The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 73: Cottage Cheese & Ship Talk | SEASON 1 FINALE

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

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All right. And welcome back to episode zero seven three of the okay. Okay. Guidance. Okay. Jeff was off. We'll get it right on episode 74 podcast powered by the strength. Co.

My name's Grant. I am your host recording to you live from inside the weapon engagement zone. Well, not really live. By the time you hear this, it'll be next week. Grant's buddy will be out at sea. joined with me today in studio major Jeff Biggie. He is what is he's known on Instagram where he's very busy as the Mormon major, the Mormon major. That's what we've always called them. We'll never stop calling that. And yeah, he's there. And then we have Trey. And Trey is Trey is joining us from Denton, Texas. Denton, Texas. Yep. Deep in the heart of Denton. He's deep in the heart. Retired for from the Marine Corps. Retired for. Yeah, lots of talk

about today. The price of Bitcoin is 15, 15,000,658,083 Japanese yen. if you're Kenichi was 108,000. It's all time high, hit an all time high this week. Because actually Taiwan, Taiwan was like, Hey, Bitcoin, we like this. And so Bitcoin stopped. It's found out about it. They're into it. It's almost tripled. It's almost the podcast. They're like, yeah, that's it. Yep. So this is not investment advice. This is life advice by Bitcoin, actually, maybe get that start thinking about selling at this point. We hope you bought an episode one, and you should be three times more rich than you were then. I was talking to my wife, my wife, outside, and I started my wife and I said, anything you

want me to bring up on the podcast? And she said, no, but you guys should act like you want to do it this time. I was like, Oh, you're current. Good. That was a test. I was like, no, we definitely, we've heard definitely episode 0 7 2. Um, so we'll do our best. Yeah, we'll do our best to do that.

We'll try to keep the staff brief short. seven to. So we'll do our best. Yeah, we'll do our best to do that. We'll try to keep the staff brief short, although Lance Corporate still loves it. Oh, good. Someone does. That's good. Yes. And with that, I'll kick it over to the three. OK, good, good. Can you guys hear me when I speak, though over to the three. Okay, good, good. Can you guys hear me when I speak though on the microphone?

Is that can you hear me? Am I am I loud and clear? Licking chicken? Yep. You're Lima Charlie. Okay. Okay. Well, I'm gonna go ahead.

Yeah, I had to sit through like an hour and 45 minute brief. And the guy that was the main briefer sounded like that. It was great. Everyone in the room was talking to each other. Call, call sign piglet. And it was so bad. Yeah. But yeah, digress. Yeah, it was a lot of that. And then just like he would say something and there'd be that like pause of like, oh, it's a question. And then someone would just unmute the

mic and go, Oh yeah, tracking. Okay, good to go. And then it's good. Okay. All right. S, that's one, let's kick it around the room. Let's go. Here we go. Come on admin types. You admin Bubba's. So the Manning document that all the first artists have been working on for the last three months, um, I had my Lance corporal go in there to change a blood type of the CEO cause we never had the CEO's blood type. And he actually erased the whole thing. So we're gonna do a working group this afternoon

and restart it with the EXOs. That's all we have for the one. Okay, that's good. Okay, well make sure you get that on the calendar. Make sure you get on the calendar, share out that invite to all hands. I want all hands shared on that invite. But then, you know, just small working group

for just, you know, you admin bubba's admin types, you know, we'll be in attendance, but make, you know, just small working group for just, you know, you admin bubbles, admin types, you know, will be an attendant. Let everyone know. This is trash five. I just want to echo trash three real quick and just say, you got to get the stuff on the ops calendar. Okay. I come into work every day with a plan and I plan to execute that plan and don't drop in on me.

My do not have an open door policy. I have a, is it on the outlook calendar policy? That is my policy. It's always been my policy. Just want to echo the three, what they do, that team, they do a great job. Also secure the trash, trash five out. Thank you. Executive officer type. Onto the deuce. Kicking it onto the deuce. Intel, any updates? Yes, sir. The update, theaminator was working for a little bit.

Excellent. Excellent. Yes, sir. But then Regiment needed it, so they ended up taking it. Oh, they took the Laminator. So we now have no... Yeah, theirs was also broken. So I signed it over to Regiment.

Okay. Okay. We have the Laminator. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Just play with me have the laminator. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Let's just, you know, just, just play with me on this one, but you know, JLTI is we did that. We got the sheets all recorded, all the data. Sir, what's a JLTI? Hey, trash five here, trash five here. What happened? How it happened is important.

We can do that on a sidebar as long as it's kept to a minimum, but I just want to make sure that it's reported in DERS, Deuce. Make sure you report it in DERS. We need the commonart to know that that laminator is down. So yeah, I did not report it in DERS. I reported it in Signal. It's in the Signal chat. Wow. He probably knows then. It's not made in the Signal chat. Straight to the top. That's great. Okay, well, JLTI joint limited technical inspection. OK, we want them just to be limited, though, like not not a full inspection. There's like a really limited inspection.

Geez, because we want to leave the window open for something to be going wrong with that. So, yeah, just don't just only the door open. Right. Exactly. Just the door remains closed. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. OK. Cops, cops moving on. Cops. Trash still the number one priority. All right. It's our it's our current thing. We go ahead, pull up the trash tracker.

I updated that reformatted it. Right. I got some inputs and insights from fellow fellow trash battalion on the on the East Coast. Right. fellow trash battalion on the East Coast, right? Our sister battalion on the East Coast. CLT, the Combined Logistics Trash Battalion. It's now all in... Making some notes. All in Calibri, right? We're switching over to Calibri.

Okay. Times New Roman, Ariel Fott, don't want to see it. Courier New, don't want to see it. We're now full Calibri. If I see any other size, I'll freak out. What size 11 and a half or 11 and a half is much more executive. A quick, quick, quick admin note for everyone. 1145. This is this is this is the one this is the one commanders right in red, exos right in green, department red is bright and blue. So if you're not watching us on YouTube, Trey's writing in red. So he

is now trash six. Okay, well, Okay, as I say, that's what we got. We got a quick turn on a change of command or assumption of a command letter. Got to get it updated in a while. Relief. Relief and appointment or? Well, you're going to need an appointment for that. So make sure you get that on the Ops calendar.

Future operations, right? Look around you. All future trash. So just be thinking about a plan. Have a plan. No plan survives the first contact with the enemy or the trash can. Right. Also, make sure we're putting trash in the proper receptacle. Right. I don't want to see. I don't want to see it mixing trash. It's unprofessional and it's not what we do as a trash fighting organization. OK, one day it's discipline and trash.

The next day, discipline and combat. Remember that team trash. OK, moving along, moving along our our log produce more trash. So much trash. My goodness. And to think we would burn it when we just need to be sorting it. OK, like burning trash. That's amateur stuff Right. We need to be sorting it Bagging it tagging it getting it out getting it out on the way real quick trash six here

You guys want to finish this brief or do you want to push? No, keep finishing Said no one ever Push I'm going to go with the first one. I'm going to go with the second one. I'm going to go with the third one. I'm going to go with the fourth one. I'm going to go with the fifth one. I'm going to go with the sixth one. I'm going to go with the seventh one. I'm going to go with the eighth one.

I'm going to go with the eighth one. I'm going to go with the eighth one. I'm going to go with the eighth one. I'm going to go with the eighth one. I'm going to go with the eighth one. I'm going to hand it over to my chief. Chief, do you got anything for the group? It's also you Trey. Oh, I'm also the chief. Yes sir, we have updated the record jackets for the group. The upcoming Phasmo inspection.

The Phasmo inspection. We're all hands hands on deck hands down Hands everywhere, you know just wait for the phase mo coming in about a year from now We're just trying to get prepared. So that's all I got sir Excellent goodness. Goodness gracious Okay, met wait we skipped medical and dental Medical we got anything We just pulled everyone's teeth to eliminate We found that we had too many class threes

Eliminated the problem outstanding outstanding work in the the're switching the chow hall to baby food only, so we should be fine. Outstanding work. All right, our dental readiness will remain ready. I love it. Wow. What outstanding work. OK, well, I guess we should take it around the room. Any saved rounds before we hit the command deck here? Any outline stations dial in? Oh, outline stations. I don't think they did.

They have like forgotten that every listener is a podcast. Como, I'm gonna need you to look into that, see what's going on. Matt Ronin says glad to be of service. Cooper six sent in the, this, this poem that's taped to a wall somewhere in the Marine Corps, attention orders. What kind of person are you before you cut the tape below and throw trash in here, execute a right face, look at yourself in the mirror and repeat these words. I am a piece of shit. I'm so lazy, weak and cowardly that I won't take two steps and throw my trash in the large trash can by the door. I will never be anything in life because I can't execute the tiniest amount of discipline. If you still decide to cut the tape because you think you're a badass, come see any one

SG and exhibit the courage you think you have and tell us what you did dot dot dot dot dot or you can do the right thing by taking two steps and throwing your trash in the large trash can. Hmm. Us a WTF M. Oh, that is United States Army. What the F man. Oh, it's a good poem, man. It's a great poem. So Robert Frost. Yeah. That was Robert Kraft. Wow. Oh, that's what he said right before he left the massage parlors. That was the last thing you saw. Wow. Well, words that needed to be written down and enshrined. I love it. So our major.

You sort of major. They also are major. I appreciate it. No, appreciate what you do. You say no. Go execute the plan of the week back brief every three hours. Oh, yeah. 13 minutes is great brief. Great brief. Everyone. Great brief. Yeah. Great brief. Great brief.

All right. Slide deck. OK, cool. This school, we're still kind of like this. Just this fits in kind of with a staff brief. But one one of like the acronyms or phrases I forgot about. Just one that got that got brought back to me this last weekend at drill was Derloff. Circled back. Derloff. I'd forgotten about that one. And someone said it.

Yes. Oh, yeah. Don't forget that. Don't forget, Trey. Trey, you got their loss. Yeah, you got your loss. Should I know this? Yeah. You don't know, Darla. Well, that's how I operated the first like four years in the Marine Corps

with someone would say, Darla, and then that would be that. And I'd be like, I don't know what that means. I have no idea what they're talking about. So I know what I know what it means, but you're going to tell somebody else. Can you spell it for the group? D I R L A U T H. That's correct. That's correct.

I'll use it. Yeah, we'll use it in a sentence. Now, now, hey, Trey, on this matter, on this matter, Trey, you don't got to talk to me. You got Durloth. You just go right, right to, you know, you go right to the S6 and work with them on it. You got Durloth. You don't got to go through. So let me, let me give, let me give a practical example for our for our listeners. When grants buddies leaving the strength Co any hands over the password to Instagram to Connor. I'm just like, Hey, man, you got dirt off the massonomics, like anything you need. Don't don't run it

through me. It's all you brother. Trey, you know what this is? Like, I get the concept of it. I just don't know what it stands for. Like all Marine Corps acronyms. Direct liaison authorized. Okay. Which really means whatever task you have, I don't want to be a part of it. And so like, yeah, just just go do it and don't tell me anything about it. Please get their love. Let's go. Mm hmm. I've never had to roll off.

No one's ever told me that. I've never had to. I've never had that short. Derlach. Yeah. It's overrated, honestly. Honestly, I prefer by their by their. Mm hmm. That actually gives you signing power. I can imagine you're an XO.

You put down your green pan and you pick up your red one because you got you got by their next slide. We're losing trade. He's fading and do we want to do we want to do we want to hit sports? We got bring Trey back. It seems like we got let's let's hear about his play. Do we want to hit sports? We got to bring Trey back. It seems like we got. Yeah.

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So Trey, you went to a Western hockey team game. Yeah, I'm saying well, you know what they say about Western hockey teams. They generally are better. Generally better at hockey. You know, Texas just like a really historically known for being a hockey state. So much ice down there. A lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Most of the women in Dallas just embrace the role of hockey moms. Yeah, yeah. And I'll slice oranges and stuff. Yeah, yeah. Well, the outcome was a little bit disappointing stars, stars lost, but experience was a lot of fun, had a good time. So my that was my second hockey

game to ever go to. So this one was much more exciting. So we were pretty we're on the third decks, we're pretty high up. Okay. Play hockey, man. It's not cheap. It is. No, it is not cheap. But I thought honestly, I thought so the first one went to I was we were kind of we're on first level, like behind the net. And it was kind of hard. It was harder to follow there. So being up high was a lot easier to kind of contracts or anything. Can see the develop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who was the look? Who was your cohort? Who was with you?

Was it kitchen? Kitchen six. And the girls? No, girls did not go. OK, got it. So just a little date night. Well, date night. Yeah. I have to play a hockey game. Got a jersey. So, OK. Jerseys are the best. They're my favorite. Oh, yeah.

Is the best. Is it like a game worn one? Like, does it have like the straps at the bottom that like tie in? No. So now I feel like a fake fake. No, no, I didn't mean it like that. Yeah. Yeah. And we got to search you up there. Oh, golly. That's like a lot of jeez.

You just got that jersey. Yeah. I was trying to get, was it by Durs? What is it? Durs? Derloff. Derloff. Yeah, Derloff.

Yeah, I didn't have it. So, no, man. So yeah, we were surrounded by some characters some characters that hockey game Majority of them up in the third deck a lot of more Edmonton fans. Oh so Really Canadians, you know what say what you want about them nice people Enjoy talking to them better at hockey. He Well that night they were for sure.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're probably from what they're probably from Western Canada. They were Edmonton is generally Western hockey teams are generally better in my head and go hey point to Edmonton in Canada. Could any of us do it? No, all I know is that all I know is that is it British, Canada? Like what's on the

other side of Niagara Falls? Yeah, British, Canada. Isn't it BC? British Columbia, British Canada, British Columbia. The Colombians moved up there from Britain. Yeah, yeah. They just left it. British Columbia. British Canadians better. British, Canadian. I said British Canada, so I was also wrong. Isn't that on the other side of Niagara?

Or is that Montreal? I know. I think you're right. I think because Toronto is generally in that area, right? That's by New York, isn't it? I think so. I mean, Niagara Falls, New York, Canada border. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. First of all, Vancouver is out west. Yeah. Exactly. Wait, where's all, Vancouver is out West. Yeah.

Exactly. Wait, where's Vancouver? Vancouver is a part of BC. Vancouver is out. Where's Winnipeg? Where's Winnipeg? That's like if you like drive north from Seattle, like just across the border. That's Vancouver?

Is Vancouver. Yeah. Okay. Where's Winnipeg? All I know about Vancouver is when we grew up in the Southern Baptist world, you listen to a show called Adventures in Odyssey. And there was a guy named Mr. Whitaker, and it came on the radio every Saturday at 10 a.m. right after Ranger Bill, warrior of the wetlands, Adventures in Odyssey. And someone named Connie would come in at the end and she would say, I forgot

the first part of the address, but she's a Vancouver BC B6B4G3. I was like, in Canada, right to us. And yeah, so I know that Vancouver is BC. Therefore, BC must not be a radio. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm a great depression. I grew up in the Bible Belt, Trey, in the great Baptist revolution. Yeah, all we did was we didn't have TV. We listened to Adventures in Odyssey, Ranger Bill. There was another show that was on Christian radio, but we were allowed to transfer over to NPR on Saturdays for car talk. Car talk. Oh, wow. So good. Give me, give me one second.

One sec. Man, I really know nothing about Canada. I just pulled up a map and I'm. Dude, how far off are we? Well. Did you see where Winnipeg is? Winnipeg I think is more central. Could I just remember that's where the Atlanta Thrasher's moved to Winnipeg and got renamed the Jets. But but but Benny and the Jets.

So Atlanta used to have its own hockey team. And then they left. It was very sad. Were you a big thrashers fan? Like the two like a season and a half like got into them and then they broke your heart and took off. So yeah, I always hope the Jets lose. They they did this year. Where we at?

Oh, yeah. So surrounded by Canadians. Oh, yeah. Canadian geography, which none of us know. None of us know. Oh, yeah. You're at a hockey game, not in Canada. Yeah, I was at a hockey game.

Surrounded by Canadians. A lot of Canadians. Super nice people. Enjoyed talking to them. Kind of told him I was new to hockey. They were very, very accommodating. The people who were the most annoying were the other stars fans. Yeah, in Texas, we just call that Texans or fans.

People. Yeah. Yeah, Texas, we just call those humans. They would turn around like I was very inebriated and they would just, I was watching the hockey game. You were that. No, it would have made them more tolerable. Yeah. But man, they were just, they turn around and just thought since I was wearing the same

jerseys and that we were just friends I was like guys y'all are very annoying. Yeah, I just got this Jersey. There's no way I know you I'm very close to just putting on Edmond to Jersey right now the kitchen six get a jersey She borrowed one from friend. No, no. Yeah, we were both Jersey to what don't like the women go And they go in like stars jerseys and cowboy boots? Is that like a Texas? I guess you guys are like a lot of there's a bunch of young kids wearing poncho shirts

tucked in with a belt buckle. Okay, I guess you guys just call those boots huh? Yeah, they were wearing just boots. Yeah, correct. Yeah. They were all just cowboys and then Canadian. In Texas, we just call those boys. That's, yeah. That would have been a good, that would have been a good game if you guys just started playing cowboys and Canadians.

They played, played some Garth Brooks in the third period. Oh, big jumping guy. Oh yeah. That's what, yeah, they were all, that's what everybody was doing. Yeah. my roots. Jump around. Yeah. Now that Garth Brooks wrote that song. Yeah. Jump around. Yeah. So the stars are up or is it one one?

Tied one one. One one. All right. And the next game is manana. Manana. I didn't see who won tonight's game. Florida. Florida.

Florida. Florida. Florida. Florida. Florida. Florida. One one tied one one one one. All right. And the next game is Manana Manana. I didn't see who won tonight's game. For all those little sports. Oh, so they. I'm sorry. What's that one at then? Three oh, right. Yeah, they're they're crushing. Yeah. Wow. They won six to.

They won last game like five, nothing and then five. So the five one. The canes are out. I did see the old T Wolves were raining down. They were winning big when I saw it. 143 to 101. 143 in the best. That's impressive. That's a lot. Yeah.

Must have been draining them threes. The T Wolves have a shot. They were down 0-2. So it was a must win. So now that games one, two. So you got stars, Panthers, Canes. And Edmonton left. Yeah. Right. Jim. So it's looking like I I'm thinking of stars Panthers.

Panthers look hard to be right now. They're from the they're in the east though. And that's true. They're not as good as hockey. Yeah, they're not as good as conference. Yeah. Just go ahead. Yeah. That's okay. East East Eastern Conference is playing for third place. Winner of the Western Conference. That's just the gym. Yeah, that's yeah. Yeah Man, can you imagine? Florida versus Texas and hockey Everyone in Canada just like rolling over their graves all the people that Invented the sport. Yeah, The original six is just at home watching these Texas verse Rednecks, Salt Life. It

should be the Florida Salt Lifers. I will say there's a ton of Canadian, all the Canadians that talk to him like, did y'all fly in from Edmonton? They're like, no, we live in Texas. I was like, um, so y'all just got smart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Move down here. Yeah. What's, uh, speaking of sports, what I see you got your life's full circle hat on, Jeff. What what's going on in that sport?

Yeah, life's full circle. Uh, so that's full circle. Premier League season tomorrow. Is that the Liberty football championship? Uh, Liverpool football club. Oh, that's it. So that's a team. This is, yeah. Yeah. So this is Liverpool. Okay, got it.

That's the, I'm going to guess they play in the Champions League. Yes. Maybe. But their main league is the English Premier League, but it's because of how they played last season, and then how they played this season, they'll be in the Champions League again. Not to be confused with the British Columbian League.

Exactly. Don't confuse. Don't confuse. I wonder, has Liverpool ever been relegated? That's a good question. Not that I'm aware of. Is that like getting confirmed in the church? Yeah, same thing same thing It's like getting your card to go into the Mormon temple Relegation there's where you finish in the the bottom three of the league and they bump you down to the lower league so I wish I

Wish the NFL would adopt something like that Yeah, we just get rid of the Browns. Well, so the good thing about that. So if there's relegation, like there is in soccer, if you're in what the last what four spots, who gets really last? Last three spots? Yeah, last three. So if you're in the last three, like, you're actually still playing for something to not get relegated. Yeah. So if you win, it's still almost just as exciting

as winning the league. Yeah, yeah. This season, it's kind of... Most stuff is kind of wrapped up, like, the three teams that are going down have been mathematically eliminated for, for like a few weeks now. Liverpool wrapped up the league title like four weeks ago, three weeks ago. So there's now still kind of some playing for like spots

five through two. And that's like all like the champions league spots so a lot of money up for grabs. They've been relegated three times. Probably not for a while though. I'm guessing. The last time was in 53-54. I feel like we should relegate Strength Co. HB. We definitely should. They are relegated. That's right. You're right. They've never not been relegated. Yeah, they've never been deregulated. Yep, that's the term.

Yep. It's like deplaning. Never understood deplaning. What do you do when you get on the plane? What's that called? Plane. Just planing. Yeah.

No, you know, you call it. Oh, you board. And then you D plane makes no sense to me. I sound like an idiot then whenever I get on plane All right, let's plane It's time to plane everybody let's go let's get on but yeah overall enjoy the hockey experience despite the loss Topic stayed on topic. Just like a star. Yeah. That was good. Good job, team.

Thanks for what you do. Uh, Ronald Cunha Jr. is back for the Braves after Terrence ACL last year. First two games or first pitch he saw, home run, and then hit a home run in his second game back also. So he's, he's, uh, feeling good. Are Dodgers going to win again this year? You think Red Sox played the Orioles and hung 13 on them in the bottom of the eighth

and one like 16 to three. And I was like, man, we are really coming around. And I looked it up and we're still exactly 500. And the Orioles have won 12 games this year. So don't get excited. But our Dodgers picked to win again. I mean, it's early. It's a long season. Yeah, but like betting favors. I would say it's probably the Padres baseball, baseball, world series line.

Rangers assigned some 12 year old Korean kid. That's always good. I don't know if he's actually 12, but he's like close to it. World Series odds. You got I guess I was off with the world series. You got I guess I was off with the Padres. They've fallen off Dodgers, Yankees, Tigers, Phillies, Mets, Braves. Oh, great. Wow. Interesting.

Braves are plus four hundred five a game below five hundred. And they're in the Padres. Padres are like eight right behind the Texas Rangers. Interesting. Did you know about that lottery scam in Texas? No. What's going on? Well, it's over.

But like basically the lottery was not getting one and I don't know which Texas lottery it was some jumbo thing. So there's this guy. Old jumbo? Yeah, there's this guy. Old jumbo? Yeah, there's this guy, Jimbo. There's this guy called the Joker. I guess you're circling back to that greatest

American poet chat, huh? Yes, we are. Hey, keep the sidebars to a minimum. Excuse me? Yeah, sidebars to a minimum. Who was that? Down. Chad GPT is talking to me, dude. I know you're the armor and you come to these staff meetings and never get to talk, but

that doesn't mean you don't have to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Joker, he's like a gambler, professional gambler. And then there's like this other guy that's like a locator for like good odds. And anyway, the Texas powerball, like didn't get one. So the guy like tips off the joker and say, get a bunch of money and they get permission to buy these lottery

ticket machines. Like they did everything legal and basically they just bought like 90% of all the tickets where the odds were like, you know, whatever that is to win it 90 to one, I guess you'd say. And so then they win, they win it like they win the lottery. And then the Texans are like, Hey, that's for the people. That's not for like businessmen. And so it's like in the Texas court system right now of like these guys getting sued and the jokers like super mysterious, like no one knows his real name. He never takes photos with people. It's basically like a heist, but it's a legal heist. And, but Texans are really upset about it. Yeah. It's I'll send you some news articles.

Fascinating. That's what I love about them. Yeah, I only stick with scratchers. Not playing that. Yeah. Fancy stuff. Not watching those ping pong balls drop in. I'm more of a ping pong guy.

Yeah. I'm more of a radio guy. Next slide. Okay, okay. Quick shout out to, we had drill weekend this past weekend. Barney's Beach Shack, I don't know if that's the official name of it, but Grant, are you familiar with that little like restaurant that's on Seal Beach? Kind of like down.

Like Barney's Beach. Beach, if you like went under the bridge. I mean, it wasn't inside base or off base. It's on base. It's like a little like basically like shack with an outdoor patio area. And they serve food, sir, food, beer, that's new. I don't know how new it is. It was not new seeming, but it may have been post. So Barney's Beach has always been there, which was, you know, I left 2019. And there was like a sign that said Barney's Beach and there was like a concrete structure that you could

go like, hang out in. That's it. But there was no food. I assume when the grunt battalion moved there, they probably added more amenities because you now have like, who's there 225 or something? 23. 23 or something like that? Yeah. Yeah. Like they're there. Like right near you, right? Yeah, they're like just down down the street.

Yeah. So that whatever that building is didn't exist back in the old core. So Yeah Did they ever build the parking deck there? I? Haven't seen a parking deck. I don't know they're building they're building something and they're like they're using 514s like parking lot to Put all their like trailers and like other like supplies so like 90% of the parking lot is now unoperational. Because it's great. Perfect.

But yeah, digress there. But little beach shack there, yeah, don't recommend getting the food. Wasn't gonna get the food and then was like, oh, this halen bale has been going on for a long time. All right, I'm gonna get something. I'm not gonna get the burger or the nachos. Like I'm going to go with the grilled chicken sandwich. Like maybe this will just be a little bit lighter option or whatever.

Yeah, that thing put me down for like five days with some. Oh, no. Guessing is Salmonella. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh, dude. It was rough. Rough. Let's say at one point I wet the bed in my sleep. Not out, not out the front side either. It was great to it. So yeah. Yeah. I was not sleeping in the same bed as my wife. I was like, you know what? I'm going to sleep in the back room. Cause I got home late from like drill flying back from drill. I text Trey and I was like, I'm about 50 50 whether I'm going to, whether I'm going to

poop my pants or not on this flight. It was a, it was a fun time. You got to secure that trash man. I was securing that trash with my beer. Was that the worst food poisoning you've had? 100%. Usually it's like a day or two. Did it come out of both ends?

Mainly the back side. Just the aft end. A little bit of front side the first night and then that was about it. Tons of burps though. More burps I've ever had in my life. Hey, well you're looking good now. I'm one stomach full away from my goal weight. They'll send you a Barney's chicken sandwich. Oh man, Barney's chicken sandwich. Oh man, Barney's chicken sandwich. Potential sponsor.

Shout out to them. Man, I am always so skeptical when a military installation serves chicken. So like here in the West, we have like wing Wednesday. And so there's two lines, there's the specialty line and there's like the main course line, you know, and especially line has the wings. And I'm just like, man, you guys, like can't get meatloaf right. There's no way you're cooking good chicken wings. So I always skip it.

And then like whenever it's like the barbecue chicken, you know, it's like that chicken that they just dump some kind of glaze on. Yep. I never always skeptical. Which I think can take us, not to steal your show three, but in two different ways. One, we can get into some ship talk as a ship certified Marine that you are. And we could either start with that or we could go into the cottage cheese phenomenon. However you want to take it. I'd love to talk a little cottage cheese and then we could go into the cottage cheese phenomenon. However, you want to take it. I'd love to talk a little cottage cheese and then we can hit that. I can speak more to cottage cheese. Well, as soon as the strength gets done making LPDs,

we're going to switch to making cottage cheese. Outstanding. No. So cottage cheese, we've talked about it a little bit on this podcast. I am a Massonomics Hall of Famer, proudly so. One of the boxes unchecked is I have not gone back and listened to every single episode. And I'll be honest, I'm way behind right now. I haven't listened to a Massonomics podcast in a while.

And we've talked about cottage cheese and I've talked about cottage cheese internally. Well, really with my buddy and his Marine buddies, because no matter what's at the chow hall, if there's cottage cheese, I'm like, everything's gonna be okay. And because sometimes the food is just untenable. It's like you can't eat it. It's terrible. You can put the whole bottle of Frank's Red Hot on and you're like, nope, not going to do it. And I just go and get a giant bowl of cottage cheese and I either black pepper it up or I put like a little jelly from the toast aisle in there and I eat it. And so all of a sudden what I am caught up on is Massanomics Instagram. And there's like a lot of cottage cheese talk.

A lot. And it's like gallon of cottage cheese a day, like a lot of cottage cheese. And I'm like, what? Like, so I don't know. I, I, Trey, I don't think, I mean, I know you're a listener because every podcaster is a listener, just like every listener is a podcaster. But Jeff, like, do you know where the cottage cheese came from? It kind of just like popped up, I think is like a food that both Tanner and Tommy like enjoy. And then like kind of then would go down the rabbit hole of like the different like brands.

And they know that like comparing against each other, yeah. And so eventually like that just kind of then snowballed like week after week. And then you know, the crew caught on and now they're just cottage cheese memes. And now it just seems to be a big shift from horse stall mats to cottage cheese. And yeah, they seem to be one in the same, but it is an underrated food and people either love it or hate it. Like, like there are like some of my fellow field grades here that are like, they just they see it and they know it and they're just eating cottage cheese and there's some people that just think we're crazy. And like my wife, for example, will buy it from me when I'm at home and she thinks it's a white people thing. You guys don't know this. My wife is Mex, Mexicano, Mexicano,

American. She's a God's white people. I was like, it's not a white people thing. I was like, a lot of white people don't like it. Don't make this racial, Diana. Come on. But anyway, cottage cheese. We were out of the chow hall for like eight days. It was terrible. It was terrible. And every day I would like go to the, the like senior mess hall man. I'm like, Hey, like, I appreciate everything. I really do. I just like want to voice my complaint. There's no cottage cheese. And they're like, Oh, yeah, what? And I'm like, Yeah, like, that's pretty much what I live off. I've been living off it for like 40 days. And I'm gonna need you to bring the cottage cheese back. And not because of my conversations, but it's back now. It's back, so. That's good.

Probably some good conversations. Yeah. I feel like I remember cottage cheese being a pretty steady staple on ship. So is it true that the food is like good after a port call and then like steadily declines? It's, it's a pretty, yes. Yes. Like if there's a port call where they like take on like fresh food stores. And then, you know, like, as the days go on, the lettuce doesn't stay good or the fruits

all been used. I mean, I feel like the for the most part, it's they, they go through everything. And then if like a resupply has to get rescheduled, an, an, an rep, if you will, an underway replenishment, those are the terms that they use or the nautical terms they use. And so if there's an unwrap schedule, like, right, like the, the resupply ship pulls alongside you. They do all these like funny Navy things. So like, literally like tether the ships together and then like cargo lines that called docking. They'll sure. I forgot what the actual term is for it. But then like, then they break away and they had they play the breakaway song and like usually sometimes There's like an end a junior ensign out there like dancing in like a mascot costume Like it's a whole thing the Navy gets really into it

and Then like the fresh fruit and like the salad bar gets replenished and stuff like that pretty gay. I mean I want to talk more about ships, but Jeff, are you a shellback? I mean, maybe does they do what they got to do to stay. Maybe so. The Navy is. I want to talk more about ships, but Jeff, are you a shellback? I am a shellback indeed. So I was hearing about a shellback ceremony and it's when you cross the equator. Right. Correct. Yeah. And there's something called like the big baby.

And it's like the fattest sailor on ship or the fattest chief. And some of it like it's a, it's a Marine officer is a former Navy seaman. He's like, Oh, you got to the shellback. I'm like, yeah, like, don't I just become a shellback when I cross the equator? Like now I can say like I'm shellback. He's like, Oh no, he's like, there's going to be the big baby. And the big baby comes down and like lifts up his shirt.

And then you like stick your face in his belly button and like motorboat it. That's like one of the requirements. There is like a whole I totally believe that that's a thing. I believe that. No, it's it is anymore. Let me see what AI says. If you go back and look at like old shellback ceremonies or read about them, like people like would like you would get like beat up. I think beat you up. Yeah.

I mean, it's all super toned down now. Like I'm pretty sure like the shell. I got my sick mind to shell, my dad went through. Yeah. I mean, I think part of it one, I was on the LHD. So like the big decks, that's where like the new commander, the Commodore, the ship's captain's a full bird or the captain. So like, there's like a little more, I probably have to like,

yeah. So I think it's like toned down a little bit from one of the smaller decks and like, I'm on the medium sized deck. Yeah. You just got like a five or four is like a little bit toned down, but not a lot. Here's what we got. Polly wags sailors who have not crossed the equator dirty, shell bags, shell bags who have crossed the equator and been inducted into Neptune's realm, King Neptune, the highest ranking shellback who presides over the ceremony,

court of Neptune, a group of shellbacks who organize the ceremony, rituals, pollywogs are subjected to a variety of tasks ranging from humorous gags and physical challenge to more embarrassing ordeals. Brine baptism, a common part of the ceremony involves being dipped or splashed with salt water as a symbolic baptism.

Certificates, newly shellbacks receive certificates commemorating their equator crossing, morale boosting. In modern times, the ceremony is often about entertainment and boosting morale than harsh discipline according to the naval history and heritage command. So, yeah, it's a good time. And I'll say like, if you have any Marines that are like, I don't want to do it, like, like make them do it. Because they're not like this is never going to happen again.

Once in a lifetime. Yeah, Yeah. This is their Super Bowl. I did it on a cruise ship. Oh, you're in a less true shell back then. Yeah, there's a lot more fun. Yeah. It's a good time. That's pretty exciting. Okay. Yeah, So, right. Yeah, of course. I'm gonna do it. Yeah. Um, so more Navy stuff, like you're on the big deck. So like here you can get lost. I'm also curious, like definitely serious question. Like where does the trash go? Like I like if I'm in my head, you know, my, my room, I'm a major, so I got a better life than most folks. Sorry, but I earned it. Um, but like, let's just say I have a trash can. Yep. Like when I'm done with it, it's like a polywag coming to pick it up. Am I like taking it somewhere?

Where am I doing my laundry? Like, is there like a laundry facility that I'm going to? And then like, yeah, just like give me some basic ship expectations. Not me, my buddy. And yeah, yeah, it's some ship life. like like, when do I get to go to the flight deck? Can I always go to the flight deck? Like how often do I see the sun? Yeah, give me a little ship life. Okay, so anytime this is your

on on topic number one trash first and foremost. So like in your room, you'll have like a little waste bin for for trash. Um, so like in your room, you'll have like a little waste bin for, for trash. So like your protein bar wrappers, like tissues, whatever it is, like that stuff goes in there, if you've got like any sort of like cans or like, uh, like recycle it, I really just cans. I think, like, where do I get the cans? Is there like a PX on the ship? So there'll be a little like ship store.

Um, okay. And so like that'll be, you know, and they'll have like, you know, monsters and like, cigarettes, cigarettes, water bottles, like towels, snacks, like Pringles, gummy bears, yeah, like protein powder, water bottles with like the ship's name on it, like ship swag also in there. So it's kind of like- PJ, you gotta make a list of all these items that came to Jeff's mind when he thought of the ship store. Monsters, cigarettes, dips, zans. Generate a little AI image. Oh, man. It's all the stuff that like we want the things that are going to sell. Like we don't need to be I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm uh, my cash card and I overheard like one of the female shipmen talking like, Oh, telling the other one, like I, I, I buy so many extra cigarettes cause like the Marines are so dumb. And when they run out of cigarettes, I sell them for like $5 a piece. Got to make that bread. And I was like, Oh, all right.

Yeah. Yeah. Pull the economy spring up in the birthings with the, where the troops stay. Um, okay. So trash, like you'll have your kind of like own trash in your room and then two or three times a week will be like trash pickup day and you'll set your cans. Like it's basically like at home, you know, you take your cans out to the curb, trash truck, come by, pick them up. So, but like, it's, you know, some

sailor, they go around, collect it all into like a larger bin. And then is that called like a trash back or a trash walk? No, some guy who thought he was going to be in Navy's heel. Oh man. And so make sure you tell them who y'all master chief. Uh, and then, uh, and then there's like a trash room where all the trash gets ended up, like they put all the metal stuff together. I want to say they put like recycling stuff together. Um, and then, and you'll see like in the, and they'll like collect all like the

food trash, so if it's like food scraps and stuff like that from your meals, that all goes, and I think they just like set that out to sea at some point. There's gotta be a bunch of stuff that just gets dumped in the ocean. Oh, yeah. Like, yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Like, my visa use room.

Oh, like, that would be a bit. I don't think it's gonna happen. I'm starting to get outed, by the way. So we should probably take this podcast more seriously. People are like, sorry, you have a podcast? Yeah. I'm like, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that.

I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I'm not gonna do that. I don't think it's gonna happen. I'm starting to get outed by the way. So we should probably take this podcast more seriously. People are like, sir, you have a podcast? And I'm like, take it more seriously. Come on. Yes. To include my boss. He's like, so I saw you have a podcast. I was like, yeah, something like that, sir. Check it out. But what? Okay. And then Can you get lost on ship? You can, you know, first, for the most part, for the most part, there's gonna be like five places you go on ship. It's like, where I heard you like run tracks. Yeah, there's like your battery office, the wardroom where you go to eat, the LFAC, the

Landing Forces Operations Center, and then like the gym. Same place. The ship store. What, I want to talk- Most frequently places. So you'll learn those pretty quick. It's when they're like, oh, hey, we got to have man overboard all hands in the ship's classroom. And you're like, I don't know where that is. No, it's on the six deck, F side, this frame. Like, then there are like ways you can like decipher where a place is unlike a base. There are some signs, like every hatch is labeled.

So you can kind of tell if you're going the right direction. If you're like, okay, numbers are going up, numbers are going down. Even numbers are on one side, odd numbers are on another side. So there is like, it's like set up in like kind of like, laid out system. When you get to port, do they do excursions? and like kind of like when you get to port do they do excursions kind yeah in a way yeah there's usually like the mwr rep that's like usually aka the fit boss who like runs the gym it's like a uh civilian contractor but then they're also usually like boss you know like oh hey we're pulling in the babe like the we're pulling into Thailand and they're going to do, you can sign up for scuba diving classes here.

Scuba is the mission. Scuba is a priority in Okinawa. Scuba is a big deal. Everyone loves scuba. Sir, I need to cut 15 guys at noon on Thursday for what? They have their dive certs. What? Yeah, yes, sir. They've been a part of a class. What does that have to do with what we're doing? Oh,

nothing. It's just so they can dive on the weekends. No, no, they can't leave it. Okay, I want to talk lifting on ship. I want to talk the hitbox that I checked out and government contracts. And then I also put a note in the top of Slack channel. I forgot what it was, but it will jog my memory. But first and foremost, I want to know coffee on ship because I'm packing as we speak. I'm guessing I can't bring a hot plate. I'm guessing you're not allowed open flame. So I don't know how the break is going to work. But I've been told that officers with all of our dignity and might can go into the wardroom at any time and get coffee.

Can you validate this? Yeah, yeah. Should be basically coffee available 24 seven in the wardroom. I can just roll in there at any time day. Grab coffee. Yep. Is it Starbucks or Dunkin? I feel like it was usually like they would have these like giant like bags of like the

Starbucks is what I remember. Okay. Okay. But I think it's like I mean if you brought your own and we're like hey, can you brew this and then they would 100% Oh, okay. So is it is it like a devil dog working a percolator or is it like one of those machines that you like it's like a devil dog working a percolator or is it like one of those machines that you like it's like a buddy

It probably makes like Five gallons of coffee at a time or something like that. Wow. That's a lot of coffee. I wish I was like a hot water Spicket so if you did want to like you had like a pour-over kind of thing Just like wanted like you're like something different like one cup Yeah, something like that. Okay. Okay, and then your like something different, like one cup. Yeah. You do something like that. Okay. Okay. And then it's usually, yeah, sailors typically operating in the.

Wardroom. In the wardroom. And then some of like the mess Marines that are on ship will also get like tasked. The ship's tax. Yeah. Ship's tax. Ship's tax. Yeah.

And you also have like, so they'll like be cooking, but then there'll be like the servers. And that's where sometimes like, Hey, we need a Lance Corporal for this week. They're going to serve in the wardroom. And like, that's just what they do. Like that's their appointed place of duty. Um, one benefit for them is that they get to eat the wardroom food, which is a hundred times better than the like mess decks. That's what I hear. Cause they have to wait in line. The line's way shorter, right? Yeah. Yeah. Food's way better.

Just the portions are way better. Cause basically they're unlimited portions for the most part. Whereas like, it's pretty limited for the troops there, the Mestex. In the Navy. Yeah. Yeah. And they're like pretty much, in addition to like coffee 24 seven, there's always like bread and peanut butter and jelly and like cottage cheese.

And like cheese. Not usually cottage cheese out. I don't. That's like the salad bar that'll like get like broken down between meals. Strawberry pop tarts. I just remember eating a million strawberry frost Strawberry pop tarts. I just remember eating a million strawberry frosted pop tarts. Would you say it's easier to gain or lose weight on ship? Very easy to gain.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You could. I mean, you definitely can lose weight like 100%. Yeah, of course. Yeah, you just don't eat. But you know, the meals are kind of like what you plan your day. Yeah, that's what I hear. It's just like wake up, eat, go to the El Foc, eat, workout, shower, go back to the El Foc. Now what's your entertainment situation? I assume you're like zero, zero percent prepared. If you're not watching us on YouTube, I have five books behind me, one of them being the

Bible and four others I bought off of Amazon like a month ago, as soon as I got here, like a bunch of books, I say a bunch like six to eight, and none of them have arrived. So don't I'm not a Kindle guy. I'm not like anti Kindle. I actually own a Kindle. It's not with me. But every time I've tried to read a book on a Kindle, I just don't like it. Like I like like a real book, which is stupid. Like I should have like downloaded Kindle books. I'm zero percent. I'm zero percent prepared. I haven't downloaded any music.

I haven't downloaded any podcast. I haven't downloaded. The only thing I've been downloading is my wife and I have a shared album of my daughter. And it's fantastic. Yeah, every day she puts, you know, like 15 to 20 photos in there. And it's like my favorite part of the day, I get home and like, I get to like, see like what they did. And then you can like comment on stuff and like, so we get to like talk about it, but they're all in the cloud. And so I've been trying to like download a bunch of those. Yeah, so now, I feel like yeah, could you Okay, yeah, send me your address. Yeah, I'll send you the address. Because I feel like one time when Jeff was on ship, I feel like me and me mailed him something. Did you get mail on ship?

Mail is a little unreliable, but you get mail on ship. So yeah, if you're listening, you want to support care package, you want to support the troops this as you listen this Memorial Day week, reach out to kitchen six, she'll get you the address. Don't just send some stuff for me since some stuff for the boys. We'd appreciate it. Yeah, the boys. another one for the boys. Yeah, the hit locker.

So let's talk about the hit locker quick. I'm the exo troops, the ship we're gonna be on. So I have to sign for a bunch of gear. It's gonna be my responsibility. One of them was the hit locker, which I had a vested interest in. So it's like a checklist and you just start like filling out what it is you want.

So I got two squat racks. So for those that don't understand like shipping, receiving a quad con is probably eight feet long and four feet wide. And it's like a shipping container. So like the, you know, the back of a little U-Haul or something that can get picked up, put around. So I got two squat racks going to that thing disassembled. Obviously I have four barbells and then I got I think 20 45s and then the corresponding plates that would go with that. Unfortunately, because of the quantity of plates asked for, they gave us kilograms, which is going to be frustrating and like some 55 pound plates, which is going to be frustrating. There's four strength coat 45s in there. So those boys bad boys will make their first voyage out to see I got a couple benches, I got dumbbells, 10s up to hundos. I got medicine balls. I got an assault bike. I got two concept two rowers. I was like packing

that thing to the bram. I was like, this is the priority. So things to go in the well deck. And then I'm like walking around and it's just like, I mean, like Doge can't work hard enough, honestly. Like you go in there and first of all, a company that should not be named, like how do you have every government contract? Like every, right? And it's just like, it just drives me insane. And I'm like, Nope, I don't want those.

They're like, but sir, like these are the ones you requested. I'm like, I didn't specify a brand. I want those. They're like, but sir, like these are the ones you requested. I'm like, I didn't specify a brand. I want these. And so I got like, we are everyday fitness max plates instead, just because I didn't want to lift with the other ones. Sponsor, sponsor. And I was like, how, how is this? How is this possible? And then there's just like this, like, you know, it's a warehouse. So you got like the, the pallet racks and one of them is just full of boxes of books. And so I'm like, what's this? He's like, oh, books, you know, he's, oh, okay. And so I got pop a book open, like first book on tops, like, so you want to join a cult and like,

like a bunch of dumb like novels. So I'm like, can I take these? He's like, oh yeah. So I grabbed like 10 cases of books that I put in there. I don't know if any of them would be good. I only popped up in the one box. I got the board games. Sorry, Monopoly. There was like an area of games. I just like loaded that sucker up. Yeah. It'll probably get a deck of cards. I got some cards. It probably will go in some corner of the ship that's unaccessible and will never get used. But in my mind, it's gonna be great. Yeah. And I'm vested.

I want a photo of me on a flight deck holding a strength code 45. So I have a vested interest to get that bad boy open. Yeah. But. And quickly on books. There should be like a ship's library and they'll have tons of books down in there.

Like a thousand books? Yeah, probably. OK. Oh, yeah. Harry Potter. Oh, Lord of the Rings. Yeah, you'll be a Star Trek. They'll be able to catch up. Great Star Trek books. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. What are you talking about?

You want to talk about going out on like the flight deck going outside? Yeah, how often am I seeing sunlight what? I guess like what y'all have helicopters. I'm guessing they're gonna be on yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah, so they'll be probably flight ops almost every day When flight ops are going on that'll be a no-go. But the good thing with flight ops is they always do the FOD walk down. I love checking for FOD. I'll be a FOD volunteer. So they'll announce that.

And Texas A&M we call them Ross Volunteers, but on ship we call them FOD Volunteers. Oh, okay. Yeah. So usually like the air boss will come over the one MC and it's like announced or you'll hear it on like the intercom system that's like on the flight deck and they'll be like, all right, we're starting to fall and walk down, come out and join us for the fog walk down. And so everyone that like wants to see the sun can go out to the flight deck and you just basically like get online and do a police call of the flight deck looking for FOD. And I'm assuming people actually want to because they want to see the sunlight.

And for the most part, yeah. Like one, it's all like the flight deck crew. Like all the flight deck crew will be out there and then yeah, like random sailors and Marines that just want to get outside. So that'll be basically every day they're doing flight ops. And then anytime they're not doing flight ops for the most part, if it's daylight, you can get out there. It's kind of like before, before sunrise, post sunset is kind of no go for being like topside.

Okay. If you went overboard, like you're gone. Yeah, I'm like, not a fan of. Yeah, don't go over. Yeah. Yeah. I've seen that Coast Guard move in. What's it called? Galaxy. It's a hot take. Or they're jumping out of the helicopters into the ocean. Like I'm cool if I don't go overboard. Lifting on ship. Lifting on ship is. I know that we got two gyms.

One's blue side, one's green side during certain hours. One's a cardio room. One of them is a weight room. And I heard that ours is about the size of this room I'm in right now. Okay. I mean, it can be hit or miss and like they may adjust hours. Like if they see that the like Marine hours or gym is like getting slated, I don't know.

Like the one, when I was on, two times I was on ship, it was like officers could go anytime. There weren't like, there were like some blue green hours. But like if you were an officer, you could go anytime because they were like, you have meetings and things to go to. Yeah. And then it tends to get really crowded time because they're like you have meetings and things to go to. Um, yeah. And then it tends to get really crowded like post like evening chow dinner time.

Um, because you'll kind of like notice it almost like turns into like, it's like the club on ship. It's like the one like kind of like social place that like, uh, people can go and like talk. So like post dinner lifting can be tricky because usually it's crowded and like a lot of people are there aren't there to like actually like lift. Yeah, they're just there for social hour. Get up super early in the morning. Usually it's pretty dead. You know, you'll kind of like each I feel like each ship kind of had its own little Rhythm of like the gym Okay, so you'll kind of like find like the pockets of time that like oh it is kind of dead around this time Because this is when this brief goes and kind of clear out

so That'll be interesting and then you know, you got the motion in the ocean So it could sometimes. Yes. Play. Is there like is there like a free standing squat rack where like the squad or is it all like Smith machines or? There probably will be a few Smith machines. I know they're always like. Uh, see on the Essex, there were like two squat racks. But then when we were on the boxer, I think there were like four. In places you could squat

with a barbell. Boxer was an LHA, right? Big Dick? Both. Yeah, both were LHDs. Okay. But just like different setups, like different, different fit bosses. So different strokes for different folks.

Yeah. Yeah. And so we'll see. It's interesting. It's interesting. It's interesting you can miss in an update Jeff's all locked into the okay podcast Instagram. So I'm sure that the Content I'll get just skyrocket

Just skyrocket up and with the amount of info Anything else we need to talk on ships. Oh, you want to get that last topic? Oh, yes. Talk here. Just got one today. Yeah. Like, do you have anyone in your battery that's like, yep, already identify. We got six guys a part of the ship tax that are the barber Marines. I've heard that that's actually a decent job if you're like a three e four, like get the barber shop because you get to like talk to people all day. And you have a very simple job of just do this thing. So yeah, I don't know what the schedule is. When are my guys cutting hair versus other people's? I guess you probably know. I've heard the lines really long.

So they never ran it. I don't know if there was like the chief's barber shop and that was like, I feel like where the our ship stacks folks would go. And like, that was kind of like, you know, had ours, it was open these days. But then the other times, you know, I would just go and like find Sergeant Holmes and I'd be like, Hey, Holmes, time for haircut. And we would go down to where there's a shout out. Sergeant Holmes, let's get in on the podcast. Now current now, Staff Sergeant Holmes, so Fidelis, hurrah.

And so you go down and there was like a barber shop. That was like, I think, like four or five chairs. And, you know, you would bring your clippers and stuff down there. And like, if I was a chair, you would just to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that.

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an artillery podcast. Zero, seven, three. Yeah. Bingo. Yeah. This is seven, three. Generally every time we've hit 73 episodes in a row where we've never was a week, we take a little break as tradition is we're big tradition guys. Basically what's happening is we're like halfway to Fiddler's green. We realized that our mug has ran out and we turn and yeah, we turn around. So we're about to turn around, but when we come back, there'll probably be a lot of ship and sea talk. I do want to touch on the Orient. I can't remember what I typed in as the first thing right after who's saying up or maybe right before it and I don't have it open. I said someone on the line. Who's cooking chow? That's it. Who's cooking chow.

So listen, my buddy is not and I'm going to bring Trey back into the fold here. He's falling asleep over there, but he's going to like this one. A part of the reason that I go to a restaurant is I don't want to cook chow. I want you to cook chow. I am paying for some things that you cook the chow. Here in Japanese culture, I can't speak to the whole island of Japan. I can't speak to the whole country of Japan. I can only speak to the island of Okinawa. So I want to be careful with that. It'd be like if I went to North Philadelphia and was like, sucks, that would not be fair to a lot of human beings across America. But in Okinawa, Japan, there's a phenomenon or not a phenomenon.

There is a way of eating called yakaniku, where it's like you cook your own meat. In the States, we call this Korean barbecue. And it's okay. Like the meat's good. You get a lot of meat. There's this tiny little grill, the size of my hand. And then there's six 220 pound individuals sitting around it. And then you're using tongs and you're draping these little pieces of meat. I don't even know how they shave it so thin. And then it cooks and then you eat it and you're covered in smoke. There like grease popping in your face. And I just like, I just prefer you cook me the entire steak and hand it to me on a plate at one time. So that's called yakiniku. So the other day I go and I don't have a little

buddy. I'm going to get a haircut. And it's authorized during the day. Like you're allowed to do that. I go to get a haircut and I walk into the place. I went to the other base, like where a headquarters element is, because I've gone in the past and the line has not been long. And you pull a number and I'm like 48 numbers away and I go to sit in the waiting room and the waiting room is like 100 degrees. And it is like the humidity is through the roof. And I sit down, I've done nothing physical this day and I'm just dripping sweat. And I'm looking up like some NASCAR truck series is playing, Marines are just on their phones,

there's one entertainment thing in the corner, which is some kind of claw game. And I'm like, this is terrible. And I'm just dripping in sweat. And so I look up and I'm like, all right, I have however many numbers of this scale. I was like, I'm gonna go eat and then come back. So I get up, I walk out, I drive off base and I'm like sushi.

Like I've had sushi since I've been here, but like I'm in Japan. I should eat sushi. I'll go to this conveyor belt place. And I've had conveyor sushi before I've had it in California. Everyone that wants to talk smack in California. It's like everything from these foreign countries that Americans would like, like they've already done it in California. They've done it and they've done it well.

And so like when you go to these other countries, you're like, what? I had this in Orange County. Anyway done it and they've done it well. And so like when you go to these other countries, you're like, what? I had this in Orange County. Anyway, go to the conveyor belt place. I walk in by myself and everyone's wearing a mask, which is whatever. And I'm standing there and they're all like looking at me and I'm like waiting and like people are walking by

like meeting like the staff and I'm waiting. And I'm like, arigato, konichiwa. And I'm like bowing and they're like bowing back and I'm like waiting for someone to seat me. And then no one seats me. It's been like two, three minutes, which in Japan feels like 10 hours. And so I'm like, hey, like where can I sit?

Konnichiwa. And then like, oh, and they're like pointing a machine. And then I look at the machine and it's like all in Japanese and everything like sings and makes noises to you in Japan. Like it's like sing like everything you put your credit card in the thing like sings a song. So there's like a green button. I'm like, I guess I pushed the green buttons. I pushed a green button and prints me a ticket. I look at the ticket and it's like 21 dash seven. I look around like, Oh, each isles like numbered. So I go down to 21 and there's like chair seven. And

it's like in between all these people eating and I sit down there's and there's like chair seven. And it's like, in between all these people eating and I sit down, there's this conveyor like going right in front of my face like ding, ding, ding. I'm like, okay, like I want to drink like first I want like a diet Coke or something. And like I want like a side of rice and it's like there was an eel leg and like and I like weird food like I like to try stuff, everything that's going by like looks terrible. So I'm like pushing like the screen above me. And it's like, I got the same as can eat you. And I'm like, where is the menu? And like, I'm looking at the guy to my right, and he's like staring at his phone, just like shoveling, the Gomi or whatever it's called negriri in his mouth. And like the

guy on my left's like not being helpful. I've kind of like looking both sides like, and no one's helping me. And it's like, every time I push the button, like it lights up and someone yells and I think like someone's gonna come by, no one comes by. And then I'm like, I don't want sushi. I hate sushi. Which is not true. I love sushi. And I'm just like, I'm leaving. So I get up, go to walk out, like I have my ticket. And they're like, Oh, sir. Hi. And I'm like, yeah, I didn't get by anything. And like, Oh, sir. Hi. And I'm like, yeah, I didn't get by anything and like language breakdown the worst. So I hand him the ticket, they scan it and it says like $0. So I guess maybe like, as you pull stuff off, it like

rings up on your tab. I'm like, you know, I'm super nice. And like, I got the oaxymus. And I leave. I look across the street. And it's like, Yakaniku. And then the things on it, it's like one serving this yen, one and a half serving this yen, two servings this yen, three servings this yen. And like the picture just looks like pork and cabbage. And so I'm like, going there. So I got walk in and this is where who's cooking chow comes in. I walk in, place is completely empty.

There's like a man standing on like a chair like cleaning the walls. And he's like, you know, can eat you on my can eat you on. I'm like, who's cooking me or you? And he's like, and I'm like, I cook and I'm doing hand and arm signals of like chopsticks and like moving meat. I'm like, or you cook. And he's like, I don't know. And I'm like, do I cook the food? Or do you cook the food? And he's like, Oh, I cook, I cook, I cook. I was like, perfect.

And I sit down. I'm like, all right, can I get a menu? He's like, menu, no menu size. And I'm like, huh? He's a no menu size. And I'm like, any like points and there's a big sign that says English menu. And it just says one serving 900 yen, you know, two servings. I'm like two servings.

He's like, okay. And he leaves goes back and he comes out with like his hot plate. And it's just pork, like chopped up into like nuggets, and chopped cabbage, like on like serve like what we would serve fajitas in Texas. And it's like bubbling in front of me. And I'm like, okay, and a thing of rice. And then he like grabs this like piece of wood. It's like, I don't know, I want to say like it's from Okinawa, but I'm in Okinawa. So it's obviously from Okinawa. And he like props the thing up. And then he's like, points to like the spices, which I was very excited about because there's no spice on the silent. And he's like, you put this with what picture

this in Japanese. He's like, you put this in the bottom, the pork fat like drains the bottom, you pick up the meat, you dip it in the stuff, you scoop it with rice. And it was great. It was phenomenal. And what was a terrible experience at conveyor belt sushi was restored. And I'll go back there. I left them a five star Google review in English. The guy's name was like Aramatu or something. Big fan. I was like, sit down.

He's like, huh, I'm like, sit down. Let's talk. And then I was like, I don't know how to talk to him. So He's like, huh? I'm like, sit down, let's talk. And then I'm like, I don't know how to talk to him, so. Everyone here is kicking tires. Yeah. Here to eat some pork. Okay. Speaking Japanese, that's tough to do against tall grass.

That's good. Anyway, who's cooking chow? Who's cooking chow? Save rounds? I feel like I have one. Real quick. We're at the grocery store today and I'm going to pick up some like paper towels and some toilet paper.

And are you on this trend of toilet paper and paper towel math and how that's like, it'd be like 12 rolls equals 57 rolls. And you like look over the next one, it's like 18 rolls equals 72 rolls. And I'm like, what? What's the base roll? I'm like, how many roll, like there's 12 rolls in here. So 12 equals 12.

This isn't, like, don't try to, what are these other rolls that you're referring to? Are there like three sheets of paper? It's metric. Yeah. Well, how many roll? So we were just like, what kind of weird paper towel slash toilet paper roll math is this? So next time you're at in that aisle in your shop around, just look how like ridiculous it gets. It's pretty paper towel math. I'm into it. The math math and public. I was lifting with some Aggies yesterday, went into the gym and some lieutenants were

in there and dazzled them with your A&M knowledge. I did. I did. Except. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot.

I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I forgot. I knowledge. I did. I do. Except except God knows so much.

I forgot about the Ross volunteers. And somehow that came up. But yes, some Aggies in there. What are the Ross volunteers? So the center, we have what's called bond volunteers. Once you're a bond volunteer aspirant, your junior year, and then when you make it, you become a summer all guard. And it's just like a, it's basically, if you think about it, it sounds super lame.

You get Hayes for a year so that you can do a silent drill platoon the following year. But it's like the cool, it's like, we're the hardcore guys. You don't get it. And Ross Volunteers is the same thing, right? No idea. Oh, I was I did not like any of those. We didn't talk about Ross volunteers very long because I was too busy loudly in the gym as the major going, come on, we're going to give them and the signals and then like they'd finish a heavy set up

bench of the bags and the hell they'd finish a heavy set of a bench up like Giga bags and the hell that old wind. It was a good time. I keep my position as the morale major. I believe I know. Yeah, crucial. Yeah, it's crucial. Yeah.

Glizzy six is my code, my code name. Six. I'm always just eating hot dogs when they're out of cottage cheese. So we're Godfather battery, but they're like, are you guys glizzy battery? So yeah, glizzy six. That's a good name. Yeah. Well, I guess, uh, we'll save around Memorial day. Yeah, true.

Just, Hey, just remember what it's for. It's not just holidays. So I'm just going. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Yeah. Super basic. He's like, drop the names, you know, the fallen and, uh, there's a ton of comments on there. And I went through and, uh, knew one, like at least one person, but then like knew a lot of like timeframes, you know, or like people. And, uh, yeah, it was, it was, uh, it was pretty interesting. And then like, just thought about like, man, he like just said, like drop a name below and like people just came out of the woodwork. So it is a, it is a, I don't

say significant weekend. I don't know how to say it with the respect it deserves. But for a lot of people, even the ones that are, you know, are gone, but like for other people just affected by it, like it is a big weekend. Yeah. Yeah, we do indeed support the droops all joking aside. The strength Co is running a little sale. I guess you'll missed it. So I'll go into the details. But yeah, sorry. You missed it. Hit it next year. If you miss it, we'll get it next year. Yeah. But is it about that time? I think it's about that time. This has been episode 073. Oh, excuse me, bingo.

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Oh, gotcha. Rise up lights. Raise up lights. Yeah, I need to shave myself. Hopefully we'll do an episode from Australia. Raise up lights. Yeah, I need to shave myself. Hopefully we'll do an episode from Australia. Say it again. You'll laugh. Go ahead. Say it again. Come on. Rise up lights. We're going to end on this. Come on. Rise up lights. Rise up lights. Rise up lights. Rise of Lights! Uh, episode 073, we'll see you next time!