The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP 93: Tree Trash, College Football Championship & Home Depot Squat Stands

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

In Episode 93 of The Okay Podcast, the guys break down college football, NFL chaos, lifting progress, and the timeless masculine instinct to solve problems yourself — even when it makes zero financial sense.From executive-level staff meeting parodies to Home Depot squat racks, tree trash, and fractional plates, this episode is a raw, funny look at competence, responsibility, and modern manhood.If you care about strength, self-reliance, and telling the truth without pretending it’s polished — this one’s for you.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 - Intro07:11 - Staff Brief17:46 - Outlying Stations23:37 - Podcast Tax Sponsors25:51 - The Rip31:07 - Home Depot Squat Stands35:40 - Sassy Comments From X42:54 - Tree Trash48:57 - Hot Wets52:41 - College Football Championship01:00:45 - NFL01:05:21 - Tres’ Picks of The Week01:10:14 - Sign Off

All right, welcome back to episode 09 tree. Zero nine tree. We are a killer. We could call for fire right now if you need a 09 tree of the OK podcast powered by the Stranko as seen on my blue shirt. Jordi fix it in post. This is a blue shirt. It's a black flag, but it's a blue shirt. Episode 093 of the OK podcast powered by the Stranko.

I'm your host, Grant Brogi. We're recording live from behind. behind the orange curtain, as they call it here in Orange County, California. But I'm not alone. I'm joined by guest. Before we get to that, the price of Bitcoin today is $92,309.76. So everyone we're in, don't worry. Okay.

When we get Greenland, we're going to mine so much Bitcoin. You're going to get tired of it. You're going to listen to the podcast just to hear that Bitcoin hit the moon. Okay. Every time we say it. So you just, it happens. So buy the dip. If you want to call this a dip, it's a dip to me.

Buy the dip. $92,000, $92,309.76. State's date is Monday, the 19th of January and the year of our Lord, 2026. And we just finished the national championship college football, which kind of brings this part of the show down to a close. We get to the Super Bowl. And then we're going to have guests again. We're supposed to have a guest today.

but we canceled on our guests. Usually we like to complain about guest canceling on us. We canceled on him. We said, hey, thanks for locking in that time slot two weeks in advance. We're the host. You're the guest. And guess what? The home team gets home team advantage.

So we cancel on him. He's for Texas. Speaking of Texas, yeah, per capita, per capita, per cap it up. Speaking of Texas, Trays from Texas, I can tell by the way he's two stepping around the room. And I'm going to guess that he's just. joined us from Marl, Texas. Is there Marlboro?

I feel like you guys smoke a lot of cigarettes. I feel like you guys smoke a lot of cigarettes in Texas. There's got to be a Marlboro, Texas. Cowboy killers, right? Yep. Yeah, I mean, there's a Marlboro. Maybe it's outlawed in Texas. I know that.

Ooh, that's a great city. Let me spell it like Marlboro. It's not that I know. Yeah. Or just spell it like Marlboro. Marlboro, Texas. Nope. No, doesn't exist.

I'm not seeing that yet. Okay. First time, guys, first time. There's the first time for everything. Indiana just won the national championship. Is that their first time? That's their first time, right?

Got to be. There's a, there's a neighborhood and clean. Marble Heights. Maybe that's where you're concerned. They're working on becoming an unincorporated township. I do. A gated neighborhood.

So there is a Marlboro, Texas. Right? I didn't say it had to be a city. Yeah, it looked like you're behind a gate right now. So I'm like six for six. Yeah, I'm six for six. And also joining us. So that's Mr. Robert,

Trey Gowlach, the third. He's got three girls under the age of three, which I think we can say for three years. And then one to them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, but I'm still right. Awesome.

From the grade, 3003 sounds better. It's better hashtag. I don't think anyone has hashtags anymore, but also joining us in the greater Salt Lake City area, um, someone might just call it Salt Lake, not me. Uh, currently not in a drilling status, major type,

uh, Jeffrey Biggie, biggie. You say it biggie like Smalls, um, future host of the Killer Bees, which is a kid's show, uh,

that people in Australia will watch and they will say like, it's really crazy. My kids watch. She's too amazing. American Marines dancing around the TV and sing about potatoes. And that's going to happen someday. I know it. I believe it. But yeah, episode 093, a lot to talk about.

We just finished the national championship. We totally synced it up. So right as the game ended, we would start the podcast. Because we're football guys. We're not going to miss the game. So congratulations to be the first one talking about it. Yeah, yeah, literally we're the first ones talking about. Congratulations to Indiana Hoosiers for,

you know, it's like, it's like you're excited about it. Hey, there's this team. There's this coach. He doesn't wear an undershirt under his V-necks, all that stuff. And then when it's like the national championship, you realize no one cares about this game. Like no one cares. No one's watching. I guarantee views were down. Like no one, no one cares because you didn't have the SEC in there playing.

Anyone could be my name. That's you could beat Miami against short grass. Okay, but you need an SEC team. Yeah, the ACC, you track and we almost had an ACC National Champion. Crazy. It was, it was in Miami

and Indiana had more fans there than Miami. Yeah, thanks Mark Cuban and Obama. Yeah, wait, is Mark, did Mark Cuban go to Indiana? What's his association? Yeah, he went to Indiana. The largest alumni, largest alumni,

Indiana, Mark Cuban. Google me. Mark Cuban transformed Indiana. Yeah, he just, he just crushed it. Why did Mark Cuban go to Indiana University? He went there because it offered the cheapest tuition among top business schools at the time, allowing him to get quality education and graduate in 1981 from the Kelly School of Business. Yeah, he also chose him for his large, their basketball program, which influences entrepreneurial journey. All that's right off the cuff. I didn't ask, chat, Grant, GPT, or anybody. But anyway,

today is a busy day, and it's one of those staff meetings where we're on a time crunch. It's one of those times where we tell you up front, hey, listen, guys, we're on a time crunch. And we'll probably still go for 90 minutes, so don't worry. Yeah.

And with that, I think I've gotten my druthers. as they say we're on the massonomics podcast uh i'll turn it over to three but first let me tell you this podcast brought to you by bw tax bw tacks llc.com we'll play a cool ad later somebody will nail it yeah i talked to b i talked to bw this week he's looking good he's looking trim he's he's he's lifting he's he's he's dadding and he's answering the phone when you call and he's he's always alive that's why his body is warm So BW Tax, we appreciate you keeping your body warm by breathing,

you know, always being alive. And with that, turn it over to the three. Okay, as alluded to earlier, we're on a time crunch here. All right, we've got to get in, get out, be bold, be brilliant, be brief, be beautiful, whatever the saying is. Okay, so I want executive level briefs from all shops here, okay, executive level. Everyone knows what that means. And I'm sure also we had the read ahead.

I'm sure everyone read ahead. There was the with the read ahead and the notes and the LOI that got distributed to the SharePoint. Hey, I really quick. Trash 5, Trash 6, sir, just so you know the slides that are there and your read ahead. I printed two hours before. Everyone actually updated the slides two minutes before. So all the slides in front of you right now, sir, are going to be out of date.

So don't, don't use those. Just look at the PowerPoint and rely on the executive briefs. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I get it. I get it. You guys doing the Lord's work. Appreciate what you do for the team.

Yeah, three. Three. Go ahead. All right. All right. Well, okay, take it over the one. Remember, we just want executive level, just, you know, big waftop items, big blue arrows. No little blue arrows or little green arrows or red arrows or any other color arrows.

We just want big blue ones. big blue ones. I'm trying to get you. Sir, I got my slides in on time, not to brag. But so whatever you're seeing, that's accurate. Nothing's really changed from that. I just want to say I'm really excited to hear Lieutenant Johnson. Is that the new S2 that we have?

I'm excited to hear his brief, sir. He really motivated me last week. So nothing really for the group, sir. Thank you. Very executive. Good brief. Okay, deuce, deuce, let's take it over to our lieutenant that has already garnered so much fame and notoriety around the battalion. Good evening, sir.

Good evening, Sergeant Major. Good evening commanders and staff of Trash Battalion. Lieutenant Johnson here, I just want to say really glad to be here today and to work. I just want to update you in the pucks that are around the globe and everything that's happened from a deuce perspective. Trump still wants Greenland. that's what that puck is. That's actually a hockey puck that I threw up there. And he wants Greenland. So we're probably going to get Greenland, which is really cool. I'm hoping I get to go over there and do some Intel, maybe bring them their first laminating machine when they become the 51st state. There's also another puck in Canada. We also want to take over Canada. And I've done some modeling with my S2 software. It looks like that we could actually take over Canada rather easily, kind of like how we did with the Gulf of Mexico, which is now the Gulf of America. We just said it's now the Gulf of America. America. So we think we get Canada. We think we'd get Greenland. There's a lot that I can't talk about today. It would be on the high side. But I want you guys to know that I put a new S2 briefing room at the

top of Sheep Beep Hill on Camp Pendleton. And so if you want to join me for PT, I'll run you to the top of the hill. Make sure you have T.S. SCI included. Come inside and I will brief you on the updates of what it looks like on America taking over the entire world. Besides that, sir, I have nothing further for the group. I did just run my PFT. I know it's only January. I got a 300 S2, sir, whenever you want to give me a call sign, I'll be happy to take it.

But for now, I'll just continue to be the deuce. Deuce out. Wow. Deuce. Good brief. We'll work on the executive level portion of that. But hey, you're young lieutenant there still went behind the ears fresh out of TBS and, oh, IOC, which we all know.

You won't let us forget that you did go to IOC. Yes, sir, I did go to IOC. I actually was second in my class. And my instructor told me to tell you that I was ridden hard and put away wet. I don't know what that means. I'm from Indiana. I think he was from Texas. So it probably has some kind of Texas meeting like a short or a long horn.

I'm really not too sure. But with that, sir, I'll, I digress. Okay, well, all right. We'll cover operations here. Good, good use of the word, digress. Excellent word. excellent staff word to use. Okay, I will ingress onto my brief, you know, as we do to the objective.

And trash is still the main priority. All right, we've got some new stuff coming down from PPNO and PPNI, D-D-D-D-C-I-G. A real quick, three, three, sorry, catch you off there, major trash six here. Trash six here. I just want to say there's things that I can't always say in this kind of platform. Deuce alluded to it. You got to get to the top of sheep, leap hill to get the good stuff. I just want to say you may see a secretary of trash Twitter handle,

and we're just calling them sec trash. Second trash. It's the trash priority is going above trash battalion. Okay. We're making real impacts. And that's because of what you guys do on a. daily basis is those harp forms. Okay. It's

those deox surveys. All right. It's that kind of stuff. And we're going to have a sec trash. Okay. Secretary of Trash and we're real excited about that. Okay. All right. Yeah. Trash sticks out. Thank you. Thank you. Trashix. Yep. Stop.

So a little bit of my thunder there. It's all right. I won't be bitter about it. I just she was going to announce the coming down. Well, you know, we got, let's just Check it over to the four, four shop, four shop,

you got it. Let's hear logistics. That's your try. So as far as the four shop, good news, bad news, we had some new dumpsters come back online,

probably three, but also bad news. Three other dumpsters also went down. So we're at a net zero on that. Getting ready for phase mode still outside of that. Real quick, just talk to me like I'm a, I'm sorry,

though, you stepped out. But when you say dumpsters go down, I mean, last time, a dumpster is just a large receptacle for trash, am I right? Like what exactly? I guess I'm just a little confused on what it is that's not work. Are we unable to hoist the trash into the dumpster? is the is there

new regulations or what kind of trash can go like what makes a dumpster go down oh yes sir when I grew up

where I grew up okay old core dumpsters didn't go down okay they just you just put more trash in them

no yes sir the I can get into a lot of details sir but yeah please do if you want me of course

yeah I want to talk offline. I want to talk now. Yeah, so there was a more admin that came down. Sidebar in front of everybody. Yes, sir, there was a more item that came down that basically said the service life of a dumpster was X amount of years. And once you hit that, that it then became trash at that point.

So that's basically what we're dealing with is that once they start getting close to that end of that service life, they are then trashed and then we are waiting for new ones to come back online. So we need to dispose of the- Sure, if I do not, yeah, I didn't write the more admin. Yeah. Listen, I'm not a more admin guy and you keep your jokes to yourself. Okay, this is an executive level brief jokes generally don't go well to executives. I want a white paper.

I want a white letter, white paper, use white paper. And I want you to write how to fix this problem. I'll make sure, you know, those that I know in the wings community, see it and we get that scene by top level eyes. Wings. That's where you say yes, sir, there. Oh, yes, sir, yeah. Major, yeah, okay.

All right. Great brief for, here we go. Kick it on down to the, any medical folks on deck here. We got our medical officer or dental, our dentist, chiefs. Nope, they're still with a goat locker. Okay, we'll kick it over to the S6. S6, what you got for us? I certainly nothing for the group this week.

Great, very executive. Great brief. Very executive. High level. Wow. Not getting, not getting down in the weeds, not reading off the slide. Great brief. Great brief.

Great brief. Love what you do, commo. Yep. Deuce. Hang, spend time, spends time with the six, okay. Spence time of the six. You're not, not often you get a comma with a 285. PFT so we're blessed here in Trash Battalion.

You spend some time six. Okay, well, we'll kick it over to any special staff. Sir, Major, you got anything, got any words of wisdom for us? Oh, oh, yeah, sorry, sir. I was just checking my phone. Let me see if any new mall admins come out since the meeting started. We've been working on the PME tracker. We got a new PME tracker.

And the PME tracker is just the most legit tracker we've ever had. in terms of P and me. And you remember that P&E is a priority for me and it's a priority for you. And if I'm talking about P&ME, then that means I'm interested. And if I'm interested, that means you're fascinated.

And that means that you're young devil dogs, uh, uh, freaking diegone hyper fascinated for P&E. So we got some new opportunities to go to sergeant's course. The same ones we've always had, but it's a new year. So we got new opportunities to go.

And don't forget, check up on your mental health. Uh, that's besides that sir i got nothing else for the group appreciate it uh sir major bobby bouche some great wisdom there from sorry major i hope you are all taking notes and you're you're right in the reins there uh good good good good to go good trash good trash okay we got some outline stations and then we'll kick around the room for any saved rounds alibis alibis and other things okay uh first outline station

former guest, good friend of the podcast, Big Daddy Shep, checking in, still driving, and okay, which for this podcast is technically on brand. And he's not wrong. He is not wrong. Yeah. Auburn, Auburn, Auburn, Auburn, Auburn, Auburn.

You just want to make sure that in 2026, it's the top word for the year. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, can't let that. Times there. Yeah, we want to keep that streak alive. Keep a good four to one race. I forgot.

Yeah, that was Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. I don't even know how it was Auburn, but it was Auburn. This is an Auburn podcast, right? Auburn. Auburn's so good. All right. Next up, Outline Station, we got Chaplin here.

Thank you for a big shout out last week for the potential future sponsor, Florida designs by Kay. I want to remind you. Oh, yeah. We did shout that out. I forgot about that. If you have any phops related to weddings, go ahead and make sure you connect with the flower six over teams.

Take care of that for you. Also, with all the walking talk going on, lately just remind you that we have a call to yeah i don't know how to say that uh therefore i the prisoner of the lord urge you to walk in a manner worthy of callings with which you have been called to all uh two with all humanity and gentleness with practice bearing with one another in love three being diligent to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace Not only should we be seeking out to get our 10,000 steps daily in the new year, we should be looking to make sure that the manner that we are walking in our life is honoring the Lord.

And that this is following. And that it is following after him. Walk worthy and secure that trash over. Is it a chaplain homework? I have no trash six here, chaplain. A little homework for you. Is there anything in the Bible that says running a mile every day is a sin? because I'd really like that verse right now to get out of this run of my little day.

So if you can just find me, a verse, yeah, yeah, thanks for what you do, chaps. I'm sure in some, yeah, some ancient translation somewhere at some point, yeah, that might be in there somewhere. So we'll go ahead. We'll get, yeah, like, we'll get AI searching for that. Yeah. Yeah. I've got the Massonomics.

Mastonomics boys checking in. Anyone ever wonder why simple or why simple guard duty is called Firewatch? How often do random fires really start? Never seen one in all the times I was on Firewatch. But maybe us watching is all that it keeps or all it actually takes to keep fires away. It really makes you think. Yeah. I never really did wonder why it was called Firewatch.

She should be called like drunk watch. Drunk watch. Yeah, suicide watch. Just miserable watch. All right. And the last outline. Outline station is from another former guest and friend of the podcast, Andy Herbert. He says, are we still promoting BW. tax?

It sounds like he's not listening. Can I still call you XO? sounds like maybe he's not a listener anymore. Yeah, that's what I'm hearing. I got some outlying stations that I think I could pull up. We get some comments on Spotify. If you're not watching on Spotify, you can actually watch the video on Spotify.

So make sure you go do that. If you're not watching on, uh, frigging dag on YouTube, you should be watching on YouTube. Really, if you're not watching the podcast, you're only getting about 99,

percent of the value. And we want to make sure that you get the last 1%. So you want to make sure you go and watch it. Turns out I can't pull up the comments, but the comment was something along the lines of from

Tim Bain, future guest, fan of the podcast. It was something along lines of can't wait for Mrs. Brogie to come up with, I'm paraphrasing. But like, basically he's obviously a Patriots fan. He's from Hanover Mass. so he likes Drake May's wife

bake miss which was where she baked every day for Christmas and he wants my mother to do that where it said something about a pound cake. I think she says Trey a pound cake shirt up yet. Has my mother failed on that? It was Abby's hidden it from me. It's probably in the mail with your paycheck. Yeah.

Oh, the paycheck. Yeah, it's coming. Yeah, it's in the mail. Anyway, so we appreciate the comments on Spotify. We're going to be better. real soon. Maybe we'll talk about Starlink in the show, but I'm just telling you, we're going to be better soon. I'm going to have my device with all the answers to life in my hand, probably by next week when we record, and we'll be able to get you those comments. But yeah, all right.

Episode 093, we're on a time crunch, so we only did a 24-minute intro versus a 30-minute intro. You're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah, but I mean, we wouldn't want to forget the outlining stations. no, we can't. They're just important, right? They're, hey, they're dispersed across the battle space. So we need to know that they still are a part of the team, one team, one fight, Ura. All right.

Real quick, we kind of touched on a little bit with that last outline station. I've been hearing a lot of tax sponsors popping up on various podcasts. Have you really? And I just want to say, like, those tax people that they're promoting on those are amateurs, right? They're not, they're not worried about taxes 365. They're not trying to get the word out there, 365 days a year like BW is. So stay away from tax. Well, I wouldn't even name their names, but certain, you know, high profile tax websites.

Don't worry about those. Let's just do a sidebar real quick. and I'm curious now because we are now what we would call an executive level podcast with the amount of listeners that we have. What kind of other podcasts have tax people? Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan, he's got a tax guy? Yeah. It's not BW?

I'm shocked. I was shocked as well. Was it a turbo tax? It was either that or tax slayer. I was one of those. Slayer. Yeah. Yeah.

Good name. Yeah. They're popping up. They're popping up. But, you know, BW is way better. They're not dedicated to the craft like BW is. Well, you can't guarantee they're always alive either. That's true.

You don't know how warm their bodies are. Never know. Probably cold. Imagine a cold guy doing your taxes. Frozen hands. Can't even. I haven't even still out. Can't even feel.

It's the worst. It's the worst. I hate it. Shaking so much. He's, you know, hitting eights instead. a sevens and zeroes of nine how many dependents yeah he's like getting stopped by red tape instead of just like plowing through it uh yeah don't listen to joe rogan watch you listen to that guy yeah so what do you know in afleck okay you want to bin aflick memes you just call me all right don't need to

actually listen to ben aflick on joe rogan That was a good episode, though. Ben Affleck, Matt Damon. Yes, so I've done Joe Rogan. Like, I've always done Joe Rogan. I've never watched Joe Rogan or listened. I just, like, watch the five-minute clips wherever they find pop up.

For me, it's usually X. And so, no, I feel like I can confidently say great episode with Ben Affleck, where in reality, I probably consumed 11 minutes of it, and I'm sure it was like 19 hours long. But, yeah, I feel like I got to kiss. Yeah. It's good.

It was good. Yeah. Two and a half. Maybe I'll watch the whole thing. What's, what's their new movie that they were promoting? The Rip Ito. Oh.

The Rip, the Rip. Yeah, the Rip. Yeah, watch the Rip. I watched the Rip. Do you watch the Rip?

Oh, I haven't seen it yet. I have not yet. No. Okay. Uh, you know, I talked to some folks that watch the rip. So I actually still rip a lot because they interact with starting strength

account a lot of neck. and they kept making memes about like the rip and it was like Mark Ripettel which is like good on him there was a show coming out called the brogue I'd be doing the same thing oh yeah um and I think people had like really high expectation here's what I would say and I could be wrong of this I'm a guy that grew up and watched like four movies before the age of 18 so it was like davy crockett davy crockett the river pirates Daniel blue and like five will go west. Swiss Family Robinson.

You're right. There was five. Swiss Family Robinson. Sound of music. There's probably 10. Sound of music. Yeah, that was there.

Five will never went east, which was weird. He always goes west. Always goes west. Yeah, land before time. There's like 10. Ten commandments is a funny one because,

you know, we actually had some theological differences with some of the way of things were portrayed. So like, we watched it, but we fast forward to, through, you know, areas. You critique some of it.

Yeah. Yeah, we'd stop. We do a Bible study in the middle. Same with the Jesus film. Got some, you know, issues with that. Left behind, though, was cool. Let's just watch about us all getting chased around by the Antichrist. That'll make nine-year-old sleep great.

In any event, in any event, I forgot where I was going. So when I hear that a movie has top-level actors and is not being released in theater, And like I want to say I'm also very pro not being released in theaters. You know what's great about it not being released in theaters? I don't have to get off of my butt. I don't have to plan. I don't need a babysitter.

I can just like sit on my couch and I can decide like I'm going to pay $7.99 to buy this movie. And if 30 minutes in the movie, I'm not interested, I'm just like sunk cost all done. It would have been $50 to go see the movie. Which I know Netflix's subscription is different. Say I'll say,

when I watch a Netflix movie in my mind I'm like this has the potential to be a good movie but it's like a different thing it's like down a category you know like the town good fellas you know a lot of these movies

they're like generational movies like I will watch them over and over and when I watch a Netflix movie it's like I'm going to watch this one time I hope for a hundred and you know 20 minutes I really enjoy this And then that'll be that. That'll be done.

And I think the rip is a totally fine, entertaining movie that you'd watch one time. I was entertained. I don't have any one-liners. I don't want to pretend to be anyone from the movie. It's just like, yep, that existed. I watched it and we're done.

That's like, you can see it once. And you're like, that's good. Yeah. Like if you didn't watch it, you didn't miss anything. Yeah. But if you watch it, you're going to like it. You're going to be like a good movie. Yeah. No, it's got. I mean, better than Star Trek. Yeah. Whoa. There's something new with Star Trek last night and it was up last night. I don't know. Yeah, there's something new. There was a playoff game. Playoff game ended. Go to bedtime. Come back from bedtime. There's like things going on like whatever channel you're on like Fox or CBS. And now it's like doing golden Emmys or I don't know. But there was like people on there doing. Do you. like Spock fingers and Star Trek and I was like oh man I love Lord you correctly you correctly identified that as Spock fingers I'm impressed what do

they say when they do this they say something live long and prosper oh there you go yeah live long and prosper because it's like I love you live long prosper yeah that was the original the ages original cut but they uh They changed it. Bye-bye. Yeah. Need the director's cat. Bye-bye.

All right. Should we start the show? Yeah. Let's get this show started. I think we should. I think we should. Let's hear it. Well,

let's get a tray lifting update. That's what the people are here for. Let's start this episode off right. This same old. I missed a couple of. days just due to, you know, children being sick, but... Have you lifted since the last recording? Yeah, correct.

I have. Nice. Yeah. So still on that, I guess, consistency, but nowhere near as far as... It's more of just a maintaining program and not really... I'm not really making giant jumps. That's all right. At this point.

So, yeah. Consistency. Consistency is king. Yeah, it really is. You know, I think, um, not just because I want to sell more plates, but I do have more empathy, sympathy, uh, per capita than I used to in terms of it's definitely more difficult with a child and a wife and work and it's like, you know, lifting can become a thing that, uh, you know, it's like you lift for you,

but like you don't, you lift for your family. Um, but I got some weights in my house. I got some weights in my gym. I can walk to my gym. So it's like very close. And, uh, today I broke out. I was at I was going to live this morning. My child's been sick, uh, kind of threw off my routine, went to work and wanted to go to the gym in the afternoon, but then like had to get back home. And I just thought, I can do something here at the warehouse. And I, uh, rolled out the old Home Depot, uh, squat stands that, uh, Jeff and I used to have an old home gym. I mean, not the exact ones that Jeff and I had, uh,

It's probably like Gen 3 of, I mean, I think I've made, and I don't say this, like, oh, I've made this many, but I'm just trying to, like, provide perspective. I have probably made 1,000 Home Depot buckets, so 500 sets of, like, some type of 2x4 or 4 by 4 with concrete poured into it. I probably made, I probably made 500 sets, maybe more, maybe more, like, but I can confidently say 1,000. and there was a time when the 2020 nonsense ended and people would call the Strength Co and be like, hey, I paid for this like Home Depot squat rack. I don't want it anymore. Can I return it? And I thought they wanted money.

And I'm like, no, like you can't return it. And they're like, no, no, no, I don't want. They're like, I don't want money. I just don't know how to throw this thing. way. It's like seven feet tall in the concrete. And I would be like, well, figure it out. Right. And people would tell them like cut it in half and like throw it in a, you know, a trash can on the street, like just figure it out. And some people, I would just come to the Strength Co warehouse and there would just be Home Depot bucket squat racks out back. I'm not kidding. Probably I would

say 10 sets, people just literally drove up and just dropped it off. So then there was a home. So then there was a time where I saved all of them. So I had like tons of them. And then one day I was like, this is stupid. Like I sold it. I have it back. It's like,

do I save the Homer bucket? It's like a way to like cut it concrete. And I'm just like, stop. So I just cut them all in half, threw them in a dumpster from South Carolina. So I don't do that kind of stuff. But I saved one set.

And Gn 3 had drill pressed holes all the way down through the thing so that you could adjust the bolt. height and yeah in any event long story short it's crunch for time i was like i got to get something in i rolled those bad boys out i found some bolts uh i threw it together i put my old b and r birdgeron a ripato bar on there i had some 45 pound bumpers that had been returned there's nothing wrong with them uh i loaded 315 i squad a five by five and uh took me back you know it took me back took me back took me back But I sell it to say, what you need is you need a squat rack everywhere. Need them in your house.

You need me in your nursery. You need your church. You need me in your gym. You need your garage. You mean your backyard. You know what that means? It means you need more plates. Cast iron bumpers.

You name me. Need more barbells. I'm your guy. Give me a call. We'll set you up. Love it. Love it. Okay.

Okay. I want to hear these X. We didn't hit it last time. We got crunched on time. We were not doing an executive level brief last time. But this time we did. So we've got the extra time. You know, we traded time.

Yeah. We traded space for time. So we've got time. Now we need to exploit the surfaces and or exploit the gaps and, you know, and stay away from the surfaces and all that stuff. Yep. Yep. So let's get an X update. Like the comments.

Good. Let me get to X. Oh. I'm on there. I'm looking for some interesting ones. So I generally, if I squat. I say for those about to squat, I'm looking for one that has a lot of comments.

All right, here's one. I haven't even read through these. I mean, I may have, but it's at 4.45 this a.m. I was deadlifting 445 pounds, but I'd throw in some muscle confusion and say 445 this a.m. But obviously it's not 445 in the morning. Someone says, solid time to train.

I've been plateaued at the damn 445 range forever, my fellow 4-45er. I said to add two and a half, you'll be fine. Lies, no way it's that early in the morning with so much sunlight in your face. Morning workouts give you more energy for the day. How much sleep did you get the night before? Ra!

This is where I want to be in 12 weeks. Nice work. How does it affect you the rest of the day? Always inspiring, man. Jesus Christos. Effing, well done, man. That one's not very interesting. I thought there was going to be something better. Here's one that kind of went viral, like weirdly.

I was in the warehouse shipping stuff, and I took a photo of 1.2-5s and 0.7-5s, like just like this is like four little iron plates sitting on table. And I just say, believe it or not, this is what you actually need to get strong. And, you know, I'm just like in there trying to do stuff.

It's got 27,000 views. 415 likes, 46 comments. I might be ordering those. you soon. I actually bring my own to the gym. The old school gym where I used to train, those are called record breakers. 100% correct. Progressive increase each week, set the stage for growth. Yep, got a full set at our SS Houston gym does too. I actually use the strength co place today, game changer. I have them. I use them. Probably more workouts than not. I think trash six had these thrown out at the gym, sir. So that's a listener there. His name is greasy

So whoever you are, greasy. Oh, good on Mr. Salad. Yeah. Fractional plates. It's a little greasy. Fractional plates and the okay sign, probably another listener. For some reason, Jims don't stock up on these. Got to get me some of those 0.7-5s.

The infamous equalizers, you think your first max attempt was easy until you throw on these. Some of these are in stock. I got some $9 pair with free ship colored ones, in quotes, colored. We're in stock as of earlier. and he links Walmart. And I wrote back, dude, buy American and a bunch of people liked it. Two and a halfs, absolutely.

But if you're using those, you're staying in the 65 to 80% range of one rep max range, which is where max gains happen. I replied, ha. The two things that Mincer, Coltis, GVT, and Soviet-style Olympic training all agree on, broadly speaking to principles of progressive overload, working in that range maximizes muscle and strength grades. If you can't bump an increment of five and stay in that range, you were at the lighter weight long enough. Short term gain, long term loss.

I said five pound jumps and overhead press a lot. We might agree to disagree. I maintain that even in OHP, it is five pound bump too much to crank out last five good rep. Either you, one, weren't working right range previously or two, weren't there long enough. I wonder where the gladiators lifted. Come on, Grant. We'll be able to buy plates in South Africa. Where do you inject those?

Yeah, I told them you can do it now, brother. Where do you inject those? I said, butt cheek. Those donuts are frosting. These work better for me than I'd like to admit. I would put these on my dick. The heaviest weights in the gym. Heaviest plates in the gym.

inch by inch, yard by yard, the gades of cur. Amen. You aren't lifting until you are doing fractional math. Tiny imperceptible growth adds up fast. Feels like nothing, but it's everything. Those are the heaviest plates out there. I'd like to hear more. Yes, progressive overlord for the win.

Weighted cock rings, question mark. Fractional plays have made press progression continue. The five pound jump was too much for me. Smaller jumps still go fives, three, five reps and three sets progression i've had them for as long as i can remember do you mean progressive overload waits question mark thanks for that invo i'm i need a longer bar double progression is cheaper i call them baby plates this is how you progressively overload just because you use the word actually doesn't mean it's true six million dollar man more is more we like more

er no phitomics shadow light dubbell for the win the narrows how many comments are there got a whole set of them not sole walker 100% and then someone just posted a lady in a cowboy hat sitting on a truck bed and it says if you know you know those are 46 comments there you go that last one was pete hits sick yeah yeah formerly sec trash So there's at least two Marines in there. There's at least two Marines in there talking about cock rings. Sorry, but like Marines would just, yeah, they just make those kind of comments. Yeah.

Probably a chaplain. Yeah. Yeah, probably a chaplain, though. Probably a chaplain. Yeah. It's pretty cool. I like the one before were pretty cool. The one before were, it was a, was a,

445, 45, 445? 445, yeah. 445 AM and everyone's like, just folks on the time. No, no. There's way to more sign like the angle of the sun that is coming. That's not.

That's a fourth. Where are you looking? Are you in Okinawa? So yeah. So yeah. It's entertaining. I still like, I still like the one before where people were a little bit sassy.

yeah i got a squat i got to open up a squat one the squat one i love i love the sassy comments man those are those are probably my favorite sassy comments little sass and it's good you know a little sass um let's see let's see what can we let's tree trash that was that was that was i was curious about that top one in all caps tree trash just a little bit like trash sicks uh i'll keep it breath That's just a story. Executive level. Yeah, executive level.

I got a backyard, have a big tree in the backyard that is a fiddly fig. Ficus family grows really big. You've seen it. Jeff, Tray, you've seen it. Drop big leaves. In any event, had some crazy storms. Two branches fell on my neighbors. When you walk outside and they got like the,

wooden slatted like doesn't actually block the sun but you could like grow plants on it there's yeah they got one of those so two branches fell on that uh she's probably i'm gonna say 75 to make sure that i didn't overshoot but you know what i mean by that and she said hey this this thing broke it's on mine could you could you get it for me i had a guy come do an estimate i can't remember if it was three or $350 to remove them. And I said, don't you worry about that. I'm from South Carolina, okay? I got that.

25. Yeah, and I'll just do it. It's my tree fell on your property. This is California. I got you. And then it rained for like five days and you have a child and a wife and a lot of things. All of a sudden I was like, man, it's been like three weeks and I have not removed these things. And so to hold myself accountable, I knocked on her door one day.

And I was like, hey, tomorrow morning. I am going to take care of that. So if you hear me coming through your back gate, that's me. Don't freak out. She's like, thank you. I couldn't find my saw. I found it today. Of course, I did this a week ago.

I found this all today in the warehouse. But I couldn't find my saw. So I go to Home Depot. That's where we shop. And I'm looking at all the saw options. I kind of wanted to buy like an electric one, but like I don't need that. So I just bought like a Stanley, like $11, like, you know, wood saw. I buy it.

bring it home, everything set up. I have a 10.30 meeting, whatever morning this was. I'm out with the baby on a walk, get my 10,000 steps, come back in, and it's like 9, 10. My meeting's five minutes away, but I need to like shower and stuff. So I'm like, okay, I get an hour, 20 minutes. I'm going to take care of these limbs. So I go, I climb the percolup, pergola, whatever.

I get up there and I'm on the roof. I'm in like flip-flops, chanclas, and like, massonomic squat shorts, and I'm, like, leaning because it's, like, falling, but it's still attached, and I'm, like, saw it. But I'm like, man, if I saw this thing and I let it fall into her yard, then I have to drag it through my yard and, like, all the way, I got to, like, retain the tree so I can throw it on the front of the house. I can, like, walk across the roof and, like, throw it on the front side of her house. Then when I get down, I can just carry it all the dumpsters. So I do it, and I throw it down, and I'm like, let me get this other one. I grab it.

and I throw it down. I'm like, you know, this one's like blocking a lot of sun from my house. Let me get this one. And I throw it down. Like, you know, and I'm just like, and I'm up there. And I'm just sawing stuff. I'm sweating, you know, like crazy. I'm covered in, you know, I don't know, you know, when you tree limb.

Crap. Yeah. And I'm just, I'm just going. I'm like, this is incredible. I'm just walking across someone's roof, throwing huge tree limbs down to the sidewalk. And I cut and I cut and I cut and I'm like, okay, I need to stop. stop cutting so that I have time to put all these things in the dumpster. So I go down in front. Well, first I'm like, hey, babe, hand me the blower. I'm like up on the roof with a blower.

I'm like, man, being a man is awesome. I'm like basically in my underwear just like blowing stuff, cutting stuff. Go around to the front. There's like six feet high, all this tree debris. I'm picking it up. I'm holding it like this is a perfect time of day. The HOA is not here to be mad at me. I'm like separating it and all the different dumpsters because it's California. and I can't just like start a fire like we would do in Texas. I'm getting it in. Overload this one dumpster. I get on top of the dumpster.

I'm jumping on it. I'm stuffing the trash down. I'm making more cuts so everything fits. Then I get my blower. I'm blowing off everyone's sidewalks. Leave no trace. You know, it's like a Delta force going in, getting the guy in Venezuela,

just in and out, just taking casualties. And I'm walking back to the house. I'm like, man, it's so great to be a man. like what it's just awesome you just like cut stuff you just do stuff walk back to the house diana's in the porch she sees you're like your arms bleeding i'm like yeah it bushes you know she's like your meetings in like 10 minutes and i go yeah i wish i just paid the guy 300 bucks a lot of tree trash yeah no i'm kidding yeah that's yeah my dad always does the math I mean, you paid him $300 and then so you basically made $300 an hour.

Yeah, but damn, what about like all the work I could have been doing? Well, we don't think about it that way. You could have made, you basically made $300. Okay. That's okay. It's very cool math. He's made $300. Yeah, made $300.

Yeah, made $300. Yeah. That's good stuff. Yeah, we're getting really to the heart of all the good episodes. Yeah. We got a lot of listeners tuning for our tree trash talk. Tree trash, yeah. It's exciting.

Trash. You're here first, folks. I had the little chow talk thing spooled up. Do we want to wait? Do we want to do that with the guests? Yeah, push you to the next week. Okay, I like that.

I like that. Pushing chow. Pushing chow. Okay, okay, good to go. Good to go. Check. Quick, this is, this kind of falls under chow talk. And I was messaging a little bit with Lance Corporate about this one.

It seems like the Chicago Bears might have a former food service marine on staff somewhere because there was definitely a picture of some hot wets on the sideline. They had some hot cocoa and I think some like chicken broth or something like that. It was in the classic like hot wet, like, okay, you go get the food line. They've got coffee or, you know, wherever. It's like coal. Was it brown or green? That one's broth.

one of them was brown and the other one had like this like sleeve on it you could tell okay hey this is the Chicago Bears organization they've got a little bit more money to throw around yeah so it was like a thing to probably like insulated a little bit more so it didn't lose all the heat um Lance corporate if you're not follow him go follow him potential sponsor yeah love a good potential sponsor what's his old name Lance Cassman it was way better Lance Captain, USMCR. That's it. We love you, Lance corporate, but, man, once you got a good thing going, just keep it going.

Yeah, right. That's what we've always said. He's still doing all right. Nice. I think he's doing fine. It counts bigger than everyone. Yeah. We got to act like we know more than he does.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. I have a feeling we're about to talk about. I'm going to bring out this. I love you. A little mini helmet right here. This is a riddle speed mini helmet with a visor for people that are cheap.

For people that like their friends. This is from the Navy Army Navy game in 2021. Mr. Helmut said recently to me that he almost has the Marine Corps licensing for everything. There's going to be some new Marine helmets coming out. So you can do that. You can do a custom helmet. Maybe you got a unit that your buddy was the commander of.

commemorate it with a little custom helmet or maybe you got a team that you like even though you just like mediocrity defined but you hang your hat on three 11 one seasons back to back to back and you wish you could remember those with a visor but your buddy just no visor no visor no protection of the eyeballs yeah no yeah you could get it's a throwback a full back would wear this get a lot It's got a chin strap on there, but go get yourself a helmet. You know, just get a helmet. I don't know why you need it, but you probably need it. Get a full-size helmet, a small helmet.

Get a visor. Don't be cheap, okay? Upgrade that thing. Get the helmet. If you make a bet with someone, make sure that you clarify if the visor is included or not. Yeah. Or one person will never hear the end of it. Yeah.

We appreciate green gridiron, gridiron, Mr. Helmet, for sponsoring the podcast in keeping the bodies warm and the lights on. The lights are on. Can't confirm. I am warm. I'll be realized just going forward, you'll never get a visor out of me, no matter what. I mean, you will always, you will just get helmets, no visors. Or what if you just get visors now?

Yeah, that's true. If I could only buy visors now, that's all. It would be better is if you bought the visor but didn't pay the assembly fee. and then I would technically have the visor but would never figure out how to put it on and I'd like he bought me the visor but that is true.

Patriots won a Super Bowl. I'm going to buy a little Patriots mini helmet for over there. I feel like you need one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right. Let's do. Let's do sports start. Let's get them sports. Yeah. You want to talk pros or do you want to talk

amateurs even though they're definitely not amateurs? I think let's run through college real quick. Since we recorded, do we only have the championship game or was there another? I think that's it. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Did you watch it, Trey? I caught

parts of it. Okay. I had to go. I'd go walk in the middle of it. That's the worst. Jeff, did you catch it? I was listening. I was listening to it. Miss, well, I saw a little bit of the first

half. We were doing like a top golf thing for Kiley's. Pretty good game. party. But saw most of the second half and that was where all the excitement was. So yeah, I mean, it was pretty good game. So Indiana I think we're all looks like the better team. Yeah.

Yeah, I. Close game though. Good game. Intentionally, I did the squats right as kickoff was happening. I was like, I'll get him. I'll be a second half guy. I catch my buddy or I text my buddy, Caleb, Caleb Smith, friend of the podcast. And anytime there's a game on any game, any sports game.

And you want to text someone, you can text him and you know he's watching it. He's like that kind of guy. And I was like, I'm be a second half guy. Let me know, you know, keep me up to date. And I watched most of the second half. I saw the excitement like Mendoza, fourth and five. Cigarette decides to go for it, you know, goes to that big play, jumps into the end zone.

What I didn't see, because I was coming out here to fire this up. And when, when, when you said game over, I assume. like a play happened that was like, oh, they didn't convert that. I mean, I know what game over means, but my point was, or my question is, you didn't know what I meant by it.

Did Miami, did Beck, like, drive down the field and was there a shot? Because when I stopped watching, Miami was getting the ball, what were they down by three? Yeah. Or four?

Three. So they were down by six. Six. And then did they're down like six? and had the ball with about what a minute, a little less than a half, I think. I think, down six, yeah. Some of it says, yeah, somewhere around there. Yeah, under two.

They drove down. Yes, they drove down. They had some good place. They got a rough in the pass for penalties, so I got 15 yards. Debatable. True. Got a, yeah, got a first down, got a couple passes. I think they made it up to like the, I think Indiana's 40, between their 40 and 50.

Yeah, they were around. So they were on, yeah, they had just passed midfield. And he, I mean, that's tough to do against tall grass. True. And he went for a little bit longer pass and then just, I think just missed and during an interception. Yeah. It was just. Yeah, defensive back made a good just kind of, I think kind of baited him into that throw and had some help over the top.

So he's undercut the ball and picked it off. I didn't know. It was like pretty much Indiana's team is all like my age. So, yeah. Just some old boys on there, dude. If this is like a one and done type thing or they can sustain this. Like I feel like Signity seems like a good coach. But how much this was like was this like this magic mix of like getting some key transfers and then that like big yeah transfer of all the GMU players that he kind of brought with them.

I'm going to be interested to see what an Indian a dozen. Yeah, I think you'll be good. Like, I think they'll be relevant. I don't know if they're going to be like national championship contenders. I honestly hope from here on out, like we have two brand new teams that are in the national championship next year. They're pretty soon. That like no one would think about. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. Like South Carolina or South Carolina versus Auburn. We already know it's Auburn. You think Auburn could do it. I think they could do it. I think they could do it. Yeah.

Guys, we've got to say Auburn a couple more times. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn.

Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Podcast, baby. That's where we are. I don't know. I do.

I did like that. How it's just like two teams at the beginning of season that you were like, oh, I would not expect these two teams to make it. So I thought that was pretty cool. So. Miner. It seems late. My brain's totally on NFL.

Like it was hard to tune in today. I'm like, I've switched gears back to our college football should be done at the first of the year. It's true. I'm kind of with you. Like, yeah.

Dude, it's like I have like 100% switch gears. I'm pro football. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because what? Like when it was the BCS, like there'd be the,

January 1st. Yeah. Well, the New Year's games, New Year's Day games, and then like the fourth. It'd be like the fourth. It'd be like the Monday.

Yeah. That's it. Or like whatever. Yeah. If it was like a, I don't know what. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. But it was like that next weekend. So it didn't drag on like this. So if they can, if they can sync it up so that January 1st, New Year's day is the college football national championship. Like that would. I think the first week,

because this is, I mean, even where it is right now, and I get it like the NFL's not until February but I still feel like college fan base is different but like okay you get people go into Thanksgiving

no one works in December you go into Christmas the week between Christmas and New Year's no one does anything and then like sure you got New Year's resolutions and people like starting like one January but like people are still on vacation still traveling back home

I feel like it's middle of January where everyone's like all that's over and like I'm actually in the new year. And it's like, why are you throwing me a game on a Monday at 9 p.m. on January 19th? Like, I got stuff to do, you know? Yeah. No one listens to us. I mean, actually, like a lot of people do every week, but they don't implement what we say.

Like important people make decisions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Secur might listen. Once he finds out like set trash. easy to go. Yeah.

Oh, my priorities have been off. I need to rewrite that guidance. You guys think you think you guys think sex trash is available on Twitter? Let's see. I guess it's technically it's SEC trash. It's called it's maybe some big trend guy. It's called the SEC sucks. Would you be scared to play South Carolina?

Neither is anyone else. No, we won't respond back. haters go burn your trailer instead join july 2014 location the south following two 146 shots fired i love here's this here's this tweet from december 3rd 2014 Alabama fans living on titles one with their leather helmets when army was on top while conveniently forgetting about price to beaux shula years l o l anyway whatever trash. I guess that's hard. But we'll get it. I'll get it. Don't worry, fans.

I'll get sex trash. Yeah, we'll reach out to that guy. We'll, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you don't have to. Now you can just pay money. You can just pay money and buy handles that aren't used now. Oh, if it's like, yeah, if it's like dead. It's like an old handle. It's like

yeah. Yeah, Elon fixes everything. Fixes internet. You know. Good for him. It's incredible. Good for him. Should we talk NFL? Go some NFL picks. Let's do it.

Did you guys watch DeBair's last night? I watched a decent amount of it. Did you watch Caleb Wilson, Williams? Williams. Did you watch him run 20 yards backwards? And then just at the last second turn and heave it and throw a dart touchdown? I saw that.

Yeah, I made me want to paint my finger. That was insane. And then he threw up. Lost the game by throwing a. pick. Yeah. I was like, I can't. I guess three picks that game. Yeah, bad. But I mean, hell to play. Can't

tonight that. Yeah, cardiac bears. So we got Ram, Seahawks. Seahawks looked really good. Dude, they did. And we got past. What was the final score that one? I missed. I missed. I was 41 to six. Yeah. 41. It was, it was

could have been worse. They ran back the opening kickoff for a touchdown. And then And dude, they just beat the living crap out of them. It was, I mean, it, it was a beat. And like 49ers are like a hot team. They were pretty bad. Pretty banged up, though.

A lot of, a lot of players out. And I think they kind of like hit that point where it was like, oh, yep, turns out when you don't got five of your 10 best players, yep. Kind of need to be. to go up against, you know, another team that's hot right now in the playoffs. I guess are you projecting a Seahawks Patriots showdown right now? I think we had to do picks. But before we do picks, I will say, because I mean we had to trace picks the weeks.

I will say Patriots fans, a lot of people were texting during the game, a lot of Pat's fans. and before we played the Texans, everyone's talking about Bo Nix breaking his ankle. And they're like, we're going to the Super Bowl. And I was like, we got to be the Texans. And like, I am really nervous about the Texans, which we did. And then now people are like, you know, all the non-fans are like, easy path for you guys to the Super Bowl. And it's like, I don't know.

Isn't the Denver quarterback and Auburn guy? He is. I mean, once. Well, Bo Nix once was, but then, yeah,

Jared Stittam was a Baylor transferred to Auburn guy. Yeah. Had a couple good things. I liked him when he was there. Like, couldn't. I don't know.

But you see the backup quarterback? Yeah. So it may be, it may be my childhood. Which is watch, watch Green Bay, decimate the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

and then 2001 watch Drew your your oh and four and watch Drew Bledsoe get injured and you think like we're just we're just doomed we're just we're just terrible for the rest of our life and then here comes this backup quarterback named Tom Brady who does it so like I don't know how Patriot fans are so like oh we're just going to walk through them they don't have their quarterback it's like the dynasty was built on the backup quarterback coming in and being great so I I feel like I'm more nervous. Yeah. It's like,

hasn't there been a, isn't this script played out where a backup quarterback beat the Patriots in a Super Bowl? So it's like, yep, I also playing in Denver is always tough. True. You know,

everyone talks about playing places that are tough, but like, I think Chicago Soldier Field was the real deal. I think they're the last people that don't heat the field. Oh, interesting. the New England game was even sloppy in New England, but they heat the field now. So there's like less snow, but it was sloppy. I mean, there was a Drake May at three like pass slash fumbles.

Like, you know, cock in the arm gets hit kind of deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So cold weather ball, definitely a thing. I said to my wife during it, I said, I've done so many things in the Marine Corps that are so cold and I hated them. And I can't imagine like playing football. That would suck. But altitude. Terrible.

Altitudes, that's a whole, that's a whole new thing. So I don't know. I'm not counting. I think we win. Like I do believe the Patriots can make it to the Super Bowl, but I don't think it's a shoe in. But now it's time for Trays. Picks of the week where we pick,

as we've always done every year, the AFC and NFC champions and predict your Super Bowl so that you know what you're doing in February. and me, Grant Broji is going to start us off. I got the Pats beating the Broncos in a much closer game than you want, 2724. It's going to be tied towards the end. Pat's going to keep a field goal and true Patriot fashion,

probably a 54 yarder. They're going to win 2724. And I got the Seahawks beating the Rams. And I need it because I need May to get that MVP over Stafford. but I just think it's going to happen. I think Seahawks are a good team. I got the Seahawks beating the Rams. I got Patriots Seahawks Super Bowl,

which I don't want. I'd prefer Patriots Rams. Seahawks probably don't forget Patriots with that goal line interception with old Russell Wilson. So I'd prefer, I'd prefer to play the Rams, but I think we got Patriots, Cahawks.

You heard it here. Seahawks win. They just win. I'm not going to guess that score. They win. Tray, it's your picks of the week. What do you get? I don't think,

one, this is, I have no idea, but I would say, you said altitude, if you're that level of athlete, I don't think altitude's going to affect you that much. I think these guys are just, yeah, the athlete, I agree.

Yeah, you would know. Yeah. That being said, I think the altitude, probably going to get to him a little bit, so I'm going to go with the, the Broncos right there taking that one. No, I'm just joking.

I'm messing with it. Yeah, no, I think Patriots is going to win. I think that Bowdo Nix injury is going to definitely hurt him. That dude was playing pretty well. So that's a lot of pressure for Jared Stittam, then. I don't realize here's the backup. So I'll go Patriots. And then, I don't know, man.

I feel like the Rams, they just always seem to just find a way. So I think I'm going to go Rams over the Seahawks. Again, partially out of spite. Oh, because I prefer it. Yeah. You think the 12th man is better in green, blue. I agree.

Oh, you do you. Seattle created the 12th man. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, their long history that dates. back to the Civil War, the Seattle Seahawks. You may be careful. An old Southern Ohio is going to come and litigate y'all.

I do declare. Hey, it would be good press for the podcast. Speaking of Southerners and this podcast is powered by the Stranko, I don't did a squatting deadlift clinic last Saturday in the gym. And I had the cameraman there. So I was slinging a lot of extra stuff to the camera, thinking about those YouTube videos and the reels. And there was one point where I was trying to explain

in the dead left and making your arms are really long and straight. And I said, is anybody here ever towed a truck? And I was surrounded by Californians and they were like a Saba truck? And I was like, no, a truck. Like you ever been bogged down in the mud? They were like, no. I was like, well, if you were to get balled down into the mud, I would back up in my Chevrolet truck

while you always send you a Toyota that was done stuck because it's made in Japan. And I was back. up and I would take the chain and I would throw the chain in the bubble, my rubber boots, and I'd hook it up to the front of your truck and I would get back into my truck and I would open the front door and I would lean out and I would be inching forward and I would say, tell me when it's tied and you would say, the chain's tight now and I would go, oh, it's tight now. And then I would hit the accelerator and that's exactly how you deadlift. You pull that chest up to your arms along and straight and tight and then you push your feet against

the floor. And I didn't think anything of it. and the seminar ended and all the coaches were hanging out. They were like, dude, what was that frog horn, leghorn, like what? Like what, what was that? And I was like, huh? Like, can you do the whole seminar on that voice? And I was like, yeah, I guess.

Yeah, of course I kill you. I do declare. All right. All right. We're going to do speed picks and get us out of here. Jeff. I'm picking Seahawks and Patriots. Seahawks Patriots. You got it.

Trey, bring it down for a landing. All right. This has been episode 09 tree. Tree. Of the. Okay. Okay. Okay.

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Yes, you know what it. And then, Tray can leave. You just click play and you hold it. I'll say two things. Number one, no one's paying me to say anything. I received one paycheck only and it's from the state's government.

And yeah. One thing to say anything at all is I have no actual different interests in this company. So I say that with number two, just by someone I've heard, I thought, I thought sounded pretty cool about that was if you call, you get a real person.

You're not going through like little chat box or trying to get someone there. It's small enough where you call. I actually get some assistance. I thought that sounded pretty cool. Jameson, we think that sounds pretty cool, too, spoken like a true lawyer. Hey, thanks for tuning in the episode, 0.993 of the OK podcast. Okay. Go follow us on Twitter.

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