The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 51: Influencers, Diets & Philly Cheesesteaks

Episode Date: December 20, 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 08:01 - Top Strength Creators 20:52 - The Diet For Your Goals 31:43 - Drill 43:35 - Philly Story 46:46 - Moving 50:16 - Adoption 52:57 - Cheesesteaks 01:02:06 - Vinyl’s 01:08:19- Christmas Plans 01:19:39 - Future of the Podcast 01:23:27 - Saved Rounds

All right. Welcome back to episode 051 of the OK. OK. OK. Guidance. OK. OK. Podcast powered by the strength. I'm your host, Grant Brogi joined with major Jeff Biggie, Utah Mormon type coming from the greater salt Lake city area. And Mr. Trey got latched the third, uh, Robert got latched the third, typically known as Trey today's date is December 9th in the year of our Lord 2024. And we are broadcasting from the upstate of South Carolina. The block height is 874051. Shout out Zach Copley. You might be listening to this and saying, wait, you're recording on December 9th. I just listened to an episode

last week, episode 050 with with none other than this podcast sponsor's BW Tax. By the way, that guy is a good dude. Good dude. Good dude. Good dude. Good dude. Good dude.

How has nothing changed? Something has changed. The block height has continued to grow. Besides that, the date has not changed. We have not reached midnight yet. We may, I hope not. But yes, we are indeed recording two episodes back to back because my buddy is moving. And according to BW has been moving for a month, which is incorrect, but it feels like a year and deploying. And so one of the

things we're going to talk about tonight is the future of the okay podcast. But we also have other fun things to talk about trays in Vegas. First time, a visitor, long time viewer. Jeff just finished up a drill weekend. I just finished up a drill weekend. And the next time we record, which will be on the right side of Christmas, we'll be recording from California, which will be episode zero five two, which means we'll have made it a year. Wow. But man, we could talk college football, but we can't because nothing's changed from last week. I mean, a lot has changed by the time this airs, but nothing that we can say now. And

with that, Jeff, what do we got on the slide deck? I mean, we have to talk about the first topic. Trey, can you cover the first topic before Jeff even comes on Trey? What's the first topic? Oh, gentlemen, the trash. It took me a minute. Yeah. Is that can, is that empty yet? Just crack this one. I threw my last one away. Don't be mad. Okay. So we'll call that future trash. We know what to do with that once it's empty, right? I call that FOTS. FOTS, future trash.

Future of trash. Yeah. Secure your trash. Before we go over to Jeff for the agenda, I will give a quick story and we may talk about some of this later, but we had our yellow ribbon event, well, my buddy did in Philadelphia, which is a DOD required event for units deploying. They'll fly family members out and they received a lot of information about,

pay entitlements, benefits, like if you're, now that you're an active duty Marine, a lot of the guys I'm, my buddies taken, uh, have not been activated before. So they go over all the changes and all that stuff. I had to speak twice in the beginning and at the end. Well, I spoke about five times because every time everyone was falling asleep, because the speakers were boring, I tried to pep the crowd up. But at the end, uh, you know, we, we, I get up and I kind of lay out the next three months,

how it's going to look, you know, what parents can expect in terms of talking to their Marines and, and sailors. And, and then we're, we're, we're, we're pretty much done. And and then like the, the DOD lady, you know, gets up as I finish and I'm looking around and there's just trash everywhere. Like the tables, like people just been consuming snacks and water bottles. And so she finishes, you know, people are standing up grabbing their stuff. And I'm like, Godfather. And everyone just like stops dead in their tracks and looks back. I'm like, Hey, we live this place better than we found it. That's what

Godfather does. You secure all that trash and those trash bins on either side." And I'm like, okay. And they're like, oh, and then they got rid of all the trash. And I was like, ah, I wish I could have filmed that for an okay podcast reel. But all the trash was secured. Yeah, it'd been nice. Do you show any Godfather clips from the movie? Yeah. I made them watch it on a bus on the way back from Fort Drum. It's a great movie. But yeah, I made him watch it on a bus on the way back from Fort drum. It's great movie. Yeah, it really is. I rewatched one and two lately. I don't know that I've ever seen three. I've never seen three. Yeah. Yeah. I know that when it came out. I mean, not that I

was like alive and watching movie. Well, I think it came out in the 80s. But I know that I was it. movie. Well, I think it came out in the 80s. But I know that I was it. Let's say it was like 1990. Okay, so I said 80s I could have meant 92. I'm gonna go with 1992. Jeff 89 1990 on the nose. But I know I know that at the time it like received like, oh, this is not good. Like one was the best and two was like, you know, really good and three sucks, but I've heard it's making a resurgence. So yeah,

I'm sure I'll watch all three. But yeah, no, it's good. God Father one. It's just it's just a movie that you need to like, sit down and pay attention. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And have three hours on your hands. Abby hated it. Because of that reason. Yeah. Yeah. No, I get that. I get that. There's there's movies that I haven't watched for that reason. So movies that I have watched in like there will be blood underrated.

I've never seen that. That's a good three hour movie. Yeah, it's Yeah. Are you worried? Are you more of a Godfather one or two? Yeah. I think I gotta say one. I mean, two, two, two is good, but yeah, one, I mean, it's just the, Hey, come on. Like it sets the stage, but no, I think two is a great movie. Yeah. I think two is a great movie. I'm just, I'm just waiting for Godfather six. Oh wait, he's right here. Oh, I was getting into that description of the movie of Godfather one.

Hey, you know, Oh, now I know it's about I understand. Yeah. Great movie. This episode is brought to you by BW tax. We're in tax season. It's December. This is going to release. Let's see. When does this release? This will release. It's gotta be real close to Christmas. This is released the 20th. So Christmas cheers in the air. Actually, I'll tell you this right now. If you're listening to this, I'm wearing right now the 2023 Christmas tea and the 2024 Christmas tea is actually selling like hotcakes. We've sold more than we've

ever made, uh, sold before and we're, we've made more than we've ever made before. And there may be a few left and you may be doing this. It's the 20th. Uh, the back looks like a Chris. Oh, that, that looks like a Turkey pole. Maybe I think you're right. I think it's Turkey pole. Yeah. Nevermind. Disregard, disregard, disregard. But if you buy this thing, um, it probably potentially could land Christmas Eve. It could potentially land Christmas day, probably land like the 26 if you buy it as you're listening to

this, but you know what it'll land in time for when Christmas is over and you got to go see all those aunts and uncles and cousins at some other party that's like three days later and you can bring them a strength co Christmas wreath t-shirt. So go buy the Christmas shirt. Hmm. Hmm. Hi, Jeff. All right, gentlemen, commanders, sergeants, major ops, owes chaplains, staff, random Warren officers in the corner

that I don't know what you do. Sailors, Warren officers, no, they're not here. Administrators, Intel, Bubba's gentlemen slide. First agenda slide we got here. Let's take it over to Trey's lifting question. Trey, do you want to ask it or do you want me to read this one? I, you read it. I'll have you read it.

Okay, so Trey's lifting question. I thought this was a good one. Right, I know StrengthCo puts out a lot of great information out there with their YouTube videos and stuff like that. So if you haven't subscribed to the StrengthCo's YouTube, go do it right now. Okay, now you've subscribed. What's a count at on that?

Let me look that up before we go into this question. We're under 35, we're over 30. You're keeping towards 30. Are you over 30? Yeah, we're at 31,077. Dang. That's a lot of people. It's like Luxembourg, dude. When we reach the capacity of an A&M football game, I'll be happy. Ooh, that's a good goal. That's a good goal. You're getting close, man. Yeah, I'm getting close. You're getting close.

Right now we're like at a Texas high school. Yeah. In Texas, we just call that high school. Yeah, we just call that a high school. High school football. It's tough. It's tough to get 30,000 followers against tall grass. Do you?

Alright, lifting question. Say all that to say that what other good content makers, whether it's social media, YouTube, kind of in that like strength, health influencer kind of world. Is there anyone that you, you see their stuff and you're like, that's pretty good to go. Um, and then on the flip side of that, like, do you see people that have big followers and you don't necessarily have to like call them out by name if you don't want to trash them, but maybe you do. I think you probably should call them out. So people know to like, hey, this guy is putting out

just terrible info. Do the good one first. I'm curious who- Like is there anybody that comes to mind? You're like, hey. This would be a good one that I should have done some research on. But maybe it's better off the cuff

and we'll do it off the cuff. We like it off the cuff here. And we're a little bit busy now. My buddy's moving. He's getting ready to deploy. Christmas is coming. And so the OK Podcast listeners that don't like when I do this, I'm going to do it anyway because time is of the essence. Hey guys, and welcome back. It's Grant Brody from the Strength Co. And today I want to talk about the best fitness influencers besides me on YouTube. If you like the video, like and subscribe to the channel.

Okay. There's a lot of people on the internet telling you what you should do, when you should do it, on strength, on health, on fitness. I mean, you got women all over Instagram telling you about their booty routines. The list goes on and on and on. But I'm going to tell you people that I look up to and like and think that they are worth your time. The first one that comes to mind when I get this question right off the cuff, and I'm doing this in one rant, is Dr. Peter Attia. Dr. Peter Attia is a big fan of strength training. He thinks you should be strong as you age. And he also has a big focus on longevity.

He's going to talk about fasting. He's going to talk about why you should deadlift. He's going to talk about squatting. He's going to talk about muscular atrophy as you get older. And he has a very intellectual perspective on how to do this. And he's a doctor. What am I? I'm just a Marine. A doctor is way better. Number two that I like, I don't like everything that they say, but I think they say some good things that are worth watching is biolane. I forget his real name, Lane Norton. Lane Norton is his real name. He's a world record holder in some federation of some type of powerlifting. He's very strong. He does like a crazy warm up and swings his arms and gets really jacked up to deadlift, which is a little over the

top for me personally. But he does a lot where he calls out people on diet stuff, like is Coca-Cola bad for you? You know, the truth about cholesterol, all kinds of different stuff. And I think he's a good follow and a good watch in terms of health stuff. And if you're not subscribed to his channel, you should be. I don't love 100% of it, but I like the majority of it. And I think he's a good one to watch. Number three, and I know you're going to think I'm crazy. Well, actually I got to do number three. No, I got to say what I was going to say is number three as number five, because five, number three that I would say that puts a lot of good stuff about pain and injury. As a barbell coach, people struggle

with pain and injury. Most of the pain and injury that happens doesn't happen in the gym, but they always blame it on the gym. And if you go to most doctors, not Dr. Peter Atiyah, but other doctors, most people tell you not to lift weights, stay out of the gym for six weeks, don't lift things over 20 pounds. And while I don't agree with a lot of programming advice and stuff from these guys, Barbell Medicine, I do think they have some good stuff on pain and that, you know, what you think is happening to you is probably not as bad as it is. Again, this is not... I don't agree with everyone. It's like Southern Baptist. No two preachers agree on every piece of theology, right? They never do. I don't agree with them on everything, but I do think their approach to pain and

to live through it and to keep going is good. Barbell medicine, you will learn stuff. Number four, number four, number four for health and overall wellness. And this may be controversial, but I like him and I like him a lot. He lifts heavy. He does not mess around and it's got to be Dr. Sean Baker, the carnivore. I'm not saying everyone should go carnivore, but I like all of his stuff. He's funny. He presents it well. He's down to earth. He doesn't have fancy microphones and lights on him. He's just a dude. I think he's 57 and he just lifts and does this thing. And he talks about diet. So you may not have to go carnivore, but you will learn a lot from Dr. Sean Baker about eating habits and what types of food to eat. And if he's going to be selling you carnivore meat only, or, you know, he has a couple different

variations that he says you can do, but he's also going to be teaching you about the badness of seed oils and overprocessed foods. And I think Sean Baker is a worthwhile follow. Number five, number five, number five, which leads me into what I don't like. And I'll start with what I don't like. What I don't like is all these quick fix fitness influencers. Hey, just, you know, run this 30 day program. Women do this thing against the wall and buy this one mat for me and do these pushups and lift your legs in weird ways. I mean, it's all over the internet. Everyone has a $10 plan. And so I don't like that. What I do like is number five is starting strength because it works for new lifters and most people that are consuming YouTube

content and actually following it are beginners. And I think there's no better program than the starting strength program for really strength and health. Because if you're stronger, it impacts every aspect of physical fitness. And if you get stronger, you'll get faster and all of those things. Again, Southern Baptist theology. Am I a five-point Calvinist?

No. Do I agree with every single thing that they say? No. Do I think that everyone should be 272? No. But I do think if you want to improve your overall health, starting strength is a good place to start. It's in the name, it's starting strength.

And I think that you should follow that channel and run the program and get your strength base up before you worry about things like, should I do carnivore diet? Should I get my cardio up? Should I do all of these other things? You should get strong first. If you like the video, like, subscribe to the channel. See you next time. That's pretty good for off the cuff. I had another one. Yeah, I think that I would have gone. I would have gone Stan Efforting. I always, he's always pops up. Who always pops up is, was that squat university?

Yeah. Squad university. Okay. They're like, they're like the Methodist church with the trans lag. Yeah. First, you know, I like, I like, I like church. I like church. Like some Methodists. Now you went too far.

No, no, I'm I joke. Yeah, I don't know. I see some stuff and I think it's like great. I think they overcomplicate things. Like I think they just over, over, overcomplicate a lot of stuff. Um, and, but they're great editors. They're great editors. I'll give them that like show like someone's spine and like the muscles like are flaming up around it and you show it like it's really a captivating, but I don't think it's a worthless follow. I think they

say stuff that I like. I mean, they sell squat shoes, so they tell people to wear squat shoes. But I mean, I think I don't hate that guy. Yeah. Squat university. What else pops up in your mind? There's worse ones up there. Who else pops up a lot? I get a lot of Andrew Huberman. I do not like Andrew Huberman. He's a robot. Yeah. You think he's, yeah, very too scientific. I just think it's too rigid. I just think it's too rigid. Like, and I think it's unpractical. You know, like wake up and I'm going to butcher the routine, but it doesn't matter. It's like wake up, go outside and sit in the sun and do mindfulness and then come in and don't have coffee for this

amount of time. And then only have this much coffee. And like, yeah, it's like, not realistic. I throw a two month old into your life. Cool, man. If I was a robot, that'd be great. Or who's the guy that is like redoing his health? Jeff's trying to like reverse aging. He's big on X. Brian Johnson. He's like redoing. He's like trying to like age backwards. Like he looks, he's an interesting looking dude. Yeah. Interesting looking. Yeah. Have you looked him up, Jeff? Brian Johnson? trying to like age backwards like he looks he's an interesting looking dude yeah interesting looking yeah have you looked him up jeff brian johnson uh i've just heard of him he's like he's like a billionaire or something like that that's like yeah it looks like he's made in the lab dumping money into reversing this yeah i never see the point i'm that's the point i'm making is like

it's not practical like well you can do this because you're a billionaire and i don't think he's doing it i mean everyone's selling something but I don't think he's doing it. I mean, everyone's selling something, but I don't think he's doing it to like sell a product. He's already a billionaire. I think he's actually doing it to like be young again. But but it's like, okay, cool. But this seems impossible for like people with normal lives. Is the other one I get a lot Paul, person first one to ask. Corn? Saladino? No. I, Saladino. I get Paul Saladino a lot. I don't know that I've ever seen that. He's a big Oregon meats guy.

He's an MD. Kind of, yeah, carnivore. He preaches carnivore and stuff like that. He's Paul Saladino. He's like carnivore MD or something like that is his... Okay. And he's not carnivore. It's animal-based diet. It's not carnivore MD or something like that is his, his, uh, he. Okay. And he's not carnivore. It's animal based diet. It's not carnivore diet. Cause he eats like fruits, uh, raw, big raw honey fruits, Oregon meat, any kind of meat. He's big, big part of that. Okay. So he has some, he has some issue ones like, Hey, cause he, he, I saw a video where it's

like, Hey, can you get, can you do animal based diet at Walmart? Can you do animal based diet at Costco? And he'll kind of go through and do that stuff. So it's pretty interesting. Oh, we forgot liver King. He's number one. He's number one. What goes without saying? Primal. Liver is, you got the whole feast. I don't know. Let's, let's just conversational and I don't think I have that much energy to do another one of those right now. But maybe we still get a video of it. Go ahead. So the other question I had on there was as a coach, I was going to have you kind of on

the topic of like diet. Like what would you tell three different phases? Let's say someone who was bulking, someone who was maintaining, someone who was cutting weight or losing weight. What would you tell them? Hey, eat this many calories, avoid these things, like that kind of stuff. As far as strictly the strictly diet.

So bulking, maintaining your cutting. Correct. Yeah. And are these people strength training? Yes. Not Yeah, shrink. They're in the program. They come to you and your coach, you know, okay. Yeah, okay. I mean, it's a numbers game really, to start with, like, if you want to get bigger, you have to be in a caloric surplus. Period. If you

want to get smaller, you have to be in a caloric deficit. So if you wanted to bulk, you know, I would have you track your food, but I really wouldn't because no one tracks their food correctly. It's just difficult. What do you mean by that? You eat things at times you don't realize you're eating or some people put cream in their coffee and they don't see that as a meal. Or some people eat breath mints while they go to spin class and they don't realize that that's calories.

And so I don't love... Counting can be useful if someone's regimented, but it's tough to count them all. But if someone's bulking, I would just say, hey, you need to get in a surplus. Natural whole foods are better for you. So I've done carnivore, I like carnivore, but meat-based stuff that's from a good source is calorically dense unless it's chicken. It's usually pretty high in fat. So it has a lot of calories. You should eat a lot of that. You should eat a lot of one source carbohydrates. So your rices, your potatoes, that sort of things,

they're high in starch. they have a lot of carbs. And fruits and veggies can be good too. But I would tell someone that's bulking, you just have to get your intake way up. And if you're actually trying to bulk, and to me, someone's trying to bulk is like, hey, I'm 160 right now. I don't want to be 200 pounds. Don't come to me and say you want to go to bulk. I'm like, what's your goal? Well, I'm 160. I want to be 165. Brother, you just need to add in some chocolate milk every day. You're fine. But if you actually want to make your life and your body look different, the caloric intake has to go through the roof. And so it depends how old you are too. So if you're older and older to me is probably over 50, but if you're over 35, like your metabolism's different,

your testosterone's dropping. And so if you're a slob as you bulk, meaning you're eating McDonald's, KFC, cheeseburgers, you're eating a pizza, like it'll work, you'll get bigger. You'll go from 160 to 200, but you'll also put it on, everyone's gonna gain some fat, but you put it on your belly and stuff,

and it's harder to lose as you get there. It's harder to lose. So if the goal is to bulk and then cut, if you're older, it's harder to lose later. So I would try and guide people to more healthy foods to bulk. If you're younger, you're also probably poorer. So I'd be like, hey, just get to 200 pounds

and like we'll fix whatever body fat you put on later. Maintaining, I don't really ever get the, I don't get many goals to maintain. Like you don't have like, well, well. You need to keep eating these amount of protein or? Well, usually it's, it's, hey, I weigh 200 pounds and I have a belly. And I would like to have more muscle mass. So I don't want to gain weight. But how do I stay 200 pounds in recomposition? That's, that's more likely when I see what I see in the maintain world.

And generally that answer is higher protein, limit fats, moderate carbs kind of deal. Proteins what's going to build the structural muscle when you're outside of the gym. Fats are going to be calorically dense and they often come with your protein. So I don't like people to chase fats. Most people like the way they eat. There's nothing to get. I like almonds. I like pistachios. I like peanuts. There's nothing wrong with that. But if you're not trying to gain weight, I'm like, hey, don't eat almonds as a snack. Just eat rib eyes and pork chops and things that also possess a high protein count and you're already going to get your fats and then figure out the carbohydrate throttle

where well, if I eat this many carbs, I start to see my body weight increase. So I want to keep them in some kind of range. And then cutting, cutting is just if you are, just depends, right? So if you're overweight, like, so I'm like 228 right now. I've put on baby weight, I've been busy, right? I like to be 215, I'm 228. I could go from 228 to 220 by dialing everything in relatively fast. But to me, cutting is like at the end, like you're super lean. And I think what most people don't

realize there is that like every single calorie counts. And so, and you're kind of miserable on a cut. Like the first it's fun, Your weight starts dropping. But let's say, I want to say right now, so I want to go down to 205, Jeff's weight. Man, 228 to 218. Pretty easy. I just stopped being a jerk. And it's like last minute, baby's crying in the backseat, quick, pulling the Chick-fil-A. I shouldn't really eat this, but I don't want to cook later, eat a Chick-fil-A sandwich, right? You just cut out those things and you like build habits of beef and rice and more lean stuff and you'll drop the weight. But then I get a 218 and I want to go to 208. Now it's like, all right, well, like, should I cook with butter? You know, should I?

That's when you're like weighing stuff. Yeah, weighing and measuring to like get to the final goal. That's what I liked about carnivore as a diet was that you'd never had the way and measure. And the rule was very simple. Like you can eat anything that comes from a face that had a face and it came from it, you can eat it. And from a face that had a face and it came from it, you can eat it. And it was simple. So it's like, I'm going to cook this rib and I'm put a bunch of butter on it. But I'm not having any carbohydrates, any veggies, I'm

not having any fruits, I'm not having anything else. And so the rule is simple. What's hard is when you're eating all food groups and you're trying to cut because that's where like weighing and measuring comes in. But yeah, I don't know if I answered it, but I would say if you're bullshitting, yeah, you got to get at a big surplus. I mean, for most people that I deal with, they're weak. And even if they're older, like they're weak. I'm like, you have to get strong because when you get strong, your metabolism is going to go up, like your ability to do things going to get strong. Because when you get strong, your metabolism is going to go up, your ability to do things is going to get up. And now I'm strong. We're stronger than

I was, right? And you're like, well, now I went from 160 to 185, but I have a little bit of a belly. So it's like, okay, let's cut a little bit and then go from there. And then I also think when you see the big power lifters are 300 pounds, you don't want to be that. And when you see the 175 pound bodybuilder, I know they come in all different sizes. I'm talking normal people, not unroids out of their mind. But if you see that, when a guy has a six pack and every ab is shredded and he's 40 and he's not 18, he's miserable, right? It's, I don't think it's something that you should hold all year. So it's like kind of like phases, you know,

but I think you should bulk and then come down because you'll lose some strength, you'll lose your peak strength, but you'll still be better off than you were. So anyway, that's my thoughts. No, it was good, man. Do you ever push like the fasting or intermittent fasting for your clients?

Yeah. I mean, yeah, I do. I think it's really good. I usually fast every year in January. I'll do an extended fast. I mean, I've done three, five, I think I also have done six days because it kind of just resets the brain in terms of like, we live in a society where it's okay, I wake up, I should eat something. Well, it's lunchtime, I should eat something. Let's dinner time, I should eat something like I won't be able to think or work if I don't eat something. You know, like, when you fast, you're miserable at first. And then you're like, Oh, I don't

really need food. So I like people to do it. I particularly do it with people that need to lose a lot of weight. It all depends on the person, right? The diet coaching is not diet coaching. It's, it's psychiatry. And so a lot of times, I'll try to see how serious the person is. So I'll recommend like a 24 like, Hey, you're going to wake up on Tuesday and not eat until Wednesday. Because you're trying to see if like they can break as it's like you're trying to get someone to quit smoking. And it's you know,

there I mean, there's tons of books and stuff like how to quit smoking or whatever. But it's, it's like, you can kind of tell some how serious someone is, if it's like, they won't do it for a period of time. But in terms of coaching people to fasting, it's more like lifters that are very consistent and have been lifting a long time when they're looking for stuff. And back to like Peter Atiyah, he has a lot of good stuff on like the stem cell regeneration health from fasting.

And so, I mean, I think it's a good thing. It's going to impact your lifts. Yeah, you're gonna lose some muscle mass. Yeah. But I think there's other good things that happen. And I also think there's like a mental reset in terms of the requirement to get in these intervals. So yeah, I was actually just thinking about that today because my buddy will head off on January 2nd at 29 Palms. And I usually fast like January 2nd to like the 6th, 7th, or 8th, somewhere in there. Like, so New Year's over. I'm like, all right, let me reset the year with a fast.

And I was like, I might have to fast like right after Christmas. Well, it's a good thing that the Marine Corps forces your buddy to buy MREs. Yeah, they're super healthy. Yeah. New bulking video, a case of MREs. Jeff, how was drill?

I felt like one continuous meeting. Went by fast. It was good lesson learned, not going to fly in or out of Long Beach Airport again. Oh, was it bad? It was. So the airport itself is great, but like the sketch. So my flight out of Salt Lake City, I picked a later flight because I was like, okay, my wife is off on this Friday. I'll fly out at like 8 30 p.m. 20 30 for you military types. Flight gets delayed and then we get on finally board the plane and then there's like a big long to like de ice the plane. So we probably we left like an hour and a half late in Salt Lake. I thought you were

saying you were deicing in Long Beach. What, no. And then so finally land in Long Beach, roll over to the rental car facility. Yeah, they close it like 10 or something like that. It's like 10.50 at this point. Yeah, interesting business practice to just close before the last flight of the day gets in, but whatever. So then just Uber to the hotel. But I know it

was, it was overall, it was good. Did you get the rental car the next day or you just had no rental? Well, I just didn't. I like had no time to break away. So I just didn't go get it. Were you able to cancel it? Working on that right now. So yeah, love it. Love it. And then so Saturday night, go out to eat and me and my battery first sergeant and he's like, Hey, where is this hotel? There's this great Irish pub, just like a couple blocks from the hotel. We'll roll over there. You're at the Aries again.

We're there. He's in fountain Valley. Oh yeah. And so you know, you know what their slogan is? No. A great place to live. So it's like, I think it's an unincorporated city. There's a lot of those kind of in California and within Orange County. And the sign there says Fountain Valley, a great place to live.

And there's two bars. One is Silky Sullivan's, which I'm going to give you more background that you don't even want to know in a second. I love it. And the other one is the bowling alley. And it's like very small, but it's like right between a bunch of big stuff. Wait, is that the bar name or is it an actual bowling alley? No, it's a bowling alley that has a bar in it. But like those are the two bars in Fountain

Valley. But I'll explain why I know this as Jeff continues his story. So then sneak preview. So we walk a few blocks and like, you know, there's no, we don't pass anything. That's like a restaurant or whatever. And I'm like, Hey, I thought you thought, I thought this thing was like super close to the hotel. And he's like, Oh wait, hold on. Let me pull up my phone. Oh yeah, we already passed it. And in my head, I'm like, okay, well no, we didn't pass anything. So we turn around, get to the spot where it's like And in my head I'm like, okay, well no, we didn't pass anything. So we turn around, get to the spot where it's like

on his phone, he's like, yup, this is it. And there's like a fence with like the kind of like netting on it to like little screen netting. Stand up on the curb, I'm like, okay, yup, that was definitely like a restaurant. Not there, definitely closed. So then pull out my phone, there's a pizza place, 10 minutes up the road.

We're like, hey, let's go get some pizza, cool. Head over there, sitting down, eating some pizza, drinking some beers. Does that place have a name? This place is The Lamp Post, The Lamp Post. Yeah, The Lamp Post, not in Found Valley. I'm sitting there, eating my pizza, and then from behind me, I hear, okay.

And I'm like, wait a minute. I turn around. It's big Connor. Big Connor is standing there. Um, from the strength Co. He's a fan of the podcast, you know, so the fans, they're out there, they're bothering us. They're interrupting our peace and quiet.

We're out trying to get a meal anywhere. Can't go anywhere. Who's the, who's the, who's the, who's the, who's the, who's the, who's the, who's the, who's the, when we're out trying to get a meal anywhere. Can't go anywhere. Who's the celebrity? Oh, John Cena. Yeah. John Cena look alike. Yeah. Oh, you were going after something else. I was going to say he's like the crazy, crazy fan. He's going to like murder the celebrity. No, I say he's like the listener that just texts me roast of every episode. Constructive criticism. Yeah.

Potential meme that you missed out on. Gee, thanks Gunnar. No, that was cool. So my mind was blown. I was a drill and that was my mind was that was during the Clemson SMU game. Yeah. And did you send me the photo or to Connor? I think I did.

And I was just like what in the world? I thought it was planned. Yeah, no, it wasn't planned. Totally random. And it was random for him to he He was trying to go somewhere else. And, uh, I forgot what he said. I think they just had Santa photos of his sister's birthday or something. And he was with, was he with coworkers or was he by himself?

No, he was with somebody else. I don't. Yeah, I didn't. Yeah. Anyway, in pizza. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but didn't. Yeah, anyway. He didn't eat pizza. Yeah. But yeah, Silky Sullivan's, Fountain Valley, great spot, good food, good shepherd's pie. And the owner is hilarious. I think he's the Sullivan and his first name might be Silky's. No, it's named after a horse that raced. And so whenever Connor would have an event at his house, like his daughter's

one year party or whatever, like during setup, he'd be like, maybe at Silky's. And so we go over there, it's like, it's just like a super cool spot, like old school Irish pub, but like family oriented, but then like a weird room where they play music sometimes. And like on Tuesday nights to do horse racing. But the horse racing is they play a VHS of like horse racing from the past. And like people, people, people bet on it. Um, and so since I think about 2020, the city has said that they were going to take that building back. And so he has posted the guys probably like 70 and he's like, hey, it's Silky Sullivan and we're closing.

So come in while you're still here, like over and over. And Connor and I have always been like, this is the best marketing scheme ever. Like tell all the locals you're closing, everyone comes in, never close. Like he'll help Connor will butcher me with constructive criticism after, but. I mean, that story lines up with what I got from him. Yeah. And so, but there was a yard sale there or like, like they, well, he probably told you.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I guess they were like, you know, we're actually closing and we're going to sell all the stuff from the, like the restaurant. He said he went down there trying to get some of the bar stools, ended up with like a Miller Lite tap handle. Yeah, he got something because he sent me a photo.

I think it was Miller Lite. And then I guess there was like a big sign that like was in like, yeah, concrete or cement. And they were going to like they they were removed it and like had it all like wrapped up and like ready to move because they're, you know, I think they're going to try to open somewhere else from what I gather. Uh, and then somebody rolled up with a truck and just yoink took that thing and now it's probably in somebody's garage somewhere and I was like, Oh, Connor, it's probably in your garage. Yeah, probably his encounters garage right next to the strength co flags.

So yeah, somebody stole it. That's cool. So there's a home site drill, home site drill, medical dental stand down. Yeah. Or are you a class two? Class two dental, got to get a cleaning. Hearing was great. Yeah, my hearing dropped last month. This one. Did we did you have to do it? The audiogram. Did we tell you? Yeah, we did. Did you have to do or you press and hold and you hold until you don't hear the

noise anymore? No, that was what ours was. And I was like, this is. Wow. Usually just like click into the game. But you had to press and hold until you didn't hear the noise. But no, mine and then the guy, the guy at the end did it a like a very, very thorough breakdown of like gentlemen, like here is your printout of your audiogram results. And like, this means this and this is this and this is like, and just like went on for there's

like a 10 minute speech. And I was like, damn, that was that was very informative. Wow. I've never had anything informative. They're just like, here's your results. I'm like, what does it mean? Like this? I don't know. 10. This is plus five. Yeah, it's like, what'd you say? Yeah. What was that? We had, um, so I had drilled this week in two is our last drill before my buddy's deployment. And, uh, we had the swim call and I'm here to tell you that Marines are amphibious. We are, we, we are ready And I was dreading it a little bit.

The last swim call I did was in 2020. And I had to do it because we were going to do like a fast rope training with third Anglico and like out of helicopters when we were fly over water. So like you had to have an intermediate to like do the training exercise. So I went into did the intermediate training and you know, you swim longer, whatever we talked about before. And this is basic.

And we're on Fort Dix, which is a joint base, but it's the pools like an army pool. And so there's no high dive. So we had to get a waiver not to do the high dive portion. And so we had to do all the other portions. And I love Godfather better. We're awesome. We're the best Marines to ever go forward and visit the first island chain. But man, like the swimming. So I'm like, I don't want to swim, man, a swim call.

And then I get there. And I'm like the first iteration. I'm like, man, I feel like Michael Phelps right now. I mean, it is just people can't swim, man. And out of, you know, 140 dudes, it's like two. But ultimately ended up being like a handful that you had to remediate over and over and over and something like. Can't go, but just the fear and the, it's just amazing. It's just absolutely amazing.

Yeah, because yeah, and there's like not lifeguards, but for you civilian types, there's like McQuish trained instructors, which are essentially like lifeguards, like all around the pool. So like, even if you go down, like you're going to be fine. But yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's needed, I guess, because it's tough. But but yeah, did the swim call and what else did we do? We were mainly like packing out stuff to go out to 29 Palms.

And then I had to like pack up all my gear, but I was also in like a slew of meetings. And so I ended up having like packet late one night and then yeah, then we did that event, the yellow ribbon event. Yeah. And that was that. And we sold a bunch of Godfather t-shirts and sweatshirts. Swag. Oh, yeah. Swag. Oh, so I goes there.

So yeah, that was drill. Thanks for paying taxes. Love drill. Good drill weekend. Yeah. Big, big, big drill guy. Speaking of Philly, looks maybe after your drill or the yellow ribbon, Cece from West Philly. looks to be after your drill or at the Yellow Ribbon. Cece from West Philly?

Who's this new friend? New listener of the podcast? We're tight. Yes, I did give her a sticker. So I'm flying Greenville to Philly and that direct flight is a great flight. Saves me a lot of time, but it's like, I don't know, I'm not a plane guy,

but it's like the smaller plane show. There's one seat on the left and two on the right and doesn't have Wi Fi. And so it's delayed a couple times, you know, de icing Greenville. No, I'm just kidding. I don't know why I was delayed probably because like the engine didn't work. But anyway, I get on the plane and then the flight attend's like a 65 year old black lady from West Philly. And she is just like bubbling with personality. And she's like walking back and down the aisle and saying this, you left your pocketbook and you know, all this stuff. And then she gets on the

mic. She's like, Hey y'all, this is C C from South from South, what was it, West Philly? West Philly. Yeah, from West Philly. And you about to go to the greatest city in the United States, Philadelphia. This is my sixth flight of the day. And a lot of y'all, y'all sitting there with your headphones on, you ain't listening to me.

If you ain't taking your headphones off, you messed up. You should have your headphones off right now, because Cee Cee is funny. You know what I always say, leave the money, take the cannoli, Godfather reference. I'll go further in a second. And she's like, no, now those in the exit row, grab your instructions in front of you,

take a look at that, I'm gonna come by and ask you a couple questions. I was in an exit row. And goes through a spiel, and I'm like, oh, I just appreciate that this woman enjoys her job. So then she comes in, she's like, now, I just like appreciate that this woman like enjoys her job. So then she comes in and she's like, now y'all going to Philly. You ain't going to West Philly only CC's from West Philly, but y'all going to Philly. So I got to ask you a couple of questions. And she like does the thing, but she actually like un Velcros, like the handle, which I've

never seen done before. And then asked, Oh, I'm in here. Yes. Yes. And she's like, what are you doing? What you going to Philly for? And I just like pulled up a photo of Isabella and I was like, oh, I just really wanted to leave my daughter for three days. She's like, boy, you tripping, like slaps me. And I go, well, by the way, it's leave the gun, take the cannoli.

She goes, you think I don't know the words to Godfather? I love Godfather one and two, some of my favorite movies, but I can't be saying gun on the microphone. And I was like, Oh yeah, you're, you're right. Yeah, that makes sense. You are correct. But no, she just had a ton of personality and it was really great and she loved her job and I really appreciate it. Yeah. So CC West Philly, if you fly American small planes, it's all she does small planes. And yeah, she said she's praying for my daughter. And I was like, I appreciate that. Big shout out. See the prayers

up. Yeah. Big shout out. CC. And I gave her a sticker for the okay podcast. So I said, I'm gonna talk about your podcast. She's like, you got a podcast? I'm like, yeah. And I gave her a sticker. So we'll see if she comes on. Yeah, I'm a white dude. I got a podcast. I'm a white guy with white friends. People need to hear us. Obviously I have a podcast. Well, speaking of podcast, your friend contracted pods to carry his stuff away. And then you posted a picture of the guy that picked up your buddy's pod. I feel like there's a story there. The guy has a fantastic mustache and looks like

every pod delivery slash pickup guy I've ever encountered. You didn't think you look like Andy Reid? I can see that. It does look like I get Andy Reed vibes for sure. Jordy, put the picture up. No, yeah, no, the pod thing was I get a call. I really want to get past this moving talk. You guys are going to have it for a couple more weeks.

This might close. Well, there's the delivery. That's good. So yeah, we, it's all right. There's the delivery. Yeah. But then I'll be delivered by the time we record the next one. But you get like 80%, 90% down there and the last 10% is the toughest. The worst.

And so like I finish at whatever time, whatever day before he came to pick up. And I'm like, okay, I'm ready. And the pod was scheduled to come between three and five PM. And I forget what I had to put in there now. It seems like so long ago. But I just said, I get a call in the morning. It's like, I, this is Joe. I'm your pod pickup. I just left Piedmont. I should be there about 25 minutes. And it's like eight 30 in the morning. I was like, no, you should not come right now. No, no, you're the first on my list. I was like, uh, no, you should not come right now. No, no, you're the first on my list. I'm like, well, why?

Because my pickup is three to five. He goes, well, my route today. And then he goes on, he's like, I'm gonna go to Piedmont. I'm leaving Piedmont and then I'm gonna come to you in downtown, like downtown. Then we'll go to Pattersville. And then I'm gonna go out to Duncan. And then I gotta go over to Grur.

And then, I mean, it just makes sense. And I was like, well, my pickup time is three to five and then I got to go over to Grurr and then I mean it just makes sense. And I was like, well, my pickup time is three to five and my pod is not ready. It will be ready at three. He's like, okay, I won't put you last. I'll call you back. And I was like, all right. So I'm scrambling like thinking he's going to come anyway. I get the pod. The pods ready at like 10. So then he comes back and he calls me. He's like, yeah, I'm outside the Irish pub of Connelly's. I'm like, yeah, like swing around. I like tell him where to go.

So he comes in and like the podzilla thing is so cool with all the controls. So I'm like, I'm like, I really like the podzilla. He's like, yeah, I like to in front of the, until I deliver 10,000, he's saying she's pretty boring now. Uh, anyway, when I was in high school, you see I was cow milker. My daddy, my daddy had cows and I was milking them cows. And I was like, okay, and he's like, yeah, yeah, I was like, man, high school. He's I couldn't keep the girls off me. I mean,

seriously, I couldn't keep the women off me. They were just, they just kept coming to me in high school is great, man. I loved it. I mean, it was just great time. And they like went into a couple stories about girls in high school that I can't say in the podcast. You're welcome, mom. And, and then like, okay, well, what do you do now? He said, Oh, I run a ranch out and he like named some random town. I was like, I thought you delivered pods. Yeah. Oh, this is part time for me. I just do it fun. Like meet people. And I was like, all right, can I get a selfie? And he's like, with me? And I was like, well, yeah, sounds like you were

stud in high school. I feel like we should take a picture. And so we took a photo and I gave him an okay podcast sticker. So he's listening to this. They're listeners out there, out there spreading the love. Man, I like that. I like that. Well, I think this brings us to the next slide here. Big momentous occasion for our boy Trey over here, finalizing the adoption. Let's hear about that.

Oh yeah, dude. Oh yeah, man. It's a big deal. Good. It is a big deal. Officially tax havens now. Got some tax write-offs. It is remarkable big deal. Officially tax havens now. Got some tax write-offs. It is remarkable to me. You got them in April?

April. Yeah. In April. That is remarkable that they had not considered your kids until now. Well, yeah. You're on a six- month probation after you get them with the agency. Okay. And so during that time you do like home studies with the caseworker and they make sure that like the house is like in good order and they're taking care of the kids and whatnot. And then

you fill out all the paperwork and then you send up a report every month. And then at the end of it, yeah, you go to court. They ask you a bunch of questions. You say yes. And then you read like a testimony witness statement and then that's it, man. It was like 15 minutes. Finalized. But yeah, I'm glad to be done. It was very exciting time. Long road. Did you add them to your VA claim? Say what? Did you add them to your VA claim yet? No, I don't think I even have a VA claim. But they reused your new birth certificate

and so then you can do like social security cards and college savings, all that stuff. So. Who's more excited? Who's good, man? I'm glad we're done with it. Who's more excited? Oh, me. Oh, no, I'm in between the girls. Oh, Joy.

Joy, yeah. I was going to guess Joy too. Yeah. I could definitely picture her out of a lineup between the two right now. Yeah. She's, she's the one not wearing the helmet. Yeah. Yeah. I love her. Oh, that's a cheat code. You didn't tell me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For about another two to three months, you'd be able to tell the difference. Yeah. I love when I FaceTime Trey and he's always holding the baby and I'm like, Oh, it's Ray. He's like, man, you really got it down. And then I'll call him again.

I'll be like, it's Ray. He's like, good guess. And I'm like, oh, okay. He's just close. Yeah. They're close. Oh, man, you're just one off. That's close.

Yeah. Dang. Dang. Ooh, ooh, save round. Sorry, sorry, I was about to go to Commander's conference. Commander's comments. Go back to our Philly talk. Cheese steaks. Oh yeah. So we missed it. You were missed last week or two weeks ago. Two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. So I covered a little bit, but I feel like there's a little

bit more of a conversation. So to set the stage, Jeff was in Philly for the ball. We finished, we hit up Dave, De Novio Lortola. Took me a long time learning to say that name. It's so hard that I will never forgive it. I still don't know how. Yeah, De Novio Lortola. Funny thing is it's not actually his last name. Yeah. Come Dino.

Except, yeah. Anyway, he lives in Philly, South Philly to be specific. And we were looking for something to do from 12 to six before we flew out. And I had this, I don't think I've even told you at this part, I had this like Philly cheesesteak place that Portnoy's gone to, like between us in the airport, like all mapped out. But I was waiting for Jeff to come down with his bag and I was like, I should just call Dino and see. And then Dino's like, yeah, I'm available. I'm like, well, where do you live? And he lived right next to Gino and Pat's and Jeff's never been to those and those are iconic Philly cheesesteaks place. And like my heart kind of sunk because it's like, oh man, I had like a good cheesesteak planned

out. Oh, should have gone there. So, no, no, no. I'm glad we did what we did, honestly, because it was like a great time with Dino. But we, so we went over there and I don't know, Jeff, those, I mean, they couldn't been your first two cheesesteaks in your life, but your first two in the city of Philadelphia, right? Very true. Very true. Okay. Yeah. And I think they're iconic one, because you have the rocky stuff there too.

They've been open a long time. I think the cool part about them is they're like right across the block from each other. Yeah. Because it's not the street. Cause it's like a four way. So they're like crisscrossed applesauce from very interesting intersection. Yeah, it really is. And so, uh, Jeff, why don't you give your thoughts on those cheese? Which one do we go to first? Is that we went to Pat's king of stakes first. Are they big? You have a good size. We have, yeah, we have a photo. Yeah. Yeah, they're like, I'd say they're a little bit bigger than like a Jared 12 inch subway that used to be $5. Yeah, I think that's a little bit bigger. That's correct.

Sorry, I'm still mad about that. Yeah, it's a good size. The first one I got with Cheese Whiz, which I think is my preferred cheesesteak, with Whiz, I think it's was good size. The first one I got it with cheese whiz, which I think is my preferred cheesesteak or with whiz, you know, because you don't want to mess up the... I think it's whiz wit. Whiz. Yeah, it is whiz with. Yeah. See, they would just tell me to go away.

Yeah. So we're actually in the line tray. You'll like this. And so Dino lives right there. And I'm like, Hey, so like, what do I say? And he's like, well, he's like, how do you want it? And our plan was to get one there and then go to Gino's and get another one. Okay. And that we could try both. And so he's like, Well, do you want the cheese was? I'm like, Yeah, he goes, Well, you'd say was with and I was like, Okay, got it. And then I was like, What if I like want like peppers or something? And he was like, Well, you say was with with peppers or whatever. And I'm like, Okay, okay. I'm like, Well, Jeff, what do you want? He's like, Well, I want was with and Dino's like, we can also get mushrooms and you'd say whatever. And I'm like, okay, so if I want

whiz with with peppers and mushrooms, what do I say? He goes, well, you can also just talk to him. He's like a person. Total Dino like dead pan. I just like, I was like, oh, And I just like, I was like, oh, I didn't realize. The other way sounds like you're having a stroke. Is it? Which way is, which way peppers? Yeah, you can just, you can just talk to them. So we got that one and they are,

one of them was chopped and one of them was sliced and I feel like Pat's is chopped. I think so. That sounds right. Yeah. Let me Google it. I don't want to disrespect South Philly. Pat's cheese steaks.

But for you, we have my, my two cents on it was I thought Pat's was better than G knows. Maybe it was the way maybe it's the chop versus slice. Um, but I'm definitely a cheese. Are you overall a cheese, a cheesesteak fan? I mean, I can't, I don't, I don't, before that, I don't remember the last time I had a cheesesteak. So I don't like go out of my way to find them and eat them and all that good stuff. But I mean, it's bread, meat and cheese. So it's not bad, but I'm not like, I'm not all about them.

You wouldn't book a plane ticket to go out there and just have that. Not a chance. Not a chance. I'm not like, oh, well now I got to find the best cheese steak in Salt Lake City. Like, yeah, I'm all right. So I ate Pat's and Gino's I think in 2008 when I was working at the White House and the person I was the aid to wanted to go there and we had both. And then now that I go to Philly, I'll try them.

And I've actually learned about myself. I don't like Philly cheesesteaks. Like I, like- Why? Soggy? Too much bread, not enough meat. No, they're not soggy. I just, I would rather eat a pizza.

If I'm in that region of the country, I'd rather eat a pizza. Like I just, I don't dislike them. I'm not like I just said I don't like to stakes by just being I I'd be totally content in life if I never ate another Philly cheesesteak. You don't get the hype. I don't I don't I'd rather have an if I'm gonna eat something with bread, I want an Italian sub. Like, I want cold cuts and I want spicy peppers.

Like I don't, I don't actually get it in, in, in the South Jersey and Philly people that listen to this pod and some of my Marines, cause that's where they're all from. We'll listen, we'll be mad at me, but I, I just don't like it. Like it's not, I'll eat it, but that is not my choice whatsoever. I do think if you go to Philadelphia and you've never been, you have to go to Pat's and Gino's. You saw the Rocky steps where it was like Rocky stood here in 1974. Like that's cool. The history is cool. But yeah, not a cheese. Is there any food, let's say you're on a trip that you'd go out of your way for to eat?

Any food? I mean, yeah. I've been in Texas and Googled where's Lockhart. Okay. See. I've been in Texas and like Googled where where's Lockhart? Okay, so if I if I'm in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania or Jersey, I pull up the one bite app and I'm like, where does Dave Portnoy have an 8.4? Like I'll drive 40 minutes that I use I go to my way for barbecue. And Mexican food. Yeah. Yeah, you can't really go out of your way for Mexican food. Yeah. Yeah. You can't really go out of your way for Mexican food in South Carolina because it just doesn't exist.

But, You'll drive forever. But I know what you mean. Yeah. I also do like a really good Italian restaurant. Okay. Like in a lot of cities, like not in the Northeast but some places that can be hard to find. But yeah. Cheese steaks. It was fun, though. We had a great time.

It's great. And we great. Yeah, we went to the we went to the Cartesian place. Cartesian. There's a brewery called the Cartesian and we were trying to figure out what the origin of that word like, what is this Cartesian thing? And we were like an artisan. You could you can just talk to him. Wizzle. Can I get an IPA? Wiz with wiz with. But as good. And then I think Katrina was like, oh, it's something to do with maps, Philly. Good time.

Philly, that's Philly. What else we got on the slide deck? That? Light slide deck when you go back to back. Well, again, I'm gonna bring it up again because maybe it'll jog your memory, but you put Jude Law in there. I'm still wondering why you put Jude Law.

What day did I put it? Tuesday. In what time? I don't know. Does my job. Does it have a timestamp? So I did Tuesday, December 3rd. Jude Law, Jude Law.

I'm going to Google Jude Law news, see if there was he in the news for something. When he was in it, what is it? When slide deck was this? Was this an awesome. Correct. Star Wars. Was it this slide deck or the okay. Or the college football slide deck.

It's in the alternate way. Yeah. The, the lifting life and chow one. Okay. Jude Law. And you threw eyeballs. I was like, huh? the lifting life and chow one. Okay. Jude Law. And you threw eyeballs. I was like, huh? It was on Wednesday.

Oh, mine says Tuesday. Okay. You see the new Star Wars show? Is Jude Law in a new movie? I am a big Jude Law fan. He's in a new Star Wars. Is he Obi-Wan Kenobi? Yes. That's definitely that. No, oh, he's not. No, he's not. I don't, I got nothing on why you would mean maybe,

you know, good July, July movie. Hmm. Yeah. Ro see Road to Perdition? Yeah, that's a good one. That is a good one. He's also in the one with Sean Penn. That, that narrowed it down. No, it's a great movie. Let me see, All the King's Men. I haven't seen that. I don't remember. Great flick.

Great flick, go watch that. Enemy at the Gates. I don't know. World War two movie the Russian Russian sniper in that forever. Yeah, I Feel like that's when I really really liked it And they were like buying the DVD for it and then I'm pretty sure if I watch it now I bet it's like one that's not as good nowadays DVDs yesterday. Yeah, I thought you were saying that Jude Law was coming on the podcast. I thought that was our guest. That's our guest.

Yeah. I don't know why I said Jude Law. It's like, there you are. I'm ready, Jude Law. That makes it so much better. Speaking of DVDs, do you think that there will be a time, so we you know, we're all born in the 80s. I know where you're going with this. Yep. And we like vinyls. Popular in the, I don't know,

when was the first vinyl, the 30s or before? Long time ago. I would say before. Yeah, long time ago. Let's look that up. Let's just look that up. Let's just look that up. Let's just look it up. When were the first vinyl records?

I'm going to go 1860. I don't think it's that old. I'm going to say it's the 1900s. Oh, 1930. 1930. OK, OK. That's what I meant. First commercial.

OK, the first vinyl records were created in the early 1900s. First commercially available vinyl long playing record LP was released in 1930. The first 12 inch 1948. But you are right. 1877. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which could play back recorded sounds. Yeah. Anyway, 1930s it came out, but so 30s, 40s, 60s, 70s, we all like outlaw country peak 60s, 70s. And so like, we like vinyls. It also make the argument that crackle the speaker

wire. Like it's a different sound. It's amazing. Well, I won't say what my opinion on this is yet, but I also remember having like a unzip, and I don't even wanna talk about CDs. That's the thing, but DVDs, right? Like, and you're like, I own these movies. These are mine and they're here. Yeah. Will that nostalgic ever hit again?

I think so. You do. I don't. I don't mean there aren't there already selling like retro video game consoles. That's different though. Like Atari, Nintendo. I mean, because I think when you're watching a movie,

someone could take this argument. It's a straw man. Put it against finals. But it's like better now. Yeah, I see. I like the picture quality like the said so much better. Right. Whereas the sound of a vinyl compared to listening to on Spotify is different. Not necessarily better one way or the other.

So I have a cousin and they opened up a... You're from Texas. We just call those sisters. I'm just kidding. I just want to put in the running joke. OK, they opened up a. I think it's like a Beacon Rewind, like video shop where they ran out VHS is so that that's making a comeback. I I feel like I see the nostalgia for VHS over DVD. Yeah, why? I agree. I think just because it is. Real or real, maybe. Yeah, there's like the.

We're also going to get the DVD commentary. Oh, that's true. All the all that good DVD commentary. Extra is lost. All the extras. The extended cuts. Dude, you think cynical. You have like the actors like talking about the scenes. Oh, I was sick. Oh, I never knew that. I know. But I don't know sets.

I think it will come back. We'll see. We'll see. Could be wrong. Hope I'm wrong. Well, when you're listening to this podcast, it's December 20th. It's five days till Christmas. So Trey, what are you doing for Christmas? Oh, dude, that's a great question. And remind me to talk about Charlie Brown Christmas after this. Okay.

Okay. I think we're sticking. We're not going too far away, man. I think we have, I think we're sticking around the DFW area. Fortunately for us, like Abby's dad and my parents are both in Capelle and so we'll, we can hit both of them one day. Nice.

So I think we'll probably be around here. Is that K-O-P-P-E-L? C-O-P-P-E-L. It's not Kopp P P E L C O P P E L. It's not copy L two else. Capel. Oh, Capel is the second L. Yeah, yeah. And at some point in time, uh, former guests, Dr. Caleb Gouwledge, they had, uh,

their first kid. Oh, congratulations. On the fifth, so we gotta go out and visit them. Nice. Hopefully. Yeah, just a couple days ago. Brand new baby. Wow. It was the same day we were doing our finalization in Abilene.

Oh, what? If you need dad advice, call Grant. Yeah, he's, yeah, I'll be sure to give him a call or have you give him a call. But yeah. So you just had his kids. So I know we'll probably go out to Lubbock at some point in time and visit them. So. Very cool. What are you doing?

We're going to be Christmas day. Day of? Yeah. I mean, like you wake up Christmas morning, like. Dude, we haven't, we didn't even talk about that. Like if we're gonna do something like with just, because before it was just like me and Abby. So it's just like we would go somewhere. Now we got kids.

So you wouldn't wake, so like even when it was just you and Abby, you wouldn't go to her mom's or your mom's house and wake up there, you would just do it at home and then go visit them? No, usually we would wake up early at our house and then go visit them like first thing. Okay. Got it. All right. Got it. Because they're so close. It's like, we don't need to spend the night over there. Yeah. Okay. But we might do something. I don't know. You got kids now. So we got kids. We might do something as a family first. Jeff, what are you doing? Uh, we're not really doing anything. Please tell me you're going to see your dad.

We're hanging. No, we're, we're, we're staying in Salt Lake. Kaylee works the day before and day after Christmas. So we're, we're just going to be hanging locally. Well, Jeff, I understand it's long, long, long flight to Georgia. No, no, that's fine. I got the pool at about 72 degrees. If you want to come by and maybe between Christmas, New Year's you can take a quick little swim. You do about 200 meters.

You can get ready for your basic swim call, but yeah, that's fine. We'll see you soon. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. What am I doing? What's your buddy doing? Yeah.

So yeah. So my buddy lands December 16th, which is a week from today, 930 PM. And then the 17th, my buddy is sending his wife to his mother's to meet her. Well, my mother-in-law, mi suegra, as we say in Spanish, will pick us up from the airport, take us to our house. We'll stay there. And then they got a new couch getting delivered tomorrow there. So we'll stay there. And then Diana and Isabella will go over to my mother-in-law's for the day. My parents will be there for one day. Big Connor's coming to help me unpack. Connor's dad's coming to help me unpack.

So we'll unpack the 17th, get the house in order. My buddy has to go to 29 Palms to meet the BLT commander on the 20th. And then in Mexican culture, we just, in Mexico, we just call it culture. We celebrate on Christmas Eve. So you actually stay up until midnight. And like you open all the presents at midnight. And then yeah, Christmas Day, I don't I don't know what we'll do. We'll hang out. Be back in SoCal. But yeah, yeah, you do everything at midnight, which is funny because it's, you know, and white people, American culture. I shouldn't say

it like that because it sounds like that's what I think American culture is. In white Southern families, you put all the kids to bed early and they wake up super early and do it Christmas morning. But in Hispanic culture, you celebrate it late at night on Christmas Eve. So we'll be doing that. But yeah, I almost prefer that you just sleep in. So it's actually awesome. So I've done it three years now and you, you get Christmas, like all the present stuff done. Everyone goes home and then at like 2 PM the next day, everyone starts showing up for a big meal. Kind of like a Thanksgiving vibe, except you're eating like a pozole or some kind of soup and tamales. But, but yeah, it's kind of nice. You like knock it out.

Everyone goes home, goes to bed, sleeps in. There's like no stress. You wake up, you drink coffee, you hang out, and then everyone comes back over and that's cool stuff. And then you like cut this cake and you're looking for like baby Jesus's. So you can go to these Mexican marks and you buy these cakes and there's like Jesus's like on different pieces. What kind of cake? Tostaches? No, it's like a sponge cake kind of deal with some fruit in it. Oh dang. Like they cut it and they hand it to you

and the person has to eat it and then you have this like plastic Jesus in your mouth and that's a good thing. Yeah, I don't remember all the rules, but that's what you do. I love it. I love it. And then do you watch Charlie Brown Christmas? Oh yeah. Charlie Brown Christmas. No. So the today, so I got back late last night and, um, I got back and Diana was asleep and Isabelle's asleep and she's sleeping pretty good right now,

like, you know, four or five hour stretches. Nice. And so they were both asleep. So I don't want to wake him up. And I was so tired from drill. So I went to bed and I got this morning and I went and got her and then D wanted to go and, you know, get out of the house. And so I was like, get out of the house. Like I got her. So I got her. So she settled, I feed her all that stuff. Like I should watch a movie. So I got Apple TV and number one trending is Charlie Brown Christmas. And I've seen it, but I don't know that as an adult, I've ever like watched it start to finish. Okay.

And I almost like put it in the okay podcast thread, like Charlie Brown Christmas is kind of depressing because it's all depressing. So, so it's like, he's sad. He doesn't understand why all the kids are happy and they're trying to put on this Christmas play and people listen to this be like, why are you recounting it? And then he gets to the, like the end and they're asking the kid with that sucks his thumb and carries around a blanket. Like, what's the meaning of Christmas? He's like, I'll tell you. And he's like, behold, angels appeared to shepherd and said, Hark, the herald angels sing glory to the newborn king. And you're like, does like the biblical thing. And I was like, how is every Baptist church not showing this on Christmas? Like this is like,

Hey, I'm sad. I'm going to go see a psychiatrist. Oh, actually God fixed everything. Like I should just believe in God, but yeah, no, it's good. And it's like 35 minutes maybe. I've definitely seen it before, but as an adult, what I can say is I've never like sat down and watched it start to finish. I think it's 1964. So when it came out, but yeah, so I watched Linus. Yeah, Linus. I thought it was Pigpen at first. It's Linus. He's the dirty one. In South Carolina, we call that Pigpen. Well, that's his name, so that's it.

What else we got? Should we just talk about the future of the pod real quick? Let's do it. Yeah, we're done with slides. So yeah, I have this fear right outside my window. Seriously? Oh, and it's like, Oh, I thought you said I have this fear. I thought he said fear. What did he say? Like trade? No, do not jump out the window. Oh, you have this. Oh yeah. Actually tell us about Vegas. Well, I haven't done anything yet. Hallie, let's see if I can turn around.

Can you see it? Oh, there it is. Oh yeah. Hey, just another reason why you should watch on YouTube. We've got the Sphere live. Yeah, go watch it on YouTube. By the way, this episode is brought to you by BW attacks. Potential sponsor, Sphere.

So I'm here, we have the ground water show. And I'm one of that groundwater walk in a walk in the showroom, working a booth, trying to sling some hose man, some light flat. Is it kind of like the Arnold except for hoses? It's much like, yeah, exactly. Just much less exciting. And I don't sell t-shirts. And CT Fletcher's not there.

Not yet. We're not selling any t-shirts there. Yeah, no, I mean, just kind of just go around and see what everybody's got going on. So we're doing the. It's a British chef's name as a restaurant here. Gordon Ramsey, the main one. Gordon Ramsey, Gordon Ramsey restaurant. I thought you were going to say Adrian Lambeau. He's got a bunch of my friends. Or like, he's got a couple there, right? I have no idea. What's the main one? Is it the one in?

Yeah, there's like one in New York, New York. There's a couple I don't know. We we went to a wedding one time in Vegas for one of Kaylee's friends, and they were very into Gordon. We went to one of them. I think it was the one in New York, New York, maybe. That's the guy with the age blonde hair that's spiked. Yeah, very well.

You might be thinking of Guy Fieri. You think Guy Fieri? Yeah, very well. You might be thinking of Guy Fieri. You think Guy Fieri? Yep, yep. He also has restaurants in Vegas. Also has restaurants. Wait, who's Gordon Ramsay? He, yeah, British guy. Also, Blu Fong Hair.

Yeah, yells at people. Is that the budgeting guy? No, it's Dave Ramsey. Yeah, that's Dave. That's, that's, that's not there. I'll pull up a picture of him. Dave Ramsey. Yeah, that's Dave. I'll pull up a picture of him. Dave Ramsey's restaurant is terrible. But you come out and your finances are on point. And you're not allowed to tip because that's the way it's going.

Yeah, you can only pay in cash. You can't accept credit cards. Yeah, Gordon can only, and you can only pay in cash. You can't, you can't accept credit cards. Yeah, Gordon Ramsey. I know I got it. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Yeah. I'm more of a guy, Ferrari guy. But yeah, that checks out. Yeah.

Well, this is episode 51. We made it. We made it. Who has a song about December? Merle Haggard Green Day. Yeah. Let's see you in December, right? That's September. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. September ends. Who has a song about December? I feel like any Christmas song. No, no, no.

There's a song. Is it a non-Christmas December song? Yeah. Wow. I feel like it's more I'm going to find it. You can listen to it in the show notes. I'll send you guys later. Oh, no, it is Merle Haggard. If we make it through December. There we go. You don't know that one.

Some Christmas song. No, I think it's a political song. Here, let me, let me. If we make it through December, everything's going to be all right. I know. Pretty sure it was written by Chris Christopherson because every good outlaw country song was everything's gonna be all right. We know. And that's the future of the okay podcast. My buddy turns out to be me and I'm activating January two and deploy next year. And so I'll be a little bit busy. Yeah. No shocking to to you guys. Um, but we're going to get to episode 52. We're going to make it a year. Will we broadcast after that? Um, yes. Will it be

weekly? No. Will it be bi-weekly? I don't know. Uh, but when we can come to you, we will. We have the field expedient podcast studio, which you're looking at. My entire house is packed up. This is still here, but I would say, and we'll give a bigger thanks when I'm in California in two weeks and we do the final number 52 episode. We do appreciate you listening to us. It's been a lot of fun for us. Keep us going.

We've had a lot of guests on. We'll put some stats up when we do next week's episode, showing you what we've done. But I will say it's been more fun than I thought. It's also been more work than I thought, but in a good way. But we do appreciate, you know, giving us the listens, you listen and the subscribes. It's been a good time. We plan to keep it going, but, um, Hey, we support the troops and the troops are deploying and, uh, you gotta take care of the FDO down range. Am I right? Yes, sir. That's so true. I love how low expectations you have for this podcast. It was,. I guess some people listen. It was more fun. I was very surprised. Yeah. Same. Same. So you got a clock out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That and no, but people

did listen. I mean, I think, I think Shaap's promotion was like kind of eye opening. Uh, when people are like, I listened to your podcast, dude, for real. So no, yeah, but it's been fun. Um, and we're going to keep it going. So don't, I'm not saying it's been 100% over, but, uh, the frequency might change. You might just have Jeff and Trey sometimes, but think the goals to come to you once a month, at least in 2025, hell or high water, Lord willing, the creek don't rise. I like saying those two things together because it kind of works, you know? But yeah, let's see. What haven't we talked about that we need to talk about?

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Lights. What happened to that? That keeps them on. Um, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We got to the okay portion.

I know you just did an ad read Trey, but you want to bring us in for a landing? Yeah, why not man? Scraping the bottom of the barrel, have me do all these things. Yeah, I know. What episode are we on? The standard flow.

I think I know. It is low standard as you said. Surprisingly we've made it this far. If we make it through December, surprisingly we've made it this far. We make it through December. Everything's going to be all right. That's right. It will be okay.

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I'm just interacting with all my followers right now. Oh my gosh, you're still, you're still interactive. Jeff's live, shocking. Can't get him to stop. Other than that, man, it's been fun. Almost a year, so. And I don't think I've gotten any better at it.

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