1
00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:04,400
Speaker 1: This is the EDS with Eddie Judge and Edwin Ado Yave.

2
00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,799
Speaker 2: All right, guys, welcome back to the ED podcast. I'm

3
00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:13,800
Speaker 2: Eddie Judge. I got my co host here. Welcome back, brother.

4
00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:16,960
Speaker 1: It's good to see you so a while.

5
00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:20,520
Speaker 2: Happy new year, man, Can you believe this is a

6
00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,320
Speaker 2: whole new year. It's been a new a whole twelve

7
00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,040
Speaker 2: month since you know, we've we've you know, been doing

8
00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,000
Speaker 2: this all right, I know longer than that, but.

9
00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,879
Speaker 1: That blew by. Yeah, I still can't believe it. And look,

10
00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:34,960
Speaker 1: January is almost done.

11
00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, let me let me correct myself what

12
00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,360
Speaker 2: I was trying to say. It's been a year since

13
00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,880
Speaker 2: you and I have actually just caught up with each other,

14
00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,239
Speaker 2: and you know, I want to know what's going on

15
00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,960
Speaker 2: in your life. Want to know how your twenty twenty

16
00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,680
Speaker 2: five was. Talk about my twenty twenty five, and we'll

17
00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,880
Speaker 2: talk about you know, any gold or aspirations you might

18
00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,640
Speaker 2: have for twenty twenty six. And I just give our

19
00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,400
Speaker 2: listeners an update of what's going on with.

20
00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,800
Speaker 1: The sound good, sounds good, Let's do it awesome.

21
00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,000
Speaker 2: Well, let's start with how was your twenty twenty five?

22
00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,000
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember a lot of shit going on

23
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,560
Speaker 2: in your life, but I didn't kill us.

24
00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:18,600
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'll start with the holidays. You know.

25
00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:20,880
Speaker 1: The holidays was, they were good. We ended up on

26
00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,160
Speaker 1: a strong note. You know, it's not always how you

27
00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,600
Speaker 1: start the year, it's how you ended. And I felt

28
00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,440
Speaker 1: like this year we had a great ending. Did a

29
00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,400
Speaker 1: lot of shopping this year. You know, the kids have

30
00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,440
Speaker 1: been great, and I wanted to make sure that they

31
00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,920
Speaker 1: just had a great, great Christmas, especially with everything that

32
00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,440
Speaker 1: they've gone through. So I basically got them whatever they wanted,

33
00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,039
Speaker 1: you know, and I got lucky. Well, one of my

34
00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,120
Speaker 1: kids asked for the world, if you got the world,

35
00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:52,080
Speaker 1: you know. My other kids didn't ask for so much,

36
00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,840
Speaker 1: and it was funny because I told them, I'm like,

37
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,120
Speaker 1: you know what, this is why you have to ask,

38
00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:58,600
Speaker 1: because this year was the year that whatever you asked

39
00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,200
Speaker 1: for you would have gotten. And one of them didn't

40
00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:05,560
Speaker 1: ask as much, and the you know, modest, but one

41
00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,280
Speaker 1: did and she got some great, great gifts. But more importantly,

42
00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,720
Speaker 1: I think we had some great, great memories. You know,

43
00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,960
Speaker 1: this year we spent Christmas, we all spent it together.

44
00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:21,040
Speaker 1: Teddy was with us, the girlfriend was with us. Yeah,

45
00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,560
Speaker 1: it was at the house. Yeah, so it was very

46
00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,160
Speaker 1: It was very similar to the Christmas that we had

47
00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,560
Speaker 1: last year in regards to just we had a bunch

48
00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:35,160
Speaker 1: of games. I mean, we played games for probably six

49
00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,280
Speaker 1: hours straight. And you know what, what I love about

50
00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,760
Speaker 1: those competitive games that we play is that you move

51
00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,800
Speaker 1: your body quite a bit. So you know, whenever you're

52
00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,519
Speaker 1: moving your body, everybody's just feeling great. You know, there's

53
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,760
Speaker 1: the energy level is just goes through the roof, The

54
00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,600
Speaker 1: enthusiasm goes to the roof, and it was just great

55
00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,520
Speaker 1: to see smiles everywhere. And again it was it was

56
00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,760
Speaker 1: great to have Teddy Teddy there and yeah, we had

57
00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,000
Speaker 1: a good time. She even participated in a couple of

58
00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,240
Speaker 1: the games. So it was good, awesome.

59
00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,280
Speaker 2: I imagine. It's also a great way to distract you

60
00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:13,000
Speaker 2: all from any animosity or negative energy or thoughts or

61
00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:18,240
Speaker 2: you know, kind of just keep you distracted so that

62
00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,600
Speaker 2: you can focus on the positives of you know, the situation.

63
00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:22,760
Speaker 2: So that's genius.

64
00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:27,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was great too because I think it

65
00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,359
Speaker 1: was the first time my mom had seen Teddy and

66
00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,520
Speaker 1: probably over a year and three months so since all

67
00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,600
Speaker 1: went so it was the first time really most of

68
00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,400
Speaker 1: my family got to hang out with Teddy and it

69
00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,320
Speaker 1: was just great to see them, so glad to see

70
00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:48,640
Speaker 1: her and vice versa. So yeah, it was a good moment.

71
00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:49,360
Speaker 1: It was a good moment.

72
00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:56,680
Speaker 2: Awesome. Sounds like a great way to end the year. Yeah,

73
00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,360
Speaker 2: it's it's for me. The holidays are been tossed, you know,

74
00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,080
Speaker 2: kind of a roller coaster up and down, and you know,

75
00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,920
Speaker 2: coming from not having two parents and that whole cohesive

76
00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:16,479
Speaker 2: family unit and structure, it always felt like it was

77
00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,160
Speaker 2: just about gifts. You know, we do have the Catholic

78
00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,039
Speaker 2: traditions in our family where we do I think we

79
00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,839
Speaker 2: do church on Christmas Eve and we open up our present.

80
00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,920
Speaker 2: Sometimes they let us open up a present at midnight,

81
00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,719
Speaker 2: but most of the time it was in the morning.

82
00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:36,840
Speaker 2: So it's always been interesting to me, like, well, how

83
00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:38,880
Speaker 2: are the holidays going to be this year? Because one

84
00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,719
Speaker 2: year I was not I was just focused on work

85
00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,840
Speaker 2: and that was all that mattered to me, my health

86
00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,520
Speaker 2: and everything. So I was not in a relationship, and

87
00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,919
Speaker 2: when it came to the holiday season, I kind of

88
00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,839
Speaker 2: felt a little lonely. But I had to talk myself

89
00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:55,320
Speaker 2: out of it because I was focused on accomplishing some

90
00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,919
Speaker 2: business goals. But it was a little lonely, and I

91
00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,599
Speaker 2: think it affected me in the long term because it

92
00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,440
Speaker 2: kind of set me in a place where like, it's

93
00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:12,279
Speaker 2: just an excuse for big commerce to come in and

94
00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,839
Speaker 2: sell you a bunch of shit candy and foods that

95
00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:19,719
Speaker 2: are going to start making you sick. My favorite, obviously

96
00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,360
Speaker 2: is Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving not just because of the fever,

97
00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,360
Speaker 2: because we all come together and say thank you for

98
00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,480
Speaker 2: you know, the appreciation that we have for each other,

99
00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,479
Speaker 2: beating each other's life, and you know, thank God that

100
00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,400
Speaker 2: we're all healthy. But then Christmas happens, and there again

101
00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,960
Speaker 2: we got to buy a bunch of presents, and it's

102
00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,919
Speaker 2: like it's all about the money, and I started looking

103
00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,440
Speaker 2: at it that way, like, okay, and being in business

104
00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,240
Speaker 2: and having a retail business, it's kind of like, all right,

105
00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,800
Speaker 2: it's time to start our marketing campaigns. And it used

106
00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,520
Speaker 2: to be October, but now it's you know, middle of

107
00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,400
Speaker 2: summer for the holidays that are coming. So it just

108
00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:59,400
Speaker 2: it kind of put a bad taste in my mouth,

109
00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,680
Speaker 2: and I wasn't too excited. But it turned out to

110
00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:08,520
Speaker 2: be an awesome holiday. This year. We spent it at home,

111
00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,960
Speaker 2: our new Dynamics as our kids are older now and

112
00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,200
Speaker 2: they have significant others, so they're going to you know,

113
00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,920
Speaker 2: they're they're they're going to spend it part time with

114
00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,760
Speaker 2: us and the other part work there significant other's family.

115
00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:26,120
Speaker 2: And this year we had, you know, kind of figure

116
00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,479
Speaker 2: out what's going on because ideally we wanted to go

117
00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,320
Speaker 2: to Big Bear and do it, but the kids can't

118
00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,160
Speaker 2: leave and we want to be with family. So mother

119
00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,479
Speaker 2: in law came down from Arizona. Our son, Spencer, he

120
00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,160
Speaker 2: was going to come over on Christmas Eve by himself

121
00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,520
Speaker 2: or with his girlfriend, and our daughter was going to

122
00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,080
Speaker 2: be there with her boyfriend, and we were just going

123
00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,240
Speaker 2: to be a small group of us there. And all

124
00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,880
Speaker 2: of a sudden, on the day of my sons like,

125
00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:57,320
Speaker 2: can I invite my girlfriend's family? And we're like, holy shit.

126
00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,479
Speaker 2: It just turned into a party because the family is awesome.

127
00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,120
Speaker 2: We love her family, we love spending time with them.

128
00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:10,120
Speaker 2: His girlfriend's dad is so funny. So it turned into

129
00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,440
Speaker 2: an awesome celebration. We had a lot of people. I

130
00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:19,240
Speaker 2: felt great, I had some great food, we laughed, we joked.

131
00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,680
Speaker 2: I think the kids started playing some sort of game.

132
00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,720
Speaker 2: I wasn't too into it. I think it was but

133
00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,080
Speaker 2: it was fun. And then when all that was done,

134
00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,200
Speaker 2: I think around I want to say six or seven o'clock,

135
00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:36,200
Speaker 2: maybe eight o'clock everybody went home. It could have been

136
00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,800
Speaker 2: nine o'clock. We woke up the next morning and drove

137
00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,440
Speaker 2: to Big Bear and it was just my wife and

138
00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,000
Speaker 2: I and mother in law and her boyfriend. And then

139
00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,480
Speaker 2: we were hoping to have a white Christmas obviously up

140
00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,160
Speaker 2: here in Big Bear, but ray it rained, snowed a

141
00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,440
Speaker 2: little bit. We had about maybe four into the snow

142
00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:56,760
Speaker 2: and it was okay, nothing to brag about, but just

143
00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,320
Speaker 2: being away was the fun part.

144
00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,200
Speaker 1: You know, let's go. So do you do much seen

145
00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:02,880
Speaker 1: when you're out there?

146
00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,600
Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not. I'm not a winter sport kind

147
00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:09,120
Speaker 2: of guy. I've had a lot of friends that have

148
00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,280
Speaker 2: been trying to get me into it, but and I'm

149
00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,320
Speaker 2: sure I can get good at it and have fun

150
00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:16,960
Speaker 2: with it. But I'm the kind of person that if

151
00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,600
Speaker 2: I find something I really am not just good at

152
00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,160
Speaker 2: That's why I like it, because I'm good at it. Yeah,

153
00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,480
Speaker 2: but I find that I will get into it and

154
00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:28,120
Speaker 2: try to find the right tool for the right job,

155
00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,440
Speaker 2: and of course it has to be, you know, an

156
00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,800
Speaker 2: expensive tool. Because those are usually the ones for the

157
00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:38,120
Speaker 2: right job. And I thought, if I get into snow skiing,

158
00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,440
Speaker 2: I'm not just gonna be excited about coming up here.

159
00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,880
Speaker 2: I'm going to be traveling, chasing the snow and being

160
00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,920
Speaker 2: that idiot that you know goes all the way to

161
00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,679
Speaker 2: Switzerland in the winter just to get the best snow.

162
00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:54,160
Speaker 2: And the fact is that I don't know is going on. Yeah,

163
00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:56,760
Speaker 2: but there's there's something going on in that in the

164
00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,280
Speaker 2: snow world where there's a company that purchased all the

165
00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,160
Speaker 2: mountains and they have the Ski Pass Mountain And when

166
00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:08,439
Speaker 2: you go to these ski resorts, you know in Vale

167
00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,920
Speaker 2: Espen and even here in California, there's masses and masses

168
00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,400
Speaker 2: and masses of people doing it. So there's a huge

169
00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,680
Speaker 2: line and it is just terrible. You know. I don't

170
00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,679
Speaker 2: know if I'm just getting old and grumpy, but I

171
00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,000
Speaker 2: hate lines. I hate waiting in line. I'm okay with

172
00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,920
Speaker 2: a small line, but if it's you know, it's snakes

173
00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:30,880
Speaker 2: around the whole building, forget it. I don't want to

174
00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:31,679
Speaker 2: do it. It's not worth it.

175
00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:32,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

176
00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,839
Speaker 2: So now I'm not a big winter sport guy. Do

177
00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:36,560
Speaker 2: you like to ski?

178
00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm Okay, I like skiing, but I'm I'm

179
00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,440
Speaker 1: like a blue, blue green guy. I don't really mess

180
00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,520
Speaker 1: with black. I think at this point of my life,

181
00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:47,920
Speaker 1: I just don't want to get hurt because I like,

182
00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,400
Speaker 1: I like my workout so much that I'm like, I

183
00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:53,080
Speaker 1: don't need to be doing stuff or I might break

184
00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,000
Speaker 1: my bones or anything like that. But I do like going.

185
00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,240
Speaker 1: I do like kind of mess around with the blue

186
00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:13,400
Speaker 1: slopes or whatever it's called bunny slopes. Yeah, but what'd

187
00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:14,200
Speaker 1: you do for New Year's?

188
00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,760
Speaker 2: New Year's was mellow again. Not a big New Year's guy.

189
00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,439
Speaker 2: I spent years when I was cycling a lot. I

190
00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:25,480
Speaker 2: would wake up early January first meet up with some

191
00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,480
Speaker 2: guys as about eight hundred riders that used to ride

192
00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:32,439
Speaker 2: from Long Beach to Dana Point on Pch and we

193
00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,360
Speaker 2: took over the whole street. There was eight hundred riders

194
00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,320
Speaker 2: and unofficial, you know. It was just one of those

195
00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,120
Speaker 2: things I used to do in New Year's Day. So

196
00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,280
Speaker 2: for many years I was like anti partying celebrating New Years.

197
00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,600
Speaker 2: In fact, I didn't want to stay up this last

198
00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:48,959
Speaker 2: New Year's I wanted to go to sleep, but we

199
00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,280
Speaker 2: ended up having our daughter and her boyfriend come up

200
00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,760
Speaker 2: three days before New Year's and there was no snow, nothing,

201
00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,040
Speaker 2: so they got to play a little bit on some

202
00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:00,839
Speaker 2: of the leftover snow or the manmates know. But we

203
00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,480
Speaker 2: had a great time with our daughter and her boyfriend.

204
00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:05,880
Speaker 1: It was.

205
00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,240
Speaker 2: It was fun to see my wife interact with my

206
00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,240
Speaker 2: daughter on a like a friendship relationship. We played games,

207
00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,040
Speaker 2: he played pool, We went to restaurants. We really had

208
00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,240
Speaker 2: a great time spending time with her and her boyfriend.

209
00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:24,880
Speaker 2: It was fun. And then somehow made it to midnight.

210
00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:26,800
Speaker 1: Nice.

211
00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,600
Speaker 2: It was. It was tough, but I made midnight kiss

212
00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:34,160
Speaker 2: my wife and went straight to bed. But you different years, man.

213
00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:36,480
Speaker 1: I was like a teenager. I ended up in Vegas.

214
00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,080
Speaker 2: Oh my god.

215
00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,439
Speaker 1: I think it's the first time in probably twenty years

216
00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,240
Speaker 1: at least that I was in Vegas for New Year's

217
00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:50,559
Speaker 1: Eve and had a blast. I mean, I was like

218
00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,520
Speaker 1: a total teenager. I had a great, great dinner. I mean,

219
00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:56,880
Speaker 1: first of all, I was last minute, right, I ended

220
00:11:56,960 --> 00:12:00,640
Speaker 1: up getting tickets last minute, ended up at the win

221
00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,840
Speaker 1: the encore. Had this great dinner, but then we want

222
00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,439
Speaker 1: to go check out Rufe is still so okay, and

223
00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:11,360
Speaker 1: stayed out all night. It was fun. It was a

224
00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,079
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Then that the next day paid for

225
00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,160
Speaker 1: a little bit, but worth it.

226
00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:19,080
Speaker 2: You know, It's funny the.

227
00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:22,920
Speaker 1: Last I did skip my workout, you know that's I

228
00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,000
Speaker 1: definitely did that. Not the way to start off the year.

229
00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:27,000
Speaker 1: But I think that's two years in a row. Last year,

230
00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:31,240
Speaker 1: I I also went out on New Year's Eve and

231
00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:34,480
Speaker 1: it was I ended up at the Soho house and

232
00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,319
Speaker 1: was also got one after it that that night. So

233
00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,480
Speaker 1: two years strong going out on New Year's Eve, because

234
00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,560
Speaker 1: prior to that, I was like, I was gone by nine,

235
00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:47,280
Speaker 1: not even twelve. I would't even make it till twelve.

236
00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,840
Speaker 1: I was I'd celebrate with the kids to nine pm.

237
00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:53,520
Speaker 1: We called it our East Coast New Years, and we'd

238
00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:55,240
Speaker 1: all be in bed by ten. And you know, the

239
00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:57,920
Speaker 1: last two years it's been, it's been definitely different.

240
00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,199
Speaker 2: Well, you're in a new lifestyle, you know, kind of

241
00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,079
Speaker 2: a quasi single guy in a new relationship, doing new

242
00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,240
Speaker 2: things over again. Totally totally understand. And you know what

243
00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:14,400
Speaker 2: those last minute trips, those have always been some of

244
00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:17,719
Speaker 2: the best ones. The unplanned, let's just do it kind

245
00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:19,280
Speaker 2: of things, those have been some of the most fun

246
00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,760
Speaker 2: things to do. And I think that starts to dissipate

247
00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,880
Speaker 2: a little when you're in a long term relationship because

248
00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,640
Speaker 2: we love predictability. We you know, we know each other

249
00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:34,839
Speaker 2: very well. We sometimes manish each other's sentences. And my

250
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,160
Speaker 2: favorite thing is sometimes you know, when it comes to

251
00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,280
Speaker 2: figuring out where we're going to go eat, we can

252
00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:47,400
Speaker 2: predict what each other's moods or or or or cratings are.

253
00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:52,280
Speaker 2: So the point is is that everything becomes predictable and

254
00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,200
Speaker 2: we plan everything, and you know, there's so much more

255
00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,880
Speaker 2: responsibility that we have to juggle that we can't just say,

256
00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,400
Speaker 2: let's go to Paris or you know, let's go to Italy. Yeah,

257
00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,800
Speaker 2: but good for you, man, I'm still happy you're living

258
00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:08,200
Speaker 2: your life.

259
00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,679
Speaker 1: I think I think this year was was definitely a

260
00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,599
Speaker 1: year a lot well last year, which I'm going to

261
00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,600
Speaker 1: continue that. I just I love the spontaneous year that

262
00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,320
Speaker 1: I had. I mean, I went to Europe twice. Last minute.

263
00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,920
Speaker 1: I booked my trip to France niece uh Central Pey

264
00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,840
Speaker 1: literally the day before. So July third, I'm like, I

265
00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,560
Speaker 1: had nothing to do in fourth of July for the

266
00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,200
Speaker 1: first time in my life. Kids are gone, everybody's gone.

267
00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:40,240
Speaker 1: By myself, I'm like, you know what, my friend called

268
00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,720
Speaker 1: me to say come down to centro Pey. Literally just

269
00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,040
Speaker 1: booked it. Boom, I'm down. I'm there the next day.

270
00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,360
Speaker 1: And so I just like that all year.

271
00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it was it was I you know,

272
00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:56,080
Speaker 2: I ate a lot this year, like.

273
00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,560
Speaker 1: I eat bread. Now. It's funny.

274
00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:06,400
Speaker 2: You see the results of that right here on the side.

275
00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,120
Speaker 1: I'd say, I'm down a four pack, so you'll get

276
00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,160
Speaker 1: back I need I need to get it back up. Yeah,

277
00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,200
Speaker 1: I've been needing a little too much, too much. I've

278
00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,680
Speaker 1: become a foodie in twenty twenty five. That's what twenty

279
00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,120
Speaker 1: twenty five was about. God, I just ate left and right.

280
00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,080
Speaker 1: But you know, I still kept up with the exercise.

281
00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:27,960
Speaker 1: But it still gets you.

282
00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,920
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well you're in a new relationship. So I

283
00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,000
Speaker 2: can tell you from personal experience. When my wife and

284
00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,080
Speaker 2: I got together, before we got married, obviously we were

285
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,960
Speaker 2: in great shape. I was working that all the time,

286
00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:48,760
Speaker 2: and we had been invited to Cobble for a VIP

287
00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,800
Speaker 2: thing to open up a new hotel. It was a paid,

288
00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,200
Speaker 2: paid thing, right, so everything was camped and everything, and

289
00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,600
Speaker 2: by then by the time we got to we had

290
00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:06,880
Speaker 2: been eating, traveling, doing a lot of things together. Gaining weight,

291
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,920
Speaker 2: And it didn't hit us until we went to Cabo

292
00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,440
Speaker 2: and we were just doing all these events, taking all

293
00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,400
Speaker 2: these photo shoots, and we were walking on the beach

294
00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:18,080
Speaker 2: and there was a Papa Rozzi on a like a

295
00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,320
Speaker 2: small little boat or yacht that was pitting off the beach.

296
00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,760
Speaker 2: And I just got this weird feeling about it when

297
00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,000
Speaker 2: I saw it, because it's just odd that this one

298
00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,160
Speaker 2: little boat, I mean, it's a small yacht, like it's

299
00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,080
Speaker 2: got dark windows and everything. Why is this thing sitting

300
00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,760
Speaker 2: out there by itself. Well, the point is they took

301
00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,000
Speaker 2: a picture of camera and I unknowingly and they got

302
00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:44,560
Speaker 2: me with my gut out, my wife's ass out. It

303
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,480
Speaker 2: was just like not prepared for these pictures. And of

304
00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,760
Speaker 2: course TMZ got ahold of them, or all these muddy

305
00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,720
Speaker 2: you know uh places got ahold of them. And they

306
00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,240
Speaker 2: wrote these stupid articles and showed that picture and kind

307
00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,960
Speaker 2: of woke us up, like, shit, we can't, we can't

308
00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,480
Speaker 2: do this. You got to keep it tight. Yeah, that

309
00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,840
Speaker 2: was a big wake up call, but you know that's normal.

310
00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,040
Speaker 2: You're gonna do fun stuff. My daughter, when she first

311
00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,280
Speaker 2: got in her relationship, she did the same thing. I

312
00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:14,800
Speaker 2: think I think it's a normal thing. You just want

313
00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,280
Speaker 2: to enjoy each other's in each other's time in so

314
00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,760
Speaker 2: many aspects.

315
00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:24,920
Speaker 1: Are you know, you know it's interesting about that ediot.

316
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,320
Speaker 1: It's I always tell my my guys, my my sales agents.

317
00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,760
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get what you want, you get

318
00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,720
Speaker 1: what you are. So that's why I think your self

319
00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:37,600
Speaker 1: worth comes into play, because whatever your self worth is,

320
00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:39,760
Speaker 1: you'll you'll get to that point.

321
00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:40,080
Speaker 2: Right.

322
00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,320
Speaker 1: So when you do get out of shape, eventually it

323
00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:46,439
Speaker 1: hits you like, wait, that's not who I am, right right,

324
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,440
Speaker 1: I need to go back to the person I was.

325
00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,040
Speaker 1: And that's why you don't get what you want. You

326
00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,919
Speaker 1: get what you are, and that's why your If your

327
00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,320
Speaker 1: identity is, oh, I'm just going to be out of

328
00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,080
Speaker 1: shape all my life, that's what you're going to get.

329
00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,040
Speaker 1: And if your identity is you know what, I'm always

330
00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:04,080
Speaker 1: in shape. I take care of my health, that's what

331
00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,240
Speaker 1: you're going to get. Because eventually, when you go below that,

332
00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:10,919
Speaker 1: you'll come you'll you'll recognize it, and you'll get yourself

333
00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:11,840
Speaker 1: back to who you are.

334
00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:12,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

335
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,440
Speaker 1: So I'm talking about that place myself right now where

336
00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, IM getting out a hand here,

337
00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,080
Speaker 1: I didn't get back to who what I know, I

338
00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:23,240
Speaker 1: should where I should be, you know. But it's just

339
00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,639
Speaker 1: it's it's the power of your self worth, It's the

340
00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,040
Speaker 1: power of your identity. Right.

341
00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:32,480
Speaker 2: I also think it's a healthy balance, you know, because

342
00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:35,800
Speaker 2: I believe life is all about healthy balances. You really

343
00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,800
Speaker 2: can't be in the best shape of your life your

344
00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:45,760
Speaker 2: entire life. From an athletic or sports athletic performance aspect,

345
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,080
Speaker 2: you always have peaks and valleys, and your values are

346
00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:50,840
Speaker 2: not going to be that low. They're just not going

347
00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,479
Speaker 2: to be days. You've got to let your body recover, right,

348
00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:55,960
Speaker 2: But when you can keep at the time of your

349
00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:59,840
Speaker 2: game or your competition or that, that's that's genius if

350
00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:02,320
Speaker 2: you can actually make it happen. Because there's so many

351
00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:07,160
Speaker 2: variables involved in this journey that it really is unrealistic

352
00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:08,959
Speaker 2: to be in the best shape every life. For example,

353
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,600
Speaker 2: last November, after I got back from Bravo Kan and

354
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,600
Speaker 2: I had spent you know, three days, maybe four days

355
00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,960
Speaker 2: out there shaking hands, you know, meeting a lot of people,

356
00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,480
Speaker 2: hugging people, taking pictures, just thousands of thousands of people.

357
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,480
Speaker 2: I got sick and my wife got sick first, but

358
00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:30,639
Speaker 2: she knocked it out in like twenty four hours, and

359
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,920
Speaker 2: I'm like, well, she knocked it out in twenty four hours,

360
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:34,520
Speaker 2: it's going to be easy for me because I usually

361
00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,320
Speaker 2: don't get sick that often or that long. Well, it

362
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,480
Speaker 2: kicked my ass and I ended up buying antibiotics, and

363
00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,119
Speaker 2: I don't like taking shit like that. But after the

364
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,800
Speaker 2: first week I took my last antibiotic, I gave myself

365
00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,320
Speaker 2: one more rest day, and the very next day I

366
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,760
Speaker 2: got sick again, full relapsed one hundred percent of what

367
00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 2: I experienced. It took me out for about a month

368
00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,760
Speaker 2: and a half and I didn't exercise. I really didn't

369
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,120
Speaker 2: eat that healthy. I didn't do a lot of movement.

370
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,640
Speaker 2: I was literally chilling like I was in my death.

371
00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,080
Speaker 2: That it sucked. It totally screwed me up. So since then,

372
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,359
Speaker 2: I've been kind of on this journey to slowly get

373
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,359
Speaker 2: back in shape, and I'm almost there now. But it

374
00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 2: sucked because I had just gotten back two weeks before

375
00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,120
Speaker 2: that from a trip up north in northern California where

376
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:28,080
Speaker 2: I did a two day dirt bike trip and I

377
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,200
Speaker 2: rode ten hours the first day, which kicked my butt,

378
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,000
Speaker 2: but I did it, and another six or eight hours

379
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,399
Speaker 2: the next day, and I'm talking like long, long days.

380
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,560
Speaker 2: And I came home and I felt great, I felt

381
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,920
Speaker 2: in shape, I felt like resilient. And then I go

382
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:46,200
Speaker 2: to Bravocon and I get sick. It sucks.

383
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:50,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, now something to be sad about. Consistency though,

384
00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 1: Like I find like now the days I don't work

385
00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 1: out as far as I used to. I'm just well,

386
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,480
Speaker 1: for the last ten years, I've just been consistent. And

387
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,120
Speaker 1: oh it's funny because I'll see people at the gym

388
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,639
Speaker 1: doing these crazy exercises and I just do like the

389
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,720
Speaker 1: same boring stuff all the time, and just the consistency

390
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 1: out performs all the time. Yeah, first doing all these

391
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:18,360
Speaker 1: kind of crazy, you know, new exercises that no one

392
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 1: has seen. And then but you're not consistent one of them,

393
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 1: Like don't matter if you're hanging from the bar bell

394
00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,399
Speaker 1: and trying to do sit ups or the you know

395
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: whatever the whatever it's called.

396
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,000
Speaker 2: It's all for the Instagram.

397
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all for them. It's all about consistency and

398
00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.

399
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,760
Speaker 2: So I've had days where I've gone to the gym

400
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 2: and I wasn't feeling it. But you know, actually, let

401
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 2: me prove practice that. I've had days where I absolutely

402
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,320
Speaker 2: do not want to go to the gym, but once

403
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 2: I get there and warm up, it's some of the

404
00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 2: best workouts I've ever had. But recently I've had I've

405
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 2: had days where I've just I'm not feeling it. I

406
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,120
Speaker 2: go to the gym anyways, I warm up and I'm

407
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 2: still not feeling it. I'm just out one hundred percent there,

408
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 2: so I'll just go stretch out, roll my body out,

409
00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,560
Speaker 2: you know, maybe therygun me and call it a day

410
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 2: and go home. You know, it's okay. I think the

411
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,920
Speaker 2: most important part of going to the gym or being

412
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,160
Speaker 2: consistent is exactly that figuring out how to get yourself

413
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,960
Speaker 2: to start and do it. And if you have days

414
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 2: where you don't feel it, you don't have to go

415
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, but it's that initial going to the gym.

416
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 2: Now you have your gym at home, right, yes, but.

417
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: I agree with those are the best days. Like a

418
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: day like that where you didn't want to go and

419
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,200
Speaker 1: you still made it even if you didn't do much.

420
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,920
Speaker 1: It's you were able to do things even though you

421
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 1: don't want to, right, because anybody can do it when

422
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 1: you feel great. But it's when you don't feel great,

423
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,800
Speaker 1: can you still show up? And I think those are

424
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: the big I call those the identity building days because

425
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: that's what starts to transform you.

426
00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I imagine it would be a little

427
00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 2: bit a little bit easier or more challenging for you

428
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: having you know, your gym at home. Did I personally,

429
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 2: I don't like working out at home, you know, I

430
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 2: do so much at home. I like to leave. I

431
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,080
Speaker 2: like to go to the gym and get out of

432
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,560
Speaker 2: the environment that I'm in most of the day, you know.

433
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,320
Speaker 2: Plus not that I look forward to chatting up with

434
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 2: the people at the gym, but I do look forward

435
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 2: to seeing some of the people I do like at

436
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 2: the gym, you know, catching up, Hey, how you doing quick?

437
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,440
Speaker 2: You know, to chat and back to work.

438
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 1: Yep.

439
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 2: But it do you think it's easier to have the

440
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 2: gym at home or to go to the gym?

441
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: Well, I personally like to get out, but it's good

442
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: to have a gym at home, so on these days

443
00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 1: that you're running late, you can just sort of default

444
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: into the gym at home. So that's where I used it,

445
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: you know, for me, it's interesting we're talking about fitness

446
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: because obviously last year and the last well, the last

447
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: two years have been probably well, the last two years

448
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 1: have been very very hard, especially twenty twenty four. I mean,

449
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five was hard in that obviously Teddy got

450
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: diagnosed with what she got diagnosed with, but that was hard.

451
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four was, you know, very very hard for me.

452
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,639
Speaker 1: And what always sort of kept me through all that

453
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 1: chaos was just working out, like that was my mental health.

454
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for I mean, there was times i'dn't

455
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: only sleep two hours a night and I would still

456
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 1: just get on the treadmill and run.

457
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 2: That.

458
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 1: What that did for my mental health was huge, you know,

459
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: because my body was so relaxed after workouts that didn't

460
00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 1: matter what came at me. You know, it was almost

461
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: just as important as my scripture. In fact, I'd work

462
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 1: out and then do the scripture, you know, or whatever

463
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: my gratitude exercise sometimes because I was just I could

464
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,760
Speaker 1: focus more, I was in a better mood, I was relaxed,

465
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: and that literally was you know that And my faith

466
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: was what carried me through probably the lot the worst

467
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:17,200
Speaker 1: two years of my life. And I don't think I

468
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: talk about it enough, but It really was that fitness

469
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: that that that really helped me with my mindset at

470
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: the time, because if it wasn't for that, I would

471
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: have gone you know, creat Craig, you know, I agreed tremendously.

472
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 2: I agree for me like you I there's nothing that's

473
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 2: more effective in in centering myself and taking on challenges

474
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 2: to dealing with life challenges without working out. You know,

475
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 2: there's there's That's why I like to work out for

476
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 2: singing in the morning. M It's been very, very challenging

477
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 2: lately because my wife, you know, wakes up later or

478
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 2: or she wakes up earlier, but she doesn't the engine

479
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 2: running until later than me, So we tend to go

480
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 2: to the gym later than I enjoy. But I enjoy

481
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 2: more being with my wife at the gym than you know,

482
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: skipping the workout because you know it's too late for me.

483
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 2: But the point is is that I'm ready for the day.

484
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 2: I'm ready for the world. I'm ready for anything that's

485
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 2: thrown at me. When I actually have the blood pumping,

486
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 2: the lungs breathing, and the body moving that I can't

487
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 2: live without it. That's what I got to do for

488
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 2: the rest of my life. And now that I'm older,

489
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,400
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the future, like, what is my life

490
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 2: going to look like when I'm eighty ninety? You know,

491
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 2: am I still going to be able to wake up

492
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 2: in the morning and do this? I have met some

493
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 2: older people that is fire me, you know. I think

494
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 2: that's important is to find those people. You know what

495
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: they say about surrounding yourself with smokers, six smokers or

496
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 2: five smokers, You're going to be the six smoker, you know.

497
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: Surrounding yourself with the people you want to be like

498
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: really is effective. And being in the dirt bike world,

499
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 2: every time I meet somebody new, I always ask how

500
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 2: old are you? Or do you who's the oldest guy

501
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 2: you know that's still riding? Because this is such a

502
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: physical thing for me and such a challenge mentally physically

503
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: and endurance wise as well that it tris me to

504
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,360
Speaker 2: be better. And as much as I want to get better,

505
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 2: I also am looking for longevity because I want to

506
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 2: be able to be eighty years old and still do

507
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,400
Speaker 2: some physical activities, not you know, sitting on a couch

508
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,959
Speaker 2: watching TV or some stupid like that. But the oldest

509
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: guy I've ridden with was seventy three years old. And

510
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: he was doing some pretty challenging stuff on the bike,

511
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: and it inspires me, you know, I mean, I'm only

512
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 2: fifty two, but when I'm seventy two that I want

513
00:27:54,640 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 2: to do that, that's cool. What was your biggest takeaway

514
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty five?

515
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: Biggest takeaway for twenty twenty five?

516
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 2: Do you remember last year around this time, we had

517
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:22,040
Speaker 2: this conversation about, you know, we don't necessarily do New

518
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions, but we do goal setting and we want

519
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,400
Speaker 2: to do something. I don't remember what year goals were

520
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: last year, but something along those lines was What was

521
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 2: the biggest takeaway for last year?

522
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, I mean, I think if you compare

523
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five where I

524
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: was a year ago versus where I was at today,

525
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: I think, you know, at the end of twenty twenty four,

526
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: I'm still bitter, right, there's a lot of bitterness.

527
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 2: In my heart.

528
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: I think, you know, today and even twenty twenty five

529
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: was obviously all about gratitude. I think that what I

530
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: realized I've done this before, but it was more evident,

531
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: more than ever in twenty twenty five, and I'm bringing

532
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: this into twenty twenty sixth, which is just continue to

533
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: push forward because eventually, no matter what happens, that pain,

534
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: that pressure, that stress, that storm eventually goes away. And

535
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: when it goes away, you have to be ready because

536
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: there's usually a huge opportunity that comes your way. Because

537
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: it's not always going to be that Storm's not always

538
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: going to be there your entire life. It's just in life.

539
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: You have to go through these seasons and you just

540
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: got to continue to push through it and push past it,

541
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: and eventually it doesn't and it usually comes with an

542
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: ourpportunity of a lifetime. Then if you're not ready for it,

543
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: you're going.

544
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 2: To miss it.

545
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: So for me, it's maintaining being ready so then opportunity comes.

546
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: And you know, I think what I've seen over just

547
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,239
Speaker 1: my career is just you start getting really good at

548
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: recognizing patterns. You know, instead of just doing blind repetition, right,

549
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 1: you start seeing patterns and you're like, Okay, if this

550
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: and this and this happened, that means something great's about

551
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: to happen. And it gives you hope, it gives you faith,

552
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: And for me, it's just about that. It's it's just

553
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 1: always continuing to push forward. No matter what comes, you know,

554
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 1: there's always going to be new, a new season of something.

555
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: And I think it's I know, I hopeful, faithful that

556
00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: there's a great season coming. I'm already seeing the patterns

557
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 1: of it. So I think twenty twenty six is probably

558
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: going to be one of my best years ever. You know,

559
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: I had to go through some tough times in twenty

560
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: twenty four and twenty twenty five, but again, I'm starting

561
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: to see everything sort of line up, and I'm super

562
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: excited about, you know, twenty twenty six, and you know,

563
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 1: to keep keep going.

564
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 2: That reminds me of a quote I read. I think

565
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 2: it was last year. It was I hope I don't

566
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 2: screw it up, but it was something along the lines

567
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 2: of the bad news is that times will be hard,

568
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 2: m The good news is that our bad times will come.

569
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: The good news is that good times will come, but

570
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 2: none of it will last. I think something along those lines.

571
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 2: So that makes sense. The good news is that good

572
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 2: times and bad times are going to happen. The bad

573
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: news is that they're going to pass. So you can't

574
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 2: be always in the good times. And you can and

575
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: you will never be always into bad times, but you

576
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 2: will it will pass. As I think to your point

577
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 2: is living in a world of instant gratification. It's hard

578
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,959
Speaker 2: for people to comprehend how long sometimes the bad times

579
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: takes pass. And for you it was the last two years.

580
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 2: And now things are starting to shift for you, and

581
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 2: you're seeing the pattern and you're seeing the good times

582
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: coming forth in twenty twenty sixth A lot of that

583
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: is also your mental attitude, right, you just go in

584
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 2: there positive, but you've seen the pattern, you recognize it,

585
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 2: and now you're ready for the good times.

586
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: Well again, I think I've said this before, but one

587
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: of my favorite scriptures is Proverbs twenty four to twenty

588
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: six twenty four sixteen, Proverbs twenty four sixteen, which says

589
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: for the righteous will fall seven times, but they will

590
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: rise again, but the wicked will stumble in calamity strikes.

591
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: That word seven really means infinity, like you're going to

592
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: fall and fall and fall and fall, and all you

593
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: have to do is get up one more time. And

594
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: the truth of the matter is that I think in life,

595
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,239
Speaker 1: you're going to fall, you're going to fail, you're going

596
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: to lose, and I think sometimes the great danger in

597
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: that is that you'll spend your entire life blaming people

598
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: rather than realizing that it's probably the best opportunity that

599
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: you'll have that's coming out. And I think, as I

600
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: look back to where I'm at today, it's I'm not

601
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: here because I haven't fallen. I'm not here because I

602
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: haven't lost. I'm not here because I haven't failed. I'm

603
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: still here because I just I get up one more

604
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: time and when stuff happens, I just got to get

605
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:45,280
Speaker 1: up one more time. And eventually the opportunity comes, and

606
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, you have more good times and bad times.

607
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: But I've always said life and pain are inseparable. You know.

608
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: Now I'm going through my dad's sick Now it's like, oh,

609
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: here comes another one and he is Now it's a

610
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: life threatening situation and you know, and I'm still dealing

611
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: with it, and it's just you know, what else is

612
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: coming at you. But eventually, if you get used to

613
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: going through pain, that pain doesn't affect it as much

614
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 1: as it did before.

615
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: Right, and happening with your dad, he's okay to talk

616
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 2: about it.

617
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's unfortunately and debated right now and he's

618
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: having you know, he's fine for his life. He got

619
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: pneumonia and he got a flu, but he's eighty two,

620
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 1: so because he's had sort of lung issues before, anything

621
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: like that can wipe them out. You know. It's it's

622
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: like it's like a domino effect. Once one organ starts,

623
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: you know, when you get to that age, organ starts failing,

624
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: It starts to set off all the other things. But again,

625
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: when you go through moments like that, it's you either

626
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,479
Speaker 1: choose faith or you you choose fear. They both haven't

627
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: happened yet. It's just which one you're going to choose.

628
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, I not choose the positive side,

629
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: you know, And that's how I lived life my entire

630
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: time is just focusing more on the positives and not

631
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: focusing on the stuff I can't control. I can't control

632
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: if if he's going to make it, so let me

633
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: focus on just on the fifth side. And hey, I'm

634
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: going to get him for another season so we can

635
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: go watch the World Cup together. So that's kind of

636
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: where I'm at with that. But yeah, just you got

637
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: to continue to push forward.

638
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 2: You know. It's the same I think strategy you had

639
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 2: when you went into it with Teddy and her cancer diagnosis.

640
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 2: You've come out of it, you know, pretty strong, but

641
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: I'm sure you're still you know, are are ceiling in

642
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: the consequences of the entire picture, the big situation that,

643
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 2: you know, why did this happen? You know, why are

644
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: we here? The big question? How do you think? Well,

645
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 2: do you know how is Teddy doing at this juncture?

646
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 2: You know, years into its what's your viewpoint?

647
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: You know? So you know, we were talking about how

648
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: when I was going and I'm not comparing my situation

649
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: to her situation because it's not even we're not even

650
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: the same no, no, not even the same level. But

651
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: where I give her so much credit, like I at

652
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: least had the ability to work out to help me

653
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: with what I was going through. You know, I think

654
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,439
Speaker 1: one of the hardest things for her she really can't

655
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: work out. She's just starting to kind of move her body.

656
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: But I think that's what's been really tough for her

657
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: is that obviously she's going through the immuno therapy, which

658
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: that alone causes some side effects. Yeah, so that's been

659
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: really hard on her mental health, I think. And the

660
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: good news though, is that those tumors are gone from

661
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: what we can see. You know, the chances of that

662
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 1: happening were point zero zero one, So that was totally

663
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: a miracle from God. You know. I think.

664
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 2: I also think that she has the same mentality as

665
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: we do, and she thinks positive, right, I mean, you

666
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 2: know her better than anybody, But I'm just basing this

667
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 2: based on what I've witnessed and a little bit that

668
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 2: I know about her. She she's motivated, she loves to

669
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 2: help people. Yeah, she's positive, and she's fighting still for

670
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 2: her life, you know. And it's wanting to be sitting here,

671
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: you and I talking about all the ways that we

672
00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:00,959
Speaker 2: employ our skill set and mental fortitude and and strategies

673
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 2: on how we can prevent you know, a trauma from

674
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 2: taking us down. And yeah, it might knock us down,

675
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 2: but like we agree, we're going to be back up.

676
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 2: It's another thing to be living it. And I see

677
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 2: Teddy living in it and showing her tenacity and showing

678
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 2: her strength and showing the you know, the challenges she's

679
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 2: been going through and it's and she seems unstoppable.

680
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: It's been inspiring. It's been inspiring to watch and uh,

681
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: but yeah, what a such a tough battle that she's

682
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: happen to go through, and you know, it sucks because

683
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: you're in a position where there's not much you can do,

684
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: right because there's also the what she's feeling in the

685
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:48,879
Speaker 1: inside that you know nobody really sees. But yeah, it's

686
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: a lot. But the good news is, you know, I

687
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: got to remind you all the time, you got to

688
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: focus on the positives. I mean, eight months, nine months,

689
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: and that these rumors are gone, Like that's a positive

690
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: in that is just huge. But you could easily just

691
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: focus on the negatives. Right, Hey, I'm not as active

692
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: as I used to be. I can't be as active

693
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: with the kids as I normally was. And it's that

694
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: constant like, hey, it's only been nine months. I give

695
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: yourself credit, you're doing amazing. So I think that's that

696
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: inner battle with the mind is probably one of the

697
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: toughest ones that you have to fight.

698
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 2: And I think that's the point I'm trying to make

699
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 2: is she's fighting this battle and she can't use the

700
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 2: tools that we you and I can use. So where

701
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: the hell is she getting her strength? Where is she

702
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 2: finding her tenacity? Where is she The only thing I

703
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 2: can surmise is, you know the power of thinking about

704
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 2: something bigger than you and I used to train my

705
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: clients when we had the gym, you know, talking about

706
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: when times get hard on the on the race or

707
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 2: on the competition. More specifically, when I was training spartans,

708
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 2: I would teach them to think about why they're doing it,

709
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 2: you know, and when you figure that out, you can

710
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 2: use that as a tool to get you through the

711
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:21,000
Speaker 2: hardest times of your life. And the perfect example would

712
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 2: be for Teddy is you know, she has wonderful kids

713
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: she has to live for, and and if she just

714
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: thinks about that, I don't know if she is, isn't it,

715
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,640
Speaker 2: But if she just thinks about that, why that purpose?

716
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 2: I think that would be powerful enough to get her

717
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: through these things without being able to use the tools

718
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 2: that you and I normally have working out, you know, meditation, prayers,

719
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 2: all the tools that we have at hand. But the

720
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,720
Speaker 2: most important one that we agree on is moving.

721
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, one tool that I'm one tool that I'm glad

722
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: she's starting to use is more of a spiritual tool.

723
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: She's still getting close. She's definitely getting closer to her faith.

724
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: I love that, and I you know that helps. You know,

725
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: a lot of times you you start to hear God,

726
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: you hear God's voice by reading scripture at times, you know,

727
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: one sentence could just speak to you, and you know, again,

728
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: it's if it gives you faith, that's all you can

729
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: ask for. Right, It's whatever you can do it gives

730
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: you faith over the fear. Right Because again, they both

731
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: haven't happened yet, right, So one's the projection of the

732
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: most positive thing. One's the projection of the most of

733
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: the most negative thing. So they both haven't happened yet.

734
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 1: It's it's you choosing which when you're going to choose,

735
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: and just being positive is you know everything, And you know,

736
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: I always tell people if you're struggling, if you're struggling

737
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: with your faith, focused on gratitude and it will increase

738
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 1: your faith. So it's been great, I've seen I've seen

739
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: that from her a lot. So that's that's makes me

740
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: very happy.

741
00:41:53,520 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 2: Well, I've always struggled with with religion, primarily because I

742
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 2: never really studied it when I started learning about it. Obviously,

743
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 2: I grew up Catholic, but I didn't love it and

744
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: I didn't quite unders grasp, you know, all the concepts

745
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: of the Catholicism. And then I went to Christianity, and

746
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 2: again I really felt the power of faith, but I

747
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 2: didn't like the structure of it. And when I learned

748
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 2: there's over one hundred different religions, I'm like, I give up.

749
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 2: But the biggest takeaway and the most powerful thing I

750
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 2: truly believe that comes from being practicing your religion, whatever

751
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 2: that is, is the power of faith. When you have faith,

752
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 2: you can do almost anything if you truly believe in

753
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 2: your faith, and it's an amazing tool to have, you know,

754
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 2: when when times get hard.

755
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think, you know, that's the problem. I

756
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: think religion is the problem. I think really when you

757
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: think about God, and not to get too much into

758
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: faith on this, but God is love, you know, and

759
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: it's really not our job to judge people. Our job

760
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: is to love people and let them figure stuff out

761
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: on their own, you know. I think the religion part

762
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: of it, that's where I think it gets mixed up,

763
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: and I think that's what turns a lot of people

764
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: away from it. But that's really not what what Christ

765
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: spot to to to the world. Right back it came

766
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: and he was against religion, right, he was against everybody

767
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: being so judgeful, and he taught everybody to just love,

768
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: and that's really what it's about. It's not our job.

769
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: It's not our job to judge people. It's our job

770
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: to love people. And there's one judge that will happen

771
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: at the end and let them figure it out.

772
00:43:50,080 --> 00:44:03,840
Speaker 2: I agree. So last year, of course, I remember some

773
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 2: of the goals I set. And do you remember any

774
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 2: one or two or three goals that you set last year?

775
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 2: And did you accomplish all of them or one of

776
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: them or none of them? Do you remember?

777
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: And honestly, I think my goal for the year was

778
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: just kind of to get through it and hang on

779
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: for dear life. Right. I knew that it was going

780
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: to be a challenging year. I knew for me it

781
00:44:26,520 --> 00:44:29,439
Speaker 1: was making sure that the kids had everything that they needed,

782
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: that we kept the routine, you know, because obviously you

783
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: have goals at the beginning of the year, but those

784
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: can get upside down once you get punched in the face,

785
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: you know. I had no idea when we talked about

786
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 1: that stuff. I had no idea Teddy was going to

787
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: get diagnosed a month later with stage four cancer, and

788
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: then you just got a bigger stuff out. I think

789
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: for me in those days, the ninety days prior to that,

790
00:44:56,160 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: in many ways helped me so much when I got

791
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: the news of Teddy, because I had gone through so

792
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: much resistance and so much pain that even though it

793
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:18,359
Speaker 1: was really bad news, I could take it on. It's

794
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: almost like I spent the last ninety days building muscles

795
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: for that news. So when it hit me, it didn't

796
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 1: hit me as bad as it probably should have because

797
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: I had already gone through what I had gone through, right,

798
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: And I also had this unwavering belief and just this conviction.

799
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: And part of it was I was told it was

800
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: going to happen beforehand, that Teddy was going to get cured,

801
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: you know, and I chose to believe it. And I

802
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: was also told that Teddy's life is going to get

803
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: turned upside down before it happened, I didn't know how right,

804
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: So it's almost like it was a prophesized to me

805
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: by my mom's pastor. And but he said, hey, it's

806
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: gonna be okay. Something's gonna happen. But he said, just

807
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: remain positive, keep your eye on faith, and you're gonna

808
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: see how God's gonna work a miracle. Interesting, and so

809
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: when she went through it, I knew that she was

810
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,280
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. And I think that's the importance

811
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: of faith is that whether it's true, whether it's true

812
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: or not, you're believing that something positive is going to happen.

813
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: And I think if it wasn't for that also, I

814
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have been able to just conduct myself and

815
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: do the things that I that I that I needed

816
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: to do to make sure that the family didn't, you know,

817
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:01,799
Speaker 1: fall apart. And so, yeah, it was an interesting year

818
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: and I just like I said earlier, it was just

819
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: all about continuing to push through, understanding that no matter what,

820
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: that storm was eventually going to end or is going

821
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,240
Speaker 1: to end, and when it does, you better be ready

822
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: because good times are coming. And you hang on to

823
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: that thought. And you know, if you have big dreams

824
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 1: in life, it's not supposed to be easy, you know.

825
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: And I think that's why you have to not always

826
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: choose the easy path, not always try to choose the

827
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: easy road, you know, the easy way that's unfortunately what

828
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: most people are always trying to choose. And I've always

829
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: just chosen a life that demands courage, that demands resiliency,

830
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,800
Speaker 1: that demands strength, and I think when you do that,

831
00:47:54,040 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: you can make impact. And you know, it's tough sometimes,

832
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: but you know, if you want big things, you want

833
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 1: big dreams, you're gonna have big resistance. And that's where

834
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: sometimes self sufficiency doesn't work, because when you're going after

835
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: stuff and you have this big resistance that comes at you,

836
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: you need to believe in something right And you know,

837
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: I've always chosen to just believe in a higher power

838
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 1: and that's gotten me through through those tough times. Is

839
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been through a lot and that's always

840
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: been my what I hold on to. And you know,

841
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: another great verse of mind that I love is I

842
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. And

843
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: that's what's gotten me through those days. So anyway, looking

844
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: forward to a huge twenty twenty six, man, I'm excited

845
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: about it, that's for sure.

846
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 2: Well, last year I had one real goal among other

847
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,879
Speaker 2: small ones, and if you remember, I was like this year,

848
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 2: my biggest goal is that I want to learn everything

849
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,479
Speaker 2: and anything I can about AI because it's the next

850
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 2: big y, you know, revolution in our in our country

851
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 2: and our world really And although I started to learn,

852
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 2: I got distracted, and that happens. I ended up still

853
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 2: kind of staying in the same space as you know,

854
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 2: learning about where AI is going to go and where

855
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: you know, how it works. I didn't get into the

856
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: intricacies of how it works and how I can use

857
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 2: it to my advantage or to you know, enhance my

858
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,160
Speaker 2: skill set or my you know, task that I need

859
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 2: to accomplish. But what happened is around I think April,

860
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:54,240
Speaker 2: I was getting our our financials in order, our trust

861
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 2: and you know, making sure our house it big bears

862
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 2: in our trust and you know, just take care of

863
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: all that. And I happened to glance over up my

864
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 2: brokerage account and I noticed a big chunk of money

865
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 2: in and I'm like, what's going on. I didn't sell

866
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,879
Speaker 2: any stock. Why do I have this big chunk of money?

867
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 2: And that just led me down a rabbit hole and

868
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 2: it everything I learned in that probably twenty four hours

869
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 2: to forty eight hours, lit me up. And I was

870
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 2: so excited that nobody taught me this. You know, it's

871
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 2: one of those things like I went and I learned

872
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 2: what happened in this situation on my own, and it

873
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 2: came natural, almost natural, if you will. I comprehended it,

874
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 2: I understood it, and it just opened up my eyes

875
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 2: to a whole new world of investing. So since that day.

876
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 2: You know, I've been teaching myself and I have a

877
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 2: mentor that's teaching me his skill sets. He's been doing

878
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 2: it for thirty something years. He very smart guy, has

879
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 2: has been very successful in it. And the biggest thing

880
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 2: that I remember is the biggest lesson I've learned in

881
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 2: this world of our economy is the people that make

882
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 2: the most money in the world that I've ever met,

883
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 2: are not just entrepreneurs. It's bankers, it's financial advisors. It's

884
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: people that learn, live and learn and breathe money because money.

885
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 2: What I've learned is money is not just a tool.

886
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 2: It's not just go work your ass off, make money

887
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,640
Speaker 2: and buy shit, or you know, buy this, or prepare

888
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: yourself for buy a house and buy a car, or

889
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 2: you know, buy a business. You know, it's not that easy.

890
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 2: It's not that simple. It's understanding the history of money,

891
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 2: how it was developed, how it was used, how it

892
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 2: can be used for fraud, how it can be used

893
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,279
Speaker 2: for good, how can you be used for bad, But

894
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 2: more importantly, how it makes our not just our country run,

895
00:51:54,600 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: but our entire economy, world economy functions. And it just

896
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: hit me like that's why we have wars. That's why

897
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 2: we have, you know, so we have disagreement. And it's

898
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 2: been fascinating learning about more about money than I've ever had.

899
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 2: And I'm still, you know, fascinated by it. And I'm

900
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:21,879
Speaker 2: more fascinating because I'm actually doing well, I'm actually making money.

901
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 2: But it's exciting to find something like that that you've

902
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 2: grasped and you understand and you just want to drive

903
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 2: it home until God knows how great it could be.

904
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 2: You Know. One thing I have learned is is the

905
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 2: last six months, eight months maybe since I started, the

906
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 2: market has just been booming. It's it's it's kind of

907
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 2: hard to lose money in this market. But it has

908
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,359
Speaker 2: slowed down at the end of the at the end

909
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,359
Speaker 2: of the year, I think the December just slow down,

910
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:59,920
Speaker 2: the trading slowed down, the the money I'm making slow down.

911
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 2: But here's a whole new year. There's a whole new

912
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 2: you know, economic plan, and a whole new challenges with

913
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 2: you know, different presidents, different fraudulent things going on in

914
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 2: our country. All this ship that's just compounding how how

915
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 2: it makes money makes our world go around. And I

916
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 2: love it. I love it. So I'm that's kind of

917
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 2: what I'm you know, excited about and I'm learning more

918
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 2: about it. This year, I probably will dabble a little

919
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 2: bit more into AI because I believe that's going to

920
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 2: take our country and our in our world, our human

921
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,359
Speaker 2: kind to the next level. I just don't know exactly how.

922
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 2: And we have robotics coming to our market within the

923
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 2: next years. I mean, Elon's doing a great job with that,

924
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 2: and there's other companies that are launching that. So it's

925
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 2: very it's a very exciting place to be because I'm

926
00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 2: almost also seeing what's coming next, right, Yeah, And it's

927
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 2: driven by money. Money makes things go round. The market

928
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 2: is future forward looking, like when when you invest into

929
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 2: a stock, it's because the value of the teachers, and

930
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,279
Speaker 2: it's like, how do I become a fortune teller?

931
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,280
Speaker 1: Well, you're in a good place, right, anticipation versus reaction,

932
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: you know. I just told my daughters she's about to

933
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: she's gonna enter a senior year, and I was like

934
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: business administration and finance accounting, like know your accounting, Like

935
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: knowing money is such an important piece of success, I think,

936
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 1: and it is, and having a good relationship with money.

937
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: You know, most people, unfortunately don't have a good relationship

938
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: with money, and it's that scarcity versus abundance. And you know,

939
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: for me at the end of twenty twenty four, I

940
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: was a big difference between how I ended the year

941
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four to how I ended in twenty

942
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: twenty five. It is just and I was never like this,

943
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: but bitterness creates this is the scarcity mindset of like

944
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 1: you just get negative, Oh what if I lose everything?

945
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 1: And you know what, screw this, I'm not gonna let

946
00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:04,960
Speaker 1: all of this being taken away from me kind of deal,

947
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: and you get in this again very scarcity mindset, which

948
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: then sort of rob view of the opportunity to go

949
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 1: bring abundance. And I think for me it was a

950
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: big difference in twenty twenty five was all about abundance.

951
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't worried about losing money. I was thinking,

952
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:31,320
Speaker 1: we're gonna do very very well, and I wasn't trying

953
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: to block thing. I wasn't trying to stop things from

954
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: happening based on the fear of losing money. So I

955
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: think when you have this fear of losing money or

956
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: howarding everything because you think it's gonna get lost, just

957
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: what happens you're gonna lose it, you know. And it's

958
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,880
Speaker 1: not about being reckless with your money either, but it's

959
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:59,760
Speaker 1: just this expectancy of, you know, I'm a money making machine.

960
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: No matter what happens, I'm gonna figure it out, you know.

961
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: And the more and more that you have a good

962
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,479
Speaker 1: relationship with money, the more and more it starts coming

963
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: your way. And and one of the I guess one

964
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 1: of the great things of hitting rock bottom is you're like,

965
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: I can't get any worse than this, and that nothing

966
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: really affects you, you know, there's really nothing that can

967
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: really knock you down as hard as that knockout that

968
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: you got that you never thought you were just going

969
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: to happen.

970
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 2: So yeah, Well, one of the things that I've learned

971
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 2: in my old age, and I picked it up a

972
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 2: long time ago, was when I was working with my

973
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 2: dad's law firm, I was surrounded by other lawyers, you know,

974
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:53,440
Speaker 2: having conversations about life and then watching kind of what

975
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,800
Speaker 2: kind of lawyers they are, right, And this is not

976
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 2: just specific to lawyers, but lawyers are the some of

977
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 2: the scum bags out there, not all of them, but

978
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 2: and that's I'll stand by that. But the point I'm

979
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 2: trying to make is that there's going to be people

980
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 2: out there that don't want to work, don't want to

981
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 2: make a buck, you know, the right way, and they

982
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 2: will go after the people that are successful. In other words,

983
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 2: the more money you start making, the more successful you become.

984
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 2: And especially if you become a public figure, whether you're

985
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 2: a politician or you know, a successful entrepreneur like Elon Musk,

986
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 2: for example, I can only imagine how many scumbag lawyers

987
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 2: and scumbag people are just attacking him because he's a target.

988
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,600
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's you know, he's what the industry

989
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 2: calls deep pockets. So it's just the world we live in.

990
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 2: There's gonna be hyaenas. There's gonna be you know, scumbags

991
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 2: out there that just want to take people down because

992
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 2: they got nothing better to do. I literally had a

993
00:57:57,160 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 2: conversation with an attorney that says, I just you know,

994
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 2: draft a law, a law, A lawsuits and I throw

995
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 2: it against the wall and sometimes the company still loves, Yeah,

996
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 2: give me ten thousand dollars, I go away. What a scumbag,

997
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 2: What a bottom theater, you know.

998
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: And it's just a template too. It literally is a

999
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: template it is, and it's like it takes them like

1000
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: two minutes to write.

1001
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 2: Send it off. It pisses me out. But the reality

1002
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: is is that we do live in a world where

1003
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 2: there's good people and bad people. And again it goes

1004
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 2: back to the beginning of our conversation. Everything's about balance.

1005
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,560
Speaker 2: If we had all good people in this world, I

1006
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 2: don't know that it would be that exciting. You know.

1007
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 2: I think balance is key. And when you are driving

1008
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 2: yourself to be successful, healthy and live a prosperous life,

1009
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 2: you got to be ready for the ship the curve

1010
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 2: balls that come to you, because it's just the reality

1011
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,640
Speaker 2: of life. We live in a world there's good people

1012
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 2: and bad people.

1013
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: Yep, we wouldn't know the good if there wasn't bad.

1014
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 2: Do you have any goals this year? Anything you want

1015
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 2: to accomplish that I lean to keep you accountable with.

1016
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: I think again going back to twenty twenty five, that

1017
00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: I want to keep living is uh. I do feel

1018
00:59:25,600 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: like I lived a little more in twenty twenty five.

1019
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: You know, it's just I kind of went back to

1020
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 1: being that teenager again, not in a reckless way, but

1021
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: just in in just you know, making sure Sometimes if

1022
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:47,920
Speaker 1: you stop having fun, you start becoming ungrateful. Yeah, And

1023
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: I think fun sometimes makes you grateful about life and

1024
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: just I'm all about experiences now. So I want to

1025
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: travel more, which is I think I did a good

1026
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: job of that. I want to travel more. I have

1027
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: a big goal of, you know, taking my dad to

1028
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:07,480
Speaker 1: the World Cup in twenty I mean this year, spending

1029
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: a good thirty days with him and just traveling everywhere

1030
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: with them, so you know, hopefully he makes it and

1031
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: well not hopefully he will and we're gonna have a

1032
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a blast. And again being there more

1033
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: for the kids as well. You know, one of the

1034
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:27,919
Speaker 1: things that that I've gotten better at is just reading

1035
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: school emails and being more involved with their work and

1036
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:37,440
Speaker 1: asking them questions about their school work. You know, that

1037
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: was something more that I was on Teddy. You know,

1038
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: I get all these emails coming from school, wouldn't even

1039
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: look at them. I'm like, Teddy, that's that's you. Yeah,

1040
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 1: And now I've been more involved in that end. So

1041
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: continuing that, continuing to make sure that I can give

1042
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: them everything I can so that they can continue their

1043
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: routine what they're used to, not seeing a drop off.

1044
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm sure that brings me. I'm sure that

1045
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 2: brings you closer together with your kids too, right, you know,

1046
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Speaker 2: because in my experience, it's not it's I'm not saying

1047
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 2: your Disneyland dad, but there's a lot of Disneyland dads

1048
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 2: that are out there just living their lives, doing whatever

1049
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 2: they do, and then they leave everything else, the responsibilities

1050
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 2: to the wife to handle, but they really don't know

1051
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 2: what's truly going on in their kids' lives. And the

1052
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:37,600
Speaker 2: dads that and even the moms that spend that quality

1053
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 2: time just having a conversation with the kids and really

1054
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 2: getting to the feelings and understanding what's going on with

1055
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 2: the kids is so invaluable. And you know, I'm not

1056
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:51,200
Speaker 2: saying you didn't do it before, but now that you

1057
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 2: are consciously aware of it and getting involved with the

1058
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 2: school emails and all that stuff, I'm sure you can

1059
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 2: get a better idea of what's going on in the

1060
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:02,520
Speaker 2: kids heads, right yep.

1061
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: And it's you know, my dad taught me this, and

1062
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: then I heard from a mentor as well that you know,

1063
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: things aren't taught, they're caught. Again, things aren't taught, they're caught.

1064
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 2: And for me.

1065
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: Seeing my dad always take care of his mom. That

1066
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: was something I'd never forget and to this day, I

1067
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: am the way I am with my mom because I

1068
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: saw my dad always taking care of his mom first.

1069
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: His mom was first, and nobody could get in the

1070
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,480
Speaker 1: way of messing with his mom, right, and then he

1071
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: took care of He's very responsible, took care of everyone.

1072
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 1: And for me now I'm at that place where I

1073
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: want my kids to see that that no matter what,

1074
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: you show up for your family. And I want them

1075
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: to see that, hey, you know what, Dad was always there.

1076
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: No matter what this could have happened, that could have happened,

1077
01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 1: this guy still showed up. And I also want them

1078
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: to see, like, as they get older, you got to

1079
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: cut your mom with respect. You got to always be

1080
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: there for your mom. And because you only have one mom, yeah,

1081
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 1: you know that. That's a driver for me as well too,

1082
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: to be an example for them in that sense that

1083
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: no matter what happens, you show up.

1084
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 2: I think I think one of the biggest examples that

1085
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 2: you did with Teddy is you know, be there even

1086
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 2: though in spite of you know, the separation, you were

1087
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 2: able to show the kids that none of that matters.

1088
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 2: Right now, what matters is that you take care of

1089
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 2: mom no matter what's going on. So that's an awesome,

1090
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 2: awesome lesson and point of view. What other things have

1091
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:50,360
Speaker 2: you have you shown the kids that you know, this

1092
01:03:50,560 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 2: is what you do when your mom is fighting cancer

1093
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 2: or you know, fighting for her life that you can

1094
01:03:56,720 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 2: share with our audience.

1095
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: Well, I think making sure that they have awareness about

1096
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:07,440
Speaker 1: how mom is showing up right, you know, bringing out

1097
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 1: the depositive qualities like look, even though your mom's going

1098
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: through this, this and this, look at look at what

1099
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: she's doing. Like life's going to get hard sometimes you

1100
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: got to still continue to push forward.

1101
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 2: And do you have these conversations with all the kids

1102
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 2: or is it like different? I mean they're all different ages, right, my.

1103
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 1: Eleven year old, my thirteen year old, and my seventeen

1104
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: year old. For sure, the six year old she probably

1105
01:04:29,840 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: doesn't understand those kind of conversations just yet, but definitely

1106
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: with with with the kids. Yeah, like, hey, your energy

1107
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: levels low, like you need to we're gonna go as

1108
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: a mom, I need you to get your enthusiasm up,

1109
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, that's all I need to be because

1110
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 1: we need to get her enthusiasm going, you.

1111
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 2: Know, that's aw So that is so good for you. Man. Yeah, well, man,

1112
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 2: I think you know. All I could do now is

1113
01:04:56,640 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 2: wish you an incredible twenty twenty six. Obviously we'll be

1114
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 2: talking on our next podcast.

1115
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I love that you're into this the finance

1116
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: world now, man, that's an exciting industry to be in,

1117
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: and I think you're going to do very very well.

1118
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: And it's all about excitement. And I see how excited

1119
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: you are, and especially you know, what causes you to

1120
01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 1: take action is your ability to think you can get

1121
01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 1: a result. So, like you said, now that you're getting results,

1122
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: you want to take even more action towards it. So

1123
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 1: I think you're going to blow it up. So I

1124
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear more about it.

1125
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 2: Thanks, brothers, appreciate that. All right, No, man, always up

1126
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:36,520
Speaker 2: with you. I have a wonderful day, bro.

1127
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: All right, you too,