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MMA Welterweight- Brady Minner · Caught on the Mike...

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Disclaimer, the views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Listener discretion is advised.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: There are 365 days in the year.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is 365 opportunities for Fresh Star.
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  SPEAKER_00: My next guest is no trade six five five death fresh start with this episode is five weeks because my guest is about to approach one year of surprise.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Brady Mid Earth is an MFA welterweight fights primarily with Dynasty Combat Sports, but has fought in multiple organizations around the Midwest.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Coming off of a recent victory on October 13th, we talk about Brady's life journey and get some interesting perspectives for the future.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Caught on the Mike.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a while since I've done an MMA episode, and you guys know how big of an MMA fan I am.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: We have local promotion here based out of Nebraska that I am super stoked to support Dynasty Combat Sports.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: And my next guest is a welterweight that main event Friday the 13th, Halloween Havoc.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Brady Miner's joining me on the show today.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: How the hell are you, man?
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, I'm good, dude.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh had a big win in Halloween Havoc and kind of just dealing with uh life after a fight.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the first the week after is kind of weird in the sense of getting in the gym and what you're eating and dieting and getting all that.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: I get that.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: I get that.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: I remember playing music back in the day, and when I would release an album or something along those lines, the day after the CD release was like this big weight lifted off my shoulder, and I was always like, oh shit, what's next?
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: Is that kind of where you're at right now?
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you kind of feel lost.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's like you're like you go into it and you're okay, I want to get this one done, then you get it done, you're like, okay, that was a huge release, like you said, weight lifted off your shoulders, and then you get like a day, you know, a day or two to be happy or sad about your performance or however you did, and then you kind of, I'm sure, in your field, kind of feel lost unless until you get another your next goal lined up, your next fight, your next song, whatever, you know, my case, your case.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's even like that with this podcast.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I will drop a huge episode, and you know, some episodes do better than others, and then once that episode drops, I'm like, shit, what's next?
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm a guy that like bases everything off strategy, and I'm always looking at things as like, how do I connect the dots to my next big goal?
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm sure as a fighter and somebody that's professional in your realm, you're kind of looking at things in a very similar accord.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: I've taken on a lot of like changes in my life this year, and what I've kind of been trying to do, my motto is do the next right thing.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, in like my training and my sense of my job, my kids, or whatever it may be, like I'll get I've been getting up early and lifting before work this last year, and it's really changed my game, and then I've been running more, so I've just been trying to make sure that I'm doing what you have to do in order to be successful in what I want to do.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: You've been going at this for a little while now.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: So before we really get in the weeds of it, why don't you introduce yourself and let's talk a little bit about how you got into mixed martial arts and what brought you from point A to point B.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: My name's Brady Minor.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: I was born in Auburn, Nebraska.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: I've lived in here in Nebraska City the majority of my life.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: I moved away for a couple years in high school.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: I was super into baseball when I was younger, and then uh I never really did much for sports.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_01: I I dabbled in football and I dabbled in uh wrestling, but I always got my ass handed to me in wrestling, so I hated it, and it was too much work.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: I had kids at an early age.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: I had kids at my first kid I had at 19.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: I was still just getting out of high school, and I had another one at 21 and another one at 25.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: And so what, seven years ago?
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I had my second kid, and I was up solid 250 pounds of just pure dad bod.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, somebody made a joke or a reference about me having not having not supposed to have back rolls.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, Hey, I don't think you're supposed to have back rolls, that's not supposed to be a thing.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: Just joking, but I kind of took it personal.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so my brother, Derek Miner, he's a former UFC fighter, he had just opened a gym here in Nebraska City, and so I was like, All right, let's go give this a try.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then the weight started falling off.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: I just went like and did circuit cardio circuit workouts with uh some of the older ladies in town and just people trying to stay fit.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: And so like I lost a bunch of weight, and then uh I had a job switch, something happened at a job, and I got a new job, so I couldn't uh like go to those classes anymore.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: And the only thing that worked with my new job schedule and my being a parent and all that was my brother's MMA class that he just started.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I started MMA just to continue to lose fat because I was huge.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was six, I mean, I was 6'4, 250 when I started, and I cut down just this last year.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_01: I've really taken it seriously.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_01: I I had a bad drug addiction for a while.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: So, like um, the first six years of my career, I was not really taking it serious.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: I liked fighting, I did it.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: I uh so I started that class.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_01: Derek signed me up out of nowhere for an MMA fight.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out golfing uh with a buddy of mine, just and I was a cigarette smoker at the time, so like it wasn't something I didn't plan on fighting, but Derek was doing it.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and then I get a tag on Facebook by the promoter of Dynasty Train.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: It said you're tagged in a post by Andrew Train Lee, and it was a big description of a fight.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: It was introducing me on the card, and I was like, What is this?
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_01: This can't be right.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so I messed, I messaged Derek and he goes, Oh man, I totally meant to tell you I signed you up for a fight.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, it was wicked.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was the craziest experience, though.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and then we obviously did the camp for it.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'd only been training for like four months.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: We did like a month camp of serious work and preparing to fight, getting the mental aspect of it, because fighting is so much more than just going out there and throwing hands, and I loved it.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: I went out there and I just slaughtered this dude in my first fight, and I don't know, maybe feel like full and like just I'm just a savage, and I loved it.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_01: I loved every bit of it.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: I first time I ever need a dude really hard in his face and watched him just look the look of terror, and I fell in love.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: It was like I said, I touched on it just briefly.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've done every drug you can think of.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: And so when I when I fought, when I won my first fight after all that hard work I put in losing weight and getting ready, that was the best high I'd ever had.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so I was like, this is I gotta keep doing this, and then I turned out to be pretty dang good at it.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: I uh had a pretty successful amateur career.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: I won two titles as an amateur, went pro, fought for a couple big promotions as an amateur.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_01: I fought for dynasty, mcf, lfa.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_01: Then I turned pro.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've got a pro title for cage aggression down in Davenport.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: That was wicked.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: I took that fight.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was really bad on cocaine.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: I was had a super bad drug addiction.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: So I overdosed.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, they put me in a coma.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so I bought, I don't know if you heard here around in your oh, it was took place.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: You're from Lincoln.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: It took place right on here when when that that fitting all laced cocaine was going on and killing everybody.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was bad.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm an idiot, and I was bad into it at the time.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: And uh actually, I'll be sober from it completely.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: What'd it say?
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: I got four or five days, I think.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: The 28th, I'll be a year sober.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: I fell off the wagon once.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: I fell off the wagon once after the overdose.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: So the overdose happened, killed me, got uh a couple Narcan doses to get me to not be purple, and then they life flighted me to Omaha and I was in a coma for a couple days.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I was told the doctors were pretty sure I was gonna wake up a vegetable if I was gonna wake up at all.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: That happened August 4th of 2021.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: And then I took that fight in Davenport short notice.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: I just got back into training.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I went right back into training, but I just got back into the being mentally ready to fight, sort of, you know what I mean?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: I just went, I was dead, and we like it was it was wild.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I just got ready to fight, and we got booked to fight for MCF in November.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: And then Cage aggression called, and they wanted me to fight October, actually it was October 13th of that year.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so yeah, they called me up, but they called me the fight was on the 13th, they called me the Tuesday of, and they're like, hey, you know, here's the pay, here's the pay, here's the guy.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, this is the weight, and I think I was at like 93, 95.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: So we had four three, we had four three days to cut 20 pounds and then get to Davenport.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: But the pay was good, and we liked the fight because I do real well with those short, stocky, think they can brawl type of guys, uh, or even the short stocky wrestlers.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's I'm tall, I'm lengthy, I'm hard to hard to get inside, and I'm awkward.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: So we took this fight and went down there and just we murked this dude.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: I broke his leg with leg kicks in like the second.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: He's a tough cat, though.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: He made it to the third, he made it like halfway to the third before I finished him with ground a pound.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was that was crazy.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: So that was you asked about my origin earlier.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: My origin story is like I have two of them.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: I my nickname is the Phoenix, so I have two of them.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: I came from you know, Auburn, Nebraska, born in a crackhouse family with no running water at times, and then you just you grow up, you know, in that sort of life of not really having much, and that in itself gives you a push to be a fighter, a survivor.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's pretty much all I've done is survive.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: And then I had the overdose, and I came back from that, and that I think is what really is my origin story.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: When I think about it, I think because from there on I really buckled down.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: I got a nutritionist, I started lifting, I started, I started getting sober from drugs, I started doing I started doing the next best thing, like I was saying earlier.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, there's so many guys like that have had kids that kind of fall into that same thing where it's like, dude, I've got kids, it's easier to eat shit food, it's easier.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's so much easier because that's all they want to eat.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like you're gonna eat what your kids eat, you're gonna snack on what your kids want to snack on.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really easy to get, you know, out of weight to kind of compound that with an addiction on top of that.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: I do appreciate the that Phoenix rising from the ashes story.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of switch flipped in your head one year ago after that cage aggression fight?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: So the cage aggression, so the cage aggression fight came.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: So when the overdose happened, we lost our children for a couple months.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_01: They got my in-laws got custody of them.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: And so well, my ex-in-laws had gotten custody of them.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: So there was things we had to do in order to get them back, you know, and so I think my personal growth really started on doing what I had to do to get my kids back.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't start in the fighting, it didn't start, you know, it had to I had to become a better human.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: That happened.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: My ex and I got the kids back, and then we fell off the wagon again after they got back.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: We had done it a couple times, and there was this one time where I was just like, I can't do this no more.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do this no more at all.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, this is this just drugs, not we're gonna end up losing these kids again, and so I think I just realized that the the path that I was on was not gonna get me to where I wanted to be as a father or as a person or definitely as a fighter.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like I started fighting, and so I I had in December of last year, I had a fight for Dynasty, and it was a fight that I still feel like I won, but I didn't perform.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think I went in with like a super lung infection, and then I got my arm, I went up to block a head kick, got my arm snapped in the middle of the second.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then so I had to fight for like eight minutes with a snapped arm.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: And so after that fight, I really looked at myself and was like, if we're gonna do this fighting thing, like we're gonna have to do it right from now on out.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so this whole year, it's been get up early, go lift, run after work.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, I have my own other duties as a father, and and you know, I'm a day job, I'm a production manager at a soup at a factory here over in Syracuse, and so I have my own day job, but like that was a big turning point for me.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy how kids can kind of motivate you in different ways.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Back in 2012, I went through a divorce myself, and like to compare the person I was beforehand with the person I've become since, it is almost like two totally different people.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think if you have any moment in your life that you don't cringe about, then you haven't really grown or experienced life, right?
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, 100%.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the person that I was last year at this time would be super proud of the person I am now.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because the person I was then was not, I mean, I wasn't I wasn't uh I wasn't happy.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: I was searching for I don't know, I was searching for highs still.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: I wasn't searching to to just do better.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like now I I like I I touch on that, do the next right thing often because like I do it in my daily life, even the little things like help this person with this thing, or I go out of my way.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: I do personal trainings, I have a lot of like younger dudes on my team uh at the gym, and I so like I do a lot of taking them in outside of the personal training, and I I do I just try to do what I can to help other people, and it's done a lot for me as a person, I think, this year just to overcome things, and I feel like that aspect of reaching outward and helping and doing what's what's right is just it's really helped me a lot.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: An MMA gym in Nebraska City.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: What a lot of people listening to this might not know is Nebraska City and Auburn, Nebraska are rural communities in uh southeast Nebraska.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what has been the response of the community to your brother's gym in Nebraska City?
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh well, so I train up in Omaha now.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you train with Premier, right?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: So when he had that gym here, though, the community was super supportive.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's I mean, they're super supportive.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: We have a few, me and both my brothers fight.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: I have a younger brother and an older brother.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: And uh there's a couple other dudes uh that fight from around here, and the town is just it's crazy how supportive they are.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's people that are new to the town that follow us, that people, you know, most of us fighters have been here most of our lives, so the town super supports us, and then the people that are even new to the town, like they get in on it like crazy.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's awesome.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's so awesome.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: This town, Nebraska City is huge on MMA, and and it they they love their MMA fighters.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you have a professional record currently of 8, 4, and oh, right?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: 8, 4 and 0, yes, sir.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about the future.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: We've kind of touched upon the past, we've touched upon the character building stuff.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about the future.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: What do you have your sights set on for the long term?
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Are you really wanting to make a go professionally in the fighting world?
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, I definitely want to make it to the big, big stage.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm not looking people do it for all different reasons.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: People, some people like to fight, some people want to be famous, some people want to be world champion, some people want the you know, the glory that comes with it.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: I as a kid who really came from not a lot, I just want to get to a point in my life.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: I love fighting and I love training.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I want that to be my job, but I I want to get to a point where I don't have to worry about uh how I'm gonna pay my next bill or how I'm gonna put the next meal on the table, you know, like fighting's uh it's when you're at my level, it's complicated to really pursue it as hard as you need to and get a job that pays to support what you need to support, you know.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: So so I think that's that's a big thing.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: For sure.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have a preference of which organization you would sign with if you uh were to make that next step in your journey?
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um I I mean ultimately the UFC is pretty much the goal for everybody, right?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everybody shoots for the UFC, and if and if they don't make the UFC and they hit Bellator or PFL on the way down, then then you do what you can.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, ultimately the UFC is the goal.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's where I would like to be.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think I have enough talent uh and like grit and heart.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think I I think I have what it takes to get there.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I just gotta just just buckle down and make sure that I do what I did all year this year consistently.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: I come off uh a couple of real real big wins this year.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that if I just stick to what I got going on right now, that uh I think I'll be there soon.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for sure.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: So are you a fan of the sport as well?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, do you follow fighters and such?
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: What are your thoughts about the potential of the PFL buying Bellator?
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think if that happens, do you think that that's going to be a tangible competition for the UFC in the future?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know competition tends to drive business, right?
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and you know, I do.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: I do.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think PFL is doing a good job on their own.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Really, and I think that uh I really like their open score system, that's super awesome.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: I think that gives uh fighters extra motivation, you know what I mean?
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, during the fight.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: If they if you go into the third round and you know you're down two caught two rounds, or if you know you won the first one and you lost the second one, the way you're gonna fight shouldn't be different, but it's gonna be different.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that I think that's huge for the sport.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: I think most I think everyone should do that.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: I think UFC should adapt that, honestly.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: I I wholeheartedly agree.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk a little bit about Brady outside of the ring a little bit more.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: What are some of the things that kind of drive you and motivate you not including fighting?
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what are some of your hobbies and some of your interests?
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: What makes up the personality of Brady Minor?
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: I spend most of my time either in a gym training.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: I've just picked up lifting recently.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: And man, that's that's been huge for me.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a release that I never really expected to find.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't, I nowadays like I got really big into it at the beginning of the year, uh, end of last year.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: And now I couldn't picture not having like if I don't go to the gym and lift, I have like an off day, you know.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_01: I uh so lifting that's been huge.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: I have my boys, I got my three boys, and we're big ball players, you know, basketball, football, baseball.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Football is probably the most that we play the most.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: My two older boys are just a little beast.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: My youngest is he's just getting into it.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: He's six.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: He had he actually went into his flag football championship just this last weekend, undefeated, into the into the championship, and then we the kids played too many games in a row and got tired and we lost the championship.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: But uh he's he's starting to he's starting to become a little stud.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: So we're definitely a big sports.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: We like to be outside.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I like hiking, but um, I just like staying active.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm not much of a sit-down person and just chill.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's not really my thing.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: I like being out and moving around.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: So are your kids taking up any interest in martial arts in any degree whatsoever?
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um so my two oldest, I pushed them, tried to push them both into wrestling, and they hated it.
• 21:43
  unknown: Yeah.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: They absolutely hated it.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my youngest, I last year was his first year.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: He killed it.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: He won a couple tournaments.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm hoping to get him back into it this year.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, he seems he seems he's always wanting to hit the uh pads, and he's always wanting to do he's always Wanting to fight, wrestle around, you know.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, to find they all want to fight.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: I got a couple wrestling mats in my in one of my rooms in my house where I do my personals, and uh I got boxing gloves and all that stuff, and they're always suiting up and duking each other.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, which is all funny games until somebody gets hurt, right?
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: Love it, love it.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: So if you were to look into the future and you're thinking about one year from now, you know where you were at one year ago.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: Looking to the future one year from now, where do you see your life?
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh hopefully coming off uh contender series win or something of that nature.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I think uh I think if I cop another win here in the next few months, I think uh that that opportunity is definitely available, you know, especially with the quality of my last two opponents.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: I fought Aaron Mitchell in May, and he's he was out of the Jackson wink.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: He was like 11 and 4 coming into the fight.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: He was top scouted prospect, supposed to be uh like this next level striker, and I turned him into a wrestler in two and a half minutes.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: Nice.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, and then I just just fought Jonas Flock, and I mean, top quality kid himself.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: He uh I was told he was a very skilled, uh successful college wrestler, and uh apparently he's like a brown belt in jujitsu.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: He was high scouted, like 15 and 6.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: So that's a big win.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: He's coming out of uh I think Pira Vita BJJ up in like Wisconsin or something like that.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Gotcha.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, he I mean he was high-toted guy.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm hoping if I can get one more, you know, guy around that prospect era, or where where they're at in their life, and you know, get another finish.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was before last weekend, I was a hundred percent finished rate, but that last week we went to we went to decision.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: My friend Bert Watson says, if you leave it to the judges, though, they're only gonna make you cry.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, yeah.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: Back in December when I fought that other guy, snapped my arm.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: We went in, I sat down at the end of round two, and I looked at both my my brother and my coach and said, My arm's broken.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, No problem.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: We already won runs, we won this fight.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: We won rounds one and two.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now we're gonna go out there, we're gonna throw a jab, we're gonna throw a kick, we're gonna not use our right arm, and we're gonna stay away from them.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's what I did.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: But the judges, like you said, are not always your friends.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: No, man, no, no.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: So Dynasty Combat Sports has an event on December 8th.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's their annual seasons beatings uh event.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: Are you gonna be there as a spectator?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: My uh my little bro, well, I think my little bro's got a got a fight, but uh this kid from Neb City, he's just like my little brother.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: I've known him since he was a little squirt.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he's he's got a confirmed fight.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I'll definitely be there in the corner of some of my guys, hyping them up, having a good time.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_01: I love going to the fights when I'm not scheduled because there's the you don't have the fight pressure, you don't have the anxiety, you know what I mean?
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: You just get to go there and just be like, let's go, let's kick some ass.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: You just get to be free.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's so man, it's so fun.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's a whole different vibe when between fighting and just being a spectator.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: So, my wrap-up question that I usually ask all of my guests, and I'm really interested to hear your answer is what is your advice for making the world a better place tomorrow than what it is today?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: This I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but if everybody just would try to be a good person and do the next right thing in everything that they do, I think that that would solve so many problems in this world.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: Brady Minor, thank you for doing the show.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate you being here.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's good to know you, and I'll probably run into you on December 8th.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man, hey, I just want to say thank you for having me on the show.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've I've spent a couple of days watching some of your podcasts, and you've really had some uh highly uh highly skilled people on there that are in my field, and I'm just I'm glad that you considered me to be in that that uh area.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for having me.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man, it's awesome.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: Always, always here for the hometown guys.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you, man.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: The world's a better place with you in it, my friend.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh same same view, sir.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Once again, I want to thank Brady Minor for doing the show, and big thanks to my friends in Dynasty Combat Sports for making this connection possible.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Their next event, December 8th, 2023, Pinnacle Bank Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska, seasoned feeding.
• 26:48
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• 27:21
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• 27:23
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• 27:25
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