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- 0:00Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Welcome in everybody. It is
- 0:02Speaker 1: the After Show podcast. I'm justin. I am the only
- 0:07Speaker 1: host left on this podcast. I used to have a
- 0:10Speaker 1: co host named Winnie who's no longer here. Winnie, love
- 0:13Speaker 1: you miss you. She did the podcast with me several years,
- 0:17Speaker 1: but then there was just one. It's just me and
- 0:19Speaker 1: you know, if you haven't been around for a while,
- 0:22Speaker 1: I've been talking about, you know, what I should do
- 0:24Speaker 1: with the podcast as the only person left. Should I
- 0:27Speaker 1: continue the podcast? And the feedback is mostly that I
- 0:30Speaker 1: should should continue the podcast and have different guests on, right, Billy, Lisa,
- 0:37Speaker 1: maybe producer Riley one day, people in this building, people
- 0:40Speaker 1: in my life. You know, we've had Power of Recovery
- 0:42Speaker 1: on Jenna, my stretch girl who I love. Nurse Fiona
- 0:46Speaker 1: has been on before, so different people that I have
- 0:48Speaker 1: relationships with I'm gonna invite on. So we had Lisa
- 0:52Speaker 1: on yesterday. And Lisa has always been a requested guest
- 0:56Speaker 1: on the after Show, but she's just so busy it's
- 0:58Speaker 1: hard to get her in here. She has a lot
- 0:59Speaker 1: of endorsements, a lot of clients, obviously the book club.
- 1:03Speaker 1: But the other person that was heavily requested, was my
- 1:08Speaker 1: best friend in the whole world named Zeb. Now, if
- 1:11Speaker 1: you don't know who Zeb is, which I'm sure you do,
- 1:13Speaker 1: because I posted a tease about today's podcast on my
- 1:17Speaker 1: Instagram and it literally blew up, So I'm pretty sure
- 1:21Speaker 1: you know who he is. You can find him on
- 1:22Speaker 1: Instagram at zeb days. He is my best friend, he's
- 1:26Speaker 1: my workout partner. We've been friends. We're gonna go through
- 1:28Speaker 1: the whole story for a long time. He sits at
- 1:32Speaker 1: eighty four thousand followers on Instagram to my twenty and
- 1:38Speaker 1: I invited him on yesterday. I texted him and I said, Hey,
- 1:41Speaker 1: would you want to come on my podcast any day
- 1:43Speaker 1: Monday through Wednesday of any week. I was thinking in
- 1:46Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, and he said, how about tomorrow?
- 1:51Speaker 1: And here he is. Welcome Zeb. Thank you. Okay, talk
- 1:54Speaker 1: right into the mic. Come on, pretend, hold on, pretend
- 1:57Speaker 1: like you're making a real that you do every single day.
- 2:00Speaker 2: All right, all right, how you doing? Everybody?
- 2:01Speaker 1: There? You go?
- 2:02Speaker 3: Thank you for having me on. I'm very excited. Second time.
- 2:05Speaker 3: On last time I was on, Bex was here.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Yeah, that was when Bex was here.
- 2:09Speaker 2: So you came in, I came in.
- 2:11Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been a while, but yeah, I'm excited when
- 2:16Speaker 3: you when you reached out, I was a little nervous.
- 2:17Speaker 1: I was like, all right, well, I think people, I
- 2:20Speaker 1: think people have a lot of questions or not questions,
- 2:24Speaker 1: but they want to know more about you, want to
- 2:26Speaker 1: know more about us, maybe our friendship. So we'll go
- 2:28Speaker 1: through the whole story, right and get to know Zeb
- 2:30Speaker 1: a little bit.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Okay, here we go, sit back, relax.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell my side of the story first on
- 2:37Speaker 1: how we met, because what happened with you, Zeb is
- 2:40Speaker 1: you know, people know that we work out together, that
- 2:42Speaker 1: we're friends. Obviously, that's in in have Wor that's where
- 2:45Speaker 1: you live. I used to live there. That's where where
- 2:47Speaker 1: we met. Yeah, so we're workout buddies, we're friends and everything.
- 2:51Speaker 1: But then you kind of had this social media takeover
- 2:55Speaker 1: where you've kind of grown this large following. Yes, which
- 2:59Speaker 1: is pretty cool, right, Yes? And you know, so people
- 3:02Speaker 1: watch your videos and what you do with the Cardigans,
- 3:04Speaker 1: and you know what you do every Sunday and how
- 3:06Speaker 1: you give back, and you know, you're just all around
- 3:08Speaker 1: a funny dude. You're really good at it. You know that.
- 3:10Speaker 1: I know that, right, but people don't really maybe they
- 3:15Speaker 1: don't know you per se all the way, you know
- 3:17Speaker 1: what I mean, and they might have questions that maybe
- 3:19Speaker 1: we'll answer today. How's that.
- 3:21Speaker 2: Let's do it?
- 3:21Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so let's let's go back to Let's
- 3:25Speaker 1: go back to twoenty twelve. In twenty twelve. I got
- 3:30Speaker 1: clean in two thousand and eight. And when I got clean,
- 3:34Speaker 1: I put down the drugs that cleaned up my life.
- 3:36Speaker 1: And you know, I replaced one thing with another, and
- 3:39Speaker 1: that would be food for drugs, and so I blew up.
- 3:43Speaker 1: I gained all this weight. If you know this story,
- 3:45Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Just I'll go quick. I gained all this weight.
- 3:48Speaker 1: I blew up to over three hundred pounds. I think
- 3:50Speaker 1: the last time I weighed myself, I was three hundred
- 3:52Speaker 1: and twenty five pounds. I was giant, okay, And I
- 3:56Speaker 1: had dreams in my mind of wanting to be fit
- 3:59Speaker 1: my life. But I never had the courage or a
- 4:02Speaker 1: will power to join a gym and continue to go.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Number one, I didn't know what to do. Number two.
- 4:07Speaker 1: I felt embarrassed and I felt ashamed, and I was
- 4:10Speaker 1: intimidated by people in the gym. So I would join
- 4:12Speaker 1: gyms throughout the years, different times, and then I would
- 4:15Speaker 1: just never go. So in twenty twelve, I had my
- 4:19Speaker 1: final moment right and that was I was overweight, I
- 4:24Speaker 1: was out of shape. And this one day I was
- 4:26Speaker 1: supposed to speak at a recovery event. It was at
- 4:28Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night. I came home from work. I
- 4:30Speaker 1: was cooking at friendlies at the time. On my way home.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Every day I would get a large pizza with extra
- 4:35Speaker 1: cheese and I would eat the whole thing to the
- 4:37Speaker 1: face every single day. Okay, And so this one day
- 4:41Speaker 1: I got home at about three or four o'clock with
- 4:43Speaker 1: my pizza. I eat the whole thing like I did,
- 4:45Speaker 1: but this day, for some reason, maybe I eat too
- 4:47Speaker 1: much food earlier in the day, I got stuffed and
- 4:50Speaker 1: I passed out into a food coma, and I overslept
- 4:54Speaker 1: for my engagement, my speaking thing, and I'll never forget.
- 4:57Speaker 1: I woke up it was like eight thirty and I
- 4:59Speaker 1: came two like I was on drugs. And I looked
- 5:02Speaker 1: at the clock and realized and looked at my phone.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Saw people blowing at my phone. They didn't know where
- 5:06Speaker 1: I was. And my first thought of complete shame was
- 5:11Speaker 1: I want to get high, and because I was in recovery,
- 5:14Speaker 1: I'd been cleaned for four years. I real quick I
- 5:16Speaker 1: was able to play the tape through like, that's not
- 5:18Speaker 1: an option, right, no matter what, we don't use, no
- 5:20Speaker 1: matter what. That's kind of one of the mantras in recovery.
- 5:22Speaker 1: And my next thought was I'm gonna kill myself because
- 5:26Speaker 1: that seemed to be the next viable option. And at
- 5:28Speaker 1: that moment was like a rock bottom for me. And
- 5:31Speaker 1: I got out of that and I talked to some
- 5:32Speaker 1: people and I was like, I need to make a
- 5:34Speaker 1: change in my life. Okay, So I thought about it
- 5:37Speaker 1: in recovery sense, right. So when I got cleaned from drugs,
- 5:40Speaker 1: I went to drug meetings, okay. And what I did
- 5:43Speaker 1: was I showed up no matter what. Right, didn't use drugs,
- 5:45Speaker 1: no matter what, showed up to meetings, no matter what.
- 5:47Speaker 1: So I thought, what if I use that to the gym.
- 5:51Speaker 1: So I said to myself, what if I joined the
- 5:53Speaker 1: gym and just go three days a week, walk in,
- 5:57Speaker 1: walk to a treadmill, walk for twenty minutes, walk out nobody,
- 6:00Speaker 1: I don't talk to anybody, It'll be fine, good. And
- 6:02Speaker 1: I stuck to that no matter what, and I did
- 6:04Speaker 1: that week after week after week, and eventually I did
- 6:08Speaker 1: forty minutes or thirty minutes, and eventually I did four
- 6:11Speaker 1: days in five days. So now I'm doing cardio all
- 6:15Speaker 1: the time. Right now, the cardio at the gym stood
- 6:18Speaker 1: it overlooked the weight room. Okay. So every day I
- 6:21Speaker 1: would go at around three o'clock and I walk right
- 6:22Speaker 1: in with my hoodie on, and I get on the
- 6:24Speaker 1: cardio and I started to get more confident. But the
- 6:27Speaker 1: weight room I would never go on. I didn't know
- 6:31Speaker 1: how to lift weights right now, you remember this, right, yes,
- 6:35Speaker 1: So you work for the city of Haveril in the
- 6:38Speaker 1: waste water department. A lot of people know that to
- 6:40Speaker 1: follow you. So you go at the same time every day,
- 6:42Speaker 1: which is around three o'clock. Yes, okay, So every day
- 6:45Speaker 1: I would go on to the same treadmill and I
- 6:47Speaker 1: would look out at the people that were lifting weights,
- 6:49Speaker 1: like envious of them, okay. And I would see the
- 6:52Speaker 1: same people every day because people have the same schedules.
- 6:55Speaker 1: And I would see zeb walk in and work out. Now, obviously,
- 7:00Speaker 1: as a heterosexual male, I didn't look at Zev and
- 7:02Speaker 1: be like, wow, that is a fucking beautiful man. But
- 7:05Speaker 1: I was like, Damn, that motherfucker is good looking and
- 7:07Speaker 1: he's jacked. And I noticed it wasn't just that that
- 7:10Speaker 1: I noticed about you. I noticed that you were you
- 7:12Speaker 1: had a workout partner, but you also were helping other
- 7:16Speaker 1: people in the gym. I would notice that, like you
- 7:18Speaker 1: would be working out with this kid, and then you
- 7:20Speaker 1: see other people working out, maybe they had bad form
- 7:22Speaker 1: or something, and you would go over very gently and say, hey,
- 7:24Speaker 1: do you need some help? And I was like, damn,
- 7:26Speaker 1: that's crazy. So eventually I made my way onto the
- 7:29Speaker 1: weight room floor. I had a friend that Chris. Shout
- 7:31Speaker 1: out to Chris who was my workout partner, and we
- 7:34Speaker 1: kind of learned what to do a little bit, and
- 7:36Speaker 1: we'd see zeb every day. We never talked to him,
- 7:38Speaker 1: but we talk about him. And I would say to Chris,
- 7:40Speaker 1: if he were here, he would back the story up.
- 7:42Speaker 1: He would say, I would say, that's what I want
- 7:45Speaker 1: to look like, Like that's my dream goal, like that physique,
- 7:47Speaker 1: but not just the physique, but like that person. Right now.
- 7:51Speaker 1: You know, I'm my own person, but I wanted to
- 7:53Speaker 1: like my dream would be to get into shape and
- 7:56Speaker 1: help others, right, because that's what my life was about
- 7:59Speaker 1: helping others. And so one day I was with Chris
- 8:03Speaker 1: working out doing our thing, and Zeb was there and
- 8:05Speaker 1: he walked by us and he said. He looked at
- 8:08Speaker 1: me and he goes, hey, how you doing. I said good.
- 8:11Speaker 1: He goes, my name is Zeb. I said, I'm justin.
- 8:14Speaker 1: This is Chris. He said, nice to meet you, Chris
- 8:16Speaker 1: some I'm Zeb, good to meet you. I see you
- 8:17Speaker 1: guys there every day. Keep going, keep doing what we're doing.
- 8:19Speaker 1: We're like, thank you. Zeb walks away. I look at
- 8:22Speaker 1: Chris and I go he say his name is Zeb,
- 8:26Speaker 1: and Chris goes, no, dude, his name's Jeb. I go no,
- 8:29Speaker 1: he said Zeb with a Z. He goes, justin nobody's
- 8:32Speaker 1: name Zeb. Okay. He said Jeb like Jebediah okay, And
- 8:37Speaker 1: I'm like okay. And then fast forward on one day
- 8:41Speaker 1: Chris didn't show up to the gym and I was
- 8:42Speaker 1: doing legs and your partner Zeb stopped showing up that
- 8:45Speaker 1: day and I was on one machine, you were on another,
- 8:47Speaker 1: and you saw me and you walked over and you said,
- 8:49Speaker 1: where's your partner? I said, he's not here today. You said,
- 8:51Speaker 1: he said, mine's not either. Do you want to work
- 8:52Speaker 1: out and from that day forward, we worked out every
- 8:55Speaker 1: single day, every day, right, every day, every day. I
- 8:58Speaker 1: just kept showing up because that was I dream. I
- 9:00Speaker 1: was like, I had this kid to help me, and
- 9:01Speaker 1: you taught me how to lift, You taught me how
- 9:03Speaker 1: to push myself. You were there for not just gym stuff,
- 9:07Speaker 1: but life stuff. And that was a really special moment,
- 9:10Speaker 1: so much so that I got married six months after fact,
- 9:14Speaker 1: and I invited you to my wedding.
- 9:15Speaker 2: Yep, there it is.
- 9:16Speaker 1: We actually kind of bumped somebody off the list so
- 9:20Speaker 1: that you could be there. Yeah. Pretty crazy.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Apreciate it.
- 9:23Speaker 1: And we're still going now now. We work out one
- 9:25Speaker 1: day a week now because I moved to sail in
- 9:26Speaker 1: New Hampshire, but you're still there Choice Fitness baby.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's still leg day when we work.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Out every Wednesday. We do legs together. Yeah.
- 9:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 9:36Speaker 1: So the really cool thing about ZEB two is see
- 9:39Speaker 1: what happens is I'm thinking about us, you and I
- 9:41Speaker 1: and I'm thinking about I know I'm talking a lot,
- 9:43Speaker 1: but I'm trying to like lead into this Before I
- 9:44Speaker 1: opened the floor to you, I want to know if
- 9:48Speaker 1: you agree with this. So I when I met Zeb,
- 9:50Speaker 1: when we met Zeb obviously my Chris was there, he's
- 9:53Speaker 1: in recovery. And then you know, sure, sure, slowly but
- 9:55Speaker 1: surely he came to my wedding and he started coming
- 9:57Speaker 1: out with us, my friends who are all in recovery.
- 10:00Speaker 1: We don't drink, we don't do drugs. Ye, same, And
- 10:03Speaker 1: I think for you it really helped you because I
- 10:07Speaker 1: know at that time you never drank, and you know,
- 10:10Speaker 1: well you did a little bit, but not really right.
- 10:12Speaker 2: It wasn't it was shortlift.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Yeah, drugs never really no drugs. So you're straight edge.
- 10:17Speaker 1: But what do you do when you're you know, twenty
- 10:19Speaker 1: eight or the twenty nine years old? People go out
- 10:21Speaker 1: in the weekends. So I remember you saying to me,
- 10:24Speaker 1: You're like, you guys don't drink or anything. And I'm
- 10:27Speaker 1: like no, and he's like, it's amazing. You go out
- 10:29Speaker 1: and have fun. He goes, I was going to the
- 10:31Speaker 1: bar on Friday night and drinking ginger ale? Yeah? Is
- 10:33Speaker 1: that is that repressing?
- 10:35Speaker 2: Is that?
- 10:35Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 10:36Speaker 2: Being left out because that's where.
- 10:38Speaker 3: You meet people, right, And so I look around and
- 10:42Speaker 3: people would be drinking and I'd feel like the I
- 10:45Speaker 3: feel like everybody's looking at you, like, why aren't you drinking?
- 10:48Speaker 3: And so I would leave the bars and it was
- 10:51Speaker 3: that was that was shore lived. That didn't want that
- 10:53Speaker 3: feeling anymore.
- 10:54Speaker 2: So I left.
- 10:54Speaker 3: But and then I met you guys. So my my story.
- 11:01Speaker 3: I'll share a little bit about me, my journey through
- 11:04Speaker 3: coming to the gym.
- 11:05Speaker 2: So I I grew.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Up, I was.
- 11:08Speaker 2: I was always overweight.
- 11:10Speaker 3: Don't get I don't know how much I you know,
- 11:12Speaker 3: how long your program, as.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Long as you want.
- 11:15Speaker 2: But we got So I grew up in a big family.
- 11:19Speaker 1: And well, how many brothers and stuff?
- 11:21Speaker 3: I got eight brothers and sisters. I have five brothers
- 11:23Speaker 3: and three sisters. We're from Medford, Yeah, shout out. And
- 11:29Speaker 3: we grew up and my father was the only one
- 11:32Speaker 3: work and my mother, she stayed home, homeschooled us, all
- 11:35Speaker 3: of us.
- 11:35Speaker 1: It's amazing.
- 11:37Speaker 3: M uh So there's one income, very little, you know,
- 11:41Speaker 3: with nine kids, there's not a lot like I've never
- 11:44Speaker 3: been to Disneyland. The closest thing I've been to Disneyland
- 11:46Speaker 3: is Canny be Late Storyland story Land, which I went
- 11:51Speaker 3: for the first time this year.
- 11:52Speaker 1: A lot of hand me a lot of hand me down,
- 11:54Speaker 1: a lot of hand me downs.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Yep.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Every Friday, it seems somebody would leave a trash bag
- 11:57Speaker 3: full of closed at the door.
- 11:58Speaker 1: But hold on, so you so you come from a
- 12:01Speaker 1: very Christian home. Yes, your your dad is a was
- 12:05Speaker 1: dad a pastor?
- 12:06Speaker 2: Yes?
- 12:06Speaker 1: Is that a minister?
- 12:07Speaker 2: Past dad was a pastor.
- 12:09Speaker 3: I grew up in the church, going to a church
- 12:10Speaker 3: right here at Medford Square, and so we grew up.
- 12:14Speaker 3: That's that's how we grew up. But I also being
- 12:18Speaker 3: being homeschooled. I tell people, they're like, oh, you know,
- 12:21Speaker 3: you have a feel like you missed out. I said, yeah,
- 12:24Speaker 3: I missed out on a lot of things. But then
- 12:26Speaker 3: I also missed out on a lot of things, like
- 12:28Speaker 3: I didn't get real I didn't have to deal with
- 12:31Speaker 3: the bullying.
- 12:33Speaker 2: I don't know I was I I.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Did get bullied by the local kids in the neighborhood.
- 12:38Speaker 1: When you go out.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, it was not the same as going
- 12:42Speaker 3: to school. I don't know how I would have adapted
- 12:44Speaker 3: to school I had. I didn't like school. I didn't
- 12:47Speaker 3: see the point when I got out of school. I
- 12:48Speaker 3: didn't see the point of pain to go back. So
- 12:50Speaker 3: I didn't go to college. I ended up doing college
- 12:52Speaker 3: courses later. But we grew up kind of, I would say,
- 12:56Speaker 3: not I don't want to say poor, because there's a
- 12:58Speaker 3: lot of you know you as food on the table.
- 13:00Speaker 3: I was always fool on the table, but there wasn't
- 13:02Speaker 3: It was just enough. So when I got capable, it
- 13:06Speaker 3: started work and I started buying a lot of junk food, which.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I started packing on the palms.
- 13:12Speaker 1: Baby.
- 13:12Speaker 3: So I was two seventy at my heaviest, wow, and
- 13:17Speaker 3: it was just fluff, no muscle, no muscle, no, I
- 13:21Speaker 3: was just big. People like, oh, you didn't look that.
- 13:22Speaker 3: I'm like yeah, but I was. I was fluffy. And
- 13:24Speaker 3: I saw a picture of myself. This was the breaking point.
- 13:27Speaker 3: I saw a picture of myself from Christmas and the
- 13:31Speaker 3: table I had this is this, That is another one,
- 13:34Speaker 3: that is another one.
- 13:34Speaker 2: That's that was.
- 13:35Speaker 3: I was twenty two and I saw a picture of
- 13:38Speaker 3: myself with my sister Abigail, and she was standing in
- 13:41Speaker 3: front of the Crisas tree and I see my gut,
- 13:43Speaker 3: I see my arms, and I was so I felt
- 13:45Speaker 3: so bad about myself. I says that how I look
- 13:47Speaker 3: And it was like a wake up call. So I
- 13:49Speaker 3: went and again, like you, I didn't want to go
- 13:52Speaker 3: to the gym. What we always say, what's the hottest pot?
- 13:55Speaker 3: Of going to the gym is walking through the front
- 13:57Speaker 3: of us. That's the hardest thing. So I and I
- 14:00Speaker 3: used to work with this kid who was a cook
- 14:02Speaker 3: at the window in andover and his name.
- 14:08Speaker 2: Ricky.
- 14:09Speaker 3: And I said, if you go to the gym, and
- 14:11Speaker 3: he was a little heavier, if you go to the gym,
- 14:12Speaker 3: I'll go to the gym.
- 14:13Speaker 2: So he joined, and I said, now I have to
- 14:16Speaker 2: go because you. So I went and I did the
- 14:18Speaker 2: same exact thing. I just would go.
- 14:21Speaker 3: I walk in, I go right for the treadmill, and
- 14:23Speaker 3: I'd watch people work out because I have no I'm
- 14:25Speaker 3: a novice. I had no idea what I was doing,
- 14:27Speaker 3: and I didn't I was I was too afraid to ask.
- 14:29Speaker 3: I didn't want to seem like, you know, an idiot,
- 14:32Speaker 3: so I didn't want to ask for how do you
- 14:33Speaker 3: do that?
- 14:33Speaker 2: How do you do this?
- 14:34Speaker 3: So I would watch people work out and then I
- 14:36Speaker 3: would copy their workouts. Eventually, but it took me a
- 14:40Speaker 3: long time. It took me six months. And I dropped
- 14:42Speaker 3: the weight that I wanted to drop and I got
- 14:44Speaker 3: on the floor and that's where my that's where it
- 14:49Speaker 3: all started. And then I just started. I jumped from
- 14:52Speaker 3: Jim partner to the gym partner, and no one was consistent.
- 14:56Speaker 3: Everybody would fall off. They would just go you know,
- 14:58Speaker 3: they had they did their own thing. It was never
- 15:00Speaker 3: a commitment. It was they would never have that. I
- 15:03Speaker 3: had the drive because I didn't want to go back
- 15:05Speaker 3: to that zeb of overweight zeb. So the but the
- 15:10Speaker 3: gym is done more for me than physical. It's my therapy,
- 15:15Speaker 3: and I think you can it's it is like you
- 15:17Speaker 3: go there, you can walk through those double doors and
- 15:20Speaker 3: it's just like everything for an hour and a half
- 15:22Speaker 3: two hours, it just fades away and you just put
- 15:24Speaker 3: your body through this test and you push it, and
- 15:29Speaker 3: it's it's hard. It's hard because a lot of people
- 15:31Speaker 3: are we fight this lazy bone in our body and uh,
- 15:36Speaker 3: we all do it. There's nobody that has that wakes
- 15:39Speaker 3: up with with the drive to do something. We have
- 15:42Speaker 3: to push through and some of a lot of times
- 15:44Speaker 3: people are they're driven by family. I got to wake
- 15:47Speaker 3: up my kids, I gotta wake up, I gotta make
- 15:49Speaker 3: money to keep a roof over the head, or you
- 15:52Speaker 3: got to wake up because.
- 15:53Speaker 2: You want to have the drive that I had.
- 15:56Speaker 3: I didn't want to go back to that, so I
- 15:57Speaker 3: was so afraid if I stop going to the gym,
- 16:00Speaker 3: I'd end up back in that box that I was,
- 16:03Speaker 3: and I didn't want it, so hold on.
- 16:06Speaker 1: That's so similar to me, because when I would pushed
- 16:08Speaker 1: me so hard was the same thing. I did not
- 16:10Speaker 1: want to go back to that feeling I had when
- 16:12Speaker 1: I woke up and I wanted to kill myself. So
- 16:15Speaker 1: like I kept pushing through the first year. Every morning
- 16:18Speaker 1: I would wake up, my first thought would be like,
- 16:20Speaker 1: I don't want to go to the gym. Yeah, anyway ahead.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Yeah yep, and I would. I would.
- 16:24Speaker 3: I would be so I wouldn't go home because I
- 16:26Speaker 3: knew if I went home from work, I wouldn't leave home.
- 16:29Speaker 3: So I would do I would literally don't do this
- 16:31Speaker 3: at home.
- 16:31Speaker 1: Kids.
- 16:32Speaker 3: I would change in my car going coming from work.
- 16:35Speaker 3: I would change into my work from my work clothes
- 16:38Speaker 3: to my gym clothes. In the car at stop lights,
- 16:40Speaker 3: I'd take my shirt off, I quick put put a
- 16:42Speaker 3: new shirt on, take my my socks, I shoes off,
- 16:45Speaker 3: put shorts on, and I would stay. I would do
- 16:49Speaker 3: five weeks, five days, and I would just But again,
- 16:51Speaker 3: it was I had to at least get in there,
- 16:54Speaker 3: and I felt off if I didn't go. I would
- 16:56Speaker 3: like something's missing. And fast forward to I think it
- 17:01Speaker 3: was twenty fourteen. Yeah, twenty fourteen, I met you and
- 17:05Speaker 3: Chris and that day I still remember. I still remember
- 17:09Speaker 3: the squat rack, the old squat rack they used to
- 17:11Speaker 3: have they get rid of. And from that day on,
- 17:15Speaker 3: because Artie didn't show up and he didn't like.
- 17:17Speaker 1: Doing legs, he was your gym potter.
- 17:18Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and I'll hopefully he's he's learned. But yeah,
- 17:23Speaker 3: he didn't show up and I was like, yeah, I
- 17:25Speaker 3: don't I don't have any work out with legs. And
- 17:28Speaker 3: here we are. Yeah, went to the wedding, met a
- 17:30Speaker 3: bunch of your friends, which are now my friends.
- 17:33Speaker 1: Yeah, you became part of the family. Yeah, everyone loved you.
- 17:36Speaker 1: And yeah, the legs thing is I always loved training
- 17:40Speaker 1: legs because it's the hardest thing and I like doing
- 17:43Speaker 1: hard things, and it really is our friendship and bond
- 17:46Speaker 1: started with a leg workout. Yeah, and we used to
- 17:49Speaker 1: do crazy workouts. I mean at the time twenty fifteen,
- 17:53Speaker 1: twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen, I was producing for Ryan
- 17:55Speaker 1: Seacrest from ten to two, So which is you basically
- 17:58Speaker 1: do all the work, like all the editing and then
- 18:00Speaker 1: you just sit there. And I used to every day
- 18:01Speaker 1: I go in and while I was eating, I'd look
- 18:04Speaker 1: up hardest leg workout on the internet and I would
- 18:07Speaker 1: show up to ZEB with a whole written out workout
- 18:09Speaker 1: every every day every day, you know, not legs every day,
- 18:12Speaker 1: but different workouts, and we just push ourselves.
- 18:15Speaker 3: I remember the one you came. It was in crayon.
- 18:18Speaker 3: You had like, yeah, it was in crayon. You wrote
- 18:20Speaker 3: it on a piece of paper. It was DTP yep,
- 18:23Speaker 3: the first time we did DTP. And it's just it's
- 18:25Speaker 3: pretty much just pyramid. You go up light weight, lightweight,
- 18:29Speaker 3: heavy rep and then heavyweight light rep and huh that
- 18:33Speaker 3: workout couldn't even walk out.
- 18:34Speaker 2: Looked like a baby deal.
- 18:35Speaker 1: Well, our goal was to limp out of the gym
- 18:39Speaker 1: all the time. And you know, it's crazy because our
- 18:42Speaker 1: gym journey has been so wild, Like it's just you know,
- 18:46Speaker 1: I all like major points in my life. I can
- 18:49Speaker 1: think back, like where I was in the gym at
- 18:51Speaker 1: that time. You know, I connect that to everything, you know,
- 18:54Speaker 1: and like you said, eventually you met my friends and
- 18:56Speaker 1: you came part of the family and all that stuff.
- 18:58Speaker 1: And like I said, you were my wedding and then wait,
- 19:03Speaker 1: so okay, so do you want to talk about the
- 19:05Speaker 1: So you came from a Christian home, right, So I
- 19:07Speaker 1: want to get to this part of it because people
- 19:09Speaker 1: that follow you, they see the cardigans thing you do
- 19:13Speaker 1: and you take donations, yes, and you go to this
- 19:16Speaker 1: Elvis cardigans.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Note, just cardigans. Don't say I'm getting sent bags.
- 19:20Speaker 1: Oh oh really yeah, okay.
- 19:21Speaker 3: Just send cardigan if you're gonna send it my peel
- 19:23Speaker 3: boxes on my page. But people were sending me like
- 19:27Speaker 3: they're old pants and underwear.
- 19:28Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, so just cardigans. And it's just it's
- 19:31Speaker 1: so funny to me. Okay, before you explain the whole,
- 19:34Speaker 1: like social media and what you do on Sundays and
- 19:36Speaker 1: all that stuff, what's so crazy to me, so so
- 19:39Speaker 1: funny to me is what do people know you for
- 19:43Speaker 1: on Instagram? Right? They know you for crap? You should
- 19:45Speaker 1: know that's where it started, right, Will you do useless facts?
- 19:48Speaker 1: Because you're good with the camera. And I think one
- 19:50Speaker 1: time you told me years ago, correct me if I'm wrong,
- 19:54Speaker 1: that when you were growing up, when you were a
- 19:55Speaker 1: little kid, you did have dreams of being like on
- 19:58Speaker 1: TV or in movies or acting and some sense. Is
- 20:00Speaker 1: that true? Yeah, So it makes sense that with social
- 20:03Speaker 1: media you kind of found that, you know, because you
- 20:05Speaker 1: didn't go that route in life, and now you kind
- 20:08Speaker 1: of had that kind of outlet. And you're really good
- 20:10Speaker 1: obviously you know that. But when I met you, okay,
- 20:16Speaker 1: I learned about you you were a Christian. What I
- 20:20Speaker 1: really loved about it because I've gone to your church,
- 20:22Speaker 1: I've been there. What I really loved about you is
- 20:24Speaker 1: you you never tried to push it on me or
- 20:28Speaker 1: anybody else. You basically were like, this is what I do,
- 20:32Speaker 1: and if you want what I have, just do what
- 20:33Speaker 1: I do. Right, These are my beliefs, this is what
- 20:36Speaker 1: I believe, this is my faith. But you never were
- 20:38Speaker 1: like you know, because that's what turns people off. I
- 20:40Speaker 1: feel like, you know, and then I end up going
- 20:42Speaker 1: to your church and loved it, you know what I mean.
- 20:44Speaker 1: But when I met you, I learned about that part
- 20:47Speaker 1: of your life. I went to the church at the
- 20:50Speaker 1: elderly Home. You've been holding it for years there. Every
- 20:52Speaker 1: Sunday you go for these people in the home that
- 20:54Speaker 1: are the forgotten ones. Right, you bring them cardigans and
- 20:58Speaker 1: you hold a service your dad used to hold it
- 21:01Speaker 1: and your dad was the minister or the pastor. Yes,
- 21:03Speaker 1: then your dad passed a couple of years ago, few
- 21:05Speaker 1: years ago.
- 21:06Speaker 3: Now, right, when was that two thousand and one?
- 21:08Speaker 1: I'm sorry twenty one. Yeahah, so four years ago, four
- 21:11Speaker 1: years and then you've taken you've taken it over. Yeah.
- 21:14Speaker 3: There was a little gap because of COVID couldn't go in. Yeah,
- 21:17Speaker 3: but right as soon as you can open the doors.
- 21:20Speaker 3: As soon as they opened the doors, we went back
- 21:22Speaker 3: in and started it back just will be.
- 21:25Speaker 1: We just picked up yeft off so you you would
- 21:27Speaker 1: you were doing that when I met you, okay, over
- 21:30Speaker 1: ten years ago. Also, I'm not making this up. The
- 21:36Speaker 1: first time that you came out with my friends and
- 21:38Speaker 1: I on Guys Night, you were wearing a cardigan. Yes,
- 21:41Speaker 1: And Chris, who was the biggest ball buster of the group,
- 21:44Speaker 1: could not let it go. No, He's like, dude, are
- 21:46Speaker 1: you wearing a fucking cardigan? Like? And we brought it
- 21:49Speaker 1: up for years after and you've always been the cardigan guy. Okay.
- 21:53Speaker 1: So fast forward now and now that's like your persona
- 21:56Speaker 1: right is you have your church which you document not
- 21:59Speaker 1: inside of the church, but like the car bringing donating
- 22:01Speaker 1: cardigans to them. So you've been doing this right for
- 22:05Speaker 1: years now, you just document it right, Yes, I just
- 22:08Speaker 1: because people were wondering what I did. One I remember
- 22:10Speaker 1: the day it was. It was a cold day. It
- 22:13Speaker 1: was a very quick thing. I had a cardigan on
- 22:15Speaker 1: and I didn't even expect to become the quote Cardigan
- 22:19Speaker 1: King end quote that people call me now.
- 22:21Speaker 3: And I was just I didn't think. It's life never
- 22:24Speaker 3: turns out the way that you expect it. That never,
- 22:27Speaker 3: it's always. That's the true statement. So yeah, I've we've
- 22:32Speaker 3: been doing the we were doing the sunny services, and
- 22:36Speaker 3: I went in and I said, whatever is in your
- 22:39Speaker 3: het comes out your mouth, whatever is it, Whatever comes
- 22:41Speaker 3: out your mouth is in your heart. So if you're
- 22:44Speaker 3: spewing negativity and you're playing people down or whatever, you
- 22:49Speaker 3: got to fix your heart. So that's then that blew up.
- 22:52Speaker 3: And I said, Okay, there's something here. And then I
- 22:55Speaker 3: bought a I got I bought a condo and this
- 22:59Speaker 3: woman had left, who had passed away. She had left
- 23:03Speaker 3: tuppleware containers full of these cardigans, and I said, oh,
- 23:08Speaker 3: I don't want to get rid of these. What I
- 23:09Speaker 3: can do is I'll give them away at the nursing home.
- 23:12Speaker 3: So I get to the nursing home that Sunday and
- 23:14Speaker 3: I'm like, let me just throw one on. So I
- 23:17Speaker 3: threw one on and I did this little fashion show
- 23:19Speaker 3: and then who would have thought like them?
- 23:22Speaker 2: It just blew up.
- 23:23Speaker 3: And that's how the status on social media on.
- 23:27Speaker 2: I didn't expect it.
- 23:28Speaker 3: I thought I was going to be known for useless crap, crap,
- 23:32Speaker 3: and that's what I started with, and that was going nowhere.
- 23:35Speaker 3: And I have to give you a shout out because
- 23:38Speaker 3: you you had talked to me on multiple ocasions. I
- 23:41Speaker 3: do have to say something. So Justin, you have to
- 23:44Speaker 3: get yourself a friend. A true friend is someone who
- 23:49Speaker 3: tells you things regardless if it hurts your feelings, and
- 23:52Speaker 3: they say it in love. Justin is been you have
- 23:55Speaker 3: been that for me. The constructive criticism is heard as hard.
- 24:01Speaker 3: Many marry, many therapy sessions at the gym of where
- 24:04Speaker 3: I should be, what I should and if you had
- 24:07Speaker 3: overstepped you you were quick to apologize, and that right
- 24:11Speaker 3: there it has reinforced.
- 24:13Speaker 2: And we work out, you know.
- 24:15Speaker 3: We see each other here and there and we work
- 24:17Speaker 3: out Wednesdays and it's like, but that bond, that's an
- 24:20Speaker 3: unbreakable bond because of a true friendship. And that's why
- 24:24Speaker 3: when you asked me yesterday, I was like, come on tomorrow.
- 24:27Speaker 3: And it's but that he is a true friend and
- 24:30Speaker 3: he is the He is a big part of me
- 24:34Speaker 3: breaking out of my shell. And you said, this is
- 24:37Speaker 3: this is your this is what it is. You need
- 24:39Speaker 3: to do this. And when I went on a hiatus
- 24:41Speaker 3: earlier this year, social media got to me a little
- 24:43Speaker 3: bit and I needed to take a break. I stepped
- 24:45Speaker 3: back for a couple of months, and you came to
- 24:47Speaker 3: me and you said, listen, people listen to you.
- 24:50Speaker 2: You cannot let this go.
- 24:51Speaker 3: People are watching you for inspiration, for comfort, like this
- 24:55Speaker 3: is something it's more about. It's more than you. Now
- 24:59Speaker 3: you were the force, and so I looked at it.
- 25:01Speaker 3: I prayed about it, and we're back. Yeah, we're back, baby,
- 25:05Speaker 3: We're back at full force. I get cardigans. My trunk,
- 25:08Speaker 3: I bet is packed full of CARDI like I'm getting
- 25:11Speaker 3: I gotta go to the peel box when i leave
- 25:13Speaker 3: here and pick up more cardigans. And I love that
- 25:17Speaker 3: people want to give and I like that people are
- 25:20Speaker 3: seeing a little bit of kindness, like the world in
- 25:24Speaker 3: this in this state where.
- 25:26Speaker 1: You could consider yourself an influencer, right. Anybody who's on
- 25:29Speaker 1: social media with a lodge presence could be considered an
- 25:32Speaker 1: influencer for many different things, food, whatever. I think what
- 25:36Speaker 1: you're doing is so positive. And I'll give you a story,
- 25:38Speaker 1: a quick story. I already told you this, but I
- 25:41Speaker 1: was at an event for my son's school recently a
- 25:43Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and there were some listeners there.
- 25:46Speaker 1: They came up to me and said they listened to
- 25:47Speaker 1: the show whatever. And it's always super nice, you know,
- 25:49Speaker 1: I say, I always say thank you for listening. And
- 25:51Speaker 1: this one woman comes up to me and she says,
- 25:53Speaker 1: justin I'm a big fan of the show. Nice to
- 25:56Speaker 1: meet you. I said, nice to meet you too, and
- 25:57Speaker 1: she goes, I just have to say and she kind
- 26:00Speaker 1: of got like choked up, and she goes, I just
- 26:03Speaker 1: want to say thank you. And in my head I
- 26:06Speaker 1: thought she was gonna say for sharing your story and
- 26:09Speaker 1: your addiction. Maybe it's because it happens all the time,
- 26:11Speaker 1: people say I lost my brother to an overdose or whatever.
- 26:14Speaker 1: I'm in recovery. He goes, thank you, and I just
- 26:17Speaker 1: want to say thank you, and then she kind of
- 26:20Speaker 1: paused and she said for giving us zeb and I
- 26:26Speaker 1: looked up at her and I'm like, it caught me
- 26:27Speaker 1: off guard, and I'm like, oh yeah, and she goes,
- 26:30Speaker 1: he is just a gift to this earth. He has
- 26:33Speaker 1: gotten me through so much. I love his videos. He
- 26:36Speaker 1: is just a gem and I just want to say
- 26:37Speaker 1: thank you for sharing him with all of us or
- 26:40Speaker 1: introducing us. And I was like, I was laughing so hot.
- 26:43Speaker 1: I went to Gen. I told we were laugh my wife.
- 26:45Speaker 1: And that really speaks volumes though, because I know you
- 26:49Speaker 1: have fun doing it with the reels and they're really
- 26:52Speaker 1: funny and stuff, but people really get a lot out
- 26:54Speaker 1: of them. So it's a form of service. And I
- 26:57Speaker 1: know that in my world, the recovery is all about service.
- 27:00Speaker 1: What you do in the Christian world as a Christian
- 27:03Speaker 1: is service. What you're doing every Sunday is service. The
- 27:06Speaker 1: highest calling you can have is it really is. And
- 27:09Speaker 1: I think one of the most profound things about what
- 27:11Speaker 1: you do with the the elderly home. As I mentioned
- 27:14Speaker 1: this earlier when I first started going with you, and
- 27:17Speaker 1: I need to come back. I need to just do it.
- 27:18Speaker 1: What happened was my son was born. It was before Abel.
- 27:22Speaker 1: Once Abel was born, it was like, all game over.
- 27:24Speaker 1: But now I can go. So I'm gonna come. I'm
- 27:26Speaker 1: gonna come. I'm gonna get problem.
- 27:27Speaker 3: We'll give you a cat again. Okay, I got the
- 27:30Speaker 3: raccoon catigan for you. And I didn't even know that
- 27:32Speaker 3: you were going to talk about raccoons on the show.
- 27:33Speaker 3: I know he wore we'll get a picture of that
- 27:35Speaker 3: and post that up. But when I went to the
- 27:37Speaker 3: to the to the.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Service with you and your dad is when your dad
- 27:40Speaker 1: was alive, you explained to me after we get out,
- 27:44Speaker 1: I was like, what that was like? Really something? And
- 27:46Speaker 1: you go justin like these are the forgotten people, and
- 27:50Speaker 1: I go, I know it's it's really sad. You go, no, no, no,
- 27:53Speaker 1: you don't understand these people in these home in Methuin,
- 27:56Speaker 1: that's where it is. Their families live in mathun Like.
- 28:00Speaker 1: They don't live across the country and they're not flying here.
- 28:03Speaker 1: They live down the street and they don't come visit
- 28:05Speaker 1: their family members. They are forgotten. In this one hour
- 28:08Speaker 1: that I come in and give a message, you know,
- 28:11Speaker 1: about Jesus and about God and about faith is what
- 28:14Speaker 1: they look forward to every week. It makes them so happy,
- 28:16Speaker 1: and you should. They are so happy. You used to
- 28:18Speaker 1: post some.
- 28:19Speaker 2: Of them, right, yeah, I did.
- 28:20Speaker 3: They there's like hippo laws now so I but I
- 28:25Speaker 3: I also don't film inside because I don't want to
- 28:28Speaker 3: be one of those like look at me doing good.
- 28:30Speaker 3: I do the card to get out front, and I
- 28:31Speaker 3: show you what people is and I give you a
- 28:33Speaker 3: little message. It's a pre uh a, it's a what
- 28:36Speaker 3: are they what they called? It's just a it's a
- 28:38Speaker 3: little bit of what I talk about with them. Any
- 28:41Speaker 3: message I give on Sunday morning to the Instagram or TikTok,
- 28:46Speaker 3: it's it's that's what I'll talk about with them. And
- 28:48Speaker 3: a lot of it is just is trying to give
- 28:51Speaker 3: them some hope. And there's two things I'll say. One,
- 28:56Speaker 3: you hear if you breathe, there's still purpose, there's still
- 28:59Speaker 3: time to do something into and to And my first
- 29:02Speaker 3: and foremost is put your trust in God, like trust
- 29:05Speaker 3: in Jesus. It's it's the best decision you'll ever make.
- 29:08Speaker 3: And second to do with the nursing home. I say
- 29:11Speaker 3: this the only difference between nursing homes in prison. And
- 29:15Speaker 3: I know this sounds harsh, but this is I've been
- 29:17Speaker 3: going for a lot for a long time is the bars.
- 29:20Speaker 3: They have ankle brace ankle bracelets. They can't leave, like
- 29:23Speaker 3: they're not just going out. Some people can't and go
- 29:25Speaker 3: into the court yet. And I'm not bashing, it's just
- 29:27Speaker 3: they can't. This to the staff is not there or
- 29:30Speaker 3: the meaning they're understaffed, or they they just can't physically.
- 29:37Speaker 3: I can't get out there. And it's it's really sad
- 29:40Speaker 3: because I'm coming to them. And this is one or
- 29:43Speaker 3: two women especially, I go in there and they're like
- 29:46Speaker 3: they just crying. They cry, they're crying tears and they say,
- 29:49Speaker 3: I just want to get out of here, and so
- 29:51Speaker 3: I give them a big hug, kiss and I give them,
- 29:53Speaker 3: give them something, and I try to and I'll sing
- 29:55Speaker 3: to them.
- 29:55Speaker 2: I'll go I'll go room to room.
- 29:57Speaker 1: Yeah, zeb sayings during the second I saw that firsthand.
- 30:00Speaker 2: And we'll sing and we'll sing to them.
- 30:02Speaker 3: And because I'm like, I don't have a good I'm no,
- 30:05Speaker 3: I'm no crooner, I'm no what Frank Sinatra or I
- 30:09Speaker 3: thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah, Like but that little
- 30:13Speaker 3: that little time, it lights up that like it's just
- 30:17Speaker 3: I'm I don't it's not for me, it's for them.
- 30:20Speaker 1: But that's it's very similar to recovery and service is
- 30:23Speaker 1: you know, you're doing it for them, but you are
- 30:25Speaker 1: getting something out of it too, just like not that
- 30:27Speaker 1: you're looking for that, but it gives you. It gives
- 30:29Speaker 1: you peace, right, it makes you feel good because you're
- 30:32Speaker 1: doing something for for someone else. That's what service is. Yes,
- 30:35Speaker 1: it's not because I think in this might be my
- 30:39Speaker 1: case more than you because you kind of grew up
- 30:40Speaker 1: in that environment of like, you know, helping others, right,
- 30:44Speaker 1: But we're selfish people. I'll speak to myself like, I'm
- 30:48Speaker 1: self centered. I think about myself first and that's something
- 30:50Speaker 1: that I've really had to work on and changing that
- 30:52Speaker 1: line of thinking. So you know, when you help others,
- 30:57Speaker 1: you're helping them and you're doing a service, and that's great,
- 30:59Speaker 1: but you're also getting something out of it too, you know,
- 31:01Speaker 1: it makes sure you feel good. What was the what
- 31:04Speaker 1: was the gentleman's name when I was going He since
- 31:07Speaker 1: passed that lived in the home. He was blind, Michael
- 31:10Speaker 1: Poet And was he blind and deaf or just just blind?
- 31:14Speaker 1: But he was he had kidney failure. Yeah, he was
- 31:16Speaker 1: in a wheelchair. This this guy, I'll never forget him.
- 31:19Speaker 1: We would go every week and he would be there.
- 31:21Speaker 1: He was blind, so many health issues, and he was
- 31:25Speaker 1: just the happiest guy. Yeah, he was so happy. Like
- 31:28Speaker 1: I would sit and talk to him, and I remember thinking, like,
- 31:32Speaker 1: sometimes I would get down on my own life, right,
- 31:34Speaker 1: things aren't going my way, right, maybe I'm fighting with
- 31:37Speaker 1: my wife or whatever. I don't have money that I want, yes,
- 31:39Speaker 1: And then I would think about him. Look at this guy.
- 31:42Speaker 1: This poor guy can't even see. He's in this home,
- 31:45Speaker 1: probably no hope of ever leaving. I think he had
- 31:47Speaker 1: no family left, right, Well, we did have family, but
- 31:50Speaker 1: he was not he was not going anywhere. He died there, yes,
- 31:53Speaker 1: you know, like and I remember thinking, that's where perspective
- 31:56Speaker 1: comes in of life, right, it's the glass half full
- 31:59Speaker 1: or half empty, right, put yourself in someone else's shoes.
- 32:02Speaker 1: This guy, you know, here, I am bitching about my life.
- 32:05Speaker 1: So it was just a really good moment with him.
- 32:06Speaker 1: And he passed when a couple of years ago, it's
- 32:08Speaker 1: been yeah, it's been five years. So yeah, I'll never
- 32:11Speaker 1: forget him. Man, you never forget him.
- 32:12Speaker 3: There's there's a lot just like him with the same story,
- 32:15Speaker 3: and they just and that's what the other thing is
- 32:18Speaker 3: they have stories, they have time, they have they have
- 32:21Speaker 3: their life experiences, and a lot of that's going to
- 32:23Speaker 3: just go to the wayside because, like I said, I
- 32:26Speaker 3: posted something yesterday like material is a money, power, fame,
- 32:30Speaker 3: all that stuff is pushed to the wayside. Now now
- 32:32Speaker 3: it's about connection. They just want to They just want
- 32:35Speaker 3: to talk, They just want people to listen. They just
- 32:37Speaker 3: want to be seen. And yes I do. It does
- 32:42Speaker 3: give me, if anything, it gives me an appreciation for life.
- 32:45Speaker 3: That life is brief. Life is beautiful, but it's also
- 32:48Speaker 3: very brief, and it's it's life is in between the lines.
- 32:52Speaker 3: It's in the moments that.
- 32:54Speaker 2: You don't expect.
- 32:54Speaker 3: It's like when we talk about the good times, the
- 32:57Speaker 3: good times are right now. We're sitting here, we're healthy,
- 32:59Speaker 3: thank God. But this is the good time.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Smith. We're gonna look back.
- 33:02Speaker 3: On this and it's getting me emotional now because like
- 33:05Speaker 3: I love my life, and I love the friendships I
- 33:09Speaker 3: have with you and and all the other guys and
- 33:12Speaker 3: gals that I have. It's just I love my family,
- 33:15Speaker 3: I love it's life is good. Look, I can see,
- 33:18Speaker 3: I can walk. I drove here. I take my hat
- 33:20Speaker 3: off to people who drive in traffic every day. It
- 33:22Speaker 3: took me an hour and fifteen minutes to get to
- 33:24Speaker 3: Medford from Able today. But it's but I enjoyed it.
- 33:27Speaker 3: I was looking at the I was looking at the foliage.
- 33:29Speaker 3: I was enjoying listening to the show on the way down,
- 33:33Speaker 3: and I was just I'm alive and I can do something.
- 33:37Speaker 3: If you are alive today, you can do something. Buy
- 33:39Speaker 3: somebody a coffee, but don't wait around for them to say, oh,
- 33:42Speaker 3: they did it.
- 33:43Speaker 2: Just I drive away.
- 33:44Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, just know that you just made someone's day,
- 33:47Speaker 3: put the extra drawll in tip cup, or doing doing
- 33:50Speaker 3: something outside yourself, outside your comfort zone.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Get outside.
- 33:54Speaker 3: That's the hardest thing, right, Going back to the gym,
- 33:56Speaker 3: the hardest thing for us to do was to walk
- 33:58Speaker 3: in the gym because we were heavy.
- 34:01Speaker 2: I threw a sweatshirt. I would always wear a sweatshirt.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my god, I'm oh my god, Oh my god, god. Okay,
- 34:05Speaker 1: I'm glad you said this reminded me. Glad you just
- 34:07Speaker 1: brought me here. So I've been telling this story a
- 34:11Speaker 1: lot recently. I told it like two or three times
- 34:13Speaker 1: randomly to people for whatever reason. Yep, but I remember,
- 34:17Speaker 1: I'll never forget I had just started working out with Zeb,
- 34:21Speaker 1: maybe a month or so. I was still fat, right,
- 34:23Speaker 1: I was not as fat, but I was still you know,
- 34:25Speaker 1: out of shape. And my big thing was my breasts. Right.
- 34:28Speaker 1: I had a lot of skin, A lot of my
- 34:30Speaker 1: fat goes to my breasts. I actually posted you see
- 34:32Speaker 1: this Zeb on my Instagram. Today's the nine year anniversary
- 34:36Speaker 1: of my boob job. Remember the boob job? Yeah? Remember
- 34:39Speaker 1: my wife took care of me and all that stuff. Yeah,
- 34:42Speaker 1: so today's nine years. I had got a commassia Surgeryah,
- 34:45Speaker 1: it's been nine years, but I remember. It was probably
- 34:48Speaker 1: like a month after we started working out and I
- 34:50Speaker 1: got out of work. I went to the gym to
- 34:51Speaker 1: meet Zeb. I walked into the gym. He was already there.
- 34:54Speaker 1: He was sitting down waiting for me. I walk in,
- 34:56Speaker 1: walk up to him like I did every day, and
- 35:00Speaker 1: he looked up at me and he goes, why do
- 35:01Speaker 1: you walk like that? And I'm like, walk like what?
- 35:04Speaker 1: He goes, You walk with your shoulders slumped in, almost
- 35:07Speaker 1: like you don't want people to see your stomach or
- 35:10Speaker 1: something like you're trying to hide it, you know, And
- 35:12Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I don't know, what are you talking
- 35:15Speaker 1: about like look at me, you know, like I don't
- 35:17Speaker 1: want people to see this, Like why are you saying that?
- 35:19Speaker 1: And you go, look from this point forward, from this
- 35:23Speaker 1: day forward, starting right now, I want you to walk
- 35:27Speaker 1: with your shoulders back, and you stood up and you
- 35:29Speaker 1: took me and you pulled my shoulders back and you
- 35:31Speaker 1: prop my chest out and you put my chin up.
- 35:34Speaker 1: You go, from now on, I want you to walk
- 35:36Speaker 1: like this, no matter where you are, what room you're
- 35:38Speaker 1: going into the gym, no matter what, with your chin
- 35:40Speaker 1: held I and your chest out and your shoulders back,
- 35:43Speaker 1: because that shows confidence. I don't care if you have
- 35:45Speaker 1: a six pack or if you have tits, I don't care.
- 35:48Speaker 1: You walk like you do have a six pack. And
- 35:51Speaker 1: from that day forward, I'll never forget that that's how
- 35:53Speaker 1: I walk. And over time I ended up losing had
- 35:57Speaker 1: the boob, well before that, losing the chest, getting into shit,
- 36:00Speaker 1: and now like it's so it's confidence, it's confidence, it's confidence.
- 36:04Speaker 1: So you were giving me that confidence before I even
- 36:06Speaker 1: had any confidence in myself. You know. It's just like
- 36:09Speaker 1: moments like that you think back and you're right, we're
- 36:11Speaker 1: gonna get older, right, and we're gonna look back at
- 36:14Speaker 1: these times, these good times. We're doing it right now.
- 36:17Speaker 1: Life is about memories. It's about cherishing those memories. Yep.
- 36:20Speaker 1: And we've had a lot.
- 36:21Speaker 2: We've had a lot.
- 36:22Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, real quick, I'm wanna get to one or
- 36:24Speaker 1: two more things.
- 36:25Speaker 2: Okay.
- 36:25Speaker 1: Your social media, yes, so you started the tick. You
- 36:28Speaker 1: had Instagram had no really no movement. You had a TikTok.
- 36:32Speaker 1: The TikTok a few years ago kind of blew up. Right.
- 36:35Speaker 1: You had like one hundred thousand follower.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I have one hundred and almost one hundred and
- 36:40Speaker 2: thirty now.
- 36:40Speaker 1: So it was growing, growing, growing, and I remember like
- 36:43Speaker 1: watching it. I really wasn't on TikTok, but you were
- 36:45Speaker 1: doing crap. You should know. With Ray. Ray is the
- 36:47Speaker 1: kid you work with. I work with Ray. Yep, He's
- 36:49Speaker 1: are great because you guys offset each other.
- 36:51Speaker 3: Yeah, he's Yeah, he's young and young and ambitious and
- 36:55Speaker 3: I'm just I'm older, so I and I guide that ambition.
- 36:57Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's a good kid. So you work for
- 37:00Speaker 1: the wastewater department, so you're like in the ship pipes
- 37:03Speaker 1: pretty much.
- 37:03Speaker 2: Basically, I'm a sewer jumper.
- 37:05Speaker 1: You're a sewer jumper. Yeah, so a lot of your
- 37:07Speaker 1: content is around what you do there, so you had
- 37:10Speaker 1: ray you do crap. You should know the TikTok takes off, okay,
- 37:14Speaker 1: but then it's stalled. I remember you saying that sold
- 37:16Speaker 1: after one hundred thousand in and around there, right, So
- 37:19Speaker 1: then ZEB kept going on or whatever, and then I'll
- 37:22Speaker 1: never forget your Instagram. You would talk to me about
- 37:24Speaker 1: it and you'd say, like, how do you grow your Instagram?
- 37:26Speaker 1: Like Instagram, I get no movement, and I'm like, I
- 37:29Speaker 1: don't know, don't I work on the radio. I have
- 37:30Speaker 1: like ten thousand followers. And then one day I'll never
- 37:34Speaker 1: forget this. I happened to put on it go on Instagram,
- 37:39Speaker 1: and you had thirty thousand followers, and I thought you
- 37:42Speaker 1: bought them. No, I was. I was convinced, and I
- 37:46Speaker 1: showed at the gym and I go, what the fuck
- 37:48Speaker 1: is this? And you're like, dude, I don't know. I
- 37:50Speaker 1: did like one or two videos and it's just exploded,
- 37:52Speaker 1: and it has sense exploded. Now you have eighty thousand followers. Yeah,
- 37:56Speaker 1: So what video was it that sent? Do you remember?
- 38:02Speaker 3: There was one, the one with and I think I
- 38:05Speaker 3: just reposted it. It was the one with We're in
- 38:08Speaker 3: the I'm looking for the drain in the I'm in
- 38:11Speaker 3: I'm in Hip Hip Hip high Water with waiters on
- 38:16Speaker 3: and Ray is yelling at me trying to find the drain,
- 38:18Speaker 3: and he's recording me, and I'm like, and so I
- 38:21Speaker 3: come over and I shake.
- 38:22Speaker 1: The tree or whatever.
- 38:23Speaker 3: So that is you know, I played it up a
- 38:25Speaker 3: little bit, but I was frustrated. We're trying to find
- 38:28Speaker 3: We're trying to find the drain for this thing, and.
- 38:31Speaker 1: Playing it up.
- 38:32Speaker 3: You have to write, this is the since I watched
- 38:36Speaker 3: my first oscars.
- 38:37Speaker 2: I've always wanted to be an actors.
- 38:38Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was just like, so he played up, Yeah,
- 38:41Speaker 3: and it came over, but it was but that genuine
- 38:43Speaker 3: frustration trying to find this thing was there and definitely
- 38:46Speaker 3: fueling it. But yeah, and uh, from that, I just
- 38:49Speaker 3: reposted it and and it just went and the people
- 38:52Speaker 3: started to attach themselves to the cardigan and waiting, waiting patiently,
- 38:56Speaker 3: like dming me or messaging me, you can't wait for
- 38:59Speaker 3: next Sunday, you can't wait. Thank You've helped me through
- 39:01Speaker 3: I this, you know, this reminded me to come back
- 39:03Speaker 3: and you know, hone in on what's really important and
- 39:07Speaker 3: that's what it is. So now instead of what what
- 39:10Speaker 3: I thought was going to take off was the CYSK.
- 39:13Speaker 3: Now it's more of the Lord's work stuff that I
- 39:15Speaker 3: do and going to the.
- 39:16Speaker 1: Nursing home andysk is crap. You should know, crap you shouldn't.
- 39:20Speaker 1: We'll get fun facts every day, Just.
- 39:21Speaker 3: Get fun useless facts like you know a giraffe can
- 39:24Speaker 3: clean its own ear with its tongue, Like you don't
- 39:26Speaker 3: need to know that, or you know.
- 39:29Speaker 2: They're out there, I don't.
- 39:30Speaker 1: I love the facts. Yeah, they're great.
- 39:33Speaker 3: They they they got me my foundation of a few
- 39:36Speaker 3: thousand followers. And then but the cardigans. People want to
- 39:39Speaker 3: see people doing good and what I want people to
- 39:42Speaker 3: do is do good themselves as well, right, And that's
- 39:45Speaker 3: the that's the whole message hopefully they take from my
- 39:47Speaker 3: social media. You know, I'm trying to unplug them for
- 39:50Speaker 3: two minutes of the day that you know, it's not
- 39:53Speaker 3: that bad. Even though the world is in chaos. It
- 39:57Speaker 3: starts with me, It starts with you, It starts with
- 40:00Speaker 3: everybody listening. It just starts with you. It's making one
- 40:03Speaker 3: right decision at a time.
- 40:04Speaker 1: Yep.
- 40:04Speaker 3: And that's that's where that's how we're going to change
- 40:07Speaker 3: the world. That's how we're going to be better. And
- 40:10Speaker 3: it all encompasses love. You have to love, yeah, and
- 40:14Speaker 3: that's it. That's true power, it's true.
- 40:16Speaker 1: But I and I think also, you know, with your
- 40:18Speaker 1: social media, no matter what it is, if it's you know, crap,
- 40:20Speaker 1: you should know Lord's work cardigans. I think people just
- 40:24Speaker 1: like seeing you. You know, you're really good and you're genuine,
- 40:28Speaker 1: and I think people can see that. And that's the
- 40:30Speaker 1: point I wanted to convey in this, is that the
- 40:32Speaker 1: person you're seeing, besides like when you do like the
- 40:35Speaker 1: Sunday morning when you run up like obviously with the thing.
- 40:37Speaker 1: It's hilarious you're putting on for that, you know, but
- 40:40Speaker 1: all the other stuff is genuinely just who you are.
- 40:42Speaker 1: You've always been that guy. And I think I don't
- 40:45Speaker 1: need it doesn't need to be stated. I think people
- 40:47Speaker 1: can see that, they can see that you're just genuine.
- 40:49Speaker 1: You're Zeb.
- 40:50Speaker 3: You know.
- 40:50Speaker 1: I always make a joke about Zeb that if the
- 40:52Speaker 1: world goes to shit and like the end of the
- 40:55Speaker 1: world comes, I'm gonna go to Zeb's house, you know
- 40:57Speaker 1: what I mean, because I feel like Zeb will protect
- 41:00Speaker 1: me and guide us you know, I'll tell this real
- 41:04Speaker 1: story real quick. There's so many stories I can take
- 41:05Speaker 1: a tell. But we used to go on this boys,
- 41:09Speaker 1: you know, rafting trip every year or go away every year.
- 41:12Speaker 1: And one year we went all the guys to Socco
- 41:15Speaker 1: in New Hampshire, North Conway, the Socco River. I'm sorry,
- 41:18Speaker 1: was that is that an Instagram follower that's hitting you
- 41:20Speaker 1: up on it? Of course it is. I'll wrap it
- 41:24Speaker 1: up very so. So we went up to the Socco
- 41:28Speaker 1: to raft down to you know that we call that
- 41:31Speaker 1: the tubing we went to We went tubing.
- 41:33Speaker 2: It was the Is this the one we had to
- 41:35Speaker 2: get in the wall? Yes, this is the we went
- 41:37Speaker 2: on the relaxed one, the relaxed one.
- 41:39Speaker 1: Yeah. So the water was very cold. We went early
- 41:42Speaker 1: in the season, probably in June. You know, it gets
- 41:44Speaker 1: warmer later. So we're going down the Socco the guys,
- 41:48Speaker 1: like six guys, and we come upon these two women
- 41:53Speaker 1: that were stuck in a in a in a fallen tree.
- 41:57Speaker 1: So and they were larger women. So you know what
- 42:00Speaker 1: happened was they were going down probably not paying attention.
- 42:01Speaker 1: They might have been drinking, I don't know, and they
- 42:04Speaker 1: didn't get out to move out of the way of
- 42:05Speaker 1: the tree and they went into the tree branches and
- 42:07Speaker 1: were stuck and could not get out of their tubes.
- 42:11Speaker 1: Which sounds like a funny scene, but it was like serious.
- 42:14Speaker 1: So we come along and we're like, oh shit. Before
- 42:17Speaker 1: you know it, Zeb jumps into action into the freezing
- 42:20Speaker 1: cold water, fucking freeze these two women. Like we're watching
- 42:24Speaker 1: them like what the hell is he doing and ended
- 42:27Speaker 1: up getting them out and rescuing them.
- 42:29Speaker 2: Yeah remember that. Yeah, not one thank you. I wasn't
- 42:31Speaker 2: looking for the thank you.
- 42:32Speaker 1: But wow, that's not what we were saying earlier. That's
- 42:35Speaker 1: not why we do it.
- 42:36Speaker 2: We do it, but yeah, that's wow. Yep.
- 42:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I always say that about Zeb. You know, you're
- 42:40Speaker 1: you're a great leader. That's what that you can be
- 42:43Speaker 1: in life. You can be a leader or a follower.
- 42:46Speaker 1: You know. That's why I tried to teach my son
- 42:48Speaker 1: is to be a leader. Don't do what everybody else
- 42:50Speaker 1: is doing. Don't do things just because they tell you
- 42:52Speaker 1: to do them, or they's just because they're doing it.
- 42:54Speaker 1: Be your own person, yes, you know, but don't be
- 42:58Speaker 1: too proud to always learning, always learn, always learn, always learning.
- 43:02Speaker 1: You're building on you. Yeah. Two words that you want
- 43:05Speaker 1: to stay away from. Are I know?
- 43:08Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I know, I know. See I say, yeah, yes,
- 43:13Speaker 2: you're right.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so true. It's so true. So zeb thank
- 43:16Speaker 1: you for coming on the podcast.
- 43:18Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
- 43:18Speaker 1: Thank you for your friendship. Tomorrow we're gonna have some legs.
- 43:23Speaker 1: Have some legs. Yeah, I got some hip issues going on.
- 43:26Speaker 1: I'm working with Jenna, my stretch girl on it. Who,
- 43:29Speaker 1: by the way, ask about you. Every time I'll go see.
- 43:31Speaker 2: You, I'll go, okay, I'll talk to you. When I
- 43:33Speaker 2: leave here, we'll talk to John.
- 43:34Speaker 1: You were supposed to make an appointment or you had
- 43:36Speaker 1: an appointment and you missed it. I did. Yeah, so
- 43:39Speaker 1: she wants to see shame Yeah, shame on you. She
- 43:42Speaker 1: wants to see you. So go see Jenna. And then
- 43:45Speaker 1: you know, I've been had some hip issues. So we'll
- 43:47Speaker 1: have to do some some friendly hip friendly exercises. So,
- 43:51Speaker 1: I don't know, I hope he covered it all with this. No,
- 43:54Speaker 1: you don't need to or blow on me.
- 43:56Speaker 2: Absolutely story. Why would you bring that up? I know,
- 44:01Speaker 2: I oh my head, I'm sweating.
- 44:04Speaker 1: Yeah. Should I tell that one real quick? To end with?
- 44:07Speaker 2: Yeah, Now you have to give contact because he just
- 44:09Speaker 2: can't leave this.
- 44:10Speaker 1: I know, I know. So back in the day, we
- 44:12Speaker 1: used to squat really heavy, and you know, zech get overheated,
- 44:16Speaker 1: you get overheated. So when I'm talking, I would have like,
- 44:19Speaker 1: you know, four oh five or three eighty five on
- 44:21Speaker 1: my back, squatting trying to get five reps. I go
- 44:24Speaker 1: down for like three, and zeb would be there like
- 44:27Speaker 1: he's the best fucking hype man you could ever think of,
- 44:29Speaker 1: Like come on, two more, justin two more, screaming in
- 44:31Speaker 1: my ear and he realized, I don't know how that
- 44:35Speaker 1: on those last one or two reps. Before I would
- 44:38Speaker 1: go down to squat down as he's like, you know,
- 44:40Speaker 1: yelling at me, he would blow on.
- 44:42Speaker 2: My neck and I'm gonna lit this down.
- 44:47Speaker 1: He just did it one day, and you know what,
- 44:49Speaker 1: it sounds weird and it sounds gay, honestly, but the
- 44:52Speaker 1: cold air gave me power. Yeah, and you would blow
- 44:56Speaker 1: on it and I would go down and I would
- 44:57Speaker 1: get the rep. So then we started doing that is like,
- 45:02Speaker 1: this is unbelievable.
- 45:04Speaker 3: At the while I was taking I took my hat
- 45:06Speaker 3: off now and then I was yeah, and then I
- 45:08Speaker 3: would fan you with my hat the back of Yeah.
- 45:10Speaker 2: But I didn't have the hat that day. Yeah, I
- 45:12Speaker 2: don't know where it came from.
- 45:13Speaker 1: I was just like it.
- 45:14Speaker 3: I could feel you were just really like overheating him,
- 45:16Speaker 3: like maybe he just needs cold there.
- 45:18Speaker 2: It just I just wasn't even thinking.
- 45:20Speaker 1: I just it's okay.
- 45:21Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you just you came you, you racked
- 45:23Speaker 3: the weight and you turn out like you, you know what,
- 45:28Speaker 3: keep doing it. But Chris, Chris is absolutely not having
- 45:32Speaker 3: it because he was there, so he's like, do.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Not, don't ever do that again. I can picture that.
- 45:36Speaker 1: But you know what, Zeb, if I was going to
- 45:38Speaker 1: be gay with anyone, I'd rather be gay with you. Well,
- 45:41Speaker 1: thank you everybody. I hope this podcast was good. And
- 45:44Speaker 1: you can follow zeb on Instagram at zeb Days and
- 45:47Speaker 1: there is a po box on your profile if you
- 45:50Speaker 1: want to donate Cardigans only car you use panties?
- 45:54Speaker 2: No please, I'm not a salvation no.
- 45:57Speaker 1: No. Girls do have our fans of you, so you
- 46:00Speaker 1: might get some used panties. I don't know what goes
- 46:02Speaker 1: on there. I don't know, but Cardigan's only, Cardigan's Only. Alright,
- 46:07Speaker 1: love you, Zebright, love you too, all right, everybody, We'll
- 46:09Speaker 1: talk tomorrow.