pan, not in a microwave. And it was super tough. Super tough. And pretty chewy. And I got through two-thirds of it. You muscled through it. Yeah, literally.

I used my jaw muscles to get through it. Whereas your axis deer tonight it's like butter i mean we ate it next to a high-end ribeye and can tell a difference it was like beef i mean it was very good we cooked in beef tallow yeah to be fair i okay gun to your head. Ribeye? Truth gun. Or the axis? Truth gun. Oh, axis deer. Axis deer.

Like what we had tonight, you would eat the axis before you ate that ribeye? Yes. I don't know. I don't know either. It was equally as good. Yeah. So I think I'm with Jeff from a conservationist standpoint that I'd rather eat the deer because it seems like somehow that seems more humane than slaughtering another cow. Hey, farm-raised cow.

Yeah, farm-raised. Grass-fed. Grass-fed. Yeah. It was a happy cow. They were neck and neck. Oh, dude, you honestly, like, and you pair it with the cheese. Yeah, I mean, hard to beat.

Game over. I forgot it with the cheese. Yeah, I mean, hard to beat. Game over. I forgot it was venison. Like, I made a couple pieces, and then someone made a comment, like, oh, this venison's great. I was like, oh, yeah, that's not steak. Well, it was kind of interesting cutting it all up and eating with the cheese, how much that salted to it. Oh, before and after?

Like, I salt and peppered when we cooked cut it up we all tried it before we made the board but that after salt like i felt like really set up yeah i mean i don't know that it was the pink himalayan salt no that's definitely yeah that was definitely it was the pink himalayan salt imagine i keep going back to the guy so your you're Meter? Yeah, Meter. I hardly know her. Yeah, hardly know her. So there has to be a guy somewhere who was the tester of like, hey, at medium rare venison, we have to pull it out at this time. Who is the guy who tested all that out? He's just eating pounds of meat over and over again.

I think his name is Kyle Rempe. Yeah. It's just his day job. Yeah. And now he's in a coma for the last 10 years. Oh man, if I smash all this beef, I'm just going to pass out.

That's what happens to Marine Corps officers if they eat too much protein. They pass out. I'm about to go to sleep now. Dude, I'm feeling a little sleepy. Let's take a quick nap. Grant, you got it? Does that wrap up

the charcuterie board? What else was on there? We had some... I thought the... Pork rinds. Pork rinds were good. Bacon bits. Bacon bits, yeah.

Yeah. Okay. The hard cheeses were good. Hard... Yeah, all day cheeses. Yeah. I tempted Grant to try to get me the soft cheese.

He said no. I said no. Proud of him. Proud carnivore in there. Proud, staunch carnivore. So I ate the softore yeah what's the difference yeah but he told me something about glycine blood sugar yeah this carnivore stuff serious hey I had a client get mad at me

when you watch the carnivore chicken bake, like literally, here's a guy that said he would go. It's Craig Washington football fans. Yeah, boy. Go Huskies. He says he's going to go carnivore. He goes carnivore for like two days. He's like, my wife doesn't like me to have carnivore. I'm going to eat some vegetables.

Four more days go by. He goes, I need some fiber. And then he goes, why did you eat that chicken bake? I didn't eat the chicken bake. I cut everything out of the chicken bake. Watch the video, Craig. He goes, yeah, but now your carnivore is fake. Craig ruined it yeah craig watch the video yeah craig stare at craig he just ate the chicken it was just the innards craig calm down so i think that covers up the

charcuterie board yeah delicious yeah we made it up yeah um who's got the topic list I got it pulled up right here you like my Lou Casey's by the way Lou Chessie's look at that real Texan baby let it all hang out what kind of jeans you got these are rail car fine goods

Monrovia California 2% stretch stay tuned we may have a strength co-version coming out. Oh, for real? Stay serious. Yeah. I'm going to get some of those. Can we talk about that a little bit?

Yeah, please. So these jeans. Wait, is this brought to you by? Brought to you by Real Car Fine Goods in Monrovia, California. Do you want to say actual sponsor, maybe? Potential sponsor. Potential collaborator. Ooh.

Actually, collaborator. they're being made so uh brian lowell initial member of where the strength co all started i forgot to mention this the podcast is powered by the strength co so that's in there i completely forgot about that potential sponsor still we have a monster sponsor yeah i thought it happened by now we didn't mention it i was like oh i guess that fell through he works for kohler and uh the sink company yeah well tell a story oh about mr kohler coming to america and opening in a foundry in making tubs and this is how he sold me because he asked me when he joined the gym, what kind of toilet he goes, you're a maiden USA guy, right? This is far before I made a product. I go big time. He

goes, what kind of toilet do you have? I was like an American standard. He's like, Oh, you like imported toilets. And I was like, it's literally an American standard. He's like, they were bought out by whoever this long ago. Let me tell you about Mr. Kohler. And he has this whole story about Mr. Kohler coming to Wisconsin. There's farms. There's chicken. There's cows. He makes a cast iron tub.

He makes a toilet. Oh, my goodness. Kohler. All made there. Anyway, Brian appreciates good American goods. So he tells me one day, I'm in the gym. He goes, you know none of your jeans fit right i'm like what are you talking go on he's like well one you're fat

i'm your strength coach he's like well you're fat and i was like okay he goes and your jeans don't fit so you look fatter and i'm like well gee thanks man and he's like uh let me take you to get some jeans so one day he comes and picks me up this is a true story brutally honest i don't like you yeah also you're fat anyway uh he tells me i'm fat to this day um anyway he takes me to monrovia california at the time they've now moved uh which i can't remember where to rail Rail Carified Goods. Owner's name is Steven. And you go in and they got all different kind of US jeans, different weights of denim, salvaged denim, 8-ounce, 10-ounce, 12-ounce, left-hand sewn so the weave goes this way versus

that way, different cuts of pockets, pockets whatever but when it comes down to sizes you just put them on and they're like kind of too tight and also kind of too big so it'll be too long but they'll be too tight in the butt okay like it'll be hard to get your hands in the pocket and it'll be and steven will be like those are perfect take this home and wear them i'm like what like these are terrible so you'll buy these jeans you'll rub against the wall the indigo will like get on the sheetrock because you're in the gym and you're like spotting people's bench press stuff actually yeah and then the the behind the knee that's called something starts to blow out the seat starts to blow out your wallet starts to take shape you have to constantly put your hands in your pockets to expand them and you wear them for

two to three months and then they're like kind of too big because the the denim is stretched and then you go back to him after like three months of like kind of ill-fitting jeans but like wearing them in and then he tailor-set them and then you have a pair of jeans that last for like three years and he actually i don't know anymore he'll probably listen to this but a big part of his business is then fixing jeans so you wear the jeans you get them tailored and the crotch rips kind of like patagonia right so you mail your jeans back to him and then he repairs whatever's wrong with them so i've had a couple pairs with them they've all been great and i went to him like six, nine months ago.

And I was like, dude, I love your jeans. I need a new pair of jeans. But I don't have a year to get to wear like I can wear the jeans. And I'm like, can you make me a pair with a little bit of spandex? And he's like, what do you mean? I said, well, there's all these companies, barbell, apparel, all these stretchy jeans stuff. I'm like, but they look like men wearing leggings that are jeans colored. I'm like, I want like real jeans.

So he's like, yeah, I've never done it. I'll do it. So he makes me two pairs. I'm wearing a pair right now. And they're salvaged in them. And he puts, I think they're like, they're either 1% or 2% spandex. There's not a lot of stretch. It looks like.

There's a little bit. Yeah, about one and a half. Yeah, maybe like one and three. Maybe like half a meter. You mind? Yeah. Yeah, no. That's one and a half.

So anyway, one of them is spandex. I know my spandex. I'm a huge fan. So I went and saw him again when I was complaining about the boots. I was like, I need a little wider cut. And he was like, why don't we just do a strength co athletic gene boot cut made in us we're gonna do a straight leg so this is tapered okay so it'd be straight it'd be more open it would fit over your jeans um the inside of the pockets would say strength co and rail car the leather patch

in the back all the branding on it so the prototype the prototypes will be done uh in february and like about time i need some new jeans i don't know how we got there test appear so that's the i don't know how we got there i'm happy i'm happy we did yeah back to brian yeah go for it yeah i'll just end the brian story so brian took me there put me on the rail car jeans i think the rest is history i think that's all i had to say about brown but where's your toilet from what brand toilet do you have now i have a kohler okay okay yeah oh i updated everything both gyms he made me it's all kohler toilets and when i say made me i mean he like mailed a kohler toilet to the gym and And I installed it. I mean, he charged me Kohler.

He definitely charged me. Pressurized flushing. You're definitely listening to this. Potential sponsor, Kohler Toilets. Kohler Toilets. Okay. Yeah, they're definitely listening. Yeah.

I think that wraps up the toilet slash gene talk. Okay. A little combination. Anyway, Jeff, back to the topic list. What do we got? I did have one question. It'll be pretty quick here, but there was one question I wanted to ask both of you, but let me just verify.

I'm a little bit nervous. Axis or Whitetail Beer? Axis. The number has not changed since I saw. The question goes to you both. Whoever wants to answer first can. Grant. Trey.

Okay. How many people are in space right now? Ooh. Ooh. Are we both going to answer? I used to look at that app because of you. Yeah. It's one of my favorite websites.

I'm going to go 16. No. I'm final answer. You already said 16. Wait, that's a final. Dang it. Eight. The final answer. You already said 16. That's the final. Dang it. Eight. Locked it in?

Locked in. Three. It's 10. 10 people. It's a pretty high number. Usually it hovers around like six. Oh, see, I thought the question was, how many friends do you have in space right now?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that. That's why I said three. Yeah, you know three. I know that. That's why it's a five-ball. Yeah, you know three. We know some of the same people. Two Russian guys you don't get along with. I don't know the Russian guys. He does.

Pro-Ukraine. Probably got to eight. Okay. Ten people. Ten people in space right now. In space. That's crazy. Is that from NASA?

It's from how many people are in space right now dot com. Dot com. Actually a website. Potential sponsor. Potentially a website. Yeah, right after COVID. We got, let's see. Mostly, we got three Americans, German guy.

What's he doing there? Yeah, seriously. One, two, three Russians, and three folks from China that have been there for kimchi. China? Or they've been there for 832 days like an exile of Poland my gosh the three Russian space at one point are you not from China at that point the three Russians have been there for 1043 days three years oh my gosh wow three years? Oh, my gosh. That's a lot for three years, right? Yeah. Talk about a deployment.

Good night. Hey, go to space for three years. Yeah. I'm sad. Do you think they forgot about him? Yeah. It's like, oh. Where's Ivan?

I thought he would. Oh, he's in space. He's still in space. He's still in space. So I have a little game to play what you got um and what it's gonna do is it's uh i'm gonna throw out a marine corps term and then you guys are gonna come and say things that come to mind okay i'm gonna count them all up and then we're gonna see how many goes and it's it's a very simple one, and you're definitely going to have some answers.

Okay. And then I have a little story on the back end for it. Go for it. So an official Marine Corps term probably found in a TM, Technical Manual somewhere, somewhere's donkey dick. So we're going to start with you, Trey. When you hear donkey dick, it's the first thing that comes to mind. That's the level.

Is that the level? What am I thinking of? Oh, the first thing that comes to mind that's the level is that the level what am I thinking of oh well first thing comes to mind go for it donkey dick it's either an antenna or do you want to go with antenna at first that's where I first went but then I always go back to what's the you know, whenever you show up and you're like setting a battery and you roll in? The pizza cutter or the range deflection protractor? But no, there's the thing that hangs down. Oh, the plumb bob. The plumb bob.

You think of that as a donkey dick. All right, we'll count plumb bob as answer number one. Okay. Start thinking, Trey. There's a lot of options here. Jeff. So it's two things. First one.

First one. First one. this one you go with UHF antenna 40117 and I thought it was an antenna that's good that's a good donkey dick back over to you think basics think you're in the armory think you're in the motor pool donkey dick

motor pool. Donkey dick. Motor pool. Motor pool. Whenever you would fill the Humvee up. JP8, baby. Yeah. What do you think? Keep going.

The funnel. The funnel. It's a donkey dick. Hey, go get me a donkey dick. And the guy brings his funnel like three feet long that's black and round and he goes here you go and kind of like flops it all around you stuff it in the hole donkey dick okay yep and what's the motor t term for that

it's like uh it's like i thought that was not cask and flag and it's like uh like the actual term yeah there's like an actual term delta delta yeah no yeah but donkey dick. Couldn't tell you. Delta, delta, yeah.

Only heard referred to as that. Final for JP8. Yep. UHF antenna for a 117. Yep. And then what else you got? Are you guys done? Do you have another one?

Oh, I got like four more. Oh, man. So it applies to- Think armory. Well, that's the point, is that everything in the Marine Corps is eventually called a donkey dick. I can't remember the armory one.

So you know when you're in the armory and they hand you that silver brush... I was going to say that. That has CLP in the handle. Push it and the liquid comes out. It's a long cylindrical object and you push it and liquid comes out. They would say,

give me the donkey dick. So it's the catch-all term for... It the catch-all yeah it's long and cylindrical shaft like a little bit floppy yeah yeah donkey dick that's the spiciest we've gotten it but my donkey dick story is for the humby related one we have this marine lance corporal norman that's what comes to my mind so lance corporal norman um's what comes to my mind so lance corporal norman um i don't know where he was from but i would guess mississippi the south i think it was some definitely it was like louisiana mississippi alabama it was definitely louisiana yeah yeah mississippi woman louisiana man that's not how the song went but anyway yeah um very southern

and someone told him that he was like shrek from no he was like donkey from shrek okay so you know i had some extra teeth up front you know a little bit of an overbite really great marine and so um he would do this thing where he would say i sure you won't hear a joke and i'd be like yeah sure anyone and then he'd be like whatever what is donkey saying shrek i've never seen shrek but he would hold up the donkey photo next to his face and then make like a like imitate it okay and like make fun of himself and it was like an eddie murphy impression yeah eddie murphy exactly exactly yeah and it was and then imitate it and make fun of himself. You just do an Eddie Murphy impression. Yeah, Eddie Murphy. Exactly.

And it was hilarious. So we stop one day on Cabazon, the way to Palms, this place that you stop to refuel vehicles. And they're refueling. He's a motor T operator. So he runs up to my truck first because he wants to like grab the donkey photo and say something to me so he does it and then i'm like walking make sure all the drivers get energy drinks and water before we finish driving up the hill i'm like hey norman did you

fill up your truck great officer a great officer and he's like uh no sir and I'm like why he goes I I can't find the thing to to put in the truck and I'm like the donkey dick and he's like sir and I was like what he goes are you saying donkey dick because I say I'm a donkey and i was like no the black funnel thing and then i'm like oh i can't say this this is so bad yeah yeah and uh yeah so that was that was the story on the donkey dick i like it yeah you get it all right so in sports we got uh some coaching kind of shake-ups in the nfl we want to dive into that? And college. And college. True. Trey, you got any takes on the college coaching moves? So, Jim Harbaugh

to the Chargers, right? To the Chargers. Is it official official? Official official. Los Angeles Chargers, not to be confused with the San Diego Chargers. Rest in peace. Rest in peace. Man, I think that's to me, I'm curious. One, so this opens up thegers. Correct, yeah. Rest in peace. All right, Pete. Man, I think that's... To me, I'm curious.

One, so this opens up the portal. So whenever a coach leaves, they have 30 days. Go ahead. They have 30 days to enter the portal and go wherever they want, right? Oh, is that the rule? Yes. Whenever a coach leaves, that opens it up for the players to move. So otherwise, when could they move?

Because a bunch of people move at the end of the season. So the portal is naturally open from, I can't remember the date in December, but until like January 2nd. And then there's also a spring portal where they can move again. Okay. But then if a coach changes at any point in time, it opens it up for 30 days for that team. From my understanding.

Yes. And then also, it's kind of weird. If you're in the playoffs, it's a little bit later for those teams to enter the portal if they want to. Yada, yada, yada. I think the timing's a little tough because I was listening to a different podcast, a competitive

podcast. What? A competitive podcast? I've never to a different podcast, a competitor podcast. Wait, what? A competitor podcast? I've never listened to another podcast besides this one. And they were talking about Saban leaving Alabama. And they were like, oh, well, if players that would have left would have left by now because the semester is about to start. And they have to enroll in classes so they could then play that next season. You're telling me that college football players actually have to go to class?

No. That's a myth. Technically speaking, yes. That's a myth. They have to enroll in the classes. They don't have to attend them. Okay. And then the other thing, to me that's interesting is so I've heard rumors that Brian Kelly

at LSU is a hot name for the Michigan job. So I would love nothing more as an A&M fan to see. Boop, boop, farmer's fight. Everybody do it. Boop, boop, yeah. Wait, what is this? I don't know.

It's a farmer's fight. Farmer's fight. Boop, boop. Pretty much. To see LSU fall fall apart that's just me but i've heard i've heard brian kelly is a hot name to move up there but i think there's also i can't remember the assistant coach that who is another like they might just promote interesting do you think the michigan job is a better job than LSU? I think it depends.

Brian Kelly's from that area. Okay. So it would just kind of be like going home. What do you think, though? Yeah, what do you think? Not Brian Kelly. Yeah, I'm asking Trey. If I was a college football coach and had no ties to either location, LSU, being in Louisiana, you're the only game in town in the degree in lsu or in louisiana

right and they are so much talent in that part of texas kind of like on the gulf coast yep and then just the whole state of louisiana is just like right with talent so i would tend to agree thank lsu is a better job just because you can recruit much easier versus Michigan. Do you think their schedule though is tougher on an average season? LSU has a much harder time

in the season. Yeah. But I think you're getting more talent. I don't know. That's a good point. Michigan schedule, I think, is a lot easier, I would say. I agree. I did't know. That's a good point. Michigan's schedule, I think, is a lot easier, I would say. I agree. I watched the emergency press conference.

Portnoy does those emergency press conferences. It's like, you know, Brady leaves the Patriots. He's a big Michigan fan. Big Michigan. So big Michigan. So he's like, emergency press conference. And, you know, he goes on about Harbaugh leaving. And he talks about how he hated Harbaugh, then Harbaugh. He said, talks about how he hated Harbaugh, then Harbaugh.

He said, the world was spinning. Harbaugh put his finger on the globe, stopped the world, spun it the other way, brought Michigan back to greatness. We beat Alabama. We won a national championship. You know, he can go wherever he wants. I was like, man, that's the SEC for you right there. That's it.

You are the world champion. You just won, and your coach is leaving and the only thing you can think about is that you beat a one loss alabama team in the road yeah like that's a part of your going away yeah yeah yeah that's the sec right there and that's why the gamecock fan will probably never be a greatness because that's how good the sec is but i like they hate us because they ain't us. That's true. Breach. I don't know.

Gamecocks, I have faith in your coach still. So I still think Beamer's great. I like to describe Beamer as a coach that I would want my kid to go play for. I think he actually cares about them. I think he's a good guy. I do think he has some special teams knowledge um i just think the portal shakeout for a lower tier school in a top conference i just we don't know yet because it's too new but i think it's gonna be rough um i mean he's had some people come back but he has had people that he praised did everything for went recruiting himself that have left.

I still like him, right? I still think he's the guy for the job. But I just think if you're Alabama or some of these big schools, the portal goes in your favor. You know, a guy has a breakout season. I mean, I know, could go in the wrong way, but I mean, a guy has a breakout season in South Carolina, and South Carolina ends up with five wins.

Okay. Six wins. What's that guy going to do? He's going to say, where can I go and win? He's going to leave. True. Okay.

At the bigger schools, you might have a disgruntled player that didn't get to play because the team was that good and the depth was so good that leaves. Right? Like, think Portal during Mac Jones, Tua,

and who was the other Alabama quarterback? The most recent one? When there was three of them at once, it was Tua, Mac Jones, and Hurts. Two of those guys are leaving if the Portal's around at that time. It was because they didn't get to play.

I don't know. I mean, I don't think the dogs at night It was because they didn't get to play. So, I don't know. I mean, I don't think. The dogs at night are big and bright. Deep in the heart of the Frisco. That should be the opening. Jordy, make that the opening. Yeah, I don't know.

And then, we were talking earlier. I think Auburn is low key going to be a very good team next year. We'll see. That's their I mean, that's their whole like MO. They love sandbagging it and then surprising a bunch of people. And they're stacking talent right now as far as just recruiting. So and portal. We'll see. I mean, I think Hugh Freeze is a great recruiter.

Good offensive offensive coach. Terrible person. Don't know about the character side and how that'll end up shaking out. But we shall see. As long as our annual sushi bet. That's right. We'll see how it goes.

That's right. Do you guys want to elaborate on that? For those that don't know, every time Texas A&M auburn play each other if auburn wins trey buys me dinner a&m wins i buy trade it's always sushi when we lived together it was sushi yeah and then i think the last couple years it's just like i order something for jeff uber eats uber eats something yeah and it's a surprise jeff and for Jeff. Uber Eats. Uber Eats something. And then surprise Jeff and he'll be getting there. It's been nice because it's literally been like 50-50.

It's like they split almost every year. Do you guys play this year? Yeah. So it hasn't been good. If I was to do that with South Carolina, Grant would be buying me dinner every year. It would be like back when we lived together. Oh, I thought that's what just happened.

I thought you guys had a similar event. Once. Yeah, we did beat them once. That's right. Yeah, not this year. The year before. Yeah, the year before. That's right. That's right. So, I don't know. I want to get in. And beat Tennessee. That was the year.

Yeah, that was with the Beamer. Yeah, two years ago. It was a good year for South Carolina. Yeah, South Carolina's yeah yeah yeah two years ago it was a good year for south carolina yeah seven ones a huge deal for us it was a good year it's a good year it's an old ball coach reminisce hbc head ball coach head ball coach head ball coach he was old rip he's still alive that's true he is still he's still alive playing a is true. He is still alive. He's still alive. Playing a lot of golf, I would imagine. I hope so. Isn't he a big golf guy? He's a big golf guy.

Big golf guy. The legend was that the board of South Carolina told him they would make him a member at the Masters if he would take the job. Did they? And that's why he took the job. That's why he took it? I have no idea if that's true. That was the story was that he got access to golf. Is that why he took it. I have no idea if that's true. That was the story was that he got access to golf.

Does that way wears a green jacket everywhere? Does he? I don't know. I think he turned into the Masters. He totally got back to Florida. He's a Florida man again. PGA headquarters is about 10 minutes up north. North Texas? Of where we're at right now.

They just moved here. Not too long ago. How are the stars at night there? Oh, they're average. Okay. Yeah. Not big and bright.

No. Medium and bright. Medium. Medium. Medium stars. Medium and not dimmish. Like, yeah.

So Jeff, you were going to go over a map. Yeah. So speaking of, and our like, uh, versus Michigan, all those, our slack thread here here grant dropped a very interesting so it's a map united states and it's broken down into various regions

those regions are labeled and kind of like color-coded where did we find this map i found it on twitter x just x a random someone it, and I just thought it was interesting because there's a lot of debate on, well, let's let Jeff tell us about the map. Well, first of all, this is the point in time where we'll pull up the map and post it right here. Yeah, the map will be right here. Somewhere. The map.

You'll be able to see it, and you'll see what we're talking about. It'll be in the show notes and so it's got i don't know probably a dozen regions like mapped out here um some very interesting ones like to me the fact that the state of california or the region of california is not the entire state of California is interesting to me. There's three sections of the Midwest, which is interesting. The Gulf Coast, not all of it is on the coast. What about...

How's that a thing? What about, quote-unquote, heart of Texas going into Oklahoma? Can we tack one of these at a time? What thread is this in? This is in our thread. The most recent. Oh, our thread.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's start with the deep south. Okay. Deep south.

Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. Okay. I don't have a problem with that. I do. So the gray, if I were to describe this, is the western sides of North and South Carolina. Okay.

Right? Yeah. If I'm looking at the map, all of Georgia, the majority of Florida, except for South Florida and a little bit of the Gulf Coast, which is probably Fort Lauderdale. I don't know. Is that Tampa Bay? Yeah.

In Florida? Yeah. In Florida. Yeah. And then like the majority of Tennessee, but not the part that Appalachian Mountain goes in. Most of Alabama. That's Alabama. Except for a random middle part. Yeah.

So what's your problem with the deep south besides the donkey dick cutting into Alabama? Yeah. besides the donkey dick cutting into alabama um yeah that random like phallic shape that swoops through mississippi and alabama that's the gulf the gulf coast yeah that's not on the coast not on the coast yeah florida not the south it's florida yeah and then yeah i don't agree with florida being on there so i actually think it's florida i actually think and this is like total bias because i'm was raised in south carolina um i don't i don't i don't like that the so i don't like that the the coast of South Carolina is considered mid-Atlantic.

Yeah, that's not accurate. Are you offended by that? Yeah, I am. Like, South Carolina is first to secede. We're the deepest to the south as the south is. Like, where that bad boy? Like, literally in Charleston, buddy. Like, come on. And North Carolina is interesting

because it technically has three of these regions in it. It's Appalachia, deep south, and mid-Atlantic. And North Carolina is interesting because it technically has three of these regions in it. It's Appalachia, Deep South, and Mid-Atlantic. So I'm becoming more of a North Carolina fan now that I'm in the upstate of South Carolina. I'm going in North Carolina way more. Duke or Tar Heel? My mom went to Chapel Hill, so I'll always. Tar Heels. She's happy if it's Go Heels.

But no, I just mean like being in the upstate of South Carolina, I go into North Carolina a lot to fish. And I would say that that region they have done have brown there is dead on correct. Okay. Because you go up towards Asheville, you go up towards, you start to get hippies, start getting to Appalachia, you start to get conservationists, which you could be a conservationist, not a hippie, just saying.

It's true. I think that part's interesting i disagree with north carolina the lower mid-atlantic maybe i don't understand what mid-atlantic means maybe i don't either it's i think it's like around the middle of the atlantic and then this is like the lower part uh yeah i don't know all right as far as like anything that we can agree with i think i love that there's no complaints about the Northeast. No. Yep.

Everything up there is Patriot Red. Done. I have no... Mountain West. That's good. Yeah. Mountain West. Oh, yeah.

Mountain West. Southwest. Well... I still find it's weird that California is a region, but not the whole state is in it. So, I kind of agree. I get it a little bit. Because it kind of looks like maybe Sacramento is not California. I don't know.

You were talking earlier, Mike. I guess it's kind of like the Sierras. About the areas of California. Yeah. Well, I was just complaining that people from other parts of the country are like california sucks i'm like no you just watch too much fox news that's true like go to california and go an hour outside of la of any city i will show you cowboys like with cows and horses and cowboy hats doing rancher stuff way more than you've ever done. Oh, yeah, good. In, I don't know.

Texas. I don't want to name a state. So that guy we were talking about earlier on the Jesse Daniels? Yeah. California. California. Yeah. John Party, California.

I like California. I like California, too. California is... I lived there for a little bit. The problem is I understand why people want to attack it but they've never been and understood that like they're if the things that you don't like about it are certain things which is not important to bring up those are found in like the major cities but like there are cowboys there there are gold miners there there are hikers there there are fishermen there there are hunters there

conservationers there there's a patagonia patagonia store at cardiff by the sea 49 it was founded there yeah 49ers 49 49ers are there california they're gonna win the super bowl i gotta say though my i think the deep deep part of this that i agree with the most is the Southwest. They're cutting out a lot of Texas. So, but here's why I say that. You know I'm a big El Paso fan. Yeah. When I'm in El Paso, I do not feel like I'm in Texas.

I would agree with that. So I live. I feel like I am, I could say Mexico. Fair enough. I already good at that so I live I feel like I am I could say Mexico fair enough but I feel like Southwest and where they've cut out all that kind of feels it's a different feeling El Paso than DFW then Houston then uh Austin like it's yeah no I'd agree yeah So I lived in Fort Stockton, Texas, which is right in the quote unquote Southwest. It's like right on that border. Yeah. Of heart of Texas and Southwest. Fort Stockton is very Texas.

It's about, it's like West Tech, Midland. Midland. Yeah. Midland. I would say it's like a tiny Midland. Odessa. Odessa. Long neck.

Long way, way to go. What a good Odessa. Odessa. Long neck, long way to go. What a good Odessa. Odessa. So, like I said, as far as this map goes, controversial. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. Yeah, and then also I just wanted to bring up Alaska and Hawaii. Just by themselves?

These are just states. These aren't regions. I mean, it's true. When I think of the country, I think of the Continental 48 because I only think of the country as to how to ship plates to it. Alaska and Hawaii

are their own things. You ain't getting plates. You can get plates. We'll get them to you. Sorry, Hawaii and Alaska. We will not ship you plates, but Grant will. The strength co-will. The Continental 48 is different. sorry hawaii and alaska we will not ship you plates but grant will strength the strength co will continental 48 is different our competing plate brand that we're gonna start up does not

yeah it does not the okay plates okay they're like pig okay um well i think we should then wrap up with uh i don't feel like we've talked enough about lifting i don't think we've touched on it yeah i don't think we've talked well no we talked a little about grants lifting we talked about car oh i guess i talked a little first of all amateur lifting update amateur lifting update we're here for let me see what i did yesterday we'll pull it up real quick yeah pull it up your wife has an app that she said was stupid yeah so i asked i she asked me questions and i just copy pasted the questions and asked grant bot and and sent her the answer she said thanks she was way better than my ass she was pretty excited about it all right so i squatted yesterday okay 275.

three sets five three sets five felt good don't do novice press Press, 135. Progress. Nice. Felt good. Deadlift, 335. Okay. So I'm doing 10 pounds. So you're still deadlifting heavy each time? Yeah. Okay. So I'm doing it, like I said.

You deadlifted three times a week? Yes. It moved easy. Still felt good. Doing 10-pound jumps on squat and deadlift. Nice. And then I'm doing five-pound jumps. I actually lowered. That press was kind of hard for me.

So I lowered it down to two-and-a-half increases. Two-and-a-half jumps. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then doing five – But you got them all. Yeah, got them all still, and then doing five-pound increases on the bench press.

So now I'm going to start incorporating Wednesday, Saturdays, bench press, Monday, Friday, press. Oh, an extra benching day. Exactly. So progress is going well. Yeah, still moving. So what's your amateur lifting question? Amateur lifting question.

So you walked into my gym today. The dojo, I saw it. Really nice. My F-250 squat rack. It kind of changed your opinion a little on the squat rack it did you saw the person update the chat the china chinaman squat rack is pretty okay that thing is that thing is hefty it's dirty it um yeah well what i told trey what i told you was it was more stable I thought I had more rackable options than I thought and that you should totally keep using it and you said I may put a

shed in the backyard and then rebuild the gym and I said at that point you should buy a new gym but right now dude I was that thing solid still yeah I mean takes up a lot of room it gets the job done if you're changing squat racks just for the sake of changing squat racks, and you put a different squat rack in there and your wife still can't park her car, don't change squat racks. Just keep lifting. But if you're redoing and need to... You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. So I guess the question I had this week, both of y'all walked in there. What is a gym item as I increase my home gym or add to it what's a gym item that maybe as you were building your own gym at home that you're like oh this is something i didn't know i needed do you have a take on that and then like maybe like when you got it you're like oh this was a game changer i'm thinking like maybe maybe it was chalk maybe it was uh i don't know a deadlift when i already have my answer i'm just curious what what jeff thinks let's sit in silence for a little bit i'm thinking i'm thinking on that silence all the people with the chinaman racks those poor souls by american by the strength go

china i got nothing comes to mind okay so the biggest thing that i would say that was a game changer is a game changer for me is not really fair for the home gym consumer okay but for someone that's built a few gyms and has worked out and built gyms um having the ability to have multiple stations so a lot of people i will tell to make an eight by eight rack take maybe two sheets of four by eight plywood put them together so it's eight by eight, put rubber on top and put your squat rack in the center or behind it. And then you can, you know, squat in one area and then deadlift in front of it, uh, which is nice. But even on

an eight by eight platform, you might run out a little bit of space. You might run out plates. Uh, but what I was in your gym today and I was looking at it and you have some extra rubber flooring now, which is nice, but I think the nicest thing is to have your squat rack separate from your deadlift platform. Okay. And this also requires that you have two barbells. It doesn't require it, but makes it really nice. It makes it nice. Yeah. And also that you have a full double-sided deadlift jack. So if you have your own deadlift station what's really nice you go in you do your squats you finish your squats and then you start pressing and like during your first rest set of presses you go over to your deadlift jack you jack up your other bar you put

135 on and you put it at rest and and you pull a set of five 135 easy day you're a 335 pound dead lifter that's not going to take away from your presses lightweight yeah you go into your second set of presses boom you go and put 225 on the bar okay and you pull a set of three but just like not having like put it all away so like when i worked at the shrinko custom mesa or when we had the villa park gym or when i do the one in greenville south carolina like i was benching heavy uh lately i've been if i have a bench and deadlift day i've found that like squats i like to do first but deadlift i like to do my upper body lift first i just i don't know when i go into the deadlift i feel like the deadlift is kind of like harder to warm up.

So I like to like bench first or press first, whatever I have to do that day. So I'm benching and I work up my first triple on the bench. I have five sets total and boom, I hit it. I'm like, oh, let me go set up my deadlift. I hit 135. I walk around the gym, get some steps in, come back, hit my second triple, bench or deadlift 225 you know and so it's not so much to save time i mean it is to save time but it's just you feel kind of more efficient but i think because you're using that whole gym yeah like if you had it set up a little bit differently i think having two stations is kind of nice and even like where your plates are stored because

you have those extra plates yeah right so you can take two of those nice strength of 45s you have having your deadlift platform and then have those rubber weights with a slightly smaller diameter over there yeah and then like that's like your deadlift setup and it never leaves right because you're squatting 275 right now correct so you don't need 845s on that rack right and i just think those that's like a weird nice nice nice to have and it just makes the the prop like i don't know just feels smoother so i need to buy if only i yeah this one who has sold more plates but i don't think you need more plates i mean let's say i'm gonna play it's yeah you're gonna play it i might need another bar well you need another bar because you don't have a bar with a center neural and that is a game changer that is a game changer i've given

it to clients gotten clients to purchase it bar with no center neural at your weight squatting the difference of that bar gripping your back and holding on you will not believe it and you could do a fix right now you take an athletic tape and you could tape the middle it would help and you bet Oh grants right and then by the bar but the middle bought that middle knurling is huge and your bar that you have right now and inspire bar that's 28 millimeter great deadlift bar more whip on it you're gonna be able to pull more weight on take that inspire, put it on your deadlift platform, then get a Strength Coat bar.

You will be so happy you did. I better buy a bar. Tonight? Which one do you recommend? Wait, hold on. Core bar? Standard bar? So in his particular scenario,

I would definitely recommend a Core bar. That's what I would say. Because you have a 28 millimeter. Abby can deadlift with a 28 millimeter. Okay. You can deadlift with a would say because you have a 28 millimeter abby can deadlift with the 28 millimeter okay um you can deadlift with a 28 millimeter because you have more flex i'd recommend the 28 and a half millimeter for people that are looking for one bar to solve all issues so it has a little bit more flexion you deadlift it's a little bit smaller if you have smaller hands but it has a center neural it's stiff enough the knurling is aggressive enough that i

can deadlift heavy on it but your wife can also deadlift on without being like oh my thumbs are getting ripped off was like the 29 is super stiff when she's going to be hard on the deadlift yeah you can make arguments that that's better but it's going to be harder um but the knurling's more aggressive you're probably going to like it you're a big huge texan ready to grab it you just finish but but abby may not like it yeah right may not like the 29 so i think for you you get that 29 millimeter it's stiff great for your presses great for your benches great for your squats aggressive center neural deadlift on your inspire bar 28 millimeter you get some flex on it and then once in a while you might be like hey let me see how this knurling feels on the core bar compared to the other one and i bet um i won't say i bet you'll like the grip

of it better but then you'd be like oh i can tell the difference with this millimeter gotcha yeah i know we're talking about meters earlier, but millimeters, half a millimeter. These are different meters. Oh, okay. But it makes a big, big difference. Okay. And the grip on your back is... Speaking of Abby, can we get a round of golf clap

for Shader PR on Deadlift this week? Outstanding work. Abby, shout out. Golf clap? Yeah, Abby. Yeah. Well, any saved rounds? I got one. Okay? I got one.

Okay. I got one. Jeff always has a saved round. Shout out. Yeah. So you need a shout out to

your brother, Caleb. Oh, big Caleb. Big fan of your surgeries. We think you're doing awesome.

Yeah. Keep going. Caleb. We need a doctor. If you need a doctor, call us.

We'll, we'll cook. You'll be healthy and fix. Free surgeries is what I heard. Free surgeries. I heard he was going to give you a free surgery.

He could replace your doctor in like an hour. Caleb MD. Yeah. I guess the only safe round I got, super excited about the Arnold. Now you have a safe round. Super excited about the Arnold.

Yes. Oh, yes. I just want to remind everybody, next time we'll all be together will be the Arnold. I plan on doing a podcast up just want to remind everybody, next time we'll all be together. Yep. We'll be the Arnold. I plan on doing a podcast up there, right? Yeah, we'll do a live podcast kind of like this at the Arnold.

This chair, I'm going to pack the chair. Lord willing and the creek don't rise. A little podcast studio. First week into March, we're excited about it. Yeah. Coming up quick. Got some big deadlifters coming in so arnold be cool sponsoring again we'll hopefully have a road trip up maybe on the way it's in the works

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