RAWTALK - BIG BOY ON KANYE WEST, MICHAEL JACKSON, & LOSING 200LBS.
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Yeah, solid.
I love it.
You sound great.
You're kind of a, I mean, dude, you are.
You go right in, huh?
I noticed that.
Yeah.
You don't be bullshit and he don't go three, two, one, another of that shit.
Yeah, no.
That motherfucker you just start, I'm about to put lotion on so I don't get beat up on the
fucking internet and shit, be that ashy black dude and shit.
You know what I just go in, yeah.
Hell yeah.
I noticed Bradley be like, yeah, but so anyway, man, tell me about when you shot that guy in the parking lot.
What the fuck?
Like, man, we're not going to say hello?
Oh, yeah.
I feel like, I mean, honestly, you're such a legend at this.
Thank you, your voice in general and everything you've done for so many years.
I guess like if I go right into this, I'm thinking right away, I'm like, what impact do you think social media has like had on, I mean, just I guess what you've done for so many years of radio stuff and how it's kind of shifting?
Because I was talking to you have the podcast, you haven't gone crazy with it yet.
But I mean, essentially radio is like, it's been live podcasting like forever.
And it's crazy because you look at, I've been in radio, I'm going on 29 years, right?
Insane.
Legendary.
Yeah, thank you, brother.
I appreciate you, B.
And with radio, it's always like that kind of that sight unseen, voice unheard kind of thing.
You know what I'm saying?
You know, sites unseen voices that's heard.
People had heard you, they didn't know what you look like.
You know, I think when I got the billboards, people probably, I was one of the most visual radio personalities plus I was over 500 pounds, so I was easy to recognize.
and then when you got into radio
it was like radio was like AM
FM and people love radio
but now you look at the podcast world
it's like you get into the podcast
people not even thinking about radio jobs
you know what I'm saying because you do it at your leisure
you do it how you want to get down
and it's such a great world now coming from radio
early on podcast it was like
ah they can't get a radio job
you know that's what people would say
ah they can't get a radio job now people are like
F that gig.
I want to do the podcast.
And also with the way that my radio show goes now is there's nowhere in the world that I've been that I haven't been recognized.
Yeah.
But that's because also I would have people that say, I listen to you.
Now the world has changed so much.
People say, oh, I watch your podcast.
Yeah.
I watch your interviews.
So every interview now from radio is now a television program.
It's now a video.
It's both, yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
And that's how you do your radio interviews now.
Everything is recorded video-wise.
You know what I find interesting.
I find interesting how, like, same thing with, you know, YouTube and just social media in general, how, like, when it first started, there was kind of like no respect for that, what it was.
And then as it evolved, it's like it's becoming almost the mainstream in a sense.
Like, if we're talking about radio and podcasting, like, oh, why would you go for podcasts and we'd focus on trying to be in radio?
Like as it started to come up, and now it's becoming like the mainstay in it.
So are you, are you yourself going to find yourself doing more podcast stuff?
Very much so.
Yeah, because like, very much so.
Because you're built for this shit.
Yeah.
And it's crazy because I'm on radio or somewhere every day of the year.
I don't have, every day my show is aired somewhere.
Yeah.
There's no, you know, all the weekend is off.
There's no Christmas vacations, none of that, you know, every day.
So I've been doing radio
I just know and in respect that podcast
World so much that when we got in
We were like we need to pull back a little bit
Because we had to pull back on radio
Pull back on the podcast because when you go to hit that
You got to hit you got to hit that shit right
And especially coming from where I am
With so much radio on my background
That I wouldn't want to be the guy
That come up and just have some sloppy shit that's put together
Just because everybody else is doing something
You know what I'm saying?
And even now,
My producer will probably watch this to say, no, you know what?
We do have a podcast.
We do have a show.
But I know exactly what our next move is that specifically podcast.
Yeah.
Are there any podcasts in the space, specifically the music space?
Because obviously that's a lot of where you're coming from, that you see, that do really well, that you want to be like, not necessarily want to be like, like you're not going to be yourself.
You know what?
Not from the music space.
No disrespect to anyone.
Because to tell you the truth, be, I don't watch a lot.
I haven't been on social media since July 7th.
You know, I don't get into a lot of the shit that goes on on there.
So I know of podcasts, and I'm starting to study a little bit more,
but I haven't seen anything where I'm saying, you know,
oh, I want to be like that.
And as far as compliment, you know, I look at million dollars worth the game.
I look at a fact with Fuzzy and Q.
You know, I'm aware of them, you know what I'm saying?
But I don't sit down and watch, like, a lot of episodes of something.
You know, I don't think I've ever been through possibly an episode of a lot of the sitdowns.
Yeah, I get it.
You know?
Yeah.
So, besides that then, as far as, like, radio, taking it back to before you kind of, like, really got into it, where were you finding yourself and how did you find yourself getting to radio?
Like, how did you know, like, this is what you were going to be good at?
Someone would tell you, like, your voice was great.
No, it wasn't a voice thing for me.
It was more of I always just enjoyed music.
I enjoyed music.
I enjoyed being a personality.
I enjoyed life, you know?
So I was one of those guys that I was going to throw everything up against the wall.
I never thought that I was going to do like radio.
Radio wasn't like a dream for me.
Entertainment was a dream.
Got it.
You know, so I did everything to be around entertainment.
You know, anybody know that know me, I DJed.
You know what I'm saying?
So I was turntables, turning labels.
I was DJing. I was rapping. I was doing all the dances and doing, you know, just, I was that guy. I was that DJ because I love music so much. And then I had an opportunity with a rap group called The Far Side to go with the Far Side as their bodyguard. I was always good. You know, we're taking care of myself. My head was very level. So I stayed with the Far Side on the road for about two years. And one time when we were kind of home, one, you know, a little break before we went out on the Lollapult.
Paloosa tour. I got a call from a guy by the name of Rick Cummins. And I was good with the
Baker Boys that did Power 106 in the mornings and their Friday night flavor. So I was just
cool with them as individuals. And I had a hip hop line called What Up. And What Up was just a way for me
to kind of get in the clubs. You'll call and it'd be like, oh, you know, Thursday night this
was going on. But I did it with so much personality. If I made a mistake, I rewind the record and
it was. So it was just personality. And their boss.
would call that and listen and he called me one day and asked me if I wanted to ever try
radio what I tried for one night so I'm thinking okay well shit he said I gave you $35 an hour
I'm doing the math in my head like okay I'll go do that yeah call me back the next day
asked me if I wanted to try it again and I was like yeah I'm thinking you know times two
my radio career is done and after the second show Rick Cummins called me and said you
know would you have you ever thought about doing radio we'd like you to do the night
show yeah so literally be I was like I was going to turn it down
because I enjoyed being on the road so much.
Yeah.
And I enjoyed tour buses and traveling and being with the far side
and being with hip hop.
And I got to a point where I was like, man,
you can only eat when they eat.
And then with being the bodyguard, yeah,
you're only going to eat a fraction of what they eat.
When they record in their downtime,
if they don't need you,
then you're not going to be utilized.
So I thought about it and I sat with one of my partners
and people that was really real with me,
I said, man, I'm going to try it.
So I went to the far side.
I said, hey, man, I got this opportunity.
I want to try this radio thing.
And they was like, man, go try it.
They said, if it doesn't work out, you know, you can always come back.
Yeah.
That was done it, 29 years ago, bro.
Yeah, fuck that.
I was like, man, I got in that.
I was like, uh-oh, wait, hold on.
What do you think made you, what do you think made you special?
Is it like, obviously your personality, right?
Right.
And you were, you were a big personality, but what made you feel like you had, you were able to fit in that lane?
Like, when you started filming the, sorry, when you started recording the stuff and you,
oh I know I want to do this right like you wanted to do it right like how did you know what
was right it wasn't even it wasn't even right when I said I rewind I was rewined and doing my voice
like Harrison am yes you and I'm saying like how did you know that that was good is what I'm saying
the reason why I think it worked for me is because I didn't know what to do all I knew is how to be
big boy all I do is how to be me so when I first got the gig he told me he said just going there
and do what you want to do
just remember the station
that's called Power 106
And at this time
you didn't have people to look
You were just
You were just
Nah
Yeah
I didn't have
And it was like radio wise
It was 1580K day
On AM
It was a guy by the name
Russ Parr
And Russ Parr
Used to do this character
named Bobby Jimmy
And everybody knew Russ Par
Yeah
But when I got in
I was just
I didn't have
the pressures
that everyone have now
You know what I'm saying
Because I was so early
It was like
I just threw everything
up against the wall
When I was in fourth grade, I learned this, you know, this song in Hebrew,
and I was singing that song in Hebrew at night, and it fucking blew up.
You know what I'm saying?
I would go in there and put on the instrumental being, and I go,
it was this little dreidel song.
And people fucking loved it.
Then I did a Miami bass record called shaking my ass.
They just said, go in there and have fun.
And I didn't have the restrictions that a lot of people have now.
And not that I didn't give a fuck about it, I just didn't know.
I just said, they said, going there and have fun.
and I love to have fun
and I went in.
Now, if I came in the game now
and I didn't have like a big boy or this or that
to like, oh man, we got to do it like big boy.
Or we got to mix.
We got to do like the baker boys.
I didn't have all that.
I just went in and said,
fuck it, I'm just going to do what I do.
And they allowed me a big ass yard
to have this fun and I did it.
That's so interesting.
When I think about this concept, like,
I'm not trying to relate it directly to this,
but I've talked about this on podcast in the past.
So I grew up without a father and my father took his life when I was young.
And the thing that's interesting about it is I've talked about obviously different situation,
but the concept of not having a like rigorous like this is how you should be or this is how it should be.
Like I grew up not having a father, not having someone saying like, hey, live your life like this, be like this.
I kind of had to just figure it out of my own.
But there's so much there's benefit to that.
Like it all kind of like how you take it.
You know what I'm saying?
Like you obviously being in a position where you do.
didn't have like this rigorous like you know you didn't have a big boy or someone else to look up to
to say oh he did it like that I'm going to do it like that so you just did it how like was in your
heart you step out on faith even if you can't see the whole staircase you step out and you do it
your way and the crazy shit about it too is that you could look back and say man a lot of that
shit was wrong yeah you know what I'm saying but you but I learned from it and I and I had
so much fun doing it you know and I didn't have the device where everybody could just totally
get in touch with you and tell you what you're doing wrong and doing right the
pressures that you have now. I didn't have like a strong cancel culture. I would have been canceled
my first fucking two days if the cancel culture was around then, you know? So I had a chance to kind
of bang the car up and have fun and learn certain things and explore this this journey that I was
going on. I feel like we should talk about that cancel culture a little bit because it's so relevant
today. Like the fact that you didn't have those constraints and you can kind of just be free and be
yourself, do you think it will ever get to that point again where people can do that and not have
at all never just completely change
I think this is it bro you know what I'm saying
even now on my radio show I do a
bit called phone taps I got
more phone taps prank calls
that I can't play than
calls that I can play fucking crazy
because it's a different climate out
there and I don't ever see
this going back you know we got people that
that fight for it you know you see
the Dave Chappelle's of the world and they're fighting
for it you know comedy used to be
a thing where it was like oh we can't
poke at that
is so fucking
strong and weak
at the same time, bro.
It's fucking, it's crazy.
Yeah, you know, and even
with my live show, I'll do
something and then I fucking curl
my toes in my shoe, like,
was that okay? Was that the one?
Fuck, yeah, man. But it's crazy because
like it's gotten to a point, like, we're talking about
specifically comedy, right? The Dave Chappelle stuff is
I feel like comedy was always a place to
play, dance the line,
and have fun with something that maybe
in some cases a little more uncomfortable. And it's
Like, if you can't do that, then it gets to a point where what can you talk about?
And then at some point, it's like, what if the things that are normal to talk about become now
not normal to talk about?
And then it's like, that's the thing that gets weird with it, where it's like, I could stand
on this side and believe this or stand on this side and believe that, whatever.
But it's like when there can't be conversation now, it's like, as humans, what the fuck's
going on?
Yeah.
And everybody is right.
Everybody is offended.
Everybody has a purpose, you know.
And even to the point where you could say something,
you could have said something 10 years ago that was okay for 10 years ago.
And you put that shit up today and not even put it up,
somebody go back and find it.
Yeah.
You're fucked.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like right now with the device and social media and everybody has a voice
and they should.
But now you super serve so many different so-called gods now.
You know, it used to be, you know, is it a producer?
is it a company is it this now it's like it could just be anybody at the fucking house
that could destroy you yeah you know and some people listen out and they look out for those
things yeah you know it's crazy like like the Kanye stuff what do you think about that
whole situation the whole like like just i mean obviously he has such a massive platform
that like you kind of have to be careful with the things you say yeah at the same time though
it's like it's it's tough because it's like i don't know as a human it's like obviously
it's a thing that he's going through he's dealing with.
It's like sometimes maybe just keep it off social media.
Like what's your take on that?
You know, my thing is it, even with that,
I don't even speak on that shit
because whatever you say is going to be too little or too much.
You know what I'm saying?
I haven't had a conversation with Kanye about it.
I haven't dug deep into it as far as publicly.
So I don't even, there's just some shit where you say,
you know what man I'm not going to even comment on it right because there's so because you can say
something and you can ruffle feathers yeah you know what I'm saying so I'm just like man let you know
let some people deal with what they deal with I think he's very in control you know no matter
what people think about yay I think he's he's man enough yeah to handle his shit for sure you know what
I'm saying he wouldn't have got to where he's out without yeah so so I'm not going to handle Kanye
shit yeah let let let let them have that for you know what I mean
It's just such a crazy, it's a crazy thing, though, like that even, it's like you're now,
now you're not, like, right now we can't even really share opinions without someone going,
clipping something and be like, look what are you saying?
Oh, man.
Yeah, that, that, the clip and the clickbait is a whole different world.
Because, like, we could have a full conversation about something that is, like, very meaningful
and, like, you hear the whole thing, you're like, oh, it makes sense, but you get that one
piece of someone takes and they spin it.
I've had it, man, and I've had it.
I had Jack Harlow on, right?
And we were just playing it.
was something about his dad and you know I grew up without my dad so he was telling me like
we were just throwing things out of me it was like man you know oh big boys a great dad hey man
I heard and this is Jack Harlow I heard you a great dad oh he's a great this and oh I heard you
did you know so he's throw out because I told him I said compliment me so my team was
throwing compliments yeah and then he was like oh he's a great dad and he said oh
I heard you a great dad and so I literally went
like playing they took that clip and the clip that went around the world was jack harlowe made
big boy cry about being a dad and i even had one person that was like like really on some dad
beautiful shit he was like man that was so vulnerable of you and i even had to hit him back like
oh bro yeah i'm that guy i don't mind crying but that wasn't it you know i'm a crying motherfucker
to tell you the truth but that just wasn't it that time you know what i'm saying yeah so it's crazy
it's it's wild yeah man so what what okay so you've interviewed damn near like everyone yeah in the
space well did you ever do you ever have an interview that stands out where you're like i really
enjoyed this you know what i get asked all the time like what's my favorite interview and i don't
have the favorite i have ones that i enjoy yeah you know what i'm saying like maybe ones that
you like you like learn the most or you were like wow that was like you got the most out of it
you know it's either it's different it's different things like i enjoy snoop
dog just being in the room yeah it doesn't have to be about an album it doesn't have to be about
a movie TV show he's just fun to have in the room and his naivete is beautiful and then there's
times when you'll say you know what I love like darius rucker from who didn't a blowfish so I'll
bring this motherfucker in to just sing you know so I have a a full range of certain things that I
can do but yeah I'll sit down you know uh Barack Obama was one you know what I'm saying that
that's like, damn, you know, this is the fucking president sitting down with Michael Jackson.
You know, that's like Michael Jackson, you grow up.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't think there's anywhere in the world, especially growing up that you could have went
that no one knew who Michael Jackson was.
I think still to this day.
Yeah, I'm sitting here, dude, and I'm like, looking like, like, dude, this is fucking Michael
Jackson.
Yeah.
So you have those moments.
And you got to think with me, man, I grew up with my mom, seven kids.
You know, we have bouts of homes.
all kind of things like it was it was a real life and a real story and a real journey so i
still sit down and i trip that i'm big boy from radio i would literally sometimes be i'm on
air and i say damn that's me in my headphones i hope that never goes away so i always have these
moments of kind of like not checking myself but like damn this shit is is really going down this
shit really exists.
So everything that I do in the neighborhood, there's sometimes I'm like, man, I'm here.
It doesn't depend on the guest, the baroque, the this, that, and the other.
It's just crazy that this person thought enough the night before to get dressed or had to go
to sleep and say, oh, I got to go do big boy tomorrow.
That shit is crazy.
You know what I'm saying?
And God willing, I never get used to it.
I think, though, there's something to say about the fact that where you've been in your
life, at times, obviously not the most comfortable, right?
But you've believed that.
you can be here.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
I want to talk about that a little bit, but I think it's really important to make it known.
Like, some of the most successful people or the most well-versed people are the people who've
gone through the heart of shit.
So I think the fact that you could sit on radio and have so much conversation, so much
candid, like real emotion, real, like learning moments is because of your life and your past.
And you bring that all into what you do.
Yeah.
You know, as much, you know, music that I enjoy, you bring that into what you do.
the different cultures of growing up with different people throughout Los Angeles and, you know, living on, you know, being on the block, but understanding that the world was big, all that works with radio, all that works with, I didn't know that I was living a life that was going to prepare me for the life that I'm living. You know what I'm saying? Like that, that's crazy. Like, oh, that's why I learned Hebrew. That's why I took yoga. That's why I took martial arts. That's why I live next door to Mike Caranza. That's why, like, everything that you do, you're like, ah,
Yeah.
That's why.
So, yeah, and on that point, so for the younger kids or the people who are watching
this, people coming up trying to, they want to either be a, like, maybe not necessarily
radio or podcasts or social media, just something, something bigger in their life, what kind
of advice did you give them?
Because I think it's really relevant to say the thing that we're saying now that a lot
of people get caught up in the, like, negative parts in their life and their childhood
and their past.
And then they let it, they let themselves go down like a completely different road than
then they really want to go.
Right.
So if you could give some advice to someone that, like, you know.
is going through it and I tell people man and you've you've heard it from others so many times man
that the the people that most say oh they're successful yeah is the people that probably
failed the most and I failed and gave up but tried the most and it was unsuccessful did the most
and it didn't pop you know what I'm saying like you can sit up and say oh man I enjoy such
and such on your radio show but I did a thousand things that didn't fucking pop but phone tap
did. So I tell people all the time, I'm like, man, for one, it doesn't matter what you want to do
in your life. Character is what's being said about you when you're not in the room. If you're a
fucked up individual and you're a piece of shit and more problems than profit, nine times out
of nine and a half, somebody probably don't want to fuck with you. So I tell people, man, be the best
person that you could be. And then those opportunities are also open up. You know, I could have been
whatever I was going to do, I would have been the best bodyguard.
the best fucking sous chef the best janitor whatever it is because i would have applied myself
to it and my character is different so i always tell people man don't trip off of what's going
on today god willing what's happening with you today is temporary don't make it a permanent
situation yeah you're going through something right now and i mean we've been through it all bro
you know what i'm saying and a lot of people have been through it but it's how you make it
through it you know what I'm saying and in the lesson and the blessing that's so true you know what I'm
saying the testing the testimony that's so true man like I learned so much from fucking hard times
yeah you know what I'm saying like I learned a lot from not knowing where your meal was coming
from not knowing how your rent's going to be paid we weren't rich in you know as far as currency
and you know the dollar sign but we were extremely rich and we're affluent in love I love you
I have a very loving family.
So with that being said, I always tell people, yeah.
And I tell people, I say, man, be the best person that you can be.
Don't trip off of what's going on.
God willing, it's not going to last a lifetime unless we make it last a lifetime.
And we'll get through it, man.
So here's the thing I think it's interesting, though.
It's like we all, this stuff we kind of know in hindsight, right?
Yeah.
So like.
I knew then, too, though.
So, okay, I want to ask you.
This is why I want to ask you.
I want to ask you, how did you know that then?
When it wasn't, because like you could sit here now, we could say all this looking back.
You know what?
I think you know and you hope.
You know what I'm saying?
And the way I explain that is like, man, I hope this doesn't last forever.
The hard time.
Yeah, man, I hope we get a place to live.
Man, I hope this.
So you, but I always felt like if I just keep going, if I just keep going, it's like, you know, you don't go from kindergarten to 12th grade.
You know what I'm saying?
You go through these gradual grades, the same way you go through these gradual states.
steps and if you just keep going then like shit man i'm i always tell people i say man
this let today be better than yesterday and let tomorrow be to be better than today yeah i didn't
always have the five year plan you know what i was just like man i'm going to grind out today
more than i did yesterday i always hated that question yeah what do you want to do in five years
yeah man did you know what like five years ago i didn't know what like five years ago i didn't
know i was going to be here in five years yeah but i just went and did some work at this place
called the Hoffman Institute and that was the most now I do have a five year but it's not a five year
plan it's a five year left and right road which is something that they really teach you at this place
called the Hoffman Institute but like say for instance how we are how we are talking I say man I got to get
in there work my shoulder I got to do this yeah if I start doing certain things what would I feel like
in five years you know what I'm saying so it's not the five year plan to fuck around and be like you
and lift women and have them on my arms and lift the y'all didn't see when he lift that fucking
bus but yeah it we all can't do that right you know what i'm saying but but yeah i just say you know what
in five years you know where will i be where we and not five year plan but the way your podcast
are taken off the way you how would i feel yeah how do you how will you feel where will you be
in five years what would your life would be and it don't have to be the five year it could be the
three year it could be next month it could be 2023 but now i do have what you have
more of a conscious of, man, if I don't get this podcast going right now, then what's going
in five years?
Yeah.
Where could it be in five years?
I think I feel like people get so caught up in like having shit.
You know, like everyone's so fixated on like getting things like, you know, having the podcast
being successful, getting the money, like whatever, having the girls.
And like we forget, I think that in order to like really have these things and also appreciate
these things it starts with like the belief that you can number one deserve them first and not just
trying to have them it's like trying to have them with a purpose and I think people try to get to
places in their life based on other people's position in life yeah and they go oh big boy has a
successful this that I want to be like him or Bradley has a successful I want to be like him but like
a lot of people do want to be like you though bro well that I you know what I'm saying like don't
don't bullshit but but but regardless of that right it's like instead of just seeing the
person saying I want to be like him right being like because like I didn't I didn't get to be this
person by just like I didn't see another person was like I want to be like him right I just went
through all my shit and I dealt with it and I and I went up and down and up and down and like
learn all the shit from it and now I'm this person right and you probably had the inspirations
you know what I'm saying like I've had inspiration I was inspired by my mom getting up going to
work every day you were inspired but it wasn't like you didn't want to be a sloppy carbon
copy of something yeah well like you're like you
somebody else's dream yeah like you said earlier with tithes back in you were like you didn't have
and even now you don't watch a lot of content no there was no one to say this is the big boy be like him
and even on social like there wasn't there was no one doing what i'm what i did as i did it while i was doing
it i was just like social media was just brand new i just had social media and i'm like
posting shit because i'm like i have clients i was a trainer and then it then they started putting
videos on instagram this is like back in 2011 2012 so like there wasn't anywhere i'm like oh i'm gonna be like that guy
So social media wasn't even a thing that people were making money from at the time.
I was just doing shit that was like really from my heart.
And then I was like, oh, people like, this is picking up.
So then I started to do like you talked about earlier.
This work, that didn't work.
I started just trying more shit.
And then it worked.
And now people are like, oh, that's a guy who makes money on the internet in the fitness industry.
And he does this stuff that he likes.
I want to be like him.
Right.
But my success wasn't because I saw someone else doing something.
It was just because I was just doing shit that I genuinely enjoyed.
And you did the same thing.
And you have that success.
And then when it comes to you, it's like,
okay you know that's not what I did it for but I'll take it yeah you know what I'm saying but
that's not why why I did it and then there's sometimes bro where you know what you're playing is
or you know what you're doing then there's sometimes man you don't know yeah I don't talk about that
I want to talk about that so have you ever along the way been like I don't know what the fuck
I'm doing or have you ever felt like maybe this isn't for me and then you ever had to pivot
as far as radio and just in life yeah I pivot all the time yeah your pivot game got to be
strong we just we just saw that with the quarantine and pandemic that we're going
it was a pivot fucking game and if you're not ready to pivot you know and with me also bro like
like i said i've been in radio going on 29 years radio has changed a lot yeah you know what i'm saying
everything has changed a lot so if you become a fucking dinosaur in the game or you say oh man
i'm not going to use that i'm not going then you eulogizing yourself so yeah like man every every
day i'm either learning some new shit trying some new shit you know did i doubt
certain things, yeah, did I think like, man, like when I got the two days, I don't think it was
going to be 29 years.
Yeah, it's supposed to be crazy.
Yeah, so, so yeah, you do have those things where, you know, and you have the, do I still
want to do this at certain points, you know?
Absolutely.
You know, is it worth it?
You know, all kinds of shit.
But then when you look at the blessing and you realize them like, no, this is what I do
and I enjoy it.
You know what I'm saying?
I'd rather have this than not have this.
Then, yeah, you know, I preserve it, bro.
Yeah.
What are the biggest blessings you say you have from all of this?
Do you know what, man?
I love people that, and it's not like it's, you know, for your ego, but I love people, man.
Like, I love people.
I take every fucking picture.
I love people that say, man, I listen to you.
I've been listening to you since I was a kid.
Like, I fucking love that.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's those kind of things that kind of keep you going on your day to day.
You know, and smiles bring smiles, man.
I haven't met everyone that listened to my show.
You know what I'm saying?
So I'm meeting new people every day.
Yeah, and I love it.
And that's what you'd say like you,
that's more of like your purpose there.
You enjoy that.
I enjoy it, man.
Like I enjoy people.
The people enjoy me and I can never get tired of smiling faces.
You know what I'm saying?
I love it, especially now.
Yeah.
You know, like people say, oh, I don't want to bother you.
I don't want to.
And I tell them, I say, I don't run from the love.
I run to love.
Yeah.
Or somebody would come up and say,
oh,
I love you.
I'm like, man,
that's better than I hate you.
I mean,
you wouldn't have,
it's also, too,
it's like you wouldn't have
all this stuff that you have
in your life.
It wasn't for that, right?
People support you.
And you realize that.
And not only that,
you work hard for it.
You know what I'm saying?
And it's not like anything
that you do was given to you.
You work hard,
so I don't want people to discount it
like, oh,
if it wasn't for me,
you wouldn't be shit.
Like, no,
I would be shit.
I would be,
I still would be the shit.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I love you and I love the support,
but don't get it twisted where it's like,
you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I can live without my mom.
I could definitely live without anyone.
No, I get you.
I had a situation once where I was at my gym
and like some people showed up from like Mexico
or some people come from all over the world to go to the gym
and I was like training something.
Like someone paid me to train them.
And these people came to the front of the gym
and they're like, wave me down.
And I'm like, look now.
I'm like, I don't know who it is.
And I remember I get this message on,
social media like the next day and this girl's like fuck you you're a piece of shit like
you without without the people who support you wouldn't be shit i was like way i like i didn't plan
that right i wasn't like come in and say hi and i was doing something else that i planned specifically
and i remember feeling like a little hurt in that sense yeah man had you ever been in any
situation where someone did be like you ain't shit without me like were they message you or some
shit not not anything too crazy i remember one time i had this uh this girl that said something
about I was I hugged everyone except her okay you know what I'm saying and then she even went on
and said oh well you must not like plus size girls or fat girls and I mean literally if you seen
me we're gonna talk about this too people turn they turn me around so I take every picture yeah
so I'm not thinking like you you oh no not you you know what I'm saying but she felt a certain
way and she felt it was necessary to call it out but that was not that's not the case you know
what I'm saying? And maybe it was somebody that I didn't hear and said, big boy, you know, maybe, but I, you know, I would never intentionally do some dumb shit like that. Of course not. And I'm coming from a 500 pound body. Who the fuck was I to say some old dumb shit like that? And I think I was over 500 pounds then. Yeah. It doesn't make sense. Yeah, man. So let's talk about the weight loss time for you. Like, before you started losing weight, what made you be like, okay, I really need besides like, obviously, like probably the health conditions or what it came with it.
Were you unhealthy at ever?
You know what, man?
I was, when I got the surgery, I was 511 pounds, right?
Yeah, that's, yeah.
That's incredible, by the way.
Yeah, man.
Like, I'm, I'm, to be honest, like, that's amazing.
Hey, man, how did you eat that much?
And you know, it's the truth, man.
I'll get people that say, man, I didn't even see you grub like that.
But I'm like, yeah, I don't think you get to 500 pounds by eating fucking salads.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
You had to be.
Yeah, and it's crazy because of this day, that's my boy, Jose, my guy Bishop.
They're sitting there like, man, I didn't see you like that.
But I knew that it started to get crazy.
But it's wild because the 500 pound, it came on like,
you know how some people could say, oh, man, on this picture,
I was like probably 12 because my hair and this picture.
Like my pictures, you just see me getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
And so then I look at my picture and I say, oh, man,
I must have been like a 6x back then.
I must have been like a such and such.
Yeah.
But with me, man, like I said,
said when I went to Hoffman you start to do a lot of work on yourself and when did you go there I went
in July okay and it started to peel a lot of layers off but with me bro food was my go-to it never left
me it was the one thing that you can go to and it was there and I didn't realize that until just this
year because when I was over 511 pounds when I got the surgery I was and it may sound crazy be
I was happy
I was happy in my skin
I wasn't the dude that you can call the fat
punks and you weren't punking me
and you weren't fucking with me
none of that kind of shit
I had girls
I can scrap like a motherfucker
you were you know what I'm saying
so I wasn't going home crying
but that's just like the person
that is getting bullied
you know not so much but you know
I'm over here on this side like
oh think I'm celebrating it
and being big
and then this person over here
could be getting teased
and we're on these spectrums where
yeah I thought I was happy
and when
I got to over 500 pounds
my mom passed in 99 at the age of 57
that wasn't a
aha switch it was more like a dimmer
you just start to see yourself getting bigger
you start to see your health deteriorating
how old were you then I was 32 when I got the surgeon
so when I was 32
no when your mom passed I was I was like
probably 29 going on 30 that year
Okay.
And so I remember, it was a guy by the name of Ron Lester.
And Ron Lester was in a movie called Friday Night, Friday Night Lights and some other stuff,
Good Burger, things of that nature.
And he was a big dude.
I think Ron was in his 500s as well.
And I saw him at a movie premiere one night.
And when I saw him, he came up, he was like, big boy.
And I'm like, you know, I don't know who the guy is.
He's like, it's Ron Lester.
I'm looking at him like, man, what the fuck did you do?
And he had gastric bypass surgery.
Yeah.
And what I tell people is gastric bypass surgery is the last card in a 52 card deck.
That's the last thing you do.
I had people that say, man, you know what?
Man, I won't get that surgery like, no, you don't want that.
You know what I'm saying?
Do as much as you can to try to take it off naturally.
Yeah.
So, you know, you go through it.
You go through your diets.
You go through your eating right.
You go and then you, you know, and I was never on like a yo-yo where I would lose
100, 200 pounds and put it back on.
I was always just getting bigger, always getting bigger.
But I thought that, and I was happy in my skin.
If I needed to drive, I can get the bigger car.
If I needed a suit, I could get a suit made.
If I needed to fly, I could fly first class.
I could accommodate being 500 pounds.
So why did you change?
The reason why, it was multiple reasons, right?
The reason why I changed is because one time, and it wasn't like this,
I was 32 years of age
and I'm over 500 pounds
probably 550 pounds
and I'm sitting there and I'm like man
I said do you have more years
behind you than you have in front of you
and if I look
the answer is yeah you have more years behind you
because I couldn't see
a 64 year old
500 pound man
and if I did was he
unassisted without a breathing apparatus
and walking on something
or in a school or anything of that nature.
So I started to think about that surgery.
Started my research doing what I could,
so on the foot, so forth, looking at it.
And I went and did the surgery.
But as much research as I thought I did,
I didn't know what I was getting myself into
because I had a procedure called the duodenos switch.
And the duodenos switch is a procedure
that most or all surgeons won't do anymore.
And the way you lose the weight
is you malabsorver the fact.
But when malabsorbing the fat, you malabsorpe everything, vitamin A, D, E, K, proteins, album,
and everything, every vitamin, every mineral.
So I'm constantly on supplements and constantly on.
So it's always been a journey.
It took me about 10 years to even learn real nutrition because sometimes we think I get the
surgeon that's the end it all.
You know what I'm saying?
But they're doing your bypass here.
You have to work on this.
Right.
So that was the strongest thing for me.
me was working and I continued like I said I just found out that I did have a real honest love affair
with food yeah you know what I'm saying I really did so I'm always learning so the first thing you
got done was this was the surgery and then you started the fat loss after yeah because when you
went like off of 500 pounds the first thing is years ago I did this weight loss challenge of will
smith yeah and will came to the show and this will smith we're having fun it's not his first
I know Will, so on and so forth.
And I remember once the interview was over,
we're just talking about life.
And Will said to me, he said, yeah, Bill,
he said, how old are you?
And I think I was 30 at the time.
Oh, man, 30, 31.
And he was like, man, he said,
do you ever thought about, you know, your life or this and that?
And now that I look back on it,
you kind of guarded when somebody had that conversation with you.
You know what I'm saying?
And you can't joke yourself out of it.
So he told me, he said, man, he said,
Big, he said, what about your heart?
Yeah.
And it wasn't this aha moment with Will Smith either.
He said, man, he said, I would love for you to, you know, do this.
Let's take off some weight.
So we did this Will Smith Weight Loss Challenge where he was going to pay me
$1,000 for every pound that I lost for charity.
I ended up losing 111 pounds for charity in six months.
Off of 500-something pounds, I could have lost that even quicker.
You know what I'm saying?
Like it sounds like a big number, but it's not a big number when you're over 500-something
pounds i lost 26 pounds my first week yeah so what by changing what just changing the way i eat and
i had a trainer you know what i'm saying but this wasn't for me this wasn't for kurt alexander
this wasn't for big boy in my mind will smith was going to check in he said man you know i'll check
in every week every monday you know you can tell me how much weight you lost so in my mind i'm thinking
the radio guy i'm thinking big boy from the radio and i'm like man i got will smith for six months
I got Will Smith calling in every six months.
And when he's in town, he's coming in and a check on me.
Hey, Biggest Will, what's going on?
Oh, Will, I lost 10 pounds, you know.
That's interesting.
I'm not even thinking about my health.
I'm thinking about ratings and all this other shit.
So when we finish the six months, I'm literally on the scale doing my last way in.
And Bradley in my head, I'm thinking about this Mexican restaurant that I go through.
Yeah, I was fucking stop.
No, real shit, man.
And I'm sitting here and I'm like in the.
fucking spot is called lafogatas off of fucking van eyes i'm sitting here and i'm like literally the
news is there i'm weighing in and i'm like i can't wait to lafokas to get the nachos yeah it's
crazy though it's and that's real shit though being oh but that's that's so that's a crazy
concept that i don't think a lot of people understand is like on this like journey of trying to
like get shit and be successful like we we forego a lot of personal shit a lot of shit that's
really important yeah man and and something i've learned
I think damn over the last
fucking 12 years of me doing this whole
social media internet shit is like
I forgo I for I for I for
I don't even know the proper word for that
I know what you're saying yeah you know what I don't leave it to me to correct you
yeah you know I let somebody put it in in the comments what we were looking for
yeah I let go of a lot of shit that like I should have focused on
or like try to subsequently focus on at the same time as I did all this other like
business shit and trying to grow social media and like you know what
interviews or collabs and all this stuff and
I let go of like a lot of my personal life.
Like as far as like my interpersonal relationships, my intimate relationships and not
giving those things enough time or giving myself enough time to like learn to really grow
from, you know, situations in my life.
And I focus so much on like the business side of things.
So I think that's so interesting that you found yourself in a position where, you know,
you did it because you're like, oh, I'm thinking of this, the ratings, the callings, like the benefit
for like big boy, the show.
Yeah, man.
But not big boy, the person.
Not at all.
And even then, I remember after we did the way in,
and I literally went and got those chicken nachos.
Even in my book, I wrote in the restaurant, I was like, oh, thank you.
You know what I'm saying?
Because I really went.
And from there, that weight started coming back on.
Yeah.
And it started coming back on quickly.
And I remember I was walking.
I never, I didn't have high blood pressure.
I didn't have diabetes.
Wow, at 500 pounds.
No, my blood pressure was a little higher.
no high blood pressure as far as
fucking 500 pounds
yes no
prescribed medicines no nothing like that
wow uh no diabetes i didn't have nothing
but everything
everything was coming you couldn't tell me that everything wasn't coming
yeah and so i remember one time i was walking through the burbank airport
and i had to stop and when i stopped it was like this was hurting
catching my breath i never was the guy that was like oh i got a i got a i got a
park closer i got to do this i got to do that i would go to my trainer and do to his stairs 35 times
like i was the healthiest fattest motherfucker you probably would have met but everything was coming
yeah and i and i felt like man if you don't take care of yourself you're not going to be here
and i remember when i went to talk about the surgery and doing certain things i remember
i was like man what's going to happen to big boy what about the people that love me and my bill
and all this shit, and I was like, it's not going to matter.
I was like, because you're going to be dead in the year.
You know, and I'm not that person that's like, oh, my God, I've got to come and stuff.
I got to go do this, hypercontract.
I'm not, I'm not that guy.
Yeah.
But I told myself, I was like, man, you're not going to be here.
This is before my wife.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, I was with my wife at the time before we were husband and wife.
I didn't have kids.
You know what I'm saying?
So it wasn't like I was living for somebody else.
I just said, man, you know what?
Dude, you got to take care of yourself.
Yeah, because, I mean, all of it's going to be gone.
Yeah, and it means nothing.
And you'll get people, you know, and I've seen people that say, oh, well, you know what?
Oh, they didn't do it naturally, you know, because I put up a picture of me, my homeboy Fuzz, and my homeboy Joe Grande,
and we all just happen to be gastric bypass.
Yeah.
And, oh, they didn't do it naturally.
I paid so much into the school, you know, my tuition into the school of experience that now if you see the way I eat, and I can eat,
but if you see how I choose to eat and you see it.
how I learned in nutrition and if you see how you know what I'm saying like I've put the work in
and it wasn't easy I had a lot of complications too bro I had a lot of complications what were the
biggest ones man like I would take a shower and black out I would black out all the time I was
I would do my show from the hospital like I had a lot of complications black out because of what like
my nutrition either either it was you know my albuming levels it was like you know I didn't know
the connection between not having this because I'm gastric bypass and I'm not getting these
nutrients yeah so you're still having to do that keep up on that oh man I got my I got a cooler
here with protein drinks and you know what I'm saying like and you have to yeah you have to but
that particular procedure man I would never tell someone to get that shit you know what I'm saying
like yeah because it made the rest your life's dependent on like these things yeah and it definitely
not only changed my life where it's like oh man it changed your life you still here
it changed my life in many ways you know what I'm saying it changed my life with you know making sure
you're on top of your supplements making sure you're okay making sure you have the doctor like it's a
fucking it's a lot of work yeah just to maintain it to maintain the low level yeah you not even just
like just like the actual all the other shit that come functionality yeah all the other shit that come
that's intense yeah it's like people don't know that so would you have done it differently
looking back looking back like if you could you could
They were, you know, I can say looking back, I could have said, oh, man, I would have just worked out and I would have ate different, you know.
I was, to me, without a cop out, I was, it felt like I was beyond that.
And I know that may sound crazy.
It felt like anything that I was going to do, and it's not, maybe it was willpower, maybe it was get up and, you know, strive through it.
But I felt like I had to do something drastic for how drastically, how drastically, how drastically, I was, how drastically, I.
out of control I was.
Yeah, how drastic my, my, you know, my body mass was and what I weighed and so on and so forth.
So it was like, okay, I'll take this and then I'll build from this push that I got.
You know what I'm saying?
This head start, whatever people want to call it, I'll take that and I'll use this to never
go back there again, you know?
Yeah.
Fuck, man.
It's so intense.
Hell yeah.
It's like, I want to go back to the thing you were talking about.
like while you were losing the weight.
Are you flexing?
No, no.
Oh, okay.
No, I was, I was rubbing the back.
Okay, I don't know.
I don't know if you was flexing.
You know a lot of us, I'm not about it of us.
You know a lot of people are jealous of you.
Why?
Yeah, I don't know.
You got to talk to them.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, a lot of people are jealous of you.
That's all good.
Yeah.
I wanted to ask you, your identity while you were losing the weight.
Like, you kind of said something like, did you ever feel because you weren't going to be big that,
like you said, it was going to affect?
I felt that.
And so what did you do to overcome that?
Just push through it.
Like I said, I was like, man, people are still going to rock with Big Boy?
And I was like, dude, you're going to be dead.
So it doesn't matter.
Yeah.
And even now, 20 years post, almost 20 years, I still walk by and look at my reflection.
Like, I'll walk by and be like, oh, shit.
I walk, come out the studio, walk to the restroom.
I'm looking at myself.
Even right now in your restroom, I'm constantly looking.
I'll go buy something still to this day.
And I'm like, oh, shit, I can't fit that.
And then I put it on like, oh, damn, I can't.
So I still have this, oh, I was classified as severe, severe morbid obese.
So I still have that in my head.
And it's crazy to be because when I started to lose the weight, it was, you know how people say,
oh, man, I got these, you know, these levels I want to get to and I want to do this.
And it's crazy what my shit was.
You know, I don't know in your world, it was probably, you know,
know, maybe I want to, you know, I want to do a single hair, a hand curl with something.
We all have these goals.
Yeah, yes.
Mine was, I never flew without a seatbelt extension.
Oh, shit.
Every time I got on the plane, I had to use a seatbelt extension.
So I was like, man, one fucking day, I'm not going to have a seatbelt extension.
When I would fly, I would literally have to have a seatbelt extension.
And then I didn't, you know, I didn't wake up 500 pounds.
I knew how big I was.
Yeah.
So when I would fly, I would buy the seat next to me.
I don't need to be laying over it.
my fucking eating and my obesity shouldn't hinder you you know what I'm saying so even my
tray table I will put my food on the tray table next to me yeah you know what I'm saying
you always bought an extra seat yeah I couldn't put a tray table down in front of me yeah so I remember
I was flying with my wife man and we were you know boyfriend and girlfriend at the time and I remember
I got on the plane and I went to go do the seat belt and it didn't I was like I need the seatbelt
extension and then crazy shit about it I was so good in my skin I wasn't embarrassed
yeah to ask for a seatbelt extension is nothing can I get a seatbelt extension
they'll bring it over so a couple months later we went to go fly I think we were flying
to Mexico and I got on the plane and I went and I went and I went and dude I was on
the plane like you're like I did it dude I literally got the phone and I called my homeboy
fuzzy took a picture and I was like fuss I was like bro you're not going to believe this shit
He was like, what?
And Fuzz is a big, he was a big guy too.
Oh, shit.
I said, man, I said Fuzzy.
The fucking seatbelt click.
He was like, oh, oh, oh, we're on this shit, like, oh, shit.
You know, and so we go flying, and now it's, you know, hey, you know, we got chicken, we got this.
What would you like to eat?
And I'm like, oh, shit.
And I took the tray table, and that tray table fell down in front of me.
The little things.
Yeah, and I was like, oh.
Yeah.
And soon as I land again, fuss.
You're not going to believe this.
You won't believe this shit.
You know what I'm saying?
It's shit like that.
Yeah.
That was like, oh my God.
Like, I've arrived.
Yeah.
Yeah, man.
So what would you tell to someone that like is struggling with it that like that needs
some sort of encouragement or like how would you make that actual search?
Because obviously you did the surgery.
You wouldn't recommend the surgery.
What would you recommend to someone who's like?
You know what?
And not that I wouldn't recommend the surgery.
I wouldn't recommend the procedure that I've had.
You know, but if you are thinking about the surgery.
I would tell people do a lot of research and make sure that that's the last thing you really do.
And I'm not preaching from, oh, you know, you're 195, 200, 200, 10 pounds now.
You know, I'm not preaching from that.
I'm just saying do your due diligence on knowing what you're doing to your body.
Because I've had a chance to learn when you start messing with this part of your core and your torso and your stomach.
and there's balance there's all kind of shit that's in your center that you don't know about so
just look at everything you know what I'm saying yeah if you if you can see what you you know
and you've tried weight loss you know give it that one more go yeah you know there's so many
different things that's available to us now yeah through the internet and social media and
so many things like that there's always a food program there's always this and my
thing is now I still want to eat something but like if you look at my my cooler now I'm just
like okay you know what I'll put cucumbers in there you know what I'm saying I'll put this in
there and it comes down to sometimes just the wise decisions as well you know but if you're
there and you're thinking about it really think about it and really research it you know
but don't let that be the thing where you say man I'm just going to go ahead and get it
or I might as well and I've talked to a lot of people that did I might as well and
you don't want to do no might as well when you kind of gas your bypass okay so besides the
surgery as far as like the the sustaining of the weight loss because obviously like if you just
kept eating shit like not necessarily I think with you you have a little bit more you can't it's
harder yeah I'm gonna more restricted yeah but overall like with someone trying to lose weight
and maintain the weight loss because obviously you still think about that kind of stuff for the
people who like you know everyone always is like I want this I want this and they they never get to
that point where like they actually make the change and like are you able to stick with the change what
what advice you give to someone to like see that through you know it's crazy man because
sometimes we don't know we know what we need to do but we are also programmed as human
beings on i'll start monday now we're at the end of the year so a lot of the shit is
going to be i'll start january yeah i start january i tell people man just say fuck you just start
today yeah and and there's sometimes man where it's like all i need is one minute at a time
You know, one minute at a time and I'll get through it.
But I'll see people and I'm like, man, you know, just if you're in a position where you can learn as much as you can learn, understand what's going on with me being the guy that was over 500 pounds and where I am now, you have to, you know, and not that you don't love yourself, but I just love me a little bit more now than the chicken wing that I ate.
Yeah.
And I remember when I wrote my book, I was on my book tour.
And this lady came up to me and she was like, oh, my God, you're doing so well,
you're doing this, so on and so forth.
And she said, nothing tastes better than life.
And I was like, oh, that should hit.
Bar.
You know what I'm saying?
I was like, oh, shit, man.
And now there's just some times, man, when I'm like, damn, do I really need it?
And you got to think, man, like anyone that's having a weight loss struggle,
I still have a weight loss struggle.
I still have these struggles.
And not that I had more struggles than you,
but there's not going to be a lot of people that's watching this
that didn't have the affair,
the love affair with food that I've had.
Most likely you didn't weigh more than I've had than I weighed.
So I think I'm in a good position to be able to talk about this.
You know what I'm saying?
You're in an amazing position.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like it's fucking, it's incredible to me.
And I think something based on what you're saying,
It made me think really quick.
Like, I think people tend to get so focused on, like, if we're talking about any goal,
fat loss, success, whatever, people tend to get really focused on going forward.
Yeah.
Right.
Losing the weight or getting the job or getting closer to the goal.
And I think people have been less taught to unpack their past.
Right.
And I think that's one of the things that I think I just want to say, and I want to talk to you a little bit about, like, for example, if I'm,
focused on, you know, being the best YouTuber or the best podcaster or losing the weight,
whatever my goal is, right, where I say, this is my goal, I want to get to this point.
A lot of times in order to get to that point, like, there's other things that you have to
let go of and there's other things you have to unpack.
And I think we're not taught enough to look back into our past and to let go of things
and to, like, release things.
Because, like, if we want new things in our life, right, we want good things in our
life to move forward, sometimes we have to let go of.
Yeah, and you're carrying a heavier load.
Yeah, and it's like, you know, you don't have enough, now you don't have enough bandwidth for
the things you actually want in your life and i think it's important for people who whether it's
weight loss or or any aspiration in life to learn to not not go okay i'm just going to focus backwards
but look over your shoulder every once in a while and like okay what am i holding on to what
am i dragging along that i don't need like like a version of yourself that you think oh i have to
you know like we're talking about you and you kind of related somewhat seemingly like at a point
of your success just because you were actually big and it's like your brand and all this stuff
in relationship to it that like maybe letting go of that we're like maybe letting go of that
Would people look at you or accept you differently?
Right.
But, like, obviously at the same time, like, if you're going to be dead,
then they won't be able to accept you at all, right?
And then, you know, what's crazy about that, man?
I always say, if I would have passed, people would have been like,
damn it, I knew it.
Yeah.
You know, oh, I wish you would have taken care of himself.
And it's not up to you for you to tell me to take care of myself.
Of course.
You know, it's up to me.
But if I would have been 500 pounds, right, and somebody came to you and said,
man you know worst case scenario big boy pass and then if they you say how and they say heart
attack you'd be like fuck you know what I'm saying yeah and not that it doesn't take away like he
deserved but it's like damn you know what I'm saying so it was more of a for me man just get it
together you know what I'm saying my mom like I said died at 57 my brother had a stroke at 52
he passed at 56 but he was already gone then so I already have I have real things
that I can say, you know what, man, you're not getting any younger.
And if you're not doing anything to be healthier, then, you know,
I mean, your candle's burning already.
I'm not, you know, I'm not going to burn the other end too
and have that shit meet in the middle.
So, fuck it.
Easy call.
Damn.
So when are we going to start training?
When are we going to work out?
Man, I didn't hit you for years, man.
You're a busy motherfucker.
Yeah.
No, I try.
I just fucking more.
I remember one time you were like, oh, I'm in Istanbul.
I need to get back.
I'm like,
Istanbul, like,
yeah, I got some clients out there.
Let me tell you, man,
I'm ready to come down there
whenever you tell me.
You know what I'm saying?
But you're close.
You got to know how to work me out.
Yeah.
Yeah,
because I had a bad experience
with somebody that didn't know how to work me out.
Too much.
Yeah,
oh my God.
You know Willie McGinnis?
Do you know Willie McGinnis?
No.
Willing McGinnis.
What team do Willie McGinnis play for?
Was it the Patriots?
Yeah,
Super Bowl champion,
Willie McGinnis.
Yeah.
A lot of people go too hard.
Ah, well, you know,
It was, it was, it was, um, he just didn't know.
He just didn't know.
He did one of those things where it was him and another DJ by the name of P. O'Lean.
We all went to go work out together.
And he had this machine where he was like, oh, he was like big.
Okay, yeah, just key it here.
Pull it.
Bring it in.
Bring it in.
Yeah.
Bring it in.
So I'm looking at him.
And then he's like, all right, step in.
So he handed it to me.
Oh, no.
And that shit shot me forward, bro, because it was the weight that he had on there.
Yeah.
So yeah, you're going to have to start me with like some fives and ten.
and shit you know what I'm saying my you do you have any kids no okay you have any
nieces or any younger cousins or anybody like that start me on their shit on their shit
yeah start me on their shit man then that way I can build up you know what I feel like I feel like
you have a little you're gonna have some strength not like no strength really yeah oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah let me let me tell and the reason why I hit you of two B is
because I lost a lot of muscle mass yeah you know what I'm saying so I remember one time I was
at the airport and I you know you're the dad
you're the husband and you're the father and you're the man I'm taking the the
luggage he was like wait a sake no and I put the luggage down and I got this one
lug and like oh god and then I saw the dude like the skycap he came and picked that
shit up and went like this and I was like oh fuck Bradley Martin yeah that's a client I
was like nah and I was like oh yeah you need to work on your muscle mass yeah you know
are there is besides okay besides the strength is anything else like goals-wise that
you have in the gym like do you have like any aesthetic you like I have a goal to
go yeah you got to get there you know what I'm saying definitely got to get there so do you get there
do you get there now or is it just like a non-existent or is it just like a like every once in a while
thing what's your routine do you want me to tell you in front of my home boards you want me to tell
you oh yeah no I want the truth okay well the truth no I'm not getting in there as much as I should
damn one billion I I know all bullshit aside I know that I could be doing more even now when
I'm on like my bike and I'm walking and I do bands and you know I have a torn rotator cuff
So I'll do small things, but I know, not that I could be doing more,
but you know that there's more that you can do.
Yeah, for sure.
And that's exactly where I'm at.
Yeah.
You know, that's why I came to do this podcast because you're a hard motherfucker to catch up with.
You see, I had to find you at a, and what was I doing?
I was at a restaurant.
Yeah, you were eating.
Yeah, I was fucking eating.
That's why I found him at a restaurant.
There it is.
And then Nate was like, yo, there's a big boy right there.
You just get him.
And then I was like, where?
And then I ended up finding you.
Yeah, man.
And let me tell you, bro, because I told my wife, I said, oh, that's such shit.
And I was telling her, so then I text you,
hey, did you just come out of such and such?
You was like, yeah.
And then the next thing I know, I'm going to go text you or I called you.
At first I called you.
Yeah.
And then I text you.
And then I was like, oh, well, shit.
You know, he moved on.
Then the next thing I know, you were walking in right next to me.
And I was like, man, if this motherfucker was a foe, he would have got me.
Because, dude, you walked right up on me and you look humongous.
You know what I'm saying?
And you know, and I'm just like, I'm like, man, I'm glad I'm cool with Bradley
because I wouldn't want to scrap with this dude in front of my wife.
and have to scream off for her to help me and you know what I'm saying all this shit
funny man yeah yeah you're buff yeah you know what I'm saying like let's just know what we do
you know what do you bench press oh man a condo a condo yeah yeah not like do you do you go maximum
no you I I've actually believe it or not I've actually never done like max I've never done like
that most that I could ever do I've always kind of like been 80% was though
Just because I always tried to avoid injury.
Yeah, I got you.
So I always did stuff in form where it's like I knew that I could like throw my hips up
or if I'm talking about deadly thing.
I could round my back a little bit or squat.
I can like, I don't know.
Right, right, right.
But that could be more injury prone.
Yeah.
Like I always kind of did around like 80, 85% whenever I did anything because I was always
did it with like real good control and good form.
And you sometimes I'll see you lifting stuff that don't have like balancing weight.
Yeah, I've done a lot of dumb shit.
Yeah, you just lift up some shit.
I'm like, man, that's heavy.
Did you see me get small?
Smoked in the face.
Did you see that thing?
No, what happened?
So I don't know if you can see it here, but like, can you see that?
I don't know.
Is there anymore?
Oh, good.
So it was like, I had, I got like 11 stitches, I think it was.
11, yeah, I got 11 stitches.
He'll show you the video.
I wish we could pop that up.
Do I want to see the video?
So I've done so much lifting stuff and I never got hurt.
And it's the first time I ever got hurt.
But it's because I used to.
See, there you go.
Lifting that shit.
He lifting a lady.
I told him, man.
She smokes me, dude.
Oh, my gosh.
But I, because I had the bed.
Oh, you had a plate.
Oh, no, I don't want to see this.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was bad.
Fuck.
But I wasn't.
Dude, she was standing.
Was that a 45 plate?
Yeah, but it was bendy.
That's why it was like, it wasn't flat.
Oh, she was standing on it.
He went to.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, that's why.
See, now I'm not going.
No, no, you got to go.
No, we're not doing none of that.
You sure?
Yeah.
Okay.
That was dumb, man.
Yeah, I'd do that with like a fire.
That was, I mean, dude, I've been doing this for so many years.
That was the first time I ever got injured.
But it was just stupid.
Like I did it the right way the first time
it didn't fuck it up.
But the minute she turned around
and there's some reason
with the plate being bendy,
it just.
And you posted that?
Yeah,
that went viral.
Oh, shit.
Because obviously you get hurt.
People like,
Hey, man, me and my unhealthy home boys
are in here.
We're like, wow.
No, that was not good, man.
Yeah, man.
Like, shit.
You see, none of us have stitches in our lips.
Yeah, I'm just going to lose my teeth, man.
Yeah, man.
Because that'd have been terrible.
Well, I don't know there's some good teeth out there too,
though.
You know what I'm saying?
Get some teeth.
Great teeth.
How did you get into either bodybuilding or nutrition and everything that you do?
So that's a good question.
Originally I play sports and then I realized through sports and when I started lifting,
I realized how much I liked just lifting because of the escape of it.
Like I told you, I go without a father.
And I always kind of struggled with like the idea of being good enough, like my own self-worth.
Got you.
And so in the gym, I realized like,
I was able to kind of like almost prove that I was good because I could be better.
Right.
Like I could physically have this representation of like, oh, if I was good at this and
then now I'm better and like this.
There was like this able to have this progression.
And at the same time, lifting itself was, it was just, it was meditative like where while
I was doing the thing, I didn't think about all the other stuff because my mind is very
hyperactive.
So I just feel like I didn't have to focus on the negative shit in my life or the fact that,
you know, I'm thinking about why did I grow up like this or why did I have to deal with
this or you know why did my father take his life all this kind of shit and and i got so addicted
to that feeling almost like an escape yeah you know like it that that's genuinely why i got so
enamored with it and then as far as like nutrition and and and uh then learning more about it
when i was 18 i've told the story before i had i was so into training and i was so obsessive to
training like to the point where uh if i ate anything i'm like in my dorm room i went to sack state
I'm in my dorm room and I'm like, if I ate like a banana, I'm doing like a thousand pushups
because I was, it was like, I had like, it was like an OCD.
I don't even know what the fuck you call it, but I had a real problem where like I would
try to keep my abs tight 100% of the day.
Like I wasn't relaxed.
I'm going to sleep.
Oh.
Yeah, like imagine I'm going to sleep and I'm trying to like keep my abs tight or like I'm in class
and I'm like I'm going to lose them or some shit.
Like I had this hyper obsessive to it.
And then so this is when I was 18.
Um, my dick stopped working.
Really?
At 18?
Yeah.
Because I was doing so much
And I didn't know enough about nutrition
That's scary for 18 year old
Very scary
Yeah, yeah, very scary
And what do you mean your dick stop working?
You get hard on or?
I couldn't get hard
So imagine I have a girl
And I have my girl come
And then I'm like my shit just like
Just fucking flimped dude
Just flasked
Everything else hard as a motherfucker
Yeah like I was still
I was lean I had some veins
I had abs like I looked like
I wouldn't have a problem
But because I was doing so much stuff
And I was so like I said
So obsessive with it
We're like
I wasn't eating any of the right stuff
Because, like, my idea of what was healthy.
Right, you had to learn that too, huh?
Yeah, my idea of what was healthy was completely wrong.
It was like, I'm eating like cottage cheese, spinach.
These sound healthy, but I was eating no fat in my diet.
I was like completely a void of fat.
So I'm like chicken, no oil, cottage cheese, no fat.
You know, like blueberries, spinach, everything, no fat.
I ate like zero fat.
And that obviously can create a lot of disruption with your hormones.
So I didn't know all that stuff prior.
I just knew like this stuff is healthy.
So I'm going to be healthy.
and when I work out I need to or when I eat I need to train so it was like I had this really bad
relationship with the food and the amount of training so I was like overdoing everything like
I would run the American River which is like right outside the dorm room I said at Desmond
Hall if anyone is from Sack State or knows about that but um I'd like walk out run for like 45 minutes
every night at 7 o'clock I would ride a BMX bike like 20 minutes to a gym do cardio for like 40
minutes after my hour long workout ride the bike back and I did this like consistently like just
like I was just trying to avoid something yeah and then I'm eating very void of fat so I don't have
enough nutrition in my diet so then I'm like slowly I'm like waking up every like few hours
like peeing waking up then I'm waking up like every half an hour peeing damn you hear this yeah
it was a bad thing wow so then my dick stops working that's that's the final show obviously I'm 18
I'm like, what the fuck's going on?
This is a problem.
So I go to my doctor.
My doctor's like, well, this is actually really kind of interesting now.
I think about it in hindsight.
He's like, try this Viagra.
Oh, man.
And I'm like, wait, I'm 18.
Yeah.
But he did look at me at first and he goes, he's like, because my face probably
look a little drawn out because I was so dieted.
He's like, what have you been doing?
Like, are you, what are you eating?
I realized, like, obviously I had a real problem at that point.
So I took this nutrition class and then I was like, whoa, I love this stuff.
So that's what got me to learn about like hormones.
and how the body actually works, vitamins,
how everything actually connects
and how it's working,
not just I should eat chicken and rice,
you know?
So I really learned then
and I was like,
oh,
I love this because then my dick started working
like probably like four months after that.
Damn, four months?
It took a while to come back.
Yeah.
But that was the thing that I was like,
oh, I love this.
You're probably on campus.
It was like,
oh, look at Bradley.
She was probably, man.
You don't want that shit.
Yeah.
No, nothing was working.
Yeah.
And it's interesting too.
I kind of had a little rebound
of like I gained a little bit of fat back
and then obviously my body, like, adapted and it got better.
But that's the thing that got me into it.
And then it's like, I loved it.
And I love the idea of the fact that you can manipulate and, like, change your body through, like, your literal actions every day.
Man, no, but you, bro, you're an inspiration.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, man, real talk.
I really do appreciate it.
Thank you.
You're an inspiration, man.
That's why I said that I was hoping you'll say it back to me.
No, you are.
You're a legend, man.
But you took a little while before you said it, though.
No, but that's true.
Because I was like, man, I even said thank you before you said it.
It's kind of fucking.
Yeah, yeah, no, no, don't worry about it, man.
But, but like, can we catch it in the edits?
No, we could clip it closer.
No, what you are, though, man, like, you've done amazing things.
You've, like, you fucking, honestly, the thing I'm most impressed is your personal journey.
Like, I'm just fucking, that's incredible.
And we're living it, man.
You know what I'm saying?
We're constantly living the journey, you know?
Like, I wrote my book probably 10 years ago, and I felt like I wrote it too early now because
I've learned so much more about me.
Yeah.
You know, but, but yeah, we're living a journey, man.
You're to write a new one.
Yeah, and I'm working on that as I'm working on me.
Anything else big that you're working on like that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got like our production company, bro, and I'm still loving what I do in radio.
There's just so many other opportunities that are extremely either low-hanging fruit or fruit that I can grab.
And would you say it's because of all the work that you've done and you put in that you were able to see like the low-hanging fruit,
Like, you know that's easy to take care.
100%, but also it's also noticing that you can.
And also, man, you got to Tyrese wrote a book called Learn How to Get Out Your Own Way.
You got to get out your own way, too.
And a lot of times I'm in my own way because I know that I do successful radio.
I don't, like we have a production company called More Big Productions, right?
Yeah.
There's so much that we're doing now that we could have done, you know, long ago,
but God's timing too.
Yeah.
But it also gets to a point where you're saying,
you know what, man, I need to get out of my own way
and do some of this other shit, you know,
not be so comfortable.
And it's not that I'm afraid of failure.
It's just that, you know, I procrastinate.
Yeah.
You know, I can get to it.
You know, that's me.
And I have a great team of people that's just ready.
And sometimes, man, I'm the quietest in the room.
No matter what it is on radio, whatever I do,
I know that nine times out of nine out of ten people
would pick up my phone call
but I'd rather not hit Dre and say hey Drey I need this
but now I'm like man fuck it I'm going after every fucking body
you know and it's just that thing now
what do you think made that switch though it was you know
just kind of realizing it you know doing the work like I said
over the summer you know and is it relentless you say Bishop
relentless like my boy Bishop would just be like man
man, you got to be relentless.
Yeah.
And not rude or not kicking in the door,
but you also got to be enough of understanding
who you are and who you can get next to
and the things that you want to do
that can produce something or get something out to the world
or see some kind of different work, employ somebody.
So it's really now, man, like, okay, fuck it, I'm on.
And it's also your intentions, right?
Because, like, I don't think you put in so much work,
you've put in so much time like you've done so much good in the space like asking for something
or like trying to insert yourself in a position that like you know you would you'd be benefit to
right and it's like why would you not try yeah and and that's the thing you know as well i'm just like
man fuck it yeah go do it and it's crazy because no matter how many years i've been in a radio
i can't sit up and say man you know 25 years ago my rating no my rating's got to be what the
fuck they are today you know what i'm saying i can't say oh you missed a great
phone tap from 2007 like now today's got to be you know what I'm saying so I always got to make sure
that I continue to grind out today I can't rest on my playbook I can't rest on yesterday and the same
way and not that it's a competition thing but you've seen people I've seen people in my 20 almost 29
years of radio I've seen people that's coming to the game and fucking lapped me because of the space
that they're in, how they're doing
certain things. And no fault to them.
They're working. Yeah. But I see
people that came in as like, okay, that motherfucker
YouTube channel doing this. And not that you aspire, you're like
looking like, oh man, how did they get that? I take that
as inspiration. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like years
ago, you didn't have a podcast.
Yeah. And now I'm sitting on your
fucking podcast. You know what I'm saying? And those are the things
where you're looking and say, man, this person
got in the game. This person's doing it. And
Not that you want to mirror it, but you got to look at it and say, I'm inspired by that.
Yeah.
I'm inspired by it.
I think it's easier for people to get caught up in like the negative part of it instead of like, oh, I want to go do it on my own, you know?
Right.
Like I think people like, I don't know, people are quicker to judge maybe someone else's success instead of just being like.
And I don't look at it, but I do look at people and I'm like, that motherfucker's going.
What do you think?
What do you think held you back?
Like, why do you think you weren't?
Me.
Yeah.
Me.
I held me back.
You know, there was nothing that held me back, but me.
I can't sit up and say,
oh man,
the white man held me down.
Oh,
Power 106 held me down.
And none of that shit.
Yeah.
I am my biggest deterrent,
biggest weight,
you know,
that's me.
I can recognize that.
That it wasn't,
I can't point for him.
And I could be petty and say,
but I got the opportunities.
If not,
I make the opportunities.
Yeah.
You know,
even when I was homeless,
I knew how to eat.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
So it's not anyone else where I can say,
oh man they're suppressing me yeah you and especially in today's arena where you can go and do
all this shit yourself yeah you can you know what I'm saying like some people aren't looking for
eye heart and Odyssey and all these companies and radio to get down with them you know what I'm saying
you said okay well fuck it this is what I do I'm going to build my space out yeah I'm going to do how
I get down and you put it all in you yeah you know why I mean social media is such a crazy
place now. Yeah. It's changed drastically the entire culture and how all this is done. Yeah, I need
to get back on it. Yeah. Yeah. It's not real shit. I'm going to, because you need it. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You got to have
enough of the gift and enough of the curse. You know what I'm saying? But you need it. It is definitely an
interesting place. Yeah. Social media in general. Yeah. Yeah. Just got to know how to use it. And I just was in a
position, man, where I was like, I just didn't like what I was seeing. From you on social or from you in general?
From others. From others. Yeah. I didn't.
I didn't like what social was becoming, man.
You know what I'm saying?
It was like, you know, why am I sitting there when I have kids
and why am I looking at you taking pictures of your food
or why am I looking at you, you know?
It just got to a point where I was like, man,
if I'm going to do something I can't.
If I got, we all, like Jay Prince said,
we all got the same 24 hours.
Yeah.
I can't spend my time looking at what you're doing
and take away from what I'm doing.
You know what I'm saying?
I can't sit up and see how well.
Bradley doing and not doing my shit yeah you know so even coming in bro like I scoped your whole
shit out when I walked in I'm like okay I see this like these motherfuckers are going and and I look at
shit I'm even in your bathroom like dude this is a very clean bathroom because I'm a bathroom guy
but but I walked in and even my guy bishop we was like man they got like a whole production
and that's the shit that you put into yourself and you can't blame no one else if it didn't
happened and you didn't do it all and you're doing that shit yeah you know what I'm saying so
there it is that's amazing man appreciate I seriously I really appreciate you coming man
it's my pleasure you fucking crushed it no thank you bro yeah oh yeah sorry yeah at the end
of every I get so at the end of every episode she got a producer Mike over there she came in
the headphones you're like fuck this yeah yeah she was like he better not wrap up
you know what I mean yeah every episode we do with audience questions you guys can
sell them how they can send them um you guys could submit them in email at ask
We're all talk at gmail.com or you guys could go to our DMs and send them there.
Okay.
Are y'all live too?
No, no, no.
Okay.
I would have told you that prior.
Hell yeah, man.
You didn't tell me, man.
My pants looked crazy.
He didn't even get, he didn't even give one of these.
I didn't even do like a booger check, none of that shit.
Imagine it was live, dude.
My man had me coming out the car.
Like, all right, dang.
I was like, what the fuck?
Yeah, yeah.
We'll chop that up nice.
At least on my shit, I go, all right, you.
Hey, what's up, man?
What's going down?
And I'll go three, two, one.
My man, soon as I sat down, he was like, man, tell me about your mom.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's social media.
It's a little.
Wait, wait, wait, say what?
You know what I'm saying?
It's a little different.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But loud hit us, though.
All right.
So this is the first question.
It says, I lost a girl.
I thought that was my forever recently due to the fact that before I met her, I got a girl
pregnant prior to her and the child was born, was just born.
I told the girl the truth from the beginning.
And when my daughter was born, she decided this was all too much for her.
She calls me.
and tells me the same tells people the same thing but she doesn't want to be
together because of the child do you think she's telling the truth or is there
something else behind it so she basically what he's saying it he was with a girl
he got a girl pregnant and then he must have broken up with her and then got
with another girl that he really liked no no no no he got a girl pregnant and he
was in a relationship and let this girl know hey yeah a baby on the way right
and they were together up until the baby was born and then the baby was
born and it's too much for the girl and she says he's perfect and everything so he's asking like
do you think she's telling the truth as far as him being perfect or and you know what he she he could be
perfect but not perfect for her and it's crazy because at some point you think you can handle something
and then when it's realistic and it's there and it's in front of you then maybe I can't yeah maybe what
I thought that I was ready to go down this road with you and I can't
handle it and we get through it and then when when it's actually going on and the child is there
then she probably realized like no you know what this is too fucking much for me yeah and you also got
applaud that because if if you don't take care of yourself first then you are no good to take care
of anyone else that's a fact so if i if i tell you something right now and i really feel it you know
what i'm saying like man this is what's going on this is then six months down the road i say hey
man you know this ain't working you know and and it's not her insecurities as and maybe it is but she
has enough to say you know what i got hopefully she said i got to put me first yeah and and and and you can't
be mad at her like that not at all bro yeah i mean it's it's also like you know obviously i don't want to
say i guess you made a mistake because obviously you're going to have a kid and that's amazing but
at the same time like she's on her own past she's got to figure it out like like you said as far as
being able to love someone genuinely, like you've got to be able to love yourself first.
And if she's getting so complicated with the child in the picture now where she's not able to,
I don't know, fully feel good about herself in it, then she's not going to be able to make it work.
So I wouldn't say she's lying necessarily.
I mean, it's...
And we've seen it.
It's sad.
That say, you know what?
Somebody will cheat and we'll get through it.
And then you'll see the person like, well, you keep bringing it up.
You keep this like, yeah, because now I'm really trying to live with this.
Yeah.
And I think that's where she's at.
she's really trying to live with it and it's like it's more than I thought it was going to be
I don't want this or I can't handle this I don't deserve this and like what would you tell
your sister I would tell my sister the same thing I would tell her hey get the fuck away from that
he's a nice guy okay he is a nice guy yeah but what are you going to do you know how can you
really handle him going to the kid's birthday can you really handle him taking a kid to the park
being in a conversation with the mom.
You know, can you handle maybe now you want to get pregnant
if y'all haven't been pregnant as of yet?
And can you handle the split?
Like, if I can see a position where I can get out,
I'm getting out.
You know what I'm saying?
And it's not about if there was love there.
And like, I did love.
But also, you did something.
And now I'm supposed to be the person that take the higher road.
Or I got to stay around like, no, fuck that.
out yeah I see I get it I think damn I wouldn't answer any differently
perfect okay next one is hey Brad and guest I'm 17 years old and I'm pretty
overweight no it says I'm 17 years old and I'm pretty overweight and have been
trying to go to the gym I have trouble pushing myself to go but when I do go I always
feel insecure about myself and don't feel comfortable so I don't know how to work out as
much as I should do you have any advice for me or anything
would help yeah so first off hold on let me handle that yeah no no no no no but you you do
have a lot of insight i have no license to handle that shit kind of that you do i think i think the thing
that's really important for this kid he said he's 17 yes i think um men specifically and women i
think they they think that they're going to go to a gym and like they're just going to be judged
by other people right and that's just not the reality like i've never been in the gym like for example
i've imagined a 17 year old kid maybe we'll go to the gym and see a guy
that's more adept in the gym he's better maybe he's better like physically looking like
he's been there for a while and maybe you look at that guy and you're like that guy's going to
judge me because I don't know exactly how I'm doing this thing like that's just not happening
so if your insecurity isn't related to like what people are going to think of you then first
and foremost like kick that out kick that out because people aren't out there just looking out
around the gym like oh that guy's losing weight or that guy's fat or that guy's skinny or that
No one's doing that.
Number one.
Number two, like, if it's really important for you enough to lose that weight or for you
to gain the weight, whatever the goal is, like, you will put all the other shit aside and
go, okay, I'm coming here.
I'm on a, this is like my focus, my journey, my mission, and everyone else is just, it doesn't
matter.
And you got to, you got to start from somewhere.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
You got to start from somewhere.
And sometimes we get these things in our head.
You know, it's like, you know, we start to think too much for the next person or we
answer the worst case we go to the worst case scenario when you say somebody's probably not even
tripping off of that at all you know what I'm saying so I would say just kind of get out of your
head space and get in there and you know do as much work as you can but I don't think that
somebody just and plus you're at the you're at the place to take care of yourself yourself you know
what I'm saying you're doing your journey so yeah don't worry about what you think is someone saying
that they're not saying at all you know and even if you
do hear something or even if you do think you got to look don't let that be the reason why you
stop yeah because it's because it's like then you're just basing your life off of someone else yeah
and it's what's the point in that is just you get nothing out of that like at all in any cases like
no matter what you're doing whether you're trying to like achieve something and someone says
fuck you that's stupid right that's hard don't do it do what's realistic like you listening to other
people is not going to get you to where you want to go right just pack it up don't do that yeah
Yeah. And then as far as, as far as like maybe, maybe you're,
you're uncomfortable so you don't want to go. There's other things you could do that can get
you closer to being more comfortable with. Like, you really are like, no, there's just
no way I could show up or I don't like the way that, you know, you feel in that space.
Go for more walks, swim, ride a bike. There's so much stuff you could do to get to a point where
you feel like, okay, maybe now I'm ready where you just can't make those excuses. So ultimately
it's you got to ask yourself like, are you making another excuse to avoid the thing that you
really want? So let's hit the next one. All right.
So this one says, hey, Brad and team and guests, love the podcast, absolutely killing it.
Random question.
My friends always joke about it's fine for their wives and fiancés to sell feet pictures online.
And they would be okay with that knowing their significant other would do it.
To me, it's just weird knowing that people would do things with pictures of my fiance or even of just their feet.
Am I overreacting or am I in the right?
Hey, man, this sounds like somebody that got a foot fetish on the damn cell.
Yeah, yeah.
Like, yeah, looking for a co-signer.
Let me tell you, man, my wife have beautiful feet, beautiful feet.
Amazing.
And, you know?
No, I was just saying, oh, are you giving some pictures?
Are you a subscriber?
No, no.
But, but yeah, I think.
I said amazing in general.
Like, oh, yeah.
The feet are dope.
Oh, okay, okay.
Because I saw you, when we saw you at that restaurant, I didn't notice you looked down.
I thought you just did a quick one.
No, but I don't know, man.
Like, I joke with my wife all the time.
And I'm like, baby, I said, dude, if we just put a.
shower cam in here I can retire you know what I'm saying like and I'm fucking around I don't
really want a shower cam in there but but yeah I think I would feel a certain way if if men
have pictures of my wife feet yeah yeah man are you in a relationship oh no no fuck scratch that
hey dude when I asked that everybody went like this yeah you're good you read the room quick
Yeah, fuck that.
Yeah, so I would say that, yeah, I would just, I would feel a certain way.
Jokingly, yeah.
Oh, yeah, sell them feet, do that.
But if my wife really came to me and said, baby, I created it.
The only fans is Vero's feet.
I'd be like, no.
Really?
Oh, man, nah.
Nah, man.
I don't know.
I don't know if I'd really care that much.
Really?
Yeah.
Hmm.
It just depends.
It depends.
I mean, if we're talking about just feet.
Man, I'd be doing her and looking at her feet.
Like, everybody's saying these fucking feet.
Like,
Baby, I'm up to a 7,000 subscribers like, fuck!
These feet don't hit the same.
Like, oh, yeah, all right, well, keep it going in.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I'll be, and then my insecurities too.
You know, I'm fucking different when you're in it.
Yeah, and I'll be somewhere and I'll just see somebody like, dude, he looked at her foot.
Oh, my God, that's a subscriber.
You know what I'm saying?
That's a subscriber right there.
Look how he looked at her feet.
Oh, Jesus.
Holy shit.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, just leave it all on me.
You know what I'm saying?
Leave it all on me.
Yeah, that's it.
Can you imagine if we had to survive off my dick picks?
Damn.
Yeah, it'd be, we'd be, shit, homeless.
Like, hell yeah, be like, all right, let me see the subscribers.
All right, there's always tomorrow.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Man, is this thing working?
Let me call customer service.
Yeah, you're a fool.
Yeah, no.
Well, bro, I genuinely appreciate you.
No, I appreciate you, brother.
I'm serious about the gym stuff.
We're going to get it in.
We'll figure out somewhere.
It's not been two years.
You know, no, no.
You live down the street.
I know.
That's why it hurts so much that I haven't been down there yet.
It's not going to happen anymore.
Man, all right, because you know, do you want me to go through some of our text messages?
No, yeah, let's say, let's leave that out.
Okay, all right, just checking.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, big, your white feet are amazing.
No, no, 100% I didn't say that.
You know, they're going to clip that one for sure.
Oh, so, yeah, we get in there.
My boy, Jose, going to come as well, man.
Absolutely.
Yeah, he carries my, my medical card, just in case anything go down.
He has a copy of my insurance.
Of course.
Just in case I got to get out of there.
You know what I'm saying?
I'm not scared.
I'm prepared.
Yeah, I got you.
But I really appreciate you.
I appreciate you, brother.
Thank you so much, man.
And obviously, if there's anything you ever need of me,
besides obviously the training stuff we're going to do,
I'm more than happy to be here for you.
I appreciate you, brother.
Thank you, my man.
Thank you so much.
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