March 15, 2024 • 47 mins
Episode 10: "Clean Fades & Capri-Suns"
Gianni Beltran, 19
McAllen, Tx
Recorded: 02/07/24
When Gianni Beltran opens up about his life, you can't help but be drawn into the story of this McAllen native who turned family lessons into a playbook for personal growth. In a heart-to-heart that's as genuine as it is enlightening, we explore the complexities of Gianni's youth, his sports ambitions, and the impactful bond with his brother Denzel. It's not just about the games played on the court; it's the game of life where he's truly making his mark, guided by the wisdom of his siblings and the support of mentors like Freddie.
Our conversation takes an unexpected detour into the garage – quite literally – where Gianni and I dive into the deeper currents of motivation and mental health. We uncover stories of local heroes who've bounced back from rock bottom and question how the search for approval in the digital spotlight can skew our sense of self. Join us as we share candid thoughts on everything from the superficiality of dating to the balancing act of screen time and real-world connections.
As we venture into the world of entrepreneurship, Gianni recounts the hustle behind earning his real estate stripes and the entrepreneurial dreams he's nurturing alongside his passion for sports. We tackle big questions on trust, destiny, and the pursuit of authenticity in a world that often feels fleeting. Wrapping up with a cosmic curveball, we share a personal encounter that might just have you looking skyward and wondering what's really out there. Tune in for an episode that promises to stir the soul and challenge the mind, all while keeping you company like an old friend.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How are you?
I do not do that.
(00:23):
Bye, bye, bye.
Hi everybody.
Welcome to hanging with humans,episode, I think, 11 or 12.
That's because I skip around alot.
But I'm very pumped todaybecause I'm at my best friend,
freddy's house over here inTexas and I'm here visiting my
(00:49):
dear friend.
He introduced me to Johnny,gianni Beltran.
Right, johnny Beltran, sayhello, jimmy.
Hi everyone, this is Gianni.
So Gianni is 19 years old.
The reason why we ended upcrossing paths is because Freddy
(01:10):
was picking me up from theairport and he's like, hey, dude
, I've met a lot of really coolpeople that you, you should
interview.
And he's like going through thelist, and he's like, yeah, I
got this kid.
I've been kind of mentoring him.
He just showed up at my houseone day and Now we're you know
this and this and this.
And you know, freddy came gotme from the airport.
(01:31):
We hung out in San Antonio withthe family and we had a blast
highly recommend the Riverwalk.
And when we got back, gianniwas Baby sitting or you know,
hanging a white house sitting.
For for the time being we weregone and I was like, how's this
house not totally fucked up?
And you know pizza and kegs and, you know, the whole place
(01:54):
destroyed.
Well, it turns out Gianni is agood kid, so that explains a lot
.
So, yeah, it's very nice tomeet you, johnny.
I appreciate it.
Um we're going to.
We're gonna interview Gianniand Get to.
We're gonna finish off inbasketball, because Gianni's a
(02:16):
he's a stud high schoolbasketball phenom sort of.
Well, he just graduated.
But before we get into all that, we're gonna find out who
Gianni is as a person.
So I'm very excited.
So, that being said, what's up,johnny, how you doing today?
I'm doing good.
Just woke up.
Just woke up.
(02:37):
Um, so we're out here inMcAllen Texas.
You grew up here.
Yeah, I grew up.
You grew up here.
Um, I want you to tell me alittle bit about your family.
You have how many brothers andsisters?
I have three sisters and twobrothers.
Which one's your favorite, myfavorite?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, um, probably my , my brother.
Yeah, my my brother, the secondold, second youngest.
What's his name?
His?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
name is Denzel Denzel .
Why is he so awesome?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I feel like it's because I grew up with him, like
after everyone left the houseand stuff, he's the one who
stayed there and like what wekind of like you know, like he
was, he was closest to me.
I kind of like resonated mostof times yes, bro, no, yeah, but
always fight a lot too.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So it's two facts.
So you are the youngest, young,the youngest, you're the
youngest.
How is that like being theyoungest and a big family like
that?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think the way my mom put it was just like, and I
kind of saw it like when shesaid she was like well, at least
you get to learn from liketheir mistakes, you know.
So, anything like they done badlike, at least you get to like
see, like when I to do thatmakes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you feel you've done a lot of that personally?
Like bad things?
No, like I learned, from their.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, like definitely like there's a bunch of things
that like Well, like they'vedone, like even like minor
things, where I'd be like alllike at least I know like not to
do that and it's just stay awayfrom that you know?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, definitely that's awesome.
All these brothers and sisters,tell me a little bit about your
mother and your father, my mom.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Her name is Sulai Samora.
She was born in Renault's, Ibelieve, and when she was, I
believe, like a teen or maybe,maybe a bit younger she she
moved to Brownsville and fromthere she was actually, I
believe she was born here, I'mnot too sure but she lived in
Brownsville for a while and thenshe moved over here in the town
.
She met my father.
My dad's name is RicardoBeltran I.
(04:41):
He was born in Edinburghactually and I guess he met my
mom in like a convenience storeor something.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, I saw everything happen.
That's how that happened.
Do you and your siblings allshare the same Mother and father
?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh, no, that's the thing, my brother that I'm
closest to.
We we do share the same motherand father, okay.
And then I have a brother and asister that are with a
different mother from my mom,okay.
And my other two sisters arefrom different bothers awesome.
Both the separate, differentbothers awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh, is everybody spread out?
Or you guys, everybody in Texas?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Everyone's in Texas currently.
My sister, she was in New YorkAlbany.
She said she like, really likedit over there, but currently
everyone's everyone's here inthe valley Awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Awesome, would you say.
You have a close family.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not really, but we do stay in touch, like we're not
like super like distant, youknow, but we do stay in touch
absolutely so we're gonna get toHumpin eventually, but Not
sports related.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Who are some of your heroes growing up like?
Maybe some things they taughtyou could translate to sports,
but Any role models or anything.
Who were the most importantpeople in your life growing up?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I Would say my, my brother's, a big role model in
my life, my brother, becauseevery everything he did was was
something like I, like.
Can I translate into like.
So he first started playingfootball.
I wanted to play football andthen he got hurt.
And then he was like you know,I'm gonna go play basketball,
yeah, high school, yeah.
So he started playingbasketball.
And then he was, he was prettygood, yeah.
(06:31):
So I was like I want to only begood basketball.
So I started playing more andmore, just kept training, you
know.
And then he switched into, likeMMA.
He wanted to learn Fightingsports.
And I translated into that hewanted to.
He wanted to become a runner.
I started running a lot too,like.
So I feel like everything hedid was something like I wanted
to do, you know, just because hewas an old brother.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
How many?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
years apart.
Oh, four years.
Okay, yeah, I mean my brotheror three.
Um, yeah, I didn't.
I didn't know you did MMA.
Are you doing any of thattraining or anything like that
currently?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I always I trained by myself at the gym Gotcha.
I used to train at UFC gym andthen I would train at a place
called Wolfpack here inEdinburgh on university.
We would I would train therefrom Wintai.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's awesome.
Are you training like not to bea professional fighter, or do
you train for, like I'm usingthis training to benefit me in
other sports?
Or what was the?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I feel like it's both because I've always like found
interest in like.
I get adrenaline when I seelike people fight like,
especially like in UFC.
Like that's something.
That's always not always, but Ifeel like starting like like
two years ago, like I startedwatching MMA with my brother a
lot because he got into it and Iwas like dude, this is like so
fun to watch.
(07:53):
And then I started like lookinginto fighters, their stories,
and that's what got me into itmore.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I love that.
Yeah, no, I'm a huge UFC guy.
I throw like barbecues and haveall my friends over.
We all watch the fight.
I do the same thing too.
It's the best, yeah, but no, Iagree, you never really see a
lot of champions that come froma privileged background.
It's always they had a veryrough or not.
Something approved, yeah, yeah,and nothing was handed to them,
(08:20):
though it was always like outof poverty.
You had very little options,but there was always this option
to get out.
On my second episode of mypodcast, I interview a buddy,
edgar.
We got pre-sons because Freddieclosed the garage on us, so
we're going to sweat to death.
Do you know what was justsitting a second ago?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I know I was also going to say there's a good
quote by Alex Cormozzi and hesays motivation comes from
deprivation, and I've alwayskind of saw that as a good quote
.
I was like, well, that makes alot of sense.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That makes a lot of sense actually.
No, let's get it.
It's so short and to the point,but it means so much.
Yeah, no, I have a trailer whenI very first started the
podcast and I'm getting askedall these random questions kind
of the same way From my mentorand he's like interviewing me
and he's like the people thatinfluence you and motivate you
(09:20):
and, for whatever reason, MikeTyson just came boom right away
and his story is nuts.
He just he had nothing and justfought his way all the way to be
the baddest man on the planet,and I always because I didn't
come from a privilegedbackground.
So I always saw myself in afight in terms of getting this
(09:44):
job or getting accepted to thisprogram or whatever.
I'm like why the fucking trainfor it?
Even if it wasn't a fight, I'mlike well, I got to get dialed
in for it.
If I'm going to show up, Ibetter make sure I'm looking
good and lean.
That's a really good quote,because that is the thing I
wanted to do is I want to doquotes Like.
I have a ton of them.
They mean a lot to me, that Iget a lot of motivation every
(10:07):
day just from reading quotes.
You know stuff like that.
But yeah, so your brother was abig influence.
Can you think of anybody elsebetween now and where you're at
today that's helped you, likeyou know, go in the direction
you're going in.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I have a couple of, because I don't really see
people that are famous as rolemodels.
But I do see a bunch of peoplethat are local or people that
wear local, because I have acouple of people that I know
that well most of the peoplethat have money or not even
(10:47):
money, but they're someone youknow, they're known in the
valley.
They all have stories like theycame from nothing or they lost
everything at one point, or theywent into like a slump or
something Redemption yeah,redemption stories.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, do you want to shout out to anybody off the top
of your head?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh yeah, I have a friend.
He owns a software company.
I can't say his real name,that's all good, but his
nickname is.
He goes by two.
His name is David or Bryson.
I don't want to say his realname.
Well, let's say Bryson.
David, he's very tight, yeah.
(11:27):
And also Andrew, andrew U.
Yeah, he owns a merchantservice business here.
He has an amazing story.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah.
So those guys, you see whatthey've done, what they've built
and you go, okay, that'sobtainable or it motivates you.
That's good, man, that's good,it's good.
It's important to have not justsuccessful people, not even
success, but hungry people.
It's good to have hungry people.
Like it's a dogfight out there.
(11:59):
You know what I mean.
That's awesome.
So, since this podcast is aboutmental health in a way, I want
to get your perspective on.
You just graduated high school,right when I went to high
school and when my friends, myfriends kids, are in high school
(12:20):
and like it's crazy thedifference, like with technology
and everything.
I've had issues with my ownkids with stuff, with, like,
just having the iPad too muchtype of stuff, yeah, but from a
high school male perspectivehere in South Texas, what are
(12:44):
things you see around you on aneveryday basis that you're like,
oh, this is what's wrong withtoday, or the country, or this
place in particular.
What things do you think youcan like I could do without that
?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I feel like social media, definitely yeah, I feel
like social media got into apoint where, like, people just
need like gratification for me.
You know Like people just needto have someone else like like
their photos or comment or like.
I mean, girls are bad with thisfor a long time.
But even us guys like we postup just to like get like her
(13:21):
your new Jordans, your whip orwhatever, and I feel like that's
one of the biggest things.
Like is just like learning when, to learning when there's a
time for it, like a screen time,either like a couple minutes in
the morning, couple minutes inthe middle of the day, couple
minutes at night, but not likethree or four hours a day.
So, have real bad screen time.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, people are obsessed, like literally
obsessed.
I remember there I was watchingthis thing on YouTube and they
were like interviewing thesegirls and like, hey, you can go
on this trip and you can't takeyour phone, but it's all paid
for everything like that, so youcan't take any pictures or
videos or whatever.
Or you just don't go and she'slike, well, if I can't, you know
(14:02):
, if I can't go to document orwhatever, then she's like,
what's the point of even going?
I didn't even go becauseeverybody else thinks, you know,
like that's how much she caredabout.
What everybody else thinks islike I'd rather pass on going to
this really nice trip that'scompletely paid for and taken
care of, but because I can'tdocument it and post it for
everybody to see, I'd rather not, which is insane to me, like if
(14:25):
you're in that position, butmaybe that's what these kids
grow up to be, I don't know.
So how does that work in thedating game?
Cause, like I'm not the game, Idon't know, but I feel like if
everybody's so superficial andobsessed with likes and
everything and taking pictures,it's gotta be a hard thing to
(14:47):
navigate through.
Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I feel like it's easier.
I feel like it's easier becauseyou just get to like.
You get to like reach out andlike turn on.
Okay, like, imagine, like backthen, like people couldn't like
just you'd have to actually likephysically go and talk to the
person.
Now it's like people hidebehind a screen.
You know, and I'm more like anin-person type of like person,
like I don't really like, youknow, using social media, like
(15:14):
when I'm out much.
If there's pictures like of me,it's usually like one of my
friends are taking pictures orsomething like that.
Like you usually never catch metaking like like pictures when
I'm out or like with friends andstuff like that, it's more like
you just have to like like livein the moment, Cause it's just
like it goes by two quirk.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know it does.
It really does go by too quick,and you're 19 and you know that
, and some people don't findthat out until way later on in
life.
So, with that being said, Iwanted to see if you'd be
comfortable talking about sincewe're in relationships a big
(15:51):
impactful thing that happenedwith you and yours.
Yeah, am I speaking on that?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Oh yeah.
Well, I recently had like agirlfriend who passed away and
her name was JD Ruby AlcalaDavila.
She had a beautiful friend,yeah.
So, yeah, I met her.
I actually texted her online,right, I texted her online back
in like my junior year and well,like we're texting for a bit
(16:18):
and then we just we like stoppedtexting or whatever.
And well, she sent me a picturethat she was at my school in
the gym, like of the floor Iguess, of the logo, and I was
like, oh, you're there.
I was like I'm dirty, liketurning the corner, and I was
with a friend of mine.
Her name is George and he was.
I was like, oh, like I'm gonnago talk to this girl, like I
(16:38):
just like, like she's here, likeI've been wanting to meet her
and stuff, but I never got thechance.
And I walked into the gym andGeorge was with me and I see her
, and then he goes and hugs herright, and I was like, oh, like
seeing my girl or whatever.
But they ended up being siblingsand I found that out after and
(17:00):
I was like that's so weird.
Oh, you thought of the wholetime.
Oh, so I found out after thatthat they were siblings like not
but bloodsub and but like theylike live together and stuff.
So I was like bro, like I gotto like get to know her, I got
to like like find out who she isand stuff.
So we went on a couple of dateswith him there and then after
(17:21):
that we started going out on ourown and then yeah, yeah, Dang,
that's awesome she passed awayand like they, how do you say,
like a one of those ATVaccidents?
Oh yeah, side by side.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, Like a rollover situation.
If you don't mind me asking wasit like a negligence thing Like
?
Was it like drinking?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, she I believe her best friend was the one
driving.
Okay yeah, and she was a reallycool girl, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Dang.
How long ago was this?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
This was, I'd say, about six months ago, probably
five.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's very fresh.
So her best friend I don't knowif you guys are how's she doing
Like, do you know any stufflike that about?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
her, her best friend, yeah, her best friend.
She passed away also, oh reallyyeah, oh, dang.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Wow, that's not a man , that's yeah.
And so that happened six monthsago.
You graduated how long ago?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
About eight or nine, so that time goes by fast.
Wow, yeah, so she, she, shepassed away like right after
high school, which was kind ofcrazy.
Yeah, it is really crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
So you guys were, did you guys have like plans or
like what was your guys'?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
thing when you were at.
She was like super ambitious,like she wanted at first she
wanted to be a lawyer and I waslike do you like really want to?
And we're like talking to hermom and talking about it and
stuff.
But she was like, yeah, likeshe's like I'm pretty sure, like
I want to be a lawyer, andwhile her mom, her mom and I and
JD and her little sister eversince we're out at Olive Garden
(19:11):
and she was like her mom waslike did she tell you?
Like she switched her major andI was like no way she wanted to
go into like nursing, I believeyeah, cause she wanted to like
search it up.
I think she like couldn't seeherself as a lawyer anyway.
So she was like I'm going tonursing with her best friend
actually, who was also going tonursing, and they were planning
to go to Austin together.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Damn.
Yeah, that's good man.
That's a whole plan that theyhad to set up.
Lawyer dude, that's.
I don't know.
So there's my thing with that.
Like it would be hard to defenda guilty person, you know what
I mean.
I don't know if that would haveanything to play with it, but
so that's all recently happened.
(19:54):
What's we can go.
I want to kind of segue intothe basketball part now.
So when?
When did you start playingbasketball?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I started playing basketball in fourth grade.
Fourth grade, yeah, and it wasbecause of my brother.
Yeah, my brother would alwayshoop outside and he wanted to be
like super good, he was thepoint guard of the team.
Yeah, I had different schoolscause he moved around and while
I was just like that looks fun.
So I started hooping with him.
He started training a littlebit and then from there, that's
(20:26):
where I started getting on liketravel teams and stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Okay, that's awesome, Did your?
Did your mom like push you toplay sports?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, like my family, I believe, like my mom and my
brother, like none of mysiblings besides me and my
brother like played sports, youknow.
So I think it was just likemore of an us thing, like I
think that's just how like meand my brother were raised like
super physical, yeah, he'dalways like throw gloves at me
and he'd be like bro, like let'sbuy it, let's buy it, and I'd
(21:00):
always end up getting my beat upcause he was four years old,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I know how that goes.
I'm going to open this garagedoor to them.
We're cooking up in this thing.
Cool, set me up, dog.
Yeah, all right, that's goingto be better for us Getting some
air up in here yeah, all right.
So hooping you started hoopingfourth grade.
Your brother's the one who gotyou on board.
(21:24):
When did you realize that youcould play competitively at like
a high level, that you'rebetter than like average kids, I
guess?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I think when I realized that I was better than
average kids was not when I waslike beating everyone here, but
when I was like scoring like themore or even the same amount
and like Houston and San Antonio.
I was like bro, like I'mactually, like pretty decent,
you know, like I'm, like I'msick, these kids that are like
six, five and like eighth grade.
I was like damn.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, no, the Houston's big on that and so
kind of tell me so.
With the, with the social mediathing, how we said it's a bad
thing.
Yeah, how do you feel?
I mean, there's some good partsto it, but how does it work in
terms of like with sports andrecruiting and like getting
(22:15):
yourself out there?
Is it like a different ballgame than what it used to be,
cause there's like phoneseverywhere and like, so what
does it look like to to try toget your tape out there, or do
you have any of that stuff goingon?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I feel like not really like social media, but
there's a bunch of, there's abunch of websites like Max prep,
max prep, nca or something likethat, where you could reach out
to coaches and from there theycould like Okay, see, if you're
See, you send your own tape andand stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, okay, oh, that's cool.
Yeah, so You're power forward.
Yeah, you're what?
Six three, six like six two,sixty six, three.
Uh, do you have a growth spurt,or you always pretty big kid.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I was always like growing normally, but I was
always taller than I was like alot taller.
So when I was in, when I was inelementary I was, I was pretty
tall.
I was like five, six, no sure,or five, seven, and then I grew
to like five, five, ten, likeSeventh grade and from there, I
think my Software, I reachedlike my height or junior.
(23:21):
So I was like six, two, that'sit First and then I just started
filling out from it.
I was super skinny as a kid,yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Um.
Did you play?
Did you play football team?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
No, just who, just just whoop.
Then I played everything beforebarcic.
No, yeah, I did, I did swimmingand and diving.
I did tennis um golf,basketball, like everything else
out of track.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
What do you love next basketball, out of those
Fighting?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
for sure, yeah, I think fighting and basketball
are like right there, really,yeah, super close.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So if one Doesn't work out, do you want to pursue
the other?
Or is that even a thing for you, like?
I know you're still young, yeah, options, but you graduated
eight months ago.
You have your whole life aheadof you.
If they were up to you, what,what path would you want to be
taken right now?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Obviously, fighting is like super risky.
That's the thing, like if you,if you want to go into like, if
you want to pursue fighting,like you have to be like all,
then like that has to be likethe thing that like drives you.
You know, and I feel like I'mnot at that level, but I feel
like there's there's a pointwhere, like I'm like want to do
that you know, yeah, yeah so.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's awesome, man.
Um Best, uh, best basketballgame you've ever had in your
life, Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wow, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
We could do uh, let's do a, let's do a high school
one.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Okay, in high school, high school my best basketball
game Wow, now I get excited liketalking about it, I feel like
when we played.
When we played vela, justbecause, like there was so much
like people there, yeah, likethere were so much people there
and we were so close like wedidn't win but we almost won.
No, actually, is it a rivalschool?
(25:15):
Um, not really.
Our rival schools bears, yeah,they're, they're like that way
south, but our rival schoolsbear bears.
But Actually, I think myfavorite game would be when we
played econ, because we weredown by 13 with like a couple
minutes left or like going intothe last quarter and we caught
up and we beat on, yeah, likebuzzer beater, so like I, yeah,
(25:39):
that was probably one of my bestgames.
That was my junior year too.
So really that was that was agame where I was as excited
after Because that one was fulltoo, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You just played out of your mind.
I really I love that.
I love that.
Can you uh tell me some of yourum basketball honors you've
earned uh throughout the years?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I earn, uh, the thousand point mark, but I was
basically like already like 16,1700 points, oh.
So I did that and I gotdefensive player of the year.
Oh, what else?
The district, uh, all area.
I believe I should have got MVP, but something I Believe is
(26:21):
like something wrong.
Yeah, I had like the bestpoints, rebounds or anything.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So there's a lot of politics and sports, a lot of
them.
Um, how much do you think thatplays a part?
And, um, like, highly talentedplayers that don't get to go to,
you know, big schools here andthis like that.
How much do you think politicsplays a part in that?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I believe, if you're good enough like you could beat
politics.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I get.
No, no, absolutely, yeah, yougotta, you gotta have that fire
and you, no matter what you know.
And that's why I think, likethe privilege doesn't treat
those champions right, becausethey don't face those obstacles
right, go to whatever school youwant to.
You know, play for the bestcoach ever, don't worry about it
.
You know, but not everybody hasthat option.
(27:11):
Um, I talked to a good friend ofmine on the podcast.
He drove well, we grew up incalifornia but he drove through
montana and, uh, he Was gettingrecruited to go play quarterback
.
At the time p carol Seahawkscoach he just retired was at um
USC university, southerncalifornia, and he was getting
(27:32):
recruited to go play there injunior year or like sophomore
year, I think.
Um of high school and uh, buthe couldn't go do that because
he was about to have his secondbaby at 16 years old, because he
was like running around in thestreets, because that's all he
knew.
There's nothing, you knowthey're gonna have any other
options.
So, um, do you see a lot ofother talented players around,
(27:57):
you know?
Maybe just Around you orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That like, if they didn't have this, you know,
obstacle, damn, and they'd bejust like killing it a lot of
people from the valley actually,um, I don't want to say names,
but there's, there's a couplethat just didn't make it, just
because I believe like theyweren't Well, they were
obviously told like grades areimportant, but and they didn't
(28:20):
like really like no one reallylike helped them, you know.
So like they would always befailing classes and stuff.
You know, like from otherschools, like I would like
recognize that there was peoplethat were like doing good, or
even also like, um, some kidswho like let the their rankings
get to their head, like, oh,like I'm top five, like I'm good
, and they would like not workout or Are not training stuff,
and that plays a big role too,you know, yeah, especially if
(28:43):
you're like one of thosefreshmen that really like come
into the sport and you're like afreshman on varsity and stuff
and you got to keep working atit.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, I think that you're better than everybody.
Um, have you ever seen?
Oh, it's on netflix.
It's like a football Basically.
There's like a junior college.
They follow it like adocumentary style.
Last chance for you, lastchance to you, yeah, um, like
there's a lot of that stuff,type stuff, right where, um,
(29:11):
there's.
That's why it's the last chanceyou was, because those guys
they went to those big schoolsand then they fucked off and
they fell to drug test or theyweren't studying or whatever.
Um, I don't know where I wasgoing with that, but, um, okay,
so you and freddy meeting, howdid uh, how did you tell me that
Then, how that went down?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well, actually, straight out of high school, I
was like, damn, I need money,bro.
So I started seeing videos ofpeople like door knocking houses
and stuff and doing like eitherlike pressure washing or window
cleaning.
And while I was getting ohactually I was getting my
realtor's license right, I wasgetting my real estate license
but they didn't tell me that Ihad to pay like $1,000 or like
(29:52):
$500 or something like that Tokeep to activate my license and
get like my association fees andall that like whatever, and it
was like a thousand bucks.
So I started door knocking likea bunch of houses, window
cleaning why pay it off?
And stuff.
So I knocked on Freddie's doorand from there, like he was like
(30:13):
I told him like my story andstuff that I was like trying to
get my real estate license.
He was like, bro, I'm a realtorand I was like, oh down, so we
started talking.
He was like you know what?
Like I'll pay you.
So he paid me like a certainamount I think it was like 160
or 80 to clean all the windowsand stuff.
Yeah, but yeah, like that's howI met him.
He gave me his card, I spoke toBoon, which is our broker, and
(30:38):
from there like I joined histeam and then we just became
friends, that's awesome man.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Hell, yeah, yeah, freddie's a man.
So right now you're doing that.
Is that a real estate?
Is that what you want to do therest of your life?
Is that something you've beenpassionate about?
Are you as passionate about itas basketball or MMA or anything
like that?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I feel like everything that goes around the
sales job is like you basicallylike create your own words, so
like if you like don't work,like you don't make money, you
know, but if you do make money,but people are like
intrinsically lazy All of us are, and we have those days where
we don't want to like doanything and you know Yep,
(31:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And you're like, especially if, if you're
training towards like anothergoal, right, like so I bartend
and then I do the podcast.
Yeah, I do that because I cango anywhere, you know, do that
and then, oh, I can get hired atthis bar over here, go do that
and I can travel with it so Ican go talk to people in Texas,
talk to people in Kansas.
(31:46):
Yeah, is the real estate thinggoing to be something that you
want to do while you pursueother ventures?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I feel like my main thing is creating like a
business, like because I'vealways been into like online
business and stuff but I waslike dude, I don't think it's
possible.
So when I started talking toacts I don't want to say that I
keep trying to like going aroundhis name, his name, let's say
Bryson, right?
Yep?
His Twitter name is BrysonBryson Tilt.
(32:17):
Follow Bryson Tilt.
He has a software company, it'scalled Super Wave and he's
scaling it to like five milalready and he's a 23 year old
Dude.
Yeah, so when he told me likehe's doing all that, I was like
dude, that's crazy.
Yeah, like he's like it's likesuper hard work.
I'll give you like the layupand stuff.
But I feel like that's when,like my mind should like that's
(32:38):
what I want to do, but like Ialso like like fighting and
basketball and all this stuff.
But I don't want to be likemixing through like everything.
You know, I just want to chooselike two things.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah.
And you have a long time tomake make up your mind anyways,
you know.
So that's awesome, man.
I'm going to go into some justrandom questions for you and
we'll kind of finish off thereand then we'll do some shout
outs and whatnot.
Yeah, let's start with.
(33:08):
Has some cool ones.
What truths do you live on?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Truths do I live on?
What truths do you live on?
I believe I'm starting to seethis like a lot, but building
trust within yourself.
Because there's a bunch ofpeople like Freddie Freddie's so
good at this and he like, helike corrected my mind on this,
like so so much, but he was likebro, don't tell someone you're
(33:46):
going to do something and thendon't do it.
Or don't tell yourself you'regoing to do something and don't
do it.
And that's like one of thebiggest things because, like, if
you believe you could dosomething, you could like that's
already like halfway.
And if you tell yourself you'regoing to do something and you
do it, like you start buildingtrust within yourself and you
start believing like you coulddo things.
And well, if you tell yourselfI'm going to read like this 25
(34:07):
page book and you read it, likeyou start like okay, like I
could like really do anything Iwant you know.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
And on the other side of that too, with other people.
How many people are a man oftheir word?
I don't see like a day to dayinteractions, I mean personally.
There's a lot of that like ohhey, I'll be over there, and
then nobody shows up, or youknow a lot of that.
So I think it's one of the mostimportant things to stand on
that.
You know what I mean.
(34:34):
Like, if you say you're goingto be there, you know, go there.
If you say you're going to dothe work, you can do the work.
Do the work.
That's a good answer.
Man, tell me, are people borngood and ill, or do you think
(34:54):
that is something that can comelater on in life?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I feel like people are born.
It goes both ways, you know,because there's some people who
like like scientifically, liketheir brain doesn't work the
same, you know, like people thatare like serial killers and
like all those things likepeople.
Some people, I believe, areborn like different, but it's
(35:23):
the actions that came throughtheir life that made them do
like the things they did.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I agree A big part of it.
What are you most thankful forin this life?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Jesus died for us and also like our parents.
Well, my parents too they're.
They're a big impact on my lifethat they're still here and
stuff and just just having timeto like actually be with them,
because a bunch of people don'thave that.
Very true, are you?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
living up to your goals right now.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I believe I strive to like reach my goals but, like I
said with Freddie, like he'she's always telling me like
don't tell yourself you're goingto do something, don't do it.
That's like one of the biggestthings.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It's a good one.
What's the biggest lessonyou've ever learned in your life
?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
To love people like there's no tomorrow, truly, and
I learned that because of mygirlfriend.
That's good, that's great.
Things get taken away so easily.
Life is very short.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
You never know.
If you could change one thingabout your past, what would that
be?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I believe, I would say just stay and true to
yourself.
That's one of the biggestthings.
Like just just believing inlike what you could do, like
there's no point in notbelieving what you could do if
you believe, like there's.
No, there makes no differenceif you believe or if you don't.
So if you, if you truly believeyou could do something, like
(36:51):
it's more than likely to happen,like you have one life, so
might as well like believe inwhat you, what you want to do,
and go all in.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How much does the outside noise and chatter affect
that?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I believe everyone has their own opinion, but all
the people that started off withno money or at the bottom, they
don't they're all getting hatedon, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So it doesn't really, doesn't really matter, doesn't
really matter.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Would you take the internet away or would you leave
it in?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Like if I could, huh, like if I could, if you could,
I would.
I would say leave it, yeah,because that would just give me
separation.
I just give me separation fromeveryone else actually using it.
Yep.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Do you think two specific people are made for
each other?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I believe everything happens for a reason, but I
would say that certain people domatch with other people.
Yeah, I think that's it shows.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Definitely, you're very aware.
If you were to die three daysfrom now, what would you do in
these last three days?
Most important things you'dwant to accomplish?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Probably like rob a bank or something.
Nah, I'm joking, I would.
I would.
I feel like I would like talkto everyone or have like a big,
like party and something.
Maybe I'd tell my way like it'ssomething like smaller or
whatever, and I just like have aball like somewhere.
Like I take a trip to like likeSan Antonio Houston or
(38:36):
something Turn up for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
You believe in aliens .
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Oh, my dad actually has a story.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I'm down for you to tell it, if you, if you, I feel
like aliens like there's.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
There's some evidence , you know.
So it's kind of like down.
And my dad said that one timehe was in Cancun with my mom
when they were together, that hesaw like.
He saw like a light because hewas drinking and stuff.
But he saw like a light in thesky and he was like what the
hell is that?
And he, he said like it justdid like a Z and then like like
it just took off.
So he's like after that he waslike bro, like they're real,
(39:15):
yeah, bro.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I bro, I've got a lot of stories like that.
No lie, that's funny.
Are our destinies predetermined?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
For sure.
I feel like it's so weird, likehow to explain it, but I feel
like everything happens for areason and God just like lays it
out for you, to show you that,like you made your own decisions
in life, and he's like this islike where you're destined to be
because of your actions, youknow.
(39:46):
So most people get like caughtinto, like their like oh, why
did God like choose me?
Or like why do certain peoplego to hell?
It's like you chose to beseparate from from God.
You get me, yeah.
So it's like I feel like thiswhole life of ours is just just
to like.
It's just like a test.
You know, that's what I believe.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
What are you avoiding in your life right now?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
I feel like I'm avoiding like responsibility a
lot, you know, but I'm startingthat's that's what I've been
like avoiding likeresponsibility, like to like do
things and like go out and youknow.
But I feel like that's where,like my mind says kind of
shifting, like I'm starting tolike actually like, like, like
do a bunch of things that Iwouldn't normally do, you know,
(40:37):
stepping outside of comfort zone.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
We'll get a couple more questions and we'll get on
with sure.
What is what's going to matterto you most when you're laying
on your deathbed?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Wow, that's a good question.
I feel like the impact that Ihad on other people would
probably be the most importantthing, like not what I did, but
who I impacted.
You know, that's really good.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
And also just being known for like creating
something or like leaving likebehind, like like this podcast,
you know yeah man speaking mylanguage right now, so I know
you don't really look up to orhave those motivating idols like
that, but like out of just onsome basketball shit like what
(41:32):
Hoopers, the like Hoopers, yeah,what would you say?
Your game is kind of closest toin there.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
I feel like the honest I love you, honest I, if
I were to say anyone would be myfavorite body yeah, just
because of his, his story too,and when it actually comes to
like performing, like he alwaysshows up, always shows up, yeah
he's a monster.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, how do you feel about he keeps all his brothers
on the team though, taking upall the slots?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I don't, I don't give a shit, but I don't care Like
people people make fun of likethe honest and stuff, but
compared to like us, he's likehe's way better.
Oh yeah, but I believe like ifit helps him do better like
right.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Why not?
Why not?
Yeah, no, a lot of people behating one of the one of the
best players in the league.
He'll go down as one of thegreatest ever, first-ever game,
for sure, absolutely.
Do you ever see that interviewwhere they're asking questions?
Then they're like, hey, was theseason a failure?
And then he just starts goingoff on the reporter.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yeah, oh, dude, I think I know what you're talking
about where he's like, where hewas like.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I forgot what he said .
I think they got bounced fromthe playoffs or something in the
first round maybe, or something.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
I do remember that interview when he got mad and he
was like what do you mean, wasit?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
and he's like going into like the ins and outs and
the details of the season.
I was just like that.
People think like that.
Yeah, so before we ship thisthing off, I'll give you the
floor If there's any people youwant to thank in your life thus
(43:17):
far to help you get to whereyou're at, and, yeah, any shout
outs or any, you know,dedications or whatever.
Definitely Now's your chance todo that.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Bro, a bunch of people want to give a shout out,
obviously, to like my parents,my mom and dad, my my siblings,
for sure, even though we're notlike super in touch, like I grew
up with them, and I love all ofthem, my brother Denzel, my
brother Ulysses, my sister Tanya, anna, jackie, those are my
(43:51):
siblings.
I love them, like always.
My mom, my dad, um, who else?
Um, freddie was a big one, youknow you can finish your shout
outs, freddie's.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Just hey, you're here for the shout outs, come on in.
He was just about to thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Shout out, shout out to Freddie.
It's all possible, really.
My gym.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
This is his gym.
There's light and different toyour father's leg.
I know you should have been inhere with those clothes, though
it was legit, asana, we weresweating.
I'm crazy.
We'll just, you know, edit itout, sorry, continue.
My man's, who we thanking?
We're thanking your parents,whom you love so much, my
parents my siblings.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Um, give a shout out to the people who I work with,
like Freddie Juan Curly.
Um, adrian Hughes, one of oneof um, one of the big ones too,
because I go to a Bible studywith him on Thursdays and that
kind of like pulled me closer toGod, you know.
So I want to give a shout outto him.
(44:58):
Um, bryson, till, bryson, till,big.
Shout out to Bryson.
He's a definitional part of ourcareer.
Yeah for sure.
He would tell me, like dude, I,when I started this company,
like 16 hour shifts, 24 hourshifts, like like that is not
pretty raw, and now, like he'sreaping his reward and stuff,
(45:19):
exactly.
Give a shout out to my friends,you know David, marcus, tristan
, ethan, um, ryan, ricky Isaac.
Uh, yeah, I got so much.
All the homies, alexis, all thehomies bro I love, I love y'all
.
Without friends, um, life wouldnot be fun, yeah, and if I miss
(45:41):
anyone else, promise I didn't.
Just can't think of them on topof my head, but um, I appreciate
everyone.
You know life wouldn't be goodwithout friends or family Facts
bro Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Thank you, bro, I appreciate it.
And, um, yeah, if you want to,if people want to look you up
and see some of your hoop stuff,uh, highlights and whatnot, or
your handles or Instagram, allthat you want to yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
My Instagram is Gianni Boutron G I A double N I
B E L T R A N with three Ns atthe end, yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
So, yeah, go, peep my boy out and thank you for
coming on.
I appreciate you and uh, let'sdefinitely, uh, we'll link next
time I'm in Texas, bro, no,check up on you, maybe we'll do
another one.
All right, everybody to seey'all later, peace.
How are you?
I do not do that.
(00:23):
Bye, bye, bye.
Hi everybody.
Welcome to hanging with humans,episode, I think, 11 or 12.
That's because I skip around alot.
But I'm very pumped todaybecause I'm at my best friend,
freddy's house over here inTexas and I'm here visiting my
(00:49):
dear friend.
He introduced me to Johnny,gianni Beltran.
Right, johnny Beltran, sayhello, jimmy.
Hi everyone, this is Gianni.
So Gianni is 19 years old.
The reason why we ended upcrossing paths is because Freddy
(01:10):
was picking me up from theairport and he's like, hey, dude
, I've met a lot of really coolpeople that you, you should
interview.
And he's like going through thelist, and he's like, yeah, I
got this kid.
I've been kind of mentoring him.
He just showed up at my houseone day and Now we're you know
this and this and this.
And you know, freddy came gotme from the airport.
(01:31):
We hung out in San Antonio withthe family and we had a blast
highly recommend the Riverwalk.
And when we got back, gianniwas Baby sitting or you know,
hanging a white house sitting.
For for the time being we weregone and I was like, how's this
house not totally fucked up?
And you know pizza and kegs and, you know, the whole place
(01:54):
destroyed.
Well, it turns out Gianni is agood kid, so that explains a lot
.
So, yeah, it's very nice tomeet you, johnny.
I appreciate it.
Um we're going to.
We're gonna interview Gianniand Get to.
We're gonna finish off inbasketball, because Gianni's a
(02:16):
he's a stud high schoolbasketball phenom sort of.
Well, he just graduated.
But before we get into all that, we're gonna find out who
Gianni is as a person.
So I'm very excited.
So, that being said, what's up,johnny, how you doing today?
I'm doing good.
Just woke up.
Just woke up.
(02:37):
Um, so we're out here inMcAllen Texas.
You grew up here.
Yeah, I grew up.
You grew up here.
Um, I want you to tell me alittle bit about your family.
You have how many brothers andsisters?
I have three sisters and twobrothers.
Which one's your favorite, myfavorite?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, um, probably my , my brother.
Yeah, my my brother, the secondold, second youngest.
What's his name?
His?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
name is Denzel Denzel .
Why is he so awesome?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I feel like it's because I grew up with him, like
after everyone left the houseand stuff, he's the one who
stayed there and like what wekind of like you know, like he
was, he was closest to me.
I kind of like resonated mostof times yes, bro, no, yeah, but
always fight a lot too.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So it's two facts.
So you are the youngest, young,the youngest, you're the
youngest.
How is that like being theyoungest and a big family like
that?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think the way my mom put it was just like, and I
kind of saw it like when shesaid she was like well, at least
you get to learn from liketheir mistakes, you know.
So, anything like they done badlike, at least you get to like
see, like when I to do thatmakes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you feel you've done a lot of that personally?
Like bad things?
No, like I learned, from their.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, like definitely like there's a bunch of things
that like Well, like they'vedone, like even like minor
things, where I'd be like alllike at least I know like not to
do that and it's just stay awayfrom that you know?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, definitely that's awesome.
All these brothers and sisters,tell me a little bit about your
mother and your father, my mom.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Her name is Sulai Samora.
She was born in Renault's, Ibelieve, and when she was, I
believe, like a teen or maybe,maybe a bit younger she she
moved to Brownsville and fromthere she was actually, I
believe she was born here, I'mnot too sure but she lived in
Brownsville for a while and thenshe moved over here in the town
.
She met my father.
My dad's name is RicardoBeltran I.
(04:41):
He was born in Edinburghactually and I guess he met my
mom in like a convenience storeor something.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, I saw everything happen.
That's how that happened.
Do you and your siblings allshare the same Mother and father
?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh, no, that's the thing, my brother that I'm
closest to.
We we do share the same motherand father, okay.
And then I have a brother and asister that are with a
different mother from my mom,okay.
And my other two sisters arefrom different bothers awesome.
Both the separate, differentbothers awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Oh, is everybody spread out?
Or you guys, everybody in Texas?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Everyone's in Texas currently.
My sister, she was in New YorkAlbany.
She said she like, really likedit over there, but currently
everyone's everyone's here inthe valley Awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Awesome, would you say.
You have a close family.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Not really, but we do stay in touch, like we're not
like super like distant, youknow, but we do stay in touch
absolutely so we're gonna get toHumpin eventually, but Not
sports related.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Who are some of your heroes growing up like?
Maybe some things they taughtyou could translate to sports,
but Any role models or anything.
Who were the most importantpeople in your life growing up?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I Would say my, my brother's, a big role model in
my life, my brother, becauseevery everything he did was was
something like I, like.
Can I translate into like.
So he first started playingfootball.
I wanted to play football andthen he got hurt.
And then he was like you know,I'm gonna go play basketball,
yeah, high school, yeah.
So he started playingbasketball.
And then he was, he was prettygood, yeah.
(06:31):
So I was like I want to only begood basketball.
So I started playing more andmore, just kept training, you
know.
And then he switched into, likeMMA.
He wanted to learn Fightingsports.
And I translated into that hewanted to.
He wanted to become a runner.
I started running a lot too,like.
So I feel like everything hedid was something like I wanted
to do, you know, just because hewas an old brother.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
How many?
Speaker 1 (06:53):
years apart.
Oh, four years.
Okay, yeah, I mean my brotheror three.
Um, yeah, I didn't.
I didn't know you did MMA.
Are you doing any of thattraining or anything like that
currently?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I always I trained by myself at the gym Gotcha.
I used to train at UFC gym andthen I would train at a place
called Wolfpack here inEdinburgh on university.
We would I would train therefrom Wintai.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's awesome.
Are you training like not to bea professional fighter, or do
you train for, like I'm usingthis training to benefit me in
other sports?
Or what was the?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I feel like it's both because I've always like found
interest in like.
I get adrenaline when I seelike people fight like,
especially like in UFC.
Like that's something.
That's always not always, but Ifeel like starting like like
two years ago, like I startedwatching MMA with my brother a
lot because he got into it and Iwas like dude, this is like so
fun to watch.
(07:53):
And then I started like lookinginto fighters, their stories,
and that's what got me into itmore.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I love that.
Yeah, no, I'm a huge UFC guy.
I throw like barbecues and haveall my friends over.
We all watch the fight.
I do the same thing too.
It's the best, yeah, but no, Iagree, you never really see a
lot of champions that come froma privileged background.
It's always they had a veryrough or not.
Something approved, yeah, yeah,and nothing was handed to them,
(08:20):
though it was always like outof poverty.
You had very little options,but there was always this option
to get out.
On my second episode of mypodcast, I interview a buddy,
edgar.
We got pre-sons because Freddieclosed the garage on us, so
we're going to sweat to death.
Do you know what was justsitting a second ago?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I know I was also going to say there's a good
quote by Alex Cormozzi and hesays motivation comes from
deprivation, and I've alwayskind of saw that as a good quote
.
I was like, well, that makes alot of sense.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
That makes a lot of sense actually.
No, let's get it.
It's so short and to the point,but it means so much.
Yeah, no, I have a trailer whenI very first started the
podcast and I'm getting askedall these random questions kind
of the same way From my mentorand he's like interviewing me
and he's like the people thatinfluence you and motivate you
(09:20):
and, for whatever reason, MikeTyson just came boom right away
and his story is nuts.
He just he had nothing and justfought his way all the way to be
the baddest man on the planet,and I always because I didn't
come from a privilegedbackground.
So I always saw myself in afight in terms of getting this
(09:44):
job or getting accepted to thisprogram or whatever.
I'm like why the fucking trainfor it?
Even if it wasn't a fight, I'mlike well, I got to get dialed
in for it.
If I'm going to show up, Ibetter make sure I'm looking
good and lean.
That's a really good quote,because that is the thing I
wanted to do is I want to doquotes Like.
I have a ton of them.
They mean a lot to me, that Iget a lot of motivation every
(10:07):
day just from reading quotes.
You know stuff like that.
But yeah, so your brother was abig influence.
Can you think of anybody elsebetween now and where you're at
today that's helped you, likeyou know, go in the direction
you're going in.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, I have a couple of, because I don't really see
people that are famous as rolemodels.
But I do see a bunch of peoplethat are local or people that
wear local, because I have acouple of people that I know
that well most of the peoplethat have money or not even
(10:47):
money, but they're someone youknow, they're known in the
valley.
They all have stories like theycame from nothing or they lost
everything at one point, or theywent into like a slump or
something Redemption yeah,redemption stories.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Well, do you want to shout out to anybody off the top
of your head?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Oh yeah, I have a friend.
He owns a software company.
I can't say his real name,that's all good, but his
nickname is.
He goes by two.
His name is David or Bryson.
I don't want to say his realname.
Well, let's say Bryson.
David, he's very tight, yeah.
(11:27):
And also Andrew, andrew U.
Yeah, he owns a merchantservice business here.
He has an amazing story.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah.
So those guys, you see whatthey've done, what they've built
and you go, okay, that'sobtainable or it motivates you.
That's good, man, that's good,it's good.
It's important to have not justsuccessful people, not even
success, but hungry people.
It's good to have hungry people.
Like it's a dogfight out there.
(11:59):
You know what I mean.
That's awesome.
So, since this podcast is aboutmental health in a way, I want
to get your perspective on.
You just graduated high school,right when I went to high
school and when my friends, myfriends kids, are in high school
(12:20):
and like it's crazy thedifference, like with technology
and everything.
I've had issues with my ownkids with stuff, with, like,
just having the iPad too muchtype of stuff, yeah, but from a
high school male perspectivehere in South Texas, what are
(12:44):
things you see around you on aneveryday basis that you're like,
oh, this is what's wrong withtoday, or the country, or this
place in particular.
What things do you think youcan like I could do without that
?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I feel like social media, definitely yeah, I feel
like social media got into apoint where, like, people just
need like gratification for me.
You know Like people just needto have someone else like like
their photos or comment or like.
I mean, girls are bad with thisfor a long time.
But even us guys like we postup just to like get like her
(13:21):
your new Jordans, your whip orwhatever, and I feel like that's
one of the biggest things.
Like is just like learning when, to learning when there's a
time for it, like a screen time,either like a couple minutes in
the morning, couple minutes inthe middle of the day, couple
minutes at night, but not likethree or four hours a day.
So, have real bad screen time.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, people are obsessed, like literally
obsessed.
I remember there I was watchingthis thing on YouTube and they
were like interviewing thesegirls and like, hey, you can go
on this trip and you can't takeyour phone, but it's all paid
for everything like that, so youcan't take any pictures or
videos or whatever.
Or you just don't go and she'slike, well, if I can't, you know
(14:02):
, if I can't go to document orwhatever, then she's like,
what's the point of even going?
I didn't even go becauseeverybody else thinks, you know,
like that's how much she caredabout.
What everybody else thinks islike I'd rather pass on going to
this really nice trip that'scompletely paid for and taken
care of, but because I can'tdocument it and post it for
everybody to see, I'd rather not, which is insane to me, like if
(14:25):
you're in that position, butmaybe that's what these kids
grow up to be, I don't know.
So how does that work in thedating game?
Cause, like I'm not the game, Idon't know, but I feel like if
everybody's so superficial andobsessed with likes and
everything and taking pictures,it's gotta be a hard thing to
(14:47):
navigate through.
Yeah, is it?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I feel like it's easier.
I feel like it's easier becauseyou just get to like.
You get to like reach out andlike turn on.
Okay, like, imagine, like backthen, like people couldn't like
just you'd have to actually likephysically go and talk to the
person.
Now it's like people hidebehind a screen.
You know, and I'm more like anin-person type of like person,
like I don't really like, youknow, using social media, like
(15:14):
when I'm out much.
If there's pictures like of me,it's usually like one of my
friends are taking pictures orsomething like that.
Like you usually never catch metaking like like pictures when
I'm out or like with friends andstuff like that, it's more like
you just have to like like livein the moment, Cause it's just
like it goes by two quirk.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
You know it does.
It really does go by too quick,and you're 19 and you know that
, and some people don't findthat out until way later on in
life.
So, with that being said, Iwanted to see if you'd be
comfortable talking about sincewe're in relationships a big
(15:51):
impactful thing that happenedwith you and yours.
Yeah, am I speaking on that?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Oh yeah.
Well, I recently had like agirlfriend who passed away and
her name was JD Ruby AlcalaDavila.
She had a beautiful friend,yeah.
So, yeah, I met her.
I actually texted her online,right, I texted her online back
in like my junior year and well,like we're texting for a bit
(16:18):
and then we just we like stoppedtexting or whatever.
And well, she sent me a picturethat she was at my school in
the gym, like of the floor Iguess, of the logo, and I was
like, oh, you're there.
I was like I'm dirty, liketurning the corner, and I was
with a friend of mine.
Her name is George and he was.
I was like, oh, like I'm gonnago talk to this girl, like I
(16:38):
just like, like she's here, likeI've been wanting to meet her
and stuff, but I never got thechance.
And I walked into the gym andGeorge was with me and I see her
, and then he goes and hugs herright, and I was like, oh, like
seeing my girl or whatever.
But they ended up being siblingsand I found that out after and
(17:00):
I was like that's so weird.
Oh, you thought of the wholetime.
Oh, so I found out after thatthat they were siblings like not
but bloodsub and but like theylike live together and stuff.
So I was like bro, like I gotto like get to know her, I got
to like like find out who she isand stuff.
So we went on a couple of dateswith him there and then after
(17:21):
that we started going out on ourown and then yeah, yeah, Dang,
that's awesome she passed awayand like they, how do you say,
like a one of those ATVaccidents?
Oh yeah, side by side.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, Like a rollover situation.
If you don't mind me asking wasit like a negligence thing Like
?
Was it like drinking?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, she I believe her best friend was the one
driving.
Okay yeah, and she was a reallycool girl, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Dang.
How long ago was this?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
This was, I'd say, about six months ago, probably
five.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
That's very fresh.
So her best friend I don't knowif you guys are how's she doing
Like, do you know any stufflike that about?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
her, her best friend, yeah, her best friend.
She passed away also, oh reallyyeah, oh, dang.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Wow, that's not a man , that's yeah.
And so that happened six monthsago.
You graduated how long ago?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
About eight or nine, so that time goes by fast.
Wow, yeah, so she, she, shepassed away like right after
high school, which was kind ofcrazy.
Yeah, it is really crazy.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
So you guys were, did you guys have like plans or
like what was your guys'?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
thing when you were at.
She was like super ambitious,like she wanted at first she
wanted to be a lawyer and I waslike do you like really want to?
And we're like talking to hermom and talking about it and
stuff.
But she was like, yeah, likeshe's like I'm pretty sure, like
I want to be a lawyer, andwhile her mom, her mom and I and
JD and her little sister eversince we're out at Olive Garden
(19:11):
and she was like her mom waslike did she tell you?
Like she switched her major andI was like no way she wanted to
go into like nursing, I believeyeah, cause she wanted to like
search it up.
I think she like couldn't seeherself as a lawyer anyway.
So she was like I'm going tonursing with her best friend
actually, who was also going tonursing, and they were planning
to go to Austin together.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Damn.
Yeah, that's good man.
That's a whole plan that theyhad to set up.
Lawyer dude, that's.
I don't know.
So there's my thing with that.
Like it would be hard to defenda guilty person, you know what
I mean.
I don't know if that would haveanything to play with it, but
so that's all recently happened.
(19:54):
What's we can go.
I want to kind of segue intothe basketball part now.
So when?
When did you start playingbasketball?
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I started playing basketball in fourth grade.
Fourth grade, yeah, and it wasbecause of my brother.
Yeah, my brother would alwayshoop outside and he wanted to be
like super good, he was thepoint guard of the team.
Yeah, I had different schoolscause he moved around and while
I was just like that looks fun.
So I started hooping with him.
He started training a littlebit and then from there, that's
(20:26):
where I started getting on liketravel teams and stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Okay, that's awesome, Did your?
Did your mom like push you toplay sports?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
No, like my family, I believe, like my mom and my
brother, like none of mysiblings besides me and my
brother like played sports, youknow.
So I think it was just likemore of an us thing, like I
think that's just how like meand my brother were raised like
super physical, yeah, he'dalways like throw gloves at me
and he'd be like bro, like let'sbuy it, let's buy it, and I'd
(21:00):
always end up getting my beat upcause he was four years old,
yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I know how that goes.
I'm going to open this garagedoor to them.
We're cooking up in this thing.
Cool, set me up, dog.
Yeah, all right, that's goingto be better for us Getting some
air up in here yeah, all right.
So hooping you started hoopingfourth grade.
Your brother's the one who gotyou on board.
(21:24):
When did you realize that youcould play competitively at like
a high level, that you'rebetter than like average kids, I
guess?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I think when I realized that I was better than
average kids was not when I waslike beating everyone here, but
when I was like scoring like themore or even the same amount
and like Houston and San Antonio.
I was like bro, like I'mactually, like pretty decent,
you know, like I'm, like I'msick, these kids that are like
six, five and like eighth grade.
I was like damn.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Yeah, yeah, no, the Houston's big on that and so
kind of tell me so.
With the, with the social mediathing, how we said it's a bad
thing.
Yeah, how do you feel?
I mean, there's some good partsto it, but how does it work in
terms of like with sports andrecruiting and like getting
(22:15):
yourself out there?
Is it like a different ballgame than what it used to be,
cause there's like phoneseverywhere and like, so what
does it look like to to try toget your tape out there, or do
you have any of that stuff goingon?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I feel like not really like social media, but
there's a bunch of, there's abunch of websites like Max prep,
max prep, nca or something likethat, where you could reach out
to coaches and from there theycould like Okay, see, if you're
See, you send your own tape andand stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yeah, okay, oh, that's cool.
Yeah, so You're power forward.
Yeah, you're what?
Six three, six like six two,sixty six, three.
Uh, do you have a growth spurt,or you always pretty big kid.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I was always like growing normally, but I was
always taller than I was like alot taller.
So when I was in, when I was inelementary I was, I was pretty
tall.
I was like five, six, no sure,or five, seven, and then I grew
to like five, five, ten, likeSeventh grade and from there, I
think my Software, I reachedlike my height or junior.
(23:21):
So I was like six, two, that'sit First and then I just started
filling out from it.
I was super skinny as a kid,yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Um.
Did you play?
Did you play football team?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
No, just who, just just whoop.
Then I played everything beforebarcic.
No, yeah, I did, I did swimmingand and diving.
I did tennis um golf,basketball, like everything else
out of track.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
What do you love next basketball, out of those
Fighting?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
for sure, yeah, I think fighting and basketball
are like right there, really,yeah, super close.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So if one Doesn't work out, do you want to pursue
the other?
Or is that even a thing for you, like?
I know you're still young, yeah, options, but you graduated
eight months ago.
You have your whole life aheadof you.
If they were up to you, what,what path would you want to be
taken right now?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Obviously, fighting is like super risky.
That's the thing, like if you,if you want to go into like, if
you want to pursue fighting,like you have to be like all,
then like that has to be likethe thing that like drives you.
You know, and I feel like I'mnot at that level, but I feel
like there's there's a pointwhere, like I'm like want to do
that you know, yeah, yeah so.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's awesome, man.
Um Best, uh, best basketballgame you've ever had in your
life, Wow.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wow, that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
We could do uh, let's do a, let's do a high school
one.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Okay, in high school, high school my best basketball
game Wow, now I get excited liketalking about it, I feel like
when we played.
When we played vela, justbecause, like there was so much
like people there, yeah, likethere were so much people there
and we were so close like wedidn't win but we almost won.
No, actually, is it a rivalschool?
(25:15):
Um, not really.
Our rival schools bears, yeah,they're, they're like that way
south, but our rival schoolsbear bears.
But Actually, I think myfavorite game would be when we
played econ, because we weredown by 13 with like a couple
minutes left or like going intothe last quarter and we caught
up and we beat on, yeah, likebuzzer beater, so like I, yeah,
(25:39):
that was probably one of my bestgames.
That was my junior year too.
So really that was that was agame where I was as excited
after Because that one was fulltoo, yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You just played out of your mind.
I really I love that.
I love that.
Can you uh tell me some of yourum basketball honors you've
earned uh throughout the years?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I earn, uh, the thousand point mark, but I was
basically like already like 16,1700 points, oh.
So I did that and I gotdefensive player of the year.
Oh, what else?
The district, uh, all area.
I believe I should have got MVP, but something I Believe is
(26:21):
like something wrong.
Yeah, I had like the bestpoints, rebounds or anything.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
So there's a lot of politics and sports, a lot of
them.
Um, how much do you think thatplays a part?
And, um, like, highly talentedplayers that don't get to go to,
you know, big schools here andthis like that.
How much do you think politicsplays a part in that?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I believe, if you're good enough like you could beat
politics.
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
I get.
No, no, absolutely, yeah, yougotta, you gotta have that fire
and you, no matter what you know.
And that's why I think, likethe privilege doesn't treat
those champions right, becausethey don't face those obstacles
right, go to whatever school youwant to.
You know, play for the bestcoach ever, don't worry about it
.
You know, but not everybody hasthat option.
(27:11):
Um, I talked to a good friend ofmine on the podcast.
He drove well, we grew up incalifornia but he drove through
montana and, uh, he Was gettingrecruited to go play quarterback
.
At the time p carol Seahawkscoach he just retired was at um
USC university, southerncalifornia, and he was getting
(27:32):
recruited to go play there injunior year or like sophomore
year, I think.
Um of high school and uh, buthe couldn't go do that because
he was about to have his secondbaby at 16 years old, because he
was like running around in thestreets, because that's all he
knew.
There's nothing, you knowthey're gonna have any other
options.
So, um, do you see a lot ofother talented players around,
(27:57):
you know?
Maybe just Around you orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
That like, if they didn't have this, you know,
obstacle, damn, and they'd bejust like killing it a lot of
people from the valley actually,um, I don't want to say names,
but there's, there's a couplethat just didn't make it, just
because I believe like theyweren't Well, they were
obviously told like grades areimportant, but and they didn't
(28:20):
like really like no one reallylike helped them, you know.
So like they would always befailing classes and stuff.
You know, like from otherschools, like I would like
recognize that there was peoplethat were like doing good, or
even also like, um, some kidswho like let the their rankings
get to their head, like, oh,like I'm top five, like I'm good
, and they would like not workout or Are not training stuff,
and that plays a big role too,you know, yeah, especially if
(28:43):
you're like one of thosefreshmen that really like come
into the sport and you're like afreshman on varsity and stuff
and you got to keep working atit.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, I think that you're better than everybody.
Um, have you ever seen?
Oh, it's on netflix.
It's like a football Basically.
There's like a junior college.
They follow it like adocumentary style.
Last chance for you, lastchance to you, yeah, um, like
there's a lot of that stuff,type stuff, right where, um,
(29:11):
there's.
That's why it's the last chanceyou was, because those guys
they went to those big schoolsand then they fucked off and
they fell to drug test or theyweren't studying or whatever.
Um, I don't know where I wasgoing with that, but, um, okay,
so you and freddy meeting, howdid uh, how did you tell me that
Then, how that went down?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well, actually, straight out of high school, I
was like, damn, I need money,bro.
So I started seeing videos ofpeople like door knocking houses
and stuff and doing like eitherlike pressure washing or window
cleaning.
And while I was getting ohactually I was getting my
realtor's license right, I wasgetting my real estate license
but they didn't tell me that Ihad to pay like $1,000 or like
(29:52):
$500 or something like that Tokeep to activate my license and
get like my association fees andall that like whatever, and it
was like a thousand bucks.
So I started door knocking likea bunch of houses, window
cleaning why pay it off?
And stuff.
So I knocked on Freddie's doorand from there, like he was like
(30:13):
I told him like my story andstuff that I was like trying to
get my real estate license.
He was like, bro, I'm a realtorand I was like, oh down, so we
started talking.
He was like you know what?
Like I'll pay you.
So he paid me like a certainamount I think it was like 160
or 80 to clean all the windowsand stuff.
Yeah, but yeah, like that's howI met him.
He gave me his card, I spoke toBoon, which is our broker, and
(30:38):
from there like I joined histeam and then we just became
friends, that's awesome man.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Hell, yeah, yeah, freddie's a man.
So right now you're doing that.
Is that a real estate?
Is that what you want to do therest of your life?
Is that something you've beenpassionate about?
Are you as passionate about itas basketball or MMA or anything
like that?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I feel like everything that goes around the
sales job is like you basicallylike create your own words, so
like if you like don't work,like you don't make money, you
know, but if you do make money,but people are like
intrinsically lazy All of us are, and we have those days where
we don't want to like doanything and you know Yep,
(31:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And you're like, especially if, if you're
training towards like anothergoal, right, like so I bartend
and then I do the podcast.
Yeah, I do that because I cango anywhere, you know, do that
and then, oh, I can get hired atthis bar over here, go do that
and I can travel with it so Ican go talk to people in Texas,
talk to people in Kansas.
(31:46):
Yeah, is the real estate thinggoing to be something that you
want to do while you pursueother ventures?
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I feel like my main thing is creating like a
business, like because I'vealways been into like online
business and stuff but I waslike dude, I don't think it's
possible.
So when I started talking toacts I don't want to say that I
keep trying to like going aroundhis name, his name, let's say
Bryson, right?
Yep?
His Twitter name is BrysonBryson Tilt.
(32:17):
Follow Bryson Tilt.
He has a software company, it'scalled Super Wave and he's
scaling it to like five milalready and he's a 23 year old
Dude.
Yeah, so when he told me likehe's doing all that, I was like
dude, that's crazy.
Yeah, like he's like it's likesuper hard work.
I'll give you like the layupand stuff.
But I feel like that's when,like my mind should like that's
(32:38):
what I want to do, but like Ialso like like fighting and
basketball and all this stuff.
But I don't want to be likemixing through like everything.
You know, I just want to chooselike two things.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Yeah.
And you have a long time tomake make up your mind anyways,
you know.
So that's awesome, man.
I'm going to go into some justrandom questions for you and
we'll kind of finish off thereand then we'll do some shout
outs and whatnot.
Yeah, let's start with.
(33:08):
Has some cool ones.
What truths do you live on?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Truths do I live on?
What truths do you live on?
I believe I'm starting to seethis like a lot, but building
trust within yourself.
Because there's a bunch ofpeople like Freddie Freddie's so
good at this and he like, helike corrected my mind on this,
like so so much, but he was likebro, don't tell someone you're
(33:46):
going to do something and thendon't do it.
Or don't tell yourself you'regoing to do something and don't
do it.
And that's like one of thebiggest things because, like, if
you believe you could dosomething, you could like that's
already like halfway.
And if you tell yourself you'regoing to do something and you
do it, like you start buildingtrust within yourself and you
start believing like you coulddo things.
And well, if you tell yourselfI'm going to read like this 25
(34:07):
page book and you read it, likeyou start like okay, like I
could like really do anything Iwant you know.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
And on the other side of that too, with other people.
How many people are a man oftheir word?
I don't see like a day to dayinteractions, I mean personally.
There's a lot of that like ohhey, I'll be over there, and
then nobody shows up, or youknow a lot of that.
So I think it's one of the mostimportant things to stand on
that.
You know what I mean.
(34:34):
Like, if you say you're goingto be there, you know, go there.
If you say you're going to dothe work, you can do the work.
Do the work.
That's a good answer.
Man, tell me, are people borngood and ill, or do you think
(34:54):
that is something that can comelater on in life?
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I feel like people are born.
It goes both ways, you know,because there's some people who
like like scientifically, liketheir brain doesn't work the
same, you know, like people thatare like serial killers and
like all those things likepeople.
Some people, I believe, areborn like different, but it's
(35:23):
the actions that came throughtheir life that made them do
like the things they did.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I agree A big part of it.
What are you most thankful forin this life?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Jesus died for us and also like our parents.
Well, my parents too they're.
They're a big impact on my lifethat they're still here and
stuff and just just having timeto like actually be with them,
because a bunch of people don'thave that.
Very true, are you?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
living up to your goals right now.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I believe I strive to like reach my goals but, like I
said with Freddie, like he'she's always telling me like
don't tell yourself you're goingto do something, don't do it.
That's like one of the biggestthings.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
It's a good one.
What's the biggest lessonyou've ever learned in your life
?
Speaker 2 (36:14):
To love people like there's no tomorrow, truly, and
I learned that because of mygirlfriend.
That's good, that's great.
Things get taken away so easily.
Life is very short.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
You never know.
If you could change one thingabout your past, what would that
be?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I believe, I would say just stay and true to
yourself.
That's one of the biggestthings.
Like just just believing inlike what you could do, like
there's no point in notbelieving what you could do if
you believe, like there's.
No, there makes no differenceif you believe or if you don't.
So if you, if you truly believeyou could do something, like
(36:51):
it's more than likely to happen,like you have one life, so
might as well like believe inwhat you, what you want to do,
and go all in.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
How much does the outside noise and chatter affect
that?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
I believe everyone has their own opinion, but all
the people that started off withno money or at the bottom, they
don't they're all getting hatedon, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So it doesn't really, doesn't really matter, doesn't
really matter.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Would you take the internet away or would you leave
it in?
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Like if I could, huh, like if I could, if you could,
I would.
I would say leave it, yeah,because that would just give me
separation.
I just give me separation fromeveryone else actually using it.
Yep.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
Do you think two specific people are made for
each other?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I believe everything happens for a reason, but I
would say that certain people domatch with other people.
Yeah, I think that's it shows.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Definitely, you're very aware.
If you were to die three daysfrom now, what would you do in
these last three days?
Most important things you'dwant to accomplish?
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Probably like rob a bank or something.
Nah, I'm joking, I would.
I would.
I feel like I would like talkto everyone or have like a big,
like party and something.
Maybe I'd tell my way like it'ssomething like smaller or
whatever, and I just like have aball like somewhere.
Like I take a trip to like likeSan Antonio Houston or
(38:36):
something Turn up for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
You believe in aliens .
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Oh, my dad actually has a story.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I'm down for you to tell it, if you, if you, I feel
like aliens like there's.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
There's some evidence , you know.
So it's kind of like down.
And my dad said that one timehe was in Cancun with my mom
when they were together, that hesaw like.
He saw like a light because hewas drinking and stuff.
But he saw like a light in thesky and he was like what the
hell is that?
And he, he said like it justdid like a Z and then like like
it just took off.
So he's like after that he waslike bro, like they're real,
(39:15):
yeah, bro.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
I bro, I've got a lot of stories like that.
No lie, that's funny.
Are our destinies predetermined?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
For sure.
I feel like it's so weird, likehow to explain it, but I feel
like everything happens for areason and God just like lays it
out for you, to show you that,like you made your own decisions
in life, and he's like this islike where you're destined to be
because of your actions, youknow.
(39:46):
So most people get like caughtinto, like their like oh, why
did God like choose me?
Or like why do certain peoplego to hell?
It's like you chose to beseparate from from God.
You get me, yeah.
So it's like I feel like thiswhole life of ours is just just
to like.
It's just like a test.
You know, that's what I believe.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
What are you avoiding in your life right now?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
I feel like I'm avoiding like responsibility a
lot, you know, but I'm startingthat's that's what I've been
like avoiding likeresponsibility, like to like do
things and like go out and youknow.
But I feel like that's where,like my mind says kind of
shifting, like I'm starting tolike actually like, like, like
do a bunch of things that Iwouldn't normally do, you know,
(40:37):
stepping outside of comfort zone.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
We'll get a couple more questions and we'll get on
with sure.
What is what's going to matterto you most when you're laying
on your deathbed?
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Wow, that's a good question.
I feel like the impact that Ihad on other people would
probably be the most importantthing, like not what I did, but
who I impacted.
You know, that's really good.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
And also just being known for like creating
something or like leaving likebehind, like like this podcast,
you know yeah man speaking mylanguage right now, so I know
you don't really look up to orhave those motivating idols like
that, but like out of just onsome basketball shit like what
(41:32):
Hoopers, the like Hoopers, yeah,what would you say?
Your game is kind of closest toin there.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
I feel like the honest I love you, honest I, if
I were to say anyone would be myfavorite body yeah, just
because of his, his story too,and when it actually comes to
like performing, like he alwaysshows up, always shows up, yeah
he's a monster.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
Yeah, how do you feel about he keeps all his brothers
on the team though, taking upall the slots?
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I don't, I don't give a shit, but I don't care Like
people people make fun of likethe honest and stuff, but
compared to like us, he's likehe's way better.
Oh yeah, but I believe like ifit helps him do better like
right.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Why not?
Why not?
Yeah, no, a lot of people behating one of the one of the
best players in the league.
He'll go down as one of thegreatest ever, first-ever game,
for sure, absolutely.
Do you ever see that interviewwhere they're asking questions?
Then they're like, hey, was theseason a failure?
And then he just starts goingoff on the reporter.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Yeah, oh, dude, I think I know what you're talking
about where he's like, where hewas like.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I forgot what he said .
I think they got bounced fromthe playoffs or something in the
first round maybe, or something.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
I do remember that interview when he got mad and he
was like what do you mean, wasit?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
and he's like going into like the ins and outs and
the details of the season.
I was just like that.
People think like that.
Yeah, so before we ship thisthing off, I'll give you the
floor If there's any people youwant to thank in your life thus
(43:17):
far to help you get to whereyou're at, and, yeah, any shout
outs or any, you know,dedications or whatever.
Definitely Now's your chance todo that.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Bro, a bunch of people want to give a shout out,
obviously, to like my parents,my mom and dad, my my siblings,
for sure, even though we're notlike super in touch, like I grew
up with them, and I love all ofthem, my brother Denzel, my
brother Ulysses, my sister Tanya, anna, jackie, those are my
(43:51):
siblings.
I love them, like always.
My mom, my dad, um, who else?
Um, freddie was a big one, youknow you can finish your shout
outs, freddie's.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Just hey, you're here for the shout outs, come on in.
He was just about to thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
Shout out, shout out to Freddie.
It's all possible, really.
My gym.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
This is his gym.
There's light and different toyour father's leg.
I know you should have been inhere with those clothes, though
it was legit, asana, we weresweating.
I'm crazy.
We'll just, you know, edit itout, sorry, continue.
My man's, who we thanking?
We're thanking your parents,whom you love so much, my
parents my siblings.
Speaker 2 (44:37):
Um, give a shout out to the people who I work with,
like Freddie Juan Curly.
Um, adrian Hughes, one of oneof um, one of the big ones too,
because I go to a Bible studywith him on Thursdays and that
kind of like pulled me closer toGod, you know.
So I want to give a shout outto him.
(44:58):
Um, bryson, till, bryson, till,big.
Shout out to Bryson.
He's a definitional part of ourcareer.
Yeah for sure.
He would tell me, like dude, I,when I started this company,
like 16 hour shifts, 24 hourshifts, like like that is not
pretty raw, and now, like he'sreaping his reward and stuff,
(45:19):
exactly.
Give a shout out to my friends,you know David, marcus, tristan
, ethan, um, ryan, ricky Isaac.
Uh, yeah, I got so much.
All the homies, alexis, all thehomies bro I love, I love y'all
.
Without friends, um, life wouldnot be fun, yeah, and if I miss
(45:41):
anyone else, promise I didn't.
Just can't think of them on topof my head, but um, I appreciate
everyone.
You know life wouldn't be goodwithout friends or family Facts
bro Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (45:56):
Thank you, bro, I appreciate it.
And, um, yeah, if you want to,if people want to look you up
and see some of your hoop stuff,uh, highlights and whatnot, or
your handles or Instagram, allthat you want to yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
My Instagram is Gianni Boutron G I A double N I
B E L T R A N with three Ns atthe end, yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
So, yeah, go, peep my boy out and thank you for
coming on.
I appreciate you and uh, let'sdefinitely, uh, we'll link next
time I'm in Texas, bro, no,check up on you, maybe we'll do
another one.
All right, everybody to seey'all later, peace.
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