The Okay Podcast Powered by The Strength Co. - EP. 99: Garage Gym Problems, Gym Radar & Coffee Technique

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

Episode 99 of The Okay Podcast dives into the strange, hilarious, and oddly technical world of garage gyms, strength culture, and internet fitness communities. The crew discusses the rise of Gym Radar, a new platform where lifters can show off their home gyms, track equipment, and discover new setups. They also tackle a common problem many home gym owners face: how to fix a sloped garage floor so your squat rack is level. Along the way, the conversation veers into coffee brewing techniques, the NFL Combine bench press debate, and the chaos of running a podcast with no real plan. If you love strength training, garage gyms, and unfiltered gym talk, this episode is packed with insight and entertainment.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.thestrength.co/mrhelmet/?utm_source=The+Okay+Podcast&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Okay_PodTimestamps:00:00 - Intro04:32 - Staff Brief19:50 - Brikka Technique30:37 - Gym Radar39:18 - Leveling A Garage Gym Floor50:22 - NFL Combine55:59 - World Baseball Classic01:03:37 - Johnny Blue Skies01:08:03 - Overhead Bin Etiquette01:18:08 - Taco Meat

All right, and welcome back to episode 0-9er-9er, 0-9er-9er of the OK podcast Power by the Strength Co. I'm your host, Grant Brogie, and I'm joined live in studio with my co-host, Alex Jones, and the former Shaw of, wait, what? No, sorry, wrong show. I'm joined live in studio by Mr. Jeff Bougier, Mr. Jeff Biggie, major type, United States Marine Corps, member of the Killer Bees, known for that. He's a low and slow runner. He's from Georgia. He's from the south. And he is cooking with Greece. He joins us from the Greater Salt Lake City area, also known as Salt Lake, but we think it's pretty great. So we call it the Greater Salt Lake City area. Also joining us from Amarillo by morning. Texas is Mr. Robert, Trey Gottlach, the third.

He's the third. That's what they call him, Trey. If you're in your car, maybe you're using Siri. Maybe you're talking to Grock. And you say call Trey Gottlitch, they'll tell you they don't know anyone by that name. But if you say call it Tres Guttlich, they'll call him right away. So give him a call if you need something with hoses. We used to be a proper country.

I feel like all our names do that. Jeff. No, our names are. Yeah. Graham Broggy. Our names are. Broji. This episode 099 of the price of Bitcoin is $68,630. Don't worry. Bitcoin is surviving war. That's tough to do against tall grass.

Okay. So if Bitcoin can make it through war, so can you. And I don't think you have an option, actually, because here we are on day five. Remember two weeks to stop the spread. Everything's just always phenomenal, just like they tell you. the video looks a little wonky because you watch us on YouTube. My apologies, I think the kids say things aren't on their bingo card, which is funny that the kids say that because I feel like most kids have never played bingo, but it was not on my bingo card for my camera not to be recognized by my computer. Jordi, I'm going to need you to fix that in post.

Not the video, but tell me what I did wrong because I'm sure I did something wrong. But that's why they call it a podcast. We have a lot to talk about today. Peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles peckles a lot to talk about there's a war there's no guest today all of our guests we're busy uh we support the troops we've always supported the troops we support of like no other time big troop guys over here next week's episode 100 uh for you bingo types and uh not the game of bingo the artillery type 100.

It's a big week next week. We have something real special plan. We've actually been talking about it for weeks. The guys are so excited for episode 100 that they forgot to put any topics for episode 0-9 or 9er. But that's just the way it goes. That's why they call it a podcast. So if the video quality is a little bit bad on YouTube,

hey, you get what you pay for, okay? Speaking of paying for things, there is someone you have to pay. and that guy's name is Uncle Sam and we're not talking with military service although raise your right hand if you feel inclined. We're talking about taxes, baby. You've got to pay taxes.

In April 15th, is it less than a month away? No, it's more than a month away. But it feels like it's tomorrow, okay? You got the government breathing down your neck. They got a ward of fun, okay? So they need your money, but you don't want to give them that money. You want them to take other people's money

that are not smart. and I want to shout out to the listeners. BW says, hey, I'm not overrun, but I feel like I'm guarding an embassy right now because people are coming at me with their tax questions, just shooting them off, and I'm just taking them down with rapid fire. So it's not too late to call BW.

Never think it's too late. It's never too late. BW Tax LLC.com. That guy would pick up a call at his brother's funeral. long diatribe, long diatribe. I think that's... Big word. Yeah, I think that means like per capita,

a lot of minutes. It's four minutes and 50 seconds. You guys haven't even say anything. We're live on X. With that, I'll turn it around three. Hey, thank you. Thank you. Okay, go ahead. Silence all cell phones.

Smart watches should be stowed in the cubbies outside. I'm sure we're going to have some high side slides in here from the do. Okay, let's kick it off S-1. How are we looking? How's our G-1 report card? Are we making straight A's? Good afternoon, sir, staff, commanders, sergeants, major, sergeants. I'm not sure why they're in here, probably because someone couldn't make it, so the sergeants are in here.

Fellow lieutenants, commanders, staff. Field grade, gentlemen. It's a pleasure to be here. I just want to say that with everything that's going on, make sure that your Marines are administratively ready, because if we do need to send trash battalion to the front lines and everyone has to become administratively ready at once, we wouldn't have the bandwidth to deal with that or put it on our radar. So start leaning in and pushing forward and looking down the pipe at what may come. so that we don't have to circle back to our administrative readiness. And I, nothing for the group pending any question, sir.

Okay, great. Yeah, we'll just move along from that. Let's see. S2. S2, you got anything for us? Yes, sir. This is Lance Corporal Smith. As was brief last week, the deuce is tried out for Mark.

Sok. He was super motivated. I don't know if he made it. But as far as the briefing goes, sir, I'm sorry, excuse me, sir. Oh, no, trash sacks. Go ahead. Sorry.

Hey, keep sidebars to the minimum. All right. Hey, go ahead, Lance Coupe. What's it nuts? What's your name, Lance Corp. Smith. Where are you from, Smith? Where are you from, Lance Corp, Smith?

Sir, I'm from, I'm from Texas, sir. Texas, yeah, had barbecue about there one time. Tell me, what do you do there in Two Shop? Mostly pick up trash. We do a lot of police calls, but recently, since the Deuce has been gone, I've been getting most of our intel from X. If you clicked for you on X, that's good.

Texas is good. Yeah, that's good. You're from there, devil. Yeah, was your data Marine? I mean? Yes, sir. Oh, yeah, it's great. Yeah, I was going to say, I thought I knew a Smith back.

I was prior to listen to Lance Corporal, you know, believe it or not, came over to the dark side. Hey, we appreciate what you do. Your brief's done, all right? Be heard enough, but we thank you for your service. And to everybody in the room, it's the Lance Corporal, okay? If the sergeant's the backbone, the Lance Corporal is the nerve ending, all right? and you make sure you have the feelings and the feelers out there. And hey, appreciate what you do, Smith.

Also, Trash three, can you get me a freaking deuce in here next week? Okay. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. We'll submit the FOS up to Regiment and we'll see what comes back down to the pipe. But I'll be sure to close the loop on that. There will not be any loops that are left open. I'm going to close all the loops.

And then I will brief you personally with the name of our. our new dues. Yeah, appreciate what you do, three. Go ahead. Iron Major. Okay, okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. So for operations, what we got going on, okay, we've all been watching the news.

We know what's going on in the headlines. So we're going ahead. We're leaning in, right? We're anticipating there to be a lot of trash, right? That comes out a lot, like a lot of ordinance expended, right? Therefore, if so facto, there's going to be a lot of trash. I've reached out to some counterparts that are currently downrange

looking to get the Centcom trash TTPs and their smart packs and battle books on how they're fighting the trash fight over there in Centcom so we can start leaning into those TTP should the big red balloon go up and then we all have to go over and pick up all the trash

Yeah, no, I've always kind of wondered you know when that big red balloon goes up you know eventually it runs out of air and uh it's never been trash battalion's job to pick that balloon up uh but just yeah anyway i digress uh anyway take us into phops uh so fops is yeah we're figuring out okay how that balloon is what what the the material construction is whether that will be trash or whether that that'll be recycling is that material recyclable um these are things we're running to ground um as that's that's what we do here the three shop is we run things to ground um and close loops and inspect what we expect here in the three shop.

So that's all I have, sir, pending any questions, going to kick it over to the S-4. No, no, no, no, let's push. Next slide. I believe that's you, S-4. Oh, apologies, sir. Yeah, if you hear an alarm that sounds like a screaming baby, that's just my cell phone out in the hallway. Yeah, just turn that down, would you mind?

I'll go click that snooze button. Yeah, just turn that down. Yeah, I'll go ahead and turn that down. Yes, sir, as the three mentioned, yeah, we really nothing new going on the foreshould. Just still bunch of trash. Real quick, sir, sorry to cut you off. Sorry, just walked in.

I was getting a coffee from Starbucks. It's the three chief type. And I just wanted to bring a couple things to your attention, as I've said before. I'll say again and I'll keep saying as long as I can say it. Peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, peckles, cattle care if you're a trash marine, if you're a trash recycler, if you're a trash consumer, if you're a trash collector, if you're a trash disposer, everyone has a TNR code. Get those into McTams. ASAP. Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to jump in. Yeah, excuse me. I just wanted to make sure I put that out there.

Back over to you, sir. As for, appreciate what you do, sir. By the, by the way, good to see you, sir. yeah yeah I'll get with you offline it's a little bit of custom and courtesy I guess you forgot that huh yeah I guess so guess so huh

the staff you've stought out the window yeah as I would say nothing really new for the four shops or I didn't really break up anything then yeah oh okay okay okay all right we're gonna get this thing back on the rails hold on here we go all right S4 appreciate it

let's see chaps chaps do you have anything for us, our special staff in the four. Let's try to call the chaps. Let's try to call the chaps. I think it's real late over there. Where does he live?

Directly above Georgia. You reached Nathan Eckberg. I can't come to the phone right now, but if you leave your name number and what's your calling back, I'll be back to you soon as possible. Thanks, bye. Hey, chaps. This is Trash 6. just trying to get you on the pod. We were calling about trash.

Hey, thanks for your service. And remember 24-7, 365, trash six out. Chapman couldn't make it. That's actually pretty typical. Okay, all right, great. Let's kick it over. Medical, medical, you got anything for the group, chief for you in here?

I think I saw a Navy type floating around in the back. Yeah, this is. This is our chief. I just want to say for the gunnery sergeants in the Trash Battalion, we have chief school coming. It's no one really know what it is, but you come over to a building at maybe like 10 o'clock and basically off a day. But we teach you a bunch of stuff. And so we extend courtesy to all gunnery sergeants in above in Trash Battalion to come to Chief's Mess, Goat Locker. special knock, knock, knock, knock, knock,

bring six coins and $50, please. Chief, just trying to place that accent. I've been told I racially ambiguous. Thank you. I think that sounds like a Texan to me if I had to have a strong. Yeah. Sounds like he. That's more of that West Texas.

Sounds like he's from White settlement. right yeah and if you're listening and you wonder if that's real not that accent but white settlement texas that's indeed real uh that's real jeff and i've been there it's uh thank you to rock morton okay all right uh thanks medical let's move it on over uh to s6 com what do we got that you try uh yes sir uh mainly same old song in dance, really, sir, record jackets, main priority. Comics went well.

I think we're ready for the battalion exercise coming down. Yeah, I'll say that. Chief, you got anything? Did I miss anything? Oh, Chief's not here? Okay, yep, no, I think we're good, sir. Okay, great brief. Shocking. Good brief. Good brief. Good brief. Okay,

Trash 5, or sorry, Major, we'll kick it to you, y'all. and then we'll have it closed out by the commander here. Sorry, Major here. Make sure we're changing our socks pretty frequently when we go to this battalion exercise. I want to make sure we have a healthy feet. We're on our feet a lot, so make sure those socks are good. I want to see haircuts fresh.

First, arts, I'll get with you offline on that. Got some standards up, hell. We're getting a little sloppy. You know, we're picking up trash. We don't look like trash. That's kind of what I want to say about that. Hey, uh,

sorry major. Hey, we, I want you guys to know, Trash, you got the best Sergeant Major in the Marine Corps, okay? You got the best Sergeant Major you possibly have.

And, uh, sorry, I was, I was going to hit on a basic marine discipline, uh, to get people fired up. Stole my thunder.

Um, but yeah, get your hair cut and, uh, remember, um, yeah, nothing more for the group.

Trash six out. Oh, to drill out. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, man, 16 minutes is pretty good.

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The Guardians of the galaxy. Do they actually call guardians? They're called guardians. I didn't know that. That's pretty cool. They're guardians. And look up their dress uniform. It's very fitting.

Space-like. Space-y. Does it fit them? Some of them, I bet. I don't know. Yeah. Do you think it's the Marine Corps? Marine Corps wasn't a thing.

Would Space Force be your next option to join? I think I would just join the Strength Co. If the Marine Corps wasn't my thing. Yeah, I think that's what I would do. This podcast is powered by the Strenko. It's also brought to you by Mr. Helmet. We like a lot of banter. That's why we talk like service members at the beginning of the show.

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Today's date is March the 3rd in the year of our Lord 2020. I forgot that part. I knew I was forgetting something. Save round. Alibis. Any alibis for we in the staff brief? Nope. Okay. Nothing further for the group. With that, I'm just going to hang out here

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Come on, Tray. All right. Well, we got a lot of topics to cover. Let's dig right in. Should we start the show? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Let's see. Well, there's like two. feel like they're semi-related ish because they're both about coffee but coffee fund who's the other coffee one the other one is brika instructions i know we did have some tray i think your your phone with the baby crying is still going you want to just turn that down yeah no i'm trying to we're trying this new thing where i try to let my phone soothe itself oh okay yeah no that's good yeah I recommend that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You can also just tell you. We're all having to endure that right now. Yeah, just tell your phone to like go poop itself in the toilet too. That's really easy as well. Yeah. Breaka instructions. Quick shout out for the brika. Only item we sell the Stranko store.

It's not made in the USA. It's made in Italy like me. You know, look at me. I'm so Italian if you're not watching YouTube. I'm the most Italian as they get, huh? Gabagul over here. in any event we sell a brika we've been selling a lot of bricas lately i don't know what's happening maybe google ads are working maybe you listeners are buying the bricca pots if you've ever seen

a mocha pot which is that standard two-part screw together water in the body bottom little coffee basket percolate type deal the bricca has a a plunger at the top pressure release valve and when it builds the right type of pressure the coffee's release and it creates a cream. That's a difference between a brika and a mocha as a brica is used to create crema. You need 100% Arabic coffee. You need to have the right grind. But the main thing that people mess up is the heat. And former guest Joshua Hansen's been tagging us. And man, the coffee people come out when you do something wrong with coffee. And I guess I'm one of those. But if you have too much heat on a brica, brica, brica, pea, pea. Peeca.

can, pecan, I don't know what it is. If you're seeing steam, you're too hot, you're impatient. And we've been seeing that with some of the users tagging us. More on X, we get a little more brick action on X and we do on Instagram, but some on Instagram. So if you're on, what you want is a gas stove, gas range. You want the flame on the, if I hold up my fresca here, you don't want the flame to come outside the base of the bottom of the unit.

you want it to be just inside. If you're on an electric stove, it's time to buy a new stove. No, I kid. But you want that low. The problem with the electric stove is if you pit, have you guys ever used an electric stove? Do you guys have electric stoves? Do you guys have electric stoves? You have gas?

You have one? Yeah, but I've used one. Yeah. Yeah, so it's like, you know, you put it on three and it like heats up to the three level and then it cuts off, right? and then like when it goes down below whatever threshold, the electricians decided it kicks back on. So the heat's inconsistent.

That's like how it works. It has like a temperature. And so if you watch it, Jeff, if you're in a fine Marine Corps hotel on a drill weekend and they give you a nice gas stove, you'll see like it'll be like red, red, red, red, red, red, and then it goes down.

So those are tricky. If you have an electric stove, if it's one to 10, like numbers, you need to be around a two and a half to a three. Sometimes like offsetting it a little bit can help. But yeah, if you're seeing a bunch of steam, it's too hot. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you should just go buy a bricca and welcome to the world of coffee. You have one, Jeff?

I don't know if I've ever. I haven't tasted it. Oh, it's beautiful. It's great. Is it stronger? Well, so with the nerds, on Reddit would tell you is that it's not espresso because you need nine bow bars of pressure to get espresso but basically no I mean yes it's stronger

because it's the water to coffee ratio little water a lot of coffee but the Bricka in particular the way it gets released if you get the heat right and it's kind of like war it's an Ardena science it makes it like fluffy like white light or like light. Whereas like if you do a mocha, it's like, it's like, what do we use to call that, Kim X coffee? You can say it. My mom's listening, Trey. Yeah, Kim X. Yeah, but what'd you call it? Poop your pants, coffee. Poop your pants coffee. Yeah, that coffee is so strong. That coffee's so strong, your peep, your pants. Yeah. Anyway. Is it similar? So I've had, I think, what, Turkish coffee? Yeah, yeah, I mean it's

It's probably an insult to the Turks to say that But in terms of like the American way of looking at things like yeah It's like less of it it's stronger and it's more potent Yeah Yeah to poop your pants Poop your pants That's what I call it a brico go buy one I guess I need to upgrade my stove first

Yeah well the which requires new hoses when she's good for business That is true. Well, yeah. Don't you have a glass induction stove? Isn't that what yours is, Trey? Oh, you're induction. It's like the flat top. Yeah, it's flat, but I thought it was an electric.

I mean, I think it is, but like, I think induction is a whole other. Yeah. Yeah. Because Grant's talking about like the coil, like that, yeah, like the gloves red. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I didn't think Trey had. I remember your stove very well, Troy, apparently. Yeah.

I remember your secutery board. personally but you know grant i made you cook on my stove you should remember i don't know i came over there and i was carnivore and we ate we put down a lot of chowl laid a lot of meat that day great great came over i just made him cook yeah and then ryan came over and stayed for four days just kind of how that works. I hope Brian's listening. Coffee fun, I'll make it short so I can quit bumping my gums and running my suck. So we got cold brew in the gym.

I feel like it's a feature. This can maybe segue us to Jim Radar and talk about cool things and gyms. But we got cold brew in the gym. You had it there since 20, 26 years. It's a keg. Everyone walks in and thinks it's Guinness, even though it says, you know, Thunder King brewing on the front. It's a gym member feature. When I first put it in there, I think it's a five gallon. What's like a normal size beer keg? I don't even know. Is that five gallons? It's a mini keg. So maybe I have a two and a half gallon.

I don't know. Yeah, it's probably five. Two and a half sounds right. Okay. So it's not, It's not what you did a keg stand on, not me, mom. Right. Other people. It's not that. It's the small version. Yeah, the other people. It's a small version in the movies, yeah, which I would never watch, like, old school or anything.

Right. Yeah. Actually, I've never seen old school, but I think there's keg stands in that. Yeah. Right? Maybe. Yeah. It seems like there would be.

I did see how sidebar. For the sake of this conversation, we'll see, yes. Well, now I want to have a sidebar. I saw a tweet the other day, and it was like 2005 to 2010 was the epic time to throw a party. You could text people and you could message them on Facebook to coordinate where the party was going to be, but no one was filming everything and live broadcasting on the internet. So people got to be themselves. and it just had a cat had a photo of like a three-decker frat house with American flags and

kegstand and stuff. Anyway, I got the coffee fund, had this red coffee piggy bank that was there for five years. And, you know, it costs me, I'll give you the sausage behind the scenes. It cost me probably, I think it's, I think inflation, you know, but it used to cost like 90 bucks or 85 bucks to fill up the keg. And the keg would last about four to five weeks. And I'd pull about 60 bucks a month out in cash, you know, quarters, dimes. Some people don't, you know, drink coffee every time. And then they put a 20 in, you know.

And so it was like, yeah, you know, it's like a gym member thing. And then the thing fell and broke maybe in December. And I was like, oh, I got to buy a new one. And I went to buy it and it was like, you bought this one in 2020. And I was like, I get a new one. And so I found another one. And it's like, looks like the dictionary. It says like coffee fund, you know, colon.

And then it's like wakes me up in the morning, makes me feel good. You know, it looks like a definition. So I put that thing up there. And, you know, I'm in there three days a week lifting now. So I'll pop the lid open. And there's just been a dime in there for weeks. and so I always film the coffee fund and then I open it and it's a dime

and I send it a Tanner over at Massonomics and he'll laugh and there'll be music playing in the gym and so it's become like a thing that I do three days a week I just like film the coffee jar and then I pull the lid off and he'll say things like oh man I really thought there was going to be something in there today and I'm like nope nothing in there

just that same dime and so this has been going on for months. And the other day, I wanted to surprise Tanner. So I put two bucks in there. And I did it. And he literally immediately wrote back to me and said, you put that in there, didn't you? And I was like, yeah, I was hoping to have you fooled.

So I don't know what's going on with the coffee fund. But inflation guys, need your donations. If you like cold brew on tap. I've also been told that since my buddy returned from deployment, it gets depleted quicker. So maybe I need to put some money in the coffee fund. Oh, wait. I own the gym.

A lot of coffee talk. Love for a lot of fun. Yeah. Okay. Speaking of gyms, should we talk about Jim Radar, this new fangled website that's popped up here recently?

Let's talk about it. I think, though, I'm pretty familiar with the inner workings. So before I bump my gums, Trey, did you click the link I sent? I think I've sent it to you three times now.

You have clicked. You have seen it. Yeah. Clicked it. Yes. I've opened it. I've not. I'm like,

oh. So no, this is actually exactly the response I wanted. So if you did click it even. I have no idea what it is. Yeah. Okay. So did you like,

do you like remember a website opening and like for five seconds viewing it before you went to let your phones suit itself to sleep? Yeah, basically. Okay. So it's, from my understanding, you register your gym, so the government can track you.

Is that what it is? Yes, yeah. It's to help against, for the war against Iran. To see who's lifting, so who we, for the draft, if we could immediately pull from them.

No, yeah. So you, rich your dream and kind of put, hey, this is the equipment I have in it? Is that kind of... Yeah, that's pretty good. I'm going to stay like I have no idea

what it is and see what Jeff knows first because I think it'll be more entertaining. Because I'm actually curious, like, I've sent it to folks and a lot of people just run with it. And then a lot of people are like, so you want me to read Mandarin? And I'm like, no, it's super simple. You know, it's like describing Facebook in the early 2000s. Jeff, well, have you clicked around much? I haven't clicked on it yet. Okay.

But I'm slight, like I've listened to what the Massanomics guys put out that kind of like 20 or 30 minute video kind of talking about a little bit. And then I'm like in the middle of their episode where they're going a little more in depth on it. Sounds cool. So I basically, I don't know what the, what happens. Okay, I register it. Yeah. So basically it flipped the home gym business on its head, I think is. If they don't say that, they say something close to that.

But no, it's really interesting to me as a, you know, we're powered by the Strength Co. So we like to sell stuff. But in short, man, it's really hard. There's like a lot of layers actually. But you would go on, Trey, like you as a user would go on. You would create account as Trey Gotledge. And then you would click like, build my gym. And then you would name your gym, which is your garage.

Right. And so we could name it now if you want. You call Amarillo by Morning Gym, right? Be a great name for a gym. or tough to doing its tall grass, you know, whatever. And then you would be like, I have a bells of steel power rack. I have the Stranko rubber deadlift mats. I have the Stranko power bar.

I have whatever Nike strength plates, right? And you select all the equipment that you have. And it's only a week in, but if the equipment didn't exist, right? let's say you want to go put the drink spotter in and it didn't exist, you could be like create a new piece of equipment. And you'd be like, Masonomics makes a drink spotter. Obviously they powered gym radar.

So they probably built their equipment first. But you could make whatever equipment didn't exist, which would then go to approval and get approved. And then you put all the equipment you have in the gym. And you also put photos of your gym. And then you can make a list for gyms or equipment. Like you can make a wish list. Like I wish I own the strength.

Co-Bumper plates and you can like grab that or you can be like gyms I want to visit and you could be like the strength co-co's to Mesa right you could like throw that in there and so you can make all these lists but I mean I don't know I can't get inside I don't want to speak for them but I mean in short it's a place where well I think it's a couple things one of the things I think is interesting about it is like mainly dudes women too but mainly dudes spend way too much money on their garage gyms and no one cares, right? Like they go to work and no one barbell trains, right?

I mean, you go to work at like your average company and you're like, yeah, man, I squatted 315. They're like, yeah, whatever, meathead. Like, they don't care. Like, I got this new pulley, you know, and no one cares. But on gym radar, everyone that's on there cares a lot. So you can like showcase what you built in your gym. So I think for home gym owners,

whether it's basement, garage, backyard, whatever, it's like on top of using this thing that I built, it's like it's a place to go validate all the stuff that I own. And then at the same time, it's kind of like Pinterest. You know, I look at Trey Gallich's gym and I go, oh, I like how he has the refrigerator behind the squat rack or whatever it is, right? And it like gives me ideas, but then it also links out to all the equipment. So, you know, the mask guys are big affiliate guys.

can, you know, they get a percentage if, you know, you click this and someone goes to buy, you get money. They'd probably hate me for making it sound like they're just money grabbers because they're not. But there's like, there's an affiliate branding thing that's a part of it. But yeah, it's cool. It's cool. And so if you listen to this show and you like the OK podcast and you like the Stranko,

Grant's buddy wants to make sure that everyone knows that Stranko plays to the best in the world. And if you got them in your garage, create an account, and then you can leave reviews, and then there's a leaderboard. What are you looking at, Jeff? You don't have stranko plates? Fixable problem.

You got a visa or a master card because you can have stranko plates fast. It's true. In just two days. Great shipping. Yeah, so that's it. Anyway, it's fun. So it's like a community.

It's Reddit. It's Pinterest. it's affiliate links. It's a bunch of stuff, but they did a really good job making it. And yeah, it's been fun. And it's like, it's also cool because we get emails. I often make fun of people on the internet that say, we get us all the time.

And it's like you never get asked that. You just say that. But we do get legitimate emails that say like, hey, I want to do the starting training program. I want to do this. Like, what do I need? And so you, like, I have a list on my profile that says equipment needed for starting strength. And it's everything that I would recommend

if someone was just getting started. So it's like, hey, you need this power rack. You need a power rack or you need a squat rack. Here's what I recommend. You need a bench. Here's what I recommend. You need a bar. And a lot of it's like me promoting my products, right? But not completely like I recommend the Rogar 3 rack to folks. And so it's, yeah, I don't know. I've been playing around there a lot. It's on my radar. I'm a fan. Oh, board play. I get it. Yeah.

It's like cosplay, but with words. Oh. I want to explain it. Jeff, make sure you got it. Now I get it. So this is the call to the listeners. If you own Stranco equipment, go to Jim Radar.

You can make a free account. There's like a map. There's a lot. They'll make fun of me for years. They'll make fun of me for decades for picturing, explaining this. There's like a, country in the Middle East and there's other ones and there's like ethnic backgrounds and now

there's a war you know it's really easy to explain that was you know that was a tie-in that was a mic map tie it oh a tie it yeah it's Jim radar Jimradar.com go check it out if you're on straight-coat plates review them and you know build your gyms I'm hoping by next week episode 100 or do you guys have Jim Radar accounts? Also, Jeff, you own some 1.25s. I do. I do. Yeah, so you have two sets of them. Yeah, because you came to my wedding.

Exactly. Yeah. That's the only reason I came. I was like, I heard he's giving my plates. I want them for free. These are going to. Strenco plates is part and values over time. So I'm in.

I got mine the old-fashioned way. Hey, oh, transactional, baby. Transactional. Do we want to talk about a gym that's potentially soon to be on Jim radar from our esteemed producer? Wow, a lot of gym talk. This is weird. I know. I know.

Yeah. He's in a bit of a conundrum. A dogos conundrum. Yeah. Oh, that is a good question. Yeah. I feel like I have the same problem in my garage. So most people will, right?

So you watch the video? There's some sort of. some sort of slant. Why don't you explain the question, Trey? Yeah, so PJ threw a video in there, which PJ will have a tactical pause and we can play this video. What's up, guys? I had a quick question about my gym setup in here.

The soon going to be on gym radar. Stay tuned for that. I don't have a tax question. Otherwise, I'd call BW. I have a lifting question. That's why I'm calling Grant. So before we do that, do a quick weight check here. 200 pounds.

Let's go, buddy. All right, so here's the problem. Here's my squat stand, and I need to put it right here, but the problem is my garage slopes down this way. So the highest point is this corner here, and it slopes downward pretty significantly all the way till you get out of the garage door. So when you're squatting, it's kind of like you're squatting

at an angle like this sideways, which I feel like isn't the best thing. Got my horse stall mats flooring down here. What is the best way to make this? level so I don't mess up my hips or even just be uncomfortable trying to do my five by fives or something like that. That's my question. We'd love an answer. Appreciate you guys and talk to you later. So as you saw in the video, PJ was explaining in the gym that he has, which great setup, by the way. I actually like to, I can't believe he's at 200 pounds

on that video. I was pretty impressed by that. But his, he has a slanting problem and it looks like it's going as you look at the video high side on the left going down to the right slamping slanting down kind of like from upstate to low country exactly upstate to low country and it looks like his squat rack the way it's oriented orient the orientation of the squat rack is that uh let me let me take the orienting angle out of the sad ulu and apply it to my upper motion okay continue but It looks like when he squats, like his right foot would be on the downhill part. So he's kind of would be doing that.

Mine, on the other hand, like, the way I have mine is, like, my squat rack, like the way it slants, like my heels are on the low part and my toes are on the high part. Your squat rack is oriented like if you just drove your car into the garage. Yeah, yeah. Head on. Exactly. Yeah. So, but, yeah, his is, his is, like, right foot down.

down left foot on the high side. So what? George just turn your squat rack 90 degrees. That's what I want to say. Maybe what if you can't? I don't know. What would you do in that situation? So every garage is going to have a slant, right?

I mean, it's designed so that water can move out. So wherever the garage door opens, it's going to be lower than the back of the garage, if you will, or the front, depending how you're thinking about it. but if you pulled your car, you didn't back it in. If you drove your car straight in to the garage, one car, two car, three car, 10 car because you're a Bitcoin owner.

It doesn't matter. The front wheels are going to be elevated compared to the back wheels so that the place can drain. It's a story as oldest time for home gym owners. My general recommendation to people is basically what you did, Trey, and is to put your squat rack oriented as the same way you would pull your car in. So, you know, the uprights are in line with like your headlights on your, you know, 95 Chevy truck, you know.

And then if you wear a squat shoe, you're going to lose a little bit of a lift, but you're going to kind of feel nothing. And it's going to be fine. And you're going to eat used to it. And there's no downside, right? Because if you're wearing a squat shoe with a little bit of a lift, the drop over the length of your foot is probably not so great that you're going to have a huge problem.

Now, if you're like PJ set up where you're 90 degrees turned and you are basically squatting sideways in your garage, your left foot's going to be higher than your right foot. Now, there's part of me that says I don't know how much that drop is between your heels and if it matters at all. a small part of me, but there is a part of me that's like, I would just squat, you'd be fine. But if you wanted to fix it, there's a couple options. And Jordy also had horse stall mats over his whole garage, which makes his problem a little bit more complex. It looked like he had six or eight.

I'm sure he'll show the photo on the screen, but he's covered his entire floor in horse stall mats. The short story is I would, So my parents' garage, they have a two-car garage that faces one way. And then they have a third silo that faces the other way. And it's where my dad's tractor used to go. He's since built another building on the property because you can just build stuff in South Carolina.

No one cares parked in. And so one side of the garage is draining one way, one's draining the other way because the third silo is kind of offset. And so for theirs, I put a deadest. left platform in, I put the squat rack oriented in the way that I stated, you know, in line with the way you pull the car in. And then on the deadlift platform, I just shimmed the back of it so that when you set the deadlift up, the bar does a roll away, right? And so I got, you can go to, you know, Home Depot and buy literally a bag of wooden shims. And if you have a

double plywood deadlift platform, we have a video on this, you can go watch it with horse style mats on top, you can literally just put, you know, five or six shims on the side that would be lower and it fixes the problem. So that is an option that you could also do. You could also use concrete leveling mud, but that's a lot of work and most people don't want to do work. So in PJ's particular scenario, he has a rogue SML3. which is the two upright, the same one you have, Jeff, or Trey, I know we all owned it.

We have the same. What's the rack you have? You have it now, right, Jeff? One that we had in our house together. It's like, yeah, but it has a U-shaped at the bottom, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I think that's the SML 3. Whatever, it doesn't matter, but there's no, there's no, it's not a power rack. It has like a U-shaped footprint, and on the front of it, it just has uprights. What I would do, PJs, I would, wherever that's going to sit, and this would take some work by you with your stall mats, but I would put a piece of plywood for that to sit on, and I would shim the right side of it because

your right foot's lower, and then I would put the horse stall mat on it. But I would just shim your squat rack and be done with it. You could do concrete leveling mud, and I've done that before. It's just you've got to pay more attention. It's more work. messed that up, you're going to be more upset with yourself because you mix a bunch of mortar and cement. And then now, like, you're messed up. And then to fix it would be a bigger problem. I would just put your stall mats down, do the thing, look at where you're overhead of your garage

door opener is, and figure out like, okay, here's where I can put a four by eight sheet of plywood. That's what my squirex going to sit on. Put the four by eight sheet down. Put your level on it. okay right side's dropping down add the shims till it's good you know push them in enough that another piece of stalemat can sit next to it and then put my stall mats down and your and your squaracts going to be a little bit elevated because there's plywood there versus everywhere else but i think that's the easiest fix um but and then if you then if you buy shims you can put on gym radar yeah you put your shims and you yeah make sure you put your shims on jim radar and we'll I wonder if they have those in there.

If you do a four by eight piece of plywood and you don't buy it from Strenko and you get a tractor supply company, you buy four by six stall mat. Rather than figuring out how to cut it, you could just buy two more two-by-two deadlift mats from the Strenko and boom, boom, and you're all set. Hey, who's doing the approval of the equipment on Jim Raider?

It's a lot of folks. They got over like 5,000 pieces of equipment now. Yeah. So I think it was the original team. Our chaplain, the Trash Battalion's Chaplain, is kind of like the brains behind it. And obviously the Massonomics guys, but I think the response has been really good

where companies are like, hey, we want to approve stuff and do it. But, I mean, it's a lot of equipment on there. Like a lot. I really want to just go around my house and just start submitting the most. So they do have some, they do have some rules.

gym yeah yeah right uh pacifier it's works it helps me work out i give the password the baby it stops screaming in a squat you know yeah uh so you're like eight strollers in my garage right now so i could probably yeah all rolling out the door side because your floor's not leveled The correct answer on how to fix this, Jordy, is to contract Andy Ibo's. It's what I would do. That's what I would do. That's 100% what I would do. Yeah.

Hire someone. You'd be good. I like it. That's good. That's good info. Probably a lot of listeners with garage gyms and maybe didn't even realize that they were lifting on a slanted surface. Yeah. Fix it.

That's what we're here for. solving problems. Great stuff. Was my right leg so much stronger? Yeah. It's much more range of motion that it's traveling. Okay, let's talk about

we got a little sports stuff here. Not a ton of sports going on. We're kind of in the doldrums of the sports season, at least in the U.S. I mean, we still got European soccer going on. Liverpool is. Duh, don't even get me started on the game.

They played today. Not great. But NFL combined, any interest? Do you think that this, like, I don't know, do you think that too much weight gets put on NFL combine numbers? Like, what are any NFL combined thoughts? I feel like good stuff. So I haven't watched any of it this year. I've watched your, well, I've watched that guy with red hair running to Freebird or Creed,

depending on who does it. I saw that video. That's pretty awesome. Yeah. I don't know. I see, I feel like something. Sometimes you say, yeah, it does get a lot of weight gets put on there, just because some guys are just ball players.

But then like some guy who comes out and like bench presses 225, 51 times, you're like, well, you probably help this draft stock. Do you see that video? Yeah. Yeah, of course I saw it. Oh, yeah, of course I saw it. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, I just think it's like, it's just funny to see. Like, would you keep the bench press as the test of strength for football? Or would you think there could there be a different lift that gets thrown in there? I don't know. I'm kind of like, I feel like I'm an old school football fan. Like even before I had a philosophy on strength training, it's like 225, just like a metric. I mean, I think it's kind of dumb, right? Like if that guy can do 225 for 51 reps, like I'd rather see him bench 405 or whatever his capability is.

At the same time, like you like it does. gives you data of people's capability. I mean, like the 40-yard dash is like a great test, right? Shuttle run, right? I mean, I don't even know all the stuff. Vertical. I mean, I think, like, I mean, again, this goes back to having a philosophy, like, you know, what Ripito teaches and I believe in is like a test of genetic ability is how high you can jump. jump regardless if you're an O lineman or you're a wide receiver, right? Like if you have a big vertical, you have more genetic potential than other people. And the standing vertical jumps, the thing that's shown like, yeah, you could like improve

it maybe, but not really, right? It's like kind of like what God gave you. So to me, that one's probably the most, that one in the 40-year dash, probably the biggest indicators, whereas if a guy struggles to bench 225, 10, 20 times. It's like, well, like, I've done that, right? And I couldn't play in the NFL, but I've done 225 for 20, like, through intelligent strength training.

I'm never going to do a 30 inch vertical, right? Or whatever that number is, right? So there's like a difference there. But I think having some type of data and seeing how people are conditioned and, you know, is useful. But I just like that guy with red hair running the free bird personally. See, I think it puts. people on the radar. So like if some D1

radar, I get it. Big radar guy. Oh, Jim radar. A blip on the radar. Yeah, I get it. Like if some D1 comes out of Alabama, like he already has like good tape that everybody's seen because he's playing the SEC, but if like some guy comes from

Ohio State or no one's ever heard of. Yeah. Is it Ohio State? Yeah. Joe. The Oh, you keep that thing on you. Keep that thing on you. With the tag in case I got to return it.

No, no, text her on it. Take it to Dick's. Text them on it. Yeah. But yeah, some guy comes from Montana State and just throws up like unreal numbers. I feel like that's his version of like getting his name out there. Yeah. I mean, I'd never heard of this kid that ran to Freebird.

Had you? His mullin just, his mullet is so good. no 100% I mean it's it's the mullet in action through the movements that you have to do at the combine like I didn't even know the combine was happening I mean I forgot the Arnold was happening this weekend right and then all of a sudden there's this dude with red hair where do you go Iowa think Iowa yeah oh so he's a tied in sure I don't even know he's on my radar but I don't even know why I just saw him run into Freebird. Dude, not an offensive line.

He's way too small. I think he's no alignment. No, is he? If only we had phones in our hands with all the answers. But there have been some, like, freak numbers, like Sunny Stiles, the Ohio State linebacker, like. Oh, big sunny. Did he put up almost like a 40-inch vertical,

ran like, that's insane. You know, mid to low fours in the 40 is like 6-4, 200 and probably 30, 40 pounds. Like, peak, peak male performance right there. Yeah. So I say we take four years, so we would have put towards curling, and we put it towards trying to make the NFL, like our NFL combine numbers as good as possible. Oh, the debut, the combine.

Yeah. I'm still, I'm still thinking. We're still on this curling thing. I feel like if we would have just dropped everything right now. I'm more of a hurling guy, but I digress. a sidebars okay other sports

news we got the world baseball classic yeah what is that I think there was like an exhibition they were doing some exhibition games I think like today and yesterday the first game might be tomorrow or something like that

but the US I don't think plays six edition seventh or something is this every is it every year six edition games are held across four global venues Miami Houston Tokyo San Juan Capistrano I assume

San Juan Capistrano Past winners 0609 23 wait a Japan one in 0609 in 2023 Dominican Republic 34 years one in 2013

and the United States one in 2017. So Japan is kicking our arses. Yeah. The first game starts tomorrow. Chinese Taipei, which I think on the OK podcast, we just called Taiwan. Versus Australia in Tokyo is the first game.

Oh, I didn't realize it was like, I thought there was like a host country. Oh, interesting. Okay, okay. That's cool. Hey. But yeah. Tokyo. I don't know. Yeah, I know we got like Aaron Judge, Bryce Harper. He's terrible. Paul Skeen's.

Scoobel. Who else was there? I'm blanking on a lot of the... Who's the catcher for Seattle that hit a bunch of home runs? Cal Raleigh, I think, or something like that. Yeah. Mooky Betts. Bobby Witt, Jr. yeah so we got a good team

Cal Ripkin Cal Ripkin still playing still playing Ken Griffey Jr Tony Gwynn Jr. All the people on King yeah

Schwabah Schwabah's on the team yep yeah oh wow who's a good team probably Japan but I'm talking out of my

butt right now so well is that just because they have a No, because they just somehow are good at baseball. They're really good at baseball. They're really good at baseball. But I guess they're like patient.

Could be. Yeah. Yeah. And I was looking at the coaching staff. It's like Martians. Marks, Brian McCanns, one of the coach. Yeah, I saw Brian McCanns.

Yeah. I love Brian McCann. Yeah. My favorite. Fred McGriff. Andrews, Gelleraga. Yeah.

Brad Radke. No magasia para. Yeah. Check the temperature in my pool. It was 71 degrees, which means that USA is most likely to win. Yeah. A lot of inside baseball there.

A lot of inside baseball. There's no cameras in the locker room. No. Do not allow that. Always said that. I've never not said that. I hate camera. Look what happened. When you put cameras in a lot, locker rooms, you get the FBI director in trouble, okay?

Keep the cameras out of the locker rooms. All right? I've always said that. Never not said that. It's what I've always said. There was no cameras in the locker room. Cash Patel would be fine. Dude.

Honestly, the most random person to like party with. Oh, you got a celebrity, this celebrity. Oh, and the director of the FBI is here. Wait, are we in trouble? No, he just wants to get, he just wants to drink a lot. He just wants to slam beers with the boys. So random. I'm sure he's not busy.

He has like nothing else he's supposed to be doing. Yeah. They figured out the Epstein thing. Yeah. What a great abuse of a title though to be like, hey, I'm the FBI director. They're not going to say no to me if I want to go party in the locker.

Good. The dudes with the boys. Yeah. I got to go. Team USA, favorite to win. I just looked it up. Good for him.

Okay. Hell yeah. Well, that's why they play the game. Winning stuff to do against tall grass tree. Indeed. That's true. Okay.

Okay. We got more sports talk? Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Who is in first place with the...

Auburn. EPO. Auburn. Is it Arsenal? It's currently Arsenal. They play tomorrow. Man cities, I think, like three, two or three points behind them.

They're kind of close. Are you guys talking about the war and I rain? Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I have no idea you're talking about. I think Liverpool's in fifth or six at the moment. Like half the teams play today and half of play tomorrow, so they're still in the middle of the game week. Gotcha.

Yeah, yeah. Here's a good stat for you. BW sent this over. It says, tough time to be a cock. South Carolina football, men's basketball, and baseball are combined 15 and 73 in 88 games since January 1st, 2025. SEC records 9 and 50. That women's basketball team's doing all right.

Hey, go Lady Cox. Let's go. That's what I've always said. Open it up, Ken State, September 5th, can't wait. Texas A&M, see a cowfield 117 Is it here? No.

Yeah. Isn't it ain't in this year? No, it's here, it's here, it's here. Yeah, I was about to say. Yeah, sorry. South Carolina, yeah. Dang. I've never been.

I think that would be fun. Actually, I've never been to Auburn either. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. Auburn. War, Eagle. All right. Okay. Okay. Hey, speaking of football, gamecocks and sucking, you know, it doesn't suck.

These many helmets go over to Mr. Helmet, green grid iron, gridiron green. Gamecocks are doomed until I have a helmet with a visor. That's what I've always said. You give me a visorless team. They can see my eyes. They know where I'm going to throw. And I'm going to throw picks. wear a visor, go to green gridiron. Don't spend $36. Spend $46 and get the visor. Don't be cheap for your friends even when you beat their teams. Buying the good helmet, not the cheap helmet.

We used to be a proper country. From here and out, I'm never buying you a vire. If anything, I'm just buying a visor for you next year. Okay. If South Carolina beats A&M next year, you have to send me a visor for this helmet. deal. That's fair. Yeah.

If Texas A&M wins, you just have to send me another visorless helmet to keep it going. There we go. Oh, man. What else we got on there? I was going to see if either of y'all of, so that Johnny Blue Skies, aka Sturgle Simpson, how he's just releasing his album here. Well, it all got put on YouTube under his channel. Is it out?

It's on YouTube. If you go to his like Johnny Blues guy's channel. The whole point was that it couldn't be streamed. You can like watch it in like a video. But yeah, I know. I thought that too. But so they're like released it on the website for pre-order. You know, they've got the cassette tapes.

They've got the CDs. And then of course they've got finals. But then they have like multiple different color. There's like an orange one. There's a clear one. there's a white one there's one in black there's one that's off white and i'll say i may have may or may not have ordered more than one at this point you got multiple colors i got multiple colors coming this like brian straico's like it's like brian straico plates i'm pretty sure only difference is the

color of the acetate if you will that's cool uh i saw a thing the other day actually i think three people have sent it to me when hearkened me back. Did I use that correctly? Indeed. Indeed. Yeah. So I have a GM. I have two GMT 400 pickup trucks. I have a 96 and 97. One's long bed, extended cap without the third door. One is a short

bit extended cap with the third door. And the ones that I have, the cassette deck is on the top. And then down below, they added in the CD player. So they left the dash the same original radio and they put the CD player down below. Someone made a video. Like in 2001, GM decided to put the CD player up but knew we weren't done with cassettes yet. And so like down like right above the ashtray, which is just amazing that in 2001 we still had ashtrays and cars.

Like I love that, right? Like the McDonald's ashtrays are like Trinity. on X right now. And I just like, I love it, right? I'm like, we actually used to be a proper country where you get a McDonald's and eat a Big Mac and smoke a cigarette. But in any event, the cassette tape, so they took the cassette tape and they put it down below.

And so I have a cassette deck in one and I have a CD player in the other. Nice. And I plan on listening to Johnny Blue skies, styles, whatever it's called. Yeah, I plan on vinyl like I do everything. I mean, I have Kanye West on vinyl, but I'm like, I cannot wait to put that cassette deck. That's going to be great. Like it's actually exciting. Like I think it's genius.

But I'm a, I'm a small minority of white men. I was like, oh yeah, I have to buy it on CD. Otherwise, I won't be able to listen to it in the car. Yeah. And I don't remember the last one about a CD. Pretty good. I'm digging it, man. Pretty good.

Yeah. Sturgle Simpson, right? It is Sturgel Simpson, but he's like, it's a new era. Yeah. Now he's a new monitor. It's like when Garth Brooks became Ronnie Van Zant.

No. Oh, Chris Gaines. Chris Gaines. It's the last year. Same, same. I don't know if it's the same. Ronnie Van Zanzan's a real person, right? I think he's like part of the producers

of the Sopranos or something. Some kind of Van Zan is. Anyway, yeah, music's going to be great. One day we're going to release all 100 episodes of the OK podcast on vinyl, and you're going to love it. Yep. Okay. You're going to love it.

I'm going to love it. You're going to listen. The album covers. Box set. Yeah, it's the collector's edition. The game talks were bad back then. Can you believe it? We won six national championships in a row.

Episode 99 is my favorite. I love us. I've worn that side out. I wore that side out. gotta be great hey dang I think I just got one more

topic in there oh you guys have been great on topics lately I really appreciate it yeah I got one more topic in here but I think it might generate a little it has potential I think

it's got potential I like potential topics Trey I know you do a fair bit of air travel great I know you're flying at least once a month twice this month. Oof.

You're better, even better. Can't wait to leave tomorrow. But I want to hear your take on, so probably taking a carry-on, so I'm guessing you have some opinions on overhead bin etiquette and like how that works. What are you putting up there?

Is it like, are you under the impression that, okay, the kind of bins that are in vicinity of my seat are kind of the space I can put it? Are you putting it anywhere, like the first open slot? Like, what are your thoughts and how do you feel about that etiquette of overhead business? Trey, what do you travel with your hoses? Who? Carry on.

Who am I flying? Is it Southwest? That's a good question right there. That's a good question. Okay. Well, it sounds like you have two different answers. So, yes. One for Southwest, yes.

And the other one, you're flying. American. United. Yeah, American, whatever. Or United. So if, and I guess Southwest change or policy, but before when it was just a free-for-all and you sit wherever,

I'd be like, hey, like first open space, I'm like this is it. We're all gin pop here. But if I am flying United or Delta or whatever, yeah, then the

there's etiquette. It's, hey, this bin over my seat is that should go to the corresponding seats below it. Yeah, it's like three per. It's, yeah, it's almost like it was made to do that. It's almost like, oh, I'm in 8A. Well, that means I'm next to 8B and C and the bin directly above my head can hold three carry ads.

And there's the seat numbers right below it. It's crazy. It even shows a little picture of which guy's supposed to be next to the window. well, Jeff, I want to hear your take. So I am, there are military people that in my opinion abused the like service members. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not one of them, but brother, the second to let me on that plane, I am on that plane because.

literally. So I bring one bag. I bring one bag. My computer goes in my carry-on. I don't have like a backpack additionally. I bring one bag. And as I'm sitting at the gate, I pull my laptop out with my headphones, maybe a charger.

And so I have like a computer bag in one hand. And not a bag. I have like literally my computer, which is in a case, which has pockets. And then I have my carry-on. And I go to my seat to make sure that my bag can be right above my seat because I'm not putting my bag

at row like there's nothing in the world that makes me more angry than watching people get off a plane and I am not putting my bag in row 38 if I'm sitting in you know 9A like it's not happening but I do get

annoyed I really get annoyed and this doesn't even affect me I'm not in the point of my life where I fly first class but you ever see the people that write coached it but they're bags above in first class. Oh, I haven't seen anybody that bold to do that. Oh, I've seen it multiple times.

Yeah, well, I fly into Philadelphia, so that tells you everything you need to know. And I'm like, what are you doing? They are. Yeah. I will say those things often go and use those because those are the folks are like, oh, I'm just going to check my bag. Yeah, but that should be the last ditch effort for the guy that boarded late, who's sitting back by the toilet.

and he gets to the back and the flights and he goes, hey, I'm going to put this above 5A. You're the last guy in the plane. Oh, thank you. If it's forward of you, you're good. True. It's just if you're behind. Well, why did you bring it up?

I brought it just because I saw people doing like crazy, oh, one, I saw just crazy carry-on bags. Not on the level of like the person that brought the Home Depot bucket, but like... That was pretty good. I respect that person. It was like she had a roller bag, but then her like purse heavy on the quotations was like larger than her roller bag, just like overflowing with stuff like a literally like a Starbucks like just like cup like in the top of like the open purse and like, you know, she just person just like, you know, like gets on the plane like first open spot like just like hucks it in there and then like continue. he's on back and puts her other bag somewhere else.

And I'm like, man, she's just take, like, just taking other people's spots and just throwing off the whole ecosystem of the overhead bin. Yeah. Because I'm like, see I. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. See, I got one.

I'll be curious. Grant, you've, you've been on an airplane with, as we call it, your hat. Yeah. Not from here called cowboy hat. Did you wear it when you're on the plane? Um, I have and I have not. So I think I've been on a plane with a hat twice

that I can recall right now. And one time it was a stupidly packed flight because you're on DFW, which is basically like flying to hell. And I took my hat off and I wrote it on my knee. And there was another... So you kept it on your purse. I kept it on.

Well, there was another time, though, that I did the same thing but realized there was room and I ended up putting in an overhead. But in general, I think it should stay on your body. Like, that's what I think. Yeah, see, that's what always gets me. You want to put it up?

Whenever I fly out to West Texas, like, I'll fly out to like Odessa sometimes. I love Odessa. What a great spot. What I want to go to Odessa. Why would you want to go to Odessa? Odessa. that's from Star Trek

yeah close yeah Cohen brothers I really didn't get the reference but I assume it's from a movie so I played along with no country have you seen no country for old men oh yeah yeah yeah I didn't get the reference but yeah I've actually watched that a lot of times

thanks to Jeff big what's our guy's name Scott no what's the writer's name Jeff Bridges Corby McCarthy Scott Jim Bridges Carl McCarthy. Hey, shout out Jeff Bridges.

Shout to Bridges. Hey, good sleeping tracks. Good sleeping tracks. Now, I've watched No Country Fold Men is actually surprisingly, sorry for the sidebar. But there's no movie I've watched more than the town.

Goodfell is probably second. But I've probably watched the opening scene of No Country for Old Men a lot. We'll just call it that. Yeah, it's good. It's a good movie. Yeah.

I don't want to fly no, Dess. Anyway, I get it now. Sorry, a little slow over here, homeschooled, South Carolina homeschooling. No, whenever I go to Odessa and I always called Jeff and Jeff's like, worry, I'm like, oh, I'm in Odessa and he always goes, I want to go down to Dallas. I love when he throws that bag over the bridge.

It's so great. Don't be brave. He drives a great truck. Man, I miss truck talk. We got to get back to that. Anyways, sorry. Sorry, Tracer. If you're flying to Odessa with your hat.

So I'm not I don't have a hat But I'm with a bunch of cowboys You do have a hat And they'll put it up in the over West Texas we just call them boys They'll just call them boys Well actually West Texas we just call them cows

Cows Yeah Those boys like to push them chair And they'll put their hat in the overhead And I saw one dude like get upset Because like a suitcase Like Got on it

I'm like what'd you expect Yeah You know what goes those bins, right? You're in an airplane. It's not a hat bin. It's a suitcase beard, dude. Come on, now.

Yeah. I might fly with my hat in New Jersey this weekend. Just to test the ecosystem. Stress testing, you know, get some data. See what's going on. They make cases for hats. I know.

Airplanes. Yeah. But, I mean, that's... Buy one of those. that's a lot of space I feel like if you fly with a hat you got to carry that brother

I'm saying if you want to put in the bin you need a case for it oh if you want to complain about getting dirty or something yeah sure yeah yeah yeah I don't think you should be allowed to put it in the bin personally a bunch of wool man he's going up from Dallas landman and it probably wearing a little case of boots or whatever

we're a couple of old man I don't know why I'm talking gullow when I'm talking for a cowboy I do declare I can fill you up oh man classic stuff

that that's all the topics I don't know if we got well you guys did put a lot in there so we got through them all I did I had a chow topic oh oh

well some chow talk man a little chow talk man is there a better food than taco meat if so i'll sit back and listen i'll also uh wait for anyone to have something further for the group wait it's like just taco meat no taco i think i could just i honestly man like i think i could just crush good taco meat so we got a spot this is gonna this is gonna come full circle it's gonna feel like it's in the parking lot for a second.

We're going to close the loop. Okay, I get it. Yeah, this loop will be closed. This knot will be tied. There's a spot by her house here in South California called Romans. And we generally go there for Pazole, which is like a Mexican suit. And the other day, I was coming home and Diana was like, get something for Isabella. She's hungry.

And I don't usually go to Romans for tacos. because I feel like tacos should be $2. I don't care what year it is. I don't care about a war with Iran. I don't care about deportations. Tacos should be $2, period. I thought that's why we did go to war with Iran. Yeah, I hope so.

I hope we fix that problem. And his tacos are $4.95. And, yeah, so I'd never go there, but it's like literally right by the house. And I do like the guy. and I respect guys trying to make a living, right? And I was like, you know what? I'm going to go to Romans.

I haven't been there since I moved to South Carolina. It's been like three years. So I walk in, he's like, oh, you're back. I'm like, yeah, I got a kid. Look at the photo. He's like, wow. He's like, what do you want? I was like, I want three Alpastore tacos.

I need one chicken taco that is plain, like just a tortilla and a chicken. not a whole chicken but you know what I mean because that's what his belly eats and I was like then I need another chicken taco with onions and cilantro because my wife told me she wasn't hungry but if you're a husband remember feed your wife

it'll fix 99% of your problems so I was like and then another one with onion and cilantro he's like done I was like the chicken ones are to go the Alpestores for here he gives me the Alpestore ones and man the taco meat he fills it so much like you got to finish the plate with a four

because like every bite in meat just like falling. And it was phenomenal, phenomenal. So I eat them. I'm scooping it up with a spoon. It's all full circle. Don't forget about the circle. Spooned it up. He's talking to me asking me,

oh, you were deployed, blah, blah. Are you going to Iran? Everyone thinks because you're in the service, you're going to Iran like tomorrow. It's like that's not how it works, but sure. And it gives me two tacos to go, walk in the house. And he's like, where'd you get to?

tacos from? I was like, I got him from Romans. And she's like, well, you don't like that Romans cost $5 a taco? I was like, I'm telling you, these tacos were crazy good. I got these Alpestore ones, D, the meat. I'm not even an Alpestore guy. I don't even know why I ordered Alpastore. Like, it was incredible. They were the best, like, I, we have to go back worth $5 dollars of taco. It was crazy how good. And the amount of taco meat he put in there, the taco meat was crazy. She was, oh, great, what did you bring me? I was like, a chicken taco. She was like, wait, what? And I was like, well, I didn't know yet. But I sell it to say, man, taco meat, you just give me a bowl of that Alpestore. And I like

tortillas. Oh, man. It was great. It was great. Go to Romans. Get yourself some out the store. No, I said, we've been eating a lot of taco meat. That's what the kids, kids like eating straight taco meat by itself. So then I've also just been eating a lot of taco meat too. Therefore,

tacos are great. That meat's great. Yeah, I love tacos. All day. Yeah. That's why they call it South California. Mm-hmm. This episode is brought to you by BW. Tax. Tax LLC.com.

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that listens to the podcast. You're not random, but you know what I mean. She used to. Not anymore. We're back now. Yeah, back from deployment. Turn that podcast off. Yeah.

Actually, you better listen, mom, because we may call your kid back for Iran. Okay. I don't know if you're tracking a war. That's what we were the ones behind this war so we can get more to be more listeners. So therefore we're more deployed mom. That's how. Yeah.

We're actually engagement farming in Iran. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's what we've always It's one way to do it. Yeah. It's the way we do it.

Should we bring this thing down for a landing? Yeah. We can we see Brown's alibis? No, let me see. I'm in El Paso next week. El Paso. For episode 100. Episode 100.

Specifically for you. Yeah, wow. Yeah. Should I come to El Paso? I might actually come to El Paso to record a 100. Jeff, can you make it to El Paso? Next Tuesday? Yep.

It is closer. Let me, let me. What if we flew to El Paso to do 100? Down in the West Texas town of El Paso. I recorded. OTHK Podcast 100. Hey, well, let's take that offline. Okay.

Can you imagine live from El Paso? a big portrait of Santa Ana behind your house Marty Robbins playing live music I'm gonna guess he's dead who Marty Robbins? Yeah It's a safe bed yeah I'm a gambler you know

It's like Bitcoin safe bet But no so I got to find Was it L&J Cafe? That's a good one I actually have another restaurant in El Paso I gotta go through my El Paso list we might have to fly to El Paso, Jeff. I mean, I can't actually think of anything more perfect.

Three of us in El Paso wearing our hats and our boots, as we call them in El Paso. Eaton enchiladas. We can record a couple videos. Go to a gym, put it on a radar. Okay, podcast meetup. El Paso, Texas next Tuesday, 9 p.m. Central. We'll see you there. You'll listen to this on Friday.

day. We need you to be getting up. Talk your planes. Keep your hats on your body. Put your bins above your seat and get your butt to El Paso. Mom, you're invited. You can come. Oh, it's going to be great. Wow.

Wow. I can't see you guys. Oh, that was it. That was my safe round. I mean, it had major impacts. I feel like the episode. 100 El Paso. Yeah. Tuesday. You work on Tuesday, Jeff?

I am not working. Whoa. Jeff, we get an early flight, go to Trace Hose conference that he's probably running. Oh, man, it sounds great. I can't wait. I can't wait to see you guys in Texas next week. It's phenomenal.

You guys think I'm kidding. You guys think I'm kidding. Don't forget this podcast. I know you're not. No, you're not. Powered by the Strength Co. Let's get to El Paso. Good Mary out there.

Go to L&J. I record some YouTube videos. Business expense, you know? Which means it's free. That's what my CPA tells me. But, all right, take it down for landing,

Trey, before I get too excited. Actually, I know this episode number. This episode 9-9 of the... Nine-N-Niner. Okay. Okay.

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