The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 52: Fasting, Twentynine Palms, Football & Baby Meat Purées | 1 Year Anniversary!

Episode Date: December 27, 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 04:32 - Fasting 13:37 - Traveling With A Baby 18:20 - DEERS Office Story 26:31 - Movies 36:57 - Tom Cruise Navy Award 38:21 - Bruce Buffer 41:36 - College Football 52:50 - Twentynine Palms 01:02:26 - Baby Meat Purees 01:10:10 - Saved Rounds

All right. Welcome back to episode 052 of the okay. Okay. Guide on podcast powered by the strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogi joined in studio with Mr. Jeff Bouger from the Greater Mormon area of Utah. And of course, the best logistics officer we've ever met, Trey Gotledge coming to you from Frisco, Texas by way of Abilene. But if he leaves now, he can still make Cheyenne.

Today's date is December the 23rd. That's right. We are two days before Christmas and the year of our Lord 2024. The price of the block height is 876108. We'll get the price of Bitcoin for you later. But it's a very special episode. Every year when we complete another year of podcasting, we make a really big deal about it. And so we have found that 52 weeks or episodes means one year. And so here we are again, where we've always been as tradition is where we celebrate years end. And let me tell you, if there was ever a day to not record

a podcast, and I've said this before, I've actually kind of always said it, but it's true this time. If there was ever a day to say, you know what? It's been fun. I know we make a lot of money from Mr. Helmet and our sponsors, BW attacks, keep the lights on. But gentlemen, this was the day to just mail it in. But no, the show goes on. Here we are. Episode 052. Don't thank me. Thank my Oso. Marine Corps thanks me twice a month starting next month. But yeah, lots to catch up on. Let's see. Let me just go on a quick couple things here before we go over to the slide deck. I love moving. I've always loved moving. I've always said that I'll never stop saying it.

It's great because once you get the pod out and you get all your stuff to the destination, it just unpacks itself. And if you're doing it around Christmas time, no one wants to see you. No one wants to see your new baby. They just say, Hey, Grant, you just get unpacked and we'll see you when we see you. That's what they say. So yeah, moving is still my favorite thing ever. Anyway, yeah, moving is great. We're all moved in and we're broadcasting from beautiful Southern California. Upstate. Oh yeah. The, the yeah. But South California as I call it in California. I a upstate. Oh yeah. The, the, yeah. South California as I call it in California. And I think I may have a slide on that, Jeff, but you want to cover trash real quick. Yeah. Uh, do we have trash?

If I did it, it would be with all my gear and headed to the firing line. You know where it goes, right? Yeah. We'll go police this area. The way we found it. I was trash it. Trash truck comes at 07. I thought it was a Marine, not a police officer. Why am I policing everything? Okay. It's confusing. Well, with that, let's kick the slide deck.

Okay, well we've covered first two topics. The first one was an off air slide. Uh, but to keep listeners in, we are in fact recording. So that's a win. We talked about the trash. So that's a second most important thing. And then just real quick, gentlemen, just want to hit on the trash again, real quick. Uh, just read your, read right, pick up your trash. Okay. Dip bottles, spit bottles. Uh, those need to go away. Okay. Pick up your trash, okay? Dip bottles, spit bottles, those need to go away, okay? Pick up your trash and gear.

All right, moving in to our next slides. Hey, real quick, Commander's comments. I know I'm the last slide on the deck, but I just wanna say I wanna thank Trey and Jeff for covering trash. Trash is an issue, and here in the state of California, if you put that dip bottle next to that aluminum can, we won't be podcasting. We will shut the whole thing down. So just police that trash.

That's true. That's true. Everyone thinks you're joking too. That's the funny part. I know. Everyone thinks you're joking. We're being 100% serious. I was in a brief last Thursday and it was like, well, kind of. Didn't you do a trash brief? But I was just like, wow, this is everything of trash brief, but I was just like, wow, this is everything we make fun of on the podcast is happening in real time

right now. So real. Yeah, it's real. Very real. Oh, I love it. Okay. Uh, wasn't sure if we're going to have to omit this slide, uh, but I've gone ahead and I've unhid it from the slide deck cause Trey, you did, uh, hint on the fact that there is an amateur lifting update. And then I also also want to touch on carnivore slash fasting that you've been dabbling in here recently. Let's get into this.

Yeah, the floor is yours. Newly talked about. So amateur lifting update is that I lifted a day. Y'all been updated. Good job. Let me update my tracker. OK, that's why I do it. Screen OK.

I'm actually going to go ahead and take him off. BCP. He's good. He's working out with the duty. Not quite. No, so I did a I started a it was like one this like the worst time of year to start a fast is like Christmas and everybody has food. I disagree.

You think you disagree that I think the return on investment is higher. Yes. Because if you're fast, yeah. Yeah. But I know what you mean. It's the hard enough to do it. It's hard to do because all the good foods out. Yeah.

Yeah. If you're disciplined enough to do it, it's hard to do it because all the good food's out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, yeah. And so I did a long fast, long for me at least, a five day fast. That's the longest I've ever done. That's a long fast. That's, yeah. And so it was, I was like, man, it's kind of accumulated since,

so like before we got these girls, I was probably- You're talking about me, Jeff, and you or? Oh, oh, you guys are family. No, before I got these girls, I was probably talking about me, Jeff and you or, oh, I got these girls. I was probably like 245, 250 somewhere in there. Right. Okay. That's good. That's good fighting weight. And then because I'd been lifting felt really good. It was all you know, you know, it's summer weight started doing this, this and this. I was like, man, I just feel miserable. So I was talking with Grant did did like a long-term fast, kind of did a little reset and then I'm like, well, let's keep this going. So I kicked it off, kicked off carnivore after to end the fast. Real quick. So with the fast, did you go in, were you like, sorry, mom, were you like an

asshole going into the fast or did you like kind of wean off like disgusting stuff? Because I've done it both ways where it's like, I'm about to fast pizza, everything. And then the beginning of the fast is terrible. I, my personality, like I, if I can't wean off, like if I wean off, I just have to cut it like cold turkey. So I cut off like all, like everything and like caffeine, everything. I kind of just went cold turkey on it all. And then just went five days, kind of just water fast essentially.

Yeah. No electrolytes, no salt. I did, whenever I need salt, there's like, I go to like pickle juice usually, like a little swig of that. But that's about that. That's about the most of there's no hate or judgment here. I'm just always curious. I remember one time a guy on Twitter told me that he's fasting. And he was doing a

soup diet. And I was like, Well, that's not really fasting. You're just eating soup. So I was like, well, that's not really fasting. You're just eating soup. So I was just curious where you're at. No, I think I think, yeah, pickle juice, something to get electrolytes. Yeah, some of your electronics. And usually, like if you can try to in my opinion, like if you can keep it under like a 50 calorie limit, like I don't I don't know if that truly breaks the fast. I don't have one. I'll send you one.

We'll get you. Sorry. Okay. Quick. I got the hat. Sorry. Kind of kind of kind of ruined trays. Mojo Jeff and I were just drinking out of the same coffee mug. If you're not watching us on YouTube, go to the okay podcast and subscribe and see all the cool stuff. Anyway. All right. So you have 50 cows. That's good. Like that's not saying I'm just taking like a bunch of 50 calorie snacks, like in perpetuity, like the facts. It's just like, yeah, yeah. Good old 50 calories snack. Like I've saw, I'm like some people do bone broth to it. If they do like a small enough amount, like it, like I think 50 calorie, like it's enough to keep you in a fasted state. Yeah. You, you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.'s enough to keep you in a fasted state. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you're trying to hit the what the ketogenic. Yeah, trying to get into keto. There's got to be some thing. Anything that's not like spiking the blood sugar real quick. Crazy. I think you're probably fine. I just but if it does, if it's small enough, it dips back down. It dips back down. Yeah.

I just think it's funny when people say fasting. And they're just drinking soup all day. Right, or bone broth. I think there's probably value in a bone broth fast. You're gonna lose weight. You're gonna give everything a break. I just always have found it interesting when people are like, yeah, I'm fasting.

And I'm like, oh, okay. They're like, yeah, I only eat dinner. Wait, what? That's not fasting. So. That's intermittent fasting. I get it, Oh, okay. They're like, yeah, I only dinner like wait, what? That's not fasting. So that's an intermittent fasting. I get it. Like that. And it usually like the last day. So like before, like I haven't to break my fast at this time, eat at this time, like 12 hours before that's when I break out like the bone broth. Okay. Yeah.

And that's just to kind of, kind of get your system kind of back into it. Yeah. Yeah. And so I did that. And then in the fast, I'm like, well, I'm like, let's just start. How much weight did you lose? I probably lost 15. You didn't hop on a scale. You don't know. I lost 15 pounds. 15. Yeah. Yeah. yeah, that's about right five days Yeah, I usually do about 10 when I do a five-day. That's great. And then why now I'm more to lose Well, yeah, I mean, it's sure maybe I don't know. I'm pretty pretty hefty right now I sat down next to Santa today and I was like My mustache was white. Okay, so now are you full-bore carnivore, like meat only, or you do it like,

if it has a face you can eat it, so meat, hard cheeses, milk. I do some of the hard cheeses. Okay, I love your hard cheese. What's your criteria for if it's a hard cheese or a soft cheese, how do you do it? Abby throws it at me, and if it hurts, then it's hard cheese. Yeah, it's a hard cheese or soft cheese. How do you know that Abby Abby throws it at me and if it hurts, then it's hard cheese. Yeah.

Get that Gouda out of here. No, Bruce, I think I feel like someone apparently cottage cheese, the hard cheese. I don't know. That's if you throw it hard enough. Yeah, sure. You didn't rainy Johnson. Hey, rainy. Throw this cheese at me real quick. You throw it like in the container. It hurts. You freeze it. Oh, you're supposed to unpackage the cheese?

I didn't know that. Mm. OK. I don't know. Yeah, so. How long do you have to go? I try to keep the cheese kind of on the lower side. Nice.

How's it going so far? No, how long are you going to go? I was shooting for 30 days. Okay. So you just got to ride a little longer, make it all the way through January, World Carnivore Month. More people will be doing it. You'll be less weird when you go out to eat.

Oh yeah. Well, I've already experienced that. Went out to eat. Yeah, it's hard. After church, sitting next to my 93 year old, or 94 year old grandmother, order steak and she's like, are you eat your vegetables? I'm like, no, I'm just have the steak. They're bad for you, grandma. You need to eat the vegetables. It was like, like it got a little awkward for a second. I was like, do I do? I eat them? Yeah. But all right. Well, nice.

We'll stay by for carnivore updates. If you like diet stuff, if you want to lose weight, if you have questions on nutrition, or if you need someone to hold you accountable and you're not a member of our Slack channel, click the show notes down there. You can join, use code OK, save you 10 bucks. So you can join for $19.

Last year we took, I think it was 32 lifters or members through the carnivore diet for the month of January. It was actually really fun. And it like just provided a little peace of mind when you're looking at a breath mint and you're like, it's just a breath mint. And you're like, yeah, but it didn't have a face. So I can't eat it.

So yeah, you can join us over there. But yeah, nice tray. But yeah, and then got the first first lift in today too. So look at those. Why do you see that? See the picture? See the picture I wrote out the game plan for the week. Oh yeah, I I did not.

I also saw that you guys were talking a lot of sports the other day and I was like, I don't even know what a sport is right now. But sport of moving. Yeah. Yeah. It's a sport. It's a full, it's a full body contact. You're the national champ. Yeah. Coast to coast.

Coast to coast. Yep. Well, no, it's essentially, I kind of run out the game plan for the week. I'm just doing the one lift a day. Yeah. I'm kind of under one lift a day. Yeah. You kind of under underrated it is. Yeah. OK, got some Christmas deadlifts going. I see. OK, you can do some Christmas deadlifts. I like it. OK.

Dang, that's good stuff. That's good stuff. We got well, I guess we can kind of there are some topics you threw in there. I think they kind of revolved around moving. Nah. Slash. I'm glad we're all sick. That's always good. Yeah. Being sick, that could be one of our slides. Yeah, just love it. It could be a slide for later. So fun.

I am curious, how was the, how's traveling with a baby? So the traveling with the baby went pretty well. I think the hardest part of the move was since we podcasted last, we lived out of suitcases. And so you're in a house, you're trying to live in the house, but you don't have anything. So you're eating out, so you're like super unhealthy. And then you're just kind of miserable, especially with the baby, because you need more stuff. And actually, whatever you need, you need three of them because you lose one of them, like every five minutes. But the logistics of actually the whole move

I was proud of and you Trey as a logistics officer would have been proud of me. But no, parents came loaded up, cats, everything, drove to Charlotte, valied the car, much to my dad's demise, but it seemed like the right thing to do. Unloaded all the bags, went up to the counter. Everything went smooth. Cats were good. Baby was good on the plane. Everything went great. Landed. Logistics were good. I did two things wrong. When we left South Carolina, I had everything things wrong. We left South Carolina, had everything

planned out. We have this milk chiller. So you keep breast milk in it. And then when the baby needs it, you warm it and you feed the baby. And I didn't want the milk chilled to go bad. So it was like, that's the last thing I'm going to get out of the fridge. That was in the fridge. And of course I brought that. No, I didn't. So we left with no milk, but luckily, I have a supplier that supplied more. And so that was okay. And then the second thing I did wrong was got to the airport here, Dan's mom and sister came to pick her up in their car. We had five bags, military checks, five for free. And I felt okay doing that considering I'm deploying. And so a lot of big bags.

And then my parents had a small rental and there was like a bag situation. But I was like, I also have to get the cats to the house because the first night I had Diana and the baby in a hotel, just because I was like, we can't like roll into the house and like expect to sleep. Yeah. So everything went to like the street

where my big black Chevy truck was parked and they threw the bags in there. Then it goes to the hotel checks in. Mom and dad go to the hotel check in their room. I'm like going to set up the cats. I'm like, oh man, all the frozen cat food because our cats are carnivore. I'm like, it's in that checked bag. And so I had to do a little logistics there, but outside of those two minor hiccups, no, it went well. And I don't think- It could be much worse. had to do a little logistics there. But outside of those two minor hiccups, no, it went well. And I don't think- Could be much worse. If someone's mad at you, and Isabella didn't even really

cry or do anything, but if someone's mad about a baby on a plane, I feel like I know where you're going when you die. Yeah. Like, like- Dude. So parents are super self-conscious. I don't think that we really were, but you do see

it. Parents got constantly complaining. I'm like, or not complaining, apologizing. And I'm like, you have three kids strapped to you. It's public transportation. Yeah. Yeah. I looked over once, I think I told some guy who was like, kept looking over, I'm like, you know they sell planes. You can just buy your own if you want to. Yeah. I was like, wow. Yeah him like, like you know they sell planes, you can just buy your own if you want to. It was like wow.

Yeah, no, so it went good. It's like dude, it's a baby. They don't know what they're doing. It went good. There's a lot of like research and I gotta give Diana a lot of credit because she had like watched the YouTube videos on, you go in, your stroller doesn't count,

the car seat doesn't count, but if you're gonna gate check them, you should buy a bag, she messaged Trey, what's the best bag, we had the bag, the breast pump doesn't count. The car seat doesn't count. But if you're going to gate check them, you should buy a bag. She messaged Trey, what's the best bag with the bag. The breast pump doesn't count. Like a diaper bag doesn't count. And so, one, it's like, cool. This stuff doesn't count. And then two, it's like, yeah, but I still have to get through the airport. So we thought through a lot of that and yeah, it went all things considered. I mean we're here Look at us. I mean look at this podcast studio looks look sharp. That's so much smoother than my first time flying on a plane Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know that accolades. I know I know what to expect

What was your first time flying on a plane ever? It's kind of like when I met Santa There's the first time Isabella met Santa and the first time I met Santa and it was an experience. So it was kind of like that when you flew, you're from Texas. I get it. You guys take horses. Yeah. I feel like you know exactly what I meant there. In Texas they call that public transportation. Exactly what I was talking about. No, impossible to know. You never know. Mystery continues. Next slide. Grant, sounds like you had to visit the deer's office or had to deal with them. I guess this

ties into 29 palms maybe. We can also go to the Yucca Man. No, we should. Yeah. Do you have no idea how related these all are? Two slide. For the deer's office, if you'd hit me up 10 days ago, I would have been very animated. Everything's kind of calmed down. But so for those don't know for you non-military types, if you have a dependent, you have to put them into something called deers. And I don't even know what it stands for, but it basically tells the military, hey, I have independent dependents. Yeah. Eat everything really salty.

Dears. That's true. Yeah. So in short, I started getting these bills for these pediatrician appointments and I'm like, I'm like A minus 90. I'm not even Tricare Reserve Select anymore. I'm Tricare Prime. Why are they charging me for this?

Because I know, I know, okay, that I'm seeing the frigging dang birth certificate to the staffs are an admin chief who put her in MOL different, two different systems. Don't talk, of course. So babies not covered, babies not covered. But of course, if you're moving from the East Coast to the West Coast, you switch from tri care East, which is called Humana to track your West when she's called track your West. I don't know why the names can't match. Long story short, you have to go to an ID center run by a civilian. And that is where you get your baby registered. And you have to bring all this documentation.

So this is a couple days before the move. And I look up, it's a cat card, common access card. Same place you do anything with a military ID. And I find the Deere's a cat card, common access card, same place you do anything with a military ID. And I find the Deere's office and there's one downtown close to me, call it, their book through January, can't talk to a person, can only leave a voicemail. They'll start returning calls on January 18th to book March. Obviously. Am I all right?

And then you have another one at Clemson, which obviously I don't want to go there, but no, the Clemson one doesn't support adding dependents, just like pin updates for your card. Oh, okay. And you have another one at USC Upstate, which is about a 40 minute drive. And the website says they open at 730. Apple Maps says they open at 0830. And the voicemail for the place that won't take you says that they open at zero nine. So I'm like, all right, I'm just gonna go first thing in the morning, zero eight. So I get there zero eight, and I park and I get out. I got the baby. She's riding in the 97 Chevy. She loves it, by the way. I get in the stroller and this like army staff sergeants like late to work. He's like, who you here for? I'm like, dear. It's like, hopefully she's in today. I was like, okay,

that's not good. So I go to the front door. I go to I go to the front door. And there's a sign on the building. And this isn't just like a dears office. It's the army recruiters there. There's like an auditorium for USC upstate. There's like a warm room, like it's it's a college building. And so as I go to the door, there's a sign that says dears office closed for day. And I'm thinking, okay, this must be up from yesterday. Yep. Like they left yesterday, because it's because it's it's

it's 0802. My favorite time of day right now. There's there's no way it's already closed. So I go in, I'm like, you know, doing this thing with the stroller, she's rocking it back and forth, like no one's coming in. I'm like knocking on the door. There's like a phone number, I'm picking it up, dialing the number. No one's answering. Then like a recruiter comes in. And she's like, Can I help you? I'm like, Yeah, I'm here for the deer's office. And then she goes, she left for the day. And I go, it's 815.

In the morning? Yeah. How was she gone for the day? And she's like, Well, I don't know. She doesn't work for me day? And she's like, well, I don't know. She doesn't work for me. I'm like, Hey, look, I get it. I was like, I'm moving in two days and I'm activating and deploying January 2nd. I was like, I need this baby in deers. I was like, I'm sure she has family. And if I call her, I'd love a shot to just talk to her. She's like, I'm not allowed to give a phone number out. I'm like to just talk to her. She's like, I'm not allowed to give a phone number out. I'm like, you're not allowed?

She's like, well, I don't have it. I'm like, you don't have it. The person that lives next door to you. And I'm trying to like be nice. But I realized I'm not getting anywhere. So then there's like the staff in CLIC number. I'm calling that, it's not answering. I'm calling the OIC, I'm not answering.

So then I called Tim Bain, previous guest. I'm like, hey man, in the Marine Corps, we have a thing called a ICE complaint where you like send it up to the top if you're unhappy with service and I'm unhappy, what do you call it in the army? He's like, well, tell me what's going on. So I tell him, so he's like on Facebook, he's like on Microsoft teams. He's like, he's pulling down like that. He's like, yeah, he's like, you need to talk to staff sergeant. Actually, I'm going to pull it up and put the staff sergeant on blast because he never even, he never called me back. And I left him like 17 voicemails. The staff NCOIC of

Deers in the state of South Carolina. This is my ice complaint is a no sergeant first class Rouse Dustin middle name Everett. So I'm blowing up this number. I'm leaving voicemails. Nothing's happening. I'm like screaming at Tim. Tim's like, it's not my fault. I'm like, I know I'm just really in a bad mood. So I'm just like, I'm going to try this downtown office. I'm just going to go and I'm just going to try to like grant it up, turn content grain on and make it happen. I get in there. There's two guys at the door, civilians, like, what are you here for? I was like, uh, the deer's office. I was like, I've actually been here before. I can't

remember where it is. Like, do you have an appointment? I was like, no, like she's not going to see you. And I just like take the car seat hood and I roll it back and I'd look at them both. I go, do you think she wants her to die while I'm deployed. And they're like, Yeah, baby might help. You should give it a shot. So I go in there. She's super rude. And I'm like, Well, can you see me? I'm like, like, break in between appointments. I got all the documents right here. Because it takes literally three minutes. And she's like, I don't know. I'm like, what do you mean? You don't know. She's like, I don't know if I'll have time anyway. Got the deers done. Got approved. So she had time. She had time. Yeah, she found. Oh, yeah. That is crazy that she had time. Yeah. Wow. I don't care. I don't care what your politics are.

And I don't know if Elon Musk can do it, but a department of government efficiency is needed, which sounds inefficient. Let's make a department to make us more efficient, which means create more government. But it was, it was ridiculous. That should all be done online, like 100%. It should just be like, hey, social security number is in the system. This guy's a Marine and he's active. Like you shouldn't have to do anything. No. Yeah, anyway.

So I am also applying for that job where you leave at 8.15 in the morning. Dude. That's what, so I am gonna, I'm still gonna. That is the most military thing I've ever seen. And everyone was okay with it. They were just like, oh yeah, she left. I'm like, she just left?

And well, I'll digress, now I'm getting amped up again. But the biggest part I thought was I was like, she just left and well, I'll digress. Now I'm getting amped up again. But the biggest part I thought is I was like, I'm a major. Like I can bully the recruiter because I said to the recruiter at one point, I was like, what's your rank? She think I'm a Sergeant First Class. I was like, okay, well, how about you start saying sir,

right, which I don't like to do, but it was needed. Imagine if you're like a Lance Corporal. Lance Corporal. About to deploy and you just had a baby and you're a reservist. So you have to go to these outlying sites and you roll up and the gun is breathing down your neck screaming at you. Why isn't your cat card updated? And you're like, Gunny, I went in the person left at eight 15. So yeah, if you're in the state of South Carolina, which a lot of our listeners are, and you happen to be the staff and COIC for the Deer's office, look out.

We don't like you. Coming for you. Not a potential sponsor. I will get a general up your butt quick, fast. The army does stuff like that too. Call the wizard man. That's what you It was wild. There Deere's office called Mr. Deere's. Yeah. Mr. Deere's. What's going on? Can we go to the, um, cause I do want to talk about 29 palms. I feel like we all have fond memories, but I feel like we should take a break from military. Can we go to the one I put in there about the name of something?

The name of something. There's a couple of names. Yeah. You put Jude Law in there. Oh, I figured, I figured, I figured Jude Law out. Oh my God. Now I'm blanking. Um, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, of the state out west that takes up the whole seaboard? No, do do law first. Okay. I want to keep the listeners in suspense. Yeah, let's come back to Jude Law. What was the question?

Jeff? The name of the state out west that takes up the whole seaboard. Okay. Go ahead, Jeff. California. Okay. Tray, good job. Okay. I've always called it California. I've lived here.

I'm here now more of my adult life than I've lived anywhere else. People that I talk to here call it California. Everyone around here calls it California with the exception of like some people in San Francisco will occasionally say Cali, but Texans and everyone on the East Coast, two different types of people say Cali. When you going back to Cali, bro. And I'm like, what? Like you've never called me bro. And why are you saying Cali? And I just, I just think it's really interesting. I mean, trade, do you ever call it Cali? No, no, right? Like I don't, I don't actually understand why people say Cali. They're like, yeah, that works. Yeah. Left coast works. I just, I don't understand. That's coast.

That works. Yeah. Yeah. That's about it. Jeff, you don't have a strong sentiment about this idea. Like, I don't think I realized that until you brought it up. Like, oh yeah, no one in California does say Cali. It's no one's like, oh, how was it living in Cali? Like, did you like it? Yeah. It's like, what?

So I didn't know if there was like a movie that I missed. I missed a lot of movies growing up. No, that's not true. No. Oh, OK. Well, apparently you didn't miss out on it. All right. Listen, just got to know what's what's the whole stuff that slide is just great. Doesn't like when people say Cali. I just think it's interesting, like, OK, so it's I should have here or there. You just know I dislike it. I just like a lot.

And I live there and you didn't. So I can tell you that they say California. OK, Jude Law, Jude Law's a new movie called the order and it's like a white supremacist movie from the Pacific Northwest. And I had seen the trailer of the movie. Okay. And that's why I put in Jude Law, because it looked really good. And it's like doing really well. And they did not release it for streaming. Like you have to go to the theater. Oh, it's just not the new Star Wars movie. I don't know. Is there a new Star Wars movie? He's in it. Maybe Star Wars. No, it's called the order. Oh, yeah. 90% on rotten tomatoes. Tomatoes. Yeah. Maybe Star Wars. No, it's called The Order. Oh, yeah. 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Rotten Tomatoes. Yeah. What they say. Yeah. He's a sweet mustache in it. Yeah, I want to watch it. I haven't been to a movie in a while, and I think that's one I want to see. I'm definitely going to go see this one. All right. Yeah, that's good. No, I like that.

I'm going to see the the Bob Bob Dylan movie comes out. Oh, I can't decide if it looks good to know. I like that. I'm gonna go see the Bob Dylan movie, thumbs up. Ooh. I can't decide if it looks good or not. Did you guys see the Bob Marley movie? No. That was pretty. No, I didn't, I would though. Yeah, that's a good movie.

If you like his music. Okay, I like his music. Yeah. I think you're right, Bob Marley. No, I think so too. I just think it's like, what's the Johnny Cash movie with Hakanan? Oh, I like music. Yeah Marley no, I think so too. I just think it's like what's the Johnny Cash movie with? walking on Phoenix yeah

If you like Johnny Cash music you like that movie. Yeah, regardless of the story because the soundtracks good That's how the Bob Marley was. I don't even remember the point of the movie. I just were being like, yes Yeah, I bet that's a couple of music ones that weren't great. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't like the Amy Winehouse one that much. Never heard. I didn't see that one. Okay, it was okay. Yeah. If you watch it once, you'll need to watch it again. Yeah. Have you ever seen there's like a pretty good documentary? You ever seen it might get loud?

Yeah. seen, there's like a pretty good documentary. Um, you ever seen, it might get loud. Trey, you have seen it, right? I don't think so. Jack white documentary. Oh dude, it's so good. It's actually, it's incredible. It's incredible. It's Jack. I just said, yeah, I agree. Yeah. And so it's all about like electric guitar players. It starts out making an electric guitar in a field out of wood and then he bangs it for the cows. And it's like incredible. Yeah. Yeah.

And like it's actually really good. I own it on Apple. I think you really like it. TV. That's where I own my movies. Yeah. You chose Apple. Yeah. Well, yeah. Or at least that's where I'd know I own my movies. Yeah. Oh, you chose Apple. Yeah. Well, yeah. Or at least that's where I'd know I own my movies. But whenever I'm like, okay, I need something sentimental, I open Apple and go to the library and I have like the town, the departed, it might get loud, 180 degrees south, north, 98 degrees.

What is it? 180 degrees south. And I have like nine movies. The man who shot Liberty Valance with John Wayne, the searchers with John Wayne. Yeah. True grid. Oh, and what's our movie that we like? The book reader, the book writer we like, John McCall. No. The road goes on for up. No. He wrote The Road. Yeah. Yeah. Court McCarthy. Yeah. Yeah. John McCall. Same, same. Yeah. Yeah. What's the movie? No Country for Old Men. Classic. Oh, yeah.

Oh, that actually reminds me. I had another movie in there. Do you all see Trap? So I'm not Shamela movie. Is that the no, the new one? Is it good? No, no, it's not. See, I'm not. But I'm going to miss, man. So I watched it on Airplane.

That was the only reason I watched it. I always feel like I always saw like great place to watch a movie, give movies a shot that I'm like, you know what? This is the only time that I would watch it. I'll put it on. And it was not good, like the acting was just bad. And then I was talking to people at work. They're like, Oh, you know, he only made that. Cause like his, it was like a, basically his, like pumping up his daughter's like pop star career. Cause

it's like, Oh, this character takes his daughter to this, like, you know, essentially think like Taylor Swift level, like pop star like concert. And so there's a lot of like music and singing, and it's like this big production. And you're like, wow, he's like, they're like, write a lot of songs for this movie. No, it's just it's M. Netsham, one's daughter's like music career that he's trying to like. So also, Josh Harden is just not a good actor.

He's not he's not good. I've always said that. I definitely know who that is Yeah Yeah, what would be a movie that grant scene that Josh Harkin it's black Hawk down. Yeah, I've seen black I've blackhawk down is he in that he's like the main squad leader. Yeah Yeah, he's a platoon sergeant platoon sergeant. Josh Harding. Heart and it heart and it heart. And if you see the Pearl Harbor movie, the bad one, or it's like a, I prefer to watch

bad movies, but it's bad because it's like everyone was excited because it was like, Oh, it's a Pearl Harbor movie. It's going to be like very, so maybe a love story. and it was not, I don't think I've seen that. He's in that. Yeah, that's all right. Your boy, Ben Affleck's in it. That's true. Then I've definitely seen it. Yeah. But just to Ben Affleck parts, just half like parts where, where he's smoking a cigarette in between action scenes out back. That's the part of the movie I've seen. Yeah. Yeah.

That's good. All right. Real quick before we go to the next slide, I just want to say this podcast is brought to you by BW tax BW tax. It is the end of December. December 23rd. It's Christmas. By the time you hear this, you're in that weird spot right now, probably sitting on the couch with headphones in telling your mother that you're on a work call, but you're actually listening to the OK Podcast. In the back of your mind, you're realizing, I don't even know what my plan is for taxes. I would call BW Tax. It gets a real dude, answers the phone, and regardless of where you live, he can do your taxes. That's, that's just the truth. Uh, in South California, we call it a fact. So, uh, BW tax LLC.com. And I'll tell you, if you like episode 52, we're

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And now you're in California and he can still do your taxes? What if you had a business in South Carolina, but because you're an active duty Marine, you're currently in California, but the government sees you as you're in South Carolina, but you don't have to pay California tax because you're active duty and deploying without BW tax. You'd never get through that minefield. Oh my God. So easy. It's like, it's like Kevin Ruan. Oh,

in the matrix, he just moving around the bullets. No. Yeah. Kevin Ruan. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Kevin Ruan. Yeah. Just like that. That's good. Speaking of action stars, though, Tom Cruise got a big award. Yeah, I saw it. Yeah. Trey, how do we feel about how we feel about

Hollywood celebrities getting personal awards from the Navy? I don't bother me. So is their highest civilian honor. He probably the only thing that makes me upset about it is he probably didn't have to write his own. Award, right? Probably the only thing that makes me upset about it is he probably didn't have to write his own Award His grandpa I'm still salty about that. Yeah

Awards are the worst. Maybe I don't know I might go for that one day. What do you get just make a bunch of movies? Yeah, he made a bunch of movies. Always have heard Top Gun specifically. It was. I feel like they're like Top Gun and Top Gun to the other Top Gun. Top Gun to what? What's the one where you can't handle the trigger? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Mission Impossible officer. What what is that called?

Oh, I know that one. Yeah. You can see Kevin Bacon. So, you know, he probably got a lot of people in the military. I'm a a a a a There's one thing this podcast does. Let's see other rapid fire one. This is from a couple of weeks ago, but we were watching UFC like what a career Bruce buffer has.

He just like announces names well. And so that's just what he does. That's his job. I don't, I've never heard of him. Is he like the Gino powerlifting of UFC? He does even less than that. So if I Gino just was, I mean, Gino powerlifting of UFC. He does even less than that. So if I Gino just was I mean, Gino just. Well, then from Alabama,

that's essentially what he does for you. Hey, hey, I see she's using straps. Can I make the strap joke again? Yeah, you know, third time. see she's using straps. Can I make the strap joke again? Strapped up what's the story? What'd you tell him? Like he's like man Glad we're in America though, right? Everything he said was great. I see you lost your voice Lemon juice and a little honey and a bottle of vodka. OK, thanks. I'm ready.

That's definitely going to work. Yep. Bobby, what's his name? Bruce Buffer. Bruce. His friends call him Bobby. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he just like his name's really well. And I'm like, I don't think he does.

I mean, maybe he does other stuff in life, but like, dang. What do you think is that worth it? It's got to be a couple of right. Oh, yeah, I do know this guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know who this is. Yeah. He looks like Vince Mack my hand. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roos buffer net worth.

The from Tulsa. Hey. OK, so he gets 100. He gets $100,000 per fight. Perf. Dang. 50,000 for typical USC event, 100,000 for a special paper view. So he's rich. Dang. He makes about two million annually. Yeah, pretty good.

What an idiot for about probably probably per year. Less than an hour of actual work. I mean, he probably does some sort of prep and not versus but at this point, he probably is like, what's his name? Justin from Alabama, Justin from Alabama. So the farmer, yeah, Steve, the farmer, he's a corn farmer. The farmer. Yeah. Is Steve the farmer? He's a corn farmer.

Look at it. Look at it, ladies and gentlemen. It's Taj like the Taj Mahal. We love America. Look at that flag. We love America. So good. Arnold Bruce Buffer dressed up like Johnny Depp and parts Caribbean. America. So good. Bruce Buffer dressed up like Johnny Depp and parts Caribbean.

Yeah. That's what you're not going for. Yeah. He'd make four million a year. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Next slide. OK, it's next slide. Next slide. Do we want to jump into college football? I mean, we have to because we have to like do a little sad story about the boy. I watched. Yes. No. Yes. Penn State. Some of Penn State. Did some of some of some of Texas Clemson. Yeah. SMU played. Penn State. Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. Yeah, those are the two that I watch.

Yep. I didn't like watching. Very boring. Very bad. And Notre Dame boring. Yeah. SMU Penn State boring. Yeah. Clemson, Texas was born. That was that had a little. There's a little bit better. Did they come back?

Kinda. Okay. They got within like 10 points maybe. Yeah. Seven points, 10 points. He didn't feel like he was gonna be fully on and like, oh, this is gonna be a good game. It was just like, oh, no, Texas is gonna get the ball back and they're gonna score.

And they did. And they did. Yeah. And then Tennessee. And they did. Yeah. And then Tennessee got smacked around. Oh, that was a hot state, right? Yeah. Hot state looked good. That was just a good old fashioned ass whooping. Yeah.

That Tennessee did not look good. Yeah, Tennessee looked bad. Tennessee looked not good. Yeah, I've been trying to say that. uh, we get the Gamecocks new year's Eve, taking on Illinois. Hey, I think it's a route. Hopefully it's 20 Friday 27th. Oh, nice. Okay. Cool. Between Christmas and New Year's. Yeah. Do you think either of your teams are going to opt out? Like, was it Marshall just opted out like the whole team?

Their bowl? No. And the ball said, OK, well, OK, yeah, that's fine. But I don't think so. I think and I think all our players will play because a 10 win season at South Carolina. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. So in Texas, they just call that South Carolina. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. So, um, in Texas, they just call that last year, but in South Carolina, we think it's a tough thing to do against

tall grass. Um, so no, I think, I think we'll show up and play and hopefully beat beat them pretty good. Um, I hope so. But yeah, who's in Illinois, right? Illinois. I think Illinois is eight, eight, eight wins. They're good. Yeah, bad. Yeah. Old Arkansas coach. Citrus bowl. Wait, the Arkansas coach that like was on a motorcycle with a bottle of wine and a woman and broke the one after him. I like the one before better. Seemed like he'd live life on the edge. He's also at Arkansas right now. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's also at Arkansas right now. Yeah, of course. No. Hey, yeah. Yeah. He's a OC. The one you're talking about. Yeah. Big dude. So how did we do in our, um, our picks for like, I said, Texas is going to win.

I said Ohio state was going to win. I already never made me a little bracket. I picked Tennessee when you know, against Ohio win. I already never made me a little bracket. I picked Tennessee win and oh against Ohio State. I don't remember what I said on the on the show, but I my like bracket that I picked for the slack. They was a man was four for four. Oh, I haven't even opened that. I need to. Yeah. OK, nice.

I think I was two for four then I Know I got a organ winning it all It's why I have them too Yeah, Boise you said Boise on the show Yeah, the show is real like a show I feel like you appear pressure Sam too. So we have all we have all the high-level Regular bowl games like this week then January the playoffs resume. Is that how it goes? Yes. And New Year's Eve is one of the that's Penn State. We'll just pull this up and refine our day. Yep. Yep.

New Year's Day. So pretty soon. Oh, there's a football game going on right now. Packers are beating the brakes. Oh, yeah. Saints. OK, no problem. Let's see. We got Penn State Boise State on. New Year's Eve. Yes. Yep. And I'm going to go Penn State. Go Boise State. Yeah. OK, Trey, I'm going go Penn State. Go boys estate. Yeah.

Okay. Trey. I'm going to Penn State. Okay. And then you got Texas, Arizona state on New Year's day. Texas. That's gonna be. It's ain't Texas.

Ain't no whole room. That's gonna be an absolute massacre. Dude, I hope so. And I just hope that like. I'm going to Arizona state by 14. And next year it's like, okay, I feel like that's the spread. Big 12, you don't get any teams in

to the playoff and ACC, if your champion goes undefeated, you get into the playoff, but that's it. Okay. So you're saying, you're both saying Texas by a lot. I'm going to Arizona state, Ohio state, Oregon. I'm going Arizona State, Ohio, Ohio State, Oregon. I'm going to Oregon, Oregon, Oregon. OK, Notre Dame, Georgia. It looks good.

In their game, though, I will say that's true. Or is Notre Dame, Georgia? Georgia by Georgia. Who's that coming down the track? Who's that coming down the track? Is the main mean machine red and black colors right now on this drink of Christmas. Yeah. Ain't nothing finer in the land than a junket noxious Georgia fan. Sickle. Who wrote that? Bob Dylan. Wayland.

Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. Wayland. land in a junk and noxious Georgia fan. Sickle.

Who wrote that? Wayland Jennings. Wayland Jennings. Wow. Yeah, George Strait doesn't write anything. You know what I'm saying? Right. Yeah, just sing some. If he did write, it probably sounds like that. Yeah. Yeah. I somebody that like, yeah. Yeah.

Amy, X, I see you. Yeah. He goes to, I see you. Yeah, he told you to treat George St. We've always said that. Yeah, we've never stopped saying it. Love being sick. That's the best. Yeah. I hope I never feel better again.

Yeah. I just keep this cough for another two weeks. Oh, we rewind real quick. Army Navy. Did y'all watch that game? I did watch that one pretty intensely. Watch the first quarter before a photo with Santa left for a photo with Santa. It was in line and was watching on my phone. Missed the half when she's missing nothing.

And then saw half the third quarter and all the fourth. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game.

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I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think that's a great game. I think like the bulls, straight bulls or ones in the pinstripe, they're playing Nebraska. Yeah, I can't remember if it's Navy or the Army. OK. And then somebody's in like the arm. One of them, I think, is in like the armed forces bowl.

Are they are they well, eager then? Sorry. Uh, the independent AAC, AAC, AAC, AAC. Yeah. American. I can't find it. One's in a pinstripe bowl. One's in the Armed Forces Bowl down here in Texas.

I think they're playing in North Texas. OK, I can't find it, but whatever. Yeah, let me just look at Navy. Navy is playing Oklahoma. Oh, that's a beat down. Oh, no. First this ball. Nice. Nice. Go Navy.

Long live the 100% go Navy. Yeah, go Navy. All right. What else you got on the slide deck? Let's see. This is just for me to start by Auburn hype trained again, going into next football. All right. What else you got in the slide deck? Um, let's see. This is just for me to start by Auburn hype trained again, going into next football season. Obviously, you know, just missed the undefeated season this year,

but feeling pretty good. It was close, man. A couple of plays. You know, just that's the way it's close. Rumbles, you know, just one bouncing ball here. This is the number one wide receiver. Yeah, I just I'm pretty hyped about that. So we got it. Some targets for all our boy from Oklahoma to throw at.

So we'll see. We'll see what happens. It's time. The yellow wood money. Yeah, that's right. That yellow wood. Yellow wood pays pretty good. Alabama would just call that money. So you're saying would much funnier.

I don't even know what we're talking about. It's like this stuff that they built the Shire out of and Lord of the Rings. Yep. Yep. They built every house in the Southeast. Okay. It's like the lumber company, like the guys and alumni. It's like South Carolina have a big cock donor.

What is that? Was a good joke. Did you get that joke? That's pretty. That was pretty good. Who is their number one donor, you think? Strength Co. That's actually besides us. Yeah, besides. Um, I don't know. Actually, I know what you're talking about though, because the Red Sox have a glass company that's like been on everything since like the sixties.

I don't know South Carolina's biggest donor. Thank you. I have like one or two home players. I could see that. No, I see that. Yeah. Speaking of which, you guys actually be the streets. Yeah.

So you guys have helmets anywhere? I go back here. Hold on. Oh, Auburn helmet. Trey, you got a helmet anywhere? No helmet, man. No, I got Mr. Helmet. So all this college football talk, if you want this podcast to continue, you

got to support this podcast and you don't have to support it directly. Maybe you don't want to lift weights. Maybe you're a new dad and working out sounds terrible. And you're just like Trey and Grant are stupid for trying to do this during this crazy season of life. I just want to smash kettle corn and watch football and I want a football helmet. You should go see Mr. Helmet. And the nice thing is you don't even have to know what the website name is or what the name of the company is because I don't know what it is, but you can just click Mr. Helmet in the show notes. Great. I agree. He does. He does know what it is for green grid iron. Is it? Which one's

first? Is it green? Green, green, green, green, green. I think it's green grid iron. Yeah. And go get a football helmet for your favorite college team. We got strength Co helmet coming out soon We may have an okay podcast helmet coming out soon. That's the Marine Corps helmet. You're looking at right now Go buy a helmet from mr. Helmet Great guy better at helmets true. So we've always said True. So we've always said, yeah, always said that. Well, let's see that college football. Once we got there, I guess, Greg, do you want to talk about 29 Palms and the Yucca man? We need to go visit him. Yeah. Yeah. We can do that briefly. Maybe get a good story from Trey,

good Marine story. So one of the things I've always said about life is if you have a big life event like a baby, make sure you stack it up with another one like a move. And then it two, one is none, two is one, and you should always have two. So throw a deployment on the backend. And then when you land at your new destination with your wife and your baby and your cats

and your empty house and all your box that need to be unpacked, make sure that the green weenie wants you to come to 29 Palms for 48 hours. Put that on top or you won't really experience life. So yeah, I had to go 29 Palms, took the 95 black Chevy truck, ran like a top, was a little worried going up the hill. But you know, most of the time I go in 29 palms, I'm in a tactical vehicle, which basically my 95 Chevy is kind of like similar to a Humvee in terms of it might break down.

And that drive is just, it's like you're driving, you're like, I'm in Southern California. I'm in Southern California. Whoa, that's a lot of windmills. Where am I? Like that's, that's where your mind goes. And then you get in that road through Joshua tree and continue on. But yeah, no, I wouldn't try to impalm. It's just funny. Nothing's different. Hit the gate, two Marines with mustaches. And I'm like, Hey, two Marines, two medals. And

they're like, what? I'm like, there's two Marines that won two medals of honor. What are their names? Like, Oh, I don't know. So you tell them, yes, Medley Butler. I'm like, I haven't been here for five years. Anything changed? You're like, Oh, we got rid of such and such. No, we have a Popeyes. I'm like, cool. Go in and then that was literally their update. We kind of pop eyes. Meet Battery Gunny and takes us into our offices. We're taking over the offices of a battery that's deployed. And so just ransacked, all the drawers are open, computer monitors are gone, there's nothing. Meet him and then we're like going up to three level or three 11 thunder six and to like do a brief about, you know,

us coming and we sit down and everything that we make fun of happened. It was like the three comes in. He's like slicking back his hair. He's like, yeah, I just ran my CFT blah, blah, blah. What a gut check. Yeah. Hey, Lieutenant blah.

And they're like, all right, let's take that. Put the POA and M up on the wall. And I'm like, I feel like I'm inside of a simulation. How is this real? Let's start up with admin. How do they get ad condos? Like how do they actually get? And then it's like, Lieutenant looks like he's from a movie, like glasses, seven inches thick. He's like, well, sir. And yeah, I told Trey on the phone the other day, there was the two as I sat down was like staring at my hand. And I'm like, why is this dude staring at my hand? And then I realized I'm like, Oh, I'm wearing my Citadel ring. So he's like staring at it, but he's like

nervous because I'm wearing an Oak leaf and he has a gold bar on and finally he's like, Oh, I'm wearing my Citadel ring. So he's like staring at it, but he's like nervous because I'm wearing an Oak leaf and he has a gold bar on and finally he's like, Hey sir, what ring is that? And I was like, Oh, it's the Citadel. He's like, did you go? And I was like, no, I just, I just wear it. And he's like, Oh, I went there too. And what I wanted to do was just bang it on the table and go, where's your ring brother? But I was like, oh, nice. He's like, when did you graduate? And I was like, 2010. How about you?

He's like, 2023. And I was like, wow, I feel old. And I said, oh, how was it? I haven't been back. And he goes, I haven't been back either. And I was like, you just left. Wow. You're still crapping Confederate chow. You're, you're, you're so much.

You're still crapping Confederate chow. Like what are you talking about? Um, anyway, but yeah, the meeting was funny. And then 29 palms is just an interesting spot. Like everyone that's there thinks they're like super bad ass and they kind of are in a way. And uh, yeah, it was just, everything was just amazing. It was, it was, it was great to be back.

And then there's all miserable together. Yeah. And the map was on the wall. It's like gaze past the quack and Bush and like have like these blue arrows. And I, all I was thinking was like, man, I don't remember any of that. And I need to make sure I don't get lost. Um, for your non-military types, when you go into Amboy Canyon, when you go into Twentynine Palms, your phone just goes down to zero. So you're like living life and then your phone

just and it's done. And so when you have to go places, when I was growing up back in the old core, you had a map and a compass and the new core, everyone uses Apple maps and you don't get to do that out there. So it's going to be interesting, but yeah, no, it was just funny. And I saw Yucca Valley and I was like, the Yucca man. Yeah, I was going to cell phone service. That's true. There's pockets and it's probably better than when we were there. We, uh, cause whenever we had rolling to new paws, like the, like one of the sergeants, it was like in the lead Vic and you would just like read off. He's like, Hey, rolling into the pause, whatever it is, uh, cell phone update, uh, no service three,

three G one bar. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes we're coming down to the wire by the time you listen to this? Love being sick. It'll be the 27th, which means grand will be five days from deployment. So five days and a wake up. So we're coming down to wire. What happens to the okay podcast, you might say well, we have no idea. It'll be okay. Figure it out. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. Just make it up. Yeah. We made it up this far. Yeah. I'll figure it out. 52 weeks. It's the final countdown. It's actually just going to be just like...

We're still going to do it every week. It's just going to be me and Jeff talking trash about Grant. That's all it is. Ah, to the FDO down range. Yeah. I was thinking you guys, we'd we do a thumbnail. We make actually PJ make Duncan go across just in case you're going to lose your job off for this. And now put tall grass on the screen. Yep. Make it taller, taller, taller. Okay. Good. Good job. Good job, PJ. And now the bracket you never made two weeks ago, make the bracket. Yeah. No, we should just put our favorite soundtracks on, but we'll make a new thumbnail each week and everyone will

be like, Oh, it's a new podcast. And they're going to click it and it'll just be like, I'm thinking about my door when you're gonna ring it, when you're gonna ring it. That could be great. I will say if it's just me and Jeff, it will be very music heavy. Yeah. Are we music light right now? No big music guy. He got records in the background. But you don't like under you don't like underground music. You do not. Further, the further you have to dig, the better.

Keeps on him. I'm insulted right now, Trey. Let me just grab a random record here. Let's see what happens. He I'll grab one. This is going to be a white stripes. OK, straight out the couch. Look at this. The moody blues

on the threshold of a dream. First thing I grab. I got any Arnold. Hey, Eddie Arnold. Jeff. What you got? big vinyl guys Like the other second closest one, you know this one Monkeys are day. Oh, yeah I do have a quick vinyl. I'm to butcher this name. He is a long time listener

to the podcast friend of mine met him at lift hard live easy classics been on the phone himself with B2B tax. Wow. I want to say it's Jeff McDormand, but I'm going to butcher it. Plus there's an Instagram handle and you have to remember all this stuff, but he had like a complete meltdown on my DMS when he saw me closing the cover while playing the record. He's like, what are you doing? You leave it open. And I've, I've read that before. It's like crackle audio is better. Like you, you don't want to close the cover. And all I, I didn't write back cause I was moving. I love moving. I've always said that always. And I just, I just thought, dude, do you not have cats? Like you cannot leave the record exposed. The cats want to become DJs. Like I've tried this.

Yeah. Like there's a reason. So, uh, big Jeff, uh, if you wondered, I take my record listening seriously, but I also want to protect them from the cats. Also record safety is also very, yeah. Yeah. They're eating the cats. That was good. That was good. Not as good as my big cock joke, but you know, can't all be bangers. Anything left on the side? Save round. Can all be bangers. But we'll try.

Are we getting more anything left on the slide? Save round. Oh, we haven't even asked for alibis. Well, it's Trey had one in there and I just kept reading it and I kept making me laugh because it says baby, baby meat purees. And I was just like pictured like, oh, oh, yeah, crazy. I didn't want to know about this. Like he's very, you know, I suppose I was't want to know about this. Like he's eat the babies. They're officially ours.

Shout out. Love you. Yeah, baby meat, purees and egg banana pancakes. We hear about this. I want to hear about this. Chow Chow talk. So I have won and fascinated with like whenever you're starting to introduce real food to a baby. South Carolina, we just call that food.

Yeah. Once you're starting to introduce food solid food to a baby, it's I just like, hey. Yeah. Once you're starting to introduce food, solid food to a baby, it's like, hey, what's the, you're talking to a pediatrician, like, hey, what's the strategy on this? Should I just give it to them? And if they have a lertre reaction, then you just like, deal with it. I'm like, oh, I'm like, okay, so.

Great. You try this one at a time, if they don't die, then you're good, you move on to the next thing. Essentially is what it is. So we're, but we've been going through and we started doing solid and we did the purees. And so I was at the store. I thought purees was like fruit and like sweet potato.

And I go to the store. I'm like, oh, they have like beef. Was it duck was on there like it was like all the different meats you can think of. Yeah. It was like all over the place. I'm like, Oh, let's start grabbing some, some protein. So we're doing that. Okay. Actually, they're, they're not bad. They're pretty good. Yeah. But the best thing that we've made so far, cause you try to do different textures, right? Okay. Big texture guy, big texture guy is Abby's like, Hey, I've read about these pancakes. Because she's, I thought you were gonna say pans for a second. She wanted pancakes for, for her dinner. So she's like, we can make the baby pancakes

too. What are you talking about? She's like, Oh, it's one banana to one egg. Okay. Like what? And so you just like puree banana banana and then you scramble an egg and you mix puree mean, uh, smoothie. Turn it into a liquid. So blender. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

The ninja. Okay. Continue. Yeah. Yeah. And then you just put in, just do it like it's like, that's your pancake mix. And like, okay, I'm like, this sounds disgusting. But I'm like, it was the best.

I'm like, why would this? Now I want all my pancakes. Now. I don't know. This is fantastic. Got you still put syrup on it. Yeah. From Canada or the US?

I got it. It's very, it's the brown jug the brown jug one This is from the US from Trader Jose Not no, it's from sprouts Okay, I don't know the brown jug Mmm, it's the same one that you had. Okay, then it's legit. Yeah Yeah, can't be messing with that you had. Okay, then it's legit. Yeah. Yeah. Can't be messing with that Canadian syrup. No. And so I'm like, Oh man, these are actually in there. It's just banana and

egg. That's it. Wow. Sounds good. I don't know. It's worth worth trying out. Mix it up. Try it out. Nice. Babies didn't like it. I was happy because I just had. Yeah. More for me. I like 14 of those things. It was fantastic. Let's see here for the one year anniversary. We got to think about people that have made a mark on the pod. That's what I love. What I've always loved about BW tax is, you know, you can be someone like me, I have a W-2 job still, you know, got to support the wife, the kids, there you go. Kids, you know, there's child tax credits.

You know, the government has really created a wild maze that is income tax and loopholes and all that. And that's what the folks at BW tax, that's their bread and butter. I mean, that's what they're known for and what they've come to be so excellent at. And that's why, you know, you can talk to them remotely, even if you're from

Place the sticks like Western Northeast, South Dakota. You can still talk to a warm body at BW tax That's not a it's not a boss. It's not a GPT service, you know, it's real people there providing a real service and That's what I love about them at BW tax dot Tax LLC dot-com I love about them at bwtax.bwtax.llc.com. The maybe started at all. Sometimes you get it right. The first time sometimes you get it right.

It's almost like that guy's done like 600 episodes of podcasts and knows what he's doing. Big shout out to Tanner for giving us the BW tax ad read that everyone just ran with 52 weeks, 52 guests. No, 52 weeks, maybe 26 guests, maybe more. I don't know. At this part of the show every year as we wrap up another year of podcasting, we always do what I call the truth gun and we put the gun to Jeff's head and we say, Jeff, favorite guests go five, four, three, three two one. You're gonna

lose your answer. I really like I like the Tim Bane episode. I wasn't on it. Tim Bane. But I like to Jeff. Jeff hated all gas. Truth gun tray. Five four three two one zero. Who's the girl we talked to? No, the, the, the, I'll do the magician. The magician, Evan the card guy, okay. I think that's pretty interesting.

Yeah, I learned a lot about social media. I guess I put two guns in my head. Ready, truth gun. Grant, favorite guest. Someone that's a count. Three, two, one. Uh, someone that's account three, two, uh, Jim DeNofa. I think there was, so I think Jim DeNofa is up there, but he also just represents like Jim DeNofa hadn't talked to in depth in a while, had a big impact on us. Like early Marine Corps career, Donnie Bowers hadn't

talked to in a while. It was great. It was great to talk to Tim Bain, like talk to via text, but hadn't been able to talk to BW keeps the lights on. So then you have like Shep, Teal, those guys all great. But like, you know, we talked to him once in a while, but I thought, yeah, for me, like Jim and maybe Donnie, that's not like they were the best guest. It just means like for me, it was like, I felt like I got to catch up and that was fun. Yeah. I'm switching mind. I'm switching mind. Mine's Shep. I really like that one.

Okay. Yeah. Shep was great. Shep was fantastic. The other part about Shep though is like, Jeff and I see him all the time. So like it's so it was fun for us. But but yeah. Yeah. No, it's been fun. Worst worst ad read. The worst Stephen Garcia. 100% didn't even make sense. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know how taxes, your taxes work? Yeah. You should actually call BW. I think he needs to do some explaining. Think about halfway through the pod, he said, can I drink?

And I think he just never stopped. But we had to be a head read. So 52 weeks, if you like this pod, uh, go subscribe to YouTube. We're only going to do episode 53 for 1000 subscribers. That means that 500 people need to go subscribe. Uh, we also need a minimum of 52 comments on this week's episode or we're going to retire. Um, what were the rest of our demands that we wrote out? If we don't get to 5200 Instagram followers, we're not going to do our taxes this year. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. So please, one of them, please go subscribe.

Saved rounds, Alibis. Uh, saved rounds, alibis. Mm hmm. Did anyone care? Does anyone care about the Heisman anymore? Does anyone? No. Right. Like what happened? How did that thing just lose its? No one cares about no more.

I used to get high for once we lost the fullback. Mm hmm. It's been all downhill for each. It's you know what? You know what mess it up is the playoffs. Yeah. Playout like everyone, because usually it's like. It kind of follows like, hey, you have all the awards, then bowl season starts, right? Seasons over Army, Navy game awards.

Well, season bowl season. Top Shepard. Yeah. Colin, do. Bull season. Top Shepard. Yep. Colin, do we put them on real quick? Yeah. I don't know if you're on the OK podcast. Hey. Jeff, yes. Hey, what's going on?

What's that? We're on the you're on the OK podcast right now. Oh, say something for real. Oh, oh, shit. I want to talk to you about something, but not. Okay. Okay. Can I call you back?

Yes, please. I will. I will. That was perfect. That was perfect. Slurring his Rs and rolling his S's. I can hear you, Jeff. Can you hear me?

Yeah. Can you hear me, Trey? I can hear you. Yeah. Can you hear me? Yeah. Can you hear me, Trey? I can hear you. Yeah. Something happened to Jeff. I think his phone took over his AirPods and he doesn't know it. Re reconnect.

Reconnect. Reconnect. In South Carolina, we call that a connection. I'm going to at least hear him. I can hear him. We should make him do the. Can you hear me hear him. I can hear him. We should make him do the. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you.

Your AirPods connected to your cell phone. Are you back? You air pod cell phone. Cell phone is connected. It's connected to the cell phone. Oh, great. This is great podcast. The poor people that have stayed here for 52 weeks working. Yeah, it's good. It's good.

Um, yeah, your phone connected to spider. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. Connection. All the water is found or the water is saved round. Yeah. Connection. The eatsy-beatsy spider. Is this Trey saved round? Yeah. Yeah. Now, that's what I have. I bring it back in.

That's what happened. OK. Oh, yeah. Right. So this podcast. Yeah. OK. That's. Merry Christmas. Happy Christmas. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Are we not allowed to say Mary anymore? Oh, OK. Got it. I like the Christmas. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Are we not allowed to say Merry anymore? Oh, okay. Got it. I like the English. Yeah. It's an English thing. Can't wait for

boxing day. Right after Christmas. I get boxing day. Boxing day. Yeah. Boxing day. Hey, Liverpool. Liverpool's in first. Yeah. So so Liverpool over at the pub. Grandma came over to Christmas Day, Hammond. That's why we beat them. That's why we beat them. Yeah. They were too busy celebrating Boxing Day. Like a freaking drum. Yeah.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve. Yeah. When you listen to this, it's the day after. Hope you're fat and happy. If mom gave you a check, go to www.thestrength.co and buy you a cast iron pan. The pans are at the Coder. They got their Friday and they weren't able to coat them on Monday, but they are going to coat them on Friday. So that means that pan is going to be hitting your doorstep by about January 10th. If you like food, if you like yesteryear, if you like traditions, if you like things that last forever, if you want to buy something that can sustain your wellbeing for the next

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We lost Trey. He would go buy some barefoot shoes. I think. Yeah. Cast iron panties. Fried. Fry them up. Wait, he said yesteryear. Let me get over there. I got to get at least bananas and eggs, make some pancakes real quick.

Yeah. So let's see. Today's Monday. We usually record on Tuesdays. Tuesday, which means that we would be supposed to record on New Year's Eve. I feel like we're just going to make that happen. Like an episode 53 in's Eve. I feel like we're just going to make that happen. I think in episode 53 in the book. I'm not going to be doing anything. We could watch the ball live. Oh, that'd be great.

Not the Marine Corps ball, the ball drop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On the East, we can watch the East coast ball drop because I don't say. Yeah, it's perfect for me at 9 p.m. sounds great. So we don't know what we're going to do, but we're going to try to be here. Yeah. Yeah. So at this point of the show, when Trey goes to take a leak and leaves his Vivek Ramashwamy AirPods on, we all listened to him take a pee. And when he

comes back, they heard all of it. Sounded like you passed the kidney stone. When he comes back, we tell him to bring us in for a landing. Oh man. Why? I actually heard all the y'all. So that was pretty good. I was, I was buying barefoot shoes. So that's where I went. What episode are we on?

Five to remember 52 weeks every year at 52. Yeah. Who would have thunk it? The one year miracles. Episode zero five to of the OK. OK. Oh, podcast. That's where we usually have to do times. Fifty thirds of charm. I've already not changed the way I do this.

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you will find all the social medias. Follow us, like, subscribe. Now, we also have our each and individual social media accounts. Hang on. For episode 52, let me just go live while Jeff actually goes live on the show. Okay. No one's going to be able to hear me because I'm in the headphones. I'll do it anyway. Go ahead. Yeah. We have our individual social media accounts. I believe, if I'm not mistaken, we're all live right now. That's how active we are on social media. Don't stop Jeff.

Great ass. Oh, hey Jeff, how many followers do you have right now? A million. Who's following you online? A million people. So many. Amazing. I'm crashing the servers.

We got two people in, we got three people in. We got four people in. Wow, this is incredible. We got Gaston Mooney in the house. We got Mohammed Rony. We got Caitlin dot Emily. Your biggest supporters. I'm doxing everybody. Yo guys, what's up? What's up? This should have been the episode.

Okay. Watched the video live. Okay. No, this is Jeff the episode. Okay. Okay. No, this is Jeff going live. Yeah. Oh, this Jeff going live. We got seven people in here. That's more than we had last week's episode of listeners.

We have nine people in here. 15 people in here. Biggie JP's in here. Oh, Jeff asked a co-host. Oh, how do I do that? There's a little button like see the little camera button down there. Okay. Okay. We got a golden retriever that just joined. So they're dogs.

Actually, let's see. There's like two men. Okay. I'm going to invite you right now. Here we go. Invite. All right. You're invited. Oh no, I just invited you to join. How do I add a host? Oh, you know, I don't know how to do this. As we said, we go live all the time. All the time. So biggie JP declined. Someone said, well, well, my dog is watching too. So add an extra person. Yes.

And Mooney shout out Alps, Tucker Carson, uh, nine miles. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. He's on here. Yeah. Wow. Uh, anyway. So as you were saying, Trey, we always go live. Yeah. I actually had no idea what that meant just until now. So amazing. That's how, but we're very active. Yeah. Very active. Other than that, uh, gentlemen, it's been fun so far for your besides you. We'll see what this goes. I don't know.

My way. I don't know. Yeah, I'll see. We'll see. Let's see. Coach, I miss anything. No, you to www.theokpodcast.com to find everything. I'm just going to play a little outro here and then PJ can probably cut it.

Oh, by the way, shout out PJ. Yeah. No, yeah. Shout out PJ. Big shout out PJ. I made sure mom already logged off and we'll leave you with this. I believe it's half full now it is Half empty glass Everyday I wake up knowing it could be my last I ain't here for a long time

Roughly fits two weeks I'm here for a good time The OK Podcast See you next time