Miles & Mountains
Join Nick, a social worker and coach by day, as he unravels the inspiring stories of athletes and the public, uncovering the motivations behind their actions, from conquering mountains to participating in ultra-endurance races and competing in rodeos. Get ready for heartwarming tales of community support, acts of kindness, and the revelation that everyone has a deeper story to tell. Whether it's running, climbing, or participating in rodeos, these stories will inspire and uplift. #Running, #Climbing, #EverydayAthletes, #Rodeo
Miles & Mountains
From Pushing Lawn Mowers to Running a Non-Profit with Kody Brown
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Cody. Cody of Sasquatch Outdoors, how are you?
Speaker 2:Doing great, my friend. How are you doing?
Speaker 1:I'm doing all right, man Doing all right. Long time fan of yours, correct? You even call that out. I'm like the OG. Oh yeah, I'm an OG of a lot of good causes, and it's just funny. It's just I'm. I'm happy after a long run that I'm able to have you on the podcast and you're able to make it for the longest time. I'm like dude, when is this guy gonna get on? Is he gonna get on? So we made plans and it's just like, oh my god, dude, things kept falling through. You know, you have your life, I have my life, and it's just like all right, so so finally got she on and just want to talk about the cause.
Speaker 1:Sasquatch outdoors non-profit organization out of waynesboro, pennsylvania, total of where I live. I live on the West Coast.
Speaker 2:Shout out to the borough. Boys Shout out to the borough.
Speaker 1:Yay, I haven't been to Pennsylvania in years Middle of nowhere, man, middle of nowhere. Yeah, yeah. So total opposite regions. But, dude, you know your mission. I mean, you do a lot, you do a lot, you do a lot, I see a lot. I see a lot of charity work, a lot of you know donations. The food challenge is new. You're getting shout outs from everybody. I mean you got a collab with Dr Dew 1998. We'll talk about that. So you know dr do, you knew him already. Yeah, man, all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love dr do shout out to dr do as well. When he messaged me back, I was like I'm a fangirl, you know what I mean. Like I, I fangirled so hard. When he messaged me back, I was like kaylee, kaylee's my wife, so. So I was like Kaylee oh my God, you'll never believe who messaged me back. And she's like who? And I was like Dr Do and she's like, wait, really, he actually messaged you back and I was like yes, and he wants to do a video. And oh, dude, and we're doing.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about that. There's a lot to talk about no, no, no, you're good, you're good, you're good. And so I call myself an OG, because I remember the mission. The mission's always the mission, right? Yes, sir, I remember when you had not even a thousand followers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I believe you were in the first 500. Correct, maybe earlier, but the mission is to give outdoor adventures and funding to disabled, sick and special need folk. Yes, sir, and you're sticking to it. Yes, sir, absolutely so. I've been following you. You've been out there before 2023, correct? No?
Speaker 2:no, I did landscaping construction since I was 12 years old, had a couple good years. Oh, excuse me, I had a burp, you're good Speaking of it, I was drinking Mountain Dew, so you know what happens when you do that. But yeah, so I had a couple good years with my landscaping and construction business. So I decided you know, I've always had a passion for helping the sick, disabled and special needs community, especially the special needs community. I've been helping out with the special needs community since second grade, so I had a great couple of few years, came up with the idea in about 2018. And I was like it started originally with just being, you know, paid for me to record me hunting, me hunting, fishing.
Speaker 1:Have an outdoor brand where we do that stuff and then just donate money, and that's when I found you, and so we got together. It didn't get together, but we were oh no, we didn't, we didn't create a page and we didn't create a page until 2023 at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, okay, sorry, go ahead. Yeah, no, yeah, I.
Speaker 1:You might have found a different sasquatch, but I'm cooler than him no, no, it wasn't, no, no, but I remember it was early years. I know it's 2024, but I swear, I swear unfortunately not my friend. I got you, I got you early 2023 when you first made it then, david, because yeah, it was january, january 2023 when we first made it.
Speaker 2:Then, david, yeah, it was January 2023 when we first made the Instagram account and it just seems like it's been longer because we've freaking blown up so fast. It's been kind of crazy, so it kind of you know, it feels like it's been 10 years honestly, exactly that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1:I thought it was going to be three years. So, started out, I was the OG, you were a little you know organization out there doing the mission great cause, I caught wind, was watching you and then all of a sudden, dude, your social media presence is just skyrocketed. It's like, bro, that algorithm, you got it down.
Speaker 2:yes, sir you got it down and I'm just like all right, man, all right.
Speaker 1:The mission's still there, right? Yes, sir, fundraising still there. You're still making money. You're doing a good cause. What we'll give is okay if I give some shout outs to some of the guys that you helped. Oh yeah, please. Yeah, that'd be sweet I wish.
Speaker 2:I wish we made more money, though, and help more people. That's. The biggest thing is, we've only been able to do, only is a lot is like a bad, not a bad thing, but we've only been able to do like 10 to $12,000. But in a year, that's, I feel like in your first year to help folks is huge.
Speaker 2:We did not become a real nonprofit, like a real, like licensed, legal nonprofit. We were helping people until it until February of 2024. That's when all the paperwork went through. So I was just making money and I paid taxes on everything we were making and donating and doing all of that before that actually happened. So it was all coming out of my pocket. There's no money coming in. You know X, y and Z, you know. And now we're able to do the fundraisers.
Speaker 2:That's when we started doing fundraising and blowing up more was because we became a nonprofit and I can do legal fundraisers and people aren't going to think I'm just doing. The government's not going to think I'm just doing these events to launder money. Like I was. Like people were telling me that they're like why are you doing this? Like don't events. You're like not a nonprofit, you're not this. I'm like I'm becoming know how to explain it other than that. It's like what do you have to gain from this? Why is a business doing? It's like I'm not gaining anything. It's not a business. It's it is, but it's not. You know what I mean. Like eventually, if they can pay me and pay my bills, I'll be okay with that, because then I have I'm full-time helping people for being a not even a year dude.
Speaker 1:Like non-profit, that's some good money, dude. Yes, good money. So yeah, we've been able to donate about $9,000 to $10,000.
Speaker 2:And then the other $25,000 to $3,000 went to going to Chocolate World with my buddy Brian. We just went on Friday you haven't seen anything posted about that yet because I have to edit the stuff. His guardian doesn't want his face on camera or on the social media or anything because it's a sensitive thing. I have to go through and figure out how to edit all the videos and stuff. I don't know how to do a blurred face that well in the videos and try to make it track him and stuff. It's taken me a while to do that stuff.
Speaker 1:I got you. You know what works well.
Speaker 2:YouTube. We took him on the bay with a charter, with some of that extra money as well, and he didn't catch a fish. He didn't catch a freaking fish, man. I was so upset when that happened. So we're going to be doing I can't tell you exactly what the adventure is yet because it's not been broken to him yet but a local company donated a trip for him to be hunting this winter locally here for something freaking exotic.
Speaker 2:Who would have thought there's exotic animals in Pennsylvania, bro Right, what's the animal? I can't say it yet. He doesn't know it. It's not public yet for him because he knows that much. What I just said is how much he knows right now. So when we have a time to meet up with the other local business and have Adam come along, we're going to break it to him and then present it to him then and then we'll be able to start raising money and stuff. But amount for what we're doing is $800. So that's what we're going to be trying to raise the most money for, because the trip was donated by a local organization. But then I called the place to redeem it and set the date and they're like hey, you know, we'll donate the trip and we'll upgrade the package from what they were willing to buy.
Speaker 1:I was like what? That's awesome, he'll find out. He'll figure it out, and you don't want to spill the beans, man, you don't want to spill the beans.
Speaker 2:So all right, I'm so excited.
Speaker 1:With that kind of story. Dude, you fanboy, just like me. We're two of a kind.
Speaker 2:We're two of a kind. Two of a kind, kind of. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because we fan boy man. We found you're passionate being a social worker yeah, and I'm a social worker and dude, it's like all right. Why do you do what you do? So my thing is how many people have you helped just by fishing and taking them outdoors? Um, so we've helped not that not as many number, just ballpark like three to five for that, and we've also helped that not as many number, just ballpark, like three to five for that and we've also helped donate to three to five people.
Speaker 2:It's not been that many yet, but we're so, you know, in a year I feel like it's a good, a good amount, but we're still doing more and we have more new adventures coming up actually, so I'm pretty excited for that.
Speaker 1:Are you allowed to say anything about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so August 24th, with the Hagerstown flying box cars, we will be. We're selling tickets right now and if you buy the ticket through that link, you get to sit in our section, obviously, and a portion of each ticket comes back to our organization. And they were gracious enough to gift us 10 tickets. So we're going to be providing tickets to Adam Patterson so they were all gracious enough to provide us 10 tickets and we are going to be providing Adam and three of his children tickets to the game. Adam and his wife, as well as three other children, tickets to the game, with five of the tickets to the game, with five of the tickets, and then we will be taking Eric Miller, adam Lucas, and then we will be having three representatives come with them as well so that they can, you know, have someone who's there to tailor to their needs anytime they need anything as well. So the mission.
Speaker 1:we're going to go back. We're going to go back. So you've always worked around people with special needs, correct? Yes, sir, this is your way of paying it forward.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, absolutely.
Speaker 1:What has allowed you to do this for so long, man? Because?
Speaker 2:dude, it's a tearjerker man. It's a tearjerker man.
Speaker 1:It's a tearjerker, especially what you're doing and bringing dude, yeah, yeah, so. So how do you do what you do, man, and why them? Why these kids? Why, you know, kids with disabilities, special needs, sick, why these kids, man?
Speaker 2:so like, uh, when I was in second grade, it so like when I was in second grade it sounds horrible. So when I was in second grade, there was a program that was presented to everybody and nobody else was really doing it. There was me and two other people that said yes, and the reason I said yes was because it was a way to get out of class. That does sound horrible, but it developed a lifelong passion to want to help people. So I don't regret that decision in any way, but that's what started it out in second grade. So I went and it was the Big Buddy program and I went and helped a kindergarten girl where she I read books to her, I played with her, whatever it was.
Speaker 2:She was special needs and I still know her sister, her older sister, to this day and I still check up on her and everything like that. Haven't seen her for a very long time, but I think I want to talk to her family and see if we can like take her fishing or something, just to see if she. You know, that'd be a cool. That'd be a cool like come, come around moment, full circle, like this is where it all started. Oh man, I'm getting a little emotional.
Speaker 2:No dude that's where you know that'd be a cool full circle moment, that would just be. That'd be cool. That'd be, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:He thought he has to ask that real quick that's, that's yeah, sorry well, that's why I asked the question, man, when did you know you had what it takes man to to work? Ah dude, I don't really know if anybody.
Speaker 2:I really don't know if anybody truly has what it takes to do it like fully. It hurts every like. It strains everything for you whenever you want to. You want to help people all the time. When you help people constantly and you see a lot of heartbreak in their life and you see all the obstacles they have to face, it breaks your heart for them. So that's the that's toughest thing. I don't know if anybody truly has the heart to do do it fully, because everyone feels sad whenever they're helping folks like that. And I'm not trying to. You know population, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Not looking down upon anybody or anything.
Speaker 1:The population man? Oh, no, no, no, the population is, it's, it's brutal, it's brutal. But you know what the coolest thing is, though, man, bro, it's so rewarding. That's why I continue to do what I do and that's why I'm asking dude, it's cool that you're emotional man, because if you were straight-faced and not emotional, then you'd be like dude. Let's cut this short, because, bro, I that you're in the right path, man, on your where you're supposed to be. So I it's awesome, brother, I commend you, brother, and that's why I asked I'm sorry if I did get you emotional man, but I had to ask that question because, dude, the population that you work with is, you know, whether they're sick and, well, they're hurting. It's tough to see man day in and day out, dude.
Speaker 2:It really is honestly, and you know the, even with some of our most, let's say, less aggressive cases of anything that's going on, like where they're not actively having cancer or anything going on, it's still very, very, very hard to.
Speaker 2:You know, when we take Robert Fishing, teaching him how to take a fish off the hook and he's a 22-year-old you know it makes tears, you know rear up in your eyes man, like it's just watching him be so excited. When he started taking the fish off the hook himself Because he struggled at first it would take him a while and we'd have to help him. But then now, every time he's like whoop, whoop out, hooked out, and it's just watching those moments is another thing. Watching another full circle moment, those things hooked out, and it's just watching those moments another thing. Watching another full circle moment, those things, just those things catch you more than anything. It's just like watching, like what you've been able to help someone accomplish, or you know what you've been able to teach them and they're actively able to do it without your help. After that, it's watch. Helping helping another human grow is always an awesome thing absolutely especially if they never really.
Speaker 2:You know, it's not that he wouldn't have that opportunity specifically, but some people just never would have that opportunity. Robert's lucky enough to come from a family where he comes from so much love and he showers so much love and compassion from his family that he he's never not felt I hate to say it that way, but never not felt normal. You know what I mean. Like they'll, they'll I don't know if they want me to share this, so I'll ask him with them if they want me to cut it out. But like they'll be, like oh, I had a robert moment, and then he'll be like, oh, you did it, you had a b moment and, like dude, they envelope.
Speaker 2:They envelope everything about his condition and his lifestyle into his life. So I just like I really want to give a moment to shout out the the mike lee family. Just because they are so amazing, they put him into football. Dude, that guy is 23 years old, it's 22 or 23 years old. He has his own house now yeah he.
Speaker 2:He has his own apartment. He's had multiple jobs. He plays like five sports. This dude literally is the most active human being I have ever met, and it's all because he came from such a great family and has such good people around. Yeah, that's good yes, sir, sorry to get off topic again.
Speaker 1:There's, I'm so passionate have so many different fingers going everywhere you got no, no, no, yeah, yeah stories, and I that's, I wanted to know one or two or maybe five. You know, and you know, just knowing you, sharing all that is, uh, shows a lot. You're in the right spot, man, you're in the right place, dude, very rewarding and it's and it's paying off. So, yes, sir, it's showing, it's showing you person with the non-profit, the population, though you could have done so many others so many other populations are sticking with this one so it just they're super vastly underserved, underrepresented and underfunded.
Speaker 2:Man like I uh, just through other things I volunteered at doing, like project big love or doing the special olympics, or having to help with you know, like, like my grandparents, when I watch them have cancer and get sick and pass away watching the stuff that's not available to them, or like you know that, like we cut you a check or we take you to do something, we're not going to say this money is for you to pay a medical bill, it's for this, it's for that. Like, if you want to take your family on an all inclusive vacation, that's what that do it for it. Like make a lifetime memory vacation, that's what that do it for it. Like make a lifetime memory. Like, yeah, I watch people really close to me get sick, suffer and die in brutal ways and not get to have anything like that because there's no money to do so. So, like being able to provide those moments, or even a moment, or just anything like that in any sort of manner. It's yeah, it would it.
Speaker 2:Because, like my grand like I'm sitting in my grammy's house right now uh, when she passed away, I asked my dad if we could keep it in the family, my wife and I and my, my best friend and my dad. We all remodeled it and, uh, you know watching her struggle and not have anything up until her. You know last breath on this earth not and not have to be watch her not be able to get a final moment delivered to her, one because it was. It happened so fast. It was two months from diagnosis to her passing away, so like there really wasn't time and it was super aggressive, it was glioblastoma dude, I commend you, all right, I commend you, man, and the reason why I asked that.
Speaker 1:Like I said earlier I don't know if you heard me I'm a social worker and I have a set population, so that's why I'm so interested on hearing yours and why you're in that population. I don't want the listeners your listeners or my listeners, ask you um or hear me ask you these questions because of set population. You know what I mean. I don't want them to think I'm um, trying, trying to find a way to put them on a pedestal. No, dude, social work is social work. You're a social worker by trade, you know, and I just find it fascinating why people like yourself, like myself, like my uh colleagues, why they have population, that they do, why that you know yeah, and so just they deserve it the most.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in my opinion.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry no, no, I just don't want, yeah, yeah, no. I just don't want your listeners thinking like what is he trying to get at? You know what? I just want to know, that's all. That's all, man, because I work with, I work with a lot of high schoolers and I work in that population that you, you know you're working with and, dude, it tugs at your heartstrings. So you know, that's all I'm trying to put out. Man, I like your cause. That's why I'm sticking with your cause. I enjoy it. So with that mission, dude, comes the social media presence. Social media has bought you in the spotlight, dude. You are crushing it. And can I be honest?
Speaker 2:I hate social media, hate it I did not really I did not use like social media at all personally.
Speaker 2:I watched a few videos here and there, like I didn't have a TikTok account, did not have a YouTube account I had. I hadn't posted a picture on Instagram since like 2019 and I basically just shared stuff on Facebook or like whatever it was like. That I thought was funny once a week, like I did not know how to do social media at all, so it helped. I just had a couple good buddies I was able to reach out to and they I asked them some questions and they answered them and I was able to take their answers and, you know, come up with my own solution to what you, what to do, and it and it worked. And at first, you know, you saw we weren't growing very fast at first.
Speaker 1:Obviously, no, and then I wrote it Yep Exactly.
Speaker 2:Tens of thousands yeah, we're almost, I think, 70,000 combined followers between our social medias.
Speaker 1:Now, it's crazy.
Speaker 2:I know bro.
Speaker 1:I'm trying. I'm trying to think back on what meme or what video you had on Instagram that was like it just skyrocket. Do you recall which one? Which? Which one was it? Because you, you do, you do post and it's just like okay, which one was it? So can you let the, the listeners know what got you the followers?
Speaker 2:so, uh, basically I this is actually like it was the first video I ever posted like, try, like was posted just to like, trap people into liking and following, and it works. It works. And then I was like you know this, what I know like I didn't think people would like this side of me and that's when the day in the life started, like where it's like I just posted random crap from my life every day and it's like you know, I found inspiration today through the doing this or you know, you know, whatever it is like, here's what we're doing today and it works because people now like the personality behind the page. It's not just a page. They go to and see if there's something good to see that day.
Speaker 2:So, like people are more so being able to connect with me and Pat now and all the other people we work with. Like people with like Robert, like you, when you look up Instagram sometimes and you open it up like I wonder when they're going to work with Robert again, because so many people bring that up to me. Because we're trying to implement like a more personal feeling with what we're doing, because what we're doing is not supposed to be taken lightly by any any means, like you're supposed to feel attached to it. Anyways, back to the original question.
Speaker 1:I'm going to keep running off track you know, man, you're good, I'm listening, man, I'm listening the listeners love it. The listeners love it. The listeners love it, trust me, listeners love it, so it was just like I.
Speaker 2:we weren't getting off traction. We weren't. You know, there wasn't any followers or anything. We had less than like 12,000 or 15,000 combined followers, but between all of our social medias. So I wrote up scripts on my phone, called up my friends and the guys who helped me and said you know, we, I wrote some scripts on my phone and we're going to make ourselves look like idiots on the Internet, but I am 100 percent sure that by tomorrow at this time it will have worked in some sort of way. So we went. It was like in February, we went and we shot. We're from Pennsylvania, that was the first, that was the first one, and that that that video series right there has amassed probably I don't know 10 to 15 million views amongst all the social media platforms. Yeah, I never, expected it like.
Speaker 2:I was like you know, maybe a couple thousand views this, that don't think in one hour that first video had like a hundred no, uh, I don't know, I don't say like 80 000 views, just on tiktok. I like I logged out of tiktok after I posted it, went, took a shower, went to the ranch, fished a little bit, shot some videos doing what we were doing there over my phone back up and had like tiktok had like I shit, you not bro, it was like 80k notifications or something like that. I was like what is going on? And it just was that was the first like well, actually that just didn't get us followers or traction or anything. But I had a fourth video I ever posted on tiktok got like 1.6 million views, views.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it was crazy.
Speaker 1:You found what worked. You know it works the trends, dude trends and the music trends. Dude is what gets you going. You found out what works. You keeping it. You keeping the, the method, the formula, the honestly.
Speaker 2:No, I've changed it up so much since then, like tenfold, like I'm not relying on the comedy content whatsoever anymore, like if I have a dude, probably for every comedy thing you see we post, there's probably five to six of them just sitting in my camera roll that weren't good enough to make the, to make the cut, because we're just naturally doing funny shit all the time. So we're just like we're gonna record what we're doing, cause there's always something funny bound to happen while we're doing it, or if something's cool, it's going to happen, cause we just make like moments like that happen whenever we're we're hanging out, cause we're just naturally like making fun stuff happen.
Speaker 1:Who's we and who has the final say on what goes or what is trendy and hey you might want to check this out.
Speaker 2:I basically am 100 the creative, the creative guy and everything we do pap is. Pap is just like. He helps with doing the outdoor adventure stuff. He, uh, he doesn't drink, he doesn't go to bars, he doesn't do anything like that. So he doesn't really do the karaoke events. He doesn't really do any of the like the beer release. He didn't do that event because he he stopped drinking so he doesn't want to be around that environment, so I can't blame him.
Speaker 2:So he, he helps run the outdoor adventures part and without him I don't think, uh, I'd be able to get anybody on any fish. To be honest, he knows. He knows what to cast, where to cast, how to cast it. He knows how to teach everybody anything without being rude you know what I mean like he is very gentle with it. He is the perfect partner in crime to do what I'm doing, because I I like it's not that I don't like doing the outdoor adventure part.
Speaker 2:I really love the outdoors and doing it, but I suck at it. So it's like it's good to have someone like him, who I know that we can have people. What an adventure. They're gonna have fun either way. But I like the non-profit part. I like do it running the social media part. I like doing the back end stuff and making up the creative creative stuff, because someone's got to do it for one and two. I'm not that great at the outdoor part, so I gotta gotta find out where I'm valued and useful okay, I'm glad you said pap's name, man, because I'm like, is it pop or pap?
Speaker 2:and so shout out to pat man shout out to yeah there's his real name dallas, if you wanted to know his real name why?
Speaker 1:why pat? There's a reason why the nickname. So why pat? Is it what I think it is? He's just an old soul man.
Speaker 2:He's just an old soul and he's older than me.
Speaker 2:He was the oldest guy working for my lawn care company at the time when we met he. I'm 26 now the other guy that was working there's 27. He was the oldest at the time. So pap comes in. Yeah, and he's 30 now. So he's only three years older than the other oldest guy. But he we thought he was a lot older than what he was when we, when we first met him, because he's bald. He has a handlebar mustache like the dude, literally looks like he's in his 40s. So we're like, oh man, we're gonna call you pap. He's like dude, I'm. At the time you'd have been like I'm only 27, like what, no way.
Speaker 1:So you just need to call him pap from now on out 26 pushing lawnmowers to run a non-profit man that's the title of this episode man.
Speaker 2:So from pushing lawnmowers to running a non-profit. That's cool there you go.
Speaker 1:That's the title, man. So, with the social media presence, though, you got some stories, man. You got some stories that you put out there, daniel, your buddy, daniel, that you, you put out there, daniel, your buddy, daniel, that you went to school with yes sir. That. So can you tell the listeners this?
Speaker 2:his story just a little bit. Yeah, can anyways. So, uh, he's a really good dude First off, like, uh, one of those dudes you meet and you'll never forget, even after meeting him one time, because he's a big personality, he's the life of the party man, he's an awesome guy and his will to be the best he can be and be the best at whatever he's doing is freaking crazy. Watching him grow up and watching him during sports and stuff. The dude never gave up Heart of a lion. This is why I find it really hard to believe that he has that. He ended up having freaking heart problems because he has the heart yeah, heart of a lion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I shouldn't have said heart earlier. I'm like all right, so all right, keep going.
Speaker 2:Heart of a lion, like he, he's a freaking good dude and uh, so he the his. His heart is uh. He had to have a pacemaker put in because he found out the bottom part of his heart's dead and it's not working so for his heart to pump and work.
Speaker 2:He had his pacemakers working 24 7 so, uh, he has to. No, nobody locally whatsoever will touch, touch his case. They told him yep, you're like, we can't do anything for you, we don't know what to do for you. So he had to find specialists that would take him on. So he has to go all the way to Ohio to make make the appointment happen just for a chance for them to find, uh, find what's going on with him, or even find you know a way to help him, if they can. What's any way at all? So it's, it's a real, really bad situation. But you would, when you're talking to him and you're hanging out with him, you would never know he, he is so positive, he, he's like I said, hey, he, he lights up a room. He's a great dude and has a really good head on his shoulders and a great and I hate to say it this way, but he has a great heart man he has.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a bad way to say it, but yes, you know, yeah, yeah, I got you. I got you. You don't have to say that you got a great heart too, man, you know. So my question is is he looking for a donor is? Is he almost there, or is he just trying to figure out why the bottom part of his heart doesn't work?
Speaker 2:I. He told me that he's just gonna ask to be put on the heart transplant list when he goes to Ohio, cause there's, if they have no, there's, as of now there's nothing anybody can do to help to save his, save what's been gone already. They could. I don't even know if there's a way to prevent it from getting worse. So they're gonna. They're gonna. He's just going to ask to be put on the heart transplant list.
Speaker 1:Gonna ask people on the heart transplant list and if they can't come up with a solution. But he's 25 years old man, yeah, he, I got. I had a buddy who did a liver and heart transplant and he's doing fine. But man, he sacrificed a lot, a lot to get where he's at now, and now he's having a baby. So shout out to skylar, but um no, not skylar for's having a baby. So shout out to Skylar, but um no, not Skylar for sure.
Speaker 1:What a fricking warrior dude. You know he worked his bum off as much as he could helping others, you know, in the social work world, and uh ended up going to UCLA and doing transplant. I'm just saying UCLA is pretty good dude, top notch just saying so if he is willing to, you know, sacrifice a lot UCLA is good.
Speaker 2:We have to raise that money, man. We did a fundraiser for Daniel. We didn't raise enough money to even probably get him to Ohio, so we're going to have to do another one here before. Hopefully we can get it done before he goes out there. But I don't know what to do, man.
Speaker 1:That's another thing. That's what we were talking about earlier. It's heartbreaking. More than he had in his pocketbook.
Speaker 2:That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1:It's heartbreaking, but, man, it's not enough. But hey, you better not tear yourself up, man, you're doing more than the actual, you know crowd. Yeah, I mean, you're doing so much you can't carry it all, man, if you carry it all, you ain't gonna last long, dude, that's well, that's an old guy like myself, an old fogey go for it, said old fogey, I'll be. I'm 42 man.
Speaker 2:I'll be 43 at the end of the year, dude, so oh really, yeah, yeah, yeah oh that, yeah, I would have thought you were just like in your 30s, early to mid 30s, something like that, honestly now we're working with the population that I do, do they keep you young?
Speaker 1:but, man, sometimes they just want the kid. My, one of my oldest kids, part of the population right and she's driving me nuts and making me pull my hair. So, the kids that I work with, the population of the high school, they keep me young, my dog just puts me back into the place. You know what I mean. So, and she how? Uh, 16. She'll be 17 in october. So yeah, I'm old man, I'm old dude, I'm old yeah, no, no wonder, man, I did not.
Speaker 2:I did not realize that you were, that you were getting to be a pappy.
Speaker 1:No, I'm just kidding, no, dude, no, no, you're freaking old man, you, you're old. I told you, man. I told you, I forgot what we were talking about.
Speaker 2:I was calling you a pap like Pat, not based on anything else I was saying about Pat, because you're an old man like him.
Speaker 1:You're 26. You won't last long if you carry the weight of what you deal with. Yeah, unfortunately I do a lot 're, you're gonna grow old, you're gonna be papped by 30 dude and you're gonna look it. So you gotta, you gotta know, you gotta know and this isn't a therapy session, all right you gotta know that you did what you could. You did your best and leave it as that. Just, he got the services that you provide and that's more than he did at that time. That moment.
Speaker 2:That's my perspective too. I'm just gonna roll with it and do another event. That's just that's what I told him I. He told I'm I'm beating myself up about it, but what I do is I'm not going to beat myself up about it, not do anything. I'm not. That's counterproductive. So you, I'm going to use that failure of that not failure but I'm going to use not being able to help him as much as I want it to motivate me to help him more in the future. So, like I'm a big fan of, there's a positive in any negative situation. So just because I came up short in one way doesn't mean that I'll come short next time. So I believe that you learn more from any negative situation than you do from any positive situation. So I'm not afraid to fail and I'm not afraid to come up short. I've done it a lot in my life and I believe that's why I've been able to consider myself successful, because I'm not a person that's going to stay down when I fail.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't even say it's negative. I wouldn't say you came up short. I don't even think it's Dude.
Speaker 2:Come on, man, I wanted to go to Ohio, man.
Speaker 1:I wanted to make enough to get him out of ohio.
Speaker 2:So you know and what you did is and we'll get him there. I hope so. I really do. We'll get him, because I, because he just had another baby. So his, his girlfriend, his fiancee hasn't been able to work. He's not able to work because of his heart. So, like they've been, they've been really short financially in a lot of ways for a while. So I don't know what their personal support system is, like you know, or if their families are able, even able, to help them. I'm not going to ask them that question.
Speaker 1:That's not on me to ask and you don't need to know, you don't need exactly all you have to do. You provide the service. You do what you got to do. You know what get them, get him closer to Ohio than he can right now in this situation.
Speaker 2:Think about it. All right, cody, you're a good man. You're a good man, dude, you're a good man.
Speaker 1:You're a good man.
Speaker 2:I appreciate that. That makes me feel good to hear those words from you, brother. I really appreciate the compliment.
Speaker 1:Not trying to go to tearjerker, but, man, you put this kid on and everyone's just like dude. That's my population kids. You know Lucas, he's doing great.
Speaker 2:He's doing freaking awesome bro.
Speaker 1:What happened to lucas? Why was he in your feed? What was going on with?
Speaker 2:lucas man. So he is an autistic little boy who, uh, who started having I don't know exactly 100, what like started with his back. I just know what happened in the car, what needed to happen. So he just started having like fluid and pressure and stuff building up in his spine and a lot, of, a lot of pressure. So he the doctor, like he went to the doctor and they talked to him about it and the doctor, like called him back and they're like, yeah, he needs to get on, we need to get him in surgery this date, this date. But then they did another like scan or something and they said, yeah, well, you need to come get surgery in like the next five days, or else you risk, like you're at risk of death or being paralyzed or something like that is like the negative effects or the negative risks are way, way high. You need to get in here now.
Speaker 2:So he ended up having to have that surgery. Then they they like it was a spinal surgery and I think they just like relieved all the pressure off his spine and he started having complications afterward and then and now apparently he's uh I just got an update last night, I think, from his grandma candy shout out to candy uh, she, she's an awesome lady, and so is his mom, kayla, she, they're. They're very great people and I'm glad I've been able to help in any way I could, but he's up and around and running and he's ready to be a kid again, apparently how is that story a lot different than the last story of Daniel?
Speaker 1:obviously it's a success story, yeah, but you're not telling me you wish you could do more I'm doing because I'm still have stuff planned that I'm doing.
Speaker 2:We're actively doing stuff for luke.
Speaker 2:Still, we're selling. We're selling crown royal gnomes that his grandma makes. Um, we're gonna be putting together a package from a bunch of people for him and his well like. It'll be clothing, hats, toys, games, whatever the companies and stuff are willing to donate for a package. We're going to be able to do that.
Speaker 2:His situation's just a bit different because we stepped in and after everything was already happy happening. Basically, I kind of heard his grandma. We were talking a couple months ago about doing an adventure, um, but he was a, he was a little young for us to take him out by himself and with just us. We weren't that comfortable with it yet, so we were just waiting until a little bit later. But now it's a little bit different in that manner. We're going to do an adventure for him now after we're more invested in.
Speaker 2:I don't have to say that properly, it's not that we're more invested, it's that we were happy to see him recovered. So why not give him I want to see him get a really good gift to him, like right after he recovered, like take him fishing, like not just the basket, so our stuff for him is not as much financially, it's more so being there for him physically as friends and being the group that he needs in that manner. So I think that's what makes that situation a little bit different is I'm the financial aspect for him is a little bit less prominent because the situation was already taken care of. Daniel needs this money in order for that situation to happen, if that's, if all that gets you to that, that conclusion. I know it's a lot of words to get there, but no, no, no, I got you.
Speaker 1:I got gotcha. Well, I heard two success stories, but in your mind you wish you could do more On one, you know. So, dude, you got what it takes, man, you got what it takes to run a successful nonprofit. You're doing well, dude, you know the amount that you've done in less than a year is huge. The social media you got it. It's just bro. If you want to make more money, you got to bite the bullet and make more of a presence, especially in this day and age, man, when people want to share but don't, because the economy, you know. So, if you want to be corny and make more money, be corny and make, so you can make more money. If you want to be a guy that just does audio podcasting and puts everybody on spotlight and the people on spotlight make it bigger than you, then be that guy. I'm talking about myself. Then be that guy. You know, because I about myself. Then be that guy, you know, because I'm going to get you some Sorry.
Speaker 2:It froze and I didn't Go for it. No, it froze Go ahead.
Speaker 1:No, you're good, you're good.
Speaker 1:I thought, you stopped talking. No, no, it doesn't matter, man. The thing is my day job, coaching. I like to live a private life, but, dude, I like to get out because I can't sit still and mind races. You know, due to other things, I haven't yet, I haven't yet told my story. I've been thinking about doing it, especially since dad passed. You know, it's a time and day. Sometimes I feel like the time is now to talk about it. Then it's like nah, I don't get cold feet, I just don't feel like telling a story. You know what I mean? It takes a different person. It takes a certain person to just sit there and be like, all right, diarrhea of the mouth and I don't have it.
Speaker 1:So that's why I like, okay, I'm the guy that puts you on blast because, dude, you know you have a good heart. Other people that I put on there have great hearts, and why be negative? You know what I'm about to spit out. Just put you guys on there. Man, positivity and you know just love and caring and stuff like that. You know so if you want to make more money this day and age, you got to put that social media presence on.
Speaker 2:I wish the social media made money bro people do have a certain number.
Speaker 1:Well, the thing is is that the more people, the more people get your message, your mission, what you stand for, more likely they'll be like all right, man, here's five dollars, here's a dollar. You know one dollar is a lot better than zero. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2:yeah, so yeah, I'll gladly take any of that anytime and I'm grateful for anytime anybody has that. We just haven't unlocked that population yet. I guess is the way to say that we just haven't unlocked that population yet, because we still only reached 70,000 people out of 7 billion in the world. There's plenty more people out there who have. Yeah, but I don't really judge our success by the followers because it's not really helping us. It is helping us, but it's not helping us carry out our mission. It's helping us. It's giving us a platform to show how we carry out our mission. Once it starts making money, I'll be more excited about the amount of followers. I'm really grateful for the relationships I've made. That part is from social media. The relationships I've made from social media is the most successful thing. I have gained from that, as well as giving me a platform.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's giving us a platform to share our stuff. The more relationships, the more likely people are able to donate. Yeah, exactly, exactly that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:All right. That's why I'm excited about, you know, going on one podcast and meeting new people. It's not, I don't make posts to make money, and that's you know what I mean. They don't make money. So the posts aren't really where I, where I'm going in with the social media stuff. I make them because I kind of have to and they're funny, and the ones I really like making are the ones I put. You can see, you can see where my heart is, and the posts I make are the ones where it's trying to help somebody, it's hosting an event, it's doing stuff like that. If I could, if we could, have a successful social media account just posting that stuff, I'd be more than happy and more than more than willing to do it that way. But it just didn't work that way. So now I gotta post funny stuff because people like comedy and that's how you draw more people in.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, huh yeah, so you're always giving back, man giving back, been giving back for years. It sounds like what Tell me about the challenge man, this food challenge that you I mean you got so much going on and I noticed you've been doing these food challenges and you're going to keep the food challenges right.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we're trying to do it. I have three more in the works.
Speaker 1:What about food challenges is so appealing?
Speaker 2:That's actually a really good question. I never, I never, no one's asked me that one yet.
Speaker 1:So I've been.
Speaker 2:I've been asked a lot about the collaborations and this. That the other thing. No one ever asked about the food challenge. I like it, so we Dude food challenge.
Speaker 1:I love I, I, I love food challenges. I love I. I love food challenges. I love watching people, you know, do the food challenges. I'm a huge 4th of July. You know fan Nathan hot dogs and it sucks that, joey wasn't there. Chestnut that is. I think it's a bunch of crap, you know, just because he went Another dog rather than Nathan's and he wasn't able to compete, just because he went another dog rather than Nathan's and he wasn't able to compete. Come on man.
Speaker 2:What the heck.
Speaker 1:Anyways.
Speaker 2:I know my food challenges.
Speaker 1:I love food challenges, so what makes it so appealing to you, especially in the nonprofit world, fundraising Bro?
Speaker 2:you know the show man Vs Food. I know you know that show.
Speaker 1:Ah, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Huge fan since the show started. I mean I'm going to Google when that started, I would have been young. I think you were young.
Speaker 1:I think 08, 07 to 09, I believe it was yeah 2008 yeah so what it was? It happened three, two, three years bro, it went.
Speaker 2:It's still on. Yeah, I thought it was still on, so it's the one from 2008 to now and I've it's a new guy now.
Speaker 1:It's not Adam anymore yeah, adam was the man Adam was the man until he got in trouble Until he got in trouble, until he got in trouble, and then, yeah, there's a, he got in trouble. Yeah, you gotta read more into it. You gotta read more into it, just saying we don't need to talk about it.
Speaker 2:Oh crap. I was told that it was health issues on why he stopped.
Speaker 1:It wasn't. He told somebody to go kill himself in a way, in a way what was like social media, yeah, yeah, he was talking about. I think it was on twitter at the time he was saying like he was saying something about slicing somebody's wrist or go slice somebody. Yeah it's. It's weird. It's weird. I was ever since then. That's why they didn't finish that one. Remember that one, when it was, he had two good seasons. The third season was cut short because of this uh controversy. If you look him up, uh, you'll, you'll know more about uh, what he did. And ever since then he's he's lost credibility in my book.
Speaker 2:Is he a good host?
Speaker 1:Is he a great host? Dude, he's great, yeah, but dude, just he was. Yeah, he was good just forcing food in his mouth. Other than that, after that dude, he lost.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you have that kind of platform, you cannot be doing that kind of bull crap dude Like what the heck?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so look into it. He wants all my respect right now. I didn't want to bring it up.
Speaker 2:Oh man, now I don't even want to do food challenges anymore Right?
Speaker 1:Nah, keep doing it. So, Adam, he's the man behind it. The challenge.
Speaker 2:The original seasons of man vs Food really made me love food challenges. I don't eat much personally. I eat small amounts when I eat, so it's like I don't eat the food challenges as much because I suck at them so I lose them all, but I love the idea of them. I like watching people eat such large amounts of food because to me it's humanly impossible and it really is me. It's humanly impossible and it really is, so it's cool and they they're a good way to draw crowds. Like we had people cheer. Like we had five platters sold the other night, including mine. So we had people cheering and we had people like, oh, you can do it, you can do it, it was so cool, man.
Speaker 1:and then only one person finished yeah, that guy, you sent me that video. What did he actually eat? But he won. And how did he win? Like, what was the duration, like what was the whole concept behind?
Speaker 2:uh, the challenge, it was the sasquatch outdoors platter food challenge from maddie ann's kitchen and catering that's in chambersburg, pennsylvania. Shout out to john ashley, the maddie ann's team. We, uh, we love working with them, great folks, but we, we. It's a burger, the sasquatch burger, which is two four ounce patties, pulled pork, bacon, a pierogi and then a nice bun I think it's like a polish bun and then there's a pound of fries there, there's six pierogies, there's two stuffed bell peppers and I think that might be it on the food challenge, but that's a lot of food. It's probably like four pounds of food if I was to determine like how much it would be. And the stuffed peppers are stuffed with mac and cheese hamburgers and small pieces of jalapeno on top, so they're freaking delicious. Like the whole meal is so good.
Speaker 2:I wanted to eat the whole thing so bad, but I knew I definitely never could. I still got leftovers. I ate some for lunch yesterday. I'm going to eat it. I ate some for lunch today. I got one more meal left still, so I got four meals out of that challenge for $35. So I mean, that's not bad.
Speaker 1:That's a platter they sell.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it will be it just debuted on Wednesday. Yeah, it just debuted on Wednesday. 35 bucks, yeah, 35 bucks. And if you eat the whole thing, if you eat the whole thing, we pay for it and you get a $25 gift card to either the Redneck Foodie Shout out to Gary, he's a really avid supporter of our organization and you get a. It's a gift card that's a redeemable at both maddie and and redneck foodie 25 bucks and then you have 25 minutes to eat all that food four pounds, god, and that guy did it.
Speaker 1:He was happy. It looked like he wasn't even hurting, he was, he was in there on a mission and he tore it up Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:And he did, and he did. He didn't even plan to do the challenge. He likes coming to our events to help support our cause and then my dad and I talked him into doing it. He's like nah, dude, that's a lot of food. I'll never be able to do that, da-da-da-da-da. He's like you know what I'm going to? And he literally has no background of eating like giant amounts of food, nothing like that. He's a bigger guy. He's probably like 6'3". He's taller than me and he's just as broad as me in the shoulders. This is a bigger, he's a big dude. So he could pack away the food. But he said no, I don't eat that much. He literally did it with ease. He had like a minute and a half left. What's his name? Josh? What's his name? Josh? Josh, uh, josh from trinity. Trinity, he's a solar salesman and that's how we met. He put solar on my parents house. So if you need solar, reach out to sasquatch outdoors. We can get you a good rate in pennsylvania that's, that's cool.
Speaker 1:That's cool man he's four pounds heavier now too, oh, dude, I dude.
Speaker 2:I texted him after. I was like how are you feeling, bro? And he's like good, he's like, honestly, I feel great, I'm just still a little full. I was like no shit, you're full, bro, you just ate so much food there it is yeah, yeah, I watch a lot of people on social media.
Speaker 1:Man, just chow down 10 pounds of pho or 10 pounds of rice noodles and any Asian food. It's crazy. This guy will eat 10 pounds in one sitting. Dude, it's crazy man.
Speaker 2:It's like noodles. What is it?
Speaker 1:No, it's like broth meat and yeah. Oh, okay, I'll eat anything that don't eat meat, I'll eat anything that don't eat meat.
Speaker 2:I'll eat anything that don't eat meat. Okay, about the same.
Speaker 1:About the same man.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm a meat eater. I love fried catfish, that's my favorite meat.
Speaker 1:Okay, so shout out to Josh man, When's your next food challenge?
Speaker 2:So I think we're going to try to maybe make it a weekly or biweekly thing maybe, but we're going to have to have people schedule it. We only have enough for X amount of food challenges to get there quick or whatever it is, so we can do it. And then I'm working on an ice cream one, and then I'm working on a menu item out of food truck uh, what else is there? Working on a second beer collaboration nice, yeah, you do that too.
Speaker 1:That's good. You know this used to be miles, mountains and brews. Right, this podcast used to be with brews at the end. Oh yeah, why aren't we drinking right now? Well, it's 11. It's Friday, I mean I can drink, but I'm going to go to a rodeo by myself and I don't want to do that to him.
Speaker 2:I'm drinking. Later we're having a party at my parents' house. We're doing a karaoke night over there. I never get to enjoy the karaoke nights fully, that we do why I'm working. The whole time I'm networking, I'm trying to, so like I don't get to sing for hours on end.
Speaker 1:That's what I like to do during karaoke Dude. You're going to burn yourself out. You've got to make time for downtime.
Speaker 2:You can still have your cake and eat it too right, you can still three songs during the event, like I do like three songs during the events. Or like I have an initiative during the events. Like if you pay 20 bucks, I'll sing whatever song you want me to sing. Man, and I probably raised like three, four hundred bucks just off doing that. I've sang some crazy stuff. Oh my god, songs I never would have expected to hear my entire life.
Speaker 1:So this is your, this is yours, this is your karaoke, so you're actually working, working, oh, it's the event for.
Speaker 2:Sasquatch, like it's held at a local bar. But I'm walking, we walk around, we have volunteers walk around trying to sell raffle tickets. I'm talking to people, we have a merch table set up and a donation table set up. So I'm working that which you know, uh, and I also walk around and try to get people to put money in donation buckets. And I have these coasters. Well, I had one here, don't know what happened to it, anyways, they have a look, they have the.
Speaker 2:I don't believe in you either. Like the flicking you off sasquatch on it with a qr code, and I can buy like a thousand of them for 50 bucks. So I just walk around hand I'm gonna people say, hey, scan this qr code, it shows you what we do. And I just I walk around doing that for people. Um, and most of the time the time it flies by so quick. It's not a negative thing and I'm not. I'm not unhappy that I don't get to sing as much as I want to at the events, because it also that's how we raise money. People pay to sing, people donate to get to the top of the list, you know. So like it doesn't bother me, I just like when we do karaoke night at my parents house. I really look forward to it because I get to just sing and sing and sing and sing and I can rap too and it's like I don't. We don't do much of the rap music at the events because it's not the vibe of a small country town bar.
Speaker 2:There's like pretty, like there's a few rap songs over the course of the night, but, like I don't, I want those to be enjoyed by the people who are taking their time to come and, uh, you know, support an event of ours. So I'll just sing. I'll sing like crowd favorites, like when I go there like should have been a cowboy by toby keith I love this bar stuff like that. So, like I, you know, I focus on keeping the crowd pumped up more so in those events, not singing the songs I would 100% want to sing because, like you know, I might want to sing some sad Jamie Johnson song, but I not. The crowd might not want to see it, you might not want to hear it right, that's my go-to is in color by Jamieie johnson okay, that explains why you have no time.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's in an event all right, yeah, yeah it says a lot, so all right.
Speaker 2:So your go-to is jamie johnson, for real oh, dude, I'm a very monotone guy, so his monotone singing like goes well with my monotone singing and he's like he's not a fast singer yeah, yeah, yeah, true, but that's your go-to.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, pump those numbers, though you got to pump that up a little, dude, if you're gonna you know my favorite artist is who? Charles wesley godwin yeah, hey, he's rocking it, man. His latest album is pretty good, man, oh, you know him Heck, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's something, he's good.
Speaker 2:I've known him since 2016.
Speaker 1:Family Ties is a work of art.
Speaker 2:I don't know him. Know him, I just know his music. But yeah, he's from West Virginia, Morgantown. He's like two hours away from me. One of my major goals is to meet him. It's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1:To shake that man's hand would be so epic so if you had to do an upbeat, I do karaoke every Friday. I'm not doing it today because got a rodeo right, I do karaoke. Are you a guy that needs to be intoxicated, buzzed, or you can do it, sober, I'll do it all three brother. I love having a good time. Yeah me man, I get that from my dad.
Speaker 1:Right, I got you, I got you, dude. People are like oh dude, I got to get effed up, Not me man, Give me a song and I'm doing it. It might sound a little better when I am intoxicated or buzzing. It's a good time so my go-to killers.
Speaker 2:I'm more of a showman when I'm drunk, obviously, like I'm gonna give some more pizzazz to my performance, obviously, but I'm gonna do the performance regardless. Right, I used to be a more reserved, but ever since I started doing the karaoke events and I realized people really don't care how you sound, it's like you know, whatever, it is like I did karaoke. Yeah, so like five years ago is the first time I did karaoke and I loved it. Loved it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the first time I did it, I had my goods wrong okay, yeah, yeah, okay, and then you got the swing of things and everything else now it's easy.
Speaker 2:Every time it's easy because I don't really care. If you don't, if you don't like what I'm doing, what I'm singing, or who I am or how I sound, I don't care, it's all cool right gotcha.
Speaker 1:I used to my go-to back in the day, used to be dude, don't say anything but B-52s. Man Love Shag. I used to do them parts like crazy Like crazy.
Speaker 2:I love that song.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so like my brother and I, we would sing it and I would do either the girl part or vice versa. You know that kind of thing. So we'll have a good old time. And then Bohemian Rhapsody, of course. But those are in the past, dude. I've seen anything from the Killers to ended up in Brooks and Dunn. Dude, not the classic Brooks and Dunn. I like the old, like you know, she ain't the cheating con. You know that kind of thing the slow Brooks and Dunn.
Speaker 1:The slow Brooks and Dunn, it's working. The slow Brooks and Dunn. The slow Brooks and Dunn, it's working.
Speaker 1:I love Brooks and Dunn man alright, dr Dew, that collab, that's the last. That's the last collab I would even consider you guys doing. Yes, you drink Mountain Dew. I was drinking Diet Dew during this conversation. It's done just because I didn't have coffee. So after my run, diet Dew, something refreshing with some water. That collab was out of nowhere. So how did you manage this? Because the combination that you guys had is it's, I understand it, but dude, that is nasty shit. What?
Speaker 2:you guys did so?
Speaker 1:the collaboration? Who thought of this? How did you manage that? Because he has a following and I'm pretty sure he gets paid doing what he does. Oh, really, he gets paid. You get over a certain amount of followers and everything else. You do get paid.
Speaker 2:You do get paid I've loved his videos for months. So, like I said before, I never really used social media. Before I started sasquatch, I watched a few people like my uh, missouri public hunter. I watched him before I started sasqu watch outdoors. I watched, uh, I mean, it was like six people like, honestly, I watched like the manny pewig, I kept up with him. Um, there's like not much.
Speaker 2:I was just, I don't, I didn't spend any time on social media because I run a lawn care construction company based out of franklin county and I had enough customers. I didn't need to market on social media because I did word of mouth. I've been doing it since I was 12. So, like social media didn't really wasn't really needed because I knocked on enough doors and met enough people by the time that anything mattered, that it was good. So I, just I. So I started looking at videos for the first time ever, like just scrolling for a while.
Speaker 2:I came across Dr Do, I'd say like four months ago, and I started watching his videos and I'm very terrible at liking videos and like following people. When I like their stuff, I just like watch it and then I go to their profile and watch and watch and watch. But I've been getting better at that too, because I want people to follow me and like my stuff. They watch it. I just yeah. But I've been watching him for months. So one day I was like you know what, I'm gonna start commenting on his stuff. And I started commenting. He liked my comments. I was like, all right, so he knows I exist, he knows I exist. That's freaking sweet. I love this dude.
Speaker 2:So then I messaged him. I was like, hey, here's what we do, here's our mission. Would you want to drink something with me? And he's like, uh, yeah, let's do it. So I wanted to do mountain doom barbecue sauce, because I feel like that's more like a sasquatch thing to do. And he didn't have barbecue sauce at home. But I was like, well, you don't have barbecue sauce at home. But I was like, well, you don't have barbecue sauce, what about soy sauce? And he had soy sauce and I really wish you would have barbecue. It was one of the nastiest things I have ever tasted my entire freaking life, dog it was horrible.
Speaker 1:The explanation you gave was quite convincing and I can see ultra athletes, ultra endurance athletes, try that as opposed to other things. So I was like all right, man, I'm intrigued. Not a fan of soy sauce, even though I, you know, I eat Asian food. Stuff like that. I am plain Joe. I don't like things touching or saturated in sauces. So soy sauce and Mountain Dew, it's the way you explained it. It makes sense. Is it my thing that I would even consider? Ah, if, if I was really shit out of luck on a trail and all I have was a mountain juice, soy sauce, I'd consider it because the sodium will help the muscles and it's electric. You know electric lights and yeah, yeah. So anyways, that combination last thing I would ever consider, but you guys did it and you guys killed it, and dr do is crazy for these, these combinations. So it worked and it's working and you're doing more collabs. You said with them oh yeah oh, yeah, we want.
Speaker 2:He wants to create a song together because, you know, as you saw, I posted our first like funny song. Ai sang that one, uh that that pap loves fishing and bitching songs, all. Ai shout out to dr swag eric pearson from alabama he, uh, he had the ai organization whatever the heck it is. He freaking had the ai do it and, uh, we have some other stuff coming up and we're gonna have a, probably in the next year, maybe year and a half. We're gonna have a country, uh, parody and funny. It'll have some some funny, some parody and maybe one or two like regular songs on it, but we're gonna have a funny album.
Speaker 1:So, dr, do man with his fame man. He gets a lot of negativity in his comments, man, and it's all about who he is as a person and man. It's just. It's unfortunate, man, that you know the dude is killing it in the world, that he's living right, what he's doing, his game, social media game, that is and then people need to put him down like he's not even a person dude yeah, people know not to do that in my comments because one I'll either just delete it, block you because one follower is acting like.
Speaker 2:That doesn't matter to me. If you're gonna act like a jackass, you can hit the road. I don't need you in my life or need you in my stuff. So they hit the road immediately. Or, yeah, sometimes if they're really. If it's something I can respond to, I will. And if I can respond in a way that's somewhat funny, I will. Or I'll just comment at followers to really bad ones and let the let followers take care of that guy. Then I block them after like a couple hours, then deal with people, comment to them and then uh, so it doesn't really happen all that often on my stuff because people just know like I'm just going to take care of it at this point.
Speaker 1:It wasn't too clear on why you didn't like it. Oh, the drink. That is. What was the worst part of it, man? Was it the mixture of the combination and flat salty sustenance?
Speaker 2:Dude, it's like I don't even know.
Speaker 1:What did you taste most of? And, yeah, give us a lowdown on overall taste, dude.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I don't know what I tasted more of. I think when they combined they created some sort of other liquid. Scientifically, that just tasted like crap. Dude, it was horrible. You tasted, honestly, more of the soy sauce than anything. I say that it was just like a flat salty. It tastes like jumping in, like the bay like, but with mountain dew on the back side. It.
Speaker 1:Gotcha Okay, but you did it, and you did it like a champ. Did you finish that bottle after the scene? The whole bottle went in that cup. Okay, Okay, you did do it Actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like I don't have a this is a two liter but like I had drank some out of it because I thought I didn't know if I could take the glass on the boat. So I was just going to put soy sauce in the bottle and chug the bottle. But they said I could bring the glass on the boat. So it was like, probably like here, so like you know, right above the label, cause I was going to put that much soy sauce in it. Thank God I didn't do that, because that would have been so much worse. Oh, that would have been so much worse. Okay, but I mixed enough in it to make it taste like crap it was.
Speaker 2:It was horrific, dude.
Speaker 1:I did not like it that collaboration and your guys's content dude, how he went over on screen and grabbed the mountain dew bottle. You know what I mean that was perfect and you guys really thought it out, dude, so congrats, yeah, we planned it out probably for like two hours beforehand.
Speaker 2:We really wanted to make sure we did it right and had it all lined up. I tried to have my hand at the same spot in the screen and everything like that, so it worked out pretty good.
Speaker 1:It worked out pretty good. Yeah, you guys had it down, man, you had it down, so shout out to Dr Do. So, shout out to Dr Do, even though, even though he doesn't need a shout out, the dude does his own thing and you know, forget haters and the people love them the stuff that he does.
Speaker 2:I don't know how he does it, but oh yeah, I don't know how he does it either, but oh yeah, and in the comments on the video someone's like, oh yeah, this dude just drinking light beer. Da da, da, da da. So so I made that. I made that other post and I was just like haters gonna hate. And I made a video of me mixing it and everything beforehand so that if someone did act that way because I know how dr do's comments get sometimes I'd have proof and everything, yeah. And then I said it to dr dill's like I told you, haters are gonna hate. So I'm glad I made that video. He's like, yes, silence them. And I was like, yeah, I'm definitely about to.
Speaker 1:And and I posted the video, yeah he gets a lot of those too Like oh, that's not even real. That's fake. You guys stop the you know the video and then change it to something that you do Like you know, almost like the Spice King, you know. It's all fake, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:So people are going to be that way because they don't have the platform that he has. They're jealous of him there platform that he has, they're jealous of him. There's always going to be doubters when people are jealous.
Speaker 1:Going back to the non-profit Sasquatch, I've had some conversations on this podcast about Sasquatch Believer, non-believer. I believe, it takes someone to have a non-profit. Well, it takes a certain someone to have a non-profit with Sasquatch in it and not have a question. I really love it.
Speaker 2:I think it's cool the idea of it is so freaking cool man. The idea of this giant, 8 foot tall, hairy creature being in the dense forest of parts of the world is a really cool idea. I believe that you know. I've met some people from around the area I live in that are just regular humans, not sasquatch and I. They make me believe that sasquatch could exist, that there's some big, hairy dude who doesn't like people, who just doesn't well, he just wants to live in the mountains.
Speaker 1:I gotcha, I gotcha A hermit. Yes, yes, gotcha, yeah, because Sasquatch is always a boy in everyone's stories.
Speaker 2:Just to let you know, you never hear about there being a lady Sasquatch.
Speaker 1:My question to you is what is it that people are saying that makes you believe her? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't go hunt him. I don't know I wouldn't go hunt him. I don't think I'd hunt him unless it was like a collaboration, like I was called, like some of my buddies call me Sasquatch, in high school, just because I look like I'm a big, tall, slow guy who doesn't move his arms when he walks, be drinking and stuff like that. In the background of in the background of the photos like oh, where's cody at, and you just see me in like the background, a picture like in the background, just wandering off, because I always love just wandering. And another thing is I love exploring the woods when I'm drunk. That still happens to this day. That still happens to this day, nighttime, just like a phone flashlight or no flashlight, I don't care, I'll just go in the woods and run around.
Speaker 1:It's fun. All right One. I know how the woods are over there. That can be deceiving to man. Please be careful doing that. Please be careful doing that. In this day and age, man, there's a lot of people disappearing on certain things that you know. They do certain things and end up missing. Please be careful. Please be careful.
Speaker 2:I hope the woods are safe. I've been in the woods. I explored since I was like 10. No 6.
Speaker 1:But the woods there are a lot different than the woods here.
Speaker 2:I can see what do you mean. I thought the woods would be safer here. Aren't the woods safer here? You have mountain lions, dog.
Speaker 1:We don't have mountain lions anymore here it's not just that you get drunk enough, it gets cold, it gets hot.
Speaker 2:Things could happen fair fair, yeah, yeah a lot of people have my location on my spectrum.
Speaker 1:That's true, that's true I never think, but you know.
Speaker 1:So here's the thing like, if you're, if you're hyperthermic, right, first thing you're gonna do when you're hyperthermic throw, throw everything away. Throw everything off, including clothes, phones in your sight. You're going to throw that away. Guess what, what? Yeah, last thing you're going to do, or the last thing that they're going to find, or the first thing they're going to find is your phone, but where's your body? It can be 50 feet, it can be five feet away from it, right in la la land, and they won't even be able to find you, dude, they won't find you until ever.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's pretty crazy. You need to get out more man. You need a. You need to brush up on on some uh, you know, some wood stuff before you get effed up in the woods, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't condone getting trashed and walking in the woods. Dude Dang, Go to the woods and then get trashed afterwards. That's why there's always that celebratory trail beer. Dude. Now, if you told me you were doing that, I'm all for it. But you getting trashed and then going to the woods, it's not like hiking.
Speaker 2:It's not like hiking. I don't really go that far either. People always know I'm going to explore too. They just know where I go. It's been where I go since I was like six. They get me, they get me.
Speaker 1:They're always someone with when you get time. All right, watch missing 411 what is that on? Youtube. Oh, prime, it's on you you can get it on youtube as well. I'll send you.
Speaker 2:I'll send you a link just now you got me not wanting to do it. The creator now.
Speaker 1:Now the yeah, the creator has a series and it's really like really good. You know they always have like uh, missing in the national parks. That's real life too. You wouldn't think people come up missing their small woods that you have around there. People can come up missing as well. So I'm just saying uh just be careful, just be careful so sasquatch, you're a believer because other people have said something yeah, I don't have.
Speaker 1:I've never had an encounter no, okay, well, you don't have to. You can just believe, because you know it is said that back in the day they were around, uh, I don't know the, the, uh, the, the specific name that joe rogan always puts out there, but but it was a thing you know. A lot of people say it's paranormal, and then there's certain sections like little portals, here, there and everywhere in between. That's when I think, all right, I need to see it to believe it. So try to make me more of a believer Now. Do I believe that they existed back in the day?
Speaker 2:oh yeah a lot of stuff used to. We like to kill everything, yeah, yeah yeah, we like to kill too much stuff.
Speaker 1:If it existed, we would have killed it yeah, and then they're thinking about how you know you know predator with arnold schwarzenegger. They're thinking about how you know you know predator with arnold schwarzenegger number yeah, predator, all right. Well, now they're saying you know, some people think bigfoot has that kind of capability dude, shape-shifting. And I heard that turning invisible. Yeah, dude, it's nuts man, so it's like, bro, I don't I don't get that far so that's why I asked man, that's all I don't get that far, gordon.
Speaker 2:I met him in pittsburgh. He he's a huge believer. He's a huge like cryptid guy. Oh okay, he was on the discovery channel and stuff like that, oh, like finding bigfoot kind of thing.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure if he was on that or not, but he was on the Discovery Channel and stuff like that. Oh, like Finding Bigfoot kind of thing.
Speaker 2:I'm not sure if he was on that or not, but he was definitely on the Discovery Channel in some aspect. It might have been an avian animal planet or something. He's definitely a famous guy for the cryptid, studying the cryptids and stuff like that okay, no, no, but I can look into it after talking to him, though I can find myself believing more in depth, though, after speaking to him for a half an hour. You're really good.
Speaker 1:If you hear us, dude, I won't persuade anybody, man. No, but you talk to these guys. These guys have been doing it for years and years. Dude, they could make you into a believer in a second bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They're really good at what they do and it's almost like a musician kind of thing. So I'll look at, I'll look into it. Man, I'll look into it. Just I want this week, if I wasn't injured, I was going to run a race, okay and I wanted to go and I was going to go bigfoot hunting afterwards. I was going to.
Speaker 1:I was going to meet the guy that I've talked about, bigfoot, in the past, earl Wayne Ballou man. We were going to go to a secluded area and see what we not go search thing. But basically, you know, you see these videos on social media about guys in their tent or just out in middle of nowhere hearing noises, kind of thing. That's what we were gonna do, but I'm injured not gonna go to those parts, so we had to delay. But I will be Bigfoot hunting soon. Heck yeah.
Speaker 2:I would do it for a collaboration, for sure it'd be fun. I love being in the woods, so why not? Well, you got to you got to.
Speaker 1:man, you got to. Especially if you have a non-profit with the mission you have and the name that you have, you got to. Man, you got to. Especially if you have a nonprofit with the mission you have and the name that you have, you got to, you got to. So, cody, did I miss anything? You want to add anything? Dude? It's been a pleasure talking to you, man, and I want you back Me too.
Speaker 1:I want you back and I definitely want to talk to you about your first year of being a non-profit man, when that happens.
Speaker 2:That's a lot that'll be a lot that's in January.
Speaker 2:February. Yes, sir, february, maybe even March. I'll have to look at the paperwork to see when it exactly went through, but it was, yeah, it's been crazy. It's really taken off since then. Like, oh my gosh, I need to compile a list, start compiling a list of everything we've done and I'm going to put a binder together of everything we've done and everything like that, so I can it's more like a sales thing, so when people ask what events we do, it's like I don't have to list it, I can just show them like here's what we did, how much, here's how much we raised, and stuff like that. I'm getting one of those put together for advertising and sales and stuff like that, cause it's going to be cool to one have all that information for me to look back on. It's like a I'm a mentor binder, like I've got accomplishments binder. That'd be cool. Monday I'm going to be an old man, hopefully, and I want to look back and know that I did good for the world you know what.
Speaker 1:Sometimes you don't need that kind of stuff, but I know where you're coming from, man, you just know. You just know deep down that what you're doing is changing lives and and knowing what you do is making a difference, dude, um, mementos are good, but sometimes it could also bring up bad things. So just let you know what you're doing. What what you're doing is good, limit yourself to some things, all right, just as a guy in the world of what you're doing, pick and choose on what you take in. But yeah, dude, I got what you're saying. But, dude, just know, you don't need that man To make it known that you're doing. Well, man, you got to know in yourself that you are making a difference and that you are doing what is needed to change lives, man, and you're doing it. So just let you know, man, that's how I see it.
Speaker 2:I like that perspective.
Speaker 1:I hear, I hear what you're saying, dude, totally understand, totally understand. But yeah, you, you don't want some of those things to haunt you, dude.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:That's true Fair If you if you ever need anything, man, especially some advice in this population that you're working with, always hit me up. Dude, I'm never a stranger and uh, look forward to it.
Speaker 2:Now that I met you face to face, I can uh we. Now that I met you face to face, I can uh it's, it's. We're not strangers whatsoever anymore. I don't care if it's over a computer. That's the greatness of technology. It's like you're sitting across me at my kitchen table.
Speaker 1:I'm always here for you, man, outside of social media, outside of the podcast, in the real world working the population. I'm always here for you, dude, so feel free. Feel free to just talk it up. If you're frustrated anything, man, I'm here for you. Dude, keep doing what you're doing. I see it, everybody else does, dude. Thank you so much thank you, man.
Speaker 2:It's been a pleasure, and I mean I when you say it. Uh, you said to me that all that I mean the same to you. You can call me anytime. I think we have each other's numbers. If not, we'll definitely get each other's numbers and we'll uh, we'll definitely be keeping in touch with each other and I'll be. I want to get on here more, talk to you more. It seems like there's way more between us that we could definitely unravel and talk about the that two hours definitely was not enough time to get through even the surface of what we could be, what we can talk about the other. You're a really down to earth person and I'm so glad to have finally freaking met you face to face.
Speaker 1:Thank you, man, it's been a pleasure. Until next time.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, we'll see you next time.