March 12, 2025 • 57 mins
After completing Loud Proud American's greatest challenge and biggest risk—attending Daytona Bike Week as a vendor—I reflect on this transformative adventure and the incredible relationships formed along the way.
• Giving heartfelt thanks to Brian and Zach Pomerleau who put their lives on hold to help make this dream possible
• Driving 26 hours straight in our converted school bus "Large Marge" from Maine to Florida
• Navigating the challenges of our vendor location and campground situation at Cackleberry Campground
• Operating on 3-4 hours of sleep each night while maintaining an intense schedule from 11am to past 3am
• Meeting Lisa who became our unofficial tour guide and introduced us to key industry connections
• Forming a brotherhood with country singer Daniel Johnson, leading to Loud Proud American's first musician sponsorship
• Having a memorable encounter with WWE star Braun Strowman who accepted a shirt from our brand
• Learning that relationships and connections are the true rewards of stepping outside your comfort zone
• Recognizing that people are placed in our paths for specific purposes if we're open to those encounters
Stay tuned for next week's episode where I'll break down the financial aspects and whether the rewards were worth the risks.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Loud Proud.
American's greatest challengeand biggest risk has been
completed, and today we recapthe adventure and discuss the
details.
How did it go, and was therewards worth the risk?
Let me tell you somethingEverybody struggles.
The difference is some peoplechoose to go through it and some
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choose to grow through it.
The choice is completely yours.
Which one you choose will havea very profound effect on the
way you live your life.
If you find strength in thestruggle, then this podcast is
for you.
Do you have a relationship thatis comfortable with
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uncomfortable conversations?
Uncomfortable conversationschallenge you, humble you and
they build you.
When you sprinkle a little timeand distance on it, it all
makes sense.
Most disagreements, they stemfrom our own insecurities.
You are right where you need tobe Back on time.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We can fight the world the whole day gone by.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
What it do, what it hot, it'sdid-a-dee-do.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Good Lord, almighty, am I so excited to be back with
you.
Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
I miss you.
I miss all you beautiful,voluptuous, sexual, now proud
Americans out there, and I meanthat in the most politest and
politically correct kind of wayspossible.
I love y'all.
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How can I not love you?
We are.
This is episode 244?
Question mark.
I believe Y'all believe thatwe're approaching 250 freaking
weeks of the podcast and thisweek I am coming to you
absolutely freaking tired.
Wow, am I blistered right now?
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I am beat.
I'm certain I sound like shit.
I can barely breathe through myface, I've lost my voice and I
feel like my lungs are filledwith Florida dust.
I don't really know.
I don't know what's happening,but it is my commitment to you,
my dedication to y'all, that hasme standing here today, proudly
back with you, recordinganother episode of that podcast,
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beautifully, perfectlyprecisely named Share the
Struggle, because everybodystruggles, and this week we are
going to recap the greatest,most recent struggle for myself,
my family and my brand, loudProud American.
If you have been listeningleading up to today's show, you
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know all the risk versus reward,all the analysis that went into
us deciding and committing toand working our way towards
Daytona Bike Week.
If you've been listening alongover the past few weeks, you've
heard me announce that we gotaccepted and we were going to
Bike Week.
You heard me come back here,tuck my tail between my legs and
tell you Lord, almighty, Ican't afford it.
And I had to get creative andpush things and pull things and
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close more business than Ipossibly thought I could to make
up the financial means to getthere.
I had to formulate a tag teampartner scenario, build a team
that was willing to put theirlives on hold to help me and my
brand and my family to achieve abucket list dream.
So before I go any further, Ireally need to wholeheartedly
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give the biggest, greatest, mostamazing winning.
Wednesday weekly shout out To mybrother from another mother,
brian Pomelo and his amazing son, zach.
Brian and Zach Pomelo they puttheir lives on hold to help Loud
, proud American achieve newheights.
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I can't thank you enough.
Brian's been telling me since Istarted the brand.
Me and BP used to work togetherat the Harley-Davidson
dealership and we've just stayedin contact and touch in our
relationship, I would argue, hasgotten even better since our
years of working together.
It's amazing to think howstrong it is now and how
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important that we are to eachother.
So when I launched this brandand I launched this podcast,
brian's been extremelysupportive.
He's been a champion for thebrand and I launched this
podcast.
Brian's been extremelysupportive.
He's been a champion for thebrand.
He was the first ever personthat I asked outside of my
family to help the brand to runthe tent to sell merchandise.
Him and his wife, christy, werethe first people I ever asked
to help.
And Brian said to me thisentire time the moment you
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decide to travel with this brand, you let me know.
I want to help.
And I reached out for Daytonaand I fully expected I would
take this journey on my own,because it's a lot to ask man.
It is a lot to ask.
We had to leave here on aMonday, drive through the night,
get to Florida on a Tuesday andwe'll recap this in a little
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bit have Tuesday to get settledin and Wednesday and Thursday to
set up.
Then you run bike week Friday,saturday, sunday, monday,
tuesday, wednesday, thursday,friday, saturday, sunday and
head out.
That's a huge commitment.
You're away from your familyfor a long time.
You're away from your incomefor a long time.
You're not just taking anenjoyable vacation, you're also
doing this to bust your ass andto help me try to make something
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of this brand and this event.
Brian and Zach put their liveson hold and I can't I can't
thank them enough and, to behonest spoiler alert here.
We're going to get into some ofthe risk and some of the
rewards at the end of thisepisode, and one of the greatest
rewards for me personally wasgetting to spend as much time as
I did with Brian and Zach andto put this in perspective for
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you guys.
If you know me and you've beenlistening on, if this is your
first episode, then some of thisis going to be new to you, but
if you've been listening andgetting to know me and my story
and my family and our struggles,then you know that it's been
just over a year since I lost mydad.
To be on a road trip a fatherand son road trip.
To be part of that road tripwas incredibly powerful and
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inspiring.
I will be transparent as allhell and I'll tell you there was
times when, when they weresleeping and I was driving, we
all would kind of take shiftsand I'm thinking about them and
I'm thinking about my father andthat I lost my father and that
what I would give for this typeof experience and journey with
my dad, so to be a part of theirexperience, to make the
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memories, to build stories thatare going to last a freaking
lifetime.
We lived basically like we'resupposed to live right, like
just flying off the seat of yourpants, taking things day by day
, enjoying every opportunity,balancing good and bad and just
being thankful for all thememories that we had.
That was us, man.
We lived like kings with littleresources.
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I don't know if that makessense to you guys.
We're building fires to makefood.
We don't have serving spoons.
We're creating spoons out ofbush light cans.
We're doing man shit.
You understand, we were justliving L-I-V-I-N and I loved
every freaking minute of it.
I'm so incredibly thankful forthe relationship I was able to
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form with young Zach because Ihadn't seen him since I worked
with Brian, which was shoot wellover 10 years ago.
So it was incredible.
It was incredible to have thatexperience, that connection.
So, brian and Zach, this week'sWinnie Wednesday weekly shout
out something I have not done ina very long time goes to you
too rightfully so.
I love you boys.
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I can't thank you enough.
Y'all are family.
I hope you understand that andI'd feel bad asking you to go
somewhere else again because ofall we went through, but I kind
of want to do it because we hadan amazing time and I love you
guys and I can't truly thank youenough.
I don't know how I'm going tofind the words or the ways to
repay you, but I will do thebest I possibly can, and it
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starts today by saying thank you, thank you, thank you so damn
much.
You helped me and my family putmy brand on the map in a way we
never thought possible, andthat's because you put your
lives on hold to help carry me.
And there's really no words toexpress how grateful I am and I
just wanted to put it out thereto the universe.
So if any of you listening youknow Brian and Zach or you
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happen to meet them at an event,make sure you thank them for me
and helping to build this brand.
So thank you, boys.
I really truly, trulyappreciate that.
And to get things kind ofrocking and rolling, as you can
tell by my voice and where I'mat, I'm really in recovery mode.
I am absolutely smoked.
I am so ever loving, tired.
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Our schedule there has beeninsane.
Like the way things went wasabsolutely insane.
To kind of, you know, sprinklea little, I guess I should say,
paint the picture here now thatwe sprinkle some time and
distance on it.
It's crazy.
We left on a Monday I want tosay 9, 9.30 in the morning, we
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hit the road and we got toFlorida the next day at 10.30,
11 o'clock, right.
So we drove straight throughthe freaking night.
I have so many stories that wecan get to at another time, but
I really just kind of want togive you a screenshot, snapshot
of how this went.
So I'm going to kind of runfast, I'm going to run through a
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timeline to kind of give youguys a little insight as to what
happened.
But we drove straight through.
We were in, I want to say,virginia and I started looking
up hotels and I said, fellas, Igot a room right here for about
60 bucks 70 bucks.
We can crash a few hours andget back on the road.
And Brian said, dude, weshouldn't waste money and we
should get there as soon as wecan, because who knows what's
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going to happen?
And if you started doing thetimeline on things, if we stayed
in the hotel for too long andthen left by the time we got to
the place we were going, there'dbe nobody to check us in, so we
couldn't unpack the bus, wecouldn't make camp, we couldn't
find a place to sleep, so itwould really create us having to
really buy two hotels.
So we said you know what?
We're going to run it.
We're going to drive straightthrough the night and BP is a
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road warrior.
That dude can drive like achamp.
He just loves a road trip andloves powering through.
The experience is made in afreaking school bus, a 2011
school bus driving I don't evenremember the mileage right.
A couple thousand miles, right?
Amazing.
There was some nervousnessbecause the bus has never run
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for more than two and a halfhours straight.
It decided to do 26 hours.
Out the gate.
She ran like an ever-lovingchampion.
The new Loud, proud AmericanBattle Axe business wagon
professional freakingawesomeness is fantastic.
Things went so well.
I'm looking forward to makingimprovements to it, but I could
not be happier with the waythings went.
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Brian nicknamed the bus LargeMarge as we were navigating
traffic out there, and Old Margetook great care of us.
Man, we had an absolute blastand it ran so well, so pretty
excited about that.
So, about 26 hours in we get toFlorida and, um, actually, let
me back up a little bit and tellyou that I left Maine and
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obviously you're going to goMaine, new Hampshire,
massachusetts, connecticut.
We got into Connecticut and gotpulled over by a state trooper
when he came up to the door.
I opened the door and, uh,cause you open the side door to
kind of let him in, cause it'sjust around the side of the
interstate.
And he says you know why I'mpulling you over.
And I said no, I was right down.
And he says you have an icebergon the top of your bus that
will literally kill somebody wethought we had.
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You know, I'm going to tell youthis.
We had about 15 inches of snowand ice on the roof and I
shoveled all that I could off ona ladder.
Some of it was frozen in themiddle and we tried to get it
off, leaving here.
Apparently said, iceberg madeits way to Connecticut.
Yes, that's a commitment, folks, that's a real commitment.
After talking with the officer,he said if you can get it off
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the roof, I won't give you aticket, I'll just give you a
warning.
And Brian said hell yeah, beright out there.
And we grabbed Zach, threw himon the roof, he shoveled it off
and came flying back down theother side, which in
retrospective, I think theofficer did not expect us to put
a human on the roof of a bus onthe side of 95.
I wanted to get a photo or videoat this moment, but I realized
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he might not think this is funnyand, uh, he probably doesn't
want that traveling around himlosing his job, so we just moved
about our business, all right,so we get to florida, we get to
uh cackleberry campground.
Cackleberry yeah, that's, wegather the locals kind of call
it, I think, but they were drunkwhen we were talking to him, so
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that might not be really how topronounce it, but it is
cackleberry campground.
Okay.
Now, the way Daytona is set upand we learned more about it
after being there is there'slittle segments of Bike Week
that kind of happen in differentlocations, like main
attractions, like Main Street,the local racetrack, like the
Speedway for the 500.
There's some Harley dealershipthat has a big area, there's
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some big bars that have areasfor vendors and stuff, and then
we're at this campground acrossthe street from the Cabbage
Patch, which is world famous forcoleslaw wrestling, and there's
a lot of vendors there.
There's entertainment there.
So when we got there, they setus up, showed us where we were
going to be under a tree in thefield, you could see the main
stage.
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We had a bar right in front ofus.
There was a big wheel of deathbehind us, or wall of death, and
we thought this is a greatlocation.
As we were to learn, I shouldhave thought more about this,
because one thing I've learnedbeing on the road and being a
vendor is that when people areshopping and they're at a fair
or a festival.
As crazy as this might sound,they're lazy.
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People are lazy, they like tofollow patterns.
People will get out and theywill walk the perimeter.
They will look at the middleand then make their decision
from the perimeter as to whetherthey're going to go to the
middle.
So, connected to us, we had aguy that was selling some knives
and then there was somereligious groups that were, you
know, blessing motorcycles,handing out Bibles, things like
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that, and people were just notcoming over to us at the rate in
which they would have had webeen on a perimeter.
So that was strike one for uswhen it comes to business.
But in the beginning we reallyhadn't really thought that right
.
But that ended up having amajor effect on us.
But for our first time we feltthat we stood out and it was a
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good spot for us.
Our camping scenario we wereable to put large marge and a
pretty awesome camping spot.
We had some shade, some flatarea, some trees.
The boys set up some tents.
We had a pretty nice littleponderosa set up.
Initial thought on that was hey, this is a fantastic camping
site.
Upon further review, the problemwith said camping site is.
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It is right next to the roadand every freaking person at
Bike Week wants to do a burnoutor to hammer on their motorcycle
, which just happens to beflying by your head while you're
sleeping, if you're sleeping.
And the other thing that hashappened is there's some locals
that do not appreciate Bike Weekapparently happening in their
town.
So they decide to take somevigilante justice into their own
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hands and they want to protestbike week.
So one Karen or as we politelynow begin to label Karens in our
state, janets one particularJanet decides every morning at
six in the morning to roll bythe campground laying on the
horn, literally just hammeringon the horn, to wake everybody
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in the campground up, to thenget their coffee, turn around
and come back and do it again.
So every morning at like six,six oh five, janet rolls by on
the horn to wake you up, get hercoffee, you hopefully start to
fall back asleep.
And here she comes, right backagain to wake your ass up again.
If y'all want a full frontalconfessional right now, I'll put
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my hand on Cabello's catalog.
Be the little eyes of the skythat choose from this guy.
We made a plan by the end of theweek.
When we're leaving on the lastday, we know what time old
Janet's coming by.
I'm going to pop out of thedamn bushes and I don't care if
it's a.
If it's a potato, an egg or aturd, it's coming at your van.
Okay, probably your minivan.
That was the plan.
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What I didn't count on is thatthe last day we'd be there as a
Sunday and Janet decides thatshe makes coffee at home on
Sunday.
So you avoided us this time,janet.
Anyways, that is our thoughtprocess versus reality.
We thought we had a greatlocation for the business and a
great location for camp.
Reality is, yeah, they both hadtheir challenges.
Okay, so we end up arriving atour location a few days early,
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which is like we planned it.
We didn't know if we're goingto run into the kind of hiccups,
what the situation might be,and for us to make camp we had
to really empty the bus.
So we set up the shell for thevendor display right for the
Loud Proud American booth, put abunch of things on the wall.
Then we go back, set up campand on our first night we go out
and meet some locals.
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We go across the street to theCabbage Patch and just kind of
celebrate the fact that we'vemade it have a few drinks and
then come back and shut it down.
But that gave us Tuesday right.
That's Tuesday night.
Bike week doesn't start untilFriday.
We have Wednesday and Thursdayand what was pretty awesome is
that Lisa from Bentley SaloonBentley's girlfriend Lisa.
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She had called and checked into see how we were doing and she
said you know what?
I know?
You guys are kind of confinedto where you are.
I'm going to be your tour guide, I'm going to take care of you.
Lisa picked us up and on nightone she brought us downtown,
showed us Main Street.
We checked out every single bar.
We went to all these differentplaces.
She introduced us into so manypeople, to so many people.
We took photos with so manyfolks.
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She made a connection betweenme and Doug, who owns Sick Boy,
which is a very successfulmotorcycle rock and roll apparel
brand.
He has a storefront in Deadwood, dakota, and he also has a
temporary storefront that opensup right on Main Street during
bike week.
So pretty awesome to meet aninspiration, somebody that
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started much like we have, thathas built a massive empire for
himself.
So that was rather inspiring.
I really learned a masterclassin promotion and spending two
days with Lisa.
The way she goes about herbusiness.
She's always looking for a wayto market herself and her
business.
She's always pushing BentleySaloon.
Everybody ran into you.
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She was so polite to introduceus and mention the brand and try
to drive traffic our way, whichabsolutely helped.
I learned so much.
It was incredible.
So for two days Lisa was ourtour guide and she showed us
around and it was tremendous.
We get to see parts of Floridathat we never thought we'd be
able to because we knew we wouldbe stuck at the campground and
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just trying to work and get ourthings done.
So it was incredible.
I'm forever grateful to Lisafor showing us around and doing
those things and the people wegot to meet.
It was pretty damn awesome.
I was able to spend a bunch oftime with another brother from
another mother, dirk, who I metthrough Bentley himself, and
usually Dirk and I we spend timemore at the saloon.
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Occasionally we pull off a funroad trip and connect in
Nashville.
But this was another time whereI was able to hang out with
Dirk, spend a week together,introduce him to Brian and Zach
party with him.
His girl, lori, showed up, youknow, and we were able just to
kind of have this nighttimerelaxation mode right.
We unplug from work and justkind of hang out and crush beers
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and share stories and just makeup ridiculous things.
And that was that was a greattime, you know.
And and having your jerksupport everywhere.
As he went, he was putting mystickers out there every day.
He's pushing a new person to mytent to buy something.
I met Dirk at breakfast and Ineed to be in here to buy this
shirt.
That's a support, that's thefriendship, and you're going to
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really hear an emphasis with meon people because spoiler alert
that's what this is all about,that's what life's about, that's
what the brand is about, it'sabout people, and this trip
really drove that home even moreand more from us, because it
really comes down to therelationships we've already made
and the relationships that wewill continue to make.
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And to kind of just spell thisout for you, I'm going to get
into a couple of fantasticencounters that I feel like are
just motivational and monumentalfor us, but I also want to
really sprinkle some emphasis onthe relationships that we
already have, and without thosethese things wouldn't be
possible.
And when I say that I mean.
First off, you think about therelationship between Brian and
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Zach to help me get there and tomake this possible, the
relationship with Lisa to showus all around.
And then the surprising visitsthat I had while in Florida from
customers that either have beenbuying from us for years, see
us at the saloon or follow us onsocial media, coming in and
saying, hi, hey, man, I followyou.
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You, I bought a shirt from youat bentley saloon.
I saw you were down here.
So many conversations like thishappened during the week.
It was mind-blowing.
Uh, former employees of minecoming in to see me and be like
man, I'm so happy that you'rehere.
Family members stopping in tosurprise me and literally like
our extended family out in NewYork Little Paisley Reigns,
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godparents, lance and Jen, kipand Shelly.
They surprised us.
They literally rolled into thetent with a bag full of gifts
for Little Paisley and said, hey, I'd rather save on shipping.
Here's this for the little one.
And then they proceed to alsospend money while they're there,
lance and Jen.
I think was one of our largestcustomer purchases of the entire
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freaking bike week and they cansee me, find me and support me
any damn time they want.
So it's incredible.
It's incredible to have theserelationships in our life,
because without them, none ofthis is possible.
And the best part about thiswhole trip was that we built
some more relationships.
Now they're not all gonna turninto the tremendous
relationships that I referenced,but that's what life's about
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folks.
It's about meeting people.
It's about making memories,it's about leaving impressions.
That's what life's about.
There needs to be somethingthat just makes you feel
fulfilled.
There needs to be somethingthat makes you feel important.
There needs to be somethingthat makes you want to get up
every day, and for me, one ofthose things is meeting people,
impacting people and formingthose relationships.
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And this whole trip showed mehow amazing those things are.
And all the people that checkedin throughout the week trying
to see how we were doing which Igot, to be honest, those of you
that reached out and I couldn'tget back to you, I am sorry.
The schedule that we kept downthere was absolutely insane and
it was incredibly difficult tostay on top of things.
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And just to kind of give youlike a little scenario on the
life and times as to how thingsrolled out there, we would try
to be down there around 11 amish.
At noontime there's thenational anthem and then things
get going and then there wouldbe, you know, three bands a day
at our location.
Entertainment in between allthe bands from anything from a
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wet t-shirt contest to midgetwrestling, to fire dancing,
whatever there's alwayssomething going on.
Our location stayed open tillat least 1 am.
The bar across the streetstayed open until 3 am.
So if you would work all day atour location, you would then go
across the street because youneed to unwind and you can't
sleep anyways because it's toodamn loud, and you'd have a few
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beers and you'd come back by thetime you get back to camp.
Sometimes you're walking aroundthe camp just trying to expel
energy and burn yourself out togo to sleep.
So on an average night we couldbe going to bed 3.30, 4 in the
morning and, as you just heard afew minutes ago, janet's going
to roll by at 6 am and wake yourass up.
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People are going to get up ontheir motorcycles and go
blistering by.
Some folks are going to leavetheir radios on all night, are
going to leave their radios onall night.
I'm telling you it is almostimpossible to sleep.
We probably averaged, I wouldsay three to four hours sleep a
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night.
We got into the routine that werealize we're going to get up in
the mornings Everybody's goingto wake us up and maybe take a
shower or have something forbreakfast and then try to catch
a nap before we had to open ifyou at all could to really just
try to get through the day.
The schedule was insane, folks.
It was absolutely insane.
I've taken showers in themorning, in the middle of the
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day, when the boys are watchingthe tent.
I took a shower at 1.30 in themorning.
It was, and the showersthemselves were absolutely
sketchy.
So our schedule we ran forbasically two weeks on three to
four hours sleep a night, don'tforget.
We had two instances of drivingstraight through the night 26,
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27 hour trips, sleeping for ahalf an hour here and there on
the floor of the bus.
We are beat.
Today I am smoked.
If I didn't get a chance totalk to you, to answer your call
, to shoot back a message, Iapologize.
I'm going to do the best I canto get back.
But this trip, man, it tookevery ounce of energy and effort
you had to make it through andthat's the truth, y'all.
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That is the absolute truth, butthat's our, that's our schedule
and that's how how things went,man.
Getting back to our discussionon relationships and the fact
that I truly feel life is aboutrelationships, it's about the
connections you make and thememories that you can, that you
can build and a lot of timesthose things are fate I feel
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like we are put in a certainplace with a certain face for a
very certain reason.
If you have been listening allthese years on the podcast, you
know that I met Lance and Jenwhile giving away a motorcycle,
working in a previous career,and now, from that one encounter
, they've become brothers andsisters to us.
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They've become Paisley Rains,godparents.
People are put in our way,they're put in our paths for a
reason, for a purpose.
But if we don't open ourselvesup, if we don't engage in
conversation, if we don't allowourselves to be vulnerable, then
you're going to walk throughlife often missing your purpose.
You're going to walk throughlife often missing your purpose.
You're going to walk throughlife often missing your person,
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and I mean that on all aspectsof life, on all layers of family
and relationship, because I'm afirm believer that you don't
just, you're not just given thefamily that you're born into.
You have the ability to buildand form and develop your own
family with friends that mightnot be blood, but they're going
to be closer than blood.
You understand, but you need toallow yourself to be open to
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those things.
And if you walk through lifejust shut down, sheltered,
self-centered, protected, youwill prevent yourself from
meeting your person, fromfinding your purpose.
That could be a life lesson tothose of you that are listening,
that are single and you haven'tmet your person yet.
You need to be open, you needto be transparent.
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You don't want to be takenadvantage of, but you need to
allow yourself experiences.
Put yourself in situationswhere you might feel vulnerable,
you might feel uncomfortable,but you'll be surprised who you
meet and what relationships youmake.
That could be a significantother.
That could be a future bestfriend.
That could be a significantother that could be a future
best friend.
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That could be somebody youconsider a brother, a sister, it
doesn't matter.
You need to open yourself up.
But I truly feel like people areplaced in our paths for a very
particular reason, but we fartoo often miss those people
because we're shutting down,because we're unwilling to be
vulnerable or we're unwilling toexplore, to take a chance,
start a conversation.
I'm saying all this because Itruly feel like I found another
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person that's going to be in mylife for a long time.
I truly feel like I madeanother connection with somebody
that not only is going to helpme personally as an individual,
but is going to help mepersonally as an individual, but
is going to help me personallyas a business owner, as a brand.
Somebody that I'm going to beable to help personally in a
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friendship, supportive, brotherrole.
Someone that is driven muchlike I am, that I can use my
resources to help him achievehis goals.
That's what life's about, folkswhen you can meet somebody,
that you can motivate each other, you can support each other and
you can push each other.
We go through life notrealizing how much we can help
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somebody else by just tappinginto our own resources and
connections, and I met somebodythat I'm so excited about.
Number one the fact that I wasable to meet them.
It happened organically,naturally.
We have an amazing connectionand we just jived, we just hit
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it off and we're both motivatedto achieve our goals.
Even though vastly different,we know we can support each
other.
So that's a quick story that Iwant to highlight on today's
recap special of the Loud, proudAmerican Daytona Bike Week, and
we're going to do that next.
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All right, all right, all right, before that little Lal Proud
American B-roll spectacular,rick, that I should have
hopefully encouraged some of youto buy American.
You heard me talk about theimportance of relationships, the
fact that people are put in ourpaths for a particular reason,
and I do truly believe in a lotof things come right down to
fate, and fate just so had itthat I needed to be on a bar
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stool next to my next brotherfrom another mother.
So on the arrival of Dirk whenDirk showed up, it was actually
on day two of Lisa's tour ofFlorida, so me and the boys have
been getting into the sauce alittle bit.
We met Dirk at the gate, we gothim set up at camp, brian hit
the hay, me and Zach went acrossthe street to participate in
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some hydration festivities.
So, while getting ourselvesacclimated to the locals, put
down a few bevvies.
We worked into a corner of thebar.
We met our new friend, abby, anawesome bartender that we had a
great connection with.
She took care of us all week,told us where to be, when to be
there, all these great things.
And Abby's become a good friendand I know that we're going to
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keep a connection going with heras well.
She's down there rocking LoudPod American gear, sharing our
stuff, spreading the good gospeland the good word and, uh,
we'll touch on this stuff later,but I think Abby's going to be
able to help us switch sides ofthe road.
If we go back down, maybe betterour location, but, um, abby was
a great person and a lot oftimes when you're at bike week
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or you're at these big eventsand you meet bartenders, they
don't always take the time tohave conversations with you.
It's really transactional basedand, if you know me,
everything's about relationships.
I think our whole brand isbuilt on relationships.
If you haven't already heardthat, I don't believe in just
selling you a t-shirt, takingyour 27 bucks and never talking
to you again.
I want to sell you your t-shirtand hope that you always come
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back for sure.
I want to get to know you andyour family and I want to know
why you consider yourself a Loud, proud American.
Where you live, what's yourstory?
And in doing so, you want tolearn about me and my story and
my brand and my family.
We become invested in eachother and that has you being a
loyal supporter of the brand,somebody that's not just buying
a t-shirt, that is buyingmultiple things over the course
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of the years, and maybe it'sjust one thing, but you're
encouraging other people to comebuy things, and I think that
Abby is going to be a greatfriend of ours and a great
supporter of the brand.
And she's just a people personthat opened herself up and had
conversations with us and wasinvested in our success.
Every day when we showed up atthe bar, it was how did it go
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today?
How's things going over there?
That type of deal giving usinsight on how things went on
their side to really offer agreat perspective on business
and on traffic.
That was so, so invaluable.
I can't even tell you how muchthat that meant.
So that was so, so invaluable.
I can't even tell you how muchthat that meant and, ironically,
abby had a friend at the barthat was sitting one bar stool
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away from me.
There was a stool in between usand this heavily intoxicated
young lady sat between us andshe was just sloppy, hammered
right.
She's bouncing off of Danieland off of me and we're both
trying to ignore her andoccasionally we would lock eyes
with each other like what isthis broad doing?
She gets so loaded and she justkeeps tapping my shoulder and
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trying to interject in ourconversations, with a
conversation that went a lotlike this Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Ah, yeah, ah, you, you, you, ah, you, you, you, you
, you, you, you, you, you, youguys.
Oh my God, you, you, you, you,you, you guys, you, you guys,
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you, you, you, you guys, youguys, you guys are great, you
guys are great, you guys.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You guys are great.
That's the conversation.
That's the conversation.
And I'd look around and go,thank you very much.
She dropped something like anapkin or a credit card, I don't
know, went between my legs andshe went down to get it and put
her hand on my leg and I lookedover at Daniel and I was like oh
my God, and she popped up andthen she was back to rubbing on
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Daniel and it was this reallyawkward interaction.
And then she says to me you,you married.
And I said yes, I am happilywith a kid at home.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I knew it I knew it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Anyways, she leaves Me and Daniel start having an
interaction and it's basicallyoff of Blisterface over here,
who was just absolutelyblistered.
No offense against her face oranything, but she was beyond
white, gold-wasted.
I took Dirk's phone.
He had Jukebox app on his phone.
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I was hitting the old Jukebox,daniel was hitting the Jukebox.
Before you know it, we're allsinging West Virginia songs and
Country Road and John Denver andFishing in the Dark and Cody
Jinks and Hank Williams andwhatever.
We're just having a good oldfashioned hootenanny and we hit
it off.
We absolutely hit it off.
In that time we had aconversation who are you?
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What do you do?
What brings you to Bike Week?
Daniel is born and raised inIowa, like a citizen himself, uh
, made in Texas, so, born inIowa, made in Texas, and he's a
country singer.
And instantly I, you know, toldhim what we do, what we believe
in, what we stand for, and westarted swapping um social media
handles, following each other,and, uh, you know, I made the
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commitment to come see him playthis week and he would come over
and see the tent and checkthings out and we just kind of
had a great time and Abby toldall of us.
You need to be back heretomorrow because there's a band
in here that you're going tolove these young kids named
Mantra.
They're phenomenal.
And she wasn't kidding.
This was some of the best livemusic I've ever seen.
The boys were so incrediblytight and polished.
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They were playing Led Zeppelinand Pink Floyd and all these
classic bands and you can tellthese young kids were heavily
influenced by Zeppelin.
They were incredible.
Every single finish to a songwas a concert album quality
finish.
It was incredible.
They are literally ready.
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They're recording live.
Their live music is like aprofessional recording.
It's incredible.
They're moving to Nashville.
Mark my words on this date asI'm recording this, when this
episode drops on a winningWednesday the band Mantra.
They're headed to Nashville.
They will be somebody someday.
Mark my words, they'reincredible.
Addie told us to come back andwatch them.
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She wasn't wrong.
She didn't mislead us.
We're there watching him andjust jamming out and we were so
blown away.
And Daniel walks in the bar,spots us, comes over and hangs
out and we just start crushingbeers like a couple of bros.
You wouldn't think we'd justmet one night before.
Next thing you know he's acrossthe road with us checking out
bands over there walking thecampground area, like hanging
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out.
We're back and forth across thestreet just busting jokes and
carrying on like old friends,like like we were college
buddies that haven't seen eachother since we went to college,
which is something that I'venever done, but you know what
I'm saying.
We already felt like there wasa connection there.
Man, it was weird.
It was like two people thathave been friends for a long
time, like old middle schoolbuddies, reconnected and just
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picking up where they left off.
It was incredible and we werejust connected.
We shared a lot of sameinterests and had great
conversation and we just partieddown like a couple of fucking
brojos.
Okay.
So we were having a blast andwe continue just to kind of
support each other.
This entire conversation, thisentire relationship, all this
thing's kind of bubbling up.
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Naturally, this is somethingthat is completely organic.
There's not nobody involved inthis scenario is trying to um
chase somebody for a reason youknow what I'm saying.
Like it's not a dude at the barhitting on a chick cause he
wants to get laid.
It's not um somebody goingafter somebody cause he wants to
get paid.
It's not Daniel coming to melooking for free merchandise.
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It's not me coming to himbecause he's some country singer
right.
We met organically A few daysafter hanging out and partying,
getting to know each other, wegot the opportunity to see
Daniel perform live and I'mgoing to take out my Cabela's
catalog right now.
Let me get it.
Hang on, you, hang on, you'rebetter with me All right, here
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you go, hang on, Hang out myCabela's catalog right now.
Let me get it hang on, you hangon, you keep hanging, you keep
hanging.
I got it right here now.
I got it right now.
I got it right here now.
You ready?
Hear this Bell's catalog on thetable.
Sir, please place your lefthand on the catalog and place
your.
Be the last to the sky.
Raise your right hand andconfess the truth from this guy.
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Daniel Johnson is one of thebest fucking country singers
I've ever seen.
That boy has a voice, apresence, a personality and an
ability.
I'm telling you right now, ifyou know me and you've been
listening, you know how much Ilove music, how impactful music
is to me.
I have multiple differentlyrics tattooed all over me from
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the musicians.
I have a Johnny Cash portraiton me.
I'm inspired by music.
I'm moved by music.
I feel like it tells a storyand it can really play a major
factor in our lives.
If you've heard episodes of thispodcast, all the way back we
talk about meeting Jamie Johnsonand the importance that he has
in my life.
Man, daniel reminds me, hisvoice reminds me of a Jamie
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Johnson, whitey, morgan, codyJinx type of vibe.
It's unbelievable man.
His voice, his new age, outlawcountry old school soul.
It's absolutely incredible.
He shredded it and I wasliterally like I can't believe
how good this dude is.
Like I was so happy, I was soproud for him.
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I almost started crying becauseit was like, dude, I didn't
know you had this ability.
Like I didn't know, like I hadall the confidence in him and he
was good because, like he'sjust a good dude and he's he's
chasing his dreams.
He covered 26 states last yearchasing his dreams and I'm so
incredibly inspired by his story.
But I was moved emotionallywhen I saw him and I heard him
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sing, like it meant somethingand I was so proud for him
because I was like man, I knowwe're just getting to know each
other but holy shit, dude, Ididn't know this was the ability
you possessed and it wasincredible.
I proceeded from that moment totell every single person that
had an opportunity arise tospeak of music Oftentimes I
created the opportunity.
I told everybody that I raninto.
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You go see this motherfucker.
You go see him.
Here's his schedule.
You find him.
You support him.
You look him up online.
Here's his links.
Here's who he is.
You find him.
You're not going to bedisappointed.
You're going to love him.
I made multiple friends over thecourse of a week just
suggesting Daniel to thembecause they would come see me
the next morning and say, dude,that was unbelievable, let me
buy a t-shirt.
And I was so moved by hisability I really was.
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His storytelling ability, theemotions in which he puts into
songs, it was incredible.
When you know the person behindthe ability, it's a whole
different level of awesome.
I was so thankful that I methim before I heard him so I
could appreciate him and ourrelationship could be
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appreciated for being organic.
It's not one that was like thisdude heard me sing, he's going
to try to ride my coattails.
No man, we were bros beforethat and now that I know you and
I hear you, I literally justone morning I'm like laying in
the bus just trying to wake upand I'm like dude, I got to help
.
This morning I'm like laying inthe bus just trying to wake up
and I'm like dude, I gotta helpthis dude.
I gotta help this dude.
There's something I can do.
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I can find a way to help thisdude.
He's rocking the south.
I'm in the north, I can beat onthe drum.
That is daniel johnson.
I can bring him to our people.
I can welcome him to our, ourcircle and expose him to us.
Right, I can do something tohelp and in turn, I feel like
Daniel's the type of guy that'sgoing to do something to help us
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.
We're both in separateterritories, but we're both
motivated to attain our goals.
As much as they're vastlydifferent, they're very similar
and I'm so happy to announcethat over some beers, we've
decided that Daniel Johnson isgoing to be the first ever
musician sponsored by Loud ProudAmerican.
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Hell or high water.
We will find a way to brandtogether and support Daniel
Johnson.
So please, please, please, lookforward to hearing more about
Daniel Johnson.
He will be on a future podcastepisode and we can lock down our
schedules Until then.
You can find him at DanielJohnson Music Check all
platforms.
He has one of his own songsright now that is actually in
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the top 50 on country radio inTexas I believe it's at number
44, one of his own songs, a songwritten by him and his friends.
That's absolutely incredible.
One of the things that reallydrove this home for me that it
was fate was the next morningI'm listening to Daniel Johnson
at the campground, we'recrushing his songs by the bus
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and I found a video of his fromTikTok and I sent it to my wife
and I was like this is my buddy,you got to listen to this.
She wrote back to me and saidoh my God, I know that song.
I already follow that dude onTikTok.
He popped up on my For you page.
That's crazy to me.
This is a dude on the come up.
He's not nationally known.
He's out there bootstrappinghis things.
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He's trying to figure this out.
He's on the road in a cloud ofdust trying to make things
happen.
Ellie found him on TikTok.
He popped up on her For youpage.
She already follows him.
She already loves the song andlistens to him.
I was able to show him thosemessages and it blew his mind.
All those things line up to showthis was fate.
All those things line up to saythat we're supposed to be
together.
We're in each other's paths fora purpose.
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There's a reason.
We will help each other.
One of the most amazinghighlights and blessings of this
entire journey was meetingDaniel and the fact that I know
our paths will continue to bewound together, bound forever.
Daniel Johnson music please,please, please, look that dude
up.
We will share more and more andmore in the days to come.
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But, spoiler alert, that is thebiggest highlight of the entire
trip.
You can make and replacedollars and cents, but you can't
control fate.
That was supposed to happen.
That is the best thing thathappened.
Before I move on to the finalresults the meat and bananas of
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the road trip before I move onto those things, I want to
highlight another amazingencounter that I had, one that
blew my mind and left me kind offangirling a little bit.
Okay, it was embarrassing alittle.
Okay, it was a littleembarrassing, but I don't have a
lack of sleep and a lot ofalcohol, okay.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Okay, y'all know I'm a huge wrestling fan, right, we
talk about all the time.
You hear a bunch of myimpersonations on here.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine.
I love wrestling and, uh, I wasat.
I was at my tent, I was at thevendor booth hanging out and I
saw this big son of a bitchwhich that's his.
That's part of the it's on hist-shirt.
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Braun Strowman real name, adamShear, who competed in World's
Strongest man competitions, isan absolute beast, one of my
favorite people to watch on WWE.
And he was there walking aroundwith his girlfriend and a buddy
of his and I was like you gottabe fucking kidding me, man.
That's Braun Strowman rightthere.
No joke, he's a like-mindedindividual.
(45:35):
He's always riding motorcyclesand just doing cool shit.
I always kind of thought BraunStrowman's a dude that could
rock Loud, proud, american.
That's a dude I should send acare pack to.
I see him and I'm kind ofpacing back and forth.
Finally I'm like all right andI had to go over and interject
into like his, his conversationand his like line of direction.
(45:58):
I guess he's walking.
I had to go intercept him.
This dude, braun stroman, Ithink, is like I don't know six,
eight, six, ninesomething-pluspounds.
He's a monster, okay, jacked upto the high heavens.
I got to slide over there andinterject to him and I say hey
man, dude, can I just jump inhere for a second man?
(46:19):
I hate to interrupt you,brother.
I actually wanted to yell fromacross the parking lot that's
one big son of a bitch.
But I didn't do that because Ididn't want to embarrass you.
And I didn't do that because Ididn't want to embarrass you and
I didn't want you to get pissedoff.
And he started laughing and Isaid dude, this is my brand
behind me here, can I give you afucking t-shirt, man, can I
just give you a t-shirt?
(46:39):
And he's like you want to giveme a shirt?
I'm like, yes, please come in.
And he came in my tent and westarted talking wrestling fan
brother, I'm a massive fan ofyours and I literally was going
to give you my best Pat McAfee,across the field out here, but I
didn't want to draw attentionto you and have a bunch of
people kind of harassing you.
So I apologize, but like, Ijust wanted to meet you, dude,
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and he was so genuine and downto earth and awesome and
receptive to me, approaching him.
We had conversations like heasked me about the brand,
basically how I started it, whatI'm doing.
It was really cool.
He showed any interest in me.
We had a great conversation.
We took a photo together.
I was like, hey, man, I hate to.
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I don't mean to go all fangirlon you, but if I don't get a
picture together then my wife'sgoing to call bullshit on this
whole thing.
I'm like I'm not gay oranything.
And he's like, oh no, I meanit's cool if you are.
He made this big joke and hisgirlfriend said well, you know,
anything under 30% would be fine, over 30% gay in a photo.
I'm not going to let it happen.
And I said, great, I'm only at28.5%.
(47:45):
It was funny.
I thought it was funny.
Take a photo together.
We hang out and shoot the shitand he picks only American fans
tank top and he says hey man,give me your business card, dude
.
And he said when I wear this,I'll tag all your social medias,
I'll give you a shout out, andI never asked for that.
I couldn't believe that.
I thought that was absolutelyamazing.
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He has not done that yet, but Ihave the confidence that he
will.
But it was so cool to meetsomebody that you consider like
an icon, somebody that providesyou relief and entertainment I
don't know how else to put it.
Going through COVID and allthose things when the world was
stopping and everything wasgoing to shit, wrestling was a
constant.
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When sports were ending andcouldn't be played, wrestling
was a constant.
They they had a facility withjust wrestlers and they just
performed, entertain people weekafter week, and it was released
.
For me, that got me away fromall the nonsense.
You know all the bullshit goingon in the world, all the hate
and discontent and and thediseases and all that stuff.
And I think about me as a kid.
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I was a major wrestling fan.
Growing up, my first friendsand role models and inspirations
were wrestlers.
Right when you're getting outthere, before you actually start
building your own friends andstuff.
Like I looked up to thosepeople.
I've always been inspired bywrestling.
So to meet somebody that you'relike this is one of my favorite
dudes on the tube right now.
To meet him and have him be solegit, so accommodating to the
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conversation, so inviting, andthen to literally be like
brother, I'll shout you out thatfor me was a milestone.
It was so damn cool.
I will post the photo in one ofthese days, soon.
I didn't want to post it rightaway and have him think I was
just like you know, reaching forfame or something.
I genuinely just wanted to givesomebody that I think is an
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absolute stud something like athank you, thank you for all the
years of entertainment, thankyou for being a freaking,
genuine dude.
I just want to give this to youthe fact that I have somebody
that literally I could, couldaspire to be like.
I always want to be a wrestleras a kid.
To have somebody out theredoing, living, experiencing
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something I always wanted to,and to have him rocking like my
brand, my goal, my mission, mycause.
That was incredible, dude, likeso incredible.
I can't wait to see or hearthat he finally rocked his shirt
and represented loud, proudamerican.
That's an absolute freakinghonor for me.
I'm so stoked about it.
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I just keep waiting for it tohappen for one of my buddies
about dude, I just saw braunstrowman on tv wearing one of
your shirts, so he just taggedyou to wait for my phone to go
off an instagram tag that braunstrowman's rocking my shit
Absolutely mind-blowing.
Those are encounters that youdon't really have happen here in
Maine.
You're only getting thosethings outside of your comfort
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zone, and that was a reward forstepping outside of our comfort
zone.
I couldn't believe it.
I was on cloud nine.
I was literally fangirlingaround the tent telling Brian
like dude, I can't believe thisshit man.
I was so stoked about it.
We made jokes on the way down toFlorida Like, hey, who are we
going to meet this week?
Who do you want to meet?
You want to give something to,to see them rocking your stuff?
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I never expected it to be broadfreaking Stroman, it's pretty
awesome.
I was, I was stoked, absolutelystoked, and, um, I'm so stoked
and excited and fired up withthis conversation and this
journey and this trip that wewent on, that we're pushing an
hour and I haven't even goneover all the details, all the
stories.
There's too much.
We lived on the road for twoweeks.
(51:21):
There's too much stuff to packinto um, one entire episode.
I just can't do it.
I just can't do it.
I honestly I'm finding myselftalking too fast right now, Like
I'm literally, um, I'movertired, I'm overworked and um
, I'm I'm overly excited aboutwhat we just accomplished and um
(51:42):
, I, literally I want to, I wantto just spill all the beans
right now, but I can't.
I'm not giving this trip, thisjourney, the justice that it
deserves.
To me, the most important thingabout this trip was
relationships.
It's always people over product.
(52:03):
It's always people overtransactions right Relationships
over transactions,relationships over numbers over
finances.
That's what I really.
I'm going to let this episodelive on relationships.
The most important thing, themost critical thing, is people.
It's absolutely people.
I'm going to hang my hat on theconnections that we made, the
memories that we built and therelationships that we formed.
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That will carry on forever.
I'm stoked about that.
That we formed.
That will carry on forever.
I'm stoked about that.
The finances, the end resultssome more milestone moments and
achievements.
I'm going to save those.
I hate to do it, but we'regoing to bring that up on next
week's show.
We're pushing an hour.
I think it's a good time to go.
I apologize for not roundingeverything off into one episode
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on today's podcast.
We're going to get into somestuff that deserves some more
time.
The financial part of this,when you get into the risk and
reward on the chances we made,the investments that we had made
, the commitments that we made,the chances that we took.
Those things need to breathe.
They need an hour to bediscussed.
There's some challenges thathappened along the way
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heart-to-heart conversations,difficult decisions those things
need time to be discussed, needto be recapped properly, but
I'm so freaking excited aboutthe relationships we made, the
connections that were formed,the memories and the stories
that will live on forever.
I'm excited to have been ableto share some of those with you
today, based off the time.
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I don't want to drag our episodeout.
I don't want to dilute it.
I don't want to overshadowsomething.
We're going to hang it righthere.
We're going to hang our hat onthe fact that I am so blessed
and thankful for each and everyone of you that supported me,
each and every one of you thatreached out, that checked in,
each and every one of you thatshowed up and showed out in
Florida, and each and every oneof you that are first-time
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listeners that we met on theroad, that we had the
conversations, the opportunitiesto share each other's stories.
You're listening for the firsttime.
You are listening to share thisrecord podcast for the very
first time.
If you are a day one, or this isyour day one, I truly thank you
, each and every one of you.
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None of this is possible withoutyou.
The absolute biggest chance forour brand, the milestone moment
, the bucket list checkoff.
None of this is possiblewithout you.
I wake up each and every dayabsolutely blessed because of
each and every one of you, oldand new, the ones that I've
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known forever and the ones thatI just met over the past couple
of weeks is because of you thatI wake up blessed and I feel
blessed, and I know thatwhatever I put my mind and my
heart to shall come true.
I appreciate you Until nexttime, folks tune in.
Next week We'll get more intothe meat and potatoes, the black
and white on the numbers andwhether this was financially
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made sense, whether the reward'sfar greater than the risk, or
did I, you know, screw it up ordid I not really pan out?
We'll talk about that next time.
Okay, sorry to do this to youfolks, but that right there is
what the folks in the industrycall a cliffhanger.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Yeah, cliffhanger.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Not to be confused with a hanging Chad, which is an
election thing.
But I'm rambling because Ihaven't slept in forever and I
really want to tell you howeverything went, but I know I
shouldn't.
I can't do it, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
We need proper time to recapproper things.
Okay, and today was the mostimportant thing.
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Next week we're going to talkdollars and cents.
Did you make more dollars thancents?
Did it even make sense?
All that on tap on next week'sepisode of Share, the Shrugger
Podcast.
But until then, boys, girls andsquirrels, thank you for
supporting my American dream.
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Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
That's it and that's all BiggieSmalls.
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If you're a Loud, proudAmerican and you find yourself
just wanting more, find me onYouTube and Facebook at loud,
proud American, or the face page, as my mama calls it.
If you're a fan of the grahamcracker, you want to find me on
Instagram, or all the kids bytickety talking on the tick tock
, you can find me on both ofthose at loud, underscore, proud
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, underscore American.
Find me on both of those atloud, underscore, proud,
underscore american.
A big old thank you to the boysfrom the gut truckers for the
background beats and the themesong to this year's podcast.
If you are enjoying what you'rehearing, you can track down the
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Gut Truckers on Facebook.
Just search Gut Truckers.
Give them, motherfuckers, alike too.
Feel the pain, make it bleed.
Speaker 2 (57:32):
I hate to say.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
I told you, so I truly thank you for supporting
my American dream.
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
Loud Proud.
American's greatest challengeand biggest risk has been
completed, and today we recapthe adventure and discuss the
details.
How did it go, and was therewards worth the risk?
Let me tell you somethingEverybody struggles.
The difference is some peoplechoose to go through it and some
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choose to grow through it.
The choice is completely yours.
Which one you choose will havea very profound effect on the
way you live your life.
If you find strength in thestruggle, then this podcast is
for you.
Do you have a relationship thatis comfortable with
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uncomfortable conversations?
Uncomfortable conversationschallenge you, humble you and
they build you.
When you sprinkle a little timeand distance on it, it all
makes sense.
Most disagreements, they stemfrom our own insecurities.
You are right where you need tobe Back on time.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
We can fight the world the whole day gone by.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
What it do, what it hot, it'sdid-a-dee-do.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Good Lord, almighty, am I so excited to be back with
you.
Oh, it's true, it is damn true.
I miss you.
I miss all you beautiful,voluptuous, sexual, now proud
Americans out there, and I meanthat in the most politest and
politically correct kind of wayspossible.
I love y'all.
(01:45):
How can I not love you?
We are.
This is episode 244?
Question mark.
I believe Y'all believe thatwe're approaching 250 freaking
weeks of the podcast and thisweek I am coming to you
absolutely freaking tired.
Wow, am I blistered right now?
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I am beat.
I'm certain I sound like shit.
I can barely breathe through myface, I've lost my voice and I
feel like my lungs are filledwith Florida dust.
I don't really know.
I don't know what's happening,but it is my commitment to you,
my dedication to y'all, that hasme standing here today, proudly
back with you, recordinganother episode of that podcast,
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beautifully, perfectlyprecisely named Share the
Struggle, because everybodystruggles, and this week we are
going to recap the greatest,most recent struggle for myself,
my family and my brand, loudProud American.
If you have been listeningleading up to today's show, you
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know all the risk versus reward,all the analysis that went into
us deciding and committing toand working our way towards
Daytona Bike Week.
If you've been listening alongover the past few weeks, you've
heard me announce that we gotaccepted and we were going to
Bike Week.
You heard me come back here,tuck my tail between my legs and
tell you Lord, almighty, Ican't afford it.
And I had to get creative andpush things and pull things and
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close more business than Ipossibly thought I could to make
up the financial means to getthere.
I had to formulate a tag teampartner scenario, build a team
that was willing to put theirlives on hold to help me and my
brand and my family to achieve abucket list dream.
So before I go any further, Ireally need to wholeheartedly
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give the biggest, greatest, mostamazing winning.
Wednesday weekly shout out To mybrother from another mother,
brian Pomelo and his amazing son, zach.
Brian and Zach Pomelo they puttheir lives on hold to help Loud
, proud American achieve newheights.
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I can't thank you enough.
Brian's been telling me since Istarted the brand.
Me and BP used to work togetherat the Harley-Davidson
dealership and we've just stayedin contact and touch in our
relationship, I would argue, hasgotten even better since our
years of working together.
It's amazing to think howstrong it is now and how
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important that we are to eachother.
So when I launched this brandand I launched this podcast,
brian's been extremelysupportive.
He's been a champion for thebrand and I launched this
podcast.
Brian's been extremelysupportive.
He's been a champion for thebrand.
He was the first ever personthat I asked outside of my
family to help the brand to runthe tent to sell merchandise.
Him and his wife, christy, werethe first people I ever asked
to help.
And Brian said to me thisentire time the moment you
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decide to travel with this brand, you let me know.
I want to help.
And I reached out for Daytonaand I fully expected I would
take this journey on my own,because it's a lot to ask man.
It is a lot to ask.
We had to leave here on aMonday, drive through the night,
get to Florida on a Tuesday andwe'll recap this in a little
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bit have Tuesday to get settledin and Wednesday and Thursday to
set up.
Then you run bike week Friday,saturday, sunday, monday,
tuesday, wednesday, thursday,friday, saturday, sunday and
head out.
That's a huge commitment.
You're away from your familyfor a long time.
You're away from your incomefor a long time.
You're not just taking anenjoyable vacation, you're also
doing this to bust your ass andto help me try to make something
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of this brand and this event.
Brian and Zach put their liveson hold and I can't I can't
thank them enough and, to behonest spoiler alert here.
We're going to get into some ofthe risk and some of the
rewards at the end of thisepisode, and one of the greatest
rewards for me personally wasgetting to spend as much time as
I did with Brian and Zach andto put this in perspective for
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you guys.
If you know me and you've beenlistening on, if this is your
first episode, then some of thisis going to be new to you, but
if you've been listening andgetting to know me and my story
and my family and our struggles,then you know that it's been
just over a year since I lost mydad.
To be on a road trip a fatherand son road trip.
To be part of that road tripwas incredibly powerful and
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inspiring.
I will be transparent as allhell and I'll tell you there was
times when, when they weresleeping and I was driving, we
all would kind of take shiftsand I'm thinking about them and
I'm thinking about my father andthat I lost my father and that
what I would give for this typeof experience and journey with
my dad, so to be a part of theirexperience, to make the
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memories, to build stories thatare going to last a freaking
lifetime.
We lived basically like we'resupposed to live right, like
just flying off the seat of yourpants, taking things day by day
, enjoying every opportunity,balancing good and bad and just
being thankful for all thememories that we had.
That was us, man.
We lived like kings with littleresources.
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I don't know if that makessense to you guys.
We're building fires to makefood.
We don't have serving spoons.
We're creating spoons out ofbush light cans.
We're doing man shit.
You understand, we were justliving L-I-V-I-N and I loved
every freaking minute of it.
I'm so incredibly thankful forthe relationship I was able to
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form with young Zach because Ihadn't seen him since I worked
with Brian, which was shoot wellover 10 years ago.
So it was incredible.
It was incredible to have thatexperience, that connection.
So, brian and Zach, this week'sWinnie Wednesday weekly shout
out something I have not done ina very long time goes to you
too rightfully so.
I love you boys.
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I can't thank you enough.
Y'all are family.
I hope you understand that andI'd feel bad asking you to go
somewhere else again because ofall we went through, but I kind
of want to do it because we hadan amazing time and I love you
guys and I can't truly thank youenough.
I don't know how I'm going tofind the words or the ways to
repay you, but I will do thebest I possibly can, and it
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starts today by saying thank you, thank you, thank you so damn
much.
You helped me and my family putmy brand on the map in a way we
never thought possible, andthat's because you put your
lives on hold to help carry me.
And there's really no words toexpress how grateful I am and I
just wanted to put it out thereto the universe.
So if any of you listening youknow Brian and Zach or you
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happen to meet them at an event,make sure you thank them for me
and helping to build this brand.
So thank you, boys.
I really truly, trulyappreciate that.
And to get things kind ofrocking and rolling, as you can
tell by my voice and where I'mat, I'm really in recovery mode.
I am absolutely smoked.
I am so ever loving, tired.
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Our schedule there has beeninsane.
Like the way things went wasabsolutely insane.
To kind of, you know, sprinklea little, I guess I should say,
paint the picture here now thatwe sprinkle some time and
distance on it.
It's crazy.
We left on a Monday I want tosay 9, 9.30 in the morning, we
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hit the road and we got toFlorida the next day at 10.30,
11 o'clock, right.
So we drove straight throughthe freaking night.
I have so many stories that wecan get to at another time, but
I really just kind of want togive you a screenshot, snapshot
of how this went.
So I'm going to kind of runfast, I'm going to run through a
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timeline to kind of give youguys a little insight as to what
happened.
But we drove straight through.
We were in, I want to say,virginia and I started looking
up hotels and I said, fellas, Igot a room right here for about
60 bucks 70 bucks.
We can crash a few hours andget back on the road.
And Brian said, dude, weshouldn't waste money and we
should get there as soon as wecan, because who knows what's
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going to happen?
And if you started doing thetimeline on things, if we stayed
in the hotel for too long andthen left by the time we got to
the place we were going, there'dbe nobody to check us in, so we
couldn't unpack the bus, wecouldn't make camp, we couldn't
find a place to sleep, so itwould really create us having to
really buy two hotels.
So we said you know what?
We're going to run it.
We're going to drive straightthrough the night and BP is a
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road warrior.
That dude can drive like achamp.
He just loves a road trip andloves powering through.
The experience is made in afreaking school bus, a 2011
school bus driving I don't evenremember the mileage right.
A couple thousand miles, right?
Amazing.
There was some nervousnessbecause the bus has never run
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for more than two and a halfhours straight.
It decided to do 26 hours.
Out the gate.
She ran like an ever-lovingchampion.
The new Loud, proud AmericanBattle Axe business wagon
professional freakingawesomeness is fantastic.
Things went so well.
I'm looking forward to makingimprovements to it, but I could
not be happier with the waythings went.
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Brian nicknamed the bus LargeMarge as we were navigating
traffic out there, and Old Margetook great care of us.
Man, we had an absolute blastand it ran so well, so pretty
excited about that.
So, about 26 hours in we get toFlorida and, um, actually, let
me back up a little bit and tellyou that I left Maine and
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obviously you're going to goMaine, new Hampshire,
massachusetts, connecticut.
We got into Connecticut and gotpulled over by a state trooper
when he came up to the door.
I opened the door and, uh,cause you open the side door to
kind of let him in, cause it'sjust around the side of the
interstate.
And he says you know why I'mpulling you over.
And I said no, I was right down.
And he says you have an icebergon the top of your bus that
will literally kill somebody wethought we had.
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You know, I'm going to tell youthis.
We had about 15 inches of snowand ice on the roof and I
shoveled all that I could off ona ladder.
Some of it was frozen in themiddle and we tried to get it
off, leaving here.
Apparently said, iceberg madeits way to Connecticut.
Yes, that's a commitment, folks, that's a real commitment.
After talking with the officer,he said if you can get it off
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the roof, I won't give you aticket, I'll just give you a
warning.
And Brian said hell yeah, beright out there.
And we grabbed Zach, threw himon the roof, he shoveled it off
and came flying back down theother side, which in
retrospective, I think theofficer did not expect us to put
a human on the roof of a bus onthe side of 95.
I wanted to get a photo or videoat this moment, but I realized
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he might not think this is funnyand, uh, he probably doesn't
want that traveling around himlosing his job, so we just moved
about our business, all right,so we get to florida, we get to
uh cackleberry campground.
Cackleberry yeah, that's, wegather the locals kind of call
it, I think, but they were drunkwhen we were talking to him, so
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that might not be really how topronounce it, but it is
cackleberry campground.
Okay.
Now, the way Daytona is set upand we learned more about it
after being there is there'slittle segments of Bike Week
that kind of happen in differentlocations, like main
attractions, like Main Street,the local racetrack, like the
Speedway for the 500.
There's some Harley dealershipthat has a big area, there's
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some big bars that have areasfor vendors and stuff, and then
we're at this campground acrossthe street from the Cabbage
Patch, which is world famous forcoleslaw wrestling, and there's
a lot of vendors there.
There's entertainment there.
So when we got there, they setus up, showed us where we were
going to be under a tree in thefield, you could see the main
stage.
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We had a bar right in front ofus.
There was a big wheel of deathbehind us, or wall of death, and
we thought this is a greatlocation.
As we were to learn, I shouldhave thought more about this,
because one thing I've learnedbeing on the road and being a
vendor is that when people areshopping and they're at a fair
or a festival.
As crazy as this might sound,they're lazy.
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People are lazy, they like tofollow patterns.
People will get out and theywill walk the perimeter.
They will look at the middleand then make their decision
from the perimeter as to whetherthey're going to go to the
middle.
So, connected to us, we had aguy that was selling some knives
and then there was somereligious groups that were, you
know, blessing motorcycles,handing out Bibles, things like
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that, and people were just notcoming over to us at the rate in
which they would have had webeen on a perimeter.
So that was strike one for uswhen it comes to business.
But in the beginning we reallyhadn't really thought that right
.
But that ended up having amajor effect on us.
But for our first time we feltthat we stood out and it was a
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good spot for us.
Our camping scenario we wereable to put large marge and a
pretty awesome camping spot.
We had some shade, some flatarea, some trees.
The boys set up some tents.
We had a pretty nice littleponderosa set up.
Initial thought on that was hey, this is a fantastic camping
site.
Upon further review, the problemwith said camping site is.
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It is right next to the roadand every freaking person at
Bike Week wants to do a burnoutor to hammer on their motorcycle
, which just happens to beflying by your head while you're
sleeping, if you're sleeping.
And the other thing that hashappened is there's some locals
that do not appreciate Bike Weekapparently happening in their
town.
So they decide to take somevigilante justice into their own
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hands and they want to protestbike week.
So one Karen or as we politelynow begin to label Karens in our
state, janets one particularJanet decides every morning at
six in the morning to roll bythe campground laying on the
horn, literally just hammeringon the horn, to wake everybody
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in the campground up, to thenget their coffee, turn around
and come back and do it again.
So every morning at like six,six oh five, janet rolls by on
the horn to wake you up, get hercoffee, you hopefully start to
fall back asleep.
And here she comes, right backagain to wake your ass up again.
If y'all want a full frontalconfessional right now, I'll put
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my hand on Cabello's catalog.
Be the little eyes of the skythat choose from this guy.
We made a plan by the end of theweek.
When we're leaving on the lastday, we know what time old
Janet's coming by.
I'm going to pop out of thedamn bushes and I don't care if
it's a.
If it's a potato, an egg or aturd, it's coming at your van.
Okay, probably your minivan.
That was the plan.
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What I didn't count on is thatthe last day we'd be there as a
Sunday and Janet decides thatshe makes coffee at home on
Sunday.
So you avoided us this time,janet.
Anyways, that is our thoughtprocess versus reality.
We thought we had a greatlocation for the business and a
great location for camp.
Reality is, yeah, they both hadtheir challenges.
Okay, so we end up arriving atour location a few days early,
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which is like we planned it.
We didn't know if we're goingto run into the kind of hiccups,
what the situation might be,and for us to make camp we had
to really empty the bus.
So we set up the shell for thevendor display right for the
Loud Proud American booth, put abunch of things on the wall.
Then we go back, set up campand on our first night we go out
and meet some locals.
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We go across the street to theCabbage Patch and just kind of
celebrate the fact that we'vemade it have a few drinks and
then come back and shut it down.
But that gave us Tuesday right.
That's Tuesday night.
Bike week doesn't start untilFriday.
We have Wednesday and Thursdayand what was pretty awesome is
that Lisa from Bentley SaloonBentley's girlfriend Lisa.
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She had called and checked into see how we were doing and she
said you know what?
I know?
You guys are kind of confinedto where you are.
I'm going to be your tour guide, I'm going to take care of you.
Lisa picked us up and on nightone she brought us downtown,
showed us Main Street.
We checked out every single bar.
We went to all these differentplaces.
She introduced us into so manypeople, to so many people.
We took photos with so manyfolks.
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She made a connection betweenme and Doug, who owns Sick Boy,
which is a very successfulmotorcycle rock and roll apparel
brand.
He has a storefront in Deadwood, dakota, and he also has a
temporary storefront that opensup right on Main Street during
bike week.
So pretty awesome to meet aninspiration, somebody that
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started much like we have, thathas built a massive empire for
himself.
So that was rather inspiring.
I really learned a masterclassin promotion and spending two
days with Lisa.
The way she goes about herbusiness.
She's always looking for a wayto market herself and her
business.
She's always pushing BentleySaloon.
Everybody ran into you.
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She was so polite to introduceus and mention the brand and try
to drive traffic our way, whichabsolutely helped.
I learned so much.
It was incredible.
So for two days Lisa was ourtour guide and she showed us
around and it was tremendous.
We get to see parts of Floridathat we never thought we'd be
able to because we knew we wouldbe stuck at the campground and
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just trying to work and get ourthings done.
So it was incredible.
I'm forever grateful to Lisafor showing us around and doing
those things and the people wegot to meet.
It was pretty damn awesome.
I was able to spend a bunch oftime with another brother from
another mother, dirk, who I metthrough Bentley himself, and
usually Dirk and I we spend timemore at the saloon.
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Occasionally we pull off a funroad trip and connect in
Nashville.
But this was another time whereI was able to hang out with
Dirk, spend a week together,introduce him to Brian and Zach
party with him.
His girl, lori, showed up, youknow, and we were able just to
kind of have this nighttimerelaxation mode right.
We unplug from work and justkind of hang out and crush beers
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and share stories and just makeup ridiculous things.
And that was that was a greattime, you know.
And and having your jerksupport everywhere.
As he went, he was putting mystickers out there every day.
He's pushing a new person to mytent to buy something.
I met Dirk at breakfast and Ineed to be in here to buy this
shirt.
That's a support, that's thefriendship, and you're going to
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really hear an emphasis with meon people because spoiler alert
that's what this is all about,that's what life's about, that's
what the brand is about, it'sabout people, and this trip
really drove that home even moreand more from us, because it
really comes down to therelationships we've already made
and the relationships that wewill continue to make.
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And to kind of just spell thisout for you, I'm going to get
into a couple of fantasticencounters that I feel like are
just motivational and monumentalfor us, but I also want to
really sprinkle some emphasis onthe relationships that we
already have, and without thosethese things wouldn't be
possible.
And when I say that I mean.
First off, you think about therelationship between Brian and
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Zach to help me get there and tomake this possible, the
relationship with Lisa to showus all around.
And then the surprising visitsthat I had while in Florida from
customers that either have beenbuying from us for years, see
us at the saloon or follow us onsocial media, coming in and
saying, hi, hey, man, I followyou.
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You, I bought a shirt from youat bentley saloon.
I saw you were down here.
So many conversations like thishappened during the week.
It was mind-blowing.
Uh, former employees of minecoming in to see me and be like
man, I'm so happy that you'rehere.
Family members stopping in tosurprise me and literally like
our extended family out in NewYork Little Paisley Reigns,
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godparents, lance and Jen, kipand Shelly.
They surprised us.
They literally rolled into thetent with a bag full of gifts
for Little Paisley and said, hey, I'd rather save on shipping.
Here's this for the little one.
And then they proceed to alsospend money while they're there,
lance and Jen.
I think was one of our largestcustomer purchases of the entire
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freaking bike week and they cansee me, find me and support me
any damn time they want.
So it's incredible.
It's incredible to have theserelationships in our life,
because without them, none ofthis is possible.
And the best part about thiswhole trip was that we built
some more relationships.
Now they're not all gonna turninto the tremendous
relationships that I referenced,but that's what life's about
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folks.
It's about meeting people.
It's about making memories,it's about leaving impressions.
That's what life's about.
There needs to be somethingthat just makes you feel
fulfilled.
There needs to be somethingthat makes you feel important.
There needs to be somethingthat makes you want to get up
every day, and for me, one ofthose things is meeting people,
impacting people and formingthose relationships.
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And this whole trip showed mehow amazing those things are.
And all the people that checkedin throughout the week trying
to see how we were doing which Igot, to be honest, those of you
that reached out and I couldn'tget back to you, I am sorry.
The schedule that we kept downthere was absolutely insane and
it was incredibly difficult tostay on top of things.
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And just to kind of give youlike a little scenario on the
life and times as to how thingsrolled out there, we would try
to be down there around 11 amish.
At noontime there's thenational anthem and then things
get going and then there wouldbe, you know, three bands a day
at our location.
Entertainment in between allthe bands from anything from a
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wet t-shirt contest to midgetwrestling, to fire dancing,
whatever there's alwayssomething going on.
Our location stayed open tillat least 1 am.
The bar across the streetstayed open until 3 am.
So if you would work all day atour location, you would then go
across the street because youneed to unwind and you can't
sleep anyways because it's toodamn loud, and you'd have a few
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beers and you'd come back by thetime you get back to camp.
Sometimes you're walking aroundthe camp just trying to expel
energy and burn yourself out togo to sleep.
So on an average night we couldbe going to bed 3.30, 4 in the
morning and, as you just heard afew minutes ago, janet's going
to roll by at 6 am and wake yourass up.
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People are going to get up ontheir motorcycles and go
blistering by.
Some folks are going to leavetheir radios on all night, are
going to leave their radios onall night.
I'm telling you it is almostimpossible to sleep.
We probably averaged, I wouldsay three to four hours sleep a
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night.
We got into the routine that werealize we're going to get up in
the mornings Everybody's goingto wake us up and maybe take a
shower or have something forbreakfast and then try to catch
a nap before we had to open ifyou at all could to really just
try to get through the day.
The schedule was insane, folks.
It was absolutely insane.
I've taken showers in themorning, in the middle of the
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day, when the boys are watchingthe tent.
I took a shower at 1.30 in themorning.
It was, and the showersthemselves were absolutely
sketchy.
So our schedule we ran forbasically two weeks on three to
four hours sleep a night, don'tforget.
We had two instances of drivingstraight through the night 26,
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27 hour trips, sleeping for ahalf an hour here and there on
the floor of the bus.
We are beat.
Today I am smoked.
If I didn't get a chance totalk to you, to answer your call
, to shoot back a message, Iapologize.
I'm going to do the best I canto get back.
But this trip, man, it tookevery ounce of energy and effort
you had to make it through andthat's the truth, y'all.
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That is the absolute truth, butthat's our, that's our schedule
and that's how how things went,man.
Getting back to our discussionon relationships and the fact
that I truly feel life is aboutrelationships, it's about the
connections you make and thememories that you can, that you
can build and a lot of timesthose things are fate I feel
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like we are put in a certainplace with a certain face for a
very certain reason.
If you have been listening allthese years on the podcast, you
know that I met Lance and Jenwhile giving away a motorcycle,
working in a previous career,and now, from that one encounter
, they've become brothers andsisters to us.
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They've become Paisley Rains,godparents.
People are put in our way,they're put in our paths for a
reason, for a purpose.
But if we don't open ourselvesup, if we don't engage in
conversation, if we don't allowourselves to be vulnerable, then
you're going to walk throughlife often missing your purpose.
You're going to walk throughlife often missing your purpose.
You're going to walk throughlife often missing your person,
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and I mean that on all aspectsof life, on all layers of family
and relationship, because I'm afirm believer that you don't
just, you're not just given thefamily that you're born into.
You have the ability to buildand form and develop your own
family with friends that mightnot be blood, but they're going
to be closer than blood.
You understand, but you need toallow yourself to be open to
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those things.
And if you walk through lifejust shut down, sheltered,
self-centered, protected, youwill prevent yourself from
meeting your person, fromfinding your purpose.
That could be a life lesson tothose of you that are listening,
that are single and you haven'tmet your person yet.
You need to be open, you needto be transparent.
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You don't want to be takenadvantage of, but you need to
allow yourself experiences.
Put yourself in situationswhere you might feel vulnerable,
you might feel uncomfortable,but you'll be surprised who you
meet and what relationships youmake.
That could be a significantother.
That could be a future bestfriend.
That could be a significantother that could be a future
best friend.
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That could be somebody youconsider a brother, a sister, it
doesn't matter.
You need to open yourself up.
But I truly feel like people areplaced in our paths for a very
particular reason, but we fartoo often miss those people
because we're shutting down,because we're unwilling to be
vulnerable or we're unwilling toexplore, to take a chance,
start a conversation.
I'm saying all this because Itruly feel like I found another
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person that's going to be in mylife for a long time.
I truly feel like I madeanother connection with somebody
that not only is going to helpme personally as an individual,
but is going to help mepersonally as an individual, but
is going to help me personallyas a business owner, as a brand.
Somebody that I'm going to beable to help personally in a
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friendship, supportive, brotherrole.
Someone that is driven muchlike I am, that I can use my
resources to help him achievehis goals.
That's what life's about, folkswhen you can meet somebody,
that you can motivate each other, you can support each other and
you can push each other.
We go through life notrealizing how much we can help
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somebody else by just tappinginto our own resources and
connections, and I met somebodythat I'm so excited about.
Number one the fact that I wasable to meet them.
It happened organically,naturally.
We have an amazing connectionand we just jived, we just hit
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it off and we're both motivatedto achieve our goals.
Even though vastly different,we know we can support each
other.
So that's a quick story that Iwant to highlight on today's
recap special of the Loud, proudAmerican Daytona Bike Week, and
we're going to do that next.
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All right, all right, all right, before that little Lal Proud
American B-roll spectacular,rick, that I should have
hopefully encouraged some of youto buy American.
You heard me talk about theimportance of relationships, the
fact that people are put in ourpaths for a particular reason,
and I do truly believe in a lotof things come right down to
fate, and fate just so had itthat I needed to be on a bar
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stool next to my next brotherfrom another mother.
So on the arrival of Dirk whenDirk showed up, it was actually
on day two of Lisa's tour ofFlorida, so me and the boys have
been getting into the sauce alittle bit.
We met Dirk at the gate, we gothim set up at camp, brian hit
the hay, me and Zach went acrossthe street to participate in
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some hydration festivities.
So, while getting ourselvesacclimated to the locals, put
down a few bevvies.
We worked into a corner of thebar.
We met our new friend, abby, anawesome bartender that we had a
great connection with.
She took care of us all week,told us where to be, when to be
there, all these great things.
And Abby's become a good friendand I know that we're going to
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keep a connection going with heras well.
She's down there rocking LoudPod American gear, sharing our
stuff, spreading the good gospeland the good word and, uh,
we'll touch on this stuff later,but I think Abby's going to be
able to help us switch sides ofthe road.
If we go back down, maybe betterour location, but, um, abby was
a great person and a lot oftimes when you're at bike week
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or you're at these big eventsand you meet bartenders, they
don't always take the time tohave conversations with you.
It's really transactional basedand, if you know me,
everything's about relationships.
I think our whole brand isbuilt on relationships.
If you haven't already heardthat, I don't believe in just
selling you a t-shirt, takingyour 27 bucks and never talking
to you again.
I want to sell you your t-shirtand hope that you always come
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back for sure.
I want to get to know you andyour family and I want to know
why you consider yourself a Loud, proud American.
Where you live, what's yourstory?
And in doing so, you want tolearn about me and my story and
my brand and my family.
We become invested in eachother and that has you being a
loyal supporter of the brand,somebody that's not just buying
a t-shirt, that is buyingmultiple things over the course
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of the years, and maybe it'sjust one thing, but you're
encouraging other people to comebuy things, and I think that
Abby is going to be a greatfriend of ours and a great
supporter of the brand.
And she's just a people personthat opened herself up and had
conversations with us and wasinvested in our success.
Every day when we showed up atthe bar, it was how did it go
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today?
How's things going over there?
That type of deal giving usinsight on how things went on
their side to really offer agreat perspective on business
and on traffic.
That was so, so invaluable.
I can't even tell you how muchthat that meant.
So that was so, so invaluable.
I can't even tell you how muchthat that meant and, ironically,
abby had a friend at the barthat was sitting one bar stool
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away from me.
There was a stool in between usand this heavily intoxicated
young lady sat between us andshe was just sloppy, hammered
right.
She's bouncing off of Danieland off of me and we're both
trying to ignore her andoccasionally we would lock eyes
with each other like what isthis broad doing?
She gets so loaded and she justkeeps tapping my shoulder and
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trying to interject in ourconversations, with a
conversation that went a lotlike this Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Ah, yeah, ah, you, you, you, ah, you, you, you, you
, you, you, you, you, you, youguys.
Oh my God, you, you, you, you,you, you guys, you, you guys,
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you, you, you, you guys, youguys, you guys are great, you
guys are great, you guys.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
You guys are great.
That's the conversation.
That's the conversation.
And I'd look around and go,thank you very much.
She dropped something like anapkin or a credit card, I don't
know, went between my legs andshe went down to get it and put
her hand on my leg and I lookedover at Daniel and I was like oh
my God, and she popped up andthen she was back to rubbing on
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Daniel and it was this reallyawkward interaction.
And then she says to me you,you married.
And I said yes, I am happilywith a kid at home.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I knew it I knew it.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Anyways, she leaves Me and Daniel start having an
interaction and it's basicallyoff of Blisterface over here,
who was just absolutelyblistered.
No offense against her face oranything, but she was beyond
white, gold-wasted.
I took Dirk's phone.
He had Jukebox app on his phone.
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I was hitting the old Jukebox,daniel was hitting the Jukebox.
Before you know it, we're allsinging West Virginia songs and
Country Road and John Denver andFishing in the Dark and Cody
Jinks and Hank Williams andwhatever.
We're just having a good oldfashioned hootenanny and we hit
it off.
We absolutely hit it off.
In that time we had aconversation who are you?
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What do you do?
What brings you to Bike Week?
Daniel is born and raised inIowa, like a citizen himself, uh
, made in Texas, so, born inIowa, made in Texas, and he's a
country singer.
And instantly I, you know, toldhim what we do, what we believe
in, what we stand for, and westarted swapping um social media
handles, following each other,and, uh, you know, I made the
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commitment to come see him playthis week and he would come over
and see the tent and checkthings out and we just kind of
had a great time and Abby toldall of us.
You need to be back heretomorrow because there's a band
in here that you're going tolove these young kids named
Mantra.
They're phenomenal.
And she wasn't kidding.
This was some of the best livemusic I've ever seen.
The boys were so incrediblytight and polished.
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They were playing Led Zeppelinand Pink Floyd and all these
classic bands and you can tellthese young kids were heavily
influenced by Zeppelin.
They were incredible.
Every single finish to a songwas a concert album quality
finish.
It was incredible.
They are literally ready.
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They're recording live.
Their live music is like aprofessional recording.
It's incredible.
They're moving to Nashville.
Mark my words on this date asI'm recording this, when this
episode drops on a winningWednesday the band Mantra.
They're headed to Nashville.
They will be somebody someday.
Mark my words, they'reincredible.
Addie told us to come back andwatch them.
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She wasn't wrong.
She didn't mislead us.
We're there watching him andjust jamming out and we were so
blown away.
And Daniel walks in the bar,spots us, comes over and hangs
out and we just start crushingbeers like a couple of bros.
You wouldn't think we'd justmet one night before.
Next thing you know he's acrossthe road with us checking out
bands over there walking thecampground area, like hanging
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out.
We're back and forth across thestreet just busting jokes and
carrying on like old friends,like like we were college
buddies that haven't seen eachother since we went to college,
which is something that I'venever done, but you know what
I'm saying.
We already felt like there wasa connection there.
Man, it was weird.
It was like two people thathave been friends for a long
time, like old middle schoolbuddies, reconnected and just
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picking up where they left off.
It was incredible and we werejust connected.
We shared a lot of sameinterests and had great
conversation and we just partieddown like a couple of fucking
brojos.
Okay.
So we were having a blast andwe continue just to kind of
support each other.
This entire conversation, thisentire relationship, all this
thing's kind of bubbling up.
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Naturally, this is somethingthat is completely organic.
There's not nobody involved inthis scenario is trying to um
chase somebody for a reason youknow what I'm saying.
Like it's not a dude at the barhitting on a chick cause he
wants to get laid.
It's not um somebody goingafter somebody cause he wants to
get paid.
It's not Daniel coming to melooking for free merchandise.
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It's not me coming to himbecause he's some country singer
right.
We met organically A few daysafter hanging out and partying,
getting to know each other, wegot the opportunity to see
Daniel perform live and I'mgoing to take out my Cabela's
catalog right now.
Let me get it.
Hang on, you, hang on, you'rebetter with me All right, here
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you go, hang on, Hang out myCabela's catalog right now.
Let me get it hang on, you hangon, you keep hanging, you keep
hanging.
I got it right here now.
I got it right now.
I got it right here now.
You ready?
Hear this Bell's catalog on thetable.
Sir, please place your lefthand on the catalog and place
your.
Be the last to the sky.
Raise your right hand andconfess the truth from this guy.
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Daniel Johnson is one of thebest fucking country singers
I've ever seen.
That boy has a voice, apresence, a personality and an
ability.
I'm telling you right now, ifyou know me and you've been
listening, you know how much Ilove music, how impactful music
is to me.
I have multiple differentlyrics tattooed all over me from
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the musicians.
I have a Johnny Cash portraiton me.
I'm inspired by music.
I'm moved by music.
I feel like it tells a storyand it can really play a major
factor in our lives.
If you've heard episodes of thispodcast, all the way back we
talk about meeting Jamie Johnsonand the importance that he has
in my life.
Man, daniel reminds me, hisvoice reminds me of a Jamie
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Johnson, whitey, morgan, codyJinx type of vibe.
It's unbelievable man.
His voice, his new age, outlawcountry old school soul.
It's absolutely incredible.
He shredded it and I wasliterally like I can't believe
how good this dude is.
Like I was so happy, I was soproud for him.
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I almost started crying becauseit was like, dude, I didn't
know you had this ability.
Like I didn't know, like I hadall the confidence in him and he
was good because, like he'sjust a good dude and he's he's
chasing his dreams.
He covered 26 states last yearchasing his dreams and I'm so
incredibly inspired by his story.
But I was moved emotionallywhen I saw him and I heard him
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sing, like it meant somethingand I was so proud for him
because I was like man, I knowwe're just getting to know each
other but holy shit, dude, Ididn't know this was the ability
you possessed and it wasincredible.
I proceeded from that moment totell every single person that
had an opportunity arise tospeak of music Oftentimes I
created the opportunity.
I told everybody that I raninto.
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You go see this motherfucker.
You go see him.
Here's his schedule.
You find him.
You support him.
You look him up online.
Here's his links.
Here's who he is.
You find him.
You're not going to bedisappointed.
You're going to love him.
I made multiple friends over thecourse of a week just
suggesting Daniel to thembecause they would come see me
the next morning and say, dude,that was unbelievable, let me
buy a t-shirt.
And I was so moved by hisability I really was.
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His storytelling ability, theemotions in which he puts into
songs, it was incredible.
When you know the person behindthe ability, it's a whole
different level of awesome.
I was so thankful that I methim before I heard him so I
could appreciate him and ourrelationship could be
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appreciated for being organic.
It's not one that was like thisdude heard me sing, he's going
to try to ride my coattails.
No man, we were bros beforethat and now that I know you and
I hear you, I literally justone morning I'm like laying in
the bus just trying to wake upand I'm like dude, I got to help
.
This morning I'm like laying inthe bus just trying to wake up
and I'm like dude, I gotta helpthis dude.
I gotta help this dude.
There's something I can do.
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I can find a way to help thisdude.
He's rocking the south.
I'm in the north, I can beat onthe drum.
That is daniel johnson.
I can bring him to our people.
I can welcome him to our, ourcircle and expose him to us.
Right, I can do something tohelp and in turn, I feel like
Daniel's the type of guy that'sgoing to do something to help us
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.
We're both in separateterritories, but we're both
motivated to attain our goals.
As much as they're vastlydifferent, they're very similar
and I'm so happy to announcethat over some beers, we've
decided that Daniel Johnson isgoing to be the first ever
musician sponsored by Loud ProudAmerican.
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Hell or high water.
We will find a way to brandtogether and support Daniel
Johnson.
So please, please, please, lookforward to hearing more about
Daniel Johnson.
He will be on a future podcastepisode and we can lock down our
schedules Until then.
You can find him at DanielJohnson Music Check all
platforms.
He has one of his own songsright now that is actually in
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the top 50 on country radio inTexas I believe it's at number
44, one of his own songs, a songwritten by him and his friends.
That's absolutely incredible.
One of the things that reallydrove this home for me that it
was fate was the next morningI'm listening to Daniel Johnson
at the campground, we'recrushing his songs by the bus
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and I found a video of his fromTikTok and I sent it to my wife
and I was like this is my buddy,you got to listen to this.
She wrote back to me and saidoh my God, I know that song.
I already follow that dude onTikTok.
He popped up on my For you page.
That's crazy to me.
This is a dude on the come up.
He's not nationally known.
He's out there bootstrappinghis things.
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He's trying to figure this out.
He's on the road in a cloud ofdust trying to make things
happen.
Ellie found him on TikTok.
He popped up on her For youpage.
She already follows him.
She already loves the song andlistens to him.
I was able to show him thosemessages and it blew his mind.
All those things line up to showthis was fate.
All those things line up to saythat we're supposed to be
together.
We're in each other's paths fora purpose.
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There's a reason.
We will help each other.
One of the most amazinghighlights and blessings of this
entire journey was meetingDaniel and the fact that I know
our paths will continue to bewound together, bound forever.
Daniel Johnson music please,please, please, look that dude
up.
We will share more and more andmore in the days to come.
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But, spoiler alert, that is thebiggest highlight of the entire
trip.
You can make and replacedollars and cents, but you can't
control fate.
That was supposed to happen.
That is the best thing thathappened.
Before I move on to the finalresults the meat and bananas of
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the road trip before I move onto those things, I want to
highlight another amazingencounter that I had, one that
blew my mind and left me kind offangirling a little bit.
Okay, it was embarrassing alittle.
Okay, it was a littleembarrassing, but I don't have a
lack of sleep and a lot ofalcohol, okay.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
Oh, my God.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Okay, y'all know I'm a huge wrestling fan, right, we
talk about all the time.
You hear a bunch of myimpersonations on here.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine.
I love wrestling and, uh, I wasat.
I was at my tent, I was at thevendor booth hanging out and I
saw this big son of a bitchwhich that's his.
That's part of the it's on hist-shirt.
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Braun Strowman real name, adamShear, who competed in World's
Strongest man competitions, isan absolute beast, one of my
favorite people to watch on WWE.
And he was there walking aroundwith his girlfriend and a buddy
of his and I was like you gottabe fucking kidding me, man.
That's Braun Strowman rightthere.
No joke, he's a like-mindedindividual.
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He's always riding motorcyclesand just doing cool shit.
I always kind of thought BraunStrowman's a dude that could
rock Loud, proud, american.
That's a dude I should send acare pack to.
I see him and I'm kind ofpacing back and forth.
Finally I'm like all right andI had to go over and interject
into like his, his conversationand his like line of direction.
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I guess he's walking.
I had to go intercept him.
This dude, braun stroman, Ithink, is like I don't know six,
eight, six, ninesomething-pluspounds.
He's a monster, okay, jacked upto the high heavens.
I got to slide over there andinterject to him and I say hey
man, dude, can I just jump inhere for a second man?
(46:19):
I hate to interrupt you,brother.
I actually wanted to yell fromacross the parking lot that's
one big son of a bitch.
But I didn't do that because Ididn't want to embarrass you.
And I didn't do that because Ididn't want to embarrass you and
I didn't want you to get pissedoff.
And he started laughing and Isaid dude, this is my brand
behind me here, can I give you afucking t-shirt, man, can I
just give you a t-shirt?
(46:39):
And he's like you want to giveme a shirt?
I'm like, yes, please come in.
And he came in my tent and westarted talking wrestling fan
brother, I'm a massive fan ofyours and I literally was going
to give you my best Pat McAfee,across the field out here, but I
didn't want to draw attentionto you and have a bunch of
people kind of harassing you.
So I apologize, but like, Ijust wanted to meet you, dude,
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and he was so genuine and downto earth and awesome and
receptive to me, approaching him.
We had conversations like heasked me about the brand,
basically how I started it, whatI'm doing.
It was really cool.
He showed any interest in me.
We had a great conversation.
We took a photo together.
I was like, hey, man, I hate to.
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I don't mean to go all fangirlon you, but if I don't get a
picture together then my wife'sgoing to call bullshit on this
whole thing.
I'm like I'm not gay oranything.
And he's like, oh no, I meanit's cool if you are.
He made this big joke and hisgirlfriend said well, you know,
anything under 30% would be fine, over 30% gay in a photo.
I'm not going to let it happen.
And I said, great, I'm only at28.5%.
(47:45):
It was funny.
I thought it was funny.
Take a photo together.
We hang out and shoot the shitand he picks only American fans
tank top and he says hey man,give me your business card, dude
.
And he said when I wear this,I'll tag all your social medias,
I'll give you a shout out, andI never asked for that.
I couldn't believe that.
I thought that was absolutelyamazing.
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He has not done that yet, but Ihave the confidence that he
will.
But it was so cool to meetsomebody that you consider like
an icon, somebody that providesyou relief and entertainment I
don't know how else to put it.
Going through COVID and allthose things when the world was
stopping and everything wasgoing to shit, wrestling was a
constant.
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When sports were ending andcouldn't be played, wrestling
was a constant.
They they had a facility withjust wrestlers and they just
performed, entertain people weekafter week, and it was released
.
For me, that got me away fromall the nonsense.
You know all the bullshit goingon in the world, all the hate
and discontent and and thediseases and all that stuff.
And I think about me as a kid.
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I was a major wrestling fan.
Growing up, my first friendsand role models and inspirations
were wrestlers.
Right when you're getting outthere, before you actually start
building your own friends andstuff.
Like I looked up to thosepeople.
I've always been inspired bywrestling.
So to meet somebody that you'relike this is one of my favorite
dudes on the tube right now.
To meet him and have him be solegit, so accommodating to the
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conversation, so inviting, andthen to literally be like
brother, I'll shout you out thatfor me was a milestone.
It was so damn cool.
I will post the photo in one ofthese days, soon.
I didn't want to post it rightaway and have him think I was
just like you know, reaching forfame or something.
I genuinely just wanted to givesomebody that I think is an
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absolute stud something like athank you, thank you for all the
years of entertainment, thankyou for being a freaking,
genuine dude.
I just want to give this to youthe fact that I have somebody
that literally I could, couldaspire to be like.
I always want to be a wrestleras a kid.
To have somebody out theredoing, living, experiencing
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something I always wanted to,and to have him rocking like my
brand, my goal, my mission, mycause.
That was incredible, dude, likeso incredible.
I can't wait to see or hearthat he finally rocked his shirt
and represented loud, proudamerican.
That's an absolute freakinghonor for me.
I'm so stoked about it.
(50:17):
I just keep waiting for it tohappen for one of my buddies
about dude, I just saw braunstrowman on tv wearing one of
your shirts, so he just taggedyou to wait for my phone to go
off an instagram tag that braunstrowman's rocking my shit
Absolutely mind-blowing.
Those are encounters that youdon't really have happen here in
Maine.
You're only getting thosethings outside of your comfort
(50:38):
zone, and that was a reward forstepping outside of our comfort
zone.
I couldn't believe it.
I was on cloud nine.
I was literally fangirlingaround the tent telling Brian
like dude, I can't believe thisshit man.
I was so stoked about it.
We made jokes on the way down toFlorida Like, hey, who are we
going to meet this week?
Who do you want to meet?
You want to give something to,to see them rocking your stuff?
(51:00):
I never expected it to be broadfreaking Stroman, it's pretty
awesome.
I was, I was stoked, absolutelystoked, and, um, I'm so stoked
and excited and fired up withthis conversation and this
journey and this trip that wewent on, that we're pushing an
hour and I haven't even goneover all the details, all the
stories.
There's too much.
We lived on the road for twoweeks.
(51:21):
There's too much stuff to packinto um, one entire episode.
I just can't do it.
I just can't do it.
I honestly I'm finding myselftalking too fast right now, Like
I'm literally, um, I'movertired, I'm overworked and um
, I'm I'm overly excited aboutwhat we just accomplished and um
(51:42):
, I, literally I want to, I wantto just spill all the beans
right now, but I can't.
I'm not giving this trip, thisjourney, the justice that it
deserves.
To me, the most important thingabout this trip was
relationships.
It's always people over product.
(52:03):
It's always people overtransactions right Relationships
over transactions,relationships over numbers over
finances.
That's what I really.
I'm going to let this episodelive on relationships.
The most important thing, themost critical thing, is people.
It's absolutely people.
I'm going to hang my hat on theconnections that we made, the
memories that we built and therelationships that we formed.
(52:26):
That will carry on forever.
I'm stoked about that.
That we formed.
That will carry on forever.
I'm stoked about that.
The finances, the end resultssome more milestone moments and
achievements.
I'm going to save those.
I hate to do it, but we'regoing to bring that up on next
week's show.
We're pushing an hour.
I think it's a good time to go.
I apologize for not roundingeverything off into one episode
(52:48):
on today's podcast.
We're going to get into somestuff that deserves some more
time.
The financial part of this,when you get into the risk and
reward on the chances we made,the investments that we had made
, the commitments that we made,the chances that we took.
Those things need to breathe.
They need an hour to bediscussed.
There's some challenges thathappened along the way
(53:11):
heart-to-heart conversations,difficult decisions those things
need time to be discussed, needto be recapped properly, but
I'm so freaking excited aboutthe relationships we made, the
connections that were formed,the memories and the stories
that will live on forever.
I'm excited to have been ableto share some of those with you
today, based off the time.
(53:34):
I don't want to drag our episodeout.
I don't want to dilute it.
I don't want to overshadowsomething.
We're going to hang it righthere.
We're going to hang our hat onthe fact that I am so blessed
and thankful for each and everyone of you that supported me,
each and every one of you thatreached out, that checked in,
each and every one of you thatshowed up and showed out in
Florida, and each and every oneof you that are first-time
(53:55):
listeners that we met on theroad, that we had the
conversations, the opportunitiesto share each other's stories.
You're listening for the firsttime.
You are listening to share thisrecord podcast for the very
first time.
If you are a day one, or this isyour day one, I truly thank you
, each and every one of you.
(54:16):
None of this is possible withoutyou.
The absolute biggest chance forour brand, the milestone moment
, the bucket list checkoff.
None of this is possiblewithout you.
I wake up each and every dayabsolutely blessed because of
each and every one of you, oldand new, the ones that I've
(54:37):
known forever and the ones thatI just met over the past couple
of weeks is because of you thatI wake up blessed and I feel
blessed, and I know thatwhatever I put my mind and my
heart to shall come true.
I appreciate you Until nexttime, folks tune in.
Next week We'll get more intothe meat and potatoes, the black
and white on the numbers andwhether this was financially
(55:01):
made sense, whether the reward'sfar greater than the risk, or
did I, you know, screw it up ordid I not really pan out?
We'll talk about that next time.
Okay, sorry to do this to youfolks, but that right there is
what the folks in the industrycall a cliffhanger.
Speaker 2 (55:20):
Yeah, cliffhanger.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
Not to be confused with a hanging Chad, which is an
election thing.
But I'm rambling because Ihaven't slept in forever and I
really want to tell you howeverything went, but I know I
shouldn't.
I can't do it, I can't do it.
I can't do it.
We need proper time to recapproper things.
Okay, and today was the mostimportant thing.
(55:44):
Next week we're going to talkdollars and cents.
Did you make more dollars thancents?
Did it even make sense?
All that on tap on next week'sepisode of Share, the Shrugger
Podcast.
But until then, boys, girls andsquirrels, thank you for
supporting my American dream.
(56:07):
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
That's it and that's all BiggieSmalls.
(56:27):
If you're a Loud, proudAmerican and you find yourself
just wanting more, find me onYouTube and Facebook at loud,
proud American, or the face page, as my mama calls it.
If you're a fan of the grahamcracker, you want to find me on
Instagram, or all the kids bytickety talking on the tick tock
, you can find me on both ofthose at loud, underscore, proud
(56:50):
, underscore American.
Find me on both of those atloud, underscore, proud,
underscore american.
A big old thank you to the boysfrom the gut truckers for the
background beats and the themesong to this year's podcast.
If you are enjoying what you'rehearing, you can track down the
(57:11):
Gut Truckers on Facebook.
Just search Gut Truckers.
Give them, motherfuckers, alike too.
Feel the pain, make it bleed.
Speaker 2 (57:32):
I hate to say.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
I told you, so I truly thank you for supporting
my American dream.
Now go wash your fucking hands,you filthy savage.
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