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#12 | Lirone Speaks · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Going on y'all, it's Susu with Corpus Christi Originals.
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SPEAKER_00: In this podcast, we have as our guest Lerone Speaks.
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SPEAKER_00: He is a motivational speaker into fitness, weightlifting, football.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a kinesiology major.
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SPEAKER_00: And uh he talks a little bit about his uh uh Christian faith.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh this is something that you're interested in.
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SPEAKER_00: Stay tuned to the podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Hey, what's going on, Lone?
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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the show.
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SPEAKER_00: How you doing?
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SPEAKER_00: How has how did you feel when we first initially invited you onto the show?
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SPEAKER_01: Honestly, I was like, what me invited to a podcast?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm pretty known some areas.
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SPEAKER_01: I know a lot of people know me sometimes.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but when you messaged me, I was like, What?
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I was I was excited, but I was I was nervous at the same time because I mean I love to talk, I could talk, I love it.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: So whenever you talk to people, I mean it do you feel yourself like how how do you feel yourself communicating with people?
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SPEAKER_00: Like um, I don't know, like some people could just be uplifting, could be like negative, you know what I mean?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, how do you find yourself talking to people?
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like when I talk to people, I'm very understandable.
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SPEAKER_01: Like I can understand a lot of people's situations.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm pretty I'm an uplifting person, I'm very optimistic, super optimistic.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's just my background as a Christian and whatnot.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I was always told at three years old that I was a uh old soul.
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SPEAKER_01: So ever since then I've been talking.
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SPEAKER_01: I was never like this.
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SPEAKER_01: I was I was a shy kid in school, no one like I don't talk or whatever, but then when I got a job at I want to say 14 or 15, and then when I got my first job, I was working at Best Western, and my boss was like, You need to start talking.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't know if I can do that.
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SPEAKER_01: And then ever since then, I love it.
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SPEAKER_01: I love it.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool, that's cool, man.
1:56
SPEAKER_00: It's like your last name uh speaks for itself.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: I know my yeah, nobody gets that's my last name.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at my ID, it's there, it's on my birth certificate.
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SPEAKER_01: That's my last name.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool, man.
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SPEAKER_00: I like it.
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SPEAKER_00: Awesome, man.
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SPEAKER_00: So you're um so wow, you were born and raised in Louisiana, New Orleans?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, I was.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, and so you moved over here um uh as a response to Katrina.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, uh 05 uh Katrina happened, so we witnessed the whole thing.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember remember like yesterday.
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SPEAKER_01: Um I want to say like the day before Katrina, my mom was like, There's no school tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_01: And I was like, Oh, okay, cool, there's no school.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm only eight years old.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay, there's no school, whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: And um, so the following day, we had my cousins and my cousins of eight that stood at night, and their mom they came and stayed at night, and then my mom, she was she was a single parent at the time, and then she had me, I was eight, and then my sister was I want to say um she was five, and then my younger sister was uh two, two years old, she just turned two, and um that day I I remember everything seeing so much going through that and then trying to survive in the midst of like hurricane and trying to survive where people don't want to don't want you where they're at.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, because a lot of people they would they will say, oh no, you can't stay here because every two-story building, but it's like we live in a a one-story apartment, and like how we want to survive?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, literally, um the war was at the roof of my house.
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SPEAKER_01: Like it was it was bad.
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SPEAKER_01: I seen it all, witnessed it all.
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SPEAKER_01: Um and then we was we were there for a while.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh they allowed us to stay for a night, and then the rescue boats that came to pick us up on the bridge, and all we had was what we could fit in the bag.
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SPEAKER_01: And we had no trash bags full of stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: We had you know bags of chips, we had some salmon stuff like that, but that wasn't gonna last us that long.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether and some of my cousins didn't have shoes, it's hot the next day after a hurricane all the time, it happens everywhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so it was like I want to say maybe 90-95 degrees, maybe felt like 110.
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SPEAKER_01: And some of my cousins didn't have shoes, and someone don't have any clothes like that.
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SPEAKER_01: And my my youngest sister and cousin that just became potty trained, and then they have to relearn, like they have to like you know, just use the rest of themselves because they just learn how to potty train.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so crazy man.
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SPEAKER_01: It's been it's been a lot, it's been a lot, but I mean it's a blessing in disguise, so I don't really complain about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, that's that's definitely hardship that a lot of us have not experienced, and just like to hear uh your side of it, it you know, even if at a young age you can remember those types of things, you know, it's like that it that has an impact on your life, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, would you say that that uh that um has helped you uh to become the person you're becoming?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, I feel like it helped me, you know, tremendously, uh, because I feel like if that haven't if that didn't happen, where would I have been?
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SPEAKER_01: Who I would have been out there, you know, it's a bad environment in the orders already.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's a lot of young young adults, young men who get you know hurt and stuff like that.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's like how would how would I been if I stood and the hurricane never happened?
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SPEAKER_01: I think about sometimes like will I be the same person I am?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, would I be this you know, genuine person who's honest, uplifting, motivational speaker who likes to coach, who plays football?
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SPEAKER_01: Will I be the same guy?
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SPEAKER_01: So I I think about it quite often, but I don't think I would have been the same if uh the hurricane didn't happen.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm kind of I'm actually blessed that it happened.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, things happen for a reason.
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SPEAKER_01: That's my life motto.
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SPEAKER_00: So it definitely can be a blessing, like in disguise if you don't notice it, man, for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
6:12
SPEAKER_00: So you mentioned football.
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SPEAKER_00: You played football in high school?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, I played football south park when it was just South Park by itself.
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SPEAKER_01: I played uh seventh grade year, then I went to GP, eighth grade and ninth grade year, played football there, and then I went to Moody, a Mooney Moody, back to Corpus, and then I played at Moody for for the rest of my uh high school career.
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SPEAKER_01: I played some C My Pro, but um I I had quit multiple times because I mean you have to pay money to play, so I'm like, I don't, I mean, I'm just fresh out of high school, I can't pay, I can't pay anything.
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SPEAKER_01: So fresh out of high school, uh um going to uh college and you know working minimum wage, and I'm like, I can't pay for this stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: Um but I I love it, I love playing it.
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SPEAKER_01: I love it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just been a passion of mine, yeah, for sure.
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SPEAKER_00: I so I so I imagine you got into the weight.
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SPEAKER_00: I know you like weightlifting.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, I see some of your videos, bro.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, dude.
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SPEAKER_00: You you we're talking, guys.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're not if you're not familiar, this guy has like five 45 pound plates on each side of the bar, or four of them at least.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dude, how much weight is that, man?
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SPEAKER_01: Uh so well well the videos you've seen, the recent ones, I want to say it's about four plates each side.
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SPEAKER_01: So I mean that's 405 pounds.
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SPEAKER_01: I squat.
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SPEAKER_01: I try to I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of people always come to me and ask me, like, uh like how you do that.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I honestly don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I just I think I'm gifted at squats, I'm gifted at lifting weights.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, because I I remember my first year, my freshman year, I was um, I had a friend of mine, he he was like, you know, uh uh maybe a four-star recruit, and his dad was uh refrug a referee player, and he was good back in the day, you know, state championship and stuff like that.
8:05
SPEAKER_01: And he trained me at the YMCA, one that where now I work, and he said, Oh, we're gonna start lifting weights.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, Okay, cool.
8:12
SPEAKER_01: So we we you know we started lifting weights, wherever I I started off with the bar, like everyone else.
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SPEAKER_01: So I started with the bar, and then every like literally every session, like the weight just kept going up.
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SPEAKER_01: So my first year of squatting, towards the end of the year, I squatted 300 pounds as a freshman.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I remember my uh my uh sophomore year.
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SPEAKER_01: I went to Moody and then it had this record board on the on the wall and had the uh the squad record, it was like uh 500 550 pounds.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, I'm gonna beat that one day.
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SPEAKER_01: And then no one believed no one believed that like you can't do it.
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SPEAKER_01: I I promise you I can do it.
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SPEAKER_01: I know I can.
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SPEAKER_01: And then I know that year I got 485 pounds my sophomore year, and then my uh junior year, I got 505 pounds, and then my senior year, I was like, you know what?
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SPEAKER_01: It's time to go to the record.
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SPEAKER_01: So um I'm about to I matched the record, I had the the record matched on my on the on the squad, and my cousin was like, no, just get beat it, beat it.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, all right.
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SPEAKER_01: So I put a just no uh 2.5s on the side, so now it's 555.
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SPEAKER_01: So I squire 555.
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SPEAKER_01: No, I had a video of it, it's all the way down my Instagram, but uh I squared 555, and then later that year we did max out again, and then I got 585 pounds.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the most I ever squire, 585 pounds.
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SPEAKER_01: So I mean I just love it.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Right, yeah, no, that's awesome, bro.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: Dude, for sure.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: And you gotta get you have a good, you gotta have a good form too.
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SPEAKER_00: You can rehearture for sure, especially at that amount of weight, and uh yeah, that's cool.
9:51
SPEAKER_00: So so what's your frame?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, are you how tall are you?
9:54
SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm really short.
9:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm really short.
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SPEAKER_01: Everyone, everyone, uh like everyone uh says you post pictures like you're tall, but I'm not.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm like 5'2, so I'm like I'm like 5'2.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, so I'm pretty a pretty short guy.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I was never I I think I wasn't built like the way I am now.
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SPEAKER_01: I wasn't built the way I am because in high school I was uh I was a you know lineman, you know, no, I played you know uh varsity at my senior year, started all my games my senior year as a lineman.
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SPEAKER_01: And um so doing that, I would uh I want to say I was like about almost 250 pounds at 5'2, you know, frame.
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SPEAKER_01: I was just a big dude.
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SPEAKER_01: And then my senior year was like it's time to lose weight or whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: I got down from 250 all the way to 185 pounds.
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SPEAKER_01: But then of course, since I got you know a fiance girlfriend, that's when the happy weight came on.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, dang, it's your fault.
10:56
SPEAKER_00: No, but you still so even though that happened, you were still maintaining, you were still lifting weights.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, yes, yeah, that's yeah, so you could still be you could still be kind of kind of big, but still have a lot, you know, a lot of strength.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean awesome, bro.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of people look at me now.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't seem that I'm I'm not that big.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't feel like I'm like fat or whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just that if it just filled up like you know, very proportional all over.
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SPEAKER_01: So I mean good.
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SPEAKER_01: I like it.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean it doesn't bother me.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's not just squats too, you're benching a lot too, bro.
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SPEAKER_01: Honestly, bench that I'm not gifted at that one.
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SPEAKER_01: Um that that literally took years to get to where to where I'm at right now, because um I want to say I was benching maybe a 25 side.
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SPEAKER_01: I wasn't able to bench a plate until I want to say my senior year.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: And then I was um I just worked harder.
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SPEAKER_01: I just kept putting the work in every single day and just try to become stronger progressively, and that's why I'm able to bench you know where I can now because it's just a lot of work.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: That's what something people avoid is work.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just you can't expect something and then don't put the work in.
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SPEAKER_00: So yeah, I love that.
12:12
SPEAKER_00: I love that about your videos, man.
12:14
SPEAKER_00: Like, you're just like, Look, dude, if you want this, you have to do this to get it.
12:19
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's like you could there's sacrifice that occurs uh for that to happen.
12:24
SPEAKER_00: So I mean, uh, so can you speak on that a little bit?
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SPEAKER_00: Like what I mean, why do you think that?
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SPEAKER_00: How did you come to that conclusion?
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SPEAKER_00: Like, look, even if you want this, you have to do this.
12:35
SPEAKER_01: Um honestly, I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I feel like I feel like sometimes I speak for myself.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't speak for everybody when I do those type of videos.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't speak, I I don't talk to the people who I'm doing the video for.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to myself sometimes.
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SPEAKER_01: So sometimes I catch myself in the in the runt.
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SPEAKER_01: I go look at my own videos and I'm like, dang, you know, but it's always for me.
12:59
SPEAKER_01: But honestly, I feel like when I speak about those things, um I try to reach people as much as I can.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, it's just that because of my experiences in my life that overcome and that how um what I've seen and done and what you know, seeing the sacrifices that my mom had made, taking the leap of faith and doing the work that she has now, and that's a successful uh daycare business of her own.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's like it's just I I it's just all life experiences.
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SPEAKER_01: That's all it is.
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SPEAKER_01: That's why I am passionate about you know trying to make sure that people you know put the work in in regards to anything that they want.
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SPEAKER_01: Anybody can achieve it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just that you just have to just do everything, everything it takes.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and if you really want something, you gotta you gotta definitely work at it totally, man.
13:50
SPEAKER_00: Uh you had a post something, uh, I think it was um excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: It was about like finances or something, something about uh I don't know, paying off or something or other.
14:00
SPEAKER_00: But I've cut we're kind of on the same lines too.
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SPEAKER_00: My wife and I we don't like debt or so is there any advice that you have on that?
14:07
SPEAKER_00: Are you working on towards some kind of uh like financial plan or something?
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SPEAKER_01: Um so right now, I mean, I'm young and I um I was uh approached by a guy um during my coaching when I was coaching.
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SPEAKER_01: Um he his name is Rick Rick Moleen, he's uh the people's borrower or whatever, and he's very well known.
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SPEAKER_01: He's no um wall uh professional and he's very big on finances.
14:36
SPEAKER_01: He's been you know teaching me about that.
14:38
SPEAKER_01: My parents have been great help, you know, with finances.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's just a goal, the the goal of mine is to uh to not struggle as much as my parents have my mom had there before.
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SPEAKER_01: Um because we never had we were never made of money, you know, we was like you know, lower class or whatever, um but we made everything work.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying it wasn't poor, it's just that we didn't we wasn't able to get everything that you know everyone had.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but is that it's just something about me that I just want to have that security in my life and to be able to not worry about, oh, I gotta pay this bill, oh, I gotta do this.
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SPEAKER_01: I I just do it, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's the that's my plan with no finances is to honestly to not worry about money and to be able to get things what I want whenever I want, and will not worry about the repercussions of oh man, I I get this, and now I can't get this.
15:35
SPEAKER_01: I can't pay this bill.
15:36
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to worry about that, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but I mean, my advice to people with finances honestly, um with that, I mean, everyone has a story, everyone has a different uh size of opinion.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm very, you know, understandable guy, like anybody can have a difference of opinion.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm very open-minded person.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just that with finances, I mean, what's important to you?
16:03
SPEAKER_01: It all comes down to priorities.
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SPEAKER_01: Um what you prioritize, like do you prioritize you know your monthly subscription over um your bills?
16:11
SPEAKER_01: Do you prioritize you know um uh going to to uh take get drinks at the bar with your friends, then you know get groceries for your house.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: It's like what you prioritize.
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SPEAKER_01: That's that's all it comes down to.
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SPEAKER_01: Just uh get your priority set straight, and then maybe or more than likely, you'll become financially free over time as long as you keep uh doing that uh priority straight and stuff like that.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: That's interesting.
16:37
SPEAKER_00: It's it's almost like the decisions you make now will have an effect on your future financially.
16:45
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure, man.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so do you think that like owning a house is part of like financial uh I guess uh like legacy, I guess you could say do you what what's the importance of owning a house to you?
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SPEAKER_01: Um the importance to owning a house to me, honestly, despite my you know my dreams and goals, whatever, I feel like owning a house is great for I mean for an average person who's willing to stay wherever they're at for maybe more than 10 years.
17:17
SPEAKER_01: But but my dreams and goals and desires are on coaching, you know, collegiate professional level.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: I don't see myself owning the house for a long time.
17:27
SPEAKER_01: And I make sure I stress that I stress that to my fiance.
17:30
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I don't know if we could get a house pretty soon.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna be moving a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: I I have to like you know, we prepare for it.
17:37
SPEAKER_01: Um, it's just that's just I I have a tremendous amount of faith that I will make it far.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: I know I will.
17:44
SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to be like a cocky person, I'm very confident in my abilities that God gives me, and I I mean, he will not give me a goal and a dream that I cannot achieve.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: So that's why I'm very confident that I can do it.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: Awesome, man.
17:58
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so so like so you're kind of you're kind of young.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: It's like like uh a lot of people are pressuring pressuring you into doing like doing that because it seems like like as soon as you graduate, graduate or whatever, you get a job or whatever, but everybody's like, you need to get a house.
18:13
SPEAKER_00: You need to get a house.
18:14
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know what I mean, and you're kind of like Yeah, I I mean it's a lot of pressure sometimes for people, uh especially like older people, like older co-workers and older friends.
18:26
SPEAKER_01: Um, they will they will pressure you to do things like oh go have a you know I mean well nowadays people don't like to have kids.
18:33
SPEAKER_01: They say, Oh, wait to have kids, wait to get married, wait to do this.
18:36
SPEAKER_01: It's like why I need to wait.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, if I'm happy where I'm at and I'm young, I can get married if I want to, because I'm happy.
18:44
SPEAKER_01: I'm happy with the person I'm with, but a lot of people say, Oh, wait till you're 30 to have kids, wait till you do this, oh go get a house, go have fun.
18:52
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm I'm having fun with the person who I love.
18:56
SPEAKER_01: Why it makes no sense, it's just that people like to push their own personal beliefs and opinions on you.
19:04
SPEAKER_01: Um, I do I want to talk about this one thing that struck me kind of a wrong way because I proposed to my fiance, and then when I came back to work, I want to say maybe two weeks after the Christmas break, I was working with the school district at the time, and she was like, some lady came out and said, Why do you got mad?
19:22
SPEAKER_01: Why you why you propose?
19:23
SPEAKER_01: You're young, you go have fun.
19:25
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I just like I don't know what they want.
19:29
SPEAKER_01: Like that's why it's like I could care less about any other's opinion.
19:35
SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, it's great to have other people's opinion to make your own decisions, but I could care less about it, you know.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: It's like it's my life, it's not yours.
19:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry you went through a hard time, but I'm not and I'm enjoying it, so don't change it for me because of your own personal experiences and your own mistakes.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: I know I'm not making mistakes.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: My mom will let me know.
19:55
SPEAKER_01: I mean, God will let me know.
19:56
SPEAKER_01: So it's like I haven't got any uh sign that I'm making the wrong mistake ever since then.
20:02
SPEAKER_01: My mom's been supporting ever since I turned 18.
20:05
SPEAKER_01: That you know you can do anything you want as long as you put your mind to it.
20:09
SPEAKER_01: So that's that's all I've been doing.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
20:12
SPEAKER_00: Good for you, bro.
20:13
SPEAKER_00: Good for you.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh the naysayers are out there, bro, everywhere.
20:17
SPEAKER_00: When I when I yeah, when I first got married, uh shoot, man, probably the I don't know how maybe like 10 years ago or something.
20:24
SPEAKER_00: But uh, my coworkers, dude, they were so negative, it was it was insane.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: They were like, Oh, you're gonna get divorced.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: Like, like three or four guys would tell me that, dude, from work, and I'm just like, Are you serious, bro?
20:36
SPEAKER_00: You know, I couldn't I couldn't believe it, man.
20:38
SPEAKER_00: And and I I just saw how unhappy they were, and it's like, no, that's not me.
20:44
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
20:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, um, like I had a friend, I have a friend of mine, and they said, Oh, once you get married, that's like uh that's the chain and link.
20:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, it's not.
20:55
SPEAKER_01: Like, why are you making it seem like when you get married, like you just locked down?
20:59
SPEAKER_01: Of course, like you with that person for the rest of your life, but it's like I'm not locked out, I'm free still, even though I'm married.
21:06
SPEAKER_01: We're still having fun as a couple and stuff like that.
21:09
SPEAKER_01: And of course, there's gonna be time where we're gonna start trying for kids.
21:12
SPEAKER_01: And it's like, oh, once you have kids, that's it, you're done.
21:15
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, no, I'm not.
21:16
SPEAKER_01: I can take my kids where I want.
21:17
SPEAKER_01: Like, I could take my kids on the the dreams and desires I have for my life as well.
21:22
SPEAKER_01: As as if I'm a if I like to work out, I'll take my kids to a workout with me.
21:26
SPEAKER_01: I'll take my kids out for a walk, I'll be more active with them.
21:29
SPEAKER_01: Or, you know, he'll say, uh, my friend will say, like, oh, once you get old, you won't be able to lift all that weight and stuff like that.
21:35
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, well, that's not me.
21:37
SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, I get it.
21:38
SPEAKER_01: It was that you use that point in your life as a younger person, but you you laid off.
21:44
SPEAKER_01: You laid off of it.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: You when you start working out at a certain point and then try to get back into it, of course, you're gonna start to hurt.
21:51
SPEAKER_01: But if you do it for a consistent time, I mean, I've been doing this since I was 14.
21:54
SPEAKER_01: Now I'm 23.
21:55
SPEAKER_01: So 10 years of working out, lifting weights.
21:58
SPEAKER_01: I mean, of course, yeah, I know.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: It will happen.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: You there's gonna be you know bumps or whatever, it's gonna happen, it's inevitable.
22:06
SPEAKER_01: But you just gotta continue to keep working.
22:08
SPEAKER_01: You can't this is a lifestyle thing, it's not something you do for a certain amount of time and then you stop, you know.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: So, I mean, people's opinions they're gonna say, they're gonna say people's gonna say things, you just can't control it.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, and it and like in my journey, I feel like it has it, it feels like okay, so my my single years, yes, I I feel like I got to a certain level, and then when I got married, I feel like it took me to another level because it required more of me, more responsibility, more sacrifice, because it wasn't just about me.
22:41
SPEAKER_00: So I had to evolve and change as a person after being married, and I have, you know what I mean.
22:47
SPEAKER_00: I learned a lot of things about myself that I had to change, and then after getting married, after having kids, I feel like I went to another level, bro.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: Because I had two little I have two little human beings that I have to look after and provide for, so it's like it it I think that it helps uh a person become more better.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: I I guess like the next stage in their life, you know what I mean?
23:10
SPEAKER_00: Because you can be single for so long, and then the next stage is marriage, you know.
23:14
SPEAKER_00: Because I I believe in God too.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: I believe God created an order, you know, get married, have kids, you know.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: That's that's the order.
23:21
SPEAKER_00: Uh and and I feel like nowadays orders it's crazy, it's it's like mixed up, you know what I mean?
23:27
SPEAKER_00: People have kids first, and then they get married, and then sometimes they get married twice, and it's just it's out of order, you know what I mean?
23:35
SPEAKER_00: And when there's a lot of people doing that, there it's that's the advice that's out there.
23:40
SPEAKER_00: And for people that are uh are kind of trying to live those biblical principles, it's like going against the grain almost, you know.
23:49
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, so yeah, it's it's more mad props to you, bro.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: Just keep at it, man.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: It's awesome.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: Of course, thanks.
23:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so you're working on your your kinesiology degree currently?
24:00
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I'm still in school.
24:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, I finished all my last years at AM Corpus uh in the fall.
24:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I'm like right around the corner of graduating.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: Right around the corner.
24:12
SPEAKER_01: So but I mean after I get my you know my bachelor's in kinesiology, um, I I do want to go back to school, get my master's, and get my doctorate for sure.
24:24
SPEAKER_01: It's just something I love.
24:25
SPEAKER_01: I love the study of the body, nutrition.
24:28
SPEAKER_01: I that's just me.
24:29
SPEAKER_01: I just fall in love with it ever since you know high school when I was losing weight.
24:33
SPEAKER_01: I just fell in love with it.
24:34
SPEAKER_01: I did it all by myself.
24:35
SPEAKER_01: No one helped me.
24:36
SPEAKER_02: Right.
24:37
SPEAKER_01: The only person who helped me do anything is my mom.
24:40
SPEAKER_01: But other than that, no one helped me.
24:41
SPEAKER_01: I got advice to her just research, reading research papers, articles.
24:45
SPEAKER_01: I'm doing, you know, I'm watching uh seminars, I'm watching uh YouTube videos from higher knowledge PhD experts and stuff like that.
24:53
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like to come to me for advice.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, you can do this, you can do that.
24:57
SPEAKER_01: Um, but sometimes people do their own thing.
25:00
SPEAKER_01: But I just it's just kinesiology to study the body, working on exercise and nutrition is a big passion of mine as well.
25:07
SPEAKER_00: Wow, man.
25:08
SPEAKER_00: And so it seems like you already you have a good foot in the door because you work for the YMCA.
25:13
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I am the sports director and the outer redirector over here at the YMCA.
25:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I'm doing um working with kids.
25:21
SPEAKER_01: Like I feel like ever since I graduated, I've been working with kids.
25:24
SPEAKER_01: So um five, you know, looking six years working with the YMCA.
25:28
SPEAKER_01: So we've been six years since I graduated, six years with the YMCA, and I've been working here as a just a regular staff doing regular sports, and I did front desk, and I did child watch, I did maintenance, and then they hired me on as a director, sports director, so I just been you know going up ever since then.
25:46
SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
25:47
SPEAKER_00: You start it's you started at the front desk.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: That's amazing to me.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: Yes, and then child care and then maintenance, and then now you're wow, that's awesome, bro.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's pretty cool, man.
25:58
SPEAKER_00: So so you like working with the kids, huh?
26:00
SPEAKER_01: Yes, I love working with kids.
26:01
SPEAKER_01: I mean, kids are like about it.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: Oh what I love about it, honestly, I love watching them grow up.
26:09
SPEAKER_01: Uh, that's that's the one thing I love to you know watch, watch them grow up, and then some some of these kids, I mean, they have no dads and moms, you know, healthy households, but they always come to me for anything, and that's what I love the most.
26:22
SPEAKER_01: And it's like I don't even I don't know you like that, and you can come to me for advice or for anything, and for you to entrust instill your trust into me means a lot.
26:34
SPEAKER_01: So, no kids just always been a passion of mine, I guess, ever since I started uh no little coaching little league football.
26:42
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I just love the kids.
26:45
SPEAKER_01: That's is all that's all it's for.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: It's for the kids, yeah.
26:48
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, it is a cool influence to have like you to I mean it just to be an influence on the kids and see them just light up, you know, because they're they're innocent, bro.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: They're like they're and it's like uh show them the to show to be able to show them what you think believe is the right way, it's like fulfilling because they have their whole life ahead of them, you know.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
27:10
SPEAKER_00: Um that's pretty cool, man.
27:13
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
27:14
SPEAKER_00: So so you so you Matt, so you it seems like you're gonna be working from all ages of people, uh, because you want to get to the collegiate level.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: Yes, of course.
27:23
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it I'm not gonna say it's a long shot, it's just I I think about sometimes like dang I'm about to work with like other hosts, you know, I'm about to yeah, they have to listen to me.
27:34
SPEAKER_01: And then it's like I'm being fired too, a doesn't help.
27:37
SPEAKER_01: So it's like where they gotta look down to the coach and have to look up to my players.
27:41
SPEAKER_01: I mean, right now I have to look up to these kids.
27:43
SPEAKER_01: These kids are tall.
27:44
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, y'all.
27:47
SPEAKER_01: Um but other than that, yeah, I I mean, I mean, there's people, there's adults who come to meet them like you don't know how much you inspire me.
27:56
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what?
27:57
SPEAKER_01: Like you were like you're a grown woman, grown man.
27:59
SPEAKER_01: You told me I'm inspiring you.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm only 23.
28:02
SPEAKER_01: I mean, 20, you know, age from 18 to 23, people say that, and it's like it just means a lot.
28:08
SPEAKER_01: It means a lot.
28:09
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I don't try to.
28:12
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just I'm so I I feel like I'm gifted.
28:15
SPEAKER_01: That's a gift I have that I cannot control, and that's something I'm called to do.
28:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so are you a uh millennial?
28:24
SPEAKER_01: I think I am.
28:25
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think I'm in a millennial, yeah.
28:26
SPEAKER_01: I'm 23.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: Uh I think I should be a millennial, yeah.
28:30
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm asking because there's a stereotype with millennials, like, oh, they feel entitled, they're all like this, you know what I mean?
28:38
SPEAKER_00: But you're like not like that.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know what I mean.
28:44
SPEAKER_01: I I I know what you mean.
28:45
SPEAKER_01: I get that, I get that quite often.
28:47
SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: So many people nowadays, like my age, they just feel like they're entitled to get more money.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: It's like, um, no, you don't.
28:56
SPEAKER_01: Like, you have to work for this, like, right, you gotta start somewhere.
29:00
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just I guess it's the way I was raised, and you know, seeing my mom, but she was a single parent.
29:07
SPEAKER_01: Um, I mean, I had my father in my life, and then it didn't work for them both, and then my mom was a single parent, and have my stepdad, but he's not my stepdad, that's like my actual dad.
29:17
SPEAKER_01: I love him a lot.
29:18
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I've just seen that and my mom instilling all this stuff into me and the way how she raised us as an independent woman and us to be independent, that's why I am the way I am.
29:30
SPEAKER_01: You have to work what you want, you know.
29:33
SPEAKER_01: So I don't know, it's just the way I was raised.
29:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was gonna I was thinking that too, because I feel like upbringing has a lot to do with how somebody turns out.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: Uh just because that's how you learn as a kid.
29:47
SPEAKER_00: You I mean, if you learn like that as a kid, then you're gonna be like that.
29:51
SPEAKER_00: Uh like I don't know, like successful football players can have somebody in their life that was a successful football player, you know, or or somebody that's an awesome mechanic, their father could have been mechanic, you know what I mean?
30:05
SPEAKER_00: Um, so I think that definitely has a has a part to play in somebody's uh uh uh success, you know, as you know, through life, you know, in navigating through life.
30:15
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
30:16
SPEAKER_00: It's awesome, man.
30:17
SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, so yeah, I'm just reading your profile here on the on MCA, and it's pretty cool.
30:23
SPEAKER_00: So you're um I'm trying to think of some other stuff to say.
30:27
SPEAKER_00: Is there anything you want to share by any chance?
30:30
SPEAKER_01: Um, I do want to share that.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I've been coaching uh you know Little League football ever since you know my brother joined.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: Um coach was like, oh, we need a coach.
30:39
SPEAKER_01: We I'm the only coach here.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: Then my mom's like, oh, this is your chance.
30:42
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead and do it.
30:43
SPEAKER_01: And I was like, oh, okay.
30:44
SPEAKER_01: And ever since then, it's been the rest of his history.
30:47
SPEAKER_01: I mean, um, all the years that I've been coaching, I went to Super Bowl, I think almost every year.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe that's maybe one year I did not go to the Super Bowl.
30:57
SPEAKER_01: I won two back-to-back Super Bowls.
30:59
SPEAKER_01: Um, I went undefeated for one season.
31:02
SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, that's just accolades, you know.
31:08
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I could care less about winning, and I could care less about Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl or going to nationals in Florida.
31:16
SPEAKER_01: I don't care about those things.
31:17
SPEAKER_01: The only thing I care about is these kids take whatever I taught them while I was coaching them and they take it to their life, they take it at home, they take it to school, they take it to work.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: And they, I mean, I always tell the parents every time when I first when I start, you know, start coaching the gear, I tell parents like if they misbehave at home or they misbehave at school, let me know, I'll discipline them.
31:40
SPEAKER_01: If they say yeah, uh-huh, let me know, I'll discipline them.
31:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't believe, yeah, uh-huh.
31:45
SPEAKER_01: I believe in yes, sir, uh, no, sir, yes, ma'am, no ma'am, um, yes.
31:50
SPEAKER_01: That's like I that's I believe in respect.
31:53
SPEAKER_01: And um if they can't those those kids don't learn something from me, I didn't do my job.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: As long as they learn something from me and they could take it to the work, take it to where they're gonna work at, wherever they go to school at, or whatever they play at, I know I did my job.
32:09
SPEAKER_01: But if that if that doesn't happen, then I didn't do what I was called to do.
32:13
SPEAKER_01: So um it's just something that I love, you know, making sure that kids have this because I had that in my life.
32:20
SPEAKER_01: My mom taught me all of these things.
32:22
SPEAKER_01: I'm teaching these kids.
32:23
SPEAKER_01: I had father figures when I was uh who played uh who coached football to me, you know, at South Park at uh GP and Moody who instilled those things into me and who I look up as father figures, and I have friends who I look up to, and I have my dad now who I look up to who taught me these things, so now it's like I'm able to teach these kids things as these coaches have taught me at uh at a later age than them because these kids started at six year old playing little league football, and I mean it's always good to let them know how much they're valued, and it's always good to let them know that they're gonna make mistakes, they're gonna do things wrong, everything's not gonna be perfect.
33:09
SPEAKER_01: If you tell kids, oh you um you gotta be perfect every single time, that's all that kid's gonna try to do.
33:15
SPEAKER_01: That kid's gonna try to be perfect, and then when he's trying to be perfect, he messes up one thing, he's gonna feel defeated, feel miserable.
33:22
SPEAKER_01: Really remind the kids it's okay to mess up, that kid's gonna be like, okay, it's fine.
33:27
SPEAKER_01: Um I can mess up, but I just have to do better next time.
33:31
SPEAKER_01: So it's just football is like a passion and coaching it, it's uh it's amazing.
33:36
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
33:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like an you're it's like you're using it, you you like it, you're using it as an avenue to teach kids more than just that.
33:47
SPEAKER_00: That's that's amazing, uh, like life lessons.
33:50
SPEAKER_00: And and I feel like I I I've learned a lot of stuff in playing football too, as far as like being able to persevere and knowing what my body can actually take, you know, uh both mentally and physically.
34:03
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and that's a great point where like don't teach them to be perfect, um, just teach them to to to continue to try.
34:12
SPEAKER_00: Because if you like, if you teach them to be perfect, then sometimes it'll break their spirit to where they'll they won't want to try anymore because they're afraid of failing.
34:21
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
34:22
SPEAKER_00: And we don't want that.
34:25
SPEAKER_01: I mean, failure is part of life, it's it's supposed to be there, you're going to fail.
34:32
SPEAKER_01: I mean, all my videos on Instagram, I post going to fail, work hard, you know, value your loved ones as while they're here.
34:42
SPEAKER_01: It's because I've seen it in my life and I seen it in other people's lives.
34:46
SPEAKER_01: But you're gonna fail, it's gonna happen.
34:48
SPEAKER_01: You can't you can't not expect to fail.
34:51
SPEAKER_01: I I mean, I know I'm gonna fail as a coach.
34:53
SPEAKER_01: I know I'm gonna fail as a co-worker.
34:54
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to, but it's what you do after that, it's how you become after that.
35:00
SPEAKER_01: That's what dictates you.
35:01
SPEAKER_01: Um, I I want to say as a call, I may mess it up.
35:04
SPEAKER_01: I mean, life is only 10% what happens to you, but 9% how you how you view it, what you do with that 10%.
35:13
SPEAKER_01: So whatever you do with that 10%, because life you can't control everything in your life.
35:17
SPEAKER_01: If you can't control whatever happens to your life, then that 90%, you have to do whatever it takes, whatever it means to you to overcome it, and how to perceive your perspective is reality.
35:29
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so it's like I mean, there's two that's two different types of people.
35:34
SPEAKER_01: That's one person who will say, Oh man, I failed my test.
35:38
SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm mad, um, upset.
35:41
SPEAKER_01: And then another person who failed tests, oh man, I failed.
35:43
SPEAKER_01: That means I need to study next time, I need to be better next time.
35:46
SPEAKER_01: That's two different people.
35:48
SPEAKER_01: Which person makes it more in life?
35:50
SPEAKER_01: The one who's uh moping about that it failed, or the one who's okay that they fail, but they know they need to work harder.
35:56
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I believe the person who wants to work harder and to pass next time is gonna be a person who'll be more successful in life.
36:02
SPEAKER_01: You cannot you can't be successful in life, but then yet be just you know drag and cry.
36:11
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, shoot.
36:12
SPEAKER_01: Anybody could everybody has a sad story.
36:14
SPEAKER_01: It's what you want to do about it.
36:16
SPEAKER_01: Everybody has a sad story, you know.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: It's like I can say, Oh, I grew up while a dad, I can uh I'm gonna go ahead and deal drugs, and I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do that.
36:26
SPEAKER_01: I don't care about my life, but then another part of me, oh I didn't grow up with a dad, but I'm gonna be that dad that that I didn't have to my kids, and I'm gonna be that dad or that father figure to those kids who I coach because I didn't have that.
36:41
SPEAKER_01: It's two different people, it's just how you choose to do it.
36:44
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people have that story, so it's that's why that's why when people have a sad story, I'm like, well, then what you gonna do about it?
36:52
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do it simple fact.
36:54
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, man, yeah, that's awesome.
36:57
SPEAKER_00: It's a and it's amazing to me how how as humans we're kind of wired to know that you know what I mean.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: Like uh I had a person on the podcast, and she she had a problem with like addiction to pills and stuff, right?
37:14
SPEAKER_00: And she knew that she was using certain events in her life as a crutch to do those things, so it's amazing that she knew that and she was can still continuing to do it, you know.
37:26
SPEAKER_00: And as opposed to somebody that say, like that that does that doesn't do that, but they're aware, but they know they need to make the change, and they make the change, you know.
37:35
SPEAKER_00: I mean that it's a decision, yeah.
37:37
SPEAKER_01: It's all decision, it's just what you decide.
37:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's in the Bible.
37:43
SPEAKER_01: The Bible is it's it's it's right there, it's all plain of sight.
37:47
SPEAKER_01: You God already died for you, he died for your sins.
37:50
SPEAKER_01: It's your decision if you want to believe him or not.
37:53
SPEAKER_01: It's your decision.
37:55
SPEAKER_01: Everyone makes a decision.
37:56
SPEAKER_01: I mean, you can make the wrong decision, but you know that you didn't make the right decision, right?
38:01
SPEAKER_01: And know that, but you you decided that you can't blame others because you made the wrong decision.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: That's yourself to reign.
38:09
SPEAKER_00: That's interesting.
38:10
SPEAKER_00: So, do you do you read the Bible or uh beyond the two?
38:15
SPEAKER_01: I'm not a big avid Bible reader, but I mean I'll read like um excerpts from it um here and there.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I go to church pretty often um on Sundays.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: I go to church limited.
38:27
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I mean I try to stay my stay in the word of the Bible.
38:32
SPEAKER_01: I need to do it more.
38:32
SPEAKER_01: I know I do see it's like I know I need to, but it's just not true.
38:36
SPEAKER_01: But um I I like to read it.
38:39
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it gives me a lot of uh a peace, sense of peace and comfort when I do that.
38:45
SPEAKER_01: So um I mean it happens like where I'm just overwhelmed.
38:49
SPEAKER_01: I just just read the Bible, just like just breathe.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: I'm like a fool.
38:55
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, definitely.
38:56
SPEAKER_00: Uh I I like uh I read Proverbs more than anything inside that book, uh, which I don't know, maybe I should read other past other parts of it.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: But Proverbs is really packed uh full of wisdom, life skills, life wisdom.
39:11
SPEAKER_00: I love that.
39:12
SPEAKER_00: I can't I can say that I can probably say that I read from Proverbs at least like three times of the week.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: Because you know, I need to have 31 chapters, you know, whatever, and you read one the like today's the seventh or whatever I read the seventh chapter.
39:27
SPEAKER_01: Anyway, yeah, yeah.
39:29
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that man, that I call it Jewish wisdom.
39:33
SPEAKER_00: That Jewish wisdom is is good for life, you know what I mean?
39:37
SPEAKER_00: And some some people choose to follow it, some people don't choose not to follow it, you know what I mean?
39:42
SPEAKER_00: Some people have negative uh thoughts toward church and stuff like that, you know.
39:47
SPEAKER_00: And uh do you ever get that?
39:49
SPEAKER_00: Do you ever get that from people?
39:50
SPEAKER_00: Like, because you say you go to church and stuff, do do people ever like um think that you're a certain way because you say that you go to church or whatever?
39:58
SPEAKER_00: No.
39:59
SPEAKER_01: I I mean uh to my nice, no, I don't think people I don't think so.
40:05
SPEAKER_01: I know that um I had a debate with one of one of my friends on Facebook.
40:11
SPEAKER_01: Um she she's not a big believer, and I just talked to her and um I'm like I said, I'm a very open-minded person, so I could see both sides of the story, and she was she went through so much in life, and she's like, How can God be real?
40:27
SPEAKER_01: and then all this happened, and then it's like it's not God.
40:30
SPEAKER_01: That's the thing.
40:31
SPEAKER_01: A lot of people like to blame God when things happen bad, but it's like God doesn't allow it.
40:35
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the devil works too.
40:38
SPEAKER_01: The devil was an angel too.
40:40
SPEAKER_01: Um, so it's just I don't know.
40:44
SPEAKER_01: I mean, Christianity, I mean it's a big, I mean a big part of my life for sure.
40:49
SPEAKER_01: Um, but I was never I I never got saved until I was, I want to say 13.
40:57
SPEAKER_01: 13 I got saved.
40:59
SPEAKER_01: So I mean, I mean, since then, I mean, that chunk, 13 and and younger, I mean, I didn't know.
41:06
SPEAKER_01: I didn't, I mean, I knew there was a God, but I wasn't very heavily involved.
41:10
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I still went to church on Sundays and stuff like that, but 13, that's when I was like, oh, okay, this is real.
41:17
SPEAKER_00: I really yeah, what is that?
41:20
SPEAKER_00: So what is what does that mean, saved?
41:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, so saved, all right.
41:25
SPEAKER_01: So basically, you have to confess with your mouth and believe with your heart that died that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and you would get the ticket to heaven.
41:34
SPEAKER_01: That's the point of being saved.
41:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, so um, I mean, I go to church limited, so they try to take as many people to heaven as they can before they die, period.
41:44
SPEAKER_01: So that's that's that's our the church model.
41:47
SPEAKER_01: Um, that's their presence, that's their calling to do, try to take as many people to heaven.
41:52
SPEAKER_01: It's really not hard to get saved, but a lot of people don't like to do it because they don't believe in it, and they just feel like it's too good to be true.
42:00
SPEAKER_01: But it's pretty it it that is true, it's in the Bible, says in the Bible, just confess your mouth, believe with your heart, and you'll be saved.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: Right.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: That's interesting, bro.
42:09
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh, yeah.
42:11
SPEAKER_00: Uh so people may think like, well, be saved from what?
42:15
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
42:15
SPEAKER_00: They may have questions like, well, I mean, what's what's wrong with me?
42:18
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
42:19
SPEAKER_00: And then and then when when we're approached with that, it's like uh there's nothing wrong with me.
42:24
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
42:24
SPEAKER_00: Some people could be kind of like like like I guess arrogant and think they can do no wrong.
42:29
SPEAKER_00: And when they see that the that that they have to accept Jesus or God, you know, then it's like, no, for what?
42:36
SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
42:37
SPEAKER_00: So anyway, it's pretty cool that you're talking about that on the open.
42:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, of course.
42:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man, that's awesome, bro.
42:43
SPEAKER_00: So that so did you so your mom, I guess your mom helped uh kind of guide you, guided you in that way.
42:48
SPEAKER_00: She was was she like a uh a Christian?
42:51
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my mom's a Christian, she's a heavy Christian.
42:54
SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
42:55
SPEAKER_01: My mom, I mean, my mom was a praying mom.
42:58
SPEAKER_01: My grandma, I mean, it all starts off with my grandma.
43:00
SPEAKER_01: My grandma, I mean, she prays like if you want to like right.
43:04
SPEAKER_01: We we go out of town pretty often and then go see my family in New Orleans.
43:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, my grandma prays every morning on her knees in the living room on the couch.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: Wow, every day.
43:14
SPEAKER_01: And it's my grandma prays for everybody, her grandchildren, everybody, like I we have a praying, praying family, and our mom has that.
43:24
SPEAKER_01: She she's a praying mom, she prays every single day, no matter what the situation it may be, and then it just feeds on, it just bleeds everywhere, and it's just it's very, it's very uh it's like a wildfire, it's gonna spread.
43:38
SPEAKER_01: It's a positive thing, which I like.
43:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm glad my family is like that.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like like it goes back to upbringing, man.
43:45
SPEAKER_00: Like your grandparents were like that, your mom learned that from them, and you learned that from her, you know.
43:51
SPEAKER_00: And it's almost like it's almost like the the way they lived was like biblically sound or base, you know.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: And and when that is kind of like an under root, it seems like that people will for the most part grow up, you know, good, you know, successful, like have have morals and and ethics, you know, to them.
44:13
SPEAKER_00: Uh uh, so that that's pretty cool, man.
44:15
SPEAKER_00: So your family is so your grandparents are from New Orleans?
44:18
SPEAKER_00: Are their parents from New Orleans?
44:20
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, everybody's my whole family's based in New Orleans.
44:23
SPEAKER_01: Wow, bro, that's awesome.
44:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so uh New Orleans.
44:26
SPEAKER_00: We went so I went to I visited New Orleans uh probably like two years ago.
44:30
SPEAKER_00: Uh man, awesome culture.
44:32
SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
44:33
SPEAKER_00: I saw the levees.
44:34
SPEAKER_00: We got on one of the steamboats, and I saw the levee in the town underneath.
44:37
SPEAKER_00: That is so crazy, dude.
44:39
SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then we saw the um like the tower or whatever we went down that that road right there where they had those, I don't know what you call them.
44:48
SPEAKER_00: Um, but anyway, that that culture was actually there so long ago.
44:52
SPEAKER_00: It's so to think about that, and to have like maybe your pay probably possibly your ancestors that were involved in that, and you know, make it makes me think about like how much they uh you know believed in God and the Bible and all that stuff at that time, you know.
45:07
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, do you ever do you ever think about that stuff?
45:10
SPEAKER_01: I think about it.
45:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I wonder who my ancestors are.
45:12
SPEAKER_01: Like, are they French people or you know, Ontarian, where they're from, how they originate, like why we here?
45:19
SPEAKER_01: Like, it's just I think about that sometimes too.
45:22
SPEAKER_01: It's like who it started from?
45:24
SPEAKER_01: Who's the who's the person who started the ancestors thing, wherever it was based at?
45:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, so I don't know.
45:32
SPEAKER_01: It's yeah, I think about a lot you know, it gives me a deep thought sometimes.
45:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's almost it's and then you go back and then you have to trace it back to the Bible because it because the Bible's true, right?
45:42
SPEAKER_00: And you have to trace it back all the way to Adam and Eve, you know what I mean?
45:46
SPEAKER_00: And then uh I guess nations got separated and they just kind of filled the land.
45:51
SPEAKER_00: And I don't know, man.
45:53
SPEAKER_00: I could talk about God and all that stuff for a long time.
45:58
SPEAKER_00: I mean, is there anything else you want to share?
46:01
SPEAKER_00: Uh fitness.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, um, other than that, I mean uh there's really nothing much I can share because I feel like I shared quite a bit.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't mind uh sharing anymore.
46:13
SPEAKER_01: I don't mind sharing.
46:15
SPEAKER_01: Um, but um other than that, I mean, as long as you want to anybody, whoever you know, listening to this or watching this, if you want to achieve something, you have to you have to work for it.
46:26
SPEAKER_01: And you take anything from a 23-year-old who and you probably ordered a mean, and I'm like, why am I listening to this person?
46:32
SPEAKER_01: And it's like, I mean, anybody can say that.
46:35
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I feel like God speaks through me to see you to anybody, some majority of the time in my life.
46:42
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes you just you just have to just go with it.
46:48
SPEAKER_01: And um, so I feel like you know, God's a big part of my life, my mom's a big part of it, and my dad is they made me who I am.
46:57
SPEAKER_01: And so for me to instill that into you, that you can do anything you want, as long as you set your mind to it and work at it, you can achieve anything possible.
47:08
SPEAKER_01: No weapon form, no weapon form against you should be used on you with the with the power of God that he has for your life.
47:17
SPEAKER_01: As long as you believe in that, and I mean, if one be saved, you just have to confess with your mouth and believe with your heart, and will be saved.
47:25
SPEAKER_01: And saved all it means that you will be have that ticket to heaven.
47:30
SPEAKER_01: You're saved by the grace of God, by the you know, his the the shed of his blood for your life.
47:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, so sorry if I'm all over the place, but it's just that it's all good, bro.
47:41
SPEAKER_01: It's just it's just a part of my life that I make sure that everyone gets what they want, unless they want it and want to work for it.
47:51
SPEAKER_00: Yes, sir.
47:52
SPEAKER_00: That's good stuff.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: Excellent, man.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: We appreciate the advice.
47:54
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
47:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no problem, man.
47:56
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, man.
47:57
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, well, I appreciate you coming on the show, Leron.
48:00
SPEAKER_00: Leron, right?
48:02
SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, you said it right.
48:03
SPEAKER_01: Everyone calls me coach, every lot of you call me coach, speaks, or coach speaks, coach, yeah, cool.
48:09
SPEAKER_01: Everybody calls me all the time.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: My teachers will call me that at high school.
48:12
SPEAKER_01: Oh, what's up, coach?
48:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, dang, I'm only high school.
48:16
SPEAKER_00: Already, already calling you coach in high school.
48:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they was already calling me coach in high school as a uh as a senior, so I mean everyone called me coach now.
48:24
SPEAKER_00: So amazing, bro.
48:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, that yeah, we appreciate you having you on, man.
48:29
SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, thanks again.
48:30
SPEAKER_00: So, how how do we find you online?
48:32
SPEAKER_01: Uh so everything's basic.
48:34
SPEAKER_01: I'm very, very simple, not those different hashtag type guys.
48:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh, so my uh Instagram is uh the roan speaks, my Facebook Lerone Speaks, Twitter, Lerone Speaks.
48:44
SPEAKER_01: Um, you can follow me, message me if you need any advice or help.
48:48
SPEAKER_01: I'm like quick to respond to anything.
48:52
SPEAKER_01: Um, if you're looking for a gym, come to YMCA, of course.
48:55
SPEAKER_01: Uh great gym.
48:56
SPEAKER_01: We do offer financial assistance.
48:58
SPEAKER_01: Uh sign up for kids for our you know, youth programs and get your kids involved in uh you know in their school, youth and government.
49:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh work with them as well.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: So uh, but that's about it.
49:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
49:09
SPEAKER_00: Awesome, man.
49:10
SPEAKER_00: Okay, you guys check them out.
49:11
SPEAKER_00: I'll leave links in the description in the description.
49:13
SPEAKER_00: So, all right, LaRonda, I'm gonna say goodbye, man.
49:15
SPEAKER_00: You have a good day.
49:16
SPEAKER_00: You too, you've been careful, man.
49:17
SPEAKER_00: Appreciate it.
49:18
SPEAKER_00: Oh, happy bonus day to mom.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'll tell her.
49:21
SPEAKER_00: Okay, bye.
49:23
SPEAKER_00: Bye.
49:23
SPEAKER_00: All right, y'all.
49:24
SPEAKER_00: That was Lerone Speaks.
49:25
SPEAKER_00: Um, you can find them, I'll leave links in the description below.
49:28
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49:30
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49:36
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49:40
SPEAKER_00: Bye.