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#143 - Matthew Burton - Running for a Charity · The Chris and Mike Show

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And we're live. Welcome to boys and.
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Girls Twitchers. Yeah, welcome.
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Or as Chris likes to say, boys and girls, you know.
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I was thinking about changing to friends instead of boys and
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girls because you're all I like. You.
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Like you like boys and girls. OK, what's?
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Your tag no. You're star.
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We'll keep it up. We'll keep it up.
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His computer's spinning. He's going to come on in a
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second now. OK.
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We'll wait for Matthew Burton, our guest for the day.
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His computer's spinning. Damn.
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Technical difficulties. We hate him.
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Hey, so Mr. Chris and Michael, I'm Chris.
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He's Michael. Waiting for Matthew Burton to
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come on her show today. Patiently waiting.
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Who's a good friend of mine? He's a a fellow member of the
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Mesa. Or is it the Mesa Rotary Club or
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the Rotary Club of Mesa? One of those two.
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But why? Mark said it was the Mesa Rotary
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Club. There you go.
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So why we wait for him? We're going to jump on.
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I'm going to share his screen. So he is he's he's a nice guy
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who gives back. This is one of the things that
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he's doing. It's the Saguaro Showdown ultra
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race with Matthew Burton. So this is Matthew Burton, which
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I was surprised last week he showed up a Rotary like this all
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clean shaven and I and I usually, usually he's got some
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scruff going on so. Looks like me.
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Right is. That what you're so.
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Yeah. So the furthest he's ever run
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before is 50 kilometers, which is 31 miles.
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I've never even done that. The most I've ever done was 20
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one miles when I was helping train Nikki while everybody,
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Torsten, you know, Torsten, Torsten and Nikki, we're going
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to run the the PF Chains Rock'n'roll Marathon in Arizona.
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So I wasn't ready to do a full yet.
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So I was just helping them train.
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So the furthest I've ever gotten was was 21 miles.
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But he's doing this in January and Nikki and I are going to
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sign up for this and it's a cool thing is to help raise money.
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Part of the money that he's going to raise is also going to
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go to Foster 360, which if you guys were along with us before
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we had Mark Young on the show from United Way.
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That's his his thing that he created.
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It helps transition the kids that age out of foster care.
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And for those for those of you that don't understand that when
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you hit 18 years old in the system in foster care system,
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you're, you're gone. There's no.
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You're an adult. Yeah, there's there.
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It's just like, I don't know if it's like, you know, 12 O 1:00
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AM that day. You turn 18, you're gone.
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Mike, See ya. Or if it's like, you know,
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you're out by 5:00, but there's that gap in that too.
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So Matthew is helping raise money for, for that program as
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well as his, his United sound. I'm going to share the next part
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of it so you guys can see it. If you're in Arizona, by all
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means you can, you can I, I would assume you can participate
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in this. So let's see, there is Matthew's
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coming on. So there is the Scarface
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Mountain Trail run. That's the Facebook page and I,
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I, I, I doubt you have to be here in order to, to participate
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'cause you could just donate money.
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That would be cool. This is the inaugural trail run,
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5K10K race and fun race at the Usury Mountain Regional Park in
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Mesa. So this is just some of the some
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of the the scenery, if you will, of that which.
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Is beautiful desert scenery for sure.
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And, and the storms that we've had the last week like that,
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see, that's fantastic. That's awesome.
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All the storms and all the rain we've had from remnants of, of a
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of hurricane or typhoon, one of those things, it's all come.
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That's where the run is. So I've I've done some stuff
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there, but Matthew was actually putting together an entire thing
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for that. Look, there's Matthew Burton
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right on you. It's all about.
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Technology. Man, don't worry about it.
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Yeah, don't worry. About it.
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No apologies necessary man. We understand technical
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difficulties better than anybody.
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So I'm going to stop sharing because Matthew's here now.
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So, ladies and gentlemen, this is Matthew Burton.
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Thank you for coming on, Matthew.
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Thank you for having me. Yeah, so I I was, I was kind of
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what's that? What's all that noise?
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Matthew, stop all that. OK, so there you go.
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We were talking about your, your, we were talking, we were
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talking about your United Sound run.
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And then I pulled up the Scarface Mountain.
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So the Scarface Mountain ones first.
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Yes, right. And January 3rd, Saturday.
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OK. So tell tell us what you're
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doing with that and what you're raising money for etcetera.
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So really, really great opportunity with the Rotary Club
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of Mesa and it's 100% paid for by sponsors for mostly small
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businesses in Mesa. So they've paid for all the
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costs. So all of the entry fees are
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going to go 100% to charities. There's two charities that we're
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going to benefit. 1 is a charitable foundation of the
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Rodeo Club of Mesa, which reaches out to local support in
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Mesa and sometimes also some international charities, but
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mostly local. And then so 50% will go to them
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and 50% will go to the Foster 360, which is a Mesa charity and
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it really reaches out and gives resources and help and mentors
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to foster kids who have aged out of the system.
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Correct. Yeah.
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That's really cool. Yeah.
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And then the next one you're doing is United.
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Is it United sound? That's the one.
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United Sound, yeah, that one, that was going to hurt a lot
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more for me. So I, I I've been an avid runner
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for a very long time. I was a Division One track and
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field runner where at University of Arizona.
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Awesome. That's.
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Fine middle distance, long sprints.
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So distance is a little bit different.
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So I've done a couple of 50K ultra marathons out on some
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trails. A 50K is 31 miles.
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Oh. My God.
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And, and now I'm going to try to do this Backyard Ultra, which is
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very interesting. Backyard Ultra is, if you aren't
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familiar with it, there's a 4.16 mile course and you have one
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hour to run 1 loop and then it starts on the hour every hour.
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And so if I finish in 45 minutes, I have 15 minutes to
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rest before the next loop starts.
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If I don't get back to the starting line, I'm out.
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And they'll allow one runner to complete 24 hours if there's
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only 1 runner. But after 24 hours there needs
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to be at least two runners to keep the race going.
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So there's no set distance. It could go on for days the
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first year they did this race. It's out at usury also.
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It's called the Saguaro. It's it's the Swaro showdown
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backyard ultra. It's January 24th of of next
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year. So it's shortly after the the
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the Scarface trail run. There's no set finish line.
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You just need to be the last person standing.
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So everyone except for one person is a DNF.
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Did not finish a loser. There's only one winner. 1
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finisher. 2 years ago the finisher went in 48 hours which
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equated to over 200 miles. Last year I think they did 116
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miles so it was 27 hours. So we'll see.
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Yeah. And and they, they got 10 to 15
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minutes of rest every hour. Not enough time to really sleep,
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barely to like, eat, drink and. And maybe change some shoes.
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Yeah. That's crazy, man.
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I've heard about these things, but I've never talked to
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somebody who's experienced it, so that's really cool.
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And I haven't experienced it yet either.
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That's going to experience it. So you explained it really well
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too. I I'm not a runner, so I
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understand what you were saying about, you know, you got to
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keep, you have to have the competition or obviously there
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is no competition if you don't have at least two people going.
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Yeah, and and so forth. Go ahead.
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Well, no, I was just saying I'm I'm a runner too, which we've
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never really talked about that. But Nikki and I probably done
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100 1/2 marathons since 2015, but nowhere like never did the
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ultra. I think we did 1 ultra.
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It was, it was a stray mountain. I did it.
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It was like 17. No, it wasn't an ultra.
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I'm sorry. Take the word out of my mouth.
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It was a 17 right, A17K trail run.
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And so I love trail. We've done the Ragnar stuff, not
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the van, not driving the van down, but just McDowell
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Mountain. We've done that three times, the
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whole Ragnar thing. And for those who don't know,
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Ragnar Mountain is kind of like you.
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You run in camp, you know, you, you have three different loops
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and you have certain times you got to hit them in between the
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runs. Everybody on your team runs
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continuously, is running a loop. But when you're not running,
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then you're free to do what you want.
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You know, it drives me nut. It does drive me nuts, but it's
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insane to me the first time I did it.
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Like people party, they're partying between their loops,
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man. It's like, how do you, how do
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you, how do you drink beers and then go running?
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I don't get it. And so that's.
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They offer like shots of beers of runners when they're coming
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into Phoenix. It's crazy.
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That's like the the The Rock'n'roll Marathon in Phoenix.
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They, they have beer stations lined up and the first time I
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ran the half and that I didn't, you know, Nikki told me because
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I don't drink, right? Everybody knows the show.
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I've been sold for 20 years. So coming around the last like 2
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miles, there's this table like this white table and I just
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assumed it was little water, Gatorade.
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And you know, they handed me this little cup man.
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And I, I grab it and, and like freaking beer.
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I'm like, what are you doing to me?
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I mean, I spit it out, you know, so I didn't, I didn't swallow it
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so it didn't count. But still, it's like, what, are
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you kidding me? Then when we get back, she's
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like, yeah, they just hand out. I'm like, hey, you could have
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told me that because, you know, I told you, just take it from
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the aid station. I'm like, well, I don't know.
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I've never done a full. Hand looks like an aid station.
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Yeah, right. Totally, totally.
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So while we were waiting for you with your technical
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difficulties, we kind of we kind of pulled up the old United
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sound thing, which last week at Rotary you showed up like this
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all clean shaven. I'm like, who's this guy?
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Because I've always seen you with the scruff, man.
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So so I'm I'm I'm assuming. Every once in a while, I, I, I
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shave it off, yeah. Yeah, Yeah.
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So you just mentioned Foster 360, So I'm going to share that
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because we like to share things for folks.
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This is what Matthew talked about.
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This is Foster, Foster, Foster 360.
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I was kind of explaining to Mike before you jumped on it.
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The whole purpose of this when Mark Young set it up was those
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kids that age out of foster care, there's a gap between, you
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know what to do now. So he's just, Mark's a super
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cool guy. You know that he's he's a
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superhuman. But so this is their page.
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This is what they do. So by all means, if you want to
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learn more about Foster 360, if you want to donate to that
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program, please do so. And then you can correct me if
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I'm wrong in this, like with this stuff you're doing,
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Matthew, can people just donate if they're not in state and not
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run, but still kind of kind of give you donations for both the?
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I would. Sound.
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The, the, the Scarface Mountain trail run, we don't have a link
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set up for donations, but we definitely encourage and send
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people to the Foster 360 website and and would love any donations
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to them. OK, and and another, another
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thing to kind of look at the Foster 360, I just finished
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reading a book about a foster care system.
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If anyone is a book reader out there, it can be a difficult
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one, but it's called wards of the State and it follows kind of
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the lives of a couple of people who went to the foster system.
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And it's it's rough. There's some good stories of
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resilience, but there's also some pretty sad stories as well
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on the Foster. System, maybe you know the
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answer to the question then one thing that Chris set brought up
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before you came on was does this take effect?
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Like we know that after 18 there's no more help for them,
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right? So at 12 O one on their 18th
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birthday, is there no more money available for them?
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Is that really how harsh it is? I don't know the answer to that.
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I just had a, a group discussion with about this book and there
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are three people who lived through the foster care system
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and one of them shared the experience of 1 foster house
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where midnight or maybe the next morning after turning 18 are
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this if they've graduated high school or not, they are out of
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the house because they no longer receive payment.
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There's amazing foster care workers out there, sure, but
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there are some out there who may take advantage of the situation.
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And of course, and it's, it's it's tough.
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So yeah, I, I don't, I don't know the exact answer to your
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question, but that's some stories I've heard.
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Yeah, so I, I grabbed, I grabbed the there it is Scarface
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Mountain. I was trying, excuse me, I was
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trying to find the other one, but this is this is the this is
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the trail run the Scarface Mountain Trail Run 10K5K Fun run
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January 3rd Usury Mountain Regional Park.
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Yeah, it's going to be fun. Could I, could I talk a little
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bit more about the race? Absolutely.
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Yeah, absolutely. Talk about what you want here.
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This is all about you sharing your stuff with us.
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You want to talk about the Mountain, The Scarface 1.
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Yeah, Scarface Mountain. There's just some cool things
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about Scarface Mountain. Yeah, go ahead, man.
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I've been running out on those trails at Usury Mountain for
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many years now. Love it.
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Me and my wife we're in 20. Three countries, so tell people
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kind of where this is in. Relation to yeah.
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Yeah, So in the. Yeah, in the American Southwest,
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in the Sonoran Desert region, where Saguaros are, a lot of
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this in this area, I don't think that's anything in particular,
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but you see this kind of scenery out of the trails.
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It's in northeast Mesa of Arizona.
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It's going to be beautiful in the winter.
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That's the time to visit. So all those people out of
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country or out of state come to Arizona in January and come run
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this race. The Scarface Mountain Trail Run
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is inside Usury Mountain. Usury Regional Park.
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I'm sorry. Usury Mountain Regional Park.
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Usury Mountain is named after a interesting character from the
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region. The Usury Park is actually his
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old grounds where he kept his cattle, his his ranch and now
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it's turned into a county park. But he had some difficult times
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and him and a partner, Henry Blevins, I believe is is his
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name. And there's a trail inside the
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park called Blevins Trail. So there's the two name six.
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They came into some hard times around 1896.
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And this is a little bit after the wider times and the, the,
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the Cowboys of that time still in stagecoaches.
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And and so the news was probably there and Usury and Blevins had
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the idea we're going to rob a Stagecoach.
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They stole two bars of silver from a stage and the the sheriff
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went and investigated and a neighbor saw Usury bearing
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something in his land, which is Usury part, and directed the
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sheriff to it and found the two stolen bars of silver.
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Usury was arrested and and imprisoned for that.
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So this race that happened on January 6th, we can't really
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have the race on a January weekday.
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Usually we're going to do on the first day.
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That's not the first or second of January.
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We're going to try to do it annually.
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So it's almost on this anniversary of this event.
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There will be some silver bars. If people find a silver bar, not
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real silver. Sorry, everyone.
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And return it at the finish. They'll win a win a prize.
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So that's kind of fun stuff, yeah.
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It's very cool. So I'm sharing images of of
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usury of of the Usury Park just because, you know, some people I
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see I work for, I I've been in Arizona since I was three, man,
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so I could give a crap about cactus.
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Like, I don't have cactus in my front yard, you know?
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Like, yeah, but for the people. I know have never been.
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I know, you know, I lived there for 20 years myself, so I kind
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of got jaded towards it. You know, you see it every day.
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You don't appreciate the beauty. But so now I've been gone for 15
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years and just looking at those pictures while you were telling
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that story, Matthew it without all the houses and seeing the
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Urban Development as you told that story, he just set the
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backdrop, right? That's the American Southwest.
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For sure. It's yes, it is beautiful.
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Yeah, it's, it's the story of Wyatt Earp and the Cowboys and
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and all that. Yep.
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Absolutely. And to somebody that lives
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especially in like Europe or Asia or you know, that
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Australia, you don't see that kind of that's unique to Arizona
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and the United States, right, that Sonoran Desert.
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Yeah, Saguaros are nowhere else in the world.
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It's just in the Sonoran Desert. Yeah.
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Chris or somebody behind you, It's it's trip, man.
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It's a little trip. Oh, I don't think grants.
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That's right. Grants No, he likes to come when
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he's mad. He's mad because I didn't answer
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the door. Pop Pop's in trouble.
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You guys keep talking. How did I lose your audio,
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Matthew? If you, is that better?
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Can you hear me now? I can now.
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There you go. I'm sorry about.
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No, you're fine. Yeah.
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Tell you a little bit more about Scarface.
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So the mountain pass mountain has a cut in in its face and it
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goes across the entire western face of the mountain.
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And so in the area, the locals have have given the nickname of
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Scarface Mountain. And that's another kind of
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unique feature about the race that's really.
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Cool. I'm trying to think in all the
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years I lived there if I ever went there.
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I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember so I'm not sure if I
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ever made it there. Did you recognize the the
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Phoenix era in Whitestones? That's that's past mountain.
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No, that's Usury Mountain, where Phoenix has written on it.
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And then inside the park. Yeah, inside the and they have a
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shooting range right by that Phoenix sign right across the
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street. Is is usually mountain parked,
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but that's pass mountain. Now I know exactly where you're
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talking about. I want an Oreo too, damn it.
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Yeah. I know bring those out this.
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Is this is my stash? He comes over.
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He went cookie. Hi buddy, tell him to wave.
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Hi, buddy. Wave.
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He's never seen a podcast before Wave.
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He's seen somebody wave. Hi, he's.
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Fast. Heated cookie.
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Mike, where are you from? Where do you live now?
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I live in central Illinois, so if you know where Peoria is, I'm
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about an hour east of there. I've been to Decatur twice.
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Is that anywhere near Peoria? Yeah.
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So Decatur would be southeast of me, I believe about an hour and
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45 minutes. So close.
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Yeah, yeah. Same kind of area.
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Yeah, very green lot of soybeans and corn.
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I don't know I'm. Sorry, I always make the no, I
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always make the joke on the podcast.
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I live in the middle of a cornfield.
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Literally there's like 12,000. People here.
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Yeah. And I'm, I'm from Illinois, so
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my family's from Pleasant Plains.
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My grandparents had a working dairy farm in Pleasant Plains.
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My uncle and aunt and all of them live in the Quad Cities.
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He had like 4000 acres of and just like you said, soybean and
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corn, none of it was grown to stay in Illinois.
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It was all grown to be shipped to other countries for feed and
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and whatnot, you know? And you know, the crazy thing
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is, is, you know, you used to hear about, and I don't want to
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say that every farmer is rich now, but you used to hear about
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the poor farmer. We got to have farm aid and all
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that stuff was true. And what became valuable was the
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land where things changed is it is incredible what farmland is
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worth now. Oh, if you're talking like, I
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don't know, 10s of thousands of dollars an acre.
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Acre, right, just selling off sections, right?
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Yeah, yeah, the whole John Mellencamp song Rain on the
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Scarecrow that that's some great example sums it all up, man.
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So that was trip. Sorry for the interruption.
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That's that's a young, that's OK.
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You're fine. That's what life's.
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About that's that's priority right there.
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Oh, yeah, And that's the body. That was the little body.
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I saw it. The reason why that happens is
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one time there was a there was, there was a big human that came
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through the window. And I told Mike, I'm like, what,
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dude, you can let me get killed, so.
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Yeah, that goes back to like episode 12 or something.
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So now he watches the background.
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He's like there's, there's so many behind you.
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And I could see him turn the corner and trips like yelling at
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his mom, like, what are you doing?
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So I had to go. I don't, I know I don't like him
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being sad. It's not cool.
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It's all good, brother. It's all good, yeah.
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So again, we're here with Matthew Burton.
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Matthew Burton? He's Tim Burton's nephew, if you
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didn't. Yeah, you know, just kidding.
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No, unfortunately not. Yeah.
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You should have let it go. I was going to be like.
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You know, right? No relation to the no relation
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to the Burton Snowboards either. Yeah.
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No, I know. See, I get that.
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Oh, Jeff Dunham. Yeah.
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Nothing. Nothing.
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But it helps me explain to people how to spell my last
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name. They'll be like, what's your
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name? Christina.
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What is it? The jalapeno on a stick.
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Oh, really? Really.
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That's hilarious. So how many you now?
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We've, we've been at Rotary for a while, but we've never had
22:51
like one-on-one, you know, sit down, have lunch type thing.
22:54
So tell us more about your personal side of life.
22:56
Like how long were you in prison?
22:58
How did you get away with it? The triple homicide, you know,
23:00
and that's when you started running because you're running
23:02
from the cops. Yeah, that's.
23:04
An active streak is a serial killer currently.
23:07
Right, right. We're up to 22.
23:10
No, I love it. I and it I have.
23:15
And it's all 'cause. So, so I, I might start telling
23:20
you my, my life story and you may or may not believe it.
23:23
You might think it's more along the lines of, of, of what Chris
23:26
is saying. Bring it on.
23:28
Bring it on. Let's see.
23:30
Yeah. I, I ran.
23:31
I ran, I was a runner growing up.
23:34
I had a scholarship to University of Arizona.
23:36
I was on the alternate the US Junior World championship team.
23:42
Unfortunately, I was #3 only two went.
23:45
So I, I lost out on and that was kind of my, my dream on up.
23:51
I injured my freshman year of college.
23:53
I'm probably doing something stupid as, as you know, 18 year
23:55
olds probably do. So I went into the field that I
24:00
grew up in, and that was restaurant business.
24:02
I got a degree in culinary arts with French, French cuisine in
24:09
the focus of French cooking. Yeah.
24:12
Became became an executive chef at a restaurant.
24:18
The first year I was there, I was the second sous chef.
24:21
It was a grand opening of a restaurant.
24:22
The executive chef burnout ran away.
24:27
The first sous chef, same thing. And I was the last man standing.
24:31
And I became the executive chef and general manager of that
24:33
restaurant for about two years at that time.
24:37
In Arizona. In Arizona up at Lake Powell
24:42
though, so I. Just I just so people understand
24:45
this is all happening in Arizona.
24:47
In Arizona, yeah. I've lived all the way up and
24:50
down Arizona. My wife was finishing school
24:53
when I was acting general manager and executive chef, and
24:58
she got her associate's degree. She needed to come down to the
25:02
Phoenix area to finish her bachelor's degree at ASU, and
25:07
that was in 2008, 2009. Notice how this is ASU at ASU.
25:13
Yes, because for those that don't know, U of A and ASU are
25:16
rivalries in their states. Like like, yeah.
25:19
And I was induction it, I was a student athlete at U of A, so it
25:22
was marine and gold was really difficult to to see.
25:26
And a real quick, and I mean real quick, a Division One
25:29
athlete, ladies and gentlemen, if you don't follow sports is a
25:32
big deal. It really is.
25:34
Yeah. You're not at a Community
25:35
College. You're not at a little college
25:38
division. One's a big deal.
25:39
That's the pros of college athletes, so congratulations.
25:43
And thank you very much. I was just a stupid and injured
25:47
myself. I got out anyways my my wife was
25:50
finishing school and that was in 2008, 2009.
25:52
So during that time the housing market crashed.
25:56
I had a job lined up right by campus as a sous chef and I was
26:01
really looking forward to it on or move down.
26:03
It closed down boarded up. I was go.
26:07
I ended up getting a a job with my great experience with a
26:11
culinary degree, French cooking, executive chef, experienced
26:14
background as an assistant manager at Denny's working the
26:18
night shift Friday and Saturday nights with the bars closed and
26:22
that was what I was doing for a while.
26:24
So you go. From hold on, you go from a sous
26:26
chef, like making all the sauciers and things like when I,
26:30
when I hear sous chef, I think of I don't know, it's going to
26:32
date me. But Apocalypse Now when they're
26:34
going down, when they're going down the river and that one dude
26:37
gets out of the gets out of the the boat because he's he wants
26:40
to get some mangoes because he's a sous chef in New Orleans.
26:43
And and then the giant tigers. He's like tigers, tigers.
26:46
So when people tell me they're sous chefs.
26:48
I love that's where he goes to. Describe, but it is.
26:53
I want to try all the foods. I'm going to go get those
26:55
mangoes, yeah. See, so that's where my head
26:58
goes. So you go, you're this this,
27:00
this anointed one, right? Executive like #2 sous chef.
27:05
The world chaos collapses, the housing mark collapses, which I
27:09
was part of that too. I'm sorry, not my fault.
27:10
Well, he went from being a sous chef to the executive chef.
27:13
He got a huge promotion and the general manager of the
27:16
restaurant. Right.
27:17
And now he's working Denny's overnight for the.
27:20
Alcoholics. That would be the equivalent of
27:23
playing Wembley Arena and then you're playing the bowling alley
27:28
on Monday night. No, not even a Mason jar.
27:30
You'd be playing like a corner of the bowling alley.
27:34
Yeah, and, and, and, and that's just the start.
27:39
So my wife says I'll have a very interesting eulogy or, or a
27:46
story when when I pass away, hopefully a long time from now.
27:50
Yeah. So to kind of backtrack a little
27:55
bit, 911 happened my senior year of high school.
27:58
My parents had to talk me out of joining the Marines, the 1718
28:04
year old self of me, because I had a scholarship to run track
28:08
and field that like, of course that's the right thing to do,
28:11
right? I mean, but I had examples like
28:12
Pat Tillman, especially in Arizona, like, so I had to get
28:17
talked out of that. And so here I am an executive
28:20
chef working 2:00 in the morning at Denny's, 3:00 in the morning.
28:24
And I'm reading a article about a medic who gave aid to Iraqi
28:29
civilians who got injured in crossfire.
28:32
And it all just kind of rushed back to me.
28:34
So this is 2009, 2010, right? And I, I just can't do it.
28:40
We, me and my wife just had our first son.
28:42
He was about a year old when the housing market crash happened.
28:45
I was working nights, weekends, holidays, My wife's going to
28:49
school. And I, I just can't work in the
28:51
restaurant industry anymore. My, I grew up in it.
28:54
My parents owned a restaurant and that was their life.
28:57
They lived in the restaurant and so I enlisted in the Army.
29:00
Their restaurant was in Arizona. Prescott yeah, they owned a
29:04
restaurant. Prescott.
29:05
They owned a restaurant in Gilbert for a little while, but
29:07
sold it and they sold the restaurant and Prescott.
29:10
Now also they're they're fully retired.
29:13
Real. Quick, tell people what an
29:14
average week hour wise for someone at that level at a
29:17
restaurant is. I don't think they understand
29:20
why people burn out. Yeah, peak season when I was
29:24
executive chef and manager. I work over 100 hours a week.
29:27
There you go, seven days a week. There you go.
29:30
Now, now here's here's another little thing to help people
29:32
understand. Have you ever have you seen the
29:33
this the the Hulu series The Bear?
29:37
I have not. Have you seen?
29:38
It. That's a good series.
29:40
It gives me anxiety. Yeah.
29:41
No, I've seen it. Yeah, it's good.
29:42
OK, so but, but, but I've heard that's as close as you can get
29:46
from a, from a, from a television standpoint of what
29:48
your life was like as an executive, you know, whatever
29:51
all the things, right? Is that an accurate statement?
29:55
Out of dreams of, you know, how they get those paper orders and
29:58
the printer would be going off. I would have dreams of that
30:00
printer just not stopping. Yeah.
30:02
So there you go, Mike, Go watch. Go Google the Bear and watch it.
30:05
It's it's with. It's with the dude from
30:07
Shameless. I forgot his name is Chip.
30:10
It's Lip. OK, The family in Chicago, the
30:12
Gallagher. We talk about the Gallagher's
30:14
all the time, Matthew, because they're real people.
30:16
It was a reality TV show. Yeah.
30:17
So now back to your story. So you're at Denny's, All
30:19
American Diner. You're like, holy smokes.
30:21
You get this awakening moment with with somebody giving aid.
30:24
And you enlist in the Army in 2009 with a wife and a one year
30:28
old. Yeah, wife and a one year old.
30:31
Oh my God. Cool.
30:32
So take it from there, man. So yeah.
30:35
And can I come back to, I just want to talk about the bear
30:38
again. That's based in Chicago, so
30:40
Illinois 2. Anyways, I'm, I'm distracted.
30:45
So yeah, I, I, it's fine. I enlisted in the Army Squirrel.
30:50
Yeah, I enlisted the Army as a medic.
30:53
So I, I worked at Denny's for about a year.
30:55
So now my son is 2 and his birthday is July 5th.
30:59
I unless I think it's July 14th, so right after his 2nd birthday,
31:05
I go to basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, MO and I do my
31:08
medic training in San Antonio, TX.
31:13
Then I get stationed in Fort Lewis, WA and that's why I'm
31:17
back in Arizona because I spent four years in the Pacific
31:20
Northwest needed to come back to the sunshine.
31:23
I deployed to Afghanistan in 2012, 2013, and that was we had
31:31
my daughter when my son was 3. So a year after I enlisted, we
31:36
had our daughter. And then I deployed Afghanistan
31:40
in 12/13 kind of over a Christmas release time during
31:47
training. Yeah.
31:49
Is that too much? So no, it's not, it's not at
31:52
all, dude. There's nothing we there's
31:53
nothing I'm not allowed to talk about here.
31:55
So I you didn't, you didn't, we can say.
31:57
Whatever. We want Yeah.
31:58
You didn't reference the age. I want to know how old you were
32:00
when you enlisted, because you didn't go right out of high
32:02
school like you wanted to. So how old are you in 2009?
32:06
I 2010 was when I enlisted. I enlisted I think in March but
32:11
it's delayed entry. I didn't go to the basic
32:13
training until July, so I was 26.
32:18
So I was old. I was old that basic training.
32:20
Wow, yeah. Sure, I was pretty old and
32:22
mature. But how was how was that going
32:25
through basic training as a 26 year old?
32:28
I think I had a lot more. I I went through unnoticed a lot
32:35
of times. I became, I became platoon
32:38
leader like the last two or three weeks again because I
32:40
think I was older. And and mature enough to deal
32:43
with that. Yeah, but then the drill
32:46
sergeants, like, thought they'd never even see me until I became
32:50
the platoon leader. And who?
32:51
Who are you? You've been here the whole time,
32:53
so I played it smart. That's all, Yeah.
32:58
Cool. And then, yeah, go ahead.
33:02
Deployed to Afghanistan, 2012. Thirteen.
33:06
I did receive Wiles. Deployed a combat medic badge.
33:11
Combat medic badges are only given to medics who have who
33:17
gave aid while under fire. So we did see some stuff there.
33:23
I'm, I'm glad to to have come home.
33:27
I know, Chris, you have military in your family, right?
33:30
I do. So, yeah.
33:32
And and so I came home. I got out of active duty.
33:36
And the next step for a combat medic was to continue on to the
33:43
medicine field. But for those who may be
33:47
considering enlisting as a medic, when you get out, you are
33:51
an EMT basic, so you could drive ambulances, give oxygen and help
33:56
people take their own medicine. And that's pretty much it,
34:00
really. So yeah, there's really you're,
34:03
you're even though like I was, I, I, I gave like I, I was able
34:09
to do lots of almost surgical assists.
34:13
That's what I'm going to say. So you're you're a combat, you
34:15
get a medal for a combat, a combat medic.
34:18
So you're you're dressing wounds, you're applying pressure
34:22
on a bullet wounds, your tourniquet stuff, your blood
34:25
pressure, all the kind of stuff that you mash.
34:27
You're a mash guy, right? So for those you don't like,
34:30
Google Mash, Google mash the series and they basically.
34:32
Credit Matthews. Hawkeye thing of.
34:34
Of that wow. Like it never happened as a
34:38
civilian in the the civilian world, you could practice the
34:42
EMT basic, you have to go and get certified and all these
34:45
other things on the civilian side to be able to be a
34:47
paramedic or otherwise. So I, I went, yeah, I went to
34:51
school. I got my bachelor's degree in
34:54
three years out of I got after I got active duty and psychology
34:57
and Biological Sciences, went to a physician assistant program
35:02
here in Mesa AT Still University and I was a physician assistant
35:06
and practice as a physician assistant and kind of the same
35:09
thing happened to me as the restaurant business.
35:13
I had less hours, but the hours I was working as a physician
35:18
assistant like there, there was no, if my kids called I I
35:24
couldn't get to them. I couldn't be there for them if
35:26
they called me. And then I started taking a lot
35:30
of that stuff home with me. Then dealing with insurances
35:35
administration, increasing patient loads, less time with
35:40
patients and like all that stuff.
35:42
I, I, I just wasn't doing well. And then I became a financial
35:46
advisor and that's what I'm doing now.
35:48
And I actually really love it and it's been really, really
35:50
fulfilling. It gives me the opportunity to
35:51
do things like these runs that I'm planning and, and stuff.
35:55
So and. And and and to come on the Chris
35:57
and Mike show, which is brought Yeah 20.
36:00
Three countries around the world.
36:01
There you go. First off, I would be remiss if
36:04
I didn't say thank you for your service and especially thank you
36:07
for being a medic. That's amazing.
36:09
I'm sure you saw things. Nope, nobody should see.
36:12
But those guys were thankful you were there.
36:13
So that's awesome unto itself. And I think the second message
36:18
that people should hear, especially those in that
36:20
business, is the restaurant business needs to figure out a
36:25
different way if there is one because I hear that story over
36:28
and over again. Yeah.
36:31
Yeah. And.
36:32
Obviously the. Medical system is imploding
36:35
because I've that story I've heard on podcasts, I've seen
36:38
documentaries. My mom worked in a hospital for
36:41
almost 40 years. I'm intimately familiar with the
36:44
way that our medical system is imploding, and nobody seems to
36:49
really be able to do anything about it because, like you just
36:52
said, insurance companies and the government have a
36:55
stranglehold on that business. Yeah, the other thing, the other
36:59
team too, if you want to relate back to people to understand
37:02
what what Matthew's like was like in the medical side of it.
37:05
I have a a surgeon I, an ER doctor I sold the house to and
37:09
he said the series The Pit with Noah Wiley nails it.
37:13
That's like, if you want, if you want to know what it's truly
37:15
like to be a medical professional in an emergency
37:19
room setting, watch the pet. Like he nailed it there.
37:22
It's yeah. I haven't seen that.
37:25
But if it strips away the romanticizing of like all these
37:28
other medical shows and everything, like shows the
37:30
reality of it, I'm all for watching those things.
37:33
Don't, don't be deceived of what it really is.
37:36
Yeah. Yeah, no, Andrew, Andrew, this
37:38
the friend of mine, Doctor, he's like, that's that you.
37:42
We were playing poker, went out of this house poker night and,
37:44
and it got brought up because it was the real estate guy and then
37:48
three doctors. I'm like, oh, I fell on apps
37:49
here like big time. And so I asked, I'm like, you
37:52
ever seen this show The Pit? And they're all like, that's the
37:54
best show. It's the most accurate show
37:55
you're ever going to watch when it comes to what it's really
37:58
like from the doctor and the medical staff's point of view.
38:02
And he and I think Wiley won. I think Wiley won a, was it an
38:07
Emmy or something? I don't forget what TV is
38:08
saying. Is it?
38:09
Yeah, tell him for that. Yeah, so he won a number.
38:12
It's set in Pittsburgh, thus the Pit, and if the really cool
38:15
thing, I won't give up the whole series synopsis of it, but the
38:18
the what haunts them in the it's it's it's kind of like remember
38:22
the show 24 with Kiefer Sutherland?
38:24
Oh yeah. Same concept.
38:26
So every episode is an hour. So you have a full day, 24
38:30
episodes. That's the, that's, that's the,
38:31
that's the. It's real time.
38:33
That's good. Yeah, real, real time.
38:35
And then it, it kind of has these, these flashbacks to COVID
38:40
because that was the PTSD that the doctors, nobody ever talked
38:43
about doctors and nurses dealing with PTSD, right?
38:46
It's all you got to focus on the patient, patient, patient.
38:49
You're just supposed to be these non caring, you know, stoic, you
38:54
know, like. Inert, not emotional, Yes.
38:57
That's. No emotions.
38:58
Yeah, yeah. No empathy, nothing.
39:00
You're just, you're just there to stitch and move on.
39:02
Stitch and move on. It's so it kind of goes back and
39:05
forth with that PTSD struggle of the COVID years year.
39:10
Yeah, it was years. So it's it's a really cool show.
39:12
If you haven't watched them. Like it's, it's you know, from,
39:15
from a, from three different doctors sitting at a poker table
39:18
saying, yeah, that's the best you're ever going to get when it
39:21
comes to what really that's like.
39:23
There you go. And that same with the bear that
39:25
the, the, the restaurant side of life.
39:28
So Matthews lived both of those. That's insane.
39:31
That is crazy. That's a hell of a life resume,
39:34
man. All you need to do is do Chris's
39:36
job and then you'll have the trifecta of.
39:38
High stress. Environment.
39:40
Right there you go. I do have one of the highest
39:43
stress I had. I saw this two-story Matthew.
39:45
I sold. I sold two houses.
39:46
There was a family they were moving and and the the one of
39:51
them I've known since 76. So he and his wife are moving
39:55
and then having the the wife's parents move with them to a
39:57
community in in the East Valley. And his in laws were so
40:01
emotionally attached to this house when we got done.
40:04
Tony says to me, I I don't know how you do your job.
40:07
I negotiate hostage situations for a living.
40:10
And I wouldn't take your job to save for anything just for how I
40:14
had to deal with his father-in-law with he and he's
40:16
super nice human like he just he raised all his children in this
40:20
house. He was just emotionally vested
40:21
and it was a struggle for him to go.
40:23
But getting that back from somebody who actually lived and
40:27
breathed hostage of situations and and he's the guy now that
40:30
that he's retired, but he he he does.
40:32
I'm not going to explain it right.
40:35
Missing missing, missing case, missing case and missing
40:38
persons, whatever when you just have a bile a pile of bones.
40:41
His thing now is trying to put a name to those bones.
40:44
So that's kind of like his life's work once he's left.
40:47
The homicide there was at Maricopa County.
40:51
Fascinating human. But yeah, so I can't even
40:54
imagine. You've had three high stress
40:56
level jobs in your lifetime and how old are you?
40:59
I'm 41 right now. Yeah.
41:02
Wow. That's crazy and.
41:04
Wow, that's yeah, that's that's good.
41:06
That's crazy. So let's go, let's go back to
41:08
your other stuff, the Scarface Mountain.
41:11
What is the that's 360. What is the what is the tell the
41:14
people what the and I'll throw the thing up.
41:17
It's it's because I got to sign up for it anyway, because I
41:19
keep, I keep telling me we got to do that.
41:21
So it's it's a 5K King K family fun run.
41:24
And what are the cost for that? I know it's changing, it's
41:26
evolving. So yeah, the 20, the, I'm sorry,
41:29
the the fun run is a one mile front run.
41:31
It's the half mile out half mile back it's $20.
41:36
The 5K right now, oh shoot, I believe it's $40.
41:42
I'm so sorry if I have that wrong, $40.00 for the 5K and the
41:46
10 K $50. December 1st prices will be
41:49
increased by $5. Lots of great things that come
41:54
with that. The the top finisher of the 5K
41:56
and the 10 KS will each get a $100.00 gift card to a running
42:00
local running store, which was a great sponsor.
42:03
Forward Footwear, which is in Northeast Mesa.
42:07
They're also providing $50.00 gift cards to those who return.
42:10
The silver bars. The missing silver bars.
42:13
How much are the silver bars worth in relation to the 50
42:15
bucks? What's what's?
42:18
Pennies. I have a it can't.
42:22
We'll see. I I haven't found the the
42:25
perfect silver bar yet, but we'll have something for that.
42:27
They every person will also get a race shirt and a finisher pint
42:33
glass that will have the race logos on it.
42:37
The pint glass is really cool. I'm working on and trying to
42:40
find a photographer to pay them to provide free finishership
42:46
photos for all the race participants also.
42:49
So there's a lot included in that compared to other races
42:52
price wise. I think it's it's it's amazing.
42:57
Yeah. So but it it should be a lot of
42:59
fun too. Yeah, we, Nikki and I started
43:02
when Nikki ran cross country in high school.
43:04
I ran the 800 but I trained with the sprinter, so the longest I
43:07
ever ran was 800, right so. That was my event.
43:11
It was 800 and college. So when when we got to the point
43:15
to where I wanted to start running, we started with five
43:19
case with a local company called Arizona Run your race a run your
43:22
race AZ. So we started doing 5 case and
43:25
then the better and better we got A5 case.
43:26
Then obviously, you know, so 10 KS and 15 KS, things like that.
43:31
But that's where that's where I started running and getting the
43:33
running bug was 5 case. So you know, you know, you do a
43:37
5K for 40 minutes, think you're a stud and then later, like, you
43:40
know, three years later, you're running across fish 26 minutes.
43:43
Woo Hoo. You know, then my son, the
43:45
Marine, Hey, dad, I just did A5 K 19 minutes.
43:47
Like shut up, man, just shut up. 19 minutes.
43:50
Like really, I can't, I can't catch him doing that at all.
43:53
I could catch his, I could catch I beat his plank.
43:56
He had like a 3 minute plank. So my, my, my job was to crush
44:00
him. So I my best planks 9 1/2
44:01
minutes and then he did a 6 minute mile.
44:04
So it took Me 2 1/2 years to get there, but I did 255 minute 55
44:08
second back-to-back miles. So I beat him.
44:12
I was 53 at the time, so I was pretty proud of that.
44:14
That's. Awesome.
44:14
That's awesome. That's really.
44:16
But when I told him, when I told him I'm going to come, I'm going
44:18
to beat you, I'm going to come get you.
44:19
He's like OK old man, but still you.
44:23
Know challenge accepted. I can see my son saying that to
44:27
me soon, yeah. Yeah, so how so?
44:30
How How old are your kids now? 17 and 14.
44:34
OK, right. On I have a son who's 17, he's a
44:36
senior in high school and my daughter 14, she's a freshman.
44:40
OK is do both of them run? Do they have to they get the
44:43
running bug? I have to drag my My son is
44:48
running a lot right now on his own.
44:51
My daughter wants to do everything and she is really
44:58
short and she did track and field and she loves high jump
45:02
and I not, not the right, not the right jeans for that.
45:08
But she loves it and she does. I want, I want them to find what
45:11
they love to do. So it's really like I want them
45:13
to love running, but they don't love it like I do.
45:18
Yeah. The most important question is,
45:21
do you now know everything? Because they're at the age where
45:24
they know everything. I I never knew everything,
45:29
especially young, young knowledge.
45:32
I I was old at a young age. We have that I I learned I
45:38
learned to piss, piss off my son.
45:40
He got in trouble one day, so I made him.
45:42
I made him go run with us. He beat not just the he beat
45:46
everybody like he beat. He was the first one across the
45:49
finish line. It was my first ever thing I did
45:52
with with runner race. AZ was the real talk USA Run
45:56
Your race 5 or Feed My Starving Children 5K because we were
45:58
doing our first charity thing when I was when I was doing my
46:01
radio show. So I I partnered with run your
46:04
race Arizona. So Jake was pissed off.
46:06
He got in trouble or something. So made him go to the race and
46:10
legit he beat everybody and I'm like, I'm going to piss you off
46:12
more son. I forget the time to which it
46:15
was a crazy time. He would be able to tell you,
46:17
but I had to be around 20 minutes and he never ran a day
46:20
in his life. Like it wasn't anything that he
46:21
wanted to do aside from the little sprints and stuff you do
46:24
at baseball and football practice wasn't long distance.
46:28
But he just, I made him go, 'cause he did something wrong.
46:30
And so, you know, just. Voila.
46:33
Just, you know, yeah, yeah. So just piss your son off, man.
46:37
And well, I guess you can't now 'cause he's 17, you know.
46:41
So hindsight when he has his grandkids tell him hey just piss
46:44
off your piss off your 8 year old and then make him run with
46:47
you and then it's lifelong. Passion.
46:50
Right. Yeah.
46:53
So then let's talk a little bit about you.
46:55
Let's talk a little bit about United Sound.
46:57
Yeah. Do you, are you able to share a
46:59
screen? Can you?
47:00
Yes, yes. Go to my I've.
47:03
I've done a post about United Sound so I want to talk about
47:06
how I'm raising money for United sound.
47:09
I mentioned I've. Can you see that?
47:15
Is that make a donation? Oh yes, perfect.
47:19
The pledge. If people want to go to this
47:22
pledge, this website that has the pledge link and pledge per
47:25
kilometer, per mile, and that will really help me one more
47:29
loop every time, like I'm going down what site?
47:32
Is. Please, Yeah, yeah.
47:34
What is the website? Because I just, I just clicked
47:36
it. I don't know the domain.
47:37
Oh the URL is crazy. Yeah, that is the United Sound
47:42
website. I don't know if there's a direct
47:43
link, so just there's. United Sound.
47:47
Well, I can just United sound there.
47:49
It is so yeah, United sound.org. Just go to unitedsound.org and.
47:53
Then, and you should be able to find it.
47:55
And I might have to get them to make it more because they kind
48:01
of hit it. It's only accessible by the link
48:04
that I share on socials, yeah. That's how I found.
48:08
It I'll have them open up, I'll have them open up.
48:10
So donate per kilometer or mile and that will really help me
48:15
continue going. Awesome.
48:19
The longest I've run is 31 miles.
48:21
My goal for this my I've got three goals.
48:24
That's kind of how I typically live.
48:26
I have a baseline 100 kilometers, which is 62 miles.
48:30
That's my baseline goal. I feel like no matter what
48:34
happens, I think I could, I could hit that mark and it's
48:37
it's a big mark. But then my next goal on top of
48:40
that is 100 miles. And that is going to full 24
48:44
hours finishing 100 miles. And then my third goal on top of
48:47
that is to do anything above 100 miles.
48:51
And that's what that will go. That will go towards the United
48:55
Sound. And the United Sound is a great
48:58
peer mentoring program. They offer middle school, high
49:02
school, and even college level special needs mentorships for to
49:06
get the special needs kids and and disabled kids to be able to
49:10
participate in music programs. It's not a music program, it's a
49:15
peer mentoring. And they've actually been around
49:18
for 10 years. They're just coming out with
49:19
some research that shows very significant findings and
49:23
improved coping skills, being able to live in adulthood.
49:28
Like there's so many great benefits to this program that
49:31
they're being and it's, it's just such a great, great thing.
49:34
That's great. And for those and for those of
49:36
you watching us live, I just put it on the Chris and Mike show
49:38
page. It's right there.
49:40
Donate. Awesome.
49:41
Thank you so much. Very.
49:43
Cool, this is what we do man. That's why we're here.
49:45
There's. There's, there's that for sure.
49:49
And so just make sure you understand that because like
49:52
when Michael Scott, my buddy Michael Scott, he was doing the
49:54
Dunder Mifflin 5K for rabies awareness thing and he signed
49:57
up. Actually, it was before that was
50:02
his first race ever. Oscar his his employee.
50:04
Oscar wanted him to sign up right for race.
50:06
Per mile. Per mile.
50:08
Yeah, per mile. And he put, he put all $25 in
50:12
the I tried to, I tried, I've always tried to do the math in
50:17
my in for that episode, but I can never figure it out because
50:20
they don't actually say how many miles that that Oscar's nephew
50:23
ran. But I can just imagine, you
50:25
know, because it's kind of like, you know, that one of it, I
50:27
think it's called around the world where you're running
50:29
non-stop for 24 hours, right. Every yeah, you know that thing,
50:33
Matthew, I'm sure you do where you're just running.
50:35
It's just non-stop. But yeah, so it's per per mile,
50:39
which is cool. What's what's the average that
50:42
people donate for that per mile? I I I've had someone donate
50:47
$0.50 per mile. I've had someone donate I think
50:51
$3 per mile. So far 80.
50:54
No, I've had I've had one person do $5 per mile.
50:57
So the hope is that $5 per mile donation will be $500, that
51:02
$0.50 per mile donation will be $50.00.
51:06
So $0.10 per mile, whatever it is like I don't care.
51:10
I anyone who donates will increase the impact of, of what
51:15
we're doing. So cool.
51:17
Right on. That is really cool.
51:19
Yeah. So again, you can go to Chris
51:21
and Mike show Facebook page and and links there, sign up for
51:24
that for sure. So anything else you want?
51:26
Anything else you want to touch on Matthew?
51:28
No, as my dog is going crazy, no.
51:31
Thank you guys so much, I really appreciate it.
51:33
We appreciate you coming on. It's so nice to meet you man.
51:36
Yeah, well, I, I already know him, so it's cool to have you
51:39
come on. It's cool to have you come see
51:40
the other side of me, you know, instead of just.
51:43
It's been awesome. It's been a lot of fun.
51:44
Thank you. Yeah, I'm just, you know,
51:46
Gordon, I'm just like, hi, I'm Chris.
51:48
Welcome. You know, So there's that.
51:50
So if you want to find anything about Matthew, go to our
51:52
Facebook page. That's on there especially
51:55
specifically United sound thing. Then I'll go ahead and share the
51:58
Scarface Mountain run, which is usually mountain July, January,
52:01
sorry, January 3rd and then so January 3rd is the Scarface
52:05
Mountain, correct? Yes.
52:07
And then and then January 24th is the United.
52:09
January 24th, it's the United Sound Run, which is my 42nd
52:13
birthday, so that's what I'm doing for my birthday this year.
52:15
Very nice. Happy birthday.
52:17
That's awesome. Thank you.
52:18
So we so before we go, we're going to we wrap up all their
52:22
shows like this, but I want to share something that, you know,
52:30
real quick here. And don't log off when you're
52:32
done. We got to Yeah, don't log.
52:33
Off yet Matthew? Don't log off yet, Matthew.
52:39
Oh wait, I'm in the wrong profile.
52:41
He's in the wrong profile. Well, I just, I just come on
52:47
discussion. Wow, it's just dragging stupid
52:54
tech. My connection was so slow
52:56
getting on today. It was OK.
52:59
There's been some power outages down here in the valley.
53:02
I'll tell you what, there's something weird going on because
53:04
I kept losing connection as I was driving back and forth to
53:07
Michigan today. Like in my car you would have
53:10
huge dead spots where I'd never have them before.
53:14
So, OK, so we wrap a very show like this and the reason why
53:17
this picture is there, we lost Steve over the weekend.
53:23
Not sure why, but he said to take his own life.
53:25
And, and it's just, it's, it's if you're, if you're feeling
53:28
sad, depressed, suicidal, go outside and run and go scream in
53:32
a pillow. Go journal, you know, find
53:36
somebody to talk to you. If you can't find somebody to
53:38
talk to you, go to text 988. Somebody's there waiting to talk
53:41
to you to help you understand that it's OK.
53:43
Tomorrow is a better day with you in it because you're going
53:47
to leave a hole in somebody's heart, IE right there.
53:50
Somebody does love you. Somebody will miss you.
53:53
So just, you know, don't go to the extreme because you have no
53:56
idea what kind of impact that action is going to have on
53:59
everybody around you. This is someone that that Nikki
54:02
and I, I mean, for years and years and years, we went to
54:04
Raptors games with them. It's it's just it, it's one of
54:09
those things that's like, it's just, it didn't have to happen.
54:12
So you know, you're not alone. You're seeing somebody will love
54:15
you. Somebody Loves You.
54:16
Somebody will miss you. Just don't do it.
54:19
Text 988. Somebody's there to help you.
54:21
They're standing by waiting to help you.
54:22
That's what they do for Chris and Mike.
54:25
I'm Chris, He's Mike. This is Matthew Burton.
54:27
Until next time, Thank you so much for tuning in all 23 of our
54:31
countries that we have now. You guys are fantastic and and
54:33
we're here because you allow us to be so so that being said,
54:37
love you brother. Love you too, man.
54:39
Thank you, Matthew. Thank you guys.
54:41
Love you man. Love the running, love the
54:43
charities, love all the things you do.
54:44
Because that's what we're all about, man.
54:46
Life resumes. Your life resume is outstanding.
54:48
Come back and tell us about this ultra marathon.
54:50
Please. Yeah.
54:51
We'll have you back. We'll have you back on in
54:53
January. All right, everybody, until next
54:55
time. See you.
54:56
Peace. Yeah, don't.
55:07
The place where you will go behind your eyes.
55:16
Take a moment.
55:36
Fight the battle. That's you for queer.
55:40
Fight the battle, but you for queer.
55:44
Who is his baby to you. See a Oh yeah, this is to you.
56:54
Come down here.
57:07
We haven't found solids in the sand from fighting.
57:14
We're for the dead. We're supposed to arrive here
57:19
for the wind. There ain't no quizzes.
57:23
We're playing. So you quit on the almighty man.
57:29
You gotta dream. Who in your life to keep up?
57:35
Soul in every man. Take the trail behind your eyes.
57:42
Feel the soul revolution now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
57:52
yeah. Your moment.
57:57
Look who you see here. Fight your family.
58:00
To you. More clear.
58:28
You gotta, you gotta. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta.