Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: What's going on, y'all? Jesus Hilario here. Back at it again. Corpus Christi Originals podcast. Today we got a special guest, Pete Trevino, man, dedicated to helping others through boxing and barbecue and Big Bertha. Pete, thanks for joining us.
[00:00:13] Speaker B: Hey, man, appreciate you for having me again, man.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: All right, thank you. Salah, you want. You want to introduce yourself a little bit further?
[00:00:19] Speaker B: Yeah, man.
Yeah. So you know, Peter Reno, been here in Corpus for a long time, and I moved here in 95, started my family here, you know, just doing, you know, doing dad stuff here in Corpus, you know. Yeah, stuff like that. I'm originally from Houston, you know, came down here and, you know, this made Corpus my second home.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Yeah. So we'll be talking about your journey, your passions to give back lessons you've learned along the way. If anybody's watching on the live stream, drop a question in the chat. We'll be taking some. Taking some questions throughout the episode. If you have any questions. Let's just. So let's see what else? So where. So you said you grew up in Houston. What was life like as a kid for you?
[00:01:11] Speaker B: It was, you know, Houston's a very fast city. You know, I mean, like, so, you know, it was. And then growing up, you know, in the, you know, in the early 90s. Yeah, I mean, there, you know, it was. It was. It was tough, you know, it was tough, you know, like I said, you know, everything over there and, you know, they called it the city of no pity. You know what I mean? Like that. It's. It's, you know, it's. It's got. It's got as good, it's bad, and it's ugly. You know what I mean? There. So, you know, when my dad, you know, everybody, you know, my family decided to come down here, you know, I mean, we just. So I came down here. 95 and a lift.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Wow. Wow. Wow. You're. Was your dad in the refinery business? Is that how he came over?
[00:01:52] Speaker B: My dad, you know, for. For 35 years, was a commercial and industrial AC mechanic. So, you know, you know, all the. The venting in AC compressors and all that stuff, he would install that and just. He did that for over 30 years.
[00:02:09] Speaker A: Hey, nice. So did you have any. Any, like, role models growing up that influenced your path?
[00:02:16] Speaker B: Yeah, my mom, you know. You know. Yeah, you know. Yeah, my mom, she. I said she was a special needs teacher, you know, so she was always, you know, always giving back. You know what I mean? You know? You know, people always looked up to her and always Went to her for things because, you know, you know, the most cool moms, man, you know, they're built different back then, you know, they, they, you know, they love. They, when they love, they really love, you know, and, and you don't have to be a direct son or a direct daughter with the same blood, you know what I mean? They just, when they love you, they love you, you know. And my mom was always known for just helping people and stuff like that. And I seen up, I'm the oldest son, so I got to see everything firsthand, you know, and, and my dad too. I mean, you know, you know, my dad was with that, that, that old school knucklehead dad, you know what I mean? You know, that he was tough on us, you know, I mean, and, you know, and I, I took everything with a salad grain and, you know, I mean, just learned from everything from him and I still use everything that I learned from him to, to this day. You know, I lost my dad in 2010.
[00:03:15] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: You know, so.
[00:03:17] Speaker A: Wow. So you learned, so you learned a lot from your dad. That man. I think that's very important. And I talk about that often as far as having a father in the.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: Household, you know, that, that's, that's, that's crucial, you know, I mean, and that's where even as, you know, you know, Hispanics, Mexicans, Latinos, you know, I mean, you know, you know, we go back and look at how our grandparents were, you know what I mean? And having their, you know, our parents see that they had their dad in their lives, you know, I mean, you know, just help them be the way they were when it came time for them having kids. And, you know, we're a product of them, you know what I mean? And you know, you know, we've got to keep this cycle of, you know, you know, you know, keep know our dads in our lives, you know, I mean, dads keeping their kids in lives, it's very important, you know, I mean, like, it's. I always said this and some people disagree, some people don't, but I've always said, you know what I mean? You know, a woman can't raise a man and a man can't raise a daughter in the sense of understanding what it's going to take to be a woman when you grow up.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: Right, right, right.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: And you know, a mom teaching a, you know, a young man how to be a man, you know, I mean, that's, there's roles for that reason. And you know, unfortunately, there's just a lot of you know, homes that don't have that.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:25] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So it, it's hard and it puts a lot of stress on, you know, you know, the single dads, the single moms, you know what I mean, Trying to do it when, you know, dads walk out on their lives or the mom walks out on lives, you know, and you're trying to play both parts. It's. It's tough.
[00:04:38] Speaker A: It's tough. Yeah, for sure. I know this when I'm teaching my kids, like, I, I noticed things that my dad used to teach me. I'm teaching my kids, you know what I mean? And of course, growing up, you're like, you don't understand what's going on. Is it until you're in their shoes, you're like, man, I realize why they told me that, you know? Yeah.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: So my dad used to always tell us, like, you know, I mean, you think I'm being hard on you, you'll thank me later. You, I mean, and, you know, up, up, up until. Up until he took his last breath. That was one of the things I whispered into his ear and was just told him is like, you know, I'm going to continue, you know, doing what you taught me to do. You know what I mean? Because, you know, he was, you know, he was real. Like, he was old school. He was, he was an old school man. So he, he believed, you know, young boys are treated this way, to be built this way.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Right.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: You know what I mean? We. There was five boys, you know, I'm the oldest, so it was, you know, to have five boys in the house, you know, I mean, with just a mom, you know what I mean? It was. That was tough on my mom, you know, having five boys. You know what I mean?
[00:05:36] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, for sure. I. I think different cultures have a way of raising either boys or girls, you know, I guess. And I guess in like, Hispanic, it's more like you, you. You got to grow up to be tough, right? I guess you could say that's the way boys are raised and girls are trying to cry.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: You can't do this.
[00:05:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's like. And you grow up like that. And then like, for, I don't know, me, for me personally, like, I noticed that it got to a point where I wouldn't be able to voice my, My feelings or my thoughts. You know what I mean? So. But. And that's important very later on, you're like, I need to do start saying how I feel, especially if I'm married or if you know, to my kids to let them know what's going on. Oh, yeah, Communication is, is.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: I, I learned that these maybe past 10 years, man, about opening up, you know, I mean, you know, because I said I, I grew up never to expose that, you know, that side. You know, you're. You're going to be a young man. You're supposed to be tough. You're supposed to. This, you know, nobody's ever supposed to see you cry. And this, this, this and that, you know, and, you know, that was.
As I got older, it was something I didn't dis. Like I didn't agree with, you know, holding that in, you know what I mean? You know, it's. It's. It's not healthy, you know what I mean? You know, and now, I mean, I've. I've grown past trying to be. Keep that shield of like, oh, no, you. I mean, you know, this hardness of. Yeah, you know, oh, I can't let nobody see me cry. I can't.
I mean, you were talking right now. We got emotional, bro. I cry with you, right?
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Was there like a certain. Was there like something that happened for you to like, realize, like, oh, shoot, maybe I should start sharing this information.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: When I started losing the people that I love. Oh, wow. I lost my mom in 2005. Five years later, I lost my dad, you know, lost numerous aunts and uncles, cousins, you know, you know, and, you know, and.
And just really good friends over, you know, I mean, so it's just like, I mean, holding on to being a certain way just to. For people to feel a certain way about you, that's. It just to me, wasn't worth it anymore, you know what I mean? Like, you know, you know, I felt I, I got past that, you know what I mean? Like, you know, and it's help to right now ever since, I've just changed that mind of thinking. I mean, I felt that I've been, you know, a better dad towards my kids. My kids see me different, you know, they're like, you know, like dad, you know, I mean, and it all, it all, you know, comes with. Even with what I'm doing right now with just doing community work, like, you know, my kids have seen like a big change in, you know, my attitude as far as, you know, how to love them and, you know, being there for them more and, you know what I mean, stuff like that. So, you know, it's. It's been a journey for sure.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: Yeah, man, definitely. It's awesome, man. So you grew up in Houston.
Let's See, so. So we're moving on. We're talking about. We're talking about. You have a boxing gym at the White.
[00:08:31] Speaker B: Yep. Yeah, that's inside the ymca where I think we're coming up on a year there already.
Like, I said that. That started with just. We went in there to go talk to them about maybe possibly sponsoring some of the young kids.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: You know, because, you know, YMCA has been around for a long time.
[00:08:47] Speaker A: Sponsoring some of the young kids. Like what?
[00:08:50] Speaker B: Like. Like when we go to competitions, you know, I mean, you know, helping them with, like, the road trips and, you know what I mean? Maybe even sponsoring them with, like, gear, you know, their own boxing gloves.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: So the Y already had, like, a boxing. Okay, okay.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: No, they didn't. But we knew that YMCA is about kids. You know, it's been like that for 85 years or longer. You know what I mean? So we, you know, me and my partner just decided, man, let's go talk to them and see maybe if they, you know, would be interested.
We had tried to go to the Boys and Girls Club first, but, yeah, they. They shut us down. To me, they're like, oh, no, you know, boxing is violent. You know, I mean, these kids, they already live in the ghetto, you know, And I'm like, that's not what we're here to teach.
So we went to the Y, sat down with Ms. Gwen. She was the interim CEO at the time.
She gave us the floor. She said, well, you know, it's just like when you go to a bank, you want to get a business loan, right? They want to hear what you have to offer before they're going to loan you any type of money, you know what I mean? So she's like, okay. She goes, what kind of presentation do you have? So, you know, we. We sat there for, like, three hours just talking about our goals, what we. What we were trying to get, what we're trying to do with these kids, how we're trying to be impactful for them, you know, I mean, because where the Y is right now, I mean, it's pretty bad neighborhood, too.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:10] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So, you know, she loved it. And then she's like, well, instead of us. Us to sponsor you, what do you think about opening up inside here? And we're like, whoa, that. You know, we were sitting there like, okay, well, this just took a turn. Yeah, but you know what I mean, she loved it. She. She backed us up, gave us a section of in there, man. And it was. It was game over. We started. We Started putting the ring in there, started putting punching bags, speed bags, jump rope, you know what I mean? And then we just started getting kids signing up, and it's, it's, it's been good.
[00:10:46] Speaker A: Had you been into boxing before all this?
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Yeah, when, When I was younger, you know, I mean, my dad had put me in, you know, when I got. Matter of fact just yesterday, I was going through some old pictures and, you know, you know, when my dad was training me, you know what I mean, My dad was my coach for a while.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:11:01] Speaker B: And, you know, he was like, if, you know, if you're gonna get in, you're gonna be fighting out there, you know, in the streets about that. You might as well try to make some money out of it, you know what I mean? So he, he, he, he got me into you, you know, you know, fighting and boxing and stuff like that. And then I, you know, when I moved here, 95, I tried to carry that on. When I signed up at Baltazar Gym right there on 1995, I. I was there for, you know, about a year.
And then I had my first kid. And so I was trying at 17, you know, I mean, I'm trying to be a dad, a boxer provider, a husband at the time, you know, me, because, you know, I was with, you know, you know, with, with, with my, my. She was my first wife for, you know, eight years, and we had three kids together. So I was like, man, you know what I mean? I was 17 years old, you know, you know, the, the, the, the, the minimum wage at that time was 425. So trying to be, you know what I'm saying? Trying to, Trying to work and then be trying to train, it was, it was too much, you know, I mean, I know there's a lot of people that make that happen, you know, but my goal was to try to be, you know, professional, get into it, you know. And, you know, then I turned 18, I got into the oil and gas business, and I've been here ever since.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: Yeah, man. So when you got into that, you. You figured, like, I gotta figure out how to take care of these kids.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Yeah, man. You know what I mean?
[00:12:20] Speaker A: You grow up fast. It seems like it.
[00:12:22] Speaker B: Well, and that's, that's, that's another thing that my dad, you know, taught me was just like, if, if you're gonna go against the grain, just know that there's repercussions for everything. You know what I mean? And, you know, when, when, When I had, when I told him that my, you know, I was Gonna be a dad. He was like, are you ready for it? I was like, well, I don't think I have a choice. You know what I'm saying? I don't think I have a choice, you know, and he was just like, well, just remember, he says that that's your kid, not mine. Well, he says, you know what I mean? And, you know, and he. And that just goes back to my work ethic of what I learned from him to provide you. I mean, so like I said, I was 17. I mean, I, I understood the responsibility. And, you know, you know, I, I, I didn't want to be that system. We're like, oh, you know, a young kid just disappears and leaves a kid out there, you know, I mean, and it wasn't like that, you know, I mean, and then I ended up having three, two more.
[00:13:13] Speaker A: It's because your dad, Rose, raised you like that.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he was.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: You got to take responsibility.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: He. My dad always said, he says, a man that doesn't take care of his kids is not a man, you know, I mean, so, you know, it's, it's. It was just something that was embedded in us, you know what I mean? You know, me being the oldest, you know, he, he put the burden of responsibility high for me so that my brothers coming up understood, you know, I mean, the assignment as well. You know what I mean? So, you know, it was, it was tough growing up in the early 90s, man. I mean, as a teenager, you know what I mean? Like, it was, it was, it was hard, you know, I mean, especially, you know, with my dad, you know, I mean, you know, he was. My dad was never in the military, but he, he ran a strict program.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: You know, you know, he, he had expectations, and we were, we were, we were to live by it, not act by it, live by it, you know, so my dad was that one if, you know, you know, on the weekends, we weren't allowed to sit in the house, Remember, they used to just kick us out. He's like, hey, you don't belong in the house. Only women belong in the house. You know what I'm saying? You know, take your tail outside and go act like a kid. But when that, that, that street light comes on, you better be coming home, you know, So, I mean, we understood the assignment, you know, that wasn't playing no games. So all that stuff just transpired into me to being. You know what I mean, to take responsibility. You know, my dad was all about accountability. Like, he. I mean, you do something, you'll know there's a consequence. You may not like the consequence, but there's consequences behind, you know, so it was, you know, a lot of that that, you know, I still use all those terminologies that he taught me. And I'm, you know, I'm 46 years old now, you know, I mean, and I, I use it to this day.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Shout out to Pops. Man. Reminds me of my dad.
[00:14:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:47] Speaker A: See more doors in the house, baby.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, and we just got to keep. I mean, we got to keep our legacy, you know? You know, our bloodline, you know.
You know, strong, you know, I mean, in our values, you know, I mean, our moral values of. Of family, you know what I mean? You know, and so I tried to. I passed that on you. I got five daughters, so it was, you know, I mean, it was a little difficult for me to try to be.
[00:15:09] Speaker A: Five daughters.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I got five, you know, I mean, so it was. It was hard for me to try to be the tough guy like you would have sunned, you know, I'm saying, trying to be like that with five girls.
[00:15:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: You know, I mean, so it was just like, man, you know. No, so, yeah, so, yeah, I mean, I had to do a little adjusting, but, you know, I mean, my daughter' too, you know, I mean, you know.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: Did you have sisters?
[00:15:30] Speaker B: I got. So I got two sets of families. Right. You know, I mean, you. So I got a total of 13 brothers and three sisters, you know what I'm saying? So we, you know, come from a big family.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: Okay, okay. Okay.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: You know what I mean? So.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm saying, cuz I grew up with all brothers with no sisters. Like, I really didn't kind of learn how to.
Well, I mean, my mom, for my mother that raised me.
Yeah. Shout out to Jackie Hernandez. Yeah, but like, having sisters and then growing up a daughter is like, oh, you start figuring out how girls are in the household, you know what I mean? Or even just living, Getting married and living with your wife, that's. That's a game changer.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:11] Speaker A: So.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: So let's put this. I had six in the house then, you know, that, that it was tough being the only, you know, male in the house, you know what I mean? And, you know, that's six different mood swings, you know what I mean? You know, dad, are you proud of your kids now? Huh?
[00:16:25] Speaker A: Are you proud of you?
[00:16:25] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely. Every single one of them, man. You know, I mean, like, my oldest is 28.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: You know, I got my 25, got two 21 year olds and I got a 10 year old. So it was, it's awesome. You know, kids are a blessing, bro. Oh, they are. I mean, you know, like I said, my oldest, but all I ever told my kids, man, because I said I didn't graduate high school, man, I, I made it to the eighth grade. I mean, I never went to high school. I don't know what it's like to be in high school, but I didn't want to accept failure, right. So when I had my kids, I told my daughters like this. I was like, look, when you turn 18, there's not much I can do to tell you how to live your life because you're already an adult. All I want to be able to do is when people walk in my house, I want them to see diplomas hanging on my wall.
That's all I want. If you don't go to college, that's fine. I said, my responsibility is to help create you.
[00:17:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: And help you to pre adulthood after that is your choice. So, I mean, you walk into my house right now, man, I got, I got four diplomas on the wall. Two of my daughters are entrepreneurs.
One has her nail salon that she's been doing. I mean, she's doing wonderful things with that. My other daughter moved to Colorado. She's a beautician. She got her license to do that.
I got, my, my, One of my 21 year olds is going to school to be a traveling nurse. Dermatologist.
[00:17:41] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: And then my oldest, well, she just, you know, she graduated and she's like, dad, I want to be a mom, I want to be a wife. And so, so, so she got married, you know, her, my son in law, doing great things. They got, they got, you know, they got their, got their own family, you know, I mean, I got six grandkids, you know, so.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Wow, man, that's amazing.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Yeah, so, you know, it's good.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: So we're talking about boxing now. We're going to barbecue. It was barbecue. Was it a family thing or did you pick it up later?
[00:18:11] Speaker B: We always barbecued them up. My dad, it was not something in the beginning, when I was younger that it was something that I, that I enjoyed like doing. But my dad, I mean, I watched my dad, uncles, you know, I mean, do it. Yeah, it, it probably wasn't until about 20 years ago that I like, wow. I kind of just like, man, you know what I mean, got into it. Well, because I would see some of my friends, you know, they have their homes and they got a barbecue pit. I was like, I mean, you know, I'M I'm pretty good at learning something and taking off with it, you know what I mean? So I was like, so you. I mean, you know, I bought my first barbecue pit and, you know, burnt a lot of meat. You know what I mean? Because, you know, the only way, it's.
[00:18:46] Speaker A: Like Texas culture, I think, like, oh, yeah, for sure. You have a house and you got to have a pit somewhere.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: The only way you, you know, I learned this. The only way you learn how to make good barbecue is by messing up barbecue so that you learn what not to do, figure out how to make the fire, all that, that create. No, creating and maintaining fire is the only key. Right. You know, I mean, like, you know, we're creatures of habit, man. You know, I've messed up a lot, you know, I've messed up a lot, you know, you forget, you know, and, and, and now, like, you know, I mean, I've, I've built my way of science, of it, to where what works for Pete when I'm cooking? Anything, you know, when I'm doing fundraising, when I'm just doing private events, when I'm doing, you know, just at the house, like, you know what I mean? Everything, you know, there's a, there's, there's, there's a technique to it for me.
[00:19:35] Speaker A: Right, right.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: You know what I mean? You know, everybody's got their own, you know, and they'll tell, hey, people, how do you do this? I said, look, man, I'm not going to tell you how my way is, but I can tell you is that go, go buy you a brisket, you know? I said, and if you don't want to learn it the hard way by messing up, they got YouTube stuff you can get on, you know, I mean, there's all kinds of stuff you could do now. You get on Tick Tock and they teach you how to make a brisket, but you can follow that and still mess up. I said, so you, you gotta, you gotta build your pathway for it, you know, I mean, so that you create, you know, your own legacy and, you know, you know, in cooking. So, you know, I've taken, you know, from a lot of people that I follow, and I've learned barbecue from. I've took little ideas from here, here and created what works for me. Because at the end of the day, let's, you know, not one person can say they created how to make barbecue. Yeah, everybody learned somehow. And they, you know, they, they twisted little things here when it comes to seasoning or maybe how they smoked.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Or how they set a fire like, you know, everything, you know, I mean, nobody ever does it the same, you know what I mean? So now, like I said, now, I mean, I live and breathe barbecue, man.
[00:20:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you just told me you did like a whole bunch. How many turkey legs?
[00:20:42] Speaker B: Oh, so, yeah, so Yesterday we did 500 turkey legs yesterday.
Started cooking at, you know, 3:30 in the morning. You know what I mean? Getting, getting big birthday hot. You know, it takes a lot of wood to get hot.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: Is it easier? So is it, I guess it's easier to have like that box before the fire as opposed to having it under the grill.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: So having it undergrow, that's, you know, that's that, that's the term that they use, grilling, right, because you're cooking over coals of, you know, fireboxes, smoking the meat, right. Which is off to the side, Right. You know what I'm saying? You know, some of them, you know, pretty sure you've heard the term, you know, offset smokers, you know, reverse smokers, you know, you know, stuff like that. So, you know, it's, you know, I don't, I'm more of a smoke guy. Like, I, I like to smoke.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: So there's a debate right there.
[00:21:30] Speaker B: Yeah, there's always a debate. You know, I mean, there's always a. Some people, there's some people that can grill phenomenal. Like, I mean, I know some guys that can cook over cold ten times better than I can.
[00:21:40] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: I mean, but when it comes to smoking, you know, I mean, I've, I've, I've, I've mastered my way. I mean, and it's worked out because, you know, I mean, you know, people come back, you know, hey, can you cook for me? Hey, can you cook a brisket for me? Can you cook some leg quarters? Can you. Turkey legs? You know, can you cook some pork? But you know what I mean? So you, I mean, it's, it's worked out well, you know what I mean? And you know, and it's just like anything you do. I mean, even like in your podcasting, Right. You know what I mean? You're learning something new about a podcast that could help elevate your, your, your, your way of how you do pod. It's the same thing about like a.
[00:22:12] Speaker A: Craft or honing in your craft.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Or you may have seen an idea from somebody on the other side of the country, like, man, what if I implement that here? I mean, you know, how would the response be? People? Well, you got to Try it in order to find out. So that's how I look at it. Like, you know, when I started doing. When. When I had my barbecue store on here in Corpus, you know, everybody was like, oh, man, you gotta go to San Antonio to get a, you know, stuffed turkey there. You got to go to Houston. You got to go here. So moment. It was like, what can I do to keep them people here instead of driving all the way four hours to go get a $30, you know, turkey leg?
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: So what I did is that, you know, I figured out my way of understanding how I can make it not their way, but my way that's still going to be delicious.
So I did. You know what I mean? And, you know, it was. It was good, you know. You know, creating sandwiches. That's a good thing about a kitchen, man. It's. It's all creativity. It's, you know, I mean, you know, what can you do that's going to make people come? You know what I mean? And. And of course, in the food industry, you have to be different, man. You can't be like everybody else. So you have to veer off and like, okay, so what's going to make my barbecue brisket sandwich better than, you know, Corvus Christie Originals? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Barbecue sandwich. You know, I mean, shout outs to him. But how can I make mine different? Right? Because then, you know, you get people that start hating on you, like, oh, man, you know, I mean, he never used. He never used to cook before. You know, I had my business first. Now he's got it. He stole my idea.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: There's always a reason.
[00:23:39] Speaker B: Yeah, there's always a reason. I always tell people all the time, I said, man, look, you didn't invent nothing. You know what I'm saying? Everybody took something from somebody.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: Or, you know, years of watching somebody else do something, and now you added your own brand.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: You know, I mean, so instead of being mad about it, how are you going to separate yourself from him? I mean, how are you going to do your podcasting different than him? Or how are you going to do your, you know, your construction business better than. How are you going to make these people like. Yeah, I don't really like the way they're doing it, but this guy over here, man, he's phenomenal. I mean, he just does things different, you know what I mean? And it's the same thing. But the food world is so. Is so critical matters that consistency, you have to be consistent. And Yeah, I mean, I pretty sure you got to do that in everything in life, you got to be consistent when you're, you know, trying to build something. But when it comes to food and barbecue, bro, like, you have to, I mean, the Internet will tear you up. If you, if it was phenomenal on Monday and you messed up on Tuesday, they're going to let you know. They're going to let you know. They're going to be, you know, they're going to be very vocal about it. And then it's not like McDonald's, right. How many times do people complain about McDonald's? They got, they built a brand where they can, they got a suggestion box of, of complaints. But that's a trillion dollar business. You can complain all you want. Guess what? They're still going to make a trillion dollars. I mean, a small business can't afford to be inconsistent and take negativity. So you always, you know, walking on eggshells to make sure that it's almost.
[00:25:02] Speaker A: Like you have to love to do it. You have to, like, be into it.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: I mean, if, you know, you, you, you have to, you know what I mean? I learned some things along the way that's just that helped me prepare because like I said, you know, the world is crazy, man. I mean, they'll crucify you over, you know, over the smallest thing when it comes to food, you know. And I know you've done a lot of interviews with people that, that have barbecue spots and food and stuff like that. And, you know, I'm pretty sure they've talked about it before, man. It's, it's, you know, one, one, one mistake can just dissect you. I mean, and now the way we got access to all these social media platforms, and I mean, you get on there, people, it, next one, next thing. You know, it's a trend of how bad you were, you know what I mean? And so it's just like you have to walk on eggshells all the time.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: And buy for the wrong reason.
[00:25:51] Speaker B: Yeah. You know what I mean? You know, you buy, you know, it's just like, oh, man. But like I said, man, it's a passion. I love it. I don't think I'll ever do anything else, you know.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: Well, so at what point did you realize you could use, I guess, the boxing and the barbecue to give, give back or I do community service or whatever you call it.
[00:26:09] Speaker B: So, so what we, what we ended up doing is just, we would always host box fundraisers, right? And I always tell people like this, you know, yes, we have a fee, right.
But it was never, it was never about trying to make money. It was always, what can we do for the kids that can't afford to come or can't afford to pay? You know, because I'm never, I'm not going to tell a kid that he can't, he can't come in here and, and train and learn, and then he's going to go do something bad in the streets.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: So, you know what I mean?
I always, me and my partner always just talked about, like, hey, you know, we're never going to tell nobody that that can't kid can't afford to be here. We're going to let him do whatever he needs to do. I said, let's just once a month, let's do a fundraiser.
Whatever money we raise, we put it back into the gym. And the kids that can't afford, we'll just keep paying for them. We'll get them their boxing gear. We'll do all that. And we talk with the parents. We'll let them know, like, hey, and we tell them, you know, not to talk to their, to their kid of, you know, that they couldn't afford it. They couldn't do that. Because, you know, some kids, yeah, they'll feel compassionate, like, well, I don't want my mom to spend her last $30 to, for me to get. So we always tell them, like, hey, we don't, we're not going to tell them. We don't want you to tell them. Just let them know that, you know, he's got a membership. You know, you bought him his gloves, you bought him his mouthpiece, you bought him his headgear, all that stuff. So. And then we had some kids, you know, some kids that were competing that we would drive to, you know, Florida, you know, San Antonio, Houston, the Valley, to go and compete, train to go spar. So we would just, we, we would get the community involved to, to kind of basically help sponsor the kids, you know what I'm saying? And just, and then, you know, some of them, you know what I mean? Like I said, you know, they, they needed new gear. I mean, that box of gear is not cheap. I mean, even, even what you think is the cheap, cheap. When you're buying for 20 kids, it's not cheap. You know what I mean? So.
[00:28:07] Speaker A: Right on. Right on, man. So. So you had that, that passion.
[00:28:10] Speaker B: There's.
[00:28:11] Speaker A: Anybody in the chat. You guys want to leave a question, go ahead and drop it down below. If not, just thanks for, for staying in the, for listening.
So boxing as a tool for empower I, I mean, you were talking earlier, before Aaron, you were saying, I don't know if we mentioned it here, but you were saying, we want to teach him more than just fighting.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: It's like, yeah, just, just basic life skills. I'm saying, just, yeah, you know, you know, talking to these young, you know, these young men of, you know, having a role in life, not just, you know, being on video games and, you know, doing stuff like that. I mean, go outside and explore, man. You know, I'm saying, go outside, get your knees dirty, get your elbows scraped up. You know what I mean? Go, go, go, go enjoy life. But not getting into boxing with, with the understanding that you're gonna go beat people up. Yeah, yeah, I'm saying, you know, because it's any sport, any type of sport that you're in all these ledges. Talk about one thing, discipline. I don't care if you're Mike Tyson, you go on his pocket, he always talks about discipline. You know, all these legends, you know, Vander Holyfield, you go on all their podcasts.
[00:29:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:15] Speaker B: And you hear them talk. The first thing is that if you don't have discipline, you're never going to be great at it.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:29:20] Speaker B: So we try to teach them that right off the bat, like, hey, you know, and if we fear that you've veering off from it, we're going to have a conversation about it. We're going to get you back into understanding, you know, that you, you know, discipline here, you're going to have discipline. This same discipline you have here, you need to have at home. You know what I mean? Whether you're you, there's a father figure there or there's a mother figure there. You know, you still have to have this.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: What's your definition of discipline? You know, in this case?
[00:29:49] Speaker B: Just so I guess you could use definition for a lot of, you know, I mean, you know. Yeah, right. So I, to me is, you know, not being scared to own up to what you, what you do wrong.
Listening and understanding what somebody's trying to do for you, you know, to help you create a path, you know, and of course, the whole, you know, the right from wrongs, you know what I mean? You know, just understanding, like, you know, you know, that's bad. Why did you make that decision? What put you to that point to make that bad decision? Ok, you know that there's a consequence to this. You. I mean, how. You know, and most kids nowadays, you tell them that, like, oh, I'm not worried about it. You need to be worried about it say like, you can't have that attitude and expect to live the next 40 years of life, you know, I mean, and we were all young, we were all hard headed too. So it's just, you know, when, when I talk to him about this, I was undisciplined, just like you, you know, unfortunately, I didn't have a lot of the, the, the, the, the. How can you say like, you know, my dad, when he would travel for work for six, seven months, he wasn't home, didn't have anybody, but I had to keep that discipline because I knew when he came home and I didn't, you know, there's consequences, there's times. Because my mom was like, hey, well you know what? Pete wasn't listening. You know, he did this, he did. So then my dad's having a conversation with me, he's like, what part of the discipline did you not understand while I was gone? You know, I mean, and I'm sitting there, you know, and he was, you know, you know, before my dad, you know, my dad believed in corporal punishment, you know what I mean? You know, so, so it was never, you know, my dad, you know, he never just reacted to be a bad dad, you know, I mean, he was like, well, you know, there's a consequence, you know, and you know how my consequences are. Why did you still do it? So now I have to hold you accountable. I have to hold you accountable to what you did. You know what I mean? Your mom told me what you did, you didn't listen or you were bad in school, you know, all this stuff like that. So all that discipline, I know when I go back and look at it now, you know, I mean, it was just like, man, it wasn't so hard to be disciplined if I, you know what I mean? You know, it was just, you know, you get around even at a young age, you start getting around, you know, kids your own age that maybe don't have respect for their parents. What's going to happen is that you're going to start, you're going to fall into that. Yeah, to that chap of like, well, my friends don't listen to his parents. I mean, why do you know. So we always try to just teach them, just like I said, just the basic discipline of, you know, and discipline is a mental thing. It's mental, you know, I mean, so, you know, you know, we, we try to instill that for them and, and try to break any bad cycle that they have. You know what I mean? The, the moms and dads sometimes Come to us and they open up to us a lot. Like, you know, you know, he's. He's real aggressive, you know what I mean? He's got a lot of anger, you know, and stuff like that. And like I said last time, you know, I mean, some kids, you know, feel comfortable talking to somebody other than their mom and dad about things, you know what I mean? You know, so, you know, we always tell them. It's like, look, you know, we can keep a secret to a certain point, and if you come and tell us something that you haven't told your parents, we're obligated to tell your parents, you know, because they feel comfortable. They think, well, you know, if I tell coach, you know, I mean, that he want, you know. No, we. We still need to, you know, I mean, and, you know, we bring it to their attention, you know what I mean? And we just let them know, like, hey, you know, we're like your uncles here. I mean, you know, we're here to help you guys. We're here to, you know, be there for you. If you need somebody to talk to. You need somebody, you know. You know, outside, you know, because some. Some kids don't. Maybe don't feel comfortable talking to their dad or talking to their mom, you know, I mean, but you get them comfortable enough outside of that, I mean, you know, they'll tell you the world.
[00:33:27] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: You know, so, you know, we. We just try to be there for them and like I said, just. Just teach that discipline, you know what I mean? Not. Not. Not trying to belittle them and be, you know, if they're get. If they're getting that type of treatment at home, we try not to, you know, bring that at the gym.
[00:33:53] Speaker A: Speaking with me back here, we had some technical issues, but. Yeah, that's.
That's interesting. Have you ever seen a. Like. Like a kid come in one way and then leave transformed or different?
[00:34:04] Speaker B: Like, which way? Like, you know, like, you.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: Like they come in and made their. Maybe they're real bad. Maybe they don't have a lot of discipline at this onset. And then when they leave your program, you see them better than the way they came in, you know?
[00:34:16] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, for sure. You know what I'm saying? So. So some of them can. We've had some of them adapt fast. I'm saying they just needed.
[00:34:26] Speaker A: That's what they needed.
[00:34:26] Speaker B: That's what they needed.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: That structure.
[00:34:28] Speaker B: Some of them, you know, we're little, like we say in Spanish, right? Yeah. I mean, you know, they were, you know, they were Trying to test the waters of, you know, I don't need to listen to you. You ain't nobody. Hold on, hold on.
You know, you know, and some of them took a little longer, but for the most part, man, it was always a good. A good success story to be able to see that, you know, that the kids decided, you know, that. You know, and some of them that don't come, that they don't box anymore or trained, they come back with that man, Coach P. You know what I mean? You know, things have been so much better, you know what I mean? You know, you know, I got a better relationship, but, you know, I mean, you know, with my mom, like, I'm not so mad no more. I'm not so angry and, you know, and it just.
Just. It just makes everybody that's a part of our program happy to know that, you know what I mean? That kid didn't decide to keep going bad and, you know, end up in juvenile hall or, you know, I mean, or out there committing crimes and stuff like that. So, yeah, I mean, we've had. We've had a lot of good little success stories, man. You know what I mean? You know, it's real good.
[00:35:33] Speaker A: That's good. Do you have any future goals for the. For the program?
[00:35:37] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, we just want to. We want to continue to get bigger, you know. I mean, you know, eventually the goal is to, you know, we've had talks with YMCA about, you know, maybe traveling to other cities and, you know, opening up a program. You know what I mean?
So that's. That's cool. That's something that we hope in, you know, 20, 25 that we can.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: Nice.
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Be able to go to maybe San Antonio, Houston, and.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:02] Speaker B: Open up a chapter there and just, you know, I'm saying just to see where it goes, stuff like that. It's been. We've been talking about it.
[00:36:07] Speaker A: That's great. It's great. So the program is Valor.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: Is it Valor Boxing.
[00:36:11] Speaker A: Valor Boxing. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah, I found. I found out, you guys, when we were looking at memberships for the YMCA and we also had Laron shout out to the wrong. Yeah, shout out on here. Yeah, I got your message, bro.
We'll try to work something out. So, moving forward on the barbecue pit, let's talk barbecue. What are some good. What did the idea of using your pit for community service come about or how did it come about?
[00:36:39] Speaker B: So when I started doing benefits, it was always came to the point where, like, I used to ask other people to borrow their barbecue pits. Right. You know, and then sometimes people wouldn't come through. Oh, I forgot.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: I got drunk the night before, man, you know, and you know me, if I say I'm gonna do something, I do it, you know? So, you know, I always, at that point when I was borrowing other people's barbecue, I always had to have a backup, A backup plan, okay, if this dude doesn't answer me and, you know, you know, I got plan B and C, people I can call and use their pits, you know what I mean? And yeah, at one point, you know, we were doing benefits where, you know, sometimes I had four or five barbecue pits out there, you know what I mean?
And then, you know, I told myself one day I'm gonna have my own, you know, I mean, and like I said, I'm benoist, man. You know, I mean, three years ago, Bertha came into my life. And yeah, now, you know, I mean.
[00:37:32] Speaker A: Like, you got your own, bro.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: Yeah, I got mine. And it's huge.
[00:37:35] Speaker A: That sucker, man. Wow.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: Yeah. From, from, from. From the tongue, from the hitch to the. To the fireboxes. 27ft.
Like, she's, she's. She's 56 inches and, and diameter. Yeah, she's a. She's a big, big girl.
[00:37:51] Speaker A: But what. Was there a specific moment or event that made you realize Barbie barbecue could help people?
[00:37:59] Speaker B: Well, actually, you know what I mean, I started to see other. Well, when my dad passed away in 2010, you know, I mean, we had a barbecue, you know, been, you know, and I had so many people that told me, like, oh, man, I'll be there for you, bro. I got you. Even family. I mean, hey, cuz, I got you whatever. When it came down to was ghost town, you know, it was just me, my mom, and my brothers, you know, it was a success, you know, I mean, me being in the oil and gas business, you know, I mean, at that time, you know, you know, there was some turnarounds going around. I started reaching out to everybody. Hey, man, you know, oh, yeah, bring 50 plates over here, bring 100 plates over. Like, it just. It was great. We were, you know, you know, we were able to bury my dad. You know what I mean? Very, very good.
And then I told myself one day, I said, man, if I get lied to like this, how many other people.
[00:38:46] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:38:46] Speaker B: Around here get out to by friends, family, and all this stuff? So I told myself, when I said, I'm gonna try something, I mean, I'm gonna try, you know. And then I did. I started doing it. And then, you know, I mean, I. I Ended up, you know, there was a group of us that just started doing it, you know, randomly, you know what I mean? And, you know, and some people, you know, still, still stuck around and still helped me from time to time. Time, you know, and then some people, don't you. I mean, which, like I said, you know, it's, it's a very time consuming thing too, you know, I mean, you know, some people, you know, we understand people got lives and outside of it, but, you know, it's. It's been a passion for me, you know what I mean? And you know, one thing I can't do is turn somebody away in their time of need, you know, so, you know, because I don't want. I always feel like I don't want nobody else to feel like how I felt, you know what I mean? And if I can help, you know what I mean? You know, start a chain of reaction of, you know, positivity, you know, I mean, I'm just like, you know, let's, let's see where it goes, man. Yeah.
[00:39:44] Speaker A: Yeah. So there's. Did you want to share. I guess you did you want to share the backstory of Big Bertha, which is the name of your barbecue pit?
[00:39:51] Speaker B: Yeah. So everybody's been asking me like, how'd you come up with Big Bertha that you know, the name, you know, And I didn't even come up with it. I didn't come up with the name.
[00:40:01] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: So when I bought. So when I bought her, the, the next day we took off to Uvalde. My, my. One of my best friends, OG friend had been around. I've known him over 25 years. He went with me down there and he asked me, he's like, hey, you got a name for her? I was like, I don't know. I mean, I said, people named their barbecue pits. He said, oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah, you know, he's like. I said, I don't know. He said, well, I got a name. I said, well, yeah, what's. What's that? He's a Big Bertha. And then, you know, I mean, and I was just like, wow, that. That kind of rings a bell, you mean. And from that day forward, man, it's been like that. So, you know, I mean, shout out to my boy, Terry Amy. Terry Amy.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: I was trying to remember his name.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: Yeah, Terry Amy came up with it, you know, and you know, he, you know, and he helped, he helped start a legacy, you know what I mean? You know, he came up with that name and, you know, Big Birth is starting to become a Household name. You know what I mean? People, you know, people stop like today, yesterday, people were stopping by, taking pictures. Like, man, you know, we've seen, you know, we've seen her story, you know, I mean, we saw everything that she went through. You know, we take a picture with her. Absolutely. You know what I mean? So it, and then today, you know what I mean? Like I said, did, did, did another turkey leg sale today, you know, another 400 leg quarters done today. And amazing. You know, it was, it was, you know, people just stopping like, man, we seen her on the news, man. One person was like, man, I don't have a social media, but I got YouTube. She goes, and I saw you talk about her on Corpus Christi originally. So I'm just like, I was like, oh, yeah, so shout out to my boy. You know what I mean? I said, yeah. She was, she was like, yeah. She goes, I heard you're gonna be on there again like that. So hopefully, hopefully they're watching, you know, nice. But, you know, I mean, and it stuck. I never thought of any other name. Yeah, I mean, it was, it was big birthday, you know, I'm saying three years ago, it's big birthday now.
[00:41:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Nice. And you had, so you mentioned the last podcast you had, you bought it from a man that used to own it from Tarot.
[00:41:52] Speaker B: Okay, so what I, so what I'm about to tell you now was just what I just learned just a few days ago, that I didn't even know when I, when I purchased it because I talked to Mrs. Cooper, which is Mr. Cooper's wife.
I, I, I was under the understanding that Mr. Cooper built her and that's not the case. Mr. Cooper purchased her in 2007.
[00:42:15] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:42:15] Speaker B: And brought her to Corpus. She was built four years earlier in 2003, and she was owned by Eddie Dean. It's a big old well known barbecue place in Tarot, Texas. And then he, they moved it to Dallas, Texas. Now they're over there. So when she told me this, I was like, so Bertha's been around a lot longer than I ever, ever anticipated.
[00:42:43] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:42:43] Speaker B: And putting in work what Mr. Cooper and Mrs. Cooper did. They were real big involved in their church. So they, they got her for the simple fact of being able to cook massive amount of food for when they did, you know, you know, feeding for the homeless for the church to raise money. Kids.
There was a lot of times that they used it for the book parade, you know, and anybody who needed her. Right. So, and then I reached out to the, you know, the original owners Excuse me. And told them my story like, you know. You know, I own her now. Sent them a picture of her and, you know, the.
[00:43:24] Speaker A: Yeah, sorry, you guys. The WI FI crashed. And we're just up for the second. Second portion of this episode 84 with Pete Trevino. We were talking about Big Bertha, Right. The. The backstory. So you just found out from Mrs. Cooper a few days ago that the. She was built in 2007.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: No, she was built in 2004.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: 2004.
[00:43:44] Speaker B: They brought her down when they purchased her. They brought her in 2007 and brought her to Corpus in 2007. So from 2007 till now, she's been putting in community work because Mr. Cooper was a. You know, was very heavily involved in the church. You know, he was. You know, was. Helped raise money for the church, you know, the kids, the book parade, you know, just countless other things. So she's, you know, and I. I'm just. I just found this out. Like I was telling you right now. January, you know, on the 24th, Friday is when I found this part out.
[00:44:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:17] Speaker B: Because I asked her. I wanted to know more backstory on her, you know. About what? How he built her. And, you know, she's like, no, she was. He didn't know. We bought her in 2007. I was like, what? I said, she's been. She's really been putting in community work.
[00:44:30] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:44:31] Speaker B: You know, I mean, since before the. Before I purchased her. So, you know, it's just something that's adding to her legacy of. You know what I mean? And, you know, you know, story and stuff like that. So, you know, I. I was stoked when I found that out. I was like, wow.
[00:44:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:44] Speaker B: It's crazy. You know what I mean?
[00:44:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So since 2004, and you got. You got her in 2007, you said, or.
[00:44:51] Speaker B: No, no, I got her in.
So 22, the day after you've all discussed it, right? So the day after is when I purchased her. And then the next day, I took off. So you've all did. To go cook.
[00:45:05] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, because a lot of people, you know, I got a lot of phone calls. People like, hey, you know, I mean, are you gonna go? And I'm, you know. And sure enough, I was just. Like, I said, yeah. So I put it out there on. On social media. Man, that post went viral.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, purpose showed up so heavy for that, because everybody could relate to it. There's. Somebody's a mom, somebody's a dad, somebody's A grandparent, somebody's a brother, somebody's a sister, and, you know, it, it, it, it. And it's so close to home because eval is only a little over an hour and a half away. So, you know, people were just so touched by it. They were like, you know, and, you know, everybody knew. Knew me, so they're like, hey, you know, what do you need? I had doctors, lawyers, politicians, people just calling, donating, like, hey, man, we ended up leaving with. I can't even tell you how many trailers full of food to go down there because I was only supposed to be there one day. I ended up being there, like three days, you know, cooking.
So, you know, I mean, and like I said, you know, just hearing that, you know, you know, her legacy, before I even had her, she had one, you know, I mean, so it's just like, you know, so shout out to Mr. Mrs. Cooper, I said, you know, for. For bringing her down here, and, you know what I mean? And then giving me the opportunity to purchase her and, you know, keep doing what. What, you know, what I do at, you know, and finally having my own, you know, my own barbecue pit. So, you know. Yeah, you know, you know, it's a. It's a big pit. She's. She's a big girl.
[00:46:31] Speaker A: So. So you've done a lot of barbecue benefits for people in need. Can you share one that really meant a lot to you?
[00:46:37] Speaker B: There's actually two that.
[00:46:40] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:46:40] Speaker B: Actually three. I'm gonna say three that, you know, they all mean something to me, every single one of them, whether, you know, and I've always tell people like this, man, you know, I've. I've buried more kids than I ever want to think about, you know, I mean, when it comes to. To this for, you know, all kinds, you know, you know, kids with cancer, you know, kids that. That. That, you know, unfortunately, you know what I mean? You know, due to negligence of the mothers and their fathers or whatever.
But the first one that, that, that, that. That really took a toll on me was in 2014.
We did. We did the. The. The benefit for the two. The two girls that got killed on their drive by on Cheryl Drive.
[00:47:23] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: You know, there were two 8-89-year-old little girls. When I tell you that that shook the city, or we. We. We. We. We cooked over 2500 hamburgers. And, you know, I don't want to say how much money we raised, but it was. We were. It was. It got to a point that we had to have police escort because we had trash bags and Trash bags full of money to go to the funeral home and go and count this money and make sure everything was. Was good.
[00:47:54] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: And then, you know, we, like, we talked on last podcast, you know, you know, Uriah, you know what I mean? That. That was. Yeah, that was something that really, really in to this day, you know, I mean, it's very emotional for me because, you know, I have daughters. You know what I mean? And, you know, you know, Jimmy and you know, her grandparents are wonderful people, you know, and then the one that I did last year on. On New Year's, you know, for Amethyst, she was the girl that had got killed by a stray bullet on New Year's Day. You know, I was in vacation. I was in Denver, Colorado, when I got the phone call, spoke with the dad and the mom and, you know, you know, and we ended up having mutual friends, and my buddy James, you know, me and him, had a conversation and figured out, you know, hey, you know, what, you know, how well we do to help this family. We did. And, you know, and, you know, those. Those. Those three right there were, you know, like I said, they all mean something to me.
[00:48:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: You know, they all. But those three, I. I'll say that really, really impacted my life. You know what I mean? Because, you know, no kid should ever, you know, a parent shouldn't have. Shouldn't have to go through that and, you know, and bury their child. Right. We all want the concept that. That we want to go before our kids. So, you know, those. Those three to this day, you know, I mean, you know, hold a special place in my heart, you know, where, you know, because I'm still. I'm. I'm close. Those three. I'm very close with the. Either the mom, the dad, or the mom and dad when it comes to that.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:32] Speaker B: You know what I mean? Like, you know, it's, you know, and some of them we're still seeking justice for, so, you know what I mean? So we stand with. We stand with the family. And, you know, they know that if they need me, the community, for anything, and we're. We're there to continue to help.
[00:49:47] Speaker A: Awesome, man. Man, that's awesome. Yeah.
It's funny how the memorable ones are younger.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:49:54] Speaker A: People that have passed away and not people that are older or the same age as us. Oh, it's amazing.
What are some of the challenges that you faced? Let's see. See, talking about barbecue benefits you've done, how do you decide which causes to support?
[00:50:13] Speaker B: I don't even look at it like that. Man, it's just, you know. You know, and. And one of my news interviews that I did, they asked me that same question, and I always just. I always say the same thing, you know, I mean, I. I look at every time that I get a phone call, like if the man upstairs sent me a text message, and it's like, hey, I just showed you what's out there. What are you gonna do? No, I'm gonna attack it. Like, you know, I'm saying, you know, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna return to. I'm not gonna turn away now. I've. I've had some people call for help for things they shouldn't be asking for.
[00:50:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: You know, I mean, and, yeah, you know, it's. It's.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: It seems like that will happen.
[00:50:55] Speaker B: It does. It happens a lot more than people think. You know, I mean, I get a lot of, like, you know, you know, I'm about to lose my car, and this is. That I'm like, yeah, I. I just can't. I can't help in that situation where, you know, they want me to use the platform that I have and the community trust, you know, I mean, wow. Because you couldn't pay a bill, right? You know what I mean?
But, you know, I mean, you know, I. I still try to help in some way, you know, because I can understand. I've been there before where, you know, I mean, I've, you know, lost my job and, you know, I mean, you know, you know, Oilfield crashed and I got laid off, and, you know, you think you got enough money saved up until your bills start running?
[00:51:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:51:37] Speaker B: I mean, you start coming in.
So, you know, so I've been there. So I still try to help personally, you know what I'm saying? You know what I mean? You know how I can.
But, you know, when, you know, when it comes to tragic events, you know, kids, I. I just don't have the heart to say no to. So, you know, I mean, you know, these two that I did, you know, the one I did yesterday was a good friend of mine that, you know, I mean, you know, we talk about this cancer stuff, right? This is. This is an ugly disease, you know, it's killing people. You know, I mean, like. And, you know, record numbers every. Every month, every day. Yeah, there's a record amount of people that are dying from cancer.
[00:52:16] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: And, you know, my good friend Joe, he, you know, reached out to me. I mean, I did one for him about a year and a half ago when he first found out, and Then, you know, he, you know, he reached out again, you know, came back aggressive on him.
So, you know, we, you know, we, we did that one. And then the one that I did today was for a family that lost their house in the house fire, you know, with two little, two young girls that, you know, possibly got, you know, this happened like 2:00 in the morning. And, you know, they, you know, more than, more than sure that they ended up with some smoking inhalation, you know, you know, you know, stuff like that. And, you know, thank God that they were able to, you know, the dad was able to get his family out of there. You know what I mean? Yeah. But they lost everything. Like their, their house went from you know, beautiful home that, you know, I mean, that he built for his family to almost looking like, you know, I mean, you know, he, you know, lived in the slum, you know what I mean?
[00:53:08] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:53:09] Speaker B: So we did that today and man, it was a beautiful, successful. Both of them were sold out, you know, and the community showed up like they do, you know, I mean, every.
[00:53:18] Speaker A: Time, wow, that's something to be said about our community, like, because there's always, we always get a bad rap and stuff like that. But to hear stories like that, it's.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: Like, well, see, the thing is, I tell people all the time and you know what I mean, people don't give Corpus enough credit. Right. Because they want to focus on the negativity.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:37] Speaker B: And my, my goal at one point was just to like, let's, let's, let's, let's show the other side. Let's see how much attention we can get with the positivity.
[00:53:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:45] Speaker B: You know, I mean, and it's, it's going, you know what I mean, like those.
I'll tell you a quick story, man. We was this today about 3:00, you know, I mean, I was there and I was had. We were loading Bertha up, we were wrapping the turkey legs. And the ladies in the front, they're coming like, ap, come here. You know, I mean, there's a. Somebody that wants to talk to you. So I go up there and there's this, this older gentleman, he's probably in his 80s, right? 70s, come up. And he was just like, man, you know, he says, I just want to thank you for everything that you do. And, you know, this and this and that. And so we're thinking, I saw that he had, you know, you know, the Marines asked him if he was in the service, as they asked him. I want to thank you for your services.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:54:25] Speaker B: You know, and he was just like. He goes, I want to thank you. What you do for. He goes, I've been living in Corpus Christi my whole life. I mean, because I just want, you know, I want to come personally thank you for your services and what you do for the community, you know. I said, well, thank you. You know what I mean? I said, but, you know, it's not just me. I mean, there's a team of people, you know. I mean, you know, he said, yeah, but it starts with you.
And when he said it, like, that man struck me. And, well, the man started crying. No, bro.
So I could talk to earlier, you know, I mean, like, I don't have a problem showing emotion.
[00:54:56] Speaker A: I don't have.
[00:54:56] Speaker B: So when. When I saw that he was crying, he just, you know, he goes. He goes, I just wanted. I had to come and meet you and thank you. I mean, and, you know, so I'm sitting there like, I don't want. I'm right here for, you know, you know, start getting emotional with this guy. You know what I mean? But, you know, I did, you know, I mean, you know, and, you know, he. He asked for a hug. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, I gave him a hug and, you know, and, you know, he was like, man. He goes, I want to make a donation to you. I was like, well, I don't. I don't take donations. I said, but he says, but I want to give it to you.
[00:55:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:55:30] Speaker B: So, yeah, I mean that. The guy handed me 20 bucks, right? And I was just like. I said, thank you. You know what I'm saying? He said, no, you just keep doing what you're doing and, you know, bringing the community together. And he goes, you know, and he started asking like, well, you know, I mean, who are these? I said, well, these are people that I've helped in the past. I mean, they're. They're coming to pay it forward and come help out and stuff like that. And he just, like. He's just like. Like, I love it, you know, I mean, you know, please continue. Me and my wife, you know, we. We love to see when we see you on the news. And that's how he found out about me.
[00:55:59] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:56:00] Speaker B: You know what I'm saying? Because he saw they. They did a little news story on Bertha yesterday. So he was just like, man, we had to come. He goes, I wanted to see her in person. And, you know, so when I get stories like that, man, you know, people that want to come over there and see Bertha and Meter don't want to take all the, the limelight from none of that. So I always point out the fact that it's just not me. Like there's, There's a lot of people. Some people don't want to be recognized, and that's fine, you know what I mean? You know, like the gentleman that stepped up big time and helped Bertha get fixed because, you know, like we talked on last time, you know, Berta was in bad shape before Box was bad.
Somebody saw her post and was like, hey, come bring her, you know, I mean, this is a well known major construction company that's been around for decades. Decades.
[00:56:47] Speaker A: Amazing.
[00:56:47] Speaker B: And the man that reached out to me was a good friend of mine, Mike, that was his friend and he was a. He was a big wig in an oil company called him. He says, hey, get me in contact with Pete. We want to help him. We want to get her back, back on the streets.
[00:57:04] Speaker A: That's cool, bro.
[00:57:05] Speaker B: We dropped her off on Wednesday last week, and I picked her up on Wednesday today. And these guys work crazy hours.
And I don't even want to know the money that they. What, what it would have took to, you know, to, to have bought everything. I mean, they put new gauges on her, the whole firebox.
[00:57:25] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:57:26] Speaker B: They put her name on it. They. They welded some crosses on it, you know, back. Because they're like, when you're pulling down the street, people should know what her name is. So, so when I seen that, when I put it, man, I got emotional about it because I was just like, man, you know, I mean, like, she's really touching lives, you know what I mean? Even people that are not asking for services, I mean, just people in general, you know what I mean? And they're like, just keep doing it, man. You know? You know, you know, keep. Keep building the bond of our community amongst each other instead of people showing the hate, you know, and all the negative, you know, I mean, you know, it seems like, you know, you know, drive by shooting gets more attention than. Yeah, you know, I mean, you know, athlete, a young athlete from one of these high schools that's probably gonna be a great, you know, baseball player, you know, I mean, and probably be professional. Like, let's focus on that positivity. And instead of all this, you know, I'm saying this negativity where, you know, it's just, you know, it just, it's crazy how it gets more, more attention than the good, you know, so if we can keep just doing the good things, you know, I mean, People see it, man. People. They'll tune in more, you know what I'm saying? So, yeah, for sure. It just started with that old man today, man. It was just. It was. He got me, you know, because then it's like, I saw my dad.
[00:58:32] Speaker A: Dad, wow.
[00:58:32] Speaker B: You know, so when he hugged me, I just, you know, I mean, like, I got emotional because I felt like I was hearing my. And I wish my dad was here. I'm saying to. To see and possibly be a part of this. And, you know, I mean, I just felt like, you know, I was getting a attaboy from my dad, you know what I'm saying? You know, to hear it like that, you know, I mean, you know, and. Yeah, you know, and then I had to go get something. When I turned around, the man was gone. Like, he left. You know what I'm saying? So I asked everybody, like, where'd he go? So, man, he got in his little car and he took off. And, like, I just. I didn't even get to get his name, nothing. You know what I mean? But I'm pretty sure I'll see him again.
[00:59:03] Speaker A: Cool. I mean, so, man, that's awesome. What are some of the challenges you faced in running these barbecue benefits?
[00:59:12] Speaker B: Running out of food. People still there, you know, I mean, it's happening out and selling out, and, you know, we still, you know, I mean, we. We've done some bro where we've had, you know, a line almost to a mile long, and we ran out of food.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: And, you know, I mean, mind you, we were, you know, we. We may have cooked a thousand late quarters, and it was still 700 people waiting to get up. We're like, oh, my God, what do we do? You know? What do we do? You know? But, you know what I mean? You know, luckily, we've never had any issue with, you know, you know, unsatisfied community people, you know, that's showing support, you know, they're like, wait, it's a good thing, you know, I mean, if you're selling out, you know, I mean, you know, it's a good thing.
[00:59:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:59:52] Speaker B: So, you know, I mean, you know, so it's. People are very understanding. They know, you know, and, you know, they. When they see that we're doing another one, you know, they. They still come support, you know what I mean? So that. That's usually the challenge, man. We've run out of food, and people like, well, are you gonna cook more? I said, I don't think we'll have it ready.
So it takes Hours and hours to cook, you know what I mean? Food and stuff.
[01:00:15] Speaker A: How do you find like the, the where to post up or where to park your trainer?
[01:00:19] Speaker B: So I, I, I just had, you know, sometimes, you know, a lot of them that we used to do, we used to do, you know, on Sundays when bars were closed.
[01:00:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:29] Speaker B: People, you know, we got friends that own bars. Oh, pretty, man. You can use our parking lot, man.
[01:00:34] Speaker A: Yeah, cool.
[01:00:35] Speaker B: Or whatever.
And then it just got to the point where, you know, now I got some real good dedicated places that.
[01:00:42] Speaker A: Cool.
[01:00:42] Speaker B: Don't, you know, don't mind it. Because they know that we're going to take care of the place. We're not going to leave it dirty, you know. So one place is the. Via the VFW on airs. Right. Right there at the Y. Right there. Before you get to Galahar.
[01:00:56] Speaker A: Okay, okay, okay. Is it, is it crosstown? Is it spid. It's not there anymore because it used to be SPD and errors.
[01:01:03] Speaker B: Right.
So, so, so if you're, if you're coming, it's literally walking distance to the juvenile hall.
[01:01:11] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:01:12] Speaker B: Right there. You know what I'm saying? You know, if, oh, okay. Exited Galahar, you know what I'm saying? You take a right and you take a, you take a left on our heirs. It's right here.
[01:01:20] Speaker A: Wow.
[01:01:20] Speaker B: I'm saying the vfw and right by the bus station, the new, you know.
[01:01:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:24] Speaker B: Right across the street, you know, that's where Megan's dad is the vice president of that vfw.
[01:01:31] Speaker A: Okay.
[01:01:31] Speaker B: So you know what I mean? Shout out to them. They, I mean, when I call them and tell them, hey, you know, we need an inside venue. Oh, Pete. Boom. Put you down on the book.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: Nice.
[01:01:38] Speaker B: And the other big place, man, is that Sutherland's parking lot, Right? That's a very high traffic area. Yeah, very, very high traffic. So when I started going there, I met one of their managers and he was just like, man, he says, you, you bring so much traffic to. People think that it's the store that's getting the business and it's what you guys got. So, man, he's like, man, you guys can forever be here, you know, so.
[01:02:04] Speaker A: You, of course, you ask permission from.
[01:02:06] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, we asked, you know what I mean? And they know, you know, I mean, those, those, the manager there, they, they know me. They know, you know, I mean, when, when, when we host there, we're always going to clean up. We're never going to leave it because we don't, you know, they, they don't mind It. But at the end of the day, we still have to take care of the place, you know what I'm saying? So we always make sure that it's, you know, as good or better than we. Than. Than we got there. You know, there's some people that do that. I've had to go over there that I don't know that will do a benefit there, and they'll just leave it trash, man. Then I'll get phone call, and then, you know, I'll call a couple buddies. Hey, man, let's go clean this parking lot up, man. You know what I mean? Because I never want them to feel that we're taking advantage of having a place and, you know, we just got to keep it clean. So, you know, sometimes when I'm not doing the benefit, people call me like, hey, Pete, I hear have to go through you to go to Sutherlands, you know? You know, I'm like, yeah, bro. Like, you know, I'm saying, like, you know, if you're gonna go, man, make sure y'all clean up. You know what I'm saying?
[01:02:57] Speaker A: If.
[01:02:57] Speaker B: If you're not, call me, I'll go clean up. You know? You know, we just got to keep that place nice and clean so that. But we continue to be there because that's a major area. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, all the people that there. There's the people that, like, today, a lot of people came out from the church. We're right over there. And then I don't know what it is about Corpus and turkey legs.
Turkey legs. True. You say, like, it's like, you know, you know, first thing, even when, like, you know, when we do chicken plates or we do pull pork, first thing, you got turkey legs. I'm like, no, man, I'll come back next time and see if y got turkey legs. We got chicken plates. I don't want a turkey. So, I mean, shout out to Corpus, man. They, they, they, they. I mean, is it difficult?
[01:03:40] Speaker A: Is it difficult? Cuz we were talking last time, like, you were saying the pull pork is a little bit easier to get. To get out. Is it. Is it just as hard for the turkey legs, like the chicken as supposed to. To cook them all? You know what I mean? Oh, okay, okay.
[01:03:52] Speaker B: No, it's. It's, you know, like I said, you know, maintaining your fire to make sure you keep it hot enough to cook.
[01:04:00] Speaker A: Yeah, for sure.
[01:04:01] Speaker B: Yeah. You know, but like I said, I mean, I've just. Over the years, I mean, I've just like, what is up with Corpus and turkey legs.
[01:04:06] Speaker A: Yeah, no, it's true.
It makes. I'm thinking about the jazz festival right now because my. My aunt helps volunteer. She's been doing it for years. But every time I go over there, I mean, I. I'm always looking for where the turkey legs and I know exactly where they're at.
A friend of hers, actually, he's the one that has his pit out there. He does them all the time out there. Tony. That's his name. He's the one that does the turkey legs out there, where we usually go to the jazz festival. But, yeah, definitely. We are. We are. We're crazy for them, man. This is awesome. This is awesome. So, kind of wrapping this up, we got a few more questions. Personal lessons. What's the biggest life lesson you've learned through all of this?
Because you got the boxing gym. You, Gus, you got your. Your pit. You're influencing a lot of people.
Would you say that there's something that you. I mean, you've already shared several stories like, but I guess nothing that you've learned. Have you shared anything that you've learned? I can't. I can't think, man.
[01:05:10] Speaker B: You know, I mean, you know, with. With having the boxing gym and then doing these fundraisers, these benefits, man, I've learned how to. How to really care about people, right? Care about their feelings, you know, especially, like, you know, when it's. Like I said, go back to, you know, I mean, you know, when we do these. These benefits for, you know, these. These young kids that are dying. You know what I mean? You know?
You know, it's.
Learn to be a better person, knowing that I can treat somebody better than probably somebody would treat me. Right. You know what I mean? So, you know, and everything that I've learned that's up to this is I could bring. I could. Could put it towards the fact that it's helped me be a better father, a better grandfather, you know, just, you know, a better person, period. Because before, you know, it was just, you know, I was. I was into the party scene, you know, and I, you know, more selfish. Selfish. Selfish, Absolutely. You know what I mean? And, you know, now I understand what the word selfless means.
You know, I mean, you know, because like I said, I mean, I don't. You know, I don't just.
How can you say, like, you know, I mean, it's.
It's kind of hard to put it the way. The way I wanted to. To understand, but, you know, I. I just.
Learning how to be selfless. Just. Just Taught me how to be a better man. Right? You know what I mean? You know, have I been a bad person before? Absolutely. I mean, I'm not perfect. Perfect. You know what I mean? You know, you know, we, we're creatures of habit, right? We, you know, we've, we've, we, we've. We've gone our. Through our trials and tribulations in life. And, you know, now it's just, you know, my life lesson is now is just, how can I, how can I continue to stay healthy enough to keep helping people? You know, I mean, and how can I help people understand that you can do this too? I mean, and like, today I'm. There was a guy that just like, hey, man, you know, I've never met you. I've heard so much about you.
Can I start coming in to help? Absolutely.
I ain't never gonna tell, you know, more people to marry you. So when that, you know, I hear people say, like, man, you know, you've, you've helped me, you know, overcome, you know, being selfish and wanting to help more. You know, I mean, like, you know what? I would have never thought about it. You know what I mean? He goes, but, you know, you know, you know, I've known you, I've seen, you know, your, Your path, and, you know, if he can change, I could change. I mean, so, you know, and then also, too, just, you know what I mean? You know, you know, standing up and, and, and not being scared to speak out, you know what I mean? You know, on, on, on. On things that, that, that us men go through as well, you know, I mean, like, that. Because like we talked last time on the last podcast, you know, I mean, there's, you know, there's men that still hold everything in and scared to talk about it, you know what I mean? And now I've, you know, and I used to be that guy, you know, I mean, hold everything in because we come from a different cloth of, oh, you're not supposed to let nobody know your business, blah, blah, blah. But sometimes, you know, me and you could carry conversation that, you know, I don't know what you're going through, but you sit there and tell me, like, Matt, you know, I see what you're doing, man. That's inspired me, you know, I mean, you know, to be a better person, you know, or this, this and that. And I want to get involved and I want to start helping. Come on, I'm saying, like, try it out. You know what I'm saying? I'm not saying it's for Everybody but you know what I mean, you know, that's, that's. Yeah, you know, something that can, you know, just, you know, it's baby step because it didn't happen overnight for me to get to where I'm at right now as far as helping people. Like, you know, I took a lot of losses along the way, you know, I mean, it took a lot of losses along the way, but, you know, now, you know, it's, it's, it's going in the positive direction, you know what I mean? You know, a lot of people, you know, I mean, the community of this is getting a lot bigger than I ever expected to get it, you know what I mean? So amazing just looking at all that. Those are the life lessons that I feel that I've learned that help me be the better person that I am today.
[01:09:17] Speaker A: Yeah, it helps. It changes. If you could go back, what advice would you give your younger self?
[01:09:24] Speaker B: You know, quit being hard headed, man.
Like, you know, you know, you know those, you know, now that I go back and look, I mean, there was a lot of people in my life that, that, that try to steer me the right way. You know, I'm just. But you know, I was born in the late 70s, I grew up in the, you know what I mean? You know, Yeah, I went through the 80s, you know, survived the 90s, you know what I mean? And you know, it was, you know, we're just hard headed, man. We just, you know, so bad. You know, if, if I could go back, you know, 30 years and just be like, hey, look, dude, there's a light at the end of this tunnel, man.
I can, I can bring you back to it if you could help yourself be that better person so that you knew when you got here, you did, you skipped all this negativity in between. I mean, but you know, I mean, you, you have to want it, you know what I mean? And you know, I'll probably slap myself around a couple times, you know what I mean? If I can go back, you know, but you know, it's, it's, it. And I think about that a lot too, you know, I mean, like, you know, man, I mean, I should have been thinking like this a long time ago. But, you know, we're creatures of habit. I say this all the time. We're creatures of habit. And we, we. You know that like that saying, right? You're only as good as the people you surround yourself with.
[01:10:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:10:42] Speaker B: You got negative people around you. That's all you're gonna think about. You got positive people you're gonna think positive, you know what I'm saying? And it's, it's not, it's. It's not healthy for anybody to always be negative about something, you know what I'm saying? So that's, that's probably one of the things that I'd beat myself up, slap myself around, snap out of it.
[01:11:01] Speaker A: It. Advice for someone listening who wants to start giving back but doesn't know where to start. What advice would you give?
[01:11:12] Speaker B: And I always say this, first and foremost, you can't look at it as it's. You're getting into like a business, right? You gotta. You gotta have a heart for it. Like, you have to. Willing to be willing to know that you may have to cancel some plans in life. You may have to cancel some, Some probably important moments in your life that, you know what I mean? You know, with family, friends and, you know, stuff like that. I said, because I've had to put that to the side because, like I said, sometimes I feel I get a text message from Manifest like, hey, this just happened.
What are you going to do about it? You know, And I don't want to be the one that says, no, I'm gonna. No, I'm not gonna do it. And then when my time comes to walk up them pearly gates, I get denied, you know, I mean, so I take that part of understanding that real serious, you know what I mean? And it was something that, you know, there's some people in my life that didn't understand that, and I had to tell them. I was like, look, this is my path. I'm not expecting you to understand my path, but this is what I have to do, and I'm gonna do it with an open heart.
And if, if I upset some people on the way, so it be. Yeah, I mean, so it'd be so, you know, like, you know, I've always told them it's just, you know, getting into it and doing it. I said, you know, when you, when you have an open heart about it, man, you're just gonna feel a whole lot better because, you know, it was something that you probably wanted to do for so long.
[01:12:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:41] Speaker B: You just didn't know how to come about it. Just do it. Just, you know, I didn't think about like a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday plan. Yeah. I just jumped in and head in and I wanted to see where it.
[01:12:52] Speaker A: Went, figure it out along the way.
[01:12:54] Speaker B: You figured out along the way, you know what I mean? And, you know, just be genuine about it, you know, I Mean, you know, just, just have the heart for it, you know what I mean? And let everything fall into place because that's, that's how I feel that they did for me. Like, I put my heart into it when I did. The first one ever was for my dad, and everything just fell into place, you know what I mean? You know, everything fell into place, you know, so, you know, I'm grateful for it, you know what I mean? You know, shout out to my dad. I wish he was here because I know, you know, he would be a big part of this, you know, you know, a big part of this because I said my dad liked the barbecue. I remember, you know, him doing it, you know what I mean?
Not at no big scale of cooking, but, you know, we knew we was going to eat some chicken legs and some fajitas, you know, dad was cooking, you know, so, so, you know, I know he's, he's watching down and you know, he's, you know, he's, he's, he's watching me carry his footsteps in.
[01:13:46] Speaker A: We got a rabbit. Last. So last question. What keeps you going even when things get tough? And if you could leave our listeners with one message, what would it be?
[01:13:59] Speaker B: What was that? The second, the first part you said.
[01:14:02] Speaker A: The first one is, uh, what keeps you going even when things get tough? If, if you could leave our listeners with one message, what would it be?
[01:14:15] Speaker B: What keeps me going when things get.
Yeah, my faithful man upstairs man. Because when I, you know, and, and, and, and my, and, and the type of work that I do, I always tell my guys when we talk about, you know, when things get bad, when things get tough, you know, I always tell people, I said, what time did you wake up this morning?
I Woke up at 6. I said, 601. Somebody didn't make it.
Somebody's somebody's son, somebody's father, somebody's son, grandmother, somebody. That 601 somebody didn't make it.
Live your best life.
No regrets, right?
And be happy and genuine about what you do. And that's what I, it's just what I teach my kids. I'm saying, like, you're not living the legacy for me. You're living a legacy for yourself and for your kids and your generation of, you know, I mean, so, you know, I always, like I said, I always just try to tell us to always stay positive and think positive, you know what I'm saying? Because, you know, when you start thinking negative, you veer away from the, the, the, the, the path that you're trying to create. You know, I mean, so, you know, that's me knowing that I felt that I've gotten closer to. To. To the man upstairs. It's just opened up and made me feel great about everything, that I don't hold no regrets in anything that I've. What I've done in the past. I mean, because I think that that's what got me to where I'm at now, I said, but, you know, I mean, I don't. I don't have that mentality of. Of it anymore because everything is, you know, positive. You know what I mean? So.
And my listeners and everybody watching, man, you know, like I said, just, you know, man, I mean, it's like, it's the same stuff that we repeat all the time. And, you know, you got to keep God first. That's. That's how you're going to get through life, you know what I'm saying? You know, it's. If you don't have him first in your life, and. And I'm. I'm not perfect with it either, you know, I still have mistakes, of course.
You know what I mean? But, you know, I wake up every morning and I know that when I wake, if I made it to that day, I know somebody else didn't make it. So I try to enjoy every day, you know what I mean? Like. Like it's my last, you know what I'm saying? Because, you don't know when I leave here and I go home, you know, I mean, you might see a Facebook post, you know, pizzerino, you know, you know, or anybody, you know, I'm saying it can happen, you know, I'm saying, you know, from natural causes to, yeah, you know, an accident on the freeway. I mean, like, it could just be, you know, so, so, so, so, so, so tragic, you know what I mean? And then, you know, when you pass on to the next world and you're looking down, you're like, man, I should have, you know, I should have been, you know, a better person like this, or I should have got more involved with this. And, you know, so, you know, I mean, that's. That's. That's just my view on how. How I think, you know what I mean?
Not everybody thinks the same, but you know what I mean? I do. What helps me out, too, is that I. I feel great when young kids ask me, like, hey, Pete, like, how did you make it? It. I give them my little, you know, I give them my story, you know what I mean? And, you know, if it helps them, great, you know, what I mean, you know, and if it, if it doesn't, I want them to find somebody that will make it understand for them, you know what I mean?
[01:17:27] Speaker A: So great, man. It's been an excellent conversation. So we covered your journey, a little bit of your journey, using boxing and barbecue to impact lives and lessons that we learned along the way. If people want to support you, whether it's getting involved with the gym or attending the barbecue benefits, it. Where can they find you?
[01:17:46] Speaker B: Oh, man, you Facebook. Facebook, you know.
Yeah, Peter, you can DM me.
I'm actually, somebody brought it to my attention today that, you know, why don't I start a Facebook page for fundraising and benefit so that people know they can go here and click on that page and, and you know, somebody might like, comment like, hey, you know what I mean? Can you put this on, on here so that they know they got one place they can click on? Oh, man, there's a benefit going on this weekend. Instead of looking at shares and looking at, you know, somebody's, you know, newsfeed, they can go click on, you know what I mean?
[01:18:25] Speaker A: There's like a group or a page.
[01:18:27] Speaker B: For everybody to see to where people could post on there and, you know what I mean? And get their, get the word out about what they got going on it, whether if, whether I'm doing it or somebody else is doing it, but somewhere. But you know, there's going to be a good platform where followers are, are, are, are looking for the weekends and like, I mean, you know, who's, who's having a fundraiser today or, you know, I mean, who's, you know, who's having a benefit, they could go and support, you know what I mean, and, and, and help out, you know, so that was a good idea. You know what I'm saying something I'll put some thought into, you know what I mean? And you know, and of course, like somebody told me today, they're like, hey, well, why don't you start a podcast? I got too much.
I'm not a podcast guy. You know what I mean? That's shout out to everybody that has one. You. It's a lot of work.
[01:19:10] Speaker A: There's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot that has started just here recently.
[01:19:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:19:15] Speaker A: Getting popular.
[01:19:16] Speaker B: I was like, I don't tend to try to get into none of that, you know, I mean, I don't mind going on the platform and, you know, talking about the journeys.
[01:19:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:19:23] Speaker B: You know, you know, supporting other people. I said, but cool. Yeah, no, I said, he's not going to start. I'm not going to start. No. No podcast. I said I'll. I'll go and get on those platforms and, you know, know and share my story and help them, you know, I mean, get the word out of. You know what I mean? You know, the positivity that happens in our city and stuff like that.
[01:19:41] Speaker A: Right on. Right on. Any upcoming events to keep an eye out for?
[01:19:45] Speaker B: Yeah, we actually. We got one March 1, man. You know, I mean, we got a family that reached out. I don't have all the details yet, but, you know, March 1st will be. Will. Will we have one that in. In. In the books for.
But for right now, that's. That's, you know, that's about it right now.
[01:20:05] Speaker A: So it's awesome. Well, Pete, thanks again for sharing your story. I know it's going to inspire a lot of people to our viewers. If you enjoyed the episode, make sure you, like, share, subscribe, follow us on Corpus Christi Originals. And follow Pete also to check out what events he's got coming up. And, uh, yeah, excellent conversation.
