 On this episode, I head up to NC State for World Team Trial. World Team Trial's morning. I'm supposed to have a ride. I'm driving instead. I decided not to drive in six and a half hours up there, just because A, I'm lazy, and B, that was stupid. I waited too long to book my flight and it went up like 300 bucks. So, on you, Delta. I've recently become obsessed with seeing how late I can leave my house and still make my flight. So, my flight starts boarding in 10 minutes. I'm still 10 minutes from the airport. We gonna make it happen. Quick little pre-pride. Quick little pre-flight prayer. No crime, baby. No disgusting big people pouring over into my seat. Nobody cough and spreading hands, foot, and mouth disease or SARS. My drawback to my terrible habit of showing up late is, I miss the check bag cutoff when it does some time, so I'm carrying this one. Stay with me. Made it to Raleigh. Did not die. Ubering straight to the venue. It's always an amazing challenge finding where the Uber pickup is every airport in America, because every airport in America hates Uber. Free your range services. That could mean so many things going on right here. I lied about straight to the venue. Had to drop off some crap. See if we can get some type of credential. Made it in. Found this non-store. Oh, this is Cindy Clarence's store. Hey, what is up? Nomad Art Dip. He's probably doing some real work. What am I doing? What am I doing? Check the VMs. Pretty sweet setup. Yeah. I was doing a quick pen. Don't ruin the last one. What's up, brother? Predictions. Okay. What am I predicting here? I don't know. It's just a random. The end of the world? You know what I mean? The end of the world is coming to 2032. We're going to run out of water. It's going to be bad. It's going to be bad. Did the dinosaurs come back? No, no. There's going to be a water war. It's going to be like Mad Max or some shit. Probably Shamu. Probably Shamu's going to kill us. Shamu's going to kill us. What does it show to the water? Shamu's going to kill us. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, they're coming out of the water. Okay, first of all, I wanted the Night King to win because I wanted a show to be like, everyone dies. He boned his ant a couple of times. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. I'm basically already ending, right? Like, I don't know. Denarius is either going to go completely crazy or her and John are going to settle down happily ever after. I don't know. You know, I've never watched one episode. Neither have I. Not one episode have I ever watched a game of thrones. When it's on and I don't care. Trials session two, open it back up. I got an announcement on Mat 1, had a blast. Hopefully they don't fire me. Thank you for... Why do you love the pirates so much? Pirates, I hate the pirates. National buddies, you know it. Winding down, the day is getting wrapped up. I was trying to sneak up on you. You're trying to skate out. I was going to hold it for you. Thoughts on day one? Thoughts on day one, great. Brayton Lee likes being down by six or seven points and then he'll win after that. That seems to be his game plan. Who was the most disappointing for you? Stuck it up the most. Honestly, I'd have to say Nomad today. That's a good call. That's always a safe bet when you don't want to call somebody out. Bader, who are you most disappointed in their performance today? I'm not even going to ask who. Cliff Rettwell. Well, if you were Brock Hyde, I would believe that, but you're not. After that, probably Christian. He said Nomad. Nomad, who's performance are you the most disappointed in today? Today, yours. I'm an easy target. Screw all of these cats. Boss again this morning? I'm telling you, he's the worst driver. Do not put this in there. All right, hold on. There's a lot of things going on. One, you are not Big Ten's. This dude... He almost wrecked, not wrecked, but like, he like slams on the gas. Hard break. The first thing he does, we're getting the rental car. He's like mashing the... Couldn't, he literally couldn't pull it into us. What happens when you try and eat like me? You're stupid. Each one of us are freaking stupid. You started it. I started it. You started it. There's no way I'm going to eat all this. You said left though. We're only here for another day. They have a branch. Big low night with the flow guy. Grab some pizza. Some nice little local IPAs at Trophy Brewery. Man, I love my man Ryan Holmes. He's the goat. Tomorrow. The seniors. Take to the mat. Got the gourmet breakfast. Holmes is picking me up in ten. I got to smash this quick. You're unusually not hype, no mad. It's kind of a big day. I did a loud clap in the room about three times. Let me see the loud clap. It's Christian awful. It doesn't matter. Oh wow, that is a loud clap. PTSD. Just come back on you. Day two. Did you get your sleep? It wasn't great, but it doesn't matter. Why? You didn't get your hyperalagenic, post-trapedic sleep numbers? No, I didn't. Some people just need way too much. You get good sleep. All right, great sleep. What about my sleep to the office chair? I feel like you can sleep in your wrestling stance. I had a nice bed. Had a good chat with my friends, Mark Bader and Sean Connell. Oh wow. Then we had a little bottle of wine. That just sounds like normal fun. Senior start, mini tournament, world team trials. Junior's best of three. Ladies gonna scrap. Gonna be pretty crazy. Reynolds arena behind. I might call some matches. I might just hang out. I don't know. I'm just soaking it in right now. That's all the dandies work. Are you digging on the little guys? Are you digging on the little guys? That's the only people I can. This is a picture you took when you were in California? Nice little fishing hat, right? Going bald, so I need something. I've got to protect your hair. No, you've got to protect your bald spot. I know. You can see through, man. Office for the day. I don't know why this guy's overseeing. This is the video announcing oversight committee. Feel the pressure now. I'm gonna have to be very professional. Dang it. We have lost all power in the arena. Pandemonium in the air. Borrowing Spaze rental car. Fitting tag for Spaze driving ability. Because that's what you are when you're riding with Spay. Quick coffee run. Piles just left out on me this morning. Took one of the rental cars. Didn't even ask. Hey, Cliff, you want some caffeine? The answer's yes. Now, what am I doing? I'm going to get my own coffee and I'm getting piles of coffee. So I believe we call that turning the other cheek. And just like that, it's a wrap. What other rock star head coaches are you going to see rolling up matches? Man, not scared of hard work at all. It is contagious, man. Hard work is contagious. And you got to lead by example. Experience at World Team Trials. Not just being there as a fan, but got to come to my first matches with Mark Bader, even though it's been a long time I saw us being in the same realm together. We've never commentated broadcast before. I'm getting to see my man Tony Ramos hanging up, great friend, and just an all-around good dude. And I got to see Gable Stevenson battle for World Team Spot as a practically a teenager. And just got to see some amazing wrestling and some great friends in the community. I'm super blessed to be able to call out of these high-level guys, my friends and coaches and mentors and things like that and just be in the same scene with them and be shoulder to shoulder and just experience on the level that I never thought I'd be able to win a wrestling.