FoosTalk Live | Ep 187 | Hannah Dee Smith

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[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Well here we are back again once again for FoosTalk Live

[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It's episode number 187

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_02]: As we approach the end of 2023

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Not much time left in the year

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_02]: But we're not worried because we have a lot of Foosball

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Still to cover

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_02]: In fact tonight we've got a lot to talk about

[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_02]: When it comes to the year 2023

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And we're welcoming back one of our favorite players

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_02]: One of our favorite people

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Hannah D. Smith who's coming up in just a couple of seconds

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_02]: But first I do want to bring a shout out

[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_02]: To the air for the folks who competed this weekend

[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_02]: In Great Britain for the UK Legends 2023 Tournament

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Looks like the doubles champions are

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Chris Lyle and Joe Jennings Bundy

[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And the singles winner for this

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_02]: This legends competition was Man Orslan

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, congratulations to all the players

[00:02:50] [SPEAKER_02]: At the UK Legends Tournament

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I believe this is the first edition thereof

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Now for the last couple of weeks here on FoosTalk Live

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_02]: We've been hanging out in the Northeast

[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_02]: You know with some players that certainly deserve some airtime

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And of course talking about the Foosball scene

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Here in the Great Northeast

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And our thanks go out to John Garcia

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_02]: And Matt Kontoie and Mike Philbrook

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And last week was Bruce Welton

[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Lots of great moments and lots of, I would say

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Hilarious situations

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Those guys have a great sense of humor

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: But thanks again to those guys for appearing on the show

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And of course talking about Foosball is what we do every week

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's always great when you have somebody

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Who wants to talk about Foosball

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Including somebody like Randy Raposo

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello Randy

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey Tom, I think today I'm the third most qualified person

[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_06]: To talk about Foosball on the podcast

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Third most qualified, really

[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, all right, well I'll take your word for that

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you been good this week?

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Have you not stabbed anyone this week?

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I have not been good and I plead the fifth on the second question

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Well you know, we're in luck tonight

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Because we have one of the busiest players on the tour

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_02]: One of the most successful players on the tour

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And also one of the nicest people on the tour

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: With us tonight

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_02]: And of course we can see that she's dressed and ready to go for the show

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Hannity, hello Hannah

[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_02]: What's going on?

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, well not too much

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if anyone's ever considered me

[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the nicest players on a tour

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I know that there's probably not it buddy

[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But I really do appreciate that from you

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the first

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_02]: We know you're mean and nasty on the table

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_02]: But off the table, you're one of the nicest people we know

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I try, okay

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I give it a good effort sometimes

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I don't but most of the time

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I do try to be relatively nice to most humans

[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Now tonight I just

[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've been going really well, I'm home tonight

[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That's fun

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not really common right now

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I hate that I haven't

[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll admit that I have not kept up too closely with the previous episodes

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Although all the people that you listed I am a huge fan of

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: They're all my buddies

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And I've played a lot of tough matches

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Against them

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Contoy, I think I played him in the finals of handicap at Worlds

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Handicap at Worlds

[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: He is so

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: That those are probably the two of the nicest human beings

[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Besides probably Randy and Chris

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: That I think I've ever played

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: In a final

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, there was

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, there was so nice

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Super nice

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And the guy he played with was super cool too

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, Stevie

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You have Steve

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really liked him

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Steve is good

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I know Steve

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a great guy

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Steve and I were in the same

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_06]: We were in the same homeroom freshman year

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I've known Steve since I was 14

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah

[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_05]: Wow, that's cool

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And then Matt, I've known Matt

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I said, Matt was the first guy I ever drew at a DYP

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I was his best man at his first wedding

[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_06]: So

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Wow

[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_06]: No kidding

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Small world

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_06]: But I mean both super just solid guys

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Super nice guys

[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_06]: That was it's a

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was overdue that we kind of bring the props to the great northeast, you know for a change

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing to

[00:05:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Rest of the country is great, you know

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_02]: But this is one of those

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_02]: One of those moments

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and I think I think we just kind of

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Touched the surface on the northeast

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean there's a lot of good players up there

[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_06]: So many dirtbags

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people I want to talk to

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_06]: But you know we got some good ones on there

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_06]: I thought it was pretty good

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_06]: It was all right

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Well it's not the last

[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Hannah, have you killed anything?

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Is it deer season down there?

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It's duck season baby

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Duck season

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_06]: It's duck season, okay

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_06]: It's deer season here

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_06]: So

[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_06]: You kill anything?

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It is also deer season

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You're not wrong

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they run concurrently pretty much

[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Duck season has a few splits in there for our state

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But otherwise it pretty much all ends February one

[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_06]: You've been hitting?

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_06]: You've been hitting the woods?

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we banged on them this morning

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Pretty good

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_00]: That was pretty fun

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We got into some geese

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Cool

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if you guys know like how big a goose is

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I was a little bitting

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Like jet sled is what we call it

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's basically like a little mini boat

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm the only one that can really fit in it

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And I take a paddle and I just kind of like

[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Get it, you know what I mean?

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I had

[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't bring our little pup today

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's been salty about it all day

[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Because we didn't have a place to hide

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So I had to go get the geese in the jet sled

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And like the weight

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I just threw him in the front

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: The boat's kind of going like this

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just kind of paddling like

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh this isn't getting good

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I like grab another one

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Throw him in the back

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So it was really weird

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a fun time this morning for sure

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Now what's a good day?

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: How much is a goose weigh?

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably around like 30 pounds

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah one

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah that's good, that's good size

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean they're chunky

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to carry them like a football kind of

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't really like pick too many of them up

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_02]: That's more weight than you'd expect for sure

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean and after you've got like

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Five or six of those in the boat

[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the well at least the weight of a person

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Right there

[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and it's not really technically supposed to be used as a boat

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's supposed to be used as like a sled

[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you put stuff in and like drag it like this

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh okay

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But no like we just get in it

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know paddle with the chair or whatever

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But we use it as a boat

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: As a one person little person boat

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you have a picture of me in the boat

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Is it good eating?

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Is it good eating?

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I've never had, I've never eaten goose

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah yeah for sure

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It's good every like the Canada geese

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Like nah they're good

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But uh speckle belly geese are like

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Tier one like delay

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's fire

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_02]: But the Canadian geese are polite at the very least

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They're okay

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah they're okay

[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah thank you for shooting me eh

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah they are very polite

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That was fun this morning

[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That was a cool time for sure

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We've had a few good hunts

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's really no water here this year

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's been a problem because

[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Been hard to kill ducks when you don't have any water to kill them in so

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_06]: It's been super dry here

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_06]: There's been like uh there's been

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Because there's burn

[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Like there's a time of year where you can burn

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_06]: And nobody's been able to burn because it's because of the drought

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah right

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And then the other the other day I was at work

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was trying to go down a road in a truck

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_06]: And I couldn't because it's blocked off because there was a fire

[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh forest fire

[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah yeah it was bad it was bad so and then

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah all these people that have like private lakes and ponds

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_06]: You can see how like

[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_06]: You know how drained out they are because there's just

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_06]: No there's no water

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_02]: So there's a drought condition

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny because right now there's a massive rainstorm

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Happening along the east coast of florida

[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Right up the coast and it's heading our way for tomorrow

[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We're supposed to get two and a half inches of rain in one in one shot so

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah I mean that's what you want

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah sweet

[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Sounds like you guys could use a little of that

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_02]: For sure

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah we need some

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah it's crazy because like where we are

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Like if it rains where we're at right now

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't really like it impacts some places

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they let water out of like reservoirs and stuff

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And it floods our creeks that we hunt

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And then our creeks flood our sloughs

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But like the real deal is we need the mississippi river to get up

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's more impacted like up north

[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So like if it rains a ton right here

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: The mississippi river level doesn't change that much

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But like if it rains somewhere else it will

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So like we're really wanting it to rain somewhere else

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So we can get back out on the river

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah yeah

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Right

[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_06]: You need you need a good rain to come through the middle of the country

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_06]: And flood the mess so that way it all

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And just sit there for like a while

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a week yeah

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah yeah yeah yeah

[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_02]: We got a really good question coming over on twitch tv

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Drifter radio is on it tonight wants to know

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_02]: If foosball helps your shooting skills

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you this much

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Drifter radio never shot a gun before

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_06]: All right

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: That's okay um no it's a cool question though

[00:10:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you know like me and bracklin

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I would say like bracklin is the best human being

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I've ever seen shoot a shotgun in my life

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I would put thousands of dollars on him in any competition

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Wow

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_06]: But what are we talking about

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah but we're talking about buckshot right

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh like whatever like 12 gauge you know like you know

[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Three inch number two's like four whatever

[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_06]: You don't have to be a surgeon with a shotgun

[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_06]: But anyway go ahead

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just telling you like it's impressive the dude is good

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_01]: He's good yeah

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and like we've got the camera on the gun

[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Like the shot cam is what I got him for Christmas last year

[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And so like you have it down and then you like

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Throw up the shoot and it turns on

[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And it has the crosshairs on the camera

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Really

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Watches you shoot the ducks

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And he got like triples in like so many videos

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And anyways super cool moment here

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I was out in the decoys like picking up all the you know

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Ducks we've done mowed down I got like four or five of them

[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And then one comes into the decoys

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm in the decoys and the ducks coming like right behind me

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So I just kind of like sit down

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he has the shot cam on

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like following the ducks and he I'm like

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Where are you guys are and he just goes

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Like this around me and then the way lays

[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like I don't know if I'm gonna die right here in this duck hole or not

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But at least we got two more mallets yeah

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But like the video I'll give him a shout to you are they

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so cool

[00:11:45] [SPEAKER_02]: That's an acceptable risk in the sport I take it

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah I mean yeah no doubt

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_06]: He put you know he put the barrel down

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_06]: He didn't flash a buyer

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_06]: It's good

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay that's good

[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_06]: All right

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_06]: That's good

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah that's good

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_02]: This would be kind of a short marriage don't you think

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_02]: If that were

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It wouldn't have been over before it never got started

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: No marriage

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_02]: No marriage

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_00]: But really I would I would say that my shooting with the shotgun is like

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: A quarter of that what it is in foosball

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think my shot percentage in foosball is pretty low so

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I can hang like I can shoot him but like

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You know like we shot five four five geese today with

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Nine or six or four geese with six shells I think today

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So that was pretty nice

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah that's good

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean four for six

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Four for six that's a good percentage

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Really

[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's get Clay Clay

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Not one for everybody

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Clay two

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna say 78.5% for the for the for the connection

[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It's funny

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Wow

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a cool question though

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah very very cool

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So Hannah I got a question for you

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_02]: What's what's been going on to me this this year 2023

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_02]: We gotta look back at this because for you you've been

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You've been everywhere

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean you've been north and south

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_02]: You've been east and west and then then

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_02]: What were the ponds to play with the

[00:13:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Bears Berlin

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And doing a lot of winning along the way

[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I might add

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_02]: So what up what's what's been happening for 2023

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_02]: We'll give us some highlights here

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh you know I started thinking back at the year and I was like

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: You know for me to be like so up and down

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Like roller coaster wise about how good or bad of a year

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: That I've really had

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's really been a great year

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that this year has been a lot about

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Not necessarily the results

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But more of the mental side of things

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And like understanding

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of like who I'm gonna be as a player

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't have to live on results

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay I didn't win this tournament you know

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But I won fourth the last tournament

[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's okay

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It's gonna be okay if you don't win every single one

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So it was a lot of like learning and I took a big risk

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: You know I lost a World Cup on Bonzini

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of pissed me off didn't love it

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So I've really been putting in a lot of time on that table

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think my results at E.C.L showed that

[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm proud of myself and like that's really why

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The international travel was kind of like

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: A thing this year for me because I wanted to change

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: What I wasn't good at

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's risky you know because

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You know some of these teams in the way those tournaments are set up

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I might go over there and not even get to play

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Or we might go over there and I'll get to play one match

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we lose and then we're done

[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like a tournament like in the U.S.

[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a really different setup

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was a risk and I took it and I loved it

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And it made me better

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And this year overall has just been absolutely insane

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_00]: On the personal side of my life

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know on the foosball and accomplishment side of that

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: It's really been a pretty good year

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you know looking back

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Me and Bracklin did like a trophy count

[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Of how many tournaments has he ever won or whatever

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Right

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was really cool

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I was kind of like he's like

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I might want to do mine

[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like no no no don't worry

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you went a lot whatever

[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like yeah all right

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I needed to count him up

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But I was like I think I won some

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I could kind of hang with you

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's win-win and you know a lot

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think it wasn't okay here overall

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm happy I got through and got to experience

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: All the cool stuff that I've been doing

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Met some great friends, people along the way

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Got to see some really cool stuff

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah it's been a pretty solid year

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So incidentally we should probably mention

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Because we were promoting that

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Bracklin was going to be on tonight

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_02]: With you tonight

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But it turns out he had other plans

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Which is fine you know which is fine

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Because we'll take you every day

[00:15:22] [SPEAKER_02]: But what how is Bracklin doing

[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And has his play improved since you guys got engaged

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Hold on

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Hold on

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay so no no I gotta tell you

[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Listen I love him he's such a good dude

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Me too

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah I hope so

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_06]: He has progressed so fast

[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_06]: So fast like he's an expert player now

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Which is congratulations to him

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got his expert points

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_06]: But there was a match at Nationals

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Not this year last year that one that you took

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Forth with Derek Brown

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I was there and he said

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey can you watch my singles match

[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And it was like a rookie singles match

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_06]: And I watched him play and I'm like

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like how's this dude a rookie

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Like he beat I forgot who he was playing

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_06]: But he beat the hell out of him

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean just like a really nice controlled game

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Good two rod good five

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Patient took his time

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a great shot

[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like he doesn't play

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_06]: And and out you know I mean

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't want to give you all the credit Anna

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_06]: But you know he lives with one of the best

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_06]: As well players in the world

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got tons of exposure

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Which is wonderful

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_06]: He gets to play foosball all the time

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_06]: And I think that's one of the main reasons

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Why he's gotten as good as he has

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_06]: As fast as he has

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_06]: But man he's gotten so good

[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_06]: He really has gotten so so good

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_06]: And like that trophy in Louisiana

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_06]: That Colorado trophy that I saw

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Was one of the coolest trophies I'd ever seen

[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And I know he wanted it

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I think it was amateur doubles or something

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_06]: But man he's just been playing really really good

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Really good

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like I'm proud of him

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_06]: He's getting really good

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Anyway sorry

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He's probably gonna just be like

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Crying in tears when he hears that you said that

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you're so I mean

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know you've always been such a big influence

[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_00]: In our foosball world

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know it was a big deal for him

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: You know how you've treated him

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Since he got in the game

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And helped him out here and there

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's that's really really nice for you to say

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_04]: And I believe all of it too

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah he's a good dude

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel the same way

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know I feel like every time I'm on here

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I try not to talk about him

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's like

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: You know I don't need to come on here

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And just talk about him all the time

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But I guess since we are kind of sharing the episode

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I can like

[00:17:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Throw some things in there for him

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But um

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I know you said like oh yeah

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: You know I'm not saying it's a

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I have anything to do with it

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But everyone says that

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to really set the record straight

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That um

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Anything that that guy has earned

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's definitely not to do with me

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: The only thing I could think that I may bring to his

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Game is

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Preparation how to prep

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_00]: How to strategize

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: How to set a schedule

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And probably just grit

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You know form and all that

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: He looked into his himself

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: But he'd get in here

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And I would just mess around and beat him

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And he would get so mad

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: He's like you're not even in a real tour game

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: If you play your tour game I'll beat you

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like yeah you might

[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But you don't know how to win yet

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna have to figure it out

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta take some L's

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna figure it out

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know playing him like that

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And he just kind of had to get through it

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And um

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I will say that he is

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: He's learned so quickly at anything he does

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You tell him hey man

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get into basket weaving next week

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You want to try it

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And if he's like Hannah

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: You really care about basket weaving honey

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You know let's get into it

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: He'll go over there and he'll have the whole

[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Nose Arc made

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Like before I can even make like a little baby toy boat

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he learned so fast

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's just so good at learning new tricks

[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he's been so good at so many things in his life

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's insane

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But um

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_00]: People give me way too much credit for like

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Making him who he is in foosball

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like bro now I'm the worst foosball coach ever

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I just make him mad enough

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So he wants to win

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_06]: No but that's the thing

[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Like listen

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_06]: You

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_06]: He gets to compete against you

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_06]: That's that's

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_06]: That's more than enough

[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Like look

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_06]: There's my table

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_06]: I practice alone

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I have nobody to practice

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Like he gets to practice against you

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_06]: That's I mean that's a lot

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_06]: That's more than most people get

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_06]: So you know don't don't say no

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_06]: You know I mean obviously you can't practice for him

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_06]: He's putting the time in and that's really noticeable

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_06]: But you know having you

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah having you as a has a

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_06]: You know as a practice partner

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_06]: As somebody to compete against

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_06]: That's that's huge

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_06]: There really is

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean you know it's like

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like saying Sullivan's not as good as she is

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Because she doesn't practice with her dad

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_06]: You know I mean come on

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_06]: You know it's it's it's it's relative

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_06]: It's the same thing

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Give yourself some credit

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah and uh he's really technical too

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Where I you know he's just helped my game so much

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at wins and losses since we've been together

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It's bananas like the the amounts of wins

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's so much goes to him for that

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not just saying that because I love him

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's nice

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like really meaning that

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Like we talk so much strategy and foosball

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: He watches so many matches

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Of my opponents before after film

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't care

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna go over there and pick that apart

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's gonna come back and be like

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey this is what we're gonna do

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna run this this zone

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna shoot this on you know

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he has a plan

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And he he's always working with that and changing

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And um the mindset and the mental

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Has just changed so much

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Because you know when he wanted to learn how to shoot a shot

[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like I don't know just put your arm on it

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And bang it you know just like crank it

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: If it doesn't work just do it a little harder

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's like no honey that's not gonna work

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know we have to stand this way

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm not standing right

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know and I was like oh yeah that's a good idea

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I never thought about teaching you

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Like telling you like how much pressure to put down on your arm

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Or like where to your weights in your feet

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And he just picks that stuff apart

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just it's just what he is

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's one of the best

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Foosball coaches there are right now

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: For anybody

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You want to be his partner go play with him

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's gonna coach you up if you want it

[00:21:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And he can make you so much better

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I just I just think that about him

[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's cool because that's I think that's what I needed

[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_00]: At that point in my career

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice yeah I don't know

[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean he's

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I've talked to people who have played with him

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Wesley Parrot

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I love Wesley

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Wesley's an Alabama guy

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah and Wesley's like

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_06]: He's like he's so calm

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_06]: He's so easy to play with

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_06]: He's like I don't understand

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_06]: He said I'm you know I'm a ball of nerves

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And this guy's just relaxed

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_06]: And playing foosball

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm like yeah dude I said it's

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_06]: You know the mindset's different

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_06]: So but you know his his ranking is well deserved

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm I'm sure he's just gonna continue to improve and grow and

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_06]: You know but the real the real question is

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_06]: How good is he at cooking fish?

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Boy

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The other day I had a lady

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: That we eat with at Mammals all the time say that

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Fish tacos those are the best tacos that they've ever had in their life

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Nice

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I love fish

[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah I mean he basically cooked like we all meet up at our best friend Matt

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Mammals house my grandparents have passed away so we don't have anybody

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And so we all go hang out at her house and

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Like she just takes us in and just loves us like

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: She's literally like our actual mammal and she cooks

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: All this stuff for us in the past like week and a half like the boys have taken over

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So now that means Bracklin has to cook every night basically on the grill or something

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're over there whipping it up and they've they've just

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been so much fun but he is a very very good cook

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Is it is a catfish or or another kind of fish that uh that he uses for tacos

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: We're weird we'd like to do bass on tacos

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I know most people would probably do like perch but like bass

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh it's so good

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I've never had bass on a on a taco

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta do it you gotta have Brack cook it for you old bay seasoning

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Old bay that's the secret right there okay that makes sense

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah the only the only fish I've ever had on tacos has always been like a

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Like a like a light fish like a white or you know white

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Like it's cod

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_06]: No cod bro caught in the know

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_06]: No North Atlantic cod on a taco is no good

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_06]: It's too salty uh no like I the best places I've had fish tacos have been like in Hawaii or on the west coast

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Best fish tacos

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess it's like cool because he goes and catches like just went and calls some fish and then they're like come back home

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And cook them right then so it's like no

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Fresh there you go. There you go

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: But Hawaii does sound pretty good to

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_06]: No because like so we were there you know, we were there on a honeymoon and we found this place like my wife the day we got there she

[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_06]: She was like I don't feel good

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_06]: So she went to the spa and I went cruising and I found this this and I'm gonna shout it out

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a place called North Shore taco. My parents were just there

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_06]: They couldn't find it. I think because of COVID it shut down

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_06]: But they have a food truck and food trucks are really big in Oahu on the North Shore

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_06]: But anyway, my parents my parents got some fish tacos from there and they're like dude

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_06]: These fish tacos were amazing

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_06]: But they go out into the Pacific catch the fish fresh bring it in and do the same thing

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_06]: but like one day it was marlin

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_06]: and

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_06]: another day it was uh

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know. It was good though. I know that I eat there every day for like six days straight. It was unbelievable

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Can imagine man, it's so so so good. Yeah, but Hannah

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I've been wanting to ask you like this this question specifically right

[00:24:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Because you're one of the you're one of the few players that's like traveled internationally played a lot of foosball overseas

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_06]: What like the cultural difference between foosball over there and foosball over here

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Like what do you what do you see as far as like on the table off the table?

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_06]: The level of competition like, you know

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_06]: What's the difference culturally and foosball between, you know, europe and the united states?

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, um, I'll I'll kind of ramble on that and if I go away from the question bring me back to it. No, please

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I would say culturally the biggest difference that I have noticed

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Regarding like strength of field is that there

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, of course you have your people you're you know, your one percenters who win a majority

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But not really, you know, they could still very well go up there and get beat or get taken third fifth game

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, whatever by someone who's new there's there's so many players there

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: That the talent is much more dispersed than it is in the u.s

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: On the women's field, I'm not sure on the men's but you know everyone there's good and everybody there's good at multiple tables

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not just oh, i'm pretty good on tornado like no, they're good. They're they're good anywhere

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And that that's really cool to me and it's so crazy to see the different styles of games and the different zones and how they use

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like how they use their shots differently

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they have to understand multiple tables and that's something I talked about. I think maybe whenever else

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure maybe prepping before we went over there was like my you know

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to learn how to play multiple tables because once you go and you're stuck on benzene for a week

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You come back and you look at tornado different like after I played the the eco with bears

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I came back home and brackland's like bro

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Where did you get all this on a tornado table because I hadn't touched a tornado table in two weeks

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: You know I lived on leo benzene and reberto so it was like I don't know i'm just trying it but you just see things different

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, but talent is more widespread. There's not you know

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Your top, I don't know it I don't really want to say this

[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I know it's true. It's true. No billy always told me he said he said the field is thicker there

[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_06]: He said there's so many young talented players over there as opposed to what's over here

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_06]: He said it's it's crazy the the talent field the pool is just thicker. Absolutely. Yeah

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I think so an experience is what I noticed the big difference in my last

[00:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, ecl it was like wow you can tell that that person that came in and anchor doubles

[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Had a plan she's played them before like this this isn't her first rodeo

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_00]: She's been in these pressure moments whereas in other matches where you saw younger or upcoming players

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They had just as much firepower, but

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: When it is you know 1212

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: There's too much pressure that you know or they don't execute, you know

[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Or they hit the wall whereas those veterans are going to get it done whether they're down 1012 or they're up

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: You know 12 or 1412 it doesn't matter. It's just they're going to get it done. It was really cool. Um

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Culturally I have to speak on this because it's like my thing

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't know if everyone that listens is aware of like my personality

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But I generally do try to be very nice but when people ask me for advice. I'm pretty straightforward

[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I've worked on that and tried to sugarcoat it a little bit because you know

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a lady and I'm in the foosball world and I just want to be nice to everybody and and brechtlund has made my

[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_00]: self just sweeter but um

[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: We we get over there and we're you know having our team meetings at the first bundesliga

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And uh, she comes up with a lineup and you know, it's like hey, you know

[00:27:53] [SPEAKER_00]: If you guys have anything to say let us know or whatever

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, uh, I took that to heart and you know after one of the lineups I went and I was like

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, we're gonna lose because of this. Uh, you need to swap this around. I don't agree

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I think this needs to happen and this needs to go there

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And they said, okay. I respect your decision

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I you know, I agree with you

[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, we voted this or something or whatever, but they didn't get upset with that

[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_00]: They were just cool with it and I was like, huh interesting. Okay

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And then like afterwards they're like, yeah, no, it's fine. Why like were you not?

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I'm really sorry that I said that you know

[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I probably shouldn't have like came straight out and they're like, no, we love that like that

[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would you not they couldn't understand why I would like fluff it

[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean? So

[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The conversation there regarding teamwork winning

[00:28:36] [SPEAKER_00]: What you want to do every day, you know, like my my my best friend in Germany is lily

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean hands down that's my girl and I talked to her all day. I talked to her today

[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And she was like like whenever we go do things and she plans our day for me because she's just like my organizer there

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I have no problem in me saying, hey, I don't want to go do that or I don't want to eat that

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Can we go somewhere else and she doesn't ever get her feelings hurt. She's just like, oh, yeah, sure. Let's go

[00:28:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Like why would you not tell me that and I'm just like man, it feels so weird being able to say whatever I want over here

[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go back to the us and everybody's gonna hate me. But you know, it's fun

[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That's the that's the biggest difference. I've seen personally and just you know

[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Interactions and cultural differences probably

[00:29:16] [SPEAKER_06]: And what about like this is just how I envision it in my mind

[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_06]: That like that culturally foosball is more of like a lifestyle than it is here like for us here foosball is like

[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, like for you tom. It's like Friday night is my draw right like I'm gonna work and you know

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe touch the table a couple times a week and then Friday night. I'm gonna go play my draw where there

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like

[00:29:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I play foosball like I work and I have a life but like foosball is this is what I do

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I'm striving to achieve this goal in foosball

[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_06]: And I know and I know there are people

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_06]: in the us and and you know in north america that think the same way but

[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_06]: I just envision it in my mind that over there

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_06]: It's just it's just way different like people just approach the game way way different than they do here

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's more ingrained it seems like they're when it comes to uh, the average workplace

[00:30:04] [SPEAKER_02]: The odds of having a foosball table in the lunch room or the break room is much higher there than it is here

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:30:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's everywhere. It's in malls, you know, we go to a mall to go, you know eat after the tournament

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_00]: There's five foosball tables over there. It was like, whoa, what? It's crazy. And so everyone can't access it there

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's different layers

[00:30:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there are several players that do just you know

[00:30:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Live by you know, hamburg play five bucks to come play the week or the have whatever night they want draw

[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And they get to play against the best in the world

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll get better at a pace but then again, there's training centers

[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_00]: There's teams there training aspect

[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Is a game changer. It's just like hey bears Berlin if they said hey Hannah

[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't score one point on you know, benzene

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So you kind of not very good at it

[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_00]: We need to get you better and they would literally like help me get better like go home and do this

[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like it's not like they want me to get better because it makes them better

[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's more of a vested interest than it is in the us

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_00]: another thing that personally I realized is that

[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_00]: There are your outliers. Yes, sir

[00:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: But honestly when it's a tournament, no one's drinking

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You know when we go to play our team event, okay, no one's drunk. They're not drinking beers

[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know after we're out. Yeah sure go go get drunk have fun and I'm not saying that's for everyone

[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I just noticed that it really stood out to me that like when you're all around two tables

[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And you're really like in the moment you look around there's not a beer in anybody's hand

[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Not anybody on the team's is playing it's usually water

[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess that just stood out to me because it's like

[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_00]: How upset would you be if you spent money to come over here and play on a team?

[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And you got over here and the people in your lineup were all drinking and just couldn't play foosball because they were so plastered

[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right like what that's crazy

[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know like how many times do you play somebody drunk in the us in an event that kind of matters, you know

[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I understand. No because for me I approach it this like and I've talked about this before where

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Like when I go play foosball, I leave the house within 10 right like my wife is

[00:32:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Taking care of my dog is taking care of my home is taking care of I have no concerns. My one

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Goal is to go play foosball. I don't party. I don't drink

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I don't smoke. I don't do drugs unless they prescribe by my doctor and then

[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_06]: I go I go focus and try to play my best foosball

[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_06]: And I don't ever want to let my partner down my team down whatever it is like

[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_06]: And and if if and that's why I'm just very particular about who I play with because and and I've said that like foosball is different for everybody

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_06]: But for me, this is what it is

[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_06]: And if we're not if my partner and I are not heading in the same direction, then we're not partners

[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_06]: We're not playing together. So and I feel like that's a really big deal here in this country

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Right where there are certain people that want it to be this thing

[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_06]: And want it to be this professional thing and then the majority just want it to be

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_06]: You know foosball a party. Let's you know get drunk smoke weed and and again like it is what I don't judge anybody

[00:33:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Do you live your life? I don't care understand something if you're going to be intoxicated

[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to take advantage of it and try to beat you don't get mad. It is what it is

[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_06]: but um, well, it's it's the difference between

[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, a casual a casual, uh party as you say as opposed to a professional level sport

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So you want to play professional level sport? You stay away from those things until the job is done

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, okay professional hockey players. You you see their gatorade bottles

[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think they're I don't think they got you know

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think they got beer or wine in there in their gatorade bottles on the bench

[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_06]: So same thing with nba nfl. I mean, you know, they're professional athletes

[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_06]: They they you know now after the game they might go out and you know

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Do lord knows what? I mean, I don't it's their problem

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't care

[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_06]: But I'm saying like when you're when you're trying to be a professional

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_06]: You you have a standard and you act accordingly. So and that's one thing I appreciate about

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_06]: How they approach foosball in europe and I really wish we could kind of adopt that here

[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I uh, you know again, I know the the talent pool is thicker

[00:34:09] [SPEAKER_06]: I've heard that for multiple people. There are a bunch of really young good players

[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Like you said they play on multiple tables and that's another thing, you know, everybody here has this tornado mindset

[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And I've explained this to guys

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_06]: You know back home even guys down here in alabama. I'm like when you play other tables your game's just going to improve on

[00:34:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Get better. Yeah, it makes a difference. It makes a huge difference forces you to players

[00:34:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, multi table players are always the best players. They're always the best players. So, um

[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, well, how's the food over there?

[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, well, I guess I'll go back to this real quick. Um, so, you know, foosball is what it is for

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's different things for different people and that's so fine and I'm not knocking it

[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just like I've been there too

[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Foosball used to be a party for me too and guess what? I didn't win as much and eventually I got tired of losing because I'm pretty competitive

[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And so I was like, I wonder how good I'll do if I just don't drink while I play and I won four events that weekend

[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So I was like, yep, never doing that again

[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And I haven't it's not my thing

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you go out and you win and celebrate all you want, I'm all for it

[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you're the player that gets better when they drink

[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Touche have at it buddy, but um

[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Foosball is different things for different people. Some people it is a vacation. Some people it's more

[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Business structure and that's fine too. But you know, I just had to get that out there

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess because foosball isn't you know, I'll fit into a box. It's supposed to be this way for everybody

[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's you know, some people just go to get away and that's cool

[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_02]: we talked to with mike filbrook a lot about golf and

[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Golfers that I know at least to those that I've played with over the years you get together on a saturday and

[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_02]: There's a there's a beverage truck that comes around every so often

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's like, yeah, I'll take another bud

[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_02]: You know and you're out there playing golf and you want to be competitive

[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_02]: But I never found my game get better because I had a bud light

[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I can guarantee you that and nothing against bud light, but but it's not

[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Not a thing that would improve my game by any means. I think the same thing about foosball

[00:36:09] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like okay if you just want to go out and and play some pickups or or just a

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Ordinary dyp some partying going on whatever

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_02]: But if you're gonna go if you're gonna tour if you're gonna go and actually play some serious foosball

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_02]: There's gotta be a you gotta you gotta draw the line

[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, I'm sorry go ahead

[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_00]: No, uh, for me. It's like, you know say I am going over here to play on a team

[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And and maybe this is feeds into softball or something too because that's the same way if someone is gonna sponsor me

[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And pay money for me to play a sport. Yep

[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It's only the the most respect I can give that human and that team is to show up and give it my best

[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And I am so competitive. I don't want any excuses for losing

[00:36:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't want it to be because I drank two red bulls before the match and I was so jacked up

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I just couldn't play and I don't want it to be because I'm drunk

[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's such a weak excuse for me of why you lost like no, dude

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You suck either get better or don't drink and if you aren't drinking and you lose then

[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That's your fault. You know, it's it's something you can control

[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And for me, it's just a respect thing if someone wants to help me get over here

[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not not gonna act like that and disrespect that one and two

[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to win and three if I have to play with a partner. I don't want my I would never want to play with a partner like that

[00:37:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So I would I don't want to be that partner for anybody else

[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It shows up and isn't at their best because of you know, they want to party like party in two hours, bro

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Like let's win this thing first. Yeah. Yeah, wait till it's done. Yeah

[00:37:38] No

[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're good. Go ahead. I was gonna go to the food

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_06]: The food. Oh, yeah. No, no, please talk about the food. I was

[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Talk about food. Yeah

[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, well, germany, I don't know if I'm just biased and I just love germany because I had such a great time

[00:37:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was definitely the best food that I've had internationally hands down

[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, like I said, I don't know because lily just took me everywhere because she was a great tour guide and had us

[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Have all the things but it was absolutely fire

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, france I kind of struggled with until the last day

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: But I did find some stuff that was edible there and the food was great

[00:38:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It was just like the way my diet is set up like I don't eat a ton of like breads

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Like all day every day and a lot of them like meals were based around like

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: meat bread cheese meat bread cheese and I was like, oh, I feel so heavy

[00:38:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I just want something green and like evan mcgregor's mom went from to mcdonald's like brought me pack

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a little box of like spinach and I was like

[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I've ever been so excited to see greens. Um, so that was the kind of thing about france, italy

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_00]: um, a lot of olive oil

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_00]: fabulous desserts

[00:38:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I did learn that they drink coax and pepsis with lemons in it

[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's fire. I would say you must try it. Yep. Okay. It's pretty good. Okay. Yeah

[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_06]: That's where I'm at with that. Okay. Yeah, I mean I I love to eat so, uh

[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_06]: But okay, so let let me ask you this now because you you talked about

[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, you know, there was a tournament where you didn't drink and you won four events, right? So

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Are there like specific points

[00:39:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Through your rise where you can remember certain things where you were like a switch flipped and you were like, okay

[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_06]: And then from there you started to improve and win because you've been you know, you've been just

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_06]: You've been improving just steadily winning

[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Gradually over the past few years to become one of the best not just female players

[00:39:37] [SPEAKER_06]: But one of the best foosball players in the country in the world

[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Are there certain like certain moments where you remember something specific happened that really kind of shifted things for you and made you go in a certain direction

[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. Um, and you know looking back on my whole career if it stopped right now

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I could tell you some like monumental steps and they're like some of them are silly steps like

[00:40:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, never dominate like, you know, I was a 12 year old

[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like when I was a 12 year old kid playing and you know

[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_00]: The guys would put me up front because we're out of timeouts and they wanted to block or whatever

[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you can't do a wall pass. You got to bang them lane get really good at a lane pass when you're playing men

[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And you're 12 years old

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_00]: After you did that I got the ball like every time when I was passing on like you got a hammer lane too

[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You do you stick that lane pass? That was a big deal. That was like a oh, okay

[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, don't give don't go all these guys that are you know taking your walls because you're so slow. It's a light bulb moment

[00:40:34] [SPEAKER_00]: That was a big deal and the other one was probably the party phase

[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I went through the party phase. I was a kid and I didn't care and I just wanted it

[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I didn't even go like I was like, oh, yeah, we're all going to bourbon this weekend. Cool

[00:40:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's a foosball tournament. Yeah, let's play

[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I get like third or so I got forfeited out of like expert doubles for like fourth or something because we went out that night

[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I thought that was really dumb and um

[00:40:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, I guess I was a kid and I went through that phase and I didn't win as much as I could but I

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I could win my confidence was

[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Over my skill at that moment and that's okay

[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I took a little break off and I came back to foosball

[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And I did okay and I wasn't super fired up about winning

[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But because I was doing a little bit better than I was before

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and then

[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh brachlyn came into the picture and you could see the brach. Well actually I would say before that

[00:41:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, the the no drinking thing kicked it. I was like no no no more nothing nothing at tournaments

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you playing foosball? No alcohol of any kind

[00:41:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And that was a mega shift right there

[00:41:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and then brachlyn came into the picture

[00:41:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And um, you know, I didn't like at that point like yeah, I still drink after tournaments

[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But like it like now I hardly ever even drink anything. I just don't really care that much. I'm just old and you know lazy

[00:41:48] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm old

[00:41:52] [SPEAKER_01]: That makes me dead

[00:41:55] [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, um, so it's crazy to me because I say I'm old because one of my softball kids were like

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Coach it how long have you been playing softball and I was like 20 years and I was like, whoa

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Dang girl like over 20 years. Like that's crazy

[00:42:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm taking the old card. But anyways, yep the no drinking thing was a big deal

[00:42:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And then brachlyn was a big deal

[00:42:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, he was first a big deal when he got into foosball just because I played more

[00:42:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And then once he figured out, you know, he coached me before he ever played foosball

[00:42:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He would say Hannah, you're not looking poolside like set the ball up rock

[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You know and just look at poolside and just isolate before that man could ever even like

[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Tick-tack the ball between the rods like he did that's what he did for me and that helped. That was good

[00:42:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and then the um, I don't want to lose phase kicked in and that's when I started making practice schedules

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And living by them like religiously practice scheduling

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_00]: um, that was a major jump

[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I would say the two to five series for a minute. Um, not nothing major was a big kind

[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is how I'll beat this person. Okay, cool

[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the mental toughness stage that was this year

[00:43:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I read books. I have books. I made notes

[00:43:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I had game plans on top of my practice scheduling and like you show up to a tournament and it's like a business trip

[00:43:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I have my mental books. I have my notebook

[00:43:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I have my, you know, my electrolytes my energize my coffee everything I have from home and you get up

[00:43:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And you have so many hours before and I'm gonna go down and do this and I'm gonna come back and read my book

[00:43:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And you read my notebook and make my plan for today and it was like

[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Exhausting like breakfast like bro. I'm tired watching this tournament. I'm so nervous for what happens for you

[00:43:37] [SPEAKER_00]: This tournament can't even focus

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the worst tournament of the year for me because I'm so stressed about what you're doing

[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even care if I'm doing anything and it's like when he said that I was kind of like, wow, maybe it's too far

[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm taking it a little far

[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think those are like the main uh, and then the multi table phase. That's the coming soon. So

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_06]: No, that's a good phase

[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean just as long as as long as you're continuing to grow and improve right and

[00:44:06] [SPEAKER_06]: I think um

[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I

[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I really like to get into that multi table phase because like my wife and I we actually talked about it yesterday. We went to breakfast

[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_06]: and um

[00:44:16] [SPEAKER_06]: I just I just got her her Christmas present because I asked I said, what do you want for Christmas?

[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I haven't you know, we haven't even done that and my wife is uh, a coffee junkie like really bad

[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Really really bad caffeine. Oh, I said, oh, you have no idea. She's a teacher

[00:44:31] [SPEAKER_06]: She's a teacher so it's me too. I relate. Yeah. Yeah, she lives off the cafe. Yeah, so

[00:44:37] [SPEAKER_06]: She told me what she wanted. Uh, she wanted this like this Breville

[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_06]: espresso coffee thing

[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, I'm like, I'm like that's that costs as much as a as a car

[00:44:50] [SPEAKER_06]: But anyway, Merry Christmas, right and she's like, well, what do you want?

[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_06]: And I said, I'm an adult I can get whatever I want whenever I want so

[00:44:58] [SPEAKER_06]: But the goal the goal is

[00:45:01] [SPEAKER_06]: No, so I told her I said I said I want a leonhardt

[00:45:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I said I want a leonhardt next year in the house

[00:45:06] [SPEAKER_06]: So that's gonna be my goal for next year is to get a leonhardt, but um

[00:45:12] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I think

[00:45:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I think like the the way you approach a tournament

[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Like you said, it's like a business trip. Like I have, you know, once you've been doing it for so long

[00:45:20] [SPEAKER_06]: You have you have a plan you have a regiment

[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_06]: You're like, this is what i'm gonna do because it's it for me. It's like a recipe for success, right? It's like

[00:45:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I I go

[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I drive in I get there. I do this

[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I get up I eat breakfast

[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I try to eat the same thing all the time and and I drink a one cup of coffee and I drink water all day and

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, and I do the same thing and and the results are going to be what they are as long as I'm just

[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Performing consistently if I'm playing good foosball and I'm performing consistently

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm minimizing the stupid right because the books the same thing you talk about like I had

[00:45:56] [SPEAKER_06]: It was a couple years ago, but I got into the books

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_06]: And and it really just made such a difference for me as far as like the approach the mental aspect like intergame of tennis that kind of thing

[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but even deeper than that. The intergame of tennis is a good book everybody should read it

[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_06]: But there are like some really good really good books for

[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, just as far as like the mental I'm looking at them right now. They're on the side of my laptop, but uh

[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_05]: On our two they're there

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_04]: Ah

[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_06]: There was there was one really good and I know Hannah brought this one up because I I listened to the podcast

[00:46:28] [SPEAKER_06]: The the winning ugly one is a good one. That's a really good one my brad something or other

[00:46:34] [SPEAKER_06]: That's a good one and then um

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Where is it?

[00:46:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that one right there. Oh, there you go. That's a good book. Yeah, I got mine. Where's mine?

[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It's it looks uh looks like there's a lot of uh markers in that book there Hannah. What what's uh chapters are you?

[00:46:49] [SPEAKER_00]: The gold though. That's the gold where the money the magic happens is here. This is the notebook

[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no magic that's your personal notebook

[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but there's there's a there's one called the mindful athlete

[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_06]: The mindful athlete and I was put on to it by bruce welton and adam emens and it's just really all about being in the moment

[00:47:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Right like being in the moment

[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_06]: And and you know, there was a there was a possession. I still were

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Excuse me. I still remember I was playing brandon munoz

[00:47:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Open singles george estate last year, right?

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Game one

[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I beat him five one game two. He beats me five one game three. I beat him five one game four

[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_06]: He beats me five one game five

[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_06]: He walks away from the table. I look at somebody and I said I got him right where I want him

[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_06]: And I and now I got him I got him three one

[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I steal the ball I pass I get it on my three rod and I call time out

[00:47:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And I started looking around the room and I'm like

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_06]: So I'm about to whoop this dude, but I started looking around

[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_06]: And I winter placed tom yore and tom yore is warming up and I'm like

[00:47:52] [SPEAKER_06]: tom yore's over there warming up for me

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_04]: He's about to get it

[00:47:59] [SPEAKER_06]: I got out of the moment I got out of the moment

[00:48:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And that was it came back and he beat me. He beat me seven five

[00:48:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And it was a but it was a lesson to learn and that's the thing like when I leave a tournament now

[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_06]: It's no matter what happens winter lose on the way home. It's what did I learn?

[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_06]: What did I learn this weekend? What's the takeaway? What's going to help me improve?

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_06]: That's like that's the approach I take now, right? Like I try to

[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_06]: I try to leave emotion out of it, right not get emotional

[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Try to be consistent consistency has always been a goal of mine, right just consistent

[00:48:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And then

[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I think I've been starting to achieve that as of late

[00:48:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Not so much like results just play just play consistent play consistent the results will be there

[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_06]: And this thing getting you know keeping your head right is the biggest thing

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And I think that's where a lot of players struggle

[00:48:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Is is you know, they have the ability right they can execute

[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_06]: But then when it comes to the head game, they're just

[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_06]: No bueno

[00:49:03] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I agree completely

[00:49:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, so and you know

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Or go ahead. No, no, I think that's what separates, you know the the top 1% from like

[00:49:15] [SPEAKER_06]: This from like this right the top 1% from like the difference underneath

[00:49:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, man. Yeah, like the top players are adjusting ball to ball

[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Where the next people it's taking them three four balls

[00:49:26] [SPEAKER_06]: And then you got people that take some a game two games a match a day a week

[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Right you're figuring out on the way home

[00:49:32] [SPEAKER_06]: You know

[00:49:33] [SPEAKER_06]: No, and it's true like on the way home. I would be thinking I'm like, oh, I should have did this

[00:49:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I should have did this instead of like in the moment realizing what was going on and making the adjustment

[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And now I feel like I'm like a three ball adjuster, right? Like I'm like adjusting within three balls

[00:49:48] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm seeing it and I'm adjusting so

[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, and I think that's like all part of the process part of the improvement

[00:49:54] [SPEAKER_06]: So like her Hannah, you know, I've been playing Hannah

[00:49:57] [SPEAKER_06]: We played a bunch as of late and it's like I see her adjusting

[00:50:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Like ball to ball

[00:50:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll score two on her and the d changes and it's like, ah, there's the adjustment

[00:50:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And then it's like she blocks me a few and it's just it's that chat and I love it

[00:50:10] [SPEAKER_06]: That's what I love about foosball is playing people like that who are just they're smart

[00:50:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And and they're really good players and they just make it tough. Obviously she wants to win. She's great, but you know, um

[00:50:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Beating on people's easy. I can just go out and beat on people

[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I want to I want to play good players, right? Everybody loves beating on people

[00:50:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I'll go to the I'll go to the boys club and smack some 10 year olds around for fun. But I want to

[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay

[00:50:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Whatever whatever I don't

[00:50:39] [SPEAKER_06]: The truth comes out

[00:50:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so

[00:50:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, no, and I think and I think that's like

[00:50:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Another thing like you said in europe they have training training centers, right like

[00:50:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Hannah, you're not doing well on bonzini here. Let's let's

[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Help you improve, right where I feel like

[00:50:56] [SPEAKER_06]: culturally here

[00:50:57] [SPEAKER_06]: the best players

[00:50:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Maybe not now, but like especially years ago when I started

[00:51:04] [SPEAKER_06]: They would keep everything close to the vest because they don't want you to get better. They don't want you to improve

[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't want you to beat me

[00:51:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Where now it's like I want to help you improve if you improve I get better, right? You get good

[00:51:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I have to get better to beat you

[00:51:18] [SPEAKER_06]: And we all get better, right where uh, you know, some people just they don't want to give

[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Trade secrets. They don't want to tell you how to practice what to practice how to improve what to look for

[00:51:27] [SPEAKER_06]: And I just I think as a as a whole as a community we need to be

[00:51:32] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, we need to be

[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Helping everybody improve, right? Oh, yeah, I have no problem

[00:51:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I have no problem giving away information to anybody like yeah here look do this

[00:51:41] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I think this is it's

[00:51:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I love to see players improve if you come up to me and ask me a question

[00:51:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Ask me how to do something i'm going to show you and the next time I see you

[00:51:51] [SPEAKER_06]: If I can tell that you've been practicing

[00:51:54] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll help you. I'll show you whatever you want

[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_06]: But if you're not doing it, I'm not wasting my time

[00:51:59] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to spend time with you just to waste my time and lip service and no

[00:52:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I want to help people that want to improve so

[00:52:06] [SPEAKER_02]: So how do we got to know more about your your personal notebook there that you showed us?

[00:52:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I think there's

[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Driftor radio wants to know if you're going to publish that because uh, it sounds like you've got a customer already wants to buy that notebook

[00:52:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe for a fee

[00:52:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, of course it's uh, yeah

[00:52:24] [SPEAKER_00]: No, that that notebook is something you know sometimes

[00:52:27] [SPEAKER_00]: People say things to me in life and I was just like man that really meant a lot. I'm gonna go write that down

[00:52:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That was a good one

[00:52:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Or you know, maybe it's something I read in a book all of my notes from you know

[00:52:37] [SPEAKER_00]: All the books that I've read mentally they're on there broken down, you know by each book and like

[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Example for world like before worlds. I was really grinding hard

[00:52:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I trained harder than i've ever trained for foosball ever

[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um for that probably and you know it was intense and it wasn't just oh read the book go play foosball

[00:52:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It was like read the book make notes and then before you go down that day

[00:52:58] [SPEAKER_00]: You know say second day of women singles bracket

[00:53:02] [SPEAKER_00]: You know who you're going to have to play that day to get back to your final

[00:53:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it's gonna be these people

[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So you need to be watching film tonight and you get up in the morning

[00:53:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And you need to take your notebook and then make a plan

[00:53:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And I took a picture of it on my phone and I was like when it gets to this score in the match

[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to call a timeout and I'm going to turn around and get my phone

[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna read that and that's gonna be my plan

[00:53:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm gonna go play then when it gets to this in this game

[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna do it again

[00:53:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And like what I wrote down for that day was what I was going to do and if I lost

[00:53:31] [SPEAKER_00]: That's okay, but I was gonna make dang sure that I got those things done

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And so it's just like little snippets of stuff like that that I wrote down in the book and um

[00:53:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know if I read I like to read a lot

[00:53:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So if I read, you know some of my books over here

[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I like to draw in my books and then I give them away to somebody and then when they're reading them

[00:53:48] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll see the stuff that I really like because it's like underlined or whatever

[00:53:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And the stuff that I underline after I finish a book before I give it away

[00:53:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I write it all down in my notebook

[00:53:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So if somebody says something really good even if it's like a you know a happy

[00:53:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Book or you know a trash book that's like oh, it doesn't really matter in like fake book

[00:54:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But if they're fun to read little quotes and things like that. I keep in the book so

[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You know if you take a hard L just flipped to the back of the book and the crib notes

[00:54:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's if they say that uh,

[00:54:14] [SPEAKER_02]: The best writers on the planet take for instance mark twain when he was reading a book

[00:54:19] [SPEAKER_02]: He'd always write in the margins

[00:54:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Things that he noted in the book like passages that he thought were clever or things that he wanted to remember

[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you you get one of mark twain's personal books, you see these notes throughout the pages

[00:54:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Sounds like you're doing something similar

[00:54:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a cool gift when I was a kid, but like apparently not all people are nerds like that

[00:54:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I got this like

[00:54:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Really cool women in power book and like every time I read something that sounded like my mom

[00:54:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I would like write like in the margins

[00:54:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you remember this one time that this happened and you did this and like I gave it to her as a really big gift

[00:54:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And she was like thanks

[00:54:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Cool

[00:54:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like no no no like open it read the book like like just just look

[00:54:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Through the margins like you don't really I know the books kind of lame but like read it, you know

[00:55:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like man, no one really likes this idea

[00:55:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But it is the thing that I thought meant a lot but it doesn't so

[00:55:09] [SPEAKER_06]: It does it does probably more than you think probably more than you think. Yep. No doubt about it

[00:55:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I gotta know I think a lot of people are curious because playing in the bundesliga

[00:55:21] [SPEAKER_02]: You're you're you're there. You're playing for another country. I mean actually you're playing for the for the city of berlin, correct?

[00:55:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes

[00:55:29] [SPEAKER_02]: The team is from berlin and now it's structured when it comes to competition like when you went to the big championship

[00:55:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Was it structured like world cup where you had to play up to 40 points for per team? Is that what was going on?

[00:55:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, exactly like world cup actually at the ecl at bundesliga. It was a bit different

[00:55:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But at ecl it was exactly like world cup

[00:55:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Except for you get two timeouts per element and you could have subs as well. Oh subs

[00:55:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so so someone could be substituted in that is there like a like a

[00:55:58] [SPEAKER_02]: specific

[00:55:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Rule that says you can only substitute someone if if such as such happens. I mean, what's the what's the criteria there?

[00:56:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, so you have you know singles one

[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_00]: doubles one

[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_00]: singles two

[00:56:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Doubles two is the format, you know 10 10 points apiece but say if i'm in singles one and i'm down, you know 50

[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So

[00:56:19] [SPEAKER_00]: After the fifth point of the element has been scored

[00:56:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can make a substitution

[00:56:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But the substitute you enter cannot already be in your next upcoming, you know lineup

[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It's already been set. Okay, it has to be somebody from the bench basically

[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_00]: It has to be after your after five points have been scored

[00:56:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So you can't just go in and suck one ball and be like dang there

[00:56:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me swap around because they played this person instead of that person

[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_00]: but um

[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't really experience any subs this pass go around but I know we did we did work around a few

[00:56:46] [SPEAKER_00]: At the first bundles league or the really the second bundles league about the first one I went to

[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_06]: How many players on the roster?

[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, most teams have like six or seven. We had 10. Yeah 10. Okay. Yeah, because I mean you're talking six six

[00:57:01] [SPEAKER_06]: total right one

[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_06]: One two one doubles two singles. I mean two singles two doubles. So that's six

[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_06]: So then you'd at least need somebody to sub right maybe

[00:57:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, and you know some are goalie some are forwards

[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_00]: We had we have a really big team and it's very you know, an older team has been together forever

[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Um a lot of experience different roles people play

[00:57:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and we have coaches we like this time we had you know, lily went in and said, you know

[00:57:28] [SPEAKER_00]: She was having some some issues with her back and she was like, you know what?

[00:57:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just gonna coach and I'm gonna be the best coach I can and she came in and she ran it man

[00:57:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was awesome. And you know vivi is another coach and

[00:57:38] [SPEAKER_00]: We really missed her at this ecl

[00:57:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But she was such she made such a big difference at the one before and so it's really cool that we have people in those designated roles

[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_00]: That are they're just handle business, you know, like get the lineups get all the balls

[00:57:52] [SPEAKER_00]: What day is media day? What time do we need to be here? Do we need this or that taking care of the sponsorships?

[00:57:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Like they do so much like in our housing and you know

[00:58:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Transportation getting us to and from the airport. They do so much for us. So it's really cool

[00:58:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I know that you know, that's not normal to have people that just come in and just coach

[00:58:09] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you have that opportunity it really helped a ton in our experience at ecl for sure

[00:58:13] [SPEAKER_06]: No, that's awesome. So like in the city of berlin you play for a team berlin like our

[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, are you guys celebrities in berlin? Like i'm asking legitimately like

[00:58:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I wouldn't know because I've never been to berlin

[00:58:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Hold on a second. Wait, wait, wait

[00:58:29] [SPEAKER_06]: No, but like so like your teammates are your teammates like, you know

[00:58:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Do they get the key of the city? Does the mayor know who they are like, I mean you guys represent berlin

[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean they're actually they one of them is actually the mayor of berlin. So really cool

[00:58:43] [SPEAKER_00]: They could be maybe I don't know

[00:58:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's a it's a cool deal like it has to be a taxed entity there to be on a team

[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's not just like him you want to play for my team like it's like a taxed entity

[00:58:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm assuming it's because it's related to sponsorships

[00:58:57] [SPEAKER_00]: But I know we have like a really really awesome established sponsor

[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and they've been with the with the team for a long time and it really helps out a lot

[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So I know that's a big deal. I know we post a lot for them

[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And we try to you know, I try to wear their stuff as much as I can so it's like hey this is who we are or whatever

[00:59:13] [SPEAKER_00]: How many other it's cool

[00:59:14] [SPEAKER_02]: How many other americans have actually maybe tony sprayed him?

[00:59:17] [SPEAKER_02]: How many other americans have actually been asked to play on the the european league?

[00:59:21] [SPEAKER_02]: system

[00:59:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Well jackie if you count jackie and mariam they also played they are americans and they played um

[00:59:30] [SPEAKER_00]: merriam's team won the lower division i believe in them and

[00:59:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Like and so like there's different levels and you can't just like be in this one if you want to form a team

[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to play your way up basically right so they're like the team like right below and like they won there

[00:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So now next year they will play up. So like we will play them next year

[00:59:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so like you can't just keep winning the same level you have to like progress

[00:59:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So merriam's team. I believe won that um jackie also played at the second bundesliga

[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I think blake might have been like all them went to play maybe for idly a year or so ago or something like that

[01:00:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so this is happen. I wasn't there. Yeah. Yeah, I think billy blake brandon munoz

[01:00:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think brandon

[01:00:13] [SPEAKER_06]: billy blake tony and then uh

[01:00:16] [SPEAKER_06]: mckelly, I think they went over there playing. Yeah. Yeah, sorry

[01:00:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, but honestly a fun fact the only

[01:00:24] [SPEAKER_00]: People have ever won an ecl or me and tony and sully because he's on the bears tube even though she's all over there

[01:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: She still counts. Wow. That's cool

[01:00:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Very cool. Yeah

[01:00:34] [SPEAKER_00]: So that was a fun. That was a fun fact someone told me that didn't even know I was like what?

[01:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Like yeah, I think you're the first one if not, you're definitely the first girl

[01:00:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like wow

[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_06]: That's pretty cool. What do you what are you and her got planned for next year?

[01:00:46] [SPEAKER_06]: You guys that bear no you and yeah, you and so what do you guys

[01:00:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Me and the Sullivan bear. Yeah

[01:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, well, we're definitely gonna win a pro doubles next year because we've gotten too close to not

[01:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so pro is definitely on the map for some tournaments. I'm not sure what which ones but we're gonna do something

[01:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: um, and I I'm assuming all of our other regulars that we usually do

[01:01:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, we're confirming a few others others that are still kind of up in the air right now

[01:01:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But we're basically just playing in like world domination, you know

[01:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: World domination love it. Yeah taking over world tour is what we've been calling it. But you know

[01:01:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think I actually do think she's gonna go on an international trip with me

[01:01:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe if I can get two in there if they're both in the summer

[01:01:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think she's definitely going back to germany with me in the summer. Hopefully nice very cool

[01:01:34] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a it's always a great vacation too because of the fact you get a chance to go there and not just play foosball

[01:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But see the world, you know, that's yeah, and she's and they're great travel buddies too

[01:01:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Like they're so they're so good. But I think like the next like check mark on our list together is um

[01:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Make history and defend the four Pete and get the four Pete because no one has ever won worlds

[01:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Open event four times in a row with the same partner. Oh, um, we thought it was going to be that way this year

[01:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But someone else has apparently done three. I think three in a row. So that's kind of cool

[01:02:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, um we're the youngest to do it but that doesn't matter. I want to be the first to do four

[01:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: so, um, I know we're we're really gunning for four at worlds and

[01:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: The first women's team to win pro doubles at something together

[01:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that was our like our goals for then our next goal is a thing

[01:02:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's a here's a hypothetical for you

[01:02:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Randy you're uh, you're in the finals of pro doubles and you look across the table

[01:02:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And who do you see but sullivan and hannah staring you down

[01:02:41] [SPEAKER_06]: What's what's going through your mind? What do you do?

[01:02:42] [SPEAKER_06]: You okay, so you want to know what goes through my mind

[01:02:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I gotta play really well. It's a tough team. Yeah, tough team. That's a tough team

[01:02:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You take nothing for granted

[01:02:55] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I mean they they they're both really really good

[01:02:58] [SPEAKER_06]: They're both right, you know, it's it's funny because

[01:03:01] [SPEAKER_06]: There are some stupid people

[01:03:03] [SPEAKER_06]: There's a guy named rich costa hannah from where i'm from and here we go. He's made every show

[01:03:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, he's because I got I i'm gonna

[01:03:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna give him notoriety for the like famous might he might show up to a tournament one day

[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_06]: And people are gonna be like people are gonna be like, oh, you're rich

[01:03:21] [SPEAKER_06]: You're that dumbass that randy repose has been talking about okay

[01:03:25] [SPEAKER_06]: so

[01:03:26] [SPEAKER_06]: So playing, you know playing you playing sullivan. He's like, oh, you know

[01:03:31] [SPEAKER_06]: You know they're girls and you know this and that and i'm like dude, you're certifiably retarded because you have no idea what you're talking about

[01:03:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay

[01:03:39] [SPEAKER_06]: No, he's he's a total buffoon. He's a total buffoon. He's an idiot. Okay, but anyway, no

[01:03:46] [SPEAKER_06]: in mississippi

[01:03:48] [SPEAKER_06]: it was uh

[01:03:50] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I mean they're they're just

[01:03:53] [SPEAKER_06]: they're they're

[01:03:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I think they could win open doubles. They're just a tough team. It doesn't matter

[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I they're two of the best players in the world

[01:04:00] [SPEAKER_06]: So, you know to beat to beat them

[01:04:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Is is a big feather in my cap. So that's that's a top

[01:04:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I appreciate your honesty on that and uh poor poor rick was the first person to draw blood at one of our

[01:04:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Smashdowns here, uh the last one. In fact, he was yeah, yeah

[01:04:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he he couldn't handle he couldn't handle the stress of a one-day tournament and blew a nose bleed had to go to the hospital

[01:04:26] [SPEAKER_02]: True story

[01:04:31] [SPEAKER_06]: No sympathy

[01:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: So hannah, this is uh, okay 2023 just give us uh the crypt notes here

[01:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: What was the best tournament of the year for you?

[01:04:44] [SPEAKER_02]: What what did you what were you so glad you showed up for other than the european championship?

[01:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[01:04:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking through my calendar my camera right now because I really just have forgot what all actually happened this year

[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It's all just ran together

[01:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[01:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. There's so there's so many that i'm just like this part was really good about this. Um

[01:05:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably say worlds for me world was a big deal for me

[01:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, I hit every one of my goals at worlds except for mixed and uh

[01:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, we've worked really hard in mixed and I definitely think that we will win it in 2024

[01:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But um, I think worlds was a big deal for me. It was really hard. I put a lot into it

[01:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I put so much into it um that after it I was really exhausted and that's why like Louisiana and colorado

[01:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I was just like man. I don't even care about tornado man. I'm gonna show up and play and I'm gonna play hard

[01:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But uh, I haven't touched a tornado table since I got here and you know

[01:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Things happened there that were that were up and down different

[01:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You know after the first day of taking like one l and something silly like

[01:05:54] [SPEAKER_00]: You know whatever some kind of dumb singles that I didn't even care about it wasn't even women's singles

[01:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I went and like practice for like five hours straight on a table

[01:06:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Got my dog got down there in a corner practice for five hours just so I could like get better five hours

[01:06:05] [SPEAKER_00]: But but it was it's different. I don't know barto was my best tournament this year

[01:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: But worlds was one that I was like mentally proud of myself at but I would say barto was like

[01:06:14] [SPEAKER_00]: One that I was glad that I went to I went into it not following a practice schedule

[01:06:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and

[01:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Just playing like I had you know

[01:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And that was really different for me. I think heather Chapman is one of my buddies. Uh, she's pretty cool

[01:06:28] [SPEAKER_00]: She's getting back into the game and uh, she's like i'm gonna come to barto and cheer you on

[01:06:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like dude don't I don't even know if i'm going I haven't practiced and like

[01:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Having her there was like so cool because like one morning

[01:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: She's like hey, come on. Let's go play and I was like no no no

[01:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to do my practice like warm up like I have to do my schedule and she was like

[01:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Shut up. Come on. Let's go play. We're gonna play pick-up games

[01:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go and like for something in me made me like crack and I was like

[01:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it and I would over there and like played pick-up games before singles

[01:06:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never done that not in probably the last seven years of foosball. Hmm and I had so much fun and

[01:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[01:07:01] [SPEAKER_00]: It had been a while since I went to that tournament

[01:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So it really meant a lot to me being there at that tournament winning it the year daniel gets inducted

[01:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Winning singles kind of getting my leg back and you know just being there in that moment was really cool

[01:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So barto was my my tournament. I'm glad I showed up for

[01:07:18] [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about 2024 now? I think we've we've picked apart 2023

[01:07:24] [SPEAKER_02]: What uh, what are your expectations other than worlds you mentioned but um, what uh world domination

[01:07:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Domination

[01:07:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Domination

[01:07:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes

[01:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Um

[01:07:36] [SPEAKER_00]: 2024 plans, I haven't really like sat down and like made the plan

[01:07:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I know that seems silly, but like I just haven't decided where I really want to focus on what I want out of it

[01:07:45] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[01:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I like to do that before the year

[01:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So I have an idea of like how hard I want to push when I really want to push

[01:07:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Do I want to or do I just want to go play? You know, but um 2023 was really about me getting over the

[01:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess 2024 is like one idea. I've had is like get over the shift of

[01:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: uh

[01:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: being so let down

[01:08:09] [SPEAKER_00]: When you don't beat everybody 5-0 every tournament every single event

[01:08:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Like get over like that's a lot of pressure by the way. Just enjoy foosball again

[01:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Like people get so wrapped up in the clout that you get whenever. Oh, you're the number one seed

[01:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like bro. I don't care. I've lost every tournament. I've entered as a number one seed. What's up

[01:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: But you put me in like 16. I'm coming for your throat

[01:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know like people get so wrapped up in that junk and it's like I'm not gonna let that happen to me

[01:08:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care what seed. I am. I've never had any women's points

[01:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I used to have more men's points than I have women's points and I still come out with fight

[01:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean? So it's like you can't rely on being top seeded and getting a cake bracket

[01:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And then getting pissy when someone on the other side gets broke by somebody they shouldn't have

[01:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And then they get a cake walk when you lose to you know, number two or something

[01:08:52] [SPEAKER_00]: it's so much of that junk that goes on and

[01:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what i'm not gonna let happen in 24

[01:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think when I got really technical with scheduling and planning and watching matches and watching how the brackets play out

[01:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I got kind of lost in that and I wasn't having fun at foosball

[01:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I think I even told randy that at losing and I was like bro. I haven't had fun playing foosball in months

[01:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I hate it here. This is not fun to me. Like I just want to go sit in the room with my dog

[01:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You know

[01:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: The highlight of Louisiana state otherwise I would have cracked like y'all'd have to take my shoe license for sure

[01:09:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But like he was literally the MVP of that because I didn't have any fun

[01:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Not not one bit best part about Louisiana was my dog in the taco truck

[01:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And uh and I almost won five events. So it's like nah pretty good

[01:09:37] [SPEAKER_04]: but

[01:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's my focus for 24. Um

[01:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've got to refine a few things. Yes. I'm changing a few things in my game

[01:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I have a really cool little twist that I've kind of been playing with in the off season, which is pretty fun

[01:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, I don't know when it's gonna show its face, but

[01:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping it's going to be ready by worlds

[01:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that should be fun

[01:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice

[01:09:59] [SPEAKER_02]: What's uh, what's the I know on a personal note?

[01:10:03] [SPEAKER_02]: You guys are uh engaged to be married. You and brakland are gonna tie the knot sometime. What what's uh, yeah

[01:10:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean love the ring by the way. Um, well, thanks. So okay

[01:10:13] [SPEAKER_02]: What's that? What's the big day? Uh, and have you started planning that yet?

[01:10:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, well, you know this year was a lot so I did get engaged

[01:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But after I got engaged I was also working on finishing up my phd

[01:10:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So I told like he's always known like from the jump like I have this order

[01:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to follow. I wanted to you don't care when I get engaged, but I'm not getting married before I have my phd

[01:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay before I sell my house because that's like

[01:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. I just really want to enjoy wedding planning because I'm a planner and I can't wait to get married

[01:10:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But um, and I don't want like a big lavish wedding. I just want it to be right

[01:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be small and I want it to be right

[01:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And um, and I want to enjoy the process of planning it instead of letting it like overwhelm me so much

[01:10:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So those those are my goals houses on the market

[01:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I got the phd. So now it's just kind of like as soon as that burden is gone

[01:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna really kick it up for planning. Um, we're thinking maybe october next year

[01:11:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Nice

[01:11:06] [SPEAKER_00]: The up in the air nice cool time. Yeah, uh, nothing before that I don't think

[01:11:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, okay. Dr. Smith. So your house is listed. Are you guys moving like are you moving close by or you're moving far away?

[01:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So we've actually been living here in my grandmother's house for probably like two or three years

[01:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But my house is like an hour 15 ish like

[01:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: West um like around brandon ish basically like around jackson

[01:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And this one is just like a mile from my parents. It's like, you know 20 miles from his parents

[01:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: It's you know, my best friend. So like we've been here and I'm just selling that house because I don't need it anymore

[01:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm not at school and I'm not working over there every day. I only work over there two days

[01:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's we're not really moving anywhere different. We're just getting rid of that one. Gotcha. Okay

[01:11:51] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. I just wasn't sure if maybe you guys were like looking around my neighborhood. But anyway

[01:11:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Please move to my neighborhood. No, no, no, no, no

[01:12:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean it would but you know, you know

[01:12:03] [SPEAKER_06]: No, so no and and like

[01:12:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Touching on something you said because I struggled with the same thing a few years ago

[01:12:10] [SPEAKER_06]: Like going to tournaments and just not having fun and kind of doing the same thing like looking at the brackets and stressing out

[01:12:16] [SPEAKER_06]: And and it was like this was like a big mental

[01:12:20] [SPEAKER_06]: You know like a hurdle for me like a light bulb went off and I was like, you know what because I would see names in the

[01:12:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Bracket and be like, oh that guy. Yeah, okay, and

[01:12:29] [SPEAKER_06]: and now it's like

[01:12:30] [SPEAKER_06]: I just gotta beat who's in front of me doesn't matter the rest of the bracket doesn't matter

[01:12:35] [SPEAKER_06]: I just gotta beat who's in front of me. So

[01:12:38] [SPEAKER_06]: That that was like a big mental thing for me and once I started approaching it that way

[01:12:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, it really

[01:12:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Like it just really wasn't as stressful anymore and and the fun thing the fun thing was huge

[01:12:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I went out and played Friday night and I had no fun

[01:12:52] [SPEAKER_01]: No fun none

[01:12:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Not so it sucked

[01:12:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I left like as soon as I was done as soon as I was done

[01:12:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Like I fist bumped the guys that beat me and I walked out the door. I didn't say anything to anybody

[01:13:02] [SPEAKER_06]: I got my car called my wife and I was like, that was no fun. I said I'm sorry. I said, I'm sorry

[01:13:06] [SPEAKER_06]: I even went it was no fun. And I don't I don't want to play foosball if it's not fun

[01:13:12] [SPEAKER_02]: No, that's a good policy

[01:13:15] [SPEAKER_02]: So

[01:13:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And randy hope next time you go out. It's a whole lot more fun

[01:13:19] [SPEAKER_02]: But here's a here's the thing that we've been touching on occasionally the last few episodes

[01:13:25] [SPEAKER_02]: There is a trend and a possibility in the near future that some of the more major tournaments, they're going to be eliminating the

[01:13:33] [SPEAKER_02]: The the the the the way we do it now where when you get knocked into losers bracket

[01:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: You can fight your way back through losers and end up in the finals

[01:13:42] [SPEAKER_02]: The trend or you can get the third right

[01:13:44] [SPEAKER_02]: That's the idea that we're going to make it so you can only get to third place if you make it

[01:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: If you end up in the losers bracket

[01:13:51] [SPEAKER_02]: You can fight your way through but you can't make it to the finals. So third is the best you can do

[01:13:55] [SPEAKER_02]: What do you think about that kind of arrangement? Or how do you feel about that?

[01:14:02] [SPEAKER_00]: torn

[01:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: um

[01:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Part of me says

[01:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You know single limb is the way everyone over there is doing it. You got to beat everybody to win

[01:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Part of me says Hannah

[01:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: How many tournaments have you won from the losers bracket because you came in there and you got

[01:14:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Slopped out and then you came back and beat everybody like 10 to 1 like you've done it so many times

[01:14:21] [SPEAKER_00]: It's bananas. So, um, I'm not sure how to take it yet. Honestly, um

[01:14:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I don't know like I would love to say that

[01:14:30] [SPEAKER_00]: If I lose out first round and all I can get third

[01:14:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not about to fight everybody back for third place

[01:14:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to say that I would have that attitude, but I can just garen dog on t. You I don't have that attitude

[01:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not in me like I if you know if there's something left to fight in i'm gonna have to fight in it

[01:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But I feel like

[01:14:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Other people will and it will result in less play

[01:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Like people aren't going to play that event like that when they've been spoiled for too

[01:14:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Long with double a limb. I think that's a main factor why people don't enter single a limb

[01:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and why

[01:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You're you know, people get so mad about mix not being double a limb

[01:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not used to that culture. You're gonna have to shift it

[01:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: But really I think you know, it comes down to limiting the right events

[01:15:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I think would allow you to have your double elimination bracket if that's what you want or you know, I'm cool with change

[01:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm here for you know, I can shift and get into that gear too, but I think in that

[01:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: In that I think we're gonna have to do differently with points

[01:15:26] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're gonna shift into the championship, you know first and second place losers out losers play for third

[01:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Because seeding is gonna matter so freaking much right then

[01:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you know if it's misseeded and me and sully got to play each other for fifth

[01:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That's bogus because anybody that makes it to the other side's gonna get wiped, you know what I mean like

[01:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: If I mean, I'm not saying that necessarily but it's just like I think unless you really do a deep dive

[01:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Reset some points. You do something different with points

[01:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Then it's it's and it's not gonna be a final people care about seeing and um, I think that's that's kind of stinky

[01:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not very fun. You know

[01:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I know there's the because you know, I think there's a lot of stuff that's misconstrued right now with how the points are

[01:16:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I think people are way underrated that should be more

[01:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that if you do this you should get that, you know, I just think that's how it should be lined out

[01:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not and that's fine because there's always going to be complaints about the point system. That's cool

[01:16:19] [SPEAKER_00]: but

[01:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's I don't know it's gonna shift the way everyone thinks about seeds one and about fighting for third place

[01:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Not everybody's built like that. Would it be better just to to

[01:16:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Use that system just for a few events rather than, you know, the everything that you enter or just maybe

[01:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: I think it would

[01:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for sure. I think it would be better to do that for things that are less than pro

[01:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay

[01:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Your pros and already don't get to play that many events. I mean if you're rated pro

[01:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you're already limited about only playing pro and open

[01:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean let them play, you know, you're double a limb because sometimes pro singles is like three out of five single a

[01:16:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Limit and that's terrible

[01:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Like i'm sad for people to do that

[01:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they only get to play one singles and open, you know, I mean they don't get to play amateur expert rookie

[01:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Blah blah blah blah blah those are the events. Yes, I understand you need to get playing

[01:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: But those are also the events where they're going to be more fired up to play for third place

[01:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So that would be my personal idea

[01:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You know the whole pick which events you can play is cool

[01:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But it really isn't anymore because now it's like, okay, hannah and sully pick between pro doubles or women's doubles

[01:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Whack

[01:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: So that couldn't that couldn't work out and I know those are the events that do conflict

[01:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And I know it's hard for them to run events, you know where you do go deeper into the fields

[01:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But if your points are aligning better, you will have less players that are holding and clogging up brackets

[01:17:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Making it so the tournaments don't run as smoothly

[01:17:44] [SPEAKER_02]: That is uh, that's the other side of it, right? So

[01:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: The the problem has been in the past. Let's say pro doubles finals happen at two o'clock in the morning

[01:17:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And there's nobody there

[01:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: More like six, but yeah six. Yeah six in the morning

[01:17:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I play two finals at 5 30 a.m

[01:18:00] [SPEAKER_02]: 5 30 man

[01:18:02] [SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, vegas. I mean wow that is that's insane actually six 30

[01:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah

[01:18:07] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you had that kind of a system there'd be less less less of those kinds of events that uh,

[01:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Less less happen less less often would that be a problem?

[01:18:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think scheduling like people they like if you look at the the the tournament layout

[01:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: It's I could look at the tournament and tell you that I was gonna be if I was in the finals of pro doubles

[01:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna be playing it at 6 a.m. I would at least have said I'm gonna be playing that thing at at least 2 or 3 a.m

[01:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm cool with it

[01:18:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But they ended up playing out designated before which was bananas and then we played the pro doubles, but you know like

[01:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: The way if you could have structured that a little differently like played that event earlier in the week

[01:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So you're not pushing it back to the last day or not conflicting it on days

[01:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure how you know, which events are best to run

[01:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure other people who've run tournaments know better than me

[01:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But it just seems like you could schedule that one a little bit differently

[01:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe it conflicts something that's a little smaller of a bracket instead of

[01:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Our doubles pro or open, you know what I mean? So then you're pushing back pro to the end

[01:19:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it just needs a little bit of more priority and a little more clout. I mean you're a pro

[01:19:08] [SPEAKER_06]: You shouldn't be able to play the last match of the weekend. Yeah. Well, I hate the fact that pro that pro doubles pros

[01:19:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Like there's no

[01:19:16] [SPEAKER_06]: There's no priority for pro. I mean you got open and then you got pro

[01:19:21] [SPEAKER_06]: And I feel like pro doubles and singles gets lost in the mix

[01:19:25] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's ox. It sucks

[01:19:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep, I agree completely if there was a way to to uh, let's say

[01:19:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Structure a tournament so the finals of pro doubles happen

[01:19:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And then the the the finals of open singles and then open doubles happen all

[01:19:43] [SPEAKER_02]: In a specific time of the of the weekend

[01:19:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's say before midnight on a on a saturday or sunday something like that

[01:19:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And people are still around they're gonna want to watch those those uh, those finals

[01:19:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Events and then all the other events the lesser events could happen two o'clock in the morning. Let's say

[01:20:03] [SPEAKER_02]: If needed be

[01:20:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure well the problem the problem you can't you can't run pro

[01:20:10] [SPEAKER_06]: and open

[01:20:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Simultaneously because there's going to be a couple of pro teams that are going to conflict the open event

[01:20:16] [SPEAKER_03]: And expert

[01:20:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so you know

[01:20:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Running the whole thing look

[01:20:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Like like hannah said, you know, I've never run tournaments that size of that structure and I'm sure there's there's there's a science to it

[01:20:30] [SPEAKER_06]: But I've said it before I'll say it again. There's too many. There's too many

[01:20:35] [SPEAKER_06]: There's too many different

[01:20:37] [SPEAKER_06]: You know beginner rookie amateur expert pro master

[01:20:42] [SPEAKER_06]: You know throw a couple extra in there like it's just too much. It's too much reduce the number of uh,

[01:20:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Reduce the number of events but also reduce the number of ranks

[01:20:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah rankings. Yeah, I mean if you reduce the rankings you reduce the events. Yep, exactly right

[01:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Like for me, what's the difference in rookie and amateur honestly?

[01:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Nothing. I don't know

[01:20:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I really don't know

[01:21:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know rookies has been playing 30 years and they're good

[01:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, but there are also no amateurs that's been playing that long and they're good

[01:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know and I'm not saying I'm not gonna get into the hole. We need less ranks or this or that

[01:21:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know enough about it to argue it

[01:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But I just like feel like in my head that someone could I think it's about tournament structure

[01:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: More so than oh

[01:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we need to go to single a limb. I don't think that's the necessary step to take

[01:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's other ones you could take prior to that is all I was kind of saying

[01:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The recall process has been great. They they really moved Kermis along with that

[01:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw mary was gonna say we're gonna have to be registered before the event

[01:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: We're not doing all that. Oh an hour before junk sign up the event starts two hours late because we've been dealing with sign ups

[01:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Great love it if you're here to play should already be signed up. Yep. Um, so I think those are appropriate steps

[01:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's like a big

[01:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You know jump got like for the public for all the other players who don't know like oh, that's how they do it

[01:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: In europe and europe's doing it better. They don't care. They ain't in europe

[01:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: They're here and they're paying their money and they want to play double a limb

[01:22:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't get over that feeling and that's how I interpret it too. And I'm gonna play double a limb too

[01:22:11] [SPEAKER_06]: So, I don't know. Yeah, but I I definitely don't think

[01:22:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Last foosball is the answer right? We come to play so let's play like you said single elimination is not the answer

[01:22:21] [SPEAKER_06]: It's not I I'd but like, you know years ago. It was rookie semi pro pro and master there was four point

[01:22:29] [SPEAKER_06]: You know four rankings

[01:22:31] [SPEAKER_06]: And and it was you know, there was no beginner. There was no amateur

[01:22:35] [SPEAKER_06]: It was just rookie semi pro pro and master and they ran events and did what they did and

[01:22:40] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, but I don't like you said rookie and amateur. I feel like they could be absorbed together

[01:22:45] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, they're almost

[01:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the same album the same album same recording session as far as music

[01:22:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Beginner's great and y'all got to watch brachlin play beginner and he loved it and it really got him into the sport

[01:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: But he went there to play beginner because he was he literally been playing three months

[01:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: He would have been so fine with not being able to play expert singles and have beginner be no conflict

[01:23:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you know run the whole event in like 20 minutes or you know in like two or three hours

[01:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's not that many people. There's gonna be 20 something players

[01:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe, you know, go ahead run it all out on you know, friday or whatever and get it out of the way

[01:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But let him play but just no conflict that one event run it out be done

[01:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I don't I don't want to limit the beginners because our game needs more

[01:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: No, you're absolutely right. No, I don't think that's the area we have to target

[01:23:32] [SPEAKER_02]: It's I think the problem with beginner is is the first time you you tour go out in a major and you play beginners

[01:23:39] [SPEAKER_02]: No matter how you do you shouldn't be a beginner anymore

[01:23:43] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you should be stepped right up to that next, you know into novice or whatever you want to call it

[01:23:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Rookie whatever the case but no more, you know after that first tournament done, you know, no more beginner

[01:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Especially if you didn't get like top five or 10, you know what I mean?

[01:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: If you came you tank you went oh two

[01:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you know, it's your first tournament. Okay, but like if you're getting like top three in beginner every time

[01:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, bro. Yeah

[01:24:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not cool. Yeah. No

[01:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[01:24:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, too many people too many people have figured out how to manipulate the system

[01:24:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah use it, you know, and it just it's not it's not fair to everybody else

[01:24:17] [SPEAKER_06]: You know just go and play go play, you know, because again, that's where like the the money at the bottom

[01:24:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Like look I get it, you know, but I'm saying like when you start putting big money at the bottom

[01:24:27] [SPEAKER_06]: People are gonna figure out how to manipulate to get the money. Oh, yeah

[01:24:30] [SPEAKER_06]: So that's why it should be like if you win

[01:24:33] [SPEAKER_06]: At a lower rank

[01:24:34] [SPEAKER_06]: You should just automatically auto bump up not like oh you can win three or four times and then

[01:24:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, well, I'm just not going to show up anymore

[01:24:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Or I'm going to go tank other events to keep my points down

[01:24:45] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't I don't know what people do. I just go on. I'm like Hannah. I go when I play. I want to win. That's it

[01:24:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not worried. Oh, you know, but

[01:24:53] [SPEAKER_06]: um, you know

[01:24:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody has an idea of what they think should happen or whatever

[01:24:58] [SPEAKER_06]: But at the end of the day, we're all just showing up trying to play foosball

[01:25:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't I don't know let's see. Let's see what's gonna happen the championship thing. I'm kind of I'm kind of intrigued

[01:25:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm excited to see what's going to happen

[01:25:10] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know I do believe though that just in my heart of hearts is a fan

[01:25:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I really think we need to focus more heavily on the the finals of pros and open events

[01:25:19] [SPEAKER_02]: We just need to you know, because those are that's where the the action happens man

[01:25:23] [SPEAKER_02]: That's that's why people watch

[01:25:24] [SPEAKER_02]: You know to get to see the best of the best go against the best of the best in the pros and the open

[01:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: This past year like I could tell you because I was in several

[01:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: There has been some kind of fun drama and almost every pro doubles final

[01:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I've watched and been a part of this year and it not always very fun to watch

[01:25:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But like on a table like if you took out like just the table part and just watch what happened on table

[01:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: There's been some freaking battles happening man

[01:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm telling you like two sets one way or the other like it's not been just like big summer blowouts

[01:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: It's been like great foosball to watch and I can say that and I lost all those matches

[01:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was still great foosball to watch like if I was a fan

[01:26:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Man, I would be lit up and see it. Yeah, you're you were in the finals at texas state, right?

[01:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was in uh, I think I counted it up if you count like winners bracket final loser bracket finals

[01:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Like both of those like if you count those that I've played and lost in this year. I think I lost

[01:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: eight

[01:26:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Jesus finals. Yeah, but still a fight. That's a lot but texas. So who did you play with at texas state?

[01:26:26] [SPEAKER_06]: Jay le

[01:26:28] [SPEAKER_06]: That's who it was. Yeah. Yeah. I watched I watched that final and you who'd you who'd you play i'm trying to remember

[01:26:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh

[01:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Kenna Dale and yeah, oh

[01:26:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh leo la guardia. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I watched it and I was like

[01:26:48] [SPEAKER_06]: grinding my teeth

[01:26:50] [SPEAKER_06]: You have no idea. No, because Hannah was I'm like come on Hannah and and I was like I was texting bracklin

[01:26:56] [SPEAKER_06]: He never texts me back because I'm watching I'm like I'm like tell her to do

[01:27:01] [SPEAKER_06]: But

[01:27:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh

[01:27:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Dang it. Dang it, but it's like it's good foosball. It's like I was on the edge of my seat

[01:27:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I was on the edge of my seat man. Yeah

[01:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know man. That was good stuff. You know, it was good stuff watching us play at Louisiana

[01:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It was good stuff watching us play in mississippi. Those are good matches

[01:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: They're like you go back and look at it and it's like you can't do this to everybody

[01:27:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I I do this for you guys. I'd be like man

[01:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I think it was maybe two three matches before you guys made it back to play

[01:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Chris sent like the sickest pass I've ever seen in my life of the table. No, no, it was me to him against uh

[01:27:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, y'all switch isabel and jacob. Yeah, I was at way past his bell jacob. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we switched

[01:27:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Jacob and been scoring on them. Yeah

[01:27:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But that's the stuff people need to see

[01:27:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like man, that's how you felt foosball. You just might as well go on and go on home and

[01:27:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Throw darts or something. Yeah, it was a 4-4 pass in the second

[01:27:57] [SPEAKER_06]: We two straight of them was the second game was 4-4. I blocked jacob. I set it up

[01:28:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I shot the ball he blocked and I got it back and I'm looking and I'm looking I'm looking and then I threw that lane pass

[01:28:06] [SPEAKER_06]: He didn't even know what's coming and he jumped out and caught it and I was just like

[01:28:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Everyone

[01:28:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I can't believe you I can't believe we got it. It was awesome. It was such a good catch the pass sucked

[01:28:17] [SPEAKER_06]: But he caught it. It was so good. That's all it matters. Yeah, yeah

[01:28:24] [SPEAKER_06]: That's all it matters

[01:28:24] [SPEAKER_06]: But they were I mean they took third and open doubles. They were playing so good

[01:28:28] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, yeah that that pro field was it was it was tough. It was a thick field. So

[01:28:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, yeah, there's I mean, there's always good stuff, but you know, they lost that whole day of footage

[01:28:40] [SPEAKER_02]: They lost the whole day

[01:28:42] [SPEAKER_06]: There was if you go to inside foos for Louisiana State, there's no video

[01:28:47] [SPEAKER_06]: You know funny enough

[01:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize that because I dang sure if not went back and watching

[01:28:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I didn't go back and watch

[01:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I went back and watched you're not Bracklin and I played designated together and like right after my big like four

[01:29:04] [SPEAKER_00]: L's like real hard back to back to back and we're playing somebody and we're losing four one first game in designated

[01:29:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't do anything. I'm like in tears

[01:29:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Bracklin gets the ball in the back. He calls the time out and he's like it's okay, honey

[01:29:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm about to win this thing. I was like what he's like this one's going in

[01:29:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, who are okay, honey. I'm trying. He's like, come on. Like I got you like I was like, okay

[01:29:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And he sets the ball up and proceeds to literally come back from four one all by himself from his two bar

[01:29:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Wow

[01:29:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Then I was like by the end of it. I'm just like pick my guys up

[01:29:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to know I think he scored like like seven in the match two or three

[01:29:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I haven't been to run and I was just like dang dog

[01:29:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I literally would have lost and he's like, I know you didn't really like

[01:29:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't it was weird because it was our first time ever playing on tour. We got second

[01:29:56] [SPEAKER_00]: It was great

[01:29:57] [SPEAKER_00]: We we should have won if I wasn't a being an idiot

[01:29:59] [SPEAKER_00]: But I was like in tears in the match and this guy just like hey, I got you don't worry

[01:30:03] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what that part is. That's right. My little cookie rookie

[01:30:07] [SPEAKER_06]: You you shouldn't marry that guy. Yeah

[01:30:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah

[01:30:10] [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a two bar like that I had to I was like

[01:30:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Dang I got him

[01:30:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You're having that guy watching

[01:30:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So just a quick aside here

[01:30:19] [SPEAKER_02]: I was watching some uh

[01:30:20] [SPEAKER_02]: foosball tv from europe the coverage of the those matches you guys were in

[01:30:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And I had to say something those guys they they killed it

[01:30:30] [SPEAKER_02]: They did some awesome work when it came to the instant replay

[01:30:33] [SPEAKER_02]: There would be you know a setup and a shot and within

[01:30:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Seconds you'd see the replay of the shot that just went in and then they're back to the action

[01:30:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean these guys have it down. This was this made a huge difference in the way just again as a fan watching that

[01:30:51] [SPEAKER_02]: um

[01:30:53] [SPEAKER_02]: You know what I want to I don't want to you know say much about what's going on here in america, but we need that

[01:30:59] [SPEAKER_02]: That's for for spectators

[01:31:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, um, I don't disagree. I think they do an excellent job covering

[01:31:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I think they could get some nicer people to comment. Oh sure, you know, whatever. It was all in german too, so

[01:31:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but I got google translate so

[01:31:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean they've definitely said meaner things but like this time it was cool because I was on like a team from over there

[01:31:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So they weren't really like mean to me this time, which is nice. Okay

[01:31:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Germans

[01:31:29] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, if they come over here point them out, I'll smack them around

[01:31:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Break a hip or whatever you said

[01:31:37] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I'm always strapped. I ain't worried

[01:31:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh

[01:31:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But they did a good job and like honestly if you switch it in like from a player's perspective at world cup

[01:31:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It was actually like a weird

[01:31:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Deal, so at world cup you would play you would score a ball and then you would have to wait

[01:31:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Like 30 seconds before you could play the next one. So like you just like yeah, I just banged it

[01:32:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, come on. Let's go and they'll be like stop

[01:32:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like wait because they had to replay it on the big screen for everyone the crowd to see

[01:32:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And it kind of changed it because like what if this girl just cut this back between me or and you thought it

[01:32:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Went around you but it really cut back between you. Guess what turn around and look

[01:32:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, to see the whole shot again

[01:32:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You get to see what your defense looked like you get to see what timing she likes

[01:32:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you get to see so much more in the game right that was cool

[01:32:26] [SPEAKER_00]: but um

[01:32:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the footage there the the whole thing there is pretty cool and they're building like trailers for each section of it

[01:32:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Right now. So like they just posted one that's like

[01:32:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Round of 16 or whatever or something like that raised to 40 round of 16

[01:32:40] [SPEAKER_00]: They did a trailer for it. I'm sure they'll do, you know, whatever quarter semis

[01:32:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Finals so I'm excited to see how that that works, but they do a great job with production

[01:32:50] [SPEAKER_02]: um

[01:32:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it makes it more fan friendly. Oh no question about it

[01:32:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's it's difficult because of the fact that you know, we in this this this arena of

[01:33:03] [SPEAKER_02]: USA foosball

[01:33:04] [SPEAKER_02]: We don't really have the resources, you know to do it quite like that

[01:33:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean we have people who can do this kind of thing, but it's it requires money

[01:33:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean there's there's a lot invested in that kind of thing. It's like a the difference between

[01:33:17] [SPEAKER_02]: um going to a high school football game and and you know hearing the the pa announced you're doing the thing

[01:33:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And then going to a pro game

[01:33:25] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's it's a it's a big difference

[01:33:27] [SPEAKER_06]: He's never been to a football game a high school football game down south

[01:33:30] [SPEAKER_06]: That's all really come to 6a state championship

[01:33:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Come to come to 7a right here. Thompson. Hi, baby before you

[01:33:39] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a new thing this year from Mississippi. No, well they have they have a stadium. I digress a stadium

[01:33:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Tom

[01:33:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Forgive my ignorance. I graduated in 1977. What do you want from me? You know, no, but

[01:33:54] [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's uh, but it's true. It's it's uh, it's there is a market difference and it's it's expensive

[01:33:59] [SPEAKER_02]: It takes money and it takes, you know sponsorships and this kind of thing

[01:34:02] [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know in in the media as this is media by the way, but media

[01:34:08] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, we we've got some work to do. There's no doubt about it

[01:34:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you're doing your part. Well, you're doing great. Well, you guys you guys make this happen

[01:34:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, you guys

[01:34:22] [SPEAKER_06]: You guys no, it's Hannah. It's all Hannah. You know, we did a pretty face on here. I've I've told desperately

[01:34:29] [SPEAKER_06]: People we've had on so anyway

[01:34:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Except for philbrook, he's pretty philbrook is pretty

[01:34:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Mike philbrook, I really hate that. I miss that because I might even go back and watch it

[01:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: He was one of the uh

[01:34:46] [SPEAKER_00]: One of the first masters that ever played with me in mix when I was like 11

[01:34:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And like he was so intimidating looking back then like I was like, oh my gosh

[01:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: He hits that ball so hard like I've watched if you match about as like this is who you're playing with in mix and I'm just

[01:35:01] [SPEAKER_00]: She's okay. Great. And then I get over there and he is like the kindest soul ever to me and I'm just like

[01:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Wasn't expecting that. Thank you so much for being nice to me

[01:35:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know. He was just such a great partner back then. I don't even know if he remembers that

[01:35:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But I had a great time. I definitely will never ever forget it

[01:35:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I guarantee you he goes. Yeah. Yeah, he's he's he

[01:35:22] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, I don't know if he wants me to put this out there, but uh, he's planning to go to the teat a o so

[01:35:29] [SPEAKER_00]: No, okay. That's all we're all gonna be there. We're all excited

[01:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I am also planning to go and I'm gonna bring it up to him

[01:35:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Scared to talk to him. Don't be scared to talk to Mike. Come on. Oh good lord. I love Mike. Mike's a good dude

[01:35:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's very sweet. He loves to talk about foosball and other things

[01:35:47] [SPEAKER_06]: And other things including

[01:35:49] [SPEAKER_06]: The game the game. Yeah, there's some good not there's some good nut shot stories

[01:35:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to go back and watch before tks so I can have some power power

[01:35:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, it's some good stuff

[01:36:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Mike's a super a he's a super super nice guy, but he's like, you know, he's like a south boston redhead

[01:36:10] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, like he's he's one of them south boston irish guys. So he's

[01:36:14] [SPEAKER_06]: He's got a temper. I've seen I've seen him get upset. It's not pretty

[01:36:18] [SPEAKER_06]: It's not pretty, you know

[01:36:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I saw him in another guy at a tournament

[01:36:24] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not gonna name names and and the other guy is a guy I love that I've known for a long time and he was

[01:36:29] [SPEAKER_06]: big guy

[01:36:30] [SPEAKER_06]: D3 college football player wrestled like not not somebody you take lightly

[01:36:35] [SPEAKER_06]: But they were playing at a tournament table one. This was a state event

[01:36:38] [SPEAKER_06]: There was no inside foos at the time at the tournament

[01:36:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Like inside foos was mainly like majors at the time. So anyway

[01:36:45] [SPEAKER_06]: And table one and we're standing there watching and something happened

[01:36:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And before you know it there at the end of the table nose to nose and I'm just like I'm just like this. I'm like

[01:36:56] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm just watching and somebody goes you're gonna get between them. I said no, dude

[01:37:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I want to see how this plays out and what was funny was christin grogan was taking a nap

[01:37:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Like behind the bleachers

[01:37:11] [SPEAKER_06]: And they woke her up and she came out and got between them and it was hysterical because here's tiny little christin

[01:37:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Shoving both of them. She's got her hand in their chest and she's oh

[01:37:21] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, she separated but it was hysterical. I thought it was hysterical

[01:37:25] [SPEAKER_06]: But uh, yeah, my Mike. I mean mike's a sweet sweet guy super nice guy. Give you the shirt off his back

[01:37:31] [SPEAKER_06]: But he's nice till he's not nice. So don't make him till he's not. Yeah

[01:37:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, fair warning. It's uh, no, there there is uh, there's a lot of things I hope for for 2024 when it comes to foosball

[01:37:49] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, especially when it comes to the way we cover foosball

[01:37:53] [SPEAKER_02]: but

[01:37:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Hannah gonna ask you what what do you want to see change for 2024?

[01:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry that was bad

[01:38:03] [SPEAKER_00]: There I'm not bad

[01:38:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I want everybody to go home and learn the dang rules and I want you to learn how to reset in a jar is

[01:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice what I want you to learn

[01:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know ask someone

[01:38:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Who does know

[01:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you think what you did may have impacted the ball a little bit

[01:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: You probably did

[01:38:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh

[01:38:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Now that would be rule step one. I want for 2024 and step two. I want everybody to just be nicer

[01:38:35] [SPEAKER_00]: To be nicer. Okay. Okay

[01:38:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Myself included. I need to just be sweeter

[01:38:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how you can do that. I really sweet. Yeah

[01:38:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, listen, you're you're you're sweet to me and that's all that matters. So are you are you uh, are you minnesota nice?

[01:38:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that is that what you're trying to say?

[01:38:54] [SPEAKER_02]: What does that mean minnesota? You never heard the phrase?

[01:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Minnesota for a year. Did you? No, I'm not

[01:39:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Hold on. What is minnesota nice? What's that? Minnesota nice? It's it's it's like you're the just uh, very innocent

[01:39:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Very naive kind of person very, you know nice on the surface but underneath you got some dark dark

[01:39:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Going on

[01:39:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah

[01:39:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think that would be cool and I think it would be cooler to help people coming up in foosball more

[01:39:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, especially in the women's game

[01:39:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I think you know and i'm not saying that like I need celly to come over here and teach me her fire push shot

[01:39:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Like so I can beat her with a really great push out because she's got a great push out

[01:39:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's not really kind of what i'm talking about. I'm talking about like

[01:39:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Like let's try to level the field a little bit like let's think a little bit more outside of yourself and like the future

[01:39:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And I know that most people don't have this as their goal

[01:39:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I don't ever want the united states of america to lose another world cup

[01:39:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes until the day I die. I don't want that ever go

[01:39:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Go women children

[01:39:58] [SPEAKER_00]: seniors anyone

[01:39:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I will do anything in my power to help anyone on those teams get better so that never happens

[01:40:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's that's just in me

[01:40:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But I've been there and I've lost how many other people have never won a world cup

[01:40:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But they've been on the team they've got it. They've won

[01:40:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But you know, it's it's tightened a little bit, you know

[01:40:18] [SPEAKER_00]: The u.s. Is there everybody's kind of catching up and it's and unless we get better at multi table

[01:40:23] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna continue to say where we're at

[01:40:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So we have to improve a multi table and guess what you don't get better at it unless someone helps you get better at it. So

[01:40:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what that's my goal anybody that comes to me and says hey, I want to get better at this table

[01:40:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Bro, I will send you so many videos on this table. I will teach you a new series

[01:40:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I will do anything it takes if you're on those teams and you're gonna help us win something

[01:40:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait if you're not on those teams and you just want to win come here

[01:40:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll make you better

[01:40:48] [SPEAKER_00]: So whenever you go play someone else then you know, it makes everybody better if we all are but

[01:40:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I just think that needs to be a focus like

[01:40:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Focus more on on the technique and just getting everybody back a little bit more level and that's that comes from everybody

[01:41:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm helping like I said, I've been working with Heather Trapp and getting her back on tour

[01:41:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, she's cool person. I wanted to come back on tour. She came to bardo. She did great

[01:41:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, she took me

[01:41:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Rough gaming singles. She almost beat isabel in singles. She played really well

[01:41:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And uh, she that was like her first tournament back and I send her videos and all kind of stuff

[01:41:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I want to help more people get better. I don't want to just

[01:41:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, stay up there and you know, whatever. It's not cool. I think I can give more to that

[01:41:28] [SPEAKER_00]: then

[01:41:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So fair to say that

[01:41:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Then if we as a collective, let's say the collective we across the states here in the us

[01:41:37] [SPEAKER_02]: If we think about this is as we have to represent our our style of play our

[01:41:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Our team quote unquote against the rest of the world

[01:41:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh automatically that's going to help to to improve the game

[01:41:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Sure. And I mean think about if the women's team had these veteran men

[01:41:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Master veteran men who have won multiple world cups have all the experience on those tables

[01:42:01] [SPEAKER_00]: What if we they would spend in 30 minutes with me on one of those tables? Sure

[01:42:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't think I can learn something you don't think they could help me a little bit

[01:42:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't think maybe if they spent an hour with me last year that I would have won world cup and I would have won

[01:42:12] [SPEAKER_00]: women's doubles

[01:42:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know man, but they're here. They're every tournament with us, you know like

[01:42:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying like that they have the experience where we don't but if you know, you have to kind of start

[01:42:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Getting ready for the future. You can't just live and say hope the same thing works all the time because it doesn't

[01:42:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's a step that we need to take if people care about world cup

[01:42:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Although I know not everyone does and that's fine too, but seems like the the last world cup

[01:42:41] [SPEAKER_02]: um

[01:42:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean this is all around covet in this kind of thing and everything seemed to be uh

[01:42:46] [SPEAKER_02]: A little less there was less enthusiasm generally speaking when it came to that competition. Am I correct?

[01:42:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, nobody took it seriously

[01:42:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody just wanted to you know party and if they didn't get their party buddies together didn't want to go

[01:42:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like man, where's the cloud like you're representing your country right go and help everyone there like

[01:43:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You know and

[01:43:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You saw the old leaders there like step up and like people had never played on that team

[01:43:10] [SPEAKER_00]: They were such good leaders and you know, we all lost

[01:43:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone lost and it really sucks. And if you've never been there and lost the world cup

[01:43:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if it's an event or a team

[01:43:20] [SPEAKER_00]: It will it will break you down

[01:43:22] [SPEAKER_00]: If if you have any care for foosball, so it's like I don't ever want that to happen. So

[01:43:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. It just didn't seem

[01:43:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it could have it could have been a lot more we could have came in with more fire

[01:43:33] [SPEAKER_00]: We could have came in with more focus more preparation

[01:43:35] [SPEAKER_00]: More teamwork more drive more pride. I mean, how many times you get to represent your country doing anything

[01:43:42] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I'm still waiting for my

[01:43:46] [SPEAKER_06]: No, and that's like it's that's huge being you know getting to represent the united states and and

[01:43:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Something of that caliber. I mean, that's that's something you never forget, right?

[01:43:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Like again if if if I got a call today and they said hey, we want you to play on the world cup team

[01:44:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Like immediately tomorrow my diet changes. I'm working out

[01:44:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm I'm getting in shape and I'm I'm starting to practice on every table. I can to prepare myself

[01:44:14] [SPEAKER_06]: One because I don't want to embarrass myself and two because I want to go win for you know for my team

[01:44:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah kicks the mass. Yeah, yeah

[01:44:23] [SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, it's and again like I said at the beginning of the show foosball is different for everybody

[01:44:29] [SPEAKER_06]: So, you know, it's it is

[01:44:31] [SPEAKER_06]: You know

[01:44:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The focus I love tornado. I'll live and die there. I get it

[01:44:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But like it has to start if we're trying to talk world cup strategy

[01:44:39] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to have people that are not just living tornado

[01:44:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't live and die by because you know, what if I said randy is the best benzene person

[01:44:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He's he's got he's the best person from the u.s from them on benzene and guess what? He's a pro on tornado too

[01:44:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if i'm selecting a team and I know we're gonna have to beat france and I know they're gonna have this person

[01:44:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I know they're gonna be great

[01:45:00] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, de santos is gonna be great on this team and he's gonna match up for singles

[01:45:04] [SPEAKER_00]: But randy can handle him. You know, like if we had that

[01:45:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm putting randy on the team. So what if he goes as a sub?

[01:45:11] [SPEAKER_00]: So what if he only plays matches that we face on benzene?

[01:45:14] [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna play that team to get to the top right you're gonna have to beat somebody on benzene

[01:45:18] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean? So like it goes in the same something a little differently

[01:45:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't think so cool, but I'm not

[01:45:23] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not yet choice. I'm not the popular choice. Yes. Yeah, but look i'm gonna tell you son hannah

[01:45:30] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll play on anything you want to go to walmart. I'll play you want to walk my table

[01:45:34] [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no because I I can play on anything. I love foosball

[01:45:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I I I love tornado, but i'm not just a tornado player. I can play on leonhardt

[01:45:42] [SPEAKER_06]: I can play on benzene. I can play on anything. I love foosball. You give me 10 minutes on the table and I'll figure it out

[01:45:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Trust me. I love it. I love foosball

[01:45:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I just wish I could clip that little section right there for everybody is like no, it's not tornado

[01:45:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't doing or no, it's not benzene. We're gonna snip it

[01:45:57] [SPEAKER_00]: We just get better if you do them all just be better

[01:46:00] [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely look, so there's there's a table back home right before before tournaments

[01:46:06] [SPEAKER_06]: There's this place in east providence. It's a portuguese club and they have a portuguese metal man table and the rods are so heavy

[01:46:12] [SPEAKER_06]: So heavy with two guys are two feet

[01:46:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, two feet steel rods

[01:46:16] [SPEAKER_06]: They're they're they're molded rods with molded men. So it's all one piece, right? Wow

[01:46:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's so heavy and I would go there kevin scousson myself

[01:46:26] [SPEAKER_06]: We'd go there to play before tournaments because if you can control the ball in this table one

[01:46:30] [SPEAKER_06]: That's huge and then two shooting on this table

[01:46:32] [SPEAKER_06]: You go to a tornado from there. You're catching everything and you're killing the ball

[01:46:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And it was just like friday nights. We'd go there. There'd be a bunch of guys there

[01:46:40] [SPEAKER_06]: They'd play we play pickup games. We'd have a good time and the way they play is different

[01:46:44] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like um, it's like italian rules, right? You can't stop the ball everything

[01:46:48] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, it's off the wall shots and so

[01:46:52] [SPEAKER_06]: It's just a different style of play and now normal tornado players would go. I don't like that. I don't want to do that

[01:46:57] [SPEAKER_06]: That's stupid. It's like dude. It's foosball. It's it's a not just foosball

[01:47:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Everybody wants to put foosball in a box if you don't pass a brush series and shoot a rollover then

[01:47:06] [SPEAKER_06]: You you know your game's stupid. It's like your job is to beat that guy

[01:47:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Whatever he's doing you have to stop him. That's it. It's foosball. Let's go and it drives me insane

[01:47:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm done. I'm getting off right now. I'm still pissed off

[01:47:21] [SPEAKER_06]: It just I lose my mind just I it's just foosball. Let's go. I want to play I won't play right now

[01:47:28] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm driving to mississippi. Let's go. Oh bro. I got the whole set up

[01:47:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And you notice you notice the passion that that that this this uh, this particular northeastern

[01:47:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Blood tends to bring to the game. You notice that the the heat the heat that comes wow

[01:47:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah

[01:47:48] [SPEAKER_06]: You guys have the heat on really? No, it's cold here. It is

[01:47:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh

[01:47:55] [SPEAKER_02]: My dog's got a blanket on the ground. Let me guess it's what it's down to 60. Okay. All right. I get it. Yeah

[01:48:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Man so no, it's uh tko sounds like this is gonna be uh, this is gonna be huge everybody's gonna be there

[01:48:11] [SPEAKER_02]: That's cool

[01:48:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I hope so. Um, I'm excited. I hope me and selly can defend it one more time. I think this would be seven

[01:48:19] [SPEAKER_00]: times seven times

[01:48:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Six seven

[01:48:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, who you playing for who you playing for doubles with?

[01:48:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Let me look I don't know

[01:48:31] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll look and get back to my phone's dead. Okay. Yeah, you got you gotta check the schedule

[01:48:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I really think I'm playing with rustle because he asked me about that one

[01:48:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I think one more but outside of that. I don't have partners or anything else yet. Okay. What are we doing?

[01:48:44] [SPEAKER_06]: What are we doing next year? Which one you want you tell me so I'm lined up for

[01:48:50] [SPEAKER_06]: um kickoff and then worlds and then I think Georgia State whenever they have it other than that

[01:48:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm pretty open and I'd like to yeah, I'd like to hit Texas. I really like I want to take my wife and go to Texas

[01:49:01] [SPEAKER_06]: so

[01:49:03] [SPEAKER_06]: If I go to Texas you want to you want to do pro doubles in Texas?

[01:49:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yup. Okay

[01:49:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's lock it in. We're right. You all heard it. We all heard it. It's right here. It's right. It's now on the record

[01:49:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Done done. Sorry people

[01:49:16] [SPEAKER_00]: We're actually just kidding. So anybody wants a game plan to beat us that was just a fluke

[01:49:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not joking game plan all you want. It's coming

[01:49:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Look out. That's right. I don't care. I don't care. That's right watch video

[01:49:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Bring the heat. Yeah, heard

[01:49:34] [SPEAKER_00]: One time Randy Raposo and I took seventh eighth in open doubles after neither one of us had seen

[01:49:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Each other for probably 10 years on a random

[01:49:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Tournament and we showed up and took seventh eighth in open doubles playing roto

[01:49:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like Hannah that you missed the last four shots

[01:49:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, come on man. Let's switch. It's four four. No, dawg. You stuck. You better figure it out

[01:49:56] [SPEAKER_00]: We're trying to and I'm like Randy it's match ball. He's like you better shoot good then

[01:50:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that that was actually a fact

[01:50:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Wow, we had fun. I had a good time. Yeah. Yeah, what year was that? What year was that?

[01:50:10] [SPEAKER_06]: 2016 2016 17th on plate day. Yeah, we yeah, we lost our first match to

[01:50:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Kenneth Dale and jli

[01:50:18] [SPEAKER_06]: and

[01:50:18] [SPEAKER_06]: I was I was supposed to play the kenneth dale and he goofed up and then he tried to give me 20 bucks

[01:50:23] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was like bro, I want you 20 bucks get the hell out of here

[01:50:25] [SPEAKER_06]: And then and then I was trying to find a partner and Hannah was like I got school work to do

[01:50:30] [SPEAKER_06]: But yeah a little we'll play and then we lost to them

[01:50:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And then we came through the losers bracket on a tear playing roto and like we beat some really good teams

[01:50:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I mean we we beat the hell out of a couple like what we beat et and shan

[01:50:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Like five one five one or five golfing. We beat him and like yeah, we beat him in like four minutes

[01:50:48] [SPEAKER_06]: It was really bad. Whoa. I think Hannah felt bad. I didn't feel bad

[01:50:53] [SPEAKER_06]: It was fun though. I had it was it was a lot of fun. It was a good time. Yeah, definitely one. I'll never ever forget

[01:50:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Most fun events. Yeah, that was fun looking forward to repeat of this in 2024

[01:51:03] [SPEAKER_02]: This is you know again, you know get your popcorn ready because these guys are gonna be playing together

[01:51:08] [SPEAKER_06]: That's awesome. No, I'm I'm so texas state. I'm serious if I if I'm going are we are we good?

[01:51:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, dog. Okay, cool. Done done. All right

[01:51:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh

[01:51:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm learning new sign language here. I'm not exactly

[01:51:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll get you to the final but no promises after that, brother

[01:51:34] [SPEAKER_06]: You're all after that. I got you. It's cool. No worries. Yeah

[01:51:39] [SPEAKER_00]: You're supposed to say I'm pretty good at winning pro doubles finals. No, it's cool. I got you. Yeah, you're funny

[01:51:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Understand something if we get to the finals if we get to the finals and we don't win

[01:51:52] [SPEAKER_06]: It's okay as long as we play good and have fun. I don't care. I just want to have fun

[01:51:57] [SPEAKER_06]: With you so yeah, so sign language. I know this one. I know turtle

[01:52:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, and I know I know poop

[01:52:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I know I know this one it's a massachusetts. I can't show it on the camera, but you know what it is

[01:52:13] [SPEAKER_06]: That's it. That's all I know

[01:52:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Every time every time I've worked with Hannah on on air that was including foos week and and foos talk live

[01:52:24] [SPEAKER_02]: She's always teaching me new stuff, you know like the meaning of fire

[01:52:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Fire fire. I had no idea until Hannah came along and said no no no no you don't understand fire. It's fire

[01:52:35] [SPEAKER_06]: What? That's a good thing. Yeah straight fire, but but that's supposed to be cool right cool fire. Yeah

[01:52:42] [SPEAKER_06]: All right. Yeah, okay. All right

[01:52:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, so it's funny because like I you know these these these young 20 something's cracked me up

[01:52:49] [SPEAKER_06]: I went to the pharmacy today to pick up some medication and my vet had suggested a different antihistamine for my dog

[01:52:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Because she's been taking benadryl twice a day for a few years

[01:52:59] [SPEAKER_06]: So I was asking one of the the texts there and i'm a regular there

[01:53:04] [SPEAKER_06]: They all know why i'm this girl's like 22 years old and old enough to be her dad and she was like

[01:53:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, you know, why don't you speak english? Speak a language you understand?

[01:53:11] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was like, I so so I said I said I said okay, uh, which which antihistamine would be the best vibe for my dog

[01:53:24] [SPEAKER_06]: And and and she and she and she was like she was like, okay, let me talk let me talk to the pharmacist

[01:53:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I take kids now and I hear so many things and i'm just like

[01:53:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not a word and they're in college. I'm just like that's not a word

[01:53:44] [SPEAKER_02]: It's it's a it's a

[01:53:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Sort of like an imaginary word. Let's put it that way. It's something something thought up

[01:53:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I heard something yesterday. Oh

[01:53:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we were playing softball and he was like what's you gonna do mildew or barbeque?

[01:53:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I was like

[01:54:00] [SPEAKER_00]: What

[01:54:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Mildew or barbeque and I was like

[01:54:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I had to get on urban dictionary

[01:54:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I looked it up and it was like basically like you gonna do it or you not like

[01:54:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it time to go or you're not like are you gonna just you're gonna go for it?

[01:54:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you gonna like slay down? I was like, why not?

[01:54:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Why not just say that you're gonna do it or you're not gonna do it?

[01:54:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna do you gonna barbecue. Come on. I had to google it. I had to google it. You had to google that

[01:54:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes from chunky missus sippy is where that one came from coming from hannah smith. She's got to google that

[01:54:28] [SPEAKER_02]: That's yeah, that's extreme. You know, yeah, the human race is just falling apart here man

[01:54:34] [SPEAKER_02]: It's it's the end of civilization planet simple

[01:54:36] [SPEAKER_06]: No comment

[01:54:37] [SPEAKER_06]: No comment. Hey, look did you watch that new julia roberts movie on netflix? Yes. That was awesome

[01:54:45] [SPEAKER_06]: That was a lot of fun. Yeah, you didn't watch it hannah

[01:54:48] [SPEAKER_02]: No, I didn't watch the second thing. Oh, it's it's you know

[01:54:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't expect much because i'm not a big julia roberts fan, but when I actually watched that I was like

[01:54:57] [SPEAKER_06]: This is good. This is really good. Yeah, yeah, my wife and I watched the other day. It was a good watch

[01:55:02] [SPEAKER_06]: It's kind of weird and then the ending I was like, I was like what the hell that's how it was son of a

[01:55:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like

[01:55:09] [SPEAKER_06]: But no, no, so I told her I was like don't give the ending away. Don't give it away. No, no, no, no, no, no

[01:55:14] [SPEAKER_06]: so like

[01:55:16] [SPEAKER_06]: um

[01:55:17] [SPEAKER_06]: There was a movie with matt daemon and guenna paltrow where like she eats

[01:55:21] [SPEAKER_06]: She's like bat poop out of a pig and then everybody dies

[01:55:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Right, I don't know if you're mad. I think it was called like contagion or something and then like five years later

[01:55:29] [SPEAKER_06]: COVID happened, right?

[01:55:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so i'm watching i'm watching this julia roberts movie and I pause it and I told my wife

[01:55:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I said watch what happens in five years

[01:55:37] [SPEAKER_06]: You know watch the movie. I know what i'm talking about. Tom knows what i'm talking about

[01:55:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I was like why yeah, sadly it's it's it's based upon

[01:55:46] [SPEAKER_02]: What we can see in front of us most most days. It's it's conceivable. Yeah, so listen. That's why tom

[01:55:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm so thankful. I live in the south because I told my wife

[01:55:54] [SPEAKER_06]: I said if this ever happens, I said we're grabbing the dog all our guns all my ammo and we're going to your mom and dad's house

[01:56:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Plans are simple

[01:56:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, yeah, that's not planning to like any slight inconvenience. Yeah, same thing for me. Yeah

[01:56:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, because look daddy and mama they got they got stock

[01:56:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Like they got water and canned food and daddy got a lot of guns and ammo and I got some stuff too

[01:56:18] [SPEAKER_06]: You know and my brother-in-law that joker is he's ready. So

[01:56:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, we're gonna go to the house and if we see anybody coming down the driveway. We're just gonna

[01:56:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Oddly enough it's it's uh, I can't remember the title of the movie now

[01:56:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Give me a second. Yeah, you know you got a check. You got a check. It's a good watch though. It's a good watch

[01:56:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's one of those unexpected things to think oh this can't possibly be all that great because

[01:56:43] [SPEAKER_02]: You know the acting but it's uh, ethan hawk

[01:56:48] [SPEAKER_02]: um

[01:56:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Kevin bacon. Yep. Kevin bacon. Julie roberts and there's one or two others that I recognize but but it was like, oh

[01:56:56] [SPEAKER_02]: This this actually this could take place. This is this is not that far-fetched

[01:57:01] [SPEAKER_02]: legitimately

[01:57:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, it's it's very uh, very I've seen a lot of uh apocalyptic based movies

[01:57:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But this is probably one of the more realistic ones for sure

[01:57:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and I'm telling you like I I was like geez this

[01:57:15] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like this is this is too. This is hitting too close to home. This is hitting way too close to home

[01:57:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, but yeah, yeah, I don't know whatever. I mean it was entertaining

[01:57:25] [SPEAKER_06]: But the problem is like, you know some people watch stuff like that and they're like, oh, yeah

[01:57:29] [SPEAKER_06]: This is entertaining, but this will never happen, but I don't know

[01:57:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know we're uh, we're so reliant here's and here's the message

[01:57:37] [SPEAKER_02]: We're so relied upon what we're doing right now

[01:57:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Which is using the internet to communicate back and forth and and of course our cell phones are all connected their radio towers basically

[01:57:47] [SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, those signals can be interfered with easily

[01:57:50] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a you know, it's it's a it's a basic principle of physics when it comes to

[01:57:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Way radio waves travel through the air that can be interrupted easily

[01:57:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and of course our power grid is the other problem

[01:58:01] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, this is it's vulnerable and you know hackers people that that have uh, should we say ill intent?

[01:58:09] [SPEAKER_02]: could easily

[01:58:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Sadly get into some of these systems. So

[01:58:14] [SPEAKER_02]: This is this is what we face

[01:58:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Crazy leave the world behind. That's what it's called. Leave the world behind. I'm so depressed. I've seen that on my you should watch list

[01:58:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess I should actually crack and watch it

[01:58:24] [SPEAKER_04]: You should watch

[01:58:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So I do have this like long and pending nightmare that I've like had like two or three times in my life

[01:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: It's actually pretty crazy

[01:58:31] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I'll be like sleeping and then like we are like running from these like bad people like trying to kill us

[01:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, and like

[01:58:39] [SPEAKER_00]: basically they can only kill you if they like see you but they can only see you through technology so like

[01:58:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You got to get rid of your phone or they can just like blow up your phone and kill you like a bomb in your phone

[01:58:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Anytime they want like traffic cameras. They could track you like where they're at then or like anywhere that has any kind of like power

[01:58:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Or like technological connection

[01:58:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So like I run from them a little while in my dream and then like somehow we end up in like the swamp

[01:59:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And then we're like living how in the hog and we're out here like balling on people

[01:59:07] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I have this dream like probably like once or twice every year. Huh recurring dream

[01:59:12] [SPEAKER_00]: But anyways, I have learned how to avoid a lot of things through several of these episodes

[01:59:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's that's my nightmare. Wow, you're welcome. Wow

[01:59:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, it is always about the power grids and stuff because that's where everybody like all the bad guys like stay at

[01:59:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Mm-hmm

[01:59:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Watch watch that movie. I'll never sleep again. I'll never sleep again

[01:59:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Now this thing we will never suffer too much because foosball tables don't require power

[01:59:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Play it simple, right?

[01:59:43] [SPEAKER_02]: So we can still play

[01:59:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I mean we positive. Yeah. Well, we just we won't we won't be able to play against each other because we'll never see each other again

[01:59:52] [SPEAKER_06]: But we'll be still

[01:59:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Hannah's not laughing Hannah's not laughing. It's like I'll find you

[02:00:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna wipe these out so between your mom and dad you're you're in law's house and like my dad's house

[02:00:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Where is she gonna? Yeah, that's fine. I know I'll never see my parents again though. They're in the northeast. They'll be screwed

[02:00:13] [SPEAKER_06]: So whatever

[02:00:15] [SPEAKER_06]: My mom I missed you. Love you. Bye dad. See you later

[02:00:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Anyway, that is what it is. I mean look look I'm a realist it is what it is. I get it

[02:00:24] [SPEAKER_06]: I love my family, but I've been telling them and and my grandmother's 86 going to see her for Christmas

[02:00:30] [SPEAKER_06]: And I told my grandmother doesn't speak English. I call her twice a day actually forgot to call her tonight

[02:00:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I call it twice a day

[02:00:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, and I told her I said next year for Christmas. I want you to come see me right and she's immobile

[02:00:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, she only gets around the house and she laughed and she's like this is this is what she said

[02:00:47] [SPEAKER_06]: She's laughing in in portuguese. She goes

[02:00:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Not gonna be here next year and I was like I was like I said grandma

[02:00:54] [SPEAKER_06]: What in the hell and she and she said what I said if your teeth weren't gone, I'd knock them out of your mouth

[02:00:59] [SPEAKER_06]: Right. That's how I talked to my grandmother. I said don't don't do that. Don't do that

[02:01:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And she's like, ah, you know

[02:01:05] [SPEAKER_06]: Sometimes you just know I'm like, okay. Oh boy, but I've told I've told my parents. I'm like listen

[02:01:12] [SPEAKER_06]: You guys should just you should you should dump and run, right? I'm like sell everything just move down south and they're like

[02:01:19] [SPEAKER_06]: We're okay. We're okay. I'm like, all right

[02:01:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And I think anything north of new york city if anything was to happen like you just you just build a wall there

[02:01:28] [SPEAKER_06]: We'll never see those people again

[02:01:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I live in the the foothills of the adirondack mountains by the way

[02:01:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Which which is a pretty good pretty good fortress on it in and of itself

[02:01:38] [SPEAKER_06]: For the inexperience in the mountains, Tom, you know, they'll be fine. You got any guns? No

[02:01:46] [SPEAKER_06]: No, I'll strip you one buddy. Don't worry. Okay. No, don't it's new york. No the feds will come get you Hannah

[02:01:51] [SPEAKER_06]: It's new york. It's crazy. You can't do that. I don't know

[02:01:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, yeah

[02:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't don't do it. New york was interesting. I didn't go to new york this year. It was kind of sketching a lot

[02:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I was scared for that lie

[02:02:01] [SPEAKER_06]: No, no, so if you go up and if like where tom lives if you go up like the city's crazy, right? Because the city

[02:02:07] [SPEAKER_02]: It's not the same. It's not the same. No, no, no, no

[02:02:11] [SPEAKER_06]: New york city is not the same

[02:02:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Right. What's the population of the state of mississippi? Do you know hannah? Yeah, it's around like three million like two eight

[02:02:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, two eight

[02:02:18] [SPEAKER_06]: So the population of the whole state of alabama is eight million like roughly a little over eight

[02:02:22] [SPEAKER_06]: The population of the city new york just new york

[02:02:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Just new york is over eight million people. Mm-hmm closer to nine

[02:02:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah for one city and it and it's this big

[02:02:34] [SPEAKER_06]: So you have that many people in such like the whole state of new york is huge and it's beautiful when you go up state

[02:02:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Like where tom lives and going up the farther you go north the more country it is

[02:02:43] [SPEAKER_06]: But the city itself is it's crazy. Yeah, it's like this

[02:02:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Focused concentrated like like think about concentrating as many as nine million people on top of each other

[02:02:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Not next to each other but on top of each other

[02:02:56] [SPEAKER_02]: For you know floor after floor after floor after floor and then you know, you have what 20 square miles

[02:03:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Of space pretty much

[02:03:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like fathom that many people. Yeah, it's it like I barely got like 10 people in like

[02:03:11] [SPEAKER_02]: You know 15 square miles where I live. Oh and and then you wonder why people from new york are a little uptight

[02:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, makes sense

[02:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah

[02:03:22] [SPEAKER_02]: But there's some great foosball players in new york city don't get me wrong those guys, you know, they can play a pretty mean game

[02:03:28] [SPEAKER_06]: They're good dudes. I know a lot of them. They're they're super super nice guys

[02:03:31] [SPEAKER_06]: But oh, yeah, I just know I just know I know we're getting a little off topic. I just know that, you know

[02:03:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, I like where I live. I like living in the south and you know, uh

[02:03:42] [SPEAKER_06]: anyway

[02:03:45] [SPEAKER_02]: So the year 2024 is coming up and hey, you know, lots of good things can happen for foosball

[02:03:50] [SPEAKER_02]: We just have to kind of keep a good thought, you know

[02:03:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, if we don't kill ourselves. Hey so much the better. We're just gonna play more foosball

[02:03:59] [SPEAKER_06]: That's right. Right. Yeah, don't blow the grid up. Let's play some foosball. There you go

[02:04:03] [SPEAKER_06]: 2024 like I said, I want to go back to foos in the ball Hannah. Do you remember foos in the ball serving the ball?

[02:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I love that and I'll tell you it's a pity that people learn how to play this game

[02:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you go play two ball with them and they can't foos the ball

[02:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And you can do it. They're like

[02:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Wow, you made it go to yourself every time I was like, bro, I can do it like 10 out of 10

[02:04:24] [SPEAKER_00]: You want to bet and they're like no way and I was like, yeah, I'll even teach you how to do it

[02:04:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I ain't never gonna need it. Now. I was like that

[02:04:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly see listen back in the day

[02:04:36] [SPEAKER_06]: I used to practice serving myself the ball

[02:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Every time I put the ball on the table

[02:04:42] [SPEAKER_06]: There's no other way to do that. Yeah when I started I used to practice because it's like, okay

[02:04:47] [SPEAKER_06]: 4-4 crunch time

[02:04:48] [SPEAKER_06]: I need to make sure that this thing goes to me because I've seen it happen

[02:04:51] [SPEAKER_06]: 4-4 crunch time somebody goes to serve the ball and they give it right to the other guy

[02:04:55] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like no, I used to literally sit there and just serve the ball to myself

[02:04:59] [SPEAKER_02]: For hours for hours back in the early days back in the 70s when we're playing bonzini

[02:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: There was no there was no setting the ball on the table you you you learned how to glance it off the side of the table

[02:05:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And have it run across the the middle and whoever got it got it

[02:05:14] [SPEAKER_02]: That was it

[02:05:15] [SPEAKER_06]: So that's it was jump jump ball. So even yeah, even then there was a way to serve the ball. Yeah. Oh, yeah

[02:05:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely

[02:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Ready ready. Let me drop the ball right. I'm getting pretty good at like the whole practice toss like

[02:05:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like toss it bounces once on the strip lands directly on the third man on the five

[02:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I can make it do that like every time. Nice. I don't know why I practice that but I do

[02:05:40] [SPEAKER_02]: It's fine. It's whatever to minor rule of change. No big deal. We can make that happen. No biggie two points if you bounce it off the strip

[02:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go practice where it's tough. Yeah, we all practice

[02:05:50] [SPEAKER_06]: It's okay

[02:05:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I just want to go back to serving the ball. I do I don't know why I just want to go back to

[02:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I miss it. We should make t-shirts 2024 serve the dang ball. Damn the ball. You are good. Serve the leap

[02:06:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, and and it's like it's at the tournament directors discretion, right?

[02:06:11] [SPEAKER_06]: So I don't see why some tournament directors aren't like and now we're serving the ball this tournament

[02:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's do an event where we must serve the ball

[02:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh

[02:06:20] [SPEAKER_06]: um

[02:06:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, buster notes says uh buster notes says some uh used to used to serve to the three with a spin on the ball

[02:06:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you could

[02:06:29] [SPEAKER_06]: If it is fair, yeah, and then and spin in a certain way and it would just come in and spin right to your three rod

[02:06:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Todd had one where he could like flip it over their five

[02:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Like he was like set it in and then he was like

[02:06:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Do a funky like he would look like he's about to serve it like on top of the ball

[02:06:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you would and he would like go here and he would like dump it this way on like the backside of his finger

[02:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It would go right over there five to his three

[02:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It was really cool. I love that. I don't know why I saw him do that, but I have no, that's awesome

[02:06:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. There was a guy that used to play here local. Well not here back in massachusetts

[02:07:00] [SPEAKER_06]: There was a guy he since passed away

[02:07:02] [SPEAKER_06]: But he was in a wheelchair and he'd show up and play at the arcade all the time and um his left hand didn't work too well

[02:07:08] [SPEAKER_06]: But he would serve the ball always serve the ball with a spin to his three rod

[02:07:12] [SPEAKER_06]: And then he'd shoot a push kick or a push shot and he was pretty good

[02:07:15] [SPEAKER_06]: But I mean he had no left hand

[02:07:17] [SPEAKER_06]: He had no five so he'd always have to serve the ball like that

[02:07:19] [SPEAKER_06]: But when I started playing he was always around and he would he'd play guys for money

[02:07:23] [SPEAKER_06]: And he'd win just because he was serving the ball to himself all the time. So

[02:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, bring it bring it back bring it bring it back. Why not? Why not? Yeah, this could be a special event

[02:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Right just make it this you must serve the ball this way

[02:07:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to work on new five bar shots instead of saying ready right take bam. I would have to like

[02:07:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, right. I don't know what we could call it. We could call it open doubles

[02:07:46] [SPEAKER_06]: I think that's fair. Sorry

[02:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Now that's creative right there. That's creative. That's what we need creativity

[02:07:53] [SPEAKER_06]: It's not gonna happen

[02:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we can do it. Hey, I got an idea

[02:08:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll do it in the championship format when you're already a loser playing for third

[02:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll all just

[02:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Get together and learn how to lose the ball. You're already a loser

[02:08:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, that's a pretty good idea right, you know, I think I think that's why they stop playing two ball roller ball

[02:08:17] [SPEAKER_06]: Because people don't know how to serve the ball. That's why they stop playing. Yeah, that's a pity. I don't know

[02:08:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Bring it back

[02:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: See you got it. You got to dig into the past to make the future happen playing simple. I agree

[02:08:30] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, let's do it. Geez

[02:08:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, Hannah, I I I suspect you probably have a life

[02:08:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Tonight probably have something else but by hey

[02:08:44] [SPEAKER_02]: We just want to say that uh, it's it's great to get together and catch up because uh

[02:08:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, like like I was saying the beginning of the of the show

[02:08:51] [SPEAKER_02]: You are one of our favorite players one of our favorite people and and you're a nice person

[02:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks, tom. You all are nice. Sweet

[02:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like i'm talking too much and wasting too much people's time whenever i'm wondering i'm like

[02:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Are we over an hour? Oh gosh, we're over two. I need to shut up

[02:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't have this much content

[02:09:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I I talk too much. I talk way too much. Oh philbrook blew it blew the whole thing out

[02:09:14] [SPEAKER_02]: It was like what three hours and 40 minutes. I think not three three three 20. Okay, three 20

[02:09:19] [SPEAKER_06]: What was funny? He said I got a checklist. We haven't even dug into it yet because I haven't got to what I want to talk about yet

[02:09:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't got any of my time. How do you guys make that long without snacks like man. I don't know

[02:09:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it was rough

[02:09:32] I

[02:09:36] [SPEAKER_06]: And that's right

[02:09:38] [SPEAKER_02]: No, it's uh, it's it we one of the things I love about this is there is no there's no rules. There's no time limit

[02:09:44] [SPEAKER_02]: There's no, you know, you want to talk talk?

[02:09:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Right, that's what it's all about and we're talking about what we love so

[02:09:52] [SPEAKER_02]: there

[02:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Very cool. Yeah very cool setup. Yeah

[02:09:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I if you would like we could we could end it here. It's up to you

[02:10:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm fine with that. That's cool. Um, I gotta get up in the morning early to hopefully go beat the junk out of some

[02:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: feathered friends

[02:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: With my dog with your dog

[02:10:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Kujo is gonna be so psyched about going going out. No doubt. He's finally gonna get today. He was so upset today

[02:10:20] [SPEAKER_00]: We came back home. He sniffed the cuffs on my jacket. He

[02:10:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Discussed

[02:10:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And then he cried he sat there in wine

[02:10:27] [SPEAKER_00]: He never makes a noise and so I had to put my blanket on the floor for him and now he's not left the blanket since it's been there

[02:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: He's been sleeping the whole entire time just cuddled up. I'm just like

[02:10:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Poor puppy powder

[02:10:38] [SPEAKER_02]: and this is

[02:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Something you gotta make up for it. I can't let you guys roll. I know that we've been going for a while

[02:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I think I've covered everything I really want to say

[02:10:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I will say that my one goal for 2024 that would be like my impossible goal, but would be like really really nice

[02:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: would be uh

[02:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: A parents to come to it like a major like I would really like my parents to watch me win a world title

[02:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice, and it would be really really cool. They came and watched me make history and win

[02:11:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Four in a row and women's doubles

[02:11:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice, it's good. It's gonna have knowing you that'll happen. Knowing you that'll happen for sure

[02:11:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they've never actually seen me win one in person and I've won several and it's like I just want them

[02:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: And they even mentioned it like before Christmas. They were kind of like, you know, like when's your next turn

[02:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Like when's kickoff like once Kentucky like we I think we need to just come and watch you

[02:11:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So like

[02:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that that's like a really big goal. That'll be really like my there there

[02:11:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We have to get them on the air. We just have to bring him in but I gotta bring some extra microphones playing it simple

[02:11:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's an entertainer. I don't know if you have a

[02:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna have to have it. It's called a delay

[02:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, a delay

[02:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He's solid entertainment, but you know, you never know what you're gonna get. So all right. All right. Well

[02:11:52] [SPEAKER_02]: We've had other people on the air before like that

[02:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: So incidentally guys, I just want to mention to you that uh, the next week

[02:12:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Next two weeks actually we have christmas eve next week and then the week after is new year's eve

[02:12:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So with foos talk live, uh, it's not going to be live, but

[02:12:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what i'm gonna do

[02:12:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm gonna go through the list and we're gonna we're gonna count down the top 10

[02:12:15] [SPEAKER_02]: episodes of foosball radio foos talk live foos week

[02:12:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Top 10

[02:12:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Top 10 most downloaded most popular

[02:12:24] [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll start at number 10 10 through 5 next week

[02:12:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Then then we'll we'll finish the list on new year's eve

[02:12:29] [SPEAKER_02]: But uh, so I got a little work to do to to uh to give you some of the highlights of each one of those

[02:12:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Those uh those episodes, but it'll be a lot of fun. I think

[02:12:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I can I can tell you I know right now which one is number one, but i'm not gonna i'm not gonna say

[02:12:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, I feel like I know which one too, but okay, but I'm very excited to hear that's a cool idea

[02:12:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, touche. It's um, that'll give randy time to to recover

[02:12:56] [SPEAKER_02]: fully

[02:12:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And uh and of course then then we can we can plot and plan for uh for next year and see what uh

[02:13:04] [SPEAKER_02]: What what falls out of the sky?

[02:13:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh some more names some more people that we got to get on the air here, but anyway

[02:13:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So since we're not going to see each other till 2024. Wow hannah very christmas and happy new year

[02:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, same to you guys. I'm glad I got to uh

[02:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: See you guys and wish you guys a happy holidays before they're here, but um, it's my favorite time of the year

[02:13:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I love it. Nice. I hate holidays. I hate them so much

[02:13:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Tell uh

[02:13:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Tell tell tell brak. I said, what's up? Yes, both you guys your families everything. Yep. So best regards to brak

[02:13:41] [SPEAKER_02]: We're we're gonna get him on the air in 2024 by the way. Just just let him know

[02:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: I know i'm sorry. It was just bad timing

[02:13:46] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm surprised we like we were supposed to actually not be home

[02:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And we were supposed to be somewhere else because we were going on there

[02:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But then we found like a million birds this afternoon. So we just decided to stay home

[02:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's crazy, but we weren't supposed to be here. That's why I had trouble scheduling it

[02:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'll do better once I'm not doing

[02:14:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Apologies. Yeah, you're fine. Yep. Yep. It was it was perfect

[02:14:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, but we'll we'll see we'll see each other at the kickoff every I think

[02:14:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Tom will be there. You'll be there. Brack will be there. I'll be there. So we'll all get to hang out at the kickoff

[02:14:15] [SPEAKER_02]: So it'll be good looking forward to that. Yeah, it sounds like a maybe a doubles match in play there

[02:14:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know we'll see

[02:14:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay, as long as as long as I get bracklin. Yes

[02:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: That's fair. I'll try I'll try to do my best

[02:14:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Me and Tom we got you anyway. Yeah, it's a it's a done deal

[02:14:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, now it's happening. Okay. It's a done deal

[02:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: And the best part about is Hannah knows Bracklin's game already

[02:14:41] [SPEAKER_02]: That's okay, and y'all don't know my game. So that's so there

[02:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the thing is I do know how to serve the foosball and I don't know if bracklin does

[02:14:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Ooh

[02:14:53] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll teach you music that's learning it'll only take a minute

[02:14:55] [SPEAKER_06]: See

[02:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Tom, do you know how to do you know how to serve the ball or no? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah

[02:15:02] [SPEAKER_02]: All right, we're good and do it well

[02:15:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, but but I digress because I play back so there's that

[02:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Not any more not any more

[02:15:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow. All right. Okay. I'm gonna have to practice my uh my wall pass I guess

[02:15:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Um

[02:15:22] [SPEAKER_06]: Bracklin just sit on the wall buddy and just sit on the wall. That's all you gotta do. That's it. That's it

[02:15:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Randy

[02:15:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Merry Christmas. Happy new year, man. I hope you're you're you're you're killing this so

[02:15:36] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm just having fun. I get to talk about foosball. I love foosball. There you go

[02:15:39] [SPEAKER_06]: You know great people like Hannah coming on. It's a good time. So I'm enjoying myself

[02:15:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I appreciate you having me on. I hope you and your family have a very merry christmas and happy new year

[02:15:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh for everybody listening same thing. Yep. Happy onica or whatever you do for the juice

[02:15:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And all that good stuff. So yeah back back at it in 2024 with foos talk live and uh next week

[02:16:00] [SPEAKER_02]: We will count them down count down the most popular or the top downloaded episodes of foos talk live and foosball radio

[02:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: So there you have it

[02:16:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Um

[02:16:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and uh stay tuned because we do have uh this week's edition of the foos talk live tournament beat headed your way right now

[02:16:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Foosball tournaments are everywhere

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[02:16:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what's up. I love produce presents the mid-atlantic foosball holliday event

[02:16:33] [SPEAKER_02]: December 30th at belafonte brewing company willmington delaware

[02:16:38] [SPEAKER_02]: We begin the competition year of 2024 with the southern women's foosball championship

[02:16:45] [SPEAKER_02]: January 12th through the 14th at cuphoria billiards and cafe winter park florida

[02:16:50] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the first 518 foosball smashdown of 2024

[02:16:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Scheduled for january 13th at trick shots billiards and wicked eatery clifton park new york

[02:17:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Here comes the 716 buffalo foosball clubs seventh anniversary tournament

[02:17:06] [SPEAKER_02]: january 13th at bison billiards in buffalo new york

[02:17:10] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the 2024 tour kickoff with the 20 000 kentucky state championships

[02:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: February 1st through the 4th at the clarrion hotel in lexington kentucky

[02:17:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Don't miss the 2024 south dakota state foosball championships

[02:17:25] [SPEAKER_02]: February 23rd through the 25th at royal river casino and hotel flandro south dakota

[02:17:32] [SPEAKER_02]: The 508 foosball club presents the first annual wicked winter foosball tournament

[02:17:37] [SPEAKER_02]: February 24th at don carlos in fall river massachusetts

[02:17:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Plan your vacation with the 2024 costa rica summer beach tournament

[02:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: March 7th through the 10th

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[02:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the 2024 wisconsin state championship set for march 21st through the 24th at the clarrion hotel in appleton wisconsin

[02:18:03] [SPEAKER_02]: international foosball promotions presents the 2024 hall of fame classic

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