Luke Thomas

Um, so no, I don't, it doesn't, it doesn't do anything for me, but I, but I certainly recognize that when people have, you know, money on it, they tend to have, um,

outsized reactions, let's say, to the action.

Yeah.

Have you been to a power slap event yet?

I would.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know about the networking side.

Um, but what I would say is on the, I just don't quite get the appeal to be honest with you.

It's like, if you like, okay, well tell me what the appeal is.

I mean, what I would say is, to me, it's like, what's the difference between a hunter and a poacher?

You know, a hunter...

they have to set up they have to set up a deer stand they have to sit in that thing and get bitten by mosquitoes and they have to wait and they have to put bait there weeks in advance and they might have to be sitting in that deer stand for hours and hours at a time it might be daylight it might be nighttime they might be hungry but they kind of got to wait and get the perfect shot then they got to go retrieve the animal and you know do everything else there's a there is a there's a process to it there's a defense to it there is a difficulty there's a task and as a challenge right and there's a two-way thing that that goes

Poaching, to me, is the exact opposite.

Some jerk-off on the side of the road just shooting available animals and collecting them.

This is, to me, this is not a game.

This is not a sport.

This is not a thing that we should glorify.

And I recognize that, like, the poaching analogy has some limits because you have two willing participants.

But, you know, the point of what makes combat sports beautiful is, yes, offense.

Like, everyone loves knockouts.