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Head over to the clean eats and green hills on Merpiesboro and discover the easiest way to eat healthy. Your taste buds and your body will thank you. That's clean eats. Eat clean, stay healthy. Live awesome. (upbeat music) Yo, what's going on FitFam? We are back in the game day men's health studio with my girl, Broadway staff. If you ever get the BTS and you understand why I'm calling it Broadway staff. - No, it's the New York Broadway. - Not New York, Nashville Broadway, right? - I am from Broadway, which I don't know working while in Broadway, right? No, no? Okay, feel like-- - Well, as soon as I always hang out on Broadway every day, I love it. - Have you ever performed on Broadway? - Have I ever performed? Actually, no, I never did, no, wait. - I thought you should go down to Broadway. What's your guitar and a bucket? - It's illegal to do that I think. - Is it illegal now? - I need like a permit. - Oh, we can do that. - You're pretty sure. - Hey, Terry, get a permit. Can we work on the end of the permit for some downtown? - Terry, yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Terry, can we get a permit? - Hey, you're a production city. (laughing) - Yeah, I feel like you should be like just down there. - I used to bus in Boston when I went to school there. - Yeah? - That's called busking. - Busking. Well, there's a guy at the baseball game doing that. He was playing bucket drums. I don't know, I doubt he had a permit. I was going to go ready and give it to him but I decided not to. - I think there's like, I think there's people who do monitor that but yeah. Now that I think about it, I've seen like spoon people, like, you know. - If people are playing spoon, south. - If you're like taking money, you need a permit, like opening your guitar. - Yeah, unless you just want it. - Well, I'm not going to perform for free. - No, excuse me, excuse me. - Sorry, I'm worth it. - I agree, south. (laughing) And I think you should do it more often. That was the whole point, guys, of me bringing up Broadway South. So I feel like South, she has a hidden talent that's not so hidden. Like, I'm like, yo, sad. You gotta like play more or sing and stuff. She's like, nah, I should just gonna play with my kettlebells, the big guys. No music, just. But she's so like, multi-talented. But she will never know it. Unless you just randomly watch her story one day and she's doing their singing or something. - That's the point. - Is it? - Yeah, keep it like. - Just provide it, just throw it out there here and there. - Yeah, it keeps people coming back. Yeah, if I put it up there all the time, I'd be like, okay, who does she think she is? - She thinks she's Broadway South. But like, when you do it like, you know, sparsely? I don't know, that's not even a word. But not as often like, sprinkle it in here and there. People are like, oh, that's a nice little change of pace. - I don't understand. That's why I do that. - Yeah. - That's exactly why I sing here and there. So just people know that, you know. It's there. - Yes. - It's there, do you ever-- - It's more than just fitness. - It's more, you know what? I always say more than a trainer. And so more than just fitness, I sing. I can rap a little bit, not freestyle, but I can rap a little bit. And then I'm a pretty good trainer. Pretty strong. - I believe that you can rap. - If I could sing, but if I could sing for real, it would be like-- - If you could, okay, what's your go-to karaoke song? - It depends on the crowd. - Okay. If it's like a pop and crowd, like lots of people. - Like what color crowd? (laughing) - Okay, fair. (laughing) Like the most ideal crowd for you. - I can go either one. It's like if I'm-- - Okay. - Mostly white people. - Mostly white people, I'm from the blue cones. - Okay. - I'm from the blue cones. - All right. - Okay. - It's me and Luke on the same person. - What if it's mostly black people? - I'm probably gonna go, again, depends on the vibe. If I want to slow it down and get sexy, or if I want to have it like crowd, like if I want to like throw it around. Oh, oh, sad, this is what I do. (laughing) - This is what I do. - I'm telling you. - You just drill the trainer by day. - If I could sing, it would be-- - Drill the singer by night. - It would be a rap if I could sing. - I would be-- - We should start a band. - On Instagram, naked, singing. - Okay, well, you're the naked? I'm sorry. (laughing) - Pretty naked, not all the way naked, but pretty, like first song of my shirt's coming off. - Okay. - You gotta rip it off or is it gonna be slowly unbuttoned? - As I'm singing, like, and then that's when-- (screaming) - Nice. - Like, and then got-- - We'd be perfect to be in a band together, because I would not be attracted to you at all. (laughing) I thought that was harsh, it was harsh, it was harsh. - Is this the kids? - Jeez, man. - That was harsh, it was. I was here at all. - But, well, okay, you're an attractive man, don't get me wrong, I just don't swim that way. - Like, I would-- - I feel like you should say, like, hey, if I was straight, we could date. Like, I would-- - Do you want me to say that? - No. - Would that be weird? - No. - Okay. - No. - But you don't want me to say that? - No, I've had a gay guy tell me that before. - Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure you get a lot of gay guys telling you that. - Yeah. - But like, not because you seem gay, just because you're an attractive man. - I'll tell you that story offline. - Like, I thought it was, 'cause I was like, am I gay? I don't know, 'cause-- - Because a gay man hit on you? - A lot of gay men hit on me. - Yeah. - Like-- - No, take that as a very flattering, like, straight man thing. - Yeah, okay. - Happens to a lot of straight men who are very good looking. I don't think that a straight friend. - I don't think I can quote him anymore, but I would say artists formerly known as Eddie. - Okay, mm-hmm, yep, mm-hmm. Pickin' up what you're puttin' down. (laughing) - But, like when you get dressed up, you also, you're not really fine. That's a gay guy tells you that you're fly. - Yeah. - If a gay guy's like, yo, you're close. - Honestly, yes. - Like, I'll fit that you have on right now. Like, you killin' that. He's like, that's when you know, like-- - That's a huge compliment. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Like, gay guy's telling you that, no. Not like, you look good, not like I'm tryin' to house. You look good, but like, yo, you look good. - No, your outfit is on. - Yeah, like, yo. - Girl, yes. - Yeah, yeah. - That's a, yep. - Yeah, yep. - But not like that, yeah. - I know exactly what you mean. It is a compliment, and you just have to be confident in your masculinity enough to know that it's a compliment. - A compliment. - Not everybody's always hitting on you, you know? Yeah. - Okay. - Awesome, cool. - Yeah. - Let me talk about this. - There we go, we got that out of it. (laughing) - Alright, I feel like, you know, I feel like we need to catch it up. - We can take a photo or every podcast. - Every time. - Every time. - Breakin' boundaries. - It's just, you know. - In a good way. - Let's get into it. - I don't know when this is getting released, but I don't think I've told you Happy Pride Month. - Happy Pride Month, yay. - Anything planned special? - No, just bein' me. No, Pride already happened, like the festival in Nashville happened. I was out of town for that. - You don't travel for? - It's not a thing for you. - I mean, I would if it was, I don't know. It just depends on who am I going with. I know I have friends that went to the New York Pride, or are going to the New York Pride. I don't think it's happened yet, but yeah, I don't know. I just kinda exist in B.A. and-- - Okay. - You know, be proud of that. And celebrate along the way in whatever way makes sense. - Nothing special. - No, I don't really go out of my way to do it, but I have before. - Okay. - It's fun. - Yeah. - But yeah, I'm just kinda like, bob around, keep-- - Just bob around, keep supporting my friends. - That's your life, Sam. I hate that you're so low-key. Gotta get you outside. - I probably should get you outside more. Enough about us, let's get into our very special guests today. I'm not going to say, "Hey, you got your beeper ready, Trent?" (laughing) - Well, I'm not going to attempt it either, because you were joking about it before it came on air, and now I know I'm gonna mess it up, but I do know how to pronounce your first name, which is Rashad, and I've known you for quite a while now. It's been like a year and a half, two years, because of the fit crawl. So tell us A, your last name. - Tell us your whole name. - I said I couldn't use the F-bomb, so I'll go ahead and pronounce it exactly how it sound. Fa Crudine, Fa is in Fa Mulan. Crew is in two-life crew, and Dean is in Mayor Carl Dean. Fa Crudine. - Wow, which are very good, like-- - And I'll say it in Arabic, Fa Crudine. - Yeah, that sounds way better. - Whichever your choice. But I've had the fit crawl, oh, by the way, it's an honor to be here. - Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. - Yeah, this is a freaking car. - Sam, Harriet, I love Yell's Magazine. I've been a big fan for the day one. - Nothing to do with any of that, but thank you. - Sure you too, you write articles. - Yeah, but he said the magazine, "Nah, I love your articles." - Well, I love your articles too. - That's all part of it. - I appreciate that, yeah. - It's all part of the whole. - This is cool what you're doing with the podcast. Well, about the fitness-crawled-ified breast cancer. I've been an ambassador for Menward Pink through the American Cancer Society. And so there are about maybe 130 chapters across the country, American Cancer Society chapters, and they have this initiative called Menward Pink. It's an initiative to get the guys involved to fight breast cancer by raising awareness and raising donation. So, you know, it's pretty much a women's issue. And just like domestic violence, you probably know Shane Foster. He's a good friend and guy. - Yeah, I thought you were awesome. - Yeah, we worked together with, you know-- - It's like just like domestic violence. You understand that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I was like, no. - I was like, wait, no. - There's an initiative called a Men Together, and that has men involved with taking on this cause to fight domestic violence. And through awareness and, yeah, a lot of awareness and trying to bring down this statistics of one in four women being a victim of domestic violence. And I've been an ambassador to that since it was initiated in 2013. And then Shane Foster came to take that lead around 15 and has run with it. So when I was approached in 2019-- - Before we get too deep into your story, we skipped over a small segment that we have to do. - Right, yeah. We have to jump into the basket of debate that is brought to you by Waxman in the city. Now this basket of debate, this is a real thing now. It's global. Okay, local, it's local, but we're making it global, okay? But what we do is we have to pass out different topics. - This is a very special basket, it's coveted. - It is, it's like an old school, like tithing basket. I don't know. - I hand weaved it, not it. Everyone do that. - You said you don't need one? - No, I said I hand weaved it. - Oh. - And no one caught my joke because it wasn't funny. - Thank you for trending some funny. - And so what we do is we'll pick a topic and we'll just kind of, it's kind of a disagree, agree type situation, or if you have some deep feelings about it, let me jump into that as well. - I do have deep feelings about it. - Yeah, deep feelings about it. - Yeah, let's see, well, if that's the case, go ahead, please, go ahead. - Should ketchup be kept in the fridge or pantry? - What do you say? 'Cause this may, this may-- - Fridge. - Okay. - 'Cause if you have ant problems. - Yep. - Ant problem. - Okay. - Yeah, they're gonna go get the ketchup. - Especially if it's open. - I think it's over there. - Unopens. - I know, right? That sound very, like-- - I would say-- - You have ants in your house, they're gonna go for the ketchup first. - Yeah. - I would say if it's unopened, it's allowed to be in the pantry, but I still like when I buy it, it's going in the fridge. - I agree with that. If it's unopened, yeah, I still keep it. - Yeah, I mean, why would you wanna put it two different places? You know, like unopened, I'm gonna put it in the pantry. As soon as I open it, I'm gonna put it in the fridge. Why not just start a fridge? - Yeah, that gets confusing. 'Cause if you're organized, like, y'all talked about-- - Yeah. - The life being organized. - Yeah. - It's like, yeah, you're used to going in this place and then you freak out, it's not there. And you have to look somewhere else. - Where's the ketchup? - That's double work. - I don't know, you know what, I think it's culturally. - Yeah. - I think black people put it in the refrigerator. I don't know any black homes that I've been to that. Like, yeah, that's a ketchup in the pantry. Like, how would you do that? - I've seen unopened ketchup in the pantry. - Yeah. - In some pantries, yeah. - Okay. - But-- - Never-- - But one thing you don't keep in the pantries, honey, the ants will get to them. - Yeah. - You wanna talk about this ant situation? - Yeah. (laughing) - I'm living here. - I'm living here. - Right now. - They came two Mondays ago, quarterly treatment or text. - Okay. - And it was in the dishwasher ant problems. I don't know why they go to the dishwasher. Rest of the house is okay. Just a few here and there. They say, yeah, there's been a problem. They're just tiny-- - When you load the dishwasher, like, how thoroughly do you rinse your dishes before? - Back in the day, I used to be, do it thoroughly. - And not much more? - Lately, it's not. And maybe that's the-- - That's not enough. - Maybe I don't mean to call the pest control. - No, you can just start mixing your dishes more. I basically clean them and I put them in the dishwasher to be second cleaned. Like, that is how much-- - First thing when I go home tonight, I'm telling the family, the kids, my wife, y'all are washing the dishes before it goes in. - Seriously? - My wife, that's the-- - The dishwasher is not about to spur. - Exactly. - It does. It's a dishwasher. - No. - She literally washed the dishes before she put it. I'm like, why that dishwasher? - Because she's woke. She understands. - She's something. - You're talking to a woman about-- - I'm like, hey, listen, I'm throwing this. It's a dishwasher. Why are we washing dishes before we put it back? - Okay. - I'm more like Sam. I actually rinse it pretty good. - Good. - No, wash. - Make you a PB&J without crust because I know you. And don't rinse the knife of peanut butter, put it in there, and then tell me what happens. - Oh, yeah. - Get it to you. - No, it won't, not fully. I've seen dishes come out of the dishwasher. I had three male roommates in college. And none of them, this is why I learned this, because they would do that and not rinse the dishes. They'd just be like, cool, I ate a sandwich. There's like crumbs and stuff. Sandwich is one thing. But like when it's like a peanut butter spoon, and they're like, look the peanut butter off of it, and then stick it in there. - And then stick it in there. - It does not clean it. It comes out crusty peanut butter on it. - You were in a college doing that. It probably was like, she-- - No, that was not a college dorm. Excuse me. - Yeah, you were in college. - I was in college, but I didn't look at dorms. - But not in college. - That's a freshman year. Miss, I have money. College dorm, I would never. What are you, are you serious right now? (laughing) - I did make money in college. (laughing) Make me feel cool right now. - Is a straw a utensil or accessory? - Is what? A straw? - A straw, isn't it a utensil or-- - Weird. - An accessory. - That question may be more relevant now post COVID. During COVID, it could be a tool, 'cause you need it. 'Cause all the germs, everyone's scared. - I wouldn't call it anything. - Yeah, I don't think-- - Yeah, I don't think it's a necessary item. I'm not a big straw person. - I think it depends on who you are. I think straws are a game changer for me, drinking water. (laughing) - How so? - Because when I have a straw, like a water bottle, like this one, it's not a straw, but I don't have to tilt the bottle, which, I mean, shouldn't really make a difference. - Yeah, I was wondering how the-- - But because it has a little sucky thing, and it's like a straw, like I drink so much water because of it. - Because of that. - I've had lots of water bottles. - So, same water bottle without the little sucky thing and-- - I'd probably not drink it as much. - Oh, wow. - It's just easier, I don't know. - Okay. - And like, yeah. - Okay. - Anyway. - Yeah. - Yeah, I don't think straws are really either. - Yeah. - I just think it's a thing. Plus, it's, you know, plastic straws, bad for the environment. - You're a paper straw person? Sad, this can break this up right now. - No, I hate those. - I could-- - We could break up. - I don't think those should even exist. - We could break up right now. - Whoever invented those is dumb. - I'm sorry, but forget the turtles. - I agree. I agree with both of y'all on that. - Well, if you're, like, just don't do a straw or recycle it, but yeah, paper straws are useless. - It just melts in your mouth. - Yes, I hate them. - They use a bad taste. - I'm mad thinking about paper straws. Okay. Last one, are hot dogs better grilled or boiled? - Grilled. It's easy. - Yeah, grilled. - Everything is better grilled, okay. Done with that one. - Burned a little bit. A little burn. - Yeah? - Yeah, I gotta be a little burn. I don't want, like, a perfectly cooked cocktail. I want a little burn. - Yeah, there's nothing-- - Add a little char to my hot dog. - We're better than, like, a, I don't do, like, cold hot dogs. Have you ever done that out? Like, kids do? - Kids eat cold hot dogs? - Uh-huh. - They kind of kids, are you around? - Like, daycare. - Daycare, kids eat cold hot dogs? - Yeah, sometimes. - They better not be feeding my baby cold hot dogs. As much as we bathe, man. She's yeah, she's eating cold hot dog. I gotta go and ask them 'cause they're gonna go pick her up. Like, hey, how about hot dogs? You feed her cold. It's a temperature. - I would actually ask that question if you're concerned about it 'cause I remember watching it. - Like, just raw, just here. Here's our dog. - Raw hot dog, yeah. - Yeah, I would flip off. That's why she's upset when she comes home. - Maybe so. - We're all a dog and it came from. - Ooh, well, yeah, no, we're not. Nope, nope, we're not going there. - I didn't hear what you're saying. - It doesn't matter. - All right, well, I missed it. I hate that I missed it 'cause I'm using that guy. That stars him. (all laughing) - He said something about raw dog and where that comes from. And we're-- - Is that what raw dog? That's not what I'm talking about. - Nope. - Nope. - Oh, okay, I wasn't. - Nope, if you know, you know. - I'm sure. - Even I know that. And I'm-- - Do you even know what's happening? - You know what's happening? We're gonna go to interview. I'm not gonna, you're not gonna, you're not gonna reel me into that conversation. - I'm talking to things like fighting breast cancer and-- - Yeah. - You know. - So I'm-- - I'm curious and you said it doesn't really affect men as much previously, but this actually does affect men. - I mean, there's like, it's almost like domestic violence. That's why I draw a parallel between my engagement with the fight against domestic violence and that same parallel engagement with that fight against breast cancer. - Yeah, about 86% of the victims of domestic violence are women. So there are about 14% men are impacted with breast cancer. I think it's about eight, 9,000 a year that are detected out of a quarter million or that die from it. I forgot that number. But it is still, men do get it and there are men survivors. But you know, just, you know, as a man, as a guy, you know, I think it's so important to stand up for women and women's rights. And so when it comes to domestic violence, of course, we want to see what can we do to calm down these statistics so that one day, Nashville becomes the safest city for women and girls. That's been sort of a theme for men together through the YWCA and through the city, quite frankly, with breast cancer awareness, you know, if a quarter million women detected every year, about 40,000 plus died from it every year. I mean, during COVID, we were freaking out and rightfully so, like people were dying and the detection level was high. Well, for women, it's almost the same statistics and this is happening every day, every year. So we should be just as alarmed or even more, it impacts our loved ones. And so that's why I got involved just someone, the director at the time asked me because we're talking about initiatives. You know, I work at the power company at NESS. I've been there 29 years and I've managed one of the, supervised one of the engineering departments there. But through NES, I've been involved also with community. I wore a lot of different hats and there I've been engaged with public education, with academies of Nashville. So, you know, I'm especially, specifically I'm involved with Parle Cone. You know, they're not because they're a football powerhouse, but I'm engaged with their football team, with the folks there. It's a very resilient school. I bring guest speakers there every month. So that the kids, these young adults can see, see folks out there in the community that look like them and that model, you know, professional, my big thing with my engagement is talking about professional life skills. So I've been doing that for the last 12 years, from NES, mostly pre-COVID, after COVID, I slowed down. But with Parle Cone, I stepped it up with bringing guest speakers and mentoring, having, you know, I've had a student or two come and interned with me, job shadow and so forth. But, you know, that engagement with, you know, being, whether it's with public education, and then also through with breast cancer awareness, I just think that it's just, there's so much out there that we can all get plugged in to serve our community and help others. So with breast cancer, so we were talking about education and then we had this organization called, I forgot what they were called now. And as I was leaving that coffee meeting and sharing what we do with NES, it was called City Currents. And so then the next person they were meeting with was the Director of American Cancer Society. And she just randomly said, hey, would you like to be a ambassador? This is 2019. I was thinking in October, I'm busy with domestic violence. That's my thing. And so I thought about it and she emailed me. She was persistent. And I thought I have a cousin, my older cousin. She's like mentor, my older sister. And she had been diagnosed with breast cancer for two years and she was just going through that survival process. I saw the chemotherapy, the, you know, the recovery. It's a lot. And this, mostly we're talking about women. Of course men will go through it too, but mostly women. I mean, it's enough. So I said, okay, I'll do it. And I did not have one article of pink. And slowly I just, I started loving what the cause was for and meeting more people. Then the next year, they asked me to be in the co-chair with Derek Mason, the all-time leading receiver for the Titans and the Ravens. - Oh yeah. - He's awesome. So we co-charity, that's when I thought about, let me start something that's more meaningful that I can bring in sort of tie the fitness community with breast cancer. And so the intent I had was, hey, we need to create something around survivor support. What can we do? And also, what can we do? This is, keep in mind, this is 2020 October. Well, thinking about it was August when I actually was chatting with the previous owner or founder, Ryan, for you being, and I said, I have this idea. What do you think? He said, yeah, that's a nice idea. You can put our name and he did the first flyer. So I have a soft spot for National Fit Magazine. We're coming full circle where Yeller just killing it as a major partner. Yeah, thanks to Terry. - Yeah, we are. - And so with that said, I was looking at, hey, during COVID, there were all these restrictions to work out. And yeah, you need restrictions. I'm not gonna say you don't. But I felt like, to a degree, people were afraid to go to fit in the studios because they felt like this, it's almost like generalizing. People are gonna breathe down your neck. You're gonna get sick. But in fact, my main exercise, I've been doing bar three for the last seven years, a member, and it's done wonders. I had a back problem, it got cured. I had open heart surgery. It was a freakish thing that happened. And I was close to death. - Wow. - I survived, actually wrote an article for National Fit Magazine in 2019 about that recovery. - I'll be in. Wow, I'll go back and read that. - Yeah, and I talk about community and what the fitness community has meant and what exercise means. And so, I had three friends that lost studio owners. In her light yoga, they had to shut down Liberation Asheville or yoga studio. They had to shut down and then Megan Connor was like, she did her training for folks. And basically, they were all running out of business 'cause of COVID. So I said, let me see what can we do to bring people to recognize that actually you have to exercise. And around the fitness community, let's see what we can do to show support around the survivors. So it's a win-win situation. And if you read the American Cancer Society, they say the higher levels of physical activities are linked to lower risks of cancer and other diseases. And now put the timeframe to COVID. Now we all know, they're talking about that mental health, how important having community, working out does to your mental mindset, your state of affairs. And that's what a lot of people were losing during COVID. So, we need it, I mean, like a hospital, what y'all do with the National Fit Magazine, the fitness community, instructors, y'all are our hospital to get us healthy, to prevent us from getting, you know, ill and to be part of our recovery and also for our mental health. And there's nothing like the community of the fitness, the fitness community and people in the fitness community. And I've always been an advocate for fitness since I was a kid. I remember, I grew up here. I'm from Bangladesh originally, came when I was one. I remember, I went to Answorth for four years. I graduated from Hillsborough. - Wow, I know that. - Yeah, for, there's a period from five years from eighth grade through high school, I remember counting, I played seven different sports, football, basketball, every, you name it. I love sports, but I had broken the record in the physical fitness thing. Now looking back, I was, before coming here, I was like, wow, fitness has been something. But I was never a person who went to a gym. I just played basketball. We had NES had a basketball team. We beat the fire department twice in the gym. This is like the last decade. I love that type, I mean, the sports, I'm a big avid sports fan. Play sports, still at my late old age, I still play it. And then, you know, all this. But, so fitness is so important. And as we shared one of those stats, there's another one in the American Heart Association. I remember readings. Just the other day, it was like 20 minutes of physical activities. Again, they say linked to low risk of diseases, improved mental health, and lowers the risks of depression. I mean, you name it. That's why I'm just such a big fan of what y'all are doing here. Everyone in Nashville Fit Magazine. So that's how it started. I reached out, I had a lot of relationships, friendship with different folks, and I reached out to those who I knew would share that same vision. What's the purpose of, you know, having this fitness qualified breast cancer? And starting with bar three, the owner. They're all about community. Orange Three Fitness, the owner of Six of the Studios. She's my classmate from Hillsborough High School, way back in the day, Bridget. And just a few folks here and there. And then now it's grown to 33 fitness studios. And I know we had our meeting yesterday with Terry and Jen and Antonio. I mean, it's gonna grow bigger. And the titans are involved through Johari Matthews. And now we give, like, we've been giving gift prizes. So we have sponsors for the gift prizes. We have, like, sponsors, like, Nashville Fit Magazine's been a sponsor from day one. And Nashville Scenes is sponsor. Mix 92.9, Channel 2 has us on their local onto show. I think, Terry, I'm gonna reach out to them. This time you and I are going on there as a tag team. You go there all the time anyway, but it'll be cool to be with you on that show. And it's just growing. And what's neat, I thought this was gonna be a one-year thing for being a men were pink ambassador, which, by the way, Jural, if you'd like to be one, let me know. I, actually, Freddie O'Connell, I just talked to him. - Yeah, he's a massive pink. - And how he looked, I was a good friend of mine. - Okay. - As of now, he's supposed to be... - I got you. I look pretty good at pink. I don't know if you've, you've known as a man, but pink is a, it's a good color on. - It's cool. I love pink. Yeah, zero pink now got, like, drawers of pink. - I have a pink suit. - Real men wear pink, y'all. - Yeah. And so we have about 60 ambassadors in Nashville. Chief of Police is a good friend. We've worked together with a men together, Chief Drake. When I co-chaired it with Eric Mason, I reached out to him, called him. He was down and he would be, like, one of the leading fundraisers every year. So it's just, it's a good, I mean, Kevin Dyson. He co-chaired it the year after me. He's been an ambassador. Albert Haynes worked with an ambassador. - Yeah, yeah. - Big Al two years. I told, I saw him the other day. I was like, are you gonna be it again? There's the, there's, there's just, it's just a whole variety of folks that are in that group. And it's like, almost like a close knit brotherhood family of folks with the same mission to help fight breast cancer. So one in eight women are detecting breast cancer in their lifetime. - So what, so what are some preventative measures that women and men can take when we're talking about breast cancer? - Excellent question, Gerald. So, you know, during this fitness-qualified breast cancer at every 33 studios, I would go work out and then I'd speak for about three to four minutes talking about the statistics and about that question you asked. And so what I say like, first of all, know your body. You know, this is not just for cancer, anything. Feel something strange, don't take it lightly, go to the doctor, have awareness of your body. But for women, they typically say around the age of 40 start getting your breast, your mammograms. So that's preventive measures and just awareness. And by 45 to 54, do it every year religiously. Don't miss a year. - That's like, it's important to like know how to self-examine yourself like before you're 40. My gynecologist taught me how to do it. And she said the same thing. Like, yes, like technically, like real risks don't really pop up until around then. But, and mammograms and things like that. But, you know, I regularly check because you never know. - It's important and then if you have family history, that's another thing. You get it early. Like, I'm friends with Coach Corb's with the Vandy Boys and, you know, his daughter had to go through that. But I will say, well, it must stick to me. You know, there's a lot of women that go through that. - Yeah, I have a client. She was around 30, 130, when she found her breast cancer. She ended up having to get a double mastectomy. But she got new boobs afterwards. And she loves them. She's like, they're better. - It's more normal wise to do that now too. - Yeah, it's a life generation. - My wife's best friend, same thing. And I unfortunately got to watch that whole process with both of them, which really sucks. Especially, you know, Savvy Brian can speak to this more as a woman, but losing, like, that's the cancer, but also losing the body part. - Right, oh yeah. - No matter how big or small it is, it's a part of you. - It's a little part of, yeah. - Yeah. - It's, it's tough. You know, that's what really keeps me going. Every year, I meet new folks that would, that actually come to these workouts. Last year at Studio Pilates, there was a survivor I met. And she was only 26 years old. Another survivor I met at Bend and Zent. And what's fun with all these workouts? What I like to see, my idea is like, yeah, get into, if you're not already working out, you know, and you're doing this for fun, this is a good step to get you into the studios. And if you don't have a studio, you belong to, maybe you'll find one that's a fit. We, we have a ton of yoga, like four or five high yoga studios, Pilates. We have boxing, title, Nash. I mean, it's incredible that the variety, Orange City Fitness, you know, this, all these matabolic, Nashville Ballet, Dance Fix, bar three, which I'm a member of. - Name any kind of movement. We have so many different to choose from. And I think the community is what, like for me, I'm big into like community. And like when during COVID, it was nice having some time, the first month or two of these online workouts, but there's nothing for me like when you have others helping push you and having a set time, a discipline into your workout. Cause otherwise it's, it's easy just to lose track and say, ah, today I'm just gonna miss my workout. Cause I had so much work at not like I worked full time, but supervised one of the engineering departments at NES. So that's a full time job. When I work out, it's like, that's the time I really feel mindfulness. Like I'm not thinking of anything. Cause I'll, I'm just totally locked into my workout. I enjoy it. And folks who work out are typically happier folks. And it just seems like I can get along with all these owners and the folks in the fitness community. Like Terry and I, we just met a year ago. Like I feel like I've known him for like a lot of life. - I also think there's a misconception too. When you say like, you know, people who work out are usually happier people, that's absolutely true. But happiness is not like necessarily like, I'm happy all the time. We know how to handle hardship a little bit more because we are disciplined enough to be in the gym. We know what doing something hard feels like and looks like and is. And when things like cancer pop up, it's like, okay, you have to have this mental fortitude to push through something that difficult and that big, you know? So exercises, like you said, mental health is a huge part of making it through life, you know? Like, and nobody gets through life unscathed, you know? Like whether it's cancer, whether it's loss, whether it, whatever it is, you know? Like the more you, you know, move your body and exercise, I think like the more it helps you kind of navigate those challenges. - It does. Saf, can you read what's on the back of my face? - I would love to. - I'm mad at memorizing. - Sure. - Can you show the camera? - This was from rumble boxing. - Yeah, rumble, let's go shout out. - This is the title Nash, what are we hearing? - Let's go title. - To knock out breast cancer. - Knock it out, okay, it says, nobody fights alone. And then, I love this, all warriors have scars. Breast cancer awareness month, fight, fight. - And that also- - That's great. - And it's, I mean, I just love the fitness community. They all just, everyone I reached out, no one's like, said, no, I can't do it. - Yeah. - And they have enough, you know, that's a schedule, everything, you know, and trying to get customers in the door and the fact that they're willing to give a class. You know, these are most of donation-based. All right, you go there, it's a free class. Some are like you pay and that's your donation by paying that drop-in fee, if you remember. You know, there's a QR code and, you know, this year we're looking at, it's not final, but last year we had talks about having a big event kicking off at the Titan Stadium, talking with Johari. We're gonna explore that for this year. Now with Nashville Fit Magazine, see if we can do something really big and they have crucial catch, you know. I love the question asked Terry yesterday about partnership and he's like all about partnering. That's the way I am. And it's like, that's how, like, we connect so easy. Like, we're not, I'm not looking, I don't even need my name in this. It's like, what can we do? What's the mission to get this accomplished? - Yeah, something bigger than yourself. - And then last year, Nashville Fit had a rap session, a rap party. - Rap, like. - No, no, not like, I heard about you rapping me. - Oh, okay. - But we can have you. - You said you rap. - You didn't invite me to the rap party, Terry. It's like, okay. - So that was at Scissors and Scotch and we had that there with Eats, Nashville Eats was a sponsor. And this year, we're looking at possibly having maybe a couple of big events in between or mid-size events and the rest are each studio. To me, it's getting maybe unmanageable with 33 studios. But no more the merrier. - I'm going to have. - Yeah, it's nice. - More help. - And, oh, we got great help now. So enough night is worried like, there's all, there was like, pee-volve and these other ones. - Right. - Anyone I've eaten is like-- - We're going to take a real quick break before we have to move to our next segment. - Okay. - Hey there, waxing enthusiasts. Are you ready to experience the ultimate and smooth skin and pampering? Get ready to say goodbye to those pesky hairs with wax in the city, Brentwood. Your new go-to for all things waxing and beyond. My name is Greg and my wife and I recently opened our studio doors right here in Brentwood, Tennessee and we can't wait to welcome you. Unlike those speedy wax joints, we take our time treating you like family every step of the way. Our premier club orange membership is the key to unlocking a world of smoothness. Enjoy 50% off your first visit, a $25 gift card and 20% off your monthly service of choice. 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The concept of summer vacation for students in the United States dates back to a time when schools were not air conditioned and students were given time off to escape the heat in the cities and enjoy cooler rural or seaside locations. - Okay, that's like a double-edged sword because at first I was like, ew, no, I see, that's miserable, but then they got time off of school. - Yeah. - So, which would you rather have? AC and full day of school, always, or-- - Do you know how much I skipped like, um-- - Do you know how much I skipped? - My mother's not over here, so I can talk about this. You know how much I skipped school, so I hated school. I would go to the feet, I grew up in four. We're going to the beach. - What is that quote? - People who can something teach. People who can't do that, teach. - People who can't do, teach, people, yeah, I mean, listen. - Whatever it is from school, Rob. - I pray, I pray for-- - That's why we're in fitness. - My wife, you know, my wife has skipped school once. - Wow. - And you know what? You know why? - Hmm. - Because she had a assignment due for her next class that she had to go finish, she skipped school to go to school, I was like, what kind of person are you? We're completely, I was like, I'm not here. - I don't know about y'all. I grew up like school in the '70s, and at that time, school started after Labor Day, and then slowly they kept on moving it, then I have kids, and it's like first week of August, and I would always get upset when they say, back to school commercials, like, oh, they're excited. I'm like, come on. - Yeah. - I'm not looking forward to going back to school in July. - Right. - Neither am I. - The only thing I liked about going back to school was getting school supplies. - Oh, that's always fun. - Right, okay, thank you. - You know, I had it. - There looked at me like what? - I had it, one of the pearl cones. - School supplies. - I could not wait to go, like a disqualiner. - No, no, the supplies are so fun. - Yeah. - So much people stuff. - I had it. - Shiper keeper? Do you have much those things cost? My mother was not here. - Exactly, that's why it was so, like, coveted. I was like, that was so cool. - Those were so cool. - You got a new shopper keeper? - Got a new one every year. - Got a new one every year. - I got lockers stuff. - My mother would have washed that thing off, like, here, hey, you dropped a keyboard from last year. - Yeah, for me, it was like the only thing. - So in 2019, I had a pearl cone kid. His name is Will Parker. And he was one of the top recruits in football, but he wanted to be an engineer at the time. After I spoke during his freshman year, he was answering all these questions. Again, I'm speaking about professional life skills. And I asked the principal, can you point me to the sky? And after we met, I asked like, what do you want to be? He said, engineer. So he interned with me one summer before he went to college. And we were just chatting. He says, I love school. I can't wait. I love physics. I was like, I couldn't say this is crazy. You don't say that. But it was like, and then he ended up going to UT that. He's now, he transferred to play with, what's his name at Trent Delport at UIB. - Yeah, even worse that he went to UT. (all laughing) - All right. (all laughing) Orange, that's all I have to say. The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134 degrees Fahrenheit. And that is 56.7 degrees Celsius, for all you Celsius freaks out there. - For the rest of the world, except for the United States. - Everyone except us, daily jamming tag. In Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, California, on July 10th, 1913. - That's great. - That is hot. - Wow, yeah. - Especially in 1913, they didn't have any like, did they have any-- - They didn't, I don't think so. - So, I don't think so. - I have to go. - They had like the cotton-- - I have to go once again. - They had the cotton chain. - Maybe. (all laughing) - And California, probably not, but. - I don't know. - They weren't going, they weren't going cotton. - They were picking cotton. - Like there were people out there still picking cotton. - Not in Death Valley. - In Death Valley. - In California? - Not in Death Valley. - Yeah. - But Northern California, yeah. - Yeah, they grew up. - Hanford. - Who knew? - Cotton Farm. - I have to go once in a lifetime in my faith to make up, pilgrimage to make up, you've heard of that. And when I went in the '90s when I was a grad, Georgia Tech, I was a teaching assistant, so I earned some money, and then I'll co-op almost a year in Lexington, Kentucky. So as soon as I had enough money to do that trip, I went, that year was in the end of May of '93. And it was, I think, 115 or 20 degree. It was crazy hot. I don't know, I was just surviving to stay drink water. - Yeah, where were you? - In that time. - Oh, wow. Okay, yeah. - What is the heat like there? Is it like, 'cause Death Valley's gotta be like more dry. Here, it's like-- - I don't know, I was just tired. I was just drinking and-- - Well, sure. - We can't keep it enough. - The tradition of eating ice cream in the summer dates back to the Persian Empire where they would enjoy sweet, frozen dessert made of rose water and vermicelli. - Vermicelli? - Vermicelli. Yeah, rose water and dessert. - Wait, that can't be, right? That's pasta. - Yeah. - Don't look at me. (laughing) - Well, yeah, yeah. - Say, let me say. - So that's literally what it says, vermicelli. - So Bangladesh, where my ethnicity, I was actually born in Bangladesh, moved after three months. And there's the sweet we have. It's almost like noodles, but it's not noodles, but it's sweet. I mean, after you put sugar, it tastes so good. 'Cause so vermicelli with rose water, I can imagine, I can have a sense that it probably tastes good. - Interesting. - Well, I'm gonna have to like Google that one more. - I take your word for it, guys. We are out of time. Thank you so much for rocking with us today. We gotta get out of here, I have to get out of here. - Saf. - Cheryl, do we wanna let Rashad leave us with what he would wanna leave our listeners with? One thing? - Yeah, let's go. - Okay, Rashad. One thing that you wanna leave your listeners with. We just do it every time. - I'd say just be grateful for every moment you have. I went through an open heart surgery, day by day I was healing. Every day was better than the last day. So anyone who's gone through healing and surgery, whether it's cancer, open heart, whatever it is, everyone has their own physical rehab journey. And I think everyone without a doubt remembers that every day you felt like, oh God, I'm in pain. And then the next day you're doing better and better. And so there's a gratitude component that we should tie into it. Like when we are healthy, always look back at those tough times and say, just appreciate the fact I can go work out. I can go to work. I'm not too sick to be in bed. So I think gratitude really, you know, your outlook in life has changed so much just by a simple, a simple attitude perspective. - There you go. - Yep. - So that's-- - I love that. - I love that. - And then give back afterwards to others. - Yes. - I mean, what'd you give? - Fitness crawl, to fight breast cancer. - There you go. (laughing) - All right, well, thank you so much Rashad for being here. We're gonna sign off of this episode. Listeners, thank you so much. For joining us for another episode of the NFM podcast, Jarrell. - I am D. Jarrell Webb. - I am. - This is Broadway Sav. - Oh, no, I'm Broadway Sav, I guess. - We're a cowboy hat on. I know that. See, it works. - You are a cowboy hat hat. You don't like it? - Oh, cool. - I didn't see that part. - I'll take some. - Thank you. All right, FitFam, that'll do it for today's episode of the NFM podcast. Be sure to visit our sponsors. And if you like what you heard today, make sure you like and share it with your friends. Thank you guys again for listening. (upbeat music)
