The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 86: Grant's Buddy Reveal, Outdoor TV's & Truck Tickets

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ksCheck out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.comBUY A FOOTBALL HELMET: https://www.greengridiron.com/?ref=thestrengthco14th Marine Reg T Shirts: https://usafulfillmentservices.com/14th-marine/Massenomics Gym Tour: https://youtu.be/WidS2OUEct4?si=cIZlib7Nq_TZX1ug TIMESTAMPS:00:00 - Intro04:00 - Staff Brief14:12 - Outlying Stations15:57 - Grant’s Buddy Reveal24:05 - Turkey Pull & Preparing For A Meet33:38 - Outdoor TV’s39:05 - College Football54:17 - Tres’ Picks of The Week01:15:39 - Chow Talk01:21:19 - MRE Challenge01:29:02 - Truck Ticket01:34:52 - Sign Off

All right, and welcome back to episode 0.8,6 of the Okay, okay, okay, podcast powered by the Strength Co. A lot of okays there in the opening rip. If you wonder why, that means you're not on YouTube and don't see us back in the Equipals where it all started in our famous podcast chairs. I'm your host, Grant Brogey. We're recording live in studio. Two of us together. Major Jeff Bouget, currently not in a drilling status, but that could change very soon. He's from the Greater Salt Lake City area, but today he's in Southern California. South California. We've made a lot of, that's right, South California.

See what happens? You spend too much time in the West. You forget the stuff. South California made a lot of memories here over the years. And also joining us from Chester, Texas. Does that exist? It's got to exist. Maybe.

I'm going to look it up. I'm going to look it up. You look at it. I think Chester exists. I think Chester is a city in Texas. Okay. From Chester, Texas, best four we've ever had on the show.

There is a Chester, Texas. I do it. I'm going to guess it is like southeast. Very small town. No. Okay. it is east so it is yeah oh not that south though not that central okay all right talk about nagadocious oh great city great city you can see amarillo by morning from my front

yard when i'm in nagadocious uh in any event this is episode zero uh eight six today is tuesday december the second in the year of our lord 2025 the price of bitcoin is 92 000 seven hundred and seventy eight dollars 92 cents so crypto is okay we apologize for last week we did our best and that's why they call it a mobile podcast i was just telling jeff as we quickly set up this studio and mere a matter of seconds that you know sometimes i when i travel with this stuff i say why do i travel with all this stuff i'll just use my airpod maxes and we tried that last week i didn't someone else did we'll get to that in a minute uh yeah we'll get to that but in any event you got the staff brief which is the important part uh you got that so we got the staff brief done so that's good

And then the rest of the show was done. We talked about a lot of great things. All my picks in college football were right. What child did we talk about? Talked about Thanksgiving, Chow. Talking about Thanksgiving, Chow. You wouldn't have listened anyway. It's probably sick here in Thanksgiving Chow.

It was a good episode that will never be released. It's like the Epstein files. They exist. It's redacted. We don't know where they are. But yeah, we're excited for today's show. Trey, where are you at these days? besides Chester.

Lubbock. Oh, you're in Lubbock? I could have just said Lubbock. Could have. You could have, yeah. You would have been correct there, so the joke wouldn't go as funny. Well, it's not about the joke. It's about the people that listen to the joke.

That is true. Anyway, this podcast is brought to you by BW Tax. BW.TX LLC.com. Great guy, better at taxes. If you don't follow us on Instagram, the okay podcast, go follow us. Most of the stories are from BW. Tax. Also brought to you by Green, Gridiron, Gridiron, Green. Mr. Helmut. Talk to Mr. Helmut today because he said, you guys are just selling too many helmets.

Wow. And I said, I know. And that's with my guy slinging helmets without an affiliate code. And he's like, yeah, I don't know how to give you credit for that. It's Black Friday. And I was like, Black Friday's crazy. I wouldn't know how to track it down either. Don't worry about it. I'm glad you sold some helmets. But we're selling a lot of helmets. So go check out green, grid iron, gridiron, green, something like that. And with that, I'll turn it over to the three. Okay.

Wow. Hey, great brief last week, everyone. Really appreciate the critical questions and, you know, really picking things apart and diving in and really supporting the mission. And let's keep in mind, just a quick reminder to what the mission is. The mission is trash. amen the mission is trash always will be trash always has been trash preach will be for 250 more years of this trash battalion um so we'll go ahead kick off the brief s one what you got for us

how are the numbers bumping it's uh you tray is it oh excuse me sir yeah uh sir numbers are good that's all i have for the group to be honest with you oh nothing for the group good brief We love when there's nothing for the group. Yeah, I didn't see that coming. It always has something for the group. Yeah, they generally have something. You need to undo that there, give you some bandwidth? No, I like my bundle.

It's a mobile podcast. It's a mobile podcast. I've always said that. Okay, let's kick it over to the two. Let's get a, I've got any threat updates on any threats or things that are threatening us. That's you, Tray. Oh, is that me?

Yeah. Sir, as far as threats, the only thing that we have been concerned about is if you pay attention to my last brief. Absolutely. There's an uptick in trash over in the Middle East, sir, that we've noticed. There's a lot of trash. A lot of trash over there. Burning it, too.

Burning the trash, yes, sir, which is not. our SOP, but yeah, it's just something I'm keeping my eye on. I think trash sticks real quick, real quick. You know, a lot of times we talk war fighting. We talk war fighting capital W. Like when you do a PME, what's the big capital

W in war fighting? And, Duce, I appreciate the updates in Middle Eastern trash, but I want to know what the capital T of trash is, all right? I mean, how does it affect me in my day-to-day trash operations? Oh, yes, sir. Yeah, the, as far as day day trash operations, we're going so smooth.

It's so good. How does what you have assessed in the Middle East on the puck on the screen briefed by Corcorla Brewer, how does it affect trash battalion, capital T? Like, what's China, what's trying to do it with their trash? Have we looked into that? What's China doing with their trash? Yes, sir. They are also burning it.

XO, I need you to pull in this young devil pop, deuce. post-brief and he does not know how to brief the briefer uh no that's it from you deuce that's it from you that's it okay nothing else for the group from the deuce okay uh moving on uh ops we had great ops log sink the other day my favorite um when did ops log come around tracking serious question not that the staff briefs not serious tracking operations and logistics have existed for 250 years or longer potentially uhura urah as our made you would say, rah. But I don't feel like when we were lieutenants, there was an ops log meeting or it wasn't

called that or was there and I was just a lieutenant and didn't know, but like now everyone's like ops log, we got ops log, ops log. I think it all came about. Yeah, they were, you know, we were operating different silos. Everything was too siloed. We were stove piped. Like pots of money kind of. There were different pots of money.

There were stove pipes. There were silos and everyone was in those. And then and then we synergized. And we got ops and log together. Okay. And all the ones that I've been a part of have just been ops briefs. There's not a whole lot of log. Yeah, no logs, except the fours there.

Yeah, mainly the fours just like in the background drinking a bottle of water while the ops guys talk. You know what I mean? I have no idea what ops log is. Yeah, so I'm not on that one. But we had a great ops law where we covered the teeth. We covered ops. We covered training.

We covered trash training. We covered our calendar year and our physical year and our fiscal year. So we covered all three of the types of year that are out there. Married them up with the anniversary dates divided by the CRCRs. Yes. Yes. And so we'll figure out what our total trash credit score is for retirement pay and how much trash we will be issued in our pension. Yeah, we're also trying to see, you know, there's 250 years of the Marine Corps,

but we're trying to figure out how many of those are satisfactory years. And so we're using the Reserve Retirement System to input all the wars that were fought and won to get the Marine Corps total SAT years, because we're hoping maybe we can celebrate 200 years again in SAT years. Yes. You know what I mean? It's satisfactory years. Yeah.

But where you get 50 points kind of deal. Right. Yeah. Is that like a leap year? Very similar. Yeah. It's tied to your anniversary date. which is just some random date

so the fiscal year and the physical year actually don't matter it's your anniversary date it's it's top level it's field grade stuff we get it you got out as a company grade probably wouldn't make sense to you doesn't make sense to us but we know enough

to talk about it we can we can very like surface level speak to it and then just say we'll get with the offline about it we'll get with you offline We don't want to keep one of them. Yeah. Yeah, we'll take that offline.

Okay, all right. So then S4. What you got for us? S4. Oh, do you want me to do my S4? Yeah, you're pretty good at it. Sir, still dealing with detaching the reservist. They're not quite gone yet.

But I think that we got their barracks squared away and they'll be gone soon. And the whole thing with the dumpster wasn't my fault. My staff sergeant wrote down the wrong dates on the form. And besides that, I did get on a faze mode two years ago. So I'm pretty great. Nothing else for you, sir. Challenge truth. Thanks, for it.

Appreciate you for. Great. Yeah. good job a lot of good points in there that we can all action and really will drive our operations okay with that uh let's kick it over to com or wait wait excuse me medical dental we got any uh medical dental folks in the room here anybody i feel like you'd be a good medical officer tray no no no okay i know i think they're all down at the goat locker uh they're all they're attending the chief course graduation there's a room there's a room

it has like a goat on it and a chief symbol and you can never go inside and i'm not sure why but they're there and they don't just go there for the day they go there for like nine months it's like long time where's the chief at oh he's a chief's initiation thing is chiefs is he just live in that go locker yeah well he eats in that room no one else can eat in and okay yeah yeah so i think they're all down there attending the graduation for the chiefs or the practice for the graduation. I'm not really sure. Hey, shout out to our Navy Chiefs.

Hey, boo-ya. Shout out. Boo-ya. What's the pin that we study for? That is the FMF pin. That's for our Navy Corman, which is different. That's for our devil. We love those guys.

We love those guys. And for our chaplots. And the chap and the chaplain. One on the green side. Right? I think so. I don't always call my corpsman. I'm like, hey, where are you?

He's like, oh, sir, I'm studying for my pin. I was like, all right. I don't, whatever. It's kind of like the one always being at physical therapy. You just say, okay. That's fine. You know what? You weren't really going to contribute much, so I'm just going to, yeah, I'm not going to stress it.

Okay. Then, S6, communicators. I'm sorry, it's the chaplain. Oh, we actually, the chaplain, hang on. Trash six. I got a message from a chaplain from Trash Battalion. My old chaplain, he's gone now, but he's only trash chaplain worthwhile. I said, Chaplain here, how do you like these apples? More on that, I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ. Okay, Marines. I know we don't usually use the word rubbish, but that's fancy talk for trash. I know we love a good talking about trash. Secure that trash and secure your salvation. Okay. Okay. Appreciate chaps.

Rubbish. I feel like that's just British. That does sound British. Yeah. Anyway, we'll get to the outlying stations once we get through the six. Trey, that's you. Yes, sir. We were pitting together the record jackets, and then I realized that we had messed up.

So I just made, I just threw them away. They're trash now. Secured it was trash. I like it. Yes, sir. Yeah, sir. Yeah, secure them is trash. So we're starting over on the record, Jackets.

They should be done next year. Yeah, it's about right. Okay. Fazmos every two years. That checks out. Yeah, I talked to my old buddy, Lieutenant Colonel Throck Morton. He told me that was a good plan. Uh, all right.

We should end the staff brief. I guess we'll go out on the line station. It's all right. Trash checks out. Oh, oh, turn you on. Oh, I don't know. Okay, let's see. We got Alpha Battery 147, the Field Artillery Battalion, S.D. Ang, checking in Lima, Charlie.

We got, oh, sorry, wrong page. Big trash update tomorrow from Lord Humongus. I don't know who that is. I got another Biden saying, still laughing at the oldest Marine thing as I've been attending my ball. not yeah like his Marine Corps ball right uh Costa Mesa checking in Semperfy so the outlining stations we appreciate we do we apologize last week got a lot of hate mail on the website people just upset about that podcast we it's you know that's why they call it podcasting if it were easy everyone would do it if you think about it we're coming

up on two years since episode one which would have been Star Wars it's episode episode one one star wars like four yeah which was years after years after episode so have we four five six so one it's not real for us well in our we're going in chronological order that's stupid i know why would you do that we should we should have thought to sorrow sorry i'm thinking about may the force be with you and uh yeah star wars big star wars guy uh but anyway we so we're at episode 86 in about four weeks, we should be at episode 104. Is that right? So we shortchanged about 14 weeks.

That's because there's been a lot going on. And we're not talking about COVID. We're not talking about vaccines. And, you know, we have been under the microscope of, you know, the Secretary of War. We're all Secretary of War people. And we can't loose lips sink ships. Do you want to tell them? Yes, we're going to go ahead and let you in on a little secret.

A little thing that's been going on. So when we kept referring to Grant's buddy, that was actually a highly encrypted code. This, it was me. Grant's buddy. Grant's buddy, aka Grant, was the one that was deployed. He was inside the West.

Trey's face right now. Wow. Trey, I'm sorry. We wanted to tell you, we wanted to tell you, but it didn't make sense. yeah that period of time where we didn't podcast for like three months because you were busy

yeah fighting wars and winning them yeah wild times but yeah for the real update everyone knows who Grant's buddy is but I'm back baby and we're back we're podcasting together

a long year January 2nd I activated went to trying to have palms at about three four months of the work up there then went to okinawa japan then got on the finest warship in the land the u sss san diego floated around for four months or so came back to okinaw came back here and then the last few weeks have been crazy i landed in the states november 15th 16th wife baby come up say hi for like a day but then there's a bunch of stuff to do because i'm a reservist activated you got demode but all stuff has to be done and 20 Palms. Oh, by the way, when you're done there, you got to go to New Jersey.

Obviously. If you're from New Jersey, not like as an Italian, but like as from the unit, you got to go back to New Jersey and Demo. But if I had Marines with me that are from Texas, from Colorado, from, you know, Pennsylvania, from Washington, they got to go back to those places. They got to do actions there, report them back to me. All this stuff has to happen. And the goal was to get home by Thanksgiving Day. Um, and so sure enough, Wednesday night, finished up in New Jersey, going to make my flight, Newark to John Wayne, San Diego, finish around 1,300, hit up, Master and Shepard, Master Gunn Shepard, Billy Martin, I can drive, Sean Shepard, past guest on the podcast. I said, hey, man, I'm coming up to Newark, and I got time

before my flight. I want to eat pizza. I'm going here. He's like, I'll meet you there. I'm like, cool, I'll see it an hour, hang up with him, call my wife. I'm like, I'm done. She's like, you did it. I can't believe it. I can't believe you're going to fly for like four hours. It was like, I know. She's like, what are you going to do? I was like, yeah, there's this guy served with in Texas. Remember when I was at Fort Worth? His name was like Massart, Shepard, and then he came to. She's like, Billy Martin, I can drive. And I was like, oh, D, front of the podcast. So met up with him. I'll just give a quick synopsis. We'll run into Black Friday. Then we could take it where we went to. Ran to him, had pizza,

pretty good picked a portnoy spot train something or another uh what was the rating on it it was 8.3 so chef chef is like hey meet me near he's like i'll meet you somewhere near the airport you pick and i was like i want pizza i'm in new jersey and then i said well i should just open up portnoy and then went to portnoy's map filtered for his head found one that made sense by you know whatever it's at an old train station let me just pull pictures it's pretty good pie um this i like portnoy probably helped them but us talking about it on the okay podcast they're going to be swamped i think that could put them over the edge yeah sorry in advance yeah we love small businesses um close to use code okay yeah yeah it's called podcast sent you

get a free get a free slice linwood in tap house at linden station pizza and grills look at american flags everywhere i like it pretty good looking jes join i think i fixed my camera so it doesn't auto focus on that but anyway uh good pie hung out with big daddy chef there's the pepperoni got a classic pepperoni they had a sicilian there i didn't do it i didn't actually look at what portnoy eight i just saw on the map and then i would say i'm no pizza expert but if i was using portnoy scaling that pie i'd be like ah the pies like a 7.2, but I would 100% meet Shepard here and hang out in this atmosphere every time I'm going to fly out of this airport, like 100% going back, was literally what Shepard and

I talked about as we ate the pie. On the way out, I was like, I bet he got the Sicilian because I bet there's some unique pie. Didn't get this Sicilian, didn't get a unique pie. He was walking out and the bartender and the waitstaff, same people we had. And he was basically like, I love this place. I want to meet my friends here all the time. Good pizza, good crunch, whatever. But he was like, I just like this place. And that's kind of how I felt about it. So anyway, choose to score. Got back Thursday, Thanksgiving. We got stuff to talk about. We got football to talk about. But then rolled right into Black Friday. So grab my one year old and I said, you're going to work, girl. I know you haven't seen me in a long time. You got to go to the

warehouse and had a great Black Friday sale. Thanks to all the customers here that bought stuff. and we're almost through it. I think we'll be through it by Thursday. By the time his podcast comes out, I think everything will have shipped. But yeah, so that's me. I am Grant's buddy. I own the Strength Co.

I'm also Marine, loose lips, sink ships. We had to keep it from me. Sorry, guys. Wow. Yeah. Big announcement. Wow. Hey, we won't do it to you again.

I'm Grant's buddy. Wait, Trey is Grant's buddy? Yeah. It's like Fight Club. I'm Grants Buddy. I'm Grants Buddy. I'm Grants Buddy. Yep.

All the listeners, you're a Grants Buddy, too. You are. You're a guy, it's in a different way. All right. That's great. Well, I'm glad you back. Yeah, thanks. Good to be back.

Tray, that's a very stylish t-shirt you got on there. What shirt you're sporting? Where did you get that? Oh, I just ordered it. Oh, that actually works. Look at that. pole tea. Turkey pull.

For those of you not watching, Tray's wearing a excellent kind of cream colored shirt with a nice brownish tan writing and a great turkey pole logo on the back. I thought we're all going to wear it, but it's not a big deal. So we

were, but ops and laws. You sold them all. A lot of ops and log going on and like Jeff's Slanding, I got the baby, wife's getting for the, ready for the Marine Corps mall, ball, cars are going every which way. Jeff's picking up my dry cleaning. I'm like second microphone was in 29 palms.

Where is it now? Is it with the stuff when I moved from South Carolina? Two weeks before I deployed, there's cords going everywhere around the house. Home Depot orders getting delivered. We didn't have time to change. But here we are. I think you just saw it. But are they still available?

Can you still go on ball? Yeah, I don't think so. I mean, there's probably like five or six. Yeah, I think there's five or six, but on Saturday is the official meet in Newport. We'll do the pull. Nice. They'll be like people will come and drop money in the simplified America's.

Sympathen America's Fund people come. So we write them a check based off the money we make from the T-shirts and the Semperify barbells. Then they come and also have a donation booth available. And then we just like throw shirts at people if they put money in it. So like if you bought it tomorrow. you'd still get it. If you waited, it's going to go away this weekend. Gotcha. Get them why you can. Get them why you can.

Well, then do we move in? Oh, it's going along with lifting. Trey, you got a lifting question and it's a turkey pole themed question. Oh, that's right. I did write one. I thought it was a good one. That's a great one. Okay. Let me see if I remember it without pulling it up. Hypothetically. Potentially. I'm in Newport. I'm competing in the turkey pole. I want to treat it as a meat, right? I've been training.

I want to treat as a meat. When you're preparing for a meat, like the days working up to it, what are your, hey, this is what I need to get done. This is what I'm going to lift working up to it. This is how I'm going to prepare for it. And then day of kind of like warmups, that kind of stuff. if you can kind of abbreviated version of that yeah i think the more interesting thing there and i will answer that if you still want to know it after this but the more interesting thing is so we

have i forget what it it's like 70 something online competitors and online people they're built different because if you got a five thousand dollar garage gym you're probably using it or 10 000 or 50 000 these guys spend a lot of money in their stuff but if you got garage you're probably using it and now that we've done this four years in a row people know it's coming and so they kind of plan and it's been good like people are like when's the turkey pole shirt available and then you know we got 30 or 40 that are going to do it in person and it was interesting I got back and I went to the gym and I see a bunch of members in there and I was like oh welcome back I'm like welcome back putting up the Christmas tree I lifted with some guys one day and they're all like uh I'm like

hey you come to the turkey pool and they're like yeah my numbers like aren't like I like last year I did 405 but like I tweaked my bed and they like go into this like model of their training history, which I'm happy to listen to. But they're like upset that like it's not going to be their peak deadlift. And I'm just like, hey, thanks for sharing. I actually just like want you to come support the Semperfying America's Fun. Come like say, hey, welcome back from your deployment. Hang out with your fellow gym members and like eat tamales.

Like I don't care what you deadlift. Like, yeah, but you wrote my first program. You cared a lot. I'm like, no, I mean, I care like in general that you're getting stronger. But for this, like, this is fun. Yeah, just come, like, come pull 200. Come pull 100. Like, I don't care.

And I was thinking, I've been thinking about this all week because it's happening over and over. So I'm also like messaging old gym members, old online clients, like, hey, people that have like been tuned in, you know, that I've been gone. They're like, hey, I see you're back in town. I'm like, yeah, we're doing this event this Saturday coming. Like, ah, my deadlift's not where it used to be. And I'm just thinking, it's not. not a lot and Jeff can weigh in here, but there's been at least a half dozen times.

We're on Thanksgiving weekend. Like, beyond Wednesday, so Thanksgiving is always Thursday, beyond Wednesday, someone has been like, hey, want to do this 5K? That happens Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. And like, my brain does not go to, well, the best three miles I ever did was at the end of Officer Candidate School in 2011. And I read, you know, like, I'm just like, yeah. whatever and I go like slog my way through 30 minutes but with lifting it's people are so into like

what's the best I've ever done that's all I can do I don't know what do you think yeah it's like people will go out and like yeah people go out and train for like a 5k 10K half marathon and like they'll maybe try to hit but most people I feel like just go out especially like on a Thanksgiving like turkey truck kind of thing like they're just going to have fun like that like the mindset that is so different. It's like having fun. But something about, yeah, the barbell, they're like, oh, this is like a serious thing.

Yeah, I got a, I got a PR or it's not worth it. And so anyway, like, maybe turkey pool was a bad example. Yeah, you made competition. No, I think it was good. No, I just think it's interesting, though, because I even think with, like, doing a power lifting meat because I've had members in the gym

that have been lifting for a long time, like, you should do a meet. And then, like, they become obsessed with the best I've ever done in the gym is, let's say a female, for example, like best deadlift in gyms 265 so if i don't deadlift 270 in the me then like it's a waste and it's like well no like you could just like you've never done a meat before you could like go do the meat thing and like try to go nine for not you know and and you try to there's something with lifting

that people take it more serious but for a competition if it was a deadlift only competition which is essentially what the turkey pole could be it's not it's really just like a get together and hey we're going to lift weights because it's like what we do three times a week together in the community or you know other people new people that just lift um i would say if i'm deadlifted saturday i also think that this is like just a mental approach but i don't think it's i'm doing my last heavy deadlift if i if i'm coaching like a man that's like 200-ish pounds it's actually pulling, you know, 500, 400 to 500 plus doing my last heavy deadlift, probably like eight or nine days before the meet, probably doing like some low volume

squats session. So I got, so I got nine days for the meet, which means they're probably doing three sessions in between my last heavy deadlift and meat day. It's probably like one more heavy squat session in there. And then there's like a light squat session and some upper body. And then two days before I'm probably going in and. deadlifted, like, three by three at 70% of my opener. So I'm going to open it 450, you know, I'm pulling like 315 for three sets of three,

something like that, you know, 365, really just to like not, so I'm not sore and use stuff. And then I'm just going into the meat. I don't think like the, you do need, if you run a long program and everything's really heavy day after day, every day, like you do need to like bring the overall volume down. Yeah. But I think if it's like deadlift only, it's, hey, pull your last deadlift, nine to ten days before. And then you're training two to three sessions in between there and the meet.

You're not training super heavy. And then your last day is like dumb in terms of like, my lift is Saturday. I'm going in Wednesday. And I'm like doing light presses and, you know, some light dead lifts. And then I'm just going to pull on the day. Oh, okay. you know to have that shirt yeah deadlift before Saturday

it's fun trade don't think of like a competition just go out there I think you should just go cold stick it you should just cold stick it turkey pull to you should it right after this podcast oh you're gonna love it but you just load 405 and just cold stick it every Saturday I will emce the event

and I will like put my heart and soul into the people having a good time to make sure like the reason you came out was to have a good time I'm going to make sure it's a good time. And at some point, someone will be like, Grant, you need a deadlift. And now I'm just going to go like cold stick 500. And they'll go, you could do more. I'm like, I don't want to.

That's it. Like, I'm done. I'm not seven. It's my point. Yeah. I'll get a video wearing the shirt. Yeah, you got to send it before Saturday. Before Saturday.

Or you could do it on Saturday before Sunday. Before Sunday. I got to do my deadlift. And yeah, I get old dad left in. I'll do it tomorrow. Yeah. See it. Beach.

What else we got? I mean, there's nothing to talk about in the football world. Yeah, there's another thing going on. I'll probably just skip that this week. I got to say, this is the first time I can't speak for Trey. I think I can kind of speak for us, although you've got stuff to do. I mean, I have stuff to do tomorrow. This is the first time I personally have not felt like there's a gun to my head while I'm

podcasting. Like, you got 55 minutes go and I'm loving it. I could go three hours right now. I'm like, you want war stories. Like, tell me, I'll just let it out. Like, I feel free. I'm a free man. Because for behind the scenes, people who don't know,

it was always during lunch. Is that when you would do it? It moved around a lot. If you think about it, we did it for 11 months. So there was like 29 palms. It was like I'd drive late at night back here to go to my garage. And I brought stuff up to the barracks room. And I would do that at night.

And then there was like, there was a time in Okinawa where like the day, I had off, I would build the whole day around. So it was you guys Friday night. It was like my midday or whatever it was. And then like towards the end there, it was getting really tough because I was still working the weekend. So it was like Wednesdays. I would like leave the office at 1145. I wouldn't tell people like I'm going to the chow hall. They knew I'm podcasting. But it was like, I'm going to lunch. I would like sprint back to the barracks, make a briego like set everything up. Well, I was already set up. But yeah. So it was but it was time constrained. And yeah, and this just feels great. Just a couple dudes, a couple microphones. Man, that's what I call it a podcast. That is why they call it podcasting. I didn't know that for the longest time. I didn't either.

I've actually always said that, but not understood it. Oh, no, I get it. Podcasting, tough to doing it's tall grass. Indeed, indeed. Well, I think there's like, well, oh, do you want to tell your new TV? we could wrap up the Black Friday Jeff heard a little bit while I was out here so we're in the backyard right now

backyard vibes I like to hang out the backyard soCal living houses are small I have a pretty size pretty good size yard for so cow had a TV back here for years it was old Ibo's former member or guests to the podcast he was deploying somewhere

and somehow he left a TV so I just hung in the backyard it broke while I was gone wife didn't tell me out of love for me because she'd know like I would hire someone to come and stall a new one and like she didn't want to stress me out but I came back she's like hey by the way the TV broke I'm like when the TV break why didn't you tell me I would have someone come put up a new one she's like that's like yeah that's fine it's black Friday I'm still in New Jersey when she sent me that I was like I'll put up I'll get a new one so I go to shop and I'm like looking at

outdoor TVs do you have an outdoor TV tray because you got a nice outdoor set yeah in the backyard you have well okay technically any TV outdoors is an outdoor tv that's true i'm with you this is where this conversation is headed but i mean do you have like an out made for outdoors tv yeah i if you said the brand name i would know it but i went the best buy silvox or with a s i think so that sounds like would you spend like a grand yeah it was yeah kind of pricey i'm not trying to docks you but no um i look to i go on amazon like it's black friday good time to buy tvs So I type in Outdoor TV.

Actually, first I went to Home Depot. And I messaged my brother. This plays in the story. I'm like, hey, do you have an outdoor TV recommendation? Because Home Depot seems like sell everything, right? And I'm like, I could see them like selling patio section. They got outdoor TVs, yeah. So while he's not answering me, I'm flying, shopping for the TVs.

And there's so many like 5,000 I use HD game mode. It's like it's like reading Japanese. Like I'm like, what is? is this? I don't know what I'm buying here. So I found this brand. I think it's Silvox. It's something with the S and a V and the X. And it's like $860. And it's on sale. It's usually like $1,400. And I'm like, I feel like I should like get that. And it's like, you know, the screen's supposed to be better because of the sunlight and like the glare and the sounds better. And it's waterproof. And my, I think I had followed up to my brother,

before he answered me and said, never mind, I see you don't sell them. And then he texted me while I was shopping and was like, I've shopped them before, mine's in a covered area. I figure I'll just replace a cheap TV four times before I buy, you know, an outdoor one because the price is so expensive. I'm like, that makes a lot sense.

So I find a Hennessy, Hennessy. Yeah, Tennessee, because we're from this house. Hennessy's TV, find a 55 inch, same one that I boast left here. except the numbers are different so something's changed it's usually 500 bucks it's $220 bucks like boom buy it shows up mount it turn it on phenomenal love it bought a new cover for it put the cover on put the flaps on everything's good executing black Friday stuff wife appointment getting ready for the Marine Corps ball nails that sort of thing I'm like I got the baby I'm a dad I'm a pro like I know exactly what to

do with a 14 month old just any time leave her with me I got this down she leaves immediately put her in Patriots garbs turn on Drake may inside the house baby's having a good time get the cats situated outside the house i'm like picturing in my mind i'm like baby on the grass turf patriots on the tv cats walking around like this is going to be phenomenal turn on the TV black screen colored lines on the left side audio no picture and i'm just like how is this possible like i just bought you 48 hours ago like you've i haven't even been out of it and you've been covered and i had the previous version of you for years out here don't make them like they used to they don't make them like they used to that that couldn't set it better myself in any event i'm like

okay i'll go on amazon i'll hit exchange i'm going to write this off as a fluke that this i just got a bum tv i'm going to get the same one again can't exchange it can return it for black friday pricing oh you want another tv now it's back to retail which it's fair there's a lot of people that email me today and said oh i goofed on what day the sale ended and missed the purchase can i still get sale pricing and i'm like look man we email you guys once a week this week we emailed you 94 000 times not a lot of sympathy for forgetting when the sale ended Anyway, that's a TV story So they call it Black Friday

Hey, that is why they call it Black Friday So did you just get the same one again? I got a slightly different one The numbers changed a little bit The price came down. It was a Cyber Monday sale So I bought a Cyber Monday TV Same brand, bought another Hennessy

But it works It's not here yet, it arrived tomorrow Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll see We'll see It was quite the episode So there's no TV out here That's a shame.

Good story, though. I feel like we should get into a little. What? I feel like you're a little weird. The sad topic of all of our teams losing. And it wasn't, we had a bad rivalry week. That's what happens when Jordy breaks the podcast. When he can't find a way to yes on the audio, this is, the teams don't find a way to yes.

That's true. They didn't know that we were supporting them. And they, uh, that's just a tragedy. I'll start with mine. Then we'll go to Auburn. Then we'll go to Trays. He'll be the most emotional. I was pretty excited about mine.

I was home. I had a working TV in the backyard of the time. That was in the 48-hour period. My daughter was there, had a nice old Gamecock dress on her. And I just felt like we could beat them. Like I woke up. I mean, I felt like I could have suited up. You know, you know those days when you're so pumped about the game.

You're like, if they called me. me helming on like i'm going in yeah it's like 12th man vibes maybe you get it now tray i'm ready i get it yeah gordon's texting me everybody's messaging me even um troy campbell who's dad we got to get him on the podcast by the way he wants to come on the podcast we got to get him on the ohio state guys even like i think you guys are going to crush dabbo getting all this outside energy it's feeling good like there's synergy i'm just like we my brother others there. I'm like, we are going to kick some Tiger ASS today. And I can't wait. Decent start to the game, some back and forth. I'm like, okay, we're in a fight, but we're going to be

fine. And then don't go watch the game. It was terrible. But you go all the way towards scene. It's like, you get the ball. You're down by seven. You got a good quarterback. There's three and a half minutes left. And I wrote in the group text by my phone. I'm like, when have you ever seen the game cocks like get the ball down seven with like a requisite amount of time just drive down and score and they're like now we got this and i'm like yeah you're right batted pick six down 14 still three and a half minutes to go and i'm just like this is the worst and uh yeah lost another game carolina football that's that's rough we still have the same coach that right still the same coach which was surprised there were some some good articles there's a couple

articles written by like outside people on not attacking the fans it was a compliment to the fans but it's like does the fan base accept mediocrity and it was talking about how the game cox in the SEC have like the most sold out games with the worst record right oh interesting so it's like they sold out every single home game this year and they were three and seven and then they like broke down like the fans show up and like love the team and they just do it whether they win or lose and they talked about like powerhouses like hey you start losing Alabama people are leaving we haven't seen it a ton because they went a lot but like and they were talking about like that sort of thing so it's like if you're a fan you read it and you're like you don't read it like

oh it's my fault you read it like we're the most loyal bunch in the world kind of deal um but there's there's articles on that but yeah they kept beamer I don't know how I feel about it I that was rough that's it's too late it's too late in season to fire them like who else is out there yeah who else is out there and then with all the shifts that we're going to talk about like who you're going to get like what did it's like you say yeah yeah yeah who yeah they were calling me yeah hey we saw the way you played in that south carolina clipsy game girl you want you of coach our team. We saw him on the USS San Diego.

Yeah, still got the coach. That was a rough one. No bowl game. No bowl game. I mean, he definitely, the real question is, what will they accept next year? Like, does he, if he has a winning season, does it count? Does he have to do more? I don't know.

We fired Muschamp. Him and Mustchamp basically have the same record. He said Mustchamp beat better teams. We fired Mouschamp year five. Him and Spurrier through five years. Spurrier, I think it has like four games, five games on them. But like all of the seasons were like seven, eight wins in ranked, beat Ohio State in the Outback Bowl. Like there's like there's like wins that like go on to make it seem not as bad.

Yeah, I don't know. He's definitely been kind of a baby. I would say I think Gamecocks it's not that you accept mediocrity I feel like you just are more patient than a lot of fan bases

yeah I mean LSU's not very patient no I break down at Auburn loss well okay yeah I turned I turned it on it was 17 nothing I thought oh here we go like just just going to be blowout

and they got a couple quick scores and hope I hope started to rise up, and I thought maybe, okay, we can do this. And then some turnovers and then that, I thought, you know, they got the ball at the end, chance to go down, maybe tie it. Just Cam Coleman was trying to fight for some extra yards and maybe should have just gone out of bounds. I don't know.

I mean, to me, I don't picture Kim Coleman is a guy that's going to break a ton of tackles. And then just bumbled that ball. Yeah. That was all she wrote. Dude, I thought, I thought something. like someone greased that ball first of all

like that thing kept popping out like everybody was dropping it there were a lot of fumbles but I like the quarterback that was playing this played the last two games for Auburn so I think he will be

he will be good yeah I'm hoping like he sticks around I think he will I like Golesh yeah and Russian yeah he's well we'll see I don't know I thought Brian Harson looked good

coming. I thought Shane Beamer looks good coming in. How you like those apples? So we'll see he did entertain DJ Durkin as the defensive coordinator. So I think that's huge. Oh, he did. There, yeah, yeah, that was a really big. They have some, I guess they've known each other continuity. Yeah. So there's a little bit of history there. So I think that'll be big having him back as the, as the DC. And so yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. How about that was your game for you? I feel like that was a good higher.

I do. Well, first of all, so we went to visit Dr. Gowledge up in New York City, right? Oh. And so we were there Friday night. Really? Is that where those photos you sent were from? Yes. Okay.

Homeschool math over here. Geography, I guess that would be. So I saw photos coming through. You got to remember, I'm like 20-9 palms, doing running around, trying to get out 20-9 palms, flying in Jersey. in New Jersey, flying back, all the stuff. And, like, I would see photos coming in and, like, skyline and babies. I was like, I got to look at these later.

I assumed you guys just went to Dallas. Yeah, just downtown Dallas. No, we were, yeah. That was a big apple. Yeah, those were in Manhattan. So we went down there for Thanksgiving. Basically, same thing. So we went down for Thanksgiving, which is its own story in itself,

traveling with three babies but um so we are friday and evening like we went out to dinner and i was like man like game starts in 45 minutes 30 minutes 20 minutes i'm like we have to go like we haven't even got the food yet so food comes out we're like downstairs at like the hotel restaurant food comes out like i'm just like scarfing up i grab all three kids and run upstairs and i'm like okay game started okay so it's already stressed to begin with first half you know it was like I think we were up

when up 10 3 not playing great but I'm like okay it comes out and then second half we just look terrible yeah like couldn't stop anybody on defense offense like you you run an RPO all year and you decide not to do it the last game and you don't score any

yeah I don't know man it's just like they went away from what they were good at in Texas made plays And so you got to, I guess, give them credit, but. Big time players. I was mad for, big time backyard ball games. I was mad for an hour. And I'm like, you know, this should result in a home field playoff game.

So that's cool. That's pretty cool. Bussing this guys. Yeah. And then Texas could still make it. No, dude. They're not going to make it. Oh, well.

I really hope not. The narrative. we don't know what they bring them tonight what they come out tonight yeah yeah yeah yeah is it out yeah they weren't they were Texas is not in it no moment but we still got conference championships we do yeah so there could be a little bit of shake up probably in the seating mostly I don't know because yeah it seems like

they're it's got you talking about how they're not Ohio State they're not going to let like playing in a conference championship like be a bad like let it work again against you like it might change your seating but maybe not their number 13 yeah but you got to keep in mind like you still have the ac c champion we'll get in and uh north texas north texas or whoever can't wait for them to come in they're gonna do really well they got a chance yeah i did incocks i hope they're game cox no they're like the eagles or something yeah they're also a bird Yeah, the eagle or, I don't know, Texas bird, whatever a Texas bird is.

Game cock adjacent, yeah. Yeah. Game cock adjacent. Vandy's out. So it looks like. Vanity's out for now. We're just sitting pretty. We're just sitting pretty.

Yep, yeah. But I think we should, trade, do you want to announce your Venmo here on the podcast so we can start have people send you some money so you can go to that playoff game? Yeah. Yeah. That's Jeff, because he's going to playoff games. It's just going to be pretty cheap by that. How much were the tickets?

Like third deck was like 800 bucks. Yeah, 800 was like the cheapest ticket. It sounds like a deal. Can't afford not to do it. Money is going to have it. That's called deployment money. Deployment money. It's all fake.

Yeah, not real much. We do have some picks to go over and get into. We do. Last week of picks. Gloss over Lane Kiffin. I feel like the internet's covered it pretty well. Yeah, he got hired at LSU. Yeah, if this is where you, if you guys are where you.

If you... Potentially some infidelity with a bunch of old mess. Brachy, girls. Breaking news. Yeah, breaking news. Lane Kiffin has left Ole Miss and he's at LSU. I do think it's funny LSU like made this big stink about like Brian Kelly's contract. And then just they're like, instead of like, we're going to hire the next coach and do like incentive base and they just went to complete opposite direction.

Yeah, we'll just guarantee more money for Lane. Yeah. I was like, yeah. I guess he gets a big kicker if he does win an end. National Championship, though. So buying tacos today for Jeff and I, guys wearing an LSU hat of Hispanic descent. I said, ah, Lane Kiffin. And he goes, huh?

He's like, LSU, Gold Tagas. And he goes, I just wear it because I like fishing and it said like, PFG on the side. And I was like, oh, okay, yeah, yep, Lane Kiffin, all right. I was like, I like fishing too. What kind of fishing? And he was like, you know, like anywhere like on the pier, I was like, ah, we're not the same. I'm a fly fisherman. Conservationist.

Jeff gave me a sweet fly fishing book and some flies that haven't even gotten to take in because I was worried about headphone jacks and microphones and getting everything set up. It's like to go into a podcast. You didn't fish at all. I guess not one time. Trying to fish in Malaysia. Oh, cool. Malaysia, booked a guide. It was like the thing. I wanted to fish. There was an island off of

Okinawa that I wanted to fish up that I looked up beforehand. I didn't realize prior to going to Okinawa that if you're a Marine, you go to Okinawa, it might as well be going to prison and you're not allowed to do anything. God forbid, leave Okinawa. And so I was never allowed to leave Okinawa. But there was an island to the south that I wanted to go. It was like a whole thing. Get on a plane in Naha. You fly two hours of this island. You get picked up. It was like a tour guide service it was the equivalent of like 800 usd and it was like you arrive on a Friday you leave on a Sunday night and include these like your plane ticket and you fly fish for like a day and a half and they they lodged you and fed you and stuff

thinking to do that tried to fly fish in Malaysia plan the yeah it was a really good deal planned the whole Malaysia thing out and then there was a monsoon uh bad rainstorms the guy canceled on me uh so no I have not fished last time I fished was right before I left twin and palms here in so cal i fished in april we talked about on the podcast that was the excursion with the hippie dude right yeah yeah i plan to go yeah in the Subaru i plan to go back there actually don't know i'm a drive because i don't think the Chevy could make it down there but the eight foot bed i think that's how like tight it is that like i actually think if i took the eight foot bed down there i would go off the side so i got to figure out how to get there um i got to go my

brother, my oldest brother, Jeremy, you know, he, I called him on my way to see Shep, you know, in Jersey. I'm like, hey, man, I'm done. I'm going home. He's like, y'all, nice. Like, when are you going to go fly fish? I was like, well, Jeremy, I have this thing. It's like this child that I made that I haven't met. And like one, I like want to spend time with her. I have met her to the listeners, but you know, I've been away from her for seven and a half months. It was seven months to the day, seven months to the day that I left Dee on this sidewalk holding the baby in tears seven months of the day that I came back. And I was like, so I probably like want to spend.

He's like, no, I get that. I was like in two, like, I probably need to like build some family equity before I'm like, hey, babe, leaving at 5 a.m. We'll be back till 7 p.m. going fishing. And he's like, yeah, he's like, that's fair. Actually, he has $4. He's like, actually I've only been twice this year. And when you were here, we were going a lot more.

I was like, yeah, no. But I am it, I am itching to fish. I'm going to fish. I'm going to fish. Not yet, but soon. I'm going to fish. You will do it again. Yeah.

Lane Kiffin. See, it's just love fishing. Lane Kiff. Family man. Late, more like Lane fishing. Let's get into these picks. All right. And now it's time for Trey's

Picks of the week. That's how I've done it every week. It's every beginning of the podcast. Jordy, put the Jack White reverb on that. We told you to do that last week, but you probably didn't hear it. Jack White's sound like. like a new reverb thing. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yes, he is. I'm tracking. I'm tracking. Put it on that. Make it sound cool, Geordy.

And put a Duncan thing down by since you got off last week with only 16 minutes and put a big L on Trey's forehead and then take it away. Okay. Wow. So we took some swings last week and missed on a lot of them. We were. The listeners don't know. We look at a trade.

Trey. Edit that out. So we were four and six. We got all the picks right. So we were seven and three. Yeah, I wish. But we're still only two games back. Oh, this is the week.

This is when you've got to start gambling. This is when we have to make some more big swings. Sausage. Okay. All right. So it's all championship games. Love it. Obviously.

All right. First one we have is Kennesaw State. playing Jacksonville State Gamecox. Conference is that. Conflecting over here. Conference USA, baby. My kind of conference. That's the conference USA.

Wow. I saw a thing. There's a quarterback that's been committed to Georgia. Connor. McGregor. No, but I got the joke. Irish.

I get it. Connor, Clifton, the five star. And so the first thing I saw next day, well, What I hate about the news is you never know what's real anymore. It said that he flipped from Georgia to Kennesaw State, where I guess is he had been between

Georgia and Vandy. And then what I saw and I think is real is that he flipped to Vandy, but then Kennesaw State's account made like a meme of it, which I thought was hilarious, which means you got good people in charge of the program. I'm going Kenna State Mountaineers. I got the owls. Owls. I'm going owls, overcocks, Okay. It's 50-50. Yeah. I feel like that's not anymore.

It's not. That's not. You're right. All right. Next, you've got some belt championship. We have Troy playing James Madison, the Dukes. Why is it like two first names playing each other? Troy versus James.

I don't know. That's good. You're going JMU? I'm going JMU. They've had a good season. Yes. I'm going to. Yeah, what's their mascot?

Dukes. Duke's, yeah. Troy's mascot. Condoms, Trojans. Oh. They're sponsored. I'm going to go with the condom,

but I'm going to go with the Dukes. I'll do the party line. Let's go Jamie. Jamie, okay. All right, next we have the American. Can you see me? All right. Testing.

He's back. Yeah, we're back. Yeah. We just lost you for a second. Okay. I'm good. All right. next we got american athletic conference we have north texas against two lane i like two lane

unpopular opinion is is there coach just left i know and they know i had oregon's i don't know i'm going too late i'll go i'm got that too all you know is that right okay He's Orchuan going to coach there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, two lanes in. Go green waves. Ladies and gentlemen, we got Coach Ed Orchiron on the podcast. Very unexpected guests. Do you remember we were lie lie

and there was the, that female doctor who was in the battalion? Oh, yeah, the M.O. No, I'm talking, the M.O. yeah you remember her short choppy redhead real easy to work with great attitude all the time so i was she fell under me in the four shop she did not like me at all of course she fell under you you were the like you were the four so we yeah i remember she went to toulain i don't know why but my brother ran into her at a wedding and she's like gotledge do you know lieutenant college

he's like yeah it's my brother he's like I hate that guy I was like it was like six years later yeah that I hope your brother punched her in the face I'm not about hitting women but I would have punched that lady in the face but if they're needs deserved

you know equality probably right I had a similar sidebar conversation can we allow sidebar we've kept into a minimum so I didn't allow this let's allow it we can allow it my little brother he's jagg i don't know exactly how the math and the time and service and grade and he like it's like an oCC long story short it's like he checks into

his unit and he's a captain like four days like i don't even know like how exactly it worked but he's like hey he sends me some name which i don't remember now first last name am i like in his fashion rather than be like hey brother i met this person named whatever he just sends me the name so i just like question mark it like what do you want me to this name he's like do you know him it's like never heard of her he's like it's a guy he's a major here on cherry point and i was like cool have i served with him and he's like yeah and i was like and then he sends me his bio and i see the picture and i'm like oh yeah that guy was like the four on Republic of Georgia

for the Black Sea Rotational Force when we were like the artillery unit. I was like, oh, yeah. I was like, that was a good kid. So I was a captain. He was like a first lieutenant at the time. I was a good kid. Like, tell him I said, hi.

He goes, no, he took me to lunch. He hates you. I was like, yeah, fine, makes a lot of sense. Actually. The guy checks out. That's what I said. Did you punch him in the face? Okay, next game.

Back on. Yeah, Mountain West, the Mountain West Championship. We got the UNLV rebels going against Boise State. It's about a 50-50 slip there. What's the records? 10 and 2, UNLV, and then 8 and 4, Boise State. Boise State, prone to losing. I think it's tough games.

Coaching at UNLV. Is it at Boise, Bluefield? No, it's a neutral side, five to take. I feel like that in Vegas. That's more UNOV. I'm going to the rebels. Rebels, like I think their cousin rebels losing their coach. There's a lot of sympathy there.

Lane Kiffin or happening. It all goes back to Lane Kiffin. Thanks, Lane. All right, next we have Lane vision. Next, we get the Big 12, championship. We have BYU, Jeff's people, going against Texas Tech. I like the Red Raiders. I'm going to cut my Jeff's looking up stats over here.

I like this Red Raiders team. I actually like this Red Raiders team a lot. Okay. Yeah, I got to go Red Raiders. But correction, I was way off about where the Mountain West Championship games played. It's in Boise. You guys looked at me like I was a fool. Oh, yeah, it's on the blue turf.

But not, it's not in the Boise Stadium, is it? I don't know, this is Albertson Stadium. They are, I, I've been to Boise State to host, UNLV. Okay, so they do like a been to that blue field. How did the team with the worst, with the worst record hosting? No, they always played there. This is, yeah, Albertson Stadium, Boise State, got a photo, verified. Hey, geez.

I doubted you. Does that change your, does that change your big? Everyone, everyone, everyone, all listeners, as you were, as you were. Yeah, as you were, as you were. As you were. I'm 100% still taking my rebels. Okay. Because we're from the South Las Vegas.

Southern Las Vegas. All right. Next, we got the Mac championship. Okay. Miami, Ohio versus Western Michigan Broncos. Miami of Ohio. Okay. Listen to the podcast, Troy Campbell, and his dad, Miami,

of Ohio graduate along with another artillery officer on the boat, Micah, Michael, Micah, I can't remember Hastings, Miami of Ohio grad. Guy hates you. I don't know what they think about

this team at all because they just both like Ohio State. But Miami of Ohio against who? Western Michigan. Ooh. I'm not a Michigan guy.

Can we give you the mascots and you? Yeah, please, please, could you? Well, first, the fact that I don't know them is a problem. Yeah. I'm going to guess, my name is Ohio is like a cardinal. It is a red hawk. Close. Red hawk, okay.

And the other one is, um, Western. Some people call, some people call Cardinals, Redhawks. Redhawks. So you're not, that's what we call them in the south. Yeah, right. then western michigan is uh broncos oh you wrote it i was going to go my dad he didn't say it earlier okay my dad yeah uh i think the red hawk beats the bronco where are the records it's seven and five versus eight and four thank goodness

he's the weather played that gum give me to broncos i'll go broncos too all right make a note make a note make a note wait all right so i'm the note you're the note you're the note giving them red neck's red hawks red eyes yeah giving them cardinals um all right just get some real football SEC championship we got Georgia dogs going against bama

I feel like we've seen this before we have bama won the first one the same Texas that's not the appropriate song for this game, but I have the appropriate one. I'm going to play it. We're going to listen to it.

Talk to pause. Yeah, we can leave it on. All right. Here we go. Against the wall. Against the wall. Oh, my. And that's a problem of that.

Who does Jeff hate worse, Georgia or Alabama? Honestly, Georgia. Really? Yeah. That's what most are. fan say is that because you grew up in georgia i think that i know i know way more georgia they're also the most obnoxious fan based on the planet extremely and alabama ones you yeah my nephew's the best alabama fans are just like dumb so it's like they're obnoxious

but they're like dumb obnoxious the one the ones that i hard sorry tied fans i love the ones that i encounter like you know in utah are like usually pretty like good talk to but it It was like, and it's similar for Georgia fans. And I'm sure it might be like similar for like South Carolina fans or Texas fans. Like we just accept me. The most obnoxious ones are like the people in Alabama that didn't go to the University of Alabama, but are Alabama fans and they're just they're obnoxious. You know, no, you know, it's like in fairness to all these fan bases, obviously there's

some stereotypes that go true, but it's like, oh, like you guys are pretty good. reserve us except for like these couple people i'm like yeah you guys are like pretty good active duty battalion besides these couple of people turns out people are just people and like some people are better and like more respectful and some people aren't and it's the same with college football fans um yeah i got i so i really want i don't think my nephew listens he's probably like walking around saying six seven or something um but i'm going to go tied i think i i actually want the dogs to win but i think is it old is it old miss playing no alabama no it's bama and georgia is bama georgia yeah yeah oh if i fopper hit one but they didn't win yeah i was looking at too many of those

yeah yeah uh bama i think bama i just think i hope i'm wrong so you want you want chaos that's chaos in the college football i don't want it it i just think it's going to happen okay i like that i like that you think it still like depends on people playing football and there's not going on and that texas is still going to get in there yeah i believe it oh naive they're not texas nonderdane they'll figure out a way to get michigan in there kicking him out they're like well we think i got to get something i got to get a prop I don't know. I think Georgia wins.

I think Georgia wins. That's what I have to. I think I got a, I don't know. We'll see. Let's see. Hey, Trey,

before he finalized his pick, what's that? Okay. So we're singing the Roll Tide song, LSU, Tennessee 2, A&M, what's there like, what are they saying?

Saul versus one's off. Oh. How should, short. Oh, short. Short. If you're not watching on YouTube, you should.

Should. Those horns are in regulation. Those horns are short. All right. Okay. All right. So, Jeff, take Georgia. I pick dogs. All right.

Make a note for Grant. Roll tide. You said you wanted to swing for the fences and come back from two games in the last week. That's true. You're not picking like it. So. You're right. I'm switching it. I'm going to damas. I think it's a crucial game.

Everyone's going to pick the dogs. I think you're right. All right. So this is the one I swing for the fences on. Here we go. Big Ten. Big Ten championship. I got Iowa going against Ohio State. Excuse me. Indiana.

I'm sorry, Indiana. Indiana versus Ohio State. The Ohio State. The Ohio State. I love this Indiana team. Go Indiana. I love them. Go Hoosiers.

They're an underdog. Yeah, they're an underdog. We got Andy Sweet there, Reservas, SMCR type, who's like now off orders. He's a alumnus. He's going back for the game. I like the Hoosiers. That coach has got, he's got like weird swagger that I think is like winning material. material he's like

Google him he reminds me a little bit he has Ibo's fives to him yes like a little a little Ibo's fives I also think Ohio State and sorry I know we got

Ohio State listeners but Ohio State has been Michigan has treated them like their little brother for a while and that game was big for them and they geared up Ryan Day geared up to beat Michigan like that That was the thing.

And they're not used to that. They're used to, like, beaten Michigan. But, like, for the last, what, they lost three years in a row. And, like, four out of five or something like that. Like, Michigan is, like, handed it to them. And I think they geared up. They've had a great season. And they beat the breaks off Michigan.

I think Michigan has the overall record against Ohio. Yeah, but, like, since the Jim Truzzle area era. True. Yeah. It sounds like we've been watching. Ohio State has dominated. Since we've been alive. Yeah, I wish I could say

kind of like Gamecocks, but I can't. In any event, I think Indiana comes out and beats them. I don't think it's a clobber, but I think that Ohio State's always trailing. I think down seven, down three, down four. Yeah, Indiana. All right. So this last one, ACC,

could potentially, have a seven and five ACC team in the playoffs. The actual cupcake conference. Yeah. For real. Seven and five Duke Blue Devils going against 10 and two Virginia Cavaliers. What a powerhouse matchup.

I mean, do we have to pick Duke if we're going to I mean, I want to pick Duke? I mean, I think Virginia's going to win. Okay. So, yeah, you got to try to win. Where did Steve Spurge? you're a coach. That's a great question.

Was he a Virginia coach? Likeable guy. He was throwing shade at Florida State today and I was loving it. He's like, yeah, Florida States. They got a problem. They need to fire that coach. They don't have enough money to fire him. Like, it's the way he says stuff.

It's like he is the best. He's the best. He's the best. Give me Duke. That's a swing for the fence, man. Trying to win. All right. Yeah,

let's try to win. All right. Last one we got, tiebreaker. We got another one. Yeah. I thought Alabama and, we have Alabama.

You're assuming the guy we're competing against picks the dogs, picks Ohio State. That's safer. So we picked those two. We do the other ones correct. And then the tiebreaker would have been the Duke game. But you got one more?

Well, the tiebreakers guess the points between Alabama, Georgia. Oh, Alabama, Georgia. Wasn't it like a snooze fest a couple of years ago, like 9-6 or something? Or is that like Georgia LSU? It's like a real thing. Yeah, there was something that was like a real low-scoring,

a lot of field goals. You think like 50, is 56 too much? I can't think total. I got to think what the teams do first and then do the math. It's like, are we talking to per capita? Yeah, per capita. How many points will they score per capita? Per capita.

58. 58, okay. Does that sound good to you? I like that. All right. It's picks of the week concluded. Man, that's stressful. I'm glad college football season's ending.

That's funny. We're feeding a lot of gambling habits. I heard about it on the OK podcast. sounded like a shirt back yeah I was talking I was talking to my neighbor and as a hobby

we need to do this next year for pick them in the Slack channel links below he makes custom wrestling belts for like for like hey if you are in a

fantasy league like the winner we get the belt So I feel like we need to do something like that. Yeah, okay podcast bell. Okay, podcast bill. Okay. And the listener that loses the most money in the season going off our picks, they get the champion.

That's how I like it. All right. What else you got? But yeah, send your money to Trey. His Venmo is number one S4. I don't know. I thought it was 12th man. It could be 12th.

12th man 12th 4 man but yeah send trade your money what's are we doing child talk this week we better I didn't oh do you have any child that you want to talk about you want to talk chow yeah I mean I can talk chow

do we want to keep it seasonal what was I guess what was the most no I want to keep it topical when you first came back I guess outside of pizza What were you most excited to have when he first came back? So this, I think intersects with the conversation we had last week that no one never listened to. I was most excited to fire up my grill and cook a piece of meat that I can cook expertly with that also is not a lot of work.

And that was a tri-tip. And I was excited to like cook a tri-tip. My wife makes like white rice and a vegetable and just like sit at a normal table and just be like, wow, this is like. a solid Tuesday night meal. What's going on? You know, I was, I was most excited for that when I executed. Outside of that, I think you got to give receipts, you know what I mean? Like Lane Kiffin, you're going to provide receipts. The real question is, I got home Wednesday night. What have I eaten since then? Today's what, Tuesday? Check. So got home Wednesday. It's Tuesday. I haven't even been home seven days and we're podcasting for the listeners.

Thursday, cook that tri-tip, went to my Swaygrove's house, had tamales and Pazole, both bangers. We can revisit tamales if you want to stay seasonal. Friday, more tamales, yeah, Saturday. Do you dress your tamales out? Tomollies? We talk about that in a second. I was going to say, what I know that will circle back. What I know, no, I've eaten out.

Mexican one, two times, one time fajitas place, like what white people go to today. I had like exotic beeria. Yesterday I had flame broiler. So it's like a Asian fusion, California, white rice, terriaki chicken thing kind of deal. It's like generally what I eat, like when I'm trying to be healthy, it's like nine bucks. you to bowl chicken and rice um you know those are the receipts tamales do i dress them up i put the hottest hot sauce i can find on them okay do you know what mexicans do what do you put on your tamales you mean usually it's it's very white people but it's like chili a lot

of times oh interesting that's like that's like that's text max stuff i've got to be texas i've never heard that if if there is if there is if there is salsa like I will put salsa on there salsa okay when you're saying salsa are you picturing like chunky with tomatoes like yeah so when you say

and then I'll say this when you say hot sauce I think of like Tabasco that's that's actually a fair thing to say as a southerner when I'm in tamales mode in my head and I say hot sauce I'm picturing like an oil based

chili day R bowl ground up like the super red spicy stuff and you like make it like a snail trail on the tamale like a red sauce yeah yeah Mexicans do cohita cheese a little bit of cabbage and they do manis oh interesting every year they try to be like you're from the south warro try the mayonnaise and like i did it on thanksgiving i was like yeah mannais don't like it And I like mayonnaise, like big duke's mayo guy. I don't like it on it. I don't really like sour cream on it either, though.

I just want the tamale cooked well. No one makes it like my mother-in-law. Like when the outside, when the masa is like actually moist and there's like actually meat inside. And generally I think like the meat to masa or like if we're talking like a burger, generally I think like there's too much breading stuff and not enough meat. I actually like the tamale world. like if you put too much meat in a tamale it's actually ruined but like with that outside masas like moist and but there's meat consistent throughout there's no bite without meat i just want like a snail trail of like some crappier pants hot sauce on there and that's that's how i eat them

that sounds pretty good like i would that sounds great yeah it's great i'd crush that yeah yeah Yeah, I love tamales turkey tail. Like how many, if you're sitting down to eat tamales, like, how many are you crushing in Sydney? It's like sushi? I did. No, it's not. That masa fills you up, man. I did on Thanksgiving Day, I did three.

Then I did a bowl of Pazole, which Pazole is like a tricky food because you're like, it's a soup. But it has like the corn in there and the meat and the radish and you put cabbage, onions in and then you eat it with like a side of like flaming hot tortillas like there's a lot of extra carbs in there you're not realizing so i did three a bowl of pozole and then i did three more and i came home and yeah you could put a fork in me that's good chow push i was a good chow push that was heard yeah i love chow talk i love a good chow push i think i could eat more MREs than I can eat. I love chow to tamales.

Oh. How many MREs can you cry? Oh, we not have this conversation? This is like classic major Broghi deployment talk. Do we want to save this one? I'd be like, well, we can, we can let it fly. Okay, well, let me, all right. So let's take an MRE.

Let's talk. Lurries Chiaz chat, chile mac, right? Whatever, whatever variant you want. You remove the beverage powder. No one eats that crap, obviously. And you remove. like the pack of nonsense. Yeah.

And so then you have like a main meal, a side, a dessert, and like a snack. Yeah, basically like four items. Yeah. Well, now before I make full of myself, how many do you think that you could eat?

Like in a day or one sitting. Let's just say an hour. An hour? How many do you think you should take, could take down an hour? You can mix them if you want. you can cold suck them if you want you can cook it like you don't you can do whatever you want like you know exactly the components i'm talking about right like you just get rid of the nonsense

that no one eats and then boom you have that and i would almost make the rule that you never have to eat like the skittles and the twizzlers but i won't for the sake of this conversation but i'd almost be like the things that are like food does it have to be chili mac no it can be any it could be it can be Yeah, it could be any of them. I can crush some chicken pesto pasta. I feel like I can do at least three and I think in like the four or five range. Well, in an hour. I don't know.

That's like so many calories. I can do three in an hour for sure. That's fine. So I think I'm like definitely at six. Yeah. And I like I think I can make the argument for a dozen. I'm not even I'm not even like

it's so you're talking an hour so six would be one every 10 minutes like what if I'm going to take it down in two and then I got eight minutes to rest before the next one do you have a sponsored MREED contest the Marines really want me to make a video on it because I'm always yelling that they're not needed enough to like sir you just make the video and you say like

you guys the starting strength blah blah blah, blah, I've got to eat 3,000 calories. Each one of these is 2,000 calories. I'm going to take down 10 right now. It's like daily calorie limit. That would be like 20,000 calories in an hour. No, like one. Yeah, one is a daily calorie limit.

I don't even think it would be difficult. What are you think? I'm like a slam dunk six. A slam doc I can do six. 12 is like Joey Chestnut. But possible because Joey Chestnut exists. Yeah, for Joey Chestnut, like a competitive eater. You tracking Grant Broggy nut?

We're not tracking it. Does you know that's not tracking that? Yeah, I was like, I was like three. Three, for sure. Easy. Yeah, easy. Okay. So let me take you back here for saying, Jeff.

You're in the field. You've had a bunch of crap going on. You haven't eaten. And you're like, can't wait to dig into an MRI. So one of those moments where you're like, I can't wait to get the MRI. You get the end of the day. Only you know. Heat it up.

But like, you're like, I can't even wait. You're like eating the coffee cake thing. You're like, this is the best thing I've ever had. You're like trying to heat up whatever the main meal is. And you're like digging into the rice that they gave you on a side day It's still like hard and crunchy. You're just eating it anyway. You're sucking that cheese pack down.

It's a jalapeno kind. You're like super excited. You're like eating the little mini Twizzler things. The main meal is still not hot. You're like screw it. You got a little Tabasco hot sauce in there. You're dumping on there. And you finish the whole.

You're like, I just ate that entire thing in six minutes. I want another one. You've never been there. And then you just dive into the second one. Oh, I've been there. Yeah. Like, I've taken two down in 10 minutes. Yeah, like two.

I'm going to try this out. We're going to the field, this drill. 12. I'm not going to try to go over 12. I didn't say 12. I said six for sure in an hour. I think I could eat three. Three easy.

I think I could eat three in 10 minutes. I would see, I agree with the time. Like, I think I can eat three in 10 minutes, but I think I'd be stuffed. like at 20 minutes and like I'm trying to do four I'm like, God, feel terrible. Yeah. I'd be interested to see how you'd feel after.

Well, that's the problem. It's the digestive track. There's a lot that goes on like. Contact front. Oh, great. Just finished this 12th MRE. Yeah. I don't know.

Fire missions. There's a better commander. Oh, he's dead. Oh, no, the enemy got him. I'm like, no, he ate 12 MRI. He's like, wait too many employees. See, I feel like you would do that redhead medical chaplain or medical officer, Ed. The one who hates me, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, see, I feel like you would do 12 just for the fact that you paid for them and knowing you, you'd be like, I paid for these. I have to finish all 12 of them. No, never. Really? You think that's what I was? But no.

I feel like that would be a motivating factor. Your case. I still don't believe that they charge me for MREs because if they do, that should be a war crime. It should be a war crime that they send me to the field. They charge me to my pay for MREs. That's something that needs to get it got it up to sec war. Second war.

Like, what are we doing? The fact that I have to pay for that, And you don't get to choose them. I haven't even gone off on my hatred of Okinawa Chowall Halls. It's not for today, but man, that was criminal, criminal what they fed us. Terrible. Anyway, put in the back pocket. You're going to save rounds?

Well, there was one more topic in there, and I feel like it might be good, but it was truck ticket, I think, was the... Oh, yeah, this is good. I always like to shout out the massonomics guys when I can. By the way, this podcast is brought to you by BW Tax. Tax. BW. Tax, great guy better at taxes. You know what the holiday season reminds you? That the physical year is coming to an end. With the end of the physical year, that means tax season's coming right after Q1 of the next physical year before Q2 of the, before Q3

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taxes. BW Tax LLC.com. That was good. That was a good guy. That was really good. Thanks. Oh, truck ticket. So, we went a long year for Grant's buddy. And lead January 2nd, I'm up in 29 palms. I got a newborn. We just moved from South Carolina. A lot of moving parts.

And like the massonomics guys are like, hey, can we come do a gym tour? And I'm like, man, this is like sounds so fun to me. But I got like a lot going on. I don't think this is possible. and they're like okay we're going to go to these gyms so cal if you can make it happen let us know like yeah i've no idea so i'm shooting already all this stuff's happened there somehow it's like a 48 hour period like where we're out of the field and actually off and it coincides with when they're in socal and actually or like not at someone's gym so i'm like maybe at the gym in this time we go

down do a gym tour video go watch it jordi put it in the show notes the mass night weeks gym tour video of strength cocos to Mesa. We do the gym tour thing. You know, they're always coming out with some like novelty items. They've just come out with the massonomics front license plate. So I think in the video, I don't know if we did it in the video or a real later, whatever, but long short, they fill me with a 95 long bad Chevy, me in front of the gym. I pull those screws off front license plate, California, you got license plates on the front

and the back. I leave it there. I put the massonomics one over it and I screw the screws back in. And I've had a massonomics South Dakota. Dakota front license plate. I then proceeded. This is like February. It might have been January.

It might have been into January, early Feb, something like that. I'm driving that thing back and forth, prisoner of the highway. You've seen the reels, 29 palms and back, driving that thing, massonomics front license like gas gauge,

like Lane's Kiffin's emotions, going nuts. I'd be in 29 Palm sometime. Like, sure you're from South Dakota. I'm like, oh, yeah, no, yeah. You know, explain it. Like, people would comment from time time i'd see it you know ms what is there like ms s nmx yeah something like that mdmm

somewhere yeah yeah um we're losing tray but anyway i got the massanomics front license plate i don't think anything of it and then the truck lives at my warehouse it's the work truck gets driven by employees to go on the trash you know doing deliveries mass nomics front license plate um then i'm coming home i'm like a knee my truck government shut down there's no vehicles you You got stuff to turn in. So I call podcast listener Ray Tui, and I'm like, hey, man, like, I need your help. You're former one seven guy. Can you bring my truck?

My uncle will help you. They drive the truck up to 29 palms, meet with the major. Dan Martin, they picked the thing up. He parks it on base at his house. Apparently he sends a text like the majors group checks, all the majors live on the same street because it's base housing and it's like, hey, I didn't rob anyone. This is actually Major Grant Brogey's truck. It's not like a crackhead vehicle because, again.

guess he thinks my truck looks suspect parks it there on base it lasts for like a week till i get there i get there i drive it around i bring it home and then i got to fly to new jersey so i come home and fly to this airport to go to new jersey i park it on the street by my house fly home come back ticket this is it says this let me pull it because it's the verbiage is actually funny um let's pull it i send it to tanner here it is city of customates the parking enforcement citation blah blah number actually i still need to pay this i'm glad we're talking about it um violation one license plate colon two plates required code 5200 alpha cbc about 30 comments incorrect plates displayed photos taken see reverse for instructions and uh and i just

like the photos taken part and tanner was like we got to get those photos on social media Anyway, that's my truck ticket. So between that and the TV, you know, I'm going to have some hiccups. So I call a podcast. That is why they call a podcast. Massonomics will pay for your parking tickets. Yeah, that's what I should. Anyone that gets a ticket with that license plate on that Masanomics pays for it in full.

That should actually be like a platinum level membership. That is the. So they post like, this guy has a Massonomics license plate in a state. That guy went to the DMV and got a legal one. Yeah. I've been like an outlaw over here, rolling around with it on the front page. Reping Massonomics. Just rep until I die.

Not caring about the law, not caring about tickets, not caring about photos getting taken. Saying it about that, this is about supporting South Dakota. So really, they should send me a check for $30 and then actually send me a check for $60. Say, leave it on. Here's for the next ticket. Ooh. That's what they should do. I wonder for doubles.

And $2 bills. Yeah, they can send me $90. Yeah. Yeah, they can send the OK podcast $1,200 and then, or no, they can send $1,400. $200, that will go towards grants license plate fund. The rest goes towards Trays, Texas A&M playoff ticket. How about that? Right.

That would be good. Yeah, perfect. Supporting your supporting members. Hey, I really appreciate the mass of animals guys. That's very nice for this, generous. You're really underrated and overpaid. all right and that's it is that that's it uh well tray i guess we should bring this thing down for you're ready i will say since you are together co-located this better be on point

well we started together oh so we're going to end it together saying left right left All right. Let's bring this thing down, man. This has been, this is episode 086 of the. Okay. That's pretty good. Pretty good in person. Oh, okay podcast.

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pool saturday yeah by the time this airs true thing of the past i guess it'll be a thing of tomorrow I meant Turkey Pole 2026. Yeah. Start prepping now. Yeah. Don't give me the lame excuse next year about how, well, you know, my previous dad left, blah, blah, blah, just be ready. Okay, be ready. This happens every year sometime between November and December, depending on Grant's buddies, busyness and life.

It's good to be back in person. It's good to be back in the United States of America. I will say, the guy that's visited quite a few countries over the last 11 months, ain't no place. like this country. Best in the business at making countries is the United States of America. That's what I've always said. Happy to be back and people can make fun of states and different regions or whatever. But let me tell you, when your feet are on US of a soil, there's nothing better. So glad to be back. Thanks for listening. And we'll see you next time.