Maryam Aly has covered some ground in her foosball career. How much? Very few can say they have traveled further and longer to play and promote the sport. Who is her favorite player? What's her favorite international food and foosball table? Listen in to find out...
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[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey there, I'm Tom Robinson.
[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Episode number 219.
[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_02]: As always, going to be a great night of chatting about foosball.
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Tonight we have one of the most traveled ladies currently on the foosball tour.
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, if we're going to be chatting about foosball, we certainly have to talk
[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_02]: to somebody who really loves the game.
[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_02]: That would be Randy Raposo of the great state of Alabama.
[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello there, Randy.
[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_02]: What's happening, man?
[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: How are you doing?
[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Doing great.
[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Thanks very much.
[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, hey, great playing yesterday.
[00:02:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I watched some of your matches.
[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You played great.
[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice finish.
[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I know Tom and Sammy, Samsonite got the better of you.
[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You blocked Sam well.
[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I saw you score a couple out of the back.
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: You played good.
[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: If Tommy wasn't such a backpack, you would have had a chance.
[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I have to say there are a few moments of panic in a situation like that because
[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_02]: those guys play at such an incredible level.
[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just trying to stay focused and just do the basics.
[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, fish out of water a couple times.
[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: So when things get like that, you get a little panicky.
[00:03:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They get on a little run.
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Do like Mike Green.
[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Just shake the table.
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Get a block.
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Speaking of which, Mike Green has once again graced us with his presence
[00:03:41] [SPEAKER_02]: from the great state of Florida.
[00:03:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, Mike.
[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_02]: What's happening, buddy?
[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_01]: What's up, T.R.?
[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Here we go.
[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Here we go.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_02]: We had a discussion.
[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It's funny you say that about the baby shaking.
[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I do.
[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I don't.
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_01]: But me and Tom are playing Dylan Marshall in a match locally.
[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_01]: He gives me this like 10 minute we're going back and forth about how I'm
[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: resetting.
[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, you know, I don't mean to.
[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_01]: But if I let me know, you know, it is a very nice point.
[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I block him.
[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: He goes, he does it again.
[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_01]: He like makes me believe he really cares.
[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't again.
[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: But you know, I got to say, if Stefan Darby ever wins a match, I'll be on
[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: the side.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_01]: How are you doing, Tom?
[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing great.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I got to meet this guy, Stefan, by the way.
[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a legend, man.
[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait till Miriam comes off.
[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_01]: She'll tell you.
[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, OK.
[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, why not?
[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's find out from Miriam directly.
[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Miriam so sweet.
[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: She's so sweet.
[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: She would never.
[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: She's got nothing.
[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_00]: She's got nothing but good things to say.
[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_01]: And Miriam, say what you said before the show started.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, hold on a second.
[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Wait a second.
[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I got it.
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I got a whole pre-prepared introduction here before.
[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you brought me all in, Randy.
[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not my fault.
[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_01]: He got to start.
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, spontaneity is cool, but you know, I got I got to do this
[00:05:03] [SPEAKER_02]: officially.
[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: So tonight we focus our spotlight on a lady who's a longtime friend of
[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Foosball Radio and Foos Talk Live.
[00:05:12] [SPEAKER_02]: She's been on before, by the way.
[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And she is the most traveled player short of Tony Spraedeman on the
[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_02]: tour currently.
[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Just saying.
[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_02]: And recently, he's been a big part of Inside Foos and the ITSF in
[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Europe as well.
[00:05:29] [SPEAKER_02]: So let's welcome back to the show Miriam Ali.
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_02]: How about that?
[00:05:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that going to work?
[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So, wait, by miles.
[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: By miles, I mean, does anybody have you like, is anybody close?
[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Does Tony have you beat by miles?
[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_05]: So, so I think Tony has definitely traveled more this year.
[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_05]: I think if you look at the past two or three years, Jerry Todd or
[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_05]: actually if you look at the past 10 years, Jerry Todd and Dan
[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_05]: have played in more countries and across more continents than I've
[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_05]: played.
[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But you're like top five.
[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You're top five.
[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no question.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Top five and probably number one woman of the group.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_02]: No question.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, definitely.
[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_05]: And there were a couple of years where I went to more tournaments
[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_05]: than anybody else.
[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Or at least like if you count like the number of events I played in,
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_05]: definitely more than everyone else.
[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So what was your biggest year as far as tournament play?
[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_00]: How many in one year most?
[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_05]: Probably 2018.
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_05]: I think I played in 23 tournaments, but 2019 was close.
[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_05]: I played in 22, I want to say.
[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_05]: And so 2018 I took time off work and I just played,
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_05]: I just played foosball for a while.
[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_05]: In 2019 I worked full-time and got a promotion in that year.
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_05]: And I like, I have no idea how I did that.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_05]: It's one of those weird things.
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Like I look back, I'm like,
[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_05]: I have no idea how I managed my life in that year.
[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I ever did 23 tournaments in my life.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: No, yeah.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a lot.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The past four years, five years,
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I've probably played that many tournaments combined.
[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, tour stops.
[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: But in a year, I don't think my body could hold up.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Right. That's astounding.
[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And do you remember any of it?
[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I remember a lot of it.
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_05]: Some of it I don't remember because I was also drinking a bit more
[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_05]: in those years.
[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah.
[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Some of the foosball, like there were,
[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_05]: I had some goals for that year, but they were more like cumulative.
[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Like I was looking at my ranking, my world ranking.
[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_05]: And really trying to get into the top eight for the World Cup in 2019,
[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_05]: which I did.
[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_05]: But it meant that like each individual result only mattered so much.
[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_05]: And I really wanted to enjoy every place that I was visiting.
[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_05]: And I filled relationships and stuff.
[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_05]: So it wasn't all work.
[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I checked the ITSF website.
[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I like to check the point because, you know,
[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: like Mississippi just happened and you get points from Mississippi.
[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's nothing crazy.
[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously what they're doing in Europe is far more cumulative
[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: than what we're doing here.
[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not going to go into the details.
[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's just, it's just fun to see like, oh,
[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm number 712 globally in singles.
[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But you, you, you were up there.
[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you were on that first page way at the top.
[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_02]: So that's amazing.
[00:08:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Favorite table.
[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I know we've talked about tables, you and I, but what.
[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Internationally.
[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I would assume tornadoes your favorite table.
[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: What's your favorite?
[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely.
[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_05]: Tornadoes, tornadoes number one.
[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Number two.
[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_05]: I swear it changes.
[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_05]: Like I,
[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_05]: when I was practicing for Garlando worlds last year,
[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_05]: I found a new love for the table.
[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_05]: And I found too,
[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_05]: it helped me with loose ball grabbing on tornado.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_05]: I feel like I've lost all that again.
[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_05]: So I need to work on it again.
[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_05]: But I like,
[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_05]: I like Garlando a lot as a practice table.
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_05]: I think like Bonzini is.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_05]: So different from tornado that.
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_05]: It's more of a challenge.
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: For me.
[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_05]: No, I what, what I will say.
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not just.
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: What I think about that table.
[00:09:53] [SPEAKER_01]: So let's move on, but go ahead.
[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, I do say, I will say for that table,
[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_05]: if someone were to set out to make.
[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Like they're like, okay,
[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_05]: I want to make a competent, a competitive foosball table.
[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_05]: They would never in a million years come up with that design.
[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_05]: But it does require skill to be good at.
[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_05]: And it's different skills than to be good on tornado.
[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_05]: And so I find it.
[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_05]: There's some overlap, right?
[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_05]: But there's some skills that are, that are quite different.
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_05]: And I appreciate the table because it,
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_05]: it's kind of helped me get better at some things that I wasn't as good at.
[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that makes sense.
[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think, do you think that.
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Like first, Banzini specifically.
[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think that in order to like, to be better at that table,
[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: it helps to be French?
[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_02]: See, I knew you were going there.
[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I knew it.
[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Or, or, or to be, or to be like kind of douchey or something.
[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying, like.
[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I think.
[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_05]: It helps us slow down.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I'll say that it helps us slow down.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, it's such a.
[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it's at the opposite end of the spectrum from tornado.
[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That the things you're you're, you learn and are able to do,
[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: like you're like, you learn a little finesse, which on tornado,
[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_00]: there are so many people that are just like.
[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Just gas and hard and fast. And it's like,
[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_00]: if you were just to add a little finesse to your game,
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_00]: it would make such a difference. And I think bonds.
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Really, really.
[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Really.
[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I just, like you said, that slow down for nest style game.
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I enjoy it. I do. I really do enjoy Gonzini.
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, you can always play it Lee and horror.
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_01]: You could play other tables that table.
[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_01]: We call on at least the surface should be level.
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, actually the new, the new surface.
[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_05]: So they, I don't know how much I'll know about on Zini,
[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_05]: but it's gone through a few iterations.
[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_05]: And the fact that it's been so many iterations has not been great for players,
[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_05]: but the the last few iterations of the surface.
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_05]: They're smooth.
[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_05]: They don't get divots in them like the like the old one.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, it was like, yeah.
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_05]: And so it makes it truer, like a truer role for the ball and stuff.
[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I don't know from the early days in the seventies and seventy four was the first time I saw a bun Zini.
[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It was kind of like, like somebody took flooring like a like a floor like your grandma's floor.
[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_00]: It was it was it was it was it was laminate flooring.
[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I actually bought eight bun Zinis and redid my bathroom floor.
[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I just so I don't know.
[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you remember, but it was it was it was a World Cup maybe in like the middle 2000s or early 2010s.
[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_00]: But I remember watching a specific match with Billy playing doubles on a bun Zini and he was shooting a pull shot.
[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He couldn't set the ball up.
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: He brought the ball over and actually pushed it down and made a dent so the ball would sit so he could set the ball and then shoot a pull shot.
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: You can't you can't you can't do that anymore.
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Not on the new surface.
[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but yeah, it actually it actually stays in place on the new surface at least see that actually a bun Zini or was that a Renee Pierre?
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, aren't they the kind of the same table?
[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Very, very similar.
[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's a couple of different.
[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Renee Pierre was the middleman back then.
[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Basically the same table.
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I think that thing that we the the Mr. Pibb.
[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right.
[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Like like Dodging Chrysler, you know.
[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I'm a Leonhard fan because I play T.S.
[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's just basically it's the T.S.
[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Doc off though, you know, sure.
[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_05]: And Leonhard is my least favorite table.
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, why?
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_05]: Because let me get to the tangibles first.
[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_05]: There's not a lot of space between the back man and the edge of the goal, which means that a lot of slop goes in.
[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Unlike tornado.
[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_04]: That's problem number one.
[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, unlike tornado, it's worse like it is worse than tornado.
[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_05]: So that's number one.
[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Number two, the goal design is really dumb.
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_05]: It has like that that lip and it makes it hard to figure out.
[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_05]: Like did the ball go in or not?
[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_05]: OK, that aspect.
[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_05]: There's something that's a bit more intangible that I don't like.
[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_05]: It's it's too easy to play too easy.
[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_05]: And what I mean by that, like you get people who.
[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Climb the ladder on Leonhardt.
[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_05]: But can't perform on other tables.
[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_05]: And it's because the Leonhardt table is so easy to play that you can.
[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_05]: It's like without much technical skill.
[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Like hard skills on the table, you can you can still do really well.
[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_05]: And I don't I don't like that.
[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a very, very grippy ball.
[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_02]: There's no doubt about that.
[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Say names, say names.
[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: No, so I know.
[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So like to remember the yellow warrior ball when warrior came out like you couldn't drop that ball.
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Hard to hit.
[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And I understand what you're saying.
[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Like Leonhardt makes you look good, right?
[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean, it makes me look bad, to be honest, but that's not why I don't like the table.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's just it's it does.
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_05]: It makes it makes average technical skill still look good.
[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_05]: And there's something to be said about that.
[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_05]: Like it does have some good qualities.
[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_05]: It means that players who are Leonhardt players usually level up higher on the mental side of the game.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_05]: But it is if it was supposed to be a sport, we need the technical skill to write like, yeah, yeah.
[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: So now we're back to an AP or whatever the name of the.
[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Bonzini.
[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Bonzini was like to give the French a chance.
[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if you've watched high level Bonzini play, but it's difficult.
[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Like those guys have really high technical skill.
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: You always play on Bonzini and somebody comes over and tries to play on Bonzini against them.
[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's a trade.
[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:16:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Because you it is the guys who play on it like the French, the French we keep talking about the Frenchmen.
[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: They're incredible.
[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I love watching those guys play.
[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Incidentally, there's a there's a Bonzini tournament happening in Virginia Beach this year.
[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a Virginia State Championship played on Bonzini.
[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They've always been a holdout.
[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Good for them.
[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: North Carolina.
[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you want to check it out, there's a video on YouTube and I'm sure you guys have seen it.
[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: But it was like it was like Fred in the early 2000s.
[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: It was it's only like a two minute video, but he's he's playing.
[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: He's just playing some guy.
[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's just like a warm up match or something.
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: He's doing kind of just to show off.
[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's on Inside Foods.
[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you go on YouTube and look it up and the stuff he does on that table is bananas.
[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It's absolutely ridiculous.
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, like, you know that he does that front pin, but the way he rocks that ball, it's so wide that he does his chip series on the five.
[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: He does a left handed, you know, bank out of the back and he just does some incredible stuff.
[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, people who say you can't do things on that table.
[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you can do some some pretty cool stuff on that table.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, as far as technical ability, I mean, I really think you're forced to have to learn to do certain things on that table.
[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And again, this is just my opinion.
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, for me, it translates well to tornado grabbing loose balls, finesse, things like that.
[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know.
[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Everybody's different, though.
[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_02]: True that.
[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, so, Miriam, you're back in the country.
[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Here you are.
[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: You've been even all over the world and you come back to see us.
[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And you're going to be here on a semi permanent basis now.
[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that correct?
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_05]: That's the plan.
[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_05]: That is the plan.
[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_05]: I say the plan because if I've learned anything is that plans can change.
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_05]: And who knows?
[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Who knows?
[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Two years from now, I might be like, oh, we're going to move back to the UK or something.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_05]: But that's the plan.
[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_05]: And we really, really like Lafayette, Louisiana.
[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_05]: So I think we're going to stay.
[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Great crew.
[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Great crew, Lafayette.
[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no question.
[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I just joined their Facebook page this last week.
[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, they don't want to make sure they're legit.
[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_02]: So they ask you a question.
[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Why are you joining this group?
[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And I just said, I love foosball.
[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_02]: And boom, like all these people like, oh, you know, that's what a great answer.
[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's true.
[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_02]: But they're so nice about it.
[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: It's TR.
[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't they know that's TR?
[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Just let them in the group.
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Cut it out.
[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you don't ask questions.
[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Just let them in the group.
[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So what is your immediate plans?
[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, you'll be at Florida State.
[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Is that correct?
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Sorry, you cut off a bit.
[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_02]: You're going to be at Florida State this year.
[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And I assume Worlds, correct?
[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes. Yeah, I'm going to be at Worlds and then Florida State.
[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_05]: And then after that, there's the battle in the Bayou in Lafayette.
[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_05]: In October.
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's a nice looking tournament.
[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I went to the one last year.
[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was the year before the tournament.
[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I was there with Kevin Hayes.
[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Randall Steli put that on.
[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They do a nice job.
[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Those guys, I mean, look, those guys love foosball, man.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: They love foosball. So they put it on last year.
[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: They did a nice job.
[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually they had a news crew come out to interviews.
[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They're really trying.
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I actually, so I was.
[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I was out grabbing a bite with Brandon Munoz and we got back and Randall was like,
[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, the girl's here to interview you.
[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I'll take care of it.
[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And I went inside.
[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I said, I'm Brandon Munoz.
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So the interview didn't go anyway.
[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So, but that one, that one's going to be good.
[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Cause now they're doing it at their new spot, right?
[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Sam's Rocket Arcade.
[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: How is that spot?
[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_05]: It's really, really nice.
[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_05]: So on a regular basis, there are four tables there.
[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_05]: And they keep one on free play for juniors.
[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_05]: And it's an arcade and like very much a family establishment.
[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_05]: So we were there on Friday and people brought their kids,
[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_05]: including like small babies.
[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_05]: And we're all just in there together.
[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_05]: And they had like a junior doubles.
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_05]: So they, they had a, they had a D Y P and then they had a,
[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_05]: an open D Y P as well.
[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_05]: For the adults.
[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Very cool.
[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I think Louisiana is going to take over.
[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: The country as far as places to play baseball.
[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Tampa's definitely died out.
[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Colorado still got a bunch of great players, but I mean,
[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Louisiana.
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know Ray does an incredible job.
[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But everybody's trying to promote something somewhere in, you know,
[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_01]: Batman foosball everywhere.
[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_01]: There's something going on there for sure.
[00:21:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Real entry fees.
[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_01]: They bump up some nice entry fees that have some bigger tournaments,
[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: which is awesome too.
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_05]: Like on Friday we had two masters and three pros.
[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Nice.
[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_05]: I can are just Friday.
[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_05]: D Y P.
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_01]: See, we go to Eric's house on Friday.
[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_01]: We have nine masters and five pros.
[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Then we go to the tournament and not one master pros goes up
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_01]: because everybody just likes to go to Eric's house.
[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I love Eric.
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but why is that?
[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_01]: He gets all nervous by playing at somebody's house all the time.
[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Why is that?
[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Why do you think?
[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Why is that?
[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Because you go to Eric's, you bring food, you bring drink.
[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, they have a tornado.
[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: They have a, a bon, what's that?
[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Bonzini.
[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Bonzini, yeah, yeah.
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: And they have a Leonhardt there.
[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_01]: We are at Eric's.
[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you got the big screen with the, you know, you got darts,
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, it's like just, uh, it's just a fun time.
[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But then the next night, you know, you got the Saturday night
[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_01]: tournament and like last night, but yesterday we had a 10 teams
[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: and not one, I don't even know if there was a, you know,
[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_01]: there's maybe no pros.
[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Basically all amateurs because nobody's going to the tournament,
[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: which is hard to keep it going.
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to have people showing up, you know, and they'll have a
[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_01]: bar, the smoky bar that I won't even go to where they have
[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_01]: 30 people show up just to play for fun.
[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_01]: They won't play in the tournaments.
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we have such a base of players, but nobody wants
[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: to actually do it.
[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's why I say Louisiana is just taking
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: over as far as I'm concerned.
[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_00]: I think well, and Louisiana they're, they're coordinated.
[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: There are all the promoters are coordinated together.
[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So they don't run two things on one night.
[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll shut something down and support somebody else.
[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: They're doing a really nice job in Louisiana.
[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Legit, legit.
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a good spot.
[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll drive, I'll drive five hours to go play in one of
[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: their events just because now you have Mariam and that
[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_01]: other guy.
[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_01]: What's his name?
[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Callum.
[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't hurt either.
[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you know, you can always tell the hotspot
[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: in where Foosball is.
[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_01]: It's always been that way when you start seeing people
[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: kind of gravitate that way.
[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Mariam, so big C from GB.
[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Mariam, tell Callum, we said that he that he's a
[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_02]: great player.
[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I watched him in a match.
[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_02]: How was it?
[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Was it?
[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to think it might have been Louisiana
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_02]: in fact, but anyway, he played.
[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I was just amazed.
[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_02]: He was just a really, really good player.
[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Rand, you won't play with me.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_02]: You won't play with you?
[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_02]: No.
[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Is he is he is he right?
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm very, she's like what is he ranked to pro after you?
[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Jokey.
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm obviously joke.
[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Is he ranked a pro in the States?
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_02]: I would play with me.
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_05]: I was looking for he will be so he so Mary's
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_05]: bumping the points up after after after worlds.
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_05]: So he has enough points and doubles to be pro
[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_05]: or he will after after worlds in singles.
[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_05]: He might it might be a little bit longer, but we'll
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_05]: see.
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_05]: We'll see how well he does it world.
[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think he's I think he's close.
[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: He's always done pretty good in singles too.
[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I know he's he's always up there is always in
[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: the mix.
[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So he's I mean, he's good players really solid
[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_00]: player smart guy.
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I remember the first time I saw him play was
[00:24:38] [SPEAKER_01]: he played Robert.
[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I always say this wrong.
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry Mars Barers, whatever his name is
[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and I mean, I've known him since the beginning
[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_01]: of time, but I don't know how to say his last
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: name.
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I said, anyway, I'm from the South River.
[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_01]: But and he played with Florida State and beat
[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_01]: him pretty I think being three straight and
[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_01]: pretty impressive watching that a whole lot
[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_01]: of people take Robert down like that and he
[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_01]: played great that in that match.
[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got a game plan for Callum for next
[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: night because he him and Isabelle took me
[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and Chris out of Pro doubles at Mississippi,
[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_05]: but he absolutely would hate playing against
[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_05]: you.
[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_05]: I think I think you have a winning.
[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_05]: You're one of the few people who has a
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_05]: winning record against him in the US.
[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the interesting recess in jars.
[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean listen if you're not trying.
[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, I'm just I'm going to buy him
[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: excessive drink next time we have to play.
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_05]: That's a really good plan.
[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_05]: He is a beer lover.
[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_05]: So oh yeah, and I'm invested.
[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_05]: He will not say he will not say no to
[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_05]: free alcohol.
[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever it takes whatever it takes.
[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_02]: So there's a couple things that we we
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_02]: probably need to touch touch base on I
[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_02]: would say number one is the ITSF.
[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_02]: So you're fully involved with that
[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_02]: organization bring us up to speed.
[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_02]: How are things happening?
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_02]: And of course, how do you feel now that
[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the ITSF came to America with the World
[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Series in Dallas?
[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it's a great question.
[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_05]: I I'm really excited for for more
[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_05]: ITSF involvement in the US.
[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_05]: I think like in the US is in a weird
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_05]: position because in some ways the game
[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_05]: is more developed.
[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Like if you look at our players are
[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_05]: we have some of the best players in
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_05]: the world.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_05]: Like if you look at the best players
[00:26:34] [SPEAKER_05]: in the world, most of them are
[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_05]: American.
[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_05]: I would even argue and that's
[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_05]: interesting because it's not like
[00:26:43] [SPEAKER_05]: it's not like some other countries
[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_05]: like Germany where we're really
[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_05]: growing as a sport.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_05]: And if you look at our Federation
[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_05]: and that's and I don't mean any
[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_05]: negativity towards the USTSO, but
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_05]: it's just not nearly as developed
[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_05]: as a DTFB partially because of its
[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_05]: age partially because of the
[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_05]: establishment in the US too.
[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_05]: So there's a lot we need a lot of
[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_05]: help. We need a lot of help to get
[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_05]: to where the DTFB or the TFBO these
[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_05]: more established Federations are.
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_05]: So I'm excited that ITSF is working
[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_05]: on it.
[00:27:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's my question for you.
[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_01]: We know that we have a hundred
[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_01]: thousand dollar Foosball tournament.
[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Say the hundred thousand dollar
[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I called the world's get over.
[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[00:27:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It's still the world's to me
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_01]: because that's all I ever know.
[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_01]: But okay, a hundred grand.
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_01]: The truth is you're going to have
[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe three people who actually
[00:27:46] [SPEAKER_01]: cash to make it worth the while
[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_01]: to go to a tournament.
[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So these people go with this
[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_01]: mindset of it's a hundred thousand
[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_01]: dollar tournament.
[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna win all this money
[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_01]: but I watch I would rather I played
[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_01]: one time in the 80s.
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I got to play actually.
[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess now they call like, you
[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_01]: know, what do they call it?
[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Just the Americans all the
[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_01]: different states came and played
[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_01]: each other.
[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The most fun I ever had.
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, the North America Cup or
[00:28:13] [SPEAKER_01]: something.
[00:28:14] [SPEAKER_00]: North America Cup.
[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, like we lost we our team
[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_01]: in the finals had to score one
[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_01]: point.
[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_01]: But that's how good we set
[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_01]: them up one point before the
[00:28:25] [SPEAKER_01]: other teams scored nine and
[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_01]: we lost.
[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Who?
[00:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh goodness.
[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_01]: But guess what the whole time
[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_01]: we never left.
[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_01]: We were all surrounding them
[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_01]: trying to talk to just hack
[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_01]: the ball right.
[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Put the table on top of
[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_01]: them.
[00:28:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care just score a
[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: point, right?
[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: But it makes it exciting
[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: because the two rookies
[00:28:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess I don't know what
[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_01]: they were back then we
[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_01]: called them rookies.
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_01]: There weren't all these
[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_01]: other categories but
[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean I felt bad for
[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_01]: them in one way, but
[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_01]: then I wanted to hang them
[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_01]: in another way.
[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I just score a point
[00:28:56] [SPEAKER_01]: but it made it exciting
[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_01]: because at what tournament
[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_01]: or a bunch of Masters
[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and pros going to stare
[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_01]: on a watch two rookies
[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_01]: with that much excitement
[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_01]: and that you know and really
[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_01]: want them to win.
[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, so how do you
[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_01]: like get American people
[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_01]: to realize that like,
[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, leagues are
[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_01]: good or different things
[00:29:13] [SPEAKER_01]: are good.
[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to try something
[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_01]: different because you
[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_01]: know, it's almost like
[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_01]: when people talk about
[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_01]: the Swiss, oh, but
[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_01]: now they get to play
[00:29:20] [SPEAKER_01]: four events.
[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Who cares?
[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's for
[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_01]: back to like when
[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_01]: you were in Dallas
[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_01]: when you guys did
[00:29:27] [SPEAKER_01]: that World Series.
[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_01]: That was a lot of fun.
[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_01]: That was just a lot
[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_01]: of fun and I don't
[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_01]: like to play a lot
[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_01]: of events, but it
[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_01]: was weird for me
[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_01]: because even I was like
[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_01]: we're done.
[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_05]: There's only one a day.
[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's it.
[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_01]: So so bad they had
[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_01]: to Americanize it
[00:29:43] [SPEAKER_01]: and actually have a draw
[00:29:44] [SPEAKER_01]: at night because we
[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_01]: were all at withdrawals
[00:29:46] [SPEAKER_01]: like we had to play
[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_01]: something but but
[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_01]: anyway, how do you
[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_01]: like I mean that's
[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_01]: like a long learning
[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_01]: process of
[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_01]: changing the American
[00:29:56] [SPEAKER_01]: people's mind that
[00:29:58] [SPEAKER_01]: there's more to it
[00:30:00] [SPEAKER_01]: than this supposed big
[00:30:01] [SPEAKER_01]: dream of the cash
[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_01]: you're going to win
[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_01]: because you're not
[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're really
[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_01]: not going to win
[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_01]: that much money.
[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_01]: If you break even
[00:30:09] [SPEAKER_01]: you've done really
[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_01]: good that
[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah, it's not it's
[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_05]: not easy.
[00:30:15] [SPEAKER_05]: I think one important
[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_05]: thing is showing.
[00:30:19] [SPEAKER_05]: So I think in
[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_05]: order to get something
[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_05]: like a club system
[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_05]: going nationwide.
[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_05]: We really have to do
[00:30:25] [SPEAKER_05]: a few different trials
[00:30:27] [SPEAKER_05]: in a few different
[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_05]: places that have enough
[00:30:29] [SPEAKER_05]: players to support it
[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_05]: so that we can show
[00:30:31] [SPEAKER_05]: people this is how
[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_05]: it can work
[00:30:34] [SPEAKER_05]: and it in the US
[00:30:36] [SPEAKER_05]: specifically because
[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_05]: if you look at a place
[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_05]: like Germany,
[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Germany so dense.
[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_05]: It's easy for them to
[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_05]: have a nationwide
[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_05]: club system because
[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_05]: it only takes six hours
[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_05]: to get from one
[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_05]: end of the country
[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_05]: to the other
[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_05]: like it's so
[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_05]: it's so much easier
[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_05]: for them to
[00:30:55] [SPEAKER_05]: to have
[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_05]: a network like that
[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_05]: whereas for us like it's
[00:31:01] [SPEAKER_05]: it's got to be more
[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_05]: grassroots.
[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Each place kind of
[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_05]: has to do it
[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_05]: independently
[00:31:07] [SPEAKER_05]: and we have to
[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_05]: work harder to kind of
[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_05]: share information
[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_05]: and and help each
[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_05]: other get started.
[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, doesn't the bigger
[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_01]: promoters kind of have
[00:31:17] [SPEAKER_01]: to like kick something
[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_01]: in in a way?
[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it's really
[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_01]: going to benefit them.
[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, how do you
[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_01]: get like the local guys
[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_01]: in the room going
[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm only going to make
[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_01]: X amount of dollars.
[00:31:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Why would I want to
[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_01]: buy another table
[00:31:29] [SPEAKER_01]: or you know what I mean?
[00:31:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm not saying
[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_01]: this like in a bad way.
[00:31:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to see it
[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_01]: happen.
[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm from the
[00:31:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I remember the Minnesota
[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_01]: there was a beauty
[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_01]: that had Harry high school
[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_01]: had a foosball thing.
[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there was like
[00:31:45] [SPEAKER_01]: a thousand people
[00:31:46] [SPEAKER_01]: involved in this high
[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_01]: school football thing
[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_01]: back then.
[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, so it's not
[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_01]: like it hasn't been
[00:31:50] [SPEAKER_01]: done before
[00:31:52] [SPEAKER_01]: but you know,
[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I would just I don't
[00:31:54] [SPEAKER_01]: know. I guess it's
[00:31:55] [SPEAKER_01]: just how do you actually
[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_01]: get that to happen?
[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't think it's
[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_05]: big promoters responsibility
[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_05]: like yes, they would
[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_05]: benefit but it's such
[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_05]: a long term bet.
[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't think it's
[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_01]: doesn't possibility.
[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's their
[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_01]: responsibility to help
[00:32:10] [SPEAKER_01]: out the local people
[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_01]: to try to help them
[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_01]: build it up, you know,
[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_01]: it's like now you
[00:32:16] [SPEAKER_01]: see a lot of like
[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_01]: like a lot of these
[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_01]: state terms are
[00:32:20] [SPEAKER_01]: starting to throw packages
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_01]: for their tournament
[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_01]: at another tournament
[00:32:24] [SPEAKER_01]: just trying to get
[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_01]: everybody involved.
[00:32:27] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a good start.
[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a good start
[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_02]: promoting, you know,
[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_02]: cross promotion
[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_02]: or cross pollination.
[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I think something
[00:32:36] [SPEAKER_05]: like,
[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_05]: I think you could imagine
[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_05]: a really good partnership
[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_05]: between whoever's running
[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_05]: a state tournament
[00:32:44] [SPEAKER_05]: and the local promoters
[00:32:46] [SPEAKER_05]: so that local promoters
[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_05]: could give away
[00:32:49] [SPEAKER_05]: a state package
[00:32:51] [SPEAKER_05]: as
[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_05]: like a
[00:32:54] [SPEAKER_05]: as a prize.
[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_05]: We did this in New York
[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_05]: actually
[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:32:59] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Maryland State.
[00:33:03] [SPEAKER_05]: There was a points race
[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_05]: in New York City
[00:33:07] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_05]: four packages to Maryland State
[00:33:10] [SPEAKER_05]: and how you placed
[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_05]: in your in the
[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_05]: D.Y.P.'s
[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_05]: like that mattered
[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_05]: over,
[00:33:15] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know how many months
[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_05]: we
[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_05]: we took count
[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_05]: and the top
[00:33:19] [SPEAKER_05]: the top person
[00:33:20] [SPEAKER_05]: ended up with a package
[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_05]: for Maryland.
[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_05]: So you can imagine
[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_05]: stuff like that
[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_05]: to help
[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:33:25] [SPEAKER_05]: that that's one
[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_05]: tangible way
[00:33:27] [SPEAKER_05]: that a larger promoter
[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_05]: could help a local promoter.
[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_01]: It makes sense.
[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of happening now
[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_01]: like Florida State.
[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I think there's five
[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_01]: there's like
[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Michigan
[00:33:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Mississippi.
[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_01]: There's like five
[00:33:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember all
[00:33:41] [SPEAKER_01]: who it is like five
[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_01]: different people
[00:33:42] [SPEAKER_01]: giving away packages
[00:33:44] [SPEAKER_01]: at Florida State
[00:33:45] [SPEAKER_01]: if people come
[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_01]: and they like
[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_01]: you know win
[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_01]: or they whatever
[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_01]: however it works
[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_01]: that they get to go
[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_01]: to seven other tournament
[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_01]: on a free pack
[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_01]: like Florida.
[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_01]: We had that Thunderdome
[00:33:54] [SPEAKER_01]: tournament
[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_01]: where Evan McGregor
[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_01]: won eight packages
[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah,
[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_02]: eight plus the cash.
[00:34:00] Yeah.
[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Geez.
[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, plus the cash.
[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Exactly man.
[00:34:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but here's the funny
[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_01]: part about
[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_01]: it's like
[00:34:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean basically
[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_01]: what it comes down to
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_01]: is
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_01]: you got a tournament in Idaho
[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_01]: and a tournament in Florida
[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_01]: even somebody who wins it
[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_01]: they're probably not
[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_01]: even going to have
[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_01]: to use that pack.
[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's a good promotion
[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_01]: to say if you do want to go
[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_01]: this is an extra thing
[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_01]: you could win.
[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of those guys
[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_01]: got to get together
[00:34:24] [SPEAKER_01]: on that.
[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Well,
[00:34:26] [SPEAKER_01]: unfortunately in America
[00:34:27] [SPEAKER_01]: like a lot of the
[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_01]: the local promoters
[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_01]: are also the guys
[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_01]: who throw the state tournament.
[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So they're kind of
[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_01]: doing it all.
[00:34:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes
[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_02]: it's true.
[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_00]: can I ask
[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_00]: and I don't know
[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_00]: if you know these numbers
[00:34:39] [SPEAKER_00]: but like the
[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_00]: the German
[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Federation
[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: or the players
[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you whatever it is
[00:34:43] [SPEAKER_00]: it's called
[00:34:44] [SPEAKER_00]: how many members
[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_00]: do they have off
[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_00]: the top of your head?
[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Do you know?
[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know for sure.
[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I want to say
[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_05]: it's over 40,000
[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_05]: players,
[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_05]: but I don't know.
[00:34:52] [SPEAKER_05]: 40,000?
[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Hold on.
[00:34:54] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: How many
[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: how many
[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_00]: how many are
[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_00]: registered
[00:34:57] [SPEAKER_00]: paying members
[00:34:58] [SPEAKER_00]: of the USTSO?
[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Do we even have
[00:35:01] [SPEAKER_00]: do we even have 400?
[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh,
[00:35:03] [SPEAKER_00]: 400.
[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Hmm.
[00:35:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know.
[00:35:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know the numbers
[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_05]: for USTSO.
[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_05]: I've only recently
[00:35:10] [SPEAKER_05]: started like
[00:35:11] [SPEAKER_05]: talking to them again.
[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_02]: 400 or less.
[00:35:13] [SPEAKER_05]: I said that
[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_05]: like there was a few
[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_05]: that's not what I mean.
[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean,
[00:35:16] [SPEAKER_05]: I've only recently
[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_05]: started to get
[00:35:17] [SPEAKER_05]: to get like
[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_05]: to actually work
[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_05]: with the USTSO
[00:35:20] [SPEAKER_05]: more directly again.
[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_05]: So I don't
[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah,
[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't have the data.
[00:35:24] [SPEAKER_00]: So it is
[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah,
[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_05]: you're right.
[00:35:25] [SPEAKER_05]: Like it's a much
[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_05]: much stronger
[00:35:27] [SPEAKER_00]: one percent
[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: or less of what
[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Germany is running,
[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah,
[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah,
[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_00]: it's like
[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_00]: how do we
[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_00]: how do we build
[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: that number?
[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And again,
[00:35:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I say this all the time.
[00:35:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Foosball players
[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_00]: are inherently selfish,
[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like
[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I go to a tournament.
[00:35:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be catered to
[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to pay any money,
[00:35:45] [SPEAKER_00]: but I want to win
[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: all the money
[00:35:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_00]: like
[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: there's
[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_00]: there's
[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_00]: there's nine teams,
[00:35:51] [SPEAKER_00]: but I want you to pay out
[00:35:52] [SPEAKER_00]: ten places
[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:35:55] [SPEAKER_00]: it's just one of those things
[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and it's
[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_00]: it's super frustrating,
[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_00]: but
[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:36:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that
[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_00]: if we can
[00:36:02] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of
[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and again,
[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just talking,
[00:36:04] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like here I am
[00:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: not putting legs on anything
[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying.
[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just blabbering on a podcast,
[00:36:10] [SPEAKER_00]: but it's like
[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_00]: if we
[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_00]: if we could create,
[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess,
[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_00]: just a model
[00:36:15] [SPEAKER_00]: like whatever Germany is doing
[00:36:16] [SPEAKER_00]: or one of these big ones
[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and just go
[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: this is how they started
[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_00]: like let's just do this
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and see how it works,
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_00]: but
[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_00]: you're absolutely right too.
[00:36:22] [SPEAKER_00]: The fact that Germany is like
[00:36:23] [SPEAKER_00]: six hours wide
[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_00]: like I'm in Central Alabama,
[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_00]: you're in Lafayette,
[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_00]: you're seven hours
[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_00]: with a seven-hour drive
[00:36:30] [SPEAKER_00]: just from me to you
[00:36:31] [SPEAKER_00]: right now.
[00:36:31] [SPEAKER_04]: And we're close.
[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_04]: That's local.
[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And we're close.
[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah,
[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: like
[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Tampa,
[00:36:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Tampa,
[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Tampa is an eight-hour drive for me,
[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Where
[00:36:38] [SPEAKER_00]: where TR is right now,
[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_00]: it's
[00:36:41] [SPEAKER_00]: like a 16,
[00:36:42] [SPEAKER_00]: 14,
[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_00]: 16-hour drive for me.
[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Big deal.
[00:36:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah,
[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_00]: but this is the thing.
[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that
[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_00]: the groups
[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_00]: or teams
[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_00]: or
[00:36:54] [SPEAKER_00]: clubs,
[00:36:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a great idea
[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and it's something
[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that could be done regionally
[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and then
[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and then
[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: nationally,
[00:36:59] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Like
[00:37:00] [SPEAKER_00]: you create a regional
[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_00]: or regional league system
[00:37:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and then
[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:37:04] [SPEAKER_00]: like Southeast,
[00:37:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Northeast,
[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Midwest,
[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_00]: West Coast,
[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_00]: whatever.
[00:37:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Because we've talked about
[00:37:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Chris Folsom has a great setup
[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_00]: at his house
[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and we've
[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: talked about creating
[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_00]: a club out of his house
[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_00]: with a few players
[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_00]: but then
[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_00]: who are we going to play?
[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Like who are we going to
[00:37:22] [SPEAKER_00]: who we
[00:37:22] [SPEAKER_00]: name another club
[00:37:23] [SPEAKER_00]: that we're going to go beat up?
[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You know,
[00:37:26] [SPEAKER_02]: True that.
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_00]: what are we going to do?
[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[00:37:30] [SPEAKER_01]: you know,
[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_01]: it's funny though,
[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_01]: most of the
[00:37:32] [SPEAKER_01]: most of the term
[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_01]: from the South.
[00:37:36] [SPEAKER_01]: well,
[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_01]: except like you
[00:37:37] [SPEAKER_01]: but why
[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I was talking to
[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Michael Stahl about this.
[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_01]: You got Michigan,
[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Ohio,
[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Chicago,
[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_01]: you know,
[00:37:46] [SPEAKER_01]: have a little circuit,
[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_01]: you know,
[00:37:47] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Florida,
[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Georgia,
[00:37:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Tennessee,
[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_01]: you know,
[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_00]: came today.
[00:37:52] [SPEAKER_00]: so look,
[00:37:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Lexington,
[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_00]: you've got the kickoff
[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and Worlds,
[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Mississippi State,
[00:37:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Louisiana State,
[00:37:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and then if they do nationals in New Orleans,
[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That's five tournaments right there.
[00:38:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Then if Florida State,
[00:38:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and now Florida is doing their own
[00:38:07] [SPEAKER_00]: their own tour,
[00:38:08] [SPEAKER_00]: they're doing four events,
[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's 10,
[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that's 10 tournaments just in the southeast region of the country.
[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So
[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_00]: they didn't do Georgia State this year,
[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: but that's another one.
[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You know,
[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_00]: talking to Thomas Dyke,
[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the Tennessee group is growing
[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and I think they're working on trying to get a Tennessee State going.
[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what,
[00:38:28] [SPEAKER_00]: they had a battle in the mountains
[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_00]: in North Carolina.
[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah,
[00:38:33] [SPEAKER_05]: there's North Carolina State.
[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_00]: North Carolina State.
[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like there's a dozen tournaments in the southeast region of the country.
[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So just living here,
[00:38:40] [SPEAKER_00]: you can play a tournament almost,
[00:38:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you can play almost a tournament a month if you're willing to
[00:38:44] [SPEAKER_00]: or more often travel and play
[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_00]: exactly as opposed to
[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_00]: the Northeast,
[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:38:51] Like
[00:38:51] [SPEAKER_00]: used to have New York State,
[00:38:53] [SPEAKER_00]: used to have Maryland State,
[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_05]: used to have Massachusetts State,
[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah,
[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Massachusetts State,
[00:38:58] [SPEAKER_00]: New Hampshire ran a state tournament last year,
[00:39:00] [SPEAKER_00]: but that's just four,
[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:39:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And now you've got Michigan,
[00:39:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Ohio just did one for the first time in what,
[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Tom?
[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Fourteen years.
[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Twelve years.
[00:39:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Twelve years,
[00:39:08] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:39:10] [SPEAKER_00]: California has
[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_00]: a humongous player base.
[00:39:13] [SPEAKER_00]: They have like two dozen Masters,
[00:39:15] [SPEAKER_00]: no state tournament in Florida.
[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_02]: California.
[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Finally start,
[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah,
[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_00]: California.
[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Texas has Texas State,
[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_00]: which Texas could probably run,
[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_00]: they could probably run four majors a year just out of Texas.
[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Sure.
[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_00]: You know,
[00:39:29] [SPEAKER_00]: the Northwest is starting to do something now
[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and then we're not even touching Canada.
[00:39:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Like Toronto has such a huge base
[00:39:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and I know they're doing multi-table stuff all the time.
[00:39:39] So,
[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_00]: you know,
[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_00]: but again,
[00:39:40] [SPEAKER_00]: how do we get
[00:39:41] [SPEAKER_00]: the players to to Unify Unite and go,
[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_00]: okay,
[00:39:45] [SPEAKER_00]: we're going to build foosball from a grassroots level.
[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah,
[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_00]: like I think I don't mean interrupt a communication,
[00:39:51] [SPEAKER_01]: right?
[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I went to Florida State,
[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I go to Florida State and somebody says to me,
[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_01]: hey,
[00:39:57] [SPEAKER_01]: if you went senior,
[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_01]: did you qualify for
[00:40:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I know this is silly,
[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_01]: but this is what I was told.
[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_01]: You qualify for the World Cup.
[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Like really?
[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh,
[00:40:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to play.
[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I want to win seniors,
[00:40:09] [SPEAKER_01]: right?
[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_01]: And they're like,
[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_01]: oh no,
[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_01]: you don't qualify for the World Cup,
[00:40:13] [SPEAKER_01]: but you do have a chance to go to the World Series
[00:40:15] [SPEAKER_01]: or something somewhere
[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_01]: and then somebody goes,
[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_01]: no,
[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_01]: you don't.
[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like,
[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_01]: well,
[00:40:20] [SPEAKER_01]: what did you just say?
[00:40:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_01]: it's just,
[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm not saying that in a bad way like because I love
[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Donald and I know those guys work.
[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_01]: They try hard to do what they do,
[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_01]: but it's like I got so much misinformation.
[00:40:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I was in the World Cup and then I was able to go to the
[00:40:38] [SPEAKER_01]: World Series if who's ball is Spain or whatever and then
[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_01]: they're like,
[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_01]: no,
[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_01]: no,
[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_01]: no points.
[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to add somebody points on my who's right,
[00:40:45] [SPEAKER_01]: you know,
[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_01]: so that's kind of a what are you getting?
[00:40:50] [SPEAKER_05]: I think one important thing
[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_05]: that
[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_05]: so Randy,
[00:40:55] [SPEAKER_05]: you were talking earlier about like how do we get all
[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_05]: these paying members
[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_05]: as part of the USTS.
[00:41:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Oh,
[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_05]: we have to give the players something to pay for
[00:41:06] [SPEAKER_05]: that's that's an important thing and right right now
[00:41:08] [SPEAKER_05]: the big the big thing that players are paying for is
[00:41:11] [SPEAKER_05]: a chance to qualify for the World Championships and be
[00:41:13] [SPEAKER_05]: on the World Cup team.
[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_05]: That's
[00:41:16] [SPEAKER_05]: kind of been the only thing that I TSF has provided
[00:41:19] [SPEAKER_05]: in the past.
[00:41:21] [SPEAKER_05]: And so one of the reasons why I'm so excited for
[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_05]: I TSF doing more stuff in the US now
[00:41:28] [SPEAKER_05]: is is for that like showing players.
[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_05]: There's more than just the World Cup that we can
[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_05]: offer you and actually giving players tangible
[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_05]: benefits besides that.
[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_05]: And I think that's what we need to do as the
[00:41:41] [SPEAKER_05]: USTS as well.
[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_05]: Like what are tangible benefits
[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_05]: to being a TSO member?
[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_05]: And one thing I think
[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_05]: that the USTS though could offer is more avenues
[00:41:56] [SPEAKER_05]: for promoters to talk to each other.
[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[00:42:01] [SPEAKER_05]: Let's get started as a promoter to yeah, let's
[00:42:04] [SPEAKER_00]: just start with health insurance.
[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They could offer health insurance more players.
[00:42:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, medical players.
[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Well, maybe one day we could just start with a
[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_02]: calendar.
[00:42:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's look at the calendar together and say,
[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_02]: okay,
[00:42:20] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, let's just get that set up first and
[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_02]: then, you know, figure out, you know, how many
[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_02]: players are there to go around for all these
[00:42:28] [SPEAKER_02]: different events.
[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean we're running out of space at this point.
[00:42:32] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, I find that kind of funny because
[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm old as dirt.
[00:42:35] [SPEAKER_01]: So I've been around a long time and
[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I remember when there was two tournaments
[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_01]: a weekend somewhere almost year-round.
[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and it really didn't matter because
[00:42:44] [SPEAKER_01]: well, Idaho is not coming to Florida, you
[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_01]: know, but even if you have a tournament like
[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_01]: in Spokane, Washington and one in Tampa people
[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_01]: trip out like you're stepping on their toes.
[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_01]: The US is so big.
[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[00:42:59] [SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.
[00:43:00] [SPEAKER_02]: There's enough players.
[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's okay.
[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Take a deep breath.
[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_01]: There's an you know, it's a state term.
[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like you're having a, you know,
[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_01]: a world championships or whatever they call
[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_01]: it now.
[00:43:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's like calm down people, but
[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_01]: everybody tries to pack it in and that three
[00:43:14] [SPEAKER_01]: months of summer.
[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_01]: But the funny thing is like we go to turns
[00:43:19] [SPEAKER_01]: all the time that are like whenever, you
[00:43:21] [SPEAKER_01]: know, the start on Wednesday.
[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like this tour really started on Wednesday.
[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I remember when I came back somebody goes
[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_01]: yes starts on Wednesday and it's like seven
[00:43:29] [SPEAKER_01]: weeks from now and I'm like, oh what
[00:43:32] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm like in so my I don't know.
[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_01]: It's just funny how there just seems to
[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_01]: be so much like you were talking about
[00:43:40] [SPEAKER_01]: give them something to play for right.
[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I came back.
[00:43:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't care.
[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I come back.
[00:43:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I have fun.
[00:43:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I go you see me.
[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I play with you.
[00:43:47] [SPEAKER_01]: We have a blast.
[00:43:47] [SPEAKER_01]: We hang out usually find me in the bar,
[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_01]: you know having a few drinks whatever
[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_01]: having a good time and all of a sudden
[00:43:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I woke up and I go I just want to
[00:43:55] [SPEAKER_01]: play expert double.
[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They go that'll be $475.
[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_01]: You need to pay your $50 for this and
[00:44:02] [SPEAKER_01]: your $45 for a bowl and I'm like,
[00:44:06] [SPEAKER_01]: okay, now I'm paying all this.
[00:44:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, let me pay my once a year fee
[00:44:10] [SPEAKER_01]: to get back in just so I can hang out
[00:44:11] [SPEAKER_01]: with people and I'm like, what do I
[00:44:14] [SPEAKER_01]: get for this besides just showing up
[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_01]: to support your tournament?
[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll take it.
[00:44:17] [SPEAKER_01]: We'll take a kidney.
[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, you can do that.
[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:44:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it just gets to the point
[00:44:22] [SPEAKER_01]: where you're like what am I supporting
[00:44:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and Mary's like, oh, you're
[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_01]: supporting the future of the kids.
[00:44:27] [SPEAKER_01]: What if he's ball like where are they
[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_00]: where they're there at Sam's
[00:44:32] [SPEAKER_00]: rocket arcade playing?
[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know exactly learning
[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_01]: how to play their mother's basement
[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_01]: playing video games.
[00:44:38] [SPEAKER_00]: But they're getting but they're
[00:44:39] [SPEAKER_00]: getting eight teams of kids there,
[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So they're doing something there.
[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not just talking.
[00:44:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They're putting legs to it, which is
[00:44:46] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah, which is which is more than a
[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_00]: lot of lot of locations are doing right?
[00:44:51] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a guy in Florida last year's
[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Florida State Masters, whatever
[00:44:54] [SPEAKER_01]: they call it now Peter.
[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I could never say his last name.
[00:44:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Peter Peter Podessick or Peter.
[00:44:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that guy.
[00:44:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:45:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:45:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:45:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:45:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He brought like this guy is a
[00:45:04] [SPEAKER_01]: teacher and he brought like eight
[00:45:06] [SPEAKER_01]: teams of his own students there.
[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's getting done.
[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:45:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean that's getting it done.
[00:45:12] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not a guy just giving lip
[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_01]: service and $150 for something.
[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a guy who actually shows
[00:45:18] [SPEAKER_01]: up like 16 kids.
[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there you go.
[00:45:21] [SPEAKER_05]: That's like Mark Drouillet.
[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, Mark Drouillet in upstate
[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_05]: New York.
[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes brought a bunch of different
[00:45:26] [SPEAKER_05]: students to the Albany Smashdown
[00:45:28] [SPEAKER_05]: into the Canadian Championships
[00:45:32] [SPEAKER_05]: in Montreal as well.
[00:45:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_05]: So these people exist.
[00:45:36] [SPEAKER_01]: They're out there.
[00:45:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh they do.
[00:45:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, I know Michael
[00:45:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Stahl is working his rear end off
[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_01]: trying to get it done.
[00:45:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know that much
[00:45:42] [SPEAKER_01]: about what he does.
[00:45:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I just know that, you know,
[00:45:45] [SPEAKER_01]: he's trying but recently,
[00:45:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean if you're going to do it,
[00:45:48] [SPEAKER_01]: you got to love the game and
[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_01]: be a volunteer, you know,
[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, labor of love.
[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_01]: And even the guys you got to
[00:45:55] [SPEAKER_01]: find people that were he has
[00:45:57] [SPEAKER_01]: as a leader has to find people
[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_01]: willing to volunteer to help
[00:46:01] [SPEAKER_01]: because nobody's getting paid
[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_01]: for this job.
[00:46:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Just like, you know, and I
[00:46:05] [SPEAKER_01]: know Randy's too selfish.
[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_01]: He wouldn't do anything for
[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_01]: free.
[00:46:07] [SPEAKER_01]: You know what?
[00:46:08] [SPEAKER_01]: No way.
[00:46:09] [SPEAKER_01]: How about you, Kiar, would you?
[00:46:11] [SPEAKER_02]: I would if I were retired,
[00:46:14] [SPEAKER_02]: if I had time.
[00:46:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.
[00:46:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm working a 40 to 50
[00:46:20] [SPEAKER_02]: hour work week, but you know,
[00:46:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I certainly would if I had
[00:46:24] [SPEAKER_02]: the extra time.
[00:46:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely, man.
[00:46:26] [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, Kevin Scalcis,
[00:46:28] [SPEAKER_02]: who was there at the
[00:46:29] [SPEAKER_02]: smashdown yesterday,
[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_02]: he used to come down once
[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_02]: a year to our local college
[00:46:33] [SPEAKER_02]: called Hudson Valley Community
[00:46:35] [SPEAKER_02]: College and he would spend
[00:46:38] [SPEAKER_02]: two hours on campus giving
[00:46:40] [SPEAKER_02]: a clinic.
[00:46:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Doing his hair?
[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, stop.
[00:46:44] [SPEAKER_02]: He would do an actual
[00:46:46] [SPEAKER_02]: clinic and it was advertised
[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_02]: and publicized and he'd have
[00:46:50] [SPEAKER_02]: students show up who wanted to
[00:46:51] [SPEAKER_02]: learn how to play foosball
[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and he did it just because
[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_02]: he knew the provost on
[00:46:56] [SPEAKER_02]: campus.
[00:46:57] [SPEAKER_02]: But you know, and it's
[00:46:58] [SPEAKER_02]: something that we were
[00:46:59] [SPEAKER_02]: thinking we were just talking
[00:47:00] [SPEAKER_02]: about this yesterday.
[00:47:01] [SPEAKER_02]: If we get somebody like a
[00:47:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Sam Dejean to do that,
[00:47:04] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, once a year,
[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_02]: pay him a few bucks to show
[00:47:08] [SPEAKER_02]: up and just hang out and
[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_02]: teach a few people how to
[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_02]: play.
[00:47:11] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a start.
[00:47:13] [SPEAKER_01]: That's a little tiny
[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_02]: start.
[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if we could get a
[00:47:17] [SPEAKER_01]: foosball table.
[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like nobody wants to
[00:47:20] [SPEAKER_01]: see me show up.
[00:47:21] [SPEAKER_01]: No, me either.
[00:47:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody wants to see me
[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_00]: walk into the high school
[00:47:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and let me put a picture
[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_01]: of me up on the wall
[00:47:26] [SPEAKER_01]: so you can't ever come
[00:47:27] [SPEAKER_01]: back here.
[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_01]: What are you even doing
[00:47:28] [SPEAKER_01]: on campus?
[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_01]: You want to see a
[00:47:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Sam Dejean.
[00:47:31] [SPEAKER_01]: You want to see those
[00:47:32] [SPEAKER_01]: guys, those young guys
[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_01]: come in.
[00:47:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And everybody's got this
[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_01]: thing.
[00:47:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're going to send,
[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, a Michael
[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Stahl or whatever.
[00:47:39] [SPEAKER_01]: But now you can't send
[00:47:40] [SPEAKER_01]: you got to send
[00:47:41] [SPEAKER_01]: somebody that can at least
[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_01]: have some conversation
[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_01]: with these younger people.
[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, yeah.
[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[00:47:47] [SPEAKER_00]: No, and I would
[00:47:49] [SPEAKER_00]: totally volunteer.
[00:47:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean nothing makes
[00:47:51] [SPEAKER_00]: me feel better than
[00:47:52] [SPEAKER_00]: to beat on somebody
[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_00]: who knows nothing
[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_00]: about foosball.
[00:47:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Like it talks smack,
[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_00]: right?
[00:47:57] [SPEAKER_00]: You stuck.
[00:47:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Beat the fire out of them.
[00:48:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Totally break them.
[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Make sure they never
[00:48:01] [SPEAKER_00]: come back and play again.
[00:48:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's
[00:48:04] [SPEAKER_00]: like a Tampa.
[00:48:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like a Tampa
[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Friday night draw,
[00:48:07] [SPEAKER_01]: you know, like
[00:48:08] [SPEAKER_01]: why are you even here?
[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
[00:48:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I think you guys
[00:48:11] [SPEAKER_01]: wreck them.
[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So they're ruthless.
[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, honestly,
[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that one of
[00:48:15] [SPEAKER_01]: the biggest things
[00:48:16] [SPEAKER_01]: against foosball
[00:48:17] [SPEAKER_01]: is the guys who
[00:48:19] [SPEAKER_01]: draw somebody new
[00:48:20] [SPEAKER_01]: instead of being
[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_01]: nice to them
[00:48:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and try to teach
[00:48:23] [SPEAKER_01]: them something.
[00:48:24] [SPEAKER_01]: They beat them up.
[00:48:25] [SPEAKER_01]: They beat them up.
[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_05]: I think this is
[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_05]: another another thing
[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_05]: where USTSO
[00:48:29] [SPEAKER_05]: could be helpful.
[00:48:30] [SPEAKER_05]: Why?
[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_05]: There are several
[00:48:33] [SPEAKER_05]: different
[00:48:34] [SPEAKER_05]: areas around the US
[00:48:35] [SPEAKER_05]: that have successfully
[00:48:37] [SPEAKER_05]: created new beginner
[00:48:39] [SPEAKER_05]: scenes and just
[00:48:40] [SPEAKER_05]: having them.
[00:48:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Matt McCrory.
[00:48:42] [SPEAKER_05]: Having their information
[00:48:44] [SPEAKER_05]: somewhere in a central
[00:48:45] [SPEAKER_05]: place where people
[00:48:47] [SPEAKER_05]: who are interested in
[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_05]: in building out new
[00:48:49] [SPEAKER_05]: players in their area
[00:48:50] [SPEAKER_05]: can see.
[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah,
[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_05]: like that.
[00:48:52] [SPEAKER_05]: That would help a lot.
[00:48:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Here's a here's
[00:48:54] [SPEAKER_02]: a quick observation
[00:48:55] [SPEAKER_02]: just saying
[00:48:56] [SPEAKER_02]: at the ITSF World
[00:48:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Series in Dallas,
[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Texas,
[00:49:00] [SPEAKER_02]: the one
[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_02]: singles player that
[00:49:03] [SPEAKER_02]: stood out for the entire
[00:49:04] [SPEAKER_02]: weekend was not an American.
[00:49:06] [SPEAKER_02]: He was a 17 year old
[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Austrian.
[00:49:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Stefan,
[00:49:09] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't pronounce his last
[00:49:10] [SPEAKER_02]: name,
[00:49:11] [SPEAKER_02]: but he
[00:49:13] [SPEAKER_05]: Bermettler.
[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Bermettler.
[00:49:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay,
[00:49:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Stefan Bermettler.
[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_02]: He crushed
[00:49:18] [SPEAKER_02]: people like Ryan Moore
[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Brandon
[00:49:23] [SPEAKER_02]: and also stepped
[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_02]: on to,
[00:49:25] [SPEAKER_02]: you know,
[00:49:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Sammy.
[00:49:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
[00:49:28] [SPEAKER_02]: oh my goodness.
[00:49:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Now how does a
[00:49:30] [SPEAKER_02]: how does an Austrian
[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_02]: kid get to be
[00:49:33] [SPEAKER_02]: that good at the age of 17?
[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Any any
[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_02]: any ideas
[00:49:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Miriam?
[00:49:38] [SPEAKER_05]: They have a junior program
[00:49:39] [SPEAKER_05]: in his
[00:49:40] [SPEAKER_05]: in his hometown
[00:49:41] [SPEAKER_05]: of Pielatal
[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_05]: in Austria
[00:49:43] [SPEAKER_05]: and it's not
[00:49:44] [SPEAKER_05]: it's not a major city,
[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_05]: but there are a lot of
[00:49:46] [SPEAKER_05]: good younger players
[00:49:47] [SPEAKER_05]: who've come out of there
[00:49:48] [SPEAKER_05]: including his brother Daniel.
[00:49:50] [SPEAKER_05]: Daniel is a bit older
[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_05]: so he's not a junior
[00:49:52] [SPEAKER_05]: anymore,
[00:49:53] but
[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_05]: it's a similar story.
[00:49:56] [SPEAKER_05]: There are some other kids
[00:49:57] [SPEAKER_05]: and I'm just completely
[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_05]: spacing on their names
[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_05]: that are
[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_05]: that are from that area
[00:50:00] [SPEAKER_05]: as well.
[00:50:01] [SPEAKER_05]: So it's not just Stefan
[00:50:02] [SPEAKER_05]: like there's
[00:50:03] [SPEAKER_05]: a whole a whole set of
[00:50:05] [SPEAKER_05]: there's
[00:50:05] [SPEAKER_05]: they have a very
[00:50:06] [SPEAKER_05]: thriving scene.
[00:50:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[00:50:08] [SPEAKER_05]: And Thomas
[00:50:09] [SPEAKER_05]: Wagner has done a lot
[00:50:10] [SPEAKER_05]: of work in that area
[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_05]: like specifically
[00:50:12] [SPEAKER_05]: in Pielatal
[00:50:13] [SPEAKER_05]: with the junior program.
[00:50:16] [SPEAKER_05]: And yeah,
[00:50:17] [SPEAKER_05]: I like that's
[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_05]: something where
[00:50:18] [SPEAKER_05]: ITSF could step
[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_05]: in and be like
[00:50:20] [SPEAKER_05]: look this is
[00:50:21] [SPEAKER_05]: let's document
[00:50:22] [SPEAKER_05]: what Thomas Wagner
[00:50:23] [SPEAKER_05]: did and share it
[00:50:24] [SPEAKER_05]: with all these other
[00:50:25] [SPEAKER_05]: federations.
[00:50:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[00:50:27] [SPEAKER_05]: Translate it from
[00:50:27] [SPEAKER_05]: German to English
[00:50:28] [SPEAKER_05]: so people can understand.
[00:50:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean
[00:50:30] [SPEAKER_02]: it's not
[00:50:31] [SPEAKER_02]: it's not like
[00:50:32] [SPEAKER_02]: like an anomaly then.
[00:50:33] [SPEAKER_02]: So there's other kids
[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_02]: like that
[00:50:35] [SPEAKER_02]: that are
[00:50:36] [SPEAKER_02]: that are
[00:50:37] [SPEAKER_02]: when it come over here
[00:50:37] [SPEAKER_02]: and stomp on our
[00:50:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Pro Masters.
[00:50:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean really
[00:50:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:50:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I think Stefan
[00:50:43] is
[00:50:43] [SPEAKER_05]: exceptional.
[00:50:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, right.
[00:50:45] [SPEAKER_05]: I think his
[00:50:46] [SPEAKER_05]: his brother is also
[00:50:47] [SPEAKER_05]: his brother is
[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_05]: exceptional in a
[00:50:48] [SPEAKER_05]: different way
[00:50:49] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:50:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Daniel is
[00:50:51] [SPEAKER_05]: an exceptional
[00:50:52] [SPEAKER_05]: doubles goalie
[00:50:53] [SPEAKER_05]: whereas Stefan's
[00:50:55] [SPEAKER_05]: more exceptional
[00:50:55] [SPEAKER_05]: in singles.
[00:50:57] [SPEAKER_05]: But I think
[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_05]: maybe
[00:50:58] [SPEAKER_05]: five years from now
[00:50:59] [SPEAKER_05]: there might be another
[00:51:00] [SPEAKER_05]: kid that comes
[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_05]: out of that area
[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_05]: who's also
[00:51:02] [SPEAKER_05]: exceptional
[00:51:03] [SPEAKER_05]: in some way.
[00:51:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Well the thing that
[00:51:06] [SPEAKER_01]: people are talking
[00:51:06] [SPEAKER_01]: about is the fact
[00:51:07] [SPEAKER_01]: of the age.
[00:51:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean when I played
[00:51:10] [SPEAKER_01]: the average player
[00:51:12] [SPEAKER_01]: that played was
[00:51:13] [SPEAKER_01]: 19 maybe.
[00:51:15] [SPEAKER_01]: The average world champion
[00:51:16] [SPEAKER_01]: was 22 years old
[00:51:17] [SPEAKER_01]: at that time.
[00:51:18] [SPEAKER_01]: Now we're 75
[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_01]: you know.
[00:51:21] [SPEAKER_01]: When I was in
[00:51:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Dallas
[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like
[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_01]: wow, this is awesome.
[00:51:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I said
[00:51:26] [SPEAKER_01]: when I saw Tommy
[00:51:27] [SPEAKER_01]: playing the
[00:51:28] [SPEAKER_01]: young man
[00:51:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to
[00:51:29] [SPEAKER_01]: say the kid
[00:51:29] [SPEAKER_01]: but I
[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know
[00:51:30] [SPEAKER_01]: his name.
[00:51:31] [SPEAKER_01]: You guys
[00:51:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Stefan.
[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it's
[00:51:35] [SPEAKER_01]: all about.
[00:51:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Watching that
[00:51:36] [SPEAKER_01]: was that
[00:51:36] [SPEAKER_01]: was the future
[00:51:37] [SPEAKER_01]: that was
[00:51:38] [SPEAKER_01]: incredible watching
[00:51:39] [SPEAKER_01]: those two
[00:51:40] [SPEAKER_01]: young guys
[00:51:40] [SPEAKER_01]: go at it
[00:51:42] [SPEAKER_01]: and play
[00:51:43] [SPEAKER_01]: like that
[00:51:43] [SPEAKER_01]: instead of
[00:51:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean honestly
[00:51:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sick of
[00:51:46] [SPEAKER_01]: seeing Tony
[00:51:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and Ryan
[00:51:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and yada yada yada
[00:51:48] [SPEAKER_01]: in there
[00:51:48] [SPEAKER_01]: and they're
[00:51:49] [SPEAKER_01]: the best
[00:51:50] [SPEAKER_01]: but I've been
[00:51:50] [SPEAKER_01]: watching it
[00:51:51] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[00:51:52] [SPEAKER_01]: since I was
[00:51:52] [SPEAKER_01]: young
[00:51:53] [SPEAKER_01]: and that's a
[00:51:53] [SPEAKER_01]: long time ago
[00:51:54] [SPEAKER_01]: but basically
[00:51:55] [SPEAKER_01]: watching those
[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_01]: two guys
[00:51:57] [SPEAKER_01]: is like
[00:51:57] [SPEAKER_01]: what the future
[00:51:58] [SPEAKER_01]: is all about
[00:51:58] [SPEAKER_01]: a foosball.
[00:51:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean there's
[00:52:00] [SPEAKER_01]: actually hope
[00:52:00] [SPEAKER_01]: that young people
[00:52:01] [SPEAKER_01]: are going to come in
[00:52:02] [SPEAKER_01]: no matter what
[00:52:03] [SPEAKER_01]: country they're from.
[00:52:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[00:52:04] [SPEAKER_01]: And my opinion
[00:52:05] [SPEAKER_01]: those guys
[00:52:06] [SPEAKER_01]: from Germany
[00:52:07] [SPEAKER_01]: showed a lot of
[00:52:08] [SPEAKER_01]: people
[00:52:09] [SPEAKER_01]: because I was there
[00:52:10] [SPEAKER_01]: they showed a lot
[00:52:11] [SPEAKER_01]: of people
[00:52:12] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:52:12] [SPEAKER_01]: okay
[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_01]: you need to
[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_01]: get off your
[00:52:14] [SPEAKER_01]: rear end
[00:52:14] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[00:52:16] [SPEAKER_05]: those guys
[00:52:16] [SPEAKER_05]: are from
[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_05]: Austria
[00:52:18] [SPEAKER_05]: and actually
[00:52:18] [SPEAKER_05]: that's an
[00:52:19] [SPEAKER_05]: important
[00:52:19] [SPEAKER_05]: distinction
[00:52:20] [SPEAKER_05]: because
[00:52:22] [SPEAKER_05]: the table
[00:52:23] [SPEAKER_05]: that you start
[00:52:23] [SPEAKER_05]: on matters
[00:52:24] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot
[00:52:25] [SPEAKER_03]: like
[00:52:26] [SPEAKER_05]: the player
[00:52:26] [SPEAKER_05]: base in
[00:52:27] [SPEAKER_05]: Germany is
[00:52:28] [SPEAKER_05]: way bigger
[00:52:28] [SPEAKER_05]: than in
[00:52:29] [SPEAKER_05]: Austria
[00:52:29] [SPEAKER_05]: but
[00:52:30] [SPEAKER_05]: there's really
[00:52:31] [SPEAKER_05]: only
[00:52:32] [SPEAKER_05]: a couple of
[00:52:33] [SPEAKER_05]: players
[00:52:33] [SPEAKER_05]: who from
[00:52:34] [SPEAKER_05]: Germany
[00:52:34] [SPEAKER_05]: who've come
[00:52:34] [SPEAKER_05]: to the US
[00:52:35] [SPEAKER_05]: and made a
[00:52:36] [SPEAKER_05]: statement
[00:52:37] [SPEAKER_05]: despite
[00:52:38] [SPEAKER_05]: like being
[00:52:39] [SPEAKER_05]: 10 times
[00:52:40] [SPEAKER_05]: the size of
[00:52:41] [SPEAKER_05]: Austria
[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_05]: and I think
[00:52:43] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:52:43] [SPEAKER_05]: like the
[00:52:44] [SPEAKER_05]: Garlando
[00:52:44] [SPEAKER_05]: table
[00:52:45] [SPEAKER_05]: has helped
[00:52:46] [SPEAKER_05]: them
[00:52:47] [SPEAKER_05]: be great
[00:52:47] [SPEAKER_05]: players
[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_05]: on other
[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_05]: tables.
[00:52:49] [SPEAKER_05]: Interesting.
[00:52:49] [SPEAKER_05]: So I really
[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_05]: it's another
[00:52:52] [SPEAKER_05]: knock at
[00:52:52] [SPEAKER_05]: Leonhard
[00:52:52] [SPEAKER_05]: a little bit.
[00:52:55] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:52:55] [SPEAKER_05]: Leonhard is
[00:52:56] [SPEAKER_01]: great.
[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:52:58] [SPEAKER_05]: Leonhard is
[00:52:58] [SPEAKER_05]: great.
[00:52:59] [SPEAKER_01]: But they
[00:53:00] [SPEAKER_01]: actually had
[00:53:01] [SPEAKER_01]: square men
[00:53:01] [SPEAKER_01]: like Frankenstein
[00:53:02] [SPEAKER_01]: back then
[00:53:03] [SPEAKER_01]: but they were
[00:53:04] [SPEAKER_01]: basically the
[00:53:04] [SPEAKER_01]: same thing
[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_01]: little
[00:53:05] [SPEAKER_01]: small feet
[00:53:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and you
[00:53:07] [SPEAKER_01]: learned
[00:53:07] [SPEAKER_01]: how to
[00:53:08] [SPEAKER_01]: play on
[00:53:08] [SPEAKER_01]: that table
[00:53:08] [SPEAKER_01]: because you
[00:53:09] [SPEAKER_01]: had to
[00:53:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean it
[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_01]: was
[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean even
[00:53:11] [SPEAKER_01]: in a
[00:53:11] [SPEAKER_01]: small town
[00:53:12] [SPEAKER_01]: of Florida
[00:53:12] [SPEAKER_01]: we had
[00:53:13] [SPEAKER_01]: 10-12
[00:53:13] [SPEAKER_01]: different
[00:53:14] [SPEAKER_01]: types of
[00:53:14] [SPEAKER_01]: foosball
[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_01]: tables back
[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_01]: then
[00:53:15] [SPEAKER_01]: because
[00:53:16] [SPEAKER_01]: everybody
[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_01]: wanted
[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_01]: to build
[00:53:17] [SPEAKER_01]: a foosball
[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_01]: table
[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_01]: but to
[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_01]: play on
[00:53:19] [SPEAKER_01]: a
[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Garlando
[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_01]: it took
[00:53:21] [SPEAKER_01]: a lot
[00:53:21] [SPEAKER_01]: of skill
[00:53:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and it
[00:53:22] [SPEAKER_01]: was easier
[00:53:23] [SPEAKER_01]: to go
[00:53:23] [SPEAKER_01]: to other
[00:53:23] [SPEAKER_01]: tables
[00:53:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and adapt
[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_01]: to that
[00:53:26] [SPEAKER_01]: table
[00:53:26] [SPEAKER_01]: after
[00:53:26] [SPEAKER_01]: playing
[00:53:26] [SPEAKER_01]: on
[00:53:27] [SPEAKER_01]: on a
[00:53:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Garlando
[00:53:28] [SPEAKER_01]: table
[00:53:33] [SPEAKER_02]: We I think
[00:53:34] [SPEAKER_02]: that that
[00:53:35] [SPEAKER_02]: we can
[00:53:36] [SPEAKER_02]: certainly
[00:53:36] [SPEAKER_02]: go
[00:53:36] [SPEAKER_02]: round
[00:53:37] [SPEAKER_02]: around
[00:53:37] [SPEAKER_02]: about
[00:53:37] [SPEAKER_02]: how to
[00:53:38] [SPEAKER_02]: develop
[00:53:38] [SPEAKER_02]: a sport
[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_02]: and it
[00:53:39] [SPEAKER_02]: there is
[00:53:40] [SPEAKER_02]: there is
[00:53:40] [SPEAKER_02]: some
[00:53:40] [SPEAKER_02]: exciting
[00:53:41] [SPEAKER_02]: progress
[00:53:42] [SPEAKER_02]: taking
[00:53:42] [SPEAKER_02]: place
[00:53:43] [SPEAKER_02]: just just
[00:53:43] [SPEAKER_02]: chatting
[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_02]: with
[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Fareed
[00:53:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Lunas
[00:53:45] [SPEAKER_02]: for the
[00:53:46] [SPEAKER_02]: brief
[00:53:46] [SPEAKER_02]: period of
[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_02]: time
[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_02]: that
[00:53:47] [SPEAKER_02]: that I
[00:53:48] [SPEAKER_02]: did
[00:53:48] [SPEAKER_02]: in
[00:53:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Dallas
[00:53:50] [SPEAKER_02]: this guy
[00:53:50] [SPEAKER_02]: has got
[00:53:51] [SPEAKER_02]: some
[00:53:51] [SPEAKER_02]: motivation
[00:53:53] [SPEAKER_02]: by
[00:53:53] [SPEAKER_02]: the way
[00:53:54] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:53:55] [SPEAKER_02]: rig
[00:53:55] [SPEAKER_02]: there
[00:53:55] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:53:56] [SPEAKER_02]: media
[00:53:56] [SPEAKER_02]: that they
[00:53:57] [SPEAKER_02]: set up
[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_02]: for
[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_02]: for
[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_02]: and that
[00:53:58] [SPEAKER_02]: apparently
[00:53:59] [SPEAKER_02]: was their
[00:53:59] [SPEAKER_02]: small
[00:54:00] [SPEAKER_02]: version
[00:54:00] [SPEAKER_02]: of their
[00:54:01] [SPEAKER_02]: of their
[00:54:01] [SPEAKER_02]: stadium
[00:54:02] [SPEAKER_02]: or
[00:54:02] [SPEAKER_02]: their
[00:54:03] [SPEAKER_02]: their
[00:54:05] [SPEAKER_02]: their
[00:54:06] [SPEAKER_02]: pit
[00:54:06] [SPEAKER_02]: area
[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah
[00:54:08] [SPEAKER_02]: and I was
[00:54:09] [SPEAKER_02]: astounded though
[00:54:09] [SPEAKER_02]: they had
[00:54:10] [SPEAKER_02]: such
[00:54:10] [SPEAKER_02]: incredible
[00:54:11] [SPEAKER_02]: coverage
[00:54:11] [SPEAKER_02]: of each
[00:54:12] [SPEAKER_02]: table
[00:54:13] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[00:54:13] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:54:14] [SPEAKER_02]: the stream
[00:54:14] [SPEAKER_02]: was wonderful
[00:54:15] [SPEAKER_02]: was really
[00:54:16] [SPEAKER_02]: high quality
[00:54:18] [SPEAKER_02]: but they
[00:54:18] [SPEAKER_02]: spent a lot
[00:54:19] [SPEAKER_02]: of money
[00:54:19] [SPEAKER_02]: in fact
[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I was
[00:54:20] [SPEAKER_02]: speaking to
[00:54:21] [SPEAKER_02]: to
[00:54:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Julian
[00:54:21] [SPEAKER_02]: one of
[00:54:22] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:54:22] [SPEAKER_02]: one of
[00:54:23] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:54:23] [SPEAKER_02]: the text
[00:54:24] [SPEAKER_02]: there on
[00:54:25] [SPEAKER_02]: the on
[00:54:25] [SPEAKER_02]: the site
[00:54:25] [SPEAKER_02]: and he
[00:54:26] [SPEAKER_02]: gave me
[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_02]: a figure
[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_02]: it just
[00:54:27] [SPEAKER_02]: astounded
[00:54:28] [SPEAKER_02]: me I couldn't
[00:54:28] [SPEAKER_02]: believe how
[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_02]: much
[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_02]: money
[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_02]: they
[00:54:30] [SPEAKER_02]: they had
[00:54:30] [SPEAKER_02]: spent just
[00:54:31] [SPEAKER_02]: to bring
[00:54:31] [SPEAKER_02]: that rig
[00:54:31] [SPEAKER_02]: and set
[00:54:32] [SPEAKER_02]: it up
[00:54:33] [SPEAKER_02]: How does it
[00:54:34] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah
[00:54:34] [SPEAKER_02]: how does the
[00:54:35] [SPEAKER_02]: ITSF
[00:54:35] [SPEAKER_02]: manage
[00:54:36] [SPEAKER_02]: that
[00:54:37] [SPEAKER_05]: Well we
[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_05]: split the
[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_05]: cost
[00:54:39] [SPEAKER_05]: ITSF
[00:54:39] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[00:54:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Inside
[00:54:40] [SPEAKER_05]: Foods
[00:54:40] [SPEAKER_05]: split the
[00:54:41] [SPEAKER_05]: cost
[00:54:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay
[00:54:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Gotcha
[00:54:42] [SPEAKER_05]: and even
[00:54:43] [SPEAKER_05]: even so
[00:54:44] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean
[00:54:46] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:54:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Inside
[00:54:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Foods
[00:54:47] [SPEAKER_05]: we
[00:54:48] [SPEAKER_05]: we spent
[00:54:48] [SPEAKER_05]: probably
[00:54:49] [SPEAKER_05]: 25
[00:54:50] [SPEAKER_05]: grand
[00:54:51] [SPEAKER_05]: on that
[00:54:51] [SPEAKER_05]: tournament
[00:54:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes
[00:54:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I believe
[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_05]: it
[00:54:54] [SPEAKER_05]: and we
[00:54:55] [SPEAKER_05]: only
[00:54:55] [SPEAKER_05]: paid
[00:54:55] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_05]: half
[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_05]: of the
[00:54:56] [SPEAKER_05]: rig
[00:54:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah
[00:54:57] [SPEAKER_02]: right
[00:54:58] [SPEAKER_05]: Wow
[00:54:59] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah
[00:55:00] [SPEAKER_05]: the
[00:55:03] [SPEAKER_05]: two like
[00:55:03] [SPEAKER_05]: the
[00:55:04] [SPEAKER_05]: because some
[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_05]: of our
[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_05]: costs
[00:55:05] [SPEAKER_05]: were
[00:55:06] [SPEAKER_05]: travel
[00:55:06] [SPEAKER_05]: costs
[00:55:07] [SPEAKER_05]: but they
[00:55:07] [SPEAKER_05]: put in
[00:55:08] [SPEAKER_05]: probably a
[00:55:09] [SPEAKER_05]: similar
[00:55:09] [SPEAKER_05]: amount
[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_05]: between all
[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_05]: the people
[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_05]: who
[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_05]: traveled
[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_05]: from
[00:55:11] [SPEAKER_05]: Europe
[00:55:12] [SPEAKER_05]: to be
[00:55:12] [SPEAKER_05]: there
[00:55:12] [SPEAKER_05]: and the
[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_05]: it's all
[00:55:13] [SPEAKER_05]: that all
[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_05]: the
[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_05]: travel
[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_05]: cost
[00:55:14] [SPEAKER_05]: plus
[00:55:15] [SPEAKER_05]: plus the
[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_05]: rig
[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_05]: and everything
[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_05]: else
[00:55:16] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_05]: probably
[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_05]: a similar
[00:55:17] [SPEAKER_05]: amount
[00:55:19] [SPEAKER_05]: so these
[00:55:20] [SPEAKER_05]: things
[00:55:20] [SPEAKER_05]: are
[00:55:20] [SPEAKER_05]: not
[00:55:21] [SPEAKER_05]: cheap
[00:55:21] [SPEAKER_05]: and I
[00:55:22] [SPEAKER_05]: do
[00:55:22] [SPEAKER_05]: think
[00:55:22] [SPEAKER_05]: that
[00:55:22] [SPEAKER_05]: that's
[00:55:23] [SPEAKER_05]: the best
[00:55:23] [SPEAKER_05]: production
[00:55:23] [SPEAKER_05]: we've
[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_05]: ever
[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_05]: done
[00:55:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh
[00:55:25] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:55:25] [SPEAKER_05]: that's
[00:55:25] [SPEAKER_05]: the best
[00:55:25] [SPEAKER_05]: production
[00:55:26] [SPEAKER_05]: we've
[00:55:26] [SPEAKER_05]: ever
[00:55:26] [SPEAKER_05]: had
[00:55:26] [SPEAKER_05]: at
[00:55:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Foosball
[00:55:27] [SPEAKER_00]: It was
[00:55:33] [SPEAKER_00]: wonderful
[00:55:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:55:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, here's my
[00:55:35] [SPEAKER_01]: question
[00:55:36] [SPEAKER_01]: because I heard
[00:55:36] [SPEAKER_01]: there may
[00:55:37] [SPEAKER_01]: be like
[00:55:37] [SPEAKER_01]: five
[00:55:38] [SPEAKER_01]: more
[00:55:39] [SPEAKER_01]: those
[00:55:39] [SPEAKER_01]: over
[00:55:40] [SPEAKER_01]: time
[00:55:40] [SPEAKER_01]: in
[00:55:41] [SPEAKER_01]: America
[00:55:43] [SPEAKER_01]: and
[00:55:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't
[00:55:44] [SPEAKER_01]: know
[00:55:44] [SPEAKER_01]: if that's
[00:55:44] [SPEAKER_01]: true
[00:55:44] [SPEAKER_01]: or not
[00:55:45] [SPEAKER_01]: but
[00:55:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I guess
[00:55:45] [SPEAKER_01]: you
[00:55:46] [SPEAKER_01]: could
[00:55:46] [SPEAKER_01]: tell me
[00:55:47] [SPEAKER_01]: is
[00:55:47] [SPEAKER_01]: that
[00:55:48] [SPEAKER_01]: true?
[00:55:49] [SPEAKER_05]: We'll
[00:55:50] [SPEAKER_05]: see
[00:55:51] [SPEAKER_01]: poker face
[00:55:52] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[00:55:53] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:55:53] [SPEAKER_01]: what up
[00:55:54] [SPEAKER_01]: what up
[00:55:54] [SPEAKER_01]: we need
[00:55:54] [SPEAKER_01]: don't tell
[00:55:55] [SPEAKER_01]: this way
[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_01]: the
[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_01]: first
[00:55:56] [SPEAKER_01]: one
[00:55:57] [SPEAKER_01]: they
[00:55:57] [SPEAKER_01]: had
[00:55:58] [SPEAKER_01]: did it
[00:55:59] [SPEAKER_01]: show
[00:55:59] [SPEAKER_01]: them
[00:55:59] [SPEAKER_01]: enough
[00:55:59] [SPEAKER_01]: at least
[00:56:01] [SPEAKER_01]: bring
[00:56:01] [SPEAKER_01]: some
[00:56:01] [SPEAKER_01]: excitement
[00:56:02] [SPEAKER_01]: to
[00:56:02] [SPEAKER_01]: do
[00:56:02] [SPEAKER_01]: more
[00:56:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I think
[00:56:06] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[00:56:06] [SPEAKER_05]: thinking
[00:56:07] [SPEAKER_05]: about
[00:56:08] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:56:08] [SPEAKER_05]: how
[00:56:08] [SPEAKER_05]: much
[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_05]: work
[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_05]: went into
[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_05]: the
[00:56:09] [SPEAKER_05]: World
[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_05]: Series
[00:56:10] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:56:11] [SPEAKER_05]: we need
[00:56:11] [SPEAKER_05]: we need
[00:56:12] [SPEAKER_05]: more
[00:56:12] [SPEAKER_05]: than one
[00:56:13] [SPEAKER_05]: promoter
[00:56:13] [SPEAKER_05]: who's
[00:56:14] [SPEAKER_05]: willing
[00:56:14] [SPEAKER_05]: to run
[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_05]: each
[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_05]: one
[00:56:15] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:56:16] [SPEAKER_05]: one
[00:56:16] [SPEAKER_05]: promoter
[00:56:16] [SPEAKER_05]: can't
[00:56:17] [SPEAKER_05]: do
[00:56:17] [SPEAKER_05]: each
[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_05]: of those
[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_05]: can't
[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_05]: do
[00:56:19] [SPEAKER_05]: five
[00:56:19] [SPEAKER_05]: we need
[00:56:19] [SPEAKER_05]: five
[00:56:20] [SPEAKER_05]: different
[00:56:20] [SPEAKER_05]: people
[00:56:21] [SPEAKER_05]: who
[00:56:21] [SPEAKER_05]: are
[00:56:21] [SPEAKER_05]: focused
[00:56:22] [SPEAKER_05]: on
[00:56:22] [SPEAKER_05]: it
[00:56:24] [SPEAKER_05]: but
[00:56:24] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:56:25] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:56:25] [SPEAKER_05]: possible
[00:56:26] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't
[00:56:27] [SPEAKER_04]: think
[00:56:27] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_05]: gonna
[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_05]: happen
[00:56:28] [SPEAKER_05]: in the
[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_05]: next
[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_05]: year
[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_05]: but
[00:56:29] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_05]: possible
[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_05]: to get
[00:56:30] [SPEAKER_05]: there
[00:56:31] [SPEAKER_05]: in a
[00:56:31] [SPEAKER_05]: few
[00:56:31] [SPEAKER_05]: years
[00:56:31] [SPEAKER_02]: build up
[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_02]: to
[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_02]: that level
[00:56:33] [SPEAKER_01]: personally,
[00:56:33] [SPEAKER_01]: the thing
[00:56:34] [SPEAKER_01]: that got
[00:56:34] [SPEAKER_01]: me was
[00:56:35] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:56:35] [SPEAKER_01]: there wasn't
[00:56:36] [SPEAKER_01]: really a
[00:56:36] [SPEAKER_01]: lot of
[00:56:37] [SPEAKER_01]: information
[00:56:37] [SPEAKER_01]: because it
[00:56:38] [SPEAKER_01]: happened
[00:56:38] [SPEAKER_01]: so
[00:56:38] [SPEAKER_01]: fast
[00:56:38] [SPEAKER_01]: do you
[00:56:39] [SPEAKER_01]: think
[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm
[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_01]: not saying
[00:56:40] [SPEAKER_01]: that's
[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_01]: your
[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_01]: fault
[00:56:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm
[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_01]: not
[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't
[00:56:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just
[00:56:43] [SPEAKER_01]: saying
[00:56:43] [SPEAKER_01]: for
[00:56:43] [SPEAKER_01]: me
[00:56:44] [SPEAKER_01]: personally
[00:56:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought
[00:56:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I was going
[00:56:46] [SPEAKER_01]: to
[00:56:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Texas
[00:56:46] [SPEAKER_01]: State
[00:56:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and somebody
[00:56:47] [SPEAKER_01]: said
[00:56:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll
[00:56:48] [SPEAKER_01]: know
[00:56:48] [SPEAKER_01]: it's
[00:56:48] [SPEAKER_01]: the
[00:56:48] [SPEAKER_01]: World
[00:56:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Series
[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm
[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:56:51] [SPEAKER_01]: great
[00:56:51] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[00:56:52] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean
[00:56:52] [SPEAKER_05]: I'll be
[00:56:52] [SPEAKER_05]: the
[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_05]: first
[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_05]: one
[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_05]: to
[00:56:53] [SPEAKER_05]: to
[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_05]: say
[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_05]: that we
[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_05]: did
[00:56:54] [SPEAKER_05]: an
[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_05]: abysmal
[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_05]: job
[00:56:56] [SPEAKER_05]: marketing
[00:56:57] [SPEAKER_05]: on
[00:56:58] [SPEAKER_05]: multiple
[00:56:58] [SPEAKER_05]: fronts
[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:56:59] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:57:01] [SPEAKER_05]: I T S F
[00:57:01] [SPEAKER_05]: was
[00:57:01] [SPEAKER_05]: posting
[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot
[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_05]: of
[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_05]: information
[00:57:02] [SPEAKER_05]: but a
[00:57:03] [SPEAKER_05]: lot of
[00:57:03] [SPEAKER_05]: Americans
[00:57:04] [SPEAKER_05]: don't
[00:57:04] [SPEAKER_05]: follow
[00:57:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I T S F
[00:57:06] [SPEAKER_03]: and
[00:57:06] [SPEAKER_05]: there
[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_05]: was a
[00:57:07] [SPEAKER_05]: bit
[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_05]: of
[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_05]: confusion
[00:57:09] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:57:09] [SPEAKER_05]: on like
[00:57:09] [SPEAKER_05]: who
[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_05]: owned
[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_05]: the
[00:57:10] [SPEAKER_05]: communication
[00:57:12] [SPEAKER_05]: so
[00:57:12] [SPEAKER_05]: some
[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_05]: some of
[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_05]: it was
[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_05]: on
[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_05]: US T S O
[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_05]: some of
[00:57:14] [SPEAKER_05]: it was
[00:57:15] [SPEAKER_05]: on
[00:57:15] [SPEAKER_05]: inside
[00:57:15] [SPEAKER_05]: foos
[00:57:17] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_05]: we could
[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_05]: have
[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_05]: we could
[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_05]: have
[00:57:18] [SPEAKER_05]: done
[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_05]: much
[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_05]: better
[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_05]: with that
[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_05]: we know
[00:57:20] [SPEAKER_05]: it
[00:57:20] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[00:57:20] [SPEAKER_05]: it was
[00:57:21] [SPEAKER_05]: also
[00:57:21] [SPEAKER_05]: announced
[00:57:22] [SPEAKER_05]: light
[00:57:22] [SPEAKER_05]: on top
[00:57:22] [SPEAKER_05]: of that
[00:57:26] [SPEAKER_05]: the main
[00:57:26] [SPEAKER_05]: problem was
[00:57:27] [SPEAKER_05]: probably that
[00:57:27] [SPEAKER_05]: it was
[00:57:27] [SPEAKER_05]: announced
[00:57:28] [SPEAKER_05]: late
[00:57:28] [SPEAKER_05]: and that
[00:57:28] [SPEAKER_05]: was kind
[00:57:29] [SPEAKER_05]: of strategic
[00:57:30] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[00:57:32] read
[00:57:32] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[00:57:33] [SPEAKER_05]: read
[00:57:33] [SPEAKER_05]: was
[00:57:33] [SPEAKER_05]: basically
[00:57:34] [SPEAKER_05]: had the
[00:57:34] [SPEAKER_05]: mindset
[00:57:34] [SPEAKER_05]: of like
[00:57:35] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:57:36] [SPEAKER_05]: better
[00:57:36] [SPEAKER_05]: to do
[00:57:36] [SPEAKER_05]: it this
[00:57:37] [SPEAKER_05]: year
[00:57:37] [SPEAKER_05]: even
[00:57:38] [SPEAKER_05]: if
[00:57:39] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:57:39] [SPEAKER_05]: not
[00:57:39] [SPEAKER_05]: perfect
[00:57:40] [SPEAKER_05]: right even
[00:57:40] [SPEAKER_05]: if
[00:57:41] [SPEAKER_05]: we
[00:57:41] [SPEAKER_05]: we have
[00:57:42] [SPEAKER_05]: this
[00:57:42] [SPEAKER_05]: if
[00:57:42] [SPEAKER_05]: we can
[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_05]: do
[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_05]: it this
[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_05]: year
[00:57:43] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_05]: better
[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_05]: to do
[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_05]: it this
[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_05]: year
[00:57:44] [SPEAKER_05]: than
[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_05]: not
[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_05]: do
[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_05]: it even
[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_05]: if
[00:57:45] [SPEAKER_05]: it means
[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_05]: we're
[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_05]: not
[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_05]: going
[00:57:47] [SPEAKER_05]: to have
[00:57:48] [SPEAKER_05]: as many
[00:57:48] [SPEAKER_05]: players
[00:57:48] [SPEAKER_04]: yeah
[00:57:49] [SPEAKER_05]: that's
[00:57:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not
[00:57:57] [SPEAKER_01]: the tournament
[00:57:58] [SPEAKER_01]: itself
[00:57:58] [SPEAKER_01]: you would
[00:57:58] [SPEAKER_01]: have never
[00:57:59] [SPEAKER_01]: known
[00:58:00] [SPEAKER_01]: that there
[00:58:00] [SPEAKER_01]: was all
[00:58:01] [SPEAKER_01]: this confusion
[00:58:01] [SPEAKER_01]: going on
[00:58:02] [SPEAKER_04]: no not
[00:58:03] [SPEAKER_01]: all
[00:58:03] [SPEAKER_01]: great time
[00:58:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I thought
[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_01]: the
[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_01]: tournament
[00:58:04] [SPEAKER_01]: was
[00:58:05] [SPEAKER_01]: ran
[00:58:05] [SPEAKER_01]: great
[00:58:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I
[00:58:06] [SPEAKER_01]: enjoyed
[00:58:06] [SPEAKER_01]: it I
[00:58:06] [SPEAKER_01]: enjoyed
[00:58:07] [SPEAKER_01]: even
[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_01]: in my
[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_01]: room
[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_01]: just
[00:58:09] [SPEAKER_01]: watching
[00:58:09] [SPEAKER_01]: matches
[00:58:09] [SPEAKER_01]: on
[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_01]: my
[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_01]: phone
[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_01]: when I
[00:58:10] [SPEAKER_01]: wasn't
[00:58:11] [SPEAKER_01]: down
[00:58:11] [SPEAKER_01]: there
[00:58:11] [SPEAKER_01]: you always
[00:58:12] [SPEAKER_01]: knew
[00:58:12] [SPEAKER_01]: what was
[00:58:12] [SPEAKER_01]: going
[00:58:13] [SPEAKER_01]: on
[00:58:13] [SPEAKER_01]: so
[00:58:13] [SPEAKER_01]: all
[00:58:14] [SPEAKER_01]: that
[00:58:14] [SPEAKER_01]: to me
[00:58:14] [SPEAKER_01]: was
[00:58:14] [SPEAKER_01]: incredible
[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_01]: but
[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_01]: you
[00:58:16] [SPEAKER_01]: know
[00:58:17] [SPEAKER_01]: it's
[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_01]: you
[00:58:18] [SPEAKER_01]: know
[00:58:19] [SPEAKER_01]: people
[00:58:19] [SPEAKER_01]: are so
[00:58:19] [SPEAKER_05]: important
[00:58:20] [SPEAKER_05]: to learn
[00:58:20] [SPEAKER_05]: from
[00:58:20] [SPEAKER_05]: mistakes
[00:58:21] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[00:58:22] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[00:58:22] [SPEAKER_05]: oh you
[00:58:22] [SPEAKER_05]: have to
[00:58:22] [SPEAKER_00]: if it
[00:58:23] [SPEAKER_00]: wasn't
[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_00]: my
[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_00]: 10th
[00:58:24] [SPEAKER_00]: anniversary
[00:58:25] [SPEAKER_00]: out of
[00:58:25] [SPEAKER_00]: it there
[00:58:25] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[00:58:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:58:26] [SPEAKER_00]: like
[00:58:26] [SPEAKER_00]: you're
[00:58:27] [SPEAKER_00]: saying
[00:58:27] [SPEAKER_00]: it's
[00:58:27] [SPEAKER_00]: better
[00:58:27] [SPEAKER_00]: to do
[00:58:28] [SPEAKER_00]: it
[00:58:28] [SPEAKER_00]: well we
[00:58:28] [SPEAKER_00]: don't
[00:58:29] [SPEAKER_00]: know
[00:58:29] [SPEAKER_00]: what
[00:58:29] [SPEAKER_00]: the
[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: future
[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: holds
[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[00:58:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean
[00:58:32] [SPEAKER_00]: it's
[00:58:33] [SPEAKER_00]: it's
[00:58:33] [SPEAKER_00]: probably
[00:58:33] [SPEAKER_00]: definitely
[00:58:33] [SPEAKER_00]: better
[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_00]: that
[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_00]: they
[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_00]: did
[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_00]: it
[00:58:34] [SPEAKER_02]: it seems
[00:58:35] [SPEAKER_02]: doing
[00:58:35] [SPEAKER_00]: it the
[00:58:36] [SPEAKER_00]: way
[00:58:36] [SPEAKER_00]: they
[00:58:36] [SPEAKER_00]: did
[00:58:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:58:36] [SPEAKER_00]: learning
[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: from
[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: their
[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: mistakes
[00:58:38] [SPEAKER_00]: just
[00:58:38] [SPEAKER_00]: improve
[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_00]: for
[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_00]: the next
[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_00]: one
[00:58:39] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[00:58:40] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[00:58:40] [SPEAKER_02]: to do
[00:58:40] [SPEAKER_02]: at least
[00:58:41] [SPEAKER_02]: one
[00:58:41] [SPEAKER_02]: a year
[00:58:42] [SPEAKER_02]: to me
[00:58:42] [SPEAKER_02]: that would
[00:58:43] [SPEAKER_02]: be
[00:58:43] [SPEAKER_02]: that I
[00:58:44] [SPEAKER_02]: would look
[00:58:44] [SPEAKER_02]: forward
[00:58:44] [SPEAKER_02]: to that
[00:58:45] [SPEAKER_02]: because
[00:58:45] [SPEAKER_02]: it is
[00:58:46] [SPEAKER_02]: so
[00:58:46] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[00:58:47] [SPEAKER_02]: maybe
[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_02]: pick a
[00:58:48] [SPEAKER_02]: different
[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_02]: part of
[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_02]: the country
[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_02]: this time
[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_02]: it was
[00:58:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Texas
[00:58:51] [SPEAKER_02]: maybe
[00:58:51] [SPEAKER_02]: go
[00:58:51] [SPEAKER_02]: for
[00:58:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Colorado
[00:58:52] [SPEAKER_02]: next
[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_02]: time
[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_02]: or
[00:58:53] [SPEAKER_02]: maybe
[00:58:54] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:58:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Northwest
[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_02]: or
[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_02]: even
[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_02]: the
[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_02]: North
[00:58:56] [SPEAKER_02]: the Northeast
[00:58:56] [SPEAKER_02]: that
[00:58:57] [SPEAKER_02]: would
[00:58:57] [SPEAKER_02]: be
[00:58:57] [SPEAKER_02]: nice
[00:58:58] [SPEAKER_02]: just
[00:58:58] [SPEAKER_02]: saying
[00:58:59] [SPEAKER_02]: but
[00:58:59] [SPEAKER_02]: no
[00:58:59] [SPEAKER_02]: it's
[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_02]: it
[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Louisiana
[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[00:59:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Louisiana
[00:59:03] [SPEAKER_02]: so
[00:59:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Atlanta
[00:59:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Atlanta
[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: is a
[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: big
[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: hub
[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[00:59:06] [SPEAKER_00]: if
[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_05]: Atlanta
[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_05]: is a
[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_05]: big
[00:59:07] [SPEAKER_05]: hub
[00:59:08] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[00:59:08] [SPEAKER_05]: true
[00:59:08] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[00:59:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:59:09] [SPEAKER_00]: there's
[00:59:09] [SPEAKER_00]: a
[00:59:09] [SPEAKER_00]: huge
[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: base
[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: there
[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:59:16] [SPEAKER_00]: it is
[00:59:17] [SPEAKER_00]: next time
[00:59:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I want to
[00:59:18] [SPEAKER_00]: be there
[00:59:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I definitely
[00:59:19] [SPEAKER_00]: want to
[00:59:19] [SPEAKER_00]: because
[00:59:20] [SPEAKER_00]: seeing
[00:59:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the
[00:59:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the production
[00:59:22] [SPEAKER_00]: value
[00:59:22] [SPEAKER_00]: and then
[00:59:23] [SPEAKER_00]: the level
[00:59:23] [SPEAKER_00]: of competition
[00:59:25] [SPEAKER_00]: the international
[00:59:26] [SPEAKER_00]: level
[00:59:26] [SPEAKER_00]: of competition
[00:59:27] [SPEAKER_00]: not
[00:59:27] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_00]: our
[00:59:29] [SPEAKER_00]: players
[00:59:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[00:59:31] [SPEAKER_00]: then
[00:59:32] [SPEAKER_00]: the way
[00:59:32] [SPEAKER_00]: they did
[00:59:32] [SPEAKER_00]: it the
[00:59:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Swiss system
[00:59:33] [SPEAKER_00]: one event
[00:59:34] [SPEAKER_00]: a day
[00:59:34] [SPEAKER_00]: like I
[00:59:35] [SPEAKER_00]: for
[00:59:36] [SPEAKER_00]: for a guy
[00:59:36] [SPEAKER_00]: like me
[00:59:36] [SPEAKER_00]: that's
[00:59:37] [SPEAKER_00]: perfect
[00:59:37] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I just
[00:59:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I only
[00:59:39] [SPEAKER_00]: have to
[00:59:39] [SPEAKER_00]: focus on
[00:59:40] [SPEAKER_00]: this event
[00:59:40] [SPEAKER_00]: today
[00:59:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I can
[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_00]: play my
[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_00]: best
[00:59:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and then
[00:59:42] [SPEAKER_00]: when it's
[00:59:42] [SPEAKER_00]: done
[00:59:42] [SPEAKER_00]: I can
[00:59:43] [SPEAKER_00]: just go
[00:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: to my
[00:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: room and
[00:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: relax
[00:59:44] [SPEAKER_00]: 1030
[00:59:45] [SPEAKER_02]: at night
[00:59:46] [SPEAKER_02]: you can go to
[00:59:46] [SPEAKER_02]: bed
[00:59:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Randy how
[00:59:47] [SPEAKER_02]: about that
[00:59:47] [SPEAKER_02]: man
[00:59:48] [SPEAKER_00]: listen for
[00:59:49] [SPEAKER_00]: me that's
[00:59:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm
[00:59:51] [SPEAKER_00]: look
[00:59:51] [SPEAKER_00]: nine
[00:59:51] [SPEAKER_00]: nine
[00:59:52] [SPEAKER_00]: o'clock
[00:59:53] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm
[00:59:54] up
[00:59:54] [SPEAKER_03]: so
[00:59:55] [SPEAKER_00]: that's
[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that's
[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: good
[00:59:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that's
[00:59:57] [SPEAKER_00]: perfect
[00:59:57] [SPEAKER_00]: that's
[00:59:58] [SPEAKER_00]: perfect
[00:59:58] [SPEAKER_00]: let's
[00:59:58] [SPEAKER_00]: go
[00:59:59] [SPEAKER_00]: do it
[01:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: tomorrow
[01:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be there
[01:00:01] [SPEAKER_00]: not tomorrow
[01:00:02] [SPEAKER_05]: and we had a lunch break
[01:00:03] [SPEAKER_05]: every day too
[01:00:04] [SPEAKER_05]: so you actually
[01:00:05] [SPEAKER_05]: have time
[01:00:05] [SPEAKER_05]: to eat
[01:00:06] [SPEAKER_00]: that's what I mean
[01:00:07] [SPEAKER_00]: what a concept
[01:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: hey
[01:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: hey
[01:00:10] [SPEAKER_00]: hey
[01:00:10] [SPEAKER_00]: hey tournament
[01:00:11] [SPEAKER_00]: director
[01:00:11] [SPEAKER_00]: do I have
[01:00:12] [SPEAKER_00]: time to go
[01:00:12] [SPEAKER_00]: get some food
[01:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: because I have
[01:00:13] [SPEAKER_00]: to eat
[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and I've been
[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_00]: playing
[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_00]: like eight
[01:00:15] [SPEAKER_00]: matches in
[01:00:16] [SPEAKER_00]: a row you
[01:00:16] [SPEAKER_00]: better hurry
[01:00:16] [SPEAKER_00]: up I don't
[01:00:17] [SPEAKER_00]: want to put
[01:00:17] [SPEAKER_00]: you on
[01:00:18] [SPEAKER_00]: recall
[01:00:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[01:00:19] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:00:20] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:00:21] [SPEAKER_00]: it's
[01:00:22] [SPEAKER_00]: it's
[01:00:22] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:00:23] [SPEAKER_00]: well
[01:00:23] [SPEAKER_00]: it is
[01:00:23] [SPEAKER_00]: what it
[01:00:24] [SPEAKER_02]: is it is
[01:00:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I have
[01:00:26] [SPEAKER_02]: to ask
[01:00:27] [SPEAKER_02]: this question
[01:00:27] [SPEAKER_02]: too
[01:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: because
[01:00:28] [SPEAKER_02]: you've
[01:00:29] [SPEAKER_02]: been involved
[01:00:29] [SPEAKER_02]: with
[01:00:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Inside Foods
[01:00:30] [SPEAKER_02]: for quite
[01:00:30] [SPEAKER_02]: some time
[01:00:31] [SPEAKER_02]: how are
[01:00:32] [SPEAKER_02]: things
[01:00:33] [SPEAKER_02]: going there
[01:00:33] [SPEAKER_02]: what's
[01:00:34] [SPEAKER_02]: what's
[01:00:34] [SPEAKER_02]: the future
[01:00:35] [SPEAKER_02]: of inside
[01:00:35] [SPEAKER_02]: foods
[01:00:35] [SPEAKER_02]: look like
[01:00:38] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah I
[01:00:39] [SPEAKER_05]: feel like
[01:00:39] [SPEAKER_05]: we
[01:00:40] [SPEAKER_05]: we ask
[01:00:40] [SPEAKER_05]: ourselves
[01:00:41] [SPEAKER_05]: that every
[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_05]: three
[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_05]: months
[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_05]: like it's
[01:00:43] [SPEAKER_05]: still very
[01:00:43] [SPEAKER_03]: much
[01:00:45] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[01:00:45] [SPEAKER_05]: still very
[01:00:46] [SPEAKER_05]: much
[01:00:47] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:00:50] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[01:00:50] [SPEAKER_05]: hard to plan
[01:00:51] [SPEAKER_05]: ahead
[01:00:52] [SPEAKER_05]: because
[01:00:53] [SPEAKER_05]: we
[01:00:55] [SPEAKER_05]: there are
[01:00:55] [SPEAKER_05]: all these
[01:00:56] [SPEAKER_05]: good things
[01:00:56] [SPEAKER_05]: right we have
[01:00:57] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot of
[01:00:57] [SPEAKER_05]: support from
[01:00:58] [SPEAKER_05]: players we have
[01:01:00] [SPEAKER_05]: a good
[01:01:00] [SPEAKER_05]: relationship with
[01:01:01] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot of promoters
[01:01:02] [SPEAKER_05]: and we have
[01:01:04] [SPEAKER_05]: some things
[01:01:04] [SPEAKER_05]: down pat like
[01:01:06] [SPEAKER_05]: we we have
[01:01:07] [SPEAKER_05]: our equipment
[01:01:08] [SPEAKER_05]: that travels
[01:01:09] [SPEAKER_05]: we've got
[01:01:10] [SPEAKER_05]: some good
[01:01:11] [SPEAKER_05]: people who know
[01:01:11] [SPEAKER_05]: how to
[01:01:12] [SPEAKER_05]: know how to run
[01:01:12] [SPEAKER_05]: their equipment
[01:01:14] [SPEAKER_05]: but there's
[01:01:15] [SPEAKER_05]: always stuff that goes
[01:01:16] [SPEAKER_05]: wrong
[01:01:16] [SPEAKER_04]: too
[01:01:17] [SPEAKER_05]: so things like I think back to
[01:01:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Ohio State for example
[01:01:21] [SPEAKER_05]: one of our laptops
[01:01:22] [SPEAKER_05]: died in the middle
[01:01:23] [SPEAKER_05]: like just before the
[01:01:26] [SPEAKER_05]: open single
[01:01:26] [SPEAKER_05]: semi-final
[01:01:27] [SPEAKER_02]: ouch
[01:01:28] [SPEAKER_05]: and like these things happen all the time
[01:01:30] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:01:30] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[01:01:31] [SPEAKER_05]: so it's all
[01:01:32] [SPEAKER_05]: it's chaotic
[01:01:35] [SPEAKER_05]: and the other thing
[01:01:36] [SPEAKER_05]: like y'all were talking about earlier
[01:01:38] [SPEAKER_05]: there's not a lot of money in this right
[01:01:39] [SPEAKER_05]: like I've never
[01:01:40] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm I'm a
[01:01:42] [SPEAKER_05]: board member
[01:01:43] [SPEAKER_05]: I've invested in it
[01:01:44] [SPEAKER_05]: and I have never received any income
[01:01:47] [SPEAKER_05]: from inside foods
[01:01:49] [SPEAKER_05]: and so a lot of it is
[01:01:52] [SPEAKER_05]: volunteer work
[01:01:52] [SPEAKER_05]: it's not exactly volunteer work right
[01:01:54] [SPEAKER_05]: because I own the company
[01:01:55] [SPEAKER_05]: but I don't get compensated
[01:01:57] [SPEAKER_05]: for the time that I put in
[01:01:58] [SPEAKER_05]: in general
[01:02:00] [SPEAKER_05]: and so
[01:02:02] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah it wanes
[01:02:03] [SPEAKER_05]: like my
[01:02:05] [SPEAKER_05]: my time
[01:02:06] [SPEAKER_05]: the time that I spend on it
[01:02:07] [SPEAKER_05]: waxes and wanes
[01:02:08] [SPEAKER_05]: depending on
[01:02:09] [SPEAKER_05]: what else is going on in my life
[01:02:11] [SPEAKER_05]: but
[01:02:13] [SPEAKER_05]: the plan is to
[01:02:15] [SPEAKER_05]: try to get more tournaments into the
[01:02:18] [SPEAKER_05]: into the system
[01:02:19] [SPEAKER_05]: and to try to do more things
[01:02:22] [SPEAKER_05]: like the tornado world series
[01:02:23] [SPEAKER_05]: where we have for our subscribers
[01:02:26] [SPEAKER_05]: these
[01:02:27] [SPEAKER_05]: like more content essentially
[01:02:28] [SPEAKER_05]: because we had all three tables accessible
[01:02:31] [SPEAKER_05]: to our subscribers
[01:02:32] [SPEAKER_05]: but have that premium
[01:02:34] [SPEAKER_05]: like viewing experience
[01:02:36] [SPEAKER_05]: to put out
[01:02:37] [SPEAKER_05]: to everyone
[01:02:38] [SPEAKER_05]: so that people who aren't foosball players
[01:02:40] [SPEAKER_05]: can see
[01:02:40] [SPEAKER_05]: what we already know
[01:02:42] [SPEAKER_05]: that it's a fantastic sport
[01:02:44] [SPEAKER_05]: so that's kind of the long
[01:02:46] [SPEAKER_05]: the long term vision versus
[01:02:48] [SPEAKER_05]: versus what's going on in the day
[01:02:50] [SPEAKER_05]: the chaotic day to day
[01:02:51] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah yeah
[01:02:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I give you a lot of credit
[01:02:54] [SPEAKER_02]: your stick-to-itiveness
[01:02:55] [SPEAKER_02]: and your dedication
[01:02:57] [SPEAKER_02]: is to be
[01:02:58] [SPEAKER_02]: to be recognized
[01:03:00] [SPEAKER_02]: just terrific job
[01:03:02] [SPEAKER_02]: terrific job
[01:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: who's doing the commentary in Florida?
[01:03:08] [SPEAKER_05]: that's a good question
[01:03:09] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't
[01:03:09] [SPEAKER_05]: we don't have
[01:03:10] [SPEAKER_05]: we don't have an answer for that at the moment
[01:03:13] [SPEAKER_03]: okay you
[01:03:14] [SPEAKER_05]: you are doing some commentary in Florida
[01:03:16] [SPEAKER_05]: I know them all
[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Callum and I are doing the technical setup
[01:03:21] [SPEAKER_02]: are you?
[01:03:22] [SPEAKER_02]: okay
[01:03:23] [SPEAKER_05]: Callum and I are doing the setup
[01:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: okay
[01:03:25] [SPEAKER_05]: at Florida yeah
[01:03:27] [SPEAKER_00]: where's Keith been?
[01:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: where's Keith Glenn been?
[01:03:31] [SPEAKER_05]: Keith took a break from foosball
[01:03:33] [SPEAKER_02]: did he?
[01:03:34] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:03:34] [SPEAKER_02]: okay
[01:03:35] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:03:36] [SPEAKER_05]: he's been involved locally in Florida
[01:03:38] [SPEAKER_05]: but if you notice he hasn't toured very much either
[01:03:41] [SPEAKER_05]: so that's
[01:03:43] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah he just needed a break
[01:03:44] [SPEAKER_05]: which I understand
[01:03:45] [SPEAKER_05]: like one
[01:03:46] [SPEAKER_05]: one of the negative things about
[01:03:48] [SPEAKER_05]: owning a foosball business is that
[01:03:50] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean and you kind of said it before
[01:03:51] [SPEAKER_05]: people
[01:03:52] [SPEAKER_05]: people will
[01:03:54] [SPEAKER_05]: you get
[01:03:54] [SPEAKER_05]: you get all sorts of negativity
[01:03:56] [SPEAKER_05]: you get a lot of positivity too
[01:03:58] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:03:59] [SPEAKER_05]: sure
[01:03:59] [SPEAKER_05]: every tournament there are people who are like
[01:04:01] [SPEAKER_05]: you know thank you for doing this
[01:04:02] [SPEAKER_05]: and that's
[01:04:03] [SPEAKER_05]: it's actually rare in
[01:04:05] [SPEAKER_05]: when you're running a business
[01:04:06] [SPEAKER_05]: it's rare to get those
[01:04:07] [SPEAKER_05]: positive things
[01:04:07] [SPEAKER_05]: so we do get the rare positive
[01:04:09] [SPEAKER_05]: thing because the foosball community is great
[01:04:12] [SPEAKER_05]: but because we're all a tight-knit community
[01:04:14] [SPEAKER_05]: people will also be
[01:04:16] [SPEAKER_05]: brutally honest
[01:04:18] [SPEAKER_01]: it's telling
[01:04:18] [SPEAKER_01]: that's why you need me in Florida
[01:04:20] [SPEAKER_01]: because I tell them to kick rocks
[01:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have time for this nonsense
[01:04:23] [SPEAKER_05]: but that's not
[01:04:24] [SPEAKER_05]: that's not always the right thing right?
[01:04:26] [SPEAKER_05]: well yeah
[01:04:26] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot of times
[01:04:27] [SPEAKER_01]: you know who
[01:04:28] [SPEAKER_01]: you know who the whiters are
[01:04:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean yeah I get it
[01:04:31] [SPEAKER_01]: you got to be like
[01:04:32] [SPEAKER_01]: that some people are going to
[01:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: if you give
[01:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what
[01:04:34] [SPEAKER_01]: you can give some people a hundred dollar bill
[01:04:37] [SPEAKER_01]: or a hundred dollars in 20s
[01:04:39] [SPEAKER_01]: they want a hundred dollar bill
[01:04:40] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what I mean?
[01:04:41] [SPEAKER_01]: no
[01:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I want
[01:04:42] [SPEAKER_00]: no I want 200
[01:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: give me 200
[01:04:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a pretty good though
[01:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: once the tournament is down there
[01:04:48] [SPEAKER_01]: me and Alan Montrow
[01:04:50] [SPEAKER_01]: just got thrown in
[01:04:51] because
[01:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: something happened
[01:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Adam didn't have a flight
[01:04:54] [SPEAKER_01]: or something
[01:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and
[01:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: we had a blast
[01:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: because we knew every player
[01:04:58] [SPEAKER_01]: we knew the back stories
[01:04:59] [SPEAKER_01]: we talked about all the things that they do
[01:05:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and the best part was
[01:05:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't charge anything
[01:05:04] [SPEAKER_01]: so like
[01:05:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't
[01:05:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I live in Florida
[01:05:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been looking for a room
[01:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: and you know
[01:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: it's like
[01:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what
[01:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Foosball did a lot for me
[01:05:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a guy who had no money
[01:05:13] [SPEAKER_01]: got to travel the country
[01:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: saw more things than I ever would have saw
[01:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't mind giving back
[01:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: a little bit of that
[01:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: but people think that
[01:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Inside Foos makes all this money
[01:05:23] [SPEAKER_01]: and they think they should get
[01:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: all these benefits
[01:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: that they're going to
[01:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what
[01:05:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry
[01:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: some people are good at it
[01:05:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and some people are just warm bodies
[01:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: behind a mic
[01:05:32] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:05:33] [SPEAKER_01]: it's just the truth
[01:05:34] [SPEAKER_00]: but I understand what Miriam is saying
[01:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: from a business perspective
[01:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: you don't want to alienate your consumers
[01:05:40] [SPEAKER_00]: so
[01:05:41] [SPEAKER_05]: it's not just that
[01:05:42] [SPEAKER_05]: sometimes they're right
[01:05:43] [SPEAKER_05]: and like
[01:05:44] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah you're right
[01:05:45] [SPEAKER_01]: this
[01:05:46] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah I agree with that
[01:05:48] [SPEAKER_05]: this bad thing happened
[01:05:50] [SPEAKER_05]: or
[01:05:50] [SPEAKER_05]: this thing could be better
[01:05:51] [SPEAKER_05]: and like
[01:05:52] [SPEAKER_05]: I want to hear
[01:05:53] [SPEAKER_05]: I want to hear people tell me that
[01:05:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't want people to hold back
[01:05:56] [SPEAKER_05]: so I appreciate it
[01:05:57] [SPEAKER_05]: but it also weighs down on you
[01:05:59] [SPEAKER_05]: because you get a lot of
[01:06:01] [SPEAKER_05]: of negativity
[01:06:01] [SPEAKER_01]: oh sure
[01:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:06:02] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm
[01:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: what gets me is there are certain guys
[01:06:05] [SPEAKER_01]: like on Inside Foos TV
[01:06:07] [SPEAKER_01]: or whatever that is
[01:06:09] [SPEAKER_01]: that it doesn't matter
[01:06:11] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:06:11] [SPEAKER_01]: it just doesn't matter
[01:06:13] [SPEAKER_01]: it's just like
[01:06:14] [SPEAKER_01]: they go on
[01:06:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and they start bashing everything
[01:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's just like guys
[01:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: there's a
[01:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: nobody's making a big paycheck off this
[01:06:22] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:06:22] [SPEAKER_01]: well there's a time and a place
[01:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: if Foosball ever did anything for you
[01:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: give back something to it
[01:06:27] [SPEAKER_02]: there's a time and a place
[01:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: for every
[01:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: for everybody to have a
[01:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:06:30] [SPEAKER_02]: a say
[01:06:31] [SPEAKER_02]: because
[01:06:32] [SPEAKER_02]: you know we're all invested as Foosball players
[01:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: we want it to be better
[01:06:35] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[01:06:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm here to tell ya
[01:06:37] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: just in the technical aspects of things
[01:06:40] [SPEAKER_02]: media is tough
[01:06:41] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a
[01:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a challenging thing to do
[01:06:43] [SPEAKER_02]: and do right
[01:06:44] [SPEAKER_02]: and so
[01:06:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Inside Foos
[01:06:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Modern Foos
[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean
[01:06:48] [SPEAKER_02]: anybody who's
[01:06:49] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean ITSF
[01:06:50] [SPEAKER_02]: anybody who's doing the media part of this
[01:06:52] [SPEAKER_02]: kudos man
[01:06:53] [SPEAKER_02]: and make it
[01:06:54] [SPEAKER_02]: make it as good as you can
[01:06:55] [SPEAKER_02]: cause it
[01:06:56] [SPEAKER_02]: you know for us
[01:06:57] [SPEAKER_02]: for this sport
[01:06:58] [SPEAKER_02]: to be recognized
[01:06:59] [SPEAKER_02]: eventually
[01:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: as
[01:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: something legit
[01:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: like
[01:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know
[01:07:04] [SPEAKER_02]: cornhole
[01:07:05] [SPEAKER_02]: it has to
[01:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: or break dancing
[01:07:08] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:07:09] [SPEAKER_02]: maybe
[01:07:09] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:07:10] [SPEAKER_05]: we don't want to go the route of break dancing
[01:07:12] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[01:07:12] [SPEAKER_05]: only be in the Olympics once
[01:07:14] [SPEAKER_01]: one time
[01:07:15] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: well that one person
[01:07:17] [SPEAKER_01]: calls that to happen
[01:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: that
[01:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: wasn't she from Australia
[01:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: it's
[01:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: feels like she was having a seizure
[01:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: didn't look like
[01:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: we have
[01:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: we have a ray gun too
[01:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: shout out to ray gun
[01:07:27] [SPEAKER_03]: oh yeah
[01:07:28] [SPEAKER_05]: oh yeah we do
[01:07:30] [SPEAKER_05]: our ray gun's a bit more qualified though
[01:07:32] [SPEAKER_05]: a little bit
[01:07:33] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a
[01:07:35] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:07:35] [SPEAKER_02]: in all honesty though
[01:07:37] [SPEAKER_02]: it's like
[01:07:37] [SPEAKER_02]: as long as there's somebody willing to do this
[01:07:40] [SPEAKER_02]: whether volunteer
[01:07:41] [SPEAKER_02]: or getting paid
[01:07:41] [SPEAKER_02]: whatever the case
[01:07:42] [SPEAKER_02]: if they're doing the best they can
[01:07:44] [SPEAKER_02]: and living with
[01:07:45] [SPEAKER_02]: their mistakes
[01:07:46] [SPEAKER_02]: hey
[01:07:46] [SPEAKER_02]: go for it man
[01:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:07:47] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a challenge
[01:07:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I think
[01:07:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I think something
[01:07:51] [SPEAKER_05]: that you said earlier Tom
[01:07:52] [SPEAKER_05]: is really important
[01:07:53] [SPEAKER_05]: and that's showing up
[01:07:54] [SPEAKER_05]: and like you've done it with this podcast
[01:07:56] [SPEAKER_05]: like consistency
[01:07:57] [SPEAKER_05]: consistency is the hardest thing
[01:07:58] [SPEAKER_05]: and that's
[01:08:00] [SPEAKER_05]: that's
[01:08:00] [SPEAKER_05]: what we
[01:08:01] [SPEAKER_05]: are trying for
[01:08:02] [SPEAKER_05]: just to be
[01:08:04] [SPEAKER_05]: consistent
[01:08:04] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:08:05] [SPEAKER_05]: make sure we have
[01:08:06] [SPEAKER_05]: a pipeline of tournaments
[01:08:07] [SPEAKER_05]: on the platform
[01:08:09] [SPEAKER_05]: make sure we're
[01:08:10] [SPEAKER_05]: doing things for our subscribers
[01:08:12] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:08:13] [SPEAKER_05]: that consistency
[01:08:14] [SPEAKER_05]: is
[01:08:15] it's
[01:08:16] [SPEAKER_05]: it's so simple
[01:08:17] [SPEAKER_05]: but it's so hard
[01:08:18] [SPEAKER_05]: especially when you're not getting paid
[01:08:20] [SPEAKER_02]: oh yeah
[01:08:21] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah yeah
[01:08:23] [SPEAKER_02]: there's true talent out there
[01:08:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean
[01:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:08:25] [SPEAKER_02]: we can start with Jim Stevens
[01:08:26] [SPEAKER_02]: but
[01:08:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Jason Wicks out of Texas
[01:08:28] [SPEAKER_02]: with the
[01:08:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Foosball Sports Network
[01:08:30] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:08:30] [SPEAKER_02]: there's people
[01:08:32] [SPEAKER_02]: who have some real talent
[01:08:33] [SPEAKER_02]: can do this technically
[01:08:36] [SPEAKER_02]: it's okay
[01:08:36] [SPEAKER_02]: like we're talking about
[01:08:37] [SPEAKER_02]: the sport of foosball before
[01:08:39] [SPEAKER_02]: and how do we get all the promoters
[01:08:40] [SPEAKER_02]: to get together
[01:08:41] [SPEAKER_02]: how about the media people
[01:08:43] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:08:44] [SPEAKER_02]: same idea
[01:08:44] [SPEAKER_02]: because this is
[01:08:45] [SPEAKER_02]: everybody's got skin in the game here
[01:08:47] [SPEAKER_02]: if you're going to be
[01:08:48] [SPEAKER_02]: if you're going to be
[01:08:49] [SPEAKER_02]: supporting and promoting this game
[01:08:52] [SPEAKER_02]: just saying
[01:08:54] yeah
[01:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: no
[01:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the inside food
[01:08:57] [SPEAKER_00]: like
[01:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Wayne Richie
[01:08:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I've met Wayne
[01:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: through
[01:09:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Inside Foods
[01:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: what he does at Inside Foods
[01:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: shout out to Wayne
[01:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: because
[01:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: he's such a
[01:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: he's such a nice guy
[01:09:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and he's told me
[01:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: he's like
[01:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: you want to get on
[01:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and say something
[01:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: he's like
[01:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't do that
[01:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[01:09:12] [SPEAKER_00]: like Wayne's
[01:09:14] [SPEAKER_00]: technical guy
[01:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: and I appreciate that
[01:09:17] [SPEAKER_00]: because he's always fixing cameras
[01:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: or touching buttons
[01:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: or
[01:09:20] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:09:20] [SPEAKER_05]: and he's always making something better
[01:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:09:23] [SPEAKER_05]: every time I see him
[01:09:24] [SPEAKER_05]: he's like
[01:09:25] [SPEAKER_05]: oh yeah
[01:09:25] [SPEAKER_05]: I did XYZ
[01:09:26] [SPEAKER_05]: and like
[01:09:27] [SPEAKER_05]: I now have this
[01:09:28] [SPEAKER_05]: this new like monitor
[01:09:29] [SPEAKER_05]: for the setup
[01:09:30] [SPEAKER_05]: and oh I tried this thing
[01:09:31] [SPEAKER_05]: and it worked out really well
[01:09:32] [SPEAKER_05]: like he's always
[01:09:33] [SPEAKER_05]: thinking about ways
[01:09:34] [SPEAKER_05]: to make this
[01:09:35] [SPEAKER_05]: the technical side better
[01:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and that's what we need
[01:09:38] [SPEAKER_00]: people like that
[01:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: and again
[01:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: like to
[01:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: anyone who's listening
[01:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: are going to listen
[01:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[01:09:43] [SPEAKER_00]: just understand
[01:09:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and just
[01:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: hey thank you
[01:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[01:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: like again promoters
[01:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I go to a tournament
[01:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I always find the promoter
[01:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and say thanks
[01:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: because
[01:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: people don't understand
[01:09:53] [SPEAKER_00]: how much work
[01:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: goes into a
[01:09:55] [SPEAKER_00]: like we just show up
[01:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and the tables are there
[01:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: it's like it's magic
[01:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[01:09:58] [SPEAKER_00]: like the tables
[01:09:59] [SPEAKER_00]: don't
[01:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: they set themselves up
[01:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[01:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[01:10:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and the hotel called
[01:10:04] [SPEAKER_00]: the promoter
[01:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and said hey
[01:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: you should run a foosball tournament
[01:10:06] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: right
[01:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: oh my god
[01:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: and like
[01:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: the whole thing just happens
[01:10:10] [SPEAKER_00]: miraculously
[01:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and we just get to go play foosball
[01:10:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and complain about
[01:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:10:14] [SPEAKER_00]: something
[01:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know
[01:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:10:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the most
[01:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm casting
[01:10:18] [SPEAKER_01]: foosball tournaments
[01:10:19] [SPEAKER_01]: for all the people
[01:10:20] [SPEAKER_01]: complain
[01:10:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Florida bought their own equipment
[01:10:22] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:10:23] [SPEAKER_01]: because we're doing our little mini
[01:10:24] [SPEAKER_01]: tour they actually bought some
[01:10:25] [SPEAKER_01]: really nice equipment
[01:10:27] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:10:27] [SPEAKER_01]: it was their own thing
[01:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: so the first night
[01:10:30] [SPEAKER_01]: they had it all set up
[01:10:31] [SPEAKER_01]: and I don't know anything
[01:10:33] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:10:34] [SPEAKER_01]: and for six and a half hours
[01:10:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean we had some gold
[01:10:36] [SPEAKER_01]: we had like
[01:10:37] [SPEAKER_01]: players coming in
[01:10:38] [SPEAKER_01]: setting down
[01:10:39] [SPEAKER_01]: doing interviews
[01:10:39] [SPEAKER_01]: after the matches
[01:10:41] [SPEAKER_01]: nobody heard it
[01:10:43] [SPEAKER_01]: there was no sound the whole time
[01:10:45] [SPEAKER_01]: oops
[01:10:46] [SPEAKER_01]: laughs
[01:10:47] [SPEAKER_01]: six and a half hours
[01:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: of people
[01:10:48] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:10:50] [SPEAKER_01]: five interviews
[01:10:51] [SPEAKER_01]: laughs
[01:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: we had all these matches
[01:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: we had so many different
[01:10:54] [SPEAKER_01]: people coming in
[01:10:55] [SPEAKER_01]: not one person
[01:10:56] [SPEAKER_01]: heard a word of it
[01:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: laughs
[01:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: laughs
[01:10:59] [SPEAKER_01]: oh my god
[01:11:00] [SPEAKER_01]: all I had was a bar tab
[01:11:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I got drunk
[01:11:02] [SPEAKER_01]: and talked to myself
[01:11:03] [SPEAKER_01]: with the grab out
[01:11:04] [SPEAKER_02]: laughs
[01:11:05] [SPEAKER_02]: oh man
[01:11:06] [SPEAKER_01]: but I mean
[01:11:07] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what
[01:11:08] [SPEAKER_01]: it was actually funny
[01:11:10] [SPEAKER_01]: me and Rick Pomeroy
[01:11:12] [SPEAKER_01]: talked for like
[01:11:12] [SPEAKER_01]: two minutes
[01:11:13] [SPEAKER_01]: in the beginning
[01:11:14] [SPEAKER_01]: about the Ohio tournament
[01:11:15] [SPEAKER_01]: that's the last thing
[01:11:15] [SPEAKER_01]: anybody ever heard
[01:11:18] laughs
[01:11:20] [SPEAKER_01]: laughs
[01:11:20] [SPEAKER_01]: so yeah
[01:11:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a great appreciation
[01:11:22] [SPEAKER_01]: for what you guys do
[01:11:23] [SPEAKER_01]: trust me
[01:11:24] [SPEAKER_04]: well
[01:11:25] [SPEAKER_01]: the guy is like
[01:11:25] [SPEAKER_01]: the guy you were just talking about
[01:11:27] [SPEAKER_01]: he was in Ohio
[01:11:28] [SPEAKER_01]: doing all that work
[01:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean people who do that
[01:11:30] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:11:31] [SPEAKER_01]: that's the hard part so
[01:11:34] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:11:34] [SPEAKER_05]: it's funny
[01:11:35] [SPEAKER_05]: because Calum and I
[01:11:36] [SPEAKER_05]: were actually supposed to
[01:11:38] commentate
[01:11:38] [SPEAKER_05]: remotely
[01:11:40] [SPEAKER_05]: in
[01:11:40] [SPEAKER_05]: for Ohio
[01:11:41] [SPEAKER_05]: and we ended up not doing it
[01:11:43] [SPEAKER_05]: because so many things
[01:11:44] [SPEAKER_05]: went wrong
[01:11:45] [SPEAKER_02]: oh boy
[01:11:45] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[01:11:46] [SPEAKER_05]: like this
[01:11:47] [SPEAKER_05]: this happens all the time
[01:11:48] [SPEAKER_05]: I remember one tournament
[01:11:49] [SPEAKER_05]: earlier on
[01:11:51] [SPEAKER_05]: like kind of early on
[01:11:52] [SPEAKER_05]: in
[01:11:52] [SPEAKER_05]: the inside foods
[01:11:53] [SPEAKER_05]: 2.0
[01:11:55] [SPEAKER_05]: uh
[01:11:55] [SPEAKER_05]: life
[01:11:56] [SPEAKER_05]: we were supposed to cover
[01:11:57] [SPEAKER_05]: Louisiana State
[01:12:00] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[01:12:01] [SPEAKER_05]: our
[01:12:02] [SPEAKER_05]: package from FedEx
[01:12:03] [SPEAKER_05]: just didn't make it on time
[01:12:04] [SPEAKER_05]: like we had paid
[01:12:05] [SPEAKER_05]: for
[01:12:06] [SPEAKER_05]: a certain delivery time
[01:12:08] [SPEAKER_05]: and it came
[01:12:09] [SPEAKER_05]: weeks
[01:12:10] [SPEAKER_05]: maybe not weeks
[01:12:11] [SPEAKER_05]: it came
[01:12:12] [SPEAKER_05]: it came a week
[01:12:13] [SPEAKER_05]: late
[01:12:14] [SPEAKER_05]: and we had a similar thing happen in Rome
[01:12:17] [SPEAKER_05]: um
[01:12:18] [SPEAKER_05]: was that two years ago?
[01:12:20] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah I think it was two years ago
[01:12:22] [SPEAKER_05]: our
[01:12:22] [SPEAKER_05]: our equipment was lost
[01:12:24] [SPEAKER_05]: for about three weeks
[01:12:26] [SPEAKER_05]: and I had to be on the phone
[01:12:27] [SPEAKER_05]: with like
[01:12:28] [SPEAKER_05]: Italian FedEx
[01:12:29] [SPEAKER_05]: don't recommend
[01:12:30] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:12:32] [SPEAKER_05]: so anything that can
[01:12:34] [SPEAKER_05]: go wrong
[01:12:34] [SPEAKER_05]: will go wrong eventually
[01:12:36] [SPEAKER_01]: there was a few years ago
[01:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: where they called me up
[01:12:39] [SPEAKER_01]: somebody called me up
[01:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: and said
[01:12:41] hey
[01:12:41] [SPEAKER_01]: you remotely do the Costa Rica thing
[01:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: and they're gonna have this person
[01:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and that person
[01:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and I was like
[01:12:45] [SPEAKER_01]: sure
[01:12:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll go and have some fun
[01:12:47] [SPEAKER_01]: one of them was Keith Flynn
[01:12:49] [SPEAKER_01]: all you heard from Keith Flynn
[01:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: was
[01:12:51] [SPEAKER_01]: you saw his lips moving
[01:12:52] [SPEAKER_01]: you couldn't hear what he was saying
[01:12:53] [SPEAKER_01]: so they finally had a big call
[01:12:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and I forget who the other person was
[01:12:57] [SPEAKER_01]: and now there's me
[01:12:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and who?
[01:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Brandon Munoz
[01:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: who I love
[01:13:01] [SPEAKER_01]: but he's like
[01:13:03] [SPEAKER_01]: bang!
[01:13:05] [SPEAKER_01]: we're trying to have this
[01:13:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and this is like Brandon
[01:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: a few years ago
[01:13:09] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what I mean?
[01:13:10] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:13:10] [SPEAKER_05]: when he has less English proficiency
[01:13:12] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:13:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I like text him
[01:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I go
[01:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Brandon
[01:13:16] [SPEAKER_01]: talk some stuff in your language
[01:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: so people can hear you
[01:13:18] [SPEAKER_01]: and understand
[01:13:19] [SPEAKER_01]: because
[01:13:21] [SPEAKER_01]: we were just saying
[01:13:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and he did
[01:13:22] [SPEAKER_01]: it was great
[01:13:23] [SPEAKER_01]: but basically
[01:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like
[01:13:25] [SPEAKER_01]: wait a minute
[01:13:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm the Jim Stevens of this thing
[01:13:28] [SPEAKER_01]: this is not working
[01:13:30] [SPEAKER_01]: but I still had a blast
[01:13:32] [SPEAKER_01]: but I get it
[01:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: that's what all I'm saying
[01:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: is that things happen
[01:13:35] [SPEAKER_01]: things get weird
[01:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: quick
[01:13:38] [SPEAKER_02]: it's
[01:13:39] [SPEAKER_02]: it's gonna be
[01:13:40] [SPEAKER_02]: it's gonna be better
[01:13:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I just know it
[01:13:42] [SPEAKER_02]: and it is getting better
[01:13:43] [SPEAKER_02]: very quickly
[01:13:44] [SPEAKER_02]: because people are getting involved
[01:13:45] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:13:46] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:13:47] [SPEAKER_02]: you learn from your mistakes
[01:13:48] [SPEAKER_02]: and you push forward
[01:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: you do what you gotta do
[01:13:51] [SPEAKER_02]: you know?
[01:13:52] [SPEAKER_05]: and even
[01:13:55] [SPEAKER_05]: I think we've learned to deal with the mistakes more
[01:13:58] [SPEAKER_05]: like with
[01:13:59] [SPEAKER_05]: not just mistakes
[01:14:01] [SPEAKER_05]: but
[01:14:01] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:14:03] [SPEAKER_05]: the circumstances
[01:14:04] [SPEAKER_05]: oh yeah
[01:14:04] [SPEAKER_05]: one of the circumstances at Ohio
[01:14:06] [SPEAKER_05]: was that there wasn't
[01:14:07] [SPEAKER_05]: internet
[01:14:08] [SPEAKER_05]: there wasn't wired internet
[01:14:09] [SPEAKER_05]: yes
[01:14:09] [SPEAKER_05]: for two days
[01:14:11] [SPEAKER_05]: and there wasn't wired internet
[01:14:12] [SPEAKER_05]: but there was a stream
[01:14:13] [SPEAKER_05]: those first two days
[01:14:14] [SPEAKER_05]: there was still a stream
[01:14:15] [SPEAKER_05]: because we learned
[01:14:17] [SPEAKER_05]: a while back
[01:14:17] [SPEAKER_05]: like oh we can get this mobile device
[01:14:20] [SPEAKER_05]: it was an expense
[01:14:21] [SPEAKER_05]: like $600
[01:14:22] [SPEAKER_05]: mobile device
[01:14:24] [SPEAKER_05]: to get 5G internet
[01:14:26] [SPEAKER_05]: and so we have one of those
[01:14:27] [SPEAKER_05]: and it's a backup
[01:14:28] [SPEAKER_05]: that we can use
[01:14:28] [SPEAKER_05]: in this sort of situation
[01:14:30] [SPEAKER_00]: you mean like
[01:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: like a mobile hotspot
[01:14:34] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah but
[01:14:34] [SPEAKER_05]: similar
[01:14:35] [SPEAKER_05]: to do streaming
[01:14:36] [SPEAKER_05]: you need
[01:14:37] [SPEAKER_05]: you need something
[01:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: like
[01:14:39] [SPEAKER_05]: so most mobile
[01:14:41] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah most of the mobile hotspots
[01:14:43] [SPEAKER_05]: will only do 4G
[01:14:45] [SPEAKER_05]: or maybe now LTE
[01:14:47] [SPEAKER_05]: and so to get something that's actually 5G capable
[01:14:49] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[01:14:50] [SPEAKER_05]: they're quite expensive
[01:14:51] [SPEAKER_05]: but we have one of those devices
[01:14:53] [SPEAKER_05]: for this reason
[01:14:54] [SPEAKER_05]: because we
[01:14:54] [SPEAKER_02]: good yeah
[01:14:55] [SPEAKER_05]: we learned after
[01:14:57] [SPEAKER_05]: you know
[01:14:58] [SPEAKER_05]: a few
[01:14:59] [SPEAKER_05]: different times where this has happened
[01:15:01] [SPEAKER_05]: it happened in Colorado
[01:15:03] [SPEAKER_05]: is that last year?
[01:15:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I think it was last year in Colorado
[01:15:07] [SPEAKER_05]: they
[01:15:08] [SPEAKER_05]: they told us
[01:15:09] [SPEAKER_05]: like we had the expectation
[01:15:10] [SPEAKER_05]: that there was wired internet
[01:15:11] [SPEAKER_05]: it was the same with Ohio
[01:15:12] [SPEAKER_05]: we had that expectation
[01:15:13] [SPEAKER_03]: okay
[01:15:13] [SPEAKER_05]: the hotel claimed
[01:15:14] [SPEAKER_05]: that it was working
[01:15:15] [SPEAKER_05]: and then we got there
[01:15:16] [SPEAKER_05]: and it wasn't
[01:15:17] [SPEAKER_05]: so you just have to work around it
[01:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: it's like you need
[01:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah I was really
[01:15:21] [SPEAKER_01]: up to Rick Pomeroy a lot
[01:15:24] and
[01:15:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I know there was a lot of things
[01:15:25] [SPEAKER_01]: that were promised
[01:15:26] [SPEAKER_01]: that the hotel was like
[01:15:29] [SPEAKER_01]: sorry
[01:15:30] [SPEAKER_05]: and that happens a lot
[01:15:32] yeah
[01:15:33] [SPEAKER_01]: no it's the same way
[01:15:34] [SPEAKER_01]: with the beat down in Florida
[01:15:35] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a great
[01:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: it's a great thing
[01:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: but the bar to have the tournament
[01:15:37] [SPEAKER_01]: but the Wi-Fi is horrible
[01:15:39] [SPEAKER_01]: so like
[01:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: oh yeah
[01:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: you're trying to deal with
[01:15:42] [SPEAKER_01]: all this craziness
[01:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and
[01:15:45] [SPEAKER_02]: well
[01:15:46] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:15:46] [SPEAKER_02]: this is kind of like
[01:15:48] [SPEAKER_02]: a commentary
[01:15:50] [SPEAKER_02]: on
[01:15:50] [SPEAKER_02]: technology
[01:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: as it
[01:15:52] [SPEAKER_02]: communications technology
[01:15:53] [SPEAKER_02]: in the United States
[01:15:55] [SPEAKER_02]: as opposed to
[01:15:56] [SPEAKER_02]: let's say if you go to Europe or Asia
[01:15:58] [SPEAKER_02]: which is roughly 10 years ahead of us
[01:16:01] [SPEAKER_02]: as far as
[01:16:02] [SPEAKER_02]: internet's concerned
[01:16:03] [SPEAKER_02]: a lot faster
[01:16:04] [SPEAKER_02]: and a lot more consistent
[01:16:06] [SPEAKER_02]: in many places
[01:16:08] [SPEAKER_02]: especially
[01:16:08] [SPEAKER_02]: you know major cities
[01:16:09] [SPEAKER_02]: but
[01:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah I mean
[01:16:10] [SPEAKER_02]: we have a lot to
[01:16:13] [SPEAKER_02]: to atone for there
[01:16:13] [SPEAKER_02]: and this has a lot to do with the fact that
[01:16:15] [SPEAKER_02]: there's a couple of big companies kind of
[01:16:17] [SPEAKER_02]: battling back and forth
[01:16:19] [SPEAKER_02]: for all the
[01:16:20] [SPEAKER_02]: the rights etc
[01:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's delayed things sadly
[01:16:23] [SPEAKER_02]: when it comes to getting good
[01:16:25] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean good
[01:16:26] [SPEAKER_02]: internet
[01:16:27] [SPEAKER_02]: in these places that should have it
[01:16:29] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:16:29] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean this
[01:16:31] [SPEAKER_05]: this gesture
[01:16:32] [SPEAKER_05]: when you talked about Europe being advanced
[01:16:34] [SPEAKER_05]: because
[01:16:35] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot of the tournaments that happen in Europe
[01:16:37] [SPEAKER_05]: are in rural areas
[01:16:38] [SPEAKER_05]: really?
[01:16:39] and
[01:16:40] [SPEAKER_05]: a lot of the times they're in
[01:16:42] [SPEAKER_05]: sports halls
[01:16:43] [SPEAKER_05]: and there's not an internet package
[01:16:45] [SPEAKER_05]: like there is
[01:16:47] [SPEAKER_05]: at a hotel
[01:16:48] [SPEAKER_02]: okay
[01:16:49] [SPEAKER_05]: so I think a lot of the streaming
[01:16:51] [SPEAKER_05]: that happens in Europe
[01:16:53] is
[01:16:54] [SPEAKER_05]: has the same sort of issues
[01:16:56] [SPEAKER_05]: that we end up having in the US
[01:16:57] okay
[01:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:16:58] [SPEAKER_02]: so especially
[01:16:59] [SPEAKER_05]: like Julian
[01:17:00] [SPEAKER_05]: Julian and Daniel
[01:17:01] [SPEAKER_05]: the guys that
[01:17:02] [SPEAKER_05]: that ran
[01:17:04] [SPEAKER_05]: tech at
[01:17:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Tornado World Series
[01:17:06] [SPEAKER_05]: they have
[01:17:08] [SPEAKER_05]: when they've run tournaments in Germany
[01:17:10] [SPEAKER_05]: they've come up against the
[01:17:12] [SPEAKER_05]: actual like 5G network
[01:17:14] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:17:16] [SPEAKER_05]: they've had
[01:17:17] [SPEAKER_05]: they've tried to do
[01:17:18] [SPEAKER_05]: a stream
[01:17:19] [SPEAKER_05]: of multiple tables at once
[01:17:21] [SPEAKER_05]: and reached the capability
[01:17:23] [SPEAKER_05]: of the 5G
[01:17:25] [SPEAKER_05]: network in that area
[01:17:26] [SPEAKER_05]: because it's used to a certain level of bandwidth
[01:17:29] [SPEAKER_05]: and then all of a sudden
[01:17:30] [SPEAKER_05]: you're streaming
[01:17:32] [SPEAKER_05]: doing like
[01:17:34] [SPEAKER_05]: you've got three tables
[01:17:35] [SPEAKER_05]: like 50
[01:17:37] [SPEAKER_05]: 50 megabits per second
[01:17:39] [SPEAKER_05]: and it can't handle it
[01:17:41] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:17:42] [SPEAKER_02]: not designed for it
[01:17:45] [SPEAKER_02]: well I'm sure eventually
[01:17:46] [SPEAKER_02]: there'll be a
[01:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: like you say
[01:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: you find a device that will handle all that
[01:17:50] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:17:50] [SPEAKER_02]: or do it in a different
[01:17:52] [SPEAKER_02]: way but
[01:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:17:53] [SPEAKER_02]: where there's a will
[01:17:54] [SPEAKER_02]: hopefully there's a technology for it
[01:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:17:58] [SPEAKER_02]: hopefully
[01:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: some smart person will figure it out
[01:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: because
[01:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just
[01:18:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to watch it
[01:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and if it's not right
[01:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna
[01:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna complain
[01:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: because I don't
[01:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: appreciate it
[01:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: the American way
[01:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: thanks Randy
[01:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: appreciate that
[01:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I want it
[01:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I want it now
[01:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and I want it for free
[01:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: let's go
[01:18:19] [SPEAKER_02]: it's getting to be like
[01:18:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know
[01:18:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I hate
[01:18:23] [SPEAKER_02]: man I'm gonna say something about
[01:18:25] [SPEAKER_02]: generations now
[01:18:26] [SPEAKER_02]: and I shouldn't do it
[01:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: say it
[01:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: say it Tom
[01:18:28] [SPEAKER_00]: say it
[01:18:29] [SPEAKER_02]: oh man
[01:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: what is this
[01:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Tom we're old and bitter
[01:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: go ahead
[01:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I turned into that guy
[01:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: like when I was 17
[01:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: so let's go
[01:18:36] [SPEAKER_02]: gotta have it now
[01:18:37] [SPEAKER_02]: man it's gotta be now
[01:18:38] [SPEAKER_02]: and if I don't see it in two minutes
[01:18:39] [SPEAKER_02]: and if it doesn't
[01:18:40] [SPEAKER_02]: it doesn't please me in 30 seconds
[01:18:42] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm out
[01:18:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gone
[01:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:18:44] [SPEAKER_01]: sorry
[01:18:45] [SPEAKER_01]: here's the sad part of that statement Tom
[01:18:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm now that guy
[01:18:49] yeah
[01:18:50] [SPEAKER_01]: really
[01:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: like I'm the guy
[01:18:52] [SPEAKER_01]: who used to sit at home
[01:18:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd go to school
[01:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: come home
[01:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: go out
[01:18:54] [SPEAKER_01]: play sports
[01:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: football
[01:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: baseball
[01:18:56] [SPEAKER_01]: whatever I did
[01:18:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd come home
[01:18:58] [SPEAKER_01]: like right about dark
[01:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: so I'm gone
[01:19:00] [SPEAKER_01]: like 12 hours
[01:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: or whatever
[01:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: between just
[01:19:02] [SPEAKER_01]: my little homework time
[01:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'd come home
[01:19:04] [SPEAKER_01]: and say
[01:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: did I get a call today
[01:19:07] [SPEAKER_01]: and my daughter
[01:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: just can't believe that
[01:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:19:09] [SPEAKER_01]: she's like
[01:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: what
[01:19:10] [SPEAKER_01]: you didn't have phone
[01:19:11] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I miss not having a phone
[01:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I miss it
[01:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: you say that
[01:19:16] [SPEAKER_01]: but let me tell you something
[01:19:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm now the guy
[01:19:19] [SPEAKER_01]: that's like going
[01:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: come on
[01:19:21] [SPEAKER_01]: it's been three seconds
[01:19:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I think this thing is a load
[01:19:24] [SPEAKER_01]: haha
[01:19:24] [SPEAKER_01]: haha
[01:19:25] [SPEAKER_01]: because you know what
[01:19:26] [SPEAKER_01]: my daughter used to go on
[01:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: Mrs. Trips for the church to
[01:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Peru
[01:19:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and she came home one time
[01:19:31] [SPEAKER_01]: she's like the first time
[01:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: says
[01:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: all upset
[01:19:33] [SPEAKER_01]: oh
[01:19:34] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah they live in these huts
[01:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: and yada yada yada
[01:19:36] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's horrible
[01:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm like
[01:19:38] [SPEAKER_01]: honey they don't know
[01:19:39] [SPEAKER_01]: that it's bad
[01:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:19:40] [SPEAKER_01]: that's all they know
[01:19:42] [SPEAKER_01]: mm-hmm
[01:19:43] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:19:43] [SPEAKER_01]: so like two years later
[01:19:44] [SPEAKER_01]: she goes there
[01:19:44] [SPEAKER_01]: and every one of these little huts
[01:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: has a satellite dish
[01:19:48] [SPEAKER_01]: so how they get
[01:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Starlake
[01:19:50] [SPEAKER_01]: online and now they really
[01:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: feel bad
[01:19:51] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah you got Starlake
[01:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: because now they know
[01:19:53] [SPEAKER_01]: what they didn't have
[01:19:54] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:19:54] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: well
[01:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: it's interesting
[01:19:56] [SPEAKER_01]: it's definitely a different
[01:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: deal
[01:19:58] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Louis C.K.
[01:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you know
[01:20:02] [SPEAKER_00]: he is a comedian
[01:20:02] [SPEAKER_00]: oh absolutely
[01:20:03] [SPEAKER_01]: oh yeah yeah
[01:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: he has a joke about
[01:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: smartphones
[01:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: he said
[01:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: it's going to space
[01:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: give it a minute
[01:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: just give it a minute
[01:20:11] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:20:11] [SPEAKER_03]: haha
[01:20:12] [SPEAKER_03]: I like the guy
[01:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: there's another guy
[01:20:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I give him his name
[01:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: who says
[01:20:16] [SPEAKER_01]: you remember back in the
[01:20:17] [SPEAKER_01]: day
[01:20:17] [SPEAKER_01]: grandma would break out
[01:20:18] [SPEAKER_01]: the little photo
[01:20:19] [SPEAKER_01]: island
[01:20:19] [SPEAKER_01]: and have all the pictures
[01:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: of
[01:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: because you imagine
[01:20:23] [SPEAKER_01]: now grandma
[01:20:23] [SPEAKER_01]: breaks out the pictures
[01:20:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and there's
[01:20:25] [SPEAKER_01]: four thousand pictures
[01:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: of her
[01:20:28] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:20:28] [SPEAKER_01]: selfies
[01:20:31] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:20:31] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a
[01:20:32] [SPEAKER_02]: it's a whole new
[01:20:33] [SPEAKER_02]: world
[01:20:34] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[01:20:34] [SPEAKER_02]: you know
[01:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: we have to
[01:20:36] [SPEAKER_02]: live in it
[01:20:36] [SPEAKER_02]: so
[01:20:37] [SPEAKER_02]: there you have it
[01:20:38] [SPEAKER_02]: but we can
[01:20:38] [SPEAKER_02]: still make fun of it
[01:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: for sure
[01:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: a lot
[01:20:41] [SPEAKER_00]: a lot of fun
[01:20:42] [SPEAKER_02]: it's called a rotary phone
[01:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: and you had to do
[01:20:45] [SPEAKER_02]: this
[01:20:46] [SPEAKER_02]: when you made
[01:20:47] [SPEAKER_02]: a phone call
[01:20:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I remember
[01:20:48] [SPEAKER_02]: you had to do
[01:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:20:49] [SPEAKER_02]: no no there's no buttons
[01:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: to
[01:20:51] [SPEAKER_02]: no you do this
[01:20:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and you had to have
[01:20:53] [SPEAKER_02]: some strength in your
[01:20:54] [SPEAKER_02]: finger
[01:20:55] [SPEAKER_02]: to make that
[01:20:55] [SPEAKER_02]: listen
[01:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I still think my
[01:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: parent
[01:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I like
[01:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I still think my dad
[01:21:00] [SPEAKER_00]: had me
[01:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: so that way he didn't
[01:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: have to get up
[01:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and change the TV channel
[01:21:04] [SPEAKER_03]: oh yeah
[01:21:05] [SPEAKER_00]: all three of them
[01:21:06] [SPEAKER_00]: all three
[01:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: all three
[01:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: hey
[01:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: go change the channel
[01:21:11] [SPEAKER_00]: go change this channel
[01:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: channel seven
[01:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: put it
[01:21:14] [SPEAKER_00]: put it louder
[01:21:15] [SPEAKER_00]: lower it
[01:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: it's too loud
[01:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:21:20] [SPEAKER_00]: now it's
[01:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean
[01:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: whatever
[01:21:22] [SPEAKER_00]: anyway
[01:21:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Mariam
[01:21:25] [SPEAKER_00]: favorite
[01:21:25] [SPEAKER_00]: favorite country
[01:21:26] [SPEAKER_00]: you played foosball in
[01:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: yes
[01:21:28] [SPEAKER_05]: oh that's so hard
[01:21:30] [SPEAKER_05]: that's so hard
[01:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: why is it hard
[01:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: now there should be one
[01:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: that just pops in your head
[01:21:33] [SPEAKER_00]: like this was amazing
[01:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I loved it
[01:21:35] [SPEAKER_05]: it's kind of
[01:21:36] [SPEAKER_05]: it's kind of hard to beat
[01:21:37] [SPEAKER_05]: Costa Rica
[01:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: okay
[01:21:39] [SPEAKER_05]: because
[01:21:40] [SPEAKER_05]: the players
[01:21:41] [SPEAKER_05]: the level
[01:21:43] [SPEAKER_05]: in Costa Rica
[01:21:44] [SPEAKER_05]: is really high
[01:21:45] [SPEAKER_05]: so you're playing
[01:21:46] [SPEAKER_05]: like really good players
[01:21:48] [SPEAKER_05]: the venue
[01:21:49] [SPEAKER_05]: is right on the beach
[01:21:51] [SPEAKER_03]: oh yeah
[01:21:52] [SPEAKER_03]: the best
[01:21:52] [SPEAKER_05]: there's a pool
[01:21:53] [SPEAKER_05]: it's beautiful
[01:21:55] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[01:21:56] [SPEAKER_05]: the vibes
[01:21:57] [SPEAKER_05]: are just so
[01:21:59] [SPEAKER_05]: fantastic
[01:22:00] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:22:01] [SPEAKER_05]: you're battling someone
[01:22:02] [SPEAKER_05]: on the table
[01:22:03] [SPEAKER_05]: and then
[01:22:04] [SPEAKER_05]: you take a shot right after
[01:22:05] [SPEAKER_05]: right after you finish
[01:22:06] [SPEAKER_05]: and like
[01:22:07] [SPEAKER_05]: I have
[01:22:09] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah I made friends there
[01:22:10] [SPEAKER_05]: who don't speak English
[01:22:11] [SPEAKER_05]: just because
[01:22:13] [SPEAKER_05]: you can
[01:22:14] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:22:16] [SPEAKER_05]: there's
[01:22:16] [SPEAKER_05]: there's just this beautiful thing happening
[01:22:18] [SPEAKER_05]: where you're bonding over the table
[01:22:20] [SPEAKER_05]: you're bonding
[01:22:20] [SPEAKER_05]: off the table
[01:22:22] [SPEAKER_05]: you're bonding over food
[01:22:23] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:22:23] [SPEAKER_05]: and you're just having a good time together
[01:22:26] [SPEAKER_05]: and the foosball
[01:22:28] [SPEAKER_05]: enhances it
[01:22:29] [SPEAKER_05]: but it's only part of it
[01:22:30] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:22:31] [SPEAKER_00]: the Costa Rica players are awesome
[01:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I love all of them
[01:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: okay now
[01:22:37] [SPEAKER_00]: food
[01:22:37] [SPEAKER_00]: globally what's like
[01:22:39] [SPEAKER_00]: something you
[01:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: something you ate
[01:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: that was just like
[01:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: now that you're back in the states
[01:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: you're like
[01:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I missed this
[01:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: give me something
[01:22:46] [SPEAKER_04]: oh
[01:22:47] goodness
[01:22:48] oh
[01:22:49] [SPEAKER_04]: that's
[01:22:49] [SPEAKER_00]: bigger portions
[01:22:50] [SPEAKER_05]: that's also hard
[01:22:51] [SPEAKER_05]: because there's too many
[01:22:52] [SPEAKER_05]: there's too many things
[01:22:55] [SPEAKER_05]: so
[01:22:57] [SPEAKER_05]: oh gosh
[01:22:59] [SPEAKER_05]: let me start
[01:23:00] [SPEAKER_05]: let me start with
[01:23:02] [SPEAKER_05]: French pastries
[01:23:03] [SPEAKER_05]: let me start there
[01:23:04] [SPEAKER_03]: oh
[01:23:05] [SPEAKER_05]: because
[01:23:05] [SPEAKER_05]: that's
[01:23:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I know it's a cliche but it's true
[01:23:08] [SPEAKER_05]: okay
[01:23:09] [SPEAKER_05]: the pastries in France
[01:23:10] [SPEAKER_05]: phenomenal
[01:23:12] [SPEAKER_05]: and
[01:23:13] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know why
[01:23:14] [SPEAKER_05]: the bread is just better
[01:23:16] [SPEAKER_05]: it is
[01:23:16] [SPEAKER_05]: it's just
[01:23:17] [SPEAKER_05]: it's just better
[01:23:18] [SPEAKER_05]: and it doesn't make you feel bloated
[01:23:20] [SPEAKER_05]: like even if you have
[01:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: it's not made with
[01:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: genetically modified flour
[01:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:23:26] [SPEAKER_01]: from America
[01:23:27] [SPEAKER_01]: an MSP
[01:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah we have like 200 things
[01:23:29] [SPEAKER_01]: they wanted to sell in German
[01:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: in Europe
[01:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: in our diet
[01:23:34] [SPEAKER_01]: so
[01:23:35] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: did you
[01:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: did you have
[01:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: did you have a Royale with cheese
[01:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: while you were in France
[01:23:42] [SPEAKER_05]: a Royale with cheese
[01:23:44] [SPEAKER_00]: with fromage
[01:23:46] [SPEAKER_00]: that's what they call a quarter pounder in France right
[01:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know
[01:23:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess you've never seen
[01:23:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Royale with fromage
[01:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Royale with cheese
[01:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Royale with cheese
[01:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: so
[01:23:55] [SPEAKER_05]: no I had about a million
[01:23:57] [SPEAKER_05]: a million
[01:23:59] [SPEAKER_05]: million pastries
[01:24:00] [SPEAKER_05]: no
[01:24:01] [SPEAKER_05]: what else
[01:24:02] [SPEAKER_05]: curry in the UK
[01:24:03] [SPEAKER_05]: like Indian curry in the UK
[01:24:06] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:24:06] [SPEAKER_05]: yes
[01:24:08] [SPEAKER_05]: yes
[01:24:09] [SPEAKER_05]: it's
[01:24:10] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:24:10] [SPEAKER_03]: I mean
[01:24:12] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah you might not know
[01:24:13] [SPEAKER_05]: but thanks to
[01:24:14] [SPEAKER_05]: thanks to imperialism
[01:24:15] [SPEAKER_05]: the UK has fantastic Indian food
[01:24:17] [SPEAKER_04]: Indian food
[01:24:18] [SPEAKER_05]: you know
[01:24:19] [SPEAKER_05]: good and bad
[01:24:19] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:24:20] [SPEAKER_05]: and yeah I miss it
[01:24:23] [SPEAKER_05]: miss it
[01:24:23] [SPEAKER_05]: nothing in the States comes close
[01:24:25] [SPEAKER_05]: really
[01:24:26] [SPEAKER_02]: interesting
[01:24:27] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:24:28] [SPEAKER_02]: okay
[01:24:29] [SPEAKER_05]: oh gosh what's another thing
[01:24:31] [SPEAKER_05]: this isn't from foosball
[01:24:32] [SPEAKER_05]: this isn't from foosball travel
[01:24:34] [SPEAKER_05]: but the shawarma in the Middle East
[01:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: shawarma really?
[01:24:38] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah you get close
[01:24:39] [SPEAKER_05]: in Germany
[01:24:40] [SPEAKER_01]: southern guys from
[01:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: in America
[01:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: what is the shawarma
[01:24:43] [SPEAKER_05]: shawarma
[01:24:44] [SPEAKER_05]: it's like a pita wrap
[01:24:45] [SPEAKER_05]: with
[01:24:47] with
[01:24:48] [SPEAKER_05]: meat that's been
[01:24:50] [SPEAKER_05]: like rotisserie
[01:24:51] [SPEAKER_05]: oh yeah
[01:24:53] [SPEAKER_04]: like rotisserie meat
[01:24:53] [SPEAKER_04]: yeah
[01:24:54] [SPEAKER_04]: tejita
[01:24:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I actually
[01:24:55] [SPEAKER_05]: I like the
[01:24:56] [SPEAKER_05]: chicken stuff better
[01:24:58] [SPEAKER_05]: personally
[01:24:58] [SPEAKER_05]: but yeah
[01:24:59] [SPEAKER_05]: they have lamb
[01:25:00] [SPEAKER_05]: they have chicken
[01:25:01] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:25:02] [SPEAKER_01]: they call it
[01:25:03] [SPEAKER_01]: they actually call it a heater roll
[01:25:04] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:25:05] [SPEAKER_02]: right
[01:25:06] [SPEAKER_02]: right right right
[01:25:07] [SPEAKER_02]: there's actually a derivation of that
[01:25:09] [SPEAKER_02]: that was popular in Binghamton New York called the speedy
[01:25:12] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's
[01:25:13] [SPEAKER_02]: it's meat that's skewered
[01:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's
[01:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: and it's
[01:25:15] [SPEAKER_02]: put in a marinade for several days
[01:25:18] [SPEAKER_02]: and then
[01:25:18] [SPEAKER_02]: it's done over a coal fire
[01:25:21] [SPEAKER_02]: and then you
[01:25:22] [SPEAKER_02]: you take the
[01:25:23] [SPEAKER_02]: the entire
[01:25:25] [SPEAKER_02]: skewer
[01:25:25] [SPEAKER_02]: and then you pull it off in Italian bread
[01:25:27] [SPEAKER_02]: and eat it that way
[01:25:29] [SPEAKER_02]: oh
[01:25:30] [SPEAKER_02]: oh
[01:25:31] [SPEAKER_02]: but anyway
[01:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: finish it off
[01:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: finish it off with some French pastry
[01:25:35] [SPEAKER_02]: there you go
[01:25:36] [SPEAKER_02]: there you go
[01:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah exactly
[01:25:37] [SPEAKER_02]: some PBR
[01:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: so
[01:25:40] [SPEAKER_00]: so now that you're in
[01:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: in Louisiana
[01:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: what are you
[01:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: what are you finding there
[01:25:44] [SPEAKER_00]: that you're enjoying
[01:25:46] [SPEAKER_05]: oh my god
[01:25:46] [SPEAKER_05]: etouffée
[01:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: a
[01:25:50] [SPEAKER_05]: gumbo
[01:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:25:52] [SPEAKER_05]: but honestly
[01:25:53] [SPEAKER_05]: every
[01:25:54] [SPEAKER_05]: every food place that we've been to here
[01:25:56] [SPEAKER_05]: like nothing has been disappointing
[01:25:58] [SPEAKER_05]: everything has been spectacular
[01:25:59] [SPEAKER_05]: every single place that we've been to
[01:26:01] [SPEAKER_04]: cool
[01:26:02] [SPEAKER_05]: and we've been here
[01:26:03] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:26:04] [SPEAKER_05]: three weeks now
[01:26:05] [SPEAKER_05]: it's been fantastic
[01:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I have no complaints about the food
[01:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: have you
[01:26:09] [SPEAKER_00]: have you had chicken cracklin
[01:26:10] [SPEAKER_00]: chicken cracklin
[01:26:10] [SPEAKER_00]: have you had that yet
[01:26:11] [SPEAKER_05]: I have
[01:26:12] [SPEAKER_05]: I have
[01:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: my fans
[01:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: oh yeah
[01:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Brandon
[01:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: you had
[01:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: put me on a chicken cracklin
[01:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: oof
[01:26:20] [SPEAKER_00]: have you had
[01:26:20] [SPEAKER_00]: cracklin
[01:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:26:22] [SPEAKER_05]: no not yet actually
[01:26:24] [SPEAKER_05]: or I have
[01:26:25] [SPEAKER_05]: but not
[01:26:26] [SPEAKER_05]: not since we've been here
[01:26:27] [SPEAKER_05]: but
[01:26:27] [SPEAKER_05]: I love like the barbecue
[01:26:29] [SPEAKER_05]: oh god
[01:26:29] [SPEAKER_05]: barbecue oysters
[01:26:30] [SPEAKER_05]: I've had them in New Orleans before
[01:26:31] [SPEAKER_01]: you gotta have somebody
[01:26:32] [SPEAKER_01]: has to do a fish boil
[01:26:33] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:26:34] [SPEAKER_01]: a seafood broil
[01:26:35] [SPEAKER_05]: have you ever been to one of those
[01:26:37] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:26:37] [SPEAKER_05]: it's past
[01:26:37] [SPEAKER_05]: it's past the season
[01:26:39] [SPEAKER_05]: I haven't been to one in Louisiana
[01:26:41] [SPEAKER_05]: I've been to like a Maryland style one
[01:26:43] [SPEAKER_05]: with the Shadmans
[01:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: oh yeah
[01:26:45] [SPEAKER_05]: crab boil
[01:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: the
[01:26:46] [SPEAKER_00]: the blue crab
[01:26:47] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:26:47] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:26:48] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:26:48] [SPEAKER_05]: they do it differently here
[01:26:50] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:26:50] [SPEAKER_01]: every year Zoller has one where they like do it for like I don't know
[01:26:53] [SPEAKER_01]: they stay there for like three days
[01:26:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and
[01:26:55] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:26:56] [SPEAKER_01]: people just keep showing up
[01:26:57] [SPEAKER_01]: it's amazing
[01:26:59] [SPEAKER_01]: but
[01:26:59] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:26:59] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm looking forward to March next year
[01:27:01] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:27:02] [SPEAKER_05]: that's by crawfish season
[01:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: cool
[01:27:04] [SPEAKER_00]: the place
[01:27:05] [SPEAKER_00]: the place where they have tournaments in Mississippi
[01:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: at the back porch
[01:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: it's actually a crawfish joint
[01:27:11] [SPEAKER_00]: like you can just buy crawfish by the pound
[01:27:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and eat it there
[01:27:14] [SPEAKER_00]: awesome
[01:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah yeah
[01:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: it's probably
[01:27:17] [SPEAKER_00]: probably four hours from where you're at
[01:27:19] [SPEAKER_00]: but it's
[01:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: it's really good
[01:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: really really good
[01:27:22] [SPEAKER_00]: but the food
[01:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Brandon put me on to that
[01:27:25] [SPEAKER_00]: a
[01:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Boudin
[01:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: is that what it is
[01:27:27] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah Boudin
[01:27:28] [SPEAKER_00]: oh yeah
[01:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: man
[01:27:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I had that with some chicken crackling
[01:27:32] [SPEAKER_00]: oh
[01:27:33] [SPEAKER_00]: it was like
[01:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: my cholesterol shot up immediately
[01:27:35] [SPEAKER_00]: it was so
[01:27:37] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:27:37] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:27:38] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:27:40] [SPEAKER_05]: one thing that they do in Lafayette specifically is this
[01:27:43] [SPEAKER_05]: this
[01:27:44] [SPEAKER_05]: thing called rice dressing
[01:27:45] [SPEAKER_04]: it's
[01:27:46] [SPEAKER_04]: it's
[01:27:47] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah it's rice with
[01:27:49] [SPEAKER_05]: with like
[01:27:51] [SPEAKER_05]: stuffing
[01:27:51] [SPEAKER_05]: like what
[01:27:52] [SPEAKER_05]: like a turkey stuffing
[01:27:53] [SPEAKER_05]: nice
[01:27:55] [SPEAKER_05]: and I think it has Boudin in it too
[01:27:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't
[01:27:57] [SPEAKER_05]: I need to learn
[01:27:58] [SPEAKER_05]: I need to learn
[01:27:58] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm still
[01:27:59] [SPEAKER_05]: it's so good
[01:28:00] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know what else in it
[01:28:01] [SPEAKER_05]: but it is fantastic
[01:28:03] [SPEAKER_01]: do you know what's in Boudin
[01:28:06] [SPEAKER_00]: don't
[01:28:06] [SPEAKER_00]: don't ruin it
[01:28:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Mike
[01:28:08] [SPEAKER_01]: no it's good
[01:28:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I won't tell
[01:28:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just asking
[01:28:12] [SPEAKER_00]: lips and butt holes
[01:28:13] [SPEAKER_00]: it's like a hot dog
[01:28:14] [SPEAKER_00]: but Louisiana style
[01:28:15] [SPEAKER_05]: it's probably some intestine in there
[01:28:17] [SPEAKER_05]: but who cares
[01:28:18] [SPEAKER_05]: it tastes good
[01:28:19] [SPEAKER_01]: sweet rare
[01:28:20] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah I mean
[01:28:22] [SPEAKER_01]: alright here's a question you don't want to answer
[01:28:24] [SPEAKER_01]: who's your favorite partner
[01:28:27] Callum
[01:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: there you go
[01:28:28] [SPEAKER_01]: that was easy
[01:28:29] [SPEAKER_05]: well done
[01:28:30] [SPEAKER_05]: it was an easy one
[01:28:31] [SPEAKER_05]: well done
[01:28:32] [SPEAKER_02]: when did Vegas win
[01:28:33] [SPEAKER_02]: wow
[01:28:34] [SPEAKER_05]: my Vegas win
[01:28:37] [SPEAKER_05]: oh that's
[01:28:38] [SPEAKER_05]: again that's not
[01:28:39] [SPEAKER_05]: that's not an easy one
[01:28:40] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah I know that's not
[01:28:41] [SPEAKER_01]: the first one was a joke
[01:28:42] [SPEAKER_01]: the second one was a joke
[01:28:43] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah yeah
[01:28:45] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah yeah
[01:28:47] [SPEAKER_05]: you know what I want to talk about
[01:28:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't know if it's actually my favorite
[01:28:51] [SPEAKER_05]: but I want to talk about winning singles
[01:28:53] [SPEAKER_05]: at the Copa America
[01:28:54] [SPEAKER_05]: because
[01:28:56] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't have another
[01:28:58] [SPEAKER_05]: or that's not true
[01:28:59] [SPEAKER_05]: I have one other women's singles title
[01:29:01] [SPEAKER_05]: and it was from a warrior tournament
[01:29:03] [SPEAKER_05]: where there were literally three other women there
[01:29:06] [SPEAKER_05]: and all of us were like expert or below
[01:29:08] [SPEAKER_05]: so I don't count that one
[01:29:09] [SPEAKER_03]: okay
[01:29:10] [SPEAKER_05]: I mean it made me happy when I won
[01:29:12] [SPEAKER_05]: but I don't count that as like an open women's win
[01:29:14] [SPEAKER_05]: so that was my first open women's win
[01:29:16] [SPEAKER_05]: and I was so ill
[01:29:20] [SPEAKER_05]: because I'm still recovering from long COVID
[01:29:25] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm much better now
[01:29:27] [SPEAKER_05]: but like thinking back
[01:29:28] [SPEAKER_05]: that was October of 2022
[01:29:33] [SPEAKER_05]: and I contracted COVID in February of 2022
[01:29:37] [SPEAKER_05]: and at that point in my long COVID journey
[01:29:40] [SPEAKER_05]: I wasn't physically able to work
[01:29:42] [SPEAKER_05]: and I was just like well I can't work
[01:29:45] [SPEAKER_05]: so I might as well go to Chile to play foosball
[01:29:48] [SPEAKER_05]: because why not
[01:29:49] [SPEAKER_05]: sure
[01:29:52] [SPEAKER_05]: so I was kind of
[01:29:53] [SPEAKER_05]: I was doing a lot of foosball travel
[01:29:54] [SPEAKER_05]: for mental health more than
[01:29:58] [SPEAKER_05]: because I wasn't playing my best for sure
[01:30:03] [SPEAKER_05]: and I faced one of my friends
[01:30:08] [SPEAKER_05]: Angie Ramirez from Costa Rica in the final
[01:30:11] [SPEAKER_05]: and she's beaten me every time we face off against each other
[01:30:15] [SPEAKER_05]: and at this point I lost the losers
[01:30:17] [SPEAKER_05]: or the winner side
[01:30:18] [SPEAKER_05]: so I was coming from the losers bracket
[01:30:20] [SPEAKER_05]: and I knew like okay I have to beat her twice
[01:30:22] [SPEAKER_05]: and I'm playing her on tornado
[01:30:23] [SPEAKER_05]: it was a multi-table tournament
[01:30:25] [SPEAKER_05]: but we were playing each other on tornado
[01:30:28] [SPEAKER_05]: which is her best table
[01:30:33] [SPEAKER_05]: and yeah I can't
[01:30:35] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't even remember the specifics of the match
[01:30:38] [SPEAKER_05]: I was so like
[01:30:39] [SPEAKER_05]: I have memory problems from long COVID
[01:30:43] [SPEAKER_05]: but also I think because I was so ill too
[01:30:45] [SPEAKER_05]: it's just kind of blurry
[01:30:47] [SPEAKER_05]: the whole tournament is a bit blurry
[01:30:49] [SPEAKER_05]: but I can't believe I won that
[01:30:51] [SPEAKER_05]: when I think back to it
[01:30:53] [SPEAKER_05]: and it was a good
[01:30:55] [SPEAKER_05]: it was important to me at the time
[01:30:57] [SPEAKER_05]: because when you're having a health issue
[01:31:00] [SPEAKER_05]: like that you just don't
[01:31:01] [SPEAKER_05]: it's like it's hard to
[01:31:04] [SPEAKER_05]: like I couldn't work
[01:31:06] [SPEAKER_05]: I felt useless you know
[01:31:07] [SPEAKER_05]: and so winning that was really mentally a big boost
[01:31:11] [SPEAKER_05]: because it was like oh yeah
[01:31:12] [SPEAKER_05]: I can do some stuff
[01:31:14] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah yeah yeah yeah exactly
[01:31:17] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:31:18] [SPEAKER_01]: all right the last one I'm going to ask
[01:31:19] [SPEAKER_01]: is I'm gonna steal this from Tom
[01:31:21] [SPEAKER_01]: this is Tom's really Tom's question back in the day
[01:31:25] [SPEAKER_01]: dead or alive
[01:31:26] [SPEAKER_01]: which sounds weird because you're young
[01:31:27] [SPEAKER_01]: but as older people know a lot more
[01:31:29] [SPEAKER_01]: dead or alive one person
[01:31:33] [SPEAKER_01]: that you would want to play a tournament
[01:31:35] [SPEAKER_01]: that you have never played
[01:31:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Moya Teelands
[01:31:39] [SPEAKER_02]: ooh love that answer
[01:31:41] [SPEAKER_02]: good answer
[01:31:42] [SPEAKER_02]: yep Moya Teelands
[01:31:44] [SPEAKER_02]: she's a beast
[01:31:45] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:31:45] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:31:46] [SPEAKER_02]: wow
[01:31:48] [SPEAKER_05]: I did get to meet her
[01:31:50] [SPEAKER_05]: and we had like a couple of really
[01:31:54] [SPEAKER_05]: lights and conversations
[01:31:56] [SPEAKER_05]: and she just seemed like such a sweetheart
[01:31:58] [SPEAKER_05]: and when I spoke to her
[01:31:59] [SPEAKER_05]: I didn't know how good she was
[01:32:02] [SPEAKER_05]: you know like I just didn't
[01:32:03] [SPEAKER_05]: I didn't know the history
[01:32:05] [SPEAKER_05]: I didn't know how good she was
[01:32:06] [SPEAKER_05]: and now that I've
[01:32:10] [SPEAKER_05]: like watched more videos from back in the day
[01:32:12] [SPEAKER_05]: and stuff like I would absolutely love to play with her
[01:32:15] [SPEAKER_05]: and learn from her
[01:32:16] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:32:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I remember the first tournament
[01:32:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I she came to
[01:32:20] [SPEAKER_01]: and I was still around
[01:32:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I really wasn't playing
[01:32:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I was just basically coming to hang out with friends
[01:32:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and hanging out at the bar
[01:32:24] [SPEAKER_01]: but I remember she walked in
[01:32:27] [SPEAKER_01]: and she was
[01:32:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't even know if she had played a tournament at that point
[01:32:30] [SPEAKER_01]: she had the different colored hair
[01:32:33] [SPEAKER_01]: she was wearing kind of like a 65 outfit
[01:32:36] [SPEAKER_01]: and I looked at that girl
[01:32:37] [SPEAKER_01]: and I said you know what
[01:32:38] [SPEAKER_01]: that's what foosball needs
[01:32:41] [SPEAKER_01]: something fresh
[01:32:42] [SPEAKER_01]: something new
[01:32:43] [SPEAKER_01]: and I had no idea who she even was
[01:32:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I had no idea what she was going to become
[01:32:47] [SPEAKER_01]: but she did
[01:32:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean the girl won open mixed
[01:32:50] [SPEAKER_01]: you know playing
[01:32:51] [SPEAKER_01]: against
[01:32:52] [SPEAKER_01]: against
[01:32:54] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:32:54] [SPEAKER_05]: against Colin Young
[01:32:56] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:32:56] [SPEAKER_05]: she didn't just win mixed
[01:32:58] [SPEAKER_05]: she beat Colin Young
[01:32:59] [SPEAKER_02]: and Cindy Head
[01:33:00] [SPEAKER_01]: but she not only
[01:33:01] [SPEAKER_01]: she didn't just beat Colin Young
[01:33:03] [SPEAKER_01]: she won mixed playing front
[01:33:05] [SPEAKER_01]: the whole tournament
[01:33:06] [SPEAKER_01]: never switching
[01:33:06] [SPEAKER_02]: right
[01:33:07] [SPEAKER_02]: period
[01:33:07] [SPEAKER_01]: not that Fred wasn't the
[01:33:10] [SPEAKER_01]: like you know the gold stamp
[01:33:11] [SPEAKER_01]: but there was a lot of people in between
[01:33:13] [SPEAKER_04]: yeah absolutely
[01:33:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and
[01:33:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Stachan
[01:33:17] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:33:17] [SPEAKER_01]: what is
[01:33:19] [SPEAKER_01]: what's he called
[01:33:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Shrekenbach
[01:33:21] [SPEAKER_01]: what's his name is
[01:33:22] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah Shrekenbach
[01:33:23] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:33:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean they like went through it
[01:33:26] [SPEAKER_01]: and then
[01:33:26] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[01:33:27] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:33:28] [SPEAKER_01]: the Lizard was playing
[01:33:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Fred
[01:33:30] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:33:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and beating Hillman to final
[01:33:32] [SPEAKER_01]: that's amazing
[01:33:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Fred and Cindy together
[01:33:34] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah I was at that tournament
[01:33:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and I
[01:33:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I'd gotten
[01:33:38] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah I'd gotten to spend a lot of time with her
[01:33:41] [SPEAKER_00]: she
[01:33:42] [SPEAKER_00]: like she was
[01:33:44] [SPEAKER_00]: the way she approached the game
[01:33:45] [SPEAKER_00]: like she was just real smart about the game
[01:33:47] [SPEAKER_00]: you know smooth pull shot
[01:33:49] [SPEAKER_00]: she was a competitor
[01:33:50] [SPEAKER_00]: she really was
[01:33:51] [SPEAKER_00]: she was
[01:33:52] [SPEAKER_00]: she was a great player
[01:33:53] [SPEAKER_00]: but that
[01:33:54] [SPEAKER_00]: that particular event
[01:33:55] [SPEAKER_00]: you know her and Cindy were battling
[01:33:57] [SPEAKER_00]: at the time they were probably the number one and two
[01:34:00] [SPEAKER_00]: lady players in the world
[01:34:01] [SPEAKER_00]: and they were going back and forth
[01:34:02] [SPEAKER_00]: one of them would win singles
[01:34:03] [SPEAKER_00]: one would win doubles
[01:34:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[01:34:06] [SPEAKER_00]: that was
[01:34:07] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:34:08] [SPEAKER_00]: that was a
[01:34:09] [SPEAKER_00]: that was a big win
[01:34:10] [SPEAKER_00]: that was a really
[01:34:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I think
[01:34:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I think Cindy actually beat her in singles at that tournament
[01:34:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and then
[01:34:15] [SPEAKER_00]: you know
[01:34:16] [SPEAKER_00]: she got her in mixed
[01:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: but she
[01:34:18] [SPEAKER_00]: she
[01:34:18] [SPEAKER_00]: she got the ball on Fred
[01:34:20] [SPEAKER_00]: which
[01:34:20] [SPEAKER_00]: you know is not easy
[01:34:22] [SPEAKER_00]: a lot
[01:34:23] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:34:23] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah I mean
[01:34:24] [SPEAKER_00]: that was
[01:34:25] [SPEAKER_00]: that was a huge win
[01:34:27] [SPEAKER_00]: huge huge win
[01:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: but that's
[01:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: that's a great answer
[01:34:29] [SPEAKER_01]: my favorite part of that tournament was
[01:34:33] [SPEAKER_01]: that here she played like a beast
[01:34:35] [SPEAKER_01]: we're not blowing lines with male or female
[01:34:38] [SPEAKER_01]: because that's nonsense
[01:34:39] [SPEAKER_01]: probably played like a beast
[01:34:41] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:34:42] [SPEAKER_01]: but at the end when she scored that last point
[01:34:44] [SPEAKER_01]: she became this girly girl
[01:34:46] [SPEAKER_01]: she jumped him up
[01:34:48] [SPEAKER_01]: and grabbed you know
[01:34:49] [SPEAKER_01]: second block
[01:34:49] [SPEAKER_01]: and hugged him
[01:34:51] [SPEAKER_01]: and just like
[01:34:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I loved it
[01:34:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I just thought what a great
[01:34:53] [SPEAKER_01]: ending to that tournament
[01:34:55] [SPEAKER_01]: that was
[01:34:56] [SPEAKER_01]: all that emotion
[01:34:57] [SPEAKER_01]: and I get it
[01:34:57] [SPEAKER_01]: because I won
[01:34:58] [SPEAKER_01]: a big tournament
[01:34:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and I didn't even think about it
[01:35:01] [SPEAKER_01]: but when the last ball in
[01:35:02] [SPEAKER_01]: went in
[01:35:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I obviously
[01:35:04] [SPEAKER_01]: didn't even know where I was at
[01:35:05] [SPEAKER_01]: right
[01:35:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of like this
[01:35:06] [SPEAKER_01]: people are surrounding me
[01:35:08] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm going to
[01:35:08] [SPEAKER_01]: what happened?
[01:35:09] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:35:10] [SPEAKER_01]: is this over?
[01:35:11] [SPEAKER_01]: did I actually
[01:35:11] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:35:12] [SPEAKER_01]: and that's kind of how the vibe I got from her
[01:35:14] [SPEAKER_01]: the way she jumped up
[01:35:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and grabbed him
[01:35:16] [SPEAKER_01]: and her feet wrapped around him
[01:35:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I just thought that was the coolest ending ever
[01:35:20] [SPEAKER_01]: but
[01:35:20] [SPEAKER_01]: great choice
[01:35:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I like that
[01:35:22] [SPEAKER_01]: very cool
[01:35:23] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah
[01:35:24] [SPEAKER_02]: well Miriam
[01:35:25] [SPEAKER_02]: it's great
[01:35:26] [SPEAKER_02]: that you took the time out
[01:35:28] [SPEAKER_02]: especially on a Sunday
[01:35:30] [SPEAKER_02]: to join us on Foo's Talk Live
[01:35:32] [SPEAKER_02]: it's great to catch up
[01:35:34] [SPEAKER_02]: looking forward to seeing you out on the road
[01:35:36] [SPEAKER_02]: we're all going to be at Worlds by the way
[01:35:39] [SPEAKER_02]: so
[01:35:40] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:35:41] [SPEAKER_02]: next week
[01:35:41] [SPEAKER_05]: yeah
[01:35:43] [SPEAKER_05]: very shortly at Worlds
[01:35:45] [SPEAKER_02]: yep
[01:35:45] [SPEAKER_02]: and so we'll have to
[01:35:47] [SPEAKER_02]: we'll have to sit down
[01:35:48] [SPEAKER_02]: and maybe
[01:35:49] [SPEAKER_02]: share a microphone yet again
[01:35:51] [SPEAKER_02]: you just never know
[01:35:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm in
[01:35:53] [SPEAKER_05]: this has been really fun
[01:35:54] [SPEAKER_02]: awesome
[01:35:54] [SPEAKER_00]: 12 days
[01:35:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I've enjoyed myself thoroughly
[01:35:58] [SPEAKER_02]: well we hope so
[01:36:02] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:36:03] [SPEAKER_00]: everybody tell Stefan Darby sucks when you see him
[01:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: just say
[01:36:06] [SPEAKER_00]: hey man
[01:36:08] [SPEAKER_04]: leave him alone
[01:36:09] [SPEAKER_04]: leave him alone
[01:36:10] [SPEAKER_00]: listen I gotta give him a hard time
[01:36:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to
[01:36:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to give him a hard time
[01:36:14] [SPEAKER_00]: you know what I like about Stefan Darby?
[01:36:17] what?
[01:36:19] [SPEAKER_00]: whoa
[01:36:20] [SPEAKER_00]: hey Miriam
[01:36:21] [SPEAKER_01]: thanks for coming on
[01:36:22] [SPEAKER_01]: no need
[01:36:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I had a blast
[01:36:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I was joking aside
[01:36:25] [SPEAKER_01]: we've been busting his chops all night
[01:36:27] [SPEAKER_01]: we get along great
[01:36:28] [SPEAKER_01]: I love the guy
[01:36:29] [SPEAKER_01]: we have a plan
[01:36:31] [SPEAKER_01]: he's one
[01:36:31] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what?
[01:36:32] [SPEAKER_01]: he's a fierce competitor
[01:36:33] [SPEAKER_01]: he played hard
[01:36:34] [SPEAKER_01]: he played
[01:36:35] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what?
[01:36:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I look at him like
[01:36:37] [SPEAKER_01]: he turned pro
[01:36:38] [SPEAKER_01]: by basically
[01:36:40] [SPEAKER_01]: at one point he was a pro
[01:36:43] yes
[01:36:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Stefan has never been a pro
[01:36:45] [SPEAKER_01]: yes he has
[01:36:46] [SPEAKER_01]: no one insults pro players
[01:36:48] [SPEAKER_01]: anyway
[01:36:49] [SPEAKER_01]: he took all the ability he had
[01:36:51] [SPEAKER_01]: and put it together and up
[01:36:52] [SPEAKER_01]: he pulled off some tournaments
[01:36:53] [SPEAKER_01]: and you gotta respect that
[01:36:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the guy's awesome
[01:36:56] [SPEAKER_01]: he's hilarious
[01:36:57] [SPEAKER_01]: no matter what
[01:36:58] [SPEAKER_01]: that face looks like on Randy
[01:36:59] [SPEAKER_01]: it's true
[01:37:01] [SPEAKER_02]: the face
[01:37:02] [SPEAKER_02]: the face
[01:37:04] [SPEAKER_01]: the face
[01:37:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I told him when we
[01:37:05] [SPEAKER_01]: where's your hoodie man?
[01:37:07] [SPEAKER_01]: right?
[01:37:08] [SPEAKER_01]: if you have a hoodie
[01:37:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I was gonna wear my hoodie tonight
[01:37:10] [SPEAKER_01]: it's hot in my house
[01:37:12] [SPEAKER_00]: dude it's been like
[01:37:12] [SPEAKER_00]: it was 100 degrees today
[01:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Alabama is so hot
[01:37:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I was actually gonna call Miriam
[01:37:16] [SPEAKER_01]: and say
[01:37:16] [SPEAKER_01]: get your hoodie out
[01:37:17] [SPEAKER_01]: this is why
[01:37:19] [SPEAKER_01]: so we don't have to talk
[01:37:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I wear the hoodie
[01:37:20] [SPEAKER_01]: what's up with the hoodie
[01:37:22] [SPEAKER_01]: so hot
[01:37:24] [SPEAKER_05]: you know how hot
[01:37:25] [SPEAKER_05]: it's been
[01:37:25] [SPEAKER_05]: it felt like 114
[01:37:28] [SPEAKER_01]: in Lafayette today
[01:37:30] [SPEAKER_01]: the heat index
[01:37:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I live in Florida
[01:37:33] [SPEAKER_01]: we get six weeks of cool weather
[01:37:37] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean yeah maybe
[01:37:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll say Louisiana
[01:37:39] [SPEAKER_01]: for sure
[01:37:42] [SPEAKER_01]: but they at least get a break
[01:37:44] [SPEAKER_01]: at times where it gets cold
[01:37:45] [SPEAKER_01]: like
[01:37:46] [SPEAKER_01]: colder
[01:37:47] [SPEAKER_01]: we got hot
[01:37:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think you know what cold is
[01:37:49] [SPEAKER_02]: you don't know what cold is
[01:37:50] [SPEAKER_00]: you don't know
[01:37:52] [SPEAKER_00]: no as soon as summer breaks
[01:37:54] [SPEAKER_00]: like you'll see Miriam
[01:37:57] like
[01:37:57] [SPEAKER_00]: end of September
[01:37:58] [SPEAKER_00]: it'll break
[01:37:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and then you'll have a couple months
[01:38:00] [SPEAKER_00]: where it's like 70
[01:38:01] [SPEAKER_00]: it's nice every day
[01:38:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and then it'll get cold in the winter
[01:38:03] [SPEAKER_00]: and then spring will start
[01:38:04] [SPEAKER_00]: it'll be 70
[01:38:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and then summer will come
[01:38:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and it'll just be
[01:38:07] [SPEAKER_00]: torture hot again
[01:38:10] [SPEAKER_05]: I don't mind the heat
[01:38:11] [SPEAKER_05]: but I'm not wearing a hoodie
[01:38:13] [SPEAKER_05]: not in the heat
[01:38:14] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah there's an inside joke there
[01:38:17] [SPEAKER_01]: it happened
[01:38:18] [SPEAKER_02]: it's not the fashion statement
[01:38:20] [SPEAKER_02]: that Miriam's gonna be burdened with
[01:38:23] [SPEAKER_02]: that's for sure
[01:38:23] [SPEAKER_02]: that's good
[01:38:24] [SPEAKER_01]: in Louisiana
[01:38:25] [SPEAKER_05]: I've got some cool hoodies too
[01:38:27] [SPEAKER_01]: it's not the heat in Louisiana
[01:38:29] [SPEAKER_01]: it's the bugs
[01:38:30] [SPEAKER_01]: oh
[01:38:32] [SPEAKER_01]: those bugs
[01:38:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean
[01:38:33] [SPEAKER_01]: you go to Louisiana certain places
[01:38:36] [SPEAKER_01]: it's like the ground's always moving
[01:38:38] [SPEAKER_01]: and that's coming from Florida
[01:38:39] [SPEAKER_01]: where we have everything crawled
[01:38:41] [SPEAKER_01]: in Louisiana
[01:38:42] [SPEAKER_01]: it's different
[01:38:44] [SPEAKER_02]: what size of house cats
[01:38:45] [SPEAKER_02]: are we talking
[01:38:45] [SPEAKER_02]: what size are we talking here
[01:38:48] [SPEAKER_02]: what's that
[01:38:49] [SPEAKER_02]: what size are the bugs
[01:38:50] [SPEAKER_02]: like house cats
[01:38:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean what are we talking
[01:38:53] [SPEAKER_01]: well you know what
[01:38:54] [SPEAKER_01]: they got them neutral rats
[01:38:55] [SPEAKER_01]: or whatever they call them there
[01:38:56] [SPEAKER_01]: and there used to be a couple of brothers
[01:38:58] [SPEAKER_01]: John and Short
[01:38:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and his brother
[01:39:01] [SPEAKER_01]: who were pretty good foosball players
[01:39:03] [SPEAKER_01]: and they said
[01:39:04] [SPEAKER_01]: you can come out to them swamps boy
[01:39:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and ride them rats
[01:39:06] [SPEAKER_01]: with a rope around them
[01:39:10] [SPEAKER_01]: it's bad
[01:39:11] [SPEAKER_01]: no
[01:39:12] [SPEAKER_01]: and if you've ever seen one
[01:39:13] [SPEAKER_01]: they're really
[01:39:14] [SPEAKER_01]: seriously they're like huge
[01:39:16] [SPEAKER_00]: it looks like a possum
[01:39:18] [SPEAKER_00]: but it's a rat
[01:39:19] [SPEAKER_02]: yeah
[01:39:20] [SPEAKER_02]: oh
[01:39:20] [SPEAKER_02]: geez
[01:39:22] [SPEAKER_05]: giant swamp rats
[01:39:23] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:39:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I gotta
[01:39:24] [SPEAKER_02]: you know get this thing back on the rails
[01:39:26] [SPEAKER_02]: as they used to say
[01:39:27] [SPEAKER_02]: but no
[01:39:27] [SPEAKER_02]: no that's
[01:39:28] [SPEAKER_02]: thank you for that Mike
[01:39:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I appreciate that
[01:39:31] [SPEAKER_02]: you're welcome
[01:39:33] [SPEAKER_02]: so
[01:39:34] [SPEAKER_02]: one last thing
[01:39:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad I could be here for you Tom
[01:39:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Miriam
[01:39:41] [SPEAKER_02]: what's the next five years look like for you
[01:39:43] [SPEAKER_02]: what's your
[01:39:44] [SPEAKER_02]: what's your game plan
[01:39:47] [SPEAKER_05]: oh that's
[01:39:48] [SPEAKER_05]: you're ending on an easy note I think
[01:39:50] [SPEAKER_02]: oh
[01:39:51] okay
[01:39:53] [SPEAKER_05]: so
[01:39:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I
[01:39:56] [SPEAKER_05]: I would like to make Team USA
[01:39:59] [SPEAKER_05]: at the World Cup
[01:39:59] [SPEAKER_05]: like that's been a goal of mine for a while
[01:40:02] [SPEAKER_05]: nice
[01:40:02] [SPEAKER_05]: I think the long COVID thing kind of got
[01:40:04] [SPEAKER_05]: it disrupted it a little bit
[01:40:06] [SPEAKER_05]: but I feel like I'm a bit
[01:40:08] [SPEAKER_05]: I'm back on track
[01:40:09] [SPEAKER_05]: excellent
[01:40:11] [SPEAKER_05]: I've been the coach before
[01:40:13] [SPEAKER_05]: and I wouldn't mind doing that again
[01:40:14] [SPEAKER_05]: but I would prefer to be a player on the team
[01:40:16] [SPEAKER_03]: yeah
[01:40:17] [SPEAKER_05]: so that's
[01:40:18] [SPEAKER_05]: that's one big goal
[01:40:19] [SPEAKER_05]: and I want to be more active with USTSO
[01:40:23] [SPEAKER_05]: we've started
[01:40:24] [SPEAKER_05]: doing stuff
[01:40:26] [SPEAKER_05]: like
[01:40:26] [SPEAKER_05]: Kristen Grogan and Donald Wilson
[01:40:28] [SPEAKER_05]: have kind of sent me over some things to work on
[01:40:31] [SPEAKER_05]: and now that I'm here it's a lot easier
[01:40:34] [SPEAKER_05]: like having spent time in Europe
[01:40:36] [SPEAKER_05]: and I've
[01:40:37] [SPEAKER_05]: and seeing how other federations
[01:40:39] [SPEAKER_05]: operate
[01:40:40] [SPEAKER_05]: and having connections at those other places
[01:40:42] [SPEAKER_05]: and having
[01:40:44] [SPEAKER_05]: like knowing Fareed
[01:40:46] [SPEAKER_05]: and knowing other people who are working on ITSF
[01:40:49] [SPEAKER_05]: I have a good sense of some things that we could do
[01:40:53] [SPEAKER_05]: to
[01:40:54] [SPEAKER_05]: to improve
[01:40:55] [SPEAKER_05]: US foosball
[01:40:56] [SPEAKER_05]: and so I'm excited to do some of those things as well
[01:40:59] [SPEAKER_02]: awesome
[01:41:00] [SPEAKER_02]: fantastic
[01:41:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Mike one last question
[01:41:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I think I've talked enough
[01:41:06] [SPEAKER_02]: oh
[01:41:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Randy
[01:41:08] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what I'm just so happy you came on tonight
[01:41:10] [SPEAKER_01]: because you were definitely one of my favorite people
[01:41:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a blast
[01:41:13] [SPEAKER_01]: ditto
[01:41:14] [SPEAKER_01]: with you
[01:41:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I think you're a lot
[01:41:15] [SPEAKER_05]: we will play together again
[01:41:17] [SPEAKER_05]: I promise we will play together again
[01:41:19] [SPEAKER_01]: you guys tell me that ever since my world championship disaster
[01:41:22] [SPEAKER_01]: but it's okay
[01:41:23] [SPEAKER_01]: at least you don't make me feel like Randy
[01:41:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Randy just says there's no chance, no how, no way
[01:41:28] [SPEAKER_01]: it ain't happening
[01:41:29] [SPEAKER_05]: see
[01:41:29] [SPEAKER_05]: the problem was
[01:41:31] [SPEAKER_05]: I was unwell
[01:41:32] [SPEAKER_05]: and I was like I'm not going to play with Mike again until I feel good playing forward
[01:41:37] [SPEAKER_05]: and I'm getting there
[01:41:38] [SPEAKER_01]: the problem is
[01:41:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm almost there
[01:41:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like I'm going to play with the Rodriguez crown
[01:41:40] [SPEAKER_01]: that was the problem
[01:41:42] [SPEAKER_01]: oh
[01:41:44] [SPEAKER_01]: oh
[01:41:45] [SPEAKER_01]: so I actually played pretty good because I had no clue what state I was in
[01:41:49] [SPEAKER_01]: so
[01:41:49] [SPEAKER_01]: you know
[01:41:50] [SPEAKER_02]: right
[01:41:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Randy
[01:41:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Randy what say you
[01:41:55] [SPEAKER_02]: and what final question would you like to ask
[01:41:58] [SPEAKER_00]: oh no
[01:41:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just
[01:41:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad
[01:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Miriam and Calum are back in the states
[01:42:03] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:42:03] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean
[01:42:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Calum
[01:42:05] [SPEAKER_00]: going to be a US resident soon and
[01:42:08] [SPEAKER_00]: fierce competitor looking forward to
[01:42:10] [SPEAKER_00]: meeting you guys on the table obviously seeing you at Worlds
[01:42:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I always enjoy seeing you
[01:42:15] [SPEAKER_00]: seeing him so
[01:42:16] [SPEAKER_00]: thank you for coming on tonight
[01:42:18] [SPEAKER_00]: and
[01:42:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you in 14
[01:42:22] [SPEAKER_00]: 12
[01:42:22] [SPEAKER_00]: 7 8 9 like 12 days
[01:42:24] [SPEAKER_00]: 12 days
[01:42:26] [SPEAKER_02]: there you go
[01:42:26] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah that's it
[01:42:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready to roll
[01:42:28] [SPEAKER_00]: all my sleepy time drugs are kicking in
[01:42:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready
[01:42:33] [SPEAKER_02]: so again Miriam thank you so much for joining us on Food Talk Live
[01:42:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I have a couple of shout outs I just want to make before we go
[01:42:39] [SPEAKER_02]: shout out to Tommy Yorr Jr.
[01:42:42] [SPEAKER_02]: man
[01:42:43] [SPEAKER_02]: you are the best
[01:42:44] [SPEAKER_02]: you worked so hard yesterday and I'm sorry I made you work so hard
[01:42:48] [SPEAKER_02]: but
[01:42:49] [SPEAKER_02]: thanks for having me and we did have a lot of fun
[01:42:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[01:42:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Tommy Yorr Sr. you can call me T.R.
[01:42:56] [SPEAKER_02]: just saying
[01:42:57] [SPEAKER_02]: lucky
[01:42:59] [SPEAKER_02]: lucky
[01:43:00] [SPEAKER_02]: and
[01:43:00] [SPEAKER_02]: one other thing I do want to say is happy birthday to Todd LaFredo
[01:43:06] [SPEAKER_02]: was he 78?
[01:43:08] [SPEAKER_05]: yesterday
[01:43:08] [SPEAKER_02]: yesterday he turned
[01:43:11] [SPEAKER_02]: 64
[01:43:12] [SPEAKER_02]: 78 right?
[01:43:13] [SPEAKER_02]: 78
[01:43:13] [SPEAKER_02]: oh yeah
[01:43:14] [SPEAKER_01]: 64 that's right
[01:43:16] [SPEAKER_02]: 64 yeah
[01:43:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Todd was 64 when I met him in the 70s
[01:43:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Todd call me when you turn 65 I can help you out with Medicare buddy
[01:43:26] [SPEAKER_02]: nice
[01:43:27] [SPEAKER_02]: nice
[01:43:28] [SPEAKER_02]: speaking of which Randy you and I got to talk
[01:43:30] [SPEAKER_02]: just saying
[01:43:31] [SPEAKER_00]: I got you
[01:43:32] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah
[01:43:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I got you
[01:43:33] [SPEAKER_02]: well guys thanks again this has been Food Talk Live episode number 219
[01:43:38] [SPEAKER_02]: we are back again very soon next weekend and then the following weekend we are going to be out and about Foosball Radio on the road
[01:43:46] [SPEAKER_02]: at the Tornado Championships
[01:43:48] [SPEAKER_02]: see I used the proper terminology this time
[01:43:50] [SPEAKER_02]: are you happy with that Miriam?
[01:43:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not calling it worlds
[01:43:54] [SPEAKER_05]: I appreciate it
[01:43:56] [SPEAKER_05]: Tornado Championships
[01:43:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Tornado Championships
[01:44:00] [SPEAKER_02]: anyway guys have a great night and thanks for tuning in on Twitch TV tonight
[01:44:04] [SPEAKER_02]: really appreciate it and let's talk again soon stay tuned
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[01:44:24] [SPEAKER_02]: the IFP proudly presents the $100,000 2024 Tornado Championships
[01:44:31] [SPEAKER_02]: August 28th through September 2nd at the Clarion Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky
[01:44:36] [SPEAKER_02]: the Rocky Mountain Table Soccer Championships
[01:44:39] [SPEAKER_02]: September 13th through the 15th
[01:44:42] [SPEAKER_02]: at the Mirage Sports Bar in Littleton, Colorado
[01:44:45] [SPEAKER_02]: it's the Canadian Championship of Bonzini Foosball
[01:44:49] [SPEAKER_02]: 2024, September 20th through the 22nd in Montreal, Canada
[01:44:54] [SPEAKER_02]: here comes the 2024 Florida State Championship Masters Open
[01:44:59] [SPEAKER_02]: September 26th through 29th at the Havada Inn in Clearwater, Florida
[01:45:04] [SPEAKER_02]: it's the Louisiana Open Battle in the Bayou
[01:45:08] [SPEAKER_02]: October 4th through the 6th at Sam's Rocket Arcade in Crowley, Louisiana
[01:45:13] [SPEAKER_02]: introducing the $10,000 Great Lakes Classic
[01:45:18] [SPEAKER_02]: featuring the Michigan State Foosball Hall of Fame
[01:45:21] [SPEAKER_02]: October 10th through the 13th at the Hilton Garden Inn, Lansing, Michigan
[01:45:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Dugan Productions presents the 2024 Halloween Open at McGoose in Tulsa, Oklahoma
[01:45:33] [SPEAKER_02]: the Virginia State Foosball Championship with Bonzini
[01:45:37] [SPEAKER_02]: November 7th through the 10th at Peabody's Nightclub, Virginia Beach, Virginia
[01:45:42] [SPEAKER_02]: it's the 2024 North Carolina State Championships November 28th through December 1st
[01:45:49] [SPEAKER_02]: at the Crowne Plaza in Asheville, North Carolina
[01:45:53] [SPEAKER_02]: the 2024 Louisiana State Championships December 5th through the 8th
[01:45:58] [SPEAKER_02]: at the Clarion Hotel in Kenner, New Orleans, Louisiana
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