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#84 | Pete Treviño (Big Bertha BBQ Pit) · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_02: What's going on, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's UCLadio Nundis here, back at it again, Corpus Christi Originals Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh today we've got a special guest, Pete Trevinho, a man dedicated to helping others through boxing and barbecue and Big Bertha.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pete, thanks for joining us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey man, appreciate you for having me again, man.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks a lot.
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  SPEAKER_02: You want you want to introduce yourself a little bit further?
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know, Pete Trevinho.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um been here in Corpus for a long time, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: I moved here in 95.
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  SPEAKER_00: Started my family here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um you know just doing you know, doing dad stuff here in Corpus, you know what I mean?
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Stuff like that.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm originally from Houston, you know, came down here and uh you know just made corpus my second home.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right on, right on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, so um uh we'll be talking about your journey, uh your passions to uh to give back lessons you've learned along the way.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh if anybody's watching on the live stream, drop a question in the chat.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh we'll be taking uh some uh taking some questions throughout the episode if you have any questions.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh let's just so let's see what else.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh so where where so you said you grew up in Houston?
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  SPEAKER_02: What was life like as a kid for you?
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  SPEAKER_00: It was you know, Houston's a very fast city, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like so, you know, yeah, it was and then growing up, you know, in the you know, in the early 90s, yeah.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there, you know, it was it was it was tough.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it was tough, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um like I said, you know, everything over there and you know, they called it the city of no pity, you know what I mean?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's uh you know, it's it's got it's got its good, it's bad, and it's ugly, you know what I mean.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: There, so you know, when uh my dad, you know, everybody you know, my family decided to come down here, you know what I mean?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: We just said I came down here in 95 and he left.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, wow, wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: You you're was your dad in the refinery business?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: Is that how we came over?
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  SPEAKER_00: My dad, you know, for for 35 years was a commercial and industrial uh uh AC mechanic.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: Oh so you know, you know, all the the venting in AC compressors and all that stuff, he would install that and just he did that for over 30 years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hey, nice.
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  SPEAKER_02: So um did you have any any like role models growing up that influenced your path?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my mom, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, my mom, she uh I said she was a special needs teacher, you know, so she was always you know, always giving back, you know what I mean?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um, you know, people always looked up to her and always went to her for things because you know, you know, the the most good moms, man, you know what I mean, they're built different back then, you know what I mean?
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: They they you know, they love, they when they love, they really love, and you know, and and you don't have to be a direct son or a direct daughter with the same blood, you know what I mean.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: They just when they love you, they love you, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And my mom was always known for just helping people and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I've seen that growing up.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm the oldest son, so I I got to see everything firsthand, you know, and um and my dad too, you know what I mean, you know, you know, my dad was with that that that old school knucklehead dad, you know what I mean, you know, that uh he was tough on us, you know what I mean?
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, and I I took everything with a solder grain and you know I mean just learned from everything from him and I still use everything that I learned from him to to this day, you know.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: I lost my dad in 2010.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you know, so wow.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you learned so you learned a lot from your dad.
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  SPEAKER_02: That man, I think that's very important, and I talk about that often.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's for having a father in the household, you know?
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  SPEAKER_00: That that's that's that's crucial, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's where even as you know, um, you know, Hispanics, Mexicans, Latinos, you know what I mean, you know, you know, we go back and look at our how our grandparents were, you know what I mean, and having their, you know, our parents see that they had their dad in their lives, you know what I mean, you know, just help them be the way they were when it came time for them having kids, and you know, we're a product of them, you know what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you know, we've got to keep this cycle of, you know, you know, you know, keeping, you know, our dads in our lives, you know what I mean, dads keeping their kids in lives because it's very important, you know what I mean?
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's I always said this, and some people disagree, some people don't, but I've always said, you know what I mean, you know, a woman can't raise a man and a man can't raise a daughter in the sense of understanding what it's gonna take to be a woman when you grow up.
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  SPEAKER_03: Right, right, right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, a mom teaching a uh you know, a young man how to be a man, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's there's roles for that reason.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, unfortunately, there's just a lot of you know, homes that don't have that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's it's hard and it puts a lot of stress on, you know, you know, the single dads, the single moms, you know what I mean, trying to do it when you know dads walk out on their lives or the mom walks out on their lives, you know, and you're trying to play both parts, it's it's tough.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's tough, yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I know this when I'm teaching my kids, like I I I noticed things that my dad used to teach me, I'm teaching my kids.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_02: And of course, growing up, you're like you don't understand what's going on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is it until you're in their shoes and you're like, man, I realize why they told me that, you know.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so my dad used to always tell us, like, you know what I mean, you think I'm being hard on you, so you'll thank me later.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, uh up up until up until he took his last breath.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: That was one of the things I whispered into his ear and was just told him it's like, you know, I'm gonna continue, you know, doing what you taught me to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, he was, you know, he was real like he was old school.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was he was an old school man, so he he believed, you know, young boys are treated this way to be built this way.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we there was five boys, you know, I'm the oldest, so it was you know, to have five boys in the house, you know what I mean, with just a mom, you know what I mean.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was that was tough on my mom, you know what I mean, having five boys, you know what I mean.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: I I I think different cultures have a way of raising either boys or girls, you know.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: I guess and I I don't I guess in like Hispanic, it's more like you you you gotta grow up to be tough, right?
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_02: I guess you could say that's the way boys are raised, and girls are you can't do this.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_00: Not crying, just yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like and you grow up like that, and then like for I don't know, me for me personally, like I noticed that I it got to a point where I wouldn't be able to voice my my feelings or my thoughts, you know what I mean?
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_02: So but and that's important very later on you're like I need to just do start saying how I feel, especially if I'm married or if you know to my kids to let them know what's going on.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, communication is mostly the thing is I I learned that these maybe past ten years, man, about opening up, you know what I mean, you know, because I said I I grew up never to expose that, you know, that side, you know, you're you're gonna be a young man, you're supposed to be tough, you're supposed to be this, you know, nobody's ever supposed to see you cry and this, this, this, and that, you know, and you know, that was as I got older, it was something I didn't dis like I I didn't agree with, you know, holding that in, you know what I mean?
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's it's it's not healthy, you know what I mean?
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and now you know what I mean.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've I've grown past trying to be keep that shield of like, oh no, you know what I mean, you know, this hardness of yeah, you know, oh I can't let nobody see me cry.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: I can't remember if me and you were talking right now, we got emotional bro, I cry with you right now.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_02: Was there like a certain was there like something that happened for you to like realize like, oh shoot, maybe I should start sharing this information?
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: When I started losing the people that I love.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I lost my mom in 2005.
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  SPEAKER_00: Five years later, I lost my dad.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, lost numerous aunts and uncles, cousins, you know, um, you know, and you know, and just really good friends over, you know what I mean?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like I mean holding on to being a certain way, just to for people to feel a certain way about you, that's it just to me wasn't worth it anymore, you know what I mean?
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, you know, I felt I've I've I've I've got past that, you know what I mean?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, and it's helped to right now, ever since I've just changed that mind of thinking, you know what I mean I I I felt that I've been you know a better dad towards my kids, my kids see me different, you know, they're like, you know, like dad, you know what I mean?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: And it all it all you know comes with even with what I'm doing right now with just doing community work, like you know, my my kids have seen like a big change in you know my attitude as far as you know how to love them and you know being there for them more, and you know what I mean, stuff like that.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it it's it's been a journey for sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man, definitely.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's awesome, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: So uh you grew up in Houston.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um let's see, so uh so we're uh moving on.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: We're talking about we're talking about you have a boxing gym at the Y?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep, yeah, that's it's at the YMCA.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're I think we're coming up on a year there already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I said that that started with just we went in there to go talk to them about maybe possibly sponsoring some of the young kids.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, because you know YMCA has been around for a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sponsoring some of the young kids, like what like helping them with uh like um like when we would go to competitions, you uh, you know what I mean, you know, uh helping them with like the road trips and you know what I mean, maybe even sponsoring them with like uh gear, you know, their own uh boxing gloves.
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  SPEAKER_02: So the Y already had like a boxing okay, okay.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: No, so uh they didn't.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we knew that YMCA is uh about kids, you know, it's been like that for 85 years or longer, you know what I mean?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: So um we, you know, me and my partner just decided, man, let's go talk to them and see maybe if they uh um you know would be interested.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um we had tried to go to the boys and girls club first, but yeah, they they shut us down to me.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, oh no, you know, boxing's violent.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, these kids they already live in the ghetto, and you know, and I'm like, that's not what we're here to teach.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Oh wow.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_00: So we went to the Y, sat down with uh Ms.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: Gwynn, she was the entrance CEO at the time.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um she gave us the floor.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: She said, Well, you know, it's just like when you go to a bank, you want to get a business loan, right?
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_00: They want to hear what you have to offer before they're gonna loan you any type of money.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: So she's like, okay, she goes, what kind of presentation do you have?
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, we we sat there for like three hours just talking about our goals, what we what we were trying to get, what we're trying to do with these kids, how we're trying to be impactful for them, you know what I mean?
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Because where the Y is right now, I mean, that's pretty bad neighborhood too.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, uh she loved it, and then she she's like, Well, instead of us us the sponsors, what do you think about opening up inside here?
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: And we're like, whoa, that, you know, we were sitting there like, okay, well, this just took a turn.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you know what I mean?
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: She loved it.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: She she backed us up, um, gave us a section of the oven there, man, and it was it was game over.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: We started we started putting the ring in there, started putting punching bags, speed bags, jump rope, you know what I mean, and then we just started getting kids signing up, and it's it's it's been good.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, had you been into boxing before all this?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well when when I was younger, you know what I mean.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_00: My dad had put me in.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_00: I got matter of fact, just yesterday, um, I was going through some old pictures, and you know, uh, you know, when my dad was training me, you know what I mean.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my dad was my coach for a while.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, he was like, if you know, if you're gonna get in, you're gonna be fighting out there, you know, in the streets, you might as well try to make some money out of it, you know what I mean.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: So he he he he got me into you, you know, you know, fighting and boxing and stuff like that.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: And then I, you know, when I moved here in '95, I tried to carry that on when I signed up at Baltazar Gym right there on 19th year.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: 95, I was I was there for you know about a year.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then I had my first kid.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so I was trying at 17, you know what I mean?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to be a dad, a boxer, a provider, a husband at the time, you know what I mean?
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Because, you know, I was with, you know, you know, with the with with my my she was my first wife for you know eight years, and we had three kids together.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, man, you know what I mean?
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: I was 17 years old, you know what I mean?
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the uh the the the the minimum wage at that time was 425.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: So trying to be, you know what I'm saying, trying to try to try to work and then be trying to train, it was it was too much.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: I know there's a lot of people that make that happen, you know.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but my goal was to try to be, you know, professional and get into it, you know, and you know, then uh I turned 18, I got into the oil and gas business, and I've been here ever since.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: So when you got into that, you you figured like I gotta figure out how to take care of these kids.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, you know what I mean.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: You grow up fast, and it seems like it.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and and that's that's what that's another thing that my dad, you know, taught me was just like if you if you're gonna go against the grain, just know that there's repercussions for everything, you know what I mean?
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, when when when I had when I told him that my you know I was I was gonna be a dad, he was like, Are you ready for it?
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh I was like, Well, I don't think I have a choice, you know what I'm saying?
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I have a choice, you know, and he was just like, well, just remember, he says that that's your kid, not mine.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh he says, you you know what I mean, and you know, and you and that just goes back to my work ethic of what I learned from him to provide, you know what I mean.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: So like I said, I was 17, you know what I mean?
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'll I understood the responsibility, and you know, you know, I I I didn't want to be that system where like, oh, you know, a young kid just disappears and leaves a kid out there, you know what I mean?
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't like that, you know what I mean?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then I ended up having three two more houses.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: Your dad rose raised you like that?
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: He was my dad.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: You gotta take responsibility.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: He he my dad always said, he says, a man that doesn't take care of his kids is not a man.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it's it's it was just something that was embedded in us, you know what I mean?
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, me being the oldest, you know, he he put the burden of responsibility high for me so that my brothers coming up understood, you know what I mean, the assignment as well.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I it was it was tough growing up in the early 90s, man.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: As a teenager, you know what I mean?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like it was it was it was hard, you know what I mean?
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: Especially, you know, with my dad, you know what I mean, you know, he was my dad was never in the military, but he he he ran a strip program.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, he he had expectations and we were we were we were to live by it, not let act by it, live by it, you know.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: So my dad was at one if you know you know on the weekends we weren't allowed to sit in the house.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Remember my dad used to just kick us out.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, hey, you don't belong in the house, only women belong in the house.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, take your tail outside and go act like a kid, but when that that that street light comes on, you better be coming home.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so I mean we understood the assignment, you know, dad wasn't playing no games, so all that stuff just transpired into me to be, you know what I mean, to take responsibility.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, my dad was all about accountability, like he, you know, I mean, you do something, don't know there's a consequence, you may not like the consequence, but there's the consequences behind, you know.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So it was, you know, a lot of that that I you know, I still use all those terminologies that he taught me.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I've you know, I'm 46 years old now, you know what I mean?
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I I use it to this day.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, shout out to Pops, man.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: Reminds me of my dad.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, see more doors in the house, baby.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: And we just got to keep, you know what I mean?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: We gotta keep our legacy, you know, you know, our bloodline, you know, uh uh you know, strong, you know what I mean, and our values, you know what I mean, our moral values of of family, you know what I mean, you know, and so I tried to I passed that on, and I got five daughters, so it was you know what I mean.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: It was a little difficult for me to try to be folks, five daughters?
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I got five, you know what I mean.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: So it was it was hard for me to try to be the tough guy like you would a son, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: Try to be like that with f five girls.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you know what I mean?
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: So it was just like man, you know.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: No, so yeah, so you know, I mean I had to do a little adjusting, but you know what I mean.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: My daughters too, yeah.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know Did you have sisters?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: I got so I got two sets of families, right?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, you know what I mean.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I got a total of 13 brothers and three sisters, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: So we you know we come from a big family.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, okay, okay.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_02: So um yeah, I'm saying because uh I I grew up with all brothers with no sisters, like I really didn't kind of learn how to uh well I mean my mom for my mother that raised me, uh yeah, shout out to Jackie Hernandez, yeah.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but but like and uh having sisters and then growing up a daughter is like oh you start figuring out how girls are in the household, you know what I mean, or even just living getting married and living with your wife.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: That's that's a game changer.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: So so let's put this.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: I had six in the house then.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: Oh you know, that that it was tough being the only you know male in the house, you know what I mean?
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, that's six different mood swings, you know what I mean.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that are you proud of your kids now?
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_02: Huh?
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Are you proud of your absolutely every single one of them, man?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like my oldest is 28.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, I got my 25, I got two 21-year-olds, and I got a 10-year-old.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: So it was awesome.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it uh kids are a blessing, bro.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, they are, you know what I mean.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like I said, my oldest, um, but all I ever told my kids, man, because I said that I didn't graduate high school, man.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: I I made it to the eighth grade.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I never went to high school.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it's like to be in high school.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I didn't want to accept failure, right?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: So when I had my kids, I told my daughters like this, I was like, look, when you turn 18, there's not much I can do to tell you how to live your life because you're already an adult.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: All I want to be able to do is when people walk in my house, I want them to see diplomas hanging on my wall.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I want.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't go to college, that's fine.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: I said my responsibility is to create help create you and help you to pre-adulthood.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: After that is your choice.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, you walk into my house right now, man.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: I got I got four diplomas on the wall.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, two of my daughters are entrepreneurs.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um one has her nail salon that she's been doing.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she's doing wonderful things with that.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: My other daughter moved to Colorado, she's a beautician, she got a license to do that.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um I got a uh my my one of my 21-year-olds is going to school to be a traveling nurse dermatologist.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: And then my oldest, well, she just you know, she graduated and she's like dad, and she goes, I want to be a mom, I want to be a wife.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so so she got married.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, her and my son-in-law doing great things.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: They got they got you know, they got their own family, you know what I mean.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: I got six grandkids, you know what I mean.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: So man, it's a blessing.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you know, I mean, it's good.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: So uh uh we're talking about boxing, now we're going to uh barbecue.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh was barbecue was it a family thing, or did you pick it up later?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we always barbecued my my dad.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: It was not something in the beginning when I was younger that it was something that I that I enjoyed like doing.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but my dad, I mean, I watched my dad uncles, you know what I mean, do it.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it it it probably wasn't till about 20 years ago that I like I kind of just like, man, you know what I mean.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: Got into it.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, because I would see some of my friends, you know, they have their homes and they got a barbecue pit.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I mean, you know, I'm I'm I'm pretty good at learning something and taking off with it, you know what I mean?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, so you know what I mean, you know, I bought my first barbecue pit and you know burnt a lot of meat, you know what I mean?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: Because you know what I mean.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_02: The only way you it's like Texas culture, I think.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like oh yeah, for sure.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_02: You have a house and you gotta have a pit somewhere.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: The only way you you know, I've I I learned this.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: The only way you learn how to make good barbecue is by messing up barbecue, yeah.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: So that you learn what not to do.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Figure out how to make the fire, all that stuff.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: That creating creating and maintaining fire is the only key, right?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_00: And like, you know, we're creatures of habit, man.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: I know I've messed up a lot.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_00: I've messed up a lot.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you forget, you know, and and and now like you know what I mean.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: I I've I've built my way of science of it to where what works for Pete when I'm cooking anything, you know, when I'm doing fundraising, when I'm just doing private events, when I'm doing um, you know, just at the house, like, you know what I mean?
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: Everything, you know, there's a there's there's there's a a technique to it for me.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: Right, right, right.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, everybody's got their own, you know, and they'll tell you, hey Peter, how do you do this?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: I said, look, man, I'm not gonna tell you how my way is, but what I can tell you is that go go buy you a brisket.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I said, and if you don't want to learn it the hard way by messing up, they got YouTube stuff.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: You can get on, you know, I mean there's all kinds of stuff you can do now.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: You get on TikTok and they teach you how to make a brisket, but you can follow that and still mess up.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: I said, so you you gotta you gotta build your pathway for it, you know what I mean, so that you create, you know, your own legacy and you know, you know, in cooking.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I've taken, you know, from a lot of people that I follow and I've learned barbecue from, I've took little ideas from here, yeah, here, here, and created what works for me, because at the end of the day, like, you know, not one person can say they created how to make barbecue.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, everybody learned somehow and they, you know, they they twisted little things here when it comes to seasoning or maybe how they smoked, yeah, or how they set a fire, like you know, everything, you know.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, nobody ever does it the same.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: So now, like I said, now I mean I live and breathe barbecue, man.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_02: You just told me you did like a whole bunch, how many turkey legs?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Oh so yeah, so yesterday we did 500 turkey legs.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yesterday, wow um started cooking at you know 3:30 in the morning, you know what I mean?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Getting getting Big Bertha hot, you know, it takes a lot of wood to get hot.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: Is it easier?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: So I is it I guess it's easier to have like that box before the fire as opposed to having it under the grill.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: So having it under grill, that's you know, that's that's that's the term that they use, grilling.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're you're cooking over coals, you know, fireboxes smoking the meat, right?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Which is off to the side, right?
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know, some of them, you know, the pretty sure you've heard the the term, you know, offset smokers, you know, uh reverse smokers, you know, you know, stuff like that.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it it's you know, uh I I don't I'm more of a smoke guy, like I I like to smoke more than a smaller.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a debate right there.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's always a debate.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: There's always that some people, there's some people that can grill phenomenal.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I mean, I know some guys that can cook over cold ten times better than I can.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: But when it comes to smoking, you know what I mean?
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've I've I've mastered my way.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: And it's worked out because you know what I mean, you know, people come back and they're like, Hey Pete, can you cook for me?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, can you cook a brisket for me?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Can you cook some leg quarters?
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Can you cook tricky legs?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know, can you cook some pork butts?
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I mean it's it's worked out well, you know what I mean?
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: you know it and it's just like anything you do I mean even like in your podcasting right you know what I mean you're learning something new about a podcast that could help elevate your your your your way of how you do podcasts it's the same thing a barbecue like a craft or honing in your craft yeah you know what I'm saying or you you may have seen an idea from somebody on the other side of the country like man what if I implement that here you I mean you know what how would this response be of people well you got to try it in order to find out so that's how I look at it like you know when I started doing when when I had my barbecue store on here in Corpus you know everybody was like oh man you gotta go to San Antonio get a you know stuffed turkey leg you got to go to Houston you got to go here so my mentality was like what can I do to keep them people here instead of driving all the way four hours to go get a$30 you know turkey lake yeah yeah so what I did is that you know I figured out my way of understanding how I can make it not their way but my way that's still gonna be delicious and good yeah so I did you know what I mean and you know it was it it was good you know and you know creating sandwiches that's a good thing about a kitchen man it's it's all creativity it's you know I mean you know what can you do that's gonna make people come you know what I mean and and and of course in the food industry you have to be different man you can't be like everybody else so you have to veer off and like okay well what's gonna make my barbecue brisket sandwich better than you know Corpus Christi original's yeah yeah yeah barbecue sandwich you know shout outs to him but how can I make mine different right because then you know you get people that start hating on you like oh man you know he never used he he never used to cook before you know I had my business first now he's got it he stole my ideas yeah there's always a reason I always tell people all the time I said man look you didn't invent nothing you know I'm saying everybody took something from somebody yeah or you know years of watching somebody else do something and now you added your own brand yeah you know I mean so instead of being mad about it how are you gonna separate yourself from him I mean how are you gonna do your podcasting different than him or how are you gonna do your you know your construction business better than how are you gonna make these people like yeah I don't really like the way they're doing it but this guy over here man he's phenomenal I mean he just does things different you know I mean and it's the same thing and but the food world is so is so critical man is that consistency you have to be consistent and yeah I mean I bet you got to do that in everything in life you got to be consistent when you're you know trying to build something but you know when it comes to food and barbecue bro like you have to I mean the internet will tear you up if you if it was phenomenal on Monday and you messed up on Tuesday they're gonna let you know they're gonna let you know they're gonna be you know they're gonna be very vocal about it and then it's not like McDonald's right how many times do people complain about McDonald's they got they built a brand where they can they got a suggestion box of of complaints but that's a trillion dollar business you can complain all you want guess what they're still gonna make a trillion dollars I mean a small business can afford to be inconsistent and take negativity so you always you know walking on eggshells to make sure that it's almost like you have to love to do it right you have to like be into it.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah I mean if you know you you you you have to I know what I mean I I I learned some things along the way that's just that help me prepare you know because like I said you know the world is crazy man I mean they'll they'll crucify you over you know over the smallest thing when it comes to food you know and I know you've done a lot of interviews with people that that that have barbecue spots and food and stuff like that and you know I I'm pretty sure they've talked about it before man it's it's you know one one one mistake can just dissect you I mean and now the way we got access to all these social media platforms and I mean you get on there people talking about it next one next thing you know it's a trend of how bad you were you know what I mean and so it's just like you have to walk on the eggs all the time and buy them for the wrong reason yeah you know what I mean you know you buy you know it's just like oh man but like I said man it's a passion I love it I don't think I'll ever do anything else you know well so at what point did you realize you could use I guess the boxing and the barbecue to give give back or uh do community service or whatever you call it.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_00: So we so what we what we ended up doing is just we would always host uh boxing fundraisers right and I always tell people like this you know yes we have a fee right um but it was never it was never about trying to make money it was always what can we do for the kids that can't afford to come or can't afford to pay.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know because I'm never gonna I'm not gonna tell a kid that he can't he can't come in here and and train and learn and then he's gonna go do something bad in the streets.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you know what I mean I always me and my partner always just talked about like hey you know we're never gonna tell nobody that that can kid can't afford to be here.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna let him do whatever he needs to do I said let's just once a month let's do a fundraiser whatever money we raise put it back into the gym and the kids that can't afford we'll just keep paying for them.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: We'll get them their boxing gear we'll do all that and we talk with the parents we'll let them know like hey and we tell them you know not to talk to their to their kid of you know that they couldn't afford it they couldn't do that because you know some kids yeah they'll feel compassionate like well I don't want my mom to spend her last thirty dollars to for me to get so we always tell them like hey we don't we're not gonna tell them we don't want you to tell them just let them know that you know he's got a membership you know you bought him his gloves you bought him his mouthpiece you bought him his headgear all that stuff so and then we had some kids you know some kids that were competing that we would drive to you know Florida you know San Antonio Houston the Valley to go and compete train to go spar so we would just we we would get the community involved to to kind of basically help sponsor the kids you know saying and just and then you know some of them you know what I mean like said you know they they needed new gear I mean then that box of gear is not cheap yeah I mean even even what you think is the cheap when you're buying for 20 kids it's not cheap you know what I mean so right on right on man so so you had that that passion um there's anybody in the chat you guys want to leave a question uh go ahead and drop it down below if not just uh thanks for for staying in the uh for listening um so boxing as a tool for empower i i i mean you were talking earlier before air and you were saying I don't know if we mentioned it uh here but you were saying uh we want to teach them more than just fighting it's like uh yeah just just basic life skills saying just yeah you know you know talking to these young you know these young men of you know having a role in life not just you know being on video games and you know doing stuff like that I mean go outside and explore man you know I'm saying go outside get your knees dirty get your elbows scraped up you know what I mean go go go go enjoy life but not getting into boxing with with the understanding that you're gonna go beat people up yeah yeah yeah you know it because it any sport any type of sport that you're in all these ledges talk about one thing discipline I don't care if you're uh Mike Tyson you go on his podcast he always talks about discipline you know all these led you know Vander Holyfield you go on all their podcasts yeah and you hear them talk the first thing is that if you don't have discipline you're never gonna be great at it so we try to teach them that right off the bat like hey you know and if we fear that you're veering off from it we're gonna have a conversation about it and we're gonna get you back into understanding you know that you you know discipline here you're gonna have discipline the same discipline you have here you need to have at home you know what I mean whether you're you there's a father figure there or there's a mother figure there you know you still have to have discipline what's your definition of des uh discipline you know in this case just so I guess you can use definition for a lot of you know I mean you know right so I to me is you know not being scared to own up to what you what you do wrong listening and understanding what somebody's trying to do for you you know to help you create a path you know um and of course the whole you know the right from wrongs you know what I mean you know just understanding like you know you know that's bad why did you make that decision what put you to that point to make that bad decision okay you know that there's a consequence to this you know I mean how you know and most kids nowadays you tell them that like oh I'm not worried about it you need to be worried about it and say like you can't have that attitude and expect to live the next 40 years in life you know I mean and we were all young we were all hard headed too so it's just you know when we when I talked to him about this I was undisciplined just like you you know unfortunately I didn't have a lot of the the the the the how can you say like you know my dad when he would travel for work for six seven months he wasn't home didn't have anybody but I had to keep that discipline because I knew when he came home and I didn't you know there's consequences there's because my mom was like hey well you know what Pete wasn't listening you know he did this he did that so then my dad's having a conversation with me he's like what part of the discipline did you not understand while I was gone you know what I mean and I'm you know and he was you know you know before my dad you know my dad believed in corporal punishment you know what I mean you know so so it was never just you know my dad you know he never just reacted to be a bad dad you know I mean he was like well you know there's a consequence you know and you know how my consequences are why did you still do it so now I have to hold you accountable I have to hold you accountable to what you did you know what I mean your mom told me what you did you didn't listen or you were bad in school and you know all this stuff like that so all that discipline I know when I go back and look at it now you know I mean it's just like man it wasn't so hard to be disciplined if I you know what I mean you know it was just you know you get around even at a young age you start getting around you know kids your own age that maybe don't have respect for their parents what's gonna happen is that you're gonna start you're gonna fall into that yeah to that trap of like well my friends don't listen to his parents I mean why do you know so we always try to just teach them just like I said just the basic discipline of uh you know and discipline is a mental thing it's mental you know I mean so you know you know we we we we we try to instill that for them and and try to break any bad cycle that they have you you know what I mean the the the moms and dads sometimes come to us and they open up to us a lot like you know you know he's he's real aggressive you know what I mean you know he's got a lot of anger you know and stuff like that and like I said last time you know I mean some kids you know feel comfortable talking to somebody other than their mom and dad about things you know what I mean you know so you know we always tell them it's like look you know we can keep a secret to a certain point and if you come and tell us something that you haven't told your parents we're obligated to tell your parents you know because they feel comfortable they think well you know if I tell coach you know I mean that he wants you know no we we we still need to you know I mean and you know we bring it to their attention you know what I mean and we just let them know like hey you know we're like your uncles here you know I mean you know we're here to help you guys we're here to you know be there for you if you need somebody to talk to you need somebody you know you know uh outside you know because some some kids don't maybe don't feel comfortable talking to their dad or talking to their mom you know I mean but you get them comfortable enough outside of that I mean you know they'll tell you the world you know so you know we we we just try to be there for them in direction and like I said just just teach that discipline you know what I mean not not not trying to belittle them and be you know if they're getting if they're getting that type of treatment at home we try not to you know bring that at the gym speaking with me back here we had some technical issues but yeah that's uh that's interesting have you ever seen uh like like a kid come in one way and then leave transformed or different like which way like an uh like you like they come in and made their maybe they're real bad ram maybe they don't have a lot of discipline at this onset and then when they leave your program you see them better than the way they came in you know yeah for sure you know I'm saying that so so some of them can we we've had some of them uh adapt fast you know what I'm saying they just needed that's what they needed that's what they needed that structure some of them you know were a little well like we say in Spanishudos you know what I mean you know they were you know they were trying to test the waters of you know oh I don't need to listen to you you ain't nobody I'm gonna hold on hold on you know I mean like you know oh you know and some of them took a little longer but for the most part man it was always a a good a good success story to be able to see that you know that the kids decided you know that you know and some of them that don't come that they don't box anymore or train they come back like man coach B you know what I mean you know things have been so much better you know what I mean you know you know I got a better relationship with you know what I mean you know with my mom like I'm not so mad no more I'm not so angry and you know and it just it it it it it just it just makes everybody that's a part of our program happy to know that you know what I mean that kid didn't decide to keep going bad and you know end up in juvenile hall or you know out there committing crimes and stuff like that.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah I mean we've had we've had a lot of good little success stories man you know what I mean you know it's real good.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's good.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have any future goals for the for the program?
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah I mean we just want to we want to continue to get bigger you know I mean you know eventually the goal is to you know um we've had talks with YMCA about you know maybe traveling to other cities and you know opening up a program you know what I mean um so that's that's cool that's something that we hope in you know 2025 that we can nice be able to go to maybe San Antonio Houston and yeah open up a chapter there and just you know I'm saying just just see where it goes stuff like that.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's been we've been talking about it's great.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's great so the program is uh Valor is it Valor Boxing Valor Boxing yeah awesome yeah I found I found out you guys when I we were looking at memberships for the YMCA and we also had Lerone uh shout out to Lerone yeah Lerone shout out on here uh yeah I got your message bro uh we'll try to work something out um so moving forward on the uh barbecue pit um Stark barbecue uh what are some good uh what did the idea of using your pit for community service come about or how did it come about?
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_00: So when I started doing benefits it was always came to the point where like I used to ask other people to borrow their barbecue pits right you know and then sometimes people wouldn't come through oh I forgot oh well I got drunk the night before man you know and you know me if I say I'm gonna do something I do it you know so you know I always at that point when I was borrowing other people's barbecue I always had to have a backup a backup plan okay if this dude doesn't answer me and you know you know I got plan B and C people I can call and use their pits you know what I mean and you know at one point you know we were doing benefits where you know sometimes I had four or five barbecue pits out there you know what I mean um and then you know I I told myself one day I'm gonna have my own you know what I mean and like I said unbeknownst man you know I mean three years ago birthday came into my life and yeah now you know I mean like I've now you got your own bro yeah I got my own and it's huge that's sucker man wow yeah yeah from from from from the tongue from the hitch to the to the firebox is 27 feet you know like she's she's she's she's 56 inch in in diameter yeah I mean she's a she's a big big girl but uh what uh was there a specific moment or event that made you realize barbecue barbecue could help people well actually you you know I mean I started to see other well when my dad passed away in 2010 you know I mean we had a barbecue you know you know and I had so many people that told me like oh man I'll be there for you bro I got you even family I mean hey cuz I got you whatever when it came down to it it was ghost town you know it was just me my mom and my brothers you know um it was a success you know me being in the oil and gas business you know I mean at that time you know you know there was some turnarounds going around I started reaching out to everybody hey man you know oh yeah bring 50 plates over here bring a hundred plates over here like it just it was great we were you know you know we were able to bury my dad you know I mean very very good um and then I told myself one day I said man if I get lied to like this how many other people wow around here get lied to by friends family you know all this stuff so I told myself when I said I'm gonna try something you know I mean I'm gonna try you know and then I did I started doing it and then you know I mean I I ended up um you know there was a group of us that just started doing it you know randomly you know what I mean and you know and some people you know still still stuck around and still helped me from time to time um you know and and then some people don't you know I mean which like I said you know it's it's a very time consuming thing too you know I mean you know some people you know we understand people got lives and outside of it but um you know it's it's been a passion for me you know I mean and you know one thing I can't do is turn somebody away in their time of need you know so you know because I don't want I always feel like I don't want nobody else to feel like how I felt you know I mean and if I can help you know what I mean you know start a chain of reaction of you know positivity you know I mean I was just like you know let's let's see where it goes man yeah yeah so there's did you want to share I guess you did you want to share the backstory of b uh big bertha which is the name of your barbecue pit yeah so you everybody's been asking me like how'd you come up with Big Bertha that you know the name you know and I didn't even come up with it I didn't come up with the name well so when I bought so when I bought her the the the next day we took off to Yvade my my one of my best friends OG friend I've been around I've known him over 25 years he went with me down there and uh he asked me he's like hey you got a name for her I was like I don't know like you know I mean I said people name their barbecue pits he said oh yeah oh wow he said oh yeah you know what I mean like that he's like I said I don't know he's like well I got a name I was like well yeah what's what's that he's like Big Bertha and then you know I mean and I was just like wow that that that kind of rings a bell you know what I mean and from that day forward man it's been like that so you know I mean shout out to my boy Terry Amy Terry Amy I was trying to remember his name yeah Terry Amy came up with it you know and you know he uh um you know and he helped he helped start a legacy you know what I mean you know he came up with that name and you know big birth is starting to become a household name you know what I mean people you know people stop like today yesterday people were stopping by taking pictures like man you know we seen wow you know we seen her story you know I mean we saw everything that she went through you know that we take a picture with her absolutely you know I mean so it and then today you know I mean like I said did did did another turkey leg sale today you know another 400 leg quarters done today and amazing you know it was it was you know people just stopping like man we seen her on the news man one person was like man I got I don't have a social media but I got YouTube she goes and I saw you talk about her on Christmas Christian original so I'll just like I was like oh yeah so shout out to my boy you know I mean I said yeah she was uh she was like yeah she goes I heard you can be on there again like that we're gonna so hopefully hopefully they're watching you know nice um but you know I mean that and that it it stuck I never thought of any other name yeah you know I mean it was Big Bertha you know what I'm saying three years ago it was big birthday now yeah nice and and you had so you mentioned that on the last podcast you had you bought it from a man that used to own it it from tarot okay so what I so what I'm about to tell you now is just what I just learned just a few days ago that I didn't even know when I when I purchased her because I talked to a Mrs.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper which was Mr.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper's wife um I I was under the understanding that Mr Cooper built her and that's not the case Mr Cooper purchased her in 2007 and brought her to Corpus she was built four years earlier in 2003 and she was owned by um uh Eddie Dean um big old well-known barbecue place in Terrell Texas and then he uh they moved it to Dallas Texas now they're over there so when she told me this I was like so Bertha's been around a lot longer than I ever ever anticipated and putting in work what Mr Cooper and Mrs.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_02: Cooper did they were real big involved in their church so they they got her for the simple fact of being able to cook massive amounts of food for when they did you know cook you know feeding for the homeless for the church to raise money kids um there was a lot of times that they used it for the book parade you know uh and anybody who needed her right so um and then I reached out to the you know the original owners excuse me and told them my story like you know you know I own her now sent them a picture of her and uh the you know the whoops yeah so sorry you guys uh the Wi Fi crashed and we're just up for the second portion of this uh episode 84 with Pete Trevinho we were talking about uh Big Bertha right yep the the backstory so you just found out from Mrs.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper a few days ago that the she was built in 2007 no she was built in 2004 2004 so they brought her down when they purchased her they brought her in 2007 and brought her to corpus in 2007 so from 2007 till now she's been putting in community work because Mr.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper was a you know was very heavily Involved in the church.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he was, you know, was helped raise money for the church, you know, the kids, uh, the book parade, you know, just countless other things.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: So she's, you know, and I've I'm just I just found this out.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was telling you right now, January on the 24th Friday is when I found this part out.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because I asked her.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to know more backstory on her, you know, about what how he built her.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, she's like, no, she was he didn't know she we bought her in 2007.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, what's this?
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: She's been she's really been putting in community work, wow, you know what I mean, since before the before I purchased her.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it's just something that's adding to her legacy of, you know what I mean, and you know, you know, story and stuff like that.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I I was stoked when I found that out.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow, yeah, it's crazy, you know what I mean?
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_02: So since 2004, and you got you got her in 2007, you said, or no, no, I got her in um um so 22, the the day after Uvalde scooped.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_00: The day after I is when I purchased her, and then the next day I took off to Uvalde to go cook.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, would that be great?
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean, you know, because a lot of people, you know, I got a lot of phone calls.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: People like, hey, you know what I mean?
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: Are you gonna go?
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm you know, and um sure enough, I was just like, I said, yeah.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I put it out there on on social media, man that post went viral.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, yeah.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, showed up so heavy for that because everybody can relate to it.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: There's some somebody's a mom, somebody's a dad, somebody's a grandparent, somebody's a brother, somebody's a sister.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, it it it it touched and it's so close to home because only a little over an hour and a half away.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, people were just so touched by it.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: They were like, you know, and uh, you know, everybody knew knew me, so they're like, hey, you know, what do you need?
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_00: Man, bro, I had doctors, lawyers, politicians, people just calling, donating, like, hey man, we ended up leaving with I can't even tell you how many trailers full of food to go down there cook.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was only supposed to be there one day.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: I ended up being there like three days, you know, cooking.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I mean?
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_00: And like I said, you know, just hearing that, you know, you know, her legacy before I even had her, she had one, you know what I mean.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: So it's just like, you know, so shout out to Mr.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: and Mrs.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: Cooper, I said, um, you know, for for bringing her down here and get, you know what I mean, and then giving me the opportunity to purchase her and you know, keep doing what what you know what I do at, you know, and finally having my own, you know, my own barbecue pit.
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I mean?
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you know, it's you know, it's a you know it's a big pit.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_00: She's she's a big girl.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_02: So so you've done a lot of barbecue benefits for people in need.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_02: Can you share one that really meant a lot to you?
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: There's actually two that um well, actually three.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say three that you know, they all mean something to me.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of them, whether, you know, and I've always tell people like this, man, you know, I've I've buried more kids than I ever want to think about.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean when it comes to to this for, you know, all kinds, you know, you know, kids with cancer, um you know, kids that that that you know, unfortunately, you know what I mean, you know, due to negligence of the mothers and their fathers or whatever.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um but the first one that that that that that really took a toll on me was uh 2014.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um we did we did the uh the the uh benefit for the two the two girls that got killed on their drive-by and Cheryl Drive.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there were two eight, eight, nine-year-old little girls.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: When I tell you that that shook the city, or we we we we we we cooked over 2,500 hamburgers and you know, um I don't want to say how much money we raised, but it was we were it was it it got to a point that we had to have police escort because we had trash bags and trash bags full of money to go to the Trevino funeral home and go and count this money and make sure everything was was good.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then you know, um we like we talked on last podcast, you know, you know, Uriah, you know what I mean?
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_00: That that was that was something that really, really and to this day, you know what I mean, it's very emotional for me because you know, I have eight daughters, you know what I mean, and you know, you know, Jimmy and um, you know, her grandparents, they're wonderful people.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, and then the one that I did last year on on New Year's, you know, for Amethyst.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_00: She was the girl that had got uh killed by a stray bullet on New Year's Day.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um I was on vacation, I was in uh Denver, Colorado when I got the phone call.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, spoke with the dad and the mom and you know, um, you know, and we ended up having mutual friends, and my buddy James, you know, um, me and him had a conversation and figured out, you know, hey, you know, what you know how what we can do to help this family.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_00: We did, and um, you know, and you know, those those those three right there were probably, you know, like I said, they all mean something to me.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_00: But those three, I I'll say that really, really impacted my life, you know what I mean, because you know, no kid should ever, you know, a parent should have shouldn't have to go through that and you know, and bury their child, right?
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_00: We all want the concept that we want to go before our kids.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, those those three to this day, you know what I mean, you know, hold a special place in my heart, you know, where you know, because I'm still I'm I'm close, those three, I'm very close with the either the mom, the dad, or the mom and dad when it comes to that.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, it it's you know, um, and some of them we're still seeking justice for.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I mean?
• 49:39
  SPEAKER_00: So we stand with we stand with the family, and you know, they know that if they need me, the community for anything, we're we're we're we're there to continue to help.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome, man.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_02: Man, that's awesome.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you it's funny how the memorable ones are younger, yeah.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_02: People that have passed away and not people that are older or the same age as us.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's amazing.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh uh, what are some of the challenges uh that you faced?
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_02: Let's see, see talking about barbecue benefits.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you've got um uh how do you decide which causes to support?
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_00: I don't even look at it like that, man.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you know, you know, and and and one of my news interviews that I did, well, they asked me that same question.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: And I always just I always say the same thing.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_00: I I look at every time that I get a phone call, like if the man upstairs sent me a text message and it's like, hey, I just showed you what's out there.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna attack it.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know what I'm saying?
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna turn to I'm I mean I'm not gonna turn away.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um now I've I've had some people call for help for things they shouldn't be asking for.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: And yeah, you know, it it's it's it seems like that will happen.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_02: It does.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_00: It happens a lot more than people think, you know, I mean I get a lot of like, you know, you know, I'm about to lose my car and this and this.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I I just can't I can't help in that situation where you know they want me to use the platform that I have and the the community trust, you know what I mean?
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, because you couldn't pay a bill, right?
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um but you know what I mean, you know, I've I I still try to help in some way, you know, because I can understand that I've been there before where you know I mean I've you know lost my job and you know what I mean, you know, you know, the oil field crashed and I got laid off.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you think you got enough money saved up until your bills start running, you know what I mean start coming in fast.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it so I've been there, so I still try to help personally, you know what I'm saying?
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean, you know, uh uh how I can.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um but you know, when you know when it comes to tragic events, uh, you know, kids, I I I I just don't have the heart to say no to.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know what I mean?
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, these two that I did, you know, the one I did yesterday was a good friend of mine that, you know, I mean, you know, we talk about this cancer stuff, right?
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_00: This is this is an ugly disease.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's killing people, you know, I mean, like, and you know, I mean it record numbers every every every month, every day, yeah.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's a record amount of people that are dying from cancer.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_00: Oh and you know, my good friend Joe, he uh, you know, reached out to me.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, I had one for him about a year and a half ago when he first found out.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you know, I mean he, you know, he reached out again, you know, came back aggressive on him.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you know, we you know, we we did that one, and then the one that I did today was for a family that lost their house in a house fire, you know, with two little two young girls that you know possibly got, you know, this happened like two o'clock in the morning.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, they you know, more than more than sure that they ended up with some smoke and uh inhalation, you know, house fire, you know, you know, stuff like that.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, thank God that they were able to get, you know, the dad was able to get his family out of there, you know what I mean?
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, um, but they lost everything.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like their their house went from you know, beautiful home that you know what I mean that he built for his family to almost looking like you know what I mean, you know, he you know lived in the slum, you know what I mean?
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we did that today, and man, it was a beautiful successful both of them were successful sold out, you know, if the community showed up like they do, you know what I mean, every time.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_02: That's something to be said about our community, like because there's always we always get a bad rap and stuff like that, but to hear stories like that, it's like well see the thing is that I tell people all the time, man, you know what I mean people don't give corpus enough credit, right?
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because they want to focus on the negativity.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_00: And my my my goal at one point was just to like let's let's let's let's show the other side.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see how much attention we can get with the positivity.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's it's going, you know what I mean?
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like those I'll tell you a quick story, man.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_00: We was this today about three o'clock, you know what I mean?
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was there and uh I was had we were loading Bertha up, we were wrapping the turkey legs, and uh the ladies in the front, they're coming like, hey Pete, come here, you know what I mean?
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: There's uh somebody wants to talk to you.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_00: So I go up there and there's this this older gentleman, he's probably in his 80s, right?
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: 70s, you know, seven five come up and uh he was just saying, Man, you know, he says, I just want to thank you for everything that you do and that you know this and this and that.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I said, Well, thank you.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_00: And I saw that he had, you know, you know, the Marines asked him if he was in the service.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_00: They said, Yes, I want to thank you for your services.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and he was just like, I want to he goes, I want to thank you what you do for he goes, I've been living in Corpus Christi my whole life.
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he goes, I just want to, you know, I want to come personally, thank you for your services and what you do for the community.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I said, Well, thank you.
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_00: I said, but you know, it's not just me.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, there's a team of people, you know what I mean?
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um, he said, Yeah, but it starts with you.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_00: And when he said it like that, man, it it it it struck me.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, well the man started crying.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_00: No, bro.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I got talked earlier, you know what I mean?
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I don't have a problem showing emotion.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have so when when I saw that he was crying, he just, you know, he goes, he goes, I just want to I I had to come and meet you and thank you.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, so I'm sitting there like I don't want to I don't want to right here for you know start you know start getting emotional with this guy, you know what I mean?
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, I did, you know what I mean, you know, and you know, he he asked for a hug, you know what I'm saying?
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_00: So you know I gave him a hug, and you know, and you know, he was like, Man, he goes, I want to make a donation to you.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, Well, I don't I don't take donations.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_00: I said, but he says, but I want to give it to you.
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I mean, the guy that the guy handed me 20 bucks, right?
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I was just like, I said, thank you.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, No, you just keep doing what you're doing and you know, bringing the community together.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, you know, and he started asking, like, well, you know, I mean, who are these?
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Well, these are people that I've helped in the past.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're coming to pay forward and come help out and stuff like that.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then he just like you know, he's just like, like, he goes, I love it, you know what I mean.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, please continue.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_00: Me and my wife, you know, we we we love to see when we see you on the news, and that's how he found out about me.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you know what I'm saying?
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because he saw they they did a little news story on Bertha yesterday.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so he was like, Man, we had to come.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, I wanted to see her in person, and you know, so when I get stories like that, man, you know, people that want to come over there and see Bertha and meet her and sad me.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to take all the the limelight from none of that.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_00: So I always point out the fact that it's just not me.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: Like there's there's a lot of people.
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_00: Some people don't want to be recognized, and that's fine, you know what I mean?
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um, like the gentleman that stepped up big time and helped Bertha get fixed because they're you know, like we talked on last time, you know, Bertha was in bad shape, the firebox was bad.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um somebody saw her post and was like, hey, come bring her.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is a well-known major construction company that's been around for decades, decades.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_00: Amazing.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_00: And the man that reached out to me was a good friend of mine, uh, Mike, that was his friend, and he was uh he was a big wig in an oil company.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_00: Called him, he said, Hey, get me in contact with Pete.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: We want to help him, we want to get her back back on the streets.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: We dropped her off on Wednesday last week, and I picked her up on Wednesday today.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, these guys worked crazy hours, and I I don't even want to know the money that they spent what what what it would have taken to you know to to have bought everything.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they they put new gauges on her, the whole firebox.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, they put her name on it, they they they welded some crosses on it, you know, back because they're like when you're pulling down the street, people should know what her name is.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_00: So when I seen that, when I pulled it, man, I got emotional about it because I was just like, man, you know what I mean?
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_00: Like she's really touching vibes, you know what I mean?
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_00: Even people that are not asking for services.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just people in general, you know what I mean?
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: And they're they're like, just keep doing it, man.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, you know, keep keep building the bond of our community amongst each other instead of people showing the hate, you know, and all the negative, you know what I mean?
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it seems like you know, you know, drive-by shooting gets more attention than you know what I mean, you know, um an athlete, a young athlete from one of these high schools that's probably gonna be a great, you know, baseball player, you know what I mean, and probably be professional.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, man, let's focus on that positivity and instead of all this, you know what I'm saying, this negativity where you know it's just you know, it just it's crazy how it gets more more attention than the good, you know what I mean.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_00: So if we can keep just doing the good things, you know what I mean.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_00: People see it, man, people they'll tune in more.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_00: So it just started with that old man today, man.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_00: It was just, it was he got me, you know, because then it's like I saw my dad.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, you know what I'm saying?
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_00: When he hugged me, I just you know what I mean.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like I got emotional because I was I felt like I was here and my dad and then I wish my dad was here, you know what I'm saying to to see and possibly be a part of this.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I mean?
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_00: I just felt like you know, I was getting a uh at a boy from my dad, you know what I'm saying?
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know, to to hear it like that, you know what I mean?
• 58:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and yeah, you know, um, and then I had to go get something when I turned around, the man was gone, like he left.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I asked everybody like, where do you go?
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Well, he got in his little car and he took off.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_00: And like, I just I didn't even get to get his name, nothing, you know what I mean?
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm pretty sure I'll see him again.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_00: Cool, you know what I mean?
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_02: So that's awesome.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_02: What are some of the challenges you faced in running these uh barbecue benefits?
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_00: Running out of food, yeah, people still there, you know what I mean?
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's happening, selling out and selling selling out, and you know, we're still, you know, I mean, we we we've done some role where we've had you know a line almost to a mile long, you know what I mean?
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_00: And we ran out of food.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no, and you know, I mean, mind you, we were you know, we we may have cooked a thousand lake quarters and it was still 700 people waiting to get them.
• 59:33
  SPEAKER_01: We were like, oh my god, what do we do?
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_01: What do we do?
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_00: But you know what I mean, you know.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_00: Luckily we've never had any issue with um, you know, you know, unsatisfied community people, you know, that's showing support.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they're like, wait, it's a good thing, you know what I mean.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_00: If you're selling out, you know what I mean, you know, it's a good thing.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so you know what I mean, you know, so it's people are very understanding they're no, you know, and you know, they when they see that we're doing another one, you know, they they still come support, you know what I mean.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_00: So that that's usually the challenge, man.
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_00: We've we've run out of food.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people still like, well, are you gonna cook more?
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I don't think we're having ready, you know what I mean?
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: So it takes hours and hours to cook uh you know what I mean, food and stuff.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_02: How do you find like the the where to post up or where to park your trailer?
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I I I just had you know, sometimes, you know, it a lot of them that we used to do, we used to do them, you know, on Sundays when bars were closed.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, people, you know, we we got friends that own bars.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh pretty man, you can you can use our parking lot, man.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, cool or whatever.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then it just got to the point where you know, uh now I got some real good dedicated places that cool don't, you know, don't mind it because they know that we're gonna take care of the place, we're not gonna leave it dirty, you know.
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_00: So one place is the V the VFW on Ayers, right?
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um right there at the Y, right there before you get to Galahar.
• 1:00:57
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay, okay.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_02: Is it is it crosstown?
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_02: Is it uh SPID?
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's not there anymore.
• 1:01:01
  SPEAKER_02: Because it used to be SPID and Airs, right?
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_02: Was it DFW?
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: So so if you're if you're coming, it's literally walking distance to the juvenile hall.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's right there, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if you if oh if you exited Galahar, you know what I'm saying, you take a right and you take a you take a left on uh our airs, it's right here.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, saying the VFW, and it's right by the bus station, the new, you know, but right across the street.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, that's where uh Megan's dad is the vice president of that VFW.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you know what I mean.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to them.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_00: They you know me when I call them and it's like, hey, you know, we need an inside venue, oh Pete, boom, put you down on the boat.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_00: And the other big place, man, is that um Sutherland's parking lot.
• 1:01:42
  SPEAKER_00: Right, that's a very high traffic area.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, very, very high traffic.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_00: So when I started going there, I met one of their managers, and he was just like, Man, he says, You you bring so much traffic to me.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_00: People think that it's the store that's getting the business, and it's what you guys are.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_00: So man, he's that man, you guys can forever be here.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_02: You know, um so you of course you ask permission to that.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, we asked, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh they know, you know, I mean, those those the the manager there and they they know me, they know, you know what I mean.
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_00: When when when we host there, we're always gonna clean up, we're never gonna leave it because we don't, you know, they they don't mind it, but at the end of the day, we still have to take care of the place, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we always make sure that it's you know as good or better than we than that we got there.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's some people that do that I've had to go over there that I don't know that will do a benefit there, and they'll just leave it trash, man.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_00: Then I'll get the phone call and then you know I'll call a couple of days, hey man, let's go clean this parking lot up, man.
• 1:02:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because I never want them to feel that we're taking advantage of having the place, and you know, we just got to keep it clean.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, sometimes when I'm not doing the benefit, people call me like, hey Pete, I hear have to go through you to go to Sutherland's, you know, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, yeah, bro, like you know what I'm saying, like you know, if y'all gonna go, man, make sure y'all clean up.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:02:57
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not call me, I'll go clean up.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we just got to keep that place nice and clean so that we can continue to be there because that's a major area, you know.
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, all the people that are there's the people that like today, a lot of people came out from the church, we're right over there.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then if I know I don't know what it is about corpus and turkey legs, yeah, they love turkey legs, dog.
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like you know, uh you know, first thing that even with like you know, when we do chicken plates or we do pull pork, first thing y'all got turkey legs?
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, let I'll come back next time and see if y'all got turkey legs.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_00: Oh we got chicken plates, but I don't want to try turkey.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, shout out to Corpus, man.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_00: They they they they they I mean is it difficult to that?
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_02: Is it difficult because we were talking last time, like you were saying the pull pork is a little bit easier to get to get out.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh is it is it just as hard for the turkey legs like the chicken as opposed to to cook them all, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_02: Nah, oh okay, okay.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's it's uh you know, like I said, you know, maintaining your fire to make sure you keep it hot enough to go.
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, but like I said, I mean, I've just over the years, I mean, I'm just like, what is up with corpus and turkey legs?
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, it's true.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_02: I'm thinking about the jazz festival right now because uh my my aunt helps volunteer, she's been doing it for years.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_02: But every time I go over there, I mean I I'm always looking for where the turkey legs are, and I know exactly where they're at.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh um a friend of hers actually, he's the one that has his pit out there, he does them all the time out there.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_02: Tony, that's his name.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, he's the one that does the turkey legs out there, uh, where we usually go to the jazz festival.
• 1:04:31
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, definitely.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we are we are we're crazy for them turkey legs, bro.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh man, this is awesome.
• 1:04:37
  SPEAKER_02: This is awesome.
• 1:04:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so uh kind of wrapping this up, we got a few more questions.
• 1:04:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, personal lessons.
• 1:04:43
  SPEAKER_02: What's the biggest life lesson you've learned through all of this?
• 1:04:51
  SPEAKER_02: You got the boxing gym, you guys you got your your pit, you're influencing a lot of people.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_02: Would you say that there's something that you've I mean you've already shared several stories like um but I guess nothing that you've learned.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_02: Have you shared anything that you've learned?
• 1:05:08
  SPEAKER_02: I can't I can't think of that.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean, you know, with with with having the boxing gym and then doing these fundraisers these benefits, man.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_00: Learn how to how to really care about people.
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_00: Care about their feelings, you know.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um especially like you know when it's like I said we go back to, you know what I mean, you know, when we do these these benefits for you know, these these young kids that are dying.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um you know it it it's learn to be a better person knowing that I can treat somebody better than probably somebody would treat me.
• 1:05:48
  SPEAKER_00: Right, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_00: So um you know, and everything that I've learned that's up to this is I can bring I could put it towards the fact that it's helped me be a better person.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_00: father, a better grandfather, you know, um, just you know, a better person, period, because before, you know, it was just, you know, I was I was into the party scene, you know, and I was, you know, I wasn't careful.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_00: More selfish, right?
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_00: Selfish, selfish, absolutely.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, now I understand what the word selfless means.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, because I said, I mean, I don't, you know, um I I don't just how can you say like, you know what I mean, it it's it's kind of hard to put it the way the the the way I wanted to to to understand, but you know, I I I just learning how to be selfless just taught me how to be a better man.
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_00: You know have I been a bad person before?
• 1:06:50
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 1:06:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean I'm not perfect.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:06:53
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know we we we're creatures of habit right we you know we've we've we've we've we've gone our through our trials and tribulations in life and you know now it's just you know my life lesson is now is just how can I can how can I continue to stay healthy enough to keep helping people.
• 1:07:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean and how can I help people understand that you can do this too.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean and like today there was a guy that just like hey man I'll I've you know I've never met you I've heard so much about you um can I start coming in to help?
• 1:07:27
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely I ain't never gonna tell you no you don't have more people to marry you.
• 1:07:31
  SPEAKER_00: So when I you know I hear people say like man you know you've you've helped me you know overcome you know being selfish and wanting to help more you know I mean like that you know when I would have never thought about it you know I mean he goes but you know you know you know I've I've known you I've seen you know your your path and you know I'm like well yeah if he can change I can change you know what I mean so you know and then also too just you know what I mean you know um you know standing up and and and not being scared to speak out you know what I mean you know on on on on things that that that us men go through as well you know I mean like that because like we talked last time in the last podcast you know I mean there's you know there's men that still hold everything in and scared to talk about it you know what I mean and now I've you know and I used to be that guy you know I mean hold everything in could we come before a different cloth of oh you're not supposed to let nobody know your business blah blah blah but sometimes you know me and you could carry a conversation that you know I I don't know what you're going through but you sit there and tell me like man you you know I see what you're doing man that's inspired me you know I mean you know to be a better person you know or this and this and that and I want to get involved and I want to start helping you come on saying like try it out you know what I'm saying I'm not saying it's for everybody but you know what I mean you know that's that's yeah you know something that can you know just you know it's baby stuff because it didn't happen overnight for me to get to where I'm at right now as far as helping people like you know I took a lot of losses along the way you know I mean it took a lot of losses along the way but you know now you know it's it's it's going in the positive direction you know what I mean you know a lot of people you know I mean the the community of this is getting a lot bigger than I ever expected to get you know what I mean so just looking at all that those are the life lessons that I feel that I've learned that help me be the better person that I am today.
• 1:09:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah it helps it changes if you could go back what what advice would you give your younger self you know could be an heart hater man like you know you know you know though those you know now that I go back and look I mean there was a lot of people in my life that that that tried to steer me the right way you know I'm just you know but you know I was born in the late 70s I grew up in the you know what I mean you know yeah I went through the 80s you know survived the 90s you know what I mean and you know it was you know we're just hard headed man you know we we just you know so if I had you know if if if if I could go back you know 30 years and just be like hey look dude there's a light at the end of this tunnel man I can I can bring you back to it if you could help yourself be that better person so that you knew when you got here you didn't you skipped all this negativity in between you know what I mean but you know I mean you you have to want it you know what I mean and you know I've got probably slap myself around a couple times you know what I mean you might go back you know but you know it's it's yeah and I think about that a lot too you know I mean like you know man I mean I should have been thinking like this a long time ago but you know we're creatures of habit I say this all the time we're creatures of habit and we we you know that like that saying right you're only as good as the people you surround yourself with yeah you got negative people around you that's all you're gonna think about you got positive people you're gonna think positive you know I'm saying and it's it's not it's it's not healthy for anybody to always be negative about something you know what I'm saying so that's that's probably one of the things I've I beat myself up slap myself around a bit hey snap out of it.
• 1:11:01
  SPEAKER_02: Advice uh for someone listening who wants to start giving back but doesn't know where to start what advice would you give man it it it I always say this first and foremost you can't look at it as it's you're getting into like a business right you gotta have you gotta have a heart for it like you have to willing be willing to know that you may have to cancel some plans in life you may have to cancel some some probably important moments in your life that you know what I mean you know with family friends and you know stuff like that I say because I've had to put that to the side because like I said sometimes I feel I get a text message from Madame's like hey this just happened what are you gonna do about it you know and I don't want to be the one that says no I'm gonna no I'm not gonna do it and then when my time comes to walk up them pearly gates I get denied.
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:12:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I take that part of understanding that real serious you know I mean and it was something that you know there's some people in my life that didn't understand that and I had to tell them I was like look this is my path I'm not expecting you to understand my path but this is what I have to do and I'm and I'm gonna do it with an open heart and if if I upset some people on the way so it'd be yeah I mean so it'd be so you know I like you know I've always told them is just you know getting into it and doing it I said you know when you when you have an open heart about it man you're just gonna feel a whole lot better because you know it was something that you probably wanted to do for so long.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah you just didn't know how to come about it.
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Just do it.
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_00: Just you know I didn't think about like a Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday plan.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah like I just jumped in and head in and I wanted to see where it went.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Figure it out along the way you figured out along the way you know what I mean and you know just be genuine about it you know what I mean you know just just have the heart for it you know I mean and let everything fall into place because that's that's how I feel that they did for me like I put my heart into it for when I did the first one ever was for my dad and everything just fell into place.
• 1:13:10
  SPEAKER_00: Wow you know I mean you know everything fell into place you know so you know I'm grateful for it you know what I mean you know shout out to my dad I wish he was here because I know you know that he would be a big part of this you know you know or big part of this because I said my dad liked the barbecue I remember you know him doing it you know what I mean that at it no at not at no big scale of cooking but you know we knew we was gonna eat some chicken legs and some fajitas and you know what I mean you know dad was cooking you know so um you know I know he's he's watching down and you know he's you know he's he's he's watching me carry his footsteps in we got a rapid last so last question uh what keeps you going even when things get tough uh and if you could leave our listeners with one message what would it be?
• 1:13:59
  SPEAKER_02: Was that like the second the first part you said the first one is uh what keeps you going even when things get tough?
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_02: If you could leave our listeners with one message what would it be?
• 1:14:15
  SPEAKER_00: What keeps you going when things upstairs man is when I you know and and and and my and and the type of work that I do I always tell my guys when we talk about you know when things get bad when things get tough you know I always tell people I said what time did you wake up this morning?
• 1:14:36
  SPEAKER_00: I woke up at six I said at 601 somebody did make it somebody's somebody's son somebody's father somebody's son grandmother says somebody at 601 somebody did make it live your best life no regrets and be happy and genuine about what you do that's what I that's that's what I teach my kids like you're not living a legacy for me you're living a legacy for yourself and for your kids and your generation of you know I mean so you know I always like I said I always just try to tempt us to always stay positive and think positive.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because you know when you start thinking negative you veer away from the the the the the path that you're trying to create you know I mean so you know that's me knowing that I felt that I've gotten closer to the man upstairs has just opened up and made me feel great about everything that I do I don't hold no regrets in anything that I've well I've done in the past I mean because I think that that's what got me to where I'm at now I said but you know I mean I don't I don't have that mentality of of it anymore because everything is you know positive you know I mean so um and my listeners and everybody watching man you know like I said just you know man I mean I it's like it's the same stuff that we repeat all the time man you know what I mean you gotta keep God first that's that's how you're gonna get through life you know saying you know you it's if you don't have him first in your life and and I'm I'm I'm I'm not perfect with it either you know I still have mistakes of course um yeah yeah you know what I mean but you know I wake up every morning and I know that when I wake if if I made it to that day I know somebody else didn't make it so I try to enjoy every day you know what I mean like like it's my last you know I'm saying because you you don't know when I leave here and I go home you know I mean you might see a fake a Facebook post you know Peterino about you know you know or anybody you know saying it can happen you know I'm saying you know from natural causes to you know an accident on the freeway you know I mean like it could just be you know so so so so so tragic you know what I mean and then you know when you pass on to the next world and you're looking down you're like man I should have you know I should have been you know a better person like this or I should have gotten more involved with this and you know so you know I mean that's that's that's just my view on how how I think you know what I mean um not everybody thinks the same but you know what I mean I do what helps me out too is that I I I feel great when young kids ask me like hey Pete like how'd you make it I give them my little you know I give them my story you know what I mean that you know if it helps them great you know what I mean that you know and if it if it doesn't I want them to find somebody that will make it understand for them.
• 1:17:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:17:27
  SPEAKER_02: So great man it's been an excellent conversation.
• 1:17:31
  SPEAKER_02: So we covered your journey a little bit of your journey uh using boxing and barbecue to impact lives and lessons that we learned along the way.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_00: If people want to support you um uh whether it's getting involved with the gym or attending the barbecue benefit uh where can they find you oh man you Facebook Facebook you know um you can DM me yeah Peter Vino you can you can DM me um I'm actually uh somebody brought it to my attention today that uh you know why don't I start a Facebook page for fundraising and benefit so that people know they can go here and click on that page and and you know somebody might call me like hey you know what I mean can you put this on on here so that they know they got one place they can click on oh man there's a benefit going on this weekend instead of looking at shares and looking at you know somebody's you know news feed they can go click on you know what I mean there's like a group or a page yeah you know say for everybody to see to where people could post on there and you know what I mean and get their get the word out about what they got going on it whether if whether I'm doing it or somebody else is doing it but somewhere where you know there's gonna be a good platform where followers are are are are are looking for the weekends and like I mean you know who's who's having a fundraiser today or you know what I mean who's you know who's having a benefit that could go and support you know what I mean and and and and help out you know so that was a good idea you know I'm saying something I'm gonna put some thought into you know what I mean and you know um and of course like uh somebody told me today they're like hey well why don't you start a podcast I got too much I'm not a podcast guy you know what I mean that's shout out to everybody that has one you it's a lot of work there's a lot yeah there's a lot that has started uh just here recently getting popular I was like I don't tend to try to get into none of that you know I mean I don't mind going on the platform and you know talking about the journeys and yeah you know you know supporting other people I said but cool yeah no I said if he's not gonna start no I'm not gonna start no no podcast I said I'll I'll I'll go and get on the those platforms and you know and share my story and help them you know I mean get the word out of you know what I mean you know the positivity that happens in our city and stuff like that.
• 1:19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Right on right on uh any upcoming events to keep an eye out for yeah we actually we got one March 1st man you know what I mean we got a family that reached out um I don't have all the details yet but um you know March 1st will be we'll we'll we have one it in in in the books for um but for right now that's that's you know that's about it right now so it's awesome.
• 1:20:06
  SPEAKER_02: Well Pete thanks again for sharing your story.
• 1:20:08
  SPEAKER_02: I know it's going to inspire a lot of people uh to our viewers if you enjoyed the episode make sure you like uh scare share subscribe follow us on Corbus Christie originals and uh follow Pete also to check out what events he's got coming up and uh yeah excellent conversation man