The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 64: Helo Dunker, Survivor & Astronauts

Episode Date: March 21, 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=thestrengthco14th Marine Reg T Shirts: https://usafulfillmentservices.com/14th-marine/TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - ROLL CALL14:50 - HELO DUNKER34:37 - TRUCK TALK41:28 - SPORTS52:34 - SURVIVOR56:51 - EAGLE’S NEST STREAM59:51 - POST MALONE01:04:38 - ASTRONAUT RESCUE01:07:17 - MLB01:14:14 - DARK THIRTY01:19:54 - SIGN OFF

All right, and welcome back to episode 064 of the okay. Okay. Okay. Okay podcast powered by the strength. Oh, I'm your host grant bro. Gee, today's date is Tuesday, March 18th in the year of our Lord 2025. St. Patrick has been celebrated the price of Bitcoin is $82,845 in zero eight cents, which means that Elon is pissing a lot of people off and so

Tesla stocks are dropping bitcoins dropping by the dip That's what I've always said or hopefully just bought years ago and you're just hodling big Bitcoiners over here No one knows Bitcoin better than us. Not financial advice. If you want tax advice, call BW attacks. I'm joined tonight by a resident Mormon, by the way, had some questions about that. Got some new Marine listeners and their wives were like, is Grant's friend really a Mormon? And he's just our resident Mormon.

That doesn't mean he practices the Mormon religion. It just means he lives and he's joining us now from the greater Salt Lake city area. He actually has a city, but I refuse to learn it. And Trey is coming to us tonight from Katie, Texas. Welcome Trey from Katie. That's closer than usual. Yeah. We are recording in the high desert of 29 Palms, California, where the wind blows hard and the tumbleweeds roll and it's a wild place. Lots to talk about tonight in episode zero six four. But before we get

into it, let's just do a quick roll call three. I'll, I'll turn it over to you. Okay, we got anyone from the, we got a one rep and admin rep, anybody? There we go. S1 actual, S1 chief, and S1 clerk. Yes sir, could you just make sure you do your SOS? Everyone needs to do their SOS. It'd be a real shame if these deploying units

had someone die and their spouse didn't get their SGLI. So please just have them do their SOS. I know everyone already did it, but we forgot to run the unit diary and so none of it went through and so we just need you to do that again. Just please do your SOS. Okay. Is there a due date for that? We got any sort of timetable when you need that done?

ASAP. It actually needs to be done. It needed to be done last week. So, OK, OK. Got it. Got it. Thank you for waiting until this meeting to bring up the item that needed to be done last week. OK, excellent. Outstanding work.

Yes, sir. I'll I'll bring it up again next week, too. OK, good. Good. I'm sure. I'm sure you will. The two Intel shop. This is the. No, this is gone. He's gone. Yeah, he left.

PCS. OK, we got a new one. We got a new one inbound in. Oh, yeah. Are we going to be gapped? Yeah, we're going to be gapped a little bit. So the Lance Corp was covering down. Oh, cool. Is the Lance Corpo here? No, he's he was at Chow Hall.

OK. Learning how to salute. Got it. Yeah. Yeah. You heard the ice cream machine was working. Someone cracked the code on it. He's in the Sipper ball. He's like, holy cow, the ice cream machines working. I got to get out of here. Ball's probably unsecured.

It's great. We'll get hit on that next CGIP. No problem. OK, three shop is here. Four. Are we looking? Looking good. four. Are we looking, looking good? Has any maintenance been getting done? No,

we are currently waiting on, I do. I never did any maintenance. I feel like, well, great. Great. New better than me. Say this. Excuse me. Excuse me. This is the seppo. Uh, everyone's CMR will be due at the end of the month and I still don't have CMRs from last year. So if you could just backdate those and sign in the bottom right corner of every single page even on the pages that you don't have any gear on, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you, Suppo. Blank pages. All gotta be initialed and signed and dated. You gotta. Sign for blank pages. But now that initial doge is coming for ya. Yep, yep. Okay, great, awesome.

I just wanna remind everyone, we're in the middle of the maintenance stand down. The LOI has been distributed 47 times. I walked by the motor pool and it looked like no maintenance was happening. Just a reminder, the maintenance stand down. Sir, maintenance. Sir, sir, it's the Motor Tee Officer.

The Marines are stood down. That's why they're not doing maintenance, okay? You told them to stand down and they did. So no maintenance is occurring. We're waiting on the the LRE CTF 18 that's coming out of New Orleans and that's when we'll do the maintenance. Oh copy copy. Okay Also, I'm a I'm a warrant officer one But I'm super disgruntled and get to talk back to majors and lieutenant colonels because I'm a warrant officer. So sir

Great great, I'm sure all our trucks will be ready next time we got to push to the field. Yeah, they will. Because I'm an officer of the warrant type. So everything that I know is better because I'm enlisted and I'm an officer at the same time. Sir, still trying to wrap my head around why this rank needs to exist, but it's okay. With all due respect, sir, you'll never get it. Yeah. Well, I understand. You could never be in charge of C burn ever. Like you could not even fathom the responsibilities that come with running a

gas chamber and making kids cry. You could not. Thank you. C burn officer. We didn't even know you were here. We haven't seen. Yeah. Most of the training I'm in charge of McTams as well. We haven't seen you in three years since the last time the battalion did a gas chamber. It's like the seabird and troll just going to do an open air gas chamber. We cast them in the field, sir.

They're all good. They're all true. Yeah. The CSC survive a chemical attack. And we dropped it in the ammo can. Most of the gas just kind of stayed in there, but we're all certified. We're trained. We're trained. Full up rounds. Ready to go. Ready to deploy. Full up. Any climb in place? Excellent. Six. Full up any climb in place.

Excellent. Six. We got to win from the sea. Are we so medical medical? Yeah, we got it. We got a shot at. Is it one of the shots? That's what we think of when we think of medical. It's like, oh, that's all they do. You have to get a shot.

And also we're closed for sick call. So don't try. Yeah. And we'll send out the the hit list. But it's it's HIPAA protected information. So we can't actually send it out. But we'll we'll generally describe what each Marine looks like. And then you just need to get them down to medical when we're open, but we won't tell you when we're open because

we're the Navy. We'll be doing chief training. Also, this is chief. Ma'am, if I can, chief here, also female type. The hit list that's on the slide today, it's updated, but the system doesn't reflect for about three weeks. So we're actually doing a lot better than it looks. But if you haven't sent your Marines, because the system's not updated, I still need you to send them. Thanks. Also, I'm going to do the Navy PFT instead of the Marine Corps one. Thank you. Okay. Great. Great stuff. Great stuff, chief. OK, six, come oh, come oh.

Come, sir, is just so you're tracking. We did get the new tech keys downloaded on to our SKLs, but then they immediately dropped them. And then the corporal that was in charge of loading the tech keys, he tried to then plug his laptop into the SKL utilizing, also with his iPod connected, and it triggered a national security level event. So you know,

you may receive the flash report. I'm still writing up the five W's, but I will get that to your desk ASAP. Hey, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, Appreciate it, sir. Sir, as the, as the, as the comm chief, not the comm officer, I just want to say real quick, don't worry. There's actually keys held up at meth and we've gotten 10 levels of signatures and they're in the vault there. The vault doors just broken in math and the only guy that can unlock the doors on terminal leave, but they got a team coming out and they should get the vault door open on Monday. And then we just have to do 19 letters of transmittals. And so sir, don't worry. I got it. It's on the East side. It's on the flat black. We

got it, sir. Oh, uh, uh, thanks. Thanks. Uh, thanks chief. Thanks. Thanks. Come to my com chief for that update. Uh, so far removed from all of this before we go into it. It brings back like little flashbacks. You're like, Oh yeah, that is, that is a thing that happens. I remember shots. Before we go to the agenda slide, since we're on the roll call, I'm just going to go to the outlying stations. We had a few, chime in from our Instagram. If you're not following

us on Instagram, go follow the okay. Underscore podcast. If you're not following us on Twitter, go follow the okay. Underscore pod. We got a Midwestern Jake from state farm. I'm pretty sure he's with com company. He says that grants buddy must be thriving in the desert. Uh, we got perfect little sweeties Jim. Uh, I'm pretty sure he's with second reg and he just said, okay. And we got, uh, we got kitchen six, uh, yours truly spouse grants buddies wife. And she said, okay. And we got a big carp. I think he's a reservist in the army out of Tennessee. And he said, yep. And we got tippy top who just clapped. And we also got some action on X. Let's see what we've got X. We got some from Mark Ripito. And he said, do beans belong in chili? Or

he probably said, do beans belong in Chile? And if you haven't seen our Texas chili video, Jordy, just do a little flash, like quick little funny part from that chili video, one of my first YouTube videos. Remember, chili is not about beans. Chili is about spices. The author calls for eight ounces per four pounds of meat. I call for two thirds a bag. Just dump it all in.

If you're watching this, you have never seen the chili video. First time I ever put a camera in my house and filmed with live gas inside the house. Pretty interesting. Go check it out. Link will be in the description. And we got Nathan Eckberg. He is the chaplain actually. He's the OK podcast chaplain. And he said overrated or underrated nephilim. Does anyone know what that means? NEP. But let me, let me, let me do it for you. Non-military types.

November, echo, papa, hotel, India, Lima, India, Mike, nephilim. Yeah. What does that mean? Like the giants, the giants, like a giant. I donhilim. Yeah. What does that mean? Like the giants, the giants, like a giant. I don't know. Yeah. Chaps. We need to know if this is a biblical reference. What translation are you reading? What, you know, we need to know what, what, what part of Protestant the theology you're coming from. But so thanks for the shout outs. And then, uh, we're going to give one more, you know, I got to, you got to inspect what you expect. And sometimes you got to, uh, expect what you've already inspected. And I got a shout out, Matt Lohan,

um, cause he literally runs up to me on Friday morning, leaving the gym and has his phone open. He's in PT care, rainbow gear, every Sergeant major, Sergeant's majors, Sergeant's major first Sergeant's relax. He was in rainbow gear and he showed me like, I'm, I'm watching the okay podcast on YouTube. So if you haven't watched the okay podcast on YouTube, you're missing out. Uh, shut out Matt Lowe and I think he's gonna run in. Uh, we also have another one just came in right now. Marilyn Brogi, uh, no relation. That's, uh, not related to any Jag officers. Uh, kidding. My little brother captain out there in Cherry point, North Carolina, his wife says, okay. Um, so there you go.

That's a new part of the roll call. That's a new little part of the roll call that we're going to do every week. Uh, appreciate all the outlying stations that we're going to do every week. Appreciate to have all the outlying stations that call in that tune in every week. And that are, you know, we just posted that maybe an hour ago. So we appreciate you tuning in as always. Don't forget about the trash trash is number one priority wherever you're coming from police or trash without the police, there'd be trash. And so we thank them for their service. We support the troops and carry on.

Cut. Support troops. Wait, what's what's the carry on tune? Do you do? Do you do? Yeah, OK, Karen. All right. Agenda slide. Love that.

OK, OK, let's see. Let's see. Where do we want to start first? Got quite a, quite a diverse agenda here. I like you. DEI is back on the okay podcast. There's one thing we've always, always said is that our, our agendas are diverse. Our agendas, our agendas don't see color, you know why?

Cause we're from the south. All right, anyway, Tray's like, we are 15 minutes into a meeting and nothing's happening. Yeah. Hey, welcome back to active duty, brother. Welcome back. I know. Hey, welcome back to active duty, brother. Welcome back. We can actually talk about what we're going to talk about. I want to hear about the, about Grant's Hilo dunker experience, right?

There's some memes that came out of this on the back end. I loved it. Sorry. I'm fighting my PTSD over here. Like you want the five minute version. Trey. Did you ever do the UET? I never, I never did it. I set it up for people. I never egress trainer. Yeah. I never had the opportunity to do it, which I'm fine with. Yeah. You're not missing much. I never want to do it again. So for, you know, the Geordie types, uh, shout out PJ, you waiting on a baby to come. Uh,

thanks for editing every week. Hope you're doing well. We're gonna get you on here soon. Get an update on life. But for those non-military types, if you're going to get on a boat and there's a chance that you'll be in a helicopter flying over the ocean, you got to go to the underwater egress trainer. It is a mandatory event. My buddy had to do it and my buddy is only done like Middle East type stuff. So he's never had to do it before. So it's two day training event. They won. I'll say a little bit that I want Jeff to tell me what he remembers from it.

But you go in and it's, it's, it's put out to the civilians. So contractors, all former company guns and you go in there and Jeff, why don't you tell them about that video they show. Oh, they really set the stage for you and just like, what's your, what's your prepping for? So yeah, long story short, it's a video where the kind of guy narrating it is a, is a prior recon gunny staff sergeant. Yeah. So recon guy, for those who don't know about recon,

one of the things that they are very good at is swimming. They do a lot of like underwater pool work. You know, they're like scuba trained and all that stuff, combat divers. So they're very confident in the water, very skilled in the water, know how to stay calm underwater under, you know, crazy conditions. And it's basically this recon guy talking about, yeah, we took off in a 46, which is one of the old helicopters Marine Corps used to fly. And then as they're like lifting off, one of the wheels wheels gets hooked on the netting that runs around the perimeter of the flight deck on the ship.

They catch people if they fall immediately overboard. And then the pilot gives it more power, and it ends up basically going upside down into the water. And then it's his story of what went through his mind as he's going through the water. He feels like he broke his back, he can't see anything. And he just it just is, like terrifying story of having to swim your way out of a helicopter that's like down in the water and how he like, you

know, this guy barely makes it out of there. And he's probably like elite in the water. And you're just like, oh, I'm not a recon guy. I probably won't make it, but let's do this training anyway. Yeah. So they started like really freaking me out to get you to pay attention. This is before the class. And so that was 1999. I think it was 25 on board and 11 survived. It's either 14. And I should know this. I feel bad as a Marine officer because three lives is a big difference, but it was either 11 survived and 14 perished or vice versa. But since then, in 2014, same thing happened in the Red Sea. Also 14 Marines on board. I know one of them, major type, opso and glorious fourth Marine division, and all 14 survived.

But they don't also like that. In my opinion, they should follow up the 1999 video with being like, and then we got started this UET training. And then in 2014, this happened again and everyone survived. But instead you're just sitting there like, Oh my gosh, super depressed. Yeah. So then they go through all the things of like your body and atmospheric pressure and what happens under the water. And the civilian contractor that trains 48 Marines a day is talking at a speed that like, you know, you like you've done 48 Marines a day for the past five years. So he's like, so then you're like, breathe water, rifle seat, left hand door, open out, say it with

me. And he's got all these ditties and you're not really putting that together in your head, but it was good training. I got to give the guys a shout out there down at Camp Horno for my buddy. It was good training. They did rehearsals. So you go to the dunker next day. I'll speed up, tell my experience and let Jeff tell his. So basically get to the pool decks like six 30 in the morning. It was cold and rainy the day I went. And during the training, the former recon gunny, broken back, three trips to Iraq, blown up IDs, two helicopter and water incidents in his career. But he actually did a good job of telling stories to make you really pay attention to the training, but not just trying to clout all the stuff he'd done. He actually did a pretty good job.

So you get to the post that day, he's like, Hey, when you get there tomorrow, he's like, we had three hypothermia this morning. He's like, everyone comes in and they try to act all tough guys. He's like, we have wetsuits, put on a wetsuit. He's like, put your camis over it. You'll be glad you did. The worst thing is if you're passing the training and then you hypo out. And so I'm like, all right, that makes sense to me. So the next morning I go in, I put on a wetsuit, put my frogs on over it. And it's just typical high-speed, fast Marine Corps training. So you get in the pool, they hand you a little scuba thing for all my divers out there. You're going to think like, oh, what the heck, Grant? You don't know how to dive your Marine. It's like, no,

I know how to swim. I don't know how to dive. And so they give you like the mouthpiece and they like teach you how to clear it. And so it's like clear it with them out, like by blowing air out, clear it, clear it. Okay. You did that. Now here's how you clear it with the button, clear it, clear it. Okay. You did that. Now clear it, put it in your mouth, stick your head in the water and do that. And you breathe. And it's like sucking through a milkshake. It's like super small air. Then you come out and unless you're freaking out, they're like, okay, you're good. So then they're like, next, clear, like go underwater without it, clear it underwater.

Like you're just like bending your knees. So you're like your head's beneath the surface and breathe. So you do that a couple of times. You're like, got it. Then they're like, put your feet up on the side of the pool. Do it now, move. And you're like, oh, okay. Like, what am I doing next?

Don't ask, do it now, move. Like put your feet up on the pool. Someone grabs it. And And you're like, Oh, okay. Like, what am I doing next? Don't ask, do it now move. Like put your feet up on the pool. Someone grabs it and then they're like, okay, you're gonna go under, lean your head back, touch it to the bottom side of the pool. So you're like upside down, like in a, um, like, you know, the drink spotter holder, the drink holder before drink spotters were invented, the GHD machine, you're like in that position and your head's down there and then you clear it out and then you breathe. And it's weird because like water goes up your nose and you're like breathing in and out and they're counting up top. And then they like pat you on the leg and you come up and do this like killer sit up that you can only do with great core

strength because you strength go plates and then like, okay, good job. Do it again. So you do it again. And then I think you do that a third time. And I've like freaked out zero. And everyone's told me like laying down upside down on the side of the pool is the hardest part. And I'm like, okay, I'm good. And I even texted Jeff that morning. I'm like, I'm nervous about this. Should I be nervous about this? Or is this like command guilt? He's like, it's command guilt. Like you're the boss and you're going first. So like you want to do a good job. I'm like, okay, I'll be fine. So I get through that and I'm like, Oh, I'm Gucci. Like I got this. This was easy. So then you get in this like PVC constructed chair and the base has like a boat buoys on it. So it's like sitting in the water and

like you, the guys like enter from here. She like get in. He's like, now get up on the chair. She get up on the chair. You're like floating like six inches off the water. And all of a sudden you feel like a complete retard because he's like, strap this thing into that thing. And you're like, I've never seen any of these things. Like which thing is what thing? And he's like, this one into that one. And you're like, oh, okay. And like, you finally like figure out

it's like the five point harness in the center and you get it in. And he's like, did you check your air? And I'm like, no. He's like, check your air. And I'm like, okay, yeah, yesterday in the training, like nozzle outboard, like turn, see if it's good. I'm like, okay. He's like, all right, you ready? And I'm like, uh, sure. And he just like flips the chair and she like quickly, like put the nozzle in your mouth, like clear it, get your

breath. I did it just fine. There's like no doors. It's just like a PVC cage and like you just swim out and pop up. He's like, Oh great. You got this. Get back in. You get back in hooks up five point harness. He's like, you still got air? I'm like, I don't know. I use like two. Yeah, I guess. And then he puts like a door on it and gives you blackout goggles. And he's like, you just have to push the door out. You ready? And I'm like, uh, sure. She like flip over, like under your harness and put your air in and then kick the door out and you're out and he's like, oh, you're good. All right, go get in.

And then you enter the Helodunker and I'm like, what just happened? Like, I'm not like, what? So you're gonna get in the Helodunker. And again, this was like, I breathed through the thing much better than I thought. Like my, I guess my anxiousness over it prior this was like, I breathe through the thing much better than I thought. I guess my anxiousness over it prior to was like, one, all my Marines are on the side watching me and that's going to be embarrassing if I fail.

Someone will listen to this and probably take some joy out of that. And then it's like, two, I've never done scuba. So that's going to be the hard part. So then you go and get in the helicopter and you're in six people at a time. You have a rifle on your kit and there's like divers inside. And I'll tell like my first round, I'll let Jeff talk a little bit, but there's divers inside and they each have like a way to brief whatever seat you're in. So the inside of the fuselage represents like six different helicopter platforms or six

different exits amongst the Marine Corps helicopter platforms. So like if you were in an Osprey, it would be this. If you were in a 43 or 46, whatever. And so they're like, what seat you want? I'm like, just give me the hardest one. He's like, yeah, get that one out of the way. It's this one. And so it's like, you're sitting there, they put the goggles on you. He's like, all right, you're going there, put the goggles on you. He's like, all right, you're gonna flip. Wants to think flips in the water. You're gonna get your air, your purge.

Then you're gonna right hand rifle, left hand seat, right hand flak, right hand seat, left hand flak and like you're unclipping. If you're not watching on YouTube, you're missing out. You're unclipping the buckles. And then you do the cummerbund and strip, right hand cummerbund strip and then you're holding the seat and then he's like showing you reference points so you're going to reach out

to the right you're going to feel this and then you're going to like turn around on the seat and then reach up and the door's right there there's a handle pull to the right pull the door out right hand exit left hand exit like pull out But it's like literally that fast. Like you just got the same instructions I did. He's like, you got it? And I'm like, right hand rifle, right hand seat, left hand. Okay. Podcast subscribe.

Yeah. Got it. Exit. Okay. I got this. So we go down. I like find my air. I'm like, all right, I'm cool.

And you have to unbuckle at some point and I'm getting through everything. I think I exited fine on the first. No, I missed the first one. So I did everything. I got everything off, turned around, I'm on the seat and I'm like, okay, the door's right here. And I'm like pushing and I'm like pushing. I'm like, where's the handle?

And all I feel is like this metal grate. But like you'd flip like, I don't know, a time and a half. And long story short, the reason I brought up the wetsuit was if you're 225 pounds, like you're buoyant. And if you're 225 pounds plus wetsuit, you're super buoyant. And so like my body had like, went to float, but then I grabbed the seat. And so I'm actually like facing the floor, like trying to like push the floor out. And then like I stayed down there and they left me down there forever because if you're like not panic, they just try and let you figure it out. And then finally I just get like ripped out the back and the guy's like, what happened? And

I'm like, you're the guy with like scuba gear on and clear glasses. You tell me. And so I got turned around. So anyway, so then I'm like, man, because you can only miss so many times. So then I went through all the iterations. I think it took me like nine or 10 rolls to make all six exits. But I did not like it. I did not like it at all. I was never word of dying. I didn't find breathing underwater, but like finding the exit, I was like, I thought. I didn't mind breathing underwater, but like finding the exit I was like I thought all I could think about was that staff sergeant with a broken back and I'm like this is not cool And then you have big guy problems like the little window like the pullout window

It's like you're going through and like you can feel like your little life jacket getting stuck So yeah, that was you ET trainer Jeff did much better than I did, I'm sure. I don't know. I did it three times. Whenever you, I just remember like without Phil, whenever you did like anything in the water, there was always at least at minimum one person who freaks out like at the first thing of getting in water. Did you have anybody freak out?

Oh yeah, wait, Jeff, real quick, did you say you did it three times? Yeah, I did it, yeah. For the two mus and then we like had to like make a car of our own PT or our pre-deployment training plan for the special purpose MagTav that I went on. And we ended up just like scheduling it or the guy that was like running it, like just scheduled us for the underwater egress trainer. And I was like, are we, is this actually required? I just went and did it anyway. So you're probably a pro because what I did feel like was,

and then I'll answer Trey's question. If you put me in there three days in a row, like I'd be fine. Cause like I wasn't like freaked out with the scuba. It's just like the orientation that kind of threw me off. But like you don't have time for that. And they have like, you know, this many hours to pump out 24 that are in the water at a time. But yeah, no, we had people freaking out. So I get out of the, it's like two hours of training just goes by in a flash. And then I get out and I look and there's like people that got in the water within 10 minutes of me that like haven't even left the poolside. Like I can't even like pass that part. Um, but all in all, we, uh, everyone did pretty good. It was, it's, it's good training by good dudes, but, uh, no, everyone like locks in it's, you know,

it's like, if, if you've, you know, ever seen anything when you're deployed, it's like all the sudden, like all the joking goes to the side and everyone's just like, I must pass this. And yeah, so it's actually, it's actually super good training. We got almost everyone through, had some that had to remediate over the course of a couple of days and we got a couple, a couple, a couple guys left. That'll have to go back. But yeah, if you're looking for a good time, blindfold yourself, strap yourself in, cover yourself in lifting equipment and turn yourself upside down in the pool and try to escape. Yeah. Cause it's like, I guess it's kind of like high stakes in that like, Hey, if you don't pass this, you are not really gonna be able to get off the ship

because there's kind of only a couple ways and flying off is one of the most common. So my buddy's deployment, if you don't pass that, you're not allowed to get on ship, you don't deploy. Makes sense. So it does make sense. So the stakes are like, so there's a whole new level of like, oh man, like it's, it's

another thread of I gotta get this, but did you just ace it first time, Jeff? I could see you being pretty slippery. We used to surf together. I don't remember, like, I don't remember having any issues. Um, but I mean, it's one of those things where like, you're like, okay, I'm going to, they are going to tell me exactly what to do. And you would see people that would get like hung up because they would decide to do something other than what exactly they said to do. So it's like, oh, okay, I'm just going to do literally what they tell me to.

And that's all and I should be good. And that's, that's really how it goes. No, that was what you told me. And that actually helped because I was like, if the Diddy is right hand rifle, left hand seat, right? Like I was like saying the Diddy's I'm like, I got this. Yeah. Cause they've like got it to like, yeah, the most efficient way. Of course. Get out of there, find your reference points and then immediately get out of the Hilo. Yeah. Uh, reference. So it always good to have that good old reference point. She was like, always like the main instructor all three times.

So I was like, she was in, she was in the boat. So kind of just something I figured out in life that helps in like any situation. So if you're just kind of like kind to the people, like, you know, you're not going to be like, you know, you're not going to be like, you know, you're not going to be like, you know, you're not going to be like, you know, you're not going to be like, you know, So kind of just something I figured out in life that helps in like any situation is if you're just kind of like kind to the people and like appreciate what they do and maybe even be like, Hey, what's your name? You get treated a lot better. And so we'll end the UET trainer with this. So I'm in there and like I miss and then I get it. And I will

say the contractors are much better than Marines coaching because they're like, hey bud, like you almost had it. Then you did this. Like we can tell you're calm underwater and like you listen. So then like every time I get one, like, you know, you come out and then they're still under there with like the people that are struggling, either pulling them out or, you know, whatever.

And then they're pulling all the gear out. And then I'd always be like, yeah. And I'd like high five everyone. And so I finished, I left a bunch of patches and coins for those guys. And then I come back the next day to see some of my guys doing it, and I'm in uniform. And one of the guys who was super cool,

he had mentioned he was a Marine, I don't know what his rank was. He looked like he was about 30. I'd guess he got out as a Sergeant maybe after eight years or something. That's just a guess. He's like, sir, I had no idea you were a major. And I'm like, Oh, yeah. I was like, was it because I kind of talked to you like a normal person and had a mustache? He goes, that's exactly what it was. And I don't mean it as an insult.

I know. I really don't.'t I just like what you never thought You were a major. I thought you were like a gunny or something. I was like, oh hell yeah, brother Up Sarge, yeah a uet instructor used to be my buck sergeant Yeah, that UET instructor used to be my buck sergeant. Yeah, buck sergeant. That's the UET. That's why they call it the underwater egress trainer. Indeed. Love that.

Love that for your buddy. Glad he's got that in the books. Yeah. He's got his card, his diploma. He can hang it on his wall one day. Actually they're out of the cards. And so we have to keep calling every day because they're like, yeah, we're out of cards right now. They're running low. I'm like running

low. Like, can't you just write me something on a piece of paper? And they're like, yeah, make copies. We don't have the cards. I'm like, I took photos of my name. I'm like the pass roster. Cause I'm like, I'm not coming back to do this. Like if you guys lose the card, my buddy's not doing this again. I've got evidence. Yeah. Like when you say card, is it just like a piece of paper? It's like, you know, like when you pass the range, the range,

oh, I see this is not your range. It's your battalion commander's range. They give you the RSO card. Same deal. It's like a U.S. card. Could you not just go to like Kinko's and just make like a hundred copies? Trey, don't give all the Lance corporal secrets away. What are you doing? Trey Trey? What are you? Are resident Lance corporal? No, I'm the C burn officer. It needs a very specific signature that everyone knows. Oh, that's the UET head instructor at Camp Orno.

Yeah. That's that. Yeah. It's known far and wide. Yeah. You would change gears here, literally a little truck talk. You got something going on with the windshield of the old Chevy?

Yeah. It's gone. It's not. Well, we also are going to talk gears. Unfortunately, it happened after the windshield. I'll make it brief. Say Trey talking into sports and stuff, but I finished the, I'm driving to the UET and I'm a prisoner of the highway.

The Chevy's running good. I got nostalgia running through my blood, you know, driving on to camp Pendleton. It's raining in some a hole in a Toyota four by four, you know where they got those like extra fender flares in the back that like stick out extra wide, but it's not a dually comes whipping around me in the HOV lane cuts ahead of me. And all of a sudden I just see this baseball style rock. And when I say I see it, I mean, like I see it and I actually thought I was getting shot. Like, like my instincts were like 0.2 seconds ahead of it. And then it hit the

passenger side window and it just, and I just was like, and it was so loud. And I was like, Oh my God. like it like knocked the breath out of me, even though it didn't hit me. And I thought the thing was going to break in. It didn't. So I get there, I do the UET training and then I'm like, I got to go get a windshield. And so what I want to talk about was you type in, so I'm like, okay, I'm in Camp Pendleton. I'm going back to Costa Mesa, San Clemente is on the way, San Clemente windshields and like 15 places pop up.

And so I click the first one call and say, hello. I'm like, yeah, I got a 96 Chevy, you know, give them the details. And they're like, text me photo. So I like text photo and then like, yeah, I'm like, okay, cool. I'm nine minutes away. They're like, what city? I'm like, I'm on Camp Pendleton. Like we don't serve Camp Pendleton. I'm like, no, I'm coming to you. I'm nine minutes away. Like, okay, I'll text you address. I'm like, I already saw it on maps. And then like I get a text and it's like in Fullerton, which is like an hour away. So I call back and like a different person answers and I'm like, Hey, I was just on the phone. And they're like, and so it's like, people are making these Google accounts for like

mobile windshield repairs. So I called like twi I actually pulled over because it was pouring rain and I was like, I want to know where to drive. No one's like everyone is like a facade behind a faqad and like you can't figure out. So now I'm getting frustrated because I'm like tomorrow morning I got to drive to 29 Palms. Yeah. And my windshield is very illegal. Like it's very illegal. Yeah. And so then finally I'm like, you know what? I'm going home. I'm just going to drive home. So I type in Costa Mesa, auto glass call guy answers. He has one. How much do you think a windshield is on 95 Chevy 96? breathing

2500 oh Don't know if I'm like it's good if it's gonna be like $4 or $750 yeah, so actually it's pretty good the the lowest I got and it was only because I got a real person with a real location It also happened to be the lowest which is probably why it was a real person, real location was a big 300 for a new windshield. But I got, I'd gotten estimates up to seven 50 from fake people.

So I went, I changed it out with the windshield. I changed it out and I'm like, man, life is good. I've never been able to see so clearly. I'm so pumped drive back to 29 palms there for a few days of training drive back to Pendleton to go see my last guys in the dunker and see a section chief graduate. It's the weekend. It's finally Friday. I'm leaving camp Pendleton and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to say, I'm going to spend $7 and 50 cents in the toll road. I'm taking the 73. I'm a prisoner of the highway gas gauges bumping. I'm listening to George Stray Troubadour. I'm getting to

the top of the hill where you're going to look down over beautiful orange County. I'm almost there. And all of a sudden the RPMs go, like literally as I'm cresting the hill, I'm like, that's weird. I turned the music down. I stopped going live with Jeff. We were in the middle of a live session and I'm going down this big hill, literally two minutes from my house. It's all downhill. And I'm like, that's weird. And a pull-in to eat pizza with my wife. And I'm like, I'm gonna pop the hood. Maybe the transmission cap came loose again because the UET entrance has like a four foot drop off.

Maybe I'm missing a little tranny fluid, but my wife's already there with the baby in the rain, so I can't check it. And we're eating pizza. She's like, what's wrong? I'm like, I think the transmission's slipping. I was like, don't worry. I'll check it on the way home.

Go check on the way home. Thing cannot find third gear. If you put it in two, you can go 35, won't find third gear. I'm like, I'll check it tomorrow. Pop the hood, of course. The transmission thing had popped open. So I'm like, maybe I'm just low on fluid.

Fill it with fluid. Get it up nice and flush. Put it down. Like it's gonna work. Just got low on fluid. Still it up nice and flush. Put it down. Like it's going to work. Just got low on fluid. Still can't find third gear. I'm like, this is depressing.

Poor Marines. The rental car I've rated for three months. I'm now just going to take, uh, figure this out later. I drop it off at Bay auto, call the guy today. I'm like, Hey, I leave him a note and paper towel keys under the mat. He's worked on it before. Yeah, but drove around. She just won't find third gear, filled her up a little more transmission fluid and fix the seal. Got her to find third gear. She won't find fourth. You need transmission.

And I was like, Oh no. He goes also service agent lights on Bay two Cadillac converter, but you should be good because you got South Dakota plates on it. So you don't, you don't smog it here. Right. And I'm like, right. And then my head, I'm thinking that's just a vanity plate that Tanner put on there that I've never taken off. But I'm like, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm an active duty Marine. Yeah. I don't have to smog it thinking like, I don't want to deal with the catalytic converter and the transmission here. Transmission is probably like a grand. He's like, yeah, I can get a new training in for you by next week for $3,900.

And I'm like, so it's more expensive than the $2,500. Yeah, it's more expensive than the $1,200 purchase price. So I said, man, I'm going to have to think about it, Joe. He goes, ah, she's safe here. You think about it. And, uh, so I've just not thought about it and, uh, we're going to start a go fund me. It's called prison or the highway. Uh, I really feel like Elon Musk should pay for it because I could have had a government rental this whole time, but I bit the bullet anyway. Done with truck talk. Next slide. And I've been sad. Oh, uh, Trey, I'm, I'm not privy to the situation. And I don't know what's about what's grant

status is or his buddy's status, but what's going on with A&M baseball? They have a little stretch of not so good. Do you, do you fall college baseball at all? I haven't really the season being a former college baseball player. For our player, a seriously pitcher. Pitcher, you know, you just get so tired of it. You know, you got to just take a break. Yeah. Said it all today. Say what?

That it was 11 and nine and lost to Clemson today. Six, five. Hey, that's a close game, though. Yeah. And they're number seven. So I was excited. It's good. So in baseball preseason. So if you remember in the last season, they went to the. Yeah. Yeah, they lost and gained three of the college World Series.

So come in this year, kept a lot of players. New coach, because the old coach left just like at the drop of a hat. So a new coach came in. Do you do you go to Texas? Yeah, it was like overnight. Like I remember that college World Series ended and someone goes, Hey, are you leaving? He goes, Why would you ask me that? And then like, Oh, yeah, I remember.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not leaving. Actually, I am. But yeah, so new coaches here kept a lot of players, though. So we thought we were going to have a good squad preseason number one. And they've just crapped the bed like big. I think they've lost like nine, eight or nine in a row and just went from it was like Florida State this year, like preseason right number one.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like terrible. I've done terrible since so they're unranked right now. So I think they got swept by Alabama like at home. So hey man. Have they won any games? A couple. Yeah. That's tough to do against tall grass. Hey, but I don't know. It's still fairly early in the season. So I still this point, you know, this point, you think you're like the best team in baseball and you come in and just like, yeah, is it? Yeah. Like, is it the bats aren't going or is it pitching's been kind of flat or a little bit? So this I think starting pitching is good, but then like bullpen has been terrible.

Defense has not helped at all. And then, yeah, offense, like bullpen has been terrible. Defense has not helped at all. And then yeah, offense, no one can just hit right. Have you guys like tried bringing the yellow leaders out? Yeah. Try and fix it. Maybe do you like a noon time? Yeah. Oh, you didn't know that yellow leaders are on the team. Oh, it's actually the yellow leaders are playing. Yeah. Your brother and I'll tell you this. Wait, are you being serious? No, it's a and M. So no, but that's a, L leader always has to play on the baseball team. He's always gotta be closer. Great. Believe me for a second. I didn't say like the head yell leader has to be the first space coach or something like that. And every time the guys in first base, they're like, come on, X, give me X.

He's a first base. Hey. Whoop whoop. I did believe you for a second. I know you did. That's why it was funny. That's why it's great. Trey, you're good. So they're now in Texas. We just call that A&M.

That's true. Yeah, it's all right. Auburn basketball is going to had a tough end of their season. So it's always fun to be limping into the tournament. But once you went in like you lost in the SEC championship, the nose Oh, so my own finals. Yeah. To Tennessee, right? Lost to A and M and then lost Alabama in the last game of season on like a

overtime buzzer beater. And then, yeah, I was like, okay, well maybe though, they'll win sec champion like championship tour or the end of season tournament and like get a little momentum back. But I mean, as he sees, they're still one seat stack. Yeah. Yeah. So not a bet. Wait, the SEC is stacked since when? I know 14 teams in the tournament. Did you see South Carolina denied to go to the NIT today? Well, why?

I don't know. I, if my Twitter was blown up right before we started, but I guess they got invited to the MIT and they said no. So crazy. All right. We don't deserve it. Yeah. Speaking of, um, uh, Gamecocks, college sports and the founder of the veer. Uh, I think we need to play an ad read for a good old boy. BW tax. Uh, if you're new listener and I know we got a lot of new Marines listening, you haven't had a guest recently. We had first sergeant on last. Uh, we've got some big guests in the pipeline. We've actually been shutting them out,

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We'll kind of round out our sports talk here. Don't know if either of y'all had to chance at least read the headline or click that link I posted about Colorado, but kind of a opposite response to some of these other programs of just like dropping their spring game. Dion coach prime. Well, actually, hold on. What we're talking about, coach prime.

I wish I was going to have my prime glasses. You got to pay proper respects to coach prime. Mm hmm. OK. Oh, coach prime. What coach prime wants to do is he wants to take another team. He wants me to pro style. OK Okay guys, he wants pro style. So he wants another team to come in another college football team, do some practices kind of like some, you know,

more like one-on-one drills, you know, uh, and then do a like scrimmage versus another team. So kind of like pro style preseason stuff where you'll have two NFL teams get together, run some practices together. So guys are drilling against different people and then actually do like, quote unquote, like preseason game, but like in the spring. So interesting outside of the box take on the spring game. I thought that was interesting.

Did he say anything about bringing back the fullback? He did not. He did not. But he said tune in next week where I might bring back the fullback. Hell, yeah, brother. Yeah, it sounds like him. Yeah, I don't know. Thoughts on that train seems like a good idea. I think I think that could be a really good idea. I mean, if if you just throw another game in there, man,

like how much more revenue did you bring in for the program? Just the hype. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like there was Syracuse for them. Oh, well, they accepted or they said they would do it.

So can you just do that? Like is it like a good old boy system? Just like, is it like, Hey, I'm going to have everyone doing math before I deploy so they can all get injured. Like it's fine. Or is there like a liability waiver you have to sign? That's a great question. I don't know. I mean, I actually think it sounds like a great idea too. I actually, what I, this probably goes against Deon's intent and I never want to go against my commander's intent. What I would like to see is that the softball teams, like when the game cocks play Wofford, that should be the, that should be the spring. That should be a spring game.

Not softball. So yeah, I thought you were talking about actual softball teams. Oh no, no, no, no. I was like, uh, with a football team to play the softball team. But you know what I mean? What if like all these money games got eliminated and you played them in the in the spring spring game? I don't know. I mean, good on Coach Prime. Give it a shot. I do love prime time. At least one of them. I think that's a really good idea. Big time play. No, no, no. If you look good, you feel good, feel good.

You play, you play good. They pay good. If you look good, you feel good, feel good. You play good, they pay good. If they pay good, that's good. That's good. We good. Eager. Eager. Yeah, you gotta push down. Speaking of football, let's go ahead and shout out

Mr. Helmet, Mr. Helmet. Grid, gridiron green, green gridiron. Got some good football swag coming at you. The orders still coming in. So we're going to keep talking about it. Uh, he doesn't keep the lights on, but he puts the tensile on the tree and we do like the tensile on the tree. Um, yep. So that's what you've always said. So, uh, if you're looking for a football helmet, this custom helmets, we just did a pretty cool custom helmet for the battery that we're given to the, you know, we've been attached to. So he's got some custom, custom items you can

go in and do. You can get BW tax on a helmet. Maybe we should do a BW tax mini helmet, you know, I should say father of the beer or the money, the money ball, man of the beer or something like that but yeah it's kind of yeah yeah kind of wordy but it works anyway check out mr. helmet like next slide like it mm-hmm okay we're gonna kick around some more just random topics yeah have either of either of you ever watched Survivor? The real driver. I'm going to make it.

I'm not sure. That one. Yeah. George, you're that one. Yeah. George Strait. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen season two of Survivor. Oh, I watched it. I have seen an episode, but in a homeschool. So the rest of his life, you don't watch a lot of survivor. Oh, I watched it. I have seen an episode, but in a homeschool Southern breakfast life, you don't watch a

lot of TV, but I know what it is. Okay. Okay. I was like, I bet grant has not watched it. Yeah. Again, like I was tough to not know what it was. I was trying to be cool and act like I'd watch it. Definitely have not seen survivor.

I would pay good money to watch Grant go on Survivor. Go on Survivor. Oh, Grant would be great on Survivor, dude. Is there like a sales aspect to it? You like manipulate people to like do what you want and then there's a vote and you try to, you make alliances and you vote, you vote people off. Oh gosh, you would be so good.

Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. We'll keep an eye out for when they ask for the next round of audition tapes. We'll get PJ to head it up nice and good. Oh, dude. Come back from deployment, go straight on Survivor. Just gone for like another six months.

This is not where I thought this slide was going. I think you'd do well. I can't wait for the underpaid and overrated podcast to make a meme of me on Survivor. Thanks guys. It'll be so good. You would just be trying to stall strength. Go play. He's like, okay, we get back and we've got service.

What you're going to want to do is get some strength. Go play. Because you're going to lose a lot of muscle mass while you okay, we get back and we've got service. What you're gonna wanna do is get some strength go because you lose a lot of muscle mass while you're out on this Island and we're not pushing good chow. Okay. All right. So I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna cut you a little discount code just because we're tight.

And I know you're not gonna vote for me when we go to tribal council. You're not gonna vote for me, right? Cause I'm gonna give you a deal on the shipping. Okay. Okay. All right. Use code survivor, give 10% off. Everything you said makes sense to me, Jeff. I'm going to give you a deal on the shipping. Okay. Okay. All right. Use code survivor, every 10% off. Everything you said makes sense to me, Jeff. I'm in. I know. When Trey said that it like, I was like, Oh my gosh, it's perfect.

Let survivor continue. Do I have to do the a Helo dunker or no? the, uh, Hilo dunker or no? Yeah. It is a requirement. No, it is a requirement. No. Yeah. I can't remember the host name, but yeah, Jeff, big guy, Chris Arston got it. No, well, I had never watched it before. I remember, but I guess Kaylee, my wife, Kaylee was a big fan of it and has watched it, you know, a handful of seasons. And I was like, this show is dumb. And of course we're, you know, two episodes in I'm like, all right, these people are my favorite. Don't like that person. So I'm hooked on it. We're watching this season.

So is this still going? Is this like a live show? This is like season 30, something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, so like it, it's like it's still going in 2020, same original hosts like love it. Yeah. Yeah. So love it. He'll probably, he'll probably leave at the last minute, like Kirby Puckett, Tom Brady and Brad Marsh and, but you know, whatever there was, I saw a clip of, I don't know what

season it was, but a guy pretended to get news that his like mom died. And so everyone felt sorry for him and didn't vote for him. And he like comes down the corner. He's like, my mom's not dead. These idiots. I just tricked them all. And the Costco guys were like, your mom's not dead.

Give them three big booms. Boom, boom, boom. Yes, they are in the newer season of Survivor. You should be and see that. Come on. Yeah, what? Costco. Such a catchy name. I love it.

Why don't we think of that one? All right. Well, and then speaking of other, I don't know, sort of random things. I guarantee neither of you have watched this, but there's this like live stream of this Eagles nest in big bear. Okay, right down the road from the high desert. I don't know. Kaylee was again, was like talking about it and I was like, what are you talking about? Let's be like, turn it on. It's like a couple of bald eagles have like a nest and the, the some nature organization Lynn like mounted a camera up by the nest and it live streams 24 seven.

You can watch eagles, but the, and then like a couple of times a day, they'll go live in like the chat. They'll have like a little chat pop up and like, dude, people go crazy. And there's always like 50,000 people watching this at any any time you log in. It can be midnight and there's 50,000 people watching. And it just blows my mind. I was like, wait, what? Oh, we got to get these things.

I have things they just had a couple. Oh, I had three eggs hatch. One of the eaglets did not make it. And that was a big, big drama in the group chat or in the in the live chat. But I guess it's like the first time in a couple of years that they've had eggs hatched. So it is kind of like a big deal for I don't know. There's there's a whole nice story

I go visit it is there like an address I can drive to You could probably I guarantee you could figure out where I'm sure it's post. I'm a marine. Yeah, I definitely And I'll give you I'll just give you a 10-digit grid and yeah and compass just use piss off mincer a to dumb good There you go Yeah yeah we'll get you a mincer a there reminds me of the if you've seen Silicon Valley is that a show or a place yeah H and now it's TV show okay and there I just kind of watched the Prince of Egypt in Jesus film, but continue. So the Silicon Valley, they had like the exact same thing. You remember that? And that season remember that? I don't think I've seen that season. They're like, Yeah, we're gonna use

our new platform or we're gonna stream these Eagles mess. It was like super boring. Nothing was happening. And then they're like, All right, no one's watching. We're gonna go take the camera down and they sent a guy to go take the camera down and he fell and was like trapped like 27 hours or whatever it is. And that was the first episode of Survivor. Everyone's the other than everyone's are watching. It was a good. That's a funny show. 30 years later, Survivor is still going.

Yeah. Yeah. And then the Costco guys said they showed up. Move, move, move. Give then the Costco guys. Yeah, they showed up. Move, move, move. Give them three booms. They shot them in the head three times. Yeah. Wow. He got reincarnated and that's when Game of Thrones started. Oh, wow.

It all full circle. It's full circle. Close the loop. Love that. Love. You wonder why your aunt doesn't like sci fi. Oh, man. That's good, dude. OK, OK. Oh, I liked this one. This tray put this in here.

I thought it was quite it was it was an interesting question. Just read it. Read it verbatim. Yeah, I said Robert Earl Keane plays the Grand Old Opry for the first time, I'm assuming recently. And then Post Malone played for the first time in August. Should this bother me? Yes. OK, that's all I want to know. Yeah, it also makes sense. You think so? I think it's wrong.

I think it's kind of like this. I think Post Malone would win Survivor before Robert O'Keefe. But so I think I think deep down he's just better at sales post one. I mean, I'm just like, no, I do. But I think like he released that album where he got Dolly Parton. Like he got all these big time names, Stapleton, whoever all the people were to sing with them. And then it's like that gets the attention, right? Or you have Robert O'Keen, who's just like banging it out on a guitar in college station for drunk Aggies and everyone knows them, but doesn't like T fan.

Yeah. Yeah. But no, I think you should be upset about that for sure. I just like, man, that seems to, it seems crazy to me. I'm like the admin chief at regiment getting the St. Babs man, metal before the staff sergeant ops chief that's what that's like That's a great It's exactly what it is. Just exactly the unit past McCatt or whatever I guess. Well, no because she was at regimen and like

Affected all the high-level people and the guy down grinded it out of the battery for six years gets no respect. That's what that is. Yeah. That's yeah. It's pretty good. Yeah. No. Yeah.

Okay. But it does bother me. But who played first? I think it should. Post Malone. By like a day or by like no. He was back in August and Robert O'Keen was like a couple like a week ago in August and Robert O'Keefe was like a couple, like a week ago. What did Robert O'Keefe sing?

Uh, you know, he's de-sing. Mary Cargo's on for everyone. So what do you sing Merry Christmas from the family? Yeah. I mean, did he like, can you go back? I don't think you can go back and watch. That's that's my favorite Robert O'Keefe song. It is a good song. Yeah. Fred and Abby.

Robert Abby thought he was just he. Abby thought he just sang Christmas songs. Yeah. Until I go. No, he's a country music singer. Like, wait, no, no, he's a Texas country music singer. Correct. That is a that's a distinction. Don't call it Carolina barbecue. That's South Carolina barbecue boy.

I swear. Who's it? Like Abby's knowledge, like she was. So she only watched the Food Network. And so like what's his name? Palmer? He's a football player. Jesse Palmer. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got it. Jesse Palmer has a show on the Food Network. Yeah. And then like he was like the Food Network

Yeah, yeah And so then he was like popped up on something for college football and Abby's like was it Food Network guy doing on my use of quarterback She didn't know who Trisha Yearwood was she thought Trisha Yearwood was a Food Network lady He flips the breaker and the lights came on Classic Abby Trisha yearwood does she not know about the affair with Garth Brooks? Come on Abby. That's Christian drama Yeah

Big jumping guy big jumping guy If you haven't if you're new to this podcast go back and listen to that's gotta be what episode three or four three I'm gonna go through yeah Yeah, some early in the in this show notes, which we're good at we talked about Gareth Brooks and that's a big jump He was he was like what no it's true before grants by Is a pole there a high jumper in Oklahoma high High jumper pole vault. Poor grants buddy got busy. He literally made like reels of Garth Brooks jumping. And now I didn't have time to do that.

Jumping guy. That was his job before. Yeah, that's it. Before he that was a civilian job. Kim, all this film we got on Garth Jeffy. Now he's worried about the trash. It's funny how life takes you sometimes. It does.

Also in full circle, back to the trash can. Speaking of where life takes you sometimes, you all see those astronauts finally got picked up from the... I did. ...in the open, tracking that International Space. Yeah. I had to go over there for've been tracking that international space. Yeah. Yeah, you go over there for 10 days. Nine months later, like.

Yeah. That's like that PFC and 29 palms I wondered off. Nevermind, I think it's different. I think he died. Yeah. I'm still more sure they tell you about that. They're like the Lance corporal that walked off into the desert, 29 palms, and they're

like, and he walked off with this much water and this much chow. And then you're like, a thousand Marines about to do an exercise on the edge of the sea. And they're like, and we found them six days later, dead, fried on the rock. And you're like, okay. Great story, man. Don't get lost. OK. Hilarious. It's not your range. It's your battalion commander's range.

One reason why I think it was delayed that they got brought back was because it was around the election and I was I would be. If I got stuck up there and they're like, hey, we have to hold off. Come come to get you because we're going to wait till the selection is done. I feel like this is the this is dumb. I'd be like, I am in space. I just want to go home.

I won't vote. How about that? Can I do my mail in ballot? That's all I wanted. Can I vote at some space? Oh Goodness gracious. Hey, let them in back They crash into some water or something it looked like Apollo 13. Yeah Love that. There was a female driving. So they pat they crash upside down over water. Do you think

they did the helo dunker for the last? I hope so. Oh, my God. Still in there. That was a door. I was like, actually, I can't come pick you up. We noticed that you don't have your UET cards. So we can't come pick you up because it's gonna be a We notice that you don't have your UET cards So we can't come pick you up because it's gonna be a water The water like pressing against a glass thing and there's someone over top like show us your Heloduncker card The Heloduncker was broken I'm sorry. No, they were running low. The Heloduncker was broken. Oh, man. Oh, man. That's a good training.

That's good training circle. Yeah, good full circle. Was MLB opening day yesterday or was that today? So you have the one going in Tokyo like two weeks before everything else, right? Dodgers. Yeah. Was it yesterday or today? I don't know. I should know. My buddy's on Japan time. MLB opening day. Yeah. Today. It was today. Yeah. Dodgers and Otani one. So yeah. But then the next one's not for like 10 days 42,000 fans I did see that ticket price is like cheapest you could find were like 2,900 bucks

We have baseball is back baby Baseball is back Yeah, always opening day is a special like I don't know. Yeah, I just feel different feels different Yeah. Always opening day is a special like, I don't know. Yeah, I just feel different. It feels different. I'm probably into one. Have you all been doing like an opening day game? No, I've never been to one.

I want to. I don't remember what season was. I went to one in Atlanta one time and it was good. Like, I don't know. Just like opening day. Baseball is a really cool. This like feeling in the air and atmosphere. Yeah. It's like Jones on the team. Chipper Jones was on the.

Now, it was Fred Griff on the team. No, no, this is post-Fred Griff. How about Greg Maddox? No, Greg Maddox. This was like, yeah, Chipper Jones, like right. Last couple of seasons for him. OK. Brian McCann, I can't.

Oh man. Dude. Yeah. That was a thousand. Good. No, no Glavin. Who are the starters? What was the temperature? Your dad's pool that day. That is written down somewhere. That was just, just, just went to his first opening day of baseball and Chipper Judge is on third base. He only played six innings and he went one for three, but he did have a fielder's choice and a slam 50 laps this morning was 72.5 degrees.

He did in normal time, just about the average, but nothing left to report in the diary. That's ill. That's a diary entry. I hope he has a green. I hope he has a green logbook that he's down in with a ruler and everything. Jeff, you replay in 64, King Griffey Jr.

Oh, my gosh. Loved it. That's that was always my team. The Braves was the break. Yeah. Bravo's Chipper Jones. Who's the D.H.? Oh, gosh, who was the D.H. in that one? So that came out in 94.

So who's the D.H. for Atlanta Braves in 94? Oh, my gosh. It's going to bother me. I should know this. Well, they wouldn't have had like since they were a national league team or since they are a national league team, there would not have been a that's right. A designated hitter. And I don't know when they started interleague play.

But man, who else would have been on that team in 94? Shortstop would have either been like Walt Weiss. Oh, man. Yeah, I even played with Dan. I played with Cleveland, who I feel like Cleveland was good then. Yep. Yep. Cleveland would have been good around that time. Kenny Lofton. That's it. Yeah. Kenny Lofton. I'll put you out.

I also we play with the Mariners a lot because like I felt like Ken Groovey Jr. was just like his stats were just juiced in that game. Like he was really great. But they like I think they are. Bumped his butt. I stats up a little. I think that's the best. If you baseball game, that's the best baseball game of all time.

John Smoltz, John Smoltz, David Justice, David. Yeah, that's that's a. And Dion Sanders was on the 94 Braves. Yeah, yeah, that's right. And then Ron Gantt, I think. Yeah. Fred McGriff. Javi Lopez would have been the catcher. Yep. Javi Lopez. Bobby Cox, baby. Bobby Cox. Who is second baseman Mark Lemke? Second baseman. I know that name. Mark Lemke. I'm looking in fielders. Yep. Mark Lemke. Jeff, would your dad know all these out top is that. Bill Picada, Terry Pendleton, Terry. Oh, TP, baby. Baseball's back. I don't know if he

would have been as good with like Atlanta Braves because he always kind of had a, not a disdain for the Braves. I did. But didn't follow him super close because he grew up in Wisconsin. So at the time was the Milwaukee Braves. Milwaukee Braves. And they left. And so that kind of left a bad taste in his mouth because he had been a Milwaukee Braves fan. But then they moved to Atlanta. And so it was kind of like, oh,

maybe I don't like that. Who's his team? Who's his team now? I heard growing up, he would kind of follow the Cubs. Mark Grace. Some of that was at the time, you know, at the time, Ryan Sandberg. So they were on TV every day nationally. So like even living in Georgia, you could watch the games. Yeah, Mark Grace.

Sammy Sosa, Sam Berg, Ryan Samberg, then 94 Sammy Sosa. No, it would have been like 99, but, uh, cause I think he was on the Rangers before, but I mean, he ended up on the Cubs. Rangers are really good at like getting players and who is the train them? They become really good. Who is the pitcher on the Cubs? Carrie wood, Carrie wood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Legend. Back when pitchers used to pitch nine innings and fullbacks used to play for Nebraska. Completely. Who was Randy?

Who was Randy Johnson? Mariners. And Hayes. I thought he was diamond, the diamondbacks. He was there towards the end. Yeah. I got Mariners, Hay A's and Diamondbacks. I have his rookie card like pressed and like a man.

I got a nine point nine. That's a good one. He's just I was just going around taking pictures of things. Yeah, yeah, that's right. He told me that. Yeah, he's like really photography. Yeah, I'm on the sideline of some college football game. Like, what's really Jonathan doing? Awesome. OK, are we really Jonathan doing? Awesome day.

Are you getting more slides? Let's see. Oh, I got to throw this one in there because I know this may help with with some content for content grant. No, I'm not ready to work. Trading around injuries. I don't know if that if that's going to be a full on. Let's say we're that's the next week. Hit me that one. Yeah. Yeah.

That one early. We'll take that one right after the six goes. Oh, copy, copy. Yeah, come on. This is why we have an agenda slide three. I like I like kind of scroll it around shooting from the hip. Yeah, I on. This is why we have an agenda slide three. Yeah, I like I like kind of scrolling around shooting from the hip. Yeah, I like it. Good. But yeah, yeah.

Then I guess, um, oh, I did. I did miss one of Tray's. But I think it'd be quick to be a quicker one. It's kind of harkening back to our Marine Corps topic. But does the Marine Corps still use the time dark 30 as in like, oh, it's got to get up at zero dark 30 for movement to the rate of the rifle range that's still around.

I Jeff, you can tell me if I'm wrong. I don't know that I've ever heard the term dark 30. The only term that I can think of in terms of middle of the night is balls. For me. Yeah. I've heard that one. Yeah. I mean, I've, I've, I've heard dark 30, but I wouldn't say, yeah, no, I don't think, I don't think that's the thing. Like, I don't know. Yeah. I heard it in TBS and someone goes, Hey, we're going to move at dark 30. And I was like, okay, what time is that? Like, well, when it gets dark plus 30 minutes, I was like, why don't you just give me a time you can hit. Yeah. Give me a time like balls 30.

It's like you're the timeline you just gave me is very open to interpretation. So I think you're going to have a lot of different fantastic night vision. So what's dark to you might not be dark to me Yeah It's all about your opinion man. You walk around like this. I'm saving my night vision I'm just saving my night vision. I'm saving my night vision. And then that was 2012 and you realize 13 years later grants using the same night vision goggles that you used You realize 13 years later, Grant's using the same night vision goggles that you used in going is going to war with them. Let's go.

Let's go. Free bird. And they're like, Hey, we have these new ones, but you don't get them. Yeah. Because Doge. That's cool. Yeah. I just want to lie to think about

Cuz even we got it in like 2012 we were like These pbs-14s are not that great. Yeah, they're pretty terrible Wow You save rounds alibis Know them for the group I'll get with you offline. Offline. Okay. Uh, real quick, if you like grants buddy and you like Godfather battery, the battery going with the FDO is down range. We do have some swag, got some cat cross cannons and the boys are going down range. And so they're gonna look in the offload a little swag before

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