WEBVTT - BARACK OBUTTA - Good O-Hot Pockets 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.120 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.200 I'm your host, Colleen Went, and today we have a 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:08.440 very special guest. We have Butter from Keep It Run hundred, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.720 not one hundred, but run hundred. What do you have 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:17.000 us eating today? Today? We're having good old hit pockets. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:18.800 You know it can't go wrong with them, just kick 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:33.519 grabb and go. You know everybody loves a good hit pocket. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.760 A little backstory. I was like, what do you want 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:48.400 to eat? What do you want to cook for us? 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.720 And you were just like, I don't cook. This is 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.000 the second guest in a row that just has no 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.240 idea how to cook um. And we went back and forth. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.960 Of course, you know you did give me the option 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.800 for ramen. But we hear at Eating Wall Broke. We 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.760 know ramen is a very popular dish. So unless you 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.880 have a special twist to your ramen, do not get 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:12.760 to cook it. You know, I could have made you 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.880 what's called spread, but that's a whole We actually had 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.240 the spread. It was like a jail experience in a 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.039 garbage bag. I will never forget that episode. Shout outs 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:29.680 to Ajah from Compton. Right, she's she's Compton. Now you're 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.319 you do, we keep it run hundred and your focus 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.880 is south Central. My focus is just activity period. It's 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.919 not really a certain area. I'm from South Central. Um 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.720 are do runs in Inglewood, Culver City and just all 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.759 different parts of l A. But um I am from 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.240 south central underserved community, and running is something that's just 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.120 not the norm where I'm from. So for me to 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.200 find a passionateness and be able to give it back 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.000 to my people and get people going has been one 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.160 of the most amazing journeys I've ever been on. Okay, well, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.400 we don't take a bite of these hot pockets, bring 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:09.800 you back to nostalgia lane. This was nice and warm. Yeah, 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:11.920 hopefully you're gonna bit it into your order. You're gonna 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.560 tear yours, all right, just for your listeners. He actually 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.880 asked for like a fork and knife, and I said, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.239 is that how you ate him a gentleman? And I said, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:21.799 if that's not how you ate it, that's not how 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:28.839 we're eating. You enjoy It's great. Mine is cold. Mine 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:38.440 is still warm, Pepperoni. I don't want to see this 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:45.880 cheese stretch mine as a warm listen. Okay, how better, 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:52.000 way better? So take me back to the hot pocket dames. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:56.440 I mean, the hot pockets are still very present, you know. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.000 I'm not I don't I don't forget where I came from. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.840 But no, I don't know if anyone ever graduates past 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.280 the hot pocket base. As long as they're in your freezer, 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.399 that is a smooth day when you're walking in out 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.880 microwave real fast. But take me, take me back before 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.240 the casual pot pockets. Um No, Um, just growing up 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.720 as a as a as a as a kid in 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.360 in South central you know. Uh, I did a bunch 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.119 of different things. I played sports my whole life. Um, 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.720 and just growing up trying to maneuver through my community 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.840 isn't the easiest thing to do. But um, you know, 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.760 as we grow, as we go through our I'm thirty 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.920 nine now, so trying to figure out the way things 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.880 get tough sometimes, you know, and sometimes you may not 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:54.440 have or you're working towards that that life that you wants. 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.760 So there is some struggle in that. So and that 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.680 I was, you know, enjoying hot pockets. Men. You know, 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.960 in your twenties, what did you what were you striving for? 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:06.000 What was your ultimate goal? Um? In my twenties, I 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.160 was working production so I wanted to do something in 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.360 like television production that I did it for some years, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.880 Uh kind of got tired of it, transitioned into a 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.080 multiple jobs after that. Uh I had I had my 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.280 daughter at thirty, which kind of forced me to grow 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.360 up and really become a man, That's what. And then 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:27.240 running started around that time as well. And you know, 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.120 with with time and with age and maturity, things just 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.560 getting better, you know, because you're you're in a different 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.000 headspace and you're able to you know, and and then 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.680 and in having a chad, you have to figure it out. So, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.120 so what happened at twenty nine where you twenty nine 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.760 you're working television production? Did you end up quitting television 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:51.160 production to provide better for your daughter or like what 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.640 was that transitional point when she came? Um so and 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.760 that I left production. I started driving buses. Gave me 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:04.640 more security, Uh you know, the health benefits. Think you 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.880 know what I'm saying things like that, and um, so 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.520 many things that happened at that time too. When you 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.359 say buses, like, uh, public trans you don't have to 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.960 get a special license for that yet. One so you 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.760 just you were like, you know what, forget this television 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.760 production because I need more stability. I needed more stability, 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:29.680 so because television was more freelance, you know. And then uh, 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:33.560 I went into the driving the bus situation, which lasted 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:38.520 some years. Um. But then at that ranis course as well. Um. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.560 And then where did your running into the picture. I 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.559 was doing it as a hobby and then um, uh 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.200 running with just something I did just to just just 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.400 to be active. It wasn't something that I planned on 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.039 doing like for the rest of my life. And when 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:02.440 did other people start getting involved in your running? At nineteen? 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.360 So this is right before the pandemic. Ah yeah, so um, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.800 let's say so I started my run club eighteen. We 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.000 picked up a lot of bus throughout the you know, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.320 the remainder. I started April, So from April to like November, 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.080 the numbers are rowing. I started with eight people, were 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.880 eventually getting a hundred people out at you know, by 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.159 the by the fall. And this is all in South 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:29.640 central or I was actually doing it in Manhattan Beach 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.839 and Culver City at the time, so expanding in those 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.920 areas because in South central running isn't the easiest thing 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.159 to do, especially in a group setting, you know, because 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:40.359 it's not like you could just pull up to some 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.640 random park which with a bunch of people, and because 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.640 that's just not how the area works because of gang 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.440 activity and things like that, you know, because every everybody 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.960 seems to thinks they owned in certain areas, so you 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.599 just can't pull up to So you were telling people 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.479 that lived in South Central pull up to Manhattan and 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.839 they were doing it. Okay, okay, now you just you 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.280 were enjoying running and you said, you know what, I'm 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.719 going to do a run club or and then the 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.000 eight people joined or were you slowly? I mean I 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.000 was just running with like and me and a buddy 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.480 of mine. Me and a buddy of mine. We actually 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:17.080 trained for my first marathon the fall of seventeen, so 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.720 I ran in March. So that's when I fell in 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.680 love and running. It was like I wanted everyone to 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.920 experience the feelings that I have from it. So I 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.560 started my run club two weeks after that marathon. And 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.440 when you first started running, you were in love with it. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.280 You kind of morphed into love. It was just like 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.480 it was a hobby at first. And then I said, 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.840 pushing my body but my mind past barriers I had 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.960 on myself, thinking I couldn't do ten miles or twelve 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.880 miles or fifteen miles. And when you're when you're knocking 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.560 down those walls, you feel like you can continue to 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.880 go forever because it's more mental than anything. So the 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.400 you know, the mental toughness afforded to did you get 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.320 from that? You know, I can't even explained, you know, people, 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.600 you have to kind of do it to really understand, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.160 you know what I'm what I'm saying because a lot 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.600 of people put like limits on themselves, like I can't. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.880 I would never run a marathon. I would. I used 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.600 to think the same way, but now it's what's the 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.000 biggest marathon you ran? I originally ran last month. I 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.600 ran in New York Marathon. That's the absolute biggest marathon 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.400 in the world. Six point two. So a full marathon 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.760 tween six point two I've done it ten times, okay. 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.360 And then how long does it take you to do that? 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.760 What average? Like three and a half hours? Three and 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.520 a half hours? Are you? What? What pace are you at? 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.800 That a pretty good place? You know. It's it's like 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.599 a fast jog, No, it's a it's a run. So 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.200 it's about you run for six miles straight, no breaks? 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.320 Do you carry a water pack? No? I mean like 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.200 alone the route there's like yeah, like there's there's water 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.160 stations if people giving you stuff. It's a in New 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.000 York the greatest marathon I've ever ran in my life. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.280 But um, the energy was crazy. People are there's people 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.760 everywhere like this. They shut down the entire city. You 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.920 run through all five boroughs. Wow, wow, I didn't you 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.160 run through all five boroughs? So there's people lining the 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:15.640 street the entire way. And then what barrow do they 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:20.160 end in? Uh? You inno central Park? So um you're starting, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.160 you're starting Staten Island. Yeah, and in central parks? Do 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.680 they actually have a winner in the marriage, like a 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:30.480 first Yeah, they get they make a lot of money. Oh, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.800 I don't even know there's money. Like how much does 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:42.319 a New York matter, say six miles three or four 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.679 hours out of your day? You know? Yeah, but you 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.240 gotta like thanks. So is there a marathon winner that 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:52.839 is like notorious? Who h elliot keep chokie. He's the 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.480 he's the goat. He's uh he's actually ran the fastest 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:02.360 marathon ever. It was under two hours, so he's the 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.280 first one one fifty nine He's the first one to 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:11.160 running under two hours six miles, so it's like a 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.599 four minute pace or like four so minute paced the 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.760 entire way. He don't take no breaks. You don't take 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.199 no breaks. Have you met him? I met him last 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.559 month in New York for real. Do you think you 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.000 would ever come and like check out what you're doing? 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.040 I think he would. We we are aligned in some 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.679 way with the with the Nike connection. Something he ever, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.959 if he's ever in tail, you know, maybe he'll pull 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.959 up all my run club someday. So you decided to 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.040 build this run club, eight people show up? What are 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.719 your parents saying at the time when I'm running my 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.839 run club? I got eight? No, I don't even It 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.840 wasn't even a run club. It was just me gathering 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.920 my friends, you know, like let's let's let's get you healthy, 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.199 let's just get active. So we were doing like two 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:57.240 miles one mile out back, and you know, it was 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.200 cool because like people were seeing what I was doing, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.120 and you know, because I would know documented on Instagram 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.400 and things like that, and you know, people would just 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.199 want to get active with me and get healthy. So, um, 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.160 my friends just started growing organically. Like if I told 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.719 you you tell somebody else. You know, next we went 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.240 from eight, you know, to twelve, and twelve to fift 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:19.480 you know, like social just a gradual growth and then 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.520 people start seeing it, you know, and it's it's a community. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.439 I always I'm big on AP preaching community because especially 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:30.199 with my group and runners of color have the most 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.440 reluctant group of people to want to run because of whatever. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.920 Like we feel as though running agast punishment because growing 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.640 up playing sports, basketball, football and things like that, when 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.520 you get in trouble, you're told to run. So like 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.400 when you get older, you're like, I'm not gonna run 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.640 because it's kind of like some trauma in a way. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:53.040 So um exactly exactly. So now you have to do 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.800 things like this, like just to just once they're healthy. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.520 We're combating COVID, high blood press, your heart, you know, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.520 so many these different things. So an active lifestyle helps 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:08.000 with that, and with community it helps even more because 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.960 black people don't get together in large numbers unless we're 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.240 consuming alcohol. So to get together weakly to do something 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.040 positive and you know, impact each other and motivate support 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.800 each other. I think it's important to work out in groups. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.080 I one of my close friends is day storm Power. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:25.800 I don't know if you know about him, and he's 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.640 an influencer on social media, but he does these brutal 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.640 ass workouts. They're absolutely ridiculous. They're a hundred percent free. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.360 It's just I want to join and it's absolute hell 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.719 on wheels. But he'll to a hole like in his 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.240 brain he has a plan, you know, and there are 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.480 moments where you say, I don't necessarily agree with this plan, 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.480 but then it's like he has a plan to prepare 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.880 you for the nightmare that he has planned for you. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.280 So like there was a yeah, it was a set up. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.280 So like all year you're like, you know, first of all, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.079 the amount of weight you lose running is it's it's 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.440 highly not spool. And then um so he trained us, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:04.199 trained us, trained us, and then one day he was like, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:07.720 you're gonna run these three hills, and we're like three hills. Anyways, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.199 you run and you're able to because he's gonna train you. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.240 But then one day randomly, I was like, you know what, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.679 I haven't ran these hills in so long, and I 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.280 just pulled up on them hills and I tried to 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.439 run it, and I said he was fucking nuts. He 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.040 was nuts because you did have to train to prepare 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.040 to run those and these weren't little hills. These were 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.719 like nightmares. Everything in life is about preparation and it 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:46.040 took a long time for that. So how consistent are 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.720 your meetups? We meet weekly, so three times a week, Tuesdays, Tuesday, 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.880 Thursday nights and Sunday mornings. So and then where is 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.240 it at Tuesday night? We meet in Inglewood? I mean 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.200 we meet in Culver City at Veterans Park. It's seven 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.640 pm Thursday night. Simpen signed the coffee shop in Inglewood 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.320 seven pm and six thirty am on Sunday mornings at 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:11.000 del Ray Lago. Apply apply that. Now does someone have 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.719 to start at the same start date to join your group? 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:15.240 Because no? I mean because you can come any times. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.240 It's it's it's you can come whatever you like. It's 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.800 free charge. Um it says it's more community than than 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.000 the post like a training program to where you if 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.760 you don't make it here by this day that you 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.480 can't run with us. No, like, it's come whenever you 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.120 feel like it. But how long are the runs? Three miles? 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.640 So what if someone comes it's their first day and 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.480 they can only run a mile, so we have I 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.200 have a walking component as well, so uh to walk. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.040 My mom's out there every week leading the walk. Um 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.240 so it's like I said, just getting your body moving. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:45.400 It's like you gotta tell people to bring kids, bring 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.400 their parents. And my next question what do you do 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.040 if you have a I have a toiler that just 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.880 started walking, So what do you do? I meaning bringing 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.760 with a stroller, running stroller prefervably. You could do like 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.760 a backpack or no, that doesn't work. I probably hurt 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:01.520 the kid, you know, like with the kid bouncing all 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.280 over the lake. I wouldn't if I was that, but 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.640 um no, I have a stroller. I mean, if you 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.560 have a strollder, bring it and then if you want 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.480 to walk, go ahead, Like if you're up for it, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.480 I'd have one of my one of my guys on 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.400 my team pushed the stroller for you, so you could, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.320 you know, do you know put your working and kids 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.280 actually sitting the stroller. My daughter treats her stroller like 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.200 a surfboard. Like the second I put her in it, 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.880 she's like, sir, I have to like tire down in 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.120 that thing, not the kids. The kids love it because 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.480 you know they're they're seeing all these people moving and 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.680 you know they're they're just they're just being pushed up, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.280 pushed along for the ride. So and they're going at 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.560 a fast speed for sure, for sure. So okay, I'm 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.120 gonna I'm gonna remember this. Yeah. So you if they're 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.600 doing six thirty in the morning, I'm guessing they're done 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.960 before church. Yeah, like nine, but we're done my So, 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.240 so Sundays more for our longer runs. That's more of 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.560 our training day for marathons. Are just people to get 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.080 have to help people get better with distance. Because if 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.200 I told you go run six miles, they're not gonna 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.800 do it by yourself. So I created this base to 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.600 where it will help you reach whatever goal you're trying 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:15.840 to get to. So okay, now your daughter is involved 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.080 in your she comes out from time to time. It's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.640 it's a for me, it's a tough balance to be 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.040 to be the leader of the run club and be 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.200 a dad at the same time because I have so 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.160 many people I have to kind of keep an eye on, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.160 so trying to keep it. You know, we're just you know, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.600 run to the streets and have a team that helps 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.320 guy indirected you know, have like team leads and things 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:43.200 like that. But um, to try to keep an eye 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.520 on a hundred people as well as my kid is 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:50.160 not the easiest thing to do. So, um, now, when 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:58.720 didn't Nike get involved twenty eighteen A really good friend 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.680 of mine a comedy to that are former olympian, uh, 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.720 fastest woman in the world. She connected me with them, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:07.480 so I always want to show her her love and 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.080 give her shout out. She connected me with them. It's 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.040 just the way to get free products, shoes, gear, whatever. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.159 And then they've seen what I had going on with 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.760 the community, got behind it and it's been a great 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.800 relationship ever since. Now was your run club a nonprofit 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.080 or was it? No, it's not. It's not a nonprofit. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.879 So Nike was just like, I'm going to sponsor that. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.679 There's in a very supportive role. So we do events 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.680 throughout the year. Um, we do, we do. We've done 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.399 huge events. They've shut down Crunshaw Boulevard for us, and 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.720 they've shut down the whole city in Inglewood for us 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:41.600 to do just different runs and things like that. Nike 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.439 will go ahead and Nike in my relationships with other 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.280 people as well, who might think is just putting together community, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.400 giving people that space to just run in the communities 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.600 that they think that they can't. So so in South 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.720 Central they're now running, Yes, South Central, Igglewood, Compton, all, 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.439 you know, all the all the a lot a lot 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.520 of inner city neighborhoods. So we got a lot of 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.280 people active in moving now. But are they running in 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.080 that community? Yes, yes, yes, And so you were like 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.960 pivotal in that because originally you started Manhattan Beach. Yes, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:17.560 I started Manhattan Beach because, um, yeah, like gathering in 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.600 the inner city like parks and things like that isn't 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:24.200 the easiest because you know, the gangs and you know, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:29.080 so pulling up not even if I if I went 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:30.600 to a park and told you meet me at a 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.240 park and you're from the other side of town, You're like, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.480 I'm not coming over there. That's not you know, my 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.280 you know, that's not my negative was and they don't 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:38.880 get along with the side of town that I'm from, 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.320 So I'm not going to that park. So I had 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.280 to take it to an area where everyone felt very 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.399 safe and willing to want to come out. So I 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.520 started Manhattan Beach and went to Coover City. Now our 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:53.359 biggest runners in Englewood, which is an underserving community as well. So, 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.639 um so when Nike gets involved with your organization, I 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.560 want to kind of get into the meat of you 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:04.159 going from I'm creating this group too, Now I have 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.040 to transform it into like an organization slash business. Did 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.000 you have a business background? No? No, So that's the 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.359 that's the funny part. Um I started this. It's just 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.720 like I said, just get to my friends moving. So 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.320 when it started growing and people are like you need 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:21.560 to you need to come up with a name, or 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:23.280 you need to get it, you know, your trademark and 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.119 things like that, I'm like, I'm not expecting any of this, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.960 Like I didn't have a blueprint of like how any 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:32.200 of this worked. Um So, eventually I did get my 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:37.760 company trademarked, and you know it's that's my stamp. Now 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.879 you know, nobody could take it from me, but trademarking it. 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.920 When Nike comes along, trademark and it doesn't necessarily make 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.000 it where you and Nike could do business. At some 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.280 point you had to do like a corporation. No we 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:54.360 we uh so Nike. So that's always like the big 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:57.240 question like interviews, but like we have the understanding that 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:03.840 we have U there, I myself am an athlete in 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:08.199 their supportive role to keep a one hundred. So it's 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.760 not like Nike is like we're under the umbrella and 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:16.240 they're like there who like cashes me out monthly for whatever. 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.480 So that's not that's not how it works when we 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.639 do events. We have our understanding and how that works. 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:26.159 But um, I make my own money. However, you have 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:30.399 to have other jobs while you're doing keep keep, Um 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.760 you're not. Are you still doing bussing or not? No? No, 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:35.880 I'm full full run like everything and running like that's 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.960 that's everything for me. So um, but making that transition, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:45.600 can it happen that smooth? It wasn't, but everything uh 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.359 moment where you quit bussing. So so I left bussing. 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.280 And actually when it's funny because I was working at 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.840 the left bussing to work at the Anheuser bush right here, 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.600 So I was there for some time and what were 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.919 you doing? I was fermenting beer. Fermentation is a very 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:07.399 important process of beer making. Um, great job, great money, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:09.240 but like all I want to do is run, so 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.479 uh you know, I was one for the and one 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.600 foot out like I was going to work making the 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.720 money but not seeing my kid or being able to 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.320 spend money on my kids. So what's the money gonna do? 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.919 You know? So I really decided I had to bet 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.040 on myself and just trust and follow my passion, which 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.760 was running. And in that space, I gave it two 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:31.000 years just to see where it could take me. And 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.080 where are you living on savings at the time, savings hustling? 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.400 Just you know, was your child's mother like supporting? Yeah, 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:40.159 I mean like we I mean we we Yeah, we 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.359 worked well together in the space. Um, you know, like 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:44.359 I was always able, like I'm always able to make 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.480 some money, but in the process of like trying to 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.840 get your own things started to require sacrifice and you 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:52.960 have to you know, uh, trying to figure it out. 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.919 So I gave myself two years. My mentality was always 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.359 I can always get a job. If this doesn't work out, 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:04.760 I can go back to work. But um, I never 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.080 wanted to sit with the sugar. Could have would have 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:08.920 was like, I could have stayed at the job. And 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.840