The Rural Biker Podcast

From Bar Fights to Freedom Rides with Boombox

Griz Episode 26

Grizzly here, coming to you from the heart of Outhouse Studios, kicking things off with Boombox, our unruly yet reflective guest who's been on quite the journey. He’s not just here to spin tales of past bar fights but to share his story of transformation from chaos to calm and how life’s lessons have shaped him. Boombox reveals a tale of over-fueling his bike that turned out to be simpler than he thought, proving once again that not every problem requires a wrenching overhaul.

As the plot thickens, a tense encounter at a bar becomes an unexpected career twist for me. Intervening in a heated moment led not to a police call but to a surprising job offer, showcasing the power of quick judgment and the ability to turn a potential disaster into a career opportunity. We also giggle through the growing pains of moving from under-the-table gigs to full-time roles, strengthened by camaraderie akin to a tight-knit family, where the bonds of brotherhood offer both humor and heartfelt support.

And of course, what would our chat be without some roaring tales of the open road? From thrilling rides and bike customization to the importance of giving back through initiatives like PUMA, Boombox and I ride through discussions on freedom, individuality, and the joy of biker life. We wrap up reflecting on how true freedom often clashes with conventional norms, yet it’s this pursuit of authentic liberation that fuels our engines both on the road and in life. Buckle up for a ride through growth, community, and the endless pursuit of the open road.

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Speaker 1:

How the hell you doing. I've been just fine living life with the news and in my mind all I hear is music, Watching your mouth move. Damn, you look stupid. I feel like everyone's a stranger.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to the Rule Biker Podcast. I'm your host, grizzly, coming to you live from Outhouse Studios when we bring you the shit.

Speaker 1:

No filter no filter.

Speaker 2:

I got no filter. Hell, I bet you thought I forgot about you. Nope, just been busy. Let's get it here with boombox, which y'all don't know, but it was south park and if you go back and listen to the earlier episodes, we talked to him, but we're just gonna catch up with him and see what the fuck's been going on. What's up, brother?

Speaker 3:

not a lot, man, just enjoying life. You know uh had to take a few steps back in life and uh reevaluate some things, and now uh starting to take a step in the right direction, or at least what I believe is the right direction and you know, and I'm gonna see that through I mean, uh, I made the decisions that I've made and you know, I've paid for the consequences of the actions that I decided yeah but you know what?

Speaker 3:

uh, ultimately, uh moved, uh moved past some things and now I'm in a whole different chapter in my life. It's been so far something that definitely has room for growth. Nice Room for growth and great background.

Speaker 2:

All right. Well, for starters, let's talk about your horse really quick, all right. Um, you had a little, uh, an issue with some over fueling and, uh, it kind of came out to like the easiest, simplest thing I should have thought of from the beginning.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, I'll admit that, like I have no problem with that, uh, so, yeah, uh, no, my boss and my supervisor from work, uh, they uh, I don't, I don't ride with them often, but uh, they asked me if I would ride with them to, uh, to yakima, washington, right, and uh, you know it was. It was a day that technically, that night I had to work, but beans, I was with my boss. You know, if I was a little bit late, it wasn't a big deal, right, still taking a nap, and he was chill with it. Plus, not to mention, I'm usually the one putting all of his new parts and shit right, yeah, he's, he's got this really badass 2024, uh, road glide and it's got the cobalt blue, beautiful metallic paint job.

Speaker 2:

Like I gives you a real chubby yeah, like that day, me and ruth just walked up on you and yeah in the parking lot.

Speaker 3:

They're putting it on like yeah, I'm trying to get this motherfucking air breather on here yeah, dude, like that was this is pretty bike, it is an amazing bike. I'm so happy for him. You know, this is a guy that, uh, you know, basically looked at me and said, uh, you know, for my past, I, you know, obviously I have a very colorful past. You know, like, I've done some questionable things that allegedly, allegedly perfect that that I may or may not be proud of, but one of the things was was, I was notorious for bar fights, like when, when I was actively drinking hard, I mean, I, I would go into a bar and, you know, act all chill and everything. Just wait until fucking I find the first dude that decides that he wants to be 10 foot tall and bulletproof. He's like punking people around and there's one in every group.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, dude, so it's like the bully of the bullies. You know, like, my job was to find that asshole that wanted to freaking flex on people and treat them like crap. I was gonna flex on that dude and uh, so I, I constantly got into quite a few bar fights that, uh, you know, a lot of the times it was basically, you know, like, can't be fighting in our bar, you got to go. You're out for like 30 days, right, or you're out for 90 days. You know, whatever, whatever the case was, it was a case-by-case basis. You know, if you got in trouble there all the time, they just, you know progressively make your ejections more and more until it was like indefinite.

Speaker 3:

But like I mean, I only physically got ejected from there twice. Physically got ejected from there twice. Um, oh well, that's not and and both of those that dude deserved every bit of it. Like you don't you don't the first guy, you don't slap a woman in front of me, like I mean I've watched a lot of women get hit in my life and I've been in a lot of trouble for protecting women that get hit.

Speaker 3:

But that don't stop me because I don't believe that a man should ever double up his fist and hit a woman like that yeah, and so like I see red whenever I see that and so, like I would, I would go into these bars and the the last dude that did it, he fucking, he just got angry at his old lady and he just doubled up his fist at the corner of the bar, clocks her. And I'm like, oh hell, no, I got really angry, went full Hulk mode. I grabbed a hold of this guy from one side of the bar, drug him across the top of the bar, dropped him onto the ground and as his head bounced off the ground, my fist was just colliding with his mouth and I was not stopping. I just kept swinging, swinging, kept swinging. Next thing, I know I have like four or five people on top of me like grabbing up, holding my arms and shit and pulling me off this guy and the thing was was like it.

Speaker 3:

This bar wasn't necessarily known for fights, but you know it was known as like as the biker bar in town. You know, like biker bar, cowboy bar, you know the place you would come to just kick it with the good old boys and fucking have a good time yeah, sounds all right to me.

Speaker 2:

That's some pretty good food, if I might add dude, I've eaten in there a lot I'm a fat kid. I've never well. Yeah, you and me both rude. Yeah, I've never had a bad meal there.

Speaker 3:

No, like, they got some pretty good staff there, like. But uh, so the owner came up to me. Um, after I got pulled off, that guy and I like I'm getting held back by five freaking six foot plus tall guys that are none of them are smaller than 250 pounds and I got all of them pushing me against a wall to where I would move and I'm all like jesus, what the hell's going on with these guys? Like, what's your fucking problem? They're all like dude. You already shoved four of us.

Speaker 3:

The fifth one was the added security. I was all like you know, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you know, like I apologize so many times and I stepped back. I threw my hands up in the air. I was like this is not what I wanted. In the night I was like I just seen it, I seen red, I couldn't help it, I apologize. I was like I will accept whatever consequences that you need to give me. Right. And the owner just so happened to be there that night and he wasn't too particularly happy about that dude putting his hands on the girl, right. Only thing I could figure is that he was kind of upset that I was the one who got to lay hands on him and he didn't.

Speaker 3:

But because he's, everybody too, because he's a pretty good guy, you know, like he's very, very family oriented, yeah. And so, uh, he pulls me to the side and he's like can I talk with you, you know, and I I really haven't been drinking very much at that point, you know, I think I was like two shots in, like I was, I was way coherent, like able to make good judgment calls and everything. I just saw red because of that right and he pulls me into his business office and he's all like are you good?

Speaker 3:

and I was like yeah, I'm good. He's like you need any ice for your hand. I was like no, I was all like you know, it's consequences for my actions. I was like you know, I'm gonna deal with it. You know I'll grit my teeth. Uh, you know, put my big boy pants on. I'm gonna deal with it. He's like all right. Well, the next question I got for you is gonna be a little bit harder than you know, is there anything I can do for your hand?

Speaker 3:

I was like what's that? He's like. Well, here's the deal. We got two choices here. He's like one. You just beat somebody damn near bloody in my bar. He's all like technically, I'm supposed to be calling the cops right now, because that's on the next level, right, he's all like. However, the guy got up, admitted his wrong, paid his tab, didn't want to press no charges or nothing, just wanted to go home. Right, he's like. So you dodged a bullet tonight.

Speaker 3:

He's like, but what I'm gonna ask you? He's all like you come in here and you drink and you fight. He's all like how about I eliminate the alcohol for you? I pay you for your time and you come to work for me? He's like you can still hang out in the bar, still have a good time, see people and everything. He's like. But you work for me? He's like come in for security.

Speaker 3:

You know somebody who's jeopardizing the safety of this bar. He's all like it's your job. You know you're going to do what you have to. I know that you're more than capable of doing it. I know you will do it because of your morals and your values, right, yep? So I started to go and work for him for, like, I was like under the table for like three, four months. You know, here I am like nine months in and for the last, like five months, months give or take. You know, they bumped me to full-time and brought me on board for payroll and everything and I'm like, oh, this is way more than I asked for. You know, like I'm I'm still somebody who's progressing in my life you know like I still got steps that I'm making.

Speaker 3:

You know, like I'm not where I want to end up right, and like trying to get them to all understand that and everything. Like I figured not where I want to end up, right, and like trying to get them to all understand that and everything. Like I figured it was gonna be difficult, but like I got one of the coolest supervisors in the world like, uh, this mexican guy, like I love him to death.

Speaker 3:

Oh, my god, there there are so many fun stories between me and him because we've went from, you know, being in like eight man and 20 man fist fights out there, because I mean he, he may be older, but this dude is straight down to throw down like he is yeah right and so like there's been times that me and him have went into very unforeseen situations and we just gritted our teeth and just didn't care.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 3:

We had a job to do and we knew that whatever happened, we would be held accountable for it or it would be justified. And so like this guy, really he really hits home, Like he reminds me of that like really badass uncle that you've always wanted in your life, Like, and he treats you like family, Right, Like he's all about the fucking real things you know. So, like this guy has been making it super easy for me to work there, Like it doesn't matter. Like if he's, you know, coming in from out of town Because he does not live here, you know he doesn't matter if he's coming in from out of town Because he does not live here, he doesn't live where he works.

Speaker 3:

He lives literally actually in a completely different state and just drives over and he's here for like three, four days a week. Other than that he's at home in his state, yeah, with his family, you know like. But this dude, like every week, religiously, he has like the only time he's ever missed was one day, and I can't tell you how many times that guy apologized for missing one day miss him one day and I was like bro, chill, like I got you, this is, it's all good.

Speaker 3:

We have one negative interaction the entire night and he, that dude, was on the phone to me like every step of the way, how's it going? You know what's going on, you know, is everything okay?

Speaker 3:

I'm like dude chill all good, sit at home, eat a fucking Twinkie If you got to. I don't give a shit, just chill, bro, I got this. He's done the same for me countless times. I really do have some pretty decent. I call them friends now that's a pretty broad word because I don't have a hell of a lot of those. That circle's very small, I get you, but I like it that way. I don't have to worry about the ins and outs and the drama and the bullshit that comes along with those big groups. Somebody's always trying to look better than somebody else.

Speaker 2:

Well, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I mean we've all.

Speaker 2:

it's like Me and Ruthless are the same way, and it's like you know what Life's a lot better when you just keep your mouth shut and mind your own shit.

Speaker 3:

Exactly and like anybody who's listening to this, if they ask themselves, you know, this simple question, you know, I guarantee their answers would be the same, because sometimes the best dental plan is to just mind your own business and be okay with you, right? You?

Speaker 2:

know, yep, don't give a fuck about what else is going on over there Exactly, just mind your own shit.

Speaker 3:

Take care of your own fucking backyard. I understand grass is greener on the other side, but I will fertilize and water the shit out my backyard to try to get it as green as my name. Right yeah, been on any fun rides lately.

Speaker 2:

Me, holy shit. Wait, I'm the fucking host, that's okay I'm still curious dude, I have been I've been on. Uh, I just got back from colville a few weeks ago that was, um had a lot of fun, went up and seen bear, you know legs, and I took boots.

Speaker 3:

I'm totally jealous yeah, just just for the listeners you had the opportunity to go, just just so the listeners are aware.

Speaker 3:

Okay, I was supposed to go on that ride and because we had a, like our biggest annual event at work, my boss was like I can go ahead and give you the time off, but I'm going to let you know right now, like this is the busiest time of the year. I absolutely need you here. He's all like I don't give a shit about the people that we're hiring. He's like, obviously you know they're going to do their jobs because that's what they're getting paid to do, but you work here, you're out. He's like I need you here.

Speaker 3:

So, in all reality, like push came to shove, I really could have a point yeah but it was like put my boss in a bad spot and be able to go enjoy myself for a weekend, or you know, do my responsibilities. Be a man of my word yeah, it's all good.

Speaker 2:

So I mean, you didn't miss much. It was just, you know, we just went and hung out and but still it's, it's not go to um, another um, I'm trying to think of how to word this. Uh, we did go to a private barbecue that was put on by an affiliation.

Speaker 2:

I I don't think it wasn't I'm trying to just, I guess I would just say, um, they called themselves an mc, you know, okay, but but but they, they were just starting, you know, and it's like I didn't ask them any of their like. Did you guys get all your hey, good but, but good for them, but yeah, like, yeah and it's like they're trying to create unity we, you know we, we paid the money we ate. Yeah, you know we, we did our part. It was awesome.

Speaker 3:

They were super nice you know, but nobody ever looked at john travolta, those guys, whenever they fucking went on wild hogs, that's what right like that's my favorite thing to ever say like that's, that's my year deal. Yeah, it's that, it's the travolta ride you know, like if we, if it's there's no plan, it's just fine. There's one destination we'd like to hit, but eventually we're gonna end up leading back. It's like I just want to ride. Yep why?

Speaker 3:

because sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze and that open road is just sweet yeah you know and that's, but that's, that's the life of the road, that's what we signed up for, you know, that's that's what we fell in love with and that's what created the very monsters that people are concerned about today.

Speaker 2:

True, and on that note, we're going to take a break because I got to use the restroom. I'm game for that and refuel my beverage Sounds good to me, all right.

Speaker 1:

I don't want to edit out all the silence.

Speaker 3:

Why so silent man? I just want to ride, man, I just want to ride. You know, ride, sally, ride. Well, yeah, okay, so you got military, I'll be your friend. I love me three. I think that. The afro circus, thank god for headphones. I love me three. I Afro Circus, thank God for headphones. Now, hey, whenever I leave, you guys can do whatever you want. Yes, that's going to be on recording. It better be filtered out. Beg, I don't think you have to do much begging. I mean, as I say, he's a jolly green, fucking tall-bearded man. You don't have to beg for much. We like conditioning that beard just as much as everybody enjoys it.

Speaker 1:

Alright, brother, how's your beer?

Speaker 3:

Empty Alright, brother. How's your beer? Uh, empty Alright, alright. Last one for me.

Speaker 1:

Okay, what about marijuana?

Speaker 3:

I'll do one more with you.

Speaker 1:

Another pitter.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I'm seriously in the fuck off. Fire me mood.

Speaker 2:

Like what are you going to do?

Speaker 1:

bitch what are you going to do bitch?

Speaker 3:

All right. Well, I'm going to make you fucking fire me. That's what I'm going to do. If you fire me, I don't feel so bad about fucking losing my job. If I quit, then I'm like mama didn't raise no fucking quitter. Mama didn't raise me much. I wasn't raised no fucking quitter. It was a lot of bullshit that you have to go through to fucking be able to get to where you are today. So I mean, I accepted it for what it was. So back to this. All right, welcome back.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so yeah, we went outside for a little while. Ruthless showed up, and you know that was a conversation, yeah. So yeah, so that's always fun Anyway.

Speaker 3:

I should probably come around a little more often, so that doesn't happen Well.

Speaker 2:

I saw something out the window, but I guess not anyway. So yeah, just wrapping up like a trip up to bears, you know, like fucking me and boots, we just deadheaded back down. Um, uh, oh yeah, shit, bear did blow like the studs out of his cylinder head on cylinder Number one. Oh shit, and uh and expensive. Yeah, he like literally like just put the pipes on, like a few weeks ago, oh and yeah, cause his head pipe, his header, was cracked, so he bought new pipes and put them on and then when we were riding it blew the studs out of the front cylinder.

Speaker 3:

So how much pressure are you running?

Speaker 2:

I don't know, I don't know, but oh well, he's only got a five speed in that road King. Older road King.

Speaker 3:

One, oh, three or one. So, no, like, oh, older, like, so we're talking 88. Yeah, 86.

Speaker 2:

I'm thinking. I'm thinking she's an 88 with a five speed and we were doing 80 to 90 on a two lane out through the woods.

Speaker 3:

That's kind of pushing a little bit for those older Indians. Well, I mean they still hold their own. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 2:

Oh, yeah, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3:

I mean they're going to do that all day. They're going to pop a hell of a lot earlier than a modern day like Milwaukee eight, or a bucket, or a right up one oh three, that's you know some kind of b-twin that's been beefed up and bulletproof.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but so that happened, so he had to ride on boots his bike on the way back to bear's place. I was gonna ask how you got back. But um, ah, the topic of riding on another man's bike, I mean, was it not to butt or back to back?

Speaker 2:

oh, it was not to butt brother, it was not to butt yeah I. I don't know who I feel worse for, bear or boots yeah, we got some photos, so maybe we'll try to tag them in the that'd be in the posting you should tell boots up.

Speaker 3:

from my understanding, you should tell him to make sure to strap that helmet before he rides, so then he's not going to choke by people.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So for the listeners, on the way back to bear's place, while he was riding on the back of boots, his bike boots didn't fricking strap is his helmet strap Didn't lock it in. So bear is like reaching around him trying to plug the fucking.

Speaker 3:

You know like the best way to, best way to think about it is, you know, in the scene of dumber and dumber, okay, when he's reaching all the way around him and he looks like he's full bear, hugging him in front of his arms while he's still trying to hold the handlebars straight facts while trying to buckle a helmet.

Speaker 3:

Okay, like and moving all at the same time. I mean like I feel like that could have been funny as hell to watch. I mean like, let alone hearing about it is hilarious, but yeah it was going on.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's a good one. That's um. It was going on. That's a good one. That's Grapehead, grapehead, yeah, what do you think?

Speaker 3:

It's like 32%, I think it's good.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I like it too. Yeah, but yeah, it was funny. But Bear got his bike back to the house the next day because we left that morning, sunday morning that's that white one, that uh me and you seen here right, the white one with the yeah, the white road king with the blue, uh, with the blue labeling her name's pearl.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, dude, that, um, that bike was sick, yeah it's a nice bike. I I have not seen a road king more clean, like simple, basic, good colors, like I was envious and he was like, whenever I met him, it was up here and like he was in love with my bike. He's like oh man, that's a badass fucking bike and I'm sitting here like I just love the simplicity.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, man look at that cherry you're riding, holy shit it's a god, it's a a beast of a bike skeletonized down, which is exactly what my dyno was like full skeletonized, no, like very, very, very limited electronics and his just the paint scheme matched and the way he has it set up. It's just a beautiful bike like yeah, I mean I love admiring other people's bikes. Yeah, you know a lot of like. I get a lot of people looking to mine because mine's very let's just call it exotic okay right you know the speakers popping out the saddlebags.

Speaker 3:

You know like the big and you're loud, the big ass bars the two to one with the side kick out. You know like everything about it is loud and absurd. And so everybody's like, oh my god, I love your bike. Like I probably hear it 50 times a damn day. Anytime I'm out riding for a day, I'll hear it 50 plus times a day like nice bike, amazing bike man. And I'm like, hey, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3:

You know, like there's a reason why I funneled so much money into this. It's because if I was going to buy an expensive bagger like this, I always told myself I would get myself what I wanted, and if it wasn't exactly what I wanted, I wouldn't make it what I wanted. So having these people you you know admire it is nice. But honestly, what's better to me than people admiring my bike is admiring other people's like, yeah, those guys put in just as much time, effort, money. Okay, time and effort. Well, maybe not money, but time and effort. You know they, they put that blood, sweat and tears in there and they made it what they wanted. Yeah, you know, like they made something that they just picked up at a store and they're all like. They had this image, you know, and they made it what they imagined and that's what I love about it. Like I like admiring those bikes, why love about it like?

Speaker 2:

I like admiring those bikes, why you can see 150 plus black street lights right between the years of 2013 to 2024.

Speaker 3:

I can count like probably 50 to 100 in two hours of riding. I mean like to have something different and something that's in a whole different spectrum. Like that's what intrigued me. And so whenever I see these people that you know are tricking their bikes out in the most cost effective way, you know like I don't care if they're spending a grand on these cosmetics or they're spending 10 grand on these cosmetics.

Speaker 3:

You know, like the thing is is they're making these bikes look one of a kind. True to them, right? I love admiring that because you get to see the individuality of it, oh yeah you know like that's, and you know there's. I'm not gonna lie to you, though. There are those times that somebody's vision definitely does not match yours and you're like what the hell?

Speaker 2:

are you thinking fuck are they doing to?

Speaker 3:

that. So you know, like admiring goes multiple ways. Right, yeah, no, so yeah yeah.

Speaker 2:

I get that, you know, like putting saddlebags on a dyna, like who the fuck does that? I fucking do that and it looks sick as fuck.

Speaker 3:

I dig that I had two black Viking leather saddlebags.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, on my 03 Wyglide 100th glide 100th anniversary yeah, that's funny that you had a ride like I love that.

Speaker 3:

It was literally one step down from yours, yeah, and I loved that bike. Like I was so pissed whenever what happened to it happened. You know, like I I don't like talking about it because of the fact that it kind of flares up a lot of anger and frustration. But you know, the thing was was like what happened happened and I don't have it today, right, and like I miss it, like I seen the opportunity to buy a bike.

Speaker 2:

They got one. Yeah, I know all blacked out eight, nine, nine, nine don't tempt me.

Speaker 3:

I I am trying to buy a house right now. Like, don't make me go out and buy a bike and piss the old lady off, I'm just saying they got one brother, I feel like that's a full setup, like I might regret that choice, but you're putting that, you're planting a seed.

Speaker 2:

Well, I've seen it and I even asked the guy. I was like, just for shits and giggles, what's the price on the wag light?

Speaker 3:

because you know I bet you can get it for seven, five, oh yeah. And he's like uh I think it's eight, nine, nine, nine and I was like nine grand, you can get it for seven, five. Out the door clear. Is there inventory like dude?

Speaker 2:

seven, five all day, they'll get head after market intake and pipes. So yeah, um then she was all black. All black blacked out. No flames like mine, nothing. All blacked out.

Speaker 3:

See, I see one identical to yours, and I mean identical in the fact of flames and all. The only difference was the bars.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, no one yeah, and I seen it on Classifieds Like thank God. Facebook Classified fans for the win and win buddy of mine tags me and he says hey, look at this, bro. You're never gonna believe it. And I looked at it and he doesn't know me, but he knows that I am a heartly enthusiast and he shows me the stem bike. I instantly start getting this gut laughing like it was hurting bad to laugh. And my buddy looks at me. He's like what are you laughing so hard about? I was like man, I've been looking for a dyno wag glide like that for a long ass time I was like, and that one exactly matches my brother's bike.

Speaker 3:

The only difference was was at 14 inch bars. It didn't have the tall bars right, and so I was like god man, if you ain't running 20s, you's a bitch, exactly, I know you damn right. I mean, like you're positioned right, fucking you better be running something tall fucking lutely like hell. It wasn't like I get asked all the fucking time about my tall ass bars. They're all like god, dude, like I could never ride like that. I couldn't ride like that so comfortable.

Speaker 3:

I have one guy fucking as early as last night fucking. He stopped me while I was at work and he was looking at my bike and I was outside on the smoke break and so, uh, my, my supervisor was covering the door for me and I was sitting out there having a smoke. And this guy comes up and he's like is your bike and it? And it's all like depends who's asking. I'm like obviously I'm not going to fucking just sit there and tell somebody oh yeah, that's my bike. Yeah, yeah, I work here, that's my bike, right, I'm not going to be that guy, okay. So I'm all like well, it depends on who's asking. And he's like oh, I'm just asking for me, I'm curious. He's like I like bikes. I'm like all right. So inside I'm like all right, I'll give this guy a chance. And I was like yeah, that's my bike. And he's like you mind, if I look at it? I was like you can look at it all you want. I was like you touch it, you might lose a finger or two. Don't fucking touch it, as all you want, you want to touch it. I was like that's a whole different question inside of itself. I was like and I don't play that game.

Speaker 3:

I was like, you know, like I've I've let people like, contrary to belief, a lot of people fucking hate this, but I've let people sit on my bike. I've let people stand my bike up. I've let people kick my kickstand off from underneath my bike. Very, actually, only one other person has ever rode my bike and that was my dad. But you know, like, I've had people so I can stand my bike up, you know. But they always ask beforehand. You know, right, hey, you know like they, they know me well enough. They're like, hey, yo, you know, like can, is there any way that I can try to stand it up? You know, like I want to see what those bars are gonna feel like, and I'm like, you know, half the time I'm like, fucking opportunity, you get somebody on two wheels hell yeah, you know, let's fucking do this.

Speaker 3:

I'll stand here with you. You know like I will make the time right, and so you know like a lot of times, as a shorter person, it's all like oh I think I can do it. I could think I'd do it.

Speaker 3:

They look like a fucking little kid in a high chair right like I can't touch it yeah, yeah, yeah, I totally get that, that's because I mean like I'm a six foot one guy, like I mean like I'm not as tall as a lot of people, but I'm taller than the majority of people, right, yeah, I'm in the higher you short people yeah at six one yeah, I I feel short.

Speaker 3:

You know like you are when I have my friends that are fucking like seven foot two and shit. Yeah, like I ain't that tall, but like whenever I gotta look up at you and I'm over six foot, I'm like uh yeah, it's not often I have to look up but exactly it's happened the only, the only reward I get from it is that I know that they have to duck to get through doors.

Speaker 3:

Like I'm all like fuck you guys. You know like I can still walk through one without having that duck right, but you know, like these poor fuckers, like they, they have to fucking duck to be able to get through this doorway. They're like god damn door you know like oh well, I'm sorry, we can't make a fucking 12-foot-tall fucking door at every fucking entrance, fucking giant. Right.

Speaker 2:

But no like, yeah, fire that fucking duber up. I know you got to get to work, brother.

Speaker 3:

You know what the best part about working where I work is Is that basically, I make my own schedule. Yeah, that'd be all right. So my supervisor is there, like uh, you know it's 5 30 in the afternoon, so my supervisor will be there in about 15 minutes. He usually shows up about 5, 45, 6 o'clock. That dude will stay there, okay, like now, we don't really start picking up, like I mean, and for the viewers, I work at a very happening local bar. You know, uh, I'm one of their security and, uh, one of their bouncers, you know.

Speaker 3:

And so, like this, this happening bar usually picks up volume at like 10 11 o'clock. Well, a lot of the times the owner has expressed to us that, hey, you know like, if we don't have enough people in the bar, there's no reason to have two of you on the clock, cool deal, you know like. Hey, I, I always look at it as like a fucking business standpoint.

Speaker 3:

Yeah so I'm like hey, I'm not gonna cost you money, like that's not my intentions, but you hired me to do a job, so as long as that job demands me to be here, like I'm like hey, I'm not gonna cost you money, like that's not my intentions, but you hired me to do a job, so as long as that job demands me to be here, like I'm gonna be here and so like I will wait to clock in, so that really gives me some freedoms and liberties. But a lot of it is, like you know, like my workplace, uh, pays for me to have like a lot of energy drinks tonight if I need it. Right, free coffee, free food, right, like I get a free meal and whatnot, you know, and hell yeah, and there's, there's really good food.

Speaker 2:

It's bomb food. I yeah. Yeah, we have eaten there several times and it is absolutely zero complaints about this place. It's I would totally yeah, but we don't plug people.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you know like I would love to name drop this. I really would, because it really would bring awareness to a lot of places, like to a lot of different things, but at the same time is there's some level of privacy there that you still gotta respect. Yeah, you know like, and I'm a, I'm a you give respect, you give respect kind of guy. So you know like that level of respect. I'm not gonna crest past that, past that line, but I will tell you, local to Eastern Oregon, in the home of the biggest outdoor rodeo, there is one very happening bar. Do your research, kids. It's very biker friendly and those individuals are willing to go out of their way to make sure that your experience there is bar none, the best experience you've had in that town.

Speaker 3:

I will let people do their own research. Fill in the names maybe go check it out. Hey, you never know. And the names, maybe go check it out. Hey, you never know. The right person comes up and, yeah, ask me what, ask me if my name is boombox. You know like I'll be the first one, like I will never turn somebody down, but if somebody's listening and they figure it out, they connect the dots and they come down and ask me if I'm boombox. They heard me on the real biker podcast. I will tell you this much. That is somebody that I would willingly sit there, smile, say you damn right, I'm boombox. And what are you drinking?

Speaker 3:

because your first drinks on me boom thing, is being in a small environment, in a small area like this, a lot of these messages don't get out to a lot of people, but it's the small environment messages and these experiences that any of the given people out there would be able to listen to here and be able to live basically vicariously through us and what we do. It would set them up like like that. I love the small area I love my space.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, me too. The biggest thing I hate more than politicians, is people, I mean people run a close second to politicians. Well, I absolutely hate politicians. I mean, like I have my own, who I back and support. But it's not based upon a party, it's based upon what the person's about. Yeah, and whenever I see good in somebody, I'll support good things. If I see the negative in somebody, I'm probably not going to embrace your cause.

Speaker 2:

That is for a different podcast and I'll talk to you about that once we turn the mics off. Sounds good to me.

Speaker 3:

I do understand where you're coming from on that my biggest thing in life is is that I I live my life very simple. You know, I strive to be better than I was yesterday yep and I always keep my feet moving.

Speaker 3:

It does not matter if I am moving an inch an hour. Moving is moving. Progression is progression, as long as I'm doing better than what I did yesterday. Life's complete. You know, a lot of what we do is based upon progression. We wouldn't be where we are right now had we not made those choices and decisions and we progressed to where we are.

Speaker 3:

But I can tell you this much is where we've progressed to today. I'm comfortable saying that it's a pretty good path, like when life looks up and you've been through the darkness and you you've seen the end of the tunnel and you still dug and dug, dug and dug, fought, fought.

Speaker 3:

You know one of our one of my poor former brothers, um, just lost a significant other a couple days ago, and it's kind of what brings things into perspective. I'm a veteran and so 22 a day is something that's very beaten into me, very instilled, and although this individual wasn't a veteran, he went the same way as a lot of my veteran brothers did, right and honestly, like I'm not, you know me, I'm not a people person Like I. I despise people, people piss me off.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but hearing about this like it it hurt and I I didn't expect it. Like I heard about it and I instantly, like there was a hit in the bottom of my stomach Because I I had met this individual, I had worked with this individual, you know, not necessarily a job, but like side by side, hanging out bullshit and you know doing, doing what we needed to do.

Speaker 3:

I was next to this guy a lot, became acquainted with him you know, time together yeah, you know, like, and I, I heard the other day that we lost it and it hurt and I, like, I dude, I'm one of those kind of fucking people that, like I, handle loss a lot different than a lot of other people. I lost a lot of brothers overseas, a few that were gone way too young, and so I didn't have much of a choice. If I wanted to continue to do my job for uncle sam, I had to be able to neutralize out all feeling in it like I started getting to the point where death of death you know well it's gonna happen.

Speaker 3:

You know shit happens right over it, like fucking people die you know, right, like I used to tell people all the time like, only way fucking I'm coming home is in a pine box. You know, like, and in that time, like that's purely what I thought, like that's the only thought in my mind, you know, and so I always thought that loss was just simply that. You know, you're only guaranteed three things in this world You're born, you live and you die. You know how you, how you choose to live. Now, that is the part that's up to you, right? But you're going to be born and you're going to die, and that and a lot of that came from the term. You know, when I was overseas, I became numb to death. So like losing people now was just like eh, whatever, Eh whatever.

Speaker 3:

Or I should say, not losing them now, but losing them in the short past. You know, like within the last five, ten years Right, you know, losing people, people it actually started affecting me again and I didn't know how to, how to feel about that. Like it hit me like freight train sideways. So I mean like I guess really what. What it's coming down to is just like that. You know, people are constantly changing and we don't know when that's gonna happen. I can be a hard ass all day, like I mean I have no problem doing it, but when it comes down to like understanding maybe not reacting, but understanding like what's causing these people to feel that way it puts a whole different perspective into things. It's changed me as a person Even since the last time I was on the podcast. I will gladly admit to the audience, when I was on the podcast before I was a cocky, arrogant, fucking individual.

Speaker 3:

Like I thought that well, you were also in a different environment yeah, I thought that that environment changed me and made me who I was, and it wasn't necessarily true. I had lost contact with myself. So once I once I took that step back, you know I was like no, I need to get back to basics, figure this shit out first. I don't want to go too deep, because if I go too deep and it's going to be a lot harder. So I, I took a different path and you know, uh, everything ended well. We'll just say that Right, you know like the transition went really well.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

And I ended up, uh, getting involved as a veteran with this uh veteran and community outreach group, you know, and I started, I started being able to help vets, man, and that kind of hit home with me. It made me feel like the old school days of the camaraderie between brothers. You know, when I was in the service, the camaraderie between brothers, you know when I was in the service, and that hit home right and I realized real quick I can beat the hard ass of anybody, I can do whatever people need me to, but when it comes to my brothers in arms, there is a different limit to what you will do. I mean it. It hit home at that point, you know. And now I, after realizing that you know, like I am so grateful of a lot of things, like um being an army, then okay, like we all know, the stigma, okay, the between, like between the different branches of service okay, right, right like army, don't like marines, marines don't like army.

Speaker 3:

Nobody likes the fucking air force. You know coast guard is a is a lot of bunch of cool little swimmers and space force. Yeah, those guys still are trying to figure out what a vagina is okay right.

Speaker 3:

Right, obviously so. But uh, dude, I, I've become a fond member of any service group now, you know, as a vet. And just so happens that my future brother-in-law just graduated from basic training with the Marines and is now down in San Diego for Pendleton, nice, or Camp Pendleton, my Diego, at Fort Pendleton, nice or Camp Pendleton. I don't want to fuck that up because I know there's a lot of vets out there that will roast the fuck out of me, and you know what.

Speaker 3:

That would be 100% warranted. Totally accept that if that's what happens.

Speaker 2:

Well, hey, I'll tell you what I have never served, and my hat is off to you motherfuckers. 100%. You have my utmost respect. You guys are fucking savages. Thank you so much for your service. Like, me and my family are whatever you need. Know any way that I can help um, you have.

Speaker 3:

So there's we. We appreciate that a hundred percent. Like that, that level of support isn't always achieved, so like I don't. I try not to put myself in that position because I'm not active service anymore, in that position because I'm not active service anymore, and so like. But I have, I have brothers. Like I have a guy that I served with originally through my first tour. Uh, he's on deployment right now. I'm still in contact with him like this.

Speaker 3:

This guy is, has been one that has never fucking turned the blind eye like this guy has always been there, always gritted fucking teeth and done what he's fucking had to and he stayed local Like I was proud of him, like, and we kind of went distance for a little while, you know, during the end of my marriage and everything it happens, yeah, exactly, life happens so, but you know, know, like this individual, you know like I care about the guy, yeah, he's, he's a great individual, you know.

Speaker 3:

But, um, you know, like I still have brothers that, uh, they're still serving, totally jealous of. By the way, you know, like I didn't, I didn't want to go out, you know, uh, uh, my first wife kind of made that decision a little difficult for me. Yeah, um, she, she was a hundred percent supportive of the service and everything Like. So there there was some hiccups, but uh, she was fully supportive of the service and whenever I went into the service she kind of took a step back. Wasn't much I could do and I knew that. I accepted it, moved on.

Speaker 3:

You know whatever wasn't much I could do and I knew that I accepted it moved on. You know whatever, but you know shit, I don't even know where the fuck I was going with that? God damn it. That. Yeah, edit that one out, holy shit. Um, never mind, I don't even give a shit. You can add it in, I don't care no, that's funny shit.

Speaker 2:

That's what happens when I can.

Speaker 3:

I was looking at the door and having cold beers and I was still just fucking rolling and I was all like God, that's a fucking bad ass, looking bird over there. And then I lost my train of thought. Well, it happens. Well, shit, how do you? I mean, but yeah, unfortunately, I mean, like I do have to get ready to take off, I got work here.

Speaker 3:

I'm just a little bit coming up however, you know, um, what I would like to do. If it's cool with you, check back up in a little while. I know that we have some fundraiser things going on here locally and you know, I wouldn't mind partnering up with you and getting some of this awareness out there of you know what good the bikers in the community are doing and I'm not talking about just one entity, right, bikers in the community you're doing, and I'm not talking about just one entity, right, you know, like I, I wouldn't mind trying to help you reach out to a couple of different entities and, you know, be able to get, uh, be able to get a bigger story out there. You know, like these, uh, these people definitely, uh, I know I do, I enjoy your content. I've listened to just about every episode you got and I know there's a lot of people out there that listen to your episodes, you know, and a lot of what we hear is very filtered.

Speaker 3:

Okay, yeah, Um. However, okay, yeah, um. However, there are individuals out there that have no problem and have full reign and liberty to be able to say whatever they want, and a lot of these are vets and motorcycle enthusiasts that are out to help a specific cause, right, right, like I can't drop names until I get confirmation back with a couple of other individuals, but if you're game for it, I mean I wouldn't mind hearing about some fundraisers that are going on uh successfully that uh successfully and honestly unsuccessfully might be a good blooper.

Speaker 3:

But I mean you can laugh at the unfortunate just as much as you're you may not see yourself in that way, but you're. You're a man that is out here just sharing your experience, strength and hope of everything that you've endured, and bringing people in to be able to do the same thing. I mean that ultimately comes down to people helping people yeah bikers, helping bikers, and you know what one thing bikers like to do drink beer drink beer and give back oh, oh, dude for sure 100, yeah, and so like doing charity.

Speaker 2:

Shit is a freaking blast, I would.

Speaker 3:

I would love nothing more than to try to get a couple of groups together that would be willing to all share their experience over charity events for, like, uh, some kind of special for you, you know, because I think that getting that many experiences in one room, there's a lot of information that can be pulled out of that that could help a lot of people, and that's really what me and my current association is about.

Speaker 2:

Right, yeah, dude, you can go ahead and talk about it on here, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

I was going gonna ask anyway, but well, you know, like, at first I was hesitant because of the fact that, you know, it is so sudden and I'm only gonna be very brief about it for the time that we have today. Um, we can touch bases a different time when, uh, you know, everything is really full swing, right, and you know, give, give the update. But currently, um, I belong to a association, a motorcycle association. Um, we call ourselves puma okay, okay, it's Patriots United Motorcycles Association, and we are a group of writers that support our communities and our veterans to be able to help out in any way that we can, whether it be putting our skills together and helping be able to put a flagpole in for somebody, being able to put a flagpole in for somebody, um, being able to do, uh, even just just anything that you know that person isn't able to do, and just, you know, within their limits, and everything you know, like right like doing some yard work exactly taking care of business.

Speaker 3:

Everybody like I mean well, we were all kids. I mean we like digging holes. I mean like what happened before you know? Like okay, well, we can still do this today.

Speaker 3:

So you know like we are 100% down for helping our community and helping out our veterans because of the fact that that's something that we feel needs to be respected, that's something that needs to be acknowledged. That's something that needs to be acknowledged because without these veterans I mean even me as a veteran without these other veterans we wouldn't be able to have the freedoms we have today if it wasn't for them. So, like, we are very veteran oriented, but the thing is is we're also community oriented. We want our communities, our families and our neighborhoods to all thrive.

Speaker 2:

Right, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

And if they need assistance in any way, shape or form, we want to be able to be there to be able to see what we can do to be able to assist them. Awesome, this group has it's really changed a lot of thought process for me.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Because I was under the impression I may not put a patch back on this back. And then my sister reached out and she told me about this group, me being a vet. I'm like, okay, tell me more, let's get together, let's grab some coffee or something. Right, tell me more. And we sat down, we talked for a while, we had a couple of drinks, you know, a couple cups of coffee, right, if I remember. Right, she made breakfast. She told me to come out in the morning. I was like, cool, all right, sis, you know I'll be out, you know, and, uh, I'll see you in the morning. I just gotta drop kids off at school, come out. And I'm pretty sure you were actually there.

Speaker 3:

You were off work I think so yeah, and I got to hang out with both of you guys and fucking I uh, son of a bitch, I lost my train of thought again you were just talking about the MA yeah. So and like when he came out, when I came out, my sister and me started looking over some things, you know, and I started putting my input in, you know, and I at the time I had really no ambition on doing, doing other yeah, like putting putting that responsibility back on myself.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you know, like that's about the best way I can put it, but I decided the juice was worth the squeeze. And I heard her story and what has happened previously and what was happening currently, and I was like hell, no, like this is something I believe in, this is something that I love, this is what we're going to do, you know, and so I did everything I had to be able to help her be able to make this group successful in the manner of which she had originally built it for Right. You know, yeah, like this has nothing to do with me by no means do I take any damn credit for this like this was simply a well-oiled machine that was laid out in front of me and I just so happened to know how to shove it through right and to be able to help in the best way that I could. Yeah, and so I stepped up and next thing, I know, I became VP. Yeah, I got voted in and I was like whoa.

Speaker 2:

That's the perfect position for you too.

Speaker 3:

You know, I didn't, really I didn't know what the position, what really the position was going to, what best position was going to work for me. And after experiencing it, like you know, like everybody wants to be the hard ass Right being the VP, I hate it. When I have to be the hard ass, I'm like nope, I'm good.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's where you're gonna end up passing it off to.

Speaker 3:

And the thing is, I had to teach myself that you can be a hard ass if it warrants it, but you don't have to be a hard ass right, oh, yeah, yeah you know. So for for the first, you know, couple weeks, I had mixed feelings and everything. And then I think it was after the first month of everything taking effect and me just trying to funnel through everything, I was like, okay, okay, you know this is manageable.

Speaker 3:

And then, between what I was experiencing and the help that I was given, everything became manageable and I was like whoa, holy crap, you know, like that was a big load off my shoulder, you know. So currently it's doing well. We just finished up a raffle with the Ukiah Thicket raffling off a Bowtech compound bow Nice. We opened it up for an unlimited period of time until tickets were sold. Unfortunately, due to some remodeling and everything, that time got shortened a little bit. However, currently we have enough to be able to do the raffle, so we're going to be giving away that Bowtech compound bow. Dude, that's.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, fuck it, that's fucking awesome.

Speaker 3:

It also goes out to help support the Reem family. As well as help Insurance was Reese another inset that we do. But the Reem family they lost the father of the family to a very form of cancer that was untreatable. Yeah, I remember hearing about that to a very form of cancer that was untreatable. So, um, and yeah, I remember hearing about that.

Speaker 3:

He just so happened to be related to me, right, and it kind of tore me apart a little bit. I quit riding for a while, like it sucked, because that was something we shared, right, right, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

And then getting back on the bike, I was like he'd be trying to kick my ass right now if I wasn't on this fucking bike Right, so now I ride with him. I, uh, I've actually got a duck, a one of those screaming ducks that you squeeze and screams away yeah his name's Lucky.

Speaker 3:

that's for my brother and he is going on my handlebars of my bike to where my brother can always ride with me. But what this group has done that has impacted me and my brother's family. I can never imagine somebody going through that. But I am so grateful that such a great association decided to assist his family Right, even when I knew that there was nothing I could personally do. That group that I wasn't even a part of yet said no, this family needs help. This is one of our local community families. They jumped in and they did what they needed to and I'm forever grateful. So if there's anything I can do to pay it back, I don't care. It's a lifelong debt. I'm going to enjoy it and I'm going to keep helping.

Speaker 2:

That's not a bad gig.

Speaker 3:

I totally got to take a leak really quick, though. All right, give me 2.5. 2.5, or I will be back right. Alright, let's close this out in the best way possible. I think I'm gonna push it to a further date three hey, we can have as many parts as we need alright, welcome back.

Speaker 2:

Here we are. We're gonna be wrapping this up soon. Boombox has gotta head out to work. But hey, man, I appreciate you coming by sharing your experiences.

Speaker 3:

I appreciate you having me every time I get the opportunity to come out and, just you know, be able to bullshit with another brother that's been out on that road, that knows similar struggles with the lifestyle. You know that awareness right there means everything to me. I mean, like that's what keeps people close, and so you know, if I can take time out of my day, I don't give a shit if it's right before work or not. You know gonna have a shitty night anyways.

Speaker 3:

I mean, I might as well enjoy the afternoon a little bit yeah. I get that. But you know I appreciate you having me on the show tonight. You know, and honestly I wouldn't mind. We'll link up down the road and, you know, give some updates on what's going on with Puma and whatnot.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, absolutely.

Speaker 3:

Be able to possibly bring some of my officers in and be able to, for you to be able to get their experience and everything of what's been going on and what we're going to be able to do to help and provide to the community and veterans. Yeah, absolutely, I look forward to those updates been going on and what we've been able to do to help and provide to the community and veterans. You know. Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1:

I look forward to those updates.

Speaker 3:

You know, and I would honestly love to be able to facilitate that that for you. But as far as tonight, unfortunately people are going to have to wait until the next time we meet. I mean because unfortunately you got to head out to work. I get it. Mama gets off work in an hour and a half and I have to be to work in an hour and if mama calls I'm in trouble. So, that being said, I totally got to take off, but I love you I love you too, brother.

Speaker 3:

And you know I love listeners and you know like I appreciate you. Love you too, brother. And you know I love listeners and you know like I appreciate you guys supporting my man over here. He's out here and he's doing his damnedest to make sure that this is something.

Speaker 2:

And I want the dream to die.

Speaker 3:

He wants everybody to understand and know. You know, like what it's like you know and the experiences of it you know. And he wants to hear the experiences like yeah, you know, like he's an adventurous. He's an adventurous individual. You know I'm not grateful for uh, for the show. You know and what you do for this community, I really appreciate it awesome.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, yeah, absolutely all right. Thanks for listening. Uh, appreciate, boombox coming over. Um, remember, we do have a facebook page, the real bike podcast. You know, just hook us up and, uh, the real bike podcast. At gmailcom. You can just send questions or messages or whatever to the show. Um, all right. So thanks for listening and I'll see you next time.

Speaker 1:

Remember, keep the shiny side up and I'll see you in the turn. You know, this used to be a hell of a good country. I can't understand what's going on, man. Everybody got chicken. That's what happened.

Speaker 1:

Hey, we can't even get into like a second rate hotel. I mean a second rate motel. You think a second-rate motel? You see, don't they think we're going to cut their throat or something? They're scared, man. Oh, they're not scared of you, they're scared of what you represent to them. Amen. Oh, we represent to them, man, that somebody needs a haircut? Oh, no, what you represent to them is freedom. What the hell's wrong with freedom, then? That's what it's all about. Oh yeah, that's right, that's what it's all about. Alright, but talking about it and being it, that's two different things. I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, because then they're going to get real busy killing and maiming to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're going to talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom, but if they see a free individual, it's going to scare them. No, it don't make them running scared. No, it makes them dangerous.