Speaker 1: Ah, Yes, it has the Been and Skin Show ninety
Speaker 1: seven point one The Eagle and we are hanging out
Speaker 1: today at Rollertown Beer Works in Salina, Texas. And it's
Speaker 1: extra special because this is our big sumo weekend. We
Speaker 1: have a huge sumo tournament going down tomorrow. It's an
Speaker 1: all day event. You got to come out and to
Speaker 1: kind of put you in the right frame of mind.
Speaker 1: We're joined by our buddy Corey Morrison of the Dallas
Speaker 1: Sumo Club.
Speaker 2: And where I.
Speaker 1: Want to go with this, Corey, is you know what
Speaker 1: this tournament has turned into?
Speaker 2: What it's become.
Speaker 1: You guys have people from all over, so kind of
Speaker 1: give me a rundown some of the folks who have
Speaker 1: traveled the furthest to be here and be a part
Speaker 1: of this tournament.
Speaker 3: Look, so we got people from California, New York, Kansas, Chicago, Australia, Canada, Japan,
Speaker 3: I mean literally all over the United States. But we
Speaker 3: got a ton of people from all over that want
Speaker 3: to do sumo in Solina.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Why do you think this thing has turned into a
Speaker 1: tournament that someone from Australia, Like I met Goose from Australia.
Speaker 1: Great dude, why would goose from Australia want to come
Speaker 1: to this tournament.
Speaker 2: So the way.
Speaker 3: We format this tournament is a little different than most tournaments.
Speaker 3: Most tournaments work exactly like every other combat sports tournament,
Speaker 3: like single elimination, double elimination, Roller Towns Showdown. Sumo tournament
Speaker 3: is more like an homage to professional sumo. So in Japan,
Speaker 3: whenever they're doing professional sumo, they do a tournament every
Speaker 3: other month starting in January, and you fight once a
Speaker 3: day for fifteen days in a row, every day all fifteen.
Speaker 3: We wanted to emulate that by doing fifteen matches in
Speaker 3: one day.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So a lot of the times when you go to
Speaker 3: these tournaments, unfortunately, maybe you're having a bad day and
Speaker 3: you drop two matches.
Speaker 2: Sayinara, that's it.
Speaker 3: I just flew to Florida or wherever, and I my
Speaker 3: first two matches weren't that great.
Speaker 2: Here, you're guaranteed fifteen matches. The day of and the.
Speaker 3: Day before today Friday, we do a training session and
Speaker 3: we ask that you do a minimum of ten and
Speaker 3: up to fifteen so you get your money's worth. It's
Speaker 3: for we like to say this one's for the boys. Okay, obviously,
Speaker 3: it's unix. The women are invited, but in the general sense,
Speaker 3: it's for the boys.
Speaker 2: It's for people who.
Speaker 3: Love sumo who want to fight it. It's it's been
Speaker 3: called the best sumo tournament, the best party disguised as
Speaker 3: a psumoto.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I you know, one of my favorite things.
Speaker 1: First of all, I didn't really know what to expect,
Speaker 1: But then when you watch the matches, you realize that
Speaker 1: they're so short because if somebody gets pushed out of
Speaker 1: that circle, it's over, and so they don't go on
Speaker 1: for It's not like a wrestling event like American wrestling
Speaker 1: anything like that. And then when you have guys from
Speaker 1: different weight classes squaring off against each other, that's a
Speaker 1: lot of fun too. And so one of my favorite
Speaker 1: memories from this tournament is you had like the biggest
Speaker 1: guy in the tournament fighting the smallest guy, and he's
Speaker 1: just pushing him out of the circle as if you know,
Speaker 1: he's a wafer thin cracker that fell on the floor.
Speaker 1: And then the little tiny kid grabbed onto the giant's
Speaker 1: leg and held on like it was a tree trunk,
Speaker 1: and he couldn't shake him off and get him out
Speaker 1: of the circle. Like the whole place. He erupted and
Speaker 1: went crazy, and that's an experience I never would have expected.
Speaker 2: But that's kind of the magic of this tournament, right totally.
Speaker 3: So in professional zoom professional sumo, there are no weight classes.
Speaker 3: In amateur sumo, what we do whenever you go to
Speaker 3: a tournament, maybe a national tournament or whatever. Of course,
Speaker 3: there still is open weight at the end of the tournament,
Speaker 3: but there are weight classes, and we wanted to do
Speaker 3: open weight open gender. Doesn't matter who you are, what
Speaker 3: you rep, come lay it out on the dohill that
Speaker 3: and by the way, the doho is what we do
Speaker 3: sumo in. It's that circle.
Speaker 1: I thought it was like a way that rappers talk
Speaker 1: about money.
Speaker 2: Give me the dough yo. Yeah. Uh so that's that's
Speaker 2: the fun part.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter it little can beat big and he
Speaker 3: It happens all the time.
Speaker 2: That's the beauty of open weight, all right. So right
Speaker 2: in front of you, that's Gaga Maru right there right.
Speaker 2: Did I pronounce his name? C Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, an absolute legend uh sumo wrestler, legendary
Speaker 1: sumo wrestler. But if you look at him right now,
Speaker 1: he looks so fit and so thin. You know, he
Speaker 1: was autographing some pictures where he was much larger. So
Speaker 1: how heavy was he? And what is the diet of
Speaker 1: a Japanese professional sumo wrestler of that size? So?
Speaker 3: Uh, Goago Gaga used to be very very heavy, like
Speaker 3: I think, uh four one hundred kilograms. I'm I'm not
Speaker 3: sure where that translations.
Speaker 2: I don't do a metrics.
Speaker 3: But big boy, yeah, big boy all the way from
Speaker 3: the country of Georgia competing in Japanese professional sumo wrestling.
Speaker 2: He held his own. He did great.
Speaker 3: Uh generally, I mean it's just car bloating and it's
Speaker 3: a lot of beer. So normally, normally a normal day
Speaker 3: in sumo and sumo is it's like joining the military,
Speaker 3: becoming a monk.
Speaker 2: That's all you do. You don't have another job.
Speaker 3: You wake up in the morning on an empty stomach,
Speaker 3: maybe have some coffee or whatever, and.
Speaker 2: Then you're kicking each other's butts for hours.
Speaker 3: And then after that, eat as much as possible, drink
Speaker 3: as much as possible, take a big old fat nap.
Speaker 2: After you wake up from that, eat more, sleep more,
Speaker 2: wake up again, wake up, do it all over again.
Speaker 2: It sounds like the life of a bear it really,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, man, living the good life.
Speaker 1: There's our buddy Corey from Dallas Sumo Club. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a draft right after the show and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna so it's going to be teams like East
Speaker 1: first West or what how does it separate it?
Speaker 2: So that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4: It again, it's an homage to pro sumo, and in
Speaker 4: professional sumo there's there's no teams. I mean, there's groups
Speaker 4: that practice together and stuff stables.
Speaker 3: And we wanted to make a little homage to the
Speaker 3: East and West sides on professional sumo. Generally the better
Speaker 3: people go on the East.
Speaker 1: Uh so my team will be the East.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think yours is the East Road.
Speaker 2: Let's go. I know, I think it was Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I did wait last year he is East. Sorry,
Speaker 2: we had a blockbuster trade last year too. Oh, I
Speaker 2: remember we had a big trade. So it is a.
Speaker 3: Team tournament and a solo tournament at the same time.
Speaker 3: You want to accumulate those points for your team by winning.
Speaker 3: The more points you win, the better your team does,
Speaker 3: and the losing team buys the winning team of beer
Speaker 3: at this tradition at Rollertown Showdown Sumo tournament.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: History, and dude, it's so great being in the tap
Speaker 1: room and you're just hanging out, people are having beers
Speaker 1: on a Friday, got get god done working and then
Speaker 1: a sumo wrestler just walks by.
Speaker 2: It's pretty normal, you know, and it's just awesome. Okay.
Speaker 1: So in terms of we do have some sumo royalty
Speaker 1: in the house too, don't.
Speaker 2: We have the American Heavyweight Champion who we got so big.
Speaker 2: We got some guys with hardware here right, So.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna give a little I'm gonna take the
Speaker 3: time to give a little personal Dallas Sumo Club shout out.
Speaker 3: You gotta do it in two minutes. We got our friend,
Speaker 3: our friend. We have our student, mel and Hayden.
Speaker 2: They're both here.
Speaker 3: They both won gold, they're both national champions, and they're
Speaker 3: going to compete in Thailand in September for the World
Speaker 3: Sumo Championships.
Speaker 2: And we couldn't be more proud Dallas, Dallas, Baby, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's incredible.
Speaker 1: And if you go and look at the Dallas Sumo
Speaker 1: Club Instagram and the Rollertown Instagram, Bene made some videos
Speaker 1: and you'll actually get to see him. He's got the
Speaker 1: great line. It's I will win sumo if and he
Speaker 1: says I show up.
Speaker 2: So should he be the number one pick of our draft? Well,
Speaker 2: I mean he is the heavyweight national champion.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Why you ask you such a question? I question your
Speaker 1: draft strategy. All right, Corey, thank you so much, dude.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to this weekend. If you're listening, you're
Speaker 1: just getting off work. Get up here, hang with us tonight,
Speaker 1: hang with us all day tomorrow. This is the roller
Speaker 1: Town Sumo Showdown. There ain't nothing like it. The Dallas
Speaker 1: Sumo Club does it big.
Speaker 2: They do it right. We got a lot of sumos
Speaker 2: in the house, lots.
Speaker 1: Of beer to drink, delicious food with mull Er wag
Speaker 1: you and come on out and get your picture taken
Speaker 1: with some sumos.
Speaker 2: Corey, thank you so much, dude. It's gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2: You got to Gozion Mas. Hey wait, wait super quick.
Speaker 1: If someone wants more information on Dallas Sumo Club, maybe
Speaker 1: we've got a big old boy or gal right now
Speaker 1: that's listening and wants to join.
Speaker 2: What can they do?
Speaker 3: Hey, look up Dallas Sumo Club on anything Dallas Sumo
Speaker 3: Club dot org.
Speaker 2: We are DFW's most violent nonprofit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we should this too. The whole thing is free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all free. It's all free, except well the beer
Speaker 1: is not. So Thank you, Corey. Come on out, everybody.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a really good time. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us this week. Thank you for giving us
Speaker 1: your ears. We do always appreciate it. We'll be back
Speaker 1: on Monday, and no doubt KT will have lots of
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Speaker 1: time KT represented the Cowboys in the draft. Hey, look
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones dead in his eye, and he said Neil
Speaker 1: Pelkans have a throat pouch, and that confused everyone, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had a special teams draft. All right, stick
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Speaker 2: Here you going, Well, I'm gonna get my sack back, dude,
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