The Heavyweight Podcast
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The Heavyweight Podcast
Callus Hands
This episode dives into healthier lifestyles, from protein-packed meals to surprising facts about breast milk. Kevin shares his fitness journey, aiming to avoid health scares, while Moe and Stutta tackle creative goals like returning to school and post-holiday projects. With plenty of laughs, we explore quirky t-shirts, mentorship benefits, and balancing health-conscious living with the challenges of fatherhood.
Mindfulness, self-care, and resilience take the spotlight, emphasizing the power of setting boundaries and prioritizing oneself. Personal stories reveal how exercise transforms lives, while stress management techniques like boxing and walking offer therapeutic relief. Amid light-hearted banter, this episode inspires self-compassion, joy in small moments, and personal growth with a side of humor.
Welcome to the Heavyweight Podcast.
Speaker 2:The message behind saying the title of the Heavyweight Podcast is to be able to say that we can weigh in on some heavy shit. What we're talking about is important from every aspect of it. It's a heavy weight. It's not just about physical weight, but the weight of things that can weigh our minds. So I think it's dope that we can have this conversation mind. So I think it's dope that we can have this conversation. What's good? This is episode one 80 of the heavyweight podcast. I'm your anti-social host, thudder McFly, never your favorite. Back again with these two guys. And a shout out to Des you couldn't be here today. What up, lady?
Speaker 3:Go ahead and state your name for the beautiful people out it's your boy, mo Lethal. Mo Lethal, yes, sir, yeah, yeah, it's the first episode of the year. Don't start, no shit.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna start shit. That's you starting shit? I'm Kevin Wendell, since I gotta be P's and Q's.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Des. She couldn't be here. We hope we wish her the best. Yes, she's still on the podcast yeah, absolutely so don't think, don't think you can come here and take her spot.
Speaker 1:No, she's still here, straight elbow yeah who are they?
Speaker 3:who are they? They can take her spot. I'm not gonna listen on names, you know whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1:I mean, but I thought, about doing a tournament.
Speaker 3:Take her spot. I'm not going to listen to names, you know I mean but I thought about doing a tournament. Like if she y'all got to fight for it.
Speaker 2:No, yikes, no, all the thoughts of Molitha or Molitha. Okay, so how were your weeks?
Speaker 3:Christmas was good man. She, uh she got everything she asked for. She got two stanleys, uh, we bought her one and uh, her, uh, her gym friend bought her, a family bought her one. So she she's happy about that, she feels like she's fancy and we bought her. I got her that TikTok phone, like a little fake little kid's phone where she can't really do shit on it. So she thinks she's grown now because she's walking around with a Stanley and a pretend iPhone that actually cuts on and purple and gold, the purple.
Speaker 3:She has a purple and a pink one.
Speaker 2:No, but no Laker ones, no Laker ones.
Speaker 3:My wife has a Laker Stanley. I'm working on stealing that motherfucker because she don't appreciate it the way she needs to appreciate it.
Speaker 2:I don't think you should say it out loud, though she know I'm working on it.
Speaker 3:But it was cool, man. You know, I cooked Christmas dinner and now I'm just getting ready for my baby's birthday in a couple of days and I think I'm going to take her. I think I'm going to take her. She wants to go down to?
Speaker 2:Will there be any drug transactions?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Remember the mac and cheese?
Speaker 3:No, there's no drug transaction. I'm going to take her down to Louisiana Purchase for her birthday so she can get her dookie chase.
Speaker 2:So I'm not going to randomly be in MoVal when you're in MoVal. I mean you can, and then just magically meet up on a random street and just exchange plates. That shit like a straight up drug transaction. I was like God damn.
Speaker 3:I mean, you know it might happen. I'll let you know what we got left over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let me know.
Speaker 3:Because I'm not a big mac and cheese person. So, oh, you know, it was the whole plate, nigga.
Speaker 2:I know it was like, hey, I had to fight to keep my plate.
Speaker 3:But y'all had just they wanted that one to stand on.
Speaker 2:It was like well, so what did Mo give you? Don't worry about the fuck. I got Like, like, like, like shit. Can I have some? No, the fuck you can't have some more.
Speaker 3:I mean, that was funny, because I was like I told him I'm just going to take it to him and I called you hey, nick, I'm right here. I said Nick, we just passed each other. I said let me turn around.
Speaker 2:And we met in this most sketchiest apartment driveway and it looked like oh, this is a drug, these niggas is a drug transaction, like Nick. It's just plates of food. It's just plates of food.
Speaker 3:Yeah, plates of food, yeah it was a good week.
Speaker 1:Kev. No, mine was good. They got what they got. More to come because you know sales. But yeah, good stuff. The Dreamhouse, oh, it was a hit.
Speaker 3:Man, that's the good thing about close in age too, because hey, you guys can share this.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Let me tell you something, man, you done triggered me. Fuck Barbie, why are these damn dream houses? They take up too much space. It's a house like this, can't like her. Literally. We had to take toys out of her room because she got a Barbie dream house for her birthday. So we had to take toys out of her room because she got a Barbie Dreamhouse for her birthday. So we had to take toys out of her room to make the Barbie Dreamhouse fit. But now for Christmas, she got the Barbie Camper to go with the Dreamhouse. What up? So you know, now, barbie, they take road trips down the hallway. Now, yeah, and so now now she's setting up a shop in the middle of my hallway where we got a tent. I said why she got a tent? If the camper's here, why don't you just sleep in the camper?
Speaker 2:You never took an unplanned trip on one of those Barbie cars that got this miniature fucking skateboard. You done that yet.
Speaker 3:That's the thing she used to have the Barbie Jeep that towed the boat, but we kept stepping on that.
Speaker 2:So we threw that shit away Fucking, skating and shit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I don't know, yeah. So yeah, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1:No, it's okay, man, it's okay.
Speaker 3:Fucking Barbie.
Speaker 1:They didn't want the Barbie condo, so you got to get the dream house. They're supposed to be big.
Speaker 3:How many Barbies did you get them? With the Barbies you're in love? None.
Speaker 1:There's already enough. Yeah, there's enough, so that's where I'm at with you on that. Let's put this shit outside.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Does Ava have Barbies?
Speaker 2:Not anymore, no.
Speaker 3:Phoenix has about 20 and they all have different names. Yeah, and she knows the names of all of them, but you can tell like towards the end she got tired of naming them because all the names sound the same. You know, yeah.
Speaker 2:Ava was a creative, but I mean why that is. At some point she wonders what they look like without hair. Oh man, you have these random pockets of hair all over the house and you're like what? At first you get terrified because whose hair is this? And you're like, oh it.
Speaker 3:First you get terrified because whose hair is this and you're like, oh, it's the fucking doll's hair um you just remind me, my daughter had the bright idea so you know, she has a life-size barbie too. So she had the bright idea that she is gonna go ahead and turn on the curling iron and she's gonna curl barbie's hair. Well, that didn't go well. No, it did not. Fuck that barbie's hair in the corner.
Speaker 1:Yeah oh yeah, that's it baby that's not real here. That's, that's stupid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's gonna melt what was the first time you had a kickflip?
Speaker 3:when she was two years old. You know what I had to say myself. I'm not going down the stairs like why is this here?
Speaker 2:fuck, alrighty. My week was work and more work and the job trying to pull their usual shit oh shit, fuck that place that one day you know, I did get paid- that's what's up to go get my name written on a piece of paper hey, just a win what is a win? I got to just chill that day half the day, and I got paid for it, so that's something, that's a win.
Speaker 3:So, um, anyway, we'll get into the shenanigans you let a nigga shenan one time you're going to shenan again.
Speaker 2:I was going to say I wasn't expecting you to say it so openly, because you know you've been resistant.
Speaker 3:That's why I said it he don't just give up the draws, no more.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying? It depends on who asking for it. So I mean it goes without saying now. So the curation of this one. So I mean it goes without saying now, so the curation of this one.
Speaker 3:So, as we reflect on 2024 and we're in the new year, yes, sir, what is the most significant mental and physical health lessons you've learned from the previous year? Just take better care of myself. Taking better care of me trickles down into me being able to take better care of my family, because now I'm doing everything from the right headspace.
Speaker 2:So what would be some of the routines?
Speaker 3:Well, you know the gym. You got the diet under control.
Speaker 2:What do you eat? A lot of chicken. Oh yeah, you said chicken thigh.
Speaker 3:I know Chicken thigh boy, my smoker, hate to see me coming because I like that motherfucker two three times a week. At this point I might as well just throw them all on one at one time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's male perfect yeah, because I mean I cook. No, I cook one family pack at a time, so one pack lasts about two and a half days. So every three days I'm lightening up, you know, and I do a lot of protein taco bowls Shout out to my wife for this. So what we do is she does the ground turkey with the taco seasoning, and then we get the Quest taco protein chips and we crunch those up for, like the shell, that shit is fire. It's like it's all protein. It's fire, that's just hit. Make sure you drink your water, though, because in 2025.
Speaker 3:I want to make a shirt what that says I'm all protein, swallow me well, you know, you know um, you know what has the most protein in it? Breast milk.
Speaker 2:so just go find so what you're saying is if I make this shirt, both men and women can.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, what about you, Kevin?
Speaker 1:Oh shit, sorry. Mine health-wise has been that mostly Having to work out, get my blood pressure and shit everything right. Just because that was pretty bad, it's probably. I was probably close to jamie foxx and, to be honest, is that a?
Speaker 2:is that a verb now?
Speaker 3:I guess, I was gonna ask you was somebody wiping your ass for a month?
Speaker 1:you didn't know but that was, that was a big thing. Uh, uh. Mentally I feel like I'm going into a battle this year because I'm about to do try to do a lot of shit that I ain't tried to do like activities. Yeah, not like I'd say came out right. I don't mean like things I've never done, like okay oh, I think of you.
Speaker 2:Oh, nigga stop so I'm gonna swim with the sharks. Nah, I cut that out, I stopped I was.
Speaker 1:I was that was gonna be my 40th, but then whales kept eating people and shit, so but I actually, yeah, I want to go back to school and like, just maximize my, my energy, that's, that's what's up. I do this shit that I don't want to do, but do it, and do it well, not like, uh, just do it, you know what I mean, but like doing it I never actually was question.
Speaker 2:You ever do cocaine. Yeah, I have Did it give you like an energy boost.
Speaker 1:I did a lot of things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I drank all the beer the first time I did it.
Speaker 3:You drank all the beer.
Speaker 1:The first time, not a little bit. All the beer, all the beer. But yeah, I'm not an opposite guy, but I'm not going to start cocaine. I don't know if you're suggesting this.
Speaker 2:I'm just curious because when you start talking about all the things I was like I wonder, it just hit me like I wonder if he's ever done cocaine you're gonna need just give you some herbal life pills same effect nah, I'm cool, you're gonna. Did you grind them up?
Speaker 1:no, yeah, he ain't gotta sniff them is that the same shit that was in the pouches that he was putting in the water and shit too, yeah, I remember that in the navy motherfuckers just it's not an energy drink like.
Speaker 2:What are you guys doing?
Speaker 3:uh so you get you right.
Speaker 1:yeah, but that's that's. That's my main focus, I think. Uh, I started doing that just at home, like with the little things I don't want to do, and that kind of helped me. So hopefully it translates to the bigger shit, like homework and projects and shit like that, and getting my ass up and dressing up and putting fucking wigs and shit on For skitsits, not pleasure with your with your health, have you?
Speaker 2:uh? Did you change your diet or did you just?
Speaker 1:uh, I cut out some stuff more. I didn't like completely change it like I didn't cut out things all the way, but I've definitely curbed the amounts of things I was doing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with no pancake when I walked in.
Speaker 2:No cocaine either, so that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm broke, just had Christmas. Well, that's about it for me Thinking that way Tackle shit. How?
Speaker 2:about you. Uh, me, it's just continuing the same path, just trying to find the energy to, or the time to, do shit, because it feels like every time, uh I, I, something happens, I got to do something else to to to fulfill time, like I did. Time is the of the essence, but once I get it completely figured out, then it's just tackling everything that I want to do. But like I have projects and and the works with music wise that I'm working on that I haven't had the time to just and Eugene, again, I told you it's coming pause, but it's just one of the things where I have had trying to make sure I get everything under control for the fucking holidays. Now it's, but it's just one of the things where I I've had trying to make sure I get everything under control for the fucking holidays, now it's.
Speaker 3:Now it's back into the work mentality of writing and uh recording some shit, but it's just time we gotta get those visuals together too yes, we've got to pick some locations to go out and just make it happen yes, and uh, same thing with uh, mike and x as well.
Speaker 2:Like I want y'all to collab, because I think you guys pick each other's brain Very dope and I think you learn a lot. Like, as far as, like, what you want to do, I'm pretty sure he could tell you like, oh, this nigga, how do you do? You'd be like, oh, I picked this brain. But yeah, I do want to do a lot of fucking creation this year. It's just finding the time year. It's just such as finding the time is and then yeah, but um then, like, uh, health wise is just continuing to eat right, which is is a hard task, but like I, I think I found ways to integrate what I like to eat and can continue to eat. That's not bad for me, that's what's up?
Speaker 2:Shout out to.
Speaker 3:Chipotle, by the way. No, fuck Chipotle, it's goddamn pricey.
Speaker 2:But I'm just saying when you get the urge, chipotle ain't a bad thing to indulge in, if you know, if you're trying to stay on a path or something. Yeah, it is pricey, but it's still better than McDonald's and all these other fucking bad things. So, yeah, that's it. It's just sticking to the plan and staying the course and listening and picking the brain of Joe Patino when it comes to certain things.
Speaker 3:Yeah, fuck you Joe.
Speaker 2:Patino. Shout out to Joe Patino, he will be on the podcast.
Speaker 3:Is he he's?
Speaker 2:coming. Yeah, he wants to wait a while until he gets everything going. But yeah, he will be on a Talk your Shit episode.
Speaker 3:That's what's up. I know he's sick of me. I text him every day.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, so moving forward. Then, yeah, ment and forward and then yeah, uh, mentally also is using the podcast to be able to um create, and I think when we create on here it helps me get ideas outside of it and shit. Like even with king dice being here, um, like when you see people that you respect creatively tell you what they think about things creatively, it kind of makes me like so I'm not that far off when I feel this way. Or even what they're doing is like when you see that that spark click and you're like this still got it, so it just inspires. It's going to be a dope year.
Speaker 3:Don't forget to be selfish and be selfish.
Speaker 2:You've texted me that a few times and I agree. I just said I just got to go into that mindset of knowing that I can't feel bad for putting myself first. So the integration of care right, mindfulness practices how does staying mindful impacted your health? Uh, your, your and your practices that you will adopt in 2025. I think.
Speaker 3:For me, um, as I began to see the results it, it became more than mindful. It became like, okay, it's working. So now it's starting to become like second nature, like I know what to stay clear of, I know what the path to do. I know that, hey, even when you don't feel like going to the gym, just get up, walk in. And, oddly enough, the couple of times where I did not feel like going were probably the times where I've actually had the best workout, because I actually just showed up and even like like Joe always say because I text Joe the other day because I was trying to hit, I was trying to hit 245 on the bench and I said I fucking failed.
Speaker 3:I got the 235. I couldn't hit the 245. He was like he's like, he was like just the fact that you attempted not once but twice to do it, you're better than most people. So I think that's just my mind state of like. It's about the attempt. I'm just trying to go into the attempt of things when it regards my health and being healthy both physically and mentally.
Speaker 3:It's just an attempt. If I'm making the attempt, I'm still one step closer than someone who's not even trying to show up. So I'm just trying to be more mindful of the attempt because with my personality, you know, like Joseph was saying, like with my stubbornness, like the attempt is going to make me follow through, because I'm not going to waste my time, I'm not going to show up and give a half-assed effort. I'm going to show up and give you everything I can because I'm not going to waste my time, because I understand, like we always talk about, time is the one thing we have such little of that I try to maximize every second I get.
Speaker 2:And that routine is key Because a routine is like once you build that routine, it becomes one of the things where you don't even think about it. You just know that's not an option, not doing that because I'm so used to doing it now. Like some people are like oh so you're just going to skip that. No, no, we're going to do it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's like I make a point with my walking videos, like I don't walk, I walk, I'm going to walk. So if I got to be out there at 10 and walk, I'm going to walk, it's going to happen. So that's why I always just try to maneuver things around to where I can still you know, be an active father, because I only have one and her schedule is bananas. You know what I'm saying. So I try to be at everything for her, but at the same time, I got to be there for me, so I got to show up like that's. That's one thing I really came to understand in 2024 was to show up for myself as much as I show up for my family yeah, kevin restraint.
Speaker 1:Just the one thing. I picked up a lot of candy bars and said, nigga, you don't need this, you won't die. So I guess that's a motivation.
Speaker 2:Have you tried a barbell?
Speaker 1:A barbell.
Speaker 2:It's a bar.
Speaker 1:Like a candy.
Speaker 3:It's a good substitution if you want it's a protein bar or a built bar too, yeah.
Speaker 1:I thought you meant like lifting weights. I was like too, yeah, I thought you meant like lifting weights.
Speaker 2:I was like no, like when you kind of get those urges like I know it's like when I have a sweet tooth I look, I try to look for alternatives to that sweet tooth. So I don't like necessarily completely be like, oh, I ain't got shit. Like it's like, well, at least I can eat. Because it's just be mindful some of them are not good for you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they have a lot of sugar. Do them. Do you like cheesecake?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I made one. It's in there Okay.
Speaker 2:It's here, like right now.
Speaker 1:We only ate a slice. I got to throw that motherfucker away. I'm pissed. Is it bad? No, I mean it is now.
Speaker 3:Oh, I will send you the recipe for a protein cheesecake. You get a whole bowl of cheesecake and it's only like 240 calories, but it's protein style.
Speaker 2:I mean you might fart.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's a good substitution, you know, rather than eating an actual slice of cheesecake that's going to be like 700 calories. You know, you got to find. That's my thing I found. You got to find the little wins.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll make a that's. That's progress, that's a work in progress.
Speaker 2:I lied to myself and told me that the cookies and cream barbell is like eating a Twix. It's not.
Speaker 1:I like that, you like, I know I'm lying. And it's only got like two grams of sugar so, or one gram of sugar so it's like I think my motivation though the biggest to it is just to prove myself right. Try to prove myself right, like the things. I believe I can accomplish like I I should, instead of like halfway getting in there and then stopping when, well, I'm in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now we're, we're, we're serious. Sorry, let me stop.
Speaker 1:Uh pause. So it's like I want to. I want to, I want to see things through Like I started a lot of things and never finished them. So it's like I got to prove myself either wrong or right, one of the one of the two. But I feel like I can accomplish these things, so I feel like I have to prove myself right.
Speaker 3:So are, you, are you fearful of outcome.
Speaker 1:No, now the outcome of the things that I'm looking at at least kind of have a better perspective. I think the goal was just to finish and just finish with certain things, like with school. I was just doing it, but like now I'm like, hey, there's a reason behind this, like there's more than just getting the paperwork, I guess. So it's like I'm trying to put cohesive plans together that have actual outcomes to them, instead of just shot in the dark kind of thing, if that makes any sense, you know. So that's, that's kind of what's my driving to everything.
Speaker 2:Okay, that'll kind of around where we was at with the question so, uh, I try to stay mindful that barbells are better than twigs, and I tell myself that every time, and somehow I've tricked myself into believing that you know what it's like a twigs you changed that real quick, though you said it's like a twigs so I just I try to be mindful of the fact that you, like we stress here make it the most and take them and make the most and take advantage of your time.
Speaker 2:There. We go and apply that shit to everything that you're trying to be successful in. That's what I'm trying to bring in the 2025. So it's like take the same approach to creating health food time with family. Just make sure you make it a choice. I'm trying to apply that to everything is just make it a habit, continuous habit, of doing better and improving each time, because, if not, I don't want to fall back into old habits that are fucking. They don't get me anywhere.
Speaker 2:So that's what I try to make a stress to be the same way that I am with making sure I hit the gym in the morning, making sure that I get them to school on time every morning, making sure that I at least spend X amount of time with them doing things around at home, or making sure not to let the job dictate my mood at home, and making sure that I always get in and out of the job in the time that I needed, because I know sometimes with our, with our job, you can fall victim to wanting to provide so bad that you'll spend x amount of time at work when it's like I can get this same thing done if I make sure to stick to this window of let me get the fuck out of here as soon as this time, because I see co-workers all the time, they'll just be like I'm gonna do this many hours and then they sit in the parking lot for however long after and you're like dude, just get the fuck home. So I try to make it a point like um and I'm out, I'm out. Like you're not gonna see me hanging around and lounging around, I'm out, I'm out. I mean, it was one day with joe. He wanted to prove a point to um convenient, hector. And then we're supposed to be walking down.
Speaker 2:This nigga started having a conversation about see the inside lanes to the outside. I said you know I'll see you guys later. I'm going the fuck home. And I walked slow intentionally and he tried to speed up. Like show me your power. I said, dude, I expected you to do that, but I'm not about to wait for you. Like no, I'm out. I punched out I'm the fuck out of here. Let spend too much time doing unnecessary shit. So that's my mindfulness in 2025 that I want to continue to keep going and, like mo keeps pointing out, just to to kind of have a selfish mindset on certain things and stop feeling guilty for realizing that I need to put myself first in certain instances, um um, I was thinking too, what you made me think.
Speaker 1:Another mindful thing that I'm trying to carry is I feel like I got to be mindful of I deserve these things, the good things. I got to remember that Like I deserve this, and there's no reason I can't have the things that I want. So just the effort. So I try to stay mindful of receiving. I'll take them Receiving the, the, what.
Speaker 3:Whatever you need to fuck you on.
Speaker 1:So that's. I try to keep my mind on that too. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Shit, real shit. I was going to take the cheesecake, the whole cheesecake. And just take it home and be like hey cheesecake, uncle Kevin, yeah, don't eat it, they'll eat it.
Speaker 1:They'll at least try it, because we made it last week and then once you said that, I was like fuck, it's in there.
Speaker 2:So what role did exercise play in your health this year or last year?
Speaker 3:Major man For me major, it got all my numbers down.
Speaker 2:That's a good feeling.
Speaker 3:Right to go into the to a doctor's office and they're like you, good, you're like I remember when, like I, I post the video, like when I did my blood work and I got the results back, like I didn't even want to look at it, so I gave my, I gave it to my wife, I said you look at it and tell me, because I remember, um, this was like right before christmas. And I was like, hey, because I I remember that day after I gave blood I said look here. I was like god, all I want for I just want good numbers for christmas. Like I ain't, I ain't got nothing under the tree. If these numbers come back better than what they were, I'm happy. And that came, that came, uh, that came through for me. That's why I was I I text you, I text joe. I was so uh, like I was that day. I was on a high Like you couldn't.
Speaker 2:Real talk. This is going to be serious. What if the results came back that you were pregnant?
Speaker 3:I would have had a TOC show. Like what the fuck, what the fuck. Like I would have had a show on TOC. But yeah, I mean everything was in the. I mean my cholesterol is better than what it was. It's not in the green, but it's not like deep in the red. You know what I mean. So it's not like. It's like it showed me that if I continue down the road I'm on, it will be there, but like my sugar, I'm good, so I can eat that cheesecake without going into a coma.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to eat it, but I could.
Speaker 3:So the health and fitness wise is like it made a big deal. But what I learned the most I kind of already knew is like it doesn't really matter how much you work out, it is the diet part that matters the most. Like the working out only accelerates what the diet is doing, but the diet is what's most crucial. So for me it was everything. It's literally the difference between life and death.
Speaker 2:True.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's what it was. Does that like live in a diet? Yeah, uh, it's not hard to get up and motivate when it's that. So I, uh, I learned to not worry about what it looks like. Who gives a fuck what other people think about your workout routines, as long as you put them away, that bar how much uh different equipment do you have at your job? Oh, we got just the machine and uh uh treadmill the machine has, like it's one of those with the like I was.
Speaker 1:I saw another pull-ups, the pull-downs, the pull-up bar, the weight bar, the incline, we got the bench. So it's how many people use 15 things in one at work me there's like three of us. I guess they'll go over there and hit the hit the weights because they don't want most of us staying in the warehouse so it's like I'm gonna go get a quick, uh quick little setting real quick while the phones is quiet I saw that shit I said I'm jealous yeah, because I was like that's a lot of equipment, so I was wondering if I had that the job, my lunch be in the building every day.
Speaker 1:I mean we don't. Yeah, when on my shift I don't need it, on lunch, I try to set an amount that I try to rock out, and then some days it's like hey, I went for some that's dope but that's it, man. It was that's my thing, you, it was that's my thing. You was going to die homie.
Speaker 2:So you know it didn't take a lot of motivation after that. I just know, when you said like the Talking to God, when I was sitting in the DOT office I just I talked to my dad and God I was like, hey, just get me through this shit. I just saw Anita. I said get me through this shit and I'll take care of the rest. Just get me through this shit. I said you know what path I've been on to this point? I was like, just let me get some good news going forward. When I got the good news I was like all right, now it's time to kick it up a notch. But yeah, it's played a huge role and I just try to stick to it and it's.
Speaker 2:It's tedious because you have to realize that you have everything kind of going against you in a sense, because everything plays a role in your health, and the biggest thing for me is rest. It's hard to get rest. I have three children at home and with the schedule and all that, it's very hard to get. Rest and not sleeping can also hinder your weight loss, because if you're not resting, your body can't recuperate. Therefore you can't get off the the fat. So so what diet?
Speaker 2:Also, rests is a very big thing and like stress levels, uh, cortisone stress levels. That's why people tend to carry weight in certain areas of their body and it's hard to get rid of that weight because of your stress levels, um. So it's like all that plays a big role. So exercise is a big thing, but also taking being mindful of things that take your mind off, of the things that can hinder you. So being able to rest and take being mindful the time, uh to when you go to sleep, to when you fucking don't let things stress you the fuck out, when you realize things are stressing you out, to be able to walk away and identify that shit, because all that shit plays a role.
Speaker 3:So the exercise is important, but so is everything that goes into it so you're speaking on the um, the connection between your mental health and your physical health. Yeah, because they, they, they really do have to be in the line to get optimal progress.
Speaker 2:So that's my thing is trying to identify, not letting the stress get to me, because I'm in a highly stressful state, damn near all around the clock, and it's hard when you have a lot of people depending on you for survival and it's like you feel that on your shoulders that shit can fuck with you, rock you out of sleep. It's obsessive and you're like I'm trying not to stress, but it's fucking inevitable. Yeah, self-compassion and resilience. How has self-compassion and resilience helped you and what steps would you take to enhance these traits?
Speaker 1:Compassion has gotten me through um a lot, a lot, a damn near all of my life telling myself, um all of my life telling myself I guess I'm good enough for shit, Like the deserving part. I'm still learning on that, because sometimes I don't feel like I deserve shit.
Speaker 2:But we gotta get the energy up. Everybody seem like they're. Are these questions depressing?
Speaker 3:No, I was. I was just thinking I ain't got no self-compassion, I'm hard as fuck on myself that's why.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm saying like the compassion is important, but I feel like the energy is down, like I don't want to have you guys down no, I'm not down, I'm just reflective thinking about.
Speaker 1:I just like how compassion plays a role, because I think, as you said, with men we don't do a lot of that, we will jack off, but that ain't compassion.
Speaker 2:I love myself.
Speaker 3:I'm not even compassionate with that, but he said it burns oh shit what happened.
Speaker 2:Can I show you guys the greatest movie ever.
Speaker 1:Made my bad the greatest movie ever made. My bad, no, no, not that the greatest movie ever made we was talking about. And then you went oh shit.
Speaker 2:Can I show y'all Sure, it could be a reactive video.
Speaker 3:I'm just nervous. Are we going to do it now or are we going?
Speaker 2:to do it now. We're going to do it right now. I'm nervous. It's because I want to, oh okay. Can I show it? Yeah, I mean I'm going to play it. Okay, play it Even if we don't get monetized.
Speaker 1:That's fine. Yeah, I'm just nervous. You cool. Yeah, I'm just nervous.
Speaker 2:Best movie. It's a trailer for a movie.
Speaker 1:Is Don Rickles in it?
Speaker 3:No, I saw it the other day and I said Is it a new movie? The other day and I said Is it a?
Speaker 2:new movie. It's from 2015. I'm going to play it for you.
Speaker 3:Okay, everybody ready. Here it is.
Speaker 1:Wow, this is awesome. Goodbye cell service. Hello, survey service.
Speaker 3:This place is going to be great for us. Oh, I know what this is Free boner pills.
Speaker 2:Let's get this party started ready.
Speaker 3:Yeah, come guys, stop jerking around, get out what they listened to you. Help me, what was that thing? A handjob.
Speaker 2:Look local high school couple's first over the pants handjob turns deadly.
Speaker 1:Mindy Dinkle of Sammamish is victim of freak OTP handjob accident.
Speaker 2:When her handjob hand slips, causing it to strike her own face and tumble out of a window to her death.
Speaker 3:No, something tells me she's not gonna use that she wants us to suffer.
Speaker 2:She wants us to suffer. She's just clicking it out.
Speaker 3:Over the pins. Hands off for real. I hate this place. Need a hand In life sometimes things are far worse than death, handjobs, handjobs.
Speaker 2:Normally, when someone receives one, they just hate it, but in this place.
Speaker 3:they die on the inside and it's all her fault.
Speaker 1:There's something evil in this place With calloused hands and strong wrists it's.
Speaker 2:Solely one thing is certain she's the only one who comes in this place with calloused hands and strong wrists. And solely one thing is certain she's the only one who comes in this category and she comes for you what do you want from me?
Speaker 3:I'm not your girl, I don't even have a.
Speaker 1:This is terrible. I can do this better myself.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay, that hasn't been pretty, that's hilarious, that's hilarious, kevin, you're talking now oh shit, that has to be a parody. That's hilarious. That's hilarious, Kevin, you're talking now oh shit.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I needed to share that with you guys.
Speaker 1:So it came out.
Speaker 3:Fuck yeah, so you're compassionate, Kevin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, not like that, no way. Calloused hands.
Speaker 3:Fuck, that's disgusting. I thought I should have used their mouth.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's, you know, hey, good old HJ here and there, but compassion, what we talk about, that is like coming with self-love too, though like doing stuff for yourself. I told you, well, I haven't done that in a while. Maybe I should start doing a little little dinner things. Take myself on a little date like artist date.
Speaker 1:That's the thing that was in that book that I was reading, the artist way. So you're supposed to take yourself out on a on a creative date by yourself, open up. But I guess that's not compassion, is that? Yeah, I guess it is because that's self-love, yeah, self-care yeah, I expected too much of myself on the first date so you, I mean, did you not put out on the first date?
Speaker 3:if I take myself, I guarantee you I'm getting lucky. It's a guarantee in the car. I don't know I might be a little hoish. Who should? Did you answer the question?
Speaker 2:no, I don't know, I might be a little hoish.
Speaker 1:Who should I Did?
Speaker 3:you answer the question no I didn't.
Speaker 2:That's tough for me. So I try to show myself compassion by understanding that at the end of the day you're going to stumble, but, like you pointed out, it's important to be able to say well, at least I'm doing this. I mean, I'm going to have issues where I fall and not stay the course, but as long as I know I can get back on track and identify that, I show myself compassion by saying you're not going to get it perfect every time, but you just got to give yourself some compassion with saying, well, at least you're still on it, even if you know you might stumble here from here or there. Grace and the resilience is to be able to, you know, bounce back and say you know what I, you know you wasn't get knocked down. Seven, get up eight, like so.
Speaker 3:Rocky.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So it's just just stick, stay in the course. You're going to have days where you're not your best. You're going to have days, like you said, you don't feel like going to the gym, but I mean, as long as you're sticking through it and you say you know what I'm trying, I'm trying my fucking damnedest, that's something. So that's the biggest thing I can say is just give yourself some compassion and don't get to be too hard on yourself when you're trying to figure out things in life, because not everyone has it a hundred percent figured out. So give yourself some some compassion and say you know what? At least I'm trying. Do you guys have any stress management or techniques that you worked on in 2024 that you want to apply to 2025?
Speaker 3:I think the walking actually the walking started off as a chore and then it became something that I actually really enjoy, you know, because I'm out there and it's almost kind of like being in the gym, like how you can get lost in your own thoughts and you kind of can see through, like like see through, then like analyze and process it. It's kind of like that I can get out there and I can, um, you know, tap into, you know, you know, dive into whatever problems I'm going through, or get into my creative bag and think about certain things, or just it's a way for me to be somewhere where I'm not fixated on the other. You know, stresses of life I'm not thinking about, I'm not thinking about, you know, being a husband, being a father, thinking about, you know, shit Like we're talking about with dice, like dealing with shit at the house we gotta be fixed right.
Speaker 1:I'm just thinking, walking and literally just whatever in my mind at that time. That's what I'm processing. Yeah, so that's what's up. I like the boxing thing. Boxing getting my uh getting my hands going, having music going, because that like takes me away and it helps me uh focus on like the next punch, whatever, because it gives you like a sequence of punches you got to follow and like gives you your streaks and stuff like that on the on the vr headset. So like I've started that before and then just stopped, but this year, like I picked it back. Our last year picked it back up and that's been real nice. It's been better than trying to just breathe through it. You know what I mean have you ever hit somebody.
Speaker 1:That's all I was was going to ask Nah, nah, I usually try to do it. I've hit stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, have you at all. I've hit this table.
Speaker 1:Nah, I don't go near, I try to keep a spot.
Speaker 3:Like your wife, ain't ever walked in front of you while you were doing it.
Speaker 1:Nah, trying to get your attention, you just hit it'll, it'll correct that real quick. But that's been good because it's it gives you stuff to not think it's just thinking about that. And then when you get your hands going free, then when you're done you're like oh shit, I hit this many in a row like, oh hell, yeah, okay, I didn't even realize, I just. And then you just, when you're done, it's like uh, what's that? I guess kindred euphoria, you feel good. So I didn't realize how much I missed that feeling. I ain't done shit like sports or nothing in a while, so that's helped a lot you can?
Speaker 3:you can join the men's baseball league.
Speaker 2:I don't want to hurt my feelings I thought you're gonna say hurt their feelings yeah I was.
Speaker 1:But then I was like well, you ain't throwing a ball in how many years?
Speaker 3:Man, they're not. Out there throwing 80 miles an hour they might throw it to me and I try to catch it like dude oh fuck, I'm going to bring a glove next time. Kevin, you just want to hit me with a ball. No, you got a glove, don't you?
Speaker 1:Not anymore, not anymore. Ain't that a shame? Okay, how about you?
Speaker 2:I like to go to the gym and when I get the opportunity to play basketball, that gets fun for me because I'll put on my headphones, I'll zone out. I can just zone out and shoot for like an hour at a time. When I actually get to and that shit, like I'll just zone out and think about nothing but the basket dropping. And then when I get the opportunities where I played a few people and realize that I still have instances where I still got it.
Speaker 3:Young with Fly pops up. I don't know if I like that phrasing, but yeah, younger, mcfly, the pop-up, the pop-up, oh the pop-up. I mean you know how to cabin, so you fine.
Speaker 2:Ah, shit, yeah, I just ah shit, oh, but, um, yeah, I just that I did. And then, um, uh, a good stress uh which I've said before is when I do get to create music, um, and just you just let off. And when you let off in the right way and you feel like it's getting the proper uh attention, it, it. It's a good way to relieve stress and it helps me out a lot. Then I did the. You're talking about the punching. There's a fucking well, I don't know where they bought this shit from, where they got it from, because they couldn't have bought that shit. They have a punching that's like a kickboxing uh machine at my gym and I used that shit one day. And a punching that's like a kickboxing machine at my gym and I use that shit one day and I said I would only use it when there was nobody around, right, so I use it. You and him.
Speaker 2:I was punching and there was a young white couple and I could tell they were looking at me and they were trying their damnedest not to pay attention Cause they walked up there to use the treadmills and I was like nigga, I wanted to do this by myself, but I'm already here, might as well do it.
Speaker 2:So they're walking past and they're trying their damnedest not to look at me. I'm punching the shit out of his bag and he just looks and he kind of chuckles, but then he goes that nigga probably would knock me the fuck out. So but when I kicked it I realized one side of the fucking punching bag or the like you have to knee the, the mid part yeah, it doesn't work. Like one side doesn't read. So I'm kicking the shit out of it, right. I'm like maybe if I come in at a different angle, maybe it was not reading and I kicked the shit out of the bottom pad and the knee and I need it, and I was mad and it hurt my knee because of the sheer force and I said fuck that machine, because half of my fucking hits didn't count yeah, and I didn't realize until midway through, as an artistress because I was like, fuck, I'm kneeing to the left, like the knee on the right works, the knee to the left don't work.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, dude, I'm kneeing the fuck out of this shit and it's just not working and I'm trying to get my points, nigga. I was like this is a fuck. Fuck, this video game like.
Speaker 1:That's how I felt on the way I like hey, you're my man.
Speaker 2:I can't get my proper points. Nigga, I should be at the top of the leaderboard, like hey, that's what I do I'll pay my membership. Hey, this ain't working, but it'll be fixed by tomorrow but yeah, that's a good stress for me is being able to play um.
Speaker 2:When I get the chance to play call of duty, it helps my stress um it can yeah, it has been this week, because I've been doing the 24-7 stakeout and I've been loving up these guns and that's all I fixated on. I don't even care about the match, I'm like, let me just level these guns up, so I just I get them all to diamond level when, when I played with you the other night and I said I said we're having a stakeout, so what is?
Speaker 2:I don't want to play this man, yeah, I saw you left after that. Yeah, I was like oh shit, whatever, and I just switched to 24-7 stakeout and then I just started leveling up all the, the and I'm on shotgun.
Speaker 3:so it's been so long because I played a map that wasn't a mosh pit map, because when I heard UAB, I said UAB, I said oh shit.
Speaker 2:I'm mad, though, because all the kills I get on that shit, and then I'm like, damn, that's right, I don't get no scorestreak shit on this one, but anyway, anyway, um, january 10th, I have a show. Yeah, mona, mona, p-town. Yeah, sugar free gonna be there. You might I don't know, I don't, I don't make these these uh, these uh predicaments. I just if I show up, you know bars, but yeah, um, it's gonna be january 10 going to be. You may or may not hear a new song that I'm on a part of. Um, yeah, so, uh, if you can make it, we'd be much appreciated. January 10th Uh, if you, if you follow me on Instagram or any social, you'll see the information. Uh, so, if you're trying to get there or not, I believe. So, if you're trying to get there or not, I believe I don't know if it's a free event, I just don't want to be performing.
Speaker 1:I was like I have to look at the ad again.
Speaker 2:But, with that being said, this has been episode 180 of the heavyweight podcast. We appreciate, love and respect you guys and I hope you guys do the same for us. I think it's dope that we're in the year 2025 and you guys are rocking what is heavy still and there's nothing but great things to come. A lot of dope guests are coming and I'll pause and hopefully you don't end up at a handjob cabin. I mean it didn't look too bad. I mean her hands were calloused. That she wasn't using lotion, she was just spitting on it. Kind of Calloused hands is crazy. They have the smoothest, driest dead dicks in the world. Anyway, with that being said, this has been episode 180 of the Heavyweight Podcast again. Like, subscribe, share and comment. Until next time. Peace, peace.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm sweating. Like subscribe, share and comment. Until next time, peace, peace, I'm sweating. That's a wrap, y'all. That's how she wrote, so make sure you click like subscribe. Tune in we on the Austrian platform. So until next time, we'll highlight you.
