SPEAKER_00 1:45

Welcome to the Hilltop Glove Podcast, where JM Wood. Interview guests and discuss topics such as current events of pop culture, the motivational podcast for the Hill Pop Millennials.

SPEAKER_03 2:01

Alright, good day, everybody. Welcome to the premier episode of the Hilltop Glove Podcast. My name is DJ M Whatt. I'm one third of the podcast crew. I'll be hosting today with my brother, Mr. Skip. And also hopefully going into the future, we'll be able to talk with and have our man, Mr. Mike up in the house as well. But today, our first guest is going to be Mr. Eric Tendle, aka Kinetic Life. He's going to be here discussing some things going on in his life, effects of the current situation that we're dealing with and the world, how that affects his life, his lifestyle, and his work, basically. And then we'll ask him some fun things and see what's going on in his world. Just to start out with Mr. Kinetic Life, if you could just give us a um a quick synopsis on what you do, where you're from, or any and any other details you may want to add so that the people can know some things about you before we start.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

Well, I mean like I said, I go by the name of Kinetic Life. That's about um I guess my music name or producer name. But yeah, I'm a I'm a music producer, DJ. Also I'm a K through 12 special needs teacher. Teaching as a certified teacher for about a year now. Been working for a school district roughly about 12 years all together.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

So there we go. Hey, that's the real talk. That's real talk. All right, I just want to make sure everything's moving smoothly. All right, so the people can know some things about you. Because I know um, you know, we've been up here, even though technically we know who you are, I've been up here acting like a creeper and going on all your all your uh pages, just checking your background information and seeing about how I can get some get some of these beat packages from you, bruv. You know, I see beep packages up there, so I want people to know about those things because I know you do have a website at airbit.com. Um, and we'll make sure to put that information and those links in the uh podcast too, in the in the information below, so they can see how to get you those things because those are the outside things you do do um outside of your your nine to five. But um just in the I guess in the season of things, man. My first question for you today is gonna be dealing with the pandemic, and like I said, back in the real world, before we had to deal with all this crazy stuff going on, your nine to five, man. What inspired you to go into special education and what was your path and your journey to getting there?

SPEAKER_02 4:26

I think really for me, man, is it's I fell into special ed by accident, or rather, maybe it's been a call in, you know, originally when I was in high school, I wanted to go in the military, but my dad was like, you know, get your education first, blah, blah, blah, you know how that goes.

SPEAKER_05 4:40

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 4:40

And so I was like, all right. But I found a scholarship uh that's geared towards uh elementary ed. So got accepted, I got inducted into the uh week mister program. That but that began my path with elementary ed. And then during that school time, I took a year off and came back. And then um I took some classes with special needs, you know, as far as like uh abnormal psychology. It was one of the classes I took. And I actually enjoyed it, man. So that's one of the classes I love, you know, just figuring out about the you know, the person, a human's mind, not necessarily just a special needs mind, but a normal person's mind as well. And so they had beyond that, when I graduated, you know, I worked in retail for a little while, of course, do my music at the same time. And then I ended up working in original school district one as a sub, and they hired me full-time. Coincidentally, also that was in a special needs area. So my first part of my, I say my 12 years, I've done that as an instructional assistant, as a therapeutic assistant for a couple of years, and then I just love special needs so much, it's it's always something different, you know what I'm saying, from day to day, as opposed to being in a general aid class, you kind of got the same thing, you know how everything's going, according to your lessons and stuff like that. And then students throw something in the mix, but special needs is always something different. You gotta be extremely flexible for that. So that's how I I've ended up teaching special needs, because I just wanted to be certified in that area. I feel like that's where my passion's at. I think that's what God led me to do.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

No, seriously, that's what it seems like. Like literally, it didn't matter what you want to do, you just gotta get there.

SPEAKER_02 6:15

I just want to do other things, of course. Uh I had those uh those dreams of just working music full time and stuff like that. But when you look at your account, bank accounts, hey, uh you gotta think realistic.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

Hey, that's part of what this podcast is about, man. We gotta adult. And when you be in there, adult and you gotta do things you gotta do.

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Hey, being an adult sucks, man, but you gotta do it if you wanna if you want to grow and just be something other than just you know not growing.

SPEAKER_03 6:42

Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

So, yeah, like I said, I think God led me to where I'm at now. But actually, I enjoy it every day. I teach K through two at the elementary school. And from day one, I love it. And I you know, I I love it more so than when I first started. Even with the pandemic, I still love what I do.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Speaking of the pandemic, man, and being in the classroom, are you in the classroom or are you still remote um at the moment? It's now December. Has any of that subtle?

SPEAKER_02 7:10

So right now I um I'm teaching in the class and I still got two kids brought through. I got a total of eight kids.

SPEAKER_05 7:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:18

Nine kids. And so the major the majority of them come to class. Of course, I'm there five days a week, but my students in the class they come Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Fridays. Okay, so Wednesday is like what they call a flex day. That's basically the day I take care of paperwork, do my have my office hours and stuff like that. And then of course I got two that are virtual throughout the day. Now before then, everyone was virtual up until I think it was around October, September.

SPEAKER_05 7:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:45

So I was doing everything from school. I still I still had to go to school, but they were at home. They was at home.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

Okay, and were the other students um at the school the non-special ed students?

SPEAKER_02 7:55

No.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

All right, okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

No, they're there and now, but the special needs kids were the first one, actually, I think in the state of South Carolina to get back in the school during the pandemic.

SPEAKER_03 8:04

That's a good question.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

So I know for sure in our district, and I know for sure in my in my particular school, they uh special ed was the first ones to go in.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

Okay, because that's a um that's a good point because on that same note, I know special needs students, they have, like you said, it's a different something different every day. It's not the same monotony that you get with normal educational tracks. And also with that, there are certain acts that they do have your individuals with disabilities education act, free and appropriate public education act, and the individualized educational programs where you have to give certain type of services. And I know this was a big thing, especially over the summer, before we even got back into the school year that was being discussed because of the pandemic. Uh, the fact of how do we make sure those students with special needs get the proper instruction and also therapeutics? I like the point that you brought up, the fact about the therapeutics behind it too, because the therapy is a big part of their education. And how how would you see have you seen any drop-offs or any uh I guess setbacks because of the pandemic dealing with special needs students and then receiving the therapy as well as the education?

SPEAKER_02 9:16

It's kind of hard to say because it's it's basically from teacher to teacher. Yeah. In my particular school, we got three special ed teachers, and then we have those, like you said, those occupational therapists and things like that. Now, the thing is, like you said before, is that it's all about the legalities of it. It's not necessarily how many days the kids are in school, it's just are they meeting their goals and stuff like that. So that's one thing we had to ensure, and that's the reason why we came back so early, as opposed to general ed students. But I think it depends on the individual teacher, you know, how much work they're willing to put in it, also the parents to reinforce that for the students to meet the goals and stuff like that. So I can't I can't really say, but me personally, I I know there's been times that I had to do the impossible to make sure kids go through a net. Yeah. Um that's what I was wondering. And it's like working after hours or getting on my occupation therapist, like, hey, you need to put in this 30 minutes this week, you know, that that's a big thing, or reschedule things so kids can get it all at once or individually. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 10:09

So well I'm I'm I'm telling you like this, man, bravo for that extra work. Because I know that's not easy to do right now. It throws a little pressure on you. But like you said, you're trying to meet those legal standards, and like I said, there's things that we know that those students need. So, man, bravo on that because I know it's not easy right now, not in this situation. This really does make you like an essential worker. It really is. You are an essential worker for those students and to allow uh make sure that they're getting their their needs met. Have you do you ever have conversations with their parents about how they're doing and how you all have affected their ability to learn and progress?

SPEAKER_02 10:45

Yeah, that's one thing I do. I actually bring it up to the parents before they start questioning our job or how far how good I'm doing. And as far as meeting the goals too, I'm I'm ensuring them that the kids are going to meet their goals no matter what. And that's that's just pretty much it.

SPEAKER_03 11:00

Okay. That's what I was wondering. I was wondering if it was the banter.

SPEAKER_02 11:04

Yeah, the communication is you know is ongoing. You know, just like we try to stick to the normal school year as much as possible as far as like interim reports and then PTAs and stuff like that. But I think that for me personally, I'm I make it a habit to talk to the parents at least once or twice a week just to give the updates. Because also you're talking about social and emotional health. Yeah. You know, how the kids end doing the past two or three days as opposed to two or three days last week, you know what I'm saying? So me, I'm able to kind of gauge what the child's going through. You know what I'm saying? If something happened at home, you know, the sentiment of the child changes. So sometimes you can pick that up during just talking with the parents and stuff like that. And sometimes they'll mention it, sometimes they don't, or sometimes the kid will mention it, and the parents kind of like keep it under top, depending on what it is. So um I try to keep keep accountable of how hard I push them, yeah. I guess hard learning and stuff like that. So, you know, I don't want to put too much pressure on them. I know I remember I had one parent that said, Well, the kid is getting frustrated, and it was what it is is I had a first grader and I was giving them first grade math course, and I had to uh downsize the scale as the amount of much work that I gave them. Got it.

SPEAKER_03 12:08

So speaking of um making sure they're getting their programs met and having the infrastructure available to make sure you're handling your business properly. Have you felt safe being in the classroom right now? Because here's the thing the cool thing is I know you told me your class size. You don't have a large class size, which is really good, especially for special needs students, so that they can make sure that they're keeping certain safety standards. Have you felt safe at the school? Any have you felt like there was anything going on that make you feel unsafe?

SPEAKER_02 12:37

Well, see, that's that's the thing that you know, we don't know what the device is at. I can't just play and say, hey, it's over there, over there. That's just the thing. So personally, no, to be honest, I don't feel safe all the time. Two, that's one of the reasons why, like we said earlier, that's why I keep my anxiety down. You know what I'm saying? Like, I try to not think of the worst that can happen. I know it's kind of crazy. Yeah, but I'm just thinking, like, I think it's a caller, I got a job to do. And my principal asked me this couple times more than once. Like, how you feeling? How you doing, or how you feeling about you know, XYZ? I was like, you know, I'll be called to do a job. It's kind of like if you're in the military, you expect to go to war during wartime. True. That's not kind of fit. So, but in hindsight, it's kind of safe, but it's kind of unsafe because you're talking about little kids, they're not gonna wear the mask all day.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

I know, this is what I was wondering about.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Yeah, um, I do that early on. So I got tons of sanitizers. I got my custodial staff that comes through, not mine, but you know, custodial cap uh custodial cap staff come through like two or three times a day. Um, you know, they're wiping and cleaning constantly. I got sanitizers all over the classroom and stuff like that. So I got little kids, so I gotta physically clean them sometimes. Exactly. I gotta physically clean them, stuff like that. So trying to keep as safe as possible, and uh I try to keep traffic in there limited.

SPEAKER_03 13:51

Yeah, that's it. So you're like you really have to keep control of your area, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:56

Yeah, it's really control, it's really controlling your environment. That's that's what it is.

SPEAKER_03 13:59

Okay, because I know go ahead, Kevin.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

Yeah, um, one question I kind of want to add on to, especially on the topic of safety, just a few days ago, you know, there was the teacher out at Lexington 1 who passed away. And I know there was a teacher out at um Richland one that passed. Uh no, was it Richland or Richland 2 that passed? I think it was Richland 2 that passed. Um Richland 1. Okay. And I was wondering, is there like any talk right now, just within the teaching community right now, in regards to safe, especially because you know they've they've had two districts that have already had like de facto strikes recently. So what's been happening with that?

SPEAKER_02 14:37

Well, the conversation is real heavy. Like I know personally, I know a couple of teachers that's that have been exposed or or that's that's been positive. There's been some adult staff at my school that's been sent home for 14 days of quarantine. And just to kind of make it more intricate, I had a student that's got sent home as well. Umar team. So I, you know, like I said, you can't see it, you can't um say, hey, it's over there, stuff like that, but it's is it's it's it's here, obviously. But the talks are the things like everybody is just kind of like, we need to sit home, we need to do this at home, stuff like that. But according to the state, like we got still got a job to do.

SPEAKER_03 15:18

You know, I don't want to say who says what you know about that, but that's kind of like a narrative on both sides, especially in your situation, because literally, like you're basically being mandated, like you have to provide a specific service for the special needs students. The sunlight, like you could do a virtual school or some kind of flex stuff for um non-special needs students. It may be a little a little difficult, but they could work through it. But special needs students, they say they need that therapy too to go along that goes along with the educational part portion, and that's important.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Yeah, most of them like they need their hands-on work. And like I like I said, they uh I I make sure I do my job. Like I said, I think like Sesar Paula did I'm protected, you know what I'm saying? God willing. But I'm about students. So I just make sure the job is done, and and if if if one of those days I'm not feeling it, I'm gonna take a day off, you know what I'm saying, with or without pay. And that and that's just to keep my anxiety down because uh in retrospect, I'm a leader in there, so everything's gonna fall on me or trigger down effect. My attitude is gonna trigger down to everybody else uh who's involved with that classroom that goes to school, my assistant every all the students and the fans and stuff like that. So, yeah, that that's that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Okay, I guess this is the last question on this topic, but from the close of school last year to the beginning of the school year in the fall, was there was there less or was there more anxiety? Like, did you close down last year with less anxiety than you did opening up this year?

unknown 16:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

I think for me it was more confusion.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 16:55

And I'm gonna tell you this, I I think the reason why, because I was a brand new teacher, I got hired in, but uh, that's what I'm wondering, yeah. And so everything is brand spanking new to me as far as like doing the paperwork, make sure the IPs are straight, having an IP meeting, which is a beast by itself, and then reported to my consultants, my principals, and the parents and stuff like that. So when we went through this transition at the end of the year, we had to do what is called like a contingency plan to make sure everybody's covered as far as like the things we can do and what we can't do as far as teaching at home and in the school. We did that, we did that ahead of time. On top of that, we have on we have the what's it called, a closeout of the end of the year for the students. Meaning like we got to wrap up with transportation, make sure those weekly talk much straight, making sure that the uh the number of hours is caught, this kid's been taught is just straight. And just dealing with both cycle things at the end of the year. That's why I said everything was kind of like slammed on me because I was, you know, I was into this. And trust and believe, my consult has been like up my butt the whole time. Like, you need to just uh you need to get this done and plus on the spectrum still to teach the lessons. Majority of my kids, their uh IP meetings now are at the end of the year, like in March, April, and May in June, and I still had to carry those on too. So but so that's why I say it was it was it was a confusion at the end in the early on. Of course, like July and August, everything was kind of winded down, and then like back in August, that's when that that anxiety came up. It's like, you know, what I'm gonna do. About that. Not necessarily being scared of the virus itself, but just kind of like, okay, can I keep up with what needs needs to happen?

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Because it's like such a large, large point.

SPEAKER_02 18:33

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And oh, and by and by the way, I had a got a new consultant in the middle of that too. Shoot! Oh gosh, okay. And these are these are district level people constantly calling me, like, have you done this? Well, why don't you do this? How about you do this? And do you need anything from it? You know, that goes on while I'm you know throughout the day.

SPEAKER_03 18:51

But but but do they do they they give you uh necessary assistance when all right, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

The other thing is that they'll give you everything you need as long as you know it makes sense, or they'll give you overage of things that they feel like need, stuff like that. One of the things I've been pitching for since when I first got hired is in my classroom, legally, I'm supposed to have two assistants in there. I only had one because some of the bottles that had before I got there. And so I guess the principal, they're not aware of what I guess as far as how many peak uh assistants need to be in the classroom. I was like, hey, this needs to happen. So she pitched for it, and we're still working on that right now, 10 months later, but it's it's stuff like that. They'll they'll vouch for stuff that I need. Like I said, I got district level people that can call on for certain resources and stuff like that. And then there's you know, in the school, there's certain resources I can uncall on. And the good thing is that my co-workers, they're very helpful. They don't understand everything that's going on, but it's but they're still like what do I need to do, that type of thing.

SPEAKER_04 19:47

Good, good, good. We're gonna kind of change gears a little bit. And I know notice one of the things that you said when you were just kind of explaining just your job, is especially with what's going on right now, it's a lot of anxiety. Not just to pressure up, but just everything going on with COVID. But one of the things I want to switch gears on is just from things that you utilize for your personal interests. Have you ever you utilized any of those things in the classroom?

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Oh, all the time.

SPEAKER_04 20:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

All the time. Um like one of my biggest, well, one of the things we're required to do is incorporate social and emotional health. So, of course, I got little kids. So the one thing I want them to do is express themselves and how they're feeling. Like, say, for instance, if a kid is upset about something, you know, somebody needs to know we don't need for you to be crying. I mean, it's okay to cry, but you need to come out and tell us what's wrong. So, but I think that's a lot of things with adults, like even me personally, is that you know, we'll be mad about stuff and don't know what we're really mad about. So, one of the things that I do that I teach my kids that I do myself is actually tell somebody, you know, what's going on personally with me. You know, so I think that's that helped that help a lot.

SPEAKER_04 20:58

Good, good, good. Um, I guess the next thing we want to get into, because I know one of the things brought up earlier was the boxing. I know that's like a really big thing for you as far as like relieving stress, anxiety, that type of thing. It also keeps you in good shape and stuff. So is that something that you're still pursuing now? Are you still involved with?

SPEAKER_02 21:18

I I do it not as much, just because the fact that I don't want to be, I mean personally, I don't want to come in contact with too many people. That's first and foremost. So I did utilize a trainer, and I still go every now and then, but it do it do relieve a whole lot of stress. It makes me sleep better at night. So you can imagine those days when you when you're um, you know, you just you just want to let it all loose on the on the floor, that's what you're gonna do that day. But also I like I love boxing for the fact that it's a thinking sport. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 21:47

It's chess with your hands.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Yeah, why you can't go out there and just be wild animal thing. Make sure that first of all, that you don't injure yourself too, is uh uh you know if you want to work on certain muscles and stuff like that, you want to do it the right way, and that's why you know that's why I um I use a trainer, and so I can make sure I'm sharp mentally and physically at the same time.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Speaking of um of it being uh thinking person sport, last week we had somebody who wasn't thinking about boxing like that and thought that they could just play boxing. And this is some fun stuff to talk about, but just the Nate Robinson and Jake Paul fight, because I know Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr., that was the head of the cars. They actually had some real fights that day too for Mac for actual belts, too. But the Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. fight, I mean, it got a lot of attention and stuff like that. Mike Tyson and Roy they quote unquote called it a draw, but in my opinion, Mike Tyson actually won that. He he landed the most punches, he had a high percentage. I mean, he looked the best. He looked the best in that fight. I know you had to see Nate Robinson get his behind knocked out by Jake Paul. You had to see how did you feel about that? Because like you said, talking about boxing, like people not taking it, they don't take it seriously. He thought he could just go in there and play boxing. He can't do that.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

Look, but boxing was one of those sports, man. You gotta be in incredible shape. Like, there's no, either you're in shape for it or you're not. And so I don't know. First of all, when you're three months ago.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Three months. So I know I've been doing this for like what two years now, and I know I'm not I'm nowhere near to be stepping on a bike for him. And so I'm just looking at, you know, I didn't see the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

I was looking at clips. And just it's this whole, and I don't want to get so technical, but this whole stance is like, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna try to body stuff.

SPEAKER_03 23:40

That's what I wanted to hear from you. Like, what did it look like to you that he was trying to do?

SPEAKER_02 23:44

It didn't look like Somebody said, Hey man, for a million dollars, why don't you do this? It's like, all right, cool. Let me just uh trade up real quick with you.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

But say more, though. I'm gonna tell you now.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

But you do know that they did not fight for a million dollars. You know how much money they made off that fight?

SPEAKER_01 24:02

It's like 60k or something like that, right?

SPEAKER_04 24:04

No, six hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

Six hundred dollars, bruh.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

I could have given you six hundred dollars, Nate.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

So he probably could have got I mean, that's that's the definition of cost. That's what I was wondering.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

Like because he like literally was setting himself up to be hit in the back of the head, and he was it was just weird.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

It was like I said, no stand, like he just got out there and said, hey, I feel like boxing. And you know, I don't know about too much about the Jake guy either, but I've heard he's he's been around.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

He's been training and fighting amateur in an amateur level, pro-am level for the last year, man. That's why when I saw that come up, I was just like, okay, what what is he trying to uh what is he trying to get from this? And like you said, I think it is, it was just clout chasing. Like he went out there and got his behind whoop, he got sat on his forehead, because literally he got knocked out on his forehead and he got his clout chasing on. Now we'll tell you they were teasing because they said he was feeling bad because you know he had LeBron James and Stephen Curry and them going laughing at him on social media. I think that really did hurt his feelings. But he should have known what he was getting into. This is these are real fights. Like all of those fights that were on those cards were real fights except for that one. So he should have known something was up. That's the thing that I did not get. I didn't get it. I would not want to get my behind whoops.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

Yeah, like I said, boxing is is one of those, and I only think of a few sports like hockey, that physical context, MMA fighting and stuff like that. Like you either you're in it to be a beast or an animal or you're not, but you gotta be smart about it. It's not something you I can jump in and do next week and think I'm gonna be a master at it.

SPEAKER_03 25:43

That's what I saw. It was so disrespectful to the sport of boxing. The fact that he thought he could just get in there and and and literally stand toe to toe with somebody. I know they were teasing about the fact, like, I mean, just like his reach and everything. Like he didn't think about any of these things before taking the fight. None of that stuff. No.

SPEAKER_02 25:59

I mean, he was he was he was like his feet forward, like, you know what I'm saying, just kind of vertical and stuff. No, seriously.

SPEAKER_03 26:07

He was walking in, he was walking right into the punches. Like he was walking.

SPEAKER_01 26:10

Like, what at that point he probably like he didn't know.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

That's straight. When it hit him, I was like, okay, you know it was gonna be there. It's gonna be waiting for you, sir. We kept running into it.

SPEAKER_02 26:26

Yeah, and see, and see, like, you know, I've got hit in my stomach and I got hit in my face a few times. But I mean, like Mike Tyson said, everybody had to plan until you get punched in the mouth. That really happened. That really happened. Like, you don't have a plan, like, okay, shit, I'm gonna do this after that, you know. And you really don't have time to think in boxing. But it it was, I think it was just, you know, boxing has a little bit of, I don't know what to call it, like circuit sack a little bit, just a little bit. But I didn't even realize that it was gonna be a good thing.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

Yeah, it was worse than the um, it was worse than what was going on with with Mayweather and Kyle McGregor. It made that look like it actually looked like a good fight.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Yeah, I was about to say it reminds me of, remember back in the day on Celebrity Deathmatch?

SPEAKER_03 27:07

It was like live, live action.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

That's what it reminds me of. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:12

Real thought.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

And speaking of which I know um Floyd Mayweather now, because of that, he's actually gonna take a fight with Jake Paul's brother now, just because of, yeah, just because I think they they pulled so many views in. That's why I was like, man, they didn't even make any money off of it. But they bought so many views in that now they're gonna continue this little facade of these fights. And it was so weird because I know we discussed this pre-show, but there was a real fight last week that people should have been watching, which was the Errol Spence Jr. fight versus Danny Garcia. And those are two formidable fighters, man. Errol Spence coming back off of um that car accident from last year. Dead brother was in shape, he came ready to perform, and he did his job. I mean, it was a technical class in boxing properly, coming back from a major injury. And he did well and he won his bout. But yeah, man, I was just this is interesting because I love boxing. I know many people don't. I mean, MMA has taken almost everything over, but I'm still a boxing enthusiast. I like watching the people get in a square circle and handle the business.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

So yeah, I haven't followed I've been following new cats too much.

SPEAKER_02 28:14

I know um Shakur Stevenson, he's like one of my favorite new guys. But I don't I don't catch him every you know every weekend or whatever. I just I think I just follow it.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

Because like I said, it's it's where the the sport is too. Like it's uh it's not it's like I said, I hate to say, but MMA is yeah, it's it's picking up because you can have so many fighters, you can move through quick, the rounds are fast, you you don't have much, you don't have to put much money into it to get a draw. Because in boxing, you know, you gotta put money into it. You gotta pick it, you really do have to um invest into the sport in order to see a return, whether or not you're a promoter or a fighter. So it's a little different.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

But you know that that goes like with any any industry, like boxing turns into like a more or less a political thing, too. You know, say I won't fight this person because he's not good enough, or I won't fight this person because it might make me look bad because I'm fighting under my, you know, saying under my uh my level or whatever. So it turns out so much that everybody's now become like a beautiful a little bit, you know? So as opposed to like MMA, people want to fight. It's just like the music industry, like I don't want to do a collab with this person because you only have a certain amount of strength, and I'm over here making money, and you wanna buy strings, or you know, just stuff like that, whatever. So but I think like it's always gonna be it's always boxing is always gonna be a sport, like it's always gonna make money. It's a dismissal sport, first and foremost. And it's always something that's going on, whether it's locally or on a national level, somewhere, my box. It's one of those things like a legendary sport.

SPEAKER_03 29:41

It's not gonna die, so it's just not gonna be in the forefront.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

Yeah, yeah. And I think it it changes just like the music engineer changes when the new kids come in. So it's based on their popularity, not necessarily ours or the people dedicated to us. So whatever they like, that's how the game changes.

SPEAKER_04 29:59

Yeah, it's true. It's very true. With that being said, man, I know I hate to wrap stuff up, but we've had so much work today just to get this episode out, which is a oh man, the story behind this episode. That's that actual story.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

Yes, you gotta be as a pilot, just because you know we could have, I don't know, get it get advice.

SPEAKER_04 30:22

Yeah, I know, man. I know we appreciate your assistance today. If people want to find out more about, like I said, what it is you do, like the different projects you're into, as far as like with music and even just stuff related to that, where would they find you or how can they reach out to you?

SPEAKER_02 30:37

Right now, the only social media thing I'm doing, I'm I'm pushing all my stuff is on Facebook. Of course, that's just Aerythm. That's where I'm I'm pushing most of my I guess my beat tapes that I'm coming out with, or you know, music that I'm dealing with, becon, stuff like that. I'll post clips and pictures from that all the time. So that's what I'm utilizing right now. I'm kind of using that as my major platform. Um that's that's about it, man. Like you'll see you'll see my links all there right now, because I know it takes a lot. What work. So I gotta open certain things to make other things happen. So everything's through Facebook, Eric Tumble right now. And of course, um, if you want to go strictly to my my music page, is Airbit slash kineticlife.com. And then I got uh SoundCloud. I still utilize that, so that's kineticlife.com. Everything's kinetic life on that um aspect. 2021 will be the relaunch of Bcon, hopefully like in February and March. So um, of course, that's Bcon.net for the for those updates, and that's pretty much it, man.

SPEAKER_05 31:48

Okay, good, good.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

I'm dropping a V tape in the next couple of days. I'm not, you know, you kind of like, okay, you got it together, you're trying to figure out a type of a launch date for it. So that's where I'm at. That's all that's where I'm at with that. Because I know I got tons more to put out after this.

SPEAKER_03 32:02

We'll make sure to post all that information, uh links and et cetera, below the episode when that goes up, just so that way they can get to it quick. And we have um other references and stuff from the show, a little bit of research that we did on the things that we talked about as well. We'll post those things as well below in links. So we'll have all that stuff together for folks checking out the show.

SPEAKER_04 32:22

Sounds good. Well, like I said, man, it was definitely an honor to have you on our pilot episode E. Um dealing with our crazy. Yeah, man. And we can have you back on too much. Man, they just stepped it up this time. Like, oh man, it's like from everything, son.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

You know, I'm a creative man, so I love when things start up. I always want to be a part of that, you know. Of course, this time I'm actually guessing, not part of the technical side. So I'm I'm still cool with it. And I like I said, I love to see things grow, man. That's that's just what I like doing for it.

SPEAKER_04 32:51

So word, word. Well, like I said, this is Skip and DJ and what? And until next time, stay up.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

That's it for today's episode of the Hilltop Love Podcast. Make sure to subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts. Also, follow us on Instagram and Facebook at THP Podcast.