EP. 102: TSA NIGHTMARES & IRAN WAR

0:00All right. Welcome back to episode one zero two one zero two zero one zero two for you for digit types of the okay podcast power by the strength of I'm your host Grant Brogie uh Brogie Grant Brogie as the Italian saying I am indeed Italian. Now we're recording live I'm in South California for those that are uncertain of my whereabouts I've been in what's not South Jersey and what's not North Jersey but it's also not Central Jersey but I'm back in South California uh this episode one zero two the price of Bitcoin is $70,891 and 11 since uh I'm joined in studio we are live on X you can go watch us there right now of course you can watch it when it comes on YouTube on Friday morning at 9 a.m. P.J. uh or wherever you get your podcast uh Jordan studio of Mr. Jeff Buje Biggie for you military types uh I call him Mr.

1:04Jeff because he's in a non drilling status that means we can talk about the war and I ran we can do whatever we want it's 27 days a year or we have our brothers about any topic although these days it seems like you can have your brothers on any topics regardless of if you're in the service or not so uh Mr. Jeff from the Greater Salt Lake City area joining us also joining us from Minnan Texas Minnan M-E-N-O-N look that up tray put that in your Texas Geographer Geography Geographical map and smoke it okay Minnan Texas that's Loving County between 9 and 12 residents which means that your family makes up half of the population per capita so per capita Minnan Texas if you were to ask someone what their last name was the odds are high that it's Gotlich so Minnan Texas Mr. Trey Gotlich Robert Trey Gotlich III we got a lot to talk about today

2:07today's date is March the 25th in the year of our Lord 2026 I don't see a lot of people calling on teams I don't see a lot of online stations that's because we usually do this meeting on Tuesdays but trash sticks decided on Tuesday right before execution to just obliterate everyone's schedules and roll it to Wednesday someone make the argument we could just skip the meeting but remember part of the meeting is the meeting itself um and so we're here and we got baseball to talk about opening weekend we got football coach shuffles to talk about we got March madness to talk about we got war to talk about we got Israel to talk about we got Iran to talk about we got Alex Jones to talk about uh we're just gonna pull out all the stops my buddy is no lawyer or commander so that's nice it's like a burden lifted he's got a lot to talk about um but before we get into topics let me kick it over to the three all right uh good evening good evening gentlemen uh okay

3:14before before we even get into this um gonna gonna hit on one thing okay the manning document that needs to be completed ASAP uh we're really struggling on that uh so I just want to I just want to start things off by setting the tone that the manning document needs to be complete it needs to be accurate so we can uh put forward a good product okay with that said I'm gonna kick it over to the one what do we got admin uh yes we're not trying to uh be a dead horse here but um working on my uh T.O. for the uh manning document um so it's the main thing I really want to kind of fixate on is hey who are all of our trash pickers you know what I mean so outside of that sir that's basically all I have going on that's all everything I'm focused on is just the manning document and that's it nothing else very well hey trash six real quick can we work on the uh go no go roster uh

4:17I know you work in the manning document there's a tab there's a manning document which will be right orders for tab Tuesday go no go uh and I don't want to see any no goes okay I expect everyone to pick up trash and uh all no go submissions will come through me if you're light duty remember that's a recommendation got the M.O. down there giving me dirty looks she can give me dirty looks all she wants to wreck the recommendation for risks that I want to take and uh you bet your sweet bippy we're gonna be taking some risks so uh let's finish up the go no go commanders have that to me five minutes after this meeting alright thanks Keria hi sir okay take it over to that s-2 s-2 what do you got anything good in the intel world uh yes sir this is lieutenant smith I just told you oh my predecessor lieutenant Johnson failed out of uh ats ats is that uh no that's the artillery training school we failed out of a and s assessment and selection

5:20so he's actually being uh redesignated as a comma uh but anyway that's not really relevant I don't know anything that's going on aside from what I see on the White House account on x and uh I seem to be the most up to date out of all twos in all of the Marine Corps a lot of them lock themselves up in a vault and uh stay on zipper I just follow the White House account and uh we are just bombing everything all the time and I can play some videos if you'd like I know we're technically in a confidential room but if you'd let me bring my phone in I can just open x and you can actually see everything that's happening um nothing further for the group good brief good brief okay brings it over to ops uh hey I know I know we already touched on this but I'm going to bring it up again the manning document we got to get the manning document complete if the manning document isn't complete then we're incomplete and we are not

6:22to be our mission of picking up trash lieutenant Smith here I forgot uh we also have a manning document for the two shop uh it's consist of a go-no-go and uh there's six people on my manning document I put them all as goes um three of them have not checked into the unit yet but if they do check in between now and whatever it is that we're talking about I'm not sure what manning even means I thought he was a quarterback from Tennessee but uh we will send everyone as a go sir okay noted excellent excellent um good brief good brief I think you're gonna you had big shoes to fill ten of Johnson you know it was a great s2 uh it seems like you're right on track he left his boots in the office there actually a size six uh everyone keeps telling me a big shoes to fill but um they're actually quite small but thank you sir well it okay you took it literally got it okay um let's move along to the s4 s4 our log log go types are log

7:27bubbles as they say yeah I don't want to be a dead horse here with this manning document but uh uh it's really is it is very fortuitous that I had to as an embarkation officer as well I had to get ready for phase mode and so this go-no-go list is very important for the embarkation uh so if we could get that to the six but funnel it through me first so I can take get some eyes on it and then that way I can update for our phase mode in about three years so we'll go through it hey appreciate sir appreciate so this is the uh four chief I just want to say uh if you got anything for the manning document or the go-no or uh anything that has to do with EDL and what you want to bring to the field if you want child support you need trash support portage on uh I appreciate sir you do do a good job but just send that to me okay we go to keep down the flat black side so just send it over to me and uh I'll make sure you get the scoopy snacks and uh everything that you need so just hit me up you could text me too just DM you DM me on IG too I I put it all in the manning document will be good all right thanks to the mother for the group uh thanks chief yeah if you're emailing to the chief if you could

8:29CC me as well and then BCC me so that I make sure I get it all right thank you that's all I for the group sir okay okay so yeah update your uh your CC guidance and your command your platoon commanders notebooks okay send anything to the four you're gonna CC the four and BCC the four okay that way we're covered in line it's a apologies and if you BCC me on my personal email that would be very very well very well very well uh excuse me this is the um cyber officer uh I'm fairly new in the Marine Corps I've been around for about two years uh actually new DOW policy that you can't forward or send emails from a dot mill to a civilian account um so do not BCC the fours personal email or he'll never get it I realize I'm a second lieutenant and uh jumping up against the major but he won't he he will not get it and uh for the

9:30reservist at all now I want to take laptops home um that's too bad we don't have enough of them we technically have enough but they're all set up for phase mode that's coming next year and I've been told that we can't touch them and so you guys just figure it out go to your local base I mean if you live in Wyoming there should be a base somewhere go there and just log in with your cat card sorry to interrupt gentlemen uh nothing further for the group um hey good goug and uh welcome welcome to the battalion uh we've got we have a hail and farewell uh scheduled for immediately following this meeting um yeah beers will be served and it is encouraged that you are taking them at uh well this meeting is gonna end up about hey this trash zero nine thirty bring your thoughts on Iran all right and uh trash situation over there too the hail and farewell uh carry on three push yeah I sir I sir uh okay thank you for um medical dental y'all

10:33have anything for us uh yes this is chaps uh I've heard that I no longer am allowed to wear rank and I must just cover my uniform and crusader crosses um if this ends up being the case I want everyone to know that I am indeed an oh three in the navy um also we've had 1472 counselling this week of a battalion of 700 people um Marines and sailors if you will so I would say that uh people are talking nothing for the for the group oh excellent excellent okay thank you chaps um okay let's kick it over to um let's see any other any other uh staff in the room here we do have one outline station are we nine nine nine are we are we are a chaplain oh yes yes uh let me read this from the reserve chaplain chaplain checking in I want to thank you all for the

11:34improved girting metrics we received a mandatory girting organization standardization workshop gosw will be conducted at zero four hundred one April to discuss proper girting techniques because I have heard some reports of overgirding and unfortunately I did hear about one case of reverse girting please message me in the teams for the share point link I also heard a lot of jokes about me mentioning that this whole girting situation is a glass ball situation and listen I know we are Marines um chaps I know you're learning but Marines is always capitalized okay lower case chaps but let me remind you of what the bible has to say about course joking uh and there must be no filthiness and silly talker course jesting which you're not fitting but rather giving of thanks for you know with certainty that no immoral or impure person or covetous man who is an idolacher has enhanced in the kingdom of christ and of god effesions five four and five NESB 1995

12:37let's make sure that we are in our a game this week maran I think he needs marine once again not capitalized Kanye West is more of an effesions four guy but I appreciate effesions five reference thank you chaps excellent excellent stuff from the chaps as always okay we got one more uh outline station um from our our local 89 99 aka the adjusting piece uh former and we got some some words of wisdom from our 89 99 okay okay so we just completed our quarterly uniform inspection let's keep it simple we are not where we need to be we are trash battalion not trash Marines time to tighten it up when Marines look good they secure trash good now the elephant in the room whoever approved or failed to correct the storyboard photo of five lands corporal standing the alphas all with identical overly styled new stashes looking like a 1940s propaganda poster

13:39that ain't okay stephencios see me after the brief uh that's an 89 99 with some figure right there for serge fired up it's exactly what we need move stashes it's good to go alpha storyboards got a lot of storyboard a lot of good stuff a lot of good stuff uh any save rounds uh hey trash chicks here any save rounds alibis mr gunner sorry man you guys got anything all right appreciate what you do trash chicks out chairs flying coffee cups spilling side bars commencing exactly what the commander was hoping would happen when they left just what he wanted uh i got to say before we leave get too far from the staff brief roll red diamond six uh general gerard major general type for you civilian types remember be my little general bring it to your major lieutenant general uh one two three four stars

14:41so two star type comes in the house Romeo company class in 1995 they'll sit it out my research comes in you know when a general comes like a flag goes up everybody acts weird they're like polishing the toilets uh repaint in the parking you know uh signs you're you got 17 people helping them get out of his rental car walk him inside and uh all that's happening and he comes in and uh you know i he's standing there and i say yeah i could more in general and uh uh good more a major i said uh Romeo bat a Romeo company class in 95 he said uh you remember say yeah you once told me nothing good ever came out of delta's company that's right nothing ever came good out of disney land uh yeah it's good to have you back you glad to be back and i'm gonna talk like i think i talked and then i'll tell you what people said after oh yeah sir it's good to be back good to be back with a family really really nice to be back

15:46uh yeah no that's that that's good no now you grew up in south carolina uh yes sir i grew up and beautiful by dad's a preacher down there oh what denomination is he well he's non denomination but if you put the truth gun to his head i think he'd say southern bapis well where did he go to seminary person he went to Dallas theological and then he did his masters his imdiv at southern whoa whoa from Dallas the southerns quiet the spread god no excuse me general he went to southeastern oh okay that makes a little bit more sense southerns where my heart is uh well my brother in law was uh as a preacher was a captain in the Marine Corps he went to southern okay at least part of the family's got it right uh that's good that's good it's good to see you uh now would you say you more Dallas or southern well sir now that i'm or excuse me now well general as i'm talking to you i'd i'd say i'm definitely more southern that's my that's good man right there

16:47good made a good things out there we appreciate you we appreciate you all right all right and so i think nothing of the meeting or of the conversation i totally hijacked it all the lieutenant kernels are standing there looking around staring at the ceiling as i'm talking about you know uh what you see a narrow about a person based off where they went to seminary and uh italian exo i don't think he listens if he does or some people listen to can tell him Kevin Bosch got a shout out he finishes jersey guy a lot of hand in arm signals you know quick talk or always saying stuff he goes which you pull a frog horn like horn voice out like where did that even come from i you're always over here like talking Italian all sudden you sound like a charleston aristocrat i'm like what he's like you just like dropped into the same voice that he was doing and i said oh yeah i've been blamed of that a few times red dot it's called neary we have called it southern grand okay southern grand yeah well he's a lot of it's hard

17:55yeah anyway that's what's on the slideshow oh let's see we do have a lot maybe some some good topics here i'm trying to figure out like a good quick hitter do we want to talk sports we want to talk save sports trays gonna go to this college football rabbit hole you're not going to know now okay i got i got i got i got just the one i got just the one um so tray posted in there project hail marie book first movie and then kind of uh a caveat off of their dovetail more more so to speak is going to the movies alone what's your stance on that so traded you see the movie i did so i want to go and read the book travel i did read the book what's the movie lord of the kings yeah lord of kings you write up your alley grid yeah you you actually you actually did you ever see the movie the martian no you know they're just madame movie it's good uh is it like et or something no i feel like you would you would like

19:02the martian you would like it more than et yeah for sure is it about a moon visit yeah like yeah no it's space it is space but it's like space related yes i don't know let's believe we went to the moon so if it has to do with the landing i don't know but let's table this well not no it's good uh madame it's part of a mission to Mars get strained on Mars it's about the guy from goodwill hunting yes yes okay continue and then it's about him like trying to figure out how to how to get back and and kind of this stuff going along way it's actually pretty i think it's actually really entertaining it's pretty funny at some points too um i didn't think i was gonna like kind of like kind of like that movie or forest gump get stuck on an island yes up space yeah okay yeah yeah got it track basically same thing yeah so same author yeah so read the book really like the book i read it like a couple of years ago

20:05oh yeah okay thank you but for us cool yeah for us cool um went to go see the movie some travel in this week and since that to be away from the family i'm like oh i'm just go treat myself just treat yourself treat treat treat i went to go see projectile Mary do i thought it held up pretty good man just wait so projectile Mary all all all okay jokes aside projectile Mary's like a spin-off of the Martian uh so it's the same author same author who are like comic book yes yeah yeah yeah same guy who wrote the Martian wrote projectile Mary um but yeah no i mean i thought it was a super good movie but i think i think grant would like i haven't seen projectile Mary yet we're gonna go see it Friday and i max some pumped about that but uh and you read the book right but yeah i think you would like the Martian more than you would like projectile Mary it's projectile Mary a football movie yeah it's another so hey it's it's in

21:05space again oh it's got Ryan Gosling in it so it's a spin-off of remember the Titans we're we're powered by Starlink right now big space gap so Ryan Gosling is there from remember the Titans ends up going to juco and then this is about his junior college football experience yeah in space in space yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah what's forgot this podcast is brought to you by bwtax bwtax llc.com as we said today's date is March 24th in the year of our Lord 25th excuse me in the year of our Lord 2026 which means that tax season is here we are in what some would call the fourth quarter of tax season remember which people like bwtax you can get over time if you need it it's never too late you think your taxes are simple or you think your complex just give bw a call the way answer the phone he's answering the phone nonstop said he's having his busiest year ever tax season he only tax in all caps during tax season which

22:08I appreciate everything is screaming and occasionally you get a bit moji choose a pig talking about taxes go to bwtax llc.com hmm sir taxes if you're in space yeah yeah he really he put a file on extension but yeah so would I go to the movie yeah self get the question you think it stayed true to the book as much as it could yeah I thought I thought it good cool but I think you're I think you're gonna like it if you like the book you'll like the movie and I feel like from reading the book you're like there wasn't like I don't know parts where you're like oh this is just like a bunch of fluff in this book like they'll cut this out um you know and I don't know maybe he wrote it with like a movie deal in mind later on who knows but I feel like it lends itself very well to like a screenplay oh yeah 100% but now the main

23:09question was the second half of that is what's your stance on scene movies by yourself oh I'm all about it yeah okay yeah I mean some movie in a theater since 2020 oh wow I have not seen so there's that and I just throw that I don't say that it's like a good thing or a bad thing or a thing I'm proud about but just to add context um I have not seen a movie in theaters since 2020 but uh but yeah I'm very pro movie by yourself yeah kitchen six things I'm like a sociopath like going to movies by myself I mean she's not long about the first part but I don't think it has to do I don't think that I don't think that's the difference by yourself yeah no I mean I think it's like in some regards it is like a social aspect but then in other ways you're like yeah everyone's just sitting in the same and just sitting there quietly so it's not like having a person there next to you usually I think it's a deal break I think it's more of a

24:14it's more of a guy thing I think guys will do something about themselves yeah yeah I'm scared to go to a movie by myself because I think I'd like it so much that I tell my wife I was going to work and I just start going to imagine every day every day and 12 to three I'm just watching movies you know no one can get a hold of so yeah one big fan of movies by myself's to project tell Mary was good don't you don't like it and that's all I gotta say about that hmm next slide next slide very well um how about a lifting update oh I love you get any lifting updates I can give a little lifting update no you give yours no so you got no lifting update now I don't know if the listeners remember but last week was powered by Sudafed and this week should be except I just refused but I had let's see we recorded on Monday yeah we recorded

25:15this why it feels like it's been so long because we recorded a day early and now we're recording a day late yeah that's why I feel like I miss you guys trade looks like a different person but I was sick Monday and then I took the red eye out Tuesday night hit Jersey yeah hit Jersey right to technically didn't go to the field Wednesday but working on go-no go rosters and manning documents and EDLs feels like I did didn't hit the jam was still sick went to the field cold rainy the whole time come out of the field Sunday change of command flying out Monday because it was just too much trying to get a flight out on time time Sunday so I did so I worked out basically not basically I did the Friday prior to the last episode should have worked Monday was sick and I did not meet my threshold for not lifting the threshold for not lifting should be fever I did have a very severe

26:18head cold like I was it was it was intense but I really believe I could have lifted but just due to scheduling I didn't make it usually would have rolled to a Tuesday didn't red-eyed field some could say working out is walking around with gear on and sleeping for three hours in the rain but I wouldn't so it's Sunday night I go to sleep my flights like midday Monday and I'm like I can't go another day so I drove back to Fort Dix and I went in and I just squatted squatted with one of my captains last time I was seeing for a bit so we both squatted I did five sets of five ascending after the two sets of empty bar so two sets of empty bar and five by five ascending I think I finished it like three thirty five and then we each did like I don't know thirty pull ups or something I didn't have much time 45 minutes boom go to the EWR TSA everyone's panicking I got through in 10 minutes we can talk about that later but I say let's say so I went not a nine day period without lifting

27:20which is the longest I've had in a really long time excuse me and man was I sore Tuesday which just goes back to all my YouTube videos where I say soreness is about doing a movement that you're not accustomed doing you can lift heavy three days a week and if you do that consistently you'll never be sore but if you go more than a week without lifting you'll be super sore and I didn't even do that much volume I could have done three thirty five for five sets of five but I just worked up to one top seven man was I sore but a little tidbit I did the squats and the pull ups and then Tuesday I got it and I benched and then today I got back in the groove deadlifted and pressed I'll take tomorrow I'll all run tomorrow and then Friday I'll be back in the swing of things but if you're missing days I would have been very easily for me in New Jersey to say just change command got a fly TSA blah blah blah but I was like nope gotta get in there and get it happening

28:20and I'm glad now that it's you know Wednesday night and I'm back on back on schedule so that's my lifting update tray good update yeah all right uh I feel like can we touch on the change of command or you want to dive into that dive on yeah I'm curious yeah I'm curious how it went man well do you want to recap the whole weekend talk about the field then talk about change command and yeah um let's talk about change command and then go back to the field because I think you were in the field too um you know maybe we'll just mix them all up yeah change command was interesting so two years to the day uh news flash you be that grants buddy was real grants buddy was just me it's my alter ego that was out there two years two years to the day so found out February 3rd 2024 doesn't take command that was my wife's birthday when we found out we were pregnant with

29:22Isabella March 22nd 3rd second I don't know the days overlap on the weekend of it was a drill the same weekend shocking how things repeat themselves uh took command all of 24 March through December spent prepping the unit for activation which was you know Jeff's a battery commander in the reserve since this is a second Tory had headquarters battery regiment before and you're always busy and as the commander you're the guy that everyone that I always interest phone always does things that's true in the active component I would say in the reserve component it's like there are other people that go back to work you know it's like usually you have a gunny or staff and CEO or a first sergeant that's like on the ball all the time um and a lot of my staff was on the ball the time in 2024 as much as they could be but at the end of the day when you're activating units like you pay the piper as the commander they're calling you and so 2020 for what

30:25I would say it was busier than I thought getting ready to activate and again had a lot of great folks help make that possible but it just felt like I was on the phone every day and I think it's because I was on the phone every day on the computer doing marine stuff January to 2025 activate and come off orders December 23rd a lot there in the middle uh 31st mute deployment which is just interesting how time uh you know what did our old mentor say Brian Pegrum who I think we all worked for worked around uh say it's all about chance and timing right like guys that guys that do stuff it's all it's all about chance and timing like his general thought is that all marines would do the right thing in a combat situation and you know the crazy situation arise the occasion and the people that do the chance and the timing worked out and so it's interesting you know last year when we run an operation midnight hammer we're at sea with the seventh fleet and they're like oh

31:27we might switch you to the fifth fleet it was like a quick thing then we went and bombed I ran and destroyed all their nuclear stuff which we're going back after it again so I don't know if we destroyed it and they made it that fast or how that works but that's a cop topic for another day um but have the same you same ship same people that I put one in the old vice with in Okinawa japan you know have been steaming towards the middle east so uh you know missed it by that much um so anyway finish deployment deactivated December 23rd and then have been in sort of like a reintegration back into the smcr and I've been drilling quite a lot in February in March and what I would say is I don't know I don't even know that it is hit me yet but I would say that when you know a lot of the guys that deploy with with first team where their t-shirt tonight one seven um you know they're on a border mission now so they got right back to work but there was definitely like a closure to the deployment like boop onto the next thing

32:32and I don't feel like I had been onto the next thing it was like closing out you know administrative taskers marines that deployed with godfather battery that came from other units you know you name it and it's just been like nonstop and oh by the way you get home and you're like I should hang out with my wife I want to get to know my daughter I have a bunch of businesses that need a lot of effort and so it's just been kind of nonstop and so um I've kind of had this date in my head for a long time uh and it finally came and occurred and the change of command in terms of pop and circumstance I mean you guys know it as well but it's hey new commander comms there's like a little ceremony there's formation troops uh exo says you know first started to deliver the guide on to the battery commander script is red of the passing of you know the guide on symbolizes the uh relief of all you know duties and responsibilities by the outgoing and the assumption

33:33excuse me by the new guy so we did that Sunday at 2 p.m and it is there is some kind of feeling when you're like holding the stick and there's like cues to the words and you know a certain word and you stick to stick out and the guy grabs it and you let it go and um there's a lot of like relief and then there's there's a lot of like hey you know you pour your heart and soul into something for two years and you're like man that's you know it's over um so yeah well I was fortunate master gun shepherd came out which was good to see to have the support uh shiny one more Billy Martin I can drive character uh former guest the podcast Dave Denobio Lertola I should have a lot of credit that I pronounced that correctly who was lieutenant with all three of us uh listen south Philly got great dude good dude uh listen south Philly he came out Andrew Ibo's Ibo's also lieutenant with all of us flew in from Kentucky what a guy uh my battery gun he was now a master

34:38field artillery for three eleven came out for it uh I wish the family could have come but it's like you're shooting beforehand it's like what's my family gonna do like sit in a hotel room in Jersey for four days you know waiting for this thing to happen or the alternative like fly across country by themselves but yeah it was it was a good event um I mean it went well no longer in command so you know happen tree oh that's good man yeah no I've always wondered who was just like a huge relief lifted off but I don't know I imagine it's a mixed emotion kind of thing yeah I think it's I think it's mixed I think there is a huge relief I think I'm also like I'm done but I'm not quite done there's a lot of like admin evaluations and stuff that like I'm cranking this week and I'm trying to like crank I'm really hard what I will tell you that I have felt thus far for the first time since coming back from Okinawa I have not had like a flight for drill in my calendar

35:41um and in the last eight weeks it's every time I get back it's like nine days from now you're flying back to New Jersey and then you get back and it's like eleven days from now you're flying back to New Jersey and so that I actually have like felt like coming back like oh I do not have to fly back to New Jersey and nothing gets to Jersey um it's just like but that's like to kind of like takes like a mental toll right like I got this like next thing to go back so I felt that I also did feel I had a lieutenant she checked in right before we deployed and then she went on a different deployment and she came back change command happens there's like a little gift exchange and the little uh fiddler's green that we have we call it Johnny sacks and we're we're in there and uh we come out of there and uh the lieutenant comes up say hey sir I sent you the storyboard and the drill summary uh I think they're all complete for submission and I was like wrong guy wrong guy it don't send it to me so that was funny um but yeah all done long two years

36:50great good job thank you yeah congratulations congratulations great yeah great command tour told the guy people on the old ice when I handed to him yeah no I think it's like the uh and I'll leave it with this then we can go another stuff I think thought about a little bit I think I'll think about it more like next week think when I close out I'm to really try and hard to like close out everything and there's always more right there's always there's there's the Marines there's people that you deal with that need help and there's all that kind of stuff but um I did think about you know and I think you guys will both relate to this like as an artillery officer there's a bunch of cool stuff you can do you can go to Anglicus Jeff's done in the past you know you got a high Mars like you know Trey or all of us did beginning uh you can do it you can do it you can do a lot of stuff you can be the s4 alpha or the s4 there's a lot of stuff that you can do but I mean like in my mind and maybe I'm just too belt fed but like the uh pinnacle is like being the battery on a BLT because that's like the

37:54doctrine that like you're taught all the time right like uh the artillery battery supports the infantry battalion so like doing on a BLT and so getting to that was cool and then realizing like the odds of getting to do that as a reservist and activate a very slim um so yeah I think uh the the opportunity to do that and to do it um it was it was definitely really really cool and not take away from uh anything else but yeah um I'm I'm glad it was I'm glad it was what it was but uh no longer godfather six someone else have it I'm just a guy I'm just a guy that sells plates and uh you know that's what it is um all right push that's not for that yeah enough for that shut up all right well uh stick it on there's old marine slash young marines is one of the topics you put in there great oh yeah uh I don't know okay baby I don't want to say

39:01hey all right uh move but push we'll push the next slide um and uh sorry like we'll get I'll get grants take on this you may have thoughts trade but I don't know but reserve but I don't care so in there's like to me that should be an active duty job always uh like like we get so trade all the corpsmen that come out of the field with us like there are some on the active duty staff but it's like the the chief and whatever so but like all you're like you know line corpsmen that go with the batteries or whatever are all reservists and like so far I've only worked with one that actually had like a medical like civilian job and was like a ER nurse she was awesome tons of experience but so far all the other ones have something that has nothing to do with medicine and then there's a standing like I have a standing I have like to be well as like if anything ever happens to me do not send the corpsmen semi semi are one of our staff

40:07sergeants that's a EMT or like a paramedic firefighter on the civilian side I'm like he send him don't even tell the corpsmen like they're gonna be asleep don't don't contact them don't wake them up like you know leave them alone so I don't reserve corpsmen are interesting yeah I guess I could go I could jump on that bad bandwagon but if I were to put like my active duty hat on I feel like active duty Marines could say the same thing about us right like I don't want the guy that squats for a living shooting my artillery right and it's like well uh but no I hear what you're saying and reserve corpsmen are interesting um man the navy does it right the guys that I took on deployment were reserve corpsmen they still haven't had to come back yet they get like they get like six months like they don't have to do anything so uh yeah we had we had uh reserve corpsmen was uh new checked in what we were gone and uh it was interesting I

41:16gave us some shout outs to my lieutenant so they're doing the old uh EDL manning document scrub and they're trying to get the weapon numbers to bump you know your bump in numbers classic story is all this time and uh and he says well I know the corpsman has her rifle because she checked it out and then locked it up in her locker and said well I don't bring a weapon to the field so I'm just gonna put it in my locker in the lieutenant was like uh not the place to leave the weapon grab that thing uh so yeah I think I'm bringing things to the field I want to caveat that you you said reserve corpsman are interesting I feel like that's just a blanket statement for a corpsman any corpsman appearance yeah yeah very true very true I don't know I've had some great ones but yeah I have to yeah man like I had some too but they're all just a little bit a little off yeah yeah they're good uh corpsman reserve corpsman if you're listening mom if you've

42:22become a corpsman we love you we appreciate you too I think they're great and if Jeff's staff sergeant EMT is hurt call the corpsman I don't know just let me die let me die I never were watching one of them try to like give a IV one time and be on like oh I feel like I could just insert my own IV right now just saying I'm see it's like we had a marine like literally just like skin his knee and the corpsman was like I gotta take a better look at this wound and like cut his whole like pants like no I've got the scissors issue to him he's been wanting to use his whole real real scissors happy uh so yeah yeah corpsman we love him we do love him we do love him um granted you any toxic MREs out there oh man I'm not many I um we went out Thursday morning

43:29think I ate two MREs I brought it's funny before I told total or just that morning total I could eat 12 if I needed to someone someone had told me about the MRE debacle I post on the podcast today Instagram if you don't follow go follow um but I hadn't like read into it yet I think we mentioned a brief of the last episode but I always bring what I call officer gummy bears winter are the albiness a the white bag gummy bears and their softer and listed dummy gummy bears are harbio those are enlisted gummy bears they're hard to they like build mental toughness they're not very good and I think they provide no nutritional value and enlist them or you love that and then I didn't make this I didn't make this rule uh mass star in the United States Marine Corps made it for me 10 years ago white bag gummy bears or officer gummy bears harbio gummy bears the gold bag or enlisted gummy bears but I bring a bag of officer gummy bears

44:33and what I call meat sticks you know there's like um it's not beef jerky it's like meat yeah there's sticks of meat yeah sticks of me oh yeah and you go to you go to the px it must be because the straight-of-war moose and it's like 1299 for like nine sticks and you're like this is ridiculous uh so I bring those and so I just eat gummy bears uh meat sticks and coffee and somehow I feel like that's healthier than eating an MRE it based off of recent research I think I'm right but I ate a um beef ravioli and I ate a um Mexican style burrito bowl not to be confused with just a burrito bowl Mexican style which is a bad one because there's so much rice in it you have to heat it for like six hours in order for it not to just be really hard but yeah did you eat any? I had uh yeah I'm not trying I think I maybe had like three

45:38oh yeah the whole time it was uh I did the pizza slice whatever the cheat like which is I I grabbed that one because I was like oh I don't have to heat this thing up this is an easy like just like pushing the child real quick that's an Italian sin I mean yeah I just needed to get some food in me uh food is a debatable term right I crushed a chili mac at like three in the morning uh are like first night out there I was like oh she'd I haven't eaten in like a long time uh I really want to take a quick nap but I need to eat this MRE first so I devoured that thing and then I think I had a chili with beans at some point mixed in there I spread that one over like a course of a day I think I do like the naming convention of that chili with beans which like shows that the MRE makers know that chili's not supposed to have beans so it's like chili with beans and it's like oh you guys understand what chili is

46:42I did I did miss Southern California field apps it was 36 degrees in raining and I was like man Jeff's like on Robloir Road right now or the Coastals it was hot just like yeah I would have did like 95 oh that's not good I had to like use my tarp in my field craft and like making a frame which was like cool until you go to get in it and of course I wanted to put my cot in the a frame so I felt like a ditch set up the a frame and then you get in you when like take your boots off but then you would like put your socks or your boots like critters don't come in them and you have like whole routine man it must have taken me 25 minutes to like slide down that thing like my face is like six three inches from like the top of the tarp it's raining and by the time I like God in the bag with all my layers and had like my socks for the next day and my camis down by my

47:46feet I was in a full sweat you know it's like uh great glad I went through all this work for three hours of sleep yeah yeah yeah yeah just wait no it's like I would it there uh just open for some fire support yeah yeah no I would take I would take hot over cold and rainy every day of the week for sure yeah I think so it's up extreme heat okay Tray are you in field conditions for your working right now yeah man yeah are you what's the light now right now is it good for night driving for blackout driving do you have your energy mount uh yeah no I'll count for yeah okay good good don't forget don't forget do need the L check for you to bed yeah okay well I feel like we've been allowed to talk where Tray hasn't has much we want to do sports we wanted to get into this college football deal so

48:47let's get into it cool us up should we start the show yeah yeah let's start it I haven't you're not like I know a lot about college football the last two seasons well you don't think it's not one well that yeah well that's true maybe maybe South Carolina right and Auburn this fashion Auburn Auburn Auburn um as we get in the sports talk let me remind you that today's podcast is brought to you by green gridiron gridiron green you can buy a helmet you can buy a large helmet you can buy a mini helmet you can buy a helmet for your team uh like the naval academy I'm holding my hand if you're not watching on youtube you can buy a Gamecat helmet you can buy helmets with your friend the biggest thing that we want to remember is if you get a helmet make sure you get the visor the visor you don't have a helmet you can do custom helmets you can do pretty much anything you want mr helmet uh you guys both have helmets

49:51in the mail on the way to you today dropped him off at the old UPS trays getting the border patrol helmet and I think Jeff's getting the veterans bowl helmet hey you know me but as we talk about football season you need some helmets in your house you need them you need them they're like they're like reserve corpsman you may not feel like you need them but a day will come when you do need them and make sure you that you have that mini helmet go to gridiron green green gridiron mr helmet just click the link below we need those link clicks because mr helmet helps keep the lights on thank you mr helmet mm-hmm all right it's so springboard time for train he's picked the link hello I do that the good one good it's a guy that's not a commander anymore right there good one my hot air in there yeah well tray lane kiffin what best tire

51:01yeah well so what's the question I pose it what was the best like all the new coaches right spring ball talk what you had coached you think is the best hire lane kiffin LSU john someral florida Alex goalish Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn be golden all miss Auburn Pat Fitzgerald Michigan State Will Stein Kentucky Tosh DuPoi I don't know how you say it sounds foreign sure cow Tavita Pritchard Stanford is it a woman Bob Chesney UCLA Matt Campbell Penn State James Franklin Virginia Tech Eric Morris Oklahoma State and Ryan Silverfield Arkansas okay first let me just do a grant being dumb the only names I have heard of are lane kiffin Alex goalish Pats Fitzgerald James Franklin

52:11you for the state's coach uh Matt Campbell Matt can't know what to have who's the old Iowa state coach Iowa or Ohio the Iowa state oh I know Iowa state the Iowa state um yeah I have no idea lane kiffin that's your that's your big that you think here's what I know about college football right now okay Michigan has hired a bunch of new front office folks recruiting folks all women all attractive and they've been posting like newest hire you know recruiting admin director Kelsey whoever and it's like a 25-year-old blonde you know with Michigan logos behind her head and everyone's just retweeting sand thank god and the Michigan coach is gone um and that's kind of what my feed is in terms of college football

53:12that and mean Aggie memes but that's just always there well that's yeah that's car park for the course um I guess the Michigan coach wasn't on there too the old Utah coach oh yeah uh Kyle winning him Kyle winning him um I guess you get to throw him in there as well throw him in there so so grant thanks LSU got the best deal I have no idea I definitely had the most publicity so um I believe in marketing had a lot of noise yeah no for sure yeah I would I would lean who I think is gonna kind of best situation I think for junior tech hiding James Franklin I think that's yeah good hire for him I think he'll end up because one I think the Lee Lee's easier yes the dude in the dude can just like flat out like recruit kids yeah to come play for him so I don't know I feel like he's gonna do very well there who

54:13was the coach that said this week never asked me about recruiting just look at my wife do you see all that yeah yeah um who who was it's a it's a small school talked recruiting said look at his wife uh if you ever want to question my questions about if you ever want to question my recruiting abilities just look at my wife new providence I love it such a such a boss day quote um superty lady yeah it looks like he's getting recruiting mainly because of the way he looks I was like good for you man yeah he kind of looks like a goblin yeah but like a nice goblin you know I got like a tall Frodo Baggins yeah Frodo the goblin yeah yeah same same right am I mine the same yeah same that's basically same same no I think I think James

55:16Franklin is the big one and then I think the Pid State I think I'm at Campbell's like a really good coach you don't think the you know I was state like kind of the pressure isn't as much as isn't on as much the bars a little lower in terms of like what a successful season looks like do you think you'll be able to you think that this new amplified pressure cooker oh yeah I think from the University of Toledo shout out Troy Campbell senior hey look at that big Toledo guy could be related no I I think you'll do well because he thought I didn't think of that yeah sorry go ahead they didn't have any resource that I will stay true true compared to like Pid State so I feel like I think you'll do well so I think I'm gonna fire their baseball coach oh as much needed before the season started at least terrible and they're already started winning

56:22as soon as they fired up that's that's it are they like four games in three games yeah just fired just fired the coach South Carolina Mint Sports has like the worst record combined I think of any division one team thank god for Don Staley training school some respite did see a funny meme today it was Don Staley's like out in front of somewhere on campus and she's like given directions for some kid to parallel park and it was like Don Staley could literally coach anything make her the baseball coach they just made the sweet 16 for the 12th year in a row say what you want about women sports but I like winning I like winning spring ball spring games are like next week I think they're coming up soon sounds right okay we got an open weekend of MLB this weekend right is the first game tomorrow or is it today today today's in giants

57:26um our doctors yeah was today 805 eastern time I'm going I'm going Saturday Padres Tigers at the park oh that'd be fun yeah 5 30 apm first pitch nice I don't I feel like it's just we're just gonna watch the Dodgers win again this year no Dodgers suck maybe they got it probably rangers rangers did pretty good in the preseason I don't know if that means anything it's bring George W. Bush back to the Rangers yeah we got a war in the middle east it's baseball season we need George W. Bush you know yeah yeah no one Ryan bring that guy's arm back I think he was a manager for a minute solid couple innings yeah yeah all right all right

58:36sorry other stuff who who do you think is a coach I mean I mean you know well I'm gonna say I'm say I'm goal is shobbering can we national championship next year obber obber must damage 1856 you rock I don't know it's tough it's like that's great know that I'm like oh Jeff's hat nah I just know that just know he's been here for the civil war you know yeah I mean I think it's uh tough to say I think I hope he does well so I'm going without scolish um yeah I hope he's Ukrainian right I think so yeah they know how to fight man he's rushing my bad they also know how to fight same same yeah I'm sure I'm sure he'll be great we'll see though we'll see time until I would hire Alex

59:39Jones is my football coach that guy can see the future watch to bid the other day and when I say the other day I mean last night I'm sorry I'm going here but I'm going here good time no I I'm no longer a commander and he's like he's on Joe Rogan it's at least 10 years old and he's like there's they're they're gonna take the computers and their the computers are gonna listen to everything that you say all the time and they're gonna take all the feedback that you do and they're gonna put it into artificial intelligence and they're gonna take all the information of all the Americans and they're gonna feed it into these robots and these robots are gonna be able to talk to you and people are gonna be talking to the robots asking questions about life about what they should do and the AI is gonna answer it all and then that what they're gonna do is they're gonna program it to make you think things are true that are not true and you're gonna see things you're gonna see videos that you're gonna think are real and they're not real but you're gonna feed the system

1:00:41for years and then it's all gonna come out and you're gonna realize that the robots are controlling everything and they're talking to you and any question you have about life love lifting you're gonna just ask the robots when I was watching I was like oh my gosh he like total predicted grand nailed it close my eyes there for a second I thought it was Alex I mean that's pretty good it's your ripper Alex Jones yeah yeah all right okay yeah uh uh a little grant uh seems uh Ron Paul's just right about everything uh when you're coming back to Texas yeah I love a conversation between Alex Jones I would pay my need to see it on that

1:01:41oh I love it I love it well okay I'm kind of along the lines of sports talk unless we had more college football when you talk now push uh literally like one of the wildest headlines oh I love those stories quadruple amputee cornhole player fatally shoots man like yeah the best part about it is real the best part about it is they find a video from like two years ago where the guys showing how we can like load and shoot a six-hour with like look my no hands uh and like uh sport fence attorney like like okay I thought I had the easiest offense in the world and now this video surfaces uh oh oh man yeah that's wild wild headline sounds like he did it did he shoot him like at a cornhole game um we didn't collect the link you just read the headline and you just read

1:02:47the headline you know that's crazy you know what the next one man's nuclear storages move on wait why are two muse and I ran if he teased did that too yeah yeah what do you guys think you see the 11th me pushed out there I did see that to the 31st in the 11th Trump posted last night that like oh the war's over yeah it's like every day Trump's like the war's over secretary of wars like got a hand in the throttle I don't know I do know that we need to straight to open up because uh for the average listener oil soaring is not good for the price of your cast iron okay it's not good for a lot of things I'm just giving you that because I'm a purveyor of cast iron you might sell hoses for a living it's great for the hose industry when trucking goes up woof uh oh yeah I don't know yeah you think it's ended soon Jeff second or I hope so man I don't

1:03:50do what's gonna happen I don't know anymore I am now out of the prediction game because it seems like anything and everything is possible all the time uh sounds like you just need to go to school learn something about advanced warfare yeah I hope it's over soon we'll see yeah I don't know it's an interesting uh it's an interesting time but all I wonder is hey Mike are we going to get a star on our uh armed forces defense what's what's the catch what what's the national defense national defense that's oh yeah do we get a star on that I mean are we gonna get a star so are so are people getting that again I don't know I don't know that's a great question yeah I don't know what the official uh triggering for that is or not war I saw a great I did see a great battle on

1:04:51B today it said uh trump issues croxed all servers service members so that he can claim there's no boots on the ground love it love it love it that's so good uh yeah hot topic in the gym turns out when people barbell train uh yeah something about barbell trainees that seem to care about the world's events in the future so there's a bit in the gym coach a little bit and they're lifting with folks uh lifting with a lady day and never met her before she'd been uh lifting with some of the coaches she just uh mixed uh mixed classes she has the coaches and goes to open gym if you live in orch County California California go to gyms.thestrength.co uh check out our website you can join the gym you can come in and live in a lift in a private space with like minded folks or uh you can go to coaching and stuff if you want and uh anyway I'm in there

1:05:55lifting uh longtime listener big friend of show raise in there uh this lady's in there I don't want to guess what her age is because I'd be doomed actually asked her I I said well I'll I'll do it in sequential order she I said uh she said I'm in the I walk into the gym gyms are already open and I can tell someone's in the bathroom and I see some things out she comes out and she says oh hello I said hi and uh she said you know my name's whatever I said oh nice to meet you know my name's Grant she said oh you're here for open gym I say yeah I'm here for open gym she's like oh great and I said how long you've been coming so I've been coming about three months you know I was training online for a little bit and now I come in I'm moving in the area I'm gonna start coming three times a week I said oh great you know who's your coach this sadden what have you and she said well how long you been coming I said well I think I'm in coming since we opened and she says oh wow you like it that much I said well yeah I open the ice and she goes oh you're

1:06:58the owner I see I am the owner so she squat and then you know I'm giving her some techniques rate comes and we're all lifting and uh you know there's just normal banter we're talking I ran we're talking fly fishing she's talking she's a geologist um you know she's talking about rocks and sand and uh at some point um he asked me something about the podcast she's like you have a podcast and I said yes she said oh what's the name of the podcast said oh the okay podcast she's oh well what's the okay podcast and I think rage is burst out in the laughter and she's like oh is it like funny and I said well I don't really it's just like a podcast I said you know like for my business we make a lot of videos about lifting and so the idea was like talk about lifting and then also talk about other things for people to you know maybe widen the audience and so we talk about

1:08:00sports and raise like chow what chow uh military stuff and she goes yeah doesn't sound very interesting to me and I see a tip now that that checks out when you talk a little bit of lifting though um and then she's like did you serve an Iraq and I just thought it was like a classic boomer question like oh you're in the Marine Corps did you serve an Iraq and I'm like no no didn't I I served in Afghanistan actually and last year I was deployed in the South Pacific and she says uh oh okay because I was in Iraq doing geology work from oh one to oh six wow and I'm like whoa I mean it packs out a little bit uh but potential guest potential guest yeah let's talk about some rocks saying she's actually more of a sand person oh I'll say it over there in Iraq yeah I'll say and I'll say and I'll say it more of a sand person yeah more of sand person

1:09:10all right what do we got for save rounds elevators it's a guy that previously working concrete I can tell you it's really just tiny rocks and I'm just tiny rocks um afro man trial I feel like oh man you guys follow that gotta cover only from when you posted like that song that he put up afro man it's gonna screw yeah afro man let's take it to yeah yeah we should get singing more about my mother listens uh everyone knows there's a couple famous afro man songs I let me know what the years they're from cult 45 famous show itself Carolina and then I got high and that's where I think his list ends unless I'm missing a banger by afro man but the cops went into his house there were some dumb charges eight is lemon pound cake broke his door down

1:10:12and for two years he made songs about the cops and he's actually like and I'm broke up but he's like in there right like they literally went into his house and like eight is cake and so he just made songs about it that are like extremely funny and not PG um but he took it to court and won his case and he won an American flag suit with American flag sunglasses and now he says running for president on free speech guns and weed and uh they suit him for defamation right yeah they suit him for defamation so then he just like ramped it up even my mean greatest comeback for a rapper do you love it um like he's relevant again uh but yeah if you haven't oh man if you're on acts and tired of seeing us bomb my ran just type in afro man and uh yeah you'll have a you'll have a good laugh good laugh for sure um okay I think two

1:11:18two maybe three ones want to be super quick um but couple save rounds what's the gift gauntlet oh oh I didn't even okay um so i'm in the midst of it right now okay okay it's uh basically christmas through april is the gift gauntlet so i got i got to get keely a christmas present and then february you roll into valentine's day so i got to get a present there march it's her birthday got to get a present there april our anniversary so it's just like i'm in the midst of the gift gauntlet april seventh right april eighth i just remember when i flew in hey there you go give some expensive so you asking for advice well no i think i just wanted to let people know it's a thing i'm in the middle of it i'm going through it just see how the third this one will be our third anniversary so like traditionally speaking that's the leather anniversary um keely isn't

1:12:22listening to this podcast so i'm gonna probably get her a leather like lifting belt she has a second you know like the bill i know i'm gonna play spy one so yeah and i think i know a guy we could put her name on it we could do a lot of things we could make pink so it's easy so yeah uh gift gauntlet i thought the gift gauntlet was going to be in regards to marines leaving goonets and how we just keep handing people big chunks of wood uh i i i i i i am i am i send you off right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah send me off right but i just mean in general like i left the exo left the first sergeant left okay like a bunch of people were leaving there's like get the exo like a pizza stone and grade because he's it likes to make pizza uh we got the first sergeant like a decanter um yeah i mean i think the CEO is always the easiest right get on yeah i mean that's it's like and i think when you leave with it you're just like oh

1:13:31that's like the only thing i've cared about all this time it's like all i need i just like nope don't need to put any person out anything like here's the guy on like that's it um but i think everyone else a little bit uh more interesting but yeah i thought that's where the conversation was going i didn't realize you were in the middle of uh wife gift gauntlet just stop celebrating uh stop celebrating valentine's day um stop celebrating your anniversary stop celebrating christmas and just get it down to her birthday okay okay what's my advice yeah i think she would almost be well i don't think she cares that much about valentine's day um but she probably almost would reverse that and be like don't care about birthday care about cares about christmas yeah christmas we're working she's she's was pretty important trade oh mess that mother's day coming up in May oh yeah i got that on walk it's yeah don't mess that uh i just i get i got Abby a picture last year of the girls and now i just get a new one

1:14:37an updated one yeah i got d a book last year with like photos of her in the baby and then i needed to re-up my starting strength search and of course starting strength has their seminar mother's day weekend so i was like so i could just like fly there friday and i'll just fly back sunday and it will celebrate mother's day on monday right and then i was like you're going to miss mother's day again i was like no literally just a question and i'm not i'll be here i want a joke question uh yeah wish i could yeah that was that was just to be funny you know the okay podcast it's funny um yeah so don't miss mother's day trade you ready good trip stay ready ain't got to get ready oh yeah could we do a little coffee talk yes send it um because you're talking gifts i got d for anniversary while i was gone

1:15:44a uh uh brevel a brevel touch she wanted to spread some machine and i thought this pays dividends in the long run because starbucks and local coffee shops are expensive so we got a brevel touch i'm a FedEx guy we ship your plates FedEx so i get a lot of FedEx points so i bought it through FedEx which is a weird place to buy an espresso machine i wanted to complete analog uh want it yeah it's weird i mean it's it's not even worth going into but yeah there's a lot of FedEx points a lot of people ship FedEx and so uh so i wanted to go complete analog but i was like picture i'm in Okinawa getting ready to get on ship and i'm picturing like my wife holding uh at the time you know nine month old two cats asking for food and i'm like she's not going to like learn like nine bars of pressure all that stuff so i got the brevel touch nice machine

1:16:44um nice machine a lot of the points but i think if you were buying i think it's like seven hundred bucks i'm like that like it's you know it's it's not nothing uh and then and espresso machine can go crazy right you spend five grand so the machine comes and i'm gone indeed has a ton of research on it she's got the scale the whole thing doing the whole whole bit and uh she's got it all dialed in since i've come back i'm in drinking flat whites and she's got it all dialed in for me and she's like no you can't use that bean you have to use this bean if you're gonna switch beans we're gonna let change it to this and she's now the opinion of like oh like she wishes we were complete analog because she's like really into all the stuff yeah but then i got in this rabbit hole because we talk about a lot and it's like really fun in the morning generally get up with Isabella wife still asleep i put her on the counter there's like the grind process baby likes like watching the buttons and the thing line up it's like a whole bit

1:17:44and then Isabelle like takes whiffs to the coffee after you make it um but i've posted it a couple times on x if you don't know this i if you want to see what i'm doing um much more of an x guy post lot of next a lot of people are like digital you know electronic we used to be a proper frigging country and uh it's still a good unit but i but then i got started getting hit with these ads of like this part of your prevailed touch is plastic it could be stainless steel this is your this is your shower uh what do they call it shower diffuser like we're the like where the coffee comes out like this is made of this it should be made of this and spread the water like this and so i keep buying like forty dollar attachments and i'm like single hand of the machine yeah like rebuilding the whole thing um yeah so that's what i've been up to uh and it's been really fun actually it's been really grace nice yeah and i'm enjoying my flat

1:18:51whites and coffee arts really hard i like it respect the blue haired liberals like you guys know how to do it um i think i'm too conservative to do latte art i think i'm trying i'm trying i'm trying you see i got one of those uh i guess chow adjacent uh that wasn't chow that was coffee no for me this is uh uh i got an ice maker but it's like sonic ice it did game changer so i got to say something that i think i maybe judge for my wife's chick-fil-a ice good ice good really good so i don't even i don't even have an opinion on ice but i'll open the freezer and there's like a bag of chick-fil-a ice i literally yesterday i said where does one even get chick-fil-a ice and she looked at me like i was retarded and said chick-fil-a

1:19:51and i was like oh like you literally go to chick-fil-a and she's like where else we have that chick-fil-a ice i'm like well now that you say it like that it makes sense but i mean i know you could go there and buy a five pound bag uh yeah i had no idea i mean it makes like they that that is great ice yeah really good i prefer sonic ice personally i'm a sonic loyalist my sister marine i grew up with her on skates at sonic me and my brother would go there to Chevy s10 pull up listen to jimmy world i'd get a diet cherry limeade extra large in a supersonic cheeseburger ad halapenios man that takes me back a sonic's not like he used to be they don't they'll put them on skates anymore you know we used to be a proper country yeah live melodies um no but yeah that ice machine's game changer i'm gonna need an external thing or is it like a thing you couldn't yeah countertop no it's

1:20:54countertop hey man i'll send you a good piece of your countertop's countertop space is like you it's wood so the twin like all the kids are off formula you know yeah three yeah or two so they're all just drinking milk now so a lot of counter space opened up so it's open real estate i'm like we got to fill it up yeah have to yeah skin i get me a crock pot an air fryer some ice makers and espresso machine uh just making whipped in iced tea ah you got make that in the sun brother because we're from the oh the geologist no texas oh good girl i find out where he takes us uh what's your name jalous area oh is that old sandy the geologist funny suzy oh suzy we're all you collar sandy

1:22:00because she's saying the sand yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah she's all sandy suzy she's all saying yeah yeah texas yeah i always try when i'm lifting with the gym member that i don't know my my go to uh comment to see if i can beat myself is so you board and raise california and at the answers yes i'm like remember everything your mother taught you about being all things to home and it being good and not offending people and at the answers now i'm like so how do you feel that war because i call the war of Northern Russian oh man there's gonna be uh computers and you're going to feed them information every day by talking to them and they're gonna talk about oh sorry Auburn Auburn Auburn Auburn uh two i get it two two quick hitters or one may spark further conversation we'll see but have

1:23:04you ever had so you get on an airplane and i know i'm talking about overhead bids again in here on the land. You had an overhead bend. Topic near and dear to my heart. UHB Jeff. And so you put, you know, generally your bag is like in the bin that's over your seat or like across the aisle, just depending on whatever, right? But it's like, you put your bin there. Have you ever had your bag moved half without you knowing it? Is that what you're asking? Without me knowing it, no. Oh, well, dude, that happened to me and it threw me for a loop. I would move forward or backwards. It moved like seven rows backwards. Oh, you're screwed. Yeah, it's so upset. Well, that for this, you're golden. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So immediately I'm like already kind of loopy or like out of it because like we did the word and like 24 hour ops during our field ops, so like not a lot of sleep occurring. Get on the plane, like sleep most of that flight and then like get up,

1:24:07like look at my bag, bin is empty, turn around, bin is empty. And I'm like, somebody took my bag. So I like walk down the aisle like the, because of course, immediately, like no one is like offered everyone's like, get out of my way. Like I need to, I need to leave it. I'm like, all right, I get that. Absolutely core book, your ticket. So I assume you're in like 32 C. Yeah, yeah. So, so go up like, talk to one of the flight attendants and like, hey, I don't know if we grab my bag, whatever, like, oh, I'll just wait until like I wait a little bit and like start, but then I like start to like work my way back. Of course, nobody like everyone is just full bore down the aisle and like, trying to like navigate that. And then eventually like, look, I'm like, is that my bag? And it's like seven rows back and I'm like eventually get to it. I'm like, here it is. I'm like, why would, why would they do that? They know this is exactly what's going to happen. Like, come on. I just very first dude, that dude, that's interesting.

1:25:09You have, you actually have pretty bad luck with that. That was a bad question. Just our shouldn't just Christian don't believe in luck. So you have bad blessings. It sounds worse, honestly, honestly, yeah, it does sound worse. Yeah, maybe Christians don't believe in reversed luck. I don't know. I checked my bags and the way back. I don't know that it was any better. I've been flying six hours to Jersey and I will be honest. I buy the economy plus seats. The government gives me $750 to get there and back, which is not near enough. Wow. And I'm just like, yeah, I'm just like, I'm just going to take the loss. And so I pay like, it's like usually a $90 upgrade each way. And so on the way back, I had cleaned up my office. You know, I had like stuff in my office. And so I was checking like three or four bags. And so I even checked like my roller bag. So I'm just checking my roller bag. So I had a backpack and a jacket and I get the plane.

1:26:13I'm always hot. So I threw my backpack and my jacket up on the top. Plains full, of course. And they're like, sir, is this yours? And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, can you put that under the seat in front of you? And I'm like, no, she's like, sir, I was like, I didn't bring my roller bag. I checked my bag. I got to the airport because I heard that TSA was a nightmare. I literally have a backpack and a jacket and it's not coming down. And I was like, super aggressive and the lady just like, okay, I'm just going to leave the bag right here. And I said, yeah, you are. And then she came back later. I was like, do you want anything? I was like, off a coffee. I was like, I'm also sorry. I was super aggressive. I just, I didn't bring my roller bag. She's like, no, I don't like it. You rate. I assumed you also had another bag. I was like, nope, didn't have another bag.

1:27:13You had no problems flying, right? Jeff, we got to cover this TSA. Jeff, uh, Jordy, make the title like TSA nightmare. Marines can't travel with warm pending in Iran. That needs to be the title, okay? And if not, just put a dunk in across the title. Yeah, yeah, um, literally everyone, everyone I know was messaging me. Oh my gosh, better get to the airport early. And I'm like, I'm way out of Jersey. I go to this pizza spot every time I'm going to go on my way out and say bye to everyone because I'm not coming back. I went, I got to the airport an hour and 15 minutes before my flight. I checked three bags and got through security in 10 minutes. And I literally landed in California and on the news in the airport in Orange County was nightmare at EWR. And I was like, just flew out of there. I mean, it's been six hours, but.

1:28:13Yeah, no, no issue. Didn't seem to be any difference in the operation in Salt Lake City and then absolutely no line whatsoever. At John Wayne, so like smooth, easy. Auburn, Auburn. Yeah, so my mom canceled a vacation because she goes out of the TSA is going to be terrible. Wow, I was like fine, two and from El Paso. And she's like, what's the TSA been? I'm like, no, what's going on? Because I'm that I canceled social, I like canceled the social, I haven't been on social media in like forever. And then like, I don't have to watch the news. I'm like, so I actually think you're allowed to be on social media. Yeah, I actually think the differences, you have to leave your house. You have to go places. You have to do things. It's like people, people just, yeah. Oh, man, did you hear about Houston Airport? No, haven't had any desire to go to Houston. Why would I know anything about the Houston Airport?

1:29:15It's always sucked. It was, yeah. It's why they call it Galveston. But yeah, so all right, when I went to El Paso, it was like, I was probably quicker than usual. Yeah. I don't think it was going to, dang. Save rounds. Alibis. One last thing, when you heard that check, or do you think Chuck Norris actually passed away or do you think it's all just a joke? No, he's not. No, I ran. I think he's with Tupac, Elvis, and Jeffrey Epstein. There he goes. I'm just kidding. What a crew. I don't want to put that on Chuck Norris. Yeah, I was sad. I, but that was when we were like, no, everyone was like, you're lying, that's not real. And then like, oh, so that happened on deployment. At some point during deployment, it was like, you're at sea for weeks and you land. And then everyone's riding the chat. Chuck Norris is dead.

1:30:15And then like, you do a little bit digging. It's like, this is actually two weeks old and everyone said he's alive. Yeah, Chuck Norris, RIP, I will tell you this and Tray will appreciate this in Texas and South Carolina and South Dakota. We just call them hats. But I, there was not a lot of shows. I was allowed to watch growing up. I think I can list all five of them. The anti-grifus show, Bananza, the three stooges, David Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier and Walker Texas Redneck, as we call it in our house. We call it Walker Texas Redneck. I know it's Ranger. So he made the list and there were sometimes my dad would make his turn it off. He'd be like, it's a little much. In the eyes of a Ranger, the unsuspected stranger. I did like all the marine post of like, walk, not Walker Texas Ranger. Chuck Norris didn't apply to be a Marine.

1:31:17The Marines applied for Chuck Norris. Great guy, great, great faith story. Great faith story. Has a good, I think in the 70s, so about a decade ago, has a good bit of, had a hole in my life, in my heart, my entire life. And then I found Jesus Christ and the hole's finally filled, so. That's pretty good. Yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah, no, that was crazy. Crazy past, probably guarding the streets of gold with a Marshalls bag or a Texas Ranger badge or whatever it is, they were in Texas. Hopefully he's not doing an Aggie L. I don't think that's a loud and heaven. Not, no, I don't think so. Yeah. I guess, save round the twins turn two. Hey, they did are they're going to?

1:32:18No, they did. I feel like I should know that. I think I do know that. Yeah, it was pictures and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah. Yeah, twins turn two, man. So went, went by quick. Yeah. That's it. Terrible too. I told the podcast that you guys know, we're expecting September six. If there's a podcast listener out there that hasn't picked that up from the socials, that's what everyone tells me. Everyone I respect, everyone I respect that is grown kids. They go goes like that and they always snap their fingers. Boom. And I always try to remember that when I'm like finishing stuff, something up at work. I'm trying to say a little bit longer. I'm like, you know what? I get this night after she's in bed. I'm going home. That's what everybody says. Talking to an old church member of my dad's, I don't think he listens to the podcast. Maybe this will get him to listen. Talking to an old church member of my dad's day,

1:33:21Marine. Don't know what he got out as. I just know that he came through my dad's church because something in view for his name is Gary Ladbury. He's bought every strength co-t shirt possible. And he's got to be in his 60s, I guess, had a health scare maybe two years ago. I recover now doing fine. Big dude, probably like 6465. I remember him from being like five years old. And I was in the gym today, yesterday, and we have some clothing inventory in the gym that's like not an inventory in the site. And he had been trying to buy our long sleeve t-shirt. We have a cool long sleeve t-shirt. Comes two colors, Lake Blue and Vintage Gray. It's a heavy oversized cotton six and a half ounces. Think a car heart t-shirt. And the long sleeve t-shirts, his strength on the front has a quality manufacturing placard on the back. And he had wanted to buy a 2XL version of that.

1:34:22And I saw his name. I know his name was like a childhood name. My dad's buddy, Gary Ladbury. And so I emailed him because he had emailed before. And I said, hey, I actually found a 2XL on the gym. If you want to let me know, he called, left a voicemail. And during that time, so I'm going to come into the gym and say, oh, I left my shirt here and walked out with it. And so it wasn't for sale. Didn't have it. And so to make up for it, I just shot him a text message when there was customer profile grabs number, show him a text message, and just sent him a photo of my daughter. And I was like, sorry, I don't have any shirts. And he just sent me a nice message of thanks sharing a photo. And it goes by like that. He didn't snap. But I know that he didn't his mind. And he was like, enjoy it. I'm at the point of my life where my kids and my friends, which is also awesome, but miss all the sounds they make. So all those young dads out there enjoy the socks, shoes,

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