(Ep 56) The Fighters Drinking Coffee Rules of the Road

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On today's episode of Fighters Drinking Coffee. So we're going to be talking

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a little bit about the Fighters Drinking Coffee rules of the road,

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a little bit more about Dallas, kind of wrap that up, that trip up with a bow,

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and talk a little bit more about traveling for jiu-jitsu and give you guys some

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of the insights that we've developed,

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especially Scott.

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He's been on the road life for jiu-jitsu a little bit longer than I have.

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At least in recent years.

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scott hey real quick yes we re we retain the right to veto any bad ideas on the patreon,

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Yeah, I mean, if it's a little too crazy, if it's too crazy,

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you know, we if it's something that we can't do well for you guys. Right.

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But there will be my shirt for cheap.

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I mean, hey, for cheap, for cheap, for some for some serious cash.

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Yeah, I mean, a little bit of cash would be nice. Serious cash.

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You know, you start funding these Vegas trips. I will pimp you out for cheap.

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Yeah, yeah. true if we have a taste for the

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fire things now on the road dude delilah's it was i don't

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know if we should talk about it we can talk about it now we talk about whatever

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i brought it up i brought up delilah's well let's how about this uh let's go

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ahead and break down the second day of dallas because i think it's going to

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lead in nicely we can that'll that'll work out um be my guest so when we last

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left off when we were recording from the marriott the hotel lobby hotel lobby uh,

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We did the best we could with the room we had.

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But we left off after day one. We kind of talked about, you know,

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we talked about all of our stakes we were having.

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Day one, competition Friday. Competition went well.

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I think it was a relatively fine, you know, fine debut at Brown Belt for me.

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Kate did well. She got silver in her division. in um you know obviously i would

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have liked to have had some wins but you know i think overall the performance

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was fine i definitely won stress the stress management was immaculate.

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Immaculate i i i mean i that was probably one

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of the better i mean everything was lined up it was good um

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so controlling the nerves uh the

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other aspects of it i mean match on

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sunday i was more or less winning i

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just had a i forgot i forgot the rules well i

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think it's important note that you also um for our

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listeners to know you you went and you

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you wouldn't say you forgot the rules you you changed

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the rules on yourself you went and you competed in the adult division to

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get some action yeah i guess i was i i forgot

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to be aware of what the actual like i was competing in different

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rule sets and not only was it my first competition at

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brown belt it was also uh i was also competing in adult which i had been competing

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at masters that was just where matches existed um and so competing at adult

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the rules are a little bit different there's different uh there's leg locks Yeah,

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a wider array of leg locks and they're, you know, reaping is open, which is not allowed.

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Heel hooks and reaping are not allowed in masters. So it's just a awareness aspect that I was not.

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Aware of well I knew that was a rule it's just my

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yeah yeah yeah my reactions sure weren't

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uh weren't prepared for it um I mean I I defended it well the first two times

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I I staved it off and I think that might have also led to a little complacency

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but that's fine I mean I was I was winning the the I was winning the guard exchange

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up until that point so everything felt good we We were,

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we were, I was also following coach Jason's, uh.

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His outline he set for me of like patience and exploding it at the right times.

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And so overall we were executing according to plan.

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So, um, so that was, that was good. Uh, so that's, that's the bright side and

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we still walk away with some hardware.

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So we have the, we don't return home with less than what we went with.

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So that's at least good. It is good.

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Um, and kids were excited to see those medals too. They were awake when I got home. Right.

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Uh, they're always excited. You got home. Yeah.

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We will talk about that. My, my delays weren't too terrible.

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Um, I don't know. I was like, what, like an hour delayed? Maybe an hour. It really wasn't bad.

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Um, I mean, they made up the time in the air for the most part.

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Uh, getting back out of the airport was rough. It was like they lost the bags.

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What? So they made me check my, I had to check my carry-on.

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Because American Airlines, you're not guaranteed your carry-on. How about that?

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Everyone is allowed to have one, but you're not paying extra for the carry-on.

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So they also reserve the right to check your bag if there's too many people or whatever.

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I'll tell you what, man. These airports, they have not gotten better.

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No, and... It's actually impressive how it consistently has gotten worse.

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Yeah, I mean, I think we talked about it, we're like.

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Do they just, they just keep, they charge you more and they just keep taking away stuff.

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And then adding more. It continually costs more and it continually dips in quality. Yeah.

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Consistently it has gotten worse. It's just weird. I don't. Inflation. Yeah, I guess.

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That's the inflation of life.

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The product somehow becomes worse, yet somehow it becomes more expensive over and over and over again.

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I think they also know that they're all like, well, we can all just make them pay more.

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Yeah. And we'll have little tiny little things that make our airline seem a

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little bit better. But in reality, it all ends up being the same shit.

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And the prices aren't that different. Yeah.

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So, but yeah, I mean, generally my travel is okay.

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Yours, though, was not good, on the way back at least. I have had worse travel

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experiences, but this one was pretty bad.

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Yeah. I mean, yeah, at least you got home. I got home. You got home,

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what? It was only one day late.

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I was at the airport with you. It wasn't Italy.

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It wasn't Italy. It was not Italy.

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I ended up at the airport an entire long business day.

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I left around seven after about

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four hours of delays and then and man

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while I was there I was like I knew in the back of my mind I don't know I just

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had like maybe some spidey sense from having been on the road enough times like

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it just I felt like I was like you know I have a feeling I'm gonna end up staying

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here tonight anyways so it was like around like five or so that I was thinking to myself,

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maybe I'll just get a hotel and just do this tomorrow.

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I thought that to myself, but then in my head, I decided not to do it.

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I mean, I ended up doing that, by the way, which I'll get to in a minute,

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but I had a moment, I don't know, some intuition that was telling me,

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why don't you just get a hotel and just get out of the airport and just go be somewhere else.

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Do what you want for a couple hours. It was looking that way.

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And I didn't do it because I was like, let's just be delayed a couple more times.

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And this was the day that the – and everyone I've spoken to who is here,

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by the way, was saying that the wind was not bad.

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This was the day that we were getting all of the noise in D.C.

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That, like, there was, like, tornado warnings and this and that,

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and, like, it was going to be a bad storm or something.

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People I talked to said there wasn't really a bad storm, but,

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I don't know, maybe it was different down by you. No, I mean, I missed it.

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I got back and it was, like, perfectly fine up here.

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How about that? I mean, it definitely, there was obviously a pretty big storm

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because, I mean, the entire... There was wind.

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The entire parking lot, so, like, the parking garage, all the way into the center

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of the parking garage was soaking wet. Oh, weird.

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So, I mean, there was definitely, like, wind and rain, but... Okay.

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It was fine by the time I landed, which means it would have been fine when you landed.

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It should have been. Yes. Or when you were scheduled to land.

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Scheduled to land. Yeah.

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Well, anyway, so around seven o'clock, I'm like sitting at the gate that I'd

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moved the gate a couple of times, whatever.

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So I'm like kind of, you know, walking back and forth across the different gates

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or whatever, eating airport food.

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And at my final quote unquote gate, my quote unquote final gate,

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flights canceled like seven.

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So that's when I was like, well, all right, there you go. And so then I pull

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up. So like, you know, you get the text message from American Airlines says

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your flights canceled, but no big deal. Click this link.

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We'll get you a new flight. and we're going to take care of the hotel and a meal credit.

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Which I will talk about. Okay, so I click on the link, and I'm looking at the

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options, and as I'm looking, which I guess everyone else on my same flight,

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and there were, I suppose, probably other flights canceled too,

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so there's probably 100,

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let's say 200 people, I don't know, 200 people,

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also trying to do what I'm doing to get back to D.C., all looking at the same

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thing that I'm looking at.

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So as I'm perusing the options, I'm like, all right, well, there's some really

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late flights, I don't like that. Okay, some really early flights.

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I don't really like that either.

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But there's some like decent midday flights. I'm like, okay,

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this is like decent. All right, let's take a look at these.

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And there was one, they were none of them were direct, even though my flight

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originally was supposed to be direct.

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But the least shitty of the options was like a flight through Atlanta that would

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get me back here on like five or six. I'm like, that'll do.

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I'm like, all right, you know, I think this is the best I'm going to get.

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And I go to click on it and it's done. So everyone has filled it up.

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As I'm deciding, I'm like, well, let's do that. I click on it,

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and it's like, nope, no longer available. So that happens to me two more times.

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And I ended up picking a flight through Indianapolis that the next day,

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like an okay time, but the final arrival time was kind of past my bedtime.

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It's like 11.45 p.m. or something. I was like, it's too much.

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But it got me back, so I'm like, whatever. Okay, so I picked that.

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The hotel options they give you are fucked. and they give you a $12 meal credit, by the way.

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Oh, that's not enough. No, that's like a bag of chips at the airport. Yeah.

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Or like, seriously, water is eight bucks at the airport, man.

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At this point, you're texting me. You're like, should I call and bitch to them about the hotels?

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And I was like, yeah, you should definitely bitch about the hotels.

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It's crazy. And so I just like, I booked my own hotel. Yeah.

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Yeah, I spent my own money on that. And then I like, yeah, you can't do anything at all.

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But I did nothing with their offer. I was like, just, yeah, whatever.

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You guys aren't even trying. Like, this is miserable.

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So I made it happen. So I like, I walked out of the airport with my bag and

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my like clothes that I'd already, already had been worn for days at that point.

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Big deal.

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So I walk back out. I get my Uber. I go to the hotel. The Virgin,

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whatever, had a good room rate that night. Over by Delilah's.

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Yeah, the one that we saw. Across the street from Delilah's.

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And I was like, all right, whatever. I've never seen one of these.

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Let's just fucking do this. They have a hotel restaurant there. I'll eat there.

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That's what I'll do for the night, and then I'll sleep, and that's that.

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I did want to go back to Delilah's. I actually walked to Delilah's. It was closed.

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We, we, we. Should you tell them about Delilah's, dude. Tell them about what

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Delilah's is and why it's.

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Interesting so i did i i did

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uh verify the theme by the way so

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we were wrong about it being 1920s it's a

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1950s themed yeah i thought it was 20s too but it's a 1950s themed supper club

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apparently it has it was four locations um the ones of note are miami dallas

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uh and las vegas Oh, L.A.'s the other one. L.A.'s the fourth.

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We don't go to L.A. We try not to go to L.A., but we'll go somewhere.

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Now we have a place to go. True that.

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But so it does like, this is like 1950s Supper Club opulence, right?

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Like we're talking, this is the era fresh out of World War II where America

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is feeling great, right? We're baby booming.

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We've got like the Art Deco everything. You got the stage.

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They're doing music. there's a singer on stage

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singer on stage it's like live music you've got

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the columns you have like everyone all the servers and

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bartenders are in like their white tuxedos um ladies

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are dancing you got the ladies dancing you know the and whatever

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those clothes are called yeah whatever the was it the i don't know what that's

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called flamingo dancing they look like they have feathers yeah there's feathers

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and shit they're yeah they have like a feather outfit uh every single table

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is couches like it's low tables couches around them and they basically specialize in doing like.

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Shrimp cocktail seafood towers steaks champagne

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champagne stuff like it's a very cool place

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uh i we went there we liked it we didn't have dinner there

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um because we had barbecue and we'll get

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to that yeah um but yeah that

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place was i liked it basically we liked we liked

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the vibe so much that it's now on our

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list we researched all the other locations it's gonna to

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be it's on the rules of the road now uh because we're

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we are planning our stay in vegas based around the

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fact that it's where it is yeah at least that's how we started planning

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our stay in vegas yeah we're like we gotta know that we have we have to triangulate

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so that we are convenient to this uh-huh uh which isn't hard because it's at

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the wind so it's not it's centrally located it's located around where we need

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to be anyways so it's not like it's the right side of the strip for where I need to be,

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so it's not too crazy because we have to be at the convention center,

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which is on the same, not really block.

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It's the end of the strip. They're on the same latitude.

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So, yeah, that's latitude. Sure. I don't know what direction the strip runs, so I don't know.

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They both are, they're horizontal. They face each other. Yeah.

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But yes, I mean, that place was awesome. I liked it.

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It was cool. It was chill. Well, it's important to note, it was a Sunday night

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when we went, and like most places, well, we went because it was the only place

00:16:34.099 --> 00:16:36.119
that was open past 9 p.m. That's what I'm getting to.

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Most places are closed on a Sunday night. We tried a few other spots,

00:16:40.579 --> 00:16:42.539
and everything was shutting it down because it's Sunday.

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This is around 9 p.m., so we were like, all right, man, maybe we're running out of options. Yeah.

00:16:47.932 --> 00:16:50.572
Yeah, and you dug deep, and you found it, and you're like, well,

00:16:50.672 --> 00:16:54.232
let's check this spot out. And so I didn't know what to expect.

00:16:54.232 --> 00:16:55.232
You didn't know what to expect.

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Everything, we were at Terry Black's. We were in deep Ellum.

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Not our vibe. Which was getting a little bit rowdy and weird,

00:17:04.832 --> 00:17:10.032
which can be cool, but also, yeah, not really. That wasn't what we were looking for. It was also cold.

00:17:10.392 --> 00:17:13.232
It went from being 80 degrees to like 40 degrees.

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Whatever the wind situation, it was taking over like most of the country.

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That was a strange night, but either way, yes, it was getting cold,

00:17:20.612 --> 00:17:23.072
and we were like, all right, well, we're not trying to walk around deep in the

00:17:23.072 --> 00:17:23.872
middle of all night. This is getting weird.

00:17:23.952 --> 00:17:27.052
We were being approached by a lot of homeless people, whatever,

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but not what we were going for.

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And so we got in the car, the rental car, and we were driving back.

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So we're driving through downtown.

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We tried to pop into a couple other spots, circle around. Shit was dying now,

00:17:37.792 --> 00:17:39.712
because, again, it's Sunday, and this is like 845.

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It's nearing 9 p.m. Well, in every place we looked at, it was,

00:17:43.412 --> 00:17:45.492
yeah, it was just like- It was shutting down. They're like, we're closing.

00:17:46.192 --> 00:17:50.152
They're regular people there, man, like they got shit to do on Monday, so, well, anyways.

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Fair. Yeah, fair is right. It was fair. Cue Delilah's. We get into Delilah's,

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and it's fucking packed, and it's loud, and it's fun, and like,

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there was like, this was, I guess, the only place, one of the only places in

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Dallas where things were happening.

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In the evening. And they were still seating people when we left.

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They were busy. Like, groups were coming in as we were leaving.

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Like, they were still filling seats.

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And I guess it seemed like you had to reserve. If you wanted a table,

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you had to make a reservation. You had to make a reservation.

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Bless.

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Excuse me. Dang. Dang. But yeah, I mean, you had to make a reservation if you wanted to sit down.

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And it was cool, too, because there's no dress code. I mean.

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We were underdressed. I feel like.

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Yeah. I told you, I called out, like, I noticed there were some patrons dressed, like, in the theme.

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And there were some patrons dressed like shitheads, too. So,

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like, we were in the middle. I mean, there was that table that,

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like, we were looking at, like, where we were seated.

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And, I mean, half of them were in pajamas. So. Yeah, they looked like shit.

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It was fine. It was a mix of.

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It was a mix. However, we should definitely dress the part. No,

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I think you should go in costume. We're going to dress the part in Vegas. You got to go in costume.

00:19:02.529 --> 00:19:05.909
Yeah, big time. We're dressing the part next time. We're going hard. Yeah.

00:19:06.349 --> 00:19:09.289
I think if you're going to go to a place like that and you want to get the best

00:19:09.289 --> 00:19:12.529
value out of it, do that. Have a little fun. Oh, yeah.

00:19:13.129 --> 00:19:18.809
I mean, you know, you got to enjoy it. So do that place. But yeah, that place is sick.

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We will be there in Las Vegas after whatever night we're both done with Nationals.

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We don't know when that night is.

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But in June, we'll be there at one of the days.

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We'll be at Delilah with whoever else is there with us.

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Yeah uh we'll get a table it's gonna be good

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yeah we're gonna once once this we're doing it right oh once

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once the brackets come out where reservations

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are getting made for the for whatever the last night is yeah um yeah it's gonna

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be good we're gonna have uh we're gonna have some solid we we have started to

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develop the fire drinking coffee rules of the road that is that is the final

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piece of the night is that kind of vibe when it's all said and done we're gonna

00:20:02.609 --> 00:20:03.789
do something similar in Chicago.

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We'll see if we can pull a rabbit out of a hat for Chicago.

00:20:08.313 --> 00:20:14.093
Well, we found Al Capone's Jazz Club. Yeah, that's right. So we found some similar...

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It's a little bit older. Yeah.

00:20:15.773 --> 00:20:20.073
We thought it was 20s. Yeah, I might have to change the search terms. Big deal.

00:20:20.553 --> 00:20:24.013
We have options of similar things.

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Maybe we ask ChatGPT to say, give us five locations in Chicago that resemble

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the aesthetic and vibe and culture of a Delilah's.

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Which is located, you got to be specific with ChatGPT. Yeah.

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Located in Dallas, Texas, which has the following theme and then like lead it

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and be like, give me five, I'll do it right now as we talk. Oh yeah.

00:20:43.893 --> 00:20:44.893
Well, we'll have an answer.

00:20:45.353 --> 00:20:49.833
Yeah, I mean, I want to know. Because, I mean, otherwise. I better ask Gemini,

00:20:49.953 --> 00:20:51.733
ChatGPT's been fucking up on me lately.

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The other thing is Lou Malnati's, right? We're going to go eat,

00:20:54.933 --> 00:20:56.593
we're going to go eat, so yes.

00:20:56.813 --> 00:20:59.053
We're going to go eat Illuminati pizza. What you're touching upon,

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and this is a good cue for us to talk about Terry Black's,

00:21:01.373 --> 00:21:04.913
which is a part of like the road culture if you're going to be running around

00:21:04.913 --> 00:21:09.413
doing this crazy shit that we do you got to make the most of it man well and

00:21:09.413 --> 00:21:12.893
and food is the most of it man the post,

00:21:13.693 --> 00:21:22.833
competition meal is a very important ritual and i like to know at least what i'm eating,

00:21:23.453 --> 00:21:29.673
well before the longer that you have like an idea of what food you're going to be having.

00:21:30.573 --> 00:21:32.513
Especially if you know exactly where you're going.

00:21:32.653 --> 00:21:35.353
I think we had it narrowed down to like two places for Dallas.

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We were between Terry Blacks and, I think, Pecan Lodge because they were right by each other.

00:21:40.991 --> 00:21:44.371
So if one was full, the other was an option.

00:21:44.551 --> 00:21:48.991
We picked the right one, though, because Terry Blacks, we got there right before the line. Yeah.

00:21:49.251 --> 00:21:56.071
Dude, it was still people in there, but it wasn't crazy when we got there. There was no line.

00:21:56.251 --> 00:22:01.311
The second we got out of line, the line was packed.

00:22:01.731 --> 00:22:04.551
There was a line the entire time we were there.

00:22:07.291 --> 00:22:12.711
But all that is to say that like we planned, we knew we were getting barbecue on the last night.

00:22:13.251 --> 00:22:19.131
Like barbecue was the dinner after competition because you're cutting weight,

00:22:19.311 --> 00:22:22.231
you're eating, you're eating a specific way so that your stomach,

00:22:22.551 --> 00:22:25.831
you don't, I mean, even if you are fine on weight, which I was good,

00:22:25.991 --> 00:22:32.291
my weight was fine the entire, the entire weekend, but you can't be going crazy and then risk eating.

00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:38.820
Risk upsetting your stomach and then that causes performance issues because you have another issue.

00:22:39.140 --> 00:22:41.320
You eat the big meals after you compete. That's just the way it is.

00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:47.100
We're buying barbecue. Barbecue is good because you're buying by the pound or portion control.

00:22:47.260 --> 00:22:49.740
We didn't control our portions at all. You don't have to control portions.

00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:56.240
We had a half a pound-ish of beef brisket.

00:22:56.620 --> 00:23:03.660
About a quarter pound of turkey, if I recall. We had two sausages. We had the Two links.

00:23:04.020 --> 00:23:10.040
We had the cheddar, cheese, and jalapeno infused. I don't know what you call it.

00:23:10.260 --> 00:23:12.880
Stuffed. Yeah, it was stuffed. Stuffed in there. Yeah, it was stuffed.

00:23:13.780 --> 00:23:16.360
Pork sausage. We believed pork sausage. It could have been beef sausage.

00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:17.820
Whatever. It was good. It was sausage.

00:23:18.340 --> 00:23:21.740
And then you got the dino bone.

00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:25.640
Oh, yeah. The beef rib. Which is about a pound of meat right there.

00:23:26.020 --> 00:23:29.340
And they threw in the burn ends. And they gave you bonus burn ends,

00:23:29.380 --> 00:23:32.040
which was awesome. Plus the esquites, corn.

00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:35.340
Oh, that corn was so good. Corn was good. We got baked beans,

00:23:36.100 --> 00:23:39.720
shitloads of pickles, and rice.

00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:43.420
Oh, and the pro tip was the sparkling water. Sparkling water.

00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:45.580
That's right. To cut through all the fat and the tastiness.

00:23:46.600 --> 00:23:49.300
That will put you down. There's no way you're going to Delilah's if you eat

00:23:49.300 --> 00:23:52.460
that much food. No, I was not. No, do something to settle your stomach.

00:23:53.020 --> 00:23:57.720
That helped cut through it by the time we got Delilah's ready for that dessert.

00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.980
Sparkling water. Yeah, yeah. the bubbly water helps cut through the.

00:24:03.003 --> 00:24:06.203
Gluttonous experience that you partake in

00:24:06.203 --> 00:24:09.083
that night you told me i think the pickles help too the

00:24:09.083 --> 00:24:13.383
pickles help that's why that's like a texas especially texas barbecue they they

00:24:13.383 --> 00:24:17.963
don't have them not every place does it that does barbecue texas barbecue and

00:24:17.963 --> 00:24:24.103
the pickles is like a big thing it's a big thing um yeah dude but we were we

00:24:24.103 --> 00:24:26.523
feasted we feasted we got to a point where like,

00:24:27.083 --> 00:24:31.243
between the salt, the fat, and all that by the end of it.

00:24:31.383 --> 00:24:35.603
The volume of food. The volume of food. But, like, I'd feel like I'd have room

00:24:35.603 --> 00:24:39.283
again, and then I'd take a bite, and, like, immediately be full.

00:24:39.283 --> 00:24:41.263
Your body would tell you no. It was like, dude, you're good.

00:24:41.823 --> 00:24:46.943
I was trying, though, as a former... You were. Growing up in a little bit of

00:24:46.943 --> 00:24:48.683
the clean plate club, like...

00:24:49.239 --> 00:24:53.079
I felt like I had a duty. We ate 90% of it. This guy helped me.

00:24:53.259 --> 00:24:55.519
I just told you you were fine. Yeah, he was like, dude, you're good.

00:24:56.919 --> 00:25:00.339
You're an adult. It's okay. He was like, you don't have to do this.

00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.779
And he was right. I did not need to do that. It worked out.

00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:08.139
But we feasted. Oh, dude, we feasted. It was good. We tend to do that.

00:25:08.259 --> 00:25:12.239
Like pans, we did it after Worlds, right?

00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:17.119
After pans, we went and just smashed pizzas. We had so much pizza.

00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:23.039
Um so like it's it's a part of the it's now a part of it it's part of the rules

00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:27.199
of the road now so which we'll get we'll break down the entire thing for the

00:25:27.199 --> 00:25:31.859
fire drinking coffee rules of the road sure but that's like the big one i'd

00:25:31.859 --> 00:25:34.639
say is that last bit right like you gotta plan,

00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:38.639
we'll say rule number one plan the

00:25:38.639 --> 00:25:41.359
post-fight meal yeah like you need

00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.259
to plan exactly i mean

00:25:44.259 --> 00:25:47.319
the more specific you get the better it's

00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:50.059
gonna taste and you get to think

00:25:50.059 --> 00:25:52.839
you're gonna be thinking about it the entire time it's like all right you know win or

00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.719
lose we're going here this is what we're doing afterwards whether

00:25:56.719 --> 00:26:01.599
we win to win today or lose today well then the longer out you you plan it to

00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:07.019
the better it's gonna taste by the way okay um like knowing so pans i knew i

00:26:07.019 --> 00:26:11.579
was getting pizza and i had been scoping out spots for like a month okay uh

00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:15.399
and that made the pizza to taste that much better. Yeah. Yeah.

00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:20.039
So, you know, like, that's a big part of it. Mm-hmm.

00:26:21.819 --> 00:26:27.759
But there's also rituals beforehand. Oh, yeah. There's things you got to be doing, right? So, yeah.

00:26:28.741 --> 00:26:33.641
One, you arrive at least 24 hours before. Yeah. That's a big one.

00:26:34.161 --> 00:26:38.761
Try to, yeah. You know, give yourself 24 hours. Try to arrive 24 hours before,

00:26:39.021 --> 00:26:41.341
if possible. Before you compete. Before you compete.

00:26:41.641 --> 00:26:43.581
Or at least the beginning of the competition.

00:26:45.021 --> 00:26:51.461
Warm up. But first, night before, right? What are we doing for meals night before?

00:26:51.681 --> 00:26:57.161
We've got to, at least the ideal system that we've worked out well.

00:26:57.161 --> 00:27:00.281
The ideal system is that you've managed your weight going into the event so

00:27:00.281 --> 00:27:09.641
well that you're able to eat a decent amount, and the better you are dialed into your process and.

00:27:11.472 --> 00:27:14.932
This should mean that you've done some homework a couple weeks in advance,

00:27:14.932 --> 00:27:19.452
at least the week of, to manage your weight so that you know accurately.

00:27:19.632 --> 00:27:21.392
Other rule of the road, you got to bring a scale.

00:27:21.652 --> 00:27:24.872
Oh, yeah, bring a scale. Bring a scale that you know pretty well,

00:27:25.072 --> 00:27:26.072
that's pretty dialed into.

00:27:26.552 --> 00:27:29.412
You've used enough times. We pack our scales, usually you and I do,

00:27:29.452 --> 00:27:30.852
when we go compete, which we recommend.

00:27:32.092 --> 00:27:36.352
Familiar scale that you know is like, for me, I think I shared this with you

00:27:36.352 --> 00:27:40.072
and Kate. I'm like, I know my scale is usually one pound over the test scale,

00:27:40.252 --> 00:27:43.592
which is usually a couple, I don't want to say a pound, but like some ounces

00:27:43.592 --> 00:27:44.912
over the official scale.

00:27:45.052 --> 00:27:50.252
So like point being, you, you, it's never completely, you're not completely

00:27:50.252 --> 00:27:52.272
certain until you step on that test scale that you're like, all right,

00:27:52.312 --> 00:27:54.232
I think I'm going to be, I'm, I'm in good shape here.

00:27:54.392 --> 00:27:57.292
But with your scale, that's like fairly well calibrated and you,

00:27:57.292 --> 00:28:05.532
you understand like where it's at, you can better be aware of where you need to be for game day.

00:28:05.532 --> 00:28:10.972
And so I say that to say, if you've done your work in advance and flying out,

00:28:11.272 --> 00:28:14.492
driving out, whatever, like that day before that you mentioned 24 hours before,

00:28:14.852 --> 00:28:20.492
for most people, if they're in some type of, if not weight cutting,

00:28:20.632 --> 00:28:22.572
but at least weight managing process,

00:28:22.792 --> 00:28:26.252
which like everyone's going to be most, unless you're like, unless you know

00:28:26.252 --> 00:28:28.272
you're doing like a weight class, it's a little bit higher than you're like,

00:28:28.292 --> 00:28:30.692
I've got like six pounds. I can eat whatever I want.

00:28:31.272 --> 00:28:33.992
Even then you should be conscientious about at least the food for performance

00:28:33.992 --> 00:28:36.552
that you're going to put in your body. Yeah, you have to be – don't eat like

00:28:36.552 --> 00:28:37.512
an asshole. Maybe not. Yeah.

00:28:38.032 --> 00:28:41.312
You might be able to eat more, but don't – Don't go to CeCe's Pizza. Yeah.

00:28:41.892 --> 00:28:47.872
But yeah, you get the idea. Nonetheless, a best practice for me – and we tested

00:28:47.872 --> 00:28:49.212
this on you. You seem to like it.

00:28:50.472 --> 00:28:55.372
I have – and we talked about this in the last episode, but I seek out steak places because I like –,

00:28:56.135 --> 00:29:01.095
to have as big as I can get, I say as big as, I usually cap it around $16.

00:29:01.295 --> 00:29:06.695
I like to get a proper steak the night before if a pound is within my budgeted

00:29:06.695 --> 00:29:09.455
allowance for food and weight and all that shit.

00:29:10.355 --> 00:29:12.615
And I also tend to,

00:29:13.473 --> 00:29:19.593
Sorry. I tend to want a, uh, like a starch, like a potato with,

00:29:19.693 --> 00:29:21.613
with my meat. So I want steak and potatoes.

00:29:22.173 --> 00:29:27.933
That's all I need. And it's, it's also a, if you want to like boil down what

00:29:27.933 --> 00:29:30.973
this meal is, like if you're not a steak and potatoes person,

00:29:31.193 --> 00:29:35.473
you're having, it's simple, whole food, right?

00:29:35.593 --> 00:29:39.913
Like you're having, and it tastes good, but you're having meat,

00:29:40.093 --> 00:29:43.373
you're having a carb and it's portion

00:29:43.373 --> 00:29:46.013
like you know the portion of it like that's a

00:29:46.013 --> 00:29:48.593
big part of it and tastes good enough that you

00:29:48.593 --> 00:29:51.953
don't hate yourself for you know you're

00:29:51.953 --> 00:29:55.513
not like suffering anyway sometimes you need to suffer yeah that's

00:29:55.513 --> 00:29:58.313
a thing but you know if you've done this right you've done you got the suffering

00:29:58.313 --> 00:30:01.193
out of the way at this point like that's what we did i

00:30:01.193 --> 00:30:03.973
i specifically just manage the suffering manage the

00:30:03.973 --> 00:30:07.173
diet so that i've already gotten through the the suffering

00:30:07.173 --> 00:30:11.113
meals i'm allowed to have this good meal um especially

00:30:11.113 --> 00:30:14.053
like we didn't eat that whole day right if you're on usually when

00:30:14.053 --> 00:30:16.933
you're traveling you might have breakfast if you leave early

00:30:16.933 --> 00:30:19.793
you might have breakfast before but like you don't really have

00:30:19.793 --> 00:30:23.853
a lot of options because every you know everything you can get is going to be

00:30:23.853 --> 00:30:29.833
fast food whatever so um not eating the airport food if you're doing it right

00:30:29.833 --> 00:30:33.333
you might have like a couple little snacks or whatever if you need them but

00:30:33.333 --> 00:30:37.013
you know you for the most part, you're cutting the whole day. That's right.

00:30:37.233 --> 00:30:40.633
So you tend to have that extra allowance of food that you can have,

00:30:40.673 --> 00:30:43.073
especially if you're competing in the afternoon or whatever.

00:30:43.293 --> 00:30:46.673
So if you're not early in the morning, you have the whole next day, too.

00:30:46.913 --> 00:30:50.813
I mean, heck, we had dinner. We had the whole next day. Woke up at breakfast,

00:30:50.893 --> 00:30:54.593
and I didn't compete till the afternoon. Like, we had all day. So, plenty of time.

00:30:55.793 --> 00:30:56.913
So, you know, it's just...

00:30:57.476 --> 00:31:02.156
And you don't have to eat the whole thing. Do you take it home with you? That's true. I did.

00:31:02.416 --> 00:31:06.096
I took it back and weighed myself to see if I could take a little extra,

00:31:06.316 --> 00:31:07.796
finish the steak, right? Yeah.

00:31:08.116 --> 00:31:13.296
So, I mean, yeah. But the steakhouse thing was great. I mean, I felt good.

00:31:13.616 --> 00:31:18.056
I didn't feel weighed down. I mean, especially I hadn't been eating a bunch of stuff. It helped.

00:31:18.536 --> 00:31:23.016
I felt good eating like that. So, might not be able to do it every time depending

00:31:23.016 --> 00:31:28.596
on where the weight is for it. But should it be managed correctly,

00:31:28.596 --> 00:31:30.296
I should be able to do it. You should try to do it, yeah.

00:31:30.576 --> 00:31:33.876
It sustains you. You feel strong. You feel full.

00:31:33.956 --> 00:31:38.296
You feel satisfied. It's a morale boost when you're running around doing all

00:31:38.296 --> 00:31:40.796
this kind of – some of it can be kind of stressful, so it's like a good like,

00:31:40.936 --> 00:31:42.456
all right, I get to eat, man. Fuck yeah.

00:31:42.936 --> 00:31:46.536
And like you said, depending on what time the match is the next day,

00:31:46.696 --> 00:31:50.256
again, weight management is the name of the game for all of this.

00:31:51.496 --> 00:31:54.636
If you've done your homework and you're communicating with your coach and some

00:31:54.636 --> 00:31:56.796
people who can kind of help you with these things. All of this,

00:31:56.876 --> 00:31:59.296
you can have your cake and eat it too. You can do all of this.

00:31:59.816 --> 00:32:03.236
And then B, if done appropriately, and you wake up at the right time the next

00:32:03.236 --> 00:32:05.936
day, you can eat again. You can eat breakfast.

00:32:06.316 --> 00:32:10.516
Like, you know, again, depending on, you gotta like, you're gonna have to track your weight.

00:32:10.616 --> 00:32:12.156
Like there have been times where I haven't been able to eat.

00:32:12.236 --> 00:32:15.736
Like I've had far more shitty cuts where none of this was an option.

00:32:15.916 --> 00:32:19.236
But if you do it the right way, you should be able to do some things like this.

00:32:19.536 --> 00:32:25.356
Yeah, I mean, heck, the second half of competition season last year I wasn't

00:32:25.356 --> 00:32:30.836
able to do that I was struggling partially because of how frequently I was cutting

00:32:30.836 --> 00:32:37.876
probably so like I wasn't able to do it then but I think the rule there is.

00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.960
Allow yourself a meal that allow yourself to have something.

00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:44.940
Allow yourself to have a meal.

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:49.200
Yeah. Allow yourself a meal that will boost your morale. Mm-hmm.

00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:55.820
Keep you from being, you know, starved. Try not to have to starve at the end, right?

00:32:56.300 --> 00:33:01.140
Should be manage it right to get there, but we get it. It happens sometimes.

00:33:01.360 --> 00:33:03.760
Mm-hmm. But allow yourself a meal. Mm-hmm.

00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:08.820
If you got to pick one, pick one. Like if you want to have breakfast the morning

00:33:08.820 --> 00:33:11.460
of, if that's the meal you want to allow yourself, that's fine too.

00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:16.660
But allow yourself a meal. I think that's a good way to like encapsulate that

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:20.340
without being like you have to eat dinner and breakfast or whatever, right?

00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:25.460
But allow yourself a meal. I think that's a good way to boil that rule.

00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:28.440
Does that appease you as well? I think it's fine.

00:33:29.860 --> 00:33:32.940
Yeah, you don't want to be starved going into these competitions.

00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:41.300
And competition can be tough, it just is tough, so know what you can do to make it more manageable,

00:33:41.600 --> 00:33:48.080
and it is a manageable thing, so what you can do to give yourself fuel that

00:33:48.080 --> 00:33:51.860
you're definitely going to use, do it.

00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:58.040
This is why I said a lot of this stuff requires homework that's been done days,

00:33:58.040 --> 00:34:02.180
if not a week, or two weeks before to put yourself in a position where this stuff is manageable.

00:34:03.193 --> 00:34:07.613
Um, but if you're doing that, it's just, it's sort of like a prolonged discipline

00:34:07.613 --> 00:34:11.893
that enables you to kind of maximize these critical, and like the day before is important, man.

00:34:12.173 --> 00:34:16.133
The day of is very important. So putting yourself in a position to be able to

00:34:16.133 --> 00:34:20.553
like optimize yourself on those two days, it makes it all, I mean,

00:34:20.613 --> 00:34:23.673
you're going to perform better, and you're just going to enjoy it a little bit more.

00:34:24.393 --> 00:34:27.553
Yeah um and you know it's like

00:34:27.553 --> 00:34:30.853
what we talked about at the beginning at the top of the episode uh

00:34:30.853 --> 00:34:34.373
stress management is a big thing too right like if you

00:34:34.373 --> 00:34:41.233
can know what you're going to be doing you have an idea of i i can eat a meal

00:34:41.233 --> 00:34:45.893
i can have this like if you can reduce the stress around that right like so

00:34:45.893 --> 00:34:48.973
that's one of the reasons you bring the scale like you know what you weigh you

00:34:48.973 --> 00:34:50.893
have an and you have a number that you know.

00:34:51.133 --> 00:34:55.173
You know how much you're, and if you've been doing your homework before,

00:34:55.253 --> 00:34:58.613
like you said, you know what you've been sleeping off all week, you know.

00:34:59.520 --> 00:35:03.560
You kind of know what you can take in and what you'll end up at the next morning.

00:35:03.720 --> 00:35:07.440
You should have a general idea of like, you know, for example,

00:35:07.600 --> 00:35:09.360
I knew I was doing four to six pounds every night.

00:35:09.540 --> 00:35:12.260
Yeah. That's a, that's a really big one. The sleeping off, how much like you,

00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:15.300
you generally fluctuate from the time you go to bed to the time you wake up.

00:35:15.380 --> 00:35:16.300
That's before you go to the bathroom.

00:35:16.600 --> 00:35:19.720
Yeah. What do I sweat out when I sleep? It's huge.

00:35:20.060 --> 00:35:23.480
Yeah. Like just so, you know, if you, you're doing your homework, you have that data.

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:27.440
So you know, like, all right, well I can weigh this much tonight I weigh this

00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:33.020
much now I know roughly how much I can put in my body if you're eating a pound

00:35:33.020 --> 00:35:36.180
of steak you're probably going to end up putting on three pounds when you include water.

00:35:37.980 --> 00:35:42.060
After bathroom times and stuff like that it depends on how much water you're pounding but yeah,

00:35:42.680 --> 00:35:46.280
you're right you gotta factor all that in it's not just the 16 ounce steak which

00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:49.540
is really like 11 and a half after it's cooked down but then you get the potatoes

00:35:49.540 --> 00:35:54.800
and then like yeah you're gonna drink water like you said before that You've weighed yourself.

00:35:54.940 --> 00:36:00.260
You're like, all right, no, I'm at, like, I need to be 149. I weigh 146.5.

00:36:00.380 --> 00:36:02.400
All right, so I got two and a half pounds. But really, I can be a pound over

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:04.620
before I go to bed because I sleep off two or three. So, okay,

00:36:04.640 --> 00:36:05.580
I want to eat in the morning.

00:36:05.780 --> 00:36:08.920
I don't have all day. Like, you're like a little scientist.

00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:12.720
Yeah, and you know, like, all right, well, the actual food was only this much.

00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.740
So if I weigh this much afterwards, it's this much of that was water, whatever, right?

00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:21.040
Whatever. You can have estimates on that water will come off.

00:36:21.220 --> 00:36:23.860
You'll be fine, right? Like, so you'll have...

00:36:24.220 --> 00:36:28.120
You can alleviate that stress and know, which for some people,

00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:31.540
I don't know, that might be stressful, but knowing like, I think for most people, it is.

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:37.540
How much you're cycling, if you have an idea, once you create the known, right, that will help.

00:36:39.060 --> 00:36:39.800
And then.

00:36:40.706 --> 00:36:43.426
Another thing with this one's big for me is to

00:36:43.426 --> 00:36:46.146
familiarize yourself with where you are

00:36:46.146 --> 00:36:50.226
and where you need to be so um like

00:36:50.226 --> 00:36:54.726
i spent when we picked when i picked the hotel i specifically was like all right

00:36:54.726 --> 00:36:58.286
this is here convention center's right there all i have to do is walk across

00:36:58.286 --> 00:37:04.086
the street how long does that walk so then you know like all right i only if

00:37:04.086 --> 00:37:06.966
i my match time is at this at like,

00:37:07.146 --> 00:37:09.826
mine were basically around like four, um,

00:37:10.566 --> 00:37:13.166
It worked out. It was fine because we had to get there early for Kate.

00:37:13.326 --> 00:37:17.006
But like if it was just me competing, it's like, all right, well, my match is at four.

00:37:17.266 --> 00:37:20.246
I want to be there however long early.

00:37:20.566 --> 00:37:24.926
I want to be warmed up at least an hour before or I want to start warming up

00:37:24.926 --> 00:37:29.686
an hour before. So I have at least 30 to 40 minutes to just kind of be there

00:37:29.686 --> 00:37:31.886
afterwards. I want this much time ahead of time.

00:37:32.066 --> 00:37:35.746
And then you kind of know like, all right, well, I just need to leave.

00:37:36.226 --> 00:37:40.426
I just need to be ready to leave the hotel 15 minutes before whatever time.

00:37:40.566 --> 00:37:43.846
I want to be there or, you know, however long or you need just,

00:37:43.966 --> 00:37:46.566
you know, logistics, logistics. We're talking logistics. Yeah.

00:37:46.826 --> 00:37:51.086
Yeah. It's mission critical. But so familiarizing yourself with where you need to be.

00:37:51.246 --> 00:37:55.206
Right. Because in where you are in comparison to that and like how to get around

00:37:55.206 --> 00:37:59.906
the city, like just knowing that stuff helps scouting out. Helps a lot.

00:38:00.386 --> 00:38:04.046
I mean, imagine if we had to wait on like a 30. Imagine if we had to wait for

00:38:04.046 --> 00:38:06.026
an Uber for a 30 minute drive.

00:38:06.266 --> 00:38:09.066
And we don't know if the Uber is going to be slow to get to where we are.

00:38:09.746 --> 00:38:11.706
We don't know if there's going to be traffic. We don't know these areas.

00:38:11.946 --> 00:38:15.986
So, yeah, dude, simplicity for, like, the getting to where you need to go is really important.

00:38:16.246 --> 00:38:21.246
Yeah, so, like, streamlining that is big, you know, because the easier it is

00:38:21.246 --> 00:38:22.466
to get there, the better it's going to be.

00:38:22.546 --> 00:38:28.386
I mean, heck, if it's a multi-day tournament, you might go there the day before,

00:38:28.566 --> 00:38:30.106
right, just to get a feel for it.

00:38:30.146 --> 00:38:33.046
If you're going on day two, maybe you pop in.

00:38:33.146 --> 00:38:35.346
This also helps, too, because you can check out the test scale.

00:38:35.346 --> 00:38:40.566
You know if you need if you're if you are there early enough right pop in see

00:38:40.566 --> 00:38:45.106
or get to the venue see how far that is see how long that takes get a feel for

00:38:45.106 --> 00:38:46.826
where the venue is see where the mats are,

00:38:47.366 --> 00:38:50.886
check the scale and then if you're not going that day you can just get out of

00:38:50.886 --> 00:38:53.906
there if you're done with if you don't want to be in there because i know some

00:38:53.906 --> 00:38:59.126
people don't like to be in the space for too long um we talked a little bit

00:38:59.126 --> 00:39:03.326
about a theory on that right with everyone's nervousness Yes,

00:39:03.486 --> 00:39:06.626
the room, there is a noticeable,

00:39:07.026 --> 00:39:10.806
anytime you go to a combat sports environment, you feel this,

00:39:10.946 --> 00:39:13.706
there's like a thick wall of...

00:39:15.473 --> 00:39:20.473
Anxiety smog in the air, you'll feel it. You'll feel everyone's collective nerves.

00:39:20.673 --> 00:39:22.373
It gets normal, it gets easier.

00:39:24.233 --> 00:39:28.013
You kinda get inoculated to it, but it's noticeable every time you get in there.

00:39:28.093 --> 00:39:31.493
People kinda like, they show it on their faces, man, the way they move.

00:39:32.442 --> 00:39:38.322
I think, uh, we were saying that it's like, uh, you build up like a tolerance to whatever,

00:39:39.462 --> 00:39:43.162
pheromone or whatever is being, you know, the, whatever pheromone the human

00:39:43.162 --> 00:39:48.262
body is putting out when it's anxious of the situation, fear you have to build. Yeah.

00:39:48.762 --> 00:39:51.982
You build a tolerance to it or you just, you know, I don't know,

00:39:52.382 --> 00:39:56.602
maybe it reverses on you and the, the smell of everyone else being afraid,

00:39:56.602 --> 00:39:59.562
you see, you know, makes you less afraid or more ready.

00:39:59.702 --> 00:40:03.282
Who knows? but i know some people don't like to be in the space for longer than

00:40:03.282 --> 00:40:08.922
they need to so you know if just getting seeing where it is and leaving is what you need to do.

00:40:09.482 --> 00:40:14.262
But that helps you with the with relieving a one stress for your competition

00:40:14.262 --> 00:40:18.862
i think it helps man i think it helps overall uh i like being in the space i

00:40:18.862 --> 00:40:21.042
i mean i it helps me to just like,

00:40:21.502 --> 00:40:24.322
get used to the room noise like i think that

00:40:24.322 --> 00:40:27.122
i mean i like it um you know

00:40:27.122 --> 00:40:30.002
i don't want to be there too long because then it's just boring and

00:40:30.002 --> 00:40:33.002
you let you get stiff and whatever you can drain your batteries too

00:40:33.002 --> 00:40:35.682
but you're right there's like an awareness you're like oh this is what the room is

00:40:35.682 --> 00:40:38.562
going to be like all right it just becomes you just get like you you

00:40:38.562 --> 00:40:41.182
like uh settle into an equilibrium you're like this is what it

00:40:41.182 --> 00:40:43.402
is everyone's really fucking loud there's like a million competitors running

00:40:43.402 --> 00:40:44.142
around everyone's warming

00:40:44.142 --> 00:40:47.322
up there's geese over here there's geese over there's kids running around us jumping

00:40:47.322 --> 00:40:50.402
on top of us and shit they were using us they were hiding behind us

00:40:50.402 --> 00:40:53.242
yeah that was crazy that was that was weird we

00:40:53.242 --> 00:40:56.122
were in a giant like it's not there were a bunch of people around us either like

00:40:56.122 --> 00:40:58.862
we were just around yeah we tried to like give ourselves some

00:40:58.862 --> 00:41:01.582
space and like somehow like just a group of kids were playing like tag or something

00:41:01.582 --> 00:41:04.482
they kept doing whatever yeah like so but you to

00:41:04.482 --> 00:41:06.962
the point being like you get in and you're like all right this is what the room

00:41:06.962 --> 00:41:09.322
feels like this is what it's going to be like these are the variables the people

00:41:09.322 --> 00:41:12.862
you know these little kids running around all right there's that's the mat i'm

00:41:12.862 --> 00:41:16.762
going to be on there's the test scale you could you kind of figure out the rhythms

00:41:16.762 --> 00:41:20.582
and you kind of you see how fast the matches are moving and stuff and then yeah

00:41:20.582 --> 00:41:22.002
if you're there a day early and like

00:41:22.402 --> 00:41:25.882
do that for a little bit make an hour or two then you're good or less for that

00:41:25.882 --> 00:41:29.022
matter if you just want to go in and jump on the scale as close as we were that

00:41:29.022 --> 00:41:31.302
would have been totally feasible yeah um.

00:41:32.091 --> 00:41:35.131
But I agree with you insofar as kind of like if you're like newer and you're

00:41:35.131 --> 00:41:37.611
not familiar with these environments and that type of stuff makes you nervous,

00:41:37.771 --> 00:41:39.131
like go in early and just get used to it.

00:41:39.511 --> 00:41:46.251
Yeah. It helps. I mean, especially like figure out the bullpen situation, right?

00:41:46.391 --> 00:41:50.771
Because if you've never done an IBJJF, that can be kind of hectic.

00:41:51.091 --> 00:41:55.731
Like the bullpen is, it's one, the facility is one thing.

00:41:55.911 --> 00:41:59.531
The bullpen's a whole nother animal too because like now these are all people

00:41:59.531 --> 00:42:01.971
that are fighting in the next 15 minutes, right? Yeah, yeah.

00:42:02.091 --> 00:42:05.451
Fighting um but you know these are all people that are about to go on like they're

00:42:05.451 --> 00:42:10.611
they're in like the final moments before they compete yeah it's another animal

00:42:10.611 --> 00:42:15.711
in there but like know where you need to go know what you need to do know what

00:42:15.711 --> 00:42:18.911
you need to bring know where your mat's gonna be like.

00:42:19.632 --> 00:42:22.492
Figure all of that out so that you can kind

00:42:22.492 --> 00:42:25.392
of autopilot through that and not have to worry about it right yeah

00:42:25.392 --> 00:42:28.212
and we're talking about a lot it's not that complicated but no these are

00:42:28.212 --> 00:42:30.892
little variables that like if you if you went by yourself to do

00:42:30.892 --> 00:42:34.172
this stuff and you didn't know how any of it worked it could confuse you you could miss a match yeah

00:42:34.172 --> 00:42:36.812
i mean in the wrong place or going to the wrong thing or you

00:42:36.812 --> 00:42:39.532
end up buying a gi that you didn't think you needed because like your

00:42:39.532 --> 00:42:43.732
gi wasn't regulatory wasn't up to the regulations of the iBJF or like your nogi

00:42:43.732 --> 00:42:47.132
kit's fucked up and they'll sell you some shit walk into the wrong go into the

00:42:47.132 --> 00:42:50.092
wrong bullpen i've seen that happen they had one this time but you're right

00:42:50.092 --> 00:42:52.992
but like in a lot of them there's two and you could yeah you can yeah you that

00:42:52.992 --> 00:42:57.552
is true I've seen that so like you know just know that that can help um,

00:42:58.212 --> 00:43:00.972
sometimes they I've seen more and more where they only have the one

00:43:00.972 --> 00:43:03.672
now uh I don't they I guess they've

00:43:03.672 --> 00:43:06.432
changed their minds uh I think it depends on

00:43:06.432 --> 00:43:10.292
the venue yeah I wonder what the they must have like a cutoff on the number

00:43:10.292 --> 00:43:13.792
of mats like after a certain number they add a second bullpen or something yeah

00:43:13.792 --> 00:43:19.112
i don't know could be that uh whatever uh well they gotta manage people going

00:43:19.112 --> 00:43:25.352
in and out and shit too so they probably want like one thoroughfare yeah of access in and out.

00:43:26.532 --> 00:43:31.392
Um so whatever but but fair point like go at least observe see how it's set

00:43:31.392 --> 00:43:34.392
up because it isn't set up the exact same way every single time to your point

00:43:34.392 --> 00:43:37.312
so if you're there and you got a little bit of wiggle room like pop in like

00:43:37.312 --> 00:43:39.772
this is how they're running it all right cool so tomorrow Oh, that's what I'll do.

00:43:39.972 --> 00:43:42.672
All right, big deal. Cool. And you'll see the number of mats too.

00:43:42.892 --> 00:43:46.792
You'll get an idea of how many people there's going to be, how long,

00:43:47.032 --> 00:43:48.612
I mean, you might even see how they're running.

00:43:48.852 --> 00:43:51.592
If you go there, you'll know how quick, because,

00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:56.600
you'll see decision-making and head table shit and whatever that they're doing,

00:43:56.840 --> 00:44:00.140
you know, behind the scenes stuff. You'll see how like much stoppage there is.

00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:05.260
Cause usually if there's stoppages, like if there's head table stoppages where

00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:08.060
they're like stopping mid match, they're gonna be doing a lot of that.

00:44:08.140 --> 00:44:10.700
If they're doing that, they're doing it. It's something they're going to be

00:44:10.700 --> 00:44:14.080
doing frequently. It just not a bad thing.

00:44:14.180 --> 00:44:17.940
It's just something if it's happening already, it's usually happening the whole weekend.

00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:22.680
It just has to do with whoever's working the head table.

00:44:22.940 --> 00:44:25.560
Sometimes it's just whatever the crew is because they have a couple different

00:44:25.560 --> 00:44:30.300
crews that travel around different areas. So the different refs and whatever.

00:44:31.680 --> 00:44:35.000
But, I mean, it's really not that complicated, like you said.

00:44:35.140 --> 00:44:41.500
It's just go feel it, inoculate, get used to the stress, remove the stress, right?

00:44:41.620 --> 00:44:44.900
Like we're just trying to reduce the amount of things we have to worry about

00:44:44.900 --> 00:44:46.880
on match day. You want to reduce the amount of thinking you have to do.

00:44:47.040 --> 00:44:49.920
Yeah. You know, that's, that's the big thing is like try not to think as much.

00:44:50.020 --> 00:44:52.640
Cause it just, there are things that a lot of this stuff is like,

00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:56.400
I think the, the subtext of everything is about like all the mental taxing,

00:44:56.640 --> 00:44:59.260
the mental taxation that goes on throughout this process.

00:44:59.920 --> 00:45:04.520
And, um, excuse me, the more you do this stuff, like the more like you build

00:45:04.520 --> 00:45:09.320
little like rituals or like procedures for yourself, like it becomes formulaic, it becomes routine.

00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:13.840
And then you just like the thinking and the noise in your head starts to quiet.

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:18.380
It's kind of like you've been there, you've done that, you know what to expect,

00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:20.420
and you get it down to, like, the only thing I need to think about is,

00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:23.800
like, if there's any little tweaks or adjustments to my game and then just want to go do it.

00:45:24.020 --> 00:45:27.880
Yeah, just focus on the stuff that's actually around the competing part, right?

00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:30.140
You want to reduce the amount of thinking around it. I mean.

00:45:30.860 --> 00:45:35.660
It's why I talk about all of the additional, it's why I talk about all the additional planning.

00:45:35.660 --> 00:45:39.480
I tried to do it before. Like if I, if I'm going to, I pick where I want to

00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:43.720
be weeks ahead of time or whenever I, you know, whenever I'm looking,

00:45:44.300 --> 00:45:47.980
booking the hotel, but I'm doing it before I get there so that at least I don't

00:45:47.980 --> 00:45:50.600
have to think about it when I'm there. Right. Um, yeah.

00:45:51.069 --> 00:45:54.089
You know if it's all right i'm gonna eat at this place the

00:45:54.089 --> 00:45:56.729
first night or these are my options so at

00:45:56.729 --> 00:45:59.669
least i know i have x y and z as places we

00:45:59.669 --> 00:46:02.369
can go so that it's just like uh you know who want where do

00:46:02.369 --> 00:46:05.089
you want to go this place this place or this place right you can just make it

00:46:05.089 --> 00:46:10.029
an easier yeah it's just an easier time um so you're not like thinking about

00:46:10.029 --> 00:46:17.009
oh what am i gonna have today what am i gonna yeah whatever um so you know just

00:46:17.009 --> 00:46:21.329
making that part easy make it as easy on yourself as possible. Yeah.

00:46:21.809 --> 00:46:26.269
That's a good way to put it. Yeah. And when it comes to the competition part,

00:46:26.489 --> 00:46:28.149
it's supposed to be fun, right?

00:46:28.409 --> 00:46:31.209
Like, it's a fun thing. Yeah. Have fun doing it.

00:46:31.369 --> 00:46:36.609
So, if you're stressing yourself out on all the minutiae surrounding it,

00:46:36.769 --> 00:46:38.989
you're not going to have fun doing it. Yeah, that's true. Yeah.

00:46:39.600 --> 00:46:44.480
It's just hone in, right? Yeah, yeah. The stuff like when you,

00:46:44.560 --> 00:46:46.980
the more you do it, you realize, Kellen, this is why we're talking about this.

00:46:47.100 --> 00:46:48.840
Like there is like a formula.

00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:54.960
There's like a pattern that you end up falling when you go into these things.

00:46:56.140 --> 00:47:00.760
And the pattern is there for a reason. Like everything we've discussed,

00:47:00.940 --> 00:47:05.880
like the managing your weight, the watching what you weigh on the scale,

00:47:06.060 --> 00:47:08.120
thinking about when you can or cannot eat,

00:47:08.780 --> 00:47:12.040
um when you can and cannot hydrate um how

00:47:12.040 --> 00:47:14.960
much sleep you should get when you should wake up in the morning so like you

00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:19.980
know can i have coffee can i not have coffee um timing

00:47:19.980 --> 00:47:23.780
going to the bathroom in the morning getting it done so you feel good when you

00:47:23.780 --> 00:47:29.280
go on the mat um hopefully eating some breakfast uh dude even something like

00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:32.820
what clothes should i wear and i'll tell you what i mean by that um like for

00:47:32.820 --> 00:47:36.500
example granted it was it was rather sunny sunny in in dallas but like Like,

00:47:36.620 --> 00:47:39.220
let's say, were you to need to shed,

00:47:39.700 --> 00:47:42.520
nothing crazy, but let's say you were like a pound and a half or two pounds

00:47:42.520 --> 00:47:45.020
heavier than you were, or how about this?

00:47:45.020 --> 00:47:47.900
Let's say a pound and a half, two pounds heavier than the division.

00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:50.540
Something as simple as like going into a place where you're like,

00:47:50.640 --> 00:47:54.200
all right, Dallas is going to weigh like 75, it's going to be like 75 degrees,

00:47:54.540 --> 00:47:56.940
80 degrees during the day. Why don't I wear sweatpants?

00:47:57.740 --> 00:48:00.240
Just walk around in sweatpants and a sweatshirt. I just over,

00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:04.780
overclothe myself. So I just kind of like, it's like wearing like a weight suit or a weight cut suit.

00:48:05.080 --> 00:48:06.920
So you kind of have like a little light weight cup, but you don't have to do

00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:09.360
anything. Like you can like think about these little things where you're like,

00:48:09.460 --> 00:48:13.440
oh, that'll accelerate my sweating by like, I'll probably bleed out an extra

00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:16.920
pound and a half, two pounds over the course of like eight hours.

00:48:17.080 --> 00:48:19.860
And that's low stress in the body. That doesn't mean like then you don't have

00:48:19.860 --> 00:48:22.740
to go and do like a workout or whatever to cut weight.

00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:25.680
So it's like, it just teaches you little things to make

00:48:25.680 --> 00:48:28.400
this whole process a little bit simpler on yourself so that like

00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:31.300
you said you take something that when you're when you're new it's normal

00:48:31.300 --> 00:48:34.120
to be stressed out about it and um a little

00:48:34.120 --> 00:48:37.220
anxious though perhaps you shouldn't be um you

00:48:37.220 --> 00:48:40.020
know you should make it fun like you said but it's it's inevitable

00:48:40.020 --> 00:48:43.140
it's like a human thing for people to get a little stressed out about this stuff you're gonna

00:48:43.140 --> 00:48:47.980
be stressed out yeah it's it's that's a good thing too but so like knowing that

00:48:47.980 --> 00:48:53.500
that's inevitable how do you manage it and mitigate it to the to the to just

00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:57.220
the right amount of that stress and anxiety that's ultimately a good thing to

00:48:57.220 --> 00:48:59.320
help you bring out the best performance because you want some of that.

00:48:59.380 --> 00:49:00.980
You want like that, John talked about this.

00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.580
You want some of that like central nervous system like, oh, cool,

00:49:03.680 --> 00:49:06.580
I'm going into something that matters to me. It's like a fight or flight thing and like, okay.

00:49:07.507 --> 00:49:10.447
Harness it yeah you want the right amount yeah you

00:49:10.447 --> 00:49:13.407
want too much you don't want too little right that's right if you're too

00:49:13.407 --> 00:49:16.527
if you're too calm that's a problem and you

00:49:16.527 --> 00:49:19.467
want to learn how to leverage it for yourself so doing these other things that

00:49:19.467 --> 00:49:22.807
like some of the other habits that can like because it's like you'll have that

00:49:22.807 --> 00:49:26.047
and then like like i said if you're doing all this calculus on all these other

00:49:26.047 --> 00:49:30.947
things um which again is also normal if you're new to this but i guess what

00:49:30.947 --> 00:49:34.547
we're saying is we have tips and recommendations to make this easier on yourself

00:49:34.547 --> 00:49:36.787
so like you just have fewer calculations,

00:49:36.827 --> 00:49:39.587
fewer decisions, and it just becomes a little simpler.

00:49:39.787 --> 00:49:43.447
And then like you can, as you said, like with hopefully less noise in your head,

00:49:43.607 --> 00:49:45.867
you can actually have a little bit more fun. Yeah.

00:49:46.307 --> 00:49:49.687
And it gets more fun when this stuff becomes more familiar to you where you're

00:49:49.687 --> 00:49:50.987
like, all right, like nice.

00:49:51.207 --> 00:49:53.467
All right, good. And while I'm on weight, man, I'm actually half pound under.

00:49:53.647 --> 00:49:55.147
So like, dude, I think I might have a nice dinner tonight.

00:49:55.507 --> 00:50:01.607
Okay. I won't go crazy. But like, that is such a big difference between having

00:50:01.607 --> 00:50:04.287
two hard boiled eggs the night before and like.

00:50:04.867 --> 00:50:07.587
A half a cup of water because you're like I know this is

00:50:07.587 --> 00:50:10.327
four ounces and fuck I can only have four ounces and I mean

00:50:10.327 --> 00:50:13.407
I'm gonna enjoy every ounce I can get out of it but that's a

00:50:13.407 --> 00:50:16.027
tough place to be and sometimes you're just gonna have to do

00:50:16.027 --> 00:50:18.867
that and like when you know you got to do it and you

00:50:18.867 --> 00:50:21.507
just and you're prepared for that that's the

00:50:21.507 --> 00:50:24.487
other thing too is when your expectations aren't quite

00:50:24.487 --> 00:50:27.407
aligned with like where you're prepared meaning like

00:50:27.407 --> 00:50:30.227
if you are expecting an easy weight cut

00:50:30.227 --> 00:50:32.887
but you kind of fucked off and you're a little bit heavier than

00:50:32.887 --> 00:50:35.567
like you put yourself in a situation like fuck i gotta do all this shit

00:50:35.567 --> 00:50:38.347
i really don't like doing this shit that can start to tear you down

00:50:38.347 --> 00:50:40.987
if you're expecting that though like if you know going in you're

00:50:40.987 --> 00:50:43.947
like this is gonna be like the last two days are gonna be a bit gritty it's

00:50:43.947 --> 00:50:46.987
gonna it's gonna suck a little bit but like i'm ready for it being ready for

00:50:46.987 --> 00:50:50.727
like a struggle is much better than being ambushed by a struggle i mean either

00:50:50.727 --> 00:50:53.667
way like if you're new to the struggling thing like you just just learn to endure

00:50:53.667 --> 00:50:57.847
it you'll be you'll you'll be okay but if you're prepared for a struggle it's

00:50:57.847 --> 00:51:01.627
much better than finding out you had four or five new struggles you hadn't even thought of. Yeah.

00:51:02.322 --> 00:51:07.142
Oh, no, I mean, that's the truth. And having been on both ends of it,

00:51:07.302 --> 00:51:08.842
right? Same, lots of times.

00:51:09.262 --> 00:51:13.502
Just take it from, I can talk about mistakes I've made. I mean, hell, like. All day.

00:51:14.522 --> 00:51:23.302
The, as, the, this is one to bring an extra set of your gear that you're going to compete in.

00:51:23.542 --> 00:51:28.362
So, like, the additional struggles thing, right? Like, have that shit ready

00:51:28.362 --> 00:51:32.602
because I had to get a new belt at one once because my belt was too rip-ed,

00:51:32.862 --> 00:51:34.802
as they said. Rip-ed. It was too rip-ed.

00:51:35.742 --> 00:51:38.222
So I had to, like, replace my belt and, like, having to, like.

00:51:39.202 --> 00:51:42.462
Sprint to go get a belt and... Yeah, it's a headache.

00:51:42.742 --> 00:51:45.462
Wait for them. You're like, dude, I need to buy this now.

00:51:45.802 --> 00:51:49.482
You're talking to a sales rep at, like, a booth with your key shirt flying around.

00:51:49.482 --> 00:51:54.342
And now you've got, like, a belt that's brand new so it's stiff as hell and

00:51:54.342 --> 00:51:58.502
you look fucking stupid because your belt's all stuck up in the air.

00:51:58.862 --> 00:52:02.102
You got a belt boner and, like, it just looks stupid and

00:52:02.102 --> 00:52:06.542
now you're having this like stupid oversized stiff

00:52:06.542 --> 00:52:09.942
belt that you have to now run run back sprinting

00:52:09.942 --> 00:52:13.022
back you're sprinting back now you're i mean at least you're warm but now you

00:52:13.022 --> 00:52:16.942
just had to go through this whole extra shit because of something that wasn't

00:52:16.942 --> 00:52:22.522
expected right yeah and i mean this belt only a few months earlier had passed

00:52:22.522 --> 00:52:27.442
so you know i'm just saying weird um yeah i mean if you have the back i mean

00:52:27.442 --> 00:52:29.922
heck i told you in dallas i was like if my Gi doesn't pass.

00:52:30.082 --> 00:52:32.222
I'm not competing. I'm just. That's it. I'm not doing this.

00:52:32.462 --> 00:52:34.502
I'm not doing it. You didn't tell me that. I was like, all right,

00:52:34.642 --> 00:52:39.082
yeah. I was like, dude, I'm not, I'm not going and buying a Gi. I'm just, it's not.

00:52:39.982 --> 00:52:42.202
It's not the end of the world. Yeah, that's funny. I'm doing that.

00:52:42.302 --> 00:52:46.042
Yeah. I was just like, I have shit tomorrow. I'm not going to go stress myself out over this.

00:52:46.182 --> 00:52:48.882
I'll fight no Gi. Now I have an extra Gi that I have to take home.

00:52:48.882 --> 00:52:51.442
And like, I was like, fuck it, dude.

00:52:52.462 --> 00:52:57.042
Cause yeah, I mean, that part just sucks. Like having to do that sucks. So have,

00:52:57.857 --> 00:53:00.817
have an extra set because it's you never

00:53:00.817 --> 00:53:03.417
know sometimes they even let you through and you

00:53:03.417 --> 00:53:06.217
get on the mat i mean i haven't had this but i've seen it where like you

00:53:06.217 --> 00:53:10.797
make it all the way to the competition they stop at part like a minute in and

00:53:10.797 --> 00:53:15.157
tell and tell someone to change their their gear this belt is ripped yeah or

00:53:15.157 --> 00:53:19.457
they'll be like oh well there's not enough there's not enough of your rank on

00:53:19.457 --> 00:53:23.017
this rash guard okay they'll let people through i've seen i've seen them let

00:53:23.017 --> 00:53:25.997
people through with mismatched gi jacket and pants.

00:53:26.457 --> 00:53:29.977
And then they get into the match and then they get the head table calls them

00:53:29.977 --> 00:53:32.337
in and they're like, hey, you gotta change this, dude.

00:53:32.677 --> 00:53:36.017
But it's like, dude, at that point, just let it happen. But that guy had to

00:53:36.017 --> 00:53:38.397
go leave. It was like two minutes into the match.

00:53:38.817 --> 00:53:41.897
He had to run out and get new pants. Hilarious.

00:53:42.037 --> 00:53:44.877
So, you know, it's just like, that's just shit that's gonna throw you off your

00:53:44.877 --> 00:53:47.097
game. Weird little headaches that you don't need, like you said.

00:53:47.257 --> 00:53:51.237
Yeah, so like, have your extra shit that you need.

00:53:51.357 --> 00:53:55.917
You know, whatever gear you might need or if you have little snacks you want,

00:53:56.077 --> 00:53:57.657
like, have enough of those.

00:53:57.817 --> 00:54:04.397
If you like to have, if having a snack in the bullpen helps you right before,

00:54:04.697 --> 00:54:06.297
do that. If having, like,

00:54:07.049 --> 00:54:10.629
If being able to nibble while you're waiting helps, like if you need like a

00:54:10.629 --> 00:54:14.469
little light thing, if a little bit of candy, that's a big thing that people do, right?

00:54:14.549 --> 00:54:17.449
They have their little candy. I do Sour Patch Kids.

00:54:18.989 --> 00:54:23.789
There is some science behind it. Yeah, whatever you say. The Sour Patch Kids. Whatever you say, dude.

00:54:23.969 --> 00:54:27.809
The sourness triggers serotonin release. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah.

00:54:28.969 --> 00:54:33.489
Like that? Yeah. So, you know, a little bit of glucose. So, there's also a little burst energy.

00:54:33.709 --> 00:54:36.629
Sure. sourness has been shown to trigger

00:54:36.629 --> 00:54:39.529
the serotonin release when paired with

00:54:39.529 --> 00:54:42.869
sweet yeah wow so who knew boom

00:54:42.869 --> 00:54:46.749
yeah there you go i looked at i only looked this up because there was a argument

00:54:46.749 --> 00:54:53.089
in our training group chat about uh swedish fish versus sour patch kids which

00:54:53.089 --> 00:54:56.469
they're basically the same thing it's just sour patch kids have the sour dust

00:54:56.469 --> 00:55:01.889
on them so got it i was i just had to I had to research a reason why they're better.

00:55:02.029 --> 00:55:04.389
Found it. Yeah, and I found a reason. I was like, well, you know.

00:55:05.029 --> 00:55:10.209
That's a pretty good reason. Science, maybe. Yeah, that's a good set of data to pull up.

00:55:10.309 --> 00:55:14.489
Yeah, so I got to pull that one. I'd be like, see, Swedish fish just are inferior.

00:55:14.969 --> 00:55:18.329
It just doesn't match up. It's less serotonin.

00:55:18.469 --> 00:55:22.309
Those SPKs, bro, you got to get that serotonin release. I get it.

00:55:22.409 --> 00:55:25.129
Help calm your body, reduce the stress. I get it.

00:55:26.469 --> 00:55:29.309
Um but yeah just you know have your have your

00:55:29.309 --> 00:55:32.269
little things you can create your own rituals too if you have your own little ritual

00:55:32.269 --> 00:55:35.069
you like to do yeah like i have i have

00:55:35.069 --> 00:55:38.449
stuff i do i'm not gonna reveal it to everyone but you

00:55:38.449 --> 00:55:41.189
know i have like my little and my final when i get brought

00:55:41.189 --> 00:55:45.529
to the mat i have a little thing i do just to help get hyped up zone me in right

00:55:45.529 --> 00:55:52.109
like i have my lock in lock in moment um so you know just develop your own rituals

00:55:52.109 --> 00:55:59.169
that like lock you into the game to get the stress off that helps as well um and.

00:56:00.126 --> 00:56:04.686
I don't know. Have fun. Just have fun. Perfect. Plan your trips. Plan your trips.

00:56:05.366 --> 00:56:09.386
Like we were, we were just before this came up, we were looking at flights for-

00:56:09.386 --> 00:56:13.346
Flights and hotels for three months from now. So, I don't know.

00:56:13.726 --> 00:56:17.466
You don't know whether to, sometimes, some of the prices look fine.

00:56:17.626 --> 00:56:19.626
I don't know whether to book stuff. TBD.

00:56:20.246 --> 00:56:23.506
TBD, man. Sometimes it tells you to book it. Some of them tell you not to.

00:56:23.726 --> 00:56:25.006
There's some really cheap hotels.

00:56:25.646 --> 00:56:30.086
You do all this shit and like maybe if you, if you play your cards right, you save 120 bucks.

00:56:30.126 --> 00:56:32.926
Which is not nothing don't get me wrong it's not nothing but I mean

00:56:32.926 --> 00:56:35.506
that's a registration fee it is true it is true we're talking

00:56:35.506 --> 00:56:38.206
about Vegas like the second we get there that 120 bucks is gonna go to

00:56:38.206 --> 00:56:41.066
something yeah I mean it's just gonna evaporate Vegas you just

00:56:41.066 --> 00:56:44.426
have to know that you're take it on the chin dude you just gotta set

00:56:44.426 --> 00:56:47.286
a budget they're gonna they're gonna take their pound of flesh that's

00:56:47.286 --> 00:56:50.106
just the way it goes that's why you gotta save on the flight

00:56:50.106 --> 00:56:53.366
in the hotel room sure no no no you're right

00:56:53.366 --> 00:56:56.646
you're spending a certain amount of money regardless they

00:56:56.646 --> 00:56:59.526
know how much they're getting from each person they

00:56:59.526 --> 00:57:05.166
figure out a way to do it house always wins the house always wins um do you

00:57:05.166 --> 00:57:10.506
have any anything else no sir i think that was perfect well thank you guys again

00:57:10.506 --> 00:57:15.266
for listening to fires drinking coffee that was some rules from the road a little

00:57:15.266 --> 00:57:18.006
bit of a wrap up on the dallas uh.

00:57:19.391 --> 00:57:23.251
I was going to say vacation. Excursion. Expedition.

00:57:23.591 --> 00:57:26.471
We here at Fire's Drinking Coffee are officially on the warpath now.

00:57:26.671 --> 00:57:29.411
We have Chicago in a short four weeks.

00:57:30.511 --> 00:57:33.711
A little bit less. A little bit less when this releases, but just about.

00:57:34.991 --> 00:57:37.251
So, you know, we have that. We have nationals.

00:57:38.551 --> 00:57:40.371
We're filling up the calendar.

00:57:41.751 --> 00:57:45.331
So we'll be on the road. It's fresh on our mind.

00:57:45.331 --> 00:57:48.611
We'll have a few more tales from the tales from

00:57:48.611 --> 00:57:51.831
the road from the tales from the competition trail we'll come

00:57:51.831 --> 00:57:54.691
up with a good uh we'll refine refine the

00:57:54.691 --> 00:57:58.071
name um but we'll also uh you

00:57:58.071 --> 00:58:01.451
know we'll we'll refine we'll also refine our road

00:58:01.451 --> 00:58:04.631
recording as well yeah um so thank you

00:58:04.631 --> 00:58:07.471
guys for sticking with it that uh we did what we could

00:58:07.471 --> 00:58:12.231
with how the audio in a giant eight-story

00:58:12.231 --> 00:58:15.151
uh eight-story open lobby

00:58:15.151 --> 00:58:18.451
got us um and uh

00:58:18.451 --> 00:58:21.611
also just to close it out remember the patreon

00:58:21.611 --> 00:58:24.731
link will be in the description i believe it's

00:58:24.731 --> 00:58:28.071
patreon.com slash fire drinking coffee podcast

00:58:28.071 --> 00:58:34.151
um but i'll confirm that before the next one um but get on there guys that helps

00:58:34.151 --> 00:58:38.311
support the show helps us to improve the product that's where the money will

00:58:38.311 --> 00:58:41.651
be going oh and i guess also another thing from dallas i should have put this

00:58:41.651 --> 00:58:47.291
at the top of the show we know you guys listen more to that than this um but uh,

00:58:48.243 --> 00:58:52.503
We did meet with Cruz, so we should have some cool stuff with him coming up.

00:58:52.743 --> 00:58:56.663
It's in the shoot, we have confirmed. In the shoot.

00:58:58.103 --> 00:59:01.083
So he's just getting out from under a little bit of a backlog.

00:59:01.083 --> 00:59:07.023
He's catching up now, though, and we should have, once he's in a little bit

00:59:07.023 --> 00:59:11.203
more, in a little better place on the workload or the backlog,

00:59:11.223 --> 00:59:13.983
we should be getting that fire, drinking, coffee stuff,

00:59:14.623 --> 00:59:16.683
designed and ready for you guys.

00:59:16.683 --> 00:59:21.503
So we should have some cool fire drinking coffee stuff from him so that'll be

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