FoosTalk Live | Ep 191 | Donald Wilson on the points

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[00:02:06] And here we are, episode number 191. Still in the year 2024 by the way. Hey there I'm

[00:02:13] Tom, not here last week. Mostly because I couldn't talk. I could basically whisper that

[00:02:20] was all I could do last week. So I didn't think you'd be digging on that for our episode

[00:02:25] of Foostalk Live. So I called in sick. What are you going to do? But we are back this week

[00:02:30] for episode 191, a big episode this week because we're going to be talking about a lot

[00:02:35] of things, including some of the points changes that are taking place within the ITSF

[00:02:41] and of course the IFP. And we're going to talk about the players reset and this kind

[00:02:47] of thing. And we're going to go on with Donald Wilson who's going to join us by the way.

[00:02:51] I know he's exactly what he's talking about. Speaking in which, talking about what they

[00:02:55] know about, that would be when it comes to talking about foosball, of course, I got

[00:03:00] to remember to introduce my cohort Randy Raposo from Alabama. Hello Randy.

[00:03:09] I am well. Thank you very much. I'm feeling so much better. I can actually speak once

[00:03:13] again. It's it's an uncanny thing because it was what four or five days, including last

[00:03:20] weekend I was playing in the local smash down. I could play but I couldn't talk. But maybe

[00:03:25] that while you look great. Yeah, you look great. So congratulations Tom on your open doubles

[00:03:32] win carrying Tommy your to a smash down victory. He know, I reminded him that there was a reason

[00:03:38] he moved to the upstate New York area. You know, so he could actually play with a caliber

[00:03:43] of such as myself but see get some get some lessons and then he had a tough time playing

[00:03:48] because he was laughing so hard. But you know, that's just just me. It's my sense of humor.

[00:03:54] Laughter does something to some part of you or whatever. So yeah, no, but hey man,

[00:04:00] that's a W that's a big win. You beat Sam Samian Kevin Westcott in the finals, right?

[00:04:05] Yeah. So we went down we were in King's seat and they tried to try to double dip us.

[00:04:09] They got us in the first set but came back and took the final the final set. It was I have

[00:04:14] to say though, I would I would say I could safely die now because I've now had the most

[00:04:20] ultimate experience in Fuse Bowl and and Akudos tatami for saying dude, let's play together.

[00:04:27] I mean, you think I'm going to say no tatami or of course, wow.

[00:04:32] Of course. What a right that right that wave Tom, right it. What a team Tom. Let's go. Yeah.

[00:04:39] And I just figured this out mathematically. He's 40 years younger than I am 40 years.

[00:04:45] That's that's some tough math but you know, the next time somebody picks on me at a

[00:04:49] Fuse Bowl tournament, I'll say hey, you shut up. I'm going to introduce you to my big brother,

[00:04:54] Tommy and you'll learn. I don't know how far that's going to get you. I don't know. I don't know.

[00:05:01] I mean, he'll be true in Fuse Bowl. I don't know about anything else. Well, I know I know I know

[00:05:06] Tommy Tommy used to play hockey. Tommy was hockey player. Oh yeah. He's not messing around.

[00:05:10] He's not messing around but no, it's thanks for the for the for the kind words. It was it was a blast

[00:05:16] and you know, the smash downs are always fun. You know, there's no question. They're always

[00:05:21] competitive. Yeah. Competitive good Fuse Bowl like Mississippi yesterday they had a good one man.

[00:05:27] I wish I could have made it right. They had a they had a TK a warm up shout out to Shannon

[00:05:32] Coley. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Shannon does a great job promoting Fuse Bowl in Mississippi. They have

[00:05:37] a ton of great players there. They had a great turnout and I just want to shout out a couple my

[00:05:42] local guys Jeremy Monroe Lamar Ray Wesley Parrot. They had they had they had really good results

[00:05:50] yesterday. Jeremy took like third and open singles and I think Lamar and Wesley got like fifth

[00:05:55] and doubles and yeah they played really well for being scrubs. They had good finishes so shout out

[00:06:01] to those guys and again, uh, to Shannon for for doing a great job and of course to Mr. Donald

[00:06:06] our guest tonight for helping Shannon make it happen. Uh-huh. He always does a good job. If you go

[00:06:10] to a Fuse Bowl tournament, uh, anywhere in this South region, uh, you know, Mississippi, Louisiana

[00:06:16] area there's there's probably a 99% chance you're going to see Mr. Donald there. Yes indeed indeed.

[00:06:23] He's a he's a mainstay and has been around forever and ever and ever and has taught a lot of people

[00:06:27] out of play Fuse Bowl. And here we are talking talking about him in the third person. Let's let's

[00:06:32] bring him on. Let's let's abuse him face to face. What do you say? Donald Wilson, are you with

[00:06:36] are you with us? Can you hear us? Yes, I was I was going to do one of those after he got through, uh,

[00:06:43] saying how good his his buddies did over there. I was going to do the clap and then he had to start

[00:06:47] talking about me so I took the crickets and then I said, no, I'm just going to leave it alone.

[00:06:52] The one the one-handed clap is that what you're saying? The one-handed clap. Well, no, there's, uh,

[00:06:55] you know, on here, um, there's a thing on here where I can use things to do. Oh,

[00:07:02] I'm not gonna compete. I've never been I've been over here playing because man, I've never been on

[00:07:06] the computer like, oh, there it is. There you go. Beautiful. There it is. You figured it out. We can't

[00:07:11] we can't see your face. There's a button you can hit where we can actually see your face too.

[00:07:15] Now your hands don't want to see you, but okay. I get it. There it is. All right.

[00:07:21] That's a response with. I did see that button, but I was looking to see if they had any filters.

[00:07:27] Oh, that I could filter out the my background like they do on some others. They do.

[00:07:31] Oh yeah, they do because I might still have some Christmas stuff up and I don't want to be one of

[00:07:36] those guys, you know, I give you a sneak peek. Okay. Here we go. Tell it. Drum roll please. Let's see what

[00:07:44] happens. All my drums are in the other room. Yeah, it's saying allow your camera. So I guess I

[00:07:50] got to do that too. It's gonna take there we go. What? I can't see any Christmas stuff. I don't see

[00:07:55] Christmas stuff. It's behind me on the ground in the bags waiting to go up and add it. Oh,

[00:08:00] nothing. That's see, you know, if you hadn't said anything, we wouldn't know it was there, Donald. We

[00:08:04] wouldn't have any idea. I just see a big ball of handsome. That's all I can do. Yeah, I hear you.

[00:08:09] I hear you. You look wide awake actually after this long weekend being in Mississippi and

[00:08:14] it's a funny story. Funny story. Okay, let's hear it. All right, I got in. Get in about

[00:08:22] a little after two. Went to my son's house because he lives up there and because I live

[00:08:27] I live down south now. I'll be about I was about an hour and 45 minutes away. So I went to his house,

[00:08:32] crashed, woke up took a shower, went to church after about three or four hours of sleep.

[00:08:39] I always sit on about the second row because I don't want no distractions. I want to hear what I

[00:08:43] need to hear no distractions. And I was thinking, oh, I don't need to get sleepy. This is going to be bad.

[00:08:51] But I didn't but I didn't and as soon as it's over, you know, my wife, they came up in their

[00:08:55] vehicle because we still go to church up in Jackson area. So I said, do you have plans for

[00:09:02] chapter? And she said not really. I said, okay, I got plans. I'm going home. So I came straight

[00:09:09] home, got home about, I don't know, three o'clock. And I went to sleep. There you go.

[00:09:17] As you should. Then they got home about

[00:09:21] Evan 15 or so, seven 15 and I woke up and I was like, okay, man, I tell you what,

[00:09:28] I totally forgot everything I was supposed to do. I'm like, okay, I'm ready to go back

[00:09:33] to sleep and then Randy takes me and I'm like, oh yeah, oh that's tonight. And then Tom, I sent

[00:09:38] you on a messenger. I said, what time now? A team minutes ago. Anyway, but I'm here, you know,

[00:09:47] I'm used to going on no sleep hardly from tournaments of course, but when I worked before I

[00:09:55] retired, I worked nights shift so I'm used to working nights in the other days. Yeah, yeah,

[00:10:01] hear that. But anyway, I'm here. I'm good. I'm ready. Yeah. And I know the hot topic,

[00:10:06] what everybody's wanting to talk about is points and I'm ready to dive in whenever you are.

[00:10:12] Very cool. I think we will definitely get to that before we get to that though. I do want

[00:10:16] to talk about TKO in Kentucky because I'm going to be there. Randy, you're going to be there.

[00:10:21] Correct. Oh yeah, Donald, you're going to be there. I presume yes. Okay.

[00:10:30] Yeah, so my hand was on my head. I couldn't get to the cricket. Yeah. What,

[00:10:36] be there? What pretel are we expected to see there? I know that they've done some renovations

[00:10:41] there at the Clarion. What can we explain? Hotel has only been remodeled.

[00:10:46] Whole ballroom is different. They gutted it all the way to the walls, all four sides

[00:10:56] and it's just one huge room that of course, going to be divided into smaller rooms but

[00:11:01] we used the whole thing for worlds and still had room in there to store the boxes. And again,

[00:11:07] nice. All I heard was compliments of how the room looked. They was glad they could see from one

[00:11:12] end to the other. I believe we're just going to use one part of it. I don't think we're going

[00:11:15] to use the whole thing with the TKO, but it's going to be nice. Again, everything new ceiling,

[00:11:23] new walls, new carpet and thank you, Lord for new carpet because that carpet comes up in nightmare

[00:11:30] sometime that they used to have. Anyway, it's good. And from what I heard, they're supposed to be

[00:11:35] doing rooms and then the whole property around them. They own a lot of property. They're going to build

[00:11:40] some suites on the property, another hotel on the property. So they think it's going to really

[00:11:44] have that place looking nice. And it's due because you know, worlds books out every year. I mean

[00:11:51] yeah, all rooms are gone and people have to stay next to it. So another hotel on the property will be

[00:11:57] awesome. Oh yeah. But anyway, that's what you're going to expect out of the hotel. They have that

[00:12:03] restaurant. Sedania I believe is what it's called. Sedona, yes. Yeah, that's the donut. That thing is

[00:12:10] good. That's good. That's good. That's the way that fillet. Oh, that fillet is nice. I like it. Right? Yeah.

[00:12:16] Yeah, it's got some good stuff. There's one. There's one meal. I don't like the name because it's

[00:12:20] called devil something but I tell you what. It's good. Because it's spicy. Is that a problem?

[00:12:28] Oh yeah. Oh, oh, I've got shrimp and grits there. Shrimp and I've never had shrimp and grits before,

[00:12:34] but I had it last time I was there and it was good. That sounds like I like to eat. I'll eat anything. I

[00:12:39] mean, I remember what used to be there and it was not good. Right. Now what's there is very good. So

[00:12:47] yeah, I'll take it. I'll take it. We do miss them. I have a good clientele. Have a good clientele to come

[00:12:52] there too. Yeah. And they always give foosball players a rate. So make sure you find out. Okay.

[00:12:58] From somebody on staff if they got that going on, I'm sure they will. I didn't know that. I've been

[00:13:03] overpowered. Now you tell them man, what is up with that? Well, I think they give us some kind of

[00:13:10] special if you order from the bar not going to sit down but order from the bar. Right. Take back

[00:13:15] over there and eat back in the foosball area or something like that. Okay. I didn't know.

[00:13:18] Yeah, we're gonna oh yeah, something else to inspect this year at the TKO and probably

[00:13:24] worlds is there's going to be a guy there named Tom that's going to do some podcast while he's there.

[00:13:30] Yeah. So we're gonna try to have your goods. We're gonna try to have your goods spot

[00:13:35] cool right there off from the pits and maybe Mary's not watching I can say this without getting in trouble.

[00:13:43] We kind of had an idea. Okay. I don't know how I don't know how available you're going to be around

[00:13:48] but after some really big heated matches, finals per se. Maybe have the winners come over

[00:13:54] and let you interview them talk to them or something. Oh, I think that would be a fun idea.

[00:13:59] Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's not good to talk about that like it sometimes because

[00:14:06] I'm okay being a loser talking but just give me five minutes. Right. Yeah. It's not gonna be one

[00:14:11] talk. Stick the microphone in your face as soon as you let go of the handles. How do you feel?

[00:14:16] Yeah. Right. How do you think I feel?

[00:14:18] I feel great. Randy, how do you feel? I feel great. I do. I'm gonna get my money and leave now. Thank you.

[00:14:25] Yeah. Exactly. Another second place plaque. Thank you. Let's go.

[00:14:31] Yeah. The first time actually Fuz talk live or Fuz ball radio what live on the road was at the TKO in 2019

[00:14:38] and that was momentous because Mary was so so. Chuck and Nino right? Chuck and Nino?

[00:14:43] Yeah. Chuck and Nino. Yeah. I remember. That trip we got a chance to sit in Mary's suite and talk

[00:14:50] with none other than Tony Maserati for a length of time, for about an hour in fact.

[00:14:56] And he did a really nice interview and you know great sense of humor of course but that was

[00:15:02] so kind of Mary to give us that space to do those those interviews and you know we'll never

[00:15:08] forget that. We're looking forward to something a bit more a bit more involved this time of course

[00:15:13] but you know we have to we have to it's gonna be good and and the start to year off

[00:15:20] we're going to have our USTSO championships. Oh yeah right um those those that don't know it

[00:15:26] and I you know I've put videos out I've done live feeds and we actually have something on our website

[00:15:33] which is being reconstructed should be done hopefully within a week or two. Cool um about USTSO

[00:15:41] you know we're not when I became president a few years ago. I said I'll do it but I want to be

[00:15:47] for everybody not just the masters I want to be for masters all the way down to the beginner.

[00:15:51] I'm Ricky is so with the help of of Tommy York your partner. I guess we're just going to start calling

[00:16:00] Tom's partner. Yeah. All right. Okay. You should know who you're talking about. Tom's

[00:16:06] right. Yeah he said he always likes it when they have point races so we brainstormed has a

[00:16:12] board we come up with uh we'll do a singles point race each year you know and that way it's

[00:16:18] something for everybody you're not just paying money just to be able to play an ITSF event you're

[00:16:23] playing money now to help support USA Foosball and to be a part of a bigger group of players

[00:16:32] as Federation members and you know the ultimate dream is uh Foosball to be in the Olympics.

[00:16:40] Yeah and there are a lot of steps I know they've been talking about this for 20 years or longer

[00:16:45] 15 years there's steps you got to go through getting the Olympics one of them is it's got to be a

[00:16:50] national sport and right now Foosball is a national sport in about maybe 15 countries that's it

[00:16:58] and we need more countries you know and one thing is you got to build your player base gotta have

[00:17:04] people in schools gotta have people everywhere playing and so it's that everybody does you know

[00:17:10] up thing with United States is we have ace ball we have soccer you have ball we have basketball

[00:17:18] we have all these different things in some of these other countries they have Foosball

[00:17:22] then they have soccer yeah and then they have Foosball then they have soccer and then there's

[00:17:29] Foosball you know and we're not we're not like that we're never going to be like that but you know

[00:17:36] when and and we'll talk more about this in a little bit about the points but when

[00:17:40] when when Mary was going through the points you have 14,000 people in the system. Not many

[00:17:52] out of that many you have about 2000 at play each year active yeah active you know some play

[00:17:59] some area some play it others and then there's some that play Arado Texas in California that

[00:18:05] aren't even on the system huh no I I have to rate tournaments any tournaments is sanctioned by

[00:18:14] iTSF I have to put them in iTSF system so I know for a fact I'm adding five to ten players

[00:18:21] every tournament. She's new and so the problem is back then they would come pay

[00:18:28] everybody talks about how back then they paid out a lot of money a lot of places well you know

[00:18:33] I amateur would pay a hundred fifty dollar entry fee to just get an open doubles no so they paid

[00:18:38] high money i remember masters paid close to 400 getting in the van. Oh yeah I remember my first

[00:18:45] world it's like I think I think masters masters were paying 350 for singles and like 350 for

[00:18:51] they're like they were paying a lot of money for entry fees absolutely yeah and and of course

[00:18:56] they also got big payouts but they also even had sponsors back then because I remember going to

[00:19:02] tournaments getting some not that I would need to now some hair hair stuff from a hair guy hair

[00:19:08] person. They had Ed Bull I think one time or something by monster drink or somebody was doing

[00:19:13] they always have sponsors back when torn I was doing it but I know you know time get tough and people

[00:19:18] just want to hold on their money. Yeah I don't think to have Corona Corona sponsored Vegas tournament

[00:19:25] once I remember they're like a little corona table there they did that yeah no I you know the

[00:19:32] the thing with the points is weird but I want to ask you something specifically about the USTSO

[00:19:37] what what day is the points race is the playoff this year at the kickoff. It's it's it's on a

[00:19:43] Thursday and it'll start till four o'clock that afternoon okay so this go ahead I'm sorry

[00:19:52] and the masters and the women's D1 they started five now there's a single elimination but all places

[00:19:59] get paid last place gets paid first place gets paid and there's no entry fee huh yeah and that's

[00:20:05] I think that's outstanding I mean if you qualify it's because you've played and you've earned

[00:20:09] the right to qualify but okay this is this is my one gripe with it and I think we've had this

[00:20:14] conversation before um we want we want this to be something that everybody gets involved with right

[00:20:22] we want we want to make these points races humongous the more players that get in the more money

[00:20:26] that comes in to support the United States table soccer organization association you know

[00:20:33] uh american fuzball all that stuff and and the top 16 qualify it'd be great if we had a hundred

[00:20:40] players in each bracket trying to vie for that top 16 but why why are we doing it on Thursday

[00:20:49] and I understand like you know tables and time and all that stuff but we I feel like this should be

[00:20:55] something that should be like a premier event that you know it should be on a Friday night or

[00:20:59] a Saturday so everybody can be watching because if I qualify I know and it happened to me the first

[00:21:07] year you did it I qualified an expert and then it was on like Wednesday and I was like I can't take

[00:21:12] three extra days out of work to complete this event so it was super it was super disappointing for

[00:21:18] me to not be able to do it because I I want to go win I want you know I want to win that title that

[00:21:23] for me that's something prestigious so you know why can we not make this like a Friday night at

[00:21:29] least a Friday night thing as opposed to a Thursday and that's that is a good good question

[00:21:36] and a good complaint because I know the first two years we had it Sullivan Rue and even Keisha

[00:21:42] Rue qualified they couldn't get flights out and take off as long to get there on the Wednesday it's

[00:21:48] on a Thursday this time the reason it's not on a Friday night is because number one

[00:21:55] it's it's not our tournament okay we're piggyback riding on some ones event and we try to keep

[00:22:01] it on the first tournament of the year no matter who it is you know or maybe the last tournament of

[00:22:07] the year so not in the middle year because you don't want to start having a new point racing and

[00:22:13] then play a year of you know so so piggybacking on a on a tournament they're they're giving up like

[00:22:20] four to five hours of play time for us and and and of course they're not going to interrupt their

[00:22:26] schedule and I understand that when it gets to the point Randy were to be a hundred per per group

[00:22:33] battle now for top 16 that is when USTSO is going to have their own event and that will be that

[00:22:40] will be like a Saturday all day Saturday main event but we got to grow it you know because

[00:22:46] USTSO will have to rent the tables I can provide all the audio equipment and stuff because I had

[00:22:53] that but we would have to rent you know we'd have to pay for a software from somebody and of course

[00:22:58] corals coming out of the new software so as free to federation once they get it going again we'll

[00:23:02] have to rent tables from somebody because we just we wouldn't be able to buy them ourselves or

[00:23:06] anything like that so but but the board we talk about all the time when it finally gets to the

[00:23:10] point where it is that big that's that's one of our goals to have a standalone USTSO championship

[00:23:16] event and that way we would include team competition like we do with the North America Cup and that's

[00:23:20] a lot of fun and you know have our regular regular other events but that is a goal right now it's

[00:23:27] just not feasible for USTSO to do a stand alone tournament until it does grow and and and I do take

[00:23:34] responsibility for for the growth issues because we're not getting information out there I still have

[00:23:39] people this past year I had two people qualify they said what was this for oh they didn't know why

[00:23:46] they were they were qualified they knew they know why well they they wanted to pay the $25 to be a

[00:23:52] member of USTSO and help support foosball sure but they just thought that was it you know oh so they

[00:23:58] said well what's this for and I kind of laugh I said well it's for a little point ratio having

[00:24:02] and you made it into the top if you look at our people who did I mean we only had like

[00:24:08] I don't know 10 10 pros be involved we had about 10 or 12 masters of golf we had

[00:24:14] 16 experts we had 16 amateurs are our 12 amateurs and 16

[00:24:22] but you saw me last year we did least fill up everything up to expert and it's just it's just

[00:24:28] you know I guess some people forgot it's a yearly thing to sign up you know you pay once a year

[00:24:33] the dues but I'm gonna try to make 2024 be better and and make it to where it gets out there more

[00:24:43] that's why I'm having a big push starting at the beginning of this year and I've already asked

[00:24:47] if there's any people who would like to volunteer to help USTSO with it be social media but I

[00:24:53] post and you know stuff about tournaments or just keeping stuff current on our Facebook page

[00:24:58] in our website we're we're looking for people who would want to help and do that

[00:25:03] we're looking for people who who want to write articles yeah there's people we're looking

[00:25:07] for people who wants to help us do articles you know I want to start a top top 10 each month

[00:25:15] that on our website and Facebook page who the top 10 players are and the men and women you know

[00:25:19] just stuff like that kind of like our old tabletop just put information out there

[00:25:24] I missed those tabletop yeah right yeah that's a great we started to try to do electronic

[00:25:31] yes that's right uh oh look electronic yes sir electronic yeah let's

[00:25:35] let you tie your tire your tire it's okay yeah table top at least I caught myself yes well

[00:25:42] and here's another thing one termized that and I was doing some commentating in the crowd while

[00:25:46] they were playing thereby was laughing and cutting up and I said you should do that I said they

[00:25:50] would have to change it and call it redneck commentating no telling walk on come out my my you know I'm

[00:25:56] saying anyway uh it couldn't possibly be as bad as Mark Taurus I'm sorry but just couldn't

[00:26:03] possibly be as bad that's true I really tried that y'all had another guy y'all had to do a lot

[00:26:10] of bleeping one time you had on your show oh yeah um we want to go there but anyway um

[00:26:19] so um and see and I'm getting old and aged I'll be 60 next year oh come on your spring chicken

[00:26:26] for god's sake I'm starting to forget I'm starting to forget things just like what we were just

[00:26:30] talking about before I got into all this but anyway the USTS um well I knew it was talking about

[00:26:35] that yeah but um you were talking about volunteers volunteers yeah volunteers uh I did pick up a

[00:26:41] volunteer uh Dan and Newton you know every time we have a USTSO we had to put our entries first through

[00:26:48] last so they can get their ITSF points and Kristen Grogan trained Diana how to do it and so most

[00:26:55] you've been knocking it out she every tournament uh I have make sure she has a password and

[00:27:00] the log in to get in there and she knocks it out and all I do is go in there and put the ones that

[00:27:04] aren't members I make a member's ITSF and apply it to the tournament put them in so she's been

[00:27:09] a tremendous help she enjoys doing it and I'm getting people reaching out to me at the point

[00:27:14] of race it's all done manually it's all done just putting them in and using the guides and I've

[00:27:20] had two people say look I'd love to shadow you why you're doing this because I can write your

[00:27:25] program and it'll help you out and I'm like help me please so yeah I think very very urban know

[00:27:30] it she's one of them that knows computers pretty good she told me she would like to help and

[00:27:34] and I've had some more reach out so I'm definitely gonna reach out this year uh I did drop the ball

[00:27:39] with putting results out every quarter like I wanted to it's just because we had so many tournaments

[00:27:43] last year yeah I mean that's that's why I'm married just kind of quit he said we need to hold

[00:27:49] them back because after every tournament they would have to change partners you know you might plan

[00:27:53] with somebody let's play at this tournament come up TKO you go to a tournament that's getting

[00:27:57] ranked and you move up well I got a new partner so we kind of look at that but you know what

[00:28:04] that's the way foosball used to be in the days and that's the way we're going to now this year

[00:28:08] we're not I agree I think that's how it should be that's it that's it yeah this year we're not

[00:28:12] holding points that's that's why I still want to talk about TKO as much as as possible but

[00:28:19] this right here when I'm talking about now does lead into the points change okay why we did that

[00:28:24] so I'll go back to that in a minute but anyway TKO we had that championship we'll crown our cop

[00:28:30] USTSO player in each rank you know most it might not be the top player by points but it's

[00:28:36] it's the one who played in the most USTSO points tournament and supported foosball and

[00:28:43] and gained the points and now we have a playoff and uh so it's gonna be a lot of fun

[00:28:48] well and this is this is just my thinking and again you know I'm just I'm just a player on the

[00:28:53] sidelines I don't know what goes on behind the scenes but I'm just thinking from a business

[00:28:58] perspective and and I understand the end result is to have the the USTSO have its own tournament right

[00:29:08] but from a business perspective like we're piggybacking on the kickoff that's Mary's event great

[00:29:15] right if she can give up you know some time on a Saturday morning to do this single elimination

[00:29:21] playoff for for all the divisions the players that are gonna come and play it's not like they're

[00:29:27] gonna come and play and just play the USTSO playoff they're gonna come and play everything so if she

[00:29:33] would be willing to give up some time and some tables to get the USTSO stuff done and get it out there

[00:29:40] the people that are coming to play that are also gonna give her entry fees to play ifp events

[00:29:46] and that's just how my brain functions so I might be wrong I might be dumb I don't know I'm just saying

[00:29:53] if I'm her I go no you know what we're gonna do the USTSO thing Saturday morning at 10 a.m

[00:29:58] we're gonna give you tables over there over there here and we're gonna knock it out because we don't

[00:30:03] have to do a rookie amateur mixed one hand of doubles and uh one hand of doubles I'm just saying

[00:30:12] there doesn't have to be 40 events and you know look I'm not cynical I love look I love Fuzbo I love

[00:30:20] Fuzbo okay I love Jesus I love my family I love my dog I love Fuzbo okay I I want to see the sport

[00:30:30] grow and I do I do but I just think that um you know things have been done a certain way for so long

[00:30:39] that we've just gotten so used to it and nobody wants to try anything different and the fact that

[00:30:44] you guys are doing this thing with the USTSO when you're trying to branch out and people are trying

[00:30:48] to do different things it's great and I want to support it but like I said I don't want to okay

[00:30:54] I qualified great it's on Thursday I can't go I want to go play but I can't go if it was on Saturday

[00:31:00] I'm gonna be there anyway so I'm gonna come play let's go I'm I'm gonna do it but I just think that um

[00:31:06] you know the our perspective and our approach we just need to kind of broaden our perspective on

[00:31:12] the situation but uh you know again it's 25 bucks I'll give you 25 bucks I don't have to play

[00:31:19] I'll just give you the 25 bucks if it's gonna help support Fuzbo so it definitely it definitely

[00:31:24] does go a long way and helps out because uh we do pay a yearly fee to be a part of the world

[00:31:30] federation and so that does help but all the extra money after the federation is uh just to tell

[00:31:37] you on our financial side we do this all voluntarily okay none of us get paid and then I get

[00:31:43] I I I admit I get a little jealous when I hear the other federation in other countries they pay

[00:31:48] their stat they pay their board or all their people money and I said how in the working I'll do

[00:31:53] that well we charge forty dollars a person and they have ten thousand people they have ten thousand

[00:31:58] people giving them forty bucks right right they have over four thousand members yep and uh so

[00:32:04] that's how and I'm like okay it won't happen here but it will still be good to have some good

[00:32:09] tournaments and that's and with the money bring that we bring in we pay our dues right rest of

[00:32:15] the money you put into the championship okay and when we have when we have a vent sanction they pay

[00:32:23] money to have a sanction it's not a freebie so um they pay anywhere from fifty to a hundred

[00:32:29] dollars to sanction which whichever level it is at their tournament that money gets put back

[00:32:33] and goes in there for this year championship we have between six and seven grand that's going out

[00:32:38] just for this event wow and uh it cool and I can't put out well I can't put out what we're paying

[00:32:44] yet because I don't know how many is going to be there I put a deadline of the twenty six to let

[00:32:48] me know ask people your payouts if everybody's there it would probably be three hundred for first

[00:32:55] and and twenty five for last if everybody shows up that's going to be the minimum right there so

[00:33:01] it's going to be a good payout um good way to start a week in tournament I get your Randy I would

[00:33:07] love for it to be a Saturday you know what man I would just I would probably pass out if it was on

[00:33:13] the Saturday I would give you CPR even a even a Friday night but that that would be we do want

[00:33:22] that to be the highlight of the tournament but we do understand the financial part the promoters

[00:33:27] trying to make sure their schedule is okay and still fit us in that way we don't have to pay rental

[00:33:32] on a table we don't have to pay time and we're in there uh yeah I like your idea we would love

[00:33:37] for it to be a weekend and we would love to see it before we have a standalone but hey whatever works

[00:33:43] we got to take for now you know yes at least at least you did cut out Wednesday and went to a

[00:33:48] Thursday yep um okay and you know she even she even made a comment to me about you know maybe

[00:33:54] I should move my misheapestate to the last tournament of the year and have it there I said that

[00:33:59] would be a conflict of injuries I think I did that just for me and uh so that would have to be

[00:34:04] it that would have to be a board move you know I don't want to be that guy but uh I know you'd

[00:34:08] like it because you're right next door um five hours away I love that tournament I'm always there

[00:34:12] it's one of my favorites one of my diffute if you've never been a Mississippi state you got to come

[00:34:17] the mr. Donald does a great job the staff does a great job the tournaments great the foods good

[00:34:23] uh yeah it's a good foosball good players you know put vote me on the board

[00:34:29] there you go there you go vote me on the board and I will vote to move the tournament to miss

[00:34:34] Mississippi state okay so anyway so there's you know it's not it's not stationary it will change

[00:34:41] around it depends on tournaments and again it is a talk we talk at least every other board

[00:34:49] meeting is when we get to our stand-alone and then when we do that a whole weekend is ours

[00:34:53] will it would be this highlight the whole weekend so uh just hang on there buddy it's coming we could

[00:34:59] we could uh we could certainly pitch in and help out here on food stock live and and do your

[00:35:05] your monthly top ten USUSTSO points race we could talk about that okay it's a month I mean

[00:35:11] that will be totally down for that we could make it a you know a special production if you'd like

[00:35:17] you know it's it's uh it would be a lot of fun kind of mislead or something

[00:35:22] I did when I said there was only like uh we had 16 top we had like 30 people in that division

[00:35:28] but only 16 made the top right but and several divisions had 16 maybe four five of them

[00:35:35] didn't even play instant they don't play singles they just want to support so we do have a lot

[00:35:39] of players that that don't play singles that pay to support just because they want to be a part of

[00:35:43] it but i'm gonna try to do my best this year to get help put it out there a lot you know at

[00:35:48] tournaments this past year if you've been in tournaments and i've i've said as qualifiers always

[00:35:52] announced you have to be a member you win a qualifier if you're not a member you don't get it

[00:35:58] and there's a lot of people that just either they don't hear me or they don't care

[00:36:03] whatever but um you know there's been a lot of people qualify some of these tournaments

[00:36:10] aren't members and so i'm sorry it just goes to the members you know so that's why we want to

[00:36:15] drive it up and try to get the membership uh bigger and uh pcao's where we're having the

[00:36:20] championship i don't this tournament is not a sanctioned tournament to start to points off

[00:36:25] will wait till the next tournament because we just want to yeah but we'll start our drive that

[00:36:30] weekend getting people getting people to join we just have another board meeting coming up next week

[00:36:35] when we see to try to finalize how we're going to do the year and um it's gonna be a good thing

[00:36:40] but tcao's always um a lot of people's first tournament of the year

[00:36:46] yep it's always a it's always a good sign when it's a good showing that it's going to be a good year

[00:36:50] for foosball i know the location's hard to get to for some people and i understand that

[00:36:55] just like some other locations are hard for us to get to so it's um it's not bad i mean it's

[00:37:00] it's um so it's a to me to me well i know calorados part for people to get there because the flights

[00:37:05] right and understand that but i drive unless i'm going to calorado or bagus or whatever i'm in my

[00:37:12] vehicle going if it's 12 hours or less i'll drive okay well total on facebook i mean on

[00:37:20] on the show here if it's if my wife drives not me she's my dad he's my designated driver and i better

[00:37:30] give her a prop or i might have a car driving again but uh things she's already gone

[00:37:36] to place the little side note the way that happens is when we're driving and i'm you know i'm

[00:37:41] alone you know those little things on the side of road he goes brrr man i hit them two or three times

[00:37:46] and she'll say let me drive i'll say okay and so now she don't even ask she just jumped over there

[00:37:51] right off the bat so you're ready don't you tell her don't you tell her so she knows this is

[00:37:59] that's your business i won't tell your business no no is it okay if i borrow that one i could

[00:38:04] i could borrow that because and whenever my wife and i go on long trips i'm usually behind the wheel

[00:38:08] so if i hit the rumble strips or what two three times that that usually doesn't just look over

[00:38:13] and i don't know if i'm still seeing me good but oh yeah when you look over just go just go

[00:38:20] like you're waking yourself up yeah i'm good yeah i'm good no i'm good no i'm good no i can't i have to

[00:38:26] drive i'm a control freak i have to drive and anything else she can have but not i got a drive

[00:38:32] oh randis all right randis i have to you just not old enough you're just not old enough that's

[00:38:37] all there is to it i'm not when he's old enough i just have to drive well when she's tired when

[00:38:42] she's when i know she's tired i will drive because i can't i just sure you know well it's it's

[00:38:49] rather go to sleep wake up and be there yep yeah that's the short trip yeah my

[00:38:56] says how long i'll take you get to Kentucky about three hours really i thought you'd let me say

[00:38:59] well i was asleep for seven of yeah yeah it's six it's six hours for me and i'm awake the whole way

[00:39:07] baby so no i know i have to look Massachusetts i drive i drive from my house to my mom's house

[00:39:15] and it takes me so i stop in providence to get pizza it takes me by myself the best i've done is

[00:39:21] 18 hours 18 providence to get peace i fly yeah i leave i leave in the middle of the night once i get

[00:39:29] through regina it's it's good and then once i hit new york yeah once i hit new york then it just

[00:39:33] depends on traffic new york and canetic it i tell people all the time if you if you wanted to

[00:39:38] um like uh like prisoners of war if you wanted to find a way to torture prisoners of war you put

[00:39:47] them in the car and you drive them up and down 95 in Connecticut that's a lane highway up and

[00:39:51] down Connecticut and i promise you they'll they'll they'll they'll talk they'll tell you whatever

[00:39:55] they want because it is torture it is torture yeah but no i can't i love my wife but i can't

[00:40:02] sit there and like her to drive i've been i've been i've been i've been driving for like i've

[00:40:07] been driving truck for 20 years so now it's like for me i get behind the wheel and it's like i'm i can

[00:40:12] relax i could just relax and drive sitting in the passenger seat is not comfortable for me even when

[00:40:18] when guys from george like when chris falseman shames out of field when they when we go to miss

[00:40:22] a sippy they come pick me up they pull in my driveway they get out of the vehicle they switch seats

[00:40:27] and then i get in the driver's seat of their vehicle and we drive them yes yes yes okay well all right

[00:40:36] some of us got a problem i'm sorry i got a problem yeah i got a problem so that's not a bad problem

[00:40:41] no so mr. Donalds what what what is going on with the points please tell me i need to know

[00:40:49] okay all right now i've answered this question on a lot of facebook posts and yet people still

[00:40:55] comment i don't know if it's they don't believe me or read don't understand

[00:41:06] what i'm about to tell you is the honest to get this truth about points okay

[00:41:13] i've been in foosball for over 40 years doing that quick lying quick lying

[00:41:22] i'm i'm i'm 59 i've been in there over 40 years i know i know how several things i know how

[00:41:28] people can sandbag i know how people uh move up fast do fast get discouraged and quit

[00:41:36] i've seen it all i've seen it all and being part of the points committee for the last two years

[00:41:43] we have people that go up in rank and then hey show me what i wanted to get me here and when we go

[00:41:52] look at their points and they don't even have anything above a fourth place why did they move up

[00:41:58] because you gain points even playing for 10 years you you you can accumulate 10 years of fourth

[00:42:05] fifth six maybe a third place and your points continue to grow yeah and and i just felt like in my

[00:42:12] heart as a promoter as as a as a tournament director and as a player

[00:42:19] rookies only have 500 points before they expand to amateur that that could be two good tournaments

[00:42:25] maybe three okay okay so they had from a thousand to fourteen ninety nine way too soon

[00:42:31] so of course they're going to some hours to be rookie you know but anyway same thing for amateur

[00:42:36] at fifteen hundred when they hit two thousand their experts they only have five hundred points

[00:42:42] and then we get to expert they have a thousand points that's better

[00:42:47] they can still be done in a few years couple of years two years one of good year two years two

[00:42:51] good years get the pro you can't even place they get discouraged they quit

[00:42:57] they want to get reset back down you know you can actually earn your way back down on

[00:43:03] I lose in a couple of tournaments but nobody wants to go lose on purpose sure I mean I know I don't

[00:43:08] even if I feel like I should be reset when I get on the table my job is to win

[00:43:14] I have to not to lose you know so I said you know what if we gave the rookies and amateurs

[00:43:20] 500 extra points give them a thousand points span if the amateur is a thousand points span

[00:43:25] and hey let's give a thousand to the experts they have a two thousand points span now by the time

[00:43:30] they get to them two thousand points they're ready for pro they should be ready for pro

[00:43:34] if they make it if they make it yeah they make it expert could be the top they can get

[00:43:40] oh has two thousand points and then there are some pros that earn it mastered can't compete

[00:43:46] and they want to quit you know I don't play as much just play small tournaments

[00:43:51] so but anyway so that was what I wanted as fp's tournament director I said we need to I would

[00:43:58] like to see the rookies and amateurs get 500 more points and and the experts get a thousand

[00:44:03] well after I fp you know after Mary thinking about it she said okay well that's you know

[00:44:08] that'll be good for the players in that way they'll be ready but we won't hold we won't hold

[00:44:13] people's points anymore you see we would hold them to the end of the season then give them

[00:44:18] give them a points and then I have people where did I get these 500 points I said throughout the

[00:44:22] year where you was bank anybody you see with a nine nine and their numbers that's they've maxed out

[00:44:28] and we're holding them but now we're not going to hold them no more so when you pick your partners

[00:44:34] just just know have a backup I guess because you know if somebody's close to going over they can

[00:44:40] make that decision and not go to a tournament until they play in that one are just uh I would

[00:44:45] with them in the next division up if you're good enough to win and get up or just play with them

[00:44:48] in the next division that's why I'll get it well you know have a little common sense if

[00:44:53] if you're close and you have a good tournament assume you're gonna go over you know it's not

[00:44:58] the it's not that difficult but I mean if you're close and you didn't have a good tournament then

[00:45:03] you can kind of figure you're not going over it's not it's not hard it's definitely not rocket

[00:45:08] science but I I agree rookie and amateur needed to be stretched um I I was an expert for 10 years

[00:45:19] and then when I really started applying myself it took me two good years two good years to get

[00:45:26] the pro and now I'm as a pro I'm a crewing points and so after the first of the year as soon as

[00:45:35] the points reset I saw it and I saw what I had gained and I was super excited because my goal is

[00:45:41] to eventually become a master I mean that is a goal of mine I want it might not be attainable

[00:45:48] but I'm working towards that so when I saw the points come out and I had over 3700 points

[00:45:54] I was elated I was so happy I said okay I'm I'm close to four grand I have a couple good tournaments

[00:46:00] this year I'm over 4,000 and then maybe another two or three years of good play and I get close

[00:46:06] and then the reset happened and I'm like I ended up losing a couple hundred points so please

[00:46:14] elaborate if you could yeah I can't oh wait a minute hold on I'm sorry

[00:46:21] I wasn't me okay

[00:46:33] thank you thank you for that all right so I wouldn't finish with my point speech by the way

[00:46:39] I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm rude I'm sorry so you're fixing to hear you fixing to hear this okay

[00:46:44] please all right so so we reset all the divisions right yeah I felt I felt like the expert

[00:46:50] didn't ease a thousand I felt like I moved up to pro too soon because I can have some good gains

[00:46:55] but if you look at my history I only have three expert wins I have a nationals with with Jerry Todd

[00:47:02] I want a world championship in mix with Sandy Lerair's and then I won um really wars

[00:47:09] and that's it hmm and I said you win all the time you win all the time I won senior events a lot

[00:47:16] and those aren't ranked they're not now it's looking to 90s yeah I want to open doubles

[00:47:22] and a pro doubles in the 90s but I'm playing against all my locals I play all the time you know

[00:47:27] it's it's easy to beat because we're all competitive you know Russ King and Richard White used to come

[00:47:32] up from from Texas and New Orleans all the time to play us up in Mississippi and we always go to

[00:47:37] Louisiana for me and Billy Barnes and up play them in a masters uh in Atlanta in Atlanta

[00:47:45] and our first match was Russ King and Richard White who we play all the time

[00:47:51] and Rich and Russ King told my partner Billy in the elevator I'm sorry Billy said what he said

[00:47:58] your first match is us and we're going to destroy y'all okay wait see so Billy came to me says

[00:48:06] we played Russ and then I said he fixed into destroy us I said okay let's just see what happens

[00:48:12] we beat them three games straight nice that was seed doubles the whole tournament come around watch

[00:48:20] as Murray was watching as uh I'm not gonna start doing a bunch of name drop them but I mean everybody

[00:48:27] come around and say who these people were well we'll also next game to uh I came I came

[00:48:33] remember who it was I Billy could tell me he remembers all that but it was another top state team

[00:48:37] and they beat us and they beat us pretty good but it's just we played them all the time and I went from a

[00:48:44] mediocre expert to pro at one tournament hmm and I felt like up too fast because I I never

[00:48:53] won anything in pro but in in the meantime my kids started growing up I started coaching baseball

[00:49:00] I started being a scout leader for 13 years I started doing all that and then out of the blue somebody

[00:49:04] called me said hey man uh you don't go play Mississippi State because I didn't got out of

[00:49:09] football and and raising my family and and also uh you know I think I shared before I wasn't

[00:49:16] happy with the person I'd become and started bringing my football mouth home and I didn't like my kids

[00:49:22] you know hearing them in another room talking like daddy does on a foosball so I you know I stopped

[00:49:27] all that started working on family and doing stuff for the kids and this call said look let's go play

[00:49:32] expert though but I said do time pro like hey he said man you got reset you down to expert

[00:49:38] I said oh okay so I went and played we won and I stayed expert and man it took two years ago to

[00:49:45] get back to pro but still I win a lot of locals that's your playing locals you know anyway

[00:49:52] that was the whole thing behind expanding the levels to make sure everybody by the time I mean

[00:49:57] if you go if you go through 2000 points get to pro you're gonna stay in pro and you're going to

[00:50:01] do good because you you've earned you know same thing for the rookie amateur now the reset is

[00:50:06] something totally different that I had no control over I didn't it's shot I was surprised

[00:50:13] I mean I lost points okay now here's the thing I know a lot of people at certain

[00:50:20] family store Mary but her her he's not going to do anything to hurt foosball because that's her

[00:50:26] livelihood right he does it for 11 whether people like it or not that's her job you know if they

[00:50:32] talk about boy she makes a killing well go to your job and tell him look I don't need this much

[00:50:36] on my paycheck just enough to pay my house note car note and groceries I don't need all this money no

[00:50:41] no no you could do a job to make money and and you do it you do it the best you can to make everybody happy

[00:50:47] does that happen on foosball no you can't make everybody happy but with the points reset all I thought

[00:50:54] she was going to do was re point reset the masters she does that every couple of years reset some

[00:51:00] masters real all them that way out there to bring them all in make make it more competitive where they

[00:51:05] race to see who the top player is I mean if you have somebody that's 2000 like Tony he's you know

[00:51:11] he's he could be two or three thousand had everybody he cannot play for two years it still be

[00:51:14] number one seed everywhere you go Tony before the reset was like pushing 9000 points or say he was

[00:51:20] like we need the 8000 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah him and Brandon both and so it's not making the

[00:51:27] others not want to chase them they're still gonna play still gonna do it but let's make it

[00:51:31] competitive let's make it to where they they know hey there within reach I can start practicing

[00:51:37] start showing up at tournaments and it might cause them to go to more tournaments to gain the points

[00:51:41] and stuff but it's like that's one thing to iTSF actually wants USA to be like is have a yearly

[00:51:47] point system so we can get our top eight players because they're introducing a new tournament

[00:51:52] where tops so many from each country will come and play in a certain event and play for big cash

[00:51:57] okay line okay because that's something new you know they've already introduced it they haven't

[00:52:02] haven't any scheduled yet but that's something new they're starting in the iTSF so it's good for

[00:52:07] us that we already got the points race in USTSO because that's exactly what we need but we need

[00:52:12] everybody doing it yeah but with with her reset the big dogs boys and girls we can see who the top

[00:52:19] players are because they're going to jump out there right now she said you know what and I didn't

[00:52:24] find this out till later she said you know we opened up all these new ranges let's just reset

[00:52:28] everybody that way they have more time to stay in their group and and develop their skills and

[00:52:34] I know people were blasted all it's all about the money like promised you that that wasn't her

[00:52:38] first thought it was about letting the players a love it everybody you know we know 90 the 90

[00:52:45] 99% of the people that go up do right into the points committee about wanting to be reset

[00:52:51] you know we hear it well of course anybody who goes up wants to stay up wouldn't call in so

[00:52:55] that that figure could change you know but not we get almost every email we get about points is

[00:53:01] to be lowered they feel like they went up even when I go to terms people tell me I had two

[00:53:05] people over at this terms last weekend dude I need to be dropped back down to amateur and Lamar

[00:53:10] raking up to me man I would be put back down to a rookie you know it was so hot in good let me

[00:53:15] take what I did Lamar it was hilarious he come up to me in the men's room and he said all the

[00:53:22] Wilson I said what's up man he said no I'm playing horrible I don't but I haven't won a single

[00:53:28] match this whole weekend I said well I feel sorry for you but you're not going to share this style with

[00:53:33] me you don't have to wait you turn hey said I hear you I said look I feel I feel so bad for you

[00:53:40] so anyway their first round of open doubles him him and Jeremy one Wesley him and Wesley

[00:53:46] pair right he played with him another man Wesley pair it they well he's a dog I won stop the music

[00:53:52] out on my I said I'd like to congratulate Lamar way right for winning his first match of the weekend

[00:54:00] and everybody there started clapping he was like cool and that must have pumped him up because man

[00:54:06] they started jock healing they beat a couple like I said a couple of master things but anyway you know

[00:54:12] you know points he don't need to go now he knows that he was just jawing me but I get people

[00:54:17] asking out all the time and Michael baits up though him under the bus this he was at the turn he says

[00:54:24] there's no way I should be a master I said what do you mean Michael he said I can go on two or

[00:54:29] not win I said you can go on two and place it every you cannot play but once a year and still

[00:54:34] place fifth six or seventh eight that any that's where we go to that joker is played Mississippi state

[00:54:40] that's all he's played for two years he's been in the finals of open doubles twice hey my

[00:54:44] my thing is actually this weekend this weekend he wins the draw a one single three split singles

[00:54:51] one hey he split singles with Dewey and then he got I don't know he got no third no third no

[00:54:58] third no open doubles so he's placing the money yeah you think that cat needs to go down back to

[00:55:02] grow no so the man you get out of here I said uh they ain't happening he said man I mean I'm not

[00:55:09] I mean I can't he starts going out I can't if I can't if I go to terminus been 1500 all I got

[00:55:15] to get some of my money back I said you're not gonna get moved now because you can't afford to go

[00:55:20] to a tournament you want to win money to pay for your not they don't work like that oh the way

[00:55:25] I go to a tournament and this is this is honest right here I go to a term to have fun I go I go

[00:55:31] to see my friends like Randy I like to go see all my friends hang out with them play foosball if I

[00:55:36] win money that's a bonus it's not a it's it to me it's not a job now understand Tony it's a job

[00:55:43] to me it's a sport it's a passion I want to win I'm angry when I lose for five minutes or not

[00:55:49] angry but upset with myself but I already I already figure on my expenses you know that

[00:55:56] that's like a vacation or like a trip or something I got planned if I win money it's bonus it's

[00:56:02] it's that icing on the cake that's what it is for me if somebody's making it where I got to

[00:56:07] justify the win to go you might as well get your job stay home I'm just sorry it's not that's

[00:56:12] the way it is until things change you know yes but um but you know like I said we get people all

[00:56:18] the time want to get lowered back down it just it just can't happen like that now with the reset

[00:56:23] I'm getting to it with the reset she was thinking we'll let everybody have longer in her ranks don't

[00:56:29] think don't thank me for it and we have had some people no no no you know well leave me down I don't

[00:56:35] want to go back up but after after about three or four days of a lot of Facebook post I get on

[00:56:42] there and try to defend it best I can with what I know in every time I said I wasn't aware of the

[00:56:47] reset I talked with Mary several times and she's had some players call her and she said I didn't

[00:56:52] realize that many people are really wanting their points to rank up hmm she said they always call

[00:56:58] wanting to be reset she says I'm fine and for people who say it's a money thing don't they realize

[00:57:05] when they move up their injuries go up too so it ain't about keeping them down to make more money

[00:57:11] because their injuries go up when they go up so she said okay she told me she said don't I you

[00:57:17] know I didn't even think about the ones who was wanting to rank up she says look if they want

[00:57:23] to rank up we can rank them up and so I called a couple of them and told them as I said no I don't

[00:57:28] want to get ranked up I want to earn my rank up I said that makes sense you know so talk with

[00:57:34] Mary and again more more players I want her she says okay well I made a mistake and she put it

[00:57:40] out in the Facebook post I made a mistake it's that I did not even consider or realize there are

[00:57:47] people out there wanting to point so we're gonna change it back if you was 200 points away from

[00:57:51] turning master we'll change it to where you're 200 points away from being master if you're you

[00:57:57] know so so we're going to where she's got somebody who does her earth software work Amy powers we

[00:58:05] call her superpowers because she does some really good stuff when she's working on that and she was

[00:58:10] given the task this weekend to excuse me sorry about that bless you to get to get everybody to get back

[00:58:18] what their points were if there are so many points away from going over that's what they're

[00:58:23] going to be but it takes her time to code and then again I'll back to it was gotta resing so your

[00:58:29] points are gonna come back to you Randy sweet so but that was she's she was just figuring hey they'll

[00:58:35] have more time in their division most of them like it and uh and when she saw that more more people

[00:58:41] than what we thought want to earn their points to reverse for decision is going to be corrected that's

[00:58:47] all we thought yeah yeah we thought it would be done Friday night but uh I looked Saturday to what

[00:58:52] done yet I don't know Amy she's real busy so it's going to get done real soon nobody's ranks change

[00:58:57] though everybody's stating the right ranks is just there's numbers screwed up but here's here's

[00:59:01] going to be the new ranks from 800 to 999 as beginner 1000 to 199 is rookie 2000 to 299 is amateur 3000

[00:59:16] to 5000 is expert well 499 5200 to 6999 is pro and then 7000 up is master nice

[00:59:30] and that's that's a new point for points ranges and again no one will change rank in those two are

[00:59:36] almost within four five hundred points of going over wherever you're gonna be put back and if

[00:59:42] we and I keep telling everybody I never once said we were through I said I'll let everybody know when

[00:59:48] we're through doing points and I said all y'all complain and I appreciate it I understand where you

[00:59:53] coming from but I haven't said we're finished you know they're still working on it so hopefully

[01:00:00] hopefully the next day or two I can get on there and say points are ranked up if yours are not

[01:00:04] where they were what I have a spreadsheet so I know where they were uh if you feel like you know

[01:00:10] there are some that might want to stay down so we're gonna give them a one-time shot if you like

[01:00:15] it where you was reset too will let you have it but I don't think anybody I'll do that because you

[01:00:20] know that that interferes with your seating and stuff like that as well but the new yeah yeah

[01:00:26] yeah yeah that was going to be my next question is the seating like the seating how are you

[01:00:29] gonna see it with the with the reset being the way it was I don't know you know yeah it's gonna be

[01:00:35] I guess it was just I don't know if it goes to Apple bed after the point

[01:00:42] are are are are just you know that way I want my name to be A A Ron you know

[01:00:47] I can be number one C but I don't know if it just jumbles it up and say okay you

[01:00:53] you I don't know how I don't know how that would work I'm sure it's happened before

[01:00:56] somewhere yeah but um we don't even have to worry about that it's gonna be fixed for TKO perfect

[01:01:03] perfect over good anyway that's the whole that's the whole thing about points now let me tell you

[01:01:08] I'm sorry no I'm just gonna say officially TKO is the kickoff for for the for the tournament

[01:01:12] it's also where the points reset takes place as well that takes effect right right okay

[01:01:18] now let me just go ahead and tell you we get tons and tons of questions how points are earned

[01:01:22] and I've done it so much I can just hell you there's what they call speed points

[01:01:28] and that is what you're seated in the tournament yeah what people don't understand is

[01:01:36] the where you finish in the bracket say if you're playing in the tournament

[01:01:41] and you're the number fifth seed and you finish sixth

[01:01:46] you didn't lose and you didn't gain because fifth sixth is one place on the bracket

[01:01:52] basically it's a bracket finish 9 through 12th is a seed 17 through 24th is a seed 25 to 30

[01:02:00] second is a seed 33rd through 48 or 6 whatever that's that's what we call seeds for each round you

[01:02:08] finish above your seed you receive eight points okay okay each seed each seed behind

[01:02:17] your finish you lose eight points now I don't want to bomb out one tournament in singles and I lost

[01:02:26] 50 but for 58 40 52 there's other things you consider because you do all your events but I lost

[01:02:34] about 52 points in one tournament for bombing out of a singles event but I've also gained a lot

[01:02:41] of finishing way above so those flux away back and forth but it's only eight per round

[01:02:47] and of course it accumulates all your singles together accumulates

[01:02:51] and it's same for doubles whatever your team seed is and you finish above behind that's how

[01:02:55] you gain points now there's there's another row there's another point called bonus points

[01:03:01] now I didn't name these that's just what they've been calling them forever I like to call them

[01:03:07] placement points because whatever place you get you get those points placement points are

[01:03:13] see our bonus points is awarded first three fifth six and regular events the bigger the event

[01:03:20] the further back it goes if you go to seventh eighth or even nine through 12 depending on the amount

[01:03:25] of people right now the way these bonus points are figured has been a mystery and kind of still

[01:03:31] but I know the formula you take in teams you would add up every team's points together and divide it

[01:03:38] by the amount of teams in singles you take every single player points added together divided by

[01:03:44] the number of players then there's an algorithm and I'll say it wrong because I'm a redneck

[01:03:50] algorithm algorithm algorithm you know algorithm algorithm algorithm yes sir there's one that

[01:03:58] is really in place and it figures what part of that points has left over after adding everybody

[01:04:06] divided by the amount of players if that figures a strength of the field because if you just if

[01:04:11] you want to expert there's only two experts singles players in there you're not going to gain a lot

[01:04:16] of points because all you did was be damageers you're supposed to you know and the points won't

[01:04:20] be that high now there is 15 experts will points will be higher you'll gain more points right okay yeah

[01:04:26] so it figures in that algorithm algorithm the depth of the field basically how deep the field

[01:04:33] right so so it figures that again pulls a percentage of what those totals are and it awards at the

[01:04:39] first so much to second so much the third so much to fourth and then fifth six and I don't know

[01:04:44] what those percentages are and and Mary don't know what those percentages are Amy knows as she told me

[01:04:52] he's going to write something for me to post in about a week okay all right that that part's not

[01:04:58] so everything's gonna be all out in open transparent that's awesome yeah yeah that's the way I

[01:05:04] want to do everything my presidency at USTSO tournament director anything I don't know that's

[01:05:09] how I wanted to be now that out now that percentage will change every tournament it's not going to

[01:05:14] be the same for every tournament yeah because the depth of the field changes the strength of the field

[01:05:19] changes okay all that all that changes so I can't say 15% goes to first 10% goes a second eight you

[01:05:26] know that that could change that could change and that's what I don't know but you kind of got a

[01:05:31] ballpark figure now how that's done nobody says okay I'm gonna get a brandy let me give him 30 points

[01:05:37] I don't know if it's yes that's not like it's all figured out and so so that's how that goes

[01:05:43] I'm very okay that's it I'm I'm still the only time there's there is another thing called

[01:05:49] an auto bump like if you have two players sign up they ever played in a tournament we don't have

[01:05:54] their name in the database they sign up for beginner doubles and they win you know that I

[01:06:01] beginners right right so you put everybody in at 800 points the start their first tournament if

[01:06:08] you come out and you win a beginner doubles you're gonna get 250 bonus points that's an auto bump

[01:06:14] you're gonna be auto bumps into rookie because you're not a beginner okay and then second place is

[01:06:20] only going to they're gonna get 200 points they're gonna be also buff if you make it to finals you're

[01:06:24] not a beginner right if we don't do that you'll have to meet everybody there'll be a lot of

[01:06:28] beginners all right so that's what it is if you if you say like if I was an expert and I played

[01:06:36] with another expert and we won a pro doubles on at a major not a state tournament because that's

[01:06:44] not gonna be you know on a on a major tournament level that would be like Colorado Texas

[01:06:48] all the fame worlds maybe even nationals yeah something big if two experts going there and they

[01:06:54] win a pro doubles they are gonna get bumped up probably to pro we're gonna you know we do look at

[01:07:00] their individual ask history but if you go above your rank and you win you deserve to move up now

[01:07:08] if I was playing with Randy and we want to pro doubles and I was expert we don't get that because

[01:07:13] that's considered a protein oh because he's okay pro okay that's because I've heard me to

[01:07:18] oh that expert he's one of pro doubles for I said but who was partner oh he's pro no that's a

[01:07:23] protein you know there's one so that's so that's how they figured you don't get you don't get the

[01:07:28] bonus point you don't get the auto bump points and with auto bump points we write that in their memo

[01:07:34] that we can see and once somebody gains up and it's closer to the next level we'll take our auto

[01:07:40] bump back out because they where they should be we don't try to balloon anybody up you know

[01:07:44] you want to keep them playing not have them quit but anyway that's the theory behind all the

[01:07:49] points and we are we are doing some stuff to try to make it you know we're trying to look as our

[01:07:56] as our algorithm to you got it yeah I'll get it are too low but it took me about three years

[01:08:06] to say Tommy and Pronda Malossal you get their last name right but I finally got it right

[01:08:12] it took about two three years so algorithm algorithm I'll get that right in about

[01:08:18] the algorithm algorithm there you go yeah I can do good algorithm

[01:08:26] hey this time next year I'll be spending an ally it was nothing just like that practice it rolls

[01:08:31] off the day anyway but anyway that is the whole point scenario there's nothing else to

[01:08:38] hey there's nothing hidden the only time when somebody does call in and wants your points lowered

[01:08:45] are raised we'll look at their history and we see if they've been dominating and when I say

[01:08:51] dominated that means they're always finishing top five got a few wins do you think somebody should

[01:08:57] move up and points with no titles no I'm just sure I'm just throwing it out there to you do you

[01:09:02] think so I don't I don't right so we look at that and as a points committee I'm just a tie

[01:09:10] breaker now I know I don't want to be an interference on a lot of that so I'm just a tie breaker

[01:09:16] it's the other four get headlocked and something but that's never happened but you know

[01:09:21] I'm thinking me personally I feel like if you get three major first place wins that's enough

[01:09:27] you you you you you've done it you know okay if you win a world that's probably automatic you won

[01:09:33] the best tournament biggest tournament I think where I think world should be an auto bump I think if

[01:09:38] you win if you win if you win if you win your level at worlds at least if you win your level you go

[01:09:43] up if you win a level above you forget about it but yeah I did look I think people forget because

[01:09:50] I've had so many people say to me I've never won a rookie title I've never won a amateur title

[01:09:55] and not everybody's gonna be a master not everybody's gonna be a pro not everybody's gonna

[01:10:00] be an expert right like some people play foosball for the love of the game and they're gonna be a

[01:10:04] lifetime rookie or a lifetime amateur or people are gonna top out at expert like it it is what it is

[01:10:10] and I think that um I think that this is a good thing I think this point adjustment is a good thing

[01:10:15] because it's gonna I think it's gonna keep people where there's supposed to be and it's gonna keep

[01:10:20] people playing and that's that's that's the goal right is to just keep people playing foosball so

[01:10:26] you know if you're a lifetime rookie then be a lifetime rookie and if you've never won a rookie title

[01:10:31] then why should why should you not be allowed to play rookies why should you be bumped up to amateur I

[01:10:36] mean good finishes or good finishes but wins are different so yeah well in that regard I do want

[01:10:41] to ask the question is there really a huge difference between rookie and amateur because

[01:10:47] there's beginner obviously we know what that is and yeah rookie and amateur seems so um I don't

[01:10:53] know vague it seems like a like a gray area almost between rookie and amateur well it and that's

[01:10:59] one reason why they're so close because their points are only 500 500 you one day your amateur one

[01:11:04] day you're rookie one day you're rookie one day your amateur I mean that's why I would like to see

[01:11:07] some separation to see their games for grass sure but you know let me be let me be quite honest with you

[01:11:14] first of all beginner is not a rank right beginner beginner's not a rank it's a starting place

[01:11:21] right yes sir all right first I don't think anybody should go over a year too as a beginner did

[01:11:27] you agree and we got beginners has been beginners for 10 years I don't think you should be I think

[01:11:32] after two tournaments I mean after one it's like you're you're not a beginner yeah yeah after two

[01:11:37] tournaments you're definitely not a beginner so well I mean you know I think I think one year

[01:11:43] maximum right after that you should be up to rookie because that's where it's at yeah right yeah

[01:11:48] but it's not and so that's why we auto bump first or second place they automatically go up because

[01:11:56] they're not but you know when you look at it a beginner don't they should not have a pass

[01:12:01] they should not have a shot that's consistent nope they should just be knocking them all around or

[01:12:08] whatever just learning and even when you get to rookie they're not supposed to have really condition

[01:12:16] passes passing series or some of these rookies give me a hard time oh yeah you know third who's

[01:12:22] one who's that who's that kid he was there yesterday was that kid JJ that little skinny kid that

[01:12:27] could play a good Jay J ball that yeah man he is he is he is so good he is every time I see

[01:12:35] his ball look Louisiana state first round he beats Tommy Ags in the Shannon Coley whoa oh yeah open

[01:12:43] doubles I remember yeah remember yeah I was there yeah yeah he's sick he got that tick today far

[01:12:48] wall like like Tommy Yorne and Tom and Tony Doug yeah he got it down Pat got a shooting down he's

[01:12:55] got the fire yeah he's he's he's good he's he'll be a TKO yeah he'll be there oh as a rookie yeah

[01:13:03] rookie he oh well he's bad look he beat me down Louisiana one term I like is this kid that's JJ that's

[01:13:11] Justin I'm like oh okay yeah he's uh you know players like that you gotta kind of use that on him

[01:13:17] yeah you know because they just we gotta get we gotta he's gonna be a future star we gotta get him

[01:13:23] on the air but no question about it you know gotta talk to the future of the Fuzball Fuzball sport

[01:13:28] we gotta get that kid on the air for sure yeah and she know Michael Lee Michael Lee he him and

[01:13:34] uh Jade uh Logan her and a bunch and they were all about the same age playing and then Michael

[01:13:39] kind of stopped playing yeah and started being a kid and I like to see that you know I but I like

[01:13:44] Fuzball too but uh he's come back and he just has such natural talent and he's so fast

[01:13:51] I mean he'll pick up a loose ball and cram it down your throat so fast he's like

[01:13:56] it makes you want to get mad you know and it's like I was I told him I had to play him one

[01:14:02] weekend I said dude I am ready for you we fish this flow you down and he didn't even shoot on

[01:14:09] the three bar I mean he made all his from five man and just pick up balls I said I don't think

[01:14:14] you shot once on a three bar he's out of the half to I'm like all right okay okay I'll be ready

[01:14:20] next time because uh I mean he's good I mean that's how that's how good it is you know he just

[01:14:25] he's quick and then he was always a shooter in two seconds oh yeah and so and so Mark

[01:14:31] Mark Matarise he's promoted down in Louisiana he's he's getting different people to work with him

[01:14:35] I said dude I'll play with him so I went down there and we played in and me and him won uh

[01:14:41] open doubles we won nice you know what we played in and I told him I said do not shoot a shot

[01:14:49] under five seconds just do that for me and I said and quit doing slingshots he could shoot a slingshot

[01:14:57] out of nowhere and make it they're all on I said that's not going to win your world title I've already

[01:15:03] told I've had that conversation with him yeah yeah and so that chartment when I played with him

[01:15:09] he did exactly like he's like I said and we won with no problem but I said okay let's play

[01:15:16] let's play Texas State together we'll play uh pro doubles or something like that first match

[01:15:23] I think the first shot was a slingshot and I just went I said did you forget everything we talked

[01:15:32] about I said no you said I said don't do a slingshot unless we're ahead nine you know four to

[01:15:37] nothing four to one I said but then you don't want to do that because that's just disgrace in

[01:15:42] somebody right and anyway he's he still kind of went back and forth we didn't do that great but uh

[01:15:47] he he's now learned I can do it but I need to don't do it all the time so and that's what I told

[01:15:52] him I said it's I said it's like uh it's like a weapon but you gotta you just gotta know when

[01:15:59] to use it you can't just go around hitting everybody yeah you gotta know when there's a time in

[01:16:03] a place yeah you know uh he's he's getting good he's been getting yeah he's the other one

[01:16:09] yes man he's hands yeah yeah I know my titles at Louisiana stands yeah he's yeah he won both

[01:16:17] that he won expert doubles uh expert doubles he was in the finals of expert doubles singles in it

[01:16:24] and I think amateur right he won both amateur events and I think he won a mixed event something I

[01:16:30] know he won five he won five events but he I mean the kid the kids been playing really well he's

[01:16:34] been playing a lot of foosball and they got a good group down there uh you know they they got a

[01:16:39] really competitive group so you know it's they're just cultivated good players that's what they do

[01:16:45] down here Tom I hear you he's uh is Michael gonna be on the tour this year is gonna be out and

[01:16:49] playing uh uh he does he does tour he went to Colorado State last year he uh he he was at

[01:16:57] worlds I think he's going I think he's going to TKO I think they'll be nice nice very cool

[01:17:02] a lot of hunter-present sure but yeah we'll have uh we'll have a good career there we we also at

[01:17:07] that tournament I.F.P gave away two packages to the highest plate highest ranking amateur and

[01:17:14] highest ranking rookie in open singles and uh Leslie Parrot won the highest amateur cool

[01:17:22] helping singles and uh a local name uh Chance McCall he uh he got the highest rookie and he

[01:17:31] wasn't coming to TKO now now he is free package that's good that's a good thing you know any promoters

[01:17:37] out there including myself if there's any tournaments uh leading into yours I mean what's

[01:17:44] a what's five events to get somebody come and you know they're not gonna come by themselves

[01:17:48] mm-hmm oh yeah so so promoters can help each other by giving each everybody you know I give them a

[01:17:54] Mississippi package they can have five main events they come to Mississippi state give it to your

[01:17:58] highest place and or give it to your whatever winner whatever winner and uh that'll help get some

[01:18:02] people maybe own offense coming to come you know so we've noticed that more and more this little

[01:18:06] tilt more and more yeah it's it's like it's like that's all I know about the that's all I know about

[01:18:13] the points and uh you see me you seem a relaxed now Don for some reason you see more relaxed

[01:18:20] more chill I'm not in TKO mode right now uh I have uh I have some work around the house I got to

[01:18:26] get done this I have to get done this week so I'll feel better about going to TKO uh good

[01:18:32] because you say I'm a master of all trade I'm I'm putting down some uh electrical wires and some

[01:18:38] water lines and plumbing to a RV a place where I'm gonna have an RV parked and uh

[01:18:44] and I got to finish the chicken coop a little bit I'm always working on my chicken coop we just

[01:18:48] we have close to 30 chickens and my wife just went out and got about 14 eggs just a while I go

[01:18:54] I'm keeping my buddy Mark's batteries down in Louisiana keeping him supplied in the eggs and then

[01:18:59] which my family and myself yeah you know them them them uh them farm eggs uh they good for you

[01:19:06] yeah yeah we get we get fresh eggs from my end loss I love them yeah I I can't even eat

[01:19:13] store-bought anymore after getting these they are so good when I first started eating them I'm like

[01:19:17] I don't know if I could use this man I can't go without them yeah I go I you know I eat a

[01:19:21] regular store-bought egg it's like this thing is this real you know it's like that bad it's kind of

[01:19:26] like the difference between growing your own cucumber and then going to the grocery store and buying

[01:19:29] a piece of plastic off the shelf which is basically what you get out of the out of the grocery store

[01:19:34] just coat it in plastic and some of the feeds I'm giving my chicken has omega-3s added to it so it

[01:19:39] even helps with your cholesterol okay nice there you go yeah yeah there you go oh man and then

[01:19:45] and then when you just dump a bunch of butter into the eggs when you're scrambling them up all that

[01:19:48] omega-3s goes right out the window perfect yeah that's right that's great right so I got I believe

[01:19:57] a physical made me an egg sandwich they go listen before before before we cut you loose I got

[01:20:02] I got one more question for you all right points reports from last year when can we expect to see those

[01:20:09] that is all my fault I appreciate your responsibility thank you yeah what after each tournament

[01:20:17] he sends me the report then I take away a few columns that mean nothing and there's a few columns

[01:20:23] that's repetitive and then I squish them all together and then I shorten some of the fields

[01:20:30] and and I got like five or six up to do and and I just hadn't done it okay busy man I understand

[01:20:39] maybe I'll get it done this week maybe but I do have them and I do have them to put out so that's

[01:20:45] they are the the whole hold up is me okay okay but the point but the point reports for

[01:20:53] further rest of last year will be out it will be out I promise you I have a fact there's a button

[01:20:58] on here where I can hit share screen and I can show you where I have them and but you know I trust

[01:21:04] you I trust we're good I trust we're good I trust and here's a thing too what other people don't

[01:21:09] know is when modern football or HOT has tournaments I get that information from from David in a text

[01:21:16] file huh and I just recently I just recently asked him if he could add eight points to those

[01:21:22] of others he blood he started doing that for me so it's helped me out tremendously but it's still

[01:21:29] one tournament one tournament could take me about a couple hours to rate maybe three okay

[01:21:36] so I do it middle night I'll get up working hour two next night I want to say so I have to put

[01:21:41] like a first 400 or you know some of these tournaments they play multiple events I might have 1200

[01:21:47] rows of information I grew up in my name total amount then I go in there and I'll change

[01:21:52] your points interviews all by hand because we can't we can't get the two softwares to do this

[01:21:58] to mash okay and I said as you see us oh we will pay whatever the call skid to co-written to do that

[01:22:07] and I just hadn't been able to make things work and now he has his own points but this tournament

[01:22:12] we just had and a lot and a lot of the promoters need to know this that uh you know when you play

[01:22:18] under HOT software they have their own points and their points are nowhere near what the IAP

[01:22:27] are pulling sorry now HOT they rate every every tournament every event they'll rate a goli wars they

[01:22:35] gonna rate a draw huh or shoot out whatever even the yeah draw your part no matter what it is

[01:22:40] it's rated and you know you could draw a bad partner in the draw and it's going to reflect

[01:22:46] in your points you know and then goli wars you know I'm a world champion of goli wars and I've

[01:22:52] been in the finals several times but when it comes down to it goli wars is just either your own or

[01:23:00] your not at that particular time true that was yeah yeah well when I won it it was I'm toned up and

[01:23:08] hitting as hard as I can because if you can't see it you ain't gonna block it and that's that

[01:23:13] with my theory back then and it worked it worked and uh but now the rules of change if you knock it

[01:23:18] off the table um it's going to go you know to the to the opposing goli back then if it was your drop

[01:23:25] you got it back and so that was my drop I it's either going in a hole or off the table okay get it back

[01:23:31] okay yeah I'm getting it back but anyway that's not like it anymore but anyway uh you know so

[01:23:38] so before I forget before I let you go there is something that occurred a couple of days ago on

[01:23:44] Facebook uh I believe it was Mary that posted and uh it was kind of a cryptic note to to promoters

[01:23:50] all across the country and she basically stated that if you're a promoter and you have a local scene

[01:23:56] and you have a number of tables and you do a weekly tournament let's say uh we want to hear from you

[01:24:01] and there was at least within a day at least 80 different responses people just chiming in yep

[01:24:07] I'm promoting I'm promoting 80 people done can you uh can you elaborate on what she's once

[01:24:14] why she wants this information what's what's going on okay this is all I can tell you right here

[01:24:21] I don't have a clue I was I was one of those 80s that said me yeah me so I don't know okay checks

[01:24:30] in the mail checks in the mail sending you mine let's go now I do I do know I do know I do know

[01:24:36] this in the past she has written a promoter package oh and it's it's a little little thing that

[01:24:46] is your tips and different ideas of way to do things sorry I've been talking so much got a little

[01:24:53] tickle um but anyway I know she used to have a bunch of promoter packs and maybe she's wanting to

[01:24:58] find out who promoters aren't handed out to them and give it to them or mail it to them or whatever

[01:25:02] so I mean that that's what I would if I was going to gas that's what I would gas okay sure

[01:25:07] well I was that's why I put me yeah I want to know too well I was I was curious because

[01:25:12] I'm thinking is this the precursor to maybe forming a formal league throughout the country

[01:25:16] that each of us as promoters can participate in yeah well that that would be good too you know

[01:25:22] again with with with the clubs um USTSO clubs you know that was a good subject a couple of years ago

[01:25:34] by counterpart uh person it's finally coming to pass uh cool Ben Jerry Todd had a had a good meeting

[01:25:42] not long ago and basically the whole hold up the whole time has been on on iTSF software Coral

[01:25:50] and it's still kind of a hold up because there won't develop a product that's top notch

[01:25:57] and they they tested with Germany they tested with France and they're trying to get it down Pat

[01:26:04] and uh even the tournament software they're trying to get it down Pat that's why I hadn't come out

[01:26:09] out but now they're at a point now to where USA can start getting in there and start doing some

[01:26:14] things so we've we've been meeting here and Jerry Todd told me he was going to set up a meeting

[01:26:20] with Alex the guy who hid the coral and him and myself and our IT guy Wayne Richie he's we're

[01:26:27] going to get with him and go over yet so real soon we're going to blow that up with the clubs because uh

[01:26:34] that will help it grow I mean it's it's you know when you have clubs

[01:26:39] it just just means hey we got a group of guys just say for example over in Georgia

[01:26:46] I know they have string fellows that's a location they go play and I'm pretty sure Randy I don't

[01:26:51] know if you go over there a lot I don't know is there another is Phil Gables who have his his

[01:26:55] tournaments going no sir he does not no okay spring fires is not the only spot right now in Georgia

[01:27:01] all right well that's a bad example let me change it to Alabama we have uh north Alabama

[01:27:08] they play do we have a Birmingham scene uh there's a place in leads called bands

[01:27:13] band okay okay and then they have a southern and the bill at the wreath all right let's say

[01:27:20] they want to create a club at the wreath well all the locals they're just a club okay good

[01:27:25] to be a club you had to play at least one draw a month or one tournament a month that's all it takes

[01:27:30] okay all right so now you have a club so now they have a club at least they have a clubs in

[01:27:34] mobile and they have a north learn now hey let's have a club tournament for the whole state

[01:27:40] then you'll do like we do with the north america have an open doubles team a pro doubles team

[01:27:44] amateur team a rookie team and then singles players a female player let's all compete

[01:27:50] we'll earn one point for each match one and see who's the best team in Alabama is you know and and

[01:27:57] and you know it's that kind of you know competition that just fires you up and there's some places

[01:28:03] I could have a ton of teams and it's you know we wanted to be free for everybody to join a team

[01:28:10] only time you would pay a USTSO to as if you want to start competing in bigger tournaments and

[01:28:17] possibly represent overseas or whatever you know that's but hopefully we would want hopefully

[01:28:22] we would want everybody who's on the club to be a member but you know some people might not

[01:28:26] want to pay the $25 to be a club member and I get that but um that's the future is getting more

[01:28:34] people playing that's ITSFs uh thing that's why they do it over there but you gotta understand

[01:28:40] they have foosball tables in every bar every hotel lobby even in the schools is everywhere

[01:28:45] but we ever be like that no but we can do better I had chills down my spine I wish I could find

[01:28:52] the video and I'm gonna look for it and I want to play it on one of your shows okay of where

[01:28:57] of where we was in France and they had there was buses all outside where they brought kids

[01:29:03] they had about 4,000 kids in that stadium they had these little things there's little clappers those

[01:29:11] good to understand the word they was playing but they had up on the big jumbo tron and you

[01:29:15] can see them down there playing they had a French team playing somebody else and they was whoa

[01:29:21] they was man it was all in you know said and I was like woohoohoohoo it said man if we could do

[01:29:26] this back in USA this would be great yep Aaron Bone was there he saw it my wife pulled out her

[01:29:31] phone she said USA yeah we got some work to do I need to find that video because that is awesome

[01:29:37] yeah but um that's what it can be that's what this is the sport can be for sure and what it should be

[01:29:43] 4,000 kids to come through there that was unbelievable that is astounding man and then they had a table

[01:29:49] right out front for all the kids to play on that had you could put about in 1015 players on a side

[01:29:56] oh yeah I've seen this oh wow yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a huge thing yep not just a 4a this was like

[01:30:02] from here to here to the coast warrior made one a few years ago that would fit I think it was 12

[01:30:09] players aside yeah that's just nice and all the kids that they just playing having fun they watch

[01:30:15] some good matches and then I get you out of school man what's better you can't beat that right

[01:30:21] anyway you know clubs is something we do want to start pushing this year and it's just

[01:30:26] almost away from being out there uh and then we'll start seeing some growth there yep um

[01:30:34] and you know when you get your clubs in there you'll have somebody who's a local pro or local

[01:30:38] master and you know that's who teaches these younger kids how to play oh sure yeah I don't take full

[01:30:44] credit for for the ones that started playing under me because I was just being the nice guy who

[01:30:49] was a DJ at the skating rink to manager and I'd go over and mess around with Blake and and no

[01:30:54] culture and and David Moore and a couple of them little kids and we would start playing them

[01:30:59] of course I'd slam them around a lot and they liked that you know so they wouldn't back down

[01:31:04] I would I would say okay if you can beat the DJ you get a whole piece in the picture drink man they

[01:31:08] come over put your quarters up start playing and then and then some of them say my dad used to be a

[01:31:13] champion I said well get your dad come up here in this place

[01:31:18] someone will come up there and they go oh that's mr. that's Donald no I ain't playing him you know

[01:31:24] but you know but but it gets the kids and parents together playing that drink man it does

[01:31:29] stuff up and as you know we've had some great players that you know Blake Robinson

[01:31:34] yeah and Hannah started playing at the bowling alley that I had over there and she's a great

[01:31:39] player you know Bill Bell played he helped mentor Blake a lot because you know he really helped

[01:31:45] Blake out when Blake's father passed away he was really helping him along with his game and just

[01:31:50] helping him in general and then Chris Cavalier helped him out when he was going to medical school

[01:31:55] down there to take what he does now but you know we look out after these players and look they

[01:32:01] they developed some good players you know so we just recently a little quick little anecdote we

[01:32:06] just recently acquired a new player and the 518 in fact it was through our Facebook page on

[01:32:12] our Facebook group a young mom contacted us and said hey my son Jack has a table at home it's not a

[01:32:19] very good table but he he heard you guys play and could he could he combine and play could we

[01:32:25] bring him in and I said of course of course so the next Friday she showed up or I'm sorry he

[01:32:31] and his dad showed up Jack showed up and several of the players took him aside immediately and

[01:32:35] started showing him the basics of how you play and got him playing instantly immediately and

[01:32:42] and his father approached me at the end of the night and said he had a blast he's an eighth grade

[01:32:48] he doesn't want to do anything but he wants to come back again next week

[01:32:52] well that's good I said that's good I said well absolutely bring him back of course so next week his

[01:32:58] mom brought him in and he's been there three times now and we're looking forward to and or having

[01:33:03] him there on a regular basis and he's he's really learning quickly so that's good and that's

[01:33:09] another thing I want to I want to do but I can't get hammered by people to leave it alone but

[01:33:18] I don't know if I should talk about it or not well I got to talk about it I've always said this

[01:33:26] before and Randy if you heard me ever get a microphone and start talking about anything you've

[01:33:30] heard me say this I'm so tired of football being socialized as a bar sport right yes our bar event

[01:33:38] yep to get now now you invited that kid and I'm assuming this is a kid safe place that you

[01:33:45] was at it's a billy at all it's it's it's you know it's like one half of a of a nightclub basically

[01:33:50] right now I wish we could clean food spow up where there's no drugs no alcohol especially in the

[01:33:57] and in the playing air pit areas I know people want to drink I have nothing against drinking I might

[01:34:02] have a drink but I'm never dream to get drunk or anything like yeah that's just not when you lose

[01:34:08] your control that's when it can turn to simple things yeah forget it's all I'm gonna say about that

[01:34:11] but you know if I had a kid I was wanting to bring to a tournament and I see some guys over

[01:34:18] and they are cussing and cab or jawing and going back at each other and pulling up a beer and

[01:34:24] rainhead got bad words on their shirt yeah I don't think I want my kid to be coming back to that

[01:34:30] right right but we kind of kind of cleaned up a little bit we do and uh I get told

[01:34:36] food spa there's no place for a kid to come play in a tournament they need to keep it in the

[01:34:40] schools only well if I keep in the schools it's never gonna go past the schools so we got a little

[01:34:45] come out and play in some tournaments you know and and I'm worried about some of these kids

[01:34:49] that started playing and getting out I had some that uh Mr. Donald you'd be my guardian at this

[01:34:54] just said no sir uh oh you coming to hear you better have your parent with you I'm not going

[01:35:00] to be a parent I'm not going to be a guardian at a bar or our club you know sure and that's just

[01:35:05] that's just why I feel in my heart you know but you know you got to make it a lot of these

[01:35:11] older players are getting old nine off or getting to where they can't play sure and I don't think

[01:35:16] they're gonna come up with a new grade of 75 and older I think 63 is the top I don't think they're

[01:35:21] gonna do a 75 I'm 65 I'm carrying medicine my medic care card so well you're good you're good

[01:35:27] to 63 and older you're still a baby into 63 and older then I don't I don't see them doing a 75

[01:35:32] or nine or anything like that so we got to have some kids come we've got to have some kids come

[01:35:37] in there you know oh yeah and we're not gonna get them from clubs we're not going to get them from

[01:35:41] bars we're not gonna get them to sell for in schools are second third generation kids that's

[01:35:46] why they call them first second how many second third generation because their parents played

[01:35:50] that's how they're introduced to it right to get totally new kids they're only going to get to see

[01:35:55] it at school our fits out there on social media right so I just don't at times I don't know if I

[01:36:03] want to bring a kid into something like like the term I was just that it was kid friendly but my

[01:36:10] kid wouldn't be listening to what I listened to after midnight you know I'm sorry but you know

[01:36:14] but we wouldn't have any kid terms that late either right yeah really in the day but I'm just

[01:36:19] I'm just saying we got to clean up a little bit if we want to get on TV understood you know yeah

[01:36:24] no I know and I was told this story that ESP was air setting up cameras they looked over saw that

[01:36:29] and they say you know what I don't think this is for us and they packed up and left yep you know

[01:36:33] I don't know the full details you probably heard the story I don't know sure but um well yeah so I

[01:36:39] mean you know if you look at any professional sport whether it's golf whether it's basketball whether

[01:36:45] it's baseball whatever the case there's no substance abuse in the field of play playing in simple

[01:36:51] right fun it's not apparent right if it's happening in the dugout they're chewing something

[01:36:56] that's different yeah but you know in the field of play when they're out there doing their thing

[01:37:01] there's there's nothing in their hand but the the glove the bat the ball that's it that's it

[01:37:08] so and they don't dress alike yeah I was gonna say itsf is now back on their um

[01:37:16] their dress code yeah uh notice that issue now we was on a dress code at one time and nobody would

[01:37:25] follow us so we compromise because not everybody's gonna run out and buy athletic

[01:37:29] ants athletic whatever no yes I mean I said normally what I wear is those you know athletic

[01:37:37] you know pants stuff like I that's what I normally wear anyway just because you know I wear

[01:37:41] Levi's but I mean I'd you know just a team jersey would be fine you know team jersey yeah yeah

[01:37:48] and that's kind of what we went to now I know I might not be looking dry to the camera because

[01:37:54] I'm in my picture picture thing I was trying to I found us some picture of me in 1990

[01:38:00] I'm your 91 I went had three shirts made and I took a picture of them at worlds saying

[01:38:07] some new gear I have that I went and had made and uh it had Arnold Wilson or Mississippi

[01:38:14] and then it had msts msts a missybiffoose faucet whatever anyway I was real proud of that

[01:38:22] and I was glad they made pros and above do a dress code you know yeah I can't find them

[01:38:28] and I like to wear by looks and and I feel like we should probably start trying to go back to

[01:38:32] that you know well we're a collar shirt with that on there but already don't have to be collar

[01:38:37] you could just be a you know I got a lot of my now now that I've been able to go on tour to

[01:38:42] ITSF I have quite a few you know competition shirts man a sports shirt or collar shirt would be fine

[01:38:50] let's put it this way if if if you go to a major and you're playing an open event

[01:38:55] you have to dress accordingly well I like some I like Randy's outfit he wears hockey

[01:39:01] yeah well because I'm fat and it's comfortable but I so I you know I remember a time where pros

[01:39:11] had to wear a college shirt and I look I you know in in my professional career as a real estate agent

[01:39:19] I have tons of really nice college shirts that I wear for clients and it's not an issue

[01:39:25] and they're comfortable right I'll put on a college shirt and and when I was starting in pros

[01:39:31] we're wearing college shirts that's kind of how I could differentiate I'm like that guys at pro

[01:39:35] player he's got a college shirt on yeah and I think they should bring that back I mean you know look

[01:39:40] at the kickoff I'm bringing some college shirts with me I'm gonna wear college shirts because

[01:39:45] I want to try to look some you know usually when I go play fuzball I just want to be comfortable so

[01:39:50] I can perform and a lot of times I look homeless or I wear hockey jersey because it's comfortable but

[01:39:57] oh you're not alone again no I'm look this is not a green screen behind me I'm actually in a room

[01:40:04] in my house so yeah I'm not I'm not under a bridge doing this doing this podcast

[01:40:10] when I saw you wearing him hockey shirts I figured you was one of those guys that that likes hockey

[01:40:17] I love hockey and it makes me it made me think of of of um the Adam Sandler

[01:40:25] we kept trying to have a good one you know he never could make it I said I wonder if he's

[01:40:30] ever tried out for an adult hockey team I play I play I played hockey my whole life I've

[01:40:35] made every team I've ever tried out for okay yeah I would I would smoke Adam Sandler and hockey

[01:40:42] trust me you're not happy Google me Google me mr. Donald not fuzball ready to propose a Randy

[01:40:47] repose a hockey you'll find some stuff there yeah now the here's where I have something

[01:40:52] common with you I played hockey too really I was really good at it field hockey doesn't count

[01:40:58] roller skating I'm just see roller hockey yeah no roller hug now look look I I was uh I went out

[01:41:06] with these guys they were they were every 90% of them were all from north and they all had their

[01:41:12] hockey jerseys on and they was coming in on sunny nights renting a rink out and playing hockey

[01:41:18] and I you know working there I got to watch a few times and man I love to play with y'all

[01:41:21] so come on so I laced up and I went out there and they said you go need a helmet I said no I'm good

[01:41:26] yeah whoa and uh first couple times I played with them I was good and then one time I was

[01:41:32] skating backwards on defense and tripped over somebody and I hit the back of my head on that floor

[01:41:38] I woke up and I was not seeing correctly straight oh boy yeah and I went over and sat down I said uh

[01:41:45] I'll have a helmet on next time I'm gonna be it yeah that's called the combustion yeah that's called

[01:41:49] the combustion yes I wore a helmet from narrowing out boy yeah it's a lot of fun I loved it I loved it

[01:41:55] I started skating when I was three three I played my whole life yeah I was I played Varsity hockey as a

[01:42:02] freshman my my last year of high school hockey I led my area and scoring uh I played men's league I quit

[01:42:10] I um have a knee injury no no I fell in love with drugs oh before I fell in love with Jesus so

[01:42:19] I quit I quit playing hockey for a while then then in my early 30s I got back in shape I started

[01:42:23] playing again uh started playing men's league had a you know the thing about hockey is it brings

[01:42:30] something out of me that is just not something people want to see so uh played men's league had

[01:42:37] a good time yeah I beat up a ref one night oh I beat up a ref one night and uh they threatened

[01:42:45] to call the cops and uh and I said well I'll just leave and I won't come back and that was it and um

[01:42:52] the guy who was Reffen um I knew that I knew him since we were kids and uh he was a goalie

[01:42:59] and I uh he was Reffen the game and he shouldn't have been Reffen it was a conflict of interest he made

[01:43:04] a bad call I said something to him and he just threw me out he's like he's like you're done and I

[01:43:09] said what do you say man come on I drove all the way here to play you're gonna throw me out like

[01:43:13] we were like six minutes into the game and and he he threw me out and then he started laughing and

[01:43:19] I just dropped my gloves and I beat the crap out of them in front of the whole rink and uh and

[01:43:24] and and and and then when I was done I looked up I looked I looked up like this I was like

[01:43:29] was like this is a bad idea yeah the whole rink was quiet the whole rink was quiet so

[01:43:35] yeah that was that never officiate Randy's foosball you can officially get my matches come on

[01:43:44] foosball is not foosball is not hockey I'm not gonna beat up I ain't reffen not yo man

[01:43:51] and the thing the thing with mensley see people don't understand mensley hockey's a full contact

[01:43:56] sport mensley gives no contact right so I would wear I would wear bottoms and then I wouldn't

[01:44:02] wear any shoulder pads I'd wear a helmet with no face mask and there were guys that going out

[01:44:06] there and they would wear full equipment and they try to you know they try to hurt you I'm like

[01:44:10] man I gotta go to work tomorrow and and and and a couple times I tell these guys I said listen

[01:44:17] you keep it up I'm gonna be waiting for you in the park a lot I promise I said I'm not

[01:44:21] gonna beat you up in here I said I'm gonna beat you up outside so I just I had to stop it

[01:44:25] it just it brought out a really ugly side of me so uh foosball foosball I'm pretty even

[01:44:32] killed when it comes to foosball so I'm only saying you have yourself once or twice once or twice

[01:44:37] not toward me yeah no it wasn't even out of foosball table it was out the hallway where somebody

[01:44:44] was being disrespectful oh yeah and then no one to that oh no we don't have to talk about that

[01:44:49] okay yeah oh boy that was a good one I've even done that one time too one guy just out of nowhere

[01:44:56] said somebody said something's a dollar and we rolled in there and we didn't hear and he come out

[01:45:00] and they put him apart and I just put my arm on the door like yet he won't walk by said you're

[01:45:05] not coming you stand his hallway I mean it was it was uncalled for police came and they they had to

[01:45:11] leave wow no I remember that was in Kentucky I was there yeah yeah yeah I was yeah I was

[01:45:18] it took it took several y'all to get that other person back in his corner so he didn't hurt that fella

[01:45:24] yeah he's lucky because that other person would have definitely hurt him oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah

[01:45:30] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that was uh some else but we have you know that's another thing too

[01:45:35] we might fight each we might be in a battle fighting across that table um somebody outside come

[01:45:41] mess with one of us you got all of us oh yeah it's not a true that's not a true what happened

[01:45:46] that's not a true that's true when somebody comes up against you that's true when someone has

[01:45:52] helped issues or death in the family we all routed together and support each other that's it

[01:45:56] good family very true that's why I don't see why a lot of football players want to come out and

[01:46:00] join the family right yeah you know that's uh and join a USTSO family yeah I'll be I'll be I'll be

[01:46:07] signing up at the kickoff all right was there anything else y'all need for me because uh I think

[01:46:15] I think the Donald I mean first of all thank you for doing what you do yeah well thank you for

[01:46:21] doing what you do because you know you've you've always been in this sport and you always look to

[01:46:26] to for a fair play and you you spoke your mind today I'm so glad you came on to talk about the

[01:46:31] points the points change because now and one more question for you if someone were listening to

[01:46:37] this podcast and instead I still don't understand how do they make contact how do they how do they

[01:46:43] contact you personally to find out more okay well my on Facebook uh on my Facebook page

[01:46:53] I don't like giving out my number but you know I'm a term director so my numbers already on

[01:46:58] flyers I just say if you see a flyer of my number on there you can text me okay that's good

[01:47:02] that's good because I don't answer phone numbers I don't recognize yep yeah on a sweet

[01:47:07] don't think anybody does and uh but like I told y'all earlier uh Amy's supposed to be getting me

[01:47:15] something in a week okay or so yeah on what to put down and then what I've told y'all has already

[01:47:20] been published on Facebook I'm just gonna redo it again okay time I'll do a video and I'll also

[01:47:28] have it typed out what I said tonight along with a more closer range on the algae algorithm

[01:47:37] out there you go nice nice nailed it nice and uh and that way it'll be there for everybody to see

[01:47:44] online and then kind of get an idea okay so that will be put out hopefully within a week we want

[01:47:50] to we want to put a lot of stuff out before tKa and then there is something else I didn't say about TKO

[01:47:56] that is going to be an experiment uh we're gonna try this it's gonna help with timing events

[01:48:03] this is one step closer to getting on tv for stuff because if we can have time to events

[01:48:10] yes or somebody to come in and actually time it watch it and be there when they need to be

[01:48:15] I don't know if y'all read it on the tKo flyer but it's called championship doubles did see that

[01:48:20] right double yep yep and what this is is number one I've heard it say about

[01:48:26] a few top masters that winners should never lose if you're the best at wiki you should never

[01:48:34] leave you win the whole thing so with a championship format you play I mean if it's a big field you

[01:48:41] might only have five rounds to go and you can win because the top of the winners bracket the king

[01:48:47] seat that is now your finals yes and see you could put a time stamp on every winner bracket match

[01:48:54] when it's gonna happen right that way you can have tv crews look I'm having the finals of this one

[01:48:59] at this time you could come film it yep and be on you know and it's just it's just going to help the sport

[01:49:05] and I cannot count how many times on a sunday after a big weekend of terms now hadn't been

[01:49:12] that bad Mary's done a lot of rearranging on her schedule where it flows better so usually we're

[01:49:16] done around midnight or a little shortly after not no daylights anymore sure every now and then

[01:49:21] when you have a lot of conflicts you will but that's what's going to happen no more conflicts because

[01:49:27] once you win the championship format top of the winners first in place you can celebrate

[01:49:32] you're done you don't have to wait two days to play the finals right or the next day while the

[01:49:38] ovens are battle out and loser bracket and you're sitting there trying to warm up it's not the same

[01:49:42] as playing and that's why you see so many go into the second set because by time seconds sets

[01:49:46] they're the ready you know yeah so there will be no more that so tournaments will speed up on the

[01:49:51] back end and that way you see better finish times and then they battle out for third now I told her I

[01:49:58] said but third place needs to be attractive you know and they pay a little deeper so they stay in

[01:50:03] there and she knows that sure so uh so the championship is going to get tested this weekend and maybe

[01:50:08] maybe tested this whole year and again she does listen to the players if it's overwhelming

[01:50:14] dislike you know she'll reevaluate because she's she's an honest person when it comes to wanting

[01:50:20] to help the players come to tournaments that's why you know more players come is better for her

[01:50:24] too means a business that's right I've never I've never fought to her on anything

[01:50:30] I see more than the average person sees I saw her have a hall of fame where she made a killing

[01:50:37] and you know what she did she upped world championship to a hundred thousand dollars

[01:50:43] first year she raised it up to a hundred this because she had a very good hall of fame now I say make

[01:50:48] a killing she made money above her expenses a good bit sure out now let me ask your question

[01:50:54] with all the stuff that y'all kind of know of putting on a tournament you have to call around

[01:50:59] negotiate contracts go out there look at the ballroom set it up arrange having your tables there

[01:51:04] make sure you have parts by the lights to get your staff organized get them in there get their rooms

[01:51:10] paid for if you don't get enough rooms you got to do all that and then you have a tournament

[01:51:16] and you make twenty five hundred dollars over the tournament you think it's worth it

[01:51:21] for months of preparing a lot of work some might say yes but some might say no

[01:51:27] five is a lot better than you know twenty five hundred well I'm just throwing out numbers

[01:51:32] I don't know what what the I don't know I'm really as but I'm just saying like if I ran

[01:51:36] Mississippi State and I only got like two hundred dollars for doing it

[01:51:41] I thought we were more than 200 it's a lot of elevation for ten or bucks but back in the day when

[01:51:46] we ran tournaments we would just do a two fifty added and we weren't worried about hitting money

[01:51:51] marks but whenever we used to have Mississippi State's back in the day

[01:51:56] and we went way over I would always split what the over was me keep me put back in the tournament

[01:52:04] so even even these these other Mississippi states I've thrown in an extra place you know if they don't

[01:52:09] pay firstly five six good turnout I might throw in a seven to eight that's just two more places you

[01:52:15] know just little things like that you know okay but and I've seen I've seen her do this so

[01:52:21] you know she does think about the players which makes a lot of them decisions and the championship

[01:52:26] format if that don't work I would see she would change change it up but I think it'll make for

[01:52:33] more exciting winter bracket matches because they mean a lot you can't be down a game or two games

[01:52:39] are thinking well I'll come back and lose the bracket no you better tighten up right now yeah

[01:52:42] yeah yeah you know do or die so I think we're gonna see a lot better winter bracket matches

[01:52:47] you know and I know Tony hates it because he loves to double dip people yeah

[01:52:51] oh it's a no I'm looking forward to it I think it's awesome I'm really

[01:52:56] it's a it's a tough one it's happened hey look I gotta do it yeah

[01:53:01] you're you're getting that finals and you get I mean you might be disappointed for second but I think

[01:53:04] you'll feel better that you don't have to wait it out yeah whoever you gotta play while they're

[01:53:09] busing through the loose brad you're sitting over waiting and we're playing about waiting and

[01:53:14] be hours man you know oh so now yeah Chris and I we played for King Cedar Nationals a couple years ago

[01:53:21] in open doubles uh we played Blake and Shannon they beat us I mean they they three straighted

[01:53:26] us but you know thinking about it's like if that was if that was this now we would have finished

[01:53:31] second we ended up losing to Kevin and Carlos uh and we we took third again top three at

[01:53:37] at Nationals and open doubles a great second awesome seconds seconds seconds seconds better

[01:53:43] better yeah yeah in first is even better but you know what who who remembers who gets second

[01:53:50] nobody I do the guy that's no I remember who got third just because it's usually a great

[01:53:55] matching you remember who's in the match and it's and it's like legendary and it's crazy and it's just

[01:53:58] yeah I was the guy he just says the guy who just won Tommy yeah he messed he messed up my joke I said

[01:54:05] who remembers here get a second the guy who got placed up yeah well hey I do think I heard

[01:54:13] somebody else say it this is definitely gonna be a worthwhile experiment with the championship so

[01:54:17] I think that's that's gonna be a great idea and and and this was he told me tell you she says you

[01:54:22] know she was gonna try to do all events but she looked at her schedule says oh that won't work

[01:54:26] because she's gonna tweak her schedule to where it'd be all events not just to open but she

[01:54:30] experiment with the open we'll see how it works we she'll see how I say I speak we a lot when

[01:54:35] I taught USTSO or IFN or anything in general but I meant they still test it out get a fill up

[01:54:43] from a few tournaments and she'll see the feedback and hear from us and hear from everybody but

[01:54:47] I think overall I think everybody's gonna like it and it's still gonna be three out of five three out of

[01:54:52] five best of five yeah well yeah open open definitely three out of five now lower ranks to be two out

[01:54:57] of three now maybe when you do the finals that's something somebody else said when you do the championship

[01:55:02] finals maybe she'll do them all three out of five mm-hmm that way because that way you don't have to

[01:55:07] worry about a loose bracket right now that's something to discuss too you know that's that that's

[01:55:11] things to be looking at okay well the the flyer says uh singles open singles and doubles

[01:55:19] women singles and doubles and pro singles and doubles are all gonna be that championship format

[01:55:24] I didn't say finals did you say what the finals would be in pro is it gonna be two out of three

[01:55:29] or is it gonna be three out of five not sure yeah that that will be I mean it's two out of three

[01:55:34] I think it's because under the pro the little pro you know pro bracket it says winner two out of three

[01:55:41] loser two out of three yeah so I'm assuming the final is gonna be you know two out three yeah it

[01:55:46] probably will be but I mean you know if enough people voice their opinion a says there's no

[01:55:52] loser bracket y'all maybe y'all to make it through out of five make it a big you know make it

[01:55:55] again you know I don't know yeah like two out of three sometimes sure and you know what and for

[01:56:01] Tony did not like it he that's all he's playing in Europe is single elimination over there

[01:56:06] that's all they do what about race to 10 yeah or something like that you know but uh you know

[01:56:14] they're sitting me know you know you win you win you get first second man good for you that's it

[01:56:19] that's it yeah that's it you get to celebrate you don't have to stick if you want to go home

[01:56:24] you can go home I agree but I think I would want to sit around and struggle a little while yeah

[01:56:30] do a little peacock a little peacock and that's right I did I didn't win but I got second

[01:56:34] and I got to stick around I'm supposed to go out to eat with my wife y'all have fun that's

[01:56:40] right I'm gonna go to the restaurant get a full leg oh yeah and uh one thing I did do last time

[01:56:47] I was in Kentucky and uh went to go see the the art art experience that was really nice

[01:56:57] and big it's a replica of Noah's art yeah my sister built she took her kids there she loved it yeah

[01:57:04] yeah it's really it's amazing how big that thing was and they could do stuff like that back then but

[01:57:10] it was really nice I like that kind of stuff and then other than that it just go

[01:57:16] a lot of whiskey places in that's where they got a ton of those out there the whiskey trail

[01:57:22] yeah that's it and Lexington yeah or is it the bourbon trail I've forgotten what it is but uh

[01:57:27] I have no idea I don't I don't drink that much so I don't know yeah it's uh but it is it's a great

[01:57:32] place to find a good single malt yeah I did not consume alcohol I did not consume alcohol you do

[01:57:40] not consume and another thing too I I've been to Kentucky a lot I've been there a lot and I've

[01:57:47] yet found any blue grass well you don't I rise it blue grass I ride the blue grass park way

[01:57:54] again there that's like here's it me too yeah I'm the grass the whole way there it'll never

[01:57:59] seem blue grass no no no no no what you don't know I think all the grass I see is green I think

[01:58:04] you're talking about literal blue grass yeah all the grass I see is green I've never seen blue

[01:58:10] grass it's all green out there in the right sunlight it's it is blue the right summer is it

[01:58:16] is that like when you when when the blood still your veins is blue and when your bleeding is red

[01:58:20] does that say something like that I don't I don't believe the difference between blue and teal

[01:58:26] right so uh both of uh you know it's a cousin to one another and you know teal is

[01:58:31] so is blue I got you know it causes are in Alabama they're boyfriend and girlfriend oh

[01:58:39] what I live here I can say that home oh no I was about to say uh husband and wife

[01:58:46] there he got a guy he's got a guy you know hey uh don't you want to host this show at what

[01:58:53] I got another I don't know how this one sounds oh there it is that one well see it's it's part

[01:59:03] it's part of discord yes and on my screen it has a little a little like a trumpet down here

[01:59:10] to bottom when I push on it it gives me a choice of black a golf clap sad horn uh the boom air horn

[01:59:23] and see it and then oh you see it yeah I see it and then it has a place up here where I can add sound

[01:59:30] I might see if I can add that that could be dangerous first of all song we play right before

[01:59:36] I don't see hear that song as all from right now always and handle it or is that so

[01:59:42] no there's a sound that we play it you know that oh oh oh oh that's that's all from food sounds

[01:59:49] on a food spot table okay no musical instruments and there's a place up here where you're going to add

[01:59:54] sound so I might see if I can add that song on there so that'd be cool to have interesting okay

[01:59:59] what do you think Randy I like it thank you you better I like it he found it oh yeah

[02:00:07] you gotta show him now oh yeah just show him man I was trying to keep that out of his out of his

[02:00:13] repertoire whatever okay good good thing you don't have tours in him in here and learn this stuff

[02:00:19] on here this guy that is so cool anyway I enjoyed it you know hey I enjoyed being on here I enjoyed

[02:00:27] talking to you guys cool we did miss you this weekend Randy uh we know we know we know you love

[02:00:36] who's following you decaying if you could we do know I would have been there I had to work

[02:00:39] I worked today I couldn't go to church today at the work well I told him I said I promise you

[02:00:44] he's not scared to come to Mississippi I know I know I know he comes over here again yeah

[02:00:51] I know I know I know he comes over here to get third and fourth but you know

[02:00:57] nah I'm just messing with him that's whatever top three baby top three yeah hey hey I'm happy

[02:01:03] with third you know I'm happy with I'm happy with uh look let me tell you how bad I play this

[02:01:09] weekend now I'll say this much here and then you can kick me off and all that stuff but um

[02:01:17] Mary has her tournament software set up you know for TKO and they're dealing with the points

[02:01:22] being changed so I really couldn't use her software so Shannon said what about that modern

[02:01:26] foosball stuff I said well he's he's not using really the modern foosball anymore it's the HOT

[02:01:31] I said let me call him up so I called him up and he told me that sure I could use it no problem

[02:01:37] they're making they're still trying to fine tune it so he said sure no problem so I used it

[02:01:43] just in game you about a two hour crash course on sanded up and all that stuff

[02:01:48] not near enough I'm over there and I'm trying to sign up and I'm going screen to screen and

[02:01:53] I'm having issues I'm trying to do it then I get you know people want to hurry up and pay I said

[02:01:59] just grab a sheet of paper take their money and I'll come back to it never should have done that

[02:02:04] because I accidentally left somebody out of a draw I feel so bad I paid for another event forming

[02:02:09] I gave his money back and complimented on the expert doubles so he was happy with that but anyway

[02:02:16] I saturday I had gotten used to it and I said okay we're not doing no paper we're doing everything

[02:02:22] through here that way nobody's left out and by mid midday Shannon made a comment you got the hang

[02:02:28] of that I said well you know repetit you know keep doing a lot of it repetition you know repetiton

[02:02:33] you're gonna figure it out you know and so I was using his software and which you know it's has

[02:02:40] its perks she has her perks on hers and so I actually got to learn it and it was fun

[02:02:48] but it was it was a little difficult at first it's different and plus the players the players

[02:02:53] have to have their phone and I mean I'm from the south I call myself a redneck these red

[02:03:00] necks only use the phones for a couple things yep the tailored friends they shot a deer check

[02:03:07] the score of the college football game or check the score where we go where we go on tonight you know

[02:03:15] and when it comes to foosball I just had everybody coming up hey man I won hey man I won

[02:03:21] they they're not gonna do the phone deal I'm sorry but you know it is what it is we both have

[02:03:27] different you know we all both have different stuff they all work good I like the fact that uh

[02:03:33] it has some you know when you set the priorities and see this is the thing I a piece off where it

[02:03:39] has the same thing when you set priorities it it'll look for those matches first you know

[02:03:45] but we still get to pick which ones on this one if I put it on auto play it'll pick the one

[02:03:50] that it feels like she go first to keep your brackets even and so that was pretty cool I enjoyed

[02:03:54] doing that and the fact that voice is built into that software with with with I have with I have

[02:04:00] with I have peace off where it was put on a separate computer and so only way to make it work

[02:04:05] and and again it's so outdated it's hard to get stuff done you know so she but but still

[02:04:12] I don't want to tell the my honest goodness truth if I had to compare I still like the I have

[02:04:17] peace because I'm more familiar with it and it's less clicking around it's what you've been on really

[02:04:22] once I got yeah but once I got the hang of house tournaments I liked it because I felt like

[02:04:30] I'm going to have to click on something and do something and there's a reason for doing it

[02:04:34] and I just got to get comfortable once I got comfortable it started going on faster yeah

[02:04:39] yeah but I'm never I'm never against learning new things you know you know some people

[02:04:44] afraid to change I'm okay I'm okay with change because if the change is not good

[02:04:48] the people who get the change should be smart enough figured out after a little bit to try something

[02:04:54] else yeah and that's one thing that's one thing everybody you know I know everybody has

[02:05:00] their own opinion of Mary but for her to just realize I made a mistake and come out there

[02:05:05] and put on Facebook I figured maybe she'd want to throw me under the bus I always don't know

[02:05:09] but no she said it was me you know and you know I just thought y'all would like it but we will

[02:05:14] change it back so that shows she does care about what players think is say oh sure and when she

[02:05:18] when she does make decisions she sincerely thinks it's better for for a foosball in general yeah

[02:05:24] yeah and and she's anytime her hearts are for kids and again since she wants to promote foosball

[02:05:29] till all schools have foosball and I just told you barely to be a hundred because it's going to be

[02:05:33] slow go because yeah I know John John Brown is doing it by tail up Michael stall that boy's on fire

[02:05:41] he's taking a bath really he is tough and if we could get a Michael stall on each state I believe

[02:05:47] every school would have him pretty soon oh yeah I hope he keeps up his good work and I hope he

[02:05:54] can get some people like him recruited in different areas and then let's do this you know just

[02:05:59] because of uh John O'Brien's organization in upstate New York we're going to be having an

[02:06:04] upstate New York championship for for juniors long before we do for referee the players in fact

[02:06:09] Marchrolet's working on that very same thing right now so it's um yeah it's it's happening you know

[02:06:16] and Martin Martin he's got a good program going to his school I've talked to him many times but

[02:06:20] I think he'll be an involved in school and having family kids you know it does kind of limit you

[02:06:25] some it does as a Brian his kids all grown up I know it I had oh yeah you know I didn't have to I

[02:06:30] I quit because I want to spend time with my kids so I know how it is and that's why when I said

[02:06:35] erda I don't want to put my phone number out there uh I will help out but you know I do want to stay

[02:06:40] married and also I can't work on everything all the time and then about me not putting those

[02:06:46] out there you know out there's a time where I just had to lay it down because uh you know I was

[02:06:51] told when I came into this man it probably might take you know two or three hours a week

[02:06:57] not not two or three three hours a day yeah at least three hours a day maybe yeah

[02:07:05] I mean now our board meetings you know it our USTSO board is Terry Rue Rob Morrass Tracy Metmillan

[02:07:13] and Tom Yor and we get on when we get on a board meeting we have to stop ourselves from talking

[02:07:19] all right we need to get our meeting started then we just we can our meeting could go for two hours

[02:07:25] yeah and never miss a beat but we we about put our time limit on there because we all want to stay

[02:07:31] married and and we all want to you know continue to you know have job well they do I'm retired

[02:07:38] and uh so you know but once you get told about foosball it's something you're passionate about

[02:07:43] you can talk forever it's that is a problem right but but it's a good problem to have

[02:07:49] it's a good problem yeah but it's uh I could but appreciate the time you put it into everything

[02:07:55] that you do for foosball and it's it's it doesn't go unnoticed it's a joy I do it I do it a lot

[02:08:02] for the players and uh I know people have heard me say it once before but uh my biggest thing about

[02:08:08] foosball that I love is meeting new people um-hmm sharing my Christian faith and good competition

[02:08:19] that's it all of the above and and and to me and I'm going to get real religious here on you

[02:08:26] and I don't like to word religious because that's usually freaks you know I'm just a follower

[02:08:32] of Jesus and I love to share my faith and what he's done for me in my past okay but if it ever

[02:08:38] gets to be more about foosball then about me sharing my my testimony and my light I don't want to play

[02:08:47] no more hmm interesting because foosball foosball was a good platform to meet people share my faith

[02:08:55] there's times when I feel like I'm done and then I'll get a phone call in the middle of the

[02:09:00] night with somebody pouring her heart out and please pray for me I'm going through some trouble I need

[02:09:05] some help I need this I need that and I pray with them and and I create a bond with somebody

[02:09:13] right and and a new friend and that's that's what I like is is you know I'm not gonna cram stuff

[02:09:20] down your throat I'm not gonna come over to Randy's house if I didn't know him and say you better

[02:09:24] follow him or you're going to hell and no no no I'm not going to do that he's going to know by the way

[02:09:29] I act in the way I talk in the way I move around it and the way I do stuff they're going to

[02:09:34] know something different about that guy and I'm not doing it for me I don't want no no paths on

[02:09:39] the back no nothing because that that defeats the purpose I just want people to see that

[02:09:45] there's you don't have to do drugs to be good you don't you know and think about drugs and foosball

[02:09:50] if you're not good before drugs you're not gonna make your better nope that's for sure

[02:09:54] just gonna make you better they're just gonna make you better at being worse you know yeah

[02:09:59] you know what I'm saying oh yeah you gotta have game before you can enhance it oh yeah

[02:10:03] that's just I'll just tell you like that you know and I love to play somebody who if I know

[02:10:08] their own something because I play as slow as possible take all my time and every time limit

[02:10:14] and just watch them get frustrated over there that's a little little uh that's a pro tip right there

[02:10:22] yeah that's a tip yeah yeah but anyway again I just won't you know I just I want to see the game

[02:10:28] better and I want to see people do better you know and then this world if we don't have hope for

[02:10:33] something better we hang it up yep don't be a sad day that's it yes sir sad day all right I'm not

[02:10:42] gonna preach I'm not gonna preach anymore I mean that's just the way the way I feel you know I love

[02:10:46] the sport and I love to you know and there's a place for some people and I've had many people come

[02:10:52] up to me and say hey man I'm a father I'm a father I'm a follower I'm a believer too and we make bonds

[02:10:57] so it's I like that I like that yeah it's you gotta share something in common in Fuzball of course

[02:11:03] is the is certainly part of the glue but there has to be other parts of it too that is the platform

[02:11:08] that is a platform yep by the way you'll say Randy yeah go I was just gonna say I I appreciate you

[02:11:15] I always appreciate you yeah yeah you know every every every tournament I see you you know I got

[02:11:20] a I gotta come see you and shake your hand and say thank you because because of all you do and

[02:11:25] you know no matter what you're just no matter what's going on you're you're always positive smiling

[02:11:30] and everything you do for the play and the sport and and I just I greatly appreciate you I'm very

[02:11:36] much I'm thankful for you coming on today and clarifying the point situation and I'm very much

[02:11:42] looking forward to spend some time with you in a couple weeks at the kickoff all right well it's

[02:11:46] okay you can tell people you hug me too I'll give you a kiss did I don't care I'm securing my

[02:11:52] manhoods sir I'm not oh me too me too I'm that with secure now five kids five grandkids I'm okay yeah

[02:11:59] yep you did fine yeah that's impossible I'm sounds like anyway sounds like what we need for

[02:12:09] for having you're welcome I look I can go every year I go to Vegas I get at least one free meal

[02:12:17] really yeah just for going to Vegas they weigh you before you go in right yeah if you weigh over

[02:12:26] 350 you get a free meal oh good lord interesting that's what I've got to free the last two years

[02:12:33] I don't know if that's gonna be proud of but congratulations yeah I'm proud I am proud of you this year

[02:12:39] Vegas I plan to be underway where I can okay okay there you go anyway anyway guys I love you guys thank

[02:12:47] you I like what you do yeah oh Brandon it's always a pleasure seeing you in tournaments because I know

[02:12:51] I'm going to have some laughs and see some good food spa oh yeah sir thank you anyway anytime any time

[02:12:56] you all may be on here yeah anytime you name y'all here just holler I always have something to talk

[02:13:01] about chickens yes eggs and it seems like the last couple of times you're on you're in in your truck now

[02:13:08] it's great because you're just kind of in your own element now you're just kind of hanging on yeah

[02:13:12] I had yeah I'm always on the road a lot it seems like I know I go to Louisiana I used to go twice

[02:13:18] a month but now I go about once a month but Mark was kind of getting known to me man when you go

[02:13:21] come down you've been a while I said man I'm gonna try to start coming once a month you know

[02:13:25] cool I go down there but but for tournaments it hadn't been as much I used to but yeah we on the road a

[02:13:31] lot but I'm never driving all the time I was driving was the last time when I was on a way to Jackson

[02:13:36] I was driving and I said all right I'm driving so I'm not gonna look at the phone then I go oh I just

[02:13:45] looked at the phone I won't do it again yes I just looked at it again okay so you know what yeah

[02:13:52] I tried to be safe out there that's all we ask because he's I like to be flowing I'm always yeah Bobby

[02:13:56] Martin used to drive and and and Mark met her eaves drives and then I've cut the music on it we'll

[02:14:01] start talking and cutting up and and uh funny story and I know we're getting I don't want to

[02:14:07] break your record because we had the record last time I was on here we did yes how long we was

[02:14:10] on so uh me and Bobby Martin was on the road going to going to uh I think it was TKO and uh

[02:14:18] I said I've been to a lot of feed let's put some music on so yeah that's a musical and uh

[02:14:23] he was I forgot how this happened but he started singing something and somebody said you have

[02:14:29] a nice voice and I had to get him to tell me that story again so I know but anyway he actually

[02:14:35] started talking to this person and uh you know I could be making a story up but anyway they ended

[02:14:41] up dating okay I'm not sure if that's his wife now or what I might need to hush up I could be wrong

[02:14:48] but yeah yeah but I'm all time come you know I say put on some scapular music let's do it let's do

[02:14:53] a lie feed and then uh if you ever notice when I do a lie feed I always throw a Kentucky fried chicken

[02:14:59] up in there either the box or a cup nobody knows that but that's that's one of Mark Metarease favorite

[02:15:06] meals is it really hey so before I do a lie feed me and Bobby always go to a KFC and that's a little

[02:15:13] signal that hey Mark look I'm hitting KFC but nobody knows it but now y'all know this so that's just

[02:15:20] some of the fun stuff we do when we go out with each other yeah but you know hey in

[02:15:27] Kentucky fried what is it when you have chicken and in Kentucky Kentucky fried chicken right

[02:15:32] yeah what what is it so what you have it now it is it's Alabama chicken still Kentucky fried chicken

[02:15:39] okay what about it Mississippi Kentucky fried chicken what about what about Louisiana Nashville it's

[02:15:46] Popeyes it's Popeyes yeah that's right it's Popeyes I knew that everyone's up there in New York sorry Tom

[02:15:57] well it's all right Tom why is it nothing or time in upstate New York into place called Brooks and

[02:16:02] I won't go into detail but it's it's not now it's not Kentucky fried sorry so you don't have a KFC

[02:16:07] up there um we did we did there was there was did you know they had a KFC in in Germany yeah oh yeah

[02:16:16] yeah and I told I went to god and Lewis was my partner and it was both our wives and we was

[02:16:22] walking in the mall he said uh well you only I said I see KFC that's what I'm eating so I go over

[02:16:28] and I go yes I would like she goes and then she calls somebody else uh then they said

[02:16:34] they're healthy I said yes I want some chicken a lot of them have speed getting this but not all of them

[02:16:41] nice to be right out the bat anyway yeah well it's it's uh New York state it's uh the name of

[02:16:47] this place is called it's called Brooks so if you're ever in in central New York near Cooperstown

[02:16:52] New York the home of the the baseball hall of fame if you're ever there and you're driving down

[02:16:57] something called Route 7 I open your window and you'll smell Brooks chicken for miles it's really oh

[02:17:03] it's amazing um especially in the summertime when they're they're really active but they've been

[02:17:07] there since 1965 and uh if you've wow if you've never had it you know um in fact it's it's uh the

[02:17:13] place of when people come through like politicians or famous people that's where they go to eat

[02:17:18] that's the that's the place yeah interesting if I'm ever up that away oh yeah and there is a tournament

[02:17:26] that it'd be on the horizon mm-hmm or I just want to say the Niagara Falls oh well Niagara Falls

[02:17:35] is about let's see about four hours away but it would still be worth the drive to go to Brooks

[02:17:42] okay back back at COVID time uh there was almost a tournament up there uh

[02:17:48] I remember that yeah I remember yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but they're still contacting IEP

[02:17:58] want to know if they want to come have a tournament up there so I'm not I'm not saying

[02:18:02] they're going to do it but it's definitely not out of the question all right and I said I definitely

[02:18:07] want to be on staff for that way I can take my wife to Niagara Falls and yes all of the vacation

[02:18:12] you know there is a you gotta bring your passport though you got to get on the Canada side yeah

[02:18:16] I got it I got a passport got a passport yeah Canada side of the falls are much better than the

[02:18:21] New York side for sure that's what I heard yeah much better and did they have is this just a

[02:18:27] Facebook thing but have they ever really stopped the waterfall to drain it and see what's all

[02:18:31] down there on the bottom no not that I know of that's what you heard no no no think so that's

[02:18:37] up that's all water water that's a lot of water oh yeah you know you know I'm gonna get on

[02:18:43] there in Google search and see I thought I saw that somewhere it's that was something if they

[02:18:47] did it it might be on one side of the other but I don't think the entire falls was ever shut down

[02:18:51] at the same time okay where would that water go I guess it was it's gotta go somewhere oh yeah

[02:18:57] and a lot of people have tried to do the falls like in a barrel or you know they try to ride the

[02:19:03] falls yeah a lot of them didn't make it so yeah there's that it used to be I guess the the number one

[02:19:13] destination for honey mooners back in you know the 40s and 50s that's where people would go go

[02:19:19] Niagara Falls but not so much anymore it's not I don't think I'd want to ride in those little

[02:19:25] fairies down there cuz they look like they can soak in wet oh yeah that's the idea I wouldn't

[02:19:29] want to get wet I would like to see the pretty pretty falls and everything but I don't know if I want

[02:19:34] to get wet you can go behind you yeah right you go behind the falls so you see what's on like

[02:19:39] like on the other side oh really behind the falls yeah that's what the idea is so you get

[02:19:45] okay hey I hope it comes to pass but anyway again it's been a pleasure yeah done I could ram

[02:19:50] along night but I need to go yeah yeah you old guys gotta get get your beauty rest

[02:19:58] sorry that's right well still still kind of have a taste for some eggs right now for some reason

[02:20:03] okay all right you go get some I'm gonna go to bed gentlemen always a pleasure miss a Donald

[02:20:09] Tom and before we before we wrap tonight before we wrap tonight I just want to make make sure

[02:20:14] that I mentioned the reason we are actually technically on the air tonight is because a good close

[02:20:20] friend of mine who's a foosballer is also a computer expert my computer that we're using right now

[02:20:26] died like completely dead dead died yesterday and within 24 hours he had me turned around

[02:20:35] had it fixed and back up and running in type of the show tonight so Dave Dave Hetzler

[02:20:41] love you man thank you so much for making sure the show happen tonight thanks Dave

[02:20:47] there we go I took care of business there and next week at this time Randy is back I presume

[02:20:54] yeah that's the plan yeah that's the plan yeah that's the next week I'll be here yeah but rumor has it

[02:20:59] there may be some former hosts of the show who may be lurking we wait and see I can't say one way

[02:21:07] the other for sure but you never know you never know deep sigh deep sigh and I and I wouldn't say

[02:21:19] this unless I had something else up my sleeve anyway so guys thanks so much for the show tonight

[02:21:25] episode 191 and tonight stick around because we have of an exceptional exceptionally long foos talk

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