Joe Loya

He's on the balls of his feet.

You know, he's loose.

You're loose.

You're ready for it.

He looks at me over there, you know, glares at me.

Then he looks over on the other side of the room and he sees a weight set.

glares at me, weight set, starts walking to this weight set.

And we're talking about, you know, big old barbell.

And in those days, it was like the weights of 25 pound, 20 pound cement blocks with plastic around them.

They're like made out of that garbage can, thick plastic.

But they do have a really strong, big, strong metal gadget to tie them and loosen them in.

So I'm thinking like, what's he going to use to hit me?

And no matter which one of those three pieces, the bar, the weight, the nodule that tightens it, I'm through.

This is like a new level of improvised savagery, right?

So I'm like, okay, screw it.

And I grabbed the knife out and I stand up and now I'm standing there with a steak knife in my hand.

He sees me.

He drops the weight because I stand up with the knife.

I'm holding it.

He sees it and he drops the weight.