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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

Unfortunately, they were murdered, not in this small town, up in the city in Des Moines when they were splitting time with their moms.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

I think they just got caught up in- The wrong crowd.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

In the wrong crowd as they were getting older and they were splitting time between mom and dad.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

So I started looking for ways, self-help.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

I'm like, because my brother dropped out of high school.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

He just, he locked himself in his room, said, I'm not, I'm not going to school.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

He gained over 150 pounds.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

And, and like, like at one point he was, I'm pretty sure he was 300 and some pounds at, at five foot five.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

I mean, he, and he, he just locked himself in his room.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

Wouldn't leave.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

Wouldn't like, wouldn't do anything, but just eat.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

And so I, I, I'm like, I'm like, I, you're, he's going to die.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

And I'm like, I need to... And this was seven, eight months that this happened.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

Because this was January, they were killed.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

And I didn't...

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

get to this point until fall right um so i just got on google and i'm like self-help books yeah and sure enough first thing that pops up is can't hurt me by david goggins and i and and the only reason the only reason i was attracted to this book is because it was wrote by a navy seal i had no idea and i'm like oh like this guy's in the military writes a book you know like cool let's read it

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

Reading that book, you know, I was like, Marcus, like, we're going to read this book together.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

Reading that book flipped my entire perspective on everything.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

And it wasn't the fact of, like, the stay hard, woo-woo bullshit is not what drew me to Goggins.

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka
247. Matt Johnson: Jelly Roll’s Weight Loss, Running 842 Miles & Escaping Addiction

It was the, if you go and you read those first three chapters, he was abused.