What's up guys? So today on the podcast, Eugene and I talk. We originally were going to do a little Patreon, a little back end thing.

But as often with what we do, we end up going on tangents. This one starts off with an interesting topic that I've been sort of diving into, which is about figuring out the kind of the reason, the deeper reasons as to why we train in spite of all the difficulties and the like the potential injuries

and all this stuff. But it also goes to one of my students who recently won or he took a third

at the Worlds. And, you know, a heartfelt message from him. He, you know, he was about a four

years ago. He was homeless. He just got out of prison he had a drug charge

he was a felon you know what I mean and he used jitsu to change his life around and so we kind of

talk about that and we talk about all kinds of other stuff so I'm sure if you guys enjoy the rambly

nature that we often sort of share through this podcast and you'll love this episode um guys, real quick, as always, if you want to support the podcast, check out the Patreon,

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So with that said, let's get started.

Recently, Frank, one of my students, he posted this really heartfelt message. and I'm saying my students, you know my students, one of our guys.

He posted this really heartfelt message on Facebook, where he would like talk about like four years ago.

He just got out of prison.

He was a felon.

He was an ex-drug addict.

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