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You're in big trouble, though, pal. I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.

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You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?

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Good morning. Welcome to Breakfast of Champions. This is season one, episode five.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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What's up, everybody? I'm one of your co-hosts. My name's Rene Floyd. I'm super excited to be here with you this morning.

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I'm going to throw it to my co-host. His name is...

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Parker Howard.

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Parker Howard in the house.

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He's not awake yet.

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Still waking up, yeah.

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I'm just trying to be super loud in his ears, right? Kind of annoy him a little bit.

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Thanks for joining us. If you've never been with us, we are a podcast about breakfast foods and violence.

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And we're super happy today because we have our first guest ever.

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So I just wanted to shout him out right off top so that way it's not awkward when you hear him review our donuts.

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So our first guest today is a man that I met through a school connection.

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We both like to educate young people and just kind of make sure that history doesn't go untalked about.

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My end on music, his end on history. So his name is James Gray. I met him out in Wetherford.

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We were both educating at the time and we kind of connected on Facebook.

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And I saw some of the things that he was doing in our community and some of the things that he's been doing with combat sports.

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And he figured what a cool story and just a good guest to kind of get us kicked off here.

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So welcome, Mr. Gray. Thank you for being here.

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I appreciate it. Thank you for having me here. It's a pleasure to be here.

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Yeah, it's good to see you. Parker and Mr. Gray have never met. So it'll be interesting.

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It'll be kind of like me introducing friends to each other and us kind of catching up like that.

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So thank you very much, OffRip, for being here. We're going to review some donuts.

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We're going to talk about his life. We're going to talk about funny stuff, sad stuff, cool stuff.

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Just slick stuff, neat stuff, you know.

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We got one sad thing to talk about right off the rip.

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We jinxed it last week.

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Yeah, I'm real. Listen, formal apology to everybody that is a Dallas Stars fan.

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I really apologize. We blew it. We really blew it.

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We were so assured that they were going to make it to the Stanley Cup finals.

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We really were just putting that positive energy out there and kind of trying to manifest that for them.

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And we should have just kept our mouth shut. Kind of like a no hitter.

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We should have just silently in the background let it happen.

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Yeah, that's why we're not talking about any other sports.

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There will be no other sports teams in my life that I will be speaking about.

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So unless I hate them, I guess we could talk about them, right?

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So yeah.

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So I guess we should talk about the Celtics made it to the finals.

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Screw them. But you know, they made it.

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So rest in peace, Dallas Stars, rest in peace, Dallas Stars.

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Also, we have been on the Internet for like two official weeks now.

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We've dropped two episodes, episode one and two live.

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And as we speak this morning when we walked in the door, episode three dropped.

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And so if you haven't subscribed and liked and shared and told a friend and whatever liked, rated, reviewed it.

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Put a five stars, subscribe, whatever the young jive is these days.

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We honestly just want people to have a good time and listen to our podcast.

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However they do that. So we made a website. You can go to rss.com.

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slash podcast slash breakfast champs. You can listen anywhere podcasts are available.

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And even if you don't like to listen to more podcasts available and you just like YouTube, we're on the YouTubes.

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And maybe soon you'll be able to see us.

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Yeah, we are speaking of manifestation. We wanted to manifest a cool location for like filming the podcast because the practice space that we're in right now is like it's seen better times.

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It's a vibe.

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Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things where it's like it's kind of like being in grandma's basement, you know what I mean?

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Which is fine. You know, it's a vibe, but we're 40 now.

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So we need to move out of grandma's basement and have a little bit more sophisticated look.

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So catch us on future episodes probably with video at a cool location.

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So Mr. Gray, you said you've never had Suze before, but you live in Weatherford?

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I've never had Suze before. I'm familiar with the place, but just just have never, never been there.

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Did you go to the ninth grade center slash high school?

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You know, when I went to school there, Suze was the old Sonic.

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And there is a Sonic that, a new Sonic that got built right next door to that old Sonic.

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And it's funny because they still, if you go to Suze, they still have the frame for the car hop drive in.

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And I have a picture of Suze. We'll post it online.

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And so when you first get to Suze, you're not really sure.

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Oh, yeah, it's from the people who do Goldies, but it's in an old Sonic, but they painted the whole thing red.

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That's kind of how Suze is.

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Exactly how Suze is.

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So shout out to Suze Donuts.

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I've mentioned them in the past.

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Like I said, my family has donuts every Sunday without fail.

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The first thing my son says when he opens his mouth on Sunday is it's on a day. It's on a day.

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It's time to have donuts. It's time to have donuts.

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There are many mornings where we just flat out can't get out of bed to get those donuts early enough.

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And so we'll doordash donuts to the house, which is like such a power move these days because it's like, I'm ordering a dozen donuts for my bed.

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And then they're there in 30 minutes or whatever.

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But on the days that we don't doordash and we want to get out of the house, Suze is the place to go.

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It's a nice drive into town. It's right off Main Street.

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So if you've never been to Weatherford, Main Street is basically the main street in Weatherford, obviously.

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The old high school was on Main Street. The courthouse is on, which we'll get into later.

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The courthouse is on Main Street.

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All of the most of the major restaurants that people know and love are on Main Street.

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So she's got a prime location.

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I mean, how a donut shop right across the street from a ninth grade center, like built in customer base every single morning.

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So like, you know, just a good, a good place.

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Sue, I'm sure she is of some sort of Korean family that we talked about.

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We wanted to plug the donut king once again.

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That movie I watched most of the first half.

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Yes. Last night we're kind of prepping for this episode.

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Cambodian refugee Ted, Ted Goy and Nagoy came over, went through the Winchills.

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Yes. Donut program and they taught him basically how to franchise the donut shop.

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And he created an empire.

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Created an empire. And so immigrants creating empires with donuts is one of those cool things.

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And so Sue and her family have been in Weatherford for, I think, 10 years since it's about switched.

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And like I said, we've been there pretty much every Sunday since then.

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So let's dive right in, Mr. Gray.

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We're not going to lady in the tramp share things with you.

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We've got your own. So we usually start with a glazed donut.

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So you're free. Feel free to reach in there and grab whichever glaze you'd like to go to grab.

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I didn't want to say these look amazing.

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And they smell great when you pop that box open.

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And we do have our traditional three standard donuts.

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We're going to have that baseline. You go for it. I'll talk.

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You guys can munch and I'll talk.

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We have that standard baseline glazed donut that we always start off with.

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We have the classic strawberry with long Jimmy's Homer Simpson looking donut.

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And then we'll follow it up with the blueberry old fashioned donut.

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And so these two gentlemen are just giving it a quick taste and Parker, take it away.

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That is a delicious, delicious glazed donut.

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It's super light and fluffy. The perfect amount of glaze.

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It's like sticky, but not overly sticky, not overly sweet.

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We bite into it, spring's right back.

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That is a solid donut or not.

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Did you guys get donuts at church from time to time?

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So does this remind you of church donuts?

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But every Sunday we get donuts.

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And so it kind of hits me a little bit.

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You know what I mean? It just like it's just very nostalgic, especially if you grew up going to church.

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One of the good things about it is you kind of knew that, you know, your Sunday school teacher or kind older person will probably bring a dozen donuts in.

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Parker, what do you think?

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You said there was good spring back there.

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Good sweetness.

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This is also something we haven't talked about before.

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But there's like a little ring around the center of the donut that's a little bit lighter than the other sides.

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And that means it was proof, right? It was fried perfectly.

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It wasn't fried too long or too little.

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And these had that perfect little ring around the outside.

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I'm glad that you guys are enjoying Suze. That makes my heart happy.

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I haven't told her that we're doing a podcast on her yet.

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I kind of am scared.

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Miss Suze is not somebody you play with, you know, she's just she makes sure you get what you want.

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But get on out of there as soon as you're done.

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But she's always been so kind to my kids.

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They if you go in there during Halloween, she'll have a basket of candy.

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You know, if you go in there during Valentine, she'll have a little Valentine's.

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And so I was saying in the previous episode, if you guys want to dive right in, we'll go Homer next.

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Mr. Gray, if you want to grab yours.

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That's a good donut, man.

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I go to the same places. I'm real boring, I guess, when it comes to certain certain kinds of food.

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So Donna's Donuts is the place where my family traditionally gets donuts from.

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That's a good donut, man. We may have to start checking out.

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Yeah, check out Suze from time to time.

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So her aprons.

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She has the cutest like handmade like vintage aprons.

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So if you ever go in there or if you even if you drive through, she's got a step that she steps up on when you drive through.

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And so she she always has her apron on and usually it has like a cute bunny or a cute like a character.

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It's in sometimes, you know, like I said, during holiday, she'll have like a holiday apron and stuff.

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She's got a cute little bowl cut.

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She's going all in.

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Yeah. And I love her so much. And we love her donut so much.

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She's got a huge case of drinks in there.

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If you need drinks, she makes traditional collages even though, you know,

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people around here call the Klobala nesks the the verse your collages and vice versa.

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But if you go into her shop, because her donut shop is actually called Suze donut and collages on the top shelf,

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she's got actual fruit collages with the crumble and like she does it right.

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And she also has the Klobala nesks and the sausage rolls and that sort of thing too.

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Yeah. So I'm going to take a bite of this.

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You don't have to eat it all, Mr. Grand from.

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I'm probably going to eat it all. This is pretty good, man. I definitely have eaten all of my haves so far this morning.

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Normally, I don't eat all of the donuts, but these are excellent.

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Strawberry. It is again, not overly strawberry flavored.

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I think we've kind of established that strawberry donuts are not.

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They're going to taste pink. They're not going to taste like strawberry unless unless you're getting a dream boat donut that has strawberries in it.

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But yeah, it again, the donut itself is so good.

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The frosting, the strawberry frosting while it doesn't taste like strawberry, it tastes like pink.

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It is not overly sweet.

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Yeah, I think I think our brain is filling in that pink flavor because I swear I think it's just been a lot icing.

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Yeah, but it's delicious.

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The sprinkle ratio on there is great.

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Yeah, jam packed on there. There's no doubt about it.

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Yeah, apologies for chewing on my maniac. I'm very sorry.

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Munch on. I do have to admit, eating these sprinkled donuts, I was thinking about what you said on the last podcast.

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I think these were made from beetle.

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Yeah, probably have shellac shellac.

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So we're eating beetle done.

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Yeah, no, it's actually ground up.

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Oh, it's what gives it that shine.

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I remember the first time I actually found out about that was junior mints have that in there because I was like, oh, wow, junior mints are vegan.

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There's no milk in these.

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And someone was like, oh, no, it's it's not the milk.

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It's the Beatles.

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It's the Beatles.

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It's the dead Beatles.

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Yeah, I was like, oh, that's weird that it's, you know, whatever year it was and they're using ground up Beatles.

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Hilarious.

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So final donut.

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Again, you don't have to finish all of these, Mr. Gray.

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This is not a challenge.

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It's more just a taste and a lady in the trumpet or yeah, of course, I just wanted to get out of the box of that.

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We'd have more space box every week.

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Every week blueberry cake donut blueberry cake donut or blueberry opiation.

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This looks great.

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Also, remember, I said stamp on the box.

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Love the stamp.

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Doing it right.

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Stamp on the box.

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So, thank you to all of you who have donated and Colacci 1012 South Main Street, whether for Texas 76087.

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Do not call this number, but if you do need to place an order 8177764778.

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So thank you, Sue.

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Thank you.

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Sue's family, her daughters help her run that shop.

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I've seen grandkids in there doing homework and helping run the shop.

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And I've seen just the great way that her family has touched the community of Wetherford.

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When I go into the shop, I see somebody else that I know from the community.

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So that's how you kind of know that they're doing it right.

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Anyway, thank you, Sue.

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Thank you, Sue's family for the donuts.

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Would you guys think of this blueberry old fashioned?

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Yeah, blueberry donut is great.

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You can tell it's got real blueberries and it's got the blueberry flavor really, really solid in there.

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That is again, every donut has been great.

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That's really light and fluffy.

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A lot of times cake donuts can be heavy.

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That's a good donut.

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The blueberry is not overpowering.

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Yeah, I agree.

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The first time I saw their donuts, I was like, these are going to be some hefty donuts, but they're all very light.

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Yeah, very, very light.

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I could definitely put away six by myself, I think, if I was by myself and not full of shame.

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By myself using performance enhancing drugs.

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I got it.

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So our grading scale is a little bit different.

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We go from zero to six donut holes.

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We've got four categories that we go to.

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Let's start with sweetness from zero to six.

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Six being the perfect ratio and zero being overtly sweet, disgustingly sweet or not, not sweet at all.

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So Parker, let's hear your review on Sue's donuts.

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And please don't be biased because that's my family's play.

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No, this is solid.

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I, oh, man, five and a half, like five point five, like across the board, like that is the board sweetness.

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I mean, oh, just every, every category.

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Oh, wow.

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These are incredible donuts.

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Ladies and gentlemen, first time ever, we had Parker giving it a five point five across the board presentation, sweetness, spring back, just in general.

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Yeah, that is a great high praise.

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You might have to come out to Weatherford and try some fresh.

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Yeah, no, I will definitely make the drive.

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Mr. Gray, do you have a rating from zero to six donut holes?

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Excuse me.

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I'd say, I'd say five.

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Five solid five.

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Yeah, that's those are good donuts.

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Excellent. Excellent.

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I'm not going to vote because I'm biased.

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They're my family shop.

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But Miss Sue, you know what?

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You know what grade you got?

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Six.

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But now that you've given her phone number out on the podcast, she has to watch out for Muncho Man.

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Muncho Man might give her holler and I apologize.

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Muncho Man, please don't do that.

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Call us instead.

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We have a Google voice line.

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You can fill it up with voice mails.

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We've missed Sue alone, please.

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Mr. Gray, you said Donna's donuts out in Weatherford is your go to shop.

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Yeah, Donna's Donna's is a it for a long time.

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It's been our go to.

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They've kind of changed management.

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So the doughnuts are quite the same.

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They're still pretty good, but they aren't.

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They aren't what they used to be.

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Do you guys get like just glazed or do you get like the assorted or do you guys get whatever you want?

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So it varies. I got a big family.

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I know you do.

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Usually you have to be like, all right, we're just going to get like two dozen glaze and make everybody semi happy.

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But we kind of get, you know, we'll get a we'll get a dozen glazed and chocolate and then probably get another dozen of assorted donuts.

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Some of my kiddos like twist.

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Some of them like, you know, some of the assorted flavors.

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And so we'll mix it up a little bit.

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What's your very much a traditional chocolate doughnuts and glazed on us.

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That's usually my go to.

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Go to. Yeah.

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If nobody was watching and you could go to a Dunkin donut and pick one donut right off the shelf yourself.

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Would you just still get the glaze and chocolate or would you go crazy?

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Yeah, I'd probably get get chocolate.

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That's good. Yeah.

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baseline.

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I'm boring, man, when it comes to comes to stuff like that.

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That's fine. You know what you like.

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Exactly.

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If you're glazed, you can't go wrong with that.

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You can't go wrong.

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I think we just established that if the glaze is bad, why would you try anything else?

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Exactly.

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It's like going to a good restaurant and like kind of getting a starter and if the starter is bad, you're just like, okay, well, yeah, I guess we're in for it.

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I mean, it's like going to Waffle House and getting a bad waffle.

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Right.

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If you go to a donut shop and you get a bad glazed donut, it's like, no, no, no hope for the rest of. Yeah.

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So let's thank you, Sue.

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We're going to move on from the donut review.

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I think next week we're going to have to take a break from donuts next week.

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We've kind of donated out.

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So we might have to do something.

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We've had pancakes.

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We've had donuts.

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We might have to go breakfast tacos or something like that because, you know, just the sweetness.

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I'd like to get the savory side as well.

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So savory guys.

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Maybe I'll just make us some recmasacas next episode.

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Yeah.

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Final words for Sue's.

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Thank you, Sue.

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Anybody have anything to say for her?

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No.

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Okay.

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Sue, we will be trying Sue's out.

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Yeah.

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Try her out.

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So Mr. Gray, we're going to kind of lightning round it here.

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So we've never had a guest before.

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So if you've been listening, we just kind of, this is our first time.

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So we're kind of winging it, but we did have a, we talked about it previously.

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Before hanging in, we've kind of got a list of questions that we'd like to ask every single guest.

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And then, you know, after a hundred episodes, we'll have like a hundred different answers to these questions.

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And we can kind of like super cut everybody's answers and maybe, you know, make a big list about, you know, the most.

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So no pressure here.

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No pressure, man.

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So also most people that do interviews or that sort of thing, they usually throw the lightning round at the end.

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Most game shows, most interviews, and we kind of wanted to do that off rip just to kind of get kind of into Mr.

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Gray's head.

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What he thinks, what he likes, what he doesn't like, where he's coming from.

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And then we'll kind of get into his story a little bit later.

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So since, since we're doing kind of lightning or anyone to go back and forth.

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Okay.

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I thought that would be fun.

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And again, no pressure, Mr. Gray.

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It's not a big deal.

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Go ahead, Parker.

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You can go first.

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All right.

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What did you have for breakfast today?

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A donut.

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Easy.

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Easy.

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We're starting out easy.

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What is your typical day to day breakfast routine?

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Absolutely eat eggs.

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If that's going to be a staple, it could be bacon eggs, it could be turkey ham, but definitely, definitely eggs and some fresh fruit.

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Eggs.

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What's your favorite way to eat an egg?

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Scrambled.

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Scrambled?

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Scrambled.

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I like us.

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What's it?

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Hard fried?

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Over hard?

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That's my favorite.

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I like the little crispy skin.

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That's my wife.

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Oh, we.

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I'm an over medium game.

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Yeah.

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You like a little run, a little run.

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I like to get some hash browns and then put that over medium egg on there.

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We just got chickens and ducks and I can't wait to have fresh yard eggs.

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Oh yeah.

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It's going to be a while because they're still babies.

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I get some fresh eggs from my neighbor.

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So yeah, they're all fresh.

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That's the best.

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It is the best.

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All right.

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What is your favorite all time breakfast cereal?

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Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

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Hell yes.

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Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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We are all in agreement here.

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Classic.

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S tier cereal.

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You wouldn't believe it.

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Yes.

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That's my favorite as well.

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If you were building the perfect breakfast sandwich, like if you could pick whatever

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type of bread meets whatever you said, obviously eggs got to be on there.

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Eggs got to be on it.

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What kind of bread you picking on this breakfast?

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You're going to go bagel, sourdough, just sourdough.

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Sourdough bread.

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With a little egg.

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Again, the meat, it's got to have some meat.

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It can vary, you know, but I do like ham or turkey bacon, regular bacon sausage.

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It doesn't matter what kind of meat.

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Just some meat.

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What kind of sauce you put on there?

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Probably plain, man.

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You don't do a lot of sauce.

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So yeah.

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A little salt pepper.

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I like to taste, you know, what's in the sandwich.

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Not overpowered with the sauce.

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I didn't know if you would go crazy and put like some jelly on it or something like that.

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You know what?

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Maybe a thin little bit, thin layer of jelly.

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I'm going to put something on it.

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Probably grape jelly.

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Oh, I'm a grape jelly guy myself.

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Yeah.

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And everyone in my house is a strawberry jelly person.

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Same.

427
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I love grape jelly.

428
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Exactly the same.

429
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We never have it in the house because I'm the only one who eats it.

430
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Everybody is like strawberry.

431
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Yeah.

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But oh, anytime there's like a packet of grape jelly, like waffle house or something.

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It's like, that's mine.

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Yeah.

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I remember maybe 10 years ago, 15 years ago when Facebook was like less, you know, less

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the way that it is now.

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But it was more like, you know, it was more like a Renee is and it had like, you know,

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Renee is thinking this is like the worst way to interact.

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But I just remember one time it was like Renee wants and I was like one loaf of white bread,

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one jar of Jeff peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly.

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And that's it.

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That's all I wanted.

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I just wanted like several peanut butter and jelly scene, which with the creamy Jeff

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and the grape jelly, like just the perfect sandwich.

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I like the great jelly with some, some biscuits and butter.

446
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Oh, yes.

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Great.

448
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Okay.

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So perfect breakfast sandwich for Mr. Gray.

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He's going to have sourdough bread with scrambled eggs and probably some meat of some sort.

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Maybe a thin little layer of grape jelly.

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That sounds like a good sandwich.

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I take that.

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We put that on the menu.

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The, the, the truck when we started food truck.

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Yeah.

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Be the Mr. Gray sandwiches.

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Mr. Gray playing just a little simple.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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What is your breakfast guilty pleasure?

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Oh, cinnamon rolls.

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Oh, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon rolls.

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Yeah.

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I have a special place.

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Anywhere.

467
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Anywhere.

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I like, uh, gosh, I try them from anywhere.

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If you've got a cinnamon roll, I've tried it.

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The one in Lake Worth.

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What is it?

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I don't know.

473
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,000
I haven't been sweet Georgia Brown.

474
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000
I think I know.

475
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000
They have a sweet Georgia Browns and there's something like that.

476
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,000
I'm going to look it up for you.

477
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:07,000
Please do.

478
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,000
Please do.

479
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,000
I will travel for cinnamon roll.

480
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,000
Have you ever had a Sino-Hollux cinnamon roll?

481
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:12,000
I haven't.

482
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,200
They, uh, they don't advertise it, but they're all vegan and it's some of the best cinnamon

483
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:17,200
rolls out there.

484
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:18,200
Where could I get one?

485
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,000
The one, there used to be one on West seven, but it shut down.

486
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,000
Okay.

487
00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000
Um, I know there's one in Arlington.

488
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,000
There's one in Mansfield.

489
00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:28,960
Um, they got, I think they were on Shark Tank like years and years ago.

490
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:33,960
And like, I'm funding from them maybe, but they do cinnamon roll cakes.

491
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:35,960
I have seen one of those.

492
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,720
I haven't had like, you can do it with fruit.

493
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,960
You can do it with like cookie toppings, like all kinds of, yeah.

494
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,840
Sino-Hollux is awesome.

495
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,960
Ginger Browns, not sweet ginger Browns.

496
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:45,960
Okay.

497
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:51,760
And they have a, I mean, just right off the rip order cinnamon rolls here is the first

498
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:52,760
thing you see there.

499
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,240
That lets me know that cinnamon rolls are good.

500
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,240
If that's the first thing on the website and they have that real thin glaze and it's warm

501
00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,240
whenever you get it.

502
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,760
There's nothing like a warm cinnamon roll.

503
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:02,760
Yes, sir.

504
00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:08,000
My son makes, uh, my son makes, so he's, he's kind of following in my mom's footsteps.

505
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,800
He wants to go to school for culinary arts.

506
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,680
And so, um, he gets up in the morning and every now and then he makes these cinnamon

507
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,360
rolls with a, uh, with an apple, apple.

508
00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:20,600
I don't know what you call it, but pure a, some like that.

509
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,320
Man, that's, that's a good cinnamon roll.

510
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,400
So that's something that's good.

511
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:25,400
It's good.

512
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:31,560
Um, let's see here, what is your, if you're on the road trip and you get to pick what's

513
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,600
your favorite fast food breakfast where you stop it?

514
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:35,600
Number five at McDonald's.

515
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,600
It's a, uh, the McGriddle.

516
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:38,600
I already know.

517
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,600
You ain't got to tell me what it is.

518
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,600
I already know what number five is.

519
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:43,600
Yes, sir.

520
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,080
Cold marches are, uh, the dream road trip stop.

521
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:48,080
Man.

522
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,080
Yeah.

523
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:54,880
So we used to drive my, my folks and I used to drive, uh, to El Paso and I mean, back

524
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,560
in the eighties and nineties, there was literally nothing between here in El Paso.

525
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:00,920
We'd stop once or twice.

526
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,960
And I always knew we were getting closer to El Paso because in Fort Stockton, there was

527
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,260
only a gas station in a McDonald's and it never failed.

528
00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:12,360
We stopped at the gas station, get gas, we stopped at the McDonald's and usually we

529
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:15,680
would leave like pre dawn because my dad liked to drive.

530
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,720
You know, we'd leave three or four in the morning.

531
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,600
So by the time we get to Fort Stockton, it's like, you know, just at 10 30 11 right there

532
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:22,960
at the breakfast time.

533
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:23,960
Right.

534
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:24,960
We're going to cut off.

535
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:25,960
We're going to cut off.

536
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:26,960
Yeah.

537
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:27,960
Right.

538
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:28,960
So I knew like that road trips for me.

539
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,560
I knew like Fort Stockton McDonald's breakfast.

540
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,560
It's on.

541
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:33,560
We're almost to El Paso.

542
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,480
Then we'll have dinner with grandma later.

543
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:36,480
Hmm.

544
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,840
Favorite breakfast restaurant.

545
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:45,240
So talking like I hop waffle house or like if you've got a local mom and pop spot that

546
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:46,240
you prefer.

547
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,440
If you want to drop game on.

548
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,720
Let me think.

549
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,760
There's a restaurant in in Weatherford.

550
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:56,760
I don't know.

551
00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:57,760
It may be franchise.

552
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,760
It may be, but a sunny street cafe.

553
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:01,760
I had never been there before.

554
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:03,760
It's been there for a few years and I finally went in there.

555
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:04,920
They have the best pancakes.

556
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:09,080
I think I've ever had street on main right across from Walgreens.

557
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,480
Is it what Walgreens?

558
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:11,480
Yeah.

559
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,200
In the same shopping area with what's the Mexican restaurant right there?

560
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:16,200
Real mom.

561
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:17,200
Yeah.

562
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,200
That sunny man.

563
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,200
Those pancakes are huge.

564
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,200
I know.

565
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,560
I told her I wanted a full stack.

566
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,080
She was like, are you sure?

567
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:25,080
I'd never been there.

568
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,080
You know.

569
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,080
And I was like, yeah, I'm gonna eat them all.

570
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,960
Man, those pancakes were about this big.

571
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,280
The stack was about that big.

572
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:32,280
I didn't finish.

573
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,160
I ate about two of them and had to take the other ones home.

574
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,160
Really, really good.

575
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,160
They even have pancakes made from cream of wheat.

576
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,720
A healthy version and those are good.

577
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:44,720
A cream of wheat pancake.

578
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:45,720
Cream of wheat pancake.

579
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:46,720
That's interesting.

580
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:47,720
It really is.

581
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,400
I couldn't tell you the last time I had some cream of wheat.

582
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:51,600
I love some cream of wheat.

583
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,080
We keep cream of wheat in the house.

584
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:54,080
Yes, sir.

585
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,080
We do, too.

586
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,280
We're a breakfast food family.

587
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,840
We have oatmeal, grits, and cream of wheat all the time.

588
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:02,840
Yes, sir.

589
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:03,840
I've been slipping.

590
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:04,840
I forgot about cream of wheat, bro.

591
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,400
No, man, we love some cream of wheat.

592
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,960
We keep cream of wheat in the house.

593
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,800
The way Heather makes it, she puts butter and brown sugar in it.

594
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,800
Yes, sir.

595
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,000
Okay.

596
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,840
You've already alluded to this, but I think I know the answer, but I think this is a good

597
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:20,840
question.

598
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,840
Is turkey bacon trash or delicious?

599
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:23,840
I like turkey bacon.

600
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:24,840
Yes, I like turkey bacon.

601
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,840
So, yes, it's good.

602
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:26,840
I like it.

603
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:27,840
Yes.

604
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,320
My kiddos don't care for it too much.

605
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,320
Some people just hate it.

606
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:37,840
They hate on it for it not being quote unquote real bacon, but Parker doesn't like it.

607
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,360
Parker don't like turkey bacon.

608
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,360
I should have known about it.

609
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,880
I'm also eating a lot of fake bacon.

610
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,960
He's had his fill.

611
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,680
That is also one of my questions.

612
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,320
One of the first questions I had was, is turkey bacon trash or delicious?

613
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:53,320
I like it.

614
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,820
I like turkey bacon.

615
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:57,840
I've had some that I don't hate.

616
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,440
I've had some that is whatever.

617
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,760
I guess it depends on which kind you get.

618
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:03,760
How you cook it too?

619
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,760
Yeah.

620
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:10,880
Not in the microwave.

621
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,040
Is oatmeal peasant food?

622
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,320
I have a friend who has a theory that oatmeal is peasant food and I eat oatmeal almost every

623
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:18,320
day.

624
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,920
So, oatmeal is the breakfast of champions nutrition wise.

625
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:23,080
You've heard it here first.

626
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,720
But it's probably a peasant food.

627
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,960
It's so delicious.

628
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:28,960
You know what's funny?

629
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,840
I don't want to ruin your appetite for oatmeal.

630
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:33,360
I wouldn't eat it for years.

631
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:40,480
For years I'd take cream of wheat over oatmeal and it's because of what it looked like to

632
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:41,480
me.

633
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:42,480
You like the bowl of the boogers.

634
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,840
I never would eat it.

635
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,960
And I actually started eating it until about five years ago.

636
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,960
Yeah.

637
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,800
But I love it now.

638
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,000
I'm also a texture guy.

639
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,200
If it's slimy, I'm just like, I can't do it.

640
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:55,200
I'm a big texture guy too.

641
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,200
I can't do it.

642
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,720
I usually don't put enough water in when I'm cooking it and then I add more later.

643
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,000
So, I can get it just to the right texture.

644
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,680
I get that.

645
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,480
This is a good one for us around our age.

646
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,480
This might not work for anybody about 10 years younger than us, but do you have a favorite

647
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,840
John Claude Van Damme movie?

648
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:14,840
If you don't.

649
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:15,840
Blossboard.

650
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:16,840
Yeah.

651
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:17,840
Yo, I...

652
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:18,840
Blossboard.

653
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:24,520
Heather and I watched this show on Amazon Prime last week called John Claude Van Johnson,

654
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:30,080
starring John Claude Van Damme, where he plays himself, but he's a secret agent named

655
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,320
John Claude Van Johnson.

656
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,480
It's very meta, very funny, lots of good action.

657
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:38,080
John Claude Van Johnson.

658
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:41,360
So yeah, if you're looking for a good JCVD fix.

659
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,360
Check it out.

660
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,360
Yeah.

661
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,160
Amazon Prime, it's awesome.

662
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,160
Blossboard.

663
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,160
I love that movie.

664
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,480
That's a movie I saw way too early in my life.

665
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:50,480
Yeah.

666
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,480
You know what I mean?

667
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,480
The montage.

668
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,400
I was like, snap, did he just really do that?

669
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,480
But I'd have to say, Blossboard and Kickbox are probably...

670
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,480
Yeah.

671
00:31:58,480 --> 00:31:59,480
They're probably 1A, 1B.

672
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:00,480
Yeah.

673
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:01,480
I'm the same way.

674
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:02,480
I love them both.

675
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:03,480
Yeah.

676
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,120
All right.

677
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:09,580
What is your worst injury due to a fight, whether a training, regulated fight or a street

678
00:32:09,580 --> 00:32:11,880
fight?

679
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,400
Probably just stitches, gashes.

680
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,200
Y'all can probably see my eyes all gashed up.

681
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,000
I had about a two inch gas.

682
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,520
Big enough I could stick my finger and it took about nine stitches to close it up.

683
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,120
I took an elbow in an MMA fight.

684
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:34,840
I actually had the guy mounted and he elbowed me from the bottom and gashed me wide open.

685
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:40,920
So as far as aesthetics, the way that looked, that's probably the worst looking one.

686
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:49,240
But as far as pain, man, I fought for a title MMA in Oklahoma in 2014.

687
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,080
I took four leg kicks.

688
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,080
Four.

689
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,080
And my leg hurt worst than anything I've ever felt in my life.

690
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,720
I couldn't walk the next day.

691
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,440
So as far as pain wise, those leg kicks, I've never felt anything like that.

692
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,480
I think that's the thing I'm most scared of.

693
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:06,880
Somebody who knows how to kick kick.

694
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,880
It's legit.

695
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:13,520
I think I heard Joe Rogan say something like, just let John Jones kick you to the leg one

696
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:14,760
time and you're just done.

697
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:21,720
No, you just honest to God, it doesn't take very many, you know, I was rewatching Connor

698
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,560
and Nate DS2.

699
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:29,880
And that was the whole game plan for Connor was to just obliterate his lead leg.

700
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,120
So that way he could he could just not punch.

701
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:36,880
So those I could just imagine how, like you're saying, you just take four and you're just

702
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:37,880
done.

703
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,240
My leg felt like the muscle was going to burst out of the skin.

704
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,240
It was so tight.

705
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,920
So yeah, yeah, leg kicks.

706
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,920
No, sir.

707
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,320
Did you have like your favorite finishing move whenever you're fighting?

708
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,120
Like, did you have enough fights to where you could like develop a like your favorite

709
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:55,360
way to finish a fight?

710
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,200
Or did you have like enough fights to be like, I really like knocking people out.

711
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:00,520
I like knocking people out.

712
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,960
So my soft box longer than I've done MMA.

713
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:04,960
Right.

714
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,120
I actually have more MMA pro MMA fights though.

715
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,600
So it's kind of kind of odd, but I'm traditionally a boxer.

716
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,160
So I like finishing things on my feet with my hands.

717
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,160
So perfect.

718
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,080
Perfect.

719
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,120
What is your favorite fighting arcade game?

720
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,120
Street Fighter.

721
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,120
Street Fighter.

722
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,120
Which first one to two?

723
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,240
I think that was Super Nintendo, right?

724
00:34:29,240 --> 00:34:30,240
Yeah.

725
00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:31,240
Super Street Fighter.

726
00:34:31,240 --> 00:34:33,240
Let me get, was it Balrog?

727
00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:34,240
Yeah.

728
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:40,120
Balrog or Orchid or, man, when I was in college, we used to just sit in the lobby and have

729
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,960
tournaments all day long playing Street Fighter.

730
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:43,960
Street Fighter is amazing.

731
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,960
Yeah, that's probably it for me.

732
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:51,040
I have, I still play a few video games, but the one that I play religiously is Fortnite

733
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,480
and a couple of years ago, they released skins that you could buy that were Street Fighter

734
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,480
skins.

735
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,960
And so now I can play Fortnite as Ryu or Chun-Li.

736
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:00,960
Let's go that.

737
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:09,120
And what's funny is, you know Chun-Li, how she's dressed and she's thick.

738
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:14,200
There's a couple of emotes that are disabled that she's not allowed to do because of how

739
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,200
she's dressed and how thick she is.

740
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,200
That's funny.

741
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:19,200
So shout out Street Fighter.

742
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,040
I'm a savage.

743
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:23,760
She can't do that one because it's like, dude.

744
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:24,760
I don't understand.

745
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,200
You can have me in the room with my son later on like, hey, put that Fortnite game on.

746
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,280
Let me see what's on there.

747
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,360
Were you into professional wrestling?

748
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:34,360
Absolutely.

749
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:39,960
If you were, who was your favorite wrestler era or event if you have any of those?

750
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,920
The 80s, the Von Erick's, Junkyard Dog.

751
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,800
So my fight name is the Junkyard Dog.

752
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,080
JYD and Iceman King Parsons.

753
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:55,200
Those were my all time, Carrie Von Erick of the Von Erick's was my favorite Von Erick

754
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,600
and the claw was.

755
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:58,680
Have you seen the movie?

756
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,480
I just I watched pieces of it a couple of nights ago.

757
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,560
I kind of fell asleep during the but I just haven't watched it.

758
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,560
It was pretty good.

759
00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,520
I've been waiting to hear from someone that I've known that seen him the movies.

760
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,680
That's kind of how I watch movies as I ask people.

761
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,840
Like, did you like is it worth watching?

762
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,960
I watched it a couple of weeks ago.

763
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:15,960
You saw it.

764
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:16,960
Yeah.

765
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:19,080
I sat down and watched the whole thing a few weeks ago and it was really good.

766
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:20,080
Very sad.

767
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:21,080
I mean, you cry.

768
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,080
I didn't cry.

769
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,080
I teared up a couple of times.

770
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,080
I'm going to cry.

771
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:25,080
Yeah.

772
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,080
I already know that I knew I was going to cry from the trailer.

773
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,080
I was like, there's no way.

774
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,080
I can watch this movie.

775
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,080
You'll definitely cry.

776
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:34,920
And I mean, knowing the story, knowing the area where everything took place, like it

777
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:36,480
hits a little bit harder.

778
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:37,480
Yeah.

779
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:42,760
So you know, it's tragic, but some of the stuff you I didn't realize how how many issues

780
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:43,760
they really had.

781
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,720
And you know, as a family unit, you know, so and yeah, it is.

782
00:36:46,720 --> 00:36:47,720
Yeah.

783
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:51,320
What's crazy is I think they leave an entire brother out of the movie.

784
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:52,320
Yeah.

785
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,760
Like they don't even touch on everything that like went down.

786
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,480
Like he was just the black sheep and they were like, yeah.

787
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,880
Like maybe even two brothers.

788
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:04,520
I think there's one or two brothers that they also didn't wrestle.

789
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,200
So yeah, I know one of them.

790
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,600
I didn't realize the younger ones.

791
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:08,600
They were on a diet.

792
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,360
They had a brother.

793
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,360
They really were cursed.

794
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:12,720
Is this like it was.

795
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:16,480
It's a very sad story and there's only one living Von Erich.

796
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:17,480
That's crazy.

797
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:18,480
Yeah.

798
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,480
Rest in peace.

799
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,920
Von Erich families that have passed away.

800
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:22,920
Go ahead.

801
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,400
Let's see thoughts on trash talking while fighting.

802
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,280
Are there any rules when it comes to that sportsmanship respect?

803
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,720
So I do think that there's a line that shouldn't be crossed, you know, anytime you involve

804
00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:42,480
family members or someone's religion or I think that that goes a little bit too far

805
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:48,120
when it's just trash talk about your opponent's abilities.

806
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,520
You know, I think that that's a that's fair game.

807
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:57,040
Just leave families and religion and politics that that sort of thing out of it.

808
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,520
It doesn't have any place in my opinion.

809
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,920
I think we we talked about this.

810
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,400
We were talking about this on the back of a few fights that were kind of very disrespectful

811
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,160
to people's families in general.

812
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:15,520
And we were kind of we were also talking about like Ryan Garcia and like exposing Nita Agdahl

813
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,480
on Twitter and that sort of thing as far as like that's kind of where that question came

814
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,480
from.

815
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:26,040
And I'm glad you you said that because I have a theory on that and it's most people without

816
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:33,920
kids feel that there are no rules and most people that have kids because they have kids

817
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:38,480
that's kind of changed their minds whether or not, you know, and so we have families

818
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,400
and so we know like leave the family out of it.

819
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,560
Otherwise, this is a different thing.

820
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,080
This is this past competition.

821
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:50,680
This moves to, you know, you're threatening my family now and that's a not a no go.

822
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:57,200
Now that you mentioned that now it now it seems like it's it's a so the point of trash

823
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,120
talk is to get somebody out of their game.

824
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,320
But what is what's the best way to get somebody out of their game?

825
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,920
You know, other than talking about their family or the other.

826
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:05,920
Yeah.

827
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,720
I never really even thought about it like that.

828
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:14,040
So it's very intentional, you know, I think that they go there with a Connor.

829
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:18,880
The whole deal with Connor McGregor and could be that kind of that kind of set the tone

830
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:19,880
in my opinion.

831
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,800
You see a lot more of it now.

832
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:29,080
And I think that that fight when he, you know, talked about his religion, Islam and I think

833
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,520
that kind of set the tone now.

834
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,960
You hear a lot more Sean Strickland.

835
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:37,920
He, you know, you see these fighters delve and more into that side of it now.

836
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,560
And I think that that's that's a little disrespectful.

837
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:41,560
Yeah.

838
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,560
But I think it's it's for you.

839
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,480
You know, they think that they're getting into their opponents head.

840
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:51,320
My favorite part of what you're talking about is the Connor, the Connor and Habib and when

841
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,040
Habib is just on top of them and he's just saying, let's talk now.

842
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,040
Yeah.

843
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,040
Yeah.

844
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,040
You don't have much to say now.

845
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,040
Yeah.

846
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,040
Let's talk now.

847
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:00,040
That's my favorite.

848
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,440
And you could clearly hear him on the broadcast saying that.

849
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,680
And then Joe Rogan was like, he's talking trash.

850
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,680
Yeah.

851
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:06,680
Let's talk now.

852
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,480
That's the kind of trash talk I like.

853
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:09,480
Yeah.

854
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,720
He didn't say one word about Clonix family or anything.

855
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:15,920
He just, yeah, I think if you're good at it, you're great at it.

856
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,280
Like Shale Sonnen is the best.

857
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,280
Never lost trash.

858
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,280
Yeah.

859
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,840
And then he's one of those ones where like, yeah, he said like Brazil is dirty, but he'd

860
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:30,440
you know, like he kind of like nationalized that a little bit, but like he was never super

861
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:31,440
disrespectful.

862
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:35,520
He's never like calling out people's family and their moms and this and that.

863
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,160
And he also never really cusses or curses at all.

864
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:40,160
That's impressive.

865
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,160
Yeah.

866
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,160
He's very clever with it.

867
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,160
You know what I mean?

868
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,160
And so.

869
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,160
All right.

870
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,200
So we have two or three more and then we'll get into your personal history.

871
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,000
Did you watch or do you have a favorite movie show or anime?

872
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Hmm.

873
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Training montage.

874
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000
I'm sorry.

875
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000
I missed the last part.

876
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:57,000
Training montage.

877
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,680
So like if you had a movie, like whether it was like Rocky when they're in the snow and

878
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,960
he's about to fight Drago or if you watch any anime and you know, you have like, we've

879
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,040
got a few in mind, but we're hoping to hear from other people.

880
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,920
Or like with Mark.

881
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,840
Obviously that's classic.

882
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:16,840
I just saw.

883
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,040
So my boys are big on anime.

884
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:22,600
I'm not, I don't know the names, you know, as much as they do.

885
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,360
I kind of watch it in Glancing or something, you know, they'll have, hey, dad, come watch

886
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:27,520
this.

887
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,680
But I just saw, they just showed me one.

888
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:31,680
I don't know what it was.

889
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,000
It was Dragon Ball Z.

890
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:34,000
Yeah.

891
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:41,520
So, is it not Vegeta, but he trains in the hyperbolic time chamber.

892
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:42,520
Yeah.

893
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:43,520
Yeah.

894
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,000
So they, they've shown me that.

895
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,400
And then I saw another one the other day.

896
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,080
It was a, it was boxing.

897
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,080
It was a.

898
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:51,580
Was it Bakki?

899
00:41:51,580 --> 00:41:52,580
I'm not sure.

900
00:41:52,580 --> 00:41:53,580
I'm going to have to ask them.

901
00:41:53,580 --> 00:41:54,740
Was it a girl?

902
00:41:54,740 --> 00:41:55,740
Is it a.

903
00:41:55,740 --> 00:42:00,040
I haven't watched a lot of Bakki, but it's really popular and it's like a fighting anime.

904
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,040
Yeah.

905
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,040
Man.

906
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,240
And she, that, that kind of got me hyped.

907
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:04,240
I mean, maybe one.

908
00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:09,480
There's no, there's some like, I am, I grew up watching like Dragon Ball Z and like Gundam

909
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:14,240
and the Toonami stuff, but my son also has gotten really into anime.

910
00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,000
So he'll show me cool stuff.

911
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,000
This happened.

912
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Yeah.

913
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,600
And Bakki is one that I've kind of gotten into.

914
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:20,720
Like I'm going to have to check it out.

915
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:21,800
It's on Netflix.

916
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,120
And yeah, it's just a fighting anime.

917
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:28,600
Like the whole point of it is there's like different like boxing fighting.

918
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:29,760
I bet this is it.

919
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,640
I bet that's it because it's, it's something fairly new.

920
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,960
It's something I haven't seen them watch very much and it was legit.

921
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:43,240
Like it was, it's hard for me to watch movies or shows that involve fighting because it's

922
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:48,080
so over dramatic and it's so, you know, dude can take 900 punches to the face and come

923
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,640
back and win, you know, but this anime was legit.

924
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,640
The training that they did, you know, it really caught my attention and it was, it was pretty

925
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:56,640
neat.

926
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,120
A little montage.

927
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,840
So I love that.

928
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:02,040
Cool.

929
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,680
So you said you've had some professional fights.

930
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,200
Do you have walk on songs?

931
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:06,200
Oh yeah.

932
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:11,840
What's what what's your like favorite walk on my favorite one is motivation by TI.

933
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:16,920
I've walked in probably more than more than any other song.

934
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:21,440
Do you have a favorite fighter who has a like your favorite walk out?

935
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,080
Who has your favorite walk out song do you think?

936
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:29,840
You know, it's not necessarily the song, I think it's a combination of both just his

937
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,200
aura, the song.

938
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,040
When you when you heard the B drop, you knew it was him and that's Anderson Silva and DMX

939
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:38,040
is a no sunshine.

940
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,440
You just knew it was, I don't know.

941
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,520
I heard the song a thousand times prior to him walking out to it, but it's kind of like

942
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:45,520
the Undertaker.

943
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:49,200
The bell really is, you know, it's him, you know what he's bringing.

944
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:53,400
And so that's kind of what we're talking about in this question and like Dustin Poirier,

945
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,840
you know, James around the man, you know, he switched it up.

946
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:56,840
I like it.

947
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:58,400
I like how he came out of this song.

948
00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,400
Yeah.

949
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,680
I mean, just like there are some fighters that you hear their songs and it's just like,

950
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:04,480
yeah, you know, here we go.

951
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:05,480
Yeah.

952
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:06,480
It's giving me chills now.

953
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:12,720
I even think cool walk up songs in baseball are very effective as well.

954
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:18,800
We're big Philadelphia Phillies fan and if they're at home and Stott's about to come

955
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:24,440
up that everybody in the park is singing like living in a beautiful world.

956
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,880
And it's just kind of a nerve to pitchers to hear like 20,000 people sing the same thing

957
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:34,040
at the same time, no matter how happy it is, it's still pretty probably intimidating.

958
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:38,600
Well, that has been the lightning round your first official lightning round for breakfast

959
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:39,600
of champions.

960
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,120
I feel like it wasn't very lightning II, but you know, we'll get better at it.

961
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:51,520
So we wanted to get more in depth in here kind of for Mr. Gray's life and we're here

962
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:59,160
in Fort Worth normally, but he is and I am residents of Weatherford, Texas, which is

963
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,040
about 25 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

964
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:07,600
So if you're unfamiliar with Weatherford, we're out past, you know, just head west

965
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:09,920
like your head towards Abilene.

966
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:14,960
You're going to hit, you know, go past White Selma, go past Alito, go past Willow Park,

967
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,200
Hudson Oaks, and then you're right there in Weatherford.

968
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:21,000
So there's a lot of little towns between us and Weatherford.

969
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:28,840
But my first ever interaction from Weatherford, I was just telling my kids this because Allie

970
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:35,200
likes to take the kids on a drive sometimes and we got cones from Brahms, you know, the

971
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:40,360
little twist cones that are like a buck or whatever, and we're taking a drive down Maine

972
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:47,200
and then we just pulled off and we're taking a little around about the football field.

973
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:51,440
They have the high school football fields on Main Street at the ninth grade center.

974
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:56,480
And I told one of my kids, I was like, yeah, I used to come out here and play football.

975
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,080
And Allie was like in high school.

976
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:00,400
I was like, yeah, we played in high school.

977
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,080
And she was like, I didn't know that.

978
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:08,840
I was like, so I played on that field in high school and my daughter was the Bluebell captain.

979
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:14,360
And so like kind of full circle, I danced on that field with her during half time for

980
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,240
Bo Bell for four years on the road.

981
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:20,920
So like in high school, I was playing on that field and now we live in that town.

982
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:26,960
And so my first interaction with Weatherford was on a high school bus going down past in

983
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:31,200
the old Walmart and then turn in a right and playing football at that field and then get

984
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:32,360
right back on the highway.

985
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,680
And Main Street was really all that I had from there.

986
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:42,320
So tell us about how your family's kind of been in Weatherford for several generations.

987
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:43,320
Is that right?

988
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,320
Yes, sir.

989
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:45,320
Five generations.

990
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:46,320
My mother's side of the family.

991
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:47,320
Yeah.

992
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,320
So that's amazing.

993
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,320
Most people don't have that lineage around here.

994
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,360
Don't, you know, don't have five generations.

995
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:58,160
There's a lot of moving, but particularly in Weatherford, I don't know very many families

996
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,440
that have five generations that have stayed in Weatherford.

997
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,000
You hear of them, but a lot of their families have kind of come and gone.

998
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,520
And so I think it's very cool that you can say that your family has been in Weatherford

999
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:09,520
for that long.

1000
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:11,280
Have you lived in Weatherford your entire life?

1001
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,120
Majority of my life, but I did move away.

1002
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,000
So my dad's side of the family, originally from Alabama, but they are relocated to the

1003
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:23,120
East Coast, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.

1004
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,360
I was actually born in Connecticut.

1005
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,960
So I've lived on the East Coast a little bit.

1006
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:31,640
When I went off to college, I left a little bit, but ended up coming home.

1007
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,960
So the majority of my life, I've lived in Weatherford.

1008
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:34,960
Okay.

1009
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,520
Did you serve in the military, though?

1010
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:37,520
I didn't.

1011
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:42,320
I am one of two men in my family that didn't serve.

1012
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:43,800
I'm the same way.

1013
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,160
Most of my family served.

1014
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:49,920
And so typically folks that are in combat sports or folks that are interested in that

1015
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:55,400
sort of thing after sort of like the 20s and 30s are men that have served.

1016
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:59,560
And so I didn't want to disrespect your service and mention that if you had served.

1017
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,400
So how did you kind of get into combat sports?

1018
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:07,000
I didn't get into it to fight it all, believe it or not.

1019
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:12,640
I was headed off to go play football in college and I'd been working out all summer.

1020
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:17,360
And a friend of mine was going to a local boxing gym there in Weatherford and he asked

1021
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,520
me if I wanted to come and try it out.

1022
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,800
And so I was kind of using it like a supplement to, you know, lifting weights and running

1023
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:27,720
and thought it'd be good for hand-eye coordination, you know, footwork, that kind of thing.

1024
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:29,560
And so I did it all summer.

1025
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:33,600
This is Jared Kemp, the Kemp family out by Weatherford Lake.

1026
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,200
He had a gym out there.

1027
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:36,360
Had been there since 88.

1028
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,680
I'd never heard of it.

1029
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,400
I'd wanted to box my whole life.

1030
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:45,320
But at that time, most of the gyms were here in Fort Worth and my dad, he wasn't driving

1031
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,160
me to Fort Worth to box.

1032
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,560
If he was going to drive me anywhere, it was the work, you know.

1033
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:50,560
So I didn't get that.

1034
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,520
I have to drive you somewhere and pay for it?

1035
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:53,520
Right.

1036
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:57,320
Yeah, if you're going to work and you can pay for it, that's another thing.

1037
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,840
But I did that for the summer.

1038
00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:04,160
And right before I left, my coach, Coach Jared Kemp, asked me to take a fight, you know.

1039
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:05,360
Like you've been working hard all summer.

1040
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,520
Might as well try it out and see, you know, see what you think about it.

1041
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,560
And I fought and that was it.

1042
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:15,400
I fought through college and when I was done with football, I started fighting full time.

1043
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,240
So the intention was never to fight.

1044
00:49:18,240 --> 00:49:20,400
It's just kind of funny how it took.

1045
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:21,640
Supplemental to your other sports.

1046
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,120
So what were the sports that you loved growing up playing?

1047
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:25,640
Oh, man, I played everything.

1048
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,760
I come from a really athletic family.

1049
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,200
Baseball, baseball was the sport.

1050
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,960
My father wouldn't even let me play anything else other than baseball.

1051
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:40,880
He passed away and then I kind of got my opportunity to play football and found out

1052
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,720
I was good at it.

1053
00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:45,720
Basketball, baseball, anything with a ball.

1054
00:49:45,720 --> 00:49:46,720
Yeah.

1055
00:49:46,720 --> 00:49:47,720
We were outside.

1056
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:50,960
We were outside kids, you know, in the yard.

1057
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:51,960
Playing with a ball.

1058
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:54,400
So you didn't take any karate or taekwondo or anything?

1059
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,320
So I did take my so my brother was a taekwondo instructor when I was about 12.

1060
00:49:58,320 --> 00:49:59,320
Oh, OK.

1061
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:05,360
And so right off of Northman Lou Lou Anger Lou Anger, I think was his name.

1062
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:06,360
I think so.

1063
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:07,360
That sounds familiar.

1064
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,280
And my brother was taught one of the classes there.

1065
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,360
So because I was his brother, I got to take it for free.

1066
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:14,360
Sure.

1067
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:15,880
So I wasn't there long though.

1068
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:20,080
I maybe about four months, but I did pick up a lot of the basics.

1069
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:21,080
Yeah.

1070
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,200
That I ended up using later on in MMA.

1071
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:27,720
So it's funny how everything kind of lays it out, you know, pays the role for what

1072
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:29,240
you do later on.

1073
00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:30,920
So I did have a little bit of a background.

1074
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:35,600
So you took a little taekwondo but love sports just where athletic in general and then kind

1075
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,760
of got bit by the bug whenever you had your first fight.

1076
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:39,760
Yep.

1077
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:40,760
Like, hey, let's try it.

1078
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,200
I tried it and it was that was a wrap.

1079
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:43,800
Did you have siblings growing up?

1080
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,280
I'm only told.

1081
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:46,280
Same.

1082
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:47,280
Yeah.

1083
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:48,280
So you mentioned you have siblings.

1084
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:52,040
I mean, you don't have to give too much personal information, but you have brothers and sisters

1085
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,440
or two brothers and a sister.

1086
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:55,720
I've got an older brother.

1087
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:57,200
I was the middle child.

1088
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,920
My mom had my, I call him my little brother, but he's a giant.

1089
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:06,320
But she had him at 40, you know, he there was a big age gap between us and him.

1090
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:07,920
And so it's me.

1091
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:13,080
It's my brother, oldest brother, me, my sister, and then my younger brother, Walter.

1092
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,960
The junior, older brother kind of tussle a lot all the time.

1093
00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:16,960
Yeah.

1094
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,080
I tell a story.

1095
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,240
So we were always having to, you know, have to have the house clean, especially during

1096
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,960
the summer before my mom got on from work.

1097
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,720
So it was always some back and forth.

1098
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:26,720
He watched the dishes.

1099
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:27,720
No, you watched it.

1100
00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:28,720
I watched him last time.

1101
00:51:28,720 --> 00:51:33,360
We got into it in the kitchen one day and he side kicked me and I thought he broke every

1102
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,960
rib in my body.

1103
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:36,960
Every rib.

1104
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,520
I don't think I've ever been kicked at all in my life.

1105
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,200
And so that's kind of what got me taking Taekwondo.

1106
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:42,200
Yeah.

1107
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,400
I think we have to have a sibling violence episode because...

1108
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,920
We'll have to get Heather on because she's like one of eight.

1109
00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:53,000
Ali's got some good stories about her and her sister and almost everybody that I know

1110
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,880
that has a close, close and age sibling.

1111
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,480
There's like some good fight stories there.

1112
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,840
They stopped us from sparring in Taekwondo because it would go from technical sparring

1113
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:03,840
into brawling.

1114
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,160
Like, you got me in trouble.

1115
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:07,160
You didn't watch the dishes.

1116
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:08,880
So yeah, y'all can't spar with each other anymore.

1117
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:13,720
Y'all got to spar with several, you know, different people.

1118
00:52:13,720 --> 00:52:20,800
So going up in Wutherford, we kind of talked a little bit about this previously, but previously

1119
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:26,480
to recording, but your family just kind of get into it just straight up.

1120
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,880
But your family's one of the fewer black families that were in Wutherford at the time.

1121
00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:34,960
And so I'd imagine that that kind of created a little bit of tension for your family, like

1122
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,920
going to school and getting, you know, certain things going and that sort of thing.

1123
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:45,360
So I did want to touch on that, were you ever affected by some of the racism that goes on

1124
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:46,360
in Wutherford?

1125
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:47,360
Oh, absolutely.

1126
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:48,360
Yeah.

1127
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:49,360
Absolutely.

1128
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,800
It was, you know, being, you know, minority in Wutherford.

1129
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:57,200
Yeah, you're going to deal with racism.

1130
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:58,200
Yeah.

1131
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,600
It was prevalent.

1132
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:05,640
I want to also say, you know, as much as racism as we dealt with, there were other people,

1133
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,640
you know, that kind of helped shelter us.

1134
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,000
But oh, yeah, it was, it was, it was absolutely.

1135
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,880
Yeah, I did want to touch on that because that's something that, you know, like we love

1136
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:17,640
Wutherford and like Soos and Q and like great schools and stuff like that.

1137
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,840
But I can just know that that for you and your family is another layer of like a barrier

1138
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,520
venturi of just having a good life.

1139
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:28,080
And so there was probably some, sometimes that you probably had to fight just because

1140
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:29,080
of that.

1141
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:33,320
And so, and so we did want to touch on that a little bit.

1142
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,960
So growing up, you had siblings, you were playing sports.

1143
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,920
You went off to college and you got into combat fighting.

1144
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,600
Did you you said you had boxing fights and MMA fights?

1145
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:45,600
Is that right?

1146
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:51,560
So I started out with boxing and I actually started at a late age in boxing.

1147
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:56,320
If you intend to make a career out of it, if you want to be a world champion, you typically

1148
00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:02,800
start much younger, eight, some as young as six, 10 years old.

1149
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:09,200
I started at 19 and that's considered, you know, kind of late.

1150
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,640
And so I started off boxing first.

1151
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,840
I boxed for a little bit, had a few amateur fights.

1152
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:18,720
When I went off to college, they didn't have a boxing gym.

1153
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:21,880
That's this is how I kind of got into MMA.

1154
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,640
There was a youth wrestling facility there that I went to talk to to see if they had had

1155
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:27,200
boxing and they didn't.

1156
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,920
They had MMA training.

1157
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:35,680
So I took that kind of as a way to kind of keep me in shape for combat sport, you know,

1158
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,840
for boxing and kind of keep my boxing sharp.

1159
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,160
Of course, boxing isn't everything, but it is a part of MMA.

1160
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:45,640
And so I thought I could kind of keep it, keep it sharp.

1161
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,080
Well, kind of the same thing happened.

1162
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:52,320
I trained MMA and then Coach Les Mayo, shout out to Coach Les Mayo.

1163
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:56,200
He's a youth wrestling coach there in Stephenville.

1164
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,720
He talked me into taking a fight.

1165
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:03,320
So I didn't I fought as an amateur in boxing.

1166
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:07,920
I didn't I just turned pro at, you know, in MMA and I had a little bit of success.

1167
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:12,400
I won my first three fights and then so I wasn't big on the ground.

1168
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:15,240
I'm decent on the ground, but that wasn't my base.

1169
00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:20,760
And so once people started finding out I was pretty adept, you know, on my feet, you know,

1170
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:22,080
they start going to the ground.

1171
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:22,600
Take it.

1172
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,560
So I got submitted.

1173
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:30,160
So I've got seven, I'm sorry, eight pro MMA fights.

1174
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,320
And I've got three pro boxing matches.

1175
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:39,080
I've boxed for 20 years in a May for 13, but have more MMA fights as a pro.

1176
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,360
I had over 30 amateur fights.

1177
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:46,640
So I have more boxing matches, but more as a as a pro in sure.

1178
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:53,200
So on days of fights, did you have good breakfast or were you too nervous to eat?

1179
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:54,880
No, I wanted to ask that to everybody.

1180
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:56,040
I'm really, I'm eating.

1181
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,880
I'm look when I get nervous, I'm gonna eat.

1182
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,360
If I'm sad, I'm gonna eat.

1183
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:02,880
If I'm happy, I'm gonna eat.

1184
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,680
So we always wonder like, what is the day of the fight?

1185
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:11,880
Like, because typically some fighters and the professional ranks and even all the way

1186
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,480
down to imagers, they're cutting weight to make weight.

1187
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:18,080
And so they're kind of like replenishing with fluids and that sort of thing.

1188
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:23,440
And so my whole thought is like, take Alex Pereira, for example, he cuts to 205,

1189
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,000
everybody walks in at like 230.

1190
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:25,520
And yeah.

1191
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:30,560
And so my whole thing is like, if you're putting on 25 pounds of water weight in a day, do

1192
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,840
you have enough room in your tummy to get like a good nourishing meal?

1193
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:34,280
So.

1194
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:38,040
So I never really had to cut a whole lot because I fought it.

1195
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,720
I'm short, but I fought in heavy weight.

1196
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:42,720
Super heavy weight as an amateur.

1197
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,400
If heavy weight in MMA and I cut down.

1198
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:47,080
This is a difference.

1199
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,320
So I never had to cut a whole lot.

1200
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:55,200
When I fought it, like, like heavy weight in MMA, I walked around about two 15 to 20.

1201
00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:57,960
So I don't only have to cut 10 pounds.

1202
00:56:57,960 --> 00:56:58,200
Yeah.

1203
00:56:58,200 --> 00:56:59,800
And that's that's an easy cut.

1204
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:00,160
Yeah.

1205
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:01,720
So I always got to eat what I want.

1206
00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:02,520
You know, I didn't have to.

1207
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:03,080
I didn't have to.

1208
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:04,760
I only had to cut one time.

1209
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,240
That was a boxing match.

1210
00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:09,000
I fought at Cruiserweight and I had to cut down.

1211
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,080
That was just below 200.

1212
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,720
And so yeah, it's still wasn't a crazy cut.

1213
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,800
So I I've gotten to eat.

1214
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:18,720
So I can't.

1215
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,760
Now I've been I've had teammates that I fought on the same car with that, you know,

1216
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:28,160
struggled to cut a lot of weight and they couldn't eat, you know, up until way in

1217
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,200
and typically weigh in the night before.

1218
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:30,600
Right.

1219
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,840
And then they spent most of their time trying to rehydrate like you were saying.

1220
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:40,280
And so you eat light, you know, they would eat light, try to get protein, as much protein

1221
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:45,120
and and and complex carbs as you can the night before.

1222
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:49,160
But if you're if you're having a rehydrated light, it is hard to eat.

1223
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:49,680
Yeah.

1224
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,320
For athletes, how big is nutrition?

1225
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,000
Like how big is the diet?

1226
00:57:54,280 --> 00:58:01,360
It's in my opinion, it's it's 60, 60, 70 percent of it, my opinion.

1227
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,240
You know, we're all trained to fight.

1228
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,640
So the skills aspect, that's a given.

1229
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:12,560
The nutrition is is everything, particularly if you have to cut weight.

1230
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:16,760
You need you need the proper nutrients, you know, to help fuel you.

1231
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:18,480
And I think so.

1232
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:22,160
And I can speak to this because I used to eat terrible because I didn't have to

1233
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:27,160
cut as much weight and you can actually feel the difference in your body between eating.

1234
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:31,320
You know, if I had a chicken fried steak tonight before, as opposed to, you know,

1235
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,240
some whole wheat pasta and some type of.

1236
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,840
Carb that that was a little bit healthier.

1237
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,040
You can feel the difference in their cooking.

1238
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:42,600
You can feel the difference the next day.

1239
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:47,160
You know, you eat a fried food, you're lethargic, you don't move as quickly.

1240
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,000
I even think you're thinking is a little bit slower.

1241
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,200
And so nutrition, nutrition is huge.

1242
00:58:53,240 --> 00:59:00,760
I have a book that I use now with with my fighters and kind of get some ideas from it.

1243
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,280
It's by Chris Algeria.

1244
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,880
Chris Algeria was a former world champion boxer.

1245
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,240
He's also got a master's in nutrition.

1246
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,120
And so he wrote a book, Food for Fighters.

1247
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:11,640
Fighters.

1248
00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:16,880
And it kind of it breaks it down and it talks about how important nutrition is.

1249
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,320
And so I try to get my fighters to to read that book.

1250
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,760
We'll read, you know, different excerpts from it to show them how important nutrition

1251
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:30,880
really is because I think that I know for myself, I came from old school coach,

1252
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:32,200
the old Marine.

1253
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:37,360
All he all day long, man, he eats a piece of toast and drinks coffee.

1254
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,080
That's his that's his food.

1255
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:45,440
This dude is 50 years old with eight pack, but it's just genetics, you know, and he's,

1256
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:47,440
he's not big on nutrition.

1257
00:59:47,480 --> 00:59:50,080
And so I had to kind of learn that on my own.

1258
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:55,800
And so I try to be big with that with my own fighters, like nutrition matters.

1259
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:57,280
I got to check that book.

1260
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:58,120
I just wrote it down.

1261
00:59:58,160 --> 00:59:58,400
Yeah.

1262
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:04,440
Because I again, with a food background, I love learning about nutrition and I like

1263
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:05,720
to use myself as a guinea pig.

1264
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:07,520
So like I'm not a fighter.

1265
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:12,320
We've talked about in past episodes, I have never really fought, but I like to

1266
01:00:12,320 --> 01:00:13,120
weightlifting.

1267
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:13,520
Oh, yeah.

1268
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:19,360
And so I can tell when my diet's locked in, I can see the results.

1269
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:20,240
Faster results.

1270
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:20,920
Exactly.

1271
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:21,960
I can feel it.

1272
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:23,400
I recover better.

1273
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:23,800
Yep.

1274
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:24,760
Like everything.

1275
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:26,920
So I'm sure with fighting, it's exact same thing.

1276
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:32,680
Like, oh, hey, I had chicken, rice, broccoli, spinach, and I had more protein.

1277
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:34,360
I had, I didn't have all this stuff.

1278
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,800
Or oh, hey, the cheeseburger, like the way your body feels.

1279
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,680
It feels absolutely wild.

1280
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:44,080
Inflammation, you know, certain, certain meats can cause inflammation in a joint.

1281
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:45,480
Like it and you can feel it.

1282
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:46,960
You like that book.

1283
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:48,880
That book has got a ton of recipes in it too.

1284
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:49,400
Awesome.

1285
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:49,720
Yeah.

1286
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:53,080
I just Googled it, saved it so I can go back and look at it later.

1287
01:00:53,360 --> 01:00:53,880
I love that.

1288
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:58,440
I think that's something that you like, especially like for us that are combat

1289
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:02,800
sports fans, we do get to see a lot of like the fighting and behind the scenes and

1290
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,520
the training. You have seen a good job of that in like the embedded.

1291
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,200
You get to see it, their meals and the apex and that sort of thing.

1292
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:13,280
Actually, we'd like to get one of their chefs on and see just kind of pick

1293
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:14,520
their brain about that as well.

1294
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:18,880
But just kind of the nutrition part is one of those things that's kind of slept on.

1295
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:23,840
And I think that, you know, you can kind of tell where fighter is kind of by that

1296
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,800
aspect of their life, you know, if they're really locked in on their nutrition

1297
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:30,560
and they're making sure that that part of their life is taken care of, then it kind

1298
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:32,960
of bleeds over into everything else in the life.

1299
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,720
And you see those guys that are really on it, you know, they've got it down to

1300
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:41,720
the microgram of like everything, you know, all their macros and everything like that.

1301
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,440
So one thing that we kind of want to touch on here in this program too is like,

1302
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:48,720
yeah, breakfast food is good, donuts are good and stuff like that.

1303
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:52,760
But also, like you said, taking care of your body is, you know, you can feel the

1304
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,200
difference, you can see the difference in your results.

1305
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,920
And so nutrition, particularly for people of color, is hard.

1306
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:01,240
Hard to talk about, you know.

1307
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:06,000
And so again, you know, we don't really, you know, my family, whenever we get

1308
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:08,000
together, we just eat and eat and eat.

1309
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:08,680
Like what?

1310
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,920
And, you know, it's one of those things where like taking care of your body is

1311
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,440
important, not just for athletes, but for people in general.

1312
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,040
And so that's a great book.

1313
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:17,160
Thank you for that recommendation.

1314
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:18,000
We'll check that out.

1315
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:27,240
You, when you were fighting, did you have like a manager or an agent or were you

1316
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:28,720
just handling all that by yourself?

1317
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:33,240
So I did have a, had a, actually a friend of mine I went to college with,

1318
01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,480
who was a business, graduated with a business degree.

1319
01:02:35,480 --> 01:02:37,680
He, he managed my fights for me.

1320
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:42,760
He, he reached out to promoters and, and that's big because that's an aspect

1321
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,560
that you don't have to worry about, you know.

1322
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:45,720
That's why I ask.

1323
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,600
I know that there are some fighters that are, you know, just they're like,

1324
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:49,360
I do it all myself.

1325
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:53,040
But like, I know that for, you know, somebody that that's something that you

1326
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:54,880
just is a completely different.

1327
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:56,360
It's almost like a full-time job trying to market.

1328
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:57,040
It really is.

1329
01:02:57,040 --> 01:03:01,640
It gives you more time to train and focus on the actual fight as opposed to

1330
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:05,160
having to be on the phone, taking calls, trying to negotiate a contract, trying

1331
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:06,920
to get on a card.

1332
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:11,440
And so I see a lot of parallels between playing music and kind of like,

1333
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,160
you know, name a true fighter.

1334
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:17,040
You know, you're, you're mainly trying to focus on writing songs and

1335
01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:18,040
perfecting those songs.

1336
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:20,680
But then there's that whole other aspect of the business where you're like,

1337
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:23,840
well, we've got to play these songs somewhere and maybe try to get a little

1338
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:24,840
bit of money for it.

1339
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:25,840
You know, and so.

1340
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:26,840
Exactly, right.

1341
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:33,280
It kind of puts a weird, you know, taint on the fun part of or like the exciting

1342
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:35,240
part of it because you do have to handle your business.

1343
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:36,480
So, you know, it's a business.

1344
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:37,000
Yeah.

1345
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:38,160
Somebody's getting paid off of you.

1346
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:38,760
Right.

1347
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:40,040
You know, you know, you fighting.

1348
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:44,480
And so I did want to, I was interested in how, how like amateur fighters kind of

1349
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:45,720
go about getting their fights.

1350
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:49,640
I didn't know if people, you know, reached out or if you would have to do all

1351
01:03:49,640 --> 01:03:51,640
of that on your own legwork is kind of big deal.

1352
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:56,440
So your coach, your coach is pretty, a lot of coaches act like, act, stand in

1353
01:03:56,440 --> 01:03:57,440
and act as managers.

1354
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,040
And so my son fights for James Vic.

1355
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:05,720
James Vic was a former contender in the UFC and lightweight division.

1356
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:11,440
And he trains out of peak performance in Kella and James Vic MMA.

1357
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:12,280
Shout out.

1358
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:13,440
Shout out.

1359
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:16,040
So he, he gets the fights for my son.

1360
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:17,040
He's got connections.

1361
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:20,920
Obviously he's, he's fought in the UFC for, you know, many years.

1362
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:26,800
And so it's, it's easy to have someone like that to get fights for him.

1363
01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:32,440
So usually, usually coaches, most coaches are former fighters and they're

1364
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:33,920
connected with a lot of promotions.

1365
01:04:33,920 --> 01:04:37,920
And, and so they're, they usually are the ones who, who get your fights.

1366
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:41,920
Now as you turn pro, you want to, you want an actual manager or actual agent.

1367
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:44,640
If, if that's your career path.

1368
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:45,560
So yeah.

1369
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:47,080
Excellent.

1370
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,640
So you mentioned your son, D'Shawn.

1371
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:54,200
He currently holds the belt.

1372
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:56,000
Is it Bantam weight?

1373
01:04:56,000 --> 01:04:58,840
It is lightweight.

1374
01:04:58,840 --> 01:04:59,480
Lightweight?

1375
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:00,800
155.

1376
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:01,080
Okay.

1377
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,360
So he is a current belt holder for F3.

1378
01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:03,840
Is that right?

1379
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:04,480
The promotion?

1380
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:05,080
Okay.

1381
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:08,920
So that's kind of why we invited you in.

1382
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,120
We, like I said, we're friends on Facebook.

1383
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:14,400
And so I see all these amazing things that you're getting to be a part of.

1384
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:17,760
And I see his fights, you know, on, on your, on your page.

1385
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:23,520
And so just very impressed with, with just the passing down of, of the martial

1386
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:27,440
arts skills and, and, and the striking skills and just your enthusiasm for your

1387
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:28,640
son is just contagious.

1388
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,680
And so we wanted to shout out to Sean.

1389
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:36,920
If there's anything that, you know, he has coming up, we definitely want to plug

1390
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,920
it and make sure that we're locked in with him and make sure we're, we're, we're

1391
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:42,160
promoting his fights as well.

1392
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:43,200
We're behind him as well.

1393
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:43,800
Appreciate it.

1394
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:46,400
I know he doesn't really know us, but you know, I've been

1395
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:49,200
cheering for him for the past like a year, like ever since you came to school,

1396
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:49,800
everything you're doing.

1397
01:05:49,800 --> 01:05:51,920
When you invited me, I told him, I called him first, man.

1398
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:53,840
I got invited to this podcast, man.

1399
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,000
I get to, so yeah, he knows about you guys.

1400
01:05:56,000 --> 01:05:57,760
So shout out to Sean.

1401
01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:58,960
We're, we're rooting for you.

1402
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:00,080
We're, we're cheering for you.

1403
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,880
Hopefully we get to go to one of your fights here in the near future.

1404
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:07,200
See that thing live instead of, instead of watching it on your dad's Facebook page.

1405
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,280
But do you help coach to Sean?

1406
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:09,840
Absolutely.

1407
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:10,240
Yeah.

1408
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:11,600
I was just over there last night.

1409
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:14,160
I worked with him with his, with his boxing.

1410
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:14,640
Okay.

1411
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:20,240
And so he'll come, he'll come to Weatherford, you know, once twice a week or I'll come,

1412
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:25,840
I'll go to Keller to peak performance and train over there with him, help him do his boxing.

1413
01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:26,960
Beautiful.

1414
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:28,160
And so, so yeah.

1415
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:32,880
And then we, we sparred, that was it, Friday, last Friday.

1416
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,680
So I have, I've got seven kids.

1417
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:39,600
They're not, my four oldest aren't kids, but they're kids to me, but they're,

1418
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:45,280
they're all young men in their twenties and they all fight some in some form or fashion.

1419
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:50,000
And so it's good to have sparring partners, you know, and they're all around the same weight.

1420
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,520
So we just, we'll meet and spar at the gym.

1421
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:54,160
Family sparring?

1422
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:54,880
Work out, yeah.

1423
01:06:55,440 --> 01:07:01,680
Leave out of there with, you know, bloody noses and black eyes and go to Waffle House and go eat.

1424
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,040
I love that.

1425
01:07:03,040 --> 01:07:03,760
That's amazing.

1426
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:09,360
He gets, I brought that up because he gets good training from his brother.

1427
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:10,480
So his brother's helpful a little bit too.

1428
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:14,000
Very athletic, you know, and so he gets a different look from, from each one of them.

1429
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,440
I've got my son Matthew is probably the best boxer.

1430
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:24,640
Deshaun is probably the best kickboxer and my son Tyler, he just kind of picked it up the last

1431
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:25,200
couple of years.

1432
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,600
He actually just went and sparred over Travis Looters last night.

1433
01:07:28,240 --> 01:07:34,000
And, and he's, he's a little bit of a hybrid, you know, and so he gets,

1434
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:35,840
he's a pretty good trainer.

1435
01:07:35,840 --> 01:07:36,480
That's wonderful.

1436
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:38,640
I love that family.

1437
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:39,040
Family.

1438
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:40,000
It's a family affair.

1439
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:42,000
It's a very well rounded too.

1440
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:42,640
Yeah.

1441
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,040
You get a little bit of, a little bit of look from everybody.

1442
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:45,680
From everything.

1443
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:45,920
Yeah.

1444
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:46,240
Yeah.

1445
01:07:46,240 --> 01:07:46,800
That's great.

1446
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,280
Do you know if he's got, he's got something coming up or?

1447
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,640
So we don't have a date, a specific date, but he's got to know what's going to be.

1448
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:54,800
Right.

1449
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:55,280
Yeah.

1450
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,680
Well, he may not, he may, so we may just turn him pro.

1451
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:03,920
So he's, he's got over 30 amateur kickboxing matches.

1452
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:05,360
He's undefeated.

1453
01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:06,240
He held two belts.

1454
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:12,560
Kickboxing and this was his first belt MMA and James wants to go ahead and turn him pro.

1455
01:08:12,560 --> 01:08:16,160
And so we think he's going to have his first pro fight in July.

1456
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:19,280
We just don't have a date solidified yet.

1457
01:08:19,280 --> 01:08:21,360
And that's probably going to be a K.O. live.

1458
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:22,960
You guys familiar with that venue?

1459
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:24,560
That's a pretty nice venue.

1460
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:26,560
It's fairly, fairly new venue.

1461
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:26,960
Yeah.

1462
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,000
I kind of like that.

1463
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:33,120
It was my first time being there at his last fight, but that's going to be in July.

1464
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,360
We just don't have a date for it yet.

1465
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:36,560
And keep us posted.

1466
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:37,200
Yeah, for sure.

1467
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:37,760
Absolutely.

1468
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:43,600
One of the things I'd also like to say, we're going to, so he's, we're going to try to get

1469
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:46,000
him as many, he's got a couple different offers.

1470
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,360
He's got an offer for karate combat.

1471
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:48,640
Y'all familiar with karate combat?

1472
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,160
Is it the one that's like down?

1473
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:50,480
Yeah.

1474
01:08:50,480 --> 01:08:51,200
Oh yeah.

1475
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:52,880
It's in Orleans based out Orlando.

1476
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:58,720
His coach James Vic will be fighting, I believe next month in karate combat.

1477
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:07,440
And so he's gotten an offer from them and for pro kickboxing and for MMA.

1478
01:09:07,440 --> 01:09:09,600
His, his goal has been MMA.

1479
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:15,200
And so that's probably the route we're going to take unless karate combat, you know, offers

1480
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:16,560
at the end of the day, it's a business.

1481
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:17,040
Sure.

1482
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:18,800
You want to make as much money as you can.

1483
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:19,760
This is a dangerous sport.

1484
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:20,480
Exactly.

1485
01:09:20,480 --> 01:09:28,080
But a point sometime in September, I want to fight one more time.

1486
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,240
I haven't fought in probably two years.

1487
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:31,200
I fought two years ago.

1488
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:32,480
I got robbed.

1489
01:09:32,480 --> 01:09:37,360
Honestly, I know fighters say that all the time, but I got robbed and even, even the

1490
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,240
announcers were saying it was one of the worst decisions they've ever seen.

1491
01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:44,240
And I want to fight one more time and I want to fight on the same car with my son.

1492
01:09:45,440 --> 01:09:50,640
I don't know that that's happened very often, you know, kind of a passing the torch type

1493
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:50,960
deal.

1494
01:09:50,960 --> 01:09:55,440
And so he and I talked about that last week just out of the blue.

1495
01:09:55,440 --> 01:10:00,720
And I think that that'll be some time in September, October, give me enough time to

1496
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:01,680
kind of get in shape.

1497
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:07,360
And so I want to go out, you know, my last fight with fighting on that same car.

1498
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:11,840
So whatever, whenever that is, wherever that is, we're going to be there for you.

1499
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:12,160
Cool.

1500
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:13,520
I'd like to love for y'all to come.

1501
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:13,760
Yeah.

1502
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:15,120
I would love to be there on that.

1503
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:18,320
We might do a little like live remote from outside the parking lot.

1504
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:24,080
So you have been coaching for some time.

1505
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:25,520
You have been fighting for some time.

1506
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:27,760
You may have one more professional fight coming up.

1507
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:28,400
I love that.

1508
01:10:29,440 --> 01:10:34,080
Do you have any favorite combat sports moments, either professional or amateur?

1509
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:39,040
Do you have one maybe that you were involved in and then maybe one that you've seen like

1510
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:40,000
as a spectator?

1511
01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:47,600
So as a spectator, it's got to be what really put the UFC on the mat was Forrest Griffin.

1512
01:10:47,600 --> 01:10:49,280
And Stephen Bonner.

1513
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:56,080
Yeah, that I don't think before then anybody's seen a fight so back and forth so evenly matched.

1514
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,520
On the list that I just sent you last night, it is the final fight.

1515
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:06,240
So we're going to do the UFC just released 11 days ago, 10 fights that will make will

1516
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:07,920
guarantee you to make you a fight.

1517
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:08,240
Okay.

1518
01:11:08,800 --> 01:11:12,640
And the first one that I just mentioned was Connor and Nate Diaz too.

1519
01:11:12,640 --> 01:11:13,600
That's how it starts.

1520
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:17,360
But it ends with Griffin and Bonner.

1521
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:18,160
Griffin and Bonner.

1522
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:19,280
That fight is what?

1523
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:20,960
I'm glad you brought that up.

1524
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:22,000
That fight was amazing.

1525
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:22,960
They saved the company.

1526
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:23,920
Yeah, it really did.

1527
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:24,960
And it really did.

1528
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:28,320
And it was from two guys that at the time were kind of lower tier.

1529
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:32,720
They weren't big names in the UFC and to put on their kind of performance for both of them was

1530
01:11:33,600 --> 01:11:34,560
it was historic.

1531
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:36,640
All time scrap for me for sure.

1532
01:11:37,680 --> 01:11:42,480
And maybe when you were involved in, do you have like one that you I think you just got Rob.

1533
01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:45,200
So yeah, yeah, that one makes me mad thinking about it now.

1534
01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:52,800
One of my favorite moments was I fought a guy and was a hint in Oklahoma on a reservation up

1535
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:58,320
there, five tribes casino and I was going to fight it like heavyweight, which is 205.

1536
01:11:59,440 --> 01:12:02,000
So I cut this way, you know, to be able to fight it 205.

1537
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,080
I get there for the way he ends.

1538
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:05,600
We weigh in my opponent doesn't show up.

1539
01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:07,600
So they have another heavyweight.

1540
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:09,280
They have another guy mark.

1541
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:10,960
I mark something.

1542
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:14,000
And he was a heavyweight big guy about six, six, two, 30.

1543
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:15,040
His opponent didn't show up.

1544
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:17,360
So they're like, well, you guys are trained.

1545
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:19,840
You came up here, you know, would you fight each other?

1546
01:12:19,840 --> 01:12:20,400
Catch way.

1547
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:24,240
And I'm like, yeah, I didn't come up here, you know, to, you know, to not fight.

1548
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,240
I got little man central.

1549
01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:31,760
I want to fight all these big dudes, you know, to prove a point, I guess.

1550
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,160
You know, so I'm like, heck, yeah, I'll fight him.

1551
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,760
But the commission would let me fight because I was under underweight.

1552
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:39,360
I needed to be 206.

1553
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:40,960
Or in up.

1554
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:43,360
So, man, I had to go across the street to subway.

1555
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:48,800
I had to eat two footlongs chicken breast sandwiches to get over the weight.

1556
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:53,440
So I could win and then, or so I could, you know, be accepted for the fight.

1557
01:12:53,440 --> 01:12:59,200
So we get in there and they walk me into this guy and they asked him if you wanted to fight me.

1558
01:12:59,200 --> 01:13:01,600
And he goes, this is who you want me to fight?

1559
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:05,840
You know, really just dismissed me, you know, like this little bitty dude.

1560
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:09,280
Long story short, I ended up stopping him, knocking him out with some elbows on the ground.

1561
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,760
The next, you know, the next night of the fight.

1562
01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:14,080
So that was a big, that was a big moment for me.

1563
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:14,640
That's great.

1564
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:20,960
He just completely dismissed me, man, overlooked me like, okay, I got something for you the next night.

1565
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:21,840
I love that.

1566
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:22,880
What a great story.

1567
01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:27,280
Someone just completely overlooking you and just not even thinking that you're even worth their time.

1568
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,440
And then you just go ahead and elbow them, stop them.

1569
01:13:29,440 --> 01:13:33,840
Plus having to eat two footlongs icing on the cake.

1570
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:39,840
Well, I tell that story, some of my friends, you know, they're like, that's the most impressive part of the story.

1571
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:41,200
You ate those two footlongs.

1572
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:42,000
That was it.

1573
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:42,640
Exactly.

1574
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:49,200
Y'all, I drove up here in a pro fight like that because you still came, you still get paid.

1575
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,520
And I could have taken the money and gone home, but.

1576
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:52,800
Show money or whatever it is.

1577
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:57,280
Work my butt off and train camp, you know, and I didn't come up here to sit and watch.

1578
01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:59,840
And so I'm glad they even offered that.

1579
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:03,600
It was even sweeter, you know, what it transpired between me and him.

1580
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,880
So yeah, that was that was a that was a feel good moment.

1581
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:08,560
I love that feel good moment.

1582
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:09,840
And that's sports.

1583
01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:15,040
So lastly, the way that you and I kind of got introduced into each other's lives is

1584
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:24,160
you came to the school that I teach at to talk about the history of kind of African American life in

1585
01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:25,920
Wetherford in particular.

1586
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:30,960
And you have also been involved in some activism in our community.

1587
01:14:30,960 --> 01:14:34,960
There is still to this day a Confederate statue on our courthouse lawn.

1588
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:43,440
When Brianna Taylor got killed, whenever George Floyd got killed, a lot of people in Wetherford

1589
01:14:43,440 --> 01:14:48,880
were looking for a place to put their sadness and their anger.

1590
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:54,880
And you were one of those people that we could count on to kind of always hold point for us.

1591
01:14:54,880 --> 01:15:00,480
And so give us a little bit of insight on how you I know you've been involved in this

1592
01:15:00,480 --> 01:15:03,120
I know you've come to activism a little bit later on in your life.

1593
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,200
Do you want to give us a little bit of rundown on like how you kind of got involved?

1594
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:11,840
Like what was the tipping point for you to kind of get involved and say I need to step up and be involved

1595
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:13,280
and have my voice heard?

1596
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:15,520
So I'd like to say this.

1597
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:19,520
It actually I've kind of been doing this my whole life.

1598
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:26,720
Just not on the scale that it that it happened, you know, with with the statue and things of that nature.

1599
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,320
I've always been aware of that statue.

1600
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:31,200
My parents have always made us aware since we were young.

1601
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:37,040
When MLK Day became a national holiday in the U.S.

1602
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,680
I'll never forget when Wetherford wouldn't recognize it.

1603
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:43,360
And so as students, we we protested.

1604
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,440
We wouldn't go to class, you know, until they recognized we just stand in the hallways

1605
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:48,720
and the teacher would be running around.

1606
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:49,600
We got to get them in class.

1607
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:50,960
We got to get them in class, you know.

1608
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:54,240
And so we've always done things like that.

1609
01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:55,440
And so it was just natural.

1610
01:15:55,440 --> 01:16:02,880
So honestly, we got invited to a protest by a couple of Wetherford High School students

1611
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:04,240
for George Floyd.

1612
01:16:04,240 --> 01:16:10,240
It was a Black Lives Matter protest where we walked from Walmart all the way down South

1613
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:12,160
Maine to the courthouse and walked around the courthouse.

1614
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:18,000
And as we're walking around the courthouse, my brother turns to me and he says, you know,

1615
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:18,720
this is next.

1616
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:24,640
And no, he asked me what what what is it that we want to do next, you know, because we we need to do something.

1617
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:27,520
And I remark, you know, the statue is next.

1618
01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:34,000
And so we started working on on talking to those in power there in Wetherford about

1619
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:35,040
removing that statue.

1620
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:40,880
Like I said, we've always always known what it stood for, the ideology behind it.

1621
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:47,840
And we're a small voice in Wetherford, you know, most of those people there who live there have

1622
01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:51,760
relatives on the other side, you know, that this is heritage.

1623
01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:52,720
This is my heritage.

1624
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:56,720
And so we were always fighting an uphill battle with that.

1625
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:02,720
And a lot of the African American community there is kind of afraid to speak up.

1626
01:17:03,280 --> 01:17:10,720
And so we just felt it was our duty to give a voice to the Black and Brown people there who

1627
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:12,640
do feel differently about that statue.

1628
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:16,400
And so we felt compelled to say something.

1629
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,280
And so we're still we're still working on it.

1630
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:23,840
And we haven't had as many public protests.

1631
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:25,920
We've kind of tried to change how we went about it.

1632
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:33,040
We have we have created or we were involved in the making of a documentary about it called

1633
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:33,840
the courthouse line.

1634
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:35,040
We did this two years ago.

1635
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:38,560
We filmed it down in Howlitzville around their courthouse.

1636
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:45,200
The production company that we are that we use to shoot the film was pretty nervous about

1637
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:46,160
shooting it in Wetherford.

1638
01:17:46,160 --> 01:17:49,920
So they wanted to shoot it somewhere else that looked like Wetherford, you know,

1639
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,320
so Howlitzville is where we ended up shooting it.

1640
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:56,880
And so it was hard for us to get the story out of Wetherford.

1641
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:01,280
Anytime we went to any of the politicians there, it was, you know, hush, hush, don't

1642
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:02,640
talk about it.

1643
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:07,680
And we realized once we started protesting, it made national news and started effecting

1644
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:08,720
money around the square.

1645
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:11,280
So money is the that's where you got to hit.

1646
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:11,920
You know, you know it.

1647
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:12,080
Yeah.

1648
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:12,800
You know it.

1649
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:14,320
And once we realized that,

1650
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:16,880
then they were inviting us to sit down and talk.

1651
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:22,240
Then, you know, and we were a little bit too trusting, I think we thought that they had our,

1652
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:24,480
you know, the best interest in mind.

1653
01:18:24,480 --> 01:18:29,760
And I learned a lot about politicians like everything, everything is true, you know,

1654
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:31,040
about about politicians.

1655
01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,280
But we're still we're still working on it.

1656
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:41,680
We we are Judge Judge Dean, who is the county judge there, just text message him two weeks

1657
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:47,040
ago, and we're going to my brother and I went sat down and talked with him about the statue

1658
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:49,040
and about the lynching.

1659
01:18:49,040 --> 01:18:51,840
I don't know if you're probably very familiar with that.

1660
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:57,440
I had two ancestors who were lynched on the courthouse line and their bodies were dumped

1661
01:18:57,440 --> 01:19:00,320
in a well on the courthouse line and their remains are still there.

1662
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:09,120
So one of the things we want to do is get the county to give us a permit to GPS or GPR

1663
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:12,560
to see if we can locate them.

1664
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:17,680
We've been in talks with Texas State Forensic Anthropology Department and Dr.

1665
01:19:17,680 --> 01:19:21,120
Oh, gosh, I just went blank.

1666
01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:25,760
He has told us he thinks that the remains are still there because they filled the well

1667
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:26,760
in afterwards.

1668
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:29,040
There were four.

1669
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:30,040
They weren't young men.

1670
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:31,040
They were boys, actually.

1671
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:34,080
The youngest was 13, the oldest was 17.

1672
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:39,160
And he thinks that the remains are still there, they're just what are called co-mingled because

1673
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:40,520
they were thrown on top of each other.

1674
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:42,400
They kind of fused together.

1675
01:19:42,400 --> 01:19:48,000
But the remains are there and we want to try to recover those remains and bury them with

1676
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,120
dignity and respect.

1677
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:52,480
That's kind of what we're working on now.

1678
01:19:52,480 --> 01:19:56,080
Well, that's half the reason I wanted you on the program.

1679
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:59,840
I know that you're into combat sports and you're into food, but the other reason is

1680
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:06,200
because we live in the same city and I wanted to make sure that your voice goes beyond Weatherford.

1681
01:20:06,200 --> 01:20:09,880
And I know that this podcast is just getting started and is small.

1682
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:16,680
But if anybody out there is listening that is familiar with North Texas, Weatherford

1683
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:20,640
is a city that still deals with racism to this day.

1684
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:21,640
But guess what?

1685
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:26,000
They've got a mayor and they've got people that are on boards and all that stuff like

1686
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:27,000
that.

1687
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:28,000
And they've got email addresses.

1688
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,560
They've got phone numbers.

1689
01:20:29,560 --> 01:20:34,040
So if you feel a certain type of way about the fact that a Confederate statue is still

1690
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:39,880
on the courthouse lawn in downtown Weatherford, Texas, or if you feel kind of away about the

1691
01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:43,800
fact that there were four boys that were lynched on that same lawn and that their remains remain

1692
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:47,040
there to this day, just send an email and let them know.

1693
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,680
Like you said, Mike Dean is the judge.

1694
01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,160
I'm sorry, not Dean.

1695
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:52,160
No, you're right.

1696
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,520
Mike Dean is a pat Dean.

1697
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:57,760
Mike Dean is the synthesizer player that plays with Kanye West.

1698
01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:58,760
Pat Dean is there.

1699
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,520
Yeah, Pat Dean is the judge there.

1700
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:06,120
And so, yeah, thank you for sharing that part of your life with us.

1701
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:09,000
Thank you for having me, allowing me to be able to share that.

1702
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:10,000
That means a lot.

1703
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:11,600
You've got two things that I wanted to plug.

1704
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:15,160
You've got a shirt that's available that I think your daughter made.

1705
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:16,160
My son.

1706
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:17,160
Your son.

1707
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:21,880
So my son drew, yeah, it's a silhouette of an African American child and it's got the

1708
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:24,640
names of the black neighborhoods in Weatherford.

1709
01:21:24,640 --> 01:21:26,520
So yeah, that's a powerful shirt.

1710
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:27,520
I saw that.

1711
01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:28,680
I wanted to get one of those.

1712
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:32,400
But I also didn't want to like appropriate any sort of culture or anything like that.

1713
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,400
But that shirt was very powerful to me.

1714
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:38,640
It is a silhouette of an African American person and it has a, you haven't seen it.

1715
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:42,800
It's got the street names of all the neighborhoods that African Americans were living in in Weatherford.

1716
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:46,400
And so you also have a thing for baseball, right?

1717
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:48,560
Are you doing that still or?

1718
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:54,440
Well, no, as far as I thought, I saw you had like a charity or you're sat on a board or

1719
01:21:54,440 --> 01:21:55,440
something like that for.

1720
01:21:55,440 --> 01:22:00,400
Well, no, I'm actually on two nonprofit boards, not specifically for baseball.

1721
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:02,320
I thought I saw something like that.

1722
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:03,320
Probably so.

1723
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:04,320
I got CTE, man.

1724
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:05,320
I ain't no telling what.

1725
01:22:05,320 --> 01:22:08,800
Yeah, but I, yeah, but you also teach boxing classes.

1726
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:10,440
I teach boxing.

1727
01:22:10,440 --> 01:22:12,280
But the two boards are really important.

1728
01:22:12,280 --> 01:22:16,640
One of them, we started actually one of them, actually three boards, I think about it.

1729
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:17,920
We started two of them.

1730
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:22,240
The Parker County Black Historic Heritage Society, we started that one.

1731
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:23,640
And the Parker County Peace Coalition.

1732
01:22:23,640 --> 01:22:24,640
Okay.

1733
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:26,360
And I'm on the executive board there.

1734
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:30,320
And I'm also on a board here in Tarrant County, the Tarrant County Coalition for Peace and

1735
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:31,320
Justice.

1736
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:32,320
Okay.

1737
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:37,040
Well, thank you for your service and that and always bringing that to light.

1738
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:38,680
If and I follow you on Facebook.

1739
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:43,280
So I see all of the old newspaper clippings and all of the, I mean, this is not no cap,

1740
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:44,800
no like hyperbole.

1741
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:48,760
This is our real history in Weatherford and your family's history.

1742
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:52,520
And so I did want to bring that to light, but thank you very much for coming in.

1743
01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:53,520
I appreciate that.

1744
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:55,880
I'm looking for a boxing class.

1745
01:22:55,880 --> 01:23:00,080
Mr. Gray teaches boxing classes in the parks in Weatherford usually.

1746
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:02,480
So I used to have my own gym.

1747
01:23:02,480 --> 01:23:06,080
The owners of the gym wanted to go a different direction with the building.

1748
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:07,440
So we ended up going to the park.

1749
01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:10,520
I had a boxing part nights in the park.

1750
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:16,280
And now I am at Rev 180 Fitness in Pista.

1751
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:19,120
And so we have a men's and women's class there.

1752
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:25,280
One day in Thursday, 530, 630 is the women's class and then 630 to 730 is the men's class.

1753
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:28,800
So if you're out west of us here in Fort Worth and you need to take some boxing lessons,

1754
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:30,960
Mr. Gray has no got to go see.

1755
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:32,280
He's out in Pista at Rev 180.

1756
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:33,600
Is there anything you want to plug?

1757
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:37,040
Any like you want us to follow you or go buy anything?

1758
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:39,320
You can let me get a...

1759
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:40,320
Yeah.

1760
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:41,320
Well, he does that.

1761
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:47,840
Parker, do you have anything to add or you've been just kind of listening and just listening

1762
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:48,840
and all that?

1763
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:52,000
No, I wasn't aware of any of this.

1764
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:55,960
I've been to Wutherford maybe three or four times.

1765
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:58,000
So I'm not super familiar with Wutherford's history.

1766
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,960
So I've just been kind of taking it all in.

1767
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,720
And what's crazy to know too is that like it's not just Wutherford.

1768
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:06,960
It's about like every other city that's surrounding like...

1769
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:08,680
Yeah, I mean, all the small towns.

1770
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:12,080
I'm sure there are stories in Azel and Springtown and Pista and Brock.

1771
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:14,520
I mean, there's just every single one of those towns.

1772
01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,040
And leading into Tarrant County.

1773
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:19,960
That's why I kind of got involved.

1774
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:23,640
The people on the Tarrant County Peace and Justice Board kind of found me and we found

1775
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:27,480
some parallels between some of the families in Wutherford and some of the families here

1776
01:24:27,480 --> 01:24:29,520
at Fort Worth and how they kind of...

1777
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:30,520
There's some history there.

1778
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:35,400
And so those surrounding towns and cities and leading into Tarrant County.

1779
01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:36,400
So yeah.

1780
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:40,120
Plug anything you want to plug and we'll get you out of here.

1781
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:41,960
I want to plug my son.

1782
01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:46,920
If anybody was on Instagram, his name is D'Shawn the dog gray.

1783
01:24:46,920 --> 01:24:51,600
His handle is the dog and that's D-A-W-G underscore MMA.

1784
01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:56,320
And I want to plug also Pete performance, MMA in Keller.

1785
01:24:56,320 --> 01:24:59,280
Paul, I can't remember Paul's last name.

1786
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,120
He's the owner and James Vic MMA.

1787
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:06,560
James Vic former contender in the UFC lightweight contender.

1788
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:07,720
He's the MMA coach there.

1789
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:08,720
So wonderful.

1790
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:12,640
High level coaching, great family atmosphere.

1791
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:15,680
If you want to get your MMA game up, that's the place to go.

1792
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:16,680
Excellent.

1793
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:18,360
Thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Gray.

1794
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:21,360
We appreciate your story.

1795
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:25,360
Maybe we'll have you again after your fight in September and hopefully we'll be able to

1796
01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:27,560
celebrate you again.

1797
01:25:27,560 --> 01:25:28,680
Thank you so much.

1798
01:25:28,680 --> 01:25:34,520
This has been breakfast of champions season one episode five on behalf of Parker and

1799
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:35,520
Mr. Gray.

1800
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:38,440
We want to say thank you for listening.

1801
01:25:38,440 --> 01:25:43,640
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, all that other drive.

1802
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:46,000
We have podcasts everywhere we are.

1803
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:49,600
If you want to give us a phone call and let us know how much you've loved this episode,

1804
01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:52,600
it's 682-2940-101.

1805
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,440
Mucho man, I'm ready for your next message brother.

1806
01:25:55,440 --> 01:25:59,800
We're going to get you on this podcast and we'll just throw all those reviews on there

1807
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,400
and we love V for calling in mucho man.

1808
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:04,280
So thank you very much.

1809
01:26:04,280 --> 01:26:09,120
If you've got a comment, tell us where we need to review next breakfast wise.

1810
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,920
Tell us about your favorite fight.

1811
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:15,880
If you've been in a fight recently, if you're about to go to the UFC.

1812
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:21,520
If you know anything like that, I'm still hoping that Kevin Holland reaches out to us.

1813
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,960
Trailblazer, I saw your stoppage this past weekend.

1814
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:24,960
It was amazing.

1815
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:30,760
You snapped a dude's arm in half and that was so awesome and Fort Worth 817 represent

1816
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:31,760
Kevin Holland.

1817
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:34,960
Again, thank you so much for everybody for joining us.

1818
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:35,960
Parker's out.

1819
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:36,960
Thank you.

1820
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:37,960
Bye.

1821
01:26:37,960 --> 01:26:38,960
Bye.

1822
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:45,960
Thank you.