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Ep 7 : Talking w/ our Sponsor Warrior Axe Coffee

1h 38m | Mar 11, 2022

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But yeah. So Bobby, again, this was absolutely spur of the moment and I greatly appreciate you working with me and setting this up. Downloading discord for the first this time so we could do this. I did it and even got it functioning. That's even better that I was able to download it, get it to work. We actually got to have a conversation before this all started. I got AirPods in and they're working. Right. Fancy, right. This could get out of control from a technology standpoint here really quick. I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle this, not having a technology overload. I hear you. Yeah. And actually, right before I text you and right before you text me and said you had it downloaded and I told you I was going to have an email to you with questions, I literally just sat there for five minutes like, fuck, what are we going to talk about? So I was like, scribble, scribble, scribble. I am sure that regardless of any questions that you previously sent me, we would have something or could come up with something to talk about. Oh, absolutely. Me and Alex have had our fair share of what the fuck moments, so I've had to come up with shit off the spur of my hip at times. Like if you go back and listen to our pilot episode, that was a shit storm and a half. Oh my God, it was amazing. I totally get where you're coming from. In the podcast that I've done in the past to say we scheduled guests would be they would do a disservice to the term of scheduling. But yeah, it was pretty much, hey, we're going to put a microphone in front of you and let's go. We've had the kids on ours. We've had anything from Green Berets and Marines all the way to and you can imagine how that goes when you get a couple of army and Marine guys together at the same time. God damn. Were those five hour podcasts? Pretty much. Pretty much. There was a lot of post editing that went into that just to try and get it so we could post it. And welcome to the Madhouse Presents Group Therapy, where we talk about games, argue about our different viewpoints, dive into the strange or whatever we decide in the moment. Sadly, Owls is not here. She needs the rest. But I am Joker, your other host, the other half of MHP. And today we are joined by our podcast sponsor, Bobby Alman, who is owner of Warrior Acts Coffee.

Thank you for having me. It's greatly appreciated to be here. I prefer the term of I'm the hmfic Corrier Coffee because I have the HBIC, who is also the other side of that. So we run this as a tandem team group and this question was asked to me, I think it was a week ago I gave a presentation about Warrior ask coffee. And there were some people who didn't quite understand the term of hmfic. Yes, please elaborate. Or the HBIC. I had to explain both of those terms. So I'll do the PG version first. Okay. The hmfic is the head military figure in charge. That would be the politically correct way of putting that for the rest of the world. That's the head motherfucker in charge. And then the HBI. See, I was going to say and see, we aren't very PG here. We do cuss the only thing, of course, military keep it within EO and sharp and we're good. You got it. Continue. Oh, yeah. I was giving this presentation to a business networking group, so obviously I had to you had to censor yourself.

Okay. The sentence enhancers and those kinds of things can't come flow quite as freely as you would like them to at times. Oh, yeah. And then the HBIC. See, for the PG people is the head bitch in charge.

Right. For the rest of us, that's the head bitch in charge. And if you want to know how the ranking structure and that goes, the HMFIC definitely is number two on that totem pole. That's a little bit about the background on my title as far as things are concerned. Yeah. Definitely a smart man here that plans to keep his balls intact, ladies and gentlemen. Trying I get in enough trouble on my own. I don't need anybody else's help. Just for all of those out there in cyber world. I hear you. Well, Bobby, thank you again. For those in audio world that will be hearing a slightly edited version of this, I guess you could call it an interview. Yeah. This sit down with our podcast sponsor again, Bobby Almond. We talked previously and it was interesting. I mean, we got you at the spur of the moment. Again, Al needed a break and she's joining us in chat. But as far as the podcast and then life gets in the way occasionally and I told her, you know what? Take a break. It's fine. I'll figure something out. If anything, we'll just put it off a week. Who knows? Speaking of putting off a week, we were initially going to do a giveaway for one of the extra pounds of coffee because I am an idiot and did not correlate 16oz to a pound. That'll be fun. You need to listen to that part of last episode. But we do have the extra pound of coffee here that we will be giving away to one lucky viewer who is following all three Twitch channels. My personal channel, NLMP Owls channel Owls are Hoot 92 and obviously the podcast channel, the Madhouse Podcast. So that will actually be happening next week where we will basically gather all the information and make sure you're following all three channels to be put in the running for the giveaway next week during the live recording of episode eight. As long as everything runs smoothly, but yes. So we got Bobby and I messaged him. I think it was like 06:00 P.m. Last night, or at least I thought it was 06:00 P.m.. Who knows? It may have been a lot later than that, but then we got you. Time is relative. Yeah. What is time anyway? Right, right. So you messaged me back today and we threw some stuff back and forth. What I want to start with is who are you? And basically, what did you do before Warrior Axe Coffee? Who I am is kind of a complicated question. If we want to get into the theory and all of that stuff that will take up way more time and probably bore your listeners to death. But who I am is I am a regular, everyday guy who spent nearly two decades as a law enforcement officer here in South Carolina. And about four years ago, my father is a disabled vet from Vietnam. We were sitting around in his garage one night, like all brilliant ideas seem to happen with some adult beverages, I'm sure. Yeah, it was a bottle of whiskey. Hell, yeah. And we got to talking about coffee and what makes a good coffee and where do you get good coffee? And some of the other big name companies that are out there and how they got started and some of them, how they managed to charge as much as they do for shitty coffee. Well, halfway through that bottle, next thing, I'm on the phone with a plantation owner in Central America and Guatemala, as a matter of fact, trying to figure out how the hell you get raw coffee beans and what you got to do to turn them from a very raw product into the finished product that we know is coffee in the United States. Well, actually, coffee throughout the world. You can imagine how that conversation goes with a guy who's a half bottle into whiskey and doesn't know very much Spanish. I mean, I can order a beer and I can ask where the bathroom is, and I can tell Juan where the library is at. That's about it.

While I'm doing this, my dad is researching Roasters. Well, how do you roast coffee? And neither of us at the time had any idea how deep that rabbit hole went. And if there's any coffee aficionados that are watching or listening, they can probably give you some insight into this, the rest of you some insight into this. But that rabbit hole goes very deep. If you thought there were a lot of flavors of beer, you haven't even scratched the surface when it comes to coffee. And I was very novice in this. I mean, as a guy who drank coffee, look, I work night shift, right? We drank a lot of coffee and we drank a lot of shitty gas station coffee. But I didn't know it was shitty coffee at the time. I didn't, right. Until I had good coffee. The flavor profiles on what you can get from coffee. Just absolutely astounded me and blew me away. We ended up getting half a dozen sample pounds of raw coffee beans. So we could start to try and figure out how to roast these things and these different flavor profiles and what works for a good bean. Even just trying to figure out what kind of roast somebody wants. You know, we're used to walking in the grocery store and you grab your Folgers off the shelf and that's that okay. But there's a whole lot more to that. There's a whole lot more to the grind. This ended up being a learning experience that both of us had no idea what we were getting into. But three quarters of the way into that bottle, we had coffee Roasters on the way and raw coffee beans on the way. And I guess the rest is kind of history. I incorporated in limited liability Incorporated somewhere around September or October of 2018 is when I formed the business. And when I formed the business, it was actually kind of twofold, which is one of those things we were going to get into a little bit later that we talked about. But my background is primarily in fitness and training, so I was very novice when it comes to coffee side of things. So I formed this business called off at LLC, with the idea that I was going to continue along the lines of doing my training from a lot of different aspects. I do tactical training, I do fitness training, those kinds of things that kind of coincide with my background as far as a ten year SWAT operator, work, gang unit work, narcotics, those kinds of things, and then transitioned into the education side of things when I was an instructor at the Academy, the police Academy. So I thought I would kind of combine these things all under one business and try to run them as two separate businesses. What I found out at the time. So I had all fit coffee and I had all fit physiques, which was the training side of things. What I found out is that a lot of people thought my coffee was some kind of fitness coffee, so they were afraid to try the coffee because they thought this was some kind of to not go off on too many tangents. But the misnomers when it comes to nutrition and physical training and steroids and all of those things that come together, if you listen to the media, look, you've got no idea how that whole ballgame works. I'll just throw that one out there right there. It's not as easy as sticking a needle in your ass and then suddenly you're this monster. It doesn't work that way. But people have this impression that that's what the coffee was. I got you. So I had to end up kind of coming up with some brainstorming ideas and making sure I could separate those two businesses out. And that's where the warrior act side of things came from, so that I could differentiate that from the training side of things. And the warrior in the acts again kind of comes back to background and what my primary target market was at the time, it still is. Yeah, I cater both sides of my business a lot to first responders to veterans and to active duty military personnel because that's where my heart lies. My wife's got 21 years in the military. She's an e eight right now. My dad's retired while he's a disabled vet from Vietnam. All of my uncles, for the most part. And we come from a good Catholic family, so you can imagine how deep that goes. All of them have served at some capacity along the lines. Both my grandfathers were World War II veterans. So this kind of service above self thing kind of comes into play quite a bit. And that's where a lot of that background came from. When I formed the company, I kind of followed a model that black ride and coffee company came out with. And their initial idea was they wanted to employ 10,000 bedrooms. That was why they formed the business. That's what they want to do. They succeeded in that goal. Mine was a little bit different. I never have, and I don't have the aspirations to become the size company that they have. That just comes with headaches that I don't want. But I definitely wanted to give back to those people who selflessly serve to us. What we came up with when we formed this company is that a portion of all of our sales were going to go to veterans or first responder organizations. And then another part of that was that we were going to donate to cancer research organizations as well. Anybody who ever goes on my website, you will find out that you've got two different options on there that you can choose from. I don't have a lot of flavors as far as coffee is concerned. I keep it real simple, stupid. I apply that Kiss model to everything I do in business, but there are a couple of options, and one of those used to be the Gary Cinis Foundation. It's now the big red Barn Retreat, which happens to be a part of the Gary Cenese Foundation. The reason I wanted to go with Gary Cinise in the first place was because, well, first of all, it's Lieutenant Dan, so how can you go wrong with that? You just can't. On top of that, Gary Senise, of all the organizations that give to first responders and military organizations, almost every dollar that goes to him in a donation standpoint ends up going back out to veterans, military and first responders, where a lot of other companies you kind of got to worry about. Well, how is the CEO of a nonprofit organization making 510, 15, $20 million a year where is all that money coming from? That's the donations that you're given to them that you thought were going to pick one. And I'm not going to call anybody out on that. I know exactly which foundation or what foundation you're talking about. Right. That's why I went with Gary. And what I had found out not too long ago is that there was a company here local to where you and I are at, which is called the Big Red Barn Retreat. It's just down the road from where I am. It's in Richland County. But what they offer is a program called the Warrior Path. And what the Warrior Path is actually an 18 month program, but seven days of that, it's a seven day stretch initially that you end up doing is dedicated to post traumatic growth. People of our background understand training. We don't understand getting help because what we do is provide help. Yeah. So for people in our positions to go to your chain of command and say shit ain't right up here, I need help. That doesn't happen. That's why we have the 22 a day. That's why we have all these things that are going on, because that's not something we do. We provide the help. We don't ask for it. So what the Warrior Path is, is that it's a training program. And how often do you go to training in your daily life? How often did I go to training? That's what we do, right? Yeah. We go to trainings all the time. So what The Warrior Path is about is it's about training people to deal with their post traumatic stress and how to grow from that. And it's done here locally, and it's available to veterans, to active duty military to pass first responders and active first responders. I couldn't think of a better place if I'm going to give a donation to try and help people than to something like that. Yeah. So we kind of shifted gears as far as that's concerned and went directly to them. They were already getting funding from the Gary Cities Foundation. This is just a way for us us to try and give a little bit more back to them. And that's not just open to people here in South Carolina. That program is open nationwide, and it's completely free for those people who are accepted into the program. They are flown in, they are housed, they are fed, they go through the training program. All of that is completely free. So that kind of fits with our mission as far as what my wife and I were trying to do. As far as I don't want to say branding, because it's not a branding thing. It's just something that's near and dear to our heart. We want to make sure that we're giving a little something back to those people who have laid it all in line for us. Yeah, absolutely. Those who led the way. Absolutely. Right. And then what that did is it also kind of where the other side of that comes into it's kind of dumb luck that I ended up getting involved in this program. But somewhere around 20 08, 20 09, as a member of the police Department, local police Department here, we got invited to be part of this fundraising event called St. Baldricks. And what St. Baldrick is for those people who don't understand it, it is a childhood cancer research organization who very similar to the Gary Sinise Foundation, almost like $0.99 out of every dollar. And I'm probably off a little bit on that. But the vast majority of the money that is collected by this organization actually goes to childhood cancer research. Yes. At the time I was talking. Yeah. So with St. Baldwick's, especially, I love the program. I've been following it for many years. Matter of fact, one of the first times I actually chose to shave my headball when I actually had hair was roughly about, I want to say 2009 or ten when we still had some sports bars open that are no longer open in downtown Columbia, where they did it at Vista. Yeah. Where they did it every year. Yeah. That's exactly where I got into it at. And I got my head shaved for the first time. I actually cried happy tears because they had some children that would directly benefit from that particular fundraiser who were in need. And it was wonderful to see that it actually went directly to someone that really needed and they had proof of it. And what they were saying at the time, it was roughly $0.98 of every dollar was going to the actual program, to the actual children to pay their bills to help their families that don't necessarily have the funding to put their child through that. Right. So even after care in that aspect, as far as when they leave the hospital from receiving the treatment, they're assisting these families with the proper care that the child or infant or whatever, I think it was up to 17 or 18, I believe, is what they cover. Right. And with after care, particular foods, betting, laundry, transportation, everything. And the other two cent on every dollar goes to them being able to fund these types of benefits that they do to help rent out locations. And whatnot most everybody that participates as a vendor is voluntary. They don't ask for money. They don't get paid. Anybody who's part of the program doesn't get paid during these events. So everything goes to a purpose and it is not wasted and it doesn't go in anybody's pockets. Right. And I'm right there with you. That's one of the things that I absolutely loved about the organization and the kind of backtrack a little bit here. The reason for that is my dad is a cancer warrior. He got diagnosed in 1998. He's been fighting ever since. And he hasn't not gone into remission yet. He's still fighting to this day. So that's a background on it. My mom is a stage four lung cancer survivor, never smoked a day in her life, got staged, four lung cancer aunts, uncles, things like that. So as far as cancer warriors and cancer survivors are concerned in our family, that is another aspect. And that's why we went with those two particular organizations, as far as donations from our company that we wanted to make sure that we were being a part of, as far as people who are willing to sacrifice their lives to protect our freedoms and people who had no choice in the type of disease that they have, these are the ultimate warriors. And we talked about a little bit of our Norris Pagan background on this. These are the people who go to Bajaa. Yes, absolutely. Just hands down, if you want to look at what Odin and the Valkyrie are going to come get, there's no better example of warriors than those two groups of people right there. And that's where the warrior act side of this thing kind of really starts to come into play. When I separated out those two different businesses. Look, I had my DNA done. I am right off the fucking Longboat, all right? My wife is right off the Longboat. Matter of fact, for a minute, when we got our DNA stuff back, we're like, Holy shit, can wait. We got to take this level deeper because there's a half chance we're related. Yeah, there's a lot of separation in there, so we're good to go. But that's where the warrior axis kind of comes from. And if anybody jumped on the website or anybody sees the logo, you'll notice that the logo is a coffee cup with a beard paying a little bit of homage to our Norse roots and then the two battle axes behind it. Because traditionally, that's what our Norse and Viking brethren and sisters used when it came to fight their battles. And my wife and I, that's what we exchanged at our wedding was battle act. I know you can't really see the Twitch page right now, but I do have the logo placed above you on the screen for everybody that's watching at Twitch TV, the Madhousepodcast. And then also we will be providing the links in the show notes for the audio audience. So if you want to go check it out, feel free. It'll be warrioraxcoffee.com. But yeah, no, that is awesome. And I love it. A lot of people look at me and they're like, oh, you're just a skinny white boy. Well, I mean, yes, and I'm scotchirish, but if you look at the known history right now, even the Northern Isles of Ireland, Scotland, even the Northern UK all got settled at some point by the Scandinavians. Absolutely. Really. They're adventures, their Voyagers. There's currently some debate right now that the Scandinavians were some of the first European settlers in the American continents as well. So that's even before Christopher Columbus himself said ocean blue. If we want to believe carbon dating, leaf, Ericsson founded North America. As far as Europeans are concerned now, where he landed is still up for a little bit of debate. Some people say it's Massachusetts, some people say it's up into Canada, but whatever. I mean, they're finding artifacts that are carbon dated from his voyages to the United States. Yeah, I think that was around the 900 or so, like at the height of the Viking Age. Right. Yeah. This is after they discovered Greenland and Iceland and all the stuff that took place in the seven hundreds and eight hundreds as far as the British Isles and stuff like that are concerned. But, yeah, it's a very interesting history just to kind of bring us back to gaming a little bit. Our oldest son is a huge fan of Assassin's Creed. Assassin's Creed Bahala. Yeah. That's one of the games that I have yet to finish. Sadly, I bought it as soon as it came out. And I love Assassin's Creed just simply for their ability to integrate fiction and what is known as fact in all of their franchise. I mean, if you look at it, some of the Christians have Assassins Creed to thank for the rebuilding of Notre Dame. Oh, yeah. Take a look at even popular TV shows, the TV show Vikings. Yeah. Granted, there's some creativity to that, and there are people that will say that Ragnar wasn't quite what Ragnar was portrayed in there, but I am absolutely thrilled. Even going into the Marvel universe and things like that, again, there's some artistic licenses is taken with it. But the integration of those kinds of things into modern society and giving a little bit of historical base to that stuff, I think it's a great thing as far as education and things like that, giving people a little bit of insight into what some other belief systems were prior to Christianity really becoming a powerhouse throughout the world. It's amazing for those people without getting really deep into a theological discussion here. But if you go back and take a look at a lot of things that we celebrate, as far as popular Christian holidays are concerned and things like that, they're actually integrations of pagan traditions. Yeah. And it's amazing how those things kind of line up throughout history. And it's not just Viking stuff. If you take a look at a lot of the different Odyssey, if you will, if you want to go into that, there's a lot of similarities between Greek mythology and Viking mythology and a lot of that stuff. It kind of really ends up tying together. It's really cool, especially for the younger people out there to really expand your Horizons a little bit and kind of take a look into those things and see what it's what it's about. What it's about. Yeah. It kind of opens your eyes into some things and what I like to point out, too, is that is also another reason why between myself and baby Mama, we reached out to Bobby because her and him were in connection, I think, to her brother primarily is. And then, of course, the coffee aspect, I was like, oh, okay. I looked into it. I was like, hey, ask him about this. See what he thinks about this. And he's like, yeah, sure. Why not? At least that's what I remember. How it going? Look, my memory is shot anyway. I get hit in the head a lot. It sounds about right. Yeah, that's right. In the ballpark. Absolutely. With that connection, that's how we found Bobby and reached out and asked him, hey, would you be willing to we're doing this and we would love to help a wonderful product, especially with what you are representing. Ever since I grew up on Forest Gump, Gary Sinise, of course, like you said, being Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no legs. That's right. And then, of course, me being in the military now for 19 years, September will be my 20th inactive or just 20th service here. And I still got like five to seven active years left before I can start pulling my pension immediately instead of waiting waiting for 30 years for the inactive pension to kick in. But reading into the website and seeing the history, of course, your wife being a veteran, you being law enforcement and first responder and finding, oh, you might actually know my sister. She's been in law enforcement since 97, which she's now her and her husband both are at the Academy as well. And Lo and behold, I did. And I worked with both of them at various points throughout all of our yes, it's a small world when it comes to all that for sure. Oh, absolutely. So Alice was actually mentioning this is something as far as a first podcast subscriber exclusive, because eventually what I want to do is through Red Circle, who is our RSS host, I want to set up exclusive rewards for recurring subscribers to the audio podcast and also our Twitch channel. So being a subscriber at any tier on either platform will be an exclusive movie night where myself and Alex will go through and watch certain types of movies, whether it be gaming related or in this case, Forest Gump. We can watch that as an exclusive since it does tie into the podcast. And of course, our sponsor with Bobby talking about the Gary Sinise Foundation and the Big Red Barn Retreat. Right? Yeah, big Red Barn Retreat. You are correct. Yeah. So that could be one of our first things. Once I set up at least the first level tier on Red Circle so that that will be an option, you can go subscribe over there for a recurring price. And what I will do is match up the Red Circle to the Twitch subscriber prices so that they marry or mirror each other, at least closely. But again, everything that we own as far as subscriptions will go back into the community we'll go into helping us make the podcast better. And also, in addition to that, helping our fellow brethren in their donation goals as well, if they have anything that they want to do. So we'll actually hopefully be getting to that very soon. Yeah. Al said she loves the coffee and she's helping us out in chat with all the lovely administrative duties of talking about the giveaway. Again, we're going to push it back for anybody listening in audio, and I'll make sure I include this in the podcast itself. But also on Twitch, Twitch, Twitch. You must follow all three channels to be eligible for the three pound or 16oz of lovely dark roast. And it's got a scoop included. That was one thing that surprised the hell out of me. That's something I haven't seen yet. So, Bobby, good job on that. Including that was 100% the wife's idea on that one. She came up with that one. I said it was a great, great idea. And he executed that flawlessly. Oh, yeah. And it makes little sense. It's just not one of those things I thought about. I'm like, you need a scoop to fill up your coffee stuff. Why not? Yeah, ours is a hoodie fiend. So I was thinking about talking to you here in the near future about doing a collab design, because I also do graphic design. Like if you look on my personal channel and some of the other Madhouse streamers, a lot of the graphics I did. So I definitely want to do a collaboration between the two of us, since you have a proper merch type store. Absolutely. No, I'm all about networking. And when it comes to we're all kind of small business and entrepreneurs when it comes to this, for anybody out there. And again, I gear this towards the younger generation. But if you're looking to be self employed and become an entrepreneur and get into those things, believe me, it's a whole different world out there. And if you have aspirations of becoming rich by doing this, more power to you. I hope it works out for you. But most of us are just looking to pay our bills and survive and do what we love to do. Oh, yeah. When it comes to networking, there's nothing better. That's the name of the game when it comes to business and stuff like that. So, yeah, collabs like that and stuff I'm all for. Okay, so before we get back into the directed because, I mean, you've already answered three of my five directed questions and one that I came up with about the foundations while you were talking. So you're leading this conversation very well. You asked me one question and I gave you 56 minutes worth of content. Yeah, I'm not sure for words when it comes to that stuff. All right, so baby Mama was asking, as far as recommended for twelve cups, how many scoops do you personally recommend from your blends? Here's the deal. I don't use my scoops. I know that you just pour it in, don't you? I do. Well, here's the deal. We don't have a traditional coffee pod in the house. We actually have a Curry, but we use refillable pods for our stuff. By the way, I do offer pods for those of you out there in Twitchland. Better listening. Yeah, we do pods, but I do refillable ones because I get to control how much is in there. Actually, if you wanted to measure it out, it's probably about two and a half scoops per ten ounce cup of coffee that I put in mind. So I like mine flavorful. Yeah, if you will. Yeah. See, baby Mama, she likes to put it as a light load, and I like to pack it down, considering, because if you do like a quarter scoop, like what I just did before this drink, this is what I've been drinking is the dark roast. Anyway, I love it because like you said earlier, you mentioned Black Rifle coffee. That was my favorite brand of coffee. I tried Death Wish. I folders all of that. But Black Rifle was my favorite, especially the Blue Line blend that they have, which I think equivalent to about a medium roast. Well, I'm glad that you brought up blends. Okay, hold on. Hold that thought. We're going to get to it.

That was my go to. Like, we still have two bags of Black Rifle. Before we started getting because it was getting a little bit, we were running out, and I was like, we need coffee because I drink coffee all day. Every day I'm in the same boat. So she went. The only thing I switched to in the afternoon is I add whiskey to my coffee. See? I add rum. There we go. By the way, your median blend, because I think that's what you sent us the first time around. Fantastic. With both crack and rum and bamboo rum. See, now we need to get additional sponsors on the show for you since you're going ahead and throwing that out. Oh, I always throw Kraken between those two realms. Those are my favorite realms. Trust me. If I could get a crack in sponsorship, I would absolutely die beset, wouldn't you? Oh, absolutely. I don't even have to get what the streaming world calls that partner level. That's the ultimate dream. Give me a rum sponsor. That's when I know I've made it the pinnacle of your career. I get it. Yes. But anyway. Yeah, so I mixed those. But when she brought me this or that day that you brought it over and we didn't know you dropped by, I tried it that night, and I fell in love with it, honestly. I mean, I love this coffee. That's awesome. There's nothing more that you want to hear than your product is good. Yeah. And it's appreciated. I mean, that's the ultimate compliment right there. So I'm truly humbled by that, and I appreciate it. And we're going to continue to try and put out a quality product. And when we go back to going back to VRCC, one of the things that their goal was to employ so many people. But when you get to that size, inevitably you're going to lose some of your quality control because like you many moons ago, I was a huge Black Rifle Coffee Company fan, and I'm still a very big fan of the company. Don't get me wrong on that. But when you're producing that much coffee, that's where blends start to come into play. I don't blend anything. And what a blend is that's taking various types of beans and combining them into a single package of coffee, if you will, just to kind of simplify that everything I do is a single source coffee bean. So there's not a blend of various coffee beans in there. It's one coffee bean that I roast four different ways. I either do it as a light, a medium, a dark, or an extra dark roast. And that's where that Kiss philosophy comes into play. I don't see a need to go out there and try and complicate this thing and make it more convoluted than it has to be. It's focusing on a quality, high quality coffee bean that offers great flavor through all of those different roasts. And going back to what we were talking about in the first hour, that rabbit hole goes very deep. When you start talking about the different flavors that come out of a coffee. The coffee beans that I choose, I choose them specifically for a reason because they are very similar in their flavor profiles. In those lighter and medium roast, you're going to get some fruity overtones to it, some red apples, some passion fruit, some of those things are some of those flavors you're going to pick up. And then when we get into those darker roasts, you start getting into some more caramel overtones or chocolate overtones and things like that. And that's really why I love this bean that I use, because it allows me to roast all of those flavor profiles with a single bean and still produce a quality product for our consumers. Really, at the end of the day, that's what it comes down to is I want to make sure my mission statement is to provide the best tasting coffee hands down. Yeah. And that's what I want to do, by the way. You just finally kicked it in in my brain. It's like the light bulb went off. Fucking chocolate. The cocoa is what I'm tasting in this particular dark roast. Absolutely. I was like, what is that beautiful bitterness that is coming out of it? Yeah. Cocoa. The roasts don't have that bitter. Now. People think cocoa, they think chocolate. They're thinking milk chocolate. That's not what we're talking about. That's sugar and milk. That's what you're tasting in milk chocolate. And that's what I love about this bean that I use is that in those lighter roasts, the lights and the mediums, you don't get that distinctive bitter flavor that you get with a lot of inferior coffees. Now, you'll pick up a little bit as you get into the darker roast because that's just the acid being released from the bean. But, yeah, I'm with you and I drink all of them. I'll bounce between them. Obviously, I'm in a little better position than most people to do that. Yeah. I mean, you do what you damn self. It's like a Cook in a kitchen. You don't sit there and serve something to someone without quality control. Absolutely. And then I do a lot of quality control when it comes to that kind of stuff. And that's what I kind of expected us to have an agreement on. It's like myself and I'll help assist in that quality control third party. I fully expect if you said I'm slipping in my quality control processes, that you would let me know so I can make those adjustments. I'm kidding. But like, oh, yeah, this last batch was absolute shit. It was bitter on the light. What the hell are you doing, Bobby? Come on. Get your head out your ass. Exactly. That's what I expect. And I want to make sure that's what I hear. If that's what happens, I give you my word. Awesome. That's what I want to hear. Yeah. So that's where it goes. Just for a point of reference out there, this is just little something that I like to do for coffee. Trivia, you guys can throw this out when you go to the bar and you want to win free drinks. That ask people, first of all, there's two things. What kind of roast gives you the most caffeine? Most of us from a public service or military background. Go, man, we want that coffee to look like motor oil. That's what's going to keep me awake. Your darker roast actually have less caffeine than your lighter roast. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. And look at that. We got a couple of people popping in there. Yes. Wastelander Owls has got it in there. You're right. It's the light roast. What happens when you roast a coffee bean is that it actually releases an oil. The darker you roast it, the more oil is released. And what happens is that caffeine actually ends up coming out of the bean and you don't get it in your cup of coffee or the darker that roast goes. Yeah, Al's, you're right. The stronger roast give you a different kind of flavor and easily a stronger flavor than the lighter roast. But if you want to win a Barbet, there's one. The other one that I love is I get a lot of emails from people saying, you need to start doing an espresso. You need to start doing an espresso. Espresso is not a roast, guys. Yeah. Okay. Espresso is a grind and a process in which you extract the flavor from that grind. So you can have an espresso in a light roast, a medium roast, a dark roast, the next to dark roast, not a roast. How you grind the bean. And that's the pressure that you use to extract the flavor with the water. So there's a couple of things for those of us that are old enough. This is Saturday Morning cartoons on NBC. The Star coming across the more, you know. Yeah. Another fun fact that I found out the most expensive coffee in the world actually comes from the feces of a bat that has eaten coffee beans. A raw coffee bean has eaten, digested and pooped out. Yes. They have goats that do that. They have pigs that do that. They have a couple of different animals that do that. I do not do that. Just for point of reference, that's not a coffee bean I choose to get for one, economically, it makes zero sense to me to try and do that because isn't that an Amazonian bat that does that? That they consider the most expensive coffee plan. I know in the Middle East, they use goats to do that. And that's kind of one of those high society type things, if you want to call it that. Yeah, it's shit coffee. You're absolutely right. One of the things I would love to try is actually Hawaii has, from what I understand is a phenomenal flavored coffee beans. But at 25 or $26 per pound. Holy shit. For raw coffee beans. Holy hell. Yeah. I'll be waiting on that one.

You know what Nicki and I have talked about that about trying to why can't we grow coffee beans here? I think it has a lot to do with the soil. If you look at Central America and South America, where a lot of these are grown, it's high volcanic stuff. Yeah. A lot of volcanic ash, which then adds a certain fermentation to the soil or whatever. Yeah. And from what I understand and again, I'm very novice when it comes to how coffee beans are actually grown. They just ship them to me and I roast them. Your soil profile actually has a lot to do with the flavor of the bean and the elevation at which it's grown. So a lot of these plantations are 30. 00, 40. 00, 50. 00ft above sea level, which for you and me in this general area that's just look, we got places in this state that are 200ft below sea level getting to those kinds of elevations and particularly the areas that we live in, the Sandy soil that we have, I don't know that it would ever produce. It's weird. We can't grow coffee here or we typically don't. But rice, marijuana, Venus flytraps, they all grow naturally here, but we can't grow coffee. Like, what the fuck is wrong with this world? Why did we choose a swamp for farming area and can't grow coffee, but we can grow shit out of tobacco around here? Hell yeah. I honestly say I do miss it, but I don't miss it at the same time. No, I quit dipping years and years and years ago, but I will still enjoy a cigar. Oh, absolutely. Every now and then that and whiskey happened to be the couple of vices that I have left.

Yeah, I still use nicotine. Of course. Coffee and alcohol between whiskey and rum are my two vices as far as the alcoholic beverages of choice. But nicotine is definitely my go to I vape now, so it's aesthetically pleasing, I guess you could say, because it doesn't necessarily tar my teeth or my lungs, but it still isn't healthy by any stretch of the imagination. Yeah, and it smells better. I don't stink anymore, so that's a good thing. And my wife walked into that conversation and just gave me the look from across the room like, what are you guys talking about? Everything.

Yeah, there's a couple of barbeds for people. It's funny that we were sitting here and I know we're kind of backtracking a little bit, but I don't know if you can see this, but I found my commander certificate. Oh, snap, that happened a bit. Just been sitting here. So I'm the night commander as far as the ball table is concerned, for St. Baldricks. I've been involved for, like I said, since 2009, so I just thought it was. I looked down there when Nicki brought me my laptop and I sat it down. I went, son of a bitch. We were just talking about that and there happens if you send my certificate. Yeah, that's awesome. I would love for the community that we have here between Twitch because we have viewers from all over the globe right now. I know just in my channel alone, I have viewers all over the United States, Canada, Australia and all over the EU. And we have listeners, according to the analytics, that are Netherlands are people Swedes, Bulgarian and Canada, of course, and quite a few downloads throughout the United States as well. But I know we need to have a serious conversation here, Bobby, because we've got some Canadians that want some coffee and you don't ship there. Currently I have shipped to Canada. I'll have to jump back in with using the ecommerce setup that I have. I go through them and those things are constantly changing, particularly in today's political environment with what goes where. Because I have shipped to London before. Obviously I've shipped to the Middle East, but those were all bases and stuff like that. But Americans Canada before as well. But I know there's some hinky stuff going on when it comes to particularly the import of consumable products and food type stuff. Some of that stuff gets changed up quite a bit and I try to keep up with it, but for our brothers and sisters up north, let me do some work on that this week and I'll see if I can get that rectified and make sure we can get that over to you. Yeah. And I can almost guarantee if I spread the word to our group out in the big blue Yonder out West, I'm pretty sure we can get you some orders in Australia as well. That would be cool as shit. I don't know what the shipping cost would be to get it there, but I'm all for it. And again, I don't want to dive into politics because that'll take us down a rabbit hole I definitely cannot go into because I'm still active in service. And that's exactly why I don't want to go down that road and then keeps are pissed off and you're having to go in and talk to change the command and stuff like that. So I don't want to go down that road. But over the last couple of years, there's been a lot of ebb and flow when it comes to that kind of stuff. So I would love to get stuff to people and I'll do everything I can to try and get it there. Bear with me a little bit on that stuff. And if nothing else, what we can do until that situation is fixed properly, if we want to, between the communities that are attached to the gaming side of this. If you want reach out to me and we can work it out to where I can get it shipped to me, and then I will personally ship it to you directly if you want some of the coffee. And of course, like I said, I'm going to try and see if I can swindle Bobby into an extra pound for giveaways each month or even every other week or so. Maybe we can swindle that here in the future. We can definitely have an offline conversation. We'll get that all figured out without a doubt. I want to do anything I can to help everybody involved without obviously driving myself into the fore house. Yeah. No, definitely don't want to do that. Old smoky moonshine. I haven't tried that one yet, but damn, now that makes me want to try something. I mean, granted, old smoky moonshine is very dangerous diluted compared to the real thing. It's not white lightning. We are in South Carolina. Look, they made an entire TV show about people, but anyway. All right, so let's get back into the structure. Questions. So I've got two left. Of course you've got them in front of you, I'm sure. But let's take them step by step. So let's try to control ourselves. Okay. All right. Stretch it out just a little bit because normally I have about 2 hours. I'm expecting less than that with the way we've had this conversation. So far. We got a lot of fun bullshit in there. But hey, it is what it is. Sure. So the second to last of our structured questions is where do you plan on going from here with your endeavors as far as where your ex coffee? What is your overarching goal?

I'm glad you brought this up, because there's some things that are coming down, hopefully coming down the pipeline, particularly for our active duty military people. What we have done and what is eventually going to happen is that I'm actually going to I'm not going to say completely step away from Warrior Acts, but Nikki is going to move in and basically take over all of the day to day operations of Warrior Acts coffee once her retirement is complete. And that's going to happen, we'll say within the next year for sure, maybe a little bit before that. But what we've done is we've actually applied to the Department of Defense to become a skills bridge company. So for those who don't know what we're talking about, as far as skills bridge is concerned, you can stick your head in here, come in and say Hi. Hold on, please. I'm asking. Yes, there is the HBIC right there. What we want to do is we want to bring those individuals who are getting ready to separate from service, whether that's through retirement or through the end of their contract, whatever it is, we want to bring them in and start teaching them fundamental business skills and things like that, things that are going to help them transition effectively into civilian life. And really, that's where we want to go. We would love to set up, and that is in the five year plan. We want a brick and mortar building to do this all out of right now. We do this all out of our house. Everything we do is out of our house, and everything we do is online. We've started to expand into the retail market a little bit. We've got some local businesses who are starting to carry our product and sell out of there. But we want to be very careful about how we do that, because what I don't want to happen and it goes back to our conversation about Black Rifle Coffee Company is I don't want to lose that quality control. One of the things that we pride ourselves on is that our coffee is roast to order. So we don't have hundreds of pounds of this roasted up and sitting in a warehouse. When we get an order in, we roast it. We either grind it or package it, and then we send it out. So you're getting extremely fresh coffee. And I think that's one of those things that leads to the great flavor that we provide. So what we don't want to do is lose that. But we still would like to expand into the retail market a little bit. We've got some local grocery stores that we're working with to carry our product. We've got some smaller independent stores in the area that are carrying our product now, but that still allows us the opportunity to go ahead and make sure that it's very fresh product, rotate our product through, make sure that our consumers and our customers are getting the best quality coffee out there. But that's one of those things that we want to do is we want to expand that out. Yeah, we would love that's. One of those things we're trying to pick up, too. I would love for a local craft Brewer to make a coffee logger. So here's a fun thing. Myself and baby Mama, we're getting ready or we're planning our wedding, and it's going to be a Norse pagan wedding. And we are actually brewing or I say brewing, but fermenting our own Mead for the wedding. Phenomenal. So we're going to have a dunking barrel after the binding ceremony. And basically our first kiss is going to be right after we take our first dunk of our Mead. And then, of course, the barrel will be open to everybody after that so that maybe we can work some stuff out if we get some good some good Mead running. Sorry, man. Alice just brought up Pigly Wiggly. Is there even a Pigly Wiggly around anymore? Absolutely. There is an idea. No, there is absolutely some pigs running around Columbia area right now because Alice came up for a visit and we went to a pig. She went to her first Piggly wiggly ever. I imagine that was an experience for her. Oh, absolutely. She bought like three different things that had the freaking pig on it. Exactly. No, we're actually looking at Lowe's Food stores. That's who we're oh, yeah, absolutely. Yes. But there are a couple of local brewers that have expressed some interest. We just haven't ironed out the details on that. But if we get that one, John and Kimberly over at Random tap. For those of you who are in, anybody who's listening in this area are phenomenal supporters of us, and they really want that, too, is to try and get some kind of coffee brew going. And I would love it. There are some local brewers who have already done it, but they've contracted with some other coffee companies and we're just not able to. Yeah. So another local group, Savage Craft, we actually know some people that manage the Savage Craft downtown right off of number one. So maybe we could throw some networking in that direction as well. I would love for you to throw it out there, but I believe they use Loveland coffee. Yeah, but that's all right, man. I'd be more than happy to undercut them if I could. Yes, we're talking to our sponsor for anybody still watching or listening. Of course, that may join or scroll through the episode, but yes, this is Bobby Alman for anybody in Twitchland, Twinia or however Owls puts it. But this is Bobby Alman, the wait, hold on. Let me see if I remember. How did you put it? Again? The hmfic hmfic and the non PG version of that represents what the head motherfucker in charge. There you go. And if you joined us shortly before Tari, his wife, who is also a part of the wonderful group, is the veteran side where he is the Leo side. She was just showing face for a little bit. We talked her into it. She's in the background over there still listening to us. She's trying to keep these pack of MutS. We got quiet over here. Yeah. Understandable the HB. Ic. Is definitely in charge, but, yeah, that's really where we want to go. She also has some aspirations of kind of setting up a small drive through, pick up a coffee and go type place. Nothing too fancy. Just pull up, get your cup of coffee, get on your way. These are some of the plans that were in discussion and trying to figure out the logistics and how we're going to pull all that off. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. All right. Yeah, definitely. With that drive through coffee, I'm pretty sure we're not going to do nothing like the West Coast does with their baristas. No, never mind. She said yes, she'll do it. All right, so we're bringing bikini baristas to the East Coast. Fuck, yeah. We did say we were not going to keep this PG. So we do have some retirement gifts in mind for her when she finally does get authorization to punch that clock because she's been trying at least three different times. But that damn mission critical thing is just really messing everybody up. But, yeah, $7,000 can do a lot of things. Hey, and Tori, I do have an NLMP bikini. Baby Mama has one in her possession right now, so we could end up having that happen for sure. The HBI. C. Just said bring it. She's on it. We'll make this happen. Fuck, yeah. All right, well, Al said you need to wear a bikini, too. But look, I will put on a set of Ranger panties. And I mean, look, we're equal opportunity around here. Fuck, yeah. I got a bit of a dad pod going on right now because of the pregnancy. I'm just a few months behind her on the belly. Well, I happen to know a guy who's asking about. Yeah, Ranger panties. Silkies. Okay, so what they are is very short, short, silk physical training pants. They're not even pants. That's why they're called panties. They're the equivalent to female boy shorts or booty shorts. Yeah, booty shorts. But they are for men. They are, yeah, Ranger panties. A lot of your Marines wear Silkies or they're considered silky. So they're very short. Short. Like if you bend the wrong way while stretching, you're going to pop a nut somewhere. Yes. And if you cut the liner out, it's over. Yeah, it's absolutely dropping balls somewhere. Yes, absolutely. Does wear short shorts. As a matter of fact, he trains in short shorts every day. There is no other way to train. Well, I think I'm one of those with the army and military called Broke Dicks because the army broke me a couple of years back. No, I understand that one completely. That's another reason why I have the dad. But I do. I've been there, man. Four knee surgeries. I think the only reason why I don't have a surgery yet is because I'm just too stupid to go in and let them touch me. I would highly recommend that because it makes it a whole lot easier on the back end when you go for those VA benefits. Yeah. Because right now I'm only getting a total look at this. The HBIC is coming through. What do we got coming through? Hell yeah. There you go. Owls. Those are the Silkies. All two and a half inches of inseam right there. Yes. That is awesome. I love it. Fuck it. I've got them in black. I've got them in OD green. I've got them in American flag. We've got them in subdued flag. Yeah. We pretty much rock them around here all the time. Hell yeah. All right, so final question to kind of wrap things up, do you have anything special going on either with your fitness group or the Warrior Acts brand? As far as the Warrior Acts brand is going right now, we're dabbling in the I don't want to call it network marketing, but affiliates or social media marketing platform. We've got a couple of people, thanks to Baby Mama. She kicked a lot of this off. As far as with the drinking Bros and things like that, we've got some people who are interested in doing some marketing for us that way. That's one of the things that we're kind of starting to dabble into a little bit and spread our wings. Not as big news for everybody else, but it's kind of big news for us is we're changing up our packaging a little bit. So that packaging that you have right there, we're actually going to end up going away from that and going towards a more traditional coffee bag. But it's still a resealable coffee bag. So it's got the ziplock top to it after you open it up. So you can still reseal it, still keep that flavor in there. But it's going to have a vent in it, which is going to allow for better flavor, which is something that we don't have with the packaging that we're using right now. Yeah. Cause kind of like some other things like with whiskey or alcohol as it sits, it ferments in itself, allowing for a better taste. Right. And what that one way valve does is it allows some of that oxygen to escape while still keeping inside what we want to keep inside. And then from the fitness side of things, really, that could be a whole another podcast if we wanted to go down that road. But that is the other half of the business. And that is something that I'm extremely, extremely passionate about. I know the HBIC is as well in our lines of work and the backgrounds that we come from. There's a scary statistic out there as far as let's just talk about law enforcement officers in general, anybody who makes it to a 25 year retirement and law enforcement, typically their lifespan is only to 59 years of age. A lot of that comes down to and we're seeing this a lot on the military side now as well. But a lot of that comes down to because we're so used to being in this structured lifestyle up until the time we retire. And then when we make that transition, we lose a lot of that. You'll see. And for anybody on here who's listening who served and went through that, you know what happens. You get out. You're not obligated to show up to PT anymore. You don't have your yearly PT test. You don't have those things. So you kind of take this deep breath and relax. And then a year down the road, you're trying to figure out where £50 came from. So one of the things that we really like to preach on the fitness side is if somebody out there is looking to be a competitive athlete, as far as physique shows, bodybuilding shows, things like that, that's not where our passion lies. Even though I used to compete as bodybuilder, our passion lies in functional fitness. We want to take people who want to be or who come from that background or who are looking to improve their what we call Playlife and what your Playlife is that's anything that you like to do, whether that's gaming, whether that's reading, whether that's playing golf, whether that's going out and shooting guns or it's hunting. We want to make sure that we can extend that Playlife for as long as we possibly can. And that's where our training programs come into play. We go through functional movements. We want to keep you moving. We want to keep you playing with your kids. We want to keep you doing whatever it is that you're doing. We want to do that in a healthy fashion, but not to the point that physique competitors go through. Actually competing in the physique side of things is probably one of the most unhealthy things you can do. Oh, yeah. It's right up there with morbid obesity when it comes. And I'll tell you that from personal experience and I competed on the natural side. So not even all of the antibiotics that go into things, as far as PEDs are concerned, I was competing on the natural side and the hell that plays on your body, trying to get your body fat as low as you need to in order to step on stage and then maintain that and then the mind fuck that takes place after that is completely unhealthy for most people. And that's why bodybuilders are killing over dead from heart attacks. At 50 years old, your body is just not meant to sustain those kinds of things. So we take a different approach to that. And again, it's all about the Playlife. It's all about having a functional nutritional plan, something that's not ultra restrictive. It allows you to enjoy those things. You can still eat pizza, you can still eat burgers, you can still eat wings. We just teach you portion control, how to maintain or understand how much it is that you're actually eating so that you're not consuming more calories than you're burning. So you're not going down that road. You can still drink beer and things like that. As far as our nutritional plans are concerned, we want you. We don't use the word diet. We use nutrition, we don't exercise, we train. Diet is a terrible word that people need to get out of their fucking heads. I agree. A diet has a beginning date and an end date. That's not what we teach. We teach functional nutrition so that you can sustain this throughout the rest of your life. That's really where the fitness side comes through. We offer all kinds of different tiers on that. If somebody is ever interested, they can reach out to this. Most of what we do is a virtual experience for those in the area. We also do some one on one stuff and we have some. We have some things on the horizon as far as one to one training is concerned that I think can be game changers. We're not going to give too much information on that yet because it's still very much in the infancy stage. But it would certainly be a game changer for anything around here and really give people an opportunity to achieve those goals in a very timely fashion. Nice. That's kind of where we're looking at. Yeah. Like you said, lifestyle. That's exactly what we're talking about, actually. Yeah, I was thinking about this in my head, Alex. Actually just put it into words is maybe we can coincide with each other and trying to maybe come up with a plan for gamers as streamers or someone who tries to make their living behind these monitors. And I know from personal experience dealing with the military that sitting all this time and not having those rising tables sitting is detrimental to your health. Plus the eating habits that we as gamers with high caffeinated drinks all the time, I know that they're pushing those healthier alternatives with gamer. Fuel is what they call it. But sneak, even Rogue Energy, which is a very sugar based energy drink. It's a powder that has supplements in it, but also other things like that. But maybe adding those to a workout Regiment or some type of functioning plan that we can actually try to put together for gamers and maybe help distribute that in a package deal that you could probably have. Absolutely. And I'll break it down. Super simple for anybody listening who watches or picks up on this after the fact. Guys, we have four tenants. That's what we teach. And that's why lifestyle has function. We're going to prioritize movement. You got to get up, you got to move around a little bit because exactly to your point, sitting in these chairs, the human body was not designed to do. And that's not just gamers. That's just the way society has gone in general office. We have gone a lot away from blue collar manual labor. We don't farm anymore. You can't have a family farm anymore and live. You have to have major corporate farms. Well, guess what they're doing in those sitting? They're sitting right. They're operating machinery. Now, you still throw some hay bales. And look, back in my day, I can throw some hay bales. But whether it's the technology sector or whether it's human resources or whatever, that is, what we have to start getting back to is prioritizing movement. And movement is nothing more than that. Getting up and an erect position and walking, that's as simple as movement has to be. Okay. Seven to 10,000 steps a day. That's what we talk about when we talk about prioritizing movement. And then resistance training is just in addition to that, you need to hit your daily calorie goal. We calculate that for you so you know how many calories you're supposed to be taking in to sustain your basic living functions. Nice. And it's a simple process for me to calculate for you. We're then going to take a look at your protein. Protein is the basis for all of your cellular function. This is what it's all about, recovery, and it's all about getting complete proteins. I'm not talking about going out and eating 87 chicken breasts a day. There's a whole lot of other ways to go about doing that. And we break down some of that and then drinking water. Yeah, water a day for the average adult. Those four things right there. Hit your water goal. Hit your protein goal. Hit your calorie goal. Prioritize movement. Boom. Yeah. So one thing that I kind of changed in my diet. I don't eat breakfast mainly. And I know that's not always a great thing, but because my metabolism has slowed in recent years, I'm trying to pick that up by eating more in the morning times as well, and not so much in heavy foods in the evenings. You want me to blow your mind? Okay. You ready for this? Please. Okay. It doesn't matter what time you eat. Oh, yeah, absolutely. It makes no fucking difference. Your body does not differentiate. Guess what? You can eat carbs at night before you go to bed. That does not make you fat. It's all about, am I eating more calories than I'm burning? Yeah, that's right. Okay. But like, I was trying to say as far as my protein intake, usually up until lunch, is something as simple as a peanut butter and honey sandwich and having the sweetness, the natural sweetness of the honey, raw honey, and, of course, the higher protein of peanut butter. I know that because of my body and my body type, which understand and correct me if I'm wrong, Bobby, but it depends on your body type and what kind of foods and nutrients you put in nutrition. For the most part, there is no one size fits all process that is very much a hit or miss product process. There are certain tenants that are pretty much universal. There are some outliers, and there are some freaks of nature. But for the most part. All right, way to go, Alice throwing a link in there right off the bat. Hey, that's the cohost for you. I tell you, she's on it. But for the most part, right. That's why we individualize nutrition plans to people, because it's as simple as this. Not only this body type plan of it. You want to really geek out of this and we can nerd really down on it. Your ancestral history will play into this. Yeah. Your primary ancestral history, you said earlier, is British Isles, Ireland, whales, those kinds of things. If you take a look at what the people traditionally ate there, the human body has not evolved that much over the last hundred years. Okay. Yeah. Those kinds of foods are the foods your body is going to digest the best for me, coming from Scandinavia, which is where 99% of my ancestral history comes from. I know right off the bat animal meats. I process animal meats very well. When it comes to breads and things like that, my body does not digest those very well. They lead to a lot of inflammation within my body, within my joints, they lead to gut health issues. But potatoes, root vegetables, things like that. My body processes those very well. So when we start that's one of those things that we delve into. And I am not one of those guys where you're going to call me up, I'm going to give you a training program and go have fun. We do weekly check ins. These are things that we're constantly doing in assessments. We're making adjustments. All of those things are things that we are going to constantly be taking a look at. And we're going to take one thing out, we're going to add one thing, and we're going to do this until we get it figured out for you. And then all of a sudden you're going to go, oh, shit, that wasn't so complicated. Yeah. And some of those tenants and I'm not giving away any trade secrets here. Some of those tenants that we preach. Guys, when you go grocery shopping, stop going in the middle of the store. Oh, yeah. Stay on the outside. Yeah. Go get your meat Department. Go get your veggie Department. Stay away from all of that processed crap. That's in the middle. It's all full of Omega sixes. And Omega six is not bad for you. It's just when our ratios get off. But all of that is going to lead to free radicals within your body. That's going to lead to inflammation within your body. And it throws off your hormones. And this ball in avalanche just gets rolling. That's the problem we have in the United States. Everything we eat is processed. All that processed shit leads to inflammation in our bodies. It throws off our hormone levels. That's why we say we've got slow metabolism. We don't have slow metabolism. We got Shifu. Yeah, well, guess you shit in and shit out. That's why we're lethargic that's why we got to take afternoon naps. That's why we don't sleep well, that's why our stress levels and our cortisol levels are through the roof. That's where our high blood pressure comes from. Most of that, almost all of it can be attributed to processed foods. And that's one of those things that we sit down and talk about. We talk about healthy alternatives that we can use. And like I said, that is why I'm turning the coffee side over to her, because that's really where her passion is. My passion is very strongly, strongly on the fitness side, because I was that cop. I was the former collegiate athlete that became a police officer. And I was in phenomenal shape when I became a police officer. And a year into that, sitting behind the steering wheel for twelve and a half hours, working nights, eating crap food because there was nothing else available, I became the obese cop who had trouble getting out of his car. And it led to a host of other things. I mean, blood pressure through the roof. I'm almost 45 now. When I was in my mid 30s, I had a blood pressure somewhere around 100 and 5560 over 90 at 35. Yeah. And I just turned 37. I'm a law officer at this point. Oh, God damn guy coming to save everybody else. And I've got a blood pressure through the roof. Triglycerides through the roof. All of those things from a healthy standpoint that you look at and you're like, this is a walking fucking heart attack. Yeah. And when I started delving and I've been a personal trainer for 17 years. So it's not like I didn't know what was going on, but it's just that simple to slip down that slope and it goes quick once you get into it. So that's where my passion lies, is that just by making some of those changes, I never had to get on high blood pressure medicine because I changed my nutritional program. I stopped eating a lot of processed foods, and now I eat a lot of whole foods. My blood pressure is now on any given day, 118, 120 over 80. Nice without blood pressure medicine, I weigh the same. I'm still £205. It's the 205 lbs. I play College football at, not the £205 sitting behind the steering wheel that I was. And see, it's funny you mentioned that particular weight because that was my Max weight at one point. But it was due to me going in the opposite direction after a very traumatic incident where I lost both my parents within three months of each other and I hit the gym real hard. I was active guard again, doing military funeral. So I had a reason to hit the gym, particularly because of lifting dead bodies all the time. But I ended up 205 was my Max weight, and I sustained that probably for good. I want to say three and a half months, but that was when my metabolism was a lot higher. So if I didn't eat, my body ate that muscle mass. But I sustained it for about two and a half, three months, and I was huge, like 18 inch arms. I think the thickest my neck was between 17 and 18 inches at one point. Yeah, I don't have one anymore. Mine. But I mean, it was absolutely surprising that me when my highest weight all throughout high school and my first adulthood was Max 135 and I jumped up to 205 in the matter of I think it was about six to eight months of consistent working out. And I mean, I was at a point where I was vertically leg pressing almost £1100, and I couldn't even bench press that much or anywhere near that. I think my Max bench was like five. But I was working out. And granted, I wasn't living a healthy lifestyle, but I was counterreacting the negative crap that I was putting in my body because I was moving. Like you said, moving is essential. Yeah. Movement is life. And that application goes to a lot of things from a military background or military tactical standpoint. Movement is life. Right? You're not shooting, you're moving. If you're not shooting, you're moving, you're reloading. Yeah, absolutely. Our bodies are designed to move. And when we sit in a chair and when we live the sedentary lifestyles that we become accustomed to through technological advances and all the things that have come with modern society, that's not what our bodies were adapted to do. That's not how they thrive. That's why we have lower back pain. That's why we have knee pain. That's why we have all of those things, the shoulders, the neck, all that stuff from being hunched over. We can counteract that by doing 30 to 45 minutes of physical exercise and movement a day and not have to worry about all those things. There's no need for anybody to go spend 3 hours in the gym. If you're spending 3 hours in the gym, for one, you don't know what you're doing. For two, you're talking entirely too much. There's no need for that or too many selfies. I'm one of those guys. My entire business is based around those. But even me doing that, I'm still in and out in 30 to 45 minutes on a workout. And that's warm up workout and cool down in and out. Yeah. Well, we are getting very close to the two hour recorded Mark. So what we're going to do is we want to go about ending things. So Bobby, if you want to go ahead and plug yourself everywhere, anybody can find you that you're willing to share, yeah, I'll give them all to you. You can find me on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. You can find me at Bobby Alman. That's Allmann. Two A's, two LS, two NS on the Coffeeside Warrior, Axe Coffee Co. On Facebook, Instagram and on TikTok. As far as websites are concerned, the coffee websites, www.warrioraxcoffee.com. You can go on there and place all your orders and we can get that stuff over to you from the fitness side. If that's something that you're interested in, you can hit me on any of those social media platforms, but you can also get me at my website on that one, which is www, dot AllFit SC for strength and conditioning.com. And I'd be more than happy to set up a free consultation with you. We can sit down, we can talk. I say sit down. We can do that virtually, or we can do that in person, depending on where you're at. And we will have a conversation to make sure that we're going to get you going in the right direction. I'll be the first one to tell you I'm not a trainer for everybody. I'm very intense in what I do and what I expect. But if I am not the right fit for you, I will tell you that right off the bat. And I have an entire network of people that I'll get you with, the right person. I mean, the pit Bull just said the same thing. And also, since we got him here on Discord, he is in the madhouse Discord guys. We will make sure that please understand he is still new to Discord, so we're still learning him on the ways of the discord. But he is here. So if you want to reach out to him, feel free. On Discord, it works just like any other messenger as well as all the gaming community is aware of. But we will make sure that he gets the information. Also with that, when we sit down with him outside or off stream, we'll try to work a gaming regimen out like we'll talk about what typically goes on with the streaming lifestyle and outside of a regular nine to five because that's completely different as well. But I'll give him my life and what goes on with me and we'll try to work a regimen around me and then we can help figure out translating that to other gamers and streamers and hopefully at one day offer that up as an option. I love it. Yes. Thank you again, Bobby and wife. What was it? H-B-I-C-H-B-I-C. That's right. Yeah. So thank you both for making an appearance. But also, Bobby, thank you for sitting down with us again after such a short notice. I do appreciate it. And we can definitely get something even further more going for not only the gaming community, but for any podcast listeners out there that are just curious about coffee, about fitness. We can definitely integrate that into future episodes as well. Yelling at the dog. Okay. But also again, remember, we are pushing it back one more week. So you have seven more days, everybody listening out there in Twitch landika or in the viewers here on Twitch. Also, if you are listening on the podcast side. So let's see, according to the calendar date, it will be the 16 March 2022 is when we will be doing the giveaway on our Twitch channel, which is the Madhouse Podcast on Twitch. So you can find us at https WWWWW. Dot. Twitch. Tv. The Madhouse Podcast we will be giving away a pound of coffee of dark roast from Warrior X coffee for free shipping handling. All that will be free. The only stipulation is that you have to follow three channels on Twitch. That is the Madhouse Podcast, my channel, which is NLMP, and my co host Owls, who is Owls are a Hoot 92 all on Twitch. Follow all three of those and you have a free entry. You just have to be present when we do the drawing at the end of the live recording on the 16 March. Other than that, I want to say thank you for listening. Thank you again to our sponsor who is sitting here with us and had a wonderful chat. We got off on some wonderful tangents about coffee and about fitness, but please make sure that you follow the Chaos live here on Twitch. Like I said, that is the Madhouse Podcast where we record live every Wednesday at 09:00 p.m.. Eastern. And our host for the audio side of this is Red Circle. Red Circle is a wonderful distribution company that allows us to get everything out and distribute to different platforms such as Spotify, Radio Public, itunes, or the Apple Podcast Network. Google Podcast and The Stitcher is also one of our new distributions. And hopefully here in the future we can also use Red Circle to distribute a video version of the podcast to YouTube outside of just editing and posting on a personal channel. So make sure you share like and subscribe again. You can currently subscribe to us helping us out and hopefully we will have some lovely exclusives from reoccurring subs through Red Circle. You can also donate to the podcast through Red Circle and it can be of any amount down to the lowest dollar or up to whatever you choose that will always help out the podcast and allow us to make further networking deals, not just with Warrior, Axe coffee or all Fit SC, but also other industries, maybe even some gaming stuff, gaming chairs. The absolute mind is limitless when it comes to this kind of thing. So with your help, we can make this better for you as our listeners and our viewers here on Twitch. Anyway, you can also find us here or find us on Twitter. And the handle for that is MHP Group Therapy. I don't know how active Bobby and his wife are on Twitter, though they do have a Twitter page. It is Axecoffee on Twitter from what I've seen. Yeah. I haven't been on there. I don't know how long. Yeah, we definitely tag you in a few more. I tag you in a few things because Al doesn't do anything on Twitter either. I would appreciate it, but if you have any suggestions or any questions that you want to ask from our podcast episodes, please reach out on Twitter. It's the fastest and easiest outside of Discord, and you can use the hashtag MHP Group Therapy. It's the same thing as our handle. Or you can just add us and we can get those. And I can try to respond as soon as I am able because I do have a regular nine to five as well outside of streaming on my own channel. But again, thank you, Bobby, and HBIC, for the wonderful work that you all do and all the foundations Gary Senice using now locally, if I wrote this down, correct again, is Big Red Barn Retreat, which is also a portion of the Gary Sanis Foundation here in South Carolina. Yes, you are correct. You got it. And then, of course, St Baldwicks, who primarily is dealing with childhood cancer or cancer research in helping children with cancers of all types, but also with the Gary Sinise Foundation and Red Barnard Treat helps veterans first responders, both military Leo and fire, or any other type of first responder that you have encountered. So anything that they're dealing with, whether it be post traumatic stress injury, dealing with the job. So they help out with those factions and getting people the help they need. That's one of the reasons why I don't ask them for any type of discount for their sponsorship to our listeners or viewers, because they put portions of their proceeds towards these foundations, which is fucking awesome. Wow. That was a lot. I don't know how Owl does that every week. She is phenomenal at that. That's why I let her do this. I don't blame you, but yeah. Thank you again, Bobby. It has been an absolute pleasure, and I hope that we can definitely get together a lot more and work out some fun stuff and maybe even get some collaborations on Merch and everything going. I love it. Let's talk. We'll get together here soon and we'll do that. So I absolutely appreciate you having me on here. Awesome you.



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