 George Bruno with the 21 Report. We're at the 21 Convention Patriarch Edition and I'm talking to Elliot Hulse and his father, Mr. Hulse. Thanks George. Thank you. Nice to meet you George. So you just got off stage not too long ago. What were you talking about? Family, mainly. That's what it was all about. Strong, family, mentally and physically. So that's the main subject here that we talked about. And discipline of kids, relationship with your spouse. And basically that's what it was all about, right? It reminds me of when I had the talk with Steve Williams. And we had talked about this, you and I, where he would remind his children, you are a Williams and you remind your children they are a Hulse. This is how Hulses act. This is what they do. This is the character of a Hulse. And every family has character and characteristics. What would you say are the highlights? What is it like to be a Hulse? Strength. Like I told you yesterday it was so funny to hear him say the same thing while he was standing up there. That is our foundation. Making men strong again. Yeah, to be strong. And you didn't put your heads together to come up with the same thing. That's just a common thread that's in your family. Yeah, that's in our blood. We went to Belize this summer and I got to meet some of his uncles. And I discovered I found out that his great uncle would wrestle bulls. He's the guy that they would call if you want to get the bull in the truck or whatever. You call our ancestor and he's the one that would catch it or wrestle it and get where it used to be. Wow, that's a story. So there's physical strength and also strength of character, energy. A strong voice. You hear the way my dad talks. Just a strong presence, strong sense of being. Yes. How do you overcome difficulty? It all depends on what kind of difficulty you're talking about. Difficult for me is I leave it alone because I have no control over anything in my life. The almighty man up there, he controls everything. So if you have a problem and you think it's a problem, you leave it alone to him, which is difficult. It takes faith. That's what I'm saying. So if you leave it alone, it will play itself out. So we have no control over our life, but people think they control. The only control you have in your life is get up every day and apply yourself to make your family better on yourself. That's the only thing you have. Just get up and do something. There's no room for worrying. About what? That's your simple question. Do you know anyone that worry about a situation or a problem, whatever you want to call it? Difficulties. And it fix it? Worrying does nothing. That's what I'm saying. Energy wastes. Right. So I just leave it alone. I go about and do my responsibility. And my responsibility is to make my family mentally, physically strong. That's my responsibility. And I take it very seriously. No destruction. 100% focus. And whatever you do in this life, it's supposed to be 100% focus. Because when you get destruction, things doesn't work out. So that's how I live my life. So I don't worry about anything. I got nothing to worry about. Tell me one thing that you worry about. Well, I remember talking to my father and asking him for a solution for something. And he said, think about it. And he lives here in Florida. And Florida, not unlike tropical regions in the Caribbean, you might get an afternoon rain. And it might get dark. But you know the sun's going to be shining 30 minutes later. He said, sometimes problems are like that. You just let the clouds go because they're going to pass. So you don't always have to react to everything. You don't always have to try to find a solution to everything. Sometimes not doing something is a strategy. That's good. That's a good advice. Leave it alone. Leave it alone. That's what I do. Leave it alone. Go to sleep. Tomorrow you'll forget about it. And it goes away by itself. Because he takes care of it. I think there's a scripture that talks about which one of us can add an inch to our stature by worrying about things. We can't. Words makes you weak. I don't want to be weak. You don't sleep. That makes you weak because you're worrying, right? Creates despair. We don't want despair. Positive. That has been a theme all weekend with all the speakers. I've been talking about hope, positivity, and optimism. Rather than despair and playing on defense all the time. When you're playing defense all the time, it just wears you out. People talk about all the effects of the media on this, on that, on your children, on your mind. It's like, stop it. Turn the TV off. That's what I say. I haven't watched TV in three years. Yeah, I don't watch TV myself. It's a destruction. Your father gave you good advice. Well, let's put it this way. I don't have to tell my kids those things. They just see. They don't see my face that can't work. They don't see I'm stressed out. All they see me is doing things. Create. I'm a creator. The Almighty is a creator. He created us. So we can be creators. Yes. So that's what I do. Create. If you go to my home, all you see is creativity. Create beauty. You understand? So if you create beauty, then you'll see beauty. You create words, you'll see words. All right, you're a man of faith, so you'll get this. On page one of the Good Book, it says in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Creation was the first thing that God did. Powerful. Yeah. So He puts us here so we can create like Him. Not to destroy. Create a beautiful family. Create a beautiful home. Positive. No negative. That's what I do. I get up every day and create a beautiful environment in my home. You see, I create gardens. Beautiful garden. So my kids, they can walk in the garden and see beauty. My grandkids, I create gardens with butterflies. So they can see beauty. They don't see sadness. They don't see worries. They don't see anything negative. And you grew up like this. Yeah. My grandkids grew up like this. That's the way they're living right now. Wow. Wow. Live right now. It's happening right now when we speak. Yeah. How would I want to create something that's not beautiful? That's going to make me weak, sad, depressed. No, I need medication. I don't want medication. I don't take medication. I don't take no medication. I'm 68 years old and I don't take any medication. That's a good thing. Because every other 68-year-old I know is taking a handful of pills every morning. I'd go to my doctor for a year and check him. He said I don't need him. He needs me. What are you thinking about? But I just go for routine. You schedule appointments for him. I go what I feel like. But I try to go once a year. Just to check myself up, which is a good thing. That's a good thing. What's the best advice or the best thing that your father modeled for you as you were growing up? To be the best. And that's what he was saying before. And he went even further than saying just to be the best. He always wanted us to be better than him. Which I think is a rare thing with a lot of fathers or male elders. Is that they want the young people to be good. They want them to be great. They want them to be the best. But they still want to be in charge. When my father realized that at some point you're going to eclipse me. You're going to pass me. You've got to be bigger than me. You've got to be stronger than me. You've got to be better than me. So not only did he hold a high standard to be a strong man like him. But that wasn't good enough. You've got to be better than me. And I always thought that that was powerful. It is powerful. I might have to share that with my kids. You've got to be better than you. And the next generation can be better than better than better. So now you have a great generation. And that's what a legacy is. That's a legacy. So why would you want your kid to be not better? Because you love. When you love someone you want everything for them. We're not rivals with our kids. We're not in competition with our children. We want the best for them. We want them to shine. Well, another thing you've got to remember. We are the mirror of our kids. That's big. So what you do is what your kids are going to do. Because they learn what they live. And my kids, that's what they do. Learn what they live. They work hard and try to excel in life. Because you've got to keep working. And they see me and my wife always working. They see nothing else but work. Because life is work. If you're lazy, you ain't going to have a life. Because right now this is work. Creation. Tell me what's not work. Brushing your teeth in the morning is work. I didn't want to brush my teeth sometime at night. See, I'd rather go to sleep like that. I brush my teeth. It's a job. So long as you understand that life is work, you'll be okay. And another thing you've got to understand with people you can't expect anything from no one. I don't expect anything from no one. Whatever I want and need in this life. That man over there take care of me and I work towards it. Get up every day and work towards what you need and want. Need is the most important thing. Want is luxury. That's how I look at it. Have high expectations of yourself. Yes, but you come first. I mean, second. Take that back. First, second, third. Then whatever comes after, you always have to help people. You've got to help your neighbors. Help anyone who's in need. But first you've got to give your family first. I'm not going to take care of you and help you before I help my kids. Now some people do that. So that's my most important thing is to help. Do right for my family. And then I have no problem doing right for others. Because you've got to share. Yes. That's what I feel about it. One thing that was unique I think for us growing up was that my parents are from Belize and they ate mostly natural foods. My dad would pick the food off of the trees that he would eat or catch it. And so in our home it was always critical that we were eating healthy whole foods. And this was back in the 80s when we weren't as privy to what whole good food was. And so it would be odd I'd go to my friend's house or they'd come here. It was definitely a stark contrast between the food that was served filling our bodies in our home compared to many of the people in our neighborhood and friends. And that was very important to him. You guys have got to eat good food. Food is very important. Food is medicine. Yeah. Food is medicine. Yeah. So you have to eat good food. Well the whole thing with food too. That's why you don't take medicine because food is your medicine. And you know I said something at the session today about appearance. Where you appear to your kids. I mean you got to look strong. You got to look healthy so your kid can look up at you. That I want to be strong and healthy like my dad. But if my dad is weak on cap that's embarrassing. That make that kid very weak. So that's a big deal. And people got to do that more. Just try to eat good food. If I tell somebody to eat good food because it's a little bit more money whatever it is because everything is expensive we understand all that. But eventually you're going to spend it on medication anyway. So do it up front. So that's my big thing. Take care of yourself. You represent your family. You mirror up to your kids. It's simple right? So simple that it's hard for many to understand. But you know the problem is that I don't understand. And I really kind of bugged me out a lot. You don't eat good food because it means nothing to you. But you want to go out and buy yourself a brand new car and drive around all these exotic stuff. And you take care of those things. Polishing, cleaning, doing shiny things. But here you don't take care of yourself. You give yourself junk. You put the best gas in your car. Best tires, wheels. All these things you're doing to this vehicle which is things means nothing. And this beautiful body is gift. You just abuse it by putting crop in there. We put premium fuel in exotic and luxury sports cars but we don't put premium fuel in our bodies. Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. And I just can't relate to that. And everything... Well, I'm not talking about expense. I'm not talking about just work. The bottom line is work. And spend your money in things that matters like your family and yourself. Now, for example, we all need teeth to eat. To chew our food. So when you have bad teeth and you don't take care of your teeth what do you think is happening? You're getting bacteria into your stomach. So take care of your teeth. Take care of your body. I've heard it say ignore your teeth and they'll go away. Oh yeah? Right? So chew your food up because you need that for your medicine. To digest your medicine. So take care of your teeth instead of driving around a luxury car. I drive around a piece of crap, brother. I don't need that show. Point A to point B, that's all I needed for. When did it become important to drive from point A to point B in style? When did that happen? When I was a young man, I was happy just to get from A to B. That's what I'm talking about. But everybody's got to have a show to say, look, I own the Mercedes, I own this, you know, whatever it is. But what? I want to be able to get up in the morning, do what I want to do. Strong, happy, running around, play with my grandkids, jump on me, wrestle with me. That's what I want to do. It's not driving around a brand new car. Or have any kind of luxury or anything. That doesn't mean anything to me. But people, why would that mean something to them? I guess for me, I look at them and I say to myself, well, maybe that's the way they were brought up. That's the mirror from their parents. So you can't fix that. They got to want to fix that themselves. I see where you get it from. I see where you get everything from. Even your youth. When you told me how old you were, you look 10 years younger than what your age is. And you look 10 years younger, easily, than your age. And I feel good. That's the most important term. Absolutely. It's feeling good. I feel like I can do anything. I'm unstoppable. He was recently just fixing his roof. I do my own roof in my house. I do my own garden. I do all my pruning. I do everything. You don't hire someone to come over and do everything? No, no, no. I had nobody. He carried 80-pound pallets. I do whatever I have to do. Wait, up a ladder. That's what I want to do. Do what I want to do. Don't sit around and be sick, and pop in medication, and my leg hurt, my back hurt. You create that on your own. Just pay attention to your body. Take care of your little body that the aluminum gave you. It's a beautiful machine. I was putting up a fence yesterday, about three weeks ago, and I snapped that thing right there. If you see that mark right there, see that? It's healing, right? Yeah. Well, I snapped that. If it looks crooked, too, because I snapped that out of the damn socket with a big gal's dunk to the bone. Yeah. I didn't go to the doctor or the hospital. My wife told me, you got to go to the hospital because I get stitches. What did you do? Just wrap it with duct tape? No, I take that thing and snapped that son of a bitch back in. Closes as tight as I can. I tell her, you bandaged that up. She thinks that was a nut. Yeah. And she's bandaging up like she wasn't trying to be gentle. I say, you put that son of a bitch tight. I want you to tighten it up. Yeah. And tighten. And I went back and finished what I was doing. Wow. I finished what I was doing first. Wow. Came back in, later when I'm all down, cleaned my shit up, re-tightened it up again, and then I want to take a shower, come down, put some fresh stuff on again, and that's it. And I just take care of that shit until right now, you start looking good. I couldn't even clean my ass with it before. Yeah. I can't. Now I can do a lot of stuff with it. I exercise it, see that thing right there, a little different, but I squeeze that every day and I do my own therapy. I ain't go to somebody to do no therapy for me. Yeah. That's how it is. What can I do? Yeah. This interview is going to go down in history, not only in an informational way, but there's going to be people who watch it because of the comedic value. I mean, it's, this is a feel good. Yeah, it really is. Well, that's what I thought. Making men strong again with Elliot Hulse and his father, Mr. Hulse. Thank you, gentlemen. No problem. Thank you.