WEBVTT - Steve Cutbirth 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.880 Carolam. She's a queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.159 She's on the yes side, she got the scoop on 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:28.640 the on side. No one can win quiet like Carola, Carola. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:36.320 No one can win quiet like Caralami. Carola. Hey, y'all, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.800 welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.519 I know music, I know people, and I know the 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.440 questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.479 heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:54.040 could be adult content. So this week, I'm having a 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.520 surprise guest that was not planned. Tony Brown was planned 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.959 for this episode, but I'm pushing him back to next 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.800 this week because I have to take the time to 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.480 interview my father. We're on vacation the Bahamas last week 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.160 and he got bit in the face by a shark. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.440 A shark bit my dad in the face. I mean, 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.679 are you kidding me? Who on this earth has survived 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.160 a shark bite? And let alone survived a shark bite 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:21.880 to the face. So he's fine, he's doing great, He's 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.520 going to heal up just perfectly, have some cool scars. 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.479 But I had to get the story out there because 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.440 it's so incredible. And not only is the story so incredible, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.920 my dad is amazing. He's an incredible husband, he's an 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.399 incredible father, he's an incredible businessman. He's a dentist, and 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.520 he's built an institute, a dental institute, and he has 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.600 so much wisdom to share. And just top it off 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.679 with the story of the shark bite and how he 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.360 handled that and how he processed all that. So here's 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:54.320 my dad's Steve cut birth. Y'all get excited. Okay, So 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.240 I am here. How's it all look? Mom? What are 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.200 you looking? Good? Great? I I'm here with my dad, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:06.280 Steve cut b who is also a shark bite survivor, 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.480 which we we think you might be the only one 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.040 who survived a shark bite to the face. We've looked 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.400 it up. We haven't found anyone else, right, I'm not 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:18.800 in on that. I don't know. It's all fun games 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:23.679 now because you're fine for a while. This is very scary. 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.280 I could see what people would think that was interesting. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:28.800 So we want to get all into the shark bite. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:29.959 But before I did, I want to start at the 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.600 beginning of your life. Kind of gives someone who's listening 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.200 a little bit of an idea of who you are. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.320 So I'm gonna start with some questions. Tell me that 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.560 don't look at my questions. Tell me the first thing 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.240 that comes to your mind when I tell you ask 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:49.880 you a question, don't you can't think about it? Shark 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.040 shark bride right now, it's a shark bite, shark bite death. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:04.000 Never think about that. Never, it's not your radar. Not 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.040 worried about it. Great. Do you think there's something that 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.800 happens after this life? I do. I think you go 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.880 to a wonderful place after you die. And I think 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.480 that the people have always thought that people are worried 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.880 about death or and don't think you go to a 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.320 wonderful place after you die, and don't think that there's 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.440 something out there bigger than all of us. Are going 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.760 to have a hard time getting through life because you 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.920 can't prove it one way or the other. But I 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.320 think you lead a much better life if you just 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:39.360 decide that's what happens. So you can have relationships with 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.600 your spouse, with children, with I mean your children, your grandchildren, 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.520 your friends. And I can't think of anything worse than 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.520 thinking there wasn't something big that connects us and that 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.760 you go to a wonderful place when you die. I 0:03:54.880 --> 0:04:05.200 just choose to believe that. Okay, food, shrimp, Uncle Dann's barbecue, 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.560 elk and kiss the door, chicken fehita. Case it did, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.640 that's the restaurant. These are Waco restaurants. Funny, We've eaten 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.200 some of the finest restaurants in the world. But if 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.800 I had to pick last meal, it would probably be 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:28.040 Uncle Dan's. I've gotten the same thing for thirty four years. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:34.159 A lean slice plate, yellowtato salad, baked beans, two pieces 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.320 of wheat bread, mild sauce, two doubled eggs, sweet tea 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.920 this half tea and half water with lemon, And it's 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.760 just so. Would you say you're a creature of habit. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.359 If I find something I like, I don't that I 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:56.200 really like. As in the case of your mother, I 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.320 don't look for something else. I'm happy. So when you 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.080 laid eyes, Mom, you knew. Well it was kind of 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:06.279 a funny story because I was in college my sophomore year, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.040 taking uh organic chemistry in the summer in the summer, 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.760 and my roommate at the time was not my regular roommate. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.760 He was a fifth year senior that was in graduate school, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.400 but he was just there for the summer because my 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.840 roommate had gone home. So we were in the same fraternity. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.839 So we were sharing an apartment and he said, we 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.240 gotta get you out of here. Your brain is gonna explode. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.560 And I said, okay, I'll have a break between the 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.880 two summer semesters and we'll go do something. He said super. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:43.559 So he was dating this girl and he was gonna 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.719 get me a blind date and we were gonna go 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.520 water skiing with a guy that was a friend of 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:50.760 his in Waco that had a boat on Lake Waco. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.160 So the day comes and we go out there, get 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.719 out of the car and there is this girl walking 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:04.839 the boat dock in a green bikini. And I said 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.799 to the guy, I'm going to marry that girl. He said, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.120 you don't even know her and she's my day. Are 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.200 you engaged And he said, well no, and I said 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.400 good luck. And that was it. Something about it never 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.359 looked back. So when you find something you like, you 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.720 stick with it. That's it. I'm done. I like that. Okay, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:35.640 uh fun outdoor? Um. I like sports. I love hard 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.840 mountain back trails. I love to play football. I'm really 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.960 more of a player than a watcher. I love to 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.200 play golf. We've never been to Las Vegas, but I 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.560 don't know if I can play golf without betting a 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.320 little bit my perfect golf round as you could win 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:56.720 or lose a hundred dollars and uh what else. I 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.400 love spear fishing, even though I'll be back in there 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.839 to the next thing. It is kind of interesting because 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:08.159 I don't hunt, you know, I have If I find 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:12.480 a scorpion in the house or a cricket, I'll catch 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.640 it and take it outside. But spear fishing is so 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.720 fascinating because it's so difficult. Number One, you've got a 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.040 just a dive mask and a snorkel and fins. You're 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.200 holding your breath. This this the spirit is not a 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.360 spear gun. It's a Hawaiian sling with a wooden shooter 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.400 and uh surgical tubing and a little cup that the 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.800 spear goes through. And so you've got to dive down 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:46.920 thirty find a fish. It's got the fish. You've got 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.080 every advantage and we only eat Willy spirit what we eat, 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.920 and then spear the fish, then corral the fish and 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:59.440 then go to the top. And you've got the extra 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:05.160 little color of sharks. Well, you took that to a 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.560 whole new level this trip with a shark bright to 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.480 the face. Which we're going to get all into that 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.480 in a little bit, but that's quite the taking it 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.320 to the max. Well, it wasn't intended what you're holding 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.720 your mask right now that you're wearing with a shark attacking, 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.160 which I think this mass saved your face. I'm pretty 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.200 sure that's right. Let's just hold this up. This mass 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.600 saved dad's face. There's a big old slice near the nose, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.959 which here it lat's see it bit me. We want 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.840 to get into that. Now, give us a little just 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.920 a little bit, don't go to full detail. We'll see. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.920 This has been laying on the ocean floor since Saturday. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.040 In the day's Thursday, and Will my son in lawn Marcus, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.560 the son of the guide, went back just for fun 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.960 to see if they could find it. So they actually 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.880 found the spear shaft that had the fish on it, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.840 and they found this mask on the bottom of the 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.880 ocean down and they found a sixty fit grouper which 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:04.640 they shop so you can see how the shark's teeth 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:11.480 lacerated the strap. Then I pulled it against my white shirt. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.440 Lacerated the nose area. This is where it got my lip, 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.120 and then it's got a hole here in the nose 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.200 where it got my nose. And then it's got you 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.560 can't see that, but it's got teeth marks on the 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:30.960 top and the bottom of the mask. So in my mind, 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.920 the reason that it just bit and didn't tear was 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.000 the teeth hit that plastic around the mask and it 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.520 felt foreign, and so it hard and it released rather 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:50.319 than completing the bite. And so this mouse saved your life, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.760 save your face at least, well I mean it. It 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.760 is allowed me to have that edgy look rather than 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:05.040 stranger look. So thank goodness with that mass. Okay, celebrity, 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:13.280 celebrity Yeah, um gosh, that's a hard one. First day. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:21.080 It comes to mind, James Bond, Matt Damon. You lived 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.079 out your venture story, you lived out your venture movie. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.240 I did well. You know, Matt Damon is an interesting story. 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.439 What is it? You know? We were staying at the 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.400 Fourth Seasons Hotel in Austin. It was late one night. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.640 I can't remember why we were there, and I was 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.640 about to get on the elevator to go up probably 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.040 and here comes this dude, walking in with a toboggan 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.040 and just a green T shirt and green pants and 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:57.640 some like combat boots on. And I said, uh, I 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:02.320 said what do what? I said, reached my hand out 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:07.320 and said Steve Cutberth And he said name, and I said, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.560 I know who you are. I said, what are you? 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.480 What are you doing in Austin. He said, well, we're 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.160 filming True Grit. Said this may be one of the 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.840 best days of your life because my daughter at the 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.920 time you were stealing angels. And I said, my daughter 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.840 sings in a band with John Wayne's granddaughter and Reda 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:29.280 Lynn's granddaughter. So how about that they sing a song 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.560 or write a song as the theme song for True Grit. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.600 And he said that's a great idea. Why didn't happen? Well, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.720 I gave him my card and he said, I'll call you. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.000 He never called, never called. We're waiting for your phone call. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.680 I guess. I guess one way deal. Yeah, I'm annoyed 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.440 at that. Really a nice guy ticket, Yeah he is. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.800 He's as nice a guy as he seems like he is. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.880 So we were just besties for about five seconds. We'll 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.520 probably about a man in it riding up the elevator 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.760 short lived best friendship. Okay, what do you find annoying? 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:14.600 What do you find annoying? Excessive talk, meaningless talk, just chatter. 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.760 These people just narrating, filling the air the most of 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:22.079 the world you find annoying. No, I like a good conversation. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.160 I love a good story, but I don't like just 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.439 chatter to fill the air. Okay, you want to talk 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:34.960 about something in particular, Yeah, okay, all right, and then 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.040 when you finished, be like a pinpoint and you just 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:43.160 stop talking. What do you fear Sharon getting mad at 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.400 she's really leaving me? See if she left me, I've 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:50.880 always said, if she ever threw me out, I just 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:54.200 have a little tent in the front yard cooking out there, 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.960 and it'd be raining and cold, and you and Katherine say, oh, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.360 just giving See I've given you this. This may be 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:05.400 a treacherous stark already. I've sent you this hook several times, 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.920 and maybe somebody. I think somebody wrote this song give 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:15.199 me one more last chance, a little shot, one more 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.400 last chance? Is that a song? I'm sure that's what 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.040 I say to Mom all the time. I say, just 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.960 give me one more. Mom left you, you'd be tasted. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.200 She's a good hearted woman gets occasionally she'll try to 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.520 get that stern like but it didn't last. Why would 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.640 she need to be stirring with you just because I'm 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.120 bad sometimes not bad bad, but just I'm good, but 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:40.360 I'm just push your limit a little, a straight not 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:45.319 I would never do anything bad, but just you're a 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.600 little rough around the edges. Well there you go. Hey, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.760 they got the shark right to prove it right. Okay, 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.200 So you grew up on a ranch in Brownwood, Texas 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.240 and you always talk about code of the West and 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.640 how that shaped your values and moral system. Tell me 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.920 why that has impacted and what that means to you. Well, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.880 most of my family, my dad was a medical doctor, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.280 but most of my family were ranchers and farmers, and 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.679 they were just very direct. You know, my my granddad. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.640 You say, a deal's deal, and paper has nothing to 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.280 do with it. You know, if you say you're going 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.280 to do it, you're gonna do it. And I think 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:24.760 that's a pretty good way to live your life. Um No, 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.160 I've growing up in Brownwood. It was the football capital 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.720 of the world. Sports have played a huge party, talked 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.760 about that. Gosh, well, I coached all y'all's teams, and 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:40.120 then it's funny with Caroline and Katherine. The first game 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.320 of soccer I ever saw was the first game I 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.520 coached when Katherine was about seven. But all ball games 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.080 are about the same. You're trying to get the ball 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.240 into this scoring area down here and keep the other 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.760 team from getting it into this scoring area down here. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.400 So why can all of life be defined by coat 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:06.080 of the Western's sports? Okay, um, well it's it's try. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.040 You know, that's my favorite phrase, just try. Let's just try. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.360 Too many people, you know, get into some of as 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.800 hard they just quit. And when I was coaching your 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.720 team's I remember when your team was playing. You were 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.720 a fourth grade team and you are playing a fifth 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.800 grade team. And we didn't have a single person on 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.800 the team on our fourth grade team because we were 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.960 playing in standard baskets that could get the ball to 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.960 the rim. And so we had what we called the 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.560 secret plan. I won't go into that, but our matto 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.360 was we had a plan to keep the other team 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.760 from scoring twenty points because we knew we couldn't score 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:47.360 because we couldn't get it to the hoops. So the 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.760 plan was to keep them from scoring. Yeah, because they've 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.000 beaten these fourth grade teams six seed and nothing. And 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:55.880 I said, no team of mine is going to be 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:59.320 beating six ft and nothing. So our mato was, let's 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:04.160 just try and execute plans. So this coach Gordon would 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.600 and he's like a world renowned coach from nings coach 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.800 of all time. He won more state championships, more games, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.680 and that was back in the day, and he really impacted. Yet, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.080 oh man, they only took one team to the playoffs. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.760 Now they take half the district, but then they only 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:24.120 took one. And he never talked about the assets of 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:25.880 the other team. If there was a big guy on 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:27.640 the other team, if there was a fast gut on 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:30.480 the other team, he didn't care what they did. He 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:36.640 executed our plan, and he taught me systems and so 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:43.760 I and that's transferred into your dentistry. Has Um. I'd 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.000 written this article one time for k Texas Coach Magazine 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.880 that coach Wood had asked me to write because we 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.360 were both on the board of the Texas High School 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.440 Football Hall of Fame and he was getting older and 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.480 he said, Steve, I want you to write a thirty 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.720 year retrospective on the value of high school football. And 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.560 I wrote that article for Texas Coach Magazine, just for 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.480 Coach Woods, not really thinking how all that transferred to 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.960 my later life. And after I got through, I said 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.439 to my staff, if y'all want to know why we 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.280 run our practice the way we do, read this article 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.920 and it was just the you know, his his system, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.240 and what I've tried to do in my dental practice 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:32.720 and other things is just uh kind of what he did, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.040 which was fundamentals. He always got the fundamentals right. You 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.679 never lost a game because somebody jo jumped off side 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.680 or got a uh what do you call it, personal 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:51.080 foul penalty or something that was stupid. You know you 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.480 and in a real type game that could make the difference. 0:17:55.160 --> 0:18:01.240 So you just play like a practice fundamentals execute. So 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:05.120 I know the other thing, the play like you practice 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.800 is really a huge thing, and we use that on 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:13.600 all of your teams, which always won the championship. When 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.440 somebody standing in the free throw about shoot a free throw, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.000 you cannot say I've got to make that free throw. 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.280 If you do, you'll miss it. The only thought that 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.480 ought to be in your mind is shoot like you practice, 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.480 and practice. I dribble the ball three times, hold it 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.560 right here, take a deep breath and shoot. And if 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.280 you've got that that mentality, you always want to have 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.560 the ball in your hands at the end of the game, 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.400 and you if you shoot the bast shoot the ball. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.480 Say you're taking a three point point shot to win 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.320 the game and you miss. People that have never been 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.240 in that situation, you're gonna go, oh, she missed. But 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.960 anybody that's been in that situation is going to be 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.240 looking to see if you shot like you practice and 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.880 understand that from three point range, you're probably gonna only 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.359 get a hit about one out of three anyway. So 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.280 you didn't choke, You just missed, and you had the 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.840 courage to have the ball in your hands at the 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.600 end of the game. So you've never been scared to 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.359 have pressure on you. Well, I've been able because of 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:20.000 what I learned back then and other parts of football 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.760 has transferred into your dentistry practice. Let's talk about that. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.040 It's a mind thing. You know, if you can't get 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:27.919 your mind in the right place, you could be the 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:32.760 greatest athlete or the greatest at doing what but whatever 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.800 it is. But if you if you don't have your 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.720 mind set, then I think you're not ever gonna be 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:45.399 very successful if you're worried about failure. So how's that 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:47.680 transferred into dentistry? Because you've gone on to become a 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:50.360 world around dentist. You you speak all over the world. 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.680 You have a dental institute called Cards Center for a 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:58.080 Senecal Story Dentistry. Yeah, you've even done some country music Tetheacher, 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.240 Bobby Bones and Amy Brown on the Bobby Bone Show. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.720 I mean, you've done a lot of cool dentistry. You've 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.280 really done a lot in dentistry. So how has that 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.879 motto of the Code of the West play like you 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.920 practice transferred into your dental practice in your lifestyle? Well, 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.480 I only think about the things I can control in 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.440 my whole life. I don't think about things I can't control. 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.040 And island plan, we'll talk about that in a minute. 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:28.119 I'll forget who you remember. So from the get go, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:34.320 I said I want to be the finest restorative dentists 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:39.359 that's ever lived. Restorative dentistry is veneers and crowns and 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:45.240 bridges and implants and things like that. Well, you you 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.880 don't have to be that smart, because anybody that knows 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:53.800 you knows I'm not that smart. I'm very uh what's 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:58.520 the word perseverance. I'll stay with it. And you don't 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:00.840 just wake up one day and say I'm gonna be 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.159 really good at something. You've got to be trained. And 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:08.320 so I They've always told you and any girls on 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:11.919 my team or our teams that if you want to 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.280 be the best at something, first you have to identify 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:18.840 those people that are the very best to get to them. 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:23.040 And so I got to those people. One was in Switzerland, Dallas, 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:25.120 New York, you know wherever they were. I just got 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.920 the plane and went. You just called them up when 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:29.960 we didn't have any money. You've always said that people 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.320 are so afraid to call the top dogs, and you 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:34.479 never have been And tell them I don't want you 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:38.480 to spoon feed me. I don't want to bother you 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.280 take any of your time, but I just like to 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:43.880 come see what you do. And then once I get there, 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:46.040 I say, how did you learn? What you learned? And 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:49.680 they're they're glad to tell you. Isn't that amazing? Think 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.800 they're happy to tell you. People think that it's like 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:55.320 the homecoming queen or something that they're untouchable. But well, 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.760 when I went to see that guy in but I 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.639 blame that does can er treatment. None of us have cancer. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.320 By the way. That was Germany, right, Germany. Yeah, and 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:11.439 this guy had invented this new cancer treatment that and 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.360 I went over to seeing and he said, now, what 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:15.840 type of doctor or you? And I said, well, I 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:17.880 haven't dentist. He said, why are you here? I said, 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:23.680 I just had to know. I said, don't. Don't medical 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.440 people come over and see you from the United States 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.440 all the time, And he said, no, you're the first one. 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:34.240 So I think people just they just yeah, the homecoming queen. 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:37.560 Thanks to homecoming Queen's already got a date, but probably 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.040 nobody called her because they didn't they thought you already 0:22:40.080 --> 0:22:42.120 had a day. Yeah, so you're just curious and you're 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.240 not afraid to ask. Well, it is. It's a funny 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.320 thing because so many people, that's the older people are going, 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:53.240 oh my gosh, the times were in right now. And 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:56.680 if I hear one more time, I worry for my grandchildren. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:00.239 I think I'm gonna throw up. We're living in the 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:03.959 best possible times. You can get on a plane right 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:09.040 now and go anywhere. And I think that by traveling 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:15.520 two different interesting places around the world, Uh, you see 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.760 that there's no perfect spot, and we're living in the 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:21.359 spot that everybody wants to go to. The United States 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:23.560 is where everybody wants to go, That's where they want 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:29.520 to live. And I've got a dental assistant that it's 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:33.879 from Mexico and she is the most just one of 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:37.960 the most pleasant people in the world. And I've asked her, Luisa, 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.480 what what's the big deal about the United States? And she, 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:45.399 without blinking and eye she says, opportunity. But they're not 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:48.280 going to give it to you. You go for it. Yeah, 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:50.639 you gotta work for it. But you know, what do 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:53.760 you want? You got opportunity. Anyway, back to the dental thing, 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:59.560 I never thought about productivity or money or things like that. 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:03.560 I want to have enough money that your mom, Sharon, 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:06.400 and I could buy a house that she wouldn't be 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:10.400 embarrassed to bring her friends. That was my goal. I said, 0:24:10.400 --> 0:24:12.720 I'd just like to have a decent house that Sharon 0:24:12.720 --> 0:24:16.840 would not be embarrassed to bring her friends. And so 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.560 I never thought about anything else. And I want to 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:23.960 be the best at this that's ever been. And then 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:26.880 like Muhammad Ali, he claimed he was the greatest even 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:29.159 before he was well, I didn't necessarily want to claim 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:31.879 I was greatest. I just wanted technically to know I 0:24:32.000 --> 0:24:35.800 was the greatest because it was in my mind the best, 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.240 because I would have a hard time talking to people 0:24:39.400 --> 0:24:43.240 about their options if I didn't think I knew everything 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:46.240 that could be done to fix it and was using 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:48.520 the best in the world. And this was an interesting 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:53.800