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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, all right, all right, we're back here our
radio row.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm here with Will Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
We're gonna get some.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Go daddy stuff in a little bit and your your
arrow twin is that correct?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Your clone?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, well we'll snap into that.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
But starting off, Will, uh, you know, going through your
research of things.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I gotta start off.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Do you have a Lucha libre future at some.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Point in your career? You know what?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
This is something I've been thinking about and ever since
I did the Lucha libre you know, stunts in Mexico City,
a lot of people have been telling me that I
have a future and it so, you know, I might
have to dabble in a little bit after the NFL.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, you see, guys like Kid'll kind of dabble
into the wee type stuff. And I'm just like dude,
today's day and age of being an athlete. Yes there's ball,
but things like this outside of ball, it could generate
future revenue. It could be a whole career, like for sure,
you might be the next Undertaker.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Hey man, I think about it all the time. It's
something that not only can I have fun with it,
but like you just said, help me maintain my family
right And at the end of the day, man, how
cool is it, you know, being able to be on
that stage something that nobody gets a chance to do.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I definitely get into it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Bring out the ego powers and all that. Yeah, would
you what would your mask colors?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
What would your vibe? You think if you had to
go full a libre?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You know what? I think I would keep in Mexican colors?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, you know, red green, we just go all in
on it with a dabble of brown, but go goll
in represent and then you know, just make it a name.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
How did you come up with your brand Miho Things?
How did that all start off?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We did you pull trigger.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So Mio things.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
It started off kind of as like a thing we
me and my friend group did my mios and we
just wanted to, like, you know, show some sort of
representation of who we are as people, the mentality we
have now we're all go getters, we're all wanting to
do big things in life. And you know, we kind
of called it that like meho mentality deal. So we
kind of started having fun with it, came out with
(02:06):
some merch and started you know, getting throwing some designs together.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We got a lot of love from it from people.
We were like, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
What, why don't we just like do this thing right
and actually turned it send it to a business exactly.
So that's exactly what we did, started doing some meo things,
started getting with the right people, and now we want
to be a representation of our people, bridge the gap
and helping and starting to help a lot of these
future players athletes, because I mean, let's be honest, like
(02:35):
there's not many very Mexican Latino players in the NFL
reed exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So what I want to use the brand for is,
you know.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Give the NFL Latino players a stage, a cool factor
to swag, you know, and bridge that gap between high
school even pee wee football to the NFL. Representing our
people and making sure that a lot of these kids
not only see it through me through my play, but
they also see the brand and see, hey, like this
(03:04):
is cool, Like I want to be a part of this.
Hey I'm a Latino player. I can play in the
NFL too, will did it?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
You know?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Things like that of course, is how can the NFL
help you in this like is a game in Mexico City,
gonna help. Are you trying to help the Mexican people
of the United States or the Mexican people in Mexico
more than anything?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Both both, And it's not even like a Mexican thing, like, yeah,
that's where I came from, That's what I am. There's
changing that. But mihos can be can range from anywhere,
any country. There's no borders, there's no flag, like I'm
just representing my own roots. But we're open to anybody
and anybody that has that meho mentality that we always
talk about. If you're a go getter, if you want
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to go, you know, achieve big things, whether it's the
NFL or whether it's anything else, right, you know, this
is the place for you. This is where you can
go and do those things. You can get with people.
If you see a MEO had on somebody, you know
that person is like has a certain type of mentality.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That means you see someone walking around, have to bring
the juicet dog.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a fox. Whole guy.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We want guys that gravitate towards each other with that
contagious energy.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's how we are. I like me, we need a
collab man's you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Get it, you get it, I get it, I see it,
I see it, I get it. All right, So let's
talk about this go Daddy thing. Okay, how did you
get partnered up with GoDaddy? What are you guys talking about?
What are you promoting? We got go Daddy Arrow, you
got your clone with you give me the spiel?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, man, So everything I just said is go Daddy
within itself too. That's exactly why I partnered with him,
because just like we talked about, they understand the vision,
they get it. They want to help communities, they want
to help people start small businesses. And the biggest reason
why I partnered with them is because I'm also starting
a small business in El Paso, Texas. Okay, and I'm
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opening up a food truck called Mihos Tacos. Hell yeah, bro, Yeah,
So you know, ol Pasto, Texas, even though I'm not
from there, is the place where I went to school.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I showed up as a seventeen year old boy and
left a twenty two year old man. Yeah right, And
so why not open this place up in the city
that gave me the most, right? And so to me,
it's more of like a It's a big deal for
UTEP to have a player go into the NFL. It
doesn't happen very much in Ohio stateium not in Alabama
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that produced them every single year. We've been lucky enough
to have players go out in the last few years.
But it's a big deal to all Passo. So me
doing something like this in al Paso, Texas is gonna
be a big deal too, some for people to feel.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
A part of you know, it goes back to the
whole brand.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
So I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna open it up
June twenty First, Go Daddy is helping me. Let's face
the man, as an NFL football player, especially during season,
there is no time.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
To work, no time. Small business, you gotta be luck
in exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
So Go Daddy and Arrow are helping me tremendously with
their Arrow program, which is all based AI, all based
on a It gives me tools like an avatar, which
digitally you can create your own. They can help you
with logos, they can help you with website building, they
can help you with anything that you need to start
a small business. So when you're able to do that
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with you know, a company like this, your avatar does
half the work for you or most of the work
for you when you when you physically can't right exactly
why my boys right here, we're next to me, damn
you know, because Nehi's roll deep bro, I would have
been a little bit more tired. He would have been
doing the interview, not me. So you know, just so
you know as well, I only play half of the games.
This guy comes in and plays the other half.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Have you guys consider doing a swap like mid practice,
Like I feel like you could like preseason or something.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Do you know you're not talking to the real world
right now?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
How do you know you're not talking too You've got
to have one difference. You got to have one difference.
There's a way, there's a way.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But yeah, man, so we talk about you getting that vision,
having that mentality as a brand. I partnered with GoDaddy
exactly for that reason, and they get it, they understand
and when you combine like that, the power of collaboration
is crazy. What you can do to change these communities,
change these cities. And now maybe ten five years from now,
(07:10):
we're not talking about Oh, Pesta doesn't really get much attention.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Opesta doesn't really have NFL players we could.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Talk about hey, and El Pasto is one of like
the cities that produces the most or utep Right, it's
one of the cities that produces the most NFL players
every single year.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Right, Why not consistent?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
So that's the whole point of the brand, partnering with
Go Daddy, partnering with you know a lot of these
people that are gonna help us get there.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I love it, bro.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So does Go Daddy Arrow also work for like beers?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Like if I had twelve beers right here, could I
now get twenty four beers with these?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
With this Go Doddy Earrow? Is that is that math translator?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You know it's something like that. So working through the.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Kinks on that ex Actually, yeah, yeah, we're You're on
the right track. Hey man, Go Daddy can be applicable
to any type of business, anything that you want to do,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
They'll help you get to where you want to be.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Well, I gotta ask the stash. I've done my share
of Chuck O'Dell, Mohawks, Lettuce, I had, I had corn Rows.
You tell me, I got it the Stash? What made
you say I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go. I'm going
for it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I'm gonna commit because I know there's days where.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
It's rubbing against the lip, where it's it's in your
vision and you're like, man, I'd really like to just
buzz this thing off. You're a dedicated man. It takes
a dedicated man to get a mustache and maintain it
like that.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Yah.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
So the all right, So first of all, the backstory
on how this thing started. Yeah, because I've only had
it for about a year now. So it started off
as a camp stash. You know, guys do it every
every year. They just get the stash going have to
just for camp. After camp ended, I was in such
a mode such like I was I was on. I
was on, and I was like I got a little
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you know, I was like, I kind of don't want
to take it off or get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Not superstitious, but a little bit just a little bit
a little stitious, and so.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And got people. People loved it too, you know, people
loved it. People started giving me a compliments. I was like,
you know what, I'm going to keep it. I kind
of like it. It grew on me, literally, it grew
on me, and I'm going to keep it around.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So that's what we did. And the longer it got.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
The more I wanted to keep it, because you know,
you got to go through those growing pains at first
started curling a little bit I got. I got introduced
by it from a friend of mine who's actually my
barber as well in Phoenix. His name is Edgar at
the shout Out the Man or Barbaria. He's the one
that gave me the idea of like actually growing it
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out like this because he has liked this and keeping
it and making it part of like my brand, because
you know, you think about just the Mexican culture in general,
you think of a mustache, why not make.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It swaggy so you know part of who I am.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
My boy, Edgar got me put me on through a
little bit of wax in there, and then boom, now
we got the meole mustache going.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Mean, it's looking good.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I appreciate it, man, it's looking good. Bro. We've had
we went through a lot of growing pins.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And you're right, man, sometimes when I'm eating, a little
bit gets especially if there's no wax in there, it
get it gets into your mouth a little bit and
you chew it off, rip it up.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I don't terrible it's the worst.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You really got to like be passionate about something like
this to keep it because it is a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I think it tells a lot about your dedication as
an athlete too.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Exactly right. It all goes hand in hand. If you
have that mentality here, you'll have it there.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Player's stocking needs to be higher because of the stash.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Bro Oh, I appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Last question my host tacos. What's the recipe? What are
you guys going to be known for?
Speaker 5 (10:31):
So this is where we differentiate ourselves, especially in all
pastoral Texas. Guys, I get it, there's food tacos everywhere,
But where we differentiate ourselves is in the way we
prepare it through our special recipes. Shout out Moose and
Moose's draft House because they're the ones their kitchen is
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going to be the ones working meals. Tacos truck and
it's one of my buddies' dads. He's been smoking for years.
We're smoking our meat, smoking army. It gives you that
little bit of different I like that sensation. Yeah, texture,
We're gonna smoke our stuff and we're not just gonna
have tacos. We're gonna have son insists hot dogs. We're
gonna have wings, burgers all that. But the thing is
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that the saint just your typical burger wing taco. Like
the process isn't just the process. Like we're gonna completely
change up the way we cook our meats and add
the seasonings and flavorings in there. It's gonna be a
little different, and but it's very good.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
It's proven already.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Mousa's Draft House got number one burger, second place in
wings in the whole city of Old Paso. Yeah, so
we're excited about it. And you know, MEO's Tacos is
all the way.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, fellas, the go Daddy team, the me host team.
Uh godspeed, best of luck, stay grinding. Appreciate having you guys.
I'll bring the juice and uh well link so.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Sure, appreciate you having us.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
All right, all out, All back on, bring a juice
here on Radio Row.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I'm Frank Atalanta. Today we got power Slap on the pod.
Let's start off.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I got Frank lam Macella correct awesome, and then I
got Shena bat thirty. She's wrapping the hat today looking good. Uh, Frank,
let's just start with you real quick. Power slap came
about you are the man in charge. Tell me just
you know, before we get into it. Obviously you have
this journey, but before it became the legit power slap
(12:29):
that we're seeing on TV. Up, I'm just thinking a
fight club here? Was there an underground power slap league?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
I mean so really this this came out of Dana
Dana White, Yeah, some videos you might know, seeing some
videos on YouTube. Yeah, Russia and like Missouri I think, uh,
and never getting more views.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Than justin Bieber videos. And he was like, what is
going on?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
So then we all got together started watching it, and
we were genuinely entertained.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Yeah, so we we looked at it. We said, what
can we do if we.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Take all of our knowledge in the industry and ability
to produce shows and events, what can we do with it?
And the answer is power slap in the And yeah,
the proof is in the pudding. The numbers have been
insane this year, absolutely, and it's going to continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Shina what and they discovered me? Yeah? Yeah, let's talk
about how they discover you.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You the top recruit, I mean how they come about
talk about your story real quick?
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Well, I come to you that the days three years ago,
and uh, everybody coming here with a big dream. You know,
I wasn't dreaming of power slow because it didn't exist
like them. But you know, when they reach out to
me to try out this exhibition competition, I was like them,
I'm going to go for it. You know. There are
lots of courage, lots of power involved, and I was like,
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I think, I think it's meant to me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
What what's the what's the best traits somebody in your
position could have?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Obviously you want to have a good slap. You want
to be able to take slap everything. Yeah, yeah, talk to.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Me about it, Like, what's the best traits you could
what's the ultimate power slapper?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Build one?
Speaker 9 (14:07):
Oh, definitely to take the slap like nothing happened, you know,
I think it's it's it's very impressive.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
But also the knockout.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Definitely the knockout, you know, make the biggest and biggest
creation of knockouts.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
How do you train for this?
Speaker 9 (14:26):
So I used to be a judo fighter, a bodybuilder,
and currently I'm training in MMA, So I think it's
already giving a very good base for power slap.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
But besides this, we try to train on our neck
on our.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Chain, everything the hip so you can get ye so
everything everything power Slap. It's short and it's like like
a short moment, but you using actually everything and the mindset.
Speaker 10 (14:59):
We also have to.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Talk about, you know, right, right right, We'll get into that.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But Frank, real quick, you know, give me a little
if you had an elevator pitch somebody like he is
what power Slap is, whether it's the rules, the formality
of it, how would you say explain to the guys
who don't know Power Slap.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
So, I mean, look from an event perspective, it's one
of the most entertaining, exciting live events you've ever been too.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'm trying to come from it.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
It's fast paced, it's it's basically your favorite moments in
combat sports, just trunk it into a shorter time. The
personalities and the talents is incredible. Geni is obviously one
of our biggest stars, but we have a roster of
one hundred plus athletes and it's growing every day.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
We have former college football players.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
It's now expanding to a much wider universe than when
it first started in two years ago at our closed
door event. But you're you come to a power slap event.
You're going to be entertained from the second start, so
the second you leave, you're gonna be around cool, fun
people who are doing the same. We really, we really
spent a lot of time making sure the live event
experience is the best that we can.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Deliver from a rule standpoint though, So one person goes,
other person goes.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
It's til someone gets knocked out. So no, it's three.
So take a step back. All combat sports and Americas regulated.
Okay you can.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That was a big thing for you guys too.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
This isn't like you know, football, where you can just
throw on some equipment and then go have a football
game in your backyard. Yes, so we go state to state.
We started in Nevada. California is just a proved power slap.
We have a few more states coming on in the
next few months. They'll prove that will allow us to
travel and bring the event outside of Nevada.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
But yeah, we built the rule step from scratch.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
It's three to five rounds, depending if it's a title
fight or not.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
One slap per round.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
On the striker side, you can't lift your feet and
you can't pivot, so all that power that boxes usually
have you know, being able to pivot and kind of
you don't have that in slap, so you have to
really control your feet and from the hip.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
You know, it's kind of like from your thighs through
your hip.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, right, uh.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
And there's also a very small place on the on
the face where you could land, and you have to
land with an open an open hand.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Open palm.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
So if you don't do any of these things, the
fouls are very penalizing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You can basically lose the fight if you just don't
mess up.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
If yeah, exactly exactly, and that's it. It's scored.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
You can win by knockout TKO or by decision, just
like in mm A.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Yeah scored.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Empower your strike and your ability to take it and
your reaction.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Shina, how do you let's say you got your coming
up right, you know you're about to compete, When do
you start locking in? What is your Tell me your
preparation leading up to your time to go slap?
Speaker 9 (17:43):
So once day letting me know that I'm having an
upcoming five. I'm already getting in focus. So every training
I'm making down day by day, I know it.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Is for power slap.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
You know, I wake up every morning that Okay, I'm
going to win my next title.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I'm going to sleep with that so the whole day.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Actually, I'm keeping my my myself in this in this zone.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
You know, it doesn't.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Matter if it's two or three months. The only thing
I'm changing the last two weeks I'm start to separate
or escalate myself more from people locking in nothing.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
This struck me that all the energy I have.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
And and and clear thoughts about how actually I want
to make this event going to end up and this
is actually that I want to earn my next knockout.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
It's the sport's so new to where, like I did
my research, know you're you're like one of the faces
of the sport right now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You're a goat in power slap right now. To maintain that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Reputation, How long do you think you could last? How
sustainable is a power slap career?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I have no idea.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
As long as my head is on my.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Neck, I'm gonna make yeah of my team. I love Frank,
I like Dana, So I'm really very happy with people
I'm involved. They appreciate me, and that's why I think
that we can really build a very successful future together.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Right your hands itself. Do you do anything to toughen
up your hands? Do you do a lot of How
many slaps did you get reps in throughout the day
or yeah? I just but you mentioned that it has
to stay open, and that's a detail. I don't think
a lot of people on TV quite understand. If you're
a first time watcher. It can't land deep. It's gotta
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land really in one small It's.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Very easy to foul out.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It sounds like, so you gotta be precise as well
as you can't just it's not a street fight.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Yeah, well, I believe in hardburd But I want to
also say that it's it's part of my genetic too.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
The powerful have from my.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Bad from my father, your father.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
My brother too. Yeah, my judo trainer.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Okay, one of the fastest hands on the roster, including
in the men.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
And she like her velocity, I did, Yeah, her velocity.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Yeah, we take a lot of data at the PI
and yeah, her velocity which she is able to throw
her hand as.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Actually it's like number one or number two.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So are you guys?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You're getting a lot of applications for people to come
into the power slops. See, now, how do you siphon out.
You know, hey, this guys might be worth it. This
guy might not be worth it. Is it just YouTube
applications if guys send in a video and you're like,
oh my god.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
When we first started, we identified a few of the
best slap fighters in the world before we before we
got into it, right right, this guy like Wolverine, who's
our current light heavyweight champion, Damian de Belle, our current
heavyweight champion. These guys were already doing this before they
joined Power Slap, so we found them brought them on.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then when we you know, when.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
We're going through these applications, it's a lot of former
combat sports athletes, Like you have guys with thirty professional
MMA fights who are now joining Power Slap.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
I got former college football players.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I mean a guy in our event this Friday, Brian
Ellis is a former ut Austin defensive end.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
So Imagica and slap.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
It's a big guy, but it's a big guy. It's
a big guy, right.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
So now we're getting more there's more and more athletes
getting into this, and uh, you know, listen, we go
through it like we like we do anything else.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
She know, do you like slapping or eating a slap
and looking at the competitor and the eye being like
not today.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well I like both.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
I would say I like to eat first the slap
and then up there giving the slap.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What do you do mechanically with your face when you
know a slap's coming?
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Oh, I have to definitely bite, make a strong bite,
strong jaw strength, yes, and make tied my whole body
so I can't really embrace it, and a little bit
like grounding me my feet, like you know, like not physically,
but I'm just right in my mind, you know, like
I'm gonna stay.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Here, nobody gonna move me.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Yeah, So yeah, the mindset is very important too.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And then when you're doing THEA I feel like explosive moments,
you know, you there's like you look at NFL combines
coming up right, guys are about to do the vertical
jump or the broad jump. You guys are athletes. You
guys understand like you kind of have all this energy
channel in it goes through your toes all the way
up to your shoulders and it's like explode.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Yeah, it's like a whip.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So do you do.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You cat athlete?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Athlete?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Do you like is there a time is like a
shot clock where you have thirty seconds to slap somebody
or is it a gentleman's.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
It's sort of the way it works is once you
get slapped, you have sixty seconds to recover unless you
get knocked down. And that's why she was talking about
keeping her feet planted while she takes a hit, because
if you get knocked down, there's a boxing ten count,
So if you don't get up in the ten count,
you'd lose. Yeah, so's there's a benefit of staying on
your feet, but sixty seconds to recover once your clock
is up in the referee kuns instruct you it's your
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turn to slap, and you go up and do it.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Frank, would you ever enter the sport?
Speaker 8 (22:58):
No?
Speaker 7 (22:58):
No, no, no, I'm good, You're good.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
I like running it.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I like working with Dana every day building this thing
and supporting these guys and freaking a knockouts. She's our
most viral star out of all out of it what
we have on the roster. She's comating the first women's
event ever this Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm excited. I'll be there bringing the juice hat on. Uh, Frank,
last question.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You know, Dana obviously is a big element of this
whole thing. The UFC already had this platform, which, like anything,
you guys know that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's good to have a good start.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Talk about Dana's involvement and and kind of his ideas
he's throwing out the wall and the help of making
this become what it is.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
I mean, it's it's all. It's all Dana.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I mean, we have a great team around us, but
he has the vision to see what we could do
with this thing, and he's very into he loves building businesses.
This is fun for us, a new challenge. We love
doing something that everybody want a job and do it right.
So we're we're I mean, we're together every day going
through what can we change, how can we make this better?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
What can we add?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
And I will tell you it's definitely been the most
enjoyable experience of my professional life for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah that seems awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, Well, best of luck Sheena on this upcoming fight
and Frank hope to keep it, Sep Growing hope it
goes to the moon.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I'm for it. I'm for it. Bring the juice or.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Power shameless pluging, Okay, Friday, Yeah, don't do it please
very ninth Yes, we'll get this clip to Wrango Casino Resort.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Main card starts at nine eastern six Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Early prelims at seven thirty eastern four to thirty Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Sold out, Uh, sold out already.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Oh, it's all out almost right away.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I was seen to bring the juice. Gnet some tickets. Yeah,
all right, all right, fair enough, we'll the next one,
come next one.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Yeah, we'll get you there.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Frank, I appreciate you guys. Power slap everybody, Shena. The
juice is going to be in the hand. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, man, bring the juice, stay hot, power slap Frank.
Thanks guys.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
But so it's so hard because like once it's over, like, yeah,
you can't mimic you can't. It's the closest thing.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
To war that possibly is.
Speaker 12 (25:14):
And when you got a band of brothers that really
come together and do something special, it's hard to win
football games. And when you do, it's like it was
your will face. It's just like it's elite. Yeah, I
got asked the super Bowl. Yeah, we're here this week.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
It's radio row.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Obviously.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
I don't think people understand how big the Super Bowl is.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Like it's an event.
Speaker 12 (25:39):
It's it's the biggest sporting event easily the United States
every year.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
The joy of winning a ring.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
How was it?
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Oh man, it's I'll never forget the first one. People
ask me a lot, like what was your favorite super Bowl?
And I'll never get over the first feeling of walking
on into like a super Bowl field, The electricity you feel,
amount of pride you have running out listening to the
national anthem, Like, I mean, it's it's what every little
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football player when they start playing at six seven years
old everything to them.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It's everything, even.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
All the way up high school, college, like it's it's
an American like.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
It is one of the most American things you could accomplish.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:27):
And and to like realize that in warm ups, like
I could cry right now thinking about it. Yeah, realizing
like how much work you had to go through the
ups and downs and ebbs and flows at the season,
but not only that season, the season before, in.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Your whole life. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:46):
Yeah, and then it ultimately gets you, you know, on
this field that's all painted up within super Bowl logos, Dude,
it is it is like electric, yeah, electric. And then
and then ultimately that's like just pregame and then the
game goes on and it's it's a crazy long game
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with all the TV stops and the and the super
Bowl or the halftime show. Super Bowl halftime shows like
twice as long, three times as long as the normal halftime.
So you end up like playing THEMN There two games,
you know, and the way that we won each of
our super Bowls, the third one was like a little
bit of a you know, we had we had a
(27:29):
little bit of I guess the rams. Okay, we won
thirteen to three. It was a it was a boring game,
but I loved it. We were running the ball real well.
You were there for the falcons one right, yeah, yeah,
and that's and that's wild. I mean, just for everything
to go the way it went in our favor.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
Someone had to flip a switch. Yeah, tell me when
it was you guys are down twenty eight to three. Yeah,
I saw Bourbon Street was a flag with it.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, of course. I was like, that's so random that
all right?
Speaker 12 (28:02):
Who flipped the switch and said thought over like, we
need to go win this thing.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
I mean, you got to point the finger there at Tom,
I mean, and.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
He just cools the other side of the pillow.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
Always very confident, Like I remember Jules walking around saying like, hey,
we're gonna win this game, Like we're gonna win this game,
and you're like, dude, because it wasn't even like a
halftime thing. We were down twenty one to three at halftime. Yeah,
then we come out and they score and we're down
twenty eight to three. And the third quarter we're like
seven minutes left, and it's like, yeah, how can this happen?
(28:39):
It's like, no way, But then you know, we're just
like people start believing and more and more plays are
being made. And it wasn't like a like a flip
of switch and now all of a sudden the Patriots
are here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It was like a slow process.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
You know, we get the sack fumble, we got a
sack that knocked him out of field, goal ranger swing everything.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
That's that's cool.
Speaker 13 (29:03):
And uh And honestly, I got so much joy out
of watching the mood of the Falcons change because they
were hyped over there in the third quarter, like you
couldn't you know, Arthur Blanks down there, you know, we're
like all right, but then like Ed started rolling the
opposite way for them. It was so much fun to
(29:24):
watch them like start to shrink over there, and honestly, yeah,
so like who flipped the switch? Nobody really Like we
just started doing everything in the right time and things
went our way. But Tom was a big part of
that because I don't think we'd have the belief that
it could happen if not for TV, you know, Like
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and I said that the Bill when I went back
after I retired, and we were kind of like in
that quarterback Limbo and Newingland a little bit, and I
was like, you just need somebody that that guys can
believe in, because that's so big going into a game,
having a guy that you're like, yes, this guy's gonna
put us in position to win, and having that belief
(30:08):
is like damn near as important as any preparation because
you need guys that can you know, a guy that
can galvanize everybody to go out there and try to
win games on Sunday because this is hard, like you said,
hard to win football games. But when you got a guy,
a bunch of guys that believe, anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Man, anything can happen.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
Bro James, I appreciate you, and we could go on
and on and on. I I definitely don't want to
shout tores.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
Wanna hold up you know, take oh bro, you're chilling,
You're chilling. It got deep real quick, and I'm like,
you know what, I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
My guys said.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
He's like you were going for an hour right now.
I like, really, but not. I appreciate you, I appreciate
the time. Wish you the best of blessings and good
health and success in all your endeavors. Man, And I
love to run this back, like dude, hearing guys from
that era like to me, like my my again, it's
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me and my three brothers.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
All played wide receiver.
Speaker 12 (31:05):
My middle brother is declaring this year he's gonna run
a fast party, and the Patriots actually really like him, right,
so we'll see what.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But like.
Speaker 12 (31:19):
I'm just gonna say it, like white boy, wide receivers
was was is the rarest breed, and we were always
the lone wolf.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And uh, you're seeing like West do his thing.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
See Jules, I mean Jules was our guy, like Joels
was my family's guy. Like even Amon Doola, Like I
just like it gave us hope, man, because they're there.
That's a needle in a haystack. And you know, I
grew up constantly getting told like.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But you're little, You're a little Julian Edelman.
Speaker 12 (31:54):
This, okay, just because I'm shifty, white wide receiver like that,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Just hearing about those times, it's not the fact that
they're just white guys that wise. Yeah, I know their journey.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
I know that Jewels played quarterback at Kenton State. Yeah,
like it wasn't first round draft pick starring Wider Siver Like, yeah,
he had to go overturn punts and all that. Like
nothing has ever come easy to me in my life.
Like I had to walk on at Presdo State in
order to order that scholarship. I had to do all
the anthing. I started off bringing the juice in my
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mom and dad's basement. We had five listeners, I have
to We didn't have video, we only had audio. I'd
pause it, I'd call my mom, she'd be upstairs. She'd
come downstairs with her iPhone red glass of wine. Yeah,
take pictures on her iPhone four. And that's what I'm
posted on Instagram. I was interviewing a guy once who
won the World Series for the Braves, like two months ago,
(32:50):
and one of my boys goes, yo, bro, like you
just had this, dude, tell this story about it was
his first appearance in Major League based well, he started
Game two in the World Series. First major league actually
just got called up, Like this story is insane.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I love when I get to do like this
and I'm not.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
Whoa, I got no no sens like literally, like I
like to have conversations.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm not trying to sell. How did you know?
Speaker 12 (33:20):
Okay, I got to ask how the super Bowl was, dude,
Like I just know that seeing guys.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Like Jewels Hogan, like I know they all had their path,
and I was like, I have a path. Yeah, I
have a path. Like you're right, I am a shifty
white boy wide receiver who looks like Johan Edelman.
Speaker 12 (33:38):
But I'm bore of in my brain. I'm like, no, bro,
he had a journey he had to go. So I've
always related to it. And like, you know, my brothers,
they're my best friends. Like we train together, we work together,
we do everything together, same offensive playbooks.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
So when they came in right behind me, I never.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Have to play with them.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
They got to play together.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah, when they came in.
Speaker 12 (33:59):
Right behind me, it was just like I'm in the
stands looking at signals. I'm like, all right, Mac has
a feep post right, Yeah, I'm like, mom, every look
seventy five yard touchdouts coming up the safeguy and I'll
see the safety step and I'll look at my friphl up.
Mac getting off the line. I'm like touched out people
(34:19):
with the stands.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Like, who is this hardcore?
Speaker 12 (34:23):
I'm like, well, you know, I doubt Yeahah, long story,
short man Again, James, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'd love to get you out to President one of
these days.
Speaker 12 (34:31):
Manh the onion forearm steakhouses out here, show you how
the Valley Boys train and all that.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Man God speak.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Pleasure brother, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 13 (34:42):
And I just want to say before I go, Man,
your whole journey and what you just spoke on is
what makes this so great. Like I saw my first
experience like seeing your pod and seeing this whole brand was.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I just was scrolling on Instagram when.
Speaker 13 (34:58):
I saw off Logan Mankins jersey right, and it stopped
me and I'm like, yo, if he's got Logan Mankins
behind him on the wall, like this guy knows what's
so uh?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
And then I like, you know, read into it.
Speaker 13 (35:09):
And like kind of got a little bit deeper into
weeds with you, and I'm like, you know what, this
guy's what football is all all about. Like what you
what I was talking about? Like that electricity in your veins,
that juice, dude, if we get like, that's what's so
good about that? That feeling is why all it's what
makes football the greatest sport on Earth, and it's why
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every persons in this in this building.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
And for you to be sitting here building something so.
Speaker 13 (35:37):
Cool, so authentically football, so authentically you, so authentically like
the underdog mentality, dude, chop wood carry water. I couldn't
be I couldn't be a bigger supporter man, So thanks
for having me on that.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I appreciate you.
All right, all right, all right, we're back here our
radio row.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm here with Will Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
We're gonna get some.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Go daddy stuff in a little bit and your your
arrow twin is that correct?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Your clone?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, well we'll snap into that.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
But starting off, Will, uh, you know, going through your
research of things.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I gotta start off.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Do you have a Lucha libre future at some.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Point in your career? You know what?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
This is something I've been thinking about and ever since
I did the Lucha libre you know, stunts in Mexico City,
a lot of people have been telling me that I
have a future and it so, you know, I might
have to dabble in a little bit after the NFL.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I mean, you see, guys like Kid'll kind of dabble
into the wee type stuff. And I'm just like dude,
today's day and age of being an athlete. Yes there's ball,
but things like this outside of ball, it could generate
future revenue. It could be a whole career, like for sure,
you might be the next Undertaker.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Hey man, I think about it all the time. It's
something that not only can I have fun with it,
but like you just said, help me maintain my family
right And at the end of the day, man, how
cool is it, you know, being able to be on
that stage something that nobody gets a chance to do.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
So I definitely get into it a little bit.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Bring out the ego powers and all that. Yeah, would
you what would your mask colors?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Like?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
What would your vibe? You think if you had to
go full a libre?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
You know what? I think I would keep in Mexican colors?
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, you know, red green, we just go all in
on it with a dabble of brown, but go goll
in represent and then you know, just make it a name.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
How did you come up with your brand Miho Things?
How did that all start off?
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
We did you pull trigger.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
So Mio things.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
It started off kind of as like a thing we
me and my friend group did my mios and we
just wanted to, like, you know, show some sort of
representation of who we are as people, the mentality we
have now we're all go getters, we're all wanting to
do big things in life. And you know, we kind
of called it that like meho mentality deal. So we
kind of started having fun with it, came out with
(02:06):
some merch and started you know, getting throwing some designs together.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
We got a lot of love from it from people.
We were like, you know.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
What, why don't we just like do this thing right
and actually turned it send it to a business exactly.
So that's exactly what we did, started doing some meo things,
started getting with the right people, and now we want
to be a representation of our people, bridge the gap
and helping and starting to help a lot of these
future players athletes, because I mean, let's be honest, like
(02:35):
there's not many very Mexican Latino players in the NFL
reed exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
So what I want to use the brand for is,
you know.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Give the NFL Latino players a stage, a cool factor
to swag, you know, and bridge that gap between high
school even pee wee football to the NFL. Representing our
people and making sure that a lot of these kids
not only see it through me through my play, but
they also see the brand and see, hey, like this
(03:04):
is cool, Like I want to be a part of this.
Hey I'm a Latino player. I can play in the
NFL too, will did it?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
You know?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Things like that of course, is how can the NFL
help you in this like is a game in Mexico City,
gonna help. Are you trying to help the Mexican people
of the United States or the Mexican people in Mexico
more than anything?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Both both, And it's not even like a Mexican thing, like, yeah,
that's where I came from, That's what I am. There's
changing that. But mihos can be can range from anywhere,
any country. There's no borders, there's no flag, like I'm
just representing my own roots. But we're open to anybody
and anybody that has that meho mentality that we always
talk about. If you're a go getter, if you want
(03:45):
to go, you know, achieve big things, whether it's the
NFL or whether it's anything else, right, you know, this
is the place for you. This is where you can
go and do those things. You can get with people.
If you see a MEO had on somebody, you know
that person is like has a certain type of mentality.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That means you see someone walking around, have to bring
the juicet dog.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's a fox. Whole guy.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We want guys that gravitate towards each other with that
contagious energy.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
That's how we are. I like me, we need a
collab man's you.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Get it, you get it, I get it, I see it,
I see it, I get it. All right, So let's
talk about this go Daddy thing. Okay, how did you
get partnered up with GoDaddy? What are you guys talking about?
What are you promoting? We got go Daddy Arrow, you
got your clone with you give me the spiel?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, man, So everything I just said is go Daddy
within itself too. That's exactly why I partnered with him,
because just like we talked about, they understand the vision,
they get it. They want to help communities, they want
to help people start small businesses. And the biggest reason
why I partnered with them is because I'm also starting
a small business in El Paso, Texas. Okay, and I'm
(04:49):
opening up a food truck called Mihos Tacos. Hell yeah, bro, Yeah,
So you know, ol Pasto, Texas, even though I'm not
from there, is the place where I went to school.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I showed up as a seventeen year old boy and
left a twenty two year old man. Yeah right, And
so why not open this place up in the city
that gave me the most, right? And so to me,
it's more of like a It's a big deal for
UTEP to have a player go into the NFL. It
doesn't happen very much in Ohio stateium not in Alabama
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that produced them every single year. We've been lucky enough
to have players go out in the last few years.
But it's a big deal to all Passo. So me
doing something like this in al Paso, Texas is gonna
be a big deal too, some for people to feel.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
A part of you know, it goes back to the
whole brand.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
So I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna open it up
June twenty First, Go Daddy is helping me. Let's face
the man, as an NFL football player, especially during season,
there is no time.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
To work, no time. Small business, you gotta be luck
in exactly.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
So Go Daddy and Arrow are helping me tremendously with
their Arrow program, which is all based AI, all based
on a It gives me tools like an avatar, which
digitally you can create your own. They can help you
with logos, they can help you with website building, they
can help you with anything that you need to start
a small business. So when you're able to do that
(06:13):
with you know, a company like this, your avatar does
half the work for you or most of the work
for you when you when you physically can't right exactly
why my boys right here, we're next to me, damn
you know, because Nehi's roll deep bro, I would have
been a little bit more tired. He would have been
doing the interview, not me. So you know, just so
you know as well, I only play half of the games.
This guy comes in and plays the other half.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Have you guys consider doing a swap like mid practice,
Like I feel like you could like preseason or something.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Do you know you're not talking to the real world
right now?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
How do you know you're not talking too You've got
to have one difference. You got to have one difference.
There's a way, there's a way.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
But yeah, man, so we talk about you getting that vision,
having that mentality as a brand. I partnered with GoDaddy
exactly for that reason, and they get it, they understand
and when you combine like that, the power of collaboration
is crazy. What you can do to change these communities,
change these cities. And now maybe ten five years from now,
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we're not talking about Oh, Pesta doesn't really get much attention.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Opesta doesn't really have NFL players we could.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Talk about hey, and El Pasto is one of like
the cities that produces the most or utep Right, it's
one of the cities that produces the most NFL players
every single year.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Right, Why not consistent?
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:28):
So that's the whole point of the brand, partnering with
Go Daddy, partnering with you know a lot of these
people that are gonna help us get there.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I love it, bro.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So does Go Daddy Arrow also work for like beers?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Like if I had twelve beers right here, could I
now get twenty four beers with these?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
With this Go Doddy Earrow? Is that is that math translator?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
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Speaker 3 (08:00):
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of Chuck O'Dell, Mohawks, Lettuce, I had, I had corn Rows.
You tell me, I got it the Stash? What made
you say I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go. I'm going
for it.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
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Speaker 3 (08:18):
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vision and you're like, man, I'd really like to just
buzz this thing off. You're a dedicated man. It takes
a dedicated man to get a mustache and maintain it
like that.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
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Speaker 5 (08:31):
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on how this thing started. Yeah, because I've only had
it for about a year now. So it started off
as a camp stash. You know, guys do it every
every year. They just get the stash going have to
just for camp. After camp ended, I was in such
a mode such like I was I was on. I
was on, and I was like I got a little
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you know, I was like, I kind of don't want
to take it off or get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Not superstitious, but a little bit just a little bit
a little stitious, and so.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
And got people. People loved it too, you know, people
loved it. People started giving me a compliments. I was like,
you know what, I'm going to keep it. I kind
of like it. It grew on me, literally, it grew
on me, and I'm going to keep it around.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So that's what we did. And the longer it got.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
The more I wanted to keep it, because you know,
you got to go through those growing pains at first
started curling a little bit I got. I got introduced
by it from a friend of mine who's actually my
barber as well in Phoenix. His name is Edgar at
the shout Out the Man or Barbaria. He's the one
that gave me the idea of like actually growing it
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out like this because he has liked this and keeping
it and making it part of like my brand, because
you know, you think about just the Mexican culture in general,
you think of a mustache, why not make.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It swaggy so you know part of who I am.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
My boy, Edgar got me put me on through a
little bit of wax in there, and then boom, now
we got the meole mustache going.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Mean, it's looking good.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
I appreciate it, man, it's looking good. Bro. We've had
we went through a lot of growing pins.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
And you're right, man, sometimes when I'm eating, a little
bit gets especially if there's no wax in there, it
get it gets into your mouth a little bit and
you chew it off, rip it up.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I don't terrible it's the worst.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
You really got to like be passionate about something like
this to keep it because it is a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
I think it tells a lot about your dedication as
an athlete too.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Exactly right. It all goes hand in hand. If you
have that mentality here, you'll have it there.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Player's stocking needs to be higher because of the stash.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Bro Oh, I appreciate you.
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But where we differentiate ourselves is in the way we
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Moose's draft House because they're the ones their kitchen is
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going to be the ones working meals. Tacos truck and
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We're smoking our meat, smoking army. It gives you that
little bit of different I like that sensation. Yeah, texture,
We're gonna smoke our stuff and we're not just gonna
have tacos. We're gonna have son insists hot dogs. We're
gonna have wings, burgers all that. But the thing is
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that the saint just your typical burger wing taco. Like
the process isn't just the process. Like we're gonna completely
change up the way we cook our meats and add
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little different, and but it's very good.
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Speaker 5 (11:31):
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wings in the whole city of Old Paso. Yeah, so
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all the way.
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Uh godspeed, best of luck, stay grinding. Appreciate having you guys.
I'll bring the juice and uh well link so.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
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Speaker 3 (11:59):
All right, all out, All back on, bring a juice
here on Radio Row.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I'm Frank Atalanta. Today we got power Slap on the pod.
Let's start off.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
I got Frank lam Macella correct awesome, and then I
got Shena bat thirty. She's wrapping the hat today looking good. Uh, Frank,
let's just start with you real quick. Power slap came
about you are the man in charge. Tell me just
you know, before we get into it. Obviously you have
this journey, but before it became the legit power slap
(12:29):
that we're seeing on TV. Up, I'm just thinking a
fight club here? Was there an underground power slap league?
Speaker 7 (12:35):
I mean so really this this came out of Dana
Dana White, Yeah, some videos you might know, seeing some
videos on YouTube. Yeah, Russia and like Missouri I think, uh,
and never getting more views.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Than justin Bieber videos. And he was like, what is
going on?
Speaker 7 (12:54):
So then we all got together started watching it, and
we were genuinely entertained.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Yeah, so we we looked at it. We said, what
can we do if we.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Take all of our knowledge in the industry and ability
to produce shows and events, what can we do with it?
And the answer is power slap in the And yeah,
the proof is in the pudding. The numbers have been
insane this year, absolutely, and it's going to continue to grow.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Shina what and they discovered me? Yeah? Yeah, let's talk
about how they discover you.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
You the top recruit, I mean how they come about
talk about your story real quick?
Speaker 9 (13:28):
Well, I come to you that the days three years ago,
and uh, everybody coming here with a big dream. You know,
I wasn't dreaming of power slow because it didn't exist
like them. But you know, when they reach out to
me to try out this exhibition competition, I was like them,
I'm going to go for it. You know. There are
lots of courage, lots of power involved, and I was like,
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I think, I think it's meant to me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
What what's the what's the best traits somebody in your
position could have?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Obviously you want to have a good slap. You want
to be able to take slap everything. Yeah, yeah, talk to.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Me about it, Like, what's the best traits you could
what's the ultimate power slapper?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Build one?
Speaker 9 (14:07):
Oh, definitely to take the slap like nothing happened, you know,
I think it's it's it's very impressive.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
But also the knockout.
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Definitely the knockout, you know, make the biggest and biggest
creation of knockouts.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
How do you train for this?
Speaker 9 (14:26):
So I used to be a judo fighter, a bodybuilder,
and currently I'm training in MMA, So I think it's
already giving a very good base for power slap.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
But besides this, we try to train on our neck
on our.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Chain, everything the hip so you can get ye so
everything everything power Slap. It's short and it's like like
a short moment, but you using actually everything and the mindset.
Speaker 10 (14:59):
We also have to.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Talk about, you know, right, right right, We'll get into that.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But Frank, real quick, you know, give me a little
if you had an elevator pitch somebody like he is
what power Slap is, whether it's the rules, the formality
of it, how would you say explain to the guys
who don't know Power Slap.
Speaker 7 (15:15):
So, I mean, look from an event perspective, it's one
of the most entertaining, exciting live events you've ever been too.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I'm trying to come from it.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
It's fast paced, it's it's basically your favorite moments in
combat sports, just trunk it into a shorter time. The
personalities and the talents is incredible. Geni is obviously one
of our biggest stars, but we have a roster of
one hundred plus athletes and it's growing every day.
Speaker 8 (15:38):
We have former college football players.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
It's now expanding to a much wider universe than when
it first started in two years ago at our closed
door event. But you're you come to a power slap event.
You're going to be entertained from the second start, so
the second you leave, you're gonna be around cool, fun
people who are doing the same. We really, we really
spent a lot of time making sure the live event
experience is the best that we can.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Deliver from a rule standpoint though, So one person goes,
other person goes.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
It's til someone gets knocked out. So no, it's three.
So take a step back. All combat sports and Americas regulated.
Okay you can.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That was a big thing for you guys too.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
This isn't like you know, football, where you can just
throw on some equipment and then go have a football
game in your backyard. Yes, so we go state to state.
We started in Nevada. California is just a proved power slap.
We have a few more states coming on in the
next few months. They'll prove that will allow us to
travel and bring the event outside of Nevada.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
But yeah, we built the rule step from scratch.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
It's three to five rounds, depending if it's a title
fight or not.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
One slap per round.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
On the striker side, you can't lift your feet and
you can't pivot, so all that power that boxes usually
have you know, being able to pivot and kind of
you don't have that in slap, so you have to
really control your feet and from the hip.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
You know, it's kind of like from your thighs through
your hip.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, right, uh.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
And there's also a very small place on the on
the face where you could land, and you have to
land with an open an open hand.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Open palm.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
So if you don't do any of these things, the
fouls are very penalizing.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
You can basically lose the fight if you just don't
mess up.
Speaker 8 (17:15):
If yeah, exactly exactly, and that's it. It's scored.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
You can win by knockout TKO or by decision, just
like in mm A.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Yeah scored.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Empower your strike and your ability to take it and
your reaction.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Shina, how do you let's say you got your coming
up right, you know you're about to compete, When do
you start locking in? What is your Tell me your
preparation leading up to your time to go slap?
Speaker 9 (17:43):
So once day letting me know that I'm having an
upcoming five. I'm already getting in focus. So every training
I'm making down day by day, I know it.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Is for power slap.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
You know, I wake up every morning that Okay, I'm
going to win my next title.
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I'm going to sleep with that so the whole day.
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Actually, I'm keeping my my myself in this in this zone.
Speaker 10 (18:10):
You know, it doesn't.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Matter if it's two or three months. The only thing
I'm changing the last two weeks I'm start to separate
or escalate myself more from people locking in nothing.
Speaker 10 (18:22):
This struck me that all the energy I have.
Speaker 9 (18:25):
And and and clear thoughts about how actually I want
to make this event going to end up and this
is actually that I want to earn my next knockout.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
It's the sport's so new to where, like I did
my research, know you're you're like one of the faces
of the sport right now.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
You're a goat in power slap right now. To maintain that.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Reputation, How long do you think you could last? How
sustainable is a power slap career?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Right now?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I have no idea.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
As long as my head is on my.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Neck, I'm gonna make yeah of my team. I love Frank,
I like Dana, So I'm really very happy with people
I'm involved. They appreciate me, and that's why I think
that we can really build a very successful future together.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Right your hands itself. Do you do anything to toughen
up your hands? Do you do a lot of How
many slaps did you get reps in throughout the day
or yeah? I just but you mentioned that it has
to stay open, and that's a detail. I don't think
a lot of people on TV quite understand. If you're
a first time watcher. It can't land deep. It's gotta
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land really in one small It's.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Very easy to foul out.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It sounds like, so you gotta be precise as well
as you can't just it's not a street fight.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
Yeah, well, I believe in hardburd But I want to
also say that it's it's part of my genetic too.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
The powerful have from my.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Bad from my father, your father.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
My brother too. Yeah, my judo trainer.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Okay, one of the fastest hands on the roster, including
in the men.
Speaker 8 (19:58):
And she like her velocity, I did, Yeah, her velocity.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Yeah, we take a lot of data at the PI
and yeah, her velocity which she is able to throw
her hand as.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Actually it's like number one or number two.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
So are you guys?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
You're getting a lot of applications for people to come
into the power slops. See, now, how do you siphon out.
You know, hey, this guys might be worth it. This
guy might not be worth it. Is it just YouTube
applications if guys send in a video and you're like,
oh my god.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
When we first started, we identified a few of the
best slap fighters in the world before we before we
got into it, right right, this guy like Wolverine, who's
our current light heavyweight champion, Damian de Belle, our current
heavyweight champion. These guys were already doing this before they
joined Power Slap, so we found them brought them on.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Then when we you know, when.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
We're going through these applications, it's a lot of former
combat sports athletes, Like you have guys with thirty professional
MMA fights who are now joining Power Slap.
Speaker 8 (20:54):
I got former college football players.
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I mean a guy in our event this Friday, Brian
Ellis is a former ut Austin defensive end.
Speaker 8 (21:02):
So Imagica and slap.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
It's a big guy, but it's a big guy. It's
a big guy, right.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
So now we're getting more there's more and more athletes
getting into this, and uh, you know, listen, we go
through it like we like we do anything else.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
She know, do you like slapping or eating a slap
and looking at the competitor and the eye being like
not today.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well I like both.
Speaker 9 (21:23):
I would say I like to eat first the slap
and then up there giving the slap.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
What do you do mechanically with your face when you
know a slap's coming?
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Oh, I have to definitely bite, make a strong bite,
strong jaw strength, yes, and make tied my whole body
so I can't really embrace it, and a little bit
like grounding me my feet, like you know, like not physically,
but I'm just right in my mind, you know, like
I'm gonna stay.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Here, nobody gonna move me.
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (21:55):
Yeah, So yeah, the mindset is very important too.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
And then when you're doing THEA I feel like explosive moments,
you know, you there's like you look at NFL combines
coming up right, guys are about to do the vertical
jump or the broad jump. You guys are athletes. You
guys understand like you kind of have all this energy
channel in it goes through your toes all the way
up to your shoulders and it's like explode.
Speaker 10 (22:18):
Yeah, it's like a whip.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
So do you do.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
You cat athlete?
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Athlete?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Do you like is there a time is like a
shot clock where you have thirty seconds to slap somebody
or is it a gentleman's.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
It's sort of the way it works is once you
get slapped, you have sixty seconds to recover unless you
get knocked down. And that's why she was talking about
keeping her feet planted while she takes a hit, because
if you get knocked down, there's a boxing ten count,
So if you don't get up in the ten count,
you'd lose. Yeah, so's there's a benefit of staying on
your feet, but sixty seconds to recover once your clock
is up in the referee kuns instruct you it's your
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turn to slap, and you go up and do it.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Frank, would you ever enter the sport?
Speaker 8 (22:58):
No?
Speaker 7 (22:58):
No, no, no, I'm good, You're good.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
I like running it.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
I like working with Dana every day building this thing
and supporting these guys and freaking a knockouts. She's our
most viral star out of all out of it what
we have on the roster. She's comating the first women's
event ever this Friday.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I'm excited. I'll be there bringing the juice hat on. Uh, Frank,
last question.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You know, Dana obviously is a big element of this
whole thing. The UFC already had this platform, which, like anything,
you guys know that.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
It's good to have a good start.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Talk about Dana's involvement and and kind of his ideas
he's throwing out the wall and the help of making
this become what it is.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
I mean, it's it's all. It's all Dana.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
I mean, we have a great team around us, but
he has the vision to see what we could do
with this thing, and he's very into he loves building businesses.
This is fun for us, a new challenge. We love
doing something that everybody want a job and do it right.
So we're we're I mean, we're together every day going
through what can we change, how can we make this better?
Speaker 8 (24:00):
What can we add?
Speaker 7 (24:02):
And I will tell you it's definitely been the most
enjoyable experience of my professional life for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah that seems awesome.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, Well, best of luck Sheena on this upcoming fight
and Frank hope to keep it, Sep Growing hope it
goes to the moon.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
I'm for it. I'm for it. Bring the juice or.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
Power shameless pluging, Okay, Friday, Yeah, don't do it please
very ninth Yes, we'll get this clip to Wrango Casino Resort.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:26):
Main card starts at nine eastern six Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Uh huh.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Early prelims at seven thirty eastern four to thirty Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Sold out, Uh, sold out already.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
Oh, it's all out almost right away.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I was seen to bring the juice. Gnet some tickets. Yeah,
all right, all right, fair enough, we'll the next one,
come next one.
Speaker 8 (24:42):
Yeah, we'll get you there.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Frank, I appreciate you guys. Power slap everybody, Shena. The
juice is going to be in the hand. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Yeah, man, bring the juice, stay hot, power slap Frank.
Thanks guys.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
But so it's so hard because like once it's over, like, yeah,
you can't mimic you can't. It's the closest thing.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
To war that possibly is.
Speaker 12 (25:14):
And when you got a band of brothers that really
come together and do something special, it's hard to win
football games. And when you do, it's like it was
your will face. It's just like it's elite. Yeah, I
got asked the super Bowl. Yeah, we're here this week.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
It's radio row.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Obviously.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
I don't think people understand how big the Super Bowl is.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Like it's an event.
Speaker 12 (25:39):
It's it's the biggest sporting event easily the United States
every year.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
The joy of winning a ring.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
How was it?
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Oh man, it's I'll never forget the first one. People
ask me a lot, like what was your favorite super Bowl?
And I'll never get over the first feeling of walking
on into like a super Bowl field, The electricity you feel,
amount of pride you have running out listening to the
national anthem, Like, I mean, it's it's what every little
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football player when they start playing at six seven years
old everything to them.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It's everything, even.
Speaker 13 (26:17):
All the way up high school, college, like it's it's
an American like.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
It is one of the most American things you could accomplish.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:27):
And and to like realize that in warm ups, like
I could cry right now thinking about it. Yeah, realizing
like how much work you had to go through the
ups and downs and ebbs and flows at the season,
but not only that season, the season before, in.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Your whole life. Yeah.
Speaker 13 (26:46):
Yeah, and then it ultimately gets you, you know, on
this field that's all painted up within super Bowl logos, Dude,
it is it is like electric, yeah, electric. And then
and then ultimately that's like just pregame and then the
game goes on and it's it's a crazy long game
(27:08):
with all the TV stops and the and the super
Bowl or the halftime show. Super Bowl halftime shows like
twice as long, three times as long as the normal halftime.
So you end up like playing THEMN There two games,
you know, and the way that we won each of
our super Bowls, the third one was like a little
bit of a you know, we had we had a
(27:29):
little bit of I guess the rams. Okay, we won
thirteen to three. It was a it was a boring game,
but I loved it. We were running the ball real well.
You were there for the falcons one right, yeah, yeah,
and that's and that's wild. I mean, just for everything
to go the way it went in our favor.
Speaker 12 (27:48):
Someone had to flip a switch. Yeah, tell me when
it was you guys are down twenty eight to three. Yeah,
I saw Bourbon Street was a flag with it.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yes, of course. I was like, that's so random that
all right?
Speaker 12 (28:02):
Who flipped the switch and said thought over like, we
need to go win this thing.
Speaker 13 (28:06):
I mean, you got to point the finger there at Tom,
I mean, and.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
He just cools the other side of the pillow.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
Always very confident, Like I remember Jules walking around saying like, hey,
we're gonna win this game, Like we're gonna win this game,
and you're like, dude, because it wasn't even like a
halftime thing. We were down twenty one to three at halftime. Yeah,
then we come out and they score and we're down
twenty eight to three. And the third quarter we're like
seven minutes left, and it's like, yeah, how can this happen?
(28:39):
It's like, no way, But then you know, we're just
like people start believing and more and more plays are
being made. And it wasn't like a like a flip
of switch and now all of a sudden the Patriots
are here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
It was like a slow process.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
You know, we get the sack fumble, we got a
sack that knocked him out of field, goal ranger swing everything.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
That's that's cool.
Speaker 13 (29:03):
And uh And honestly, I got so much joy out
of watching the mood of the Falcons change because they
were hyped over there in the third quarter, like you
couldn't you know, Arthur Blanks down there, you know, we're
like all right, but then like Ed started rolling the
opposite way for them. It was so much fun to
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watch them like start to shrink over there, and honestly, yeah,
so like who flipped the switch? Nobody really Like we
just started doing everything in the right time and things
went our way. But Tom was a big part of
that because I don't think we'd have the belief that
it could happen if not for TV, you know, Like
(29:47):
and I said that the Bill when I went back
after I retired, and we were kind of like in
that quarterback Limbo and Newingland a little bit, and I
was like, you just need somebody that that guys can
believe in, because that's so big going into a game,
having a guy that you're like, yes, this guy's gonna
put us in position to win, and having that belief
(30:08):
is like damn near as important as any preparation because
you need guys that can you know, a guy that
can galvanize everybody to go out there and try to
win games on Sunday because this is hard, like you said,
hard to win football games. But when you got a guy,
a bunch of guys that believe, anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Man, anything can happen.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
Bro James, I appreciate you, and we could go on
and on and on. I I definitely don't want to
shout tores.
Speaker 13 (30:33):
Wanna hold up you know, take oh bro, you're chilling,
You're chilling. It got deep real quick, and I'm like,
you know what, I'm glad.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
My guys said.
Speaker 12 (30:40):
He's like you were going for an hour right now.
I like, really, but not. I appreciate you, I appreciate
the time. Wish you the best of blessings and good
health and success in all your endeavors. Man, And I
love to run this back, like dude, hearing guys from
that era like to me, like my my again, it's
(31:01):
me and my three brothers.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
All played wide receiver.
Speaker 12 (31:05):
My middle brother is declaring this year he's gonna run
a fast party, and the Patriots actually really like him, right,
so we'll see what.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
But like.
Speaker 12 (31:19):
I'm just gonna say it, like white boy, wide receivers
was was is the rarest breed, and we were always
the lone wolf.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And uh, you're seeing like West do his thing.
Speaker 12 (31:31):
See Jules, I mean Jules was our guy, like Joels
was my family's guy. Like even Amon Doola, Like I
just like it gave us hope, man, because they're there.
That's a needle in a haystack. And you know, I
grew up constantly getting told like.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But you're little, You're a little Julian Edelman.
Speaker 12 (31:54):
This, okay, just because I'm shifty, white wide receiver like that,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
But.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Just hearing about those times, it's not the fact that
they're just white guys that wise. Yeah, I know their journey.
Speaker 12 (32:07):
I know that Jewels played quarterback at Kenton State. Yeah,
like it wasn't first round draft pick starring Wider Siver Like, yeah,
he had to go overturn punts and all that. Like
nothing has ever come easy to me in my life.
Like I had to walk on at Presdo State in
order to order that scholarship. I had to do all
the anthing. I started off bringing the juice in my
(32:28):
mom and dad's basement. We had five listeners, I have
to We didn't have video, we only had audio. I'd
pause it, I'd call my mom, she'd be upstairs. She'd
come downstairs with her iPhone red glass of wine. Yeah,
take pictures on her iPhone four. And that's what I'm
posted on Instagram. I was interviewing a guy once who
won the World Series for the Braves, like two months ago,
(32:50):
and one of my boys goes, yo, bro, like you
just had this, dude, tell this story about it was
his first appearance in Major League based well, he started
Game two in the World Series. First major league actually
just got called up, Like this story is insane.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
And I love when I get to do like this
and I'm not.
Speaker 12 (33:10):
Whoa, I got no no sens like literally, like I
like to have conversations.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm not trying to sell. How did you know?
Speaker 12 (33:20):
Okay, I got to ask how the super Bowl was, dude,
Like I just know that seeing guys.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Like Jewels Hogan, like I know they all had their path,
and I was like, I have a path. Yeah, I
have a path. Like you're right, I am a shifty
white boy wide receiver who looks like Johan Edelman.
Speaker 12 (33:38):
But I'm bore of in my brain. I'm like, no, bro,
he had a journey he had to go. So I've
always related to it. And like, you know, my brothers,
they're my best friends. Like we train together, we work together,
we do everything together, same offensive playbooks.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
So when they came in right behind me, I never.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Have to play with them.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
They got to play together.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Yeah, when they came in.
Speaker 12 (33:59):
Right behind me, it was just like I'm in the
stands looking at signals. I'm like, all right, Mac has
a feep post right, Yeah, I'm like, mom, every look
seventy five yard touchdouts coming up the safeguy and I'll
see the safety step and I'll look at my friphl up.
Mac getting off the line. I'm like touched out people
(34:19):
with the stands.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Like, who is this hardcore?
Speaker 12 (34:23):
I'm like, well, you know, I doubt Yeahah, long story,
short man Again, James, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'd love to get you out to President one of
these days.
Speaker 12 (34:31):
Manh the onion forearm steakhouses out here, show you how
the Valley Boys train and all that.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Man God speak.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Pleasure brother, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 13 (34:42):
And I just want to say before I go, Man,
your whole journey and what you just spoke on is
what makes this so great. Like I saw my first
experience like seeing your pod and seeing this whole brand was.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I just was scrolling on Instagram when.
Speaker 13 (34:58):
I saw off Logan Mankins jersey right, and it stopped
me and I'm like, yo, if he's got Logan Mankins
behind him on the wall, like this guy knows what's
so uh?
Speaker 2 (35:07):
And then I like, you know, read into it.
Speaker 13 (35:09):
And like kind of got a little bit deeper into
weeds with you, and I'm like, you know what, this
guy's what football is all all about. Like what you
what I was talking about? Like that electricity in your veins,
that juice, dude, if we get like, that's what's so
good about that? That feeling is why all it's what
makes football the greatest sport on Earth, and it's why
(35:32):
every persons in this in this building.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
And for you to be sitting here building something so.
Speaker 13 (35:37):
Cool, so authentically football, so authentically you, so authentically like
the underdog mentality, dude, chop wood carry water. I couldn't
be I couldn't be a bigger supporter man, So thanks
for having me on that.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
I appreciate you.
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