The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 69: The Okinawa Hello, Dakota Meyer & The Pope

Episode Date: April 27, 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 - INTRO01:40 - ROLL CALL14:29 - DAKOTA MEYER18:23 - NFL DRAFT22:27 - PLAYOFFS26:28 - WRESTLEMANIA29:33 - MONTANA FISHING38:15 - HOTEL GYMS40:37 - WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A GYM52:23 - KNEE SLEEVES54:43 - THE POPE57:25 - BW TAX BOOK CLUB01:00:06 - SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY01:04:09 - DRIVING ON LEFT SIDE01:11:37 - DECAF COFFEE01:18:00 - SIGN OFF

All right, and welcome back to episode 0690690 of the OK podcast powered by the Strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogge. We've had zero technical difficulties today as we broadcast live from across the globe. The FDO's downrange. I'm joined by Mr. Jeff Bouger. Had some jokes about it in the first four times we tried to do the opening, I forgot them now.

And they're just- They were good. They don't seem as funny to me anymore. They were good, they were good. Yeah, I'll save them for next week when I'm in the mood. And Mr. Trey Gottlitz, Robert Gottlitz, the third, joining us from Amarillo, Texas. I hope to get there by morning, Trey, uh, got let's Robert got Lash to third. Joining us from Amarillo, Texas. Um, I hope to get there by morning tray. I think if I leave right now, I'll make Cheyenne.

Uh, well she wrote any of those songs that would have been cool. Uh, podcast is powered by the strength code brought to you by BW tax tax seasons over. It's never too late to start leaning in the next year. Speaking of taxes, speaking of money, speaking to be a rich Bitcoin, 95,000 074.27. If you woke up Friday morning, we're looking for the OK Podcast. Sorry, we're not sorry. Everyone was doing the 2018 Cobra Gold after action review. So we couldn't quite get to recording on time, but we're here another week, another episode. We're still recorded in the set within the same week.

We're hitting all the wickets, TNR valves going well. We're a trained unit and we're just wanna stay that way. That I'll kick it over to the three. And now it's the big, do I go back into the same spiel that we did last time? Yeah, let's go for it. All right, just getting back off a leave. I'm in email defile aid.

You know what they say, enemy gets a vote. I'm just deleting emails, not even reading them reset. And you know, obviously you've got my standup desk I need to get back to with the portrait style monitor, right? I've got four that are horizontal, two that are portrait style, because you have to have both of them if you want to be an effective and efficient and deadly and lethal and combat effective and war fighter of a staff officer. So let's go ahead and kick this off.

For Mr. Gotlich, Mr. Gotlich, actually you're Mr. Gotlich, you're like that random civilian employee that like sits in the back of the meeting that no one knows who he is. And it's like, why is this guy here? Do you know what he's talking about with the portrait monitors? No idea. Oh yeah. I don't know when they hit the like Marine Corps officer world by storm, but everyone wants to turn their monitor sideways now. It's crazy. I've seen like people who, people who like, yeah, people who code do it. Yeah.

Coders is that what y'all do now? Code and Python. I can frame, but they definitely saw someone that was coding and was like, Oh, that guy knows that guy is a computer. So I'm going to also look like I know how to use a computer. Hey, trash. It's getting, uh, keep these sidebars to a minimum.

Stay back on track. Gentlemen, gentlemen, see Trey's embracing it. If you're not watching on YouTube, go check it out. Trey's rotated 90 degrees. Wow. That's amazing.rey's rotated 90 degrees. Wow, that's amazing. That's amazing. Okay, all right.

Yeah, as you were, gentlemen, gentlemen, as you were, the one, what you got, admin shop, talk to me. Yes, sir. If you look at the slide, the numbers are there. I'm going to read them to you. Please do not add them up because they won't add up. The numbers in parentheses are attachments, but even though they're attachments, we're going to leave them in parentheses because we are one team, but the 3270 has not been

run. So they're attached, but they're not. And so they're not in our numbers, but like half of them are, but not all of them. So they're in parentheses. And also, we don't have them in our GTCC hierarchy yet, but we've reached back out and the numbers are wrong, but there's the slide. Nothing more from the one. Thank you. Thank you. One deuce to what until we got, sir, this is the deuce chief. The deuce is on leave. I'm a Lance corporal. I just wanted to let you know that. I'm going to do a quick brief of the O plan real quick as a Lance Corporal.

That's good. Nothing for the two shops, sir. Thank you. I can't wait for this new guest that we've totally skipped every single meeting and it's just gonna hit you guys out of left field and you're gonna love it. But he's not till the end, he's not till the end. Keep going. Okay, Three Shop, like you said,

I'm just catching back up from emails. So we'll get spun up together. We'll do Three Shop, if you're ops type, if you're ops bubba, go ahead and stay after it. We're gonna do a quick circle up, circle the wagons, get re-synced, get re-oriented, you know, declinate my compass and all that, find true north and keep going. Keep going, push forward.

Opsa, this is Trash5. I know you've been out and you're in defilade. If you need some suppressing fires from any of my team, any of the guys from H&S, you let me know. We can help the three shot. One team, right? One team, one team one team yeah appreciate five sometimes okay uh so let's take you over to the four shop let's talk logistics what do you got well amateurs talk tactics oh professionals talk logistics that's what we've always said that That is true. Stop saying it's true.

Trey, that's you. You're the four. So pretty much for the four shop, the only thing I need to know is for the next field event, I just need a head count of the Marines going out there so we can order the correct number of MREs and make sure that the trash receptacles are set up in the locations that have dropped. They're going to be next to the porta potties that have submitted up to regimen. That's all I have, sir.

Real quick, sir. This is the four gunny. I know my replacement's already on deck and I'm not really here that much, but my replacement's on convalescent leaf. And I'm in the middle of doing my vert package. You old timers will get that reference. But anyway, I just want to say with the new trash order that came out, Maradmin trash slash trash slash trash, it specifically states that plastic is different than metal, which is different than aluminum, which is different than cardboard. And when you throw away your aluminum cans, and if they have a frigging doggone wrapper on them, I need the wrapper to come off the can and go with the trash. And then the can goes in its own bin. Okay, that goes for Gatorade bottles, water bottles, MRE heaters,

anything you may have the wrapper comes off the bottle and the trash gets separated or we're going to get a fine. Okay, we're going to get a fine. And I'm going to pretend like it comes out of my paycheck. So please everyone do that. That's, that's it. Yeah. Where does that trash come from? Thanks. Thanks for staying engaged to the end. We appreciate it. Like the, if the unit unit gets where does that who? Like the you know, the

111 does not have the average, a bank account that gets charged. Like, yeah, thanks. Thanks, Obama. Where do these fines come out? OK, sorry. Sidebar. Excuse me. Excuse me. I digress. I'm still, my mind is still on leave. You know, I'm getting back. I got to snap back in. Definitely got to, you know, snap in through the grass week, you know, for my email. Uh, definitely, uh, who's next medical. What do we got? got? We have a Shot X on Friday.

It goes from 08 to 1630, but don't be surprised if you come at 1530 and the docs decide to end it early. So we say it's 08 to 1630 and it's all hands, but if you come at 16, we're gonna be done. Very well, thank you, thank you. We'll have every single person in the battalion there at 07 Yeah, sir

We were kind of thinking a an efficient way to do it would just be to send all 1200 Marines and sailors there at one time And funnel it through one door Yeah, because we were unable to control smaller formation groups to stagger So we're just gonna do all. And it looks like on Friday, it's going to be 95 degrees with a humidity of 100 and clear sunshine. So the Marines will just stand outside the chapel where we're going to do the shot X because that's where we always do the shot X is in the chapel because it's very sanitary in there. And they'll just bake in the sun.

And basically some of the Marines will wait for about seven hours and then we'll decide to end it early and they'll just get sent back to the barracks. So it's how we've always done it. We'll never stop doing it. It's what we like to do at Benicole. That's all, sir. That's great. Tradition, it's one of our bedrocks.

Six shop, S6 six talk to me Como. Comes up. Okay, okay. Who comes after the six shop? All right, our special staff career planner. Any updates? We got Dakota Myers reenlisted. So that's good. What the news won't tell you is he's in the SMC-R. So, you know, what I like to say about reservists is they're freeze dried. They're freeze dried at whatever rank they left as. So if he ends up being a gunny, really,

he's just a corporal because he's a freeze dried reservist. But we got him and that was big. Sar Major talked about it. It was real big. And you did the reenlistment package for that? Is that what you're saying? Is that what you're alluding to? I'm a career planner. So basically. Okay. Okay. You planned his career. That's outstanding. Yeah. Outstanding.

Yep. Um, well, the, the fro, uh, the Mifflick and the, whatever acronym they're all fired. We don't have those anymore. Yeah. Thanks Doge. We've got one gunny that's on terminal leave covering down on all those. So we're very well supported. He's also the Sapper and the, uh, UVA. Outstanding.

Alison. And he also makes plaques in his garage. Uh, basically Monday, Monday, Monday through And he also makes plaques in his garage. Uh, basically Monday, Monday, Monday through Friday, he makes plaques in his garage from zero eight. Well, zero nine is the one to get too early of a start to about 1400. So, yeah, he can't come to the meetings because he's doing the plaque for that unit on the other side of base that has nothing to do with his job, but he can't make it. It's a, it's a Sergeant Major retired.

And he makes all staff, staff and Oh, pitching 25 bucks to make these. Yeah. Yeah. As one does as one day 3d printers aren't free. That's what I always say. Hey, we're going to continue to the special staff. Uh, yeah. Special staff chaplain chaps. God is good.

And you say all the time. All the time. All the time. And all the time. God is good. Amen. Nothing else for the group. Well, well said.

Well said. Anyone else? Anyone else? And he saved any saved rounds, alibis, any people we didn't call on? I think maybe we had some outlying stations that we're going to get to at some point. We'll hit them last. Why don't you kick it over to who you'd usually kick it over to? Sorry, Major. Hey, this is Gunnar. All right. This is Gunnar here. And I don't I don't I don't talk a lot in these meetings, but I just want to go over the life rule. All right.

I want this to get down to the lowest level. Okay. So life rule works on the range, works when you're busy. Owen, you may not like something. That doesn't mean it's wrong. So I want you to ask yourself, am I doing it right? And if you're not, it doesn't work. But if you are doing it right, it works better.

So if you're on the frigging dang range and you're not in the black, ask yourself, am I doing it right? Because if you are, it works better. And if you're not, it doesn't work. This doesn't just apply to the range. It applies to trash. If you've got the frigging trash bottle in your hand, you ask yourself, am I doing it right? Because if I am, it works. And if I'm not, it doesn't work. That's L from Gunner. Am I doing it right? Because if I am it works and if I'm not It doesn't work That's all from gunner

That's why he's like why is he talking? Does he have a bomb? Who's this guy? Never been to one of these meetings with Never seen a gunner on the staff meeting. I've only seen a gunner on the range yelling at lieutenants. In civilian gear driving his personal truck. Right, which is like a Jeep jacked up. Yeah, probably like a Jeep Gladiator.

Yeah. Anyway, we were taking a road trip and we were listening to the last episode and Abby's like, Abby's like, how long does this last for? I go, probably about 20 minutes. And she's like, yeah, the Hannah just skips through it. She's like, I feel like this is only for us and Matt. She's like, I skipped the staff brief. I'm like, yeah, you and the deuce. Yeah. With that, let's get into some exciting topics. Actually, I think we should talk about Dakota Meyer.

I thought that was pretty, is it Meyer or Myers? It's Meyer, right? No, Stephanie Myers wrote Twilight. Dakota Meyer. Big Twilight. Is that how you always recall it? They call me. Yeah, that's how I remember. They call me fantasy grant. That's what they've always said. Great team Edward over here. I didn't even, I didn't even know this was like in

the works. Did you know? I came out of nowhere from where it's like all of a sudden these do it and he's doing kettlebell swings with PD Hexeth and Sergeant Major Three enlisting and I was like, oh yeah Pretty disappointed to see this sec def had to read the oath of enlistment off the card. It's like he did he yeah It wasn't off a car news off signal chat. Yeah. His wife, the reporter from the Atlantic said it to you. I was like, here you are. That's disappointing.

National Guard, am I right? A just serve and get that free chick filet. Dude, I think I texted whenever you texted that or sent that in the group, I just imagine being like a brand new second lieutenant finishing TBS. You go to IOC, you're like all ready to go. And then like, all right, who's my platoon sergeant? Oh, Dakota Meyer is sweet. Yeah, he's not going to know your second lieutenant. And you're like, is that the husband of the woman that

wrote Twilight? You're like, I thought it was, I think it's, I think it's Dakota Myers. If that's who I'm thinking. I think he's a serge Do like, tell me about your experience. You know, have you done your platoon counseling this month? So is this your first unit that you've been with? You seem. When did you come into the Marine Corps? You seem a little old for a sergeant. What is he like?

3738. It's got to be something like that. Yeah. Let's see. What was it? When did he? What was his break in service? Hmm. That was like. When did he when he was like 2012?

Maybe a little. Was it after that? Oh, look at look at this. You're going to love this tray. What do you think his birthday is? So July 26th, June 26th. So basically, here's how Marine legends were born in the year 1988. June 26, Dakota Meyer, July 26, Trey Gottlisch, the best, which is August 26, Grant Brogi. In that order. Ultimate trash guy. Big trash guy. Huge trash guy. Yeah. Look at him. He's back from Kentucky. Anyway, he got out in 2011.

Okay. So 14 year break in service. Dude, I thought two years was a long time. I was like, I don't know what this is or that like these are new things. What are we talking about? What's even expected in a day? JPEG. What the heck is a JPEG? I was like, huh? Day coming. He goes, what's McTibbs? Yeah, you know,

I don't know if you rate having McTim rights there, Sergeant. I'm not sure. I do like when he's like PT with the sergeant major and he's like, oh, nothing's changed. And so I mean, you're like, that's right. And you need a global. And I was like, that's pretty funny. That's pretty funny.

All right. Next slide. Hmm. Mainly, someone next slide. Hmm. Mainly because I want to get these glasses off, but I think I'm going to do a little check in real quick. NFL drafts going on. I feel like the big story that I didn't really feel like that was that big of a story was that she dirt standards was not draft still undrafted. Ooh, still undrafted going around.

Is that the quarterback? Yeah, that's Colorado's quarterback. Well, I know it's the kid? Yeah, that's Colorado's quarterback. Well, I know it's Deon's kid, but doesn't he have two kids at play, Shiloh and Trujillo? Shiloh's not going to the NFL. Okay. Who at one point was predicted to be like-

Not this year. Top pick. He was supposed to be the top quarterback. That's what everybody had him as. That's like the beginning of the draft, the beginning of the draft analysis. Yeah, third round is complete. Travis Hunter went number two though. That was the other one I was thinking of,

so he went two. Yeah. And then he wants to play both sides of the ball? Do you think that's, how long do you think that lasts? That's not realistic in the NFL. That doesn't happen. Like, that lasts until you get hit with a 350 pound guy. That's how I'm realistic in the NFL. That doesn't happen like Dion. That lasts until you get hit with a 350 pound guy.

Yeah, and then I mean, I'm going to go play legends. There's not there's no one trying to. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. You make more money as a wide receiver, I think. Yeah, that's what I always say. You play two positions, so think about that. Double the money.

No. Oh, save around. Alibi. I forgot the outlying stations. No, don't worry. We still got the comma. We still got comms up. Yep. OK. So yeah, we're a little we're a little bit off. Sorry, guys. We did run into some severe

China interference with getting off. Let's see. We got the chaplain. Chaplain Nate here dialing in from the field. My son observed the commandment of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother. Bind them to your heart. Tie them around your neck. When you walk about, they will guide you. When you sleep, they will watch over you. And when you awake, they will talk to you. Proverbs 6, 20 to 22 NASB 1995. My mama always taught me to secure that trash. Appreciate you, Nate. Big Nate. Mike Kelly says, okay. Okay. Joshua Hansen says you should sell the base there some plates because it's that easy. It's just that easy.

Did you bring any with you? Did you bring some? Yeah, it's just that easy. Yeah. You got a couple of Connex boxes full. It's like, it's like Gunny. It's like Gunny says, sir, you should market more. Okay, thanks.

Yeah. I'll get right on that. Dang. Matt Ronin says, let's go. Please call your areas. Uh, Maddie ice, Matt Lohan says late to the show, but glad to see the overseas trash is getting secured. Hashtag tip of the spear.

Nothing tells you that a guy's in his late thirties, like using hashtags. Uh, Sean Edward says, uh, Sean Edwards said six, a Niner six Niner. That mofo guy says, Congrats on episode in ice cube period crew in ice. I don't get it. Nice. Oh, nice. Nice. Congrats on episode.

Nice. Got it. Crew guy. Not in the discord lately. It's probably the problem. Uh, massonomics tuned in said, I like how the spacing of the quotation marks don't even make sense, which is good. Uh, he was actually replying to the here sign. Oh, I gotta go into request here. I get some requests here from accounts. We don't, uh, follow big mean guy, uh, says, are you guys at Devon's? Uh, that's op sec follow big mean guy says are you guys at Devon's that's opsec big mean guy so I can't reply to that and that's right China yeah nice try Chinese burner account nice trying to burn your Kim John own yeah that's China, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Moving on. Next one. NBA playoffs while we stay on sports. Yeah, you want to stay on sports? Yeah, it's a little NBA playoff talk.

Yeah. So Celtics came close tonight, but did not finish. Yeah. Watch that one actually start to finish. There's nothing my buddy likes more than waking up at 8 a.m. to sit in a PX and watch the Armed Forces Network. And so when watch that one, weird game, a lot of runs like Celtics are up by like 12 and then down by 10 back and forth and then down by two got the ball point three seconds tried to inbound and alley-oop alley-oop and missed it. So but I mean, I think they're fine. They're up two games. They won both at home. They went to Orlando lost in the red. They'll be fine. Sixers can't watch the Sixers without seeing

dock rivers and thinking of the Celtics, but he's not a coach. The Celtics hasn't been for a long time. They're still weird. The Lakers teams. Yeah, it is. It is. I think the Lakers are playing right now. Right. Yeah, they're losing to the T Wolves losing to the T Wolves Wolves. Yeah, let's go T Wolves. Hard for me not to pull for Luca though as a big Dallas guy, huge Dallas guy. Big Dallas guy. Big Dallas guy. Did you see the owner or the GM gave an interview after the season ended? I didn't. And he goes, man, I really didn't realize how much people in Dallas like Luca.

Dude. That was like verbatim what he said. Yeah. Everyone's like, what? Sorry, bro. What are you talking about? Are you kidding me? That's when you just think to yourself and you go, ooh.

That's like saying people in Dallas don't like brisket. Okay. Hey, if I'm that general manager and I let go of Luca, I'm gonna ask myself, am I doing it right? Am I doing it right? Yeah. Because it doesn't seem like I am. And if I was, we'd be doing better.

It'd be worth it. But we're not. So then I should do it right. So life rule goes for NBA GM's as well. Dang. Gunners. Next slide. Prophetic. I say NBA playoffs, I mean Celtics update. So right now we know where I'm seeing. Right. Well, it's just two one hockey.

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It's all I got. It's the it was the it's the U.F.L. It was a game on and I'm like, no one watches this. And I was like, I'm just going to throw this out there. And I guarantee no one, neither of you will know who these teams are, because I do like the name showboats, the Memphis showboats and the Burmese showboats. There's to me, there's the easiest way to fix. Is it the UFO?

I think, yeah, yeah. Just make it make it a minor league team for the NFL. Is it the UFO? I think. Yeah. Yeah. Just make it, make it a minor league team for the NFL. Is this a soccer game? Yeah. I'm not being funny. No, it's the fake. It's the fake NFL football. Yeah. That D I thought that was the XFL. They changed it, changed the name. UFO. Does the rock still on it? No, maybe. Well, I have some sort of stone. Now speaking of the rock, what about he did not show up to WrestleMania? Oh no. Wait, like literally didn't show up or did not physically show up.

So, so okay. Here's the problem. If you follow, so grants buddy's gone, which means he can't be on Instagram all day posting strength coast stuff. So if you're wondering why they counts meme heavy, it's Connor King and the algorithm for said channel. If you're on the explore page now is all wrestling because apparently that's all Connor cares

about. And so I have learned more about wrestling in the last three weeks that I care to know. And I still don't get it. It's like these weird storylines and like, like it never ends. It's not like the show is on the mat. It's like everything they do ever. Like someone tackled Pat McAfee and like got suspended and then there's like WWE, but then there's something called Ross and then George John Cena wins 17 belts, which means he beats Rick flair and then the next night he goes to raw and he gets like

knocked out. But anyway, what the internet told me therefore it's real is that the rock didn't show up and fans were pissed. He was probably at that Memphis showboats game. Checking in on some investment. I think he was. He thought that was a higher priority for. Yeah. Mm hmm. Rolex wearing. That's right. Diamond ring wearing. Oh, yeah. I keep going to. I won't.

Oh, OK. All right. Whatever you want. What if you want? OK, so no one caught the showboat stallions. Yeah, I'm afraid that was a televised. Oh, yeah, it was on TV. OK, no, miss that. I don't know what channel it was on. I didn't. I didn't like that. Telemundo. Yeah.

Go. But like. The show. The show. And the crowd goes wild. going like, Oh, so and the crowd goes wild. All four of them. Oh, man. Oh, yeah, I should have I should have checked in just to see what the crowd looked like. They're probably pretty sparse, but you know, hey,

they're doing their thing. We'll see. Look at us in 10 years. Maybe the U.F.L. is the new NFL. What's the what's the indoor in their indoor football league? Yeah. Arena Football League. I think it's I think it's a film. They had that's where like the fans could call the plays.

Do you remember that? Oh, I don't remember that. That's that kind of got hot for a little bit. I feel like I remember Atlanta had a indoor football team and I were going to a couple of games and actually pretty fun. It's like it's a pretty exciting game. A lot of scoring. Oh, yeah, I never watched one, so I can tell you.

I believe you, though. It's good. It's fun. What else? OK. Any other sports talk? I think that's it. Okay. Okay. No sports. Hmm. You want to go to trace deep topic or do we want to go into lifting?

I kind of want to go into your new hat. I feel like that might take us somewhere. Okay. So new hat. We last what? We eight days was in Montana on like a family trip. So my parents left from Georgia. My sister came in her family out from Boston. Your dad was there? My dad was there. Yeah, we were so great. I see that the Red Sox have started 16 and 12. Good start to the season. I've been looking at the analytics and the right field or a, Ruff Snyder, has got a base percentage of 427, which last time if I'm comparing analytics from 1974 when the Red Sox right fielder had the same OBS, the Red Sox were a very mediocre team.

So you can expect the same out of there and up note, the pool is 82 degrees right now. Thank you. Is this accurate? It's pretty spot on. Today, maybe this last time at dinner, I got blown away by him remembering. So I guess, you know, so he went to the Naval Academy, class of 66, beat army, don't give up the ship. ship and so and I guess one of the things I don't know if they still do it the Naval Academy we could have confirmed with our previous guest Donnie Bowers Yeah, Donnie or no, but like he they would ask if they ask you what time it is like when you're at plebe

So like your freshman year you have there's this like long kind of preamble about how like your watch may not be a hundred percent accurate, but just like all the Paul, like it is like long spiel. And then like they say the time and he like rattles it off. And I get it. We went to a military school. We get it. It makes sense.

We get it. But he like, it's ingrained in his brain still. And he just turned, he just turned 82. That was part of the trip was his birthday was on a few days ago. I won't reveal his actual birthday for opsec reasons. Obviously we know we got China on the line. So yeah. So yeah. So it was in my mom's birthday was the previous week. So it was like celebrating their birthdays slash like early celebration of their

50th wedding anniversary slash this was the last of the 50 states that my dad had not been to. OK, like stated a lodge. We flew into Bozeman. There's a lodge that we stayed at for a few days, about an hour away called the Sage Lodge. Really nice, like good time. A lot of activities for the kiddos and just kind of hanging out and staring into some beautiful mountains.

And then the final day, that you brought a little accoutrements with you. I did and lugged out my broad and waiters and boots and all that stuff. It's my thought process. Well, I'm going to be in close proximity to some great rivers and great waters. And I know that Grant's buddy is not able to access some waters right now. So, you know, got to keep him in mind. Get those lines out.

So the. Was that yesterday? So the day before that back. Yeah, I just got back this afternoon, but then. So two days ago when we got into Bozeman stopped by a fly shop, shout out to Montana trout fitters, little play on words there, um, stop like outfitters except trout. Love it. Caught in there, talk to the folks working, um, got the insight on some, some

places to check out and some, some flies to, to throw. Um, so you went off the road. No, no luck. I think if I would have done it differently, if I did it a second time and I would have like, so the river that I was at the Gallatin river, not naming waters, everyone knows this. It's like a famous river in myself. And it goes south to north out of Yellowstone National Park. And so I started in this canyon closer to the headwaters. Water was running pretty fast. So it wasn't great fishing conditions

where I was. But then as I like moved back north, flows kind of slowed down and you could tell it was better condition. Still not great. But I would have if I was like, oh, I should have fished the southern most or the northern most point that they told me to go check out and then worked my way even further north. But it was still good time. Did you ask yourself? You know, I didn't, I didn't know this at the time. You didn't know the life rule.

I didn't. Am I right? My life, it works better. It could, it'll work better next time, I think, but it was still. It's great being on the water either way. Great time. Great time. Yeah.

Nice. Beautiful stuff. Montana's great. Big Montana guy. Montana's pretty great. Yeah. I haven't been there. I think I got three left to go to. Ooh. Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Dang. Oh, they're all right there. So yeah, they're all right there. You just go to Aberdeen, drive to Eagle Butte, make a right and boom, you're there. Obviously. It just checked out for Alaska by way of my buddy.

Basically like a severance thing. You know what I mean? Basically severance. Severance is basically the Marine Corps. It's basically being a reservist. Yeah, it's basically being a reservist. Dude. Oh, that's funny.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was calculating it. I think I have like five or six states I still need to hit. Alaska's one, the Dakotas, West Virginia. Mountain mama. I'm trying to think of anything else.

Yeah. So you got to go to Lyft Hard, Live Easy 3 this year. I know. I know. I got to go of anything else. Yeah. So you gotta go to Lyftard, Liveeasy three this year. I know, I know. I gotta go represent the strength co. Hail state. Hail state. We haven't heard from, oh, nice shirt. We haven't heard from them in a while.

Speaking of strength co. T's we got a new t-shirt out for those about to squat. It's actually an old t-shirt, one that we made back in like 20, I'm gonna say 18. Redid it a little bit, changed the design, still has the ACDC cannon on the back. Looks like the ACDC album cover for those about to rock.

The first variation had the circle S logo on it, which we don't really use anymore. So now it's a strength on the front, comes in OD green on a LA apparel 2003 blanks, 100% cotton, but not the heavy shirt and not the 50 50. So a little bit different blank than we've used before. Okay. I do like this one. It's going to be a little bit tighter sleeves for you guys trying to look jacked. And I think in XL it comes in the, uh, the squat T variant as we call it due to availability, but maybe a T shirt go over to www.strength.co buy one of the hats that Trey's wearing and get yourself up for those about the squat T. What if I go to www.thestrength.hb,

does that take me anywhere? Oh, great shirts there. Yeah. Great shirts. Chinese made, Chinese propaganda. China. Made out of rice, yeah. They're really great.

Let me tell you, Strength Co. HB, they're inside the Wes. They came in, reverse engineered the Strength Co. and just made a lesser version of it. Yep. Had to reverse engineer the T-shirt. They're like, what are they making over there? I don't know what HB stands for. the T-shirt, they're like, yeah, they make it. I know what HP stands for.

Never know. The strength, huge bummer, heck of a butt. Heck of a but huge, but a good squat. Hail Brogy. Hey, hey, bro. It's really just an omos degree. Just a fan club. You go in, there's just posters of Grant all over. They're like, we just really like what he's doing.

It's basically like Keir. It's not really a Keir. It's basically like Keir. It's another separate. It's like, it has a grant. It's like, what are the wood, the wood in the bucket with the cement? That's right. Yeah.

It's in the museum. If you want to squat on an original StrengthCo squat rack, we got the buckets over here. That's the StrengthCo 2020 line. That's the StrengthCo 2020 line. Yeah. That's the old Chinese York plates. Ah, I thought we sold those to a real person

on Facebook Marketplace. We didn't know we'd get it back to China. Burner and Chum. They recreated Grant's y'all's garage. Yeah, from Summerwind. Yeah. Yep. 2499 Summerwind, huh?

What a place. That was a good place. All right. See, speaking of gyms, also part of the trip, all hotel gyms are the exact same. Trash. They're all trash. Yes, they are all trash.

It's all elliptical. One elliptical, one treadmill, one stationary bike. Could be like a bike seat one. It could be where it's like the chair one. So sort of like the recumbent style bike. And then a bench, sometimes it's adjustable. And dumbbells, five pounds to 50 pounds every time. See, I think it's two treadmills, but one's not working.

One is usually what it is. What are you staying at at Best Western? Like potential sponsor Hilton. Yeah. Now hotel gyms are the worst. It's not even like worth your time. I mean, I say it's not worth your time doing something is probably better than doing nothing, but yeah, it's like,

it's not even your time doing something's probably better than doing nothing. But yeah, it's like, it's not even worth looking to see the only time I've seen anything good. I feel like in Mexico City, in Mexico City was a honeymoon. So we're staying in above average hotels, but they had a bench press like a real bench press. And the weights like weren't the perfect diameter, but you could go in there and therefore they had a bar and circle weights. And so you could bench, you could overhead press, and you could deadlift. I mean, you can make the argument you could squat, but there was no squat rack. But yeah, they had that. And then the Palazzo in Las Vegas has a full on barbell gym. in Las Vegas has like a full on barbell gym. Nice.

Oh dang. Yeah. But the majority of hotel gyms are just worthless. Yeah. I feel like I've been to like one or two where I've seen like, you know, some sort of cheap China made squat rack, but at least like barbell and plates, but it's like so rare, so rare. So yeah, that's why I just go Google a barbell gym nearby. Hopefully you're next to the strength.

Go HB, get a lift in there. The ice big fan of what they do. Yeah, potential sponsor. Yeah, potential sponsor, strength, go HB. Oh, man. Let's see. What else? What else? Do you want to dive in on Trey's deep, deep topic? I can't even remember what it is.

Trying to keep that last. Why are we staying in gyms? Why are we talking about Grant's buddy's gym? Let's do it. Actually, it's good. So, and I think we should just do a little bit of like what you should look for when you're going to a gym, right? So we're saying that a hotel gym is not great. I think there are certain things that you're looking for when you're going to a gym, right? So we're saying that a hotel gym is not great.

I think there are certain things that you're looking for when you're like trying to get a gym. The assumption is that you wanna get stronger. The assumption is that you understand that the big compound lifts are important and you wanna be able to do those safely and effectively. And so you're gonna need a power rack. You're gonna need a barbell.

You're gonna need plates with increments, small increments, so that you can make small jumps and go up on the bar. So you want the gym to at least have two and a halfs. You want to have collars. Hopefully the squat rack is either a cage where you can squat inside of it, or it's some kind of apparatus

that has spotter arms that come out so that you can fail, so that you can lift alone. You want the bench press to also have a safety mechanism. A lot of commercial gyms will have bench presses with like those weird hooks in the metal, you know? So like the height's kind of weird and hard to get back in. Preferably you have a bench press, preferably just bench inside the squat rack, really.

You can go to a place like a powerlifting gym that has competition, squat racks, and bench presses. I personally don't love those a ton. I mean, I'm a guy that's been lifting for a long time, has competed in powerlifting, and I still just find them kind of confusing and not user-friendly. So if you're a person that's just getting started,

a super intense powerlifting gym, the equipment, I don't wanna say it's hard to use, but it might be a little bit more difficult to figure out how to set everything up. Plus it's gonna stink and there's gonna be a lot of trash and a lot of sweaty people in a powerlifting gym, but they can be great. Crossfit gyms usually work pretty well.

Problem with Crossfit gyms is you gotta make sure that they allow open gym and they're cool about it. Sometimes they only want you to do the class and if you're the guy that's trying to just squat three sets of five in the corner and there's a class going on, somebody's doing a bunch of wall balls or muscle ups or something, you can be in the way. But you're generally looking for at least a power rack,

a bar and plates. And that's like step one to get started. And then step two, and this is like where Grant's buddies gym comes into play, is once you get used to using nice stuff, anything else is not as nice. And so this gym, the House of Pain, I mean, if you looked at it, you'd say it's a nice gym. I will say, I think they have one, two, three, four, five, they probably have 12 squat racks in there,

which is funny on a gym that's 30,000, 40,000 square feet. They barely have more squat racks than the Strengthco Costa Mesa, not to be confused with the Strengthco HB. But they do have a lot of power racks, but you start to realize like, hey, this is a three by three rack. Some people like that.

I don't like a three by three rack because you lose an inch on either side where the barbell sleeve is. So if you don't walk out perfectly straight, you hit the uprights. It also on this particular gym has spotter arms that come off of the four by four rack, which to me is silly and kind of a waste because now like, why would you not just squat in the middle with

safety pins or pipes or something? So now you have to squat outside. And so me lifting, I've run into some issues where I walk out of the gym or walk out of the rack perfectly, but because it has spotter arms and because they're three by threes and because I, once I'm about to get to you, I'm using bumper plates. When I squat down the edge of the plate will sometimes hit

the spotter arm, which can jack up a heavy squat. So preferably like two by three racks are a little bit better. You don't want a Smith machine. It's not to say that you can't lift on a Smith machine, but you can't lift on the Smith machine. You can do things on it, but if you're squatting, you don't want the bar to be in a fixed pathway. You want to control the bar.

You want to use your body to keep the bar over mid-foot. So a Smith machine is not ideal. But yeah, so you want to find a power rack bench, a place to deadlift, so some type of flooring. Doesn't have to be like a wood center on your deadlift platform. It can be horse stall mats just on the ground. It can be rubber matting from the gym floor, whatever the case may be. But those are the things you're looking

for in a good gym. And then when it comes to plates, I've been using bumpers the last few weeks here and not just any bumpers. The Strength Co. we sell bumpers. They're made in USA. These are China ones, but that's not the problem. They're just like super thick. They're kind of like oily and you run out of space in the sleeve and that's not like I'm not some crazy six, 700 pound squatter. Even squatting 405, the weight gets further out of the bar. There's more whip when you hit the hole, which not that you can't brace and do that anyway, but you do feel it. And the heavier you go, the more instability can kind of kick you off balance. It's a pain to micro load it. I also don't like having to switch brands.

So I'm using like bumpers all the way down to tens. And then I had to walk to the other side of the gym where they have a small selection of iron and grab the fives and the two and a halfs and bring them over. If I'm pressing and need to make a small micro load, I gotta go to my gym bag and grab my strength at 1.25s, because they don't have them there.

There's only like three pairs of two and a halfs in the whole gym. So sometimes you just can't find where they are. So there's like, hey, I need this stuff and I can totally get strong off of like crummy plates and bars and things of that nature. But then once you've had the nice stuff, you've had the barbell with the nice knurling,

you've had the plates with every increment jump, you've had the collars, like the lever strength coat collars that you put on, you can put the next plate on and then remove it without bringing everything off. Like once you've done all that stuff, switching over to something else, which most people would walk in and be like,

whoa, nice gym. I'm just like, man, I want my own stuff. And I want it a certain way, but that's what to look for in a gym. I like it. It's a go. It sounds like a really good advertisement to just invest in your own personal gym. Yeah, I mean, there is something about working out with other people that I do like though. It's fun to go to the gym, you know.

I agree with you, like You should buy a home gym. But I don't usually lift with other people, especially randos. Meaning generally when I lift with other people, it's in my gym with people doing a starting strength or an intelligent lifting program. It's also funny what people find impressive. And I don't mean that. What I mean is I think my lifts are very underwhelming. I know I'm like stronger than people that don't lift, but you know, in the terms of

like lifters and stuff we see at the Arnold, it's not that incredible, but it's like, man, if you squat 365, like everyone in the gym is like, whoa, look at this guy. So that's, that's kind of funny. been dealing grants, buddy's been dealing with a lot of that like, Whoa, sir, sir, how'd you get so strong? Do you take creatine? Like, Yep, that's the creatine. Yep, that's it. It's the only thing. There's nothing not the 15 years of lifting just creatine.

So yeah, I was actually I'll pick your brain on this. I was talking with Caleb, Dr. Gatledge. And so he has his personal gym. And so he's getting ready to move not too long. So I'm storing some of his gym stuff in my place. And he's bringing over some mirrors. I go mirrors. He's like, yeah, he's like, I really like I'm in the gym. At my personal gym that day he has his house cause I feel like it just helps out a ton.

Do you think, do you think that would be a good upgrade to a home gym? I don't know, it depends what you're into. I'm not a mirrors fan personally, and that's not me going full rip a toe and being like, they're confusing and they, you know, mess you up, but I do think they could be distracting. Like it is hard enough to get a new lifter

to look at like the floor out in front of them for balance without a mirror, right? It's like, it's just difficult. So I do think it can be a distraction. It's not that I don't get a pump or like feel good about myself while I'm lifting sometimes. But when I go in, it's like a contractual agreement. I'm supposed to squat this, I'm supposed to press this,

I'm supposed to deadlift this, whatever the case is. It's not like me looking at the horseshoe on my tricep personally. You know, like that's not what I'm trying to do while I'm lifting, but some people, yeah, like I don't think it's a bad thing. I don't think put mirrors in your like garage or basement, you're stupid. See, I feel like, I would feel like it was more,

less probably vanity wise and more so of just like form check like in real time versus watch on your phone, you know? Yeah. Is that not the case, you don't think? I think it's difficult to like, I mean, this goes back to, are you lifting heavy or not? And I think that most people don't, right? But if you're squatting, you know, what did I do on Friday? I did four or five for three triples. So me and the Gunny worked up to three triples and then backed off for two sets five. And like, I can't look in the mirror and like make an adjustment with a heavy load on my back. Maybe that's a grant thing, but like, I like, I'm like locked in on making sure I'm bracing,

holding my breath. I'm thinking about form stuff, you know, shoving my knees out, make sure I hit my depth, whatever it is. Now, if I had 225 on my back and I wanted to see if my right knee was caving or something, which it wouldn't at a lighter weight if you're strong. But I just think if you're able to look in the mirror and make small adjustments, you're not lifting heavy. And that can be okay. Not everyone, some people aren't into it.

But yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't want to, I know Caleb's a good listener, Caleb, put those things in your, put those things in there, brother. You deadlift 500 pounds, do your thing. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't recommend it. I guess. Go ahead. I guess it depends. Hey, if it helps you go for it, but it's not your company. Yeah

Or coffee for that matter over that drink Out of a cup anyway, um, yeah, Kim Chi can eat you all Yeah Women in the gym have commented at the strength co. A lot of times they like no mirrors. So females have brought that up. Some men have too. But yeah.

So you put in the mirrors in your garage. I have no idea. I'm storing them somewhere. You better put them up and I want shirtless. I'm gonna have them now. I'm a big pro mirror guy. Yeah, I'm just gonna flex on them. Yeah.

See, I'm only into mirrors if I have smoke. Boom, boom, boom. They get smoke and mirrors. Yeah. Hey, when there's smoke, there's smoke. And so the other reason that you don't really need mirrors is if you're squatting and you think something's wrong, just ask yourself, am I doing it right?

Because if you are, it works better. And if you're not, it doesn't work. Yeah. Yeah. That's the last strength go video you're going to need to make. He's just that one. And then you just go, well, then I'm done. I retire. It's done. Yeah, it's all there. Just watch that video. Yep.

And you'll be good or you won't. So we can. Yeah. Gunner Socrates over here. Life lesson. One more gym topic and then kind of got tired of washing knee sleeves, knee sleeves go in your gym bag, makes your gym bag stink. Really you can only wear knee sleeves once and then they need to be clean. People that never clean their knee sleeves,

you're disgusting, you're vile, you probably don't take out your trash either. So I just wash them in the washing machine. Does it shorten the lifespan of the knee sleeve? Maybe, I don't know. Like I'm still using like the same three pairs I've had for years. I don't wash them every single time, but I wash them at least once a week. And then I just stopped using the same three pairs I've had for years. I don't wash them every single time,

but I wash them at least once a week. And then I just stopped using them. And I'm like, I don't need these things. And I mean, occasionally I use them maybe if it's really heavy to feel good. But then my buddy's been doing a lot of running, a lot of out of nowhere happens to be in front of 140 devils and just takes

off in a sprint to the rifle range for a mile or whatever the case is. And I wouldn't say I'm much too young to feel this dang old, but the old knees have been like, Oh, ah, feeling that little yaw, that little left, left right Leo. Hey, we're here. And I want you to know that we're here. We're here. You're not pushing them out anymore. You're pushing them down and we don't like it. So I've been wearing my knee sleeves again. I don't have anything profound beyond that, but

it's kind of like old Jim. Previous guest, Jeff and I's old coach from the Fort Sill days. He used to ask him, Hey, should I wear wrist wraps? And he'd be like, do your wrist hurt? We're like, well, no, but it's the thing I could buy and wear lifting. So therefore I must need it. He's like, I don't think you need it. Um, that's kind of how I feel with the knee sleeve feeling good. Don't put them on hurt and put them on. I can dig it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right.

Sore. Sore. Put them on. Is it working? Oh, yeah. Am I doing it right? Am I doing it right? Yeah. Oh, man. Ask yourself. Let's see. Oh, all right.

Replacing bets on who the next pope is going to be. Ask yourself. Let's see. Ooh, all right. Replacing bets on who the next pope is going to be. Is that what you wanted to talk about with the pope? I just felt like we should have a moment of silent for the pope. Very well. Hey, moment of silence over. That was good. Yep, pope's gone.

I just always think it's interesting when the Pope like, what is this our third Pope in our lifetime? I could not tell you. That's yeah, I can believe that I could. Yeah, I feel like it's something like that. I like it. It seems like I remember yesterday the smoke coming out and this one coming in. My dad not liking them for theological issues.

Obviously, and then like now he's dead and they're doing it again. I did look at the pope front runners, a couple of Americans on there. Interesting. Is there betting odds? I don't know. We should ask Dave Portnoy. There's got to be. Yeah. How to bet on the pope. You probably have to use Bitcoin. That would be my guess. I don't know. I like this guy from Uganda. Because he has a cool voice. Yeah. And I can tell you anything about a man.

I don't know about the inner workings of. I know that JD Vance cursed him. That's right. That was the big. Then he seemed next day he died. Now he's sold like that morning. Like he like and then he died later. But then the Pope dies. So JD Vance killed him.

Yeah. But there's a secret service. But it's a team that knocked off JFK. Got to be. Yeah, that would be old, man. Yeah. How old that team? Yeah. I bet there were a knee sleeves. Yeah, there were no kinds of sleeves, dude. Dude, how old is that man?

Just the sleeve team. Yeah, they're older than the show boats and the stallions combined. Oh my goodness. Quick, quick reminder. Today's episode is box G by BW tax BW tax. Great guy. Better at taxes. Tax season's over. Maybe, maybe you haven't filed your taxes. Believe it or not. More people do that than you would imagine. Uh, if you're feeling guilty right now, the Pope died, you thought about God, you looked up at your cross on the wall, you're like, you know what? I'm supposed to render on to Caesar that which belongs

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Oh yeah. The BW text book club. I forgot about that. So previous, previous guests, Tim Bain, major type in the United States of Army. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back. Big history buff, real smart guy. He just texted me out of left field on the B2B tax thread and was like, Grant, you need to read way 1968. You'd love it. And I was like, awesome. So I went to the library here on base, which I'd never done. Turns out your cat cards, a library card. I mean, cat card, cat card, idiot. Who says it turns out your cack is a library card. And yeah, so I got that book. And so he had sent me a photo of the book. I sent a photo back and the next morning BW tax just sends

a photo of the book. And I'm like, man, how did he get this? Apparently he's had it on the shelf for a while hadn't read it. So we're all reading way 1968, been dropping some messages back and forth to each other. And yeah, just call it the BW tax book club. So way 1968 means weight protein. History, weight, weight, weight, weight, weight. It was way. Oh, wait. Not Hugh. Oh. Like I want to weigh 1968 pounds, as I was saying, like the like way city. Oh, how do you weigh a city?

General Christmas, am I right? Hey, he was on. He took some way that will recall this rifle. Hmm. All right. We'll go down to the. Hey, so if you're listening and you want to join the book club, go grab that book. And remember, ambushes killing is killing is fun. That's true. That's true.

Ambush is killing. Killing is fun. God is great. Killing is fun. Oh, no. Sorry. Belt fat over here. Killing is killing and killing is fun. I still remember screaming that in the second lieutenant. Yep. All the time. My name's Captain Boston, and today I'm here to tell you about the King of Battle. When I say I'm triple-double, seven alpha two,

you say, God's God. So good. Never got old. That was good. That's true. King of Battle, over. Mm. King of battle over. Oh man. Okay.

Tray's deep topic. We're going to dive into it. Do you feel social media is a net positive for society? What was it like 3 a.m. your breastfeeding three babies like ham slept in three days and you opened up social media and saw John Cena getting knocked out at raw and just ask yourself that question. I feel like Grant posted something about him just brewing coffee. Is this a net positive for society?

Absolutely it is. It's a net positive for my pocketbook. Hey. Hey, yeah, dude. I love, I love the, I don't know. I can't remember. I think, I think it was probably 3am. I was feeding the baby. I mean, that's a decent question. If you, if you didn't have a business, would you be on social media?

I would like to confidently say no. I would love to say that. I don't think that's factual though. I would be on a lot less if I didn't have a business. I would love to look at you and say, no, I wouldn't. But I'm sure I would be. I think my thought on this is a dad, you know, I get it. I asked myself, am I doing it right? And, uh, no, but, uh, I can't imagine having social media as a child. Oh, that's actually mind blowing to me. Uh, like Facebook came out, I think I was in high school. I think it's what I was saying. Like we're in the unique kind of age gap to where like we grew up without it. And then, well, yeah, I think you're right. High school was like

oh, 607 is when you had like the the edu email to get a Facebook, right? But I mean, even getting it and have yeah, like, oh, I have the Boston University email account. So now I can get this thing called Facebook. And like, that was when, you know, I think it was a lot of just colleges in the Northeast at that time were like, on Facebook and then in our expanding and like, Oh, we added more schools and everybody else being this like big deal. And those people are still on the same Facebook account. Yep. Yeah, I don't know. I just don't know is like kids having it. I also yeah, it's just it's a weird. It's a weird thing. I mean, it also is nice,

right? Like, like you post things and like people are able to keep up with you. Like there's like so many buddies of mine from college that I don't record a podcast with. And like I'm aware that like, ah, they got two kids now like they live over here now, you know, because like you follow them. Like, they keep an up wise. It's it's nice. I mean, there's also a lot of like just terribleness to it.

That's a garbage. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Trash, if you will. Trash, trash, trash. Gotta separate that trash. We got police that trash. Yeah. Now that's positive.

I say anything. It's like anything in a fallen world can be used for good and for evil. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no love it with you. Yeah, then you'll love it. That's true. I don't know. Yeah. I need to go live more like Jeff. Yeah, I'm live right now.

Always live. Oh, it just always like a live guy. Just love it. All right. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's probably thinking like, OK, how do I? How do you deal with it with? OK. OK, I don't know. I don't know. I'm going to.

How am I going to skin that cat? Yeah. Wait till they can drive't know. I'm gonna. How am I gonna skin that cat? Yeah, wait till they can drive. Yeah, I can drive. I can drive Billy. I can I can drive on the left side of the road. Hey, that's over. Oh, kick it over there. How's that going for? Yeah. Good. Haven't really gone many places, mainly on base, but Grants Buddies, the proud owner of a Subaru Stella, bought Sight Unseen from old Guardian 6 and arrived, got it. And you know, you got to go take this special test to do it. So I couldn't drive it at first, was riding around with the XO who'd already passed it. And it, so then you find, and you like,

as you're riding, you're like, this is easy. And then you start driving and you realize like how ingrained it is in your mind. And I mean, literally I'm kind of the voice inside my own head. I'm like, state of the left, state of the left. But the, like the, the, the roadway part you get, it's weird

It's like you feel like you're wearing shoes on the wrong feet, but you can still walk What's weird is like every time I need to put a blinker on I hit the wipers because that's also reversed Yeah, and so that is a main thing for me hitting the wipers. They call it the Okinawa. Hello Because you're trying to turn it's the middle of the day and you're throwing on a kimchi can eat you. So that part and the second part is I walk up to what is now the passenger side nine times out of 10. Nine out of 10. You just wind, you open the door and you're like, oh. Also, the cars are like toasters. They're so tiny. It's rough.

The steering wheel doesn't have an adjustment. So it's like in your crotch, like literally getting in and out of the vehicle. It's a task. I gotta do troop to task. I gotta do a time space analysis. I gotta met TC this thing just to get in the dag on car. But yeah, no driving. I'm going to go drive this afternoon when daddy let me drive, you know. So yeah, it's good. There's a test.

You got to drive that to the Arnold next year. The test is useful. Well, I'm kind of mad bought it sight unseen. Didn't have to think about it. I'll tell the users 600 bucks. It's like, hey, do you want the car that I have when you get here? 600 bucks, like the road tax is paid. I'm like, sure. Then I got here and I was like, I did this all wrong.

Cause there are like so many cool little trucks and Jeeps and land cruisers. And, oh man, I was like, I should have gotten like something cool, you know, for 850 instead of 600. Right? But no, it's fine. It's literally a golf cart. I mean, I'll put it to you this way.

So you drive it around, it's fine. Usually driving 30 kilometers on base, you know, that haven't been afforded much time to go and do other things. But the other day we were going to the other side of base and I took four people with me. So you can technically fit five. It was pouring rain and everyone's grown men. They're 200 pounds. Some of them, you know, my size, 220, 230. And like once you had a thousand pounds of man in that thing, it was, it was, it was hilarious. Like you just punch it to the floor. It's like, like it is, it must be like a power washer engine in there. And I'm not talking about like the guys that do that do like mobile

car washes and it's on a trailer. I'm talking about like the one your dad has to clean, you know, the gutters out that his kids bought for him by way of his wife on father's day. That's like 300 bucks from Home Depot. I mean, it is, the engine is just pathetic. But hey, you know what I always say, four wheels beats two heels. And I'd rather be in a Subaru Stella

than using my Lambo feedees. Hey. Hey. Hey. Man. Yeah, that driver on the other side of the road is trippy. And it's, is this, and the steering wheel's on the other side, yeah, so it's like. You sit on the other side, everything's different.

Just grabbing the shifter with your left hand is weird. I was, and part of that, I wish I bought a cool car, DL. I was like, man, I should have gotten a manual. I've owned two manuals in my life. Really enjoyed doing manuals. I was like, actually, that would have been tough, left-handed shifting. Yeah.

I mean, I would have been able to do it, but like that would have been a thing. An adjustment period for sure. Yeah, I really wanted a Toyota Hilux to make me feel like I was in the Middle East, but oh well. Do you want to be on the back of Grant Subarus, Stella, talking to some of the podcasts out there, talking to some of the crew? Our dollars and deadlifts are overpaid and outrated.

What is it? Under, under, under you a lot? No. Underpaid and underpaid. Underpaid, overrated, underrated, overpaid and outrated. What is it? Under, under, under, no, underpaid and underrated. Underpaid, overrated, underrated, overpaid. No. No. Unpaid and, no, it's too used. Unpaid and overrated, I think. No, I think it's unpaid and under, what is it?

Unpaid and underrated. All I know is it's a podcast by crew for crew. But yeah, well, I'm trying to sticker that thing up. What is it? Unpaid and underrated? Yeah, unpaid and underrated. Yeah. So you got fly fishing shop and underrated.

Yeah. Yeah. Fly fishing shop sticker. You got a Jefferson deadlift sticker. I'm trying to make that thing where you can't see anything but stickers. Yeah. Also Grant's buddies, like kind of like the marketer for his unit. He just keeps stickers in his pocket at all times for the unit, for the podcast. But I get some new listeners like E3 and below type. Cause like if I go through the barracks and someone's like, good morning, sir. It's 1800 off Lance corporal got got lich. The building number look to the right to the thing on the wall for four nine to six. Nothing unusual to report. Good morning.

And I'm always like, okay, good. What's your first-gen order? Clueless. And so then I'm like, hey, look, I'm going to chow. I'm going to push and chow, drink like six glasses of milk, and I'm going to walk back through here. When I do, I want you to stand up, pop that salute and say that thing with confidence and then tell me your first-gen order.

And like they smile like no one's actually like talked to them today and like realize they're a person like, good to go, sir. Go to chow, come back from chow. And every time so far the Marines like, boom, good evening, sir. Lance Corporal Piggy building number six, nine, six, nine, nothing unusual report at this time. And so then I reached into my pocket and I give them stickers. So I'm like, if I see a skinny Marine, I give them a strength, go 45 and I'm like, Hey, this reminds me of the gym. If it's like an NCO, I'm like, you might like this podcast or I give them a Godfather sticker. So there's stickers everywhere across the West.

I mean like every, like I was creating trash, Grant, No, they're getting stuck to things, you know, the stick on things. Yeah, that's not trash. That's that's what stickers do. They stick on. That's a good point. Yeah. Any other safe rounds and alibis? Last one I had. decaf coffee, something I've kind of like started to enjoy. Like you go out for like, uh, doesn't feel like a nice meal, but you're like, like a good restaurant. You can tell. And like you finish off the meal. It's late at night,

you know, evening timeframe. And I've started to really enjoy just like, I don't, I wouldn't drink it any other time, but a cup of decaf coffee. I'm like, Ooh, I actually kind of really, I really like this. I'm getting, I'm a decaf guy. I mean, not like by default, but I do, I do like it. I feel like I got into, I don't know why I went out of focus. You're not watching on YouTube. You should. There we go. I don't know. I started it when I was fasting. When I fast, I allow coffee. Some people don't. And that's what I would do at night. I would just have a D cup cup of coffee. Um, yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fan. It's a more my cup of tea, if you will.

Oh, I see what she did there. Yeah. Tell my coffee because we don't talk about cups America, America. You're just on full coffee all the time. You got to be on. No, I like I like decaf. I do decaf like if you go to dinner and like they go, hey, do you want any coffee? I always get decaf. And then I don't know.

Then he asked himself, am I doing it right? And is social media net positive? This is the two questions. No, no, no. No, I'm, I'm decaf guy. I'm like, you know what I started drinking in the afternoons though is I do. I am a tea guy. I like green tea. Oh yeah.

I like green tea. Do you like green tea? Oh yeah. In Ukraine, they call that Chai. Hi, Chai. Hi, is hello in Japan or OK, can I get the Mongolian barbeque? What? Why? Why are you bowing and yelling at the same time? Wait, is that actually OK?

Yeah, Kai. Kai. Kai? Kai. I'm trying to say like, okay. I think it's K-A-I. Okay, Kai. They really like me. They really like me around here.

I went yesterday to get Chao, and I was out on the river peninsula, and one, there's cats everywhere. There's just cat, it's a cat paradise. It's unbelievable. And there's one, there's cats everywhere. Like there's just cat, like it's a cat paradise. Like it's unbelievable. And there's this, I guess it's rude to call them Chinaman. So strike that from the record. But there's an elderly Japanese woman standing there. And I'm like, I could get through this language barrier.

Like no problem. So first you get louder, right? And then you do stuff with your hands and that always translates languages. So I'd like take the phone and I'm like, photo. And I'm like pointing at the phone and she's just like smiling, like holding her umbrella. And so then I staged the other three Marines. I'm like, here, stand here. And I like open the camera app and I'm like showing like, look how you can see the people. I'm like, push this button. And see the people I'm like push this button and That's like a lot of like north south and bowing kite kite and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go over here

it's like I go over there she's like smiling real big and like laughing at the big tall white man and And so then I look and like all four of her fingers like right over the lens So so I go back and I like pull her fingers down and I'm like, look, look, look, look, see, I'm like this button. I go back over and she's like, and like hands me the phone back. I'm like, thank you. Can you chew? And I go to leave and I look at the phone. I just have like three pictures of her hand. Like you can see like no one. Good looking hand though. Great hand. She's probably 120. Jeff can picture this whole thing going down.

Yeah. I'm like, I wish I was there so I could see the interactions between the Okinawans and Korean. Yeah. It's, it's, it's fun. Jeff, have you been to mainland Japan? By the way, they also don't speak Spanish in case you're trying Is the Okinawa culture like much different than like mainland Japan or do you know I do know yeah But Jeff knows better no, no, no, no, I know I do know it is like a little bit

I don't remember all the intricacies of it, but yeah, it's a little different, a little different vibe. So I asked my ex-o, cause they know everything the CEO doesn't know. And I'm like, so this is like their Hawaii, right? And he's like, no sir, Hawaii's their Hawaii. Japanese people love Hawaii. They love Hawaii.

But this is like their Hawaii. He's like, no, this is their Florida. And I was like, oh, so this is Redneck. And anyway, yeah, that was that. That makes sense. Okay. Yeah. I think that's a great way to put it. Ra. You put that in terms

that I understand. Ron, Ron Kenichiyo Adesantis is the mayor out here. Kenichiyo. They did port all the China men to Rhode Island. In Japan, they call that Fuji. Can you I finally get to say can eat you on accounts, but it's like different times of the day and the morning is supposed to say Ohio. I'm like, why are we talking about the Midwest? Okay.

And then in the afternoon, you say, can eat you are and at dinner, I forget what you say. Ohio is I miss. Yeah, kimchi. That's actually what it is. So hi. Oh, can eat you are. And what is the other one? Because I miss right. Oh, good. What time it is? Ohio because I miss I think it's good evening or good night. Ohio. Good. I miss everything's

drawn out. Can each you all. I love, that's my favorite one. When it's like noon, I'm like, this base is about to get so many can eat you was, what's good evening. Ohio consignment. What is it? Yeah. Ohio's on consignment. Yeah. Maybe it's not, I don't know. I don't know that. Yeah. Oh, that's nothing. Yeah. My dad. You would now some Japanese. You spend decent time over there. Yeah. Me. Oh, no, I was there for three days. It's three days. All right, Trey, why don't you bring this bad Larry in for a landing?

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