Advice from Coach Bolton

answer those questions. Questions about life, questions about confidence, fatherhood, marriage, relationship, career, all that kind of stuff. And so we have many of those questions today and we have a special guest with us today. Um He was exposed to the TV and film industry at a very young age. In the mid nineties. He film debut in My Family and he also had TV roles on Hyperion, Bathe, Lifetimes, The Client List,

Hawaii five Oh. But everybody probably knows him. He's most well known for his role in high school musical as Coach Bolton. He is a husband, he is a father of three, and he's our very special co host today, Mr Bart Johnson. Welcome to the show. Ah that's that was a great introm And I feel kind of smart now, and uh, I feel high level. So thanks man, And yeah it's uh, it's been a it's been a good run. But man, I'll tell you that one stuck. Yeah, that one.

And I love that. I love that you're coming to us. I wish our our listeners could see that Coach Bolton is coming to us live from his home gym right now. Actually, I got funny enough. I do have a rack basketball's that looks exactly like the one in the movies. Yeah. Uh, there's a couple of like props you could say that are you know, hangovers from Actually you know what now I think about it? What you got? What you got?

He's coach, you know. It's just I mean I got you know, I got my I got my East High hoodies. Yes here, that's so that's my life. I just can't escape it. But I don't. I don't try that hard either. So so answer this as honestly as you possibly can without getting arrested. How much stuff do you take from on set? Things of just you know, you know, it's it's funny. A lot of people don't care, but I don't know I'm I'm a little more nostalgic, I guess or something. I'm I'm a softie, So I lets to

start look around. I'm like, I know this stuff, this is gonna be epic. So I was taking pictures. Actually, when we did the first one, we didn't really have like cell phones. Um, you know, like now there's cell phones on sets and everybody's reporting to everything. Back then, like when we did the first one, that wasn't really you know, I was fourteen years ago, man, it wasn't

very very popular. So I was using my laptop and I've got like all this video behind the scenes of the cast, like interviewing people and stuff that's like on my laptop, which it's probably it's probably valuable at this point. It's probably gold, right, it's probably gold. I'm sure it is to something to through a certain generation. So during COVID, we do all of these podcasts, the how Man Thing podcast via zoom because we can't personally see everybody, we

can't go to the studio. Everything shuts down obviously, so we do the how Man Think podcast via zoom. And I'm always like curious and entertained when I see what background people have where they're where they're comfortable, where they're sitting, where they're at. Are they traveling somewhere that they do an airbnb somewhere? Are they home? But you are coming from your your home gym there, which I'm just a

fan of. I love that You've got the heavy bag, you got the what's the little the wrap, the punch, the feedbag, feedbag. Yeah, I got the speedbag, Get the heavy bag, get a surfboard in there. Uh, tell me, because I love home gyms, tell me a little bit about your home gym. Why you built it? Well, Um, I've done cross fit for a two years and I kind of fell in love with some of the like Olympic lifts and and that kind of stuff, and and and then that got me into mobility, which the gym

never did. You know, I was like a total gym right guy, just kind of did the you know, the bro splits and all that kind of stuff. But then when I started doing cross it was like, oh man, my mind opened up to this whole uh kind of a new idea of you know, body weight fitness and Olympic lifting and compound lifts and that kind of stuff, And my body felt so much better and I felt younger, and I felt more like an athlete, and I hurt my back and my neck in the gym so many times.

And then when I started, luckily, I was at a good crossbit box, which is you know, that's kind of debatable, I guess is when people are in a bad spot, it can be dangerous. But it was in a good spot that got good training. Started doing dead lifts and back squats and that kind of stuff that made your body really strong, and I haven't had an injury since like seven years later. It's amazing. Um, I do it

every day. I love it. I was as a professional athlete would train, but now I still trained as much more than I ever did, And that you're right, Um, I love that you train at home, especially now. I always encourage people like have some sort of at least a minimal I get the idea of wanting to go to a gym for community and inspiration and stuff like that,

but it's also super convenient. You're married, you have three kids, you know, working dad, Like, it's also super convenient just to head out to the graduate hit an hour of something if you have it right there. So um, dude, I'm gonna get together and throw down. Yeah, let's do it, man,

let's do it. You know, honestly, Brooks, I don't think enough people are talking about during COVID, like to take care of your body, get enough sleep, you put better food in your body, you know, like we've got to be taking care of ourselves and build that immune system. And I don't know why, you know, a lot more people aren't talking about this. Yeah, I don't know either, man.

It's unfortunately health gets pushed down the totem pole. And I assume so even more when people get married and have kids, you know, they sacrifice their own health for it. But you need to be around. You want to be able to lift grandkids and great grandkids. You need to be around. I did a post the other day on my Instagram talking how everybody, regardless of your twenty years old or eighty years old, should dead left right right.

If you're an eighty year old grandpa, I want to be able to pick band over and pick my grandkid off the ground and pick them up. That's essentially and right, you know what I mean. So I think there's so much I love that you're into it. When did you find fitness? Like did you just find it recently. You said you started doing CrossFit seven years ago, but has it always been a part of your life. Uh No, not at all. When I was a little tiny guy in Uh yeah, I joke about this because in high school, Um,

I was like punked around a lot. I was like a hundred pounds in high school and bullied quite a bit. Like like I mean, I got like a bunch of stories like just getting punched in the face by cowboys and rednecks and the wrestling team and the rodeo team, and oh man, I could go on like good, good times, a lot of character building. Man, I was blessed. And then uh and then I go on to college that I gained like eighty pounds and I grew four more inches and and then again into acting and then I

play the bullies on TV. And now everybody says, oh, I know I knew guys like you in high school. Man, Now trust me, that was not me. That was not me. I was the guy getting a hit. So there's just there's just no justice, you know. But I got into it much later in life. I just I don't know, I don't I don't know why it wasn't I got maybe because it was small and or the sports I was doing weren't really into I was playing soccer and scheme, so it's not like a big wait gym sports necessarily.

How have you found how have you found discovering this passion for like fitness and health. How have you found that that's impacted your life as a in career wise? But then also like obviously it's allowed you to play certain roles as a bully, right, It's like being a strong man allows you to pay a bully. But but

what about just in your overall general life? How have you found that how have you prioritized health, especially with a wife and three kids and a job, Like, I don't know, just what's what's your dance with I'm always curious to see how people what their relationship is with with physical fitness and health. Yeah. Well, I'm really a really strong belief that it's got to be a habit and it's got to be a routine. And from nine of us that means morning. It's got to be a

part of your morning routine. Otherwise it's just like if I don't do in the morning, it's like, you know, probably chance I won't do it at all during the day. It just just too complicated during the day. So I always encourage people find a routine, find system that works. Now for me, like I get up real early with my kids to do the kind of the the uh the routine of making breakfast and taking multiple shifts, drives

to school to drop off kids. But my last kid, um goes to Burbank High School, and uh, when I dropped him off, I'm a block away from my gym, so I can literally go. You know, I'm dressed, I'm ready to go. I've taken on my you know, you know morning routine, you know waters and you know nutrition. So I go drop him off and go straight to the gym. And if it's not a habit, and if it's not like that, forget about it. Yeah, So that's

for me, that's the only way. Like you you have a you have a you must have a routine, right, if you're consistent, you have Yeah. And and morning is the best time. Um, we would train for support for professional hockey, we would train in the morning. That was the main practice and workout time. Also, just from a from a scientific standpoint, you have the highest amount of testerone testosterone present in your body early in the morning, and as it goes on, your testosterone and your metabolism

slowed down as the day progresses. So if you're to workout in the morning, you will get the maximum benefit possible from that workout because your body is rested, you slept last night, you're rested, you have the highest testosterone levels, your metabolic rate as as high as it can be right there, so you're getting the best benefits of working out in the morning. Side, I'm always prioritized in the

work in the morning. Before I came on this call with you right now, took my dog for a three and a half mile trail run just out the mountains here in Utah. Do this all and then I'll go into the gym here around noon or so a little afternoon go do afternoon workout. But yeah, a big part of my life, and I find it also makes me

more creative. I find when I work out in the morning, I'm I got more energy, I'm more creative, I'm more inspired mentally, I'm sharper, and I actually have my best ideas and solve my biggest problems when working out without even paying attention to them. Right, No, it does. It fires off so much good stuff, and there's so much science and chemicals and all you know, all the all

the good good stuff. You're fired off now if I if I don't work out, I have a hard time kind of getting into a creative space or or performing at my best afterwards. Like I feel like like now I've I've gone so far as to say, like what what's the most important part of my life? What are the most important goals or or the hardest um things I'm trying to accomplish, And let me just schedule those to follow my gym workout. Because I come out to the gym, Man, I feel great. I'm like I'm on fire.

I've got a great attitude, you know, I'm I'm more passionate, more positive, like I'm ready to go. So I'm totally addictive to that. I love what you're saying there because I'm actually on this journey myself. If I'm working on something, I'm trying to dedicate my best energy to the things that are most important in my life. Yes, and I'm paying attention to that right now. And so that's foundly,

that's connection. That's people like instead of just waking up and doing emails and doing work and doing whatever, and then at like five o'clock, then trying to fit in fitness and then trying to fit in playtime with your kids or something. Right when like you're mentally drained, you're tired, Like now you're giving your you know, the what's left over in your talk that are right important in your life.

So i'm i'm I'm even like playing around with lifestyle optimization with how can my morning when my best energy my morning and early afternoon, my best energy be committed to the things that are most important in my life, like health and fitness, like connection with my dog, the creative development stuff that I'm working on, and also um

friends and people in that time as well. You know, well, you know, you bring up something that's the really interesting is is that you know, a lot of us are fortunate enough to be able to control our schedule, and then sometimes we're not. And most parents, I think, you know, you think about your routine, like the kids go off and they get spent during the day. You go to work and you get spent during the day, and now you're showing up to connect with the people that matter

the most of your life. When you're done, you're spent, and it's like that. Now that's now you're talking about master level. You gotta you gotta come up with a new game, a new strategy. How could you be your absolute best for the people that matter the absolute most when you're when you're done. So we have a list of questions that listeners sent in and stuff that they want to ask. You want to get your expertise. All right, I love flattered people said questions and thanks guys. Here's one.

What are the three to five most important things in your life right now? You know, just a piggyback of the conversation we're having, this question is what are the three to five most important things in your life at this moment? Oh jeez, well, I guess you know. The easy answer, without even having to think about is is uh it all wrap arounds. It wraps around my family. So um my family, uh my my nuclear family, the

ones that live under my roof. Uh. You know, I'm blessed to have an incredible wife that I've been married too for coming up on twenty one yeyears, which in Hollywood that's like four years. I know, that's like it's crazy. And then three kids, all redheads, which is like, you know, that's a whole another challenge, A bunch of firecrackers running around here. Um, and so I got those guys, I've got a lot of uh, I got a lot of other you know, siblings, and we got the Johnson is

a big FAM's a big clan. Then the Livelies are a huge clan. So I've got a lot of uh, a lot of depth and a lot of love and a lot of real important stuff. So um, that's I mean, that's first and foremost. UM, I spent you know, it's funny Brooks is. Um you know, I played. I played the coach. Everybody calls me coach. So that went on for five years. But spend fourteen years of my life. Now I walked down the street, people roll down the window,

Hey coach, I'm you know what, you know, what's up? Wildcats? You know whatever. But um, also, uh, let's see, fourteen years ago I started coaching soccer. So I've coached all of my kids soccer teams every year, all three of them, uh, since they turned five. So so i'll because it's all I do with my time. So I spent a lot

of time coaching. So now when I walk down the street, someone else, hey coach, I'm like, I have to go, Okay, is this one of my one of my one of my boys, one of my one of my girls, when of my you know, someone from one of my teams or is it you know, one of my wildcats or and really it's all the same, you know, I treat them all the same. And and I love my church. But it's like my life has become a coach. Like

I'm a coach, man, that's just what I do. And I've I've kind of realized these last couple of years that like, I really like that. Man, I like that. Um, I like because I've always had this this uh this take on coaching Brooks is that and I know you know this as an athlete is like a team sport is just a wealth of opportunity and life lessons for these kids. Man. But here's the challenge. Most coaches are

not taking advantage of that opportunity. So if if you're on a team like Okay, You're gonna learn a lot about life, You're gonna learn a lot about relationships, You're gonna learn a lot about yourself being on a team sport.

But man, if you have a coach that's around that can grab and seize onto all these opportunities and say, guys, listen, listen, you know how you feel right now, Well, we're gonna overcome this field you know whatever, you know, whatever life challenging that without getting into you know, too many specifics, Like there's unbelievable countless amount of opportunities if the coach will just point them out and say, look at look

at this opportunity to grow. Look, we're gonna overcome this challenge. Like, guys, this is like life. You're not gonna win all the time, but you can still enjoy the game without winning all the time, you know, like all these different opportunities. So I get I get hyped on that, Like I I find that incredibly fulfilling. And then I could now learn these skills I can apply to my own kids at

home and different tuoty So now they're learning. I get to be an influence on like a whole variety of kids in the community, and it's just like, it's unbelievably fulfilling. So now when people say to me, what's the more most important to your life? Are like, you know, the

best things in life are free, you know. I started thinking about that kind of stuff and I'm like, man, being having a kid has has opened the door to service to me and and what I've done now that kids probably not because how do you know, But then you start spending this time as a coach and serving the community and serving these people, and then you're you know, you're getting rewarded by the parents and they're you know, they're so kind and so sweet to you. But that's

that's you know, that's just gravy. The real meat of it is like these kids, like seeing these kids being affected by the way you're you're touching your lives and like it's just I've just I've absolutely loved it. It's it's it's incredibly fulfilling and definitely the most important part of my life with with my pome family. Dude, you

got me so fired up. You want me so my one of my best friends, Christie Sowan, plays on this soccert They have an adult league soccer team called the Salmon Rolls and they've won the league championship twice and she always gets me to try and play. She's like, Brooks, come play with the Samuel in a viewer just like watching you guys play, and like, um, it's fun to be a spectator because my whole life I've played. But listen to you talk here, coach, you got me fired up.

I'm thinking I might get the famine roles, play some soccer. I might get you come in as a guest coach, you know, and UM, so you might have just come in there. Let's do it. Um, But I also want to give you a compliment. I think you're ahead of your time. Something that's going on right now in professional sports is the coaching and professional sports and professional hockey that I've seen anyway. Um, they're starting to coach the person, not the player. So they're spending so much more time

and resources on developing characteristics of the human being. Meanwhile also developing their physical talents and abilities, because what they would see is you'd see these amazingly talented athletes, these guys with world class skills and talents that all of a sudden would forget how to use them, or they would fail at high stress, high pressure moments. And it was it was the study of why is this happening?

Why is this person so equipped with these physical abilities that all of a sudden freeze and they can't use them. Is because there's some sort of character flaw, there's some sort of lack of confidence or belief in themselves or lack of resilience or whatever it is, or trust in

a teammate. And so they've really started to work with athletes off the ice, away from the rink, sports psychologists, therapists, anybody to help them develop and become better young men and women, and that alone has transferred into more preferensive proficiency in their athletic performance. So I love the fact that you're saying there's opportunities everywhere for an invested coach to really shape and sculpt these young minds and these

attitudes and perspectives that alone will make them better soccer players. Yes, yeah, I love that. Man. That's that's super interesting, and it's you're a hundred percent right on your perspective. Like I've seen that, I know, Like that really resonates with me because you see the mental game on even the best of athletes, like the very best you know you have, you know, sometimes you have like one to three, like

real key players that really can affect the whole team. Um, and you see them sometimes they just they get in their their own head and even at a young age, these young kids. I mean over time, like ten, eleven, twelve years old, even they struggle with this mental game and they feel the pressure of the team and they you know, they they they're really hard on themselves and they make it really personally. It's like, oh, man, so many opportunities to build that strong mental game. I love it. Man,

you're a modern day coach. That's why you're the coach. I love it. I love it. Here. Okay, here's one. Here's one from a listener. Um Bart, what is the best parenting advice you could give to parents during COVID. Oh that's a good one. Um. You know, I really feel like, uh, you know, I get a lot of people, um on my I've been doing Instagram lives and I've been doing this We're all in this together Tuesday where it's like I'm dedicated to reaching out to my wildcats, Like, hey, look,

I know I got I allow wildcats out there. You need something for me here I am. I'm here to serve. I mean, you know, you want to ask me questions? Okay, you probably don't, you probably you know, Usually they're like I I gotta tell us some you know, insights on the movies. Whatever. Okay, sure, whatever you want. I'm I'm just here to entertain to like show you that I care about you, I love you,

like let's get through this time and everything else. At the same time, there's people out there that are hungry or maybe they're gonna look at this opportunity to grow, and I think the um you know, a lot of people are send this message of like if you're not growing during this pandemic, if you're not stepping up your game problem, And it's like, okay, yeah, not everybody's in that position, though. Some people are just trying to survive. Man,

So it's like you gotta reckons. There's a whole variety of people in a variety of different positions. But some people that is what I tell my tell my people. I say, guys, listen, we're wildcats. Now we've got that strong mental game. We gotta look for opportunities, Like let's let's look for opportunities if it's just an opportunity to like dig out our our sense of gratitude. Like let's think about, man, we used to go to our friend's house anytime we want it without any sort of cost

involved or risk. We used to go to the store and go to several of and a by slurpee and like not think anything of it, like the small, tiny little things like can we reevaluate can we like re envision those things as like gifts instead of just like nonsense, just no wise or whatever, Like can we look at those and say, man, those are those are gifts? Man, those are like we have the ability to through all these little things with no thought involved. And there, let's

maybe we can fill up our sense of gratitude. Man, maybe we could dig deep and say, look, we're not only way alive and above ground and surviving, but like we get to do we get to go to the bar anytime we want, you know, like that's amazing, that's amazing. And then for some of us, like, hey, let's let's work on that mental game. Man, let's work. We got that strong mental game, let's let's exercise it. Let's get stronger.

And and uh and this so I tell people, is uh uh this great quote, this great quote that I heard from my dad, and it was stand guard the portal full of your mind. You didn't coin the phrase, he just told me the phrase standard the portal of your mind. And I love that. And it's like, okay, what does that? What does that mean? Stay and guard the portal of your mind? Okay, well you you stand guard. It's it's your job. You decide what goes in your mind and what stays in them. You let fear go in.

You're gonna let doubt, you know, let insecurities, you let negativity. Hey man, that's up to you. You stay and guard and if it sneaks in, it's your job to get it out. So like, let's stay positive, Let's stay like, let's stay you only let things in your mind that are proactive, so uh or empowering you know, that are gonna empower you. And that's like to me, that's that's the goal. And now I don't even remember the original questions. I love what you're saying. So dude, you got me

fired up, Like you have me so fired up. I'm like, what did this guy do this morning that he's just peak energy right now at the time of this phone call. But you've got me You could be an inspiration so speaker, you already aren't in so many ways, but like you could do a tour on it, because you've got me fired up in ten minutes that I've talked to you. But so for you and I, because I believe I'm very good at standing guard the portal of my mind

as well, and you are as well. For you and I, maybe it comes natural, Maybe we've developed it over time. Your father taught you about it. What about for somebody that's just hearing this, What about for somebody's in our community that's listening to saying I'm overwhelmed with with like struggle and insecurity and fear on COVID and like uncertainty in my life, Like all of this is consuming my mind. Because that's really that's happening to a lot of people.

A lot of people are very anxious right now. How can we kind of, step by step in a little way give them something like stand guard the portal of your mind. But what else can we teach them or tell them to do right now to get some control back. Yeah, that's a it's a great question, because you're right, everybody's in a different place on different levels and has different variety of challenges and things like that. I think gratitude

is the key man. Gratitude is the key. Um. We are in control of what we focus on, we're on, We're in control of what we look at where we where we put our eyes, where we put our focus or focus goes energy flows. You know what are we gonna stare at what? Well? You are gonna look at our family? Are we gonna look at what's missing? A We're gonna look at our you know, our ore dwindling bank account. We're gonna look at like hey, I'm above ground,

I'm standing you know, I'm standing there. I'm in control. I can I make the choices in my life. Were in a free country where we can go do whatever we want to do. Like, there's so many things to be grateful for, and honestly, I think it's a wonderful time to reevaluate family and friends. Those things are those

are the things that won't fail you, you know. I mean, sure you'll have challenges and and and uh it might feel like fail sious at times, but man, if you can reevaluate like the fact that you have a family, or like if you have damage relationships, go fix those relationships, like you know, nurture them, you know, um grow them, and you know if they're there and they're weak, you know, Brooks, I know talking to an athlete, like I know you get this, but I love the analogy of the gym

because it's so visual and it's like, okay, you walk in the gym and your biceps week, what are you gonna do a bunch of these well, okay, yeah, you're a bunch of those is gonna grow. You put some pressure on there, you make it hard, you make it difficult to pull that on. Okay, now you're gonna have a lot more growth. So how off to do that every stinking day? Man? You can't. You don't work out once a month or once a year. Every day work

on that little muscle. So if you have a little if you have a tiny little bit of gratitude, that's okay. Just recognize what you're at. If you have a tiny little bit of effort of like controlling my my always go to negative, always go to insecurities, always go to things that make me feel like junk. Okay, that's okay. Just work that muscle. Man, Let's start working in that muscle. What can you do a little more focus? Hey, here's an idea, here's an do you can do right now.

Pull out a book, a little little writing tablet, get a pen, start a timer, and no joke, just like as an exercise, hit ten minutes and don't stop writing right ten minutes of everything you're grateful for, and try to come up with stuff you haven't thought out of and challenge yourself and say like, okay, then here's something I haven't thought of it it in a few years. You know what, here's another idea, and you write this whole thing and just like you know, stream of conscious you

let your let your mind like flow. Maybe do it with a friend that you trust, and then you can compare notes like oh, that's a good idea. You know what I'm gonna do. And that's like okay, now you're controlling your mind. Now, maybe this visceral sort of you know idea of directing your focus is maybe a little hard to comprehend. So how do we how do a real practical purpose? There's an idea. Just write it down, man,

let your mind go there. Now, all of a sudden, you're writing, you're writing, your your mind's going there, your focus, you're reading. So there's all these different senses that are being engaged and it's like boom, now you're controlling your focus. I love it. I love gratitude. I love that you went to gratitude. Um because it's it's a big part of my life. And when I I kind of have

a couple of pillars in my life. And one of the pillars in my life that when I noticed that my when I start feeling overwhelmed or angry or like anxious or something, the first thing that dissipates in my life is my gratitude. Right, That's the first thing that dissipates where I'm like, wow, I I still have love present in my life. I still have like these other characteristics present my life, but like gratitude is not president

of my life. And you know what, when I'm actually most grateful, I'm actually my most grateful self during and after workouts. I used I used to have this thing where when I work out at Have you ever been

to Brick CrossFit in West Hollywood. Yeah, So outside of Brick there was this big dumpster and I had this thing where this one summer I was training there for to play hockey, and every day that I came out of there, if I ever saw a homeless person like culling through the dumpster, I would give them the top bill in my wallet, whatever it was where there was a twenty, whether it was a hundred, whether it was a one five, whatever it was, that was my thing

because I walked out of the gym just feeling immense gratitude, and I'd see this person like, I want to give them the top bill, and I wouldn't even look at it. I just give it to them. I love that. I feel so alive and so gratitude is so important in my life and keeping it a focus and you, like you said, actively working on it, getting touches on it daily to strengthen that muscle, and then it will become

more and more prominent. And likewise, it's extremely hard to hang out and be friends with somebody who is not grateful, right because everything album it is. I honestly I struggle with that because I've got some friends, I've got a friend circle that I honor and cherish and so grateful for these guys. But not all of them are really positive, you know, some of them are really kind of bad at it, And I'm like, oh man, not not not that.

I mean collectively, really solid characters and really good people. So I feel really good about that aspect, you know, But I think you have to to your point, you have to be cognisation of that you have to be aware of that. Yeah, okay, here's another question for you, buddy. I really like this one. So um, I don't know if you can get your brain there. Actually you probably would. This is a little vacation for your brain right here. Okay, all right, So, um, you have one day completely to yourself.

So no obligations to your wife, no obligations your kids, dogs, responsibility, work, anything like that. You have no obligations today. You have one day. What do you do? How do you spend your day? Whosh? Man? Well is it? I mean, is it cheating to say I would go with my kids? Like I? Uh? This last summer we spent a month in coast Rica surfing and where was my invite bar

to come on down? I'm trying to do this. It was my goal in life to figure out how to go for one month with my kids to somewhere every summer and just spend a month in a different country so you kind of get a little you know, experience of the world, and you know what, way more affordable than people think it is. I mean, it sounds crazy, but you start doing the math, it's totally doable. Um. Luckily I have a job that's that allows me to

you know, the flexibility on that too. So uh. But man, I'll tell you, waking up in the morning on a on I was like a tropical beach somewhere where people are speaking of foreign language. It's foreign food. Uh, it's beautiful, it's warm water, there's an amazing surf, and you're there with your kids, and I see, Man, I'll tell you, there's this one image I still have burned in my mind of sitting on a big thing that we love is watching the sunset in the water. So I just

love it. And I remember watching one of my kids catch this wave right next to me, and he took off on the wave and he just like ripped underneath this this lip and it was like the first time I saw him really carve away. And I was like, that's it, that's it, this moment right here, my gosh. And and I do this thing with my kids and I can't believe they let me do this. But when like the sunsetting got you know, everyone wants to maybe once or twice in summer else, guy's, guys, gather, look

at this moment, look at this. Let's just stop. Let's just stop right now, just like do me. Favorite I want you to remember this all summer, and then they end up we we can recount the once in the last several years. I'm like, look at this moment where we're having around, like how special this Like we're together, we're in this really cool place we're having like isn't

this an amazing moment? And then all well and they do and they stop and they look around like yeah, this this pretty epic and they're just like just like, oh, fills me up, it feels me. It's amazing. It's amazing, dude. I love I love that. The question was what would you do with your day if you had no obligations? You said, and then you told the family story of going to Costa Rica, Like it just it just resent how much you I love you, man, I love you.

I love how much you love your family and how how it's You're not just saying family is important, but like you can see it. Our listeners can't see it, but I can see it in your eyes. I can see it in your body. You're not sitting in a chair, You're moving all around the room. Your arms are going like I just love I love that you love the family and that you build your life like that, UM,

and I have too. I have two friends, Garrett and Jessica g that are very much like you, very much involved in their kids lives, and they do something really cool with their kids. At the end of every day when they have us sit around and have a supper together, UM, they'll ask their kids what was your favorite part of today? You know, and then then the kid has a chance to say, oh, dad, do you remember that time when we we caught that wave together and we did that

was my favorite part of the day. And it's just a daily little touch on gratitude and you do it with the sunsets with your kids stuff like like I just I love I love hearing how families spend time together and how you create that family bond between father uh and kids, his son or daughter, whatever it is. So I commend you man. I Also I also have been thinking about this. Give me your thoughts on this

because you touched on it. I've been thinking about one month a year, spending it in a new country every year, so that for one month a year, like say I was in Hawaii, I could scuba dive every day, so it was in Costa Rica, I could surf every day. Say I was in Switzerland like a downhill ski every day. So if I did this, even if you did this for a decade, you would get so proficient at so

many different skills. Yes, you know what I mean immersion, man, Yes, I think it's a great idea and you can work on the language of whatever country you're in. It's it's unbelievable. I think it's a I think it's I mean, hey, man, if you have the ability to do it, I'd say jump on it. Have you done anything else like that other than Costa Rica for a month? If you done anything else for a month of real immersion with your

kids and families? We did well. Probably my favorite was we did a road trip through Italy for a month and that where that was incredible. That was incredible. We started, uh, we started up north and like Dolomite Mountains and we went all the way down to the Mfi coast and like, oh man, it was yeah. We saw you know, Venice and Rome and Tuittera and like you know, like so many different makes places and like the kids got to see.

You know. The thing is, if you're there long enough, like we went to this little town Nazza and Chiquitarts probably my favorite town, one of my favorites and all of it. Small town and the kids play soccer on the beach there. So my wife and I were, you know, like trying to get our kids to get involved and start speaking Italian with the locals. And so sure enough, over time we were there long enough. Like the local little I'm talking of young kids, you know, Tan Lemon twelve,

they don't play soccer with the tourists. You know, they're got, they're they're they're not a you know, they're not a side show. They're like, this is their life. And so but we were there long enough, they're like, okay, you guys can come play. And so my kids would go play, and my wife and I would eat dinner, the sun setting over the ocean, the waves to come at the boats and everything, and I'm like I'm watching them. I'm watching my kids start to yell at words in Italian.

I'm like, oh my gosh, great moment. I was amazing this kid, Brando. I still remember, like everybody, Sean Duca, remember all these kids that are from this little town. Is as you were able to pull like some some coaching a couple of minut it's a coaching over there kids. You know. Unfortunately my Italian stinks. As much as I would like to be able to do that, man, I'm

working on it though, Dude, I love it. I'm immerged I I'd love to Like I'm gonna I'm gonna steal your idea there taking like when I have kids, taking them for a month somewhere somewhere, like I love different languages, different cultures, somewhere where you're just completely out of your comfort zone, out of your element. I love that you do that, and then you please do and let's let's

stay in touch and talk about that. For me, I found that if you could do it on a coastal city is the best because they if you're trying to do your work and trying to do some other stuff, it's like those kids are like being on the then you don't, you know, as opposed to like being in tuscany where. It's like, okay, I gotta kind of entertain these kids. Yeah, um, I love it, brother, We're gonna find friends. I'm gonna apply myself for adoption into the

Johnson family. So come on over, man, would love to have you. We got Canadians in my family. You do, Yeah, you do. Yeah, all right, that's right, that's right. Croud Canadian from Vancouver. Yeah, I'm I'm from Saskatchewan. I'm I'm right above North Dakota. The people out on the you know, we kind of look at the people in Toronto and the people in Vancouver. They're kind of like they feel like they're above us because we live in the plans. Oh really, Oh, I don't know about that stuff. I

don't know about the dynamics. I know we go out and visit Ryan when he's doing Deadpool and stay in Vancouver kind of check it out and have gotten to know it a little bit. But it's it's been great, man, it's been awesome. He's an awesome tour guy. I've never met him, but telling I said, hi, my fellow Canadian. Much love. Yeah. Absolutely. Here's another question for you. This is a really interesting question. Did I've never been asked this, but I'm gonna ask it to you. Um, what three

words would you tell your eighteen year old self? Um, like, let it go, you got this, I'm the man. If you could, what three words would you tell your eighteen year old self? Mm hmm. Eighteen year old says, I'd probably say take risks. I think that's that's good. Make mistakes, another one makes some mistakes. UM, and uh okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna cheat on this one. And to say, uh, we regret what we don't do more than what we regret what we do. Uh. So you know that I

know that I had. I remember a couple of things that's still in the back of my mind of some kind of some big ideas I had that I didn't execute. And they're the only things that I regret about being that age. The other mistakes like oh whatever, you know, I've you know what, I've made up for other mistakes, But it's the mistakes to haunt me of the ones

that I didn't just go for it. Yeah. Mine, when I'm thinking about that question, I think I would go with I think about myself at a teen, very driven, extremely driven, UM, wanting to make the NHL, and I ended up doing it the next year turn pro I've seen UM at nineteen. Yeah, I would say get it all. That would be my three words, like like don't ever stop get it oh? Oh three word? Oh I see, Yes, that's great all because that's what I wanted in my

athletic career, I went after everything I wanted. I blew through fear, blew through insecurity, developed resilience, confidence, improved my role each year, you know, elevated myself, develop my skills, honed by skills, my craft, like all of it. And I would encourage people. I don't want people to think that they can't have everything in life that they want.

You know, you bust your tail for it. But I want people to be inspired to not have to say, well, I can't have a family and have the career, or I can't have the career and also have balance in my life full you get it all or work for it. The other thing that I would really stress to myself this, oh this is another thing, um, find a balance of happiness.

Uh huhn't have that so much so with get it all, with get it all, and then I'd also have like find the balance of happiness, um, because going for it all can consume you and can be toxic. So having a balance that you know, you know what Brooks you say, you bring up an interesting point that's maybe not as popular as trendy. And you know the master classes, you know, those things that pop up on your Yeah, they're great.

They're great. I was listening to the one from Seawan to Rhymes, who's amazing, Like she has like what five TV shows on on the air right now, and I think she's like an incredibly talented and driven woman. Amazing. But she says she has a real moment in that thing. And she said, look, you know, people say you could do it all. You can do it all. You can. I can have five TV shows on the air and I can raise all my kids. And she's like, and

that's that's not true. I don't know I'm paraphrasing. She's like, it's not true. If I'm servicing all of my TV shows, I'm failing at home. If I'm serving my family what they need, I'm failing my TV shows. And I said, mad respect for her to admit that, like you can't have a countless amounts of businesses or whatever else and also spend all the time in really nurturing your your young family. You gotta you gotta sort that out, man,

you gotta figure that out. So to your last phrase, like finding that balance is a is a science and an art form. I think I agree with that. So people always say, like we get asked, and I'd like to ask you about this. Get asked about work life balance. People always say, what is that's the golden ticket, right, work life balance? And I always say, it's not a balance, it's like an integration. And it's the way I describe it as like a teeter totterer. You know what a a

teeter totter is? Your kids probably the yea yeah. And it's like sometimes you're you're gonna be like way up, You're gonna be filled with a lot of like family time, and then it's gonna be like, Okay, it's going back down. I gotta do more work, and then it's gonna I've I've invested a lot in work and I want to go back to family time. So people are looking for this like perfect balance where the teeter totter just sits right there, and I've never been able to do that.

I've been like, I'm all in on family, and then I'm like, okay, I've been really inspired right now a couple of days, and I'm gonna go all in on work and then back all in on family meanwhile not neglecting one or the other. I've been able to find that balance, but it's okay to have a little rock like that versus just have to have it be flat and balanced. That's how it works. I like that. I

like that analogy. I think that's really really smart. I think the key is understanding that this is the goal, like flat is the goal and a little ride is fun, and most people in life are not cognizant of that, and they're just you know, like, how many people are you know, unfortunately in society today, you know, are really sort of taught and encourage that it's like money, career, business and that's the ultimate and like kids are like, you know, not that secondary. And I and I of

course mean probably personally totally disagree. You're gonna find all your love, film and habits, joy in the family. But you really want, you know, it's it's good to have all this other stuff and and to support your family into you know, thriving the community and that kind of stuff. So I'm with you, man, get that little that fun, the fun ride and the team. Yeah you need some sway in there. That's fun. But yeah, the violence rocking back and forth is no good. That's gonna throw all

the kids off part. I want to Here's another question from a listener. Um, you've you've spoke so much already to show up about your family. Uh, and briefly you mentioned your wife, Robin. Um, she's also a very talented actress. But here's the question, how did you know Robin was the one for you? We get asked that a lot. How do you know that your significant other is the one? Well, this is a funny story. Sorry, it's a long story, so I'm just gonna tell you a real, really short

version of it. But um, she walked in to a room and I saw her from afar and said, I'm gonna marry that woman. And I've never done it before in my life. I know it's kind of warning cliche and everything, but it's totally true. Man. I did a movie called Me Familiar with her dad. He ended up giving me a job. Ernie Lively as at his acting studio.

I was teaching acting classes from Blake. Lively was in the class and one day incomes Robin Lively and I saw her and I just saw that the energy about her and just the way she spoke to people, and I said, that's her. I'm gonna marry her. And I told my parents, I told all my friends. He became like a big joke because she had a boyfriend at the time and I had to watch it. It was

very painful. And uh, years later, years later, we've started taking Yeah it's a great story, and uh I've been a curse to right a movie about it because it's so painful. Man, I went through it, but I knew it. I just felt it. I knew it. I hung in their persistence a lot of humility and U yeah, I know that's not really great practical advice for anybody, but man, when you know, you know, and she was just such a good person. She had such great fun energy and

it just so that's what lets her get married. Say they're like, when you know you know, and people that are single, they're like, yeah, that sounds like a bunch of made up stuff, Um, but it is true, Like it's it is the truest thing you could say. Um, So you knew then, and then it was until a couple of years later that you actually started dating. And that whole time you still believe that and still knew that. Well.

I definitely had moments of doubt and fear and heartbreak and a lot of a lot of humility because she broke up with one boyfriend and got another boyfriend. I was like, oh I thought I was in line, but I wasn't apparently, so uh, you know, I was going through that approach of like, okay, all right, all right, these type of girls, they they're never single, they're never just hang out single. So I'll develop the friendship, get

that nice foundation of you know. That's what they say, right, That's what they say is like all great relationship starts with good solid friendship. Okay, all right, I'm taking that route and and hanging in there and and uh yeah it's it's ah. It was full of ups and downs for sure. Yeah. You know what a friend once told me, You can tell if a relationship is alive and going to make it by how a person tells a story about how they met. And so that's interesting being the

life in your eyes. Seeing like when I asked you that question, you get excited, like, oh it's a lot, it's a long story. I try to make sure, but like like instant energy, which still means you're invested and

just completely madly in love. So um. I always remembered that when somebody told me that, I was like, that's a really because it is It's a really good barometer when you ask somebody when they met the love of their life, if they tell it with enthusiasm or if they just like kind of wow, you know, well, I gotta say, man, I'm kind of blown away with that perspective. I think that's very interesting and and dead on. I'm sure. Yeah, try it with somebody, Try it with somebody in your life, like,

just ask that question. Or could be new, could be old, you know, like sometimes like if you have sometimes you ask grandparents like how did you meet Grandma? And then they light up there like oh, and they'd like want you to sit there, glory. It means that the married fifty years, they're still in love, you know. Answer so super like that. Um, Okay, here's another one. Here's another question. So um, it's kind of it's I'm trying to relate

it to what you went through but also current. So um. Anyway, here's the question from the listener. Do guys like chatting on the phone with their friend or significant other? And what amount of time can a guy tolerate on the phone. So I'm guessing this comes from a female, you know, So do you like as a guy, do you like, like say, when you met Robin, did you like chatting on the phone? How long was long enough? How long was interesting? How can we help this lady out with

it's asking this question? Well, I guess, yeah, I guess like during those early stages of relationship, you could just sit on the phone for a long time. You know. What's funny. I was just thinking about, like, what are my habits because I have a lot of friends that are that live out of state around the country, and I'll put on a headset and do stuff while I talked to him. You know, I put on my my my headsets and and go work out or go you know,

do stuff in the yard or whatever. And like I could talk for you know, an hour to a buddy, but not not holding still so much. You know, I don't know what that is. I'm gonna have to explore that a little bit, but it does seem like in a relationship, like early phases, early stages of the relationship,

that yeah, I think I did. I think I really like talking to people though in general, so uh, I know, for me, I think I think Robin and I. She was shooting a show called Savannah for Aaron Spelling down in Georgia, at the time when we first started dating, we used to talk. You just talked for a long time. So I I personally like, when you meet that person,

I love talking to them. Yeah, like I traditionally and I don't talk on the phone that much, but when you meet the person that you're invested in in love with, like, yeah, I actually I would. I would not even phone. I would face time every single time face and every times

I could talk on the phone. Times we'd fall asleep basically talking on the phone because uh, just and then be other times you can talk for like three hours and just be still so excited and want to talk more, and you're like, I actually gotta go where I need

to be a lost track of time. But um, I loved it personally, I loved it because when you meet that that special somebody and you're so invested in them, it's so exciting and you just can't wait to hear what's coming out of their mouth and discover that person as well. Asking question, you're you're you're right, and you're you're kind of taking me down memory lane. It's been a couple of years since then, but I do recall being on the phone for hours and sometimes it's like,

you know, what do you think about this? Or what's your person? What are your favorite movie? And then sometimes it's like nothing at all, like where did you eat today? You know? Yeah, like these things that don't matter at all. It's just interesting and fascinating. But now I'm not But I got you got me thinking brooks of like do

I have a different habit? What was it? Talk to my significant other, you know, Mike, because like I need a multitask, and I'm talking to my homies even though I love them and I love talking to him, but I feel like I gotta be you're moving my body in some sort of mindless task or something. But when I talk to my wife, I don't really do that. You know, I don't think I'm gonna I'm gonna analyze this. Yeah,

it's interesting, Yeah, it's interesting. Um. I'm usually I usually have if I'm talking to buddy, You're right, I'll usually have like speaker phone or whatever, something going on and just kind of fiddling with something whatever I'm talking to, Uh, somebody I'm really invested in. You're probably like more present, but I should, as a better friend, be more present when talking about right, right, Yeah, same Okay, but I gotta rapid fire a couple of questions that because we

still have like a ton of questions for a coach. Um, but I'm gonna rapid fire a couple of questions at you. So keep your answers to maybe two to three sentences. Okay, okay. Best meals someone can prepare for you anything on a barbecue, open fire, steak, ribs, sausage, yes, yes, yes, burgers like literally Francis moment if you know him, like he cooks everything over big open fire Argentine chef. Any like I just love that char the smoke, barbecue. I need that

kind of stuff. Oh yeah, even if it's fruit vegetables on a grill, just grill yep. Got you? Okay, when did I agree with you on everything you just said? Um? Next question? When in a grouchy mood, what's the best advice you would give your significant other? Would you say, leave me alone, go cook me something? What would you These are examples that when you're in a what's the best advice you could give? Robin? Probably leave me alone.

Probably let me go sort out my feeling in my emotions, and then I got to be responsible enough to change my biochemistry, you know, And I always telling my kids, like my kids really cranky. I'm like, go eat a piece of chocolate. Let's have some ice cream and then focus your attention somewhere and like, you know, it's like, I know that sounds silly. Oh you're in a bad mood. Let me give you ice cream. Science. There's some science here, you know, change the blood sugar, change their focus. Reset,

let's start over. You know, I have, um, I have friends that do this and I respect them for it. They're like, I just need a minute or two. They just step outside just to like and they go outside that just like kind of like shake this energy off of them because they know that they've been triggered by something,

that somebody is doing something to themselves. They've made something personal, they've done something like they actually instead of saying just leave me alone, go away, that's a very like go away, go away. There like a minutes by myself, you know, give me a minute. Yeah, that's probably a better way to say it instead of saying, leave me alone, give me a minute, because you're you're the one that needs to do the work right and there it is a

biochemistry again, you're walking from one environment to another. Going outside, You got some vitamint, you hit, you fill up those longs oxygen, you know, like to let's take care of ourselves, man, Like, that's the greatest skill we can possibly learn, is to switch from that negative place to a more proactive, positive place. And then they usually come in and apologize that like, I'm sorry, I just got triggered and I made it about me for a second, and I apologize, thank you

for allowing me to have that, madete. But I'm back and I'm present now, and I'm like, you are an amazing human beings. That's an awesome person. I want that. I want to be great at that skill, right, Yeah, it's a new one. Um, I'm not so good at it. You blaming a little bit more. I get out I needed to better at it. I have friends that definitely lead in that in my life. Yeah, yeah, give me a minute or like a day, made a couple of days, I'll be back. Um, okay, next question, what is your

biggest pet, Peeve? What completely just irritates you? Arrogance? I just there's something about when people are arrogant. It just drives me crazy. Um, they treat people poorly. I don't like when people get treated poor leak. I try to treat strangers, you know, with a lot of love and compassion because it just it feels good, It feels right when people I just feel like it's all comes from insecurity,

you know. And I see someone that's really arrogant, I'm like, dude, I got your number, man, you got you got something you're hiding or not feeling good about you whatever, But it's like so much mean stuff comes from it. Yeah, I love exactly what you said. I think I'm saying the same thing and maybe just saying in a different way. But people that feel like they need to be served where it's like you need to me or I don't

do that like somebody else would do. Like people where they're like they feel like they're service needs to be done to them, you know right right interest Yeah, you know they won't. They won't clean up after their dishes. Somebody else should clean that up, right, you know. They won't make any food, no where's this chef. The chef should make this, or somebody makes that for me. And I saw a lot of this in professional sports. I saw a lot of athletes just on like expecting to

be served served is an entitlement? Is that what it is? Maybe it might be you're just you're catered to, right, the team came to you, like, they'll even carry your luggage up to your room, right right. You don't have like are you kidding me? Like and so this kind of mindset just to some people, it just kind of takes over and then they just think that they're they're in this world to be served, right service. Yeah, Okay,

moving on. Tell us one thing that people can't google about, something that we don't know about, Mr Bart Johnson that we will not find on Google. Oh jeez, oh my gosh, you stump me. Uh, I could find everything, right, I'm special talents hidden, hidden talents special like um, things you really like or enjoy, maybe like classical piano music I don't know, like something I'm a singer. What no one knows that. Nobody knows that. And it's funny because I got this music and and I'm a dancer, said so

I started a musical dance theater. Nobody knows that. And so when I got this musical franchise, right, I'm like, oh,

finally in a musical. And I had a number. I had a song, and a dance in this I was gonna do it a duet with my nemesis, Ms Darbys, you evil Miss Darbys, and Disney cut it because they said they didn't want to see old people dancing, so so they left the teenagers dance and I sat there man the whole movie, all these movies, I'm like, man, half these guys don't sing or dance, and like I actually sing and dance, and I gotta stand here. I watched them do this, so it kind of it kind

of killed me. It's kind of like goes back to my what I'm saying earlier about about high school, like I have this, you know, like people have this perception of me being this big old bully or like big old like sports guy. Now that you know I'm the coach, Like that's not I did musical dance theater my entire time in high school and got beat up for it, you know, and it's like, now I'm that really thinks I'm just a bully. What a gift to have. I

think singing is beautiful. I think dancing is just like insanely beautiful. Both are just like I'm not proficient at either. I've never dedicated time to develop either one, but I have such an admiration from both. H Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's great. I do love it. I've been thinking about doing a little uh on TikTok for quarantine. I'm like, Okay, everybody's saying I'll do this for you know again, it was like, I'm doing this for my wildcats. I'm doing

it for my my people out there. And then what crazy? They got fifty million of views on this on my first video. It was like, okay, So I've been thinking about doing like busting out a little song because I think people would get a kick out of coaching. Do it, man, I get your kids involved, Like, um, I think it'd be so cool. I've never done a TikTok. Actually I did one TikTok, but um, if I had kids, for sure, i'd be. I love seeing dad's see Mario Lopez do it.

He's done some um Jessica, but does a bunch of their kids stuff like that? Like you see a bunch of people doing TikTok's with their kids, I think it's just um okay. Next question, Um, this is a relationship one. Should you never go to bed angry or sleep on it? And talk it out in the morning. Oh, I gotta

I gotta mixed feelings about that one. I think I think maybe a hybrid maybe, you know, like you don't want to go if you could somehow work again, work on that muscle, man, work on that muscle of like you never uh, you never want to get to a certain level. Like I here's a here's a piece of relationship advice I have for everybody. Don't ever talk about divorce. Don't. That's that's irresponsible. But people do that because it's a it's a weapon or it's an ammunition. Right, It's like, oh, yeah,

well we wo's just get divorced. No that you can't. But that's too disrespect less, disrespects your relationship. Don't just don't go there. Just don't go there. Like there's a certain amount of respect, um you need to have for your relationship and that you don't say permanent hurtful things like that that are hard to be fact, that are going to haunt you later whatever else. So like you know, um, trying to go to bed by saying I disagree, let's let's sort it out tomorrow. But I do think like

trying to you know, look, you're tired. You've gotta get up early. There's a there's a clock, and it's like, now you've got to resolve this thing. It's sometimes it's not I don't I think it's not a good idea. So sometimes it's good to sleep it off. But maybe like a certain level of perspective, like I respect you, respect your opinion, I love you, I'm mad at you. Let's go to bed and then then deal with it in the morning. It's always interesting to ask people how

they deal with that, because every couples are different. There's no right or wrong way. People deal with it differently. Um. Yeah, but I appreciate that, dude. Okay, lastly, Um, the best pickup line you've gotten on a d M um? Have you do you get? I mean, people know you're married, but do you get pickup lines in your d m s. We're gonna do a show next week. We're gonna do a show about dating during COVID and specifically like d ms.

So I know people know that you're faithfully married and stuff, but you still do people still just drop lines in your d m s. Yeah, let's see. Uh, well, I get a lot of questions about my son, as you know, as you would. UM, a lot of people saying asking me if I'll be their sugar daddy. That's nice, that's fine. I'm not really you know, I'm not really putting it out there. You know, I don't think so. I don't

get it. I don't get as much, honestly, Like it's all in my comments, Like people are more forthcoming in my comments than Yeah, I swear man, it's it's wild. It's wild. Here's here's a couple that our producer Danielle has seen. If you're a menu and McDonald's, you'd be mc gorgeous. If I wish I could take you to the movies, but they don't let snacks in. Um. Oh man. So we're gonna do it next week. We're gonna do

a show dating during COVID. We're gonna do a show about like, how are people how are people who were single dating during this time? Are they sliding into d m s? Are they using that? How do you go about doing it? All that kind of stuff? But what would be your best advice for somebody that's single dating during this time? Oh? Gosh, come on, I mean, you know, I mean, it's pretty fun that you can look at someone social media and see what they're putting out there.

You know, you could you could kind of see like, oh they are fun, or they guarded, or they try to put out too much, you know, too much of a certain thing, or they you know. I mean I always tell people like, look, man, you've got to look at personality first. You have to, because that will never fail you. It'll be so entertaining and so fulfilling, and you have so much fun. Looks come way down the line,

they really do. And I know, like when I was in my twenties, I probably didn't think that, but I mean I was dating people that maybe I was putting looks first at some point in my life. But man, what a what a mistake, What a mistake that this. So look at your social mediacity. Who's like fun, who cracks you up, who's entertaining? And if you can make your decisions based on that, I think you're gonna be

served in the long run. I actually think the world is waking up to being able to analyze and interpret digital energy in a yeah, I totally agree, absolutely, that's well said. Yeah, you can see somebody on social media and you're like, I just have a feeling this person is like really kind, really genuine person just by what they're putting out, and then you can see somebody you can be like, I'm just off. I'm just put off by what they're putting out. There's something I don't know

what it is, but energetically there's something toxic there. And I think the world is getting a better uh compass and navigation point on, like you know, what is truthful, what is inauthentic, who's real, who's fake? That kind of stuff. I think digital energy people are really becoming more in

tune with digesting it interesting. Yeah, um yeah, okay, last question, brother is I've never asked this question on this show, but my last question it's a kind of a journey in the study that I've been on in my own personal life and asking people close to me. Um, what is your personal relationship with happiness? Happiness? Mhm boy, Um,

how does happen? What is happiness to you? Well? I guess, I you know, maybe I've spent some time differentiating between fun and joy, I guess, and like happiness could be both those things could be You're having a lot of fun. Um, But but but joy, I mean, I name it whatever you want. I guess there there's one that's much more fulfilling, and um, we'll live longer. I think in your in your soul, and I like to have fun, Like everybody

knows me. It's like that dude likes that fun. I mean, as you saw Brooks, like I got you know, I got surfboards, and I got you know, wakes boat and like you know, motorcycles. Got but I've got seven dirt bikes on my garage, like you know, like I like to have fun. Man, like I left to have fun

my kids and know that I like to have fun. Um, But also, uh, it's the more fulfillings of the more more important um is the the relationships, you know, Like the true sense of happiness and joy and fulfillment is serving. And I think that if there's one thing I've learned in my life is that pursuing something fun or thrilling is fleeting. But if you can have fun with those that you are serving, you know, we do more for our kids than we'd ever do for ourselves. And that

goes for my family too. I do more for my siblings, more for my mom, my dad arrested piece, Um, you know, I would do more for for those then I would do for myself and and and that goes to even serving in my community, you know, like you know, I've I've been a leader in the boy Scouts and youth programs and soccer and like all, you know, all this stuff and coach so much. Um, I find that so

incredibly fulfilling. So when you can marry the two and you can have your happiness and you're fun with people, you're serving, it's uh, it's rich, it's rich and it and it feels your fills your soul. Dude, I love it. Coach, I love it. You could be a coach. You are well you are a coach, but you play a coach. You are a coach. But truthfully, man, um you really you really I felt like I've been coached during this past hour. So, um, where can people find you? Bart?

Where do you hang out? Social media? Where can people find you? What are you working on? Where can people because our our community after listening to you, is definitely gonna want to find more about you. Where can they grab it? Awesome? Awesome? Um? I And on Instagram and man, I think everything, I think I have the same tag on everything and it's at Bart Underscore Johnson so um Instagram, I'm new on TikTok and make fun of me there. Um, I got a YouTube channel. I started a YouTube channel

with my family, which I need. It's it's a lot of work, man, you need an editor. I love it. I love It's so much fun. But I've got like hard drives of material. Although like these trips like this trip Daaly and Postreaca or you know wherever else and uh, I just can't. I just can't get to the editing, man, the editing. But those YouTube oh dude, it's brutal. Like, give me the camera. I can shoot stuff all day long and love it and enjoy it sitting by myself

behind a computer for a couple of days. Oh my gosh, it's rough. Yeah, you gotta pay somebody to edit that. Bro. Um. But dude, I love your mission. Man Um. I just look up to you as a man and as a husband, as a father, and I love just I wish our listeners could see the amount of joy and light envibrants in your face and your eyes speaking about your family. Um, it was wonderful to have you on my man um.

Any last words for our community, anything, anything that's gonna change their life, right now, Bart, I would just say Brooks, thank you so much and thanks for um, you know, a podcast where you talk about things that really matter in a cool way that that I think people will be able to next to him resumes, So this is this is the best interview I've ever done. And I've done this for twenty five years now, so I appreciate this very much, And thanks for directing the conversation. That's

such a fun, like productive way. And this is also I love what you're doing. Man, I'm I'm so glad I did this, so thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I think it's super powerful, uh, in this day and

age to hear men specifically and masculine men. They could be like what, but like masculine men like yourself open up and talk about how much they just love their family, how much they pour into their kids, how much they you know, how much it touches their soul, and how they cried when they saw their daughter do this, And like, I think it's so powerful for dudes, for for all

kinds of males. There's no right or wrong way to be a man, but just for masculine energy to open up and share um emotions and things that matter to their heart. And I think it's going to change the world. I really do. And and you've been a you've been a you spear your head of that here today for us, so our listeners are better for it. I'm better for it, my man. I applaud your mission if I can ever return the favor. And what are you doing? What's the

Tuesdays when you do uh wild cat Tuesday? Oh yeah, we're all in this together. Tuesdays together Tuesday? Yea, come on by. I'm gonna do a lot. Uh well, I've been doing it like five pm. But um, everybody, I got a lot a lot of wild cats out there in the UK. They want me to do it sooner. So I think I'm gonna shoot for like noon noon on Tuesdays on Tuesdays. Okay, we're all in this together. Also, last thing, my high school while my school was kindergarten

to grade twelve. So I grew up in a small town, but we were the Wildcat'll come on there, we go full circle right there. We're brothers, man, we are brothers, brothers. Coach. I appreciate you, Bart, I appreciate you, man. If I can ever serve your mission. Please let me know. Thank you to everybody that listened. Tune in this week, come back next week for an interesting conversation of dating during

COVID Bart. You're the man. Much love, stay safe, be well with your family, and to our listeners, take care of one another, love one another, and we'll see you. Back here next week for another episode at How Many Things