The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 58: Truck Talk , The High Desert & LA People

Episode Date: February 8, 2025

Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ksCheck out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.comBUY A FOOTBALL HELMET: https://www.greengridiron.com/?ref=thestrengthcoTIMESTAMPS:00:00 - ROLL CALL07:12 - High Desert10:56 - Truck Talk19:21 - Jeff’s Drill24:57 - “My Training Was Harder”28:51 - LA People34:23 - Luka Trade37:10 - PJ Weight Update44:21 - Bowling Ally49:07 - Super Bowl Sunday53:34 - Saved Rounds

All right, welcome back to episode 058 of the OK podcast powered by the strength. Oh, I'm your host, Grant Brogi. And for a long time, we've said we are joined here tonight with but we've gotten better after 58 episodes. So why don't we just go ahead and do a roll call? Can I get a roll call before we start the rock? Okay. Yeah. We're going to go, go around the room here. Uh, I know we've got some folks dialed in from the outstations.

Um, so if you're on the line or in the room, go ahead, Roger up. Uh, okay. That's one, that's one of you here. Nothing to pass the group. Oh, okay. Just, just, just check in, just check in whether you're here or not. Uh, we'll get to that. Yeah. Uh, brief. Oh, okay. Just just just check in just check in whether you're here or not Nothing to brief anyway, okay. Okay. Well, okay. Well, thanks for showing up S2 got anybody from the two are you dialed in from the skiff? Yeah, this is the this is the S2 alpha Zulu. The lieutenant is a combat camera right now laminating maps. He said he has nothing for the group.

Okay. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. Okay, good. So you're telling me the the laminator in the two shop is still still broken? Yes, sir. I think I put a service request in before he checked out last year, but yeah, it still doesn't work. Okay. Yeah. Going on six years, that thing's been broken from my Lieutenant time at the battalion. It was broken and it still is. Okay. Moving on. Okay. Ops were here. Uh, cop. So FOPs. So Zulu alpha. Okay. We got all our reps here. Uh, moving on to the four shop is the four here. Is it anyone see the four? Hey, four. Are you here? You dialed in? Four, are you up?

Four, let me see. I got like 19 people on Teams and six people calling from. Radio check. Are any of the outline stations on here? Anybody on an outline station can give me a radio check. Yeah, it's Gunny. This is Gunny. This is Gunny.

This is Gunny Mac, I'm on the line. Okay, Gunny Mack, do you know where the four is? Yeah, Kevin Gottlisch had an MRI three days ago and he hasn't made it back from it yet. Okay, okay. Well, we had a lot of RFIs for the four. Okay. We'll go ahead and just capture those trash. It's trash. It's trash. You just, you just push without the four. Okay. I'll cover anything about the trash needs to be covered.

Copy copy. We'll push. Uh, okay. Uh, six combo radio check. I see what you did there, sir. Um, yeah. should be good. Yeah. Oh, this is, I don't have anything for the group, but, oh, are you just doing roll call? Just getting roll call. Yeah, we're here. We're here, sir. Making sure you got a pulse. All right. Okay. Okay. Got you Lima Charlie then Lima Charlie. Okay, moving on. Medical, we got any of our medical reps here? Yeah, this is Chief.

We're here, but we have to go early because I have Chief's training on the other side of base. And it's every week at the same time as this cub. It actually starts 15 minutes after. So I can't stay at a brief medical, but I'll have a HM 1903 dash Reichen dollar here. And yeah, I got to actually, I need to go to my chief's thing right now. It's a, it's a chief thing. You guys wouldn't get it, but wouldn't understand. Sir, sir. Everything's good. Medical is fine. Okay. All right. All right. Moving on. Career planner. You here? We got the we got career planner. I think he's out with the local recruiting station. We're not sure

why. But he's not here. Last I saw him. He was in civies. And that's been every day this week. But yeah, he said call him if you need anything. Okay. Noted. Noted. Roger. Roger. Okay. Chaps, you here? Amen. Should I start us in a little word of prayer real quick? Hey, everybody go ahead and bow your heads. Dear great God in the sky above us all and bigger than any of us could be ever. Let your light shine down on these victorious war fighters as they prepare to rage in the battle and face their foes. May they be strong and mighty and equipped.

And Lord, we pray for the M777 Alpha two howitzers, which we know are your very fingertips. Bless these war fighters as they go into battle. In your holy name, we pray, amen. Amen, amen. Hey, this trash section, you know we're not going to war, right? We're just worried about the trash. We're just worried about the trash.

We're just worried about the trash. As per usual, I wouldn't call it a waste, but we've had a nice seven minute intro. And all that to say, the four is not here. We do not have Robert Gallish the third tonight. I got to do a little mic adjustment. I'm just going to do it on the fly. Just that mic. Okay. Look good. Yeah. Good. Look, it looks like you're in the ways now

of the microphone. So yeah, you're just, you're just going to engage that. So big Wes guy. But yeah, episode zero five, eight, the okay podcast. We're glad you're here. Price of Bitcoin is $97,523 and two cents. We'll drop this week. Not to be alarmed. We're still up three X since we started the podcast. So we can't really afford not to stop doing the podcast. Mr. Gouwich is out. He may have a new human being in his house. So we've heard funny how that that happens just pops right out of the, out of the woman. And there you go. And so father of three daughters under year one, we're thinking about starting to go fund me or some kind of charity event, you know, maybe for the, maybe for the shrink appointments he's going to have. I told him, just call the chaps like, you know, you don't

need therapy. Just listen to the okay podcast on Fridays and call the chaps and, and you'll be just fine. But a tray's gone. We got a lot of the fun stuff to talk about today's date is Thursday, February the sixth and the year roller 2025. As we record this coming to you live, really, it'll probably air Saturday, another Saturday's surprise from 29 palms, California, mr. Jeff bougie by way of Salt Lake city. Not really, but kind of it's the only city that you would know if you'd never been there. Utah. What's the weather like out there?

Unseasonably warm. It's 50s and 60s is the highs. Yeah. It's kind of weird. Yeah. What's it like in the old, what do you, what do you call that terrain? Like I'm currently in the high desert. Are you like in the lakes? Yeah. High desert, high desert. Your high desert. We are. Oh yeah. There's something about the high desert that's just like superior to the low desert. Oh, a hundred percent. I don't know what it is, but like when you leave, you know, let's say you're coming out of like TA prospect and you look down, you look down, you know, you hit main side and you look out across the golf course and you

see that mountain range of the Mojave and the clouds are beneath the mountain range. You know what I'm talking about? You ever had that? You're looking over Lake Dandini and the clouds are lower. I mean, I guess in Utah, you guys just call that Monday. But it is kind of crazy because you're looking like, whoa, is it snowing? And you're like, oh, those are the clouds because I'm in the high desert.

That's the high desert. Some people don't like 29 Palms. Personally, I feel like it's the next closest thing to heaven on earth, Really? Wow. Wow. Wow. Better or worse than the low country. So if you had to rank low country versus high desert, which one are you choosing? Like to live. And I'm talking about the high desert of 29 palms, AKA 29 stones. Do the meth heads come with the high desert or are we just talking topography? You can do what you want with the meth heads.

You can bring them to the low country if you want. You can keep them in the high desert. The choice is yours in that regard. Well, I grew up in the low country, so I am partial, but the humidity and the sand nets are tough. And then you have the high desert, which is just, it has a mind of its own. Like the heat is unbelievable and somehow it's also so cold. It's like its own hemisphere. I feel like the merge between those two glorious places, the upstate of South Carolina. Back to the upstate.

Back to the upstate. All comes back to the upstate. Yeah. No, the weather here has been a little bit crazy. Not crazy, but we had some really cold weather and then I think today the high was like 78, but it's still like 32 at night. And so it's those high desert temperature swings to keep at night. And so it says, it says high desert temperature swings keeps you on there to keep you on your toes. And I get it. I know why the Marine

Corps chose this. Like don't get complacent. Not even with the weather. Don't even get complacent with the weather. And I respect that. I did. I was in a briefing. A lot of people have mentioned that like our briefings at the middle of the show. I wasn't a briefing shocking recently. And there was a two shop rep and it was like a Lance corporal type and it was female Lance corporal type. And, uh, you know, she's totally got thrown in there and the weather slide came up and, uh, and she's like, this is the weather. Um, you can see the temperature ranges on the top and then on the bottom is the illumination. And so when the number gets higher, it means that you're going to be able to see more at night with and I'm just like, this is incredible.

This is real life. I gave her a couple, I gave her a couple of good dudes. It was like, don't worry. That gave her a couple, I gave her a couple good dudes. It was like, don't worry. That's actually a compliment. Um, but anyway, yeah. Uh, what do we got on the agenda? Well let's see here. Uh, let's kick it off. Just want to hear storage on the 96 Chevy is a topic you put in there. Oh yeah. We want you to go into some truck talk. The truck. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That ties into truck. I like truck talk. Yeah. Okay. Before we get in trash talk. No truck talk is so, uh,

but buddy's out here with his unit and the, you know, more for Rez or tax dollars at work. Couldn't get our rental cars in time. So we ended up getting them. This is my buddy. It's not me. I want to talk about my own situation. And so I was glad I have my 96 Chevy out here. My 96 Chevy, if you haven't seen it, it's let's just say it's a little faded. It's been around. It's not his first R rodeo. And so it's kind of become an icon out here, which I think we talked about the show before. But anyway, the other day, I was driving it somewhere and it started smoking and I'm like, Oh no, like the head gas gets like popped or like, you know, like something bad happened. So I stopped and I had a couple Marines with me and I popped the hood and I see that the tranny fluid is like popped, like the dipstick, it's like, you know, those like suction cup dipsticks that you push down and then like bend over.

And so, you know, you're riding out to Camp Wilson, it's a bumpy road, you go by the 100 series ranges and that thing popped open. And so tranny fluid was just like bouncing out and hitting the engine and smoking, much to my delight, right? Because I'm like, oh, this is fantastic. Nothing's going to be wrong. And so I go to the right side of

the engine. And there's like this big plastic piece. I mean, it wasn't a surprise to me. It was a surprise that Marines were there. And it says storage and I open it and I have like a can of seafoam, like three, like over a half a can of, you know, five W 30 oil. I have a funnel. I have brake fluid. I have power steering fluid. I have like rags. I have the size ranch that can like open like, and they're like, do you just ride around like under your hood with like everything you need to fix your truck? And I was like, yeah. And like, I didn't invent this, like don't like give grant any of this, but there's just like a storage box like under your hood. And I didn't have training fluid. So I had to go out and

buy that, which was fine. Like I didn't lose that much. I saw it right away. But I just thought it was funny because like now you open the hoods and you're like, I don't even know how to point to the alternator. Unrecognizable. Yeah. Yeah. And that truck, it's like, I got a whole toolbox in here. So yeah, that was that. And then truck talk. Did I talk to you guys about truck talk? I don't think so.

No, let's truck talk. So the buddy's XO, he thinks he's a pretty good guy, rides in the truck a lot. And especially in the early days, now he has a rental and everyone prefers mine to like the 2,500 Dodge Rams that the early days. Now he has a rental. Everyone prefers mine to the 2,500 Dodge Rams that they got us, so your truck's better. I'm like, I know. Anyways, I drive around base.

If I see a square body, just an older truck where you know the person's intentionally driving that. That's the answer. I would just throwing him a wave and he was like, what's that? I was like, oh, just a little truck talk. He's like, truck talk? What is truck talk? I'm like, well, it's just like, you see a guy, he's got like an 84 F150. And you know that that guy like owns that truck for a reason. Like, you know, he could drive a million other things, but he's driving that and you just like toss him away. And then like a, like brand new Tundra will come by. He's like truck. I'm like, yeah, he doesn't really rate truck talk. It's like way different. Like he's a different guy.

He has a lot of money or he really loves debt and like, that's not like the same thing. And so then it's been like this thing where we write it right. Oh, you want to talk to that guy? I was like, Oh, so there's this white, there's a white F two 50 power stroke probably like 86 four door long bed dually. And it is like perfect condition. And it's parked outside the, the comm, the comm chief's course. And I like every time I pass that mo I'm going to go meet that Marine. It could be a civilian. It could be like a retired C well five too. I was like, I'm going to meet the owner of that truck before I leave the desert. You think that's like a, is that a mass sardine is a, what are you, what if you had to guess

what rank? Well, what he needs to be is a guest on the podcast. That's 100%. Yeah. So am I guessing rank or am I guessing what if I think he's a civilian? Do I have to guess what he retired as? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Either active or retired. What do you think? Yeah. Their rank is, What do you think? Yeah. Their rank was, I think it's like a white guy from like Virginia. Okay. Yep. Yep. I can picture this and I'm going to say he's a gunner or a master sergeant. Okay. Okay. But I kind of want to go see, whoa, I kind of want to go see, well, it's like in pristine condition.

It's like, Oh, it's immaculate. Like the rims match the windows. It's not too blocked out. Like it's pristine condition. The tires are always shiny at the same time. You can tell it's been used. Like what I mean with that, it's not beat up at all, but like, it's not like a, I don't drive this truck. Yeah. Yeah. I'll try and snap a photo tomorrow and put it up on the stories, but yeah, I

feel like, I feel like it's a gun here. Mass Sergeant. Okay. Yeah. Little truck, talk, little truck stores, little truck, talk. Hey sometimes we talk trucks, sometimes we talk trash. Did have a thought today as I was reading my urine hydration chart. Thank goodness. And for those that you don't know, every time you take a leak in the Marine Corps, if you're sitting down, you get a war update. You get a threat update in China, Iran, whatever country. It may be from 2021, it may be from 2017, but if you sit down to poop, you are getting a threat

update from the enemy. But if you're peeing, you're just learning a whole, one, you're getting told where to put your trash, which is nice, or where not to put your trash, where to not dump your chia seeds. Exactly. But you're also getting taught about the kidney and liver function and explaining how much water you should drink per hour based off the temperature outside, based off what your stream looks like. And remember, don't look at your urine in the bowl. Look at the stream coming from every, the eggplant. And then, and then you know, uh, I was going somewhere with this. Oh, and I was reading all the signs. I'm just like laughing. I can't help myself. And like, you know, if a lieutenant comes in, I'm like, I'll point out

a sign and they're like, huh, sir? I'm like, no, just appreciate these signs. Like one day, like you won't have signs in your life and you'll miss it.. And anyway, I just thought, Oh, I'm going to put up a BW tax sign and it's just going to say like, Oh, I don't know. Never too late to do your taxes. I'll have to spell something wrong for it to be like a good sign. You know, great guy, better at taxes, BW tax. And I'm just going to hang it and it will be there for probably the next 28 years. Oh, easy. Yeah. Easily. So, oh my gosh. BW attacks, LLC.com. That was my way of segueing to that's who's keeping the lights on still paying the rent. We appreciate them. It is tax season. He did share any. Oh, actually

he shared me a, uh, he shared with me. I mean, he gets these all the time, like hourly. He shared with me a little email. I'll keep the HIPAA violations out. So it's screenshotted. I actually can't see the name. I can just see the last sentence and thanks, comma. It says, PS, I'm a listener of the OK podcast. After 50 plus episodes, they finally convinced me to reach out. Thanks. And then that's all I saw. So anyway, you guys think these sponsors are fake? They're not fake. They're real, the real people. And that's what we love about them. Love it. Love it. Love it. Good testimonial. What else we got? Kind of going off sign topic,

but so I had drill weekend this past weekend. Okay. Tell me more. Was it a shoot? We it was like rifle range for half the battery and then other half of the battery was going through, uh, the list for, I don't remember. I can't remember what it stands for. It's like force readiness something, FRAP inspection where they're basically like, yeah, make sure that we as reservists

can know how to run through like an activation and mobilize. So, okay. Everything you did getting ahead of those freaking dang fiscal year, excuse me, physical year training requirements by getting on that raffle range in February. I'd say that's pretty good to go. So, so overall readiness assessment and assistance force. Well, I think the and is the second.

Oh, and assistance. So it's technically frapp, force readiness assessment and's technically frapp. Force readiness, assessment and assistance program. FRAP. Anyway, go ahead. Tell us more. But the biggest disappointment of the weekend, like the inspection, rifle range all went well. We're going out to shoot in March. So we were prepping for that, but you know, not a lot of good signs around the 514 CP. Yeah. Pretty disappointed. There's a couple like in the urinals, there's like some information cards on a couple of different like types of howitzer, like older ones, like the.

Ah, the one nine or eight. I remember, I remember when the one nine or eight was from Flores, honestly. And like the one oh, one like the ceremonial one that we still use. The one oh fives, yeah. Yeah, not a lot of good signage. So I do kind of know part of that. Back when I was a boot captain and didn't appreciate all that was offered to me in the Marine Corps. I would like

police old signs. And this is back to my trash roots. I'm always a trash guy, but I would pull a lot of signs down that were like weathered looking. Do you still have the gear hoochies there at Seal Beach? Like on the right side, like when you come in the November battery office? seal beach like on the right side, like when you come in the November better office. Like the gear cages, your lockers. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There used to be a lot of signs on those like don't leave food in your locker. Are they still, are they still trying to catch mice and rats in there? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Still definitely a problem. Yeah. First drill showed up. That was, that was a lot of fun. I used to always love. Yeah. Salt pack that was eaten through and it was like, Oh, I guess I left an MRE in there. Like, yeah, that chunky peanut butter. Am I right?

Oh yeah, brother. What else did I say about Joe weekend? Um, do you, you didn't get chow in the area? No, really? Cause I was all over the place. So I like got in later on Thursday evening and then we had to show up super early the next morning. And then basically was in meetings all day and then drove down to Camp Pendle into the rifle range just to see how that was going. So I had like, I think like an MRE or something like that. And then woke up early. Oh gosh. Uh, uh, chili Mac.

That's yeah. One of my case. You had a case a case a indeed. Yeah. And then yeah, the chow wasn't, yeah. Cause there's not a lot of good chow access on base. There's just the PX, which was closed on the weekend. Even though we had, I don't know. So it was just, but it was good. It was good. So you were on Pendleton for a little bit and then yeah, then drove back up to Seale Beach.

Oh, no. Oh, the seven day store was closed on Seale Beach. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm bowed if you don't know. And, um, but no. So I learned, uh, while I was there, not me, I'll just say my buddy or my buddy's buddy, because I don't want to sound like my credit, but like as someone that likes operating businesses, I like went to the seven day store manager and I was like, Hey, so sometimes you're closed

on the weekend and there's like 400 people here for 72 hours that can't leave with like no option of anything else except for you to be open. And so I used to give them the drill schedule and they would open up every drill weekend. Okay. Yeah. So good to know though. You gotta keep the Marines with their cigarettes and their Zans and their white monsters. Yeah. Cause someone had said like, Oh, like if you call them and let them know that like it's a drill weekend, they'll stay open. Yeah.

And I just, you know, I assumed and I was like, Oh, everybody's here this weekend. Someone will call and it'll be open, but no one did. So it sounds like from now on, taking matters into my own hands. Hey, seven day stores aren't what they used to be. Are they? When I was growing up, seven day stores were even harder, you know? I don't know. That's a, that's a segue topic of, uh, and this is every unit. It's not my buddy's unit. It's every single unit is you can never

do any type of training or like deployment. I guess maybe like Chris Kyle or like folks like that get the, the, the out to this, but like without someone being like, well, I've done this training before because I'm older than you and it was harder and it goes to every single thing. It's like I used to, I used to, I shot iron sights and it was hard. The old pistol range was harder. Like when I did at one time, the elements were worse. Oh, you think this is bad? I once did an ITX where the ground was this much to the point that we did a gas chamber, you know, CS gas. And like for those that are listening, that don't know, like the Marines that listen,

that will laugh. And by the way, there's been like an outpouring of Marines lately messaging us and I say an outpouring. I mean like over a dozen being like, Hey, I like the podcast and our army brethren and our nanny guard brethren. Yeah. Who are who, um, and our Navy people, boo. Yeah. Senior chief. Um, so we appreciate that. We liked that. We liked that you're listening. Um, and, uh, yeah, we, we do support for the troops, for the, you know, watching YouTube, we just alluded, but, uh, anyway, um, the gas chamber is not a haze vest in boot camp. Yeah. Uh, or like, you know, the officer routing, they do like mess with you because they want you to suffer. But after that you do it annually and it's literally for you to have confidence that if you get gas, that your mass works.

So you get classes on, you know, the updates and C burn and what China is up to and all that kind of stuff. And then like how to fit your mask, but you go in with your mask on. And so like, if you just shave, like if you do a morning chamber, like your neck will immediately start to feel like you're in the bathroom. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And then you go in with your mask on. And so like, if you just shave, like if you do a morning chamber, like your neck will immediately start to hurt. I was raw dogging it. Like there was no mop suits. This was like mask only and frog suits. So you do start to feel stuff. But then you

go in there and like, you shake your head around, you do some jumping jacks, you like do a filter swap with your buddy. You do all these things. And then there's one moment where all 15 people are in there. You take your fingers and you push it through the seal and you put your fingers to touch the plastic front. So you're breaking the seal. So CS gas comes pouring in. So you take a big breath of air, close your eyes, touch the front. And then that's where they haze you a little bit. And I say haze very loosely, but they make sure that everyone is touching it. And then they're like, don your mask. So you put your fingers out, you grab your the front, you blow all the air out, which gets all the

gas out. You open your eyes and you breathe. If you didn't get it all, you blow it again. Anyway, my point is this, sorry, this is a long point is like if it's a correctly administered range, like there's nothing like that could be really harder about it. Yeah. I guess you could crack more capsules, but it's the Marine Corps are out of money. So it's like, it's not going to be that many capsules, but even coming out of that, there were stories about, Oh man, last time I did a gas mask chamber, they had us. And I'm like, no, it was no harder. It's a gas mask chamber.

Like I dig this. But it's always like that. It's always, always harder. Always more difficult. Always harder. The last deployment was always tougher than the current. Always. It rained every day.

Oh, every day. Yeah. The last field off was way worse. It was a mud X. Mud Always. It rained every day. Oh, every day. Yeah. The last field off was way worse. It was a mud X. Mud X. It's my favorite. It's my favorite.

What else we got? This will be a quick segue. Kind of ties back to drill weekend. So for the most part, flying out of John Wayne Airport in Orange County, but this time just with flight schedules, had to go to LAX and just the airport itself was fine, but just like looking around it, like the, and this is, you know, maybe me dogging on LA, which whatever. I love it. Say more. But like just looking around and I'm like, none of these people look useful. Like none of them, none of these people could change a tire. Like if you're like, Oh man, I broke down on the side of the road. Can you help me change a flat?

Like to be honest, like they're just stare at you with a blank look. You speak, uh, what, you know why we feel that way. Cause we're from the south. The south. But I was always thinking, like, I don't get that same sense when I, like, would fly into, say, like, John Wayne or whatever. I mean, I guess, I don't know, they're just it seemed seemed like it was a different, different group of folks, different population. Like people just seemed like LA people out of LAX, which I guess makes sense. But I'll just,

So people, This is different. Yeah. People like to rag in the state of California and, um, whatever. I lost a business to California. So I like to rag on it too. I also found a wife. So there's a lot of good things out of California. I just like to rag on to also found a wife. So there's a lot of good things out of California, but, uh, you know, it is true. It's like, L it's like LA, San Francisco, and I think San Diego is mostly pretty good, but they do have like the whole tent city problems and stuff. But it's like, the rest of that state is completely different. Um, and don't get me wrong, there's hipster pockets. Like go to Joshua tree and you feel like we're in the desert and I don't

feel like you could, you contribute anything to society. Um, like there's definitely, there's some pockets, but for the most part, like it's just like it's byproducts of the gold rush, you know? And like former Mexico. But yeah, no, LA's a, I've always, I've always disliked going to LA. The only thing that LA has going for it. And this is my opinion. If you don't like it, then okay. Okay. Listen to another podcast, but is the food and I'm not talking, so they do have like a foodie scene, like

the hipster foodie scene where they're like, we're going to make this experience and you're going to eat this. And that is good food. It's super expensive, but it's good food. I just mean like, if you know some people that have lived in LA and you're like, I want really good like Indian food, which I don't know who would ever say that. But if they did, there's like super authentic, like there's a little Italy, there's a little India, there's a little Mexico. Like they don't call them these things, but I just be like, you can go and find like some good food. But yeah, outside of that, it's, it's terrible. Do it was your flight delayed? No, I know. So it's better than DFW is what you're saying. Yeah, that's terrible. Do was your flight blade? Uh, no, I know.

DFW. That's true. That's true. Texas. But on both flights, so going out there and then coming back, like I'm like, you know, I feel like I check my seat number like 17 times between getting on like the jetway to like actually entering the plane. Cause I'm like, I don't want to, I don't want to go to the wrong seat.

Like, let me check this like a thousand times. And then both times I like get there and I'm like, check it like four more times. And I'm like, Oh, there's somebody in the seat. So I'm like, Hey, I think I'm in 14 F and like, they go, huh? I'm like, take out, like take off their headphones. They're like, what? And they're like, pull out their ticket. Oh, I thought this was row.

I'm in 16 A and it's like, how did you mess that up? And then same thing on the flight leaving was like, the person was just like way off. And I'm like, oh, this is definitely an LA person that's just like, not aware of anything. It's like, um, yeah, you have to get up. That's my, that's my scene. If you live in LA and you listen to this podcast, we understand it's a big city. You're the minority. Um, you're normal. We're not saying that all of you should be nuked. We're just saying we don't know why you live there. And that's all there is to that. Yeah.

No. Yeah. And it's LA proper too. It's like you get out in like Glendale or Monrovia or like some of the stuff and it gets better. Yeah. LA is it's something I also pity you that you had to fly out of LA when you're at steel beach and you got John Wayne and Orn and Long Beach right there. Oof, sad. There was nothing like later on Sunday to support because I was like, we're going to get out later than we're supposed to. I know it.

Yeah. No, no, you'll be done. Drill goes from zero weight to 1600. Always. Everybody knows that. Always. That's how it works. Everyone. Everybody knows that. Always. Yeah, that's how it works. Everyone treats it like that. Yeah.

All right, well, it sounds like a good drill weekend. I feel like your readiness and assessment and analysis and analytics program did a good job. Which is great. Oh yeah, we're so ready to framp. Yeah. Let's see, do we wanna talk a little sports talk here? The only thing we got in there is the Luca. Maybe the greatest of all time. Dude. And I was

like, Oh, that's fitting. I feel like he was a topic of discussion early on in the podcast. Yeah. Uh, can you tell me that? I mean, I know he's on the Lakers. Um, and I know that he's awesome. Uh, I'm a fan. I just love seeing a fat white guy, uh, run the league, which I think he does. Um, I don't know like the, uh, details of the deal. Okay. Okay. Yeah. What was it? I must've been, I just saw the memes populate like Friday or Saturday. Okay. Is when it went down. I actually had to Google it by surprise. Like everyone. When you put it as a topic, I had to Google it because I didn't know yet. Oh, yeah. No, it was perfect. Because my first thing was like, wow, they traded Luca. That's the dumbest thing ever. And then

my second thought was, I hope he wears his hat in LA. And every time someone says to him, like at a Lakers game, nice cowboy hat, he goes in Texas. We just call those hats and they go, yeah. Except he would be like in Texas. Yeah. What's the deal? How many millions? I don't know what the money, why the money side was, but Lakers moved Anthony Davis and the first and like one pick. Wow. And so it was just like, who approved this trade? I feel like it was like an accidental, I don't know if they have some sort of trade portal

thing that like, oh, it was just in draft status, but it actually got put into actual status and then hit send and somebody accidentally, I don't know. I don't know. It just seems like a bad trade for Dallas. I don't get it. I don't get it. But yeah, that's a weird one. Bad for Dallas. Great for the Lakers. I haven't even had a chance to talk to my wife about it and I want to. Yeah. Big Lakers fan. I'm excited to see his success. You know, I hate that it's with LeBron, but yeah, it'd be great if he went and just, yeah, big Luca fan. Is he fat right now? He's not looking skinny. I mean, he's just, he's just a starting shrink guy. That's all it is. He's a starting shrink. This is squatting 500. He just like hits threes. Speaking of a go mad, our illustrious

producer PJ posted a weight update. He's just, what's he at one or two glasses of Fairlife shy of one 91. I mean, so he's getting there. He's getting there. I feel like he was like, I would put money that he won't, we'll never get there. Well, I don't think he'll get, what is he? Like 26? No, I know he's like 30 actually. Yeah, I think so. He's 30. Maybe he will never get there. I was going to say he'd get there in his mid thirties, but yeah, I think he's 30 now that I think about it. So I just think if he was going to have done it, he would do it. Yeah. Hopefully he gets mad when he listens to this and just putting the milks across the screen and like does like a little thing of like a photo of him in the skinniest and then like blowing up and being fat. Yeah,

PJ, we're rooting for you, bud. 58, it's taken 58 weeks. In 58 weeks, we've been talking about this and you haven't done it. So say the odds are low. Hey, 190 though. That's pretty good. Getting there. You ought to be to something to do something. As they say, to something to do something. That's good. I do like, not me, my buddy. So one of my buddy's favorite things, some people might call it bullying, but it's really not because they can gauges people, but just like at random times and then like just ask

them questions. Oh, actually, let me tell you a story first. Now get back to my buddy and go bad deal. I'm in the chow hall and my favorite thing is to go to the comm school chow hall. So the comm school chow hall, it's called a Littleton PFC Littleton chow hall. He died in World War one or two. I was reading his plaque today, which none of the Marines knew that the chow hall even had a name. But anyway, and so the McTissa comm school is like the chow halls like in the center of that area. And so you have, you know, Marines that graduate bootcamp and then go to comm school. And so they're like, you know, do they go to MCT? They bus go to MCT. Yeah. Yeah. So they're like, do they go to MCT? They must go to MCT.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So they've been a Marine like what? 22 weeks or something or less. Something like that. Yeah. And so it's not even like all PFCs. There's like privates. And I like this chow hall, one, because I love the interactions I have in there, but two, it's closer. And so I love to go to the chow hall and, and I'm never mean because like, I don't, I don't want to be mean, but it's just like you get out of the vehicle and there's like Marine, like they're still walking really fast. Like everyone's wearing a backpack or day pack and like they're all leaving with like, you know, the, the

to go boxes and like there's it's all PFCs and Lance corporals and privates. And like occasionally you see some, so like when a major rolls up, like they mean the best, right? Like they're not being belligerent. You just have to realize like earlier this year or like within the past six months, this guy was like living in his mom's house and now he's a Marine. And they see the rank and it's just like paralysis. It's like if someone saw a ghost or like a demon came into your bedroom, like their eyes get big. I've had Marines just drop their plates of chow and I've done nothing yet. I haven't even like engaged or they just

like they'll be walking like so fast swinging their arms and they'll just stop and they just look and I'll just be like, Hey PFC, Biggie, how you doing? Sir. I'm like, Hey, you're good. You're good devil. Like you're good. You're good. What do we do? Good afternoon, sir. You're halfway there, right? So you got you got a box of chow on your right hand. Do you have another hand? Yes, sir. Okay, take the chow. Put it in your left hand. Hi, sir. Now what do you do? And then it's like the most like broken, like messed up salute. And so I'm always like grabbing the hand like fix then then I up salute. And so I'm always like grabbing the hand,

like fix it. Then I'm like, good afternoon, Marine or good morning, Marine, or you know, whatever. And they, and I'm like, Hey, Hey, PFC ASCII, you're good brother. Like you're like, you're good. But like when you see shiny, that's what you do. And if you see a bunch of black, you, if you don't know the rank, just give them the greeting of the day. And they're like, thank you, sir. Anyway, so like, I love give them the greeting of the day. And they're like, thank you, sir. Anyway, so like, I love going to the chow. So I'm in the chow hall today and the line is so long, timed it wrong, like right as McTissick classes let out. And there's like little signs. Of course there's signs like all through like the airplane rope style, you know, maze of whatever. And it's like, if you're here, you're five minutes from getting

your chow. Estimated wait time from here is 10 minutes. So I'm like estimated wait time, 22 minutes. But I'm like sandwiched in by like nothing but privates and PFCs. And it's so funny because like I'm standing there on the line and there's like Marine, he's like staring at me, like I'm going this way. He's going that way. He's like staring at me and I'm like, Hey, P a private when, when are you going to be a PFC? Because most of them should be real close to be a PFC. He's like, Oh, I was promoted three days ago, sir.

I'm like, where's your PFC rank? He's like, well, he's like, just an MOL. And I'm like, Oh, when are you going to get like promoted promoted? He's like today. I was like, what time? He's like, I have no idea, sir. And and then like the next Marine and like, so I'm just like, I'm just like running for mayor in there. Just like talking to all of them. I eat, I eat. And of course, like,

I get the pot roast and I get like the smallest piece ever. And like, I get mashed potatoes. And then I get the other side of the line, there's hash brown casserole. I'm like, I get mashed potatoes and then I get the other set of line, there's hash brown casserole. I'm like, can I get some hash brown? They're like one starch. I'm like, oh my goodness. So then I eat like this morsel of food. And then I'm like, now I'm going to have to go back to the line. So I go back to the line and like, there's a, there's a corporal that happens to be in

line. He goes, where are you from, sir? And I go, I'm from South Carolina. Where are you from? He's like, Texas. I was like, why did you ask me? He goes, I just been watching you in this line. You seem like you got some of that Southern hospitality. And I said, we're from the side. It was pretty funny. Yeah. Chow hall. I can just, I can just picture that scene. Just hamming egg in there. Just loving every second.

That's so funny. Oh no, I was just gonna say the go mad thing. I always like lower shoulder and like hit Marines and like they go stumbling back. I'm like, you need to hit the weights. Like sir, I'm not as big as you. I'm like, I know, no, I'm dead. And I'll just like lay down on the ground and like, what? I'm like, pick me up. And they just like struggle to pick my carcass up. It's funny. I'm like, I'm definitely the most professional field grade walking around base right now. That's the best. Yeah. Anyhow, what else we got on the agenda besides Luca Don's chits and me being fat and making people curious.

Uh, bowling alleys. You've been hitting a bowling alley on the old two-niner. Is there a bowling, have you been to a baseballing alley? I've been in one on Pendleton. Okay. I don't think I ever went to the one. I don't think I've been in one on Pendleton. Where's one on Pendleton?

Over by the base theater. Oh yeah, I parked in that parking lot. I parked in that parking lot, but I've never gone. Is that a pretty good one? I'd say it was okay. Okay. It wasn't bad. You know, this is kind of standard bowling alley. I don't, I don't feel like it was particularly memorable. So I actually think that's what makes them memorable is like they're all the same. So like, like, well, I mean, you're from Marietta. Is there like an old school bowling? Like I'm not talking like tavern bowl where they serve pizza and there's like funky lights. Like, is there just like an old school bowling alley where like all

the layouts are exactly the same? Yeah. There's like four arcade games on the right. There's like a counterback. There's like a crummy pizza, like hunts brother in the back right corner. Like, you know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. What's the name of it? I remember it was over near Sprayberry high school. Yeah. Probably said bowling on the building and the building was like concrete and had like weird like jet outs and like cut away. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm trying to have palms. There's not a lot of places to eat. The staff and O club is closed because they can't find workers, which sounds crazy to me. Yeah. Staff and Oak Club is closed. And if there was one base that you have the best restaurants, it should be it. So you have like the chow hall when

she's not up to snuff. I guess Trey's not here, but shout out old battalion, Steel Rain five is he used to make us rate those chow halls. I used to think it was so stupid, but it made an impact. Cause like the chow is not, I've put in like six, any mouse complaints, not complaints, suggestions. Every time I see the manager, I'm like, hey, cottage cheese, come on, help a brother out. It's not clean, whatever. So there's not a lot of place to eat. And then in your room, you have a mini fridge, a hot plate, and a microwave. So there's not a lot of options. And so the bowling alley is the only thing that's open at night. And like, I've gone in there so many times when we're not in the field that now I'm just like, Hey, I want three burger patties. And

there's like a woman, she's like Filipino. She's been like 15 years. She has a rice cooker in the back. So now she just cooks up like rice, like not on the menu, like just like for me. And then like I buy three burger patties and yeah, we're making it work. But no, I just love like a good old traditional bowling alley. You know, it's like crummy pizza, french fries, burgers, and like a chicken sandwich and like two crummy beers on tap and like bottles of water because they don't trust like give you tap water. Yeah, don't trust like give you tap water. Yeah. It's just anyhow. Once we got on the slide deck, if anything, let's see. It's ground

hog day. The other day. Tell me about that. We missed that in homeschool education. Oh, I'm not a big groundhog day guy. And so I think it's a hilarious thing that like we get hyped up about it as a country. I'm not a big groundhog day guy. And so I think it's a hilarious thing that like we get hyped up about it as a country. I'm not a big groundhog day guy. I'm not a big groundhog day guy. I'm not a big groundhog day guy. I'm not a big groundhog day guy. I'm not a big groundhog day guy. I'm not a big Groundhog Day guy. And so I think it's a hilarious thing that like we get hyped up about it as a country.

February 2nd was Groundhog Day. So you're not a Groundhog Day guy. No, I don't understand. Says a guy who's been in the Marine Corps for 15 years shooting artillery. You know me, I'm not really a Groundhog Day guy. I do love good Marine Corps briefs though. God, it really is all the same stuff. Yeah, especially the trash talk.

Especially the trash. But okay, so you're not a big groundhog guy. Yeah, is that mean like Ash Wednesday is soon? I think so. Are they related? I don't know. I don't think so. One's about a groundhog seeing a shadow or not not and the other one's about absolving your sins. So yeah, so I don't know maybe the groundhog

Emerging from his hole is like a Christ illusion to him coming out of the tomb. I don't know 29 palms we just call that coyote. Um, let's see. Super bowl Sunday. So have you looked up like who's doing the halftime? Uh, Kendrick Lamar, I think. Oh, uh, okay. Okay.

Oh, no, that's, that's, uh, Tyler, the creator. Um, I think that's, okay. Okay. Oh, no, that's, that's Tyler, the creator. Um, is it Kendrick Lamar? What was his thing? He was like, stand up or sit down. Oh yeah. Uh, be humble. Sit down, be humble. Um, vows to keep his passion for storytelling at the super bowl halftime show. Wow. He's always had his passion for storytelling at the Superbowl halftime show. Wow. He's always had a passion for storytelling. He's always said he's actually never stopped saying it. Glad he's vowed to remain being in the now and being just locked into how I feel and the energy I have now. That's the LA energy for me. So kind of the opposite of what you think of LA. He's 37 and he still feels like he's elevating. I'm still on a journey. Wow. Not like us. They don't like us. Yeah. I like some Kendrick Lamar rap. Yeah. I think he's good. I think

he's really good. Oh, here we go. Look at this. He supports the truth. Oh, not him troops. Someone else who else is performing at the super bowl? John Batista will hit the stage and sing the national anthem while Trombone Shorty and Laura Dagle are slated for America. The beautiful, but T stay says he'll be thinking of his grandfather, a veteran who recently died. I think about the people in my life who represent what I believe the song is about. It should be the highest aspirational level. When I channel that, it makes it feel like it's me, but it's way bigger than me. I'm just a vessel for the energy in the world to continue. If that can happen, I might get choked up. Um, his, a shout out, John, but he stays grandfather

who probably did some policing of trash in his times. Thank you for your service. We support the troops. Yeah. I don't know. Superbowl. We'll see. Maybe do anything for it. Commercials. Nah, I don't think so. Yeah. I'm not either. You got the old is your buddy doing anything for it? Well, he's getting ready to go out and a little Mad Max action the following day. So yeah, no, I haven't really, uh, you know, you get into like D minus one D plus two, you know, like the exercise will have been started. So which just means that there could

be changes to your plan because of other things going. So, I mean, I'm sure I'll watch it. Um, never, I don't know that I've ever been less excited for Superbowl. That's not because I'm in the high desert. I just mean like, I literally want both teams to die. So I can't imagine me at any point in the game, having emotion to like, I want one of the other teams to win. And that's with like, I have friends that like both teams, like not like a time, but I'm saying like, usually when I have two teams on that I don't like, I like reach deep down. I'm like, well, this friend of mine will be happy. It's worth it. And I can't do that. Um, so yeah, I don't know. Um, I'd probably be more excited about

Kendrick Lamar and just watching the super bowl. Uh, today's February 6, which means that in about a month and 10 days, month and nine days or no two months and nine days, you gotta do your taxes. The Marine Corps, we just call that 68 days in a wake up. Uh, don't forget to call BW tax BW tax LC.com. Plus when you watch the super bowl, if you're not pumped up by your team or other teams, I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff.

I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. I'm going out Mr. Helmet, not.com. But it sounds better when you say Mr. Helmet.com. So I'm just going to say it. Mr. Helmet.com. I don't know. We knew it would be a short episode because my buddy's busy. You got any save rounds, alibis, anything we need to hit? Nothing for the group. Nothing for the group. Uh, do you still have your coffee cup? I think we should just like have a little drink for the FDO down range.

Trade out there range operating his fire team to trade the FDO down range. Well, at this point in the show, we usually bring it in for a landing, but the four is not here. Capsule. You want to bring us down? Oh gosh. Here we go. All right. Big shout out to everyone that's been listening, made it this far. It's been episode zero five eight of the okay. Okay. Podcast. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Man. I've had a lot of those built up. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I love it. I love it. See that is a sort of just things we bring here. It's the okay. Podcast. You never know what's going to happen. We're powered by the Strength Co.

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Dad go. No, you're supposed to say, uh, I miss anything coach. Trey, we miss you. We know you won't listen to this, but my mom will and she'll appreciate that we miss you Trey. Uh, doing the Lord's work, literally be fruitful and multiply, spread your seed and fill the earth. You're doing it. Three kids. Congrats. I won't spill your news on names or anything like that. Uh, but you got it's four to one at the Gotledge household for women to one pray for him. Uh, he's in our thoughts and prayers to the, to the dad down range. But seriously, thanks for tuning in episode zero five, eight of the okay podcast. Can't believe we've done a 58 weeks in a row. This will be another Saturday surprise. You picked, what did we do? Remember our super bowl predictions? Hopefully Trey and I picked the chiefs pick eagles. Yeah. I picked the eagles because

I have a lot of Marines that are Eagles fans that that'd be better from around if I was last minute. But uh, yeah, I can't like the, the nice thing is, is like, and I, sorry, I know we're about to lie, sir. I got to save around. Sorry. Major here. Okay. Hey, sorry. Major. Major. First of all, Marines, um, I'm tired of seeing cuff sleeves. Okay. Hey, sorry, major. First of all, Marines, I'm tired of seeing cuff sleeves. Okay. I'm fine. That gear, that, that, that top is fire resistant for a reason and risk fires are a high probability, particularly if you're cooking on cast iron. So I don't want to see any sleeves booty covers. Okay. You can wear your booty covers between building 1527 and building 1794. There are no booty covers on

main side. Okay. And don't let me see a freaking name beanie when the sun is up. Also, a leading Marines, make sure Marines, your leading Marine sergeant's course. Okay. If your Marine is not PME complete, I don't want them going to combat, pull them out. Also family readiness plans, family care plans, and also a nacho battery. Your, your G1 report card is atrocious. I got to fit rate rep date gaps. Also, if your Marines go to medical, okay. The MO is tired of Marine stacking up outside of the right side of the building. That's where she parks her Mercedes. And when she comes in at zero nine 30, she doesn't like having to walk past the Marine. So don't have your Marine stack stack up on the right side of the building. Sorry. I got some caught up in 89 99 stuff. Oh yeah. That's right. Sorry,

major. Also, I just, I just, I do want to say from an operational standpoint, some big operational guys in 8999. Um, you know, I'm just glad that we will be focused on football this Sunday and not Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey and how Taylor Swift is friends with Pat Mahomes wives. We'll be, we'll be, we'll be all about the training. We'll be about the game. We'll be about the game time. And, uh, I'm just happy that anyway, sir, sir, that's all, that's all I had. Oh yeah. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you. Also trim those moustaches. Uh, this has been episodes here. Five, eight of the okay podcast. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you. Yeah. Yeah. Also trim those mustaches. This has been episode zero five eight of the OK Podcast. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you next time.