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372 – Bryce Kenny – Geared for Life joins us · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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Hello and welcome again to OM Radio.
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I'm Marine Corps veteran and your host, My name is Travis.
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And savage American woodwork, the year's almost over.
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And you know, I told you all this in January that this is the
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year where I really embrace how much?
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I don't know. There's just a lot in life.
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I don't know. And This is why my next guest is
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so important. He's going to talk about this.
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I got connected through my Co producer and mentor Heath Hayes
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since the One Productions and folks.
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He's not a veteran. He didn't serve the military.
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He drives monster trucks. He drives monster trucks.
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You might be wondering, what is monster trucks the military
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veterans and OM Rado have to do with each other.
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You're going to find out because we have the warrior Bryce Kinney
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on OM Rado. Tell us about gearing up for
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life. Bryce.
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Welcome to OM Radio I. Appreciate that's what an honor
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as well. To be on the show, I'm a big fan
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of it as well, and so I appreciate you having me on,
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man. It's going to be a lot of fun
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today. Man, it's going to be a lot of
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fun. So Keith, Keith hits me up and
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it's like, dude, you were on drafting the circuits.
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It's a great show. Get him on.
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Do it. I'm like, OK, all right, all
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right, calm down. Pump the brakes.
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I'll. I'll get on it, no problem.
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And I said you had me at Monster Trucks.
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Yeah. You had me on monster trucks.
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I mean, my, my, my kids grew up watching, you know, Bigfoot and
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Grave Digger and, you know, Power Ford, all those cool
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monster trucks. And I got to tell you, Bryce, me
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and my sons never had a bad time watching monster trucks on TV or
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in person that the roar of those engines watching those machines
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do it. Which is like, how do they do
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that? Yeah, well, it's it's crazy that
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it's my career, right? I mean, that's what's so
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bizarre. I think everyone needs to write
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a very strongly worded letter to their high school guidance
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counselor who did not include Monster Jam as a career move,
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right? But it it's cool that I get to
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go and do that and crash a truck for a living.
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And we do a lot of stuff with the armed forces.
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And man, one of my favorite trucks in the fleet if I didn't
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drive Mohawk Warrior. It would be the Soldier Fortune
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truck because we've got a yeah, we got a veteran driver, Kayla
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Blood that drives that. And then we also have a
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gentleman by the name of Tony Oaks that used to drive Black
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Ops Soldier Fortune and now he's in this new truck that they're,
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you know, trying to make big called Thunderorus or something.
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But Tony was awesome because he was a black Blackhawk mechanic.
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That's what he did in the service.
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And I just loved watching him because he'd go out there and
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he's this big old guy, you know 6/6, 2:50, just man's man
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country as can be, even though he lives in Pennsylvania
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somehow. But a country way more of a
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southern drawl than I've got. And every time he'd go out and
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do something cool he'd stand out on the truck and he'd salute the
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crowd. And I and he what he was always
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talking about though are are were the veterans and he was
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like me and that veterans that was for you guys and stuff.
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And I just loved it. So even though I didn't get to
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serve. My grandfather was spent years,
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he retired actually out of the US Navy and so he was always
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trying to get me into the Navy as well.
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And it's a regret of mine that I didn't really get to serve
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because of just the career moves that I ended up making and it
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didn't fall in line. But man, I love that Soldier
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Fortune truck. And I would have to say if it
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wasn't Mohawk Warrior, that's the one I would try to drive.
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So this is all good stuff. We got a lot of good stuff to
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cover. How does one go from high
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school? To driving a monster truck.
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And then now an author. And that's the real, like,
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cherry on top here, give us a little background about, you
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know, what happened there. Yeah, my, so, my, my background
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and the process of becoming a Monster Jam athlete is really
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one of failure and learning from all the failures along the way.
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You know, I grew up in professional drag racing.
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Well, not even in professional drag racing.
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When I was little, I used to weed eat the fence line of my
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grandfather's drag strip that he owned back in, you know, when I
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was 8 years old. And then I would.
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You know, race our little junior dragster on the weekends and I
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loved it, man. I was eaten up with it and my
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whole family's been in Motorsports for a long time.
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In fact, my grandfather, he started out in the on old
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abandoned airstrips in the 60s, you know, working on Oldsmobiles
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and there he, you know, he end up buying a track in the 80s and
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then sold that and we went professional drag racing.
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So those long, skinny cars that go 300 miles an hour and 4
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seconds called a Top Fuel dragster, That's what we ran for
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10 years. And my dream was to drive that.
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My dream was to make a career as a professional drag racer.
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And so I actually got my license.
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I drove for a few years and that was the last big recession.
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And so walking into these corporate boardrooms and asking
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them for $3,000,000 to put their, you know, decal on the
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side of my race car just wasn't working.
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So I I got my teeth kicked in. You know, I remember feeling
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real sorry for myself, you know, at the last boardroom I walked
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out of and just like, man, this just is not working out.
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No one wants to take a a shot with me.
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And so I went to my grandfather and I was like, man, sell this
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thing. Don't keep it for me just
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because I'm your grandson. You know, like I'll if it's up
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to me, like if it's going to be, it's up to me kind of thing.
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And if it takes me 40 years to get back into it, so be it, you
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know. And so he, he sold it.
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And I went into a corporate job. I was placing CE OS in the
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private equity as a corporate recruiter.
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How funny is that? And then that's when Monster Jam
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called me. And so Travis, they called me
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and they said Bryce. You know, we've had your
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information since you got out of drag racing four years prior.
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Would you be interested in going to Monster Jam University and
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testing a truck? And my honest reaction was, and
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how much is this going to cost me?
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Because the Top Fuel stuff, it, it was so expensive.
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I had seven different jobs funneling into that Top Fuel
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drag racing dream. And so when they asked me, you
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know, to come up there and I said how much going to cost me,
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they said no, I mean, it's all our equipment like we own it.
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Monster Jam is the biggest. Motorsports fleet in the world.
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They said it's our equipment. Like, what do you mean?
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You know? And I and I, I remember
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thinking, so just a flight in a hotel, I'm, I'm negotiating with
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myself going in for 1000 bucks. We should do that because I had
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never even been to a Monster Jam event before I started talking
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to Monster Jam. I just didn't know it.
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My whole world was drag racing. To this day, I've never even
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been to a NASCAR event. All right.
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So my world has been drag racing and Monster Jam now.
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But finally they kind of got frustrated after I asked him
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like so just a flight in the hotel they go, No.
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We'll buy you a flight in a hotel.
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Can you get off of work and be in Paxton, Illinois?
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And I'm like, well, heck yeah. You know who would say no to an
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all expenses paid trip to go test drive a 12,000 LB Monster
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truck? I mean, so I jumped all over
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that and now it's eight years ago.
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So here I am. I've been full time in Monster
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Jam for the last seven years as the driver of the Great Clips
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Mohawk Warrior, and it's just been an insane ride.
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No pun intended. I'm a professional crash test
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dummy, Travis. That's what I do for work.
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So you're the one, you know, flipping the trucks over,
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bouncing them high in the air and the wheel, all that stuff
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that my, my sons liked it when they actually flipped them, like
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when Gravedigger would flip over.
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You actually do all that. Oh, yeah.
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Backflips. I love backflips.
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Love, love getting as big air. I think the biggest air I've
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ever gotten was just over 40 feet.
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So I'm level with the 2nd tier of that football stadium, that
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big, giant football stadium. I'm.
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I was level with the 2nd tier, like looking at the fans.
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So that was just surreal. But you know when you jump a
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machine that high, gravity is undefeated.
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So you're going to come back down and you're just hoping it's
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going to land, right? That's that's what you hope.
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But everyone talks about, you know, does it hurt?
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Right. And I'm going, well, yeah, it
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hurts, but it doesn't hurt as much as you would think,
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assuming everything is going the right way.
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But the key is, is momentum. And I talk about this in the
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book, in my book, geared for life quite a bit.
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Because I think life's the same way, but momentum.
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I call it the the bucket challenge or the bucket
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principle. If you're standing on top of a 5
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gallon bucket and you're just staying there still and you step
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off of it, Travis is real jarring, you know?
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If you if this, if the five gallon buck is just out there on
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the floor and you and you step over it in stride, you know you
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can't take off towards it, step on it and step off of it.
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It's not going to be as jarring, right?
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You're still going to feel the ground after you step off of.
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It's not as bad. That's the same way with the
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trucks. The faster you go and the higher
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you go honestly it, it lets everything work a little bit
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better and that the landing is way, way softer.
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The problem is when it doesn't land the way you want it to and
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you roll it cartwheel it, crash it that you know there's no
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suspension on the the. The roll cage.
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So anytime you land on that, it's never a comfortable moment
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but it's just a lot of fun and getting to push the these
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machines to their limits. I mean it's it's it's bizarre
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that we're pulling off the stuff we're pulling off and back
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flipping something that's £12,000 and you're 25 feet in
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the air upside down. Like that's always a surreal
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moment and your brain goes into this fight or flight mode and
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it's just so cool how many decisions your mind is making
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without you consciously doing it.
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And it's not until you're done with everything.
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You think back. Or maybe you're even watching
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video and you're washing your hands and your feet and
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everything, you know, driving the truck in cab and you're
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like, man, I was making a ton of decisions split second without
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even knowing it because your mind just goes into muscle
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memory at that point. So yeah, that's my job.
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Isn't that crazy? Only in America, only in.
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America. Amen.
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Yeah, well, we say that and I think we're in 20 countries this
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year. Monster Jam's gone overseas and
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just got done with an Australia tour.
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And I think we're going to be in 20 countries this year.
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Well, fantastic man. Fantastic.
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They're in Puerto Rico right now.
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Right now, the trucks are in Puerto Rico.
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They just finished up the show, so.
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That's amazing, The thing that interests me, you know, you
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know, 'cause I watched the drafting of the circuits show
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and my guy Levi, who's an Air Force veteran, was all into it.
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And the guys are great. But you know from from my show,
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it's based on, you know, military and veterans and I got.
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From, you know, just just seeing you on social media and learning
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about you that you have like a real like connection with the
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veteran community like that's that seems authentic.
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You're not doing it for you know marketing or PR.
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Where where did that come from? I'm always curious why civilian
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Will will lean so much in for for us as as veterans.
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That's because I love this country.
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You know, I I am very patriotic. I think it is absurd what is
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going on in our country right now and the lack of pride of
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being an American and that the only reason that I get to live
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the life I get to live and the freedom that we all get to
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experience And you know, watching freedom of speech be
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under attack, freedom of the Second Amendment being under
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attack, like all these things that you're like, man, there's
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so many people that gave their life.
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For for us to have these freedoms and experience it and
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the problem is, is you know there once it's once those
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freedoms are gone, you can't get them back.
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You got to shoot your way out of getting them, getting those
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freedoms back. And so I am thankful because so
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many veterans are the ones that have have served to to ensure
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that we've got the the freedoms to be able to go and and chase
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our dreams and to find our next year in life and to be able to
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pursue. The the life that we've always
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dreamed of. So I love America.
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I love studying Abraham Lincoln. I think he is an amazing leader.
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I think that what he did and pull off was he perfect.
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Absolutely not. But one of my favorite people of
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all time is John Adams and watching what he did and you
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know here he was one of our very you know, for early presidents
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and the stuff that he was able to pull off and his commitment
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to to law and and. Establishing freedoms are the
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reason why here we are 250 years later getting to experience it.
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And so yes, the you veterans out there, what you have done and
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what you're a part of not even just what you've done in your
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lifetime, but the stuff that you have, it's it's like you have,
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you have enabled the ripple effects that started back in the
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1700s. You enabled the those ripple
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effects that are still, you know re trying to get to the
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shoreline. You just like threw a whole
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nother stone in the water because of your decisions in
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life and your commitment. And you created more ripple
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effects and that's what America is like.
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It's this ripple effect across the world and the fact that
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veterans go out there and are committed to freedom and
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committed to the cause of and and not always appreciated
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either, that's what's bizarre to me.
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So anyway, you've got a big fan out of Bryce Kenny.
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If you have served the military or you just love America like I
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do, man, thanks for throwing the the, the stone in the water and
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creating ripple effects for all of us to to live on and carry
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on. So you start off, you know, and
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I've been there, right? You're, you know, you're unpaid
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or maybe paid labor, I don't know, but you're unpaid labor
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for your dad or granddad doing stuff.
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And then you, you, you go into life, you work in the in the
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corporate side of things and you, you drive monster trucks.
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Tell me, where did this desire, this idea to write come from?
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Because that's not something you'd normally pair with a
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monster truck driver. Yeah, well, and and it's
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interesting too because, you know, most people wait until
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they're done with their endeavors and then they write a
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book about the experiences. And even though I wrote, you
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know, I I've got lots of stories in the book from my life as a
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Monster Jam driver and behind the scenes stuff.
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But all those stories are are there to support the points that
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I want to make, which is you know it.
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It's a conscious decision to find your gears in life, just
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like a vehicle, just like a car. You cannot go through life in
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one gear. And all of us, you know, once we
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kind of find the things we're good at, we kind of live in
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that. Or maybe someone feels like
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they've been stuck in neutral forever, right?
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They just feel like, man, there's this really all there is
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to life. Like, we all battle that moment.
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By the way, you know, your head hits the pillow and it's like,
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man, this can't be it. I thought this would be better.
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You know, I thought, I thought I'd be further along.
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At this point in my life, I don't have anything figured out.
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You know, you just start to question yourself and your
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abilities and you feel like you're just stuck.
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You know, you're making a bunch of noise like a car in neutral,
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but you're not going anywhere. And so I've become very
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passionate because what I've realized that I'm an expert at,
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right? Because if you're going to write
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a book, you better be an expert at something.
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I'm. I was looking around a couple
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years ago like, I'm not an expert at anything, am I?
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You know, what problem am I really trying to solve?
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And I went, am I the guy that could?
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Someone walks up to and says I want to be an Olympic gold
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medalist. Like what level of commitment
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and discipline and mindset do I need to have?
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That's not me. I don't know.
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You know, I don't know. I'm still, I'm.
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I'm still trying to run at that pace myself.
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But what I've become an expert at is finding my next gear so I
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don't have all the secrets to life.
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I don't think there is a secret, right.
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I think all of us have a different pathway that we're
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going down. But what I have come to realize
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is that I leverage my foundational beliefs.
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I know what I believe. I believe in absolute truth.
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I believe that there are things that are true and not true.
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And there's seven gears that I constantly shift in and out of
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throughout my life to get me unstuck and into the next phase
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and into the next chapter or into the next opportunity.
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And so going from you know professional drag racing or
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unprofessional drag racing and then professional drag racing
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and then going out into the corporate environment and then
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leveraging all of that experience in a in corporate
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boardrooms into what I do with Monster Jam today, I've, I've
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always shifted and found that next gear.
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And so I wrote Gear for Life because that verbiage helps all
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of us because we realize that just like a car getting on the
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highway, you wouldn't get on the highway even if you got an
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automatic, right. Your truck's going to start off
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in first gear, it's going to hit the on ramp and it's going to
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shift to 2nd. But here imagine being in that
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truck and it never shifting out of first year and you trying to
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get it up to Hwy. speed. That's not what it's built to
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do. It's not what it's designed to
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do, but we do that. So many people go 35 years in
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first gear and they wonder why their engine feels like it's
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about to blow up. It's like because you've been
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trying to live in first gear for too long, we got to help you
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find second gear. What's that look like?
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And that's why I wrote the book, to help people recognize their
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gears and be able to make that shift.
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Now I'm going through the book. I didn't get a chance, like
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really read, read it. But, you know, that's OK.
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I got the general. Just one thing I liked is you
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have you know Chapter 5. You know, you know empty the
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tank when you you bring stories from your life not from like a
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self help perspective, but from your life, your perspective to
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support why you should empty the tank to get in that gear and and
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so it's obvious you put yourself into this but how much of Bryce
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went into telling these stories and being the stories right to
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match the chapters to match the gear you're in.
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A lot, because I had to realize that I didn't want to preach it,
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people. You know, I don't want people to
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read it and just read my points. I wanted to make the stories,
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all make the points. You know, they support the
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points. Like, you know, here's what I
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believe, here's what I think is a is truth, and here's where I
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learned it or here's who I learned it from.
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This is when my grandfather taught me that lesson.
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This is when life kicked me in the teeth and I realized.
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That, you know, I should live this way, things just like you
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said, emptying the tank. I'm a big believer that we work
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way harder when we know where our faucet is or we know where
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the pit area is. Because it you're not, you're
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not afraid to pour out every last drop out of your cup when
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you know that it's OK because on Monday I I'm going to refill
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myself, or it's OK because I'm going to get back on Travis's
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podcast. And I'm going to get refueled.
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I'm going to get refilled through that.
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Or maybe it's prayer, or maybe it's reading a book or whatever
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it might be. Maybe it's time with your family
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or alone time, You know, whatever that might be.
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We've got to understand what fills us back up.
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And when you understand what's going to fill you back up,
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you're not afraid to expend every last drop out of that that
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gas tank. And so, and that's what we're
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all being asked to do. So it's a conscious decision
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though. To shift into that emptying the
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tank gear and being willing to do that and and we've got to
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make that decision. If that's fifth gear right,
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you've got to make sure that that you do that.
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Well, guess what? You can't stay in 5th gear
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forever. You can't empty your tank for
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the rest of your life, as sometimes you need to shift back
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out of that gear and go into your purpose gear, right?
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When I left my corporate job for Monster Jam, I took a 30% pay
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cut. The one reason I made that
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decision? Was because I remembered my
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purpose in that moment was to be someone who uses the platform of
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Motorsports to impact this world.
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It wasn't that I I was just trying to leverage 1 monetary
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salary to the next thing. In fact it was opposite but I
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had to shift into my purpose driven gear and make a purpose
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based decision not a monetary decision And so I had to shift
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in that gear to make that decision.
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So we we constantly if if you've got, if you know what gears you
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have. And what you believe in your
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core, then that's when you can find the right gear at the right
26:32
time, and that should be the goal.
26:34
That's how you go through life without getting stuck, without
26:37
getting burnt out for forever, right?
26:40
You're in. If you ever do feel burnt out,
26:42
guess what? We're going to help you shift
26:43
into a different gear, and it's time to do that.
26:45
Just like an engine needs to find its next gear to make sure
26:49
it doesn't throw the connecting rods out of the block.
26:52
That's what we've got to help you guys do.
26:53
So if you're tired, you're exhausted.
26:55
You feel like Bryce, I've been empty for the last five years.
26:57
Great. How can we help you refill the
26:59
tank? And also, let's shift into a
27:02
different gear. And maybe it's a creative gear,
27:04
you know when was the last time you just swept out your garage
27:06
and and saw real results? Sometimes I'm serious, Travis.
27:10
Sometimes I am. I am at a loss of what to do.
27:14
I will walk out to my shop and sweep out the floor.
27:17
And having a cleaner, shop floor, garage floor.
27:21
Changes my mindset because I think I get an easy win.
27:23
I see the results, and for whatever reason, maybe
27:26
subconsciously I realize that I can actually go and accomplish
27:30
the things I need to go and accomplish in and I can do this.
27:33
I can get the small wins, and those small wins build me up to
27:35
go after that big win. That's one of the things I got
27:41
from the book and I and you kind of touched on it.
27:43
But see, I'm in 5th gear driving on my motorcycle and I want to
27:48
downshift sometimes I got, you know, downshift 2 gears to to
27:53
to, you know, slow down or get ready to turn.
27:57
I don't really think about it though at this point and me
27:59
driving. But with your life it almost
28:03
seems like you need to really think about what you're trying
28:07
to do and how to get there. I guess what I'm trying to ask
28:09
is how do I know when the shift gears you kind of touched on it,
28:14
but maybe kind of just feel that back for me a little bit more?
28:17
Yeah. So imagine my Monster Jam truck,
28:19
1500 horsepower. We've only got 2 gears in that
28:22
truck and we pretty much do all of our freestyle.
28:25
I hit the Backflip ramp in second gear.
28:28
It's kind of like a high and a low gear well in in racing, you
28:32
know, we're trying to get 1500 horsepower from a standstill to
28:35
get moving. Well, First Gear is going to do
28:37
that job. 1st gear does not last very long.
28:41
You know the, the, the gearing and all of that That in the
28:43
transfer case. If anyone's mechanical out
28:45
there, you know it first gear, you've got maybe 2 seconds
28:50
trying to Rev that truck up and get it in motion before you need
28:54
to to shift. If I hold first gear for very
28:57
much longer after that, the you know, the motor is going to be
28:59
at 8000 RPM and we're going to hurt the engine, probably blow
29:02
it up. And and that's what it really
29:04
is. It's understanding, hey, you're
29:06
tired, you're exhausted. You're expended, you you have
29:09
expended the entire gear at this point and we need to shift a lot
29:13
of its emotion. A lot of it is understanding
29:16
that you know you're you've lost all meaning and what you're
29:21
doing. You know you're you just burnt
29:22
out. That's the best way to say it.
29:25
And if you feel burnt out, you've probably you've probably
29:28
lost that gear, right? You need to go into the next
29:30
one. I'm a big believer though.
29:32
That we focus so much on the what in our life and that's the
29:38
that's the real problem. Like we're always trying to say
29:40
what do I need to do today Or you feel guilty because you're
29:44
like I'm not doing enough. I'm not doing enough stuff.
29:48
You know, and and that's the problem because I'm a big
29:51
believer that it's more about The Who you want to be than the
29:55
what you're not doing enough of or what you need to do more up
29:59
and and here's what I mean by that Bryce Kenny today.
30:02
Myself, I am not the best version of myself yet.
30:06
Maybe I'll be the best version of myself by the time I die, I
30:10
don't know. But who I am as a man, how
30:13
people would describe me today and who I am, I have a an idea
30:18
and a very clear vision on who I want to be a year from now,
30:22
right versus today. How do I want people to be able
30:26
to describe me one year from today?
30:29
And now all of a sudden the what falls in line with that?
30:31
And I'll give you a real example.
30:32
So I want to be someone who is described as somebody that uses
30:39
his skill set to communicate, to impact the world, right.
30:44
So I want to be someone who uses the platform of Motorsports to
30:46
impact this world. Well, that's why the book is a
30:49
what, you know. It's not because I was
30:51
passionate about writing a book. It was the the what fell in line
30:54
with that right. It's a tool that this book
30:56
geared for life is a tool to communicate to help people.
30:59
Well that means that I'm going to you know when I when I'm
31:01
trying to decide what to do in the month of January and I've
31:05
got an opportunity to go speak somewhere and go encourage a a a
31:08
group and a company. I'm going to go do that.
31:10
Why? Because that aligns that what of
31:13
what I'm going to go do aligns with who I want to be one year
31:17
from today. And so I think that I'm a big
31:19
believer if we get back to understanding what the best
31:23
version of ourselves look like, then we're more willing to shift
31:27
and to find a different gear in order to get us into that better
31:31
version. Just like a barn find Travis.
31:34
We look if we're guys we've we've imagined this moment.
31:38
You don't even have to be a. Classic car guy to to imagine
31:41
this, but you're on a back Rd. somewhere and you look up on a
31:44
on a hillside and there you see it.
31:45
There's headlights sticking out of a barn and there's a car
31:48
with, you know, it's got a tarp on top.
31:49
Price, price, price. It's a 68 Mercury Cougar.
31:52
Oh, is that you? That's me, man.
31:54
That's your dream. OK, I can see it.
31:57
So you know the headlights off of that Mercury Cruiser, can't
32:00
you? Cougar.
32:01
They, they they they flip down, they flip up and these are one
32:04
flip down one. I can see it right now.
32:06
OK, so imagine that is what's sticking out of that barn,
32:09
right? And so you would see that you'd
32:11
pull up and that the old man would come out and he'd say,
32:13
Yep, sure enough, he did. He's owned it for 30 years.
32:17
And then you walk over to and he tells you it's a 68 Mercury and
32:19
you're like, oh, I knew it. And then you rip off that tarp,
32:22
Travis, it's covered in dust, right?
32:25
It's not been, it's not seen. That Tarp's been sitting on
32:28
there for 10 years. The motor hasn't been turned
32:31
over in 15 years. Right.
32:34
It's essentially a pile of junk in real life, because it doesn't
32:38
run. And there's as dirty as dusty.
32:41
My wife would see it as a pile of junk.
32:43
You and myself, you definitely would not see it as a pile of
32:46
junk, though. You wouldn't even Travis.
32:48
You would not even see the dust, would you?
32:50
You wouldn't. You would see what?
32:52
What would what? What color would you paint it,
32:53
by the way? Blue or black?
32:55
Blue. OK, let's imagine it's blue.
32:57
You could see that glossy, you know, night time blue paint job
33:03
on it. You wouldn't even see the dust.
33:04
You could hear that, that motor screeching already in a burnout.
33:09
It's not been turned over in 15 years, but you could see that
33:12
smoke billowing out of the back of the car.
33:14
And so you can see that car as its best version, regardless of
33:19
what you see now. But really, in reality, is it at
33:24
its best version? No.
33:25
But you can do that with a vehicle in a barn, but you can't
33:29
do that as easily looking in the mirror.
33:31
And that's the problem. We see ourselves as the dust
33:34
covered piles of junk instead of viewing ourselves when we look
33:39
in the mirror as what we can become and who we can become.
33:42
And I think that when we recognize, OK, one year from
33:45
today, who do I want to be and how do I want to be described?
33:49
Don't wait to your funeral, right.
33:51
Sometimes it's easier for people to think that.
33:52
Like, how do I want people to talk about me at my funeral?
33:55
OK, well, don't wait till you die.
33:56
How do you want people to describe you in one year from
33:59
now and then allow the what to kind of come in there and
34:02
support that? And I have found way more
34:04
clarity. And shifting into the right gear
34:07
at the right time and finding the what in that moment that I
34:09
need to go and do based on does this support the better version,
34:14
the best version of who Bryce Kenny needs to be one year from
34:17
today? And that's been a major life
34:19
hack for me along the way. So let's let's put this like in
34:23
veterans context real quick and even for myself is you.
34:26
You you do this high speed, low drag job, you know you're in
34:30
this high operational environment.
34:31
You come out and be a civilian, right?
34:33
And things change and you're in a different environment and
34:36
you're not. You're not responsible for as
34:38
much. But you are right.
34:41
And it's hard for us to you know, find that gear for like a
34:45
better term, the folks. The book is geared for life by
34:48
Bryce Kinney. I'll have it in the OM radio
34:50
show post. Make sure you get it.
34:52
Anyway, it was very hard for me to find my gear.
34:57
Took a long time and some veterans never find it and get
35:02
very you know depressed and and you know that they they
35:07
self-contained so on so forth. But what you're what it sounds
35:11
like you're saying is you know read the book figure out what
35:15
your purpose is or what you you know fuels your purpose and and
35:19
go do that and things will start falling into place.
35:23
Yeah, this is what it sounds like.
35:24
Well, and when you were back in the service, Travis, I would
35:27
imagine that you didn't have this big passion for the
35:30
technical side of doing a podcast, did you?
35:34
Yeah. So when you got out, it wasn't
35:36
the what looks different than what you did in the service, but
35:40
who you were as a man. I would imagine that you were
35:43
always, you know, I would imagine that you were in some
35:46
sort of leadership role in the Marine Corps.
35:48
Is that right? Well, not really, but you know,
35:50
I did lead my my launcher sessions put like that.
35:53
Yeah exactly. So you were in this leader and
35:55
and regardless of what the title was right it it it, it was a
35:59
matter of you were always probably influencing people.
36:02
I bet you were one of the biggest encouragers in the in
36:06
the in the unit you know and so all those things that was who
36:09
you were. So the what looks a lot
36:12
different today in doing this awesome podcast, but The Who?
36:15
It's it's enabled you to find this gear of doing, you know the
36:18
podcast just as the what that supports the best version of you
36:23
and of Travis. And so that's what I think it
36:25
is. I think that you know a lot of
36:27
times if someone's gotten out of the service and they're trying
36:29
to figure out, man, I don't know what to do next and I just wish
36:31
I could be back in the service right or something like that.
36:34
It's like yes, but the what might look a lot different.
36:38
But we'll let's get back to The Who you want to be in the best
36:40
version of yourselves and the things that you want to be
36:43
described as someone you know who goes and helps and someone
36:46
that serves. I mean, you found one of my
36:48
gears is becoming built for other people.
36:50
I I know that veterans have that gear becoming built for other
36:54
people. And this is what it looks like.
36:56
Maybe it's it's following this passion that they have for
36:58
welding. Let's say let's bring up
36:59
something because that's that's something I've been thinking
37:01
about lately. I have a passion for learning to
37:04
Weld. I've never welded anything, but
37:05
that's a bucket list item for me.
37:07
Now it's it's not just because I want to go out there, maybe
37:10
there is something that'll be therapeutic for me to you know
37:13
make really good Weld beads on a piece of metal.
37:16
But I know that what's going to happen is I'm going to go equip
37:19
my passion and I'll find purpose behind that, that that desire in
37:24
that thing that I want to go and do.
37:26
So I've got to get really good equipment equipping myself at
37:30
that passion to learning how to Weld.
37:32
And down the road, though, it's not just about.
37:35
You know, bringing two pieces of metal together, I can see myself
37:38
starting to make metal art for, you know, families going through
37:44
pediatric cancer. That might encourage them.
37:45
You know, some sort of testament or some sort of of piece of art
37:49
that I can send to them that I would encourage them and say,
37:51
look, you know, you're a warrior.
37:53
Maybe I can make warrior pieces and I can learn how to Weld and
37:55
and fabricate metal that way. Like that is where your passion.
38:01
It ultimately will find a purpose when you equip it that
38:03
way and and I think we need to get back to that.
38:05
It's not that I want to create art.
38:08
It's that I want to be someone who encourages families that are
38:11
going through a really hard time.
38:12
And then I'm able to take my skill sets and my passions to do
38:15
that. And so I think veterans, you
38:18
guys have got it. You understand what it looks
38:20
like to serve. You will understand what it
38:23
looks like to take risks and and you also understand what it
38:27
looks like to have faith that you're going to make it out
38:29
alive. So why in the world could we not
38:33
apply that to life? And the reason why is because
38:36
people are so hung up on the what and they're trying to
38:39
figure out what to do next. The what will fall in line when
38:43
you become passionate about The Who and you become passionate
38:45
about what is my best version and a better version of myself
38:49
one year from today? Maybe it's giving up drinking,
38:51
right? Maybe it's someone that said I I
38:53
I would love to be someone who is described as being sober 12
38:58
months from today. Right.
39:00
Well, why do you want to be described as being sober 12
39:02
months from today? And and then all of a sudden
39:05
you're working through that stuff a little bit because of
39:07
this, that and the other thing. You're going to have clarity
39:09
around that who and how you're described and and why you want
39:13
to be described that way. Then it's easier to give up the
39:16
drink in that moment because you have a crystal clear picture of
39:20
The Who. And that's what I mean.
39:21
If someone was just beating you over the head saying you need to
39:23
get sober, you need to get sober, why are you drinking
39:26
again? It's hard because you're so
39:27
focused on what you're doing wrong.
39:30
And if you focus and shift that perspective on the what your
39:34
passions and your things that you want to go and accomplish,
39:36
I'm telling you guys the what will start to all of a sudden
39:39
fall in line and and support The Who.
39:42
That's the magic weapon that we all need to take into life.
39:47
OK, so let's let's let's go to this conclusion.
39:52
You have The Who, you have the what dialed in and you actually
39:56
achieve your success. Whatever that success is.
40:00
Maybe it is becoming sober, maybe it's learning how to Weld,
40:03
maybe it's learning a new language.
40:06
What happens when you've gone through all the gears and you've
40:10
achieved success? What's next?
40:12
Well, you go back into the the other gears again, right?
40:14
So there's constantly today, right.
40:16
I'm going into different gears after this podcast.
40:19
I'm going, I'm, I'm, I've got something to go do after this
40:21
where I've got to become built for other people.
40:24
Today this podcast is actually part of my purpose gear.
40:27
You know what am I doing here I'm I'm I'm communicating
40:30
because of I believe my purpose is to be someone who uses the
40:33
impact of Motorsports or the the platform of Motorsports that
40:35
impact this world. So I'm in my purpose gear right
40:38
now and so once you know what your gears are that's when
40:41
you're saying OK good I've got 7 years and and and I know when I
40:46
need to shift into those gears am I built for other people.
40:49
Here's a here's a great example. Couple years, a couple months
40:52
ago, I was at our our World finals event for Monster Jam,
40:55
the biggest stage of the of the sport, and we've got people from
40:59
all over the world that travel in for it.
41:00
I went into that Travis, thinking this was my weekend.
41:04
I was going to win a world finals championship, I was going
41:06
to etch my name in history. This was it.
41:08
Our truck was operating perfectly.
41:11
I was operating perfectly until the truck didn't operate
41:14
perfectly. And so all of a sudden we just
41:16
had a bad ground coming out of a battery that threw us.
41:20
It took me out of racing, right? And I'm like, oh gosh, OK, I'm
41:23
frustrated because that was probably going to be my best
41:25
event unless I kind of got lucky and freestyle and came out and
41:28
we thought we found it, came out for freestyle, lined up for my
41:31
very first hit in the freestyle competition.
41:34
The truck died again and would not refire and took me out of
41:37
free. I didn't even get to freestyle
41:39
and I was so mad because Travis, that's not the how the the story
41:42
was supposed to go. That's not how this chapter was
41:45
supposed to be written. And I was mad like, I'm not, I'm
41:48
not going to sit here and make it sound like I'm Mother Teresa
41:50
and just oh, yeah, OK. I just shifted into a different
41:52
gear. And I was OK emotionally.
41:54
No, I was throwing my neck restraint.
41:57
I was fear. I was tossing my gloves into the
41:59
the recovery cart could not believe.
42:01
And I was really ticked off for a good five to 10 minutes.
42:05
But by the time I got back to the locker room, I did have to
42:08
make that conscious decision to shift into my being built for
42:12
other people gear. And I said to myself, you know
42:15
what, buddy? This wasn't your day.
42:17
It wasn't your day. Like you thought it was going to
42:19
be in your purpose gear. That was part of, like,
42:21
supporting this platform and stuff, right?
42:23
That was what the the that weekend was supposed to be.
42:26
Nope, it wasn't going to be that.
42:27
And so it wasn't your day. But guess what?
42:29
One of your buddies is about to have the best day of their whole
42:32
careers when they go out and win a World finals championship in
42:35
freestyle. So why don't you go up to the
42:37
podium and you become the biggest cheerleader in the
42:40
stadium and yell for all your friends and support them?
42:43
And so that's exactly what happened.
42:45
All of a sudden, my buddy Colt Stevens won his very first
42:47
freestyle World finals championship and I was the first
42:50
guy to give him the biggest bear hug when they announced his
42:53
name. We're all jumping and
42:54
celebrating and I was right there to celebrate him.
42:58
Now, I don't say that to pat myself on the back because it
43:01
was very difficult, the fact that I had to put my own desires
43:05
and I was still, you know, I got back to the hotel room, I was
43:06
still broken that my weekend went that way.
43:09
But I had to make that conscious, conscious decision to
43:12
shift into my being built for other people gear so that I
43:15
could go and do something that was bigger than myself in that
43:19
moment. And and that's what took me out
43:21
of, you know, brought me out of that.
43:22
So we've got to, ultimately, we've got to know what our gears
43:26
are and make those conscious decisions to find the right gear
43:30
at the right time. And when we do that, we'll never
43:33
end up stuck. We'll never end up totally burnt
43:36
out forever. We can always continue to go out
43:39
there, strive for more, grind it out.
43:42
And it's not about doing more, Travis.
43:44
That's what people sometimes will think like, oh, Bryce, I, I
43:46
I'm not going to pick up to that book because I'm afraid he's
43:48
going to tell me I should be doing more.
43:50
And that goes back to what we say.
43:52
No, no, no. When the picture is right and
43:54
you know the best version of yourself, trust me, the doing
43:57
stuff will take care of themselves.
43:59
If I'm asking you to change or to do something differently,
44:02
it's to know what you already believe and to shape your
44:08
beliefs. Because our beliefs Dr., our
44:11
actions, and our actions drive results.
44:14
If you want different results, work it backwards.
44:16
Go OK, what actions am I have I been taking wrong or incorrectly
44:20
or not doing enough of Great. But why am I?
44:22
Why are those actions off base? It's because my beliefs don't
44:26
support that. Just like you know, why would
44:28
Why would someone that you know believes that animals should be
44:31
protected be having dog fights in their backyard, right.
44:34
Those things don't work. When you believe something, your
44:36
actions typically will follow that belief and then those
44:40
actions will ultimately take care of themselves.
44:41
So go back to the beginning, understand what you believe
44:44
foundationally. You know, is America a good
44:47
country or not? I believe we're a great country.
44:50
I believe we're the greatest country to ever be on planet
44:52
Earth. Why is that?
44:54
So that's going to support my actions.
44:55
Am I going to go and burn down a town?
44:58
You know, when I'm frustrated at at, at, at results or something
45:02
like that. So no, I'm not.
45:03
Why? Because I love the country, and
45:05
that's what I mean. You, our beliefs shape our
45:07
actions. So instead of beating yourself
45:09
up that you're not taking all the right actions, go back to
45:11
the beliefs and pick up gear for life.
45:13
Because that's what's going to challenge you.
45:14
By the end of the book, you're probably going to steal some of
45:17
my gears, but my guess is that you're going to uncover some of
45:21
your own, and those are the gears you're going to hang on
45:24
to. Maybe it's not seven, maybe it's
45:25
two. But find those different gears.
45:28
Make that next shift that you need to make.
45:30
Find the right gear at the right time and watch the results and
45:34
the impact that you're going to start to make every single day
45:37
of your life. Well, just, you know, winding
45:39
this down, one of the gears that really spoke out to me was
45:41
Chapter 4, you know, pressure, second gear, choose to believe
45:45
rather than doubt. And and you know, I've had to,
45:48
you know, make choices to believe in the last couple of
45:51
years and it really resonated. You know, take the action to
45:55
believe and and doubt will take care of itself.
45:58
It was just really impactful. You know you, you've written
46:02
this book. It's out now.
46:04
Where can you get the book, Bryce?
46:06
Yeah, any thank you anywhere Books are sold so everyone buys
46:09
everything off Amazon it feels like nowadays.
46:12
So it's definitely on Amazon. Barnes and Noble books-a-million
46:15
Audible. So if you guys like audiobooks I
46:18
actually voice it over. So that way, you know, I love
46:21
the fact that you know, I've I've, I've, I've always been a
46:24
hard copy guy. Like I like to make notes and
46:26
books and stuff. But I after voicing over the
46:28
book I went, I would actually listen to more books on tape if
46:32
the author was the one that voiced it over.
46:34
Because then they can give the sarcasm where it meant to be
46:36
sarcastic, you know, and kind of have that inflection point
46:39
because they wrote it. They know the story.
46:41
So I actually had a lot of fun voicing over the book, but
46:44
that's on Audible. And yeah, I can walk in and pick
46:48
up a hard copy somewhere if you need to at a Barnes and Noble.
46:50
But yeah, it's it's everywhere. Books are sold.
46:53
And I would be honored if people had a chance to to read through
46:56
it, uncovered their gears, and and finally found that next year
47:00
they never knew they had. What's next after this book?
47:03
You you you've got it out there you you there's stories from
47:07
your life and and and it's and I will say it's not self helpish.
47:11
And it's not like you must do this.
47:14
You must make this plan. It's just here's, here's the
47:16
gear I want you to think about. Here's a story to support that.
47:20
And here's what you can do if you embrace that.
47:22
What? What's next for you after this,
47:24
Bryce? That's a great question.
47:26
So my, if I had to say my next gear, it's going to be I'm doing
47:31
a lot more corporate speaking. I love doing.
47:34
I'm doing a lot more church speaking to men's events and
47:36
men's conferences. And honestly, even though I'm a
47:39
Christian, I never thought that that would necessarily be part
47:42
of what I was doing. And and and and organically,
47:46
it's just because I've always rubbed a lot of churches wrong
47:50
because I, I, you know, I love going back to to scripture and
47:55
taking things that people claim and saying what did scripture
47:58
say and all that stuff. So that's actually been a lot of
48:00
fun though going and doing these men's events with that but also
48:03
doing a ton of corporate work. So I I think that the book is a
48:08
spoke to the Wheel. My nonprofit which is Live Like
48:12
Warriors is probably the closest thing to my heart.
48:15
And I, if anyone wants to be a part of this, we basically it's
48:19
a volunteer army where we make a coordinated effort to go and
48:23
fill very specific needs in the world.
48:26
And I bet 98% of what we've done is in pediatric cancer.
48:31
It's celebrating these little warriors and these families that
48:34
need help. But we find specific needs and
48:36
OK, we got this piece of furniture that this family needs
48:39
is 1500 bucks. We crowd fund for that.
48:41
Every dollar that we raise goes to the need.
48:44
It's not going to a salary or anything like that.
48:46
But I've got something called a warrior chain.
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And so if you're listening to this podcast, I want you to
48:50
strongly consider being part of it.
48:52
And that's just, it's like a bat signal up in the sky.
48:55
So when we find a need, that's the first place I go to and say,
48:57
hey warriors, you know, people that have been on this are on
49:01
this warrior chain. We send out an e-mail and say
49:03
this is what we're looking to do.
49:04
Does anyone, Maybe it's logistics, maybe it's not
49:06
monetary, maybe it's trying to get a wheelchair from Montana to
49:11
New York and someone just so had, oh you know what, my uncle
49:14
is a long haul driver and they're on that route.
49:16
You just never know and just making a coordinated effort what
49:20
we can pull off and what we've been able to it's been
49:22
everything from a you know $1000 item to a $20,000 vehicle that
49:26
we were able to purchase for a family we found out was Ubering
49:28
2 hours one way to their cancer treatments and we're like that's
49:32
not OK, right. So we went and filled that
49:34
specific needs and so yeah, go on livelikewarriors.com and then
49:39
it'll a box will pop up right there or you can follow the tab
49:42
says get involved but join our warrior chain and yeah let's go
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make a difference together. But I think that everything I
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think about and do communication wise, the platform of
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Motorsports like I said to go impact the world.
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That impact the world part is through my live like Warriors
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nonprofit and the Sky's the limit with that.
49:58
And then we just need a lot of good people that's raise their
50:01
hands say, hey, look, I'm willing to serve.
50:02
I'm willing to help and willing to to to play whatever role I
50:06
need to play to to to to go out there and help other people.
50:09
And that's what we're doing. Fantastic.
50:11
Fantastic. I think this message, you know,
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I've enjoyed what I've read from the book.
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I've enjoyed talking with you. I think it will really resonate
50:20
with my community, veterans of people who are serving, because
50:24
you know, we are, we are rebooting our lives.
50:26
You've had to reboot your life several times.
50:28
You know, we're going to understand where you're coming
50:30
from. It's going to seem like, you
50:31
know, different from somebody just up there stealing stuff.
50:36
So you know. You're doing all this stuff
50:40
outside of racing. You do racing as well.
50:43
Well, Monster truck, Monster Jam.
50:46
You know what's next for the Warrior in the Monster truck?
50:49
Yeah, so I'll be in Anaheim, CA next week for our Superstar
50:53
Challenge, which is going to be a lot of fun.
50:55
And our main season though doesn't kick off till January.
50:58
So pretty much January through May I'll be gone most of the
51:01
weekends and going traveling around the country and really
51:05
all of North America and doing events and and I typically do
51:08
the bigger football stadiums. So if someone said has Monster
51:11
Jam coming through their town it doesn't necessarily mean I'll be
51:14
on that tour. There's six different tours
51:16
going on and I'm on one of the big football stadium tours so
51:19
mostly on the East Coast with a couple West Coast riddled in
51:22
there. But yeah man I'm looking forward
51:24
to getting back out on the competition road and and going
51:27
up against some of these other Monster Jam drivers and yeah the
51:30
great Clips Mohawk Warrior truck.
51:32
We're going to try to win a A season championship this year.
51:35
Well, awesome. We'll have all the links to, you
51:38
know, Bryce's nonprofit, the book and the truck, so you can
51:41
follow along. We can cheer him on as he goes
51:43
through 2024. You know, Bryce again, it's just
51:46
amazing how much I don't know. And I think what this book did
51:50
for me and what I hope it does for for you all watching,
51:53
listening is it. It allows you to look at
51:55
yourself differently so you can get the most out of your engine.
52:00
Amen. Yeah, well said.
52:01
Go maximize it and and and and go find that next year you never
52:05
knew you had. And it's in you guys.
52:07
You guys know it and you're you're already have all the raw
52:11
ingredients to go and do what what's in your heart?
52:13
We just got to help you uncover that stuff.
52:15
We just have to have you find your next gear.
52:17
That's it. Don't feel like you got to
52:18
figure it all out and have life figured out.
52:20
Let's just go help you find the next gear and let's go help a
52:23
lot of people make a difference. Bryce, I want to thank you for
52:26
coming on OM Radio and and you know, being super gummy to to
52:30
make this happen. Really appreciate your time.
52:32
All the best on your holiday season.
52:34
And again, thank you very much. I appreciate you, man.
52:37
Thank you for your service and man, I'm, I'm just thrilled to
52:40
be on. It's a huge honor.
52:42
Hope I get to come back later. So again folks, that is Bryce
52:46
Kinney geared for life Monster trucks.
52:49
I'll have it all and ask my Career Show post.
52:51
Let's cheer them on 2024 and live like a warriors.
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