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Mate, I went to the fitness expo on the weekend. Mate, I texted you. I sent you a text to meet you out front in 10. And I was there for an hour waiting for you. Mate, my phone, I'd been out. It was on low battery and it ran out. Okay. That's fair enough. I didn't, yeah. That's fair, because you missed out. It would have been really good. It was a good. It was a doozy. Yeah. It was a doozy. You would have really, like, your type of clientele, you know, your demographic. Lots of wizard sleeves. There was lots of tattered up wizard sleeves. walking around. T-backs. Yep, yep. A lot of T-backs. A lot of eyeballing. Yeah, yeah. I was sort of walking down like an alleyway in between booths and then there was another one walking towards me and I wasn't looking at him and he wasn't looking at me and we're both sort of looking at each other in the booths and right at the last second we just sort of spin side on and just whooshed past each other. It was close. And as you turn side on you take a deep breath create some intra-abdominal pressure get the chest out. And it was sort of nose to nose we just sort of went past and we looked at each other in the eye and then spun back around and kept walking so there was a bit of that yeah yeah sounds great sounds like just taking taking the Facebook home scrolling page and just turning that into a 3D yes wraparound world it was yeah what a fucking nightmare well I was there because the ICN the international super show Sydney international super show I think they they had their ICN had a better than that it was a super show It was a pretty big line-up. Yeah, it was a lot of competitors and a lot of athletes on stage. Miss JM Fitness, Jess Murphy, long-time friend of the program. Yeah. One of your... One's got a soft spot for Jess. She's lovely and doing wonderful things in the industry. She had a bit of a crew there up in Newey. It's up in Newcastle, the ICN shop there. She had some success there. And this was, I think, her second one for the season with her JM Fitness crew. I think she had 10 athletes up on stage. They're doing amazing things. and quite a bit of success with all her athletes. And funnily enough, she actually got a second and a third in sports model, which was fantastic. And a shout out to Jane Wigan. Not sure if Miss Jane listens, but she's absolutely delightful. Works with the guys from Flex, so Dean preps her. She's a fitness pro, I think. Okay. Miss Jane. And Jane was coaching Jess with her posing presentation and she was arguably, I thought, and I'm not partial to being biased because they're my athletes on stage. Sorry, no one's my athlete, but an athlete I'm involved with coaching. I did think her stage presence, she was having a lot of fun up there and she presented really, really well. So really posed well for the category, which is different to bikini and different to fitness and different to figure and all that type of stuff. But Jess did amazingly well and got a second and third in her two divisions. And funnily enough, her athlete that she prepped beat her. So it was like, if you're going to lose to your own athlete, That's nice. Not too bad. You go first, I'll go second. You go second, I'll go first. Whatever. We're top three, and then she got a third. Again, to her and another girl. It did really well. I think she really enjoyed it. For me, it's great to see her really enjoy it. Quite a bit of stress can come along for the ride with the competition and an athlete on the day. But she would have had quite a few athletes touching base with her. But she managed to do all that, all 10 athletes, and get herself and follow all the bells and whistles and eyes dotting and T's crossed that I require from my athletes. Ticked all the boxes there and got up and had a good time, and she looked amazing. Very good. She's backing that up. We're going to do WBFF. Yeah. So we've got four weeks to dial things in a little further and get her up on the Gold Coast and give that a crack. WBFF. So many federations these days. There's a few, man. There's a few. Actually, you know what? And we'll get to Luke Lehman very, very shortly. One last little thing, Roden.