Me and Mumz theme song for tonight!
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Then we’re off to Louisiana tomorrow for some adventure.
Anticipation of D.J. Love’s new record.
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Skills D.J. Love
A lot of people don’t think of MMA fighter like people but rather as beasts enamored by violence, desperately striving to draw blood. However Evan Tanner was one of the most inspirational fighters in the UFC. He lived for adventure, life experience and seemed to have a great appreciation and overall love for living.
“About ten years ago, on my travels, I passed though my hometown of Amarillo, Texas. I found out there was a promoter in town putting on shootfighting shows. I was out adventuring at the time, collecting stories that I would be able to tell to my future children and grand children. I thought being in a shootfighting event would be a really interesting story, and it would be one more adventure under my belt. I didn’t really have anything to prove, I was on a more peaceful path. I just wanted the adventure and the story. I signed up for the next show. I planned on fighting just once. I had no desire to continue beyond that. I ended up winning a heavyweight tournament. Got invited back to fight for a title. Another chance at an interesting story I couldn’t pass up. I fought again and won the USWF Heavyweight Title. I kept getting offered fights in bigger and bigger shows so I kept fighting. I’ve been fighting ever since.”
“Before I started fighting I was traveling around the country seeking out adventure. I dropped out of college when I was 19 and took off. I worked as a bouncer in some of the roughest bars I could find. I worked as a contractor doing cable TV work all over the country (Wisconsin, Illinois, Connecticut, Colorado, South Dakota, California, Texas), I worked as a framer building beach houses in North Carolina. I worked concrete in Montana. I helped build a grain processing plant in Illinois. I’ve washed dishes, I’ve been a baker, I’ve dug ditches, I’ve been a salad prep, I’ve mowed lawns. I’ve worked at a slaughterhouse, was night security at Big Sky of Montana Ski Resort, worked the ski rental shop for Mammoth Mountain in California. I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few. And right now, I’m a fighter. In the future, a husband, a father, a lover, a writer, a poet, a philosopher, a teacher, and definitely a surfer again. The best is yet to come.”
- Evan Tanner
Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World (Adaptive Path) by Peter Merholz, Brandon Schauer, David Verba, Todd Wilkens
