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It's been a long time, but the wait is over. That's a bad man. That's a bad man. You know it. That's a bad man.
It's time to man up with Satan's nightmare, Nucky Akoloff. Eric Bullock is not in studio today with me, but I've got him via the phone. Eric, welcome to. It's time to man up. Thank you.
Well, it's great to have you here.
Well, there, where is there, Eric? Tell our listeners where you are at. We live in Somerset, Kentucky. It's about hour and a half south of Lexington. Little rural community.
I think I've been there before, actually. Believe it or not, I can't remember if I wrestled there. I was there, or it seemed like I maybe even had a friend who relocated there for a while. But so I think I know. I think I know.
Is that kind of towards towards Kingsport down that way? I'm not really sure where Kingsport is, but this or or Knoxville, Knoxville. Yeah, it's about I'd say about an hour and a half from Knoxville too. Yeah, okay, about an hour and a half north of Knoxville. Yep, I've I have passed you because I have.
There's been times I've come through Knoxville, straight up towards Lexington. You know, I know I've done some autograph signings, wrestling shows there. In Lexington.
So you're over in Somerset, and and out out there. Tell us a little bit. Tell us a little bit about your family.
Well, I said we. Yep.
So I live in Somerset with my wife and our son. This is my second marriage, but Carla and I have been together for five years. We got married four years ago. Moved to Kentucky from Atlanta back in May of 22, and we were married in July of 22. Went back to Georgia to get married.
We had I'm I'm 51, she's 34, and I've got a son. It's he's my son. Others would say stepson. He's my son. 14 year old named Max.
Um. I've got a couple of kids from a previous marriage that was a 20 years long. A son who's 29 and a daughter who's 26, and then four grandchildren. Come on, four grandkids. Yep, yep.
The grands. We'll talk about that in a minute because the grands are, are are pretty amazing.
So, and and I like what you said. You know about the the whole step thing. You know, I try to, I try to encourage guys whenever I hear them, um, you know, introduce their family. Yeah, this is my stepdaughter, my stepson, or, you know, because I I raised. Our two older girls.
When I met their mother, they were six and three, I think, and. But I never, never viewed them as as step children or step daughters. I just didn't. I just just didn't feel right for me personally, and so I just eliminated that word step out of out of the equation, out of the conversation. And and anytime I hear somebody say that, I try to encourage them to say that.
I say, you know what?
Well, why don't you just you embrace them as your own? I get it. They're not technically your own, but embrace them as your own. And and. Whether you're whether they're around or you're having a conversation with somebody when they're not around, you you know it's not necessary.
I don't believe that you even have to reference them that way. And so, and how old is Max? He's fourteen. Fourteen. That's awesome.
So he was so he was about nine years old when you met his mom. Yeah, you're you're good with math. That's well, I'm not great with math, but I'm getting better, Eric.
So, so well, that's awesome.
So, do you? Let me ask you.
So, do you and Max get the opportunity to have some some dad son bonding time? And if so, like, what kind of things might you do? I I'm going to go ahead and freely admit it has not been at the top of priority lists. Set the change. We do.
We do spend some time together. He does jujitsu, and I've done it for I don't know how many years.
So. That would be kind of like our thing. I'd go with them to the gym, and I can't get down and do that. Like I've got some knee issues, so I don't get down and do it like I used to. But you know, I'm there to watch them and kind of you know give them pointers and stuff after after the fact.
And we've recently taken up. Shooting, so like I will go out and go to the local range here and spend time that way. But it's been about a good month to a month and a half since we did that.
Okay, so you, so I guess I'm kind of putting you on the spot, aren't I, Eric? Yeah, hey, I'm ready for it. But but you know what? It's it's critical. It's important.
If I go back to the to the four girls I raised, I had the privilege of raising. One of the things early on, also in addition to not calling him a stepchild, was was to spend quality time with them, and that daddy daughter time when they were little, daddy daughter time, then dad daughter time, although. I will say for the record, my oldest daughter, who she may get mad at me for for for aging her, but she will be she will be. I'll just say she's in her forties. I am just going to say that, but but still calls me daddy.
Still calls me daddy in in her forties. No, right? That's priceless, right? But but if I back up for a moment, and as an encouragement to you. Eric and to all our listeners out there, I made it a priority.
Great, great choice of words to spend quality time with them. And and because I had four, I would rotate them kind of week by week, and so each one got one-on-one time. Not that we didn't do family time or family things together, outings and holidays and that sort of thing, but every week, quality one-on-one time with dad and. And I'm old school, Eric.
So I I was one who believed, you know, opening a car door and and you know walking into a restaurant and opening that door and you know that's excuse me that sort of thing. Be able to model to them what it looked like, you know, for future husband to to, you know, serve serve them right, and that that's that's what we're called to do as men is is is serve, and women women are called to serve as well, but as a man specifically, and so I I was intentional. Here's another good word. I was intentional to do that week in and week out for all all through their growing up years and. Fast forward.
Some of them have even told me, you know, because of what I modeled, you know, when they started looking for a husband, you know, they wanted to find one who would be who would be like that, who would open the door, you know, or pull out the chair for them to you know to sit on and that sort of thing.
So I just encourage you to, for sure, you know, make that a priority with Max and be more intentional to do that more, more than just occasional, but to do it more. More often and more frequently, and and I think it would mean a lot to to Max. I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but it would mean a lot to Max. And it's one thing to know it, Eric, and another thing to implement it. Right?
That's right. Yeah. You can. I mean, you described it perfectly. I I did have that with my my daughter, and she.
She grew up, and I, you know, I was a, I'm a former Marine, but she, she grew up, she joined the Marines, and she married a, a Marine, and he. He treats her the way that I treated her when she grew up.
So, yes, that that philosophy works. Yeah. Well.
Well.
There you go.
So. So you know for sure. Thank you for serving. By the way. Just one.
Thank you for allowing me to. Yeah. Well, just one who appreciates those who, who and and I thank you. Thank your children too. One who serves our nation and and out there to protect our nation, you know.
Just I, for one, don't take the freedom that I've experienced in in in America for granted. I know that our freedom came at at a cost, and there was a price for it. And so I never never want to. When if typically, if I see somebody in uniform, whether it's a whether it's a in law enforcement or military, I always try to make a point. Just you know, just saying, thank.
Thank you for serving. Sure, it's appreciated.
Well, because a lot of times just don't hear it often enough.
So, okay, so you're out there currently raising raising Max, and and how would you you say the the other children are? How old did did you say? My oldest son lives in Arizona, and he's 29. Turned 30 this year in September, and then I've got a my daughter. She's going to be 26.
Well, she is 26 this year, and she lives currently in a very small town outside of Augusta, Georgia. But there's they're going to be relocating to Texas. In June, so gotcha, yeah. And she's the one. She has three of my grandchildren, and then my son has the other grandchild.
But his parents live in Pennsylvania, so I don't get to see the grandchildren very much in the first place. And now that they'll be moving to Texas, it'll be even less, I'm sure.
Well, and and that's and grandchildren are are special to say the least. As I'm sure you already know, you're already aware.
Okay, so well, let's let's shift gears here a moment.
So you're living up in Somerset, Kentucky, and you're what I would would call a marketplace guy, right? You're out there working and in the marketplace.
Well, give us a glimpse into what. What a day-to-day work schedule looks like.
So I work for a large automotive warranty company. Who we have our own product, but we administrate product for all the other auto manufacturers. And my role in the company is as loss mitigation manager. And what that essentially entails is me and my team reviewing claims for fraud. And a day in the life of that is usually so.
I work from home. My company has blessed me with that. I my company's home base is in Atlanta, and you heard I live in Kentucky. But so I spend the entire day researching claims, claims photos, documents. You know that type of information from.
Usually, I'm logged in in between six or seven o'clock in the morning, and I can. I'm logged out in between three to four. I don't typically take a lunch. I kind of just get my day, get my work day done, so I can move on to other things in the afternoon and evening.
So, so here's what's ironic, in a sense, is that you work in. The fraud claims. I as we speak, this is a crazy story. As we speak, I am in the middle of of trying to find two brand new iPhones that went went went. Missing.
They, they, I, I, I won't say the carriers, but supposedly, excuse me, supposedly they put it in a locker which they were not supposed to do. The phone, the sender was very specific. This has to be signed for, and ironically, there, you might say, there's no photo proof that it was put in that locker, nor is there any signature proof. That is put in that locker. I'm not trying to insinuate anything, but interestingly enough, when we were looking in that locker for it, since that's where they said they left it, we ran into a neighbor who has had four phones vanish, gone missing.
So between those four and my two, that's now six phones at the same location. That's a little odd, huh? One would think. I mean, one, two, maybe. I'm not implying that there's any kind of a little ring going on here.
However, we start talking about you know a couple thousand dollars worth of phones, it can get a little interesting, right?
So, so it's funny, like funny to me that you're in that line of work because I've been. I've been in person and on the phone with the with the with the sender. I've been on the phone with the ones who are supposed to be doing the delivery, and it's just been really frustrating, honestly, because I need new phones. Mine's on its last leg, and I'm in limbo because I'm.
Now I'm now I'm paying for phones I don't have, and they're requesting my old phones, which I can't give that up yet because I still need it, right? And so, trying to work through all that. But what, in fact, the manager we were talking today on the way to the radio station goes, "Man, I've been I've been here eight and a half years, and you have a very unique story. I've never had to." I've never had to deal with this ever before, so this is a learning curve for me too. You know, so, so what kind of just out of curiosity, just real quick.
So what, like what kind of like what kind of fraud? Can you give give a quick story, like a like a crazy story that you've had to deal with? Um, so. We occasionally find, and this is what I would call your situation too, an unusual pattern of behavior.
Okay, call it that. Yeah, unusual patterns of behavior, either at a at a dealership level or even on a a particular customer's vehicle. It couldn't be isolated to that, but we we have information to where we can isolate. Odd patterns of behavior at dealerships, and I will take that pattern and then use it to go find photographic evidence or documentation evidence to show that the data matches up with information.
So, like finding finding that reported. Reported damages are not actually there, or that reported damages are actually caused by an outside influence and not naturally. But I've been just—I've been involved in the automotive industry since I was. Eighteen, and like I said, I'm I'm 51 now, and I've been involved in the the automotive warranty space for probably 20 of those, close to 20 of those years.
So, I've got a wealth of knowledge when it comes to automotive and the automotive warranty space.
So it's, you know, they just don't. Hire some investigator to come in here, and then don't know the business as well, right? Right.
Well, and and and we'll move on here just a second. But the the on the last, I was I was on the phone for Lord two hours plus or whatever with the with the sender and say, okay, well, send me the photo proof, and they're like. Actually, there isn't a photo, you know, that that it was in the locker.
Well, semi semi signature proof. Actually, we don't have any signature proof that you signed for. Anyway, so all right, I digress. Hey, moving on, moving on.
Something more positive. Let's talk about something more positive than than fraud and and claims.
Okay, and so so you're a marketplace guy, but we met not that long ago. When you came to something called Man Camp, and and you you at first, how did you first hear about Man Camp, Eric?
Well, you are about the third or fourth person that's asked me that, and i I really can't put my finger on it. I believe it may have been through a mutual friend of ours who has both gone to the camp and served there. I believe it was through a post that he put up, but I'm not 100 certain. I know I saw it on Facebook, and it could have been him.
So when you saw it, though, so you saw it, did you instantly was it instantly like, okay, yeah, I need to do this, or like what what led you to to say, okay, I'm going to do this? Um, so. First off, I guess I need like this is probably the story of several people that have come to the camp. Old school wrestling fan, you see Nikita Koloff and you see Lex Luger, have co-founded a camp, a Christian camp. It immediately drew my attention.
I'm like, okay, these are these are two things that I really, really like wrestling and the Lord. You know, so come on.
So that's what drew my attention to it initially. I've long ago. I have read Lex's book, so I, you know, I knew his story. And you know, they they do a pretty good job. I say they do a, you know, whoever the publisher, yeah, they do a good job of keeping his story out in the limelight.
He does a good job of keeping his story out the out there as well. You know, like he he's on interviews. He's you know he's been on there with DDP before this and that. He he keeps his story out there, and. He keeps his redemption story out there, not just his, you know, the physical.
He keeps his spiritual story out there. The wrestling career, yeah, yeah. I I was never familiar with your testimony and your story until until the camp, but. That's that's initially what drew me there.
Okay, you know, fair enough. Two passions. Yeah, no, fair enough. Because and you're right, you're you're correct. I mean, even even at your specific camp, you know, there were a number of guys, right?
A guy guy Joel from up in Wisconsin, you know, that that ran into Lex. Yeah, oh, your battle buddy.
Okay, nice. Yeah, that ran into Lex, you know, at an airport there in Wisconsin, and they got in a conversation. Lex, talking about camp, and he's like, okay. Want to do that, you know, and and and so came for that reason, and of course, not everybody that comes is a wrestling fan or. Um and in some cases don't even have a relationship with the Lord, but they they they felt prompted or led to come.
So, um, what what would you say, Eric, in your experience at Man Camp?
So you're there, you're experiencing it. What what was one of the biggest aha moments or or or takeaways for you? Take a minute and talk about that. Um. So I'll start off by saying I'm a young Christian.
I was raised in a Christian household, but we I consider it just box checkers. You know, we go to church on Sunday. We go on Wednesday. We, you know, I didn't read the Bible throughout the week. There was no real life change in me or anything.
I got saved in twenty three February nineteenth twenty three.
So this is a a new journey for me, and I'm just soaking up every last bit, anything that I can soak up. I'm learning from everywhere. I'm just trying to, you know, gain as much knowledge and information as I I possibly can, you know, through the Bible, through podcasts, through sermons, whatever it is. Yeah. And the the idea of going to a camp where you have no electronic devices and and it is focused.
On the Lord is is something that I really feel everybody needs to do. It's it was an amazing experience. My my aha moment came day one, night one, as we were all sitting around talking, and I'm not going to name names, but there were several men who conveyed a story of. Their father being there, but their father not being there. Like they're just present, right?
And it it described to me someone as a provider. Was I guess put it that way? They're a provider, and they see themselves as a provider, and being the provider is enough in their mind, and. Um, it that hit me hard. You could relate to that.
You could relate to that. Big time. Yeah. Big time. Yeah.
Uh, so that that hit me the very first night, and uh, you know, reading the Monday. I think Monday was the first night reading that maximized manhood book. Two of the stories that were in there, they. Totally rang true with that theme, and I was from that point on. I was sold.
I was done. I knew. I knew the reason why I was there. Um, and I knew what I needed to work on. It was wow!
It was like somebody smacked me in the face. Wow.
Well, what you just said—you knew why you were there, why you were there—and now you knew what you needed to work on. And and you know, before we run out of time, I just want to encourage our listeners out there as you're listening to some of Eric's story, um.
So many times, Eric, and and it sounds like this is similar to to what you might convey is, you know, come the end of camp, I hear men say this week was life changing, right? And that's probably something you could attest to as well. I would imagine.
So, oh yeah, yeah, and. And you know, you mentioned some of the resources and things we use. Our hope and our goal is to empower and equip men, send it back home to just be, you know, better equipped to be godly men, godly husbands, godly fathers, like like Eric is, and grandfather, godly grandfathers. And did would you say, Eric, we we achieved our goal, Lex and I, on equipping you to to be that? Oh no doubt, you you described it, and some of the the volunteers there described it as drinking through a fire hose.
Yes, yes, yes, it was. But if you can focus on on. What you need to and walk away with a lot of additional tidbits to to take away and do you know research and studying on your own after after the fact.
Well, and we give you you you mentioned a battle buddy. Of course, we partner up with somebody to help encourage you along the way, and we give you homework. We we we.
Some people might be scared off already, but but but hopefully not. But and and again. Yeah, just the the tools and the resources just to grow and mature in that walk with Christ. It was pretty amazing too. We we we were able to water baptize a half a dozen people, and guys, why we were there.
If you want more information, if like something Eric and sharing his story or something that we're saying in our conversation has piqued your interest, you're a wife out there, you're a mom who's got a son. We we've had moms send sons. We've Had fathers and sons, like on this last camp, we had a father on staff and two of his sons at camp. We we've had. A father and son attend camp.
We've had a son on staff and a father at camp, and so all kinds of right from all walks of life. From you know, if you're a military guy like Eric, you're going to get a fifty percent scholarship, automatic, no questions asked. You know, if you're in law enforcement, EMS, a pastor of a church, we're going to bless you. And if you want more information, go to mancamp.info. That's mancamp.info, and you can message me.
Right through the the website, we only do one in the spring in April. We do one in the fall in October down a little little town called Royston, Georgia. And maybe you one day will be on its time to man up like Eric Bullock is with me today. Eric, great to have you on the show, and I'm so thankful and grateful that we got to spend that time together at Man Camp. Yeah, me too.
I greatly appreciated. I enjoyed my time there.
Well, and and and one day I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to your wife and talk to Max and say, okay, is is Eric walking it out? Is he living it, or is it just lip service? Come on. We'll know the answers to that. Time will tell.
Time will tell. All right.
Well, thank you. Until next time. Thanks for tuning in. And I just want to challenge you to go out and have a God filled and God blessed day. This is Nikita Kovalov, the Russian nightmare.
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