TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: Kings Boxing Gym

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One O three five, K to you to Beat of
New York, the Hollywood Handle, the Show, and the K
to you Morning Crew, Marie Y.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let me see.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Oh, I want to mention that we give away concert tickets.
You know, different venue, different artists, different play every single morning,
eight a m. Straight up eight eight o'clock. And then
Wendy's got her tickets to be given away sometime after
ten o'clock. And then you got Maxwell in the afternoon,
and you got DJ pro Style coming in at seven
o'clock right there for concert tickets as well.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Why has everybody got their hand up? Why?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Because we have a tell me something that god On
holds holding for a little bit.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Tell me something good.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Who's this?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Where are you from?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What's going on? I got something good to tell you.
My name is Old Rodriguez from the Bronx.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
You know it's for our K to your Morning Crew
T shirt. So got your T shirt? Just tell us
something good out of the Bronx. What do you got
going on?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
But I got something good to tell you?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
We run a King's boxing gym and on a program
called Each One Teach One, Each One Teach One program.
What it does? It takes kids off the streets. We
teach them boxing. We help a lot of kids out
with the boxing program that we have while we hit
the bronx.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh interesting, that's fantastic. I love this. Is it free?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I mean because yes it is, Yes, it is is free.
The address is nine hundred East Tremont. We also have
a second floor where the parents also get taught how
to lose weight.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's let me see if I can get this straight,
so kids can come in. It's a free program that
your gym is offering. They learn to box a little bit.
The parents are upstairs losing weight.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
We have over four trainers here. They actually teach them
how to box, not only to defend themselves, but.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Also gives them confidence.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yes, they get some confident. You know. Besides the boxing
is it also teaches them how to, you know, how
to focus on something that they really want in life and.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Something outside of their phone. Right, you must tell them
to turn their cell phones off, right.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Something ouside of their phone and their TVs and their
little PlayStations.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And you know, I actually tried kickboxing, and boy, I
got out a lot of frustration. I've been divorced four times.
I got a lot of frustration out when I was
when I was doing that boxing, and it really felt
fantastic afterwards.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Interesting stuff. You must be packed though, right is it
tough to get in?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
How do we we have over three hundred and eleven kids? Wow? Yeah,
and we only have open about about six months we've
been open.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh wow, wow, Now you got room for more because
you're on the raid.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
This is Kate t you man the Treemont Avenue. We
got we got.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, you can stop by. We give out two day
free passes for the mothers to go upstairs and try
the Team Hope boot camp, which actually you know, they
lose weight up there, they get they get toned up,
you know, and then after that if they want to
join us, up to them. But the kids are the
each one teach one program. It's actually by us also
my my partner, which is Jose Santiago.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Some kids who are doing well in school actually continued,
they can.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Go for free.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, what we do is we check make sure that
they are good with the parents and behaving in their household,
and they're good in school as well. So we checked
their report cards.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Uh huh. So you check for accountability. That's important.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
So as long as every report card is intact and
it is up to par, they can trin. If them not,
they'll be sitting down and we'll be helping them with
their homework, or we'll do something with them that does
not include boxing.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Interesting, Okay, all right, very good.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Give this guy a T shirt. Give this guy a
couple of T shirts.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
I was gonna say, could we give you five T shirts,
and you give to the first five kids who have
done an amazing job both in school, helping out their parents,
are doing what they need to do.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You give them a T shirt. The first five kids
on behalf of the crew.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
That sounds great, guys, Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Jose tell me a little bit about the address again.
Let's pimp that out one more time. Give me that
address to the gym.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Is in the Bronx nine hundred East Tremont. It's called
Kings Boxing Gym. You can't miss it. Is right in
the middle of the block. Real big black letters, white letters,
gold letters as well. You can't miss it. Well, So,
what's your You have Instagram too, it's your Instagram King's
Boxing Gym. Nice, yes, Instagram, Yeah, King's Boxing Gym on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, all right, man, just thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Great, we've learned a little something and hopefully there's some
listeners are going to get it together and bring the
kids on in there, and thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Great. This is why I love. Tell me something good right.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
There, right You're inspiring so many young people.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Thank you, thank you, appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Guys, listen to you every mom