Ever wondered how to create unforgettable summer memories while honoring family legacies? We begin this episode of Dad Bods and Dumbbells with a heartfelt tribute to Barton's late uncle, NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton. Join us as we share intimate family stories, from season tickets to the Sacramento Kings to his moving tribute to my father on national television. This episode is all about celebrating the bonds that define us and how we can pass on that legacy to our kids.
Next, we explore the art of making "sticky memories" for our families, inspired by Christian summer camps. Allie Davidson from Camp Gladiator joins us to share her expertise on crafting impactful experiences. We talk about balancing structured activities, independent play, and family trips to ensure our kids have a summer to remember. From a Nerf gun fight with my son to setting fitness goals for my daughter, we offer tips on keeping kids active and engaged, without relying on screen time.
As the summer heats up, so does our fitness challenge. We outline our goals for enhancing cardiovascular fitness, whether through running, pool time, or basketball. Get ready to join our community mile run challenge and boost your explosiveness and endurance. We also reflect on traditional displays of strength, like arm wrestling, and the importance of activities like Brazilian jiu-jitsu for building self-reliance. Finally, we raise a toast to a legacy of humanitarianism and generosity, reminding our listeners to stay engaged, stay active, and most importantly, stay inspired.
Follow Mitch @ http://instagram.com/go_for_mitch
Follow Bart @ http://instagram.com/bartonguybryan
Ever wondered how to create unforgettable summer memories while honoring family legacies? We begin this episode of Dad Bods and Dumbbells with a heartfelt tribute to Barton's late uncle, NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton. Join us as we share intimate family stories, from season tickets to the Sacramento Kings to his moving tribute to my father on national television. This episode is all about celebrating the bonds that define us and how we can pass on that legacy to our kids.
Next, we explore the art of making "sticky memories" for our families, inspired by Christian summer camps. Allie Davidson from Camp Gladiator joins us to share her expertise on crafting impactful experiences. We talk about balancing structured activities, independent play, and family trips to ensure our kids have a summer to remember. From a Nerf gun fight with my son to setting fitness goals for my daughter, we offer tips on keeping kids active and engaged, without relying on screen time.
As the summer heats up, so does our fitness challenge. We outline our goals for enhancing cardiovascular fitness, whether through running, pool time, or basketball. Get ready to join our community mile run challenge and boost your explosiveness and endurance. We also reflect on traditional displays of strength, like arm wrestling, and the importance of activities like Brazilian jiu-jitsu for building self-reliance. Finally, we raise a toast to a legacy of humanitarianism and generosity, reminding our listeners to stay engaged, stay active, and most importantly, stay inspired.
Follow Mitch @ http://instagram.com/go_for_mitch
Follow Bart @ http://instagram.com/bartonguybryan
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Speaker 2:All right. So today, here's kind of the general makeup of what we're talking about today. First of all, just this last week, nba Hall of Famer Bill Walton died. Now he is actually my uncle, and so I'm just going to talk a little bit about my thoughts on that. We're going to go into just how to make this summer the best summer for our kids, and that would also extend itself to our whole family. You know, kids can have a great summer at the peril of the adults or as a team, as a family, you can do it together. So we'll talk about that, and we're going to talk about some summer fitness challenges for Mitch and myself and you guys. We're also going to tease an event that's going to be coming up towards the end of summer here in Austin, texas. That's awesome.
Speaker 1:Well, let's get started.
Speaker 2:Great.
Speaker 1:So what's your? If you were going to summarize Uncle Bill in one big event, one big memory, how would you do that?
Speaker 2:So it's less about my relationship with Bill, I mean when Bill was married to. So, to be clear, bill's first wife, susie, is my aunt. My mom and Susie are sisters, and so when I was really young, bill was, you know, an in-law in a sense. It's like kind of the, you know this incredibly massive. You know, uncle, that I was completely intimidated by, you know, but my brother and I love basketball and his sons were, all you know, a little bit younger than us but all into basketball. So there was that connection.
Speaker 2:But the big, the big piece of it was that he and my dad were very close and I didn't know really how close or what that was about. I knew they played like chess a lot together at like family reunions and just had an affinity for each other and I know that from my dad's point of view it was a very special relationship. What I found out later was that when the Sacramento Kings moved to Sacramento they were in Kansas City in 84, and 85 they moved to Sacramento and my uncle bought my family season tickets to the Sacramento.
Speaker 1:Kings. Oh, that's sick.
Speaker 2:Because he really wanted Joel and us to have that opportunity to go to games and it was actually that we had another cousin or a family in Yuba City, so we shared the tickets.
Speaker 1:And it was a really cool thing.
Speaker 2:for I think a couple years he did that for us and then my dad and mom just kept buying season tickets for the next 20 years for us, and then my dad and mom just kept buying season tickets for the next 20 years and and all that so.
Speaker 2:So there was. He really helped introduce and keep us engaged in basketball, and so that was just one of those generous things that Bill was all about. Again, you'll hear in these interviews or people telling stories about Bill, the generosity of his spirit and things like that. The moment I want to share is actually the day my father passed away, and so my father passed away in 2005, and Bill was an announcer doing NBA games, and at one of the NBA games that he was announcing no idea which game it was, but the day of my father's passing he announced on national television like we lost great man.
Speaker 2:Today, and he just went into this classic bill soliloquy about my father and how important he was and and some just aspects of my dad's like legacy and all that kind of stuff and and just you know? Of course nobody, you know other than like a handful of people in, you know, california would know who Joel Bryan is. But you know, to Bill it was special, he needed to share it. That's who he was and he was, you know, going to risk some sort of a you know like yeah, who are you talking?
Speaker 2:about Bill. It didn't matter to him. He was going to talk about my dad and how important his relationship or his he was to them. So, anyway, that's that's the story that I love. That's so cool because I'm, of course it ties into, you know their relationship and how, how special it was for my dad to to be, you know, friends with bill and that kind of thing so that's cool.
Speaker 1:Well, I love that. That the humanistic piece of somebody that you have seen looked up to, especially from a professional perspective. I knew who he was, you know, when we were in, when we lived in Oregon. He was, of course, in the Pac-12. So he's very present in that space. But to see somebody that I think is really cool to hear all these amazing stories about this deadhead, grateful dead guy that loved people and I was watching a 30 for 30 on him. It was a really long one, but it was very interesting to talk about his different segments of life. Yeah, very early on in the 30 for 30 they talked about in his early career he was very shy because he was always. He was kind of getting bullied a lot. His brother would protect him, but he was just such a tall guy.
Speaker 2:And he had a stutter. Yeah, the stutter. That's what was so amazing.
Speaker 1:And so he's in this, thrust in the spotlight. He could have easily just he could have easily fallen away, but instead he became one of the most prolific centers in college basketball history and then went on to have an amazing NBA career. I know they say that if it wasn't for the injuries X, y and Z, but as far as legacy goes, he's in the talk of best centers of all time, and so I think that's pretty cool. But what I found interesting about 30 for 30 was his kids. He had these four boys and just each one of them all in different aspects of their life. They're not all the same. They all look very different. You know, they all kind of look the same but don't at the same time. Where they all have different backgrounds was just how how much they love their dad and how they had so much respect for him and his quirkiness. Like he always put them first but he but in the space of hey, our dad is like, is goofy, and during family dinners this happens and this happens and I thought that was a really cool thing and it got me thinking a lot about time with my kids and legacy in general is like I we've looked back on a lot of times like man, should we have waited to have kids? Should we have waited a little later on in life because we could have made more money or we could have gotten further in our careers? So we had a pretty young and now I'm dealing with my kids during the summer, trying to figure out what to do with them all.
Speaker 1:But I realized just how essential those memories and those moments are on a even in the mundane. I think is even more important because we can do the big cool like, hey, let's go to urban air, let's, let's go on these big trips, but if we're not there consistently, I'm so I'm always thinking about how we make, how I make my legacy better and invest in my kids to make sure that when I die I'm not going to have a 30 for 30, but I would love my kids to feel like man, dad was special. You know, that's kind of my legacy. Thought is like this is how we live on for the future, because we're all going to our gravestones, are all going to be overgrown one day, you know. So what does that look like to move on that legacy? And I think this summer is a really good focus for me trying to find those things. So I'm kind of wondering just how we make our kids are your kid, are my kids how we make their summer the best summer possible, yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, to build out that leg and I feel like sometimes it takes like a. You know, last summer I felt like my wife, val and I didn't just we, we didn't quite. I think we had some stuff going on, but it was like a few weeks into summer and so there was like a bumpy week and a half where my son didn't have really anything to do.
Speaker 1:He was kind of like stir crazy and like I, I guess a lot of his friends were like just either in camps or gone or on travel.
Speaker 2:So it was this kind of weird like false start to the summer and it got built momentum later on. So this year we really like planned out the first month and like with trips and and uh, camps and just all of that very kind of front loaded this summer, uh. But you know, on friday when, when school was out, and I and my wife and I were talking and I was like let's, let's really put a focus on making this the best summer you know ever, or you know so far, and and some of that's about you know, just making sure that my son is scheduled well and learning stuff and adapting and having fun and going on adventures, and the other part, I think, is just my wife and I just not, you know. Not, you know we've our son can be a challenge at time being an only child, like you know you kind of have to be their play buddy and their, their parent and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:I was wondering what that dynamic is yeah, it's.
Speaker 2:It's awesome on so many levels and it's challenging on others because you just you know, if he's bored and he wants to do something, he's probably going to try to, like you know, find something to do with you or find a way to get your attention in a way that may not be the way you want to do it.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I think it's just a mindset of proactivity around, like, okay, what are some like aha moments or wow moments that you create? There's a cool concept that comes from, I think, christian summer camps. It's called sticky memories and Allie Davidson from Camp Gladiator used to talk about it, and it's like we want to create sticky memories with our kids or with the people that we're working with or living with, and so what are those things that your son's going to talk about for the rest of his life.
Speaker 2:Dad remember that summer when we did the thing and you guys tell that story over and over again. That's a sticky memory. That's cool and so how many of those can you create in the summer?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a great way to put it. I remember one time my son had a like a nerf birthday party at a buddy's house and they gave him this gun and all these bullets and he was like you know, like this nerf gun, I should say, and so they had nerf gun fights and stuff it was really cool and we were driving home and I was like, hey, I bet you can't hit this, these signs, as we're going past.
Speaker 1:And so he's like, yeah, I can totally do. And so as we're driving down the highway, he's shooting out the window these Nerf bullets, trying to hit every sign as we go past it. Of course they were biodegradable, I'm sure, uh, but uh, at the end I stopped at one and he just like pop, pop, pop pop. It was one of the funnest things I think I've done. It reminded me like what would I want my dad to do when, you know, after a Nerf gun thing, like how cool would that be?
Speaker 1:So stuff like that is very important, I think, with my kids, of course, I have two. One's a girl who's older than my son, and she's can be a little bossy at times, and so they need times of reflection and like breaks and they need to go outside and they need to do all that stuff. But ultimately, I think this is the first year in a long time where we actually have a pretty solid plan for both of them. I mean, my daughter doesn't really have any uh, middle school doesn't have any camps for sixth grade. She's going into seventh grade so she's not going to be busy with day camps or whatever, but I'm scheduling out her day because I still have to work, uh, scheduling out her day well enough that I think she's going to be very independent and thrive and have enough friends around, and I'm going to give her a lot more freedoms as, as they go along, I know my wife wants that.
Speaker 1:I don't as much, you know I don't love that, but I don't love letting my baby girl out and free and all that stuff. I'd rather her just be safe at home. Uh, but yeah, I mean, and then we have a couple of big trips plans, but I feel like last summer it was kind of lost, like where you get done with the summer you're like, ah crap, did we just waste two and a half months where we could have done something cool? And I think next year what I want to do is do kind of what you're describing is. It's feels like the first two weeks out of school.
Speaker 1:It's boring for the kids and we're like trying, oh we got, so they go from so much to nothing and it's like we're going uh, we're gonna go on this trip and we're gonna like I might just next year just be like last day of school, car's already packed, we're going yeah, and I think that would be kind of fun to do that for a week or so, but our summer is stacked with camps, stacked with vacations and so hopefully it'll be.
Speaker 1:It'll be really, really fun because we do have like their first overnight camp. They're going to so with some friends and it's like a christian camp that this lady does just out of charity, like this is her ministry, yeah, and it's a pretty cool, awesome camp, but it's smaller so it's not going to get lost in like tens of thousands of kids and right, you know that type of thing.
Speaker 1:But all that to say, like I hope that what I'd like my kids to do is get a little bit more. And I want to ask you this too, like how my daughter needs to be more active. And of course, I want to set the standard, but I don't want to run with my kids. You know, it's like I got seven miles to run a day and it's going to take three times as long if I try to get my kids to come along with me. Right, maybe ride bikes with it. I don't know, but the truth is like I wake up at 4 30 and I do that to get it out of the way. Um, but I want my daughter to start like walking or running every day, because she could easily stay inside all day if she wanted oh yeah, you know, watch tv that is the default setting for all children, and it's so easy yeah, just let them kind of do that, and I just hate that so much um but it that is the summer.
Speaker 1:You'll never, you'll never remember those days where you sat there and watched episode after episode of whatever show they're into right I don't want that either, but I'm trying to figure out, like is it okay for my 12 year old daughter, for me, to say, hey, these are our goals this, this, this week, today, just like we would like if we were doing a you know a fitness schedule for ourselves? Yeah, I know what I'm going to run tomorrow. I know what I'm going to run Sunday. Uh, is it okay to do like hey, I want you to be able to do 20 pushups without assistance. I want you to be able to run, slash, walk a mile. Yeah, you know, I will do this every day as, like, almost like, get more hours on the TV if you want, and by the time it's all said and done, it'll be less interested in TV because they're active. So what is the appropriate amount of that that you think would be good, especially for a girl, middle school girl? What I should be able to give her?
Speaker 2:Well, let me tell you what we're doing and then, before I start claiming to be the child fitness psychologist of the world and my wife has really done a great job at kind of spearheading this idea and it's the idea of we're going to try to do a walk- every day as a family.
Speaker 2:That's good, and it's not just the exercise, it's like getting out in nature, it's being present in the moment. We live right by a park and so we can just do the loop, or there's trails behind the house and or just walk the neighborhood or whatever, just some and then have like a day we do 10 walks, we keep track and on the after the 10th one we have some sort of special oh, that's that we do like, maybe we go to walk to tcby or something well, we try not to use food as a as a boring but no, like like blazer tag.
Speaker 2:Oh hey, let's go play video games at blazer tag and it's fun, but they have, like, it's one of the only places that you can still you get tokens and then, when you win, you get tickets and then you go to the machine you put the tickets in. It gives you like a receipt and then you go get stuff. So instead of like the you know how, like epic fun and others, have like the swipe card, which I hate because it just gobbles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like two swipes, yeah, you're like 30 later where did that money go?
Speaker 2:your son's done in like five oh, so it's an arcade too.
Speaker 1:It's an arcade, it has a it has a, you know, laser tag area.
Speaker 2:Uh, there's a little bowling. You know, there's a few little things and it's great for like birthday parties, but you can just show up there, get 20 in cash, get a bunch of you know tokens and walk around and play for an hour and be happy as anything that's cool, and they got a bar too.
Speaker 1:That's always. That always helps. When, uh, when we were kids in eugene, there was this place that you could go and you paid like whatever to enter, and every game was just a huge arcade Every game was free.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, so you pay for an entry ticket. Is that kind of like Cidercade? Have you been? Yes, yes, it's similar to that. Yeah, that's a great concept.
Speaker 1:There were some that like if you get a stuffed animal or whatever you had to pay for, but it was like every game you could think of and you get to play unlimited amounts. It was the coolest thing ever and the side arcade thing is the closest I've seen. But that's more adult oriented.
Speaker 1:It was all for kids yeah and it was the coolest thing ever. That's where I I learned, that's where I beat the main boss at the teenage mutant ninja turtles game. That was where I did that. Uh, that's where I will play it first time.
Speaker 2:I ever played indiana jones uh, pinball best ever, you know so that formidable years I feel like they should do that with like, but like just have a whole bunch of nintendo like old nintendo games sega genesis so all these like 40 something people, guys can go like, play like I mean, I know, you can just get it, but like it's something about going somewhere and playing like sonic and drinking beer yeah, and like you know, like I think that, would be a home run yeah, yeah, I agree, I like uh.
Speaker 1:I don't I mean, I think uh. You know, I've always had a dream of like my dad when, when we were kids I mean not where kids I was a teenager yeah, my dad has always been a big miss Pac-Man. That's what he liked to play. We could never find one cause they were so rare, but he finally bought his first like standup video game, yeah, and so we had a Pac-Man machine and a Gallagher machine. It was like one of those cocktail sit down ones.
Speaker 1:And I remember once talking about summer, to remember I remember all I. I mowed lawns and they eat in the mornings, and then I come home and I just watch road rules on MTV and play Gallagher. It was the greatest time ever and so for me and we also had like a street fighter.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know why we got rid of them, because they were the coolest things ever.
Speaker 2:They probably. In that time you're like, oh they take up space, nobody's playing them anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean my dad gets a little antsy with stuff sometimes. He just likes to turn it over, you know. But I really want an old school pinball in the game.
Speaker 2:That's like the one. That would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:My granddad had one in his attic like a really old one, one I've wanted to track down. Uh, we used to play it all the time whenever we go visit there, but we'll go circling back to your question.
Speaker 2:I, you know, I just think I think you got to have a conversation with her and I'm not about like fitness, so much about this, like you know, just general questions about health to hey, like you know, what do you, what do you think's important to your health and like getting staying healthy and being your best self.
Speaker 2:And you know, I know you see mom and dad doing stuff like what, what do you want to do more of? And then really try to like feed that and, if you can, if that becomes like, maybe you could suggest like hey, what? What if you know the family goes on walks every evening? What would that be like? Or or what if you and I had like a special like hike, that we do?
Speaker 1:would that be nice and so it. Or what if you and I had like a special like hike that we do? That'd be nice.
Speaker 2:So it's like father, daughter, like time Cause I think I mean with with one child, like you know they. He wants all of our, you know he wants both of us and him but a lot of times it's fun to do. You know, father, I think just like having that conversation one-on-one and not making it like you know where there's anything wrong. You know cause he goes again middle school, middle school you just don't want her, like the underlying energy, to be like.
Speaker 2:You know you need to get in shape you know, like you know, it'd be more of like hey, you know, I know you're, you know, do they have PE these days? I have no idea, yeah, so, like you know, it'd be more of like hey, you know.
Speaker 1:I know, you're you know. Do they have PE these days? I have no idea.
Speaker 2:They do, yeah, so like you know, maybe asking her how that's going. What? What does she like to do in PE? Does she ever run the track, or or what?
Speaker 1:You know, does she cheat and hide behind like I did? She's behind the snacks together and she's like, well, you know, I'll just walk it. I was like why would you walk it? Like that was never an option when I was in school. I was like walking no you're running.
Speaker 2:It'd be funny if she turned to you like don't you walk your marathons?
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I mean the pace, but it's a little different.
Speaker 2:Bart, all right, so let's talk.
Speaker 1:So what about our summer? How are we going to make this the most epic fitness summer ever?
Speaker 2:Okay. So summer fitness challenge. One of the things that I want to do is uh, you know I've got my workout stuff going. I'm. I love hanging out by the pool after my workout. If you've ever been to the lifetime South Austin pool, it's, it's pretty epic. Um, but I want to run more, so my body feels good. I joined a basketball league that's going to start in July. So I, just so I'd like to be running more.
Speaker 1:Can you still?
Speaker 2:dunk. No, I mean I probably if I practiced a lot and just kind of worked on my vert.
Speaker 1:You don't have those kind of ups Not.
Speaker 2:Naturally I can jump and grab the rim, but to run, jump off one leg and dunk the ball in it would probably take a few weeks to get back.
Speaker 1:It's iffy if I can hit the net no stop Dead, serious, dead, serious, stop it. Come on, so you're doing basketball, but weren't you worried about the knees before?
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, you know, I've been playing a little bit and just checking things out.
Speaker 1:It's not so much the knees, it's more just like strains and like so.
Speaker 2:But I've just been kind of working my way into it and so I running would be a good you know running and just kind of general do you have like a goal, like a goal for how far you?
Speaker 2:because I think, when I think that I think long distance, yeah let's get 30 40 miles actually I want to start going to a track yeah and like working on you know a mile run yeah, working on my like interval like like okay, I'm going to run the lap you know quarter mile, see what my time is. Kind of work on that. Do some sprints.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I think for me that's more interesting than like I do, like going out and just like putting the pods in and just going for a run.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're talking about explosion. I mean I do tempo runs like that I usually do once a week. There's always a speed workout which is like four by two hundreds minute rest where you jog or walk, yeah, and then you repeat it three times.
Speaker 1:I mean it's like non-stop yeah but that's some of the best training because typically most distances I run are easy paces, so that gets me like 10, 30s to 11 um. That's my zone too. So when I start getting into that, like that's some of the best workouts you can find, so I like that, that's cool.
Speaker 2:So you just want to do more, like yeah, just stuff, cardio up my cardio stuff that's gonna, like you know, boost my cardiovascular fitness and also get me more prepared for basketball. Yeah, so that when I get out on the court I'm not, you know, like that. There's nothing worse than feeling like. You know, for the first five minutes I'm pretty good, but then I've lost all of my like cardio and and now I just like can barely lift my arms and I'm like you know, we're just yeah, because what all I'm doing is all too, that that helps, yeah, yeah and those types of things, and we're the.
Speaker 2:The crew that I'm with is we're getting together on Sundays. We're at Dick Nichols to shoot around and play some balls. So anyway, that stuff's fun. But yeah, that's kind of my goal.
Speaker 1:Well, I can share some of my workouts with you, because every week I have one that you can just variation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that gives you some idea.
Speaker 1:Like, hey, you shouldn't yeah running 400 for time is great, but really if you're doing explosive, 200 meters, yeah, you know, sometimes it's a three-quarter. Well, I mean, that's three-quarters of a track, so that's like three tenths of a mile whatever, or three tenths of a lap. What is that actually? So quarter miles would be like two tenths of a mile so a lap.
Speaker 2:A lap is 400 meters. Yeah, so four laps right, so 0.25 miles.
Speaker 1:So you'd be like 0.2 miles, you just, and then you walk the straightaway okay, like that, or you do it, like yeah, you do like 100 sprint and then you walk the straight and then 100 straight curve.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you do it like that. Yeah, those I've done that I'd love.
Speaker 1:I'd love that, anything you got on that yeah, totally, I don't mind sharing that stuff with you. My, my stuff is high mileage though, so I'll run 30, 40 miles every week with interval. So, like my warmup to an interval training is like three mile warmup. Three mile, uh easy, and then go right into it, and then there's like a two and a half mile cool down.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's like that of miles, um. But I love that way, cause, like when you're racing, you're actually in a 5k or a 10 K and you're pushing your pace, you go. I know what my body can do when I'm pushing it a hundred percent. I know where my, my heart rate is, and so I know I'm in still a good, even though I'm redlining a little bit. I'm good, yeah, even if I had to slow down the pace and recover and then go again. So I kind of got a good judge of where, hey, this last mile I can kick it pretty hard Cause.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:I have this left in my tank. It's a really interesting way to do it and I love. I love that and we should do some like at the end of the summer, let's do a run together and see what, see what our mile time.
Speaker 2:I'd love to do that. I think a mile challenge That'd be great. We'll go pick up, we'll pick a. You know some sort of a uh track and field spot. Meet up there. Maybe we can invite people to come out and join us.
Speaker 1:Awesome, we'll just have you ever done the track stuff, because I used to throw yeah, I mean when I was a kid I did.
Speaker 2:You know, track meets all the time and decathlon.
Speaker 1:Let's take it to the next level, baby.
Speaker 2:By the way, before we get into your challenge, I just want to let listeners know. Last week, Mitch and I did arm wrestling.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, I forgot about that.
Speaker 2:This is awesome.
Speaker 1:Mitch beat me both arms, well, left arm, we kind of tied Left arm was a tie, we should have stopped. I would have waited until my arm broke.
Speaker 2:I know, and this is funny because I had a recent conversation with another trainer. They were talking about like kind of body types and he was like Bart, you are an archer. Like if you were going to go into battle, you would be the guy carrying the longbow. That's a good way, because that's how your body is like, is strong, it's in more like upright and he's like. Then there's the barbarian.
Speaker 1:Mitch is a barbarian, not just with the beard. Were you sad?
Speaker 2:Not sad. It was humbling to know that this guy came in and just slammed my right hand down.
Speaker 1:I told my wife about it too, because I was like, hey, I beat Bart in arm wrestling. She's like so, and I was like Bart's huge, like this is a big deal, and I realized I've never lost arm wrestling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I also do this thing. That is actually very fun for me. But all these kids' birthdays it's all at like arcade-y type things. Yeah, they always have that punching thing where it measures your power yeah, and I know exactly what I can do on those because I've done them forever at bars, yeah, and it's like a party trick, sure, and so you see the high score and you're like, hey, I wonder if I could beat that. You need to start the and then you start building the crowd.
Speaker 1:You do it a couple times like I'm so close, I don't know if I. And then bam, you just think all the way to the top yeah, where, like it doesn't, it doesn't even score anymore. Yeah, and I get done. At my son's birthday I do it and, like everybody's watching, I feel so awesome. Yeah and I get done. And stacy wasn't even watching my wife she's like here he goes again.
Speaker 2:This is cool, she's like you do it every time. We know.
Speaker 1:We know her here as miss royale mrs royale yeah, she's, uh, she's not impressed, and then I realized that nobody really cares. But then it was funny to watch all the other guys that were watching me.
Speaker 2:Do it, try to do it secretly, like they waited and they came back around, not even close to touching that so there's that the barbarian side, yeah, that's true, and this is interesting because we're totally off topic, but but yeah, this is part of why we love doing this is the you. We're so far away from needing barbarian strength and like the ability to punch somebody out with one punch. Like you know what I mean, like. So they're almost like become these kind of funny, like you know, kind of tricks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, I can arm wrestle. Yeah, it's exactly right.
Speaker 2:Punch a punching bag and get a top score. Like, even like the hammer.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, at the carnival, like bringing the hammer down, but you didn't crush that with the leverage you got.
Speaker 2:Yeah and it's all. But they all seem so kind of colloquial and like strong men from the 90s or from the 50s or something like that, and not that valuable or useful anymore. Oh yeah, I mean because I don't look like I can beat anybody in art wrestling. So that's what's funny. You're stocky, I mean, I'm a stocky dude.
Speaker 1:But the reality is I think it comes from that original hunter-gatherer vibe. Like it's instinctual you always will need something.
Speaker 1:And that's why I think it's so important to do like. That's why I do like Brazilian jiu-jitsu. For this reason it's gotten all these old men into like we physically need to feel the the peace of ourselves that we could do something if we needed to. And that's why I love to wrestle in high school, because you're going one-on-one with somebody and it is a. You're either going to get your butt beat or you're going to like struggle through it, or you're going to be the alpha alpha. And that was always really good. It was humbling at times but it was also very reassuring, like you can handle yourself. So, even though these things are really dumb, like arm wrestling dumbest thing ever. I don't even know if people do that anymore. Like in the 90s, it was huge, over the top in the 80s favorite like.
Speaker 2:It's just so funny because I was such an arnold like fan of arnold movies. But when over the top came out I'm like, okay, I'm in for it.
Speaker 1:It does not get better than that.
Speaker 2:Because you couldn't like Arnold and Stallone, you had to pick sides. I mean, it was literally. I was a Stallone guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I loved Rambo, but they had, but no like Over the Top was big. But here's what I loved watching in the 90s they had it was before it really got cool was the strongman competition. Yeah, so I used to watch all of the strongmans, cause it was it used to rerun on, like USA, yeah, and so that was my goal. I wanted to be a strongman and so I would. Just, we had a weight bench in our, in our garage and I used to just lift heavy weights all the time, from nine years old, basically, and so I've always been strong. I just didn't know how strong I was until I got to high school and I noticed, well, everybody should be able to bench press 300 pounds. I just assumed, like, if you're a man, that's what you do. So I was kind of in that space. So anyway, yeah, you don't have to humble yourself before me, barton, you can beat me in everything else.
Speaker 2:I think it's important to share this. This is good stuff. Yeah, Mitch is. He's not just a sultry voice.
Speaker 1:Not just a pretty face too.
Speaker 2:Don't worry about that.
Speaker 1:I have been told I have a radio voice, but I don't know if that's true. I think for me, you know, like last year I did the marathon a month and it really set me back in my training. It really set me back in almost most of my fitness goals, just to hit this one goal and I've been trying to get back in love with running again, which I feel like I'm back a little bit, but I really need to start lifting heavy weights again, because that's really, I mean, that's how you burn fat, that's how I get more cut. I want to be able to take my shirt off, even if I'm not like chiseled, to be able to go hey, you could beat me in arm wrestling. I'm not going to challenge you that type of thing. So my wife also.
Speaker 2:No one to ever challenge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my, uh. My wife says I have tree trunk legs so I need to get those a little bit more formed so that I can wear tiny, teeny, tiny shorts again. Yeah, you want to give?
Speaker 2:that to the five inch.
Speaker 1:Five inch, five inches set on more seven inches, you know, seven inch shorts, um, so that would be my goal, is? I really just want to get into a consistent, not just what I've been doing, which is like, hey, I bench, then I do curls and I do incline dumbbells, then I do butterfly, like it's all the same, yeah, and it's yeah, I do it, but it's also like I need to explore a different route.
Speaker 1:So, that's kind of my summer. I know that's not super tangible, but that's kind of my summer thing is, I really want to do that.
Speaker 2:Well, I want to help with that. So I'm going to, I'm going to put together a you want to do twice a week or three days a week? Three days a week, okay. So it's gonna be the same workout three days a week. Okay, great Cause, we're not going to overcomplicate it. Yep, and there's going to be, you know, bench press, cause you've, you're gonna hit, you're gonna hit all those three days a week, mixed in with your, with your running, and uh, yeah, we can work out together too. Yeah, absolutely, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm actually a pretty good basketball player too, if you ever need an extra guy dude, come by pretty dig niggles park.
Speaker 2:Eight o'clock sunday. Oh, eight o'clock dude, eight in the morning on sunday.
Speaker 1:Come on baby it's your, that's your church.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to go to church today, can I lead a devotional with all those guys? Absolutely, I'll do that.
Speaker 1:That'd be great. I'll be down for it. That'd be good. Well, I'm excited. And then at the end of the year we can do something like a track workout and to do a little bit of a gathering workout.
Speaker 2:That'd be sick. That I've been wanting to do for a while is just like create kind of quarterly yeah you know, like track challenges. Maybe watch different parks around town.
Speaker 1:Go meet at Mueller, meet at Dick Nichols, meet at uh Zilker, maybe have maybe a track and field, high school, yeah, track and and just put together some stuff that people can show up to enjoy kind of do with us and just have I got a couple friends that do that, that have groups of like Gen Zers, that go out. I think that'd be cool to bring them all out and have a have a kind of a gathering yeah, be sick.
Speaker 2:Bring the you and me to be the old dogs yeah 39 49 show all these 29 year olds how it's done that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Well, I appreciate it, man. I think, uh, I think those are really good tips to understand what we can do to help build legacy with the kids. Good summers and then hit our fitness networks. But, man, we lost a good one with Bill Walton.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm thankful for you sharing those stories. I think that's really cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you don't know that much about him, just go YouTube. Bill Walton, you know, and you'll see so many like five-minute stories from broadcasters, nba Hall of famers, people that are just sharing their their perspective and what their experiences will be. Bill, you'll be blown away by the humanitarian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he is absolutely and this the human being. So many people have said this and I just love this. It's like it's not often when somebody passes away, you realize that the person they were there, it was the person they were. They are, I guess, surpassed the person you wanted them to be. Yeah, that's good Some people say you don't want to meet your heroes because they'll always disappoint you. I feel like that's true about Jordan.
Speaker 2:You know that Jordan's just going to be an ass even though he's the greatest of all time and sorry, lebron is not the greatest, even though LeBron found Okay, but there's so much impregnated in the idea of that person, you meet them, like so many people said. You know, with Bill it was the opposite he always over that's cool like delivered on. What a cool legacy more of a humanitarian, more of a generous human being what a cool legacy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I hope to have a legacy like that too. That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2:We're chipping away at it, buddy, let's do it All right To legacy brother.
Speaker 1:To legacy. Thanks for listening. Wherever you listen to podcasts, make sure you like, subscribe and comment. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 2:Hey, and, by the way, go back to some of the early episodes that we put out last week and the last couple weeks and just catch yourself up. Hope you enjoy them and.