Welcome to the sports motivation podcast.

This is Niyishobo, and today is another episode of Up on Game.

It's where I basically introduce you to something that I believe is important, valuable.

And we've, it's safe to say, and would you agree, we've pretty much spanned the globe with this series.

We've talked potato chips to you know

toothbrushes to books to people to YouTube channels to ideas concepts etc so there's really

no shortage of things you can put someone up on game on and I want to continue to do that.

So anyway, some of you guys know I've been, I was a firefighter. So I was a firefighter for three

years and I ultimately ended up quitting doing that in order to pursue my vision and my dreams

full time. And I'm in the process of living those dreams out as we speak.

And one of the things that happened as a firefighter was that I was exposed to a lot of

things that you would expect a firefighter to see. So there are some firefighter or fire departments

that, let's just say, are in safer neighborhoods, you know, don't see fires a ton.

I saw more fires within my first three months than a lot of firefighters would see in their

entire career. And that's because I was in the city of Gresham, Gresham, Oregon. Let's just say

there were a lot of fires in Gresham, Oregon. That was where I worked. And there was also a lot of other things, crimes, et cetera, seeing people get shot, a lot of deaths. And when it comes to the fires that I would see, it was really crazy. First of all, it's showing up on a fire and putting a house that's on fire

putting that out like this very um what's the word stressful uh and then just imagine going to a fire

and having to rescue someone out of a burning building now i personally have never rescued someone out of a burning building. Now, I personally have never rescued someone

out of a burning building. There was a fire that I was on and where I witnessed someone being

dragged out of a building. We're talking about a person burnt to death. And it was very difficult to see. So anyway, you know the whole idea, like,

let's say there's a candle in your house and, you know, you're like, put that out. You might not

take that serious until you saw someone die from not putting a candle out. You see what I'm

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