Tyler Roberts!

The fellas sit down with new dad, fitness freak, comedica actor and writer Tyler Roberts to dig in to that balance, what it means to us, and how to keep it all moving!

Tyler hips us to the world of acting, the process of making a movie (be on the look out for his) and his personal philosophy on hard work. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom Dad Pod episode eight. Uh, another guest today. We
got Tyler Roberts in the building.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Tyler is a a.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Dad, a fitness guy.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
He fit.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
You can't see him. He jacked right now. He's but
he's we're in the sauna. He's in the arts. He's
an actor, he's Do you call yourself a comedian or
just tend comic acting or what's your Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's hard to say.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I mean I've done I've dabbled him stand up just
only a handful of time.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
So but yeah, I mean all my.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Preferred acting is down the comedic lane.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
On the writing I do is in the comedic lane.
Am I a comic? I don't know. Is that you know,
designated for stand ups? Or is that?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
I think so?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I don't even anyway, He's he makes sure that art
is a part of is life.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Fitness?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Is art your business?

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Right now? Is that what your your main income is?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Is?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
It is?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Stan I have, Well, the acting world has been kind
of my acting modeling has kind of been my main
source of income in Seattle for the last probably ten years,
with supplementation from construction and fitness stuff. But yeah, I

(01:34):
mean I moved to the island, which, yeah, I haven't.
Is isn't exactly a mecca for commercial acting. But I'm
still able to do a lot of the the you know,
commute to Seattle.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
So where are you from? Where were you? Where were
you born?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
And rized this Sam Jue island no ship, he's an
island boy.

Speaker 5 (01:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I thought you were from
I didn't. I had no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Cool yeah, roots born and raised here, did high school here?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yep?

Speaker 4 (02:03):
And then what happened or where'd you go?

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I played? I went to pursued football.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
So I went up to Western Washington University and played
college ball for four years, red shirt freshman. First year,
toward my a cl got back on the horse, played
you know, I jumped to full back, played some full back.
We brought in this just kick ass running back from

(02:31):
Boise State, Calvin McCarty, and played some full back. Then
I went back to running back. Then I went said, okay,
let me get my defensive fix, jumped over to defense
and blew my ACL out again, called it good, and
then the whole program actually collapsed after that.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
If they don't have a football program anymore, Tyler Roberts
there they.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
What are we doing?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
We're doing?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
But yeah, a lot it was tough because a lot
of my you know, buddies that I grew up with
playing or grew through that program with, we're faced with
the decision do we stay here and finish the degree
here or do we you know, go seek out one
more year playing elsewhere. And it was kind of a
split split group. I obviously wasn't playing anymore.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
So I stuck around at Western.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
But then I was like, oh, do I do a
general studies degree, which which was what I was doing,
and then actually football dissolving allowed me to really think
about what I wanted to graduate with, and everything aligned
with creative writing. All the courses I wanted to do
was that. So I was kind of like there was

(03:51):
born my my art side.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Were you doing did you grow up i know, writing, traying,
any any sort of creative and evers as.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
A Yeah, I mean from college my dad was in
a band all my youth, little rock group.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Called Kanaka Joe.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
And then.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Uh, actually in.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
High school we had a little group, little rap group
called Three am Raps where we were.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Here on the island.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Here on the island. Yeah, we made it.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
We were making little kind of mixtape style songs, you know,
rapping over and some indie beats and some mainstream beats, and.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, Tyler Tyler is the original Friday Harbor rap group.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
The Good Husbands.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
I've heard of the Good Husbands.

Speaker 5 (04:39):
Someone actually sent me in like just the other day.
It was like, I'm gonna do me m Is that.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
That is that? I think that's the one.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I'm not on that one. That one definitely kick
started the Good Husbands. That was like a jumping off
point we made. We shot a music video. My brother
shot the music video, and I was the one that
sent it to this like, ah, there's a blog It's
called g Mad Good Music All Day. And that got

(05:10):
the Good Husband's kind of circulating a little bit, got
the views on YouTube, you know.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
And you guys, I knew you guys had shows in
Seattle and toured and so was that right after Western
was when we started.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Doing what did that look like?

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, essentially moved to Seattle after Western and because some
of the boys were down there and we just started
cranking out the music and I was.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Working as a valet.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
A lot of us were downtown Seattle, Bellevue a little bit,
and then the music kind of picked up a bit.
I think I went to fish in Alaska for that
kind of.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Was the end of my.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
End of my career with the hotel. But then my
acting started to pick.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Up in Seattle or did you go did you move
out to Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I never did the LA thing, but in that community,
the more you do it, the more you kind of grow.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
You meet people.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
You know, got an agent down in Portland as well,
agency in Portland, Agency and Austin I think.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Where they're based.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
So yeah, you can kind of And then now with
the whole COVID thing, it's everything's gone to self tape
so you don't have to you don't have to roll
into to an audition. And when I first started out,
I would be driving my ass to Portland three hours
for a fifteen minute audition and then I'd drive back

(06:54):
to Seattle.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
And then you know, it's so maybe, right.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
How often were you doing that?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Well, Portland had a little thing going for a while.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
They had a number of awesome shows being shot there.
It was a couple of years of that, yeah, and
then obviously in Seattle was going on.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
But yeah, it was nice when I mean.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
We self taping was a thing, but a lot of
a lot of casting directors and you know, would not
they weren't down with.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
It, and.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
You got to go through the nerves you gotta. You know,
they give you the old fashioned.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
They give you a script for for the self taping
now like yeah, a script.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
They're called sides. So it's just like a little audition piece.
It might be a page long maybe to.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
That kind of tells you what you gotta do, like
kind of the mood or the you know, anything about it,
but trying to see how you would do that as
someone who's just like and it's just you kind of
in the mirror or not in the mirror, like in
the camera, like get zoned in, figure it out, hit
record and then.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well, yeah, it kind of depends if you're talking about
the self taper the self share room.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that is.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, typically you have your camera, your lights, and then
you have off screen readers, so you don't you're kind
of like performing the scene just off camera. You're just
looking off you're not engaging the camera.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, okay, cool, And.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
And what and what was your hot active years in
Seattle with the with the rap group?

Speaker 3 (08:34):
It was, oh, that's probably two thousand and twelve to
twenty and sixteen.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, seventeen.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
We put out an album in twenty seventeen, and I mean,
in my opinion, is our best body of work. Yeah,
but we didn't follow it up with any promotional stuff.
We didn't have big plans as far as getting it
out there. I think we did. We had a song
on there that ah we released as the single.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
It was a little unorthodox way of going about it. It
just made a dope song, like let's shoot a video
and then the album.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Came later kind of thing. Yeah, but yeah, that was
about it. And then O the Homie became.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
A lawyer and he was the spencer. Yeah, and you know,
I can't can't blame him for that.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Lawyers can't rap.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
It's not a lot.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
The bar says, don't do it.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah, your content's probably a lot more restricted.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So who did you guys share bills with? Like who
was Do you guys have acts in the town that
you were always on stage with or on on bills
with or because you guys were at Nectar, I'm sure
you did New Mos, I'm sure you did.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, we did all the spots. Yeah, the Nomads. We
did a lot of shows with them.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Okay, that's so yeah, yeah, yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Was kind of.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
We're we're not quite you know, like conscious underground, but
not quite We're a little.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Bit more poppy.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
I suppose we ended up jumping on a lot of
bills with kind of old old head hip hop guys though. Yeah,
Charlie Tuna, Jurassic five, h l's I mhmm. We opened
up for old Sir mix a lot Nectar. He did
a little throwback show Nappy Roots up in But that

(10:41):
was that was a dope one. I grew up listening
to Roots. Yeah, where was that show?

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:46):
That was a wild Buffalo Bellingham sweet Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
Yeah was that your favorite? Like the most meaningful? Since
you listened to him, you're like touched the stage with them.
I was trying to think.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
I was like, because we opened for a bunch of
people too, but like I wasn't necessarily listening, Like we
opened up for Wiz and Yellow Wolf, but I wasn't
listening to.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Them at the time.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Yeah, opened up for you know, Yeah, I'd say my
gym Class Heroes was like, I guess the closest to
something we were listening to when we went down to Austin,
we we like got to see a show. We didn't
open for him, but we got to see like odd
future Wolfgang, you know, Tyler and them early and Kendrick

(11:33):
when he was young, and like we didn't quite understand
the you know, it's like okay, there they've got projects
out there, dope, but like, yeah, that.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Wasn't like.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
That was the what's that festival? South by Southwest?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
You guys, we had a little off, like not on
a main stage, it was off. It was like the
Seattle stage, so like.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
So all had gone down.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Grynch Macklemore got on a Maclamore did a set there,
but then got like a bigger stage.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
That was when he was I think it was.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
It must have been around the time of thrift Shop maybe,
so he was like you know, he was, he was getting.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Up there blowing up. That album took him took him
to the stratosphere.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah, well that we first noticed with the Dave knee
House tribute and then with the Irish Celebration because Irish
Celebration went international.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
And got a ton of you know, buzz, and then.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
Yeah, and then thrift Shop blew everything. Yeah, it went crazy.
Uh we've been in Macklemore videos, you know, so uh huh,
that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
But yeah, it's like he had a comedic.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, he was most most funny before.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah, because the stuff, the stuff he blew off was
way more cinematic and like message oriented, but like most
of his career in Seattle was like kind of funny. Yeah,
Professor Macklemore.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Like we're talking Aberdeen Washington. I got that song about
Aberdeen Washington. That was nice.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, shut out Ben.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
Yeah. Man, So training, let's talk training, right, Yeah? Yeah,
the have you always trained, like as since you college
and even after college?

Speaker 4 (13:37):
What did you do after after you blew your a
c a lot a couple of times? What did you
do to.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
I don't really the rehab stuff whatever, but like what
did you what were you doing training wise?

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Then?

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Like, yeah, we had an awesome rec center at the
called the Wreck at Western that that was just a
fun spot to go and go into and I was,
you know, playing playing hoops and but I didn't I

(14:12):
took it. I definitely took it easy. I needed a
break after I went through the college football grind, you
know that's you're working out two a days.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yeah, you guys had a pretty you guys had a
pretty huge commitment, pretty structured strength conditioning programming Western where
it's like, yo, I don't care, did you guys have
some places, some colleges and even some high schools.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
Have like set times where it's like, Yo, we're lifting
at this time, be here or was it more like
this is what you have to do, do it at
your time?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, there was a couple there were a couple options.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah, but yeah, for the most part is yeah, make
sure get you best, get dress in.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
There, yeah, get it done.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:56):
Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 5 (14:57):
It's like on a team like that, it's like you
kind of have to, right because like if you don't,
like if you're skipping workouts, like people notice yeah you
know what I mean, it's like, what the fuck's he doing?

Speaker 4 (15:10):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Like he's got a yeah, accountability yeah huge.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
You know, these guys are all just phenomenal athletes.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
You gotta try to keep prepare, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Be stronger, have have the you know, game time ready
and endurance.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Stuffy and so now I know we've talked off. You
know we've talked off.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Is you were still doing the move not the explain
that to me, because I know I've seen it. I
have like an idea of what I think that it is,
but like, what is that like when in level one,
level two.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yeah, blah blah blah, like what three levels?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I mean essentially the main at his core, I believe
it's it's just uh, more mobility focused.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
But it goes through a lot of.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just trading with with like balance, coordination, a lot of
how to lift properly, you know, lift objects.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Balance is in like a like a boast of all
balance like balance.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
And one of the big training was.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Walking on a two by four and then you know
walking down and back and uh you know, eyes up,
you know you're focused on you're you're the horizon type
thing and and.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Then you can load obviously.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah how long how long have you been doing that.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Type of training? I guess like the the more mobility
function if you will.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Like, yeah, that was.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
So after football, I just did a lot of my
own training and I kind of got out of the
weight room for a bit and did a lot of
that's where I did all the the beach and park calisthenics,
a lot of body weight stuff, and then my wife
actually got hip to the move nat thing and told

(17:24):
me to look into it, and then you know, Instagram
and TikTok blows up and all of a sudden you
get a little bit influenced by people doing all kinds
of cool shit out there. And I ended up, you know,
working out in the trees. I'm making swinging a big
part of my.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Kind of but.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I mean, yeah, I'm definitely like in the park and
the trees at my new place that I just we
bought out here has got a mountain sides, so kettle bells.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I was farmer carrying, you know, all over my property.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
And a little up and down the little rocks and
got some sweet madrone of trees and try to hang
and swing from and tool. It's not a lot of
good climbers. A lot of those trees out in the
woods are kind of sketchy. You got to make sure
those branches are going to not give out on you.
But the move net thing was very much aligned with

(18:28):
all that, and I gave it a shot. I did,
you know, two levels of training, and thought maybe I
could be, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
The move net guy in the Northwest.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I think there's a guy that's on Victoria that that
trains move that. But yeah, eventually I just kind of
I started to develop my own program with my wife.
She was going to do some breath work stuff. I
was going to do some some training stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
And then he's kind of fellto the wayside, And so
is your wife.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
She's serious about serious about training, but she does she
prioritized training and fitness.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
And yeah, yeah, definitely, I mean she's just she's doing
a little she got to pass at the studio there.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I think she likes hit workouts a lot. Yeah, that's
her main main jam. And you guys just you guys
got a baby.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
You guys gotta got a baby, a baby, little ten
month old boy.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
I guess that brings me to as a as a
dad of a ten month old baby.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
What does your training schedule look like? Now?

Speaker 5 (19:37):
Like, how do you how do you get it in?
Because there's I mean, you're obviously one of the dudes
that like it's a non negotiable. Yeah, you're gonna train
like it's just a matter, it don't matter where or how,
like it's.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Going to happen.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
And kids, they create a pivot of when and how
And I'm interested did with the newer dads, is you know,
I got my boy, like my oldest.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Boys will be eighteen next month. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
So it's like finding how it works for people in
the in the young age, you know, like how does
what does that?

Speaker 4 (20:17):
How does that look like?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Yeah, I mean you gotta get it in when you can.
I think, like, honestly, I like the Wreck. I got
a membership at the Wreck. I think if you could
have seen what it was, you know, when I was
growing up.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, oh man, it's made some strides.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
Yeah. I popped in there when I when I first
moved up here during COVID time, it was.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
It was probably the dirtiest gym that I that I'd
ever been in. And that goes from the gym that
I worked out at when I worked for the Department
of Corrections was a former chicken coop. Yeah right, and
so when you put the responsibility of the cleanliness of

(21:05):
the gym to some knuckle draggers, it wasn't that clean.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
And then when I went into I don't even know.

Speaker 5 (21:13):
What was it called before the wreck, whatever it was
called before the Wreck health, it was wild, you know,
like shout out to the dude that who won it.
Before first first conversation, I ever had with him, was
like Covid like I never, I didn't know him nothing,
and it was just like walked in the door and

(21:35):
essentially he was like fuck. Covid was like like, yes, okay, man,
all right, well where can I train? You know, Like
he's like, oh, we've got a We've got a room
back here that had barbells and med balls and a
rig and all that stuff, and went in there for
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
But it was just like I can't, I can't do this.
It was pretty rough. Yeah. Now it's yeah, shutout Jenn Whalen. Man.
Now it's like a whole Yeah, it's.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
It's crazy, It's got great Yeah, honestly, I I really do.
Like I popped into that five point thirty yeah CrossFit
class and it was awesome.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Man.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
It's so good to get in there and get the
community aspect of it and go through, you know, some
of that pain with some comrades.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
Yeah. I was bummed, man, when I missed it. I
saw it.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
Andrea sent me a video from from that morning, and
because I like to film and post you know, videos
of like not every class, but like, man, people are
doing cool shit, you know what I mean? And like
I get to see it all the time, which.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Is rad, but like, you can't you can't be out there.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, I want everybody to see it. Yeah, you know,
and so like and Adrian knows that. So if I'm
ever not there a few times, I she'll film like
a little a little thing and send it to me.
And then I saw that. I was like, man, of course,
like the one you know, the one time that I'm.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Out, I'll be back.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
I know, Like I don't. I don't know that. Well,
one five thirty is insane.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Earlier, man, that's madness. It's every once in a while.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Every once in a while I wake up at like
four in the morning and be like, shit, I'm not
going back to bed.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
All right, I'm up, and I'll just pop up and.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
You know, sometimes I'll just I'll like write or I'll
do something creative. But Brady was in my head. He
told me come through that five thirty. I said, maybe
this is the day went through and I had great energy,
it was it felt really good.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, Brady, you know, yeah, start.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
The day like that.

Speaker 3 (23:40):
Yeah you're back at six thirty, you know, seven or whatever,
and yeah, a full day ahead of you.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
But I'm like them. But I can't work out now
later in the day.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Well, man, there's quite a few people but.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
That well, I mean I guess they're all younger, but yeah,
we got quite a few people that.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Man.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
They'll they'll do the extra credit, you know what I mean,
Like they'll do they'll do a class and then it's like,
you know, send me.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Some accessory work.

Speaker 5 (24:09):
I can you know, try to try to do this
and try to do that.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Or I want to work on this.

Speaker 5 (24:13):
And then he's got cases like Cole, you know what
I mean, Like he'll just he'll do a kettlebell conditioning,
he'll do the six thirty class and then he'll like, yo,
you're doing kettlebel conditioning today, Like yeah, and it's like
all right, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Yeah, and it's like cool, man, I.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Don't know, but yeah, I definitely want to pop into
more classes. Yeah, having the kid work, all the all
the things make it tough to like for me to
fully commit.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
The non negotiable I think with working out for me
is like listening to my body, you know, Like I
can go a day or two without working out and
then there's little signs it's like.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
You're getting a little more anxious. Yeah, you know, you're you're.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Getting a little Has it always been like that, because
you kind of seem like the kind of dude that
like trains, like yeah, not every day, but like you know, yeah,
almost every day, especially when you're younger and you're you
know and rolling before you get to.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Don't get me wrong, there is a big part of
me that does that would like to see what my
absolute like prime physical physique could be. You know, like
how if I really went into it. Yeah, you know,
like what could that look?

Speaker 4 (25:35):
Like? How get that nutrition? Strong?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
And could I be how jack could I get?

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (25:39):
And like fuck man, why not?

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Right?

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Who knows?

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Maybe I'm thirty seven. I see so many guys out
there that are in their forties fifty that are like
fucking killing it bit, and I can see that.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Coming around right now.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
It's like, yeah, just get I get pulled in so
many different directions, and I don't.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
I try not to.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Let it like way on me, Like, oh, I'm beating
myself up because I didn't.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
You know, training today is like.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
That's a hard part, man, that's hard. Largely it'd okay with.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
That, right, Well, I just got all the I got
all the tools at at my place and I'm very active,
like whether it's not lifting, but it's it's physical somehow,
some way. There's this dude, Mark Sisson, he's you know,

(26:32):
seventy years old dude in Florida who's like shredded, and
he introduced me to this this concept called micro workouts,
where you know you're you're essentially doing ten ten minute
workouts a day.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
Oh cool, just.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Like whatever, you know, Yeah, you get it pops into
your head, knock out, some some push up, some body
squats you know, yeah those add.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
Up man where used to I used to send timer,
you know, is a growing hemp here on the island,
and I would just be walking this field, you know,
just like walk in the field and instead of Timer,
a little uh it's it called I still.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Like a wad, Like a wad timer.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
You can set it up to like an e mom
type of deal every minute in a minute. And I
would set it for every minute on the minute for
like ninety minutes and I would just like have it.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
In my pocket and then like every minute it's like
oh five push ups.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Yeah, you know, just like wherever I'm at, I'm walking
in between these rows of plants, like ope, you know
what I mean, and just trying to and trying to
I don't say maintained, but yeah, Brady said it the
best when we.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
Had him on the pod, how like, yeah, I checked
out that it turns the volume down right, you know,
I love that.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
For me, it's always I use it as like it
calms the waters, you know what I mean, Like it
makes the waters upstairs not so muddy and murky, and
just like makes it so you can kind of function
a little bit better in this world that like constantly
wants you to be doing like a million things.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
And as a.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Dad, you know, we we seldom get sell them get
that time, you know what I mean. Like it's always
like you know, and I'm sure you guys get it
all the time too. It's like how's the moms, how's
the baby? And not as they like, well what about me?
You know what I mean, but like prioritizing that, like

(28:27):
you know, your mental health, this is what I have
to do, you know, I have to do this or
things around me will start deteriorating, you know. Yeah with
you know, with your with your kids and with your
with your wife, you know what I mean, Like your job.
It's just like you start fucking looking around for all
the ships you got to do, man, and like, I
don't know, it's it's fun to to see in meet

(28:49):
cats like you that are like doing shit, you know,
like still trained and still doing cool shit, like still trying.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
To pursue them, pursue creative and evers.

Speaker 5 (29:00):
Which kind of brings me to my next one is like,
you're filming, You're you're starring, You're in a movie.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
You're Yeah, wrote.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Like was making a movie, making a movie, making a movie. Yeah, Man,
it's been it's been a couple of years in the works.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Myself and two other guys, one's cinematographer, one's writer director,
got together and we were going to make a sketch
comedy show. We've we've made a handful of short like
comedy films over the last five.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Years or so. Then, Yeah, we're gonna make this show.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
And then we ultimately decided to pivot and turn it
into a ridiculous, bonkers movie with yeah, which was kind
of a fun way because we like, if we would
have written, like set out to write a film, we
would have never wrote this film. So the unorthodox, you know,

(30:04):
approach of converting a sketch show into a into a
film I think is going to pay off?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Cool? And what's just it's yeah, all over the place.

Speaker 4 (30:17):
But well it'll be obviously the movie will get released.
But what does that what does that look like? How
does that work? When you.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
It's tough to say.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
We're about sixty shot, I think, and so we still
have a lot to shoot and right now everybody's working,
so we're piecing it together and there's a lot of
behind the scenes coordination and scheduling because you know, not
only is it the three of us, all the actors,

(30:47):
but it's all the crew. So you really got to
have all these people's schedules aligned, you know.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
To make it work. Yeah, making movies is hard.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Where does the budget come from that? Where do you
get money or that?

Speaker 2 (31:01):
Uh we got lucky with with a private poster.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yeah, And is that usually in the I know nothing
about any of that world.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Is that usually how it works?

Speaker 5 (31:13):
Like if you're gonna make like a like an independent
movie or some sort of things, you get a.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
I mean, there's a lot of ways to go about it,
a lot of crowdfunding.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
A lot of people do crowdfunding.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I mean in the Northwest, that's typically you know, independent film,
that's how it works, uh, you know, movie making, and
in hollywood's a lot different.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
You know, ye have studios that are that are forking
up fronting the budgets.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
But yeah, as far as independent filmmaking, like that's crowd
even even nowadays, you see you see a lot of
big movies that are just funded by you know, some
of the big actors that are you know in the films,

(32:03):
like they're.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Executive produced by.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
So yeah, it's it's been a fun endeavor, a lot
of work, but it's.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Also been one of those things we're just taken as
it comes.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
You guys, film I wanted to I mean, I know,
you know this place like the back of my hands.
I got all kinds of resources here, but the other
guys essentially m I won't say, nixed it fully and
I'm gonna still push to you know, shoot something up here.

(32:41):
But to get all the actors, all the crew, all
the all the gear you know over here is.

Speaker 4 (32:48):
The whole deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So where do you
guys filming?

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Where you guys like primarily filming this Greater Seattle.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
We've kind of been all over the place. We did
a big chunk in Mount Vernon last weekend.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Ship Court cool.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Yeah, yeah, another one of those things. Yeah, I'm like,
i feel like I'm spread so thin. Yeah, but uh yeah,
it's fulfillment right at the end of the day. We're
just trying to to do what fulfills us here.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
And there and finding that time for.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah, some be you know, some people might be you know,
their business. Some people it might be their art, Yeah,
their fitness there.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
But yeah, yeah, it does. It does feel like it's a.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
It's that you know, what's that Lord of the Rings
the Hobbit saying. It is like you feel like butter
spread over too much bread.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
You know, It's like this.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Is all good, enriching stuff, and I just I'm so
like the bandwidth is so low. Yeah, the literal time
of day, like, you know, we we go through, we
go through this schedule thing with you know, the mixtape
we're working on with Couch and Danny, and it's like, man,
it's hard to get even like an hour or two

(34:11):
carved out to get in the studio or to meet
up and chat. It's like, man, if I'm out of
the house, I've got to be clocked on or doing
something that's you know that I just have to do. Yeah,
otherwise my time is you know, I got I got
luckily there. Yeah, the TV babysitter can step in here

(34:32):
and there, but like even that, now, you know, now
we got to make sure we get them outside and
kick them around and get some energy out. And yeah,
just all balancing all the things.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
The mental health of your partner is important.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
I don't know if your lady went through any of
that postpartum depression stuff, but like that can really change
the way that the household operates and how much you
gotta kind of help bolster that and like all of
these all these things. And then as as thirty seven,
thirty eight, thirty nine, forty two, you know, like just
that that realizing of like oh man, okay, like I'm

(35:10):
you know, we're not getting any younger. We got to
focus on the long term goals. We got mouths to feed,
we got people that we have to take care of,
and yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Just tired. Yeah that's tired. I'm tired, you know, which
is so how do you.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
It is great though, I mean, like like having.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
Ship to do is something that we just you might
be like, oh I'm busy, Oh I'm you know, I
love it at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's it's so much better.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Than you don't you don't want the other thing to
do and.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
You're yeah, fucking yeah, you know, more time to consume garbage,
social media, yeah what whatever, you know people do, and
to be in.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
A position where like, oh yeah, people are relying on me,
and like, you know, I'm I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
You know, I'm built for it.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
I'm a It's going to be easier sometimes harder sometimes,
but like.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
And building to be done and building those little micro communities, yeah,
you know, those those groups that.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
You which is interesting to hear is like because again,
like and I've said it on the pod, I'm not
I've never lived in a small town. I mean I'm
still I've been here four years, yeah, four years, and
it's I still I'm getting more comfortable in the small community.

(36:33):
And I think personally it's more just because of that
I'm at the gym, like I'm in the community now.
I'm not really a passive member who just lives here.
It's like I'm actively trying to, i don't know, build
build a community. It's still like kind of a trip,
like to to be here and then to go back

(36:56):
to what you said of like finding that those little
micro communities of people that are like doing things, you know,
because we all I think we I think we've all
know somebody that like we kind of had to not
be around anymore because they're just not doing anything. It's like, Yo,
you're just a downer, Like you're just negative, but you're

(37:18):
always complaining, you know what I mean. Yeah, and it's like,
how do you find those people that that are doing
things and then aligning yourself with those people to like, yo, man,
let's try to make something happen. Yeah, whatever it is
like oh, you know, like I mean, they talk about
it here. It's like, Yo, you're into cool shit. I'm

(37:39):
in a cool shit. You want to start a podcast?
But man, sure, let's do it. You know, before we
started this podcast, we'd spoke like a couple two three times,
you know, and now it's like, yoh, fucking tuesdays, Man,
let's go. We got a guest coming up here, you
know what I mean. And then like and then the
gym has been like a you know, it's just been

(37:59):
like a yeah, it's been a really nice addition to
to meeting people that like are my people, you know
what I mean, and like.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
There's already a certain amount of similarities. If you're showing
up at the gym regularly, it's like we already got
enough in common that we can build.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah. Oh man, and it's been it's been.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
Rad home away from home, right Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:19):
And that's where I was talking to my friend Kelsey
just this morning at the gym about that, Like like
I was like, oh, you're coming tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
She's like, oh, man, I don't.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
I don't know. And I was like, we should suck up.
What else are you gonna do?

Speaker 4 (38:35):
You know what I mean? Like you're you're gonna be
on the computer, man, you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Like if you're not at work, you know what I mean,
Like you got all your chores done, Like yeah, what's
an hour?

Speaker 4 (38:46):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (38:47):
And you go there and like kind of hang out
and talk a little shit and get get your little
workout on and go. But to to move away from
the gym and to go back to, you know, just
being being a dad and you know, the bandwidth, we

(39:10):
only got a certain amount of it, Like what what
do you do.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
To help maintain the bandwidth that you do?

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Have to be directed at the things that it needs
to be directed at right being you know, you've got
things going on, you know, not not including being a
dad and being a husband, but like you've got different
projects and things going on, like what are how do
you maintain that and like keep that, I don't know,

(39:43):
keep the pedal going, you know, keep it down.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Yeah, man, figuring that out still for sure.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
I mean, yeah, we just we just moved back to that,
back to the island, just had a baby, so there's
all these external, you know, things going on that have been.

Speaker 5 (40:02):
Everybody telling you how you should raise the baby and
be with the baby, and.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Yeah, we don't get too much of that, but yeah,
I mean.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Finding peace and like meditations obviously very important, and and
finding those times to write and journal and I haven't
been able to do it. I feel like I've done
a lot less of it being a dad, and as
I want to give my wife a little bit more
time to sleep, so I'll take you in the morning

(40:36):
and you'll just be present with them and hang out
with the little dudes.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Man, that's a fun that's a fun age. Man, that
nine ten months where they're like it's all action. So
it's all action, man, We're Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:51):
I got to.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
I got to hold his baby at the beach the
other day and I was like, oh, man, I can't
wait for that little newborn phase. Mine's out in l
lii ish and like, yeah, I was trying to. I
was like, man, looking back and remembering is not at
all helpful, because like I cannot remember the ins and out.
I can remember the broad strokes, like I remember like

(41:13):
how important it feels to have them on me and
move around the day and like be able to, you know,
whatever you need to do, but like the actual like
what it feels like to have my sleep schedule fucked
up again and like be at the back and call
of you know, because I remember transitioning when these kids

(41:35):
got more independent, and it's like, okay, I don't have
to stare at you twenty four to seven, Like you
can be away from me and I can know that
you're competent and like you're doing your own thing and
like just.

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Going to take a header off the couch here, yeah,
no reason, yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's that A little first
year or so is.

Speaker 5 (41:55):
Yeah, I just had I just did the nine o'clock
class with so I just had a baby girl like
a month ago.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
And beautiful.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
I never you're having a girl. You know.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
It's not to be cliche, but it's different. You know,
I got four boys, and then this little girl comes
in and it's like, oh my god, what I don't
even know what I'm doing here, right, you know?

Speaker 4 (42:20):
But I had her at the nine o'clock class.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
My wife's coming in and she comes to nine o'clock
class and does.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
Is the equivalent of having a girl after after those boys,
kind of like having a baby after a dog. It's well,
she's like, all you other little fuckers can eat ship.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
My baby girl.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
And my boys, man, they're they're sweet guys, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Their mom is sweet. Like we we really try to.
We just try to be sweet at our house, you know.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
I mean we try to, like because my wife and
I neither one of us come from that upbringing. And
you know what I mean, we both come from broken homes.
We both come from from situations that didn't provide that
for us, you know, that safe place where like yo,
I just feel like chilling a piece at my house,
you know, and so like trying to not trying to

(43:16):
be building that with our kids now, like they I mean,
my five and three year old. They'll be shit, they'll
be six and four next week. They can't get enough
for her, I mean, absolutely cannot get enough. Like if
she makes a noise, they're coming from the other room.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
How's the youngest.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
He'll be four next Okay, yeah, he'll be four next
week and still young.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
Yeah, young young guys. Man.

Speaker 5 (43:41):
And then we got you know, Sochi's back at the gym. Man,
I coached at nine o'clock class today with her wrapped.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
Up, you know, on my chest, you know, and like.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
I you know, it's not the first time, you know
what I mean. I'll coach with her up there all
the time. And I tell anybody who's going to have
a kid at the gym, like, man, if you will,
I will hold the baby while you train. Like that's
the environment that I want there. But just having them,
you know, just having your kids around and having that

(44:13):
time where man, they're just they're helpless, you know what
I mean. Like she's a month old, and it's like,
I mean, there's nothing I can really do, you know
what I mean. I can hold her and she feels safe,
but like she wants mom, Yeah, you know, she wants mom.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
She wants let you and.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
That's mom is very very important.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
That's about it.

Speaker 5 (44:36):
But yeah, having a girl's trip, man, I mean I
don't trying to figure out how to how this is
the dad pod, but momah shout out the moms.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Right like there couldn't be dads without them, man, but
they warriors.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
Yeah, you're having a Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:58):
The whole childbirth thing is to overally freshened my mind
of watching that, like to be to be around for that,
it's probably been like the most humbling, one of the
most humbling things I've ever gotten to deal with, you know,
And like I've done it like with my my practice
wife and my older boys that'll be eighteen next month.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
It was their twins. So it was in an operating room.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
Fucking all the lights, all the doctors, nurses, blah blah blah.
And then going from that to Cato, who was just
one in like a regular room, and then Remy was
in like a birth center and would be islands.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
But it was just like.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
Hello, chill, yeah, so chill.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
And then Sochi was the same thing, you know, I
mean Sochi was just like.

Speaker 5 (45:48):
Oh, we took the five forty boat off the island.
We got to the birth center in Mount Vernon at
eight o'clock. She was born at ten forty. We left
the birth center at one thirty and we're on the
five forty five that same day.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Wow, you know what I mean, Like we packed up.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
All the snacks and everything, like, yeah, we're gonna blong
haul it here.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
We're gonna we're gonna be here.

Speaker 5 (46:07):
And then like with just that vibe when you're there,
it's like you watch your wife like go to a
different place, you know, and then they're doing something that
like you know, you don't know, I have no idea,
but like you see it and you're like that'd be
so it's wild and then like yeah, it's yeah, shout

(46:30):
out the moms man, that's yeah. I don't know why
I brought upsuch you in the wrap.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
But just having them, just having them on you all
all the time, consistently, and like you said, it's like
you can't you can't let it change the routine of
the day. That's just they're with you, they're on you,
they're moving. It's like, yeah, you know, my my. We
had thought initially about putting Quinn at a little desk
in there and like or seeing you know, her doing
her work and like I hold the baby during business

(46:56):
hours feet er pop blah blah blah. But like even
and that is like, well, you know, Quinn does, she's
got to have silence, she's got to have proper privacy
for clients, so she's going to keep her office. But
even still like I'm just gonna have bottles on deck
and have the baby over here, yea, And like it's

(47:16):
just the way I was looking. Yes, it's how you
gotta do it. And like I feel I feel lucky
to be able to, you know, like have my own setup,
so like no one's telling me I can't do it,
you know, because I'm in charge. You know, like when
I was bartending, it's not like I could bring the
baby to the bar, you know.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Just integrating it, in integrating the family into the business,
into the art, into the fitness. It's just a life.
It's just the life that we live now, you know.
It's the life that it's fun.

Speaker 4 (47:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
I want to try to figure out how that's going
to look and how it's going to work with like
with all the kids, man, you know, the kids and
the family, and then trying to build something that that
is sustainable, but then also like not having to rely
on hiring somebody else to you know, not show up

(48:13):
and then come.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
You know what I mean, like all the the pitballs
of like just trying to operate a business.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
Is their child care plans at the rec? I feel
like I remember someone said, yes, drop.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Off they are.

Speaker 5 (48:26):
The talk is yes, yeah, when and how? I'm not
sure exactly, but what I know is going to be happening.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Soon, which I think I think is going to.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
Help facilitate this is Sarah. She's going to be running
through like a postpartum programming pregnancy thing for her a
couple of her friends that all have small babies, and
so next thing, you know, like we're going to have
babies up up in the gym, and we have babies now,

(49:00):
you know what I mean? I have like a specific
like a specific one and that because that's like the biggest.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
Thing here right It's like, yeah, that's awesome. You know.

Speaker 5 (49:09):
The biggest thing that I hear about moms that want
to get into fitness and want to get back into
the gym.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Is like, well, where's the childcare? What do I do
with my baby? You know? And like I know at at.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
The wreck and across the predate harbor specifically, like we
got babies and car we got babies in car seats.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Kind of whenever, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
My kids are always there, like Mike Long will bring
in all his kids, Rio and Co.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Will come up in here, like.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
Brady's brought his kids up in there a few different times.
McGee's brought his kid up in there a few times.
Like I want that, Like I want all of our
children to like be in an environment like that where
like they just see us training, they see us working hard,
they see the relationships that you build via that work,

(49:59):
and like, oh man, this is just.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
This is just what my family does.

Speaker 5 (50:03):
This is what dad does, this is what mom does,
and just make it for them like not even a.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Negotiable, just this is our life. This is what we do,
you know.

Speaker 5 (50:12):
And then it's attached to rock climbing gym in a
pool and you know they started with jiu jitsu going
on there now, and like, yeah, that was doing all
dat man I did.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
I did the first first intro on Thursday. I think
it's every Thursday five thirty now nice.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
And it's chill right, like the dude I popped in
for a second and wanted to.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Go.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
It's his time though, man, like not to make an
excuse would be that guy like, oh.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
I fucking I want to you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
But it's true, there's only so many, so many playing
the house out, It's for sure true.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
And then it's like finding it if it's worth it,
you know what I mean. It's like finding like do yeah,
but I've heard great things, man, I mean.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Well you've got a higher level of understanding of that anyway,
so like it might not be worth it for you
at a certain point, you know.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
It's what would be worth it is just that.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
The work, you know what I mean. No one's trying
to kill each other. No one's trying to really choke nobody,
you know what I mean. It's just like hey, basically
it's like yoga, but but not you know what I mean,
Like we're just going to actively apply pressure, try to
get out let them, you know what I mean, and
just kind of do the flow graps collaborative, which I

(51:33):
think is what the goal there is. I've met it's Dominic, right,
Dominic Dominic. I met Dominic when he got hired on
and you know, they wanted me to talk to him
and just kind of you know, like what's that man?

Speaker 4 (51:48):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Yeah, I'm just kind of see what's what And it
seems like a great guy, seems like a dude, and
that's what is finding, like finding the right person to
do it. And then like if people on the island
are into it, like okay, now, how do we make
this twice a week?

Speaker 4 (52:07):
Right?

Speaker 5 (52:08):
Like how it won't be an everyday thing. I don't
I can't foresee that happening on the island. I just
don't see the population of people with it to be
sustainable like that. But like if you had it two
or three times a week, you know what I mean,
and you get like same cats that come in here,
and just like you know, no one's trying to go
to the UFC.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
We're just trying to hang out, you know.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
What I mean, and bro out a little bit, you
know what I mean, get some good training in and
then like I also know, or learn a thing or two,
you know what I mean, Like learn how to keep
composure and how to how to breathe and how to
think when someone's like actively applying pressure to your your
whole body.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
You know.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
I think there's definitely something like primal that I think
we long for in the.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, human for sure.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
Yeah, definitely, especially with men. I think it's important.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
Like like you said, it was like with men, it's
like that is how.

Speaker 4 (53:14):
You got boys. You got two young boys. You don't
have to show or teach young boys.

Speaker 5 (53:21):
How to be physical, you know what I mean, Like
they just are That's just what they want to do.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
And as you get older, I think it's more. I
think we've.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
Lost that in our in our culture of like our
our ability as men to.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Know who you are.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
And I think that's why we have a large population
of guys and not men.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
It's because guys think that they can do this.

Speaker 5 (53:48):
They think that they're capable of this, but they but
it's never been it's never been.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
Tested, you know what I mean. I'm not tested. Isn't
like you're fucking wrong, but like you learn who you're not. Right.

Speaker 5 (54:00):
We all have this idea in our head of like
oh I would do this or I would do that,
and it's like I'll see red bro yeah you know,
or like you just have this idea of what you
would do, you know, and it's like then you learn
that like oh shit, no, I don't even know what
to do, because when you can't breathe, you can't think,

(54:22):
you know what I mean, or you get that panic
and it's like you know, and that's where I think
we used to do that. I think it used to
be easier for men to get into groups and to
have physical activities like that where you just bond over
just being physical, you know, like that's what.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
We are playing football in the backyard.

Speaker 4 (54:43):
Yeah, like that's what we're designed to do.

Speaker 5 (54:46):
Like we're designed to lift and stack things, move things,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Like that's like why we have muscles and we're designed
the way that we are.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
And I I don't have a I don't think I
don't have a solution for it or what.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
But like just trying those classes, yeah, it's great, spot.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
I mean, otherwise you get people getting drunk and rest
on each other and.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Hurting each other.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Yeah, don't want that. That will happen.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
That's fun too.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
Yeah, but now when you're thirty seven and you know,
north of thirty seven, you know, it gets to the
point where it's like, man, I just want to be
able to.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
Man just train.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Yeah, you know, That's what I noticed about that class
is like you know, if I had at thirty nine.
It felt different. I know, it felt differently than it
would have at twenty nine or whatever. You know, Like
I have very little ego involved in like yeah, really
much of anything these days because I'm like, look.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
I'm not I'm not at my peak of fitness, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
I mean being in the gym, I noticed, like doing
the warm up drills.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
You know, it's a lot of.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Like lunges and rolls and shrimping and like, so physically
I was like, oh, dang, I feel great.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Like I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
I was winded, but like I wasn't. If I had
done it six months ago, before I did six months
of CrossFit, it would have it would have been worse.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
A different game.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
But then, like, you know, so what we did was
and there were sixteen ish people in there, probably about
seven girls, ten dudes, nine dudes whatever, and then uh
like six or seven of them were like high school
the high school wrestlers, and that was a much different vibe.
Like I was drilling, Like basically we did warm ups

(56:31):
and then we learned three submissions, you know, and we
drilled groups of three to practice the submission.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
So I was with.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Creed and a guy named Tim who I think teaches
at the high school and like like gentler, older, like
more mature, like you know, creed zy yoga dude. Like
we were not like we're like okay, make sure you
get in position and.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
Like we'll talk you try to win. Yeah, I'm like.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
I'm like, okay, man, Like if you adjust your arm,
I can I can tell you're gonna have more torque,
Like you know, we're talking through and and I look
over and my homie Nathan is is with two high
school wrestlers and they're just like looks like bear fight.
I was like, oh shit, like that's a different thing.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
I saw a video of that and it was like, yo, man,
that's I don't want I don't want to know.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
And those high school kids, I think they stopped listening
at a certain point and they were just like at
each other and like.

Speaker 5 (57:25):
You know that's how, you know what I mean, like
get a little stone and then like.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
I can't imagine they're going to last, you know what
I mean. I feel like their coach was there and
he seemed to have he seemed to have some jiu
jitsu knowledge in that he was like walking around co teaching. Yeah,
and Dom didn't have any ego about it. He seemed
like a chill like you know what I mean. He
seemed cool, but I definitely I was like, and I

(57:52):
don't have anything to compair to it. I've done maybe
three intro jiu jitsu classes before, and I was like, damn,
it seems crazy to teach three submissions and then just
tell people to go ham like go full, go live
if you want to go live.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
And I was like cool.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
And I watched people like flying into arm bars and
like I'm like, like if you guys don't know how
to control that, like someone's gonna get snapped. But yeah,
but it turned out fine, and like I guess it's
common to go live at the very beginning, and like
I thought it was great. It was that feeling of
like ooh, I have that anticipation of like how am
I going to stack up against this dude, that dude,

(58:27):
this dude, and like just getting in there and doing
it was like, ah, man, it feels good. Like I
don't need to be fucking it, ain't gold medal anybody,
Like I just need to not hurt myself and like
learn some ship.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
And that's it. Not hurts yourself that's priority number one. Man.

Speaker 5 (58:43):
That's what I was talking with Cody at the gym
about that, because he you know, he.

Speaker 4 (58:52):
You mess around and you.

Speaker 5 (58:53):
You try to pull a little bit of too much weight,
you get, you get, you.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
Know what I mean, and liked that was just numbers man.

Speaker 5 (59:00):
That was like, but yeah, it's just like, man, the
goals to not hurt yourself, you know what I mean.
Like the goal is to really just like do it
correctly and do it slowly and like again the slowest smooth,
smooth as fast, like just just do that, you know,
like and trying not to fuck yourself up because and it's.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Hard when you have that competitive Like the first like
the first thing I did with my back was that
workout with that I did just.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
With Jenne and Tate.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Yeah, and like you know, in my mind, I'm like, hey, man,
do not try to keep up with these twenty year olds.

Speaker 4 (59:33):
Yeah, don't do it.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
But like when they're next to you doing it and
you're like, I gotta I gotta.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Keep up somewhere, you know.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
You know, Yeah, I immediately I felt it as soon
as I was I was doing power cleans or whatever,
and like as soon as I let go of my
core and pulled with my back. I like like felt
it in the low back and I was like, bitch,
it took me two days.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
I was I was good. I was good.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
And then this morning did the same. I messed up
my numbers for my one rep max and ended up
doing just too much weight for for what it was
and like felt my stomach go and then felt that backgone.

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
I was like, god, bitch, yeah, we tested last last week.
We started a six week squat phase where we tested
a a one rep max or a heavy single back
squat yeah, and then six weeks of training based off
of the percentages of that, and so today was our first.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
We don't call them heavy days. Is intense, right, because like.

Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
We break the squad cycle into a BSI volume, speed
and intensity. Intensity is the heavy day that's where it's
like eighty eighty five to like one oh two percent.

Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
And fucking Nate.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
I was like, yo, man, what's your eighty five or
like what do you remember what you got last week?

Speaker 4 (01:00:54):
And he said a number and I was just like,
man Field, I mean, I said.

Speaker 5 (01:00:58):
Three, five five, and it was you know, and I'm thinking,
I'm like, man, I don't know, but I feel like,
you get to that three hundo, I'm gonna remember that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Yeah, you know what I mean? See three oh five
and it's like, shit, man, all right, let's get the
bro math out eighty five percent or three zero five.
And then we got there and it was like, bro,
that's fucking that's heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
I got under it and I was like, ooh, this
feels heavier.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Than I think eighty five percent should feel like.

Speaker 5 (01:01:27):
And then the kid just like throws it on the
back and just like went for it. Well, I mean
he's yeah, I guess he's got I guess he holds
a lot of the weight looking records at the high school.
He's twenty years old, you know, Like when he came, he.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Actually started day one of the squat phase. I was like, Yo,
what's up.

Speaker 5 (01:01:45):
Do you have anything that you're going after? And he's like, oh,
at my peak, I was it's like three thirty five
or three thirty five or three sixty five, I can't remember.
And then I was like, well, what are you trying
to do today? You know, and he's like two thirty five,
you know, strong kid. Like you look at him and

(01:02:05):
it's like you're a strong kid, Like you obviously have
been working out, Like sure, yeah, he start he starts
moving weight, and it's like, oh, bro, you're north at
two eighty five, like without train, you know, and then
like yeah, comes in three h five, you know, just
like solid, you know, like everything is clicking, it's all perfect,

(01:02:27):
and it's like I want to I wish I could
do that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:30):
You know, but I don't know. But then it's also
like you.

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
Were saying, and it's like to not be comparing to
these young people, yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
We have we have some pretty we have some pretty
high level athletes.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
The younger ones that have been coming in and are
really like really taken off, you know, like when they
first came in, like you could tell that they had
done something, you know what I mean, or like they
played sports or they spend a little bit of time
in a weight room. But like we've got i mean
at six thirty yesterday with like you Jenny Tate, Maya Cole,

(01:03:09):
and it was just like I can watching them like, oh,
this is fucking rad, Like you know what I mean,
just watching you know, watching all these athletes just like
move weight and just work hard and like move with like.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
You just discipline from one thing to the next.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
It's just like shout out to Maya, dude. Man, Maya
has been super inspirational for me and Julie as well. Man, yeah, man,
like I remember both of them at the beginning phases
and like they weren't out of shape, but like you know,
just to watch the growth and like the Maya hits
it hard.

Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
Man is the one like and I tell her like
all the time too. I'm like, man, fucking put your
stuff into Watify. Waify is a program. Basically it's your
digital training log, right. It tracks your weights, attracts your times,
attracts like all of the metrics that like, if you're
not training with the log either digital or notepad, it's

(01:04:06):
hard to like measure your progress right where like with
this program, you just punch it in and then like
it gives you percentages, it gives you like oh the
last time you did this, like you did it in
X amount of time or with boom And again, she's
the one where it's like she is, I don't think

(01:04:26):
there's I don't think there's anyone at the gym that
moves from one movement to the next with the intent
that she does. I mean it is like done, done,
you know what I mean. And like another one of
those people that like you give them one, you say
it one time and it's like planted, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
And they were gone for a week because there's a group.

Speaker 5 (01:04:51):
Of women that work for the conservation district and they
were like on Waldron or something like there's burning, burning stuff.
And you know, they came back last week. My came
in yesterday, Julie came in last night. Julie came back
in again today. And it's just like cool to have
these people back that like that fucking work hard man,
and then yeah, it's yeah to inspire man. And that's

(01:05:14):
and it's cool because they're younger, you know what I mean.
And it's like as a as someone who's into training
and been into fitness for some time, like seeing the
change in women that now aren't afraid to like be strong.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
You know what I mean. Like it seemed like for
a very long time, like.

Speaker 5 (01:05:38):
If a woman was gonna grab like like a dumbbell
to do something, it was like it could not be
heavier than fifteen pounds, right.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
Or they would like get bulky, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
And like now to see that like a younger generation
of women that have been exposed to you know, social
media and the Internet of like hey, man, like you
can be strong and like still be feminine, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:06:04):
Like I was talking with Kathleen Athlete.

Speaker 5 (01:06:07):
She was like, she did the Open, which is our
you know, the competition's kind of thing, and she said
the biggest thing that she didn't like about it was
her husband took a bunch of pictures, you know, while
she's training, you know, and obviously when you're training, you're
not you know, you're not digging a fucking photo shoot,
you know. And I just kind of reminded her like, man,

(01:06:28):
training's not cute, Like you're not going to be cute,
but it's sexy, you know what I mean, Like power strength,
these things are fucking these are sexy things Like these
are things that like you're born, you know, you're born
to do man, man or woman. Like you were born
to work, you were born to move things, you were

(01:06:48):
born to to test yourself. Like it's not we're not
meant to.

Speaker 4 (01:06:52):
Live so like passively in this world.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
You know, So getting the ability to see people learn
that it has has been.

Speaker 4 (01:07:03):
Yeah it's cool man, Like yeah, yeah, but.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
You gotta get your gotta get your lady in the
CrossFit baby get.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Her in there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
We do not to like you know again, not to
like plug it, but like.

Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
We have a we have a HIT class where it's
a it's called sweat and it's it's from the same
programming that we follow, which is h w p O,
which is hard Work Pays Off, which was created by
Matt Frasier when he retired from CrossFit.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
After winning the Games five years in a row.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
He he then took not took, he assembled a team
of coaches and trainers to to make this this programming
that is it's for affiliates. So like we're we're CrossFit
Friday Harbor, but we don't follow like a CrossFit programming.

(01:07:54):
We follow like h w PO has their own affiliate programming.
So there's like three hundred and than HWPO affiliates around
the world and with that programming, they have like a
CrossFit couple. Yeah, and then they have the SWEAT programming,
which which is HIT I.

Speaker 4 (01:08:12):
Mean, and it's I will and I will say it again. Man.

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
The Sweat programming is more challenging than the CrossFit programming
because it's like it'll be like four ten minute am
wraps with like a minute of rest in between, right
where with CrossFit like there's more technical things, you know,
like you're learning barbell stuff, you're learning gymnastic things like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Yeah, I like the deadlift section.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
It felt like it was kind of a at going
at your own speed approach into that heavy lifting yep,
to the point where we're done with it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
You are at you know, your.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
Your heavy set and that's your set. And then like
with with the sweat, it's like.

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
You know they'll do the calories on the rower or
the bike or you know, the kettlebells are in it
own bells are in it. Like it's a really yeah,
I think, yeah, yeah. I mean if your if your
wife's into the hits stuff, man, like it's it's wild
and the people's competitor too.

Speaker 2 (01:09:13):
Though I could see her.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
I could see her like in the CrossFit I will
say that you hit it on the head though she
because she uh, she's scared of getting too mustly and that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Was the thing with hers.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
She like knows if she puts on too much, you know,
she lifts too much weight and she sees that that
bulking in the muscle department.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
But yeah, and that's like you know, I try to.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
I try to remind people that like the people you
see on the internet that are like that, like the
CrossFit games athletes, you know, the high level athletes like
those are those are the NBA players. You know what
we do is Thursday night, Yeah, full court pickup ball,
know what I mean, Like we're not everyone there is

(01:10:02):
just it's the LBN workout. Man look better naked, Like
that's it. No one you know what I'm saying, Like
no one in there is.

Speaker 4 (01:10:09):
Like I don't say no one's going to the games,
but like.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
You know what I mean, Like people are just trying
to get fit, you know what I mean. And like
for a woman putt to get to get that look
that you get, I mean you have to be. I
mean you're two a days. Your nutrition is on your
accessory where I mean, it's your job, you know. And
for a lot of people now with social media, like

(01:10:35):
that is their job. You know, Like people are making
money off of like posting and filming their workouts and
they're you know, thankfully at the wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
I have yet to see someone like.

Speaker 5 (01:10:48):
Set up a camera and a tripod and like film
their slots.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I've been that guy in there. Different nobody was in there.

Speaker 4 (01:11:00):
Yeah. I remember.

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
That's when I messaged, was like yo, yeah, because we
had just done bar muscle up like depressions like the
week I think it was like the week before, and
it was like, Yo, this dude's doing bar muscle ups,
like I know that spot, I know where he's at.

Speaker 4 (01:11:14):
You know. It was like, yeah, check, it's different.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
And I went in there the next time and I
gave him. I gave that some run nice and it
was great.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
Yeah. Uh, I think that's your fam, dog, that's my fam. Yeah.
The heathens are at the gate all right, let him man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Yeah, great chat gents.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Yeah man, that was I'm gonna go right to the wreck.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
Yeah, get it, man, set that camera up.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
I gotta get it while I'm in town. That's another thing, man,
I'm on the other side of town.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Every time I come to town, it's got to be
like planned out. Yeah, and it can't be too long
because you know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
I'm gonna kok it out man, beat up by the kid.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
I'm a little bit worried about that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
When we moved back to our property, which is over
at Roach, you know, I'm like, it's it's different. You know,
it takes me sixteen minutes to get to the gym
over there versus two minutes, you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Know, yeah, I mean on the sixteen Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
Last thing I'm from throwing your beat in the car
and were good dude?

Speaker 4 (01:12:15):
Anywhere? Yeah, cool man? Is there is there any place
pump this movie? Any place like social media so people.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
Can check it out? I mean not yet, we haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
It's called black Licorice, that's the working title. We haven't
started to promote it yet. I'm gonna try to edit
as we go a little bit, so by the time
we're done shooting, it's basically ready for you know, sound
and color and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
All the all the ship you got to do post production.

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
But uh yeah, when the time comes, well cool yeah podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:12:51):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
It's a pleasure to meet your man and finally kind
of sit down and talk and yeah, yeah, you know
here all I've been hearing about Tyler the Tickler for.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
So yeah, man, it was ship my pleasure. It's been
awesome to have you dude.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
Yeah, absolutely great chatting.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
I felt like as much as we've sat down and talked,
I feel like you guys both show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Me your your being and your souls.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Every time I meet you I have all those little
small conversations.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
It just feels real.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
Genuine, and I can tell it's gonna be a good,
good chat.

Speaker 4 (01:13:26):
I appreciate it. Man, thank you, thanks for coming by,
and uh ship. That's it. Man, be the light.