Friends In Low Places Finding Even Lower Places

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Friends In Low Places Finding Even Lower Places

QIC: Starfish

Date: 10/12/2024

PAX: Boomerang (WD), Frostbite (WB), Lace, D-Day, Burlap, Splash, Goofy, The Pony Express, Superfly, Starfish (QIC)

Today is a big day.  While some are excited for Game 5 of the ALDS (Guardians vs. Tigers) tonight or #2 vs. #3 (Ohio State vs. Oregon) tonight, at least @ThePonyExpress and YHC are most excited for OU-Texas which kicks off at 330pm ET today at the Cotton Bowl, adjacent to the Texas State Fair.  @ThePonyExpress was so excited that he got to the AO early and affixed a burnt orange sweat towel down near the rockpile for the pax to use during the workout.  8 other casual sports fans showed up by the appointed time for an Oklahoma Pep Rally in advance of the big game later today.

Warm-O-Rama

  • SSH x20 IC
  • IW x15 IC
  • Abe Vigoda x10 IC
  • Whirly’s Got The Clap x10 IC
  • Copperhead Squats x10 IC
  • Copperhead Merkins x10 IC
  • Arm Swirly Things, Forward x10 IC, hold it
  • Arm Swirly Things, Reverse x10 IC, hold it
  • Overhead Claps x10 IC, hold it
  • Seal Claps x10 IC, hold it
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x10 IC
  • No Pony Pleasers.  Not today, sir.
  • Toy Soldiers x10 IC

Mosey to flagpole

The Thang, Part One:  Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

  • Run two parking islands forward
  • 5 Trailer Park Merkins OYO (in honor of YHC’s great home state of Oklahoma)
  • Run one parking island backward
  • 5 Monkey Humpers OYO (in honor of @ThePonyExpress’s home state of Texas)
  • Rinse and repeato the length of the parking lot
  • Burpees for Your Bros at the end of the parking lot

Mosey to rockpile

The Thang, Part Two:  O.K.L.A.H.O.M.A!!!

  • Pax take turns lugging the 60 lb. sandbag around the circle counterclockwise
  • Other pax perform AMRAP of called exercise until sandbag returns and then shift to the next exercise on the list:
  • Overhead Press
  • Kurls
  • Louganis
  • Alternating Side Squats
  • High Pulls (aka Upright Rows)
  • Old School Bench Press
  • Mike Tysons
  • American Hammers
  • All pax have to work through the entire list (e.g., when pax return from their turn with the sandbag, they pick up where they left off on this list).  Yes, this did cause a bit of confusion.  But wanted to make sure everyone got a full body workout.
  • Rinse and repeat but go around the circle clockwise (except @Goofy) and rotate turns around the circle clockwise as well.
  • Everyone got in two turns with the sandbag.

Mosey to jungle gym

The Thang, Part Three:  Triple Threat

  • 5 Pullups
  • 10 Merkins
  • 15 Squats
  • Rinse and repeat
  • After two rounds, pax take turns lugging the sandbag around the cones and back until everyone gets a turn with the sandbag.

Mosey to tennis courts.  Some took the wet way, others took the long way.

The Thang, Part Four:  Deconstructed Burpee Four Corners

  • Corner 1:  10 Sumo Squats OYO
  • Run to Corner 2:  10 Mike Tysons OYO
  • Run to Corner 3:  10 Cobra Humpers OYO
  • Run to Corner 4:  10 Squat Jumps
  • Run to Corner 1:  9 Sumo Squats OYO
  • Run to Corner 2:  9 Mike Tysons OYO
  • Run to Corner 3:  9 Cobra Humpers OYO
  • Run to Corner 4:  9 Squat Jumps
  • Run to Corner 1:  8 Sumo Squats OYO
  • Run to Corner 2:  8 Mike Tysons OYO
  • @Lace ran to Corner 3:  8 Cobra Humpers OYO

Jailbreak back to VSF

2 MOM

  • LBCs x10 IC
  • Low Dolly x10 IC
  • The Big O x10 IC

COT/BOM:  YHC took us out

FIN.

NMM

The playlist was filled with artists from the Great State of Oklahoma:

  • After Midnight (JJ Cale)
  • John Deere Green (Joe Diffie)
  • Tight Rope (Leon Russell)
  • Let The Day Begin (The Call)
  • She Don’t Use Jelly (The Flaming Lips)
  • As Good As I Once Was (Toby Keith)
  • 7&7 (Turnpike Troubadours)
  • Long Way Home (Cross Canadian Ragweed)
  • Dirty Little Secret (The All-American Rejects)
  • One Way Spit (Debris’)
  • You Dropped A Bomb On Me (The Gap Band)
  • Boomer (Bartees Strange)
  • Fine Line (Parker Millsap)
  • Friends In Low Places (Garth Brooks*)
  • Oklahoma Breakdown (Stoney LaRue)
  • Yesterday Road (The Great Divide)
  • Songs On The Radio (No Justice)

*During the Thang Part 3, Garth Brooks came on the speaker.  Debate ensued over whether YHC should have canceled him given the sexual harassment/rape allegation levied against him earlier in the week.  YHC had put him on the playlist before the allegations came out.  As @Boomerang was catching @Splash up on the details, including the part about Garth allegedly forcing the accuser to put her hands on “his junk”, the question was asked (YHC thinks by maybe @Burlap?) whether it was “Reasonable Force”.  It was at this point that @Splash drew the line and said that we had crossed over it.  And hence the title of this backblast, “Friends In Low Places Finding Even Lower Places.”

@Superfly was able to name (and appreciate) the tune and artist on the first track.

@Burlap guessed Sammy Kershaw for the second track but it was Joe Diffie.

All of the pax were surprised to learn that The Gap Band hailed from Oklahoma.

None of the pax were excited about hearing Debris’.  But did seem at least intrigued by the eclectic mix of artists YHC was able to pull together to keep us at least somewhat entertained.

@D-Day did an excellent job of keeping everyone (even @Lace) straight on the confusion of everyone having to spell OKLAHOMA without skipping any letters during that portion of the workout.

@Frostbite was the #WarBaby by a mile (2nd place was 25 years older).  @Boomerang aka #WarDaddyWhenGreenAcresIsDR, the said something inappropriate about @Frostbite potentially being any of our sons and whether our moms (or was it wives) would be ok with that.  Again, finding even lower places.

It is so sweet that we are all growing old together.

Your friend,

Starfish

PS:  Here’s the link to the playlist:

 

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