Episode 179 - Pake McNally (Become Stronger Industries)
The Chewjitsu Podcast
Eugene Tsozik
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we chat with Pake McNally.
Pake is a BJJ black belt, Blacksmith, former Wildland Firefighter, and the owner and fabricator of "Become Stronger Industries."
Pake talks about how he became a Wildland Firefighter, learning Blacksmithing, his introduction to BJJ and the parallels of metal work and BJJ, starting his metalworking business ("Become Stronger Industries).
We also discuss the importance of purpose, starting Jiu-Jitsu and how it pulled Pake out of a difficult time in his life, the importance of being part of a tribe/group, the value of activities with delayed gratification, how Pake started his blacksmithing business, the benefits of strengthening with maces, and the BJJ scene in rural Kansas.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? So to do on the podcast, we have Pake McNally. Pake is a guy. He, so he's interesting. So he's a jiu-jitsu black belt, as we'll get into, and he is a blacksmith. And he makes maces. He makes all this metal equipment, right? All these different fabricated pieces of metal. And so he contacted us a while ago about possibly being a part of the podcast as a |
| 0:23.0 | sponsor. And I, you know, I said, of course, we'll let us see your product first. And so he sent us |
| 0:28.4 | some Maces. And so Eugene and I have been playing around with their Mases. I banged them around and |
| 0:32.2 | made sure it's not going to break on anyone. And they're, they're solid pieces of equipment and so uh we're going to talk to one today |
| 0:38.2 | on the podcast it's fun it's actually it's really interesting he did some really cool jobs |
| 0:42.0 | in my mind again this is just me before like he's doing what he's doing now he did a he did a pretty |
| 0:47.5 | cool job i think it's interesting to listen to uh but we'll talk to him about his some of the |
| 0:52.4 | careers that he's done and injur jit well as the whole thing about being a blacksmith. |
| 0:59.1 | And so we'll be talking about that today on the podcast with him. |
| 1:01.7 | And again, hopefully you, hopefully you guys enjoy this with his company. |
| 1:06.3 | It's become stronger industries. |
| 1:09.0 | The website is become dash stronger.com. |
| 1:12.4 | That's a tough one to get into. Become stronger. |
| 1:14.8 | That's like, I don't even know what the website is, but I imagine it's like some big business or something, right? |
| 1:19.5 | Sure. |
| 1:20.5 | But become dash stronger.com. |
| 1:22.3 | Promocode is Jiu-Jitsu. |
| 1:23.3 | So listen to the podcast. |
| 1:25.2 | But if you're interested in using different odd object type implements like I am, |
| 1:29.2 | because I do like doing stuff like that to develop a different type of strength |
| 1:33.5 | than just like the traditional weightlifting strength. |
| 1:36.5 | And you can check them out at his website. |
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