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Day 13,519 - Mid-Week Update 1.mp3
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00:00:08 Kevin
Hot damn, guys. Good morning. It's Kevin. Life 22, and I don't know if you can hear that outside. I figured this is a good opportunity to start.
00:00:19 Kevin
So it is Western New York. It is a beautiful.
00:00:26 Kevin
Winter morning. But it ain't winter. It is just past the middle of April and we've got snow on the ground. And I mean, it's snowed in July. It snows in July here. So what? Who am I complaining to? Right? Like, if you live here, you know it it just it snows all year round. Like there's no like.
00:00:46 Kevin
That's why they have Christmas in July, cause sometimes Santa Claus forgets. He sees the snow on the ground. He just comes down and delivers presents to kids.
00:00:52 Kevin
Down their chimney so.
00:00:57 Kevin
No, but that sound is is the sound of people working. Man. That is the sound of trash trucks.
00:01:06 Kevin
A human.
00:01:08 Kevin
And it is.
00:01:10 Kevin
Some people get mad about it. They're like, wow, trash truck woke me up. Well, guess what.
00:01:17 Kevin
You need to be getting up out of bed every morning. This is active April. People. You need to be getting up out of bed if you think that like trash truck comes at like 6:30 to 7:00. And if you ain't out of bed by 7, I'm sorry. You should be up at.
00:01:29 Kevin
5:30 you should.
00:01:30 Kevin
Be at 4:00. Get up. You only live once. What are you doing? Spending your time sleeping. There's time to sleep when you're dead.
00:01:37 Kevin
OK.
00:01:39 Kevin
Boom so.
00:01:44 Kevin
There's a bunch of guys out there that are slinging your garbage into a truck, hauling it to the dump and.
00:01:53 Kevin
They work very hard. It's stinky, yucky work.
00:01:56 Kevin
I'm sure that trash doesn't just have food. I'm sure it's got roaches and bed bugs and things that they could take home with them. They got a really risky job them guys and, you know, shout out to the trash truck worker. You know what I mean? Those guys, those guys get about 4:00 easily every morning. Friend of mine owns a trash company. He he gets up at like 2:00 to start working on a truck. So it's ready.
00:02:18 Kevin
From the guys getting at 4 you know, so like there is no rest for the small business owner and I just want to remind you all this on this beautiful Wednesday morning.
00:02:30 Kevin
I'm trying to come up with like a formula for how we're doing the show. Right, like we have motivational Mondays.
00:02:36 Kevin
I really just ran low on time yesterday so we didn't get a podcast out. That's what the delay was. But it's one of those things like we're trying to figure out what we're talking about on the show. And like last night, there was no council meeting.
00:02:49 Kevin
Everybody's on vacation and this week is a committee week and if they have nothing on committee, they don't have to schedule anything. So where they have to have a Council meeting every other week to do the normal day-to-day operation, business of the city, you know, all that beautiful, finite stuff.
00:03:07 Kevin
Does that sound great?
00:03:10 Kevin
Work.
00:03:12 Kevin
And then that machine that they're driving, human ingenuity created by free markets. You didn't see any of those things in China until they stole our technology because we're a free market baby. That's it. So.
00:03:26 Kevin
That and for active April, what are we talking about? Ohh, so yeah, there was. I was thinking maybe I should give an update on the Council meeting. Went to listen to the council meeting and it was the beginning of the previous one. And I'm like, oh, they didn't have a council meeting, had nothing scheduled on the agenda. They just passed the budget. It's a big hurdle. They're working two days a week. All right.
00:03:44 Kevin
Now they're all on vacation. They might not have enough people for a quorum. What are you going to do? So we're no updates there, folks.
00:03:56 Kevin
I mean, there's always something going on, but.
00:03:58 Kevin
What?
00:04:01 Kevin
What I wanted to remind all of you about is that it is still active April and if you haven't been active need you to get up at 4:00 in the morning.
00:04:12 Kevin
We're formulating a campaign on trying to reach out to David Goggins and get him on the show. And I think it's just like.
00:04:24 Kevin
I think a social media call out is probably the way I'm gonna try to pull it off. I tried it the other day on XI. Don't think he's on X as often. I checked Instagram. I'm gonna have to find out which, but he's probably a lot going on because he's David Goggins. So get hard, stay hard. You know, that's the the David Goggins way. Get up at 4:00 in the morning.
00:04:44 Kevin
Go for it.
00:04:46 Kevin
It's going to suck. I watched, I've. I've been so like in my in my efforts to find, to find where David Goggins is hiding on the Internet so that I can like kind of call him out and see if he'll come on the show.
00:05:04 Kevin
I've been getting like wrapped up in all these little like Instagram reels and and David Goggins YouTube shorts and and just all these like, little motivational ones and it's.
00:05:14 Kevin
Like he's phenomenal. I I I love David Goggins. I read his first book. I'm in the process now because of this little quest of mine to read the next book. And. And I'm a good part way through that. So when I first read his book, I I followed his advice and tweeted stages.
00:05:34 Kevin
Through the book that I had read, I had read and, you know, hashtag can't hurt me on Twitter at the time, and he replied he's like, stay hard, brother. And it was one of those things. It's like the author of this book, David Goggins, just.
00:05:49 Kevin
Replied to my Twitter comment by lowly like I had two followers on Twitter like.
00:05:57 Kevin
It was, you know.
00:06:00 Kevin
It was. It motivated me even more so. And then that's what's motivating me now to see if we can get David Goggins on the show because he's quite a celebrity and I think that would be a not just a feather in the cap of the show, but it would be a, you know, would be just.
00:06:16 Kevin
Very humbling to just to to have him on a zoom call or something so that would be it would be great. So we're working on that. There's also a jiu jitsu tournament coming up.
00:06:29 Kevin
So going into these, David Goggins quotes and things like that, we have a jujitsu tournament coming up and there's no.
00:06:37 Kevin
Better, David Goggins way. Like this is turning into, like, the Church of David Goggins right now. So there's no better. David Goggins way to go at that jujitsu tournament where you're kind of like.
00:06:49 Kevin
Ohh. close to 40 punchy guy like Kevin here who is trying to stay active, who is trying to be fit, who's working hard, life gets in the way, whatever.
00:07:00 Kevin
And.
00:07:02 Kevin
I set a goal for myself, you know, like every year I do these tournaments in April and my kids do the tournaments and we signed up.
00:07:10 Kevin
All four of the kids and myself were the 2 events that were are worth anything. There's another one that's, I don't know. I'm not a big fan of the third event. It's just like a.
00:07:19 Kevin
It's part of.
00:07:20 Kevin
The art. But it's not. It's like self-defense slash katas which is like.
00:07:26 Kevin
It's like a dance. It's a dance and fluid movement with your, with your motions and techniques, and it's, I don't know, it's not the combat.
00:07:35 Kevin
Aspect. You know what I mean? Like you can do akata and that's more of like you do it. You do it in your apartment bedroom.
00:07:42 Kevin
You know, before you go like.
00:07:44 Kevin
To Dulles Tower to go like kind of like, you know, save the Cuban refugee from holding and.
00:07:51 Kevin
That's that's the premise for die hard too. But yeah, that's. I mean, that's where you see cottas like you're you're naked in your hotel room trying to do that, like, that's that's that's to me what it is. It's like a you and a meditation type thing. It's not really a like put on display for others unless you're testing up in belt sizes and stuff like that. Like I wouldn't. I don't. I don't foresee it as something that you just like.
00:08:12 Kevin
Show off like cause it's like, oh, you know, it's not really a show off type of thing. Oh, they can do that like.
00:08:20 Kevin
And.
00:08:23 Kevin
And the self-defense thing is like more or less like a PR thing. It teaches like it just kind of shows you how you can use this in real life. And it's just, I don't know, it's more of a display not an event like you can just it's you know it's an act.
00:08:36 Kevin
And So what we signed me and the kids up for combat sports jujitsu, which is the stand up sparring and then you can go to grappling and then there is just the straight grappling around. I'm always disappointed. And I tell this and say this all the time I'm very disappointed that they don't just keep the stand up sparring.
00:08:57 Kevin
As 1/3 option like they used to.
00:09:02 Kevin
Give me the mobies. It gives me the mobies but.
00:09:06 Kevin
With that said, we are.
00:09:10 Kevin
We signed up for that. What happens is I try to go to jujitsu often, and it doesn't end up happening. And I came back beginning of April, end of March into.
00:09:23 Kevin
Into jujitsu class again and.
00:09:27 Kevin
Since it was like because the kids go all year round right and they they like might take a week off here or there. But for the most part they're there all year round and he's like, bro, where have you been? And I'm like, he's like you, you haven't been to class in like a year. And I'm like, yeah, I know you just, you know, I'm just kind of like donating my money every month. And now I'm here.
00:09:47 Kevin
And so I'm going to be I bust my ****, you know, and try to make every every class Tuesdays and Thursdays until the tournament. And I just kind of like, cram it all into a month. So as long as I'm staying physically active, which going to jujitsu classes helps with that? But if I do my kettlebell workouts and my stretches, which I've been doing since.
00:10:06 Kevin
February for February I should be in relatively good shape and it was funny because I started jumping back into jujitsu. And I like, I felt sore, but I wasn't, like, winded. And then I went on Tuesday, like I went yesterday, and I was like, I got, like, tired doing the stretches. And I'm like, and I was like, breathing hard. And I'm like.
00:10:25 Kevin
Man, I'm gonna die a week from Saturday. So it's one of those things. But there is a tournament coming up at our normally it's held at the Seneca Nation, Allegheny Event Complex which is very nice complex.
00:10:41 Kevin
It is a hall and you know we're an Olean based Combatives Academy, so.
00:10:48 Kevin
I I as much as I did enjoy that facility. It is a lot of work to set up there compared to the alternative, which is the only in middle school gym, which is where we're doing it this year. It, you know, the only middle school gym is.
00:11:05 Kevin
It's dated, it's, you know, it's not a brand new facility. It's not as nice, but.
00:11:13 Kevin
I mean, those are like you don't need it to be brand new and nice like, you know, wood bleachers or, you know, wooden floor versus the the rubberized.
00:11:24 Kevin
You know Matt type flooring and then you put on our mats anyways. So it doesn't really matter what the floor is as long as it's not dirt.
00:11:33 Kevin
Yeah, it's. But it's it's it's a good time. I I encourage anybody who who is in the area to stop down Saturday the 26th of April.
00:11:46 Kevin
Usually I think the events start around 10. If you're looking to get registered and get weighed in, I'm pretty sure they accept applicants all day long. People who like last minute sign INS, people who are coming from far away that just get there late. It's just it's a really good thing even if you've never done it before. Like.
00:12:05 Kevin
It's it's worth the like the 100 or so dollars to try to like, throw your hat in the ring and just don't get the crap kicked out of you. Like it doesn't sound enticing to a lot of people, but I think it's.
00:12:15 Kevin
I think it's very humbling.
00:12:18 Kevin
To say the least.
00:12:19 Kevin
David Coggins would called you a ***** and tell you to to to stay hard so and nobody wants David Goggins to yell at you, right? He's he's intimidating. He's he's a monster.
00:12:30 Kevin
He's he's getting. He's getting up on 50 years old and and he just walks towards it. And you just you stammer back and he might just be like he might. He could be even holding roses in a balloon and like a box of chocolates like. And as he starts walking towards you, you still get panic. As if those things don't exist and he's holding a machine gun or a giant, you know.
00:12:49 Kevin
Rambo. Knife. Like that's. That's how it appears just because of.
00:12:54 Kevin
How? How intimidating he is and and then and then you hear about his career. It just makes that much worse.
00:13:03 Kevin
Oh.
00:13:03 Kevin
The ways that said so, yeah, so. So I think it's a great thing that it's happening here in, you know, our city, the place where this organization is is kind of like.
00:13:18 Kevin
Is based and founded and things like that and then.
00:13:22 Kevin
It's not so much of A haul either, so it's like, OK, great. Like a lot of years the the middle school will donate us the mats to take with us for the event and then we bring them back on Monday. You know, I mean, there's all these little things that happen. We have our own mats just because it usually can be a big event. So like.
00:13:40 Kevin
Having to.
00:13:42 Kevin
Borrow the the middle school maths when it's being held at the middle school. Really easier for transportation.
00:13:50 Kevin
It's literally just bringing the mats from.
00:13:54 Kevin
The and then it's like it's four blocks away. The from the Academy over to the middle school. It's just it's going to be, it's going to be easier. It's going to be nicer. It's going to be. It's also going to help promote another another great event in our city. So I think this is all around is going to be a great thing. We've got some more upcoming exciting news for this event. We're waiting for that to drop, but.
00:14:14 Kevin
There's, there's just, there's, there's just a ton of stuff going on, any any date, given day and.
00:14:23 Kevin
And I got to go twice a week and this is the last Saturday that I'll be able to go where I'm going to take the kids with me because they have family days on Saturdays. So what happens is that you can you can they mix the adults and the kids together. The younger kids still go for their half hour, they release them.
00:14:41 Kevin
You know, and so little. Lennox will sit on the bench and then the other kids will all go like they'll be with me.
00:14:49 Kevin
In the hour class and then. So it'll be nice. I'll get. I'll get a third class in this week.
00:14:58 Kevin
Which I don't think will put me in any better shape towards the the tournament, but I just got to work on my submissions. That's what happens is it's it's all memory game. When I go to class, it's like OK, I remember how to do this. All right? Yep. And then just getting back in the motions and practicing the motions.
00:15:14 Kevin
Yes, I do use it as a form of a workout as well on top of my kettlebell and my stretching routine. But.
00:15:23 Kevin
It is also just about like, you know, practicing the moves, practicing the goals, you know, like, OK, this type of submission usually works. Can I try this one? I got to work on my striking form because I don't do that that often. I forget about it because I'm not out there punching people when I'm not in class, so it doesn't happen every day.
00:15:41 Kevin
And so yeah.
00:15:44 Kevin
But yeah, it's active April people. So I need you to get out there. I need you to do your thing and then.
00:15:51 Kevin
We're getting well, I'm getting close to this rant. So other than that, guys just kind of a a Kevin mid mid hump day ramp rant.
00:16:04 Kevin
We've got Good Friday and Easter is this Sunday. Those two events coming up, those those nice wholesome family type things where you get to spend some quality time with your family, but.
00:16:18 Kevin
We the the show is coming to an end here this morning, and so I'd like to end it with our our shout out to David Goggins. To that we're interested in having him on the show.
00:16:31 Kevin
We're we're huge supporters of the David Goggins experience in, in, in all of its forms, from the good, the bad, the ugly, the the UK. Till it. You're never finished. So we will. We'll look forward to your response.
00:16:48 Kevin
And with that, guys, we are signing out, Kevin, Life 22, don't forget to like, subscribe and check us next time.