Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Unk & Haddy on Viral Success, Gym Mentality & More!

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2:22So, tax. We got to get Joe in there. Next one, Joe in. You can do it. No, I know. Listen, I know I can do it. Because look, when y 'all saying these workouts, my dad was a professional bodybuilder and he works out every morning, four o 'clock. I want to get him in there. Joe, Joe, Joe. Listen to me. We talking about reps. I'm talking about hella reps. I know. Debo, I'm trying to tell you the one person that I want to go, I'm going to come. For sure. I want to come and I want to bring my dad. Bring your daddy with you. Yes. I promise you. Because my dad, he trains like you guys. I need to get back right.

3:01I need to get back right. The training, the pushing, the failure, the 150 reps, all that. The victim weight. The victim weight. My dad, he's about all of that. So when y 'all are saying that, I know because the training that I started lifting when I I was in the seventh grade. My dad was training me and my brother. So all of this stuff that you're saying makes complete sense, where it's more at the mental. You know what I'm saying? Like you got to push past failure. You know what I'm saying? You think that you're done. You're not done. You got another rep in you. You know what I'm saying? You got another four.

3:29You could push it. So that mental state is everything. So I know I stopped working out a little bit since I retired. So I need to get back in the gym. Debo, chill out. Chill out. I definitely, definitely, definitely need to get back in the gym. So, guys, what's up with the TAC system? I definitely want to come out there. Just let me know a little bit about it. So, it's TACs after every set. 35 push-ups. That's the baseline. Okay? Okay. So, let's say we're doing tricep push-downs, and the count is 200. Okay. On your way to 200, you stop to take a breath. Like, you put the weight down for a second.

4:02That's 20. That's TACs 20. So, on top of your push-ups at the end, the 35 you initially had, now it's 55. Now it's 55. Okay. If you close your eyes, it's 20. Jewelry, Joe. Yeah, jewelry. Oh, yeah. Listen, there's no time to... Don't come in there with no jewelry on. Ain't no reason to have no jewelry on. Ain't no reason to have no jewelry on when I'm in the gym. Yeah, nah. And then whatever else we decide to tax, really. If some bullshit we don't like it, I'm gonna tax it. Unnecessary conversations. Not paying attention to the work, y 'all. Hey, man, they taxing. No, no, for sure. I just, whatever.

4:40Because sometimes it's certain shit, like if I see somebody just acting like they tired, but I can tell they're really not, or if they're moving a certain way for the camera, I'm just taxing all that shit. Taxing everything. How fast can you tell that somebody is going to quit or not ready for the gym? Five minutes. Five minutes. First set. First set. Ticep extensions. Because when you tell somebody to hunt it, then you'd be like... What'd you see? Hold on. Not like that. the first thing that we usually see is when the person says how many left. So say we do tricep extensions and we'll get, and you'll get 43 or let's say 40.

5:20How many I got left? 160. You can see somebody melt. I don't want to intimidate somebody out there. I'm a stickler for the kids. And it's not about intimidation. Then you'll see like, oh shit, 160 a year. And don't stop. because now you got to do your push-ups. You going straight from that exercise, stretch the push-up board. Yeah, yeah. It's no walking around. Don't try to take no bathroom break, stretch out of your own. That's what I'm saying. But people aren't ready for that because you're lactic acid. What if your arms... Dude, Joe, I'm going to tell you right now, like, honestly, it's a point where...

5:58Ain't it a point of failure, though? Can y 'all tell me, bro? I had to jump back into who and what I was that built who I am. that person I was. Like, I had to jump into that. Like, matter of fact, actually, we got a clip where I'm doing pull-ups, bro. Where I'm doing, I'm doing rows. And I grabbed this thing, bro. And I couldn't, I couldn't get this son of a bitch to move, bro, the first time. Y 'all got that clip? Y 'all got that clip? Of me doing them rows? Whatever the compilation is. Yeah! I couldn't lift this the first time, dude. They were like, hey, I can do it. And in my mind, I'm like, I know I can do it.

6:37I just don't want to dig into it. Why don't I want to dig into it? And I'm like, you know what? To hell with it. I got to dig into it. So you go and you grind through it. Like, literally, that's just what you do. It's no other way to get it done other than to be like, you know what? I'm done. Before I even got to that workout, dude, I had said to myself, I had already said to myself, I'm not digging into that. I don't want to go there. I don't want to go there. I done played all this time. I don't want to go there. And they got me into that space where I'm like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm going to go there.

7:15I watched your switch, Phillip. I saw it when you switched. I saw it when it happened. Hey, Joe, listen. No BS, right? I know me. I'm a... I know how to poke the bear. I know. I studied him. I know he has that switch. right? Yes. And the thing about it is his switch is he's almost like Bruce Brennan and the Hulk. He got to learn to control it because he can go way off the deep end. Yeah. I don't give a fuck because I need it. I need you to be that man. Yes. He want to be the Hulk. I'm Frank Castle. We going to tear some shit up. Yeah. I'm ready with you. We was doing the push-ups. Yo, he was cursing.

7:56Fuck that. He looking at me. I said, Heidi, he really fucked up in the head. But I said, Debo, take it there. I said, go back to that dark place. And I looked at Hadi, his eyes. I said, what the fuck? He had a transformation. That's what Joe was like. And I'm like, yeah, but. Like, you got it, big dog? You got my chain? What I'm trying to say is, Joe, he started off very positive. And it was an intimidating, good positive. if you know Debo or you study him you'll see okay yes his facial expressions are intimidating but that's just him right yeah because yes he's a man of of substance he's not no pushover so he can't prepare he was warmed up we know he's already warmed up it's just that he had to tap into that bad man he had to tap into what we call we call it a kill jar right take all the stuff that's happened to you, put it in that jar.

8:56And sometimes you got to take the top off and let it go. And when he did that, the whole workout changed. I said, that's who I wanted. I love the nice guy. I respect the nice guy. I need the bad man today. Go find that man and bring him to me. Found that man doing the push-ups. He found that man doing the T-bar. He cursed us out doing the lap, the rolls. That man's been for us for a while. Play some more of them clips, man. I know we got some more lined up, but Joe, when I say, bro, and I'm looking for him to give me something back and he wasn't giving me nothing back. And that was just pissing me off more.

9:35Like, I want to fight, bro. I want to fight this nigga. I'm like, I want to fight this nigga. Give me something. Like, I love you, bro. I'm like, you motherfucker. I'm like, you motherfucker. Y 'all was working in there. Get the volume played, man. Let it play through. Let's go. There it is. Right there. Right there. Right here. Okay. How do you get right? He ain't allowed to have these straps on. That is. That is. But he got the straps on. You change locations. I'll change what you can do, baby. Let's go. This right here is funny, Joe. Listen, bro. Hey, how do you call it stretching them last, coach?

10:18Huh? You call it stretching them last? They don't look like you're stretching them last, man. I see why they find you.

10:28Yes, sir. Sir, yes, sir. We get on that plane, I'll him up. We get on that plane. For what, bro? Yo, man, they got a banter back and forth that's beautiful, bro. Bro, it's love. Yes. Yes. Who negative here? Yes. He negative. Yes. He got the work done. How he negative, huh? Because he switched the bag. He switched the grip. He switched locations. He's speaking myself that loud. He's switched locations. Cramp. Cramp. My body started cramping. I'm trying to do a pull up. I can't even lift my leg up because it's cramping. Like, I can't even lift my leg. There's a cramp in my hamstring, bruh. Back of my heyday when I played safety in corners.

11:12He over here lying. He's playing safety. Long, long time ago. You started feeling good. You start telling all them lies and shit.

11:31I'm not ashamed. That's overrated. Where the shirt at? Pull the shirt off. I'm 400 weeks out. 400 weeks out. That was good. Is this 6 a.m.? 5 and 2. 6 in the morning, dog. He said 10 and 5. Oh, that's early. That's his fault. He said 10 and 5. Yeah. He did 5. He did 5. He said 10 and 5. That's when they had me. That's what he did. He let me get away when sitting down. You do as I say, not as I do. Because of that attitude. How you all came back like, you did 6? Hey, yo, what spot you on, bro? Bro. So on that one, I guess I was supposed to do 5. I heard 10 and 5. So I did 10. And then the other one, I guess it was supposed to be switched around.

12:24But, you know, hey, man, listen, I had jumped into the bag that they wanted me to get into. Yes. And it was over with for me. And I was going to do whatever the hell we was doing. And if I sat down, then fuck the hell with it. You know what I'm saying?

12:42Hey, guys, I'm going to ask y 'all this. So the Ashton Hall, do y 'all remember the Ashton Hall workout? Yeah. He gets clowned on the internet. What do you think he learned from the workout? Did he do good out there? Yeah, he did great. Ashton came in to work. A lot of people come in to find content. I've noticed that. Some people that come in. We trained like there was no cameras on. We was just getting to the money. He ain't complaining. His security guard jumped in the workout. He was training with us. Yeah, don't bring no cameraman with you because they going to throw that boy in that workout now.

13:16Who would y 'all say surprised y 'all the most? I think Ashton surprises because he didn't have to live up to his persona. Nobody don't give a fuck about him. Nobody don't give a fuck? Yes. We don't give a fuck about no Goyard bag. Like when he first came, because I hate to say it, his reputation precedes him. You think he's arrogant. You think he's soft. You think all this. And it's because he's a well-mannered kid with money that's successful. so if you don't know him he's soft but when you come in that gym hey bro be you fuck these cameras he got a chance to really be around two people that didn't give a fuck about his money we didn't ask him for his information we don't want no sponsorship we can't work we gonna bring the dog out of you what happened was he got a chance to leave his persona at the door fuck that Goyard bag we about to get to it and he got a chance to really earn his keep and i said bro this is a difference when you're working out by yourself you're working out with your personal trainer they're gonna spoon feed you you don't give a fuck you it's men amongst men he had he wasn't dead lifting he came once and started dead lifting and started going crazy because he got an adrenaline rush because in there energy is transferable when i do some shit i'm up next and it just keeps going so for the first time in a long time, he was able to be himself without being judged.

14:45Nobody had their hands out. Nobody disrespected him. He got treated like everybody else. And then once you walk in, it's not about how much money you got. It's not about stature. You can be the fucking... I don't give a fuck who you are. You come in there, you're a regular fucking person just like us. And it just brought symmetry. So he shocked us. I'll say Matt Reif did good. I was going to ask you about Matt Reif. Salutes Matt Wright I didn't expect him Bro he came in the same thing Came in there I didn't know what to expect But he's a dog bro He work hard Some of these people might not be You come in and they be the strongest But for what they can do They max it Like you get their maximum output And that's really what matters He wasn't trolling He wasn't training It's certain people that come Because he had a publicity at a gym And they want to be a part of the gym because they want to go viral.

15:38And for me, I could be home with my family. I could be training for myself. Real talk. That would piss me off. When I got people in there that really want to get to it and not for the cameras, but for them, for their soul, for their body, it's a different type of bonding. Yeah. Okay, yeah. A couple times. Like when we trained with Depot, one of the best parts of the training was the conversation after that. That's the real growth. That's the real... We're going to put in this pain together and we're going to sit down and talk about it. So when we have these kids come in, some of them don't know what to expect.

16:13And so we sit there. We had a couple of kids cry while working out. I think that's a big part of y 'all's involvement or transformation from the actual workout to what comes from it. And like I said, that physiological and psychological aspect of it. and basically what I think you're starting to get into is more of the mental aspect and the mentorship of it and how many guys that you see you know you come in there and you look at them and you say oh he's not gonna be able to do it but how many of those guys you look and you say oh shit he about to be a dog there's gonna be a dog right here and how many of those guys are coming in there and you're just like ice cubes big three season is heating up the most competitive basketball league on earth is on cbs this sunday the two best teams go head-to-head as coach nancy lieberman and Greg Monroe's Dallas Power take on the one-seed Chicago Triplets, led by Coach Dr.

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20:40Like Shizzy. Shizzy was a, he's a young LA influencer. I don't know if I'm allowed to say that brand, but he came and the pressure on him to be perfect, the pressure on him to just do all these things and he came in and while we filming, he like, I know y 'all want to break me. Y 'all want to see me fall like every, yo, we not hip. Bro, we gotta make you better. So we actually stopped. I didn't care about the filming and we hugged him and he started crying. I said, bro, let that shit out, bro. We men. We all, shit, nobody hit him. break you bro we all go through shit but no matter what quit i think that was one of the most emotional things and when destroying came he had a baby i said bro if you quit during this fucking workout you expect your wife quit to quit during labor you're gonna quit through a fucking workout but you wouldn't ask her to push your fucking baby out what if she say i don't want to do it and she how the fuck am i gonna make you bro you say things like that it's a reality switch like oh shit for us it's not about breaking nobody we just don't want to see you quit it's the time that i've been wanting like all this shit we gotta go because my mentality is a little bit different i'm a firefighter i can't afford to quit no his mentality is way different this is how he feeds his father his mother how he feeds himself if he quit he goes broke if i quit people die yes sir so we can't afford to quit on no aspect whether it's being an Influencer of fighting fires, you got to fight through that shit.

22:07Ain't no fucking say, hey, chief, give me a water bottle, give me a Gatorade in the middle of a fire, and the lady's on the third floor. Fuck that. I'm going to get her. And if I lose my life in the process, so fucking be it. This is what I signed up for. And that's his same thing. He does this shit to feed his family. So if he pushes to the extreme and something happens, this is what he signed up for. Everybody's not willing to risk their life for their lifestyle. They just want the lifestyle. Yes. Yes. Yes. I think that's a big one right there, man. Everybody's not willing to risk their life for the lifestyle.

22:42Like, it's certain aspects that come along with everything that you do. Assumption to risk is what it's called. And that, a lot, is sacrifice. Rather, it's, you know, time, money, emotion, blood, sweat, tears, whatever it is. And I don't think a lot of people understand that concept. I know you guys got the clothing brand. I see it back there. Till the death, man. How long y 'all been doing that? How y 'all come up with that? That's the TDD. That's been since 2021, too. Around the same time where I started filming. It was just something I always, like my father always used to say to me. Anytime I was going through anything, he's like, well, it's going to be like that till you die.

23:29He's always say that. I'll complain about something going on in school. If it's bad now, it's going to be like that till you die. So from like, I'm going to die to the death, bro. I'm just going to go do this till, you know what I'm saying? I'm going to deal with it. Whatever happens, I'm going to deal with it anyways till I die. That was the whole thing. And then that shit quickly came up in the gym because every set was like, yo, till you die. To the death, bro. To the death. You know? And then it transferred over and we made it a brand, a community, a bunch of like-minded people. I like to look at it less like a clothing brand and more like a community.

23:59it's everybody that everybody that I've never seen some like I don't even want people wearing it if they're not gonna live that type of lifestyle no question no question well at least they invested in themselves to the point where they're getting in the gym every day and like whether you're trying to be a body you gotta start somewhere baby you know hey howdy you I heard you you did a little D1 soccer and you got a degree in what is that civil engineer yes your soccer game where where is it at what you mean where it's at Where's your soccer game in comparison to like a professional, an amateur?

24:34I'm right up there with him. Right up there with him. I believe so. I'm a little heavy now, but I like, no. I know. I seen you had victim weight 171 pounds. Oh. I'm 225 pounds right now. He was. He was 171 pounds, Joe. I seen it on his story. Back there, back there. He was that victim where he was running around there kicking the ball and everything. Okay. He was over. He up there flexing all this other stuff with the little sweet hair and everything, laid back, greased down and everything. You know what I'm saying? That's crazy, Deebo. He's different now. That's crazy. Now, I got a hold of him.

25:12Yo, Joe, look. Joe, look. When you come, it's going to be me and you versus the two old heads, bro. Yes. Oh, it's over with. Joe ain't got it. Let me tell you what I got, bro. We ain't talking about the weights. The drive and the push, you're going to see me go to another level. That's what I'm saying. Yes, I'm going to go until I can't. I'm going to go all over. Yo, let me ask you a question. What's stopping you from training? Nothing. Thank you. I'm losing it on. No, answer the question. Myself. He wouldn't start her. Myself. Myself. It's nothing. Let me ask you a question. I can start back training.

25:54This is real talk, right? Speak about sacrifice. God has blessed you to play in a national football league. Something that I dreamed I could have went to, right? And I was in high school and college, but I kind of went on vacations to other colleges. That kind of derailed that story. What I'm trying to say is God has also blessed you with a podcast, right? Yes. With that being said, are you comfortable enough not to hit the gym? No. So what the fuck are you waiting for, Joe? And I know I'm bullshit. I'm going to do it right after this. I'm starting back today. I promise you today, real talk. Joe, don't fuck out of me, Joe.

26:33You heard me because what I'm not going to do is... Hey, nigga, don't promise yourself, bro. What's up, Joe? Because what I'm not going to do is... What I'm not going to do is... What I'm not going to do is... I'm not going to lie to Unk. Because we got grown man, grown man conversations. And I know I got a gym downstairs that I know I can... He got one in his house, bro. I'm making an excuse. It's an excuse. It's nothing but excuses. It's nothing but excuses. I was being lazy. I'm back out today. All right, so who? When you do it, record it. I'm going to record it, for sure. Every morning. Story.

26:59Today. I'm back in the gym. Today. Yeah, no, I'm going to check. I'm going to get you a... No, Debo, give me the numbers. I'll put us all on the phone. On the cell phone. I'll put us all on the phone. On the cell phone. Oh, yeah. Now, Debo, you done messed up now. What I done messed up with? What I done messed up with? You think I ever stopped? You think I ever stopped? I know. Now I got to catch up. It's all good. You think I ever stopped? Stop playing with me. You know what make it so bad, Joe? You know what make it so bad? Come on, man. He acting like I ain't got... I'm only working out about five days a week.

27:28I ain't even at seven. All right. But for real, for real, I'm bringing my pops out there, too. I'm bringing pops to the gym. I'm bringing pops to the gym. Bring pops to the gym because that's the person that can actually work out. That ain't victim weight. I believe in you, Joe. I believe in you. Nah, bro, I hear they be saying the same shit to me. I don't like... Yo, there's a clip. Maybe you can pull the clip up. But, Joe, I was at the Fanatics Fest in New York minding my motherfucking business, okay? Yes. And moving peacefully. I turned my head around the corner. I see people looking at me with this face.