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REGGIE BALL - Balling On A Budget · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host Coly Witt, and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guests Reggie Ball in the building. Awesome and he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been in the kitchen in a while. But Reggie
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  Speaker 1: Ball is former Georgia Tech quarterback who took his game
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the NFL, signing with the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Lions as an undrafted free agent in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: And these days he's building in Atlanta as the COO
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  Speaker 1: of Effect Fitness and you can catch him behind the mics,
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  Speaker 1: co host on The Broken Play with Navi Green, and
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  Speaker 1: appearances on The Lou Young Show.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that was an amazing intro. Thank you. Oh
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  Speaker 2: yeah he did your own work.
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  Speaker 1: Yes I did. I was schooling myself on everything.
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  Speaker 2: You nice. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I know we were talking about how you're never in
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen, and I know you thought that you were
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  Speaker 1: going to have me making the dis man.
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  Speaker 3: You're throwing so many curve balls at me. But I
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  Speaker 3: know how to play. So I'm ready. I'm up for
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  Speaker 3: the child.
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  Speaker 1: Are you prepared yoursel?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: So what are you gonna have me eating today?
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  Speaker 3: So this dish is what my family and I call
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  Speaker 3: Lo Main and we referred to it as the ghetto
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  Speaker 3: Chinese food. Okay, so we got a ramen noodles, ground beef,
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  Speaker 3: a little seasoning with the garlic, salt, pepper, and some
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  Speaker 3: soy sauce, and of course you can't forget your package
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  Speaker 3: sauce out of the.
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  Speaker 2: Ramen noodle packages.
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  Speaker 3: And we also have some parsley and broccoli to kind
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  Speaker 3: of dice things up and get everything nice and fretty.
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  Speaker 1: This will be my first time having this on the shows, so.
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  Speaker 3: Trust me, I'm pretty sure nobody's ever had this before,
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  Speaker 3: not very many.
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  Speaker 1: So you were particular about the type of ramen you use.
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  Speaker 1: So for any one out there that's trying to imitate
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  Speaker 1: this dish, what is the correct ramen to use on this?
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  Speaker 2: I want the Oriental flavor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's Oriental. Now it's the same brand.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can get the ramen noodles, but the flavor
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  Speaker 3: and the packages and everything that's key. So look, if
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  Speaker 3: you want the beef, that's cool. If you got ground beef,
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  Speaker 3: all right. If you want the chicken, make sure you
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  Speaker 3: got some chicken breast so you can dice up that chicken.
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  Speaker 2: So everything matches, you feel what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So the oriental or the beef goes with the ground beef,
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  Speaker 3: and the chicken goes with the chicken.
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  Speaker 2: But we broke that's all.
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  Speaker 3: We got, you know what I mean, So we gotta.
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  Speaker 2: Make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, go ahead, get the cooking, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, guys. So first, what we're gonna do now, turn
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  Speaker 3: this either thing on. You got to turn this off.
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  Speaker 2: What your power? What's your power forces at? Because the
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  Speaker 2: light ain't coming on this side of lights up? It
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  Speaker 2: did light up. I'm blind.
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  Speaker 3: We got them, okay, So first, all right, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 3: wash your hands, all right, Wash your hands and wash
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  Speaker 3: your ass before you get in the kitchen. We don't
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  Speaker 3: like to come in here, understand the ary. That's very important,
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  Speaker 3: So wash your hands. I did that before this camera
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  Speaker 3: started rolling, So we all good. Get your ground beef
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  Speaker 3: rolling all right? Boom, throw that on there. If it's
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  Speaker 3: not siln, that's cool. That means you're cooking shit too fast.
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  Speaker 3: It's slow down anyway, all right, right, be playing with y'all,
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  Speaker 3: telling y'all ain't been in the kitchen, but I know
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  Speaker 3: what's going on a little bit, all right, You out.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the way get your ground beef going. And
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  Speaker 3: we just gonna cook that a little bit. Give me
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  Speaker 3: something right here, Dice it up a little bit. You
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  Speaker 3: know how to get your ground be going. Everybody know
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  Speaker 3: how to cook ground beef, hopefully, hopefully all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, just let that go.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, dice up, cut up your parsley a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Do I need to demonstrate how to cut up partially for.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone in here?
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  Speaker 3: No, you're good, all right, cool, So I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 3: slice it up because this is not the knife. Not
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  Speaker 3: nice to dice, No damn parsley. But we broke, so
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna make it work.
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  Speaker 1: Shout outs to eighty five souths. We are not in
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  Speaker 1: La in our normal set. So eighty five South has
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  Speaker 1: gone above and beyond two a comedy here, that's what's up.
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  Speaker 3: At least we ain't using no plastic ware, all right.
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  Speaker 3: But even if you do have plastic ware, you can
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  Speaker 3: dice up some parceling and get it going then.
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  Speaker 1: And you gonna use that knife on parsley if you
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  Speaker 1: ultimately have.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, man, you could really rip the leaves apart.
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  Speaker 2: Have you need to do it? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Just get it done and get the leaves real small,
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  Speaker 3: all right, But yeah, we're gonna take our time.
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  Speaker 2: This dish right here does not take long.
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  Speaker 3: So you got a lot of babies at the house
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  Speaker 3: and y'all hungry as hell, or if your teenagers at
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  Speaker 3: the house and they need to do something real quick,
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  Speaker 3: and man, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Be afraid to teach these people these tricks. All right?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, now we got the ground beef. Thiszling a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. So look all we gonna do for this
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  Speaker 3: ground beef. They get it rolling a little bit. We're
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  Speaker 3: gonna add a little soy sauce. Okay, just a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to dow it dows it.
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  Speaker 2: Down too much. A little pepper in that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you want to, you can throw some start
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  Speaker 3: on there, but I don't like too much.
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  Speaker 2: Spaces. We get enough of that shit.
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  Speaker 3: But because I'm trying to show out a little bit
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  Speaker 3: and they can go, you see what's going on. It's
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  Speaker 3: brand new. That means we don't need to you. There's
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  Speaker 3: God talking to us. Pay attention to the finest people.
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  Speaker 1: Well that was garlic salt, but the other.
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  Speaker 2: Flight, that's more flight. The garlic salt. It ain't never
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  Speaker 2: wrong with garlic salt.
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  Speaker 1: So essentially you're gonna brown the beef and then in
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  Speaker 1: the other part are you boiling the ramen.
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  Speaker 3: So what we're gonna do once we strain this ground beef,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna put everything together. We're gonna put that ram
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna let to broccoli, kind of marinate with the
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  Speaker 3: beef a little bit, throw their parsley in there, okay,
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  Speaker 3: and once they get to go on a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna throw the water and the noose in there
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  Speaker 3: and kind of let a.
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  Speaker 2: Simmer down and cool down again.
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  Speaker 3: This might take a thirty thirty five minutes, so it's
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  Speaker 3: not gonna take long.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Now take me back to what was going on
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  Speaker 1: in your household where this became a staple dish with
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  Speaker 1: a name.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me?
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  Speaker 3: Can I cuss on this show?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Cool? Oh? Man? Uh? What was going on
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  Speaker 2: in this when this dish was being made?
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  Speaker 3: This was pretty much after football practice, after baseball practice.
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  Speaker 3: This was when me, my brothers and I playing ball
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  Speaker 3: all year round, whether it's baseball, football, and even basketball
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  Speaker 3: back then. I know that may surprise a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people shout out to my playmakers to follow the show,
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  Speaker 3: but Yeah, this will be the quick. My mom has
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  Speaker 3: to hurry up and get something done. We got to
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  Speaker 3: get in the shower and at least attempt to do
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  Speaker 3: some homework. Just returning home after all those practices, you
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  Speaker 3: got to get some on the stove and get something done.
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  Speaker 3: She'll do this so real simple, don't worry about that
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  Speaker 3: ground be following off.
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  Speaker 2: Man, did you get nash You know? You know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean? You got a queen stove? You ain't cooking.
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  Speaker 1: Who came up with the name of it though, like
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  Speaker 1: where it becomes a staple where you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Are naming it, I don't know. I just made it up.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have any sisters growing up?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, I do have one sister, but she didn't grow
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  Speaker 3: up with us. Shout out to my grill, but and
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  Speaker 3: her babies. My niece is a nephew.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, man, no girls in the house.
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  Speaker 3: The only girl in the house was was my mom,
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  Speaker 3: and luckily she was a tomboy in the sports understood
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  Speaker 3: what took what it took.
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  Speaker 2: Again, if your kitchen and clean, your shit ain't good.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, she understood what it took, and so she
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  Speaker 3: made everything happen for us. Shout out to my mom
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  Speaker 3: for holding us down and this meal were preparing to day.
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  Speaker 1: Did you come from a two parent household?
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  Speaker 2: My dad was around, but they were divorced.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they got divorced kind of early, but luckily they
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  Speaker 3: had the respect to relate respectable relationship enough to where
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  Speaker 3: you know, my dad was my strength and conditioning coaching
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  Speaker 3: my high school.
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  Speaker 2: He was always in our lives to some degree. So
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  Speaker 2: it just.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't a hidden ruin type of situation.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, Okay, well that's always good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now you go ahead talk to.
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  Speaker 1: Me, go ahead, and you're gonna so, yeah, we need.
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  Speaker 3: The straining is now look cooking while broke. Everybody ain't
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  Speaker 3: got a strain in the house, right We ain't got
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  Speaker 3: a strain in the studio right now.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna make something happen, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Simply get your spacial little together. Should have had little
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  Speaker 3: a little crease on the side, man, drain that thing
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  Speaker 3: your life though. M that's some good juice and flavor
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  Speaker 3: getting up out of there, but you know you don't
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  Speaker 3: need all of it.
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  Speaker 2: Let it send it down a little bit home.
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  Speaker 1: Share share with me your you going from high school
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  Speaker 1: sports to getting into or college and then getting into
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Girl, that's a long score. That's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: I'm skipping you through.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, go to practice, dominate high school, go to practice,
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  Speaker 3: do well, and stand out in college, and then you
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  Speaker 3: get signed.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: I know that's a very short version of what happened,
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  Speaker 3: but it takes a lot of hours and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of extra work in between. So no matter how hard
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  Speaker 3: you think you're working, young man or young woman, you
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  Speaker 3: got to work ten times harder, especially if you don't
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  Speaker 3: have the political support, the measurables that are basically, you know,
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  Speaker 3: looked for when it comes to college scouts or professional scouts.
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  Speaker 3: It takes a lot of work to get there. So
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't happen by accident. If you get to the
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  Speaker 3: league or any league, a professional level, whatever career you
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  Speaker 3: like to or you will embark on professional levels, that
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  Speaker 3: shit does not happen by accident. So shout out to
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  Speaker 3: all genres and careers, not just athletes.
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  Speaker 1: But you knew since you were little that's what you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: Right for sure?
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  Speaker 3: Correction, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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  Speaker 2: Oh so baseball. Baseball was my first love.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so when I Initially when my parents asked me
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  Speaker 3: what I wanted to be, I wanted to be a
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  Speaker 3: baseball player. Baseball was everything. Shout out to Atlanta Braid's
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  Speaker 3: my favorite team in the whole wild world. But essentially
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  Speaker 3: that's what I wanted to do, be a baseball player.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean, I was a dual sport athlete, so
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  Speaker 3: football was kind of hand to hand, and all my
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  Speaker 3: friends played football as well, so it wasn't fetch for
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  Speaker 3: me to go ahead and just transfer some talents over
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  Speaker 3: to the football field. So we kind of did the
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  Speaker 3: dual sports anyway, you know what I mean. Sports is
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  Speaker 3: like an outlet for us. Again, this meal came when
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  Speaker 3: we were cooking wild broke. Yeah, shout out to everybody
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  Speaker 3: from part Chateau, that apartment in conflicts over in Latonia, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: But if you were over there, you knew just how
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  Speaker 3: it was, what the struggle was, and with the upclimb
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  Speaker 3: or the uphill battle that we had getting up out
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  Speaker 3: of there.
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  Speaker 2: And sports was an avenue that me and my brothers used.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if you want to dice up your bractly, go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and do so, some big ass.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, the smaller, the pieces the fastest'll
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  Speaker 1: cook right, something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Now you put me up on guy. I told you
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  Speaker 2: I don't be doing this for real, But go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the undrafted free agent, can you
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  Speaker 1: explain that part to me for the women or people
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  Speaker 1: that don't understand what that means.
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  Speaker 3: So an undrafted free agent, that's basically we just had
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  Speaker 3: to draft pass not too long ago. So the undrafted
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  Speaker 3: free agent is a guy who doesn't necessarily get to
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  Speaker 3: walk across the stage, get his name called and everything
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  Speaker 3: like that. But it's a recognition to say, hey, son,
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  Speaker 3: we saw you in college, we saw you doing your thing.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna bring you in and basically give you a
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  Speaker 3: try out, give you a trial run, and see if
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  Speaker 3: you're good enough to make the cut, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: you kind of go from there.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get your deal with the Lions. How
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  Speaker 1: was that whole experience, in that whole transition, It was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing. So my time with the Lions, man, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was real, like, uh, it was. It was everything I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to want it to be. Just to kind of
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  Speaker 3: get my broccoli going out, I'm going to add just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of water, just a little bit just
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, just a little bit, man, I eat
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  Speaker 3: this for real?
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  Speaker 1: Oh you have to eat it? I mean you don't
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  Speaker 1: got to eat the whole Wait.
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  Speaker 2: Cool, I was just trying to sell that ship.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying not to judge this broccoli book cooking.
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, hey, we're finna make it work. We broke
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  Speaker 2: and I'm in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, you were saying, what was your question again, Let's
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  Speaker 3: get back to the interview.
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  Speaker 1: So you were sharing your experience with the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 3: Detroit my second home, my second home. Fortunate to be
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  Speaker 3: around a fan base such as Detroit that actually loved
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  Speaker 3: their fans. I was actually a part of that Owen
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  Speaker 3: sixteen team, own sixteen team that didn't win a game
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  Speaker 3: all year. But I can say that the fans were
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  Speaker 3: still there. They sold out every home game despite not
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  Speaker 3: winning the game. So that was a different experience.
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  Speaker 2: Oh not for sure.
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  Speaker 3: So Red Wings, Pistons, the Lions, who else and.
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  Speaker 2: Even the Tigers.
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  Speaker 3: Co America Park is one of my favorite baseball parks
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  Speaker 3: of all time. Shout out to Detroit. They showed a
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  Speaker 3: lot of love.
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  Speaker 1: So transitioning away from NFL, what did that look like?
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  Speaker 1: Was that tough? On you.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hell yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Every athlete to tell you, I don't give a damn
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  Speaker 3: how successful their You can go from Shaq to the
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  Speaker 3: guys you forgot about who are high school standouts.
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  Speaker 2: That's transition.
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  Speaker 3: It can be really tough because you go from doing
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  Speaker 3: and putting all of your effort into one thing, and
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  Speaker 3: for some people that's twenty thirty years and then you
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  Speaker 3: have to move and transcend into something else. And you
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  Speaker 3: want to be just as successful as you were in
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  Speaker 3: whatever fields you were in to whatever you're going to
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  Speaker 3: transfer to. A lot of people don't deal with that will.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't deal with that will initially, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: The finance is like going into that and then coming
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  Speaker 1: out money.
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  Speaker 2: To a degree.
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  Speaker 3: To a degree, one of the smartest decisions I made
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  Speaker 3: on my NFL check. They give you the option to
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  Speaker 3: put something away for your four oh one K or
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  Speaker 3: your second career savings. I checked that box. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know what I was doing at the time. I just
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  Speaker 3: had an inclination of.
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  Speaker 2: Down the road. Yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: One of the smartest decisions I've ever made as a
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  Speaker 3: grown man or as a man. Just to make sure
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  Speaker 3: I checked that off. And just have something safe for later.
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  Speaker 2: If okay, we stimmering a little bit, don't worry about that, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: That shit gonna come back in.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna come back.
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  Speaker 3: She's gonna come back in. And my stove leaning too.
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  Speaker 3: So they're kind of killing me right now. But it's
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 2: We broke. We're gonna make an appum. I was right
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  Speaker 2: back in there.
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  Speaker 1: When you're coming out of the NFL, Yeah, what is
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  Speaker 1: your first play as in your what's your second career path?
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  Speaker 1: How long does it take you to transition to that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: I tried my best to get away from the sport
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  Speaker 3: because you know, as an athlete you get kind of entitled.
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  Speaker 3: So I felt like I was old a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more than what I got, a longer career, more steining bonus,
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  Speaker 3: more money, and if you don't know, my career was
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  Speaker 3: kind of derailed by injuries. I never got hurt before
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  Speaker 3: in my life until I got to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Choid here, choad there, and then tore my ACL.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, oh, man, like I'm supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: I did the right thing. I didn't get locked up
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  Speaker 3: for this. I didn't get you know, blasted for that.
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of like in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: road of just making sure I was handling my business
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  Speaker 3: responsibly and I didn't do that bad on the field
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  Speaker 3: to where I shouldn't be compensated to some degree or
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  Speaker 3: at least a little bit more.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: But shit happens.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Is this when you start transitioning towards fitness and.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah again. So once I got to that point
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: to where I was like, I'm not trying to do
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: anything football related, I had to have that hard conversation
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: because I was working in a plant in Michigan. I
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: was actually working at Chrysler, working at christ and then
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: I actually God sent me a message through somebody named Reggie.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: It was an older man named Reggie.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: He was working inside the plant and he was the
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: only minority in this that's the vision of the plant.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: And I was like, man, how did I not talk
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: to him already? Why don't I know his name already?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Went up to him, Hey, man, how you doing? My
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: name is Reggie, what's yours?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Man? My name is Reginald. I was like, all right, cool,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: that's awesome. Rachie. Where you from.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: I'm from Georgia and we in Detroit at this time.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I'm like, wait a minute, all right, cool, And not
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: to Disreggie anything like that. Reggie Tief is fucked up, man,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about it's about four five teeth at the bottom,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: maybe two or three at the top.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: But he making good money.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Becuz he thirty years in in a Christler, you know
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So it's not like Reggie hurting or
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: anything like that. But I said, Reggie, how'd you end
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: up in Michigan?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: My wife is from Detroit.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: We started having babies and then she wanted to come
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: up here to get more support from my family. So
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I sold the house in Georgia and I've been up
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: here ever since. I immediately got on the phone with my
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: partner down at the gym, I said, in two weeks,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I will be backing Atlanta because I did not want
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: to be that rich. I did not want to have
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: four five teeth in my mouth. And I'm not saying again,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: a plant job is the age and yeah, I get
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: that that one for me.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: It's company.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: You like, it was bad, so.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: You come back and then you come back and what's
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the first thing you start to do?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm not up and leave right. Not really, it
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: was already the gym had already started.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I was still dabbling with fitness and everything with my friends.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: The only reason why I went to Michigan is because
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: my son was born in Beaumont. So it was like you, yep,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: so I had kids from my wife who was from Michigan,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: from Detroit. It was literally a mirror image of all right,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: here were you going to be in thirty years if
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: you don't change it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: And again, I'm not knocking Reggie.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying Reggie's not having a successful life, but
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: it wasn't for this, Regie.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you think that was like a God. You thought
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that was like a higher.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Oh no, that was Godkay, no question, that was God.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: So you packed up your whole family.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: No, So we're gonna crack this up, Get these noodles,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: going might put a little warm water on this thing,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: the kind of similar it down. Yeah, cooking while I
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: broke here with my girl.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: M hm, this Sh'S gonna be so good. Watch.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my first time ever seeing wrong and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: cook like this.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: All right, cool, don't worry about it. It's gonna be
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: the first time and you ain't gonna forget it. Yeah, yeah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Now again.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I think you still have a cooking show.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Look, this is where you're supposed to have your oriental
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: or your beef seasoning. Because we got ground beef in here, right,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: somebody messed up. They ate all the oriental, they put
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: two or three orientals, and they orders and noodles being.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Selfish, and we were just left with the chicken.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: You know how it go when you broke, you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: you add that extra season and the sposed to anyway,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: you know, we're gonna deal with the punches and we're
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: gonna roll with it to add a little bit of
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: chicken on them.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Now, are you gonna empty out that whole packet? That's
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of salt. You're right, you right, it's doing
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: one packet, right, good?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Just one.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Now we're finna talk and do this interview and let
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: this thing simmer down and hopefully it do what it's
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: supposed to do.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I think about it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Hold on, just okay, you know what it is is
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the cooking meals. I told you I'm trying to help
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you out just in case. No no no, no, no no
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: no no no no. I'm gonna trust you, all.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Right, cool, don't trust me, not with this ship.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But I think you probably need a little bit more water,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: just a little bit, right, cool if you want the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: noodles to cook.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: All right, yeah, I think, oh yeah, okay, cool.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: It looks familiar.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: No where were we?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: So you're so, what do you pack up your family
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and leave our You.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Just man not to disclose too much, but I had
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: to get the hell on.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Oh no, we did.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: We did. We packed up. Maybe two weeks after that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I packed a car and we literally moved down My
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: family and I went to a small apartment right off
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: of Prior Rope.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: But I ain't gonna lie to you. I was working
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: my ass off.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Well, my wife did not want me not to do
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: anything without health insurance. So I was actually fixing U
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: haul trucks off a Keller road shot one seventy four,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: So the U haul trucks that you used to move.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I was changing the brakes, doing tune ups, changing or
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: changing the differential fluid and everything like that. A lot
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: of that stuff I learned on the job, but a
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: lot of stuff I already knew.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, So to get this all and you're handling
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the transition from being athlete through all these jobs pretty well.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: No part of your ego is like battling a great please.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, hell yeah again. Mentally it's tough, you know
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: what I mean.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: And you take a guy like me like I was
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: a starting quarterback for ten years here in the city,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: from middle school to high school to college, and everybody
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: could recognize my face at the time.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Everybody knew my name at the time.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Not only that, my brothers established a reputation for themselves
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: So it was humbling, to say the least.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: How did you get through those times?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Shit, I don't know, I don't know. Did you people
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: around me? Sound people around me?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: My wife did a decent job, you know what I mean,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and making sure that I was, you know, at least pushing.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: My kids were my biggest motivation, okay, you know what
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, My dad, my parents around and everything like that.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: So sound people around just gonna help everything. Yeah, that's
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: gonna come together real good. This shit ain't cooking for nothing,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: but it's coming together.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: So you're working these jobs, at what point do you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: take it to. I'm just gonna go all in in,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent, focus on what I'm passionate.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: We're doing good? Are we doing good? So it was
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: a point in my life to where I was in Michigan.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Remember I had that conversation with Reggie, right, so I
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: had soon after that conversation and the interaction I had
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: with Reggie, I had a hard conversation with myself in
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: the mirror. And I literally this might be one of
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: three times where I actually looked in the mirror and
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: looked in my eyes like, man, what the fuck are
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: you gonna do? And I did. I was like some stuff.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I was reading audiobooks and everything like that. And I'll
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: never forget this one line in the Compound Effect. Pick
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: it up if you haven't already, It said open your hands,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Open your hands, look at your hands. Everything in your
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: hands right now are the tools that you need to
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: live in abundance.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And that was in the Compound Effects.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Where to God?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: And what's your name? Who you're from? Your parents matter,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: what do they do? What are they good at? And
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I said, I've been telling my dad years ago. He's
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: been doing this for about forty years now as far
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: as strength and conditioning, NFL, Olympic track athletes, NBA, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: my dad should.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Have been a millionaire a long time ago.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Ironically enough, that's another Reggie I have the same name
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: as my dad, so I'm like, man, get your ass
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: in the gym. And ever since that day it's been
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: full fledged trainer, entrepreneur, and health influencer.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: And even going into that though, you go full fledged,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you don't just jump off the cliff. You transition out.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: At what point, right, did you just jump off the cliff?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I jumped off the cliff.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: What about like security and the health insurance that your
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: wife wanted.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Well, if you want to talk about that, Well, no,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I didn't because I was going to the gym at
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: four in the morning, and then I would go clock
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: in and you haul at seven, and then I'll clock
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: off at U haul around three thirty four, and I'll
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: go right back to the gym, get home around nine.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And you're going to the gym to train yourself or
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to start training.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, we're training. Other people were running classes. That's I
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: was at Effect Fitness. Me and my partner were still
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: oh getting that together. I know I ain't doing this right,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: but this shit coming out coming?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: How do you figure you're not doing it?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I guess so I'm listening. We'll go ahead. I'm sorry.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: So, did you use any of the money from sports
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to fund your pursuit of effect very little, if.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Any, now that I think about it, I mean small
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: pieces of equipment, you know what I mean. I have
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a wonderful partner, Kra Glucis better known as Duley.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: He's the founder.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I came in maybe a few months after he founded
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: it because we were kind of on steparate paths doing this. Bob,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: come by, see what I got. And ever since that
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: day we've been gone. But no NFL money needed for that.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: It was just hard work. We turned to four hundred
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: and fifty square foot garage into a gym, glued the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: mirrors on the wall, painted the wall, took the pool,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: a pool table out, took the couch out, cut up
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: literally with knives, just like this. That was planning WHILEE broke.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: They put in the rubber floors inside the gym or
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: inside the garage, and we went crazy. Played the music
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: from the iPod doc at the time and took off.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: And then your marketing and branding it And is anyone
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in your camp or second guessing you?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Hell yeah?
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And what did you do to tune out that noise?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Believe man, my brothers laughed at me. My friend, well
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: brother laughed at me.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Fast forward to.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: This motherfucker doing the exact same thing almost at his
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: own gym. You know what I'm saying, I swear, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: shout out to those guys were doing what they do.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: My friends laughed at me.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: My friends told us we were have Martin episode when
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: they were doing the aerobics. You know what I'm saying,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: And that's Jay still run that joke to this day
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: about how we get down with the effect fitness. But
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: now I never forget how about how many people actually
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: laughed at us.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: I never forget that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how long in did it take for you to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: go full time?
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: It was a Thanksgiving and it might have been a
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: year at you Hall, maybe a year and a half,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: but it was a Thanksgiving. And of course you know
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: when you broke, you're doing.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: The numbers eight hours, nine hours.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Man, if I do overtime, I'm gonna get this if
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I do this right here, And I was like, if
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: I do overtime every day, damn day, I still don't
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: want I'm not gonna get what I want to get.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, better on yourself. And it
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: was one of those I guess moments to where you
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: had to have that realization or that real conversation with
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: yourself like hey man, you're finish, go all in, or
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: you're gonna straddle the line and keep getting mediocre results.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: You can't straddle the line and be successful. It's really
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: that simpful. You gotta put ten toes down and grind.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: It was around Thanksgiving and I think we had like
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: a dinner something at the at the shop. I looked around.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I said, man, I ain't coming back. I looked around,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: and you know, you get the get like the three
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: four days off of that Thanksgiving break something like that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I swear to God to you, I'm not lying. I
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: looked around.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I looked at those people and no offense than nobody
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: that was at that shop.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't my crowd. I said. After that, I said,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: this thing, this is my break.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I feel like when you were with these these people
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: you're working with, I'm disgusted.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I tried to be nice, but you're poking.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's hilarious. And now I'm just curious those people
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: when you're in those settings and they're pro worked thirty
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: million years counter hours and you're the entrepreneurs. Spirit are
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: they looking at you? Probably disgusted? You think too.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You know, It's crazy.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: First couple of weeks there, nobody believed I was be
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Reggie Ball quote unquote that was throwing the Alvin Johnson
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: that just got out the league and everything like that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: So they were kind of I don't want to say,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: in awe what they were in awe. Okay, But the
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: crazy thing about the majority of the people in our culture,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: the more you familiar, are familiar you are with the person,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: the more disrespectful.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I believe that, I believe that you know what I'm saying.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: So that feeling of oh, this is Reggie, it quickly
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: wore off, you know what I mean, just because hey man,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I'm cool, I'm gonna do this work just like you.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I'm a level with you. I'm not finna talk to
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: you from a place of here. I'm a level with you.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: And sometimes that humility can bite.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You in the ass. And that was just one of
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: those environments.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you had to give someone advice based on
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: everything that you've learned, what were do you think where
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the three things that took you to where you are today?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Three things that took me where I am to Let's
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: see hard work for shure. I know that's there to
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: be different type shit. Everybody knows that.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Got to put your head down, you gotta believe, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: you got to put yourself first. So hard work puts
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: yourself first for sure. I don't care what you do.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: I know we all have spouses, we all have kids
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: and everything like that, but there's no way you can
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: provide take care of anybody else if you're not good.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: So if you don't put you as number one, you're
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: fucking up.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Third thing, consistent when you don't want to do it,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: those are probably the most vital days to.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Be doing it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: When you don't want to do it, Those are probably
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: the most rewarding days when you actually go in and
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: get something done. And it's just consistency builds so much
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: trust and people on the outside looking in. So yeah,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: those those three things, hard work, putting yourself first in
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: consistency for sure.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: When it comes to putting yourself first, kit, what does
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that look like in true reality? And that's also a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: difficult thing to do. What advice would you give to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: someone that's struggling in that area.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I always allude to trying to lend a helping hand
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: when you have no fingers. You feel what I'm saying like,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: how can I help somebody? And if I'm not good
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: and I got to close fist, you know what I'm saying, Yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I can reach out. There's a chance that you can,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, latch on to some degree.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: But I'm so much more useful if I can use
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: all my extremities to the full extent of.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: What I can do or how I'm supposed to. You
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: feel what I'm saying.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: So putting yourself first just makes you more powerful. It
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: makes you more of a resource to anybody else around you.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And I know it can be uncomfortable, and I know
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: it's frowned upon, because hell, you got survivor's remorse to
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: some degree when you put yourself first.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: But fuck that.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Man responsibility and come on, man, you understand like even
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: as a father, you can say I think women struggle
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a lot in this area, but those for instance, like
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: a kid is less they can't help themselves. Right, So
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you're battling between putting the kid first and putting yourself first.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: And it makes sense what you're doing. But I'm saying,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: an actuality, how do you apply it? Let's serve up
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: this food. It looks still really yes.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: You won'ta taste it for real. Yeah, that's true.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: So you're eating it too, I'm gonna make sure you
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: take the first bite.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I ain't afraid of that.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Oh you know what, I will eat it up.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: We don't have no diddy, no diddy, but anyway.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, serve it up. Just so you know. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: don't really eat red meat, so I'm gonna no, I
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna force you to do that, baby.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: By sure, it's okay, all right, we're looking at right.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: It looks we came together with a little thumb.
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  Speaker 1: It looks really good.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Right, because you don't eat too much red meat, I'm
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: gonna throw some on your plate.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Don't forget the practical girl.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: When was the last time you made this as in
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the as after your mom? Obviously you uber eats it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Hey, this is a cooking debut on your show, so
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: shout out to y'all. Cooking wild broke done got me
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: back in the apron and back in the broke. Yes, oh,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: eating white broke, I'm sorry. Eating wild broke has gotten
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: me back in the kitchen. Yes, it will be. If
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: we had some chopsticks in this thing, I'm telling you
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: we'll be all the way down there.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Take that young Lady's all right, listen, do that.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna get.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Your noodles, a little piece of broccoli.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Man, that chicken and me. I'm telling you, I can't
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: believe I need that ship.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: You should be proud of yourself. It's really delicate.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: I'm doing this tonight.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Your confidence is that?
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: How right?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: No?
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Just what you want to understand. I ain't have all
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: my ingredients.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: You're hilarious.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: The beef packet gonna throw it? Man, come on girl,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: it would have been better. This is chicken.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: This is good though.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Going for the second goad. Damn here, let's do it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I love the way you did it. And you didn't
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: overcook the noodles.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Girl.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'm just I don't just look like this. Come on, man,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: this is good.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I can't believe it. You got this ship.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I like to rate the dishes, but I will honestly
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: give this dish a certified nine. What it's good, isn't it?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: It is good.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be something, but I got a cookn't show
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: on the way.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something is good. This is really good.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You didn't everyone?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Feel free?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: We have plenty of plates.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Feel free if you think she bulls shouldn't get over
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: here and try to shit out.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: You don't want to try it.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: It is, hey, I swear.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: To God here I'm taking a third bite, and trust
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: me I'm not. I'm trying not to eat as much
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of the meat.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: No, it ain't like I did. It's ground beef.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: It's good.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: It's noodles and a little bit of broccoli and parsony.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I've had people mess up ramen on this show.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Hold on, take this plate, get that rid you go
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: for them.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, what are you laving? You don't think it's gonna
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: be good?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Dom, Just taste it.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Here's this boom again?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: We bro You know what I mean.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: It's good, Stacy, you gotta try it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Please, it's good.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Noodles are cooked well man. Yeah, I am thoroughly impressed.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: It is definitely a great job. I ain't gonna lie.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm probably going to do this at home. Lin, Yes,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: but with the appropriate chicken versus chicken ratio or shrimp whatever.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Ten out of ten. The way you cooked it was
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: impressive too. I've never seen someone cook Rahmin like that.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: So Grague, you should get your book.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Bagg I'm gonna tell you something you go.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, wait for real, you did great.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you for pushing me outside my limits and give
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: me in the kitchen.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: So where can every well where did the podcasting come
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: into play?
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Oh man, shout out.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: To my boy nav Green, the whole staff over here,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: over there, over here at eighty five ways. Nav actually
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: had me on as a guest. Nav is local. He
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: heard my name through the streets because he grew up
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: in the area, had me on the show, had a
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: great show.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Richie was good. I want to come back, but yeah.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, because I'm a huge I was a huge
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: fan of huge follow of Chico Carlos in DC, especially
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: during the pandemic, even a little bit before then. Kind
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: of because their studio at one point was on the
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: other side of the street from our gym Oh okay,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: so came back the second time.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: They was like, man, you were coast. I was like,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: hell yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: So it was like basically playing with house money. I
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: had no I did have intentions during the pandemic. We
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: had my partners and I had a meeting of the
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: mind in Vegas and I put down on one of
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: those paths, start podcasting.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, start recording. You know what? I mean, this
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: is in twenty twenty. So fast forward to.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Nav having me on I loved I love now man
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: and what he got going on. I think he's our
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: generational said the entertainer. And I'm not just saying that
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: because he's my homeboy. I really do see him blossoming
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: into a huge star. But yeah, that was it was
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: just house money. So we're doing that.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: What does that mean when you say house money you
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: can't lose.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I'm basically like, I know it's some gambling shit.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: I just shouldn't encourage that, you know what I'm saying.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Oh it's cool, cool.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm basically like, I had no plans to
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: do this, So everything else from this is a bonus.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: You feel what I'm saying.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: And then just backtracking, you said you and your friends
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: do the meeting of the Mind's thing.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, every year we do a brainstorm meeting. We go
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: somewhere someone like Denver, out and about to where we're
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: not necessarily familiar. When we went to Vegas a year,
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: that was my first time in Vegas and I'm glad
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: we went during the pandemic because everything was shut down
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: and they said, Reggie, this is never like this. You
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: can walk the streets and not bump into anybody. The
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: only bad thing is that you had to have the
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: mask on inside the casinos.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: But excuse than saying that. Annually you guys do a
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: meeting of the minds. It's just a group of guys
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: that get together and they say, write down their goals
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: for the year. What does that look like?
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: This is this is my gym partners, this is me
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Yon Dooley Zaan going off and basically planning out the year.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: So yeah, we write those goals out, We write out
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: those ones, and we plan out I told you about
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: the tours that we do, you know what I mean.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: We plan out what tour, what city we need to
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: go to, and we kind of just brainstorm. Of course
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: everything doesn't necessarily go to plan, but you know, having
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: a plan helps everything so much figure out fi so
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: much easier.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Why did you think that throwing podcasting in the hat?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: How did you think that was going to affect the gym?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: What's the way?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: It's the way of the world, and what the pandemic did?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: It made us transition over into the social platform. When
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty hit they shut all the gems down. We
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: stayed moving because we had an instructor teach the class
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: while maybe anywhere from six to eight trainers performed the classes,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: and we broadcasted that on Facebook and ig for free
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: for six months.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Had Missy Elliott tap in, we had Tyler Perry tap in.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: We had a lot of people actually catch and catch
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: on to the way of what we were doing and
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: how we were keeping people moving and motivated and even
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: entertained to some degree during the pandemic for free for free.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And then at some point you guys decided to charge.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: They pushed us to create the app. We were slow
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: footing with that. It made us take advantage of the
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: opportunity of just transitioning onto again the more social platforms.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: So that's when the notion of podcasting came into play,
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: because that's just natural.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Once you get your own platforms and everything like this.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: You want to spread your word, have your sit downs
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: and your interviews for certain people and show, you know,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: just another facet of the game and yourself.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: I like that. So can you tell all the listeners
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and everyone who may or may not are aware of
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: you about the tours?
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so affect fitness. We travel pretty much three or
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: four times a year. This year we have Houston, Dominican Republic,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: New Orleans, and I think Miami is on the list.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: But we've done La, We've done New York, We've done Chicago.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: But our boot camp class is known all around the world.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Now. We have so many guys that are.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Imitating this thing right now, which is cool because it
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: helps us with the marketing. So when you see the
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: original in town, it draws a big crowd. But yeah,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: we don't just do it inside the gym. We don't
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: just do it on the app. If you don't have
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: the effect fitness app get it now. We take it
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: to the cities that want us here.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: And so what happens on the tours is how long
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: is it?
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: What a weekend? Ok Now?
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Typically yes, So the typical tour a weekend. We get
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: there Friday, have an intro kind of reception. Saturday, we
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: have a market setup to where all type of individual
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: individual entrepreneurs get to set up a table because we
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: do a market Saturday. Every every Saturday, we do the
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: exact same thing on the road. So if you're an
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: entrepreneur you want to introduce your product, anything like that,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: as long as you register in time, we let you
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: set up shopping whatever hotel that we're in.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: We do the class on Saturday.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: We always do some type of gathering a party on
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Saturday night, and then you know, everybody kind of disperses
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: on Sunday.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's a good deal.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Where can everyone's happen to keep up with the tours?
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Effect fitness and that's effectfitness dot com on ig that's
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Effect Fitness.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: We have a Facebook. Just google Effect Fitness. It's not
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: f F e c T, that's it e F F
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: e c T fitness Fitness.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for cooking for me and taking
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: time out of your hectic schedule to share your story
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: sports up.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you for getting me back in the kitchen.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, sick. Great. Peace out y'all.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Man, that ship was good.