 Eric you're doing the counting here man you're doing the you're the rope counter but you're also gonna do a simultaneous interview is that work all right you can do it you can multitasker right yep okay first off Nebraska you're not in Nebraska anymore you're back in Albuquerque that's great how's that good it's gonna be home you know I miss miss Nebraska you got three I miss Nebraska but you know I was ready to be home and it's good to be around my family I haven't been around them that much in the past few years looking for a coaching job right now you know it might it might be enough to another kid yep just for kids to get recruited will your sons Russell that's something that you're interested in them dude yeah absolutely my dad raised me was he never pushed me to do anything you know he always pushed me to work hard but he never he wanted me to play baseball probably more so in wrestling so you know but he was one of those dads that said hey you know this is what you want to do I'm gonna support you and he didn't know a damn thing about it but you know he traveled me and I wanted to go places and and that's you know that's I guess the point I'm getting as if they wanted to do something else as long as they worked hard and tried to become the best of it I don't care but I you know I would love to look at your career you don't feel like this year was maybe was do you feel like it was your best year even though it wasn't your highest finish you know yeah sorry we talked no you're doing a job we already talked we're gonna multitask here but you know the throat slash was it was a big win for you and in Carver Hawkeye you had a great year man you won the one the Midlands yep you just you had a great season what do you think it says about how you finished and and where you finished in the sport of wrestling how did you feel about it I don't I still hurt you know just because I really felt like this is gonna be a year that I just envisioned it for so long I was gonna come out on top it didn't happen and it really hurts and I think watching that guy win probably made it sting a little bit more just because I you know I did it with a hurt shoulder and I was healthy I mean relatively healthy so I think and you know that was kind of my nemesis in my mind after my junior year I left there not put his name everywhere in my room and I'm training to beat him and he's the one who got it done so you know yeah it was a good year at the end of the day and you know just gotta move on and hopefully that like I said if I compete and go into fighting hopefully hopefully I never ever feel that feeling again these kids aren't from a state with a ton of division one wrestling opportunity you came from a state with no division one wrestling opportunity Ken guys from the Western States when I you know I talked to people a lot about this I feel like you guys aren't a huge disadvantage out here in the West how do guys in the West how can they be as good as the guys in the East in the Midwest we had just to get touch rewind a little bit you know it's true you know there's not a lot of opportunity and you know you look around most of these kids are Hispanic like I am and so you know that's the reason I'm out here you know I'm trying to give back and you know you're right and that's that's why these things are important because it gives them opportunity to know to get looked at and markets the wrestling here you know if you got bubble Jenkins walking around you mark Munoz here earlier you know you're you're giving them resources and allowing them to network I never had that never had that we never had one program and it's the Highlands and then you know no offense that was not great wrestling and in order to get to that level you have to work harder because you don't have the partners you don't have the coaches so I think I had to work twice as hard to get to where I was compared to some of the guys that were you know my weight that I was wrestling you know just to just to match them I even just so it's tough you know and I only got I didn't get recruited by a lot of schools because who recruited you Grand Canyon you said Grand Canyon wow that's it. So all the two business I took. Wow. Grand Canyon already have a program anymore Campbell's obviously flourishing. Exactly yeah this is because you know they didn't it's not their fault no one knew there wasn't anything going on in the mix. There's no way to make sense you know why I didn't get recruited. Maybe yeah to Mexico right exactly and then when I say it to you guys are to disadvantage there's it clearly are when you're in Ohio and PA you can drive 45 minutes in any direction and get your butt kicked this way yeah I always go I always tell everybody this. Look at Penn State. Simple why they're at us. They have the coaches. They didn't call. They get in state tuition and they have the best. They have the best state with the recruit. You know what I mean? Pennsylvania. Yeah exactly and you're getting in state tuition. It's big. If you get 30% in state it's a lot of money you're not paying that much opposed to coming from out of state like Nebraska in states 15,000 out of states like 37,000. So if I'm getting 30% out of state that's nothing compared to 30% in state and it just makes it so much easier you know and that's you know they have a great program great coaches and all that great wrestlers I'm just saying. You're in the best state. You're in the best state. Look at the unsafe qualifiers. And they're getting in state. Look at the unsafe qualifiers. It's double Pennsylvania the next state. Illinois, Ohio, California. Exactly. Pretty crazy. All right man you got anything else from me? No man just... Is it nice to finally put a face with a voice? Is that nice? Did you ever do Ironman? Did it over here. I'll live right next to it. I'd be watching that one. I remember doing that voice. I wonder if that guy's got a face made for radio. Oh he does. Alright Eric thanks for the time man.