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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.
Well, today, today, today, today, with me today, a man who really needs no introduction, but I'm going to introduce him anyway. Bucky Abbott, Bucky, welcome to it's time to man up. Hey, hey, hey, good, good to have you with us today, Bucky. And hey, curiosity. Of course, you know some people.
We're just kind of talking before we came on air.
Some people are familiar with the Bucky gas station. That has nothing to do with you, does it? No, I need royalties though. Yeah, exactly. You should get royalties.
I need some royalties. Yes, you should. They moved into my hometown. Yeah, you you were just saying there is one right off the exit where you live, right? Absolutely.
Now I get asked questions about it all the time. I think, you know, I think I should be able to turn that in and get a little bit off of it.
Some royalty is. I agree. I think so as well.
Now, so, but let me ask you. Speaking of that, I was curious because I know Bucky is like a nickname, though. Is that correct? Yeah.
So, yep. Fill us in. Fill our listeners in on on how how did Bucky become a nickname, as opposed to you going by your birth name? Oh my gosh, you want to jump into childhood trauma right off the gate? I see how it is.
Yeah.
So it's actually kind of funny because my parents. They thought I was gonna be a girl all the way up till the time I was born.
Okay.
So they already had that nickname picked out for me way before I was even born.
So hold on, hold on, hold on, man.
So they thought Bucky was gonna be a good girl's name. Yeah, yeah. I told you, childhood trauma.
Okay.
That's what drugs in the '80s will do to you. Oh my gosh, Bucky!
Okay, I mean Becky. Yeah, but Bucky.
Okay, well, hey, each their own.
Okay, all right.
So, so I guess like no ultrasounds or what? Like they just saw it.
Okay, we we're having a girl. Um. Yeah.
No. I mean, they did an ultrasound, but apparently my legs are always crossed or something. Oh. Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, I guess technology wasn't exactly what it is today, but right, right. No, yeah.
So they, so Bucky, is it fair to say they were, shall we say, surprised or perhaps shocked when you, when when they saw?
Okay, we we don't have a girl, we got a boy. Yeah, my my dad was a little bit of a redneck, and he started yelling. He's got explications. To the whole hospital, so he was definitely shocked and surprised.
Okay, yeah, yeah. There's, huh? There's a whole story about it because he came out like he was super excited, and the way they actually got my name, which you know this, but my name is actually Tyrone. Yep. Um, and the way they got to that name was an argument.
Okay.
Yeah, they argued back and forth. They wanted to call me Tyrone. My dad wanted to spell it T Y R U N E, and my mom was like, "No, you can't spell it like that. You got to spell it T Y R O N." So or T Y R O N E.
So yeah, no. I told you, childhood trauma come to life. But yeah, they were actually going to call me Bucky when they thought that I was a girl. My dad said I was bucking like a little mule, and that's how it stuck. Because I was always kicking.
I was always kicking, even in the womb. You were already kicking in the womb, huh? Yeah, absolutely.
Well, maybe you should. Maybe you should have been a pro wrestler, Bucky. I, you know, I didn't get to tell you this, but I actually I got to do that a little bit. You did. Yeah.
Yeah.
Probably about. Ten years ago, I had some commercial property that I rented, and I actually rented a space out to. I was his name. I think Chief Littleton.
Okay.
I think he worked WCW at one point. Um. And I think he was one of the one of the undercards. He started putting that on, so yeah, I started I started wrestling with him a little bit. Started refereeing, then started wrestling a little bit.
So I did not know that about you.
Okay, so you got to step in the ring and and actually lock up there a few times, and then you just refereeing as well. That's well, with a name like Bucky, hey, it just it it fits the wrestling circles. Yeah, yeah, I kind of fit the profile too. I mean, I'm not no 285 pounds, what is eight percent body fat, but still a big old boy. Who, who, who might you be referring to there, Bucky?
Out of curiosity. Yeah, yeah, no, you know. What was it? The Russian enforcer? Is that who it was?
Russian nightmare. Russian nightmare. Russian nightmare. There we go. Yeah, the American dream and the Russian nightmares.
Superpowers, baby, right? The superpowers, if you will.
So, um, well, okay.
So you're down there. Let's back up here a little bit. You're down there living in the great state of Georgia, correct? Yes, sir. And uh, like, where do you call home?
What town do you call home?
So it's a it's a town called Calhoun, which is. Pretty much halfway between Atlanta, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Yeah, I've I've actually been to Calhoun a number of times. Actually, it's been a long time, but there's some churches down there that I that I had ministered at, preached at over the years, over the in Calhoun. Yeah, it's a good little area.
You know, we used to have a pretty little hot independent wrestling circuit here back in the '90s, early '90s, and '80s. Back in the days, well, I tell you when when when everything kind of un kind of went south for WCW. You mentioned WCW and and WWF at the time.
Now WWE kind of took over. The the it really opened up the door for that independent circuit to really kind of explode across the country and and till this day, it's it's still pretty pretty. There is some pretty significant independent. Organizations out there working. Yeah, yep, yeah.
I think A.J. Styles and Arn Anderson both are kind of from this area. They're from right down the road in Rome, Georgia. Yes, and I didn't actually didn't know AJ Styles was. I did know that Arne Anderson was was from Rome, Georgia.
Which I I've been to Rome many many times. Ministered in Rome as well. In fact, over the years did other work there too. I was working with some friends who who lived there and in in the nutrition world, the nutrition business. But so what do you?
So what do you?
So what keeps you busy? What do you do for a living then?
So what I'm doing right now, I was working in the film industry, but unfortunately because of politics and a couple other things, the film industry has left Georgia.
So I was a prop maker, which means that I actually built film sets in the film industry, and I got to work for some pretty, pretty decent sized budgets. One of them was Stranger Things, season five. I got to build the sets for that show. I worked on Tulsa King with Sylvester Stallone. I worked on Black Mafia Family with 50 Cent, and done some work with Snoop Dogg.
Yeah, so that's what I was doing.
Now, because the industry's gone, I pulled back now, and I do I do construction work. But I'm also an entrepreneur. I've always kind of Chase my own thing outside of outside of stuff.
So well, so so I could. I mean, I can see why you why you get in construction because you're already you know building sets and now that that's pretty cool.
Now I didn't realize, and again, we don't want to go down a rabbit hole here, but I knew for a while anyway that that a lot of films were being made in Georgia because they gave you know these states try to encourage these companies to come in and give them tax breaks and all that kind of. Kind of stuff, right? And and so I did not realize that that the film industry had pulled out of Georgia for for whatever reason. But yeah, and I know well that.
So, but I'm curious, like like how'd you even get into that? Because of your construction background, you you cracked into that industry or what?
Well, I was driving Uber, and probably let's see, around nine ten years ago.
Okay.
And people were starting to tell me about how the film industry was was getting big, and I started working and started trying to just put it out there. You know how you know? Yeah.
When you want to do something, you start talking about it, not in an arrogant way, but you start letting people know this is what I'm after. Yeah.
And things will start pulling together. You'll start networking in the proper ways. You'll start finding people with with similar values, with similar goals. And I started working with a marketing group out of Chattanooga doing what's called grip work, gripping electric.
So any kind of electric cables that need to be run, or any kind of like grip does diffusion with light. They do all kinds of light.
Well. In that world, we do lighting, and then we do diffusion. Which is, the light's too bright. We put something in front of it, change the colors of it. Right now, a lot of it's a lot of it's LED, which is easily done.
And used to, it was over gels, but so I started doing that. And then I took a background job for Step Up, a show called Step Up, and I posted about it on Facebook. And a friend of mine reached out and said, "Hey, are you still trying to get into the union?" And I said, "Yes." He said, "Well, he said we've got an opening come up on Black Mafia Family, and it's for the construction side." And he said, "I know you've got a construction background. I can get you in." So I said, "Okay, no problem." Went there. That was on Wednesday.
I started that Friday. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. I did four years solid there, and it was after COVID. I did four years solid.
And that's where I was at up until this. There was a writer strike a couple years ago, and then things started getting a little dicey. And then last show I was on with Stranger Things, which was last year.
Okay.
So, but so now, so now you're you're building homes, just doing remodels. What what are you doing now? Mostly, I do custom work.
So, like, I just got through doing some custom shells for my lady. I built a. A custom cart. It looked like a like a flower cart, like a a French flower cart for a a company that does 40 ultrasounds. Yep.
So I built that for them. Had the awning over it and everything, and then also had shelving so they could display some. Like some stuffed animals. When you go, they do those 4D ultrasounds, and you actually get a, a recording of a heartbeat, and they sew that into a stuffed animal for you.
So it was like a big display. Anything custom, like I really like doing the things where somebody can bring me a picture and say, "Hey, can you do this?" It's usually yes, I can. Nice. Other stuff like deck builds, and then, screen imports, is any kind of siding. I'm really good at.
So just a variety of things that you can do. Yeah, just a variety of things. I mean, I started I started in construction with my dad when I was eight years old, old enough to carry just one one two by four stud. I couldn't even carry a a twelve foot two by four. Wow.
And then I started working with him.
Okay.
You mentioned being an entrepreneur.
So what what in addition to construction, you involved in or doing other things as well?
Well, I'm. I've always had some kind of little side business. If I wasn't working within in the film industry before, I owned an auction. I owned a storage building, the the portable storage buildings. I owned a dealership for that.
Yep. I've done some other stuff like some vending vending stuff. And what I'm actually going for now, well, right now my wife and I we actually own a skincare company where we make moisturizers out of beef tallow.
Okay.
We, yeah, we saw the we saw the saw the potential for it and got into that and started. I know your your thing is like really health health driven. I mean that's one thing we talked about all week. Yep, it's a lot of health driven.
So the the beef tallow is all natural. Comes, it's got pretty much the same makeup as our skin. We've got people that use it for eczema that have had to use steroid creams and all kinds of stuff, and of course I can't say I can't make the claim of hey this heals you, right? But I can give what people have experienced, right? What the results are.
Veteran, yeah. Do it. What the results are, yeah. Right. What the results are.
So we we've got a veteran that buys from us. He was having to get steroid creams for some shrapnel in his hand. And the steroid cream was would never really get rid of the eczema. He started using the beef tallow, and it got rid of the eczema, and it started shrinking the scars. Yeah, that's that's.
I know there's a lot of incredible stuff out out there that if people just do some research, some homework, they can find, you know, find some natural remedies and things like that, right? And so, no, that's pretty. I did. I didn't know that about you. And your wife.
So, what's your wife's name? What's your wife's name? Chrissy. Chrissy. Chrissy.
And and so, how long you and Chrissy been married? Oh my gosh, seventeen years. Come on.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah. We got uh, we got three kids together. I had a daughter before we got together who is in the navy. But she's in the navy right now. She's going through boot camp.
I'm extremely proud of her. I got a son with my wife, fourteen, and I got two more girls that are twelve and eight, and they keep me on my toes. Yeah, I could relate to that having raised four girls.
So totally, totally know that.
Okay, so you got the family there now. Let me shift gears here for a moment because we have a mutual friend. Speaking of wrestling, or as we say in the deep south, wrasslin', right? Yeah, good old wrestlers. Yeah, by the name of Lex Luger.
How did you meet Lex? Yes, sir. Oh my gosh, we met through a friend of mine named, and I think he actually come up there with you sometime. His name is Michael Mudini.
Okay.
We we we met. He was telling me about knowing Lex Luger for a while, and and I said I'd like to meet him sometime. I got a call up said, "Hey, there's a there's a wrestling event going on in Tennessee, and I'm gonna be riding with Lex. Do you want to ride with us?" I said, "Sure thing." So I jumped in, jumped in the car with Lex, and he took us up there. He gave me a copy of his book, signed it, and then I asked that I asked Michael if he would talk to Lex about me getting his phone number.
And Lex said, "Yeah, that's fine." And then Lex has been sending me devotionals ever since. That's got to be one of the most humble people I've ever met in my life.
So what's so here's what's interesting for our listeners out there because. You know, for those who who maybe they only saw Lex, you know, on television, you know, the chiseled two hundred and seventy pound body and four percent body fat, actually, back in the day. And you know, saw that aspect of his life, and and but not knowing that behind the scenes, as he as Lex describes it, you know, his life was a train wreck. Um, and you know, having eventually delved into drugs and alcohol and chasing women and all that sort of thing, so while being married with two kids of his own, of course, that all led to his destruction and demise of the family. Uh, but you talk about a story of redemption, and for anyone.
Knew him back in those days, and meets him now. They they would have a similar a similar. Observation of of Lex, right? That wow, he's one of the most humble, humblest, humble guys you'll ever meet, or whatever. He wasn't always that way, Bucky.
For the record, it wasn't. No, when when he had that narcissist character in WWF WWE, it was it was not far from the truth.
Okay, but but God, but God, two words, but God. That's it. Who transformed his life of in April of two thousand and six, and and.
So, so you meet Lex at some point. He tells you about Man Camp, which you recently had experienced, and you said, "I want to go." And let's let's talk about that for a few minutes.
So, Lex, tell us about Man Camp. You come, and what kind of experience was Man Camp for you, Bucky? Oh man, um. Goodness, what kind of experience wasn't it for me? I mean, there was so many emotions that ran through, and kind of add on to the story.
I discussed this there, but you know, I told you guys about this, and a year ago, I had had a suicide attempt and had to go through a mental health clinic. The Which is a complete God story in itself, but I think that's kind of pivotal about me getting to Man Camp and understanding what happened at Man Camp because I got the healing that I needed, and I felt like God put me on the right path. And I still had some things that I was struggling with, and seeing some things that I was holding on to that I really didn't realize I was holding on to until I got to Man Camp, and. One of the most powerful experiences, and I think one of the most powerful lines that you give me was, "Um, that you give us was just learning to listen to God." And I go to a I go to a Bible study on on Wednesday mornings, and that was this morning. I came out of man camp last week, and this morning our our Bible study was on listening to God.
Hmm. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Okay.
Okay, I love when God shows up a coincidence and gets your gets your attention, right? Exactly. I have a you know, you mentioned word coincidence. I have a Jewish friend who says, you know, coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. That's pretty good, right?
His way of remaining anonymous.
Well, you come to camp, you you you know, you have these encounters and experiences with the Lord, which is one of the things we really try to emphasize and set guys in a place where they can hear from God. And whether it's getting direction or guidance, one of your camp brothers said it this way: "I didn't come to man camp with a laundry list, but while at camp, the Lord definitely cleaned some dirty laundry." Is that is that pretty good assessment? That's pretty good point. That's pretty good point. Pretty good way to to view it, right?
And so, obviously, you know, you know, we instruct you guys when you go back home, to to just tell people, you know, how you encountered God. Not not so much of, you know, we did this on this day and that on that day, and and any any of that. Not because it's you know a mystery or or a secret of any, but it's sacred, right? We want to respect each each guy that comes, you know. Who's whose story do you have permission to tell?
Your own story. You don't have anyone else's story permission to tell anyone else's story, and and so just real quick, what what what was one maybe one pops in your head like wow that moment right there was pretty pivotal or pretty pretty impactful for me. I got I got two of them that I am really going to touch on because, and that's not even really starting. Right, we're just scratching the surface, but we only have so much time, right?
So yeah, exactly.
So I think you know, mention going to the mental health clinic.
Well, the anniversary of that attempt was actually on Tuesday, the day of your fast. Which was the day of our fasting. Yep. Which I remember what you said. This is going to be a special day for you on Monday, and it was.
And we talked about the T. Here is a boneyard there with the guys that own it. It's it's where they where they go deer hunting, and then where they take all the the leftovers from their their harvest, and they call it the boneyard.
Well, I had heard about that Monday, and then I thought, well. Maybe I will. Like if I encountered the boneyard, okay, that that that's kind of cool. If I encountered it, that's where I walked to was the boneyard.
So I was like, I really don't want to stay here. This is actually kind of sad, and I don't want to be spending it today, just surrounded by this kind of death and this kind of sadness.
So I tried to walk off.
Well, I walked right back into the boneyard. I did this two or three times, and I said, All right, God, I'll read I'll read Ezekiel, and then I'll walk off, and I'll. I walked around this little trail and it brought me right back to the boneyard and I was like, okay, I understand what you're saying, God.
So I read Ezekiel about the Valley of the Dry Bones, where you know God was showing Ezekiel that He could take those bones and He could, He could re-institute the flesh and the cardiovascular systems, the nervous systems, and and the the skin and could build up the whole boneyard again and make it flesh again and make it whole again. That's what God was doing to me. Bringing bringing restoration, yeah, bringing through that process, kind of allowing you to to to leave things in the boneyard and restoring and renewing you. Exactly. Wow.
Exactly. Wow. Um. Well, if you got one one more, just real quick, because we're almost out of time. One other impactful story you encountered there.
Yeah.
No. And it goes along with that because I think it was the next day that I asked you, hey. I said, Nikita, I feel like my brain is locked. I don't feel like I can learn anything. I don't feel like I can push forward with anything.
And you said, Does God want you to do those things? And I said, Well, yeah. And then the next thing just just got me, and it was just so subtle. You said, Well, who doesn't want you to do those things? And I was like, Ah, hmm.
Okay.
Yeah.
And I had been wrestling with, is this God want me to stay humble? Is this God's way of of humbling me and keeping me? Keeping me in this position and moving forward, but in reality, now I realize that wasn't God at all. That was the adversary trying to to keep my abilities locked so that I couldn't. Continue doing what God wanted me to do.
It's tricky. It's a great point. It sometimes takes real discernment, right, to to realize, okay, who's speaking right now? Is this is this is this God speaking to me or the enemy? Because there is an enemy to our soul, Satan, right, the devil, who doesn't want us to draw close to God, doesn't want us to have a relationship with God, wants to destroy everything about us because we're created in the image of God, and so that's just.
Just a a couple of the the highlights. Those are powerful highlights that that you received while you were there, and and and I'm just excited about about your future. One of the goals for those out there and listening land, when God gave Lex Luger and I the vision for these camps, was to bring small groups of men in, equip them and empower them, send them back home, to put those tools to use and just be better men, godly men, godly husbands, godly fathers, godly grand. Fathers, and and the stories are endless over the years of how many how many guys have been impacted by making that decision, saying yes, Bucky, you said yes, yes, I'll come. Where many many men unfortunately have said no, no, I'm not going to do that, no interest in doing that, don't want to do that, thanks but no thanks.
But you said yes, and because you said yes, I'm excited for you and your family, and and and what's going to To transpire as you as you now walk this out, and so can't thank you enough for for coming to camp. Of course, if you had a chance to stay in touch with with your battle buddy since you've been back from camp. Which is which is important, right? We try to emphasize the importance of that. We partner guys up at camp, and and hopefully, hopefully that becomes a like with Lex and I.
Hopefully that becomes a long term or or a lifetime friendship. That's the goal. That is the goal. That is the goal, and so. Bucky Abbott, entrepreneur extraordinaire.
There you go. You like that? That's what I'm hearing. Entrepreneur extraordinaire. You and your lovely bride, Chrissy, raising those those baby boys and girls.
And so can't can't thank you enough for being a part of the show today, and certainly connecting with you at at Man Camp. And I look forward to forward to the future together. Absolutely, absolutely. And I want to encourage you if you want more information, like you're really intrigued, or or Bucky's story has piqued your interest. Maybe you're a wife out there, a mom who has some sons or granddad, you know, who has a grandson, or just whoever, you know, a significant other.
You want to learn more about camp? Go to mancamp.info. That's mancamp.info. You'll get all the information right there. We only do one in the spring, one in the fall, to small groups of men to impact their life, like Bucky's life has been impacted.
And so check that out. And you can message me right through that that website. Bucky, thank you again for being a part of. It's time to man up today. Thanks, Nikita.
Love you, brother, and I appreciate the opportunity. Appreciate you. Love you as well. And reach every one of you out there. My challenge to you today is go out and have a God-filled and have a God-blessed day.
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