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The GLUE-OOM
by The GLUE-OOM
Discussions with the men of F3Omaha regarding male community leadership and all things acceleration.
Episodes
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It's Good to Be Full: Hungry-Man on Showing Up When It Matters
# It's Good to Be Full: Hungry-Man on Showing Up When It Matters 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and Gator sit down with Brad Bruns — F3 Hungry-Man — a ConAgra supply-chain lead, Gretna dad of twin 10-year-olds, and former Site Q of the Iditarod. He showed up convinced he "wasn't very...
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Every Prince Needs an Uncle Phil: Fresh Prince on Mentors, Brotherhood & Never Going It Alone
Every Prince Needs an Uncle Phil: Fresh Prince on Mentors, Brotherhood & Never Going It Alone — The Glue-OOM, Episode 268 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host Gator sit down at the Nomad with Fresh Prince: a Lexington, Nebraska native, Gretna optometrist and St. Columbkille parishioner…
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Keep the Shoes: Chalupa on Standing Firm and Finding His People
Keep the Shoes: Chalupa on Standing Firm and Finding His People — The Glue-OOM, Episode 267 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host Stripes sit down at the Nomad with Chalupa — small-town Nebraska kid, Men of God regular, and former Site Q of the Ruckus. He got his F3 name the night he lost...
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Bigger Than the Board: Billboard on Leadership You Can't Advertise
🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host LPC sit down at the Nomad in downtown Elkhorn with Billboard — Afghan-born, Omaha-made, former State Farm agent turned company builder, author, and the man who planted The Calm. He got his F3 name off his own face on a roadside sign, and he spends…
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Every Team Needs a Rambis: The Farm, the Flag & the Work Nobody Sees
🎙️ 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...
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Set the Charge, Aim High: Mortar on Brotherhood and Leadership
📌 EPISODE SUMMARY On Episode 264 of the Glue-OOM, The Plague sits down in the Nomad with Mortar — Council Bluffs kid, former Army National Guard mortarman, high school wrestling coach, and past Site Q at Bockscar — with his phone face-up on the table because his M is two weeks into contractions...
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Made From Scratch: Village Inn on Leadership & Rebuilding Community
📘 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…
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So Smooth: Zamboni on Resurfacing Leadership & Concentrica
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…
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Snare's Rhythm: Why Consistency Beats Intensity Every Time
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,...
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Slow Clap: The Chief Servant Nobody Told Him He'd Become
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…
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Lead From the Back: Ditka Trades the Front Row for the Wolf Pack
Lead From the Back: Ditka Trades the Front Row for the Wolf Pack 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host Stripes sit down with Ditka (Brian McCann), Site Q of the Wolf Den, for a Glue-OOM that runs from a wing-eating disaster in high school all the way to the hardest COT of his F3 life.…
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Street Dance: The Guarded Sad Clown Who Learned to Lead
Street Dance: The Guarded Sad Clown Who Learned to Lead 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE On this episode of The Glue-OOM, host The Plague and co-host Gator sit down with Street Dance (Tony Ferguson, F3 #47), a former Site Q of Beacon Valley. Street Dance shares how a total stranger EH'd him lakeside with...
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Peeling Back the Layers: A Man Transformed by the Forge
EPISODE SUMMARY On this episode of The Glue-OOM, host The Plague and co-host Gator sit down with Peel (Greg Drasinski) of Mission Forge to trace two years of transformation — from a sweat-soaked first Murph to Site Q, VQ leader, and Shield Lock brother. Peel opens up about drifting from his...
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Three Prongs, One Farmer: Pitchfork Finds His Trident
🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and Gator sit down with Pitchfork (Bill Koch) of Trident for a story that starts with a year and a half of stalling and ends with a farm kid running one of Omaha's most storied AOs. Pitchfork walks through his First F in a freezing wind at Hallock Park, the...
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Honey Maid: The Wholesome Leader Built from Scratch
Honey Maid: The Wholesome Leader Built from Scratch 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and Gator welcome Honey Maid — Site Q of the Coliseum — to the Nomad for a conversation that starts funny and gets real fast. What begins as a COVID-comeback story about fat pants and an accidental marathon…
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Biscuits & Grace: The Man Who Flushed the Pills and Found His Pace
🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host Stripes sit down at The Nomad with Brett "Biscuits" Ritter — Riptide Site Q, Wolfden veteran, girl dad of two, and one of the most quietly resilient stories in F3 Omaha. What looks like a confident, community-building leader on the other side of a…
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In The Neighborhood: The Wolf Pack He Never Knew He Needed
In The Neighborhood: The Wolf Pack He Never Knew He Needed 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host LPC sit down at The Nomad with Jeff "Mr. Rodgers" Nogg, Canopy Site Q, Wolf Pack founding member, girl dad of four, and one of the most quietly transformational stories in F3 Omaha. What looks...
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The Buck Stops Here: Bambi on Taking Responsibility, Building Confidence, and Leading Well
The Buck Stops Here: Bambi on Taking Responsibility, Building Confidence, and Leading Well ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT THIS EPISODE The Plague and co-host Gator sit down at The Nomad with Phillip "Bambi" Daly — outgoing Site Q of The Village, 22-year sales veteran, husband, father of...
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Every HIM Needs A Break Room
Every HIM Needs A Break Room | Break Room (Alex Kucera) | The Glue-OOM Ep. 251 Every man hits a season where life stops making sense. Good job. Nice house. Busy calendar. Checking every box. And still — hollow. For Alex "Break Room" Kucera, that season came hard. Divorce. Depression. 145 pounds....
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Switchfoot Leadership: Pleading Not Guilty. Board Certified.
SUMMARY: The Plague and Gator sit down with Switchfoot (Mark Matulka) at The Nomad in Old Town Elkhorn — and what unfolds is one of the most layered stories of perseverance and reinvention The Glue-OOM has ever captured. A guidance counselor told him he was a trades guy. He earned two bachelor's...
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Reflux: What Was Buried Came Back Up
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague and special guest co-host Gator sit down with Reflux for one of the most emotionally layered episodes of The Glue-OOM to date. What begins as a funny story about a dad getting spit up on before his first post slowly unfolds into a conversation about grief, inherited...
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Buy Yourself a Little Freedom: Leadership Maintenance for the HIM
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Yugo to unpack the story behind his F3 nickname, his journey through fitness and fellowship, and how running became more than exercise—it became survival. From managing a Porsche dealership to navigating stress, family life, and the pull of isolation…
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Low Point, High Calling: Leadership from the Roots
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down at The Nomad in downtown Elkhorn with Eric “Low Point” Ellison — one of the few men in F3 Omaha posting alongside his own father, High Point. What begins as a hilarious story about thinking F3 was “old guy stuff” unfolds into a grounded conversation about...
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Bullseye: Aim True When You Can't See the Target
🎙️ EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Bullseye at The Nomad—joined by Stripes—to unpack a story of survival, brotherhood, and quiet resilience. From ICU recovery and losing his vision to learning how to stand on his own again, Bullseye shares how F3 Omaha became the proving ground for his...
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Hook, Line, & Leader The Walleye Story of Brotherhood and Redemption
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Walleye at The Nomad to unpack a story that moves from generational struggle to leadership through brotherhood. After years of battling weight and watching his father’s trajectory, Walleye found something different in F3—accountability, consistency, and…
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Sandworm Season: Out of the Netherworld and Into the Gloom
🎬 EPISODE SUMMARY At The Nomad, The Plague sits down with Sandworm for a conversation that starts with job loss but unfolds into a deeper story about identity, isolation, and brotherhood. After losing his footing through two layoffs, Sandworm enters a quiet Sad Clown season—until an EH pulls him...
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Left-Handed Purpose: More Than Just a Fastball
🎙️ EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Big Unit to unpack a journey that started on the mound but didn’t end there. From chasing the dream of professional baseball to navigating the quiet identity loss that followed, Big Unit shares how purpose isn’t found in performance—but in alignment....
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More Than Just Ham: Confidence Forged by Unconditional Love
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Canadian Bacon, a man who went from physically broken and lacking confidence to becoming a force within the F3 brotherhood. What began as a reluctant EH—and even a lie to his wife—turned into a life-altering journey where confidence was not self-built…
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Hydrology of a HIM: Controlling the Flow of Your Life
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Beaver to unpack how a chance encounter in a park redirected a life drifting without rhythm. Through F3 Omaha, Beaver rebuilt his fitness, deepened his faith, and found a Shield Lock that kept him accountable. This episode is about engineering structure…
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Built Different: The Dinger Effect
EPISODE SUMMARY The Plague sits down with Dinger to unpack a transformation that goes far beyond fitness—from anxiety, poor sleep, and lack of structure to a life rebuilt through consistency, brotherhood, and daily discipline. What began with skepticism (“this might be a cult”) became a system…
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Excellence Over Perfection | The Nae Nae Story
EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of The Glue-OOM, The Plague sits down with F3 Omaha PAX Nae Nae to unpack a journey defined by grit, faith, and leadership. From launching the AO Tombstone to grinding through multiple marathons, Nae Nae shares how chasing perfection nearly broke him and why...
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Lead Like Mayme: When Control Breaks and Brotherhood Begins
EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, The Plague sits down with Mayme to uncover how a man who never wanted to run, never intended to lead, and never felt comfortable surrendering control became a quiet force of fellowship and transformation. Through injury, weight loss, marathon training, marriage...
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Nothing But Net Leadership: Korver's Playbook
EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode, The Plague sits down with Korver to explore his journey from college basketball sharpshooter to F3 Site Q and HIM. The conversation uncovers the mental battles, blended-family challenges, and leadership lessons that have shaped his last four years in the Gloom....
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Touch of Grey Leadership – Cherry Garcia on Refusing to Decline
📺 Summary At 50 years old, Tim Connors stepped on a scale and saw 300 pounds staring back at him. Failing knees. Fading energy. Quietly accepting that maybe this is just what life looks like in your 50s. Known in the gloom as Cherry Garcia—thanks to a Grateful Dead shirt and an honest naming...
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GTE 68 | High Stress. Low Visibility. Real Leadership.
In this episode of The Glue-OOM, we sit down with Linus and Rollbar to unpack what happens when leadership gets pushed past comfort. This isn’t about workouts. It’s about who you are when you’re tired, wet, confused, and responsible for other men. We break down the leadership philosophy behind…
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Precision With a Frisbee. Discipline in the Gloom. – Bambi
Summary It started with a frisbee. Before he was a Site Q. Before he was a software founder. Before the early mornings in the gloom. In this episode of The Glue-OOM, Paul Yoder, known as Bambi, shares the legendary story of how hitting a deer with a frisbee earned him his name… and how choosing...
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2026 F3Omaha Foundation Update & Promo
The F3 Omaha Foundation is quietly changing lives. In this episode, Jean-Claude (M Pflueger) joins The Plague to unpack the mission, impact, and future of the F3 Omaha Foundation — including the Chris Gradoville (Nugent) Community Leaders Scholarship. Since its inception, the scholarship has...
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E-85: High-Octane Leadership and the 19-Month Burn
E-85, joins The Glue-OOM to talk about leadership that doesn’t spike, it burns. A former college baseball player and fuel trader, E-85 didn’t struggle with effort, he struggled with losing the team. What followed was five years of consistency, a record-setting 19-month run as Site Q, and a...
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Never Worry Alone: Rooney's Rule for Real Leadership
Summary In this episode of The Glue-OOM, The Plague sits down with Rooney to unpack one of the most important leadership principles a man can learn: Never worry alone. From early-morning discipline to fatherhood, faith, and leading in education, Rooney shares how brotherhood, consistency, and...
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Leadership Orbit: Star-Lord on Purpose, Pain & The Next Mission
🎙 Episode Summary What happens when a Space Force officer leaves the uniform, pushes his body too far, and realizes leadership isn’t about domination, but devotion? In this episode of The Glue-OOM, we sit down with Star-Lord, former Space Force operator, F3 leader, and founder of one of Omaha’s...
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Building Confidence the Hard Way: Service, Consistency, Accountability
Summary In this episode of The Glue-OOM, I sit down with Smelly Cat (Chris Lantzer), a guy I’ve known for years through family ties and the Omaha brotherhood. What makes his story hit isn’t that he’s the loudest or flashiest leader in the room, it’s that he’s the kind of man who keeps doing the...
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Flo Didn’t Fix Himself, He Surrendered and That’s Why He Leads
🔥 EPISODE SUMMARY In this powerful episode of The Glue-OOM, we sit down with Flo (Jake Pflug) for a raw, honest, and deeply human conversation about leadership, surrender, addiction, fatherhood, and faith. Flo’s story isn’t about self-optimization or grinding harder. It’s about what happens when…
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From Costume to Calling: A Leader’s Unexpected Origin Story
🎙️ Episode Summary What if the moment that embarrassed you most is the one that actually revealed your calling? In this episode of The Glue-OOM Podcast, we sit down with a leader whose journey didn’t start with a title, a platform, or a plan, it started with a costume. What followed was a...
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Transformational Leadership Starts Within: Bounty on Accountability, Faith, and Brotherhood
🎥 Transformational Leadership Starts Within: Bounty on Accountability, Faith, and Brotherhood 📌 Episode Summary What if the most important leadership work isn’t done in boardrooms, meetings, or titles, but within? In this episode of The Glue-OOM, Bounty shares a powerful, grounded conversation…
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Bases Loaded Leadership: Summer Catch on Pressure, Patience, and the Long Season
What do you do when the pressure is on, the season feels long, and there’s no shortcut to the win? In this episode of The Glue-OOM, Summer Catch shares how baseball, brotherhood, faith, and early mornings shaped the kind of leadership that lasts. From working in minor league baseball to leading…
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The Cradle Effect: How Wrestling with Life Builds Unbreakable Men
🎥 SUMMARY What happens when a quiet, 5’4” former wrestler steps into the gloom, battles injury, confronts vulnerability, leads hundreds of men, and discovers a stronger marriage, a deeper faith, and a clearer identity? Meet Cradle — a man who learned that leadership isn’t about size, volume, or...
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Full Throttle Leadership: Dirt King’s Story of Surrender, Redemption & Victory
📄 SUMMARY In this episode, Dirt King goes full throttle into one of the most powerful stories we’ve ever captured on The Glue-OOM a raw ride through addiction, faith, recovery, fatherhood, and the brotherhood that helped him rebuild everything. From growing up on dirt bikes to the wreckage of...
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Bogey Golf & Better Men: Leading Through Imperfection, Vision & Second Chances
Most of us carry a bogey-golfer heart — imperfect, average, and yet fully alive when we choose joy over performance. In today’s episode, Bogey shares how a spinal concussion changed his future, how golf reshaped his view of identity, and how F3 fueled a deeper sense of purpose, faith, and...
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You Can’t Fake Alive: The Real Work Behind Bernie’s Leadership Story
🎙️ The Glue-OOM | You Can’t Fake Alive: The Real Work Behind Bernie’s Leadership Story In this episode, we sit down with Bernie (Brett Ehlers), a man whose infamous Cancun wheelchair moment earned him the name “Bernie,” but whose real story is one of discipline, integrity, brotherhood, and quiet...
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Resurrection Leadership: How Cadbury Found His Calling
Description: In this episode of The Glue-OOM, we sit down with Cadbury — a pastor, runner, and leader who rediscovered his calling in the most unexpected place: the Gloom. Through humor, humility, and honest reflection, Cadbury shares how failure, faith, and fellowship reshaped his understanding…
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