1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Matt Warner (Empire Fence & Netting): April 22nd, 10:25am

Episode Date: April 22, 2022

Matt Warner (Empire Fence & Netting): April 22nd, 10:25amAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Back to one-on-one with DP. Presented by Beatrice Bakeray on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Welcome back one-on-one on a Friday. Again, job well done. You guys made it through the week. You can rejoice, raise your glass, stick your chest out, job well done. 402, 464, 5685, Sartar, Heming, Text, Line, Honda, Hondo, Lincoln Hotline, if you have questions, statements, comments.

I know we have some folks who are listening, watching on the video stream, and Facebook, YouTube, Twitch. And it's good timing because the temperature of the room just changed. Let's bring in. From Empire Fence, let's bring in. Kurt Warner. I did it twice this morning. I wish.

Matt Warner. Same vibe, though. Same vibe. Actually, you have the same hair now. You have the same hair now. Matt, how are you doing this morning, man? I am absolutely wonderful. Very blessed.

Good to see. I'm super excited to be here. Well, this is, this is, I jokingly tell people that I must have held just the right number of doors open for old women and stop people from crossing the street at the wrong time because the universe keeps putting good people in my path. And when I say that, it's people who have good spirit, good energy, good mission. And I think that that's appropriate to say about you. Yeah, I've been very fortunate. I'm telling you, I had a first. to mind telling me once that with hard work you get a lot of luck um so the hardy work the lucker you get um i've always told people too i'm not afraid to put the work in but man i've had a lot of luck i feel like

my luck is outdone my hard work i mean it's just good people uh in our company we have good people it's a family atmosphere uh we're we're really really blessed same thing though i i feel like somehow i stumbled and fell and and came out smelling like a rose it's it's the good stuff around So when we have people on the station, I like to give people the opportunity. Nobody gets to where they are without the shoulders of people, good people along the way, or great lessons. How do you end up from young Matt to the Matt you are today? Oh, my goodness. We don't have time for that.

Well, let's go. Let's try it. Let's try it. Tell the story. I mean, the business stuff will take care of itself, but the person is what makes the business matter. So who are you? How do you get to here? So, man, I don't even know where to start.

It's been such a... Let's start with the parents. Because you're very descriptive when you talk about your parents. Yeah, I, man, really? Yeah. We're going to go there? Yeah, let's go. Daghunny.

Because I was going to talk about maybe some football or basketball. No, because that stuff will happen because of this stuff, right? That I find you absolutely fascinating. In that, you come from a place. Like people think that, well, there's blue bloods and everybody that's successful has. No, I find that friction makes diamonds, right? Right. No, it's true.

And the lessons that we learn, the people who learn the most lessons, have the most success. You come from friction. Yeah, lots of it. Let's talk about the blessings first. Okay. I got it. My grandparents are two of the absolute most wonderful humans in the world. They're salt of the earth, good people.

My grandpa's 92. Still drives Sima on the farm. Nice. Ninety-two years old, driving an 80,000 pound of rig down the road. See? He loves it. My grandma's doing well, and she's 90.

Very blessed. I've got a family in Waverly that adopted me when I was four and a half years old. Super fortunate that that happened. My biological mother was a bit of a gypsy. She kidnapped us when I was about four, and we hung out and kind of. California. How we got back to Nebraska, she literally went a hitchhiking. She claims that she was going to go look for a dad, right? So she was going hitchhiking across the United States,

ran into a trucker in Nebraska that was a friend of the guy that adopted me, Randy, he's my dad, and he's a farmer north of Waverly. With that being said, I will tell you that it's not a claim to fame but my mom was a was a fairly good-sized drug dealer she she she I thought everybody had drugs in their house here going up right I'd go to the cabinet I'd be like what do they keep their marijuana you know what's odd you have sugar ours is in the bathroom cabin that's where we keep ours right like right like so the thing but that's part of the lesson right is that we live in our own space in our own vacuum until the vacuum expands. Right.

And it expanded for you. It did. And actually, I mean, you totally tricked me. I thought we were coming in here to just talk about business. Listen. No. You know, how he gets everyone.

No, no. No, no. You're a rock star in the fact that this stuff. No, no, no. Let's be a little bit careful. No, no, no. This stuff, the fact that you're here. Yeah.

The fact that you're here. And then you accepted the blessing. Like, you accepted the fact that you know what? I'm favored. I keep getting pushed in spaces. And now, because of that and because of the journey that I've been on, you said, I'm a serial entrepreneur. I am a serial entrepreneur.

I have a problem. No, that's not a problem. That's the thing. Well, sometimes problems are bad. Right, because you see the good in people. You see the best in what may be a dark situation. Absolutely. And you'll go, wait a minute, there's light there.

Can we get to it? Yeah. You know, and that's part of the healing process. process for me. I was an angry 18 year old. I was super mad, mad at the world. I was, man, I'm getting in fights. I didn't take much for me to blow off the handle. But through the healing process and by failing, ultimately my first business I failed in, like I told you yesterday, I filed bankruptcy at 29 years old with trucking business. And it was the, it was rougher than any of the mental and physical abuse that I went through as a child.

So it tore me apart. And I've openly said that it almost destroyed my marriage. And then I had to realize that it was my fault. So I tell business owners all the time, if you're going to be a great business owner, anybody can go out and start a business and do it. But if you want to be great and you want to be passionate, it, you got to own up to everything. It doesn't matter.

All of it. All of it. It doesn't matter if it happened on your watch or not. It's your watch because it's always your watch. You know, this morning, I'll be honest with this morning, Melanie says, man, you sound rough because I got a bit of a cough on my chest. I got a, I'm plugged up. Maybe this is a sexy voice.

I don't know. It works for radio. But she's like, man, you don't sound good. I said, you know what? I don't want to take a day off. I don't want to cancel anything. I've got a lot of cool stuff. I got a phone call last night of a project up in Omaha,

and I can't wait to go look at it. It's going to be awesome. And I can't believe they called me. I'm like, well, let's go, baby. Can you be up here shortly after lunch? I'm like, absolutely. I'm like, crap, I got to move this around, move this around. But that's what we do, right?

That's how I know you do. Great. You've got to move it around and make it work. So back on the beginning, you know, I'm not. I'm not going to say I had anything more than anybody else or anything less. And you know what I've learned to is that somebody's always going through something worse. And the mental toughness part, that's why I'm doing the 75-day hard challenge.

I'm trying to put myself through a mental challenge. I'm trying to get myself. I am losing some weight from it, but that's not why I'm doing it. It's not the weight loss. I wanted to get better. I wanted to get mentally tough. And I don't want that little voice in the back of my head to say, no, stay in bed for another 30 minutes.

No, forget that. Get your butt up and go to work. And that's the same thing. I'll tell you a story. One time my son, Ben, was complaining about football. And he said, Dad, they won't even give me. He was a junior. He's like, I won't even get a chance.

I said, you know what you should do? You should shut up and go to work, son. You should just shut up and go to work. Don't you ever come to this dinner table complaining again. But that's why I look at our work. I tell everybody we're yes, man. We go out there and we do it. We are the people.

Can you do that? Yes. Do you know how you're going to do it? No, but yes, I'll do it. There's a way to get whatever you need done, done. Right. There's a way. And there are people who make a way and the people who make excuses. Right. So did you know that for years, they thought that the four-minute mile could not physically ever be broke? Would never be done. What year was it? Like 1956 or 64?

Bannister. Bannister. Yeah. So I was reading about that just this morning. got up got my workout in i went in to work and and i don't know what i was thinking about the four minute mile i'm like now now now we've broke it high school kids have broke it and they and we physically thought it could not be and they said it had to be done on a perfect track with the perfect temperature the perfect weather the perfect day he ran it i believe it was a wet track in the rain on a cold day in there that's that is the yes we will do it attitude and it evolves and When I ask people, it's funny to you, we talk about the friction,

because you got through it, I think you amplifying that is for the next person who's going through a tough thing who wants to mope or wants to allow it to capture them. Hearing you say I got through anyway is important.

It's important for the next folk. Like we can say, look, we went through our stuff. But if folks don't know that there's a way to get through their stuff, they can fall victim to it, which is why we want I amplify. What you do professionally, let's talk about this because I promise you that the place that I coached at in the Woodlands, Texas, in Houston, Texas used your stuff. They might have. I'll be honestly, we've done so many projects all of the United States. We've gone, so our world,

by the way, we do backyard fences. That's our tool. What we really do is take care of people. I love our family. We're about 75 strong now with all companies. We have about six companies out there in Waverly where I purposely wanted to be in a community where we can take care of our community. We can get back to our community. We do projects for the school. We do some at cost.

We do some at donation. I really believe that fencing and netting and sports equipment is our tool to go and take care of people. Now, the tool is awesome. I love what we do. We've done projects all the, all the way right now. I've got two guys in Puerto Rico right now

busting their tail for a guy. Apparently he played baseball. I think his name was Carlos Beltron. Beltrane. Yeah, I mean, apparently he's a baseball player. Never heard of it. You know, we should maybe see if there's a

sports talk radio show around town that can fill us in about who he is. I have no idea who Carlos Belton. You actually, you know, might be related somehow. Probably have to look at my family tree. Yeah. I have family out there. Yeah, like Kurt Warner's my cousin.

Yeah, right. I mean, but through, I mean, you use all resources for all things for all people. Yeah, absolutely. That's super. I mean, again, when you could help with a baseball facility or a workout facility, a gymnasium, backyard, school, community. By the way, did you like our little indoor facility? That's what I was.

I was telling Rico about it. And I said, first of all, he needs to get out there. But I want you to describe the way to folks who, aren't familiar so uh out there in waverly i really so about 15 years ago i said man we need a place for youth to go um to train to get better at whatever they do and i really didn't have the vision but i knew i wanted to build something um and i told a lot of people about it matter of fact uh i told a lot people at our church i'm kind of a spiritual guy um and so i was telling them man i'm going to build something i don't know what it's going to be but i'm going to build something so when i when i um

We landed a really, really cool project down in Tulsa that nobody wanted to do. Everybody was scared to do it. It was right on the river. It's called The Gathering Place. It's a huge park. Basically, I had a contractor call me and say, listen, nobody wants to touch this. They're all too scared, but I heard that you would do it. And I was like, you bet?

He goes, well, you want to take a look at it? I'm like, well, yeah, I'll take a look at it. But I'm going to tell you right now, I'll do it. We'll get it done. So anyhow, we did really well on that. job and we invested it in a building. I was fortunate enough to build a building big enough that on the south side of it, we have a batting baseball training facility. We do speed training. We do boot camps. Matter of fact, there was some gals in there this morning at 5 a.m. doing boot camps.

I went in a little before five and we have a little area with some treadmills. I mean, it's nothing fancy, but it's beautiful. It has everything in it. I don't care what it is that you're doing. athletically, physically that you're for fitness. In this space there's room for you. So we call it the wave. A little bit for Waverly, kind of a tie. We joke around that it's the

Waverly Athletic Village of Excellence. There you go. We tried to do that too. There you go. Really none of it fits. So it's just called the wave. This is the way. But this is what I love. I might even get a little choked up here. So I told my guys, I said, listen, the dream is that kids will show up

during the summer when it's super hot out and pick up a wiffle ball game in here or do something like that so last summer uh luke called me he's like hey go around to the south side of the building check it out i'm like dude i'm right in the middle of this this he's like no no no go check this out bicycles laying all on the sidewalks open up the door and there's probably eight nine 10 kids in there doing and i said so did you get it he's like no they organized it all themselves they did it all They set the bases out. Apparently, if you hit it up there, it's a home run. So my dream was for the kids to show up and to have a place to go to hang out.

So they're not hanging out and getting into things that I did. We're familiar. We're familiar. So, you know, when things are excessively available to you as a young man, sometimes you take your cut from your parents. So when your mom stashes there, you kind of, you borrow some of that. So I didn't want that happening. I wanted to have a place where it's.

safe. We have cameras. But Luke was, he goes, man, that's what you, that's what you said you wanted. Fully turfed, right? I mean, he's got areas that's fully turfed. The workout rooms, again, everything that you could use for any kind of workout. I mean, literally, whatever your thing is, you want to do, you know, hit workouts, you can do it in that space.

Any of the hardcore workouts, you can do in that space. You can also go play bag toss. Yeah, I mean, immediately for me, I thought camps, especially like executive boot camps. Yeah. Corporate boot camps. Right. Like just to have folks come out and work out there would be just remarkable.

And it's a great space and it's laid out properly. We'll go to break. When we'll come back, Matt, I want to talk a little bit more about Wave. And then about the prospects of talking business within the sports world and within this community. I love it. We'll do that next year on one-on-one. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch. You're listening to One-on-One with DP.

On 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.