The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 7: Gaining Weight, The Super Bowl, Cyclist & War Movies

Episode Date: February 16, 2024

Podcast Hosts: Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach. Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Intro 03:53 - YouTube Update 06:52 - How To Gain Weight 23:50 - Jordy Is On Camera & Engaged 29:21 - Super Bowl Recap 43:35 - Cyclists 48:32 - Amateur Lifting Update 51:24 - Purpose of The Marrs Bar 57:27 - Satanic Radios 01:00:52 - College Basketball 01:04:15 - Masters Of The Air 01:10:54 - Brock Purdy 01:12:34 - RFK Ad 01:15:13 - The Arnold 01:27:12 - Sign Off

All right. And welcome back to episode 007 of the OK Podcast. We are here in Greenville, powered by the Strength Co. I always forget it's powered by the Strength Co. I pay the bill every month and we power it. As a Strength Co. employee, I i can say that's true i've talked to marketing departments i've talked to the ceo talked to the founder i've talked to the vice president i've talked to the president and it turns out we do power this podcast so i should probably say that yeah okay good yeah well so retake the okay podcast powered by the strength company uh episode 007 so seven weeks here we are back again february the 13th day before valentine's day you can feel the love in the air we got some exciting love information for you coming later um but february 13th in the year of our lord 2024 and the current price of bitcoin is let's see bitcoin price i was looking at the block high

bitcoin price is 49 450 and 30 cents okay broke 50 000 this week yeah yeah so while you look up the block height hit 50 five dimes uh hung there for a while dropped back went up again so um 50k and here we are at 830 362 is the block height coming up on the halving yeah coming up just before the having and i will say that the reason we put the block height in there is because we don't want people to think that um we're lying about this and we have realized that this podcast has a direct impact on the price of Bitcoin since episode one, 10%. I mean,

10% at this rate. That's the data. I mean, episode 100. I mean, that means we're going to break a hundred K this year at this rate. I mean, we already knew that.

We already knew that. For one more dip. By the dip. So what's the Bitcoin community saying right now? How are they feeling? Everybody's feeling good, but everybody thinks that it's going to have one more pullback before the halving. I mean, is it like a pullback? How much on sale is it going? Is it going on sale to like 35 or are we getting closeout deals at 15?

Historically, you'll see 20 to 30 percent drops okay and so that would be math in public uh an eight eight ten eight to ten thousand twelve thousand dollar price drop so it could hit in the high 20s high 20s that wouldn't be bad would you buy that dip oh i'd smash but you almost can't every time it bumps and comes down you're like i got to you have to even if it was 30 000 goes to 40 if it goes back to 30 now i feel better about buying i mean you can't afford not to you have to buy it close your eyes back the truck up have to buy load up i mean we're we're a helium household here uh maybe it's time to get unload my helium and buy some more Bitcoin. But Bitcoin, 50,000, that's exciting.

Yeah, man. What else are people saying? I mean, the latest- What's Wall Street saying? What's big government saying? Oh, well, the ETF has launched, and there's so much money just flying into Bitcoin and all these, on these Bitcoin ETFs. And it's like making the news and breaking records for how much money is flying into this thing.

And I mean, you can see it in the price a little bit. Maybe we would have hoped for more, but I mean, I'm not mad about it. All right. Yeah. 50K and rising every seven episodes.

We jumped 10% so far. That's the rule. That's the data data. Every seven episodes, we jumped 10% so far. That's the rule. That's the data. Data. So we're on a good little run there. So let's see. What else is new this week? Trying to think what we've launched.

We launched a couple clips from the OK podcast last week on here. We have a little carnivore versus vertical diet kind of update if you're trying to lose weight. And we're going to talk about that a little bit more here in a second but we gave a little bit of talk on that um we did a little we did a little debunk dr mcgill video that guy that guy everyone wanted to send me that video everyone every you know it's funny and for you that are listening, you know, and I know you're out there and you deadlift and you know how to deadlift and you know, you should be deadlifting, but they're still like, Hey Grant, what do you think about this video?

I'm like, I think it's stupid. I think the guy's an idiot. Like, what do you think? I think of course. So I attack him on the okay podcast. Oh, you went harder at him. I didn't go that. Oh, here.

Yeah. No, I'm about to. Okay. On YouTube. I felt like I was pretty on the OK podcast. Oh, you went harder at him. I didn't go that. Oh, here. Yeah. No, I'm about to. OK. On YouTube, I felt like I was pretty soft. All right. Like I was just like, hey, one, Dr. McGill, you don't look like you lift. Right. That answers half my questions to Dr. McGill.

Did you even hear what Dr. Atiyah asked you? Because it wasn't the answer to his question. It wasn't the answer to his question. So that was strange. He has an agenda. Yeah, he does does don't deadlift weird agenda and then three um yeah it did i mean if someone walks in the gym says they want to peer their deadlift like why are you automatically assuming they're going to deadlift a thousand pounds yeah he's like a 50 year old guy walks in and he says he wants to pr he's like do you know the dangers of dead lifting a thousand pounds yeah it doesn't make any sense yeah it doesn't make any sense so yeah i'm not i'm not at a thousand yet but the internet the internet

enjoyed that they enjoyed uh us talking about dr mcgill well i mean he made it easy he was talking about instead he should walk backwards up a hill i mean that's what we do with bitcoin that's what it's currently doing walking backwards back up the hill backwards back up the hill yeah on its way to the moon moon yeah i'm feeling new things it's called 50 000 enjoy it um yeah so that's uh so we did those videos uh we had to had to bench three 15. That was a smoker. Dr. McGill did. No, no, no. We, we put out, Oh, how to bench three 15. That was a big video. Yeah. That was big. 30,000 views. Yeah. So everyone wants to bench it. And what's funny about that is, I don't know. I don't see three 15 as a big feat of strength. That was a flex.

No, I don't mean it like that. I mean, this is a guy that can't even pull 585 saying that. I just mean it's kind of like if you train and you weigh 200 pounds, you'll bench 315. Eventually. Eventually, but like probably, you know, 18 months. Really? You're not 200 pounds. No, I'm not. So you don't understand.

That's true. You're 180 pounds. That's true. So this is a whole different thing, which, which takes us into our next part. Okay. Any, any things before I go on my rant?

No, I think I'm good. Okay. We're good. Okay. So I feel like since going carnivore on January 1st and, um, in general,

um, telling people that if they want to be strong, strong is not the only answer. They also have to be fit. I feel like the last few months as I've been on that and talked about, hey, I want to lose a couple of pounds. I want to drop some body fat. I don't want people to think that this is the diet company. This is not the diet company. And if you are weak and you are thin and you don't have muscle mass, you should totally go and get some gains. And so if you're listening out there and you're, I don't know, let's say 18 to 35 and you are like could fit in a paper bag, regardless of your height, you are very thin. You're real thin. You walk around and if a gust of wind comes up, you might get blown away. If you are that guy, you need to gain weight.

Now, here's the problem with that guy because I've trained a lot of that guy. And that guy reads the book Starting Strength and goes, oh, this makes sense. I should grow my squat and my deadlift. Let me go find a coach. And he comes in and he starts squatting and he starts deadlifting and he starts getting a little bit stronger and things get to the point where they start to stall. And so you ask them, what are they eating? Oh, I eat all the time. I eat so much food. I mean, I just, I just, I just can't put on muscle. My metabolism, it's faster than Usain Bolt. My metabolism is just constantly going. I can't put on weight. You don't understand, Grant. You don't understand. And I have a problem with that because I don't understand. I do understand, but I don't

understand because I don't understand that why you won't just eat more and why you won't just consume more calories. So I want to tell a couple of stories about some people that I know. One of them is me and how we gained weight. And I don't think people understand if you want to go from 160 to 200 pounds, you have to drastically eat way more food than you are currently eating. If you are 20 years old and you've been 160 pounds since you were 17, if you don't drastically change your life in terms of caloric consumption, nothing is going to happen. So what did I do? At the Citadel, I went into the Citadel at about 195 pounds my freshman year. Between 195, 200, I graduated at 178. Freshman year

really made me lose a bunch of weight. And I said, I need to gain weight. I need to gain weight. I need to gain a lot of weight. So I went back my sophomore year. I started lifting hard. I started bench pressing. I had a friend that said, what's the point of looking like a house if you can't lift one? You got to lift more weight. And at the Citadel, they had milk, Coburg milk, the Coburg milk sign in Charleston on every table, family style, a chocolate milk, a 2%, a whole milk and a 1%. And as a sophomore, every breakfast I would leave and I would grab four of those.

That's before I knew about Mark Ripoteau. I had just heard milk is like steroids. And I said, well, I'm not allowed to take steroids, but if milk's the second best thing, I'll do it. And I drank milk over and over and over again. And I hit 220 my sophomore year. I gained about almost 40 pounds squatting and benching. I don't even know if I was deadlifting yet.

My old coach, Mike Minigal, now Marine first Lieutenant coach for me, the strength co for a lot of years, really strong, a lot stronger than me. He used to, he trained at Paul Horn's gym and he would eat sleeves of bagels. He would stop every time he got in a stoplight, he would take a bagel out. He was doing deliveries in LA and he would, when he was at a stoplight, take a bagel on, he would just pound bagels. He used to tell me they'd wake up in the middle of the night to take a leak. And while he was up, he'd go ahead and house three glasses of whole milk. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen. My cousin, Seth, when he wanted to gain weight, he would eat a tub of peanut butter a day, just housing either peanut butter or almond butter to get calories in.

So when you wake up and you eat a little bit of Captain Crunch, and then at lunch, you get the salad at Chick-fil-A, and then at dinner, you eat like a hungry man frozen dinner, you're not trying to gain weight. You're trying to be light. You don't want to gain weight. If you want to gain weight, it becomes a full-time job. I'm talking about, I eat dinner. I cover my dinner with butter. I dip every piece of bread into olive oil. I put syrup on every pancake. I finish my meal and I go, you know what? It's time for a bowl of cereal with whole milk. That's how you gain weight, Jordy. I kind of did this. No, you didn't. No, I was 155. You did. You did gain a lot of weight. I went from 155 to 185 was my heaviest.

This was in Miami. And so I did something similar to that because I was that guy you're talking about. And I think the problem is that people think I need to eat a lot and their metric for, did I eat a lot? Is I, am I really full? Right. The problem is with that guy. And I was this guy, you feel really full with the captain crunch, the salad and the hungry man dinner.

Sure. So you're like, I ate a lot, but that's not true. That's not true. That's like saying I can't squat more because that felt heavy. It's like saying that was an RP six. No, it was like, it felt like an RPE. Oh, it felt like a nine, but it looked like a six. It looked like a six. That's right. That's right. Right. And so I was doing that. I would, I would wake up. So RPE rate of perceived eating. New scale. New scale. I'm a fan of RPE now. I now like RPE. I would add a Shake Shack right next to me

in Miami. And almost every day I would either go there or I'll go to Chipotle and just get whatever, two burgers. And then I'll be like, I throw in a milkshake too, because I thought I need a squat in two days. Let me just pound it. So I, this goes well. Cause you're like afraid of the squat. Like, I hope this goes well. i don't want to fail and then i would just drink emergency glasses of whole milk um just whenever and it did work i gained 30 pounds and now i'm like 180. and you're gonna go more and i gotta go more i think i'm gonna go go mad for like a week yeah we gotta get the guys on before we talk about that and get you to get you to swear to it because uh on the bible i don't know if anyone's noticed this but if you're listening jordy's on camera now that doesn't mean that we'll publish it i can i can blur my half of this yeah you can identify as a 200 pound male you should just put a fat version

like a fat meme of you right on the video yeah i'm yeah i'm trans fat. Yeah. Trans fat. Identifying as fat. We don't want you to be fat, but I'm telling you, if you want to get bigger, you have to eat like you've never eaten before. You think you eat a lot. Now you don't. It really is a full-time job.

Just as you walk into the gym and think there's no way that I can add five pounds. And you do just like you think you can't eat, drink another glass of milk. You do peanut butter is your friend. High caloric, dense foods that also include protein are great. Don't overthink it. Eat meals, eat steaks, peanut butter, milk, ice cream.

Ice cream is a good one. I bring all this up because lately I've been coaching a lot of folks through weight loss. And that's important. Don't get so big that you end up super overweight and you wake up and you're 35 and you're 35% body fat. That's not a good day. That's not setting up the future of your life, your 40s and your 50s for success. That's setting it up for failure. So I'm not telling you to do that. I'm just saying, though, when people listen to our stuff and they hear me talking carnivore and they hear me talk about dropping body fat or they hear me

talking about shortening their workouts because they're an intermediate and maybe they want to lose some weight, when they hear me about introducing running, when they hear me about adding in jujitsu, doing other stuff, extracurriculars. I want you to know, if you want to get bigger and stronger, you have to eat a lift heavy and eat a ton of food and all that other stuff that we talk about. That's for people that have done that. Now, if you started this overweight, you don't need to go and eat a gallon of peanut butter at night, but yeah. So the people of the internet, I'm just trying to play devil's advocate here. The people of the internet are going to throw a phrase at you called dirty bulk, which you're suggesting is a dirty quote unquote dirty bulk. I don't know what that means,

but they're going to say, no, that's, that's not good. That's not smart to do a dirty bulk. You're going to get way too overweight. You're going to, you're going to rebound really bad. You're going to gain too much body fat. Why not just be in a 500 caloric surplus every day for six months and spread it out over time? Sure. But I mean, do you think milk and peanut butter is a dirty bulk?

I hear your question. I'm going to answer your question, but I'm just saying, so there, I would call it a sloppy bulk. Well, I would call it a dirty bulk because I think they would mean like you're going way over your caloric surplus. And if your attitude is just eat and slam milk all the time, and I'm not even against against this i'm just playing devil's advocate you're probably going to be in a big surplus if that's just your general attitude going toward going through this but if you're actually lifting and you're lifting heavy and you actually want to get bigger if you want to go from being 150 yeah to 200 pounds yeah that is a lifestyle change and you are 100 going to gain a bunch of body fat yeah but you can worry about

that later right it's fat leaning adding lean muscle i mean muscle is lean whether it's covered with fat or not muscle is lean so people say oh we're gonna add lean muscle you're about to say if you add any muscle to you it's leaning but if you're gonna add 50 pounds you're going to add 50 pounds, you're going to have probably half of that or a little less as fat. But no, I'm not advocating for a dirty bulk in the terms of eating Little Caesar's pizza every day, although you could. I guess I did say syrup, and I did tell people to dip bread in olive oil. Hot and ready. Yeah. Well, I actually think it's just a practical thing.

So like, yeah, you could do a 479 calorie surplus every day. But this guy I'm talking about is not even doing that. That's what I'm saying. There's like a practical reason of like, you know what? Don't even count. Just slam more milk and bagels than you even know what to do. So I think this is why. It's a simple rule thing that you talked about last rule.

This is why go mad is so good. Yeah. People eat three meals a day. They can't help, but they wake up. I got to have oatmeal and put some raisins in it, right? Like they have to eat their breakfast.

And if you just take a person and you say, do everything you've done and add in one gallon of whole milk, it's like 1600 calories. I think that it gets added. Okay. And a gallon of milk, a hundred grams of calories i think that it gets added okay and a gallon of milk yeah about 100 grams of protein or something yeah eight times 16 so 100 and whatever that is yeah um it's a lot so it's it's simple rule hey do what you're doing add in this milk

yes right um i'm just trying to get people to understand when they're saying like i'm eating a lot it's like no you're actually not i mean you should the thing the other thing about a gallon milk a day is when you start it it sounds insane to people yeah but it's kind of like when i started carnivore i was like i'm never gonna eat vegetables right i'm never gonna eat carbohydrates and now i'm like who would eat a vegetable well a gallon of milk a day and i'm saying this like i need to be doing this but the the gallon of milk a day, we figured this out last week. It's two full glasses of milk. Four times a day. Four times a day.

That's not bad because you can slam a glass of milk in four seconds. Yeah. You know, but that's doing that twice, four times a day. That seems for some reason better than a gallon of milk. Right, exactly. It's like the 10,000 steps a day. Right. If you wake up and sit behind your computer for the first four hours a day. Right. Exactly. It's like the 10,000 steps a day. Right. If you wake up and sit behind your

computer for the first four hours a day, right. And then you go on a short walk and then all of a sudden it's 5 PM and you're at 3000, it seems insurmountable. Right. But if you wake up and slam some milk or if your slams wake up at 2 AM, go and take a leak, get a headstart on the day, couple of glasses of milk. You're good. I mean, I don't want to like take too long on this, but I will, I'm just going to add one more thing. Just throw it in. Sure. So I think that there's a big, this is just a philosophical difference between different groups of people. There's two groups of people. There's one group of people that want, they're very intelligent and rational and logical and scientific. And they want to figure out the most optimal way to do, let's say,

a bulk. And they're like, well, you need this many calories for a caloric surplus to gain weight. Why don't we try to hit that every single day? Less than that is not enough. More than that is overkill. So why don't we just hit that exact surplus? But the thing is, there's another philosophy of people that take into account human nature and that we are, you know, silly, irrational, pathetic human beings weighing less than 200 pounds who just are, you know, who complain a lot and make excuses. And so that philosophy is thinking, what's a simple rule that I can follow, that I can get a person to follow, take into account that this is an imperfect human being and get them to where they want to go.

And so the carnivore being the simple rule, of course you can like meal prep every single meal with the exact macros you want. Right. Until you come, until you land one night at 10 PM and don't have time before work the next day. Yeah. Because you live in, you know, you have a life with things that go wrong. Right. And so some people optimize for human behavior and some people optimize for like the exact scientific process. And those people butt heads a lot. And that's what I see in a lot of different places.

That's where the OK podcast comes in. OK. We're right in the middle of human behavior and intelligence. Right. And brute strength. More behavior. Just rules. Just drink the milk. Yeah. I mean, the rules work. The simple rules work. That's what brute strength. More behavior. Just rules. Just drink the milk.

Yeah. I mean, the rules work. The simple rules work. That's what I've learned from coaching. I used to give people way more things to do early on. Add five pounds. Yeah, add five. Actually, no.

Oh. Show up three times. Yeah. Walk in the gym. Like, walk into the gym. I mean, people will spend 375 dollars in a month of membership yeah come one time right hey where you at where you at right and i'm like wow we gotta really dial this dial back so this is what i this is my problem with like the doctor

dr mike and all this all this stuff shout out dr mike i like your channel you're entertaining chicken and very smart but he'll prescribe like such exact workouts to people that are so scientifically based and i'm like people don't even show up it's crazy yeah yeah i have a random question hit it okay so you mentioned that you were in the military and you had to drink milk because you weren't on steroids sure i don't know this controversial should the military be on steroids i mean i think most of them are oh really like the special operations guys. Yeah, there's a lot of gear floating around. But I mean, I don't know why you wouldn't want a bigger, stronger, faster service member.

That can recover better, handle more stress. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, should they? Yes. I mean, we don't know what all the other stuff is, right? I mean, like some of the steroids floating around today, we just don't know what all the other stuff is, right? I mean, like some of the steroids floating around today, we just don't know what those are going to look like down the line.

But I mean, from a lethality standpoint, yeah. But also from a lethality standpoint, hey, make these guys lift intelligently, right? But I will say in the, in the special operations groups, I mean, there's, there's, there's some intelligent minds floating around there. Yeah. I mean, I mean, it's a real fine line between, Hey, we're going to optimize your physical training and your sleep and your diet and recovery and your, your, you know, training with your equipment and everything. And we're also going to optimize your hormonal profile. Sure. You know, it gets great. Yeah. You know, it's weird. Quick. Do you see the sports

team that's going to happen? They're like blue pill, red pill, which one's train. Yeah. Which one's train? That's when you go like this. Just take both. Yeah. Do you see the sports league that I think Peter Thielal he's an investor he uh is trying to fund it's like a a football league or sports league on gear oh no yeah yeah i thought that was just called like ufc that was called nfl i don't know yeah i thought it's called the nfl the national football league okay all right well I think we get these guys on here. All right. Sounds good.

So this isn't my first rodeo. It's not my second rodeo. As a matter of fact, it's episode 007 of the Okay Podcast. Powered by The Strength Co. The Strength Co. Still, I'm still surprised they sponsor us. Yeah. I can't believe it. You know, I talked to their CEO this week. He put me on the phone with the founder. I talked,

I talked to the VP of marketing and everyone's on board. They're like, Hey, we don't care what it costs. We like where it's headed. And I said, okay, keep powering up. You can't put a price on strength. We got a lot of things to talk about. Oh yeah. A lot.

Can I say something real quick? Well, yeah. I usually be topic. Number one. It's well, it's usually very short. Like I usually have a general idea of what we're talking about today. I have no idea.

I'm fine. Blind. I love no idea. I'm fine blind. I love it. I'm excited. Yeah. Push, push forward coach. Okay. Um, well, Jordy, you want to tell the guys anything? I benched 225 today. That was, that was good. Was that the best thing to happen to you all day? That was the best thing to happen to me all day. day great day anyway um that's a good day oh yeah um in the episode yeah there was one other thing uh i got engaged today wait so did you propose i proposed and what did she say she said okay okay you know last week i texted you last week when i just said, Hey, like you should propose. I was like joking. Like, I didn't mean like,

you didn't have to like actually do it. I don't know if I was the one who like pushed you over or what, but I texted him today. He said that to me today. And I was like, why don't you tell me this sooner? Congratulations, man. That's awesome, man. I appreciate it appreciate it yeah we had um we had mr grant over here being the video guy for me today so tables have turned yeah he called me and was like hey can you do some video work for me i said sure i said what's up he goes i have to propose trace it if i didn't he'll never let me on camera and i was like wow i've got this

problem he's gonna come after me escalated Escalating. I'm excited to do a live stream of the podcast at your wedding. Oh, yeah. We'll talk about it later. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're all going to get the details. We're going to get the details later. I'm just like, it's going to happen. Episode 42, the wedding edition.

Yeah. That's right. Okay, so 35 weeks from now. All right, so he said to send a date right there. Send a date. I guess I did. Okay. 35 weeks from now, Bitcoin goes. So he said, that's a set a date right there. I guess I did. Okay. Five weeks from now,

Bitcoin goes up 10% every seven episodes. Seven divided by 35 is 13. That was 13. We'll be a swift 13. That's right. Everything's 13, but we'll get there. We'll get there.

One other thing, admin note, um, Jordy's on camera. And I just want to tell the viewers that I told them he wouldn't be on camera unless he was 200 pounds I had some people respond to uh our Instagram stories in the okay podcast please go follow it we're at like 200 people we appreciate all of you but we're at like 400 downloads a week so we know there's more of you that could follow so go follow the Instagram

but I've several people when I posted Jordy said what's Jordy doing in front of the camera he's 400 downloads a week. So we know there's more of you that could follow. So go follow the Instagram. Several people, when I posted Jordy, said, what's Jordy doing in front of the camera? He's victim weight. And I appreciated that. So Jordy has to start. This is the pack we're going to make. He's got to start Go Mad for a week tomorrow. Oh, my goodness. Is that fair? He's 180 today. Yep. Is that fair? I think it's fair. Are you in? You're on camera? Yeah. And then if we can show consistent progress, we'll keep him on camera. Next week when I look at this, seven days.

Did you lose weight? I thought you were 183. That sounds like a lower number than last time. I mean, this is going to sound like a bunch of excuses because it is, but I traveled to New Jersey this weekend. Oh, I forgot that they don't have barbells. They don't have food they don't have any cows that's not why they call them jersey cows or anything no hoagies at all and uh yeah it was just with the travel i couldn't slam slam fair life the whole time meeting the parents trying to talk to them but yeah hey you

know what it is what it is yeah that have a i have a special announcement for the viewers an incentive so we're what are we on instagram i think we're at like 180 well i'll just you know what i have a device in my hand that has the answers to everything in the world i'm gonna i'm gonna offer a reward for when we hit a thousand followers on Instagram, I will drink a gallon of milk. I will drink a gallon of milk during the show live on the podcast during the show. That's good. That's good.

I thought they'd be like, you're the best man at your wedding. You want to hear a funny, a funny thing. We're at 180 followers. Same as Jordan. We're racing. We're racing. Wow. wow so i'm gonna gain a pound per follower there you go all right you heard her here first jordan yes we have a thousand pounds

wait did we lose three followers the thousand pound club just changed yeah uh body weight look what i found look what i found digging around. Ooh, pod covers. Yeah. Let's save that. Actually, that's how I met you. Assuming we can get through this laundry list of items, we might should tell that story. The first time I ever met Trey was on camera, but we'll get there.

So in this new format, I don't have my computer. So Jeff, you're the computer here in the fdc uh why don't you take us why don't you kick us off into in the sports world i feel like we should oh there's a cat there's a cat back there oh yeah hey cat okay what is gonna kill you it's pretty good to go he just likes to be in on the action. He actually looks... It's a death stare. Is that Mickey? That's Mickey. He doesn't look super happy right now, but he is.

He's not happy about my body weight. Just leave him where he is. He's glaring at you, Jordan. Jeff, why don't you take us to the Super Bowl? Oh, yeah so what did everybody think our predictions were a little off oh golly yeah did you like that did you like the lead that the least of the sports fans jordy was the closest in prediction what was his prediction

off but closer than us i'm pretty sure I said Chiefs 34-28 or something like that. That's sad. I think you were a little closer than that. Jeff and you said Chiefs, but Jeff overshot by a lot of points. I think you were like 24-18 or something. PJ was 34-28. There you go. And then I was 31-27.

Oh, so you were closer. You were closer. Like barely. Kind of. What do you win? Pride. Nothing. Just pride.

I see pride. But man, yeah. Didn't see the first half, but second half was super entertaining. But did you see the halftime show? I, we rewatched it. Today or yesterday? Yeah. Thoughts? Did you see the guy thatime show? We re-watched it. Today or yesterday? Yeah.

Did you see the guy that flew up in the air? Is he okay? Yeah, that was my favorite part. Yeah. I mean, they ended it really well. That was how you had to end that with. Yeah. Little John Luke, Chris Usher. Who was it last year?

I thought you meant with the conspiracy of the Chiefs winning. You meant the Usher thing. Yeah, I got it. Okay. Who was the halftime show last year? Was that the Dr. Dre one? Last year was Rihanna and she was pregnant. I thought it was Janet Jackson.

The year before was Dr. Dre. Okay. It seems like they're really stuck in like early 2000s they're really going to like our age demographic you have now hit the demo yeah enjoy the enjoy the old enjoy the next six years because every advertisement is directed towards you hey I have a halftime show story so I was in the 2012 Madonna halftime show. Wait, what?

Yeah. So Madonna came to Indianapolis, Lucas Oil Stadium. And this was in 2012. I was a young buck. Okay. And she was like, I need a giant drum line. Just bring in, you know, slave labor from the high schools around there. The top drum lines or whatever.

And we're going to have them march on the field and play on the stage and stuff. So if you look up on YouTube, the 2012 Madonna halftime show, I'm in the front row when the, the drum line marches on. Meanwhile, at the basic school in Quantico,

Virginia, Jeff and Trey are looking for box AB four, seven, nine. Sig's doing nightland nav. Yeah. Doing nightland nav. Watch me. AB 479. Smoking cigs doing night land nav. Yeah, doing night land nav. Don't light that cigarette.

You're ruining my night vision. The night land nav course. How did I get to the FBI Academy? That was always if you end up at the FBI Academy, you are in the wrong place uh anyway uh I don't know I thought it was a good game dude I was surprised

yeah the defenses were shown out man like both you know I um shout out Dan O'Connell, soon to be 111 Battalion Commander, but he replied to the OK podcast story. And I thought he said too many people, meaning like the four of us on a podcast. And then I looked at it and he said too many points. But like on first glance, because I saw a picture of all of us. So that's what he said. And then I looked and like the average Super Bowl NFL or the average NFL game since like the quarterback rules, you can't hit them. CTE, all that stuff is like 42 points. I was like, yeah, we did come out with some like 60 point predictions. We were a college football podcast, Graham.

It says it. Read the show notes. In the description of the show, we are college football fans. Yeah, so we were a little bit high in the points, but I thought I took the over, and it hit. It was 46 and a half, and it was 47 points was the final, which was crazy. Wow. Yeah.

Vegas knows what's up. Did you guys see the 49ers, like, didn't know the rules of overtime? I did see that. And I don't really feel like that made a difference. I don't think it played into their – I don't think they would have done anything differently. Right. Like they would have gone for it on fourth down or something like,

no, you keep the goal. I think it was, yeah, I think it was all about the, if you want the ball or not. Uh, but like,

I thought the argument was they were just coming off a defense. Let the defense rest, you know, whatever. I mean, yeah, I don't know that it makes a difference either, but I thought it was interesting.

You scored a touchdown. It doesn't matter. You know what I mean? I don't know if you guys know this, but Patrick Mahomes was in Disneyland this week. Oh, my gosh. Oh, was he MVP? Did he end up getting it?

Yeah, he got it. Oh, yeah. Are you going to start waving the goat flag over there, Trey? What, for Patrick Mahomes? No. He's won three, right? Two back-to-back. Three in five years. He's been to how many? Four? He's lost one to Brady.

I think the real stat will be if he wins next year because back-to-back to back has never been done, right? Yeah. The three in a row is big. And I mean, with Taylor on the team, how could you lose?

Dude, Jason Kelsey is the end of the game. We're at the trophy presentation. game or at the at the like trophy presentation oh yeah Viva see I think he was already drinking what I want to know is

did you see him sitting there with Ice Spice who's him are you calling Taylor a man now Jason oh Jason

the brother yeah yeah sorry sorry sorry yeah Jason yeah you see him sitting there with Ice Spice the rapper like the female rapper like what did they talk about you know

america first of all just america yeah you're gonna have to explain to everybody who ice spices i've never heard please please yeah i'll pull up i'll pull up a picture on the screen boom there's ice spice she's a rapper i've never heard any one of her songs. See her. Yeah. Her. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I don't know. I just, maybe, maybe this is going to land with the current audience. We just, we know usher. That's when we stopped listening to music.

Yeah. Yeah. I thought they just stopped making records after. Sure. Yeah. I'm just surprised. Taylor Swift and I spice or buddies, I guess.

I don't know, but. so quick segue i was gonna say what what was the deal with uh kelsey and with the beef with uh their his coach what was going on oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i saw i call it the tail end of that very good good meme content. Yeah, definitely. I thought I was late on that, by the way. Okay. So I saw it. I was like, oh, I should do a meme on that. But I was like trying to enjoy the Super Bowl and not make my whole life about making Instagram reels.

So I was just like, I'll do it tomorrow. And so he got mad because he was taken out for a play or two. And so then he comes over and just like, you know, slams into Andy Reid, like, put me in, put me in, because it was like right for a play or two and so then he comes over and just like you know hit slams into andy reed like put me in put me in because it's like right after an incomplete or something and so like they show it and say a couple memes surfaced that night but now you guys have seen it i mean it's tuesday it was the next morning i got up and i like grabbed that we just released the video on dr mcgill andy reed looks like stuart mcgill the bat guy and i just put like when mcgill tells us we're. And I just put like, when McGill tells us

we're not allowed to deadlift or something. And then I put Usher on roller skates. And I was like, Dr. McGill's approved exercises. And I like went really well. And I was like, oh, this is funny. And every meme I saw on Monday, I was like, this is so funny. This is hilarious.

And then today there was like 4,000 more Jason Kelsey memes. I was like, you guys are all late. This is old news. Why was Usher so sweaty like 30 seconds into the performance? So sweaty. My boy's old, dude. My boy's old. You'll

understand one day, PJ. How old is Usher? 45. Not bad. Is he 45? 45. 45. Not bad. Is he 45? You fooled me. Yeah, 45. I said 45. My boys look good.

A little bit sweaty, but he's looking good. What's the new underwear he's wearing? Slim? He's wearing Kim Kardashian. He's a model for Kim Kardashian. Oh, skims. Skims. Slims.

Skims. Slim skims. Tomato. Read up on your underwear. Okay. My bad. Super on your underwear. Okay. Super Bowl, we're good. Good. We knocked it out.

Predictions for next year? Drive on. Next slide. Next slide. Save round. Save round. Did anyone think there were any commercials of note? Oh, dude.

The Dunkings. The Dunkings. Yeah yeah by far the best like not even close and i know i'm biased boston but like very biased i mean not at all dude i was dying when he cut real quick it's the boston massacre so trey real quick i just got to this out there dunkin donuts potential sponsor oh okay yeah okay good yeah i can see it now the okay podcast runs on duncan okay but i should just put a duncan logo right at the bottom just run it across the screen just go for it hey look there it is i see it now that's crazy yeah um yeah that was a good one uh i thought the arnold one was good again but i asked that one yeah yeah um there was another one about like homes.com or something and i missed that one

it was it says i watched it and i can't even remember it and it was about someone buying a home but it was like it was about finding a new hairdresser my wife's a hairdresser it's like she goes in they're like trying to shave her face like no not that they go in they're like shave her head she's like no not that just doing this like not that not that and then someone's like homes.com and it like ends and i was like i didn't get that and uh my buddy brennan goes that's too bad because you're the only guy here that's shopping for a house and you were totally the demographic that they were trying to target. And Diana goes, she's a hairdresser.

Or she's looking for a hairdresser, and she's not happy because they keep messing up her hair. We're talking about it. Yeah, we're talking about it. It worked. Joke's on us. Joke's on us. I would say the last one is, dude, the new Twister movie, Twisters. Looked awesome.

I didn't see this. It was first half, so you missed it. Dude, you got to go back and look that up, man. Yes. I'm writing a note. It looks super good. Put that in your write-in-the-rain. Yeah. It's not write-in-the-rain. It'll get rained on.

Write-in-the-rain. Write- Trey's got one. Okay. Riding the rain. Riding the rain. That's it. It's plenty to go. Always keep one handy. I'll put it in my platoon commander notebook. Ever been used. Still looking for one.

What else we got in the sports room, Jeff? Don't make me talk about that Ireland-Italy game. Rugby. I don't know what that is. Ah, rugby. Yeah, they they get the it's the round Robin series right now six teams okay he was reintroduced maybe like uh or introduced I think that's their second time doing it uh but they played Ireland on Sunday at 11 o'clock I was all pumped very conflicted you know me Irish. I can never decide which mob to join.

But with the name Brogy, I was like, I'm going in. I'm going in for Italy. And by the time I got there after church, it was already like 23-0. Ireland just crushed them. It was not even – Was it 11s or what's the smaller one? 7s? 8s? 7s. 7s is this like summer it 11s or what's the smaller one? Sevens? Eight.

Sevens. Sevens is like summer or yeah, yeah, the smaller league. Yeah, no, this is the full 15. 15, okay. Yeah, it was fun to watch. And I don't even feel like having played rugby that I know that much about rugby. But when you sit with someone and watch it that's never seen rugby you're like oh i know a lot about rugby i might be a rugby expert maybe i could play for italy right now but yeah so that happened and

now next ireland plays england on february 23rd it's like that'll be a heated heated matchup very good england's very good and i bring this up because i feel like jeff talks about soccer to kind of like flex his international prowess i just wanted to know that may not be a soccer fan or understand the liverpool king but i know rugby i'll get into cricket and we'll just have everything covered yeah oh we'll be we'll be worldwide podcasts yeah people already playing uh what what do they play in Star Wars? Quidditch? Yeah. Quidditch. Nailed it.

Yeah, that one. Good job. Next topic, Jeff. Still kind of in the sports realm, but it sounds like you had a little bit of a run-in with some cyclists or an annoyance with some cyclists out there around the streets of Greenville?

Yeah, let me just backpedal a little bit. Trey, were you really a cyclist? Dude, so in college, I was a... Did you wear Lycra? I was on the triathlon team and yes yeah okay so but like cyclists look down on triathletes so yeah they're too athletic yeah yeah they're athletic at three sports they might actually be in shape i'm trying to be the best at exercising let me be that's crossfit uh let me be clear i i like riding bicycles i think it's fun i like being outdoors i think that's cool i like

sharing spaces with other people i think that's also good i went fishing saturday maybe we have time to talk about that later went by myself well i brought diana but i didn't go with my guide when i say i went by myself i mean i didn't go with my guide and i go to the place where i always go pisgah national forest north carolina you know kind of as you're headed towards boone towards the um what's the road up there main street yeah main street no the blue ridge parkway as you head okay yeah the davidson river So I'm going to fish the Davidson River. And every time I've gone, I usually fish on a Tuesday. And so I went on a Saturday and we went at like noon.

And so you enter the, like you see Pisgah National Forest. I always love it because your phone goes, and you're just like, I'm free. This is what that Patagonia guy felt like on 180 degrees South.

Like no one can reach me. No one can talk to me. I'm free. It's a great feeling. And I'm going and I go around the corner and I'm like, Holy hit the brakes, like 12 cyclists. And I go around. I'm like, man, that was crazy. He's like, yeah, why would they ride in the middle of the road? I'm like, I have no idea. Go around another quarter. All the cars are stopped virtually, stopped virtually, from 40 to virtually. And I'm in my 97 Chevy with oversized tires. I don't drive fast in that thing. There was so many cyclists on that road headed to the Blue Ridge Parkway. So many accidents almost

happening, like Subarus trying to pass them, almost hitting me in the face. And I was just like, how is this allowed? Like, how are they allowed to ride in the middle of the road? Yeah, I had a really – and then I'm not – so then I fish. Just total freedom, nature, baby. I'm a conservationist. And then I leave, and I'm like, this is terrible. All of these cyclists.

So anyway, that's my cyclist run-in story. Yeah, I remember on the weekends, like the pch yep like you know carl's like oceanside down to like encinitas they would just take over like there was a bike lane but they would just like spill out all over the road and then you'd go like get a coffee somewhere and they would stroll up in their little bike outfits still wearing their bike shoes click clacking around yeah they're all like they'll have like guts but they're all like wearing like the tightest thing possible and they're like yeah i rode about 200 miles this last week but like they're still out of shape somehow and you're like i don't i don't think that's working for you dude yeah have you ever thought about squatting

why would i do that i don't want to be heavier this bike only weighs eight pounds yeah this is low impact i want the low impact speaking of the shoes i probably two or three times it happened to me i was cycling i was one of those guys i pulled up to a very busy intersection. And I always would forget that I'm clipped in and would just like, Oh, like Joe Biden. Oh dude. Oh, it's just like,

everyone's like honking. Like, yeah, good job guy. I'm like, I got to quit cycling. Oh man. It's Google says that about a thousand cyclists per year in the U S die from

accidents. I'm so glad we have a producer to read stats to us that's a thousand that's a lot i would have guessed it was 50 000 worldwide i don't that was u.s i told dan i was like this can't even be relaxing like the stress you must have of these vehicles like stacking up behind you and then zooming around well no no no cyclists don't have souls so they don't actually care about the other vehicles. They care when my 97 Chevy horn goes, as I pass them.

I'm just kidding. I'm not kidding. Yeah, but seriously. Dr. McGill loves cycling. I bet he does. And to seem to love. Yeah, and walking backwards up hills. Cycled backwards up a hill.

Your hamstrings will hurt yeah what else we got big jeff oh gee uh we want to get into a little amateur lifting update from here yeah oh dude so i got a good question you see i was telling jeff man this was i pulled okay so this was yesterday squatted 360. i'm still doing the novice program squad 360 bench 260 and then deadlifted 435 435 this this is the first one where it's like okay it's pretty tough so it's getting it's getting up there for me but that's good supposed to yeah yeah heck yeah man okay wait so you got 435 for five yeah that's great and you're dead lifting every session still yeah that's legit okay and everything everything's moving everything's going up you're squatting heavy every session. Yeah. So I always tell a story to people when they come to my gym. I say, you add five pounds. And if you're a novice, your linear progression goes like this. And then it starts to flatten out. They're like, what do you mean? I said, well, if it lasted forever, we'd all be squatting three sets of five for a thousand pounds. And obviously we're not. But maybe you're going to,

Trey. I think you might. I don't know. That deadlift was a pretty good one. I was screaming in the garage, and Abby's like, what were you doing? I was like, ah! So let's get out of here.

I was listening to Fleet Foxes. I was listening to Fleet Foxes. And then press, the last press I did, let me see. 147, 147 and a half. That's that's good nice so what's your amateur lifting question nice look at us amateur lifting question so man i was at when i was in no oklahoma city went up and i sent you a picture of that gym yeah first of all fantastic dude like what was the name of this gym tray no one was in there what's the name of this gym what's the name of the gym let's give a shout out oh dude now you're making me look it up echo oh i know it's uh tell me yeah you just say it jeff black was it black walls thing or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Blackwall Powerlifting, yeah.

Blackwall, something like that. So, fantastic gym. If it's up in Edmond, Oklahoma, just north of Oklahoma City, I was the only one in there. The owner met me up there, gave me a tour of the gym, had free drinks, free candy. Like, super nice place, right? Yeah, just what everyone should be eating in the gym, candy.

Yeah, I know. candy like super nice place right yeah just what everyone should be eating in the gym candy yeah and they have a speaker system where you could hook up your phone and then like just listen to it like in the gym so great place highly recommend so they had my question is they had a couple different items that i hadn't seen before and And then it was the squat bar that I texted you about. Oh, the Mars bar. The Mars bar. Because then I saw that there. I'm like, what is the purpose of this? And I saw it on the website. Looks like a jet pack. Looks like a jet pack. And then I saw it on the website and then I saw a video of you using it. Yeah.

So I'm like, okay, what's the purpose of the Mars bar? Yeah. So in general general there's a lot of different thoughts on a safety squat bar and why you should use one um but mostly it comes to like shoulder and elbow pains a lot of people when they start squatting they grip the bar funky and the bars like in the arms instead of on the back so you want the load in the back but sometimes it's like in the arms and they'll end up with elbow tendonitis or like their shoulder will be irritated or if you just grab like a random 45 50 year old guy off the street and you try to get him in position he actually can't get under it and so this is like time and experience in my favor I would have 10

years ago let's be honest 2016 when I opened my gym I would have said no you have to try to get under this bar right now would shove the people under there and there's some you know some evidence that if you just make yourself get under there then this stuff kind of opens up over time but a lot of times what happened is as the weight of the bar went up they'd start to experience a ton of like pain the elbow and the shoulder and so finally i realized like oh these people are the candidates for a safety squat bar because if you put it here you know the hands here now you take all of this upper body out from supporting the bar and then you can still train them heavy and so the problem with a lot of the safety squat bars is it's like a huge pad and so the bar gets

even higher up on your back and so if the bar is higher up on the back you have more vertical back angle you know less of your hips so less muscle mass involved so if the goal is to get stronger especially like who's using most of these things besides grant like a 50 year old guy that has issues and he has issues because he hasn't trained like you know in his whole life maybe and so we want to get him stronger that's the number one goal so with the mars bar it's the same deal it fixes the hand shoulder elbow situation but the bar is still low on the back it's still like a low bar position it's actually lower than a low bar position so like i can squat more more on a Mars bar than I can on a regular

bar so for me what I yeah what I have found for me is I had hurt my shoulder last year and I was like kind of rehabbing through it and I kept trying to do it kept trying to do it and finally I was like I'm just not gonna lower squat so I went to Mars bar only to like let my shoulder get better and then as I've reintroduced it back every time like i can squat five by five i did it last or maybe two weeks ago i think i was in texas i did five by five low bar it was fine but like some stuff kind of ached and tingled and so what i've been doing is like maybe every third squat workout i've been doing the mars bar okay just to like stress things less and give it a little bit of a break because i think if you're lifted

like you are now right dead lifting 435 like when you're dead lifting 225 at a body weight of 225 you can make a mistake and it doesn't really matter but as you get stronger like it's great you're more durable but also if you make a mistake it's it's a little bit more costly so now i'm like most of the time i do my five by five squat day on a mars bar just to alleviate all that pain and then on the day that i squat like my heaviest like a high intensity day i'll go to the low bar so i maintain that skill but um yeah i used to think like oh who needs a safety squat bar just do a regular bar and now i'm like oh there's definitely a place for this in your training so you kind of you kind of go to it like whenever, like, hey, I kind of tweak something. I need to take

a little break from this. Let's introduce this for a couple of workouts. That's how I used to do it. Now I'm like, hey, I realize if I train hard for 12 weeks on a straight bar, five by five every Monday, really heavy intensity on friday at some point in that maybe it's week eight maybe it's week 10 i will tweak something so now i'm like hey this week all straight bar next week my five by five day i'm gonna do mars bar i'm gonna do okay so it's more like it's preventative now yeah keep it yes that's exactly how i'm using it thank you okay i didn't know how to say that word it's all right it's a big word. It's a big one. So do you do the same weight on that or do you do? A little bit higher.

Okay. So a Mars bar weighs 65 pounds. But what I found is I think the other week I experimented with this. I think I did 375 on the Mars bar for five sets of five. And then when I went to warm up for five by five the next week on a straight bar i was like i'm not doing 380 which like you know technically add five pounds on your volume day and i think i did like 360 so it's not like way off but it's definitely advantageous to the to the lifter if only i knew someone or someplace that sold those yeah wow where could i get one of those that sounds nice

they're back in stock www.strength.co trade a couple uh ranch waters and then couple of ranch waters and a saint barbers medal and uh pop is getting a new squat bar that's's a good question. You asked it intelligently. Usually when I post it on X, people go, but why this bar? And then I just relink an old blog post. To be fair, I also go, what is this thing? That was, I think, my question. Yeah, that's correct. What's this thing?

What this thing? Why does this look weird? Yeah. And that was your amateur lifting update. Brought to you by Trey Gowlidge. Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah.

By the Dunk King. It does the Gannies. There goes Dunkin' Gannies. Wow. Oh my gosh. Special sponsor. That's amazing. What else we got, Big Jeff? It sounds like trey's got a funny marine story lined up here involved in some radios and then uh maybe some satanic symbols involved

oh my goodness oh we back to talking about ice spice i didn't know yeah and uh what was it lil nas x right is the other like devil worshiper or something, right? Yeah. Sam Smith. Not a good thing. None of these people were there, yeah, by the way. Yeah, okay. At least I don't think so. Oh. So, we're out in the field, right?

It was when you had just gone back, Tango had just gone back, Sierra Battery, the platoon left to relieve you, right? Next to the sheet, baby. So I was RBE, FDO. Remain behind element. The unit deploys and people don't go.

Yeah. So I was the RBE. Hanging back, we had a battalion exercise. And we were having trouble with comms. It was in Pendleton, having trouble with comms the whole entire time. Couldn't get them up, couldn't talk to anybody. And then we were getting all these excuses like, oh, sir, it's a full moon, very windy. I don't know.

A bunch of different excuses. Fog, clouds. Whatever it is. And so basically, I'm like'm like man this thing's like the devil it's the devil's equipment like i made some joke like that and so the marines thought that was funny whatever joke i made along those lines and so they just started drawing pentagrams around all like every single antenna they would draw a pinter everywhere, whiteboard, in the dirt, like around the FTC big pentagram. And I was like, fantastic, cool.

And they were going to kick out of it. I'm like, whatever. Like, no one's doing, everyone's doing what they're supposed to. So, I'll just leave it alone. So, like day three, I see this Humvee driving up to our pause. And it's like, what's the chaplain signal or the chaplain sign on the cross yeah the cross is like on the humvee i was like okay and it was it was like the base the pendleton base chaplain and like every it was like him it was the the rabbi chaplain was there the

imam chaplain was there like all of them show up and there's pentagrams like everywhere and i go oh this is fantastic like i'm glad everybody's here watching this so they get out and they go hey what's up with all these pentagrams and i just go our comms have been down and they go I understand we're just trying to get calm father they go I get it they go that makes sense

that's great that's great that's the devil's radio shout out Rimpi shout out Harris Radio That's great. That's the devil. Shout out. Rimpi. Shout out Harris radio. Harris radio.

What a radio potential sponsor. Yeah. Yeah. We're really going for those DOD contracts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Marquise. We're, we're in there like swimwear. Yeah. Let's see.

Big game tomorrow. Big game. Big game tomorrow. Auburn, South Carolina. Wardang Eagle versus the Wardang Eagle. Fighting South Carolina Gamecocks. What time is the game? war dang eagle versus the war dang eagle fighting South Carolina Gamecocks

what time is it it's at 6.30pm America time I think we're 11 and you're 13 or you're 9 are y'all 11 now I have to check

the new one we're 11 okay i thought it was like 13 and 15 or something like that well i think that's what it was when grant okay i think what i posted i think they're two spots apart but auburn won too right yeah on their last one so NCAA men's Wednesday. South Carolina's 11, Auburn's 13. Yep. Big game. I lied. It's at 2030 America time. Zulu time.

Auburn's favored by 11 and a half. Who's at home? It's at Auburn. In the jungle. The jungle. A little college basketball. Try and get a new audience here. A little college basketball

action. That's right. Should be good. So they said it was the first time the Gamecocks been ranked that high since 1997. I was like, that's weird. I went to the final four in Arizona in like 2016 or 17 but then I got I thought I don't think they redo the rankings once the tournament starts right so if you somehow

play in then it just goes so I was like oh that checks out because I was like that can't be right because we lost in the first round of the final four and I went to it, but I was like, we must've been ranked higher than 11. Like we were the top four. I was like, Oh no, it was in the tournament. So yeah,

it's the highest the Gamecocks been ranked since 97. Cool. Hell yeah. Yeah. Gig them. Well, A&M just lost to Vandy tonight at the buzzard. So they're just trying to make the tournament man.

Yeah. They're right on the line. I don't know. What else you got on there, Jeff? Go ahead, Trey. I think Gamecocks, man. 11's a lot. 11's a lot. I think Gamecocks cover that spread.

I've only watched two Gamecock games this year. One on the loss to Clemson, and then I watched them beat Tennessee. Actually, I watched them beat Ole Miss. In college basketball, it's just tough to predict, but I don't think it's an 11-point game. I think it's a two-point game, but I don't know either who's winning.

They're on a roll, man. I don't know. They're on a roll. They're playing ball roll, man. I don't know. They're on a roll. They're playing ball. Balling. You want to get hot at the right time at the College of Basketball. That's all I know about it. If you squeak in a tournament and you get hot at the tournament,

that's the time to get going. Oh, yeah. Like baseball. That's true. Starting here pretty soon, I think. College of Baseball. College of Baseball and spring training coming up next month i couldn't tell you anything about that yeah um masters of the air

does anyone watch that i haven't watched it um i am intrigued just by like have you heard about it made it yeah okay so I want to hear about I want to hear about who made a Trey you've heard nothing nothing nothing so World War Jeff two uh two yeah World War II I was about to say there's no um there's planes in one bombers Bombers. Red Baron. It's Snoopy. Yeah. Snoopy. It is.

Okay. I don't usually get into like war movies, shows. Like I try to, but then I'm like quickly, I'm like, oh, this is lame. It's good. It's good. And now that I'm kind of old and like jeff and i we struggle with high estrogen and like i just look at these i look at these young kids in planes and i'm like oh man like that kid's got a dad and mom somewhere he's like 20. maybe i'm just looking at through a different perspective and i was i was

telling that i was like why join the marine corps i was like hell yeah brother send me to war let's go sign me up and now i'm like watching this i'm like oh I can't believe they went over there to do this um fantastic so I watched two episodes last night I started the third I have like a hard shutdown this year like I will be in bed even after podcast nights at 11 so I'm like I'm done boom go to bed I could have watched I think there to bed. I could have watched. I think there's eight episodes. I could have watched them all last night and not. What is it?

Was it on? It's on Apple TV. Okay. Yeah. So just go outside your house. Go like out to. I've been in your house. Go to like your front sidewalk and just get a piece of shock and just draw a big pentagram.

And once you draw that pentagram, Apple TV is available to you. Apple TV, yeah. Tim Cook gets summoned. Yeah, Tim Cook. Mel Gibson from Science comes down. And yeah, you're good. But yeah, I think it was fantastic. And then I was telling someone today about it

and they were like, yeah, but I heard the visual editing. What's it called? What's like the graphics term? CGI? Yeah. i thought it was commanding general's inspection but like i heard the cgi is bad i'm like dude i've never seen star wars this was amazing for me the footage was terrible yeah yeah the footage was terrible inspection but i thought it was great like i think it's a must watch yeah uh yeah i think it's only

two and a half episodes in the commercial and it's like you know they're they're throwing it out there like people that made band of brothers and the pacific were involved with this and it's like a companion to that i'm like oh all right i gotta take this out heavy hitters it's those vibes it's like you know and like it's interesting his band of brothers and like remember all the leadership videos in uh tbs well pacific wasn't out when we went through but like every other video right and i was watching this and i was like there's act there you can tell military people are behind it because some of like the way an officer's like interacting,

like not always good for the officer can be bad, but like, you're like, Oh, people actually understand this relationship. Um, yeah, it's good.

It's good. I was like, band of brothers. I'm going to watch it. Apple TV. There's, I would say there's very few movies where the officer is like in like good, like probably like deservedly so, but yeah, except in the, in the, in the, Very few movies where the officer is in good light.

Probably deservedly so. Yeah, except in the wing, they're all officers. That's true. Yeah, they're all. That's what you want. Navigators. Yeah, that's what you want, an officer. What's the best? So you guys are in the military or have been in the military.

So what's a movie that you're like, okay, that one was pretty close. A well-depicted military movie. Or is there none? I wasn't in the military, so I don't really know. Gunny Highway? What's the name of that

movie? Heartbreak Ridge. Yeah, Heartbreak Ridge is a must-watch. It's not. yeah you're like what's the name of that movie yeah uh heartbreak heartbreak ridge as a must watch it's it's not uh that's tough to say because they i mean i'm interested in these guys takes but like all of that like you know you think hurt locker you think uh generation kill saving private ryan saving private Private Ryan. But that is like the worst battles that happened. And so, yeah. I mean, I didn't experience what they experienced in Generation Kill. But I think as a Marine, when I watched Generation Kill,

I'm like, oh, I could see all of this happening. Generation Kill. Yeah, Generation Kill. And what's the one that was the book by Tapper, Jake Tapper? The Outpost. So The Outpost coolly made me read before we went to Afghanistan. It was about like... Is that the Army Rangers?

Army. I don't think they're Rangers. I think it's just like a normal... They have maybe a cab unit or infantry. And they have this outpost in Afghanistan and they just like get complac complacent and then they like get in like all these crazy fights that movie came out two years ago on it maybe something like that yeah but uh that one i felt like again didn't deal with that situation but i'm like oh i could understand this understand this happening. Generation Kill. If you want Marine Corps... Oh, yeah. That one nails it.

Marine Corps, what it's like, how people act, nails it. It's pretty close. You hate my mustache. Oh, dude. I'm trying to think of movies that nail it and it's less so. I feel like Band of Brothers is great.

The Pacific, Generation Kill. i feel like band of brothers is great yeah uh the pacific generation kill i feel like those really like kind of like capture the you see all like the dynamics of like the the junior soldiers or marines to the ncos and then like ncos and staff ncos and like then the officer relationships you can see like they depict the good officer and the shitty officer and like the it's all spelled like good leader yeah it's yeah i think those three are pretty dang good yeah okay uh okay i gotta finish i love it on the list reacher yeah reacher i would say reacher is a good example of what it's like to be in the military. Exactly. They nailed it. You go in. You become a major. You take a bunch of steroids.

You kill people. Take the nice girl home. Hell yeah. That's the military. That's the list. The list is wiped. We're just going free now. Pretty much. There's like Rock Purdy

is I can't believe we skipped that. He's definitely the second shooter. Nick Saban going to ESPN to be on College Game Day. Big time. Big time. We got to talk about this Brock Purdy

Lee Harvey Oswald situation tell me more so first of all if you pull up a picture of both of them side by side it's like dead ringer like they look I'm like oh that's I can't tell which one's Brock Purdy

Lee Harvey Oswald was four? yeah did you see him? Brock Purdy. Which one? Harvey Oswald was four. Yeah. Did you see him? Brock Purdy. I looked at it. I was like, how is this kid in the Superbowl? Of that picture,

you sent like the top two that are like that top two, they're side by side. Wow. I'm looking at it right now. I can see it. And then Duncan's going across the screen, but we'll put it on the screen. Dead ringers.

Wow. Okay. My favorite part is it's like someone asked him about it. Like at, uh, like, um, there was an interview at media day for the super bowl and he just like

didn't acknowledge it. So I'm like, okay, now that's super suspicious. Were you the second shooter? Brock Purdy? Were you the grassy knoll? I don know next question oh okay suspicious deny it interesting speaking of kennedy's did you guys like kennedy's ad rfk i felt like it was uh i loved it i thought it was it was pretty

like it was pretty... If that's the time to do it, you're going to put all your money in. So it was interesting. I have no idea what the agenda was. It felt like 1950s America. So it's like old cars, like women in big dresses.

It's like Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy. You could tell it's like old ads all smashed together. And I'm like, oh oh this is like such pro america vibes like i i don't even know what they were trying to go across but i was like that hit home with me like i love that like i thought that was great and then monday morning i wake up and kennedy's like i had nothing to do with that ad uh it's paid for by a super PAC, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, oh, that was interesting, which was funny because like the night before he had retweeted it and like said something about, you know, whatever his campaign promises

are. And then I was talking to a guy that works for like super PACs and stuff that lives here in Greenville. And I was telling him, I said, oh, did you see Kennedy like apologizing no what'd he say I was like this he's like oh yeah he's like well he's actually never seen it like it's against the law when a super PAC makes an ad for the candidate to see it and I had no idea that was a thing no he's like yeah they're actually not allowed he's like so that's actually true um and then I was like well he was like retweet and talking about before he's like well yeah they like it until

everyone else doesn't like it and And then they no longer like it. But basically, people were saying that it offended people in his family because it was showing. Are they still alive? Well, it was showing. They're all dead. Family members that had run for office and died. So there was obviously Robert Kennedy stuff on top of jfk but i actually would say that was dunk kings arnold kennedy were probably my three the three that hit with me and

the home one that we still make the homes.com yeah yeah i actually bought four houses today i didn't know even know what to do i do. It made it so easy on their website. I need a shave, a skin fade, and a weave. I'll take them all. They should have just had RFK just doing push-ups. I mean, pushing strength co-weights up. That's right.

That would have done it. Co-lab. That would have done it. On lab. That would have done it. On a Mars bar. On a Mars bar. Oh, man. Yeah. With a shot. I think the last thing we should kind of touch on is we are.

Two weeks from tomorrow, Jordy and I leave for the Arnold. And so I just can't get over Mickey right now. Like he's, he's just doing this thing where like he puts his ears in the camera. Then as soon as I look at him, he ducks down. Oh, he's leaving.

He's just leaving. He got camera shy. He must say, he got camera shy. Uh, but yeah, the Arnold. So in two weeks,

so let's, uh, some updates for that so we'll go on wednesday tomorrow's the 14th 21st 28th we go on the 28th we'll drive up eight hours i don't know if you guys know this but if you just look at a map you'll see georgia go directly north and you're in columbus ohio makes no sense to to anyone no um yeah they like to think they're the South. It's crazy. But anyway, we'll go to Ohio and then

our truck full of gear, trash and gear will land Thursday morning. It is a box truck. We'll unload that bad boy. And then, Jeff, you're eating Thursday night? So land in at like 3 30 p.m okay 15 30 for you military types

again thursday night okay thursday so everyone's in thursday so you guys will probably just come to convention center and um and find us hopefully we'll be set up and then friday um friday is an interesting day because fr develops a lot of Saturday and Sunday. So we have some things planned, which I'll go into here in a second. But a lot of things develop, at least I've only been twice, but the two years that we've gone, a lot of things develop Friday for the rest of the week and that you didn't even know. Like someone just walks up and goes, can I deadlift a thousand pounds of your boot tomorrow? Sure.

So it's a lot of like weird stuff. So hopefully some cool weird stuff. I think Trey will be there by then. Yeah. Yeah. It's Trey this year. Oh yeah, Trey will be a thousand pounds. I got it. I thought you meant he'd be in Columbus. I'm like, yeah, he said he's going to go Thursday. A couple more workouts. I think he'll get there. So we have 1500 t-shirts we're going to give away. The Made in USA 1801 garment dies. We got 5,000 stickers. We have 3,000 keychains. So if you're listening to this and you come to Columbus,

or if Jordy makes a clip out of this, come to Columbus, and you'll get free stuff for the low price of your email and following us on Instagram and subscribing to the, uh, okay. Podcast obviously. Uh, but anyway, so we'll have that stuff on the booth set up. We'll have some bumper plates there,

some iron plates there, all the bars. Uh, we've got a stage this year, um, PA system. And then Saturday is kind of the biggest day. CT Fletcher is going to be at our booth from one to 2 PM.

And he said, well, three, I'm supposed to go to strict curl, but I'll probably just stay at your booth until then, because it's right next door, right next to the main stage. And then at 2 p.m., big Gino powerlifting will be doing our kind of like little deadlift party slash throwdown. We got Steve Bake that's trying to pull, I think, 850 or 950 without a belt. We have a couple of new people with smaller accounts.

And I can't remember their names, but I love them that were like, hey, I can come pull over 800. Can I come pull? I'm like, yeah. And so I think that's cool. Like we are the booth of the people. So if you can lift heavy, come on out. So Saturday at 2, that'll happen. If you can't, come if you can lift heavy, come on out. So Saturday at 2, that'll happen.

If you can't, come on out anyways. Yeah, come on out anyway. Get a free t-shirt. And then Jen Thompson's going to come by the booth. Nice. I think she's either going to come Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning for photos and signatures and that kind of stuff. And then Big Joel Dirks, who's the guy that grabs all the plates by the hubs and tosses them around. Oh, nice.

That guy's awesome. He's at about 80%. I'm trying to push him to 100%, but he's going to try and come and do some feats of strength. So it's going to be cool. Jeff, what's like... So last year, I was like, I've been once, and I'm trying

to recruit you to come and explain to you what it is. I also gave the same pitch to Jordy, and he didn't come. Recruit me, Jeff. Yeah. So what would you tell Trey and Jordy? How would you...

How do you explain? Because I feel like it's kind of inexplainable and also what's Arnold punch bourbon punch oh the bourbon punch okay well okay so well the the festival in general just artillery punch don't worry about it yeah you'll love it um I mean think any any brand that's in like the fitness whether it's like powerlifting strongman bodybuilding uh knights fighting each other like think any anything like tag it's there like it's represented crossfit olympic weightlifting um it's there it probably has a booth if it's a brand even it's a brand you never heard of did you say medieval fighting medieval fight yeah yeah

there's knights and hidden armor walking around hitting each other with with axes and things like that and then dead lifting um primal and suits armor yeah yeah 100 real say no more yeah and then you know anyone that's got like a major fitness kind of influencer instagram account is also walking around and they're just people making content kind of everywhere there's free energy drinks everywhere so everyone's all like hyped up on that stuff um it's a good time it's really cool on the bathrooms the bathrooms okay so i'll be honest i thought the bathrooms were fine um but i know it's a but they have potential to be a nightmare because you know you think about all the types of people that have just been drinking protein shakes for you know the last 10 years of their lives and their digestive system is not really

intact um they are going to the bathroom at the arnold and there's more of them in one place than there's ever been ever it's like there's just constantly like three custodians in the bathroom like when you walk into p you're like there's like a mop going like they're trying and you just can't keep fighting the tide no and then you have like go ahead b-y-o-b bring your own bathroom bathroom yeah bring your own bathroom wear a diaper yeah it's uh it's wild i think we touched on is like all the fitness influencers so there's like the ones that are there, like with a paid booth there for an objective. And there's just a bunch that are there just to vibe, just to, just to be there. And it's kind of weird. And Trey, you're probably not quite as into the space as I am.

I feel like Jeff's like in the CrossFit world, just as kind of close. Jordy's in it because he has to work in it but if you've like watched like this space for a while when you walk around it almost feels it feels like comic-con okay you know me big comics guy but you're like a comics guy oh there's batman there's superman there's zoro there. I just ran out of comics. Lean Beef. Yeah, you're like, oh, these are real people. Oh my gosh. Zorro. Zorro, not a comic. Zorro's Vader.

Yeah. But they're all there. And it's a wild feeling. It's cool. Masonomics is a good time. Masonomics. We'll definitely hang out with them. Can't wait um

huck finn barbells a fun time his booth's crazy yeah they'll be places jaco will nick just keeps texting me like hey man i really want to collab could you just bring some plates over to my booth i'd love to start posting your plates at 4 40 in the morning with a sweat puddle underneath and i'm like jocko man like you don't have to do that busy just he's so annoying i don't have time for that call call someone else yeah um he said he's gonna deadlift at our booth right but yeah it's actually jocko versus joean. At 3 a.m.? Yeah. That's a good matchup. Colin McGregor's going to call it.

It's going to be at 3 a.m. Then we're going to take a bunch of cold bats afterwards. That's right. Who can deadlift more, Jocko or Joe Rogan? That's a good matchup, I feel like. I don't think so. I would go Jocko. I think I'd go Jockoaco but i mean so i think i've

actually got favorable anatomy for it i know he has long arms and he's shorter stuck here in gear and then i know jaco lifts but i've actually seen videos of rogan lifting i've actually never seen jaco lifting he loves kettlebells yeah i just but I've only seen the photo of a sweaty kettlebell. I've never actually seen what he is. He just gets in the sauna with his kettlebell. Him and Usher. The deuce

is alive. Just roller skating around. I should bring roller skates to the Arnold. When Arnold's walking around oh it's just like there's so there's just masses of people just everywhere but then like the sea just like parts and then like this like i don't know like 30 person security detail like rolls through clear it out the way and then like that's Arnold coming through so so what happens is like on the red carpet they start coming and like the crowd's too big and someone gets on the stage and they just go the stars at night are big and bright and then let

Arnold through right now and that's that's how it goes yeah that's how it goes. You like that as a Texan tree. I met him a while back at the opening of the George Bush Library down in College Station. Do you know what kind of boots he wears? Luchessis. He came up to me and he goes, the CIA has you pushing

too many papers. Did he really? No! They kicked you in the chopper. I was like 10. RIP, Carl. Oh, that's right. That's a sad one.

Rough one. Thanks for bringing that up. So, Jordy, last note, Jordy went to Jersey. He went to Philly. He didn't go see Rocky. Listen, I wasn't in control of the schedule here. They chose the Constitution Museum, which is right across the street. Right around the corner. And we had to pick one.

You don't have to pick one. You just run like Rocky to the other one. There were some grandparents waiting for me. I had to go to the bathroom. And then you run like Rocky. Take a little selfie video. So if he had come back at 190 and been like, dude, I could have run over there,

but I was trying to keep my calories on my body, I would have been fine with it. But he came back at 180. I'm like, if you're going to lose weight, go visit Rocky. I went to the Constitution and looked at that. Did you know that that was actually a crack in the Liberty Bell? Poor Jordy. That's all right, man.

PJ, poor Jordy. Hey, it's a pro-American. Poor Jordy. No, big PR for Jordy today. Yeah, huge fiance PR. Huge. Huge. Huge.

Increase. 100% increase. 100%. That's the math. That's outstanding. Yeah. Huge fiance PR. Yeah. Huge, huge, huge increase. A hundred percent increase. A hundred percent. That's the math. That's outstanding. Wow. Yeah. Not bad.

So, uh, Trey, last night we threw, or last week we threw Jeff, the sign off. You think you, you think you, you think you got it down?

Yeah, no, I think I got it. All right, let's go ahead and sign us off. This is episode seven sometimes i forget what number it is hey guys hey just want to thank everybody for listening to the okay okay podcast you can find us on friendster myspace yeah truth social yeah yes are we on facebook are we on instagram yeah we're on instagram we're not

facebook yeah not facebook we're on instagram yeah you can find us you can find us on all major media platforms besides facebook if you were going to give them one url which one would you give them i would go to www.strengthsco.com but you can also go to www. What would be your second choice? Dot. Dot. Okay. Podcast.com. The okay podcast.

Oh yeah. Thank you. You have a favorite. So you don't have to go to the website. So you're not used to it. I've been on true social too long. Hey, thanks for a hundred subscribers on YouTube.

We hit a hundred and two, three figures 100 subscribers on YouTube. We hit across 100. Three figures. Let's go. We're up there. Thank you, Trey, director of media and marketing. You're doing a good job understanding where to find us. Yeah, www.theokpodcast.com. We appreciate every subscribe, follow, comment.

We got a comment from Trey's brother last week so I think he was the first comment on Spotify so that's big what's his name Caleb Caleb yeah Dr. Caleb he said he we need to get him on the show at some point in time

yeah so I'm thinking for all our listeners they can come below because well there goes duncan again every time i do that it's more work for jordy so i kind of like just doing it over and over um i'm thinking episode 10 ish we start introducing a guest once in a while so uh yeah we'll have to have my um okay but yeah anyway thanks for tuning in thanks for listening we appreciate all the support hope you enjoyed it um you can find jeff on instagram but i don't know where because he doesn't post anything uh you can find trey on x3 gotlitch at three gotlitch on Big X guy. He will retweet everything the OK Podcast does.

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