1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,875 All righty. 2 00:00:00,875 --> 00:00:04,963 Welcome to another edition of What's Good with John and Joyce. 3 00:00:04,963 --> 00:00:07,340 And my associate Joyce is, I'm vacation right now. 4 00:00:07,340 --> 00:00:09,342 She's on an assignment. 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I love his family. 22 00:01:01,686 --> 00:01:03,063 They're great people. 23 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:04,814 They're great entrepreneurs. 24 00:01:04,814 --> 00:01:08,610 And they're also sponsors of, of our podcast 25 00:01:08,985 --> 00:01:11,696 Moonshots and Moonshots is in Gilford. 26 00:01:11,696 --> 00:01:14,908 They have a new location in Bradford opening up March 3rd. 27 00:01:15,283 --> 00:01:19,662 And, with me in studio now is a gentleman who has quite a career. 28 00:01:19,662 --> 00:01:24,501 He also played in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks or Super Bowl champions 29 00:01:24,501 --> 00:01:28,004 right now, and also the Denver Broncos, the Philadelphia Eagles, 30 00:01:28,379 --> 00:01:31,424 and just an amazing guy, Connecticut born and raised. 31 00:01:31,674 --> 00:01:34,344 And I just want to welcome John Moffitt to the show. 32 00:01:34,344 --> 00:01:35,303 Hey, John. 33 00:01:35,303 --> 00:01:38,264 Hey, John. Thanks. So good to see you, man. 34 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:40,600 I love the t shirt you brought in here today. 35 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,977 Moonshots. You know, there it is. 36 00:01:42,977 --> 00:01:44,646 Got a location over in Guilford in Branford. 37 00:01:44,646 --> 00:01:47,398 But before we get to that, want to learn a bit about you? 38 00:01:47,398 --> 00:01:49,818 Because your story is just so inspirational. 39 00:01:49,818 --> 00:01:53,321 You know, a guy was in an all state football player over at Notre Dame. 40 00:01:53,321 --> 00:01:56,199 You have a great family, great upbringing. 41 00:01:56,199 --> 00:01:58,368 And you get to the pinnacle, you get to the NFL, 42 00:01:58,368 --> 00:02:01,371 and then you kind of things kind of happened, you know, 43 00:02:01,871 --> 00:02:03,832 basically tell us a little bit about you. 44 00:02:03,832 --> 00:02:05,041 Somebody is tuning in for the first time. 45 00:02:05,041 --> 00:02:06,876 They've heard the name, or maybe they haven't, you 46 00:02:06,876 --> 00:02:08,628 know, what should we which we know about you. 47 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:09,254 Yeah. Yeah. 48 00:02:09,254 --> 00:02:11,923 So, you know, obviously that's crazy. 49 00:02:11,923 --> 00:02:15,051 I think, you know, time flies, but it feels like it's like a past 50 00:02:15,051 --> 00:02:15,593 life, you know? 51 00:02:15,593 --> 00:02:19,097 So my past life, football was was. Yeah. 52 00:02:20,181 --> 00:02:23,309 And, so, yeah, I'm, I'm out of Guilford 53 00:02:23,309 --> 00:02:27,063 and played and kind of leveled up every single kind of step of the way. 54 00:02:27,564 --> 00:02:30,233 And, went to the University of Wisconsin. 55 00:02:30,233 --> 00:02:31,568 The Badgers. 56 00:02:31,568 --> 00:02:33,403 Yep. Yeah. Go, Badgers. 57 00:02:33,403 --> 00:02:35,780 I don't know what's going on. Did Russell Wilson go there too? 58 00:02:35,780 --> 00:02:38,449 Wilson went there. JJ Watt went, wow. Yeah. 59 00:02:38,449 --> 00:02:40,702 There were some other really great linemen to come out of there. 60 00:02:40,702 --> 00:02:42,954 I had a great team when we were playing. 61 00:02:42,954 --> 00:02:46,207 Went to the Rose Bowl, one of the Big Ten championship. 62 00:02:46,833 --> 00:02:50,336 I was an All-American my senior year and, captain of the team. 63 00:02:50,336 --> 00:02:53,339 And then I got drafted in the third round by the Seattle Seahawks, 64 00:02:54,465 --> 00:02:56,301 and started playing, you know, played 65 00:02:56,301 --> 00:02:59,637 three years, was two with the Seahawks, was one with the Broncos. 66 00:03:00,138 --> 00:03:02,974 And that's when I retired, at 27. 67 00:03:02,974 --> 00:03:03,516 Right. 68 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:07,729 And, and then I came back a little bit after because I was like, oh, do I really 69 00:03:07,812 --> 00:03:08,938 I don't know. 70 00:03:08,938 --> 00:03:11,774 You know, I have such a love hate of football right now. 71 00:03:11,774 --> 00:03:13,109 What do you say that what is it? 72 00:03:13,109 --> 00:03:15,278 What's a love hate? I mean, I love it, and I hate it. 73 00:03:15,278 --> 00:03:16,613 Really? Yeah. Yeah. 74 00:03:16,613 --> 00:03:21,117 You know, I love it because it made me who I am. 75 00:03:21,451 --> 00:03:23,953 And I hate it because it's football, man. 76 00:03:23,953 --> 00:03:29,417 So, you know, and as you go up, the game changes every angle. 77 00:03:29,417 --> 00:03:31,836 The game changes, you know, not not the, the, 78 00:03:31,836 --> 00:03:34,339 you know, the changes, too, but just the whole game. 79 00:03:34,339 --> 00:03:34,839 Right? 80 00:03:34,839 --> 00:03:38,343 The way that you approach it, the the pressures, 81 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,096 the outside world, just a lot. 82 00:03:42,096 --> 00:03:46,059 It's a lot, you know, and, when you're 23 or 24 83 00:03:47,185 --> 00:03:49,562 and you really don't have a ton of life experience. 84 00:03:49,562 --> 00:03:54,484 Yeah, it can be sometimes, a recipe, you know, a recipe for disaster. 85 00:03:54,609 --> 00:03:54,817 Yeah. 86 00:03:54,817 --> 00:03:56,527 Tell me about that, too, because you were at the pinnacle, 87 00:03:56,527 --> 00:03:58,947 you know, and you talked to John Schneider out there at Seattle. 88 00:03:58,947 --> 00:03:59,739 You told me he 89 00:03:59,739 --> 00:04:03,701 he phoned you and said, well, you know, you like the northwest, you like Seattle. 90 00:04:03,701 --> 00:04:04,327 And I said, yeah. 91 00:04:04,327 --> 00:04:07,038 And hung up the phone and bam, you ended up going to Seattle, right? 92 00:04:07,038 --> 00:04:09,249 You're they're not you know, that's how it was. 93 00:04:09,249 --> 00:04:12,835 I mean, when I got, when I got traded, it was originally to the Browns. 94 00:04:12,835 --> 00:04:16,005 And they you know we had disagreements on contracts. 95 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:18,299 Right. Physical and dirty stuff. 96 00:04:18,299 --> 00:04:22,845 And and I'm in the parking lot literally walking out and John Elway calls me. 97 00:04:22,845 --> 00:04:24,973 I was like, you wanna come down? Really? 98 00:04:24,973 --> 00:04:27,725 Yeah. Wow. I just got on a plane and went to Denver, 99 00:04:29,185 --> 00:04:32,188 but it was, Yeah. 100 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,232 You know, 101 00:04:34,232 --> 00:04:36,859 for me, what I think, you know, if we're going to talk about. 102 00:04:36,859 --> 00:04:38,111 Okay, you're going, you're going. 103 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:41,739 You know, I was a starter my rookie year, blew my knee out and then kind of 104 00:04:41,739 --> 00:04:44,742 came back and started, like, another 8 to 10 games the next two years. 105 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:45,201 Right? 106 00:04:45,201 --> 00:04:48,204 You know, if you're really 107 00:04:48,621 --> 00:04:51,416 looking at it, it's like to me, 108 00:04:51,416 --> 00:04:55,962 you know, it was part NFL and it was part personal, right? 109 00:04:56,296 --> 00:04:58,756 So you're living the lifestyle, 110 00:04:58,756 --> 00:05:02,051 you know, and I'm a person that like, I have addiction problems. 111 00:05:02,051 --> 00:05:05,054 You know, I have problems with, you know I think we all do. 112 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:07,640 We all do. I definitely had substance problems. Right? Right. 113 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,225 Like there's no secret about that. 114 00:05:09,225 --> 00:05:12,270 And, something that I battled in early on in 115 00:05:12,270 --> 00:05:15,273 your career, it's boys will be boys and we're having fun. 116 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:18,151 But I think as I went on, 117 00:05:18,151 --> 00:05:22,572 it just kind of got exacerbated, you know what I mean? 118 00:05:22,572 --> 00:05:23,990 And the intensity of football match. 119 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:25,908 And and we were at such a high level. 120 00:05:25,908 --> 00:05:29,662 So everything you do is magnified, good or bad, magnified. 121 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:32,665 And then I and then I had my issues with the NFL, you know what I mean? 122 00:05:32,665 --> 00:05:33,499 I wasn't, 123 00:05:34,542 --> 00:05:36,336 I didn't 124 00:05:36,336 --> 00:05:38,963 you know, nothing's ever what we think it is. 125 00:05:38,963 --> 00:05:42,050 You know when you're getting, you know, you got a $3 million contract 126 00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:45,261 and you've got more money in the bank than than, you know, what you do with 127 00:05:45,261 --> 00:05:46,888 you're 24 years old. 128 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:47,847 The world looks different. 129 00:05:47,847 --> 00:05:50,224 Temptations everywhere, everywhere. 130 00:05:50,224 --> 00:05:54,395 And with the NFL too, the you know, to me, I, I did it 131 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:56,522 and I was like, I probably should have expected it, 132 00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:58,274 but I'm like, this is like a dirty business. 133 00:05:58,274 --> 00:06:02,320 I'm like, this is like, I don't know if I like this business, you know? 134 00:06:02,695 --> 00:06:07,033 And then at the same time, when the CD thing came out, which city? 135 00:06:07,367 --> 00:06:10,370 Yeah. Yeah. With the concussion. 136 00:06:10,578 --> 00:06:12,705 Right. Chronic traumatic. 137 00:06:12,705 --> 00:06:14,290 Yeah. 138 00:06:14,290 --> 00:06:16,876 You know, when that info came out, like, nowadays, 139 00:06:16,876 --> 00:06:17,919 you look back and you're like people. 140 00:06:17,919 --> 00:06:18,169 Yeah. 141 00:06:18,169 --> 00:06:21,839 And, hitting your head, getting a lot of concussions. Yes. 142 00:06:22,131 --> 00:06:23,591 You have consequences. 143 00:06:23,591 --> 00:06:24,592 Absolutely. 144 00:06:24,592 --> 00:06:29,263 Back then, the culture was, oh, you got dinged up. 145 00:06:29,347 --> 00:06:31,808 Brush it off your right hand dinged up. It's fine. 146 00:06:31,808 --> 00:06:33,851 How many times due to the athletes come out 147 00:06:33,851 --> 00:06:37,230 because they're being paid such a large amount of money, almost like 148 00:06:37,230 --> 00:06:40,358 they're drugged up to go back out in the field again, to be quite blunt. 149 00:06:40,608 --> 00:06:42,902 Yeah, well below the neck. 150 00:06:42,902 --> 00:06:46,155 So they always, to an extent, took concussions seriously, 151 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:49,117 though, in terms of like you got a concussion, right? 152 00:06:49,242 --> 00:06:49,867 Right. 153 00:06:49,867 --> 00:06:52,537 Sometimes they didn't I mean, you just saw to it to, Taco 154 00:06:52,537 --> 00:06:55,581 Bell, whatever his name is, you just saw his situation. Yes. 155 00:06:55,873 --> 00:06:56,457 That's crazy. 156 00:06:56,457 --> 00:06:59,710 Yes. It was but at the same time, I, I, 157 00:07:00,837 --> 00:07:03,673 you know, the thing that was 158 00:07:03,673 --> 00:07:07,009 shocking was a, this degenerative brain disease 159 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:10,304 that was related to concussions, you know what I mean? 160 00:07:10,304 --> 00:07:13,599 And then be it being a part of look at junior say, oh, 161 00:07:14,350 --> 00:07:17,019 when I with that gentleman when they exactly. 162 00:07:17,019 --> 00:07:19,897 I mean, look at, you know, I mean a lot of you could mention a whole bunch. 163 00:07:19,897 --> 00:07:20,314 Yeah. 164 00:07:20,314 --> 00:07:24,777 And so that so that was like so now you take that news 165 00:07:25,778 --> 00:07:28,781 on top of me, you know, 166 00:07:28,990 --> 00:07:31,951 drinking too much, smoking too much marijuana 167 00:07:31,951 --> 00:07:35,663 and really not, like, totally there, but still playing at a high level. 168 00:07:36,497 --> 00:07:38,082 And I'm like putting it together. 169 00:07:38,082 --> 00:07:41,085 And then just like relationships, not the right people in my life, 170 00:07:41,085 --> 00:07:42,462 not the right people around me, right? 171 00:07:42,462 --> 00:07:44,130 Not a support system. 172 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:45,548 And it kind of all tied up to me 173 00:07:45,548 --> 00:07:47,133 being like, you know what I'm walking away from? 174 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:49,677 Yeah, you know, and, 175 00:07:50,761 --> 00:07:52,680 you know, I, I love radio, I do this. 176 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,641 So, you know, I did an interview after 177 00:07:55,641 --> 00:07:58,394 and I kind of just voiced more of my because in that point, 178 00:07:58,394 --> 00:08:01,481 I hadn't gotten caught for being like a drug. 179 00:08:01,606 --> 00:08:02,023 Right. 180 00:08:02,023 --> 00:08:06,027 So like in that point, you know, I'm just talking about football. 181 00:08:06,944 --> 00:08:09,906 And that interview made like national headlines. 182 00:08:10,490 --> 00:08:11,365 And then now, did your 183 00:08:11,365 --> 00:08:15,161 did your family know about all this stuff or was this kind of secret from them? 184 00:08:15,203 --> 00:08:17,121 They knew. They knew okay. 185 00:08:17,121 --> 00:08:18,372 I was it was hard. 186 00:08:18,372 --> 00:08:20,625 It's hard to, gauge. 187 00:08:20,625 --> 00:08:21,542 It was hard to gauge because. 188 00:08:21,542 --> 00:08:25,421 Because I'm like a I was like a functional, you know what I mean? 189 00:08:25,421 --> 00:08:28,299 Like, I wasn't playing around. I was right every night. 190 00:08:28,299 --> 00:08:28,925 It was just. 191 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:31,802 You're able to mask everything asking you to manage. I'm sure. 192 00:08:31,802 --> 00:08:35,765 I'm sure a lot of people in the regular world today have issues, 193 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:38,184 and they still do their job right, still go to work. 194 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:39,810 And that's hard to to spot. 195 00:08:39,810 --> 00:08:41,812 Yeah, yeah, man. 196 00:08:41,812 --> 00:08:43,689 You know, like I'm on my own. Like. 197 00:08:43,689 --> 00:08:45,858 And I have the money to be on my own, you know. 198 00:08:45,858 --> 00:08:49,654 So I think it was you know, there's only so much control you have over somebody 199 00:08:49,987 --> 00:08:53,533 and really, you know, you hope that it's more just like they listen to your advice. 200 00:08:53,616 --> 00:08:56,285 Right? And so at that point 201 00:08:57,286 --> 00:08:58,329 it became 202 00:08:58,329 --> 00:09:01,749 like, I would like everyone jumped on this story. 203 00:09:02,291 --> 00:09:04,585 I mean, I did a piece for the New York Times. 204 00:09:04,585 --> 00:09:07,964 I was getting calls from like ABC, NBC, CBS, 205 00:09:07,964 --> 00:09:11,676 ESPN, HBO, like everybody was like, this is a story. 206 00:09:11,884 --> 00:09:14,804 And because I was kind of just the time, yes. 207 00:09:14,804 --> 00:09:20,101 Like he quit the NFL because of CTE and CTE stuff just came out. Wow. 208 00:09:20,184 --> 00:09:23,271 And the and they were just wrapping up the NFL lawsuit. 209 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,731 Right. 210 00:09:25,731 --> 00:09:29,443 So in my mind I was like, okay, 211 00:09:30,778 --> 00:09:32,613 what's my next career going to be. 212 00:09:32,613 --> 00:09:33,573 Right. 213 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:34,865 Well why don't I do radio. 214 00:09:34,865 --> 00:09:36,826 Why don't I go into media? I'll do radio. 215 00:09:36,826 --> 00:09:38,411 So I started doing like some radio. 216 00:09:38,411 --> 00:09:42,164 And from some you did some things on ESPN too, right. 217 00:09:42,331 --> 00:09:45,001 And also in Seattle on their radio station up there. 218 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:46,127 So I did a lot. Wow. 219 00:09:46,127 --> 00:09:48,170 And when I was playing to them, I always did radio. 220 00:09:48,170 --> 00:09:50,381 Yeah, because I just love it like you would like to talk about. 221 00:09:50,381 --> 00:09:52,800 Yeah. Well, well you got that great personality. 222 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,303 You're outgoing, you have a comedic sense about you as well. 223 00:09:55,303 --> 00:09:57,430 I just don't have the voice, like, oh, sure you do. 224 00:09:57,430 --> 00:09:58,055 You're doing great. 225 00:09:58,055 --> 00:09:59,557 No, I got it easily. 226 00:09:59,557 --> 00:10:00,391 Like three. 227 00:10:00,391 --> 00:10:03,561 You communicate very well my first year that. 228 00:10:03,561 --> 00:10:05,021 But you got the radio voice. 229 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:05,980 I love it, you know what I mean? 230 00:10:05,980 --> 00:10:08,649 When I listen to you and I hear your voice, and I still have an ear for that. 231 00:10:08,649 --> 00:10:09,025 Right? 232 00:10:11,694 --> 00:10:13,070 So I was like, okay, I'm going to 233 00:10:13,070 --> 00:10:16,115 I'm going to parlay this media attention into a career in radio. 234 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:17,033 And it actually did work. 235 00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:20,036 I had like a bunch of radio offers and stuff like that. 236 00:10:20,036 --> 00:10:23,789 But my my personal life was, you know, starting in shambles. 237 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:24,915 Yeah. Yeah. 238 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:27,376 And my personal relationships were not with my family. 239 00:10:27,376 --> 00:10:28,836 Now, did you have any mentors at all? 240 00:10:28,836 --> 00:10:32,298 People that that you were able to kind of latch on to maybe get some advice? 241 00:10:32,298 --> 00:10:34,383 People that had been through that before? 242 00:10:34,383 --> 00:10:36,510 Kind. Yeah. 243 00:10:36,510 --> 00:10:39,513 I mean, I did have mentors, but again, I wasn't listening. 244 00:10:40,389 --> 00:10:40,973 You know what I mean? 245 00:10:40,973 --> 00:10:42,725 Like, you were in a different place. 246 00:10:42,725 --> 00:10:43,351 Yeah. 247 00:10:43,351 --> 00:10:47,104 You know, and I and I had a lot of people I in Seattle, I didn't have 248 00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:48,856 the same support like I had. 249 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:52,985 Where like, my real mentors weren't guys that like it's hard solid. 250 00:10:52,985 --> 00:10:54,362 Who played. 251 00:10:54,362 --> 00:10:56,197 Yes. Close friend. 252 00:10:56,197 --> 00:10:57,198 Like an older brother. 253 00:10:57,198 --> 00:10:59,200 You know he was in Wisconsin or Derek Engler played. 254 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,410 It was kind of like these guys were all at Wisconsin 255 00:11:01,410 --> 00:11:04,413 and they were telling me clearly, but you know, you know, 256 00:11:04,872 --> 00:11:07,750 well, they say when the student is ready, the teacher will arrive. 257 00:11:07,750 --> 00:11:08,417 Exactly. 258 00:11:08,417 --> 00:11:08,793 Yeah. 259 00:11:08,793 --> 00:11:11,504 And, and it was something I had to go through. 260 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:15,675 I think it all happened, you know, and basically the pinnacle of it was 261 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:19,929 I was arrested in Chicago and, you know, had had drugs and and everything. 262 00:11:19,929 --> 00:11:23,015 And, you know, the story is not what they say online, you know, but 263 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:26,018 at the same time, like, you put yourself in that position. 264 00:11:26,143 --> 00:11:28,562 And so you were misrepresented in some points. 265 00:11:28,562 --> 00:11:29,522 Yeah. But who cares. 266 00:11:29,522 --> 00:11:32,525 You know, I mean, like at the end of the day, it's like, okay, well, 267 00:11:32,566 --> 00:11:36,445 yeah, I had I had things I shouldn't have had on any and I got caught. 268 00:11:36,487 --> 00:11:38,614 Right. You know, but you accept accountability. 269 00:11:38,614 --> 00:11:40,533 You're the type of guy that accepts accountability. 270 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:43,452 You know, this situation scared me. 271 00:11:43,452 --> 00:11:47,206 You know, I mean, because, like, I was facing, like, felonies, you know, 272 00:11:47,498 --> 00:11:48,499 Chicago County Jail. 273 00:11:48,499 --> 00:11:51,377 So you were incarcerated, not. No, not. 274 00:11:52,670 --> 00:11:54,839 Or incarcerated being like okay. 275 00:11:54,839 --> 00:11:57,425 So locked up and incarcerated, two totally different things. Okay. 276 00:11:57,425 --> 00:11:58,634 But you were locked up. 277 00:11:58,634 --> 00:12:01,512 Locked up I wasn't incarcerated, so I was I was put in jail 278 00:12:01,512 --> 00:12:03,639 because when they originally rescue process, you, you go to jail. 279 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:06,308 And I was in, like, Chicago County jail. 280 00:12:06,308 --> 00:12:07,059 You got the mugshot. 281 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:10,062 All that really should have brought that with you. 282 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:14,358 Oh, I got did you read the story? 283 00:12:14,358 --> 00:12:15,067 It's crazy to me 284 00:12:15,067 --> 00:12:18,279 because they claim, like, I hit somebody and I was trying to deal drugs. 285 00:12:18,279 --> 00:12:19,947 Like, if we wanted to just veer into a but. 286 00:12:19,947 --> 00:12:24,702 But what really happened was I was just offering drugs to other guys 287 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:25,536 that were in the NFL 288 00:12:25,536 --> 00:12:28,622 that happened to be at the club that they didn't take right and right. 289 00:12:28,664 --> 00:12:31,834 I saw it, and the bouncer took me in the back and hit me up 290 00:12:32,209 --> 00:12:35,254 and I got a bloody, you can see on the the thing on my lips play. 291 00:12:35,254 --> 00:12:38,674 I split my left, I'd get like four stitches on my lip and 292 00:12:38,674 --> 00:12:41,677 so I'm like, oh, he's like, even when we went to court for it, 293 00:12:42,011 --> 00:12:46,515 like the assault because his this guy, right. 294 00:12:48,309 --> 00:12:50,478 Like, oh my God, you can't make this thing up. 295 00:12:50,478 --> 00:12:51,771 This is, this would be a great movie. 296 00:12:51,771 --> 00:12:52,062 Yeah. 297 00:12:52,062 --> 00:12:55,941 They don't you know, it's so anyways 298 00:12:55,941 --> 00:12:58,986 you know and I'm laughing now because what do they say. 299 00:12:58,986 --> 00:13:01,030 Time plus tragedy equals humor. 300 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:01,530 Yeah. 301 00:13:01,530 --> 00:13:05,743 Yeah I'm laughing now because you know, I learned I did learn my lesson 302 00:13:05,743 --> 00:13:06,827 and that that scared me. 303 00:13:06,827 --> 00:13:09,830 And you know, I went to I went to rehab and 304 00:13:10,122 --> 00:13:12,875 and I kind of straighten my life up. 305 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:16,086 But that was a process to, to be perfectly honest. 306 00:13:16,086 --> 00:13:17,963 But it got me on the track. Yeah. 307 00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:19,965 I mean, because you really have to be honest with yourself. 308 00:13:19,965 --> 00:13:23,928 You have to really understand what you what your deal is, man. 309 00:13:23,928 --> 00:13:26,347 And like, really, it's funny when when I had my daughter, 310 00:13:26,347 --> 00:13:29,517 I started really quick with it, but like, I watched your daughter's name. 311 00:13:29,725 --> 00:13:31,477 Brooke. Brooke. Yeah, she's. 312 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:32,520 She's almost three. 313 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:34,563 Greatest thing that ever happened to me. Yeah. 314 00:13:34,563 --> 00:13:36,273 Greatest thing, I mean, changes you. 315 00:13:36,273 --> 00:13:39,193 And, you know, I but I, like, really realized, 316 00:13:39,193 --> 00:13:42,488 like, you know, dude, like, you can 317 00:13:43,489 --> 00:13:44,406 drink anything. 318 00:13:44,406 --> 00:13:47,952 Anything at all, ever, you know, cause you try to do a moderation thing 319 00:13:47,952 --> 00:13:50,079 or you try to, you know, even when you're cleaning your life. 320 00:13:50,079 --> 00:13:50,830 Sure. Yeah. 321 00:13:50,830 --> 00:13:53,165 I'm not doing, like, hard drugs, right? 322 00:13:53,165 --> 00:13:54,875 I'm not doing this. But maybe I'll do this. 323 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:56,210 Or maybe I can have a beer. 324 00:13:56,210 --> 00:13:58,504 Yeah, there's this whole process and your and your friend, 325 00:13:58,504 --> 00:14:01,131 we're kind of negotiating with ourselves. Yeah. 326 00:14:01,131 --> 00:14:03,592 And it's, it's a thing where you got to get to a level. 327 00:14:03,592 --> 00:14:07,054 And I saw my dad do this and it clicks now more for me than I've done. 328 00:14:07,054 --> 00:14:08,347 This is like 329 00:14:08,347 --> 00:14:12,142 you know if people can hang out with you because you're not drinking right. 330 00:14:12,935 --> 00:14:14,979 Then that's then that's what it is. 331 00:14:14,979 --> 00:14:15,396 You know. 332 00:14:15,396 --> 00:14:17,815 And it's so much there was that rooted in that 333 00:14:17,815 --> 00:14:21,068 and wanting acceptance, wanting people to like you. 334 00:14:21,068 --> 00:14:23,654 Right. Wanting to get to for all the wrong reasons. 335 00:14:23,654 --> 00:14:24,154 Right? Right. 336 00:14:24,154 --> 00:14:27,157 And if you think of the root of that, that's really not healthy, you know, 337 00:14:27,157 --> 00:14:29,577 you know, like you shouldn't live like that. 338 00:14:29,577 --> 00:14:32,288 So I remember this being the same way in high school. 339 00:14:32,288 --> 00:14:36,125 I never drank, I never did drugs, I never smoked, I did my own thing 340 00:14:36,458 --> 00:14:39,920 because I was always put in a position of authority like you, 341 00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:41,797 you know, being the captain of the football team 342 00:14:41,797 --> 00:14:44,341 and wrestling and baseball and track and all that stuff. 343 00:14:44,341 --> 00:14:47,344 And plus, I knew my dad would kick the, you know, what out of me. 344 00:14:47,386 --> 00:14:49,388 You know, I had that fear in my mind, too. 345 00:14:49,388 --> 00:14:51,974 But but I also admire people that went off the rails, too, 346 00:14:51,974 --> 00:14:54,310 and were able to come back and get their life together like you. 347 00:14:54,310 --> 00:14:57,313 Yeah, because Lord knows we all have our issues. 348 00:14:57,313 --> 00:14:59,356 Every one of us, everybody watching right now. 349 00:14:59,356 --> 00:15:00,858 We all have challenges. 350 00:15:00,858 --> 00:15:02,651 Yeah. See, I admire people like you. 351 00:15:02,651 --> 00:15:05,446 I admire people that have never drank or, you know, 352 00:15:05,446 --> 00:15:08,657 and whether it's a disease or not, I don't know. 353 00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:12,036 I don't, you know, and I don't judge anybody. 354 00:15:12,036 --> 00:15:14,413 I know a says like, you're always an addict. 355 00:15:14,413 --> 00:15:15,664 I know there's other people. 356 00:15:15,664 --> 00:15:17,416 Yeah, but that's not your identity. 357 00:15:17,416 --> 00:15:19,627 It's something you went through. But it's not your identity. 358 00:15:19,627 --> 00:15:20,419 It's not your identity. 359 00:15:20,419 --> 00:15:22,630 And then there's other approaches called positive approach, 360 00:15:22,630 --> 00:15:24,757 where it's like once it's out of your body, you're not an addict 361 00:15:24,757 --> 00:15:26,884 and you just need to make the decision every time. 362 00:15:26,884 --> 00:15:31,931 And you need to sort it out with yourself and just accept it. 363 00:15:31,972 --> 00:15:34,016 Yeah. And that was the process. But 364 00:15:35,351 --> 00:15:37,061 when that happened, it was like the best thing 365 00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:38,854 that I think one of the better things 366 00:15:38,854 --> 00:15:40,898 that could have happened to me because it slowed me down. 367 00:15:40,898 --> 00:15:42,024 Yeah, slow me down. 368 00:15:42,024 --> 00:15:43,776 I lost all the radio offers. 369 00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:47,071 I lost any opportunities where you could fill in for me when I go on vacation. 370 00:15:47,154 --> 00:15:50,157 All right. Over at iHeart. 371 00:15:50,741 --> 00:15:52,201 But it but it was good. 372 00:15:52,201 --> 00:15:52,660 Yeah. 373 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:55,371 Because it made me really like, you got to, like, hit rock bottom. 374 00:15:55,371 --> 00:15:56,956 You have to have nothing. 375 00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:59,959 And then you have to start looking around in your life and being like, okay, 376 00:16:00,084 --> 00:16:03,587 you know, what do I want to do and what works and what makes sense 377 00:16:03,587 --> 00:16:04,421 and what's real? 378 00:16:04,421 --> 00:16:07,091 But isn't that where you grow in the valley? 379 00:16:07,091 --> 00:16:10,594 Well, I've always believed that obstacles are opportunities, I really do, yeah. 380 00:16:10,761 --> 00:16:12,304 You know, sometimes when you just really think 381 00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:16,266 you can't get any lower, you bounce back up, you find a way to crawl back up. 382 00:16:16,266 --> 00:16:17,977 And you did that look and look what? 383 00:16:17,977 --> 00:16:20,771 You become a heck of an entrepreneur. 384 00:16:20,771 --> 00:16:22,606 Well, I'm I'm thankful. 385 00:16:22,606 --> 00:16:23,565 And I do feel blessed. 386 00:16:23,565 --> 00:16:27,152 I mean, I feel lucky a lot, too, I really do, yeah, but you have a deep faith. 387 00:16:27,361 --> 00:16:29,405 I do, yeah. Yes, absolutely. 388 00:16:29,405 --> 00:16:31,448 And I'm in. Jesus Christ. Yes. 389 00:16:31,448 --> 00:16:33,867 You know, I, I don't like to be obscure about that. 390 00:16:33,867 --> 00:16:36,370 Yeah, I totally agree with that. And I'm proud of that. 391 00:16:36,370 --> 00:16:38,956 Yeah. Me too. I and people need to know that. 392 00:16:38,956 --> 00:16:43,210 I hear that because I think people like, I don't like agnosticism, you know, 393 00:16:43,210 --> 00:16:43,419 I mean, 394 00:16:43,419 --> 00:16:47,172 I like yeah, there's a god like it's like, no, man, there's a personal god, 395 00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:50,300 there's a personal God that knows you personally, that loves you personally. 396 00:16:50,300 --> 00:16:50,592 Yeah. 397 00:16:50,592 --> 00:16:52,845 And you can have a personal relationship with them. 398 00:16:52,845 --> 00:16:55,889 To me, that's like the greatest sales pitch in the world, right? 399 00:16:55,889 --> 00:16:59,810 Like like no other God, you know, little g room 400 00:16:59,893 --> 00:17:03,814 is going to come and dwell within you and make his home within you. 401 00:17:03,814 --> 00:17:07,568 And by doing that, make you a give you eternal life, 402 00:17:07,860 --> 00:17:10,654 give you eternal peace, give you everything. 403 00:17:10,654 --> 00:17:11,780 It's just such a sweet deal. 404 00:17:11,780 --> 00:17:12,406 It does. 405 00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:15,492 Isn't it kind of like freeing to know that you've been forgiven 100%? 406 00:17:15,492 --> 00:17:18,245 You know, that's a long time for me to accept. 407 00:17:18,245 --> 00:17:21,915 I had a deep fear for a long, long time. 408 00:17:21,915 --> 00:17:25,127 And even into my adult life of going to hell because I didn't know 409 00:17:25,127 --> 00:17:28,255 if I really believed, even though I was afraid of going to hell. 410 00:17:28,422 --> 00:17:30,382 Right? Right. Yeah. 411 00:17:30,382 --> 00:17:30,716 Yeah. 412 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:32,843 Like I'm afraid Jesus and God are going to say 413 00:17:32,843 --> 00:17:34,720 you didn't really believe in your heart, right? 414 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,180 You're going to go to hell. 415 00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:38,182 And, I had that fear for the long time. 416 00:17:38,182 --> 00:17:39,058 I was like, do I believe? 417 00:17:39,058 --> 00:17:41,477 Do I really believe with the fear present? 418 00:17:41,477 --> 00:17:44,313 Sure. And finally what? Open that up to me. 419 00:17:44,313 --> 00:17:47,858 And this was, like, not too long ago was like the idea of, like, once saved, 420 00:17:48,067 --> 00:17:49,068 always saved you from earlier. 421 00:17:49,068 --> 00:17:51,445 Yes, I am, I'm a big believer in that. Yeah. 422 00:17:51,445 --> 00:17:53,906 And that's the idea that, like, you just have to believe once, 423 00:17:55,074 --> 00:17:55,616 right? 424 00:17:55,616 --> 00:17:59,953 Believe one time and then go right back to being a total heathen, 425 00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:01,997 you know, godless pagan. 426 00:18:01,997 --> 00:18:03,499 And you're still saying, right. 427 00:18:03,499 --> 00:18:05,000 And to me, that speaks volumes. 428 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,628 And that is mercy, right? That is absolute mercy. 429 00:18:07,628 --> 00:18:09,046 How does that make sense? 430 00:18:09,046 --> 00:18:10,923 Yeah, that's the whole deal. It makes sense. 431 00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,549 Now tell us about where you, you were like, 432 00:18:12,549 --> 00:18:15,761 you know, the high in the NFL and then you were kind of low 433 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:17,346 with the substance abuse. 434 00:18:17,346 --> 00:18:19,723 And where are you today, John? 435 00:18:19,723 --> 00:18:22,267 John two 2026 talk about John Moffitt now. 436 00:18:22,267 --> 00:18:22,559 Yeah. 437 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:26,522 So and I will say one thing about the thing about being in the low 438 00:18:26,522 --> 00:18:30,192 place that I found to be the toughest was when your story. 439 00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:33,195 So and you don't have friends in low places there, right. 440 00:18:33,695 --> 00:18:35,114 So many times. 441 00:18:35,114 --> 00:18:37,741 And then, you know, it's almost like a feedback loop, 442 00:18:37,741 --> 00:18:39,993 like when your story so public, everyone's there. 443 00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:41,286 When you're winning, everyone's there. 444 00:18:41,286 --> 00:18:45,415 Of course, when you're losing, who's there when you're like down in the abyss. 445 00:18:45,499 --> 00:18:47,417 And it's hard to just face people. 446 00:18:47,417 --> 00:18:48,377 You got to face people. 447 00:18:48,377 --> 00:18:50,963 And I'm like, oh no. Like, did you find people? 448 00:18:50,963 --> 00:18:54,049 Did you find people judging you or people that you thought were friends 449 00:18:54,049 --> 00:18:55,509 who all of a sudden kind of turned away? 450 00:18:56,426 --> 00:18:58,387 I fairweather friends, friends. 451 00:18:58,387 --> 00:19:00,848 I definitely, you know, and maybe that was part of me too. 452 00:19:00,848 --> 00:19:05,352 Just saying, like, this isn't real, you know, but I hate being pitted. 453 00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:06,728 I hate that, yeah. 454 00:19:06,728 --> 00:19:07,855 I hate being petty. 455 00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:10,691 Like, even if I'm in a ditch, I don't feel bad for me. 456 00:19:10,691 --> 00:19:11,066 Like it. 457 00:19:11,066 --> 00:19:12,776 To me, it's like it's the most like 458 00:19:12,776 --> 00:19:15,112 it's like the least empowering feeling in the world. Right. 459 00:19:15,112 --> 00:19:17,948 And that was like a that was like a long time of that, 460 00:19:17,948 --> 00:19:21,034 that I kind of had to go through it because everyone knew my success story. 461 00:19:21,577 --> 00:19:24,580 And no matter what I did after, it's like, oh, yeah, you're working, 462 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:26,498 you know, full ski, right? 463 00:19:26,498 --> 00:19:30,377 Ditches and doing pools, you know, and I and I had to I had to like 464 00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:32,504 it taught me humility. Right. 465 00:19:32,504 --> 00:19:36,341 And I also had to like, look at it like a, like a person without so much pride. 466 00:19:36,508 --> 00:19:37,009 Yeah. 467 00:19:37,009 --> 00:19:39,553 Well, this is a job and this is where you're at in life and do your best. 468 00:19:39,553 --> 00:19:40,679 And to me is to me. 469 00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:42,848 I've always looked to people, if they're a CEO of a company 470 00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:45,517 or if they're digging ditches, they're still equally as important. 471 00:19:45,517 --> 00:19:48,395 You're a human being. They are absolutely right. Exactly. 472 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:50,606 And we need everybody, no matter what they may do. 473 00:19:50,606 --> 00:19:53,567 And so if somebody looks down at you, that's on them, not you. 474 00:19:53,567 --> 00:19:54,735 I totally agree. 475 00:19:54,735 --> 00:19:57,571 And sometimes you learn that and then, you know, over time. 476 00:19:57,571 --> 00:20:00,657 The cool thing is I'm lucky that I have like the greatest family in the world. 477 00:20:01,074 --> 00:20:03,577 And, you know, I can I can attest for that, folks. 478 00:20:03,577 --> 00:20:05,704 It's really they really are better than me. 479 00:20:05,704 --> 00:20:08,707 I could really I mean, like, I feel like I got like like 480 00:20:08,916 --> 00:20:11,919 you hit the lottery, right, hundred percent and, 481 00:20:12,294 --> 00:20:14,504 you know, one day my mom was like, I was doing the pool thing, 482 00:20:14,504 --> 00:20:16,298 and I was like, you know, I don't know. 483 00:20:16,298 --> 00:20:17,925 And she's like, why don't we do like, 484 00:20:17,925 --> 00:20:19,635 because she had been watching these girls in Ohio. 485 00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:21,136 They started a juice company, 486 00:20:21,136 --> 00:20:23,972 and my mom's done juicing for like, years and like, all that stuff. 487 00:20:23,972 --> 00:20:27,100 And she's like, it's funny because we all love to eat bad food. 488 00:20:28,810 --> 00:20:29,937 Fix it by eating. 489 00:20:29,937 --> 00:20:30,854 Yeah, sure, sure. 490 00:20:30,854 --> 00:20:32,648 We have this, like, huge knowledge. 491 00:20:32,648 --> 00:20:35,984 So somebody that goes to a fast food, they buy the most, you know, 492 00:20:36,276 --> 00:20:38,320 horrible food, and then I'll get a Diet Pepsi. 493 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,657 With that, I realized that Diet Pepsi was worse than a regular Pepsi. 494 00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:44,534 It was, 495 00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:46,620 know what we do these, like pendulum swing. 496 00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:48,872 And then from my past with training and stuff like that, like, 497 00:20:48,872 --> 00:20:51,375 my mom always wanted to give me the best food and then. 498 00:20:51,375 --> 00:20:54,670 But we like, all like, you know, oh, we're going to eat pizza, right, right, right. 499 00:20:55,003 --> 00:20:55,587 We're going to eat this. 500 00:20:55,587 --> 00:20:58,590 And here's a super cauliflower crust. Okay. 501 00:20:58,757 --> 00:21:02,719 I'm playing these games and and she's all these girls in Ohio doing a juice truck. 502 00:21:03,428 --> 00:21:04,429 Why don't we do that? 503 00:21:04,429 --> 00:21:06,640 And I was like, yes, absolutely. 504 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:07,891 That was in 2018. 505 00:21:07,891 --> 00:21:09,768 And then we just started going on it. 506 00:21:09,768 --> 00:21:12,521 We didn't launch the truck till 2020. 507 00:21:12,521 --> 00:21:15,274 We got our first location in 2023, 508 00:21:15,274 --> 00:21:17,526 and now we're doing our second location in Brantford. 509 00:21:17,526 --> 00:21:20,529 And we'll be open March through March 3rd. Wow. 510 00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,657 I, I've been there and I've brought so many people as guest 511 00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:25,033 to your location in Guildford, 512 00:21:25,033 --> 00:21:29,454 and normally I have to have a little bit of almond milk or something in my coffee. 513 00:21:29,621 --> 00:21:33,458 But your drip, drip coffee is so good that I can drink it black, 514 00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:36,086 which is like, for me, that's a revelation. Yeah. 515 00:21:36,086 --> 00:21:39,464 And like I was telling you, you know, it's it's we've had great roasters 516 00:21:39,464 --> 00:21:42,009 and really I try to I treat it like the NFL. 517 00:21:42,009 --> 00:21:45,012 I as, almost I don't like the way I run the team. 518 00:21:45,220 --> 00:21:46,013 Like we're a team. 519 00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:48,098 The employees are. Your employees are the best. 520 00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:51,310 They are top notch, so friendly, so welcoming, so lucky. 521 00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:53,103 And that make. That's the people, 522 00:21:54,062 --> 00:21:54,646 number one. 523 00:21:54,646 --> 00:21:56,898 Yes, people. You've got our number. 524 00:21:56,898 --> 00:21:58,567 It's got to be an experience when people come in. 525 00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:00,360 So they tell other people. 526 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:00,610 Right. 527 00:22:00,610 --> 00:22:04,865 And also remembering too that like I'm here to serve you right. 528 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:05,365 And I 529 00:22:05,365 --> 00:22:09,244 and the old adage like it's, you know, it's cliche, but customer is always right. 530 00:22:09,244 --> 00:22:11,079 But they are always right. 531 00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:13,540 I also love when I go there. You're there a lot, your mom. 532 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:14,207 There's a lot. 533 00:22:14,207 --> 00:22:15,751 We see your sister Kelly 534 00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:19,087 every now and then who's an outstanding photographer, by the way, you know. 535 00:22:19,421 --> 00:22:22,007 But, but just a very, very talented family. 536 00:22:22,007 --> 00:22:25,010 But so people there's there's coffee shops on every corner. 537 00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:28,013 What what what do you think makes yours really stand out? 538 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:28,722 It moonshots. 539 00:22:28,722 --> 00:22:30,974 You know, I, 540 00:22:30,974 --> 00:22:34,186 I say to, to just reiterate the people. 541 00:22:34,269 --> 00:22:34,644 Yeah. 542 00:22:34,644 --> 00:22:37,647 I would say number two is I strain to use 543 00:22:37,689 --> 00:22:40,859 the best ingredients every and I keep kind of re, 544 00:22:41,610 --> 00:22:44,363 you know, combing through everything to find the best thing. 545 00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:49,326 You know, we're doing like the free range organic eggs you know organic avocado. 546 00:22:49,326 --> 00:22:50,118 Organic strawberries. 547 00:22:50,118 --> 00:22:50,827 Yeah. 548 00:22:50,827 --> 00:22:53,830 Like the only milk is pressed, you know, in our kitchen. 549 00:22:53,955 --> 00:22:56,958 And to be quite blunt, you might pay a little bit more, 550 00:22:56,958 --> 00:22:59,294 but but to me it's pay now or pay later. 551 00:22:59,294 --> 00:23:01,630 I'd rather put the best stuff in my body yet. 552 00:23:01,630 --> 00:23:03,048 You know what though? 553 00:23:03,048 --> 00:23:05,384 And I'm just going to say this as a business owner and like, it's 554 00:23:05,384 --> 00:23:07,094 my company and like, I'm going to plug like, 555 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,347 I don't think we're more expensive than everybody else. 556 00:23:10,347 --> 00:23:11,473 Like, I look at other menus, 557 00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:15,477 wrap our stuff and not to to our own horn, but honestly to to. 558 00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:20,941 Yeah, yeah, I think our place is so nice and our and our staff is so nice. 559 00:23:20,941 --> 00:23:25,153 And it is so good that it feels like I love the passion. 560 00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:26,113 Love the passion. 561 00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:26,655 You know, I'm saying. 562 00:23:26,655 --> 00:23:28,949 Yeah. Feels like it's it's I'm paying more. 563 00:23:28,949 --> 00:23:30,075 This is an expensive place. 564 00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:32,285 But I look at other people's menus 565 00:23:32,285 --> 00:23:33,787 and the only thing I'll bear with you is I'm like, 566 00:23:33,787 --> 00:23:35,163 yeah, our coffee's more expensive, right? 567 00:23:35,163 --> 00:23:35,789 It's 100%. 568 00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:38,583 Yeah, but it's worth it. Like, our lattes are incredible. 569 00:23:38,583 --> 00:23:40,961 Yeah. The milk from the farm and a farmer. 570 00:23:40,961 --> 00:23:42,629 Yeah. It's cream line. Whole milk. 571 00:23:42,629 --> 00:23:44,923 Fresh milk. Like it's only it can. 572 00:23:44,923 --> 00:23:47,342 It's like days old when I get. Yeah, one day old. 573 00:23:47,342 --> 00:23:50,095 But across the board with our other stuff. 574 00:23:50,095 --> 00:23:53,098 Like, I really do think we beat other people's prices. 575 00:23:53,181 --> 00:23:55,725 I think it's just the image of us. Right. 576 00:23:55,725 --> 00:23:58,270 Like, kind of can conveys like expense. 577 00:23:58,270 --> 00:24:00,939 Right. But when you really look at it, I don't think it is. 578 00:24:00,939 --> 00:24:02,983 And I think what you're getting the values there. 579 00:24:02,983 --> 00:24:04,401 Oh without question, no doubt about it. 580 00:24:04,401 --> 00:24:06,903 And you're growing and growing and growing and I just you know, I'm, 581 00:24:06,903 --> 00:24:07,654 I'm really impressed. 582 00:24:07,654 --> 00:24:08,530 And I'm so honored 583 00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:11,783 and privileged that you and your family are sponsors of our podcast. 584 00:24:11,783 --> 00:24:13,660 You know what's good with John and Joyce? Yeah. 585 00:24:13,660 --> 00:24:15,245 Yeah. Well, I'm a radio guy. 586 00:24:15,245 --> 00:24:18,373 I love you and also, this is this is local. 587 00:24:18,373 --> 00:24:22,294 This is this is grassroots local, which I'm all I'm all about. 588 00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:26,590 And and you, you know, when you win locally, I mean, what else is what else? 589 00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:28,758 And I agree, and even though the podcast is 590 00:24:28,758 --> 00:24:32,846 national is going, you know, global right now you're selling out, John, the, 591 00:24:33,263 --> 00:24:36,349 the the principles that you that you're sharing with the audience 592 00:24:36,349 --> 00:24:38,101 right now is something that goes beyond local. 593 00:24:38,101 --> 00:24:39,644 But, but we're so glad 594 00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:43,690 to have our local sponsors like you, and I'm so glad with your story, 595 00:24:43,690 --> 00:24:47,444 how you've come from the top to the bottom and back up to where you are right 596 00:24:47,444 --> 00:24:50,447 now, just showing that, you know, you give people hope. 597 00:24:51,031 --> 00:24:53,283 You know, people kind of cheer for the underdog too. 598 00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:55,744 You know, they see them get to the top and they fall and they come back. 599 00:24:55,744 --> 00:24:58,205 And you've done so many great things in the community. 600 00:24:58,205 --> 00:25:00,790 I hope so. You know, I, I would love that. 601 00:25:00,790 --> 00:25:04,794 And, you know, it was like we were talking about when I look back on things and, 602 00:25:05,170 --> 00:25:06,880 you know, I remember when we were first going on the truck 603 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,965 and my dad was there and, you know, my dad passed away. 604 00:25:08,965 --> 00:25:10,300 And I love your dad. 605 00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:11,468 He was the best. 606 00:25:11,468 --> 00:25:14,471 And, and I think back on those times 607 00:25:14,471 --> 00:25:17,891 which back into like hard bad times because I really wasn't 608 00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:20,894 going where I wanted to go fully. 609 00:25:20,894 --> 00:25:21,436 Yeah. 610 00:25:21,436 --> 00:25:24,439 And now I look back and I'm like, I cherish those times the most. 611 00:25:24,814 --> 00:25:27,484 So I would hope, you know, to add on to what you're saying while giving people 612 00:25:27,484 --> 00:25:28,026 hope, I would 613 00:25:28,026 --> 00:25:30,820 I would hope that they realize that, you know, you can change 614 00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:33,990 and you can make a great story and you'll look back on these times you appreciate. 615 00:25:34,324 --> 00:25:36,451 Amen. Every day is a gift. 616 00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:38,370 You're a gift to the community, and so is moonshots. 617 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:38,995 John. 618 00:25:38,995 --> 00:25:40,247 So give my best to your mom. 619 00:25:40,247 --> 00:25:41,790 Give my best to your sister. 620 00:25:41,790 --> 00:25:42,791 Continue. Success. 621 00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:44,960 Great luck with the new location. 622 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,086 What's good with John and Joyce? 623 00:25:46,086 --> 00:25:48,213 Available on all streaming platforms. 624 00:25:48,213 --> 00:25:51,216 Subscribe today, especially on YouTube. 625 00:25:51,424 --> 00:25:52,509 Share it with everybody. 626 00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:55,053 You know there is good news out there. 627 00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:57,305 No negativity, no politics. 628 00:25:57,305 --> 00:26:00,850 30 minutes every week I'm John Cadillac Seville from iHeart radio. 629 00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:03,478 And Sean, thank you so much. 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