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Happy New Years and Winter Warrior · The Best Experience

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  You're listening to the best experience with the take best. All right, this
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  these links. We appreciate it and it really helps us out. And Nick,
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  you know, you know, it's glad to be back on the podcast.
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  It's glad to be getting everything up and going. And you know,
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  we just had the seminar in Sacramento for on Tamed Strengths, and you know
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  that this is like the new lane that you're trying to step into and the
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  girl customer because like man, the one on one you had with everybody there
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  at the at the seminar was was absolutely great. You know, like,
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  yeah, that's what I like to do. I mean, it's I don't
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  want to sit behind a computer and tiball day. I want to get hands
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  on and work with people on their techniques and stuff like that. And that's
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  gonna be my thing. I want to go around and do seminars and then
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  do judging and stuff like that as well. So yeah, it was great.
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  It's fun to watch people and see the light bulb go off, you
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  know, and you're like, hey, move this, move that. It's
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  the little things that make a really big difference in the end. And that's
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  something that you know, a lot of these people out there writing programs have
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  no clue about. Like if they haven't got to that level, they're not
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  going to know these things. And I mean, you can't the stuff I'm
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  going to teach you, you can't read in a book, or they'll try
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  to explain in the book and they'll have no idea why, you know.
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  And it's so it's kind of like here, here's where you should be putting
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  the bar for the oak, and here's why you should be putting it there
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  now I want you to take off this way, and they do that and
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  then they can feel at work and they're like, oh, I'm like exactly,
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  that's that's what you're looking for, and that's not what you're gonna find,
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  know, in a whole lot of places. So that's really cool and
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  I really enjoy doing that. So it's a lot of fun. And then
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  I also like judging because judging needs to be consistent. You need a person
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  that is going to be the exact same for everyone. It doesn't matter if
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  they're loose on the rules or tight on the rules. What matters is they
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  judge everybody exactly the same. So if they're judging tight, then you judge
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  everybody judge, and loose, you judge everybody loose. If it's the same
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  for everyone, then it's the same for everyone. I tend to lean towards
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  the tighter side because if you're going to get a record, if you're going
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  to break something, you don't want people to look at it and go through
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  I mean, what R and BBI did you know he set a couple records
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  and it was like he didn't lock them out all the way. He didn't
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  do this. He was moving well this year when he came back and broke
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  those records, those records were broken. He did those perfectly, He had
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  control, he locked it out, he did all the things he should be
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  doing. And it's not his fault that he got credit for those lifts.
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  It's it's it's all comes down to the judge, you know. So it's
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  not the lifter's fault when he gets a lift that he shouldn't have gotten because
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  he's not judging it. He's doing the lift, you know, or one
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  that's questionable or whatever else. I mean that this whole thing is going to
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  create resealed by itself, but it comes down to, you know, the
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  judge in the end. If he holds into a standard and holds everybody the
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  exact same standard, and especially when you're setting records, it doesn't need to
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  be like so tight that you breathe wrong and you lose a lift, but
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  it needs to be legit all the way through. When Sam broke the women's
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  dumbbell record, that was legit all the way through, and I was like,
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  look, I'm going to make it. Hold it. When when you
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  when you get the down signal and you get it goes down, you will
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  have that record and no one's going to question it. And that's like,
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  I'm not gonna hold you up forever, but you will have control of it.
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  And she did and she got the record, yep. And there's no
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  no ifs and buts about it, right, So it kind of needs to
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  be that way. It protects and it protects a couple of things. It
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  protects the lifter and themselves and the integrity of the sport because you know,
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  sitting there being told you just broke a record, but you know, I
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  think it was it, you know, And it's that's not how you want
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  to be thought about when you set records. When you set records, you
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  want no questions asked. That's the record exactly. It's kind of you know.
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  So it's it's it's kind of cool. And I like judging, and
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  I believe in being able to coach as you judge. That's one thing I
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  don't understand about powerlifting is you can see the guy he just needs to get
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  his shoulders back. Well a power in a Stromian contest, I'm like,
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  shoulders back, shoulders back, shoulders back. I'll tell the guy what they're
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  doing wrong so they can fix it. And if they can't fix it,
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  they don't get the lift. And if they can't fix it, they do
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  get the lift. I want to see people be as successful as possible.
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  And I don't understand why that's not a thing in power. The thing it's
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  like knees, knees, knees soft, knee soft means and stuff like that.
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  Then the guy can straighten on his knees. I mean yep. Sometimes
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  you don't know or can't feel it, so it's just a little different strong
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  man wise, you can you can tell him that as they're going and it's
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  nobody says anything. And I actually really like that. I like that.
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  Well, you know that's one of those things too. That's getting ready to
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  happen is uh, Winter Warriors right around the corner, Nick Well will be
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  back in Sacramento in January, and you're actually gonna be out there coaching.
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  You're gonna be out there not coaching, but you can be out there judging.
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  And the thing is is you can judge in that style that you're talking
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  about right now, because you know that's one of the other roles that you'd
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  like to slip into where it's like I want to excel the sport. I
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  want to get back to the sport, and he's going to be there for
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  the sport and with judging at the Winter Warrior, this is going to be
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  like one of those those opportunities and times where you're like, you know what,
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  this is what I like to do. This is what I'm going to
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  do. And with Winter Warrior, it's gonna be fun because like I said
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  that, there's a lot of good events. It's in a great gym,
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  and it's going to be located at and you know, it's a good strong
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  man culture there in Sacramento. You know, like that is just phenomenal.
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  You know, yeah, I like what they got going on there. It
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  is a really neat environment to train in. And I mean there's para thing
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  this bodybuilding, there's a strong man. It's all run out of the same
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  place. So it's it's pretty cool strong man, but it's it's a good
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  hardcore gym. I like it all the way around. It's it's been a
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  neat place to train every once in a while, so I like it an
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  awful lot. They really did a good job up there exactly. And you
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  know, uh, let's kind of go over the events for Winter Warrior,
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  because you know, you're going to be judging there. So it's like this
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  is even almost an opportunity for some of the people that are going to be
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  attending that event and not just attending, but like competing in that event to
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  like here the style of what you're going to be judging on. You know
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  what I'm saying, because a little pregame on that for them if they're listening
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  right right. So the first event, it's gonna be max log. You
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  get three attempts, so that's good. That's pretty straightforward, pretty simple.
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  I would open with something on the log that you can do for three with
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  no problem. Take your second attempt up into the ninety six ninety seven percentile,
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  and then your third rent. Make it something that's one O one,
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  one o two, something that you're striving to get and you know, and
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  also play around with that. See where you're at as far as everybody else
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  goes, and do what you need to do, and that's it. If
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  you're capable of pressing a two hundred kilotte log, but you only need one
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  hundred and eighty to win the competition, press the one eighty and move on,
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  you know, save it for the other things. Unless you're setting a
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  record that's you know, going to be at a super high level where it's
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  you know, national or world record, then then go for it. But
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  other than that, do what you need to do to win that event and
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  move on to the next one. Next will be axl deadlift for reps.
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  That'll be fun. It's it's gonna be pretty cool because axles don't give.
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  Yeah, so you're gonna it's gonna go all the way down, all the
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  way up. And basically if you have the moment you have control of the
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  bar at the bottom, you're gonna get a lift command. And then when
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  you have it locked out with your shoulders back and your knees straight at the
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  top, you're gonna get it down command. So lift down, lift down,
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  pretty simple stuff. I would definitely, uh make sure you have some
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  good straps and uh chuck the bar, you know before you go that type
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  of thing, and maybe put some baby powder on your legs. If the
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  facility allows it for you to lift in there that way, it'll slide into
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  position. But that's pretty simple. It'll be sixty seconds for me the reps
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  as you can get. Next third event will be the yoke. It's sixty
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  feet, multiple drops allowed, just pick it up and go as fast you
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  can't get to the other side if you were up there. We did a
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  for the seminar. We did things on the axle deadlift and on the yoke.
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  Yeah, so if you were up there for that and you get to
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  do it, you're gonna do pretty well. You got a slight upper hand
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  on that. Yeah, they got a few few tips that are gonna work
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  pretty good. My preferences, the yoke starts behind the line and it ends
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  when you hit the other line, so you don't have to worry about where
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  the back of the yolks at when you drop it. Yeah. Always just
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  kind of think that's the way they do the monk the front breaks, it's
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  over. Next will be who's fell kerry for ninety seconds and or max distance?
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  So you drop it, you're done. That's gonna that's gonna be fun.
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  It'll be interesting. We also covered that a little bit at the seminar,
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  and while I was there training with some other people so on how to
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  carry those things and how do stay as upright as possible as you're carrying those
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  things so you don't blow out your hamstrings. That's it. Then last will
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  be a stone series it's three stones over bar, so three different stones over
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  bar. You have forty five seconds to get it done. The three stones
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  over and that's it. So that'll be that'll be pretty neat. I think
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  it'll be a good little contest, that's it. And you'll be right front
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  and center judging, and you know, like I said, it's gonna be
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  those things. You know. We also talked about doing a meet and greet
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  there too, So if a lot of people, if you just want to
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  come see the show, get your like, if you haven't ever experienced an
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  actual like strong man event, you want to, You're more than welcome to
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  come, come watch, come see, and also to come meet Nick.
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  You know what I'm saying. There's gonna be time in between events and stuff
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  like that, so you know, we're definitely gonna what's call it be there
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  yep. And I'd like it when people come up and ask questions and I
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  like answering questions and helping people do stuff like that, So it would be
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  a lot of fun. Yeah, and I know it's a little bit short
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  notice, but also too, there are still opportunity to register, you know
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  what I'm saying, So like it, uh, you want to try to
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  get in there. I know there's thirty nine spots remaining. Oh you know,
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  trying to think of when this is gonna come out, but probably by
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  the time this comes out, I'm sorry, I'm completely mister. The registration
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  closed on the first, so by the time this comes out. Yeah,
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  you know what I'm saying, never hurts, never hurts, you know exactly.
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  You know what I'm saying. I'll throw in some information into the notes
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  and let people know. So oh yeah, yeah, I'm pretty excited about
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  it. It's gonna be a lot of fun. No, no, definitely
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  gonna be a lot of fun. Like even last time we went to the
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  jelly Belly factory, we went to a nice Burgner place. You know,
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  we did actually quite a bit when you came down, and uh, you
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  know, when you come down again, we'll we'll see what else kind of
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  content we could sneak in. Yeah, well your time's being here. Yea.
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  It was a lot of fun hanging out with everybody and being at the
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  seminar. So, like I said, the straw man culture, you know,
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  I didn't realize how strong it was in the segment area, and it's
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  it's it's really real. Nice to see that well, all strength strength sports
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  do pretty well up in northern California. There's a lot of power lating up
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  there, and there's a lot of strament up there, so it's it's a
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  lot of fun. I mean I remember living up there when I lived in
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  Ryn Park and Katti and stuff like that. Yeah, going into Napa and
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  doing the Parloat meets there, so it was it was good stuff. I'm
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  looking forward to Thanks Gina for having us up and it's just gonna be a
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  lot of fun. Oh yeah, definitely, definitely be a lot of fun.
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  And with it all all that being said, Nick, how how's the
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  weather been out there in Las Vegas? Does it starting to warm up?
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  Was there still cool and down? No, it's great out here. It's
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  sixties. It's nice. I mean, the weather's been terrific out here.
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  It's why we live here. It's been bright and sunny. You know,
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  you're gonna have a couple of days mixed in that are a little little rainy
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  whatever, but not bad. So the weather's been great Vegas. We got
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  three hundred days of sunshiny ear nice. Yeah. And with all that weather
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  and all that stuff going on, how's the reintroduction of regular traffic after the
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  shut down F one in that whole the bacom. Well, it's nice to
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  be able to get around the city kind of like we used to, so
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  that that's kind of nice. I mean, there's still construction going on.
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  There's still not quite done with the Tropicano Overpass, but they're getting a lot
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  closer now because that will be done before the super Bowl. So yeah,
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  that'll be good. That will be great when that gets done, because that
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  that's going to say to everybody at least ten to fifteen minutes of driving time
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  to day once that's cleaned up. Yeah, I know that's the exit you're
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  using to pick me up from the airport all the time, so you don't
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  have to go all the way around anymore. Yeah, it'll it'll probably save
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  a good ten minutes of driving getting to the airport to pick you up,
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  that's for sure, just for me to get to work and stuff like that.
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  It'll it'll be a lot easier to get down to the range exactly.
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  And with the Super Bowl hitting, like, are you guys preparing at the
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  range for the amount of traffic that you guys are gonna get because you know,
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  the Super Bowl requires a lot of things that you know, like events,
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  access to stuff like that. And you guys literally being across the street
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  from the Raiders Stadium from algia Stadium, you know, do you feel like
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  going to get a lot of actual traffic coming in from the Super Bowl.
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  I think we'll get some of it. We're about a five minute to ten
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  minute walk at most walk from the stadium because you know, Dean Martin runs
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  right or Industrial whatever you want to call it. If you've lived very long
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  time, you colored Industrial runs right up the side, and so all you
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  got to do is walk south from the stadium maybe half a mile at most,
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  and you're right there at the range, so it's walking distance. They
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  closed the street off though for football games and stuff like that, so the
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  street will be closed off. You'll have to walk over, or you can
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  go around the backside. You know, you can take Russell up to Polaris
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  and turn left on Polaris and it'll take you over there as well, so
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  it's not too bad. But you know, it's a quick little walk right
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  right down Industrial. That's it. And for all the football players that will
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  be at that event, because like I said, the season is not over,
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  there's a lot of stuff up in the air. But you know what
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  I'm saying, I definitely expect to be seeing some professional football players. Oh
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  they're wanting to cut loose on some of the machinery in there. Oh yeah,
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  we get some of the raiders is that come in fairly often anyways,
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  So and a couple of their coaches and stuff like that come over as well
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  too, So you never know who you could have seen that place. I
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  mean, BJ Baldwin goes in there all the time, so it's you know,
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  I've seen Randy's tour come in there. There's all kinds of people that
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  come in that place, so it's neat. So it's a fun place to
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  hang out, it really is, you know. And how lucky is Nick
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  to actually be a professional pro straw man and working up to be that gunsmith,
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  because I know that that's the whole reason it's the job, you know
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  what I mean. It's like you're slow steps, slow steps, And the
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  more I learn about firearms, the more I know I don't know, So
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  every time I learned something new, it just adds, you know, fifty
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  other things that I now have to research and learn. So it's really really
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  cool. It's kind of like neat getting into like this a new hobby as
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  well. So it's it's neat and it's and it's fun and I like going
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  in there and you know, shooting some shooting targets and stuff like that.
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  It's it's it's fun, it's challenging, and I'm getting better at it too,
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  so I can't complaint. You know. One of the things I've noticed
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  is Evan Singleton has actually been getting into technical shooting, and uh, yeah,
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  exactly. So I thought that was pretty cool. I was like,
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  you know, uh, and you're doing that, and then all of a
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  sudden, Evan's like, like you really, you know, getting into it
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  too, So I thought it was a pretty cool little little little thing there.
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  Yeah. The the thing with it is is it's a neat hobby.
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  It's a great thing to kind of get into. Plus the self defense part
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  of it and just everything else like that. It's it's awesome. I mean,
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  it truly is. But it's like adult legos, you know, you
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  know that you get to play with and add this to that gun, and
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  add this to that gun, and try this type of optic, try that
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  type of and then just all the different types of animal that you can run
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  through the guns and the different purposes between the ammal you know, it's it's
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  it's it's a neat learning thing, you know. And all the different sizes
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  and stuff like that. I mean, yeah, and the difference between shooting
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  a fifty calendar twenty two is like night and day. So yeah, it
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  doesn't get it more variable in the size and ports of the guns, that's
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  for sure. So it's it's it's pretty neat. I really do love it.
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  And it's a fun place to work. It's like going to work at
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  a place that you're part of a family. So it's it's a lot of
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  fun. We have a good time, you know. And that's one of
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  those things too, is like Nick, you get to do double your job
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  because like I said, you're just being you're just a professional shamn. But
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  then also too, you get to work at the Disneyland of the gun ranges
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  and you know what I'm saying, they have a good time with it at
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  all times. Oh yeah, no, it's it's good stuff. I mean,
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  Plus it's fun. I need to get people that are never you know,
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  shot a firearm at all, and they come in and they're you know,
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  shooting a glock and MP five and then an M four and stuff like
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  that, and they're they're like nervous, and we're like, hey, I'm
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  right in here with you. I'm gonna have one hand on your back and
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  one hand on the gun and we're going to walk you through it. So
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  and then they're like, oh, this is really fun. I go Exactly,
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  it's as long as you follow the basic procedures of you know what you're
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  supposed to do with the guns, you'll be fine. So it's it's it's
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  a lot of fun. And seeing how excited they get when they hit a
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  bullseye and stuff like that. It's it's it's fun. It's good stuff.
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  Oh yeah, that is it? That is it? Well, Nick,
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  let's let's slide on out and let these people know what's those famous words?
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