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BTG 24 - Cross Training

January 23, 2020 · 39:39

Rob and Dave discuss the topic of cross training - going to different teams to train and the consequences of it. We also talk about the Modolfo Camp organized by Mo Jassim, ADCC Coordinator, who has Henry Cejudo, Gordon Ryan, Craig Jones, Kaynan Duarte, JT Torres, and a host of other champions all training under one roof. We also talk about MMA for a bit, talking about our favorite approaches to ground strategy, striking tactics, and pacing. And naturally, we got into talking about Baby Yoda as well from the Mandolorian. Visit our sponsors: DrysdaleBJJonline.com is your destination for learning from IBJJF Black Belt World Champion and ADCC Absolute World Champion Robert Drysdale. Many different courses offered for all levels in bite size chunks that anyone can dig into right away. FrontHeadlock.com for an excellent take down series that doesn't require being a wrestler to be an amazing head snatcher and score take downs and submissions with great efficiency. Follow us on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/BreakingTheGuard Follow us on Instagram: https://Instagram.com/BreakingTheGuard Follow us on Twitter: https://Twitter.com/BreakingGuard Follow us on Snapchat: @BreakingGuard Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Tag us on Social Media with #BreakingTheGuard

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[Music] hey guys what's going on David Avalon here with Robert Drysdale for another episode of breaking the guard what's going on Rob always awesome Dave good life life I chose happy about yourself doing good doing good you know this is looking nice yeah yeah we got a lot of remodeling going on where we just finished the library room I finished a bedroom we got a master bath remodel in the dining room and then I think we're done oh good and then I have to start tackling the outside that's a whole yeah at least the inside of the house so it should be done in the next month or so and we'll be good to roll yeah it's just it's hard work man working around the house like this very TD about before bed it's like yeah it's it's more headaches in itself I will just pay someone to take care of everything but you there's no way you're not getting involved in people are gonna mess up and they don't do the job that you say they're gonna do then they disappear on your like it's more headaches than it sounds yeah and things always go wrong guaranteed Murphy's Law is brutal man Murphy hates my guts too ma'am it's just weird because you could do other things that where nothing goes wrong but like with a home-improvement project it's like you can't move away from me like there's always something you can't account for I come to a conclusion of this right here anything involves people shits gonna go wrong because we're messed up man we change our minds we forget we get distracted we don't know how to do stuff we get angry to get emotional and you know you know computer the computer you press on it works there watches your watch at these days are very mechanical they just work anything you're gonna put people in the equation it's gonna be false yeah you know like we're very not machine like like that because you can be super efficient about something today and tomorrow not be same thing you know you having a bad day you're less efficient I think it's also just Oh in a project there's part like if you're working on a house it's been worked on by a lot of people already means a lot of variables that you can't account for and particularly like I was laying floors out and some floors were a little chipped or the the it was like a tongue and groove thing and some of them wouldn't click in and there's so many different parts you're talking about like 200 planks of wood it wasn't that one of them is gonna have a little defect and it screws everything up and there was a few you get frustrated ago he was dropping the connivance I've never have known Dave for quite some time never seen him drop a cut off I had learned it from my dad my dad whenever he's doing all my proving project those would go flying around yeah the other guys no way they're different but that's all good dance worked out pretty nicely and uh ya know one things I want to talk about I saw I think on my Instagram Moda seem he said ATC yeah I just never gets calls it moe well it might be Bertrand is it sir I'm sure I am but uh he's running something very interesting where he's putting this can't be called module fo and they man yet these it looks like he's like in the Versace house or something like that and he got all these different grapplers to go in there and there's like Gordon Ryan Craig Jones kind on he had wrote Euler brothers was it JT even as Henry Sehun oh so there's like a whole cast of people and they're all trained together one house and apparently they're filming this I think they're gonna make it into like a DVD or course or some sort but uh I found that very interesting because that's very rare where you can get people from all different places in one house to train together alright so I've had that experience a few times but I'm sure you had I well be here in Vegas I'd like to take your thoughts on what do you think about this over this is like a immersion cross-training that you would sell them again right like this is now like once-in-a-lifetime type stuff where you could put everybody so we had a podcast a while ago about cross-training and creon tea and I and where I stand with this is is this first of all money talks hey people right amount of money they'll change allegiances and they change how the things very quickly money talks you know normally I don't think you could see you know these guys training together but if the money's right they're gonna they're gonna enroll right second thought I can guarantee you they're not going to war they know they don't want to give their tools away not not for they're not gonna expose themselves to a potential opponents and they're roling but you ever roll with someone or like a silent agreement we're not gonna go balls to the wall I'm not gonna try to tap you you know they're trying to tap me you know what I'm thought yeah well yeah that happens it's a silent agreement where we know that the stakes are too high and there we have enough in the game because already getting we already got paid yeah we're here that's our payment I don't have to beat you to get paid so the stakes would be too high for kind of go to war with war with Gordon right they have big both have too much to lose it's on camera now so I think it's a very respectful thing that they kind of like don't really I could be wrong maybe they're pushing the threshold I'd be surprised I think that's what's happening on the cross-training side it's you know I've gone all over the place with this you know I started very you know when I was you and you're a student you don't it makes no sense not to cross train but you want to train with everyone and you gotta remember cross train a lot of it has to do is socializing it's not really training you just want to exceed well you want to find out where you sit in the hierarchy in a different gym you know where you're sitting up the pecking order in your own gym now you're curious it's more of a curiosity its socialized it's creating all these friendships and relationships with these other teams because you know we're networkers that by nature like we'd like to have a broader network of people people that like us and it's not very genuine it's a lot of a fake a lot of times like hey my friend you know it's like I know you don't like me it's okay you know you're just pretending you do because you know you benefit from being my friend in some way right so there's a lot of that going on I now these days as a team owner as a gym owner I don't like it because I mean if it's like the way if it's a flow role and it's not very genuine yes it's fine but if I had a but fighter of mine and he's in the UFC and is fighting for the UFC title for example and you know he's gonna fight you know Henry cejudo for the title there's not in a million years what I let Stannis it who don't train in my gym yeah not in a million years what I live one of his training partner straight in my gym not in a million years would I let one of my main guys go train with ten and one of senators henry seguros training partners i would not allow the crowd kick that out of the gym know it's a conflict of interest a huge compliment it's very unprofessional dislike out ring with everyone mindset is fun there's nothing on the line and I get that if you're a normal practitioner like it's not don't you don't do you just a for a living and you want to go to train with your you know your your best friend's gym Houten's across town and whatever okay I get that if we're both pros and there's cross-training going on I have never heard the Patriots playing you know practicing with the Raiders yeah you know I makes no sense and as a team owner I would kick that person off the team yeah that's what people don't get like the students like oh why do you care you know we cross-training or this and that it's because there's a conflict of interest if you're training somebody or you're across training someone and you're showing techniques that maybe your fighters gonna be using and then they're gonna compete against each other now he's got an advantage and now you've hurt your own team yeah you know so in a competition setting the cross-training can be very dangerous because you could be exposing your your team to harm because you're just trying to show everything to everybody you know and yeah and you have like for example this happened like a while ago there's a king set in here in Vegas and we were in a final with the local gym or the 10th planet gym and and like max will cut cross-trained who's on our team and he was cocky he had trained with some of those guys at Xtreme Couture because that's what kind of like you know everyone meets the spar and whatever right and so their trading partners supposed to be friends but the guys in the opposite team yeah that's kind of a weird dynamic right and the whole time the guys given instruction how to beat max and I'm watching that I'm like I max if you go back to that gym and train with that guy get your [ __ ] stupid I hope that was last and I didn't say anything he'd like to clear like he'd never went back but you know might have just sparked but never rolled with the guy again because it's like okay I mean you're gonna be cornering against me well if you you know and I I personally I've been asked to corner against them in my and more times than I can count I had at least three people at least from memory probably more like four or five going a robbed I'm gonna get them in my I know your jujitsu guy ah would you train me for that fight they pay me no I I just can't do it to me there's like a loyalty that even though I haven't spoken to the guy in years like there's a loyalty there like no man we train together way too long you know I remember when I fought um I'm not I'm not a very I don't hold on to stuff they like people do this stuff to me like I get mad for like 10 minutes and I forget it I think it's easier to live that way you don't hold it when I fought Jacquerie I had a ADCC a super fight under it was like helping him warm up and like cornering him during the fight and I'm like I'm like I remember during the fight thinking that I'm like we trained together for years of Brazil you don't train well I go why it made no sense to me give me is like dude I would never do it right well he did is I agree no it's it is what it is you know I'm not I don't hold grudges you know probably does even remember but I do I just don't hold it against the guy but it was weird to me it's like man we were you're supposed to be you know I'm saying yeah like if you were to fight like someone tomorrow like one of my good guys I'd be like a man you guys go at it like Danny ins fighting Gilbert Gilbert of Tia Zenith member not in a million years what I give one guy with the other advice I'd be like a man it's to me that psych standard like you should have to explain this to people right but people aren't like that man so the cross-training thing is that very detrimental and a lot of ways to a team mentality the team is supposed to be a beehive we're supposed to have each other's backs all the time so it's not a controlling thing it's more of the team benefits from having that mindset even if you as an individual don't yeah so I agree with those points with that being said though there is benefit of course to cross-training in the sense that you're gonna be exposed to new knowledge potentially you know that's right so I think it has to be done but in a way that's controlled you know so when people ask me like oh you think do i need to cross another gym everyday no but if I do it I treat it like if I'm doing a seminar right like if I'm gonna attend a seminar I don't have ten seven hours every day it's just too much information but once in a while I do and everything I pick up from there like absorb it I'll train it practice it if it works out good okay now I'll disperse that knowledge into my beehive and that all the other bees yeah collect that knowledge so I don't think it's necessary for everybody to be doing it particularly if you're the coach that's I think the responsibility coach is to acquire this new knowledge and hand it down to the students everybody goes out tries to find stuff they might not know what's good and what's not it's partly why they're paying you yeah right as a coach because you're the guy who knows what works and what doesn't and you're the one doing the homework so like in these situations here like this Milou camera I think for those guys it's gonna be very beneficial for those athletes because particularly someone like maybe kinda who is not training all these leg locks or whatnot he's gonna get a lot of exposure to it you know I'm like yeah and he's gonna pick up something from it does he need to train every day with all these guys no I don't think there's this to this there's a I agree with everything you're saying what I say I think that it's hard books because the way our mind worked it's like one thing with the other is either good or bad and people don't always see the gray there's good and bad both together they think school is right there are benefits and then there there's you know sometimes the individuals on this side of the fence and they're the team you on the other side of the fence and you're you know and it's not an easy one because I've been on both sides of that fence it has a practitioner yeah you want to have new experiences although I think for progress you don't need 30 training partners you need like three solid guys yeah that's my biggest leaps in jiu-jitsu I was trained with the same person every day so this one like to get sleeps in jujitsu but you know as a but yeah what we're talking about that the team has hurt on a professional level and there's money involved and it's a career involved and it he just thought you're not a hobbyist you're fighting at a high level I would never I wouldn't do it I wouldn't do it I wouldn't let my fighters do it I'd be protective of the team as I came in I know that guy right there you're helping right now is gonna be fighting your guy you know next week no way you know and it's it sounds very you know political and all that but there is no way it's not gonna be political when your careers on the line yeah there's a lot involved you know I you know maybe because I see it more as a team order today I don't see it as an athlete anymore because I'm not competing so maybe that explains my change of perspective but you know it's it's kind of your responsibility to guard the well-being of the team as a whole why you know if you're going to gets people that are going to be going against your teammates if it's a one-time exchange there's not that much but if it's happening all the time that's a problem I've had that problem that way with students they wanted to represent two teams that go back and forth the train with both I'm like if you ever know in that and every now and then you want to go like why not in California I visit check map glucose look is one of my best friends all right well out there I'd roll with there that happened if your time to look paler those guys have a good roll you know but it it ends there it's not it's not consist I will not train with them consistently because they probably wouldn't like that and it doesn't work to all no no so it's it's a very sporadic thing and like rule them a doleful camp it's a what it's not gonna happen a lot and I like I said I don't think they're exposing themselves no one's showing any weakness or strength they're kind of like it's poker face the whole time they're keeping their card really close to their chest and they know that the other person is doing the same and it's a silent agreement I'd be very surprised if they're actually going at it the way they were at 80 to say right yeah I saw was Michael Zenga was there as well so that's why I figured they're filming this they're gonna make this into a product that some sort who's that Michael's a guy he's a guy who runs BJ phonetics okay him in a Bernardo fatiah there they're partners it makes sense so I saw him there with my okay there's this is going to be a product of some sort as a should be interesting I wonder what exactly they're gonna film like are they doing this like when lloyd irvin did his uh what was it called I don't remember this is what got key and famous partly was when they did that brown belt invitation I remember I remember they're like a mini like I didn't watch it but I know they did like I was like a reality TV kinda yeah oh man we're filming each other the house and the training and so it was a really good insight know into these competitors and whatnot and that format they had with was really brutal because they were competing four or five times a day no time we made it was sub only and they were doing one match with Aggie one match without the guy who won that one Keenan candidate yeah who else Pfeiffer guy was in there I remember hearing about I didn't watch it but I remember hearing about it so there were some really good matches in there for sure yeah I can end up winning that and he did have a hometown advantage but I think technically he was just a better guy there and I knowing the way the guys at lloyd-evans rolled they go they have great endurance they do lots of rounds back and forth so I think that format suited him well yeah is he was used to those types of grinds you know doing three matches like and twenty and thirty minute matches a day whereas most people probably are not used to that or that the intensity that they go at that's why when he and went against Gordon and me there's no time that match I was very impressed that Gordon was able to beat him in that format because that was like going towards Keaton's game more yeah and Gordon still was able to that was a long time after the Woodard though it was yeah and you know what say oh just like on caveat here like a side note you got to give it to loitering I think it's fair to say he's a much better coach than he gets credit for because he's been consistently put in good I don't think there's an American coach it's put out as many good fighters as lloyd irvin i can't think of any no he's uh he's been consistent like i think i've done fairly well like i couldn't think of it but i I wouldn't put it on the same plane you know like I some other guys out there they've done well you know you got like the established good coaches like mean far bigger jelly OVA or you know like Julia says are like there's I can go give you a list of guys but like lloyd irvin doesn't always get put in that list a lot of them like him yeah he's a very good coach you have two excellent coach and the reason why I say you follow systems now that's why I like you put in athletes he'll give you you know studs it works out way like a league think came to him as a brown belt but from - an apple enough or maybe purple I'm not sure but he wasn't really famous yet he was a big dude and he's led a guy yeah and Keenan came to him and thing as a Bluebell there's JT at Bluebell - yeah and then but then you kid lightweight Jamil Jamil that was I think the best guy ever come out of that camp and he's I think he's a product from start to finish yeah like there's the one thing that Lloyd does really well is that he has the legacy kids like there's people that are starting four years old and they stick with it all the way until their 20s so he's constantly bringing new talent and he has a very positive culture in there the essentially the kids they start off and the nesic grow up they start teaching they start mentoring so they're all about the martial arts lifestyle I mean so it's a it's pretty remarkable and when you have people in the gym for 10 15 years you know the type of things I can Heights it's here that you you have to create the right environment and I don't know the environment personally but at least on the competitive level no one you have to I mean you can't argue a success yeah you know you don't have to like it or you can't change it you know I get successes there and like he he is now he has to plat foot world champions Muhammad and Jamil yeah I missing someone uh know what DJ's a noogie world champion she's a noogie world champion they think was nurtured I'm not sure we're probably forgetting someone you know I can JT came out of that camp - so you did a lot of other you know you know so like the in one way or another they were impacted by that camp yeah you know you got to give the guy credit for sure yeah and you see even like him he has a pretty controlled environment as well as far as it is guys but he would expose him to other people as well I was one of those guys like when I came up with my Kimora Chavez he flew me over there he said I think three different times to spend a week with him and like one of them was to work with Keenan because Keenan at the time was I think a purple belt just turned brown and had no wrestling he was all guards so he's like we need him to learn this thing so he can defend himself using submissions of whatnot and Keenan is like my best success story for chemours he's more job Dean Lister twice he's got Lucas lage so like it obviously worked really well for him you know guys like with a DJ nyjah they've all hit the system really well so but he's brought other people like DJ he's infamous for his double leg yeah but he actually part of that was developed by camp Ramola I'm not sure you know who the name sounds there's the Iowa wrestler a really good wrestler and he used to run I forget their website here but he always have popular site Facebook page memes and whatnot it was good stuff and he got connected to Lloyd and then we found out oh he's a really good wrestler he said oh why don't you come in teacher guys wrestling and he taught DJ that blast EE there we go and I was there but also DJ does fit that oh yes scription I was telling like the shoulders attached the years yeah I'm like it's got no neck yeah it's like he said like a ram exactly because they call Ram man hell yeah it was perfect for that because he's also short so he's always low so it's easy to pop to run through he doesn't had to bend his knees much just drive and I remember I was there when they started working with him because it was me DJ and Sadiq Yusuf I don't know you're familiar Sadiq he's a UFC fighter now at the time he was a white belt just came in from Nigeria if I'm not mistaken or he might have been here but he's from Nigeria and cannulas showing us okay there's black double-a now you know it it's not fun to get blast double yeah it puts a hole in your chest you know their boom so he's like I don't want you guys doing it to each other because you're gonna get sworn you're not gonna go as hard so he's like we need somebody to be the okay and then I go sleek and so things like 160 pounds white belt it's in good shape but I mean like I don't know if he was ready for that you say okay you're gonna be the guy for an hour getting blast double like between me and DJ back and forth no amount of money can make them it he took all the punishment yeah brawny they complained once and afterwards I don't like this kid's gonna be amazing because he can't you went to train after that I'm like he took an hour worth of abuse from me and DJ and looking at no he said you see I think say a tan one there's only nice pull out so like it's another success story from Lord Urban as well they owned a house over so but yeah that the point being that the way the Lloyd does it he will bring people in run a seminar or clinic and then both that's the exposure right I know he's done this a bunch of times with other people as well he said like dietitians and also stuff I think that's a great way of doing it because as the gym owner you're controlling the influence and you're making sure it's the right type of influence because I've had it where people would seek out advice what I would consider charlatans yeah they'll know what they're talking about and they get into your fighters a year and strife P and then BS o there's then you you've now that they're poisoned because now they they see this as an authority figure and now he's going against what you're saying but he has a higher standing a knowing that happens I and I've been doing this long enough to observe this is as soon as they become successful as soon as they reach that spotlight that's when that guy comes in it's like and you've seen in every like fighting slash boxing movie you've ever watched it was like that there's that guy there's a coach to brings a guy up and there's like the demander that comes along later and takes him in the wrong direction and he goes back to the old coach because the old coach really knew how to train them right we see and it's so true it is it's so true because you know it's sometimes it's not you know it's always like the evil manager but it's a lot of times like I've seen this before long time it's the wife it's the girlfriend it's the datas to mom you know other people that shouldn't be you know it's funny and I don't Bree brought this up before but like in collegiate wrestling like you would never ever list the college coach would never care what the girlfriend thinks right if the girlfriend walked into like yeah I know this is how you should run the camp no John is doing too much work he's got to do more of that the coach would be like to get the [ __ ] out of here that would be literally like get out of get out of my mat you don't like dope and MMA people that shouldn't be there are costly you know and they get into the fighters head and they change a winning recipe I think of this like this if it ain't broke don't fix it if you have a recipe and it's worth all the way to here why are you changing the funny thing is a second together the UFC or they reach you know like you know they're on the flow they've made it in jiu-jitsu right so to speak they have got to change something now I'm at the top I got to change it and you get that mindset I've seen it like man you don't have to change a thing you've made it this far the hard work is behind you you just got to keep calling that exact same path and it's difficult because that's when they start getting you know all your offers well they wouldn't get ambitious now they see that it's they see what the pilot possibilities so they feel that they have to do more and change and from my experience that's the beginning of the end it seems like they're going to the next loved one and watching them is they lose that recipe that made them successful and they're just like pretty much surfing the wave that was you know that was created way before they're just like it but it's beginning the end of the career descent begins right there yeah I've seen guys who we built that were stone-cold killers really really really good and they start getting these people in start influence them and then they start falling apart and then they're like I shall owe their former self sick man like just ruined uh a guy that could have made more of himself just because he listened to the wrong people wrong anything you said because the more successful you get the more like you're like a great white lots of her Morris are second of clinging idea back to feed fluoride and they might not want to identify it I was funny man because I I was watching this documentary on I might have been Netflix Aaron was always like on Caesar and I can remember which Caesar it was I think it was all Gustus right and basically was talking about you know his biographers will say like he like very lowly guy obviously can't trust anyone and I was a magic man imagine what that guy had to go through because this as any leader feels this because you know the more you climb up the less you can trust people because everyone's got their own agenda and your true friends are Nolan you could know you can trust are the ones that were there before you accomplished anything right but those were out there like they they they drift away from you a lot of times I'm because you push away because life takes them in different direction so my my very best friends the people out trust with my life don't even change a Ginsu yeah you know say and I talk to them like once a year right and just how it happens but as you go up the top of the fighter like you even know what to trust you know and then you know your wife is there with you every day so you don't listen to her or you know your dad or whatever and a lot of times they're just looking at the money just because they're right there they love you doesn't mean they always have your best interests they're gonna go like a John or you know like whole thing yeah you have this guy's you're striking coach because he's only charging you fifty bucks an hour this other guy was ten percent now what's best for the fighters career it may be one or the other but the judgment is being made based off of price because the wife wants a bigger house right and there's that and the fact that it's someone who doesn't know what they're talking about and normally right because they're not a fighter they haven't gone through it it'd be like getting medical advice from you know your uncle yeah there's a plumber yeah or plumber or whatever you know it's like you don't know what they're talking about so what they think is just price yeah and that's what makes a difference and but there's obviously very different things hey they didn't see it though yeah if you don't see this is one of the things that marketing that people don't get either like if you were to call a gym and they call what's the price and they won't tell you about foam don't be like oh it's a scam take no it's not a scam what it is is that they don't want you to price shop with them because they might not be the cheapest around but there's a reason why because there's a high quality of service involved but you're trying to treat this like you're buying from the McDonald's value meal and this is not this is a prime ribeye steak so we're gonna compare price yeah I'm gonna look bad because I'm thirty dollars a pound you know or thirty dollars an ounce whatever and the McDonald's is $1.99 but you get what you pay for one day ninety have diarrhea when you go to Train yeah yeah the prime rep you feel pretty good about yourself right so hey it's one of those things that you have to know where you're talking about when you pick the price so if somebody's making the decision of how your training camp should go and isn't an expert they're not in the position to make that and I agree a hundred percent and but it takes a level of maturity to be able to you know it's a personality thing this is more like like a lot of things are outside of the cage door not technical at all play a huge impact on what's gonna happen inside that cage drawing the mats because having the ability to make the distinction between a good and a bad decision on a personal level on a financial level on a who you're gonna surround yourself with we're talking about social intelligence we're talking about you know knowing when to be your foot down and went to you know when to take a step back when to like give the authority to your coach and when to acknowledge when he may be wrong you see what I'm saying it's a very thin line these guys that are tried now you have to admire people that could manage to stay on top for so long I can guarantee you they have a very good balanced personal life yeah I think it is a big part of it you know and yet the remember fighters are used to or athletes and generally used to being coached and told what to do it doesn't take much effort for somebody else to try to fill that void you know if that coach is not injecting himself so of course a wife or a mother or father or someone else and come in and take that coaching role and fill void it's not if you're not putting enough so that's why I think it's important because I think fires are susceptible to being manipulated in that way there's some third thing do they do what they do you know so having the right people Julie speaking family is you know trust for thing but like there's always like that greedy out brother you know that greedy dad or mom is just like lot looking at your career they're looking at like immediate cash right so I mean if you look everybody tricky man it's a tricky one of course it is if you look at murder suspects it's how he's family oh no like great that's too like yeah it's always like a creepy uncle man like it's it's it's crazy but you know you want to be able to trust people really close to you but it's they're not always it's it's a it's a tricky business and that people are tricky business like it's not it's so complicated and we're always changing to me like the biggest question mark out of all question marks man is the people factor it's a very difficult why he's like psychology because I'm not looking at this stuff and I'm going man is work are we ever gonna figure out human behavior cuz we can't even put it you can't even though you can't put the finger on to say this is what people gonna do next you don't know you have no someone's explaining me some of that you know the guy that does the salt thing he goes like that what is that man is guys like always make so much money from what no it goes like that and I get people paying so much money to do that on their food I'm like really how do you predict these things how do you forget that that's gonna be a hit yeah you know I'm saying like it's it's just random [ __ ] that flies man you know and sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and there's no way predictable men do next it's you know it's funny I just started watching the mandalorian oh yeah right but I told my girlfriend the stroke of genius of the writing of this show has nothing to do with the mandalorian and everything to do with the baby Yoda oh yeah baby Yoda is what saved that show it's what made it really it's what everybody watched it right like it's a reason I watch it because I see all the baby on and he's all the time and me and my girlfriend that for you about me that all right let's watch to say oh we gotta give the Disney class they want to adopt baby oh seven bucks a month okay fine let's watch baby yeah but like this if my son were born with green ears and I like that I'd be perfectly happy that's okay you can be I wouldn't baby over person like it was Jon Favreau yeah and he's the guy who always plays like the buddy cop or the buddy with I've been was it Vince Vaughn he's a big I don't see him yeah no but apparently he wrote this he's had this for years the script and they're anything but like I guess it was only just now where he decided to pitch it or something I picked it up and to make it a movie because if you look at the credits he's the executive producer used to writer he said the background like that's pretty amazing because I mean he's known as an actor you know that's great but he put it all together but but my question is he right in the baby Yoda because if he did then he's a genius because he understands especially now or I'm wondering if Lucas Films got it and then like okay we need to make something very adorable here you know how hard it is to get my daughters to watch Star Wars with me because we have to find a happy middle yeah I like we can't so like sometimes it's Lord of the Rings or a Harry Potter and that's kind of like a middle ground for us like Star Wars is something I want to watch I can't get them to watch they love baby onna they watched a Mandalorian with me because baby orders in it yeah you know take out baby yo to see if they're interested yeah that's funny because it literally does nothing no it's just because the original Yoda such adorable character already and then you got a baby version of that it's just it's too much I'm surprised I don't have toys out yet I'm sure they're on their way you know an AI baby Oda that does exactly what it does in the show which is nothing just exactly because yeah apparently that's a it's not CGI they made the doll it looks yeah it looks too real to be so animatronic type things that's what you know my girlfriend has never watched Star Wars maybe the movies yeah and she's like a year younger than me so I'm like what the hell you've been there going her about like you know one of the things that's good about those movies is that they still look good nowadays yeah because they actually didn't do any CGI back and they did all models and apparently allowed the artwork was painting and whatnot so they scale well right because if you did if you look at 80s CGI it's awful and right away you can spot it in models yeah you're right but if you using a little Mazda wasn't that the I guess it still looks pretty good because you can watch Star Wars now and it still looks it's still very good I can watch the old ones all day and still feel like it's brand new yeah anyway Dave how are you going back to work those guys it's a pleasure I was a good one I hope you guys enjoyed and yeah see you guys again next week thank you [Music]

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