The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 89: Home Gyms, College Football Chaos, and Van Fails

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

Grant Broggi, Jeff Buege, and Tres Gottlich break down three things every man is thinking about right now:• How to build a real home gym without wasting money• Why college football fans are emotionally exhausted (Texas A&M included)• And the unbelievable true story of the sprinter van that wasn’t supposed to be opened… but was.Grant lays out the bare-bones home gym setup that actually gets you strong — no fluff, no gimmicks, no influencer nonsense. If you’ve ever thought about building a garage gym, this is the exact blueprint.The crew also reacts to the College Football Playoff chaos, SEC heartbreak, and the reality of what an “11-win season” really means in modern college football.And somewhere in between… a completely innocent church van becomes the scene of a full-scale accidental raid.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=thestrengthcoTimestamps: 00:00 - Intro 11:21 - Staff Brief23:07 - Outlying Stations28:28 - Turkey Pull Winners30:13 - Insane Van Story39:52 - iPhone Update Issues43:28 - Bare Bones Home Gym Essentials57:21 - College Football Madness01:11:44 - Tres’ Picks Of The Week01:33:23 - Dan vs Daniel01:39:20 - Saved Rounds

All right, and welcome back to episode 0-8-9er. Niner, Niner, for you military J-TAC types. I'm not a J-TAC, but I do say Niner. I'm an F-D-C-Men. I'm an F-D-O. I've been the F-D-O-D-O-down range. And welcome back to episode 0-8-9er. We got J-FOs here.

We got J-FOs here. The price of Bitcoin is $87,408. $0.85. This is the okay podcast powered by the Strength Co. I don't feel like Jeff's looking like. The Strength Co. The Strength Co. Technically we say

the Strength Co. But if you look at the flag behind me and then you look at the the on my chest flag the like I feel like old Mr. Campbell really was just sending me some the Strength Coe t-shirts.

But what is that? We'll get to college football later. We don't want to mess up the Grant rant that happens in the first two minutes. I see yours there, Trey, I see here's Jeff. If you're not watching YouTube, go watch on YouTube. 2026 is going to be a big year for us. We're going to ramp this thing up. We're going to kick it up a notch.

You know, we're almost at 100 episodes. We're not messing around. We're here to say. Wow. We are almost at home rooms. Yeah, this is it. This is episode 089er of the OK podcast, Power by the Stranko. And I'm your host, Grant Brogi.

And we are recording live in studio. I'm coming from Costa Mesa, California, where the Straito was born and built, literally in the same garage that I first coached someone out of for money. So we're going places. We're doing things. Join us from the greater Salt Lake City area, the greater area of Salt Lake is a non-Morman, non-drilling status, major type, major biggie. Bougier, pronounced Biggie, first name, Jeff, great guy, better at being a great guy.

So we're glad he's here as he is every week. And also joining us, I'm a shot in the dark Keller. Here we go. Keller, Texas. Yeah, that's a real, it's a real place. Let's find out where it. Yeah, it's a little more about it. They were in, yeah, we played them in high school.

Oh, have I done Keller before? rival. No, you have not. Keller, I hardly know her. Am I right? A lot of fun things to talk about this week. I will say I think Christmas gets people where

you know, not as many people messaging me saying, hey, why have you talked about this yet? But we're happy to be here. It's Christmas Eve. That means it's December the 23rd in the year of our Lord. 2025. It's December 23rd, even though we're recording late tonight for everyone still. And I want to make it known that this is a day that will live in infamy. This is D-Day. This is deactivation day for Grant's buddy. And so when the clock, clock strikes midnight, Grant's buddy's back. And he's been back, but he's on pins and needles. He's answering emails. He's, he's logging into stuff and like,

tomorrow he's just a dirtbag degenerate reservists that just hey good timing he's freeze dried he has a beard every day he gets fat you know you know those reservists they're not good for nothing they don't pay attention one week in a month two weeks of the year they're not marine 24 7 365 they're all honor and courage no commitment and tomorrow I will just magically turn into a guy that cares about nothing I mean I do you every time I'm going to say that. Ah, Seinfeld.

Hey, good timing, though. Got that, got that Warrior dividend. Hey, just in time for that warrior dividend. We got to talk about $1776 that I somehow spent in like one second by putting it all on red. Bitcoin? No, I'm kidding. But I did for like the whole weekend anytime I went anywhere. So, no, I got it.

It was 1776. And then I was like, you know, that only worked like three times, right? And I was like, yeah, we're good. what was the bill yeah what was the bill what are we buying here a lot of fun things talk about tonight and episode 9 christmas is coming hey we thank you guys for sticking with us this year you're probably listening to this between christmas and new years because if you listen to us you're either my mother mr campbell ray toie uh who do we find out there's another listener like Sean Shepard.

Sean Shepard. Oh, yeah, yeah. There's someone we found out that actually listened to the podcast. We were like kind of surprised. In any event, if you're listening to this, you're loyal, which means that it came out today, which probably means you're, let's see, Christmas is on a Thursday, so it's Friday. It's Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday. I got to get my, no, he's broken Fridays and a little bit.

I love Markle. It's Friday. You're probably sick of your parents or your in-laws. You are tired of hanging out in your childhood home and you're feeling guilty that you haven't lifted. And you're thinking about if you traveled away from your home gym, you're thinking about your strength complaints that are back home in the garage alone. And you're saying, you know what?

That's my real family. I should have stayed back with my plates. But anyway, hope you enjoy this episode today. We got a lot to talk about. Don't let me forget I got an unboxing to do. Oh. I did not send any of them to you so that you guys could not ruin it. And I'm just going to do it myself.

Oh, okay. Yeah, that's a new thing. Just send them a grant and he'll just do it. No, no, I, it's only one box. Jeff and Trey just open them immediately. Oh, box. Oh, box.

We got a lot to talk about. What's in the box? I feel like I missed an element of the intro. Did I miss anything? Coach. No, I feel like you nailed it. Are we powered by anybody? Oh, we're powered by the strength.

Oh, this episode's brought to you by BW Tax. BW Tax LLC.com. BW. Tacks, you might be asking yourself right now as your Christmas spending is getting a little out of hand. Maybe you're a guy that has a W-2 job and you work it every single day. But on the side, you're trading some crypto. You're trading some Bitcoin. You might even have a little side hustle. Maybe you're doing something out of your garage. You're making Christmas ornaments. And you're like, man, how do I, how do I do taxes this year? It's so much more complex.

now. I have my W-2, and then I have all this money from Bitcoin and my Christmas ornaments. By the way, I live in Keller, Texas. Like, how do I find an accountant in this city? Well, don't worry. It doesn't matter where you live. You could be an active duty Marine officer that's always done them on turbo tax, and then Grant's telling you you're an idiot for doing that because you don't know the benefits that are available to you.

You could be a guy with six businesses living in Nevada. What I'm telling you is you call BW. You talk to a real guy, a friend of the podcast, friend of the podcast. If someone can understand how the veer works and why it's successful, they can definitely understand your taxes. You call him, real person answers the phone. You tell him, hey, it's the end of the year, I'm freaking out. And he says, don't worry, buddy.

April 15th, you're a rich man. BW Tax LLC.com. Can I add some to that? Yeah. Do you remember Lieutenant Colonel Bertrand? Beltrane? Belltran. Bald guy.

Look like Mr. Queen, right? When there's smoke, there's smoke. When there's smoke, there's smoke. Don't play the parking lot game. Don't play the parking lot game. Okay. If my car's out there, I know you're not just going to freaking dang. Wait from my car to leave.

Okay. If you're dumb and work, you frigging day. Get your dang ass out of the dang frigging day. often best advice he ever gave me he goes you pay somebody to work on your car and you pay somebody do your taxes amen beatty tax i think he's a general now is he really bw he's a general that's awesome no yeah do you remember his first name jeff colonel lieutenant colonel yeah okay all right i'm gonna find him i'm gonna find him uh he was definitely a colonel. I just found that

picture. No, that's Lozuski. Never mind. Roberto. Does that sound right? Sounds right. Let's just do Roberto. He looks like Alberto. Really? I thought he was not

African guy? What? No. No. Was he Hispanic? He was closer to the Caucasian than the African. Was he? Yeah. Okay. I don't know. He had a good. He looked like you. He looked like you'll bringer. And listener

of the podcast said that it sounds like all high-ranking officers when Grant talks about them are black. I don't see colors. That doesn't make any sense to me. That was news to me when I found out that 306 was black. I was like, can someone pull up that text thread that I sent out?

Because my phone's playing my phone's playing. I don't have his command photo saved, you know, trash six. Yeah, I can't find Beltran. I love this tangent. S.M.C. 511. No, it was interesting because I was like, really? Sean, Sean, Sean, with the W.

With the W. All right, let's see. I want to say he made. S.C. Beltran commanding officer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You remember you remember getting your NipLock signed? What?

Yeah. I'm just kidding. I refuse to sign. it. Only good officers get nip blocks. I can't find him. It looks like he attempted to do a LinkedIn profile back in 2011. So he must be

successful. Yeah, I can't find him. But in my mind, he's general, sir, thank you for what you do. You are, you are the killer bees first. And the nice thing about your last name being Beltran is when Jeff and I start our kids show, The Killer Bees.

Oh, my gosh. You can easily visit with the last name Bell Tray. First guess. Yeah, first guess, yeah. We could say goodbye to pizza pie together. Anyway, with that, long intro, 11 minutes. Haven't started the show yet. Don't worry. Let's turn it over. Let's turn it over to the three.

Oh, we're going to do the staff brief. I wasn't going to say anything. I knew Trey wasn't going to say anything. Oh, come on, Trey. I've been looking forward to the staff brief. Oh, changing. Yeah, someone was giving me grief about it. Okay, okay.

Well, we'll kick it off. All right. I know, we got most of everybody on leave right now. So we got a lot of eight. We got a lot of A slashes that are filling in that are, you know, that stayed home. So a lot of A slashes. That term always just. Hey, listen, real quick, trash six.

Grants, buddy, when you deactivate, December 23rd, that day is real important. That's your D day and your deactivation day. You can send an email to Marfares, CDO, PPNO, CMCO, Sergeant Major O, you need, everybody needs to be on that frigging daggone email on December 23rd, okay, because that, that's like the one and done. Good to go, sir, Grant Spidey this morning, finding all the emails, but do, do, do, do, do, do, do, we're deactivated. I am out of the office until January 17th, 2026. If you need me, contact Sergeant What's his nuts at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Oh, man, the out of the offices killed me. Just killed me. Flood in the inbox with the out of offices. Yeah, flooded the inbox. Anyway, sorry, trash sticks out. Tip, oh, attention on deck. Take it away. Yeah, okay, great, great plug from.

From our commanding officer there, just go ahead. Make sure if you are, if you are going to be cutting out on leave or executing the 96, we did receive the thumbs up. All harp forms are complete. So that's great, great work, everyone. The harp forms were the main effort there. Slightly, the coexisting main effort, trash is the main effort. And then the harp forms essentially did become trash.

So technically, yeah, that's nested with our main effort inside of our concentric range rings that are nested. Love a good nest. Yeah, those are good. Yerba Mote, new sponsor of the podcast, Trey, holding that up. So if you're not watching it on YouTube, watch it. So yeah, go ahead. Make sure you set up your out-of-office reminders or your messages in Outlook, right?

That is going to be supporting effort number one to our main effort number one, which is trash. So supporting effort number one is now another objective. This is a no-fail mission. A no-fail mission is setting up your out-of-office reminders. Okay, we got to make sure that the ball. Trash-five here. I want to make sure my voice sounds white so all staff officers don't sound the same.

Trash-five here. I don't major-to-major, major-to-major. I don't want to come out over the top. Like, we're bros here, three-and-five synergy. Maybe you should say glass ball. Oh, yeah, this is a glass ball. we cannot drop this. We cannot drop this glass ball.

Okay, so make sure that it stays secured. And so, yeah, those out-of-office reminders. The main thing we secure is trash. Okay, glass ball is not to be dropped because they're not trash. So let's keep securing in reference to trash. I get it. You're an iron major. PowerPoint 24-7, 365, doing the quality.

slides appreciate what you do secure it's like it's like the capital w in war fighting okay secure is trash all right Alex Jones out okay so black so back to that's why I was so shocked they said that I really thought trash six was my Alex Jones voice here we're hey let's keep sidebars to a minimum sidebars three take it away okay back as As I was saying, you've got to get those office reminders, those out-of-office reminders set up accordingly with the battalion SOP for out-of-office reminders and Outlook. So if you go ahead and just consult the battle book, okay, we've got the battle book. You flip to Appendix, Quebec, and you'll see our Outlook SOP is we're going to be using our tactical outlook SOP, because I think, you know, we got to train like we fight. Okay, so make sure we're setting up those out-of-office.

emails correctly in accordance with the SOP. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, with the SOP. Those are written in blood, okay? Those SOPs. So consult that and we need to make sure we're in accordance with the SOP. That's all I've got.

Let's take it over to the one. What you got for us? Trey, that's you. Sir, this is Lance Corporal Smith. I am filling in because everybody is on block leave until 2027. Could you give me the, this is, sorry, this is corporal so-and-so, and I'm currently the battalion executive officer. Could you just tell me the senior ranking person for all the line companies, A, B, C, and D?

Like, could you just tell me the rank? So I just know that's when they call. Yes, sir. Of those that are not executing leave. Who's going to be here on deck? Who's on deck? I'm a corporal. I'm only not.

I'm only not leaving. I'm only not leaving because I'm serving restriction. And somehow now I'm in charge of everything so that everyone else can go on me. Yes, corporal. I believe it is PFC. I can't remember his name. Is this the one that got drunk in the barracks? Oh, yes, corporal.

That's it. But the only thing I have to report is on the G1 report card. They have added a new column for trash. We currently have a C for C for Corporal. We could do better for Corpola. Sir, I don't know what else we talk about here in these meetings. I'm not a sir. Oh, I'm sorry, Corporal.

Yeah, my fault, corporal. It's a habit. Yeah, that's all I have for the group, sir. Oh, it's our core action. My CS says it to me all the time. Three, let's keep it moving along. Okay, great. Deuce, you got anything for us?

S2. Is it only from the S2 here? Okay, they're all on leave. Right, all. That Lance Corbel never got in trouble. He's on leave. He's on leave. Okay, great.

I will just take a second here. Everyone just Google something real quick and we can figure out what's going on in the world. Okay, okay, operations. We already covered our slide. Again, just consult that SOP and then make sure, yeah, make sure you're assigned a good A-slash or a good, you know, duty standard that's going to be able to field questions and answer things, right? So, yeah, let's kick it over to the foreshop. logistics. Yes, sir, this is also Lance Corporal Smith.

I'm also covering down on the foreshop. For the four, the only thing I was need to report is that the dumpsters are currently down. They're in maintenance. Okay. Okay. What echelon of maintenance are they in? We're going to peel it on you back on this one a little bit. Sir, I'm going to find out.

Whatever the highest one is, that's the one. are you talking priorities of maintenance or like where they are on the cycle because if you want to be a high priority of maintenance you want to be a low number and if you want to be far along maintenance you want to be a higher number so if you're like oh then we're definitely about we're definitely a one uh we're missing category all of all of them okay so you're high priority but still sitting around and no one's done anything with you yet. That is correct corporal. Yeah, all the lids are missing.

The trash can lids. So, you know, we're going to go. That's automatic safety deadline, automatic safety deadline. Just run them short fun. So we can pass our inspection. And yeah, it's great. That's all I have for the group. Great info.

I've never heard from the six in a while. Yeah, it looks like no one from medical is medical or dental are here. Oh, the Navy's on the Navy started 90 days. Yeah, they have a four-month leave block and it's all basket leave. So they're not actually going to get charged. They leave, but they'll still be accruing leave. And I think they're getting time and a half is actually what I hear. So, yeah, no, none of our blue side counterparts, one team, one fight,

URA will be here for the next four months. So, S-6, you're up. Oh, I'm out of the sixth day. Hey, sir, I mean, corporal, this is also corporal, Smith. We have been pretending to do a lot of stuff since all the officers left. Really, we hung up like three new flags in the comm shop with like women with their, you know, stuff showing. and everyone signed them before they went on leave. But also record jackets are good.

And we're prepping for the phasmo. And crypto is secure, sir. I mean, corporal. No. Great brief. Great brief. Do you think, do you think if anybody invaded, like, let's say two days from now, this being the 22nd?

23rd. A day that will live in Christmas. day. Deactivation Day. How could you forget? If I was... Grants, buddies, Pearl Harbor. I'm not up for this. If I was the enemy and I invaded two days from now,

no, like, no one's going to... Everyone's gone. This is actually what it's like. Yeah. You're forgetting about the guys forward deployed. Oh, excuse me. There's a 30... There's a 31st me out there right now. They're on the wall, ready to brawl.

in the way i do remember i just remember thinking i'm like man everybody is gone what do we do right now if we had to go to war tuesday is a hard for us yeah we do have those heart forms we got those recall everybody yeah we do all right great brief s6 um any special staff got anything uh looks like both our our sergeant major's gone first sergeant's gone on leave uh all gunny are gone on leave. Outline stations. We've got one DAF sergeant that's on duty right now.

Okay, let's yeah, we'll kick it up to our outline stations. We got two checking in. We got good comms, good comms, solid comms. Thank you, S6. We got Sean Shepard checking in. It says, Merry Christmas.

So, love that. Sean Shepard, former guest he's driving he's he's wishing merry christmas is great guy all right now we got a chaplain checking in chaps chaps here slides aren't updated nothing for the group too busy planning christmas eve service we expect you all to be there the information should be in teams if you click through the click through the shareport once there you can submit the form to give click for the service details. Okay, that's an excellent, excellent real life thing. Is that his whole thing or does he have a part two? That's the whole thing.

That's the whole thing. Okay, so here's my problem with this is we are basically making Marine Corps officers just by people listening to this podcast. Like, like, I don't think Big Nate's ever been in the service, but man, he sounds like he's got it down.

Like, that's it, mailed it. You could, you could activate and be you could activate tomorrow you could be on the wall ready to brawl by Sunday teaching mass or church you know you get the idea chaps thanks what you do that trash six out oh man trash six he never goes on leave that guy's too worried about his Deox survey. He can't go anywhere.

Hovering. All right. Should we start to show? Well, I was going to say, old chaps may get called into duty here, right? Isn't it in Hague, Seth, like, call out the chaplain corps across the Department of War. Make chaplain's great again. A. It's literally what he said. Yeah.

Yeah, chaplains. We're going to also remind you this podcast brought to you. green gridiron gridiron green if you're not watching on youtube that's the logo and we're going to do a quick flash of the actual name which i'm reading right now for the first time oh go on it's gone what is it tray green grid iron oh jeff was that it green grid iron a k a mr helmet you guys read top to bottom because i read at it as grid iron grid iron grid iron green. But anyway, you get the idea. Oh, middle. I got a little. Middle top. Yeah. Yeah. Middle bottom top. I'm pretty sure I know what this is. Yep, now that I'm looking at it,

it's exactly what I think it is. It's the Godfather 6. Deactivation Day. Ooh. Many speed helmet comes to this nice plastic case, cardboard bottom. So the nice about Mr. Helmet in particular that that gave this one to me, as we are now peddling them to you is he actually put a visor on them unlike tray uh this one has a visor that's an option to check out um so it's like a it's a cardboard bottom plastic top uh i'll take this time to talk about mr helmet green grid iron grid iron green google either one he has great SEO he'll pop right up pull his plastic insert out of the bottom and boom you get a little mini speed helmet by riddle is the manufacturer of the helmet mr helmet does all the decals you

get a little plastic inside to make sure it nothing gets damaged you got a foam insert in here to make sure you don't get some cTE damage this is the godfather grants buddies unit logo there on the sides we got in the back little america flag little marine corps flag little three 11 because that's who uh prepped us combat got fights in the side of the best artillery got fights in the side of 311 we got a godfather bumper back here we got a usmc on the front we get a little visor a little mini speed helmet here to put up on the ledge behind me uh the point of this one though the reason mr helmet sent it to us is he said when you guys talk about helmets we can't stop selling them but the point is wow maybe you got a company maybe you got a unit maybe you're a military person you want

some customized little mini helmets to sell. That's a real possibility. I'm going to move my Bitcoin grenade. Wow. Put the Godfather one right there in front of my little animal. Boom. Mr. Helmut. Green, gridiron, green.

Go get yourself a helmet. Good helmets. Yeah. Good helmets. Good helmet. Good guy. 29 minutes in. Talked about nothing.

and I love it. I love it. Everything. Lots of stuff to cover here. Do we want to talk? Do we want to talk turkey poll winners? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Turkey poll winners. I just wanted to name them on here. I can do that real quick. Let me pull that up. So Turkey pole. The online folks. Online winners. We had Rachel Poole.

got herself a pair of Iron 45s. She's from Northport, Florida. Thank you, Rachel. We get Caitlin. Good luck. Kerjouian. A pair of 35s from Lakeville, Ohio.

And we got Stephen Wright, a pair of bumper 25s, also from Ohio city. I'm going to go with Cuyahoga. I think it's a Cuyahoga Falls. I'm going to go with Cahoga.

Okay. I'm the guy wearing the Ohio State T-shirt right now. Yeah, next to Keller. I get to say, yeah, right next to Keller. Yeah, so shout out to the turkey bowl winners. Thanks for supporting. We were able to raise a lot of money for those folks, which is great. We support troops as we always have.

And your name's now on the OK podcast. Jordie, make sure you grab that clip, splicing their deadlifts, post it somewhere. Yeah. Thanks for what you do, Jordy. We support you too. Hmm. PJ. You know, just send PJ a couple pairs of 45s, you know, I'll get it. Yeah. Okay, PJ, you got a couple pairs of 45s coming your way after you pay for them, of course. No, no freebies. No freebies. Yeah, you just buy them. Yeah, you just buy them. Yeah, we're just going to go down the line here. We got talking about a vehicle of one of our listeners, Matt Lohen. He's got a good van.

He's got a good van, is a bad van. Man, what kind of van we talk? This is more than a van story. Okay, so I'm back. It's Christmas season. Shrenko's busy. I'm also like, you know, trying to meet my daughter, like, get to know her, hang out with my wife. And so there's a guy from the gym.

okay podcast listener, Ray Tui, we've been lifting together in the morning. So I was like, hey, Friday, after we lift, let's go eat. He's like, yeah, I'm in. We usually lift around like nine or something. And Thursday night, I messaged him or he messaged me. He's like, hey, we're good for tomorrow. I said, yeah, I'm like 90% sure we're there. My wife mentioned to me there might be like a Christmas story thing tomorrow.

But like, I think we're good. And then he said, if she mentioned it to you, you're going to the Christmas story thing. And he was right, 100% right. That's why he's 61 and it's like two daughters. And so I'm going to this Christmas story thing. So my wife goes to a thing. I call it Bevmo or Venmo,

but it's actually called Navmo, which is navigating motherhood, but I never remember that. So I just call it like Venmo or Bedmo. At any event, she's like, it's the story time. Read the story. Dads are welcome.

I'm like, great. Say, search 930. I text Ray. I'm like, can't make it. it. Sorry. Get in the car, baby out of the house, the whole thing. We get down there. We get down there like 925 and a big TOT guy. You know, to make the TOT. We get there. Walk in the room, 929 at 59 seconds, says TOT guy does. Clearly it's not starting yet. Oh, we usually start 930 today. It's 10. It's like, oh, okay, so we get coffee. We come back in.

Go to the thing. It's amazing. Really fun time. They're reading stories to kids. there's crafts, there's just and that, I was probably like, it's probably like a hundred moms, 17,000 kids and maybe three dads, which I was one of them. So I feel like I was part of the Holy Trinity. But Matt Lowen's family was there with his five kids. And his wife had bought a Strength Coat T-shirt, the Strength Coat T-shirt, and had done something where she was like, hey, can you just bring it to me? so they didn't pay shipping

Dana brought of the shirt which I love when people do that like I actually love that brought of the shirt then like we didn't do the back in work of like market is shipped so then the warehouse team the warehouse team

this thing about how big team is here the warehouse team then still hundreds of people hundreds thousands you know it's like Amazon Titan of industry so she ends up with two shirts now what do you think

my answer to that is cool keep yeah yeah exactly it's people but now uh Samantha it brings the other shirt back which I love she's like it's your business like I can't take too I'm like no it's like really fine shit I brought it back so we're in the mom's thing there's kids like running every which way hot chocolate's dumping I got like two alone's kids in my arms or stuff and marshmallows in my ears and like we're getting ready to leave our baby's like hitting her climax. I'm like, all right, we're going to go. She's like, I got the T-shirt for you.

And I'm like, I'm really not worried about it. She's like, no, no, no. I'll get my family together and go. And I'm like, looking around. She's got a kid on every corner of the building. And I'm like, why don't you just give me your car keys? I'll just go grab it on my way out. And once we get the baby in the car seat, I'll bring the car keys back.

And she's like, oh, that'd be great. So I get the car keys. I'm like, what do you drive? She's like, I drive a blue Ford Sprinter. van and i'm like okay like the big sprinter van she's like yeah i'm like okay cool and i'm like where's it park she's like go out to the right i'm like got it so d and i are going out isabelle's in the car seat or in the stroller and then i see the blue sprinter van there it is and i'm like man this thing is giant i'm like but i guess it makes sense like he's got five kids like it's probably

something you need so d goes left towards our car i go right towards towards the van. I hit unlock on the little key fob like twice, walk up, open the driver's side door. There's like goldfish, you know, wrapping paper, everything you'd expect. I look in the center console. There's like nothing. I walk around the other side, open the passenger's door. There's a diaper bag. And at first I'm like pretty conservative. I like don't open the diaper bag. I'm like, not going to be like in the diaper bag so they just like look on the floorboards looking like the side door handles not there open this giant like side door and there's just like car seats everywhere and like more crumbs water bottles like everything you can imagine uh tray you probably can relate to

this and i'm just like looking around i'm looking under the seat i'm looking under the driver's seat i'm thinking maybe it was in here and a kid kicked it and like i don't see it and she's i'm like well she didn't tell me what it was in yet but like i just like don't see it so i'm like i go around the back so i open the back doors of these vans boom both doors like barn doors you open it up there's a portable shower there's a bogeyboard there's a surfboard i'm like i'm opening the portable shower container don't see it i'm looking back over to my car i can see d's like settled in ready to go the baby needs to nap i know the wheels and that bus need to get rolling for the nap to happen and I'm like, man, like, I don't know what this thing is, and I don't care, but like, whatever.

So I'm like, I'm just going to tell her I found it and take her the keys back. I leave all the doors open because I was like, I'll also ask her like where it is. And I'll come back. So I leave every door to this vehicle open, like every door open. And I'm like, you know, I'm walking 10 meters. I go back inside. I'm like, hey, here's the keys. I didn't find it.

She's like, it's right between the driver and passenger side. And I'm thinking to my head, man, mom brain's like a hell of a thing because it's definitely not there. But I'm like, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll just lock the car. And then she's like, do you need the keys? I'm like, nope, don't need the keys. Got it. I'll just press lock.

Walk away, go back to the van. I'm like, she's confident. It's there. I'm opening diaper bags. I'm opening purses. I'm going to put up backpacks. I'm looking for everything. I'm under the seats.

And I'm like, whatever, close all the doors, lock the thing, go to the car. And Diana's like, she says it's between the front two seats. I'm like, yeah, I didn't find it. Can you just like tell her to keep it? Like, I love Matt Lohen and I love her. And I love the fact that like she wanted to buy him a strength coat T-shirt. Like it would actually make me more happy if they just like have the shirt. And she's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll tell her.

Well, when I was walking to the van, the first time, and I saw it, I took a photo of it. And I meant to send it to Major Kevin Bishop, Connecticut guy, Thunder 311XO, and alone. We got a little text thread. And I was going to say, like, Matt, this van is excessive, but I forgot. So time goes on. That night, Matt's text me about something else. I'm like, and I send him the photo of the van. I'm like, bro, this is excessive. And he's like, yeah, that thing is excessive. I'm like, yeah, I was looking, everywhere for that t-shirt i couldn't find it um and he was like t-shirt what t-shirt and i was like dana he says what t-shirt and diana's like you just ruined christmas that was a christmas

present i'm like my wife just says i ruined christmas he's like oh yeah no we always pretend like we don't know we got each other i already sold the credit card bill and knew she bought me a t-shirt from stranko and i'm like oh yeah like i guess we sent you two on accident and he goes did you really think that was my van And I'm like, wait, what? He's like, that is not my van. He's like, that's like the most giant sprinter van you can own. I own like the whatever level.

I was like, that's not your van. This was the next morning, actually. And like we were at a Santa Claus thing. He's like, not my van. I was like, dude, I raided that thing. And I was like, and I just thought in my mind, like, Matt Lohen, good buddy of mine. I'd let him raid my car.

He's like, not my van. He's like, what did you do in there? He's like, I don't own boogie boards. Why would I have a portable shower? And I was like, I don't know. You're like a SoCal guy now. So I raided some poor Compass Bible Church vans, van. And if you're listening, I really wish you would have found a a string coat t-shirt

in that band, too. Then he'd be better. Just stole it, yeah. yeah that's the story of matt lowens van that's pretty good that's good life it's good all right should we start the show yeah let's go ahead and start the show yeah yeah let's go ahead start the show yeah yeah let's start the show um okay your next topic green was unread senders text message i feel bad we're hitting all mine in a row but well you know are you guys all iPhone users?

Yes. Okay. Are you guys like, are you kind of maniacal about making sure you up to date like with software? I don't say maniacal, but like whenever there's an update, I click it.

Yeah. Okay. So it's like one or two updates ago where like unknown cinders don't just come in your feed and you have to click the top right. and go to unknown cinders. You guys tracking this?

No. You can't be up to date. So like, so like if you just, if you read all your messages, it's all your contacts. And then if you like click the little ellipses button. Okay.

There's like an unknown senders. And if you click that, you're going to have a bunch of messages that you've never seen. I'm doing it right now. Yeah. Yeah. There's a couple. Yeah, they still pop up on your screen, like, you know, if Buttigachek texts you, like, you'll get the initial notification, but then it's like never in like your thing.

That's been really problematic for me as we've been deactivating and I've had a lot of Marines texting me like don't have their number saved because you just talk to them on signal or whatever it is. And they just go into the like unknown cinders category and I have not liked that at all. So I was like I text you three days ago I'm like no you didn't I'm like looking through my text I'm like oh there's like a whole other button over here I didn't have anything because I guess I have screen unknown senders turned off So it just puts it all in setting

So yeah if you go I didn't know it was a setting I didn't I didn't toggle this or yeah if you click that thing in the right corner then you go manage filtering Mine has like a little talk but I also have like an iPhone. I don't 12. I don't think the model number matters software.

So anyway, I'm definitely auto sorting them or whatever and I've missed a lot of text messages. That's fun. Yeah. Like important ones or? Nah. Nah. Yeah. Just like Bobby Petrino.

Should I take this job of Bella check? And I'm like, eh. I do think iPhone kind of gets like especially this last update like there's so much new stuff they just like drop on you yeah that's why

and they just go oh don't figure it out no that's why I'm maniacal about it because they actually like give it to you like a linear progression they give it to you like Mark Ripito gives it to you but if you like miss three weeks

then they're like now squat 315 and you're like, whoa, what is happening? So, like, I am like always making sure everything's up to date. But, yeah, anyway, that one stumped me. But, yeah, apparently me and Jeff don't have that problem. We're just not as popular as you are, yes. That's what it is. You're not wearing a new street coat t-shirt.

All right, well, we'll just go down the line here, right? We're not going to think, we're not going to go into. linear progression of our topic. We're gonna, we're gonna do more of like a conjugate method with, uh, this would be a speed day. Um, but Trey's got a lifting question or a lifting related question. Um, trade, do you want to ask it or should I tee it up for you? No, I'll, I'll ask it. Okay.

So if you got lifting questions or if you got a tax question, call BW. Your voice going. All right. Here we go. Oh. This would have been a good topic. to land before Christmas, but it's okay. This would, well, maybe you do Christmas next year. Yeah, I like it early. Yeah, like you start your taxes early, start your Christmas shopping early.

I like sales all year long. Hey, there you go. All right, yeah. So lifting question, you got question on taxes. It called BW. If you've got lifting questions called Grant, that's what I usually do. So holiday season at this point, people listen to this, has already passed. But in preparation for next holiday season,

hypothetically, let's say I am wanting to buy some weights. I got a buddy who's wanting to start a home gym. And I'm feeling very magnanimous. And I want to buy him some weights. Cool brain over here. Explain that on the back. Oh, my, I'm feeling generous. Okay.

I want to buy him some weights. And I don't know if I use that correctly, but we'll just go with it. What is, like, what would you say, hey, this is a package that I want to put together, sorry, at home, Jim. Like, what is the bare essentials that I need to get him at least? I'm going to know a barbell guy. So, like. And this is right.

He wants to start starting strength. He wants to start, he wants strength co plates. Yeah, I give him a 285 pounds set. 285 pounds set when she's going to be like I'm going to be stronger and that sooner and he is but it's actually better

just like it's more fulfilling when you've put all the way to own in the bar and they need to buy another set of 45s so I get him a 285 pounds set with a bar so we also sell it as a package 330 pounds out

which a bar and 285 pounds worth of weights get him a set deadlift mats and really he's probably set to get started in terms of us don't sell squat racks anymore if he's a DIY and what's the sport grant's buddy

can go watch our YouTube video on how to build your own squat rack with Home Depot buckets. He can do that. We're going to a lot of good companies and buy a basic squat rack to go up along with it. But really, like, all you need really to get started is a basic squat rack. You could go four posts. You'd go with like a, and I'll say their name, Rogue SML3,

which is like the one that you bought and then sold Jeff and then I bought from Jeff and then I sold it back to you and then I bought from you and then I sold exos or whatever. However that went, but like a basic like two post uprights like doesn't take much room I think one thing people forget

when they're like doing a really basic home gym is like you don't actually need to put flooring in the whole thing especially if you're doing a program like starting strength like you need flooring really deadlift and so like our deadlift maths are pretty handy because it's just like, hey, there's three two foot by two foot squares that I stand on one and the plates land on the other two. And if I'm squatting, pressing and bench pressing, guess what? Like, no weights for touching the floor. So, I mean, that's what I would start with.

Like, if I was just, someone came off to me the street, like, I have nothing. I want to do it on my own at my home. I'd be like, buy a basic two post squat rack with some, safeties three rubber stall mats and about 330 pounds including the barbell and like you're really you're good like you're actually good for you're good for probably three four months and if you get to the point we're actually using that stuff correctly and you're like man I need more weight you're in a great spot you just you know you add a pair of 45s because at that point you have everything in terms incremental loading that you need so then you just need 45s or hundos if you're into the hundo sort of thing you're probably not if you're up from 285 pounds set up but we just you just add

some 45s to it and and you're good and no one will ever do that they'll buy they'll watch 4,000 videos they'll buy six horse stall mats they'll they'll cut them down they'll cover the entire you know, flooring of their thing. They'll buy a three by three, six post squat rack with nine safeties where four people could squat in it, but like in reality,

if you were like, hey, bare bones. And I actually think just probably laughing so hard because like we had this gym in our house in Carlsbeck, California. It was literally a Home Depot bucket,

uh, squat and bench racks that we made a wooden bench and then we had plates in a bar. And we did have a couple of the things. Like we had some kettlebells. I think we had a couple like heavy sandbag balls or something like that or wall balls, whatever you want to call them. But in terms of like our barbell lifting, like him and I were like,

that was kind of when I was getting into starting strength. I mean, I'd heard about it before, but I think we were doing Wendler's program at the time. But we were just running off a wood post and weights. And we had a PR board and like I squat a 405 in there. I got the video. It was like the first time I squat up 405 was like in that garage off a wooden Home Depot, you know, homemade squat rack. And I don't even know where those weights were from. Like I'd have to look back at the videos.

Oh, no, we bought some off. I bought some off a CrossFit. I went to a CrossFit games. Yeah. Because I competed in the CrossFit games 2010. And after they sold a bunch of weights. Like when people come to strength, the Arnold and they're like, I bought strength of weights after. And I got a deal.

I'm like, they mean so much to me. I have that same feeling. I did the same thing. it's like really that's all you need and then the real answer is if you get your base strength up and you're you're squatting over 300 pounds you're delafing over 300 pounds well you know what that means that means that you've gotten strong you probably look better you've probably got some meat on your bones you're no longer victim weight and now if you decide like hey I'd also like to work in some arms and some lap pull downs and like all this other stuff the

world's your oyster like there's 10 million people on the internet that it'll tell you the things that you need in your home job but if you really just want to say hey what do i need to get my basic strength up to run a program like starting strength to become not pathetic and become like a normal human person well you need probably about 300 pounds of weight a barbell and something and an apparatus to lift them off of um and there's a bunch of different places they can do that in terms of the squat rack and there's a there's an element of hey if you're doing it buy nice don't buy twice what am i to tell you i'm going to tell you to buy straight coat barbells strength coat plates and you're like i'm just getting started this i don't know

how serious i am i'm like do it trust me and there's an element to squat racks too um of like hey what do i do so like i don't think you can go wrong with like i think what's the canadian one bells of steel is i really like those yeah yeah yeah you're talking about their rack yeah yeah yeah they're good um i think i think a two post with a you platform is underrated in terms of the price points way different you're going to get that for around like 300 bucks i think long term you're going to want a four post like the safeties are built in all that's better but now you're going to been, you know, at least double, close to triple that to get a four post rack. And then if you get a four post rack, the nice thing about the little you frame two post racks is like

no one's asking you, are you drilling the concrete or not? Because like the way it's designed is just like freestanding. So in terms of like, hey, everything shows up. We're going back to the holiday season. Everything shows up Christmas Eve. And like I'm lifting December 26. Man, You buy a barbell plate package in a squat rack and like three rubber mats. And like you can run starting shrink the next two, three months. If you want to buy nice, don't buy twice. I do think a four post is better. It's the same footprint.

But then it requires a little more work to you and installed. We have like a really old video, maybe 2019, it might have been 2020, where we show you how to make like for a four post rack, a wooden platform on the floor that you can then. drill that down to so um but yeah that's what i would do i mean obviously do those obviously do those strength co like the what did you say it was 285 285 pounds is i think what like no matter who you are i mean i guess you could say what about an 85 year old woman she doesn't think that much but like if you're like a man or a woman between

and you haven't lifted before, 285 is like a safe bed of like, this is going to last me the next six, 12 months. And then you need to add more, which is a great problem to have. I think the big thing. And I don't know if you like, because I know you have like those packages like online on the Strength Co.

Link below. If does that come with the change plates? Yeah, yeah. So all of our packages come with 45 to 25s, 10s, 5s, 2.5s. We also have a package at every echelon. So meaning, like, in my mind, an echelon is you added another 45, where it includes a 1.25 and a 75. And we have packaged it includes 35s, people that want that. I got a guy called me the other day. He's like, hey, I got this body core system at my home. And he's like a leg press, a pull,

down. It's like he's got like four big apparatuses. It's like he wanted to make sure that like the package include the 35. So it's like yeah, yeah, we got that. So yeah, I mean, it's all there. Yeah, I guess the only thing I would add to kind of what that we'll say 285 is kind of like you said your starting

package would be the I think that the microplates are huge. And then I think that's a that in the clips, man, like the strength code clips. With the plate Bond better than anything else out there. 285s, add the 1.25s, add the 0.75s.

You're going to need some barbro collars. Yeah, but, yeah, I mean, I really think even if you're, you know, you're not buying the squat rack for us because I don't sell them. But I think you're like, you're out the door with shipping with a squat rack and everything you need to get strong enough to, you know, 350 pounds roughly on all your lifts for 1,800. to $2,000, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, that's what you need. But like... Cheaper in a gym membership. Yeah. I don't know that it's cheaper. I think it's better long term. You know what I mean? No, no, no.

I think it's better long term. No, no. And I want to sell it. I'm just saying, what's funny to me is like very rarely do you get the bare bones buyer? Like that guy that called me to make sure there's 35s in the package.

He ended up buying like 12 extra sets of 45s because he was like, well, I don't want to have to like move them from these four machines that I have. And you could say it's a luxury thing and it is. But it's just funny in general. What it seems to me is like when people go to build a home gym, okay, you have, there's like probably two camps. There's like the camp of I'm literally like using wooden plates and like pouring concrete into bags and I'm going like as cheap as I can.

But like very rarely is someone actually buy the bare bones to like get their strength up and they're like buying more, which is great for my business. It's just like hilarious to me of like actually literally just buy a 330 pound set and a squat rack and three rubber squares and some collars and some microplates like you said and then just actually train for six months. Yeah. That's actually what you should do. But there's a lot of cool stuff out there.

You know, there's pullies and there's cables and there's drink spotter lights. And, you know, there's supporting memberships. There's a lot of cool stuff. But no. Good question.

Good answer. Good answer. Question. Yeah. Should we start the show? Yeah. Yeah. Let's get the show.

The show started. What are we doing? Let's start it, okay. And as we usually start our show, let's hear the difference between Dan Martin versus Daniel Martin. No, no, let's save that for an ending. No, okay, okay. That's going to be the ending, folks.

Syke. Yeah, let's get into some sports talk. Let's start the show. Yeah, our are starting the show. baby. It's funny. We've waited the longest to talk about football

in all these weeks after a devastating Texas A&M talk. Yeah. Trey is chomping at the pit. Talk some sports. Now he's like, Hey, Grant, tell me about

how many plates I should buy. Grant, let me be the one, two, and three, and four unsolicited because the last thing I want to talk about is Texas A&M. I've actually got six follow-on questions about lifting. So I'm prepared for the staff brief just to not talk about it.

Can I be the four alpha today? Yeah. That's just a lot. All right. How you doing? Let's get into it. It happened. But, man.

Yeah, so brutal game, man. Did you all watch it? Yeah. I know Jeff. Kickers. Yeah. I did. Yeah.

I would ask you this. I saw something today. I almost posted an okay podcast, but out of love for you, I didn't. I appreciate it. It was like worst season ever, question mark.

11 and 2, and it shows all the games. And it says, no conference championship. Lose to your rival. Lose in the first round of the college football playoff without scoring a touch.

down at home against the ACC. Nothing to show for. So I see, here's the way I look at it, is I think I hadn't thought of it in this term, but I was like, oh, dang. I think there's a lot of A&N fans. You're coming from a guy that lives off a three 11 wins seasons in a row with only winning the SEC East as the great. time in college football, right?

Yeah. For the Gamecox. So, like, I'm actually sympathetic to this, but when I saw it spelled out, and I think the Texas part probably hurts the most, in my opinion. You know, like, the way I look at it is, like, I think there's a lot of A&M fans who have that view. But the way I look at, I think at the beginning of the season, when we were doing, like, predictions of all of our teams,

I think I picked A&M to go eight and four. and so I was upset at the end of it but I'm like all right hindsight like I got over pretty quick I'm like that was a pretty good season like they won 11 games yeah

A&M doesn't win 11 games very often so I was I was super stoked about that they made the playoffs which I was pretty pumped about Trey welcome to the family brother this is for SEC mediocrity you start just

testify and say, you know what, we don't need to win championships. We, like, we overrated. We won 11 games. I'm kidding, but I've been there, brother. That's kind of, but you know, for the rest of my life, if A&M wins 11 games for the rest of my life, I'd be like, I'll take that. That's pretty good.

At some point, you're going to be mad about no Natty and be mad about the Ohio State if they do it. I just remember when I was at A&M, we were pumped. about making a bowl game. And so, like, to be pumped about not winning in a natty. You're speaking my language. I mean, when I was in college, A&M wasn't even the SEC. And when A&M came into the SEC, my brother-in-law was like,

we're in the SEC. I don't even care what happens. We made it. And it's like, you know? So, I don't know. For a year or two of a new coach, I feel like it's been a good season. So I, hopefully, I think it's heading the wrong. right directions first trajectory but

as far as that game goes yeah dude super what a bummer man oh it's just painful like they just couldn't but it was like as a third party and Jeff could probably test this you could test this like at least it was somewhat entertaining yes compared to the other

two games that were on that day like Jeff I know we're team Trey was it because I got to be honest with you yeah what was the it was it was on a scoring. There was dramatic. And you're like,

what's this kicker going to do this? What's this kicker going to do this time? It was you didn't know who was going to win entertaining. It wasn't like entertaining, good balls going down the field. It wasn't like the Notre Dame game. Yeah. That's my point.

I'm not even like here to throw in shade of you. I just mean like, I saw you post that in the Slack. You're not a member of the Slack channel. Go to the Slack channel. You'll get like inside views of what we think of these games is why they happened. You were like,

at least it was entertaining. I was like, um, that was actually a pretty boring game. But you're suffering from a really bad loss right now. So I'm just going to let that slide. See, you say that,

but like then I, you go to the next two games and they're a blowout by the end of the first quarter. And I'm like, this is not fun. Yeah. Yeah. Why would I watch either of that?

That was the best of the, what was it, three games, four games, three games. Yeah. It was the best. best of the three games.

I guess when I think entertaining you were dramatic finish last minute. You had a dramatic finish true but like during the game it was kind of just like do both of these teams suck? Like what? Yeah.

Yeah. And I think no matter who is who's going to win that game, either team is going to get smoked by Ohio State. The. The. Oh, excuse me. The. the Ohio State it's funny you say that as an SEC

guy is SEC SEC SEC SEC and now you're saying the Ohio State's going to blow out Miami but it just after looking at those two teams play each other I'm like they seem pretty even as far as like talent level and skill

level this is back the whole thing come on you can't get just because you lost can't get away from it who's the Ohio State play that you think's going to crush the you you got to tell me if you beat Miami you're feeling different I don't know

I think if they were to be Miami I think I still would have picked Ohio State to win the game like for saloon pickums so so my problem my problem I like talk trash in Ohio State schedule and I think of course yeah they had a garbage schedule yeah no no no like but I'm talking like over a decade

at the same time if you look at the team like over time it's like they win more games and like win more conferences and it's like okay maybe they are good they like they i don't know it works out in anyway i don't know yeah to me but you think you think the ohio state beats the you yeah so when i look at big tin in your comparing conferences right essentially is kind of what i think you're saying is I think the Big Ten is so top-heavy as far as talent-wise. I think you have Ohio State and you have Oregon, Michigan, USC.

And then how many other teams do you have in there? 30. I don't know how many teams are in there. Yeah, right? And then the rest just aren't like Minnesota. You don't get that vibe of like the SEC where you're like, oh, man, we're going to Mississippi State. like we could lose this game because like they're tough at home you never know for the fact that we actually have listeners beyond gamecock Auburn and A&M fans I like I got to be devil's

advocate here right like okay go ahead I've been a lot of Gamecock fans the games and like I like talk about how good we are like at home and like how it's a rough stadium we got the potential for the upset and we do but like Like, I think we're the Minnesota of the SEC. Yeah. In reality. Like, you say that, though, but, like, I don't know an SEC team that would want to play the GameC Cox at night. At in South Carolina.

You know what I mean? Like, I feel like... Speaking of my language, brother. You brought me back. You brought me back. Like, I feel like they can get you. I mean, I think... Versus, like, going to play Northwestern at night.

Like, like... Okay. That's whatever. Okay. I mean, but is that just because... We're from the south. I mean, maybe North Washington is bad. We're definitely a little biased.

That's for sure. We'd have to run. A lot of bias. But I think the best metric, if you're comparing, if you're comparing leagues, what's the best metric is NFL draft picks, right? So I don't know. I guess. Because the SEC's been terrible like the last five or six years, like in bowl games against,

like, other conferences. I think if you want to. to compare conferences you have to compare national championships yes

and now like I think Ohio State has a ton of draft picks but like does Minnesota

does who else is on the does Rutgers no I think South Carolina always has like they usually

have like what three to five I don't know two to five every year usually a handful of folks coming out of there

So I think that's usually the best metric to go by. Auburn. Want to make sure we get Auburn. Auburn. Yeah. Auburn. Auburn. Can we get one thing I want to interject?

We're completely forgetting about the Alabama Oklahoma game. Oh, we forgot about that. I just haven't gotten started yet. That was it. Well, we were saying like the other three or the other two games were, none of them were exciting. It was a day before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was the best game was really. my favorite tweet of the whole weekend was and that's like where I get all my sports stuff like I'm not an open the ESPN app guy I'm just like if I want to know what's going on sports like I just open X and I just like absorb and my favorite one the following day was all the stuff was coming up about Oklahoma how many college playoff games they've lost like you know all the stuff and it was like Like the biggest losers last night was the Notre Dame X base because when it was 17-0, they were just like hammering on it. But I got to say, front of the podcast, we like friends of the podcast, ate lunch with the guy. I told you I lifted with the other week before Matt Lowen's van scenario, Ray Toey, ate with him this week. And he was pretty upset. He was like, hey, I don't get it. it. I'm a Marine. I'm a gym member. I've listened to every episode since episode one and you guys

showed Ohio State. You talked about Ohio State and you just hate Notre Dame. Like what's with the Notre Dame hate? I'm firemen, California, my whole career after a Marine. I'm an Irishman. Of course I love Notre Dame. I went to a Notre Dame game. I went to a Notre Dame game. the week after I got married with all my Marine buddies and got like smash and had a great time like I'm in I like go to the Coliseum to watch Notre Dame beat USC you guys give us like zero love and you're like now like conceding to Ohio State what gives and I said a t-shirt right I said I said I said to him I said so this was on Friday I said Ray have you listen to today's podcast? He said, no. I said, well, listen, our loyalty's very cheap, brother. Yeah, you'll find out what. Send me some Irish t-shirts. We'll come around real quick. Give me a little, give me a little, what's the little guy, the leprecha. You're a little a little leprecha to put

back in a little lepercon back here. You're a little fighting Irish. Never forget. My grandmother's maid name was Sweenie. I got a little Irish going through my blood. Yeah, my thing there is like just, just looking at historical, instances of Notre Dame in, you know, big BCS games or, like, playoff games and just getting absolutely hammered after they play some super weak schedule. They play all the service academies and beat up on them and then, like, play one good team and eke it out against them or lose to them. And they're like, well, we're on one lost team. We should be in the playoff. And then they go in the playoff and get smoked. It's like, did you see they canceled the U.S.

I think they canceled the USC camp next year. I guess they're playing BYU. They couldn't come to like an agreement. But yeah, no, if they is big government, which ruins everything, yes, the game is canceled. If they is Notre Dame, I actually, I read one article on it. And when I said read, remember homeschool education, I can just kind of like skim and see keywords.

But my takeaway was that both schools actually wanted to make the game happen, but couldn't come to some. kind of agreement, but they're not playing next year. That is correct. Okay. Yeah. All right. No, good football team, man.

Like I said, they had probably the best player in college football this year. All right. So, now it's time for Trey's picks of the week. What game we got, Trey? Let's how we do it every one. Let me see. When is it? It's on New Year's Eve.

It's the next round of games, right? Timis Sunday. I'm not getting games over Christmas. Miami and Ohio State is on New Year's Eve, and then the rest, the other three are on New Year's Day. I feel like we can't pick them yet. We're going to record before then, right?

Today's Christmas Eve. Yeah. Yeah, we get a whole coordinates. There can be a lot of NIL going on. All right, let's pull up what other bowl games are going on. And, Trey, we can pick those games. I'll pick some bowl games. Yeah.

One Southern Miss prior tonight? Yeah, some game it just ended, I think. Well, let me pull up this bowl game schedule. Okay. Cal, Hawaii. Where are we at? Love those guys. It's so nice being in America.

When I type in ESPN, it brings you to American ESPN. and there's not a much like Japanese games that pop up. I can't even tell you like NCAA is like on the main header. It's like if you don't love this country and like living here, you're an idiot. This is the greatest place on earth. I don't care what state you live in, call whoever you want,

whatever party they're in. I love this country. It's the greatest no matter where you are. I would rather be I don't want to name a place because then it would, implicate me for saying that it's not good, but I would rather be in the corner of your mind of what you view is the worst city-state in America than anywhere else.

Besides Sydney, Australia, that's pretty great. All right. Boys of the state of Washington over? Oh, that's whale. Yeah, so tomorrow. Yeah, we got California. Yeah, we got California. Hawaii.

The Sherry Hawaii Bowl. We got to pick that in the 26 December games in honor of us just picking really weird games for Trace Picks of the Weeks.

Exactly. There we go. California, Hawaii. Hawaiian is I feel like I'm going to go 1.5. I think Cal. I go Hawaii all day.

The fact that they get to play in their home state, crazy. because that's not even a home state that's home country going Hawaii Jeff, who you got going to Hawaii also

Rainbow Warriors Make a note for trying All right Friday Friday December 26 10 a.m. for you

West Coast types Central Michigan versus Northwestern at Fortfield, Detroit that's my feelings too, Jeff. I guess No Central Michigan

I'm going Central Michigan too The line is North Northwestern by 10 I like it Let's go one team one fight Central Michigan 1T1 5 Central Michigan I love it I love it Hey if you listen to this

Go bet all your money on it Your life savings refinance your house central Michigan you got this let's do one more and I do have a question about the playoffs. We got two more before we go to the

27th. Oh, okay. New Mexico versus Minnesota give me those golden gophers. The U. Trey wants to talk smack on. Yeah, Minnesota sucks in the big day. Row the boat, baby. I'll go I'll go Minnesota than that one.

Oh, I'm going to New Mexico because Minnesota stinks. PJ Flick. Can't wait to get hate from our Minnesota fans. I'd love it. I'd love it. What we want is more fans. That's right. I'm probably going to be mad of how long the staff refus today.

Oof. Okay. I'm going to say four letters and you're going to guess the school, Trey. Okay. UTSA. Oh. University of Texas, San Antonio. I asked the roadrunners.

I had no idea what school that was. I asked the Texan. They're playing Florida International. Man, so he, that coach came out and was like, I think they got decimated by, like, a bunch of people leaving and opting out. So I'm going to go. You said Florida International? Yeah, they're international

because they're in Miami so they're probably Because they're international So I'm going to go FIU on that one Just apparently they're missing like 22 players

TSA's minus 6 I'm still I think we're missing like 22 players That that Vegas is aware of the players that they're missing Yeah

Vegas also said A&M Vegas also said A&M was going to be Miami So I don't trust them Texas are so loyal. I got Florida

International Yeah, I would be international as well. I got FI losing UTSA. Mr. Worldwide, baby. Okay, I, we're not going to pick all the 27th games. I'm going to pick two

in that lineup, but Jeff's going to pick two before we do that. You got a question? I guess what I want you to pick it, but what of these next round playoff games are you most excited about which one? Clemson Penn State.

Oh, no, the playoffs Playoff game, playoff. To my playoffs? Sorry, I thought you're talking about practice. I don't know. I win a game. Playoffs games. So we got Ohio State, Miami.

Correct. Alabama and Indiana. Indiana. And you got Ole Miss in Georgia. And we got Tech in Oregon. So, I think my southern heart goes to Ole Miss, Georgia. Okay. But I think I'm actually most interested in Alabama, Indiana.

That's okay. I don't think this is the best Alabama team you've ever seen. But like, you want to talk, like, I want to talk smack on the Big Ten. Like, I am like, I want to see, like, if Indiana, comes out this year on a podcast that's monetized. We have sponsors and fans

sent in his t-shirts and beats the breaks off Alabama. I may be like, well, you know, maybe my bias is in everything. Maybe I should actually think about the rest of the world and not just Columbia, South Carolina. Indiana, Alabama

is the most interesting game to me. I think Miami, I mean, we've seen Miami, Ohio State before. Yeah. I think, I think Indiana, because you could make the argument, Oh, Indiana beat all our state. And everyone says,

I stayed so great. Like, I like that argument, kind of. I mean, I don't like it, but like I understand that argument. But then you also have Ohio State fans,

are like, oh, this is Indiana Super Bowl. We don't care. We're going to get the first round by pick way anyway, blah, blah, blah. It's like,

come on, you don't lose your conference championship. Yeah, right. I also think I just like this Indiana coach I'm sure if you're a big 10 fan you hate them right like I hated Nick Saban for years I'm just like what is happening this guy just ruins everyone's life in the SEC but I also am a big fan of greatness like I I never understood how people could hate the New England Patriots it's like what do you want they're they're doing what everyone wants their team to do just way better and winning over and over and over how do you not respect that right it's why like i like i have some respect for Ohio state it's like man like 11 like trey you and i get excited about 111 games they don't or 11 one seasons they're like yep that another year you ever heard of jim trestle

or whoever like name any coach um he got me a tattoo Indiana they got something to prove Indiana Alabama was my my favorite game Jeff same thing

yes but then I'll just I'll be contrarians we don't just talk about the same thing but yeah I think that Oregon Texas Tech is also going to be really good game that's the one I was going to go with too I think that'll be fun again kind of just really getting to see Texas Tech this team that's kind of

looked like a not unstoppable because it didn't go undefeated, but like, you're just like, dang, this team seems like they're legit. And now this is like another kind of real test to see, to see what they got against somebody besides same thing for Oregon, too, man, to be honest with you. True. Yeah.

So I think it's, I think it's going to be kind of, that should be a good game. I think that they both match up well. So, yeah. That's the one I'm probably most intrigued by. But closely, I would say India and Alabama, too, for the pretty much same reason. Man, I just want Alabama just to. steamroll them. I'd love to do that.

And that's an Auburn fan saying that, which is weird. But I just Roles the bowl season and I'm all I'm all SEC. Against the wall. All night. Oh, no.

Oh, no. George L.S.U. In Clemson, too. No, I was just curious. What do you, I guess we'll, yeah,

we won't pick games, But, yeah, I mean, Georgia Ole Miss, so it would be good. That was a good game in the first go-round. So it'll be interesting to see how it stacks up the second time. They still look, well, I know they didn't play anybody, but they still, they still threw it with some points, man. Yeah, yeah. Tarno against tall grass. Hey, it's what we've always said here on the OK podcast.

I'll say it again. Grass said it once. Auburn would have been a better matchup for both of those from Oregon and Ole Miss. it would have been a more competitive game. Just to hang him, brother. All right. Should we get to these couple games on the 27th? Yeah, let's do that.

Yeah, then I want to talk about Uncle Rivers. Uncle Rivers. All right. I think I know which one of the games that Grant's going to, is going to throw out there. I'm picking Penn State Clemson. And I just, I don't like Penn State,

but I need them to beat that tiger. Aggies, and I think so. what do you guys say you say beat the hell so like as Christians you're allowed to say hell which is interesting I would want to say beat that tiger ASS but my mother's a listener

but yeah I want to see Penn State win big I'd be surprised if they win that one all right you go Jeff on one of them oh I thought well okay I'll go with the pop tarts bowl

the pop tarts bowl the rambling regs in Georgia Tech versus BYU you. It's a good game. I knew you're going to pick that. I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of the Pop Tarts Bowl and just the little Pop-Tart mascot that runs around and then toasts. Pretty cool.

It's pretty funny. I mean, that is actually probably the best game, right? Because you have two ranked teams. Yeah. And BYU's 12, Georgia Tech. like, I mean, 22, but had a good year. Yeah. I think Georgia Tech beats them.

Ooh. Yeah. I think. Beets BYUu. Okay. I can see that. BYU is favored by four and a half, but I think I think. I can see George Sike pulling that out.

I think George Tech does it. What do you think there, Jeff? More than I think BYU is going to win that game. Okay. I would like to see George Tech win. Great teams are going to cover. Yeah. Okay.

All right. Prep. All right. And I think I think Penn State will win that other game. My next game on the slate, I had to bring up Clemson just because I want to see him lose. I think one of the most fun bowl games of the season outside of playoffs is Army Yukon at Fenway Park. I just think like I've been to a hockey game at Fenway Park, Bruins v. Pittsburgh. And I actually am a huge fan of when like you turn.

I know there's like facilities that go both ways. Hey, we're baseball or football, whatever. But I think like when you play a sport in a field that's not supposed to be for that, I think it's fun because I think it brings like real fans out because like there's no good seats. It's not designed for this. I mean, you could you could make the argument. Fenway's not designed for baseball as bad. Some of those seats are.

But like I think it's fun. And then you got Army and Yukon. So, like, Northeast, I think those are some of the most expensive tickets you can get, also constricted seating in Fenway. I think Yukon's going to win. And I want to be like, oh, I hate Army, but like I like seeing military academies win. So I'm pulling for Army. I think you kind of win. And Army's favored by 10.

But I think that's going to be a cool game. Like, I'm going to make sure I tune into that. just to see that one okay okay yeah I think army oh in that game I'm trying to look up to see they haven't been they haven't been doing that game there very long though right the Fenway Bowl I think it might be like it might be not the first time ever but like I don't think let me now I got a lot 20 22 why is it was okay 20 22 for three years yeah yeah it's new yeah That's cool.

I don't think I've seen what it looks like for a football game to be played there. That's pretty cool. I haven't watched it. I haven't watched since 22. Been busy hanging out Grant's buddy. You got one more game in you? Yeah, I can be seen. Trey, you pick one.

Man, I'm torn between. I'm looking at the Virginia, Missouri game. I'm like, that might be interesting. But I think the one that's sticking out for me is the LSU Houston one. So, like, regional, they're pretty close to each other to the Texas Bowl. I think.

Houston's been pretty good this year. LSU, you know, kind of have what else you were through this year. LSU. And like I said, Houston. Houston minus two and a half. Jambley. I want some jambalai.

So I think that could be a pretty good game. Go coogs. Yeah. I think so. Yeah, only other game interesting near and near my heart as we do at the end of every time of Trees. Picks of the week.

He's talking about the Citadel. I love seeing Georgia Southern and App State playing against each other in an FBS bowl game after both of those guys when I was in college were FCS SOCON members. They're playing in Birmingham. I've been

to that bowl game before. I forget what it was called when I went at Gamecox. We played Yukon and we lost. It was so cold. It was miserable. But I went because I'm a fan. But I just, like I saw that maybe four or five days ago. And I was like, man, that's like, that's cool to see those schools doing that.

And I like watch those teams play a bunch because they played the Ciddle over here back in the day. So excited about those. I thought, I thought for sure you were going to have us pick the go bowling, military bowl. Oh, who's that? I don't even know. Which one's that? Pitt versus East Carolina. About the name.

Could be a game, man. Yeah, it could be. Just spoke to your heart. Terrible game that I don't care. Nah, I saw Clemson and I saw Fenway. And that's what I like, what I was like, Clemson, Fenway, and then Socon teams. I'm going to get to go bowling. That'd have been more for your buddy.

Your buddy would have picked. That would have been for my buddy. Yeah, my buddy would have been like all over that game. Yeah, been all over that. Anybody watch Monday night game? I missed it. I kind of just was tracking it, but I didn't really watch any of it. What's a quick recap?

Well, Rivers playing again. Colts are on, if they won yesterday, I think they would have clinch. I think so. But they were playing San Francisco, hot team right now, hot defense, hot offense, like San Francisco is like hot. Hasn't be good all year. We're playing good ball now. got Brock Purdy

who he went off in the game right was one when Rivers got to the league right so it's like

those three lines going so yeah so Rivers came out shredded him on the first thing got touched you on I actually wasn't watching it I was still shipping out

Stranko stuff but I was like getting the updates I watched the fourth quarter I was in a restaurant for third and so like I could see it but like there's a difference between like hey what's the score and like hearing the commentators and like watching the game uh but rivers played you know it's it it's funny because I forgot exactly what his stats were something like 23 for 31 for 300 yards three TDs and a pick but they lost which is like funny because it's kind of like

his stats like when he was young or you know before he retired was like hey actually played like a really good game through this random ass pick but the team still lost um so it was kind of that story but I will say that like he was from what I watched and I watched a lot of recaps on it like he was the best player on the Colts and uh but he had hit a whole box with like all his 10 kids there it was just like kind of fun to see and then he said a bunch of dad gums and darn it's and shoots at the end of the game over it. He was talking trash on the sideline. I don't know why he's so fun to watch for me,

but he's fun. And they still got a chance. They got to win their last two games. And I think they need Houston to lose. And if that happens, they still make it. And it is like, very possible. I think it's like 11%, like whatever the odds are.

But like his thing was like, I mean, everybody says we're done. but I've been I've had lesser percentage to make it and made it I also just like that like he showed up to the game and like dad jeans cowboy boots and a car heart jacket and like his like bag

because you know they all carry bags I always want to what's in the bag you got the plane you're walking the locker room like what's in the bag everyone kills a bag his looked like a tool bag like he had like a drill and like 5,000 nails in it. It was just like hilarious. But I'm pulling for old man, Phil, man.

And I, you know, I grew up as a dire Patriots when the cults were the rival with Peyton. And like, I generally hate the cults. Like I would actually say I like what I felt is a rival. And the NFL is a little weird because there's like historical. And there's like what you felt like it should be the bills. But like I, like I hate the Colts and I'm like man if Philip Rivers won a Super Bowl I wouldn't be mad like it is just

yeah it's so funny we had a good I had a good little uh post on X today someone posted Phil laughing he's got the big you know I got a big wide face got this big wide face double chin you know and it says it rules that this is an NFL quarterback so I just like like retweeted it, got a picture of Mark Ripatow, pink face, double chin, just like not looking super healthy and said, you know, this rules that this is a strength coach or like a renowned strength coach. That was pretty funny. Yeah.

All right. We got some sounds, alibis. Oh, no. We got another topic, don't we? Yeah, I want to know the difference between Dan Martin and Daniel Mark. okay I'm dying over here so this is actually a little test for Dan Martin see if he actually listens to the podcast

I'll give all the I'm deactivated now it's it's midnight on the East Coast true we're good Dan Martin was one seven's XO good buddy of mine he's XO life though he's just always in the crap

you know his life's always miserable He's an XO of 1,200 people in Okinawa, Japan. Some scenario happened where I was going to the jungle. He's the XO. He's not going to the jungle. And I got his jet boil. So I got his jet boil, took it to the jungle. I didn't use the jet boil.

I'm not jet boil guy. I use it to, like, use my bricca, which is back in stock on the strength. You've seen in our episodes before. We're out of stock, made an indily. Only thing that we sell, not made in the USA. say we respect heritage, culture, Tony Soprano, you can go get a bricca. So I borrowed it so I could use the heater for it, borrowed it, went up there 10, 12 days, wherever it was, came back, was in my room.

And every time he would come up, I'd be like, grab your jet boil. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get it. He's advanced party, so he leaves earlier. So he leaves, doesn't get his jet oil. So then I, you know, you live somewhere for seven months. you accumulate stuff ship like a foot locker home and when I'm shipping the foot locker you're thinking like what do I need now versus what I want to make sure goes home so I put the jet oil in the foot locker then I get to 29 palms with like my main pack my gear my gas mask

those sorts of things and he's like hey do you have my jet oil I'm like yeah it was like in the foot locker that I shipped my house like I have it but like I don't have it and then And towards the end of my time, and 29 palms, like, for the first section of demobilization, is like, hey, do you have a jet boil? I'm like, yeah, it's like at my house. Like, I, like, I have it. It's just, like, not here.

Like, I haven't been home. I haven't even, like, seen my kids yet. Like, leave me alone. So, and it was a joke. He was, like, poking at me. So then there's, like, you know, you're in text threads. Everything's ending, but, like, I'm still in all the threads.

Somebody said something. Like, I shot up. I don't even remember the shot. I shot at him. about something and he was like hey do you have my jet boil and i was like this guy like this guy is like shaking me down and i'm like hoping he's listening i'm not like talk mine on his back i'm like i cannot believe he's shaking me down over jet boil right now so i'm like in the warehouse the day like he sends that message and i'm like tomorrow i'm grabbing it on my garage and i'm shipping it

So I grab it on my garage, take it to the warehouse. I'm shipping. I'm shipping. He says it again in the signal chat. Like I say something like snarky. Like I'm asking for it. He sends back like, what about my jet oil? I'm like this guy. So the UPS guy is like coming up.

I'm like, wait. And I like tell a guy there. I'm like tape up a six by six by six by six. I grab the jet ball out of the truck. I write a note. I'm like, now you can stop. Bitching. Sorry, Mom, but that's what I said. He deserved it. Print the shipping label. I'm like, put this in there, put it on there. Goes in the truck like last second. I'm like,

this is perfect. He's going to get it like as a Christmas present. And thing goes away. And I've been trying to get back into the massonomics crew discord. Missed the mass. I've missed my mass mass dynamics guys. Listen to my first full massonomics episode this week for the first time all year. I have not listened to a full massonomics episode all year. I'm sorry, guys. I love you. but I understand why people probably don't have time to listen to the okay podcast too, so I get it. I don't get it like 500 and something episodes, but I get it like 100 episodes.

I'm not at 100. I'm not trying to add laurels to myself. But anyway, so I've been in the Discord more. A guy in the Discord named Dan Martin says, Grant, I got this. I have no idea what it is.

What am I supposed to do with it? And it's a picture of the Jet Boyle. And I'm like, what in the hell? Like, how did I choose up? So I go back into like the customer database. And it's like 35,000 customers. And you type in Dan, space Martin, or like Dan space M. And I saw Dan Martin, California.

So Dan Martin, the guy that got the jet boil incorrectly, also lives in California. I forget where the city is right now. So I click print. Daniel Martin had ordered a brick of, from me like back to like him being a great guy right like he'd watch me like use his brick all the time so he'd ordered one what sucked is we were out of stock when he ordered it so i refunded them they're back in stock dan you'll go back and buy one so then the bricca goes like some other city in california and then dan's and beat me up about this thing so then luckily it's a crew member right

so i'm like hey brother i'm gonna send you a t-shirt and a shipping label like ship it back to daniel martin and enjoy the t-shirt kind of thing but it was just like a whole thing and it was it was just funny yeah and then yeah so that's Dan and Daniel Martin two guys living in California Daniel Martin and Dan's name's probably Daniel Daniel Martin's from New Jersey

he'd always say it really is a beautiful state when we watch the Sopranos that was like is it I've drilled there a lot not that beautiful but okay I love it all right good story save rounds the rip

are you excited for that one do you are you tracking this I'm not tracking it's the new Matt Damon and Ben Affleck movie oh like they're cops I think in Miami and they find themselves

a little moral predicament it's coming out on Netflix like very soon I think not tracking oh yeah now you're tracking I think I've seen previous for it looks pretty good yeah i mean i think it'll be i think it'll be very entertaining yeah a couple of miami cops discover

a stash of millions in cash it's gonna be good it's gonna be good but comes out on uh january 16th so we're a few weeks out say brown quick child talk oh abby wants to know everyone to know what the uh best cookie was i was supporting the mormons this week so i think that that I meant to bring them out here and try them. Oh, you haven't trying them yet. Okay. I have. We're going to get into a little bit.

Then you're going to tell me if like I can't keep them for a week. They came. So we like did this thing. Hey, if you're listening right now and you've made it an hour and 40 minutes and we've like, I don't know why you're listening, but like it's Christmas. We're all feeling great. Just listen. so it's like there's a lot going on grants buddies deactivating it's black friday it's christmas

they're shipping it's trying to take care of your wife so much going on and so connor and i were like hey let's like set a date wives go to get nails done we'll watch babies and so we said it for the same morning that you sent crumbled cookies to my house so they come over and you know no um my wife believes that I'm capable of not killing the baby but you know I haven't been here to build a lot of equity

that like she leaves think the baby's gonna have a good time so there's a lot of like okay yeah she's doing all right you know so they leave

and like we go on a walk Connor and I and by the way if you're a dad and you're walking around with a baby you're just like a hero like if you're a mom

you got nine kids hanging off your back I think everyone's just like get those kids together what's wrong with you if you're a dad and there's a baby crying in your arms. People are like, oh, you're such a great dad.

And you're like, yeah, I know. So, Connor and I go on a walk with the baby's doing the thing. They're getting their nails done. You text me. I think the day before, like, going to be home. I'm like, yeah, and then no one was home. But then cookies got delivered. We come back from the walk, cookies there.

Connor, big crumble cookies guy. He's like, this is terrible. This is disastrous. I could eat this entire box right now. I'm like, Connor, you've gone from like 230 to one. 198. He's like, you don't understand. I'm about to relapse. I'm like, wait, stop. And there's like babies going. The mom's just getting like reintegrated. And he's got a newborn. There's like a lot going on. I'm like, I got to take a picture and send it a tray to make sure like he knows and

forget. So I go take a picture. He's saying, no, no, no, put the pink thing there. I'm like, huh? He's like that round three thing. He paid extra money for you to have that cutter. He needs to know you have the cutter. And I'm like, oh, man, you're like in deep. So like I put the thing in. I sent the photo and then like babies are crying people are pooping diapers are getting changed and I'm like I got to go to work I'm like haven't got to work yet like all this stuff's going on and then Amber's excited Conner's wife Amber and then I'm like well we got to try some and I cut the chocolate chip and I'm so glad you give me the cutter because like once you like pick up the cooking bite out of it you're committed and the cutter yeah you know like I got a crush a whole thing

dude that was great that was phenomenal so I ate a piece of the chocolate chip and I ate a piece of like a cinnamon kind of deal Connerate a piece of the fudge Diana ate a piece of the chocolate chip and something else Amber like the cinnamon roll and then by the time all that had happened and you'd respond to my text you'd said I need a video review no your wife said I want a video review yeah and I said I'm putting them in the oven not to cook but like to store I was like because like I am 100% going to send Abby a video review and in my mind I thought that I would do it tonight in the podcast and now I feel bad

because I forgot but I'm got a 100% sent it but no it was great it was great never heard of the company yeah unless you told me the podcast and I forgot yeah they're big they're big here in Utah start by you guys it's I don't think it should be called cookies I think it should be called cake. Oh, 100%. Yeah. If that's a cookie, yeah. Yeah, the two eyes were definitely very cakey, definitely very cakey. But, Jeff, you tried him yet? I've tried, I think all but the one that's got like some sort of like candy cane sprinkling on there. Okay. I know Jeff has a strong opinion on it. uh the cinnamon roll one is very good or i assume that's what that that flavor is it's kind of a cinnamon

roll homage yeah so grant they change they have a weekly flavor so a new so it's kind of new flavors every week yeah exactly man no don't need to exactly like text say and i don't need to explain more everyone gets it well hey do you do you get i want you to take your time give me a good give that big good feedback on it they seem like they'll keep yeah oh yeah treat treat never keep keep there you go what do I know that's it yeah treat oh force a weapon safety rules right yeah just it's in the dome yeah yeah all right tray why don't you bring you down for a landing well yeah last save round gigum and a volleyball national champs I was big in volleyball yeah so that's softened the blow after that loss so that was

a guy that's ridden the women's basketball team to make him feel self about a good university. And I get it. But all right, what episode are we on? So it's literally on the top of the screen. I see you keep saying that, but I don't see it

anywhere. Yeah. I think it is for you. I don't think it is for anybody else. I don't have that. Oh, man. Okay. It's, uh, do you really not know? Because I said it like 17.0. It's part of the bit. Zero. It says it every time.

Yeah. It's a huge part of a bit. I guess, Grant, I figured you did this as a part of the bit as well. 089. Grant is keeping it going. All of it's part of the bit. 089. 089 of the, okay. Okay.

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