Unbreakable: Jon Pritikin's Global Mission to Inspire Through Strength and Story

00:02 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Hi, I'm John Pritikin, and for 31 years I've striven to be a giant in my industry of speaking to students all over the world, in countries from the Middle East to Africa to Asia and over 70 countries face-to-face to over 10 million students and speaking in corporations, and so I just have a heart to help people. 00:34 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) I'm Brian Boyd and this is Conversations with Giants and, as you just heard, john Pritikin is our guest. Amazing guy with amazing organization, speaking to kids and adults around the world, millions and millions of people one-on-one and giving them inspiration. I cannot wait for you to hear today's podcast. We really dive into the secrets behind public speaking embarrassing moments, funny moments, what's it like to roll up a frying pan? Yeah, you're going to hear about that, and so much more. So let's get into it Today's episode of Conversations with Giants with John Pritikin. 01:11 Well, today's guest is a good friend of mine and, honestly, I couldn't think of a better person to have as our first guest for this brand new podcast series, conversations with Giants, and his name is John Pritikin. Hello, john, oh, it's an honor to be here, so we are so excited. I can you know there are times in your life when you meet someone and your whole life takes a detour, and John is one of those people. I remember the day that my wife and I met John and his family and, honestly, our lives are the better for it, and so I wish everyone listening here would have an equal opportunity to meet John. But John Pritikin and his family live in Northern California and John, tell us about what you do. 02:03 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, yeah, so we do. We live in Northern California, a little town called Lodi, and so I was born outside Chicago but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when we were about a year. I was a year and a half old. My parents moved out this way, so I grew up by San Francisco and so, but for the last 31 years I've been traveling the world speaking to students in school assemblies. 02:24 It's the main thing I do is speaking to students, and so we speak to about 150,000 students here in the United States every year, and then almost every month we're international, so we go all over the world speaking to students that way too, and so we have an anti-bullying program that we do in the schools, and it's called Be a Hero, and heroes watch out for each other. They help out people who aren't as strong as they are, and it's encouraging people to be nice to each other, don't give up. Don't give up on the gift of life, and no one eats alone and so that's kind of what we've been doing for all these years, and I've been very fortunate to have my family travel with me the majority of my career. So my wife we've been together since we're 18. He got married at 22. So she's traveled with me in the majority of my career. 03:06 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) That's good, and for if you want to find out more about John, you can go to feel the power dot org. Feel the power dot org and all his stuff is there. So, john, who do a lot of people do this to a lot of? There must be a ton of men or women that go out and speak to kids. What's what makes your uh assemblies different? Why are your assemblies different than other people? Who who go out and reach kids? 03:32 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) There is a. There is a segment of people who do what I do. Uh, there's a lot of corporate speakers, yeah, so a lot of people who do corporation stuff of school assembly there is. There is a uh, um, a group of people who do that. There's a lot of people who will do different gimmicks, uh, from like, uh, you know um, a yo-yo to you know illusions, to bmx bike, and I have mine too, where I roll up a frying pan and I break a baseball, yeah. 04:00 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So hold on a second. You roll up a frying pan. 04:06 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, yeah. So I don't always leave with that, because sometimes when you say stuff like that you get like a judgment, but yeah. 04:13 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So you woke up one day. You're like, ok, these kids aren't listening to me. And you look over and there's a frying pan and you say I'm going to roll this up. Where did that start? 04:22 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) So yeah, ok. So let me backtrack a little bit. 04:24 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) There you go. 04:26 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) I was 15 years old, a sophomore in high school, going through a really difficult time. But high school got a little bit better for me and I'll share more about that later. But I was sitting in an assembly and a man came in and he ripped a phone book in half. And for those who are listening, a phone book is something you can look numbers up in. 04:45 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) It's right next to your Rolodex. 04:47 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) I believe Exactly. Yeah, I'll fax you a copy later. 04:51 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Okay. 04:52 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, so, but now I do reams of paper because we don't have phone books. So, anyways, the man did this stuff and he did. He shared inspirational stories. He didn't share his own story, but he shared inspirational stories. It was really, really powerful. And I saw the reaction he got from all my friends around me. Like people around me were emotional. I'm like, oh man, this is amazing. And so I got in touch with him and when I was in college I reached out to him. He mentored me and so he kind of showed me some different things and we started doing the feats of strength I do. And then for a lot of years we worked. 05:26 I worked in baseball. From 94 to 2006 I worked exclusively with the oakland a's and different teams in major leagues. So the whole money ball, that movie, that's my genre, that's my time in baseball. And so we would do something bigger every year for the guys at spring training. And when you're like, oh, let's take a frying, a frying pan, what could do with this? Oh, fold it in half. Ah, that's not that great. So we rolled it up and that was. And then I have Guinness World Records for it and that's for rolling two at the same time inside each other and that was all 100% my wife's idea. So that was her idea and I'm glad she did, cause I still have that Guinness World Record and got my picture in the book for it for rolling two at the same time. So so that's how I started doing the, the feature strength, and, like I was saying, like there's everybody has, like there's different things in school assemblies, people will do not, a lot of people will just come and speak because you want to grab a student's attention. 06:17 So there's, if you have, some entertainment you know, or comedy, or you know a music or something like that. So, uh, there is a lot of people, but I think what makes my different is, um, I think there's a. Let me say there's a lot of great speakers out there, and there's there's even speakers who are a lot better than I am. They they're incredible. But I think what I strive for in every program and this is even when I do corporate stuff is I try to connect and not communicate, because if you connect with the crowd, they're never going to forget you how do you know so? 06:49 what's the difference, tell me. Yeah, I think you're being transparent is one um, I think is, and I share my personal story, so hopefully I can connect with the crowd that way. Yeah, because again there's gonna be people who are gonna be funnier and more articulate and have all you know whatever maybe in better content, you know, but if I can share my story and win with that way, I think you connect with their heart that way, and so I think transparency is the big thing, especially right now. So I started doing this in 94 and we're sitting here in 2025. I think, if you're going to talk to students nowadays, you have to be more transparent and real, because this generation is incredible and they can sniff out a phony really, really, really fast. 07:30 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Well then, I would imagine too that now what age I'm going to ask this question. But what ages do you speak with? What ages, yeah? 07:37 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) So I'm a little different in the fact that I speak to all the ages. So no matter if it's kindergarten through high school or for those who are listening internationally, primary, and then for those high school through college and for those who are listening internationally, secondary. 07:51 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So you gear your program for the age group, naturally. Right, right, but these are the kids that have TikTok and they're on social, so they must have a very limited attention span. 08:03 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, so my assembly is 30 minutes long long, 35 minutes for the higher grades and, and everyone else is, a lot of people do a lot longer and schools will go. Okay, we need you to do 50 minutes. I go, I'm sorry, I did 30, 35 and that's me rolling up a frying pan or ripping a rim of paper in half and breaking a baseball bat, and the reason I find that that's the key right there, because I can keep their attention and so I always. 08:26 I always end it on a feat of strength, like I'll end it on on the frying pan, or I'll end it on the baseball bat and halfway through my story, because when I tell my story I do in a third person. I don't tell it to me to the very end, but I always pick the object up. I'm about to break, because there's different things you want to do to keep the, keep the student back in gauge with you, because, yeah, you can. You can lose them, they'll, they'll drift off and attention span and I'm one of them. I have a short attention span, right, and so I I just think about me as a student when I'm speaking. So hopefully you're connecting that way with the, with the person, connecting with their heart. And I gotta be honest, you're not gonna be able to you speak to 2 000, you're not gonna be able to you speak to 2000 people. You're not going to be able to connect to all 2000 people. It's just, it's just a fact of life, but hopefully you can do as much as possible. 09:12 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) How many? How so you're? You've done millions of. You've, uh, you've spoken to millions of kids, uh, so any, any given month? How many assemblies are you doing roughly, or how many? 09:32 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) how many assemblies are you doing roughly, or how many? How many presentations are you doing a month? Oh man, um. So so you go through like well, as I stay busy all year round because I do a lot of international stuff. So in the summertime in the united states, when there's no school, I'm going overseas, like I'll be in columbia and south africa. Uh, columbia, south america, I mean right and and um. So I'll be doing schools in bogota and then in the South Africa region, and then I'll come right back and start into the fall schedule. But I mean last fall, I mean I just remember this, it just popped my head from September 1 to December 1. I did 155 assemblies, wow. So I mean there's sometimes you're just that's a lot of frying pans. And as I'm in, my 50s. 10:07 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) I'm popping. Advil like Tic Tacs and by the way, this podcast is brought to you by Advil. Yeah, exactly. No, it's not. 10:13 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Well, I got to say this. I've been doing this for so long. They used to say hey, john, your assembly is so great. 10:29 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) You should get sponsorship from like Red Bull. And now, like you, should get sponsorship from arp and metamucil. You know it's like it's changed, you know, hey, kid, before we start, I want you to look at this metamucil. Oh, here's the question everyone's asking and and in you're, you're traveling, you're doing all these assemblies, you're doing the frying pan roll up. Are you traveling with frying pans? Then, are, do you? Are you, do you go up to american airlines and check in your big bag of frying pans? Uh, 100, yes oh my gosh what, what is that? 10:50 what, what, what, what do the do the gate agents say when you walk up with with the baseball bats and frying pans? 10:57 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) that's never the issue. Checking at the airlines is never the issue. They don't care, they'll just check the bag. They just go. What's in there? 11:02 I go, frying pan, they go frying pans and I go and I'll show them a picture or video, or show my book or whatever they're like, oh, okay okay, but the issue I run into and I, if I'm going to a country I've never been to before, I have to throw a couple extra frying pans in there, and this has happened a whole bunch. I remember I'll never forget. I flew into bali, indonesia, yes, and they and they. Because they think you're trying to sell it without paying tax, that's what they think they want to charge you the duty for the frying pans, that's so. They think you haven't declared it. They think you're trying, you're, you're sneaking in, you know, 50 frying pans in, because sometimes I'll go to multiple countries, so I'm bringing, like it's clearly you fly from california to bali to sell frying pans. 11:38 That makes a whole lot of sense yeah, it's on spirit airlines, but yeah, I do that way. Yeah, but uh, but yeah, so um, yeah, you have a couple extra frying pans. 11:49 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) What do you do at at? 11:50 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) uh, at custom, I'll roll them up for them if I roll and I'll sit there right in the middle of the customs hall in front of everybody and I rolled up and that happened to bali and then it also happened to me one time in venezuela, and so I rolled it up and then it was a little airport outside of Medellin where I was doing my thing and we went back out to fly out of there like a week later and my flight was hanging on the wall. That's great. The custom guy had it because it was such a small airport, because the same customs they had it on the wall, so they took it back down, took more pictures with me and stuff like that. So it was pretty funny. 12:24 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So they took it back down and took more pictures with me and stuff like that. So it was pretty funny. So you're a pretty big guy. No one can see you right now, but you've got some decent muscle on you For those just picture Arnold Schwarzenegger. You're really close to seeing what John looks like. 12:43 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) He's a big guy If he ate a box of Krispy Kremes. That's your Arnold Schwarzenegger eating a box of Krispy Kremes That'd be me. 12:50 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) AI just made that for me. Thank you very much, are you, no? So you're doing all these assemblies, you're doing these feats of strength. What's your workout schedule like? I mean, how do you keep yourself fit to do all these things? 13:05 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, it's getting harder as I get older too. I just had two shoulder surgeries, so you adapt. I'm not lifting like I did when I was in my 20s and 30s, even in my 40s, now that I'm in my 50s. So I'm 6'4", 280. Well, I was 290 today on the scale, and so I used to be 330. So all the stuff was, and I find if I dip under 280 on my weight, breaking the bat is a lot harder, so I try to keep my. I just maintain that 280, 285. 13:35 So I go to the gym six days a week. I take a day off, I always have like a day of rest, but I never miss a workout day of rest and but I never miss a workout. And so and so I'll do I do a one body part a day now as I've gotten older. So I usually do like a back, and then I always do like 45 minutes of cardio on elliptical. Okay, yeah, I love, I love candy crush, and I only let myself play candy crush if I'm doing cardio. That's the only time I could play candy crush. 14:04 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So this podcast, brought to you by metamucil and candy crush yeah, that candy. 14:09 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) That candy doesn't crush itself. 14:11 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) That's right, that's my tagline so even when you're traveling abroad, you you try to get a hotel with a gym, or or you find a local facility or something brian, my family thinks I'm crazy. 14:22 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) I do layovers. I'll do a layover like london airport, I have a gym. I go to hong kong airport, I have a gym I go to. I'll do a long layover and get my workout and come back and catch my next flight. That's great. Yeah, so it's just being consistent. You talk about being a giant. You talk to anyone who's trying to be consistent in their field. That's how you become a giant. You know you got to be consistent in their field. That's how you become a giant. You know you've got to be consistent in your workouts and your diet and everything. And am I perfect? Absolutely not. But the thing is, being consistent in anything makes you a giant in your industry. 14:55 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Well, that that goes back to the theme of this podcast series is we're talking to industry giants in in whatever industry, whether it be travel or real estate, or motivational speaking or even helping kids, and, um, uh, you know, I, I there's a lot of fun that you have with the kids, but I imagine there's also a lot of serious moments. 15:18 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Can you? 15:19 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) can you share? Is there any case studies? Share one or two stories and take your time, we're not in a rush. Is there any case studies share? 15:25 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) one or two stories and take your time. 15:26 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) We're not in a rush, but yeah, I imagine anywhere in the world you've been up there, you're doing your assembly, you call your volunteer down possibly you maybe are scanning the audience looking at kids maybe some kids now I understand. After the assembly you give high fives to all the kids, right? 15:41 I try to, yeah, yeah yeah so I imagine kids come up to you and maybe give you a hug or something. What are, what are some of the stories you've heard from kids, either either at the assembly or after any? Any stories come to mind? 15:53 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, oh yeah. I mean there's your mind goes. It's like fluttering right now all these things you want to say. But to weed it out is the hard part, because there's so many stories after all these years. So there's a couple things I tell schools Like we let the schools and people that I work with ahead of time know that the students will be emotional in my assembly. 16:12 So we ask them don't take them out, because a lot of times a teacher has a good heart. They want to take the student out of there so they can calm them down and bring them back in the assembly, but we ask them that they stay in so they can hear the whole program. They'll let them know there's still hope at the end, even though they're feeling this emotion. And the other thing I ask is that let me be at the door to say goodbye to each student. It's another point of contact. And at that point of contact sometimes it gives the student a chance to say something to me and they couldn't because there's all these kids or students in the room. 16:42 And so yeah, over the years, like it's make fun of me about a little bit in a good way, is like I'll never forget. I was doing schools in Perth, australia, and I said, hey, I told the guy I go, hey this. So you know I only have one rule with all the stuff I do, I ask that you don't tell me about any of the students ahead of time. So anybody I pick out of the crowd, it's an organic pick. It comes from my heart. 17:08 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Right. 17:17 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Like don't pick the principal's kid or something, okay. Or they just don't tell me, you know, like, uh, you know, this person's there, that person's there, uh, okay. And so I just want to, I just want whoever I pick to be from my heart so saying that, um, I'm doing the schools in australia and we're doing like four or five assemblies a day and we get to thursday and the psychologist, um, they're in perth, so that there's a river that goes. The perth is a city that's kind of long and there's a river that goes between it, so they have the north side and the south side. 17:42 Yeah, and I'm on the north side of this of the river and, um, the psychologist for that whole region walks up to me. She says john, we're having an issue with your assembly. The teachers teachers are very upset. And I go, oh man, my heart drops. I'm like, oh, what did I do? I'm so sorry, you know, I apologize. And she said they don't think it's fair that we're telling you who to pick to bring up on stage. And I said no one's told me anybody. In fact, I said that ahead of time. I didn't want to know anybody, anybody. She goes. I know they say it's humanly not possible for you to pick each the right kid in each assembly. And so over the years I just kind of listened to this thing in my heart and out of that, you know, I've had students walk up. I'll never forget when a small school in california, I picked this girl to come up on stage and as she's walking up on the stage, the teachers, everyone's like no, no they're like no, don't pick her. 18:31 Don't pick her, you know they're freaking out. Yeah, and I bring up on stage. At this point it's too late. She's already up on stage and, um, I asked I go, what's your name? She says her name and I I don't know what's going on, like what. I either say no and I go how old are you? I go, are you having fun? Yeah, I go, am I good looking? She goes. Yeah, and everyone's laughing and as I'm asking that the teacher's just back off, they just pull away. 18:54 Okay, and so I'm doing my assembly and all that stuff and I come at the end I say you know, the reason why I pitched you today is you touched my heart and there's something special about you. You just need to know I came to speak at your school. I go, she's young, she's like first grades, you know, and all the teachers started just crying, you know. And so she goes and sits back down. I broke the back. She goes and sits down. The principal ends the time. The principal's really emotional. 19:23 I'm at the door saying goodbye to everybody and they ran up to me afterwards and said that girl's never spoken before what. And so they call her parents and they say your daughter's speaking. I guess, I don't know, she wasn't even speaking at home. I don't know the whole story. Right, they just told me that your daughter's speaking now, and over the 31 years of doing this, I've had that about 15 times. I've had a nonverbal kid come up on stage and start speaking on stage in front of everybody that never spoken before, or at least never spoken in the school. No one had ever heard them speak. Yeah and um. No did. Did I give them a certain skillset that day to give them the ability to speak? No, it's just, I just listened to my heart, and so and so over the years we've had I can't even tell you how many stories there's times I've called you and told you stories and I love your heart because you'll be crying as I tell you the story. But that's what keeps you going, is seeing the reaction. 20:24 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) You're seeing those live. You're seeing these case studies live. You're seeing kids react. Yeah. 20:28 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) So I imagine. 20:29 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) The schools for the most most part are just so thankful for the inspiration you come when you come into the school yeah, yeah, I mean definitely yeah I mean there. 20:37 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) There, it's been an honor. I tell you, one thing changed I felt like I was doing assemblies all um. My last in-person assembly uh was march of 2020, chambersburg, pennsylvania. I walked off the stage in a middle school there and I had a great assembly and I'll never forget. 20:55 Going back into a live assembly was like that 2021 oh, after covid yes yeah, because everything I did was online and I and I know, and I would say in my career I've had maybe, uh, once or twice where I've had a student come to me that was being physically or abused by a parent, not just physically but where they crossed the line. 21:22 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Sure something's going on. 21:24 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, it's really, really, really bad. And I start that season back up doing assemblies, that, that, that that season back up doing assemblies and on one tour I had three elementary school students saying what their parent was doing to them. That was just horrible. I can't even say on this air, right, right, and I had to bring the police. Police, I get involved where I'd never I probably had three in my career. I had three in one month and I was seeing that more and more and more that was happening during the COVID. So I believe COVID and the Corona, when we had the lockdowns, changed my assembly and the fact, the way I have to react to students and what I saw from students. 22:06 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Sure, so you're working when you come into a school, are you? You? You work with the local school officials ahead of time, and so forth. 22:15 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, yeah. So a lot of times, a lot of the assemblies are booked by the school counselor. Oh, okay. I remember growing up, school counselors were more in the high school level, but now they're in the elementary school level because there's just so much stuff going out there nowadays. 22:32 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So tell me about this is serious too. I do you. You've been in so many different countries. Uh, are there countries where the kids are more stressed? Are there, I don't know? Is japan a country where the kids have more stress on them? Or India, or you know? Or US is? Do you ever work with schools about? Are kids taking their own lives? Is is? Is suicide an issue? Um, talk about that for a second. 23:08 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, absolutely, I think, um, you named it too. So we've been doing schools for a long time in in the one country that has a high suicide rate with students that I haven't gotten into is South Korea, okay, but they're really high up there. Singapore would be another one that they might not use the word suicide, but the death rate with students is really high. And that pressure I'll'll never forget. I was doing a school assembly in singapore this happened actually in japan too where the student came up to me with tears in their eyes and said that their mom said if you don't get a good grade on this test, don't come home. The pressure to perform, yeah, it's just. And and India would be in that too India's like that. 23:55 Um, I was also a small country. Maybe not a lot of people have heard about it, but I was brought in by the Royal family to speak there called Bhutan and um, the same there. It was just like the stress that these students cause. They feel like if they don't, if they don't education such a big thing. If I get in a good school, a good high school, then I can go to a good university, I get a good career and I could do that. So all this pressure is on them and these students just feel that and if they don't do well, man, they just give up on that gift of life. And so we're seeing that. And during the pandemic and stuff, I started doing online suicide prevention videos too, so we not only see it in the schools with their suicide prevention videos that we're doing. I'll never forget 2020, I did my first one September 10th as Suicide Prevention Day. We had 10,000 people ask for help just on the video that's amazing Not watch it. 24:48 Ask for help. 24:48 So, the next year, 2021, with a mutual friend of ours who's in Tokyo, samuel Kaler, who helps produce all my video stuff. We worked together and did a little bit bigger one. We had 12 million people ask for help not watch it ask for help, so you're seeing the hurt and pain. It's not just in schools but across the world. Now. People feel like there's no hope and that's why I always tell people there's always hope. I always communicate. We'd rather have a broken you than I have you at all. You've got to remember things will get better. 25:22 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) It might not feel like right now, but it does get better when you're doing assemblies and I want to talk about your corporate work too uh, how do you keep the kids laughing and then stay serious at the same time? Is there, is there something in your, uh, in your talk that you managed to do that? 25:41 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, I mean you. You, every crowd's going to be different, you know, and every situation you know. The way I enter a school in the inner city of Detroit or Chicago or Baltimore is different than the school I'm going to reach out into the suburbs of Dallas, like South Lake, dallas, texas. There that's going to be a different program. It's going to be the same. My story is the same, all that's the same. But there's sometimes you use humor and sometimes humor can backfire on you, you know. And then humor, when you're using a translator, it doesn't always work, because a lot of humor in america's is sarcasm and sarcasm doesn't translate wait a minute, that's. 26:23 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) That's an interesting point. So so here, I thought you spoke 50 languages, but apparently you don't. 26:29 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Well, I'm bilingual, but my first language is sarcasm okay, there you go, uh. 26:35 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So so when you're in japan or israel, uh, or you name it, you usually have a translator. So, as you do, your uh speech, uh, your your assembly, they're, they're coming alongside you for the kids correct. 26:48 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, no matter if I'm in, if I'm in jordan or Israel, dubai. When we were we met I just I was doing schools there in Abu Dhabi, you know, no matter where we're at in the world. Or again, latin America or New Jersey, yeah, or I just did a three and a half week tour of the UK. I was in Scotland. I wish I had a translator, not for me later, not for me. Yeah, I can understand them, you know. Yeah, yeah, there's a couple times I I talked to, uh, some people and they walked away. I turned around to my wife and I said I wish there were subtitles. Yeah, because I have. No, I have no idea what just happened, you know. 27:22 So that's great but yeah yeah, so you get it the way you and that's what's really cool is when you're able to share with someone else. Sharing your story, you know, know, because I'm telling my story but it's going through another language to somebody else and seeing the impact of my life story through translation, that's what really touches me there's a little delay, so you give the punchline and you wait for the effect, right? 27:46 Well, and there's times like I was in Sri Lanka one time and I had to speak in English, translate in Sinhalese into Tamil before they had to do my next point, so I had to get translated twice, that's great. 27:58 And so stuff like that. Then it becomes a little more challenging, but yeah, I just see the impact still happen. It's really cool, yeah. So you're always you have to work with it and kind of edit it and go over it, and there's times because I tell my assembly I hey, that boy I'm talking about today is is me. That's my story. And so I was in osaka, japan, and uh, we had a friend of ours who who's since passed, named joel kaylor, a great, great guy, yeah, and uh, he was translating. He was one of my favorite translator too. He just is so animated, so amazing. But a couple. We first started working together and it goes today that that that boy, boy is me, he's translating me and well, the kids. So he said me thought it was him, oh, that's great. So then we realized that he started out and he goes that boy is me, john he pointed at me. 28:48 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So what's your favorite company? There's probably some road warriors listening to this podcast. Aside from speaking, what have been your favorite countries to visit and spend time in around the world? 29:01 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Oh man, there's so many great ones. I mean everyone you talk to people, everyone's going to say Japan's up there, japan, it's safe, it's so clean, it's so fun, the food's great. It's safe, it's so clean, it's so fun, the food's great. My wife doesn't like seafood and she's not into the sushi at all or that, but there's such great food in Japan Like I remember our first trip to Japan. We had Italian food the majority of the time. 29:23 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) It was so amazing. 29:24 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, it was crazy. Singapore is great. I go to Israel quite often, so Israel is probably my favorite nation in the world to go visit and see and the culture, the food and everything else. But in the UK or you know, parts of Europe, are just amazing. As you know, going to Italy is just a great place. It's a great eating country right there. But I've been, you know, since 2022, I've had the privilege to go into Ukraine and speak to the kids there in the really tough areas there, and some of the Ukrainian food it's phenomenal. So, in a beautiful countryside, you know, the world is a great place to visit. All over the world I've been to Montepicu, to all these different places. There's a lot of great countries. It's hard to say I have a favorite. 30:12 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Sure, what an opportunity though the. Not only do you get to work with kids around the world and see the impact, but experience different cultures and food. That's pretty cool. You touched on it a second ago. Let's go back to it, though. You you mentioned both ukraine and israel. Of course, both Israel, of course both countries in the news. It just crazy stuff going on in both countries. You, I think you just you've been to Israel several times. Talk to us about Israel. What's what's? What are the kids like? We're not talking politics here. We're just talking about the impact on the children. What's what's going on in Israel with, with when you go speak to them? 30:50 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, so I've been going there since 2001 and I just so, so ever has a kind of a picture of what I do. I spoke to. I speak to Jewish and Arab kids, so I speak to the whole country, um, and I've gone into some of the different Palestinian territories and speaking to kids there too, so, so I want everyone to have a picture of what I do there. So in 2020, when we started doing school assemblies there, they never had a concept of a school assembly. They still don't call it an assembly to this day. They call it a performance, and so it was. I'll never forget I met with the MOE, the Ministry of Education, in 2007. And so this is what I want to do, and they're like I don't think our kids will listen to that, but good luck, go try. And since then we've spoken to two generations of kids and it's been really amazing. 31:37 Israeli students are amazing. Like every country, they have their issues. Kids have their problems, they have things that are going on, but the heart of an Israeli it really touches my heart Because they can be loud, obnoxious, you know. At times people say rude or whatever, but if you fall down, they're not going to walk over you. Every Israeli on that sidewalk will stop and help you get back up, and that's the heart of the country. It's like they might push you to get to the head of the line, but if you fall down, they're going to pick you up, and it comes across as in the kids too. So when I speak in a group of students who are not normally emotional, when they get emotional man and they're the most loyal followers on social media too they don't unfollow you. 32:25 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) They're there for you. Yeah, they're great. 32:27 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah. 32:29 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Wow, social media too. They don't unfollow you, they're there for you. Yeah, yeah, they're great, yeah, wow. So are you any plans to go back to Israel again? 32:33 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, so we, I, I made a commitment to go at least three to four times a year, and so, uh, we, we've been there. So, um, since the war started on October uh of 23, I've been there eight times. I actually flew there seven days after October 7th and started speaking to the survivors of that. And then we want to do more. 32:55 My daughter, who's traveled with me and for those who are road warriors, she became a gold member on American Airlines at three months old. She became platinum on american airlines at six months old and before her second birthday, she became executive platinum. And, uh, this is her second year, uh, since then, not being executive platinum. So she was platinum pro last year and then that was the lowest she's ever been. Now she's uh because she has lifetime platinum, so she's almost at three million. So, uh, now she's because she has lifetime platinum, so she's almost at 3 million. So that's not credit card, that's straight, just you know, sitting in the seat. So, but she graduated college university this last, this May, and she's moving to Israel in October to go to grad school at Tel Aviv University. Oh, that's exciting, that's yeah. Yeah, the best part is her degree is in conflict resolution. I go. What a place to learn that at. 33:49 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Oh my gosh, you couldn't do oboe or flute yeah. 33:54 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Why, yeah, can we just do online in my, in our house? 33:58 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Yeah. 33:59 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) That's what, that's what my heart wants, but that's great, you. 34:03 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) You I can see already're a lot of fun. Now you've done some corporate work and uh, so when you come speak to corporations and do sales uh you know summits or or executive leadership or something do you change your your program uh accordingly, or how does that work? 34:21 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, absolutely yeah. So it's a different. It's a different. I still do the feats of strength. 34:27 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Oh sure, Everyone loves the rolled up frying pan, no matter how old they are. 34:30 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) You know they really do. So I just did a corporate talk two weeks ago and it was for the top of this company and I'm about to rip the room of paper in half and I see this younger guy. He was one of the younger guys in the crowd, probably like mid twenties. 34:45 Okay, Something like that, yeah, and I bring him up on stage to look at it, I'll bring a younger one up and I'll kind of alternate who I bring up next and just kind of just fill it out. But I really feel like I was supposed to bring this this young man up. So I bring him up on stage and he has like blonde curly hair and I go, hey, is this real? He goes yeah, I go, I go, make sure it's real because I'm, when you give it back to me, you going to give me a countdown from 10 and then I'm going to rip in half. He goes oh, I already know that I go. Wait, wait, you already know that I go. How do you already know that he goes? 35:13 You spoke in my middle school and at the end of the program you gave me a wristband because I was going through a tough time and I still have that wristband to this day. That's great. So that's like 14 years ago. Yeah, I spoke in his school and you know how many times he probably had to move, but he brought that respect with him over the years and so it was just really, really touching. But in the corporate setting I still do the feats of strength because it's still fun. 35:39 But I usually talk about overcoming the fear of failure, the fear of people and the fear of the future. That's great and how, even though I've had a lot of success in what I do for a living, I've made so many mistakes and I kind of tell stories and I use a lot of humor in that. But even though I make a mistake it doesn't mean I am a mistake. Even though I fail doesn't mean I have a failure and I'm not going to do everything perfect in life. But I'm not a mistake and I'm not a failure and I try to include that and let people know, no matter if you're trying to get a sales goal or you're trying to communicate as a staff, that you gotta remember you're not gonna do everything perfectly, but how special you are and the watch business people and even very, very successful. I did a talk not too long ago for people in the minimum person the room was making eight figures. 36:28 Show emotion and break down because we all need encouragement. You know the? The front of my book says you know um, a survivor's guide to happiness is the, the, the. The tagline for my book but like that's a hard thing to navigate in life is happiness and to say that, even though I make mistakes, even though I give until all these things happen to me, I still try to pursue that, that that the navigate happiness, to bring happiness in my life. 36:58 And these are the barriers I have to overcome and to encourage myself when I go through those tough times and to watch these, watch people and adults break down because they might have a childhood that's like that, or they might have a child or a grandchild or an eastern nephew. That's going through stuff that I went through, you know, as a child and to know that there's hope and encourage them. So you really see that in the corporate setting. And so that day two weeks ago, I was really fortunate that they didn't give me a standing ovation. They gave me two standing ovations that day and it was really, really touching. That's great. 37:33 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So we're talking to John Pritikin, founder of Feel the Power. You can learn more about John at feelthepowerorg and John I've loved hearing these stories If you want to see John in action and you can't get to a his assemblies, of course, aren't open to the public but on his website, feelthepowerorg, click on media and you can see some video of John actually doing these feats of strength and a very well done video. Put them on your Facebook page and share them. So let's talk about those for a second. So you roll up the frying pan like a burrito right, yeah correct. 38:13 You break a bat in half, yeah. And you said you rip a phone book. Well, a ream of paper in half, correct. Are there any other things that you've done in your past? 38:26 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, yeah, there's a that you've done in your past or are those yeah, yeah, but but yeah, I used to do a steel bar where I pick kids, students up and spin them around and then, yeah, bar in my teeth. I kind of put that on the back shelf for right now because I I just spent all this time and money on my shoulders that I don't think. 38:45 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) I think that might just kind of set me back a little bit. Yeah, yeah, go figure, good for you. 38:51 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Well, I have to. You know, I travel with all this liability insurance that even covers me in other countries for my assemblies. Yes, and the one thing that I didn't like is I was picking kids up on a steel bar and spinning them around because it was such a liability. They could fall off, they can cut their hand different things and stuff like that. 39:17 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So not doing that has made that kind of problem go away, which I never thought when I first started doing it. That was never going to be an issue. You know. So how many, how many? If you had to guess how many frying pans have you rolled in your lifetime, Would you even have any sort of an estimate? 39:27 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) No, I couldn't even tell you. I mean, I know 2024, I did 400, wow, um yeah, I can't even tell you. I can't because, you know, during the covid thing it was a little less and then uh, yeah, but there's some years it's 400, some years, yeah, it's thousands. Yeah, yeah, it's been thought. 39:47 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Oh for sure, thousands yeah and I think when you roll the frying pan and in like a burrito, you actually give it to the school. 39:55 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Uh yeah yeah, I autograph it. Yeah, I autograph everything I do. So I graph the bat and that room of paper, that, because the the loose end I threw up in the air, but the one that looks like a book, um, I, uh, I autograph and leave it for the school or the company that's brought me in. That's cool. 40:11 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Tell us about your app. You have an app as well. What is your app? What is your app to? 40:16 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, so we developed this app to help people because I wanted to leave a legacy after I walk out of a school, or even a corporation. So it's not just for students, it's for adults too. So we say it's for anyone over the age of 12. And so, but we want it where someone who's going through a tough time can find support. So every day, at 12 o'clock, that inspirational quote will pop up on your phone. You go nap. There's like a daily thing you can do. It's like a daily, like a devotional thing where you can go through it and you can do. It's like a daily, like a devotional thing where you can go through it. And you know, there's like different. Uh, there's like a little things you could check off. Yes, there's like I don't. I think that the words keep in my mind right now, that what you would call that not, not a test a little activity yeah, that's a great way to say yeah 41:02 activity to do. Um, I've battled really bad in my life uh, anxiety and even panic attacks and one of the things that's helped me is listening to like brown noise. So white noise is your cancer, but brown noise they call it the weighted blanket for the brain. So we have that on there, so it just plays brown noise on there. There's also links for help. If someone needs help and if you're battling with different subjects let's say depression or aloneness, or forgiveness or bitterness you can click battling with different subjects let's say depression or aloneness, or forgiveness or bitterness you can click on those different subjects and then it will take you to that too. So it's just a daily. It's a daily. There's 31 things, 31 days on there, and just to help someone who's just going through a tough time I know that was funny the other day I was just going man, I kind of feel like I'm in a little bit of a hole. That's why I call it when I'm kind of sad. 41:49 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Yes. 41:49 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) And so I go man. I'm in a little bit of a hole and I was driving down the road and my phone was up on those little magnet thing on the dashboard and all of a sudden it popped up and I forgot what it said and even though it's from me, it's just like man. 42:03 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) That kind of touched my heart. 42:08 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, man, that kind of touched my heart. Yeah, I needed that. You know that's great, that's good. Well, you know, there's time you try to practice what you speak about. You know this. 42:12 This happened just just recently in scotland where, um, we were checking into a small hotel uh, in sterling isn't, so it was halfway through our drive. We were in birmingham area doing schools and I had to go up to the northeast the highlands in scotland, but it's a 10-hour drive. So we broke it up half and stopped in Sterling by the Sterling Castle, and so we checked into the hotel and it was like you checked into the bar, but the hotel was across the parking lot and it was kind of different. Right, it kind of messed up on the bed. What they told me. We had two rooms and the bed type was different. I go, oh man, that's, that's disappointing, but okay. So we walked out and ronda and jayden said, oh, that was passive, aggressive. And I go, oh, what do you mean? They're like well, you're, that's not you. We know they might not think it's, you know that that was no big deal, but we know that's you. You didn't, that's not you. You, that was it. You weren't being nice. I got wasn't being nice, like no, I'm gonna go back and fix it. And they're like no, no, no, I go, no, I gotta fix it. 43:10 So I walk back in and I say hey, the rooms are great, this is actually unloaded. And I said um. I said do you know what I do for a living? She goes, no. I said well, I speak to students and corporation, I'm a motivational speaker. And she goes. Oh yeah, I said I think he's a word inspirational. 43:26 But Um, and I started talking about I tell my life story a little bit and I said I talk about being nice and I go. I didn't live up to that today and I go. I don't think I was really cool. And she goes. No, no, she goes. 43:37 I can tell you're disappointed about the room, but you weren't mean. I go, yeah, but I know my heart and what I tell people to do. I don't think I was that to you today. So I just gave her like 20 pounds and I said you know, can you get dinner on me tonight? And just let you know I'm sorry, I didn't live up to the way I was who I'm supposed to be. And she starts crying, she goes. That really means a lot. And I go. Well, I just want to be the same person on stage, off stage. So we're not no one's perfect. None of us are perfect. But you try to live up to what you speak about and there's times I even need that for myself. I tell people don't give up, don't give up. But there's times I sit there on my couch and feeling sad. We all do. 44:18 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) We all do. Yeah, you're not alone. I'm going to ask you you know what's next for Feel the Power? Where do you see yourself going? But as you look back over either corporate or schools, are there any funny moments where you're giving a presentation and something doesn't go right or something just happens that sets you off in the other direction, like you just can't believe that happened In all these places you've been. You must have some incredibly funny stories that have happened along the way, accidentally, other direction, like, like you just can't believe that happened in all these places you've been. You must have some incredibly funny stories that have happened along the way, accidentally, oh man oh, I got a lot of those. 44:56 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) I got a lot of travel stories, but uh, tell me on state, on stage stuff for sure, for sure. 45:02 Um, I don't know, this is the first one to my mind, but I'm speaking at a school. It's for first and second graders, yeah, so it's younger kids that are there the whole time. And so I'm coming to the end of my story and you know, I talk about this boy who couldn't talk and everybody was mean to, and how, you know, kids do garbage. And I'm going through my life story and at the end go, he didn't give up, he graduated from university. I go today that little boy who became a young man, went on with his life and today that man is me and I was really emotional, I'm crying. And then to rosa and the second grade boy goes oh, that makes sense. I go what do you? 45:39 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) mean that makes sense. Was it audience participation? 45:43 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) yeah, it's just like oh man, it's just like me. Oh, with the hair. Yeah, I get it. 45:48 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Yeah, yeah, that makes sense yeah, I'm like what, what the world you know? 45:51 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) it's just like or yeah, I mean. I mean there's times I've messed up saying stuff from the stage for sure, like what I said, you know, all right, my mind goes so fast. 46:02 Yeah, uh, that that I think things and I say things. I'm like it's okay not to say everything that comes to your head, you know, yeah, I was, I was doing a conf, I did this conference for 65 and older, oh no, and and I got up on stage and I don't know why I said this I was here and there's 450 of them, and uh, and I get up there on stage and I said, uh, it's an honor to be here, I go. You know, I usually speak to students. This is not my normal crowd, so it's really honored to be here at this reverse mortgage conference. 46:35 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Oh no, luckily, everybody laughed, you know so as it came out of your mouth, you were like, yeah, yeah yeah, well, for me too is like, you know, it's like, uh, it, I I'll say another comment. 46:51 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) At times, like you're like, oh, john, don't say the other comment, like that's it's the first joke is okay, something like I was doing a large event and and I was talking about the thing we did the day before, it was like this thing for the community and I said, oh, we had a great thing yesterday and the community came out and go as far as I I meant to say as far as I could see there was people, because it was like thousands of people, right, but I got tongue-tied and I go as far as I could pee. There was thousands of people and I stopped and I go, and this is what got me in trouble. I go. That's not very far. 47:23 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) And that's what got me in trouble. 47:25 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) He should, and that's what got me in trouble? He should have stopped before. Oh my goodness, you're like john pretty king. 47:29 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) You've done more. Just why career, oh well so it's stuff like that. 47:33 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) But you know I would have learned is I've told that not from a stage setting and that's first time I've ever done it in the media setting. I've never told that story publicly but I've told it, you know, with people and you know what people appreciate when I tell those kind of stories is like I'm not perfect, right, and in midst of not being perfect you still can have success, and that's and that's why I try some people can't even speak in public. 47:56 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Like the fear of public speaking is a big thing. Not everybody's built to get in front of. Uh, what's your largest? What do you think your largest crowd was you've ever spoken to? At once, I do know. 48:09 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) It was in India. It was 1.1 million people Live crowd in front of one group. 48:14 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So you get up there and there's a million people in front of you Physical people sitting yeah but after like 60,000 people you can't see, okay, who says that it's just a sea of people? You know, after 60,000. 48:29 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Well, they had that screen so they could see it was on 88 acres of land, yeah, and so it just went as far as I mean, there was just like as far as I could see yeah, there's be people. 48:39 Oh, you know, and yeah, I just like, you're just like, yeah, so yeah, no, yeah. But sometimes I gotta be honest with you. Yeah, speaking to a, a crowd of, let's say from I mean, I'm small relative but like, let's say, a group of 500 people in a room is one thing, but a group of 15 is harder, sure, because you see everybody do everything and I'm super add where I can see everybody move in the room. I can see everyone there are, he look, does watch, he's doing that, and my mind's processing as I'm watching. Right, they just yawn, they just do this, and I see everything. In a room of 15 people, even 50 people, you're gonna see all that. We have 5,000, 50,000. You don't see all that stuff. That makes a lot of sense, sure, that's actually harder. Smaller groupser groups, actually, for me it's harder. 49:30 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) So what's next for Feel the Power? Where do you? Clearly you're in demand and your organization is being called upon by schools and groups around the world to come speak. What's on the horizon? 49:44 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) What do you think is happening next for Field of Power yeah, I think I've been more excited about my career now than I ever have been. I've had more opportunities to do stuff than I ever had in my whole entire career and so that's been really exciting. I know, physically, how long am I going to. I'm 52 years old. The man who mentored me and made this possible, he passed away at 62, still rolling up frying pans Now he passed away from, he actually took his own life. So here's a man who was a motivational speaker, who went down that road. So I know I have, strength-wise, a lot left At least I have another 10 years but I just want to keep helping students and as many people as I can and people you know as possible. And so I see down the road is maybe, as I'm getting older, maybe I won't roll up a frying pan but maybe I could bring somebody with me who can you know and maybe help mentor someone to keep going on what I'm doing. But I just want to help as many people as possible and I just focus on that. 51:01 I tell people all the time to you know, don't look where you're at, look where you're going, and that's good. You want to do that when you're struggling keep looking ahead. But it hit me yesterday when I was doing my cardio You've got to be careful not to look too far ahead, because if you look too far ahead, you're going to be so focused down the road that you're going to miss opportunities along the way. So I want to look where I'm going, but I want to be so far down there that I'm so, I'm waiting, I'm my head's down there and I still got to catch up with it. Yeah, so, um, so I'm. I'm processing that in my own personal life and I just want to be real. I want to be relevant, transparent, but I want to be healthy at the same time. 51:44 Now I'm not talking about physically, I'm talking about mentally, because there's times I do get sad and there's times I do want to say I don't know if I can do this anymore, I'm tired, and so I'm trying to build that healthy mindset in my head and have good mental health in my life. And so I do that by surrounding myself with great people, and Brian, you're one of them. And so I do that by surrounding myself with great people, and Brian, you're one of them. I'm so thankful that you came into my life in Dubai when I met you there You've been a source. You and Fran have been a source of encouragement to our family. It's been amazing and I tell students over the years you show me your friends, I'll show you your future. 52:31 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) My future looks bright because I have friends like you. Thanks, john, we feel the same, and actually, if anybody wants to partner with John and help him and his organization reach even more kids, just visit feelthepowerorg. Uh, just visit feelthepowerorg. And and, uh, uh, john, john's organization is a 501c3 and and, uh, you're, you're, uh, I, I wasn't here to do this, but I really you know any, any, any donation I'm sure would help reach, reach more kids around the world and inspire these kids. So be sure to visit feelthepowerorg for more information, and you can watch him, uh, roll up a frying pan too. So that's good, yeah thank you so much. 53:13 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) What's the best wait? 53:14 go ahead, go ahead, john yeah, I just want to say too, there might be people who are listening today, who are parents or grandparents, and they might have someone in their life who has some learning disabilities, who have some speech impediments. I read a book, I mean, I read an article in a magazine. Years ago a lady who was a vice president of a bank took her boy to school, dropped him off in the classroom and the principal and the teacher pulled the mom out in the hall and said man, we've done everything for your child and there's no hope. And she gets on the train and the article said with her education, her success, she stands on this crowded train and she says out loud in front of everybody there's got to be hope for my little boy. 53:55 And I finished the article that day. I looked at the bottom of the page and saw it was my mom who wrote it and that's how I started to share my story. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her took me to doctors and speech therapists and, as you've talked about all the people and different things I've done in my in my life, no one thought that I would be where I'm at today. And I just want to say to the grandparent, the parent, the uncle, the aunt, whoever you have someone in your life that you have that role in their life and you have someone that has a learning disability, speech, even autism, I want you to know today if I can make it, they can make it. There's always hope for a student. Don't ever, ever, give up on a student. 54:41 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) That's great. Thanks, John. What's the best way for someone to reach you if they want to ask more questions or learn more about Field of Power? 54:51 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) Yeah, you can reach out to me through social media. It's just my name, john predican, there's no h, it's jon and um or um. My email you can just email. I reply back to everybody. Uh, john jon at, feel the powerorg there you go. 55:02 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) Well, honored, what so? Honored to have you as our guest today. Um, this guy is the real deal and uh, he's funny, and uh and uh, he is very high up on the rankings on american airlines. 55:16 - Jon Pritikin (Guest) So that's, that's actually I borrowed him I borrowed him when I've been in a jam once in a while, so we really do appreciate it well, it's good, and the only reason I have the connections I have with America Airlines over these years I'm 20, 26 years, executive platinum it's it's just by being nice to people. The reason why I have people who help me out is it's just being nice. You know, being nice opens doors, and so that's why I have that, and that you have that same thing You're. You're one of the nicest men I know too, and so yeah, Thank you, john. 55:51 - Brian Boyd - CCB Marketing (Host) You're amazing, all right. Well, thank you, John, uh, for being on today. Oh, it was an honor to be here. 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