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Speaker 1: Hey, I don't care if you're in the style of

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Speaker 1: We make USA products no better what here in America,

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Speaker 2: David ruthiverb once I I'm Jamie.

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Speaker 1: He's like, yep, I want to like walk out of

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Speaker 1: Look at my plates, Like there's a marine that made

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Speaker 2: Like I support that.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm all fired up right now.

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Speaker 4: What you're talking about is is the essence of what

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Speaker 3: Just your story alone.

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Speaker 4: Like guy grows up, got a pastor's son, going to

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Speaker 4: running young men, teaching them how to strengthen, get hit

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Speaker 4: that's the story that I think is coming back in America.

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Speaker 4: One of the things that I've learned in my life

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Speaker 4: that reason dates all the way back to the late

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Speaker 4: you know, there's a lot of people out there that'll

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Speaker 3: All that, it's all bull.

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Speaker 4: The reality is is that the core is the heartbeat

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Speaker 4: of the military. They do the best training, they have

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Speaker 4: So today I am absolutely fired up to bring on

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Speaker 4: Okinawa right now, which is so cool. That's why it's

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Speaker 4: fired up to welcome Grant to the show. Grant, thanks

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Speaker 1: Good intro we might have to play that for the

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth Marine Corps Birthday ball.

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Speaker 4: You know, that's funny that you're saying that, because I've

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure about the DC.

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Speaker 4: So one of my closest friends is a major in

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Speaker 4: I met him when we were at the agency together,

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Speaker 4: And then he couldn't handle it, and so he flipped

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I tell you what, I love Youford, South Carolina,

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Speaker 1: But I went like four years deanless and I look

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Speaker 1: at my college and I think if I was not

435
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Speaker 1: in the Citadel where it was like you will go

436
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Speaker 1: back to your room at nineteen hundred, and you will

437
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Speaker 1: study until twenty one hundred, and someone will come in

438
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Speaker 1: every hour to make sure that you're studying. And you

439
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Speaker 1: will be on campus from Monday to Thursday, except if

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Speaker 1: you have this GPA. Then on Wednesdays you're allowed to

441
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Speaker 1: leave after fourteen hundred, but you have to be back

442
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Speaker 1: by twenty hundred. And on the weekends, if the football

443
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Speaker 1: team wins, you can spend the night out on Saturday

444
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Speaker 1: or if you you know, have a four point zero,

445
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Speaker 1: you know there's all these rules. Yeah, for me, it

446
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Speaker 1: was perfect. It was like, this is exactly what I need.

447
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Speaker 1: But in general, I think for young guys, hey, yeah,

448
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Speaker 1: you can go. And I'm like my brothers went to

449
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Speaker 1: the University of South Carolina. I'm a game Cock fan.

450
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Speaker 1: I got a nephew at the University of Georgia and

451
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Speaker 1: I'm super proud of him. He's in like a good

452
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Speaker 1: Christian fraternity and like, so there's a lot of stuff

453
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Speaker 1: you can do.

454
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Speaker 2: But I think there's something of.

455
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Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, anyone can go and get drunk at some

456
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Speaker 1: local town and skip a bunch of classes and get

457
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Speaker 1: these and like end up with a degree and be like, yeah,

458
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Speaker 1: I went to wherever and at the military colleges. Is

459
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Speaker 1: it the hardest thing in the world. No, are you

460
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Speaker 1: gonna face many more hard things. Absolutely, But there's something

461
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Speaker 1: of like at that age that I respect in folks

462
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Speaker 1: that says, you know what, I.

463
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Speaker 2: Don't want to do the common path.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to do the normal, easy route, and

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Speaker 1: it's the citadel like as hard as like doing something else,

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Speaker 1: Like of course not right, Like it's not crazy, but

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Speaker 4: you know, that's kind of that the thing, you know

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501
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Speaker 4: you know, and you or that little bit of entrepreneurial

502
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Speaker 4: spirit or the adventure or wonder loss and you like,

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Speaker 4: I think a lot of people kids think that those

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Speaker 4: and have a structure that you can apply in if

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Speaker 4: it's the military and you get that adventure or it's

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Speaker 4: you know, starting your own business or or whatever it is.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's it gives you the structure and the

511
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Speaker 4: confidence that for me is what I really seen about

512
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Speaker 4: guys coming out Like my my first platoon uh AOI

513
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Speaker 4: se a guy named Landry was down at Texas A

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Speaker 4: and M and and you know, all I would ever

515
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Speaker 4: hear about are them building that damn structure and you know,

516
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Speaker 4: and and enlighten it on fire and you know whatever

517
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Speaker 4: it was, and you know, but it was more so

518
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Speaker 4: like the spreed core that that existed within his group.

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Speaker 4: And can you talk a little bit about that culture,

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Speaker 4: that connection to guys in terms of pushing yourself, how

521
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Speaker 4: that works.

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Speaker 3: And then how you know how that kind of peer

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Speaker 3: it's not what is it.

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Speaker 4: It's like a peer a pere influence, a positive peer

525
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Speaker 4: influence to stay within those boundaries because they lead to

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Speaker 4: a good place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I'll transition from the from the citadel,

528
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Speaker 1: take it kind into business a little bit.

529
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Speaker 2: But get the citadel.

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Speaker 1: For example, you go through your knob, they call them

531
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Speaker 1: your freshmen, and it's like, you know, you're trying and shoes,

532
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Speaker 1: you're shining brass, you're you know, running around funny and

533
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: fast and all this stuff. But you don't want to

534
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Speaker 1: be the guy that like keeps the group back. And

535
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Speaker 1: like in a lot of times, you want to be

536
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Speaker 1: the guy that like propels the group forward. But the

537
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Speaker 1: main thing is like I don't want to be the

538
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Speaker 1: guy that is the problem that makes first Squad look

539
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: bad or Delta Company look better, you know, whatever the

540
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: case is. And so there's like this, Hey, I'm gonna

541
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Speaker 1: like do my stuff, and then I'm gonna make sure

542
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Speaker 1: that my roommate did his stuff, and then I'm gonna.

543
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Speaker 2: Go next door and do it.

544
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Speaker 1: And it builds like this this cohesion of hey, you know,

545
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Speaker 1: we're this and we're better than Charlie Company, even though

546
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Speaker 1: like we're all first Battalion, which we're like we love,

547
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Speaker 1: which is better than second Battalion. And then like you

548
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Speaker 1: zoom out like on a grand skit scale, and you're like, oh,

549
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Speaker 1: I'm doing something that's like completely you know, different than

550
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Speaker 1: what the piers across the United States are doing. But

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Speaker 1: I think you thinking about confidence and like building something

552
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Speaker 1: in the young man I think is huge and I've

553
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Speaker 1: seen that a lot in the gym, and it's kind

554
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Speaker 1: of what led me to open my business. Is when

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Speaker 1: I got my first platoon, and it's so different. Now

556
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Speaker 1: I'm deployed down like I'm talking to you, deployed on

557
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Speaker 1: a podcast when I first got my platoon. When I

558
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Speaker 1: first got my unit, it was like, hey, Lieutenant Brogie,

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Speaker 1: you'll be in Afghanistan ninety days. Like here's the training schedule,

560
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Speaker 1: like get ready, and like that was the mindset and

561
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Speaker 1: there was no talk of like liberty. Am I gonna

562
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Speaker 1: have time off when I'm in Ocnala, I'm I gonna

563
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Speaker 1: be able to Tokyo. It was like you're going to

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Speaker 1: a combat zone and you're going to shoot a bunch

565
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Speaker 1: of rockets and Canada artillery and like make sure that

566
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Speaker 1: your guys are ready, and you're like oh, And I remember.

567
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Speaker 2: Going to my platoon and looking at me like, man,

568
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Speaker 2: these guys are like so tiny.

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Speaker 1: And at the time I'm two twenty now, I was

570
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Speaker 1: probably two hundred pounds, and I was like these guys

571
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Speaker 1: like need to lift weights. And you see like these

572
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Speaker 1: corporals and it's just a different thing, and I don't

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Speaker 1: want to We could talk all day, probably David, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's like when I was a lieutenant, all the

575
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Speaker 1: court all like your E fours, e fives, e six

576
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Speaker 1: is were stacked and like you're the guy with like

577
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Speaker 1: a national defense rivet right yeah, and you're like, oh,

578
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Speaker 1: they've like all done stuff and it's interesting and when

579
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Speaker 1: now we've gone through this period with like no war

580
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Speaker 1: where it's like it's like now you look and it's like, well,

581
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Speaker 1: you've come to Canal four times, which is good, right,

582
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Speaker 1: Like all that I'm not taking away. It's like so

583
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Speaker 1: much of the service's chance and timing and you know

584
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Speaker 1: what's going on in the world. But I say all

585
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Speaker 1: that to say you'd have a guy he'd already been

586
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Speaker 1: to combat here, I am like, haven't, but like he's

587
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Speaker 1: timid or he's shy, And so for me, it was

588
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Speaker 1: like everyone's gonna lift weights.

589
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Speaker 2: We're gonna lift weights.

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Speaker 1: And I always say it, it's it's I'm bringing it

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Speaker 1: back to like the citadel, like doing hard things, doing

592
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Speaker 1: something different. It's like if you can get a twenty

593
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Speaker 1: year old kid to deadlift three hundred and fifty pounds,

594
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Speaker 1: like he's a veteran CEO, like one guaranteed he's a

595
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Speaker 1: betteran CEO because when he walks into a room now

596
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Speaker 1: or he goes into a PT session, he's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: stronger than you. What you means, I'm better than you,

598
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Speaker 1: Like you might be smarter than you me you might

599
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Speaker 1: like have other things about me. Your family may have

600
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Speaker 1: like a higher income whatever, but like I'm stronger than

601
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Speaker 1: you and and like the amount of confidence. I've always

602
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Speaker 1: loved that, and so everywhere I've gone in the military,

603
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Speaker 1: not just because it's what my business is, but I'm like,

604
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Speaker 1: get strong. Like if you get strong, you have like

605
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Speaker 1: a level of confidence. And it's the same kind of

606
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Speaker 1: thing with the military schools or people are joining the military.

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Speaker 1: It's like a guy that's like at the citadel, Like,

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Speaker 1: is there anything like super special that happens there? Yeah,

609
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: there is, like because everyone that graduates, like I did

610
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Speaker 1: something that you wouldn't do. You make fun of me

611
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: because you went party for four years and I held standards.

612
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: I got up, I ran the stairs, you know, I

613
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Speaker 1: did whatever it was. And uh yeah, I think that's

614
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Speaker 1: like the culture and the difference, and like I encourage

615
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Speaker 1: young men. I mean, I have a daughter. Now, I

616
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Speaker 1: don't know if i'd want her to go there, But

617
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Speaker 1: if I have a son, I'd be like, yeah, you

618
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Speaker 1: got like I go Siddle, like you gotta go sill.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like harder, it's different. Yeah, hopefully that answers that.

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Speaker 3: No, it's that was brilliant, Thank you.

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Speaker 4: And I also love the idea about cultivating strength, right,

622
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Speaker 4: There's a lot of different ways to do that, you know.

623
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Speaker 4: I remember when I showed up, I thought I was,

624
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 4: you know, billy badass, you know, graduating buds and I

625
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 4: go to eighteen delta and then I show up at

626
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Speaker 4: Team one and like, dudes are monsters.

627
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Speaker 1: You know.

628
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Speaker 3: There's there's guys that are just huge.

629
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Speaker 4: And they're and they're when they're going into the you

630
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Speaker 4: know we're doing you know, seven thirty mustards start pet

631
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,719
Speaker 4: and these guys are going into gym and they're just

632
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 4: throwing lead around for an hour and a half straight

633
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:35,000
Speaker 4: and not you know, not not thirty five pound downball dumbells.

634
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 4: These dudes are like god, the seventy fives and they're

635
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 4: just repping out and I'm just.

636
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Speaker 3: Like, oh shit, like this is.

637
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Speaker 4: Gonna be this is really hard, Like I have to

638
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Speaker 4: get strong, you know. And and I think that mentality

639
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 4: in particular for young men is such a positive thing, right.

640
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 4: And Jordan and I talk about it all the time,

641
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 4: and he talks about you know, him meeting you you

642
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 4: know him, him wanting to improve and and and you know,

643
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Speaker 4: you needing some video editing, which what I thought was phenomenal,

644
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 4: you know, but it's like it's like that that that

645
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 4: relationship that comes out of getting strong, right, and I

646
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Speaker 4: and I and and and I think that's just a

647
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Speaker 4: phenomenal uh way to.

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Speaker 3: What is it? Position?

649
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 4: How to how to increase uh opportunity for yourself? Right?

650
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 4: The stronger you can be, the more confidence you have,

651
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 4: then you can flip that confidence into ambition, and then

652
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 4: you can begin to aspire to whatever it is, whether

653
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 4: it's you know, doing multiple combat deployments in the core

654
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 4: or starting a business or whatever it is. So can

655
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 4: you tell us where that fascination or the the it's

656
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 4: not fascination, the recognition that there's a correlation between strength

657
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 4: and success and then what what really launched you down

658
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 4: and that road to want to build an organization that

659
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 4: not only produces or teaches strength and conditioning, but also

660
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 4: produces the equipment for it. I think that's really the

661
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 4: fascinating aspect of it for me.

662
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean my first battery, Tango battery. Definitely, that

663
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,320
Speaker 1: was where I like cut my teeth as a coach,

664
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: Like I wanted people to get strong. I saw the

665
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 1: benefits add my own life you know, I grew up

666
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: Southern Baptists, like very strict household, you know, weren't allowed

667
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: to do a lot of things. And like you go

668
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: to the citel and you're seeing a bunch of friends

669
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, I was all state. This that

670
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: was all state that I was like, I ran around

671
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: a red ring and a wana like I like, don't

672
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: like continue, you know, like I'm like nothing. But then

673
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:50,800
Speaker 1: I went to the gym and it's like the grounds

674
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: level at the foot of the cross, like if I'm

675
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: stronger than your rates, Like I like that at the

676
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: citadel and I lift at a bunch and then I

677
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: did that with my platoon, And what I saw was

678
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: the change in you know, mindset of human beings. And

679
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: I like, I do enjoy like helping folks. But it's like, man,

680
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: if you get someone strong, you help them get through

681
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: like a lot of like hard stuff in life. Like

682
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: if they like there's nothing I like better, Like you

683
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 1: bring someone in, teach them how deadlift. They're outing five

684
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: pounds each workout, They're doing fine. It's like a you know,

685
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty pound guy, he goes deathlift two forty.

686
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: He gets the first set of five. He comes in

687
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: two days later, it's two forty five. It's not heavy,

688
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: like you're still like working form technique. He's been training

689
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: three weeks. He goes to pull up, but it's the

690
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: first time there's like some real resistance to where he

691
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: thinks like, oh, I don't know, and he like, let's go.

692
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 1: It's like I can't and I hate to do this,

693
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: but it's reality. You just yell at the guy. You

694
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: just freaking scream at him, and you're like, don't be

695
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: a pussy, grab the ball, up your shins into the ball,

696
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: push the floor away, and all of a sudden he's

697
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: got one out and you're like, don't stop, do the

698
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: second one. Don't be a whatever. Like you just like

699
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: braid him. And then he gets through set of five

700
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: and they finished and let go and they look at

701
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: you and it's just look of like I never thought

702
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: I could do that. Yeah, And I'm like back and

703
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: then like you have no idea you're gonna do a

704
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: three fifteen for five, like you're just getting started, and

705
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: there's like a breakthrough. So I sailed out to say

706
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: I really liked the way that it affected people, and

707
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: then I kind of started my gym on accident. I

708
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: had the coaching starting string credential. I was still in

709
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps. I didn't know if I wasn't get

710
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: in or out, and I was coaching another guy. Were

711
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 1: actually opened the business with a partner, and I didn't

712
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: mean to, but I was coaching him. But I didn't

713
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: realize I was coaching him for him to get his credential.

714
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: And he's like, I'm going to open a gym, well

715
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: you open it with me, And I was like, I'm marine.

716
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,919
Speaker 1: I'm about to go to the Republican Georgia for three months,

717
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: like I can't open a business. And he's like, okay, cool,

718
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna open it any of them. I was like, well,

719
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be left out, and so I

720
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, we'll be partners. So I opened

721
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: the business. That was a huge learning experience. After like

722
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: six months, I bought him. I was like, I want

723
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: the whole thing and anyway that like I wanted to

724
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: develop like what I see in Marines that have like

725
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: already gotten through this barrier of hey, I want to

726
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: set up for the Marine Corps. And then like you know,

727
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,720
Speaker 1: we get a coachman strength like human beings want must

728
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: want this, and so that's why I started the gym.

729
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 2: And then the gym was tough. It was really tough

730
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 2: at first because you like can't.

731
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: Just put a sign up and charge money and expect

732
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: he's successful. And like I thought, like I have this

733
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: product that I know is really effective, Like I'll just

734
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 1: be rich, and it's like, no, grant, you won't be rich.

735
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: Like you have to like market to people, and like

736
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: you can't yell at seven year old woman actually, like

737
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: most people like to be yelled at in the gym setting.

738
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: But but I like, look, it was like a crash

739
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: course and I'm like still active duty. I'm like, man,

740
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: this is like hard. And then there's the whole thing

741
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: is where I'm like everyone should double at five hundred

742
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 1: pounds and then like maybe David Rutherford like if we

743
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: just like keep them that looked a four hundred, it's okay, right,

744
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: and like keep happy, like getting Ninja and needles have

745
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: to eat a bunch of cottage cheese and drink a

746
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: bunch of milk, and so it was it was a

747
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 1: crash course for me, but the intent was teach people,

748
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: you know that doing hard things like one if you

749
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: increase your physical strength, you will live longer hands down

750
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: physical strength adaptation if you get stronger. All aspects of

751
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: physical fitness includes improve and you know, everyone should get

752
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: strong And like it was like, Hey, I'm not trying

753
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: to make people always ask me like, yoh, you own

754
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: a powerlifting gym. I'm like nothing from the sort Like no,

755
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: Like I own a gym where guys that work behind

756
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,280
Speaker 1: computers realize they're getting older, like want to impact their kids,

757
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 1: need to get stronger. And they've never like they weren't

758
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: on team one, like they'd all know how to lift.

759
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: They've never seen guys throw seventy fives around. They have

760
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: no idea what to do in the gym, and I

761
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: want to bring them in, make them feel comfortable, like

762
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: teach them how to get strong and then then you

763
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: the reason they stay customers is because they see, you know,

764
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: the change in their life. And I get into the

765
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: MAK camp business stuff. But I feel like you probably

766
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,839
Speaker 1: have some thoughts after all that.

767
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, I mean it's interesting, you know, you're

768
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 4: you're in the midst of this other career, and you know,

769
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 4: being an officer in any branch of the services is

770
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 4: is intense because you know, anytime you are responsible for

771
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 4: other human beings, in particular other young, younger human beings

772
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 4: trying to figure things out, in particular other younger Marines.

773
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 4: I would imagine that's always a stressful The younger Marines

774
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 4: that I used to hang out with, we're always taxing

775
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 4: their officers.

776
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 2: That's been changed there. Nothing is sure.

777
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 3: I'm sure, I'm sure so, uh, you know.

778
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 4: But to use the vehicle of something that's innate, I

779
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 4: think in the in the organization itself, like you know,

780
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 4: I think for me, it's always you know, being a

781
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 4: part of core. There's a necessity built in for strength,

782
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 4: and so to be able to teach them to do

783
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 4: it the right way, and then and then all of

784
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 4: a sudden to discover that, oh, this is something that

785
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 4: I would want to do with civilians as your active duty.

786
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what.

787
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 4: When I was active duty, I freaking hated civilians. I

788
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 4: didn't want to talk to them. I couldn't take them.

789
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 4: They drove me nuts much less even wanting to, you know,

790
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 4: work with them to develop any strength. I mean, I

791
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 4: didn't even consider working with you know, human you know, civilians, adults,

792
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 4: until you know, much much later in what I do for,

793
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 4: you know, in.

794
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: Terms of coach and motivational coaching.

795
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 4: But you know, I think starting that business, what did

796
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 4: it teach you about yourself in terms of how how

797
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 4: much could you stretch yourself?

798
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 3: How much?

799
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 4: Because it's about time commitment and time allocation and the frustration.

800
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 4: I mean, any business you start requires literally, I mean

801
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 4: you have to think about it around the clock. And

802
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 4: that's what I think a lot of people don't get

803
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,439
Speaker 4: whether they when they go in notchrepiuse they think they've

804
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 4: got a cool idea, you know, and like you said,

805
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 4: you're just going to throw up a sign and the

806
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 4: gates are gonna flood.

807
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 3: But that's not how it does. How'd you manage all that?

808
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:22,799
Speaker 1: Uh?

809
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 3: At the same time.

810
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so I got my Starting Strength coaching credential,

811
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: and I had a one car garage there in California,

812
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: and I had been coaching a bunch of Marines, and

813
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,439
Speaker 1: so Starting Strength had like a coach's directory and there's

814
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: like a pin on a map to show where you were.

815
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: And so I, you know, said, hey, I'm one hundred

816
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: dollars for sixty minutes. And Starting Strength is like a

817
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: very if someone wants it like they want it right,

818
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: Like it's like it's most people don't know what it is,

819
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: but if they know what it is, they know it

820
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: works and they want it. And so I think it

821
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: was one hundred dollars an hour. And I remember I

822
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,280
Speaker 1: was every Saturday, I had like a calum laid link

823
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: or some crap, and like every Saturday I'd coach for

824
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: like eight hours. It'd be like seven am, like some

825
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: stranger from Las Vegas would like drive to California. Because

826
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: I was starting to coach next day, next I next,

827
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: And I remember talking to another coach and names Andy

828
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: Baker's Drenth coach. She's on like pretty popular necks and stuff.

829
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: And I remember complaining to him and he was like, oh, well,

830
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: what if you doubled your price? And I was like, well,

831
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: what do you mean. He's like, well, you're complaining that

832
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: you never have a Saturday off, Like what if your

833
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: price was doubled, Like if you made sixteen hundred dollars

834
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: instead of eight hundred dollars on that Saturday, Like, would

835
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: you be happy?

836
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, it'd be great.

837
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:40,759
Speaker 1: He's like, well, then just double your price and if

838
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: you like lose some clients like it'll be fine because

839
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: like you'll make up for it. I was like, okay,

840
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: so I doubled the so I'd double the price, and

841
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: like I was still booked out.

842
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 2: I was like this is incredible, Like I'm gonna be

843
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 2: the man.

844
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 4: Yeah.

845
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: And then I was like, well what I had eight

846
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: racks at once, and I just like ran around the

847
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: room and like coach David squad and they coached Doerty squad.

848
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 2: And then I went over here to this guy.

849
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: I'm like then I'd be like the richest guy ever,

850
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: Like what a great idea, and so you know not.

851
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: So that was the like open the gym and then

852
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: you open the gym and you just you just realize,

853
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,400
Speaker 1: like okay, one, like most of the human populations just

854
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: want to do hard things, even in Orange County, California,

855
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: you know later South Carolina, but like where where like

856
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: people like Carolina about fitness, it's like it gets hard

857
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 1: every time they come in, it gets harder. It takes

858
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: a long time. Like strength training isn't free. There's no

859
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: like hey, six weeks to six apps. It's like no,

860
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: you come in here and like commit your life for

861
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: ninety minutes three times a week and oh, by the way,

862
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,240
Speaker 1: everything you do outside the gym is gonna affect your performance,

863
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: and you have to do those things. And so I

864
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: was like struggling with this identity of Hey, I could

865
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: make this easier and I might have more clients, but

866
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: the thing that I believe in is that it needs

867
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: to be hard and difficult, and like those are the

868
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: people that I actually want to teach. And it was

869
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: really it was really difficult. I at a larger thing.

870
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: It is like I'm still a marine. You know, I

871
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: got eighteen months left at that point of active duty time,

872
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: and so like every moment that I'm not working marining,

873
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm like in this gym and I just immediately like

874
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: every business I had ever walked into, and I think

875
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: I'll never walk into a business ever again my entire

876
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: life until I die, and like think about it the same. Right,

877
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: It's like when you walk in and like the bathrooms clean,

878
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: the trash cans empty, like the person up front is friendly,

879
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: and like it's not the owner, and you just like

880
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: start to realize like wow, like it's really difficult to

881
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: like build this organization or this thing that like values

882
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: everything that I want even when I'm not you know,

883
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: in there. And so it was good though in the

884
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: sense that being a marine made me hire people immediately,

885
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: made me like delegate immediately, and I tell marines all

886
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: the time because a lot of guys, it's really interesting

887
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 1: with young guys because they're all YouTubers.

888
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 2: Like, sure, you have like a lot of YouTube subscribers.

889
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't have a lot of subscribers, Like

890
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: let me show you accounts that they're like, but you like,

891
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,360
Speaker 1: you know, they were like really fascinated with that. They're like,

892
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,319
Speaker 1: I want to open a business, and it's like, man,

893
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: there's like so much more to it than you know,

894
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: what meets the eye.

895
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 2: And so it was.

896
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: It was it was a steep learning curve for me.

897
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:28,320
Speaker 1: Of most people, I think, like particularly vets or like

898
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: they go in the gym or fitness industry, they go

899
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: in and they do everything themselves, which is great and

900
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: like you can make an honest living if you do

901
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: everything yourself. But if you do everything yourself, like you

902
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 1: get capped out. And then the other thing that happens

903
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: is you start like hating to do the thing that

904
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: you built your business about because like you know, you're

905
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 1: making the cake instead of like whatever, and so that

906
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: was that was a big curve for me, and the

907
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: Marine Corps being in active duty at the time really

908
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: helped me like nope, I need like a gym manager,

909
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: I need coaches, I need to not be in there.

910
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 1: And I think that's really helped me a lot as

911
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: it expanded into equipment and done other things and like now,

912
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: like I have been away from my business going on

913
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: ten months now, and obviously, as you know, you're never

914
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: away from your business. I'm like, I'm like on a

915
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: boat in the middle of floating off the coast Papa

916
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: New Guinea, like trying to get a.

917
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 2: Drone Wi Fi to like find out, you know, what's

918
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 2: sales metrics are, Like, You're never away from it.

919
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: But it did teach me a lot in terms of

920
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: like you got to delegate and use people and then

921
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: how do you not lose the identity of the business itself.

922
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, well.

923
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 4: I you know, I think the other thing is too

924
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 4: is in you know, the gym industry is probably one

925
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,479
Speaker 4: of the most difficult industries to be successful in, in

926
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 4: particular with all the big box gyms and all that

927
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 4: stuff that are competitive. But it you know, if you

928
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 4: get a great gym culture, you know, I think that

929
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 4: really becomes what attracts people then results, Right, you come

930
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 4: in and the training's dialed in, the the culture's good,

931
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 4: and and you if you've got this whole energy and

932
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 4: it becomes this little like going back to what your

933
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 4: dad did as a church, it's it's it's a church

934
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,840
Speaker 4: for strength, right, It's a church for you know, because

935
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 4: the one thing that I've always had and the gym,

936
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 4: is every time I'm dealing with, you know, a ton

937
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 4: of crap in my life, if if I go in

938
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 4: and start pushing steel, it goes it subsides right there

939
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 4: because I'm focused on my own improvement. I'm spoke focused

940
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 4: on you know, getting you know, actual physiologically stronger, but

941
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 4: that always translates into greater mental emotional strength as well too.

942
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 4: And when you can provide that whole thing to people,

943
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:54,760
Speaker 4: it's infectious. And I think you know that's what great

944
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 4: gems are about, uh, because you know it's you know,

945
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 4: Jeordia and I've talked about, you know, what is what

946
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 4: is the essence of of of really the sophistication of

947
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 4: building strength. What is the program, the pro the program,

948
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 4: the programmatic approach, and which programs work well, which programs

949
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 4: don't work well, you know. And I also think, you know,

950
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 4: after the kind of the CrossFit you know, era of

951
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 4: whatever that was, and you know, I think people would

952
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 4: go in and they felt that family stuff. But you know,

953
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 4: next thing, you know, they're hurting their shoulder, they're hurting

954
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,280
Speaker 4: their back because there it's all for speed and time

955
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,240
Speaker 4: and the competitive aspect, and so it kind of faded,

956
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 4: and you know, and then this other other stuff emerges.

957
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 4: But like a great solid gym culture pulls people in

958
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 4: in a very like I had.

959
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 3: I had a real good buddy mine. His name was

960
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 3: Derek Christiansen.

961
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 4: He's a former marine, you know, very into like programmatic approach.

962
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 4: This is how it works, this is the system. And

963
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,839
Speaker 4: he had the opportunity to build a really big gym

964
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 4: and ball called Revolution Fitness, and and then you know,

965
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 4: the economy collapsed and he lost the gym, and you know,

966
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,279
Speaker 4: you know you and what he ended up hearing for

967
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 4: years afterwards is whatever came in to replace the facility,

968
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 4: there was never the culture there, and so it becomes

969
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 4: such an integral part of those dynamics is to be

970
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 4: able to go to a place where you're welcome, where

971
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 4: people are paying attention, you know, and you feel like

972
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 4: the culture is like you can.

973
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 3: Blend into it with this hard work and.

974
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 4: That that's one of the cool things that I think,

975
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 4: you know, as Jordie was describing you to me, that

976
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 4: really made an impact and and and so it's interesting,

977
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 4: But I'd like to just pivot real quick and talk about,

978
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 4: you know, getting into manufacturing. Can you tell us the

979
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 4: story about what prompted you, because running a facility in

980
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 4: and of itself, as you said, is difficult, but now

981
00:49:56,680 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 4: getting into the manufacturing industry, which is people have no

982
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 4: idea how hard it is to actually produce, to make

983
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 4: things and then sell them. And so I think it's

984
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 4: just a really cool story about how you started your

985
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 4: own kind of barbell and weights company. So would you

986
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 4: share that with us really?

987
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: So like the short version would be had the gym

988
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: actually had two gems there in California, you know, had

989
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: maybe one hundred and forty members between the two. And

990
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: the weight training program is built around a barbell, plates,

991
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: squats presses, bench presses, and deadlists, and it's like, hey,

992
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: you don't need a bunch of stuff like this is

993
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: what you want to do. Twenty twenty happened, gyms were

994
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: required to shut down. I shut down for about fifty days,

995
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: and during that time the second camp that they said

996
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: did shut down. I unbolted every power rax. I had

997
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: two gyms, each had eight racks. I had, you know,

998
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: twenty two barbels, however many pounds of plates. And I

999
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: felt like I was in the Marine Corps. I got

1000
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: fell I had just gotten out. I've been out for

1001
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: three months. But I like plotted where everyone lived, all

1002
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: my members, and I like picked locations on the map, like, Okay,

1003
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: this guy lives near David Rutherford. I know he has

1004
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: two car garage and can build a gym in there.

1005
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: Dave can go to his gym, Bob can go to

1006
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: his gym. Gym can go to that gym. And like this,

1007
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: this little garage gym will service nine members and I

1008
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:25,040
Speaker 1: can keep them paying their membership if they go to that. Okay, boom,

1009
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: got it, you go put this out. My employees are like,

1010
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: what is happening? Like you want me to like bolt

1011
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: things to the ground. I don't know anything about anything,

1012
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: and so I remember feeling like I was like advance party.

1013
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: I'd like go, I'd drop all the equipment off I'd

1014
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: bed pre drill holes a bit. Now put this in,

1015
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: put this ball. It's like, we'll start setting this stuff up.

1016
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: And it was great, Like it was working really well

1017
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,399
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, you know, as weird as it was, there

1018
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: was like a common sense of like people wanted to

1019
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,399
Speaker 1: help out. And it's like all my members like really

1020
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: fired up. They knew I just like the active duty.

1021
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: So they're all paying and like we got all these

1022
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: micro gym set up. We set it up like forty

1023
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: five gyms or something. Wow.

1024
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: And then out of my stuff, I'm like, I got

1025
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 2: nothing left.

1026
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: So I started like calling warehouses and I found this

1027
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: warehouse somewhere and they're like, we have nine thousand pounds

1028
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: of iron. We'll give it all to you for sixty

1029
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:15,479
Speaker 1: cents a pound. I was like, what is it. They're

1030
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: like kettlebells, plates, you know, they rap off a bunch off.

1031
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: I'll take all of it. They're like what. I'm like, gay,

1032
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: I want all of it. They're like, well, you don't

1033
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: even look at you. I don't care what all it.

1034
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: So I get it and then I'm like dropping that

1035
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: stuff all over and then I'm out of weights again.

1036
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,759
Speaker 1: And then so I started making rental packages. I'm gonna

1037
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: get to the manufacturer started making rental packages. It was

1038
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: a wooden bench that we made. It was a home

1039
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 1: depost squad rack. So it's two homer buckets with concrete

1040
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: and a four by four in it. And it's a

1041
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: barbell that I bought Chinese made, like from some wholesaler

1042
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: and it's like two hundred pounds of weights. And I'm

1043
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: like getting some new software where like you sign a

1044
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: liability waiver and then you're gonna like rent this gym

1045
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,839
Speaker 1: equipment for two hundred dollars a month and at Teck

1046
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,520
Speaker 1: you can pay another two hundred bucks for us to

1047
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: drop it off of your house. I'm like, I'm starting

1048
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 1: like this like rental stuff. And it's like for southern California.

1049
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: Some news channel does like a thing on me La Times,

1050
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: like does an article like marine business shutdown like whatever.

1051
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, like I'm.

1052
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 3: Really making it.

1053
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: And I remember being there one night and someone like

1054
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: in the chat box and the website be like do

1055
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: you ship to New York? And I just remember looking

1056
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,400
Speaker 1: at it and be like no, like I'm in coast

1057
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: to me, he say California, Like I like I do

1058
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 1: you understand how much of Barbelle ways and they're like,

1059
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: we'll pay anything. Will you ship to New York? And

1060
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: I remember it's like it's like midnight. I'm like in

1061
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: my house, I have it like slept days. I'm like,

1062
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,959
Speaker 1: what item are you looking at? Like forty fives? Any

1063
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: number of forty fives? Will you ship to New York?

1064
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: And I was like, what's your address? So I like

1065
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 1: sends me his address. I'm like on ups dot com,

1066
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 1: like no corporate account at the time, know nothing about shipping,

1067
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yet, seven hundred dollars send you four

1068
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: forty fives. He's like, how can I pay you? Like

1069
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,759
Speaker 1: all right, cool? So I got like make a PayPal link,

1070
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: like send it to some guy in New York and

1071
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,280
Speaker 1: he like checks out. I remember being in my gym

1072
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: like four rusted forty fives that bought from some warehouse.

1073
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: I'm like shrink wrapping them together because my dumb self

1074
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: thinks that it's if one one hundred and eighty pound

1075
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: package will be cheaper than four forty five pound packages, right,

1076
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: Not true? Shrink wrapping it together, cutting like asses and

1077
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: elbows everywhere, duct tape, and like this package like I'm

1078
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: super not proud of I'm getting dropped off at ups.

1079
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 2: I just thought, oh, what if I just made my

1080
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 2: own plates?

1081
00:54:44,120 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: And I say that now, and I say it flippantly,

1082
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: and I say it funny, but that is like how

1083
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: it And so I just like Google search like United

1084
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: States foundriies, like a list pops up, it's like this foundry.

1085
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: It's like form filled. Hi, I'm a marine captain. I

1086
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: just let back to duty. My gym was closed down.

1087
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 1: I have a great plate design. No one makes plates

1088
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: in the USA. Will you help me nothing? You know

1089
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,480
Speaker 1: new foundry? Hi, my name is Grandpa. Like I have

1090
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: like eight years old client stuff and what pack of

1091
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,280
Speaker 1: foundry where we've been with since twenty twenty largest foundery

1092
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:23,200
Speaker 1: in America Kevinn Rowe great friend of mine now, like

1093
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 1: would have never thought, like I'd be like, yep, that guy,

1094
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: like change the trajectory in my life, Like hey, Grant,

1095
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: can you send over? You're like auto cat design and

1096
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:35,800
Speaker 1: I'm like auto cad, Like I know exactly how a

1097
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: plate should be made because I'm a lifter and no

1098
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: one makes his in America.

1099
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 2: Like I don't know auto cats like what I do

1100
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 2: call a marine?

1101
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 1: Hey?

1102
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 2: You're like an engineer, right, Yeah, do you have auto CAD?

1103
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 1: Yeah? I have like the student one. It's gonna have

1104
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: a watermarker on it. Here, let me tell you everything

1105
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 1: about the plate. We make, the design, stend the design off.

1106
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: They come back and it's like I remember, I just

1107
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: I'll fast forward. I'm like there was a moment where

1108
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: I like, I have a six cell document and I'm

1109
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,359
Speaker 1: sitting in my backyard on this like crummy table. I'm

1110
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,319
Speaker 1: on my laptop and I've done like how much all

1111
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 1: the tooling for all the different sizes will cost. I

1112
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 1: have all the designs up. My laptop's like plugged into

1113
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: a TV, and I have like how much money I

1114
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: need to go in And I'm like okay, like in

1115
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: three months I'll break even. And I'm like and the

1116
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: like the next three months I make money. And I

1117
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: remember like sending it to like a couple people I

1118
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: trust be like am I crazy and They're like, yeah,

1119
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: you're crazy. I was like, yo, I don only need

1120
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,919
Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty grand, Like I just refinanced

1121
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: my house and like it's COVID, like my gyms are

1122
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: gonna be ruined, Like I should do this right, They're like,

1123
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: you should definitely not do that. You should see if

1124
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: the marine cold take you back af duty. And I

1125
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,919
Speaker 1: kept like punching the numbers, like do it again. I'm like, well,

1126
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 1: let's say there's like ten percent of undown costs I

1127
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: don't know, and I'm like, yeah, I still feel like

1128
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: I should it, like I should it and I don't know.

1129
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 1: I just like pulled the trigger and uh got into it.

1130
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: And that has been like a wild five years. It's

1131
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: been great, dude.

1132
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:11,680
Speaker 4: That those are the COVID stories I love more than anything.

1133
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 4: I mean those and there was so many of them

1134
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 4: that emerged out of the fitness industry that people were like,

1135
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 4: now you're not gonna tell me. I'm shutting down because

1136
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 4: health is actually what's going to get people through this thing.

1137
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 4: This is bullshit, this is ridiculous. But for you to

1138
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 4: actually go start cold calling foundries, that is my favorite

1139
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 4: part of the whole thing, man, Like that's like nineteen

1140
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 4: seventies shit right there, Like I'm going to figure it

1141
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 4: out and it.

1142
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 2: Would have never worked had that not been going on.

1143
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: So like what I now know about with packa foundry

1144
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: being madim number one, like auto agriculture foundry for us.

1145
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: We're talking John Deere, Dodge Chevy, you know, GM like

1146
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,320
Speaker 1: that that is their stuff, Like what do we know

1147
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: about that timeframe? All that stuff because everyone stopped doing everything.

1148
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: And it's like they're also scrambling, right, I don't think

1149
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: they're probably on a podcast saying like and then Grant

1150
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: Brogie cult in our lives have changed forever, but they're

1151
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: also scrambling and they're looking for people that use conversion

1152
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: iron and like it was like it was a great

1153
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: fit and uh yeah, but it was. It was. It

1154
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: was really shocking and that took I think when that

1155
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: took my business, like we still have like online coaching services,

1156
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: still have the gyms.

1157
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 2: We still do that.

1158
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: But what that taught me is a business owner was

1159
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: about real scale and there's like culture and I think

1160
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: this is like I thought about if they could reflect

1161
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: on so many things this year, being deployed, being away

1162
00:58:41,680 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: from my wife, my daughter. But it's like like the

1163
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: Marine Corps, Like the Marine Corps culture, like it does

1164
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: not change. And part of it is because the smallest organization,

1165
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 1: like a lot of crazy stuff happens. But it's like

1166
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps culture, you know, it is what it

1167
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: is and like you talk about like my gym, it's

1168
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: like when you're in the gym and you're you know,

1169
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: you're yelling and you're screaming and you're with people, like

1170
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 1: you create this culture. But like that's really hard to

1171
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: like make big. It's really hard to say now I'm

1172
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: gonna have fifty of these gyms across the country because

1173
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 1: like everyone has to think like you do, operate like

1174
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 1: you do. And what I've really enjoyed about the plate

1175
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: business and the barbells and the equipment that we make

1176
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: is it's, hey, I don't care if you're in the

1177
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: style of strength training I'm doing. Maybe you're into power lifting,

1178
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,320
Speaker 1: maybe you're in a CrossFit maybee, you're into whatever. But

1179
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: like here's what I like, here's what my company is.

1180
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: We make USA products no matter what. Here you're in

1181
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: America and they're better than anything that you can import,

1182
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 1: and you're going to pay more. And like we create

1183
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: jobs for other American citizens and like if you don't

1184
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: want that, Like can you find cheaper plates from China? Sure, yes,

1185
00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. Go get up. Like if you want

1186
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: to like support people that wake up and we'll pack

1187
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin walk into a foundry with fire, you know,

1188
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: burning and iron melting, and our truck driver that then

1189
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: takes it to a machine shot and Ampleton, Wisconsin and

1190
01:00:09,520 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: machines it down with a guy that's taken a file

1191
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: on every single plate, and then it goes to like

1192
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: a guy and you know Slinger, Wisconsin. It's going to

1193
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: ecote it black and then come to my warehouse where

1194
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: my brother in law's going to receive the truck like

1195
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: like if you like that suld of business, like that's

1196
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: what we provide and it's better and we care about it.

1197
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 2: That has been like what my focus been on.

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01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: Still have the gyms, love every customer that I have,

1199
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: but it's been like, hey, I think there's a part

1200
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: in this market where it's like David Routhiver wants a home.

1201
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: Jammie's like, yep, I want to like walk out of

1202
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,240
Speaker 1: the gym when I don't want to do something hard,

1203
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: look at my plates and be like there's a marine

1204
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: that made these plates in America, and like I support that.

1205
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 2: And so that's kind of what we've been after.

1206
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I'm all fired up right now, like

1207
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 4: I'm going to like hang up on this and I'm

1208
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 4: gonna start buying some dumbbells and plates, dude, for sure,

1209
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 4: or I just you know, I think what you're talking

1210
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 4: about is is.

1211
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 3: Is the essence of what America represents?

1212
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: Right?

1213
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 4: And you know, uh, I mean just your story alone,

1214
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 4: Like guy grows up, got a pastor's son, you know,

1215
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 4: five four other brothers or brothers and sisters.

1216
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 2: Brothers, one sister, yep.

1217
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 4: Five kids growing up on pastor's life, going to the citadel,

1218
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 4: going to Marine Corps, going to combat running young men,

1219
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 4: teaching them how to strength and get hit with a

1220
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,880
Speaker 4: pandemic that comes up with a business idea blows it up.

1221
01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:42,320
Speaker 4: Now you're making American steel, right, American iron man and

1222
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 4: and and you're selling it in the with that tone like,

1223
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the story that I think is coming

1224
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 4: back in America. And what I what I'm curious and

1225
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 4: and this is something that you know because you're still

1226
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 4: in it, right, You're still in where I believe the

1227
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 4: heartbeat of America lies. And that's within military service, right,

1228
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 4: And you know that's what what all the other stories

1229
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 4: kind of bleed out from. Right, They come from this

1230
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 4: focused commitment of problem solving and and unity and and

1231
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 4: mindset and culture and and that's what you represent. Are

1232
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 4: you seeing because of Pete?

1233
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 1: Uh?

1234
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:31,880
Speaker 4: And and what's going on in the new focus? I mean,

1235
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 4: I swear to God I almost like pissed myself multiple

1236
01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 4: occasions in his speech to all the admirals and generals

1237
01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 4: last weekend.

1238
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 3: No more fatties, right?

1239
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: Uh?

1240
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 3: You know what a what a great.

1241
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 4: Message to young men who want to do something hard

1242
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 4: and improve themselves.

1243
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 3: Are you seeing that?

1244
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 1: Uh?

1245
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 4: That shift or change uh with new guys coming in

1246
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 4: and and and then also are you seeing a shift

1247
01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 4: in a change with in your business and people wanting

1248
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:07,480
Speaker 4: to get strong people kind of gravitating towards both those ideals?

1249
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 3: Are you Are you seeing that up close and personal?

1250
01:03:11,920 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think what I'd say, you know, in this

1251
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: like brine Corpserve now activate currently. I think there was

1252
01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: a time there it's probably like twenty teen to twenty

1253
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: twenty two or three, where like all the folks that

1254
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: I came in under that were retired were like, what's

1255
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: going on with this woke bs? Is it terrible? Like

1256
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: it must be awful? And you know, I'm very proud

1257
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: of Bearing Marine. I do think it's the best, but

1258
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: I'm not actually blowing smoke, but I would tell people's

1259
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't see like what you're concerned with,

1260
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: Like you are concerned that, you know, men are putting

1261
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: on dresses and formations or like wearing furry costumes, and

1262
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: like I don't see that. I see the same marines

1263
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: that make the same dumb jokes that like still watch

1264
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:09,000
Speaker 1: terminal lance, like drink white monsters, have way too much nicotine.

1265
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: Like here's the changes I've seen. When I came in,

1266
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: you dip Copenhagen and you drink coffee, and then at

1267
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: some point it was like, oh, you do monsters and

1268
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: you dip Copenhagen, and like you don't really care about coffee.

1269
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: And then now it's like, hey, you still drink monsters,

1270
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 1: but you only do zen and like no one dips,

1271
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: and like if anyone smokes, everyone thinks it's crazy. Right,

1272
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 1: It's like like those are the shifts that I see,

1273
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: Like I'm not like the people are the same.

1274
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 2: I say that all to say.

1275
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 1: There is something happening that I think the preponderance of

1276
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: the force likes. And I watched the internet melt out

1277
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 1: over the past week after Secretary of Defense slash war

1278
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:01,240
Speaker 1: Secretary of War speech, and.

1279
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 2: The Marine Corps changed nothing.

1280
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: Guess what. We already have two physical fitness tests a

1281
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:06,840
Speaker 1: year and one of them is combat related. Guess what,

1282
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: we already have to get body weight tested two times

1283
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 1: a year, and the body feight doesn't change, like even

1284
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: is in the document about reservist, which I am like,

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Speaker 1: nothing changed, like not zero things change for us, And

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Speaker 1: so the Marine Corps it's just like, oh yeah, cool,

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01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: Like the guy at the top like thinks the thing

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Speaker 1: that I have to do, that's awesome. Uh.

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Speaker 2: And also on that I was.

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Speaker 1: Making the joke this week, I'm like, only in the

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Speaker 1: Marine Corps does the government shut down and all of

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01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 1: us dumbasses wake up at five in the morning and

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Speaker 1: show up to a formation in Green on Green with

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Speaker 1: a great globe out at five point thirty in the morning,

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01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: knowing we're not gonna get paid. And she'd be like,

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01:05:43,680 --> 01:05:45,920
Speaker 1: oh yeah, and then someone's like the government shut down.

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01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I still have to be here, right,

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01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: and some staffs are I was like, yep, stiff, be here.

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01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: It's like oh okay, good to go, and like you

1300
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,840
Speaker 1: just bet it's in new work. So but I do

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01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:59,919
Speaker 1: think there is somewhat of a change, and the type

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01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: like the younger formation like appreciates the change and they

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01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: appreciate that the standard that they have to do is

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Speaker 1: being upheld.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I think it's going to be really interesting.

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01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: Like and you know, I gotta be a little careful

1307
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 1: as I'm still I think, but I think that he

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01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: I think he did a good job and like you know,

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01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 1: telling the force like, hey, like you need to be lethal,

1310
01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: you need be all these sayings. I've said the jokes

1311
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:32,760
Speaker 1: a couple of times this week. I'm like, hey, what

1312
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,600
Speaker 1: I've seen in fourteen years, I can only imagine what

1313
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 1: General for thirty eight years is seen. Like I'm actually

1314
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:42,120
Speaker 1: okay if he's an eighteen percent body fat, because like

1315
01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 1: I need his brain on his body. Right. So, but

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01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: but like that's not the point he was making. Was

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01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:50,440
Speaker 1: was was well said, But uh but yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think it's exciting times ahead for the forces. And

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01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's like it's like the it's like the

1320
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 1: commercial that I still as a kid.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it impacts you, David.

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01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: It's like you know the waves on the beach and

1323
01:07:03,120 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: the seals, right, and it's like those things like matter

1324
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 1: and like that's beach like there's been so much talk

1325
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: about it, and there's been a lot of talk in

1326
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: the formation in general. You know, you get up as

1327
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 1: like a major, you know I'm and you get in

1328
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 1: front of the formation. It's like when I Ran was

1329
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: popping off and there was a minute there we're like

1330
01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 1: at sea and I'm like, oh, man, like we're going

1331
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: to the fifth fleet. Like we're like we're going in

1332
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:28,200
Speaker 1: like this is it? Like we're doing the thing, and

1333
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: like you get the marine somewhere and like you got

1334
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 1: to talk to him like all right, guys, like who's track?

1335
01:07:33,160 --> 01:07:37,400
Speaker 1: And I ran just like look at you blank stairs

1336
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 1: and you're like all right, like answer, You're like you

1337
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 1: try to tell them right, And that's part of being

1338
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 1: an officer. But I will say, Charlie Kirk got killed.

1339
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,439
Speaker 1: I got in front of the formation and I'm like, hey,

1340
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 1: today's nine to eleven. I am in front of you

1341
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: today because nine to eleven occurred. Like that's why I'm

1342
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: standing here as a Marine major and I didn't know

1343
01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: it at the time. That's why I'm here. Like something

1344
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: happened yesterday. I was super strange and out of the ordinary.

1345
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: Are you guys, like go where the formation wouldn't shut up,

1346
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: like they had all opinions, Like they were like I

1347
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: can't believe. And it was like, so there's there's something

1348
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:16,920
Speaker 1: happening in like young men. They're like thinking in a

1349
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 1: way that I've seen a change from the last like

1350
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 1: five to ten years. They're thinking about like the world.

1351
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 1: They're thinking about what they should do. They're thinking like, hey,

1352
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,000
Speaker 1: I should have a family, Like I should have a wife,

1353
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: I should.

1354
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:28,880
Speaker 2: Have a kid.

1355
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: And I think, like where the Secretary of War like

1356
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 1: what he's I think he's like going really hard to

1357
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 1: like make a point of like this is what we're

1358
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: here to do.

1359
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's I think it's exciting.

1360
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: It's exciting.

1361
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 3: Well I can't.

1362
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 4: I mean, I you know, I was in that transition

1363
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 4: before transition period. I went into ninety five. You know,

1364
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 4: we were the least funded we had ever been and

1365
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 4: I don't even know how long. I mean we were

1366
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 4: big barn and steering, stealing just just to conduct you know,

1367
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 4: basic IYAD drills out at Nyland, California.

1368
01:09:08,360 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 3: And then you know, nine to eleven happened.

1369
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:16,240
Speaker 4: Everything changed, and you know, my last deployment with the

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01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:20,680
Speaker 4: agency was in you know, the fall twenty eleven in Pakistan,

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01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 4: and and then I got out, and you know, and

1372
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 4: then you know, had my friends keep going. And the

1373
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 4: transition kind of began at that right when you came

1374
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 4: in and you were at the end of the GWATT

1375
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:35,280
Speaker 4: and now you're in this next phase and you know,

1376
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:39,080
Speaker 4: hopefully we can continue in a peaceful state. But there's

1377
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 4: a lot of kinetic things going on around the world.

1378
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,599
Speaker 4: And you know, I've got some friends in some pretty

1379
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:48,400
Speaker 4: high places right now, and you know, everybody's focused on,

1380
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 4: you know, what's happening. But I think the main focus

1381
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:58,280
Speaker 4: that I'm hearing is is right where you're at, right

1382
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:02,240
Speaker 4: in the heartbeat of what the future fighting force is

1383
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 4: going to be prepared to do. These young kids who

1384
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 4: are coming in who have no idea what the g

1385
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,600
Speaker 4: WATT was, who have no idea what any of it was.

1386
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:13,719
Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of these kids weren't even born

1387
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 4: when nine to eleven happened, you know, and so you know,

1388
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:21,000
Speaker 4: that's it's a different thing. So it's it's on you,

1389
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 4: specifically your shoulders, to tell them everything that you kind

1390
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 4: of explained today about your journey is to infuse that

1391
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 4: motivation into these young war fighters. And I got to

1392
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 4: just tell you, man, you know, I'm I've really been

1393
01:10:41,400 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 4: looking forward to the conversation with you. I have profound

1394
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 4: respect for you. One just because of what you're doing,

1395
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 4: but the other is because of how much Jordi admires

1396
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,879
Speaker 4: you and how much he just how highly he speaks

1397
01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 4: of you. And I'll tell you what, grant after listening

1398
01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:02,720
Speaker 4: to you, I'm so thankful. I feel so blessed that

1399
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,639
Speaker 4: you are out there leading young marines, teaching them how

1400
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 4: to be strong. And then also what you're doing for

1401
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 4: the civilian community of this country and for the local

1402
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,439
Speaker 4: workers of Wisconsin, and and and what you and what

1403
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:20,200
Speaker 4: you represent. So I cannot thank you enough for taking

1404
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,640
Speaker 4: the time while you're on deployment over in Okinawa to

1405
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:28,120
Speaker 4: spend with our audience and to share your beliefs and

1406
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 4: and and what you're what you're faithful in. And I

1407
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 4: really think it's a huge impact. Can you Can you

1408
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 4: just share where people can find everything that you're doing,

1409
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 4: your strength, your gyms, your where they can purchase your equipment,

1410
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 4: the whole thing, and then what you got next coming up.

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Speaker 3: That would be wonderful. Yeah.

1412
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I appreciate you having me on it's been it's

1413
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: been great. It's been fun to watch, uh, you know,

1414
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: JORDI help help you launch this thing and I've I've

1415
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,759
Speaker 1: been following from the start and care about his success.

1416
01:11:59,800 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: That's been fun to see see yours as well. But yeah,

1417
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: my website Www. Dow Strength dot co is our store.

1418
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,440
Speaker 1: You can get to our coaching pages or blogs from there,

1419
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, anything you're interested on if you want to

1420
01:12:12,320 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: see what I'm up to. I'm not super active these days,

1421
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 1: getting more active as I get closer back to being

1422
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 1: in America. But I'm on X Grant SSC, Grant Story,

1423
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Speaker 1: Shrink Coach. I do like free form checks and breakdowns

1424
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:30,400
Speaker 1: and post photos of coffee and church and barbecue, so

1425
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: you can.

1426
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Speaker 2: Check that out.

1427
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 1: But yeah, go over the Strength dot co to check

1428
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: everything out. But yeah, thanks for having me on.

1429
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 4: David, Thank you, Grant, God bless you, and get back safe,

1430
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 4: buddy man.

1431
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Speaker 1: A couple more months and then Thanksgiving. It's gonna have

1432
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: a whole new meeting this year. Looking looking forward to

1433
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Speaker 1: my daughter.

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Speaker 3: Oh Amen to that, Amen to that.