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Dj Reem
This episode delves into the inspiring journey of DJ Remy B, who transformed his life through fitness and music. He shares how he discovered CrossFit, the power of community, and the impact he has on others through his motivational work as a DJ.
• Discussion on the concept of superpowers
• DJ Remy B's musical influences and upbringing
• The initial struggle with unhealthy habits
• Path to fitness: Joining the gym after a wake-up call
• The transition from traditional gyms to CrossFit
• The importance of community in fitness and music
• Upcoming events and plans for 2025
What's up, dawgs? This week I'm joined by Kareem Brunson, aka DJ Remy B. Kareem is the co-owner of CrossFit Shrewdsbury, a full-time DJ and also the world's greatest hype man. We dive into his exercise journey how he got started and working out before CrossFit, finding CrossFit Shrewdsbury and his early interactions with both CrossFit competitions and group classes. And also all his plans for the future, including DJing, being the hype man and host for local CrossFit events and moving on to even bigger and better things. Hope you enjoy the episode. I want to start off. You know what I've been thinking about recently, bro Like. Do you remember what was that? Was that 2020 or was it 2021? Where they said, like in December, black people were going to get superpowers because of like the moon or whatever? Yeah, you remember that 2020.
Speaker 2:You know, what superpower I got. I got fucking COVID right after so on the superpowers.
Speaker 1:Like I was continuing on my thought process, I was thinking about what superpowers would be like too much like what you couldn't handle right. Like I know, some people say mind control. I could never handle being able to mind control, even if I could turn it on and off. You know, do you do you know any superpowers you feel like you like couldn't?
Speaker 2:handle. It would not be good to be in your hands. I was just saying I I read people's thoughts. I would not want to be able to control that. That's like literally like if I had that power and be able to like I, it'd be no good. I don't know, like knowing what you're thinking, then then knowing how I can process that and and then handle like I don't know if I would want those like handle that that might be a little too much.
Speaker 1:It's too much. So what superpowers would you want to have?
Speaker 2:Oh, if I could, I always want to fly like put me in the air, be no car, no vehicle needed.
Speaker 1:yeah, let me fly, as that's always worn around, always, always, always, always wanted right, and that's that. Down a rabbit hole of like yo, or do you have wigs? Do you like instantly transport?
Speaker 2:all that stuff. Now, what kind of irrigation would you want the adventure to?
Speaker 1:fly it.
Speaker 2:Let, let me, let me be like, uh, uh, who like rogue, rogue from x-men, like she could just fucking take off in the air and no wings. Don't like archangel. No need, none of that, you can go yeah rogue storm, all that go.
Speaker 1:I feel that yo like, if, if you, if you asked people close to you, do you, what do you think they would say? Like, your real superpower is, you know, like, like right now my, uh, people around.
Speaker 2:They would probably say that I can energize just about anybody out of any mood, like any bad mood, like I can just come around and know that they're in a funk or even read them, and there's no that they're in a funk, and they know what to do to turn them around and get them out of that or at least for that temporary moment, just like all right, all right, like I'm happy again or I'm out of my mood, or something like that. So they always, like you know, I like to see people energized up and I get, like we all go through our times when I and um, you know, I always kind of read into it, like I also know when to back off, at the same time, like you're not going to be, you know, upset, I want you to get out of what you're getting out of, get out of your funk. So like I know how to turn that around for a lot of people and I think that's what most people would say, how to energize them up again.
Speaker 1:That's. I mean, that's invaluable, right there, right, Like be able to help people out of a low time, low period.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean because you know it happens. You know we all go through it, we all go through it. So I think people love to have that, you know, get out of that. Sometimes they don't know how to get out of it too. People get in their own way and it's just like yo, I don't know what I'm doing. And here I come, like you know, a crack of joke, or even make it like you know, seeing what the reality is, and just help them cope with it a little differently than how they probably would process.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I mean, I know I need that in my life. You know like I know exactly what you're talking about right now. So how long do you think you've been like that, have you? Were you always like expressive and outgoing when you were a kid? Like tell me about young green?
Speaker 2:yeah, young green was always expressive. I was always, definitely always marched to the beat of my own drum and did what I wanted to do, in a sense of like, not that like it bothered anybody, but like I was always carefree, like I was just like kind of lived just with happy intent, always, always. And you, I was always told that I might be too happy. Oh, why are you so happy? And I'm like, you know, this is how I am, like I'm just carefree.
Speaker 1:Are you from Jersey?
Speaker 2:I'm from Jersey, born and raised out here. Born and raised in Jersey, neptune, new Jersey, jersey Shore area. Yeah, I lived out here forever. I lived in Baltimore for quite some time, but Jersey's home, jersey's always been home.
Speaker 1:Baltimore raised me a little bit, but Jersey's always been home.
Speaker 2:That's a sick combo right there, jersey and Baltimore. Dog, I always say I grew up twice. I grew up in Jersey from my young to teenage years, but then I went to college in Baltimore Shout out to Morgan State. I also grew up there too. I spent, like what 10 years, 10, 12 years out there. So I also grew up there too. So like that was also part of my upbringing. I always say so.
Speaker 1:I feel that I mean like you in a sense, never stopped growing up Right and like. I saw this meme the other day and it was like when I used to watch TV and I would see 30 year olds I think they were adults and then I got to 25 and I was like, oh, I realized how wrong I was. And then I hit 30. I was like dog.
Speaker 2:I'm still not grown up. That's very true. That's funny, that's very true, though Very true. You never, you never, not stop growing shit. I'm about to be 40. I'm still growing.
Speaker 1:Think about watching Martin and Living Single and all them shows back in the day. They look like they had it together so much they're younger than us and shit they definitely do.
Speaker 2:When you sit back and watch and then kind of be like, oh man, they was over there. Martin didn't want to pay $5 more for a rent.
Speaker 1:He had a dude climbing in a window. You know like exactly exactly, bro, man that's.
Speaker 2:You know that that's nuts so.
Speaker 1:So tell me about teenage rave again. Right, like what would? Did you have any first career path you wanted to pursue? Like? What were you passionate about at like 13?
Speaker 2:uh, honestly, I was actually really passionate about music. I was always like the entertainer, if you may, of the family. Well, my mom was, my mom was the entertainer. She was always the one that did like the music stuff for the family. Like she made tapes, used to make tapes for everybody back when everyone had the house stereos. That was like towers, like the tower stereos with the big wooden speakers and round whatever she had the ill collection of like music, so cds and tapes and all that records.
Speaker 2:Um, and you know, she always used to make the tapes and I always like because they used to go, they used to go out and party and have fun, like little bus trips and all that. But she would always be responsible for the music and that was something like I took to because I love just that entertainment aspect, just like having some fun. Um, you know, music was dope. Music still is dope now somewhat. Uh, but like it was always just cool to um, to to know that, hey, you're responsible for like the, the vibe and set the tone for whatever events going on and help with that. I should say, say so like I always wanted to do that. And then you know at what 13, actually is. When I got my first set of DJ turntables and whatnot and cause my mom knew that was that was what I wanted to do, like as just like play around with it, like she didn't know it was going to be like career wise, she's just like oh, that's a good hobby for you.
Speaker 2:Go ahead and have some fun right and she got something to do was, yeah, something to do, keep me occupied. Keep me occupied and it was.
Speaker 2:It was a solid outlet and I thought it was dope because I used to play around with like the mute, like the cds. I used to keep um. I used to buy cds all the time and have the books, but then I also was like um using them. So I used to. I used to try to d. I created my own dj before I had turntables. I used to create like the mix and with I had a. You remember the ai iowa speakers, like they had, like the the.
Speaker 2:You can put a cd in one and then I will hook up my original playstation, the great playstation and hook it up to a speaker and then like so I would play one cd on the playstation the great playstation and hook it up to a speaker and then like so I would play one cd on the playstation but then turn the knob down and then turn the radio up on the other one, on the other cd, and then play out the other radio. So like I'm like cross mixing, I'm mixing, but with two different systems, completely different systems I learned how to do that from my brother, like way back in a day.
Speaker 1:He a a couple of years. He's probably around your age, I think he's 41 now. We did the same exact thing. I remember making CDs to play on the Grand Theft Auto 2 way back then. Yeah, put your own music in. Oh, my God, it's San Andreas. So that stuff came out. Yeah.
Speaker 2:What a time. Yeah, see that. That's what a time. Yeah, that's see that, that's that's I see you. You had to mix for the foot and foot.
Speaker 1:You had that ear for the mixing and I know what I think about like stuff like that and like do a myspace stuff back in the day, and like how we used to like know more about coding, like like naturally be able to teach ourselves, and I lost a lot of the skills. I'm like, oh my god, I'm such a.
Speaker 2:I say like tom, tom tom, for myspace will be responsible for a lot of millionaires and people who actually like took that into how you know what today would be, because he taught everyone pretty much coding. Or like you knew you had to do coding for your MySpace page and like to get all like the sprinkle stuff down and the glitters here, change your top eight to top 20. Like he taught you the coding, like he laid out the blooper, damn there, like, and if we would have actually like, asked people, like, just actually like took to that and he's like, oh, doing that, like maybe a lot of people, people that know how to code, you can make a hell of a killing let me he he's responsible for like, like drakes and travis goss and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I remember hearing best I ever had on myspace first as like, as some girls like song on there.
Speaker 2:That was the first time I ever heard a drake song literally on my space on a girl's profile like and I took off after that no, that that, that that error of like internet was like coming out of it, but like it was like new, but like and undiscovered, but like, so, like, um, like, just just just like it was untapped. It was, it was untapped, but like it was just so raw and pure, pure, like it was just like it was, like you said, like hearing drake on on someone's profile and like that was his early introduction to a lot of people, because, and then 15 years later this, oh man.
Speaker 1:And I remember on Zynga, even before MySpace. It taught me a little bit too. I remember clearly having this rotated. It would crawl across the screen, jerome Bettis on there, because that's when Fullmaster was real big and stuff before it was just running back, and then Y Received the League. Oh my God, what a time, what a fucking time, yo. But back on the music thing. I want to ask you it might have, it might've been a tape, it might've been a CD. What was the first album you ever bought yourself?
Speaker 2:I first when I ever bought myself Tevin Campbell Tevin.
Speaker 1:Campbell.
Speaker 2:I was going to. Actually it was that it was three CDs. I like it was Tevin Campbell. It was a shack and God. What was that? It was three cds. I like it was tevin campbell. It was uh, uh, shack and um god. What was that third one? I know it was three because I went to. I can't remember that third one. Oh man, what was the third one? Yeah, I was going to, uh, I was going on a trip to um la um, to disneyland. I was going with my aunt. She was taking me to go out there. I remember having a Discman. She was like go ahead and buy some music. She didn't know what I listened to so she just let me out on my own. I picked up that. Tevin Campbell picked up the Shaq. I wish I remember what that third one was. I can't remember what that third one was.
Speaker 1:Yo man, people that are younger than me out there, if you under 30 and you never experienced buying CDs and tapes with some big would drop, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, that was a. That was the big like I miss. I miss that. I miss that, that rush and that feel of being able to go out to the stores and like, when it's like all right, you know somebody is about to drop, like let's go. We got to go to the store, go grab everything or go grab the CDs. My ultimate memory of going out. So me and my boys, we actually 9-11. 9-11, we that was the day Jay-Z Blueprint dropped and Fabs, ghetto, fab. So me and my boy, two of my boys, we, my man John and my man Adam, we already planned like yo, we're going to buy this, we're just going to split the money. And you know, buy two CDs and split it. But then, like, 9-11 happened and we was in high school.
Speaker 2:At like 8 in the morning yeah, it was 8 in the morning, we were in high school, so we were just like you know, everything was closed, like started to close down early, we couldn't get anywhere.
Speaker 2:Luckily there was this record store that was in in our way, around our way in asbury, that was still open, that we, like, soon after school was over we just jetted over there to pick up the two albums and like I, like I, just that day like itself is like a memorable day, like it's a moment and it was just like all of that happening and then being able to still get the fab cd. Like at the time we didn't grasp how real and serious like that 9-11 attack was. I mean, granted, we watched it, but like it was like still fresh and still developing. But like I know, we were like, all right, well, we still got to go get this fab and this Jay-Z album still and it was a big deal. It was a big deal. It was a big deal like for us. I know it was like a lot going on that day too.
Speaker 1:Like yeah, yeah. I remember the first album that I ever bought with my own money was College Dropout by Kanye man. Like and to really see how everything has happened. It's just like, oh you know, like love Kanye and like that's the quintessential right, like I know he went on the dark twist is probably my favorite yay album, but but yeah, yeah, I'm with you on that you know that's I mean it's dope but college dropout.
Speaker 1:It's just like it's got that nostalgia feeling and I was a part of, like I was a part of fucking uh, the what was the second 50 album?
Speaker 1:uh, the drama candy shop on it when you went against yeah, masker, yeah, they had that, that marketing that was like them against each other man, I remember being a part of that. By that point in my life I switched over to buying the 50 album, you know, instead of the kanye john like. So it's just music, man, it's. I still have a great love for music, but it's definitely a little bit different. Like you're not, as you know, as excited about music drops and stuff like and the things that that, that and musicality isn't what makes us excited about it anymore. You know, like I listen to the joe budden podcast a lot and I remember like during the beef they talk about like beyonce drop an album, a country album that's big and the future album beats it, just because of the disc records. You know, like that's nuts, like that would never happen back in the day, even if beef was going on. You know, like Whitney Houston's still going to sell but they outsold Herb just because of that.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. Yeah, I agree, music doesn't have like you know what it was. I always thought like you can tie moments back into albums, like you know, with the Kanye, like you remember like was like significant, like you know you played in the morning or whatever, or you was going somewhere. Like it ties into like memories back for, for then and it kind of gets you back to that.
Speaker 1:I rocked double polos because of kanye and then that, too, like they were setting the trends kanye was big with the pink polos and the backpacks and all that.
Speaker 2:I, I remember all that.
Speaker 1:I remember that shit and then by the end of my high school career, I 50 and m came in and they, they had me go back to like the south pole sagat fans, g unit shoes, like you, tank tops and like not just like 16, 17 year olds, like it was reverberating all the way up. You know like now the kids may be influenced, but music's not really pushing all of society culture anymore. I mean it, but it's in a different manner for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it doesn't have that hold. Like I think of the Dipset era. I think of that Dipset era because that was who I followed, me and my brother like every morning before we went to school we got dressed to diplomatic community cam jewels gym, like it was just one of them in rotation we just get. We had the jerseys, we had to pick fucking bandanas and all that was. But, like you said, it wasn't just like at our age, it was like dudes older than us.
Speaker 2:Doing that, doing that, but that was like the culture. But that's what they did, like they pushed the culture to be that way. Like you know, you was like either super, uh, flashy like dipstick, grimy like locks or um, just like in somewhere in there, like kanye or whatever, like it was it was like, or like you just kind of like in between, like the rock, like you wanted to be one of those, part of those crews and clicks, because of that's where the culture was at and that's what music did. Music had such a foothold on culture and made it shift and sway whichever way it wanted to. It don't do that no more. It doesn't do that anymore, unfortunately. That's why I'm like yeah, it's crazy, I mean.
Speaker 1:I remember I think it was still in high school when they said that Rockefeller broke up and I was hurt, like I was signed, like I had to change. I was hurt. Oh no, what are we going to do? Like all that and young money, even when they was breaking up with Bermuda, way that. Now it's just like whatever you know, people go to different labels. It's like being in a sport.
Speaker 2:You know which may be for the better for the artists and everything, but it's it's crazy, when you find out Santa Claus ain't real Stuff like that, you change your whole look on things and you're like, oh man, damn, they were girl. I actually last felt that, when I say with the breakups, when Rick Ross and Meek started beefing, then Wale, that was the last of the crews, it was always MMG, this MMG that it was everywhere. And then you know now like 100, and then meek and ross beefing for a little bit, like then it's like damn, like I don't know we was, we all.
Speaker 1:When we was in here another day uh, bill, like who's putting the rig up, man legendary by, while I came on like from from that album and I was like damn, we never gonna get nothing like this again. That's crazy. Like we can get more while they like that, but the the tracks that had him and meek and ross I'm like damn, we never gonna get this again. That's, that's crazy man that's hurt it hurts, that's that's.
Speaker 2:That's like the last time, I think, like music literally had like an impact on it, because everyone was running around screaming MMG or Minimum, make Back, like you were hit at everywhere and everyone was like always on that. You don't really get that too much anymore. If any, I can't think of any.
Speaker 1:Ain't no clicks out there. Really no more, not right? Yeah, especially with like YSL, and I don't even think about all the people that be associated with them. But that's, that's whatever. You know like music music is still big. It's not the same, though it moves the culture in a different way, you know yeah, which way you think it kind of like I don't know.
Speaker 2:So what do you listen to these days?
Speaker 1:man, these days I listen to mostly podcasts, music wise I still listen to. Right now I'm stuck on gnx, that kendrick album. I listen to that probably like three times a day. It's like.
Speaker 2:It's like cracking that album, same here um, I just because I feel like everything's just been so come and go, come and go, come and go, like everyone's like dropping records and it's just kind of like cool, all right, it sounds okay, sounds cool, but like it just doesn't.
Speaker 2:it didn't nothing really had a lasting effect besides this kendrick, like I think that's actually that is like one of the pride and more most played. Granted, it's a short time, but it was like one of the most paid uh played, um, my, my most played in uh, my, uh, 2024. Because, like it was like once they came, it was just like I'm stuck, like I Like I'm here, can't turn it off, right, can't turn it off.
Speaker 1:It was great. The beef added some story to to music, so that's what helped it a little bit. It adds like narrative, right, like the different songs, like you saw the emotions, you saw like what people were going through and stuff, and like Kendrick really grew with this music, so it helped it mean a little bit more, you know. But, bro, I want to get back to talk about you. So tell me, like I know, coming from Black families, right, like my mom got me into exercising. But like late in life, like in the 20s and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And when we go back home to Chicago, where we're originally from, we like either cook the way that we cook or talk about I'm gonna go work out early in the morning or I gotta prioritize my day around trying to get to the gym. Even when I'm on vacation, a lot of our family like look at us like weird, like not all of it's like, it's like not 50, 50 probably, like 70 to 30 of like who work out, take care of themselves. And then the other side, like what about you? Like, how did you get into working out? Is your family into working out? Like, tell me about that negative.
Speaker 2:So mean, like love, my family, everybody was in there. For me it was a self-discovery thing, like if I never self-discovered it for myself I would have never. I wasn't prone to it, I wasn't around it. My family didn't, they don't exercise. I mean, my brother, don't get it wrong, my brother, he's a former state champ of high school track, champ four by fours, four by one hundredths, like. So he was always like the athletic. Even my cousins, like they were athletic, like football, scholarships to school, whatever. So like they were the athletic people.
Speaker 2:I wasn't because I just didn't flow like that with athlete, like sports, I played sports but I wasn't like into it. Like, like I said, I was more on the entertaining side of things and that's where I would um develop myself at and then, like I needed so as like I, like I said I lived in baltimore for for 12 years or so but like in those 12 years that's where, and I said, I grew up again in baltimore because that was like where I learned to become a dj, like a better, like a prominent dj to play for everybody, because you know, down in morgan state you get a mix of everybody from all over the world um, and it taught me how to like become this, this solid dj. So I, you know, flew up the rankins at the school, then flew up the rankins in the baltimore area, then flew up the rankins in the Baltimore area, then flew up to Rankins in like the DC area too, meanwhile still being able to become this good DJ out here back in Jersey. And then now I'm like all over the place traveling and doing my thing, but at the same time, while I'm doing my thing like health you know, I'm not even studying it not working out doing this all this late night, drinking, eating up, going to bed at six, seven in the morning from the night before, waking up at two in the afternoon like just not living this good, healthy lifestyle man. And it's like and again like if it was, I had no people around me that knew how to exercise or did exercises. My family wasn't with it, my friends that I hung out with, they weren't with it.
Speaker 2:So it really took like a self-reflection after my 28th birthday right, yeah, 20, 28th birthday to see myself passed out drunk on the floor to say and this looking like a mess, like you just seen this big, overweight dude laying on the ground, like who the hell's picking your ass up, like like it was bad. It was bad. So I was just like bro, like you can't keep living like this, you can't, you can't. You just had your birthday celebrated 28 years. You won't make it to another two years if you fucking keep doing this shit.
Speaker 2:So you know, I had to sign up to the gym. I signed up to the gym the next like I seen that picture Sunday, monday, I signed up to the gym and then was just like going and just kind of like had to self-educate myself on how to work out. Like you know a thing like not too many people I knew outside of the family knew how to work out like that or be efficient in it. Besides, just like, hey, just do this at the gym and bicep curls and bench and squats and run on the treadmill, like that was like the basics of what people knew that I talked to. I need a structure. I need a structure.
Speaker 1:Where did you start off at? You walked into a global gym somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I walked into a global gym. We had this gym around us called Workout World. They were a big global gym. They had their spots around our way in Monmouth County and I was like started just like just going there, like literally just sign up. Like I said, I remember what the probably was, like $20 a month or whatever, something like that. And I was like, yeah, all right, I was consistent.
Speaker 2:But then I fell off Like it's kind of like ah, whatever, like I don't care, not that I, I didn't care enough to be consistent with it. But then I'm like people in my area are like, oh, you won't, you won't stay with this, you won't, you won't, you'll be dropping out of the gym in no time. Like how people kind of give these new year resolution people the shits about being in the gym for two weeks and then you know, then they're they're off to their, to their own shit, back to their bullshit again. You know, and that's one thing I did have like family in my air belt and that was like, oh, you won't make it, you won't last long in there or you're gonna stop, and I kind of used that as that motivated you oh, one thousand percent.
Speaker 2:One thousand percent motivated me to keep myself at least like consistently consistent going may not been like five, six days a week, but it was still like showing up two to three times a week, something like that. Um, yeah, but I think the other hard part I was just like figuring out what to do. Like, hey, just like again, just going in there with no guidance, you know, talking to the people in there, they'll help you out. Like my gym, the gym I was at wasn't like they like if you had a conversation with somebody they'll tell you what to do or help you out with showing the exercise. But like it was just I needed something, needed more structure. So I started taking classes.
Speaker 2:That was there and that's what kind of like got me into like a bit of a better groove and consistently. And then, like, I made friends in these classes too, like, and then, like you know, hey, now we got accountability and that's what like geared me to keep up with everything with the fitness journey and to not die out of it so fast. Because I'll tell you, like the people around me, like my friends and all that, um, they still weren't like supportive of that. They were just like kind of like oh man, fat ream's gonna be back in no time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like yeah, I'll show you guys, i'll'll show you fuckers.
Speaker 1:You just kept going that's dope. So like, what made it transition from like just you trying to get in shape and prove people wrong to like, make it a lifestyle, like when did that really come into shape?
Speaker 2:It was, it'd be when, when, when I realized, actually, when I started taking the classes and I realized that it was like fun, like I actually looked forward to going to these classes and like seeing the people there and like the my teacher, who my instructor, uh, shout out to mr vegan like he, he was, he was dope, he was, he's a norc dude and uh, oh shit, yeah, he's like, he's like a reform, reform, norc dude, like and like I love hearing the stories about what he what he was doing before and and now that he made that transition and I, like I always kicked it with him I thought that was so dope and like I admired him for that and like the, the lifestyle switch that he had to make, and I was just like you know what that's like similar to what I'm going going through, like you know, trying to trying to adjust my lifestyle to be healthier and be more conducive so I could be here for the long haul.
Speaker 2:Because he used to talk about his kid being there for his kid now, like he just couldn't do what he was doing before, Although like, if he needed to do something, like he can flip that switch. But he was like nah, like this is where I'm at now.
Speaker 1:So I'm to stay at. I keep it on a low, low right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly exactly what yo was he, uh, was he a calisthenics dude? Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, oh man, he was one of them. He was one of them hang see him at the bar just going pull-ups and dips and all that, all that, and I was like have you?
Speaker 1:ever seen that dude on instagram? It's like uh, it's like a 300 pound dude to be doing muscle-ups. No big black dude, I gotta send you that video this dude crazy he'd be doing like tempo muscle-pound dude to be doing muscle-ups. No, Big black dude, I got to send you that video. This dude crazy, he be doing like tempo muscle-ups. I'm like yo, this got to be green screen. That's crazy. What the oh shit yeah.
Speaker 2:I got to see that, I got to check that. Big D Kudos to that because, like god damn.
Speaker 1:You be carrying weight and still able to like get into those positions.
Speaker 2:He's good you know, I mean that's, that's a lot, of, a lot of way to pull up over that bar.
Speaker 1:100, 100 dance, yeah. So how did you get into crossfit? When did you make the transition from global gym to crossfit?
Speaker 2:uh. So, like I said, so I got into that class environment of just like you know, popping into these classes had structure, whatever. So I was like you know, this is dope. And then then I seen funny, I seen this probably was August, maybe, or yeah, it was August. I had seen something about the CrossFit Games. This is 2000,. 2011 or 12. 2012, it was 2012. And I seen something about CrossFit on ESPN. Like it was literally, like I think it was the games. It had to be the games because that was the only thing, but like it was like a highlight of it or something like that or maybe one of the events it wasn't like, yeah, maybe like a replay, something like that.
Speaker 2:And I was like, oh, that looks pretty dope, whatever, whatever. And then, literally like my boy, he knew that I was like on a fitness journey and path, I DJ for his, his events, him like a bunch of his events. But he knew I was also like getting back onto the health side of shit. So he had called me. He was like yo, bro, what are you doing on Monday, tomorrow? I got you got to come try this CrossFit gym with me and I was like, oh, all right, and he took me to this gym CrossFit Shrewsbury, where I'm at now For it. He Fitz Shrewsbury, where I'm at now. Um, for he took me and literally like 15, 15 of us it was like 15 of us that from that we all knew each other from the hood and like he was like yo, we all trying CrossFit today and we did a class and like I was just like, oh shit, this class was fucking.
Speaker 2:Like I was used to like the class at, uh, the global gym, but this was like another level and I was just like right, that was hard that was, and it was like it was a ladder of three of for eight, for eight minutes of wall balls and burpees, wall balls oh my god. But that, that workout, and I'll never forget that was the first workout and that I would, and it was eight minutes and I was just like shit, that was hard. Oh, that was hard, yeah that was hard.
Speaker 1:I don't know exactly how to feel. Yeah, and, and, like, and then.
Speaker 2:Since then, I was just like hey, like I, I want to come back, I want to do this again, like, and you know, yeah, signed up and I see, just, and while we all actually signed to live all the fits like that, we all went, 15 of us signed up. I ended up being like the only one that stuck it all went, 15 of us signed up. I ended up being like the only one that stuck it out for more than two weeks, Like the rest of my the rest of everybody else like faded out within two weeks. I was still going. I was like, nah, like I like it, Like I want to keep snatches and overhead squats and all that fun stuff was like that was like a task at the time, but, like you know, I stuck with it. Like I always just thought that like that environment was cool, Cause then, not for nothing, like our gym, too, was like pretty diverse with people. Um, granted, it was like in a I don't want to say a rich neighborhood, but like they neighborhood had money, like that Everyone that was in there like they had money, but like it was a good environment to be in, Like everyone was so caring and everyone cared about you.
Speaker 2:The guy, the first guy that I ever met in there when I walked in and like it was His name, was John. God bless his soul. He seen me and he was just kind of like, oh, you're new here, you're new here. And I was just like, yeah, he's like, I'm going to take you under my wing. And John at the time was probably like 50, probably like 51 or something like that, but like dude can love love the man to death. He just kept me under his wing, Like literally showed me what, showed me the ropes, had me follow him around all class without like anyone asking him to do that, Like that was just something that was in his nature and like that made me just realize how awesome like this community environment was and, like you know, it just had me hooked. It had me hooked to it and since then, since 2012, like, yeah, I've just been into that CrossFit field and CrossFit world Haven't looked back.
Speaker 1:It's crazy yeah, that's nuts Vince. Like I love that about CrossFit, how it just attracts people. Like that right, like when you learn that, like, like, yes, those people are special but they're not unique to crossfit. Like it it brings in the souls that are gonna, like, take people under their wing, you know, and it keeps spreading that joy. Keep helping them drink that kool-aid, you know yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So in 2012 what's? The dj life like oh man, dj, life was still rocking like it. Probably at that time I was like moving around everywhere like this is when I had the wildest schedule, because at the time I didn't have no kids, so I can, like, do whatever, go wherever, uh it was like yeah, I can, I can, like I remember making this one trip.
Speaker 2:I never forget this trip. This trip was I DJ'd in Philly at UPenn, um, at six, and then I had to go to jersey to go dj at nine oh, not nine, what time is that? I got there at 11, so 11. So I dj'd in jersey jersey, my area like, as we park from 11 to 2 whatever, and then went straight to north carolina, to charlotte. They go DJ a wedding the next day to come back the that that was a.
Speaker 2:That was a Thursday, so I drove down for the wedding on Friday and as soon as that wedding was done, at like 10 o'clock, got on the road, drove back to Jersey that night so I can go do our uh, gym, um, we had friends and family day that day, so I wanted to. I had some friends that was coming to like the trial CrossFit, so I drove right to to the thing and it was there at the gym at like, went straight to the gym at 8.00 AM and then had the DJ again that night at at afternoon like four o'clock at this place up in New York and like it was just like it was hectic. It was just like me running around like crazy, like, so, like I, I, I, while it was fun, while it lasted, like I knew I just couldn't do that. Like I, I got, I got so into into the CrossFit like I wanted to be able to like perform good, and I knew like those late nights couldn't happen anymore.
Speaker 2:So like I started to kind of like, yeah, he did that off a bit, like all right, I'm not going out tonight or no, I'm only going to stay till 12. Like I'll, I'll spend the early set. I'm staying at 12. Cause I got to go home so I got to class at nine o'clock and I need to like get get some sleep for it. Like, and that actually like made me switch that to that really say, oh, this is like really like a lifestyle thing that I like and, um, you know, with with that happening, like the DJ world was still good. I just start to now manage that time better, a lot better People, people were respected, people were like damn, you really leaving. I'm like, yeah, like I got, I got gym in the morning.
Speaker 1:I'm like fine, I need that sleep. I see you post about like a shout out to the people that could go off for like five hours of sleep. I'd be like going to sleep. I see a re story until about 11 o'clock at night. I wake up the next morning. You already got two workouts in by the time. I'm making my smoothie at 6 am. I'm like this man crazy.
Speaker 2:That is the mentality I still have. Look, I don't know how long I'm going to hold on to that and how long I got that in me, but until then, I'm going to keep it rolling. I'm going to keep it rolling, I'm going to keep it fucking rolling.
Speaker 1:So, on the DJ thing, a way that we met was a CrossFit event right Phoenix Classic, Dave's Barbell. That's where we first met at. Tell me what's the first crossfit competition you saw in person, like not the open, like either a local comp, something like I know that uh, what's the call? Was up in albany back in the days.
Speaker 2:tell me what it was yeah, uh, first one I want is a local one. Actually, uh, if I can say that, like it was a local competition um at around my way and um that a lot of my gym members at the time were competing in, so and it was actually it was funny it was on my wedding day, like I was getting married that day, but my whole like literally like we, it was a teams of four and we at my gym, price cresswell, shrewsbury, probably sent five teams like to that to this competition. So I went over there just to go support them and then kind of watch how dope that was. I was like, oh, it's pretty cool, they're competing and doing stuff. I didn't know exactly what competitions were until I seen that Everyone's like why are you here? I'm like, well, yeah, I know I'm getting. They're like you're getting married, why are you here? My wedding's not until 6 o'clock. It's only 10 o'clock right now.
Speaker 1:I got time, but like just watching them.
Speaker 2:Huh, it's a quick pop-up, you good quick pop-up, that's it. Like it wasn't like I was competing in it, but you know, and like I watched my owners, the owners, uh they were, they were throwing down, the coaches were throwing down and the members, like it was. It was really dope to see and I was like kind of like super inspired by by that and I was like, oh, I'm gonna try that one day, one day when I'm think I'm ready right.
Speaker 1:So at that time, were you still just athlete, were you coaching? Yet what were you just?
Speaker 2:oh, I'm still a year. I'm just an athlete. Still, I'm still like a year. This is 2013, 2013. Yeah, so I'm like I'm a year in, uh, still like a year. This is 2013, 2013. Yeah, so I'm like I'm a year in uh, still like learning the movements, still confident in what I was doing, but, like you know, it was still kind of like figuring shit out and all that. But like, at the same time, I'm just kind of getting the nerves up to build it. Uh, build my nerves up to do a competition, which eventually happened later in 2014. I did my first competition down at Ocean CrossFit yeah.
Speaker 2:It was something Like it was kind of like oh man, this is what it's like to kind of compete and like throw down.
Speaker 1:Of course, nerves are like there Did you have any like oh shit moments yeah.
Speaker 2:Like oh shit, like something happened you're like're like.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I wish that went better and looking back at uh, yeah, I remember looking back at it, like you know what I didn't feel too. I didn't feel so out of place because I like, again, I have, we had, we had what eight people from the gym like kind of throw that, like compete at the thing, so like I felt in, like some of the, some of the heats, I went with them. So like I felt okay in the sense of like, all right, I got my dog with me, like they're here, they're throwing down, then my people's here, uh, cheering us on. Actually, my first born she was. She was, uh, two weeks, three weeks, three weeks old at the time and my wife brought her there for a little bit. No, she didn't stay long, but brought her there.
Speaker 2:That was just kind of a pretty dope moment, just like, all right, I got my newborn here. She don't know what the hell's happening, but just the fact that her energy was there it made me confident. I remember there was a thruster ladder there, boy, I, because I hate thrusters and there was a thruster ladder and I was just like what the fuck? And uh, but I remember like looking over at at the kid and like, all right, like calm down, because I was just like shitting bricks. That was actually my old shit moment. I was just shitting bricks. I was like I'm sorry, just fucking thrust the ladder like what, like I can't do this shit, and then, like you know, yeah, look over to the kid, calm my nerves down a bit and then got through. It didn't do well, but like I still got through, just managing to survive. I survived, exactly I survived I survived, bro I.
Speaker 1:I remember my first comp was a festivus at uh, fearless athletics in philly and the strength was a, I think, a thruster complex like a clean and a thruster, something like that. I'm like this is trash. I never want to do this kind of strength event ever again. I hate a thruster as the strength event. It's the worst thing ever.
Speaker 2:I hate that too. What's so funny is that full circle moment, kind of sort of like I'm doing that same competition. That was the first one. Circle moment, kind of sort of like I'm doing the same, that same competition. That was the first one. I'm doing it again in two weeks. One of my boys is asking me to do uh, he's like yo, what like can't you want to do the comp? Because he's like I need something to train for. He's like yo, can I? Um, you know you want to do this comp with me and I was like, yeah, why not?
Speaker 1:so um looking at their looking at their workouts.
Speaker 2:you know workouts are cool, but the strength one is a one rep max thruster. I was like God Last time I did this competition. It was the damn fucking thrust of the ladder. I was like perfect, here we go again.
Speaker 1:Things repeat themselves.
Speaker 2:This is all good yeah.
Speaker 1:You grew up in two crazy music seas too, like Baltimore and Jersey.
Speaker 2:You spend any time out in dc yeah, I like I didn't live in dc but like we was out there like dc's what 40? That's the sea. Yep, we used to take the 295 to to to dc and um, we was there for, like you know, 45, 45 minutes to get there. So I used to spend out there, I used to hang out there. We have peoples out there that we go see and hang and kick it with. Dc is a nice little time out there, nice little vibe.
Speaker 2:I was always a Baltimore guy. I just like Baltimore. Baltimore is still like.
Speaker 1:It's a little bit more crimey. I like that yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, dc, don't get it twisted. Dc had its spots that we were like go.
Speaker 1:Oh, for sure yeah.
Speaker 2:Maybe like, oh, like, I remember going off to one gig and you know, seeing I, actually I've had a gig out there. Now it took. My brother came with me and a bunch of my friends from Jersey. We drove down there and we was going to the club and finding getting some parking, fucking around seeing somebody get shot, right in the street. I was like, yeah, and my brother never seen, like never seen or it was like in round and he's fucking traumatized and I was like pop off right in front of you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right, right, yo front of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right in front of him. Right in front of him. Yo, speaking of parking, yo, we talked about that show power before, right. Yeah, yo, you know what used to piss me off about power so much? The original drawing with ghost. He would always pull up, him and tommy both, and park in midtown manhattan and it'd be sweet, be all good. They pull up, park it right out, make a hit, pull off, though that's not happening. That used to piss me off so much.
Speaker 2:I remember seeing something like that how the hell do they just pull up and get the prime real estate parking and then do a hit and then be out. How does that happen? Every fucking time?
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 2:They always used to have a fucking thing open for them right there, ain't no way.
Speaker 1:In the episode where where ghost tricks them and gets lobos and tommy locked up, tommy pulls in the scene or they got to pull up to the hotel, tommy pulls right up parks in front of the hotel, gets out and goes in for the meeting like he's gonna be there for a while. There's no way that would happen. There's no way. You're not parking a blue mustang right here like. That's no way dog at all at all.
Speaker 2:They used to get away with some shit on that. Show them writers. They they were. There was something. There was something with them, right did you?
Speaker 1:did you watch the other shows? Have you watched the tommy john? Have you watched I? I?
Speaker 2:tried, I tried, I just couldn't get into him. I couldn't like. I tried to watch his son. What's his name? Mom Tariq? I tried to watch Tariq's show a few times. It just didn't click with me. I don't know, I just couldn't get into it.
Speaker 1:And even that one was more. You got to really suspend belief with that one. They be doing some crazy shit.
Speaker 2:Only one I really got into was Kanan. That's the best one. That was the best one. I rocked with that one. That was the one I was like all right, I'm in it.
Speaker 1:I might like that one a little bit better than the OG power. Maybe not the first season, but then the one after that where the girl overdoses and then Marvin to start becoming a bigger character. That story might be better than the OG power.
Speaker 2:I think you know what. I would agree with you. I would agree with you. I would think it's like that. Yeah, yeah, Because this one was just way more I don't know like it just had more angles. It was more captivating, Right.
Speaker 1:They acted. They acted in the storyline. You know, in power it was a lot of like sex and drugs, violence. That's mostly what the show is about, and this one, like they really tell the story and that's what I like yeah, yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 2:I. I'll be honest, I still gotta catch up on a couple episodes of the last season, because I I watched a few of them and then, like I just got wrapped around with shit and I didn't even finish watching them, so I gotta watch it, like the last one I seen is I don't know, I really only seen like one episode of that season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I gotta go watch the end of that season. It's good it was. It took. I remember watching it and it took me like all the early beginning of the season didn't hit, but by the end it's. And it took me all the early beginning of the season and then it hit, but by the end it's good. It does end good because Marvin got a crazy storyline. That's my dude now. That's my dude. You've worked CrossFit events. You've DJed, obviously clubs, all kinds of night sees. Tell me the difference between the vibe that you're bringing to either one like a hype CrossFit event versus a night at the club.
Speaker 2:I mean so like they. They run hand in hand, but you can definitely feel different energies between the two, and that's what I I I'll be honest, like I love the CrossFit events a lot, a lot more than like the nightclubs. I mean, because nightclubs is don't get a twist Like they're dope, because people are coming out to come out to enjoy themselves, have some fun, you know, and it's more. It's more than just playing the music. You know, playing the right music. I do like taking people on a journey, musical journey, with my sets. I'm never just like plug and play or, oh, I'm pulling top 40 from Spotify or some bullshit like that. Like now, like you're going to go, I'm going to take you on this musical journey depending on how I feel, depending on where I'm at. You know we're going to run through some records that you may have forgot about, but some new shit, but then bring it back and forth and then just create this vibe and this energy that crowds appreciate, appreciate. Um, when it and it's good because it again it's it's it's a refreshing feel of all right. What I do to provide people a solid night out for whatever that they got going on in life. Like that's servicing them to kind of just get away from it all, get away from reality and just have some fun for four hours or however however long you're rocking with me, um, and I love that, and I love that.
Speaker 2:I do think, though, too, like because of you know, like the nightclub scenes, like you know, alcohol is a part of it. So, you know, some people are a little bit more influenced by shit, and they may or may not remember, they just kind of flow with it, whatever, and that's fine. Whatever device is right, cool, cool, whatever. I think it's more, it sticks more in the crossfit world because, like, when I go to do these crossfit events, like I I'm playing the music, still gotta play the right vibes, right music for whatever events it might be.
Speaker 2:But I also now get in tune to to be on the mic. I'm on the mic when I'm in the clubs too, don't get it wrong. Like I do both, but like it sticks more, it's more. I think just is really like you, you hear me and you're not like influenced by anything else besides just your adrenaline, but like I'm able to provide you that, that heightness and just like get into your ear like that. I always think back to the moment. Uh with um doing a clean ladder, uh at at sarah's, at the uh babes and barbell and just like getting in there yeah, that was that was lit like.
Speaker 2:It was just like getting in there. Yeah, that was lit Like. It was just like people. I was just at another gym a couple of weeks ago at their. They invited me over System Athletics. They invited me to their holiday party, like they had a holiday gathering, so went over there and they were just like a couple of people that was there that competed, like was just telling me again like yo, like it wasn't for you, like you, just this, this, this, this, this, this, this, like I I wouldn't hit a PR. And I was like see, like people remember that stuff and like that's so dope to me, like I love that and I love when I go around into these different events and and able to provide this, this energy that they may.
Speaker 2:The same songs like you know, everyone has a set playlist, whatever, whatever, but then to be able to now give you a hyper playlist, but also you get me to now bring that energy up a bit more, tap it more. That just take you right where you need to be yeah, one low level that you need, and then it just gives you that spark to fucking go off and do your thing. And and now you're like yo, I did this, like dang, and you did it, you helped me and I'm like, yeah, thank you Not to say I don't want to praise this work, like it's me just doing what I do because I love to see what that brings out of people. Like I know, like if you have, first and foremost, like if you have like an extra voice in your head telling you like yo, come on, like let's roll, let's get this, let's like, don't give up, let's, let's, let's crush the shit, you know you're going to put a little bit more effort into it. So just being able to provide that and just know, like the experience for a lot of these athletes when they're competing is now taken to another level.
Speaker 2:Like I love to to do that and and you know, being this probably was my biggest year of like hosting competitions, like shit, I think 10,. I think I did this year, all this last year, I think, which is cool, like you know, and I would love to do more of them, but like it was just like the word was getting around, like man, he did this over here, he did this over there. Like, bring him in, bring him in, him in. I love to do that like, and I'm like shit, if I can keep keep doing this more and more, like I'll replace all my other gigs and events and let's get active and let's do, uh, some more of these yeah, yo, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:On on that note, I was gonna message you about this, but I wanted to ask you on episode man, I'm opening the gym up. This is the first episode and I'm recording into space, bro, oh word, yeah, I, I, yeah, I wanted to save it for this one. I was like, let's do this. You know, it worked out that we had to reschedule, you know, because I could still come in here and do this. I got the Wi-Fi in now, so we lit, but a month today's the 7th, tomorrow's the 8th my grand opening is going to be Saturday, february 8th, and while I could be on the mic and get direct to people, I would rather be able to, you know, really be in the community and get a vibe going with them. So I wanted to ask you, man, if you're available, would you like to come out and be the DJ and hold it down and and create the vibes here on great opening day?
Speaker 2:Say less, say less. I am coming to hungry dog. I'm coming over there, baby.
Speaker 1:Let's fucking do it. Let's go, dog. I was excited about that. I'm like yo. I wanted to ask if we got this date set up. Man, like we'll, we'll talk about it on there. Then I get to get the calendar set up I'm excited for you.
Speaker 2:I seen that you was doing that and I was like, opening up, I was like, oh, my man's getting it. I was like that's dope and um, you know from, because I I run, I run my gym too. Uh, co-owner of my, uh, crossfit. So the gym that I started at, now I'm co-owner of it, uh, going on five years of it. So I I get like you know the the fun and the trials and tribulations that you know going through is getting the ownerships and the permits and all that fun stuff. But now just to see another guy, especially you, um becoming an owner and like extending your knowledge to, to the communities that you're about to take into, is so awesome. I'm happy for you, I'm proud of you and like, is that whatever I can help with to for you? Like, I'm with it, like, let's do it, let's do it thank you, brother.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's the whole thing about crossover. We keep going back to it and and I go back to it with so many people that come on here like that community Just meeting someone at an event, follow them on Instagram and then start wrapping back and forth, and then it's like all right, let's do this together. We can touch more people, we can impact even more than we could just separate. So it's 100%.
Speaker 2:We build that up. We build that up and like that's, that's so dope. Like you said, like community is like that, like you can just connect with people one time at an event and then you exchange the info and now y'all build them more and more often, you know, through the socials and through behind the scenes, and then like start these ideas and now everything's starting to come together. You build up and now you create together and then then do shit together and then that attracts more.
Speaker 1:Like you said, it's easier to do things together, um, and to reach out to more people together, than doing it separate, right you know? So I got the last two questions for you. First, like you, you've already done so much like it. You, you talk about it like humbly, but you've done a lot right, like over this past 10 50 year time period. Like, touch a lot of people Like what are you hungry for now? Like, what do you want to do next?
Speaker 2:Oh, man, like oh, that's a good question I'm hungry and you know what I? Well, I, I love to, I'm I cause I'm just in that service industry. I've always been in the service industry just to whether it's on the DJ side, taking care of people's events, making sure that they have an experience, a memorable night, wherever it might be, weddings, all that fun stuff, and then even on the fitness side of things, making sure that they have that experience too and their growth. Like I just want to see I want to see people around me grow and I want to see whoever I can help impact that way in any facet of life. I can tell people, like my members know, especially like inside and outside the gym, like I'm so there for them, like I'm a part therapist, part time therapist, maybe full time therapist, like low key, like with everyone at the under, underpaid, part-time, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2:But I like that. Like I like that, since I like for people and they know like that I'm there for them from the physical side of things, also on the mental side of things and like just to help people just grow better, to be better humans, whatever that might look like for them. Uh, look like for, yeah, whatever that might look like for them, like I, I want to be better humans, whatever that might look like for them. Uh, look like for, yeah, whatever that might look like for them, like I, I want to be a part of that or help contribute that. Um, and in a non-selfish way, like again, like it's not about me, like it's just like, hey, how can I help you? And that's just like always been my just thing of disservice and people.
Speaker 2:Now, if I flip it and to say what do I want for myself and what am I hungry for? Like I'm hungry to get out there with more like competitions, like I do want to. While I love hosting them, I do like to compete in them too. Like I do like to have some fun, while I'm not like your A1 high level athlete, I do like just to kind of step out there and just like show what I got. Like you know, prove myself, like I can do this and I can do that. Show what I got, like you know, prove myself like, oh, I can do this and I can do that. Like, just put my fitness on the line. Like you know, I train, I like to train and like you know, I like to test my training from time to time.
Speaker 2:So I do like getting out there with these cops and like yeah, you know, it's like you know Venice and show, show what it's about. And like, show, show, show people around me to like what you can be capable of if you wanted to, if you applied yourself and like kind of just like, lead the charge and buy through experience and just through my telescope of things. And you know, people know that, know me, know I get my ass up at fucking three, I wake up 320 and then work out at 4, uh, 15, 4, 30 in the morning, five days a week, you know, and that's just like what it has to be. So, like you can't like I want people to understand you don't have you, there's no excuses for if you want something you can't go get it. Like everyone's like, oh, there's not enough hours in a day.
Speaker 2:I was like actually there, you can like, I know it sounds cliche, you know, but like you can make the time I get up early, like, oh well, you, you have to. I'm like, well, I don't have to, I want to like, I'm disciplined enough to do it, and it's not about motivating, it's about being disciplined, because this is what I want to do and like just to give people a uh, just hope and just like, all right, if he can do this, cool, I can get up and do this. Or I can put some sort of a type of change into my day and just kind of lead by example. Lead by example. But yeah, I like to get out there on the floor complete compete, show, show my members, like yo look like, hey, this is your coach. Like he's out here throwing down, right, you can do it too. Type of deal the example.
Speaker 1:I love that. You know. A big like mantra for me in 2025 is like, not maybe not everything, but most things you want lie on the other side of discipline, right, like discipline from creating a habit, and like you can achieve everything through commitment. Like you can achieve anything you want through commitment, you know so I I love that. You just said that, like yo, we all got the same 24. Like I choose to do this because I want this out of it. So, yeah, just do your x's and Y's out there. But what you were saying before leads me right into like tell me what you got up for 2025. Tell me events you're going to be at, anything you got planned you want to compete at. Tell me what you got going on so far.
Speaker 2:What we got. So I was actually just running through my list the other day of like things I'm competing at. I'm trying to throw a little couple more things on the menu, but right now, like I know, I got a competition coming up in a couple weeks. So you know, me and my boy Lev, we're going to throw down an ocean CrossFit competition. There's a local comp. Would have loved to have done Waterpalooza.
Speaker 2:I was messing around and I'm just coming back from a shoulder injury too. So, like I dislocated my shoulder back in July, july, messing around on the damn slip and slide, like stay away. Slipping tequila and slipping slides don't mix, ladies and gentlemen, they do. So you know it's been, it's been a but and that's also probably another reason, probably why I want to get back out there and compete, because I got, you know, coming back from this injury, like all right, let's see what what I can do like, and it's been good recovery so far. So I'm just itching to kind of just do some more things. So I got that comp coming. I mean, the Open is coming and the Open I'm like eh about. Like I'm really not that I don't care, but like eh.
Speaker 1:It's coming. Yeah, it's going to happen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, what I think for me with the open is just I like to make it more about my, my members, my members, like in all the first timers in there. Like that's just one of those those times that like I really channel energy, like me and my partner Steph, we channel our energy into them and just like make sure that they have an experience. So like it's hard for me to put focus on what I I would want to do and for me, like I said, it's just not for me, that's not the end, all be all. I don't even care, like if there's a couple guys that just started crossfit or never done, never done an open before I want them to have that experience and make sure it's like a, a good one, and just like for them to understand. So like I'll put all the energy around the open towards towards the gym and the members, but then after that it's back on me. It's back on me.
Speaker 2:High rocks, doing a high rocks. What's that? In New York one we got Asbury park games that I'm doing, battle by the bay Marathon, running the marathon two marathons this year, maybe three If I can get into New York, that'd be awesome. But yeah, I got a marathon in April, that's the Jersey City, Got the Philly in November and then I would love to run in New York, but we'll see. I know you got to get bids and all that. I don't know how that's going to go.
Speaker 1:My buddy just got in. He just posted yesterday that he just got in. I'm like damn and it's crazy. They say it's never going to be for me, but I think it's really dope that he does this. He does marathons worldwide. He did one in Tokyo over 2024 summer and he the world stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, now he's doing new york. Yeah, that's dope. I admire that for you, that ain't for me, but I admire the hell out of that good for you.
Speaker 1:I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got buddies that do that stuff too, like they'll go all over the place to go run these marathons and like they're just nuts. They're also ultra runners. Actually, they're the guys who got me into like running I was gonna say is that is that?
Speaker 1:is that? That sounds like what's gonna be next for you to ultra, something bigger than a marathon oh man, like you got like that it's I have to.
Speaker 2:I have to really have a really deep love for it. I have a love for running. Don't get it twisted. Like I like I love. I love it what it's, what it's got going on for me now, but like that's really like stepping back from the crossfit things. I just can't step away from crossfit like I like I love. Yeah, that.
Speaker 2:I love that style of training. Crossfit training is so much like it's hard for me to like step, even like to train for a marathon. Like you're supposed to dial back a bit, like I still aren't like here and here with it.
Speaker 1:Like it's the line.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, like my runs probably suffer a bit because I still I'm out here fucking still doing squats, squat cleans and shit yeah.
Speaker 1:But like.
Speaker 2:I just can't stop. Like you know, it's just always going to be part of what I do forever. And like I like I just like the style of the cluster training. So like, well, I'll just supplement it or find a way for marathon training, just kind of flow into it all Um. And then, yeah, I'm just hosting a bunch of these, like the ones I can't actually participate in. I'll be hosting them, like I already have like gyms from last year already reaching out to host theirs. I got some new gyms that's reaching out for their competitions to host this upcoming year. So it's going to be pretty big. So if anyone knows to connect to get to the games, let me know. Like, hey, I'm ready to go out there. Make some noise out there yeah, I was talking about.
Speaker 1:I was talking about that with burn like two weeks ago. Dog man for real. If anyone knows the plugs, please send them. Send them through dm, through something like that. You know we'll love that, we'll love to do this. I feel you, I feel I. I see you wide up, a loser like you, hosting out on the floor with the mic in your hand, and your future, I definitely see that coming up soon. We got to do. Oh, new barbell being dropped off right now.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:I feel that future coming for you, dog. I'm trying to manifest it for you. That'd be lit.
Speaker 2:And I appreciate that. That's what I like to hear, that's why I want to channel, that's why I want a channel. That's why I want a channel Just like get that, just like that energy, like right there, like that's. Even if that's the start, let's say, hey, we're at Waterpalooza Now, I'm not competing, but I'm on the mic and I'm just out there doing that set, and that'd be a win right there already for me. So that's, that's right. I would like that. I want that, I want that.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah at all things in 2025 are going forward, man. Yes, sir Remy, it's been great having you on the podcast, bro, it's been a great conversation dog.
Speaker 2:You got anything else for the people at the end here. If you're not following me already on the socials, just hit me up. Remyb, remy B. I got playlists, I got mixes, all that on the DJ side of things. You need me to come hype up some events, man, I'm in it, I'm with it, I'm with it. Just let me know Sponsorships. I got a ton of them, you know, from food to clothing, all that fun stuff. And February 8th yeah, february 8th, baby Coming down there.
Speaker 1:Yo, it's going to be a movement man, and if you got that plug for the games water, Palooza, rogue, something like that Sit it through. Yeah, I already know, it's been another great episode. Man, we go get out of here. Peace, all right, y'all, hell yeah.