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Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.
Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter
Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter
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Episode 120 of The Okay Podcast, powered by The Strength Co. Grant checks in live from Newport, Rhode Island, Jeff reports from the greater Montgomery, Alabama area, and Tres joins by phone from the road.

The boys open with the most unhinged Trash Battalion staff brief yet — eagles vs. beagles leadership wisdom, a brand-new Boston adjutant pitching a lobster bake to the Cajun Sergeant Major, a Strait of Hormuz update delivered from the road, and a Marine who fell into a dumpster (he's okay, he's accounted for).

Then it's into the topics: Grant breaks down why so many people in commercial gyms are running the "Lost Boys workout" — wandering machine to machine with no plan — and why you need a purpose every time you walk in. Grant and Jeff compare base gym setups (including actual "no deadlifting" signs), swap war stories from their first weeks back at military school, and debate whether AI reading your homework to you counts as studying.

Plus: dad talk on bubble machine economics, movies edited by Grant's mom, taking a 23-month-old to Fenway on $10 military tickets, and a Chow Radar review of the most disappointing famous lobster roll in Newport.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:25 - Staff Brief
30:21 - Having A Purpose In The Gym
37:02 - Air Force Gym
43:43 - O5 Workout Culture
46:53 - National Guard Marines?
52:14 - War Homework & AI
01:01:50 - Dad Talk & Bubbles
01:06:05 - Sox Game
01:14:52 - Lobster Rolls & Chow Radar

Podcast Hosts:
Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.
Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter
Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter
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Today on the show, the staff brief runs long: S1 explains the pay problem (the internet's been down, mostly), the Strait of Hormuz is functionally closed, the S3 wants you to be the trash, and all record jackets are now purple and yellow by order of the Cajun Sergeant Major. Dwight from Housing has a card for your wife.
Then: Jeff hands over November Battery after two years of command, Grant drives a '97 Chevy from Raleigh to Rhode Island (via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, unintentionally), the charcoal-vs-gas debate is settled forever, SEC Media Days kicks off, and Grant explains why 12 months of building your base of strength is the best investment you'll ever make.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
08:33 - Staff Brief
34:24 - New Jack White Album
37:18 - Moving Into A Furnished Place
42:26 - Gas Grill Debate
47:13 - SEC Media Day
55:00 - Congrats Jeff! Handing The Stick Off
01:04:40 - The Importance of Building A Base of Strength
01:12:15 - New Mexico
01:14:28 - Cajun Appreciation
01:16:28 - Sox Game
01:18:37 - Surviving The Chesapeake Bay Bridge
01:20:10 - Truck Talk
01:30:16 - Shoutout Massenomics For LHLE!
01:33:09 - Slides vs Charts
01:35:10 - Landing The Plane

Podcast Hosts:
Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.
Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter
Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter
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The whole crew is back after last week's chaos. Grant is broadcasting live from a new location — Newport, Rhode Island — after moving cross-country with a pregnant wife, a two-year-old, and two cats. Somehow they all made it (barely — ask him about the sprint through O'Hare).
This week: the Trash Battalion staff brief returns in full PCS-season glory, the guys break down the surprisingly baffling experience of checking into military schools, Grant gives his first impressions of Newport (good food, expensive food), and there's a 4th of July recap on how the America 250 plates performed — half are already gone before Veterans Day.
Plus a World Cup wrap-up (Spain over France), the eternal debate over whether soccer counts when it's not about America, and a new battalion member joins the ranks: Major Delay, your local traffic guy.

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Timestamps: 
00:00 - Intro
04:45 - Staff Brief
24:37 - Outlying Stations
27:40 - Talkin’ Trash With Mom
29:56 - War College
36:03 - Moving Across The Country
49:37 - World Cup Recap
56:05 - Saved Rounds

With Grant flying across the country mid-move, Tres and Jeff run their first-ever combo episode solo (with Jordy dropping in). What follows: a runaway bit about consolidating every sponsor into one all-in-one taxes/helmets/lifting shop, a genuinely useful garage gym conversation about the Echo Bike and shoulder-saving specialty bars, the ongoing evolution of "Chow Radar" into a Michelin-killing five-star institution, a sharp World Cup post-mortem after the US got bounced, and a wild real-life story about the actual broken washing machine from Breaking Bad.

Podcast Hosts:
Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.
Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter
Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter
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Timestamps: 
00:00 - Intro
05:55 - Staff Brief
20:09 - Lifting Update & Echo Bikes
25:55 - Benching Rehab & Specialty Bars
31:32 - July 4th
35:46 - Traveling With Kids
39:07 - War College
49:08 - Actors That Never Miss
59:57 - Chow Radar
01:10:45 - World Cup Hot Takes
01:28:29 - Targeting Rule
01:34:54 - Best Pillows
01:39:17 - New Mexico
01:43:35 - Sign Off

Grant's back from fly fishing in the desert wilderness, bruised up from circus dumbbells at the Strength Co. crew meet-up, and fresh off a sweaty PFT.

Tres is closing in on an echo bike deal (Facebook Marketplace, obviously). Jeff is back from leave and energized (according to his wife, who finally started listening). We do the fastest staff brief in show history — nine minutes flat — and nobody got hurt.

Also: Tres goes solo dad for 48 hours, takes three girls to Cracker Barrel, changes a diaper on the bathroom floor, and comes out the other side with a new appreciation for stay-at-home moms.

Plus Alan Jackson's final concert, Waylon Jennings on vinyl, the America 250 plate drops July 4th, and Tres is buying a helmet for the Gamecocks. College football season is coming.

Podcast Hosts:
Grant Broggi: Marine Veteran, Owner of The Strength Co. and Starting Strength Coach.
Jeff Buege: Marine Veteran, Outdoorsman, Football Fan and Lifter
Tres Gottlich: Marine Veteran, Texan, Fisherman, Crazy College Football Fan and Lifter

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:45 - Staff Brief
12:50 - Tres Lifting Update
18:59 - PFT Anxiety
27:10 - Massenomics Cru Circus Dumbbell Lifting
36:12 - Moving Across Country
39:34 - 15lb Plate
44:31 - Fly Fishing Trip
01:03:32 - Solo Dadding
01:11:24 - Alan Jackson
01:15:14 - Saved Rounds