The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 91: New Year’s Challenges, Josh Allen’s Mullet & Snatching Presidents

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

Today we break down the January carnivore challenge, 10,000-step wars, squat drama, and the unexpected return of Boston Market lore — all while setting new traditions no one asked for but everyone will argue about.Podcast Hosts:Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and LifterTres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and LifterJoin the Slack and Use code OKAY:https://buy.stripe.com/dR6dT4aDcfuBdyw5ksCheck out BW Tax: https://www.bwtaxllc.comBUY A FOOTBALL HELMET: https://www.greengridiron.com/?ref=thestrengthco14th Marine Reg T Shirts: https://usafulfillmentservices.com/14th-marine/Timestamps:00:00 - Intro04:57 - Staff Brief17:32 - Outlying Stations21:53 - New Year’s Challenges44:38 - Tres’ Lifting Update52:38 - Comments From The Haters56:28 - College Football01:07:27 - Tres’ Picks of The Week01:19:19 - NFL01:26:33 - Snatching Presidents

All right, and welcome back to episode 0-9 or 1 of the, okay, okay, okay, podcast powered by the Strength Co. I am your host, Grant Broji. Today's date is January the 6th, a national holiday for some folks, big holiday for some folks, and the year of our Lord, 26, January 6, 2026, major, major holiday. the price of Bitcoin is $92,734.6. I see you right winger's on X today wearing your big red hats. I don't see any holidays listed. Showing that you get the six hours and you're ready to,

if the Somalians come to your house, I see you and you're heard by someone. So happy January 6th to those who celebrate in the year of our Lord, 2026 gave you the price of Bitcoin. We're recording live in studio from Costa Mesa, California. Well, that's where I am recording from. We are over the intrawebs and we get

better every week. That's why we call it a podcast. It's every week podcast. It is improved. I am joined today by a gentleman from the greater Salt Lake City area currently not in a drilling status. First name Jeff, last name

Bouget. Biggie for you pronunciation types. That's B-U-E-G-E. U.E. G. E. B U.E. G. E. Jeff Biggie. So never forget that. It would be a good kid song where we release our album, The Killer Bees, B-U-E-G-E. The Wiggles have a song. They're like, say, hey, to say, to say, and they're like, T-S-E-K-A to say. And I like, I think I get dumber in my reading comprehension skills when I listen

that song. But in any event, Jeff's here. It's got a lot to talk about, from Utah, from the great state of Utah. I'm sure it's cold there. We'll get a weather update. And then also joining us the best S4 ever to be on this podcast. Texas A&M alumnus to gig them. Farmers fight. Mr. Robert Trey Gottlitch, the third.

If you have that name in South Carolina, you'd be called Tripp. But in Texas, they just call you two. That's a good name. And they call you Tripp. I'm going to start calling you Tripp, Tripp. And he's actually joining us from Clinton, Texas. Clinton.

It's got to be a club. Yeah. I mean, someone's got back check. This is a part of this is like a segment now. This is can't just not look it up. Clinton, Texas. Let's just look it up.

That's for sure. Town does exist. It's an unincorporated community in Texas. My favorite kind. You know what they celebrated January 6th. You know they celebrate those unincorporated. A boy can't go have a little fun. Yeah.

Boy, he can't get together at the Capitol. They can't even stomach a mayor. That's how unincorporated they are. Oh. Anyway, Clint Texas. Oh,

that's actually really close to me. I mean, you're probably paying that IP address right now. Yeah. You're, that's where you're really close to you because that's where you are right. That's where you are. Yeah.

Clint Texas. Clint Texas. I'm about to drink a Mr. P. B. Mr. Pib. My wife thought that I was, bought peanut butter in a can.

And I was like, no, it's Mr. Pib. And she's like, I saw PB. And I'm like, you think you can liquefy peanut butter? That would be you.

I would try to, I tried to tell her it's like a, uh, uh, competitor of Dr. Pepper. And we got into a business wars conversation. She got bored and left and I kept talking about it.

Um, but that's just the way it goes. Kind of like the okay podcast. A lot has gone on. There's a lot hot, off the press. We got Craig Robinson from Washington. Feed me injects Desmond. Desmond

from Washington. Desmond what's his first name? The QB. Williams. No, Desmond, it is his first name. Desmond Williams announced on Twitter to his teammates. He's going to LSU, Lane, Kiff, and Paying him under the table. But sometimes you don't know when the big thing happens, just like when we swoop in, grab the head of a country,

fly him out, bomb a grave on the way, do a couple of flybys, go by the statue, Liberty, land in New York, and have an impromptu parade. You know, so sometimes you don't know the things until they happen. Anything is possible. That's why we stay ready. That's why we're first to fight. We are first to fight right after Delta Force, okay?

First to fight right after Delta Force. That's what the United States Marines are. So we got, we're glad you tuned in episode 0-9 or 1. I got a bag here, but I feel like we should do it after the staff brief because everyone staff brief. Jeff, you're going to have to take care of the outlying stations once again. Indeed.

I'll turn it over to the three. I'm fresh off one of these briefs today. So I got, I'm ready. I am ready. Yeah, I too had a brief about an hour ago. Same here.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I had a brief about an hour ago, not to beat the dead horse. Right. Yeah, and would never want to beat him. Don't beat those dead horses. Yeah, first rule of war is don't beat the dead horse. Hey, I'm sure you guys have been just off and checked out for all the holidays because that's what we do in the active component.

But, you know, you guys just been doing nothing. Probably haven't checked your email since December the 12th. Yeah. Well, first of all, you know, you don't beat dead horses. You know what they are? They're dead. They're trash. Oh, that's right. That's right.

You're trash now. You don't eat them. You eat them. Eat them. Like delicious horse meat. Yeah. Turn into jerky. All right. Before this turns into a joke.

Right. Right. Hey, just want to kick off the brief. Just first things first. Obviously, a happy new year. Everyone just happy new year. Love to see everyone's faces coming off a leave. Everyone looks fresh, ready to get out, get out the gate.

Yeah, love it. Love everybody. Just, you know, logging in on time and when they should and doing radio checks when they should. Just really great. Just really appreciate all that. Definitely not like anyone disrupting the flow of the brief with radio checks or anything like that. So, yeah, I'll just go ahead and check. Radio check.

This is the chaplain. Sorry, I'm out. I'm out visiting Marine having a tough time in the Ozarks. Can you guys hear me? Oh, yeah, we got you a lot clear. Modern day technology makes it pretty easy. Okay, I'm just going to go on mute. I'm not on teams, by the way, if you're sharing screen.

Oh, okay. Okay, well, we'll visually describe what's on the screen to you each time we change the slide. Okay, thanks. I'm going to go on mute. Hey, shut up. I told you I'm on a call. Okay, that's one. Trash 5 here. Can we keep these sidebars to a minimum? Okay. Chaps, you got a hot mic.

All right. S1, you got anything for us? Good evening, sir. Good evening commanders. Good evening staff and my fellow trasheteers of trash battalion. I just want to say the admin shop has turned over a new leaf in the new year. We are so excited to do all of your diaries that we didn't do last year, this year. And we just love being a part of trash shine. I just want to say for the new year, we have a couple new policies. I just want to, like, lay them out now so it's clear. The shop is not open until nine because we want to make sure all the trash is removed from the day before. And then we are going to take Chow from 11 to 13. and then we will be closed for training, internal training, from 14 to 16 to make sure that we pass the CGI,

and then we're going to PT from 16 to 17. So there's about 100, it should be 120 minutes, but in reality due to change over times and, you know, people need to dump off their own bodily trash in the commodes. It's probably about 55 minutes of the day that you could come in and get anything done in S1. besides that I have nothing for the group great great brief great brief appreciate the updated battle rhythm I really like to get in those rhythms for the battle I really appreciate that I think we'll all you know be able to hit the mark on all those those those time on targets or those trash on targets you know that's what we call it TOT here it's not time on target it's trash on target

and we are always on target on time with our trash okay s2 what you got Hey, this is Lieutenant Johnson. I'm like super motivated. Just checked into the battalion. I know you guys never knew the last two. He actually just checked out last week right before leave. So anything you've been forwarded into him forward into me, I'm going to read the priorities that he has on the whiteboard when he left,

just so that you guys know that I'm tied in. I'm super happy to be here. By the way, I'm a ground intel guy. So I'm pretty much in 03. So I'm like the best kind of two that there is. All my maps come laminated and my laminar never breaks, which is weird because if I look at the priorities, it says number one, fix the laminator.

So if it's broken, I'm going to get right on that. Also, I PT three times a day for 90 minutes per session. Tomorrow I'm doing triple mirf. If you guys want to come by, I'm hoping to go to Ranger School this summer and get my tab, even though I'm a Marine. And I'm just happy to be here. Nothing else for the group. Thanks, sir.

It's an honor, trash six. We really pretty, hey, trash chicks. Settle down there, devil dog. Nope. Don't try it. I did it all there. Wow. What a motivator.

I've heard from a motivated lieutenant in a while. Damn. Okay. Is this? Are there? Oh, they're out there. Oh, they are out there. Oh, heck yeah.

Best lieutenants. Okay. S3 are brief here. Okay, ops. Ops is the king. Okay. So we're going to be falling in line with SEC Wars guidance, right?

Our trash training requirements, whether that be fiscal. or calendar year training. Okay, there's no physical year. The physical year, well, that's the year that we're currently in. So whatever year that we're currently in, that's when we're physically occupying. Just want to get that straight. We want to level set that, get the bubble, you know, centered level, all that stuff.

The level is set. But yeah, so we're going to be getting in line with our trash training requirements. You know, not sure if there's something to be switching over to a bi-annual. Okay, but we're going to go ahead and keep this monthly. Like we had always, always been doing here at Trash Battalion, keeping it monthly, right? Iron sharpens iron. Trash sharpens trash, as we say around here, right?

You know, that's our battalion motto. Trash sharpens trash. And so we're going to keep our trash squared away in the bins. And then, yeah, that's it. So stand by for LOIs to come out every week. pushing those out to stay in line with our own internal trash training guidance that the battalion commander has signed up. Three, thanks for level setting and bubbling up. We appreciate it. Just real quick from, you know, peer to peer five to three. We don't generally push the LOIs out. We have someone

spend a lot of time creating them. And then we're not going to push them out because the last thing we wanted is anyone to read them. But we will push out the plan of the week. Just so everyone's clear. We're not changing that. We're not going to that. The LOI creation. is it's a process thing. Okay, it's not a results thing. We don't do it for the paper because that would generate trash. We do it for the plan.

Okay, back to you three. Thanks, trash five out. Yeah, hit the nail on the head. Brother. Right, yeah, L-O-I's, we're going to work them, right? We're going to have our, we got our three alpha and three Zulu just grinding away on L-O-I's. We'll get the battalion commander to put a wet signature on those.

and then they'll just go in a drawer somewhere, file them away in a cabinet. And if anyone asks a question on specifics of maybe like a timeline, we'll have the guy with the worst phone and the battalion take the initial photo of the crumpled up piece of paper that shows it and then we'll just forward that photo over and over.

So don't worry. Modern technology, it's tough. You know, it's tough to get text from a paper turned into text and a text, but, you know, it's just the way it is. Exactly. And we will continue to go ahead and say, oh, as per the LOI, of course. We'll reference the LOI, but we won't ever distribute the LOI.

We want to make that abundantly clear. Amen. I mean, sorry, that was the champ's line. Okay, S4, over to you. That's you, Dre. Yes, sir. First things first, I will have a update, updated brief on Venezuela. Oh, no, I'm S4.

Excuse me. Oh, that's not me. I do wonder what's going on down there. How we're supporting that. Yeah, as for it. Sir, about the dumpsters, they are still offline, but I do anticipate them coming back online next fiscal year, potentially. So we should have some.

We're going to borrow some from our sister battalion, Recycle Battalion. They're going to bring some over. So we should be good to go. We should be covered down on that. What RFI? Are we going to be getting any, are we going to be sending any of these dumpsters that are,

that are, that are deadline or degraded down to the rip so we can get new ones? And if you could also tell me what the rip is, I would love, I would love to know that. Oh, yes, yeah, the rip.

Isn't that that guy in Wichita Falls? That teaches people how to squat and death? Yeah, the rip. Then he also like fixed radios? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, here's a question, sir, as far as sitting down the rip. Yeah. Yeah. The ironic thing is. once dumpsters become offline, they in sense become trash.

So we'll probably just get new ones. So it's a weird cycle that we live in. But yeah, we'll work on getting some new ones and getting those sent down to the RIP. Okay, good. Also, do we know what that stands for? Dude. Repair in place. Very well.

Okay, excellent. and never to be seen again. Okay, well, we'll run that to ground later. Go ahead, put a pin in that one. We'll run into ground later. Trash 5. Thanks, Major. Major. Trash 5 here.

I just want to say we are fall in line with SEC War, and there's new body fat standards. And this is a combat battalion, combat trash battalion. So if you can't run a 210, prepare to either exit the Marine Corps or join the one shop, but you won't be in trash battalion. Okay, second fit reps.

They're due. I don't know who's are due, but there's a lot of people that are due. And I'm on a command review all of them and put my notes in broken English so that you can fix what I think is wrong with your fit reps. Outside of that, we got generals visiting. So make sure all the trash is picked up. And we got to stay in line with trash six's guidance. That's all I have, sir. Major. Do you have anything before I turn it over to CO?

That you try talk about C. No, sir. Nothing too important. Actually, scratch that. Yeah. Most important thing that we have out there is our mental health. I just want to make sure we are all checking in on Marines hourly.

Just, you know, just hourly, if not more. So just continue to continue to work on that, if you would, leaders. Thank you, gentlemen. Hey, thanks, sir, Major. I'll tell you, but it's good to have you at my right hand again. I had to spend the holidays with Kitchen Six barking at me

and I'd much rather be here with another devil dog than home of my family. It's good to be back in Trash Battalion. We've got a lot of fun things we're going to do. This Venezuela stuff's got me really pumped up, okay? You know, we take an oath, all right? We're here. We don't choose who we fight or when we fight. Our jobs be ready to fight here at Trash Battalion.

thanks for what you do. Trash six out. Go. No. The subject. Yeah. Great brief. 17 minutes in.

I've talked about nothing. Good brief. Wait. We got to hit the outline stations. He went trash six leaves before we talk to them. Jeff. The, uh,

Jeff, your Auburn Tigers score. I think you just scored a buzzer beater. No. I'm glad the listeners will be up to date on a college basketball. They're going to be up to date. Hey, it might not be important to us. Important to us.

Wow. You heard it here. Yeah, for all your college basketball live updates, listen to them here. That's what we've always said. Yeah. It's good. It doesn't count. Sorry.

You can't just play about playing a basketball game. You just like it doesn't work. Damn, my, it's over now. All right, outline stations. Outline stations. He had to check in. All right. Here's a little public service.

announcement from our old master guns, aka Sean Shepard, aka Billy Martin, aka I can drive. It's tax season. If you don't have, if you don't plan on using BW tax, then go forget yourself.

He used a different word, but, and he says that from the deepest, darkest part of his soul. I hope you get audited if you don't use BW tax. That's good. He's saving me an ad read. Good advice. Good advice. I know this. That's a better ad read than us.

Yeah. And then last outline station, we got South Dakota Army National Guard Alpha Battery first of the 147th MLRS battery checking in ammo dog E4 Mafia for life. Enlisted because we work for a living. I thought I saw a chap's one on there, no? Oh, wait. Yes. Yes. Oh, Chapsin. Oh, it's a good one. It's a good one. Okay. Indeed. Indeed.

Chaplin here wanted to give a quick update on my office hours. This guy. He's so good. He gets it. He gets it. He gets it. Oh, my gosh. Okay. I wanted to give a quick update on my office hours. I'll be available every fifth Tuesday of the month between 0-800-0-09-9. for a 10-minute meeting. Please pay me on teams to set up a time.

I did briefly want to cover the question from last week about me being a chaplain and just say, brother, we are not professionals. With that covered, I'll leave you with a quick note from the Book of Romans. Amen. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God and Christ, Jesus. Okay. And then last bit. Now, if we believe in Christ, we are dead to sin.

You know what that means? That sin is trash and it's time to secure it. Don't let that trash pile up like the great Puritan Jonathan Edwards once said, be killing sin or it be killing you. I say be securing trash or it will be securing you over. Man, what an analogy there. Well said, chaps. Well said.

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Good. Jumping in these topics. Ooh, boy. Okay. We'll start with, let's hit New Year's Eve, right? Hey, 2026. We made it, boys. Oh, yeah.

What'd you do, Trey? I went to bed around nine. Boo. You say, what you're doing? I mean, that was a successful night, man. Got the kids down. I'm like, I'm going to bed. All right.

I mean, like, did you eat dinner at five? Did you, like, you must, like, you had something besides go to bed on the year's. It was a very normal day. we were very boring this year yeah so nothing special not even like a cup literally nothing man yeah okay wow dang I know

pretty like let's see we watched the final episode of Stranger Things and we went to bed probably around 930 ish how was Stranger Things strange it's all right

final episode I mean I don't know how like I've been talking a bunch of people about it that have also watched it and they're like, I don't know what they would have like, I don't know how you tie that up into like a nice, neat way that everyone's going to be happy, but like the final episode was just okay. They were, okay. They're set up a couple of those. Yeah, they signed a couple of them spin-offs already.

Oh, yeah, yeah. You can tell they were sent spinoffs, but it was fine. Spin it off, baby. Well, boy. Good, solid night, solid night. What would you do? Oh, I did a lot. lot. I did a lot. Now, I went bowling. So Big Connor invited me bowling. He's like, hey,

five o'clock, no, 430, Fountain Valley Bowl, a couple families there. Come on by. D's in, 430, 430. We leave. I like send them the location because I was like, yeah, we're probably 50-50. Depends how the baby's doing these in. And she's also like, how are we going to bowl with a one-year-old? old and I'm like, yeah, like, it'll be fine. And then we are on the way. I send Connor like the little ETA and he's like, oh, you're going to beat me there. And I was like, oh, cool. We stopped to get a coffee. We've got a Vietnamese coffee that was terrible. He's like, it's not going to be good. It's Vietnamese people can't make coffee. And she's like, no, but it's going to be like not like what I want in coffee. And she was right. And we get there. Turns out Connor said five. I just

internalized 430. So we were there about 25 minutes. minutes early. Thank God because we secured the lanes. And I'll just go over the bowling. You know, I'm, I walk in and I hear the pins. There's 60 lanes in this alley. And like, it's intoxicating. It's like, it's just like, and you just see it. I'm watching dudes walking with the roly bags and for like a brief moment. I'm just having these like flashbacks to Camp Hans in Japan. And I realize that only Marines deployed across the world bowl 20 games in a row. Like, that's not what normal people. people do. So we go over, we order some pizza, we order drinks, families come in. There's a football coach. I don't know what he teaches. We also coaches football. He's probably about, I don't know,

38 or so. I've met him once before, so we're bantering a little bit. You know, he's, he went to do you play ball, Utah or BYU, one of them. So he's there. You can tell he's an athlete. He's got the dinosaur up for his kids. They're putting balls down. There's another guy with his older sons. They're throwing on another lane. We had three lanes. and there's a couple other families are like babies my daughter's age so they're like passing around I checked out shoes I checked out these shoes

and he's like I'm not going to bowl I'm so watch the kid I'm like oh yeah we'll just put them on in case you get a chance and then you know we're there like at 45 minutes and I'm like my fingers are shaking like my biceps tensing up and I'm like is no one get a bowl like surely

we can like pass kids off and like chuck one down the lane and so no one's bowling. And so there's this like other one that's open. And then there's like this like dad. Everyone's like managing their wife and the kid and doesn't want to be like the dad like getting too into the bowling. And so finally this like dad, father of five, an old vet, he opens goes that open lane just like chucks one down. And well, actually, no, I went under the screen first just in case. And I'm like, Connor, what's his name? And he's like Jason. I'm like J. Dogg. Like what's his name? He's like, Ben. And I forgot what I called him.

and then the Italians. Yeah, and then the Kings. And so anyway, finally we start bowling. And it's like I get up there, got to figure out the grease pattern. I throw like a six pinter. And then boom, pick up the spare. I'm like, oh, man, I still got it.

It's been like two months. I'm like fired up. But I'm not acting fired up. I'm like, oh, let me hold the baby. Yeah, oh, baby. And then all the guys start getting fire up. And Big Ben goes up there, throws a strike down there.

I'm like, I see you, Ben. and he's like, oh, no, no, I'm just like over here playing with my kids. And within like three frames, everyone's like, thumb to the nose, like yelling all the things. Like, it's a warm up game. Like, you'll get it right. I'm like bantering with the guys next to him. So I throw spare, spare, spare. I remember, right?

I only bowled one game. And it took forever because there's like handoffs and people forget to bowl about it. But I know, Blizzy 6 knows what he bold. I bold spare, spare, spare. then I had my daughter in my hand and my wife had someone else's baby and I was like I can throw this while holding her man different world I accidentally threw her down the no I'm just kidding I bowl a gutter one and I was like okay there's that and then the next time D bold and I think like picked us up like five so it's spare spare spare gutter one five gutter and then we're like we're like we're

like the home stretch, right? It's like frame five. At this point, Ben's like thrown strike strike, spare strike, and then like the older dad's like getting hot. Connor wasn't really in the mix, but there's like three people like battling, you know, to end somewhere about 100. And it starts to get competitive. And we're like chirping each other. And so it's coming down the line. And the older guy that started the bowling, like clearly thinks he's going to win. Ben comes up. throws a strike on nine and then on 10 he does like i forget what he does i come up pressures on and i throw frame 10 strike and then spare and then spare and uh ben and i tied with 134 and beat the guy with 120 but anyway glizzy six pulled a pretty good game i let two frames go

you know i'm a family man now man i was fired up it was fired up have my nephew here for the last three days last night or yesterday i was like hey man uh he's 19 you know, sophomore of the University of Georgia. I'm like, hey, I'm like, you've been like staying up pretty late. If we go to bed, you want to like, do something tonight? He's like, oh, I was just tired, you know, from New Year's and the bowl game. I was like, I mean, and I'm thinking, like, this is perfect.

Like, what a great way to be able to get to the bowling out, hanging out with my nephew. I'm like, when the baby goes down around 730, you and I could go bowl a couple lanes. He looks at me and goes bowling. And I felt really old. felt really old and I was yeah yeah

I mean yeah terrible idea terrible idea yeah that was my that was my new year then I came back

and watched the ball drop and I was trying to watch the Nashville one and CBS's like thing kept cutting out and then everyone was like yelling at him on X

but yeah it was the same as always Dick Clark was rocking his new year from his grave rocking new year's Eve good for you not going to bed

and 930 Oh, no. I stayed up. I stayed up the New York New Year than California New Year. Oh, you stay up. Okay. You cut all of them. Stay up till midnight. Big New Year's guy. Huge. Big New Year's guy. Yep. Are you like a resolutions guy too? I'm not a resolutions guy. I'm a challenge guy. And so are you challenge guy. I'm a challenge guy. I'm a challenge guy. I'm a challenge guy. Like, well, what kind of challenges? What kind of challenge? What are we talking about there, Trey?

Yeah, Trey. What kind of challenge? I'm in the midst of two of them right now, so I mean, which one you want to talk about? Yeah, how are they going? Are they challenging? Wait, Jeff, are you, I know you're doing one of them. Are you doing both them? I'm just doing steps.

You're just doing steps? No, so far, so far so good, you know, it's early. So to those who don't know, if you're not, on the Slack channel. What are you doing? Fix it. Yeah. Click the load.

Use code okay. Okay. You can hop in now. We are doing a challenge on there. One is 10,000 steps a day. And then the other one is Carnivore Challenge. And so you had to put your name in the hat before January 1st. And then,

have you started carnivore yet? Yeah, yeah. Let's talk 10,000 steps. Okay, let's do you. Let's dive into the carnivore because I feel like that's interesting for people, too, for carnivoring reasons. What's your, what's your math have been for 10,000 steps, Dre? Man, I usually, it's been working out because, well, since we started work back this week,

it's, I usually try to knock it out in the morning. But when I didn't have, like, over the weekend, man, I just, after we put the kids down, I would just go knock out a walk or something like that. Or if they're taking a nap, I'm not going to walk. Like five and you need to like walk for like an hour? Man, I would probably, yeah, I'd be like at like four or five and I would need to walk like a couple miles. Knock it out then. There's a, there's been like one one night where I was at like 9,700.

And I just walked around my kitchen island for like 20 minutes. Yeah, that's the annoying part. That's the part I hate about the challenge because the idea is to get people to move more. And then it's like, I'm at 9,850 steps and would really like to go to bed, but instead I'm going to do whatever. But yeah, okay. I'm going to walk to the street and back. Jeff, you walk to work, right?

Yeah, I like walk to work. And then I'm usually walking around most days, like on my feet a lot. So days that I work, it should be super easy. And then days of not work and usually hit the gym and do some sort of like running on the treadmill there. So that'll give me a bunch of steps. and then the wife and I have been doing like, we're trying to hit like a walk every night around the block, just about, I don't know, a little over a mile-ish.

So it's like, it's like 2,500 steps. So it's a good way to kind of just cap the day. Yeah. Make sure we get over that 10,000 steps mark. But now I'm in this challenge, this Garmin challenge. There's a challenge inside a challenge. So somebody connected with me on Garmin. I forgot who it was first.

And while I'll actually tell my strategy for 10,000 steps, so the first time I did this, I kind of got into 10,000 steps saying when Efforting came to our gym in 2018, he's a big fan of three 10 minute walks a day, says it's good for digestion and good for joint health. I don't know about the digestion, maybe says, you know, after a big meal, go walk for 10 minutes. I mean, that makes some logical sense to me. I think for joint health, it seems to be like lifters with a deal with this issue a lot. They lift. and then like they're trying to like rest and recover so they like don't do anything in between lifting days.

And so they have left movement. And then like that can cause inflammation in the joints and can cause some pain because, you know, moving around generally helps. It's like a very easy out-the-gate thing is like walked 10,000 steps a day. So 2020 was the first time I think we opened it up in January for the gym and we've done it every year. Now the Slack people do it. And so like a lot of people do it and whatnot. but this year like every January I get a little frustrated because most days if I'm working in the warehouse or I'm coaching the gym a little bit you know it's pretty easy I need like one walk

but if it's a day that I'm maybe coaching online or I'm doing a lot of computer work it's like I got to go on these like long walks and and I was like I don't want to do that this year I mean obviously like if I had the baby in the stroller like I'm down but I was like I don't want to like leave them because I'm doing this 10,000 miles or 10,000 steps. So I'm running a mile every day in January. And I'm six days in. I'm six days complete. And that's been making it much easier.

And I've done it at all different types of the day. And I'm running low and slow, not trying to kill myself. And most of the time I'm stopping right at a mile because I'm scared. I'm going to accumulate all this fatigue and like ruin my knees, which I'm not. I think one of the times I've run like two, maybe, another one, two and a half. So anyway, I ran like the first three days and then Garmin threw me this, like, join the January challenge, run for 10 hours during the month of January. And I was like, oh, okay, so it's like 20 minutes a day. Obviously, most people probably aren't running 20 minutes

a day. They're doing like a long run. So like I joined that one. And I was like, what is this? And it's like, create your own challenge. And then I'm everyone, and the Slack channel is like posting their steps thing. And I'm like, oh, this person has a garment. This person. has a garment. This person has a garment. It's like six or seven us with garments. So I just like make the challenge inside the garment app. And I don't really think anything of it except like, it'll be fun to like see where everyone's at. Well, then it gives you alerts. So it's like, Jeff has bumped you out of first place. Brad has bumped you out of first place. And you're like, oh, what am I doing right now? I'm actually a little stressed right now. I just realized I walk out to the

garage without my watch on because I showered right before this. So it's heating up. And it's like most steps for the week. So it's a challenge within a challenge inception over here. A lot of movements so far in January 2026. That's too much, man. I just want to read my book. Listen to my book, I should say. I don't know. It's like a sports game, brother. It's like, you know, actually, we should open up sports betting on the walkers for the non-Garman users and let them log into our Garmin apps and they could do live bets and who they think's going to win.

Wow. Yeah, it's pretty good to me. Like, well, all right, I'm like, just going to go. And, yeah, like, do three more laps around the block here. Like, I can't go to bed yet. Like, got to really put up a big number. I just like stressing Brad out. He's like, oh, officers.

I thought, I got ahead of you, uh, E4 Mafia for life. And I'm just like, I thought I was, I was in a post in there. I was like, I think we'll do a health and comfort inspection. So Brad wasn't moving. He wasn't moving much earlier. And then I saw him posting there about like some sort of plumbing something going on. So he couldn't, yeah, he couldn't get his steps in. But I was like, oh, uh-oh.

Oh, E4 Mafia must have hit the bottle a little hard last night. Too many. Cherps, shit. Now, yeah, we'll see. We'll see. But yeah. But no. So how'd you pick 10,000 just arbitrarily or is there?

No, I think it's just like an idea of obviously like people that live in cities and walk to work. It's like kind of nothing. But people that are like get in their car, drive somewhere, walk around the office, walk around their house. Their average is like five to six thousand a day. So it's just like, this is going to get people moving for 25 minutes more per day or something like that. I didn't pick it. There's been like tons of people that are like, walk 10,000 steps a day. There's no scientific evidence of walking 10,000 steps a day. I think the idea in general is just, hey, like, if there's this like metric that you're changing. I mean, you're moving more so far this year than you were last year.

Is that right? Correct. Yeah. So, I mean, I think that's like what it is. Yeah, success. No, 100%. I just didn't know if 10,000 was like there was a reason. Yeah, you're guaranteed a six pack by February 1st if you walked in.

Hey, you said it. Come on, baby. There you go. Actually, if you were in the Slack channel and you do it, you get $25 gift card to the Stranko store. So you really can't afford not to say less. It's too late for you guys. but you still come in.

Do it. Do it next year. All right. Yeah, next year. What's one of the challenges? What's this other challenge you got going on? So other challenge is carnivore for the month of January. How's that going?

Which. How's it going? By to what, about a weekend? Yeah. Just shot of a weekend. It's going, I'd say so far so good. I don't know. I feel like with whenever you do a diet, there's always like a honeymoon

moon phase and then like oh yeah you get in the back nine you're like oh this sucks but so far so far so it's all good yeah i found it easier i think it's the fourth time i've done it's it's definitely easier this time because you just kind of know um but yeah i don't know what do you been eating i've been switching it up early on usually i like do the same thing early on i've had some rib i've had some skirt steak i've had some chicken i've had some shrimp i've had some eggs. I do dairy. So I've had some Greek yogurt a little bit. I've had a little bit of milk.

I need to buy cottage cheese. I haven't yet. But I've been kind of, I do love how easy it is. I haven't gotten into the cheese yet. That usually is like middle of the month when you're just like, oh, my God. I just need some cheese. Yeah, just need some

hard cheese. I need some hard cheese. The better. Yeah. And folks at home, if you don't know what a hard cheese, is, Trey has a great way to find out. Trey, you want to enlighten the folks at home? Yeah, do you remember, Trey? Oh, you're...

Yeah, it was, uh, how many times a hard cheese? If you throw it and it hurts, then it's a hard cheese. Is that what I said? I feel like it was a long... It's the wall, but it's been a while. I can't remember, yeah. I see, works.

If someone throws it at a year, it hurts. It's probably a hard cheese. Anyway, the point is, if you're not in the Slack channel, the Slack channel, join the Slack channel. We do fun stuff like that. Some of them, health related, and you know, you get to join, get to see what other people are eating. Carnivore channel's been fun. I've seen people like make some things I wouldn't have thought of. So the carnivore channel is really just pictures of meat. That is safe for work. So why not join? Now is, would you consider I've been doing cottage cheese. Is that a hard cheese?

probably not but I so I think the point for me and the success I have with it is eliminating highly processed stuff carbohydrates and sugar right so I think there are camps like I think if you have psoriasis or like an autoimmune disease that is killing you I would go strict carnivore and see if it clears up. And then if it cleared up, you know, completely, then I would slowly reintroduce things and see if you can find out, hey, what's the culprit that's causing this problem in my gut

that's like eating at my body? So, you know, I would eliminate everything and just go like meats, salt, you know, coffee. And I would probably just like start there and fish, you know? And then and then I might say, okay, do I know prior to whatever this issue, that I have is, did I have a problem with dairy? The issue that's no, that's like, can probably add in dairy.

Some variety will help you be compliant for longer. So, like, for me, dairy, I have no problem with dairy. So I'm, like, totally cool with carnivor plus dairy. There are people that wouldn't drink a Mr. Pip zero. I don't have a problem with that, you know, personally. But yeah, I'm okay with dairy. but for some people that are doing it maybe for like because of a disease or an issue, I'd probably start stricter and then add things in.

But if you're doing it like for a challenge, for compliance, for, I mean, every year when I do this, I lose about 10 pounds and I feel great. And it's just kind of like a reset on because, you know, you come out of the holidays, especially like you want to know who eats the most. People that come back from deployment because everyone's excited to see you and they just want to feed you. Hey, come by. Now eat this cake. So, you know, everyone comes out of the holidays. I feel like you don't have to.

You know, there are some, there's some really strict people out there. But, you know, I, you know, people tend to gain, especially like man over 200 pounds. Like we can gain and lose five pounds really easily. So I don't know. This is my first. A good gust of wind for me. Yeah. Yeah.

Like coming out of your butt. And boom, they went five pounds. So, yeah. Anyway, that's carnivore. Join the Slack channel. You're missing out. But yeah, no, so far so good on that, man. It's, uh, honeymoon phase.

I found myself, I, I stay full or longer. So that's a great thing about the carnivore diet is you're never hungry. Yeah. What's been your go to like meal or have you've been changing it up a lot or do you have like a kind of? Not really. It's, uh, right now I had some. So I, my freezer's been full of venison. So I've had a couple of venison.

a couple rib eyes, chicken breasts, eggs. That's kind of come to my go to thus far. So I did have some of, man, Patagonia's muscles. Just like, if you're not on that train, I'll hop on that. They're good. They don't just make great clothes, man. Yeah, the cut. It means like a smoked muscle.

They have a couple of things like. Oh, I thought this was like a joke. No, no. They have all their like food products that are like a lot of tin fish. So like macrose, sardines, anchovies, big, big fan of the muscles. Salmon.

Oysters. Yeah. All good. They're good. So had those two pretty solid. Pretty like if you're going for a late snack or something like that. Late night snack, my favorite kind. Late night snack.

Yum, yum, yum. Yum, yum, yum. You been lifting? I have been, man. Yeah. What do you have been doing? So I think I've posted, I want you to poke holes in my weekly routine. Oh.

Let me see. Let me get it pulled up. Pull it up. Let me see. There it is. All right. So I've been running this for starting the last week. So still pretty fresh on it.

So Mondays do a squat bench, just linear progression. Tuesdays I do like some sort of hit or some sort of run. Today I just did the 10,000 steps on Tuesday. I counted that as my run. So I didn't technically do the hit or the run today. tomorrow though is deadlift and i'll usually do that with some volume do a little three like three by five deadlift same weight for each time yeah yeah that's what i've been doing that's far uh thursday is usually rest day uh is what i have that down right now friday squat overhead press

linear progression. And then Saturday, just throw around some dumbbells for an hour since I bought some nice loadable dumbbells from a guy. I know. Love it. I get your farmer's walks in there. After all that farmers walk talk.

There we go. Dude, I give my farmer's walk daily. I just carry two babies around everywhere. That's right. By the by the scruff of the neck. With your elbows extended on stilts. Yeah. On that, we went up walking. On a side note, we want walking me adding the girls.

Sidebar, excuse me. And then like the twins, who each way like 22 pounds. It's almost as big as my cat. Like didn't want to walk. And so I just carried them for probably like a mile and a half. I was gas. That's exhausting. That's exhausting.

But that's dead strength. I think the program's fine. If you don't subscribe the Strength Co YouTube, we got a video coming in a Sunday that is very close to what Trey is outlining

and you'll find out what I think. It's like very close. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's called the Gentleman's at NLP. Oh, then I'll just wait for that. Gentlemen's at LP. You know, the gentleman's in a second.

go ahead. It's the main question I had, though, on that was the deadlift day, just doing the volume on deadlifts just once a week? Yeah, I think that's fine. I mean, that is fine for people like you. So I just started my live online course, Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 3 p.m. Pacific, got two dudes from Washington,

a guy from California, a guy from London. And the guy from London, one of the guys from Washington is in his 60s, got torn labrums, kind of familiar with starting strength, two of the guys trained before, a guy from London, it's brand new. And I was explaining to him, you know, and the others in the class. I'm like, look, man, like you're going to blow through three lifts today, you know, in this time block and you're going to deadlift every time. You're

going to see these guys not deadlift. That's because you weigh 10 stone or whatever it is in UK weight. And, you know, you're deadlifting whatever, right? You weigh 180, you're deadlifting 145, you can tolerate it and you need that much stress to get your deadlift up quickly. If you're a 220-pound guy and you're deadlifting in the 400s, well, that's like much more stressful, right? It's twice your body weight or more that you're doing versus a guy that's still deadlifting 50 pounds under his body weight. So, you know, the general starting strength novice linear progression will tell you deadlift every time until the deadlift reaches your body weight and then drop one of your deadlift days. I think early variations would say to do

back extensions those days. Now people will either do like barbell rows or a light deadlift or chin ups. Most of time we have people do chin ups. We'll probably have them do a barbell row and your deadlift goes down to twice a day. And then once the deadlift and the squat are both going up and you start to accumulate fatigue, like something's got to give. If you're squatting three times heavy a week and deadlifting now twice a week, heavy, heavier than body weight, then you'll start to accumulate fatigue where it begins to get tough. And so generally what I'll do is I'll drop down your deadlift to once a week on like the middle day.

So if you're doing Monday and Wednesday, Friday, I'm going to drop your deadlift down to Wednesday only. And I'll leave your squat heavy. And that might only get me like two weeks more life out of your NLP, but you want to change as few variables as possible when you do this. So I'll move the deadlap to the middle day, reduce the frequency to once, and leave the squat heavy. Now, what I might do is have you doing chin-ups on one day and maybe like barbell rows on day three. Or, and I would do chin-ups on day one so that you're fresh for your heavy deadlifts, right?

Because of barbell rope, it's going to be more weight. It's going to be more taxing, which then could like take away from your deadlift on Wednesday, which is like bodyweight chins. and then on the third day where you're about to go into like a two-day rest cycle versus one like when you take Tuesday or Thursday off and now you're going to take Friday and Saturday or should be Saturday and Sunday remember the days don't matter but we're just talking about three workouts in the seven-day period then I might have you do like an 80% deadlift for like two sets of five or something like that but let's just go back to your heavy

deadlift on the middle day and you're squatting heavy three times a week then as soon as I start to see your squat crumbling for me I'm probably going to notice it like if you're training hard and you're hard-headed and you've learned how to grind, you're just ready to go to the pins. I'm probably going to see on Monday, it's because I've watched so many squats, like, oh, he's going to go to the pins this Wednesday if I have Mad 5. And so now I'm going to reduce that day to maybe 75 or 80% on the squat.

So it's Monday I'm squatting really heavy and doing my other lifts. Just forget about those for a little bit. And then Wednesday, I'm going to come in and I'm going to, a squat light or I may have you deadlift first. I may have you prioritize the deadlift. The deadlift is stalling. Deadlift for your heavy set. Do your pressing exercise, then do your light squats and then Friday squat heavy again. But once is totally sufficient. And it's different for everyone, right? Like it's different for everyone. If you're, if you're 200 pounds and your deadlift's at 265 and it's really grindy, that may not be enough to continue to drive. Once a week

may not be enough. But if you're 220 pounds, you pull 500 for five, that's going to be like totally sufficient, you know, for that week. But, but yeah, I think you're on the right track. As we know, consistency is the king and the weight will tell you. So, I mean, the mindset should be, hey, I'm going to go and try to do it. And then if I have to alter it a little bit in the session, what's better is that I did three sessions over seven days, even if like something went wrong, then I skipped a day. Yeah. That's what I think about.

That makes sense. I'm going to pick a quick tweet here. If you want to watch me lift, sometimes I post lifts on Instagram. Most of the time I post them on Twitter, X, X, formerly known as Twitter. So I'm going to read you one from December 29th. I got 365 on the bar doing a set of five.

Most of the times I just caption my squats. Nothing cute. I just say for those about to squat. I'm going to read through the reply. Jason Marone at Jason Marrow 60212. He's got a photo of himself with his shirt off and absolutely ripped eight pack.

That's a load, brother. We're all fighting to keep our chest vertical under maximum loads, but strong effort. I said, I'm actually not fighting to keep my chest vertical at all. And then I linked one of our YouTube videos had a little bar squat, which is what I use it for. Sorry, only lifting back.

background here. I just prefer high bar, not trying to take a shot. It's a solid lift. Not a shot to me. No need to be sorry. Most people are just ignorant. So I always clarify. Daniel Pollan. Good work, sir. Joseph Mahler, another guy with his shirt off. Might move it up a day to tomorrow. Got to get the next PR. Leg day is the best day. Every day. Hell yeah. Renee, 29804. More a hip hinge in good morning than a back squat, L-O-L. Wow. That's a fun. They laughed out loud.

The lifting shrink 100. Call sign or handle Sci Pharmacia. That's a pod. He doesn't have much choice. He has long femurs like me. Options are low bar back squat like this. That looks very good morning-ish.

Or a high-bar back squat with knees over toes, which will be significantly weaker for most people. And then Renee comes back. Lots of choice. Lower the weight. He is compensating because the weight is too heavy. It is more than a back exercise than a leg exercise. You think this is good for his low back L-O-L period.

And I just dropped in my video. Why and how you should low-bar squat. L-O-L, your torso is almost parallel. Ha-ha, even with long femurs, this is way too T-O-excessive. E-X-E-S-S-I-E-F forward lean. You're just compensating because the weight is too heavy.

T-O-heavy. You hardly train your quads, L-O-L, plain stupid, period, ego, stupid, period, period. Good luck with your lower back, L-O-L. Good luck. That was just on the thread inside of thread. Someone else we salute you, someone else good session, someone else, let's fucking go.

F-ingo, excuse me. someone else looks like shit. O-L-S-S-O-N. So anyway, I enjoy it. Every time I post my lips, the comments are my favorite part, and they just open the door for me to just put in our instructional YouTube videos, which we got a lot coming out this month. We'll be back hot off the press.

Everyone quit bugging me. What are your videos coming back? Don't worry. They're coming. That's a total rip-off comments from the haters, but it's a salute to rip-a-toe. But it's just fun. and yeah, you know, that's what I got for you. Generate, what do you call in the social media buzzword?

Engagement. Engagement. Engagement farming. Engagement. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, farming. You should just post the video, yeah. Farmers fight.

Farmers fight. Farmers fight. Whoop, whoop, whoop. That's a lot of lifting, a lot of food, a lot of food. of New Year's. This is a sports podcast, gentlemen. It is a sports podcast. Let's get to the good stuff.

Let's go on the start. Let's get to let's talk about how good we are at picking games. Should we talk about that? We're really good. So here's the deal. This bag I got. It's either something that I ordered and forgot about or

someone sent it to me. But I don't remember ordering from t-shirt zone.com. So I got a feeling that it's from a listener. And no one has tipped me off. That's not me being like, I got a feeling. I just have a feeling. Okay, it's tan.

It's white. Oh, my goodness. Even better. It's a Boston Market T-shirt. And I know exactly who this is a good t-shirt. If you're not watching on YouTube, go log into YouTube. Actually, can you take a screenshot or, photo for IG, Jeff, and put that up in the stories.

I'll just hold it up here for a second. You probably want to do it vertical since it's going to go to story, but I'm just engagement farming over here. Great. Nice big content guy. I do so much content. All right. We got it.

That's from. Wait, so is that our new sponsor? That's our new sponsor. Potential sponsor. Did we talk about Boston? killed you heard of here first folks did we talk about send us a rotissary chickens a few weeks ago I went no what to Christmas thing with Connor um and there's like a couple people there we were going to go eat afterwards

and there was like going to do a pizza spot and the one family's like I just ate pizza so he's like go to this place he like sends it to me so we go in we walk in there's like a counter up front and like you order all your food, but it's like meals, right? It's like, I want the tri-tip family special. I want the, you know, whatever. And they got like a little bit of everything. When you order it and then you go sit down and then like they bring it out. It's like family style. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's cool. It's like a Boston market. You would have thought I said it was like a concentration camp. Connor took so much offense to the fact that I, that I liken it to a Boston market.

He's like, what are you talking about? He's like a Boston market. He's like a Boston market. No, that's trash. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And so there's back and forth. Does it, Connor? Yeah, easy, does it, Connor. He's like, Boston Market is pre-made, like, casseroles that you take home.

I'm like, no, like Boston Market, you can go in and get a meal. And so then he started sending me photos of Boston markets and what the inside looked like. Then I would find bigger Boston markets, more seating and send him photos back. And so the T-shirt's definitely from Connor. I'm going to squat in that tomorrow,

facing the camera. So the X people can see it. Thanks for the T-shirt, Connor, potential sponsor, Boston Market. Now, before we're getting sports, let's talk about a real sponsor. Mr. Helman. Grid, green, grid, grid, grid,

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Pretty reasonable amount of money. Add little stickers in the back. What are these things? $39.99. Something like that. I think the $39.99. The visor's only like a buck or two or something. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like $1 or $0.50 at a visor. Yeah. And you would think. if you went all the way to the end of the fourth quarter sweating that your season would be over and then you still win what's a nickel a nickel to get a visor i'm gonna buy grant a full size helmet for winning this bat because if i asked tray during that game if you give me seven hundred dollars right now you'll win he would have handed me the money he would have said take my money

that's how much advisor is yeah no no that's what a full size custom helmet this. All right, let's start the show. All right, yeah, let's get it. Let's get the, let's get the show started. Yeah. Well, college football playoff. Hope you didn't listen to our picks.

Good thing we picked them. Well, I guess we did post our picks in time. Yeah. But the episode came out after the games happened. We were picking the losers, though. That's what I thought we were doing. If you listen to the episode, yeah, we'd say, like, these are people that not bet on. When we say, we're from the South, that means we think we're going to lose.

We got one of them, right? Yeah. Well, Jeff didn't. I didn't. I didn't get any of them right. Jeff got them all wrong. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, listen to Train Grant. That's what I've always said. Dang. Because you picked Alabama. Me and Jeff, I mean, Graham picked Indiana. Texas Tech. I picked. Yeah, same.

Ohio State. I picked, yeah, I mean, all the losers. Okay. Let's talk about Ohio State and the problem with getting merchandise from customers and meeting people that we like from Ohio and it changing our mind. I want you to go back and listen to episodes, I don't know, 1-0 and we started talking sports through like 7-8, the first time Troy Campbell, Sr. wanted to know why we didn't talk about Ohio State.

we always said they weren't the real deal. We always said they crumbled under pressure. We always said, yep, you got more 11-1 seasons than anyone. We've always been right. We just got a little blinded this year. We just got a little blinded. By that T-shirt. Those T-shirts were covering our eyes.

And it is really fun to say, sorry to the listeners from Ohio State. That was tough. I was texting you guys during the game. I was actually pulling 40-1 because they picked them in two, because, you know, if you have friends that you like, and it's like, who wants to see the criminals win? True.

There you have it. We miss that one. So what's, when's the next game? I will see. Go ahead. They were all, they were all good games, though.

Not, maybe that was like that Ole Miss Georgia. And the Indiana one. Actually, yeah. Maybe. Super boring. Okay. Georgia.

Yeah. I think Georgia might. That's really. the only good. You don't want that first round by is what we are learning. I don't want that first round by. Yeah. I don't know.

Do you think that's an actual like that's an actual trend is having that that long of a layoff of the other team has just played? That they're the only team so far. So teams with those as Jeff says, one and I just says there's empirical

data on it. They're one in one and seven over two years. Is that per capita? Yeah, per capita. Yeah, in that case, yeah, in that case, there's data. I don't know, man. I feel like there's something to it. You go for a full month without playing like a game.

Yeah, yeah. I feel, yeah, I feel like there's something to that. Yeah, I think I dropped in someone in the sports channel for Slack. What coach was that? Oregon. I think it was Oregon's coach that Dan Leigh up. Yeah, I was saying hey, good points. We got to

fix the the year. And he's not anti-portal. He's not anti-the-playoff structure. He's just like we got to go game to game to game. The seasons needs to wrap at years in. If you got coaches that want to leave, they can't leave till after

the year ends. People can't open the portal till after because we got the playoffs going on and you got coaches flying around, you know, interviewing for jobs or taking new jobs. And, you know, he just kind of was like, we got to wrap this thing up by one January. Or maybe he said, you know, the initial playoff games by one January and the championship can go in later, you know, whatever it is, he said. But the portal doesn't open until then.

And I was like, oh, that's like, that's a fix right there. Yeah. I think it would, it would change things a lot, I think. It's for a positive. So I felt like, dang, he's saying some pretty logical things that could hopefully get implemented. Yeah. All right. What games we got?

It'll be. And there was the Texas Tech, Oregon. That was a blowout, man. Yeah. Yeah. Just. I don't know. I guess false hope in Texas Tech.

But, yeah, they were, I guess, pretenders, man. They didn't play anybody. I think Utah was the one they hung their hat on Yeah Utah and BYU and we don't even yeah So it's just like again the big 12 champion You're like are they any good because big 12 doesn't seem to be any good Just like I don't know I don't know Damn Miami not the ACC champion in there

Going on I don't know Pretty good Yeah it's weird I was surprised about that one I thought Ohio State was going to steamroll them personally I do. I mean, we said it on a podcast. Miami's peaking at the right time, I think, man. Hey, man.

Irving's got a good, or Irvin's got a good supplier right now. And that team's juiced up. He's so fun to watch. I love it. I love it. I want someone to love me like Michael Irvin loves the Miami Hurricanes. Yeah. Dude, just like the shots of him in like that like deep lunge just on the sideline.

It's so good. So good. I bet he could go out there and run around. He still was pretty good. He would go up there and get one. No, yeah. Yeah. And now it's time for Trays.

Picks of the Weeks. I don't have enough carbs go long. Fiesta Bowl. Is that Thursday, right? Thursday, 8th. 8th, January, 4.30 p.m. Pacific. Number 10. Miami against the

Ole Miss Rebels. I don't want to pick that, man. I don't either. I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to pick that. And now, like, listeners were messaging us. Like, you guys were terrible. All right. I feel like we did pretty good.

Hey, well, what were your picks? I didn't see you go on YouTube and post your picks. Exactly. We finished second, Trey's weird. Texas conference. So it was a long, okay. Pick these really obscure games. Yeah. And Trey's

church league, we got second. My, Miami counts for something. Miami's minus three and a half. Over under is 51.5. Dude, I picked against Miami the last two games are there. So I'm going with Miami this time.

I can belabor a long time. I think Jeff brought it up last week of the week before. I think last week that Ole Miss has got something to prove. I mean, Miami does too. I got to go back to my southern roots. Stiglin with the rebels. Yeah, I think I got to go Ole Miss also.

I think I'm going to see, I don't. This is the last time. I get burned again by the SEC. Yeah, well, then we got to have the conversation. The real deal is, who do we have in Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss? Do we have one more? Texas. Yeah.

I mean, me. Texas and I'm, excuse me. She had four teams. If we end up with zero, I'll tip my cap to everybody else, except the UCC. Oh, same. Ole Miss does have my favorite sports commercial ever. You remember the one where they were looking for a new mascot? Like the Dr. Pepper?

No. It was like it was an old one. They were looking for a new mascot and then one of the guys wanted to be Admiral Akbar. Oh, you'll have to drop this to me later. Okay, I'll send it to you. But yeah, he was the leader of the Rebel Force in Star Wars. Okay, because I had no idea who it was. Yeah, he's the, it's a trap guy. It's a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. It's a trap. That's Admiral Akbar. Ah, Star Trek. You knew that.

You knew that. You knew that. I really didn't know that. I actually thought you were naming some like Navy legend that I didn't know. Yeah. Do you say Ole Miss too? Yeah, I got to go Ole Miss. I'm also taking the over.

I'm taking the over of 51.5. That's probably safe. I'm taking the over. Yeah. Interesting. My name's defense has been pretty good. I was impressed with Old Miss's defense against Georgia. That D-Line was.

And what they let up? 38 or something? Against Georgia, yeah. Yeah, what was the finals? Yeah, I think, I don't think it's a 20-something to 20-something game, which I know it could be way more lopsided, but I think it's going to be a close game. But I'm taking the overall, Miss Neal.

What was the final for the Ohio State, Miami game? Like 30-something to 10. 24 to 14. 24 to 14. See? I think. all right. Ohio State had a good offense.

I don't know. Yeah. They looked so out of sync. Yeah. I mean, those, they did. Those two defensive ends. Yeah.

All right. Moving over to the beach pole. Hot Friday. The dirty South Friday. Hot Atlanta, baby. January 9th, 4.30 p.m. Number five,

Oregon Ducks. Against everybody's favorite ball coach, number one, Indiana. Um, who we got? Indiana. I got to go Indiana. I don't think I had watched one second of Indiana football all season.

And then I watched that Alabama. Indiana came and I was like, oh, they're, dude. They're good. Like, they are complete football team. He made a deal with the devil or something like that. They will hit you. They were, they were popping out. Why can they just make a deal with God, Trey?

That's because I just, I don't know. I guess you put up, but I don't know. There was a good line of him I saw an X and thought about you, Jeff. And someone posts him was like, you know, the people like being business people on there. And they're like, for anyone that's work for a large corporation, this will really ring home to you. But what's his last name? Confetti. Yeah.

Confetti. Yeah. Confetti. I haven't studied him enough to get his impersonation down. If he wins the national championship, I'll put glasses on and a zip up with no undershirt. and I'll give it a go. But he's like, yeah, I don't, he's like,

Monday, walk through. Tuesday, two hours, 45 minutes on the field, practice. Wednesday, two hours 45 to maybe three hours, practice. Thursday, light walk through. Friday, forgot what it was. Saturday we play.

I tell my staff all the time. When practice is over and your work is done, you leave. I'm not looking for your car. We're not one of these organizations that's looking around the parking lot, seeing who's still at work and saying until 10, 10 p.m., you go home. When you come in, you're prepared and you're ready, you know, something like that. And everyone was like, oh, yeah, took me and the Jeff Biggie back to our first battalion commander and don't play the parking lot game. Indiana.

So Indiana all the way around. I don't like when we all pick the same team generally not good. But we're all going to take it. Indiana's got the spread by three and a half, overrunners 46.5 points. I think it's probably spot on. I bet it's Indiana by touchdown and right at the 46.5 line. I think that's going to be the better game. I think they're both going to be really good.

True, but I don't know. Yeah. But you never know. I thought Indiana Alabama was going to be good. And it wasn't. Ohio State was going to be good. And it wasn't. SEC delivered in a thriller, though.

That's true. That's true. Should we go into the NFL? What else? Or you got more college updates. A couple real quick college. Is there a little beef developing between Lane Kiffin and Shane Beamer after it was the D-Line coach? I think Shane Beamer just talks like a 10-year-old a bunch of times.

Yeah. So does Lane Kiffin. Yeah. I mean, it's like. So I guess I'd put it to you this way. Lane Kiffin's stealing people from everybody. And why is my coach the only guy crying about it in a press conference? Like, you know, I would just, yeah, it's like,

right, you're coming off of what, five, what do we want, five games, four games? It's like, you don't get to whine. But yeah, he was throwing, you know, he's probably trying to get media coverage. He's throwing a little shot to like, yeah, usually get a phone call. I bet Lane Kippen. I felt like he was kind of. yeah probably he was a year

but I was like I don't know if I would have aired that out if I was Shane Bamer if like your D-line coach didn't even tell you hey man I'm taking I'm taking this job like been a pleasure blah blah blah like ooh that's not a good sign yeah losing the locker room

I guess before we move on from college I didn't watch the FCS championship oh man what a game what a game what a game but I saw the final Was it overtime? Was overtime.

I tuned in and is it Indiana State? Is that what it was? It was an Indiana school, wasn't it? Yeah, Indiana State. It was like the Redbirds. Montana State. I think they were down by two or three touchdowns. Montana State, one of last years, number two.

So immediately I'm pulling for Indiana State. Although Montana State's story's cool because they opened up the season 0 and two, you know, defending national champs and won the rest of their games. I also like FCS football. Some people don't, you know, like some people don't like women's basketball. They're like, yeah, they have a lot of system. So terrible. I'm like, yeah, but you know, it's like close games. It's sports. Fun to watch. I like FCS football. But yeah, so I was pulling for the redbirds. They came back. And it was a situation. It was the same thing with the Georgia game. And people made fun of me in the Slack channel where Georgia and Ole Miss were going back and forth,

but Ole Miss was getting the momentum back. And Georgia was going to kick that field goal. It was like fourth and three or fourth and two, whatever it was. And I was like, you should go for it right now. Like you should go for it. And I was like, yeah, right. And then they kick the field goal. They tie it.

And then, or no, they go up. And then Ole Miss, you know, storms down the field. And scores or takes overtime or whatever it was. So I thought the same thing with, and they're talking about how the kicker for the United States not good. And they roll them out there. he misses. He misses. And then

in overtime, he misses the PAT. And so then Montana scored and scored the BAT and got it. But yeah, it was a, yeah, that thing's on rerun like sometime this week when you're sitting on the couch. It's, it's fun football. It's fun to watch. Pandemonium.

Yeah. Do they still play that in Frisco? I think it's still like Nashville. Oh, it wasn't at one point in time. I think it rotates. I don't know how often at Vanderbilt. Now, Friscoe, is that near Clinton? Yeah, relatively.

Yeah. That's what I thought. Hopefully it's coming to Clinton, Texas soon. I hope so. Yeah. My unincorporated town needs it. They need it. They need it.

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You didn't say that. He did say that. It was such a good one. So nice he had to do it twice, baby. Anyway, why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Why not? Right off the rip. NFL, let's get to it. Ooh, boy. Playoffs,

playoffs are set. Yeah. How do you feel about the Pats? I'm feeling great about the Pats. At least the receiver or is he still gone? I mean, I don't think he was ever out. It's an allegation against an NFL wide receiver.

It sounds like a Tuesday to me. No, true. Innocent told proving guilty. Come on. Yeah, he's not, he's not suspended or anything that I've seen. Yeah, I think we, uh,

I think we'd be the, Chargers. Yeah, I feel confident, which I never like when I feel confident, but I think would be the Chargers. Home game. Drake May. Brable's got something going. Yeah, I like the Pats.

I like the Pats. Okay, okay. I hope we see a Bills. Man, I haven't watched that much NFL this year, but I've been kind of, I guess, loosely keeping up with it, but But yeah, man, they've had a pretty good year, so why not?

Yeah, I'll go with the Pats. I'll up on that train. Jeff? Yeah, sure. Oh, I mean, I think the Pats are going to win that opening round for sure. Okay, Bill's Jags. I like them. I like them.

God, I don't even know. I didn't even realize that Jags were good and, like, we're in the playoffs. But I got to go with the, I got to go with the bills, Josh Allen. I big Josh Allen guy, man. I like him a lot. Let me read you guys a review that came in this week. I lean forward. Five-star review on the Strenko Olympic Iron Barbell plates 335 pounds set.

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you bills, trade your bills. Oh, yeah. I'm for sure bills. Yeah. Rams, Panthers.

and Panthers are good this year? Not really. They have a losing record, right? I think they're eight and another. I was, I was probably going to pick Rams regardless. I'll go Rams. Yeah, I'm going Rams.

Go on Panthers. Give me the cats. Ooh. Okay. Packers and da bears. Dab bears. Oh, man. I'm obviously going on Green Bay,

but I don't know. I don't know. No Michael Parsons. It's a little rough. But Jordan loves to be back. So that's good. Got to be for something. So go pack, go.

Go pack. Go. Yeah, I want to go Packers just for Jeff, right? Out of solidarity. But I feel like the Bears have been pretty good this year. Yeah, bears pretty good. That was a close game you guys had against each other last time, right?

Yeah, yeah, it was pretty close. Pack-loss. Backup quarterback for most of the game. Is that Green Bay's biggest rival? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's most heated. They beat them earlier in the season and then lost them with the backup quarterback.

Rubber games. Rubber game. Three weeks. Yeah. So this is like a third time in the span of probably like a month-ish. So I'm going to be pulling for the Packers. I think it's a good game. I got the good.

My judge says bears, but my heart says Green Bay. All right. How about the 49ers versus the Eagles? 49ers are a hot team and there's nothing I like more than an Eagles loss. Give me the Niners. Same. Same. I'll be contrarian.

I'll go Eagles. The Eagles. All right. Here's your interesting one. Houston, Texas versus the Steelers. Steelers. That's just the brand getting to you right there. I'm saying that.

I like that Houston quarterback. Ohio State kid. Yeah, yeah. C.J. Stroud. C.J. Shroud. Like, I like him a lot. He's good.

I'm going, Texans. I don't know if I could name one other Texans player, though. Not that I can name a lot of Steelers players. J.J.J. Watt. Is he still playing?

Chedavian Clownie. He's retired. Oh, Clown. He's on the Cowboys. No, no, no, no. No, he's on the game. He's not what he used to play for the Texans. He actually had a really good game last week.

Dang. Give me a Steelers. See me Aaron Rogers. Yeah, I'm going to go Steelers. Make a note. I like their coach. Yeah, what do you say? You wouldn't be in the playoffs if they hadn't missed that kick.

And he said, yeah, if my auntie had male parts instead of female parts, she'd be my uncle. Did he actually say that? Yes. Then off camera, off camera, you hear a guy, okay,

we're going to wrap it up with that one. You know what? I kind of want the Steelers to win now, too, just because of that great quote. I really do like Mike Todd. Yeah. Oh, man.

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Okay. And if you take him in Columbia, what city are you going to parade him around in in a van? Yeah, yeah. Oh, San Francisco. Oh, okay. Was that what Newson, I can see that.

Man, that was wild. Objectively, no matter if you're for it or against it, U.S. military is pretty good. Oh, that was some awesome just America. I don't care if you're going to, you're forward or against it. either.

Like, that made me proud to be a Marine right there and there's no Marines involved that I know of. A lot of timing and sequencing and coordination. Like, you're like, I mean, I think the 22nd Mew

was involved. Yeah, 22nd Mew probably was involved. Yeah, based up where they are. Yeah, I mean, talk about putting the TEP to work. Ooh. Boy.

Can you imagine the team's calls before that thing? Can you imagine being in those and those staff briefs? I guarantee you the career planner was not out on physical therapy at the moment. Yeah, that was pretty awesome. What a great country. Yeah.

Yeah. Crazy stuff. That is pretty crazy, though. Yeah. I am the captain now. Hey, gas is about to be real cheap, you know? That's all I'm saying. Yeah.

I don't know. I don't know. I might go up. I probably will. They'll find a way to make you go up. Send Bitcoin to the moon. Uh, do we miss anything? That's all topics I got. All right. I feel like we're good.

I got no save rounds. Got any alibis tray? Zero alibis. Bring this thing in. for a landing. All right. And I am asking this legitimately, what episode is this?

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