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Riley: [00:00:00] Alex, this is, uh, this is called the Go Earn Your Salt podcast, and I'd be curious to know what that phrase go earn your salt means to you. Alex: Oh man, I, I'm, you know, it, it may just be a season in my life, but I, I, um, I really believe that, you know, earning your salt is not just absorbing knowledge, but sharing it and. It's, um, I don't think you've earned anything until you've given it away. So all the knowledge that you gain in Juujitsu, all the knowledge you gain in life, all...

David Schlachter: [00:00:00] sometimes going all in on something and never shifting from that doesn't allow the mind space to actually think about what's going on.  Riley: All right. to the show today. Uh, David Schlachter with ab Abstract Chimp Shoes. I, uh, get a little tongue tied there, but, uh, to kind of bring you guys into why I invited David onto this, this podcast was, he's, he's got a, a relatively new startup company building shoes, and they're the minimalist, barefoot style, uh, wide toe box.No, no [00:01:00] Rise in the sole. And I've been a barefoot runner slash...

david: [00:00:00] and I say it all the time that my bodily, my, my goals far outweigh my bodily pains. You know, my goals far outweigh my bodily pains and my goals are to be a good human. I have three kids downstairs, um, my wife, uh, my business and, and to be a good human and to be the proper person in these environments and.I guess to be a martial artist, to be a Jiujitsu guy, um, to be, uh, to have some Jean Jacques qualities, that's so important to me. And the only way I can achieve that...

Ben Beers: [00:00:00] I believe in God, but I believe God gives, uh, people choices. And I do believe God steps in and changes circumstances and has the ability to, but there's often times where he doesn't. And, um, this idea that we just kinda sit back and let life happen and it must just be God's will. You know, I don't like that thinking and, uh, it's not what I read in the, in my Bible. It's not the way I understand it.   Riley: Today I've got my, my friend, good friend Ben Beers on [00:01:00] here. His...