Nerdout & Workout Podcast
Dive into the Nerdout & Workout Podcast, where the universes of fandom and fitness converge into a dynamic journey of empowerment, exploration, and inclusivity. Our mission is twofold: obliterate gymtimidation and champion a realm where not only the underdogs and dark horses flourish but also where every individual feels seen and heard, especially when it comes to mental health.
Navigating through the worlds of sweat-soaked gym sessions and mythical fan theories, we extend our exploration to encompass the touching realities of fatherhood, the vibrant experiences of travel, the savory adventures of food, the spirited world of football, and crucially, the oft-overlooked discussions around mental health - particularly in men.
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Nerdout & Workout Podcast
The Business of Food: From Cookie Dreams to Ramen Reality
When passion meets purpose, magic happens—but so does hard work, doubt, and countless challenges. In this riveting conversation, Coach Austin and Kevin welcome Justin Rire (known to many as "the face of Cisco") for an authentic exploration of entrepreneurship and passion projects.
The episode begins with lighthearted banter about food discoveries in Los Angeles, where Justin describes finding extraordinary culinary gems in unexpected places. This seamlessly transitions into a spirited discussion about K-pop culture, with Justin revealing himself as a knowledgeable enthusiast, breaking down how K-pop groups are systematically created for success—a business model in itself.
The heart of the conversation tackles entrepreneurship through two powerful examples: Christy's "Chubby Monster Treats" cookie business and Austin's experience in the food industry. They don't sugarcoat the journey, addressing financial anxieties, competition, and the emotional rollercoaster of building something from scratch. "There's 9-to-5 broke and entrepreneur broke," Austin explains, highlighting how business owners face unique pressures when payroll looms but funds are limited.
What makes this episode exceptional is its honesty about entrepreneurship's challenges alongside its inspiring message about perseverance. Justin shares how his wife pivoted after being laid off, turning her baking talent into a growing business. Meanwhile, Austin unveils his nonprofit Silicon Valley Strength Society, creating inclusive sports programs for underserved youth that combine quality coaching with addressing food insecurity.
Whether you're nurturing a business idea, building a community initiative, or simply trying to turn passion into purpose, this conversation offers both practical wisdom and emotional support. The journey isn't easy, but as these three friends demonstrate, it's the conviction in your vision that carries you through the toughest moments.
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What is up everyone? It's Coach Austin here with your Nerd Out and Workout.
Speaker 2:Podcast.
Speaker 1:Where we nerd out workout and podcast With my co-host, kevin Irap Aramagon.
Speaker 3:What's up, what's up y'all.
Speaker 1:And we are joined by a good friend of ours, Justin Rere.
Speaker 3:Hello everybody, it's so good to be here.
Speaker 1:If you don't know, he is the face of Cisco.
Speaker 3:Face of.
Speaker 1:Cisco. If you are hired by Cisco, you work for Cisco have worked for. Cisco, you've seen him in your inbox lurking.
Speaker 3:This is Mr C. This is Mr Cisco, right here.
Speaker 1:We are looking for an NIL deal for Rere.
Speaker 3:I'll take it, I'll fight to the death. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:Hey, this man.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying Welcome, Rere.
Speaker 2:Thanks, man, it's good to be here. I had to be here, man, I had to be here for Rere.
Speaker 3:So, we made the trip, got back an hour ago, so we're good to go.
Speaker 2:That's crazy it was good man.
Speaker 3:You know what? It was raining. There was really weird. I was like driving on the 57 and I was like why the fuck is it raining, dude? It's freaking july, you know, and it was just weird, dude, but it was cool. It wasn't too hot, you know, the vibes were good out there and uh, yeah, business or pleasure uh, a bit of both more, just like just to kind of get away clear the head a little bit.
Speaker 3:you see, some people I haven't seen in a while good friends, stuff, like that I met up with. It's really funny because we went to this restaurant Union in Pasadena Shout out to our boy, jason out there. He started with us as a dishwasher, 17-year-old dishwasher. He's now the sous chef of Union Pasadena so we had to say what's up.
Speaker 3:So we checked them out and it's cool what they do with their menu. At the bottom they name all their chefs that work in the kitchen and I made them sign it. I made them sign it because I'm like you're gonna be famous one day and I'm gonna sell it on eBay he's about to be on Hell's Kitchen like that's my guy.
Speaker 2:That's my guy, dude yeah.
Speaker 3:So we just wanna see how he's doing and, yeah, he's killing it out there he's grinding it out. It's a union in Pasadena, yeah it's like an Italian restaurant, so they had, like you know, like like handmade pastas and in-house sorbets and stuff. It was really, really delicious stuff. So, yeah, check him out for sure did you like guest spots?
Speaker 2:did you go back there and like?
Speaker 3:I did in because I didn't want anyone to be like, oh, do you need a table? I'm like no, so the host had left Right. So I was just like let me just walk in there, so I walked in there and he was standing right on the pass and I just like stared at him for like 10 seconds. Then he looked at me. He was like oh hey.
Speaker 3:I was like, hey, what's up man? So then we actually got a table and then we ate. We weren't supposed to eat. Did he comp it for you? He sent us. You know what? He styled us out he sent us some dishes they've been working on and stuff like that. So it was like we taught him. Well he knows how to take care of his people. Shout out to him and it was crazy because it was our second dinner.
Speaker 2:We weren't really trying to eat, because we ate somewhere else, and If food tastes good on your second dinner, it's good food. That's really great If you're full and you're like, oh, this is good, y'all have more.
Speaker 3:It was wild dude, it was funny too, because our waitress was like oh, we're doing dessert and we're all like yeah, what do you got? It's like oh, let's do that. Then, like we have like six different flavors and everyone's like I want this, I want that, and I'm like you guys want to do a flight? We're like yeah, let's do a flight. And, dude, she brought all six flavors out and there is these ginormous scoops and I'm like this is not a.
Speaker 3:Some of the flavors were cool, you know, and we finished those, but we didn't finish all of it?
Speaker 2:What was the best flavor? So people know.
Speaker 3:Oh dude, they had passion fruit. Okay, if you like tart Like flavor, oh my god, a tart sorbet Is like best way to finish Mmm.
Speaker 4:They have chocolate.
Speaker 3:I don't think they make Chocolate sorbet bro. That's called ice cream, ice cream bro.
Speaker 2:That's called a Wendy's Frosty bro that's what it is.
Speaker 3:That's as close to a chocolate sorbet, as you'll get that's true the best fried dip ever yeah, but yeah, got out there, just saw some friends and skedaddled, you know get back here chin in ramen ramen.
Speaker 3:I did not eat any ramen out there. I did go to this udon spot in uh, near costa mesa okay, shout out, jess, because she taught she brought me there last time, so I brought my chef there nice, what's great about it's like they make their own noodles, right. So he had like the uh shabu shabu udon and I had a uh cold dipping, uh soba I love soba. Like the soba noodles are so fucking good, man. It literally like this place is so fucking small, like we're like sitting like this. We're big two fat guys. Man, it literally like this place is so fucking small, like we're like sitting like this. We're big two fat guys. They're just like this shit's so good, dude. And we're just like we can't even like we're so scared that someone's gonna walk next to us and we're like gonna kill them and shit.
Speaker 3:But it was. It was so worth it, dude, it was so freaking good bro. So yeah you the link if you're ever in uh what's it called?
Speaker 2:I don't even know what it's called I just have a link and I just saved in my, my yelp, so I was like you, talking about hella good food, got 55 minutes left with no food. I ain't trying to blow up the spot.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean. But I mean you gotta keep it try to gatekeep a little bit.
Speaker 2:All right, he shows up next time. He's just like no room for you, bro.
Speaker 3:Sorry, hey, if there's no room because people saw this episode, then you know that's fine If you can figure it out. You know what I mean Mission accomplished, Mission accomplished.
Speaker 2:You gotta give like another hint, bro. Like there was like a green lantern on like the edge of the. Oh my God, you've been there. No, I'm just kidding, I was over the red light. I've been there.
Speaker 3:Tell me where this is Avoid this as a responsible husband, yeah yeah, yeah, Of course of course. And father, you wouldn't know, because it's next to like a rundown, like bookstore or something, and then next to a donut shop. So it's like a literal hole in the wall.
Speaker 2:That's like 10 different places in LA. Those are the best though.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's cool man, Because he's a big K-pop fan.
Speaker 3:Our last episode we were talking about.
Speaker 1:K-pop demon hunters and he was blowing my phone up about dude you got to do this you got to do this, you got to listen to this and this and this. I'm like yo dude, this is awesome, great show, bro. So did you watch it before it got hype, or you just kind of?
Speaker 2:watched it. So we're really late on watching stuff, right? So we're really late on watching stuff, right. So like we're busy, I'm hooping a lot, I'm like playing video games. So if we can't be free at this, my wife and I can be free. At the same time we hold it. And so, like we both knew we wanted to watch, so that's how I watched it, like two weeks late, but, um, when we finally saw it, oh man, beautiful again like okay, you said something you're like. You're like the story, mid, animation, mid.
Speaker 3:But for some reason, it's just so good, it's so good, it's so good, like it's crazy like you knew what was gonna happen, yeah, but it was just so good, like nothing surprised me, but I was like oh yeah, but still like 10 out of 10.
Speaker 2:11 out of 10 100 bro so my best friend, brian, I invited him over because he doesn't have Netflix anymore, so I was like you just watch it once, bro. He like for two days he watched it five times on my TV, bro, and he was like I can't get it when I'm home, so I gotta get it now bro, I gotta get my K-pop Demon Hunters Like dude.
Speaker 2:Come on, bro, it's like there was like a hole in my couch from you sitting and watching. Bro. It's crazy. Not two times in like one sitting, but you watch it five times you watch it five times in one sitting.
Speaker 1:It's that good. It's good, it's fire man. I mean, when Free came on, that guy was like why am?
Speaker 2:I getting emotional right now. You're like I need to be free.
Speaker 1:I was like no dude, because the lyrics they hit you man, I was like yo, so out of all that, what was your favorite?
Speaker 2:bro, I'm not going to lie bro. Dirty Tiger, I love Dirty Tiger. Yes, he's hilarious bro when he came out, I was like in tears Like why am I laughing Because he was just putting up a pot over and over?
Speaker 1:again, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I also like during like the was it Baymax movie? Was it a super whatever Baymax?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah. What movie is that?
Speaker 2:and so like. Of course, derpy Tiger made me laugh the most no but the music was really good. I'm a big Twice fan so like I love that Takedown. Takedown was on there and I knew so. I heard a lot of the music before because you couldn't. If you're on social media, you're hearing the music all day long yeah, yeah, yeah and big K-pop fans.
Speaker 2:So I just thought they did a really good job of like showing what a K k-pop concerts like and like I've been to maybe like eight k-pop concerts and like I've been to a ton of concerts before that and just just normal concerts like girls screaming, like guys singing along, whatever. But k-pop is like legit. Everyone has like this like a hundred dollar freaking light stick yeah yeah they're expensive dude and, like everybody has, like cards and shirts and like their biases, like their favorites on there.
Speaker 2:This is like a thing they're like hardcore bro, yeah, and I show up, show up and I'm like, oh, I like the music, but who's your favorite? And I was like, I mean, they're all pretty, it's cool. No.
Speaker 1:Who's your favorite?
Speaker 2:You're not a real fan, I'm like I paid my ticket right.
Speaker 4:I'm sitting in front of you bro what are you doing All of? Their life Pick one.
Speaker 3:You're not a real fan bro.
Speaker 2:So like I watch enough about them. But I don't Like some people watch like hours of like their interviews and like know all the little details about them, like, oh, like her left pinky's, like this big and like, but I'm just like that's been a while dude. Well, that's like Backst at the.
Speaker 3:Sphere they're playing right there right now, everyone go watch them. Right now.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, vegas, yeah dude well, I know Rere's favorite is Abby, because Abby was basically Rere minus the pink hair right, yeah, pink hair, yeah, yeah. I was like dude, if you were a soldier boys you'd be.
Speaker 2:But I became Abby because of you, bro, because I started training with you 176 pounds of muscle damn who would?
Speaker 3:you be Austin, if you're one of the Saja boys shit, I don't know, derpy tiger yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2:You even do. You're colored like derpy tiger right now. Yeah, that's true, that's crazy. He's a big, he has like snaggletooth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah yeah, that's so good, bro. I mean, it's a trash can.
Speaker 2:I also laughed way too hard at the line of like oh, like, why does that bird have a hat? And it's like oh, I made it for the tiger, but the bird keeps stealing it. Yeah, dude, I thought that was genius bro.
Speaker 4:You know the background of that.
Speaker 1:Oh, how like they kind of talked about it.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I don't know. This Like the tiger represents royalty. Oh, and the bird represents like common people.
Speaker 1:Oh, so the tiger's royalty like the king and all that, and the bird is like the common folk and the hat represents authority and so the hat was supposed to be for the tiger. Interesting, but then the bird keeps taking it, because the power always belongs to the people.
Speaker 2:That's sick. I didn't know that I got chills.
Speaker 1:I don't know if someone's talking out of their ass.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I was like what? Let us know in the comments. If that's true, Is that?
Speaker 3:true.
Speaker 1:Is that true or is that bullshit?
Speaker 3:Yeah, Because it sounds cool, it good actually.
Speaker 1:I'm bought in bro, yeah because like the tiger, you would think, is like this tiger can eat the bird.
Speaker 2:That's sick, but the bird can fly, and the tiger can't.
Speaker 1:Bird had three eyes on each side.
Speaker 2:Six, six eyes. We corrected you. Hella fast. You corrected yourself, but you got there faster, I get you.
Speaker 1:Son of a bitch. What was it? So you know twice. So I was confused Because I don't know. I didn't know how big these girl bands are.
Speaker 4:Like they said, twice. There's only three girls who sang Takedown, but Twice has like nine of them Nine of them.
Speaker 1:yeah, so are they the top three who sang it?
Speaker 2:The leader Gio is in there. The leader she got abs, bro, which?
Speaker 1:one's that.
Speaker 2:Jihyo, she's um, she had like big round eyes, super abs. Yeah, that's a lot of them, bro. And then Was she the one in the middle, probably Because there's Jungyeon and she's like the famous Not famous, but like Jungyeon has had weight problems, so like she's always a little bit bigger, so like she's a good singer. And the other one's Cha Young, which is like one of the prettier girls that Americans like, and so she's a rapper too, but she's also very pretty.
Speaker 3:Oh nice, oh okay.
Speaker 1:But I don't know which part they play because I haven't, like watched the video of them doing it enough to like tell you too, okay, but I was always one of like because I was like twice with like three girls, like three girls, but then there was like nine of them.
Speaker 2:There was nine of them they've been doing this for 10 years.
Speaker 3:Like their 10 year anniversary was like earlier this year, like last year, and yeah, they started when they were like 17 to like 19 or something so were they part of like like an agency where they just like, yeah for sure, where they get a bunch of girls together and then, like they like, pick the top three and they put them together and see if they have chemistry? There's a whole thing about what they create, these groups.
Speaker 2:They engineer it. It's just like how you're building like Summer League, whatever. You're building a football team. You invite all the people that want to come play, you do tryouts and you find the top 20%. Now you try out and now we found out who has chemistry. What plays can you run, like? You can sing, you can rap, you can dance, you can do all three, but you can only sing at this register. You can sing at this register, damn. Like. You got different tones to your voice. So how can we put you together to build like a full thing? So if we make a song, every part can be covered, different melodies and harmonies can happen, and it's crazy, they know what's going to work.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't do it like that in the States, do they? Kind of they're starting to do things like it, but they're not getting it yet. It's like no, you suck, yeah, yeah, simon Cowell's like no, you're not good yeah.
Speaker 2:Mike, I don't know why I said me.
Speaker 3:Sorry, no, but the Philippines have the same.
Speaker 2:So every country in Asia is starting to try to do stuff.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, like they got the peep pop now, of course, philippines is gonna Was it Beanie, is that what it's called. I don't know, I don't know, I don't follow them too much I just remember seeing something like they had a concert in the Philippines and it had to get shut down because there were just too many people. It was like a Taylor were like pushing on the barricades and people were like starting to get like heat exhaustion.
Speaker 1:What band is?
Speaker 3:this, it's like the.
Speaker 2:It's called Beanie. Beanie, I think. I'm not sure we don't know this Filipino like they're like.
Speaker 3:K-pop, P-pop, like band. It's called P-pop. Now it's P-pop. It's Philippines.
Speaker 2:What was it? F-pop From Philippines. We harmonized, bro, ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-ep-. This is from like 10 years ago, right? So they were like cool 10 years ago. And then so they made it so big that the same company, the guy that owned the company in Japan, he started opening up in like Malaysia, thailand, and so they would just call it like P48 or whatever, or no, no, mn48, because it would be named after like the capital city, okay. And so I looked at the Filipino one and they're like a hell of ugly bro. No, they at the Filipino one and they're like hella ugly bro. No, they're like. They're like super weird looking. What is that define super weird? They're just like so you see, like the Korean and the Japanese ones, and they're like they all kind of like. You know, they have a look but they're like pretty. And then, like the Filipino ones show up and it's like is this like? Why?
Speaker 1:what's up?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah so it's like it's like they tried to make him that way, but they don't look it up, it's like MN48. I think it's his hella. Funny. So they had. How long ago was this? This was like 7 or 8 years ago 7 years ago let's hope it got
Speaker 1:better. Yeah, yeah, it's gotten better.
Speaker 2:So they had singers from Singers from every capital city, or no, just every country, so like they have a group for every country, but it comes out of the capital city, so it'd be like Bangkok, so BK48, and then like Manila, mn48, malaysia, kl48. So they had 48 girls from Manila.
Speaker 1:Yes and you said no.
Speaker 2:They don't have to be from Manila, but it's like that's what the name is representing.
Speaker 1:MN48 was not looking good.
Speaker 2:I will send you a video after this and you will laugh as soon as I send it to you.
Speaker 1:They're like could they at least like sing?
Speaker 2:Because there's so many of them, right. So you're like, oh, maybe the next one's going to be amazing, and it's just like oh, oh oh, so you're talking to me this is like this is basically akin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like you walk in, you're like, oh, is this like a demonic one, is this like, oh, my God.
Speaker 4:Is that supposed to worship the devil before I walked in?
Speaker 2:here, or what the hell is happening right now. You said Portland, bro, whoa, we walked in though we walked in, we walked out on five. Can we get our money back? I know?
Speaker 3:I need to get to the Philippines that was not worth it, I need to get out.
Speaker 2:I need to go to the Philippines, yes so yeah, my bad, you brought up the Philippines. So yeah, they're better now and every country's better at it. But it was just funny, bro. When I saw that I was like yikes so you're like, you're like really into K-pop, you know it. I just like music. I've always been into music, of course you have, and like rap, r&b.
Speaker 1:So what got you into that?
Speaker 2:What got me into the K-pop genre. So Blackpink came out with Doo-Doo-Doo, doo-doo-doo-doo, blackpink, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was like they were on like the Pink Tank, the Bejeweled Tank and stuff, and like Lisa's rapping. I was like who are these people? And and so we went and I told all my friends like yo, we gotta see them. And like some of them skipped like no, we don't know, that's stupid, why. And then with the people that went, we're like this is amazing. So I got everybody into Blackpink and then I started saying to like all my co-workers, like if you don't know about this, here's what's up.
Speaker 2:I was like slanging, I was like hey, you guys gotta check and like 10 years later they're still dope, but like it's evolved so much, they're like their last song is trash kind of thing like Jump is not good, but I still love all like they're all good yeah, they're trying to make a comeback, right, well, they have their own solos going on.
Speaker 2:So they have like this kind of like week contract. You know, like in sports, it's like you want a 3 year contract and then we're gonna do others because they're worth so much now, right, of course, and they're like talented on their own. So now they have other agencies and like record deals and stuff, um. So we don't know how long they're gonna stay together. They could like break up and come back, whatever, but um, they're still together for now so the jump one, it wasn't no, it was like what they did, was they?
Speaker 2:yeah? So the message is cool because, like the, the video is like Blackpink. That's like their little avatars. Their little people are like in people's mouths and their heads and their ears. So it just shows like they're the talk of the town, like everybody's talking about them, listening to them, people thinking about them. But the song it just sounds like trash, like I don't know, like not good.
Speaker 3:Like someone just took their Casio and used those pre-mixes.
Speaker 2:It was like someone had an idea Like, oh, this is what popular music would sound like in the club. Like, let's just smash it together and put some stupid lyrics in there.
Speaker 4:Put some bass.
Speaker 2:It works sometimes, but yeah, it didn't work this time. But I'm going to drop this XG from Japan. So they're Japanese, but they train and produce in Korea. I found them pre-debut before they came out. They are fire. They've been fire for three years straight. They're called XG Extraordinary Girls.
Speaker 1:Oh, dude, you're like the Adam Scheffler of, like you are the Adam Scheffler of I'm like learning so much right now.
Speaker 4:Oh, these guys are.
Speaker 1:They're up and coming Right here. Check this guys. Three-year contract, One-year part-time.
Speaker 2:They're going to recess.
Speaker 1:Shams Jenny's on the pub list Lisa's begging for a trade. Lisa was in LA when you were in LA man oh really, yeah, I know you missed it.
Speaker 2:You missed it. So yeah, so that, so yeah, so that's it. I'll show you guys some music later, but they're absolute fire man, so they're the ones and now we can move on to whatever else. Not talking about K-pop. I was like it's been like 30 minutes of just.
Speaker 3:K-pop, bro, and sometimes it be like that bro, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that was your first when you saw.
Speaker 2:Blackpink, blackp.
Speaker 3:Coachella. That was your first time at Coachella, right? Yes, have you been there since?
Speaker 2:No man, that's expensive and it's just like Let me ask you what was your experience like at Coachella? Because I went to one Coachella. Okay, you did Okay.
Speaker 3:And then? So I just want to know what was your living situation? We had an.
Speaker 2:Airbnb. Oh, you had an Airbnb.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:And oh, also it was the first time, I think only time Kanye did Sunday service. Oh, like the morning of the second day. So, Kanye's my favorite rapper. Again, like his ideals. I know he's odd.
Speaker 4:Back in the day. He has some stuff going on 2016.
Speaker 1:Kanye.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I miss the old Kanye, yeah, so yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:I miss the old Kanye.
Speaker 2:So my wife, who doesn't like Kanye, I like made her come with me and she's sweet because we have to wake up early. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was like before Coachella started, and so we get there and it's just like them playing drums and doing like hymns and stuff and it's like a little bit of Kanye, I think, like either Chance the rapper was there or Gambino, I can't remember. I think were around with their $20 hot dogs and just like watching Kanye kind of like go crazy on, like whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So it was a cool experience, but the music was not good, sorry, kanye.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but it was just hella cool to be there because it was like a pivotal moment. I was also there for the time that Kanye played in a SAP center in San Jose and he played seven songs and like the eighth song he just kept. He's like run that back again, run that back, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, run that. And he would just like sing the third, fourth time and finally he's like nah, nah, nah, I voted for Trump. And then he went on like a. He went on like a 90 minute like tirade of like why people don't think for themselves and like and that was what was this? This was, oh man, this was like 2014, 2015, 16, yeah, yeah, that was a waste. And so it was like I literally got to see Like two points of him Like kind of getting religious, and then took crazy, but I was like.
Speaker 2:We didn't get our money back, but I'm like I got to experience Like a pinpoint history Of one of the greatest Musicians of all time.
Speaker 3:You must have been there for glow-in-the-dark tour then no oh I didn't have money for concerts back then dude, that would be sick because you would have been like seeing his peak and then his like soul demise to like craziness, that's wild, that's cool though, so yeah, yeah, no, because I was just saying because the one I went to coachella okay, I went as a, as a cook. Oh, so I was. I was working like one of the burrito stands oh shit and holy for your service that sucked.
Speaker 3:It was like hot as fuck. We're grilling meats, you know, and the people inside don't really know me, because I only went there for my first weekend.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 3:For one weekend. So I'm like not really vibing with these guys. So I'm just like all right, I'll be in the back. I next to like this popcorn. Stand right, and this is a year when usher was playing, hey. And then they she, the usher music started playing and she was like, oh my god, usher, it's usher. Like, mind you, we're nowhere near the stage, you can't see him, you're just hearing the music. And she was like literally crying and I'm just like I don't think I've ever had any feeling of music or any like towards someone that doesn't know me that I'm like crying because I'm literally like in the same area as them, bro, like it was. It was crazy. So I was just like wow.
Speaker 2:I thought it was going to be like it was, so inspiring. I understand the power of go.
Speaker 1:There is a line behind you. We try to make quota.
Speaker 2:I was like when you Get the fuck out of here, there is a line behind you we trying to make quota.
Speaker 3:I was like was that someone you were working with or was it like a customer? No, it was someone that was working the popcorn stand. She was like oh my God, oh like Usher he's here. I'm like she was working the popcorn stand she was working the popcorn stand and I'm just like bro Can.
Speaker 1:I get my popcorn. Yeah, one without tears.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I want an extra butter nut Dude.
Speaker 3:it was so weird dude. It was like a weird ass experience. And then so when we stayed there, we had to camp.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that was tough dude. That's no good. What were the bathrooms like?
Speaker 3:Bathrooms were okay. So we get in there early before everybody, right? So we're in at 7 am because we did breakfast burritos and stuff like that, right? So as soon as we jam in there, we're into the portals because they're clean. They're absolutely clean, so I make sure I took one dump.
Speaker 4:Nice.
Speaker 3:And then I would like barely eat the rest of the day, because I'm not. You gotta preserve.
Speaker 2:I'm not going in there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't want to be the two hundredth person, like that's smart. And then we'd be the. After we were done, we'd go back and we'd be the first ones to shower oh, that's nice, yeah, so the shower situation was interesting. It was like a like a big truck thing that you just went in and everyone had stalls and stuff like a door like a showers or something, so everyone could shower. It wasn't bad, yeah, but it was just like hygiene, bro, it's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
Speaker 3:But the crazy was seeing people like after we were showering, seeing people walk back to like where they parked or they're like zombies yeah, bro, they're on drugs.
Speaker 2:They're all like on drugs. They're on dirt in their face.
Speaker 4:Yeah yeah, yeah, they got dirt on their face and they're just like oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Usher, you know, and I was just like bro. So I mean, I'd love to experience Coachella as like, as just a regular person.
Speaker 2:It's definitely worth it one time. It's worth it multiple times if you have like the time to go right, right, right.
Speaker 3:But I mean it's nice to see all the music like you know, if they had K-pop demon hunters at Demon Hunters at Coachella, I'm there 100%.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't be surprised if they did. I wouldn't be surprised either I'm 100%, we're pitching it right now. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Netflix. Kevin wants it Come on.
Speaker 3:Yep, we're giving you guys ideas. Give us some money.
Speaker 2:Give us some money.
Speaker 3:Give us some freaking money Come on. Cisco yeah.
Speaker 1:Come on you.
Speaker 2:They paid for a third of my school. I can't ask for any more. I'm sorry, cisco. Thank you so much for everything. I really appreciate it. Thank you, you should go back, I think.
Speaker 3:I mean, I don't have a huge connection, you should find that girl.
Speaker 2:Yo look, I kissed Usher.
Speaker 3:What Dude. I tasted his lips and they are cotton candy.
Speaker 2:I got caught up, I got caught up, I got caught up, man.
Speaker 4:So, caught up.
Speaker 3:But yeah, man, maybe one day I don't have a huge connection to music like someone as you do, but you know, why not? You know what? I'd go to Coachella, if what's his name, freddie Mercury, was there.
Speaker 1:Oh damn.
Speaker 3:Live aid baby hey just bring a hologram dude. Everyone's doing it right Does that.
Speaker 4:Mr Robot join.
Speaker 2:Just kidding. Yeah, they did. They did the Tupac. Oh, you know what?
Speaker 3:Side story Coachella, when they did the Tupac hologram, I had tweeted. Something I had tweeted. Oh, holograms of all time I wrote uh, michael jackson uh, what was it we were just talking about? Uh, tupac, oh, and I wrote little sebastian from uh parks and recreation oh and and then yeah, so I tweeted that and then nbc parks and rec had retweeted it that's so funny, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like screenshot that man oh yeah I'm sure he did it's gone now. It's been a while lost in the internet, you know.
Speaker 3:But you know, that was just another tangent that's not sick.
Speaker 2:Very cool dude.
Speaker 1:So we, when we were doing some pre-show talk, we were talking like the last episode. You were talking about ramen and how you're re-establishing Ramen Cat we're trying to is that the official?
Speaker 3:name no, it's not the fish.
Speaker 1:And lamb, the producer behind the scenes. Aaron, he called that ramen cart.
Speaker 3:So we'll see. We're going to workshop it, so we're going to see where we go.
Speaker 2:Does Aaron get like 1% of the royalties if it's named ramen?
Speaker 3:cart, he gets ramen for life, okay all right, damn, that's a lot.
Speaker 1:Can I get ramen for life? He's like.
Speaker 3:I'd rather have portos, I'd rather give you guys ramen for life than give you a cut of the profits.
Speaker 4:That's fair.
Speaker 1:Because it's on little cups.
Speaker 4:I didn't say how big the ramen was going to be.
Speaker 3:Congrats, guys. It's a shot of ramen. It's a shot of ramen. It's a new thing ramen shots. Actually, that's not a bad idea, bro. Is that an actual thing?
Speaker 4:If it's not you should, can you?
Speaker 2:imagine, just drunk from the club and it's like bro, I want some ramen, but I can't put down a whole bowl Like oh for a dollar.
Speaker 1:Give me 20 shots of ramen Ramen shots, bro and you're charging him five bucks a shot.
Speaker 2:Yo Ten bucks a shot, dirty dog or ramen shot, so three shots would give you 30 bucks or.
Speaker 3:No, bro, I'll be your model, I'll be your model, you'll be the model, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's just That'd be so perfect. Why? Why is the noodle so?
Speaker 3:thick.
Speaker 1:Why is that milk? Is that milk?
Speaker 2:I thought I ordered it wrong, but it feels like udon.
Speaker 3:Extra thick. You're getting udon.
Speaker 1:Ooh, for sure, bro, for sure, 100%, 100%, oh man well, the reason I bring all this up is because Rire mentioned talk about. You wanted to talk about some business stuff or like launching business because, your wife has been doing really great with pastries yes, cookies, pastries, we did one for we made an order for Junior's birthday way back when.
Speaker 2:Thank you, it was like a year ago. Yeah, yeah, a year ago. Yeah, yeah, a year ago Last year yeah.
Speaker 1:But I noticed she was like on it, she was making all these things and I was like, man, this is pretty good. And then I remember talking to her.
Speaker 2:I was like, yeah, early days you were like one of her first five orders.
Speaker 1:Really, yeah, I think so Because oh?
Speaker 3:Mochimon, are you saying something Awesome? Calm down, it's coming back. Everyone wants it back.
Speaker 1:October, no, they're not ready to bring back Mochimon. That's going to be on hiatus for a while. Long story short. We definitely saw what Christy was doing. I was like, oh yeah, man, it was really good stuff. So now she's really doing it.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, so. So unfortunately she was laid off by JLL at Google in March NIL deal. So since we don't have kids yet, we were like all right, let's give you a year to see what we can do, and so, if it works out, then you know your career for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1:What is it called?
Speaker 2:It's called Chubby Monster, chubby Monster Treats.
Speaker 1:Chubby Monster Treats. Is that the handle? That's the handle Chubby Monster Treats On Instagram. That's the handle Chubby.
Speaker 2:Monster Treats, I'll be in the Tag it Chubby Monster Treats. Christy, you buy your first 100 cookies.
Speaker 1:That's right. You get the 100 of one For half off.
Speaker 2:Yes, and you get a ramen shot.
Speaker 1:And a ramen shot.
Speaker 2:We have a partnership Chubby Monster, treats and Ramen.
Speaker 1:Car Slash, ramen Cat Done, yeah, so Chubby Monster Treats, yes. What's the story behind?
Speaker 2:that Story behind it is. She's so okay for one, like she's Vietnamese. Her mom, who kind of raised her solo, always did her own stuff, so had her own nail salon. I think a few times Nice has worked in nail salons but like there's an entrepreneurial spirit in her family like five restaurants in the Seattle area.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:Legitimately Christy.
Speaker 2:the whole time I've known her for like eight years she's always like I need to start my own business, so sometimes it's like I need to do like lashing or like skincare or like hair, because she has her cosmetology license from way back in the day and she's like oh, but I also like to bake, and you just always want to do like, I just want to do my job and not think about anything else, and I'm really good at that and I don't ever want to start a business. So props to both of you guys, because that is hard, and so I've thought it was hard and now I've seen it it is tough and it's like dude it's just cookies, right, but there's like insurance, there's like forums, there's dude, it costs a ton of money.
Speaker 2:She has to get like all the starting whatever, like inventory and stuff, and it's like then she has to test products because she can't just give a product that is a test and like that's me, I'm gonna get diabetes. So it's just, it's hard, bro, so I'm eating a lot of cookies, is what I'm saying. Well, I mean, you got to.
Speaker 3:I know you almost gotta test it you know.
Speaker 2:So I I was like what's like your one, like if you would have to give her advice. What's your one piece of advice to someone that's never started a business but is good at her craft? So it's like it's the business part that's new to her. That's awesome, okay.
Speaker 3:If I were to give her advice. I'm just like keep grinding, Okay, Don't stop, won't stop you know, what. I mean Like, even if someone says oh, I don't like this doesn't taste good. Well, that's like one person out of like a trillion billion people.
Speaker 4:Yep, you know what I?
Speaker 3:mean, yeah, he's like never tasted sugar before loser. You know what I mean. So, yeah, I just say just don't get discouraged, just keep going. Okay, yeah, thanks guys. Nothing's personal, I definitely think when it comes to food and stuff like people's tastes, it's hard to change people, though it sucks, you just keep pushing.
Speaker 2:And you've served like thousands of mouths.
Speaker 4:Tens of thousands. I like how you say that.
Speaker 2:Not people Mouths.
Speaker 3:I've had people tell me like oh, your ramen's not authentic, or something and I'm just like, well you want authentic, go to Japan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're like why are you here?
Speaker 3:Go back, go back. This, go back.
Speaker 2:This Burger King doesn't taste royal enough.
Speaker 3:This Big Mac doesn't taste big enough.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. I've actually gotten that feedback.
Speaker 3:I don't even make burgers, no, so like it's just like I always tell, like when I talk to cooks and stuff. It's just like, even if your chef tells you it's too salty or not solid enough, like don't be. Like oh man, I fucking suck. It's just like no. I just need to get better and just like keep trying, like understanding what the technique is and just really getting better.
Speaker 1:That's just what it is.
Speaker 3:And just don't take it personal and just like don't take it. You got to have thick skin, got it yeah?
Speaker 2:So people have different tastes? Yeah, keep grinding and don't take feedback personally.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you just can't take it. You can't take it personally and everyone's different.
Speaker 2:So yeah, thanks, man. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 3:Awesome.
Speaker 1:I'm well, I'm going through it. Yeah, I'm not going to sit here and be like I'm part of a fucking shark tank or whatever, but definitely have background in this. But I mean one of the biggest pieces of advice I'd give Christy right now if she's, is she deciding to do it or she's doing it? She's doing it.
Speaker 2:She's doing it. That's the first piece of advice.
Speaker 1:Oh, just make it, and then that's a deep question, but I would approach her with this from a dude. He was a tax attorney when I went to the Opportunity Fund before I even launched. This was back when we were still going to state Okay.
Speaker 2:And I wanted to open up my first personal.
Speaker 4:San.
Speaker 2:Jose.
Speaker 1:State. Yeah, san Jose State Sports NIO he's just going to say NIO.
Speaker 2:After everything, he's like hey man, you look handsome today, nio.
Speaker 1:Justin, rihanna, dude, I forgot about that. With, uh uh, what's his name? The Channel 7? Uh, dan, dan Ashley, Dan Ashley, dan Ashley. Him and Dan Ashley used to hang out Bruh, they're boys, they're boys, I like getting sidetracked.
Speaker 4:But we'll talk about that later. Beautiful hair.
Speaker 1:Dan Ashley but um, but I, I went to the Opportunity Fund to get more advice from an entrepreneur, like like guidance, right, because I didn't take no business course, I was a kin major. Yeah, this guy, old dude in his suit, definitely a tax attorney dude, probably in the 70s, seen some shit looks at me, kind of goes because I'm going there for advice on how to create a business plan, what I should do, and he goes, what's your business in? And I said I want to do personal training. And then he's like, is that how you?
Speaker 2:sounded yeah, he's like you're going to fail.
Speaker 4:He's like you fucking idiot.
Speaker 2:Based on your voice. You're failing already, Dumbass.
Speaker 1:And he goes, okay, cool. And he goes and provide personal training to people who you know in a pop culture setting it's not intimidating. I just explained my case. He goes. Why should I go to you when there's all these other established gyms and brands around you Differentiation. Yeah, and I said well, you know, I started listing out and he goes, but why? And then I said different because of this. And he goes yeah, but I can still go to this. And so he kept just pushing.
Speaker 1:Yeah challenging, like he gave me. No, like, no praise, no, nothing. He's like why the fuck should I invest in you? You're charging how much a fucking hour. This is real Shark Tank. Yeah, and I just kept going, yeah, and then it stopped, and then I said fuck man like.
Speaker 2:It's exhausting.
Speaker 1:He's like that was the lesson.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, really, he was bleeding from the eyes and he goes.
Speaker 1:After that he kind of looked at him. He's like, okay, yeah, we can proceed. And then I was like Wait what? And he continued to talk about you know Just the basics of how to Like what. Am I looking for A business plan, or looking into the systems and all that stuff? But he was testing you. That's the thing I would propose you do Like, have an actual serious sit-down with her and just grill her. No, because you're good at it. Yeah, everyone like sees Rira as like happy-go-lucky. No, but you can grill people, man.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Because I remember when I had my, when I was opening my thing and I, you would ask me some real crazy questions. I'm like damn.
Speaker 2:So you're marketing or no? How much money? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I didn't think about that shit, it was your ecosystem. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:All that and it was good stuff, but that's the one thing I would lead with. And then the other part that a lot of people like you just got to believe in what you're doing, man. Yes, because you definitely want her to be successful, right? What?
Speaker 3:does success.
Speaker 1:Look like to her and if you want to scale this thing, especially in pastries, you don't got to understand. You understand the business side. I'm not going to worry about that with her because you probably are going to be there and be like yo margins.
Speaker 2:Yo margins. But the paperwork is very different because I know corporate, I went to school for corporate business, oh sure sure, sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, and like so that's where I was like even when I'm trying to coach, I'm like, oh, I might be wrong.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, no, so that's, but yeah, the paperwork's a learning curve.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but the price. But they said it's vegan and you're like, oh, but it's on sale. But do you need it? Yeah, yeah, but that's just for the, for the whole life. It's like we'll just be in costco. It's like, oh my god, gummy bears are for sale. He's like do you even know what brand that is? Oh my 20 for 500 dollars.
Speaker 1:It's so good, but if I bought 20, it'd be 20 000.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I yeah, yeah, but did you see the price? We don't need it yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I don't, yeah, but it's more of believing to your core what you're doing, because eventually you're going to get bigger, eventually you're going to need a team, eventually you're going to run a team. Now you're dealing with different personalities and it's not if it's when those different personalities, partnerships, whatever, start to try to undermine you, start trying to steer you for their own gain or whatever. You got to be so headstrong and be like no, that's not what we're doing, like this is what we're doing, this is what I believe in. And you got to keep reinforcing that culture, that brand, what you're wanting, what she wants out of chubby monster treats.
Speaker 1:Chubby monster treats Like. What is a chubby monster? What's the name from Like, what's the…. What should people be feeling when they see your brand, when they eat it, when… what they're doing? Why should they talk about Christie's? You know stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah. But it's like… Because I'm telling you, man, like there's gonna be different levels of people challenging what you're doing and it's people, business is people you still deal with it every day, right, like it doesn't stop, like when you hit a certain threshold.
Speaker 1:No, the bigger you get, the worse it gets.
Speaker 2:Cause like there's people more eyes on you. Yeah cause.
Speaker 1:The better you do, obviously, the better the team does, and then then there's gonna be situations where you know, uh, you know it's not really, or like certain things are just not gonna happen the way it is and there's certain circumstances, pandemic, you know what I mean yeah, you survived, crazy.
Speaker 3:I tried, you know, yeah, we survived.
Speaker 1:But it's like what are you willing to do? Cause there's there's a different type. There's 9 to 5 broke. I don't want to get paid on the 10th, I'll be fine. Then there's entrepreneur broke. Oh, you don't have something coming in, oh we got payroll due and we got the orders of the flower and all that and that's due. And then you only got $5,000 in the bank account. All the dues and shit is like $20,000. So now you got $15,000.
Speaker 2:You got five days to pay up $15,000.
Speaker 1:What? What are you going to?
Speaker 2:do it's like my mortgage or pay my employees? No, dead ass.
Speaker 1:And it's like do you go for loans? Do you ask for partners? Do you? You got to finagle that? You got to. You're not finagle. You got to.
Speaker 2:You got to traverse it Relationship building too is you got to have people trust you.
Speaker 1:Well, that and also, yeah, so you, because your net worth is your net worth, right? They always talk about that. But, it's also developing that trust because there's only a few people within your own industry that you can trust.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like in San Jose, for me personally, for an example, I talked to a handful of gym owners around San Jose. Even though we're competing yeah, yeah, we're like they still help. They're older than me and they've been in business longer than me and they still help me out like they actually helped me in situations where I had to let go of a person and all that, and they're like, hey, man, just want to let you know, so-and-so came by, like those are like networks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, just give you heads up. Not trying to do dirty, it's just so-and-so. Came through and I it was kind of weird and I want to let you know and I'm like, oh, thank you, man. Like yes, I didn't know that, and so it's. You're learning along the way, yeah, um, but it all comes back. It all comes down to like, why are you building this? Yeah, you know, because that is because you'll.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you like 15k I will ask her when I get home hey, welcome home. Why are you building your business? Why are you building?
Speaker 3:this business do you want?
Speaker 2:to eat. Do you want anything?
Speaker 3:no, tell me the answer yeah, because I'm shutting it down right now.
Speaker 1:You're can't fucking answer me. You're grilling her as soon as she walks out the door. No, because it's true, like I'm telling you, man, like it's a different level, and then you'll start comparing yours.
Speaker 2:I, for my, Like there's no casual for this, like people do things casually. You cannot be casual if you're starting a business.
Speaker 1:And from my experience in the fitness, we all kind of know each other no one owns a push-up, no one owns a burpee, like everyone's doing fucking bench press deadlift. It's just how we're teaching it, right? Yeah, that's fine. When we did Mochimon, when I, when I just did that space, you know, giselle was the chef, that was her vision. I took care of the marketing and the business. Yeah, you guys saw it, bro. The other pastry businesses, other mochi, her own, I'm not even saying names, I'm going to stop right there.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But there was people that were supposedly close to us. They were like that was our idea. Or did you get permission to do that? Ube mochi donut? Did you get permission to use ube Jeez?
Speaker 2:And it's like who the fuck owns ube.
Speaker 3:Who the fuck owns ube? Dude fucking Trader Joe's uses ube so it's like fuck.
Speaker 1:It's not authentic, though, dude, I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now, like that, those that type of bit, like the pastry people, I'm sure they're all good. I'm sure they're all good. I'm sure they're all good, but some of them are pretty fucking toxic man.
Speaker 2:Dang.
Speaker 1:And it's very catty.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I say that in a like, men and women can be catty, non-binary.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying it's a very, it's a lot of like passive, yeah, passive, it's like passive Passive-aggressive yeah, yeah, it traits.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like you got to be prepared for that Is it really a treat, though?
Speaker 1:And then, as a husband, you're going to be like I'm getting Cisco.
Speaker 2:I'm getting Cisco, cisco's ordering a thousand Chubby Monster treats right now, but you're going to feel like you need to do that. It's like fuck all y'all, it's against the world. Then yeah, no, it no. It's like that. It's like that it's exciting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know for you because I know you for a while. Like, financially, it's going to be very scary.
Speaker 2:Yes, you have that correct. No, it's scary as shit, dude.
Speaker 1:You have that correct, because it's like there's going to like for me, it's like I see money as fuel. You some set of like, some uh version of like? You know how joker looks at money uh, he doesn't, he just burns it.
Speaker 2:No, exactly, no, that's kind of yeah as an entrepreneur that's kind of have to have.
Speaker 3:You see, money like scared money. Don't make money, bro.
Speaker 1:You gotta see like if your bank account's negative 100 000, uh like if your bank accounts a bank account's negative 130 dollars, you still have to go in, sell and still be able to be like, yeah, we can make that purchase, but can you, can I wait till next week?
Speaker 1:you gotta say that stone cold yeah and when someone goes like, oh, are you can, are you able to float this account, and you be like, yep, you can do that and you gotta be able to take that and just go home and cry bro, cry crazy in a puddle, wake up the next day and they go yep, alright, I'm just kidding For us sir, for us. But you have to like figure shit out. But the more you get used to it and it will challenge your marriage.
Speaker 2:Yes, it definitely will. But we're good. She plays video games with me. She lets me hoop. She has leeway. She has leeway, that's good.
Speaker 1:But that's the thing. But it's exciting because when you start building it slowly, you're building it. You'll start having moments where it's like, oh shit, this is worth it Okay.
Speaker 2:Yes, We've had a few of those moments.
Speaker 1:I'm telling all the doom shit, but any person who has a small business right now, like especially in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2:Okay, there's like some shit, there is like a war, it's not easy man.
Speaker 3:A lot of people have good ideas man. Oh yeah, everyone has an idea. Everyone has an idea. I got ramen shots. But the difference is the difference between people who have an idea and who are successful. Is just willing to put in work. Yep.
Speaker 2:And Chrissy puts in work she puts in work.
Speaker 1:Dude like these cookies, cookies.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're nice. The custom ones she makes are like custom built like by hand, each single line.
Speaker 3:And she does it, huh.
Speaker 2:That's good. She'll pull like two all-nighters in a row.
Speaker 1:See, that's the thing, though, at the end of the day, you're going to have to duplicate her. You know that already.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the hard part.
Speaker 1:Because if you're that good up, he messed it up I don't trust that yeah, yeah, like no, no, I'll make all of them myself and yeah, yeah, yeah, and then she's like in the corner like you gotta make these cookies, yeah, like I know yeah, perfection yep, no at the same time.
Speaker 3:There's nothing wrong with that, because sometimes you can't trust nobody yeah, be honest.
Speaker 2:I mean I can't help her. Yeah, I just pack the boxes and I carry them to the car, but I can't be doing nothing with art bro, I can't dude.
Speaker 1:I got an idea. You know how to up your sales.
Speaker 2:Okay, how? Strippergram cookies with Rire? Oh, that's already in the works. Man, that's already in the works. It's like you go to the bachelor party in your bow tie Just a bow tie in the box.
Speaker 1:Wait, he's going to a bachelor party, bachelorette party with the bow tie or a bachelor party.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever you want, and but it's like, what else is in the box, justin Timberlake, what we got yeah, thick, udon imagine this fool takes his shirt off.
Speaker 3:He has just his two cookies yeah, ready to go.
Speaker 2:I like that. Three cookies and it's like different sizes different sizes.
Speaker 3:Ready to go dude one's Oreo, one's vanilla.
Speaker 1:Why is it different in different colors?
Speaker 2:that's how I was born. Okay, that's how I was born, kid. That's how I was born. Don't judge.
Speaker 1:But man, that's exciting.
Speaker 2:So yeah, good advice, Thank you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I just go like.
Speaker 3:You heard about the thing about FedEx, like before they went out of business. No, so like the CEO he had like $5,000 left right and he's like what am I going to do company or are we going to keep moving on? So he probably did the most logical thing. He went to.
Speaker 2:Vegas and gambled it on Blackjack. One of the most logical things. I don't know this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he ran it up, I don't know how much.
Speaker 2:How long ago was this this?
Speaker 3:was like years.
Speaker 2:Like four years.
Speaker 3:When it started up, right, they only had like five grand left in their account and he went to Vegas and played Blackjack and I don't know how much he ran it up to, but it was enough to keep the company floating and it's just kind of like that's why yeah, it's pretty wild. I mean he bet like 5 000 on red or something no, it was black. I think it was blackjack. He was playing just a bunch of blackjack hands and he was just we got different accounts viewers.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it's just like I don't even know if it's real.
Speaker 3:It's just a. I mean, there's so much brain rot on instagram like I don't know what's real he was actually playing Fascination at Circus, circus, dude shout out Dude rip, circus, circus, bro, bro, wait what? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2:It's gone, going out of business? No, the one in Reno, vegas, vegas, are they all gone? I don't know about Reno, but I know Vegas is gone because they're putting in a Disney resort Boom.
Speaker 3:Get out, shut up a Disney hotel boom, get out, shut up what they're doing, like some sort of Disney hotel or something over there.
Speaker 1:Oh kill me, I could be wrong too, I don't know, brain rot, so I don't know okay, okay, they're putting Disney in Vegas, something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's interesting maybe damn dude.
Speaker 2:So Circus, circus, circus, circus was the best babysitter, just play the games.
Speaker 3:Here's $10.
Speaker 1:Midway bro.
Speaker 2:Midway's the place. Yeah, Midway's the place. What was your?
Speaker 1:favorite game.
Speaker 2:I like the horse race the horse race, baby, that's me, that's me. Horse race, horse race all day, yeah. And then someone always won Yep, like me, like yeah. So man I would do this thing ball like I was yeah I'll try to reach and then I'll try to reach and do that yeah man.
Speaker 1:And then they had the camel one, but it was never the same. The horse was legit, the camel was like it was just like a crappier version like what are we doing here? Like you should have another horse my camel's broken yeah I swear I hit three. It went backwards.
Speaker 2:Fine, here's a small one. Whatever, shut up, come on man.
Speaker 3:Circus, circus was the OG spot.
Speaker 2:Dude, so my bachelorette party, Sorry, whoa. My bachelorette party. Wow, my bachelorette party was the weekend it was planned for Vegas for the weekend after COVID shut down, so we didn't get to do it until I was married. I remember that, yes, yes, but we did Circus, circus as a whole night and that was so dope bro.
Speaker 1:That's so awesome, it was so dope hey.
Speaker 4:Because you're on Midway, you're doing all this shit Midway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just went back to being kids.
Speaker 3:That's the best.
Speaker 2:Now the Vegas one's gone.
Speaker 1:Well, reno's there, I think.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I just looked it up, I didn't see anything about Disney in Vegas. Oh, thank you, I may be wrong. Oh, he just made it up. I had a dream.
Speaker 1:I just thought I heard of making a space mountain yeah. Which I would actually do, I would actually go there.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's a resort, though I, we're good, we're good man.
Speaker 3:Disney. If you see this, we're giving you ideas. You're welcome. Yes, nil, nil, all right. What was it?
Speaker 1:I mean one thing I wanted to talk about. Kind of I just announced it, so I want to use this time of the episode to kind of really talk about it. So we just launched our non-profit Silicon. Valley Strength Society and we are launching a winter league in 2026. And the whole point, what makes this different? There's so many San.
Speaker 1:Jose flag football leagues around. So, as a nonprofit, my whole vision. I grew up in the east side of San Jose, right, and there's a lot of kids. There's a lot of kids who you know don't really get that access to great coaching, like you know, with other kids and other affluent communities they have, you know, they have just great coaches, great systems. So what I wanted to do was create an environment where kids can get great coaching from Eastside. But also, if they're on Medi-Cal or they're like in a, you know, they're making a certain, if their family's in a certain income bracket, they get either a discount or they get it for free.
Speaker 3:So they get to play, oh nice.
Speaker 2:That's nice man.
Speaker 1:That's cool. And we'll get scholarships from kids who can pay and all that stuff. But at the top of that the goal is to work with other local small business vendors to provide meals for all the families who are competing.
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 1:So we're addressing the food security part of it.
Speaker 3:Why are you looking at me? What I don't know, you're a chef we're addressing it.
Speaker 2:The families have mentioned ramen would be the best.
Speaker 3:I mean saying ramen, that's cool though. That's cool though.
Speaker 1:But the whole. I mean it goes back to, like, you know, when I grew up, you know it was just like a great time. There wasn't any of this travel bullshit, you know, like the AAU stuff. It was just you just play rec sports yeah local rec sports and if they had barter.
Speaker 2:Five game, seasons Five game seasons.
Speaker 1:You're playing, you're connected.
Speaker 4:It was like a better non-pressure time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm not trying more of like.
Speaker 1:you know, the coaches matter Like coaching and guidance, especially with these kids and growing up in these, in their crucial years of development. Though I still remember I don't remember his name but I do remember that the coach when we played those Berryessa leagues. They didn't keep the sport, it was just like a wreck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah but it was a baseball league, we were part of the Marlins. But I remember like he was there and he was like so motivating and it was like actually it was one of the first times as a kid I got to like believe in myself.
Speaker 1:I could do this. This is fun and that lasts for you and that's like. It's more like basically coaching better human beings. So Eastside, so that's where it's at. So you know, I'm looking for volunteer coaches, I'm looking for well, we're working on refs. I want professional refs. So I've actually been working with the president of the Silicon Valley Ref Association. Shout out to Paul and I'll work out with the local refs, but I want refs to actually handle these games, Not like high school refs, because one want refs to actually handle these games, not like high school refs, because one of the biggest feedback was parents, who we get out of hand.
Speaker 1:It sounds like you have.
Speaker 2:I mean basketball, but yes.
Speaker 1:So it's you know so these guys are like adults? Then yeah, these are the same refs who would ref a high school game or a college game.
Speaker 2:It's expensive bro.
Speaker 1:Well, that's expensive donors have you seen the?
Speaker 2:have you seen?
Speaker 3:the videos of like the like the umpires at baseball games with the like the parents. Like you suck you, you're just mad because the kids are taller than you. And then and then the guy's like all right, game's over, I'm going home and they're all like they'll get mad at him, but it's like like dude.
Speaker 2:You're being a jerk. You're being a jerk. Well, the parents are the worst, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's like dude, like he's just doing his job, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:The vision of the league that we are launching, called Hyper Flag Football League, all right Under Silicon Valley Strength Society, is that you know it's inclusive, it's positive energy.
Speaker 2:So, parents alright, I'll be a ref. Yeah, I'll be a ref.
Speaker 1:Boys girls so we're starting. So here's the thing. So here's the whole. I'm gonna tell you the whole vision, right? So we're gonna start with flag football. We already partnered with, we are part of NFL flag we're part of 49er flag. So all volunteer coaches get to go to training camps. We get to have special events with the coaching staff, with the diners just saying so there are pros to volunteering your time very nice, there's, very there's very
Speaker 2:much pros.
Speaker 1:That's cool pros but what was it? I mean we'll, I'm definitely gonna try to pay the refs. I mean try, we will pay the refs, we will. But you know, like my operations team, they're definitely gonna get paid like still, you still gotta run a non-profit like this yeah, yeah, this, you still got to run a non-profit like him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, this is true. This guy said my operations team.
Speaker 3:His morning is like 7 am in the mirror. All right guys.
Speaker 2:Who's ready to do this? All right guys, you ready, you, you, you All right, you handle marketing.
Speaker 1:You got check-ins. You got the pairs right, you got it. Let's do this Operations team. It's just me, me and me. But what was it so? I started with NFL flag, co ed.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 3:Hey, nice.
Speaker 1:K through eighth grade. That's great, and then it'll be the winter season. It's like it's going to be low, it's going to be, you know, it's going to try to look for a school. I'm looking at San Jose High, another high school. We'll see, you know, how it gets competitive. I don't want to say the exact location because sometimes people will look for that high school and book it out yeah, so. I'm not even saying the actual high school that I'm planning yeah dude.
Speaker 2:Levi's, who the fuck are you? You're trash. She's gonna be here, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, I would actually let us talk to the white.
Speaker 1:I get a better chance with you going like who are you? I'm Justin Rire. I'm an alumni yes yes, did you play football?
Speaker 3:yes, yes, I was Mr.
Speaker 1:Cisco. But yeah, and then the spring one is the big one because I'm going to have a girls only league along with Koei?
Speaker 2:is this the same?
Speaker 3:association that I see on ESPN where these kids are playing cross country.
Speaker 4:They just had the biggest championship.
Speaker 1:So we're doing that, and then, if football goes off, my next target is basketball.
Speaker 4:Oh, look at this guy. They call it NBA.
Speaker 1:Junior. Oh yeah, it's like dead ass. I would actually go to UDAS oh, I love it bro because the reffing association. They're really big. That's cool basketball refs like they love yup, so like these guys ref like NCAA, or yeah, ncaa like college D1 games and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:Damn yeah, refing pros, that's tough.
Speaker 1:But but yeah. So if football does well, then I would. I would pursue basketball.
Speaker 3:So the baseball, I mean, if basketball goes well.
Speaker 2:Baseball Golf oh wow.
Speaker 4:Hyper strength in golf that's what we've been waiting for dude.
Speaker 3:But that's the thing, because there's a ton of.
Speaker 1:AAU basketball right.
Speaker 3:There's a ton of this travel softball.
Speaker 1:Now there's 7-on-7 football. They're like, but they're bringing out the most toxic parts of these sports.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can see it. I'm trying to bring it back to like yeah, just come with your family, enjoy the game like your motto or your mantra. Is it like we're family?
Speaker 3:Your mission statement?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, do you have that?
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a great one For, like the, for the non-profit, yeah Well, yeah, the mission is to provide elite coaching for underserved youth. Okay, but but the motto is that's a great question. I don't really have a motto play hard because it has to become organic. I'm not going to force it. Go beyond, no, that's go beyond, go beyond. But I have to. I have to kind of come up with that because right now I'm in the building. Oh, what about?
Speaker 3:revamp your life, get out of here, stop was that?
Speaker 2:was that an old tagline? Yeah, remember revamp body.
Speaker 1:Oh my god damn it, revamp body finish.
Speaker 2:Revamp your body, revamp your life Like.
Speaker 1:why was I so fixated with the word?
Speaker 3:revamp. That was your whole personality, bro. It had been re-rated the whole time.
Speaker 2:The revamps, revamp, bro, why, why? That was his personality the whole time, that was his personality.
Speaker 1:Revamp, revamp, revamp. And then the logo was a guy with a.
Speaker 3:I would be doing this he wasn't even holding a weight.
Speaker 2:He was like doing the Y. Why am I revamping anything?
Speaker 3:Because he's literally yelling revamp you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Revamp your body.
Speaker 2:Why did I say it twice?
Speaker 3:Because there's an emphasis, there's a huge emphasis you know what I mean. It's part of marketing. It's fair, it's part of marketing, dude. This started from there until look where we are now First business. Yeah, Failed miserably hey it's fine, you got to run before you walk. You know, but you got to revamp the walk you got to fly before you walk.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, You're right. That's how Chris needs to think Fly before.
Speaker 1:Alright. Well, that's pretty much what we have today. That was fun, man. Thank you so much. Thank you, rere, thank you.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:Thank you brother.
Speaker 1:No, this is not the last time we're gonna see Rere. I'm gonna tell you that right now.
Speaker 3:We'll be back guys, we'll be back.
Speaker 2:Next time a strip. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 3:We need more K-pop, j-pop.
Speaker 1:K-pop, j-pop.
Speaker 3:History.
Speaker 1:We gotta do like a tasting of like Chrissy's.
Speaker 3:Oh, Dude, live reaction oh.
Speaker 2:I'm down for that.
Speaker 1:That's pretty shaky, it's just like.
Speaker 2:Dude.
Speaker 1:No, they're so good, just re-rate. I made these. Wait what? Chrissy didn't make these? No, she had no time. Yeah, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 3:Sorry she we copy monster. We copy monster. Thank you Aaron. Thank you Aaron.
Speaker 4:That's a good one.
Speaker 1:Alright guys. I'm Coach Austin with the Nerd Out Workout podcast where we nerd out work out and podcast and we'll see you guys later. Keep buying.
