 Hotel room Always work. Yeah. Yeah Folks We're back Took a little bit different approach during the pandemic everybody started a podcast. I actually didn't do a single one Upgraded my equipment just kind of figuring out what I really want to do with this thing I'm a lot of my new podcast been popping up and doing current events You know doing this that and the other I'm gonna take a little bit different approach. I love the business aspect of wrestling. I love the marketing aspect I also love the coaching aspect on a on a huge level as well But I'm gonna kind of pick some different things I'll still have some guests on and chop it up with those guys, but but for the most part I just want to do something a little bit different and Talk about some different aspects of wrestling that maybe some people don't cover for Whatever reasons whether it's you know Maybe lack of education in the sport from business and marketing aspects and things like that but uh, man If I didn't sit down and talk about The Smiths and kind of my take on it Man, I feel like I feel like there's so much in that audio documentary If you don't know what's what what I'm talking about with the Smiths Ryan Warner from a say wrestling save my life Podcast who exploded on the scene and maybe a year and a half ago and has pretty much pushed himself to the forefront You know with guys like Jason Bryant stuff like that that have been doing you know tons and tons of podcasts and having amazing guys on their show He was commissioned from what I understand by the the wrestling Hall of Fame to do this audio documentary about Smith family and Dude like I follow wrestling I keep up with wrestling a ton and there were so many little nuggets of history With the Smith family and Gable and early 80s through the 90s and and John Smith's coaching career and Pat Smith It's just in Leroy Smith. It's just an amazing story So first if you haven't listened to the Smiths and you're listening to this man I strongly advise you to hit pause on this go listen to the Smiths. He also just posted uncut versions of Mark Branch interview Dan Gable interview and And John Smith interview a lot of stuff that they got left on the editing room floor That's just amazing nuggets and if you're a guy like me who? Approaches stuff like that trying to get an edge coaching get an edge just you know With your own personal goals in life, and there's so many tiny things there I kind of relate it to watching the last dance when I watch the last dance With Michael Jordan and and you you get to see inside the mind of an elite competitor There's tons of little things that if you watch it more than once or listen to what they're saying or look a little bit Deeper into what they're saying. There's tons of things in there That that you can just take away You know just just to better yourself as a coach as a competitor as a human being so And I thought it was kind of funny set duck work who covers a ton of Oklahoma State stuff Put out a tweet. He's like I just want to sum up the Smiths for you So I want to make sure I give him credit I could just I could just read this what Seth said and then boom it's a wrap and I'm done with this episode He says a two-time NCAA champ John Smith won six consecutive world and Olympic medals while Simultaneously coaching a team that was given the death sentence penalty by the NCAA then leading them to an NCAA Title in their first year of probation all before the age of 30 I might have still been like Wet in my pants and eat my boogers when I was 30 before I figured out what I want to do in life But when you look at the magnitude of what that guy did, you know win an Olympic and world gold medals While still in college and things like that. It's just amazing what? What this guy was able to accomplish from a competitive standpoint But the thing that I looked at and the thing I kind of correlate with Guys like John Smith and Michael Jordan. It's just a mental edge They were able to not only get to but refine and maintain as they continued to Compete as they continued to get to the pinnacle of their sport and try to get further beyond the pinnacle of their sport And it's three three main categories that I kind of broke down chunks And I made tons of notes while I was listening to it And I would relisten to stuff and make more notes and you know My kids are probably tired of hearing about the Smith quotes because the last week and a half all I've been doing is talking about The podcast of you know the Smiths and and the little pieces I took away elite competitive mindset is Is something that you know those guys just find another level to to keep their brains while they're competing? Preparation the the links that these guys went through to prepare to win at that elite level consistently and Just and then and then lastly being self-aware, you know just being self-aware of Not only where they're at Physically and mentally but the environment around them, you know and what they're allowing themselves to be exposed to or not to be exposed to So those are the kind of things that I wanted to kind of dive into and specific incidents That you know took John Smith from this guy who was really good in high school, and he got to college To a guy who didn't have a great, you know first season in the NCAA Not placing and then going on to win two NCAA titles But you know also winning six consecutive Olympic and world gold medals, which you know We never thought at the time it could be beat Jordan Burroughs is you know pushing the envelope of trying to get there But even if he does even if he went out one eight, it's not consecutive, right? So they'll always be that question of consecutive can somebody do six consecutive And it just goes to show like you know how ridiculously tough that is to do and and not only that at a young age So, you know competitive mindset and the things I took away from it when I'm talking about When I'm talking about John and just listen to him talk about the things and a lot of people, you know Will equate the Goodwill game success he had, you know, so he comes into college And this quote, you know is telling to me And I've really tried to figure out how to relay it to to my you know high school middle school guys is He talks about he said everybody that comes into colleges, you know four-time state champ undefeated Won everything under the sun he was like and then you get to college and you realize, you know, you're just you're just another guy You're just another athlete and he said what what guys start doing is is as they realize the amount the extra amount of work That they have to put in on top of being good at wrestling and managing lifestyle and and all that stuff He said they go from thinking they're gonna be a four-time undefeated in CAA champ to being okay with being a one-time NCA champ and then that mindset goes from You know, I want to be a one-time NCA champ to now It's okay if I'm just a couple time all-american and he was like the problem is they start to settle And I think that's that's extremely important, you know As us coaches at the at the at the middle school high school youth level is Preparing those guys for for that moment when you get to college to where within a season You don't just go from hey, I am gonna be an NCA champ to man It would just be nice to go to the NCA tournament and you start converting your mindset to I'm gonna be elite And great, so I'm just gonna settle for for X And he talks about a lot of times in his career where where he where he was Almost kind of getting to that point, you know But but when he reflects back from you know Not having the freshman season that he wants and he takes this red shirt year and he goes to the Goodwill You know, he gets better and better and better You know, and then he has this kind of breakout at the Goodwill games and he starts to realize okay You know, I feel like I can win at this elite level I feel like I can go back to college now and you know and and be an NCA champ You know, then he goes back to college. He thinks he's gonna be an NCA champ the next year back You know and he meets Jim Jordan in the finals, you know and and he was like, you know a lot You a lot of times you walk away from a match and you think you know If I got one more chance to wrestle that guy I can beat him and he was like, you know I had to be self-aware at that point, you know, I couldn't lie to myself I wasn't gonna beat Jim Jordan that day. I wasn't gonna beat him a month from now You know, I still had a ton of work to do So, you know the way that John Smith was able to layer His motivation and he talks about it in different ways He talks about, you know, just being disappointed that he lost course He didn't lose that many times in college or in his career period He talks about he talks about those those those different levels of being able to Kind of quantify his emotions, right? So he he goes back to the Gil Sanchez loss They go wrestling a duel. He gets beat by Gil Sanchez team packs up and goes home and He drives to the next tournament. He doesn't go home him and his roommate drive to the next tournament and He's going and and and trying to find this guy and he explains he said, you know I wasn't mad that I lost that match. I was embarrassed He was like in it and that that to me meant something different, you know When he when he goes all the way to the Omaha open to try to meet Gil Sanchez He he showed up there to to beat Gil Sanchez not to avenge a loss But because he was embarrassed and the way and and I and I go back and think about some of the things Michael Jordan said in the In the last dance These guys took certain things in their career personal and a lot of times it wasn't the He he was he was in the the finals of the NBA Championship and he missed a shot to win the game and like it was all over the news or whatever like he was bringing up Stories about a rookie made a comment about putting up 30 on him and he would go out and put up 40 on that kid instead You know John Smith was was Motivated by certain things or people like oh man, you're you're you're underclassmen, you know, he's really really good You know like it's okay. It's just a loss, you know, he had an unbelievable way of of Kind of categorizing things in his mind that made sense that pushed him to be an elite competitor And that's something that as a coach, man, I can I can take a story like that I can take a situation like that and I can kind of you know, chop it up to a kid Be like look, do we do we just want to chop this up as a loss a bad match or you know, what are you feeling right now? Do we need to get in the car and go drive it if I and this is old school way of thinking You know John Smith didn't go home with the team He drives, you know to the Omaha open and then beat skill Sanchez But you know he even reflects back on that and he was talking about the lack of respect He gave kill the first time he wrestled him You know and again, that's another great coach and teaching point to where he's talking about, you know, what I? I didn't respect this guy as a competitor I thought I was just gonna come in and stomp a mud hole in him and He beat me and he didn't just beat me beat me up a little bit And then I chase him down to the Omaha open I go and wrestling there and it was everything and I could do in my power just a beating by a couple points You know when he's walking away from that going like There's still a lot of work to do. There's still a lot of work to do Um and he talks about a lot of different aspects, you know from that elite competitor mindset And it was something that kind of correlates I remember chale sunning talking about this a while back And it might even be in when I had him on the podcast or not But he talks about winning a thousand little battles inside of a six minute match or a 15 minute fight um And I think for us as coaches We want to go out and win a six minute war, right? Or we want to win a six minute battle But are we preparing our kids to win a thousand tiny battles within that one six minute match? And I think a lot of times with kids that possibly overthink the competitive realm or possibly overthink um a period or I got a A position like I got to be good on top Like how can we refine that down as a coach and just be like, okay? You know this battle right here Is is the angle battle first thing we got to do is get an angle and the second thing we got to do is is win the level battle So we got to be lower than the guy and third thing we got to do is is win the position battle by getting to the single leg You know, so all these little tiny snippets and chunks of things that john smith's just saying because that's the way he thinks I'm just writing down left and right like how can I take what the grade is done or what some of the greatest have done And correlate that to what i'm doing with You know a little johnny that walked in here, you know, he's been wrestling for a half a season, you know, but He wants to be an olympic champ one day, you know, how do how do I how do I get him progress him over the next eight ten years To get to that point. Um, and he talked a lot about coach chesborough And this was something that that I feel like I got stuck in the technique um role as a coach as opposed to That conditioning power Um type of coach because there's a lot of coaches that we're going to win on conditioning and physicality And pressure, you know, and and we're going to create diamonds out there Um, I'm more of a skill first coach and he talks pretty in depth about the coaches that he's had around him in his career Um, and he talked about coach chesborough always putting skill first And he was like I think a lot of times when you're coaching athletes Um, we have a tendency to not put skill first And we focus so much on the conditioning and in the conditioning and the power factor not that you don't need it for wrestling Everybody needs it, right? So but does that put so much stress on them making them worry about are they constantly in shape or their weight cuts on point To where if anything happens with their shape They can't feel the gaps with their skill um And again another beautiful nugget right there that if you don't look deeper into the words You know john smith's kind of putting out there and talking about his career And how he progressed and the coaches that impacted him, you know There's so many small takeaways there, you know and and me selfish as a coach man I'm just trying to get get as refined and as efficient I can with the communication with my kids but also being able to correlate it To to real world things instead of just saying Hey, I said it just do it believe it, you know, there there's a correlation there and everybody gives oklahoma stay And now when you go back and look at it, everybody gives us oklahoma stay. Oh, they're slick You know, they're just going to try to out trick you and this that and the other Well, are they really trying to be slick and out and out trick you or are they just being skillful And some of the other programs i'm not saying they don't know how to wrestle and they don't know technique, but Where's the emphasis right, you know, and and it's always going to go to iowa oklahoma state You know, iowa is going to be these caveman type guys, which you know, you look now in the last You know, probably five six years. It's not even the case anymore. Yeah, iowa is going to be in shape Yeah, they're going to be tough. Yeah, they're going to be in your face for you know, seven minutes But you know, it's not like iowa is coming in a bunch caveman and they can't read and then oklahoma state's coming in You know valedictorians and and and it's a battle against, you know brains versus brawn But you do see this you do see distinct Separations between how coaches coach And i like i like the perspective he gives of Not being in shape or a kid always obsessing about his shape Starting to be a stress factor and weigh on him But you could play both sides of the coin and say hey a kid not knowing skill You know that could weigh on him as well. So I think balance is you know, is huge there coach and wise And you know I got I got so many notes in here, you know for things, you know, and I just wanted to touch on the big chunks But he also talks a lot about balance And for a guy like john smith, you know, i'm not i'm not thinking i'm gonna get you know that type of thing We're like balance and and things like that Um, but you got to figure 17 year old kid coming into college 17 coming into college some kids these days With the whole backs or birthdays or whatever it is, you know, they're getting a college at 20 years old You know john smith's 17 years old college. Um, but he talks about you know like they're Two more chunks, you know huge chunks and and again I'm just i'm just i'm just spitting from a lot of my notes and things that I took is like You know, so like that elite competitor mindset And then you got the the the fear or The fear of lack of preparing he actually talks about that or the obsession to prepare Um, and then you know just being self aware in general Whether it's after a win after a loss and and essentially just being honest it with yourself Just being able to look in a mirror, you know and be honest with yourself as a competitor as a as a coach as a as a human being as a teammate Um, you know and and again like you know, he starts college in 17 A lot of kids these days are entering college at 20 20 years old You know, so he's he's three years behind the curve, which back then i'm assuming 1718 was that the average age coming in But again, you're still talking about a 17 year old kid entering a grown man's world Um and and and one of the things he's you know, he talks about is you know They go over to tbilisi and and this is one of the the trips that he talks about was one of the turning points So like goodwill games was kind of like i've arrived You know, but the tbilisi trip was like holy smokes. I'm not as good as I thought I was So tbilisi if you don't know back then was tougher than the world championships and the olympics combined because soviet union hadn't split up yet so There was only one guy at every weight for the entire soviet union and we know how deep soviet union was Um, but all of those guys went to tbilisi. Um, so it was literally the toughest You know tournament in the planet every year. Um, and One thing that he talks about is like His mindset when he was there and he was like I remember complaining about how cold it wasn't there he was like I was I was worried about how cold it was. I wasn't worried about Preparing myself to compete or all the work that I'd done to get there to beat, you know, the russians I was worried about how cold it was in there. You know, of course, he doesn't win tournament You know, he's taking this long but a train ride back. I believe it was moscow and uh And he tells a story about looking out the window and starting to realize how hard these people lived And like they didn't have a choice but to not live hard and that's all they knew And he's sitting here, you know feeling sorry for himself and talking about, you know, uh That point where he realized These guys are born with an edge, you know, and you can go open parentheses. Yeah, but they cheat and take steroids close parentheses It doesn't matter and even addresses that in the uncut interview. I don't think it's in the in the actual, uh, Production version he was like if they are taking steroids and they're not getting caught Then I got to learn how to beat them that way So I got to get a better edge on top of the edge that I'm already creating But he talks about just Observing the world these guys lived in on a day-to-day basis And then he was like and then I think back about all I was bitching about was how cold it was in the venue He's like that's why I lost I was focused on the wrong things He was like these guys probably weren't even worried about having warm water taking a shower later because that's the way they lived um And just being able to observe that and be self-aware And make an adjustment and then he talks about how that led to his crazy training hours at Gallagher You know and and and going up there and running at 11 at night at 2 a.m Whether he stayed up and went and ran or whether he just set an alarm and woke up in the middle of the night and went And ran because he had to fabricate an edge You know and like that's that's crucial to me when I'm talking to an athlete and I'm like You know, okay. Well you go to practice every day and then you come here and get a little extra work in like you know the compound like Is that enough or you creating a big enough competitive edge to the guy that You know is one at three years in a row and and you hadn't qualified like how are you going to create an edge and and bridge that gap You know and and everybody's got different levels of crazy, right? Like I don't want all my kids waking up at 2 in the morning and going and running in a dark gym you know, but The ability for elite competitors to fabricate an edge mentally and physically Is just something that You gotta you gotta understand and you got to get inside their brains and you got to observe their behavior and do it um And he talks about the preparation to do something that's never been done before And and the difference between knowing the moment and respecting it Or giving it too much respect And letting it overwhelm you And again, that's another you know huge nugget coming out of that is like All we do is train for the moment train for the moment train for the moment. We're training to win a state title We're training to win a national title. We're training to be nca champ. Um, but how much of that moment? Fires us up versus scares the hell out of us Um, and that goes back a lot to balance and that goes back a lot to believing in your training That goes back a lot to believing in Everything you've done to get to that point, you know and and and knowing that you're going to be the best version of yourself on that day And if not, you go back to the drawing board and you know and and fix it and and and move on um, but his biggest You know the biggest takeaway from me with with coach smith is his confidence through preparation like After he kind of got that that slap in the face of tbilisi and after you know The gill sanchez loss and some of this stuff He's starting to realize that he might have prepared perfectly on a physical level Might might not have always prepared perfectly on a mental level um And you know for him to be self aware and kind of rewind and go back to that stuff Was just just very refreshing for me to to kind of see Him talk about um You know, can you can you go in a college room and go two months without scoring a point? You know and knowing that's You know gonna be part of your growth and and and when you get to that point, you know and and and a perfect example of that Is mark branch um and to me the uncut versions Man gable and smith uncut versions were amazing But mark branches was so refreshing because he's just a character anyways um and and he talks about Pat smith Kind of turning him into the guy that won an nca title with a losing record um And there was an actual conversation with I believe john and pat at some point Or you know pat was talking to somebody else and like Branch is starting to beat him in some goes at practice And I think either john or somebody was worried is like and I don't know if pat's ready to win his fourth And pat takes the other perspective and he's like I'm gonna win my fourth Branch is gonna win a title like no, he's I haven't gotten that bad. He's gotten that good You know what I'm saying? So it's one of those is like, you know That's a perfect example of taking a guy who Really didn't get a lot of scholarship money probably ended up on Oklahoma State's roster because they were On that that probationary period and couldn't really keep anybody or recruit anybody new And they were just doing the best that they could to keep everybody on the team without leaving Everybody burned a red shirt, you know, uh freed burned a year Um to stay on that team when they had that year probation So like, you know branch is like I kind of gotten the lineup because the team wasn't that good And then stayed the course and you know here We are talking about one of the craziest stories nca tournament ever is you know Our branch coming in with a losing record when nca title um You know, so so that type of thing of just confidence through preparation. I think is Such a undervalued um thing we preach to our kids um and The self-awareness aspect to me I'll be honest with you. It's not that I thought coach Smith was just this dumb caveman wrestler guy but I I I grossly underestimated what a deep thinker he was And the perspective that he gave in some of the interviews on you know, just How to prepare for pressure, you know, and a lot of this might be hindsight Obviously, you know, if we know everything going into every moment, it's it's it's it's easier to deal with But he talks about, you know, and this was more with uh with more with pat I think that it was with with him that he was talking about was You know, once you get pretty good You know getting getting good isn't isn't that big of a deal because nobody knows who you are and you're under the radar or whatever But when you when you start winning, that's when the pressure kicks in, you know When you're the guy, that's when the target's on your back And I think a lot of times like, you know, we focus so much on getting there and it's like, okay We're there Holy smokes like now we gotta we gotta we gotta still progress and grow and and and prepare With all this other baggage that came with it the pressure the target, you know, people gunning for you. Um, and he talks about Losing to la lasar and oh so and that being kind of like a big rival Um, and he said, you know, he was coming up on his fourth fifth world title And he's starting to realize there's a little bit of lack of motivation They even talked about, you know, he never went on trips He never took vacations stuff like that and they go on this trip to cancun after he won his fourth title And he was like I couldn't have fun like I couldn't like I couldn't let let go. I couldn't lay back like I'm four world titles into this thing Like I can't take a week off, you know, people are gonna catch me I can't take a week off I need to be reno so like this guy's gotta this guy's gotta win over me Like it's it's bothering me and I think you can take that to a bunch of different levels And I think you can take that to a level that that's not healthy Um, but it's different levels for different people, right? Some people can operate at that high level and sacrifice and be like, look, you know I'll take a vacation when I'm done winning six seven eight nine 10 world titles Or I'm gonna have balance and quality of life and my whole life's not gonna be about all this stuff Um, but I think if we go back and look at history There are very few people that were kind of part-time or half invested, you know, that Ended up being, you know, some of the greats in sports business, whatever it is. Um, but like Probably the most gangster self-aware thing that that I observed through this entire, you know, seven episode series of the smiths is John Smith is the most gangster dude of all time And if you think about it not just what I opened up with and what he did But this guy went from 17 year old freshman thinking he's going to be a four-time nca champ To not even winning his first two years trying to be an nca champ To creating a low level attack um That ended up changing the world But this guy is traveling the country and putting out dv not dvd is probably not even dvd vhs tapes back then on how To actually teach it and use it for the rest of the world. So that's like me creating the secret sauce And then sharing the secret sauce with everybody else or me creating secret sauce that makes me Bad ass and then sharing the secret sauce with everybody else While i'm still trying to be the baddest ass on the planet Like to me that's the most gangster thing of all time And then giving everybody the answers to the test and then still going out there and beating them When it's time to take the test like that's ultimate elite level of confidence You know, that's babe roof calling his shot. That's jordan telling people he's gonna put up 40 on him and putting up 50 you know, that's like Unbelievable amount of of self confidence But if you go back and look at the layers of why It's because of all these things that he had in place of just being self aware of of him and who he was And and what got the most out of him and who he needed to be around It was the the tireless preparation, you know that that built that self confidence. It was consistency It was creating an edge no matter what that meant whether it was training at 2 a.m You know or or getting extra workouts in it. He talked about sometimes he was working out three four times a day you know, um And all of this technical Kind of preparation stemmed from, you know, traveling all around the country at a young age with coach chesborough And learning how to teach technique learning how to be Systematical with technique, you know, and I'll be honest with you man. I'd heard about chesborough coach chesborough. Um, and I didn't I didn't know this dude was that big of a g Like the way coach smith describes him and talks about the way this guy thought and the way this got taught And coached like man like I got to do some more research on coach chesborough And I I got to get and that guy's brain even more because you know John smith gives him all the credit in the world, you know, and and and john smith's the greatest You know what i'm saying? So like, you know, and and that skill over power that skill over conditioning You know, it's just something that that resonates huge with me as a coach You know trying to get one kid who maybe has goals of just starting versus a kid who has goals of You know being being a olympic champ one day, you know and and how do we Create those layers as a as a as a coach and you know as a mentor and and put them into play You know, but if you think back about john smith's career and you think about back about the things he did You know, uh, you know all the medals all the titles As a competitor Created one of the one of the leg attacks. It's revolutionized wrestling Then he goes on to do it at the coaching level as well um And he gave you a lot of the answers to the test in this in this podcast. So um, I could sit here and talk for 27 hours about it, but you know There were certain turning points and and and and john smith's career. Um, and I didn't even really talk about lee roy Getting arbitrated out off the olympic team by randy lewis Um and and him using that uh and and coach gable even talks about that in the interview He was like, I think part of that is what made john smith john smith Um and john talked about it a little bit, but he didn't talk about it as a motivation Um as much as is you know somebody that's bitter and hateful about a situation He just kind of the vibe I got from it as I looked at it as a situation that I would never let happen to me You know what i'm saying? I would never let I'm i'm gonna beat everybody so bad and i'm gonna be so dominant and i'm gonna be Such the guy that nobody could go to a courtroom and be like, yeah, that was wrong You deserve to be on the team instead of you. Um, but like I said, man I I just wanted to kind of get my take on it as as kind of a coaching perspective and some of the nuggets that That I took away from you know, the things that the john smith talked about, you know, and and mark branch and and pat smith You know and and part of the things that pat talked about, you know, it wasn't It wasn't being you know, a four-time nca champ to to be better than john It was it was being a four-time nca champ because that was something, you know, you know pat smith wanted to do um And he talks about a specific conversation that that he had with john um Leading up to the fourth title and he didn't want to take a red shirt Um, but they were under they were under probation and he was like look man, like You know freed's gonna burn a year You know, you're talking about transferring to oklahoma lee roy smith was coaching to arizona state He was like you want to win your fourth title in a different singlet or you want to win your fourth title here, you know and and and they talk about wanting to do it Versus having to do it and like if I have to take away anything from this podcast that that ryan did and talk into gable and smith and or coach smith and pat smith and some of these great guys it's Talking to these kids about wanting to do something with their life or wrestling career versus having to do it And when you want to do it It's a whole different perspective Instead of having to do it because when you have to do it It's a totally different mindset when you're having to do it because your uncles did it Totally different mindset when you're wanting to do it because you want to be great Totally different mindset landscape changes everything about your mental makeup changes and again, man There's just so many nuggets in this So if you're a coach and you're trying to figure out how to be better coach If you're a coach and you're a good coach and you're trying to trying to get that that that's that edge here and there To be able to communicate with your elite athletes because it's easy to coach the middle school kid That don't know a lot about wrestling It's the nationally ranked guys in our room that we're trying to get just as much growth out of At at 16 17 years old as we did when they were seven years old That's even tougher, you know, so there's so many elite coaching Angles and tips and and points of view in this that man I'll tell you man. I'm gonna go back and rewatch it and I'm gonna make some more notes Um, I can't thank ryan warner enough for taking the time To get all these small details Collected and putting a format for crazy wrestling junkies like me to listen to um, and lastly dog on it if if John smith really did eat wendy's before he made his his second olympic team, uh And and if if mark branch really did eat bacon cheese burgers from waffle house before he won nca titles I actually text mark's branch. I was like, please tell me this is a true story and he was like I was just too dumb to know any different. Um, god bless him. I'll tell you what like I hope all my kids don't start eating Eating wendy's and eating bacon cheese burgers for waffle house before big days in their life But uh, like I said, go check out the smiths. The hustle is back I got a lot of great ideas man DM me shoot me a text email me any topics that I want I'm gonna have some I'm gonna have some amazing guests on the show I'm also gonna take some time and just Um, believe it or not. I don't know why but people DM me a lot of time and want my opinion on certain things in my perspective So, um, I'm gonna do some brain dumps like this every now and then and just take a lot of thoughts and throw them down on paper and and spit them out to you guys Give me tons of feedback. Um good and bad Uh, the hustle is here to stay. I'm gonna try to get at least one out a week if not more Um, but stay tuned. I'm fired up And I got more songs than the Beatles