FoosTalk Live | Ep 211 | Lane Blundell

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[00:02:00] Hey it's Tom Robinson once again FOOZTALK LIVE takes to the airwaves this week number 211

[00:02:08] And we are looking forward to tonight it's been a momentous weekend in foosball to say the least which we're going to chat about a lot when it comes to Illinois State

[00:02:16] But of course when it comes to talking about foosball it always pays when you have somebody nearby that you that really likes to talk about foosball

[00:02:24] Will be Randy Raposo hello Randy

[00:02:26] Hey Tom glad I can be nearby right next door

[00:02:30] Right here right next door

[00:02:32] Like that's right like shouting distance

[00:02:34] Yeah

[00:02:36] So what what's going on in your end of the other world in Alabama

[00:02:40] Um I'm just waiting for nationals just I'm counting down the minutes until nationals comes that's it

[00:02:48] I just want to go play foosball

[00:02:50] Touching the table every day

[00:02:52] Every day is right behind me

[00:02:54] Yeah I was just on there for about an hour before I got on here I had to do a little work

[00:02:58] Scheduled some showing for this week I got a lady who's relocated in Alabama I got to find her house and um

[00:03:04] Cool

[00:03:06] So uh send it to me emails and touch the table and now talk to foosball

[00:03:10] Nice

[00:03:12] Well it's uh I gotta say that what you do for people when you help them find their new home I mean

[00:03:18] Do they tip you

[00:03:20] No no god no no

[00:03:22] No no no

[00:03:24] You know the thing about real estate that's fine you know and I know we're kind of going off on a tangent here but

[00:03:28] People think real estate agents like they open the door and then they collect the check for thousands of dollars

[00:03:35] I've had I've had some

[00:03:37] Where I've shown

[00:03:39] No joke I've shown like 60 houses to people

[00:03:42] And that and then they go you know what?

[00:03:46] This is discouraging. I don't think we're gonna do anything so at that point. I'm I'm legitimately like

[00:03:51] You figure 60 how I'm I'm 60 maybe 80 hours into it

[00:03:55] And if you figure it's it's costing me like

[00:03:58] Yeah, maybe 30 or 40 dollars an hour. I mean that's a good chunk of change, right?

[00:04:02] Sure, and then I've and then I've had somewhere it's like

[00:04:07] They call me they go. Hey, I'm you know, I'm looking

[00:04:09] Uh what do you got? I show them a house and they go this will work done right up an offer

[00:04:14] Yeah, and I've and we're done in four hours four hours. So, uh, you know, it's

[00:04:20] It ebbs and it flows and it's different for everybody. So I think um

[00:04:24] For anybody listening if you're thinking about getting into real estate, um

[00:04:28] You know come talk to me and I'll let you know it's it's uh, it's not a bad gig

[00:04:32] Keep your day job, right? And you can make a little gravy on the side if you want to work it and uh,

[00:04:37] It's not bad, but I mean if if you really want to make some serious money

[00:04:41] Then just be a be a pro foosball player. That's where it's at done

[00:04:48] Got it covered you got it covered

[00:04:50] That's it. Yeah, so I I don't want to go any further here without introducing our guests for tonight

[00:04:55] We're very lucky in so many ways somebody that you know very very well

[00:04:58] And of course lane and I just met for the first time but uh, lane blendell coming to us from north carolina

[00:05:04] Welcome lane to to foos talk live

[00:05:07] Thank you. Tom. It's nice to be here. Awesome. So I understand you just got just just came off the golf course. Is that correct?

[00:05:13] Indeed indeed

[00:05:15] Played 18 holes today yet with some other foosball players shone green ben winnell

[00:05:19] some other north carolina boys, uh

[00:05:22] interesting weekend because we battled each other friday night in our local draw and then uh

[00:05:27] Battled each other on the golf course today. So very fun weekend and very fun weekend. That's the best

[00:05:31] That's a perfect weekend right there. Let me see it. Let you hit us. Let's see a 68 today

[00:05:36] Oh, yeah on the front nine on the front nine

[00:05:40] No, uh, uh, it wasn't a bad day though. I shot 87. I believe so

[00:05:45] That's an under 90. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. No, no

[00:05:49] What did shawn shoot from shawn shot 79 which for him is is a rougher day, you know

[00:05:55] That sounds bad for shawn. Yeah, that sounds bad for shawn. He's a great golfer. He's one of the best, uh

[00:06:00] Golfers I play with that also plays foosball. So chal's magnatosh also excellent golfer

[00:06:05] When it comes to these north carolina, uh, foosball players chal's lives on the golf course

[00:06:10] Apparently because last time when we had him on last time. Yeah, he was he was like right out there

[00:06:15] Just like waiting for somebody to show up to play

[00:06:18] so

[00:06:19] Yeah, I think it's chal's has kind of moved in for a time

[00:06:21] He's probably spending even more time on the golf course than uh, that's it. He used to that's it. So have you always lived in north carolina?

[00:06:29] Oh, no, no, I was born in new Orleans, Louisiana. So, uh, cool. Yeah spit in my very young chal did their move to massachusetts actually

[00:06:39] Oh, yeah

[00:06:42] Yeah for four years lived in uh, newton massachusetts for four years

[00:06:46] No, they moved back to Louisiana when grade school high school or whatever

[00:06:51] And then moved up to north carolina for college in 1997 and have been here ever since well

[00:06:56] So hold on let me a little clarification tom. Yes. Yes, please new newton mass

[00:07:02] Is is bougie as hell? Okay. There's money in newton. Okay newton mass and new bedford mass

[00:07:10] Two completely different places

[00:07:12] Yeah

[00:07:15] You say that randy, but while we were there my dad was actually a student and we lived in a duplex with a 90 year old woman

[00:07:22] So we weren't really living that

[00:07:24] You were still a newt. Hey, let me ask you a question. Was that was that 90 year old lady?

[00:07:29] Was she smoking cracker doing heroin?

[00:07:32] In my youth I did not know

[00:07:34] He always smelled funny. It always smelled funny on her side of the duplex

[00:07:38] Yeah, she was she was old. Listen, I used to sell drugs to some old ladies. So trust me

[00:07:43] Bro newt newt newt newt newt's bougie

[00:07:47] I'll show you some things good customers. I still remember a miss terra ganna was her name, you know

[00:07:53] All right

[00:07:55] Yeah

[00:07:58] Yeah

[00:08:00] So so so you moved to north carolina and you went to duke right? You're a duke boy, aren't you? That's right

[00:08:06] Yep. Wow

[00:08:08] I mean, yeah, that's what brought me to north carolina. Uh and then right after graduation came to charlotte with a job and uh

[00:08:15] Never thought about moving to southern california for a little while in the mid 2000s

[00:08:20] And honestly, I priced playing golf there and it was about four or five times more than it cost to play golf in north carolina

[00:08:26] And that that was a deterrent

[00:08:28] That was really a deterrent for me man. Have you have you ever played golf in alabama?

[00:08:32] Yes

[00:08:35] Absolutely

[00:08:37] Golf courses compare. How would they compare to north carolina?

[00:08:40] So I'll tell you we played some of the courses on the robert rint jones golf trail robert rint jones. That's right, baby

[00:08:47] Yeah, and they were phenomenal now

[00:08:50] Those are tier one golf courses when it comes to alabama

[00:08:53] So they were nicer than most of the things we play on an everyday basis here in north carolina

[00:08:59] But north carolina also has its tier one courses pinehurst kind of being our

[00:09:03] Our gym and uh, I have played there

[00:09:06] But to be honest with you, I like that real green rolling hills feel that those alabama robert rint jones courses

[00:09:12] I had so I loved it there and I loved it there and the prices were kind of moderate

[00:09:16] If you want to go play pinehurst, you better save your paycheck for the week, you know

[00:09:21] Yeah, right? No seriously everybody everybody. I know that plays go like, you know, you know adam adam m m

[00:09:28] Bruce waltz and those guys we you know, uh, so

[00:09:31] Like when I moved here, that was one thing bruce was like dude the golf courses. They're amazing. I'm like

[00:09:36] You know, I look I've played golf. I've been in alabama

[00:09:39] Nine years in august be nine years and I think I've played golf nine times, right?

[00:09:44] And I I enjoy it. I enjoy it every time. I love it. It's great. It's beautiful

[00:09:48] The thing about golf for me is like I can't get into it like that because like dude, you know, like me with foosball

[00:09:55] I'm super like I'm

[00:09:57] If I get into golf, it's gonna consume me

[00:09:59] It's gonna consume like because I'm I I want to be I want to be good at it

[00:10:04] And I just don't have the time to dedicate to that and it's either going to be that or foosball and I can't do both but

[00:10:10] Um, the the golf here. I mean like you drive down the highway and you see courses off the highway

[00:10:15] The robert rint jones courses even some of like the mid-tier courses and and I think about like the courses

[00:10:20] I played back in massachusetts

[00:10:22] Not even close

[00:10:25] They're all they're all state maintained. They they're all state maintained. They're all taken care of they're beautiful

[00:10:31] The only thing the only thing you have to worry about when you go play golf here

[00:10:34] And I don't know about in north carolina, but like you shank a ball off into the woods

[00:10:38] You got to watch where you step because there's rattlesnakes everywhere. So I keep a revolver in my golf bag

[00:10:46] Yeah, okay, so

[00:10:49] You you think there are snakes in alabama where I grew up in Louisiana randy

[00:10:54] You can see 10 to 12 snakes around. There were so many snakes. I mean they were everywhere in the riziana

[00:11:00] No, yeah some early childhood memories of my grandfather

[00:11:04] Shopping snakes heads off with shovels right that was one of the

[00:11:08] Every now and then we'd get someone so intimidating the shotgun came out and I remember a few shotgun blasts

[00:11:14] From the chicken the water moccasins out in our backyard in the lakes behind our house

[00:11:20] Thinking about hazards in upstate new york being like, I don't know

[00:11:24] A wet green or something

[00:11:27] No, no

[00:11:29] Even driving that like not now the wet like it was 99 degrees here today, right? So

[00:11:34] You drive down the road. Yeah, dude. It was hot as balls today

[00:11:37] So you drive down the road and you'll see they're just like chilling on the road on the pavement

[00:11:44] They'll get run over and whatever, but I mean this time of year. They're out there everywhere

[00:11:49] And like behind my house is all woods is a creek back there. So

[00:11:54] Like dem jokers

[00:11:56] They'll just come in your like my neighbor I shot one in my neighbor's yard

[00:11:59] He called me one day and he was like, hey man, I'm out of town

[00:12:02] Uh, my wife called me like they have they have a screened in back porch

[00:12:06] She's got plants back there. Mm-hmm aloe plant this this little it was probably

[00:12:13] Maybe it was a baby, right?

[00:12:15] But it freaked her out. I went over then I

[00:12:18] I blasted this thing the pieces man

[00:12:21] But it's like you just you always have to be careful where you're walking because you just never know

[00:12:26] You never know. It's crazy. Wow. I know was one thing moving Alabama. I knew I'm like, you know

[00:12:32] I just don't want to deal with snakes man. Everything else is cool like whatever. I hate snakes

[00:12:37] Ah, dude, I snakes and spiders. Yeah legitimately. I just I'm all set

[00:12:45] Well, well, I mean obviously this uh being in north Carolina, you've got great opportunities

[00:12:49] There's a there's a great benzene scene there. We always hear about from from north Carolina

[00:12:53] Do you play benzene as well as tornado?

[00:12:56] Not really no, I have never really caught the benzene debug

[00:13:00] I think I went to one mix tournament where

[00:13:04] It had tornado and benzene maybe about 10 years ago in Winston Salem and that really was the last time I touched a

[00:13:10] Bonzini table. Gotcha. I do know that

[00:13:13] Robert Yates Jr. Is really facilitating some bonzini play in Raleigh. So I live in charlotte, which is about

[00:13:20] Two and a half out two and a half three hours from Raleigh and he is really driving the bonzini scene up there

[00:13:26] Unfortunately for me, I never really loved the bonzini. So I haven't gone much

[00:13:30] But I think he's drumming up a little bit of interest up there. Yeah

[00:13:33] Well, the the north carolina championship that the state championship, I believe is coming up near the end of the year

[00:13:39] Um, and I was wondering is that going to be bonzini or is that tornado?

[00:13:44] So the north carolina state championship that takes place over Thanksgiving weekend is tornado. That's always tornado

[00:13:51] Gotcha, but they do have a

[00:13:53] Bonzini state championship too that

[00:13:55] I don't know when that is though. And yeah, I'm not in touch with that scene as much right. Gotcha

[00:14:00] Well, I gotta ask you because it is tradition here on foos talk live when when a player first comes on of course in a player

[00:14:06] Profile we've got to know

[00:14:08] When was the the first time you saw a foosball table? How old were you and what kind of table was it?

[00:14:16] So that's a great question. Um

[00:14:18] The first time I saw one had to be sometime in my childhood just probably

[00:14:24] A table the word Harvard comes to mind like there's Harvard tables from

[00:14:29] Maybe wall of art or something. I don't know why that comes to mind, but I didn't really but I mean maybe as kids

[00:14:33] We twilled around with it, but nothing

[00:14:36] More than just kids just swinging around at the ball. Um, so no real exposure in my early youth

[00:14:42] In college

[00:14:44] We had to around we did have one in our commons room in the dorm I lived in

[00:14:48] But it was just college students running a mock just whacking the ball haphazardly and I played it a little bit

[00:14:55] You know, just competitively and fun and uh

[00:14:58] But nothing really came up after my freshman year. Okay the real

[00:15:03] Play I started kind of engaging in was

[00:15:07] Right after college in 2001 I started a job at Microsoft where I had to go

[00:15:13] To Dallas for three months for training. Okay

[00:15:17] so

[00:15:18] when

[00:15:20] The group of new hires we on lunch breaks we would go and play around

[00:15:24] We had all kind of fun things to do on the Microsoft office

[00:15:27] And one of those things was a tornado table. Nice. Nice. So and this was the first time

[00:15:32] I ever knew what a tornado table was and to be honest at this point

[00:15:36] I didn't even know tornado was any different than anything else

[00:15:39] But I did soon learn that and uh on lunch break all the all the 22 year old new hires we would go play and uh

[00:15:47] The first shot we kind of just all none of us knew how to play

[00:15:50] We figured out it was the push shot

[00:15:53] And uh, and that was 2001 and that's when I got my real exposure to

[00:15:58] To uh what it was like to play control foosball right? Yeah

[00:16:04] So you you were hired by Microsoft in 2001

[00:16:09] Correct. And are you still with Microsoft?

[00:16:12] Yes, I am I actually am it's actually been a really interesting journey

[00:16:17] Because I was laid off from Microsoft last year

[00:16:21] And then I was rehired by them this year. So a little bit of a speed bump in my career

[00:16:25] But basically my entire career has been with Microsoft. Wow

[00:16:29] That's uh, that's a long time to be with a company that's been that influential when especially when it comes to well, you know modern computing

[00:16:37] That's incredible. Are you are you a software engineer?

[00:16:42] Kind of yes

[00:16:42] So I study computer science in college and definitely have a programming background

[00:16:46] Now i'm more of a consultant role where um, I help customers

[00:16:50] Actually, I facilitate the rollout of AI at our our customers right now our big customers

[00:16:56] Oh, that's it right there AI look out. Yes. That is the that is the new buzzword, right?

[00:17:01] Randy's always asking me man. Are you gonna replace me with AI?

[00:17:05] You know on the show like dude, don't don't worry. I mean, you know, it's okay

[00:17:10] We can't teach the the accent you have to AI yet

[00:17:14] Come come come come with me if you want to live

[00:17:19] No, all right terminator too whatever anyway

[00:17:22] I do know that but that I didn't pick that up from that that rendition of it randy

[00:17:28] Listen, I'm not on a schwarzen again. AI scares the crap out of me. So

[00:17:33] Stick to the mark wallberg accents though

[00:17:37] That's right. That's right. Yeah

[00:17:41] It's ed you want you want some ted jokes you want

[00:17:46] Dude so so you and I like I think you and I kind of started like coming up around the same

[00:17:51] Time what was like the first big tour me you hit?

[00:17:54] All right. So yeah, so to kind of continue the story I started

[00:17:59] In Dallas playing just within the kids, you know, we didn't know we were doing but we played loved it when I moved to

[00:18:05] Charlotte in September of 2001

[00:18:08] The foosball room at Microsoft we had three tornado tables, right?

[00:18:14] On the lunch break there were 20 to 30 people in there lined up waiting to play right

[00:18:21] And that is when my real foosball journey started

[00:18:26] Because then I saw the snake shot for the first time. I remember the name

[00:18:30] He was he was on my team at one time

[00:18:32] Of the guy who first shot that snake shot just a local Microsoft guy never really tortured or did anything

[00:18:38] and then

[00:18:40] I saw uh, I met the lane zucker man, right? Oh, which brand I know you know him time

[00:18:46] I don't know if you know him but uh

[00:18:48] Name sounds familiar. Yeah, he is a Colorado guy and uh, so this would have been 2001

[00:18:54] He was the best player in the office and I just was amazed watching him

[00:18:58] He had a rollover

[00:18:59] He's a Colorado guy who had just kind of moved to a North Carolina if I think probably for the job at Microsoft and then

[00:19:06] After I kind of started learning to play

[00:19:08] Collin and I would spend about two or three hours just battling each other and singles probably for a year or two

[00:19:14] Straight no doubt almost every single day after work and that's how I really learned and glane has very good instinctive five bar defense

[00:19:24] So that kind of shaped my game and developed my whole game

[00:19:28] Started just trying to get the ball on glane, right?

[00:19:31] And it made my five are the best part of my game. Um, and if that started in my first year of uh

[00:19:36] Fuseball so that's really when I started playing a lot and learned how to play and my first tournament ever

[00:19:41] Was the 2002 North Carolina state tournament, which if I remember correctly was hosted in a bar in greensboro called

[00:19:51] Shooters maybe

[00:19:53] Yeah, thanks because that's where it was in 0 3 and I was there in 3. Is that okay? Yeah, so that would have been the first time

[00:19:58] I ran into randon

[00:20:01] Yeah, no state 0 3 baby. Yeah

[00:20:03] Oh, yeah, I oh dude

[00:20:05] Yeah, I lane man. I I remember lane from the beginning

[00:20:10] Yeah, dude, we've we've lane and I battled a few times and but I mean we we always have a good time

[00:20:16] But lane dude lane always just had a hammer to rod hammer pull shot really smooth

[00:20:22] And then like in the mid to late 2000s you started playing with brian jones a bunch

[00:20:27] And you do you guys were winning expert events you guys were winning pro event

[00:20:31] Whatever happened to brian man. He had such a good game, dude

[00:20:34] Yeah, so to take it back to 2004 or five

[00:20:38] So I met brian he might have started playing a year or two after me

[00:20:42] He might have been playing but he started hitting the tournaments and uh

[00:20:46] I remember so 2002 first tournament ever north Carolina states and by 2005. I know I was winning pro titles with brian jones

[00:20:57] He was doing most of the work right a lot. I know

[00:21:00] No, no, no, no, stop. You guys you would always say the same thing you guys had a saying you would say

[00:21:06] If if he could get you through the morning, you'd get him through the rest of the day or something like that

[00:21:10] Maybe so. Yeah, I have never been a good morning player. I'm a night guy

[00:21:16] I do my best work in the dark hours randy, you know, so

[00:21:19] Oh, yeah

[00:21:20] Um, I like playing at night and brian brian's good all the time

[00:21:23] But yeah, we we started playing together playing 0 4 and 0 5 and we toured around and uh

[00:21:28] I remember we had a battle against was it you and shawnt burr shawnt burr 0 5 north Carolina state you guys

[00:21:36] Yeah, we we got we got a set off of you and then you guys beat us in the second set of the finals expert doubles

[00:21:41] Wow

[00:21:41] You're already out. Yeah. So those were the days when brian and I were playing

[00:21:45] And brian jones is really the only player i've ever played goalie for in my entire career at foosball

[00:21:52] And goalie for a few other people here and there but consistently him and I played brian

[00:21:57] For two or three years straight. We were playing all over the place everywhere

[00:22:01] Yeah, he dude his five was like I remember he won semi pro doubles at worlds in 03 with uh a carpenter

[00:22:08] Not not not that you played with that. It was like an older guy. Right?

[00:22:12] Yeah, his dad. Okay, and then and then after that

[00:22:16] I just remember seeing him everywhere and

[00:22:19] Like his five was just smooth. He had a little bit of a tell in a shot

[00:22:22] But like dude, he just had such a good game laid back relaxed, but

[00:22:28] He was he was tough really really tough

[00:22:31] To kind of continue the story on brian

[00:22:33] So he played main pro master one of the few pro masters we have here north Carolina

[00:22:37] He had a terrible incident at work where he hurt his arm really bad

[00:22:42] Right and it has sidelined him for years right now and uh, that's why we haven't seen him on tour much

[00:22:49] I do talk to him a lot. I really would I need to reach out to him just and talk to him again

[00:22:53] To see what's going on, but I've heard he started touching the table a little bit again

[00:22:57] Oh, nice that that'd be awesome

[00:22:59] Yeah, tom tom you remember there was a video

[00:23:03] Inside foods posted on youtube that got like a million views

[00:23:06] But it was like uh, tony spreeman won a dyp in mariland with a little kid. Yes like a five or six year old kid

[00:23:11] Remember well, that's brian. That's brian jones' son. It's his kid

[00:23:15] Yeah, that was brian jones. Wow. Yeah. What was he seven years old or something like that at the time?

[00:23:19] Something like that. Yeah. Yeah

[00:23:22] It's amazing

[00:23:24] I remember playing against and with his son at six years old and playing a lot

[00:23:28] He was coming to every tournament. He loved it

[00:23:30] And then I think what happened is started getting into basketball and baseball and some of those other sports

[00:23:35] And I haven't seen him in years, but uh, he he he was braiding was playing a lot of uh

[00:23:41] A lot of first ball and he was really good. Yeah

[00:23:44] And how many kids at that age or or even later in life could say hey, I play with tony spreeman

[00:23:50] I mean I played in one. Yeah and one

[00:23:53] Played in one. No dude like north carolina

[00:23:56] Like you guys. I mean you got rick maceous

[00:24:00] um

[00:24:02] Bruce the front pennstallion

[00:24:04] um

[00:24:05] You know

[00:24:06] Brian jones shone green like you guys have a lot of just top players like

[00:24:11] Like going north carolina and winning is not and you know, it's not an easy thing. Um, so like, you know cultivating

[00:24:19] You know

[00:24:20] Becoming a player in that and that in that atmosphere. I mean you guys you you create a lot of top players

[00:24:27] Uh, you know charlie ran uh nc state

[00:24:31] for years on thanksgiving we like I remember

[00:24:34] um

[00:24:36] Was it o3 or o4? It might have been that o3 no was o4 like picking up billy

[00:24:42] adam emmonds coming to my mom's house eating turkey getting in the car and then driving 16 hours to north carolina to play foosball

[00:24:50] Always a good. Oh dude. It was always a good time

[00:24:52] But like, you know, you guys have always had a great local scene. What's going on there now?

[00:24:57] Is it still is it still like, you know, is it still pumping thriving?

[00:25:02] So in charlotte charlotte we have we have the best scene in the state in charlotte for tornado going away, right?

[00:25:09] All the people if you want to play in north carolina like on a on a weekly and I say this actually

[00:25:14] Raleigh is starting to build a little bit of a scene too

[00:25:17] uh kind of at the guidance in uh

[00:25:20] Of robert yates jr. He's kind of drumming some some good play up there, but uh

[00:25:24] Charlotte charlotte definitely has the best scene right now and people come from ashville sometimes sometimes the beach victor davis

[00:25:30] Will drive from eastern north carolina

[00:25:32] But yeah, we have a monster on wednesday and then every friday night. We have a different event and uh on a good night. Yeah

[00:25:40] we'll have maybe

[00:25:41] 22 to 24 people on a good friday night job. That's awesome

[00:25:46] Maybe on a great one. Maybe even maybe 30 people that might be one of our

[00:25:52] Seriously if we've got a great turnout um, but that that's just a friday weekly

[00:25:57] Yeah, you know, that's our friday week. Ah dude. That's solid. Yeah really solid

[00:26:00] Really solid

[00:26:02] I mean, it's it's uh, we're lucky if we have 12 players, you know show up for our dyp on fridays in albany

[00:26:08] Uh, and there's a lot more players in the area that we know of but they just don't show up

[00:26:12] Yeah, it's it's very interesting how

[00:26:15] The scene has changed because I remember I don't know randy. I I've been up there and me and I don't know if you

[00:26:21] Road with us, but me and adam emens. Maybe it was you we drove over to albany to play

[00:26:25] You know like a state

[00:26:27] Yeah, bro. You were playing you playing poker on your laptop the whole right over there. Yeah, I remember

[00:26:32] I remember

[00:26:34] You're more about that playing poker in the car

[00:26:37] Nah, dude. Yeah. Oh, yeah

[00:26:39] Yeah, so it was top. It was when you first could get those little

[00:26:43] Cellular hot spots, right? Okay, so I would connect up the cellular hot spot to my laptop and then

[00:26:51] If you remember this this this this was the glory days of online poker, right?

[00:26:56] probably

[00:26:58] Oh 405 or 607 something in that round where every single person in the united states

[00:27:04] Wanted to be chris moneymaker, right? So chris moneymaker won the world series of poker

[00:27:08] And he was an accountant out of memphis, tennessee or something so everybody wanted to be chris moneymaker and there was

[00:27:15] Thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of americans playing online poker

[00:27:19] And there was a hand former who even know the knew the rules, right? Wow

[00:27:23] So if you knew the rules of texas held them you could pretty much go on there and make money

[00:27:28] Um, seriously, it's very interesting because 20 years later

[00:27:31] You can't make money playing online poker in the united states

[00:27:34] Right. Oh, you might not be able to play make money playing online poker anywhere in the world because of bots and whatnot. So

[00:27:41] Yeah, yeah, but it was the glory days and it was fun. So

[00:27:45] I would love playing these tournaments. I had a very successful time

[00:27:49] And that's what randy is referencing there

[00:27:51] You ever go to like a brick and mortar casino or a place to play? I mean, is that

[00:27:56] I wasn't gonna go but you since you asked yes when I was playing these little online tournaments

[00:28:02] I was fresh into the workforce. I didn't have any money or anything. I entered a 50 dollar tournament, right?

[00:28:09] A 50 dollar tournament with a 50 dollar rebuy

[00:28:12] And I won the tournament. It was on a site called paradise poker

[00:28:16] In the early 2000s, I don't remember what year was oh 304 maybe and I won an entry fee into the main event of the world series of

[00:28:23] Poker which was $10,000 entry and they gave me $2,000 for flight and expenses and uh, yeah, I played in the main event

[00:28:30] And uh, did you then I played in oh, I played in 100 brick and mortar casino tournaments. I love tournaments

[00:28:36] Yeah, so I played in tournaments all over the country

[00:28:39] Man

[00:28:40] Yeah, that's that is cool. No, it's uh, the only other person I know of it within uh, foosball specifically would be billy poppus

[00:28:48] Uh, without a doubt and me and him have played poker together for years and years

[00:28:52] Interesting. Okay. Yeah, and there's a few others. There's definitely a few other

[00:28:57] A foosball players that like poker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a couple guys out of new hampshire that play

[00:29:03] Ken Donahue, Ryan do we play poker? Um

[00:29:06] There's uh, no, there's a handful of them that um, I mean

[00:29:12] I I used to play a bunch

[00:29:15] And yeah, I I would go pick up Billy and go to foxwoods and um,

[00:29:20] Yeah, Billy's not that good at poker. He's got lucky one time. That's it

[00:29:26] It's okay, Billy

[00:29:28] You got lucky one time

[00:29:31] Hey, to make it as far as you did everybody has to have a little luck, you know

[00:29:35] Unless you fill ivy or one of the like the uber talented players you seem to do it over and over. Yeah. Oh, yeah

[00:29:42] But yeah, everyone needs a little luck in those tournaments

[00:29:45] So I'd rather be lucky than good and uh, the reason you know, texas hold them got to be so huge

[00:29:50] Is because the travel channel took a chance and started airing the world series of poker very early on

[00:29:56] And I used to think to myself now wait a second

[00:29:59] Am I going to sit here for the next couple of hours and watch other people play cards?

[00:30:03] Really? And then I I got addicted to it got addicted to watching and as soon as they started showing you the whole cards

[00:30:10] What what they were holding and then you can see everybody's hand

[00:30:13] Then that really started to fascinate me because you could see the strategies

[00:30:18] What was what they were thinking and how they out maneuvered each other that to me that's that solidified the deal

[00:30:24] So how do we do that for foosball?

[00:30:29] That is a great question

[00:30:31] Yeah, because you can't go into a bar right now and not have a poker tournament on one of the tv's right?

[00:30:37] Sure, or pretty much in anywhere

[00:30:39] It's on tv everywhere and it is it kind of

[00:30:42] Engaged the world somehow and yeah, how did they do it? Yeah, how do they do it?

[00:30:47] I think a lot of people are exposed to

[00:30:50] Poker and cards in their childhood, right and they know a little bit about it where

[00:30:55] Fuseball per se not many people. I mean kids know what foosball is and then that's about it, right?

[00:30:59] They don't see their parents playing it

[00:31:01] Like I saw my parents playing poker when I was five and six years old my grandmother

[00:31:05] You know my grandmother had me playing bridge before

[00:31:08] I mean, I don't even know what age

[00:31:10] We were playing poker with quarters as kids too. And I mean before we were 10 years old, you know

[00:31:15] So if we could get

[00:31:17] Kids playing foosball before 10, you know, maybe it would take hold but I don't know

[00:31:22] Let me let me guess you're traumatized because your grandmother was taking your allowance and in bridge

[00:31:31] A heartless bridge and poker player. Yes, no mercy. No mercy if you sat down at the table with her

[00:31:37] Yeah, yeah, your money was up for granted

[00:31:42] Yeah, a philosophy that carried down through our

[00:31:46] Our family, you know when you sit down, you don't take a break on anybody

[00:31:49] You play everyone as hard as you can, you know, and I do that at foosball, you know when I stuff up to the table

[00:31:54] Um, I play everyone as hard as I can

[00:31:57] You should I've lost matches because I'm like, uh

[00:32:01] And you take a ball or two off and you end up losing and then you feel like a dummy. Yep, you know

[00:32:06] Man, I've had to learn hard lessons. Hard hard lessons never take it for granted

[00:32:10] Never take it for granted, man

[00:32:12] So it's speaking of speaking of learning hard lessons taking things for granted

[00:32:16] One thing that always frustrated me about foosball was losing to girls

[00:32:20] Hey, losing to girls. Oh come on drives me nuts drives me nuts and now you look at Illinois state this this weekend

[00:32:27] Great tournament right 12 grander and who wins open doubles

[00:32:32] Sullivan roux

[00:32:33] Isabel staley

[00:32:35] Two girls by the bing

[00:32:38] I mean just uh just and Sullivan at a six events won four

[00:32:43] Yeah, so so I say two girls two two of the best lady foosball players in the world

[00:32:50] uh Sullivan hands down probably the best lady tornado player on the planet and isabel working her way up

[00:32:56] Sullivan won

[00:32:58] Um women's doubles women singles pro singles open doubles took second and open mixed and is still in the hunt

[00:33:06] Pro she won pro singles too. Mm-hmm. Yeah, dude. Wow. Yeah

[00:33:10] Yeah, and it's and she's she's on the loser side of pro doubles with frank krunkowski

[00:33:15] So she could top out at third, but I mean

[00:33:18] You know, that's a lot of really. I mean you can't eat. It's just she's so good man

[00:33:24] And even isabel isabel won open doubles women's open doubles and open mix. So she herself tripled

[00:33:31] Um, I think she got third in women singles

[00:33:34] um, you know these these lady players now are uh, you know, you can't

[00:33:39] Can't take it easy. I mean you can't take it easy on anybody but man these ladies are beating a crap out of these guys

[00:33:44] Yeah, it's it's hurting my feelings. So

[00:33:48] Yeah

[00:33:49] Yeah

[00:33:50] They I haven't watched I haven't toured around as much recently as I've had in the past so

[00:33:56] That team also must have incredible chemistry

[00:34:00] And do they still I know they're both from the greater lafayette area. They both still living there

[00:34:04] Do they get to work on their games together? Yeah? Yeah. Yeah

[00:34:07] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they play so so from what I hear

[00:34:11] Um, you know the ruse have like a pretty good setup and they got multi table

[00:34:15] And I think like like hannah's told me that her and bracklin go down there to get ready for worlds

[00:34:19] And now I think brandon and isabel are going over there too. They're all like within a reasonable driving distance of each other

[00:34:26] um, like I think I think brandon and isabel they're not in lafayette

[00:34:32] They're they're well, that's where the ruse are the ruse are

[00:34:36] Okay, so I think it's like they're within an hour or something drive and then uh, yeah

[00:34:41] So they they do play a bunch and I see their weeklies like they play at sam's

[00:34:46] Rocket arcade or something and they're all there and so I mean like man, they're there and plus you got to think

[00:34:52] I think sullivan's 20 or 21 and isabel's like 19. So, you know, they're pretty close in age

[00:34:59] um, you know

[00:35:00] And and they just I mean they love foosball. They play a bunch

[00:35:04] um, plus, you know, isabel and and brandon are, you know, uh

[00:35:10] Together a lot and i'm sure having the exposure to that level of player, you know one of those top three

[00:35:15] players so, uh, you know, and of course isabel, I mean excuse me sullivan with her dad

[00:35:21] It's like, you know, they're they're not

[00:35:24] um

[00:35:25] You know, I don't think this is not flashing the pan stuff

[00:35:28] These are you know, these are lady players that are that are I mean sullivan's been winning. She's been winning pro events

[00:35:34] She's dedicated time now. It's definitely dedicated

[00:35:36] Yeah, and isabel's been didn't make it like so, you know, the did you did you see anything from the texas event?

[00:35:43] Last last weekend weekend before lane. Did you pay any attention to that pictures?

[00:35:46] But no, I didn't see much of it

[00:35:48] If you get if you get a chance to watch I was talking a time about it

[00:35:51] The the ladies doubles final the women's doubles final dude such a good match. Yep. So good

[00:35:58] Lynn Tran and uh, caddy sobleski. I don't mean to butcher your name and then it was

[00:36:05] Ryan

[00:36:06] so bless you and then ryan's wife

[00:36:08] Ivetta and isabel. Yep, and dude. It was a battle such a good match man and um

[00:36:15] Yeah, it's you know, these lady players now and then it's not even

[00:36:19] Like you got you got sullivan and isabel and then you got hannah out of mississippi

[00:36:26] Jessica sam flabans there

[00:36:28] um, of course, you can't forget about like liz hill christina fuchs, you know, just so many tough ladies that are

[00:36:35] Putting a dent in uh in the men's events. So, um, like you guys in north carolina. What do you I mean lady players?

[00:36:42] What do you got?

[00:36:45] tom thorton, he's a good lady player

[00:36:47] Don't tell him I said that he'll kill me. Don't tell him I said that

[00:36:50] Yeah, so uh

[00:36:53] Kind of the stars we have in the north carolina woman scene. We have jan jan maynard, you know

[00:37:01] Yeah

[00:37:03] Maynard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

[00:37:05] Even though she doesn't play a ton her skills even though she talks about her still there

[00:37:09] You know, she can go still compete with anyone. You know, it's amazing

[00:37:13] So there's jan and then michelle mccall is a defensive genius, you know

[00:37:19] So she came to our attorney friday night and uh

[00:37:23] Ben when elf has really been picking up his shot and she is pretty much the only one who can stop him and it was

[00:37:29] Ben was talking around on the golf course today about how much trouble he had scoring on michelle. So she just from

[00:37:35] From the girls who were really

[00:37:37] Coming to charlin playing, you know, that that's the two that come to mind

[00:37:41] We do have erin trump too who plays with us sometimes too, you know, she hasn't been here as much

[00:37:45] But she lives in the greater charlotte air. So she comes and plays with us um

[00:37:51] I didn't know she was an earth guy and I thought she was uh, I thought she was from colorado

[00:37:55] I believe she's from well, I don't know where she's from or isn't she lived in colorado

[00:37:59] But she's living in the greater charlotte area now, but I think she's been traveling a lot for work

[00:38:04] So we haven't seen much of her recently

[00:38:07] A gypsy. She's a gypsy. Yeah. Yeah

[00:38:10] She brings a good energy and I would love to see more women players here, but we just uh, we don't have a lot of them that come play

[00:38:19] What is wink nod nod in a wink? Don't worry about it. Tom. Don't worry about it. Tom. Don't worry about it. Tom. Those are not

[00:38:25] Yeah, no, so

[00:38:28] So jan jan and jesse came to uh,

[00:38:31] Local in noxville not like a one day they had uh, dude, maybe like six eight months ago

[00:38:36] They just showed up and and they beat they beat chris and I they three stated us jan played front dude

[00:38:42] She's a beast. Wow like she's I mean, she's she she's a world champ. She's a world champ. She's yeah, she's solid man

[00:38:49] And then too jesse, you know

[00:38:52] Uh for a guy that just like I don't I mean I I think they play like they have their own little thing going

[00:38:57] but that dude just came out blocked pumped a couple out of the back

[00:39:00] Um and uh, yeah, and then michelle too

[00:39:04] That's uh, that's shan sister right a lot of people don't know that's shan green sister

[00:39:08] I don't know. She wants people to know that I you know, but I tell everybody i'm like that's shan sister. Yeah, so

[00:39:15] But

[00:39:17] You say that randy that whole dynamic with them. I don't know yet

[00:39:21] They could easily be blood related. I wouldn't argue it now dude. That's their their brother and sister. I'm telling you

[00:39:26] He's true

[00:39:28] Okay, michelle mccall and shan green our brother and sister

[00:39:32] Okay, okay. I'm gonna get shan on the phone right now. I'm telling you. You don't believe

[00:39:37] You play golf with shan all day call him bro. I'm telling you

[00:39:40] Yeah, I'll check I know they they're they are at each other like brother and sister

[00:39:44] So I honestly if that were true, I it wouldn't surprise me

[00:39:48] You want to bet you want to make a bet? Oh, here we go

[00:39:50] I knew this was gonna happen somebody's gonna lay lay the glove on the table

[00:39:55] No, no, I'm not I'm not a

[00:39:57] Oh, I don't you say that now say that no, dude. So so what's the rest of the year looking like? What are you hitting this year?

[00:40:04] So

[00:40:06] I know you've talked about a couple of the tournaments that have happened here in the foosball

[00:40:09] Well for me right now, this is my off season for a foosball because i'm playing a ton of volleyball

[00:40:15] Um, so the summer months and i'm at the end of my volleyball career

[00:40:19] But i'm still kind of trying to do everything I can and uh playing a tournament yesterday. So

[00:40:24] The summer looks like a lot of volleyball for me and then as things start cooling down and uh

[00:40:31] There's not as much light outside and the weather's not as nice then

[00:40:35] I'll kind of start picking up my foosball game a little bit as as things start cooling down

[00:40:40] I didn't hit tournaments. Yeah, so are you do you play what do you play beach you play indoor?

[00:40:46] Yeah, no, so

[00:40:48] Being 45 years old the indoor

[00:40:51] Or

[00:40:52] Seeing just destroys my body and legs and knees and arms and everything so I

[00:40:57] Primarily stay in the sand randy and that's that's because it's so much easier on the body. Oh makes sense. I thought it'd be the other way around

[00:41:05] Yeah, so what happens when you're indoor on grass when you jump way higher, right?

[00:41:09] So when you jump higher at volleyball you also have the ability to create more angles so you can hit

[00:41:15] Harder

[00:41:16] Because you have more angles to work with and you just have more room for air

[00:41:19] So people are hitting it harder. Um, which wears on your shoulder when you land

[00:41:25] On the same on the hard court or on grass. It's hard on your knees

[00:41:29] Um, but both of those things go away and sand. You're not jumping as high

[00:41:33] So you're having to use more finesse and shots. Um, and then when you land it's it's just like landing

[00:41:38] I mean it's landing on sand. It's not it's not hard. You can die

[00:41:41] You know without a lot of uh, right impact on your body

[00:41:45] So if I could I couldn't even if I dove indoor right now, I would be at a commission for two days before I could do anything

[00:41:52] Oops, I don't listen. I dive. I don't even like just laying on the floor never mind

[00:41:58] So so you like you play in college you're an outside hitter like what position you play? No, but that that is the position

[00:42:04] I play that that's very very uh

[00:42:08] Why

[00:42:10] I was a libero. I played

[00:42:13] The weirdest player I've ever heard it's libero

[00:42:17] From Astrid's a libero libero. I got yeah

[00:42:22] Probably a Portuguese word anyway, you know, I'll go with your uh

[00:42:27] Whatever you say bro, you play I just I I'm just talking about yeah, yeah, uh

[00:42:32] It's interesting. I

[00:42:34] To go back to the foosball story from 2001 to 2009 or 10 all I did was buy foosball, right?

[00:42:40] Uh, and then I learned volleyball in 2010 and uh, it changed my well

[00:42:45] I actually I went from I became a pro maybe in

[00:42:50] 2006 7 8. I don't know somewhere around then

[00:42:53] I started playing volleyball in 2010 by 2015. I had gone back down to expert right because I just wasn't playing much foosball and

[00:43:00] Strangely enough volleyball was wearing on the muscles in your shoulder for me to shoot the pull shot, right?

[00:43:06] So my shot just like I'd go to tournaments and by the second third day

[00:43:11] I couldn't put a pull shot on goal, right?

[00:43:14] And uh, I really struggled for a couple years and then as my volleyball

[00:43:19] Started tapering back down as I got older. I started playing more foosball

[00:43:23] My foosball has ramped back up and I've re entered the program and whatnot, but uh very interesting how

[00:43:29] Volleyball really wore on my body so that it significantly

[00:43:33] Downgraded my foosball game. Huh interesting. Yeah, I mean it's it's similar muscles in some ways, but then again

[00:43:39] Uh, I would say the endurance when it comes to volleyball you probably have to have more more stamina

[00:43:44] To play that for an extended period of time

[00:43:48] Yeah from it. It's interesting. So I'm just different muscles, right? Yeah

[00:43:52] So volleyball you're using your big muscles like your legs

[00:43:55] And your glutes and some of the bigger muscles to move around when I play foosball

[00:44:00] And I know from pain just the strain on some of the smaller muscles in the back

[00:44:06] And it's like when I have pain in volleyball

[00:44:09] Those big muscles feel quickly when I tear the little muscles in my back up

[00:44:14] Just trying to rip like Randy mentioned the two bar in foosball

[00:44:17] My favorite shot in foosball is a long pull out of the back that that that by r that that's

[00:44:22] Me too. That's my doubt you're too. Yeah, that's that's happening for me when I score a long pull out of the back

[00:44:28] It actually I go through a crisis in singles on Friday night where

[00:44:34] I'm playing Sean in the finals. We do a singles thing and Sean greener playing we're playing each other

[00:44:38] in my

[00:44:40] Three to five like from the goalie ride to the five bar passing is incredible

[00:44:43] I can do it and get the ball on my five every time

[00:44:46] I don't even like doing it just because I want to shoot that I want to rip that ball

[00:44:50] From the two bar, you know, and uh, oh, it's a lot of fun

[00:44:53] Those were kind of those muscles that

[00:44:55] Stopped responding when I wasn't playing as much foosball right and started hurting really bad

[00:45:00] Especially in the big tournaments when day two or three those things in the upper back the upper shoulder

[00:45:05] Kind of I don't even know what the muscles are called

[00:45:07] But those things

[00:45:08] Would start tightening up and just I would my brain would send a signal and just that they wouldn't do it

[00:45:14] They wouldn't do it for the first time in my life, you know

[00:45:16] And it was just it was a depressing moment for me that I realized

[00:45:20] I couldn't just walk up to a table and rip the ball of course from the back and we had to take

[00:45:24] Had to get warmed up and loosen up and

[00:45:27] You know before it would just happen, but uh yoga

[00:45:31] As you get older right yoga work stuff can't all row. Yeah, I've been telling my wife

[00:45:35] I wanted to do some yoga. I'm actually I'm down. I'm down about 25 pounds. I'm trying to be

[00:45:41] Uh

[00:45:42] For I got you know nationals in a couple weeks. I want to lose like another 10 pounds for nationals

[00:45:46] I got a weight. I want to hit before I start working out, but I told my wife

[00:45:50] I said I just want to I want to increase my core strength and my flexibility

[00:45:55] You know, I just I said i'm dude. I'm gonna be 44 years old. I said, I just want to be healthy

[00:45:59] Yeah, that's it. I just yeah, I don't want to be in pain. I'm in pain all the time

[00:46:03] I'm always hurting dude 20 years of hockey full contact sports like and then foods are like it takes me

[00:46:09] A solid week to two weeks to recover from a foods. Well, it's like my arm feels like it's gonna fall off

[00:46:16] It's freaking brutal not to mention

[00:46:19] Not to mention having to stay out of the way to the snakes. I mean that must take a lot of a lot of extra

[00:46:23] I just I just shoot I just shoot him

[00:46:25] But like no and the thing is like I don't even shoot the ball like lane like dude lane lane shoots the ball from his shoulder

[00:46:31] He cried and then dude that he shoots a pull push kick

[00:46:34] It's it's so fast and he just kills the ball, you know, plus he's tall those guys leverage

[00:46:40] And

[00:46:42] Yeah, you know what else I found in my foosball career that's helping just

[00:46:46] Incredibly flexible rips, right?

[00:46:49] A wrist and we're on screen here where you can see my wrist pronates really far which

[00:46:54] That follow through just someone that weighs a hundred pounds more can't hit it. It's army because my wrist goes further, you know

[00:47:00] Yeah, I see you're right. I see you

[00:47:03] Same thing with with Andy ronaldet

[00:47:06] Andy don't know any rock the tennis player

[00:47:08] Yeah, so he had one of the fastest serves in the world because his arm had more

[00:47:13] Wide range than almost any human on earth, right? He couldn't curl more weight than anyone

[00:47:18] He just had a more flexible arm that that extra half inch on each

[00:47:22] Direction allowed him to hit the ball 10 20 miles power faster than anyone on the planet

[00:47:26] Wow, you know, it's just some of that flexibility in some of those places

[00:47:30] Of course, but like a guy like you right you have

[00:47:34] You have a smooth takeoff great takeoff and you have great lateral speed, right?

[00:47:41] And and for some people they don't understand like guys like like billy

[00:47:46] Like kevin ramirez on his two rod great lateral speed like a lot of people

[00:47:53] I almost feel like it's something you like you're born with because

[00:47:56] It's so hard to develop a smooth takeoff and great lateral speed

[00:48:00] So, you know, you've just do you've always had that your three rod your two rod

[00:48:04] You've just always had great lateral speed. So it's like was that just something you just figured out one day like oh

[00:48:09] I can or was it something like you had to practice and work on?

[00:48:14] Oh such a great question

[00:48:15] I think about this all the time and when I come to try to improve my game and the people I

[00:48:20] Talked to and men or and try to help with this is

[00:48:23] I think a lot of people in foods ball and I talked about this

[00:48:27] Before is they make the pull shot way too complicated, right?

[00:48:31] And it's because you see the masters like kevin ramirez

[00:48:35] Ripping that ball and then coming back and crushing back in on those bull

[00:48:39] Those those that seven shot, you know, and it's glorious and it's fun. I even talked about it myself

[00:48:44] On the back. I love doing that, you know

[00:48:47] um

[00:48:48] With my pull shot

[00:48:50] I learned early

[00:48:52] And I shoot a massive spray, right?

[00:48:55] But I am letting the table do the work, you know

[00:48:59] I never fight the table when I shoot my shot. I let it work

[00:49:03] I get that ball started laterally momentum wise and I let it go and I just

[00:49:08] It's almost one motion where I pull it and flick my wrist at the exact same time

[00:49:13] And it it I can spray the ball almost to the edge of the wall with super consistent results

[00:49:20] Just by keeping it simple, you know

[00:49:22] And yes, Randy as you say moving the ball laterally was always one

[00:49:26] I was gifted in that that regard but keeping it simple making the shot simple

[00:49:31] Just it really helped with my consistency and allowed me to execute, you know

[00:49:35] Time and time again, and it's it looks it looks that's the spray looks fast. You know, it is fast

[00:49:40] The spray is super fast

[00:49:42] um

[00:49:44] Yeah, so he's there um

[00:49:46] Okay, we did there's right

[00:49:48] I'm back. I don't know what happened. Sorry. So is is there a pull shooter that uh, that you used as a model back in the day?

[00:49:55] I mean, did you watch Todd or did you watch any of the other pro masters to really help perfect your pull shot?

[00:50:04] I love that question because

[00:50:06] No, not really. Do you know

[00:50:08] It's where I learned I learned to pass from a news group

[00:50:13] Um, and I forgot his name. It was somebody out of Hawaii

[00:50:16] I know it wasn't Steve moory. It might have been Steve moory might have taught or

[00:50:21] Told this guy what to write but do y'all remember the news groups before kind of the internet had taken over

[00:50:27] I read on a news group from a guy out of Hawaii on how to do a brush pass

[00:50:32] There was one guy out of Hawaii that I there well two but one that was successful's name was frank bellicca

[00:50:37] Yeah, no, I know frank bellicca is push

[00:50:40] It wasn't okay, and I obviously know who Steve moory is I've played many tournaments with him, but

[00:50:44] Someone else authored the news group and he probably got the info from Steve moory on how to do a brush pass

[00:50:50] But learn your brush pass there and I'm thinking

[00:50:54] I learned uh

[00:50:56] I learned the pull

[00:50:58] To maybe from that from that news group. Huh really and I modeled it also around

[00:51:06] Shooting around glennon those first year or two that I was learning so just I didn't see anyone shooting it. Um

[00:51:13] Let's see the first term I went to

[00:51:16] I guess there were a lot of people in north kerala in 24 years or 23 years ago. We're shooting a lot of poles

[00:51:23] Rick mc is the pull shooter. Yeah rick

[00:51:27] but um rick kind of has that two two-part stroke too, you know

[00:51:31] But someone who was just crushed pulling and spraying it

[00:51:36] I don't I don't remember anyone in particular that I really modeled it after okay, and uh

[00:51:41] People who shoot sprays they're not like oh

[00:51:43] No one's gonna say

[00:51:45] Oh, did you see that shot? It's awesome. It's a spray. You know, you don't hear that a lot

[00:51:48] But you should you really should you know, I mean yeah, that's not that scores, you know

[00:51:53] Yeah, yeah in terms of timing if i'm ever struggling with my timing

[00:51:57] I just make sure I can rip a spray long and just wait wait on that and it

[00:52:02] It makes everything in my life easy sure which range knows and then I love long and straight

[00:52:06] Which pretty much anyone who's ever tried to defend me and if your long is going

[00:52:11] Straight just becomes it just there. I just I don't like I think Todd might see this too

[00:52:16] He just knows when it's there. He knows when straight is there right?

[00:52:19] I can tell when he shoots, you know, and when I'm shooting well, too. I just know when straight is there

[00:52:23] I don't I don't see it. I just know

[00:52:26] Yeah, he's a lane's got a great one-piece stroke, you know and and

[00:52:31] And pull shooters understand like, you know, what a one piece like certain players just have that stroke

[00:52:37] It just it looks like it's just one movement, you know and and

[00:52:42] it's

[00:52:43] I don't think that's something you can

[00:52:45] Really like practice. I think you'd just either have it or you don't okay. Yeah, right

[00:52:50] Like you you say you have to know some people like a two-part strobe is natural, you know

[00:52:55] That is a foreign movement for me, you know

[00:52:58] Yeah, so maybe it's just some people key in the way their muscles work or their mind works, you know

[00:53:03] Or yeah, just a different feel a lot of feel in the pole shot

[00:53:09] It was I think it was last year maybe last year of the year before

[00:53:14] It was at worlds. In fact, I saw Terry Rue

[00:53:17] After some of the major matches were done

[00:53:19] He was walking around just talking to people and he pulled aside a player and he spent about

[00:53:24] 15 or 20 minutes demonstrating his pole shot to this this this other player

[00:53:29] And I just kind of sat back and watched

[00:53:31] And his uh, his whole philosophy was pull that ball across as fast as you can

[00:53:37] That's the first thing just as fast as you can

[00:53:40] And and then like you were saying earlier flick the wrist flick the wrist not not don't come up with man

[00:53:46] But just flick it

[00:53:48] As you as you pull the ball and he was hitting that that that long

[00:53:52] I mean i'm demonstration obviously but long hole like every single time dead bar

[00:53:57] Or should I say dead by

[00:53:59] Yeah

[00:54:01] That that guy, you know, I um, I watched the match that modern foods had posted from vegas

[00:54:08] The other day it was him and jacob and he hit a couple of shots and I was just like

[00:54:13] Oh my god, it was dude. It was brutal brutal

[00:54:16] He hit one

[00:54:16] It was like it was set up in a pole and he brought it over and fake because jacob was posting him up

[00:54:21] And he set it up and then he brought it over and he hit it with the three man

[00:54:25] Just crushed it in like one stroke, right and then

[00:54:29] Set it up again. This is a couple balls later and jacob put that post out there again

[00:54:33] And he went like he was going to do any pump fake to then roll the back into a push kick

[00:54:37] And dude, he hit the ball so hard. I thought it was going to come out of the back of the net

[00:54:40] I mean just crushed the ball, you know, but his stroke is it's just a nice smooth one piece

[00:54:47] It's just it's here and it's gone. That's it. There's no

[00:54:51] I mean, you know, but that's a guy that puts so much time

[00:54:55] Into just the physical motion of shooting the ball, you know, like the way his feet his feet are planted in his body and

[00:55:03] so, you know

[00:55:04] foosball it's um, you know, for some people it's working for some people. It's just

[00:55:10] It's easy and uh, you know, I feel like

[00:55:13] Lane's one of those guys is just easy for him, you know, just set it up and rip it and that's it

[00:55:18] Got the the focus. I think that's that's the thing it appeals to a lot of folks who play this game who are or that good

[00:55:24] That they're focused and that they can stay in that focus the entire time

[00:55:29] That's Adderall tom. That's Adderall. Oh, that is oh never mind

[00:55:33] Yeah, I think that is the most underrated part of foosball and people who talk about is the mental aspect, right?

[00:55:41] Absolutely, you know, I always in my my entire life my mom

[00:55:45] Talks about it all the time when I was four years old. I could do a puzzle or focus on something until it was finished

[00:55:51] You know, and I've been living that way

[00:55:53] Anything I get consumed with, you know, it's like foosball being one of those events

[00:55:57] I can put ultimate focus into and I think a lot of successful players are the same way. Yeah, absolutely

[00:56:04] That way with the execution I've seen with randy. I know

[00:56:09] I've seen that

[00:56:12] That's not in randy. I have to dude again like you, you know, you you start thinking about other things

[00:56:18] What am I gonna eat? Oh

[00:56:20] Dude matches over that's it. You lost so, you know, again, it's I I

[00:56:26] Yeah, yeah the mental part is this my favorite part

[00:56:29] It's my favorite. Yeah, the focus and not only the focus but resiliency too, right to get down

[00:56:35] Three zero and play the ball

[00:56:38] Like this is what I see in our draws and stuff in the friday night stuff you

[00:56:42] It seems like it down three zero they check out, you know, you have to play every ball and I learned this kind of from

[00:56:48] One of my favorite athletes ever rafael madel. I'm gonna

[00:56:52] The doll tell a quick story about rafael madel which I love it just kind of epitomizes my philosophy about competing

[00:56:59] um the doll was probably eight

[00:57:01] 16 17 18

[00:57:03] And uh, he was just doing a warm-up set with somebody. Okay, and uh

[00:57:08] He was he just destroying his warm-up partner whatever five oh probably about to be six

[00:57:16] Up 40 love in a match or in a game and uh

[00:57:21] If he was up 40 love the guy get a shot into the corner

[00:57:24] And the doll ran across the court as hard as he could and dove

[00:57:27] To hit the ball back in a practice set. Wow his coach comes up and says

[00:57:31] Rafa rafael, what are you doing? I mean this is the practice. You don't what are you doing?

[00:57:35] Why are you diving in this scenario and he says I want that guy to know

[00:57:39] Every single point he will never have an easy point and if he hits in the corner

[00:57:43] I'm going after it. So yes, I might not have won this point

[00:57:46] And yes, I might have risked injury

[00:57:47] But he knows that he will never get a shot by me easily, you know

[00:57:52] And he epitomized that his entire career and uh, I don't really have the

[00:57:58] Drive and focus of him, but I try to do that

[00:58:01] You know, even if I'm down 3-0 play that next point hard let that even if it's

[00:58:05] The team you're playing that's let them know you're gonna play every ball hard and make their life difficult, you know

[00:58:10] Don't give it to him

[00:58:12] Yeah, Lane. Do you remember do you remember? It was nc state 0 4. I think you and me

[00:58:18] I think it was amateur singles

[00:58:21] Uh playing for fourth or third

[00:58:24] just brack

[00:58:26] Game three. Do you remember when you had me 4-0?

[00:58:30] Oh, you don't remember do you?

[00:58:32] No, I don't

[00:58:34] Did you come back and beat me?

[00:58:37] I did yeah

[00:58:38] So was this in a was this when it was in the basement of a hotel kind of

[00:58:42] This was in a hotel. This was like the first one they did in the hotel. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

[00:58:46] Daniel Coulter was there and I threatened to I threatened to break him into pieces and hand them back to his mother

[00:58:51] Yeah

[00:58:52] Okay

[00:58:54] Randy Randy Randy ended up winning amateur singles. Daniel Coulter got second. I got third

[00:58:59] Daniel Coulter beat me in the winners

[00:59:00] He beat me in the losers he kept talking the whole time and I told him I said dude a day you turn 18

[00:59:04] I'm gonna punch you in the face

[00:59:05] RIP Daniel Coulter

[00:59:07] But you and me played you and me played in the losers bracket

[00:59:11] And you had me in the third game, dude. You had me so bad

[00:59:14] You got me 4-0 and then you like oh dude lane lane lane started thinking about dinner or whatever man

[00:59:20] And I came back and I beat him

[00:59:23] Yeah

[00:59:24] that

[00:59:25] That's amazing and just what's really amazing about that randy is a loss like that would I would usually remember

[00:59:34] Yeah

[00:59:35] See, I always remember when I beat good players. I always remember when I beat good players

[00:59:38] No, I don't I remember my losses. There's something

[00:59:41] I don't know what it's called maybe like negativity bias in humans

[00:59:45] Where you humans have evolved you have to remember a poisonous snake because your life's at risk, right?

[00:59:51] So humans remember negative events in their life or things that are life threatening because it

[00:59:58] Is an evolutionary trait the people who remember those things survive

[01:00:01] So that's why I think for me I have a negativity bias around what I remember in my foosball career

[01:00:07] Just because of that human trait, you know, but I remember those tough losses and what happened and what I didn't do

[01:00:13] Um, especially earlier in my career where I took losing a little bit harder as I've gotten older

[01:00:19] I've become way easier on myself, you know, and it's I have a lot more fun

[01:00:24] You know, I can still have fun and lose, you know

[01:00:27] When I was younger it was hard to still have fun and lose but oh, yeah

[01:00:31] No, I'm the same way. I just you um

[01:00:35] I mean dude, you're my boy, but like dude, I've always respected like you're such a good player

[01:00:39] So it's like anytime I've played you and been successful. It's always like for me

[01:00:43] I mean, it's you know, I'm kind of patting myself on the back a little bit

[01:00:47] So that was one I just I never forget that was a big one for me because up until that point it's like

[01:00:52] You know, I'd I'd been learning how to you know manage and win and uh, whatever

[01:00:58] So that was just that was a big one for me. That's kind of why I never forgot it. So

[01:01:02] Yeah, absolutely

[01:01:03] I was I was just wondering if if you had remembered because like I said, man, I take I those hurt those hurt

[01:01:10] But yeah

[01:01:12] Yeah, and so uh randy you've been doing something right especially these last three years

[01:01:18] What have you been doing definitely that kind of has escalated your game?

[01:01:22] Um, well, thank you for that and that question

[01:01:26] So the thing the thing that's really changed for me a couple years ago, man

[01:01:30] I just decided

[01:01:31] Like I got to the point where it wasn't fun and I was just kind of contemplating quitting right so

[01:01:36] I just kind of changed my approach and um,

[01:01:40] You know, it was like dude. I was just making excuses every time I would lose it was an excuse and um, so just kind of

[01:01:48] You know did some some reevaluating and just uh, you know, like took a pretty hard look at myself in the mirror and

[01:01:56] Just decided that if if I'm gonna

[01:02:00] You know play foosball I need to enjoy it one and then two

[01:02:03] I just need to leave my like

[01:02:05] Put my best before leave my game on the table and whatever like if I can't get mad if somebody plays better than me and wins

[01:02:11] Right, so I'm gonna play my best

[01:02:14] And the outcome is gonna be what it is. I read a couple good books

[01:02:17] You know kind of changed my perspective and then I just I just because like my my practice never changed

[01:02:24] My physical ability is still what it is. I just my approach

[01:02:28] Uh to the game

[01:02:30] To tournament foosball is just kind of what changed dude. It was like, you know

[01:02:35] I I if somebody beats me. I have to be okay with them playing better than me

[01:02:38] I just I got to stop beating myself, right? I would I would go to tournaments and set this expectation that was

[01:02:45] Almost unachievable unless you're like, you know, Tony or something and and and and when I finally just started saying

[01:02:51] I'm just gonna go focus on playing good foosball, you know, and and it'll be what it is

[01:02:55] That's when things kind of started to change. So, um, you know, and then I just

[01:03:00] Just focused on one ball at a time and whatever happens happens didn't let the negative impact me stopped being so emotional

[01:03:08] Stop, you know, like threatening to stab people and all that stuff. So um, and then uh,

[01:03:14] Completely true. We haven't finished that completely yet, but we're getting there right he weren't working on

[01:03:20] Listen, I'm you know, I'm growing as a person every day. So

[01:03:24] Oh

[01:03:25] But you know that that's that's been it dude

[01:03:27] I just been and you know, I've been lucky enough to play with really good, you know

[01:03:31] Good partners and stuff like, you know, Chris me and chris have developed a really good friendship

[01:03:35] We you know, we're he's my boy and we have good chemistry and um, you know

[01:03:40] And you know again, dude, I like I would always play with you. You're my boy and and you're awesome. So, you know, it's just like

[01:03:50] Chris and I we just got a thing

[01:03:53] We just got a thing. So, you know, we're gonna go to national we're gonna go to nationals

[01:03:56] We're gonna play pro doubles open doubles

[01:03:58] Hopefully we're gonna, you know, just play good foosball and see what happens. So

[01:04:02] But yeah, man, it was just my perspective, you know the way I approach that. Okay. Yeah, I'm mental reset. Yeah

[01:04:09] That's it. Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's foosball

[01:04:13] um

[01:04:14] It's different for everybody. I say it all the time and for me

[01:04:17] I love to compete and it's an outlet and um, and I love it and you know, so

[01:04:23] It just it needed to stay fun. It wasn't fun anymore and I was just getting really frustrated with it

[01:04:28] So I just it was either quit or changed the way I was doing it. So I just changed the way I was doing it

[01:04:33] Absolutely, and I've done that. I've never quit for a long time

[01:04:37] But if I do find myself not having fun

[01:04:39] It usually takes a month of not playing and then I want to play again

[01:04:42] That's the strategy. I've been up for the last 25 years, you know

[01:04:45] And it always the urge to play has always come back, you know

[01:04:48] Yeah, dude

[01:04:49] Great

[01:04:50] Yeah, I you know, I I get to itch. I always get to itch like we were on vacation

[01:04:55] We came back we got back on Friday and there's like a little local and I told my wife

[01:04:58] I was like, I just I haven't touched the table in like four days. All right. Ooh four days

[01:05:02] I touched the table every day. So I was like I said, I just I gotta go play and she was like, all right

[01:05:07] And I went out and played I think we had seven teams and

[01:05:10] I just went said hi to everybody took their money and came home

[01:05:13] So

[01:05:14] There you go

[01:05:15] They could have just it could have made it easy

[01:05:16] They could just gave it to me and I could have left but they made me beat them

[01:05:19] I beat on them and then I came on Northern Alabama is running the Randy Reposo charity foosball tournament

[01:05:26] They should yeah, they should they should I mean they should just

[01:05:29] I should create a bank account and they just put money in it every week for me. But you know, whatever

[01:05:34] It is what it is the sport alive keep Randy of this damn game. That's all there is to it

[01:05:38] That's all you gotta do. That's right. That's right. Go fund me. Yeah, rice

[01:05:44] So something so Lane do you plan on being at North Carolina State this year?

[01:05:49] Absolutely. Yes. Well, uh, Randy, I think that you and I we need to make it

[01:05:54] We need to be there to North Carolina State. Yeah

[01:05:57] Tom, I'll go to any tournament you pay for me to go to although it is the same weekend as our smashdown

[01:06:03] here in in all

[01:06:06] Priorities Tom priority

[01:06:08] We'll have to look into that have to look into that. No, I'm gonna tell you like so

[01:06:12] They they've had the battle in the mountains and Asheville and Asheville is beautiful. My wife loves it

[01:06:18] You know, I lane you got you got like second open doubles at a at a battle. Didn't you with rock?

[01:06:24] Actually, Randy, that's my best tournament ever. I got second

[01:06:28] I played three events got second in all of them in uh, yeah an open double is the only team that beat us

[01:06:32] Uh was tony and time again. We kind of

[01:06:35] That's right

[01:06:36] Good work against every other team that tournament. That was that was one of those tournaments where I didn't even have to look at the

[01:06:41] Goal it did just the I knew where the hole was every single line. I watched dude. You play great all weekend

[01:06:48] Yeah, I mean from all you people listen to man. Lane blendels a stud. You better grab them while you can

[01:06:53] There you go

[01:06:55] Yeah, so dude what's what's up for tonight?

[01:06:58] Celtics. Oh, yeah. Yeah

[01:07:01] Really after I finished this we're gonna jump in the shower

[01:07:04] Maybe go out to a bar and definitely need a beer after this long day. Uh, and just watch the Celtics watch them game relax a little bit

[01:07:09] You know, what is it?

[01:07:11] Game two tonight with the mavericks and uh,

[01:07:15] Who's gonna how many games are the Celtics going to take this in i'm just curious

[01:07:19] For straight for straight

[01:07:21] Lane marrick marrickson santa chance

[01:07:24] I would guess five or six if I had to guess but uh, it depends it depends if kairi Irving

[01:07:29] And uh, luka dodgins shoot the ball

[01:07:32] Like they had been in the previous series. I think it could be a series if they don't I think balton's gonna roll over him

[01:07:37] You know just can they keep me miracle thoughts?

[01:07:40] Yeah

[01:07:41] Well, who's gonna win who's gonna win the stanley cup is it gonna be the florida panthers or the edmonton oilers?

[01:07:48] You're asking the wrong person

[01:07:51] My guess my guess would have been edmonton

[01:07:53] But the panthers pitched a 3-0 shutout last night game once so I don't know

[01:07:58] The panthers have a goalie that's kind of

[01:08:01] Zombing in right yeah, Bob seeing a hog a hot goalie can win you a cup dude

[01:08:05] So when the ruins won an 11 tim thomas man, they wrote tim thomas all the way through so

[01:08:10] You know, that's hockey's funny like that man. You could have a team that you know scrapes

[01:08:15] Scrapes away into the playoffs and then soon as the stanley cup playoffs start

[01:08:18] It's like they catch fire goalie catches fire and that's it bro. Boom. It's over so

[01:08:22] Um

[01:08:24] The oilers goalie he's been playing exceptional and the oilers have I mean, you know mc david uh dry sidle they've they've got a bunch of

[01:08:32] top

[01:08:34] They got studs dude, but florida is just beating florida is just out playing them

[01:08:39] With with hot they're being tough. They're beating him to the puck

[01:08:43] And I think it just just watching game one if it stays like this it's it's gonna go four games florida just wants

[01:08:49] It just looks like they wanted more so

[01:08:52] If if you're if you're a gambling man

[01:08:56] I uh, I don't know. It's very game. Look game two if you're gonna watch game two. It's gonna be in florida

[01:09:01] I'd probably I throw some dough at florida. Um, just depending what the what the odds are because it's in florida florida is playing great

[01:09:08] Um, if you know, they go back to edmonton, it's going to be a different story and and and they're bond

[01:09:12] It's going to be different so uh, but I don't know a guy. I guess we'll see what the Celtics do tonight. Um

[01:09:18] Bro, I appreciate you coming on dude. Yeah

[01:09:21] Absolutely

[01:09:23] Really appreciate and the door is open anytime in fact lane if you'd like to come back

[01:09:28] Just let us know we'd love to have you back and uh in the meantime

[01:09:32] Uh, just want to make mention a couple more people at illinois state that deserve some congratulations

[01:09:37] This weekend. Shane darby took expert singles

[01:09:40] Uh, can

[01:09:42] Congratulations to old school player playing against him 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah, uh, michael vight and donna carol taking

[01:09:50] amateur doubles, uh, michael vight's been winning a lot of amateur events

[01:09:54] Lot of amateur. I think he's going to be stifled expert

[01:09:57] michael vight is um, he's one of our, uh

[01:10:01] Patreon guys right? Yes, he is and uh, yeah, michael. Thanks buddy. We played together at the the itsf world series together

[01:10:08] Not in amateurs, but uh, we did play in an event and and it was over 63 by the way

[01:10:14] I was gonna say say the event um, say the event so we came this close from the finals this close

[01:10:19] It was uh, it was a lot of fun a lot of fun. But um, also, uh, congratulations to uh, octelar who won amateur singles

[01:10:27] Uh, and uh, saïd salazar takes rookie singles and renais, uh, kutcher kutcher

[01:10:33] Took beginner singles. So nice congratulations to everybody

[01:10:38] Nice great great weekend says but weekend for the women across the board. Yep

[01:10:43] Oh dude. Yeah

[01:10:44] Oh, yeah

[01:10:46] Yeah, Sullivan and Sullivan and frank are playing shane darby and kenneth dale for

[01:10:50] Right now, uh

[01:10:51] Yeah for for third so and then check this out jake barnett

[01:10:57] and vera urbanovic

[01:10:59] playing brady wireowski and tim kiss for

[01:11:04] For the uh championship for pro doubles for the final pro doubles. Nice. So very cool. Yeah, so brady wireoski

[01:11:09] I played him at the kickoff him and his dad and kids. I think he's

[01:11:14] Mike's done. Yeah, mike's kid man. He's not like 15. He's playing great

[01:11:18] Obviously here he is in the finals of pro doubles and uh, tim kiss obviously he's been playing well

[01:11:22] I think uh, the smart money is definitely on on uh, certainly on jake up for sure

[01:11:28] Why why the smart money? Why did you say the smart money because he's the this like the top 10 smartest guy in the world?

[01:11:34] That's all because he's wake because he's wicked smart

[01:11:36] It's wicked smart wicked smart listen

[01:11:38] You can hey, that's why we play so hopefully we'll see we'll see what happens

[01:11:43] But that's another lady player in the finals of pro doubles. So shout out to the ladies

[01:11:48] Uh, again, bro, I know you want to get scrubbed up and get you know get a drink and you watch the games

[01:11:52] So dude, thank you so much. You're my dude. You know if you need anything just let me know, bro

[01:11:57] Thank you for having me the same goes to you randy had a great time here and yeah

[01:12:01] With dr. Do it again sometime. Yeah, thank you ladies been been an absolute pleasure meeting you get a chance to get to know you

[01:12:06] You'll look to be in the same same tournament sometime very very soon

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