The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 62: White Monsters, Headphone People & Zelensky

Episode Date: March 7, 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 CALL14:54 - LANCECAPTAINUSMCR19:01 - EVERYONE LISTENS TO THE OKAY PODCAST23:32 - THE ARNOLD31:10 - HEADPHONE PEOPLE34:07 - BBQ37:56 - MOVIES ARE BAD NOW47:58 - SEVERANCE51:27 - ARTILLERY VS BOMBS57:36 - BEST ENLISTED MARINE01:06:46 - WHITE MONSTERS01:13:01 - SUPPLEMENTS01:24:42 - SHOULDER PAIN01:27:58 - TRUMP VS ZELENSKY01:37:55 - SIGN OFF

All right. Welcome back to episode 062 of the okay. Okay. Guidance. Okay. Why do we make it so much longer when we do that podcast powered by the strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogi. Today's date is March the fourth in the year of our Lord 2025. And the price of Bitcoin is 87,0095.24 when she's

like, yeah, we get a little dip, but don't worry. Everything is good. We are broadcasting live from the high desert of Southern California. I do love that it's, we always go by the altitude. This is the high desert. The weather's been crazy. It's supposed to rain tomorrow. It's been windy. It's been black. I mean, it's been so windy.

I went, well, I didn't. My buddy went to the PX and bought a size large cover just so he could throw it down on his dome a little lower and cover up that rooster tail. But we appreciate you listening. This is episode zero six two, which means seven more. We hit six, nine, we say nice pack it up. Wow. We would like a shout out to the Marines because without them, this podcast wouldn't be possible. The fact that we've done it while the FDO is down range continues to blow my mind. But a moment for the troops. If you're not watching us on YouTube, we just did a beautiful hand salute. PFC Littleton would be proud. We got a lot to talk about. I'm joined by Mr. Jeff Bouger, our resident Mormon, five 11 alum. All good

Marines come from five 11 straight from the greater Salt Lake area. Mr. Trey Gotledge, captain types, a RIP to the yellow leaders coming to us. What, what, what city are you in tonight? Frisco. Oh Frisco. Okay. So he's in his home, a record, which is good. He only gets one home, a record move. It's a crazy hotel. But I don't want to, I don't want to. It's a modest home, a record. I thought you just traveled with those. You're like, I just bring my modest mouse and monkey poster. Home away from home. Yeah. But I don't want to steal the one's thunder.

So with that, we'll do a quick roll call. Cause we got a lot to talk about. Three, I'll kick it over to you. Okay. Let's kick it over to the XO trailer. Why don't you just be the XO and go ahead and go around the room with the roll call. I'm going to go ahead and pass this over to the one. I'm going to go and delegate this out. Sir, we have nothing for the group. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. Oh, three here, three here.

Just want a slight schedule adjustment. It's the deuce. I know I'm never here, but I'm here today. It's the deuce. What you got? What you got deuce? I went to ComStrat and we do have maps for Mojave MW Combat Viper ITX 4TAC 6.9. And they just, the laminator is broken, but we'll have them within a few months.

How long has that been out for? Sir, the service request was in since my predecessor. Do you remember my predecessor Lance corporal asked to, um, he put in his first request four years ago, but, uh, anyway, the guy who laminates it turns out, sir, it looks like he's going to be fired because does he just wrecking house all over base. And so we may not have a laminator for a long time. So. Now, big balls got him, huh? Yeah. That's all I have, sir.

OK, well, OK, OK. One adjustment for the schedule immediately following this brief here. We will commence the the five bullet points working group. OK, we're going to get down. We're going to get down to brass tacks. We're gonna make sausage. Okay, right, we're gonna lay it out on the table and we're gonna put our heads together

and we're gonna come up with five bullet points because we gotta start submitting those. I know it's coming down the pipe. We haven't got any tasking from it yet, but I know it's coming down the pipe that we're all soon gonna have to start justifying our jobs here. It could be because it's going to start weekly. I'm getting some indications and warnings that might be daily and could even then move into hourly justification of your jobs. So we're really

going to have to go ahead and just get ahead of this problem. We want to get left of bang. We don't want to be right of bang. We want to get left of bang. You know, we don't want to be right of bang. We want to be left. I don't want a long flash to bang. No, no, no, no. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Hey, that's a three raceworks. Yes. Yes. Hey, sir. Sorry, major. Sorry. I'm on my mobile. I'm just coming back from a 89 99 working group down at Camp Pendleton. And I just want to say that everything you said, I agree with, and I just want to dovetail on that, that we need to have a meeting immediately after this meeting to discuss the things I just got from the working group. And trash and PME will be a high priority target. And a high payoff target, if you look at it correctly, because sometimes

our priorities are our payoffs, but PME is always pay off. Anyway, sir, I just want to after your meeting, I'm going to have a meeting, but it's just with the 8999. So I want to make sure that I want to make sure that the field grades are listening, but it's only for 8999. Okay. Copy. Copy. So we'll dial in, we'll dial in remotely, but we'll stay on mute. Okay. Great. Great. So we'll just do the meeting on this line after, but the field grease needs to stay in so they can put in my bill of accomplishments.

Right. Got crack tracking. Okay. Cool. Great. Appreciate it. No problem, sir. Sorry, sir. I was driving, forgot to go on. I'm on mute. Do we need to kick it to the four world's greatest logistics officer or what you got present? Yeah, I think for the group. Oh, for the group. Yeah, yeah, no, nothing for 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, 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, Yeah. Offline, sidebar, not a sidebar. It's off.

I say, I'm bar and offline. Two different things. Can I also be part of that? Eighty nine, ninety nine mean, or I'm tracking that you were advised that you were supposed to be there. But on my own. All right. Yeah. But you're going to can call in.

Yes, we will all remain in the room to listen in on the team's call that'll be going virtually track it, track it. Hey, speaking of which, Deuce, is the SVTC conference room working yet? The what? The room where we're supposed to do zipper calls. Is it working yet?

I'm not allowed access in there. My clearance has not been cleared yet. They said there's an issue. I have 57 credit cards that are open and I haven't paid one of them ever. I have three more pending that I'm going to open to then pay off those credit cards, which will then cover my gov CC. And I have a P I open on me for that. Penny, any questions, sir? That's all I have. Real quick. I'll just brief for the six access rosters. Okay. We've been running into an issue

with access rosters. And just real quick as the six, I have to communicate to people listening to this podcast. If you don't know, in the military, every room has a piece of paper that's printed with low toner because we're out of money to buy toner. It's really hard to read and it's stuffed in a sheet protector and then it's duct taped to a door and on that door says who can go in the room. And then there's a wet signature. It has to be a wet signature. And most of the access rosters, whatever year you're in, since 2025, they're probably dated like 2022, you know, we'd like a three year buffer. So the names on them don't make any sense, but it's becoming a problem. And so as the six,

we need to update the access rosters or we're not going to sign out any crypto. Okay. We will not give out your KMI, KMI keys. Well, we can't because we locked our keys in our own vault. And so we actually can't get in the vault and base is going to charge us $40,000 to open it, to get in there. But if we could, we wouldn't give you crypto unless you update your access rosters. So that's all I have. I have nothing more for the group. Tracking, tracking. Great, great updates. Great updates. Okay. We have no fro. We have no, uh, any of the other like civilian, uh, billets we had, those are all gone. Yeah, Doge took her out. Any of any of the other like civilian billets we had, those are all gone.

So now we're going to be pushing those collateral duties over to any staff sergeants that are pending legal action. We're just going to give them these collateral duties. They all did the verb. They all did the verb program. Oh, they're all out. Well, I'm sure we can find some other equally unmotivated and disgruntled person to take on this usually pretty key important billet that if done neglected could have serious impacts to morale and unit readiness. Okay. Okay. Sounds great, sounds great.

Hey, so it's been 10 minutes. We try to cap that at 10 because we could really go for two hours. And I say that because as reserve majors, Jeff and I do that weekly where we go through what you just listened to for hours on end, but we cap it at 10 minutes for your sake.

I do want to cover the trash real quick. Trash still a priority. Make sure you please your trash. And then for Jeff and Trey, and I'm leaving character now and talk about my buddy. He, he went to a brief today with a regiment and that should not be named. And it's a D minus 30 brief to a general and brief goes well. Great, like great job by the staff. Everything smooth goes through all those shenanigans. We just did didn't happen. It was actually like useful. A lot of people learned everything, got all the way till the end. And then it was like 89, 99, which was the last chance before, you know, the big, the big commander

and everyone had been like, Nope, sir, nothing. Everything was covered. And if I could have paid an actor to like come on to the OK podcast, I couldn't have never have paid enough because everyone's in a good mood. It's all you know, there's some company grades, field grades, like it's professionals in there. And it's like, okay, frigging dag on, frigging dag on. I know that we do the slide sanitation dag on. Dag on, I know it's a UDP and not a UPD, okay?

And we frigging dang, show that to the frigging dag on boss. Okay, now second off, PFTs, okay? PFTs are no boss, okay? Now second off, PFTs, okay? PFTs are no fail mission. We gotta do our PFTs, okay? And so I see on there that the percentages for the PFTs is frigging dang daggone low. It's daggone low. It's daggone low.

And the thing is, is I know I did this training event, I did that training event, this PTP has been this and that, I gotta go on block leave. I get it, you wanna go home, has been this and that. I got to go on block leave. I get it. You want to go home, see wife, kids. You got to run a PFT. Okay. You think you have time in country run a PFT. You're not. So you better frigging name run the dag gone PFT now. Cause if you run it now, then you don't have to run it later. And that's what I've always said is if you run the PFT now later, you don't have to run it. And so frigging dag on just do the PFT.

And I know you got time on your schedules. I know you have time. You got time if you make time. I've always said that if you made time, you got time. And the time is for the PFT. So dag gone, PFT, I need y'all to run them. I need y'all to run the freaking day. And you want to run another one later, get a better store?

Go ahead. But what you think you got time, you ain't got time. Okay. Time. Time is a resource and we need to use it resourcefully. So frigging dang run the PFD. That's super. I wanted to stand up and just like, like it was incredible. And it. Dead serious. Yeah, it was great. And no one appreciated the humor like I did. No one. I just sit in there like, oh my gosh. Okay. Okay. 89.99.

You think you got time. Oh, you think you got time? You got no time. I'm aware I have no time because I've been in this room for three hours looking at a PowerPoint. I actually got a PFT in this room during this brief. Marine Corps Socrates right there. You got time? You ain't got time. That's what he's always said.

PFT. Time is on my side. That's good stuff. I feel like we got through that. With that three, you want to go over the agenda? I will say that's if you wanted a snapshot of this same 10 minute joke that we do at the beginning of all these episodes of what it's like living with us in a house. It's just the same joke over and over again. With the addition of the potato song.

Yeah, you just throw that in there to break it up. Yeah. And then you come back to the same joke. Yeah. And it never gets old. Time is a flat circle. Never gets old. Yeah.

Time. You have time, but you don't. You don't got time. You don't have time. You have to. Yeah, you should still be like, who's wanna be a PFT right now, Sarmatia? But you don't you don't got time Guy just like let's go Also, so major who is dad gone cuz he seems really important you've been talking about him forever friggin dag on

Freaking dad gone's dad's gone That's so good All right. Well, should we kick into these slides? dad gone's dad's gone. That's so good. All right. Well, should we kick into these slides? Let's go ahead and slide that. Yeah. Pretty standard edition. Next slide. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, first topic. We'll, a little discussion here of a former guest, uh, okay. And SMCR. Oh, I got beef with this.

Who has retired that page and now rebranded it. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait It was probably episode 25. We had Lance Captain, SMCR, reformed Baptist type. Also a Marine. I think what did he get out as a captain or something? I think so. A Lance Captain. Captain-ish. Runs a great meme page. So I see the post and it's like, hey guys, I made this page to make military memes. I'm summarizing

Jeff if I, if I miss the commander's intent, let me know. It's like, uh, it's like, it's been a lot of fun. I'm getting more and more removed from the core. I feel like I'm not the meme guy. I appreciate you listening. I'm going to go on and do other things with this account. It'll still be funny. Like it was, it was like good satire the way he wrote it. And then one, I'm like, is this a meme or is he leading? Yeah, yeah. Two, like two days later, I'm like, where's Lance Captain SMCR? And I try to search for it and you can't find it. And so Lance Captain SMCR two comes up, which is like his burner

account, which instead of 80,000 followers is like, I don't know, 500 or something. I could be off. I'm sorry if I am Lance Captain. And I'm like, well, what is the new brand? And if you search for it, I couldn't find it. So I actually have no idea where he went. And whatever his thing does, if he listens to this, he probably doesn't. It's not popular. And I know I followed whatever the account was, but I'm not seeing it on my feet. I mean, it last. I'm always on slayings. Now, slayings corporate. Lance corporate. Yeah. Yeah. The only reason I know that is he does listen because he reached out to me and he said, Hey, congratulations

on the new edition. Oh, nice. Yeah. That's cool. Super nice guy. So I know he, I know he listens. Oh yeah. Here it is. Okay. It's he's, he's his company's listeners to dive bar. Awesome. It went through actually two name changes. If it rapid succession, it was like what was in squats for like a day or something like that. That's pretty good. Yeah. Lance corporate. Hey man, I don't even remember your name. I could name like 10 people, you know, and I remember you on the podcast and you're my brother in Christ, but brother just preach the gospel from Lance captain. USMCR.

That's a, that's a handle you can't get rid of. It's so good. Anyway. Yeah. I'm seeing him now. He's big on the Alps, big Alp guy. You had, have you tried those? Yeah, I'm an Alp influencer. Oh, the mouth. Oh, okay. I think about like the mountains. I was like, I don't think he's, I don't think he's Swiss made. Big European Alps guy. Yeah. Doesn't like the Rockies Swiss made big European. Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't like the Rockies or the big Alps guy. Yeah. Love, love sound of music. So I'm looking at quick scan his page.

Look much different than I think it's basically just like him. He changed the title of it and then just like kept posting. So I think you can go back, you know, through the archives and reminisce on the good old okay. Lance Captain days. Well, there was like a 24 hour time there where I could not find him. And I'm glad. Oh, same. Yeah, I was I was like, oh, what happened? Oh, what's what's he going to call it? I didn't. Yeah. So. Yeah. But. OK. Yeah. Excited to see what what sort of. Yeah. That's what Lance Corpora does. I, yeah. But okay. Yeah. Excited to see what, what sort of stuff.

Yeah. Lance corporate does. I'll be following. Yeah. Good dude. Good dude. Better it means. Yeah.

True. True. Let's see what else we've got. Okay. Let's see. We leave the heaviest of marine topics. Yes. I did get a heaviest of marine topics. Yes. I did get a story from my buddy today.

He was, so my buddy was attached to a unit for a period of time getting ready for deployment. And now he's attached to another unit to execute the deployment. And so the period of time that he's been attached to the other unit, he's met a lot of people, a lot of majors and great group, awesome, felt like family. And, you know, technically I don't work for them anymore, but I still go by. They're my boys. They're my like the guys that I would go charge my vessel and head Like, no, no, no. You have a, like a pot. Have you been recording a podcast since you got here? I was like, uh, yes. Like how, like you've been in the field so much. Like, were you like in the field reporting a podcast? I was like, no,

I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. Like, uh, yes. Like how? Like you've been in the field so much. Were you like in the field reporting a podcast? I was like, no, I never did it in the field. He's like, no, that would have been cool. He goes, but is your podcast literally with Trey got lich? And I'm like, so you know, Trey and it's a Matt Lohan, a 511 alum. Kind of. Kind of is a great way to put it. And we've like hit it off with so many folks over the last three months of like this person, that person, whatever.

And the interesting thing is he replaced me in Afghanistan, but he was, he had moved from 511. So he was a little bit senior to us to 211. Yeah. And was the cannons platoon that ripped on the bastion side on Camp Leatherneck. Yeah. So I never saw him over there. And I didn't even realize. But then I didn't know that he knew you from not Syria battery, Sierra battery. Yeah. So anyway, then I knew him. I knew he was like, what do you guys talk about? And I was like, Oh, he goes, no, I was looking at the titles and I was like, am I going to get an unfiltered, like how grants really thought about this? And I was

like, no, you won't. Cause you'll just hear about my buddy. You'll just hear what my buddy thinks about everything. And then he's like, well, like, well, what are you? And I was like, so we kind of do like a staff meeting. And, and he was like rolling and laughter. He's like, dude, I'm watching the okay podcast all night. He's like, I love Trey Gowlitz. He goes, I called Trey like two years ago on veterans day and I was like, Hey brother, you're a vet. And Trey was like, dude, you haven't talked to me since I left. Do you have a recollection of this story? I think I texted him. Just I was like, I was like going through my phone and I'm like,

Oh, Matt Lohan. I'm like, I wonder what that dude's up to. Cause I was really good friends when they cut over like, like, like you know that people in Sierra battery, they were some interesting people, right? Yeah. Cause you kind of got screwed if we're Frank, right? Because that battery got chopped down. Yeah, essentially. And so besides Dill, I would say the rest of them were,

they're interesting people. Yeah. And so when Lohan came over, it was like, I'm like, Oh dude, this guy's awesome. So I hung out with Lohan a lot. It was like me, Dylan Lohan would hang out and then Lohan's wife was like, super awesome. She was, I think she's a lawyer. Yeah, that's correct. Super, real interesting to talk to kind of like what she had going on. So just really fun to hang out with. And so then, but then they, he left after they got back. He took off to his next, whatever he was doing

in life. Another deployment shocking. Yes. And pretty much. So, so I just, I didn't talk to him, but I think I reached out to him like two years ago, like he said, and then he just called me after I texted him. And then we're kind of catching up. But yeah, really great dude. It's just funny. And then I was like, Oh man, what if my professional buddies, friends listen to this podcast? What will they think?

I was like, yeah, the pie. Love it. Yeah. And if not, I feel like it's not just what are you watching? You bet. Fit rep. Well, they can. Not my boss.

Exactly. And who cares? Yeah. Also who cares? Yeah. All right. Next slide. Love it. Let's see. Well, what recently just was going on this weekend in Columbus, Ohio was the Arnold

which strength co was absent from. We were in body. I think that I think only like, you know, five or six people showed up to see the mass anonymous guys and that was about it. And yeah, I actually heard the crew people went. I heard Arnold didn't even go. Yeah, I heard he was like, no, he was like, strength goes not going. I'm out. No, I guess I would, goes not gone. I'm out. Uh,

no, I guess I would, I would get, I'm curious. Well, did you guys like see it on socials and have FOMO or a little bit with like the mat, like seeing the massonomics, like, yeah, posts on there. And I was like, Oh yeah, man, Arnold is a good time. Um, but you know, I didn't see it on social media. If strength goes not there like, it's almost like you have three daughters under a year. Yeah. Weird. Um, I thought I was going to have like a, Oh man,

but like one I've been busy, uh, in the Marine Corps, you know, going to meetings and stuff, but, uh, no, I, it looked like it was good. We definitely, I appreciate everyone that follows the strength code powers this podcast. We had a ton of messages asking like, where's my free shirt? Where's my Arnold discount? Where's my free shirt? Are you guys going to be there? Hey, can I put my cooler at your booth this year? We definitely had a lot of people reach out, which was cool, which was great.

No one wanted to buy anything. Just like, can I store stuff or get free stuff? Can I somehow benefit off you? But it was definitely like the Arnold is a logistical burden for us, but not a, I mean, it's a thing that we've solved having done it three times, but it's definitely, it's a lot of things you have to get it there. You have to sell it. And so it was nice not to have to do all that quite honestly, did miss it, did love that we felt missed. Saw that there were some new players there, but at the same time, you know what I really thought if I put my field grade hat on and as a business owner was like, you know, this is probably something

I don't have to do every year, you know, and like you just, you know, do it every so often. But it looked like it went well. I was in the gym yesterday and I'm sitting there and I'm lifting and I look over and I see the Arnold physique, not on the person, but on the t-shirt that the person was wearing. And it said Arnold Classic 2025. And I was like, wow, that's like the new shirt. You know, like the ones you can buy like from the merch stuff. So I walked over and it's like, you know, it's super strange.

I want to talk about headphones later. Someone please remind me about headphones. But I walk over and the Marine takes off his headphones and I'm like, Hey, did you go? And he's like, yes, I did. And I'm in green on green. So he doesn't know my rank or thing. I'm like, that's awesome. Like, where are you from? He's like, Oh, I'm from there. Like I'm getting ready to deploy. And so I had leave. He's like, I was only able to go Friday because I had to be back at whatever. And it's hard to get there from trying to have pumps. I was like, oh, sweet. Do you remember any of the booths? And he's like, yeah. I was like, did you happen to see Mastanomics? He's like, no, no. Who's that? And I'm like, oh, it's

a podcaster there. You should like look him up on Instagram. He's like, but like, are you from Columbus? I was like, no, but like, I own a company that we make weight equipment and I'm assuming I'm talking to an active duty Marine. He's like, oh, well next year, like when we're done with his deployment, like I'll be back home. I go, oh, are you a reservist? It was like, he like, all shame. He's like, yes, sir. I was like, no, no, no, I'm also a reservist. I was like, that's great. I was like, so you're active right now. He's like, yes. I was like, Oh, cool. I was like, I was like, yeah, that Arnold's a great time. I was like, we have a booth there. We do a deadlift competition. And he was like, getting all into

it. He's like, would I know it? And I'm like, ah, the strength company, he didn't know it. And so anyway, I'm like, you guys have a great workout, like love the shirt. Great to see you. I walk away and like 10 minutes later, I'm like a couple sets of squats and he comes over and he's like, you're like the strength go guy. And I was like, uh, like looked at him and I was like, oh, I like to think of myself as a Marine major. He's like, you're an officer.

I was like, Oh, I like to think of myself as a Marine major. He's like, you're an officer. I was like, yeah. And anyway, so it was kind of funny. And then he looked up massonomics and followed them. And then like right after that, I saw a guy with a bench heavy t-shirt. Yeah. Once you guys probably saw my posts and I went up to him and I'm like, Benj heavy team, you massonomics guy. And he was like, I have been blown away. I'm just, I'm sorry. I'm talking too much on tangents. I have been blown away how little people shake hands. And if you just like walk up to someone, like look at them in the eye and throw your hand out, like they smile and like, Oh, I'm like, I always just say something goofy to Marines. Like, Hey, how you doing corporal? And they're like, Oh, good sir. But this guy, I'm in PT gear.

He's in PT gear. And I'm like, you're a massonomics guy. He's like smiling. He's like, Oh, kind of. I'm like, well, you got the shirt. I'm like, do you listen to the podcast? He's like podcasts. What are you talking about? I was like your shirt. It literally says bench heavy. This is massonomics podcast. And he goes, Oh no, I got an Instagram ad. He goes, it was super cool though. The guys like wrote me a letter and sent me a bunch of stickers. And I was like, yeah, they're from South Dakota. Like they're, they're friends of mine. He's like, you know, the owners of this company.

I was like, yeah. He's like, Oh, that's awesome. And then I didn't know what to say to him after that. I was like, have a great life. I walked to the squat rack and I was like, Oh, he's going to squat. Of course he is. I'm I think pressing and at one point I look over and that that bright blue pops like shout out Tanner and Tommy that particular blue. I could if Waldo wore that I'd

always find Waldo I'd never asked where's Waldo and I look over and he's got like 155 on a straight bar. And he's just like curling hip thrust curling 155 inside the squat rack. I'm like, you literally don't know what massanamica is. You would never do that. Good guy. He was from Nashville. I didn't catch his first name, Tanner, if you're listening. I know Tommy doesn't listen. I didn't catch his first name, but a Nashville order bench heavy blue tee. Looks like he's wearing an XL. Good guy. I don't know if he's good at taxes or not.

Hey, maybe customer for life. Who knows? Hey, now he is. Love it. Well, I guess that's the Arnold. I guess that's why they call it the Arnold. Yeah, the Arnold. But, you know, we'll see. We'll see. Hopefully the Eagles still in business. They're probably counting on our visits every year to make a budget.

But, you know, hang in there, Eagle. Strength Co. Strength Co. Travel budget did not take as big a hit as it usually does. So that was nice. Yeah. Oh, the job. Jocko was there. Yep. Wow. And I think he was I think he shared a booth at the A&M Yell Eaters.

We're going to beat the hammer limit out of Arnold. Sorry, I digress. Well quickly should we use caviar dovetail off that topic? Talk about headphones. Oh, might as well. Have we talked about headphones? Like in general or just like each month? I feel like I brought it up on the pod, but it's getting worse.

Just everyone wears over the ear headphones everywhere all the time. So I don't know in uniform. No, can't do that. Can't even wear headphones in green on green working out because Sergeant Major said so. But I just mean, and it's generational and I feel like I'm my dad right now, I just don't get it. But it's like everyone wears headphones all the time. And there's two ways, it's either over the ears, like we're wearing or I'm wearing right now,

or it's one pod in and they just walk around. But I just am always curious, like, what are you listening to? Like you're going into the store to buy laundry detergent. Could you not like turn off whatever you're listening to for five minutes? And it just drives me nuts. And for some reason, I feel like it should be illegal on Marine Corps races. I to play devil's advocate to this hit me. I went to Costco today and you put my friends in. I wore them specifically because I did not want to talk to any sample people. Yeah. And so maybe they're all wearing them so they don't have to talk to the loud

music. If I, if I am not wearing headphones, I feel guilty just straight up ignoring the sample people. But if I have my headphones and I'm like, okay. Oh, I see the sample people as targets of opportunity. Yeah, I know. That's the difference. Yeah. They see you coming and they go, oh, back it up boys. Here's an okay podcast sticker. What if all these people with headphones on are listening to the okay podcast? I just really am curious what they're listening to.

It's like when you see a guy in Starbucks reading a book and you're like, there's no way you're taking in Socrates at the largest Starbucks on the quarter right now. Why are you like, I need to go out in public to read. Yeah. Anyway, that's it. Headphones. Okay. Good. Good stuff.

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Good dude. Better attack. Love BW. Good dude. Let's see. Let's see topic that you mentioned this place a while back or give me an episode or two ago. The heritage barbecue joint. Oh yeah. I went, I went Sunday. Thought about tray as I always do when there's brisket available. Um, thought about Trey as I always do when there's brisket available. Um, what did I want to know? It was good. I didn't need the breath. I've learned now that like good brisket, bad brisket. I feel better if I don't eat brisket. I'm just like, I'll taste it, but it's not my thing. Uh, what was interesting is it opened at 11 went and saw old Mike mini L former strength co employee. Now first lieutenant promoting the captain on one April and uh, I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started. I'm going to go ahead and get started.

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Like, Hey, like at 11, we're going to start taking people like you can scan QR codes back here. You order by the pound. You're not ordering like a plate for each person. It's family style. And then he's just like, I just want to thank all of you for waiting in line. He's like, like, I can't believe that my brother and I like started a barbecue business, brought it to California and you're waiting in line. He's like, we're super appreciative. Like every order counts. Every pound of brisket counts. He's like, shout out to like so and so on this grill and this grill. They came in at three 30 this morning to start cooking the stuff. And I was just like, it was awesome. And I've

been there. I've probably been there more than six times, less than 12. And I'd never seen that before, but it was just funny. Like as a business owner, you just realize like when people are actually like thankful for stuff and he was just like, like you could just tell he woke up, probably had stress of the price of beef and the tariffs and like camp, I find eggs anywhere. And he's like rolled into work was like, Oh, thank God. There's 70 people in line. I should go talk to them. No, it was good. Barbecue was great. I ate the tri tip. I think California is underrated

on tri tip. I think it's great food. I had to try tipping the pork ribs. That's kind of my speed. Mike ate the brisket and the women ate the chicken and they, I mean, everyone ate a little bit of everything, but yeah, it was good. Good stuff. Heritage barbecue. Go check them out. San Juan Capistrano. Potential sponsor. He actually stopped me. He was like, OK, I was like, OK, I know we start brisket at zero to 30. But you get a fire watch to get in there, get things heated up. OK. OK.

No, we're going to have an overnight watch on this. Okay. What if he has like CCRs? You mean AARs? No, what is it like? Oh, Earth. No, when you wake up the captain in the middle of the night. Yeah. Commander's critical information requirements. Oh, CCIRs.

CCIRs. There's an I in there. Yeah. Yeah. CCIRs. Yeah. Wake me up. If the brisket gets over 180 before we wrap it. You will wake me up. It's very possible. Good dude. Better at barbecue. Love it. Oh, okay. Uh, did anybody hear? Can anyone? Okay. This, this is how I'll do this topic.

Can either of you name one movie that was nominated for best picture this year at the Oscars? The town. Was the Bob Dylan movie? Dune 2, the Departed, something with Timothy Chalamagne. Black Mass. I'm gonna actually have a look at it because I actually don't know any movies. Mystic River. Grant is just naming every Boston movie. Grant's very confused of what the topic is. In the category is best Boston movie. Fever pitch. Let's see.

Oh, yeah. You name all those and you throw up fever pitch. So Jimmy Fallon, right? Yeah. Pink Hatters. That is such a terrible movie. OK, Dune two did get nominated. I forgot the name came out that last year. That was good. I did like

Dune too. I like Dune too. It was nothing compared to Dune 1. I knew Gray would say that. In the shop we just call it Dune. Dune. D-U-N-E. Like in Sam Dune. Okay. And the Bob Dylan movie was also nominated. Oh, look at Trey.

It was Trey. Never mind. I was like, no one will know any. Those are the only two I know. I didn't know that the Oscars happened. That was also my I that like surprised me. It was like, oh, the Oscars, right. That's still a thing. And. And I was like, OK, yeah, so I guess it's been in pretty steady decline as far as like viewership goes.

So you're just on the trend. And you're in your opinion. In the last. Do you think recently movies have gone downhill and like big time, right? Like so down when when did that start? Oh. Right? Like so down when, when did that start? I feel like it's kind of, I think it, I think when we stopped polishing our black boots and we went to change away from tri colors to digi's, we went to Marpats like early 2000s.

So I think movies and I'm not, I not, I'm the most socially illiterate guy in movies, but I think it's when we stopped going to the theater and we started watching at home. And when you went to the theater, you wanted like a, I eat dinner, I go in with my date, I do a two hour thing, and then like we get dessert after. And I know that has nothing to do with the movie production, but I actually think it's important because I think series have gone up. Yes. And movies have plummeted.

Like there are random series like on major networks now that are pretty captivating. And I think it's because people are now at home with everything going on. No, people are at home though. And they just, they want to watch multiple, like there's no time constraint. Whereas when going to the movies was an activity, it was like, you want to make this two hour thing really entertaining and then everyone talks about it after. I don't know. That's I feel like it's been. Do you think you think it was COVID? Or even before that?

I feel like it was prior to COVID. That nail in the coffin. Yeah, because it was like, and also I think the ad, yeah, the at home viewing experience has gotten better as like TVs have gotten better, like sound systems have gotten better. So serious, have you ever watched the okay podcasts at your house? It's incredible. You can see the whole thing on YouTube. It's amazing. No, I think that like a nice TV used to be thousands of dollars. You could buy a car and now you're like, Oh yeah, I just have this nice TV.

I don't know. I think it was COVID. I think there were some good series before, but I still think people got excited about going to the movies and then COVID came. People were like, Oh, you just do all this from home. Yeah. And then they're like. Yeah. And they're trying to put that back. They're trying to put that that back in the bottle. But it's like people, I think I got to use. I think they're trying to come up with some new, I don't know, like they're kind of with like some more immersive theaters,

which I think could be interesting, you know, like less, less seating is more like an experience kind of thing. Yeah, you have seen that trend a lot. Whereas like, man, I can't think I'm trying to like remember like. In middle school, go into a movie theater and that was like. Oh, yes, stadium seating was like not a thing. It was like, you know, if you're behind the tall guy, like too bad, you're not seeing everything. Like, so serious question, not grant being funny is the Oscars for movies that have come out. Yes. Okay. Just movies, like not shows. Yeah. Not actors, like movies. Okay. So movies and actors in movies. Okay. And then like sound and editing and music.

Like music in movies, not music. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay. So now you're like cinema related. Do you think sporting events will go the same way? No. You don't think so? No, I don't think so.

No, man. I didn't think so either. And then I went to that Cosm thing and I was like, this is so much cooler. The biggest thing is you have to keep the TV, the cameras out of the locker rooms. That's the biggest thing. If you keep the cameras out of the locker rooms, sports stay integrity. If you put the cameras in the locker room, it's a slippery slope. Trying to have a conversation. When you went to the, so like, it's like the Cosm. I thought I felt the Cosmo was like the like the people

who are like the people in the crowd at the Cosm thing like fired up. Yes, very much like people. They were like getting into it. It was LSU and A&M fans and it was pretty. Really? Yeah. Everyone was getting into it. That's cool. That's cool. Cause that's where like the only thing I could see like, Oh, just like the,

the atmosphere of being in the stadium and like you're at, it was like sitting in a stadium and like maybe not the exact same atmosphere, but the only upside was like there was somebody coming to take like either drop off food or take your order like every 10 minutes if you need something. That's pretty nice. I don't know. I'd be curious if more of those pop up. Like there's, there's not a ton of seating, but it was a really cool experience. Yeah. But I, I couldn't agree. Overall, I think, I don't think sporting defense are going away. Yeah. Got to keep them cameras out. Hey, got to keep the cameras out of the locker room.

It's tough to do against tall grass. Oscar. That's true. Well, dang. I don't even know who won. Can you win the Oscars or do you win a Oscar? Well, like the big one is always like best picture. Like that's like what was the best picture? Anora. Never heard of her. I don't even know what that is. Hardly know. I never. Yeah, hold on.

Let's see where it's like a synopsis. I know I'm more like a snora. A. A. Nor a young woman from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairy tale is threatened as her parents set out for New York to get the marriage in old to basically

Anastasia. Sure. Anastasia. That's Jeff's profile pic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What? He needs Fantasia. Oh, Fantasia.

Same, same. But he knew. He knew what he was saying. I didn't. I didn't right there. No, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't.

I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I Fantasia. Same, same. But he knew, he knew he was saying. I didn't, I didn't right there. No, I think you did. That is the best part. No, I really didn't. I really didn't.

I was briefing today that all of my buddy was that all names needed to be done tomorrow. I was like, all names will be done tomorrow. And I was like, I know that we have competing requirements, but we must get to medical and do the all names. And the captain was like, sir, are you talking about the awards? I'm like, no, I'm talking about that dumb brain test that you take before you deploy, like where you match up colors and shapes. I love that test. What is it? Is it called an A-Nam? What is that test?

I think A-Nam. Yeah. And he's like, he's like, sir, it's not an all-Nam, it's an A-Nam or whatever it is. I actually don't know what it is. And I go, great, what does it stand for? He's like, no idea. I was like, therefore it's an all-Nam

because it sounds better. I wish no one asked anything and you just had like about 30 names just come in. We're like, oh, like all night. All we were up all night, sir. We got all the names in though. You said it was a no fail mission. We gave it to the trash staff and see what I see.

That's what I'm about to say. Got to get a name for separating the recycling. One man, if it reduced the signs, crazy. Anyway. All right. Next slide. Oh, that's good. You kind of are speaking of random like shows popping up like on random networks. I guess it's not really that random of a network, but Apple Plus, we've been watching severance.

Have either of you guys heard the show or watched it? I didn't realize. So, no, I've heard good things about it, but I didn't realize that's a is that a Ben Stiller? Hey, sir, I can speak to this. Go ahead. I can speak to this, sir. No, my household six and I, when I was home, so Severance popped up on Apple Plus. I clicked on it, was not entertained, stopped. And then household six was watching it. And I jumped in somewhere into season one when I was home and watched three or four

episodes and absolutely loved it. Yeah. Episode one turn you off. I wouldn't say it turned me off. When I turn on a TV show, I'm looking for like, give me a reason to put my phone down and make me more entertained. Because I will do that. And most of the time it's like, oh yeah, I'm on episode three. I have no idea what's going on. And episode one did that to me. I wouldn't say it turned me off. I just wasn't. And then Diana was watching it.

Slow episode one. Yeah. So then I think we watched like three or four episodes together. I thought it was incredible. I was like, I can't wait till I have free time at the barracks. And then I came back to the barracks and it was like, I forgot about it for two weeks. I was like, Oh, severance. I was looking for something to watch. And then it was like, you're on season two episodes because our accounts are linked. And then I was like, Oh crap. I have no idea where I was. And so I haven't watched it anymore, but I want to because I should just probably started over honestly. Yeah. It's good. It's good. Yeah.

Are you hooked? Are you on season two, three? How many are we? We're what? Two or three, three episodes and four episodes in to season two. Okay. Yeah. For I, we watched, I, there are a bunch of people at work. They were talking about it. Yeah. We watched, there were a bunch of people at work that were talking about it. Yeah. And then they're like, I was like, Hey, have you heard this show? And she's like, Oh, everyone in my work is talking about it. So we watched the first episode. Maybe we'll kind of like look at each other.

We were like, is this good? And I was like, someone said the first episode is kind of slow and you just got to get through it and it gets way better. Like every episode and it's good. It's good. Yeah. And it's like Ben Stiller, I think directed most of the episodes so far. Okay. Did he write it or just directed? Me both. I don't know. We don't, we don't watch all the credits. We just, the first one is always like,

Oh, I'm big credit guy. Big credit guy. Oh yeah. I'm like, who, I'm a big credit guy. Yeah, big credit guy. Oh, yeah. I'm like, who's the second sound engineer? Give credit where credit's due, I guess. Appreciate you. Who wrote? Severance. Not been stellar, OK.

And it almost looks like everybody but installer wrote this. I got my. It almost looks like everybody but it's still about this. I'm on here. Trey got like really good. Well, I wrote seven. No, pretty good. Thanks. So you're right. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. All right. What else we got? Well, let's see.

Are you going to answer my question that I ask? No, the one. Yes, to me. To do. Yeah, I'm going to. Oh, go ahead. We do. We do both. The other one should be shorter. It's just like. You've done both.

You're a resident ordinance expert. Oh, yeah. So the question was, does Jeff prefer calling in artillery or dropping bombs? Oh yeah. Hey, be advised. I'm not a JTAC. I'm not a JTAC either. Jeff is. I am neither current nor qualified at this moment. But as a previous JTAC. As a true Marine, true marine I'm gonna say coordinating both at the same time Interrupted see ya Hey, if you're good, you can do it continuously, right? You don't need okay

That's what I feel OK, you know, that's what I feel. OK, bring a dag gone. Well, I know we're not trading time for effects and space and PFTs on the battlefield. Because that's what's the most fun thing. I'll say artillery is great. Cass is great. But PFTs are my favorite. Can't wait to run mine and.

Only if you have the time. Only if you have time to do it. No. I cast it's a lot more like interactive. You're like doing more. I feel like call for fire is a little more just like, okay, I made the, the radio calls and yeah, I guess you're adjusting, which is fun, but Unless the battery is doing five batteries, five requirements for accurate,

predictive, talking to Godfather battery, mission, fire battery, accurate first round fire for a fair. But yeah, I was thinking about it. I was like, you know, I guess doing a. Calling in like a gun run with a tens is pretty fun. It's pretty cool. Basically, that'd be pretty free and sweet. Basically, the product delivery is so much better for artillery. Cass is more fun because

you get to work more. Basically. Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't know. Like I talked last week with the notional hind firing on us. Like when you get a rotary wing, like nose down, closing on an objective and just like unleashing. Oh man, Mike. That's awesome. That's probably pretty cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Awesome. That's probably pretty cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool. I did in the simulator when I was a,

Oh yeah. JFO. I'm a qualified JFO. Yeah. Well you're probably out of calls now, but. No, I still, I keep that in check. Yeah. I'm so.

You jump on teams, do some digital, use some remote calls for fire. I go out of my way. If the balls in the court need any JFOs because Trey got let's just ready to come back and join up with first squad. If I hopped on the radio and be like, hey, I'm a JFO. Does that mean anything to anybody? Yeah, JFOs are still thing.

They're in the PowerPoint. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Are they really? Yeah, they're in the PowerPoints. Yeah. Yeah. No, you can't do anything with her, right? You can't just like talk to a JTAG, right? If I'm speaking- Go ahead, Jeff. If you were like a pilot and someone hopped on the radio and said, JFO, then you'd be like, oh, okay, this guy will, like, I talk to this guy like somebody that's talked to aircraft before and like, they'll know what I need. It'll be a much more like productive conversation

and not like if it was a completely like untrained. Untrained observer. That's what I was gonna say is there's like the basic thing that people think is I'm talking to an untrained observer. And if you're a JFO, then people are like, oh, he like gets it. And that's okay. Like you can call for Cass and Artie having no idea what's going on. It's just going to be painful. But like if

someone's a JFO, I think, I mean, Jeff knows that side better than me, but I would say, because even when we did, what was the exercise jaded thunder up at Fort Drum, it was all for soft. So it was basically a TSP shoot for like soft guys, but it was like, wow, they have no idea how to call for fire. And so we put some Marine JFOs with like the British SAS and they were so much better because it was like, and that and the SAS was like doing the mission But it was like because you had a guy that like understood like the process. It was like, oh, this is way easier I'm trying to see

Yeah, am I right in the rain? Hey Is the cast in the back? Yeah, there should be a nine line one. There's a call for fire. Mm hmm. There's one thing I know about our two cast cast briefing for nine line. Yeah, when I call it lands. Godfather out. Do you think you still have these symbols memorized? Ops terms and graphics.

Yeah, I'm an expert. Are you really terrible? What's our artillery? That's a dot. It's like a bowling ball in the middle of a square rectangle. Now that's all you need to know, baby. I'm the FTO and we will be here for phase one on the FTO. We will remain unchanged for phase two and for phase three we will still be here. No change. I was always curious about that. Thank you for answering. Of course. I appreciate your candor. Yeah, yeah. You had another question in there. I did. This is the one that I feel.

Like I already know the answer to, but. Do you go and ask? Tray wants to know, do you take creatine and protein? That's not what I was going to say. Oh, no. OK, scratch that one. Which one of us would have made the best enlisted Marine? Now, oh, I saw that one and took interest. And you guys can answer first.

I want to know what Trey thinks. Oh, it's me for sure. don't trade things. Oh, it's me for sure. You both are too officer gentlemen. Like I don't think. From what spectrum are we talking about? We'll say, so are you talking about like general,

how you live as a Marine or are you talking about like general how you live as a Marine? Or are you talking in listed like I'm gonna make corrections and make sure people do things correctly? No, it's tough. Probably the first one. Just- Okay. Then I would say you're correct. Okay.

Jeff and I are two bought in. We like, we love it. I would have made a fantastic Lance Cooley. Oh, oh, yeah, dude. And I, it's I don't. Yeah, yeah. Roger that, sir. And then also, like, things would get you be like, how did you. We didn't. We only had one MTS yesterday.

Now we have three. Like, where did this where these are two MTS come from? Goullich. Now we have three, like where did this, where did the two MTS come from? Gullich? I'll never tell. My buddy was telling me that they were like, sir, we drew 144 black bags. We issued black bags to 131 Marines and we locked the other 13 in the quad cons. And then we went to turn them in and we're three short. Here's the flip hole for you to sign.

And I was like, I'm not me. My buddy was like, Hey staff Sergeant, go find freaking three deck on black bags. And he's like, what? I was like, I'm not signing anything. I didn't lose anything. You find three black bags like an hour later. So we got all the black bags. Very well. Very well. Good answer. Yeah. I don't know what my answer on that is. Jeff and I are too similar. I feel like I don't know that I answer on that is. Jeff and I are too similar. I feel like I don't know that I would have been a good young enlisted Marine. I do feel like. So I don't think that in like the terms of like hard charger, I think that in terms of

like drug deals, because I can like kind of make friends with anyone in the Marine Corps. And so it would be like, Hey, oh, I realized that I lost three ramming staffs for this Howitzers, but I have 60 cases of memories. Do you want them as a trade? And I feel like I could have made those deals work. I will say the part of me that I hate is like the leaving the building without a cover on sunglasses on head, like hands in pockets while talking to someone senior to you. Like I can never unsee those things. And I wonder if I'm broken because of that. I'm like, I hated that too. I like, I hate that stuff. And so sometimes I feel, and I'm like, is that enlisted or is that just correct? And, but like Jeff, like he'll roll his sleeves and wear a fanny

pack. Like he doesn't care. He, Jeff does not abide by Marine quarter tint. We got 34 golf. Yeah. I can't, you know, takes all kinds. Once you're in the car, you know, it stays with you forever. And there is a tire in all my skivvy shirts. I was asked, I was thinking about that. So Trey, you go, then I'm going to go. Just remind me to give you shirts. Go ahead. OK, there was I was saying about that question. It reminded me of like I was saying about this kid that was a motor.

He was a motorty kid and he was like dumber than like a box of rocks, like Missouri, like was always like out of regs. His hair was long, had very low IQ, smoked cigarettes, like with chain smoke them. Sounds like a warrior to me. Right. So great motor team Marine, cause he could fix anything. And then he was also, they would have him go count the fuel warrior to me. Right. So great motor team Marine because he could fix anything. And

he was also they would have him go count the fuel. And he he was like a savant. He would like to the T could like be like, I was like, how are you like, how do you count this fool? He's like, well, sir, I'm kind of like, just count it like this. No, I feel like I was like, wait, wait. And you just like do this. I'm like, wait, what are you talking about? He's like, well, I'm just like in my head and I'm like doing this. I was like, yeah, I'm like, has he might double checked him? Staffs are and he's like, oh, dude, he's straight.

Like 100 percent. I caught on and I have no idea how he's doing. I just and that's what I miss a lot is just like Marines, just like randomly good at stuff. And I guess that's what I miss a lot is just like Marines, just like randomly good at stuff. I'm like, yeah, that's very true. Kids are moron, but he can like randomly like fix a Humvee with a toothbrush and you're like, what? Yeah.

It's always, I always got to kick out of that. Hmm. Oh, you were saying, no, no, I was to say, I'm like, so a lot of people, so I get upset about basic rule following. Like if you see me and you look the other way, like you're intentionally like avoiding doing customs and courtesies, like that angers me. If we have a uniform inspection

and you're wearing the wrong color socks, like it's not about me. It's about like the Marines that were in Saipan, right? Like there's like a bigger thing at play here. Like you get to wear that uniform. Most people don't like you should wear the uniform correctly. Like those things. But at the same time, like I have a mustache and it rubs so many people wrong. And I'm like, Hey, I am authorized to have a mustache and I would have a much wider mustache thicker mustache if I was not a Marine, but I am. And so I look like Hitler all year long, but I'm allowed to look like Hitler. And it's the same thing with skivvy shirts. To my point, Jeff, it's like, Hey, the commander

can say skivvy shirts are required, but if he didn't, you're not required to wear a skivvy shirt. So like, I like rules, like I will uphold rules. I will not uphold like pet peeves if they're not in line with the rules. And so it kind of drives people nuts about me. And so like, I will lit, I police mustaches more than anyone because I have one and it's way shorter and smaller and off my lip than I would like it to be. And so therefore, when I see a Marine with like a bush on his face, I'm like, brother, if you and I were in Frisco, Texas, eating barbecue with Trey Gottlisch, 10 years removes. I would

compliment the heck out of that. Go to your room right now and shave it. Not off, but like put it in regs. And then the Marine, this is what this is when this is why I'm not, I'm not enlisted. I just did this the other day with the Marine. I'm like, Hey, listen, I love your mustache. I'm pro mustache. I am teen mustache. If we're going to wear them in this unit, we're going to do it by the rules. You got trim it. Next day, it's shaved. Hey, what happened to your mustache? Sir, I have this thing where I grow my mustache out of rags until my commander tells me that it's out of rags and then I shave it. Cool. What? Why? Is that a thing? Yeah. So, I look at myself. I wouldn't be a terrible enlisted Marine. I think myself, I, I look at myself. I wouldn't be a terrible listed Marine.

I think myself I would be a good lens corporal. I, Graham's going to think this is insult. It's not. I think you'd be a good first sergeant. Oh, that's such an insult. Right? Yeah. I noticed Jeff would be the best staff sergeant. I think. Yeah, I could have it. Having like a green second lieutenant in Jeff's like trying to like mentor, come on, buddy, come on. Yeah. But he'd like listen to the rules, but wouldn't get heartburn about it. Right. Yeah. Like some staff sergeants, like I can't believe this lieutenant. And Jeff would be like, that's part of the process. Yeah. Definitely.

You said I'd be. Jeff would be a good. I want to go. Game. So in the said I'd be. Jeff would be a good. I want to go. Game. Not I will not. Oh, my. And then next week, we're going to be like, and Trey is no longer part of the OK podcast. I don't know what happened to him.

Actually, we don't mention his name anymore. He's been scrubbed from all 62. You would have been great in the national guard. I preface it. I knew you're not going to like it. I knew that. That was good. Hey, I'm a straight shooter, man. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah. I like it. Yeah, I was a gunny. My MOS closed out, so I had to go at it. I'm sorry. We have to go right into white monsters. Love it. Do there. It's like, it's in like every meme, every meme, every thing. It's just like, and I'll be honest, I don't think they're that good.

I like, I like full strength. I go with green monster any day over. I mean, I get why. Oh, I'm not a green monster guy. Energy drink. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. I'm with you now. It's like, oh yeah. He's not talking about, he's not talking about John Cena who turned to my Boston. The green monster. What areall talking about? Um, yeah, I energy drinks. I don't know. I always liked orange rock rock star. Okay. Okay. But I don't drink them like people do.

And it blows my mind how many like the trash can not to always talk about trash, but the trash can comes back to the trash. It's insane. The amount of energy drink cans in there. It's, it's mind blowing. It's, it's crazy. What was, I can't remember what he was. There were some five 11 marine. I want, he was either Tango or this probably happens in a lot of units. Maybe you see her. But remember, there's some marine that would like collect charrette. Yeah. Yeah. Or like charrette. Yeah. We'll collect all the cans and then cash them in.

Made a killing. Yeah. Like this free money. Like there are hundreds of these I can collect. In California, we call that only one mother earth. It's the Marine Corps, like the one of the few places I've seen like a 20 year old like being diagnosed with high blood pressure because he's just crazy. 30 monsters. The amount of monsters is,

and just in the Celsius and the energy and just the diet. It's crazy. It's absolutely insane. It is crazy. Yeah. I don't even know where to go with that, but the memes are great. I don't know if I sent you guys the one. Did you see the one where the guys like, I had like a coffee and like what type of milk and he's like white monster and they like the white monster and pulled him in his dress. I was like, this is great. Let's go. And then you just like turn on Creed and you're like, put me in Saipan right now. Man.

Yeah. White monster. So hot right now. That's the popular one. Huh? Trending. Do they have the big, the big version of those? Yeah.

I haven't seen that. I think BFCs are out in general. Oh because I don't see them in the green ones. That's too bad. Yeah. There was a group in our last field up that I think they brought three cases of monsters, the 12 packs and it was, it was, it was, it was the com trucks. So literally four Marines for, so, so, so it's a, it's a soft skin high back with like, you know, Mark one 48 or whatever in pulling a trailer. And so we're going to this area and you know, it was a big evolution.

So a lot of people are going out and they're like, Hey, like whatever checkpoints going to be bogged up. So I'm looking at the map and I'm like, oh, like this road that goes through this checkpoint is this colored brown line. And this road, one click south is also this colored brown line. Like I'll just take this Southern route and it'll be great.

And you know, when you're leading 28 vehicles, 140 personnel and 5 million or way more than that, dollars of equipment, like you just make the turn. So I make the turn and it's like super rocky. And it's definitely a road, but it's like where the Amboy crater blew up or something. I'm like, it'll get better. And I like pull out my map and like look at my grid and I look at my kill switch. I'm like, Oh, I am 100% on this like brown line.

For those that don't read maps, like there'll be dashed lines. there'll be like wavy blue colored lines. Like this is 100% supposed to be a main supply route. And it is just the rockiest, bumpiest ride. It took us one hour to go three clicks. Oh, cool. And there was no, there was no leaving. Because like once the whole convoy is on it, you can't do anything. And so the road, I was actually going to drive for like 20 clicks. And now I'm like on it, you can't do anything. And so the road, I was actually going to drive for like 20 clicks and now I'm like, well, I can't do that. And

so I find this like little dash line. Like I'm just going to make that left when she ended up working out. Anyway, we get into position or super distributed and I like go to the comm truck. Cause I knew they were like the monster truck and I was like, let me get a monster. And the sergeant was like, sir, they all exploded. Every monster had popped and just like sprayed all over the equipment. Like the truck was just like a monster explosion. I just like stuck my head in there. I was like, I'm good devils. Don't worry about me. Terrible borderline tears. Terrible.

We're like, class. That's oh, man, that's just one of my favorite things. Is it like? The way Marines pack trailers or anything that like they're like, oh, we must be driving on smooth, hardball, perfect roads everywhere at 10 miles an hour. It's going to be fine.

All these vehicles are the best shock absorbers ever made. Do their military grade and just like everything is class. Yeah, just think it's like, it's like, I think it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like,

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six. I know we got more stuff. I just want to put on the radar. Do you need to talk to field craft at some point? Uh, just why field craft is put on the radar. Do you need to talk fieldcraft at some point? Just by fieldcraft is fresh on the brain. So three, just put that in the Fops, put it in the Skittles and just make the ORM and publish the LOI. Make sure we talk about that next week. Tracking, tracking. All right. Good. What else you got? Do you want to hit one of Trey's lifting questions or Yeah, we should. Or kind of a post in there about lifting. I don't know if we're talking about both.

Oh, I did. Yeah, I don't know. Go one or the other. You want to talk about that? You want to talk supplements? Yeah, we can. I don't know. I guess my question, one creatine versus protein. Do you take both? Do you take? I just take white monsters and now it's just white monsters. Yeah. I don't know. I mean,

I've never messed around with creatine. Um, I'm gonna let Jeff answer this first. I feel like I've. I've taken it pretty regularly for. Like a long time now, like. I don't know, 10 plus years, I probably haven't hit it every day, but like. Um. Do you see, do you take it like as a supplement

or do you take it like before you work out? Usually it's like some point during the day, like a lot of times I'll do like a protein shake at some point during the day. It's all just toss it in there. If I forget, you know, I'll just throw it in with some some water and pound it down. But, you know, I think it seems to have a worth. The potential benefits of it, I think a thousand percent outweigh any potential risks of it. And I think any risks are pretty overstated. What's that say? I don't even know what the risks are. Yeah. So basically... I don't even know what the risks are. Yeah.

So basically, okay, when you do the kind of lifting that we do, which is strength training, which is short, lower rep exercises, you decrease ATP. And so I always give the example of thinking about like sprinting, right? When you go to sprint, like Trey, Jeff and Grant go outside the OK Podcast Studio and I'm like, Trey, let's race and we're going to run the 40 yard dash. Like, think about the NFL combine.

Those guys run the 40 yard dash and what happens at the end? They cross the line and they're completely gassed. And if someone could come to them right then and say, Hey, there's a guy this week with a mullet that all the memes have had him running to free bird. And he ran like whatever is like a big 280 guy ran something fast. If they came to him and said, Hey, you ran a four four, we'd give you $8 million if you ran a four two, but you have to do it right now. He could not do it because ATP is completely depleted. It's completely gone. And don't send in tri phosphate, right? It's your like short energy producing ability to like jump high, run fast squat 500 and it depletes. But then if you

took that guy and you walked him around the track like three times and let him catch his breath ATP comes back and replenishes and he could go run the 40 yard dash again. Would he be as fast as he was at a four, four? Probably not because he has some fatigue that's accumulated, but he'd be really freaking close. And so it's the same thing that we experienced in the gym. Hey, I'm going to squat three by five at 350. And you do the first set and rep five is a grind and you're completely like gassed. And then you rest. And if you rest two minutes, if you're a novice, three minutes, it's enough at first. but eventually as you get stronger, you gotta rest five, six minutes

in order for you to squat 350 again for a set of five. So you're letting heart rate come down and ATP replenish so that you can incur a higher stress so you can lift more next time. So I say all that to say creatine scientifically proven, like scientifically proven. I'm not talking about a COVID vax, like actually scientifically proven to increase ATP. Or the better way to think about it is to like top ATP storages off. So you get ATP from eating mostly in red meat gets that, that storage level high. So if you take creatine,

you're basically like topping off your storage. If your storage is topped off, your body won't produce any. But science has shown that if you like are topping it off and you stop topping it off, your body automatically produces it again, or you can supplement it with red meat and get it back up. But ATP, that's like one, it's dirt cheap. It's so cheap. Like if you went down to like the serving size a day, it's like costing you like five cents a day or something to take creatine. So I think it super taxing events. And so there's

no reason really not to take it. With all of that said, I never take it. And I mean to and I want to and I should and I have some six feet for me right now. I just never take it. I should. I should take it. I just don't. And to couple that in with your question of do you take protein? I'm going to answer it honestly, and then give you the coach's answer. No, I eat protein. Like I eat like I went tonight to the stupid bowling alley because there's no food on 28 palms. And I'm like, I want three hamburger patties with cheese and bacon. And they're like, I don't know how to put that in the system. New guy. And I'm like, that's what I want.

Comes out with like 4,000 French fries. I'm like, what is this? He's like, Oh, you ordered a triple cheeseburger with bacon. I'm like, no, I didn't. I ordered three hamburger patties. Right. So I try to like eat my protein. I always think like eating the real food is probably better. I have some skinny Marines in my battery right now. I'm like, go buy mass gainer protein. And I'm like, or eat a thing of peanut butter every day. Right. I always think like eating the food is probably better than supplementing it. But I don't think you can lose taking creatine every day. I think it's a benefit. But if I'm honest, I forget, I used to take it like when I first started lifting and I was really consistent

about it. But now, I mean, I'll put it this way. I have a, uh, concrete is the brand. We did a video on them last year, yellow and black. It's like this big. I think it has 60 servings and I'm still taking the can that I bought last year at the Arnold and it's more than halfway full. So, uh, I think you should take creatine. I think protein you should try to eat. And milk's underrated. And I'll just end the rant after this. Like living at the chow hall here, I think the chow hall here on 29 Palms are not good. I'm often underfed. But I always just make up for it at the milk dispenser. Because I'm like, all right, they gave me a piece of turkey that's the size of my pinky finger. I'm starving and there's 400 PFCs in line. I'm just going

to go fill up on three milks. So I think protein is better gained from real foods. But if you can't do that, I think you should supplement it. But in general, I think most of the supplement industry is scam. I do think creatine is worthwhile taking, but I think in general, most of it's a scam. And yeah, that's what I have. That's what I heard about BW tax. Urge your favorite scientific human. What's his name? Andrew Huberman. My favorite. Love that guy. He was basically a genius. There was a clip of him talking about creating like other effects like positive effects that it has like mentally as well. That's shown. Yeah.

No. And he obviously says things that aren't insane. Just most of what he says is insane. Not insane, impractical. That's actually my problem. And I think that's where running, living off of coaching as a business for a while, you realize you're dealing in human behavior. And most of the things he says, I think he's probably right, but it's not practical. Like Marines are still going to wake up and drink six white monsters. And then they're going to drink half a bottle of Jameson before they go to bed. And it's like, cool. If they wake up and put their nuts in the sun for 10 minutes, it's not going to outweigh the effects of six monsters in the morning and six Jameson's at night. So that's my problem with him. But yeah, take your creatine. I think you eat your protein. And if you're a big dude and you have a lot of muscle mass,

you know, I don't think you like proteins, probably not your issue. Like I think protein and caloric intake is the issue for like skinny, underweight people. And so I think we just like, it's, it's funny. It's like, there's this, this thought, like, I go to the gym, and I lift and then I like, I shake this thing up and drink it. And like, I'm going to like just grow muscles. And then it's not really that works. Trey, what are you laughing about? Nuts in the sun? Just like Marines. I just picture like Marines like in the window,

just like in the morning, just having the nutsacks out. Full sip in a monster. Sip in a monster. You pour the white monster on your nutsack and then you bake it on top of the... And then you bake it on top of the sun's rays. And then you bake it on top of your JLTV. Yeah. Oh, stupid. What a dumb joke. Okay. Yeah. And then next slide. Are you specifically referring to creatine

monohydrate? I am. Okay. Yeah, I am. What's the other one? There's like, I mean, it seems like there's a bunch of yeah, there's a bunch of monohydrates. What I think, I think all the science is on monohydrate. Yeah. Yeah. It's like all the other ones I think are just, I think are scam ones are like, you know, they're pumping up. Don't get, find the cheapest monohydrate. If you want to take it, we should make an OK creatine. OK. It's OK. It's OK. It's not bad. It gets job done. It's OK.

It's not great. I will make millions. Yeah, going to be rich. Love it. Oh, let's see. I guess kind of on topic. Great. Been training with some shoulder pain. You want to touch on that? I thought my coaching hat was off. Oh yeah.

Yeah, I can make this short. I've been training with some shoulder pain. My right shoulder always is what has given me issues. You can go back and look at videos we made in the past, like why you safety squat bar, different things. What has been interesting is since my buddy's gotten out here trying to palms and been training a lot, he's not gone more than I think seven or eight days ever without hitting the gym. But in general, it's usually three days in a seven day cycle. And so the frequency has gotten less. And as the frequency has gotten less, the shoulder pain has gotten more. And it's just kind of funny because you deal with Marines or you deal with clients and they

get pain and they immediately tell you why they can't train. And for me, it's like, man, I got to go train because I feel like the reason my shoulder hurts is because I haven't been training. And then you go to train and it is, I wouldn't say depressing, but disheartening, right? It's not fun to go to try to get under a straight bar and the shoulders are irritated or to try to bench 225 and you have extreme pain and I use extreme lightly. So I've just been like training around this thing and like overhead press has been fine, but not like much over 200 pounds.

So I've done a lot like in the 180 region. But I say, let's say, I think if you've lifted for a while, like you can train around injuries. So like I'm able to squat heavy in a safety squat bar, or maybe to pull relatively heavy. I can't bench heavy. Like I've been benching and it's all relative. Like, I don't mean this to sound like I'm strong. Like I've been benching between 225 and 255, depending how it feels. And like I can tolerate that. But if I try to load more, like it's there, like I can push it

off. Like the pain increases a bunch. So I'm like, well, that's not smart. But if you just zoomed out since, you know, January, when I got out here, it's like, well, I've actually made it to the gym pretty regularly and like move some pretty good numbers all while like I'm injured and I don't know what's going on. It seems like it's getting better since we ended the last training evolution. I've been in the gym more frequently. I like, I think it's going to be fine. But I guess I would, what I would say is you have a shoulder, elbow, I don't know, tendonitis. You're what's the muscle in the butt performance is acting up, whatever it is. Like you should go try to train. Cause I'm actually have been kind of encouraged of like, Oh, been able to lift

kind of okay. Yeah. And it's different, but yeah, it's fine. So yeah, I've been training through some shoulder injuries. Time gets us all time. You can't trade space for time, but let's have to have to. Hey, we got time for that. And you save rounds, alibis. I think the only thing there's a little meeting in the oval office that's got a lot of a lot of press attention. I don't know if we wanted to touch on that or if we feel like every other media outlet everywhere has covered it, but if people are probably waiting for the okay podcast to weigh in on it.

Obviously. I'm curious. I have a interesting way that I absorb that media. I'm curious what Trey thought about it first. We're talking about Trump, Trump and Zelensky. Or you have three daughters. You may have no idea that it even happened. No, I saw, I saw a clip of it. Okay. I, it seemed like at first it seemed like a lot of people took it.

Like I saw one narrative, I think it was on X. There's a lot of people who like saw like part of it and they had got one narrative. I think was on X. There's a lot of people who like, saw like part of it. And they had this one narrative. And then they then I saw they would go back and like repost. I just watched the whole entire thing. I'm changing. I have a different narrative now. Yeah, I was like, Okay, kind of like when you watch the okay podcast and start. How that works. And then I was like, I was like, well, I don't have time to watch 40 minutes of this. So I'm just, I have no opinion. So no, I don't, I honestly don't have an opinion. I just saw people like, per usual, like made a decision without have all the facts and then went back

and watched it and change your mind on something. Have a. I don't have a super strong opinion, I think. Yeah, I think like Trey said, like you saw a lot of interesting reactions and then I was like, yeah, I think you just saw the one clip that like went crazy viral and judged the whole thing off. And there's just like way more got like context that needs to be absorbed. But it's like, I mean, there's still like, I don't know, it's just this thing with Trump where it's like, says something gets people fired up and then like. He goes like back it up and then the other person's like, oh, wait, they're actually going to back this up.

And so then like that ends up. It's been attacked.'s like, Oh, wait, they're actually going to back this up. And so then like, that ends up, it's been attacked, that's kind of been working for him, I feel like in terms of getting. Yeah, negotiations to like actually happened. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. I guess. And I guess my overall view, and this might be fairly naive is, like, we sent it sounds like we sent a lot of money over there. And so much, so much, and I'm like, you know, like there's been what hurricane blew through North Carolina, South Carolina is on fire. South Carolina, South Carolina is on fire.

Malibu was on fire. California was on fire. Like there's so many different problems. I'm like, and then I don't know, I feel like that money could have been spent right here. That's kind of my take. There's a lot of, I don't know. No, yeah, there's a lot we all don't know. What I would say was interesting for me is I usually read the news by what Connor has turned the news into a strength co-meme. That's generally how I get the news. It's like, Oh, this must like, I didn't, I know nothing about John Cena turning heel. Like all of a sudden we're posting names about John Cena. I'm like, what does turn heel even mean? Connor's explaining to me. But that day, very odd, had a motor run and a Pugel sticks battle, finished it, gave a uniform inspection time. You know me, I'm

a big sweater. So I'm like, Hey, we just finished PT 90 minutes from now we're down in the Thunderdome, you know, in, in chucks. And so I get back to the room. I'm like, well, I want to make a French press. And I got like some time to kill just to stop sweating. So I never do this. Like I cannot remember the last time in the morning I turned on the news, but I turned on the news. And I had no idea that Trump was going to meet with Zelensky. But I literally watched the whole interaction live to the point where I was like, oh crap, I had to put my chucks on and get done with this formation. And it was kind of insane, mainly just because you really were watching

like diplomacy live. And I don't know if that's how we're supposed or should do it. Yeah. But it's also kind of like, yeah, like, keep the cameras out of the locker room, right? Like, I don't know what's the right, I don't know what's the right way to do it. But I also know in like you guys know as Marines, like when you're confronted, like a lot of times, like as a Marine

officer, like you have to like make a decision right now, like what you do kind of like impacts like the fallout. And you can't be like, I'm going to think on that and get back to you. impacts the fallout. And you can't be like, I'm going to think on that and get back to you. And obviously we do our joking briefings of the briefings that are real, but those don't matter. But I'm talking about real things. Someone comes to you and they're mad about something. And if the CEO reacts like this, then everyone thinks one thing. And so I did think it was interesting how they held the line against him. And I kind of agree with you, Trey. And so I did think it was interesting how they like held the line against him. And I kind of agree with you, Trey. And this is a guy that like, and when I say guy, I mean me, not my buddy me. Like I think, I think I'm like nine, the first time I go to Ukraine. Like my dad's church

was like very mission work heavy in Ukraine. Like I, I'm, I like, like I, I can name you the capital, like a bunch of cities. I have friends that are Ukrainian. I have friends that have been blown up from the war. Like, like I, I'm, I like Ukraine. But I kind of thought there was the level of like respect and decorum. And even if you don't like Trump, like even if you're Zelensky and you just don't like Trump, like you should respect the $250 billion that the Ukrainians, that the Americans have sent you. And therefore if the Americans have decided that Trump's president, you don't like them, like there should be a level of respect.

I was just kind of blown away away that I was watching it live. And I actually grabbed the clip immediately and sent it to all my officers. I was like, you will watch this today. I don't know what the impacts mean for us. This is major strategic things happening on Bravo, basically, on live TV. And I don't know if that's right or wrong. And I don't know who's fault that is though, right? I mean, because obviously Trump is like, he's Trumpy. But it's like, you know, we're at the level now where at my level as a major in the Marine Corps, I am seeing civilian jobs as a reservist that is activated that are being impacted. And some of them, I'm like, I don't like that. But I'm like, I think this might be like, if you actually

want to balance the budget, if you actually want to fit the deficit, you might have to go over the top and this may be the only way to fix it. Yeah, I don't know. But it was, I thought the Trump Zelinsky thing was like super interesting. And then like watching the post, it's just crazy the world we live in and thinking of like HW Bush and Clinton and Reagan and like the way diplomacy worked and Kissinger and like now like how it's just like, okay, this thing happens and you're going to leave the White House. And then I'm watching on the news like, we have this whole lunch here, who's going to get this lunch now? And then I'm thinking, well, Doge should be in there packing up the lunch and shipping

it to someone who I like. Yeah, it's crazy. but, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't know that I have like a ending point on that, except that it was interesting to watch that play out on, on live TV. There's something, there's something to be said of living in blissful ignorance. So, amen, brother. That's I'm kind of, amen. Like, I don't really want to, I really don't think those should, things should be on TV. But a lot of people feel that way about their taxes until they get that bill from the IRS.

Jeff, why don't you tell them a little bit about BW tax and we'll have a tray bring us in for a landing. I'd love to do that. Yeah. Listeners of the esteemed. Okay. Podcast. podcast. It's tax. OK, it is upon us. We are in it and we don't got time. OK, the frigging day, go not do our taxes. OK, it's the time that you think you have. You don't have. And if you need that time for your PFT, OK, you need to run the PFT while you're doing your taxes.

But you don't need to be doing that on turbo tax or, or, or H and R block or anything like that. Cause those freaking daggone companies do not care about you. They don't care about your time. Okay. But who does care about your time is the trustworthy and loyal folks. And by folks, I mean, BW over at BW tax. He's got the, the knowledge he's got the dedication and he's there for you. He's got this, just, just as massive staff, just so big,

but they all care individually about each person that reaches out to them. They'll get back to you. Um, email, phone call, um, hit them up, right? BW tax LLC.com. Uh, right? BWTaxllc.com. It's not too late, reach out. You can have your documents in order, right? Be a good dude. Show up with some documents in order if you can and BW will help you out.

Yeah, BWTaxllc.com. They support the podcast, so we love them. Never trade space for time. So real quick, Jeff, if you could trade three miles for 18 minutes, would you do it? Wait, if I could trade, if I wouldn't do it. I've never met. I use that time then to do my PFT. You don't run three miles and you get an 18 minute score. Oh, I mean, that's a space for trade that every day. On that note, I've never met a person who ran 18 minutes.

I was like, the guys are really cool. I mean, I've never met a guy who ran 18 minutes. I've never met a guy who ran 18 minutes. I've never met a guy who ran 18 note, I've never met a person who ran 18 minutes who I was like, the guys are really cool, dude. Yeah, no, the only one I've ever met was a yell leader. She OCS fastest time, 1805. That was mine. Hey, Trey's going to run the ever living

out of give me a farmers straight in space for breaking news. Number one, the basketball team. They took took an L to give them. So yeah, I can get up. And I needed that. I appreciate that. Texas, we just call that a W. Yeah, Aubrey has a tough closeout of disease and this is all

was all top 25 teams in the last three years. I know, man, that whole the whole is pretty pretty salty. But it's OK. All right, Trey, bring us down for a landing. This is episode. To six to zero, six to no bingo here of the. OK, OK, OK. Podcast, as Jeff mentioned, like think our sponsor BW tax.

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