Episode 721 - Rapid Fire Q&A #16
In this episode, Jeremy and co-host Andrew Adams take on a special edition of the Rapid Fire Question and Answers.
Rapid Fire Q&A #16 - Episode 721
Jeremy and co-host Andrew Adams tackle a series of questions, comments, and reviews from you, the listeners, and some guests in the form of a Rapid Fire Q&A. Here are the questions they tried to answer:
What are the 3 things that an instructor needs to prepare for to teach martial arts without any belts or any indicators of ranks?
If 80s Martial Arts movies are cut from the same cloth, why is Best of the Best your bane of movies?
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Show Transcript
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Andrew Adams:
We're outside. It's a nice day. So, I asked him a question. Yeah, you got five minutes to answer it. That's it. So let's see, we're gonna ask this one first from Chris. Chris sent this question.
Jeremy Lesniak:
All right, Chris.
Andrew Adams:
And if you want to send them a question, email me, Andrew@whistlekickmartialartsradio.com, or Facebook me? All right, here we go. Chris's question is, what are three things that an instructor would need to prepare to teach a traditional martial art without belts, sashes or other indicators of rank? I'll do that one more time? Because it is a long question. What are three important things that an instructor would need to prepare for, to teach a traditional martial art without belts, sashes or other indicators of rank?
Jeremy Lesniak:
The first one that comes to mind is some kind of reward system. And the reward system doesn't necessarily need to be formalized, you do x, you get y, it could be the culture of the school. It could be that you're an instructor who is absolutely amazing at making sure people feel recognized and validated when they work hard. It could be things like social events within the context of training, right? Because we've got plenty there are martial arts. It looks like it's moving back kind of the other way, in a lot of cases, but probably got, for example, doesn't generally do ranks and titles, you get plenty of people who are immensely passionate about it. Why? Because they see progress. They feel recognized for their progress. And they aren't necessarily right, it's not a judgment, they don't necessarily need that external validation. So there's one to a recognition and potentially a formalized way of how to handle the inevitable disagreements about one's standing within the organizations.
So for example, in a typical traditional martial arts class, if you and I disagree on something, how was it settled? What's the arbiter? Well, often, it may be that we, some one of us would be a higher rank, right? 99 times out of 100. That's how we handle it if that does not exist. You end up with ego coming through and you know, not that, with rank, ego is unchecked. We've talked about plenty of examples where ego reigns within traditional arts. But we've got the temperament of rank, to figure out how some of that stuff goes, how's that gonna go? Is it time training? Is it always gonna have to go to the instructor to decide it? Is it a culture that you can build in? So it's less of an issue? Is it more of a collaborative process rather than a disagreement? process? But there's 2/3.
How do you set expectations? Typically, within training, you know, I am this rank, I am working towards this rank. And I know what isn't, is expected of me. Because I have this form or forms to learn at this, these techniques I need to learn, I need to be able to break these boards with this technique, or my sparring competency, or I have to achieve this result in competition. There are a bunch of things that can happen that determine one's progress within rank. You obviously can't throw everything at somebody on day one. You probably have certain things that should not go to people on day one.
So what do you do? How do you handle that? I don't know. But if you're going to open a school that has that, you have to have some kind of path forward. We've talked long about the show about how important it is for people to be able to see their own progress and chart out their own progress. Maybe not on a micro level, but on a macro level. Where am I headed? That's important. There's just me.
Andrew Adams:
Okay, good. No, that makes sense. And there are you know, I don't know how they do it, but I know of an Aikido school that everyone wears a white belt until they get a black belt. Everybody winds up. I don't know how that I don't know how they do it. But I might ask my friend Paul, how they could be interesting to know. But you're right you know, there's gonna be people at different levels. And you know, something else has different levels is our Patreon.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Our Patreon is one of the ways that we help monetize the backend expenses of not just the show, but it will still take in general. And I think we're doing a pretty good job. Because people don't generally stop. Once they're in, we work really hard to make sure we deliver value. And just to give you an idea, tears run from $2 a month to $100 a month. And $200 here, you're a black belt. We just automatically grant you a black belt, you know, we don't do that kidding. There we go. At the $2 tier, you get to find out who's coming up on the show.
You know, we give you some behind the scenes stuff once in a while we open up other things to the $2 tier. But generally, it's pretty simple. $5 you get bonus audio, $10 you get bonus video, $25 you're getting booked drafts, program drafts. We haven't had any of those lately, so we haven't been uploaded. But there's another book rolling and if you're watching, they can and can't quite know why. So the patio umbrella, I am very nervous about the patio umbrella because it's bolted down. But the top part keeps moving around.
Andrew Adams:
On the video, you just barely see it.
Jeremy Lesniak:
And it's making me nervous that it's going to try to fly away. Because it's a cheap umbrella, it's gonna snap in half. At the $50- $100 tiers, you get access to the school owners. mastermind group, which has been really effective and a lot of fun and schoolers are loving it. And of course throughout those tears, you're also getting bonus merch, you're getting stickers, you're getting posters, you're getting shirts, you're getting all kinds of cool stuff that we throw in there. Because it's all about value.
And if we deliver enough value, and we hope that you will stick around. So, all I'm going to ask you all to do. If you have not, please go check out patreon.com/whistlekick. We'll take a look at what we're offering. And see if it makes sense for you. It is incredibly easy to stop. So if you look at it, you're like you know what? I do it for a little while for a little while. If you're not down to do it long term, it's fine. Craig is here chiming in and he says this mastermind group is spectacular. So Craig, of course, is in there. Thank you, Craig. I appreciate that. And if you're just the type of person who wants to give like one thing at a time, there actually is a donation space at the whistlekickmartialartsradio.com website.
Andrew Adams:
Yep. Someone else in the chat is Mark Warner, who also has admitted he's the mastermind, and he gave us a great testimonial. And he sent in a question this week. Beautiful. So it's great that Mark is on this.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Exactly. It's like all this stuff is just rolling out.
Andrew Adams:
So, I think you would agree that pretty much all the martial arts movies from the 80s, maybe some of the managers or others, all need to be removed because they're all cut from the same cloth. Right? I mean, yeah, that's what I just said. If that's the case, why is Best of The Best your vein of movies? This is a question from Mark Warner.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Alright, so first off, because we do have people who have not seen many of these movies. So when we talk about this similar format, all right, here's what goes on. You've got a film that generally has one person you've ever heard of. And there are generally two plots, there's a martial arts competition, or somebody gets killed.
In the case of the competition, the plot is that the hero of the story is an underdog in some way either throughout the film or you know, they break their leg and become the underdog. Karate Kid right like he gets hurt. Or on the other hand that somebody gets killed and the rest of the movie is the hero trying to exact revenge.
Let's face it, it is not very much of a generally accepted principle in the martial arts landscape today. But again, they are an underdog they have to overcome, heroes always have to overcome something.
Andrew Adams:
Why do I dislike the Best of The Best so much compared to the others? Because at every turn, it shows itself to be less than In every way I can look at it, the writing is worse than normal, the acting is worse than normal. The choreography is worse than normal. James Earl Jones, who I think is an absolutely phenomenal actor, gives the worst performance of his career as far as I've seen. So it's not any one thing that there's a movie titled Best of The Best, which truly is the worst of the worst. Now, it doesn't mean that it is infinitely worse than every other movie in every way. It's that it somehow manages to be a little bit worse than anything I've ever seen in every single possible measurable way. I know you love the movies.
Andrew Adams:
And Mark commented, “I'll show this year''. It's so true. I'm rolling with laughter.
Jeremy Lesniak:
And I also recognize that just because a movie is bad, doesn't mean you can't love it. Yep, there are films that I absolutely love that are not great movies. And when we think about the landscape of 80s films, it reminds me that there are movies you need to have needed to have washed when they came out to fully appreciate them. And I've talked about The Princess Bride as an example, while not a martial arts film, it's actually been referenced multiple times on the show for the choreography. So our choreography was very much praised by people who have worked as the fencing instructor for the show.
The designer who designed all the choreography was the same instructor that taught Errol Flynn for all of the Robin Hood. The reason I bring that movie up is I did not watch The Princess Bride until I was in my mid to late 20s. And it was lost on me. I get it. Yeah, I looked at it. And I was like, this movie kind of sucks. I've heard for years I've heard for over a decade. This movie is wonderful. And I tested a theory, I went back and I pretended I was 13. And I tried to watch it with that mindset. And I enjoyed it. And I suspect if I had watched it when I was actually 13, I would have loved it. And I think that this is an important thing. I do not watch best to the best until what, two three years ago?
Andrew Adams:
Yep. Yeah.
Jeremy Lesniak:
If I had watched best of the best in ‘79, when it came out, or even in the early 90s. When you know, we still had some of those styles of movies. I think I would have at least tolerated it. I wouldn't have looked at it in that way. And this is the biggest challenge. In the First Cup. I posed a question to people a couple weeks ago: if you had to share with folks a movie that exemplified martial arts movies, if somebody came to you and said, I've never seen a martial arts movie, what should I watch? So many people recommended something from the eight movies that had been incredibly impactful for them. But if we showed them now, whether or not you train, you would look at them and say, I don't even want to finish this.
Andrew Adams:
Here's a question for you. Still staying in the same vein, not the next question. Do you think you hate the best? A little bit more? Because I really like absolutely, because it's become a trope within what we do. I thought I wanted to put that out there. Just throw that out there. Maybe it's really not as bad a movie as he thinks of it, though it is. He just says that because he knows I love it.
Jeremy Lesniak:
No, it's absolutely terrible. It's just a little bit more terrible. Because it's fun for us to discuss this. And so at some point in the next few years, when we are tapped to star in the Best of The Best, what will it be?
Andrew Adams:
There's at least three okay, I don't know if there's a full one when we start.
Jeremy Lesniak:
It doesn't even matter. The number doesn't matter. And actually it'll probably be your good you're gonna freak me out. Really? I don't know if we can do this outside. We learn how not to do something.
Andrew Adams:
Okay. Good.
Jeremy Lesniak:
You know, how will the kickboxer movies? They've become like kickboxer retaliation. Oh yeah. So it's not like kickboxer nine. Yeah. Because people make fun of the Fast and the Furious movies because it's fast time. We'll do something like that. It'd be the Best of the Best. Whistlekick’s revenge.
Andrew Adams:
Mark says Best of the Best is the best. All right, on that note, we should talk about getting some reviews. People are watching this. They might want to give us feedback.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Speaking of reviews, people named Mark, who is Mark Warner. So there are three big places that we asked you to leave reviews. Please feel free to leave a rating. Spotify is the rating. And it's still a relatively new thing. And we've actually gained a lot of followers. Because we hit the ground running with Spotify. So for those of you who have not left reviews, if you want the quickest, fastest thing, Spotify, and you've got to listen to at least 30 seconds in one of our episodes, and then you can leave a rating, we hope you'll leave five stars, but we're not going to ask the best way to do it, as you see fit.
The other three places, our Facebook page facebook.com/whistlekick, you can leave reviews there, that's important to us because it allows you to Google and other searchers see those reviews as a signal to our search rank. And it helps people find the show and find whistlekick, from General. Google reviews. Again, generally for whistlekick, it really helps people find what we're doing. And then the one that means the most on the podcast side is Apple podcast. And you don't need to have Apple devices, you don't need to be an apple podcast user to leave a review. But you would have to sign up for an account. And if you go ahead and do that, and you find our platform and you leave a review, we would appreciate it.
And we have one here. And this review. No, it was a Google review. Not a Facebook, not an apple podcast Review My apologies. Alright, so Mark left us a review. Shout out. And thank you, Mark, it was an immense supporter and greatly appreciated over here. All right, so Mark says, the organization embodies the true essence of the martial artist's mind, body and spirit; its podcasts and events are transformational. They always give much more than you expect. And I think that last line really means the world to me, and I'm sure it means something to you. Absolutely. Well, this idea that we're delivering more than people expect, I really, really appreciate.
And we try, you know, I have a business and martial arts background. And so I see the world of business pretty simply, it's about delivering value. And my expectation is, if we throw immense value your way, some of you will contribute back in some way whether that is a financial contribution for purchasing something that was okay back home or telling people whatever it is. The intent is that, “there's so much value here”. I want to give back in some way. And we're never going to tell you, you have to, we're never going to tell you how much is appropriate, what is appropriate for you. We're going to do ideas, and you take it with it. Awesome. Craig's got a great comment here. I'll read this one a little more. Yeah, move on to the next thing.
Andrew Adams:
And people think I'm not paying attention with my phone. We got a question from a guest.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Oh, cool. I was giving up. Hold up. Craig says Beverly Hills Ninja still talks, mindless martial arts movies, and shares with friends who don't train. And I don't remember, if I've seen it. If I have Chris Farley. I'm gonna have to go back and watch it again. Chris Farley actually came up on first. Okay, great. All right.
Andrew Adams:
So this next question was sent in like, two minutes before we were getting ready to record. Yeah. And it's from Joshua.
Jeremy Lesniak:
What's up, Josh? And those of you who don't know, Joshua is the first. That's pretty cool. He's very talented.
Andrew Adams:
So his question is, obviously it's one sentence, but there's a little bit of a short preface to it. So he says, I've noticed through the years that a lot of the self defense community and with that also martial arts community seems to pray for lack of a better word on people's fear, insert appropriate gear, weapon or course, and then you will be safe. This may cross into the endless gun ownership debates that go nowhere, but that said, could apply to any weapon tool or martial arts skill. Do you think that creating that fear response is an effective impetus to actually fostering confidence in those who lack it?
Jeremy Lesniak:
So one of the biggest challenges and I've said that I've been saying this for years, there are only two things that truly motivate people. Everything else is derivative of these two. It's love and fear. It is far easier to get people to act out of fear, but it is out of love. We are hardwired for that. There have been studies or research or how we want to term it. But this is a well documented thing. That if you give someone two different stimuli, one rooted in fear one rooted in love, they will always prioritize the fear response. And it doesn't take much time looking at the state of the world and media, etc. To realize that that's exactly what's going on. You're being leveraged, towards taking advantage of our attention, money, energy, etc.
When we think about the martial arts landscape, and I'm going to reframe the question a little bit, does the entry point of fear lead with reasonable likelihood into one being confident? I think it depends on many, many, many things. For example, I could put out an ad, let's say I have a martial arts school, I could put out an ad that says, “Hey, are you concerned about remaining safe?” When you walk to your car at night? If someone's going to read that, and take action, they're connecting the situation that I'm posing with a recognition of fear, and a desire to overcome that fear.
Once I get them in the class, I could take a totally different strategy, or I could sprinkle enough that they stay engaged. And there is not a right or wrong answer. I want people to know I'm not passing a judgment, there are some people who need to remain in that strong fear place else, they're not going to take action. And I would rather that they remain afraid and take action, as sad as it is for me to say, then they ignore the situations and take no action. Because I want people to remain safe. Is there a point of access? Yes, we're not going. But I think in most schools, even though they are putting out, we teach self defense, we will help you remain more confident, we will respond, there's some element of fear there. Even the schools that put out marketing towards parents for their children, we will make your child more confident and we will help your child perform better in school.
Not all but a lot of parents are going to look at that. And they will say I am afraid that my kid will not perform at the level of their peers. This may be something that helps level the playing field. I am afraid I'm going to take action to overcome that fear. Once the person is an adult, how do we get them to be? Okay, how do we get them to be confident? Right? Can it's about culture? I have trained at schools where fear is a root element within the culture. I don't enjoy that. I have trained at schools where fear is a card that is played when it's appropriate.
Andrew Adams:
Your one minute left, by the way.
Jeremy Lesniak:
We've both done some self defense stuff. Not all of it's been super intense. But if you're trying to do something intense, and you want to frame things in the right way you can. And I've done this in training, you have kids, your kids safety is on the line in the context of this drill. And it's a quick and let's face it safe way to create an emotional response rooted in fear that gets people to perform differently.
Okay, so the person's last question is in streaming mode right now? Yeah, we're gonna bring them on, and we're gonna find out if you answer the question. Good enough for him. So let's see here. I'm gonna go wild since I talked to Josh. There we go. Josh. Good. I'm doing good to see you. Thanks for coming on.
Josh:
Yeah, I mean, I just have a few minutes, but I caught the last last part of that, but it sounds good. Sounds good. Sounds like you were talking about in the context of martial arts schools.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Primarily, yeah. Is that how you meant the question? Did you mean it differently?
Josh:
I think that's part of it. I mean, just something I was thinking about. And for a while, I don't know if I necessarily phrased it very well. So, I'm still kind of trying to figure out how to phrase it myself. But it just seems like if you look through ads, for example, like in martial arts catalogs or, or these other self defense kind of things, a lot of it is you know, getting you to buy something. You know, and maybe the fear is helping You can buy something, but whether they can actually use it and apply it to their own life. I mean, that's a whole different thing. And so I can think of a parallel to like the outdoor, you know, community, like, these stores that sell like, like outdoor stuff like [00:25:16-00:25:18] and stuff like that. Where the message is like, buy our stuff, you'll have a better experience in the outdoors.
Where, you know, I mean, like, Jeremy, you were in Belize recently, I think back, my wife, and I went there on our honeymoon. And we went on this hike with a guy who was showing us, you know, plants and butterflies and stuff like that. He was wearing the least, like appropriate footwear, one would think he was wearing a pair of like, like dress shoes, you know, for hiking around in the jungle. But that's what he had. And they would look like they had no soul, and they would be terribly uncomfortable and had zero tread. You could find, I don't know, so it's better than nothing. Yeah, something's better than nothing. And I think sometimes people will get wrapped up in this idea of like, well, if I'm in an unsafe area, I need to purchase x,y and z to be safe. And then I'll be okay. But can you actually use that thing? Whatever it is, you know. And so I feel like sometimes that gets lost. I don't know.
Jeremy Lesniak:
That's an important dichotomy, the idea of having a thing and using the thing, right, because we're at this interesting time in the world where most of us have more money than time. I mean, if you really get down to it, you know, I could buy whatever most of us can make, those things happen fairly easily. But if I said, Alright, I want you to put in five hours a week and learning how to use this knife or stick to that feels overwhelming. Yeah, when we all know that the crummiest knife with a lot of training is better than the best night without a train. Right. And I remember this, Joshua brought in firearms, and it's discussed in that community as well. You know, this gun is better than this gun. Well, I'll take the gun that I know how to use over the gun that I don't. Yeah, I'll take the techniques that I know how to use over the expertly derived self-defense protocol that I did one weekend.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, but you basically know nothing about.
Jeremy Lesniak:
And, you know, there's an element here. I think you are far more qualified to respond to the fear portion. You know, we're hardwired to respond to fear over other things, right. Can you speak to that a little bit?
Josh:
Yeah, I think it's hard because, you know, fear anxiety, that's all, like, a natural part of life, right? It's like pain. I mean, it's gonna be, you know, to say, like, those things are not natural. I mean, they're just part of life. But so I think like, when different industries and stuff like that sort of use that to their advantage. I mean, they're definitely aware of that, I think, you know, not to be pulled in to get into the politics of the gun thing, but I mean, the whole thing about ownership of this particular object is going to then make me safe, I think just sort of says a lot. Whether it actually does or not, it's that feeling that the world is an unsafe place inherently. And I need something to sort of level the playing field. In bigger, better versions of that.
Jeremy Lesniak:
I think I can throw out an example that's a little closer to home and potentially a little less sensitive. Our training program, I see how many we sell. I also see the numbers on viewership of the training videos and the downloads on the documents and everything associated with them. And it's like 10%. It is a magically smaller number. And it's not that people get it and they're like, oh, I mean, that people ask for a response. They're not telling me oh, I think the socks are not what I expected, etc. It is the same thing across the board and witnesses are going to buy a program and then not do it. Yeah, and I think we've all done it. We've bought books, How many of us have got books? And then when it comes time to put in the time to read it or I'm just going to keep it's the hope is the promise of results. versus the time if I buy the book The program that night, I am closer to the end result. I can check that box. I did that piece, I feel good about that involvement. But if I put in the time, I gotta find the time to make this work. Make sense?
Josh:
Yeah, I guess I find it a sort of frustrating that people sort of end up having these arguments about literally just things, you know, there's like, sort of material things to have it or not have it, and then that's going to sort of make the difference when I just think back to the guide and had what people would consider, like the least appropriate footwear. And, you know, he made the best of it.
Jeremy Lesniak:
So not only was he able to function adequately, he was functioning professionally. You whether directly or indirectly paid him, for him to bring you on this trip. Complaint. So clearly, it was at least functional, he did not die. Right. So we're Josh, we should talk more about this and maybe put together a collaborative episode so do you think?
Andrew Adams:
Yes, sure. Absolutely. I had, like I said, I'm still kind of struggling to put it into words. It's like one of the things that I don't know, necessarily articulating. But, you know, I guess when I look through some of the ads, like in martial arts magazines, I have a bunch from like, the 80s, and stuff like that, you know, the old ones and stuff like that. It's really interesting, because like it, you probably remember all those production videos, and those ones, take up the whole splash page and all that, you know, and the ones that were, I remember, a couple that were just will take up the entire page, you know, disable any attacker in 10 seconds. Those kinds of ones like that, where it reads like a long infomercial. And they are compelling, you know, in a way. And you know, I think they probably work just that. I wonder how many people kind of do they knowingly go in with the idea that you're actually selling something better? Or they're just like, a way to earn money?
Jeremy Lesniak:
And do this? Viewers, listeners, if you have some thoughts to contribute? Send those to Josh. For those of you who may not know, Josh does a wonderful podcast called the [00:32:47-00:32:49]. You wouldn't call it a martial arts podcast, right? You're getting into pop culture. You're doing all kinds of cool stuff.
Josh:
Yeah, we touch on martial arts stuff sometimes.
Jeremy Lesniak:
But it's very, it's wonderful. And so if you have feedback that might help Josh and I process this in, in pursuit of an episode, please send that over to us. And we'll keep chatting back and forth, and we'll see what we can do.
Josh:
Sounds good.
Andrew Adams:
Thanks for coming on the show, man.
Josh:
Good to see you guys. I gotta run. But cheers. Keep up the good work.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Thanks. Take care. Such a good guy.
Andrew Adams:
That was great.
Jeremy Lesniak:
So this was great. This was a good episode. Are we done?
Andrew Adams:
No. You know, we're in our shoes. What the heck, guys, he took his shoes off. Oh, he's got them right there.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Alright, so if you've been around a while and I'm going to scoot closer in my chair. If you've been around a while, you know that we've done a few different pairs of shoes over the years. The first was a very exclusive pair of shoes that we sold exactly one pair. To me it was the sample. They were handmade in Italy. I've seen them wearing high top sneakers. They're incredibly well made. They've got the logo on them. They're super cool. Because I knew that if we did something with shoes and we did it the right way people would respond.
We have done a couple pairs since then. There was a pair that kind of looks like bowling shoes as fun. We sold some pairs of those. There was another pair, low top kind of similar. And right now we have three different pairs of shoes on the website and this is my favorite. These are slip ons. I got some very positive feedback from somebody else who purchased them. But I love the way these look. Okay, they're a really simple design.
Andrew Adams:
And Mark says great piece.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Mark picked up a pair of these shoes. He loves them. And so I share this. The other pairs are lace ups. There's a low and a high top. And it's more of a white design, we're gonna do some different stuff tweaking this design as we move forward. But what I like about the shoes is I think it's a perfect illustration of something that is not training material. These are not training shoes, maybe you can. Good, but they're not what people would generally look at and say, oh, this is a great martial arts training shoe. It's a shoe that I like wearing out. Reminds me when I look at my feet. Well, martial artists, yeah, pretty cool.
And that's, you know, the same thing with your shirt, or the hats or this, you know, we vary on some. But if you look closely, a lessening amount, we put the word martial arts on things. Because there's risk in that. Not everyone wants to take that risk. We got hot. Feel it? Yeah, do that hot and like, quickly. I don't think we need to. A lot of people know whistlekick now, and what we do and what we stand for. And so when you wear a shirt out, and it's got the whistlekick logo or the name, if you're around other martial artists, there's a chance and it's happened to me.
People come up to you and say, you train. And I think that is super fun . Yeah, pretty cool. So you can check out the shoes. There was ok.com. Everything at whistlekick.com. Use the code PODCAST15 and save 15% ownership.
Andrew Adams:
Yeah, we're good.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Those are all the questions?
Andrew Adams:
Those are questions.
Jeremy Lesniak:
Awesome. Well, remember, if you have questions that you want to contribute to the next to the 17th installment, of these Q and A's, get a hold of Andrew, whether send them to me Facebook or email, Andrew@whistlekickmartialartsradio.com If you have other feedback, other comments, things that are not questions for the q&a episode. The bugs are coming out too. And it's really hard to focus on me, Jeremylesniak@whistlkick.com. We'll do another one of these live and a few weeks and then maybe at some point, we'll figure out ahead of time, when we're to win this and we'll let people know. But for now, it's really helpful for us to just kind of run with it as is those of you who are here, you know, we've got a few of you watching. That's cool. If you can watch, we're gonna get lunch. Yeah.
Andrew Adams:
Why are we gonna have lunch, Jeremy?
Jeremy Lesniak:
Tomorrow's my birthday. I want to have lunch with my friend. Whistlekick.com for all the stuff, whistlekickmartialartsradio.com for all the stuff related to the show. We've got training programs, we've got a Patreon, we've got 1001 ways you can help us out and you can learn about all of them at whistlekick.com/family or social media @whistlekick. We're all over the place. You can find all kinds of cool stuff. We're constantly experimenting, trying to come up with cool stuff that you will like to engage with. If you have suggestions on literally anything that we can do. We do want to hear it the best way let me know. Until next time, train hard, smile, and have a great day.