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I'm in the same town and.

I feel like I never see you.

You just got back from the Sorinx camp, right? Yeah. How many people? I'm actually wearing the shirt. So, uh, about 700. Yeah, it's a big event. 17th anniversary or I guess the 17th event that they've done of Sorenex. I guess originally

I started as, you know, Byrd asking his dad, hey, you know, your birthday's coming up. What do you

want to do? And he said, oh, let's get some people in, lift some weights, do some barbecueing. And now 17 years later, you know, 700 people show up to this fitness summer Sorenex extravaganza. Did you speak? I was in the opener.

A couple weeks out, Bert hits me up in kind of a cryptic text. Hey, can you talk? I'm like, sure. So then he just texts me back, hey, do you want to speak at Sorens? I was actually waiting for a phone call. I guess we're past the point of that. And he said, hey, can you speak at Sorenx? And I was like, did we just speak?

And I didn't know.

I didn't really have anything to talk about.

And I said, I don the point of that. And he said, hey, can you speak at Sorenax? And I was like, did we just speak? And I didn't know. I didn't really have anything to talk about.

And I said, I don't, you know, the one thing I would talk about, you know, Victor and those guys are preparing for ADCC 2024, which is in August. And that'll be like the two year block that I trained them in preparation for this event.

So I have a presentation I put together for the collective last year. That's kind of like the add-on piece, but it's not finished because we haven't gone to ADCC 2024 yet. When is, when is that? August 17th and 18. Vegas. In Vegas. Okay. You should be there. Shanti. Shji is getting inducted into the ADCC Hall of Fame. You're kidding me. Okay. I'll come out. As much as I hate Vegas. I, you just said Vegas and I'm like, boh. I'm like throwing a throat up in my mouth. I've got to go give a speech in Vegas. On my birthday, too. About being a, is it, oh, degenerates. Oh, degenerates. How degenerates league.

Yes, too. About being a, is it, oh, degenerates. Oh, degenerates. How degenerates the league. Yes, yes. So, screw your buddy. You know, when I started training Victor in those guys, was right after ADCC 2020, and I kind of agreed to this like two-year cycle of like working with them and prepping them. So like the culmination of our work

together is coming. And so I said to bird, I'm like, I don't really have anything to speak about.

And he's like, well, you know, you're good at talking. So why don't you just get up and talk for 55

minutes? And I'm like, have you never met me? Do you realize that the fear of failure of not getting up and presenting well will

like keep me awake at night much more than actually the presenting on the spot?

And there's never a point where I'm just going to get up and fucking wing it for 55 minutes.

Yeah.

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