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Is Starting Strength enough to keep you fit? On Ep. 128 of The Okay Podcast, Grant Broggi and Jeff Buege answer a listener's lifting question, break down Week 4 college football picks (Oklahoma vs Georgia, Texas vs Tennessee, Texas A&M vs LSU), talk war college writing and using AI for papers, debate whether Germany ever had a viable strategy to win WWII, and tell the story of Calhoun, Grant's lost 22-pound Maine Coon.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 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: 0:00 - Intro 7:52 - The Staff Brief 25:30 - Lifting Question: Is Starting Strength Enough? 35:07 - Happy Birthday, Air Force 41:52 - Writing Papers and Using AI 54:31 - College Football Recap 1:02:49 - Tres' Picks of the Week 1:19:38 - Calhoun the Cat Is Lost 1:29:09 - Did Germany Have a Viable Strategy in WWII?

Grant is back from the hospital with baby number two and opens with a Newport tourism brief, the Turkey Pull, and America 250 plate news before Jeff runs a two-man staff brief — Lieutenant Benelli's Red Sox update, a Toledo cousin in the S-2 confirming the Strait of Hormuz is closed, a hazy-IPA sidebar, eight of nine dumpsters deadlined, and the debut of Chief Petty Officer Seventeen from mental health (cookies available). Then the birth story in full: leaving an ethics class mid-break, the A1 pizza steak sandwich called "the Bomb," Patriots at seven and baby at halftime, a 9/11 conversation with a nurse who was three years old that day, and a hospital cafeteria meat plate. Grant answers a listener question on preventing injury on starting strength, the two war-college guys compare speakers and Q&A tactics, and Tres finally arrives (with feedback) for football: Auburn over Southern Miss, South Carolina in the rain, the Citadel losing in double OT again, Sark and Holly Rowe, and the week 3 picks. A "first two weeks with a newborn" segment, the movie Pressure, and a debate on whether officers should wear ribbons round it out.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 - Intro 06:54 - Staff Brief19:23 - Outlying Stations24:01 - Grant & Diana’s New Baby Is Born34:10 - How To Prevent Injuries While Doing Starting Strength42:18 - War College Update52:18 - Tres Joins The Show!54:29 - College Football Update01:01:07 - Tres’ Picks of The Week01:12:31 - First 2 Weeks With A Newborn01:18:14 - Movies01:23:48 - Saved Rounds

This week: a Trash Battalion staff brief for the ages (pay issues, a dental rodeo, and why Germany never had a trash strategy), Tres's opening-weekend dove hunt, Grant's cellah gym and the bench-pin hack, a real conversation about Grant Bot and AI Coaching, and college football week 1 — the Citadel in three overtimes, Michigan's mythical clock, and the picks for week 2.America 250 plate drops in early October. Turkey Pull is November 21, 2026 in Newport Beach — sign up at www.thestrength.co 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 - Intro04:50 - Staff Brief23:58 - Outlying Stations29:33 - Dove Hunting37:56 - Home Gym Update42:37 - AI Coaching53:44 - College Football01:05:16 - Tres’ Picks of The Week

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_Pod⁠Grant's wife is in labor, the due date is TODAY, and we recorded anyway — because the slide deck was full and the trash must be secured. Episode 0125 opens with a full Trash Battalion staff meeting (awards board voting, BLUF violations, 0530 trash bag training, and a surprisingly moving word from Chaps) before the guys get into the real intel: where's the line on American flag apparel? Crocs? Socks? Underwear? Tres draws his line and it involves not trusting his own farts.Then Grant reports from Newport, Rhode Island on the greatest chow value in New England — the Two Bug Lunch — two whole lobsters, corn, and coleslaw for $40. Jeff finally stops gatekeeping Patagonia's tinned fish (a canned fish company that makes clothes), and Grant explains whether genetics actually matter for getting strong.Plus: Week Zero college football (USC's crowd of dozens), Week 1 speed picks, the guys make their official picks on the baby's arrival date, time, and weight, and the episode closes with the definitive air power vs. sea power doctrine book-off. It's only a lot of reading if you do it.Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro04:38 - Staff Brief23:41 - Chaps Calls In28:46 - Tres' Lifting Update28:53 - Wearing The Flag Debate34:34 - America 250th Plate Update36:32 - Two Bug Lunch41:00 - Tinned Fish47:02 - Role of Genetics In Lifting01:07:03 - Week Zero Recap01:13:50 - Due Date Predictions01:17:47 - Week One Picks01:23:07 - NIL Chaos01:25:45 - Hung Ordinance

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_Pod⁠The boys open episode 0124 in mourning: Dolly Parton, American legend and obvious Strength Co person, has passed at 80 — and Grant is devastated to learn he doesn't own a single Dolly record. The staff brief goes fully analog when Jeff declares a cyber-denied environment, forcing the trash battalion to determine the status of the Strait of Hormuz using a $2 bill, flat earth theory, and Mahan. The Cajun Sergeant Major checks in from the boil.Grant breaks down his Navy War College basement home gym — what to buy nice, what to buy on Amazon, and why you never skimp on the bar and plates. Then Donnie Bowers (Naval Academy grad, Navy football alum, former Marine, two-time caller) joins to update his family life, pick Navy's schedule game-by-game, explain what NAPS actually is, and deliver an unforgettable off-the-cuff BW Tax ad read. Plus: college football playoff picks, NIL as the future of warfare, the Wiggles live in Boston, and the hardest part of being a dad.Join the college pick'em: DM @theokaypodcast on Instagram. Labor Day weekend: $100 off Hundos at The Strength Co.Timestamps: 00:00 - RIP Dolly Parton11:11 - Staff Brief24:04 - Outlying Stations29:04 - Home Gym Build39:46 - Big Donnie Joins The Show!40:39 - Baby Update45:44 - College Football Pick'em01:14:47 - Predict The Record01:24:48 - The Wiggles Concert01:33:49 - Dad Life01:38:52 - War College Update01:43:03 - Donnie's BW Tax Ad Read01:46:50 - Saved Rounds