WEBVTT - Chef Andre Rush Full Interview 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.520 My dex. Gust is a strong advocate of the military. 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.840 He's also a master ice carver. You know, we gotta 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.399 talk about that pastry chef. Everybody know I'm an award 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:11.600 winning baker, so you know, we gotta talk about that 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.319 sugar sculpture. I don't know what that is, but we 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.640 don't know about We're gonna find out about what sugar 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:21.480 sculpturing is. Along with other specialties, he has known worldwide 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.000 for his advocacy for the military service and suicide prevention, 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.480 in which he does two thousand, two hundred and twenty 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:34.400 two push ups a day except Saturday and Sunday. That's 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.400 probably a year I probably do. I probably have done 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.400 two thousand, two hundred and twenty two push up probably 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:45.000 last ten years, maybe combine to promote healthy lifestyle living 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.080 around the world. Please welcome to my main conversation, my friend, 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:51.120 because when you got twenty four by sels, you call 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:59.160 him my friend. Chef Rush, Come on, Michel, this is 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.040 this thing. Some man, If you do a two thousand 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:06.360 two push you know your your child like you know, 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.000 you'd be a little more bold on what's going on? 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:16.280 What's going on? Because that's something because anybody you talk to. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:22.640 Everybody you talk to is humble by you. Okay, there's 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.280 nobody out that. How can you be at the Mr 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.319 Olympia contest being humbled by you? I think you don't 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.600 just get down there, just do what I do. I 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.160 actually just left me at Olympia. No one know to do. 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.560 Put a couple of females here. But the guys is 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.000 that we're okay, We're okay. We we we got your brother, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.440 we got your brother. I followed your story. I've seen 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.960 your TV. I love your your voice here. You have 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.920 a brilliant smile. Tell me a little bit about your background. UM, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.440 no story short. I'm from the Hospicaliti State in Mississippi. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.600 Column of Mississippi. I'm a country boy. I'm a mama's boy. Um, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.440 when I could call my dad for me to work, 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.480 put the boys to work, and put the girls in school. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:16.200 So I feel luckily I kept my work ethics which 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.080 they would never go away, which I'm extremely appreciative of. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:26.200 UH started the military very athletic, you know, scholarships from art, football, track. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.000 I had a chance for the Olympics in a hundred 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:34.800 meter dash. Chose the military route. UH served my country, 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.240 of course, bublically did the twenty four years in the 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:46.520 military almost and heed crazy duration. During my twenty years 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.320 in the military, the most humbling, most successful, most rewarding, 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:52.280 you know how to say. It was the best of times, 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.880 the worst of times. But I would never traded for anything. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.960 Now now like that, I share my experience and I did. 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.640 I never enlisted in the military. I was only a 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.680 person who was brought on to understand a brand marketing 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.639 brand and and see and and tell people about the 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.320 value of the of having a role in the military. 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.720 The branch I was talking about, what's the Air National Guard? 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.639 Your branch was the army? Correct? Okay, cool? Now now 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.840 you said you opted to go into the military. What 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.640 attracted you to the military, Because that's that's a job, 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.919 that's that's a that's an opportunity. A lot of people 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.160 there's a lot of negative things people say about the military, 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.560 but because they don't really do their research, they don't 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.280 really see the opportunities that are available to you, not 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.280 only from an educational format, but you can it's kind 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.800 of like on the job training as well, and also 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.120 can pay for your education later on. These are things 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.160 I learned. Some of the things I knew going in, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:49.280 but was reinforced when you do more your research. Talked 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.400 to us about that little bit, sir, you knows it's 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.800 always a spigma with the military, just like what my 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.480 ever to see about the things I do with my 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:00.480 two balls a two and two push up. So I 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.320 I have to kind of break it down to explain 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.440 the people and uh enlightened them so to speak, the military, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.400 like you just said. And by the way, thank you 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.240 for your service even though you deserve you you're you 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.480 served tremendously for the military. And hundreds of thousands of 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.360 people that's in the military has that appreciated like myself. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:25.440 UM that their opportunities. That's that's undeniable course of foundation, leadership, mentoring, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:33.040 UH that intestinal fortitude, financial course, UH education. I tell people, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.480 even if you don't want to join the military long term, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.760 which nine times out of ten people say, I'm just 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.880 after being convinced that, okay, I want to go ahead 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.600 and pay them bills and and give some education. They 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.120 signed them for two or three years and wind up 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.720 doing thirties. You know, it's like I, I, you're here 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.400 every time. I only started off for a few years 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.840 and and then I love the military, and I just 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:59.440 carry it on so much more you can gain from it, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.960 um and it's all perspectives. I mean, military has so 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:09.200 many opportunities that people don't dig deep inside to see 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.520 everything that they have. I mean, I mean not only 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.919 hundreds of thousands of opportunities like myself, even me deciding 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:19.440 to be in the food service star Now, I said, hey, 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.120 this is what I wanted to do. Even even though 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.240 people were like, someone, you're a big guy, you could 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.560 do anything that you want to do, the athletic, you 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:32.240 can do X, Y and Z. But I had a passion. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.400 You know. It was from my mother, from being raised, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:36.839 you know, and it was my comfort. It brought me 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.920 back to that part where I felt at peace the most. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:45.000 So myself, I capitalized all of my peace and off 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.280 of what I want to do and make it worth while. 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.719 And uh, I said to myself, you know, twenty plus 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.800 years ago, I said I'm going to do something with 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.640 this platform. And that was at a time where there 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.600 was absolutely nothing you could do with that platform one right, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.680 So that's how things work. And that's why I go 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.600 out to different places all over the world and I 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.039 say that I preached that and especially to the military, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.560 to the younger, the older, to the ones who are 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:16.120 getting now staying in civilians, trying to transition, so many 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.440 different so many different things. I mean, it's I could 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.320 talk all day night about this, right and as you can. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.520 I because of the fact that my my younger brother, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.640 he's uh, he was in the military. Guy I was 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.720 an X ray tech and now he has four Barbara 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.800 and beautist salons in the Washington, D C. Area. I 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.560 have another nephew who has a very popular Big six 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.760 barbecue in Houston, Texas, Andy, and he visits, he comes 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.680 to the line, his little says, guys he served, they 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:46.000 always hook up in Atlanta, meet all the time. So 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.040 it's that family, the camaraderie that he has, not his 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.240 high school camarades, comrades. It's the people who had in 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.720 the military. There's a family to him that he comes 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:56.640 to to Atlanta because it always stays with me when 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.120 he comes into town. So those are just two examples. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.440 And my personal my personal life that I've tied myself to. 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.880 And I say that hundred and four, that recruitment number 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.400 for their National Guard. That's a prideful number when I 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.960 say that, because that means that I gave what I could. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.000 I gave the talents that that they recognized that I had, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.360 and I gave one. And so when you say you're 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.040 an advocate, know there are a lot of people who 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.680 think like you, respect what you're doing and keep doing 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.360 what you're doing all two hundred and Twitter you two. Now, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.520 I'm just gonna let you know two thousand, two hundred 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.240 and Twitter two. Don't want to short change about two 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.520 thousand that you know I can't get it. I could probably, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.320 I could probably do that in the whole football game, 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.600 but I gotta take breaks, halftime breaks, uh, two minute warnings. 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.960 Let's talk about your skill, man a self now, lit's 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.000 because it was a lot of skills that you have here, sir. Okay, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.720 I'm talking to chef for us, very talented. Uh young 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.320 man I've called young man because younger than me. Who's Uh, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.880 let's talk about sculpturing ice. Okay, usual when I see that, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.720 I see somebody with a chat, ain't song going at it? 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:05.840 What level of sculpturing do you involve yourself with? Well, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.000 I just hit it with my fists and there's just 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:13.000 great sis to whatever. I wanted to know. Everybody's do 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.640 you everybody's doing you believe it. If they believe you, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.120 now you can do a whole you can do a 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:25.320 whole moment on this. Okay, I've been doing I've been 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.400 doing ice. I see one of my hobby from oh 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:30.560 my god, years and years ago that I knew nothing 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.160 about that I count said that I did, and and 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.760 thember giving an opportunity and uh that's when it was born. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:43.480 But I do messrs carver. I've carved thousands of pieces 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.000 of ice or help uh even that much more people 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:52.000 train them on doing ice and uh from um from 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:56.440 Alaska competitions to Europe competitions and ice carving to just 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.920 general competitions anything if I think of from George Way 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.000 then crossing the Delaware too, you know, dragons to I 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.480 just it was just I just love the I love 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.720 the set it of the ice scope where you can 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.960 turn a block of ice into something that's magnificent that 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:19.040 people don't get to see every day. Uh So I 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.480 just started with it and it just became pretty pretty 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.120 good at it, and uh then I I kind of 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.719 mastered it. Yea for us snack you know, started with 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:32.760 it this ice now because see that's just because that's 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.439 because you know, you have to be in a situation 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:36.600 where you melts, because if it melts, you have to 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.200 be in a cold setting that allows you a time 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.880 limit that you have to get it done. So and 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:43.920 also you have to have a visual or three D 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.400 visual in your mind to be able to look at 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.360 a block of ice and shape it out. So that's 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.480 a gift. And I'm trying to figure out when did 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.200 you realize you know something I can do this? Uh? 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.040 It started smaller course, but they started getting bigger and bigger. 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.960 Well you know, I'm I'm'm gonna be I'm gonna be 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.480 frankly honest with you. Um, but I saw an ice 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.839 carbing the first time I was in the military. I'm 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.880 promistership be Columbus. You know it don't even snow, Uh 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.720 doesn't snow. So someone doing an ice carver and I 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.839 fell in love with I was like, oh my god, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.800 what is that. That is incredible. I want to know 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.640 what it is, how it is. And so I went 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:26.840 back to um the defect and the guy in charge 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.760 the seven we had things getting coming up, and I 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.959 remember the ice carb and he said, hey, we need 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.959 an ice carver to come and do two ice carving 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.320 for us, And he said, does anyone know how to 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.679 do ice carving? And I don't know what happened. I 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.120 just kind of said I do, I don't. I ain't 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.560 like ice car not sold. Stop this. I'm gonna stop. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.200 Telp my hang up for you, hold on, hold on, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.560 hold over. We got fifties seconds left in this break. 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.719 You're not gonna I'm not gonna waste this story. You 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.400 just just raise your hand. I can call, I can call. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.320 We're gonna be back forward, chef uss And it's and 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.520 there's two thousand two or twenty two pushed off there 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:10.520 he does he did up to day. I just reash 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.199 on McDonald. You're listening to money making conversation. We were 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:17.360 talking before the break about how he got into he 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.960 been chef rush, how he got into ice sculpture. He 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.079 saw at one time, fell in love with it. Then 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.120 all of a sudden somebody said, we need a hard 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:30.120 ice sculpture, and he went, Hey, the hand slowly came up. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.440 I think I can do that. Is that how it 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.240 really happened, Chef, That's exactly how it happened. And the 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.000 word sport about it was they they got me, They 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.880 took me to um this location where they had the 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.439 ice on the back dock. Uh getting the change. So 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:53.960 two blocks of ice and after after getting with one 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.200 of the guys who worked there, U don't know how 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:01.040 to change, start to change, so these two blocks. And 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.120 I didn't know anything about him. I didn't know about 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.800 tempering the ice. And you know the template and you 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.400 said earlier you have to have in your mind what 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.000 you want to create and how you want to do it. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.120 And uh, I actually just kind of tiptoe with it 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.320 and started putting a chainsaw to the ice, and and 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.120 then I and then all of a sudden, they just 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.600 started visualizing what I wanted to see. I had a 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:28.880 picture of what they wanted was a cornucopia and an eagle. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.079 So after doing that, long story short was I did it. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.880 I came back. It was like maybe that Monday Thursday 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.520 was Thanksgiving. They came. I had it wrapped up. They 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.079 brought the ice out. You know, everybody was waiting to 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.800 the ice corting because no one sees iceberry Port at 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:49.520 Fort campbell Um. They opened it up and be fact 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.760 the manager says, uh, private Rush, you did this, And 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.320 I said, uh yes, uh yes, player. So and I 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.800 did this. And he looked at me and you know, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.640 nobody else. He said, great job, and I looked at him. 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:06.920 I say, yes, I know that was the way it started. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.120 Awesome and congratulations, man, what what a great story of 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.480 just following your your your your faith, following your belief, 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.080 following your natural instinct. Because I always tell people follow 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.920 that first thought when the second and third thought throws 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.360 doubt into your ability, follow that first thought. And if 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.760 you and you did that and then you came out no, 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.400 not not fully confident, but until they until they validated, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.439 then you stepped into the front of the lot. That's right. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.040 It's good too, because nobody else can do it. But 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.400 I did it. And that's that's an amazing thing that 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.680 you were able to accomplish. Do you did you when 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.599 you when you follow the journeys in your life? Do 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.000 you find that happening a lot in your life about 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:51.200 you stepping forward on whether beliefs or advocate levels of 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:56.400 change that advocated levels of change that enable YouTube said, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:01.880 just make a difference. Actually, wasn't between the everything. Um 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.160 I tell people when I go out and I speak 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.200 all around the world, I'm actually going to speak. I 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.760 just spoke to her about a thousand Marines Friday, going 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.040 to travel to elect an Air Force based to speak 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:18.119 to the Air Force in Texas for a few days tomorrow. Um, 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.800 I tell people you are your biggest work. You are 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.840 a walking billboard. But people look at you, they get 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.160 an impressure. I don't care what it is, who they are. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.360 I don't care because they don't know if you have 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.479 a PhD, if you're a garbage man, if your shelf, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.760 they don't they don't know. They look at you, and 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.360 then they automatically they're going to get an impression of 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.240 who you are and how you are. I'm a big guy, 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.600 so a lot of people think that, um, when they 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.840 see me at first, that I'm intimidating, you know, and 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.440 they kind of they kind of tiptoe with me until 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.480 I opened up my mouth, and then all of a sudden, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.600 you just see that depression from them, like, Okay, you 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.760 know what I want this guy in my circle, you know, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.160 I want him to let me learn, let me learn 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.080 more about him, let me see more about him, you 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:02.680 know what's going on with him. And I do the 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.080 same things with them in return, regardless who they are, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.920 all what kind of pressions I've come to learn from 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.040 the military and in life that I don't necessarily judge 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.960 anyone anymore. You know, I went to them to open 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.200 their mouths or show me who they are, their personalities 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:23.520 or what kind of character are. But when I project 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.560 the especially the marketing part of it, um, I want 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.560 people to remember me, you know. I want to remember people. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.400 And that's the part that a lot of people they 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:39.520 don't necessarily do a lot. They kind of they want 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.040 their resume to speak for themselves, but they have to 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.920 understand that they have to open their they have to 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:49.040 open their mouths eventually to speak for themselves, to even resonate. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.560 Because you have the best resume in the world. But 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.360 if you don't relate to people, if you're not that person, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.200 or if you're not a team player, like minded, like hearted, 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.800 I don't want you on my team. You know. The 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.880 interesting thing about it when I when I listened to 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.200 your listen to you tell your story, and I start, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.080 I have to ask a certain question because people want 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.560 to know what did the number of two thousand two 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:13.960 d twenty two come from? First of all, and also 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.080 a second to that, how do you break up your 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.240 push up? Do you do them consecutively. What is your 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:19.880 when you do them in one day? What is the 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.600 routine that you do it? So my two thousand, two 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.280 hundred and twenty two is for twenty two vets commit 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.680 suicide of day I do. I do two thousand, two 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.120 d and two not only for the vets, but the 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.440 first people that I speak or that I think when 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:44.360 are going speak in any UH platforms, there's spouses I 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.960 speak to. I think the spouses because if you think 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:51.160 about in perspective with the vets, you know they're trained forwards, 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.840 the spouses they are not. And then also the kids. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:57.640 So I called your attitude the best committed to uside 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.400 a day to commit suicide the kid side. You said, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.920 twenty two commit suicide the day. That's what you're saying 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.760 exactly exactly. So that's the twenty two a day. I 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:13.199 do two thousand two, twenty two a day because twenty 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.800 two is not enough for people to catch people. People 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:20.520 are are visual or people. Now you know you can say, hey, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.880 I did can push up today, and no one word 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.560 even brink and eyes. You said I do twenty two 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.680 push up. They don't even ask the questions. But if 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.840 I say I do two thousand, two hundred and twenty 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.000 two and they're like, whoa, why are you doing so 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.760 many push ups? And how can you do that? How 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.560 is it possible? You know, because I'm an animal. My 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.280 leaves and I have an advocate that I'm passionate about, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.320 and I do. Then I get up at three o'clock 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.280 in the morning, I'm at a table. About fifteen and 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.840 twenty minutes, I roll over, I do my pushups. I 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.760 do about a hundred twenty five or more at a time. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:57.000 I'll rest between thirty and forty five seconds and then repeat. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.960 It takes me about an hour fifteen minutes to do 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.600 all my pushups, and I kind of judged that way 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.000 so I could finish in an hour fifteen minutes. And 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:06.680 I have to do it that in that amount of 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.320 time to say you don't do them over the hotel 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.800 entire day, you know. I don't have that much time 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:12.679 in a day because I have so many things that 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.520 I do. I answer all of my social media myself. Um, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.399 I get hundreds of messages and and and content, and 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.840 I bet them all because it maybe that one person, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:29.680 that one kid, that one female, one guy, that one 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.520 military member that may need something that may need help, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.560 and I've been that situation so many different times. Um, 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.399 so it's important to me to understand and even with 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:42.000 the kids, which I'm really passionate about as well, like 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.520 I one of Arnold Schwartzmanger's investad for that to school. 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.639 Also our kids, I do the pushups with them because 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.320 I don't use the word suicide. I use the word 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.240 bullying and cyber bullying, which is just as important in 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:58.040 today's society. So that's one of my things that I'm 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:03.199 truly passionate about. Wow. Um, I do get up. I 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.560 get up early every day, you know, get up at 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.720 four fifteen. I did not know that that's what the 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:14.479 two thousand two I cannot do two thousand two push up, 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:20.480 but I will start doing twenty two every day. And 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.480 you know what I tell people, I'll be honest with 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.879 you something. I get a lot of people, especially military 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.280 people of the Marines. They say I'm gonna start like 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.159 two thousands. I said, no, don't do that, You'll hurt yourself. Yes, 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.520 So people don't understand that I'm I'm I was made 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.000 and I work. I'm an endurance trainer. So this thing 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.360 is called Rebel Mindnight is where you can actually break 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.119 down your body and you can go to a really 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:47.440 big fit and UH can potentially hurt thisself really bad 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.720 or even kill yourself. Look the thing about it is, 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.720 I said, even if you did to push up, it's 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:56.560 just as important as two thousand two two. It's not 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.000 the amounted you as the really you're doing it. It's 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.719 your cause. But you know, the brilliancy of it is 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.199 that I get a lot of kids that see me 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.439 doing a push up and they'll go their parents and 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.680 they start doing them together. Not only is it promoting 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.280 something that's about awareness and about you know, a stigma 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.240 about suicide, but it brings togetherness. Also it's that healthy 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.639 lifestyle that will be and they're doing something together for 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:27.000 a reason. So you give them another different avenue instead 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:28.760 of you know, being on their phone looking at TV 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.000 all the time. Well, I'm gonna tell you I'm committed 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.240 to it. Um. This is something that like I said, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.240 I also know you. You're absolutely correct. You don't overdo 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.600 something you want to do on a regular basis, And 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.160 so I know twenty two I can I can put 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.159 that in my schedule. I know why I'm doing it, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.880 and also it enables me next time we talked, you'll 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.520 be able to ask for Shane. Rahane, you're still doing 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.199 that twenty two. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you, Yes, sir, 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.280 I'm gonna tell you because that's that's how I am. 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:54.960 I Once I say I'm gonna do something, I don't 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.159 just say it on the radio. Just to make this 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.440 conversation flow correctly, to make you feel good that you 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.800 you've got an advocate on your side of trying to 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.159 stop or bring awareness to the suicides that happened. I 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.000 have a brother who was in the army and have 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.880 a nephew who was in the army as well. They've 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.320 served in the military. They have nothing but positive things 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.439 to say about the military. I remember when my my 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:19.640 my younger brother, I got a chance to introduce him 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:23.080 to UH President Barack Obama, and he was in tears 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.159 because he said, and I didn't understand why he was 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:29.440 in He said, that's my that's my true commander right there. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.200 You said, I finally got to meet him, he said, 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.639 and that was a great moment for him. And I 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.240 realized and I was just doing I was, you know, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:37.960 I was just gonna getting of a picture with the 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.840 president and I realizing how deep that went, and so 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.800 I understand what you're doing is so strong. But before 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.840