The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 67: Velvet Daggers, Pushups & Bodies In The Snow

Episode Date: April 11, 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 CALL08:58 - TRES’ GRANDFATHER TURNS 10022:26 - SPORTS30:42 - SHOULD I DO PUSHUPS?42:57 - WOULD YOU CHANGE THE PFT?54:32 - TRUCK TALK01:00:30 - BODY IN THE SNOW01:09:41 - JAMES BOND (FAKE) TRAILERS01:17:53 - VELVET DAGGER01:20:58 - LED ZEPPELIN01:25:10 - FISHING01:27:21 - SAVED ROUNDS01:30:48 - SIGN OFF

All right. And welcome back to episode 067 of the OK podcast powered by the strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogi. We are recording live from the beautiful high desert of 29 Palms, California. That's right. Grant's buddy is still here. Today's date is Monday, April the seventh of the year of our Lord. Verify 2025. I'm realizing right now that I forgot to ask for the roll call. So we'll do that quickly and see if we get some real diehard listeners. Time for the roll call. Got that up, posted. Let's see, the price of Bitcoin is $80,292.19 in a turbulent market out there. Don't worry, if you're worried about the finances,

then you don't have BW tax. If you have BW tax, you don't have to worry about that because you're so rich from all the money you've saved. So thanks to our sponsor, Big BW. If you're not watching this on YouTube, I'm wearing the Strength Co. white piping trucker hat. My microphone is giving me some trouble right now. And I'm also working on that. So if you're on YouTube, you could see Grant do those things. I'm joined by Mr. Jeff Bouger from the greater Salt Lake Lake City area. When I say greater, I just mean Salt Lake City and as well as Mr. Trey Gottlich, Oh, by the way, just Mormon, Mr. Trey got lunch, joining us from Houston, Houston, Texas. That's where he's from. So he's always been from and that's where he'll stay.

Go, come on. So exciting stuff to talk about today. Yeah. Kick it over to the three. Oh my goodness. All right. All right. First and foremost, just want to just clear the air. Trash is the priority.

Yep. It's still a problem and we need to fix that. Okay. So you need to take an E, drink some water and then reassess your attack plan on how we're going to take care of this trash because it's not going to police itself. If there's one thing we've always said, oh, we got a message here. Massage from that. Is that a yellow canary? Is that a yellow canary?

OK, I see a lot of attention. Attention in the C.O.C. We got a yellow canary coming from Gotledge and it says trash. And the answer is yes. The answer is yes. Yes. To your question. Okay. All right. We'll kick it around the room. See what people got. Uh, one shop admin. Talk to me. Nothing really group. Oh, classic. Okay. Very well.

Sure. We're about to fail. CGIP, all the functional areas, no binders are present. So how could we be tracking anything? Very well. Move on. S2. That was really group. Okay. Oh, that's great.

All right. Three. We got any FOPs? We talked to cops. Cops is trash. FOPs is also trash. But any other FOPs? That's you, Trey. We got any FOPs. We talked to cops. Cops is trash. FOPs is also trash, but any other FOPs?

That's you Trey. No, nothing for the group. Outstanding. Outstanding. Maybe some safe rounds for individuals, but okay. I get it. Nothing for the group. Got it. Tracking, tracking. We're keeping this streamlined. We're shooting for a tight meeting here. Okay. Under the four logistics types. Nothing of the groups are. Wow. Amazing. Amazing. All right. That covers the log shop. All right. Medical. You guys got anything chief you here?

Medicals at a hundred percent. Nothing further for the group. What about our dental stats? I have not seen any dental stats lately. Dental's a hundred. Actually, let me just prove this to you. I got a picture from those that were waiting and it's someone in their car holding up an Excel document and it says that they're a hundred percent. So nothing for the group. Outstanding, great. Good, we got all the trash out of people's mouths

and got it in the dumpsters. Okay, six shop, combo. That's you Trey. As keep this train rolling for the group. Oh my gosh. I think at this point everyone's just saying that. But hey, keeps the boss happy. So let's keep pushing a career planner. Nothing for the group. Wow.

Not one reenlistment. Got any realistments? They've already been reenlisted, sir. Excellent. Excellent. Okay. Make sure those folders then we don't need them anymore. Dispose of them properly. Okay. We don't want them being trash on the side of the road. Those in the dumpsters. Okay. So, uh, sorry, major. You got anything for us? Any, any wisdom? Nothing really group. Wow. First time in the history of any meeting.

So this is two, I got got to I got to save drown. Oh, save round send it send it. Yes, sir. We just decided the the you know, the s two device that's been broken for a long time. What am I thinking of the laminator laminator? Yes, sir. We just decided to make that trash. Okay, that's just trash now.

It's been secured. OK, it's secured. It's secured in a dumpster where we where we secure in this trash. Yes, sir. Yeah, we're just moving all chatter signal now. OK. No, I mean, it's OK. No, I mean, it's just moving everything from the two to the president's Twitter account. So anything that you saw on the ball, you could just see live on Twitter now.

Good, makes it. Go ahead, dispose of your SIPR tokens properly, okay? A3, is that all you got? Trash X here. Hey, send it. Hey, real quick, team. I got nothing for the group either. A lot of times we come into meetings

and they take a long time. And just to dovetail and piggyback off of myself. This is whatever meeting should be like. Okay. When everyone's present and all the trash is thrown away, streamline. Thanks for what you do, team. Wow. Okay. That concludes the meeting. Let's go and see you next Monday at zero nine. Keep up the good fight. Keep securing that trash. Trash battalion doing things. Speaking of securing, so meeting's over, right? Yeah, yes. Okay, before we go into the agenda slide,

when I saw that assault bike secured, I just like, I thought, shout out Major Matt Lohan. I thought someone was like playing a trick on me because I'm like, how do you secure an assault bike? And it's not secured. It's sitting here in the middle of the gym and it was initialed and dated. And I was like, what does that even mean secured? And then I tried to pick it up and I could pick it up. Like maybe there needed to be an out of order sign or like, do not use, but it just said secured. And I loved it. I honestly, when I saw the picture, I thought that was the strength code, Jim. Oh, strength co HB. A lot of people, because strength co HB, you're a security. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, strength co HB. A lot of people can't do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, I thought you did that because strength co HB, you're a security.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we forgot outlining stations. Oh, do we get any outline stations when people are calling in? Yeah. But you have some outlining stations. Donnie Bauer says, make the fullback great again. Love that. That's excellent. And not trash. That's it. Just Donnie. Yeah. No one else had anything for the group. They were ahead of their time. They were dialed in. They just had nothing. They were dialed in. Yeah. Nothing. Got it. Got it. Yeah.

Excellent work. We appreciate the, the roll call from Donnie Bowers, previous guest. Yeah. Appreciate that. Go Navy. Beat Army. Yeah. Excellent work. We appreciate the, the roll call from Donnie Bowers, previous guest. Appreciate that Navy beat army. Beat army. Dang. Okay. That agenda slides. Should we kick this pig? Break, break. Hey, game update. Tie game right now. Oh, tie game, tie game. We never podcast during major sporting events. We never promised we wouldn't when we started and we've just held that promise. I do. Yeah, I'll give real time updates. Yeah. I'm sorry. Sorry. Continue. My fault. Yeah.

OK, agenda slide. First one I want to kick off is talking about Trey's grandfather. Yeah. A hundred years old. Lieutenant Colonel Throckmorton. Just give us full. I did not know. That's full bird, Colonel.

I did not know that Trey was short for Throckmorton until this week. Yeah, not even Lieutenant Colonel. He's a full bird, Colonel. Yeah. Did he wear his leather coat? Colonel. He's a full bird Colonel. Yeah, did he wear his leather coat? No, he's no He's out, you know Yeah, tell us more about Colonel thriving Colonel got lich Surname yeah, Colonel got lich Robert got lich the first so he's

or Yeah, he might as well. Yeah. Yeah, man. So went down this weekend. He's down in Bernie on the Hill Country. He had his 100th birthday. Which in Texas you call it Hill Country? Yeah. Outside of San Antonio. call it hill country? Yeah, outside of San Antonio. Yeah, I would say hills. Okay, any mountains people in Texas, people in Texas will call them mountains, but they're just hills. Like, would you call it the upstate? No, just hill country. Yeah, hill country is the correct term. Okay, but

your your elevations higher your altitude as I was like like sometimes your high sometimes your down like it a hill You know, okay, like all it could be a deflated. So yeah Country are we focused more on the hills or on the country? I came we're getting lost in this. Okay I didn't know you were going to throw this diamond out to the hill country of Texas. You would like to add, Fredericksburg, you driven through there? I have driven. You went to San Antonio, right? Well, yeah. What's the, I went through the Austin city limits and I mean that figuratively and actually

down 35 going on. Yeah. And I went into San Antonio and then I was like, ah, me down 35 going on. Yeah. And I went into San Antonio and then I was like, ah, I know what I forgot the Alamo. And so I went and remembered it and stayed on the San Antonio River walk. So if you go west of Austin and then like Northwest of San Antonio, okay.

That's hill country. That's hill country. Okay. Hill country. Nice. That's what it's called. Yeah. Official. So it's like, it's like Texas except not flat. Exactly. Are there trees? Yeah, there's trees out there. Oh, wow. Not tall tree. Oh, that's tough doing it. It's tall. Yeah. Oh, that's tough doing his tall. Yes, it's root to even tougher. It's tall trees. So we were down in the country.

Okay, continue. Yeah. So I mean, the meeting was so efficient. We had to slow something down somewhere. Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. Um, space for time. Yes.

He had was it turning. It was a kind of, we made it a, a Gotlich famer union. Um, and then just had some people from his life come through. So it was a, it was a pretty, probably around a hundred people showed up for hundreds. Yeah. For a hundred years, right? One, give or take. So, um, yeah, I mean, it was a good turnout, had a lot of fun. Um, but kind of shower y'all pushing man. They had a prime rib. Okay. Stuffed chicken. Well, it's got lich is aggressively German name. So what'd you stuff the chicken with trash? Dude, it felt like it was like other meat trash. It was like a chili con carne stuffed chicken. Look at you.

Basically Mexican salmon. So fake meat was pretty good. Yeah. Salmon. But yeah, man. So no, it was really good. Met a lot of cool people there that saw a lot of people I hadn't seen a long time. A cousin who's in Hollywood Hollywood, the Hollywood cousin was there got to see him. Wait, the Ghostbusters one? Yep. Ghostbusters cousin. That when you told me that I was like, this is a tray, like he is lying. This is not real. And then it was very real. Oh, yeah, trying to think trying to think of the song. Something strange. What you gonna do when there's a ghost? So I am called Trey's cousin. He was the he was the bad guy in Ghostbusters.

Sorry, I'm going to give a little revelation by Vigo. Never seen it. Well, no, he played Vigo's henchman. Yeah, he got corrupted by Vigo. He's just down low. Have we moved on to later in his career when they filmed Lord of the Rings or what are we talking about here? I don't think he's in Lord of the Rings. He was an Alan McBeal.

He was an Alan McBeal. Very successful TV show. Alan McBeal. Yeah, so met him. So he was there. But it was, there was a ton of other Marines there that I got to meet. That was, that was pretty cool talking to them. One guy who was like on Hill, Hill five five Vietnam

God Hill country. Yeah Beautiful. Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, that is that's a text. So country You see yeah talk some other guy who was a recon back in the 80s 70s. So, oh, yeah a lot of cool people there really cool event got to. Got to see some family, introduce the girls to the rest of the family. So it was a good time. That's cool. Nice. That's really cool. Yeah, man. Nope. He's had a long and interesting life. So how's his health? You know, for being triple digits, I guess, relatively well. Wheelchair? He's in a wheelchair now.

Okay. Did you tell him about the Strength Co. HB? Yeah, he's very interested in that. Strength Co. HB, that's all he's talking about. He said he's a member of that because he got confused that was regular Strength Co. No, I. Yeah. Like I said, he was World War Two vet got in kind of tailing World War Two was a company, our weapons platoon commander at Inchon. You know, battalion he was? Top of my head. I can't remember, man. Yeah, I know. He was the second. I think he's, he was the, uh, second,

I think he's the second wave of Inchon. Now I think he was in the reserves was an artillery for he said he, why transfer in artillery in the reserve. So, say what? Wow. You probably knows grants buddy. Yeah. This news coming up and he said And Sean seventy five thousand troops, let's see who was playing ball back then seventh Marine Division Or seventh infantry regiment first Marine divisions to seventh Marines That sounds right Yeah, he might have been one seven first team serving with Grant's buddy.

You know, never know. Yeah, that's your homework question. Okay, I'll find out. Yeah, I wanna know. No, no, probably worked with the Rock Navy. I'll do some digging. No, man, cool life. Yeah.

Nice. In Texas, we just call that life. Life. Yeah. Let's see, he's an A&M A&M guy, too. So he's a A&M class leader. It was not a yellow leader, I don't think. No, he was class of 46.

And then so he tried going in the Marine Corps early commissionarily and they wouldn't let him. And then everyone else in his class was on Iwo Jima. And so he missed so he missed that and then oh my gosh yeah it's crazy crazy life and then when he was known for saying we're gonna beat the ever-living hell out of the Japanese I've heard him you know he has some opinions on Japan I've heard him. You know, he has some opinions on Japan.

Drive a Toyota. My dad does not drive Toyota. You don't say. Does he still drive? No, actually, he. OK. Losses. I think he lost his license like a year ago, a year and a half ago. So he drove for a while. What was he driving at the end?

Jack, he's a big Jaguar guy. Oh, okay. Don't know why. So you must have two of them. One to drive and one to keep in the shop. That's exactly it. Boom, boom, boom, he's breaking down. Yeah.

But yeah, and then he, let me see, he met Bill Church when he was in the military. Is that like Bill Burr's brother? No. No. Maybe potentially. Yeah. But so Bill Church is the son of the guy who started Church's Fried Chicken. And so then

he worked for Church's Fried Chicken after the military and ended up being like the South VP of the Southwest operation like that. But dang. The Southwest, we just call that VP. of the Southwest operation like that. But, slinging chicken baby. We just call it VP. Okay, yeah, when you put that topic in the Slack, I wasn't sure if that was related to your grandfather or if that was you had a pretty cool

French Churches French Churches story. I was kinda hoping, I was like, I kinda hope this is Trey has like some just great churches. I wish me. But I've been to churches, not big in church. Yeah, I've been I've been once. I've been to some churches, but not churches fried chicken. No chicken. Yeah, they didn't have chicken there. Okay. Yeah, sure. Well, that happens. Not every church has chicken.

Okay. Yeah. Should have. Well, that happens. Not every church has chicken. Thanks, Obama. But nope. Overall, good time, man. That's cool. That's cool. And then it seemed like related to that one, was there a lot of talk about the route that you took to get to the birthday bash? Oh, dude. Yeah. That was, so like I said, Dallas to Bernie is like five and a half hours. And so people of a certain generation as the crow flies love to know they're like, Hey, how'd you get down here? I'm like, you know, I'm like, I typed in on GPS. They're like, yeah, but like what route

did you take 35? I'm like, I'm like, I don't think so. No. And he's like, Oh, so you took 291 down. I'm like, I don't I don't. I had four people asking this. I'm like, I don't know. So fascinated with how I got down here. How do you get everybody? My dad called me at the book. He called me on the way back. He goes, he goes, what do you what do you take him back? I'm like, I don't know. He's like, are you on 35? I'm like, no.

He's like, well, what road are you on? I'm like, I don't know. He's like, are you on 35? I'm like, no. He's like, well, what road are you on? I'm like, I don't know. That same, that same generation is very interested in how many times you had to charge the Tesla in the range of the Tesla. They're like, whoa, wait, wait, wait. So where'd you come from? Like the upstate, how many miles is that? I don't know. Like 250. Well, how many times

you have to charge? We actually stopped once because I had to use the bathroom and so we charged for like five minutes. So five minutes got you here? No, there's like it like we left with a charge. But like, how many how many times you have charged you went to Massachusetts? charge. But like how many, how, how many times you have charged you went to Massachusetts? I don't, I don't, I just plug in Massachusetts and it tells me, so it decides where you go. No, what? How many miles per gallon does it get? Huh? Gallons of electricity. No, no, no gallons. We fill up with gallons of kilowatts. It's probably also similar, similar generation.

I will say not fair. Well, on the on the way back, farewell with drive through or like fast food kiosks, electronic kiosks, same, same group of people. Yeah, same group of people, Same group of people. Yeah. Same group of people. Same group of people. I will say coming back, I did not, so on the way there we left like super late,

so everybody slept on the way down there. And then on the way back, I did not account how many times you have to stop for babies. And it added probably three and a half hours to like the car. Like what it would be a five and a half hour trip. It took closer to like eight and a half, nine hours. I was like, oh my gosh, it was a long, it was a long drive. Hey, but a lot of fun.

It's a good time. That's good. Love that. Love that. Well, Grant, Grant, probably stepped away to go talk to his buddy real quick. But typically back in a second. How's Utah score update? Utah's good. That's good. Sixty three, Houston, 62, Florida.

Minute 21 left. Let's go, Cougs. So I'm pulling for. Are you really? Oh, sorry about that. Here you go. You just want to Florida again? I don't like Florida.

Yeah. And they beat Auburn. It's great to be a Florida gator. I root for Florida simply because of. Olivia Gordon's wife. And she's so yeah. Funny you say that I'm watching the game. We should just go right into that three. If you don't mind trash six here.

I think we should just go to college basketball roundup. I was watching Florida Auburn and don't like Florida. Like I don't, you know, I have feelings about Auburn, but mostly Jeff likes him. So I like them, but like Florida's usually a team that I'm just like, yep, you're in the East. I don't like you. Didn't like Tim Tebow. Seems like a great guy. Not very good at taxes, but, but I just generally don't pull for Florida, but yeah, they won. And like, I just shot Olivia message, just a Gator and, uh, you know, a little emoji. They get a good little Gator emoji and, uh, yeah. So she was, she was pumped. So yeah, I think, I don't know. I think, uh, 14th Marines Reg CEO pass Thunder six pass Colonel kid Houston guy I'm probably

calling for Houston but either way I get to text one of them tonight and be like yeah so but yeah watch the Duke game as well as you guys watch the Duke game I just saw the score I didn't watch it just a a little bit of it. Yeah. I watched the end. Yeah, it was good. Yeah, it was good basketball and yeah, that's your college basketball wrap up. Yeah. I wonder if Cooper flag's going to end up coming back. He said he is. Really I know that. Yeah. Well, can't trust anything. These college, college kids.

Yeah. Not with coach prime running around these and it transferred to Colorado to play football. Yeah. I mean, you never know. Bill Belichick transferred to North Carolina and grabbed a girlfriend and a job. I'm pretty excited about his season. and grabbed a girlfriend and a job. I'm pretty excited about his season. Never been a Chapel Hill fan. Never disliked Chapel Hill.

Like, but I just mean like, I've never like went out of my way to like them except my mom went there. She likes the basketball. Actually, my mom, my uncle and my aunt all went there. And so they care a lot. And especially like my uncle and my aunt all went there. And so they care a lot. And especially like my aunt, my uncle care a lot. So like, it's always, it's like, you know, something to like text your aunt about like, Hey, Chapel Hill's playing like on my dad's

side. Like I was just texting the other day about like a Red Sox game. It's like very easy. Like, Oh, I haven't talked to uncle Brian in a while. Like are the Celtics on? Oh yeah, they're up. And you know, shoot a text. So on my mom's side, it's Chapel Hill was the thing. And my grandfather was a big fan, I think, because when you pay the school that much money, you have to be. And, but like they're Carolina school and I love Bill Belichick. And like, I've just like, if he can go in and like, make this mess of a NIL transfer portal nonsense, like work and make a team like man, I'd be a Tar Heel. Like I'm ready.

I'm ready. I'm ready to pull for the Tar Heel. So, but yeah. So, uh, Duke lost sad finish there by Houston. Cool finish. I mean, Houston, that was, that was a crazy finish. I was actually texting Colonel kid during that game and I thought they were cooked chat as the kids say, uh, they came back and won that one.

Auburn was sad about that. I feel like I jinxed it. I texted our group thread when Auburn was up and then they just like went down and lost. Um, so we got that game and then we had the game Cox. I watched the semi-finals. Good game. And then unless you have more sports, we'll wrap up sports to this Sunday and Gamecocks play and Diana had said to me a week or two ago, like, Hey, would you be upset while your

buddy's gone? If I took your daughter to a baseball game, her first baseball game without you, I was like, first off, not our first baseball game. We believe in life and conception. And if I remember correctly, her name has already been on the Finway scoreboard. So I was way pre thinking, this is already thought through. She is a red socks, go socks. And I was like, yeah, no problem.

You should totally go. And then we were home and I like had Sunday and had to get back to the high desert. And I was like, oh, angels are playing at like 130. Let's go. So I had to do a little bit extra research. Usually I want to get, you know, closest to the field that the pocketbook feels comfortable with. But in this case, I was like, where's the shade? Like I don't want the baby in the sun. And so found some good seats, 200 level went in, It was timing was kind of perfect in terms of like nap, sync up and stuff. Decker out in Red Sox gear. I was decked out in Red Sox gear. Oh, I didn't,

I didn't put many things in the, in the, in the agenda slide because I was busy doing my POA and M but no, I didn't, I didn't get many things in because I, because I was trying to like live life. But I do think, and I could be wrong, hockey is probably a close second if not a first. But there's something about baseball games that no matter who's playing, you just wear your team stuff. Am I right on that? Or is that all sports? Like, if I were to go to an Auburn, I don't know, Bama game, I'd probably just wear like my black Marine Corps shirt or my strength coat T or my strength coat HBT. Right? Like I just like where like, I wouldn't think like I need to wear a team. But when I go to a baseball team, a baseball

game, and I've done this like multiple times inadvertently, and I just thought about it now that I'm old and wise. But I'm like, Oh, I always like make sure like people know like, I'm not an angels fan. Like this stadium is nothing compared to Fenway. Like you don't know anything about baseball. And no, they're not the guardians. They're the Indians. Because when I grew up, that's what they were. And like, so I wore my Red Sox gear. Is that is that a thing? Or is that just was I just feeling it on Sunday? I feel like professional sports. It's more of a thing.

I feel like if you were in other teams, yeah, Jersey and you go to two other college sports teams and then you're just like a weird guy, like what are you doing here? But I feel like professional, I think any sport professionally, you could probably do that. Yeah. Okay. Because you're just going to watch the game as a fan of the sport at that point. Yeah, I think that yeah, I think that's the message is like, I'm just going because I love baseball.

And yeah, so we went in and I actually bought an angels fanny pack because it was clear. And I had like speed loaded or what do you call it? Not field craft. What do you call it when you like break the MRE down? Field strip. Field strip. I field stripped the diaper bag and I was like, okay, I need like six baby wipes, two diapers, a chew toy and you know, whatever. And then I bought a see through angels fanny pack and it sat here and it was completely full.

And the baby just sat on that thing and just watched baseball and like the national anthem ripped and they saying God bless America in the seventh inning. And I was like, man, what a great country we live in. Like this is awesome. Like this is great. Had a great time with Dee. I have a sunglass. This is awesome. It is. Like, this is great. Had a great time with Dee.

I have a sunglass on. She went and seen the tears of my eye. But I was like, this is like the most American thing before the most American thing. Yeah, it was good. It was a good game. Angels won big. They won 10-4, 10-5.

Dang. I was root for the Red Sox. But yeah, it was good. I saw the picture, man. It looked like it was a good picture. Yeah. I'm glad you got the opportunity to kind of go do that. Yeah, me too.

Dang. Okay, okay. That gum. Well, let's get to, we've got some random topics. Let's get into some lifting talk here. Lifting and drinking, that's all I know. That's very true.

Thanks for the synomics. Trey, do you want to ask the question here? You were talking about like kind of just supplementing workouts with pushups and some air squats. Hefe, I'm not going to take your job, man. You're too good at it. All right. That's your question. All right, well, Trey's posed a little question here. Basically, boils down to, would it be beneficial

for a novice or even, or like an intermediate lifter to add in kind of like some daily pushups, air squats, that kind of stuff? And then Trey, you're talking more like couple sets of 10 or like sets of 20, 30, 40, 50, like higher rep or just. Well, I guess that's I guess that's the question. One, I made you read it because I couldn't remember what the question was. So I appreciate you. Yeah, sure.

But I had a suspicion that was the case. It's coming back to me now. I think I asked that. Yeah, I guess one, I guess the number of reps could vary, whatever you think the right answer would be to that. If you would recommend that, one, would you recommend it? Two, how many and what purpose would it serve to add that in if you did? So the question is, should you do body weight calisthenics in conjunction with a lifting program? Yeah. Have you ever... Yes. Okay, go ahead. Like when or should you as a novice first and intermediate? That sort of thing?

Yeah. When would you recommend doing that? Yeah. So I think bodyweight exercises in supplementation of a barbell lifting program come back to the fundamental thing of like, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to get stronger? Because if you can you get stronger from pushups? Absolutely. If you don't do anything, and all of a sudden you start doing 10 pushups a day and then 15 and then 20 is your force production going up? Yes, it is. What is it limited by? It's limited by your body weight. So is your body weight going up a whole bunch so that you are increasing more stress on those muscles? It depends. Most of the time, people doing calisthenics, the answer is no. And so you're working this rep range. And at some point, it goes from like, hey, I'm

actually increasing force production to I'm just doing aerobic activity and I'm getting my heart rate up and I'm getting sweaty doing push-ups. What I would say for most people is if you want to get stronger, you want a bigger chest, you want bigger triceps, you want bigger biceps, you're trying to get some type of physical adaptation to occur, I wouldn't say that push- are the, or air squats, the best way to go about it. I would say the best way to go about it would be to load the most muscle mass through a great range of motion

and then increase the load in the bar so that the stress gets higher, so that force production goes up and that you adapt over time. So do I think pushups and air squats are bad? Absolutely not. But I would say, hey, if you're new to lifting weights, if you have nothing, if you have nothing, like you're in jail, you're in prison,

you're somewhere with barbells. All the listeners in jail. If you have nothing, absolutely do push-ups. That is better than not doing anything. But if you have access to a barbell, it would be better to do the bench press or do the overhead press or do a barbell back squat, then it would be to do air squats or push-ups if the goal is an increase in force production. Can you do a bunch of air squats and push-ups and have an endurance effect and get more maybe toned and defined and get your heart rate up and burn more calories? That argument could be made. But if the goal is to get stronger and potentially bigger, a better use of your time would be to do say the back squat and the bench press over air squats and pushups. It's gonna be more efficient.

You can do three sets of five and you can add weight to the bar each time. Small jumps, two and a half, maybe five pounds so that you know that the force prediction is going up because there's probably not gonna be a day where you end up doing a thousand pushups, but there might be a day where your bench press, you've added a hundred pounds to it,

or your squat, you've added 200 pounds for it. So I would say that. On the same token, I don't think that air squats and pushups are useless. I think there is a place for it. I think in the Marine Corps, like in unit PT, I think there's a lot of benefit from getting people to use those muscle groups.

It's hard to get large groups of people all under a barbell at once, although it's definitely possible. But I do think there's some use in doing that. You're working the range of motion, you're raising your heart rate, you're putting some type of load, right, whatever your body weight is on that muscle mass.

So I think there's benefit if you're on vacation and your place doesn't have a gym. Yeah, I think it's beneficial to go down and do maybe a couple sets of 25 of air squats or pushups because at least you're doing something and you're utilizing the range of motion. Outside of that- You think you'd have with an injury?

Yeah, I was gonna say outside of that, the only time I've really used, having used it with air squats so much, but I've used it with pushups a pretty good bit is if you teach people how to do pushups correctly, and I use that term loosely because people have opinions on this, but their hands are in the correct position

and their shoulders not going through impingement. I think usage fixes most injuries, most like non-structural injuries. So for me, when my shoulder gets aggravated and I'm having trouble squatting, I will start to do pushups every day. And I'll do like, hey, I'm going to do a hundred pushups every day to get like more blood flow to the shoulder to get the ligaments and the joint to be worked more. So no, I think there is a good spot for it for injury. And then I also think there's just like a baseline thing that you can build and the human body is pretty incredible

in terms of what it's capable of. So it's running, people like to talk about running and how you shouldn't do it if you're lifting weights. I truly believe though, if your morning routine, hate to say it, was to get up every day and run one mile and then you placed a strength training routine on top of that, you could keep the run one mile baseline and then add in the strength training routine.

Are more calories probably required? Yes. Is more sleep maybe required than if the running wasn't there? Yes. The body will adapt to, hey, I run one mile every morning. So the same can be true for push-ups or other things. When a Marine goes to the field, I don't usually wear a 50-pound flacking Kevlar all day. And so the first few days, it's kind of miserable. And then, you know, by day 20,

oh, this is what I wear every day. I wake up and I put this stuff on. So I do think the body can adapt. I don't think insane amounts of pushups would be probably good to add to your routine. But if you wanted to wake up out of bed and, you know, pump some Lynyrd Skynyrd and do 50 pushups,

I think that could be a beneficial thing to have. I do think, and I'll refer to Jeff a little bit of this and you Trey from your time. I have always found that pull ups, for example, the Marine Corps you had to do 20 or 23 now dead hang pull ups. I've always found that's a volume thing. If I do pull ups every single day on top of a good strength training routine and all that kind of stuff, but if I just like do my pull-ups, then I always have the capability to hop on the bar

and do 20 or whatever the requirement is. So I wouldn't, for a new lifter, long-winded answer, I wouldn't say go do push-ups and air squats. I would say go get a barbell from www.strength.co and squat and bench press. If you have nothing, air squats and pushups are better than nothing. But I don't think, wow, you're a terrible person because you want to add in some calisthenics. Does that answer your question? Kyle Siversen Yeah, it was basically, yeah. And the main thing I think I was saying is,

I think I remember you touched on like doing pushups when your shoulder was a little booboo on your shoulder. So it's a, I don't know. That's kind of the point. I'm like, Hey, if you ever, as a coach, you're saying, Hey, try, try doing some pushups in the morning. So you would get that shoulder will loose. Yeah, I've definitely added it. I've definitely added it as a coach for people with shoulder injuries. Hey, do it in the morning, do it before you lift. And also say other things like hang from a pull-up bar if your shoulders aggravated. Kind of like we had first sergeant Tomaschewski on here with his femur. I'm like, hey brother, just do air squats every day. Like right now you just broke your femur. You have been told not to do a bunch of load bearing stuff.

Your femur needs to support your body weight, do five air squats, next day do 10, do 15. Like yeah, there's been a time through rehab that I've definitely said you should do some calisthenics. And I like to do, I mean, there's a little something about hopping out of bed and beating your face before your morning urals and doing some pushups that, you know, I like. Wake you up a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

Blood flowing. Yeah. No, I think as far as calisthenics, I feel like as far as the add weight to, I think pull ups is probably get a little belt add to it. Get some strength going. Yeah, I go back and I go back and forth on the pull ups and I'll be, Jeff's always a max out as pull ups guy. Maybe you are too Trey. I kind of this year. Yeah. I, I think my bottom line on pull ups is, and there's a ton of like Marine officers,

like different people that have pull up programs. But if you want to do 20, which is the gold standard in the Marine officers, like different people that have pull-up programs. But if you want to do 20, which is the gold standard in the Marine Corps, man, if you can like deadlift, double your body weight for five, and then you do pull-ups regularly, I feel like you can do 20. And there's definitely people that can't deadlift their body weight, double their body weight for five, and can still do 20. So I'm not taking away from that. But for me, I've always like, Hey, keep my deadlift up and then just not never stop doing my, my pull ups or my chin ups. You know, I usually do them at the end of my workout when I'm like, I think today I squatted and I bench pressed and then I was done. I was like, I'm

just going to log 50. Don't hear care how I get there. So I think it was like 10, 10, five, five, five, five, like three, two, like whatever, you know, some rest in there, but I'm just like, I just want to accumulate this volume. And that's kind of always worked for me, but they really screwed me when they took it from 20 to 23. That's a big jump. That's like a huge jump.

That's like when the guy squats 500 and you're like, now do six. You're like, wait, what? Not even remotely the same thing. No. Yeah. Luckily I timed it. It's just my age. Like I only had to do 23 for one PFT. And then I bumped, bumped up to where like, he starts to go back down. They're like, all right, old man, you only got to do 21 now. Now we're back to 20 now, right? Or are we 21? 21. 21, yeah.

I think it's 40 or 41. It goes back down to 20. I guess we can't afford to not stay until that time just for the test to get easier. Yeah, right? Yeah, you have to stay in. I don't know why. Be foolish not to. For me it was like, I remember when I was doing the PFT back when I could do 20, like knockout, 20 pull ups, it was like 15. I could get to 15 like without thinking. And then like, you hit 17. And

then you like, and you're like, start to grind it out at 17. And then like 19 and 20 was always just like pulling up and three more to that. I'd be like, golly, I don't know if I do that. Yeah, it was not. It was not cool. Not cool. Okay, that the PFT talk there kind of segues. So he posted a series of questions that the Jordy PJ, our illustrious producer, put in there. And one of them I thought was interesting. So what would you, if there was anything you would change about the PFT or the CFT, what would it be? I know we've kind of like maybe touched on this at one point, but like if

there's like an event you would add or like an event you would maybe modify or yeah, let's see your thoughts. What are your thoughts? My thoughts? Honestly, this is going to be a very unpopular opinion. I would make the run five miles. Okay. Yeah, I think, I mean, honestly, it probably wouldn't make sense just for like the population

that typically goes into the Marine Corps. I think five miles is a big ask and it would just not be super well received. But I just think super important. You see things like, like the Ranger Regiment, like their test is five miles. I think going anywhere, three miles I think is good. What's the benefit you're getting out of making it

two miles longer? Like what, like is it a lighter Marine? Is it like less of a focus on speed and more of a focus on endurance? Yeah, it's the endurance piece I think. Cause like, and I understand that a lot of people are like, well, you don't ever go to combat in running shoes and shorts and a t-shirt.

Okay, I guess you've never been to modern day combat. But I'm like, I guess it's not so much that, okay, you need to train, like you fight in that exact aspect, but the, the adaptation that is expressing or like the, the ability that's expressing is endurance, which I think is a huge thing. Cause then if you know, you're able to recover better from shorter duration, like high outputs, like running a couple of HE shells from gun one down to gun six on the gun line.

Like, yes, that takes kind of like shorter, more like a rope or anaerobic type output. But then your ability, if they were like, Hey, actually you got to bring them back. Like five minutes later, your like aerobic base sets you sets you up as larger, totally buried by something like that. That's a very specific artillery example, but just kind of like, if you're on deployment, running 24 hour ops, 12 on 12 off, like your endurance base will help you kind of stay more mentally like in it. I think during that. Yeah. Tray, do you have hard thoughts about this?

I've said my opinion for on this. I think the PFT exactly what Jeff said, as far as the people who say that it's not realistic. I am of that school of thought. Like I would make it like in camis and then do the like keep the first two events the same. Like do pull ups, do what do y'all do now? Planks. And then- Yeah, which is a huge improvement from crunches. Yeah. And then I mean, I would- I agree. Instead of doing a run, I would do something like, I guess you'd keep it around, but do it under a

load of some sort. Like, yeah, like have a, have a weapon on you and then have your flack on your, you know, something to make it a little bit more combat oriented. I don't know what I would change. Um, I do think hiking is like a under utilized, uh, fitness evaluator. You see guys that are strong, that will fall out of hikes because they don't have endurance, right?

You see guys that are fast, but that are weak and will fall out of hiking. I do think hiking is somewhat of a level setter, even with like different size frames and different size loads. So I don't know if hiking would be like a third thing, like, oh, you failed your PFT or your CFT or you didn't get a first class,

but you can go on the six mile hike and if you keep this speed. But I do think hiking and like, I just think it level sets kind of everyone to an extent. I think the CFT I've said before is, I think it's a great event. I would like the ammo camps to be a little bit heavier instead of 110 reps for, you know, whatever it is, 30 pounds.

I would rather it be not something that you'd have to be a weightlifter to do because I like that right now, like you can go crush the CFT without being a weightlifter. But I do wish it was a little more like, I don't know, 95 pounds for 10 reps or something a little bit different that would make you train for overhead strength, which I think is useful. I think the 880 is a great run. I think the movement or the maneuver under fire is a great thing. The PFT, I go back and forth with. I hate it. I'll tell

you this right now. I absolutely hate CFT. I never liked doing it. It's always miserable. I think the Marine Corps leaves the PFT as is for a weight management tool. And I really believe that because to run three miles under, and I know there's freaks out there, but to run three miles under the, what is the failing score? 26, 30, 27, 30? What's like the slowest you can run it? That's a great question. 20, yeah, something, somewhere around, it's like something around nine minute miles.

And I also think back to like your grandfather when he was a Colonel, right? Like there's an element of like keeping weight off and like having to stay on your feet. I don't think it's a great test to prepare you for combat, but I think the organization does it because it's, it has to like keep you in a, some type of baseline fitness. That's fair.

The Navy and the armies being shorter kind of shows that we're also a smaller organization, so it's easier to keep people in shape. But I think it's like a weight management tool. But I think the Army, APFT, whatever they have, I think they're on the right track. It's trap bars. I know everyone hates trap bars. Repto hates trap bars. Everyone, eh, trap bars.

But it's not hard to teach the deadlift, but it's hard to teach. I mean, there's 500,000 people in the army. It's much easier to have them do a trap bar dead lift. And so I think, uh, who got that, who got that contract making all this trap bar or an X out of South Carolina. Yeah. Strength co HB. Yeah.

Those guys, uh, they're actually, we're looking for strength co and they found strength. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's gotta be it. There wouldn't be two places named strength go this close to each other. I think you could add a I think if the press was heavier in the CFT, it may be the PFT is like pull ups, deadlifts run, something like that, but I don't know.

I kind of, I don't have, like, I think, not to sound totally field grade and institutionalized, but like, obviously it works. Like we've kept it for a long time. So I know it gets my button gear to get out there and do conditioning, right? And I hate it, but I'm like, I got to run three miles this year. And that's like a mindset. And I don't know, I get the combat argument 100%. I do. I think there's other benefits we've talked about before, like the mental attitude of running. I mean, just last

week my buddy took the guys running. We went and lifted, we went and lifted. The battery's been lifted. And every Friday we go Thursday, the sergeant's lift. Fridays, we take everyone else lift, went and lifted. And everyone thought I was going to go for a run and I didn't want to run. And then I realized everyone didn't want to run. So I was like, well, now we have to run because you don't want to run. And so I just kind of like ran in circles around the gym area. And it is interesting because like, I mean, I'm not fast. I'm 6'1, I'm a 225 right now. Like, you know, we're running 10 minute mile paces. And but there's like a mental aspect of I want to stop. I'm not like, yeah, there's, there's benefits. But I don't, I don't

know that I, I think somehow prioritizing strength. I think the bigger, I don't think it's the test that matters so much as like there should be strength training happening at bootcamp. That's what should actually be happening is there should be like people, I don't say I have proven, we have proven, like we being the Marines I've served with over time, that you can teach a large mass how to strength train. Is it perfect? Is every deadlift perfect? Like per starting strength or who's ever standard?

Is the programming as good as juggernaut? Like no, but can you get the masses lifting and stronger? Yes, like 100%. In the formations that we have right now, you can teach basic strength training techniques and every corporal and sergeant can implement it to the Marines and will they be 600 pound deadlifters? Maybe not, but like they can get way stronger.

They can squat their body weight for five, deadlift their body weight for five. Like the, we could do that right now. And I think that would be the focus I would make. Good stuff. I got a question real quick. You said your buddy's pretty excited about getting in shape when he deploys. Yeah.

Do you have any goals that he's trying to hit while he's, or has he even thought about that? Lifting numbers wise? Yeah. I wasn't even thought about that. Lifting numbers wise. Yeah. Honestly, I just want to lose like 10 pounds. Oh, okay. Yeah. I have thought about this a lot lately because with everything that's been going on,

you know, with COVID and all that, no, I'm kidding. But like with being busy, man, if I keep my squat, like if I have the ability to squat 400 and deadlift 500, like I'm pretty happy. And so like my program is usually just like a maintenance thing. I would like my goals-

You think it's an age thing? You're sure in age? I don't think it's so, yeah, I think it's age is coupled with like busyness, right? Older you get, like there's more responsibilities kind of everywhere. But like I don't have a bit, like, there's more responsibilities kind of everywhere. But, I don't have a bit like my best squats 515. I'm not like I don't go to bed at night think about like I want to do 517. Yeah, right. Yeah, I'd rather, you know, I think what's been tough for

my buddy has been like the MRE diet. And like, you know, the lifestyle change, change a lot and it's less healthy, more white monsters, which is peak male performance. But no, I'd rather clean up the diet and lift, you know, I lift consistently, but like I'd like a little bit more time in the gym. But no, I don't really have, I say that, I mean, I'd love to pull 585, but I'm not definitely going into this.

Like, I gotta, like, that's the goal. The goal is just, hey, if I get some time in the island chain where I can eat cleaner and work out a little longer and sleep better, like, that sounds like a good time, just for general health. I've already killed all my demons. Karen, fair enough. That's good.

Oh, we're pushing. update. Florida one Florida one. It's great. Oh, Florida Gator. Yes, it's great to be a Florida Gator. That's for Olivia. Hey, that's for Olivia. Probably never listens.

Probably Gordon does. Thanks, Olivia. Yeah. Adrian. Cool people. You got a little truck talk coming. Oh yeah, that was the next slide in the hopper. Sorry, I did the read ahead.

No, it's good. It's good. I like it. Truck talk. Any updates on the Squarebody? Squarebody? Yeah, I do. So I'll give twofold.

I'll give my nostalgic update and then my update. So the truck has been at the auto shop next to the strength code, not to be confused with strength, go HB there in Costa Mesa, old Joe, he's about 70. Awesome guy. Big white beard, long white hair. And the nice thing about Joe is don't tell dad that I've ever paid for an oil change, but as I'm going to the gym can drop truck off. He changed the oil. At one point he did all three of my square bodies. I guess I've known him for five, six years now. Good guy, better at oil changes. Potential sponsor.

So I brought it to him and he's always kind of like when the trucks are doing bad. I remember when I took the 20th, I had the 95, 2500 green truck and he's like, I mean, I can fix it, but should I? And I'm like, I mean, I don't know, should you? So took the transmission to him. He quoted high, lots of the gear he has. My brother-in-law who like does truck stuff for a living found a guy. So we're doing a rebuild.

Doing a rebuild on the old black truck. So it drives right now. Third gears, second gear is a guarantee. Third gear is maybe there's no drive or fourth gear or overdrive fifth. So had to get it about 10 miles to Santa Ana. Man, like I pulled up in my Marine Corps vehicle, Dodge 2500 HD POS,

man, like running boards are falling off, has 9,000 miles, like total piece of junk. And I got in my truck. Actually, I pulled up with my wife and the Tesla with the swastika on the side, because we got randomized. No, but I get in the truck and I crank it up and I'm like, man, I don't want the

middle ground. Like when I drive my wife's truck or car, I'm like fully automatic, fully electric, like drives itself. I love it. And when I drive my old truck, I'm like an experience. It's a life experience. You're like driving this vehicle. Like you can feel the, you know, the control joint or the, you know, the, the rotator boots

or whatever on the right side. Like you can feel it all when you drive like a new vehicle that's like trying to be both. It's, it's not the same. So I got in the truck. It was great. Got it there and she's going tomorrow to get a tranny rebuild. And then I see my being in California as they rebuild trainees and so they specialize in it.

They do. A new training day. Do that's my truck update. Love that. I posted that map. I thought that was kind of interesting. It's like the top. Oh, yeah.

Pull that up in each state. And like, I mean, it seems like we're definitely a Ford country here, but you know, top two by volume are the Ford F-150 and the Chevy Silverado. So it's truck country that we're living in. There's the hill country, and then there's truck country. And that's the US of A.

Interesting that Chevy is the Midwest in Arizona. Chevy is the Midwest in Arizona. Yeah, right. And by God, West Virginia. Yeah, West Virginia. Alaska. Interesting. Yeah. Oh, Alaska. What is Florida? Toyota. Good. The ramp. I'm disappointed in my state.

What's New England? Rav4s and Honda CRVs. Jersey is Tesla Model Y. Yeah. Shout out to Sean Shepherd. Get yourself a Tesla. He can drive. I don't know.

But he's going to get going now. Official car in New Jersey selling car. This isn't even truck. I mean, I want you to put together from the Y and the RAV4. Wow. The F-150 crazy found on Road Dead. What's wrong with you people? Some Honda's in there.

I had a Honda. He was the era in Arkansas. Let's go. GMC Sierra in Arkansas. Let's go. GMC, grant my child. GMC Sierra is holding it down. There must be like a GMC Sierra factory there or something. You gotta be a little. I'm a big GMC Sierra guy. I like those.

They're nice. I love GMC Sierras. Yeah. They're huge. The ones like made in 1972. I was talking about if you're like the newer trucks, if you're getting a 2024 brand new truck. I mean, is it still like, there's like echelC, Cadillac, right? And Buick's in there too. So yeah. Yeah.

But like for the trucks, it was like Chevy's like the bottom, the common man, then GMC, then Cadillac. Yeah. I was always GMC fan. I'm a proud owner of a GMC Sonoma extended cab, SLE 1999. By my grandfather. My grandfather's truck and he charged me five grand for it. Taught me a lot. Thought he was gonna give it to me, honestly. Classic generation.

Well, when I grew up, we had to buy everything. Grandfather paid for it and he's like, sucker. Yeah. Got him. He's a Boston fan. He's part Yankee. Buy that truck, boy. Give me five grand for that, thank you.

Speaking of Yankees, I got a show I want to talk about it for a wrapped up truck talk. Send it. All right. This will help out BW tax. So BW tax, great guy, better at taxes. We love BW tax. BW tax, LLC.com. BW. He is just a guy, right? He invented the beer. He redid Georgia tech football. He's everybody's friend. And when

I was in South Carolina where he does taxes, but to remember he can do them anywhere last year, man, he was following a Boston crime case hard and was doing everything he could in his power to get me into this crime case. And he would just say, I'd walk into his office. And if he wasn't on the phone or with a customer dealing or doing what warm bodies do, he was watching court updates for Trupa Parochta and Canton, Massachusetts. Johnny O'Keefe was hit by a car, 227 in the morning, found later dead in the snow at six in the morning and his girlfriend, fiance, Karen

Reed was charged with vehicular manslaughter, later upgraded to murder in the second degree. Whole case. He's telling me about it. I'm like trying to move. We all know Grant loves to move. I'm not watching it. I'm not following it. And then like the documentary came out and I watched five episodes in one night.

It's called Body in the Snow. Netflix. And there's like, it is Amazon Prime. Okay, but Max show Max Max, like it's an add on. Okay, it's a seven day free trial. And then you just cancel it immediately. It's five episodes. And it's incredible. There's like a Boston coverup, Canton, Massachusetts. Forgetting the names right now, Arthur or Artie. You got Paul O'Keefe, John O'Keefe's brother. You got all these people in here.

You got Jen McCabe and you got Karen Reed. And basically the city of Boston gets divided where are you pro dead cop saying he got murdered or are you free this woman Boston PD coverup. And the documentary is filmed like while the trial is happening. And so then there's like all these like rabbit holes you can go down of like, if it was a, like, so if you're into crime stuff, man, I, my life has been consumed with this over like the last 48 hours.

Like I watched the show. Do you watch over the antenna that you built? I did not. He's working well by the way. Yeah, my wife's gonna be able to talk to me or Grant's buddy down range is fine. But yeah, a body in the snow, trial of Karen Reed. And then like once you watch the documentary,

you'll like understand the different sides about it. And then there's like all these like YouTube bloggers, once you watch the documentary, you'll like understand the different sides about it. And then there's like all these like YouTube bloggers, Reddit stuff, digging in deep, would love Tim Baines take shout out Tim Bain, previous guests loyal listener every week, every Friday morning about 10 AM East. And I get a text from Tim Bain on his favorite part of the podcast. So, uh, I don't know. I don't even know if he's in on this case or knows about this case. There's like an ATF agent there. And there's like multiple Boston PD people there. And so she's charged with he comes out of the house, she's drunk driving, she backs into him, tail light breaks, he dies in the snow. But then the other side is like he goes in these townies, tune them up, kill

them. And then like know that his fiance is drunk, put his body in the snow, go to the car that gets impounded, steal the taillights, throw them in the snow. There's like a key witness that's like the snow plow driver, lucky Lucius or something like that. That's been driving the streets for 30 years and he's like comes into the court. He's like zero four in the morning. I was there, nobody. And like, he's like a hometown hero. It's great. It is. It reminds me of when the Murdoch case was going on in Beaufort and the place they were talking about, I'm like, yep, that's right by my house. That's right by my house.

Know that family. It's that except Boston and Betta because it's Boston. But yeah, it's good. I'm really in murder. Jeff, you're all in it. Like Jeff, you're done. I'm going to check that out. Tomorrow, you're all in it. Like Jeff, you're done. I'm gonna check that out. Tomorrow, Jeff, at noon,

you're texting me, I quit Patagonia, I'm going to Boston to find out the truth on this case. I already know. Oh man. Yeah, we're definitely gonna watch that one. We just started watching, it's called The Pit.

It's also on Max. We did the century- Oh, the Doctor one. Right. So we got that going. Yeah, it's really good. It's the guy he was in ER back in the day. Yeah, Noah something. Camera's last name. It's really good. It's fun watching medical shows with my wife. She's a nurse. And so I've heard it's fairly realistic, fairly accurate. It's like when she watches Generation Kill with

you. Exactly. That's exactly what I was going to compare it to like watching any medical show with a nurse is like watching a military movie with a veteran. But it's really good. The only gripe was like, she's like, there's a lot of doc, it seems to be only doctors that work in this ER. This is like the ratio of nurses to doctors is reversed, but they kind of fix it with like one line early in the, early in the first episode where they're like, well, you know, there's just a nursing shortage right now. And so like there's two nurses, like that's it out of like 50 doctors. But I also texted your brother, Trey, Caleb. I was like, Hey, you watching this

show? I think my brother. Oh, no. Yeah. Well, that'd be weird. I texted him also and asked him a little. He's like, I'm not a doctor. I don't know this. He said he's not watching it, but that multiple people have hit him up and said, Hey, you watching this show? It's good. It's good. Nice. Oh. show. It's good. It's good. Nice. Oh, yeah. It's the pit. Speaking of shows and watching them with Marines and that sort of stuff this

week, April 9th. So in this airs on April the 11th, that'll have already happened in April 9th, 2004 chance Phelps PFC third batt, 11th Marines was killed in Ramadi. Artillerymen serving there for 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit. Excuse me, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed over there. So his 20, what is it? 21 years, 21 years since he died comes on April 9th. His memorial hangs here at 311. So we're going to do some extra PT for him on Wednesday, which would be cool hailed from Wyoming. Seeing the plaques is there whenever I go to a new unit, I try to read about the people have come before me. And at one seven, there's Citadel grad that's hanging on the wall there along with a lot

of other ones. But I didn't know to bring it back to movies and not make it too somber. I guess there's a Kevin Bacon movie on this called Taking Chance about he's the cake. Oh, have you seen this, Jeff? It's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So I heard it's good. We saw it. I didn't see the movie, but was talking about, hey, April 9th, this day and the battalion is going to do some stuff. I was like, I want to make sure we're involved. And then someone mentioned the movie. I was like, I didn't know there was a movie. And they're like, Oh, you should watch it. I was like, perfect. I'm going home with my buddy to hang out with my wife this weekend before I deploy. I should just watch it with her. Right. They're like, Nope, definitely don't do that. Yeah, no, no.

But yeah, so, hey, if you're, if you're American, you love this podcast, you appreciate those that put it on and do what they do. April 9 is the ceremony. So it just, it just passed. But go check out that movie. I haven't seen it or look them up from Riverton, Wyoming. Yeah, we salute you a chance. Yeah. Well, just one more movie topic. So it's a little more shifting of gear. I feel like we should.

I feel like we should. No, I was great. I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm glad you mentioned that. Trucks trying to go from third to fourth gear. It's rough sometimes. And I'd seen the movie, but it's been a while, but I didn't realize the artillery Marine.

Did you realize it was three or 11? I mean, we were doing a lot of provisional entry. Yeah, I didn't even know. Yeah, it was three or 11. I didn't know either. I didn't know about the movie, but yeah. Yeah, it's good. It's good.

Good stuff. Have any of you seen the trailer for the new James Bond or know who the new James Bond is? Who they cast? Is that when he's like handed out the Nintendo 64 controller? What's up? I am not tracking. Just so you're tracking, I am not tracking. Just so you're tracking, I am not tracking. Okay, so I saw this today and I'm not very good on. Okay, I'm pulling on.

It's hard that it's actually an N64 controller. I'm not very, I'm not very. Zero. But I know what you're, I know what you're referencing. I know what you're referencing. Thank you, Jeff, for speaking to me. I can't find the exact photo. He's a previous James Bond. He's a previous James Bond.

It's the GoldenEye was the game. And you played on Nintendo 64. So far so good. And I played it at Jason Beech's house, my friend, and I just saw a photo today and it hit me right in the gut. And it took me a minute to process. And it's, what's that actor's name? Jeff Pierce Brosnan.

It's Pierce Browtie. And he's golden eyed dressed and he's holding an N64 controller and he's like, he's like handing it to you. So like when you look at the image, he's like trying to take it. And I was like, I remember that game. It's like golden eye and you get the golden gun and you just kill everyone. And yeah, anyway. Yeah.

So I have seen the new James Bond movie, golden eye. Yeah. Yeah. To answer your question, Jeff. No, I don't. I don't know who it is. Here. Here's Brownstein. Better at games. Yep. Yep. Yep. So the new, the new, uh, cause what was the guy's name? Uh, Daniel Craig has been replaced. He's moved on from the role.

He was good. Amazon. Amazon bought it, right? I think Amazon bought the rights to it, if I'm not mistaken. But yeah, so Henry Cavill or Cavill get out of here, Superman. Like he's now James Bond. What? And watch go watch the preview. There's I'll just spoil it. He doesn't have a British accent. Spoiler alert. That's,

there's no British accent. He's British. Even though he is, he is British, but the like the one or two lines that he says are like with an American accent. And I was like, hold on this, this is wrong. Like what are we doing? I don't get it. Yeah. So that's my big gripe is just no British accent for James Bond. Just wrong. I don't know. And he's British.

Oh, yeah, I did. That makes no sense. It should be the easiest thing ever. I go, what? So that's cool. I don't know. I like that. Yeah. I for a while, I thought I was going to be Idris Elba and I was actually pretty excited about that. That would be kind of cool. I like who's that?

I I'm not going to attempt to explain this. Have you seen the wire? Yeah. No, you string your bell stringer, bell stringer, bell. Well, so I watched season one. He was in there. Stringer Bell. So you hang on Stringer Bell character from the wire.

Oh, yeah, that's like the main guy. That's one of them. Yeah. Yeah. You thought he was going to be Superman or James Bond. James Bond. They threw his name out for a little bit. As you forgot that Trump got elected. Everything changed. He just was just a cool dude. So glad Jeff got that joke.

Yeah, he just feels. Yeah, no, I got it, too. I said, yeah, I'm trying to keep my job. There's still black people in England. Come on. He's in a bunch of Guy Ritchie movies. I'm a sucker for a British gangster. So like a rich guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Have you watched that Mobland show? I watched. Yeah. Two episodes in, man. This guy and man Tom Hardy. I love let's keep talking. See how long we can confuse great so confused. My land troupe of procter. Okay, troop of Aaron Reed.

And remember, this is about Johnny O'Keefe. Nothing else. Just I'm actually just talking to watch that show. Grant picks one thing out of it. You say Mobland land man. 15 years in the Marine Corps without Jeff Biggie. Am I right? Jeff actually goes to all my boards and I like read the section I comments and Jeff's

like, actually, let me just enter. Let me go in and translate this real quick. Go ahead. It's actually not a velvet dagger. It's a compliment. No, he, yeah, he, he spelled the, he, he seems to be referencing a different Marine, but no, he actually is referring to this Marine. It just has his name wrong. It's okay though. We know that you think this gunnery sergeant shouldn't be promoted But actually he means he should be promoted to master gun I forgot about velvet daggers until you just said that

velvet daggers man, my favorite is Ring core. We just call him daggers. You write an adverse fit rep. You do the exact opposite You just had completely go in on him Right in adverse fit rep, you do the exact opposite. You just had completely go in on them. Man. No, no. I know there's a couple of sergeants listening, but I hate fit reps.

Rather just pat you on the back, put one on the old vice and tell you you're doing a good job and give you the next rank. Like I hate them so much. Yeah. It's the worst. Especially if you- I'm a bad field grade.

As a field grade I should be like, oh, tell me about this wonderful evaluation system. Is it harder? So I only know it as like a lieutenant, right? RS. Yeah. Is it harder being the RO? No, it's probably, it's the same actually. I would say that the words and the verbiage are, I would say probably easier. I think maybe Jeff thinks otherwise, but I think it's about the same. I definitely think it's harder being like, I went to like do a gunny one the other

day. I'm like, man, I've written a 37 gunnies. Like what? Like, no, no, 37 staff sergeants, I think like 29 gunnies, whatever. It's not a, it's not a body count. But it's kind of his. Yeah, it's definitely, that's kind of harder because you're like, everything they tell you at the basic school, they're like, don't bury the first one or don't do this. And it's like, after some point in time, you look at five names and you're like, yeah, you're all pretty bad. Like, I don't, I don't know who was worse or the inverse. Like, yep. You five guys were my favorite. Like, I don't know who my favorite was. Maybe the guy that texted me last on Christmas. No, I'm kidding. Um, but no, it's the same. It's the same.

Whatever you experience, it's the same. Yeah, there's no change. It's yeah. Racking and stacking. Yep. Yep. Little less bubbles to click. You just got to do the, the one on the Christmas tree, which is nice. Sure. Okay. Somebody said a Christmas tree card. Okay I know a sad ooloo right now Okay Card, okay, these are lifesaver. I'll tell you a few people get it

But those that do will appreciate it. I think even Jeff Trey has forgotten it the Christmas tree card and Jay, uh, Trey has forgotten it. The Christmas tree card, the Christmas tree card, the Christmas tree card is much different than the fit rep Christmas tree. You're right. I forgot what that is. Yeah. Also, if you Google Christmas tree card, you do not get what I want.

It's even close. You're going to be scrolling that Google images for a while. Google Christmas tree card artillery. You just me scrolling that Google images for a while. If you Google Christmas tree card artillery, you just get all right families. You still don't get anything close. For those who don't know, real quick before we move on, explain velvet dagger. You want me to explain it?

Yeah. I think it's like gas lighting for fit reps. Right? It's like a gaslighting for fit reps. Right. It's like, it's like, it's like second lieutenant. Gotledge is very good at taking out the trash as being the four alpha. Yeah. It's like you, it's a lot of fluff, but really there's nothing behind it. And they actually, people read. No, I think it's a lot of fluff, but it's like, he's a second lieutenant that takes out the trash. There's the four alpha instead of shooting artillery, right? It's like a light. It's like a hidden dagger. It should be called. So better way to put it. Yeah. Carry on.

By the way, we're really good at the trash. Quick shot before we go through the agenda to Mr. Helmet, Mr. Helmet, green gridiron gridiron green. We don't know what the name is, but we know that you like the helmets. And this is true because we just sent out the Godfather Gazette grants buddy has a little newsletter that goes out once a month. If you want to sign up, the link will be in the show notes. Click below. You can sign up and get that and that link will take you to the store or the store link is just right there. And we got a mini helmet. You saw us wearing it last week. A big Godfather helmet. Got a mini helmet coming out with the Godfather battery or artillery symbol on it. And the

moms and the dads and the cousins and the brothers have been enjoying it and buying that helmet. And we appreciate it. The money from the, those store sales goes back into the unit funds and the unit funds are good things. If you want to support the troops, you get to do fun things. For example, tomorrow, my buddy's battery the Marines that are not already forward. We're all going to the inland Empire 66ers minor league baseball game out in Riverside, California We'll watch them play and we'll sit above the dugout and get

No to rise no to whatever those talk about us during the seventh inning stretch. And that was all paid for with the proceeds from the Godfather helmet and the Godfather logo and things of that nature. So if you like supporting the troops, we do give it back to the troops. So go click on the link and buy yourself a helmet. If you want a custom helmet, do you want another helmet? If you're happy that Florida one, you want a Florida helmet, go buy a helmet. Comes back to either the OK podcast or the Marines down range. We appreciate you. Good stuff. Good stuff. A couple more slides. We'll close it out here. Trey. The first meeting was efficient. So this one needs to be really inefficient. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can drag this out. I can, I can unhide some of the hidden

slides looking for a three hour podcast right now. Oh, easy day. I think that's what Trey does. What Trey was texting me. Baby, please. I'm in the time zone. Five to six hours. That's my intent. Do I make my track in here? Tracking, tracking, tracking, tracking, check, check. Led Zeppelin documentary.

Love Led Zeppelin. Let's hear about this documentary. So came out in theaters and it just released to Amazon Prime becoming Led Zeppelin. Are you are Prime becoming Led Zeppelin. Are you a Led Zeppelin fan? I do like that. Man, I feel like they get swept on a lot. All right, we're gonna use unit funds

to get the rights to this Led Zeppelin song. Buy those helmets. All right, we're gonna use unit funds to get the rights to this Led Zeppelin song. I'm not like a fan, like I am like say a skinner fan where I can name the songs and talk about the people. But like, I'm happy when a Zeppelin song comes on. So you're just feeling like the songs and talk about the people. But like, I'm happy when a zeppelin song comes on. So you're just saying like the songs that reference Lord of the Rings. Oh, I didn't have no idea. I got him. This was a trap. Turns out I'm a liberal.

No, man. You got me. Lord of the Rings equals liberal. That's what I've always said. Call me Bernie Sanders then, baby. Burn, baby, burn. No, man. Good documentary. I don't know.

I just like it. I was just kind of watching in pieces and just wrapped it up today. And I was like, dude, I just forgot like how talented like each one of those dudes are. Dude, they're so good. Jimmy Page, jump on them. And tune in. And tune in.

And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. And tune in.

And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. And tune in. So good. First time I ever heard that guitar riff was on, it was like some puff daddy song, song. And I didn't know like get the age. Like I that was the first introduction to it. And then later, I hear it. I'm like, oh, OK.

Yeah, this is different than P. Didi. OK, good. Puff Daddy's answer. Yeah. Yeah. The first time I heard it was Jack White was like, I'll never play seven nations army again. And then you play cashmere. I think that's a made up story. Yeah.

You don't know what happened. It could still happen. Yeah. No, man, if you're a Led Zeppelin fan, it's definitely, it's a cool documentary to watch. It only, it covers like the formation of the band and then like their first two albums. Oh, they did formations. That's cool. That makes sense. Yeah. Big military guys. Zero six is a fallout.

Yeah. Fall in. Fall in. No, fall out. No, they fallen with earlier. It was fall out. I think my favorite is the drill manual. Okay. Yeah. Hey, did I do that? Right? Um, sir, I just was a gunny yesterday and comma like maintenance. I have no idea. Oh, okay. Random gunny over there. So I was at the drill field. That's not right on my hat. You should have said fall in. Okay, as you were. Yeah, as I was belay everything.

Any last major slides? Not a major slide, but yeah, I was walking. I am a major. It was a fishing store. You had the park I walk through. There's like this like on the on the north side of it. There's like this like duck pond. Okay. So close to the, you know, man, Boston commons right now. Yeah. Similar to that duck pod. Not as, not as famous, um, kind of opposite side of the park from the pickleball courts trace. You can visualize, we can build a train model later and we'll do knee hop or knee high train features. So we get to good relief there.

And so I'm like walking up and there's this, there's fish in this pond. They're like stocked. I don't, I don't know what kind of fish it is, but it just cracks me up. But people are, are like fishing in there and they have like their full like tackle box and everything set up. But there's, there's a guy with his back to me, clearly has a line in the water. He's wearing a hat. Some may call it a cowboy hat, but we know on this, on this show, we just call it a hat. He's got some, you know, some sort of like,

probably so I don't see the front of it, like, but like a button up like short sleeve shirt on American flag bandana, like hanging out of like the back of his pocket. He's got some, he's got some tunes, just Blair and some country tunes. Didn't recognize the song. Garth Brooks, big jumping guy. And I guess I'm kind of like walking past him, like turning right to go down this, this little bridge. He like kind of like looks over and I'm like, give him, give him a little like tip of my cap. I'm just wearing a regular hat and say, Hey, she listens to the OK podcast.

Because he just was a younger fellow, had a mustache, felt like he's right in our demographic. He probably said, I already do. He goes, and your name's Jeff. Hey, I know you. You're the Mormon. OK, podcast. But yeah,'re the Mormon. From the OK Podcast. But yeah.

Do you have a lot of OK Podcast stickers coming out right now? So we'll all be, we'll all be plused up. We can start tagging the quick trips again. Oh, thank you. Love it. Love it. Yeah. That's all I got.

That's all I got. All right. Now, if you save rounds or alibis? Went to L&J Cafe today in El Paso. Ooh, some Chao talk. We didn't know you pushed Chao. It's continuous. He just sent a picture in the.

Yeah. What? Second? What? I missed it. Jeff says that, he just sent a picture. It's all right, Grant didn't check it. He did send a picture. It's all right. Yeah. Grant didn't check it. Yeah. I've been down range. That's true. Is that your second time there? No. Yeah.

Like I don't want to steal Mastinomics bit. I love them, but I don't know how else to say this. Like overrated, underrated. All right. Dude, exactly right. Or we could steal Dave Portnoy's bit and like put it on one to 10. Don't use whole numbers. Decimals mean things which push you over whole numbers and then over an eight's worth driving to. Eight, seven. and over an eight's worth driving to?

Eight, seven. Eight, seven, wow, that's higher than me, but I think that's not out to Lafayette. Okay, what did you get? What did you eat? So today I always ask, last time I got the chili reno, big fan. That's the green enchiladas? That's the,

Or that's the chili reno. Pepper, yeah, the chili reno. It's like a grilled, It's, Rieno pepper. Which one's that? Usually stuffed. I got the brisket. Is that the pulled pork sandwich? No, it's the brisket. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. For your English speakers. Okay. What'd you get this time? So I asked the lady and she, I go, hey, what do you recommend? I got chili reno last time.

She said chicken fajitas. I go, that seems kind of common, but if you think they're good, then I'll go with it. So that's what I ran with. Then this point was pretty good. Oh yeah. There's chips and salsa are phenomenal. That's what I was gonna say.

The places that bring you like six different salsas Their chips and salsa are phenomenal. That's what I was going to say. The places that bring you like six different salsas out the jump just for showing up, like you could just walk in there, sit down and grab a water and leave full. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's a good spot. L and J, right? L and L. L and J?

No, L and J. L and J, El Paso, Texas, kind of like on a frontage road. They reached out to the Strength Co. HB for sponsorship. They're telling them no, but we'll probably accept that. That'd be a good pick up. I'm traveling with a coworker from San Antonio, which San Antonio is pretty good Mexican food. In Southern California, we call it Tex-Mex.

Tex-Mex. And he was a big fan. So nice. I would say if you're an El Paso or anywhere near it, it's worth a trip. I'm an El Paso fan. If Granland were in Texas, it'd be El Paso. My wife, sometimes she says she wants to live in Texas and I'm always like, you mean Mexico? And she's like, no, Texas.

And I was like, El Paso, that's the only spot. I'm a fan, I'm a fan. It's like mixing hill country in the high desert and Mexico all in one. Yeah, that's pretty accurate. Yeah, pretty accurate. All right, with that, Trey, I don't you take this thing down for a landing? What episode?

Episode 0. I don't know if we're going to make it to Episode 0 for the fans, or at least on a weekly basis. Let's see what we can do. My buddies. This is going to be tough. Yeah, it would be funny to leave them edging before 6-9. Sorry mom. Google that.

Or we just make it like episodes 0-6-9 just like very short. I just think the way this is going to play out is we're going to get to six, eight. Yep. And then there's going to be like weeks before six, nine comes and it was not intentional. Not on purpose. No, it's just reality. And it'll be even funnier if we can't pull six, eight off because it'll be like, wait, wait, wait, wait. But yeah, that's just how the kids speak these days. We'll figure it out.

Yeah. Episode. This episode is zero six seven of the professional. Okay. As always like to thank our sponsor, BW tax coming up pretty soon. How much about a week tax season tax day comes rolling out, right? So if you haven't contacted him, it's not too late, even though it's pretty close to being too late,

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Yeah, his phone's dead. He's taking a break. He's got carpal tunnel syndrome. Give it up for Lent. Other than that, coach, I'm missing anything. Jeff, you wearing the new strength coat tee? I sure am. Ooh, sure, I'm missing anything. Jeff, you were in the new strength coat tee. I sure am. Ooh, short and beautiful.

You've been frozen since like the 22 minute mark. So I haven't been able to actually see you. But nice. Glad that came quick. We did launch the new strength go Bulldog tee, which was the old OGT. The first tee the Marine Corps inspired, get a Bulldog tee, sports CFTO down range. It's a 50-50 cotton polyester blend. So it's going to fit true to size slightly tighter in the biceps for you jack types, but go check out that tee. I don't think we missed anything. Thanks for tuning in.

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