The Few Will Hunt Show

Imagine being told by your doctor to NEVER train again 6 months after finding your life's purpose. In this episode, Joey and Drew sit down with Shane Burgos—pro fighter, father, and one of the first Few Will Hunt athletes. Shane talks about his journey from growing up in the Bronx to becoming a professional fighter. He shares how his passion for martial arts began, the sacrifices he made along the way, and how he overcame personal and financial struggles. Shane also opens up about balancing his career with being a dedicated dad. Tune in to hear Shane's story of overcoming obstacles and pursuing dreams against the odds.

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Drew Beech
Drew Beech is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Few Will Hunt. He spent several years in the sales and marketing industry, grossing over several million dollars in sales. But his love for the entrepreneurial journey and desire to escape the rate race started with his personal training business in college. Today, Drew leads the Few Will Hunt community alongside his cousin and cofounder, Joey in their mission to restore the dignity of hard work through the highest-quality American-made apparel.
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Joey Bowen
Joey Bowen is co-founder of Few Will Hunt.

What is The Few Will Hunt Show?

The official podcast of Few Will Hunt, the world’s largest community of hard workers and 100% Made in the USA apparel brand. We’re on a mission to restore the dignity of hard work and help others live The Rules of The Few to strengthen ourselves and strengthen society. No entitlement or excuses are allowed here.

Shane Burgos:

I'm saying, like, bottom of the barrel, like, from the gutter, from nothing

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

To to what I have now, like, with my freaking hands and my hard work. Like, that gives me so much freaking pride that I built this life with these 2.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Hard hands and hard work.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. Yep. Hard hands and hard work. Crazy, bro. Crazy.

Drew Beech:

Welcome to the Fuel Hunt Show.

Joey Rosen:

What's going on, Eagles? Welcome to the Fuel Hunt Show. I'm Joey. I'm here with Drew. And today, we have a very, very special guest, a triple OG in the Fuel Hunt community, like, triple OG.

Drew Beech:

Oh, yeah.

Joey Rosen:

OGOGOG. 1 of the

Drew Beech:

the first ever if you wanna add it's like they was like, Sean and Shane.

Joey Rosen:

Right. Like And someone that has really been with us on every episode of the fuel hunt show. Pretty much on every episode of the fuel hunt show. Shane Burgos is sitting in front of Shane Burgos. He's like I

Drew Beech:

will say on the back. That is a very badass picture.

Shane Burgos:

That is a badass picture, but it's honestly making me miss my long

Drew Beech:

hair, so I'm

Joey Rosen:

gonna get

Shane Burgos:

a little mad about it.

Drew Beech:

That's funny.

Joey Rosen:

So what what else besides triple o g, the community, pro fighter, CFFC, UFC, PFL. Right? Did I miss any?

Shane Burgos:

I I think that I

Joey Rosen:

ran combat. Ran combat. Okay. Husband, father, girl dad, fellow girl dad. You got me beat by by 1 Yep.

Joey Rosen:

So far. I'm tap I'm tapped out. Tap out. I'm tapped

Shane Burgos:

out at 3.

Joey Rosen:

I mean,

Shane Burgos:

I I was tapped out at 2 too, and then she said, never mind. And then she you never know.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So fellow fellow girl dad, and 1 of the few.

Drew Beech:

Oh, yeah.

Joey Rosen:

And 1 of the few. Tough as, and we'll get into it. Tough as nails. I've never seen anybody leave it out there in the octagon as much as you do. And, like, I can I've never seen you've I've never seen you fight live, but I watch your fights, and I can just feel everything you're giving, and I don't say that lightly.

Joey Rosen:

I've never said that really to anybody else. Like, I can feel you giving everything when you have nothing left when you're in there. So

Shane Burgos:

That's exactly how I feel. Like, I it's every time I go in there, it's do or die. Yeah. So I decided to treat it.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah. It's it was funny because I watched, your documentary, which we'll get into. Probably skipping ahead a

Shane Burgos:

little bit, but we'll watch

Joey Rosen:

we'll talk about your documentary. But I watched it, and in the beginning, I don't know if it was your first pro fight. I think it may have been, where you did, like, the signature Shane thing where you went up to the cage with that, like, open mouth yell. And you're just like, you know, and I was

Shane Burgos:

like a couple times, so I don't remember which 1.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. But it was really early on in your career.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

I was like, super, super dope.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. It's like when he is out there, you feel the emotion and the energy, and, like, you're just happy. Like, we were talking about the last episode. He's just happy to be there doing what he loves. Yep.

Drew Beech:

And, my 1 the my favorite picture of you, I forget, it's, like, a stock photo now of, like, Getty images or something, but the 1 where you're just, like, staring at the camera with your with your mouth and your eyes. That's what I tell you.

Shane Burgos:

That's that's the Josh Emmett fight. That was when we fought in front of, like, 10 people. Yeah. Josh Emmett. There's like, you hear a pin drop in there.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

That was that was a a wild experience. It was during COVID. It was the second event after after, COVID.

Joey Rosen:

At the APAC?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. APAC.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah. The APAC. How let's talk about that for a second. So you're saying it was a really weird experience.

Joey Rosen:

Like, how did it affect your mentality going in? Like, my thinking is, like, you are acutely aware of, like, what was going on around you, which was nothing. There's nobody who's in there. Yeah. But, like, from a mindset standpoint, you're still

Shane Burgos:

young. Like, during the fight, it doesn't matter if there's 50, 000 people or, like, it was 10 people there. It it all that crap goes out the window, and I'm focused solely on the guys in front of me. Yeah. But, I remember walking out and being backstage.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like, this is so freaking weird. Even, like, the whole setup, like, you get rushed in, you get rushed out after the fight. Like, they basically kick you out right away. Your coaches get rushed out, and a lineman fall on the card for me too that so that made it a little bit more weird because I couldn't get there early, so my coaches had to go, then I had to come by myself. So the whole thing was a very weird process.

Shane Burgos:

But, again, as soon as referee says go, all that goes out the window and these folks on us. And and then it honestly, like, that that fight deserved the crowd. It really it really did. Like, I had so much fun in that fight. I couldn't imagine if there was a crowd there.

Shane Burgos:

It was, like, nominated for fight of the year. If there was a crowd there, it would have been even right. It would have been crazier. I feel like that both of us were feeding off the energy that we were giving each other, but I can't imagine if we had 50, 000 people there.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Screaming. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

I think it's like I said, it's a testament to, like, you leaving it, like, all out there, man. Like, even when gas tank is is there's obviously an effect on your gas tank. Like, you're leaving it all out there, like, it's do or die, like you said. Like, you're prepared to you're prepared to die in there, dude.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah. And then having 3 daughters now makes it a little bit, I'm I'm I'm getting right to that edge now where I'm like, I definitely don't wanna die. I got kids raised right now, but but but I'm I'm you see, the my last fight too. I fight I it's just 1 of those that you really can't I can't explain it to you.

Shane Burgos:

And it's the corniest thing, like, when you hear it back. Like, you probably heard it a 1000000 times. Oh, it's a it's a switch. When I get in the cage, I'm a different person. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

It sounds corny, and I'm but I'm gonna steal the cliche. I'm gonna say I don't really know how to explain that, but I know once I get in there and it's time to go and to perform, I just yeah. This is It's a switch. It's a switch. It really is a switch.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

It's a switch. We were

Drew Beech:

talking about flipping the switch earlier. It almost realistically, might not be even a difference between the Apex and the the stadiums or whatever because I imagine that when it is go time, the ref like you said, references go, it just feels like like it probably just

Shane Burgos:

Tunnel vision. Tunnel vision. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

And just everything closes off. And it's just it really is just

Shane Burgos:

you and him and maybe your coaches

Drew Beech:

faintly in the background. Exactly. Exactly. That

Shane Burgos:

that 1

Drew Beech:

was weirder because I heard his coaches, my coaches yeah.

Shane Burgos:

And I heard the same time. So this is so so strange. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I didn't even think about the commentators. Yeah. You could you could

Joey Rosen:

hear happening.

Shane Burgos:

You can

Drew Beech:

hear it. Clear is that.

Shane Burgos:

There's time the times when I'm

Joey Rosen:

in in, like, the fight

Shane Burgos:

with the the crowd, and I could hear the commentator.

Drew Beech:

So Wow.

Shane Burgos:

Then they would it was empty like this. You you could hear him

Joey Rosen:

talking.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. It was

Shane Burgos:

so weird. It was.

Drew Beech:

Like, imagine a UFC fight going on

Joey Rosen:

with a

Drew Beech:

boy right there.

Joey Rosen:

I know.

Shane Burgos:

I suppose, like, a private showing. Basically, like, a private showing of the commentators.

Joey Rosen:

Yep. Yep. Yeah. Wild, dude.

Drew Beech:

Are they they're still doing the Apex now.

Shane Burgos:

I think they said that they're done doing that now. I think they just said that they're done doing that. But they're they're that they're gonna finish the rest of their book, but they're gonna start going

Drew Beech:

through it. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Got you. Got you. So let's let's talk about let's talk about the beginning of the journey because you have a remarkable story that began your journey in in MMA, mixed martial arts. What was life growing up? You grew up where?

Shane Burgos:

I grew up in the Bronx. I moved to the Bronx when I was 12 years old.

Joey Rosen:

Okay. So, actually, you spent you spent a good amount of time in the Bronx then.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. It's funny. Yeah. Not not a not a very good neighborhood. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Taylor Avenue and Monroe Projects. And I moved from the Monroe Projects to Monroe, New York, actually. That's funny. Wow. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

It's

Joey Rosen:

So no happens. In in in the Bronx, is that you are not fighting No. Nothing?

Shane Burgos:

No training.

Joey Rosen:

Okay. No training. Nothing.

Shane Burgos:

I had no clue. I was only 12. I didn't know. It wasn't the only sport I was into was, like, WWE back then Yeah. Which I which I was obsessed with.

Shane Burgos:

I thought it was cool. Until I got to, like, 8th grade, then I was, like, oh, this is clearly, like, ridiculously fitting. I got over. Right. That's when I found like, literally, like, segued from, like, me being a huge WWE fan to Mhmm.

Shane Burgos:

To the ultimate fighter starting and maybe being, like, what the hell what the hell is this? Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

It's not you're talking about cliches, like flipping switches, another cliche that we say all the time. Sounds cliche until it's not. Everything happens for a reason. Right? So Huge believer in that.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Hilarious believer in that.

Joey Rosen:

So you leave the Bronx. You go to Monroe, New York. Much different than the Bronx, I gotta imagine.

Shane Burgos:

A 100%. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

So it's

Shane Burgos:

night night and day literally night and day difference. Yeah. 22 different upbringings.

Joey Rosen:

And that's where you start watching Yeah. Ultimate Fighter?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. So it was 7th grade. Actually, I saw the the, UFC Unleashed. It was a where they had to show they show highlights, basically. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

It was Matt Hughes versus Karl. I told this story a 1000000 times because this is like I'll never forget this. Matt Hughes versus Karls Newton. Matt Hughes gets caught in a triangle choke, picks up Carlos Newton, puts him on the cage. He's chilling there for a second, and then he actually goes out.

Shane Burgos:

But when he goes out, he slams Newton on his head, knocks him out, and he wins the title. And I was, like, by myself. I was like, what the hell? He just knocked

Drew Beech:

the door. I was

Shane Burgos:

like, you just slammed this dude in 1 belt. Am I looking around, like, nobody else is watching. It's just me. I was like, alright. And then it was a, it was a marathon up until the Ultimate Fighter was premiering.

Shane Burgos:

So I've binge watched the entire thing. Ultimate Fighter started, and that was a big contender fan. Remember remember the show Contender?

Joey Rosen:

Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Loved that show, the boxing show. Me, my mom and dad used to watch that all the time. So it was kinda like the same kind of a format. Yeah. So going in slow spin fighter, I was like, this is even more fun than the contender because it's MMA.

Shane Burgos:

You got punches, kicks, elbows. So

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Right from that episode, right in slow Smith Fighter, then it was like, dude, love at first sight. Huge fan ever since. And then that's why I'm like, I'm like a die hard Matt Hughes and, Rashad Evans fan because Rashad won that season, but he was 1 of the coaches last season.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah. So what, so you're watching it. Like, how do you make the jump from spectator to practitioner?

Shane Burgos:

I never I never thought I would. Honestly, I was like, this is so cool. This is I love this. I I'm never gonna do it, but this is, like, awesome. And, again, I I like the, the contender.

Shane Burgos:

So I was, like, maybe I'll do boxing or something like that. My uncle was a boxer. I was, like, maybe I'll get into boxing, but I was, like, that stuff with the elbows and the knees and the kicks to the face. I was, like, I'm not crazy enough to do that. I was like, I can't I'll never do that stuff, but this is just yeah.

Shane Burgos:

So then and then in 9th grade, towards the end of the year, my friend's like, yo. There's a there's a gym. They're doing, like, a 1 month trial. You you wanna do it? They do jiu jitsu and kickboxing.

Shane Burgos:

I was like, oh, yeah. Sure. He said, where I was like, where is he? He's like, it's like 5 minutes down the road. I was like, no way.

Shane Burgos:

I said, what's it called? He's like, Tiger Schulman. I was like, I thought that was a karate school. They're like, yeah. I thought so too, but they say it says kickboxing jiu jitsu.

Shane Burgos:

I was like, alright. Let's go try it out. Yeah. We go there and was kickboxing grappling. It was again, from the first time on the mat, did my first grappling I was going with my friends.

Shane Burgos:

I ended up tapping them out. I was like, this is the most fun thing I ever like, fun. There's there's there's fun things that are, like, yeah, this is fun, but this is, like, oh my god. I can't wait to to to it was a month trial. I came every single day that the gym was open for the entire

Joey Rosen:

I love that, dude.

Shane Burgos:

I love it. Every single day. Like, I'm obsessed. And then it was time to sign up,

Joey Rosen:

and it

Shane Burgos:

was expensive. My dad was like, bills. He had 3 sons already. He's like, I I don't think we can afford it. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

So I was like, oh, come on. I was like, oh, I'm not like, I'm I'm my parents spoiled me a little bit coming up, so I was like, oh, they really can't afford this. This is gonna suck. And then the sensei sensei Monte, shout out. Okay.

Shane Burgos:

He actually was like, I'll give you a deal. You clean the gym at night, and we'll give you a huge discount. I was like, done. Done deal. Done.

Shane Burgos:

Man. So and then the it's like the rest is history, honestly.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Is that is that is he still your sensei today?

Shane Burgos:

No. Now he's my daughter's sensei. Wow. Which is funny. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Oh, that's amazing, dude.

Shane Burgos:

Full circle now. And now my daughter trains under him, so it's pretty cool.

Joey Rosen:

It doesn't surprise me that you've been, like, you know, team Tiger since the very beginning.

Shane Burgos:

Let me

Joey Rosen:

see. You're very loyal. Like, what I can get from you and what I know of you. You're very loyal. You seem like a very loyal man.

Joey Rosen:

So team Tiger since the very beginning.

Shane Burgos:

If it ain't broke, don't fix yourself.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Oh, hey.

Drew Beech:

Is that friend that got you to do do the trial class still training today?

Shane Burgos:

No. He doesn't train anymore. He doesn't train anymore.

Drew Beech:

That's funny. That works.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. They all fell off. It was me and 2 other friends. They fell off, and I kept going. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Same part of the story, though.

Joey Rosen:

That's that's amazing. Like, when you hit the mats, there's another community member. She was in, couple actually, it might have been last summer. I say a couple months ago, but time kinda collapses and flies. Right?

Joey Rosen:

So

Shane Burgos:

Yep.

Joey Rosen:

And, she had that shout out, Shelly. She had that same type of feeling, like, when she first practiced jujitsu. She was like, this is what I meant to do. Did that Like, this is it. Right here.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. That's exactly how I felt. Like, it was like, oh, crap. I'm 15 years old, and I'm I feel like I I found a little bit of a purpose here.

Drew Beech:

I was like

Shane Burgos:

looking back, I can think that. Like, in the moment, I'm just thought I just thought it was fun. But now, like, looking back, I'm like, well, that no. You just literally found your purpose.

Drew Beech:

And I was

Shane Burgos:

like Yeah. Yeah. I mean, fast forwarding a little bit. I started training 15 in around May. I think it was May or end of May into June and then fast forward until around I think it was November ish Mhmm.

Shane Burgos:

I found out I had to get surgery for my spine.

Joey Rosen:

Yep.

Drew Beech:

And

Shane Burgos:

then the doctor tells me, you're not gonna go train anymore. Yeah. I'm like, I I've been training for 6 months. Yep. I was like, now you're gonna tell me I can't do it anymore?

Joey Rosen:

So, you know, that's the thing. Like, this sounds like a fairy tale, but they really don't exist. Like, you walk in, you find your purpose, and then you just ride off into the sunset. You know what I mean? But no.

Joey Rosen:

That's it. Immediate hurdle, dude. Like and not just like a hurdle, like, I gotta figure this out. It's like a hurdle, like, I have to go under the knife. There's a risk here that not only will I not be able to train, I won't be able to walk after I'm done with this.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I did a 100%. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

So when did, like so scoliosis. Right?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah. Which is a curvature of your spine. So, basically, my spine looked like a question mark.

Joey Rosen:

So when did you know that you had that Yeah. Going into training? Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Okay. So I knew I had it in, like, 6th grade or something like that.

Joey Rosen:

Okay. It was

Shane Burgos:

only, like, a 20

Joey Rosen:

degree late.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. But but only, like, a 20 degree curve, which is, like, okay. That's not you just keep an eye on it. It's manageable. Like, you do the test in school, and they noticed it in school.

Shane Burgos:

Okay. 7th grade came. It went up a couple degrees, and then, like, 8th 9th grade came, and it shot up from, like, 20 something degrees to 49 degrees.

Joey Rosen:

Holy And

Shane Burgos:

that's when they're, like, oh, okay. Never mind. We can't do the brakes or anything like that. This is what's gonna happen. It's getting worse and it's getting worse fast when like, because I hit a growth spurt.

Shane Burgos:

While I hit the growth spurt, it's what happened.

Joey Rosen:

Oh, no. So that's what it, like, accelerated. Exactly. Okay. Okay.

Shane Burgos:

So my growth spurt hit, I I went to 5:11. Mhmm. Like, couple that basically, from 8th grade to 9th grade, I shot up, like, 4 or 5 inches.

Joey Rosen:

Gotcha.

Shane Burgos:

And then, he told me he's like, you got 2 options. You could do nothing, but what's gonna happen is you're not gonna be able to walk in it's getting worse fast. Or you can get surgery, and we'll

Joey Rosen:

The parallel between that, like, you know, you got a question mark for a spine, which then puts a massive question mark on, like, your the rest of your life. Like, you you found

Shane Burgos:

your purpose. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Aside from that, just my my my regular health, like, yeah, there's a chance that something can go wrong to spine surgery. Right?

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. It's, like, terrifying shit.

Drew Beech:

Did you did you feel any dip like, when you as your scoliosis was getting worse, did you feel it? No.

Shane Burgos:

Not at all. I didn't it didn't

Drew Beech:

bother You felt like a completely normal person.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I I it didn't bother me in the slightest. Like, that didn't even notice that it got worse. I was like, oh, alright. That's pretty interesting.

Shane Burgos:

And then I was I I even when he told me, I was like, oh, cool. I'm 49 degrees or whatever. Well, that means but Yeah. Alright. And then he's like, no.

Shane Burgos:

We have to get surgery. And I was like, woah. Woah. Woah. Woah.

Shane Burgos:

Woah. Woah. Woah. Time out. Let's talk about this for a second.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah. So

Joey Rosen:

So what was, so surgery obviously went well. Right? As As well as it could?

Shane Burgos:

It it did no. It went well. I was just an idiot. So, like, I got the surgery in like, right after my 16th birthday, like, 5 days after my 16th birthday. Mhmm.

Shane Burgos:

And then, I was out of school for basically the rest of the year, but post surgery, like, waking up the scariest on like, traumatizing scary scary. I wake up and I'm like because you know when you go you go under, like, you just you're you're asleep and you wake up 1 time. Yeah. I was cool with that. So I wake up and I'm like, where am I?

Shane Burgos:

I go back to sleep, but wake up. Where the hell? And I I'm like, why is that why I keep waking up but falling asleep right away. I'm like, it's so frustrating. I'm like, I'm trying to have a come on.

Shane Burgos:

Like, I see my mom. I'm like, mama. Oh, what's up? Like, I'm, like, pissing me off. Like, I can't I can't even get a thought going because I'm I keep knocking back out.

Shane Burgos:

I'm and I'm in different rooms. They're trying to knock out. Sometimes there's people there. Sometimes there's nobody there. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Finally, it wears off, and then I wake up and I'm like

Joey Rosen:

So that was just the anesthesia or whatever. Okay. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

So then I finally wake up and everybody's there. I want my mom and doctors and stuff, and I'm like, okay. Finally, I can have a conversation now, but I cannot move. Like, it hurts so bad to you. I can't move at

Drew Beech:

all.

Joey Rosen:

Like, move, like, not like like arms and let like, just move yeah. Yeah. I'm in bed

Shane Burgos:

and I'm like, oh, I feel like a truck hit me. I feel so sore. Yeah. It's spine searching, Like, oh, I can't and spend the entire week in the hospital. I didn't yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I eat a bite of bread. Yeah. Like, a bite of bread. And IIII left that hospital a 120 something pounds, 511.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. You'd look

Shane Burgos:

at What'd you go in at?

Joey Rosen:

What'd you go in as?

Shane Burgos:

A 130, 135 around there. And then lost, like, 10, £15 just sitting in the bed. Yeah. That's tall too. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. Right. A £120 if I was

Drew Beech:

because you were in that much pain.

Shane Burgos:

I I had I think that anesthesia messes with your appetite, so I had 0 appetite. The the thought of food was making me grossed out, but then I did have to, like, do PT slowly on me just to be able to walk because I eventually I'm only staying there for a for a week, and then eventually I gotta go home. Do PT to start walking and stuff like that. I only was able to really walk out of

Drew Beech:

the pool.

Joey Rosen:

What was it like the first time you had to get out of the bed? It

Shane Burgos:

was terrifying. I was

Joey Rosen:

I was

Shane Burgos:

so scared. I was just scared that yeah. I don't know what your spine is. Yeah. Exactly.

Shane Burgos:

I was like, oh, because this is this, And it hurt so bad that I was like so every step was like and then it was in the city, the surgery.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

My dad had to drive me back up an hour and change north to home, but how many potholes are in

Joey Rosen:

your city? Hey.

Shane Burgos:

He has to watch every single 1, and I'm like, it's the most painful car ride back ever.

Joey Rosen:

That's wild to me.

Shane Burgos:

And then I get back home a week later. I start feeling a little bit better where I can move a little bit, but it was my mom's giving me showers. Yeah. That's how bad it was, bro. I wear, like, a freaking bathing suit or something.

Shane Burgos:

My mom has to give me a bath because I'm I can't I can't do it.

Joey Rosen:

What are you are you walking, like, with a walker?

Shane Burgos:

No. I'm I'm I'm I'm I was just too stubborn to take 1 of those, but I'm just, like, walking very slow, holding onto walls and stuff like that. Yeah. But, again, like, dim or elastic.

Joey Rosen:

Not sleeping well. Not I had

Shane Burgos:

to get a thing that blows up to incline you. Yep. And so I saw, like, I couldn't sleep flat. I had to sleep, like, sitting up.

Joey Rosen:

Yep. So

Drew Beech:

just So how long did that go on for for

Shane Burgos:

the That went on for about a month that that I was feeling pretty crappy. Towards the end of that month, I was like, alright. And I can walk now. I'm walking normal. And then as soon as I start walking normal, that's when I start doing stupid stuff.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. So I'm like, yo. I feel good. I feel good.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We have tramp we we

Shane Burgos:

had 2 trampolines in our backyard. Like, me and my I have 2 brothers.

Joey Rosen:

Actually, that was in the documentary, I think.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I had 2 younger brothers Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

And we

Shane Burgos:

would just do crazy stuff, jumping off the deck onto the trampoline. We had

Drew Beech:

a pool.

Shane Burgos:

We replaced the pool, got rid of the pool, put the trampoline where the pool was. Jumping off the deck onto the trampoline. So that's what I was doing before, and then, alright. I'm feeling better now. And we started jumping on the trampoline.

Shane Burgos:

And you see in the documentary, I'm doing back flips and stuff. And I'm like, y'all feel good now. Jumping from 1 trampoline, flipping to the other 1. I was like, let's go. I started skateboarding stuff.

Shane Burgos:

And then I was 3 months later, I was like, I think I'm good to go back to training. I I don't know. I think I think I'm good. Mom and dad were like, alright. If you think you're good, as the doctor said not to.

Joey Rosen:

What timeline did they give you? Yeah.

Drew Beech:

It was about I

Joey Rosen:

was like,

Shane Burgos:

well, not not until that I come back and see them again, which is probably no. He told me never to go back to training, first of all. Oh. Yeah. He said he said you weren't gonna be able to train anymore.

Shane Burgos:

That that rewind back, he told me that in in the office. I was like, what do you mean anymore? He's like

Joey Rosen:

So even if the surgery is successful,

Shane Burgos:

no more training. He doesn't want me to train. He doesn't Doesn't want me to train anymore. I was like he's like, it's too much on your body, like, with with the surgery and stuff like that. He's like, I just prefer if you not do that.

Joey Rosen:

Mhmm. I

Drew Beech:

was like, Which is reasonable.

Joey Rosen:

I mean, it's a reasonable answer. A 100%. But I

Shane Burgos:

I get I understand. I understand.

Drew Beech:

Especially, like

Joey Rosen:

People are like us. You're

Shane Burgos:

not doing.

Joey Rosen:

Bodies are gonna meet the demand. Like, that's what we're saying. We're like, demand more of the body, body responds. Body fails.

Shane Burgos:

16 years old, bro.

Joey Rosen:

Like Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

What 16 year old is not stupid? Right? Every year you're you're automatically stupid for 16 years.

Drew Beech:

I still regret not wearing my retainer. So essentially. Yeah. So he

Shane Burgos:

so he's telling me that. And then Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Same thing. Training MMA after scoliosis. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

So, 3 months after he went back I go

Shane Burgos:

back to training.

Joey Rosen:

I'm like,

Shane Burgos:

I'm feeling good.

Joey Rosen:

Like, what's mom and dad's what what are what are their temperaments when you go when you start training? Like, you go from, hey. I really like WWE, to okay. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna do this.

Shane Burgos:

They're super supportive.

Drew Beech:

Super they've

Shane Burgos:

always been super supportive. I was doing this closure is pretty pretty, I don't know what the word is. It's just the opposite of MMA. I used to do it in high school. I didn't do any of those other team sports, but I did diving in high school.

Joey Rosen:

Okay.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Nobody would ever think that I would do that. Yeah. I did that because I was actually I was actually good at it. So that's why I I did that.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I had to wear the Speedo and everything like that. So yeah.

Drew Beech:

As a as a sex sport, though.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

It's cool. It's just, like, it's funny because nobody ever gets that that's that's the only sport. So I did that. I was really good at it. My mom and dad wanted me to stay in it because they're, like, you can potentially get a scholarship and go

Joey Rosen:

to college.

Shane Burgos:

And they were big into school, so I was just like, ended up purposely I'm jumping all over the place.

Joey Rosen:

No. You're good.

Shane Burgos:

So I'll get back to that in a second. But, so they've been super supportive. I go back straining and, a couple days going by and I feel I'm feeling good, then a couple weeks go by. 1 1 day, a guy goes for a shoulders under the legs pass. I don't know if you guys know.

Shane Burgos:

Shoulders under the legs, fold the guy in half. Yeah. Pass. Yep. And when he brings brings my knees to to my shoulders Uh-huh.

Shane Burgos:

And my from my tailbone to my neck cracks like a deck of cards. Like, I was like, oh. He's like, oh my god. He just like, gets off me. Like, oh, you okay?

Shane Burgos:

You okay?

Joey Rosen:

I'm like, I don't know. I don't know.

Shane Burgos:

So I'm like, 1 second. He's like, what is that? I'm like, you hear that too? He's like, yeah. I'm like, what?

Shane Burgos:

My back just cracked every time I straightened. I was like, my heart dropped. I'm like, oh, man. Does it hurt? It didn't hurt.

Shane Burgos:

Okay. It just I mean, it hurt when he folded me in half, but it it didn't hurt after that. I was like, what the heck? What what

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. My

Shane Burgos:

heart dropped. I'm like, oh, you gotta kid me, bro. Worst case scenario, I'm thinking. So I go back to the doctor, because I told my mom I have to go back for a follow-up. I didn't train for a couple days, and then he's, like, just pissed.

Shane Burgos:

You can see he's mad. Yeah. Like, do all the work I did. Like, I told you not to do anything.

Joey Rosen:

I'm an artist. Yeah. I told you

Shane Burgos:

not to do anything. You're you're jumping on trampolines. You're going skateboarding, and you're doing the the the sport I told you to never do again. So what what are you thinking? He's pissed, and I'm like, dude, I'm I'm pissed.

Shane Burgos:

So what what tell me what you gotta tell me. He's like, we probably gonna have to I did an MRI and x-ray. It's like, you did the the spine the rods shifted off your spine. We're probably gonna have to do surgery again. I'm like, oh, man.

Shane Burgos:

No. No. No. No. No.

Shane Burgos:

No. No. No. The exactly. That's that's what I'm thinking.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like, I start sweating. I'm like, what what else can we do? What else can we do? He's like, you're gonna do nothing for a month Mhmm. And we're gonna revisit this, and we're gonna see

Joey Rosen:

how it looks.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. So so we I I didn't shift for that month. I did I was like, I'm not doing anything. Nothing. Nothing.

Shane Burgos:

Nothing. I'll go for walks or whatever, but he we do no extra MRI, and he's like, alright. Good news. Your spine is is is, fused. The Uh-huh.

Shane Burgos:

The rods are fused to your spines. They're they're locked in. I was like, whew.

Drew Beech:

Alright, Patrick. Holy. So that's

Joey Rosen:

so that's what it so my my dad's had spinal fusion. So that's what it was. So it almost it was almost like the the bone hadn't healed.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. Exactly. I'm gonna

Joey Rosen:

say it's

Shane Burgos:

so stoop so stupid. Like, it gets so stupid. That was

Joey Rosen:

literally your vertebrae cracking against the

Shane Burgos:

rod. Yes.

Drew Beech:

Oh, that's so So mean, realistically, if he would just have explained that, maybe 16 year old Shane wouldn't have died. If he was like Maybe. Listen, you need you need to take this month off Yeah. Because Yeah. If you don't, the the Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I I probably needed the, like, this is what's gonna happen if you don't

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Like the rod won't the rod won't fuse.

Shane Burgos:

As soon as I started feeling good to walk, I was like, I'm on the trampoline.

Drew Beech:

I'm out. Yeah. Oh, you're right. I'm healed. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Just so so And it's so like, it seemed like it was so close. Like, maybe if you had waited an extra month or 2, maybe it would've fused. And then you would fine. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Dude, I cannot imagine that from it happening in training, then you you having to sit there the next like 3, 4 days whatever it was to to the docs. Like, that's gotta be it.

Shane Burgos:

Fucking that'd

Drew Beech:

be And

Shane Burgos:

then and then it's it healed and then, I again, I I went right back to training. As soon as he didn't say go back to training at all. He didn't want me to train anymore, but I felt good. And he said it fused. So I was like, I was worst case scenario now.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Hindsight's 2020, so it all worked out. But I there came a time where it started squeaking like a like a like a squeaky like chair or something.

Joey Rosen:

Like the Tin Man.

Shane Burgos:

When we do abs at the end at the end of class, we do an abs like kick people. Kick people. Kick people.

Drew Beech:

Kick people. And I

Shane Burgos:

was like, did anybody else hear this, or is this, like, in my like, you know what I mean? Like, is it it's inside. Like, I don't know if anybody else can hear this. This is weird, though. Oh, that's wild.

Drew Beech:

Well, we gotta finish the diving story, though. I don't want you to forget that. The

Shane Burgos:

So I ended up yes. So diving in 10th grade, this is already, like, 2 this is 2 years into my training now. Yep. I already did my 1st turn. Surgery.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I did my 1st tournament. I actually did it at a at a higher level, and I got first place, as a blue belt.

Joey Rosen:

Jiu jitsu. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I did a blue belt. I ended up tapping out a brown belt in the finals. I was like, wow. This is let's go. This is awesome.

Shane Burgos:

Then the diving season starts back up. So I'm like, I told my son, I'm not gonna be out of training from, like it's a winter sport, whatever the whatever that schedule is. I'll be back in around March. Yep. He said, alright.

Shane Burgos:

No problem. And I was oh, man. I'm gonna miss this. So I go to diving, and I'm I hate it, bro. I I hate it at this point.

Shane Burgos:

Like, once you found something that you wanna do Yes.

Joey Rosen:

Yes.

Shane Burgos:

And I'm, like, I like diving, but I love this. Now I hate this because this is this is taking me away from what I really wanna do. Yep. So it gave me, like, a resentment towards diving, and I ended up basically purposely getting kicked off the team. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Just because he kept the coach wanted me to do a specific dive. I hated doing it because I've if you you've ever you've ever bet like, backflop where you slap your back on the water, it's worse than a belly flop. So it's the backwards flip into a dive. So back 1 and a half. And I was like, I hate this dive.

Shane Burgos:

He's like, I was like, come on.

Joey Rosen:

He's like,

Shane Burgos:

you need to get this 1 down. You need to get this 1 down. So I just kept dumping it on the diving board and, like, not doing it on purpose. Just doing, like, a regular backflip. He's like, alright.

Shane Burgos:

Get back and do it again. I just kept doing it. Kept doing it.

Joey Rosen:

I was like,

Shane Burgos:

I don't know. I can't do it. He said, Shane, if you don't do this back 1 and a half, I'm we I can't have you on the team.

Joey Rosen:

He's They're like, well, that that'll work out.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like Alright. He's like, if you if if you don't do it right now Mhmm. Just swim back and go pack of things. Did a back flip and swim back. I'll there.

Shane Burgos:

I see it.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. You're like, surprise. I'm back to training. Yeah. I got back to

Drew Beech:

Did you ever tell your mama burgers that story, or is it coming out on this?

Shane Burgos:

She she's probably heard it that at at this point, but this might be a refresher for her. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

It's I mean, I have the same I've I believe the the same the same thing happens in entrepreneurship too, whereas you start your your side hustle in in hopes of making it the main hustle. Oh, yeah. And then a job or career you may have loved at 1 point is taking you away from working on that that side thing. So Yeah. I can empathize with what your with all your.

Joey Rosen:

And even if you love that previous thing Yeah. It pales in comparison to the thing that you dream.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I think it takes away from the thing that you actually you think you love that, but you really love this. So it makes you kinda have that resentment towards that. I know exactly what you

Drew Beech:

guys are. Similar like, I was very good at my old job and I would, like they were like, oh, we want you to do this. We want you to do that. And that would just be so like, I was so focused on people hunting where I wanted that together. I'd be like, okay.

Drew Beech:

Like, do something. Like, I'm not doing that. Do something about it. Like, kinda, like, kinda, like, kinda, like, every copy story.

Joey Rosen:

Like Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Same but different. Right?

Joey Rosen:

So it sounded like you you were having success early on in jujitsu. Like, it was if someone from the outside looking in, they were they could make a case, like, Shane knows what he's doing. Like, he's having success. He's training hard. Like, this seems like a viable option.

Joey Rosen:

Had you come out and said, like, hey. Look. This is what I wanna do for the rest of my life. Like, I'm gonna make a career of this.

Shane Burgos:

No. I I knew I was gonna do something in the realm of that. I just didn't know exactly what it was. I was like, maybe I'll be an instructor. Maybe I'll be a commentator.

Shane Burgos:

Maybe I'll Sure. Until I started winning competitions, and I was like, oh, 0, maybe I'll maybe I will do a fight or something like that. I had my first fight when I was 18 actually in high school still. Yeah. I won that fight and then I was like, alright.

Shane Burgos:

That was a different kind of fun because the training fun is is yeah. You you get to tap out in training at that's fun. But when you win in front of all of your friends and family that came out to watch you Yeah. Like, dude, that's

Joey Rosen:

I feel like that's was that the decision point for you when you decided to take your first fight that you were going to do this for the rest of your life? Was it after the win or was it that's still too early before you made that decision?

Shane Burgos:

Getting ready for that first 1, I was like, I don't have a backup plan. I was like, I'm burning all the boats. I was like, this is what I'm doing. And and I basically lived like that from that point to where I am right now. Like, III have other things I can do for sure, but I know nothing will fulfill me, like, what I'm doing now.

Shane Burgos:

So I don't really have a backup plan, and I and I hate the world. Like, dude, when I was doing that for so long, like, when I was coming up when when you're fighting outside the UFC, you're not making any money. Everyone's like so I have a I have a job. I I was I was a head instructor of the gym while I was, fighting. Right.

Shane Burgos:

Same time. So I'll train in the morning and then teach all night and then train again at night and then do it again the next day. So everyone's like, what are you gonna do if if if if this fighting thing doesn't work out? And I was like, I mean, I'm already doing what I'm doing. So I was like, I guess I I would do this, but, I don't know.

Shane Burgos:

I'm not really thinking about that. I was 7 and o at this point. I don't wanna think about what if that, what if that. That that I feel like that's I don't I don't need to think about that kind of shit. That that that's taken me away from what I'm actually focused on doing.

Shane Burgos:

Right? What's what's the point?

Drew Beech:

And they love to they love to get you scared too. Like, what if, what if, what and all the reoccurring theme with a lot of sensible people that we talk to on this podcast and people that are doing what they love in life, they're not. They they they say burn the boats or or they don't think about what if. Like, you can't spend all your time thinking about what if this doesn't work out. You need to focus.

Drew Beech:

All the time you're thinking about what if is more is more time you're not thinking

Shane Burgos:

about Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Where you need

Shane Burgos:

to go.

Joey Rosen:

100%. Like, we're wired for survival, and I think people love you, and they want you to take a well worn path to be Yeah. To to protect you. But, the road less traveled.

Shane Burgos:

There you go. That's it. At what

Drew Beech:

point quick question. Yep. At what point did it change? So you just told me and you're saying it started a lot of jujitsu at first, and you're winning competitions, blue belt, putting up brown belt. At what point did it go from jujitsu to to striking?

Shane Burgos:

So I, fought I fought a guy, a local guy. I was for a I was 5 and o at the time, and I was taking everybody down, submitting them, fight this kid. And I go to take him down, and he stops me, and he's strong. And I was like, oh, man. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I've I've been getting all these takedowns. Like, that was, like, she's strong. Then I was like, I guess we're striking. So we start striking and I'm landing shots. I'm like, oh, crap.

Shane Burgos:

I I can strike. Ended up getting a no contest because I need him in the balls. We do a rematch, and a month later, and I TKO him with body with a body shot from striking. And I was

Joey Rosen:

like,

Shane Burgos:

oh my god. Yes. Let's go. And then literally right after that, my coach is backstage. He's like, now we're putting you in a kickboxing fight in 3 weeks.

Shane Burgos:

And I was like, bro, I just got out of a fight camp. I was like, I just wanna belt. I'm, like, so high. I was like, yeah. You're fighting again in 3 weeks?

Shane Burgos:

I was like, kickboxing fight too. I'm like

Joey Rosen:

Foot on foot on the gas, man.

Drew Beech:

Literally. Foot on

Shane Burgos:

the gas. I I had 6 fights in less than a year that that that year. Foot on the gas.

Drew Beech:

That because I saw potential in you. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah. And then they wanted me to be even more confident in my striking. So it was like, yeah. You're a grappler.

Shane Burgos:

You just got a a TKO standing. Great. But let's make you even more confident. Now you have no no other option but to stand and strike with this guy. And I'm fighting a Phil Crew you know, remember Phil Crew?

Drew Beech:

Mhmm.

Shane Burgos:

He's a GSP Muay Thai

Drew Beech:

coach. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Fought 1 of his students and knocked him out in a minute. I was, like, in a kickboxing match, Shane the grappler now can kickbox. I was like, let's go. Yeah. So that from that point on, different different different level of, fun when you knock somebody out compared to when you submit somebody.

Shane Burgos:

Submitting somebody is awesome, though. Don't get me wrong, but when you knock them out, like, you feel like, like Superman.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Exactly.

Joey Rosen:

So you're so, again, the body of work is continuing. Like, people in your life are looking

Shane Burgos:

at what you're doing and they're like, he's doing it.

Joey Rosen:

But was there still doubt that people not understand the mission you were on? Did they say did they still try to talk you out of doing what you were about to do?

Shane Burgos:

My family and my friends in my in my circle that I have super supportive. My team, super supportive. Everybody believed in me wholeheartedly knew that I was gonna make it to to where I made it. It's just you don't know exactly when you're gonna make it to that point. So I'm having all these fights, and I was 7 and o with 7 finishes.

Shane Burgos:

I only that ever went to the 3rd round. That whole the the whole story of how I got even into the UFC was a is that's 1 of those, like, I I believe in divine intervention because that there's, dude, that's that made no sense how I don't know if you guys know the story, but I I was getting ready

Joey Rosen:

ask you to

Shane Burgos:

I was getting ready for a CFFC title fight. I was like, let's go. I'm 7 and o. I win this fight. I can get I can get a call with you, so I can get it.

Shane Burgos:

I can get it. Week before the fight, the guy pulls out. I'm like, I already did so I I busted my ass

Joey Rosen:

for that training.

Shane Burgos:

I I busted my ass for it. It was a 5 round fight too. So I did a full training camp for 5 rounds. Week before the fight got pulled out and managed the time. He's like, don't don't stress yet.

Shane Burgos:

Keep the diet going. Still focus on making the weight because I'm just trying to get you an opponent or trying to get you an opponent. So Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, going through a bunch of different opponents. I'm saying yes to everybody. I'm saying yes to everybody.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like, I don't care. I'm already in fight shape. I'm ready to go. And and on top of that, I got a baby due. My 1st kid due this is October.

Shane Burgos:

My first kid is due in February. Yep. I'm like and I'm and What

Joey Rosen:

year is this?

Shane Burgos:

2, 000. She came she's born in 2017. 2016. Okay. So, yeah.

Shane Burgos:

2016. I'm I'm about to make, like, maybe $7 after ticket sales. Dude, $7 in a regional fight is a lot of money. Right? In my mind, I'm I'm not making a lot of money at that.

Shane Burgos:

I'm making 23, 000 a year, bro.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I'm broke. I'm broke living in a 1 bedroom apartment. My wife just stopped working.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. I'm broke.

Shane Burgos:

I need this $7, 000

Drew Beech:

to me. You know what

Shane Burgos:

that sounds like? Changing. It's yes. Life changing. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yes. Yeah. The the the fight falls through on Sunday. I take my phone and smash it on the phone on the on the ground. Thank God it's a car pickers didn't break.

Drew Beech:

But I'd

Shane Burgos:

have money for a new 1. So Yeah.

Drew Beech:

I was just saying.

Shane Burgos:

So then, but but that's and I'm still dieting, doing my water loading. Wednesday comes, they say never mind. No no commission's gonna let you fight a guy on 3 days notice at this point. I bro, I'm not a big crier. I I'm crying.

Shane Burgos:

My wife just comes over to me. She hugs me. I'm I'm just crying because I feel like

Joey Rosen:

Plus you're going through it, man. Dude, I'm

Shane Burgos:

yeah. I'm 24 year 24 year 25 years old, and I'm like, dude, my I watched all my friends go to college. They graduated. They have careers now.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I'm broke, man. Yeah. I've I'm 7 and o, but I'm I'm freaking I'm broke. I have nothing to show for this. I'm living in coming?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Living in a 1 bedroom apartment. I got a kid coming. I'm just, like, I'm embarrassed. That's how I felt.

Shane Burgos:

I felt like I felt like a like a failure as a man at that point. I was just crying. I was, like, I can't believe this is a worst case scenario, but everything happens for a reason. Mhmm.

Joey Rosen:

Did a

Shane Burgos:

full 5 round training camp. 2 weeks later, somebody it might have been first ever show in in u f UFC ever had in in New York was in, Madison Square Garden. Then they come back in Albany, December 9th, which is mom right after mom's birthday. So I'm like, alright. That's cool.

Shane Burgos:

Maybe I'll go visit dad or something like that. Guy in my weight class gets pulled out of a fight. Mhmm. I'm like, okay. My cousin tells me.

Shane Burgos:

Some people start telling me, yo. No. Yo. Get on this. And I'm like, dude, I I don't get on Twitter and do the call out kind of stuff.

Shane Burgos:

I got on Twitter. I did the call out stuff. I started doing interviews, like, begging for the fight, and I was like, guys, I'm in shape. I did I did training camp. Let's go.

Shane Burgos:

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. And then I'm I'm teaching a class 1 day, and I see my phone ringing from a manager. And I'm like, oh, please.

Joey Rosen:

There it is.

Shane Burgos:

I I just felt that. Like, I answered it, and, like, let's freaking go. And then my brother my brothers came later to train that day, and my my my mom and dad came.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. I

Shane Burgos:

start training with my with my brother who's around my size at that time. And he said, why are you training so hard? I was like, because I'm fighting in 2 weeks. He's like, we're fighting in 2 weeks? Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

He's like, where? I was like, Albany. He's like, what do you mean? I'm like, UFC Albany. He's like, no.

Shane Burgos:

Like, yes. Let's go. And then, Dale, I was like, dude, I I went from being, like, the bottom of the barrel. Dude, I was like, what am I gonna do? I need I need to that was the first time I've ever, like, what what am I gonna do?

Shane Burgos:

Like, I need to do something else. How am I gonna support this kid? How am I gonna support my wife? And then look what happened. Like, I'm thinking the worst in the world, and then I go from being upset about 7 grand to making it to the to the number 1 organization at the world.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like, crazy. The

Joey Rosen:

roller coaster.

Shane Burgos:

It really was. Yeah. That was the most overwhelming, like, after the fight. I couldn't even, like, try to interview me after. I couldn't even talk because I was just so grateful.

Shane Burgos:

Just very grateful.

Joey Rosen:

For sure.

Drew Beech:

I was also gonna ask too. Your girl's been with you the entire time too, like, through the through the down times and the and the ups. Yep. It's really something special too when you can when you have someone that sticks with you. Like, cheers for you whether you're whether you're down or you're up.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. She never ever, like,

Joey Rosen:

perfect for her

Shane Burgos:

family that what she ain't gonna do? What she

Drew Beech:

ain't gonna do? What she ain't gonna do?

Shane Burgos:

He's getting older now. You're having a kid. What she

Drew Beech:

ain't gonna do? What she ain't gonna do?

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

They're great, Don. I I love them, but I understand that. If I'm if

Drew Beech:

I'm if

Shane Burgos:

I'm my I Yes. My I would do the same exact thing for

Drew Beech:

my daughter.

Shane Burgos:

I would do a 100% do the same thing. So I'm not knocking them for that at all. But she never switched up. She never not believed in me. She said he's gonna take care of it.

Shane Burgos:

He's gonna handle it. And I I did it with my freaking hands. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

The noise pride that shit gives me.

Shane Burgos:

Like, we went from I remember we went me

Shane Burgos:

and her went on a date a date. We went to a salad spot. Like like, she we we were big into working out when we first got together. Mhmm. I was 21 when I got with her.

Shane Burgos:

She was 19. Went on a date and went to this spot to get a salad. I didn't get a salad. I just bought her salad because I couldn't afford to buy 2. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

And she ended up not finishing it. I was like, you're not gonna finish it. I'm not gonna waste it. I was like, why why aren't you gonna finish? She's like, oh, I'm good.

Shane Burgos:

I'm good. You you finish. You finish. She knew that I couldn't afford it, but she Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I was like Damn. Yeah. I was like, dude, that

Drew Beech:

Damn. Fuck me up, Shane.

Shane Burgos:

I know. Yeah. But, like but I'm saying, like, bottom of the barrel, like, from the gutter, from nothing Yeah. To to what I have now, like, with my freaking hands and my hard work. Like, that gives me so much freaking pride that I built this life with these 2.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Hard hands and hard work.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. Yep. Hard hands and hard work. Crazy, bro. Crazy.

Joey Rosen:

So you take it you take you get called up. Right? And then you go on a tear in the in the UFC. Right? And then your journey in the UFC ends.

Shane Burgos:

Right? On my terms.

Joey Rosen:

On your terms. On my terms. Yeah. And I've I've seem to recall maybe it was Dana saying somebody.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. I recall that after all. I recall that video Yeah. Well, like, he was, like, he was, like, damn. He's, like, we lost.

Drew Beech:

I was, like, how do we I he said, like, how do we let that 1 go away?

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Exactly.

Shane Burgos:

That that was cool. He actually called me too. I don't know how many fighters he really called.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. I

Shane Burgos:

was like, oh, this is oh, it left me an awesome voice mail because I got random calls. I don't know who this is. Yeah. I didn't I didn't answer. I'm like, oh, no.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Let me get 2 minute voice mail. I was like, oh my god.

Joey Rosen:

Oh, that's amazing.

Shane Burgos:

It it

Shane Burgos:

was That's amazing.

Shane Burgos:

Didn't have to do that. Yeah. Did not have to do that at all. I can have, like, alright. See you.

Shane Burgos:

But now he was super cool with it. And then all the guys from from UFC, like, the the higher ups, they all texted me too. So I was like, that was awesome. But hindsight is 202020, and, yeah, I I do I forever be grateful for the UFC forever because it's given me my my goal in my life, my my passion in life. So, like, UFC, I have no ill will, no nothing but love for the UFC.

Shane Burgos:

Mhmm. But for the PFL, the the the offer they gave me was, like, when I'm done, when I'm however old I am, when I'm done with this and I look back at the sport, I'll be able to say this this shit was worth it because my bank account looks like it's it's worth it.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. You know

Shane Burgos:

what I'm saying? I ate.

Drew Beech:

And that's what I think the guys, like, Dana and us. Like, they're not gonna hold anything against you for doing what's best for your family

Shane Burgos:

because they would do

Drew Beech:

the same thing.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. If I could turn back time and do it again, everyone said, would you do it again? Yes. I would, bro. Like, I like, a 100% I would because I need to make sure my kids and my wife are good and they are good right now.

Shane Burgos:

Like, I'm not I haven't fought since August, and right now I'm not stressing the fight Mhmm. Because I'm good.

Drew Beech:

But with the UFC, it's kinda like that right here.

Shane Burgos:

I've been in those positions where I like like, when I bought my first house, dude in the UFC, I bought my first house. I'm not trying to dog the UFC. I bought my first house. I ended up the at the closing cost, it was ended up being way more than I expected. Mhmm.

Shane Burgos:

I only had, like, $3 to my name at that point, and then my family had a a vacation booked. So I'm like, we were going on vacation. I'm, like, trying to pinch pennies on vacation, you know, stressed out guys. And then I have a fight, the first MSG fight in, my my first MSG fight in November, but I'm like, I gotta last this money from September to November. If I lose, I'm only getting half of my paycheck.

Shane Burgos:

I'm a have to sell this damn house. Mhmm. So go in being in the UFC, again, more of that pressure put onto my onto my shoulders, like, to perform. Ended up winning that fight in the 1st round. Thank god.

Shane Burgos:

But, man, I was I was stressing. Stressing.

Joey Rosen:

Now when you're when you're in the UFC, so your youngest daughter was born

Shane Burgos:

My oldest or my youngest.

Joey Rosen:

Your youngest.

Shane Burgos:

My youngest sport was born in July.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. So you were already PFL.

Shane Burgos:

PFL. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

But what's it like, right, having daughters while you're making this tear through the UFC? Like and you're leaving it all out there, and you're, like, basically, do or die mentality, flipping the switch. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Are they going to the flights at all?

Shane Burgos:

No. No.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. So, you know, you you have a wife. Right? And, you know, she's been there with you for you since the beginning, but now you have daughters now are starting to crop up Yeah. During this journey, this tear through.

Joey Rosen:

What was that like for you?

Shane Burgos:

Well, my oldest daughter just started realizing, like, since she was she's only really been realizing what I do since she was, like, 5. Like, she always knew I was a fighter, but she didn't know what is

Joey Rosen:

I think our oldest are the same age.

Shane Burgos:

7? Yeah. Yeah. They're the same age. 7.

Shane Burgos:

So she now she knows what I what I do, but now it's way harder. Like, when I go away for fight week now, it's like she's scared. She I I that's why I, like,

Drew Beech:

oh my god.

Shane Burgos:

Dude, I can't I can't bring him to a fight. Like, especially with the way the way I play. I'm, like, I

Joey Rosen:

can't I can't be

Shane Burgos:

in the fight thinking about, oh, crap. My daughter's there. Oh, crap. I that scares the crap out

Joey Rosen:

of there.

Shane Burgos:

So I saw, Fedor versus, Mark Coleman. Have you Mhmm. This is so long ago. I was a teenager when I saw this. This is a picture.

Shane Burgos:

It's iconic picture. I'll show it to you later. It's Mark Coleman on his knees after Fedor, like, beat the brakes off him, and his face is all swollen. He he brings his 2 daughters into the ring, and they're hysterical crying and just touching his face. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like, I saw that when I was a teenager, and I was like, I can't ever bring my because he could have won that fight and still look like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A cut on your face.

Shane Burgos:

My my kids are terrified from cuts. So I'm like, I can't imagine, bro.

Drew Beech:

Just like watching you, like, you and Sean and others, like, just as friends, like, watching you guys do that on the TV. It's just hard enough.

Shane Burgos:

Because, like, it's, like, literally your dad

Drew Beech:

or anything.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. Especially, like, to your dad,

Joey Rosen:

your dad is And you're that young, like, you know what I mean?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. That that'll that'll no matter win or lose, that could traumatize someone. I'll never wanna do that. So they stay home. I mean,

Joey Rosen:

you gotta regardless of the outcome of your fight, like, you're still coming home looking the way you look.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. And I gotta tell

Joey Rosen:

them what happened. Have that

Shane Burgos:

conversation with them. Glasses on sometimes. Yeah. Yep. They they're getting, I guess, more used to it.

Shane Burgos:

It's really just my 7 year old. The 3 year old doesn't really know what's going

Drew Beech:

on. Yeah. Yeah. Does your wife go to the fights anymore?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. She goes to the fight. Okay. I mean, technically, my kids have come to the fight, but they were baby babies, like like, my my all all 3 of them have come have come to a fight. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

I mean, they'll be able to look back on, you know, like, shows like this and your fights and stuff like that as they get older.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. And they'll be, I guess, in a better place to absorb, like, what it means

Shane Burgos:

and why you did it and all

Joey Rosen:

that other stuff. Like, they don't need that trauma in the moment. No. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

It is trauma. Like, seeing your dad get

Shane Burgos:

bro a 100%

Drew Beech:

beat up whether you're on the winning end or the 100%. You're still getting beat up.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. That's why I and the girls too. I'm like, no.

Joey Rosen:

Like you said, and plus is the way you fight, man.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly, man. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Once you switch back to grappling, dude, you could have some point some cleaner outcome. True.

Shane Burgos:

III it's it it just would put something in my head while I'm in there I know, and I don't wanna think. Like, I saw a cowboy walk out, like, when he bought Mike Perry.

Drew Beech:

Oh my god.

Shane Burgos:

That's kid and everything. I was like, that's awesome. That's, like, beautiful eyes. Like, I can't imagine hugging and kissing my kid and then going into the Yeah. 2 different chains.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. That's,

Shane Burgos:

like, the the dad that I love and kiss, I love my kids so much. Okay. Now let me turn this off and go kill us, Carol. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Right. I remember I remember watching that and just being, like, oof. Like like, that played the hardest thing.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful moment, but I don't know.

Shane Burgos:

It was.

Joey Rosen:

It was absolutely nothing.

Shane Burgos:

Not not for me.

Joey Rosen:

I don't know if I could do it. How did so, you know, you you the you still had that switch, I guess. You know, you're now having daughters. Now you're you're fighting for something. I would say you've always been fighting for something bigger than yourself, but, like, now.

Joey Rosen:

Like, you really are. Right?

Shane Burgos:

All cliches. All cliches. Right? They're so true.

Joey Rosen:

That's right. They're true. Right?

Drew Beech:

We talk about that all the time. It's like the cliches really become cliche when they actually hit you at a certain point in life where they they ring true and they make they come full circle.

Shane Burgos:

A 100%. Like, I'm doing this for their future. Yep. Like, I don't have to do this anymore. I do it because I love it.

Shane Burgos:

I do I do love what I do, but I also III have a vision, and I have, I'm not gonna be 1 of those guys that's fighting till he's in his forties. I'm definitely not gonna be doing that. Yep. I wanna be done when I'm done on my terms, and then I wanna relax and be able to be dad and be only dad and do some other stuff outside of fighting.

Drew Beech:

I will say people without children, I don't think can comprehend what it feels like to be willing to die No. Doing something. Right? Like

Shane Burgos:

Yeah.

Drew Beech:

You can't understand that level of commitment because I'm gonna do this or die unless you have family to feed.

Shane Burgos:

Somebody Yeah. Depending. It's like it's all like like caveman shit,

Joey Rosen:

basically.

Shane Burgos:

Like, you gotta go out and you gotta go kill that saber toothed tiger because he's gonna either kill your family or your family's gonna starve. So you

Joey Rosen:

need to

Drew Beech:

go out.

Shane Burgos:

You need to you need to hunt this thing. You need to go

Drew Beech:

And that's the way we look at business too. It's like someone's coming to fucking

Shane Burgos:

Life.

Drew Beech:

Kill our family, if

Shane Burgos:

you know

Drew Beech:

what I mean. Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

It's and you need

Shane Burgos:

that kind of pressure on you. Pressure like, pressure is a all those cliches about pressure too. Pressure is a privilege. If you're pressure, then that's a privilege. And also pressure makes diamonds.

Shane Burgos:

Like, if you need a crack under the pressure, you could rise.

Joey Rosen:

Like No pressure nor

Drew Beech:

diamonds, man.

Joey Rosen:

That's the thing. Like, they're all all the cliches.

Shane Burgos:

They really are.

Joey Rosen:

Give me them all. Yeah. Because we're at this point where we've realized, like, the people that have said them originally, they walked to the fire. Like, that's where they came

Drew Beech:

to us.

Joey Rosen:

That's where all these cliches came from. Yeah. Yeah. We got it because we're walking through it.

Shane Burgos:

I had

Drew Beech:

made a hard decision yesterday and, like, someone was like, I'm sorry you had the like like, this is, like, a hard part for you. I'm like like, this is why I do it. Like, I I wouldn't want life any other way. Like, this is the life I chose. Like, give me give me all this.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. I don't like, when I'm when I'm when I when shit's going hard and when I'm, like, fight week is is so mental fight week, you're cutting weight, and you're you're going into a fight or doing all this media stuff, and it's just exhausting. But I'm like, I don't have to do this, bro. Like, you asked to be here. Don't don't Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Like, this is what I've I've I've dreamed of since I was a teenager. Now I'm gonna spit in God's face and be like, thanks for it, but I don't want this. No. No.

Drew Beech:

You get you get to do this.

Shane Burgos:

I get to do this. I want to do this. I asked

Joey Rosen:

to do this. Like You worked you worked

Shane Burgos:

for it. Exactly. Like, this this is

Joey Rosen:

You you

Shane Burgos:

created it. There's nowhere else I'm gonna be. This is what I have to do. This is what I'm I've I've put on earth to do this right now. Maybe not forever, obviously.

Shane Burgos:

That's not a problem. I don't I don't, I don't identify myself, and I used to, as a fighter. Like, that that was that was a that was a problem for sure. Well, I was like, who are you? Shane Burgos the fighter.

Shane Burgos:

No. No. No. No.

Drew Beech:

No. I'm just Shane Burgos. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I'm I'm just Shane Burgos. Right? Like, I fighting is what I do, but that's not all I am. That's not Yeah. Who I identify as.

Drew Beech:

And a

Shane Burgos:

lot of fighters have have trouble letting that part go.

Joey Rosen:

It's not I mean, it's fighters, entrepreneurs. It's everybody. Like, if you attach, like, your identity too much to 1 of your activities, all of us,

Shane Burgos:

no matter

Joey Rosen:

what we're doing,

Shane Burgos:

you're not gonna be able

Joey Rosen:

to do it for our entire lives.

Shane Burgos:

It

Joey Rosen:

will be changed. Change is inevitable. It's the only constant. Right? So you attach yourself too much to that when that change moment comes, like, you're gutted.

Joey Rosen:

You know what I mean? You do you do

Shane Burgos:

how do you react to that at that point? Like, a lot of a lot of these guys I mean, I I I'm I'm a fighter, so I speak from fighter, but a lot of these guys wrap themselves up in being a fighter. So once Yeah. That fight career is done Yep. Who am I though?

Shane Burgos:

What do I do? What what what what? There's no more cameras on me. There's no more this or that. Like

Drew Beech:

Especially especially in being in the UFC, it's like you're only paid when you're fighting.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

I always say I say, you know, your work instills your worth, and it's the same type of thing. Like, you've worked so hard on being a fighter, being 1 of the best fighters that your worth is kind of, like, tied up in that.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

And if you don't make a disconnect and say, well, I can do other work

Shane Burgos:

Yes.

Joey Rosen:

That instills my word as a husband, as a father, whatever you're gonna do next.

Shane Burgos:

Yes. Yes.

Joey Rosen:

Right? When the time's right, you're you're in trouble. I understand. You're in trouble because it got your self worth. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

You know?

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. That's 1 of the things, like, JR, coach JR. Says We

Joey Rosen:

haven't even yeah. We've Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

We've seen

Joey Rosen:

him in the last year. He actually

Shane Burgos:

moved into moved moved down to South Carolina, so I haven't been with him for a while. So I I miss him, but I'm gonna go visit him soon. But he really instilled that outwork everyone mentality in me where I was like, oh, man. That that that quote hits different, man. Outwork everyone.

Shane Burgos:

Like, he has a bunch of t shirts that say it. I'm like, that I love that quote. And Yeah. I I took that into my training camps and I full full force, a 100%. I did leave no stone unturned.

Shane Burgos:

When I say outwork everyone, I mean, like, outwork them, not just in the gym, but I'm I'm counting every macro I eat. My my brother says, do you wanna try this? I'm like, I don't know the macros in it. I can't try it. I don't wanna make my weight cut any harder.

Shane Burgos:

No, I don't wanna try it.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Like, do you outwork everyone in something, like, he put that he, like, pounded that into my head, like, subconsciously, not even on purpose or anything. They just quotes all over the gym, and then he always says that. And I'm, like, dude, I love that quote. That's something I, like, I'll live by. Like, I'll die by.

Shane Burgos:

And you could translate that to any part of life. Yeah. Like, but I took that into my training camps.

Joey Rosen:

Any type of work.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Any type of work.

Shane Burgos:

100%. But I took that into my training camps, and I was like, I'm gonna out train this dude. I'm gonna out sleep him. I'm gonna out eat him. Everything.

Shane Burgos:

Everything. Every every edge I can get, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to get.

Drew Beech:

That's the it's funny you say that. That's the where at work everybody gets lost a lot. It's it applies to things other than in the gym.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Like, people get caught up in the at work. It's like just the physical world.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. But

Drew Beech:

like you said, it's like out sleeping, out out out training, out eating, out Visualizing, out praying, out meditating. Add everything.

Shane Burgos:

I should've added that 1 now.

Joey Rosen:

Add everything.

Drew Beech:

That's the truth, though, dude. Like, that's that's there's more there's more to the work.

Shane Burgos:

I would like

Joey Rosen:

to have Kosher on show.

Drew Beech:

Oh, yeah.

Joey Rosen:

I just I just

Shane Burgos:

sent him that I was here.

Joey Rosen:

So If he makes if he makes, he's

Drew Beech:

gonna be pissed.

Shane Burgos:

He's gonna be.

Joey Rosen:

Well, you want your

Shane Burgos:

clue back for this. Now he's gonna be on solid, man.

Joey Rosen:

I'm remiss, man. 1 thing that I didn't mention was, like, how grateful we are. We kinda jump right into it. How great grateful we are for your belief in us and his belief too, like, what we're doing, because yous were believing in us. And the message we were putting out there Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

Before it was, like, super popular. Right? We we we

Shane Burgos:

started with your where is it? Is it here? The

Shane Burgos:

Everybody wants to eat fuel hunt. We started with that banner just hanging in the gym.

Joey Rosen:

Or you delete dude. It was all the banners. Like, every banner we had was hanging in there.

Shane Burgos:

That's such a dope story.

Drew Beech:

I remember the first Zoom call too. Like, it was like before about yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

And then we collected all, and we had all all the banners hanging in the gym. Man, I missed that gym, bro. I was gonna give you teary eyed. Right. Literally down the street from that gym.

Drew Beech:

I know.

Shane Burgos:

It was like that. Walk to the gym. Now it's Somebody

Joey Rosen:

took it over? Yeah. It's another gym now. That's how

Shane Burgos:

it works. Now it's like a kick boxing gym or something.

Joey Rosen:

Kept the banners

Shane Burgos:

in there, man. Keep the magic out. In his home gym now. He's home gym. Okay.

Shane Burgos:

Okay. Got you.

Joey Rosen:

I got you. Yeah. We gotta we gotta, since his move, we haven't spoken as much. We gotta get

Drew Beech:

him on the show. We're we're in the DM's on Instagram a lot. Okay. They got him on Instagram. After it.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yep. Good.

Joey Rosen:

I would expect I mean, he's got a great he's got a great story too with, you know, starting up illegally everything.

Shane Burgos:

And turned it into his massive gym.

Joey Rosen:

That would be amazing. Is there anything we're gonna bring this in for a landing. Is there anything that we didn't touch, that you wanna you wanna talk about? No?

Shane Burgos:

Off the top of my head? No. I mean, 1 thing that's cool that, for me, like, being a dad, like, especially a girl dad, like, girls are my girls are girly. They're girly girls. They're girly girls.

Shane Burgos:

Especially, like, my my oldest 1, she, like, girly stuff. Like, all I think everything that's girly. I mean, now I'm saying I might get canceled for saying this nowadays. Everything that's girly, she's into pain in your nerves.

Drew Beech:

This is her no

Joey Rosen:

cancel zone. Yeah. This is no testing, man.

Shane Burgos:

Like, gym like, gymnastics, all that girly stuff. But she had a a mile run 2 weeks ago. Mhmm. And she she hates running. Like, in gym, they were making they were, like, training her for running.

Shane Burgos:

They were make like, all all the class. They're just running in circles. So, like, for a kid, that's not really fun. Like Why? I love that.

Drew Beech:

I mean mad at math. They weren't. I

Shane Burgos:

I I'm like I'm

Drew Beech:

sure yeah. I'm sure the gym teacher got some letters. Like, don't make my kid work though.

Shane Burgos:

A 100%. A 100%. So so she's running and she's like, dad, I hate gym. Every Monday Wednesday, we have gym. I hate gym.

Shane Burgos:

I hate gym. I'm like, why? All we do is run now because we're getting training for the for the mile run. I was like, that's awesome. I was like, that's the that that's good.

Shane Burgos:

I was like, you know, when you're when you're working out, that's how you, like, you're you're getting stronger. What what what she's like, I know. I know. I just hate it. This is so boring.

Shane Burgos:

I'm like, I understand being 7 years old. I do not I was I was a bum when I was that age. Like, I'm you make me run. I'm not running. I'm walking.

Shane Burgos:

Right?

Joey Rosen:

Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

So but, anyways, she's dreading the smile run to the point where she's like, I don't wanna do it. I don't wanna do it. I hate it. I wanna do it. She's like, dad, can we just not go to school that day?

Shane Burgos:

Can we just not go

Joey Rosen:

to school?

Shane Burgos:

And, like, the I was like, you're going so hard not wanting to do this is making me say that you have to do it.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. You're happy.

Shane Burgos:

She's like, I don't want to. I don't want to. She starts praying that, like, she she prays. So she's like, just grandchild, please please don't let run. Thursday comes.

Shane Burgos:

She's like, tomorrow's the raw run. Like, you know yeah. You're going. She's like, I know. I know.

Shane Burgos:

So she's she's like, alright. I know. I know. Let's not talk about it. And Friday morning comes.

Shane Burgos:

She's getting ready for breakfast, and I was like, today's tomorrow running. And and the parents are allowed to go watch, so this is cool. So I'm like, oh, I'm yeah. I'm gonna be there for watching you. She's like, yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I'm actually I think I'm excited about it. I was like, dad, like, I'm actually pretty this is gonna be kinda fun. Like, you're all gonna come. We're gonna watch us. I was like, yeah.

Shane Burgos:

I was like, I I can't wait. You're gonna do great. Kick off first place. No. She beat the boys and the girls' house.

Drew Beech:

She ran 7 minute mile.

Shane Burgos:

Freaking good. I started running the last lap with her. I was like, bro, that's the proudest dad moment I ever had. Like, I'm getting teary eyed just talking about it.

Drew Beech:

Like, the proudest. I was

Shane Burgos:

like, this kid went from literally praying that she doesn't wanna do this. Yeah. And she just freaking smoked it in the 1st place. I'm, like, beat the boys.

Joey Rosen:

Do you realize what that does for her confidence and everything? I mean, dude, like, nothing else, like, I keep popping up all

Shane Burgos:

the time. I'm like, do you even know what you just did? I'm like, I keep telling him, like, yeah. It's pretty cool.

Drew Beech:

I say so many cliches to Parker, my son. Like, it's only the 1 thing we you said, like, it's hard. Like, that's what he says. It's hard. I'm like, hard is good.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

And that he gets I know. I know. I feel I hope that 1 day he's

Shane Burgos:

gonna. 1 of the other thing I say to my kid every day before she goes to school is, it's a great day to have a great day. Yeah. And she said, I don't wanna go to school today. It's a great day to have a great day.

Shane Burgos:

And then I remember 1 time, she was going to school. I was like, alright. I see it. I love you. She's like, it's a great day to have a great day.

Shane Burgos:

Right?

Drew Beech:

I was like, wow.

Shane Burgos:

Yes. It is. Yes. Yes. It is.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. That's we're it's

Joey Rosen:

like crazy.

Drew Beech:

I was

Joey Rosen:

I'm watching a lot of pep talk.

Drew Beech:

How much of the In the Jeep too. How much of, like, we are, like, I in Parker's baseball hatch would be great. Yes.

Joey Rosen:

And,

Drew Beech:

like, you're really back in mind when I wasn't home in 1 day. Like, it's just, like, cool

Shane Burgos:

and shit like that. Old were you

Drew Beech:

when you had your son? I was 24. I was, like, it's, like, kinda,

Shane Burgos:

ready for 1?

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Not at all.

Shane Burgos:

Not at all.

Joey Rosen:

Same same thing.

Shane Burgos:

Like, I I plan to have mine, but, like, I was not meant like, mature enough to have a kid at that age. Like, I I grew up with her, but now I'm like, man and if I could turn back time, I'd do some things differently for sure, but I'm so I wasn't really proud of the dad that that I was back in then because I didn't know how to be a dad at 25 years old. You know what I mean?

Joey Rosen:

Be a saint.

Shane Burgos:

Right? Yeah. A lot of people don't talk about this, I mean, that's like

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. I'll go, like, 1 step further. Like, I don't think dads even when they're older. Like, I didn't I had my my first daughter, Everly, when I was how was that, 30 maybe? And even then, like, I still had to grow up with her.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. You know

Joey Rosen:

what I mean?

Shane Burgos:

Because you've never been a dad before. You can't you can't teach something like that. Not a

Drew Beech:

lot of people. I don't think

Joey Rosen:

No manual.

Drew Beech:

No. Take the pride in being fathers and raising the strong leaders, strong

Shane Burgos:

men Exactly.

Drew Beech:

That we do or people members of the few do.

Shane Burgos:

I completely agree with that. I think there's dads and there's fathers. Yeah. Dads and fathers. Like, anybody could be a dad but a like a a father.

Shane Burgos:

Somebody I want my kid to say that's that's my dad.

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah? That he him. Yeah. That's my dad. And then I want I want her to be like, you're gonna be my husband?

Shane Burgos:

Like, you're close to my dad. He's absolutely right. To be Exactly. And I didn't really think about stuff like that until I got a little bit older, but I'm happy that, like, I'm I'm proud of the dad I am now. Maybe.

Shane Burgos:

I really am. I really I think you guys are great dad. Check it out. I can just see it. I've I was not proud of who I was

Joey Rosen:

as of

Shane Burgos:

I was like, I guess I'm a good dad. I was, like, I don't really think about it too much. Bro, I had I think about it so much now.

Joey Rosen:

I had signals crossed.

Shane Burgos:

Wait. I I

Joey Rosen:

had the wrong idea of what a good dad was. And I have that same distinction of, like, dad and father. Like, I'm her father.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. You know

Joey Rosen:

what I mean? My daughter's father. You know what I mean?

Drew Beech:

When I'm

Joey Rosen:

sorry to cut off.

Drew Beech:

Well, it's funny you said, like, like, not being excited, like, not being ready. When Amanda told me she was pregnant, but she was like a cute, like, like, I don't know if, like, like, a Melissa gave you, like, a, like, a box that said, like, oh, we're pregnant. Like, she like that. But a man went to the doctors, like, a routine checkup, and they were like, they came in. Like, I'll pee in this cup just in case, blah blah blah.

Drew Beech:

And she said, okay. Like, is that like a formality? She's like, yeah. Like, everyone does it. And the nurse called it, like, honey, you pregnant.

Drew Beech:

Ativanis. And then it's like, you have the wrong room.

Shane Burgos:

You were there too? No.

Drew Beech:

No. No. It's just she I'm at the gym, and she I I, like, get in my car, and I get a text Amanda, Drew, I'm pregnant. And I'm like, what? I'll text her back.

Drew Beech:

Like, oh, fuck you. Like, get ready. Like, good good joke. Like, and she's like, I'm not fucking kidding. And I'm like, we always, like, show that that's, like, out.

Drew Beech:

That was our announcement or whatever. Yeah. But, in hindsight, that's wasn't ready. And I wish I I said the other day, I wish I could go back and be, like, excited rather than scared. Like, I was so scared.

Shane Burgos:

Dude, dude, I got complete.

Drew Beech:

But no, I love being at that more than anything now. And it's like now I'd be so if I found if I knew what I knew then. You do now. Back then, I would have been so excited.

Shane Burgos:

If you can get, like, a glimpse, like, this is what it's gonna look like. Yeah. And you can if you can get, like, a glimpse of the feelings. Exactly. Tell you.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I'm saying, like, you see your kid run that mile, she gets 1st place. I'm telling you that, but you're not feeling like, I'm feeling it just telling you the story. You know what I'm saying?

Joey Rosen:

Like, the few that are watching, listen and don't have kids yet, even us saying sitting here saying, like, oh, being a dad's the best. You don't you really

Shane Burgos:

don't know until you're in that moment. More cliche. Yeah. Don't know until you feel.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Or saying my son win a wrestling match or a jujitsu. Like, it did. Sean said to me the other day, he's like he's like, I get so high watching, like, my my nephew doing jujitsu. I can imagine your own kid.

Shane Burgos:

I'm I'm I feel like I was meant to have sons, and I have no sons. This is crazy, but I was like, maybe god intended me to have a daughter daughter so I could soften up a little bit because it's definitely softened

Joey Rosen:

me up

Shane Burgos:

in in in some regards. But I'm like, damn, it would have been it would have been cool to raise, like, AAA man, but on the other side, I'm gonna raise girls that have stupid high standards Yeah. Realistic standards.

Joey Rosen:

But strength.

Shane Burgos:

Exactly. Stupid high standards and self confidence and self worth.

Joey Rosen:

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Drew Beech:

I, you can understand what it was. Girl, that's but, when we were No.

Joey Rosen:

I'm trying to keep it together today. We talk about too much girl, but I still wanna lose it.

Shane Burgos:

But we can't start

Drew Beech:

When we didn't know we were having we were, like, working out 1 day, I was, like, I, like, daydreamed and I, envisioned having a girl. I'm like, like, 0 to 16 seems amazing.

Shane Burgos:

Ah, 13 maybe.

Drew Beech:

Oh, yeah.

Joey Rosen:

I was gonna say, brother. It's it's much sooner than

Drew Beech:

I was like, oh my god. I could see myself having a girl. Like, this might be awesome. I'll I'll never have a a father daughter dance, so that's kinda sad.

Joey Rosen:

Alright.

Shane Burgos:

So yeah.

Drew Beech:

But but I was and I started thinking about, like, her bringing her my first boyfriend.

Shane Burgos:

Oh, man. I got you. Story, bro.

Drew Beech:

Like, this asshole. You're some dude you wanna punch in the fucking mouth.

Joey Rosen:

I I should bet.

Drew Beech:

Not like that always happens.

Joey Rosen:

I just had a conversation, like, my, my daughter's gonna be 8. They're already they're already doing a boyfriend girlfriend thing.

Drew Beech:

Oh.

Joey Rosen:

Has it now my kids are in Catholic school. Right?

Drew Beech:

Like Oh, god.

Joey Rosen:

They're staying they're holding the line. Catholic school is holding the line.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. They're trying. But

Shane Burgos:

That's right.

Joey Rosen:

They're they're doing boyfriend girlfriend thing already. Right? And, like, my wife's like, oh, you know, I I heard this thing, like, you know, this this boy this boy, they got a crush on Everly and, like, they're kinda, like, they're, like, worrying about it and everything. And, like, my immediate thought goes to their dads. I'm, like, alright.

Joey Rosen:

Look, I still beat their dads up. So, like, we're good.

Shane Burgos:

I got stories

Drew Beech:

for that.

Shane Burgos:

That's that's perfect.

Drew Beech:

So Alrighty.

Joey Rosen:

Yo. My my wife's like my wife's like, what did you just say? And I'm like, look. You don't understand.

Shane Burgos:

I tell you. Like a

Joey Rosen:

girl dad, dude. Like, that's that's the thought that goes through your mind. Like, alright. Look. This this kid's too young for me to beat up.

Joey Rosen:

So

Shane Burgos:

I gotta

Joey Rosen:

I gotta can I take can I take his dad?

Shane Burgos:

Long story short, my kid was getting bullied by somebody, and I was, like, like, I'm not joking. Tell her I'm gonna beat her dad up if she doesn't stop. I'm gonna tell her, and she told her. Next day, my dad said he's gonna beat your dad up. You know, stop.

Shane Burgos:

Let's go. And tell me get Instagram, message me.

Joey Rosen:

So I'm

Shane Burgos:

not doing that stuff. But but I do see photos.

Joey Rosen:

The same thing. Yeah. No. I'm far from that.

Shane Burgos:

I have a

Joey Rosen:

bad dad. I have a lowly, lowly, But I had the same a similar instance. And, my daughter, Everly, is, like, super confident. You said self confidence, self worth. Right?

Joey Rosen:

Those are things that I've been instilling in her as soon as I figured out I should, which maybe was when she was around 4. Right? Because I had

Shane Burgos:

to grow up a little

Drew Beech:

bit Yeah. Yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. Yes. While she

Joey Rosen:

was growing. Exactly. So she had a similar instance. Like, she, like, literally bypassed the friend and went right to the dad and was like, hey. Guess what?

Joey Rosen:

I spoke my dad, and this is what, you know, I gotta do. And I'm

Shane Burgos:

like Let's go. Let's go. Yes. Yes.

Joey Rosen:

I love it. But it's 1 of those it's 1 of those, it's 1 of those things, man. It's like 2 games,

Shane Burgos:

wins 2 prizes.

Drew Beech:

Let them know.

Joey Rosen:

Let them know. Exactly. We could go on. I real I wanted to hit on grow that stuff, so I'm I'm glad that, you brought it up.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I wrote. Yeah.

Joey Rosen:

And I think we hit on just enough of it that I didn't cry. So that's good.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. It's good.

Drew Beech:

The web

Shane Burgos:

is almost I almost did, but

Drew Beech:

it's good for the

Shane Burgos:

a little bit.

Joey Rosen:

This is good. This is good. Alright. We're we're gonna tie this up. The community, like I said, you're you're on the show with us.

Joey Rosen:

Every single show, you're sitting in front of your likeness, man. But where can they find you? They know where to find you. Okay.

Drew Beech:

Before that, what's next for Shane Burgers? What's the what's in the future?

Shane Burgos:

So I'm actually looking to move in Florida this summer Mhmm. Before the school year starts for my oldest daughter. So it's June now. So by August, we'll

Joey Rosen:

You'll be there.

Shane Burgos:

We'll be down in Florida.

Joey Rosen:

I saw the foreshadowing in your stories. Like, hey.

Shane Burgos:

It's been dude, I've looked all over the place. I'm tired of looking. I'm like, you know what? I'm dead set and I did. All the signs are are are leading me.

Shane Burgos:

It's Florida. We live in Florida.

Joey Rosen:

Nice. Nice. But we'll like I said, before the show, we'll see you there for growth and grappling.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. I can't wait.

Joey Rosen:

And that's October. Right? October?

Shane Burgos:

October. Yeah. We'll be

Joey Rosen:

down there in October. And, also, 1 thing I didn't mention is my oldest daughter is obsessed with Florida. She thinks Florida is the only place that has these 3 things. Lizard well, she's she's girly, super girly, but she's also, like, kinda, like, tomboyish a little bit.

Shane Burgos:

That's

Joey Rosen:

cool. Lizards, palm trees, and coconut. She thinks that Florida is the only place that has it.

Shane Burgos:

She's come down. Come down.

Joey Rosen:

So we're we're down there once a year. That's awesome. Yeah. We'll

Drew Beech:

we'll we'll see

Joey Rosen:

you down there. We'll we'll hook up for sure. We'll hook up for sure. So the move. Big move.

Joey Rosen:

And, you mentioned, earlier that no rush to fight at the moment.

Shane Burgos:

They haven't hit me up, so I'm like, everything happens for a reason. Like, I I'm gonna be on the super fight series waiting for the for the date for that. I'm assuming around the end of the the the season finale. So I'm assuming around then. But right now, I'm just focused on getting my family situated down there.

Drew Beech:

Yep. Going from there.

Joey Rosen:

Priorities, dude.

Drew Beech:

That's what

Joey Rosen:

I was about. First. So where can, as I say sorry about that. Good good stop. Where can even though the community already knows, where can the community find you?

Shane Burgos:

You guys find me on Instagram at hurricane Shane underscore. My Twitter got hacked a while ago, so I haven't been on Twitter. But, that's about it.

Drew Beech:

It's probably for the best. Twitter's, like, kind of a black hole anymore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

It's dangerous world.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah. Yeah. It's dangerous out there. Alright, gang. Shane, thank you so much for for joining us, man.

Joey Rosen:

Very grateful for your belief in us since the beginning, man, for you making the trek down here to Philly, gritty city of Philly. It's a little bit of a ride for you, man. Utmost gratitude for you and wishing, you and your family the best in the move

Shane Burgos:

as always. You guys. Appreciate you having me. You guys been awesome this entire time.

Joey Rosen:

We didn't even go through a tour HQ. We're so high paced on these days, but yeah.

Shane Burgos:

Yeah. It's been awesome.

Joey Rosen:

Yeah, man. Alright. I'll leave the, few with something to remember. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Let's do it. Let's do it.

Joey Rosen:

Right?

Drew Beech:

Ready.

Shane Burgos:

I thought you were gonna say something. You good? No. No. No.

Joey Rosen:

You wanna sign up?

Drew Beech:

No. No. No. Wait.

Joey Rosen:

I think you wanna sign up.

Drew Beech:

Alright. To the few, always choose effort over entitlement. Always choose hard work over handouts. And remember, no 1 owns you. No 1 owes you.

Drew Beech:

You're 1 of the few.

Shane Burgos:

Let's hunt.