This week’s guest may have a weak connection to off-road, but that string is still attached. James Patience is an ambassador for Bikers Against Bullies and their message is clear – know who you are! I couldn’t think of a better man who knows. Be sure to listen on your favorite podcast app.
4:05 – I think you look back and realize that a lot of what you become as an adult is created when you’re younger
11:50 – I truly believe that everything in the world is a pendulum. If it’s pushed one way, it goes back the other way with equal force
20:04 – I went to work every day. And I learned that…so when you don’t have balance, and you don’t have structure, you have to find something as an anchor. That was work for me.
27:21 – I can be average and stay where I’m at, or I can kill it and move forward; and it’s the exact same investment for me. Why not move forward?
36:53 – Imagine like a chocolate Easter Bunny. You pour the chocolate in the mold and you spin it around, and then once it dries, you pull it out. That’s what we do with these tanks.
47:53 –I have to find a way that nobody can boss me around because of money
52:11 – It’s not about stopping the bully, it’s about being able to control yourself in those situations so things don’t affect you.
Special thanks to Maxxis Tires for support and sponsorship of this podcast.
TRANSCRIPT
[00:01:12.910] – Big Rich Klein
My next guest speaks from the heart. I met him at Titan Fuel Tanks in Idaho, where he is employed. But I fell in love with his custom bike building, building and fabrication of baggers. He is also heavily involved with the bikers against bullying, and just always seems to have a great message. My guest is James Patience. James Patience. It’s so nice to have you on the podcast. Yeah, I’m really glad to have this conversation. I’m really impressed with what you write and social media and the program you have going with Bikers Against Bullies or Bullying. And I want to really get into that as well. But I want people to know who James is.
[00:01:58.530] – James Patience
I appreciate that. I appreciate you having me on. And any opportunity I ever have to talk, I take it up.
[00:02:07.080] – Big Rich Klein
Perfect. So that’s good. Well, we want to tell your message. And then, I typically do people that are in deep into the off road. But I thought your tie in with Titan fuel cells or fuel tanks is good enough because you have such a strong story and message that I that I see on social media that I just wanted you to share it. So let’s get started with the first thing. And where were you born and raised?
[00:02:38.850] – James Patience
Actually, I was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I lived there till I was about eight. And And we moved all over the country. I lived in 50 houses in between the time I was eight and the time I was 15. So we spent a lot of time traveling, and I eventually made it back here, back to Idaho Falls.
[00:03:01.320] – Big Rich Klein
So all those moves, was that family chasing jobs?
[00:03:08.120] – James Patience
It was my mom chasing something. So it wasn’t really jobs. It was a different world back then. Everybody was trying to find their place, and my mom was having a hard time finding her place. So she was married a bunch of times, and so we would just go when when that happened and just be along for the ride. We lived in a ton of big cities. We lived all over the country, my little sister and I. Then when we were old enough to basically make our own decisions, we ended up back here. Okay.
[00:03:50.760] – Big Rich Klein
That was probably a pretty trying time, constantly moving and changing locations, especially in that pre-teen and early teen years.
[00:04:05.960] – James Patience
Yeah, absolutely. I think it’s… When you’re in the moment, I don’t think you realize what it is, but I think later you look back and realize that a lot of what you become as an adult is created during that time.
[00:04:22.810] – Big Rich Klein
Right. It’s those influences that come across the table, you might say.
[00:04:27.120] – James Patience
Yeah, absolutely. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I have a lot of people who say, Wow, that’s pretty crazy. My mom was married 12 times, and that was all over the course of about 15 years. People were like, Oh, that’s such a weird wild experience. You went to 40 schools, and you lived in all these houses. But for me, it really wasn’t weird. It was just life at the time. It’s not until I got older that I realized that it was different than what everybody else was doing.
[00:05:00.740] – Big Rich Klein
Right. It wasn’t normal. When you’re in the moment, everything might seem normal.
[00:05:08.290] – James Patience
Exactly.
[00:05:09.880] – Big Rich Klein
Was there any particular places that you landed that really stood out, or was it just a blur?
[00:05:20.060] – James Patience
It’s all a blur. It seems to come back. It’s weird. I’m creeping up on 50 years old now, and I get pop with these every once in a while, just things that I haven’t thought about forever and ever and ever. I realized there’s still influence in my life. But we lived everywhere from Nashville to Las Vegas and Los Angeles and St. Louis. We lived in a bunch of really big cities, and we lived in some rural areas. Then I went to a military academy in California, and that was the last place we were at before I came back to Idaho. And so I think that’s probably my most recent… How would you say it? It’s the memory that really created a lot of who I am. READ MORE
