The GLUE-OOM

Discussions with the men of F3Omaha regarding male community leadership and all things acceleration.

The GLUE-OOM is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 269 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #265

  Every Team Needs a Rambis: The Farm, the Flag & the Work Nobody Sees

  Sep 13, 202654 min

  ️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague sits down at The Nomad in downtown Elkhorn with Rambis — Omaha native, Burke grad, UNO biology degree, field service engineer on the blood analyzers running in hospitals and labs across the region, and the man who just handed off the farm flag to Backup Terry. He got named after a Laker who never scored the points, and it turned out to fit: no headlines, no highlight reel, just a year of 4:15 alarms and a gate that was always open. If you've ever wondered whether anybody notices the mornings you open the gate alone, this one's for you. ✅ HIGHLIGHTS ✅ Driving past the Springfield houses they couldn't afford — until COVID rewrote the math 8:10 ✅ "You wanna work out some more?" — Triple T's entire EH, in seven words 12:00 ✅ Swiper takes the gloves off his own hands and hands them over, still warm 13:50 ✅ The Namorama he showed up to in a fog, and the tall, lanky, mustachioed Laker he got named for 15:50 ✅ Fighting off the pre-run for months, then taking the flag and never missing one 22:34 ✅ Six parades a year, the same faces morning, noon and night, and whether that's too much 28:36 ✅ Lauren, Everett, Wyatt and Phoebe, and the alter ego his kids haven't been let in on yet 30:59 ✅ A natural skeptic, a devout grandmother, and "you can't ignore that last F" 39:20 ✅ The line that made him a man of faith by his own definition, and why he said it at his VQ 40:35 ✅ The home run derby VQ during the College World Series, and Nene whiffing on purpose 48:30 ✅ 4:15 every Friday for a year, including the mornings nobody came 51:45 ✅ Fireworks, wheelchairs, a blowtorch and a sheriff parked across the street 52:45 KEY QUOTES ️ "Do you know how much information Triple T gave me? It wasn't much." ️ "Swiper gives me the gloves right off his hands." ️ "I don't think I said one thing that was interesting about me." ️ "Don't just sit back and be complacent — like I did." ️ "He sets the pins up for you, but then he leaves it to you to follow through." ️ "Am I comfortable seeing these guys this much? And the short answer is yeah. You learn to love it." ️ "It adds another layer when someone's counting on you. And you don't want to let them down." ️ "I can't be the only one here that isn't a typical churchgoer." ️ "I was up at 4:15 every Friday for a year straight. There were mornings where no one showed up to run, but I was there just in case someone did." ️ "I was proud that I was there and keeping the farm open." ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — Cold Open at the Nomad: Analyzers, Christmas Villages & Peanut Butter 7:41 — And We're Back: COVID, Piedmont & the Move to Springfield 11:00 — A Text to a Stranger: "You Wanna Work Out Some More?" 13:45 — Swiper's Gloves & Partner Squared: The First Beatdown 15:50 — The Blackout Namorama: How Rambis Got His Name 18:40 — Chain Nets, Burke & UNO: Never Stop Moving 20:48 — Setting the Pins Up: Triple T, the Pre-Run & Taking the Flag 26:30 — The Tall Guy Tax & Learning Forty Names 28:36 — The Springfield Fishbowl: Six Parades & the Mayor 30:59 — Lauren, Three 2.0s & the Alter Ego His Kids Haven't Met 39:20 — The Natural Skeptic: Making Room in the Third F 45:54 — The Home Run Derby VQ, 4:15 Fridays & the Fireworks Flag Pass CONNECT WITH THE GLUE-OOM F3 Omaha: https://f3omaha.com X / Twitter: @F3Glue_OOM Recorded at The Nomad Studio — downtown Elkhorn, NE

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  Episode #263

  Made From Scratch: Village Inn on Leadership & Rebuilding Community

  Aug 30, 202650 min

  EPISODE SUMMARY On Episode 263 of the Glue-OOM, The Plague goes virtual with Village Inn — Iowa State physics grad, former Ironwood Site Q, and now a two-time flag planter in Colorado Springs. He traces how a tornado-cleanup carpool EH reshaped his life, opens up about mistaking familiarity for community back in Omaha, and explains how moving 600 miles with zero safety net forced him into the intentionality he'd been coasting past for years. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS ✅ The Carpool EH — 45 minutes in a car with his boss after Blair tornado cleanup, and a casual "Monday, 5:30, I'll be there" ✅ "Probably Not" — the two words from his M that made him never miss a Monday for a year ✅ The Naming — Hipster's beatdown, nearly splashing merlot, and the π tattoo that made him Village Inn in four seconds ✅ Drawing the Driving Circle — close enough to get home in a day, far enough that nobody shows up unannounced ✅ The Real Hook — watching men lay it all on the line in COT and bust each other's chops five minutes later ✅ Best Shape By Accident — posting 5-6 days a week purely to make friends ✅ The Pit — the wide net of hometown familiarity that gave him the perception of community and killed his intentionality ✅ Ninety-Nine Percent — crediting his M for nearly all his pre-F3 emotional maturity ✅ Webb, Age 5 — his 2.0's F3 name, because Spider-Man was all they could get out of the shy guy ✅ Work In Its Place — 100% WFH, full house, and a little girl at his desk asking if he's almost done ✅ Grandpa's Standard — a man of the people who "would donate every second and dollar he had" ✅ The Site Q Ambush — a month after swearing he'd never get that involved ✅ The Colossus Con — how he tricked his best friend into a Co-Q term ✅ Valhalla & Blood Moon — planting, naming, and passing off two flags in Colorado Springs KEY QUOTES ️ "I think F3 grabbed me because I had never, or very rarely, been able to talk to other men openly." "A lot of these guys can just lay it all out on the line, and then five minutes later they're still busting my balls." ️ "I am near the best shape of my life purely because I started going five, six days a week to make friends." ️ "Having that wide net made us not intentional about building a strong close group." ❤️ "I credit my wife for ninety-nine percent of my emotional maturity prior to finding F3." "Your work pays for your life — it isn't your life." "I think that is where I find God: doing the acts that he would want." "The worst case scenario is they say no." "As soon as I allowed myself to embrace all three aspects is when I felt the most whole within the group — and honestly, within my life." "Holding on to your own rock through everything and knowing who you are." CHAPTERS 00:00 Kotters & The Carpool EH: Blair Tornado and "Probably Not" 02:39 First Post at Ironwood & The Pi Tattoo That Named Him 04:59 ️ Council Bluffs to Colorado Springs: Drawing the Driving Circle 07:14 ️ The Real Hook: Men Who Could Actually Talk 11:56 ️ The Pit: The Safety Net That Wasn't Community 13:55 ☕ Six Months to Coffeeteria: Skipping the Second F 15:20 ❤️ The M, The 2.0s & Borrowed Emotional Maturity 19:01 ‍ Fathers, Father Figures & The Adoptive Mentor 23:19 Work In Its Place: "Daddy, Are You Almost Done?" 27:09 Faith Through Service & Grandpa's Standard 32:13 The Site Q He Swore He'd Never Be & The Colossus Con 38:31 ⛰️ Jump In: Advice, Valhalla & Blood Moon 42:28 Steady In The Storm: Prayer Request, NAMO & The Call Sign

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  Episode #262

  So Smooth: Zamboni on Resurfacing Leadership & Concentrica

  Aug 23, 202657 min

  EPISODE SUMMARY On Episode 262 of the Glue-OOM, The Plague and Gator sit down with Zamboni — soccer lifer, co-founder and outgoing Site Q of The Riptide — to trace his path from three career-ending ACL tears and a 265-pound low point to becoming one of F3 Omaha's steadiest voices on accountability. Zamboni opens up about losing his soccer identity, learning to listen to his wife instead of his ego, and how Queen Service turned into the sustainable, thirty-pounds-down answer he'd been chasing for years. It's a conversation about resurfacing — literally and spiritually — after the ice gets rough. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS (✅) The EH that started it all The Ice Rink Origin Story The Pit — Three ACLs in 18 Months His Mom's "What's Next" Cracking the Identity Code The Posting Sprint Queen Service Testimony "Hamster Wheel" Self-Diagnosis Shield Lock, Faith & Grief Founding The Riptide Post-Site-Q Blues Rapid Fire KEY QUOTES "I was depressed and I was sad and I really didn't know how to navigate through it all, and I resorted to alcohol and drugs and making poor decisions." — 05:51 "It stinks that you can't play anymore, but life goes on. What's next in your journey?" (his mom) — 10:28 "I didn't want my identity to be in soccer anymore. I wanted to try something different and really focus on being a good husband and being a good father." — 12:51 "It's an accountability factor of what I'm putting into my body and what I'm putting into my mind." — 24:18 "Here I am, twenty-four weeks later and I'm thirty pounds down." — 26:38 "I felt like I was on this hamster wheel of fitness... I wasn't feeling like I was getting any healthier." — 28:59 "F3 gives you grace and meets you where you're at." — 40:36 "I call it the post site Q blues." — 45:17 "Just remember: KISS. Keep it simple, stupid." — 45:17 "How about those shoes, Zamboni?" — 49:54 CHAPTERS Prayer & Kickoff — 00:00 The EH at Starbucks with Swiss Army — 01:37 First Post & The Ice Rink Origin of "Zamboni" — 03:36 The Pit: Three ACL Tears and the Fall to 265 — 05:51 Rebuilding: Marriage, COVID Gym & Faith Sparks — 08:07 Hanging Up the Whistle: Identity Beyond the Job — 10:28 Posting Progression, Pre-Running & The Murph — 15:13 Brotherhood Found: Friendships Before and After F3 — 19:52 Queen Service: Accountability, Donuts & 30 Pounds Down — 24:18 Shield Lock, Faith & Wrestling With Grief — 31:21 Founding The Riptide & The Site Q Blues — 42:55 Rapid Fire & Prayer Requests to Close — 49:54

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  Episode #261

  Snare's Rhythm: Why Consistency Beats Intensity Every Time

  Aug 18, 20261h 1m

  EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague and co-host Stripes sit down at The Nomad with Joel "Snare" Stenberg — former Site Q at the Berm, sandbag hammer, and the Minuteman of Lexington — for a story about what happens when a man simply refuses to stop showing up. EH'd by The Plague himself three years ago, Snare traces the road from shin splints and "this isn't for me" to Iron Pax, the flag at the Berm, and a new First F leadership role — with his boys OG Monkey and Chipmunk now leading workouts of their own. It's a masterclass in steady cadence: faith built with his wife, confidence built in his kids, and brotherhood built one "me too" at a time. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS (✅) ✅ The Plague EH'd Snare for months — respectfully, patiently — before that first Bunstown beatdown and the NameORama that made him Snare ✅ The couch moment: shins destroyed after a four-mile mosey, ready to quit, choosing to come back anyway ✅ Cheapseats' coffee prophecy: "Pretty soon you'll be pre-running" — and how the challenges (Murph, the vest, Duffman's sandbags) turned Snare into a hammer ✅ The wake-them-once rule: how OG Monkey and Chipmunk earned their spots in the gloom and now Q workouts as middle schoolers ✅ Why the boys' biggest gain isn't fitness — it's the confidence to lead grown men in a COT at age 10 ✅ The Sad Clown confession: "Everything should be going great, but I just don't feel full — am I normal?" ✅ "Me too" — the two words that carry more weight than any solution ✅ Snare's faith journey: Lutheran meets Catholic, back-to-back services, and accidentally building their own marriage prep ✅ Leadership from VQ to Site Q to First F: keep it simple, give boundaries, meet men where they're at ✅ Taking the flag at the Berm from Schnitzel — and the humility of being asked ✅ The closing wisdom: who you marry — and who you surround yourself with — determines your success ✅ The Stripes Hot Seat: blizzard beatdowns, Street Dance's infamous 11s, and the man Snare wants to know better KEY QUOTES ️ "F3 meets you where you're at... and encourages that next step." — [07:30] ️ "If we don't start them young, if we don't start them at some point, when does it ever start?" — [19:30] ️ "Everything should be going great, but I just don't feel full, in a way. Is that normal?" — [25:45] ️ "For everything you felt, somebody else — and probably many more — have felt that way too." — [26:30] ️ "When I don't get to go out in the gloom, I miss it... you feel empty a little bit." — [27:00] ️ "There's hope and purpose in faith. If you have those two things in life, you're a long ways towards being successful." — [36:00] ️ "Keep it simple. Give boundaries. And then let guys do their own thing." — [40:20] ️ "It may not be perfect, but it's the best of me today. And we'll just keep getting better the next day." — [46:45] ️ "Who you marry determines a vast majority of your success and happiness in life." — [48:10] CHAPTERS 00:00 — Welcome to the Gloom: The Minuteman from Lexington 01:59 — The Couch Moment: Shin Splints & Almost Quitting 06:00 — Pre-F3 Life: Late-Night Workouts With the M 08:02 — The Vest Goes On: Murphs, Challenges & Duffman's Sandbags 13:58 — Wake Them Once: Bringing OG Monkey & Chipmunk to the Gloom 17:52 — Confidence Over Fitness: Raising Leaders, Not Just Athletes 24:18 — The M's Support: What F3 Gave Back to the Marriage 25:30 — Am I Normal? The Sad Clown & the Power of "Me Too" 32:00 — Two Churches, One Family: Snare's Faith Journey 40:05 — Keep It Simple, Give Boundaries: VQ to Site Q to First F 48:01 — Who You Marry: The Concentrica & Choosing Your People 49:30 — The Stripes Hot Seat: Rapid Fire, Blizzards & a NaMoRaMa Close

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  Episode #260

  Slow Clap: The Chief Servant Nobody Told Him He'd Become

  Aug 9, 20261h 4m

  EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Slow Clap (Kyle Leonard) at The Nomad, joined by co-host Wait Time, for a wide-ranging conversation on six years in F3 Omaha. Slow Clap traces his path from a Minnesota hockey rink to a COVID-era first beatdown at Golden Spike, through Site Q at the Armory, a Shield Lock, and a lifetime of marriage and mentorship lessons. The episode closes with an unguarded ask for prayer — for a distant son and a mother in hospice — that turns the whole conversation from workout stories into a testimony of servant leadership under real pressure. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS (✅) Slow Clap's roots as a competitive hockey player from Edina, MN — skating at 3, playing D3 at Bethel His wife's nudge into F3 during COVID for the guy-friendships he was missing working remotely ❄️ The nine-inch snow beatdown and 50 mph crucible wind — the workouts he remembers most A powerful parking-lot moment where a prayer he offered got reciprocated by the guy he was praying for ‍‍ How F3 rippled into his family — Shield Lock dinner with wives, grandkids at the 2.0s, son-in-laws drawn in 39 years of marriage and the "submission competition" mindset that changed everything ️ What makes a Shield Lock actually work: consistency over perfection ⛪ His faith journey — accepting Christ at 13, not following as Lord until his 20s The moving-day story that never happened but proves what F3 brotherhood is built to do His VQ — a hockey-themed line drill at the Armory football field Handing the Armory flag to Flip Cup after a night of prayer Closing prayer requests: a wayward son in Oregon, and a mother recently in hospice KEY QUOTES ️ "I don't know if I can do this." — First workout, ️ "One guy goes, slow clap. Perfect. It stuck." ️ "I need more friends, more guy friends." ️ "There's nothing more powerful though than kind of going from being in your head that you're the only person struggling with it to having some guy put his arm around you before you get back to your truck." ️ "The worst thing you can be is a consumer." ️ "When you're the leader of your family, that means you're the chief servant." ️ "Guys that stop tend to stay stopped. And guys that keep going tend to find that margin in their life to keep working out." "I don't want to make excuses, but it's not so much about the muscle or the willingness or the capability. It's — my knees are just killing me today." ️ "I'll probably have 40, 50 pickups lined up outside our door and they'll move the whole house in a matter of an hour or two." ️ "We feel like there's gotta be something to get him to look our way and say, we need you to come get us." — 1:00:15 CHAPTERS 00:00 — Mic Check & Pre-Show Setup 01:44 — Meet the Family: Son-in-Laws in the PAX 03:58 — Live at The Nomad: Intros with Wait Time 06:07 — The First Workout & the COVID On-Ramp 08:19 — A Wife's Nudge Toward Brotherhood 10:31 — Hockey Roots: Edina to Bethel 14:29 — The Naming Story & the Respect Pop-Up 21:11 — The Honest Health Check at 61 23:14 — The Sad Clown Warning: Stay Involved 26:49 — The Concentrica: Family, Shield Lock, Grandkids 28:52 — Marriage as a Submission Competition 35:15 — Whetstone: Leading From Your Own Scars 39:31 — Faith, Small Groups, and the Chief Servant 47:52 — Willing and Available: The Wolf Den & Moving-Day Story 5 1:49 — The VQ and the Armory Flag Handoff 1:00:15 — Closing Ask: Prayers for a Son and a Mother

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