BARACK OBUTTA - Good O-Hot Pockets

And you were just like, I don't cook. This is the second guest in a row that just has no idea how to cook um. And we went back and forth. Of course, you know you did give me the option for ramen. But we hear at Eating Wall Broke. We know ramen is a very popular dish. So unless you have a special twist to your ramen, do not get to cook it. You know, I could have made you what's called spread, but that's a whole We actually had the spread. It was like a jail experience in a

garbage bag. I will never forget that episode. Shout outs to Ajah from Compton. Right, she's she's Compton. Now you're you do, we keep it run hundred and your focus is south Central. My focus is just activity period. It's not really a certain area. I'm from South Central. Um are do runs in Inglewood, Culver City and just all different parts of l A. But um I am from south central underserved community, and running is something that's just

not the norm where I'm from. So for me to find a passionateness and be able to give it back to my people and get people going has been one of the most amazing journeys I've ever been on. Okay, well, we don't take a bite of these hot pockets, bring you back to nostalgia lane. This was nice and warm. Yeah, hopefully you're gonna bit it into your order. You're gonna tear yours, all right, just for your listeners. He actually asked for like a fork and knife, and I said,

is that how you ate him a gentleman? And I said, if that's not how you ate it, that's not how we're eating. You enjoy It's great. Mine is cold. Mine is still warm, Pepperoni. I don't want to see this cheese stretch mine as a warm listen. Okay, how better, way better? So take me back to the hot pocket dames. I mean, the hot pockets are still very present, you know. I'm not I don't I don't forget where I came from. But no, I don't know if anyone ever graduates past

the hot pocket base. As long as they're in your freezer, that is a smooth day when you're walking in out microwave real fast. But take me, take me back before the casual pot pockets. Um No, Um, just growing up as a as a as a as a kid in in South central you know. Uh, I did a bunch of different things. I played sports my whole life. Um, and just growing up trying to maneuver through my community

isn't the easiest thing to do. But um, you know, as we grow, as we go through our I'm thirty nine now, so trying to figure out the way things get tough sometimes, you know, and sometimes you may not have or you're working towards that that life that you wants. So there is some struggle in that. So and that I was, you know, enjoying hot pockets. Men. You know, in your twenties, what did you what were you striving for?

What was your ultimate goal? Um? In my twenties, I was working production so I wanted to do something in like television production that I did it for some years, Uh kind of got tired of it, transitioned into a multiple jobs after that. Uh I had I had my daughter at thirty, which kind of forced me to grow up and really become a man, That's what. And then

running started around that time as well. And you know, with with time and with age and maturity, things just getting better, you know, because you're you're in a different headspace and you're able to you know, and and then and in having a chad, you have to figure it out. So, so what happened at twenty nine where you twenty nine you're working television production? Did you end up quitting television production to provide better for your daughter or like what

was that transitional point when she came? Um so and that I left production. I started driving buses. Gave me more security, Uh you know, the health benefits. Think you know what I'm saying things like that, and um, so many things that happened at that time too. When you say buses, like, uh, public trans you don't have to get a special license for that yet. One so you just you were like, you know what, forget this television production because I need more stability. I needed more stability,

so because television was more freelance, you know. And then uh, I went into the driving the bus situation, which lasted some years. Um. But then at that ranis course as well. Um. And then where did your running into the picture. I was doing it as a hobby and then um, uh running with just something I did just to just just to be active. It wasn't something that I planned on doing like for the rest of my life. And when did other people start getting involved in your running? At nineteen?

So this is right before the pandemic. Ah yeah, so um, let's say so I started my run club eighteen. We picked up a lot of bus throughout the you know, the remainder. I started April, So from April to like November, the numbers are rowing. I started with eight people, were eventually getting a hundred people out at you know, by

the by the fall. And this is all in South central or I was actually doing it in Manhattan Beach and Culver City at the time, so expanding in those areas because in South central running isn't the easiest thing to do, especially in a group setting, you know, because it's not like you could just pull up to some random park which with a bunch of people, and because that's just not how the area works because of gang activity and things like that, you know, because every everybody

seems to thinks they owned in certain areas, so you just can't pull up to So you were telling people that lived in South Central pull up to Manhattan and they were doing it. Okay, okay, now you just you were enjoying running and you said, you know what, I'm going to do a run club or and then the eight people joined or were you slowly? I mean I was just running with like and me and a buddy of mine. Me and a buddy of mine. We actually trained for my first marathon the fall of seventeen, so

I ran in March. So that's when I fell in love and running. It was like I wanted everyone to experience the feelings that I have from it. So I started my run club two weeks after that marathon. And when you first started running, you were in love with it. You kind of morphed into love. It was just like it was a hobby at first. And then I said, pushing my body but my mind past barriers I had on myself, thinking I couldn't do ten miles or twelve

miles or fifteen miles. And when you're when you're knocking down those walls, you feel like you can continue to go forever because it's more mental than anything. So the you know, the mental toughness afforded to did you get from that? You know, I can't even explained, you know, people, you have to kind of do it to really understand, you know what I'm what I'm saying because a lot of people put like limits on themselves, like I can't.

I would never run a marathon. I would. I used to think the same way, but now it's what's the biggest marathon you ran? I originally ran last month. I ran in New York Marathon. That's the absolute biggest marathon in the world. Six point two. So a full marathon tween six point two I've done it ten times, okay. And then how long does it take you to do that? What average? Like three and a half hours? Three and a half hours? Are you? What? What pace are you at?

That a pretty good place? You know. It's it's like a fast jog, No, it's a it's a run. So it's about you run for six miles straight, no breaks? Do you carry a water pack? No? I mean like alone the route there's like yeah, like there's there's water stations if people giving you stuff. It's a in New York the greatest marathon I've ever ran in my life. But um, the energy was crazy. People are there's people everywhere like this. They shut down the entire city. You

run through all five boroughs. Wow, wow, I didn't you run through all five boroughs? So there's people lining the street the entire way. And then what barrow do they end in? Uh? You inno central Park? So um you're starting, you're starting Staten Island. Yeah, and in central parks? Do they actually have a winner in the marriage, like a first Yeah, they get they make a lot of money. Oh, I don't even know there's money. Like how much does a New York matter, say six miles three or four

hours out of your day? You know? Yeah, but you gotta like thanks. So is there a marathon winner that is like notorious? Who h elliot keep chokie. He's the he's the goat. He's uh he's actually ran the fastest marathon ever. It was under two hours, so he's the first one one fifty nine He's the first one to running under two hours six miles, so it's like a four minute pace or like four so minute paced the entire way. He don't take no breaks. You don't take

no breaks. Have you met him? I met him last month in New York for real. Do you think you would ever come and like check out what you're doing? I think he would. We we are aligned in some way with the with the Nike connection. Something he ever, if he's ever in tail, you know, maybe he'll pull up all my run club someday. So you decided to build this run club, eight people show up? What are your parents saying at the time when I'm running my run club? I got eight? No, I don't even It

wasn't even a run club. It was just me gathering my friends, you know, like let's let's let's get you healthy, let's just get active. So we were doing like two miles one mile out back, and you know, it was cool because like people were seeing what I was doing, and you know, because I would know documented on Instagram and things like that, and you know, people would just want to get active with me and get healthy. So, um, my friends just started growing organically. Like if I told

you you tell somebody else. You know, next we went from eight, you know, to twelve, and twelve to fift you know, like social just a gradual growth and then people start seeing it, you know, and it's it's a community. I always I'm big on AP preaching community because especially with my group and runners of color have the most reluctant group of people to want to run because of whatever.

Like we feel as though running agast punishment because growing up playing sports, basketball, football and things like that, when you get in trouble, you're told to run. So like when you get older, you're like, I'm not gonna run because it's kind of like some trauma in a way. So um exactly exactly. So now you have to do things like this, like just to just once they're healthy. We're combating COVID, high blood press, your heart, you know,

so many these different things. So an active lifestyle helps with that, and with community it helps even more because black people don't get together in large numbers unless we're consuming alcohol. So to get together weakly to do something positive and you know, impact each other and motivate support each other. I think it's important to work out in groups. I one of my close friends is day storm Power.

I don't know if you know about him, and he's an influencer on social media, but he does these brutal ass workouts. They're absolutely ridiculous. They're a hundred percent free. It's just I want to join and it's absolute hell on wheels. But he'll to a hole like in his brain he has a plan, you know, and there are moments where you say, I don't necessarily agree with this plan, but then it's like he has a plan to prepare you for the nightmare that he has planned for you.

So like there was a yeah, it was a set up. So like all year you're like, you know, first of all, the amount of weight you lose running is it's it's highly not spool. And then um so he trained us, trained us, trained us, and then one day he was like, you're gonna run these three hills, and we're like three hills. Anyways, you run and you're able to because he's gonna train you.

But then one day randomly, I was like, you know what, I haven't ran these hills in so long, and I just pulled up on them hills and I tried to run it, and I said he was fucking nuts. He was nuts because you did have to train to prepare to run those and these weren't little hills. These were like nightmares. Everything in life is about preparation and it took a long time for that. So how consistent are your meetups? We meet weekly, so three times a week, Tuesdays, Tuesday,

Thursday nights and Sunday mornings. So and then where is it at Tuesday night? We meet in Inglewood? I mean we meet in Culver City at Veterans Park. It's seven pm Thursday night. Simpen signed the coffee shop in Inglewood seven pm and six thirty am on Sunday mornings at del Ray Lago. Apply apply that. Now does someone have to start at the same start date to join your group? Because no? I mean because you can come any times. It's it's it's you can come whatever you like. It's

free charge. Um it says it's more community than than the post like a training program to where you if you don't make it here by this day that you can't run with us. No, like, it's come whenever you feel like it. But how long are the runs? Three miles? So what if someone comes it's their first day and they can only run a mile, so we have I have a walking component as well, so uh to walk. My mom's out there every week leading the walk. Um so it's like I said, just getting your body moving.

It's like you gotta tell people to bring kids, bring their parents. And my next question what do you do if you have a I have a toiler that just started walking, So what do you do? I meaning bringing with a stroller, running stroller prefervably. You could do like a backpack or no, that doesn't work. I probably hurt the kid, you know, like with the kid bouncing all over the lake. I wouldn't if I was that, but

um no, I have a stroller. I mean, if you have a strollder, bring it and then if you want to walk, go ahead, Like if you're up for it, I'd have one of my one of my guys on my team pushed the stroller for you, so you could, you know, do you know put your working and kids actually sitting the stroller. My daughter treats her stroller like a surfboard. Like the second I put her in it, she's like, sir, I have to like tire down in

that thing, not the kids. The kids love it because you know they're they're seeing all these people moving and you know they're they're just they're just being pushed up, pushed along for the ride. So and they're going at a fast speed for sure, for sure. So okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna remember this. Yeah. So you if they're doing six thirty in the morning, I'm guessing they're done before church. Yeah, like nine, but we're done my So, so Sundays more for our longer runs. That's more of

our training day for marathons. Are just people to get have to help people get better with distance. Because if I told you go run six miles, they're not gonna do it by yourself. So I created this base to where it will help you reach whatever goal you're trying to get to. So okay, now your daughter is involved

in your she comes out from time to time. It's it's a for me, it's a tough balance to be to be the leader of the run club and be a dad at the same time because I have so many people I have to kind of keep an eye on, so trying to keep it. You know, we're just you know, run to the streets and have a team that helps guy indirected you know, have like team leads and things like that. But um, to try to keep an eye on a hundred people as well as my kid is

not the easiest thing to do. So, um, now, when didn't Nike get involved twenty eighteen A really good friend of mine a comedy to that are former olympian, uh, fastest woman in the world. She connected me with them, so I always want to show her her love and give her shout out. She connected me with them. It's just the way to get free products, shoes, gear, whatever. And then they've seen what I had going on with the community, got behind it and it's been a great

relationship ever since. Now was your run club a nonprofit or was it? No, it's not. It's not a nonprofit. So Nike was just like, I'm going to sponsor that. There's in a very supportive role. So we do events throughout the year. Um, we do, we do. We've done huge events. They've shut down Crunshaw Boulevard for us, and they've shut down the whole city in Inglewood for us

to do just different runs and things like that. Nike will go ahead and Nike in my relationships with other people as well, who might think is just putting together community, giving people that space to just run in the communities that they think that they can't. So so in South Central they're now running, Yes, South Central, Igglewood, Compton, all, you know, all the all the a lot a lot of inner city neighborhoods. So we got a lot of people active in moving now. But are they running in

that community? Yes, yes, yes, And so you were like pivotal in that because originally you started Manhattan Beach. Yes, I started Manhattan Beach because, um, yeah, like gathering in the inner city like parks and things like that isn't the easiest because you know, the gangs and you know, so pulling up not even if I if I went to a park and told you meet me at a park and you're from the other side of town, You're like,

I'm not coming over there. That's not you know, my you know, that's not my negative was and they don't get along with the side of town that I'm from, So I'm not going to that park. So I had to take it to an area where everyone felt very safe and willing to want to come out. So I started Manhattan Beach and went to Coover City. Now our

biggest runners in Englewood, which is an underserving community as well. So, um so when Nike gets involved with your organization, I want to kind of get into the meat of you going from I'm creating this group too, Now I have to transform it into like an organization slash business. Did you have a business background? No? No, So that's the that's the funny part. Um I started this. It's just

like I said, just get to my friends moving. So when it started growing and people are like you need to you need to come up with a name, or you need to get it, you know, your trademark and things like that, I'm like, I'm not expecting any of this, Like I didn't have a blueprint of like how any of this worked. Um So, eventually I did get my company trademarked, and you know it's that's my stamp. Now you know, nobody could take it from me, but trademarking it.

When Nike comes along, trademark and it doesn't necessarily make it where you and Nike could do business. At some point you had to do like a corporation. No we we uh so Nike. So that's always like the big question like interviews, but like we have the understanding that we have U there, I myself am an athlete in their supportive role to keep a one hundred. So it's not like Nike is like we're under the umbrella and they're like there who like cashes me out monthly for whatever.

So that's not that's not how it works when we do events. We have our understanding and how that works. But um, I make my own money. However, you have to have other jobs while you're doing keep keep, Um you're not. Are you still doing bussing or not? No? No, I'm full full run like everything and running like that's that's everything for me. So um, but making that transition, can it happen that smooth? It wasn't, but everything uh moment where you quit bussing. So so I left bussing.

And actually when it's funny because I was working at the left bussing to work at the Anheuser bush right here, So I was there for some time and what were you doing? I was fermenting beer. Fermentation is a very important process of beer making. Um, great job, great money, but like all I want to do is run, so uh you know, I was one for the and one foot out like I was going to work making the money but not seeing my kid or being able to spend money on my kids. So what's the money gonna do?

You know? So I really decided I had to bet on myself and just trust and follow my passion, which was running. And in that space, I gave it two years just to see where it could take me. And where are you living on savings at the time, savings hustling? Just you know, was your child's mother like supporting? Yeah, I mean like we I mean we we Yeah, we

worked well together in the space. Um, you know, like I was always able, like I'm always able to make some money, but in the process of like trying to get your own things started to require sacrifice and you have to you know, uh, trying to figure it out. So I gave myself two years. My mentality was always I can always get a job. If this doesn't work out, I can go back to work. But um, I never wanted to sit with the sugar. Could have would have

was like, I could have stayed at the job. And now it's five years later and be like, damn, if I had started my run club, what did that two years look like? It was actually a good like it was a it was a it was a growing time. It was very It wasn't like there was some struggle there of course it would be. Um, but um, because it seems like a year into your business the pandemic or two years hit. So I'm I'm just trying to

figure out, like you start the business, pandemic hits. I just want so I started pandemic, so you know I was able to really stay afloat just with like different connections and you know, relationships I've had with different brands, uh, selling merch doing you know, like fighting other ways to just make make money happen. But in that too, like money isn't a big issue for me, Um, being genuine

field happiness. Success to me is in service. So me being able to help my community, help hundreds and thousands of people through running like pays me aways that people never understand. So like money isn't like isn't my driving force at all. No, that's that's good. I'm just trying to figure out how you survived. Um, oh yeah we survived. Yeah, we survived like we made it, like we made it make it. I was never broke, Like I was never in a position to be like damn, like this doesn't

work out, I'm gonna be on the street. You know, very have a very strong support system. Like I said, we had tough times. We you know, we had to do the hot pockets and the noodles, you know, but um, it's it's it's now that I want to you know, in a in a better space. And like I still I still dabble, you know, with with with with with the with the broke food. But um, what did you do to survive the pandemic with Ron Club? How did

you keep the brand? Alt um? The first like two months, people were still meeting up, which I was like totally against, but were you there when they were meeting him? But people are still like people needed that community. So a lot of people, Um, a lot of people who were with me aren't from l A, you know, so like they're you know, they're here with no family or no support system, so like they needed that space to where they primarily black or where they yeah, majority of black.

But you know, like depression is real and you know, uh all types of things, you know, and this like people were telling me how they were on the verge of when they were when we couldn't meet they you know, thought about suicide and things like that. So they needed that space to be able to come together with other people and make them feel better there. So like, uh, after about two or three let's say three let's say three or four months, we got back out there together

and it was you know, it was like clockwork. We got back to the way you know what what what we had been doing, where they running with masks. Everybody was running with masks and things like that. Um, you know, if you know, they were still hesitation and it was like meeting up and like gathering and things like that. But um, we weathered the storm. Now at your meetups, do you guys do any type of talking? Yeah, so

I I speak, I make announcements. We Uh, I created space at the end of the run where people are. It's like a networking space. So there's eighty people here, so everybody in here does something. If you're a mechanic or a barber or you know what I'm saying, you're able to just put your business on display and share with the group because you never know who may need it, you know, or who can help you you can help them, or things like that. So uh, that's probably one of

the best parts of the run okay. So at the end, everybody's like, this is what I did. If you needs that's great, that's a great. That's a free marketing and healthy marketing experience. Like people have like written books and that the group has bought their books. People bring like you know, people are make healthy juices, people bring you know, and so it's a very supportive community. I like that. I like that. So you're embracing other entrepreneurs to do

you guys. Um you also in addition to keep it run hundred, you also have Rock Can you talk about that? So Rock w R okay, we raise our kids. It's a nonprofit me and a buddy of mine started in

twenties seventeen um. Just to show it and then in highlight you know, positive fathers, positive black fathers, and in just those spaces like we're doing picnics, father daughter dances, father's son brunches, just to show that, you know, there are dope dads out here, despite you know some of the you know, negative things that you may see or hear about about dads. We love our kids, so we uh are very present and try to you know, create the best lives for him. And we want that on display.

Do you feel like that a lot of the mission was because black dads tend to be targeted as or painted as the non present dad's. Yeah, because me, me and my boy were like a lot of people and a lot of people who were a part of who are partners uh of of Rock, they were fatherless, they grew up fatherless, so they're striving to just change the narrative. And um, you know, like we as as dads, we will go out together and just try to build as men, you know, like so that space was it was that

still is a very important part of my life. Okay, okay, perfect. How's your daughter now? She's eight eight eight going on twenty eight. What how often are you meeting up with Rock? Uh? We haven't. We haven't done much since the pandemic, just because I think, you know, every his life just shifted a little bit. But we will be back. Okay. And then for men that aren't present in their child's life, is there anything you feel like you can do to

bring that presents back? And we tried. I tried to highlight it with my actions with my kids, you know, just to kind of show that this is fun, Like I love, I love being a dad. So like, you know, I post her every day and you know, show us hanging out and things like that just show people like having a kid and being a part of your kid's life is a very exciting situation. Like I get, you know, everybody's circumstances situation is different because whatever reason they may be.

But I just try to, you know, have and show men that, like if you haven't picked up your kid, go go get it and go get him or her this weekend, because like watching them grow and become their own person is a dope thing to see. But why

do you think that those males are not present? I mean that's the that's our own situations, you know what I'm saying, Like what example, like what have the reason has been that you're aware of, uh, you know, issues with the mom or you know some in parenting, sometimes I feel like some people just are meant to be parents, you know, like that's just not that doesn't mean that you don't show up for your kids, but some people

just don't have what don't have what it takes. So some men kind of just straight away because you know, they feel as though they are already or they you know, which is a sucky or do you think it's like the evils? Like I try to understand the whole dad not present thing, and you got to you have to acknowledge statistics. A guy that grows up in a home without his dad has a higher higher chance of not raising his kids as much as he hates it. So

you have to acknowledge statistics. And then you also have to acknowledge, you know, systematically. Obviously, our culture has painted this image of you know, sex, drugs and alcohol is the ultimate king. You know, there's nothing more fun than sex, drugs and alcohol. Like who wants to change a diaper? When you know this vixing is over here and you're dealing with the fund is over here and your kids

starts to feel more like an obligation. So it's like, I just wonder when I see organizations like like, how do you not just change the narrative of oh I'm a great dad on because there's there's great dads that

post their kids. When I say great dad's, I say in quotations like I love nothing more than hair and a girl say, oh, look he posted his kid that he hasn't seen in a week, or you know, he returned the kid and the rash was like literally outrageously over the top, But hey, guess what, he's got two

thousand likes for posting his kids. So it's it's that I just asked that question because it's great that you represent like the great dads, but at the end of the day, like, what are we doing to get to the root of the problem if we don't even understand for sure? You know, good point, because for every angry baby mama I've ever seen, she's always had a valid point or valid like her validity and her complaints is

like so real. It's like, what's she really difficult? Or was it like there's a lot of valid validity all all the things that you didn't did you take yourself with I mean, did you hold yourself accountable a lot? Exactly? I think that men? I think men. Uh. There's a book I keep shouting it out, hopefully we'll have them on the show. There's this book, Mail Versus Men. I

talked about it a lot on the show. I read it by Dondre Whitfield, Um, and it kind of talks about like men just need accountability systems, They need mentors, and I I think more so than like Instagram posts or or like, you know, dates, they just like, if you see a guy that is not headed down that path, maybe taking time to say I choose you to be friends you because for whatever reason, and kind of be that mentor that gutting point, because at the end of

the day, my mom used always say, like, if you show me your friends, I'll tell you who you are. Not a at ten times a guy that's not there for his family, all his friends aren't there for his family.

So you could be that one person that's like, you know what, I choose you, you know, And I think that's something that people in general like, you don't need an organization and you can just say, you know what, I'm gonna choose this random guy in the block and that's gonna be my homie and we're not alike, but I'm gonna be friends and you know, to learn one another and becomes who knows you. You never know that that initial conversation could take you with somebody. Yeah, I don't.

I don't see a lot of people be like, oh, you want to be my friend. I don't want to be your friends. Get out of my what you hang out with your kid on the weekends. I want to be your friend, like I also have a beautiful girl and or a beautiful girlfriend or a great relationship with my baby mama. You know what I think. You know, I would like to see where Rock goes. You know, I hope that baby seed was planted you like that? Yeah, yeah, because it's it's a it's a deep it's a deep issue.

It goes a lot deeper than just I think the external of spending time with your kids. Sure, for sure, Like it's a full time job, it's a full time Yeah. I think it's you picked up one of the hardest. Like when I hear Rock, I'm like, yo, that's a hard one. That's a hard one. So do I think as creating a run club is hard? So where do you see the run club going from here? Um? So we spoke earlier, we spoke a little bit about nonprofit. Three I will be you know, I will be going

on the non profit route. So that would create just different avenues me and the club. But I want to make just running an activity, you know, a huge thing across the world like it is now. But like I would keep a hundred in every major city across the globe. So, um, you know, growth and expansion is what I'm working on. And you guys create your own marathons, right, no, are

you going to um dyeah? So, like that's that's definitely a plan in the future to create one for l A, South central l A. You know, like run one through the area where I grew up. How how does someone go about creating a you know who talks with the city, you know, mapping it out and funding, you know, so many things involved. So I have relationship. I have a really good relationship with some of the city councilmen. So and I was actually just speaking with is that current

price in your city? Or is that city Harris Dawson? Okay, okay, we I've done events with him authorout this year, So I actually just spoke about you know, and I'm not putting out there too soon, but we talked about we talked about the possibility of trying to make a marathon route through the inner city. That would be great, that would be that would be a yeah. And then does the city pick up the bill on that or what you guys have to um or is that something we

got to figure out in time? Like it's like it's very it's it's still in the in it it's in the very very beginning of the talking stages. We haven't really you know, we met, we saw I saw him last weekend, so I said, were just something anesting in conversation and we can see where we can take it from here. Okay, okay, So moving forward, how would people join? Um? You know, I foll on Instagram first off at Keep

and Run hundred, following me at Barrock Underscore. Oh butta um and everything that we do is posted on the Instagram's very active on the pages. Our schedule was there Tuesday nights, Thursday nights and Sunday mornings. But it's it's very it's free charge to show up, you know, come with a willingness to work and a good attitude and we're gonna get you across that three miles. Okay, and then I do I know this is kind of backtracking a little bit, but was there ever point in you

creating the run club that you wanted to quit? No? Never, Um, this is my thing. Was it because it's not a top heavy business or no? This is just it's it's really what I was put here to do, like put on this earth to do. Like I spoke about impacting other people it it, it's amazing. So like every time, you know, people hit me telling me they've gotten healthier and they don't have to take their meds anymore, that they don't have to see the doctor as much. Like

those are the winds for me, you know. So, like I said, do you have a story of someone losing like astronomical amount of way, like someone that showed up where you're like, man, man, No, people will lose weight.

Like I had a girl she was three hundred plus pounds, she's probably about one sixty now she's running marathons and just you know, a mother of four that runs will be you know, she's seen a multiple time marathon runner um and she started in your club and people from all walks of life, you know, didn't you tell them how to eat? Because there was a point when I was working out with day Storm, and they will tell

you this. I would eat like a whole sub and then I'd have like some serious heartburn and like serious struggle throughout the whole workout. Now now eat like a salad or banana and then I work out. Yeah, I mean, so I'm not giving nutritional plans and things like that, but I got there, like you know, and and then but then life too, there's a balance as well, you know, so if you're gonna put whatever into your body, make

sure you work it off. So um, yeah, like you can still have fun and go out and eat to eat whatever and you know, partaking some libations, but you know you gotta do the other work on the back end. Yeah yeah, okay, cool. So thank you so much for coming to the show and not cooking for us. That's less dishes for me. But definitely tell our list is how they can catch you where they can catch you and keep up and let us know you're scheduling. Oh man, thank you so much for having me. Um, I really

appreciate that. This was fun. Um. Keeping on a hundred meets Thursday night, Well Tuesday night seven pm, Veterans Park in Cobra City, Thursday night seven pm sipping Sounder Coffee, shopping Inglewood and Sunday morning six thirty am at del Ray Lagoon and Amply del Rey. So follow us on Instagram at Keeping Run hundred. Following me on Instagram at Barack Underscore. Oh butta as Barack like the President underscore O b U T T A hope to hear from

you all soon. Yes, and there's no feast to join you. Just they don't have to pre register either, right, just come in your running gear and they have to bring their own water, right, bring water, bring whatever you like. Just just bring your willingness to work and you know, get attitude. And kids are welcome. Kids are welcome. You know, elders are welcome, Walkers, walkers are welcome. I just want you to get your body moving. Okay, Well, we appreciate

having you. Um piece out everybody for more eating while broke from I Heart Radio and The Black Effect, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows