WEBVTT - Love in the Time of Quarantine 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:06.480 Wind down Michael and I have heard radio podcast. I 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:08.639 really need this email the sun right now. And it's 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.840 so frustrating because everything else that we can't do. I 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.880 can't even send an email. That's all I got. That's 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:16.760 all I got. All I all I have is my 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.759 phone right now. What day were on quarantine? I don't 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.800 even That's a crazy thing. I don't even know what 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.000 day it is today. Yeah, the days of the week 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.560 definitely have been blending together. This is why I feel 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.360 like whether day I was like, is this what you 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.400 feel like when you're in jail? Because I couldn't even 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:31.520 tell you what day it was. I was like, is 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:33.640 it Tuesday or is it Saturday? Or is it Sunday? 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.279 Didn't even matter? Does it even matter? I don't think so. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:42.160 But no, seriously, this is frustrating me. Anyways, um, really 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.920 cool guests today. We have Tony dublani Um. Actually I 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.720 should say it like the Dancing with the Stars up next, 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.760 Tony dublani Um and his partner. Who did he dance with? Actually? Oh, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.120 I think Melissa Ryecroft. I think he won with Melissa, 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.360 but I might be not right about that. I'll have 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.680 to look really was he on for you? Yes, he 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.800 was before me. He wasn't my season. Yes, Oh yeah, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.480 I think I'm pretty sure he won with Melissa Ryecroft, 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.000 but I can't remember if if I'm making that up 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.120 or net Um, if they did a Dancing with the 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:23.200 Stars all stars, would you do it? One like zillion million, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.720 trillion percent? Yes? Do you think if they did a 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.640 couples Dancing with the Stars you'd want to do with me? 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.959 Why I did win with Melissa Rycroft was right because 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.759 I totally remember watching that, Thank you Easton Um. Why 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.000 because we already want to kill each other enough, so 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.160 I don't think we need to add dancing to it. 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:44.399 I don't think we would make it out of there. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:50.000 But also because like as much as I thought was 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:53.360 like Glob, I couldn't imagine fighting with you about the 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.160 dance moves and not doing it right. It would just 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.480 be disaster like disaster. Like I was able to leave 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.480 Glob at the end the day, I couldn't leave you. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.880 I'd have to go home to you. So Nope. But Sean, 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.960 it's funny Sean Johnson and I were talking about that 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.360 because she did Dancing with Stars and then she also 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:16.240 did in All Stars and yes she won. She didn't 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.080 win All Stars, but she won I think her season. 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.680 And she was saying how she would do a couple's 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.000 one with Andrew. She's like, although I think it would 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.480 be rough if that happened, you and Sean can just 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.200 like get an apartment together for the time and me 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:34.600 and Andrew just lived together for the time and our 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:41.280 kids would be aware. I don't know that, yeah, because 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.240 I mean that was what was so stressful. I'll say 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.520 the one stressful thing obviously with you were gone, but um, 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.640 you know, Jolie was six months old, So I would 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.840 dance ten hours of the day and then I'd go 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.280 home and be a mom. It was exhausted by the 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.160 end of the day. So it was so that's where 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.720 I would say, no, I wouldn't do it because now 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.040 we have two kids. But but knowing like you would 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.160 be with them, then I would do it like one. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.080 And I would like to go back and have you 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.600 in the audience. I would love to support you through that. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:17.400 That would have been great. But yep, I'm not going 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:22.160 to bring it up. Yeah, that was a tough time, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.800 but anyways, um, but yeah, so we have Tony Davelani 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.119 coming on and then to talk about what he's doing 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.000 with face mask, and then I don't want to talk 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.320 about it anymore because I'm getting sick of talking about it. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.720 I even yelled at my walking girl group today because 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.400 they were just talking about it in hospitals. I was like, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.240 I get it. I can't talk about it anymore. It's 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.800 stressing me out. I'm have anxiety deck. Yes, we're aware 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.560 and we're doing what we have to do to stay home, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.320 but I don't want to talk. I can't talk about 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.360 it today. So we need to have something else on. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:53.640 And you brought up two really cool guests that are 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.880 going to be on today. We're going to talk really 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.600 not about the coronavirus, not at all. We're gonna talk 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.320 about We're gonna talk to Bradley Boseman and his wife, Nikki. 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:07.040 Bradley is going into a second year in the NFL. 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:10.720 He's offensive guard for the Baltimore Ravens, and there's a 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:13.280 story I read on him recently on espn UM that 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.200 I'll touch on. But two amazing guests. They have an 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.440 incredible message UM and what they're doing with their platform 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.159 is is amazing and truly humbling, So we'll take a 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:39.159 break and then we'll dive in with them. I'm so excited, Tony. Hey, Tony, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.039 it's Mike and Janet. How are you doing. How you 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.880 guys doing alright? Thank you so much for coming on 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.680 the show. We really appreciate it. My pleasure, My pleasure. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:53.120 It's not like I'm doing a lot. Yeah, we're just 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.839 trying to fill all that time that we're used to 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.920 being busy with. But Tony, you are doing a lot 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.400 though right now with your Can you tell us about 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.520 the million Mass Movement please and go fund me? Yeah, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.840 the we we started a billion Mass movement because as 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.800 furtis the advanced studios advance as, we have a responsibility 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.120 to always try to make a difference and use our 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.320 platform to try to bring awareness to things that might 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.279 be needed in our society. And in this articular moment, masks. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.479 Can you believe this, Masks, an actual mask is needed 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.200 more than ever before. Our medical workers are in desperate 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.320 need of of masks to just protect themselves, let alone 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.920 hand out to people to for them to be protected. 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.680 I mean, we've all been quarantined, but our hospitals are 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.600 overflowing with people that are sick and and they don't 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.720 have protective masks. So we decided to do something about it. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.760 And uh Ebom industry has amazing dressmakers and amazing students 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.080 that got together and decided that this could be something 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.159 that we can make a difference with. And we started 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.200 a goal funding page, which if you go to my 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.719 Instagram and go to my bio to go funding page 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:05.799 tag is there. We were able to already raise closets 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.799 and all of that money is going into making masks, 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:11.880 and we already had quite a few shipments to different 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.120 hospitals across the country and the response has been overwhelming. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.440 You know, it's so satisfying to know that it's going 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.359 to a good place and people are extremely grateful and 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.240 and just do they feel like we really are making 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:28.680 a difference. So it's been so satisfying in every which way. So, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.240 you know, while I'm and while a lot of my 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.920 my friends the Fatestate Dance Studios organization have been home, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.960 we haven't been sitting in our tours for lack of 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.279 a better example, We've been actually making a difference and 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.480 we feel really good about it. What did you did 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.120 you pair with any of the other dancing with the 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:50.360 stars Um Dancers. No, actually this was directly just with 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:54.360 the Fates Stador Dance Studios and myself. Uh we I've 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.479 basically I've been promoting it on Instagram. Some of them 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.520 have retreeted, like for example, Leah Revenue at the retweeted 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.520 my or the re instagrams. I think we post whatever 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.960 it's called one of my things. But it's been it's 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.239 been really great so far. The response to me, it's 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.400 it's every every single celebrity wants to feel like they're 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.920 doing that. They want to do something to make a difference. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.640 I just happened to be very lucky to be a 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.120 part of the Fetist organization where they actually have a 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.600 company that is across the country, you know, very active, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.080 proactive when it comes to the community and making a difference. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.200 And you know between two on the schools across the 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.760 country that we have, it's you know, the students that 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.920 really stepped up and made a difference. That's so awesome. 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.960 You should and at the end of the day, you should, 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.960 you know, be so proud of yourself and just like 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.000 the community and how much they've just really rallied. I mean, 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.880 that's that's incredible. When when you are able to give 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.520 back in that in that way. Honestly, as Americans, we 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.680 owe it to each other in a sense. But I mean, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.280 we live in this incredible country and when things like 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.120 this happened is where our character is made up. You know, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.000 we we we need to step up and make it, 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:07.320 you know, do whatever it takes to beat this. You know, 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.080 this is what we're supposed to van together with. Obviously 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.200 with proximity because now that you're not supposed to be 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.440 close to anybody. But we can do it through the 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.800 cyber world. In other words, you know, social media is 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.320 a big tool for all of us, and why not. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.720 You know, you try to raise money for things that 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.560 are actually absolutely needed, like, for example, ventilators. You know, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.760 all these big companies are starting to make them to 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:33.040 ventilator that's awesome. And we as people, can we make 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.760 masks affore? Of course, we we just needed to find 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.880 out how. And you know when these dressmakers were like, listen, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.600 we're not making dresses, let's make mass right now, it 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.480 was like, oh my god. And then they are actually 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.920 medically uh, you know, accurate as well, so it's not 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.440 just making masks, it's actually medically accurate. So all the 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:55.160 nurses and the doctors are getting proper masks delivered to 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.480 them so that way they can protect themselves and others 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.280 as well. Absolutely, and that's it's amazing toning, I think, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.760 you know, it's kind of to your point is you know, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.960 people might feel lost right now, is like how do 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.640 I help? How do I help? Or can I even help? 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.720 And maybe people default too, well it's beyond my control. 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.640 I can't do anything, when really that's not true, where 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.720 it's one dollar affects something, you know, uh, or helping 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.080 out in any kind of way helps, you know, within 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.439 the limitations and boundaries and stuff. So I mean, it's 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.640 fantastic that you're doing what you're doing. And if people 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.920 listening to this and people following you and following my 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.360 wife on social media, it's like with all everyone's followers, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.440 it's like if one everyone puts in one dollar to 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.120 the go fund me, you know, can you imagine like 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.679 what that could do. So it's just I wish people 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.960 had more of that mindset to be able to be like, Okay, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.480 all I can do is five dollars. Great, that's five 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.040 dollars more than you know a lot of other people collect. Well, 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.880 that that's the thing is like, no donation is too small, 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:55.840 no donations to things. And the other thing on top 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.480 of this is what we try to do is like 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.880 when you said we have to make a difference. You know, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.720 I know a lot of people at home. They don't 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.719 have they don't have Jim's at home. They want to 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.199 stay active, they want to do that us, as a 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.240 Fedstate organization, we decided to do online lessons, which are 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:15.080 free lessons. So online lesson dot com. If you go there, 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.840 you have free lessons. You could learn how to dance. 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.559 You could stay active, because I mean, everybody makes this 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.320 goal about working out. Truth is working out is boring, Okay, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.480 And besides, you get so sorry you can't even move 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.960 the next day. Now, Tony, Tony, Tony. By learning how 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.480 to dance, it's with your spouse, Red, it's with the 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.280 broom brothers, with your kids. You can learn how to dance. 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.000 Why not, Tony. I did Dancing with the Stars, and 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.040 let me tell you, I've never been more sore in 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.760 my entire life dancing. I tore my inner costal muscles. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.400 I had bruises all for my body. I don't think 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.480 I ever saw that. Gina sweat until I saw her 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.880 dance exactly. So don't you say that dancing does not 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:58.839 make you sore. I will totally smack you through this microphone. Yeah, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.439 I mean, but does the thing? It's like, dancing works 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.280 on the firing muscles, the muscles we forget about as well. 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.800 So but that you know, it's funny because a lot 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.520 of times people think that they have to be good 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.120 dancers in order to take lessons. That's the whole point 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:13.000 of it is, you don't have to be a good dancer. 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.120 You can learn on the on the platform and you know, 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.280 just move a little bit and dance to the music 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.120 that you like to listen to and so on. It 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.400 keeps you active, that's the thing. It's like. It's because 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.160 I mean, one of my friends yesterday, because I did 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.120 a class. Immediately afterwards, they called me. They're like, I 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.160 gotta tell you, I've been all I've been doing lately 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.040 is listening to news and I I didn't realize I 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.200 was thinking into this depression, and now that I took 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:39.040 your class, I feel like, oh my god, I'm like 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:43.000 back to being myself. So sometimes dancing does give you 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.360 that escape that we all need, especially in this this 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.120 this during these times that everything that you've turned onto 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:53.360 is negative. That I love that message right there, because 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.840 it's so easy to get sucked into all of this 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.720 stuff because every network, every channel, everything on social media, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.880 there's so much just negativity around this news. And to 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.280 do something like that to get yourself back into being 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.199 you is is an unbelievable message. Along with what you're 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.319 doing with a Million Masks movement, go to the go 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.800 fund me and give back and put a little salsa 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:26.280 in your step, right Tony, Oh gosh, I'm getting trauma 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.080 just thinking of dancing with the stars. So Tony, you're 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.240 the best. Thank you so much, and thank you guys 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:46.720 so much for having me than we appreciate it. Alright, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.240 So we have these two guests on that I read 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.200 a story about that. Don't say yeah, get them on 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:54.439 the phone first, because I want them to hear this. Okay, So, 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.080 as my wife just corrected me, no, no, no, no, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:12:59.760 because I think it's like it's cool for them to 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.480 know to how I randomly instagram them. Okay, let's start over. No, No, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.520 that's that's good. Okay, that's good stuff, she says. This 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.400 is all gold right now, you guys all right, let's 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:16.480 welcome Nikki and Bradley Bozeman to our show. Nikki Bradley, Hey, 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:20.600 how are you guys? Hey guys, how are you doing good? 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.480 Thanks for coming on our show with us. We appreciate it. Yeah, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.360 for sure, thanks for having us. So um, Mike was 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:30.719 just about to tell the listeners how um about how 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.000 this came about, because this was three days ago. I 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.320 think you came in to the room and said, yeah, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.360 I was telling Jana, you know, I was checking on 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.680 the ESPN app and you know, they've just done a 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.120 story about you guys about you know, living in an 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.440 RV and and then traveling not just that, but the 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.800 fact that you guys were traveling across the country and 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.360 then going to different schools, you know, talking about anti 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:58.720 bowling and doing like an anti bullying campaign. And I 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.080 came to Jane, I was like, this story's amazing, not 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.880 just you know RV thing is novel is novel too, 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.480 and people get you know, really attached to that. But 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.320 I'm like the fact that you guys are taking time 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.440 and you're busy offseason to go do this and talk 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.679 to young kids about this anti bowling, which is such 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.679 a sensitive subject. These days. You know, it really stood 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:18.720 out to me and I you know, just commend you 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.720 guys for for doing that, committing to that. Thank yeah, 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:23.680 thank you. It's been it's been such a good journey. 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.120 And I mean, unfortunately guys gotta get cut a little short. 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.920 But just you know the time that we did have 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.000 was such amazing. Just the feedback we got was I 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:37.640 mean unbelievable. I'm sure and what and sorrur listeners know 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.280 to you know, Bradley, you're in your second year with 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.120 the Ravens. Correct, Yes, just finished my second and then 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.400 going into my third. Okay, so Bradley's offensive lineman with 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.960 the Baltimore Ravens going into his third year Alabama alumni 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.560 and his wife Nikki. How long you'all been married? Uh, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:15:01.840 it'll be one year on Monday, guys. That same Yeah, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.320 we've been together with over six years. Six years both 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.520 married one year. Good for you guys. Did you can 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:13.720 both go to Alabama? We did? Yep? Okay, I love 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.480 at college, sweethearts. So back to your whole like traveling 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.320 your your anti bowling campaign. What inspired you guys to 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.520 kind of start that adventure? Yeah, so we kind of 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:30.720 both realized we had a commonality growing up obviously by UM, 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.240 because we were both very tall. I played center in 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.000 college in basketball and he was the center on the 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.440 football team, and that's kind of how we met. And 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.120 then UM, but we realized that we both kind of 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:46.160 obviously looked different because we're bigger, taller, UM and all that. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:47.840 So when we were growing up, you know, we were 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.320 picked on for that. So UM just kind of sharing 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.080 our stories with each other. And then there was a 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.240 girl that reached out when we were in college. She 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.200 was getting heavily picked on UM because of her race, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.160 and so they asked us if we would like send 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.640 her a message, just you know, to say hey, UM, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.960 and just you know, give some positivity to her. And 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:10.880 we're like, oh, why don't we come to the school 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:14.280 and why don't we talk with her? And they were like, actually, 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.320 why you're here when you talk to the whole school? 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.520 And we were like, UM, sure, Like I have no 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.720 idea what we're gonna say. Um, I don't know what 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:25.560 you want us to talk about there, Like we don't 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.960 really know, just you know, go for it. So we 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.680 end up going up there with no speech, nothing prepared, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.280 nervouses all get out, and UM but it ended up 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:38.080 you know, UM, we're just super blessed God put words 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:39.960 in our mouth and it worked out great. And then 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:41.960 what we got in the car afterwards and we're like, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.160 all right, this is what we were meant to do. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.760 So it kind of started there and it's kind of 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.440 climbed ever since. Have you had kids reach out to 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.800 you and and that way, you guys can also feel 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.840 the impact and too, you know, because I know when 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.200 we go out on the road and people are like, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.960 oh my gosh, you'd helped me so much. It helped 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.520 us fuel to keep going out to do you know 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.040 what we do on the podcast. So have you guys 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:10.200 also is that helped you to continue this tour? Uh? Yeah. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.600 So we've had this is our third year UM having 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.920 this foundation, and just on this tour alone, we had 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.840 hundreds of kids reach out to us. UM. We had 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.840 custom trading cards built UM that have obviously broadly on 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.000 the front of them, but it has everything about our 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.640 foundation on the back, and it has UM a website 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.000 where there's a dedicated email where kids can you know, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:36.000 email us with questions or anything like that, and those 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.560 emails go directly to Bradley and I and we answer. 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.800 We've probably answered a few hundred just in the four 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.960 weeks of the tour, but we've probably answered, um, it's 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.159 hundreds in the matter of three years. So it's been 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:52.119 amazing just hearing um kids just feel comfortable and sharing 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:55.280 their stories and stuff like that. So that's, uh, that's 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.920 kind of made it all worthwhile. Is there something as 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.560 parents that we can do? For example, like our daughter, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.640 she's already off the charts on her height, and I've 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.240 you know, as a parent, I also know that the 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.040 like you said, the taller kids, taller girls especially have 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.840 you know, would get picked on a lot um, and 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.920 so I've been always worried about that. Um And Mike, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:19.800 can you can attest that too, Like, I've just been 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:21.640 kind of worried, you know, for Jolie because I want 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.760 her to embrace her height and but you know, I 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.600 get scared of the kids that do bullis. So is 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.679 there anything that we can do to be proactive to 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:34.399 help her if she continues on the chart growth? Um? Yeah, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.840 you know it's hard. I mean because it's hard because 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.840 I know boys are like self conscious about everything anyway, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.240 but then when a girl's taller than them, it's just 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.840 like you know there, you know, I don't know, it 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.600 was just for me. It was just all the guys 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.800 that were super short and I was. I tell kids, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.600 I was probably UM five nine and like the sixth 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.280 seventh grade, so I was really tall. UM really really early. 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.159 So I would say um as a parent wise, and 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.199 it kind of goes for what we talked about in 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.840 our speeches to UM. We talked about like finding your 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.159 outlet or your passion or what you love to do. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.520 And we explain to the kids like if we woke 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.280 you up at every morning at three am, what would 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.600 you be so excited to do, Like doesn't matter every day, 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.120 every other day, whatever, And that's kind of your passion 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.119 your outlet. And mine turned into basketball. I didn't really 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.000 know that at the time, but I just looking back 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.680 that every time I was happy or sad or going 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.000 through something, I always found myself in the gym um. 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.000 And then Bradley was was football. So we said, you know, 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:37.040 it can be a musical instrument, it could be podcast, 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.920 it could be UM YouTube videos on heritatorial, it could 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.680 literally be anything. But it's just something that they love 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.720 to do and starting that early. So like right now, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.919 you know, we tell the kids, like, take time for 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.040 yourself now, because you don't want to get to the 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.959 point where, um we call it the mound of craps, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.600 but everything that's going on and the stressors of life 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.160 and everything that's going on around you, when you get 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.359 to the top of that mountain, you know, that's where 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.600 the we go to talk to these kids because UM 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.800 suicide is one of the leading killers and teams over 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.119 the past ten years, and it's like that's something that 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.440 we're hoping can be preventable by things that we're going 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:19.399 and talking about and preaching. So our message is to 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:21.120 kind of start early, and you don't want to get 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.359 to a place where you feel so bad that and 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:25.399 you're like, Okay, I need something to do. You know, 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:27.679 you want to start it early and figure out what 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.320 you love to do. UM. I love baking when I 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.359 was younger, So I know, like just being able to 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.560 do something every day that's constructive, UM, and just get 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.080 that in a rhythm and in a habit, because then 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.199 you'll find yourself Like if something is going wrong or 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.879 as a child, like as I was getting picked on, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.359 I would always inherently go back to the gym. So 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.800 that kind of started early with playing sports, but that's 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.760 where I always found myself. So I would say, maybe 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.800 like practice something and see what they love to do, 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:00.719 like and it can be anything. It just kind of 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.000