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Patch Boyz x James Martinez ( Back2Skool Bash) | EP.113
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Patch Boyz welcome James Martinez to get into his Back2School Bash on Aug 9th 10:30 am at (Powerhouse Gym) 1028 Andrews Hwy Midland TX 79701 he discusses a powerful calling to serve the youth of his community.
"There's nothing in the city for kids and if you can't pay for travel sports, there's nothing," Martinez explains with unmistakable passion. This reality sparked the creation of Last Rep Strength Co, his initiative bringing strength sports to kids who might otherwise fall through the cracks. His camps teach more than proper lifting technique—they build confidence in youth who've never experienced it before.
Throughout our conversation, Martinez reveals how strength training provides structure and discipline many young people desperately need in today's digital world. These aren't just physical lessons—they're life lessons about perseverance, routine, and mental toughness. "When I have bad days at work, I got to finish. I got to make money. And the same thing in the gym," he tells the kids he coaches.
His August 9th back-to-school event at Powerhouse Gym represents everything he stands for—combining adult and youth strength competitions with community service through backpack and school supply distribution. What began as a modest initiative has grown to include participants from across Texas, vendors, and sponsors all united in supporting local youth.
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Speaker 3Yeah, man, I appreciate you having me out guys. Yeah, I'm James Martinez. I'm out of Powerhouse. I'll be hosting a back-to-school event August 9th. So with the event we have some vendors and sponsors out. They're going to be really just trying to give back to the community. We're trying to bring strength sports to the kids and we're trying to raise some money to send these kids that really need help back with some supplies that they need. So at the event we'll have adults competing but we'll also have some kid competitions. I have a trucking company that donated the golf cart for the day so the kids can be able to pull a golf cart. It's probably like 40 pounds bro.
Speaker 2But aesthetically you look like the boss. Now the bigger kids.
Speaker 3I'm going to put a kid inside there. You're not going to cakewalk on me. I begging kids. I'm going to put a kid inside there. You're not going to cake walk on me. I need you to sweat. We're going to do a sandbag medley for the kids as well and then for the adults we're going to really try to expose strength sports and the gym in the area. We're going to have, probably, as of now, just a circus dumbbell, which is a big dumbbell, you load plates on and you go overhead. Sandbag medley maybe the 300, probably stick around the 200 range. I don't want to be responsible.
Speaker 1Yeah, because somebody's deal came out very strong that day 300 might take it there.
Speaker 3Yeah, I can do that. No, you can't. So this is really going to do exposure for strength sports in the area and it's going to really help with the camps that I'm doing as well, trying to expose it. So I have an Instagram under Last Rep SC and Last Rep Strength Co is something I've been trying to put together for years and it finally, man, my wife pushed me beginning of the year and we finally put the paper to the pen and it was more about helping kids. I know what the barbell is meant to me, I know what the gym is meant to me and I really just wanted to push it on kids.
Speaker 3There's nothing in the city for kids and if you can't pay for travel sports, there's nothing. So with the camps, I'm showing simple things the bar path, how to get into a set position, because mobility is huge. These kids can't move like we did, but in their defense, they don't get to play like we did. They're not outside. They're not able to move. You'll see kids riding bikes and they're flat-footed. There's no ankle mobility. They're not outside. They're not able to move. Yeah, you'll see kids like riding bikes and they're flat footed. There's no ankle mobility. They're not doing little stuff, so not to knock any other strength camps around town.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3But we're really teaching what I'm teaching. Yeah, there's no mouse in my pocket.
Speaker 2It's just me, yeah, centric yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, so I'm teaching basic stuff and I have my kids sitting in a squat position learning how to move. Anything raised through these camps goes to the gym for the event or for future events. Yeah, so next month school starts and I'll start.
Speaker 2Yeah, school starts next month.
Speaker 3I'll start a barbell club for kids and I have some sponsors. That's going to help. Awesome for the families that can't afford it. They're going to pay their set fee but that goes to the gym. But the sponsors are going to cover singlets and belts and competition oh, okay, nice, that's awesome, you got a whole thing going on.
Speaker 3I'm going to start a high school night as well, probably like 9 to 11, and then I'm really gonna, on saturdays, give the kids someone to be so they're not finding a back road or a pump jack. Yeah, we grew up here like we know what happens, yeah, so I really am trying to just man push the barbell and people some people have mixed feelings about it, like the gym's not there. Y'all have had fighters in here. You've got guys. Y'all wrote you roll. You know what that means to your mental state and like being in routine.
Speaker 3I think a lot of young men, especially in the area, don't understand routine. They're not given routine. And me myself, I'm a routine man. You shake my routine, I'm not, you're not really the same person like yeah so that's a big thing that I'm pushing to um. So, really, just, man, I just want to give back. Uh, god's blessed me in ways that I can't put on paper and I think that's been my biggest thing. My biggest calling is to like, give kids, like kids that are being exposed to things they shouldn't be. That's life.
Speaker 2Yeah, I can't save everybody.
Speaker 3Yeah, but if I can give one kid a little bit of confidence and he goes to school and has that confidence and spreads like cancer because it does, then cool, let's do it yeah, and I've seen it in the camp so far, man. Um, I talked to some of the moms yesterday just making sure I was like I'm gonna name drop yeah, yeah, yeah, don't come at me.
Speaker 3Um, my first session, you know, god's got a sense of humor. Every kid I got kind of had a little bit of me in them and I got a kid, connor. Connor is a great kid, respectful, but walked in not much confidence, you know, shrugged shoulders. He didn't really want to be there, but he wanted to be there. He just wanted somewhere to be. First day we're going over mobility, simple stuff, uh, and we're going. We're going over simple things, planks, stuff like that. We get the push-ups, yeah, yeah. You'd be surprised when kids can't do push-ups.
Speaker 3High school kids, junior high, trust me, there's no surprise there like and it's like I see them and they look like uh hopper from bugs life. Yeah, and I'm like bro, what?
Speaker 2are you doing?
Speaker 3like why is your elbow pointed out like that? But um, I seen you working them out, yeah it was good man yeah, we're really teaching.
Speaker 3And connor got in a push-up position, couldn't do it starts having this moment. I'm like no, no, no, come here, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk, let's talk. We walk through it and I'm doing push-ups next to him. Next day he comes in Look, I've been practicing, gives me three good reps, okay, okay. Second session starts. New kid comes in. Matthias, same thing, could not get in position and I'm expecting my older kids to be like all right, let me help him out. Connor comes from the back and he's like like this man, let's do it together. And I'm like, bro, that's all I wanted. Yeah, because I wanted somebody to step up, but I wanted a kid that didn't have it to come in and leave with more confidence than he ever has. I got you and that's what we've done. So it's a blessing to see it unraveling.
Speaker 1That's cool, man, I mean. And also like I see, like I know you, I see you lifting a lot. So you, how many times do you lift a week? Uh, three or four three or four times.
Speaker 3So, uh, when I was younger. It's funny how that works, right? They warned you about that I'm only 31 but like that I would live five, six days a week. I can't do that and work, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1I work with my hands.
Speaker 3There's days that I hit a heavy deadlift that's why I do them on the weekends now and I have to go and get the one-inch impact the next day and I feel like a little girl and I'm shaking my dad's like what's wrong with you? My dad's got an accent. What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1The old Texas accent. That's why I told my dad's got an accent. What's wrong with you? The old Texas accent, just sore.
Speaker 3That's why I told you not to be doing that silly stuff, and I'm like, yeah, you're right. Yeah, and it's funny, man, because even like I'll hit my heavy squats Tuesday because I know Wednesday I'm going to be sore to sore, thursday I'm going to be dead. So I usually try to plan my week.
Speaker 1But there's some time.
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Speaker 3You can't plan stuff. Yeah, and I'll be like I think the last heavy set I was working on, uh winstruck and I'm like I'm doing the head and I remember I got up there and like half my toolbox is on top of that radiator that's like what's that about? I'm not going back up and down all day Like it's now or never, and I keep my crescent in my pocket cause I'm not going down there for a ranch, that's like the.
Speaker 3That's. That's the biggest thing with my training now and like listening to your body, so that's. And then my daughter with my. So we'll clear it up. So my daughter, that's my stepdaughter. I don't want anybody to be like she's old. I didn't know you had her Like, no, but that's my baby. She trains like two days a week.
Speaker 1Yeah, I've seen you doing that with her man.
Speaker 3She's power climbing and power cleaning, yeah, deadlifts, we do a little bit of hand cleans and squat.
Speaker 2And that's cool to see and that was like that was my big test.
Speaker 1Yeah, like y'all have kids, yeah, your daughters. My daughter, I have a one and a five-year-old, yeah, and mine's uh like, uh, 15, or she'll be 15 and 14. So yeah, you're past 13, 13 years 11 when we started.
Speaker 3Yeah, so she's 11, and bro the hardest thing in the world is to teach your kids something yeah, it doesn't matter if I squat seven plus. To her. I'm just the father figure.
Speaker 1Yeah, and she's like you don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, bro, what Right Look if I wanted to teach your mom how to squat, I would have done it over there. Yeah, don't argue with me and she fought and fought and fought and then one day it just clicked. I was like, oh, okay, so that's been. That's been cool to see like her start to enjoy the process.
Speaker 1Yeah, especially, I'll get home alive man, I'm beat, so we're going to the gym today.
Speaker 3Now you got to go. Yeah, yeah, we'll go, brother, anything for you.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's awesome because they, they're just, they're buying in, yeah, and to see your kid buy into something like. I went through that with my five-year-old because soccer she's not. She's a girl's girl, a big girl's girl, and I'm not saying that soccer's not for girls, I'm just saying my daughter is not. Uh, didn't come out athletic ready, let's put it that way. Um and so when we got into soccer the first year, I couldn't even get her to pay attention. And I'm actually, I'm involved, I'm coaching and I'm trying to get her to pay attention, snapping this and the other, and the second year a little bit more. She's like, oh, daddy, you're, you're my coach. She wouldn't even call me her coach.
Speaker 2The first year and the second year oh, yeah, dad, you're my coach, she wouldn't even call me her coach. The first year and the second year oh, dad, you're my coach, right, like, yeah, yeah, I'm your coach, let's go. And she started snapping in a little bit more. So now, four years, this is going to be her fourth year. Like, she's bought in, she knows, she's going to every practice, she knows all that stuff, and it's that's rewarding, right, that's a reward. It's like the other kids see it. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3So in the barbell class I have a girl. She's a year older than Lonnie, super shy, the girl's just strong Like, and I tell her all the time like you really irritate me and she's like why I was like because you're so scared to be strong. Yeah and like and I don't know, like these little girls, like there's stigmas and that's the biggest thing for the waterboy club, like I want young women in it. Yeah, and I've been talking to a girls all flag football team and they're probably gonna join nice I don't want my daughter to go through life trying to fit into these stigmas.
Speaker 3Yeah, like I want you to be bold enough and courageous enough that you can be outside of what quote unquote you're supposed to be. Yeah, so that girl will be lifting Lonnie's like just try it, just do it. Then I'll turn around. There's mirrors on the back wall and I can see her lifting properly when I'm not watching. All right, whatever, I'll take it. If Lonnie can get you to do it, I'll take it. Yeah, so that's the biggest thing, man. And it's really cool, because when your kid's sold into it and they're contagious, all the other kids will follow. That's all it takes. But if she's fighting it, oh boy it's going to be a long day for me.
Speaker 3So I completely understand that. And girls, man, I'll coach girls any day of the week over boys.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3Like I love the boys. I have some of the rain football team in the program and they're good kids, respectful. I love the boys. I had some of the rain football team in the program and they're good kids, respectful.
Speaker 3They do what I say but they're like it's not to a T it's like girls are, like you can see when they start like really just listening, and I call my mom and I'm like I feel like she just listens because she wants me to shut up quicker, and my mom's like yeah, it's a little bit of it wants me to shut up quicker and my mom's like, yeah, it's a little bit of it, that's very possible.
Speaker 3She's like she knows, if she just does it the first time, you're going to stop. I'm like that's great.
Speaker 2It's like that okay, okay, you'll get that. Okay, dad all right, dad all right dad, that's wild man.
Speaker 1so. So like you were squatting what 700 you said my biggest squat today is 760 but that's out of competition.
Speaker 3Um. So, man, I've only been back in the gym since january, okay, um, after covid my life took a left like pre-covid and, um, I had like a series of deaths in my life that kind of pushed me out, man. So I lost my cousin to the world. My best childhood friend was murdered. A year later I lost my grandpa, probably in the height of COVID. He was asymptomatic. They moved him from Ashton, which is a beautiful nursing home. They took care of him over there, but they moved him because he was still positive.
Speaker 3And whatever happened happened over there, so I lost him and I had taken care of my grandpa for 11 years, so that was my best friend. He would introduce me at Casa de Amigos as his roommate.
Speaker 2The viejas aren't falling for it, bro yeah, the Casa de Amigos, bro she ain't it?
Speaker 3Yeah, like man, that was my dog, so I lived there with him and took care of him, and my friends would come over.
Speaker 3It was 1920, you know, yeah, we got the solo cups out We'd be playing dominoes with Grandpa, two or three in the morning, so like that was my best friend. After that I lost another friend to the world and like, like this is all. Post-covid gyms aren't really opening yet. Uh, my training time at the time was about 10, 30, 11 at night, so I didn't have anything. Yeah, um, then I got lost in the mix and uh, probably 23. I trained maybe four months off and on through that year and then, uh, 24, um, I trained maybe a month and the end of 24 I got out of compression and I went back to work with my pops and I was starting to have a routine yeah, and I was like my wife's like you need to get back.
Speaker 3So that's what that's. What we met was a gym.
Speaker 2Cheesy bro, I know everybody's story is cheesy, spot her on a leg press.
Speaker 3It's got pins on there, bro. Like if you get in a bind, just slap the bars in, you'll be alright. She's like you need to get back in it, alright, whatever. Like I'll go train, give half effort. And then I really started enjoying it again. I started getting my my flame back, um, and I trained with Logan. Varner was running my coaching Logan's out of Houston, um, for a couple months. Then I was like I'm gonna back off, like I'm not ready, and uh, I guess about a month ago, two months ago, one of the other girls was in the council at the gym. It's called the Council of Beef at a powerhouse.
Speaker 2That's what's up. I like that name.
Speaker 3She's like you need to compete. She's like, if you're doing these videos, coaching these kids, you need to compete. I was like, yeah, I'll compete next year. And she's like, yeah, I'll compete next year. And she's like, no, there's one in Lubbock in September. And I was like, but my numbers aren't back to where they are. She's like, okay, she's like you're telling these kids not to be scared, but look at you, oh man. You didn't have to say it like that.
Speaker 2Hitting the button. Hitting the button so.
Speaker 3I text Logan. Logan's a one of those guys, him and Miles out of El Paso, out of Goliath. Miles looked out through my whole left field phase, texted me weekly hey, how we doing, we living what's good. And Logan was like I said look man, like I want to do the program, I just want you to look over it. Logan sent me a gist, I followed it and we've been rocking since then. I hadn't touched anything over 550 until that first week and I think I tripled like 615, and it flew and I was like all right, we're here.
Speaker 3And then this week it was like 645 for a triple. I was like all right. So roughly like there, I can guess I'm probably like 720, 730-ish right now my peak, and that's just. There was a lot that needed to be said in that. These are what the kids need to see. Yeah, Because I'm like yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3So it's been. I guess it's weird to say, but it's been an emotional prep, just because you know you come out of those rough seasons right and you start thinking about everything that put you in that season and it's like, yeah, I won, like every single thing that I was putting in front of you spiritually, mentally, like whatever you want to see it, as I beat it. So that's been the big thing and it's cool because the kids will come in and be like my mom showed me your video, I guess you're lifting, and I was like, yeah, and so, video, I guess you're lifting. And I was like, yeah. And so some of them were like we want to go see compete and I don't need you there. Yeah, out of pressure. Like, yeah, yeah, so that's been a blessing.
Speaker 3Um, I helped another kid who competed this weekend. Um, I just enjoy the process. Yeah, like, I enjoy, I'm a process guy like I think that's why I enjoy engine so much, cause I can see it stripped to a block, put it back together. I mean you've built stuff too right, like, and you, you do the same thing in a different process where you get to see the beginning to the end. Yeah, cause, like I've worked in compression. That was the hardest part of me. You work your 16, then you going crazy. Yeah, like I'm calling those guys like hey, let me hear it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's the the easiest way to spend. It's like a everybody, everybody watches big bang. Most people watch big bang. It's like that. Where he doesn't get to complete, he starts going crazy. It's the same thing like if I'm building out, when I used to build out pumps. I'm building out a pump and I get to a point and something's not right. There's a measurement not right, whatever, something's not right and you get to that point and I start and maybe it's the end of the day hey, we don't need this pump till tomorrow, this and the other. You go home.
Speaker 2I'm dreaming about that. I'm dreaming about it at night, like what did I do wrong? And the the cool part about that is that that obsession always helped me. I don't know for you right, but that obsession always helped me all. I would obsess that whole day, just obsessing about man, what did I do, what I do, and at some point it could be I could have been taking a shower, sleeping, whatever. I'll wake up in the morning, or whatever it was, brushing my teeth, and then I'm saying like, oh shit, oh, that's what it was. I doubled up on a washer or I doubled something up and that's where it was, and I'll go back and sure enough it's. That obsession helps me and I would imagine it works the same way. I mean I used it in sports too, whenever we played football.
Speaker 2Right, you use, you use that obsession like damn man. I know I could have, maybe it was. Uh, you know, we'd hit the weight room once a week, right, and in the weight room you only have a certain amount of time, so you'd be pressing or whatever, and you wouldn't get to your personal best. They don't. We'd max out. Well, I don't even remember how often we'd max out, but we'd max out, man, and I would feel sometimes like damn, I left some weight, I left some weight off, for sure.
Speaker 3So I think that is a lot like translated to the workplace and it's funny. I was listening to the episode with evan today and I was like man, that it's hilarious to think like and you were talking about being the heater in two days.
Speaker 2Yeah, you could have convinced me to do it again yeah, I'll be out there, sweat rolling behind my ears, you want?
Speaker 3me to play football in this. No, yeah, no. And then evan talks about how the structure and like just getting the job done goes into the workplace. Like there's days and I talked to my daughter about it all the time Like I don't like, especially in softball. Like I can see your body language, you don't have to fix that, I don't care if you're losing 14-0. Because when I have bad days at work, I got to finish, I got to make money. And the same thing in the gym, Like the kid I just helped, he'd always be like oh, it's just a rough day at work. Yeah, Rough. Okay, well, you're not at work. Like I need you to finish here. Yeah, Because if you don't finish today, tomorrow you're going to be 75% and then that's where we're going to be. We're going to get 75% of the result With the kids group. I don't want to be saying with my daughter I don't want no half ass. There's no half booty today. I want full ass everywhere we go.
Speaker 2And that translates over 100%, because you see a lot of the times when you work with people and you have co-workers and stuff. I'll see people that are okay with quitting, yeah, and not to say that it doesn't happen to everybody, because everybody, at some point you find a reason to quit something.
Speaker 2And, like in football, in football I quit a year before Ricky and some other friends and everything, and I quit just because I didn't want to exacerbate knee injuries or anything of that nature and I just quit. I could have powered through it. I could have powered through it and to this day it affects my decision making because the feeling of quitting, letting somebody down I mean it was funny because it was Quisenberry's first year and he walked me into his office and he's like hey, man, you're starting, what, what the fuck are you talking about? I like I'm quitting man, he's. He's like what are you talking about? You're fucking starting.
Speaker 2I was starting left tackle at the time, jv, and they were gonna try to work me for varsity and uh, I was like, yeah, man, I'm going. They told me I gotta get like fucking injections or something in my knee and I'm not, I'm not with that, especially at the time. No tattoos, no, nothing. I had a fucking needle phobia, like nobody's business. And the doc was like, yeah, it's a needle about this bed, like fuck you, you, you don't even have to go beyond that, I'm done right there. So, yeah, I remembered.
Speaker 2I remember going into his office and it's like I fucking I fucked his plan up. He was so pissed and he was like, all right, get the fuck out, quitter, that's and and that shit. It the shit that I got, not just from him, I got shit from the other motherfuckers on the offensive line that I knew, because obviously we know all of them and uh, yeah, that shit stays with me, has stayed with me my entire life, my entire career. When I'm fucking, my hands are bleeding, my knuckles are fucked up like whatever, when I'd be building, even if I'm running on 20 hours work, whatever, there's no quit, yeah, and that's because I know I had to look somebody in the face and fucking tell them hey, I'm quitting. You know I mean so. Even everybody has those moments. If you can learn to not like those moments, that's what pushes you the most, in my opinion. That's what you know. So, even those bad moments, they're good. If it's gonna be bad, this hope is bad enough as it shakes your ass out of it. You. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3That's my biggest thing with athletes, and not just the kids, Like even the adults I coach. You can tell who didn't play sports. You're going to have to embrace the suck.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, it makes me nervous that some of you, like adults, I coach like, as soon as it gets uncomfortable, they're out, yeah, what with it out? Yeah, what do you do when you have negative in your account and the bills are hitting? Exactly, you're going to fold in too, like, no, like, we're going to get on the horse. I don't care if either one of you blind, you're going to just get to walking. Yeah, and that's like the hardest part.
Speaker 3But when I was hearing him talk about it, I was like man that translates, talking about making sure your kids stay in sports, I think it was you yeah, yeah and it's, it's important and you talk, yeah, because what you were talking about, if you can memorize a playbook and it's so true, it's like this. Like I remember play still, I mean, yeah, I went to middle of high. We only had ran counters and screens but yeah I'm in here working with the football kids after they leave camp, showing them how to pull, and I'm like yeah, 38, you baby here it comes yeah, put me on the medesa dragons, I'm ready baby yeah I remember running a 30 trap as a pulling guard at the time against this.
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Speaker 2That was a good play, bro, oh man, and this motherfucker knew every time because he seen me come out of the huddle.
Speaker 3He so they were the scout team.
Speaker 2They were the scout team for us at the time and I'd get out of the huddle and he was like he could see my. I got this because he'd be like he'd be like.
Speaker 2I'd be like fuck, oh, and the problem wasn't my speed, I was fast, I can get off, I can pull the whole shit. I cannot get lower than this motherfucker. I would tell the coach I was like coach, I'm fucking six lower than this motherfucker. I would tell the coach, I'm fucking 6 foot 2. This motherfucker is 5 foot something. How am I going to get lower than him? You got to at this point.
Speaker 2I got to fucking roll over his ass why you bear crawling man they would get so pissed and I'd turn and he'd have a shit eating grin on his face because he knew the coaches are going to shit on him as soon as I do this. He'd blow me up. Oh man, but those days, man, it's those memories, those days is is that's the best and that goes with any sport, any fucking sport I played. I played uh cornhole, which is, you know the the fat man's fucking sport. You know I'm saying I back it up the whole way.
Speaker 2But the fun thing about uh cornhole is everybody can play. You know what I'm saying? I back it up the whole way. But the fun thing about uh cornhole is everybody can play. You know what I mean? Everybody can play. Uh, you have the guy playing professional who literally has no from from the elbow down, no hands on both sides, no legs, and he's throwing a fucking cornhole, professionally, I might add so that's why I love cornhole, right, but uh, I played, uh, uh, cornhole, and all those memories resonate with me all the fucking time.
Speaker 2And the same thing that you can you can be shitty one night and quit and not ever go back because, cornhole, you have to get the rhythm, you gotta get. You know what I mean the throw and everything. It still takes time and practice, just like anything else.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3That's a. I made a. I made a post about the barbell when I started these camps and it was like and I stand by it, man, the barbell is the epitome of equality. Like that, bar does not care.
Speaker 2Don't judge no way Like nothing.
Speaker 3And I put in there I was like if your turtle ran away? And I read it to my daughter, she said turtles don't run.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's the joke, babe. Yeah, like, let me have that. But and that's the thing like you just mentioned, like just because he couldn't do it today, if I miss a lift like I try not to miss lifts in prep, but just like lifting a meet okay, cool, I got six to eight months and I'm gonna come back. This can be my second attempt, yeah, and that's in life. Because I couldn't accomplish something today, okay, I'm gonna put my head down, get to work. We're gonna make this happen. Yeah, and that's just what I think sports in general do.
Speaker 3But there's some kids like they're not gonna be able to play sports. Athletic wise. Athletic wise yeah, it's a bar. It goes up and down and right now, like the, how big powerlifting is getting. You can get grant money for school, you can get club money. That's amazing. Kids overseas. So the USPA is where I compete in. This year they had one of their international meets in Greece and they have payouts. Um, there's a big meet that they have every year in Australia has a big payout, like 50, 60 K. It's called a big dogs and it's like it's a big meat, Um, so there's opportunity in there. So reality is like, if you're an adult that 50, 60 is going to help, but it's not a life right?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3Yeah, christmas is going to be cool this year. We're going to have steaks on New Year. After that we're broken. Yeah, but there's just so much opportunity in the sport that a lot of people are leaving on the table because they don't know about the sport.
Speaker 3It hasn't really been exposed. When I started powerlifting it was junior year of high school and after high school I didn't have a coach. I was blessed with some awesome coaches. They were meat sticks. One was an old wrestling coach out of iowa, coach leonard, and then the other was coach morales. Coach morales was built like me, just wide shoulders, wide hips, built like a calf yeah, like his calf muscles would go to a slaughterhouse. Yeah like I'm complete, like that's my dog. I still talk to him to this day like complete douche, right?
Speaker 2yeah, mo, and old english and a barbell bit on his calf and I was like bro, this is who I'm learning from yeah, like I know you know what you're talking about right, and coach leonard was just wiry, you could tell he's a wrestler.
Speaker 3You walk across the mat in the in the gym live, meet, yeah, yeah, we're gonna wrestle. I'm like I don't know how to wrestle.
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Speaker 3There's so many videos on youtube on how to do your jobs better than you can explain it to somebody, your ways to do your jobs?
Speaker 2yeah, so are you.
Speaker 1Are you more of a power lifter or are you more of a strong man kind of?
Speaker 3style man. So god cut me short. He gave me a good smile, but no height. Height and some of the stones are like 52 inches and they get pretty heavy. Yeah, I'm like I level with the top shelf bro yeah, you gotta go above shoulder, so we actually have a guy in the gym, justin, who's competing in Arizona the same day. I compete in Lubbock June, september 6th and it's to get into the professional league. He's probably 6'2".
Speaker 1He's a big dude, he goes to Miss City's too, right? He's been there, yeah, and he used to do Jiu-Jitsu, didn't he? I don't know, I think Mr Ray has had a.
Speaker 3I think that's CJ. You're thinking about CJ, that's CJ.
Speaker 1Yeah, I know CJ.
Speaker 3Justin's been with CJ, but Justin's just big. Okay, when I see him, I'm like God, you could have blessed me.
Speaker 2Yeah, I would have done good.
Speaker 3Okay, I got you. I look at my kids and Lonnie's.
Speaker 1My wife's grandpa was tall, he was 6'8", so I look at Lonnie and I'm like we're going to get there.
Speaker 3And I look at my son and I'm like McKinley's look pretty long buddy. So powerlifting is more of my game, but like strength and conditioning is like what I push, like coaching wise, and so I work. I really like working with kids because there's not a lot of direct coaching for kids. Yeah, in the area there's awesome programs Speed programs, speed agility. Don't come to me that I'll send you the game ready to mail and don't those boys know what they're doing? Yeah, and I've had parents hit me up like do you do speed training? Do I look like I do speed training?
Speaker 2like if you want to get strong come to me.
Speaker 3But I know a couple of junior high coaches here and I have a friend of coaches in.
Speaker 3San Antonio. So before I started this I messaged them like, hey, what are the biggest issues you have with kids coming into seventh grade? And it's nothing against junior high coaches. You get a room, 60, 70 kids yeah, it's Two or three you can work hands on with and then you get to high school, then you have kids who are already having injuries. So I'm like, all right, well, if I can eliminate half of that, then let's go ahead and do that. If I can give you five kids that can squat, bench and deadlift properly, that's five kids you're not going to have to watch, but there's also five kids that can help the other kids. Yeah, it'll not knocking any program.
Speaker 3But, I had great coaching staff that I was raised around. I don't know how they are at all schools, but they were old school lifters and you could tell I mean their necks were still thick, they were 60 years old, they were about that and they were really verbal about being mentally strong and they translated over and they knew how to lift, like coach mo and coach linda would lift in the mornings before practice or coach linda's out uh, coach mo's house. Coach mo had a full gym in his garage yeah, when I graduated, he let me go and I was
Speaker 3like this is. This is why you look like yeah. So that's my biggest thing is getting kids ready. And it surprised me of the issues that some of these coaches have that you would take for granted, like jumping off a box, yeah. How to respond. Some of these kids don't know how to do that and I was like man, this guy's crazy, he's just got a bad bunch of kids. So how my kids do jump box jumps, I I'm like he was right, yeah, like they want to land flat, they don't absorb. And I'm like, okay, we got to do something. Cause like, even for powerlifting on my powerlifters I push box jumps. Like I'm a big dude, I'm still doing 30 inch box jumps. It makes you explosive. If you can't do that initial drive, yeah, yeah it, you're gonna be slow.
Speaker 3Some people think it's crazy, my deadlift will jump as long as I'm doing my box jumps, because it's the same stance, it's the same explosive movement. It's a body jerking, um, so that's been that. And then like squat, getting in a squat position, yeah, and like kids are awkward, they're working into their bodies, um, they don't know their hinges. There's no mobility, like I talked about. And then like just little stuff, like being explosive, yeah, do you think like I'm doing the movement of a bar? Sorry, yeah.
Speaker 3You think like that is natural because you've done it so much. It's a pattern and I posted a thing Josh Bryant posted the other day about, and I think it was from a West Side quote, and it was like you have to go through the rut, like you have to go through the rut, like you have to keep doing patterns to understand patterns, like we started building pumps the first one, okay. Second one, I just did this it should have been easier.
Speaker 3When you get to 50, 60 pumps, this is knockout. Yeah, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1Westside is that one right Out of Ohio? Yeah, and they had documentary. He was speaking on Joe Rogan, right. Yeah. Yeah, they had a wild gym dude. They were blowing biceps out and all kinds of shit.
Speaker 3So they were all geared lifting. I don't have anything against geared lifters. This is not my thing.
Speaker 1What is that? What does a?
Speaker 3high school do in the t-shirt and the squad suit. Rumor is this is not a public service announcement, so the girls got raw powerlifting last year in high school. The boys rumor is they might be getting it this year, wow. So, that'll be something I'll be looking forward to bring to the gym. But in gear lifting, if you come down out of your bench shirt and you get out of your groove, it can shoot either way, and then it really puts those muscles in a strain.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3Like some guys, are benching 1,100 pounds in a shirt and you get them wrong.
Speaker 3They're like 450, which is a good bench, but if your muscle and your bone structure is only able to hold that raw, then you put a shirt on like there's gonna be a lot of room for error. Yeah, um, the wraps. You can use wraps and a raw division. It's a classic raw, but like the squat suit. I do like the squat suit idea because it really makes sure everything stays tight, but it just scares me of how much you can overload.
Speaker 3Oh, because like my big thing is like ligaments, muscles. I'm a working guy. Yeah, if I blow something out because I wanted to squat something for a hundred dollar, check bro Like yeah, yeah, that's wild For sure, I never thought of it like that.
Speaker 1I mean I know the shirts and stuff like that. My son did it one year, powerlifting, and I went to the tournament. It was pretty crazy, Like they really do your stance and all that stuff. But yeah, I didn't know you could.
Speaker 3I didn't think of it like that with the shoes and it scares me with like and I'm not knocking THSPA at all before somebody comes at me sideways it scares me that they have these kids in these suits and these wraps and then they have other high school kids spotting them.
Speaker 3That's hard on me Like so this week in the barbell class I'll be going over specifically spotting on a squat Okay. Like so many kids get hurt when they could have easily just had good spotters. Yeah. And like I'm big on side spots because I've seen people dump and somebody's trying to help them and they dump the weight and it falls. Yeah.
Speaker 1And then boom.
Speaker 3Damn the weight and it falls, yeah, and then boom, yeah. So like if you have a side spot and then someone in the back and you like mentally know, like I just gotta hold the weight, they're gonna help me, cool, and that's a big thing that the coaches I talked to told me, like these kids don't have a spot, and it's not, they don't know the spot for one, but the fear, like they, this kid can't, yeah, of course, why the heck I gotta do it, like, yeah, why don't we just all bail? So that's a big thing, but that's like my only things against gear lifting, especially in high school. But I understand, in high school too, it's a lot safer.
Speaker 1Quote unquote, because you're keeping them contained yeah, and it's pretty new here, like I think what 10 years?
Speaker 3maybe I was a junior, so 2011, like 14 years? Yeah, well, we were. They didn't have it so yeah, they didn't.
Speaker 1We graduated like oh seven. So it's like you know, I think that's a great program. I wish they'd have wrestling here. Honestly, too, that's mad I would love that.
Speaker 3I went to school in mccallan in seventh grade and they had wrestling.
Speaker 2Yeah, south texas, most south texas places they have wrestling Lubbock's huge Lubbock's big on it.
Speaker 1What was it?
Speaker 2They're the only ones around here, right, I know, maybe Abilene, maybe Abilene. I think Abilene had wrestling too.
Speaker 1Lubbock, for sure, my cousins were all wrestlers, dude. I seen him training them outside and he had the little. I was your protagonist.
Speaker 2I actually got me around though, do you know, get you a little fucking liar, he's sweating.
Speaker 3Yeah, I don't know what you're getting ready for, but we're ready. Yeah, yeah, cry mob playing in the back. Yeah, let's do it, baby, yeah, those are.
Speaker 2There's two things I wish we would have had. One is, and two is fucking smoking. Smoking meats, man. Yeah, you got to smoke. Did you see that? Smoking meats, bro. It's amazing.
Speaker 3That comes with so much money. 100%, bro, these club sports like y'all just didn't want us to get an education. Yeah, I know, that's what it was Y'all needed more hands in the field. You said, nah, keep them dumb.
Speaker 2Yeah, these motherfuckers build and shit a lot more uh barbecue joints around here, that's for sure. Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1But you know the million midland uh, meat market, or I think it's the middle of meat market, whatever.
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Speaker 2Anyway, they hit the top 50. Well, yeah, so they're like top 50 barbecue spots to eat. It's because they have a lunch, a lunch spot?
Speaker 1no, it's not I think it's a midland meat market.
Speaker 3Yeah, half acre, oh yeah, yeah yeah that's good, yeah they.
Speaker 1That's good up in there, yo, yeah they're top 50, so and they're quick.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I may or may not have had some units north of town. Yeah, I'm getting gas there's no kink quick near that place. I don't know why the GPS is showing me back there.
Speaker 1I like the beef ribs there, Pretty good man.
Speaker 2Yeah, they get down. So they had a nice little excerpt, and I don't remember the guy's name, right, I have to look deep into it to really tell the full story. But yeah, now he's a pit master. Now you know what I'm saying. You get in one of these fucking magazines for barbecue. You're a pit master.
Speaker 3Well, there's one in Iran that that got in the magazine. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what I was like.
Speaker 2All right, my food even goes there once you hit that magazine like it's a must go and so, yeah, that that spot's pretty tight, yeah. So now the kids are growing up doing it and I told like my nephew I was like you're fucking smoking.
Speaker 1You're smoking, son. I thought you meant Smoker's Alley. You know everybody smokes there. That was the only smoking we had.
Speaker 3I was like, bro, we got to leave that alone. Your parents told you about the vending machines too.
Speaker 2Shit man. That's the only smoking we had, boy, I tell you.
Speaker 1But yeah, that's wild man. You know one thing I want to say, james I appreciate you reaching out, because he reached out to me on the account and then we saw each other at church man and I was like dang, it's wild Because I seen him on there. And then we finally that next day we walked right by each other and I was like dang dude.
Speaker 3So I thought that was pretty wild I had reached out I hate to do y'all like this when y'all started and I was like what about some hard hash stickers? Oh yeah, I don't need them no more though, so don't worry about it.
Speaker 1I forgot about that dude. That was you right.
Speaker 2Yeah, we wanted to get something and we just kept pushing it, and pushing it, and pushing it.
Speaker 3It's so hard doing stuff like that because everybody says they can take care of it, and for me I try to stay local with everything, yeah, and then when it comes time, it's like, well, I'm just not going to respond.
Speaker 2It happens.
Speaker 3Yeah, it happens more than people think. Yeah. Then, uh, I guess I saw him like a month before church when they had y'all go up there and let me tell you, man, ricky, get out of there, he could find a hole in. Some traffic 80 minutes in front of him opens up the gap and he just boom right behind him and I was like dog, I'm never going to catch this guy.
Speaker 1Yeah, he told me that and I was like, yeah, we are in and out of there.
Speaker 3So, yeah, it all worked out. Man, it's just been one of those things that's kind of been unraveling. Y'all were my Monday mornings when I was in compression and I was like, man, I'm gonna message these guys, it's 9am, I don't have an episode.
Speaker 2Shit man. We get a lot of those messages Believe me.
Speaker 3We like make comments and I'm like I'm gonna let them live.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'll be like shit. Sorry guys, you know what I?
Speaker 3mean Like what?
Speaker 2are you? Going to expect you to say pulling out, yeah yeah, I always tell everybody, because at work my cousin, my cousin, alfonso, our cousin, we were talking about that. But yeah, alfonso, so him and my brother, were a really good friend.
Speaker 3Oh, yeah, yeah. So he was always around, uh, when I was a kid yeah, him and that whole gang. I don't know, if you knew any of them. But yeah, they were, it was so when I saw, when you you made a comment on one of them, I was like my cousin alfonso, and I was like okay you're like a south carolina. I was like, well, that's about the only alfonso there.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy shit. Man, it's a small world. There's a shit ton of francos out there just looking. You know, getting after it, you know I mean that's more tvs in the house that's how they do.
Speaker 2So we're all over the place and but yeah, man, that was, it's cool to find that out and everything. And we had previously seen each other at an event too. Yeah, and it's funny because right before I brought ricky and and soraya here to do it or whatever, they were like real skeptical skeptical when I was there. So it was real funny. When you came up and talked to me, we were in the middle of talking about it. He's like really Like, what's a podcast and what's this? And he had no idea. And yeah, when you came up and talked to me about it, I like you see what I'm saying. He's like, yeah, maybe we could get on that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3He's like he's over there fangirling, couldn't even tell I was like. I was like I listen to these guys more. I listen to you, you're like oh man, nah, yeah, we're starting to get that more and more now, like it's for crazy right like it is.
Speaker 1Like you know, he said it last time and then I didn't know this, but he actually went to lunch with my, my kid's godfather, and he was, and he was saying like I had to, it was just starstruck on you, man, he kept looking at him this guy's really sitting in front of me. It just touched me already, it's.
Speaker 2YouTube man, that shit like everybody. Everybody on YouTube is normal people, just everybody people, just so everybody knows they were just normal motherfuckers and we have cameras and shit. You know what I mean. But yeah, it's been wild and yeah, you've been one of the one of the day one-ers now they would call them yeah, big Fred.
Speaker 3Yeah, so Fred, I've known Fred. He was friends with my sister, fred and Mario were great influence on me as a kid. Jesus too, jesus man, those guys, yeah, we kicked it.
Speaker 1Fred and Mario were great influence on me as a kid. Yeah, mario, and Jesus too.
Speaker 2Jesus and little CRX. Yeah, those guys. Yeah, we kicked it with those guys. I forgot what. I think they called themselves the Crew or some shit. You remember that shit?
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah. So at that age I was probably 13. I thought it was so cool. Yeah, you know, I grew up on the east side. I knew how to talk trash and I'd always give Jesus and Fred a hard time when they'd show up shoulder to shoulder in that little car, but at low key. I was just jealous because I wanted it. When you're talking.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was the cool shit back then. You know what I'm saying. They were rolling around like fuck this motherfucker's got. And then James, who was a friend of theirs as well, he had a tiny little fucking black truck.
Speaker 1You remember? Oh yeah, james, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, man, With the fucking 15-inch speakers in that motherfucker, just blowing and blowing that motherfucker out. We used to always get into shit in that truck riding it back.
Speaker 1We'd ride three deep in that Four deep sometimes, bro. Yeah, it was tight, Crazy man.
Speaker 2Yeah, but yeah, all those guys we partied with them all the time and fucking just hung out. And Fred to this day I'll be hitting Fred up, so yeah, man, so y'all done tore some inches apart.
Speaker 1you know, fred, or?
Speaker 3what no? So before he got into compression, he was still working at Cat yeah, cat. He's like, do you like it? And I was like, well, I love, and I do love compression, but there's no time for family compression. I was doing 19 and 2. And like 11, 7 to 10, 11 days were nights. I'm watching my daughter play on my phone and I'm like this is not what I want to do, bro. I love compression, I love the thrill of it, I love being out there and the units are just blaring at you. You got people texting.
Speaker 2We need this back off now.
Speaker 3Like, yeah, we're losing money and like that, I love that. So I worked on generators, on rigs for a while. Yeah, and I love the rush. It's a fucking rush, like the company man walking back and forth. Yeah, he's smoking cigarettes.
Speaker 2You can't, he can't, he's blowing yeah, company men are fucking wild man. In the early days when we were over there, we'd have salesmen and shit coming in and they'd be like, fuck, these fucking pun got to go out like in two hours. I said, motherfucker, how do you want me to build a whole fucking unit in two hours? But they'd come out here, man, I'll fucking help. These were different days. Salesmen don't do this shit anymore, right, but these guys would be fucking, I mean shaking and shit like in their boots because they don't want to talk to the fucking company man that you know. They just say, yeah, we can do it. And then they fucking call you and they're like, hey, man, can you build a pump in two hours? I'm like I mean, fuck, what kind of what are we talking here? This is what size boot I wear oh, shit, yeah, but but you know it's, it's.
Speaker 2It's so crazy, man, how things have evolved and how we evolve as people like right now. I couldn't imagine doing the shit that I did 10 years ago, because, yeah, it's just a different world we're living, living in with our kids and our families, our parents are getting older and shit, so that's just the way it is yeah, so um, he went to depression and I was like he's, like you, already left.
Speaker 3I was like bro, I just. There's no time for the family I can't do it. I loved it you get a unit back online feels like a top Gun scene when you're walking away.
Speaker 2Rock music playing in the back. Got your head down tied up. You got no hair yeah.
Speaker 3Throw my meter in the truck. Yeah, yeah it's cool, but it's an awesome life and it's a thrill. But yeah. I just I needed time with family. And then getting into the gym and everything started evolving. I was like, all right, well, this is what God wanted me.
Speaker 2These doors were shutting, and these were opening, you start finding a passion, like at one point, work is your passion, right? Yeah, and it's 100% true. But then you get into something like I get into something like this, and you start to find a different passion and you're like, yeah, I could take some fucking days off, I went years without fucking taking a vacation, a sick day, nothing, because I was like for what?
Speaker 2This is what I do, you know what I mean. But then you get a girlfriend and you get a wife, and Fred knows now you know he got a little girl. So for sure, you know he trying to spend as much time as he can with her and my pops is a lot like yours how you described them.
Speaker 3Like I work side by side with my dad and it's like seven days a week he'll do it and I'm like, bro, go home. But that's just the mindset. And if you were raised around that mindset, like subconsciously, you got that like my first time I had a job where I could use sick days, I felt guilty, me too, and I was 100%. I was turning my phone off. I was like my dad's gonna find out. I took a day off oh yeah, oh 100.
Speaker 2My pops would be like the fuck are you doing here? He'd come home for whatever fucking reason. What the fuck are you doing here? If he would catch me at home. I'm fucking off. Today there wasn't a worker this, and when I was. What are you talking about it?
Speaker 3was like 20 21, I worked at total nutrition year and I'd get days off during the week. I lived with my grandpa at the time, so I'd still get up at six and I'd go to my theater's house and I'd sleep all day. Yeah, cause the first time I did it he was over there hitting the door with his wheelchair. Yeah, you ain't gonna work, uh, uh, I'm late, yeah, yeah. So yeah, that attitude sticks, sticks with you and it's been a blessing. I mean, it all goes back to like I've always known how to get up and work. Yeah, I've never taken no for an answer.
Speaker 3That might've been bad at some points, but it's got me to where I'm at.
Speaker 2But as long as you've learned that trait, you ain't never going to go home, oh yeah.
Speaker 3You'll never go home. And he was like talking about like fathers loving you and it's like he's like you didn't know at the time, like that's what they were doing. Yeah, you couldn't have been soft on a kid like me. I still had my flaws and my dad was hard. Yeah, but like you would have gave me some running room. Boy, you can't leave that corral open. I'm running, yeah.
Speaker 2Especially out here too, because all, we, really all you had to do was shit to get in trouble for it.
Speaker 1That's what the fuck we did when we were younger.
Speaker 2Like man, just fucking, let's go find a place to get fucked up. Or fights here, fights there, Like that's the shit that was happening on the weekends, so-and-so, yeah, we hit the main event. We got two of these two motherfuckers.
Speaker 3Back there Building up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, that's what it was. Walking funny, doesn't want to mess up the crease?
Speaker 2yeah, man, and then, they got the, the new air forces. You had to beat the fucking crease protectors and that bitch and then take those bitches off and tie up some different shoes if you're gonna fight. Yeah, shit, man, no, that that's the shit we did when we were young. I guess it galvanizes to a certain extent, right?
Speaker 3so that's why the hard work. I'm hoping there's a purpose behind it.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah we learned some fucking lessons on the way some people, some people don't, but, uh, thankfully, the ones that the ones, the ones of us that did learn those lessons. I don't see a motherfucker that didn't learn to work hard. That isn't thriving to a certain extent, you know.
Speaker 3I'm saying you have to really uh, go off the path and I think it puts a stubbornness in you of like yeah okay. So I got my ass beat this month, yeah, but I'm still here, I have a chance to win next month and uh, that, can you know that can be counterproductive at times, because sometimes it's going to take you a little bit of time to be like maybe I should step back, reevaluate the path I'm doing and then go forward. So that's been the learning process and the coaching too.
Speaker 2The coaching, the stuff that you get from coaches, and now that you're doing it same thing that we got from football coaches and all that, just like Evan said, you go to work, there's going to be somebody there talking shit. So there's going to be somebody, hey, you're doing this, you're doing that, and if you're not responsive, you're not going to do well in the workplace. And we learned to be responsive early. When I was in fucking GMFL, I learned, hey, there's somebody leading. That's the person. Even if you might not fucking agree, but you sure shit ain't enough, you talk shit back. You know what I'm saying? You talk back. That's starting with your pops, and then the coaches, all the father figures.
Speaker 3So yeah, man, I think that's the biggest blessing about sports and, like I was blessed with great coaches that I'm still close with Not all of them we had relationships like that but just that really pushed me as a male. Like my dad was very, like, very around, like he was very in my life but he was working.
Speaker 3So when he wasn't working, at least those coaches were there to guide me and that's been a big impact on my life and that's kind of. As I started coaching these kids, I started realizing like the parallels and I'm like man, it's crazy how life repeats itself in different ways. And so I started worrying about the kids. I start holding the kids to a standard and it's like okay. And I go home and I'm like am I doing? Like, am I not doing enough? Am I doing too much? And when I started the second session, I didn't even want to start it and we get in the car, the truck after the last day and my daughter looks at me and she's she's like you got to do it. I was like do what. She's like we got to do another session. I was like why? She's like those kids need you. When you say it like that, that means you understand what it's doing for you. Yeah, and she's like they need you. She's like and you probably need them, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3We'll talk about this when we get home. You're 11.
Speaker 2Teaching you're 11 teaching you and shit, and that's what kids are for man.
Speaker 3Kids keep you humble 100 like so. And the coaching has done a lot for me too. I think more of like on seeing the process, but understanding, like you can't impact somebody's life and that's been the biggest thing I've taken from the coaching, like coaching Connor. Connor comes in great mood. If he struggles, he can come talk to me. We can talk in this tone, no hooping and hollering. But understand, if I see you messing around, my pitch is going to change, for sure, and we're going to tighten up. And then Matthias, the other kid he got the one. Connor was helping. Two weeks ago we ran Because it was a week after rain. I said we're gonna run today. I ain't been able to run y'all in a week, yeah, and you know he drank a little too much water too fast. We know what happens. So he looking at me holding on to the trash can and I said you okay.
Speaker 3He said yeah. I said you know, when you started you couldn't have done this. He said I wouldn't have tried and I said, like we're getting that from this and like you're saying that's gonna translate over, you're gonna have days where you dog tired at work or sick, but you're gonna have to try. Yeah, you're gonna have to show up, for sure, you're gonna have to get through it. So that's been like the biggest thing I'm seeing, like correlation wise, that it does process over. Yeah, it's not just in the gym, in sports, but in life, yeah. And so if we can make impacts on kids just with small gestures like that and let's push through it, we make a big impact in our community yeah and like everything we do.
Speaker 3like I don't make money off of this. Yeah, that's not what I'm in it for. Right, I want to give back to the community. I want to give back to the kids because I was blessed with coaches. The GMFL coaches didn't make no money.
Speaker 3Yeah, I know I was talking to one of my old teammates about the other day. I was like bro, every Thursday we'd run from Goddard to my coach's house. It lived like half a mile mile down the road. They'd feed us and we'd watch film. I was like you think, today day I said I wouldn't let so when we go to softball tournaments, my daughter's like can my friends come to max? Yeah, I don't want 12 stinky kids and you let alone 20 stinky kids in the house, shoulder pads outside, cleats off, just been feeding them. And I think about like the blessing it was for the hospitality they gave us and how much it stuck with us. Like those gestures really put in, like engrave something in our heads. That and I think that's pushed me to be where I'm at, because I remember like that was a time when my parents were splitting up and it was like I needed people the most and I had that. And so like I get kids in the camp that are going through stuff.
Speaker 1You have that.
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Speaker 3Yeah. So when school starts, I'll be doing camps every other weekend, nice, and just so they can come in, let me hear about your school, let's get a workout in, but let me give you somewhere to be emotional without being emotional. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's a big thing, especially for boys. A good outlet, yeah, yeah. And so with the Barbell Club, the Barbell Club is special to me, man, it's going to stand out. Barbell, make some cool T-shirts, if you make the acronym, and we're going to be checking grades so whichever families can pay, pay cool.
Speaker 3I check grades every three weeks. Everything's taken care of If you can pay cool. The sponsors take care of the rest. But before each major holiday we're going to go out and volunteer Because I need you to know. This can be anybody.
Speaker 2Pay it forward.
Speaker 3Yeah, and I need you to give back, I need you to see this stuff, and it's not like to push it in your face, but nobody's better than anybody. So if we can do that, we can coach, give the kids somewhere to be and then compete.
Speaker 2Some of these kids can't play travel sports. Travel sports are crazy. Travel sports is yeah, it's wild, it's insane, nowadays even ricky, like with dance. Yeah, oh, you're like, you're crazy, but like I can only imagine.
Speaker 1I don't know how I do it either, bro, but uh, yeah, they, they do that. But you know like, uh, softball is one thing too, like my buddy romeo, his daughters, they've been. They traveled all the time. It was like every weekend yes, I'm once a month or something, you know, but it's wow I think the most.
Speaker 3It does like three weekends in a row and we get home and I'm like can we like no, yeah, and then uh, I guess in the year she's like what if I do volleyball and softball?
Speaker 3I was like no one or the other, and she's like, but I mean I said, go talk to your mama about her time, cause my wife has MTX. Though she bakes every weekend. I said Friday we're baking till one o'clock in the morning and then you want to, you want to throw a tournament on top of that. Like, let your mama breathe, breathe. Yeah, I'm gonna hear it. Yeah, so it's great in football, like those guys are traveling to dallas when we can hear the next, yeah. But if you don't do that and you get to seventh grade, your kids aren't up to speed a hundred percent. It's rough, they're getting beat out. Yeah, these kids have game knowledge, they have speed, they have understanding and they get to seventh grade. For the kid who might be a better athlete genetically, but he's behind on that, yeah hasn't had enough competition.
Speaker 2Yeah, and a range of competition.
Speaker 3We were in school as gmfl and, like some of those kids in gmfl, didn't get the game knowledge. So you get to seventh grade and it's a kid who couldn't afford anything. He's beating you out, yeah. Yeah, he's hungry. Yeah, you've been playing on the team that had no competition. Yeah, now you get that. It's still. That's a harder race. You're three years behind, yeah, so, um, that's kind of the big thing with the club, like at least you'd be strong.
Speaker 2It's changed, yeah it's changed the way that we, that we do sports around here, for sure like is nothing like what we used to experience.
Speaker 3It's crazy shit. It's almost like if I was a kid I'd be intimidated. 100 like oh, they play for that team.
Speaker 2That team played in orlando, like so yeah but it's funny because now, like most of the time it's their friends and that they have that put, pull them into this stuff. So like I see a lot that man, I have to I have to get into this stuff. So like I see a lot that man, I have to, I have to get into this shit and do it. And because my friends are in there or whatever, and it puts a lot of pressure on people and it puts a lot of pressure on families. You know it's, it's tough.
Speaker 3It's tough, there's gotta be a happy median Cause.
Speaker 1It was a point where um I wouldn't say soft was taking over but it was close and I was like we still have to have our happy medium for the household.
Speaker 3Yeah, because you start to see families and it's like y'all don't even like each other.
Speaker 1No, yeah that's what they live. Yeah, right, yeah, y'all have dinner like, yeah, no, yeah, I get it. Man, you know, before we started really going into church, it was like there's always arguments over, because I was just like, damn you, dude, like we got to pay for this again, what More costumes, what Another hotel bill, like you know. But it's just kind of. Now it's like I don't know, we kind of worked it out a lot better.
Speaker 3It's crazy how like going to church is crazy how to think. Like those pressures. They're there but there's a sense of peace about it.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah, okay you want me go through this storm, big dog, let's go there. Like, let's make it happen. Like my past two years have been wild and storm, yeah, and my wife would be like, how do you like this? I was like God chose this before I got here. Like if I I'm going to be stuck in the desert for 40 years arguing We've heard that story. I'm just going to walk the path you need me to walk and I'm going to go.
Speaker 3And it's hard because it's like I would talk about God. Like a lot of people forget he is your father and it's a father figure. Like I'm going to just shut up and listen. Like you're not going to put me through nothing you didn't have designed to get me through and so that's been the biggest part of all of this. Like going to these camps, like I'm putting money into it that we really don't have, and it's not crazy money, but it's like I'm putting time into it and that's a lot that people don't realize. I mean, I might have, you know, 30, 60 hours a month and that's cool with me, but it's like what are we doing? And I keep following and stuff keeps unraveling. I get a blessing from a kid like, hey, I'm doing this, this and this Cool.
Speaker 3And it's crazy how God really opens your eyes when you follow 100% Because you try to swim against some waves dog. You're going to be tired before you get anywhere.
Speaker 2Yeah, and that's just been the biggest blessing of all. You just got to see it and accept it. Yeah, see it and accept it, and that's the hardest part about accepting.
Speaker 3Yeah. People are so stuck on trying to get an understanding about life.
Speaker 1Just accept it and go, yeah because they'll accept it, but then still try to control it, and that's like.
Speaker 2That's where you gotta like really find that middle piece, bro, like just relinquish, relinquish control, and it'll be a lot easier on was like, give it you want, he wants it all.
Speaker 1You just give it to him. That's what it is, man, but yeah, that's what. That's. One thing that helped us out a lot was that like and I, that's one thing me and asus always try to do, at least on this like we try to sneak in parts of, uh, like that, you know, religiously, spiritually, like just to, if anything we get out of this, that somebody turns to god because of us and I love that.
Speaker 3You know I'm saying like I always when I was playing these conversations in my head for 27 hours yeah, um like and I really want to like applaud you guys on how much you talk about god, but how much you like, how much grace and like thanks y'all give to your wives, because a lot of people like, ah, that's just my wife. Like no, y'all, y'all put y'all on a pedestal and it's beautiful, like we have to. It's awesome to see. Like you know, I always listen to shia labeouf.
Speaker 3Uh, like, anything he talks about, he's always like it's sexy, like it's sexy, like it is because, like, a lot of people don't like see him as a like a counterpart, a partner, and y'all applaud your wife's like, y'all give them credit for, especially, you're like, oh, she's got the babies, but she's letting me be here, and that means the world and it means the world for them to hear. And then y'all go back to religion. It's like you can see where your cores are and that's beautiful to see, especially like you, a dude driving to work having a bad day. You might have fought your old lady on the way out. You know what? Baby, baby, I'm sorry. Yeah, like I love you. I appreciate you taking care of the house while I'm out here doing this. Yep, I know I ain't having fun, but you probably ain't having no fun either, like 100%.
Speaker 3Yeah so and that's the beauty, and I think that's one of the things I've enjoyed most about listening to y'all always going to applaud your wife, and you always give grace to god and be thankful for where you're at, yeah, and that's just something you don't hear oh for sure, and I'm a firm believer in that.
Speaker 1I think everything that's came at us is because god put it there for us. Man, I mean it's just for sure. Wow, every week is you know like with you, like I mean, yeah, we talked about it, but it was just you know people say the stars align and when, when we're supposed to have someone, it's perfect timing.
Speaker 2It's not us. It's not like we're somehow figuring that out. It's served to us. We just accept it when it gets to us.
Speaker 3This is probably my first free Sunday afternoon since you messaged me the first time about getting me on. And then you messaged me yesterday and I was like man, I got to go to Abilene in the morning. I texted my cousin. He's like you do this early and he's like, yeah, why would I want to wait? And I was asking yeah so when I was, I was like coming back and I was like, bro, this is happening like getting the nervous jitters, I was real nervous at the beginning of the podcast.
Speaker 2Couldn't breathe it sounded like a pug. Nerves are good man.
Speaker 3I didn't want to like not bring stuff to the table that I like need, so like with the event with the coaching and there's like a lot of pressure because it's made up pressure right, yeah, just making sure that it's exposed to its full potential, yeah, so, and that being said, I think we've done a great job of like bringing up the cores that I wanted to get out of coaching and we've given grace where it needs and it's just it was, yeah, it's. It's pretty nerve wracking, I imagine after the third time you're like all right, another conversation.
Speaker 3But like even when I do my shorts, bro, oh man, I have to have my daughter at the back corner bro because she'll be like bro, just do it already. Yeah, I'm like you. You think this 30 second video is easy?
Speaker 1it is tough. It's tough. I'll tell you what this guy's a pro, but for me, I've been all standing in front of the tv doing 100 of them and they still won't like it, dude and, honestly, like the stuff, the stuff that I put out or whatever, I still don't like I can't sit and watch my.
Speaker 2I'll watch real quick. All right, cool, I'll send it around. Just take it off, because I put pressure on myself and I'm that's what I'm trying not to do is like, don't put pressure on yourself, just spit it out in the best way you can and, uh, it's cool, it'll work, it'll work my cousin let ricky do his thing.
Speaker 3You know he helped me with the first one and he was like young guy, put it all on one clip. He's like you can make sections and I was like what that's an option. And then I started doing them. He's like young guy, do 70 of the same clip.
Speaker 2And I was like why.
Speaker 3They all sound the same. Yeah, man.
Speaker 2Rick puts pressure on himself when it comes to it. I like being around when Ricky's doing it and vice versa, I like him around when I'm doing it, because we give each other the positive. Hey, no, that was good. That was good, bro, just do this real quick and then he'll do it or I'll do it. Yeah, that's good. We'll shut it down there, because if I leave this mother lover here by himself, he gonna be here two, three hours.
Speaker 2He's going to be just over and over and I can look in the phone and he's got 60 fucking takes.
Speaker 1I'll make it to where it's like I can't record video memory full and I'm like no, it's a lot, man, people don't realize it with the content putting it out, the work that goes into it, and then what you're visualizing. Every time we do a thumbnail and I'm like I used to stress out about it, I'd be like, but now I'm just like, all right, boom, real quick.
Speaker 3All right, we're done now, wow, this is wild. Speaking of thumbnails, I was looking at one of the videos I did for Last Rep rep and it looks like I'm having a stroke in the thumbnail.
Speaker 1Those are the best ones.
Speaker 2Those are the best ones, bro.
Speaker 3I guess it was Friday or Thursday that Jim reposted it and I'm looking at the story and I'm like dog.
Speaker 2I'm telling you, when there's a choice, I know Ricky at this point when he puts all his stuff out, whatever. I know that somewhere in the episode, like I, looked fucked up and I know that that fucking picture is going to be on the floor Like I know, because it just brings attention.
Speaker 2It just brings it flares it up, or whatever. You know what I mean. So I already know I'm like, yeah, let's see what picture you know ricky dug up this time and I look like a fucking. It's just you know. I mean we just hit those all the time, but but he's right, though, you know.
Speaker 1You know what's so funny is that you know you're talking about the thumbnail, right, who you know who's got the worst is michael booker dude like, because I can't edit his on tiktok let me edit it so like because I already have fixed it. So he's like just like looking crazy and I'm like, yeah, it feels so bad because he got, like the most views on that one he did that.
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Speaker 2That one killed it. That's what I'm saying. Like it's funny, like you think it's so imperfect and you think perfect is gonna do better. It doesn't. It doesn't. Imperfection is king in this shit, like it really is, and and so it's. It's best just to be lighthearted and have fun with it, and I think you're finding that out little by little and it took me like the initials videos I would take.
Speaker 3I'd be like I'm gonna take the video and then I'm gonna live. So I'd get to gym, I'd scoop my pre and then father's day video. I like get home and I'm yelling and I was like bro, you was so amped so I don't do caffeine. Uh, I had three cold brews before I got here today, so that might have had some role playing. That yeah, I just felt the hulk hogan yell coming out of me and I'm like rip, by the way.
Speaker 3Yeah, so it's like I have to like, especially with my cousin like helping me with videos.
Speaker 1He's like stop yelling, talk slow.
Speaker 2I'm like sorry, I got excited, I had that I had that issue even here with these mics, because we had a couple episodes where I had to ask rick, like man, something sounds different when I'm fucking flaring up and shit, and and that's what it was. I was changing my, my tone so many times that the fucking mic was like going in and out. So so I had to learn to to keep even though I'm passionate about it or whatever just keep it, even even tone. You know what I mean. So, yeah, it's, it's all. It's all a learning process, man. But we see the love you have for it, man, and on on the patch boy side, we're going to be there with you.
Speaker 2Else, that we have, man, uh, you know, god brings all of us together for a reason. Like we say. So, uh, we're gonna put out everything that. Uh, you know james is gonna be putting out, so if he's got an event coming up, you know the patch boys will be pushing it out and you guys can go straight to his page from there, rick. So, yeah, man, we can't say it enough, man, god put this together for us today, 100%. So you know, all the thanks to him, man. And you know, like we do with a lot of people, and you mentioned your wife. You want to give her a little message and tell her thank you you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2Be, my guest brother.
Speaker 3Yeah. So that was like my favorite part and I was like I got to do it. And she's like are you gonna mention me? Yeah, I appreciate you doing everything you do and pushing me to be where I'm at with last rep. Thank you for being by my side and making sure that I keep following the way I am working with these kids they really do help you, dude.
Speaker 3I wouldn't have done this because I was like they're not gonna get anything from me, they're not gonna like me. And the first day I called her I was like they're not going to like me. And the first day I called her I was like it was great, I was like they responded.
Speaker 2They listened.
Speaker 3So that's been a blessing, and even how my kid like backing me up and like she gets me straight and she's like tone it down.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, it's Monday morning.
Speaker 1Yeah, my bad. All you got to do is tell the truth. That's it.
Speaker 3You're the only one that took pre-workout. Here I'm taking pre-workout to coach. I don't know why my face is here.
Speaker 2That's awesome though. Yeah, man Appreciate you.
Speaker 1Thank you so much. I appreciate this man. Thank you so much, brother. Yeah, we're going to. You got all kinds of stuff in here bro.
Speaker 3Yeah, man though yes, we got this. Oh gee low. And then, uh, she makes maranitos too, so that's one of the sponsors for the event. Is sunshades awesome?
Speaker 2yeah, abilene, san angelo, austin dfw yeah, we'll give her some for sure amazing.
Speaker 3I have a bunch of uh. Thank you a bunch of stuff coming to the event, so the sponsors will be there awesome so on the back of those is storing information y'all have big enough families and ain't gonna last like that yeah yeah this is really nice.
Speaker 1So this is um mtx dough.
Speaker 3Yes sir mtx dose on all social medias really yeah, okay, we're big she. I keep saying we're we. Uh, she's big on, she's doing markets every single weekend, and if she's not doing markets, she does pickups.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3And if you have a special request, she does those too For anybody watching her macro. She has a whole sugar-free line as well.
Speaker 1Dang dude, Thank you. My family's going to love this.
Speaker 3So, MTXO, where are y'all at on the weekends? We're usually at the Farmer's Market in Midland. Okay, where are y'all at on the weekends? We're usually at the Farmer's Market in Midland. Next, we're going to be here at the event August 9th. She doesn't know it yet, but she's going to be there. We'll probably have small stuff.
Speaker 1Well, my son, we have a lot going on that day we're going to need all hands on deck man for sure. Well, tag us, man.
Speaker 2For sure.
Speaker 1Thank you too, that well, I mean tag us man with sure and thank you to uh, you know that's your wife, right, that owns this.
Speaker 3yes, so thank you for the thank you very much. You know this is. It was really nice bro man, not a problem, and I just appreciate you guys having me out of like bro I need, I'd push on this it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 1And before we go, you are looking for sponsors. Yeah, I'm looking for a couple uh sponsors.
Speaker 3We'll take as many sponsors as we can, as right now I have about five good sponsors. You can message me on either one of my socials. Last rep sc on instagram, it's gonna be the easiest one to get a hold of me. At vendors I have four vendor spots left, so the sponsors. All the money goes back to the kids. We're buying a set amount of backpacks and supplies. Yeah, the rest of the money is gonna go to a non-profit who feeds some kids. Um, in a food truck by the Boys and Girls Club. They feed the kids during the summer and then they feed the kids on the weekend. Wow.
Speaker 2So the kids are in need.
Speaker 3They want to buy an abundance of supplies and then have to donate to a school, and it's not that I'm against that, but I want to be feet on the ground. I want to be helping the kids. So, with the supplies that we are buying, they are going to be for kids that we know, and if anybody has kids that they know need supplies, get with me on their social media and then we'll get them taken care of.
Speaker 3backpacks, normal stuff and but the majority of the money's gonna go back to the non-profit okay, that's just where I want to be man. I like I've seen the kids that go to him and it's like thank you, god, for that's amazing as someone who went to the Boys and Girls Club growing up.
Speaker 2Man, that's amazing.
Speaker 3It's like that neighborhood and you see them and it's like man. Thank you God for putting me in a position to see this so we can make a change. I have some vendors set up. Buff Baker out of Lubbock should be selling cookies. I have somebody who's supposed to be selling beef jerky Word on the block. So my logo was designed by Marty. Two Trill via Franco at a G Street barbershop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, word on the block. He might be doing a couple haircuts there on that Saturday too, as a warm-up before he goes to the church. Nice, nice. And then T-Bro took care of the last rep stuff. So I've been blessed with, like, the people in the city, in the community, who want to be a part of this and they're doing the groundwork. And T-Bro and Marty did a quick turnaround on both designs Awesome. So Marty reached out. He's like man. What about I set up and give haircuts?
Speaker 3And I was like well, you did your part already, brother, but do whatever you want to do, so that's going to be. The biggest thing is we just want to give back. We want to expose the sports. I have gyms from Lubbock, carlsbad, hobbs, el Paso, amarillo and possibly Abilene coming down to compete.
Speaker 2Wow, that's a hell of a lineup. Yeah Dang dude.
Speaker 3So we're just trying to get it all going. I have Triple G Snow Cone who's going to be set up. They're going to give a portion of the profits they make that day back to the gym to give to the nonprofit. I'm trying to get some more cars and bikes out.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3So that's been the hardest part is getting logistics. Everybody wants to help, but it's just kind of hard to get everybody lined up at the same time. So anybody club-wise, you got any kind of cars, vehicles, motorcycles. Reach out to me. I want to bring that for the kids to see too, and I have photographers. I'm going to have West Texas Images, which is Roy, and then I have Edward Guyon with Asylum. He's going to be there taking pictures of the event as well too.
Speaker 3Both of them have donated their services for the day. So we're going to have a cool event. Man, it's going to be a great turnaround. Expose the city to strength sports. Bring some kids in see what we're doing. Yeah, give back to the community.
Speaker 3Um, there's just way too much money and y'all have talked about that a lot and there is way too much money in this community for anybody to be going without 100. Like it's not about handouts, it's about taking care of kids who can't take care of themselves, taking care of our own, and that's the biggest thing. Like I can't, I have to help people. If I can't, yeah, and that's the biggest thing. Like I can't, I have to help people if I can't, yeah, and that's just how I was raised. I mean, that's how my grandpa raised everybody in that neighborhood and it's like it's in my blood. So that's been the biggest thing. But if you want to be a vendor, get with me on Instagram and then any sponsors get with me. Sponsors, if we lock in by Tuesday, we'll have you on the T-shirt, but if we lock in after that, I'll just have you on the last flyer.
Speaker 2I got to get these T-shirts rolling, bro. I'm like 14 days out For sure. Nah, it's going to be amazing and hopefully, if the Patch Boys can make it, either both or one of us we'll see you guys out there.
Speaker 3What day is it? August 9th? I will have another flyer released tonight with the new logo that Marty drew up for us.
Speaker 3So we will get everything rolling and then, hopefully Wednesday evening, I will have the sponsors already locked in on the new flyer. The t-shirts are going to be like car meet shirts we're going to have the artisan on the front and on the back is going to be all the sponsors. So as of now, we have JP Truck in out of Midland, panther Truck in out of Midland. I have Sunshades, I have sunshades, I have a Sisu spine and strength. It's a chiropractor. I'm always posting. Okay, great guy, that's Dr Sebastian Garza. He is strength, sport oriented, he is. He's competing strong man. He's done CrossFit.
Speaker 2Tower lifting.
Speaker 3So he's not going to like be a guy who's like just don't do it. Yeah, he's going to work you through it so you can compete in the safest way you can again For your body. And he is a smaller frame guy but he can work on big dudes. He works on the strongman at the gym and they're like 400 pounds.
Speaker 2So if you need a, chiropractor.
Speaker 3That's. That's my recommendation. There's a lot of them. Be like just don't do it and you won't have this issue.
Speaker 1Nice, like Sebastian's going to work you the way you can get to it, and this is at the powerhouse right, yes, okay, this will be all at the powerhouse gym.
Speaker 3It's on Andrews Highway. It's catty corner to Miss Casey's. It's right there by Casey's. Okay, yeah, so we're hoping to have that whole backside of the ace parking lot.
Speaker 2That's a pretty good spot right there.
Speaker 3That's a pretty big thing going there it kind of unraveled really quickly and I was like I'm going to get like 10 backpacks away. Yeah, see you later. And then I brought up the event to the gym in Lubbock. They're like we'll bring some people. And then I messaged Mayo after I messaged the guys in Lubbock at Outlaw and Mayo's like I think we can make it. He he's like, yeah, come to our event next. I was like fair try.
Speaker 3Fair try. And then I reached out to Carlsbad last week. He's like my daughter's been training for Strongman events. He's like it'll be awesome to get her to watch her do them. I was like, okay, cool. So. And then Miss Melody with the flag football team, the who Dads she stopped by the other day when she saw me doing it. She's like I think I'm having my girls compete with you. She's like for the event. I was like, well, let's do it. Like I just want kids to see it. Yeah, that's, that's big to see. Like you don't gotta be the best, just have some fun. Man, that's awesome man awesome.
Speaker 2That's what it's all about. So, yeah, hopefully it's nothing but success at this event and one of many in the future.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, we'll have another one beginning of end of summer right there, beginning of fall, we'll do another one and that way we can bring some coats and shoes to the city. We're just going to keep giving back.
Speaker 1We got to make it. We got to make it dense somehow.
Speaker 3We're going to nickel and dime life the whole way, baby.
Speaker 2We got to dive every day. That's what it takes.
Speaker 3I'll take a yard and a half as long as I'm closer to the flag. So that's what we're going to keep doing.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, you know we're going to push it all out. Hopefully we'll get a little further reach and help you guys out as much as we can. Man.
Speaker 3Yeah, and if it's not this one, it's not a complete, and we're going to have everything on the descriptions, links, all that stuff.
Speaker 2So you know, you could probably start pushing out this week.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm going to put out a real get you going on this week so you can have stuff going on. So we'll get with you for it, but I appreciate you coming on, man. Thank you for having me. It was a blessing man, yeah it was a blessing for sure, man.
Speaker 2Thank you for the gifts, not hope. There's hope that, as good as this conversation was, we get a lot of listeners listening to this, because it was a good conversation, man, and we're blessed to have had it.
Speaker 1Man, yeah yeah, appreciate you guys.
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