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Speaker 2: Been here doing other things. You got Matt Johnson, Matt

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Speaker 1: And they're like twenty nine days and I'm like, hell yeah.

434
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 1: I went in. Like like I watched Nick do Leadville.

435
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, good, Nick can do it. I'm like I

436
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:34,040
Speaker 1: can do it. And no, no, no, no, no, get

437
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: to Leadville. No like never ran elevation, never ran a trail,

438
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 1: and I ran. I went sub twelve for the first

439
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 1: fifty which should have been my first red flag, and

440
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,960
Speaker 1: then I climbed the mountain, turn around, climb back on

441
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 1: the mountain, come down. I se So that is uh,

442
00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 1: what is.

443
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 2: It Scott's Scott's well versed on it.

444
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: Now, Yes, so climb hose pass, climb hope pass again,

445
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 1: come back. I'm a Twin Lakes. I sit down and

446
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 1: once again this is yeah, but this is cool because

447
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 1: now I'm like I just kind of clicked in my head.

448
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 1: Marcus is always there. Marcus was there. And I go

449
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 1: to stand up and I couldn't stand up, and Marcus

450
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,040
Speaker 1: had to put his arms under me, pick me up

451
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: and push my knees to lock my knees. I walked

452
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: overnight in the thirty eight degree rain, fifty or fifty

453
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 1: k thirty one miles and I got cut off by

454
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:35,159
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes. I rolled into to May Queen inbound

455
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: at like seven fifteen, and I was supposed to be

456
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,720
Speaker 1: there at seven. Now I kind of blame Adam Klink for.

457
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:47,959
Speaker 2: That because it was just one of the time.

458
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,919
Speaker 1: This was the first time he was there. And Adam

459
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,360
Speaker 1: collapsed right by me like like he that was we

460
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: were right there together, and I stopped my stopped for

461
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 1: like three minutes, So you know it Adam's fault.

462
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 2: Reference Adams worked at BPN real good dude. Yeah, it

463
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 2: was crossfitter competed for years has tried lead Bill twice. Man,

464
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 2: his problem is he gets out there on like Wednesday

465
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 2: and the race is on Saturday, on a hunderd mile race.

466
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 2: That's like and so Adam's problem missed twice squatting yeah,

467
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 2: five hundred pounds and not running.

468
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah.

469
00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 2: He's like, Oh, I'm like, how much are you running?

470
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 2: It's like about ten miles a week or something like that.

471
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: Or I was like, uh, it's not gonna do it, yeah,

472
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 2: like trying to go do it.

473
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: It was Yeah, So I did. I did the Leadville

474
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 1: DNF that race and just had this like toxic like

475
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: that was my first fail, right, Like, I went sub three,

476
00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:42,719
Speaker 1: which is amazing. I won the fifty k, and like

477
00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, like I lose ye and

478
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:51,480
Speaker 1: I'm like and I became infatuated with with Leadville like

479
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,400
Speaker 1: I was. I couldn't ever stop thinking about it, And

480
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: that right there kind of became the slow demise of

481
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: my marriage. And I started traveling to train and I

482
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: started talking about wanting to leave the military. And my

483
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: wife at the time, like she was a dental assistant

484
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: making her way through college for dental hygiene and just

485
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: kind of wanted the you know, wanted to stay there,

486
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: like all her family was there, and I'm like, I

487
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: want to move to Austin. And come twenty twenty three.

488
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: Now get to February of twenty three. Go down. It's

489
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: BPN Ambassador Weekend. I'm now an ambassador with BPN. I

490
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 1: got like thirty thousand followers. I think I'm the shit,

491
00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: you know, like not in a cocky way, but like

492
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: I think, I'm like, I'm just you know, like I'm

493
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: living this life that like I had looked at. And

494
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: I leave Ambassador Weekend, I come back. I fly in

495
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 1: on Sunday, go to work on Monday. Shit's a little

496
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: weird at home. Tuesday, I come home for lunch and

497
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: my wife's there and she's like, I want a divorce.

498
00:24:54,359 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: And I was like wow, Like I didn't see yeah,

499
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, well, I like I I definitely saw it

500
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: like it was. It should have happened way sooner December January.

501
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: But as a man like I wouldn't do what I

502
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't have made that choice right and I should have

503
00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,920
Speaker 1: Like that was probably me being a coward not doing that.

504
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,919
Speaker 1: And you know, you and I already talked a lot

505
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: about this and you know, but she said that on Tuesday.

506
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: On Thursday night, I was sitting up in my bedroom

507
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: with a shotgun on my lap and I was gonna

508
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: kill myself, like I had over those like three days.

509
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 1: I was like like I I'm a piece of shit

510
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: like I am. Like everyone in the military was like,

511
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 1: don't leave the military. You have a family to take

512
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: care of. Like You're never gonna be anything outside the military,

513
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, Like I had toxic leadership at that time.

514
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: And you know, then I have my you know, my

515
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: wife saying she wants a divorce and tell me how

516
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,159
Speaker 1: big of a piece of shit I am, and like

517
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: everything is just.

518
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 2: Wrong snowball, Yeah, and.

519
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: I had. I was just in Austin on Sunday and

520
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: something in my head is like text Harrison, who was

521
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: a Midwest boy. He was in Austin when I was there.

522
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: He was staying down there. He's like, I'm gonna I

523
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: remember when I left. He's like, I'm gonna stay for

524
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: another month because he's like the weather's nice down here.

525
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: He's an online coach, yep. And I was like, something

526
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: in my head was like, just see if he's there.

527
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: And I texted him and I was like and he

528
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: had no idea. Like I was right there and I

529
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 1: was like, are you still in Austin? And he's like yeah.

530
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: And I'm like, do you care if I come back?

531
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: And like we hang out and he's like sure, He's like.

532
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll talk to you when I get there. Uh,

533
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 1: Saturday morning, I packed one bag and my dog and

534
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: we left Austin and never looked back. And I got

535
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: down there and we split the money in the bank account.

536
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: We had six thousand dollars. I took three and took

537
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: off to Austin and uh, yeah, yeah, the rest is

538
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:06,640
Speaker 1: the rest is history.

539
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 2: Man.

540
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: So that's what y're That was twenty three.

541
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 2: Okay, so twenty three, what's like, what's the next couple

542
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 2: of months look like? How do you get back on

543
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 2: track and get the get the road going.

544
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,959
Speaker 1: Yeah. So on my way down to Austin, I I

545
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 1: have like my best friend that's an adult, like my

546
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 1: best friend from adulthood. He's texting me and he's like,

547
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, crazy enough. I didn't even realize, but his

548
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: wife is from college station. His wife's mom was driving

549
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: down that same day and she followed me all the

550
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: way to Austin to make sure I made it there,

551
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, like like like like those types of those

552
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: type of people. And he told me, he's like, you

553
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: are going to be so successful. He's like, I know

554
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 1: you're going to figure it out. You're gonna make a

555
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 1: million dollars. He's like you like you you got this.

556
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: And I called my mom and I told my mom

557
00:27:58,560 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: on the drive as well as like, I was like,

558
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to be an online coach because Harrison was

559
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: an online coach, you know, he was down there. I'm

560
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 1: going to talk to him. He's going to teach me

561
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: how to do it. You know. I got this. And

562
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: I get to Austin and you know, I'm with Harrison

563
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: and Airbnb and that's a like that is a godsend

564
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: because I wasn't alone. Yeah, and and I and he

565
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: stayed for two weeks and I was in it. I

566
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: was in Airbnbs for sixty one days, so I had

567
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: almost half that time or no, yeah, two months, so

568
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 1: I had a good portion of time. And you know,

569
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: I learned how he did his business. And I just

570
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: started posting on my social media about thirty thousand followers

571
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: still and you know, I'm like, hey, like I'm taking

572
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: on you know, clients, and then we get on the call.

573
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, it's one hundred dollars a month.

574
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: Like I'm like, I can just you know, get as

575
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,479
Speaker 1: many clients as I can. And I started doing that.

576
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: I did that most of the summer, prepared for Leadville.

577
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: Okay, so you are playing on Regil No no, no, no.

578
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: I skipped. I skipped some important shit. So moved in February.

579
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 1: At that point, I was talking to the BPN athlete

580
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: manager and he's like, you know, we want to make

581
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: you an athlete. We want you to come run the

582
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: BPN marathon. So I get down there and I'm like okay,

583
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: like like I'm working, I go and I run the

584
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: BPN marathon. And remember I still have this Ironman bike.

585
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: This this comes in clutch. This is like how God works.

586
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I run the BPN marathon and I win

587
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: the BPN Marathon and I'm like yeah, hell yeah. And

588
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: then I see that there's an iron Man in Houston

589
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: in six days. So I'm like, I'm gonna go race

590
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 1: this iron Man. I'm gonna like make this like a

591
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: like a like a thing, like win a marathon and

592
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: do an iron Man. The same week, and I'm training

593
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: my I am running my ass into the ground. And

594
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: so I win the marathon on Sunday. I leave for

595
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: Houston on Wednesday and I race Ironman Texas on Saturday,

596
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: p r the iron Man. Right after winning the win

597
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: in the marathon mile twenty four, I take a step

598
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: and I feel this lightning bowl up my leg. I

599
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: fractured completely through my fibula. And the reason why I'm

600
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: able to continue this race because people are like, what

601
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: is because the fibula holds ten percent, right, Like you

602
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: don't need the.

603
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,320
Speaker 2: I guess still painting.

604
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I fracture the leg and now I'm on

605
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: crutches and I'm I'm done for and I move back

606
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: and then now I'm on crutches. My shit's broken. I

607
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: didn't go the doctor though, because I didn't I don't

608
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: have insurance. Shit's definitely messed up. And then I get

609
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: back and I'm like, I'm out of money, and I'm

610
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: I'm like like now it's like it's snowballing again, and

611
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm out of money. I have no money.

612
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: I'm in this airbnb. I need to be out in

613
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: three days. I list my Ironman bike for sale, sell

614
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: my Ironman bike on Facebook Marketplace for like two thousand dollars.

615
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: In this process, I don't know how all this worked,

616
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: but I found two roommates that were getting ready to

617
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: move to Austin, and I was like, okay, the six

618
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: thousand dollars is the deposit, we'll all pay. Two sold

619
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 1: my Ironman bike, put a deposit down, and I moved

620
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: into this duplex. And I walk in and I had nothing.

621
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: And I went to Walmart and I bought a mattress

622
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: pad and a blanket and a pillow, and we slept

623
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: on the floor for two weeks, and I just slowly started,

624
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: you know now that that summer. Now my leg is

625
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: healing up. I'm starting to train for Leadville again because

626
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: I'm going back. And yep, Leadville's in August. So now

627
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: like we're into that was May. So now pretty much

628
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: the whole month of May, I slept on the floor.

629
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: I like, get one hundred dollars. You know, I'm still coaching,

630
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: buy a couch, you know, bought a TV, bought a

631
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: little mantle. You know, we're just we're throwing shit together

632
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: as we go fast forward, because nothing really cool happens.

633
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: Go to Leadville, Go to Ladville. I finished Leadville, super cool.

634
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: September hits. I go and I run the Zilker Relay

635
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: with which is this two mile like really fast race.

636
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: The leg started hurting again. Get invited out to the

637
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: Bronx ten miler to race with the pros, which is

638
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: like the double A corral, which is like really cool

639
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: and running. Went out and I went one hundredth overall,

640
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: which is like crazy, like I ran a fifty six

641
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: minute ten miler. The leg is hurting. I have this

642
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: hundred miler coming up right, I'm running from everything still

643
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,959
Speaker 1: like I'm avoiding everything. Have this one hundred mileer coming up.

644
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: The leg hurts. People think this is I mean, this

645
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 1: is crazy. I couldn't run the day before this hundred,

646
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: but I thought I like I knew I had the

647
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: capability of winning it. That doesn't sound right, but I

648
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: like had this in my head that I was like,

649
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: I can win this race. Couldn't even run the day before,

650
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: and go out to this hundred lead seventy five miles

651
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: of it. Get to the point where I'm in the

652
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: most pain my entire life and I can't run anymore.

653
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: The guy passes me and I call my mom and

654
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: I'm sobbing, and then I quit, like I couldn't go

655
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: any farther. That was the start of everything becoming great,

656
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: because now I had to go home and I had

657
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: to sit. I had no choice because then I go

658
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: home and I go to the doctor on Monday and

659
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: got my X rays and I got everything done and

660
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: she's like, hey, your fibula is like broken. And I'm like, yeah,

661
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: but you know, I knew I heard it. She's like no,

662
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: like there's calcium build up, Like it's like off, didn't

663
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: heal right?

664
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 2: Yeah?

665
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: She's like, and you have three other fractures in your tibia.

666
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: She's like, when was your race And I was like

667
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: Saturday and she's like no, these have been there for

668
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: a long time. She's like, you ran on three fractures

669
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: and I'm like all right. She's like, you're done for

670
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: a very long time. And it was probably I was

671
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: done September, October, November, December, Janey, five months. I had

672
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,919
Speaker 1: to just I wasn't cast it up. I should have been.

673
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: I played this, you know, this dumb mentality. I wouldn't

674
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: ever play anymore. But I had this mentality in my

675
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: head where I started doing research on something I found

676
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: called Wolf's law, which is like, this is stupid. Don't

677
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: anyone listening to this, don't ever do this. But it's

678
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: like if a tiger is out there and you know,

679
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: hunting and breaks its leg, it just walks on it

680
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: and it's Wolf's law, like if it it will. So

681
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,399
Speaker 1: I just literally limped for four months like they were

682
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: like non weight bearing. And I'm like, nah, like I

683
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: just didn't lift or anything and limped for for.

684
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 2: Three four months compensate in other places, and.

685
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: Then my hip hurts and you know, so yeah, yeah.

686
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 2: Around here stupidly right, yeah yeah.

687
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: So but in that time, I had a conversation with

688
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: a friend, Matt Choi, who's a big influencer in the

689
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: marathon world, and and you know, I kind of looked

690
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,840
Speaker 1: up to him, and you know, he was like you

691
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: because I I'm like, hey, look, let's meet for sun life.

692
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: I'll say you bowl. We sit down and and I'm like,

693
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: all of my content is about running. It's running, running, running, running.

694
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: If I'm not running, I can't make content. And I

695
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: have I have, you know, probably fifty thousand followers at

696
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: this point, and you know, I'm seeing him in ads

697
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: and like, you know, we'd we'd been friends, like he

698
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: actually not even until like last year, didn't. He didn't

699
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: even know, Like him and I were running together, and

700
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: I was just trying to figure out as much as

701
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: I could from him. We were running together and I

702
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: was sleeping on the floor and he had he had

703
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: no no one had any idea. And at that time,

704
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: I had met Eric Hinman, who I'd told you about

705
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: who's big in the CpG space, and I met him

706
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: at Leadville in August. So now I'm watching him. I'm

707
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: watching CHOI everything I've done in my entire life, Like

708
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 1: I just watch people and I'm like, I want to

709
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: be like this person, you know yeah, And he's like,

710
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: you need to learn how to tell a story, and

711
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: he goes, you should have four stories lined up, A, B, C,

712
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: and D. He's like A can be running, B can

713
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: be motivation, C can be funny, and D can be

714
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: Matt Johnson. He's like, all of your stuff is just running.

715
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: He's like, make it about you, and I like walked

716
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: away from that and I'm like, simple, right, Mike, Like

717
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: why didn't I ever think about that? And the next month,

718
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: I meet Amanda, who is my fiance now and is

719
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,720
Speaker 1: the most incredible woman that I have ever came across

720
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: in my life. Like she is I'm a hard headed asshole,

721
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: and like she loves me in a way that I

722
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: have never been loved and supports me. And she took

723
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 1: me back to church and all of these things that

724
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: she gave me, and just meeting her helped me in

725
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: this way of Now into November December, I start going

726
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: back to church and I start switching. You know, I

727
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: find out about you know, and I grew up with religion,

728
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 1: but I never you know, I have tattoos of crosses

729
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: on my body that meant nothing to me before. And

730
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: I learned about praying and just talking to God, and

731
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: you know, what's the best way to talk to God?

732
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: Reading the Bible because that's his word. And then I

733
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: find out about you know, how do you pray? And

734
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: then you can just talk? You know, you can just yeah,

735
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: you can just talk to God. And then it's like okay.

736
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: So then I start praying and I just and I

737
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: have this like epiphany in my head where I'm like,

738
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: I'm going to I switch my prayers from this is

739
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: what I want to what do you want for me?

740
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 2: Yep?

741
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: And when I started doing that and actually living in

742
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: his word and being a good person who I had

743
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: never been, you know, like I have cheated, I have stolen,

744
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: I have lied, like I was not a good person,

745
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: and I just gave all of that up.

746
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 2: Hmm.

747
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: And that was in January and February I posted my

748
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: first In February, I had this week, this week of

749
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: like three reels where I started leaning into like I

750
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: was like, the Ultra running space is so serious. Everyone

751
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: is like just serious, and I'm like, I'm going to

752
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 1: just make fun of it, Like I'm going to do

753
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: everything the opposite and make fun of it and make

754
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: funny videos.

755
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

756
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: And I had three reels that went like five million,

757
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: eight million, and four million in a week. And that

758
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,280
Speaker 1: took me from fifty thousand to one hundred and twenty

759
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: thousand in a week. And then I meet a friend

760
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: that I had met through Instagram, Evan Slaughter, also a veteran.

761
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: He was Sharon Nashville. I met Evan and Evan's like

762
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: we do We filmed together for this brand. I just

763
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: signed my first ever brand and it was two thousand

764
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: dollars a month. I thought it was like that's crazy

765
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: to me. Because I'm like, I'm making four k month

766
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: in the military, like two thousand a month, and Evan

767
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,439
Speaker 1: and I were like with this brand and we wanted

768
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: to film a collab and he's like, hey, I just

769
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: hired a manager. He's like, maybe you should try to

770
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: hire a manager, and it's Lisa, And so then I

771
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: I get on the phone with Lisa, and you know,

772
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, I'd love to, you know, represent you.

773
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: And I get off the phone and I had this

774
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: another epiphany where I'm like, I need to hire out

775
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 1: an entire team right now. And I was terrifying because

776
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, what, Like I don't know anything.

777
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: I know nothing. I'm like, I need an accountant and

778
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 1: I need an assistant, and I need an assistant because

779
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: of like, you know, I don't know this is scheduling,

780
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand this stuff. And I'm seeing what

781
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: Eric Hinman is doing and how he's scheduling things, but

782
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how to schedule like that because I've

783
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: never had to do it, because the military just gives

784
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: you the schedule. And so I'm like, so I need

785
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: an I need an assistant, I need an accountant, and

786
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: I have a manager, and now all I had was

787
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: four grand a month with coaching and then one brand

788
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: new and I'm like, okay, so the manager takes twe

789
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: and then I'm like the account is thousand dollars a month,

790
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: and then the assistance a thousand dollars a month. And

791
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, I got left okay. I'm like, I

792
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,320
Speaker 1: got two grand left. Rant is one thousand dollars a

793
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: month because we're spliting in between three guys. My truck

794
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: payment's five hundred. I'm like, I got five hundred bucks

795
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: left a month. I'm like, I did that back home.

796
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: I got this yep, and I and I went all in,

797
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: and you know, now we go into March. I now

798
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 1: we're in twenty four I win one hundred mile race.

799
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,959
Speaker 1: I go into the summer. That same summer, I gained

800
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: another one hundred thousand followers by just being authentically me

801
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: and just posting content like I'm like, I want to

802
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: take my traumas, and like I'm like, what did I want?

803
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: And I just started looking at social media as like

804
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: a business, or like not really like a business, but

805
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: like what would I have wanted from social media? And

806
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm very strategic with things that I post like I

807
00:40:58,400 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: have a lot of friends that just they'll just post

808
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: them like talking to the camera. And for me, like,

809
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: I want to be really strategic for like do people

810
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: want to share this? Do people like this? Is it

811
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,280
Speaker 1: going to provide them value? Is it going to be funny?

812
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I want to use my trauma that

813
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: I had, and like what did I want? I wanted

814
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: to laugh, I wanted to open my phone and just

815
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: get away for a second. And I started posting that

816
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: and it was just like, you know, ten fifty thousand,

817
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: it was just up up, up, up up, and yeah,

818
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean that's really and then you know, then the

819
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: next two big things, you know that we had a man.

820
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: Then I moved into this amazing house. You know, I

821
00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: hit within three or four months. I hit my first

822
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars a month, and we moved into this

823
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: awesome house. I wanted to move in with me. And

824
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: she has this wellness retreat business, and I'm like, I

825
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: want you to go all in on this wellness retreat

826
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: business and I'm going to cover all of the bills

827
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: and like a really cool point for me, like I

828
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: love being able to provide for her, Like I love

829
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: especially because I feel like I didn't I didn't have

830
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: that when I was younger, for sure. And she's like,

831
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: you know, getting her stuff from Philly because she had

832
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: just moved from Philly and and she had to sell

833
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: her jeep to move to move to get money. And

834
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: she got home and I I bought her a Porsche

835
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: andrade from a GP you know, but like but like

836
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 1: and I don't say that to be like you know,

837
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: but like you know, like like I was like, I

838
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: want I want you to have the like you have

839
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: changed my entire life, and I'm like, I want to

840
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: I've never been more motivated in my entire life to

841
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: give somebody everything that they have ever wanted because I'm like,

842
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: you single handedly brought me back to God and changed

843
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: my whole life. And you know, and then we moved

844
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: in this big house and then you know pretty much

845
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: then now the next two years are are training for Texas.

846
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: One in Texas to h.

847
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 2: So you now ran across Texas twice. Yeah, what uh

848
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 2: you know raising money for ballor fit and what is

849
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 2: uh what is your average per day usually on that?

850
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: Yeah? So Texas won. I ran from El Paso to Galveston,

851
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: which was eight hundred and forty one miles. So that

852
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: was the first one, and I averaged right under fifty

853
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 1: miles a day. And how that worked was twelve hours on,

854
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: twelve hours off, like I and we found this out

855
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: went through. And I think we'll talk a little more

856
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: heavy on Texas too, because that is really we got

857
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: a lot out of that. Texas won. It was kind

858
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: of like the Bad News Bears showed up and we're

859
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: just like, hey, we're just gonna run and happens, you know,

860
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: and Texas too had a lot more intention and you know,

861
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: so we just kind of ran and filmed it and

862
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: had a horrifically beautiful time and it was cool and

863
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, for me, people had started

864
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: to see who I was, and then that was kind

865
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 1: of like my my stamp on, like I told you

866
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: I'm here and I belong here, and you know, in

867
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: the in the fitness world. And at that same time,

868
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: excuse me, the work we did a workout. I got

869
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: everything wrong at that same time. Unfortunately, I don't know

870
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: if it was because it was an election year, I

871
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: don't know what happened, but we only raised thirty thousand

872
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: for Valor. And I say only because it's like, at

873
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: that time, I had two hundred and fifty thousand followers.

874
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, how do I only raise thirty grand? And

875
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: I felt so unfulfilled, Like I felt I felt at

876
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,399
Speaker 1: peace with what I had done, but like we got done.

877
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: In November, we went to Costa Rica for Amanda's wellness retreat.

878
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: I took a lot of time off. In December, I

879
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:54,840
Speaker 1: looked at Amanda. We're sitting on the couch, and I

880
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 1: had felt like, like God put it on my heart

881
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: that I had to do it again. And I looked

882
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: at her and I was like, that's exactly what I said.

883
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh my God, Like she's like why yeah,

884
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: And I'm like, because I feel like I didn't push

885
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: myself hard enough and I didn't raise enough money for veterans.

886
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: And I was like, I feel like I can do

887
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,959
Speaker 1: both of those things better if I have one more chance.

888
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: And by pushing myself hard enough, I mean, I don't

889
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: know why, but there's this point in the documentary where

890
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: I hit fifty miles for the day and I'm like,

891
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: fifty stop my watch and immediately wouldn't move any farther.

892
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like, that's not me, you know, like like

893
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: I had set like I would set a goal in

894
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: my head and I would hit that goal and then

895
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: I was like and I was like, I'm done, Like

896
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: I'm not taking another step. And I remember another point

897
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 1: where I stopped for the day. I drew the line

898
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. You could see the RV park

899
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,920
Speaker 1: that we were staying at, probably half a mile up

900
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 1: the road, and I would not I'm like, you're gonna

901
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: drive me there? Like I'm you know, like it was

902
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: just kind of things that I don't know what was

903
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: going on, but I just didn't, you know. I set

904
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: a goal of you know, I'm going to run across Texas,

905
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: and I how I got there was on my own term,

906
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: and I felt like I needed to do it again,

907
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 1: and you know that that became all of you know,

908
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and moving into that. I guess. Yeah,

909
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: it was, Uh it was.

910
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: Rough the second time. Yeah, worse than the first, right, Yeah,

911
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: that was the way I was with lead building knowing

912
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: what you're getting into. It was way worse.

913
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: It was worse, but at the same time, like it

914
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: was so much better. Yeah, it was.

915
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 2: Did you do twelve hours twelve on No? Matter, and

916
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 2: you would just run for twelve and go more than

917
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 2: fifty or no.

918
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: So here was the so the whole plane was the

919
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: same course. No no, no, so this time, so I

920
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: set the record for fastest time to cross Texas. Now

921
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: as I'm sure with CrossFit, you know you have people

922
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: set these weird freaking rules, right, Like there's it's called

923
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: FKT fastest Known Time. It's like the Guinness Book of

924
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: World Records. But if you don't run the exact route

925
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: and start and fit, you can't have the fastest known time.

926
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: Well guess what. I set the fastest known time. And

927
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: I wasn't going to run that guy's route because I

928
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,279
Speaker 1: didn't want to take that from him. Yeah, you know,

929
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: like like I'm like, if I take one single turn

930
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: off of this route, now I can't take his you know,

931
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: like like he can hold the FKT cool have it.

932
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit about it. Yeah, I'm like

933
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: I want to set the fact, Like I want to

934
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: match his mileage and do it faster. And so that's

935
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: what we did. We made our own route. We ran

936
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,720
Speaker 1: from El Paso to Galveston. He ran from El Paso

937
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: to like sam Benine Pass, and it was eight forty one.

938
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: We had to do eight forty one. And so now

939
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: coming back, I find this route called the Texas one thousand,

940
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: and it's from Oklahoma to Mexico. Once again, there's an

941
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: FKT for it. And at this point I had emailed

942
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: FKT and I was like, hey, I'd love to submit

943
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: a route variation, which means just a different route for

944
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: the record, and they're like, no, why would we do that.

945
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: So now I'm kind of have a vendetta for FKT.

946
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: So now I see that the FKT starts in Texas

947
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: or Texas whatever on the no it's like the Texas

948
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: Mexico Border, New Texas New Mexico Border up in the

949
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: north west Panhandle. And I see that this guy has

950
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: the route, and I'm like, well, f FKT, Like, I

951
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: don't care about them. I was like, I'm going to

952
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: start in a whole different town and I'm just gonna

953
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: make it the Texas one thousand on my own. So

954
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: que the Texas one thousand, and my goal was to

955
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 1: run fifty three to fifty five miles a day and

956
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: you know, set the record for the fastest thousand miles

957
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: north to south, so I would be the fastest man

958
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: to run across Texas and the only the fastest man

959
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: to go north to south and the only man to

960
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:14,439
Speaker 1: do both. And so we take off right see you guys,

961
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: and told you Riches tries to kill people out here,

962
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:21,479
Speaker 1: so weird idea. So we take off. We take off.

963
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: In day one, I run fifty three miles and life

964
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: is good. But at the end of the day, Drew,

965
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: who has done all of my content events, we see

966
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: this train and I had been running along the train

967
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: tracks already, so I'm not blaming this Andrew, but we

968
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:41,800
Speaker 1: see this train and he wants me to stop. He

969
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: wants me to run next to this train so we

970
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: can get this drone shot super sick shot. As I'm

971
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: running next to this train, I kind of like step

972
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: on this rock and it just it doesn't roll my

973
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: ankle at all. It just kind of like it maneuvers

974
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: it to where I'm like ouch, that hurt, and it

975
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: kind of pulled on my achilles. Wake up on day two,

976
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: I get out of bed and it's the achilles is

977
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: a little sore. We run fifty two miles that day.

978
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: Wake up on day three, step out of bed. I

979
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: can't put any weight on the achilles, and I'm like,

980
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: oh no, and that day I walked thirty miles in

981
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:22,720
Speaker 1: like twelve hours. I didn't run that entire day. And

982
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: we are like panicking. By we, I mean not me,

983
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: Like in my head, I'm like, I'm like looking at

984
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 1: Drew and I'm like, you know, I just think I'm

985
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: gonna quit, Like, oh, kill myself out here, you know,

986
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying anything I can to you know, will

987
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: it to will my way and oh thank you, I

988
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: need that and I'm gonna crack this and I uh,

989
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: maybe you've saw the video I like break down on

990
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: the side of the road day four, like I am broken,

991
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:58,800
Speaker 1: like I am, I'm dry heating on the side of

992
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: the road because I'm in so much pain that like

993
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: I I in my head, I was like my achilles

994
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: is torn, like I had torn my achilles, like I

995
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 1: had never in my life thought that pain, thought that

996
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: you could be in that much pain. And I'm like,

997
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: I have sixteen more days like I like I I was.

998
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 1: I was fifty three, fifty two, I was one hundred

999
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: and five miles in when I when I when I

1000
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: couldn't take a step.

1001
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,120
Speaker 2: Do you have anybody like even bodywork and stuff obviously.

1002
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, so with you making calls, well, no, I don't

1003
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: have them with me. I'm making calls. So I have

1004
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: I have three girls back home that like, one's val

1005
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: she's my chiropractor but also does acupuncture, and then Victoria

1006
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: does acupuncture, and then like pt you know work, and

1007
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: then Sheila does like PMF body work. I'm calling all

1008
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: of them. And at this point, I'm like, you know,

1009
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: just like the saying like you know, you don't want

1010
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 1: anything in the world until your health is at risk,

1011
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 1: and then all you want to do is be better.

1012
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: And I am like, I will you name your price?

1013
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: Ye like, and I'm like and you know, we had

1014
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: already budgeted everything for that, like I will pull this

1015
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: out of my own account, like out of I'm not

1016
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: going to use the Texas budget, Like I'll pay whatever

1017
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: no one could get to me. And so this is

1018
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: this is the incredible story. So like day six, we're struggling.

1019
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: We went like thirty and then you know, we went

1020
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,919
Speaker 1: like forty two, forty forty one. You know we're way

1021
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: off Yeah, we're way off track. And we meet with

1022
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:34,439
Speaker 1: these pets. We these pets like Rob Crew Chief. Rob

1023
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 1: finds this pet and Amilla whatever it.

1024
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:41,359
Speaker 2: Remember, Uh, we go to Amillo a lot, and we've

1025
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 2: worked with a couple of pets.

1026
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: I have to I'll pull them up on Instagram. They're

1027
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:47,720
Speaker 1: like Pinnacle something.

1028
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 2: Okay.

1029
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,479
Speaker 1: Anyways, I'm in my hotel room, I'm eating and Rob

1030
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: calls me and he's like, hey, the peats are down here,

1031
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: you know, do you want me to bring him up?

1032
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like like them, I'm like, you know who?

1033
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: You know? Sure? So they walk in, these gigantic men

1034
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: in Jesus's King t shirts walk into my hotel room,

1035
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 1: and I'm like it was just so cool, Like I've

1036
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 1: and this is I think the presence of God because

1037
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 1: I felt inferior, like when they walked in, like I

1038
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: felt I don't even know how to explain it, but

1039
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,279
Speaker 1: like I just kind of sat there and was like

1040
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: looking at these jacked, huge giant men men like which

1041
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: is so probably funny becase i'd see him now and

1042
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't even think that at all, but like

1043
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: in the moment, I was like like it was like

1044
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,279
Speaker 1: the presence of God, like walking with these men, and

1045
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: I was like, what is.

1046
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: What's going on? Yeah?

1047
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: And they come in and they're like, hey, like we

1048
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: believe in like you know, divine, you know that we're

1049
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:50,400
Speaker 1: here for a reason, and like first things first, we

1050
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:51,879
Speaker 1: want to lay hands on you and pray for you.

1051
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: They pray for me. And then the reason they had

1052
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: all these people there is because they brought a nurse

1053
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: practitioner who gave me an IV. They had the PT,

1054
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: the body scraping and all of that, and we were

1055
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: just chatting, you know, the entire time. And this is

1056
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 1: like the the biggest thing that happened with with Texas,

1057
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: and like this is my first time telling this story,

1058
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: so this is really cool. I'm gonna backtrack for a second.

1059
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 1: It might be a long story, but this is this

1060
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: is the story of the event when I had that

1061
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: conversation with Amanda on the couch where I was like

1062
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: I feel like I need to do it again, Rob

1063
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: crew Chief, Rob Navy Divers Special Operations just you know,

1064
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: like go go go all the time. And during Texas one,

1065
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 1: Amanda stopped and was trying to like pet this horse,

1066
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: and Rob's like Amanda, like we're gonna go, Like we

1067
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: need to get going, like you want to set the record.

1068
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: He needs to go, and like I'm just like Lottie

1069
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: do watching to try to pet this horse. And so

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00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,759
Speaker 1: when Amanda and I had this conversation, I said as

1071
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: a joke and we laughed as I was like, no

1072
00:54:57,320 --> 00:55:00,839
Speaker 1: matter what, we're gonna stop to pet the horses, and

1073
00:55:00,920 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: like that was like, no matter what, we're going to

1074
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: enjoy it this time. So now I'm having this conversation

1075
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: as they're working on me. I'm talking to this guy

1076
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is horrible because I'm staring at

1077
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: the ground for twelve hours a day because I'm in

1078
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: my own misery and I'm like and I feel like

1079
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: I can't even enjoy yeah, like I can't even enjoy

1080
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and he goes I don't remember exactly

1081
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 1: what he said, but it was something, you know, around

1082
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 1: the lines of like don't worry, like God will show himself.

1083
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 1: I'm like okay. And so about three days later, you know,

1084
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: the next day, I remember, I'm message him back and

1085
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: he's like, how's the Achilles And I'm like not any better,

1086
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: and I'm like pissed off at this guy because I'm like,

1087
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: you suck, you know, not realizing how bad he really was.

1088
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,880
Speaker 1: And then the next day, now my hip is everything's

1089
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: going wrong. And then three days later, so the next day,

1090
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: you know, we get going and you know, it's a

1091
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: really cool morning, and I don't remember where we're at,

1092
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: but it was like it's actually ended up finding out

1093
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: later it's this one area is the largest down like

1094
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: valley in Texas.

1095
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 2: Alduro Canyon.

1096
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: South of Amarilla.

1097
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 2: I don't know. Elo Duro is like the second largest

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00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 2: canyon in the country. I think something like that.

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00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: Have you been there?

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00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 2: We mountain bike race there every year.

1101
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: It's one from where I was at. It's a highway

1102
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: down and then it just goes right back up like

1103
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: like you can see it. Okay, So that morning, it's

1104
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: super foggy, We're going to this valley and it's a

1105
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: beautiful morning. The sun's rising, and I'm running with Kevin,

1106
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:52,720
Speaker 1: who's a friend of mine, and as we're running, he goes, wow,

1107
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: look at that. And I look over and here comes

1108
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,960
Speaker 1: the most beautiful stallion of a horse running like out

1109
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:08,879
Speaker 1: of a Civil War movie across a We're probably five

1110
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: hundred yards away from this horse and it comes up

1111
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a ditch and it stops at

1112
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: the fence and it just does this and looks down

1113
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: and we both stop, and Kevin's like freaking out, you know,

1114
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: He's like this is so cool, and I'm like I

1115
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: don't have time for this shit, like I'm moving so slow,

1116
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: like this sucks. And I'm like Kevin, like let's go.

1117
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 1: And I hear my own voice in my head and

1118
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: it's like, no matter what, we will stop and pet

1119
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: the horses. And I'm like, this is stupid shit, like

1120
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: you know, and I like walk down and as I'm

1121
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 1: walking down to this horse, it fully bows its head

1122
00:57:44,600 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: down to me and like won't even look at me.

1123
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: And I called a friend later because I'm not familiar

1124
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: with horses, and it was Jamie and him and his wife,

1125
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: you know, his mom who I was talking about earlier.

1126
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, he followed me down.

1127
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: Da've owned horses their entire life, and him and Jac,

1128
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: him and his wife back home in Iowa. They have

1129
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: like seven horses. So I called him and I'm like,

1130
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: tell him what this horse did. And I'm like it

1131
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: literally like bowed down to me, wouldn't even look at me.

1132
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: And I'm like it is that normal? And He's like

1133
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,280
Speaker 1: I feed Jac's horses every single day and they all

1134
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: hate me. He's like, he's like, it's not normal for

1135
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: a horse to come up to you and just not

1136
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: look at you. I go down and I reach out

1137
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: and I go to pet this horse, and like I

1138
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: instantly am sobbing, sobbing, like uncontrollably, just boohooy. And the

1139
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: horse it wouldn't even like it wouldn't even look at me.

1140
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: And then like I took a step back, and it

1141
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: finally like turned its eye and it looked at me,

1142
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: and and I like walk backwards. I have to. I

1143
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: have a video of it, and I like walk backwards

1144
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: and it kind of just steps back and looks at me,

1145
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like looking at it and it just kind

1146
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: of turns and all goes and and I'm like telling Kevin,

1147
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, like I told Amanda that we would

1148
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: stop and pet the horses, and I pet this horse,

1149
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: and I'm instantly like I felt it into my body.

1150
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, that was the craziest thing I've ever experienced

1151
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: in my life. And we got to mile fifteen where

1152
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: we stop at the RV and I eat and refuel,

1153
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: and I stepped out of the RV and I never

1154
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: had a chilles pain again. Really, it was gone gone

1155
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: to the point where like I think that, like like

1156
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: someone out there thinks I'm lying that, Like I was hurt,

1157
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: and I told Amanda, I'm like, I'm like, God healed

1158
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 1: me through that horse, no doubt in my mind. M

1159
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: hm like that. Like because then that same day, we

1160
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: go into Post, Texas and as we're going into Post,

1161
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 1: there's a you know, brick wall that says welcome to Post,

1162
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: and there's a copper silhouette of a horse. And the

1163
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: next morning we wake up and we're running down the

1164
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: road and there's a silhouette of a cowboy praying at

1165
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: a cross on the side of the road, holding the

1166
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: rein of his horse that's right behind him, like one

1167
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: of those black silhouettes. That next day, the same day

1168
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: that we saw that, we get lost. Kevin and I

1169
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: take a wrong turn and we end up at a

1170
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: horse pin and there's eight horses and they all come

1171
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: running out and run up to the fence and we

1172
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: pet every single horse. Yeah, And it was just it

1173
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: was horse after horse after a horse after horse. And

1174
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: I'd never had an encounter with horses like that. Yeah,

1175
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: never been around horses a lot. I rode horses in

1176
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: the Dominican when we were there one time, but other

1177
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: than that never so I have no familiarity with how

1178
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: to act or like what to do that and that

1179
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: was that. That was the story of Texas. And then

1180
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: after that, you know, we kept managing it. We kept

1181
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 1: you know, KT taping, like we were doing the things

1182
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 1: to keep it right. I always the way that I

1183
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: explained it is like the pain of of the achilles

1184
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:44,800
Speaker 1: was gone, but it always kind of felt like I

1185
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: had like a like a something well something I felt pressure.

1186
01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: There's always a pressure there, but the pain was gone,

1187
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: even to the point that where before that horse. The

1188
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: day before we made a decision, we got onto YouTube

1189
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: and we said, hey, YouTube, like this is the Texas

1190
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:04,200
Speaker 1: one thousand. But after my team and I have talked

1191
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,960
Speaker 1: about it, like we think that it's best to try

1192
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:09,440
Speaker 1: to find the fastest route to San Antonio because I

1193
01:01:09,480 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: need to go get an MRI because my achilles is torn.

1194
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: And we made the decision to not go through Austin

1195
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: because we didn't want to go that far east. So

1196
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 1: we made it. It ended up being eight ninety one,

1197
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: so we took off one hundred and ten miles. And

1198
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 1: I had had this idea of the Texas Traverse, which

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01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,479
Speaker 1: is the fastest, and I want I said this in Utah.

1200
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: I was like, I want someone to break this so bad.

1201
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: I think it's super exciting. It's total time. You have

1202
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: one year, you have three hundred and sixty three hundred

1203
01:01:40,720 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: and seventy days to start the event twice, and it's

1204
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: called the Texas Traverse. You run west to east and

1205
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: you run north to south, and you have thirty six days.

1206
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: However many hours it took me to complete it seventeen

1207
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:54,960
Speaker 1: hundred miles. You can do whatever route you want, but

1208
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: you gotta go. You gotta go cross and up and down.

1209
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: And I called it the Texas Traverse. So we started.

1210
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:03,320
Speaker 1: You know, I leaned into that of like, you know,

1211
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna set the fastest time covered from Oklahoma to Mexico,

1212
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: the fastest time covered from El Paso to Galveston. Make

1213
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: it the Textas Traverse and hope that. You know, people

1214
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: will come and try to break it, and break it.

1215
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,840
Speaker 1: They will for sure, and my team and I will

1216
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:19,439
Speaker 1: always be able to say we were the first ones

1217
01:02:19,480 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: to do it. We set the precedent of people doing that.

1218
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: So you know, while in that process, you know we

1219
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: just it was incredibly we had so many big people.

1220
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: Sean Brady, Mma fighter followed me, message me. Michael Chandler,

1221
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: Mma Fighter followed me, message me. You know, Jelly called

1222
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: me donated twenty thousand dollars to Valorfit and because of

1223
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: that go abundance, this group of of very wealthy men

1224
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: in Austin all came together and put fifty thousand dollars

1225
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: towards towards us, and then there was a thirty thousand

1226
01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: dollars anonymous donation. So many big names you know, we're involved,

1227
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,080
Speaker 1: and we ended up raising one hundred and forty thousand

1228
01:03:05,080 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: dollars for.

1229
01:03:05,480 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 3: Ivo's awesome in that in your run, you said when

1230
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 3: you first started running, you had no idea about nutrition.

1231
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,480
Speaker 3: Obviously you just ran across texts twice. Nutrition had to

1232
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 3: play a big part in that, I guess, just like

1233
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 3: that whole journey of what did you learn at first,

1234
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 3: like mistakes you made in your nutrition, and then what

1235
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 3: it looked like on that Texas trip.

1236
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the biggest thing with nutrition is, you

1237
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: know I always was. You see everyone in this world

1238
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, like gels and carb mixtures and

1239
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: you know, turn quick. Yeah, well, and the thing is

1240
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: is like everyone says this is how you should do it,

1241
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: but what I have found out is like what works

1242
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: for you works for you. And you know, I started

1243
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 1: turning more towards you know, if I'm not if I'm

1244
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:58,360
Speaker 1: running a three hour marathon, I'm going to take down

1245
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: jails because they're easy, very quick, right, But when I'm

1246
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,959
Speaker 1: running an ultra I what I have found out through

1247
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 1: we've also done, you know, I've got to the capability

1248
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: now to where we've done genetic test testing, We've done

1249
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: blood lactate testing, We've done all these different types of things,

1250
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: is that I have a naturally low heart rate when

1251
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: I'm running, excuse me. And what that does is it

1252
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: allows me. Obviously, anyone that knows fitness, if you are

1253
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: running or using a zone one, you're actually pulling from fats.

1254
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of fat on my body,

1255
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: so I need fats to be pulling from when I'm

1256
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: running in zone one. So then I started looking at

1257
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, like we don't have any like fat gels,

1258
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, and so I'm like, okay, how do I

1259
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: how do I start? You know, if I'm running a

1260
01:04:44,520 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: very slow one hundred like the Leadville one hundred. You know,

1261
01:04:47,720 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: let me say this first. When I ran the nineteen

1262
01:04:49,600 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: hour hundred and I won it, I was I was

1263
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,080
Speaker 1: taking down carb gels, carb bars, carbs, carbs, carbs because

1264
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: I was running at a higher heart rates. When you're

1265
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 1: running low, you need fats. So I started thinking, I'm like,

1266
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: what is what is the most high calorie, dense, fat,

1267
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: calorie thing I can find? And it's donuts, cookies, and

1268
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: peanut butter. And then I found out this year it's

1269
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: also pop tarts. So what I started doing was was

1270
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: using real food and the littlest amount of food possible

1271
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: with the highest amount of calorie content. And once I

1272
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 1: started doing that, that's why I think that people come

1273
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,600
Speaker 1: to me all the time and they're like, what's Matt

1274
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: And I want to use code MJ and get a supplement?

1275
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 1: What do I get? And I'm like a frickin blood test,

1276
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:45,000
Speaker 1: Like get a blood yeah. And you know, I put

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Speaker 1: so many people into blokes because you know, they'll come

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Speaker 1: to me like, well what do I need? And I'm like, well,

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01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: here's the thing I could tell you, right if you

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01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: want to follow, if you want to follow everyone else

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01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,440
Speaker 1: in the world. Who's like, oh, the the number one

1282
01:05:56,480 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: supplement for any human being is creating. We'll guess that's what.

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01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 1: I don't take creatine because my natural creatine is almost

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01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 1: too high. And I found that out for blood. So

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Speaker 1: then if you're gonna throw one hundred dollars a month

1286
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: down on creatine and you don't need it, you're oversaturating yourself.

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01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: You're actually probably gonna cause kidney issues, or you just

1288
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: don't need it, you know. So the biggest thing is, like,

1289
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: is you know, if you want to start investing in

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01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 1: becoming you know, optimally optimally elite, maybe you know what

1291
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: you want to become good?

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Speaker 2: I was to say, just just optimize your nutrition, optimize

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01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:32,120
Speaker 2: your health, fitness, like you you've got to figure out

1294
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 2: from a blood or gut. You know a lot of

1295
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 2: people like your guts different.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and even when I did that, when I

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Speaker 1: did the genetic testing, it was it was three x

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01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:45,840
Speaker 1: it's called three x four and they're they're on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: But the genetic test that they're doing right now is

1300
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 1: in my opinion, more affordable than I thought it would be.

1301
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 1: It's about four hundred dollars. It's a swab you send

1302
01:06:56,680 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 1: it out and then you have a you have a

1303
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: doctor that calls you and goes over this whole report

1304
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,440
Speaker 1: with you. But like even to the point where and

1305
01:07:03,640 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 1: don't forget to come back to the nutrition on this,

1306
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: but even this genetic test, it was like I found

1307
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,360
Speaker 1: out I have the longevity gene, which is only found

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01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 1: in people that live to be over one hundred. But

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01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: from what she told me, can also play into why

1310
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm so good at endurance. And I also have the

1311
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: endurance gene. Don't know what that means, but I have it, yeah,

1312
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, but I also have I have the same

1313
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 1: that it's like Tom forty or something like that, which

1314
01:07:27,680 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 1: is seen by people that get Alzheimer's. But now I

1315
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: know that the number one way to combat Alzheimer's is

1316
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: to not be seditary, you know. And so but like

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01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: so finding out these good things, I'm like, before I

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Speaker 1: would ever invest in a supplement, I would invest in

1319
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: something like that so I can find out what I need.

1320
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Speaker 1: But that's where I found out that my body even

1321
01:07:47,520 --> 01:07:50,720
Speaker 1: even cool enough. We see it, right, Like I utilize

1322
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: fat first always. That's what we found out doing my

1323
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Speaker 1: genetic testing. And then I'm like, oh, well that makes

1324
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,160
Speaker 1: sense because I have a low heart rate and obviously

1325
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: my body if it utilizes fat, it would the heart

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Speaker 1: rate lower to try to survive, you know. So it's

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01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: just I think that finding out what is going on

1328
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: within is the best thing, the best thing to do.

1329
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 1: But you know, for people like I was talking with

1330
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:16,320
Speaker 1: Kyle Forgard about this, you know, with the Milk Boys,

1331
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:19,799
Speaker 1: and you know he is it's incredible because he doesn't

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Speaker 1: know much about running and getting ready for this hundred

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Speaker 1: and you know we're going over nutrition, right and I'm like,

1334
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: you have long enough. I'm like, actually, no, it wasn't him.

1335
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: I was talking with the Feed So I work with

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01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 1: the feed supplement brand, and they asked me, They're like,

1337
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 1: what would you do if, like, you know, if you

1338
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 1: have a race coming up and you want to know

1339
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: because they carry their the Amazon of Fitness, they carry everything,

1340
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: what would you want to do if you wanted to

1341
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:48,639
Speaker 1: know what to try? Like, like, what did you what's

1342
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: gonna work? What are you gonna use? What would you do?

1343
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: And I'm like, if I can please start over, I

1344
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 1: would I would get a sample of something. You can

1345
01:08:55,400 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: buy everything in a sample. Now, I would get a

1346
01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: sample of something and I would just take it when

1347
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,439
Speaker 1: I when I sit on the couch, because because if

1348
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: I get something and I need to use it, I'm

1349
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: gonna take Let's say it's a scuper carbohydropower, I'm gonna

1350
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 1: take it. I'm gonna sit on the couch. How does

1351
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: my gut feel? Do I have to go to the bathroom?

1352
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 1: Does it cause me any type of distress? The next day,

1353
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it, and I'm gonna go for a

1354
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: short run. The next day, I'm gonna take it and

1355
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: i'm gonna go lift, you know, and I'm gonna take

1356
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: it three or four times and see how does the

1357
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 1: body feel? And then you do that over and over

1358
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:24,639
Speaker 1: and over again. But where people go wrong, like even

1359
01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:27,599
Speaker 1: like myself to begin with, I just was like, okay,

1360
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:30,559
Speaker 1: Nick Bear uses G one M. I'm going to use

1361
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:32,800
Speaker 1: G one M because Nick Bear uses G one M.

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01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:34,879
Speaker 1: And then I use G one M and it heartburn,

1363
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,639
Speaker 1: ruins my gut, gives me heartburn, gives you heartburn, Yeah, yeah,

1364
01:09:37,640 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: it just I try to use it during Iron Man.

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01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 2: And our guys loves it. So I was like, yeah,

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01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 2: I'll try it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah heartburn yeah yeah. Well, And and here's the thing

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Speaker 1: with him. He loves it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you know, I use the first form,

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01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 1: the ultra formance powder, and that is amazing for this

1372
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: summer when I was training. Then I went to use

1373
01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:58,160
Speaker 1: it out there during the event and I was shitting

1374
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 1: my brains out and so and the reason I know

1375
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 1: it was that is because we pulled that out and

1376
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: it stopped like the body is. So you know, you

1377
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: have to think back to you know, everyone thinks it's like, oh,

1378
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna take carbohydrate powder. When has our human species

1379
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 1: ever taking carbohydrate powder? Right now? Also, people can fight

1380
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: me on that and been like yeah, Matt, but like

1381
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:21,680
Speaker 1: when do the human species ever eat donuts either? And

1382
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:24,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, got it, tracking you know, But you

1383
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: know I think that, you know, I think about I mean,

1384
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:30,280
Speaker 1: think about Lionel Sanders, one of the greatest t athletes

1385
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 1: ever does He's from Canada, so that's why he does

1386
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: it pure maple syrup and hot water. You know, Like,

1387
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:38,520
Speaker 1: like I find the more that you can kind of simplify,

1388
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: the less you're gonna have, the lesser issues.

1389
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 2: Get issues in an endurance event or even like a

1390
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 2: three day CrossFit event, it's not good.

1391
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 1: No, no, no, yeah. In three day event. Yeah yeah,

1392
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 1: and then you get it on day one and you're wrecked, wrecked,

1393
01:10:51,200 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: You're you're You're done. And so I think that, you know, unfortunately,

1394
01:10:57,760 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 1: and this is why I am so much more into

1395
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:03,439
Speaker 1: other things and CrossFit and all of that right now,

1396
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:07,680
Speaker 1: is because you know, I, like I told Amanda, you know,

1397
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 1: like we obviously we don't have a family, and you know,

1398
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna slow down. But what I what I have

1399
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: done is not healthy, you know, like like I was.

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Speaker 1: And it's even it's even completely different than like when

1401
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 1: it comes to eating, it's completely different than CrossFit because

1402
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 1: I was waking up at six am in the morning

1403
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: to go run thirty miles knowing I'm gonna burn four

1404
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:31,719
Speaker 1: thousand calories, plus my wrestling metabolic rate is three thousand.

1405
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 1: I need to eat seven thousand calories today minimum. And

1406
01:11:36,960 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: I was waking up at six am, and I was

1407
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: eating two cosmic brownies at six o'clock in the morning,

1408
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, like like Troy Peterson asked me when we

1409
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 1: went to kids, I kill them too, you know. But

1410
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm having two cosmic brownies. I'm going out and I'm

1411
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:53,519
Speaker 1: having carbohydrate powder. Go go go, go, go coming back

1412
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 1: to the house at twenty having a donut, you know,

1413
01:11:55,920 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: the little hostess donuts, and then and I'm and I'm like, oh,

1414
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: it's okay because I'm running. But then it's like you're

1415
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 1: doing that six days a week, and even like when

1416
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: you know, Troy Peterson's like, what are you most excited about?

1417
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 1: And I'm like that I can eat whatever I want now,

1418
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 1: and he just kind of started laughing, and and I'm

1419
01:12:14,920 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: like and I realized how that sounded right, because when

1420
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 1: someone says that, it means like cookies and doughnuts, and

1421
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:23,799
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, no, no, no, I'm like beef rice,

1422
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: like I cannot eat for the first twelve hours of

1423
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:29,640
Speaker 1: the day, or You're you know, I can fat. I

1424
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: can do it. You know, I can stop eating at

1425
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 1: eight and I don't eat again until noon the next day,

1426
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:35,920
Speaker 1: and I'll break, you know, I'll get my run in

1427
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 1: and then I'll have sour dough and five eggs and

1428
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 1: you know, an apple, and it's glorious. Like going back

1429
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: towards whole foods. I mentally feel better, I physically feel better,

1430
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:51,600
Speaker 1: Like everything feels so much better when I'm not, you know,

1431
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 1: shoving all of this shit into my body, like it's

1432
01:12:55,040 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 1: it's brutal yea, And yeah, I mean, you know, I

1433
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I guess I don't really even

1434
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: know like how CrossFit is like that. I've seen videos

1435
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:09,479
Speaker 1: of you know, CrossFit professional athletes that are like they're

1436
01:13:09,479 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: waking up in the morning and they're having like two

1437
01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: cups of rice and then going and working out and

1438
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: coming back and doing you know, but it seems a

1439
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:16,120
Speaker 1: lot cleaner than.

1440
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 2: Yeahs seed definitely pushes the clean carbs clean you know,

1441
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:24,759
Speaker 2: lean meats, nut seats, some fruit, a little stars, no sugar,

1442
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,040
Speaker 2: that's what you know, the prescription is, I guess. But

1443
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 2: then yeah, when you're competing at any level, you know,

1444
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 2: I think early on, we used to just mix up

1445
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,160
Speaker 2: peanut butter and jelly in a jar or in a

1446
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 2: tub and eat it and then a lot of milk,

1447
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, like you're saying, high fat,

1448
01:13:38,680 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 2: high protein, and carbs. Really, you know, I think early

1449
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 2: on it was, you know, because it's not as endurance

1450
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 2: based or focused. Man, I was working out several hours

1451
01:13:50,640 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 2: a day and tearing the body down, and so I

1452
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 2: think my problem was early on was not eating enough.

1453
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 2: Because if I get busy or focused on something, I

1454
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:00,599
Speaker 2: forget to eat. Right. So I think having the endurance

1455
01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 2: and doing those endurance events made me realize the importance

1456
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 2: of a lot of this stuff that you're talking about.

1457
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,800
Speaker 2: Is like, oh, man, you know underfeeding and you know

1458
01:14:07,920 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 2: so now in the last probably seven eight years, I

1459
01:14:11,240 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 2: try to take in about one hundred grams of fat,

1460
01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 2: two hundred to two fifty grams of protein, and then

1461
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 2: depending on how much endurance I'm doing, because my heart

1462
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 2: rate gets a little higher. I'm more of a power athlete.

1463
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 2: So when I do endurance stuff, my heart especially running biking,

1464
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 2: and that doesn't raise my heart rate as much, but biking,

1465
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 2: if I'm supporting my body weight, my heart rate gets

1466
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 2: high quick. And so I'm four to five hundred grams

1467
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:36,440
Speaker 2: of carbs.

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01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, yeah, and I'm sitting at like I would.

1469
01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 1: I think I feel good around four hundred carbs probably

1470
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 1: one I mean I should I eat. I eat way

1471
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: more protein than I should just because I love protein.

1472
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:50,760
Speaker 1: I love a pound of ground beef like that is

1473
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 1: like I eat at least a pound to a pound

1474
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:54,639
Speaker 1: and a half every night, so I already know I'm

1475
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:59,320
Speaker 1: weight past my protein. But at least probably two hundred protein,

1476
01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: four hundred carb and probably seventy I like lower fat,

1477
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: lower fat when I'm not or something.

1478
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is like peak competitive.

1479
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:15,599
Speaker 1: Peak competitive. Okay, let's do pound. I mean at least

1480
01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: a pound of ground beef every night. So I would

1481
01:15:17,560 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: say I'm probably getting in one hundred and fifty one

1482
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:28,639
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty protein, probably eight hundred carbs, and then

1483
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: I would say probably two hundred fat. Yeah, easily fifty

1484
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:35,479
Speaker 1: miles a day.

1485
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and like leading up to that in

1486
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,400
Speaker 2: your year, when do you start that training?

1487
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:45,639
Speaker 1: I guess this year, I started right at the end

1488
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:50,599
Speaker 1: of June, because I'm I get very when I do right,

1489
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: I get very. I wrote out all my miles from

1490
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: last year, all my peak weeks, on the dates, how

1491
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 1: many well my longest run was, and then I put

1492
01:15:57,720 --> 01:15:58,840
Speaker 1: it side by something you're.

1493
01:15:58,680 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 2: Doing six days a week.

1494
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: It looked like yeahcial media.

1495
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:03,120
Speaker 2: And then you had a CrossFit das I saw on.

1496
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah Sundays was just yeah, yeah, like I just liked,

1497
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:09,360
Speaker 1: you know. We moved up to Georgetown right side of Austin,

1498
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: and I had the CrossFit gym right down the road,

1499
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:15,040
Speaker 1: and she's so Sam is so kind to me. CrossFit

1500
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: George Sound, They're incredible. Like as soon as I got there,

1501
01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: she knew me from social media, knew you know, they're

1502
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 1: a valor Fit affiliate as well. And she's like, here's

1503
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: a key, like you can come whenever you want if

1504
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 1: you don't want to be here when this is when

1505
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 1: classes are going on, so you don't have to be

1506
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: here when people are here, but if you want to

1507
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 1: be here, you can. It was just so cool, like

1508
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: her husband would be cleaning the gym and I would

1509
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 1: just I would go in and they're like, yeah, yeah,

1510
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: do whatever you want, like and and that was my

1511
01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: first you know, I actually did CrossFit, which we can

1512
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:47,680
Speaker 1: talk about back back in Iowa with Troy Peterson. That's

1513
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,280
Speaker 1: how I got with Vali Fit. I was like a like,

1514
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 1: valor Fit put me in the CrossFit, so that's how

1515
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 1: I knew. But man, I tell you what, like I

1516
01:16:55,520 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: haven't in my entrance to CrossFit, I haven't found anyone

1517
01:17:02,080 --> 01:17:05,920
Speaker 1: bad yet, like you know or something like yeah, yeah,

1518
01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 1: it was like.

1519
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 2: Running I bet. Yeah for the most part, everybody's super

1520
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 2: positive and awesome, but you got some turns in there.

1521
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I've learned that with you know,

1522
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,200
Speaker 2: being in cross the turns are never around.

1523
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,719
Speaker 1: No, but there are the loud ones on social media,

1524
01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: yeah for.

1525
01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:22,000
Speaker 2: Sure, yep, yeah, yep. But I've learned that man with

1526
01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 2: with cross fit, being a CrossFit community, being in the

1527
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 2: mountain biking community, being in the hunting community. Now, like

1528
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's a society thing, right, Like.

1529
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: What's what's that crosshit guy's name.

1530
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 2: Hilter Hiller?

1531
01:17:34,280 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 1: Hiller?

1532
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:35,880
Speaker 2: Has he gone after you yet?

1533
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 1: No? So so someone someone I don't think he wants to,

1534
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:43,280
Speaker 1: okay someone When I did high Rocks, like apparently I

1535
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 1: wasn't like getting so everyone like I had probably like

1536
01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:51,720
Speaker 1: thirty this is bad emos, Yes this is. But this

1537
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:53,640
Speaker 1: is right after Texas, and I feel like this is

1538
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 1: why he was like I'm not going to touch this guy,

1539
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: because I went to I did a high Rocks literally

1540
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: ten days after I ran across Texas below parallel and

1541
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 1: and people were tagging him and he never But that's

1542
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 1: how I even found out who he was, because I

1543
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: was like, why are people tagging this guy? And then

1544
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:13,839
Speaker 1: I went and I saw his videos. Hunter McIntyre familiar

1545
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:19,599
Speaker 1: with him. Yeah, so he's a feed athlete.

1546
01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:18,679
Speaker 2: Him and Hiller have beef.

1547
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, but but then, but then, but then Hunter

1548
01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 1: came after me as well. He Hunter posted a clip

1549
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: of him sitting like this on a podcast and and

1550
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:36,360
Speaker 1: screen recorded my training for the I was it was

1551
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:37,720
Speaker 1: like how I run one hundred and twenty mile a

1552
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:40,439
Speaker 1: week And it was so funny because which this is

1553
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: kind of scummy of Hunter because he actually has my

1554
01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:48,840
Speaker 1: cell number and we've chatted and then next thing you know,

1555
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: someone sends me this this post and he's like, yeah,

1556
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:53,840
Speaker 1: so like this is how you see, Like, this is

1557
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: why guys suck and they overtrain and they don't know

1558
01:18:57,520 --> 01:18:59,760
Speaker 1: what they're doing. And this guy thinks that running a

1559
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: hunt twenty miles a week. He's like, hey, I like Matt,

1560
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: but and I'm like, nah, buddy, like and and I

1561
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:07,760
Speaker 1: sent him a DM and I'm like, look, bro, I

1562
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 1: said him a text. I texted him directly and I

1563
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 1: was like, look, bro, I don't know why you did

1564
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,600
Speaker 1: that or why, like, and I never reshared it. I

1565
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: put a comment on there and I was like, hey,

1566
01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: like I've done this once and I'm going to do

1567
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: it again. And you should know who I am before

1568
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 1: you start. Yeah, saying shit that.

1569
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 2: Doesn't.

1570
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: And man, there was more comments in there of people

1571
01:19:27,640 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 1: being like, yo, like you're coming after the guy who

1572
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 1: has proven over and over again then he knows what

1573
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:34,960
Speaker 1: he's doing, Like I wouldn't do that, but I just

1574
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:36,599
Speaker 1: didn't give him the time of day. I was going

1575
01:19:36,680 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: to reshare it even after Texas. I was going to

1576
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:42,320
Speaker 1: reshare it on my story after Texas and be like

1577
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: what happened?

1578
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:44,280
Speaker 2: You know?

1579
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:48,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean no, I haven't had any I

1580
01:19:48,080 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 1: haven't had anyone come really after me that much just

1581
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,000
Speaker 1: that this year. I got a lot of hate when

1582
01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:57,000
Speaker 1: I was first coming up through social media in the

1583
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 1: like one hundred two hundred, three hundred thousand because people

1584
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: I think it was because people didn't like that I

1585
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 1: was being different, you know, like I was, you know,

1586
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:08,280
Speaker 1: smoking and joking SIGs and you know, make just doing

1587
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:10,840
Speaker 1: funny stuff and you know, I don't know, but I

1588
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 1: feel like I I built this persona where if people,

1589
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 1: you know, my opinion, like you were, you either are

1590
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: like dude, I love Matt Johnson, We're like do I

1591
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,519
Speaker 1: hate that? And you don't even know who I am,

1592
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 1: you know, And then but I've had I had someone

1593
01:20:26,720 --> 01:20:29,360
Speaker 1: at High Rocks that I met and we were talking

1594
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 1: and like before we left, and I can't remember who

1595
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: it was, but he came up to me and I

1596
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: was like, bro, it was like the manliest thing I've

1597
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: ever seen. And he's like, yo, He's like, I followed

1598
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 1: you back in the day. I unfollowed you and I

1599
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 1: like hated you. And he's like, I just didn't like

1600
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: who like and he goes and I was so wrong.

1601
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 1: He's like, and I want to apologize. He's like, because

1602
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: you are incredible. He's like, now being around you in person,

1603
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,559
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, you are such an incredible person.

1604
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 1: I love what you're doing for veterans I love And man,

1605
01:20:57,160 --> 01:20:58,760
Speaker 1: I'm just like, what a Like, what a world that

1606
01:20:58,800 --> 01:21:00,960
Speaker 1: we have to live in where we have to throw

1607
01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:02,680
Speaker 1: it up on social media and people just make a

1608
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: three second opinion about who you are?

1609
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 2: Yep?

1610
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 1: And yeah, so which I mean, I mean obviously I

1611
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,719
Speaker 1: know for sure, without even knowing much about your background,

1612
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: that you have went through that in the cross.

1613
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, people either love me or hate me. There's no

1614
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:15,360
Speaker 2: in between.

1615
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:16,640
Speaker 1: That's exactly where I get.

1616
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:18,639
Speaker 2: Which, Hey, I had a friend say a fifty percent

1617
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 2: of the people love you, then you're doing something right, Yeah,

1618
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 2: like I don't want to be even know us.

1619
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: Well that's what That's what I said. Like when you know,

1620
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: I said right off the bat, before this second Texas run,

1621
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not about gaining followers. It's

1622
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:32,600
Speaker 1: only about raising money for veterans I need to be

1623
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: able to raise. My goal was one hundred thousand. We

1624
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 1: did one hundred and forty.

1625
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 2: There you go.

1626
01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:38,559
Speaker 1: But afterwards, you know, we did a debrief with Drew

1627
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 1: and my team and it was like, okay, like we

1628
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 1: gained five thousand followers. Why why did that happen?

1629
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 2: You know?

1630
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 1: And I'm like because I'm like, I like, I'm I'm

1631
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 1: at six hundred k. I'm like everyone has seen me.

1632
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:54,599
Speaker 1: You have made your decision. You have made your decision

1633
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: on do you like this guy or do you not.

1634
01:21:57,439 --> 01:21:59,599
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm you know, like, I'm like, we've already

1635
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:03,720
Speaker 1: picked all of the fruit from the running tree. And

1636
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 1: that's why I'm really excited to you know, maneuver into

1637
01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: different worlds, into the CrossFit world, into you know, into

1638
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:13,240
Speaker 1: all these other worlds that we've already talked about, like

1639
01:22:13,240 --> 01:22:17,679
Speaker 1: you know, and just I'm interested in you know, I'm

1640
01:22:17,680 --> 01:22:19,880
Speaker 1: interested in all of it. And the cool thing is

1641
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 1: I'm thirty, you know, and I didn't start till I

1642
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: was twenty seven. I've only done three years. I'm like,

1643
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 1: what where else can I touch in the next three

1644
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 1: years to continue to inspire and help people through these

1645
01:22:33,280 --> 01:22:34,759
Speaker 1: charity things and these other events.

1646
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:37,479
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, I'm past my prime. I'm thirty eight now

1647
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 2: birds dead. Yeah, man, I think that means.

1648
01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 1: He needs to become an endurance runner.

1649
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I don't have enough cartilage left. But next

1650
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:49,639
Speaker 2: we need to get him on a hunt out west.

1651
01:22:49,680 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 2: He said he did a little bit of Iowa hunting.

1652
01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 2: He said he may have some connections. Oh that's where

1653
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:53,640
Speaker 2: we need to go.

1654
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 1: I mean I may have connections. I mean I have zero,

1655
01:22:56,680 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 1: but I'm sure I can like find somebody. I just

1656
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 1: got to send a couple of texts and like someone

1657
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: someone's got to know. I mean, I know, like it's like, oh,

1658
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,680
Speaker 1: the Schneiders own this land. I remember all of that.

1659
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,240
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, I just got to find

1660
01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:12,519
Speaker 1: the guy.

1661
01:23:12,920 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 2: We need to get him out west. That's the thing. Now,

1662
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,000
Speaker 2: it's like he would I think he would enjoy the

1663
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 2: misery of that. Scott. I think he's got the right

1664
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 2: space for that, so you'd enjoy that.

1665
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get out.

1666
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:24,240
Speaker 2: Uh.

1667
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: I want to go chatting with Cam Haynes a couple

1668
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 1: of times and he's a good friends with a jelly.

1669
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:30,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1670
01:23:31,160 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: So Cam like replied to my story the other day

1671
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:34,680
Speaker 1: and I sent him a message. I was like, I'm

1672
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:35,920
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm ready when you are, and I

1673
01:23:35,920 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 1: put like the Rocky moji and he was like, yeah,

1674
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: like you know, I got hunting coming up, but he's like,

1675
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: we'll link up. So yeah, I'm I'm excited to get

1676
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:49,879
Speaker 1: into It's really cool to see. I'm very interesting obviously,

1677
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 1: you know, being from the Midwest and the hunting background.

1678
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:57,080
Speaker 1: I just haven't got into it, you know. I think

1679
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing and I've even talked to

1680
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:02,640
Speaker 1: Nate Worth about that where I'm like, yo, I'm like,

1681
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: if I wanted to buy a bow, where would I

1682
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: buy it?

1683
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 2: We can get you hooked up.

1684
01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: I've never shot a bow, even get choked up, never

1685
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:12,240
Speaker 1: even nothing. But I'm like, I'm sitting in the backyard

1686
01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, I could I can shoot a

1687
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 1: bow out here?

1688
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:19,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? I can. It takes Yeah, So I think, man,

1689
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:21,759
Speaker 2: it's fun it's different than I think than a rifle.

1690
01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 2: It's a little bit more therapeutic, you know, just get

1691
01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:27,280
Speaker 2: out there and shoot me. Yeah, and I had frustrating,

1692
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 2: super frustrating as well.

1693
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I and I've I've sat multiple times

1694
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: with We had a family friends that owned land and

1695
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 1: they would hunt, and I was best friends with their son,

1696
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:43,040
Speaker 1: and so he he would go and bow hunt and

1697
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:46,799
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I don't remember why it was, because, yeah,

1698
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: but I would just we would go sit together because

1699
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: he's my friend, and we would just, yeah, we would

1700
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:54,840
Speaker 1: just go hang out and and you know, I remember

1701
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:56,479
Speaker 1: a couple of times like he drew back, like we

1702
01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 1: never got anything while we're out there together, probably because

1703
01:24:58,479 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 1: we're too eating.

1704
01:24:59,320 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 2: It's tough to get.

1705
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: And he was also like, I'm pretty sure we were

1706
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 1: still in high school. I was probably a senior, and

1707
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:10,559
Speaker 1: he was way younger than me. He was probably fourteen fifteen,

1708
01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:13,240
Speaker 1: so he probably had no idea what he was either way.

1709
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:15,559
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, you know, so I've been around it

1710
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:19,839
Speaker 1: and understand it, and you know, I've gutted an animal.

1711
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 1: I've you know, I got a dough when I we

1712
01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: went shotgun hunting second season hunting in like December back home,

1713
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 1: and it took me like four days of completely emptying

1714
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:33,840
Speaker 1: my weapon, completely emptying my gun on like even to

1715
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: the point where like, man, we were pushing, we were

1716
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:40,879
Speaker 1: pushing these dough or these deer out and I'm not kidding.

1717
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: I had probably we kicked up probably ten deer within

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01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:49,439
Speaker 1: ten feet from me.

1719
01:25:49,680 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 2: You're scanning with a shotgun.

1720
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, bam, bam bam, And I mean

1721
01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:56,759
Speaker 1: it's just like that way, this way, that way, this way.

1722
01:25:57,040 --> 01:25:59,560
Speaker 1: And I was in the military at this point, like

1723
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 1: like like to the point where like I know how

1724
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:04,400
Speaker 1: to handle a weapon and like I am good at

1725
01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: weapons quall, Like life is good, but like out there

1726
01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:09,960
Speaker 1: it's different. Man, Like I you kick them up and

1727
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,599
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, they're just as surprised as they are

1728
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 1: that like they're there.

1729
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 2: And yeah, been on one deer push. I think when

1730
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,519
Speaker 2: I was like ten watching my uncles try to shoot him,

1731
01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 2: and it was just yeah.

1732
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:23,680
Speaker 1: And then yeah, and now I'm like now I know

1733
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 1: why people get shot. I'm like it just makes sense. Yeah,

1734
01:26:27,479 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: like when you're hunter gets shot in the leg and

1735
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:32,760
Speaker 1: you like and you hear about it, and you know,

1736
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 1: like we heard that. Man is like, oh my gosh,

1737
01:26:35,800 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how that could happen. So irresponsible, And

1738
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, because they're probably drunk out there, pushing deer,

1739
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:44,799
Speaker 1: not knowing what they're doing, and you can get spooked.

1740
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 1: But I finally got one. I got one.

1741
01:26:47,040 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 2: There you go. Yeah, well, man, let's fall up and

1742
01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 2: we'll go on home.

1743
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:50,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1744
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds like you're going to train Ben too to

1745
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 2: run his hundred. So like, yeah, yeaheah, he's in.

1746
01:26:58,479 --> 01:26:58,719
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1747
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 2: You appreciate you coming out, dude, anytime. It's fun.

1748
01:27:03,240 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys.

1749
01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:06,600
Speaker 2: Anything else, b I don't even know.

1750
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: I feel like we didn't even talk about nothing, and

1751
01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 1: we talked about so much about everything.

1752
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 2: Man. I think it was cool. I think it was good.

1753
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 2: I think, you know, life story and overcoming adversity, adversity

1754
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:17,920
Speaker 2: and then man, I think you're doing some cool things.

1755
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 2: I think bringing awareness always to veterans is a huge thing.

1756
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:23,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the biggest thing.

1757
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 2: Man.

1758
01:27:23,800 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 1: I feel like, we, you know, just talk about this

1759
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 1: real quick. I feel like Troy Peterson, the founder of

1760
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:39,080
Speaker 1: valor Fit, is the most amazing man in the world.

1761
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: He just doesn't know how to market valor Fit, and

1762
01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:45,479
Speaker 1: you know he's on social media and he's running his

1763
01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:48,240
Speaker 1: social media and it's just you know, it's a dad

1764
01:27:48,320 --> 01:27:51,679
Speaker 1: running his social media, and you know it's purple heart.

1765
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:54,720
Speaker 1: You know, he's deployed multiple times and and he just

1766
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:56,439
Speaker 1: has a pure heart. What I thought was really cool

1767
01:27:56,439 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 1: and I told him this when Mike Egan did uh

1768
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:03,759
Speaker 1: the world record just a couple weeks ago in the wheelchair.

1769
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:07,240
Speaker 1: You're familiar with Mike. Oh my gosh, that's another guy

1770
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:09,599
Speaker 1: you need to have. Mike Eagan stepped on an ID

1771
01:28:09,640 --> 01:28:14,560
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan twenty twelve, blues legs off and just recently

1772
01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 1: I have met I met him through he was High

1773
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 1: Rocks's Adaptive Fittest Man in the World or something like that.

1774
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:23,680
Speaker 1: And long story short, Mike Egan decided, after him and

1775
01:28:23,720 --> 01:28:26,040
Speaker 1: I begin his friends, that he wanted to He pushed

1776
01:28:26,080 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty three miles in a wheelchair in

1777
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 1: twenty four hours and raised I think like thirty thousand

1778
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:41,080
Speaker 1: for valor Fit. But in that process USAA was his

1779
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: main partner and USAA had to run a private Mike

1780
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:52,320
Speaker 1: was not allowed to say anything a private investigation into

1781
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 1: valor Fit before they could be be good to go

1782
01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: partners with them and you have to get three three

1783
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:01,120
Speaker 1: checks and sure not like while I was running cross

1784
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: Texas might call me and the Validfit got three checks,

1785
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: third party tested, no one was allowed to know they

1786
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: ran everything. Are they doing the right thing? And check

1787
01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 1: check check, good to go?

1788
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:10,799
Speaker 2: That's awesome.

1789
01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: And you know, I feel like in my opinion, I

1790
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:17,960
Speaker 1: you know, you see valor fit within the CrossFit community,

1791
01:29:17,960 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 1: but I feel like CrossFit could do more. I I

1792
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:24,840
Speaker 1: really do. I mean, if I'm if I can go

1793
01:29:24,960 --> 01:29:28,439
Speaker 1: out as literally just in my a a nobody and

1794
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 1: and run this event and raise one hundred and forty

1795
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:33,960
Speaker 1: thousand dollars through my connections, I feel like CrossFit has

1796
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,720
Speaker 1: so many, you know, through jelly and through the anonymous

1797
01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:38,720
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, And I just I don't know. I

1798
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:42,280
Speaker 1: look at I look at CrossFit, and I'm like man like,

1799
01:29:42,280 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 1: like I I want to, you know, now building this

1800
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:47,439
Speaker 1: relationship with you, Like I want how can I help

1801
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,519
Speaker 1: CrossFit help help valor Fit, not even valid Fit? How

1802
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: can I help CrossFit help other charities? How can we

1803
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 1: help CrossFit do it a little bit better?

1804
01:29:56,439 --> 01:29:56,679
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1805
01:29:56,720 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 3: And then if you want to, I guess I know

1806
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:03,360
Speaker 3: they helped veterans. But then what exactly is like their mission.

1807
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 1: Valor fit yeap, So their mission is to take veterans

1808
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:09,920
Speaker 1: that come back from well that that the number one

1809
01:30:09,960 --> 01:30:12,800
Speaker 1: is that that come back from you know war or

1810
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:16,720
Speaker 1: you know being overseas, but just really any veteran. So

1811
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 1: the problem that you see is veterans just like my

1812
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 1: think about just I'll relate it back to me. When

1813
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 1: you isolate, the worst thing in the world is about

1814
01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:32,080
Speaker 1: to happen, right, especially when you crave My entire life,

1815
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: I was in the military, I became active duty. I

1816
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:38,759
Speaker 1: had people around me at all times. And the problem

1817
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:40,839
Speaker 1: is is when you see someone that goes active duty Marines,

1818
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:45,000
Speaker 1: active duty Army, like goes away and there they live

1819
01:30:45,080 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: with somebody. You have someone in your room twenty four seven.

1820
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:51,720
Speaker 1: People are around at all times. Then when you get out, unfortunately,

1821
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 1: the military ninety percent of the time says you see you,

1822
01:30:55,560 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 1: thanks for your service. That's the most unfortunate part. There's

1823
01:30:59,479 --> 01:31:03,680
Speaker 1: no like yeah, yeah, you know transition, no no, no no,

1824
01:31:03,840 --> 01:31:07,679
Speaker 1: And it's like, hey, sure you're you know service connection.

1825
01:31:08,120 --> 01:31:09,880
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna give you five grand a month,

1826
01:31:10,600 --> 01:31:13,719
Speaker 1: best of luck, have fun. And then you're like, Okay,

1827
01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 1: now I got five grand a month, but what do

1828
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:16,439
Speaker 1: I do? So then they move into a one bedroom

1829
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 1: apartment and they isolate themselves they've never been alone. Leads

1830
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 1: to depression and they kill themselves. So you see twenty

1831
01:31:21,479 --> 01:31:24,559
Speaker 1: two plus veterans every day that commit suicide. So valor

1832
01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:28,160
Speaker 1: Fit is like, okay, let's take these veterans and put

1833
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:31,760
Speaker 1: them into CrossFit. And they chose CrossFit at the very

1834
01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 1: beginning because of what we talked about earlier, the community

1835
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:35,679
Speaker 1: of people.

1836
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 2: Yep.

1837
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:39,920
Speaker 1: And so that's why he chose CrossFit because CrossFit has

1838
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:44,479
Speaker 1: a phenomenal community of kind and good hearted people. And

1839
01:31:44,560 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 1: I believe that because I've seen it at CrossFit Georgetown

1840
01:31:48,080 --> 01:31:51,920
Speaker 1: and he chose across it. And so what he would

1841
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 1: do is he just started you made this five O

1842
01:31:54,160 --> 01:31:57,040
Speaker 1: one C and he just started paying for CrossFit gym

1843
01:31:57,040 --> 01:32:01,920
Speaker 1: memberships and putting veterans into cross and it's so cool,

1844
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:05,679
Speaker 1: Like you know, now day after day after day, now

1845
01:32:05,720 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 1: he's getting like he was telling me that he was

1846
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 1: getting an application every six hours during the Cross Texas

1847
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: and and it's people saying like I need this, Like

1848
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:18,200
Speaker 1: I've let myself go. I'm into drugs. I'm into alcohol,

1849
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:20,200
Speaker 1: you know, the things that you and I talked about

1850
01:32:20,200 --> 01:32:22,720
Speaker 1: before this, like like people that have an addictive personality

1851
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 1: lean on, lean on anything that they can find. And guys,

1852
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 1: you know, guys in gals Like it's like we need

1853
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:32,320
Speaker 1: to get them in, you know, into the fitness community.

1854
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:35,519
Speaker 1: Number one For me, I chose Valorfit because fitness changed

1855
01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 1: my life. Without if I would have never started running,

1856
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 1: I would have never It would have never led me

1857
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 1: exactly where. You know, I believe that God gives you

1858
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:45,120
Speaker 1: you have a choice. You're gonna do this or you

1859
01:32:45,160 --> 01:32:47,759
Speaker 1: gonna do this, And I chose to run, and fitness

1860
01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 1: led me to where I am today. And I'm like,

1861
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:51,720
Speaker 1: if I can get back to valor Fit, who puts

1862
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,559
Speaker 1: a veteran in the gym and then they the same

1863
01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 1: thing happens to them that happens to me, and it

1864
01:32:56,439 --> 01:33:00,519
Speaker 1: changes the trajectory of their entire family's life. My mission

1865
01:33:00,560 --> 01:33:05,439
Speaker 1: is complete and you know, so that's that's the big thing.

1866
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, like how can we all work together?

1867
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:10,120
Speaker 1: And it's not just for valor Fit, Like I believe

1868
01:33:10,160 --> 01:33:14,559
Speaker 1: that you know, as as men and as humans, like

1869
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I've been put in this

1870
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:20,599
Speaker 1: position where now like I am making incredible money, and

1871
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, how can I steward my platform and my

1872
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:27,520
Speaker 1: money to not just valor fit but to help anybody?

1873
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:30,320
Speaker 1: You know, how can we make the charity raising better?

1874
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:33,320
Speaker 1: How can we you know, how can we get in

1875
01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 1: front of CrossFit and and and figure out how to

1876
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:37,320
Speaker 1: do it a little bit better? Right because there's always

1877
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:39,360
Speaker 1: a board of people who really don't know what's going on,

1878
01:33:39,920 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 1: and you know, it's like, how can we, how can

1879
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:45,960
Speaker 1: we how can we fix it? How can we how

1880
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:49,640
Speaker 1: can we lead the charge? And you know, so we

1881
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:51,800
Speaker 1: get into there that's a little more yapping. But you know,

1882
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 1: if you're listening to that and you have the capability

1883
01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:57,280
Speaker 1: of of leading the lead, to lead the charge and

1884
01:33:57,400 --> 01:34:00,200
Speaker 1: surround yourself with people that will that will help help

1885
01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:03,479
Speaker 1: you do that, and you will change so many lives.

1886
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 1: I think that's the why are we here? You know,

1887
01:34:06,560 --> 01:34:09,360
Speaker 1: like I'm not here for me, like I'm I you know,

1888
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 1: if I can, if I can just help change people's lives,

1889
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:14,599
Speaker 1: I did what I needed to do.

1890
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:16,680
Speaker 2: I love it, man, Yep, no, I do. I think

1891
01:34:16,720 --> 01:34:18,439
Speaker 2: it's a good fit. It's exactly what we try to

1892
01:34:18,479 --> 01:34:22,160
Speaker 2: do here, obviously with Mayhemon's faith, family, fitting a service,

1893
01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:25,439
Speaker 2: those are the things we do. So appreciate you man.

1894
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: Absolutely some more goodness, cool,