Welcome to the secured podcast. I'm your host, Mike Matrenga, coming to you from the ASAP Security Studios here in Houston, Texas. Today, we have a special guest, Joe Morris with condition one combat center, Joe is the owner of condition one, former marine, and he's the lead instructor over at, condition one combat center. We have Joe in today to talk about the program that they have at, condition one that specializes in teaching kids some self defense and some bully, prevention techniques and tactics. Joe, care to share what y'all are doing over condition one. Sure. Thanks, Mike. Yeah, school started last week. And as soon as school started, we started getting calls from parents, asking us about our programs for kids. So what we decided to do was we decided to go ahead and hold a free seminar called bullyproof Heroes this Saturday. August twenty six from one to three. We're gonna have ages seven to eleven come in, and what we're gonna do is we are gonna teach them some self defense skills, But what we what we really wanna do is we really wanna start instilling that confidence in kids. Okay? If you can instill confidence in kids, then they're not gonna they're not gonna be so inclined to have an emotional reaction to things, to let bully bother them as much. So there is gonna be a physical component to what we do, of course, because we're a martial arts studio. That's what we do. But at the same time, we wanna talk about prevention. We wanna talk about situational awareness. We want to we want to start instilling this stuff in kids early and giving them the confidence they need not only in school, but throughout, you know, throughout the rest of their life. So this, this seminar that you guys are gonna hold on Saturday, this is your first of its kind? Yes. This is the first, kid seminar we are doing. It's called bullyproof Heroes. Like I said, ages seven to eleven, our, our program director, Matt Smith is gonna be running the running the the seminar and He just he just recently took over our kids program. So he's gonna be growing that kids program as well. Good deal. And what's, what's the location? Or at six zero six Rayford Road in Spring, Texas, a couple blocks east of forty five. And is there any cost associated or How's that work? Right. Our kids program runs between about one forty and one hundred and fifty dollars a month. And it's four days a week, Monday through Thursday. We have classes for four year old all the way up to twelve year olds. And this particular seminar, Saturday, any particular cost associated? No. This is absolutely free to the public. That's good. We are at capacity already. Okay. So we have been getting we've have gotten a lot more calls so we will be hosting a new one here and then, another one here in the next few weeks because the demand is so high. That was gonna be my follow-up question. Is Will you or do you expect any subsequent, classes. I mean, obviously, it's it's at capacity already. We know that bullying is probably one of the largest, problems, in schools right now, not necessarily specific to this area, but I think just nationwide. And so, you know, the your class being in capacity tells me that there's obviously an issue which we already knew. So Well, I'm glad that, you guys are doing that, and I'm glad that, you know, the kids are getting the tools that they need to, be able to, you know, discern and and decide, you know, how they need to respond and react. Like you said, what I like about what you said was, not just from the physical aspect, but from the mental aspect. You know, we see in schools that there's a tremendous lack of emotional intelligence, that kids, you know, just don't simply don't have anymore. And, you know, we could get into a bunch of different reasons of of why I think that is a problem. I personally think that it's because of the, traditional family, you know, values and traditional family, what that looks like, has been, degraded or degrading, for the last couple decades. And so I just don't think kids have the ability to, to process emotionally some of the things that they face. You know, you're about my age. Both of us are really good looking with the same barber. But, I'm just getting you know, I I just think that the the kids need to have that component, whether it be in, you know, bullying or just their day to day lives and and whatnot. And so may I ask you a question. We'll talk about bullying for kids. How how important or how much emphasis do you think or impact, do you think that social media has on bullying with kids? I think it has a huge role. Okay. Because now these kids aren't only going to school and being ridiculed and picked on and bullied at school, but now they have to go through it at home if they're on social media. Right? And I'll take that even a step further. I think that social media has created a distance between that human connection that we all have, right? It's so easy for these kids to say things online, you know, without having to see the effects. Of how it how it visually affects a person on the other end. Right? So I think that's removed that human component to it. So it's much easier for kids just to say the most hurtful things, to, you know, at school online because there's no connection there anymore. Well, you talk about, There's two components, two things that you that you that came to my mind when you were talking about them not, seeing that immediate effect that their words or their behaviors may have on other students or their peers or a stranger One is the the emotional toll that that might have on that individual. But also the consequences to their actions, they don't necessarily experience negative consequences when they say these things or do certain things to these kids, you know, back in, you know, the days where I was in school in the eighties and in the nineties, you know, words and actions had either a positive or a negative reaction. You know, Mike Tyson said it best is that you know, a lot of people have become very comfortable saying things on social media because there's no consequences of getting you know, their teeth knocked out, you know, paraphrasing, obviously. But, you know, I'm not advocating for violence, but I do think that, you know, if we just step back a couple decades, not to say that we didn't have bullying, but I don't think it was as rampant as what we see now because of the lack of consequences, both emotional or physical consequences of someone's actions. How do you feel about that? I think you're Absolutely correct. And I think you you could take it even a step further that there's no one of the reasons they're not having consequences because parents aren't monitoring monitoring all their social media. They don't know what they're saying, right? Before when we were when we were growing up, if we have said something or were being mean to somebody or acting the way we shouldn't, our parents can hear it because we may have been on the telephone, right, or it may have been it may have got back around to him through word-of-mouth, but social media is not regulated by parents the same way. Right? That's why I firmly believe that my kids won't have, you know, for me, my kids won't have social media till they're eighteen. At least, I think that's played a huge role, and I like to the fact that you talk about human intelligence or emotional intelligence, because I think that has a lot to do with identifying what is going on in school and think those teachers need to be able to do that by looking at the emotional intelligence component of it.
