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Brewsers #363- Caysea McBride · Brewsers

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  Speaker 1: We welcome to Bruisers podcast Up Beer, Coffee, Booze and Bruisers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rodie John and today we talked to
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  Speaker 1: Casey McBride. We talked about how she got into MMA,
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  Speaker 1: coming back from nex Fusion, and so much more. Casey
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  Speaker 1: gets very real and open in this conversation and I
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  Speaker 1: love it so much so I don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: in her way. So without further ado, here is Casey McBride.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to welcome a show Casey McBride. How
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  Speaker 1: are you doing today? Man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thank you? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm will so flose. Listening kind of paints the word
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  Speaker 1: picture where you're at, what's going on around you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You know. I'm sitting at home right now. All I
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  Speaker 2: can think about is really getting back to Spokane and
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  Speaker 2: getting back to the new team I've actually joined. I've
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  Speaker 2: been excited to actually say that because I haven't been
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  Speaker 2: able to say that yet, and I joined Excite Fight.
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  Speaker 2: So you're sitting here at sitting here in my desk
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  Speaker 2: and reviewing the organization that I have, trying to get
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  Speaker 2: my life together, trying to get my stuff together because
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  Speaker 2: fights are expensive and as much as I really want
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  Speaker 2: to get right back to it. I just can't afford
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  Speaker 2: it at this moment.
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  Speaker 1: I get that. Well, let let's talk about that for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, because I know that that is something
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  Speaker 1: that people don't think about. I think a lot, or
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  Speaker 1: sometimes at all, especially you know, up and coming fighters,
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  Speaker 1: you don't get paid a lot. You have to figure
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  Speaker 1: out how you are going to pay these people, these gyms,
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  Speaker 1: these coaches, if you are can afford a nutritionist, how
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  Speaker 1: many gyms you're going to you know all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So, oh yeah, walk it.
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  Speaker 1: So for people who don't understand, can you do some
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  Speaker 1: of the backwards math as to I guess roughly what
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  Speaker 1: you get paid and then how much that everywhere else
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  Speaker 1: but your pocket.
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  Speaker 2: Wark Yeah, well, mainly when you show up you get
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  Speaker 2: a certain amount, and then when you win you get
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  Speaker 2: a certain amount. There's always penalties like missing weight and
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  Speaker 2: of course not showing. There are those times where people
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  Speaker 2: don't show, so you know, there's it doesn't cover the bills.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely, it's just not enough, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: disappointing because I feel like we put in, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this tremendous amount of work and at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, we really don't come out any any more
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  Speaker 2: ahead when you're at this level. I know that when
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  Speaker 2: you get to you know, the UFC or some bigger shows,
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  Speaker 2: which takes time or it doesn't. You know, sometimes that's
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  Speaker 2: unfair because we're spending money on traveling to get to
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  Speaker 2: certain places I need to be able to. Yeah, for
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  Speaker 2: nutrition nutritionists, there's recovery involved in high level training that
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  Speaker 2: I think also people don't think about. The recovery is
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  Speaker 2: so big and it's not like, oh, just relax at
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  Speaker 2: home and stretch all I wish.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you have. I mean we've shown that the
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  Speaker 1: bron James puts in a million dollars, but in a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year, and then now he just owns
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  Speaker 1: his own company about recovery. So yeah, yeah, high level
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  Speaker 1: athletes need recovery on a regular basis, especially if you're
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  Speaker 1: hitting pads or making contact the way you where y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Are exactly and you are exactly meeting up with coaches.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's many reasons why sometimes we just can't
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  Speaker 2: afford to get in the cage. I mean, where fighters
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  Speaker 2: really will make more money is sponsorships and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's also hard to keep up with. Not everybody is marketable.
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  Speaker 2: Not everybody can do that fortunately, Like I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a girl, so there's not many girls out there as
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  Speaker 2: much as guys out there doing it. So I feel
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  Speaker 2: like maybe we get a little bit more ahead quicker,
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  Speaker 2: but there's still there's still so much to consider.
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  Speaker 1: Well, plus women's MMA is, as we're seeing, far more
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  Speaker 1: superior than men's MMA.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just absolutely especially lately.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we saw it almost more in the
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  Speaker 1: in the cage recently. That was insane. I felt horrible
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  Speaker 1: watching that. Please please wake up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding. I mean I have never seen a
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  Speaker 2: finish like that. I mean she basically got finished twice
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  Speaker 2: in three to five minute period. I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 2: almost unheard of. You know, you see people get knocked
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  Speaker 2: out and then they go for the on top or
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  Speaker 2: the rear naked, but to be knocked out clean and
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  Speaker 2: then to be choked out clean, I mean, that was
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  Speaker 2: really pushing it with the oxygen in her brain, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. I think that's why, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we're talking about the Macy Barber fight. Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: like the way her eyes were just kind of not there,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, wait.
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  Speaker 2: At my gosh, yeah wow, And I know that you know,
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  Speaker 2: people saw her flittering her eyes a little bit. What
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  Speaker 2: I would guess is that that's the moment when she
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  Speaker 2: was waking up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that's exactly. Yeah. Once I saw her blinking,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, we're in a better place.
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  Speaker 2: Now, and things like that, when you see things like
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  Speaker 2: that at a high level, when you take losses like
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  Speaker 2: I did just recently body shot Ko.
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  Speaker 1: You know that as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, that was. That was quite an experience
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  Speaker 2: with Kimbote Global. I mean they were amazing and Rick
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  Speaker 2: Little was the one who set me up with both
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  Speaker 2: the last fights I did. I mean, it's been amazing
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  Speaker 2: at Excite Fight and I feel like I've learned so
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  Speaker 2: much with them already with the little amount of time
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  Speaker 2: that I've been with them. But I was going against
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  Speaker 2: just an amazing, phenomenal boxer, just and an incredible opponent
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  Speaker 2: that was having a hard time finding a match a
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  Speaker 2: matchup for that. Girls didn't want to fight her, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I said yes right away because I mean
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  Speaker 2: I dealt with difficult opponents before. I mean, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: come out the other end. But you know these are
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  Speaker 2: this is what I want to do. I want to push,
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  Speaker 2: I want to see what I can really do. I
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  Speaker 2: want to amaze myself with things that I think that
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  Speaker 2: are impossible and then just obliterating it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go all the way back in time. What
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  Speaker 1: is your earliest memory of martial arts.
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  Speaker 2: My earliest memory is when I was hanging out with
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  Speaker 2: a friend and he said he had to go because
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  Speaker 2: he had to go to karate, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're taking me with you. Let's go to karate, Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm down. So we go to this warehouse kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of gyments do that where they
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  Speaker 2: rent a garage. So we went there and I met
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  Speaker 2: his instructor and really we started doing kada. So really
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  Speaker 2: my first experience was very traditional, very gojhin rue. It
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  Speaker 2: was mma, but definitely more of the traditional scent. We
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  Speaker 2: did sense. We did a lot of kada. That's how
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  Speaker 2: I leveled up pretty fast because I'm really good at
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  Speaker 2: like choreography and moving my body and just being athletics.
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  Speaker 2: So I fell in love with it because of that.
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  Speaker 2: And then yeah, I mean there's more to the story,
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  Speaker 2: but that's that was my first experience. Walking into some
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  Speaker 2: random warehouse with a friend of mine and just completely
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  Speaker 2: changing my life into traditional martial arts. It was so
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  Speaker 2: foreign to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well continue that story, you have stopped yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, I mean it really is incredible because
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  Speaker 2: the instructor Sheehan, he's actually like my stepdad pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: By now. Yeah, it got really serious. We trained every
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  Speaker 2: single day. Not serious like together wise, it was serious,
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  Speaker 2: like serious training.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to go back and correct that just in
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  Speaker 2: case I didn't. But you know, day in and day
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  Speaker 2: out we were training. I moved in eventually, so we
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  Speaker 2: were living in the same place, which the dojo was
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  Speaker 2: there as well. There was a dojo in the living
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  Speaker 2: room and a dojo in the garage, and it was
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  Speaker 2: called the Asylum. The guy that I trained with, his
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  Speaker 2: name is Randall Colburn. And I know that that's that's
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  Speaker 2: a popular amongst the small community. Uh and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some love him, some hate him. He's just that kind
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  Speaker 2: of guy. And uh, you know, I saw it as
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to change my life because I was in
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  Speaker 2: absolutely the worst place I could be for myself. I
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  Speaker 2: was to be one honest, like I was dancing. I
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  Speaker 2: had been dancing for twelve years at stripping, so over
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  Speaker 2: a decade. Yeah, of dancing, which.
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  Speaker 1: Kind So were you the pole climber or were you
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  Speaker 1: the one that would just kind of put on a
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  Speaker 1: good show. I kind of seen him. Not that I
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  Speaker 1: was freak with them on a regular basis, but I've
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  Speaker 1: been there in the past. Yeah, they're fun.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasure, Yeah they can't Yeah, I like to hang out.
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  Speaker 2: The girls are great.
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  Speaker 1: I meant.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, and as long as the vibe is right, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because some people can be kind of a bummer in
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  Speaker 2: those places, you know what I mean, And the martial
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  Speaker 2: arts is definitely come and handy with that. Guys trying
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  Speaker 2: to grab me or just be really inappropriate sometimes happened
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  Speaker 2: in that kind of lifestyle, and you have to be
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  Speaker 2: able to protect yourself. I mean, I remember one of
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  Speaker 2: the last days I was there, some guy reached down
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  Speaker 2: and touch my who ha, and I backed him in
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  Speaker 2: the face, and I have it on camera, and I
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  Speaker 2: put it up on my profile to make sure people
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  Speaker 2: know you're gonna get hit if you try to cross
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  Speaker 2: our boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: You should. Yeah that's not yeah, that's not okay, Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: not at all.
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  Speaker 2: But I actually I left that behind right before my
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  Speaker 2: next surgery. I'd left that behind because I was sexually
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  Speaker 2: assaulted in the back of Sorry my thoughts, I was
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  Speaker 2: sexually assaulted in the back of one of the the
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  Speaker 2: the IP rooms and there was no security that day.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just a really upsetting situation, and so
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  Speaker 2: I just decided I didn't want to put myself there anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you, I'm glad. I'm not glad that happened,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm glad you found a better way out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too, I'm glad I found my way out
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  Speaker 2: of it for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So martial arts obviously helped you, and it, I mean
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  Speaker 1: walk us through that because I know, I think everyone
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  Speaker 1: at some point needs to take some level of martial
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  Speaker 1: arts or something, just especially earlier in life, because it
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  Speaker 1: really kind of creates that discipline, it creates that purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and it can really you know, give again like it's
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  Speaker 1: doing with you. It's giving yourself a you know, a
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  Speaker 1: brighter future and better way of carrying yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And I do want to go back because
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  Speaker 2: as a dancer, like, there's nothing wrong with that, right,
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with that at all. And I it
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  Speaker 2: was definitely the only way I was able to take
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  Speaker 2: care of myself just because I didn't really think very
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  Speaker 2: highly of myself. I had just lost my kid. I
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  Speaker 2: mean there's I was homeless, Like I just came to
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  Speaker 2: another state to dance because I thought i'd make more money.
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  Speaker 2: And then I became friends with the bouncer, and then
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  Speaker 2: I started dating him, and then turns out he was
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  Speaker 2: going to karate and I joined him, and then just
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  Speaker 2: everything changed. I saw it as an opportunity to just
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  Speaker 2: save myself, save save my life, and it was absolutely
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  Speaker 2: what I needed to be able to, like be a
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  Speaker 2: role model for my kid and be able to be
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  Speaker 2: there for her and someone she can look up to
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  Speaker 2: when when we do create As we're creating that relationship,
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  Speaker 2: I do still talk to her. I've been I see
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  Speaker 2: her like three times a year. I make sure on holidays,
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  Speaker 2: her birthday. I'm able to reach out to her. And
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  Speaker 2: you know that that's a lot more than most people get.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just it's not enough. It's never enough. And
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  Speaker 2: martial arts really helped me get that back, get that
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  Speaker 2: that time with her, because I don't think the kind
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  Speaker 2: of person that I was before is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: person that she should look up to.
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  Speaker 1: So has she seen you fight?
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  Speaker 2: She hasn't seen you in person yet, but that should come.
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  Speaker 2: She lives with an awesome family, so they they definitely
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  Speaker 2: hook us up. But I haven't. I haven't gotten her
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  Speaker 2: to come out to the fight yet, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So you kind of touched on it. You you breeze
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  Speaker 1: right over it. Talk about your neck because you've had
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  Speaker 1: a fusion done and that's not easy to again pay
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  Speaker 1: for when you don't get paid you fights, So like
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  Speaker 1: walk us through that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was getting ready for a my third
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  Speaker 2: pro fight, and I was having some pain in my
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  Speaker 2: neck and in my shoulder, and I just thought, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just a pinch nerve and I got to push through.
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  Speaker 2: I got to push through because I a fight coming up.
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  Speaker 2: So I kept doing what I was doing. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: at jiu jitsu, I just I don't know why, but
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  Speaker 2: I kept getting dars guillotine like all the next stuff,
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  Speaker 2: all the next stuff. I was making it worse and worse.
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  Speaker 2: But of course I was all I was thinking about
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  Speaker 2: was making it to the fight. So, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: went to my chiropractor a week before my fight and
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  Speaker 2: he said he couldn't touch me. He didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: touch me because I needed to go get an MRI
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  Speaker 2: like immediately, and I had just gone to the hospital
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  Speaker 2: a few days before that because I couldn't move an
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  Speaker 2: inch without screaming in pain. I've never felt that before
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  Speaker 2: ever in my life. And I went to the hospital
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  Speaker 2: in an ambulance and he gave me like an X ray
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  Speaker 2: CT something like that, and they didn't see anything. And
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  Speaker 2: I was just just give me a shot and send
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  Speaker 2: me home because I was like, I need to get
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  Speaker 2: to this fight, you know. And so when I got
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  Speaker 2: the MRI, they come down like fifteen minutes later and
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  Speaker 2: they say, hey, we got to send you right now
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  Speaker 2: to emergency surgery. The surgeon just called us and said
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  Speaker 2: we need to take you right now because if we don't,
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  Speaker 2: you are at high risk to paraplegia and we can't
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  Speaker 2: have you fight. You needed to have the surgery. So
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  Speaker 2: I really didn't have a choice. I didn't really have
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  Speaker 2: time to think about it. And maybe that's what made
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  Speaker 2: it better, because I didn't have to like sit and
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  Speaker 2: be like I can't afford this, What am I gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: Because it is a huge change, it's my whole life change.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't do what I had been doing every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and that just I really had to realize I was
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  Speaker 2: having an identity crisis and that was really hard. It
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  Speaker 2: was definitely a mental challenge for me because of not
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  Speaker 2: being able to push myself and you know, do my why,
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  Speaker 2: because that is my why, pushing myself to new limits.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really messing with me. So I had to
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  Speaker 2: really step back and think what else makes me happy?
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  Speaker 2: But I ended up coaching for kids class and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: rejoining with my stepdad and the original traditional group I
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  Speaker 2: was with, and we're out here on the coast. I
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  Speaker 2: live here in Oregon on Tillamook. Uh, they live in Rockaway,
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  Speaker 2: so it's right up the street and beautiful dojo. If
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  Speaker 2: you ever go to Rockaway, please stop by. It's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's just been great and uh it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful place to recover. And I just knew, I
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  Speaker 2: knew I wanted to get back to the cage. I
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  Speaker 2: knew I had to do it. I was like, I
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  Speaker 2: want to see if I can, and let's let's fucking go.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to I don't want this to end yet.
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  Speaker 1: Right obviously, Yeah, thank you for being so open with
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  Speaker 1: us about that. Man, So walk us through kind of
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  Speaker 1: the recovery. What was that process like and where were
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  Speaker 1: you meant? Because I know a lot of people can
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  Speaker 1: it can really bring them down because you are so limited,
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  Speaker 1: you can't do near the stuff you used to. And
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  Speaker 1: then once you do start getting back into it, it
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  Speaker 1: is you know, you're kind of ginger at first until
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  Speaker 1: you feel a little better, but you know, it can
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  Speaker 1: really bring people down. Or it seemed like you had
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  Speaker 1: the mindset of, oh no, this is just step back,
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  Speaker 1: wait till I go forward.
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  Speaker 2: That's the kind of mindset you definitely want to try
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  Speaker 2: to have and like almost force yourself to have. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was sleeping a lot and kind of
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  Speaker 2: realizing what was the new function for my brain because
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  Speaker 2: I mean, having a spinal fusion, it's messing with your
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  Speaker 2: spinal cord, so it's like that goes right to your brain.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, of course you're going to be a little different.
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  Speaker 2: So but as soon as I woke up, the first
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  Speaker 2: thing I thought, the first thing I felt was my
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  Speaker 2: family around me, which was amazing. And first words I
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  Speaker 2: came out my mouth was just trying to check who
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  Speaker 2: was there, and they were all there. They were all there,
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  Speaker 2: so that was beautiful. But the recovery part was like
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't set myself up on my own, not even
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  Speaker 2: to like scoot a little bit back. My best friend
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  Speaker 2: had to help me use the restroom. But this was
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  Speaker 2: just a couple the first couple of days, and I
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  Speaker 2: asked them if I could take a walk down the
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  Speaker 2: hallway because I just, you know, as an active person,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing something every single day. So I was like
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  Speaker 2: pushing almost in denial of what just happened to me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And they were like, this is the ICU,
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  Speaker 2: Like I can't believe you're walking. I don't normally walk
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  Speaker 2: around over here, Like yeah. So it was definitely a
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  Speaker 2: really intense recovery. But I'm so fortunate that I had
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  Speaker 2: my family to help me take care of me, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would have done without it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Did you push yourself a little harder than you probably
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: needed to?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I definitely, I definitely could have relaxed a little bit.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I got myself on the mats about four weeks. Six
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: weeks after I did, I I just you know, just
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: to sit on them, okay, maybe play some footsies with
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: with the with the teammates. But I definitely pushed myself
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a little harder than I should have, Like I didn't
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: have my neck brace on as much as I should have.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: But you know, I was I was trying to push
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: myself to get better. I just wanted to be better
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: so I could get back to what I truly felt
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: like was who I was. You know who I am?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how was that first? You know, the one day
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I wake up and there's like I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: feel good, Like I don't feel like, what was that
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: day like back at the gym?
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Well, it was no, you guys, Okay, Well there's there's
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: good days, there's bad days. Some days I'm like I
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: want to I can't wait to get back to this,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: and other days I'm like, oh my god, I'm so
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: far away from everything I thought I was where I was,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: and like I see all these girls just being amazing
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and I'm just sitting here being crippled and reaching out
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: to other girls and other girls reaching out to me
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: that have been through like hard injuries was everything. Even
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: if they didn't know me, they still we see each other,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: you know, we're on social media. We see each other's fights,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: we know what's up. Do you see another fighter herding?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Like reaching out means everything, even if you don't even
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: if you don't know them.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that. What How great was it and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: fulfilling for you once you started getting back to coaching
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and teaching the you know, the next generation?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Hmm. It was a little frustrating, to be honest, how
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: much time I was spending coaching instead of being an athlete,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: because that was driving me absolutely crazy. The dojo I
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: was at was more of a beginner style, absolutely not
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: competitive at all. So in the beginning before when they
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: were the asylum, completely competitive and contempt but what they're
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: trying to run right now is a business, so there's
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: no real like competitors. So I was just you know,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: teaching people and trying to be not as like pushy
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: because I'm very encouraging. I'm very you can't do it,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you can't do it, Yes you can, and what are
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you doing? You know? So that might have been a
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: little intense, but I know they were telling me they
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: loved it, so that was a cool experience, but it
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: just it wasn't what I wanted to like move forward,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and I wasn't excelling in it because I didn't really
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: love it. What I wanted to do was fighting, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: that was so frustrating because, like I said, on the
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: coast and not not not a lot of gems out here.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: So when I found Excite Fight and I found Juliana Miller,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: she I met her at a fight that I was
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: working at and she was just so so bright, so welcoming,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: so loving immediately and was like, hey, come find me
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: after and I did, because of course I'm going to.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Are you serious? And I got to talk with her
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and she invited me back to spoken to train, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I jumped on that. Yeah, there's no way I'm not
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: doing that. She is she's so like, she's so beautiful, right,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: she's gorgeous and then just as beautiful and gorgeous as
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: she is, that's how tough and determined and bad ass
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: that woman is. I have seen her train and it
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: is inspiring and amazing and it makes me feel alive again.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It makes me want to push harder. She made me
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: feel like that's where I'm supposed to be just because
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of her genuine like tenacity.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh I love that. What we walk us through?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Your first fight back? How was that? What was the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: process leading after that? For you.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I was matched up to fight a local girl that
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: I had my eyes on before a long time, of course,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: and then we're we're about a week out, and I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: think she had some personal issues. I don't want to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: speak on whatever she's got going on. And I hope she's,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you know, doing better. It looks like she is doing better.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I hope maybe we can set it up again. But
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: she had to pull out. So moving on, Rick got
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: me a fight with what was it? It was WFC got
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: me a fight with WFC with a girl that actually
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: ended up being like kind of part of their little
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: like family community things, so like they knew her and
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: they so it was like a little weird. Like I
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: couldn't be like, oh yeah, ex sci fight training the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Juju because that's just weird, you know, And like I
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: was mainly training. I was mainly training with my my
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: striking coach anyways, so we didn't want it to be funny.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: So I'm just really excited to talk about them now
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: because they've just been so incredible to me, Like I
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: just can't even begin to explain.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So yeah, shut them shut them out out.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah they're they're awesome. They So anyways, yeah, first fight
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: uh first side back. Yeah, Okay, to be real, I
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: was having a straight panic attack before the fight. I
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: was tripping and it was the first time and I
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: think only time that I was allowed to wait in
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: my room before going down for my fight, so we
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: weren't even in the pit around really many. Yeah, it was,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: but I think that kind of messed with me a
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: little bit because I was too comfortable and I knew
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: that I was going into war, and I think that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: was making me feel too comfortable. So I think that's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: why that messed with me. And then like I tried
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to force myself to eat, because you don't want to
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: go in the cage empty stomach, you just don't. And
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: so I tried to force myself to eat, and that
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: was just not it because I my stomach was just
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: so sour and that was freaking That was, you know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: making me freak out. And I was like, oh my gosh,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go fight with this sour stone, Like I
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: don't know, I'm gonna throw up. I can't throw up
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: because I gotta have food in me, and it's like
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: it was such a nightmare. But then I finally threw
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: up and felt better. But that was the I think
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: that was the most nerve wracking I've ever Yeah, nerve
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: wracked I've ever been. But it was cool because I
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: had I actually had two of my best friends in
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the room, my partner and my coach, and me and
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: my coach were really really close, We're like family, so
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I just had all the support. But I think that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: why I was kind of clashing, because I was like, oh,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I'm too comfortable. I need to you know, So the
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: build up super important, I think, of course, Well when
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I got sorry for it, uh, you know, then when
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I got down there, I hadn't seen my opponent the
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: entire time, like like Wayan's was like fitty, like we
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: didn't we didn't see each other, so I couldn't like
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: size her up or like stir in the eyes like
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: usually do. You know. So that was a little weird,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: but uh, I was just happy she showed up. She
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: was on wait, we were gonna fight, and you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: all I could say to myself was good things After
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that crazy explosive like I'm freaking out and throw up
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: and whatever. I was solid in my mission and I
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: knew exactly what I needed to do, and I was
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: right there in the moment and I was back and
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: walking back in that cage, I think I realized it
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: was more than just the fight for me. It was
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: like I made it back. I made it back even
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: though there were people who doubted me, maybe people who
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: didn't want to see me back, but I made it
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: back and I think I did a good job. Yeah
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I could have done better, but I'm not the fighter
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I was before. I'm building on the fighter I am now.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So I love that again. Yeah, you did make it back,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people probably were saying that you
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: weren't going to do it, but you did. And for
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: those that didn't want to see you, well too bad.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You were there and I will be back again. And
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: again I love that.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Well, so you kind of touched on it and I
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: want to go more into it. Yeah. The mental build up,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, this obviously is a very physical sport, but
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it's also a mental one as well. So yeah, when
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: it comes to a build up before a fight, or
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: come down after a fight, or even locking yourself in
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: when it comes to training or weight loss, you know
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: things that are the unpleasantness that comes up with this sport. Man,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: what do you like to do when it comes to
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: mental workouts or what do you kind of where you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: build or how do you how do you work mentally?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I think we start over. Yeah, it's definitely
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: not black and white. You have uncontrollable thoughts on negative
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: on negative things, and you know you build your positive
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: thoughts and sometimes you know it's unstoppable. You can't help
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: but think negative things. And something that Juliana taught me was,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you know we say, okay, okay, thank you for thank
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: you body for wanting to protect me, and you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: thank you for that, but we're not going to do
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: that or that hasn't happened, or you know, accepting it,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: allowing it and then putting it where it belongs where
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: because it doesn't exist, it hasn't happened, it's not happening.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: So that's a big one. And it's like a hurry
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: up and wait type thing with fighting because you're like,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I just want to fight already, I'm ready. Let's just go.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: But there's a time and there's a place and you
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: gotta wait for it, and that anticipation is the worst.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: But what I like to do is in really cool
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: YouTube has a plethora of affirmational chance mantras, songs, just affirmations.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: I love them and they work, and if you listen
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to them long enough, you will start to say them
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: out loud, say them to yourself instead of bad things
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: to yourself. I mean, even if you do, you got
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: to even that out, give yourself little love too. So
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: affirmations all day, even if you don't feel it, you
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: don't believe it, just allow that to come into your life.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: The positivity. Those affirmations are so important.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I post on my personal page, I post
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a motivational quote every day on the whiteboard, and so
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I always feel bad if people follow me on social
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: media because I'm like, well, you get a lot of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: whiteboard motivations, so good luck.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll have to check that out. That's awesome. I
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: love that.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one hundred percent true because again, there you
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: can focus on literally all the negative in the world,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: whether it be internal or outturnal, and it will always
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: be there. But you have to find that balance of No,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: there's far more good that is inside you and is
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: inside the world that you just got to put more
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: focus on and find it. And once you do start
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: looking for it, it's everywhere. It's amazing.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Totally, totally right now. It's so weird right now. I
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: feel like the manifestation is is going hard right now. Like,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: if you want to manifest something, do it, focus on
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: it because I think the manifestations are going hard right now,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: So take advantage of that.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What is manifestation for twenty twenty six?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Manifestation for twenty twenty six?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: We're entering the second quarter? If you if you do
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it sports analogies, hmm.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I'd say, I'd say freedom.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I want to manifest freedom, financial freedom, you know, self
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: doubt freedom. I want freedom from things that hold me back,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: that don't get me to my best self or to
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: my best life.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's perfect.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Well.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I have a segment of the show I call it
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the five Counts, just five random questions.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Number one, what's one thing you've always wanted to learn?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I've always wanted to learn how to speak Spanish, definitely
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: always wanted that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I'm very slowly working on that with Doue Lingo. I
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: in three days not doing it. So I need to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: get back on my streak.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I was on such a long streak
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and I just skipped it and I did never get back.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: That's so I'm like, okay, I get back on otherwise
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna Yeah. Number two, if you owned a
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: liquor company, brewery, winery, coffee shop, or dispensary, which one
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: would you own? And what would the name be? Mm?
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I think ok coffee shop next to jiu jitsu spot,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: you know, call it like aftermath or something.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, and make sure doctor dray dosn't known that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: he might still have it, but you may have let
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: it lapse, you know. Number three, what are the last
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: three themes you googled?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a look. Yeah, wait, Google or chat GBT,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: because there's.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: A difference which one you use more? You know what
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I said Google, I haven't. I've never thought to actually
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: change this now into chat TBT. So you do one
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: for oh my gosh, which everyone you're less embarrassed by.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: That's no fun.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Let's okay, then most embarrassed by.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, we'll do that. Okay, Mmm, it's not showing me,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: so I'll go to my when I google slash chat. Okay,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: our spider is nocturnal, that's that's one of the ones.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: And then uh, I was googling us self expression.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And then with the art movement, Yeah, no, it was.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: It was self expression versus disrespect is what I was
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: looking up. Because someone's been tagging the community this horrible,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: ugly looking tag and on people's property. So that's just
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: really a bummer to see. Yeah, and so I typed
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: onto the telemook community page and I was like, look,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: whoever's tagging sicko out here, I'm gonna need you to
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: know that your art is less than mid so stop.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: And that got popular. So and then I was looking
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: up the director's cut versus the theatrical version.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: My friends were just talking about what the best director
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: what they think with the best director cuts. That's funny
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: for those who don't know, look it up yourself. It's fantastic.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Director cuts are almost always mm hmm. And number four,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: who are what inspires you?
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Inspires me? Right now, right this very moment, the person
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: who inspires me, and I'm taking to you this, Juliana
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Miller is inspiring me. She is my light right now,
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: even Rick Little, I mean, they're just I keep saying this,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: but there's such a light in my life right now.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: They're they're keeping me mentally like aware that everything is okay,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be good. Just keep going because I
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: definitely had a moment of doubt on this last one,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: and I just needed to come back and realize, like, hey,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: that was a really hard opponent and I didn't give
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: up on myself like I thought I did. And you
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: know that, Yeah, she's she's so amazing, like she's her
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: last fight. Like I was such a hard opponent too,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: but she was so she was so determined to be
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: and then and look how underdog she was. You know,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I've everyone thought Carly, Carla whatever was gonna win. And
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: then Juju was such an underdog and like how close
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: she was to finishing her with that choke. Oh my
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: eye was screaming. And it's just an amazing person like that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: And then seeing her pull off something so incredible like that, Oh,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I love it. I love it so much.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: That's amazing. And number five, what would you tell your
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: seventeen year old self?
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Leave those boys alone?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: You're not wrong.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Now people want.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: To find out more about you, follow you online, support
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: you in any way, be a sponsor, because again, fighters
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: need sponsors. How can they do all the things?
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, you can follow me on Instagram. It's Casey
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: McBride Underscore MMA, or you can search me on Facebook
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Casey McBride or Casey Ryan McBride my middle name, and
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I'm out there on YouTube. Go ahead and google me,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: YouTube me you can see my stuff.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: There we go, Casey, thank you so much for here time.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Thank you for being so open and vulnerable with us
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: about you know, your your journey, and your journey's amazing
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: and I can't to see where the rest of it goes.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much for having me. Hopefully we'll
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: talk against.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You, I hope. So thank you so much at Casey
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: for being on the show again. Definitely make sure to
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: support your MMA fighters no matter what level they're at.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Check in on them, make sure they're okay because they're
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: going through so much more than you even know, so
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: just like every human out there, so definitely make sure
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to go out and reach out to them through ghostal media.
• 37:52
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• 37:54
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• 37:59
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• 38:12
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• 38:15
  Speaker 1: or the Instagram, it is official Roady John. So until
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: next time, make sure to enjoy life, drink local and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: cheers