The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 63: Fieldcraft, Fishing & Chupacabra

Episode Date: March 14, 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 CALL09:41 - FIELDCRAFT28:33 - DAYLIGHT SAVINGS33:01 - DO YOU NEED TO GET STRONGER?42:55 - BABY PHOTOS48:17 - FISHING53:49 - CHUPACABRA58:30 - SPORTS01:11:14 - SAVED ROUNDS01:15:27 - SIGN OFF

All right, and welcome back to episode 063 of the OK podcast powered by the strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogi. We are recording live from beautiful Orange County, California. Well, that's where I am anyway. I'm not in the high desert right now. And no, I am not in an ISIS dungeon. There's just a baby that's being put to bed. I'm joined tonight by my co-host, Mr. Trey Gotledge, coming to us from Abilene, Texas tonight. Abilene, that's where he always is. That's where he always loves to be. Close.

He'll be in Amarillo by morning. Last we checked. And also Major Jeff Bouger. That's true. Major type. That's why we called him Major. It's like when I asked the Marine, what do you, who, who are you? And they say, I'm, I'm corporal Santini. I said, well, I got

that much from your camis, but like, why are you here talking to me? Oh, oh. But anyway, major Jeff bougie are a, it's biggie for all the listeners are resident Mormon, but he's not Mormon. He just lives in the greater Salt Lake City area. Today's date is Monday, March the 10th in the year of our Lord 2025. And the price of Bitcoin is $79,147 and 86 cents. Bitcoin is plummeting by the dip. Seems low. By the dip. And as we say, as we say in the crypto world, buy the dip. And if you're watching the plummet of all the stock exchanges, then you respond with all stock with what? With what should I buy the dip?

And it's like, yeah, it's like that song with a straw question, Georgie, dear Georgie. There's a hole in my budget. Dear Eliza, dear anyway, we know that if you grew up in the South, let's talk about today. Glad to get on here. When you listen to this, it'll be Friday. It'll be Friday the 14th. That makes 63 weeks in a row where we have not failed you come hell or high water. We have recorded every week, which is tough to do against tall grass, but we wanted to build some strong reds because you know, I don't trust a horse that ain't been road or a truck that ain't been sold. That's what I've always said. And

once we get to 69 episodes, we got street cred. We'll start bringing on the real guests. We'll leave the D list celebrities and start going A list. But anyway, with that three, maybe a quick roll call, a little trash update, and then we'll get right into this thing. Yeah, we got the TG or the CGT IP, which is the commanding general's trash inspection program. We got that coming up. So go ahead and break out your binders because everything in the Marine Corps, there's a binder that has a step action checklist and has about 15 outdated appointment letters. Go ahead and make sure you appoint.

I see you okay we got the four busted out of the right in the rain must have got off much got back from a surf Mart run love that let's go ahead make sure you distribute the palette of right in the rain so you probably just purchased to the rest of the group here yeah make sure you go ahead and update all your appointment letters, all your trash OICs, trash staff, NCOICs, trash NCOICs, trash Marines, trash desk sergeants. That's gonna be the most important hot button issue that, you know, you got to make sure you can close the loop on.

I don't know, trash. I feel like it's kind of taking a backseat folks and it's not it's not ever gonna take a backseat It's number one number one real quick trash six here. I just want to say, you know, sometimes we get we you know We sit up in here as officers and in staff, but mostly just officers and we do all the real planning It's where the it's where the sausage is made and sometimes we don't recognize our our devil dogs down there on the ground floor. I just want to say I was walking through MacAxe on Thursday prior to a 96. I see two devil dogs walking towards me by the dumpster, which I always love to see devil dogs by the dumpster. It's like boots. Boots should be on dirt, not on concrete. And devil dogs should be by dumpsters. And I saw two devil dogs and they turned and I thought that these Marines were

going to not render me the property duty of the day. Uh, greeting of the day. That is not the case. One Marine Sergeant type opened up the lid of that dumpster and the second Marine just got in and it's trash six. I said, well, something here is going on good. And I still thought, well, these Marines, they better render me the appropriate greeting of the day. And the sergeant then closed the lid on his fellow Marine, close the lid on turn, turn around.

I can't do it as trash. I do it as Grant turned around and is like, good afternoon, sir. I'm like, obviously cameras already out content grant has awoken from the, from the abyss. And I'm like, good afternoon. What's going on? As soon as he cuts the sleutie opens back up. He's like, Oh, we're just looking for something. I'm like, Oh, you don't say I'm like in the trash. He's like, yes, sir. And I was like, is it important? He's like, yes, sir, it's very important. And immediately my four days off flash before my eyes

I was like, wait, who are you with? And he named his unit and I was like, not my unit, we're good. Carry on devil dogs. You will be on the OK Podcast Instagram by evening, by sunset. Anyway, trash six. Marines out there doing good trash stuff.

And so then I just watched from the office for about 50 that Marine was in the dumpster for like 15 minutes and he got out and they both like started doing a walk of shame away. And I walked out of the CP and I took my hand with a thumbs up and I was like down. If you're not watching YouTube, you should watch on YouTube down, up down in the Marine. The sergeant just looks at me and goes down. I was like, Oh, that sucks. I don't know what they were looking for. It's probably like the nuclear codes. Probably.

Yeah. Or just some chia seeds and Alp residue. Could be. Anyway. I don't know. Ford took his note. To find or not find in the dumpster. Yeah, anything from the Career Jammer? No. Is that me? I think he's

ever here. Nice TV. Why? I need a character list before we go into this. Yeah. Anyway, that's the roll call. Thanks for tuning in. We thought we were done with the roll call, but you guys keep coming back and saying you love the roll call. Um, with that, Jeff, why don't you go to the agenda slide? All right. He, he, he, he, he, uh, you did, but the listeners don't know. My mother doesn't know the story. No, let me tell her. We were probably, it was in the final third at our artillery school, right? And we were in a fire support class.

Okay. Back when I went through, they called it M-A-O-B-C and it was way harder than what you did back when I came through. It was way harder and it was called MAO. Yeah. Yeah. Back when you came through, AKA the class right ahead of me. Yeah. Right. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He also was. You know, they really softened it up. Really? Yeah.

Shunray, they really did. Back when back when everyone used to get career designated. And you were like, whoa, we got the immediate changes. Even if you write a letter saying no, yeah. No. So we were in a, it was towards the end of that. And then, you know, so the Marine Corps for the listeners, if you don't know, the Marine Corps does the school with Army because the Marine Corps is too poor to have

their own artillery school. So we do with, with the army. Did no longer. Oh, okay. At the time we got it. Yeah. And so there was a, there was a national guard, second lieutenant in there. And the Marine Corps instructor said, he asked him

some question. He didn't know the answer to it. He goes, do you even know what this is? And he said, Oh, yes, sir. He's like, Okay, what is this? And he pointed to the first line of a call for fire. You This is me fire for effect. And he fanatically pronounced the shortened version of it. You day me, Fifi, Fifi, okay, and he goes, that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. So I told her Jeff that. So then I just whenever I say that, you know, yeah, if he can.

You know, I mean, I didn't mean yeah if he can graduate unfortunately yeah he did yeah he's a actually he's a colonel full full bird colonel at the moment is he still a male or is he like a female colonel now you know yeah don't ask don't presume yeah that's right don't don't ask that's the policy now don't presume. Yeah, that's right. Don't ask. Is that the policy now? Don't ask, don't presume. That's what we've always said. That's good to say. That's right. Good stuff.

Oh yeah, yeah, you day me fee fee K. Sorry, go into the slide, sir. I apologize. Oh yes, yes. This was a per grants request last. I don't know if it was in the after show, but you wanted to talk about field craft. Field craft was one you said, make sure this gets in for next week. So that's all the context I have.

Yeah, no, I just wanted to hit it real quick because you know, yeah, well, you're a field craft guy. You're kind of a gear junkie trays, the resident Lance corporal. But I just wanted, you know, when you're, when you go into like a field up, you're just like, Oh, I'm tough as nails. I'm good. And then you get into like day three and you're like, why didn't I bring this? And then especially now I'll say it, we're reservists here. Then you're just like, Oh, well, I'll fix that next year. But when you activate, you're like, uh, like I need to,

I need to fix this like three days from now. And so coming off of a six week SLT, I just had some thoughts on like things that I don't really care about and things that are like, I must have. And when I say field graph craft, for those that, listen, I know we got some army Rangers, we got some airborne types, airborne. We got some different folks. I'm not pretending to be anything that we're not. We are artillery officers. If you can't truck it, do it. That's what we've always said. And I'm not pretending. I'm not talking about like, uh, watertight waterproofing my skivvy shirts. I'm just talking about like some, some basic things that you're like,

you know, I don't need this in the field. I do need this in the field. Uh, I have my list, but I think we should start with Trey cause he's the most removed. Like if you had to go on a five day regimental fire X right now, Trey, like what's the most removed. Like if you had to go on a five day regimental fire X right now, Trey, like what are the things that you're like, okay, that'll be fine. And like, no, I need this. Like back when I was lieutenant. You could do it back when you were lieutenant or if you were right now. I mean, I don't know. I'm just curious. Like what are the things that we all forget stuff? It's like,

should I bring the Gore-Tex? Doesn't look like it's going to rain. Won't bring the Gore-Tex. And then of course it rains and you're like, dang it. And then you're soaking wet and you're like, would the Gore-Tex even help? Like, did I even need that? But like, what did you even need that? Man, so I would, I always foregoed, as long as my hands were warm, I would always forego like a ton of warming layers. So I'd just bring like maybe one extra layer on the outside, but something light,

because if I would just get cold, I would just move around. So I would never bring like anything super heavy that would take up a ton of space. Bring some sort of, I would not wear, bring gloves because they would always be in my pocket. Yeah, no, every time you buy gloves, you just lose them. And they make a beanie and I think that's about it. True.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, I'm trying to think as far as the go-to stuff. Honestly, man, it was- It can also be like the nice-to-haves, right? We could be talking gummy bears. We could be talking beef jerky. We could be talking gummy bears. We could be talking like beef jerky. We could be talking like a good shave set up. We could be talking your sleep.

Like are you a cock guy or are you a bivy sack on the dirt guy? No, I am. Well, I am a, let me see, a mattress. I would get a sleeping bag and sleep on the hood of a Humvee and just have some turn on. So I didn't need any cot. That was usually my go to, I guess the thing that would, I would always make sure that we had and had a lot of is coffee, coffee grounds for that DC. So I would go out and buy that. So caffeine and nicotine was probably the two. As long as I had that, I think I could, I would just

tough it out and make two without a lot of stuff. And creatine. All the tea. Yeah, of course. Yeah, creatine. Just buckets of creatine. Yeah. And I would say beef jerky. I think that would be, I think that was, that was pretty good.

Okay. Jeff, you got any? I don't know, man. Like I was, I would lose, I would lose a ton. Like a good pan would go a long way for me. Pen or pencil that I would lose a ton of. So I would always bring like a bunch of those. I don't know. Yeah, I wasn't, I discovered the jet boiler. I think you had one. And then I would use that to shave. And that was a game changer. Do the jet boil is a game changer. And I only used it for, I only use that to shave. And that was a game changer. Dude, the jet boil is a game changer.

And I only used it for shaving. Wow. But that's big. Yeah, yeah. Getting that hot shave in the field is nice. I remember our class at TBS, they're like, no jet boils until the last field op. They're like, OK, you can buy jet boils.

So tons of people went out and bought them. And I was like, I'm not getting a jet boil. That's soft. Never on a jet boil to this day. You know, not, not getting, not getting a jet boil. And then it was like when I like chopped over to three, one and like all the like infantry lieutenants like had jet boils. And I was like, wait, these guys got jet boils like, all right,

maybe I'll give it a shot. And I was like, oh, wait, yeah, this is this is great. So I've been team Jepwell ever since. Just heating up water for for like this. Coffee. Yeah, yeah. And I guess the only other thing that I would add to that list that I never left is like a very nice Garmin GPS. Okay.

Because I am terrible at land nav. So if I got the one I can't I think I gave Grant one. Yeah, you did. It's like I got one and you plug in the grid coordinates and it's a blue line and takes you straight to where you need to go. And in 29 Palms, it was like the best. Oh, that's the best. So that's, I didn't trust the Marine Corps issued gear.

I would just take. Yeah. I would just do that. That's good. So that's it. That's all changed now. Everyone has a kill switch. It's like a Android tablet app where

the maps are there. So it's literally like, you remember those 29 palms maps that you had as Lieutenant and like you have this dagger that like you forget to push the button to like repopulate and you're trying to like find a road. All that's gone now and on your screen is the map. Like literally like the map that would be in your hands, you're looking at it and the blue dot is on the map itself. And if you zoom in past the map, you're now looking at like real satellite imagery, game changer, game, like it's a completely different game.

And I'm not saying that to be like back when I was in, but seriously, you don't have to have any map reading skills. It's essentially your iPhone, like tracking you, but it's all GPS. It's crazy. So that's, but everyone has that. And I'm more talking about things that like, I mean, everyone doesn't have that. You have to go buy a tablet and like go visit the deuce who's never in his office, but you

could have that. You have to go buy tablet and go visit the deuce who's never in his office, but you could have that. I think for me, it is a good shaving setup, which includes a reservoir for me to heat water, particularly when it's really cold. A good shave setup, maybe enough clean razors to change the razor head every three days because you're not washing your face, you're dirty, and it just feels like, oh, this is a clean blade. I'm not getting desert syphilis right now. So a nice new, a good shave set up, a good coffee set up, which to me, I do like the Freedom Press, but I prefer the Brica one because I sell them. But no, I actually do like it better because it's just like condensed espresso.

It goes quick hit. And then I'm relying on the FTC to have coffee because that's what good lieutenants do is make sure the FTC has coffee. And then the third thing I think would be about this cot of Amazon. It was like maybe 59 bucks, like not super expensive, folds down small enough that like can go on the side of your main pack. So you're actually like still kind of tactical. Like it goes, the bottom goes in like the canteen pouch and then you can strap it to it. But I just think that sleep, you come by it so little by our own doing, not for any real reason, but like you come by it so

little that I'm always big on like, if I'm going to sleep even for three hours, like I'm going to like set up and make sure and get some decent sleep. But yeah, no, that's all I, I just, I want to talk about that. And then I want to remind Jeff of that, uh, army cavalry guy at MAOBC who was like field craft, you know, who sucks at field craft, Navy seals, they're terrible. We're all like, what are you talking about? Are you sure you're six foot two 50? Like what Sure. You're six foot two fifty.

Like what? You're very why you're you are you are stressing the seams on those cameos. Like you're we're sure. They're BDs. Marines are terrible field crap. They're BDs. Oh, excuse me. What Jeff with when you were calling in airplanes to drop some bombs, what was the fieldcraft in that situation?

For the person who's probably been to the field the most, I would feel like you have a pretty good- A lot of times you go back to the hotel at night and sleep there. No, that is- Oh, you saw the hotel fieldcraft. Yeah, okay. No, that is funny. When we did the exercise last year, jaded thunder for all the soft guys. I remember going to the initial planning conference and they're like, yeah, they're like talking about lines of accounting and money pots and all this crazy stuff. And my

BG amazing. They're like, uh, where are you, where are you guys going to stay? He's like, Oh, we'll be in the field. And they're like, yeah, but like when you're not training, he's like, no, the whole thing's training event. And they're like, you're going to sleep in the field for 16 days straight. And he was like, Oh yeah. And everyone was like, what? Like the soft guys were like, you guys are just going to go out and stay. And they would like come out, do like three controls. They'd be like, hey, we're getting beers at so and so tonight. I'm like, brother, I'm not leaving this position for two weeks.

Like any cast trips at best. You always said that's true. It's true. I still feel like you've probably been in the field the most. We yeah, I mean, we would 29 Palms a bunch in like San Clemente Island a ton. So there's a lot of field time there. I don't know the tarp.

The tarp is such a versatile piece of tarp. You're an ID. I love the tarp. Never. If I forget, like a couple of times I've forgotten the tarp or like, I felt like one time it just got like wrecked or something like that. And it's just very, it was very upsetting. I've never forgotten the tarp. I'm a big tarp fan and I always bring the tarp over the Gore-Tex because I'm like, if it starts raining and I can cover my pack with a tarp and I bring like a change of clothes, then I'm good. And like, I'll just embrace the rain. Because when I get the Gore-Tex, I want to be a heat

case. Like that thing is so freaking hot. Dude. Yeah. It's terrible. Yeah. Have you ever had any wildlife encounters when you're in the field? I mean, yeah, lots. Not like anything crazy, other than like,

oh, like, Opie whiskey on Camp Pendleton, and it's like, there's just tons of tarantulas usually. Dude, I remember- Tons of tarantulas. I remember TBS, it was somewhere in the middle. We had the whole platoon is out there kind of sleeping in the one position. And then one kid gets bitten by a black widow face in the middle of the night.

And you just hear him like he wakes up and he's screaming like, like freaking out. Rightfully so. Yeah. And I'm aware. I wake up and then like someone's like, Oh, you got bit by a black widow or got bit by a spider And then like the kid next me. He's like hey what happened? I'm like Smith got bit by a spider. He goes that sucks. He just went back to sleep. I sure like we were everyone was so tired like No one really cares He'll tough it out

We have to give medevac yeah Yeah, he was fine, man. That reminds me of just talking about like the first the first field X at TBS. It's like we whoever was like this, you know, the student platoon commander and platoon, sorry, we like pick our spot next to whatever, like one of the big like D like DZ Raven or whatever it was. And there's just these just giant, giant like the biggest ant mounds I've ever seen in my life. And you look down the entire ground is just crawling with ants like everywhere you look just like thousands and thousands of ants. And they're like, all right, this is going to get in squads,

like we're where we're sleeping. And like everyone's like looking around're like, all right, this is going to get in squads like we're so we're sleeping and like everyone's like looking around like, oh, bro, like, why are we like, just look, look down like this is where you are. There was just a couple of ants and everyone was just like looking at these like almost like waist high like it mounds. And we were like, no. And they just were like, what? You guys should be real babies about some ants. And then like our SBC walks up and it was like, what the fuck are you idiots doing?

They're part of my language. What the heck are you idiots doing? No, you know, we're going over there. We're not going to sleep on ants. And they're like, uh, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta love It was kind of love Quantico, baby. I like Quantico. The crossroads.

No, this is where we're sleeping. What was it? What's that swamp that you do in the quickly you hop into whenever you're doing like the obstacle course at OCS quickly? Is that what you said? Yeah. Quigley. You know, is it the Quigley? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember sitting in the Quigley, like that what you said? Yeah. Quigley. Is it the Quigley? Yeah. Yeah. I remember sitting in

the Quigley, like waiting in line to go underneath the, like, what's the concrete thing that you kind of pull yourself through? You know, like that's the first part. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. And so we're sitting there like waiting in line. Trey getting on that okay pockets. Hey, what are like the denim things that you pull up over your waist? I'm getting on that okay pockets. Hey, what are like the denim things that you pull up over your waist? Yeah, and then like what what's what's the thing that you put on your head? Yeah But like Texas We're waiting in line to like go through it and a snake like comes between like me and like the guy in front of me And I go that's like the only time my question like why am I doing this? That was the only time?

Wow. That was the first. Okay. That was the first time. I was like, that's good. I was going to say, apply enough Marine talk for all these Marine listeners. Got to give a shout out to Major Matt Lowen, future Coyote 2 hopefully. Got a message from on a 96, you know, 96 usually don't hear from Marines. I'm going to give him a freebie just because he wants one. But I will remind him about Zach Copley.

Zach Copley was the guy that you saw on the show. He was a guy that you saw on the show. He was a guy that you saw on the show. And he was a guy that you saw on the show. And he was a guy that you saw on the show. And he was a guy that you saw on the show. And he was a guy that you saw on the show. And he was a guy that you saw on the show.

And he was a guy that you saw on the show. And he was a guy that you saw on the show. to give him a freebie just because he wants one. But I will remind him about Zach Copley. Zach Copley was the guy that used to get a shout out week after week. He gave us the Bitcoin clock. He came to the Arnold and there was, I don't know, for 30 weeks, we probably said, shout out Zach Copley. And then, hey, just like the Marine Corps, the next man in line, uh, they go away. So Matt, enjoy your two episodes in a row. You'd never know what happens next week. Um, but yeah, uh, tell them to buy us something and we'll shout out. Yeah.

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That's that would be great. Just says BW tax and there's like just an American flag behind it. Wait. Yeah. Oh, it's waving. You can animate it. Well, no, I mean, he doesn't have to make them up. it weight. Yeah. Oh, it's waving. You can make PJ do it. Well, no, I mean, he doesn't have to make them.

You know, I just, you know, I can actual physical mug that I can hold. Oh, I just like have them edit. And I know you know, we don't want that. But we want it. Well, we want it. We need to be frank. I don't worry about it. We can make anything. That's true. Drinks don't can make anything. That's true. Drinks don't can make anything they make.

How's that? Ships. They make plates, barbells, ships. Crazy grills, I think. What else do you guys make over there? I've stringed everyone. Everyone asked me, they're like, what ship are you going to be on? And I'm like, I don't know yet. We haven't made it yet.

And the Marine Corps doesn't know either. It takes a while. Yeah. There's a lot of moving parts when you're building the ship. But that's okay. Let's see. Daylight savings time. How do you boys feel about daylight savings time? Okay. Can I start this one? Yeah. Whether or not you like the time changes, whether or not you like that the sun rises and sets at different times, whether or not you like the sleep adjustment or the adjustment of your three daughters sleep. The thing I hate the most about daylight savings time is having to Google all the appliances in my house on how to change the clock. It's never user friendly. And I spend

like an hour because I can't wake up in the clock, be like, I can't do it. I'm not like, Oh, I'm not. You don't come to my house in February and the Christmas trees up. Actually, you don't come to my house on the and the Christmas trees up. Actually, you don't come to my house on the night of Christmas and my Christmas trees up. Christmas is over, take the tree down, it's over. I can't deal with having to look up. I just did this. The first three hours of my four days off was like, how do I change the clocks? That's my least favorite thing about it. And for that reason alone, I don't care about any other reason. It should be canceled.

Trey thoughts. Yeah, it was a it was a rough transition. I just remember waking up Sunday and I like like Abby was tired, I was tired. Like everyone was cranky. And I was like, why am I so tired right now? I'm like, oh, the time change. Yeah, it was rough. I will say this though. Yes, today and yesterday, we got out in the evenings and was kind of nice. Like it's still being like bright outside. Went to the PGA park today. That was cool.

Went to another park yesterday. So getting out, walking around. It was nice having the sun out still. So good point there. But yeah, dude, Sunday was rough. You would say that daylight has been saved from time. Yeah. Okay.

Fair enough. I honestly, like everyone complains about it. To me, the worst part is just listen to everybody complain about it. Yeah, that's true. It's so funny. Yeah. People get so upset about it.

Like it's brand new every single year. It's like, I can't, I've never experienced this before. I'm like, it's gonna be okay. Yeah, we'll be fine. We loved it. I'm apathetic. Just tell me what time it is. I'm like, it's going to be okay. But yeah, we'll be fine. I'm apathetic. Just tell me what time it is and I'll go with it. Yeah. The appliances has got to get on. The appliances is rough.

Cause I feel there's always one kind of like forget like the, I feel like mine is like the clock in my car for some reason doesn't like sync up to, I don't know. So that one, it's an interesting one of getting that one figured out, but yeah, just. Yeah. All the clocks everywhere is annoying. And then basically I'll spend the next year going to every Marine Corps clock and fixing it. And yeah. Well, that clock's probably been broken for like four years. So. Well, of course, but like, yeah,, the you know, we got the maintenance requested,

but just different pots of money. Yes, the money for that one. They haven't refilled it. They haven't refilled time into that clock. What's the like? What are the pros to like the daylight? Like everyone complains about it is like, is there any pros to it? I don't even understand what just happened.

Did we just start it or do we just end it? I don't know. I don't know. No one knows. That's the thing. I don't think anyone knows. That is true. I'm sure someone knows.

I'm not sure. Like, cause like, I think you start it. So there's more. I think we just started it, but I'm always unclear. Are my exiting or entering? And now do I say PST or EST or EDT? Yeah. I think we just started it. So I think it's now PST. No, no, that's Pacific Standard Time, PDTs, Pacific Daylight Time. Yeah, correct. Yeah.

Anyway, I always put. Yeah. Once you put the D in and everything's better. We figured that out. We figured that one out. Let's see. I feel like we're about to feel about to talk to Coach Grant here, but you posted in the messages here. Do you need to get stronger? Did I post that?

You did. No, yeah, I did post that. I posted that and I won't make this too long. I posted that off of a guy, our previous guest, Matt Tomaszewsky, first sergeant type, the former gunny that went the dark side. He was asking some questions in Slack and then I made some comments and then he messaged me and it was based, I mean, the guy's like a 500 pound squatter and he's like, hey, I need to lose some weight. I'm 5'10", I'm, you know, 2 two 30. I'm like close to not taping for the Marine Corps. And I'm like, dude, just like lose some weight, like go carnivore, like go low carb. Like I was giving them some

options. And he's like, yeah, but like my strength numbers. And I just said to him, like, do you need to get stronger? And he said, like, what's the point of all this if I'm not trying to get stronger? And I think both of those questions are valid. But I think that at some point, at some point, if you were strong, like how strong is strong enough is like a book or an article that Repto has written. Or maybe I actually think is a short book on that. Yeah, he does. Which is like a collection of essays, but like, do you need to get stronger? And I, the answer is yes and no. I think the problem is that most people won't go through the hard part, which

is like three years, and I think that's about what it is. I think it's about three years of consistently three times a week, going into the gym, adding weight, dealing with injuries, dealing with back tweaks, going to the gym anyway, eating enough protein, probably tracking your food, making sure you're sleeping. It's a period of time in your life where you getting stronger is kind of, I don't wanna say the only thing that matters,

but it's a major thing that matters in your life. No matter what, you're depressed, you get divorced, someone hits you in the face with a baseball bat, whatever. And you're just like, I have to squat, I have to go deadlift. And if you've been through that, I think it takes a significant amount of time. You get what I would put in quotes, strong. And I always use that loosely because if you've been to the Arnold, like none of us are strong, but I just mean like you can go in and move some weight around.

And if you've gotten there, you know, I'll use Tomas Chesky as a great example and hopefully a more clear answer that I gave him over text, but it's like, brother, you can squat 500 pounds. If your job, in his case, specific case, the Marine Corps wants you to not be... Or if you don't like being 17% body fat and you want to get down to 12 and your squat goes from 500 to, I don't know, 450, you're going to be fine. You are 99% stronger than everyone else on the planet. So I think we're sometimes in the starting strength world and sometimes just in the powerlifting world is like this

quest to get stronger. I do think that should be the mindset. The mindset should always be to get stronger. But I think at the same time, it's like, if you've put in the work, I mean, like right now, my right shoulder's been driving me nuts. I got to run a PFT in eight days, getting ready to deploy. I'm trying to balance my free time with hanging out with my five-month-old baby. And it's like, man, whether I press 200 or 212 and a half for a set of five, like doesn't matter, right? Like what matters is that it's like relatively heavy and I'm doing it consistently.

But that was kind of my thought and my, that's my user hat on. If I put my coaching hat on, it'd be completely different. Mainly because 90% of the people I've coached over the last decade, and it's been a decade, it's been more than a decade that I've been coached people as they never do the hard part. But if you've done the hard part, I'm not saying you shouldn't want to get stronger, but you should be able to like zoom out and realize like, Hey, if I can deadlift 405 for five and like all this other crazy stuff is going on in my life,

like it doesn't mean I don't go to the gym, right? But I can focus on this and not make lifting my number one priority. Anyway, that was my thoughts. But Jeff, I'm curious your thoughts on that. No, I think that's like well said and that like, yeah, you should always want to get stronger, right? Like that's, you know, that's kind of what keeps like well said in that like, yeah, you should always want to get stronger, right? Like that's, you know, that's kind of what keeps coming back is you're like, oh man, I haven't done this weight before putting five more pounds on the bar. Like, let's see if I've, if I've, if I've got it, like, let's see if I can get under

this bar and stand up five times with a weight I've never done before. So it's like, it's cool to experience that feeling and to like, you know, as you progress in your lifting, like see what program tweaks, you know, try to get that extra like five pounds added to your deadlift or something like that. So it is kind of a journey, but then also like balancing things with like, hey, there's a very real requirement for, you know,

those that are in the military to have height and weight standards that you do have to kind of adhere to. And there are ways, if you're a freak athlete and can run a 300 PFT or a 285 PFT and a 285 CFT, and you can squat 500 pounds, like you're just a gifted individual in terms of your genetics

and probably have your training dialed. But if the Marine Corps wants you to look and be a certain way, you got to adhere to that and try to balance all the things that you're trying to go for in the gym and then also your professional and military requirements. I mean, I'd even say it's similar. Yeah, he's strong enough for life. Yeah, I'd even say it's similar being in the Marine Corps though, right? It's like, you're always prepping for combat. Obviously, you're always prepping for combat because that's

the whole point, force and readiness, be ready. But at the same time, it's like, yeah, I just can't go out and do gun drills on a 777 all the time right now because I have a phase mode or whatever kind of inspection coming up. And if I fail this, then all the time right now because I have a phase mo or whatever kind of inspection coming up. And if I fail this, then like all the bosses get fired. Everyone gets ruined. And like, actually like right now more like, of course I know it's that kind of mindset, but that was all I want to say is like, uh, like, yes, you should want to get stronger, but you should have a lens on there. I think it's kind of listen to both y'all.

What it kind of reminds you of what's that saying? Comparisons the thief of joy. And if I don't know, like that's, I feel like in weightlifting, like comparison, like you compare yourself if you go to a gym, like what the next guy's doing over, or even if you compare yourself to like, man, five years ago, 10 years ago, I was able to do this for 10. You know what I mean? It's just like in high school, like you got to zoom out a little bit. Obviously, obviously. Yeah, obviously. So I don't know. It's

just it's like what you're saying is kind of like, hey, you got to take your coach set off, you got to kind of take into account everything else you have going on in life and just kind of be happy where you're at kind of thing. See the good part of it. Yeah. And if you're weak, you're weak. And that's like a fixable problem that you have to do. And I actually, if you're weak, you have to prioritize that. That's what I'm saying. I think there needs to be a time in your life where that's the main thing you do. But yeah, at some point, it's just like, there's always someone stronger. You're not going to set any world records. It doesn't matter. You don't get paid for, you don't get promoted faster for deadlifting 600. And it's like, what's the reason I'm getting stronger? Healthy tendons,

healthy ligaments, good bone density, ability to do tasks, move people around, whatever it is. And it's like, if you're accomplishing those things and there's something else in your life, and it could just be like, hey, I'm getting married this summer. And I'm currently whatever. I want to be skinnier to like take photos or fit in a suit or a uniform, whatever. And like, I just, I think sometimes we miss that. And it's just like, brother, it's all right. Like, if you and like, I don't think you zap all of that strength either, if you've put in the work, I don't think like, your tendons and ligaments disappear if you're

still training, but you're just not like eating as much and training as hard, I think your ability to perform max strength goes away. But I also, I mean, right now I could probably, I mean, with my shoulder bothering me, I probably couldn't on a straight bar, but I could probably go Mars bar squat, like 485, and my best is 515.

And so it's like, whoa, you lost whatever that is. And it's like, Oh, sure. Maybe. Yeah. But at the same time, I also know that like, if you gave me a month, I could like very quickly get back to very close to that. Like a PR is always a tough PR and strength training. But it's the same thing with like running. It's like, Oh, I went to run three miles. That took me 27 minutes. And it's like, yeah, give me a month of running and that'll be down to 23 minutes or whatever the case is. So anyway, yeah. Big lifting guys. Good stuff. This podcast. Remember when we used to talk about lifting and take it all serious. Now we just talk about trash and take it more serious.

You know, that's life. You know, that's life. You know, you never know. All comes back to trash. All comes back to trash. Welcome back to trash. Okay. Let's hit a couple, some more topics here. Uh, great.

Do y'all take some baby photos? Yeah. Traded too. And we got a little story to go with that. Why don't you tell me about yours first? Cause I was going to talk about my, why don't you tell me about yours? Um, I don't know, man. Fairly uneventful. It's one. So baby photos. One, I'm just not a huge, I don't like taking photos to begin with. I got to like, like, okay, so we have to wear this outfit. I have to take, it's like an hour long, blah, blah, blah.

Whatever. So baby photos. In Texas, we just call that getting dressed. It's not an outfit. I just wanna pay my... No, no, no. Mm-hmm. Oh yeah, so we did newborn photos,

which I'm happy we did a man, but it was. She came in. She gave us like, hey, feed the baby at this time. Turn up the temperature to this temperature. Because it makes the baby sleep. Yeah, I guess. Like she had all these things. So we we kind of did that. And then we took some family photos to went outside, took some family photos. So is this your house sponsor in my poncho shirt? Yeah. It was like right out front. Like, you know, that little pond we have out front. Yeah. So we took it like right out there. Okay. You did it. You did it. It was good. Like I said, it was, yeah. Well, did you, did you have a different experience? No, it was great. And I just shout out to my beautiful wife,

Diana for doing it. Cause I'm like, we don't even have the photos yet, but I'll be so glad that, that we have them. Um, but a part of, you know, I was off for four days, uh, not me, my buddy, you know, Diana always gets photos with my buddy right before he deploys. Right. And, uh, yeah, so, uh, and. And so, and you know, when Isabella was a newborn, we like, we did get a photographer for Christmas and she was a gal that worked for me at the gym. And so we were able to walk like two blocks similar to what you did. And it's like, you try to get the baby to not cry and like, you take some great photos and it was great. She did a great job. And it's like you try to get the baby to not cry. Like you take some great photos. And it was great. She did a great job. And then for this one, you know, Diana had envisioned

like me wearing some like camis, some uniforms, like these would be photos, like right when she left her daughter, like, you know, do them in camis. I'm like, I'm down. And then she's like, and also like, I'd like to do some like on the hillside, like you wear your hat. Cause like when we did the pregnancy photos, I was wearing my hat for those that are not from Texas, South Carolina or Georgia. You probably call it a cowboy hat, but in those States we just call them hats. I'm like, yeah, sure. No problem. So she buys me a new shirt and the day we had the photos, I think it was Saturday or Sunday. Like where are they? And she's like,

they're at this location. And I'm like, I'm thinking in my head, and Diana would say like, Grant hates photos. And I don't hate photos. I love them. And I was like super upbeat about them. I'm just thinking like logistics, right? I'm an artillery man. I'm thinking about moving people and getting rounds down range. I'm like, all right, we're gonna have to drive 45 minutes. And then we're gonna have to like get to and then we're gonna have to get to a location and there's breastfeeding involved and then there's dressing up and doing hair and lint rolling hats. And so we get there and then the woman's like, yeah, we're gonna have to walk 10 minutes to the spot that I want for the sun to be right. I'm like, that's cool. And like I'm in my Lou Casey boots with this rich boys from Dallas where, and you know, I'm like

walking down and then she's like, uh, it's actually a 15 minute walk unless we cross this bridge. And I'm Marine. I'm like, Oh, let's cross the bridge. It's not a bridge. It's like two logs. And my wife is in like a brand new pair of boots and like the dress and I'm pushing a stroller and I'm old. I'm all about it. Right. But I'm just like, I'm not like dressed to like scale this. And like, I don't want to drop my baby.

And we crossed it. We took the photos, baby started crying. The photos are going to be amazing. Like I already know the photos. Like once I get them, it's going to be amazing.. Cause I would have thought of how much work this was and would have never done it, but like, I'm glad we have them, but it's just like a thing. And especially like if you want, and like, I actually liked the backdrop she selected. It's like kind of like not halfway to 29 palms, but it's like California, like call it hillside, not mountains. Right. And she's like, you know, we can't do that.

And I'm like, I'm so glad you did that. Cause I would have thought of how much work this was and would have never done it, but like, I not halfway to 29 palms, but it's like California, like call it hillside, not mountains. Right. And she's like, you know, we came on here, you've been gone training. Like it's going to be great. But it's definitely a thing. And like, when you look at the photos, you're like, what a beautiful family. Let me tell you about the baby screaming the entire way home. But you know, yeah. Yeah. And that this point is probably the build up to it that I just don't like photos. I like you once you do it. OK, that was worth it.

Yeah. You like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's what I feel like. I can do that now. Right. That's what I was like. Twenty five fingers on your baby. Not there yet. OK. right that's what I was like 25 fingers on your baby not there yet okay so yeah yeah I put a steak man that's good stuff other topics grant fly fishing just really want to miss You miss fly fishing? No, I want to. Just dream about it.

Yeah. Let me give this to Trey and Jeff. I got five days off before my buddy leaves. And it's like, for me, part of me wants to just go home and hang. But like for my wife, it's like, oh, it's our last chance to do something. And it's my last chance to do something. So it goes both ways. And then I'm like, well, how can I work in fly fishing? And I'm just in a part of the country in Southern California where like, yeah, you could like saltwater fish the coast for trout fishing,

fly fishing. The closest is like five hours. And so I'm mapping it. I'm like, okay, I drive down from the high desert this day. And then we go and spend a night here at this hotel. And that only puts us three hours from fly fishing. And then we go there. But then it's like, now I have to plan eight hours where I'm remote fly fishing. And like, okay, what's my wife and baby doing? Like you're trying to do the analysis. You're like, this does not work. And I was just like, man, there's nothing more that I want to do than what some lines I miss the Carolina. It was just like 45 minutes away from fishing.

Yeah, no, I just want to fish. Just want to fish, Trey. Just want to wet some lines, set some dries. That's, that's a tough, I haven't even thought about fishing. I want to go do it. I see everybody out there bed fishing in front of my house, but I'm like, like man that must be nice Other fishing for beds nice

Sorry in real fishing what bass do I don't know if you know this there's a it's called spawning Do you have that with your little baby fish they all catch? We do that. We do have that in fly fishing. You mean the called the beautiful trout? Yeah. You mean you mean when the hatch starts after the spawn? Yeah. Tell me about it. Oh my god.

Majestic, beautiful trout. Oh, I didn't even know about that. Does this bill your I dumb mouth. Just dumb ass, dumb ass bass fish that get described by two words, either small or large mouth. Like, can you imagine your whole existence is your mouth is small? Your mouth is large. Dumbass. They're like, here it is like, you know, then you'll pull up like this fishy cotton and it's like fits in your hand. I'm like, Hey, we're just like, yo, then y'all pull up like this fishy cotton. It's

like fits in your hand. I'm like, that's adorable thing. It's a wild fish tray. It's never, no, no, no, it's not even about the fight, Jeff. It's about that. It's never been caught and it's been surviving for thousands of years. Your fish just been eating dog food for six months in the pond in front of your house. My fish came from the Nile river down the Mississippi. Hmm. Came from the Nile. Right? Cross the ocean. That's where all the trout came from. Yeah. Except for those cutthroat trout. Those are what we call Mormon trout. They're beautiful.

They're beautiful. Hey, I've never tried fly fishing, so. You don't know what you're missing. Be careful. You might just like it. That's true. I've never tried it. But to be fair, I don't think I've ever tried

real bass fishing. Yeah, I've never tried it, but to be fair, I don't think you've ever tried real bass fishing. Yeah, I've been I've been to a NASCAR race. I know it's like. That's America, baby. It is America. That's the most though I would go to argue the large mouth bass is the most American fish that's out there. American like a maga fish or American like an, like a JFK fish. No, I would say like, uh, America is the large mouth. So like definitely a mega fish.

So like redneck, mega evangelical fish is a, is a large mouth bass. Yeah. My fish is, my fish is more like a, more like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, You're just like America truck. Yeah. I was gonna say, I thought y'all would be more like, it's like a, it would be like a rock Ron Paul kind of thing.

Who bought all the, who Ross Perot would be like a Ross Perot fish. His own ads are TV time to explain stuff. Ross Perot is like a, like a, he has like an aquarium inside his house founder. Yeah. Second Aquarium. A domesticated. Yeah, he's like domesticated fish. Yeah.

Yeah. A beta fish. Yeah. All right. That was dumb. All right. That was dumb. All right. That's good. OK, we got a one more to well, I guess this would be a should have hit this during our Marine Marine talk.

Got a talk. Oh, I'll say this. We'll see. We'll save it for next week. Yeah. Let's just jump into some sports or actually know one more topic. I don't know. It could be sports related, but a Chupacabra. Oh, grant posted to see one. Do you know what that is?

It's like a mythical tell us how you really feel. Trey Jeff tells how you really feel mythical. So, okay, so. I mean, I've never seen one. This is a. Okay, so. It's a Pokemon, right? Could you explain it first?

Cause I heard about it from my wife. Could you guys explain the Chupacabra? And then I'll explain the scenario that led us to talking about it. But like, how would you explain it? I would say, I wouldn't say mythical is a bad word. I would say it's a folk tale. Okay. That people say that's like, oh, I don't know, people just say,

Hey, chupacabra. It's like big teeth. That's all I remember from it. But you both heard of it. I think it's a mammal. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's just a, like, Oh, hey, I haven't seen our dog in a couple of days and left. Okay. So you guys are definitely Pendleton Marines. It's like, because I had a scenario today, yesterday, where when I come home, I let the cats out and you know, the big cat has got the broken leg so he can't scale the fish, but the fence, but the young cat can scale

the fence and D's always scared to let the small cat out. His name's Waylon after Waylon Jennings and he's a rambling man and he scales the fence and I'm always like, he'll come back. We just can't let him out at dawn or dusk because the coyotes and so last night He goes out you shake a bag of treats. He comes back put him in the house Go to bed D's up doing something with the baby, and you know, I'm just sleeping like a deadbeat husband and Something I guess walks through the yard and the cats like go crazy and they're like Like making weird noises like all kind of. And so D's telling me about it this morning. And I'm like, Oh, the yucca man got him. And she's like, what I was like,

it was probably the yucca man. And she's like, what's the yucca man? And I was like, you know, the yucca man, like the yucca man, she's like, like Bigfoot. I'm like, no, not like Bigfoot. She's like, well, what's the yucca man? I was like, it's like this like half beast and like methed out stringy haired person that like roams the high desert. Like it's the yucca man. And she's like, you're not explaining anything. I'm like, no, the yucca man is like, he's the like, I don't really know what the yucca man looks like. Cause I've never met the yucca man. I don't really know what the yucca man looks like because I've never met the yucca man. I don't want to meet the yucca man. But like in Marine hierarchy, there's like the yucca man, like the yucca, like anything

that bad happens to you, like the yucca man did it or like you're going out on a patrol and you're scared and desert. It's cold. It's like, watch out for the yucca man. And she's like, Oh, so I could Chuka Baka or whatever it's called. And I'm like, what? And she's like, and I said, what I said, I said like the guy from star wars, what's that one called Chewbacca?

That's Chewbacca. So what's the first one you guys said? Chupacabra. Chupacabra. So she was saying Chupacabra. Me big Star Wars guy thought Chewbacca was wrong. So that started to explain the yucca man. So yeah, I've never heard of it.

Yeah. Han shot first. Always have said that Han shot first. Anyway, yeah, that's all on that. I just, the yuck commands, like, I think he's a hierarchy of difficult. You never heard it. Never heard it. Yeah. Oh, well, the D explained it to you or she said it's like, basically it's like a big foot for Mexicans. That's how she explains it to me. Like that's fair. That's a fair assessment. That's how she explained it to me. I feel like that's fair. That's a fair assessment.

That's a good explanation. Like no other details, but that was it. Just know that you're not going to be able to pick up a big one. Chica to Madre, got it. Got it. See, see. That's good. That's good. Okay.

Okay. A little sports talk. There was a little there was a trade in the NHL. It looked like a lot of trade. Big. Let's see what trade. Let's see what trades tracking of an era there. Can you advise me on what you're tracking, Trey, on the trades?

I know of the Dallas Stars. The Dallas Stars. I'm trying to think who they got. I can't remember his name. They got a guy who's on the Finnish national team. So apparently the stars have like a bunch of Finland national team players. What are they up to on their team? Dallas.

No, no, they're just they love Finland. But I don't know, I think he came from Carolina. Apparently, he's pretty good. They traded some young young guy and some draft picks. So everyone was super excited about it because everyone has been everyone's been let down by Dallas management and sports here recently. Yeah. And Jerry Jones and Nico Harris. As I was pretty excited when something good happened to a Dallas sports team.

Yeah. As far as I know. So but apparently is Boston trade somebody? Yeah, they, so we, yeah, I don't really know how to put this. Brad Marsh and 16 years, Boston Bruin, legendary help bring home the cup, all that kind of stuff. Um, yeah, they traded them and, um, they traded them to the Panthers. So still in the East to arrival and apparently Marchanne had like requested a meeting like, Hey, I know like we're not where we want to be on money. Like can like I meet with the Bruin staff, like I'll give some, like you give some and the

Bruins were like, no. And then Sweeney comes out and it's like, well, if I had done my job, which everyone's like been roasting for, but anyway, they, they traded a bunch of people. They traded coil, Carlo, Trent Frederick. They traded a bunch of like Bruins for the last like five, six years and the Bruins have been on the cusp. They haven't won anything. So you could make the argument like that. Maybe this is what it takes. But like Marsh

hands, like, I mean, it's, I don't know. Oh, it's, it's, it's like training trading, um, Fred McGriff from the Braves, right? It's like, uh, it's like, uh, yeah, you know, it's like getting like Luke and Don Shakepad trade. Um, no, well, yeah. Yeah. For Dallas. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like getting like Luke and Don Shake Pad trade. No. Well, yeah. Yeah. For Dallas. Yeah. Not for LA. Yeah. But it's like, well, and it's like this guy, you know, he has like maybe two years left and you know, he wants to retire or Bruin and like everyone loves them. I also try to like put on my business hat and be like, he's older, he's injured right now. But yeah, if you're into hockey at all, if you followed it, if you're Bruins fan, it

was terrible. And then he went to the Panthers and he had this big fight with the Smith guy from, from the Panthers. And like, he goes to his first game like, so what's it like now working with him? He's like, oh, he's still a piece of S H I T. He's, you know, he's like, he's still on the surface. And they're like, wow. So yeah, he hates it. Um, yeah, it was just interesting. It was just like, it was probably not as hard for me because I kind of liked talkie later, but it was kind of like when Brady left the Patriots when it was just like, why? Why is this happening?

But I think even it was worse because I think Brady was trying to dissociate himself from Belichick and be like, watch me, I can go do this on my own. And like Marchand's like, I just wanted you to meet me in a little bit in the middle in terms of pay, I think is like, but I haven't had a ton of time to dig into it. But yeah, that happens. A lot of Bruins left and the Bruins came out and won a bunch of games. So yeah, you know, Hmm. Hmm. Blood lady game cocks won the sec again beat Texas. I love when they beat Texas. They won sec champs down with the horns stuff. Um, who, uh, I saw something on, you know, John, you know, Josh Pate, who, you know,

Josh Pate, the college football podcast guy, if you're listening to him, let's see on the okay podcast, college football podcast guy. If you're listening to him. Was he on the OK podcast? Big college football podcast guy. He was... No, we shouldn't invite him now. Yeah, we should get you. He asked a question this week of who's the most hated team in college football. Texas A&M.

And then he was like taking polls. No, it was... I think Texas was the winner. Oh, interesting. Yeah. I think I dislike Notre Dame more, but they were up there. Ohio state was up there. Yeah.

Yeah. We got a couple, uh, trade me LSU. LSU. Yeah. They're bad. LSU. LSU is up there. Trey, if we can get you in a rant, you sent me that, um, that tech saying him influencer guy,

whatever he was. And he was like, Hey Sarah, I know we're supposed to get married, but it doesn't seem like you want to wear the Aggie rain. And so I posted it right. I love when, when you guys BW is the, if you watch the okay podcast stories, the main feed of them is BW. Uh, the secondary feed is me. And the third is probably Trey. And I think Jeff has maybe contributed like once, which is nice of him. But yeah, Trey, you sent me that one and a couple of people were like, I'm an Aggie and this is hilarious.

I'm sending it to all my friends. And so what's the deal? Are A and M like marriages, arrange marriages? No, you know, I would say no, it's not. But I would say people at A&M, very conservative school, right? And so they feel like they have to have like, like, like, like, like, so to speak, like, like MAGA conservative or like Teddy Roosevelt conservative? Because Jeff and I and you are on duty. No, I would say just like Southern Baptist conservative.

Oh, okay. It's like Jesus. Yes. Yeah, yeah. And so I would say a good chunk of them are. And so they really want to be married before they graduate. At least a decent chunk of them do. It's a big school, so not all of them, but a lot of them do. And so I just thought that was a kick. I mainly send you videos that I necessarily don't like, but I'm like, Graham would like this. You do a great job. You do a great job. I sent him another one with like King of the Hill talking about soccer. I thought that was pretty funny.

That was great. Yeah. But yeah, no, that video was actually pretty good. That guy did a pretty good job. So it was essentially just talking about how the girl he was dating was not Aggie enough for him to see a long-term relationship going forward. So he's going to have to dump her. It was fantastic. But they shared a bunch of special, they shared a bunch of special moments, which is always

going to mean a lot to them. Yeah. Like the midnight yell. They went to midnight yell together. So farmers fight the fight. And the reason why it's funny is because there's actual A&M people who are like that that like you would go and meet people like, man, this guy's just way too much. Yeah. And the Broglie family, we just call that my brother-in-law.

Yeah. So I was going to say that. So I'm like, I hope Ryan sends this to your brother or your brother-in-law. I didn't, but I was gonna say. That's what I'm like, I hope Ransom's his brother. Or your brother-in-law. I didn't, but I'm gonna send it to him right now. He probably doesn't follow. He's too big for us. What else we got? We got like another topic and bring this thing down for a landing?

Headline I saw right before hopping on here was the 49ers cut their fullback. They released him. They said, we don't need a fullback anymore. It's a shame. It also bites the dust. Cooper cup. They also got rid of Cooper. Yeah. Yeah. So just another sad day for the fullback. Hopefully, bring back the fullback. Hopefully some fullback gets assigned as an undrafted free agent, because I feel like that's every fullback story is none of them have ever been drafted. They're all just undrafted free agents that like Bill Belichick saw at like a some random thing and was like, I need this.

I need this guy. I'm trying to get that helmet on. No, great. You're hit. No, it's a small helmet for a small head. You got a. Your head. No, it's a small helmet for a small head. Oh, I said, I mean, it's a normal helmet. Don't let ISIS put that on your head. Man, but. Dude, I think I think 49ers gravy chain just come to an end, though. I think I hope so, too. That's a team I just do.

They so they had a deal because they were paying Brock Purdy, Purdy, Purdy, Purdy, whatever his name is. Purdy. They're paying him peanuts, man. Nothing. South Carolina. We in South Carolina, we just got a few. Just, I think that's your, the currency in South Carolina is just peanuts. No, I thought it was. Yeah, peanuts. And so they were able to have all these like superstars on there because there's so much cap space.

But yeah, no more. Sorry, because they paid him a ton of money, right? And he get paid a bunch in his. I have not. I didn't see his contract. I would imagine so, though, because, yeah, because they I just also saw that like the Seahawks just signed Sam Darnold for like 100 million. And I'm like, what?

Sam Darnold. And they could think of who's that transformer they had, D.K. Metcalf. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, that's who's a monster. Yeah. We'll take him in Green Bay. How about that? Actually, he's went to Pittsburgh. Sorry. Is the ink dry in that contract yet?

We'll see. We'll see. That wet signature. Yeah. It's like one signature on the form that needs to be in blue pen and everybody messes it up. And it's like, this is the only signature ever. It's been required to be in blue pen, but you know, watch out for that. If you want to come in the okay podcast, we require that you sign a blue pen. So we've always done. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that.

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I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm not going to say that. I'm't want to say it was over-exaggerated, but you know. I mean, my wife's definitely not coming to visit you this time. I sent her a message and I said, hey, all rats are dead. The rats have been exterminated. I've not seen a rat. I haven't seen them, you know what? And I take no news is good news. Okay.

And so. It's a good way to do it. That's my policy with rats. As long as I don't see you, you know, you're good. No, I've not seen, I've not seen a body, but I've also not seen a rat. So the hunt continues, but I've not seen them. The rats in the cradle. Maybe the battle is over, but the war still going on. They, you know, I think they retreated. They gave up space for time. Retreat. Hell, we just got here. Yeah, they're trading space. I've sent out a bunch of poison.

All the poison was eaten. So I don't know what that means. So something's dead. We don't know what is that. I don't know what that means so something's dead we don't know where when I can't I can't find my great I can't I can't find my great Dane but there's no rats anywhere the rat poison is gone. So and so are the rats. I put two and two together and I'm just going to say rats are gone. Rats are incomplete.

Nice. All right. Should we any any save rounds or alibis? Yeah, I gotta say, Brown. Yeah, go ahead. Tw, Brown. Yeah, good. Twins turn in one before the next time. I feel like that is more an accomplishment, not for them, but for me. Yeah.

Yeah. 100. Yeah. A full year. Dang. Yeah. Wow. What's the date?

March 13th. So March 18th. We're celebrating this weekend,? March 13th? So March 18th. We're celebrating this weekend, but March 18th. I got to go out of town on the 18th. So for all the listeners that appreciate Trey and appreciate that he's got three daughters under the age of one, when you listen to this podcast, I have three daughters under the age of one. And he appreciates a good dad and better at being an Aggie fan. But if you appreciate that, just go to www.thestrength.co. He wears a size XL, buy him a shirt. I want Trey to have so many shirts that he doesn't even know what to do. I just want his house to be covered in shirts.

I want to be able to take him to his mother and be like, sew me a quilt to cover my babies with because I have too many shirts. I want to be able to take him to his mother and be like, so me a quilt that cover my babies with, cause I have too many shirts, uh, rep in the squat T W W W strength.co. You can also buy them a cast iron pan, but just send Trey something cause this is about Trey. It's not about his daughters. It's about him and what he's done.

Trey got lich. Yeah. Great, great Marine. Better at fatherhood. That's what we've always said. Yeah. They, they don't know they're turning one. That's it. Yeah, right. They have no idea what this party is. This party is not for them.

Yeah, they don't know what day it is. They were crushing. Eat some solids. They were crushing a bunch of Texas barbecue, though. Start them young. South Carolina, we just call that barbecue. Yeah. Never gets old.

Oh, never, never, never. Got to keep the stings alive, boys. A great way to great way to end the conversation to. Yeah, it really is. Because trade doesn't know what to come back with. Yup. Yeah, that's right. They do call that there. Yeah.

That's what they say. Oh man. Jeff, any save rounds, alibis? I got no, no save rounds. Nothing. Uh, let's see. Save rounds. I'll buy.

As we should talk about green, green grid, nothing for the group. Uh, let's see. Save rounds. I'll buy. We should talk about green, red iron, green grid. I, nothing for the group. Uh, Mr. Helmet, Mr. Helmet maker. I'm holding the Navy midshipman helmet. As I speak, Jeff scouted behind his head. So now actually, unfortunately, uh, we did a run like 36, these bad boys sold every single one. And then like the red visor thing we can't source right now. So the, the, the helmets not on the site, uh, another helmet world. Um, we're commissioning a helmet, a Godfather battery helmet for my buddy for his time at three 11.

We're going to hang it there and Opie thunder. Uh, you can't have a fiddler screen at a battalion because those are held for the regiment for their artillerymen past But we're putting we're commissioning helmets. We got a pretty cool logo Godfather on each side. I'll post the photo There'll be many helmets available for sale Not for you you peasant listeners, but for the Marines But yeah, we got it with all our names in the back and stuff turned out pretty cool So my point is, if you have a significant thing in your life, maybe it's your daughter's first birthday. Maybe you've

had three girls in under a year, which most people don't do. I don't know. You can go to Mr. Helmet, Green Gridiron or gridirongreen, I can't remember.com or just click the link down in the show notes and you can go and you can design a helmet. You can put your logos on the side. You can ask them for help. If you're not a branding expert, you make cool helmet. We're making a cool helmet to put up at OP Thunder. It'll look great. Mr. Helmet keeps the lights on another guy keeping the lights on. He keeps lights on. So we keep talking about them.

That's what we do with our sponsors. Shout out to BW tax. Trey, you want to bring this thing down for landing? Now, I would love nothing more to do that. What episode are we on? Say one more time. 8, 0, 6, 3, 8, 0, 6, 3 of the OK. OK. Oh, podcast, as Graham mentioned, like think our sponsors, Mr. Helmet, Gridiron Green, the greenest of grid grid irons, whatever it is, the links below just click it, get yourself a helmet.

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Okay. I said, my dad said, yeah, we did. Yeah. We're like, nope, no, we do care. Yeah, I thought we had enough Let me make a note real quick Matt low and if you want to hear if you want to shout out next week go subscribe to the YouTube Yeah So note for future. We want more people watching YouTube. Go to YouTube, give us a subscribe, a like, and leave a comment down there. Love to see you. Most importantly, if you go to www.theokpodcast.com,

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