Speaker 1 0:42

Hey Danielle, you fit a little chilly today, frozen. Well, it makes sense because we have JD Iceman, the Melodies are chilly. Yeah, yeah, ice cold.

Speaker 3 0:53

Ice cold Not stone cold, ice cold.

Speaker 1 0:56

So this is our first time having a strong man in the studio. Yeah, so strong, so strong. Oh well, okay, aside from Brock, yeah.

Speaker 3 1:05

No.

Speaker 1 1:07

But we have a special guest today JD Iceman.

Speaker 2 1:09

What's up? What's up how?

Speaker 1 1:11

are you?

Speaker 2 1:11

today. I'm good. I'm good. I hate to be in the same room as Brock, because we actually work a lot together. The worst part about that is people don't know that I have a twin and they're like oh, we didn't know. You know what I mean. So it's really.

Speaker 1 1:21

Were you the twin that took, like all the like nutrients?

Speaker 2 1:25

All the fat? Yeah, I did Brock, he's a ball of health and I'm just the 370 pounder.

Speaker 1 1:33

Is that how much you weigh?

Speaker 2 1:34

That's how much I weigh High blood pressure. Hashtag.

Speaker 1 1:37

So okay, hashtag High blood pressure, come on, okay, so you're a strong man Just kidding. You've been on America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent.

Speaker 2 1:46

America's Got Talent, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, italy's Got Talent, romania's Got Talent I was actually the finalist on Germany's Got Talent. I was on Spain's Got Talent, the All Stars, mexico's Got Talent, mtv's Amazingness with Rob Dierdek, the Go Big Show on TBS, the Gong Show on ABC. And I tell you that because I'm insecure. What else I'm not. Show the shows.

Speaker 1 2:10

Wow, so that's awesome. You have a lot of experience being on television.

Speaker 2 2:14

A lot of shows, a lot of shows 25. I just finished my 25th television show, spain's Got Talent, and in January I'm going to risk my life. God, I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm going to Turkey to do Arabs Got Talent. Wow, hopefully they don't cut my head off with the chainsaw.

Speaker 1 2:31

Okay, so you could break the chainsaw.

Speaker 2 2:33

I don't know, you guys are brutal.

Speaker 3 2:35

So I have a question. Hit me, you're on it.

Speaker 2 2:39

She got offended by that a little bit. I felt it. You're a little too far away from me. I was going to actually hit her. I'll just throw something at you, yeah.

Speaker 3 2:44

Here's a phone book here, I'll throw it. You ripped it in half, right? Yes, tell me a little bit about how you get on. Do you not have to be like Italian to be on Italy's Got Talent and that sort of thing? How does that?

Speaker 2 2:56

work. Can you believe it? You don't.

Speaker 2 2:58

It's just some of those talent, so now all these shows have been around so long. They even America's Got Talent. They're bringing people in from other countries. All right, they just started doing that in the last few years. But yeah, other shows they just bring you in and they're like we got to find. They of all these other countries. A lot of them are smaller, so we've seen every act there is yeah, we got to, we got to expand because we're running out of juice here in Italy. So they're like we never seen a strong man do the ice breaking.

Speaker 1 3:22

Do you blow their mind?

Speaker 2 3:23

Well, I saw the video, there's been a couple of times I did, I really did, I really did. Well, that had great reactions. I'm not awesome, but I'm awesome. I'm just kidding. No, huh, I think you're awesome.

Speaker 3 3:35

I think you're awesome.

Speaker 2 3:35

So in certain countries, when they haven't seen it, it's just an extra big pop.

Speaker 1 3:39

So you're like this is awesome yeah, so you hold a Guinness World Book record.

Speaker 2 3:44

Yeah, I broke my first record in 2012. I ran through the world's largest wall of ice blocks with my body to preface this. All Guinness World Records are silly and dumb, all right, all right. So I got a call and they're like hey, why don't you break your record on a show called true TV or TV station called true TV? So I did, I got in the book and after that I got invited to go to Milan, broke another record for the most ice blocks broken with my head and arms. In 60 seconds 120 ice blocks oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 4:12

Now, how big are these ice blocks? Well, they're like how thick are they? When I run through.

Speaker 2 4:16

they're pretty thick, I mean they're just big old slabs of ice all stacked in like a bunch of dominoes and I just run through it, it's kind of a weird but.

Speaker 3 4:24

It's kind of weird, but it's really weird. It's what I do.

Speaker 2 4:27

It is what I do, it's how.

Speaker 3 4:28

I live.

Speaker 2 4:29

I've actually it's become my signature thing. They're like, hey, come on, so that's fine.

Speaker 3 4:34

All right, you are cold as ice. I'll become the signature of the dumb stuff.

Life's Journey and Pursuing Dreams

Speaker 2 4:37

You're going to become the. What I'll be, the. I'll be the signature guy for the dumb, silly stuff.

Speaker 1 4:42

No, I think it's awesome. I do have a. I want to rewind way back to your childhood.

Speaker 2 4:46

Did you ever do?

Speaker 1 4:48

Yeah, well, a little bit.

Speaker 2 4:49

No, let's go talk about when I was born. Okay, I was born, I'm not kidding. My mom had me, naturally, 11 pounds, 15 and a half ounces, one half ounce from 12 pounds those of you can't count or measure or weigh whatever, I'm saying 24 and a quarter inches long. She's still in bed recovering to this day. My dad hates me. Everything was true except the last part.

Speaker 3 5:11

Oh my goodness, wow, my kids were like six pounds.

Speaker 1 5:15

Oh, mine were like seven. Yeah, oh, wow, my mom, she made a big baby, I don't know what she's trying to prove she decided to stop having children after that point.

Speaker 2 5:25

Oh, yeah, yeah, okay, I just want you to ruin it for her.

Speaker 4 5:28

You ruined her body.

Speaker 3 5:29

I tease my kids, I say you ruined my body.

Speaker 1 5:32

Well, they're like, I had no choice.

Speaker 3 5:34

Yeah, they're like sorry, if we had to come out, I did so.

Speaker 2 5:36

I was like I'm a really girl.

Speaker 1 5:39

What did you want to be when you grew up, did you?

Speaker 2 5:40

always, I don't know. I want to be a lot of things. When I was a kid, I was a fat kid, right that makes sense. So I want to be a chef. When I was younger, I used to watch Emeril Lagasse on Food Network. Oh really Back in the day, all these, back when I was a kid, they started making these food shows, kind of like entertaining, you know what I mean. Like kind of getting in Bam.

Speaker 3 6:00

Bam yeah, kate up a notch.

Speaker 2 6:04

Oh, that had the apron, the whole thing is. I loved it. Got a little older, started lifting weights and then kind of just went from the weight lifting thing Got pretty good shape. I don't know anymore, but I used to be better looking. I love youth. I've seen some people get actually better looking as they get older. I'm not one of them actually, but yeah, I just kind of just yeah.

Speaker 1 6:23

Danielle is like I am I'm a fine wine. I age.

Speaker 3 6:28

I've been told that, though Actually my husband says that all the time.

Speaker 1 6:31

You age like a fine wine.

Speaker 3 6:33

No, he says, I've gotten better looking. Oh well, yes, you have.

Speaker 1 6:36

I thought you were going to say he's a pickup line. Hey baby, you've aged like a fine wine or something like that, I mean he's going to now after he hears you saying that. Oh, Jeff, you should say that I would agree, I would agree.

Speaker 3 6:47

We interrupted.

Speaker 1 6:47

All right, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 6:49

No, I started working out and I kind of I should be bigger and stronger. You know blah, blah. And then 2009,. I was working on a river in Missouri loading canoes and shirt off get my tan. This guy who's a member of the power team it was a group of strong men go around and they do shows at churches and school programs. They do feats of strength, break baseball bats in half, do all these things and he goes. He was the vice president of that group and he goes. Man, you ever thought about doing that? It's like no, and he goes. I think you'd be really good. So in that time of my life I'd never really traveled anywhere. So two weeks later I was living in Dallas, texas, getting trained to be a strong man for this power team group.

Speaker 3 7:29

That's impressive.

Speaker 2 7:31

It was who's tough. How old were you when that? I was 21. 21? 35 now? It was one of the toughest things I've done learning how to do the strong man stunts, breaking bricks with my head. It was terrible. It was the worst thing ever.

Speaker 3 7:43

I almost quit. Actually, did you get any concussions while you were training? I don't remember, yeah.

Speaker 2 7:50

But no, it's. I've had so many injuries. I've had 2014,. I did America's Got Talent and I made it to the third TV round which is pretty good for a strong man and I ran through all of eyes standing ovation, 10,000 people, and I went home and I heard my back so bad I couldn't walk for five months.

Speaker 1 8:04

Oh my.

Speaker 2 8:05

God, that was the worst time my whole life, right. So I did everything acupuncture, chiropractic massage, you name it. I did it. Nothing was helping me. So I limped into a neurosurgeon and I took me like I had it basically crawled in there. So, dude, I need back surgery, or you don't give it to me, I'll find someone else who will take my money. I'm in agony Five months. I'm going crazy. He goes, man, I'll give it to you. But how long have you had this injury? I said five months. And he goes. Statistically, those who have what you have get better with it at the six month mark. I said I don't give a crap about the six month mark, I'm going nuts. I mean, I need help.

Speaker 2 8:42

Anyway, fast forward, I scheduled a surgery. A friend of mine started working at this guy's office. It was a chiropractor and I said he said don't have surgery, come see this guy. And I said chiropractors don't work for this. I've already tried it. It was a different kind of chiropractic it was called chiropractic biophysics, where they actually reshape your spine, putting you in all these pulleys and pushing and shoving or forcing your spine into correct shape, because I didn't have the correct curves in my back. Anyway, I did that very painful and I healed 100%. Wow, yeah, and it was legit. It was the most painful thing I've ever done. The idea is, when your spine is in its natural shape and form, it's designed to be super strong, hold a lot of pressure, hold a lot of weight. It's not in its correct shape and form, which I beat myself to death in these blocks and I've just damaged myself. It caused you to be weak, have slim discs, smash your nerves, weakness in your legs, all that.

Speaker 4 9:29

So that's kind of what I had.

Speaker 2 9:30

Wow, your spine, the correct shape. All that stuff came back and all the pain went away. So that was eight years ago. I've done a million shows since then and about four weeks ago I started having the same problem again Agony agony. And this type of chiropractic is few and far between in the country.

Speaker 3 9:49

Wow.

Speaker 2 9:50

There's one in Springdale and it's called peak posture and performance and it's exactly what I did last time. So that's what I'm doing now. Okay, it's terrible, it hurts so bad. Oh, people see the coolest stuff, they see the glory, but they don't see the back part of it, like if you've been injured. I'm like, oh gosh, feel me new. So is it worth it? Man, that's a good question. A 20-some? I would have been like, yeah, love it. No, I think it's worth it, while back when I did Britain's Got Talent, I'm like, what else can I do? But this is my first time performing for Simon Cowell.

Speaker 1 10:26

And I'm like this guy's the king right.

Speaker 2 10:28

Right.

Speaker 3 10:28

You can impress him.

Speaker 1 10:29

You can impress anybody.

Speaker 3 10:30

Yeah, true.

Speaker 2 10:31

So this is about a year and a half ago and I went, gave my best, did my things, standing ovation 4,000 people. Simon Cowell stood up. He loved it. For moments like that it's worth it, because I'm sitting there like you've impressed Simon Cowell Once in a lifetime opportunities I'm just soaking it in, you know? Yeah, awesome, so fun. Yeah, you can't, I'm just an average guy, but in those moments you're the man for just a second.

Speaker 1 10:54

Yeah, and it's awesome.

Speaker 2 10:56

Everything. She's like star. You're like you only do you know. But yeah, it's worth it, and those moments are worth it, because come back and just have those memories. I think it's. Yeah, it's still worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 11:06

I don't want to be like everybody else.

Speaker 2 11:07

you know, Like just you know, just kind of go through the flow of life and I want to be different in some way than everybody else. You know what I mean. Yeah, Everybody I know, just go to work come home, go to work, come home. Families is something that well, I don't have any kids or anything like that, which never been married, but I've sacrificed that with awesome opportunities. So I don't regret those other two things.

Speaker 3 11:28

That's awesome. That's really awesome. Life is short. Yeah, it's really short. It is so short, crazy.

Speaker 2 11:35

It is crazy, it's by fast. I hate that it does go by fast.

Speaker 3 11:36

I know so you got to live your best life. Yeah, you live it.

Speaker 2 11:40

Do the things you want to do, and enjoy it. So many things you know people try to get. They're all wrapped up in. You know, whatever it is politically or whatever, I mean I'm just trying to just do my thing and my life. You know, that stuff, that stuff cares anyway, it doesn't make any difference. Like, go out there and just have a good time and create some good memories. When I'm old. If I do have kids or something, show them some neat videos, That'll be awesome.

Speaker 3 12:04

I know my kids are going to be jealous when they find out who I met today.

Speaker 2 12:07

Oh, you know it's. We do a lot of school programs Bronca and I had. It was cool to be able. When I was younger I kind of jumped all over my brains a little wacky. But when I was younger I was learning to speak in school programs. I was 21. So I didn't have anything to say to these kids. I'm not a kind of kid myself, you know.

Speaker 1 12:25

Yeah.

Speaker 2 12:26

They'd be like we have a high school program. Today You're going to talk in high school. I'm like, I'm barely older than they are. What the heck these kids are 19.

Speaker 3 12:33

Don't do drugs kids Right, Like what am I going to say?

Speaker 1 12:36

It scrambles your brain Right.

Powerful Prison Ministry Testimonials

Speaker 2 12:39

Now that I'm older, you know speaking to them, you can actually really talk to them about, you know, based on life you've lived. So now it's kind of cool doing all these things and you don't just go and tell them, hey, dream big, and blah, blah, blah. It's cool that you get to go in there and say, hey, dream big. But and they can say, well, he's not just saying that, he's doing it too. So that's what's really cool.

Speaker 3 12:58

That is really cool. Who is your favorite audience to perform to? Favorite audience, like if you could pick, not necessarily like, maybe not necessarily a memory, but just even just the type of audience, what audience makeup or love performing for kids or adults, or on a stage. Like what audience? What's your ideal audience to perform? That's crazy, the double I've done a lot of shows in prisons.

Speaker 1 13:25

Really yeah.

Speaker 2 13:27

You go and encourage the prisoners, right, and they love that because they appreciate it more than anybody Really, Because they're like the entertainment stuck in their cell, whatever.

Speaker 2 13:37

And they're like you're not thinking, oh, go on strong with him, you're just loving the entertainment. Yeah, they're going crazy. You know what you do with this stuff, so it's cool because they really appreciate you're there. Otherwise they usually be sitting in their cell, whatever. Yeah, just kind of go in and encourage them, whatever kind of. Let them know that never too late to get back on track. And you know, blah, blah, we've all made mistakes and whatever, but they love it. I mean, they're just locked in.

Speaker 2 14:01

It's crazy and these guys are bad dudes, but they just, they're just sitting there, but they absolutely man, thanks for coming. You know, I'm like, hey, no problem, that's really cool. Have a good day. I mean fluff, I mean any other blankets.

Speaker 3 14:15

Man, can you run through this wall right here? I don't think I can do that one.

Speaker 2 14:21

It's weird because they're just so appreciative so it's hard to describe. Until you experience it. You're like this is neat yeah.

Speaker 3 14:26

I've actually done I used to work in ministry and I've done prison ministry before like where you go and you talk to inmates and you tutor them or I mean lots of different things that you have an opportunity to and and I think it is very eye-opening and there's there's opportunity there to learn and and to pour in. So that's really cool. So much, so much pouring, you can do.

Speaker 2 14:47

Yeah, parity is a ministry too, so I mean, one of the guys in our group was a former Hell's Angel.

Speaker 2 14:53

Oh, wow, it's been 11 years in San Quentin prison. Wow yeah, the guy, like I, traveled and he was the biggest guy on the planet. I mean, he's just, he's just a bad guy, right, and he went to prison and he went from the meanest guy to the nicest guy on the planet and he gave it. He, he became a Christian and this guy still, he used to. He just wanted to tell everybody about, like Jesus man.

Speaker 3 15:19

I love that so much I could murder you, but I just wanted to tell you about your Lord and Savior. That's what he sounded like right, that was good I could do a good bad hand impersonation.

Speaker 2 15:31

Yeah, he was a huge dog chain around his neck, wow, like it was a. It was a massive chain but he wore like a necklace. Like a necklace, like tank top massive arms.

Speaker 3 15:41

Oh my God.

Speaker 2 15:42

And just he was like what the heck you know?

Speaker 3 15:44

And he was like we're meeting him after the show.

Speaker 2 15:47

No he actually died, oh yeah. Well, at least we know where he went there he was the coolest guy and, like I said, 315 pounds, just like an animal. So power team. The reason they did the feasts of strength to get the kids' attention motivated and go into churches get the people's attention and then they preach.

Speaker 2 16:05

He was his own spectacle, he didn't have to do anything. He just walked around, this big old, like huge mustache, like goatee, and everybody's like, oh my God, he's going to kill us. We'd be in these elevators, he'd be looking at me and be, like I'm just a kid at the time. So I was just having fun like, yeah, I was littler but I was still big. He was so big I could like run. I'd just like jump on him.

Speaker 2 16:28

He'd be like catch me, you're so silly. Yeah, so we'd be in the elevator. He'd be like somebody would get in. He'd be like hey, jd, should you tell him, or start telling him? I was like I don't know, should you tell him or should I tell him, because I don't know. Should you tell him or should I tell him? They'd be like tell us what, what the heck is going on. He'd be like tell me. He'd be like Jesus loves you. He was playing for your life.

Speaker 2 16:47

I'm like dang like but it was extra cool because he did it they were like thanks, he would do a whole thing.

Speaker 3 16:54

It was awesome, that is not what I expected to come out of your mouth.

Speaker 2 16:57

It was awesome. Yeah, he'd love. He wanted to tell everybody like that's really about Jesus and which was legit. He'd been shot. He'd been stabbed six times, shot three times in his life Back in the day. I shouldn't say this, but he went to prison because he there's a. I was molesting kids and he essentially told me you murdered the guy. He did. He said I made sure he never molested any other child again.

Speaker 1 17:24

I'm like I mean, he was like a dexter, yeah, he's like, he's like, I'm not psychotic.

Speaker 3 17:32

I told him. I told him he was going to quit. No, that's not right.

Speaker 2 17:35

No, I'm not, he was that time of my life I was mean and bad, but one thing and I was living bad for drugs and all kind of stuff he goes. But that one thing I didn't agree with he goes. So I ended it. I was like, and I'm like, really I'm like, are you sure you saved he's like in the bed next to me.

Speaker 3 17:52

I'm like are you like? I've never touched a child in my life, I've never looked at one ever.

Speaker 2 17:57

I close my eyes when they walk by.

Speaker 1 17:59

I like women in their thirties forties yeah yeah, double D's.

Speaker 3 18:03

Oh my goodness, but he went he was 315 pounds.

Speaker 2 18:07

I met him. He got cancer. He died 185 pounds. Whoa he really. Uh, cancer is the worst, Terrible yeah. And he last time he told me he's like hey, buddy, um, he's like getting tired, he's like. But I've learned there's all types of strength out there. There's physical strength that's how he's always the strongest he's like. There's mental strength that's how he's always pretty tough, he's like. But then there's the spiritual strength he's like I'm stronger than ever.

Speaker 1 18:33

He's like.

Speaker 2 18:34

I'm ready to go home. And he died a couple days later.

Speaker 3 18:36

That's amazing.

Speaker 2 18:37

He's like live your life, do your best and I'll be cheering you on for the grandstand, he said oh, that is a cool story.

Speaker 1 18:44

That is a cool story. It's so sad.

Speaker 2 18:46

I mean just so sad, of course, rip your heart out. I mean I hate it, but I like this redemption stories, especially when they're extraordinary.

Speaker 1 18:54

I feel like those people really have more of an impact than maybe someone that's always just been totally, that has never had like really crazy hardships or made really big mistakes. I know they are and then actually have come around legitimately to you just see it.

Speaker 2 19:11

I mean yeah round enough to know it's the real deal. Yeah crazy. And he went from being in prison where there's it's white people hang together, black people hanging together games. Mexicans are their own thing. You know he lived all these divisions and, like you know, he came out. He loved everybody, everybody, it didn't matter how the skin was, he loved everyone. Legitimately gave his testimony in a orange prison suit.

Speaker 3 19:36

Thank, you, thank you, up to the front. Wow, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 19:38

How tall was he? He's about six, three Dang. How tall are you? I was six two.

Speaker 1 19:43

Six two Wow. So, OK, that's tall, that's tall, that's tall but then there's Brock.

Speaker 3 19:50

You're a big man.

Speaker 1 19:52

What you call a Mr Testosterous.

Speaker 2 19:54

Can you bench? Press Brock Bro a hundred thousand times.

Speaker 3 20:01

I feel like he could bench press any of us honestly. Yeah, maybe not right now. Is back, I'm not doing it.

Speaker 2 20:07

I would have been true fun.

Speaker 1 20:08

What is the most you've been press? I'm just 500, my max 500.

Speaker 2 20:12

Yeah.

Speaker 3 20:13

He could bunch all of us yes.

Speaker 2 20:16

You know, the thing is I've never really trained just for a max bench press.

Speaker 1 20:20

Take us through. Like what you eat in a day. I'm curious.

Speaker 2 20:24

So right now I'm I'm so heavy, I said I'm like three, 70. I'm just massive and I eat too much. I feel like I don't even eat that much actually, I don't know.

Speaker 3 20:33

What's your favorite thing to eat? Just a big guy.

Speaker 2 20:35

I love pizza. Yeah, that's my favorite. I'm a fat guy, you know, at heart Worked out every day, even still injured. So try to work out every day, which is smart or not, I don't know.

Speaker 1 20:45

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:46

Last night of good winter steak. I get like a one pound steak and just something like that. I mean steak and potatoes and all that jazz.

Speaker 1 20:53

You're speaking my love language right now. I love steak and potatoes, and then a glass of wine.

Speaker 3 20:58

No, hers is hers is Elliot.

Speaker 2 21:00

Oh sorry, Elliot, my bad. Either way, you need Jeff to.

Speaker 1 21:05

Steak and potatoes pizza. Yeah.

Speaker 3 21:08

I love pizza.

Speaker 1 21:10

I mean, I guess some people don't that will vegan.

Speaker 3 21:12

Can I tell you, no, he likes pizza. He just likes the right kind of pizza the vegan pizza, the vegan pizza.

Speaker 2 21:18

I'll tell you, you said pizza when I went to Italy a few times. You went to Italy. Oh yeah, this is the most terrible thing to say. I mean, I might get murdered saying this in Italy. As an American and a pizza connoisseur in America, I went to Italy several times. Eight a million Italian pizzas and I really think, the worst pizza on the planet. I'm going to double down it's the worst pizza I've ever had. If you want to, if you want to face off with me I'm on social media I will battle you to the death on the fact that that pizza is terrible. He is going to die on that. No, I mean, isn't that the scariest thing I could have said?

Speaker 1 21:54

Right, what? Yes, no, I love that, though. I love this absolute statement.

Speaker 2 21:59

OK, so what is?

Speaker 1 21:59

the best pizza.

Speaker 2 22:01

I mean it's a meat, it's a meaty.

Speaker 1 22:03

Like a Chicago style or New York style, or like break oven.

Speaker 2 22:07

I love break oven.

Speaker 1 22:08

Yeah, that's my favorite. That's my favorite, that's a little crunch, little char.

Speaker 2 22:11

I love that Every now and then. I'll do a deep dish on the fat guy. I'll do a little pie type, whatever, not my favorite, get a little soft in the crust.

Speaker 4 22:20

I can messy.

Speaker 2 22:20

We're talking. I'm just saying I had no meat, I had cheese. They put nasty mushrooms on it, the weird crap, and I'm like give me a freaking like a, whatever Like a meat lover, supreme lover, supreme, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 22:36

Ok, give me some olives and onions and peppers. Oh, I love supreme. Yeah, so it was just so plain.

Speaker 2 22:42

Jane, do you want a brick in? What's those stupid little fish things? Anchovy, you want to enjoy pizza? I said don't ever talk to me like that again.

Speaker 3 22:52

I wish our listeners could see your face while I am recording.

Speaker 2 22:55

You know it was, it was.

Speaker 3 22:57

Don't ever talk to me Terrible.

Speaker 2 22:59

I mean, yeah, as Americanized, I'm ruined on the pizza game. It's fair.

Speaker 3 23:03

Yeah. What about the other food in Italy? Was that at least good, like the pasta?

Speaker 2 23:07

Yeah, yeah, it was pretty good. Pasta is good, pasta is good, it's really great. Oh, yeah, it was great.

Speaker 3 23:11

Nowhere else has a really good Italian food. Tell me so random West Virginia.

Speaker 4 23:15

Really I was in West Virginia for my film. I would never think about it.

Speaker 3 23:18

My documentary film. I was out there Speaking of cancer. I'm working in a documentary about cancer is filming a woman who is in hospice and she was Italian and I didn't know. It was like a very large Italian population and I had probably the best Italian food I've ever had in West Virginia.

Speaker 1 23:34

How random but cool Of all places. Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 23:37

Oh my gosh, the restaurant I went to. Like I could die after eating that meal.

Speaker 4 23:41

I was like I'm done, I'm finished. It was a really good meal, yeah, and you're ready to die.

Speaker 3 23:46

I mean, I'm not actually ready to die and I wasn't at that moment, but I'm just saying like if that had been my last meal, I would have died.

Speaker 1 23:52

What's better than good food? I mean, there's some other Italian food.

Speaker 2 23:56

You're in prison. Yes, a double D. What do you want to be your last meal? Your death row? How do you see it? I want West Virginia. It would be.

Speaker 4 24:04

Italian food Well so here's.

Speaker 3 24:05

The thing is that I am Italian, my grandma is 100% Italian, and so I mean she could cook, my mom could cook their dishes.

Speaker 1 24:13

We're just so what's your last meal?

Speaker 3 24:15

I'm gonna die for lasagna.

Speaker 1 24:17

Lasagna, I don't know, I'm Garfield, like it's fine.

Speaker 3 24:21

All right, I don't know. Cheese, cheese board. Lots of cheeses, every cheese.

Speaker 1 24:26

Because it wouldn't matter what happened to you later after you ate all those cheeses. Yeah, no, I mean, if I can't eat all the dairy.

Speaker 3 24:31

I don't have to worry about that Mind to adjust the track I just shot. Already it's fine.

Speaker 1 24:36

No, there's actually a TikTok account where it profiles have you seen this? That he goes through all like these death row people what they chose to eat. He ranks how good they're bad they are.

Speaker 3 24:45

Like one guy just wanted a huddle what their final meal is, yeah, and one of them guy just wanted a yogurt and he was like loser.

Speaker 1 24:54

He shoplifted.

Speaker 3 24:57

Only murderers want a good meal. I know, oh my God.

Speaker 1 25:00

This conversation is taking a very interesting time. I don't even want yogurt Like.

Speaker 2 25:04

I don't even live it Like when I know tomorrow's going to be here.

Speaker 3 25:09

All the cheese, which is to say cheese and meat, and I will die happy.

Speaker 2 25:13

Even worse. Yogurt unflavored yogurt Even worse.

Speaker 3 25:16

Plain yogurt. Yeah, I think mine would have to be.

Speaker 1 25:19

Plain.

Speaker 3 25:19

Greek yogurt, maybe some vanilla or something, no vanilla.

Speaker 2 25:23

You see me, one of those yogurts has a fruit at the bottom, like it makes it. I know I hate yogurt. I'm the stupidest, dumbest David ever. I don't want yogurt.

Speaker 3 25:29

Let's stop talking about yogurt.

Speaker 2 25:31

Yeah, no yogurt.

Speaker 3 25:32

I want to talk about how you ended up in Northwest Arkansas. Like did you grow up in Arkansas. Are you from here? What?

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Speaker 2 25:38

kind of brought you here. Let me tell you so I do a lot of work here. I grew up in Noel.

Speaker 3 25:44

Oh, okay, noel, okay, over up in Missouri, over in.

Speaker 2 25:46

Missouri. I mean just one little town over. So really I'm just doing a lot of work here. I was doing my back therapy here. I mean everything's here yeah.

Speaker 1 25:55

I grew up here.

Speaker 2 25:56

I did it. You just kind of do it in Noel, so you just come here to do everything, so that makes sense. So, yeah, this town is just, this area is like a I don't know it's. So I feel like it's almost like it's like I'm becoming like a mini Dallas, yeah, and it's all in little ways it's blowing up. It was crazy.

Speaker 1 26:42

I read a lot of people say that.

Speaker 2 26:44

Crazy. I mean, it's just bizarre really thinking about you know what it was back in the day and now you're like holy crap.

Speaker 3 26:50

I didn't know what it was like back in the day it was not like this.

Speaker 2 26:53

Yeah, I mean, I guess back in like 2005,.

Speaker 3 26:56

I kind of knew, but before 2005, I didn't live here. So, and you, what year did you?

Speaker 1 27:01

move here. I moved here six years ago from Dallas.

Speaker 2 27:05

Oh well, part I lived in.

Speaker 1 27:06

Frisco, frisco to Frisco. I lived like East Dallas, near White Rock, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 27:10

That was great.

Speaker 1 27:11

Briscoe, hey the IKEA.

Speaker 2 27:12

Yeah, IKEA, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 27:14

I get your meatballs and shop for furniture. Hey, that IKEA was great. Something was massive, I know Right off the right.

Speaker 2 27:20

I was right off the highway, just a big blue.

Speaker 1 27:22

Yes, first goes big.

Speaker 2 27:24

Now I remember when it was like a field, yeah, Back in the day Now it's, I read while, like a couple of years ago, is one of the fastest growing cities in America.

Speaker 1 27:32

For a really.

Speaker 3 27:34

I believe it. I don't spend, can't afford to live in Dallas.

Speaker 1 27:36

It's very pretty soon.

Speaker 2 27:38

It's where all the rich people live.

Speaker 1 27:39

Oh yeah, Briscoe.

Speaker 2 27:40

That wasn't rich. I was getting. Our team is paying for my thing, but I looked rich. Thanks, yeah, awesome.

Speaker 1 27:48

Has anyone ever tried to fight you?

Speaker 2 27:50

Yeah.

Speaker 1 27:51

People like to try no so what?

Speaker 2 27:53

Look at him I know it's like there.

Speaker 3 27:56

Her little testosterone in there Want to be alpha male body.

Speaker 4 28:01

Well, that's why I'm wondering.

Speaker 2 28:02

I want to fight that man, yeah, but then they probably lose yeah. Years ago I worked on this river when my first whole thing started nothing but drunk people in the river. Right, everybody's getting just slockered. And I'm just a kid trying to make up some money Loan to canoes, got my shirt off, trying to get a tan, whatever, trying to be like Brock. So every drunk guy, my gosh is like you wonder, we think you're bigger or something. I'm like dude, no, trying to load your canoe, I don't, thank you.

Speaker 3 28:31

Talk about just in here.

Speaker 2 28:33

Just wanted to throw down and I'm like, dude, I'm not making enough money, let's do this, I can fight you right now, like golly, I'll kill you. Dude, you're drunk, you better stand up. But yeah, all these guys want to fight. Well, you think you're big? I'm like no, I don't think I'm big. I know I'm big, but no, I wasn't. I mean, you know, you're just always it's always a drunk guy. I want to fight. That makes sense.

Speaker 2 28:55

But if you just act like you don't want to fight, they don't want to fight after that.

Speaker 1 28:58

So you're like a little bit zen.

Speaker 2 29:00

I'm a walker where I don't want to fight, you know I will, but it's got to. Really, they got to be following me as I walk away. Yeah, so I'm like someone's going to get hurt. You know, anything can happen.

Speaker 4 29:12

You know, you never know.

Speaker 2 29:13

You could never know what you're going to do. To fight, you can get the guy on the ground and slam their head on the ground. They die. I mean, then you're in prison over a dang canoe fight.

Speaker 3 29:21

You know, it's not worth it. That's definitely not worth it.

Speaker 2 29:24

They fall backwards, hit their head, and you just never know.

Speaker 3 29:26

Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:27

So I'm like I don't want to get punched, especially because I didn't do anything. Leave me alone.

Speaker 1 29:31

Yeah, you're trying to work.

Speaker 3 29:33

So, but it's trying to get a tan, I know.

Speaker 2 29:35

A lot of this, a lot of you know. Look guys who like little man syndrome right, you know. I'd rather be little. To be honest, I want to be dude. I want to be you. You're little, you got abs looking good walking around. You want to fight the guys a hundred pounds heavier I'm like I don't want to fight man Lazy, I want to eat. You want to just chill Like it's fine we talk about here, we could just yeah.

Speaker 2 29:57

But I just don't have it. I don't have it in me, but if the right situation arose, I wouldn't be afraid to. It's just. It's not my first nature to go started, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 30:05

I kind of sense that about you. You have a very chill energy. No, there's no. Even though you break a lot of stuff, I can just tell it's a very focused energy. It's like anybody.

Speaker 2 30:16

Mm, hmm, everybody's got a little, a little bit in them If they have. So you know, we all got it.

Speaker 4 30:21

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:21

When it comes out, you're like man. That doesn't happen very often. That was exhausting.

Speaker 3 30:25

Yeah, we're moms, we know. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, mess with your kid, mess with my kid, oh yeah, and you will see a side of me that you do not want.

Speaker 1 30:33

Oh yeah, like women that pick up like cars. Oh, I'm sure that if I was in the right situation. Energy channels into them and they're just like.

Speaker 3 30:41

I mean, listen, here's. The thing is that I found out my kid is my son, my oldest. He is the nicest kid, he is sweet, he is kind, he is friends with everybody. You know teachers tell us all the time. You know he makes friends easy. Everybody's friends with Liam. You know, like during the pandemic one of his teachers even said like I know, if I get a new kid in the class I'm gonna put him next to Liam because they will have an instant friend. I mean, this is my son. So I find out at the end of last year that he had been kind of picked on by some kid and I was like what kid is this? I'm like. And then my son's like doesn't want to tell me and I'm like you're going to tell me what is going on, because this is not okay.

Speaker 3 31:17

And he told me and I know I didn't, I didn't get in the kids face, but after I found out about it, and it was the end of the year, the last week of school and I went and had lunch with my son, liam, and I'm sitting there with him and I could see this table boys that he's hanging out with it. They weren't hanging out anymore because of this one kid. Oh, such a rude little kid. I mean. I was like so, like I was fuming. I was like why am I mad at this little fourth grader? She go like flip a tray, no, but listen. So he's sitting there and I see them looking over and I'd brought my son Sushi because he loves sushi and they're like snickering over there, like snickering, being little turds that they are because they're kids and they're just their kids or whatever, and I see my son like trash

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Speaker 3 31:55

and you can see like his little face drop or whatever, and I go it was that son's over there. And he goes, yeah, he's whatever mommy. And I go I'm gonna stick my foot out and trip him when he walks by. Daniel, I didn't, I would never, I would never harm another child, or even my own child, but not a heart of child. But I it was more like I kind of wanted to see what my son would say, but I also was like truly like I kind of want to take this kid out.

Speaker 2 32:20

I wouldn't, I would never so nice to ask him for mercy for the main kid I know he did.

Speaker 3 32:24

He goes no, mommy, he's like don't know You'll hurt him, and I'm like I'm just kidding, I wouldn't do that internally and looking at him and like I see you little man.

Speaker 2 32:35

Anyway. So mom, do not mess with mom. I'm going to piggyback off that because randomly popped in my head I remember stupid things. I was a little kid, like I said chubby kid, right In a gas station and in my hometown, there in Noel, and all of a sudden three of these just so happened to be spandex kids surrounded me and I kind of was just looking like I was a little kid, I mean I'm like third grade, fourth grade and then surrounding me said what are you looking at, bad boy? I was like, oh my gosh, you know I don't do that, I got to try that. Three guys. What are you looking at? Yeah, what are you looking at?

Speaker 4 33:06

I'm like I'm looking at nothing. I don't know. You know I was scared to death. There's three of them. What am I? My mom was not there.

Speaker 2 33:10

Somewhere else in the store Like, yeah, you were watching, so all this stuff. I was scared to death and I looked my mom after. I was like wow, these kids are out of it. This is all these things, Mama, where?

Speaker 4 33:19

are they All right? They had left. They had left. He's here.

Speaker 2 33:23

And she goes what do they look like? I swear she goes. She goes, stay here. She knew the owner. She goes, I'll be back. She goes, finds the three kids walking on the sidewalk down the road. She said you three, get your in my car right now and you're going to tell me where you live. Took them all three home, one by one. Is this your kid? Why won't you know what he did? My kid told the parents only back in the day Can she do that they were in the car. What is your mom?

Speaker 3 33:55

No, of course they were like this white woman, she's going to run this over.

Speaker 2 34:00

We don't go to the car right now. What's?

Speaker 3 34:02

your mom's name.

Speaker 2 34:03

Michelle, she's the boss, michelle.

Speaker 3 34:04

She's like he is the boss, loaded the book.

Speaker 2 34:07

I'm telling you three kids went and told each individual parent what they did.

Speaker 1 34:11

There's nothing scarier than like mom. Oh great, that's so amazing.

Speaker 2 34:15

My mom is the best Only back in that day, because you even do that.

Speaker 3 34:20

You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 34:21

That's true, and I was like hey, that's crazy, she goes. I was like what happened? I took care of it.

Speaker 3 34:26

Dang. But she's like I hope my mom didn't murder those kids so funny.

Speaker 2 34:33

I found them and I took them to their house, every one of them, and I told their parents and they were in trouble.

Speaker 3 34:39

I was like yeah, yeah, that's the best Mom's are the best, oh Lord.

Speaker 4 34:45

We're amazing.

Speaker 1 34:45

That's great. Ok, so fight to the death. Yes, tell us what's what's next for you. What are you working on right now?

Speaker 2 34:52

Well, arabs got talent. I'm going on that. Yeah, there's a show in Russia. These are sketchy areas, but I'm going to go there and do these shows. I like it. I can't let. I can't let the they're saying about these countries, I can't not if I have an opportunity to go and they're letting people go, I got to believe that it's safe enough and know it's safe enough to go, right, I agree, I'm going to go and I'm not going to let you know TV or whatever scare me into going. Have an opportunity right.

Speaker 4 35:21

Not just one of those people, and they're like nothing's happening here.

Speaker 2 35:24

I don't understand. I'm like cool, I believe in it, let's do it. So I'm going to go Russia, turkey for Arabs got talent and have a good time Based off of the Turkey show. They say that a lot of people from Saudi Arabia watch the show, so really good opportunities come from that. So, yeah, so that's kind of my goal. Ok, Right now there's those things. Yeah, Two shows, what else my goal? Also? There's some Shows the piggyback off of America's Got Talent called the Champions. They've been called the Champions the last couple of years, so they are the All Stars.

Speaker 1 35:57

OK, the All Stars yeah.

Speaker 2 35:59

So they changed the name what's champions? That's all. So essentially, it's what I did in Spain. I did Spain's Got Talent, the All Stars, where they bring people that have already done Got Talent shows from around the world to compete against each other, and my goal is to get the aftershow of America's Got Talent and compete against other people in America.

Speaker 1 36:16

So that is so cool, so will you do the ice smashing.

Speaker 2 36:19

I'll do the ice smashing. Yeah, OK. So I've recently stepped it up America's Got Talent. I did some basic things, but since then I've smashed ice with my head like a huge stack of ice with my head. Triple ice stacks on fire. Run through ice on fire.

Speaker 1 36:34

How do you train for that?

Speaker 3 36:36

How do you turn ice on fire? You don't train for it, you just do it.

Speaker 2 36:40

So on this show it's called the Go Big Show. Have you ever heard of Burt Kreischer? He's a comedian, he's they call him the machine. Rock knows him. He's a really cool comedian. Anyway, when I did the Go Big Show and TBS, you ever heard of T-Pain the rapper?

Speaker 1 36:54

Oh, yeah, yes.

Speaker 2 36:55

By U-Drake Woo Never. He was a judge on the show so it was a cool little show Like all these has been slathered. He's kind of fun Called the Go Big Show. And on the show they're like what can you do that you haven't done? And I'm like it's like this ice on fire and they're like, have you done it before? I was like yeah, never done it before.

Speaker 3 37:12

No, never, done it Never. It's like a recurring theme.

Speaker 2 37:15

Oh yeah, it's like.

Speaker 3 37:16

I'm going to do something I've never done before. Yeah, it's great and I'm going to stick with it.

Speaker 2 37:20

But I had to tell them that I'd done it before.

Speaker 3 37:22

Right.

Speaker 2 37:23

And they're like we have a fire department like the stunt team from Hollywood. They can light it on fire and make it legit. Do you think it's safe? I'm like totally safe, so I do it. I do it and it turned out amazing Okay.

Speaker 4 37:38

And I just crushed it literally.

Speaker 2 37:39

Huh. And afterwards I get done and I'm like I've got a confession to make. They were like tripping over this ice thing. I was like I told the executive producer he's up here somewhere that I'd done that before.

Speaker 4 37:50

I'd never done that before.

Speaker 2 37:51

Yeah, I was. I was like I'm sorry I lied, I had to. I had to lie to you Because I want to go further than show and I want I couldn't tell you I didn't do it because I hadn't done it before, because he wouldn't let me do it, so I apologize. What great, though, did it?

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Speaker 2 38:02

Yeah, I guess it's like that and when I said that, all the judges just laughed so hard. They're like we love you, you love you. You're just lying to people to get the news. It's a mess, but it was awesome.

Speaker 3 38:16

Yeah, that was scary though.

Speaker 2 38:17

It was a big flame Like all this ice. When I run through the ice just in a big wall, you know, it's just like my holy crap. This is really smoking and they have this way of lighting this ice on fire and I'm like I didn't realize that fire was going to be that big.

Speaker 1 38:33

Is it like a gel? Like how do they make? It Okay, fire strips.

Speaker 2 38:37

So you hang like the ice is all stacked in between the ice. They put these strips hanging down in between the ice and they just light up. It looks really crazy and I'm like here we go.

Speaker 1 38:47

What's going through your head as you're smashing it? Just nothing, you just go.

Speaker 2 38:52

Yeah, you just go. And you just I mean yeah, you don't really think of much. Yeah, Go as hard as you can, Go as hard as you can. But that clip made every commercial that was on for that show.

Speaker 3 39:01

Oh.

Speaker 1 39:01

I bet the previews. I mean, how do you top that? I mean, there were some freak shows on there.

Speaker 2 39:08

I mean, there's some weird people out there.

Speaker 1 39:10

Oh, okay, we are aware of that. You have to tell us the weirdest thing you've ever seen? Oh yeah, the weirdest thing you've seen. Oh man, I mean oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 39:16

I saw a guy one time set his whole body on fire and solve on a Rubik's cube on fire from head to toe. Granted he was in, he was covered in fire gel. Okay, his skin was burning like he had taken top off. I'm like gelch.

Speaker 3 39:32

While he's solving the Rubik's cube.

Speaker 1 39:34

Like, tell us a feeling just I would burn up because I'd never. And he gets done, he gets done.

Speaker 2 39:40

He's like it's solved. It melted in his head.

Speaker 3 39:43

Stop it. So how do we know who was really solved if it was melted?

Speaker 2 39:49

Well, yeah, he was solving it. It was crazy, but that's wild. I'm at the lizard man.

Speaker 1 39:53

I've seen his pic. My daughter is onto the. She has all the Guinness world, but we're at the books. I've seen his picture.

Speaker 2 39:59

Seems Eric Sprague and he is like he was going to school to get it to be a doctor. He's like you know I started getting. He has all these tattoos like scales right All over his body and he put horns in his thing and blah, blah. He's like I started on my back. I was going to medical school. Just in case I decided not to continue, covered my back when I was done, decided I'm going to cover my whole body, quit medical school.

Speaker 1 40:26

Wow.

Speaker 2 40:26

Make so much money. He's a sideshow freak and he like, literally, he has the word freak tattooed across his chest as he goes to these things and he considers, considers himself a sideshow freak. Hey, he got his tongue split down the middle with the laser, told me he could taste his tongue burning as they split it open.

Speaker 3 40:43

No.

Speaker 2 40:44

I was like yummy. Then he like put these like implants above his eyeball and he goes I'm allergic to whatever it is to pain medicine.

Speaker 3 40:54

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 40:55

So I got it done, natural, no pain medicine, and he goes they cut me here, put like a piece of metal flat, like a little spatula thing, but little bitty like, put it in across my eyeball, pull my skin off my skull, what it what they needed to put it? He said I hallucinated, threw up and passed out from the pain. I'm like dude, is that worth it, my God? He's like yeah, it weren't that. I'm like whoa. But yeah, he was a freak. I mean, he had his whole body covered in.

Speaker 1 41:25

Yeah, he really truly is.

Speaker 2 41:28

Right, he was a freak show.

Speaker 3 41:29

Yeah, he refers to himself that way.

Speaker 2 41:31

Right those guys don't know what it is. They struggle to wear deodorant.

Speaker 3 41:35

Is that so? Yeah, they perform the little. Did you say? They struggle to wear deodorant.

Speaker 1 41:39

Yeah, they do Like it, so they're like they're like preteens, they're a little hippie kind of there they're looking at the travel trailer and they're going to their shirt. Oh OK, they believe it. I don't know what it is.

Speaker 2 41:48

I'm like.

Speaker 1 41:49

Lizard man, it smells good.

Speaker 2 41:50

We got to give you a bath buddy. I mean you do some little fly.

Speaker 3 41:58

Lizard man would probably walk around on X with bare feet. I'm just fun. Lizard man we can take a bath.

Speaker 2 42:08

One of my good friends. He is the world's thickest skull, proven by Harvard Medical Institute. Wow he. They call him the hammerhead John Ferraro. He hammers nails into wood.

Speaker 1 42:16

Oh, I've seen him Nope Seen the videos. I feel like all these.

Speaker 2 42:20

The bomb. One time we were at this bar after Guinness World Record show, in the bottom hotel we were getting some food or whatever, and because nothing else was open, and I just met him from my first Guinness show and he, that's where I met him. We're down there and a guy, drunk guy, hey, he goes, what are you guys doing? I was like I was getting some food. You know he goes. No, what are you doing here? I'm like, well, we're doing a TV show and you know, oh really, oh yeah, what do you do? I'm like I run through ice blocks and strong man things. Oh, you think you're strong? I was like that whole family crap. Here we go again. And the guy goes, razz me a little bit.

Speaker 2 42:56

I was, I was the kid at that point, it was 11 years ago and like, my buddy goes, what do you do? And I said, let me tell you what he does. He's got the world's thickest skull. He hammers nails into wood of his head. And I said, proven by Harvard Medical Institute. He goes, oh yeah, I had butch you right now. I said, oh God. So he started doing the little thing to my buddy. He's like kind of putting his head on his and he goes what are you doing? You know like ever do that again. What are you going to do? I said, dude, ask you one more time Don't ever do that again. Try to do it again. I swear it was like one, two, three and he had my head just go boom straight to the ground.

Speaker 3 43:32

Straight to the ground. You just head butted him Like a woodpecker.

Speaker 1 43:36

Why do people want to challenge those statements? I would just say cool, talk to you later. Bam, bam, bam, it was so cool, it's nice to meet you.

Speaker 3 43:42

I was like holy cow. I think it's a lack of testosterone, maybe, or too much no.

Speaker 1 43:48

Oh, we don't have it. We don't have it, we don't want to like yes, ok, I don't know. So tell me about your shirt. You have this. What's the name of the company? Home Run Back? Home Run Back Company?

Speaker 2 43:57

OK, After I did America's Got Talent, it was like getting a half a million dollars worth of free advertising on TV. Everybody looked me up. Hey, you speaking schools and all these things, I want you to come speak to my kids in our school and yada, yada in our group. So I was buying these baseball bats to break. This was part of my stunt Dicks and academy and all that and they were expensive as heck. Yeah, I'm like why am I buying these bats to break, these expensive bats? So I got an idea I need to find these in bulk to get them cheap to break. So I found this guy. He had a bunch of bats. He goes I'll give you these bats Super cheap. We got to buy all my bats. I said how many do you have? 600. I'm like 600 baseball bats, holy crap. I took a risk. I spent all my money 2015. Didn't even have enough money to pay my rent at the time.

Speaker 2 44:40

I was broke as a joke, loaded it to back in my truck with bats. At the time I lived in Cleveland, ohio, and I was performing with a buddy and a trust based out of, and I thought I'm going to have bats to break forever, or maybe I can sell a couple of these. I sold them all oh wow. Bought more, sold them all, bought more, sold them all. Now we got a company and I've sold over 140,000 bats in eight years. Wow, it's a killer business. The world Home Run Bat Company homerunbatcom.

Speaker 1 45:09

Oh, there we go. I like it.

Speaker 2 45:11

And I mean this can you believe that name wasn't taken? No, we got our trademark all the goods and we got it. I mean, I've just opened the storefront.

Speaker 1 45:18

You didn't wear.

Speaker 2 45:19

Joplin.

Speaker 3 45:20

OK, I'm here. Crap, it's close enough, it's fine, no, no, no, you're good.

Speaker 2 45:24

But it's the bomb. I mean I can hit wood bats with my main gig for years and now I'm into the metal bats and the aluminum bats where all the kids use. That's just a bomb. That mark is just crazy.

Speaker 1 45:36

Smelling them OK so one last question before we wrap up Did you really tear a license plate in half with your teeth?

Speaker 2 45:44

I did that on well yeah.

Speaker 2 45:46

I did that several times. The first time I did it well, I don't remember the first time I did it but the first time I did it on TV was the Tonight Show J-Lono. I was on a segment called it's all stupid, meal or no meal, little spoof-off dealer, no deal, obviously, and it was hey, we've picked a few people in the audience that have special stunts and are special skills and if they can do it we're going to rate them. They have a little judge panel and if they win we're going to rate them, we're going to give them a free meal. So I went out there and he goes all right, one hour show. Most Hollywood shows, if they're one hour, they film for two. One hour we film for one, we film for one hour. One take, no reduce.

Speaker 2 46:26

Wow, ripping these license plates in your teeth. Very tricky, because you put them in there and if you can imagine, first of all it kills you, number one. But if you're not perfect and you don't get it at the right angle, that license plate will just bend in your mouth and will not rip. You can imagine that you never had a license plate in your mouth. So you can't imagine that. But I'm telling you that's what happens.

Speaker 2 46:44

It had to be perfect or it doesn't work and you could get more on. So I'm like oh crap.

Speaker 3 46:51

This is Jay Leno. Oh yeah, yeah, one take. He was a man, one take.

Speaker 2 46:55

So you're sitting there and he's like we're doing meal or no meal, where's JD? And she's saying I was like all right here. And he comes up and he's like you have a special talent. And I was like, yeah, I want to do something weird with a license plate. He's like, oh, who has a license plate? And someone runs down. I'm going to do a license plate right here, jay.

Speaker 3 47:09

Surprise surprise.

Speaker 2 47:11

Right, I tell you, I put it in my teeth. I did it. I started to rip. I said oh man, all the scariness. When I just played it up you know they look real hard spit it out. My mouth caught it with my other hand and they gave me $250 in bonefish grill gift certificates. That was 10 years ago. So you bet your rear end that I didn't take so many good looking girls out With those bonefish grill gift cards. And every time I was like you know, I want to see my video. Awesome, it was awesome. I love it was the best. It was all ahead of time.

Speaker 1 47:47

Okay, like that was my one cool thing Like that's so awesome, Like you're the number one party trick guy. Like no one else is going to talk to you. I'm sorry Like who needs ice for their drinks smash Like I went to the university of Arkansas and was the party trick guy. I bet.

Speaker 2 48:04

I was the party trick maniac. It was awesome when I when, every when I did the Guinness World Records show, I was. I took some time off power team and went to school every year. So I was like so cool, I'm like I wouldn't part of a fraternity or nothing, and you know it's pretty fraternity, sorority school and I'm like I was just as cool as I work, as I was the TV guy, I was like yeah, I loved it. I was inside the kid, I was like whoo.

Speaker 3 48:27

Do people like go JD? Oh yeah, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry yeah.

Speaker 2 48:31

I'm absolutely so stupid Back when I carried what people thought of me.

Speaker 1 48:35

So where can our listeners find you on social?

Speaker 2 48:38

JD Iceman official. Look up JD Iceman. You can look up it up on YouTube, instagram, facebook, jdicemancom. Homerunbatcom. That's the big one. Yeah, I'm all over so.

Speaker 1 48:51

Well, thanks for coming in, it's so fun yeah, thank you. It's fun to get to know you.

Speaker 2 48:56

Great to get to know you Double D's in the house.

Speaker 1 48:58

Yeah, hey. Thanks so much for listening today. If you liked what you heard, please consider subscribing to the podcast so you never miss an episode. You can also follow us on Instagram at people of NWA. Thanks so much.

Speaker 4 49:10

People of Northwest Arkansas with the two Danielle's produced by me. Brock Short of Civil Republic Productions. Please rate, review and like us on any podcast platform where you listen. For more information about today's guests and the show, please check the show notes. Thanks for listening.